The New York Herald Newspaper, February 29, 1876, Page 6

NEW YORK corvette Ppener treme, of the French eore, to | ways, as receiving vessels, harbor training ships, naval CUBAN WRONGS, HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. 06 inaie conesan and aptive sarvioes behalf of the nothing of such heavier cruisers as the Tourvill depot ships &e., &e, are ‘appreciated, might well gubject OUR NAVY. | iirrch “nisl ant wdinmatn (an | “Vrwnt tie oro me at THE VIENNA SCANDAL | sexes iu All these fore easel: We steamed f bieh WINE BO- urd ral q knots per hour are Duilt, of irog, and cas sunain a | of the ‘sevond ‘class, to wit:—Portsmouth, Cyane, | SPANISH ATROCITITIES IN THE ANTILLES—NUDB m, “On the Abuse of Lying.”” General Van Buren, An Unofficial Translation of the Last Register. : ARE WE PREPARED FOR A FOREIGN WAR? A Fleet That Can Scarcely . Float. ‘speed of thirteen knots per hour Jane er anc! wif all the way aown, THIRD RATES, Juniata (eight guns), a wooden screw sloop used as @ training ship at Baltimore, She needs extensive re- pairs and isat it undt for any but harbor service. She can steam in smooth water about seven knots per ith hour, and has a battery of smooth bores. Oxsipee (tight guns), .a wooden screw sloop smooth bore guns, In commission and in toleral per hour, Guionebaug (eight guns), a new wooden screw sloop nominally “repaired”? at Philadelphia, but really re- built out of “the from current appropriations and the appropriations during the Cuban emergency.” She ‘is not quite sea The Volage | condition, This vessel can steam about eigit knots | to the sailing third rates of the firat class, Two of these vessels, the St. Marys and Jamestown, are used for State nautical sebools and one, the Pawnee, as a | Store ship at Port Royal or Key West. | Finally come the j SAILING FOURTH RATES, Guard, Onward, Reliel and Supply, all store ships | and useful in that particular service, | THE IRONCLAD PLERT. ‘The cream of the *Register,” however, is the list of iron-clads, or what is supposed 10 be the real Sighting re ol the navy, Of these there are none classed as ‘first raves," aud six as ‘second rates’? THE “SKCOND RATES" | May be deseribet as follows:— Colossus (fen guns), late Kalam; @ wooden, screw not worth lauvehing and plating, since wooden ships, armor plated, deteriorate rapidly, iron rast and Jamestown, Saratoga, St. Louts, St, Marys, Dale and (ten guns) recently went from her anchorage in Rio de | Pawnee, the same remark, applying to hese vessels as | to off Montevideo, entirely under satl, and averaged twelve knots per hour for the whole distsnee, having, however, had an exceptionally good | WOMEN DRIVEN THROUGH THE STREETS AND MEN BUTCHERED, | A prominent Cuban gentleman yesterday furnished a Hernan reporter with the letters from which the ab- stracts that are given below Were taken. The commu- nications were dated in Havana on tho 18th inst,, and from the well known probity of the writers there can | be no doubt of the sad truths which the communica- | tions contain. | THE EXTRACTS. “it would bave been much better,” said the Cuban patriot, ‘for the United States never to have accepted | a dollar of the $15,000,000 which this country received small amount that could be spared vessel, halt rotten, ou the stocks at New York. She is | from England in satisfaction of the Alabama claims: | than to have established the pernicious precedent of Reply of Mr. Jay to the New ‘ Jersey Committee. ALLEGED MISQUOTATION OF THE RECORD. Tow and By Whom the Honor of the Gov- erument Was Preserved, it must be admit stated it with commendable caution when he said that he was assured, without naming hig informant, that at the close of the Exhibition some pur would testify that another party had a letter wherein the charge was made. Apart from jons of truth and propriety, should they be med foreign to the question, the skill and assurance exhibited in the manufacture of this abstract and excellently illustrated by this charge are suiliciently strrking: and with reierence to the policy afterward exhibited by the government in the appoint- ment of a Congni to Japan, scheme may have been regarded at Washington as having certam political ad- vantages that were hot immediately apparent to the | gentlemen against whom it seemed to be directed, 1 tet DOUBTFUL EXPEDIENCY, t suggests, however, one jt that has pe hardly Modted tne ailadtion MeO ke motte | Might not the publicatioa of such a charge, with the | apparent sanction of the State Department, accom- | panied by no note, no oxpression of surprise, ‘no word ready for sea, and will be used asa cruising training ligneous acid not agreeing well Loge! | Ron-intervention on the part of America in of explanation, no suggestion of invesugation nor Condition and Cost -of Our suip tor boys.’ She hus an armament of ee bores, pista * (to uns) an iron screw monitor, in toler- | the affairs of her neighbors. Either the Story of the Thousand-Dollar of the rem ara oe we Gare partion, scam to tndicate : and a probable speed under steam of twelve knots per able condition, but needs new boilers and other repairs. | i ’ a 4 Botr. ) This vena has the compound ongiug Steams about nine knots now, but orgmaliy much | C2408 aro right or wrong in following | Loans, that an Envoy Extraordinary and special com National Coffins. A Startling Comparison with For- | Swatara (eight guns), a wooden screw sloop nomi ‘repaired,”” but really rebuilt out and out. To his process, which commenced in 1450 with the old Pocahontas,” is somewhat interesting. In the | Navy Register of January, 1872, this Swat down as “‘repairing at Noriolk’’ (where doubtless the origival hulk still remains), and she figures asa screw ‘ais pat | fasier aud is armed with iifteen-inch smooth bores, Massachusets (four guns), a wooden, serew stip, half rotien, on the stocks at Portsmouth, and will probably there remain until sold for cord wood. Oregon (four guns), in the same condition as the Massachusetts, Oniy she lies at Boston, Puritan (two guns), a good iron screw vessel, but as | the example set them by the British colonies 100 | years ago, when they commenced that struggle for | their liberty which culminated in the independence of ‘the United States, If Cuba is wrong Im fighting for her rights, as America did—in endeavoring to strike Vermire, J. Wraas Joxes, Epwanp A, Watroy, C. Jorvay, CommirTex ov Crvizens or New Jersey Stns—I have read with shght surprise and witha To Mxsss. Sameer Drake Swrrn, WaAsninctox R. | | ers to an international exhibition shouid be engaged in a corrupt or disreputable speculationt Is it wise to give unnecessary encouragement to that idea by the | official promulgation of trathless charges, to lead | Burope to suppose that we select our foreign Ministers | by a rule similar to that adopted by the Chief Commis- | siover in selecting the men who were to assist him in ‘i the shackles from the limbs of the blacks, as the led Vier a bip of seven guns aod 1,180 tons displace- et unfinished, Lf this vessel can be finished accordiny illustrating to the nations assembled at Da eign Navies Tieh In. the “Register. for July, 1872, she to the. present plans.ot her inventor, John bricssone | Union soldiers lately have done—then the patriots of | cortain admiration your letter in the Henao ofthe 10th | height of culture attained by the Kepubtic, and whom, | has suddenly whisked off to New and without Stea en "and i8 | Yara should expect no sympathy or com- | February. I have noted the recklessness of the assault, | on their Spebuitans it, be u agereete baie soon The people of the United States are annually called | Nridnnage(S, M.) i coet, down ae 910 sons, thoust | sougentn, she will boa toneh cunt fort from the American people. But it the | theassurance, or to speak more justly should I say tne | SHould he believe thoin "yulity of any impropriety on to pay the immense sum of $20,000,000 tor the sup- the original Swatara of 1865 was only 646 tons (N. M.). | iron clad now afloat, Captain Ericsson of course pro- comrades of Cespedes, of Agramonte, of | audacity, with which you announce tothe American Strange as are the liberties which have been taken by port of the national mavy. They naturally expect that Finally, Im the report of the engineor-in chief for the | poses solid plating tor her armor. Maximo Gomez, Calixo, Garcia and a host of people who have not been permitted to see the evidence ; the government with the text of the evidence, the ab- this large expenditure will insure the maintenance of our fleets up to that standard of excellence and efficiency which the political status and commercial in- terests of the countrydemand, The popular coniidence in our ability to uphold our rank -as a first class naval Power rests on a very unsubstantial foundation, and is largely due to an utter ignorance of the real facts re Bpecting the condition of our navy, Theso it is the ob- fect of the present article to furnish. | year 1815 her displacement is given while in the Register just tssued for 1876 her displace- | ment Is set down as 1,150 tons. The vessel is armed | with smooth bores, and has steamed cleven and three- quarter knots per hour in smooth water. She is engined on the compound system, and has Norman Wiard’s patent attachment to her boilers, Vandalia (eight guns), wooden screw sloop, new, nominally “repaired,” but really rebutit, commis- sion and armed with stnvoth bores, In a recent trip to Norfolk three out ot ten of her high pressure boilers would not work owing to a fault in the feed pumps— rather a dangerous fault’ for high pressure 1,840 tons, | Roanoke (Six guns), an kd wooden frigato of the Wa- bash type, « down and armored so heayily that she 4s topheaty at sea, and can only be used for harbor de- fence. has sold four-incli plates and three Mom- tor turrets, with four fifteen-inch and two cleven-Meh smooth bore guns; her huil is rotten and “back”? pr | ably broken, ‘The Chief of Burean of Construction ree ommends that she be “repaired,” which meu the desires to build a new tron vesse} h hike the ol ope as a mud turtie is like The present Roanoke caunot steam fast to “get out of her own way,” and nad ty be towed trom the Nayy Yard to her Jate’ anchorage in the North River, and back other brave spirits, are right in following the glori- ous example set to them on so many memorable occa- sions by the free people of this great American Re- public, it must be false policy and radically wrong for | the goverpment of Grant to withhold from Cuba, in the hour of her diro distress, that countenance and sup- | port which there can be no doubt that the American | peopie would afford if they were called to-morrow to | vote on the question. "” and report of the governmental investigation into the | Vienna seandal, that you have examined it “impar- | ually,’ and that “that scandal apppears to have been mainly the result of his (Mr. Jay's) own efforts.” I | have marked also with some interest the announce- ment which you make bravely, and presumably on authority which you deemed reliable, ‘that it that | scandal “eventually recoiled on his own head and ended in an invitation to retire from his post it is only another example of what has bappened to those who solute omissions of the abstract are perbaps still moro | extraordinary; and these alone would justify a demand by Congress for the fullest explanation of an occurrence 80 discreditable as regards care and exactness, and 80 | completely subversive of the object for which the com- mission wus appointed. The taking trom Hitzel ot $1,000, which was divided between the Chief Commis- | sioner and the First Assistant, was the chief cause of | the seandal, Hitrel having said that “Those suckers had got $1,000 from him.’ eral Van Buren, in de- fending the advico he had given to Mayer that it was as proper to make @ loan from Hitzel a8 from a bank, said that Hitzel “had expressed’ a readiness to loan it In order that the reader may more fully appreciate | pojers, This vessel will probably steam in sinvoth | to the Yard agam six months afterward, by gt Abaryy | to him (Mayer).”” how backward we are in the strength, speed and arma- | water about twelve knots or less Hay small tape It as doubtful if her forward ‘The Cubans wero, as a progressive people ought to | plot mischief," And yet, gentlemen, ty the face of | Hitzal, in his evidence, says, ‘I never offered monoy been seasoned with carbolic acid she smells “loudly,” | and attor turrets will turn readily, owing — be, opposed to Carlism in every form; but just now | these charges, after my experience at Vienna, since I | until he (Mayer) asked for it.” The abstract makes ment of our vessols of war a detailed description of | each ship with regard to these is given: — | FIRST RATES. | Colorado (forty-six guns) and Wabash (forty-six guns) | Doth wooden screw frigates (now used as receiving | ships), having batteries of smooth bore guns. These vessels are partially rotten, and would require large { sums to fit them for service. When ready they would have a speed under steam of not more than seven and | a balf knots per pour. | Franklin (thirty-nine guns), a wooden screw frigate | 4m commission abroad). She has a battery of smooth ros, and can steam eight knots per hour under fa- | yorable circumstances, When new she steamed ten This ship is in fair condition for a wooden vessel. Minnesota (forty-six guns) is a wooden screw frigate (in commission a3 a training sbip for boys) and armed with smooth-bore guns, She was recently repaired, and is now in fair condition. She will probably steam | eight and one-half knots per hour under favorablo cir- cumstances. Niagara (twelve guns) is a wooden screw ship, rot- Bing in ordinary at Boston. This completes the hist of so-called ‘first rates.’? | Marion (8 guns), a wooden screw sloon, new, «nd nom- inally “repaired,” ike the others, In commission und armed with smooth-bores. This vessel is suid to be the best of her class, .She Is engined, like the others, on the compound system, and will probably steam twelv: knots per hour, * Iroquois (six guns), & wooden screw sloop, retting in ordinury at Mare Island; she has a battery of smooth- bores. “When originally built, mm 1858, this vessel very fast, averaging twelve knots per hour for a day atime, and frequently making thirteen knots. some Years ago the vessel was completely “repaired,” at a Cost of about $300,000 or more, and was put in commis- sion, After reaching New York it was discovered that “somebody’’ had blundered, and that the boilers were n out and worthless; so the decks were ripped up again and new boilers putin, Sho returned {rom the Asiatic station some time ago and when repaired will probably steam ten knots, She is, however, like most of her class, behind the age, Kearsarge (six guns), a wooden scrow sloop, with a battery of smooth-borés. In commission on Asiatic Station and in good order, being able to steam about eleven knots per hour. Adams (six guns), a wooden screw sloop, new, built to her shape; put safely planted’on a mud flat in New York Harbor,’so that she can’t sink, and armed with riled guns, she woald be a good iron cased fort and would how her own well, This completes the 81x | list of | rates” th “second rate’? iron-elads, ¢ are four as follows :— e (four guns), late Tonawanda, until Ad- captured—the names of the British Navy; a double-turreted, Wooden, serew monitor, plated with laminated armor.” A gi ristake haying been made by somebody in calculating this vesse!’s displacement belore building, she floated too low in the water when | launched and armed to carry her ammunition and stores, so she Was sent round to Annapolis to amuso the midshipmen and show them how clever our naval | constructors are, A few years afterward she had her name changed by way of improvement, an insult to | blue water which old Neptune's spouse has not yet | had a chance to resent, This vessel is now being “re- | paired,’ that is, rebuilt out and out with an iron frame. | The character of suid frame is only known to the initiated, The laminated armor is” not, it is said, to be replaced by solid, and Captain John Ericsson complains in the newspapers that *‘the turrets will not stand one shot from the average Of “third however, | they naturally are not jubilant over the triumph of | Don Alfonso, because the pacification of the Peninsula | will enable Spain to. throw heavy reinforcements into | the “Ever Faithful Isle,” and these reinforcements, added to the already large army of occupation there, will enable Jovellar to press, with renewed vigor, the war against free Cuba. The brave Cubans, who for seven andahalf long years have struggled in the | Manigna against fearful odds, exclaim, ‘Can it be | possible for America to stand coldly by and, with folded arms, see an American poopie who are struggling for life and liberty strangled to | death, stamped ont of existence, obliterated, before their eyes and not move hand or footto aid them? indeed, seems to be the cowardly policy of | GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION, and such too, alas! seems to be the will of the Ameri- | can Congress. The following are Some of the fearful acts lately committed by the Spamards in Cuba:— TERRIBLE OUTRAGHS, | ‘The Governor and military commander of Sagua Ia Grande passed the night of the 6th inst, at tho | Vigilancia plantation, distant some eight leagues from | Such, obeyed the first order of the President respecting the | scandal, when, with lips closed and hands tied by the | proprietics of a diplomatic post, I was exposed to the swarms of frowsy-winged les hatched in secret and sent forth to buzz and sting and breed‘ind purify in the press of Europe, it 1s with a feeling of rehof that I find myself at lust attacked in open day, in a fair fleld, where there will be no favor, and in the presence of a people that like tair play. Iam now set upon by assailants who, however preposterous their charges, however startling their assertions, mantully back them with their names, their character, their Position, pledging themselves for the fairness and truth that rest upom them as individuals’ the representa- live responsibility with which you claim to be clothed as a committee, ‘jealous as you as- sured tho President, ‘‘of the honor ot New Jersey.” of their averments, and adding to the sacred obligations | no reference whatever to Hitzel’s being exammed, and | leaves without coutradiction the theory of a volun- teered loan, Among the other omissions were the testimony of Commissioners, Biodgett and Gotthiel; a sworn ment of Professor Blake; letters from Messrs, Mayer and Van Buren touching a badge for the chief of the commission, to be presented by his assistants. Tho importavt testimony ot Mr. Stout illustrating the matagement at New York, the shipment of gaods to ‘Trieste without a manifest, the correspondence with the temporary commission on the orders of the President, and Colonel Cannon’s careful report exhibiting the actual condition of the departinent when it came to their hands and the difficulties which they encoantered—a report | but littie in harmony with the theory of the sewing | machines; the curious letter of General Van Buren, | Questioning the validity of a suspension by the cable, the contract for the Catalogue, the report of Mr. | Schultz, which concluded:—‘‘In short, I consider the | Management of the aflairs of the Exhibition in New York, as shown by the books and papers, no Jess than by the results, as most unsatisfactory and aiscredit- able: the testimony of the paymaster of the Guard and the letters of Commanders Babcock and Hartland, Under canvas alone any of the above ships can casiiy | by contract and armed with smooth bores. ' Mer'steam | rifle gun.” The Bureau thinks Briesson a sad dog.” | Sagua. He was on the march atthe hoad eee I therefore saiute your reappearance in tho field, | Genying the statements of Mayer, in regard to the thirteon knots per hour with afresh wind abeam, | speed 18 not known, but it will not probably exceed Miaotonowol (four guns), wooden hull, monitor, | 100 men. hile he mae at his ease pay whatever your protentions, your weapons or your | shipment of private goods, and the Austrian customs, khowmg that their models are good, but as men-of-war | eleven knots per hour. She has compound engines. _| plated like Tonawanda, aud “repairing” aiso, | Rodriguez, bere ee bed bones with | aims; for you come no longer, as in 1873, to matign, | 2d other documents bearing upon the case, When nowadays must fight under steam, this one good point Enterprise (six guns), same class as the Adams, Monadnock (four guns), the same as the Mfantono- peat or uted pic! . amen, diane sh SE oe $] eelehniciguoledt) -anddaieiai: Castatsbacad sala s and | Passing from the abstract of the evideuce we come to helps them very little except for cruising purposes in Essex (5X guns), same class as the Adams, only built | mob, but “repairing” at Mare Isl: Her framo is | Called the Alacran, = which = was situated | gal i » grams and | the abstract of the report upon the evidence, the de- time of peace, Any of the British eruisers such as the iron-clads Swifisure and Audacious of 6,000 tons displacement and fourteen knots per hour speed could | patch the Franklin in short order, and either of the above named British vessels could whip the whole tive pt ours in less thanan hour, without losing a man or suffering any particular injury, As cruisers these so- | called first rates of ours may, as Admiral Porter said | ome time ago, prove of possible use against Polynesian islanders, and perhaps even 1m a war with | Bpain, the superior training and pluck of our oificers and men might with timely assistance of our monitors earry them safely through a fight; but against English, | French, German, Italian, Russian and Turkish ships | they would prove mere ‘slaughter houses tor gallant men. SECOND RATES. Connecticut (twenty-one guns), a wooden screw ves- vel; rotten or rotting on the stocks at Boston, Florida (twelve guns), late Wampanoag, a wooden | screw ship converted toa psendo ram. She is rotten and ts said to be hogged also. She is at present moored at New London to keep up the show of having a naval Station at that place. lowa (twenty-three gons), a wooden screw vessel ; rot- ting m ordinary at Boston, ‘Tennessee (twenty-three guns), a wooden screw ves- sel with smooth bore guns, in commission on the Asiatic station, This vessel bas recently been rebuilt | and re-engined for the third time with compound ea- gines, She has cost first and last OVER TWO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and probably very pear three millions, The published accounts of her in the Secretary of the Navy's rece by the government, Alliance (six guns), same class as the Essex. ‘Alert (four guns), an iron screw sloop, new, built by contract and armed with smooth bores; speed under | Last sum- | steain about ten and a halt knots per bour. mer she “burned out” one of her boilers (Bureau pat- tern) and narrowly escaped an explosion owing to the limited *‘water space”’ of said boilers. Some of these | new craft will probably soon “go up” like a rocket with all on board. Verdict, ‘No one to blame,” of course. Why not? This vessel is of the cheap and flimsy order, Huron (!our guns), the same as tho Alert, Ranger (four guns), the same as the Huron, Wachusett (six guns), a wooden screw sloop, rotting in ordinary at Boston. She needs exteasive repairs. Has a battery of smooth bores und js a nine knot ship. Mohican (eight guns), a wooden screw sloop, repair- | ‘ng at Mare Isiand, and will probably class with Van- dalia when completed. ‘Tuscarora (six guns), a wooden screw sloop. In fair condition, having been partially repaired recently. Sho has a battery of smooth bores. Her steam speed is ten knots, het alg (six guns), a wooden screw sloo} at Washington for repairs. Her battery 16 of bores. This vessel 1s like the Iroquois, and was built at the same time (1858). Narragansett (five guns), an old wooden screw sloop, with the model of a bread tray and a battery of smooth vores, When in good condition can steam seven knots per hour, and with a fresh breeze ahead will make one and a balf or two knots, Fit for nothing but a movabie coal hulk to the South Pacillc squadron, but might | being shipped across the country by the Pacitic Rail- road on the freight question. Terror (!our guns), the late Agamenticus. Her con- diticn {s ine same as that of the Monadnock—that is, | “repairing.” The umount of the usual annual appro: | priation which the departinent has been able “to utilize” for this purpose has evidently been consider- able. This completes the list of iron-clad “third rates,’ four in number, which it is ‘hoped, when “repaired,” will prove eable, 1f not formidable, for coast and harbor defence, It is at least, something to be thank- trust we are deeply grateful. At all events, like St, Paul, we can ‘thank God and take courage.’” FOURTH RATE MONITORS. Finally, on the jron-clad list are found fourteen ‘fourth rates,"’ as tollows: manche, Catskill, Jason, Leigh, Montauk, Nahant, Nantucket, Passaic, Saugus and Wyandotte, all iron screw monitors with single turrets and armed with two fitteeri-inch smooth bore guns. without convoy, at least the government apparently dares not trust them alone even along the coast, so they may be .ciassed simply for harbor defence. They baye laminated armor on their turrets and sides, and some of the turrets are deeply batile scarred— souvenirs of Forts Moultrie and Sumter during the Tecent “unpleasantness.”’ If these turrets can carry | Such marks as they do from the old smooth bores an wretched rifles of the beleaguered Confederatos, it easy to imagine what modern rifle guns will do against them. None of the Montauk class of vessels can steam road, the government trying ‘to get even’ with that — ful for when scanning the rest of the navy list, and wo | jax, Canonicus, Co- | hopac, Manhattan, | None of these vessels seems able to go to sea | ( attend the funeral of nis caugbers wie had just died. | at the boundary line of the plantation, and belonged to | a Spanish mountaineer named José Ovies, captain of the | Rural Guards, Ovies, who had at bis orders seventy-live | men, mostly Cnbans, well armed und provided with | about 10,000 rounds of ammunition, joined Rodriguez | with thts force, probably in accordance with a previous agreement between both chiefs, passed over to the in-* | surgents. On the following morning the Governor, in | front of his 100 men, directed his steps to the railroad | | depot when the train returned from Sagua Ja Grande, | where he Jearned what passed in the Alacran store | while he stept the night before in the Vigilencia planta- | | tion, At hearing it the Governor grimaced and walked | | aboutasit he had been bitten by a scorpion, and at | once returned to the plantation to chastise the laborers | there for want of watchfulness, of which, without | | doubt, if any were culpable they must have been he and | his soldiers, He called the white man in charge of the | | cattle on asugar plantation and ordered him to be chastised in the usual inanner practised at the plavta- | tions on the island. The pect saa) ves thrown face | down and kept firmly to the earth by four negroes, one at each foot and hand, and received twenty-tive lashes on the hips.with a whip that tears and lacerates tho | | skin of the victim at each blow. With such cruel pun- | ishment the infuriated Governor threatened the fores | man of the same plantation because he did not notify the authorities of what had taken place between Ovics | and Rodrigues, when a creole volunteer presented him- | | self, a manrof ifty-five years of age, who asked him | reliot from service for the pei ‘of three days to The furious Governor replied that he would relieve bim forever from the service, and ordered him to be shot for not having reported what had bappened on the groundless insinuations, a diplomatic agent who was | unable to defend himself, You come, on the contrary, with defiant front to assail with imputations, for whose truth pointing to the record you pledge your reputations, one who is alike able and ready to give fitting answer to each fit inquiry touching his official Action in this matter; to meet your charges, to reform your facts and to show by the official records, so soon as they shal be published, that a more bold attempt to deceive the American people by a wilful misrepresen- tation of the suppressed record of a governmental inves- tigation was never attempted by a faction regardless investigating officers of the government the immoral practices and the national scandals which they had developed and condemned. Against the necossity of this task 1 have already of- ficially protested in reminding tle government, by — careful review of the matter, that the suppression of the record im its entitety after its partial publication ip mutilated extracts and pretended abstracts seemed inconsistent alike with the rightd of its agents and with its own honor, Had the government promptly published the evidence instead of suppressing it: had it disclosed its telegraphic orders and instructions given day by day, with the manner of their execution, of decency and truth, and resolved to fasten upon the | parture from the truth becomes still more conspicuour, and the proof that the abstract is a false guide becomes irresistible, The two je6 1D which tne moneys taken by Mayer were divided with his chief. were those of Hitzel, whose evidence was omitted in the abstract, and of Boehm & Wiehl. To the last case several pages of the report are devoted and its discussion is thus commenced: IR SRCOND THOUSAND DOLLARS. “One thousand dollars is next proven to fave been paid by Boehm & Wiebl, each of the said partners paying for himself $500 into tne hands of Mr. Mayer, who paid over the whole amount to General Van Buren,” This was the money ostensibly paid for a school- house and the taking of which General Van Buren jus- titled: but the abstract withdraws this ter from at- tention by declaring, “as to the second thousana dol- lars, itis not proven to have been paid by Bochm & Wiebl, each paying,” &e. ‘The’ responsibility for the misguiding abstract is) T presume, in no inunner chargeable upon you, but refer to it in_ connection with your pamphiet and that of General Van Buren, which he attribated to a sug- gestion of the President, to show that for nearly three Yeurs the truti in regard to the Vienna scandal, ag Shown by the testimony of the parties themselves, been concealed or directly perverted, to the preju- dice of the gentlemen whose energy and skoll, | with the honorable co-operation of the government, | redeemed the honor of the country, The injustice that has been done seems to culminate in the charge which you have so boldly made under your own handé, ané which of itself intimates that it is sanctioned by gov: | ernmental authority, that my conduct in the rt are very meagre. Chiet Engineer Shock reports | barn up all rgo of coal if she got. “strapped” in © speed Of tea and whalf Knots per hear undor swo- going to her station, like that famous stow-stip com- | over seven kuots per hour, and the average speed is | Previous night at the yer te ate he Li) brief | instead of concealing them altogether, or what was \ was disapproved by the government and resuited is thirds boiler power, so that her success as a fast ship is | manded by an old-tashioned naval ass, who would | only about five knots per ‘hour, unarmored. British fterward the bass ne heme Must af | Still worse, of allowing them to bo used unfairly: all dismniseal from the"mtsvion to Vienna. . very moderate indeed. On a recent trip to Japan she is | double reei topsails at every black cloud, ‘She used up | sloops of war, therefore, which carry seven meh rifles | #0ldter had beon shot. Such is the hellish conduct of ‘MR. JAY DENIES THE CHARGE AND DEMANDS TID said to have beaten a mail steamer (name of steamer pot fiven), making under steam and canvas (full speed) | thirteen knots per hour for ten hours, one knot per bour less than the fast British iron-clads make under Similar circumstances, Antietam (no guns), a wooden vesse! recently launched, and being untit for any other purpose 1s used as a rigging loft at League Island, which is about all phe is really fit for. Delaware (no guns), a wooden screw vessel; a rotten bulk, at Now York; some time since used as ‘a yellow fever hospital. She was sold some weeks ago at auc- lion for $25,000, but the sale is apparently not con- Irmed. This vessel originally cost $1,300,000, The all her cargo of provisions in going to Port Mahon, and brought ina dozen gross of dead eye buttons and jack knives and six months’ allowance of tin pots and mess kettles. Monocacy (six guns), an iron paddle wheel double ender, In commission on Asiatic station, She has been there so Jong that naval officers in this part of the — she has a battery of | world know little about her, sineoth bores and her speed is about nine and @ haif knots. . ‘Ashuelot (six guns), a paddle wheel double ender, but built of wood. In’other respeets like the Monocacy, only slower and of less use. less for war purposes; but, doubtless, serve to scare ‘These vessels are worth- , can drill their turrets through and through at 1,300 yards, though that would be coming dangerously hoar the fifteen inch smooth bore guns, but the foreign ships which carry uine and ten ineh rifles can stand off | at long taw, that is, as tar as 8,500 yards, and hammer away at them at their leisure, The turret is considers abiy larger than the usual British regulation target tor target practice at sea, and the result of,a single nine inch projectile penetrating a turret would be utter | destruction to all within, Solid plating ana tweive | inch rifles will make these craft formidable tor | harbor defence—notning else will. But better things are scarcely to be hoped for until the true spirit of reform pervades the adininistration of Ybe military Governor of Sagua La Grande in that dis- ‘ict. H vista Juan de'los Remedios was commanded by Major * Herrera, of the troops stationed there, belonging to a | flying column which discovered in the midst of a wood | quite a number of hats that were inhabited by women ! belonging 10 the insurgents, They were all made | prisoners, and had their hair shorn off. After this | Major Hetrora compelled them to disrobe themselves, and, nude as at. the hour of their birth, he obliged the poor creatures to walk atthe head of the column of | soldiers. With those unfortuuate women Herrera | | made his triumphal entry into the town of Remedias, | Allof the popatatien closed the doors of their houses, | momen! i | \ controversy onthe facts of the business would long since have closed. THE RECORD UNFAIRLY USED, In three distinct cases has the record been muti- lated and used unfairly to present a one-sided state- ment: to mislead the public as to the facts and to ex- cite odium against the Minister at Vienna or the spe- cial or temporary commissions, One case was your pamphlet of 1873, whero even telegrams were mut- jated, and m which, while professing to deal with the causes of the suspension of the commission, the AvTHORITY, The charge is libellous and untrue. I do not assume that you invented it nor that you uttered it without be- lieving it to be truc, and { must ask you, gentlemen, to be good enongh to state, with the same péblicity that you bave given to the charge, the precise authority on Which you based it. LORD PALMERSTON ON LOYALTY TO AGENTS, There is a principio cherished by most governments of loyalty to their agents which seems tobe impen fectly understood at Washington, eveu in reference te its joreign ageuis, who way be expoxed ¢o odiug and m.sreprescutation by their obedience to its orders, This principle was thus broadly and emphaticall; Delaware will make a good coal halk. Chinamen, whose junks give them a pre an the navy—that is, until it is seen that neces- | 80 that they eee camiaes extortions, irregularities and scandals committed by | stated by Lord Palmerston in a letter 10 Sere cond Java, retting on the stocks at New York. as they ‘yaw’’ rather dangerously, Double enders of sity requires it should be run on the same common yams + oe manby:—"‘It is, however, the duty ol vhose who are New York, roving on the stocks at New York. | this class ‘are the terror of ‘bug light" keepers, as aense business principles which a man gives to hi but the bad Herrera continued his triumphal march | the first assistant and denounced by his-chief wore | charged with the conduct of branch of the service to Pennsylvania, rotting on the stocks at Boston, they seldom steer a course within six points, The old | privute affairs. Nothing short of a Board of with his captives untilhe sbut them up ina galley, } not even alluded to. Then came tho “analysis of the | support those who are acting with them, and to back Susquehanna, rotting in ordinary at New York, with her frame above water and exposed to the weather. Lancaster (twenty-two guns), @ wooden screw cor- rotte, with a battery of smooth bore guns, She is rot- } ling at Portsmouth, N. H., and will cost a large sum to repair, and will then be able to steam perbaps eight tnd a haif knots per hour. Brooglyn (twenty guns), @ wooden screw vessel, | med With Smooth bore guns. She is in commission, | at is said to be half rotten and in great neea of re- | Winnipec is said to have shoered so on a certain occa: sion in going upto Norfolk that the keeper of the Craney Island light abandoned his charge in terror, fearing to be run down and utterly demolisned. Kansas (three guns), a. wooden screw gunboat, armed with smooth bores. She is rotting at Ports- mouth, N. H. Has a speed of nine knots, She was originally much taster, sic (three guns), a wooden screw gunboat, “Re. pairing” at Washington, Armament of smooth bores, ed, nine knots.’ | Commissioners, composed of three honest, just, able, | fearless, energetic and patriotic seamen—men hating Javoritism, nepotism and all other isms, and who know just what the navy needs and dare to speak the honest | truth, regardless of personal considerations—can bring us salely out of this “slough of naval despond,” | MISCKLLANKOUS CRAFT, Finally, we lave twenty-tive tugs and two iron tor- pedo els—Alarm and Intrepid—both expensive failures; the former as to speed, the latter as to the ob- ject intended. without doubt to exterminate them for the crime of loving the independence and the liberty of Cuba.” It is said that Jovellar has deposed Brigadier Covallas, Commander-in-Chief of Remedias, for having allowed Major Herrera to outrage the Caban women | in the manner above described, and that Herrera has | also been dismissed from command. But it is not known whether tbe Governor of Sagua la Grande has | been relieved for his outrageous cunduct above men- tioned. ‘ evidence and reports on the Vienna scandal” in a let- ter from General Van Buren to the Secretary of State, a letter which, he wrote, had been prepared “‘at the suggestion of the President’? In that letter General | Van Buren, remarks of the department volume:—“One thing, however, I think must be apparent to the most casual reader of these pages, and that is the intens bitter, personal, malignant hostility of the Hon. Jobn them up well through the dithculties to which they may be exposed: and you may rely upon it that I shali ways do that, which I hold to be the sine quad non con dition upon Which the co-oyeration of men of honot can be expected.”’ In this case the government wat served by men of honor: and when the record shall be pablished—as it should be, without omissions or inter polations, with bo partisan aualysis, synopsis or ab- stract—it will appear whether or not their services were rendered faithfully, discreetly, successfully and ta the satisfaction of the government, Woen that record rs. Shecarl steam seven and a ball knots, but is co Sthorwixe of not much account. bk Siteo (thiree wooden screw gunboat, In com- | These 146 vessels of all kinds and in all sorts of con- MUNICIPAL NOTES. Jay to the commission, and his persistent and suc- | shall be published te personal issues attempted to be Pensacola (twenty-two guns), @ wooden screw cor- | mission. ly quite fast, and has a battery of | dition and preparation, with 2, oiicers of all kinds, so cessful efforts to destroy it, at whatever cost to the | raised will disappear and the crue issues will be found rette, armed with smooth bores. — This 18 in com- mission, but in only tolerable condition. (Ihe last “‘re- irs’ on this vessel at Mare Isiand, in 1869-70-1, cost 1,200,000.) She can steam eight knots per hour under Vorable ciroums!ances. Hartiord (eighteen guns), a wooden screw corvette, | srmed with smooth bores. ' In commission, and in tal yondttion ; can steam about nine knots per hour. Richmond (fourteen guns), a wooden screw vessel, | armed with smooth bores. In commission, and in fair | tondition; can steam eight knots per hour. | Congress (sixteen guns), a wouden screw corvette, irmed with smooth bo In commission, but hail | smooth bores. Her present speed ts not known. Nyack (three guns), a wooden serew gunboat; rot- ting at Mare Island, and will probably be “repaircd’? | if Congress votes enough money. Shawmut (three guns), a wooden screw gunboat, In commission, armed with smooth bores. Speed, nine knots Yantic (threo gans), of the same class as the Shaw- | mut Michigan (eight howitzers, smooth bores), an old paddie wheel steamer, built of iron, and still in good condition. She can steam very tairly in smooth water, and is a good vessel for the servico in which she is em= 1,741 of whom are on the duty list (one officer to every five enlisted men), 8,500 enlisted seamen, 1,500 marines, 5 navy yards, 21 other naval stations, Jarge and | small, and 3,000 (or more) permanent (One may say) | world as the United States Nay, amount of bread to ai ‘intolerable quantity | BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS, | Messrs, H. A. Phitps & Co., paper manufacturers, of | navy yard employés, make up what is known to the The Committee on’ County Affairs of the Board of | Aldermen concluded yesterday to report in favor of | | giving the rooms at present occupied by the Marine Court to the Court of General Sessions, in addition to | other apartments occapted on the second floor of the | same building. The old chamber of the Aldermen in the City Hall will be used for one branch of the Marine Court, and the second floor of No, 27 Chambers stgect | will accommoJate the remainder. Comptroller Green was again at his desk in the reputation of the government and at whatever peril to the Exhibition, I would that his letters to the Depart- ment of State, during the winter and spring of 1872-3, might have been included in this volume, affording ak ditional evidence, as they do, of his malice toward the commission and of his designs to embarrass } and defe.t its labors.” To that I reply, let | Congress order the publication of tho entire corre- spondence, including my letter, for which the General | to be issues of principle of profound moment to the American people. WHAT TUN RECORD WILL show, It will be found that if the scandal was not investi. gated and arrested at New York betore the transfer of the management to Vienna it was not because the gow erument was pot advised of the dauger and pointed t¢ the proof, While the special commission did not pro noance, as they were represented to have done, on tht motives of the Chief Commissioner, they did unbesitat ingly disapprove his management in certain particu. lars, as stated and defended by himself. They disaj proved especiaily of tne soundness of his advice to bi ot | - 7 y ks, and also my letters to himself, from the time rotten, and needs extensive repairs, She isatine | ployed, when that service is not a sinecure, as now, | Duane street, have suspended payment, | rn | Pores 7” chief assisiant, that he saw no more impropriety nodel for speed, but can only steam about ten Knots | This completes the list of thirty so-called “third | John R. Smith and Asher D, Ensign filed their lia- | Fiance Department yesterday. He has been ill for | of nis appoimiment until I discovered that bars and | makinga joan trom Hitzel than from a bark, and Tuet yor hour. | rates."*” The reader cam draw bis own conclusions a | yitties jn the Court of Common Pleas yesterday as | SC¥CTAl days with a severe cold, but 1s now entirely | restaurants seemed to be the chief object of his | disapproved of his practice in shating with Mayer tht Severn (fifteen guns), a wooden screw corvette, with to their efficiency as war vessels in thesu Umes. convalescent, | thousand dollars thus obtaiwed. That act, sira, yot a battery of smooth bores. Sho ts rotting im ordinary | POURTH RATES. | $2,318 65 and their nominal assets as $900 58. City Chamberlain Tappan_makes the following finan. | *oltcitude, Those letters were among the archives | pronounced a propet one, when you declared on pagt at New London and is not worth repairing, except for Frolic (eight smooth bore howitzers), a captured Charles ©, Stonehill, millinery, at No, 368 Canal | cial statement for the past wee! Balance, February | of the commission, and were sent from the Legation to | gs of your pamphiet that you found in the evidence no use a8 a depot for naval stores. Diockade runner Sho isan iron paddle wheel craft. | siroet, has gone into bankruptcy. There are twent: $165,135 63 Payments, | the Department of State, and can be turnished with the | the slightest prgof of any “improper act” on the par Worcester (fifteen guns), a wooden screw corvette, | originally a fourteen knot vessel, but proved four’ oradithna (Whase: ciate amount, Ge Riiemeerae ruary 26, $1,460,041 04 | Fest of tho correspondence, They will heip to show | of the hier Gominiasioner, with battery of smooth bores, rotting at Norfolk; i the Bureau of Steam Engineering so that she now goes | 10" ore pain Ciarissa Stononill, $2, $16, "aitray | or's ollice have pot been paid the cordial, constant aud active interest which I took | That act, it i¢claimed, the President and Senate ap used as a receiving ship and is not worth ropairing jor | seven aud one-half knots under favorable conditions RUC! ‘} Norvis. $2,000; Tradcemen’s Bank, | ot several months. They have brought suits against | in the success of the commission, and will give some | proved when the Chief Commissioner was made the orvis, $2,000; Tradcemen’s Bank, | the city and expect to obtain judgment ina few days. uy service other than that of harbor duty. Trenton (eleven guns), a wooden screw corvette, aniinished, but to be armed with eleven 8-inen rifle quns, converted from smooth bores, This vessel is strongly built and braced and will hate a powe! ful armament. She will not pe ready for a long time, if she snould prove to be fast she will be the most for- nidabie cruisor tn the United States Navy. But it is aot expected that she will steam over thirteen knots | rhour, in which case she will not compare with ritish cruisers hike the Inconstant, or even the Ral- | tigh; and both of these latter vessels carry heavier | ‘iinished the tamous **A. D. Vance.” irmaments than the Trenton, and could soon catch, pverpower and capture her, supposing each vessel 10 | de equaily well handied and fought. Powhatan (seventeen guns), an old wooden paddle whoel vessel, built im i540 and armed with smooth | | and requires a coat barge in tow to get from port to | On # recent vorage to Montevideo trom Norfolk | | port. she burned nearly as much coal asthe Volage, an Eng- ish ship of 3,000 tons, on the same station, will proba- bly cee in her four years’ cruise, This vessel was sent | outto ascend the La Plata, but as she draws twelve | feet of water she cannot go much beyond the port of | nd is as useless for service out there as if Her howitzers place her on nearly poses with a modern Chinese improvements” Lave pretty weil | Ensefiada she were in China. equai terms for wat junk. The Bureau's Gottysburg (two smooth-bore howitzers). other blockade runaer, with Bureau “improvements,” but is nade useful in the surveying service. Tallapoosa (two howitzers), is a rebuilt double- ender. Alter she was recently finished at Baltimore This is an- | 10 assets, ¢ claims to have ( meetings of the creditors of Fairfield & utter dealers, of No, 150 Chambers street, bave i, and the negotiations for a compromige have been settled. The creditors bave accepted twenty cents on the dollar, one-half cash and the remainder on time, The liabilities amount to $80,000, Mr. Fol som, the assi.nee, has found that their vookkeeper bad taken $18,000 since the lst of May, and the defaleation amounts to over $35,000, Cothns, Downey Co, and ten other creditors of George Burr & Co., clothing, at No, 188 Fulton t, have filed @ petition in bankruptey against the firm. ‘Tho creditors represent $12,000, the claim of Collins, Downey & Co, being for $6,492 $$. The lia- bihties are $36,000;" nominal assets, $54,000; actual been thrown tnto bankrupt the petition of eigh- | The Board of Apportionment will moct this after- | hoon, at twoo'elock, in the Mayor's office. The special committee appointed at the last mecting of the Board of Aldermen to inquire into the feasibility of utilizing salt water for putting out fires and sanitary purposes will meet at the City Hall on Friday next. The armory of the Seventy-drst regimen | leased by the Common Council at an annual rental of | $12,000. { - | REDUCING EXPENSES. The office of Warden of the Insane Asylum, Black | woll’s Island, was yesterday abolished by a resolution of the Commissioners of Charitiws and Correction. will be re. | | idea of the amount of commission work which, at the request of General Van Buren, was done for weeks and months at the Legation, and whieh, judging from bis letiers, he then appreciated, . Toali the attacks in that pamphlet upon the members of the special commission and of the temporary com- mission and upon the character of the report tue record would aflord an ample reply, and i} conceive on What reasonable pretence the governwen at Washington ¢an defend their action m aliowiny the | Tecord to be misused and misquoted, in order to mis- | Tepresent and malign those genviemen, and 1m then re- fusing to publish the record which alone could relute the slanders and establish the truth. | THE GOVERNMENTAL ABSTRACT, But the government has not only permitted the | official records to be used by outsiders for the detama. dificult to | Consni to Japan, Touching that act the Special Com- Mission declared their fg Hoc iork “the inberent and absolute impropriety of national officers, represent! he the dignity aud honor of the country, either tenet ing of accepting money, under the name of a loan or Jor whatever purpose of pretence, from the tee of a restaurant aireudy imdevtea to them fo: his permit, and who, dating the term ot the Exposition, would be | more or less dependent on their favor,” | Of the results that followed the introduction of that | practice ‘in the commission to Vienna, i the secret | Operations of the First Anpath who, bettering his in- | Sttuctions, not simply multiplied his drafts on indi. | viduals, whom he treated as banks, butsought to cw large his revenues from the national ships, the Aus ‘ican Treasury, our peopl trian customs and the by aré allowed to see the record | can judge when they | ” sets, $20,000. bore guns, Can steam in smooth water about eight | her cabin did not ‘‘suit,” and was pulled to pieces and bas » Motan. a fever fry PHgeoper acceso tion of its foreign agents.” It would seem, in addi- | They can then tudge low far it will add to the harmo: ind @ baif knots por hour and consumes a large amount | ‘done over again,” expense being uo object, of course. Jomon Rice, jeweller, of No. 11 Maiden lane, has BROOKLYN CITY GOVERNMENT. | rt to bave prepared and sanctioned, a | and renpoctability Sf our Centennial if cach commig of coal. The Pacttic Mail Steamship Colon some time | ago left New York for Aspinwall at the same time as | the Powhatan and, running easily, beat the Powhatan into port more than twenty-four hours. The Colon’s sonsumption of fuel on this occasion averaged six- | ‘ow ship—that 18, she carries stores spasmodically from navy yard to’ navy yard when not employed in attending yacht races at Cape May and qsewhere and in carrying family parties North in summer. She has excellent capacity as ‘a This veesel is a sort of teon of his creditors, whose claims represent $26,000. Mr, Rice recently made an assignment to Solomon Marx. Tho tollowing are the principal ereditors:— Wiltiam ©, W. « 8, Blackinton, | REDUCING SALARIES OF EMPLOYES—-THAT RES- ERVOIR AGAIN—POLICE HEADQUARTERS, me on the Vicnna nopsis"’ of the cor ? e to the governinental ¥ | scandal, what purports to be a Tespondence and an “abstract” of the evidence and | report, which distort tho tacts as perversely as was done in the pretended analysis of the Chef Com- sioner is advised that it is as proper for him to borrow from an exhibitor as from any other person or from ( bank. Could the government continue to be desirous thal the record should be sup the preliminary % re ” $2,198; Potier & Buitinton, 81; William Smith & The Brooklyn Common Connell met yesterday, ‘ “ sey teen and a half tons per day—the Powhatan's was over | famiiy shy * : ° + | missioner; and a part of thie so-called ‘*synop and | question, How far it is wise to permit the government Gny tons per day. The displacement of the Coion on | Wasp (one gun), a paddle-whoel blockade runner, | 60s $1,087. Register Willmms has been assigned t0 | procidont French in the chair, The attendance of city abstract” was, on the Lith August, 1873, furnished, | to Suppress at pleasure the record of a governmental ihis trip was 3,600 tons; that of the Powhatan 3,900 | ions, Alaska (twelve guns), a wooden screw ship armed @ith smooth bores. In commission, but needs ex- tensive repairs, She can steam ten and ahait knots hour under favorabie conditions, Benicia (twolve guns), a wooden screw ship, laid up “improved” tike the Frolic. She was sold recently at Montevideo for $2,100 gold ! Palos (six howitzers), alarge screw tug, with a house | built on her deck, She is very useful on the China | station, where she is by very polite foreigners cour- teously termed “an American man-of-war.” Even John Chinaman sees the coupon of sarcasm here. | the matter, | si nt ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, About one o'clock on Monday morning Detective | Price, while in pursuit of a man in Schenck strect, employés in the lobby was very numerous, as it was | anticipated that the subject to be introduced was the vital ono of salaries, For the past ix weeks a special committee has been ijaboring to effect a reduction of galaries in the several departments of the elty govern- apparently by the authority of the government, to the | American press. | Asingle extn nd truth by which a is pervaded, Foneral Van Buren, to Mr. Fish, 8a; isim_coniusion ‘Greatis day and prophet.’ Spies and informers were employed to ac- the Exhibition cEtrath is Wis tmay give some idea of the dignity — investigation ito the conduct of 11s own appointees, if | one Lo which new interest would be given by the ‘at tempts that have beeh made in this case during the lag | three years to pervert the trath of history and to faster _ on the gentlemen who maintained the national hong at Med the very crimes and scandal which they at | rested. at Mare island tor repairs, sbhe mated ish smooth | Despatch (four guns), a fonz, lean wooden screw | hiceslt i the hend wit vd tt eat wih ieee | ment, and they have not workod harmoniously, bor hee suspension of tne Amertoan Commission, | As you express regret that the report and corre bores, and she can sicam about tea and a hal HOS | yacht, said to be fast. She cost $175,000. (7) Her tirst ect . < “a 1 nesses were tempted to make Statements adverse | spondence have not been published, and as Genere hour under favorable conditions. | Sargo'was gunpowder to Key West. Admiral Porter | {leavoring to discharge at thy Sy ope io. oe rel ang pis 22 a acy aa ne ped | to General Van Buren, “An agent ot an American firm | Van Buren, for whow you appear, demanded thet ‘Omaha (twelve guns), of the sane class asthe Alaska, | says tho Bureau frantically tried to ship the contents | et ADA the pistol wan accion tally crechampeik pe Lp | Was solietted to make chargos against him. Mr. Jay | publication, and declared that “no act of “his destre: and needs extensive repairs. i a aca eaiaa ee G1 three sevy yards in ber eo ker heed ny she | meni » vy discharg labors, Ope proposes to reduce, the payroll | pa oi pmemanery adh Seeaborery commis | pnp Lricplaed Your co-operation way be | 1} uns), of the sai wouldn't hold the cargo, so she iy we aly. tien ake: ol the ci about 2 in the rey lf in one or more sewing mavi count pon in an plication to C Plymouth (twelve guns), | is gunpowder only. HOW MUCH DOES IT cosT? i y $ aggregate, ee s +9 up a ton to Congress to end the Omaha and Alaska, but in Jair condition for cruising some time longer. These last four vessels wero originally twelve-knot ships under steam, but being built of wood did not long retain their primitive condi- toa. Newspapers say she will be sold in the spring. | _ This completes the list of the six so-called “fourth rates.’” None of them are good for anything, particu- | larly as Steam Bare: mprovements"’ render them expensive in tel and otherwise, In the case of the | | To run Eprton or tae Henan In ong of the daily press on Friday Jast President while the minority report, which nas but one signer— Alderman Shepatd—cuts down the total amount $55,000, Alderman Fritz, in sustaining the majority report, said the law prevented them from touching the largest salaries, and therefore they could not strike Judge of the conscientious exactness whic! | ds pao required in the making of this abstract je | Ment professed to have extracted this last charge, im- Peaching the characters and (the impartiality of its t me quote the original lotter from whieh the govern- | omtroversy by pulflishing the record, for whi unexpired lund ts said (0 (+4 ample, ney ay ‘These are not the times when thoughtful statesmen are anxious to establish even seeming precedents for the Cit red concealment of crimes and irrega Lackawanna (ten guns), 9 wooden screw sloop in good | Tallapoosa, her cost tor one year would pay freight | Philips, of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, who | where they wished to. The reduction should yn | agonts at Vienna. he larities in whatsoever department, nor for encouraging condition, having recently been repaired, She bills by private lines tor at least two yoars, and per- . 7 operation March 1. Alderman She; urged the | | “Mr, Van Buren to Mr, Fish, Vienna, Muy 5, 1873. Re- + 6 % Per~ | was interviewed, stated that it cost over $19 to run one | Sheraton ot his Feport as the bunt ie = hee unfor. | ferring to my letter of yesterday, wherein { mado men- | scrutiny corrapt officials; and the Pi e of the cars of that line, which is a gross fabrication OM | tunate taxpayers. Alderman Fisher thought it erdol | tion of certain rumors touching the selection of jurors | his own obligations and’ those pigeon ear the face of it; for in iis statement he stated that it | to deprive a young man in office of what might be his | by the temporary commission, I wish now to add that | gentlemen who, responding to his appeals, so taith+ cost $1 per day for the keeping of one horse, Now, | daily bread to appease a public sentiment regarding | the information I have received and which { am assured | futly redeemed the honor ot the government, will never s Hot a livery stable Keeper in this city WhO | retrenchment, He was in favor of the percentage plan | will be tostitied to after the close of the Exhitition i# a8 | desire to continue the suppression of the Vienna record will not keep horse and wagon ou livery and keep it | of reduction, Th jority report was adopted, follows: * * * Third, that ie | if ty Ht once appreciate the ber i y of a letter wherein tt ut) ve Dearing of the question armed with smooth bores, and can steam aboutten | haps more, and a balf knots bour. Ticonderoga leieven guns), a wooden screw sloop rot- ting in ordinary at Portsmouth, N. H. | She has « battery of emooih bores. It will costa large sum to | repair this ves when done she will sieam, per- SECOND RATR SAILING sHIrs, | After this follow a jot of old wooden sailing vessels— | | to wit, New Hampshire, Obie and Vermont—old line- of-batite ships. Another, the New Orieans, stocks at Sackett’s Harbor, woere she is i | | | the executive power in future times in shielding from | } other party he , ten knots per hour, main until the next Cente These old cloan for that price and hayo a prodt. Inthe first | A resolution w opted directing the Board of City: 1 charged that Mr. | upon the rights of bis agents, thé good ff Saiienaaeater « 18), isa similar vessel to the Ticon- | dignified with the high ding title of place this company buys feed in quantities at the | Works to instruct Chef Sugincer Adams to cause the bers of the temporary com- | Executive and the morality ot the people: pred?) derogs, but is rowing at Nortolk, Va, rates,” and yet there are people so blind oF 80 foolish | lowest possible price, and this company especially feed | gaves of the atorage reservoir at Hempstead to be | Mixsion are largely interesied in one or more sewing —— Awaiting an advice of the authority for your gharat aut, YOUN JAY. POX SQuann, times as it shall contain twelve feet | machine or * declared) inexpedient to expend | department ; CHARGE AGAINST ANNO: as to inquire, “What's in a name?” THIRD RATK SAILING SHIPS OF THE FIRST CLARA Then come the Consteliation, the Constitution (God | closed until sa her companies extubiting mm the American It : Lam, sir, your obedient se | their stock mostly on soft feed and very little oats, con- | No. 23 Wasur Sequentiy it does not cost more than forty cents per | ot water. | head at ihe very outside, and the people of this eity | another dollar upon the reservoir until itis clearly | Monougahela (eleven guns), a wooden screw sloop, In commission, bat needs re- with stmmooth bore guns. ‘eb, 18, 1876, ROOSRVELT, 40, She can steamn ten and ove-balf Knots per hour. igh Pefvenandoah (eleven guns), is avimilar coudicon to | save che dear OM Lronsides tud’give us tack the spit | ougtu to place wery litle. canlidente in what tailrond strated that the reservoir will hold twelve feet of | The charge, you will observe, while positive inthe SALE OF THE PARK THREAT the Ticonderoga, but lies at New York. of the officers and men who once trod her historic | oftievals state. Now, sir, L will state that there is nota | water. “abstract” is less direct in tho text ludeed, the pre- RE, ‘This completes tho of the twenty-nine so. | decks, or the navy, as Mr. Mantilint might observe, | raidtroad in this city that cannot ran their cars on au It was also resolved to re-lease the building at pres- | ferring of such a charge against gentlemen like Colonel | yy, Park Theatre He my called “second rates.’ With the single exception of | will goto the demniion bow wows); then the inde- | average of $14 per day, and their receipts on an aver> | ent used as Police Headquarters, at the coruer of Court | Legrand i, aunon and Mr. Theodore Rousevelt, of New | jas Sold In foreciostire yestertay Trenton none of these vessels can for a moment | pendence, Macedonian, Potomac, Sabino, Santa, Sava ¢ are over $20 por day, and ona good many occasions | and Livingston streets, for one year ata rental of | York, and Mr, Charles T. Spang, of Pittsburg, so far | to Georgo W. Riggs tor $1,000 above all rs - 10 fight on equal terms with such vessels as the | nah and St, Lawrence, all styled third rates of thy 60 up to $26 per day. we $5.000, This 1s $2,000 per year less thau has hercto- | as it mght be intended for efeot in America, where | and back ‘The lease, dated March 24, 1868, was old crafts, useful im @ dozen New York, Fob, 29, 1876, fore been paid by the city for that building. their character and public spirit, their generous wealth | included in tho sale, 4 Volage and others of tho British Navy, or the | class, and all pretty fair