The New York Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1876, Page 8

THE COURTS. The Sunday Night Police Raid on Gilmore’s Garden, Is Every Policeman a Legalized Deadhead ? OVERHAULING 'THE FIRST BROADWAY —— WIDENING. Suit Against Sheriff Conner and His Suretie$. apenas The motion for an injunction to restrain the Police Commissioners and Superintendent from directing the Policemen to enter and enjoining the policemen from ntering Gilmore's Garden without the payment of the admission feo came up tor argument yesterday before Judge Donohue, in Supreme Court, Chambers. After the reading of the complaint and papers on the part of the plainuf by Robert H. Strahan, setting forth the tircumatances of the police raid last Sunday night and the threat that it would be renewed next Sunday, and on the part of tho defendants affidavits from In- spoctor McDermott and Sergeant Kass, setting forth that on entering the garden on Sunday evening last they found lager beer being sold, the argument was pened. ix-Judge Dittenhocfer, who appeared on behalf of Sheridan Shook, proprictor of the garden, made alengthy aud forcible argument tor the plainu® He began by insisting that the real question involved in this case was whether a policeman, in addition to his salary, was a privileged deadhead in every place of amusement in the city, For, if he had a right to enter the garden for au impginary violation of law, he could at all times, on the samme pretext, go i y Place of amusement. Tho Judye further contended that under the constitution and the laws a man’s hous: Was his castle, and thata place of amusement was as muuch the property of its owner us bis dwelling house was; that no policeman bad a right, withou t ly made ona sworn complamt, to enter yiole ony house or place of umusement against the consent | of the owner; tir if the Police Commissioners | had the right to send in the men without the payment | ofthe admission fee they could order in. the whole police force of the city, and that if they could do it once they could do ii every 1 and in this way could destroy the vaiue of the gar a souree of Amusement to the citizens and a so there were plenty of raloons, tants aod drinking shops open ail over the city aud within a stene’s throw of the garden, into which t Sergeant Kass could have entered that'Sunday nig without being required to pay an admission tee, itered if he simply desired he believed to be tho law and not to ation, und that the proprictor simply a! execution of the law agaiust every yd bot that lus popular place of regort be made the exceptional scene for these raids, Mr. C ur, on bebalf of the Police Commis- that, admitting the facts, this was not a proper ¢ or injunction; that a court of equity now will grant the writ tor the purpose of restraining the commrssion of a trespass, and that under the police luws the detendants had the power to sv Places of amusement, In reply to this it was stated that, while it was true as general rule that a court of equity will not intertere to Testrai. a trespas: where the plainti! had no her adequate rem r where a multiplicity of ac- tions would necessarily arise, ax in this case—an action for damages aguinst cach ‘roliceman trespassing— court of equity would grant ep injunction to prevent such inultiplicity of actions. argument Judge Donohue took the papers, reserving his decision, WIDENING OF BROADWAY. Tho old story, the facts of which have been repaat- edly published im the Hanan as to the legality of the charges made by the original Commiasioners for widen- ing Broadway, is agaim being investigated by the courts, The Commussioners for the first Broadway widening—Mvssrs, Charles G. Cornell, James P. Nichol- sen a ; 8. Hennessy—bad their bill taxed and allowed by Judge Cardozo at $198,000, for fees and ex- Ppeuses, in 1870. ‘The city now disputes the bill, holding that, though the Commissioners charge $42,000 tees tor themselves, they were only entitled to $2,044 50; that the overcharge altogether ts $4: and that this sum jy sought to be recovered. Th came before Judge Donohue yesterday on a suit to restrain the collection of the amount taxed, Assistant Corporation Counsel argument on the motion for an injunction against the payment. He contended that the Widening proceedings by the commissioners were not coording to statute; thut the charges were Excessive; that bo court of equity Las power tu relieve the city trom the taxation aud the costs retaxed, nd that the ease for the city Is not concluded by the ing transactions or the aetion of the Court or the inti's own laches in not having the costs properly taxed. ‘The case was adjourned for further argument to Mon- day morning, when some interesting developments are expected. SUING SHERIFF CONNER’S SURETIES. Against Sherif! Conner and Messrs, Benjamin F. Manierre aud David W. Bruce, bis sureties, a suit bas Seon brought of a somewhat novel character by Mrs. Louisa L. Wetili, the suit being on the Sheriif’s bond for its forfeiture on the groand of neglect of duty in faring to collect on executions issued tohim. ‘The facts of the case are that au action was commenced by Mrs, Webi against (he Sherit for non-return of two execu- ons aid tailure to cotlect on them. Inthe answer it Wags set lorti that other parties claimed a lien on he Judgments, Which prevented thi Lent O1 he mone: to ber, A judgment was obtained ii the Superior Court Ayaimst the Sheriil, from whieh an al Was taken to. the General a thence the " peal ty the Court of Appeals, the us me an the case having been given und ime, pending the decision, leave Wax oblaiued ex parte tO cominence a suit against the sureties of the A Motion Was made Yesterday, before Jud; Bupreme Court, Chambers, to set this eave aside ou the ground that the unvertuking given on the appea! the Cuurt of Appeals Was a stey to further proce jugs. Alter hearing Mr, Booksiaver tor the motion and Mr. Charies Webli in opposition the Court took the papers. SUMMARY OF LAW CASES, Judge Donohue yesterday granted « temporary in- Jonction aguinst Joseph Aberie, proprietor of the Pivoli Theatre, restraming bim from giving further performances until after payment of his license fee, Henry Morford, formerly one of the clerks in the Court of Common. Pleas, was recently arrested under An execution im a civil action while in actual attendance AS A Witness in ono of the district courts, His counsel, Mr. AH, Reaney and ex-Judge Busteed, sued outa writ of habeas corpus, du which tuere was a hearing yesterday iv Supreme Court, Cha the result uf Which was the discharge of the prisoner. Recorder Hackett yesterday assigned Richard Busteed to defend Thomas W. Me by Qicted for murder in the first degree tor killing Richard Evans, on the 21st of July last, in Market stree e prisoner, who is a sailor, during a quarrel with the de- teased hit bim ou the head with a paving stone, caus- (ng injuries which rosuited in his death, “The triat will Dot take place probably ull bext Octover, In the suit brought by Ricbgrd Ricburdson against the Chicago, Saginaw aud Canada Railroad Company to recover $185,585 19 and interest irom July 8 last, the gam, we alleged, being due on three promissory notes, Judge J. F. Daly, homing Special Term of the Court of Common Plena,’ yesterday granted an atiachiment st the property ot te coi this State. Phe attachment was granted on plainul setting forth thot the defendant is w foreign Corporation and has property in this couvtry. Suits have been begun in the United States District Court against the tohowing partics aud thew sureties On Warehuuse bonds, to recover balances wileged to be jue the goverument:—E. Vorser, ¢161 70; BR, May- Fisch, $2,483 60; K. Duranthen, $1,216 40; sare, $045; Bame, $128, same, $3, 40; Charles Heaxsner & Co., $1,350; sathe, S404 88; sate, $10,570 45; Francis Marburg, $2,605 06; C,H, Richards & Boas, $125; same, $1,152; Jolin B. MeCiure, $111 30; Pames $74 40} suine, $74 40; G. W. Beggioh, $39 24 DECISIO: SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS, By Judge Donobue, and Grant vs, Jonas, —Granted, aud Sueldom vs West.—Motion ex-Jadge ougu, ie Giles vs. Downey Condon va. Lyn flenied Boehm vs, Bruns. —Moti Bergamin ve, Lomes.— Bills vs. Overhiser, — lates to discontinue, witboul costs. Carroll Vs, Soper.—Motion granted, without costa By Jude Sheridan. Dowdell va. The Mayor, &e.; Muruby vs. The Mayor; Behlaumin vs, Tue Mayor, wurrers overruled and Judgment ordered accordiugiy ter plaintitts Hartman vs. Bates. —Lewis Hessberg, receiver, Kstrado vs, Saldo,—Motion to dismiss complaint for Waul of prosecution, &G, granted, with $18 costs Lo defendant, Lane vs. Frikins —Detendant ordered to deliver over vies and cosis, oF OLHerwise Attach ineMt Will Issue. Latourette vs. Bellows —Motion Ww Vacate order-ot Arrest uranted, with $10 costs, Peck vs. Many.—Motion (0 strike out answer us sham granied, with $10 coss. Cran vs. Mabiand—Movion granted, with $10 costs, Fr wn Vs. Loughran —Motion to Vacate oruer uf arrest granted. Converse vs Cohen. —Motion deniod. Somenbvery ve. Devlin. —Motren granted, Asked ve Peters —Motivn denied dented, without costs, allowance. - | yea \2 and | rvise | , $1,390; Kugene Garnier, | jrauted unless plaintif stipu- | . NEW YORK Lorber ve. McCabe. —Motion granted, Wooahull vs. Angen.—Mowion granted. Daabar vs. Deviu.—Order revewing len. Keeler Vs. Grewold; Myers vs. Matthews; Messerolo vs. Steele; Seurs vs. Hennessy; Seman vé. Mahland; Lindeman'vs. Morgan; Davis va Trenor; Lynch va. Yomilein,—Orders granted, GENERAL SESSIONS—PART L Before Recorder Hackett, CLOSE OF THE TERM. Thirty-nine cases were disposed of yesterday by Re- corder Hackett, assisted by Assistavt Dirtrict Attor, neys Kollins and Herring When the calendar was cicared the Court adjourned for the term—that is, until September & SWINDLING A BOY, Alonzo Drummond, of No, $1 East Broadway, sent his son on July 8 to doliver eight pairs of trousers to his employer, At the corner of Forsyth and Bayard streets the boy was met by’a stranger who hired him for fiteen cents to deliver a message, consenting, 1a the meanwhile, to bold the trousers.” When the boy roturbed of course the man was goue and with him the trousers, thief was arrested subsequently, when he gave bis wame ax James Wilson, of No, 53 Oliver street, Arraigned before the Recorder yester- day he admitted his guilt and was sont to State Prison for two years, A CLEVER TRICK, Mr. Septimus F. Willams, of No. 52 East Twenty- third street, on the 15th of last month received a visit from a young man “named George J. Simpson, who pre- sented a letter purporting to be signed by Mr. B. G, Gilbert, of No, 111 Broadway, and stating thet the bearer was a most worthy young man, very religiously inclined, whe found it impossivie to gain Work in whit cHYy aud Was anxious to reach Washington, where he had a brother under orders to join the Mediterranean squadron, and who would probavly assist him. The Jetier concluded by avking Mr. Williams to turnish the deserving youth with a ticket to thut city. The geutle- man appeaied to did so, and further gave the young man half a dollar jor Tetrestiments and some good auvice, The protégé was atterward found to be an old swinuler, Was arrested and, being arraigned yesterday, Was sent to State Prison lor two years, CLEARING OUT THE TOMBS, | The following criminals were sentenced to the State | Prison upom. admitting their guilt:—Joseph B, Cornell, breaking 1nto premises of Isaac W. Halstead, No, 1,561 Third avenue, aud stealing a coat July 14, two and one- | halt years; George Smith, assaulting with a knife upon July 31 Philip Speilman, of No, 448 West Filty third | street, three years and six months; Jehn Brown, alias | Lawrence Hines, firing a pistol at John McCaffrey, of No, $10 East Seventceath street, August 2, eighteen | mouths; Achilloe Wilber, alas Samuel Johngon, jomtly indicted with Michael Sullivan, committing a burglary upon the premises of George KE, Saunuers, No, 170 Waverley piace, July 28, sent respectively to the | Juvenile Asyium and the Catholic Protectory; Peter | Quinn, stealing a watch aud chain from Daniel E. | Pentz, a inember of the Seventh regiment, while the body ‘was encamped at Phitavelphia on July 7, two James Hills and August Springman, sicahng a } Watch and chain worth $20 irom the pocket of August Newkirk on Juiy 24, two years and six months each; William Murphy and Joho McKenna, robbing Pat- tick Mahoney, of Brookly pocketbook containing $62 on the 3d inst, ch; Edward McLaugh- lin, stealing on July sand two falls of the value of $30, the property of Gvoltrey Carroll, No, 87 a c 8 sou suéet, one year; Thomas Smith, stabbing arles Durant August 8, one year; John Faulkuer, aning pocketbook containing $41 [rom Jobn Foulker August4, three yours and six months; Ludwig Wolf, | picking pocket of John Croft, of No, 132 Spring streot, | of a pocketbook containing $30, on July 13, two year | Edward MeLangblin and Louis Schoen, teloueous | sauit, one and «hall years, ‘To the Penitentiary were sent:—Charles Berry, pick- ing the pocket of Jobn Kupper, of No. 186 Ludlow | wu July 14, two years; Tobias Butler, stealing | $40 worth of jowelry from premises of J. August Rewt- 4 South’ street, July 26, six months; Mary ny of $30 from Henry Weithase, street, #1x montba; John Calahan, stabbing | Thomas Burk Monroe street, 22d lust, six Inonths; Johu Kildeen, a wil months; Gottiried Mitel tit larceny, four months; Gustav Meibofl and Heury R. Noe, six mouths; Thomas McGlynn alias Flynn, burglary, eighteen months; Charles Hastings, burglary, threo years; Mary Brown, petit larceny, six months. TOMBS POLICE COURT NOTES. Robert Dick, of No, 139 West Tupper strect, Buffalo, N. Y., was assaulted on Thureday night by George of Bleecker stroet, who robbed him of a gold watch and chain valued at $200, Loar was arrested by Offiver Duras. of the ‘twenty-seveuth precinct, and Justice Murray, In the TOUS Pubes Cont, betel Beta for trial in deiauit of $2,000 bail. | Michael Carr, of No, 209 West Twenty-sixth street, | was arrested by Officer Jerfries, of the Twenty-ninth pri A, fw the act of stoaling & trunk containing $50 worth of property belonging to Mrs. Abigail Moore, of | No. 250 West Thirty-sixth street, tn front of No, 309 Seventh avenue, On bemg arraigned before Justice Smith, at the Washington Place Police Court, he was ted for trial in detault of $2,000, 1 Dunn was beld for trial by Justice Smith, at shington Mace Police the liquor stare of Johp Me , at No, 32 Watt sircet, and stealing $4. The prisoner was cau the act by Detective Cligord, of the Eighth precinct, and committed for trial in default of $1,000 bail, Carrie Scott, a woman of ill-repute, belonging to West Twenty-sixth street, was committed for tral by Justice Smit ‘ior stealing a chain und locxet valued at $25 trom Hattie Story, of No. 218 Bowery. Thomas Hunnerty, of No. 225 East Tweuty-second strect, was sent to the Island yesterday for threo months by Judge Kasmire, at the Fifty-seventh Street Coart, for ferociously assaulting his wite Bridget. One of her eyes was so badiy injured that it is feared she may lose it, THE BEECHER SANDAL, FRANCIS D. MOULTON'S SUIT FOR FIFTY THOU- SAND DOLLARS DAMAGES—-THE ANSWER OF HENRY WARD BEECHER SERVED YESTERDAY. In the matter of the suit instituted by Francis D, | stoulton against Henry Ward Beecher to recover dam- ages in the sum of $54,000 tor malicious prosecution | the attorneys for defendant, Messrs, Shearman and | sterling, served their answer to the complaint upon | General Roger 4. Pryor, plamtitl’s counsel, yesterday, It will be remembered that District Attornoy Britton, | of Kings county, caused a nolle prosequi to be entered | last fall m the mdietment for libel which had been pro- cured against Mr. Moulton in October of the preceding year, Mr, Moulton protested against this proceoaing at the tune and demanded trial, which was demed, He then brought the present suit for malicious prasecu- tion, aud deiendaut demurred to the complaint, Last May argument on appeal from the demurrer was heard ju the Suprome Court, Special Term, betore Judge Dykman, wuo subsequently decided,’ sustaining the demurre® entered by piainuif. Appeal wi | by deiendant to the General Term, Supreme Court Judges Barnard and Gilbert, whose decision set aside the demurrer and left the cas» open to trial, which will probably be held in the early part of October next. The following is 4 copy of the answer of Mr, Beecher to the complaint of Frauets D. Moulton:— Supreme Court—Prancis D. Moulton Henry Ward Beecher: — Th fendant answers to the complaint. This defendant denios each and every allegation the Hest, secoud, shird sixth, eighih and ninth | paraeraphs of the complain far as tt may be avercod theroin that this det oat the Bd day of Gctober, 1874, igo before th Jury mentioned im the © mplaint, and before such jury ver artain crimioal livers, which had been uttered. a wed, of and con- corning this detenda Seo —This defen: oa Ariat plaintiff was ready mn the indictment uttoned of pleading the same iand this detendant bi Metemt to form « belief ax to r ready or anxious to stand tor. nis defendant denies that he ever requested the ut, or any person whatever y step concerning # nolle Malton reterred to in the knowledge or information anfficient to fornt « belief as to whether any allevation con- tained in the fourth paragraph of the complaint is trae, or any oF granted, or any such order oF judgment mado ed, OF any such entry of complaint Fith—This defendant aver said Grand Jory was trae, to in the complains w. probable cat that his tostimony before the d that the prosecution referred fuonded upon reasonabi SHEARMAN & STEKLE Defendant's Atiorue: / Westeheater:—Heury he lias read the fore- of his own State of New York, Conent Reecuer, being duly if ot v and beliel, and as to those matters Le believes t to HENKY WARD BEECHER, me this Sth day of August, 1876—Faaxcts Public. A YOUNG FORGER THE EXPLOITS OF AN EAST SIDE YOUTH. Henry L. Zimmer was committed tor examination by Justice Murray, in the Tombs Police Court, yoster- day, on a charge of forging ihe name of his employer, | Charles KE. Whitebead, a lawyer, doing business at | No. 61 Wall street, to several cheeks ou the Nutional | City Hank amounting to $275. The forgeries wero | discovered on the 12th ult by some tgures ia the book which Zimmer, Who 4s only seventeen ischarged with erasing and changing. rested yesterday by Oficer Keres, of the | Tomus Pouwe Court squad, ath Second strect. The officer va guilt as soou as be arrested him. MORE ILLICIT } bank ars of use He was acknowledged bis WHISKEY, | Yesterday atternoon, about three o'clock, Depaty | Collectors Young and Wyckuit, ac seeut upon au tient Whis Was io operstion iu acarpeuter shop in Vituay pee, vetween Douglas and Degraw streets, The diatilors escaped apon the approwch of the of Hight bogebesos OF molasses aud several barrels Of Whis- key Were sezed, The property was couliecated by Cured States Murshal Harlow. | reguiur roll calix observed, record made as 19 described in the seventh paragraph of the | residence, No, 210 | RECRUITING FOR UNITED STATES ARMY FIVE THOUSAND MEN WANTED TO FILL UP THE CAVALRY BEGIMENTS—A CHAKCE FOR AMBI- TIOUB UNEMPLOYED MEN—WARLIKE FEELING EXCITED BY THE CUSTER DISASTER. Reeruiting for the United States army was languid in this vicioity up to the 1st of July, and no special forts were made by the officers detailed on this duty to obtain men, Ip fact, the moral and physical standard estublished as qualifications for admission into tho military service was quite exacting and rigid, and there has pot been up to this time any indication of reducing 1b to a lower plane, The destruction of Cusier’s column in the Yellowstone country, and the unsettled condi, tion of affairs on the Rio Grande frontier have, as is generally known, caused Coxgress to authorize the augmentation of the strength of cavalry regiments, ana this fact has had a positive tendency to awaken something of a military spirit in oar midst, which feeling bas been made evident by the increased num- ber of mea who, during the past fivo or six weeks, have become ambitious to meet tn battle array the savage and overbearing hordes led by Sitting Bull, three recuiting stations for the army in the city—two for infantry and oge for cavalry, ‘The lowest standard beigbt for the former is five feet four inches and no lumit beyond; for the mounted service the maximum is five fect five inches, but men beyond five feet ten inches are not taken. The weight must be between 120 and 180 pounds avoirdupois, Negroes aro as acceptable, quirements, as white men, but the colored folk in this locality have never shown any di-position to enter ihe service, Indeed, it has to be said that citizens of African descent who are enlisted in the Noriheru States turn out to be a most worthiess as so.ders; those recruited in the South are of better material tor military purposes, It 18 not the matter of courage or gallantry at all that makes the dilics jis that tho Virginia or Texas negro is more amenable to dis- cipline and is more correct in his habits, TUE INPANTRY SHRVICE, Captain Greenleaf A. Goodale, Twenty-third infantry, 4s in charge of the rendezvous on Walker street, Three stories of tho large buiiding are occupied for recruiting purposes, A sergeant and three men are quartered in the premises, Captain Goodale, in conversation with awroporter ot the Hxnatp, stated that since the Ist of Juiy about 370 men had presented themselves tor en- listment, and out of this number not more than ciguty- five bad passed the doctor and become soldiers, The army authorities, he said, did not require men of dissi- pated or other bad habits, and he, in the exercise of ‘bis judgment—torming an estimate (rom appearauces— had very often to reject applicants who seemed to be unsuitable without consenting to auy medical examina. rs. iu other parts of the country to good borsemen abd experienced Indiao lighters to meet the present requirements of the service, In) York the men who wish to join the service pret cavalry, supposing it to be casier und because the pay isa littie beter, ‘There 1s no lack of applicants, and if the conditions were the same as during war tines 100 men daily could casily be obtaiod AL present about 160 meu ure obtainod monthiy, The ilaniry recruits are sent to the general depot on Guvernor’s Island, where they are quartered in the airy casemates of Castle William watii such time as they are sent to their reg’ ments, issued to oll THE CAVALRY ARM Recruiting for the cavalry arm of tho service has veon jor years carried on in New York enurely inde- pendent of that tor the infantry, No portion of the mounted force, with the exception, perhaps, of sume hight ‘hus been stationed in this department, The headquarters for cavairy tg at St. Louis, Mo. point men enlisted tor it are sent irom alt of the country, including New York, and are im almost every Instance forwarded there without delay wien numbers justify that course, In this city the cavalry recruiting depot is 10 a large buiiding on Hudson sircet, near Canal, which bas all the characteristics of a milt- tary depot. itis in charge of Lieutenant J, B- Babcock, Fitth cavalry, and a party of non-commissioned ofticers and goldiers. | At this place all applications tor entry iuto the mounted service bave to Le made, and i the aspirants for military distinction pass the prescribed ordeal they are itimediately unitormed and enter ere is guard mount every morning and scntries are on duty during night and day. Drills are trequeut au Hine Omress mma Nie qin tors jor the men are Kept with the utmost ucatues everything is in apple pio order, OF course 1t 18 unde: stood that recruits for the mounted service are not sent to Goveroor’s Island, but remain im Hudson street, sometimes as many as filly wailing Lor transportation to the general depot or to lar regi ranks require to be promptiy filled. well built men are sou pumber desiring to enter the service ot Cue coming up to the requirements is quite large, cul detects of Various kinds, however, prevent the w ceptance of u considerable proportion, and it 1s not un- common to find parties of two or three or son. more Who wish to enlist together and who travelled I that purpose a cousiderable distance to tis cy; but when one of their number tuiis to pass the surgeon ihe rest back out, not wishing to be separated, As a gen ral thing reerutts are anxious to euler at once upon tive service, abd im this respect recently their wishes have been gratilied. AUGMENTING THE ARMY, ‘The nominal strength of the army, as established by Jaw, 18 25,000 rank ana file, but itis Well known that the rosters do not curry more than 20,000 at any particular It is also known that in ordinary tines recruit. joned by dis: Physi- date. ing hardly keeps up with tho losses oc charg deaths, desertions and casu in the field, The demand now for about 5,000 men, as contempiated by recent legisiation, must ‘necessarily call for specta exertions on the part of recruiting ollicers, The troopt to be raised it is mtended shall be ail mounted, us the most available to act op the Texan trontier and in sub- duing the Sioux. Intantry may be required to act, at Occasion may require, as cavalry, and theretore re. Cruiting for oue arty as wells for toe other may answer the purposes of the War Department. ‘The official or. ganization of regiments and companies at present is at follows :— Commissioned Enlisted Aggre Oficers Men. gute. Ten regiments cavalry, each. 84 ‘Troops cavalry, each . 70 Five regiments artillery,eweh. . 56 520 Battery of Artillery. 80 Company of artillery 40 Thirteen regiments intantry, each + . 545 Comp: ot ‘Two regiments iwfautry, each, 500 Company... é 50 Ten regiments infantry, each. . 36 400 Company... 3 40 ‘The preceding is ii ndent of the Engineer bat talon, numbering about 300 men, 14 will be noticer ment can, As at present organ jaed, hardly exceed 350 cilective men onan average and that the cavalry regiments are, in point of num bere, three times their streugth. ‘Tho tormer is com xed of fen companies, the cavalry of twelve squadrout ringing up mounted companies, as now intende and as recommended by General Sheridan, will requir about 2,00 recruits, aua musi certainly demand mor than ordinary exertions or some reluxation 1 the qual itications of men oferiag themselves for eunstment Defore it can be attained. Iu other parts of the coun try those better acquainted with Indian warfare ma, be, it is thought, more readily raised, and this may pb soine Measure account ‘tor the strict’ regulations not tn foree ix New York. A SOLDIER'S UFR. Young men between eighteen and thirty-five and ¢ good moral character are invited to join the army xy must, OF course, be of sound constitution to D able to confront the hardships incident to active ser vice in the Held. The period of enlistment is ive yeart ‘The pay of the private tor the tirst two years of servic {8 $13 per month, with rations, clothing and medics attendance. ‘The third year itis $14, the fourth $1 and the fifth or last year $16 per month, In caso ¢ reenlistment $1 per mouth is added, and when, at tt | expiration of twenty-one years, the suldier vecomes to enleebied for further duty, or at any time he is disable by sickness or wounds, a Home is inaiutained at Wast ington tor bis benetit, | Thes» constitute the sabstanin Atiractions to entor the army, bat there are, on il | other hand, many drawbacks aud perils inseparatl from the profession of arms, To young, sober aud it however, the carver is attractive an | Toad 10 distinction and promotion | | open, and advance in pay goes band in Land with ac vance in stition, Nevertheless the recruiting ollicer in this city consider it obligatory to present to tb candidates for enlistment a consideration ot the shad as Weil as the bright side of a soidiet’s existence beton allowing him to go before the surgeon for examination DRINKING WaTER SUPPLY. Naw Yors, August 11, 1 To tum Epiror or tur Herap:— Since it is quite certain that the large reservoirs ean-| not be kept thoroughly pure,swhy not insist on the) construction ol @ separate water supply for strictly drinking purposes? nished to ail who would take i There are, without) doubt, five cold springs within cagy reach of the city: that could be utilized tor drinking purposes, and the! Henaco is just the paper to push the toatter. Hrook water cannot be made fit to drink during the he: te disagreeable tact, LIVES PEASE, MURDER, | At the Newark Court House yesterday Corone | Joseph D. Osborne began an inquest touching the 1 |THE NEWARK POLICE ceived last ibureday morning at the hands of burglar, was recorded m yesterday's Henato, The | Witnesses Were examined who testided upon the Poult provided they come up to the proper re- | tion at all. The rendezvous on West sireet had also } many applicants, but a large share were rejected, Cap- tain” Goodale ‘observed ubut mo tres instruc- tions bad been received irom the War ment on the subject of enlistments, he was confined to obtaining infantry recruits te did not know but directiuns “had been under instruction in the sebool of the soldier. ‘Though | MW wus meee UE ek the Ipline as us rigid as at any post in the ited States, bt after tor the cavalry, aud the | times | | One of the wheals is e | more th HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1%, 1876.-WITH SUPPLEMENT: Court examination of Ryan and Oschwald, the persons held on a charge of being the burglars who did the Bhooting. These swore that, to the best of thelr kno’ edge and belief, the persons in custody were th whom they saw escaping from Mr. Bedell’s house the morning of the shooting. Mr. Johu Fussell was very emphatic in bis beliet that they were the men, With- out coming to a vordict the inquest was adjourned till to-day, THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE. PREPARING TO LAY THK CABLES—THE WOBE- ING ROPES GOING UP. ‘The work of preparation for the laying of the first wires of the Brooklyn Bridge goes on steadily at the Brooklyn anchorage, The first step in this preparation is to be the stretching from the Brooklyn to the New York anchorage of two working ropes. These ropes are made of thin wire strands and aro now lying reeled. in two coils of 3,600 fect cach at the foot of the Brook- lyn tower. The ends were being passed yesterday over the tower, and by the aid of a stand temporarily erected outside of the fence around the tower were conveyed to the auchorage, Here tho ends were {fastened to ma- chincry prepared for them, This machinery consists | of tour Wheels arranged on top of the anchorage and ‘There are | which are to be worked by an cngine now being set in position on the ground at the foot of the anchorage, en feet in diamoter and the other three ure each four feet in diameter. The large wheel is placed in front, The working rope is first passed through a groove in one of the smaller whag)s, whence it gous into the groove in the larger wheel and 1s passed back again to the large wheel, atter rounding which for the second time it is passed to the third wheel and vhrough the groove of that whool asses outward again toward the tower, When the ends of the rope shall have been securely fastened to this machinery the reels will be placed on a scow, and iis Whe scow is towed the ropes will ve unwound and perautted to sink to the bottom of the river, the other ends jasteved at the top of the New York tower. Then, by the aid of the machinery described, the ropes wiil be stretched to a level with the tops of the anchorages, Atwer the the ends will be joined and an endless chain formed, this chain being the first’ movement toward the — stretching of the Wires which are to forin the first cables. Tho working ropes are seven-erghths of a foot to the pound, and wil bear a breaking straiu of eiguteen tons to tue toot. They will not, however, bo required to stand one-third of thix strain, The first step al tor tne construction of this endiess ehain will be the erection of a foot bridge. This work cau be accom- plished without much difficulty by the aid of tho work- ing ropes, In about one week the working ropes will be up and ready for use on one section of the bridze. Asimilar endless chain will be constructed on the other section a week afterward. Four “erad!o"’ ropes, two and three-eighth icles im diameter, and the toot- bridge rope, two and five-eighth inches in diameter, will next be stretched, and it 18 by the aid ot the five ropes just mentioned that the tirst wires of the cables are to be stretched, The cradies are wooden sealfoldings about forty fect long and four feet wide—mere frames with « planking w walk on, They are to rest across the wires runuing from pier to pi¢r and anchorage to anchorage. ‘Three will be over the water on each seo- tion or side of the piers—tnaking six in all above the water—and two on cach of the sections between the piers and anchorages, ‘The cross beams of the foot bridge are to be of 0. halt inches, aud tbr The railings are to be formed of two oak siats on each side attached to the suspenders, The ivot bridge will be well securod and plo of sustaining & very considerable weight, Alter tho construction of the foot bridge an’ the piucing of the “cradiex”” in position, the next thing in order will be the sending out of the wire for the cables, Several wooden ‘drums’? are now im readiness for this purpore on top of the Brovklyn ancnorag ‘These are about seven feet in diameter and some tucn or eighteen inches wide in the cear, with rims about halla toot m depth, They are fitted with spokes like the steering wheel of a vessel. h drum will hoid abouta ton of wire, ‘The wires forming t bles are to be about one-eighth of an ineh in diame- tor, and it will require 6.000 of these wires to form cach of the cables, By a mechanical contrivance made for the purpose the wires will be run on the end- less working ropes from anchorage to anchorage through the piers and fastened to the anchor bars at either side of the river. The cables ure no. to be fortned of twisted wires, as some suppose, but the mass of wires will be bound togeth@ at regular dis- tapees, making each cable as firm as so much steel. Euch of the first two cables will bo 1514 inches ip diameter, The floor of the bridge when completed will clear the river by about 200 ‘feet in the certre, and the width of its roadway will be cighty-live leet, The following real property was sold by foreclosure at the Exchange Salesroom yesterday :— E. H. Ludlow & Co, sold the five story brick house Fo, 306 East Twenty-eighth street, 259.8 feet east of Figen svete, with lot. 21.2408 4. to Christopher sul- TOR @ayeres A. H. Muller & Son sold a four story brick house, with Jot, 19.8xabout 76, on Eighth avenue, cast side, 150.5 feet south of Horatio street, to Augustus F. Holly, tor $1,500 over interest and mortguge of $19,600, TRANSFERS, 1 ward), Hiauf He .. Nom. 5 part SL2 thes, Oth wt, ri nd wife to Aunio omas H. Dolan shia rty, Thomas i. Dolan to 1 ky BO RR 6. OF Sth AY, and wife to 8. Murphy... Madison w. &, OS ft. on. of 66th st, 1x8u Kate 8. Howland to 5, BP. Rutter... Bd av. ce. 8, 79.5 ft & of Sbtu wt, 1NSx100.Sxirregu- Hottnan to P BOuh At. m8, 208 tt Kiernau to K. MeGrath, 0th at. watne proper 49 50th atin. sy ft. w. 0) Livingetoa'and wife to Mary Cronogn x 6,000 tx. of Grove st. (23d ward), jeader and wife to R. L, Anderton, Nom. plot sane to BOrh st, 8. 8. 4 - OF LIth ay, 2OXOS, aghau and husband toJohu Nonaghan, St, # #, 20ft. 0. of Ath av,, 20x40; "and wife tol. Freund. Waverley 100 ft, w of loth ‘Ochse. . 100 ft. e. af St pened (referee) to Fite Sor Sist sti, 4 aed 13,000 ni. ®, 100 it. w. of 3d uv,, McUaflerty (reteree) to C. M. Hattelle. 24th at. n. fe. av. Bey 21,1085 x 10 Loow (referee) to A. Schwendemanu,, LEASES, Bd av., No, William Vi instalments... ary, to Thomas TH. vith at . Lyde, ne. also Mott st, Nos Vith st. Rutter, Madison w Rosenbiatt, others, 1. Randel fer ate; inst Stuyvesant, K. and wite, ay, ened 18th y . Stephenson, Surah J. and husband, to J sof Td wt, w. of Ist avi; Lyear Wiicox,dwings nud wifes to the ance Company, & sof Bist st Yours... AN EXPENSIVE Nap. Atthe Fifty-oventh Street Police Court yesterday Jobn Flannigan, of No, 341 East Twenty-tourth street, was committed tor examination on a charge of robbery, Patrick Brenan, of No, 241 East Twenty-fourth street, the complainant against him, testified that on the night of the 2a Of Inst month be feil yon the stoop of is boarding house, and when be awoke, about two A, .. be found that his wateb and cbain, a chock for $47 | nd $35 in money had been stolen from him, Fianni- an had been asleep in an express wagon that stood | wposite the house in the street. Alter he had lett a | jury belonging to Brennan was found in the wagon by a from this tact it was assumed that Artesian wells could be bored at}/ suitable places, pipes lard, and pure spring water fur THE CHURCHES AND THE BATTLE OF LONG 4 nd there is no use trying to shut our eves to tue] AM | tifleation of persous chargeable with the shooting ¢/) qye morning of said anniversar: Officer J, Stanley Brack, whose death from wounus rj) the facts conuected With the struggle of Aygust 27, ISLAND. ‘The one hundredth anniversary of the battte of Long Island will be commemorated on Sunday, August 27, in appropriate manuer in Brooklyn, The chairman of e Aldermanic Comittes on Observances has ad- reased upward of 200 circulars to the pastors ot pburches—Catholic aud Provestant—ealling attention to. he following resolution adopted at the last meeting of Commen Couneil:—"Kesolved, That the munter- [ality of Brookiyu respeetiuliy recommend the clergy of the eity to dedicate their respective discourses on to au elucidation of V and the lesson derived therefrom, and that they jE baeteae ty furnish the committee with copies of sald discourses (or publication in pamphiet form.” k, two anda halt by six and « | THE DEPARTMENT DUEL. | An Important Letter from Comp- troller Green to the Mayor. COMMISSIONER MARTIN REVIEWED. Tracing Transfers from Genet to Wetmore and Martin. THE MILITARY PARADE GROUND. —— The subjoined document, from the Finance Depart- ment, will certainly attract universal attontion. It will be seen that Mr. Green very directly charges that Commissioner Martin, of the Park Depariment, has used bis position to enrich himseif and his triends, and the transfer of property from Genot, the Ring tu- gitive, to Wetmore, and its subsequent transfer to Martin, certainly calls for an explanation from the President of the Park Commission. Comptroller Green’s statement will be widely read, and as it comes from so respectable and responsible aatbority it is en- titled to prominent notice. THE COMPTROLLER'S LETTER, City or New York, Fivance DevakTaext, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICK, August 10, 1874, Hon. Wituiam H. Wickham, Mayor:— Sin—I deem it my duty to call your attention toa new effort to revive the project of charging upom the public the expense of the military parade ground tn the upper ond of the island, which appears by the folowing preamble and resolutions udopted by the De- partment of Parks on the 23d of June last:— Whereus the map of the military parade ground on the Harlem Kiver was filed under the net of 1871, chapter 628, on the Sth day of April, 1873; und whereas this de vent has mn ail the map, or ts relieve this ing it; and’ whereas the Leg: has in euch year since the may was tiled entertained Dills,but failed to pass any net, ropeuling the Parade Ground act, ‘or relleviug she owners Of the property. alfected by it, That without expressing any opinion ax to the cossity of wpa ude ground or the propriety the present depressed condition of city to the property owners, wove land bay dd to the public use, who have been denied other relied, and who are entitled to have the legal proveed- ings to deterinine their compensution go forward, maxes it our official duty to continue the steps which the law directs usto take for she comple: f thin matter. Kesolved, Tuat the Counsel to the Corporation be re- quested to procoed in the application fur the appointmeus of commissioners in this matter ang,uutil ite final deterinina- tion by the Court. That the Department of Parks under its present ad- ministration comes in its action upon Unis aud Kindred questions quite up to tue expectations of those who looked for just this sort of thing when that administra- tion was inaugurated is quite evident irom the Javor Wita which its actioa 1s received by SPECULATORS OF LaNDS. in and around this parade ground. There ig no necessity for this ground; its site is in- convenient and inaccessible; it 18 on marshy land, which will require great expense to fill, and 11 a parade ground ts needed at ail far preferable sites can be ob- tained in the annexed district, more conveniently lo- cated and at one-quarter the cost, The purchase of this 100 acres of lund will throw A VERY HZAVY BURDEN UPON THE CITY to pay for the land apd for its improvemeat, It will add lurgely to our annual taxes to care for it. It is not approved, as 1 believe, by the military organizations generally, and it it were it would be no reason to put this fresh burden upon the taxpayers. Indeed tno Park Department does not prete.d that this parade ground 1s needed, but puts in the plea that ‘justice to the property owners” requires that the city buy the Jand. In other words, neither the military nor tbe cily want this ground, but certain land owners and speculators want the city to pay for it, and relieve them of the load they are carrying, and the Park De- partment proposes to kid them in ihe accomplishment of their wishes. ‘The earmarks are too plain to loave any doubt as to the authorship of these resolutions, Evidertly the same agency set thém in motion that turned over ono whole side ol the Battery to # railroud corporation, damaging a peoplo’s breathing ground, for the purpose of benellung west side uptown property Without any compensation to the city; the me that’ bas wasted more money on Tompkins square than wi needed 10 com plete it; the same that has been for months past en- gaged in rewoving competent men trom the Park aud filling their places with political placemen, carrying on mw tvidy wpon tha tread and experienced Park lorces similar to that of Sweeny In TS70, deotuyntng its Whole administration. The act authorizing thie parade ground was passed in April, 1871, wuen speculation in upiowa property ran very igh, and ali sorts of schemes of jobbery and plunder of the city treasury were set wioot through corrupt legislation and adiuin- istration. The matter remained quiet for nearly three years, but in the meantime speculators improved the oppor. tunity to buy lands m and around tue proposed parade ‘with the view of getting large profit trom the city. The late yer wrote to the Depart- meat of Public Parks protesting against the proceed. ings. He said:— Juatic boen conden: ‘ter had been postponed or ns to me that this is scarcely for purchases of laud entirely dis the tine to except for purposes absolutely What was dictated by the lute Mayor as the policy of wise forecast in 1873 is detuanded ax a public necessity’ in 1876, Acting on the suggestion of Mayor meyer the Depariment of Public Parks, betore three of its present members were in oitice, passed the toliow- ing resolution on the 19h of January, 1874, discouuinu- ing the proceedings for tuking this Jand:— Resolved, That all proceedings in the matter of the appli cation of the Departnent Hie Telutive t0 ne: quiring title to certail w York for a publi¢ place or narade grou cnapter 625 of the Laws of be and the same are herevy diseontin . The Commissioners—Wilhiam C, Trapbagen, James MeClavo and Wiliam A. Seaver—who nad been up- pointed solely to value the land, and who were not entirey unknown in connection either with uptown land operations or with street openings, soom, strangely enough, to bave felt it to be ther auty to oppose this discontinuance in court It seems shat these Commuysioners went so far as to appear by special counsel in these proceeding: istead of appeuring by their proper legal adviser, the Corporation Counsel, Tho speculators interested, of course, agreed with the Commissioners. The Spe: cial Term, bowever, denied their application, and the General Term sustained the Special Term, Park Commissioucr Martin, before his appointment Qs such, acting us counsel lor some one or more of these landowuers, tried to obtain an order of the Su- preme Court directing these Commissioners to proceed and tile their report. But he failed in this. Judge Lawrence, on September 25, 1874, demed the wotiwa An uppeal was ken to the Geveral ferm, and m Oc- tover the decisivn of Judge Lawrence was allirmed, ‘The case wae carried up to the Court of Appeals, and the decision was there sustained, ‘Thus ended this recorded attempt to compel the city to take tuts land. Hut it was only quieteu for a time. This counsel (Willam Ro Martin) tor the lot owners wus brought iuto the Park Board by your appomtment of tum ay Commissioner of Parks on January 1, 1875. I think, However, it 18 but fair to you to say, without knowledge ou your part, us I believe, of tho'relations he held to several inatters which would come within the scope of his ollicial influence and action, Although the proceedings bad been previously dis- continued and abandoned the matter was again stirred up im the Park Department by THIS SAME COMMISSIONER: MART and a resolution was put through on March 30, 1875, Within ninety days alter his appoinunent, ordering hew proceedings to take these lands, Another application wade tw the Supreme Court was denied by that Court, and the proceedings were dis missed by Judge Barrett on May 17, 1 ‘Thus ended the third efiurt; bu. the operators Were again at it, and ou May 21, 1574, on motion of Commissioner Martiy, the iollowimg preamble and resoluuon were @dopted, vin Xs Whereas by resolution on the Oth of Mareit, 1875, the feunse! to the Corporation was directed to take proceedings o wequire title to the lauds laid out tur the milibary paride ground, ke. : aud whereas the proceeding commented Uy iia ad been disposed wt by J Court, on the Lith of Muy inst; aviicisconmmouct Resolved, That the Couusel to the © - quested'to intorm the Hours why he took tie proceeding. tn & mode to Le suisjected to such a decision as hay been tka and what be proposes to do to carry out the direction: the depai The case wus desperate, and the attempt was mad through this preamble avd resolution to obvia fatal effect of the deeision of the Court upon the scheme. Notwiustanding, the resolution of Murch 30, 1875, was rendered operative by the decision Which Verininated ail proceodings under it, tuis Iresh attempt was made to base proceedings upon tt, because the Limo had expired within which a new resolution could be legally passed Mr, Smith, then Counsel to the Corporation, stated, in his reply to the above resolu tou, the alte wilect of Juice Barrert's de y tO commence & NeW proceed to amend the uld one. Deere For the ‘ourth time a proceeding was commenced, bur the timo tor makiug (he appheauon had expired, and, as the Departmeot ot Public Parks had no further power to thake (he application, it was ilegaliy tusti- tied under the old resolugon of Mareh 30, 1875, under Which the previous application was made lW the Su- preme Court for the appomtment of commissioners of estimate abd assussinent to acquire tile to the land. Another bovice of appication for the appointment of commissioners, dated June 3, 1875, was published in he City Record, Upon exan ination of the law it appears that the ap- Plication must be made withia two years trom April 3, 1873, the time of tliing the map. 8 fourth proceed- ing Was not commenced unul June 3, 1879, two months alter the iwo years Lad expired. On June 22, 1979, 1 addressed you ou this subject, requesting you to tnter- Dose and stop this new and unlawful proceeding; Whereupon you addressed the Department of Puviig Parks the iollowing letter:— Executive Dare ntweyt, New York, June 25, 1875, "4 Hon. Hexny G. Sreomys, President Vepartn jon is to mae it nece ig, there being no power TY Hawt, + en. tof Public Siu—Aly aitextion hus been called to the fact that pro- 1 ceedines have been institrted 10 have Commissioners of Estimate and Aswessmer upper part of ¢ oa, and had supposed thas, after our e the Department ot Public Parks hy Ata meeting of the department heid ing day (June 26) Commissioner Williamson offered the following preamble and resolution :— Whereas, in view of the opinions aud wishes expressed His Honor the Mayor, in his letter of the 25th ‘ust... and dressed to this department, in relation to the establishment ota PARADE GROUND IN THR UPPEI PART OF TIE CITY. and in view of the opinions and wishes of the Conptrolier of the vity, expressed La letter of the 24th inst., on the same subject; it is Kesolved, ‘That the Counsel to, the Corporation be and he is heroby requested to postpone the proceedins in the mate net tive parade ground, oo ordered in the resdlution of the. rd passed March 30, 1875, Commissioner Martin opposed this, and offered an amendment as follows: — Resolved, That the deparimont adheres to its action in this matter and declines to postpone the proceedings, and that it be referred to the Executive Committee to state their reasons therefor. Bot a substitute was adopted referring the subject to the Execative Committee, On Jane 29, at a meeting of the Board, Commissioner Martin reported against the discontinuance oj the proceedings. ‘The following preamble and resolutions were ad by the Common Council and received your official approval They but fill up the unanimous disapproval of THIS JOBBING SCHEME by the courts to the highest city authoritics :— # Whereas proecedings have been taken to have Comi missioners of Ks imate und Assessment appointed b; Supreme Court, un Monday, June 28, 197%. ade grow i the upper part of t f per p ‘us proceedings previously taken to carry out thie vere discontimed by the Department. of Publig ‘and this diseontinue praject Parks for good and sullicient reasons, auee Was sustained by « decision of Against an appeal made by property o wheieus the laying out of a parade ground in the proposed Iocality was projecte | prior +o the annexation of a portion ot Westchester county to the city of New York, as presout. ing the most elixible site available tor that purpose; and whereas the present time ix one of great financial embare Tussmont, causing adepression in business, beuring heavily upon the resources o! all classes of the community, aud crippling the meuus of taxpayers, expecially by reduction of rentais aud Incomes trom city property, waking it inperes } tive that ail unnecessary expenditures by the city and in- crease of the public debt shall be avuided ns far as posxble; and wherexs the estimated cost of the proposed parade ground, for lands taken and laying ous the grounds ulone, will amount to about ONK MILLION AND A HALF OF DOLLARS, to ve added wo the elty debt by the issue of bonds the interevt on which, with the expenses on maintenance, wiilreqnire the sum of atleast $125,000 to be raised ame nually by taxation for this object; and Whereas so lace am increase of the funded debt and of the taxes, already 80 op- pressive nud Leavy ou the taxpayers of this not Wise aud judicious iuoasures at this time of gene: sion of business: therefore Renolved, That the Department of Public Parks be re- spectiuliy requested to uizcontinue the proecedings afore said, and ther the Counsel to the Corporation be re- 1 depres specitully requested to withdraw the atlog for the appolutiment of connuixsioners re astessment for the opening of sxid proposed parade xround, ourt be Tespecttully requested mot tu ap ich purpose; und be it further py ot thaadresolations be trausaltied ‘ublic Furks, the Corporation Coun ry Jour ‘Adupted by the Bourd ot Aldermon August 12, 1875, Approved oy the Mayor August? meet The matter bas been kept along until it is now agaim vivified by the Department of Public Parks, and the Counsel to the Corporauon 1s directed to proceed with the application, a hearing having been fixed for the 16th of August. THKSK PROCKEDINGS SHOULD BE DISCONTINUED and the matter finally disposed of. ‘Tho propriety of continuing thom, even if they were legal, under the present Commissioners of the Depariment of Pablie Parks, one of whom at least was formeriy the retained counsel of some of the owners of these lands proposed to be taken in opposition to the interests ot tho city, may be justly questioned, but the public reisons tor dizcoutipuance now outweigh all other consideratious and are itnperative. The Commissioners of the Department of Pablic Parks. in their preamble adopted on the 23d of June last, evidently show their unwillingness to approve of ‘the location, the necessity of a parade ground or the propriety of paying for it in the present depressed con- divin of city finances,” aud they put themselves upon their sense of *tjustice to the property owners.” Suppose there wero no limitation of time within which these proceedings must be commenced, then it would be a matter of discretion with the Commission- ers of Parks when such proceedings should be com- menced. Is this the tune, in the exercise of that dis- cretion, to throw a fresh burden of millions upon the city? Suen adiscretion would never have beon conferred had it been supposed that im the course of things 1 would have come about that it could be exereised by public oificers whose provious relations to the subjeot matter suggest the possibility ot A BIAS OR INTEREST IN IT adverse to the trust they have undertaken to protect— such un interest aud leaning, indeed, as springs from personal, family or professional relations, and as would compel ayy juuge, even Were he otherwise disposed, to retire from a cuse involving one-hundredth part of the amount of that in question, _~ Thave tlis very year been called upon to pay over $2,000,000 lor uptown iands, not tor work of any kind, Dut merely for jand, as folio’ Fort Washington i.idge road, Brook avenu: Diagonal stree hast River Park w New avenue, Inj ‘and the Supreme 165th strvet wud portion of Tenth avenue. Towal .. seeeee A part of this ts to be paid by assessments, but how much longer can the city stand this sort of expendi- ture? ‘The resoluions passed on June 23 state that “the Legisiature bas in euch year since the map was filed entertained bills, but lailed to pass any act repealing the Parade Ground uct, or relieving the owners of the property affected by 11” It is true that the attempt has been repeatedly made in the interest of the city to repeal the act authorizing this parade ground, but it was defeated through the opposition of parties speculatively interested in selling these lands to the city. If the owners did not get “re- lief” 1t was because they themselves opposed it, Woy did they oppose it? For the reason that thay wanted the Jub consummated to make money out ot it, [twas but a few days since that one of the most active of tuese owners Was good enough to say to mo. that he would ‘beat ne’? in this matter. It he does, it. will not be the first time that this plundered city has beea “beaten”? by those who have combined against its in- teres It may, perhaps, not be amiss to inform you that it appears that avout 100 lots within or adjaceat to the boundaries of tue proposed parade ground were con- veyed in November, 1872, by Henry W. Genet (against wiom the city bulds a judgment tor over $200,000) to Josepb H. Godwin, who, ou January 28, 1873, conveyed @ portion of them to Benjamin C. Weimore, of West- chester county, aud William M. of ‘New York city, Jointly. The consideration stated in the last men- tioned trausfer was $20,000, The conveyance by Genet to Godwin was abouta mooth after a report bad been made to the Depsrtment ot Public Parks recommending the taking of the land, of which these lots form a part, lor a parade ground. Abd the conveyance by Godwin to Wetmore and Martin was made twelve days after tuat department had, by reso.ution, determined to accept that recommendation. By roterence to the directory it appears that Benja: min C. Wetmore hus his office wih William C. Wet more, one of tLe present Park Commissioners, and lives at Fordham, where Mr. Commissioner Wetmore also resides, William M. Martin has bis office also with the Wetmores at No, 9 Pine street, and 18 4 lawyer. I have been informed (and believe to be the taet) that Mr. William C, Wetmore, Vark Commissioner, bas bees the counsel of at least one of the largest of the owners of the ground proposed to be taken in these proceed. ings, but whether in these precise proceedings I am unable io say. It is not necessary at present to point 10 some other rather remarkable transtors of property within the parade ground. Tagain ark the mtervention of your official position to prevent the consummation of this wrong. We want no parade ground; we want no increase of debt for the jand for it; we Want no increase of taxes to fill up and improve this land and to avnually maintain 1, The owners of property down town aud up town want Do tresh burdens of this sort, We have expended millions enough ior the present in paying the most monstrous prices for uptown lands. What moneys this city bas to sperid can be more usefully spent in carrying for- ward works necessary lor public convenience, in put ting im good condition the streets now sadly out of repair, where people actually live and transact their business, rather (bao baying land at eno: mous prices in the woods and swamps of remote and unfrequeated aistricts, Very respectiully, ANDREW H. GREEN, Comptroller, MUNICIPAL NOTES, A Henatp reporter yesterday mtorviewed Mayor Wickbam for ten minates, and got nothing trom him relative to the workingmen’s parade, ‘The Mayor has approved the resojution of Alderman Morris, compelling the owners of telegraph poles to attach their names or that of the company to all poles now located in our public streets, The proclamation of Sheriff Connor for the fall eleo- tion makes no provision for the election of a successor to the lae Judge Monell. politicians is whether Grif- The conundrum fith, of Comptrolier Green's bascment, is the ‘mal- adroit deputy” who figured in the manipniation of the workingineu’s movement yesterday, It is no secret that the whole movement Was engineored oy Mr. Car. sey and other friends of “Father Cooper,” the green- buck candidate jor Presideut of all the United States, CITY CLERKSHIP OONTEST. Yesterday in the Supreme Court, Special Term, of Kings county, Judge Barnard rendered his decision in the matter of the application of Alexander Moran for &@ mavdamus against Stephen J, Cavanagh, granting the motion, The casein question is one which bi created considerable interest among politicians in Long Island Cty. Tt appears from the complaint the piaintill, Moran, was nominated to the Common Coun. cil ot that ety by Mayor De Bevoise for the position of City Clerk in plice of Cavanagh On July 18 shere $2,080,998 were thirteen of the Aldermen present, when the nous {CONTINUED ON NINTH PAGR)