The New York Herald Newspaper, July 23, 1876, Page 5

THE POLITICAL CANTASS, Coming Democratic and Republican State Conventions. WHICH CANDIDATE WILL SUCCEED? Expose of the Primary System and the Basis of Politieal Corruption, TAN MANY AND REORGANIZATION. As the time draws near for the assembling of the State Convention interest in the local political situation increases, The Democratic State Committce will as- semble on the 2d of August, probably at Saratoga, for , the purpose of determining the time and the place for holding the Convention of their party. The Republi- can State Convention meets on the 234 of August at Saratoga, when their ticket will be placed in the field. Both conventions having discharged such important duties the campaign im the great State of New York then commences in solid earnest. The camp fires will be lighted on the hilltops; the banners of Hayes and Wheeler, Tiiden and Hendricks, supplemented by tho colors of Cornell, Morgan or Feuton on one side, and those of Scymour, Potter, Andrew H, Green or Dor- sheimer on the other, will crowd our thorougufarea, Fired with the enthusiasm of a Presidential contest the clans must marshal compacily under their several Ieaders. Holting cannot take place. Combinations on Jocal candidates, particularly in this city, are probable. THE GUBERNATORIAL OUTLOOK. Republicans and democrats propose to place their Dest und ablest men at the front ou the gubernatorial tickets in the November contest, It wiil not do to im- peril the chances of Hayes or Tilden in this State by Tunving weak men for the important office of Gover Bor. ‘he thirty-five electoral votes of New York, Which may positively decide the Presidential issue, Must pot thus be carelessly tampered with. The lead- ers of both partics are therefore particularly on the alert to procure the elevation to positions on their State ticket of candidates who will secure, not alone the entire vote of their organization, but also draw off aconsiderable number trom the ranks of the opposi- tion. On the democratic side Governor seymoar is urged, along with other candidates, Butt is understood that gentleman positively declines the honor, and will not accept under any circumstances, The Utica Observer lately came out in aa assertion to this effect. Coming from the home of the Oneida statesman, such a stato- ment must receive every consideration. ‘he name of Chief Justice Church has been also ventured, but that distinguished gentleman it is said also refuses the houor. He prefers the higuest judicial offico in the State toa threo years’ term in the executive chair, Comptrolier Green’s iriends strongly urze his nomination, They claim that he is exceedingly popular throughout the State on account of nis reform position, and that the farmers honor \.im for his fight against political cor- Tuption and robbery of the pubhe treasury in this city. Then, too, they urge that he will receive a large republican vote, together with the full indorsement of luis own party, R,N. Sherman, of Onoida, is taiked of for Lieutenant vernor, This gentleman's legis- lative record has been excellent. Senator Kernan favors Mr. Green’s nomination, The political iriend- ship of Mr. Kernan at this tine is a host in itsell, The gentleman won proud laurels at St Louis. Governor Tiiden bas every reason to thank him for the brilliant Strategy exhibited in conducting thas campaign, The democrats of his pative State do not forget it, and Mr. Kernan is to-day one of the most distinguished in ponticul counsels, and one whose advice will be listened to with considerable respect. The republicans are sull as much atgea in their eboice of a gubernatorial candidate as the democrats, As things now look the chances are decidediy in avor of Mr. A. B. Cornell, Conventions have been held in Several of tho districts for the selection of dolegates to the Stato gathering. Many of these delegates havo ‘been ingtructed to vote for Mr, Cornell. If this policy should be pursued turoughout the entire State Cor- neii’s nomination is assured, We know what machinery in politics can accomplish. Mr. Cornell is Chairman of the Republican State Committee, He is also backed by that able and astute politician Senator Conkling. With the wires tous at bis command it is no dullicuit matter to inanipulate them at pleasure. But, then, the “black horse cavairy’? 0: Morgan, Evarts, Curtis and others Ubreaten the machine po ver ou all sides. The vigorous fight inaugurated by that “distinzuished poet” (as George Wilham Curtis was designaied at Cin- tinnatr by a colored brother) 1m Syracuse will be continued at Saratoga. Wheiher this fice lance cap eifectuaily sirike down the Corneil ban ner remains to be seen. Mr. Curus is exceedingly Dappy in essays on good breeuivg As a political ecouomist and factor Le may not prove such a success, With Morgen, Evarts and others, the republicans can. Dot com lain of good men from which w choose heir gubernatorial stanuard vearer tor 1876. TAMMANY’S KEORGANIZATION DILEMMA. “To reorganize or not to reorganize, that is the question.” A Tammany Alderman thus soliloquized yesterday, The singular anomaly remains of the ieader Of a large organization in this city sail controling t Movements while it is well Known that the gentieman cunuot be, ai heart, in barmony with the Presidential candidate of bis purty, In fact, it is not in haman nature to tollow enthusiastically into bittle the gea- trai who yesterday was abused and vilified by bis suldiers, While to-day tuey shout loudly in bis praise. Mr Jobu Kelly and mavy of his Tamnuny followers pow occupy this peculiar position. Up to an hour delore the pomipation of Mr. Tilden at St. Louis Koly with bis expected gang trom this city attacked fetorm Gover with abusive epithets and false usations. The fight was aot one of political warmth t of personal vitierness. No one questions the juct that Mr. Join Kelly’ cordially dislikes Gov- ernor Tilden. How then can the “boss of Tammany give the Presidential nomivee of bis party that entha- Fiastic support to which be is entitled ? bie under Lhe cireumsiances, and Governor ‘iiden slLouid ponder Over this siute Ot afuirs, and lke away from Mr, Joun Kelly the power of doing barm, Some of the Governor assert that there wiil be no ite roorganization of Tammany Hall; that a steps will be taken in this direction ubtil after the No- vember contests, Will pot this be a httle late in the seasou’ But Governor Tilden is wily and does not announce his plans in advence. The only safe policy for our local patniotic statesmen to pursua in the meanwh lo is to “watch, wait and pray.’ A SENATOR'S PROPOSITION TO REORGANIZE. Ex-state Senator Moore's onthe warpath agaist Mr. Joou Kelly. He may be ranked a a first class rebel in such a coutroversy. Il tae Committee on Dis- cipline were a creature of to-day ihe Harlem statesman Wouli now be among the first io feel its power. But Fouquier Trinville Boyd and tis small cohortot 4: ciplinarians have been jaid on the siell, Boyd was re- warded (or bis work as tue Tammany Fouchs with the position of Corporation Attorney, an oilice suid to be Worth syne $50,000 per annum. ‘The persecuted pro- prietors of ash barrels and sigas can vouch for its emoiuments, Now, Boyd is from Moore's district, and there is war in the local camp. ‘The gallant ex Senator bas a plau of reorganizing Tammany. He strikes Tight at the foundation of al! our political corrupwoo— the mode of conducting ‘primary elections. It the Masses of voters can be inducea to examine closely fulo this important subject tuey will find where all the trouble lice in our Jocul political machine, Senator Moore contends that the primaries of bis detrictw—the Twenty-lirst Assembly—bave at all times been held in a8 {ir a manner as the system wil allow. Hie. then goes. onto Say “Bat according to the “by-laws of the central organi- ZAvion bo change can be made in this direction without the consent oi tuat body, Ib my opinion th Len Ot representatives in the general and district commit- tees by the people direct of each aud every ciection district in each Assembly district, unver the directio aud wuspices of the Tammany Hall orgauization, woul Be Wise and timely. It would be 4 reform, ana in the meerest of home rulc’ in each loca) district. In that way Lie present dificulties in the organiz«uon, and all contests by the outside, or ant! famnany democrats, would be setiled, and that, too, by the people. It cer tatuly seems better ior lammany Hail to consent that every district 1 the county direct 1s own affairs in the true interesia o: democracy jhan to have the State Central Commitee, or a wajorny of the Tammany a to direct a reorganization im any way. If the ‘Committee were chosen in Unis way (and it ein & Short time), the leadersmp—if any Were needed—would be decided by the people. Th independence of every mau in the organization would be assetted, and members could remain tn the organi- zaticn without baving to depend for ther sianding, or Uicir political existence therem, on the will of any one man.” p THE KVILS OF TAMMANY PRIMARIES, There is considerabie wuth in the tye Scotia Jaid town by Senator Moore. But it would ve far better if She State Central Committee, which dees not recognize Cammany Hull or avy other ball as the particular rep- teseutalive of the democrac this c.ty, should, in De imwrest OF the part t the formation of a younty committee, a8 they hove in the country, and et ail “halle? and ehques come ander this broad onner and work burmeuiously for the common wel- are. the primary system, a8 conducted by Tammany Hail, 19 4 visurace ts the democratic party. Twkets are prvted days betore with the names of those ‘“re- quired’ by the Boss, The people are su eg) to vote tor this ticks od opposition we jet that . Itis impossi- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. JULY 23%, 1876—-TRIPLE SHEET. might be placed in tne field. But if every vote of an Assembly district was cast for a ticket towhich the Tammany ruling powers were opposed, the Committee on Organization could then declare it ‘‘irreguiar,’? and give the ‘‘slate’’ candidates seats in the wigwam, thus trampling under foot the expressed majority of the citizens. If the people of each district will only examine this question carefully they will find out how disreputable men get on the committecs, and afterward control the local nominations. It is by this means that the keeper of a barroom, who can searcely read aud write, gets ‘at the head of his com- mittee," und, under the present Kelly regulations, con- trols the patronage of his “deesirick.”” Is it any won- der that our city debt reaches $150,000. wernn.ent becomes a laughing stock i y the world, acd our children die by the hundreds in badly ventilated tenement houses and pestilence breed- ing thorougblares? Governor Tilden had better give these subjects consideration before he allows his namo to go before the country as tolerating such public abuses in the very city where he resides. He nas it in ‘his power to weed out of the local machinery the rotten and corrupt members, Let him strike at the roots of these eviis as effectually as he has destroyed the Tweed and Canal rings, and he will add another woll deserved laurel to his Bistory us the famous “Reform Goy- r. THE TAMMANY AND ANTI-TAMMANY KATIPICATIONS. Some considerable rivairy exists between the Tam- many and anti-lammany factions as to the success of their respective ratitication meetings on Monday and Tuesday evenings. ‘The anti-Tammany people hold tho presuge of being first im the eld, and they haye invited a list of prominent gentlemen to speak upon the occcasion, As both gazberings are catled for the purpose of indorsing ‘Tilden and Henaricks, all opposing elements of the democratic party can stand ov a common pilatiorm. Brass bands, reworks and curiosity will attract a y meeting; but the anti-Tammansites e bone and sinew of metropolitan democ- will attend Irving Hall and vicinity on the date Every requisite preparation has been 1ade to re Success on both sides. The press has been duly considered in selecting the chairmen for voth meet- ings, Mr Charles A. Dana, the brilliant journalist, has been requested to presid Tammany Hail, while Mr. Oswald Ouevdorler bas received a, similar invitation from the anti-lammanyites, Governor Tilden stands smilingly aside in quiet approval of the efforts of Tam- many and anti-Tammany, in apparent rivairy, in the work of indorsing bis candidacy. He has a difficuit card to play in the coming contest if he proposes to keep both orzanizations at the front for democratic candidates, State and national, until election day. It ts to be hoped that he will not be compelled to go to bed on the night of the 4th of November, with the in- vocation, "A plague o’ both your hoases!"” claim that rac: £ LOCAL POLITICS. A regular meeting of the Sixth Assembly District Anti-Tammany Committee was held at their headquar- ters, Funk Hall, No. 80 Clinton strect, last evening, with Mr, Michael Healey prosiding. A meeting of the Committee of Arrangements for the grang ratification meeting to be held in and around Irving Hall on Monday evening, under the auspices of the New York Democratio County Commit- ¢, was held yesterday afternoon at No. 2 Park row, with. G, Hart, Chair- man, and Thomas Costigan, Secretary. There was a full attendance, The various sub-commiltees reper ed the completion of the arrangements jor the meeting, Several of the Assembly districts have made arrange- men's for atte he meeting in torculight proces- sion, with fireworks, &c, A number of commu- nications were received from various campaign clubs anpouncing their intention of attend- ing the meeting in a bo The speakers will include Senator Bayard, of Delaware; George English, of Connecticut; Senator Kernan, Mr. ©. W. Corrigan, of Pennsylvania; Coaries W. Brook: Moritz Ellinger and several other eminent residents ol the city. Mr. Oswald Ottendorter will preside. ‘The committee of ope from each Assemby district appointed by Mr. KE. C. Gessner, chairman of the Sighth Assembly district, met last evening at their rooms and arranged for a meeting for the 26th inst, to finally agree upon the date tor the ratification meetiug jn the district, The feeling in the district 1s growing stronger daily and promises a good mojority for Tilden and reform. POLITICS FOR HOLT WEATHER, Cleveland Germans are for Tilden, No political excitement in Western New York. Cincinnati Enquirer:—“Jim Tyner in the Cabinct?”? John Quincy Adams may go to Congress if he wants to. Boston Advertiser:—“Wo never had an Indian polj iey."” Mr, Sweony, at Geneva, wonders at American poll- tics. Emerson Etheridge revives in Tennessee as a politt- cian, Tho Albany Press wants Husted for Governor of New York. Baltimore American:—‘Tilden was familiar with Tweed.” Kentucky State election on the first Monday in August, Mr, Bowles says that Bristow’s bead is as level as his jaw is square, Democrats discover that Sam Cox, as a fly, don’t catch any fish. Ex-Governor Gaston, democrat, is sure to run for Governor of Massachusetts. The Cleveland Leader insista that Tilden’s ‘‘reform” cost more than it came to, St. Louis Republican:—“Did Hayes ever lift his Voice against a republican evil?’ Southerners insist that everything will be right if they get lots of constitution in theirs, “1 will not be a candidate against Judge Taft forGov ernor.”—R. B. Hayos, And yet ho was, The Buffalo Courier thinks that Mr. Conkling will not -risk defeat iu a candidacy for Governor. C. M. Crossweil, of Adrian, is likely to be the repabli- can candidate for Governor of Michigan. The Utica Herald calle attention to the fact that Mr. Tilden has ruled a State for only a year‘and a halt Boston Post:—‘Republicans discover political danger in acombined South, bat none in a combined North,” Ellis H. Roberts wants to know whetner Grant's ad- ministration is responsible for hard times in India and Russia, The Chicago Tribune says that since Hayes wrote bis letter the republican party is not responsible for Grant’s doings. Augusta (Ga) Constitutionalist:—“The man who has ‘Just one word’ to say is at large and equipped for the | campaign.” An intelligent correspondent from a country village in North Caro‘ina says toata negro will let his family starve rather than not talk politics, Mr. Watterson says In the Courier-Journal:— Hold the swag, for Mayes is coming; *Lysses keeps the till; Send the auswer to Ben Bristow— Zach will foot the bill. The Aiken (S. C.) Journal, in noticing a speech made by prominent republican, says:—‘The only time he ‘prought down the house’ and make the crowd open wide their eyes, was when he told them that Tilden had sent $4,000,000 to South Carvlina to buy up negro votes. Them every eager ear listened, every eye opened wide and every band.wont down into a pocket, and the crowd howled, ‘Hoorai for Tilda!’ ”” THE SICK CHILDREN.” Yesterday morning the physicians detailed by the Board of Health to visit the tenement bouses in this city, and to administer medical aid to the children under five years old suffering {rom cholera infantum, reported to the Board of Health. Owing to the rapidity with which the voiunteer physicians accomplished their work, and the absence of a definite plan of report, the scheduled reports were not made. Many of the in- spectors had visited between 600 and 950 families. The sights im some of the dwellings were disheartening. Grim visaged en kept constautly passing through the districts with little pine coflins, covered with black muslin, Uncer theirarms. Everywhere she physicians | were weil received. During their S yemterday chi doctors were supplied with prescr! ke signed by the A ‘aut Sanitary IJusp rector. Tickets | for free excursions for the destitute sick chil- aren of New York eny were freely distributed. On these excursions bo well child and no contagious diseases are allowed on board. ‘The druggists throughout the metropolis have sig- Dified their intention to make ap the prescriptions at the wct@ui cost price, aud in many instances tue drag: ists Lave given the medicine required without cost. i turther ordors from the Board of Health the large hearted physicians who ii cuildren”? will continue work averages 608 fam: do not hesitate to render under thor observation and of which a respectable Physician bas not tho management, An iniorma' re- port of the families visited, the number of sick children found ana tae medicines administered will be mado daritig the week. The doctors will commence visiting at half-past nine A. M. each day, STERLING SYMPATHY. No. 404 Fourrn Avexcr, } Naw Yous, July 22, 1876. To ne Eprror ov THe Hxexatn:— Noticing in your valuable paper the distress caused in many poor families oy their inability to pay for pre- scribed medicines, I beg leave to hand you enciored for distribution, direct or through the phyaiciana, 100 tickeis, each of which will be received at my store in payment in full for one prescription, Any further prescriptions required for the same patient to whom a ticket has been turnianed and migned ¥, the same Va bpsens wilt be mado up at cost rice, Vory respectiully yours, P Perey Pe ALFRED REICHARDT. FAST MAILS EXTINCT. ABOLITION OF THE RAPID POSTAL SERVICE AND THE PROBABLE RESULTS—A CONSIDERATE CONGRESS. Yesterday morning the last of the fast mall trains left the Grand Central depot at a quarter-past four o’vlock, and the last limited mail train of the Southwestern route moved out of the Pennsy!vania railroad depot at bal{-past four, As announced some time since, the lack of funds to continue the fast mail system, and the sluggishness evinced by Congress in voting an uppro- priation to support it, forced the railroad companies to abolish it, The advantages which correspondents lose by the abolition of this means of rapid communication seems to be very well appreciated by the business community, whose interests it most affects, Th lack of speedy communication between the East and West is deplored by a great many commercial concerns whose business transactions: it tended to facilitate, and, indeed, the matter has been commented upon in every direction much to the pre- jndice of Congress, which does not seem to realize its importance. Yesterday a Henao reporter called ypon the Assistant Postmaster of the New York Post Ollice to ascertain what might be the effects of the falling back to slow muils and fhe changes it might neces- gitate in the routine of the office, “There is every reason to believe,’ said the official, “that the business men of Nes York and those of the New England States will regret a lapse into the old time method of trunsinitting mails, They lose time in the exchange of advices and in the transaction of business carried on by letters, and, besides that, suffer personal inconve- nience, which was ovviated during the running of the fast trains, For instance, a man could leave his place of business, go home, prepare his correspon- dence and bo able to send it of at areasonably late hour, But now all letters for the West must be in the Post Office at half-past four P, M, to insure thoir transmission before the next day. This naturally forces much work into biasiness hours which might readily and more gonveniently be disposed, of at another time. Besides, it {requontly happeus that diurnal business exbibits and information, which can be secured only at the terminution of the day’s work, are to be sent away, and under the fost mail system these could be despatched at once and not held over, as they must now be, tll the following day, Time is generaily a most Vaiuable consideration in the ex- change of all correspondence, and a whole day is lost by the want of tast trains in sending matter as far as Chicago, and a corresponding length of ume in trans- mitting it at intermediate points. ‘This rule holds good all along the route, and im some _ places trains arrive at a ume which causes the distribution of the mails to be stil further retarded. While the fast train system» was in operation a letier would leave the city at tour A. M., bo in Buffalo at two P, una be delivered before the close of business. Now it will not reach thero till night, and consequently not be delivered till the foliow- ing The poopie ot New York may, perhaps, sulfer jess from the change than those of tie New Eng- lund States, for with (We present arrangements it is likely that the trains bearing mails will be detained in this city and at Avbany 10 making connections, and they may suffer otuer delays along the route. Of course the people of the West willbe deprived of th same udvantages as we of the East, and there 18 rea- gon to beveve that much dhysatistaction prevails among the businoss men there in regard to the change.” The reporter inquired how the avolition of the trains would affect the amount of matter sent trough the mails, wud if any particular class of 1t would be dimin- ished more than another ? “It cannot affect the amoupt of mail matter to any extent,” was the reply; “because the necessities of business and ot the thousand other sources of corre- spondonce will cause people to transmit letters, &c., under apy circumstances. Papers and magazines wiil be sent to subseribers and patronage solicited through circulars just as tuey always have been, with or with- out fast trams. But I apprehend a decrease of the circniation of the daily papers. Many of these, espe- cially the Sunday editions, have bean sent to’ other cities of late; but now, since they cannot reach them tll after the ‘day of publication, it is likely that sub- scriptions for them will be discontinued. This only mail matter which is likely w be decreased in quantity by the abolition of the fast mail service. Of course it will be the newspaper offices which will feel the change most; but the burden ol transacting com- mercial business, which speedy communication with correspondents through the country tended to lighten, will, L think, fall cimost as severeiy on the mercantile community.”? In the course of his investigations in the Post Oflice the reporter found that the falling back into the old system bas necessitated a change in the routine of the postal service, and consequently oc- casioned considerable inconvenience and a partial r orzanizing of different dopartments, The work of sorting the ia, Which has hitherto been atiended to by acorps stationed at the depot and upon thecars, will now be done at the office, and this will employ the whole force of fast mail attaches and occasion an additional loss of time, Besides, it causes the mails to be sent off in stray batches to each train starting through the day, and precludes that sys- tem and regularity which uid be maintained in the sorting department. The change ol schedule, too, which must now be made will be apt to occasion con- siderable misunderstanding among the attachés oj the postal service «long tho routes, aud some time will elapse before the old slow train system will be in roper working order. Mr. Vail, Superintendent of t! Railway Mail Service, has been in the city tor -ome time making arrangementa for the resumption of the old method of mati transmission, and he has dono ail he could to guard aguimst ony hitch or mismanagement in transportation and distribution, The reporter learned, too, that the managers of the Toads by which tue mails are to be transmitted may not offer as many factities as they did betore the ex tablishment of the tast trains, because they are dis- sutistied with the way they have been treated by Co: com to regard the transmission of the mails ag unsatisiactory and unprofitable work. To-day the mail trains leave as they did before the establishment of the fast mail service, and the forward move of the Postal Department undertaken and suc- cessfully carried out for some months past 1s thus, through the action of Congress, succeeded by a retro- grade movement, SUPERINTENDENT VAIL'S EXPLANATION. Wasnixctox, July 22, 1876, Mr. Vail, Superintondent of the Railway Mall ser- vice, has addresved a letter to the Post Office Depart ment, dated New York, July 21, in which he gives the situation of the mails as follows:-— ‘The agreement between Messrs Scott and Vander- bilt which culminated 19 the withdrawal of the fast mail facilities was :— First— Tha. all postal service on special or tast trains should be witharawn. ‘Second—Uhat any service now upon the roads in ad- dition to that should remain for the present. How long @ period the present ts to cover has not been ascertained, So far as the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections are concerned it does not cripple the department a8 much as is generally supposed. 1t leaves the postal service on that road throagh to St. Loais on the 6:55 P. M. train from New York to the Middle States and the Southwest, his. was the train on which the department tried so bard to get them to shoren the time and pat carson at the time of starting the “limited mail” over the road iwetead of starting in the morning, ad insisted upon doing, The “hmited mali”? or 4:30 A. M. train from New York on the Penneyivenia Railroaa never has been of any great advautage to the department ox- cepting that it Was an outlet tor mails which could nut be despetched after the night train, and the local advau- tages gained by early supply on the line of ihe Penn- sylvania Railroad mat! line and the despatch from the Nortoeast and North jor Washington, The withdrawai of the limited mail tram will therefore be compara- tively little felt’ eastward, though the Pennsylvania Railfoad by denying the department mail facilities upow the “at express and the fast line leaving Pitts- burg at 8:54 A. M. and 8:10 P, M., respectively, even for mail in bulk, wall practically place an emb:rgo upen all mail from the South. west for the East, excepting such as can bo forwarded via Toledo and Clevelund. So far as toeal gervice if concerned the department have about the same on the Pennsylvania Railroad as it bad previous to the establishment of the ‘*fast mail’ trains on the New York Central and Lake Shore, However the department is more seriously crippied. The speed of the ‘faust mali’ enabled it toconcentrate most of the service upoa thas traim between New York and Bullalo; thereiore it had but one additional service ieaving New York at eight A. M, connecting with the postal car leaving Bus- ton at five A M. at Albany, giving @ very complete local servis Previous tothe fast train there was a local service Maving Albany at seven A M., taking the New Eugiand mail, leaving Boston the night previous, and the ., which was of course merged into the fast mail train. This will not be restored, and its absence will be most se- verely felt throughout New York ard New England. On tie Lake Shore there are very ampie facilities lett for local servico, and suMctent car space and cars in which to handle ali the New England maiis for the West, but not suificient to bandie any part of the through mails froin New York to the West, which are very heavy, These companies also will carry such mails ag canbe putin the baggage car on all trains upon which they now carry them, out these cilities aro not suflicient for a tithe of the mails, The Erie has a @ouvle daily line of postal cars through to Hornelisvillc and « single line from there to Dunkirk, where they connect with the Lake Shore. The department can put a force of clerks in these cars, as it had previous to the fast trains, and work the wails for Micuigan and Ohio and Indiana, oF such parts of the two last named States as will be lorwarded via the ike Shore, This will pre- vent too great delay to the mails for these Stat id will give the department an outlet for mails th omeroi means could be torwarded via the New no York entral, Owing to the refuval of facilities the department will be forced to divide the great mails for the West bo- tween the three roads, forwarding by each to the ex- tent of the iucilities granted, Mr. Vail has called for a force of clerks to be putin the New York office, who will work up mails for ihe West as fast ax they are de- posited, de-patehing the same by every train. ‘To this end he has requested Mr. Jumes vo notify the public owing to the change it will be necessary to de- posit their mail as frequently as possible, regardless of the time ot closing, that thi may be achanco to dis- tribote and despaten it, thereby avolding delay, and the soutnwost will searcely notice the change in the service, except New England mails tor the West and (or Kast bousd maila Icdiana will feel the effects, But the serions tronble wil! be in all mails for Northern indiana, Lilinois, Michigan and the West. All of New York dependent on the Central road will most seriously feel it, POST OFFICE GRIEVANCES, THE WASHINGTON PRUNING KNIFE TOO FREELY USED—WHAT’ THE MEN HAVE TO SAY. For some time past the employés of the Post Office bave been complaining about the repeated reduction ot wages which bus marked the beginning of every quar- ter during the present year, which the attachés of some departments bave been subjected during the warm weather, through the want of ventilation, bas also been a source of annoyance, and the carriers have bad thoir particular grievance in their exposure to the sun and im some imnovations which they deem objectionable. To Investigate these complaints a Hkzanp reporter yesterday visited the Post Oillce, and, in conversation with various officials, learned that the complaint of the Distributing Department was very just. It is located ona floor of the stracture lying lower than the side- walk and having hardly any communication with tbe outerair, The apartment is at all times close, but during the excessive hout of tho last two weeks the atmosphere in it was stifling. To add to its unpleas- antness Arow of closets run along iton cither side which are also without ventilation, and these in the warm weather contribute their share to taint the air and make the place untenantable. Of course, tho architect ts responsible for this disagree: able stae of things, and it ig equatly certain that at present there Is no w reporter thon made inquirics touching the reduction of salaries, From the proper authorities he learned that during tho present yenr the expenses of the Post Office havo been reduced three diferent times, The first occasion was on January 1, when an order was for of improving it The warded irom Washington’ instructing Mr. James to cit down his outlay A com- mission had been sent to New York to investi- gate ihe management of the postal xervico in t city, and to decide at how low a fig it contd be properly conducied, [his comi sion made their report, but although the exp were reduced to the rate suggested by them fresh ro- dactions are coustantly being ordered. The $25,054 reduction was eflected by twenty-one removals aid a several lowering of salaries On March 1 another order was received requirmg a further roduction of $11,600. Twelve removals and another deduction {rom each man’s salary met this demand. The Postmaster fan- cied that everything possible had been cone in the way of retrenchment, but on July Lhe was cailed upon to make &luriner reduction of $25,600, Against this he pays claiming that the Jowest figure on which tho Post OMce éould bo ran had been cided by the commission from Washington, and that any further decrease of the department resources would seriousiy cripple it and impair its usefulness. He claimed, too, that his expenses are now only ) $25,000 more than they were three years ago, when, on April 1, 1873, he entered upon the dunes of his office, and yet during that time there had been estad- lished twelve additional stations, the Auditor’s Depart ment, tne Newspaper Postage Depaztment and the Mall Equipment Department. ‘This protest was forwarded to Washin; Tho reporter further ascertained that master James has no actnal jurisd'ction over the car- riers. The special agent ot the Free Delivery Service from Washington directs them and regulates the num- ber of deliveries to be made, and Congress determines their salaries, During the heated term, however, Postmaster James took the responsibility of reducing the number ot daily deliveries from eight to five, and instructed the car- riers to report at once any illness they might be labor. ing under and command the services of the surgeons of the department free of charge. VISITORS AT LONG BRANCH. Loxo Braxon, July 22, 1876. Three thousand people arrived here to-day from New York and Philadelphia The hotels are over- crowded. Some were compelled to put up cots in the parlors and billiard rooms to accommodate guests. It is estimated that there are ever 15,000 visitors here to- night. Grand full dress hops were given at the lead- ing hotels, which were attended by tho élite of the Branch, Among the most prominent arrivals are Count de Oniramont, Belgian Commissioner, and Cumleifle, Imperial Japaneso Commissioner; School Commissioner Stephen A. Walker, of New York; Gen- eral Robert Schenck, Dr. William fH Lowis, W. G. Fargo, Colonel H. B, Plant, ex-Mayor Swift, of Phila- deiphia; General H. H. Bingham, Robert Garrett, of BaJumore; Hon, Benjamin H. Wood, Hon. Richard Stockton, Hon. Washirgton Booth, Hon, Wayne Mav- Veavh, J. Skipwith Gordon, Dr. Sayre, of Russell G H.C. Neil, of Baltimore Hottman, of Philadelphia; Peter Moller, of orge Ainmerman, Chauncey M. | De R, Blanchard, F. T. ton. Post- 881 ot Baitunore; J. Brokaw, Cook, Mr. Blume and family, of New York; Mrs. Lamonte and family, of New Yor! Mr. John K. Bigelow, Secretary of State, of Now York} General Akiny, United States Army; ‘Mr. James H. Coleman, of New York; General George H. Pendicton, ew York; Wr. R. G, Radway, New York; Dr. E. D, Fowler, New York; H. V, Allien, New York; Governor Bodie. ot New Jersey; Janes Douglas, of Londen; General William P. Breslin, of New York; C. 8. Rait, of Lon- don; A. J. Lightburne, Sr. George A. Hoyle, of New York; Mayor Oscar Wilson, of Newark; Senator J. H. Blackwell, of New Jersey; Mr. E. M. Downing, of Now York. jeorge Leland, WATERING PLACE ZEPHYRS. John Morrissey is at Saratoga, Fishing is good im Oncida Lake, Judge Spencer is at Fire Island, Gulls hang over blucfsh schools. New Engianders love Newburyport, Sitting Bullis going to the Big Horn, Pienty of herring off Yarmouth, N. 8. Theodore Tilton will go to New Jersey. Rockaway is superseding Long Branch. Sing Siog Camp Meeting opens July 25, Ocean Grove is fliled with hymn books. There is plenty of blue fishing Nantucket, General Butier has been visiting Nantucket. Alabama people make trips to Pensacola Bay. Governor Tilden will go to the Long Island coast, Pennsylvania politicians prefer Berkeley Springs. Longfellow continues to rusticate in Pennsylvania, The bowling alleys are resonant at Salisbury Beach. Judge Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, is at Fire Island. There is a natural ico houso in a gorge at Chittenden, vt. The winds aro a#o light on Lake Erie that yachting is poor. The. bay trom Cape Ann to Portsmouth is white with sails, Mackorel are plentiful of Nahant and Swampscott, Masa Hon. & B, Chittenden will soon go to Guilford, Conn. The Boston Independent Cadets are encamping at Nahant. The family of Governor Whyte, of Maryland, is at Cape May. Ik Marvel remains at home at Edgewood, near New Haven, Conn. Ohio people find watering places on the islands along shore in Lake Erie, ‘The latest bathing dress has @ pocket right in the centre of the blouse. £. L. Davenport will remain fora while at the Ar- kansas Hot Springs, Nantucket visitors fish for sharks while lying at anchor in the harbor. Governor Smith, of Georgia, 4 at Gainesville, in that State, Wostern people like Cape May because there is plenty of comfort and no siyle there. Cape May ia stolid and comfortable and the Filth Maryland regim: encamps there. A lady at Seabright wears for a bathing dress a black silk en train and five-button gloves, Savannah residents ride down tbe shell roed to Thunderbolt and drink sherry cobbiera, Colonel Sellers, who is playing at San Francisco, drives out to the Clif House to look at the seals. The President was mightily improved by his Cum- berland trip and ho nevor looked better in his lite. Genoral Joe Jonnston, now at the Greenbriar White Sniphor Springs, Wost Virginia, walks many miles a day. Detroit Free. Press:—‘Now isthe season when Tom, Dick and Harry go to a watering place and try to work ina puffon the landiord through ali Western nowspapers,”? HELP THE POOR LABORERS. ‘Tho suggestion of Mayor Siedler, of Jersey City, that public tmprovements be inaugurated for the benoit of the Jaboring classes has mot with wide-pread approval, It is now proposed that the construction of the county road, which haa been a subject of agitation for eight years, be commenced. Under the Iaw paseed by the late Legisiature tho question may at any time be enb- moitted to the people at the ballot box whether the road shall be consiracted or not, The scheme would ve adopted by an overwheiming majority. As tno pro- sed ror would extend from Bergen Point to thi ull's Ferry road, a distance of thirteen mites, work Would not only afford pending the summer ° mployment to thousands of laborers, but would greatly enhance the vulue of Toal estate, ‘The extreme heat to | and famiiy, Com- | ¥. THE EXHIBITION. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THF ABORIGINAL HUMANITY O¥ THE CONTINENT—THE POTTERY OF PERU COMPARED WITH THE RELICS OF MOUND BUILDERS—THE MODERN INDIANS AND THE AZTECS THE SAMB RACK. Punaveneuta, July 21, One of the parts ot the great i best represented at the Con! y its own product is the aboriginal humanity of this comtinont—the fret Americans, so tar as we know. in the United States government building, add at two poiuts in the main nilding, nay be seen—practically a: one view—per- haps the largest and cert the most imstractive collvetion ever brought together in illustration of the history of the savages who were found in this country al tne time of discovery. No explorations made in any part of the carth’s sur- face in elucidation of the history of the one A have yetshown any implements that bave not th logues in this collection, 0 that this exbibit regarded as presenting a “full set? in the earliest advances of human ingenuity, while it ex- ‘ilustration of hibits what certaimly is mot to be found in any collec- tion of stone implements in Europe—the stones that are relics of tribes which became ex- tinct centuries since, and side by side stones of precisely the saine character as now actually found in use with tribes in existence. Implements found in New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Obio are bere as relics of the Indians that once held thoze States, but they seem hike odd, disconneeted Lonos of the skeleton of history; yet when near by we find stones of the same sort asin use with (he Indians of the Northwest; the bones seem to become part of a living fra AS an inatance of the effect of this juxta may refer to one fact of m Every person who has reflected on the ase of ston: s has probably won- dored whether the brittleness of the material did not often betray whoever depended upon it Hut it is seen here that the whole weapon—bead, hondle and all—was completely encased in a tough covering of raw hide, whieh cerininiy obviated that difficulty in great degree, By reason of this contrivance Weapons were practically snormous “slung shot ‘This collection 18 of the greatest archwological inter- est, and the study of trogiodyte history must be greatly stimulvted by what is shown of the caye dwellings of Arizona, But perhaps the point of greatost interest is the exhibition of the pottery of the mound builders and the opportunity of comparing it with the pottery of well known Iudian races, Pottery from the mounds, with other Ludiun pottery, is to be found in the United States butiding, THE MOTTRRY OF THE A: TS, Th tho Department of Pera, in the main building, there ts a greut deul of pottery taken trom the burial places of the ancient mnubitants of the country. Not jar away 18 a case [rom the State of Mirsourt filled with relics of the mound buiiders—the plunder of ancient graves found in mounds in the Mississippi Vailey—and the comparison that may ve readily made ot the pot- tery of the anclent inuiubitants of such widely removed ciatriote is instructive as to their probable relation ship. In the pottery of the mound builders the most nota- bie tact ts that the greater part of (heir vessels evident- ly were made tw coniain water or other fluids—are imitations of the forms of familiar objects in nature. They bave been made by a people whose intetlectual growth had not reacued the siage where it accepts ar burary forms. They mostly imitate the human figure, and the bulge of tho vessels always stands tor the human abdomen, which it represents with moro or less accurvey. The ‘neck’? of the vessel is a neck, in fact, with the imitation of a human uead at ‘some stage ot it, Toward the oriiice, or “inouth,” the design uishes in many cuses in What might be taken for tu tation of a stovepipe hat, but which, from the flare at the edges, is appurentiy intended for an imitation of the circular feather headdress or crown ot the Indians. To some of the vesseis legs and arms aro added in their proper places in newriy proportionate size; but in tho large number of cases, While tho artist has not felt wimsel! ut liberty to omit them, he bas udapted their proportivns to his conyen- tonce avd made them useful. In some cases the legs are mere knobs of clay or ‘tea. lor the yessel to stand upon, while the arins are carried from the shoul- ders up to the side of the bead, and ure made to serve ne, ition we as “bandies,”? In other cusee the hauds and arms merely appear as scratches of the proper form at the appropriate points onthe body of the vessel. Taere are cases in which these in- dications ot limbs have paswed beyond the picturesque or imitative Stage of engraved lines and bave becomo mere conventional geratches, repeated without compre- hension of what was ofiginaily signifed. Where this is done tbe vessel is uot widely different trom the Tudely shaped bottle of any couniry; but it haz no contrivance at the lower end upom which it could stand upright. This employment of THE HUMAN Form is so pertinaciously udbered Lo as to suggest the notion that there was some law deeply rooted in the sinall Tange of aboriginal ideas—a conviction that a vessel was incomplete without some indication of bumanity about it—uniess, indeed, 1t boldiy imitated some lower animal. Shallow open Yesseis, not unhke our saucers tn form, are finished by {ition of two bits of clay at the edge on one side, Which are huinan feet, and a third bit at the oiher side, which js a human heal, ‘The face looks directly into the saucer, This use of human outiiaes is #lso the most remark- able feature of tue Peruvian potte With this pot- tery tho imitation 16 carried to such a degree thut the mistake las been made of -uppoting that L .ese articles were not water vessels, bat idols: but in the larger buinber oi instances the imitation is only pursued to about the same degree asin the Missouri pottery—an imitation which eventually held to an original type by a few indications becoming constantiy more and more conventional Severai minor animals are represented In the samo crude way with both people, tis not always possiv to say what animals are intended, though the Mis- souriuns were ive better artists, aud leave us least in doubt in this respect. One of thei dishes imitates exevedingly well a bulifrog, It is an open dish, so Jormed that the whule back oi the bullfrog would be we cover 1! there were any cover. THN RESKMBLANCK, In other particulars the two potieries resemble each other in coor and general character, and if the collec- ious were con.used there arc maoy Vessels that could noi be distingtished by any positive signs that are ap- parent, There might be some doubt of the use of these vexsels, it we did not fiud them practically reproduced in tribes of modern Indians, whero their use is known by observation, As the Indians used funeral urns in some cases and = deposited = in them human ashes or other relics, it might be thought that the vessels in tho form of humanity found in burial places were made to contain such Telics; but the most characteristic vessels ot the mound builders are igund reproduced by the India of the northwest coast, iu some cases in wood, excee ingly well carved—thanks to implements obtained tront white men. With these Indians the atticles in ques: tion are mosily dishes for food. The Aztecs (the mound butiders), and of living Jodians at least those of the northwest corst, seem by the evidence of their own products to be of the same Face. THE NEW FLOATING BATHS, A HITCH IN THEIR CUNSSRUCTION—THE CON TRACTOR'S SHARE OF THE BLAME—LETTER FYROM COMMISSIONER OF FUBLIC WORKS CAMPBELL. A good deal of dissatisfaction has boon expressod in consequence of the failure of the city authorities to provide additional accommodation in the way of {reo bathing facilities. There are oaly two free baths now in use, one at the foot of Bethune street and the other the foot of Fifth street, The last Legislature pro- vided for the erection of four additional baths. Under this law the work had to be advertised and given to the lowest bidder, Apparently in this parucular no digcretion whatever was leftin the hands of the Commis- sioner of Public Works. On the 16th of May that offi. cial received a certified copy of the act from the Sec. retary of State, On the following day Mr. Campbell transmitted a letter to the board of Aldermen request- ing their action under the law, On the Sist of May following tho necessary resolution was passed. An immediate requisition was made by the Commitsioner of Public Works on the Board of Apportionment for funda to do the work, and on June 8 the necessary an- thority was given, Then an aivertigement was ine seried in the Cily Hecord and the contract was awarded onthe 22d 0! June, The sureties were not approved and the contracis signed woul July & Joseph ©. Brady wae Ue sacvessial competitor for the contract tor baviding the baths, Ie was the lowest bidder and contracted to erect each bath lor $6,900, the four to be completed wiihin twenty days In case of failure to do the work in the specifiod time he will be compelled, wnuor the terms of his contract, to pay a nuity of $100 for every day beyond the specified tine jad down. The twenty days will soon bave expired and one of the baths ts not yet completed. Brady t# sand to be en. tirely irresponsible, but his sureties are understood to bo men of ample means. They are’, F. Maginn and Thomas O'Reilly, it te certamiy aniortunate that we work should be thus delayed. 1+ has been an unos aliy hot summer ond these baths would have beon a great reliet to the poor people, Commissioner Campbell has addressed the following letter to the sureties of the coniractor, Brad; Derantyest ov Poot Worns, New Yous, duty d Di Morera, Josnrn ©. Buany. Fo Magis and Tuomas O'RKILLY, contractor and sureties — GextLeMEN—In the matter of the contract for tarnishing materinis and labor for building four Hoating swimming baths, eavered into upon the #th way of July, 1446, between the Mayor, &e., of tho one 4 nC. Brady of che secon part, Tam advived by mt and by the inapector appormied by me eof the construc: tion of the work that the contractor ix such expedition as to warrant the betinl th ry in the twenty dary will od with the You eranot tail to the necessity fer the speedy completion 1 baths re deatgned to alfori to ont Inboring nud poorer population revit trom the sorrlh.e summer heut ‘The nowessity for the procipt execution of tuis design was in my mind when I cansed the proposals for ths contract to be asuod at the earliest possible date afer the passaze of the L | wos aathentic, and if so what bh autinfaetory pr the 18th inst. me t thorix Mm b ny direction aud wense 0 oties, do not UATy, measure, avinesd that the his contract and the puslie, J way ommmissioner of Public Works, AT LAST. ATTEMPTING TO BRIBE A BASE BALL PLAYER AND WHAT CAME oF rT, Tt has long been charged that many of the profes sional buse ball players of the present day have, like Cessius, an ttebing Upon night and upon the Jefi It has been asserted (hat games are {requently ‘““tixed,’’ to be won or lost even before the players put in an appearance upou the Held; that a certain clique of gamblers carried the festive bali tossers ta thei; trousers’ pockets, and therefore always knew jux how to wager their moacy in the poot room win, It was held that players were paid so muct for each game they would agree win o} lose, and that beside: source of revenue they had astili greater one through the mediom of a frend whom they could seud into the pool room with instruc tions bow to bet to be sure of winntng, This belief gained ground rapaly with the public, ang no wonder, for apparently but little effort was made by the managers of the various clubs to investigate the charges, each seeming to be afraid to probe the ugly it should provo to be even more rank than it was generally supposed to be. ‘The inexplicable conduct of some players at certain times gave a deal of color to the reports circulated, and the matter drifted on from bad to worse until ithas at last become a painful fact that at least two- thirds of the interest felt in base ball six or seven Yours ago has completely disappeared, so that we now rarely see more than 1,000 or 1,200 spectators of a gume that formerly would have attracted from 3,000 to Many charges (indirectly, to be sure,) have been ade against the Mutual Club in late years, but, in justice to Mr, Cammeyer, the club manager, 1 mast be said that he has ever shown an earnest disposition to the contrwetor aud his tations Im, to sore le root out the evil, if any such really exists, Ho baa even oftered rewart to any one who would place in bis hands evidence of improper conduct in regard to the winning or losing of any game by any member of the Mutual nine, but thur far no man has ever been able to bring one atom o proofagainst any of the mon, That gamblers ant others have frequently made overtures to the playen and by holding out tempting roils of greeubacks endeav oring to seduce them from the path of rectitude the various club managers have long felt assured, but just who these parues are it was difilult to agcortain, |” A last, however, ono of thom has been brought t Shorty after the Mutual Clab arrived in Ch their late tour Mr, Robert Matthews, the pite the nine, received the following communication ‘Onreago, June 2, 1876, To R. Marre i xm in con jention with Krod Seibort all day. Tl you want to say wnything to him let me know; he requested me tolet you know it. Yours, &e. D. 11, LOUDERBECK, Uniow Main umeo, corner Washington and Le Salle streets, Knowing that tho Fred Seibert mentioned in the above note was the nun who sells pools on base ball games in New York, and surmising the end he wished to attain, Matthews went directly to Mr. Cammeyer and place’ the document in bis hands with the remark that he believed Seibert was endeavoring to bribe him, Mr. Cammeyer took tho paper and requested Matthews to leave the matter entirely in his hands, which he did, The club was on the eve of starting tor St Louis, 86 Mr. Cammeyer, who was determined to get at the bot tom of the affair and ascertain whether or not Soibers really meant to attempt to bribe Matthews, at once sent the following message :— No, 37 Dearnonne street, Cricaao, Jano 23, 1876, . H, Suamenn, New York Write me at W n Avenue Hotel, St. Louis, tall particulars. All willbe right. ‘OBERT MATPHBWs, On the receipt of this telegram Seibert telegraphed to his triend Louderbeck to go and see Matihews in person. Louderbeck called several tines at the hotel Where the Mutnai Club was stopping, but, not finding Matthews, left a note requesting an’ interview, Cammeyer told Matthews to see Louderbeck ané while maintaining a discreet rescrve, endeavor to gei him tw tell just what Seibert wanted, The result of interview was not wholly satisfactory. Louderbeck while acting and talking 11 a very mysterious, guarded way, convinced Matthews that his first suspicions were well grounded, but at the same time left him without! any actual proof as to Scibert’s desizm. Accordingly he reported to Mr. Cammoyor, who therenpon sent tht following message to Seibert :-— Cmrcaco, June 24, 1876, Receiver W To F. H. Sxmnet, New York :— Write fully what yon want mo to do, and what you will do, Don’t send any one to me, ws I am airaid of Bas” a This had the desired effect, for Seibert at onco ro plied as follows:— New Yon, Juno 24, 1873, Chieago R. Matruews, M. B. B. ‘AM right: will do anyt! Write me fully. Ad dross No, 214 Vonn street Will write as re quested 8. In compliance with this promise Solbers two dayt later wrote the following letter to Matthows, and Mir. Cammeyer having thas obtained documentary evidence of the fact he had so long beeu endeavoring to sub- stantiate, i. «, that parties were endeavoring to tamper | with bis men,’ let the matter drop until he returned t¢ New York, when he gave the papers to tho Hxratp re porter for publication:— New Yorx, June 26, 1876, Frizwp Marrnews—Your two telegrams received The first one surprised me becanse I did not andorstand it. Iam erfectiy willing to do anything you wish me to do provided Win contined to Mecloud wud mywell We do not sant te pay for« thing and lave others nave the benefit of th you wish me togo ahead Iwill do so, aud every a we have that you will give ux straight will be worth $200 1 ene s acipher which youcan use, Telecraph me xiving me plenty time, Wo want it a snrety. contine sour basine: If we are snecessful in this ou will fod ari bay Bertram; ais towin in two innings, say Dings.” Howard, Now York Turt mn Robert. Don't tory ¥. HW. SEIBERT. WHAT MK. SEIBERT SATS. Mr, F. H. Seibert, the person reterred to above, wat spoken to bya Hexany reporter yesterday afternoon ai his pool room in Rutledge street, Brooklyo, near the Union ball grounds, where the game between the Mutual and Hartiord clabs was then in progress, The reporter exhibited to Mr, Seibert the ietter printed above and signed with his name, and asked whether tt ad to say in respect The pool seller read the letier and y winout hesitanon, He “buy Bertram “Address all ti Exeuange, New Yours, to the transaetion, admitted tts authenti hod written it, he said, at the Sustization of @ third party, whom ho refused to nui “Go ahead and: publish it,” said he; “it can’t hortme, Everybody understands that we in this bus: ness geteverything of that kind we can. Mr. Cam meyer told me some time ago that he had been trying to trap me and that he had succeeded at last. Hu bas had « grudge against me tora jong time because | re fused to come cere and sell pools on amateur races to beuefit lis grounds. I can make un affidavit that I never in my life bet $50 upon agame of bail. I that letter 1s published I wiil reply to it, but I have no more to say now.” VERY UGLY I# TRUE. Thomas A. R. Webster, who gave his occupation as that of areal estate agent, was arrosted ay the Ucci- dental Hotel, corner of Broome street and the Bowery, by Sergeaut Bergholz and Roundsman Warlow, of the Washington Place Court squad, on a chargo of swind ling. The complaint was made against him by Bar tholomew McCarthy, a poor laborer, living at No, 434 West Thirty-eizhth street, MeCarthy saw an adver. tisement published in the Siar by the prisoner and called on him in October, 1872. that he held the logal ttle & portion of ground kuowa as plot No. Knickerboeker tract at Holbrook, N. J. It that McCarthy should pafchase it at the price of ying $20 down and the remainder at $10 # snonth, iv paid over $150, when bis suspicious wer) aroused and he had a search made at the Clerk's olficSéf suf. foik county, Woieh resalied in bidasecriaining thas on November 11, 1872, the property was conveyed to Webster's wifo by Curtis 5. North and bis wile, and that it was mortgaged far beyond ms value, Mr Everett, who appeared for Movarchy, said that the Webster represented to and right to sel 2 of the caso «wis one of. the most heartless swindler which bad ever com) under bis professional notice. He produced betore the Coart two other poor laborers—John Molloy, of No. 458 Weet Thitcy-thitd Street, who was swindled ont of $285, and Androw Lyneh, of No. 517 West Thirty seventh street, whe was swindled ont of $165 by Webster, by means of tne same represontations. Justice Daily said that of all swindles the traud which roobed poor workingmen of their bard earnings. and left their fam to starve: was the worst. He held Webster tor tral im $2,500 bail, whieh was furpishod, WHISKEY AND THE PISTOL Jobn and William McLoughlin livingon Warren, new Narman street, Newark, querretied over their liquoi last evening about 10 o’¢iock. During the altercation Joha drew a revolver and shot Willinm io the breast. ‘The ball glanced off aud lodged in his eft arm.