The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1875, Page 5

— MISSISSIPPF1. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. Political Factions in tlhe} State. FOLLY OF THE DEMOCRAIIS. —_——. Extremists and Corruptionistsion Both Sides. JACKSON, M1s8,, May 6, 1875, Mississippi 1s, politically, in a melancholy condt-. on. ‘rhe State is naturally fertile and rich; they people work; the means of prosperity and con- tent areat hand, Nor canit be said thar there {6 actual disorder or violence. Mississippi 18 still, bven more than Arka a frontier State, with rontier babits. Men, and even boys of fourteen, yo about with pistols in their pockets, and mur- fer is not a crime—lif the murderer can “geta continuance’’—that Is to say, i! he 1s not lynched’ nd his lawyer succeeds in delaying his trial, But, yxcept in Vicksburg last year, there has been two or three years but little political nolence and murder in the State, The evil passions which raged alter the war, #nd continued too long, are subsiding, the State debt is trifling, the sohaols are in toler-- ably good condition, the Civil Rights act 1s sub- mitted to, there has been little occasion for the Interference of the Feaeral government, under the Enforcoment acts, except at Vicksburg, for at least eighfeen months or two years; the State ts in the main at peace, And yet it ls neither prosperous nor happy. It ts the prey of two political factions’ of the worst type, who, on both sides, aim to create and main- tain excitement, bitterness, suspicions, fears and hatred, On the one side stands an unscrupulous nd determined band of democratic politicians of the worst kind—the pistol and bowie knife stripe, namely—who, in newspapers and by their daily conversation, excite the white lemocrats who listen to them to unreasoning and anreasonable fury, and at the same timo alarm the Mmid negroes and bind them together. Arrayed Against these democrats stands another equality ~ unscrupulous band of repubiican politicians, with Governor Ames at their head, who have “cap- tured’? the colored vote, and mean to hold power und plunder by its means. Between these con- sending factions stana the mass of honest repub- | llcans «nd honest democrats, moderaic and con- servative, but unable, it seems, to control the bad elements; unable, at any rate, to unite and take centrol into their own hands. TWO BXAMPLES. Here are two examples which do not badly illus- trate the state of affairs in Mississippi. Knowing that {am interestea in schools, some one in New Orleans sent me & letter of mtroductton to the State Soperintendant of Public Instruction here, a colored man named Cardozo. On asking for nim I found be had gone to Vicksburg “to look after an indictment” found against bim, and when I my- self went there, 1 discovered that Cardozo was not merely indicted, but as an indignant republican shingled ali over with indictments” for ment and fraud, aud likely, if justice 1s wone, presently to be sent to State Prison. What jovely and improving sight for the children of she State, white and black! Yet this man is one Governor Ames’ confidential and infuential advisers. Here is the other side, While I was in Vicks- burg last Saturday the Postmaster, ex-Senator Pease, was stopped in the street by @ person who, (was assured, is “one of the most respectable sitizens” of the place, who said to him in # loud voice, ‘I hear, sir, by God, that you are going to Q@ppoint a damned nigger to be a clerk in your Post Office!’ Pease replied that be certainly was going to appoint a colored man to a clerkship, Then, sir, I tell you iv’ a damned out- rage, this ‘community won't stand It, sir!’ said this “most respectable citt- zen” in ao biustering tone. Pease replied, “You will have to stand it," which is per- tectly true. And as they have a colored Sheriff aiready in Vicksburg and colored officers in manf counties, this bluster seems to be as foolish as it Is wicked, At the same time @ back driver was yuriously driving his hack up and down the main business street shouting, ‘Pease is going to put a nigger in the Post Ofice.” Now see what follows. The next day’s Vicksburg Herald, the democratic gan, remark! Pease puts Milton Coates at the general delivery m the Post Oflice as an insult to our people. He y4 the people “must stand jt.” They may not Btana even Pease very iong. Onur people hi a rather summary way of disposing of men and | Measures sometimes. ‘And anotner article in the same Journal says:— Pease Was remonstrated with yesterday upon | jhe assignment of a negro to the ladies’ window. | A gentleman modestly suggested that the men of | Vicksburg Wouid not subuiit to have @ negro as- ued 1o the duty of waiting on their wives aod ucnters at the Omice, when the scoundrel replied, “ney wilt have to stand it!" Yne appointment is @ deliberate insult to the lad es of this city, and the alleged Jersey school- house burner may Quad that be is not quite po- tent as he imagines. He may find taat he has made & biunder, and he may yet live to realize that & Ulunaer is Worse than @ crim He may convert the Poss Uilice Into anything bata bed of ro ‘yhe Mayor and police of Vicksburg, who are lemocrats, took no notice of the disorderly hack Iriver, Whom they ought to have summarily ar rested. The insulting words of the “ respectable titizen” are approved by a large part of the democratic citizens, and those the most prom! nent politicians. Tne colored man Pease bas imade clerk in the Post UMce man of education, acknowledged integrity and quiet, gentlemanly demeanor, whom several demo- crats praised to me. The back driver who ob- lected to him never objecia to taking @ fare trom anegro, and a citizen of Vicksburg told me he | had seen him repeatedly driving negro prostitates about the town. The “ most respectable citizen” is agent for a steamboat line, daily sells tickets to tolored people, and never refuses their money. MISSISSIPPI POLITICS. Mississippi has a colored majority in ite voting pepuiation of probaply 15,000 and posstbly 20,000. fo these must pe added abont 9,000 or 10,000 white republicans, of whom atleast two-thirds are na- tives of the State. About 5,000 negroes are counted on to vole the democratic ticket. The Ames faction in the republican party eon. tains but a small part of the white republicans, a majority of the petty officeholders and the camp ‘lowers, Bat in the anti-Ames wing of the re- puniican party, I found a number of men, Northern ind Southern, who have a substantial interest in whe State; who are men of culture, upright, wise pnd good citizens in the best sense of the phrase; such men as Jadge Tarbell, of the Sapreme Court; age Luke Lee; Mr. Musgrove, iate State Auditor; General McKee, a member of Congress; Judge Hill, of the Untied States Circuit Court; G, W. Wells, United States District attorney for the Nortnera district, and many others, ‘The large majority of the democratic party also \ composed of men of moderate and conservative views, who would preter peace, hatmony and food government, bat who are influenced toa large degres by the small but flerce band of fir ters whose headquarters are at Vicksburg, and Who control a number of presses ia different * parts of the State, and keep tne people in a fer- ent by their violent language and their exagger- Btions of evils, Which are great enough in fact, but not nearly so great as they pretend, nor by y means entirety biamandle upon the repubil- can:.@Through the appeaia of ta persons the people of Mississippi have bee led to believe themseives outraged and oppressed m some ways in which they are not, partisan bitterness has becn maintained to a de- gree which leads the ignorant demoer im the same denanciation of honest and disponest republicans; and so intense is the feeling kept up that the material interests of the State suffer by reason of it—confidenco is shaken, vaiues are a pressed, and even industry is disturbed. Mean- time toe democratic demagogues lead tne people away from the legitimate and natural means by ‘Which they could rid themselves of corrupt rulers to unite | ' Ames has appointed to and establish a sound government, based upon ‘the union of the best men of both parties, WHO ARB THE CORKUPTIONISTS ? That there has been wastefulness and corrup- tion in the government of Mississippi there 1s no doubt, Iam so weary of oficial grand and petit larceny that Ido not mean to go at any length into Mississippi finances. It is enough to say that the State debt is trifling; there have been no great railroad swindles; a constitutional provi- sion wisely forbids the loan of the State credit, But there has been gross nancial corruption in Many counties; officers with high salaries have uch as the State printing; and the ruling -powers, the Ames republicans, have un- scrupulously used the ignorance and greed of the negroes to help them in their polttical schemes. Controlitng the negro vote and using it as a solid mass, they have consented to put into such offices a3 county supervizors and treas- urers, as well as into the Legislature, negroes who were often not only unable toread and write, but who were notoriously corrupt and corrupting demagogues. The late Treasurer of Hinds county, in which the State Capitol les, was a negro who could netther read nor write, and who was killed by another negro a few weeks ago fora disgrace- ful intrigue. In the last Legislature were several negroes who could neither read nor write, It hss happened that the mem- bers of a grand jury were totally {iliter- ate. A clty government was to be elected last August in Vicksburg, and the republicans nominated for Mayor ® white man at the time under indictment for twenty-three offences, and | for Aldermen seven colored men, most of them of low character, and one white man, who could neither read nor write, the Keeper of a low grog- gery. This ticket was denounced by General McKee, republican member of Congress, in a pub- le speech, and, with the help of the republicans, was beaten. Of the present Supervisors of \Varren county (Vicksburg) the President and two others cannot read, It 1s a noterious fact that Governor judicial places men ignorant of law, and that he has used bis appoint- ing power to shield criminals, who are his ad- herents, and to corrupt the judiciary of the State. These are serious matters; but, on the other hand, tt must be said that the democratic dema- gogues have repeatedly urged tne negroes to nominate only colored men for office, They say they “would rather have a Mississippi nigger shan a carpet-bagger;’’ and, moreover, in the notable cases of corruption, both in State and counties, democrats have in almost every instance shared the plunder, and in some have got up the scheme. Now, on this head tne democratic leaders are silent, They cry out that the State is ruined, whick is not true; but they have them- selves helped to rob it, and it 1s, at least, a doubt- ful question whetner, if some of those who so loudly denounce corruption, had power they would make an honest government, There is, for instance, 4 load outery about the enormous debt of Vicksburg; but ofthe money spent for street im- provements democratic contractors got the most; and the money given to railroads was voted by democrats and republicans alike, and democratic railroad managers pocketed it, Such men as Barkedale, Wharton, Lamar and hundreds of other prominent democrats have clean hands ana are men of honor; but there 18 an undoubted propensity to corruption among democratic as well as among republican leaders. For instance, Vicksburg has been, since August, under democratic rule; but the expenses of the city government, lam told, have increased, and order 1s not as well maintained under democratic rule as formerly. Nor, if the democratic leacers were fair, would they omit to tell their people that the expenses of State and county governments have necessarily increased, for the colored people, being tree, give business to the courts and the oMcers and iastitu- tions of justice; they must have schools; and in | \), other ways the cos: of government is Increased. ‘That a large balance of waste and theft remains is | perfectly true, and of that all may rightinlly com- plain, as well as of other and graver wrongs, which I have mentioned above. So, too, with Southern men who Dave cnosen to join the republican party are at once de- nounced as “vile renegades,” entirely regardless | of their actual character, Tous Judge Niles, who | represented a Mississippi district in the Jast Con- i gress, 1s habitually spoken of as “that renegace Niles.” Now Mr, Niles is @ man of singular parity of charactor, a quiet scholar, an old resident of The State, a plauter. No democrat pretends that he is dishonest or that be tolerates corruption. But he is a republican, therefore he ts a ‘vile renegade,’’ not Mt for the soctety of decent men. The same course is pursued toward the colored voters. They have among them some—a few— men of education and honest desires for good government. But these are denounced, in com- mon with the whole herd of ignorant and easily corruptible black voters, who aro the prey of de- signing and anacrupulous white politicians, On the otner hand, @ wan ceases to be a “carpet- bagger’’ the moment he becomes a democrat, For instance, a former sheriff of Warren county, then arepublican, @ Northern man, das recently become s democrat, and is at once made a “respectable citizen.” Yet it 18 notorious that he came to the State poor, is now worsn over $100,000 and does not own # aoliar’s worth of property in the State, He keeps his means in bonds and other securities, and, it is said, pays no taxes at all in Mississippi. But the democrats do not hesitate to accept him, while they cry out ‘car- pet-bagger” azainst men who nave invested all their means iu the State and are large taxpayers, Now “you can’t catch flies with vinegar.” The natural result of this stupid intolerance among the democratic leaders 18 that the honest repub- licans are driven and kept in the republicnn ranks, They have no other place. They must either remain silent or vote the republican ticket, Tt is not an exaggeration to say that the demo- crats of Mississipp! themselves keep up the color line of which they complain so bitterly, It is | their fol!y and intolerance which masses the negroes and flings them into the hands of Ames, and makes them what they really are—a real dan- ger to the State. This folly goes on in the face of the conspicuous fact that the negroes have a nn- merical majority in the State, and that without intimidation it would seem to be impossible for a ‘white line” party to obtain political control of the State, Lest 1 should give you a false Impression of Mis- sissippi, 1 must tell you that there is no wish or hope among her politicians or people for the least trouble with the federal government, no expecta- tion or desire for the re-enslavement o1 the blacks or the change of any constitutional amenament; not the least wish for a “‘new rebellion.” No one can truthfully say the reverse of this, The disease which afflicts society and politics in Mississippi, | and which threatens serious effects, is of a aiffer- ent nature entirely. The honest and sensipvle men have +0 too great an extent abandoned their duties as citizens, and tolerate crime, misconduct, violence, which would not exist but for their tame compliance. In onother letter I will give you some examples to show how far this apathy goes and whither it tends. OHARLES NORDHOFF, A LONG LOST ACTRESS, Mme. Albertine, 8 well Known American actrees a few years ago, bas tong been considered dead by all who knew her in this country, Her brother- in-law recently received the 1ollowing communt- cation, announcing that she was still ia the land of the living:— Turarne Rorat, Meuovnnr, Ausra, March 10, 1875, Srr—Your sister-in law, Mme. Albertine, for some yoars quite blind, and-an ‘Inmate of one of our institu. tions, left for New York per United States ship of-war Swatara, having had a passage generoi byt ander Ralph Chandler, The ship wilt arrive in New York avout the,end of May next, and she dost as to her reeeptioa on her arrt | si an, Sanches! pu of her sale i] rrival at New York, and restoration of her sight, ur obedient servant, r STUART O'BRIEN, To Mr, Wituta Cannon, New Bedtord, Mass, Last evening a HERALD reporter learned that | that there is | Tam, sir, y THE COLOR LINE. It1s a complaint, also, of the democrats, that their opponents have, for corrupt purposes, main- tained the color line in politics, it is true that the Ames men cultivate the negro vote by base means; but it 1s also true that the democrats help them, In Arkansas and Louisinnal do not remember having once heard of the negro except as a part of the body politic, ignorsnt, to be sure, | but a good worker, and as was often sald to me by democrats, “not to be biamed that he went wrong under bad advice.” But in Mississippi the commonest topic of discussion 1s the “damned nigger.” A dozen times, at least, prominent democrats told me he was a pecu- being, not possessing the virtues of the Caucasian race and not fitted by pature to vote, or to sit on the jury, or to bear | winess—a creature admirably calculated to make cotton and soon. | have heard such dsicuasions going on in the presence of colored men, who naturally listened with ail the ears they had. Now the negro is not an idiot. He would be if he voted | for and with men who habitually calinim a “nig- | | ger? and often ® “damned nigger,” and who openly assert bis incapacity by nature to perform the functions of acitizen. When tho ‘most re- spectadle citizen” in Vicksborg obiusterea about the Postmaster appointing a! “damned nigger” be was heard by at least ‘twenty-five colored men and women. Yet in that very town leading democrats groan about the impossibility of breaking the color line. One would have a contempt for such poltticians were not their course a constant in- jury to the State in which they are so feolisniy noisy, and in which the quict, sensibie and orderly people seem to have almost entirely resignea the power and supremacy which belong to them. The thing which was oftenest said to me im Mississipp! by democratic politicians was this:— “Our only hope is in the democratic success in the next federal election. The democratic success last fall gave our firat gleam of light.” But when [asked how a democratic administration could help them, the replyjwas, ‘“‘Becanse then we can disorganize the colored vote, They will not vove without white leaders to organize them.” Ana when | asked one of the leaders of « ‘white line” movement, whose object is to draw the color line strictly, how he coald hope to t all the white people, with their strongly diverging views, into his movement, his prompt reply was, | “We'll make it too damned hot for them to stay out.” Now, to me this does not look like the American way of carrying an election. It is a metood of binster and bullying and force. The the white voters, ali replicd in the affirmative. It would silence opposition, at any rate, they said, INTOLERANCE OF OPINION. * At present there is vigorous opposition to the | white line’? movement among the more sensibie democrats, The pariy policy is to be decided ina meeting of a State Committee on the 17th of May, and the opponents of the “white line’ profess to be confident that they can defeat the extremists, But in the meantime they do not attack the cor- Tuptionists and extremists in their party, and what seems to me more deplorable and fatal still, they bave nothing to say against the brutal intol- erance displayed by democratic demagogne: either toward the colored men or toward honest white repubiicans, Ail Northern men are nnitedin one goneral and flerce condemnation, as “carpet- | baggers.”” demned and held up to hatred have lived in the | State since 1865-6; ‘they are men of means, and | have ail their means invested in the State; many of them are large planters; against the honesty | and high character of many of them no one can | say a word.’ It is charged that some of these hold office; but why should they not? They are citi- gens of the gate in every sense of the word, and worthy, capable men, whonfno one cbarges with peculation or oppression. ‘They are as strongly | opposed to the misruie and corruption of Governor | Ames aad bis faction as the democrats themselves. | Only a little wisdom on the part of the democrass would lead them to conciilate these men, to win them over to co-operation with them, But nothing of the kind is done. They are sneered at ‘‘car- to ie@l that the demo- crave leaders Will Baye Aothing to de with them, But many of these men thus con- ly | Taesday. | found her, Rertace is of a refined type, and, al- ly granted her | that I should ask vou to wrive to | or. T shall be most nappy | } Mme. Albertine, after landing from the Swatara, | had gone co reside witn Mr. Alexander Naefy, at | No. 38 Garden street, Hoboken, where the reporier — ‘ FURTHER RING SUITS. Ex-County Auditor Watson's Property Involved. An Action Against His Estate for Several Million Dollars, Yesteraay the papers were filed by Attorney General Pratt and Wheeler 4, Peckham In a civil sult against Mrs. Margaret Watson, wife of James Watson, deceased, who was vho County Auditor under the Ring. The ‘ollowing are the papers served upon defendant's counsel :— The Pople of the Stato of New York, plaintiff va Margaret Watson, adumuinisiratrix of ail and singular the goods and chuttois of James Watson, deceased, and the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty ot tu city of New York, defendants, Yo THE DEFENDANTS Anoys Naxep—You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint of the plainuds, ‘The Veopie of the State of Yew York, in the above enti- tled action named, a copy of which {8 hereto aunexed, and to serve a copy ol Your answer on the subscriber, at an office called the “iureau of Municipal Corr J in charge of Wheeler 11, Pockham, No. 18 Wall street, city ot New York, within twenty Atter service of this summons on you, oxclusive of the day of service, or the plaintis will appiy to the Court for the relief in the complaint demanded, APMIL s, 1875. DANIEL PRATT, Attorney Genoral ‘The compiaint of plaintiff of the State of New York, by Daniel Pratt. wheir Attorney General: plaintifs int above entitied action, against Willam M. iweed and the Mayor, Aliermen and Coumonalty of the citv or New York, defendants in the same action, respecuully show and allege First--'ihat by an act of the Legislature of this State, passed on ihe 26th day of April, 1870, entitled, ° ake {urthor provision lor ‘the ‘government of ihe couuty ot New York,” it was enacted that ali liabilities Against the said COUNLY previols to the passage of that act should be audited by tne Mayor of ule city of New York, tte Comptroiter of the said ciiy and the then resident of the Hoard of Supervisors of the said county, and thatthe amounts which should be found to be due should be provided for by the issae of revenue bonds of the said county, paysbie during the year IsTl; that the said ‘card of Supervisors shotiid inciude in, the ordinance levying jor the year Is7Lan amount suficlent to terest thereon, and that th aid" by the said ted to receive th st three offtcers or iu, (hat bebait by the said ack, ‘That at the passage of said act, Abraham Oakey Wall was Mayor of the sid city, Richard B, Connolly was Comptroller thereof, and the said Wiliam M. Lweed was President of the Soard of supervisors of tae said county. That the sar Williatu M. Tweed continued to be such Prestdeut until the 4th day of July next there- alter, and the suid Hall and Connoily respectively con- tinued to hold their said respective offices until and after the Ist day of October then next thereatter, Thay alter the passage of such act, and onor about the 4i ie of May, inthe your 13/0, with intent to cheat and defraud the county’ or New York and the tax- ayers Wwereoi, ana the }) York, the said William M. Tweed and one James Wate n, ihe delendant intestate since deceased, did unlaw. ruliy and fraudulentiy combine, conspire and together to procure ialse and pretended claimsio be set up and to be allowed and paid in jormal compliance With said act und in the manver horeinaiter sated, ‘Yhat after the passage of such act, and after the said Bourd of three auditors in the same het mentioned had heid the meeting hereatter mentioned, and betore the Wsth day ot Augusi, in the year 15/, several prewended claims, falsely aliéged and purporting tobe such lia- bilities of said county, within the true intent and’ meaning of said “act, amounting in the. ag- Eregate to $0,:98,967 85, as specified in the aunexed Schedale thereof, niarked A, which is made a pact Of this complaint, were by the said three auditors, in Apparent and formal complicnce with ths (eras of said act, respectively ceriufed to have been so audited and allowed by them, as hereinafter more particularly stated. { from time to timo, as such certifications were rly or titeate 0 wudit cer sons so required respectively made Known to. him. or hiv subordi: hates, the ssid Comptroiier, in order to provide so hace scribed by suid act funds to pay Lie amounts so certi- fled, cated to ve issued bonds as prescribed by suid act, andoptalued thereon trom tona jule purchasers of sucht bonds, prior to the saul 18th day of August, in the year last aloresatd, the said stim of $6,1%,967 8 which last) mentioned sum was, in the ' usua modes of keeping monevs officiilly received on account of said county, deposited in the ‘ational Broadway Bank of the city of New York to the credit of an account therein kept by the Chamber- lain of the cliy of New York, as County Lreasurer ot the said county, by virtue of his said oilicial churacter uch Chamberlain, that the moneys so deposited as aforesaid were, from time to time, drawn out of sald bank im the manner hereinatter stated. ‘hat the said pretended claims or labtlities were not, | nor Was any of them, ever examined or audited by the said board of three Auditors, or_by auy of them, aud twat but one meeting of such Board of uditors was ever heid; that at such meeung no a counts, claims or had thereat, ¢: subseribeu by the sai q t three auditors so in said act men tioned. hi eting was held on the Sth day of May, in foresaid, and that such paper now re- plrolier’s office, ands in tae fol- ComprnouLen's Orrice, May 5, 1870. ~The undersigned meet nder'and by virtue o© section 4 of chap! ot S70. “Un motion of the Mayor tt is resolved that the County | though stone blind, her eyes are lustrous, and she | | rivets them upon the person she 1s addressing, | Her once black curis are now gray. In convers tion ste becomes almost quite auimated. Jowing is her saa.story :— THE BLIND ACTRESS’ STORY. have occasionally wisted that I was so, vut I stiil had vague hopes of coming home. | the extraordinary kin -Toueatre Royal Melbourne, Mr. Adams, American | | Consul, and my very kind friend Commander Chanaler, who came 100 mties into the interior of Australia to Ballarat to take me on board bis ship, ‘Tnave reached America, toank God. Mr. O'Brien promised to write to Mr. Lester Wallack to meet mie, and also to write me at the British Consulate ere. 1 was born in New Bedford in 1834. My first ap- pearance on the stage Was as a dancer at the Olympic Theatre in Washington. 1 was atterward & papi! of Mme. Desjarains, the celebrated Frencn | dancer, Who iived in Leonard street. she was the rival of Fanny Elssier. | sudsequently beca an actress, and aave acted in nearly every siave of tue Union, My first hit was in Little Dot, in “The Cricket om the Hearta.”” When 1 was play- ing at the Arch street Cheatre, Philadelphia, avout 1848, I made an arrangement to play with Frank Chanirau, who was then tinmensely popa- jar a8 Mose, and travelled with lim sora long time. In 1852 1 was at San Francisco wita Coanirau aud played at the Jenny Lind Theatre, under tne Management of Thomas McGuire. Among the dramas | took part in was “The Naiad Queen,” “satan io Paris,’ “fhe Fronea Spy,” &c. I danced in neariy all my pieces and I have played in every line, even up to heavy business, Tne character of “Linda, or the Cigar Gri, was written forme. 1 savsequentiy returned in 1859 on my Own account to California. | opened at the Lyceum Theatre with “Jessie brown, or the Re- | hef of Lucknow.” Among the troupe were Frank Mayo, Alonzo Fnillips, Dave Anderson, or “Old Uncie Dave,” as we used tocali him, The piece ran over sixty nights. I played “Our American Cousin” for the first time in San Francisco. I toox the role of Mary. The manuscript was sent out to me by Cuanfran. Idid not care muca avout the piece, ana did not tnink it good to star ip, [t's alt Lord Dundreary. When the dull season came on t determined to take aran to Australia. Waen[ leit the Untted States Mr. Wara, my agent, promised to pay my dues to the dramatic fund, When i arrivea at Melbourne | played at toe Theatre Koyal witn | Gastavas Wasa Brooks, who was suvsequentiy | drowned on the steamer London, in the Bay of Biscay. 1 played, among ovher dramas, in ‘The | Young Actress.” After about a menth | went to Ballarat, in the interior, where I played one night for a benedt in afarce, “Jimmy and Turicaie,” and afterward in “The Golden Drama.” e theatre Was a Dig tent anu all the hotels were tents, and that nigne | canght a bad cold which turned into the colonial jever. | spent all my money, and to all the letters | wrote home 1 got no answer. When | got oetter f tried to act and dance, but | became so blind that I could hardiy see the foottignhts, so I lad to give itup. Dr. Berncastle treated my eyes for a year, but could do nothing. His first fee for ex- amining my.eyes was filteen guineas. At last, honest repuditcans, whom I asked whether the | @¥em by poverty—all my jeweirr and ciothes white line mevement could possibly draw in ail | c | very kind to me there, but they thougnt if | came being sold—t went into the Benevolent Asylum, where | learned to sew, knitand read. They were to the United States | would ve tuken care of by the aciors, but I said I did not want to bea burden to anyboay. When he would take me home on the Swatara | wept ior joy. Itt had been the Queen of England | couid not have been better treated om that vessel. What is to become of me | don’t kaow, for my | property at Yonkers has been sold for taxes and | gevenih eolw pannot redeem it. spondent. AN ABSCONDING CLERK. However, | am mot de- W. F. Lesite, receiving teller in the banking house of Duncan, Sherman & Co., corner Nassaa and Pine streets, absconded, taking with him $12,000 in casn belonging to the irm by which he | was employed. Lesiie has been for many years im the empioy of Duncan, Sherman & Co. and up Lo the time of the discovery of his dishonesty en- 0. the compiete coufidence of the firm. ie Was absent [rom the bank on Deceration Day, as were ail the clerks, nd did not appear on 1b was not until Thursday that anex- amination of his accounts was made, when the discrepancy was discovered. One of the firm of Dancan, Sherman & Co, told a HERALD reporter yesterday taat the money was taken irom the till and that it was nota case of peculation exten. Ing over aby considerabie period of time. Itis thought Lesiie has left the city, but measures have been taken to seeure him. PENSIONERS’ DAY. Colonel Silas B. Dutcher, United States Pension | Agent in this city, commenced the quarteriy pay- ment of pensions yesterday. The number in at- tendance was even larger than usual, nearly 1,200 persons being paid, and the amount dis- pursed aggregating $49,000. The Pension Ofice will be open for the tr the entire roll ls check: The 1ol- | | Allmy old theatrical iriends believe me dead, | nd Through | ess of Mr. O'Brien, of tne | action of business until | ; ft, | Audivor colivet from the appropriate committees of tae Board ot Supervisors all bills and liabilities against the county 1mcurred price to april 26, 1870, and amounts now due thereon, and that the ap- Droprtste gommatters ot Clers “or tres dent, and that thereupon the said County Auaitor.an- nex ihe vouchers to tue appropriate blanks for our signature and action, as directed by the section afore- wk, nt Board of Supervisors. JNNOLLY, Comptrolier.”? and during ail the pe- mentioned, the said That at the date of eupiary transactions Janes Walsun, intest ( uy ‘Audito Tryon intended by that style of oie in’ sue! ed paper. That said Watson, or lity assistants, plaintim to the tr and toeir Attorney General u a ume te time, ater the ai su rior to the suid 13ta day of August, acted counts of claims ineationed in which were, in point of form, autty biy to the fequisties of such | each of which the said Watson atts date in his own handwriting, ther print; & blank form ot such cert tained . marked ©, t plait annexed asa part thereot; tue said Board ot three Au any investigation oF conte: ofeither of the other memb i being im wates 18 con: tis com whereupon each of rately, without rin the'p . ed tae Comptrot prepared, Abi signed by ty the sait M said Boar upervieers, on Which. on ihe day date of the same, the said bans, i good fa aod with outaay knowledze of notice bf the trad practices or intents in th mplaint my ‘of them, did, ia the d business, tor and ia denalt and to the delat of bis sxid acee or perso! an and ordin Pay to some pr ir Sard ATO. very such warrant was in the form usually a ly employed in drawing mouoy irom ihe aut of sucu County treasurer in and liabilities of the id Couaty, ar Deen duly audited, allowed amt or the proper officers in that behal:, and that (he seneag. marsed , to this complaim annexed and fi made a part thereof, contains in blana the form o suen warrants. That the sald accounts and claims #0 pretended to have been audited, and for which such warratits were so made and paid a5 aforesaid, ani wineh are men. tioned im the s jule marked A, were all taise, jeuitious and fra nd dad did any them, iity asainet the ay of claitns er such claims had et to be paid by said aviities oF Liability whien 1 a said act of une Le re dire andi provided tor or paid. of any just o demand whatever. : that te said James Watson, intestate, and the said Wiliam & \ suance of the unlawtal and fF ion, conspiracy aud wird ag nt the Intent to cheat an the said talse, counts to be prepared ana made up, aioresaid, sn (he forms requir they, the’ said Wiliam 3. ‘ by the act said, Tweed and Jam Watson, intestate, well knowing atthe times when ne, the said James Watson, intostace, so prepared and iil up said audit certitic . and when he, the sata Wil- Han Tweed, so certified such claims respectively, tat the satd claims Were faise, Hetitious and tranduleat as aloresatd, and in ke fraudo it manuer, and with like Irandalent invent as last arore , obtained such Warrants mentioned in said se A, aud procured tthereot from the sai sforesaid, and iraudule ntly obta: a4 0 Uieir own use the said sum or 8 them as afor fi 3 certified, r the pretended claim tor wh the sixth column shows th made, helaim fot a the nad m which sach wi Fanaa found w That (he said mom aid bank upon said nis, And so ‘oa and converted to u own use by tae sant Wiliam M. tweed and James Watson, investave, have not wor have any of them, any part thereot, been recovered back or restored unto the proper of lawiul oMictai receiver, depository or cus- todian thereof, either in specie or by compensation tur the same, of otherwise. That 1 Of avout the 30th day of January, 1871, the said James Watson departed this lite iniesiat ing certain personal estate. That letters of administra: tion upon the estate of the said James Watson, de- ceased. Were thereupon, to wit, on or about the 15ch day of Fetruary, 157% duiy issued by a surrogate ol the eounty of New York to the devendant, Margaret Wa'- son, the Widow of the snid'James Watson, decuased. ‘vhat « facet Watson, as said adminitratrix, has depe part of the said personal estate with the United States Frist Company, pursuant to at ject to the further ye © shows that all and singular the claims of & editors of ¥ h estate, have been p. only the ciaimg ot thy E the Mayor, Aidermen and Ce 10 New Y et up and pretend to sou in the premises, ‘Anil tor a seeond, separate and further cause of action the compiamt shows that tn the year one J Watgou, now deceased, combined and couspired with one Jamies i. Ingersoll to prociry iaise and. pretended inis (0 De set Up against the Mayor, alderinon and mimonalty of the chy of New York, and to be allowed ana paid in formal compliance with the rules or the De partment of Finance ot said city ana in manner follow. ing — that the said Watson and Ingersoll caused to be made up aud prevented to the Auditor ot sccounts. the «wit Mayor. Aldermen and Commonaity of the etty of New ¥ork, siX certain bills purportiay tobe for qoods, work and Inber by him, he said Ingersoil, furnished to and doue jor the said Mayor, Alderinen and Commonaity ot ¢ city of Sew York, ad procured tie said Auditor of cous te certiiy and approve the said Dilly as food ¢ right or acres Fre complal seinen allezes the isistty of theee bill oma lal o ialstty of the: gnd states them to be included in six. warrants’ as fol Total.. none reryt The compiaint then avers an interest on the part of the Meyor, Aldermen and Commonaity, and claims the same amount as on the complaint against Dever B. Sweeny, and is verifed by Mr. Peckham. It 1@ expected that attachments will to-day be asked for against tne property of Mrs, Watson, as has been dove in similar suits against members of the Ring. THE MASONS. INSTALLATION OF GBAND OFFICERS—LETTER FROM THE CROWN PRINCE OF DENMARK, Th* Grand Lodge resumed labor at nine o’clock yesterday morning, ‘The following prayer was ofered by the R. W, and Rey. Jonn G, Webster:— | Direct us, O Lord, in all our doings by Thy most gracious tavor, ana further us with Thy continual help, that in our works, begun, continued and ended in Thee, we inay glority Thy nanie, and @ually through Thy obtain, asting lite. Amen, mote it be, The Grand Master exhibited tne pitcher 200 years | old presented fo the Temple by Mrs. W. OC, Barnes, | of White Plains, and a unanimous vote of thanks was given to the laay. The report of the Grand Librarian showed that there were pow on the shelves 1,500 Masonic works, mamy of them rare and valuable; 200 copies have been received by purchase, exchange nd donation, and many valuabie contributions nave been made by M. W. Jono W. Simons, Wins- low Lewis and others, The expenses during the year amounted to $459 90, The report was adopted and reterred to the Finance Committee, M. W. Clinton F. Paige was called to the chair, the grand officers elect for installation, who did 80 In the following language:—“M, W. Grand Mas- ter, the Grand Master and other grand officers elect are now before you and await your plens- ure. Inave the nonor to present Brother £ll- wood E. Thorne, who has been doly elected Grand Master of Masons for tue ensuing year.” The Installing oMcer said:—‘ Brother, your unani- mous re-election to the offices which you hela last year shows the trust your brethren have reposed in you and their appreciation of your services, 1 now simply ask you most worshipful sir, do you renew your solemn obligation to the crait, which was taken by yon at your former installation?” Grand Master Thorne—‘I do,” The other grand ofiicers were asked & similar | question and gave the same answer. They were | all tnducted into their several places, and the installing officer declared shem duly {fstalled. The Grand Marshal then mae the usual proclamation im the South, West and East. The Grand Master (Thorne). then handed to Deputy Grand Master Husted a letter from the €rown Prince of Denmark (already pubjished in the HrRaLp), which was read by that officer and received with applause. The Grand Master fur- ther Said that he had received several commant- cations from other jurisdictions, among them one | from the Grand Lodge of England, which, if they | nad no other effect, would cement the harmony whicn should ever prevat! among Mason W. E. M. Ebiers moved that waen that letter + in relation to distinguished Masons dece: with them. Adopted, On motion of M. W. Clinton F. Paige, it was re- solved that a full account of the dedication cere- moniex and procession should be priated in tne transactions, The oMclal reporter of the Grand Lodge re- ported that there were 23,682 Masons tp !ne on tue day of the procession, Finance, reported on toe resolution ixing the salary ol the Grand Lecturer at $1,500; that such anm Would not be sufficient for the services of vhat officer, and reported in favor of @ salary of $1,500, with $300 traveiling expenses. In con- | sideration of this compensation ne 18 to visit each district. and exemplify the three degrees of Masonry at least once In each year. Adopted, The Grand Marshal presented a number ot rep- reaentatives of other grand iodges near‘this Grand Loage, who were received witu the grand nonors, | “yne Committee on Warrants reported in favor | of granting a certified copy Of the warrant o1 st, | Joun’s Lodge, No. 1, to that lodge, the warrant beiug very much wora by age, it being 113 years old. Adopted. A motion tu provide a suitable frame for Stuart's pa:nuing of Wasuington, now the property of the Grand Lodge, was reierred to the Finance Com- mittee, Wao suvsequently reported adversely ou account of the expense (about $300) which 1¢ would entail. The Committee on the Grand Master's id, re- | ported through the R. W. and Rev. John G. Weo- ster taat the R. W. Brother to whom the auty of prepating the report Was assigned bad not yet prepared it, He asked permission to hand it to the Grand Secretary aster the close of this commu- ication, AFTERNOON SESSION. | The Grand Lodge reassembied at two P. M. Grand Master sau ‘Brethren—tin the aosence of the Grand Chap! the Grana Master desires to invoke the blessing of God upon our delioerations during this, our last session, and that the same may accompany us to our nomes.” On motivn of R. W. Jona J. Couch the thanks of the Grand Lodge were tendered to W Wiliam Anderson jot is courtesy in placing at their a posal for the banquet at Irving Hall @ magnificent pleture of “Washington Closing the Loage.”* the Commitiee ou Exemplification o: the Work reporte witnessed the Grand Lec- turer, KR. We ‘ge LM. Raymond, exempllty tne degrees, and that be wasin fail vossession of the standard work. un motion a vote of thanks was passed to It. W, Henry Clay Preston and bis aids for the eMcient manger in which taey performed their daties dur- ing the procession on Wednesday, b yminittee Ou tae Condition of Masonry re- ported through M. W. Joun L. Lewis, approving tle decisions of the Grana Master witn the excep- tion of jour and amending otners. One of these jour decisions Was to tae effect that a vrotuer Whose name has been dropped from the rol at his own request shail ve & certificate irom tre secretary of the lodge stating the fact. R. W. Wiliam T. Woodrum did not approve of striking out taat decision. He (hougat it was but rigat that @ brotver Who came up and paid bis dnes, and then asked that bis name be dropped from | the roll, should have the tollowing woras added, “Tos brother's name Was dropped from the roll at his own request.” He moved that the decision of tae Grand Master be approved. Some debate soiluwed, which culminated in the duption of Brotuer Woodruf’s resoiution, thus approving the decision oi the Grand Master and disagreem@e With the report of the committee, The other decisions which were disapproved vy tue committee were approved by the Grand Lodge on motion of KR. W. Brother Woodrum. ‘Yney relate merely to Masonic law and discipline, and would not be interesting to the general reader, After the Grand Master had been presented to the instaliing offlcer the ceremony of instating the new officers o! the Grana Lodge was proceeded with. THE COLORED MASONS. THE UNITED GRAND LODGE COMMUNICATION, At the session of the United Grand Lod; or Colored Masons of the State of New York yoster- day the following grand oficers were electea for the ensuing year:—Most Worshipful Grand Mas- ter, Robert McDongali; Sentor Grand Warden, J. Aldridge; Junior Grand Warden, R. A. Samp- ; Grand Treasurer, William A. Mars; Grand etary, A. Willson; Grand Register, £. Warms- Grand Chapiain, William Pha ; ‘and irector of Ceremonies, J. Howser; and Pur suivant, S Berry; Grand Tiler, D. Givson. Most Worsoipiul rand Master William ©, B. Curtis will instail the officers elect on next Thursday, ut wich time the anoual communication will ciose, A TERROR STRICKEN CONVICT. Jacob Groebl, who had been convicted of steal- | ing a:r-brakes from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Jersey City, was again placed on trial yesterday in the Court of Quarter Sessions on the qnarge of grand larceny. He was convicted, and the Court promptly sentenced nim to five years at hard labor in the State Prison on eacn indict- ment, both terms to run together. -No sooner was tue sentence pronounced toan the prisoner fell in a fainting ft, and nad to be earried in this condition from the court to the jai, His wife and enilren, Who Were in the court, crowded around the constanles, and their shrieks were near trena- ing tH they, WO, Were removed by order of the | court. NEW EX GLAND SOCIETY. The members of the giand Soctety, who Propose participating in the cetepration of the centennial anniversity of the Batue of Bunker Hilt on the i7th inst, met at noon yesterday at the oMce of Colonel Frank &, Howe, No. 47 Broadway, for the parpose of completing thelr arrangements 1H ConneCtON With (he Proposed excursion oi the society to Boston on the occasion, The society Will ieave (hia city on the afternoon of the 15th, per steamer Providence, of the Fail River line, nd valid claims against the sald Mayer, Atdermen ant | si andthe Grand Marshal was directed to present | should be printed in the transactions a facsimile | of the Slznature of the Crown Prince be printed | RK, W. Jesse . Anthony, from the Committee on | The | 5 THE HARLEM FLATS How the Police Surgeons Came to Make Their Report. penn See SIGNATURES OBTAINED BY CORRCION, What Commissioner Smith Arad to Have Done. The astonishing report recently made by the committee of police surgeoos relative to the nature of the material used for filing in the Har Jem fats 1s at last about to be officially analyzed, thanks to the zeal and penetration of Commis- sioner Smith, and from present appearances it is more than likely that developments of a peculiar cnaracter wilt result. When the washing document was submitted i Mttle anticipated the overwhelming, posl- tive contradictions from disinterested but competent parties of an nuimpeachable Standing in society that have since been made public through the celumns of the HERALD, Om | the contrary, the facts inaicate that they expected | their marvellous report to forever silence opposk tion and to completely annihilate all the evidence to the contrary that lad gone belore. But, anfor | tunately for Disbecker’s obedient employés, in & | moment ot forgetfulness one of the number stum- bled into an admission which places their pro- ceedings in a new and unenviable light—an admission which, if it goes to show any- thing, demonstrates beyond the shadow ofadoubt that the report paraded with such s flourish of trumpets, and over which Disbecker ao glowingly exulted as vindicating nia oft-repeated | assertions to the effect that the percentage of | garbage contained in the Harlem pest beds was insignificant, was forced from the subservient | surgeons under pain of dire consequences, per: | naps dismissal. Its value under these circumstances needs ne | criticism, and the nervous head of the Street | Cleaning Bureau wiil be compelled to seck else | Where that justification for his course which ts in | reality dented by the garbled and forced report of | the police surgeons. | When General Smith aroge in the open session | of the Board yesterday afternoon it was evident | that he had a communteation of a startling char: | acter to make. In slow and measured tones ne | alluded to the universal outcry that bad bee! | made against the character of the fillings at ths | Harlem flats. Citizens of high stanaing had ex. pressed, privately and through the public jour: nals, their condemnation of the pestiiential stuff, The law implicitly exacted that all garbage ob- | tained by the employés of the Street Clean. ing Department shonid be carried out | to sea and = disposed, of beyond the city limits, That garbage existed in quantitier | deleterious to life and prejadicial to health in the | dumpings at Hariem seemed evident by the roxious efluvia arising therefrom. He, as a Com: missioner of Police, did pot wish to be held r sponsible for noncontormity to the law by the Srreet Cleaning Bureau Im that respect. Reveia- tions bad cowe to light that seemed to | inaicate that the report made by the com- mittee of surgeons was pot @ unanimous one, as appeared by the signatures thereto. | since the said report bad been made Police Sur- feon Fetter Lad in conversation wito him (Com- missioner Smith) stated substantially iat, al hough he yommed with the otner surgeous ip signing the reports, he was of an opinion con- trary to that thereia expressed. Having care- fully examined the material, he (Fetter) felt Satisfied tuat the percentage was much larger tuan siated, When asked by Commissioner Smite why ne had signed the report contrary to nit honest convictions, Fetter had repued that ue feit that he was “bound” todo so, Now, tn view of these facts, Commissioner Smith wanted a ful and thorough investigation inte the matter. After throwing tmis bombshell i the midst of his colleagues the redoubtable Geueral sat down, and the following resolution, introduced in con- Sequence of the revelation, Was ofered by Com- missioger-Voorhis and adopted :— Resolved, That Police Surgeon Dr, Petter be cited be- ta special meeting to be held saturday, A. M., for the parpoce of maxing ve to make s ‘eons relative to nature of the mate: se for Allin per statement made this day in Boat sioner Sinith. nat General Smitn means to thoroughly sift the watter there can be uo doud', aud the testi- mony of Dr. Fetter, to be taken tuls morning, will be, tarough wis searching imvestigation, full and complete. Nocwithstanding the fact that as yet the Board of Health hae not officially | character 0; che ma) at toe various damping ‘Ms Bureau bas permitied the old system to continue in jorce. 6 coxrect this abuse Commissioner Smith sotrodaced the following resolution, whica was also adgpted:— Resolve of street ow veing tal take a or otherwise disposed of outs.de the city limits. NSIGLE S| STION. The Chief Clerk read a communication from City Surveyor serretl recommending the use by the aepartinent of Wires leet of beach sand at the Hariem flats, which he thought would ovviate the present exisciag nuisance On motion the Caief Clerk was directed to rep’ to tue same that saeh action was not Wwitoin ti province of tue department, but belonged to the contractors purcuasing the street sweepings, fhe Treasurer submitted a detailed account of the receipts (or street sweeptngs from a 5, to Sue Ist Of the present month, Tae amount received Was $3,861 ¢ THE NINTH WARD TRAGEDY. INQUEST IN THE CASE OF THR BOY M'KENNA, WHO WAS SHOT BY A WATCHMAN. ‘An inquest was held yesterday afternoon tn the case of the boy John McKenna, who was shot aad kilied by Heary Rex, a private watchman, on the nignt of the 26th of May, Rex was in the employ of William Decker, Inmber merehant, at the foot of West Twelfth street. He was arrested after the shooting and taken to the Ninth prectnet station house, where he acknowledged to naving done the shooting and expressed himself as perfectiy satia- fed with the result, The first witness cailed was Michael McKenga, brother to the deceased, His evidence was as fol- lows :—I was at the foot of West Twelfth street om the nignt of May 26, with my brother John and several other boys; some of the boys called the watchman, who appeared drunk, “Fritz,” and the man pulled out a pistol and we all ran heara three shots fired, and about five minutes afterward I found my brother lying in tae lumber yara, shot im the head; he only lived avout fi ) minw went lor an officer and the Wascnian Was arresied. Jonn Weleo, one of the boys who was witt® McKenna at the tyne of the shooting, corrobe Tated the above evidence. | Officer Sullivan, of the Nintm precinct, who ar- resced the accused, testifed that woen taken te the station Nouse the prisoner said that tne dead boy liad given Bim a good deal ot trouble and ae Was giad that be had shot mim; tfound on the prisoner at the ssation house, captain Kennedy and a police reporter named Ryrnes swore that Rex confessed m that he had gone the shooting because tne voy bad throwa ones at hit. Deputy Coroner Dr. Leo said that he made post-mortem exammation of the deceased found @ pistol snot wound im the head, whiep caused vied The jury rendered a verdict In accordance wit! the testimony, atter Which the accused was take to the mls and locked up, to await the action f_cne Grand Jory. William F. Howe appeared as counsel for Rex, and endeavored Wo persuade the Coroner to admit him to bail, and, failing to do this, ¢xpressea Mie determination to apply to one of tae courts in be- hail of his client. IN THE HUDSON. DROWNED Walle fishing withsome juvenile companions, | at Yonkers, Westchester county, yesterday alter: noon, Jessy Banm, aged nine, fell into the Hudson River and was drowned. Tne remains were re covered shortly aiterward and conveyed to the home ot tae parents, on Atherton street, Core her Bassett Was notifieu of the occurrence. BURSTING A CANNON. | The parties in charge, while testing the guns a | Sandy Hook, on Tharsday last, barst one of the larwest, Weighing tea tons, pieces of which were atl will proceed to Boston, unattended ry any found neariy a mile from the piace of | military escort or band, | Neo one was injured, rououneed upon the * way