The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1877, Page 3

“TAG CUSTOMS SERVICE REPORT OF THE TREASURY COMMISSION. Strong Condemnation of the System of Political Appointments, RADICAL REORGANIZATIONS — RECOMMENDED, Character of Employes Hours of Labor. and “THE PRESIDENTS ACTION ON THE REPORT. a Wasutxotow, D. C., May 28, 1877. The following is the report of the Treasury New York Custom House Commission and accompanying letters ofthe President and Sccretury of the Treasury upou the subject of the investigation of the Commissioners :— Custom Houss, New York, May 24, 1877. Srr—In your letter of tho 23d of April requesting us to make # thorough examination into the conduct of the business at the New York Custom House you fied the following among the first points to be em- 100 :— the force now employed in the various br ms service at New York, including t urveyor's office and tho Appraiser's department, is in, 88 of the actual needs of the » a The number ot hours they are empioyed, and whether such hours can be properly increased. . REDUCTIONS RECOMMENDED. In response tv this instruction the Commission re- Specttully report that, with reference to the reauced Dusineus of the Custom House at the present time, and to the proposed incre. ip the hours ompioyed, ana Bball to the proposition that the best men ip the service be retained, the force now employed in the Custom House, Naval Office and the Surveyor’s office, number ing together 1,038 men—excluding tor the present ihe Appraiser’s Departmont—may be safely reduced in numbers by about twenty percent. For the general character ot the reduction which has presentod itself to tho Commission they beg to refer to memurandum an- neéxed, marked “a,” with the suggestion that the por- son OF persons who may bo desiguatod by the depart- ment to reduce the force will be required to give to the character of the reduction in each division a more searching and minute cousidera- tion than the commission under your varied instruc- ‘ions have been able to give to this branch of the sub- ject, It will be observed that the Commission proposed the abolition of tho office of deputy coliector at large, which is now vucant, aud the office of otuer aepaty collectors and actiug deputies, the suspension of tho oilice of the deputy cullector at Jerscy City (for the reasons wentionod in appendix marked “B"), tne Continued vacancy,in the vifice of assistant collector aud the discharge of a deputy surveyor, THE HOURS OF EMPLOY. They turther report that tho hours of employ, which commence nominally at nine, but in practice generally at ten o'clock, should be ip allthe departments trom uine o’clock A, M. ull four P. M., exceptiug where a longer term is prescribed by la’ It seems not rmprobable that the investigation which Js etill coutinaing into other questions subnuited by your letter, or subsequently relerrod to the Commis- Bion, or raised by the complaints submitied, may dis- Close occasion for « further reduction of the force, and Buch will doubiiess be the case should measures be adopted by the department under tne present law, or by Congress in futaro lugislation, tor the consolidation Of separate departmeuts or the simplification of the m2, general sy The propriety of the reduction in tho force now pro- posed, generally sustained vy the Collector, Naval Ut. Ccrabu Durveyor (copies of wuose lvliers are up- pended marked C, LD and E), 18 :ndicated by the obser- vation of the commission and by the testimony of ox- perieuced officials, whose opinioas seem to afford a Ruarantoe thu wish the increase of hours and a wi and Vigorugs udminisirauion, Do inconvenience to the government or to the merchants can arse from its adoption. CHARACTER OF FORCE. ‘The proposed reductioa of the force brings to view, ‘g8 diroctly bearing upon the choice of the officials to ba @ome ol she puints suvinitied to tue com- mission. deticient io proper were instruct vomployed Attention to business, or in business qualifications or Untegrity of chaructor, aud whether tuey ure in avy mam! employed in other business. ’” METHOD OF APLOISTMENT. The commission were also instructed to inquire ‘as to the manuer in which appointments are made; whether it can be improved, aud whether the appoint- moats heretwfore mado bave been mado on political tufluence without due regard to efficiency.” ‘The tes- timony taken thus far bas been largely that of office of the service, aud the fact that appointments are made on political iiluence is cicar irom the admission of a number of these gentiemen whose position would naturally indispose iwem to exaggerate the defects of system which the government they served had recognized and which bbey bad themselves been called to administer. With & Variance Ol View as to the results of the system their evidence makes it plain that while the coricet princi- plies of governmental mauagement have been illus trated to some extent in promotions for merit aud in Improvement in tho terms of service, extending in one case to forty-eight years (as exhibited in the appen- dices F apd G, suomitted by Mr. Collector Arthur), the appointments bave been made tn great part under political pressure trom party considerations and with insuflicient regard to the fitness of toe appointe CONCLUSIONS KEACTED. While aiming to avoid a course of inquiry that might teem to imply a scrutiny into individual delinquencies ratber tbao the broad iuquiry indicated by the depart- ment inte the-general conduct of the customs service, with a view to such reforms as might be found desir: ble and practicable, the commission report as th tonciusion, from the evidence given aud from their own observation, that @ part of the force now em- ployed im the service aro deficient im tbe proper aftention to business, us well us in business qualitications and integrity of character; that stew of them ure employed more or less io private business, to the possibile detriment, in some cuses, of the interests o1 tho service, und thut some fraudu- Jently accept moneys ior services rendered iu their official capacity, For these reasons the commission think that the proposed reduction of the force should De made in tho various divisions and classes, after a careiul scrutiny and examination in ca such manuer as the wisdom of the dotermine, to the end that the governmeut may retain the moss faithful and efficicnt of its present officials, Under tho existing system the incumbents o! office in the customs service, however high, respousibie or difficult may be the duties, requiring often the skill und oxperience of experts, are appointed generally at ibe request of politicians and political axsociations in shis and other Statos with little or no examination ito the Atuess of the appoinices beyond thy recommenda- tions of their friends. The Gommission, in response to the questions vt the department, pronounce this manner f appointment to bye unsound iu - principle, ogerous ic practice, demorelizing in its influence on all connected ith the Customs service and calculated te eucoutage and perpetuate o!- ficial ignorance, ievilicieacy and corrujiion, wuich, perverting the powers of the government to personal aud party ends, have burdened the country with debt Bod taxes and assisted to prostrate the trade and Industry of ine nation, The Commission believe that quate protection im Customs ser- honor of the government, the rights nd the interests of tbe nution until the rty aud organ- , with the same guar- ficiency and Udelity in tue selection of the sbief and subordinate officers that would be required by 4 prudent merchant. ‘At the New York Custom Houso are collected trom Seventy to seventy-tive per cent of our customs rove- nue, and its present receipts amount tv about $10,000,000, Tho tidelity of 118 management concerns ‘al once our foreign commorce, our domestic mnanulac- tu the general prosperity of our people and the re- pect und cuntidence ot the world. ‘THK EXISTING TARIFF. Ite management is complicated by the existing tariff, ‘which subjects to duties, specilic or ad valorem, or botb, 1,700 articles; aud to the importers and Aweficud manofucturers, who invest their capital in saterprises b axed upon the exact provisions of the lariff, tt becomes @ matter of concern, as shown by the tomplaints luid before she Commission, that the con- ditions of the tariff whils it remains in force sual! not be changod by ignorance, cérelessness, or fraud in is execution. These considerations, which have been forcibly im- pressed upon the Commission, present tte Cusioms service not simply as a muchinery tor cullecting a ceftuin amount of reveuue, but as a complicacd end sacred trust, upon whose faithful execution with @ single eye to the letter and spirit of the law, depend in large neasuro our commerce and mavutac- tures, 1 this View the question of political appoint. ments, the recognition of a partisan power outside of the government, divided among irresponsible lea claiming the right to dispose of tho offices of tho ou: tows as tho spoils of a party, assumes a national mag- Bitude and importauce. THE OFFICES AND THE PARTY, It appears from the tostimony that under the present syswm the officers who are appointed through political influence are expected to make tbeir offices contribute {on turo tu the sapport of tho party, and that the amount of the contributions asked jrom the inen is to inquire *‘wnethor xed by & percentage on their respective sal- H es, Most of the ofcl thus sessed accedo to the domand, and some of them repair thoir diminished saiarios by exacting oF acce report the result of their inquires, mi by your re- quest, into the system of business now in vogue in the Appraisers’ Department, connected with the sampling, examing and of iuvoices and damage aliow- ances, and also toeir suggestions for the correction of certain grave irregularities which seom to exist aming the weighers, gaugers and meas- urers, and tuuching the management of the inspectors appnmted to pass Oger and emigrant baggage. But the Commi-sion believe that a ‘thorough reform tm these particulars and the success of every eflort through the Customs service to retieve the national commerce and industry from the evils wrought by mismanagement aud corruption can be accomplished only by t! ancipation of tbe service from partisan control, |, looking to the manliness and integrity of the American churacter and to the righta and interests of the working classes, they re- gara that chango as demanded by bigher motives than those of economy and wider interests than that of the revenue, Among the complaints and suggestions referred to the commission trom Washington, or submitted to it in New York, are some looking to a revision of the tariff, with radical changes in the existing law. and some of theso suggestions come-!rom yentiot ot the Chamber of Commerce, who havo givgn the sub- ject careful attention. Tho irregularity connected with the unloading of steamships at night, to which we bad the honor of calling your attention on the 9h of May, has been corrected, we believe, to the satisfaction of the steam- ship companies by the department order No. 60, all of which 13 respectfully submitsed, We remain, with great respect, ag bedient ser- vants, JOHN JAY, LEM, TURNURE, J.-H. ROBINSON. To the Hon, Jouw Swermay, Secretary of the Treas- ury, Washington, D. C. BECKETARY GERMAN TO THE PRESIDENT. ‘Tnrasuny Derantaxnt, Wasitixcion D. ©., May 26, 1877. Sin—I beg leave vo eal! your attention to the accompuny- Jal report of the ission appointed to examine and especially to that part upon political influe: + Am this involves qu which affect other departments of desire instructions as to the rules you jo that they insy be ay New York Custom House. Respectfully you JOHN SHERMAN, To Tae PRestpxst. REPLY OF THK PRESIDENT. Executive MAnstox, Wasurscron, stay 28, 1877, § d_the partial report of the com- to examine the N York Custom House. recommendations. ould be for ethiciency rt he chief und aul red by # prudent erchant. farty leaders shoul’ have no more influence In appointments tian other equally respectuble citizens. No assessments for polltion! purposes on officers or subor- dinates should be allowed ; # officer or employ’ should be retained er should be required or per- mitted to take part in the management of political orzan- izations, cancuses, conventions or olocti campaigns. ‘Thoir right to vote and to express their views ou public | questions, either orally or through th. press, 1s not denied provided it does not intertere with the discharge of their official duties, KB, HAYES, Hon, Joan Sm THE on be. requ PAGURY DEPARTMENT, 26, 1877. Gxxtuxwey :—You first report, on the Custim thouro tn New York, of date tho inst.. has been rec ived, aud the reduction prvposed by you of twenty per cont of the num. . iaplasea thera is’ approved. der of persons. So far as these offices are creat law vacancies will bo made and left for the action of 4s. ‘The reduetion of the other employes, the » hom und whose compensation by law, will be made as soon I uch gratified that the Collector, the Naval Otticer and the surveyor of the Fort ¢oncur with you in the proposed re- ction, * The hours of employinent after the dist of this month ‘efock tn the morning until lour o'clock in the atternoon, excepting where « lonxer tim: f scribed by law. This corresponds to the hours of cletical service in thin department. ‘This rate will be strictly en for d absence will dé she cause of reduction of pay or removal. strict attention tu duty will be required ant gther business wil! not be allowed to intertere with the tall discharge of the duty attached to the office. ice that youdomot suugest x mudo of: ho reduction of force Tecommended U) pI rebary 0: the ruper "pe we deputy collectors, weighers, measurers in thaweveral ports within hisdistrict. Thus nearly all the officersef the Custom I pointed by,the Collector, ant with th retary o1 the Treasury, may be rei pill promptly be culled upom, ander special orders, to po fon this di and uerous duty. It is very important to the ofliciency due At d it to promote the employesgnd so us THE PI Ss WISHES. In order that a rul sight be fala him, I called upon the President for inst: ions to xovern allke the collector and myself £ the execution of this duty. A copy of nis jereto «annexed. You will see from it your recommendations and that Custom House conducted tree on a strictly busi: with the efficiency and fide! inate office! 8 bu lity in the selecti rs that would Gat public business should not sts oF rey guarantees e chief and subord! by a prudent merchant; that the be affected injuriousiy by the 1 int of pe leaders or party strui 4 ile au offi¢er should freeiy, be should not exercise i rights as a citizen, use his power av wn vfficer to influence the couduct of others, ‘i I beh: the opinions By ie, htirhcingels will moet with. et with 4 Yaaterene euinke of tite 1. ‘ability and industry in conducting Vers Fespectintiy, JOUN SHERMAN. Se partment for your care, this inquiry, ommend- 3 ollices in your collection district, und the upproval and adoption of that repert. ing w large reduction of the employes in the vari It only remains now to execute this order ‘upon the principles und in the spirit stated by the Hresi- dent, ‘This tase, always an impleasant one when it requires the removal of employes, {alls mainly upon you, subject to pproval. it may not b somewhat mo: duction. | Th roport and we are task. miss for me to state in advance detail my vie: to the mode of re- nt of the reduction Is fully stated in the 8 relieved from that portion of the METHOD OF REDUCTION, I notice by the report that you have an exceptionally large proportion of experienced ollcers still iu the service, You will have no dificulty in selecting the most efficleut and trustworthy fo fill the most important positions, und when 1 ected you wil have secur for i trust active, efficient und experienced It must happen that Jongest inthe some are disabled by age and inurmity. It 4y often most paintul but necessary to dismiss these or reduce thei to positions which they ure still ubie to fill, The zovernment is fairly outitled to the services of those who ute fully abl personally 7 their off 1d who wre willing to yive their entire att tion to their official duty. If they eannot or do not do this it {s not injustice to remove thom, In tho selection of in- forior officers the only rule should be the one dally xcved on by merchants to employ only those who are competent for the speciul work assigned them: whowe industry. in- A gi guarantees for faithtui ser- This reduction will enable you translor those now empieyed on work for whic not fitted to uther work for which they are competont, to roward exceptional merit and al motion. It imposmble in selections that you secure this information torouzh com- iittees of trusted officers, and in proper cases to test the intelligence, ability and qualilications of an officer or appli cunt for office by written questions or an oral examinatt id influence of relations wruleivis best in ily under your be made if this rule . and no just complaint s impartially enforced. EXCLUDING THE POLITICTAN: The President properly Inye kreut stress on excluding from w purely business ofiice uctive participation in purty politics. Nuturally, in « xoverument Uke ours, vther things being equal, those will be preferred who sympathize with the party in power, but persons in. office ought not to be expected’ to serve their purty the neglect of official duty, or to promote is of particular candidates, or to inter: {ree course of popular opinion or to or conventions. Such a: tivity ofuffice-holders he people who hold no rivation, Tt any reasons, without efficiency, now a good tine t them. Where actual misconduct such a8 feediving — gratuities pressiun or insalun offic, oF the want ‘of common courtesy, ur drunkenness or other bad havitst teudiagsto degrade the office, or ubseuco or neglect i in ull such cases I know it will be your pleasure to dismiss’ the employe, ‘The payment of taxes is uot plens- ant at best, but rndely enlorced by oppression or discredit: able officers, it ronders the tax, ax weil ua tho tax collector, odious. % LIMIT OF TOMK, I do not fix any time within which this reduction must be but shall expect it to be completed by the Yorn day ximo. So tar as the reduc! r pro Is specitically made by the adoption of the report, it should be made by the ist day of June, und it shonid ‘Le made as to euch par- Ouse as ourly as practical fter all, the success of this movement for the reform of \1 abuses which existed for many years belore you becawe Mm Your ood sense and ob- heartliy sustain and approve may make that appears to me to ‘ork Uouss not only what an New ¥ ACTION FOR CONSPIRACY. MontTeeat, May 28, 1877, Tho International Express Company of this city have taken action against Daniel Shields, George Sharpe and John Sharpe, Jr., tor $24,000 for allegoa couspiracy to dejraud the plaintrils and obtain posses+ sion of thoir property in order that the defendants might carry on Ives. SENATOR WOODIN'S | WELCOME HOME. Avnuny, N. ¥., May 28, 1877. The Advertiser publishes the signatures of 200 prom- {nont citizens, irrespective of party, tendering Senator Woodin @ public reception for Tucsday evening, the 29th inst, Senator Wood bus accepted, PERILOUS VOYAGING, New Bepronp, Mass., May 28, 1977, Tho schooner New Bedford, twonty {cot long, with Captain Thomas Crapo and his wifo on board, sailed for London. An immense crowd witnessed tho departure of the boat, which is the smallest that bas ing irom the merchants unlawiul gratuities, Theso purty assessments seom 10 have been quietly pei mitted, i not openly sanctioned, and the improper acceptance O1 gratuities, as appoars (rom the letter of the Collector (May 17), bas coptinged tor a quarter of acentury to doly the jaw and domornlize the service, THE APPRAISERS’ DEPARTMENT. ‘The commission bog leave to reserve for a farther ever attempted tho feat. AN OFFICIAL VISIT, Orrawa, Canada, May 23, 1877. The Governor Genoral will visit Manitoba and tho Northwest in the first week of August, ums MINING ACTIVITY. WORK ON FULL TIME RESUMED IN PENNSYLVA- NIA COLLIERIEB. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. 1 Scrantoy, Pa., May 28, 1877. Work was resumed on full time at all the mines of the Pennsylvania Coal Company to-day. For mavy months past the company’s works have been half idle, and the news that the various collieries would work on upinterruptediy until further notice has been hailed with pleasure by tho miners im the company’s employ. ‘Toe greater portion of the company’s wines are located at Pittston, nino miles distant, so that the increased activity will not affect the condition of the working class at Scranton in any very considerable degree. A DAY OF DOOM. THE EXECUTION OF THREE MOLLY MAGUIRE MURDERERS FIXED FOR JUNE NINTH. [bY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Biooussuna, Pa,, May 28, 1877. This morning at an early bour the death warrants fixing the davo of their execution were read to tho murderers of Alexander Rea, Hestor, Tulley and Mellugh, in the Columbia County Jail at this place. Tho ceremony was an impressive onc. The Sheriff ‘was accompanied on the occasion by his counsel, Messrs, Brockway and ll, Dis- trict Attorney Clark, Hon. W. J. Buckalew, counsel for the commonwealth, and by Hon. J. G. Freeze, of the counsel for the defence in tho taken great tragic trial, The Separately to an uppe prisoners were uperiutendent pine years ago, It ie expected that writs of error will be in the Supreme Court this week, but the tr: prisoners has been so dispassionate, and e1 ae legal technicality so well weighed by the Presiding Judge, Ellwell, toat it 18 very questionable whether even this proceeding for delay’ will prolong their lease of lie. Hester, Tully und McHugh sre evidently doomed to die the death of all condemned Moily Maguire murder- ors. ANOTHER DEALH WARRANT. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Hareispurc, Pa, May 28, 1877. The Governor to-day affixed bis signature to the death warrant of Thomas Duify, of Schuylkill county, muking the seventeenth signed by him within the past four weeks, The time for the execution of Duffy is fixed for the 2lst ot June, the same day on which the rest of the Schuylkill and Carbon county Moily Maguires are to be hanged. Six of the murderers will expiate their crimes on the gallows at Pottsville, ail but one for the murder of Benjamin F. Yost. The imony at the trial of Dufly, which took piace subsequently to that of his accomplices, showed that the crime had been committed at his ingtance, although he did not actually participate in it. The men who shot down Yost, the policeman, were engaged to do the work in retaliation ior a beat- ing which the officer was compelled (o auminister to Duffy to accomplish his arrest in the year previous to the murder. APPEALS FOR COMMUTATION, Petitions are being Cirouiated by the friends of most of the Molly Muguires sentenced to be hanged 10 June for signers, asking the Board ot Pardons to gommute the death sentences to imprisonment for lite; und de- termined offorts wil: be made before tho Board at its mooting ou Tucsday of next week to save the mur- dorers from hanging. In view of the fact that all the cases have been belore the Supreme Court and been unfavoravly considered, it is doubtul if the Board of Pardons will grant any of the applications, In cise commutations should be recommended the Governor iB Not required to recall his death warrants, but bo erally complies with fis official requests. IRREGULAR, BUT JUST. THREE NEGROES HUNG, WITHOUT TRIAL, FOR AN ATROCIODS MURDER. Co.vanus, Ga, May 28, 1877. Last Friday morning, betore daybreak, Mra C. 0. Chambliss, of Steward couuty, was murdered by three negroes of the aocighborhood. They fired fences und row her hasband away {rom the honse. The nogroes then proceeded to the house to row {t and wero met by Mrs, Chambliss, a beautiful woman, aged eignteen years, armed with agun One of the negroes, Jerry Snead, took the gun from her aud lodged its contents i ber head, causing ber death instantly. The negroes burned the corn and fled, They were pursued aud captured. Jerry admitted tne deed and im- licated bis companions, Stephen Abram and be..." ete house that afternoon, and it was ununimously decided by about three hundred whites and blacks present that they should bo’ bang: ‘A galiows was erected and the murderers were hanged with trace chains, Tho colored participunts in the lynching threw the lifeless bodies into an old field to rot, and it was with great difficulty that the whites could persuade tucem to per- mita burial, The culprits net their tate jecriugly aud sneeringly, glorying in the deed and taunting thoir executioners. A cotton rope was first used on Stephen Abrams, but tt broke, and he asked the crowd to get a stronger one. No other rope could bo found, and trace chains wero used, A BRUTAL MURDER. SUSPICIQN POINTING TO A HUSBAND AS THE ASSASSIN. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] ANNAPOLIB, Md., May 28, 1877. On Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, Mra. Henry Newport, residiug im the lower part of this (Anne Aurondel) county, left her homo to go to a gar- den bed in the woods to get cabbage plants, Not re- turning by noon a a seurch was instituted for her, and her dead body was found about one o'clock noar tho cabbage bed. Her head had been beaten intoa shape- less mass. An beiore a coronor’s jury. A lub covered with blood and hair was found near ber body, and tho tracks by which the club was cut from the tree luiniy showed a flaw in the axe corresponding to ono longing to the murdered womao’s husvund, who also could give no satisfactory account of bis whero- abouts between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock | ‘on that morning, Mrs. Newport wi been marris years old, out twenty years old, and had buta year. Her busband is twenty-five No arrest bas yet been made. PERJURED JURORS. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO CLEAR SULLIVAN IN HIS TRIAL FOR THE MURDER OF HANFORD. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. } Cnicaco, May 28, 1 The indictmout of Swan, one of the jurors in the second famous trial of Sulivan for the killing of Han- ford, bas produced new and startling aevelopmen A rumor, current im iis ely yesterday caused a Herap correspondent to call on Mr. Lutber Latlin Mills, Stato’s Attorney, and to learn trom him that ono C. EK, Howard, a challenged juror, bad mado sufficient confession to indicate that a cprispitacy had been formed by which the jury was fixed for acquittal on the second trial. | Howard went with swan, one Ol the jurors, to Mr. Mills’ residence recently and Mr. Milis there offered immunity to Swan if the later would give the conspirators away. Mr. Mills declines to state what the result of that in- lerview was, wud even says that Swau wouid tell nothing; but he intimates that ho has obtaiwed irom some source the times and places where the plot was organized, who managed 1t and how the jury were preparca jor acquittal Velore they took their oaths. A grand jury, composed of the most responsible men in the city, ius been empanolied and is now in session, and sumotbing startling is looked for as tho result of EXTRAVAGANCE AND IMMORALITY AMONG THE MANAGERS OF A BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION, {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HFRALD.] Cutcago, Il, May 28, 1877, ‘The publication of alotter in the Chicago Tribune relating to the management of tho State Soldiers’ Orpbans’ Home, located at Bloomington, charging all mauner of fraud and malfeasance in office on the part of thoso in authority, naturally caused the people throughout the State to become greatly indignant that such immoralities aod irregularities existed as pad been alleged. It now seems that other mattors are Le- ginning to find their way to the guriaco beside tho alleged ill-treatment of the orphans, their balf-starved avd ill-clud condition, while the officials revelied in untold extravagances and luxury, making way with the heavy appropriations made by tho Stato for the proper support of the institution. Very grave charges aro boing made wuich reflect directly ou the private character of few greedy and dishonest politicians, as well as referring to the moral atmosphere by which the young girls of the institu- on aro surrounded, under the controlling manage- mept of the matron, Mrs. Virginia Obr; it being charged that the religious influences of the Home bave not been good, and that as a result of its bad teaching, a pumber of tho girls, alter ving the walls of the institution, instead of entering upon a career which should be sought by the pure and virtuous, entered upon a lite of shame, Charges have been m: it true, will forever cast a dark and glo over the institution and the noble purposes tor which it was intended, Tho charges now made are ogainst the moral character of Mra. Obr, and a former ox-Gov- rnor, of lino, who, it is said, are guilty of illicit intercourse with oach Other, Nothing hus occurred in the State (or a long ime which has caused ibe peoplo to become so indignant as they are to-aay, investigation is now going on | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1877.-TRIPLE | | Rer as to preciude the possibility of discovery. VIRGINIA’S ILLICIT DISTILLERIES. FLIGHT OF THE OUTLAWS TO TENNESSEE— CASUALTIES IN THM RECENT YIGHT—THE ATTACK MADE ON THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Antxavoy, Va,, May 28, 1877. Deputy Sherif Doyle and posse, who bave just returned from a week's campaign in Lee county, report all quiet in the region berctotore intested by the uliert whiskey distillers, The outlaws could not be found in the Blackwater hills, having fled to Hancock county, Tenn., where they now are concealed and ep- camped in the vicinity of Speadsville. CASUALTIES IN THR RECENT FIGHT. It turns out that none of them were killed outright in the recent fight with the posse. The casualties among them were:— Jesse Anderson, shot through right lung, and will not recover, James Williams, wounded in hand and abdomen slightly. Andrew Testament, in the forebead, badly, John Lyndsay, wounded in the arm so severely as to Fequire amputation. THE USCAYED OUTLAWS. ‘The pames of the othor escaped outlaws as far as | ascertained are:— Thomas Goodwnun, Matt Mullins, Hiram Lyodsay, Joe Long. Jack Anderson. Richard Brewer, These aro accompanied by a large number of others 8 are Dot yet KDown, and ull of them, in. | cluding the wounded, ure in the viciity of Sneadsville, MESSAGK TO THE SURRIFE. The following curt inessage was recoived from them by Deputy Sherif Doyie:— We will drop it sf you will, Tho officer declined to compiy with their terms. They cnteriuin a vindictive and bitter hatred Doyle, and bad previously threatened to ha heart’s blood. THE RECENT ATTACK. The attack in which they killed citlzen Vandwenter Was not upon United States revenue oificers, as re- ponies, but upon Deputy Sherif Doyie, who was aided | y six of the Burchett boys, William Matthews, Jim Cousins, Kiah Cunningham, mott Wester and Vaudwenter, There was not a United States oflicer present at tho tight nor anywhere in the vicinity, Tho whole afluir was one of hostility to Doyle becuuse he had aided the revenue officers. The prisoners arrested for slicit distilling named in my first teegram to tue HERALD are in jail here, LITTLE RHODY’s NEW GOVERNOR. GBEAT PREPARATIONS ¥YOR THE INAUGURA- TION—NEWPORT ENTHUSED OVER THE HONOR DONE HER SON—MILITARY AND CIVIC DIS- PLAY. i (BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD. : Newrort, May 28, 1877. Rhode Island is on the cve of oue of ber groatest d@ays—namely, ivauguration or ‘lection’? day, und tis year, for this section of the State, there is an un- usar attraction connected with it, for the reason that Hon. C. C. Van Zaudt, a native and resident of New- port, is to be inaugurated Goyernor, ARRIVAL OF THE GOVERNOR, ‘This evening Governor Lippitt, his staff and members of the Logilaturo arrived and wero received with a ringing salute by the Newport artillery, alter which they were escorted through the principal streets, and thence to Governor Lippitt's headquarters atthe Aquid- neck House, | LEGISLATIVE CAaUCcU! o, ‘This evoning thero will be a caucus of both bodes and tbere promises to be a lively fight over the oflices to be filled during the May session, which will last but threo or four days, THE MILITARY, The military displuy to-morrow will be the finest een here for many years, Tho Providence Light In- favtry accompaniod by band, will bo the guests o/ the S. and will be bunqueted at tho Ocean House, at yeh many of the prominent citizensot this place will be present. Allthe troops trom Fort Aaams will pa: ficipate with the local militia aud thero will be tive bands ot music. BUNTING. Sone city will be decorated with flags and bunting, ef Newport has been waiting fifty-three years lor honor of having one of hor citizens elected to the Gubernatorial office. The city to-night ts noarly overrun with visitors irom all sections of tho State, ¢! at léast three thousand more are expected to- jorrow, 4s excursions will be made from all the rural districts, LUZERNE COUNTY STEALING, AMOUNT OF THE DEPREDATIONS AND CHARAC- TER OF THE DEPREDATORS—-ADDITIONAL AND MORE STARTLING DEVFLOPMEMTS ANTICI- PATED. [BY TELUGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Witkusparre, Pa, May 28, 1877, There has been great excitement here to-day among the politicians of both parties over the report of tho seven years’ Audit Committee, tho principal paints of which are published in the Heratp of this morning. The committes have occupied 265 days in the labor, and during this time nota word of what discoveries they had made or were making was revealed. They kopt their own counsel and no one could coax any in- formation from their lips, THY STEALINGS, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, They have reported the stealings from the County Treasury to be a little over fifty thousand dollars, but it is morally certain that many times that amount bas been stolen and in such man- The fact that only the businoss transactions of the Board of Audit have boen published raises some su: picion that the testimony taken before the Board is far more startling in its character. POSITION OF THE DELINQUENTS, While a number of ex-oMiciais are undergoing briet terms of imprisonment tn the County Jail at this place for their complicity in the misdemeanors that havo been uvearthed, others equally aa gality are running at large, With no apparent tear of urrcst or trial. The pames of many unsuspected porsons—men ot high posi- tion, both socially and politically, are published in the Toport o1 the auditors as indebted to the county in va- rious sums, all Of which have beev surreptitiously ob- tained in the past. ALARM AMONG THK PLACEMRN. This fact causes much alarm among certain men who occupy promivent places in the official ranks the county at present, and who aro suspected ot k: ing more than they care to tell about what has trai pired, It is openty claimed by some that even tno Judiciary 1s not wholly {ree trom taint, because certain ‘of the leading radicals have been in grea: favor with the Bench, and the latter has weakened on more than ovo occasion 1b rendering judgment against men whose Fascality 18 now proved beyond a doubt. The report of the Auditing Bowrd will eflectually stop county stealing in Luzerne tor some time to come, BOSTON'S BIG CONVENTICLE. FOUNDATIONS LAID FOR A POPULAR CHURCH WITH A LIBERAL CREED, (BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD. ] Boston, May 28, 1877. ‘The corner stone of ‘The People’s Church,” which is to be the largest house of public worship in tho country when completed, was laid with imposing core- monies this afternoon on the corner of Columbus ave- nue and Borkeloy street. The edifice, as woll as the doctrines or creed, are to be of the new departure order, the former to be of a “tabernacle” style, with a seating capacity of 5,000, and the religion to be ex. pounded is to be liberally Methodist m character. Among those who participated in the ccremo- nies of laying the corner stone were Kov. J. W. Hamilion, the pastor; Rev. KR. Mere- auth, Rev, Mr. Pentecost,’ Rev. W. 8. Studloy, Rev, Phillips Brooks, Rev. Mr. Mallen, Rev. J. i uno, Kev. J. M. Manning, Rev. Dr. Lorimer and I Messrs, Moody and Sankey. Under the corner atone was deposited the usual documents and coins of tho nt generation, and an album containg the signatures of upwards of 5,000 persons who had contributed large and small amounts toward the cost of the editice, The whole enterprise 1s due to the conception and efforts of Rev. Mr. Hamil- ton, the young pastor. POLITICAL LIBEL PROSECUTIONS. Francisco, May 28, 1877, ‘Tho Grand Jary ot El Dorada county have found a criminal sadiotinent against the proprietors of the San Francisco Chronicle on the complaint of Uuited States | Senator Sargout and Congressman lage, based on the publication by that journal of Pinney’s statements re- flecting upon them, and the Chronicle's editorial com- ments thereon, A similar complaint is now uoder consideration by the Grand Jury of San Joaquia county at Stocktow, The Morning Call will publisu to- morrow &@ communication from Stockton abnouncing the iutention of Messrs, Sargent and Page bring —slinilar = complain' before the Jory of each county in the that convenes im time for their tion, in order to bring the matter before the public 60 a8 to be available tor thelr vindication during tho rosent political campaign, ‘The Grand Jury of San { secretary, Mr. Leopold Bamberger, also ot New York, 1 Francisco county docs not moet until July, When sim- ilar action will betaken hore, The object of bringing complaints in every county is stated to be in order to give tho defence of Scssrs, Sargent and Pago ag wide & publicity as tho charges made against thom, SHEET CUBA. CRUISE OF THE OSSIPER AROUND THE EVEB FAITHFCL ISLE—COOL RECEPTION BY THE SPANIARDS—CONDITION OF THE INSURREC- TION—RUIN OF THE ISLAND NEAR AT HAND. Port Rovan, May 26, 1877. The recent cruise of the corvette Ossipee, Com- mander S Livingston Breeze, around the Island of Cuba, while in itsolf far trom agreeable to the officers of the vesse! served to develop some interesting fu concerning the situation of affairs on what was wont to be known as the Ever Faithful Isic. THK DELTA SHOA ‘The Ossipee sailed from Pensacola on the 19th of March, and for nearly a week was cugaged in search- ing for the Delta shoals, reported by the Captain of the steamer of that name, off the Island of Cubs. Attor a very ciose and protracted investigation in the locul- ity of the alleged shoals no trace of them could be found, and it is quite apparent that the English skip- per was either far vut of bis reckoning or was grealy im error when he mado bis tencied discovery. Certainly the soundings of the Ossipee failed to develop anything of the kind. Alter the completion of this work the Ossipee put into Key West tor coal and supplies, and on the 25th of March rap over to Havana, where she laid a week. The Spanish authorivies were tormally polite, but were evidently uot overjoyed to seo Yunkee” cruiser in their port. AT CIENFUEGOS, Leaving Havana the Ussipeo suiled for Cienfuegos, where sho laid a week. A nuinber of Spanish gunboats were im port, but the authorities displayed no desire to extend bospitaliuies to our veasel. The insurgents were near (be town, and there was no communication with the country, Trovisions wero scarce und high, and bere, a8 in the other ports of the isiand visited by tho Ossipee, tho iababitauts were in the most distre iwg conuitivg, 1p cousequence of all chanuels of sup. pites trom the couutry being cut olf by the rebels, No one dures io go any distauce outside of the lines, as certain capture awaits (he iucautious wanderer, COAST TOWNS BESIRGED, At Santiago de Cuba and Nuevitas, also visited by the Ussipee, the sume state of allure exisls, All these Vowns are closely beleazuered by tLe tsurgents, WoO have practical control of the entire east end of the island, Nothing but the presence of the Spanish gun- boats, which are beld in great dread by tue ineurgeuts, Drevents these toWos from failing into their banus' At none of the piaces visited aid the Spanish authori- ties visit the ship beyond muakiog, through a sub- Ordinute, a forma: visit, Lho Cubuus, however, uvailed themseives of every opportunity to throug the ship, aud, Wuen under our fag, spoke very freely of the situation tu the island, Which 1s dally becoming more anu more sad and hupeices, [t was the upaniwous opiniva of tuese people that (be Spaniarus were aoiug more to dostroy the va:uable estates on the island than Lhe insurgents, RUIN OF TUE ISLAND. Two more years v1 contest will certainly completely ruin the islabd. Tue recent war tax of thirty-vi, ht per cent laid on estates und on business of ali Kinds is greater than cup be endured. You the Spanish ollici are collecting ib Witu releniless vigor, Every one is disneariened, and all feel that the (uture Las in store greater disasters aid troubles, lt would take yeurs Jor LU@ Island to regain its prosperity should the war Close to-day; but, Wuile the viliciuls are being enriched by the war, tbo end thereof is ter off, THE SPANISH ARMY. Tho loss of lile, by fever and otwer diseases, in the Spanish army is something uppalliog. ‘Tue Medical apd Commissariat departments are in the most ineffi- cicayuuditien, and couscquently the army 18 decimated by disease ol every kind. General Campos 18 making great efloris 1o put down the insurrection, but 14 18 generally admitted bis labors vave sigually fatied The terrible Gran on the resources of Spain must son so enieevie her us to compel ber to give up the contest by | compromise or the withdrawal oi ber forces, Sho | cannot much longer coutinue ue struggle. AT MATANZAS. | At Matanzas tho Qssipee touud a tolerably healthy | state of afluirs, I'he wWesiero portion of ths island is | and bag been free trom tue presvucs of the insursents, | aud the tobucco aud sugar ipterests baye suifered very | Hittie, Basivess is therefore quite brisk at Mutauzis, | as at Havana, and bo ope appears to icel the War, ex- | cept in the taxes, Wuich ure heavy exongh, KPTION OF TILE ‘OFFICERS. | As I before remarked, the reception o! our officers | throughout Cuba was very cool und disagreeable, Woeiber it was because the sight of the Awerican flag gave 80 much ill-concealed satisiuctiun and pleasure to tho Cubans, or because of a deep antipetby. which seems to have uiways existed between the Dons and the “Yankees,” as ney call us, it Was quite apparent thut the Spauiurus viewed the visit of the Ussipce, wherover she went, with disgust and hatred, and this ‘was especially so with (he naval officers, wno did pot disguise their feclings at all. LETH ISRAKL, ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ISRAEL- ITES IN TEMPLE EMANUEL, The eighteenth anuual meeting of the Board of Dele. gates of American Israclites commenced yesterday | afternoon in Templo Emanuel, Filth avenuc. A representation of one delegate {rom each of the fol- low congregatious and societics was allowed to participate in the proceedings:—Achavas-chesed (the Lovers of Right), B'nai Isracl (the Sona of Israel), B'nat Jeshurun (the Sons of Righteousness), Beth Israel (the House of Israel), Bickur-cholim (tho Visitors of the Sick), Emanuel (God Is With Us), Poel Tsedex (the Doers of Charity), Ridef Sholom (the Fol-, lowers of Peace), Shaaray Teflla (the Gates of Prayer), Shereth Israel (the Remoants of Israci), Beth Hurnid- rash (the House of Learving), H. B, and O. A. Society, Matual Benefit Society, Hebrew Friondiy Association, Beth El (the House of God)—all of New York city; Beth Israel and Beth Elohim (House of the Most High God)—both bolonging to Brooklyn; New Beth Israel, Syracuse; Obabei Sholom (the Lovers of Peace) and Beth El, of Boston, Masa; Adeth Israel (tho Congregation of Israol), Hart. | ford; B'nai Jesburun, Paterson, N. J.; B'nai Abrabam, Newburg; Mikoe Is (the Select of Israel), Philadelphia; Beth El Emeth (the Trac Houso of Gol), Vhiladelplia; Ridef Sh Philadepbia; Hebrew Education Society, Philadelphia; Young Men’s Hebrew Association, Poiladeiphia; B’pat Zion, Dau- ville, Pa.; B'nai Berith (tho Sons of the Covenant Wilksbarre, Va. ; Hebrow Congregation, Washington, D. Hebrew Beuevolent Society, Chattanooga, Both Sholem, Ricumond, Vu; Beth Isravl, Jackson, Miss,; Temenin Dareb (tne Students of the Law), New Orleuos, La, ; Shauray eftla, New Orieans, La.; Shereth Israel, San Francisco, Cal. ; Kohl, Mout: gomery (the Congregation), Montgomery, Ala.; Beth El, Mempnie, Tenn. THE PROCKEDINGS. Mr. Myer 8. Isaucs, the President, of Now York, occupicd the chair, and the treasurer und acting recorded tho proceedings, The auutal report of tbe Executive Committee was read and referred to a coin- mittee of five to bo appoiated by the chairman, This report quoted replies from the Jews of Frauce, Eng- laud, Austria and Germany to a circular relative to tue best means of heiping the Jewish settiemonts in I’alos- tine. ‘The Parisian Jews thought it best for the Pal tino Jews to lear trades und wll tho fang, T trcasurer’s report showed a salistactory Lalance o Naud, Tho Hresideut read au intercsting address, | strongly advocating the establisument o1 high schools | | 10 this city and ovbers throughout the United States | jor Hebrew youth. = * ; The following pamed ofl wero elected for the in- coming year:—President, Myer 3. Isaacs, ot New York; Vice Presidents, Simon’ Wolf, of Washington, avd W. . Hackenburgh, of Pailadeippia; Treasurer and Act- | ing secretary, Leopold Bamberger, of New York, The meeting adjourned wil four o’clock this ufter- noon. PURIM ASSOCIATION. The fifteenth anniversary of the Parim Association will be colebrated this year by the members and thoir ladies attending the Fifth Avenue Thoatre this evon- ing, and afterward enjoying a supper at Delmonico' followed by dancing AN EXPL. ANATORY SUICIDE. William Radolph, a German thirty five years old, a shoomaker, living in tue basement of No. 169 West Houston streot, after a debauch on Sunday came home and rotired, it was thought. The next morning it was | found that during the mght he had shot himscit throught the heart, He was found sitting upon a chair with a small revolver lying beside him aud a bullet holo in bis broast. Beside him on a table was asmall Bible opened at the first epistle of Paul to Timothy, with two passages of a somewhat ambiguous character marked, Inside of it was an envelope on which was written in German Waut of work, debts and trouble on ae ery long sustained, suicide. No relatt ountry ; Why live nt of them, mis: no sisters oF pra T wisn, it possible, th tn Germany, at the On anothor slip of paper was written :— Frodnits, nour Breslau, Germany, Europe. SUICIDE BY HANGING. Frederick Wilking, boarding at No. 10 Rector street, committed suicide vy hanging himself from the cloth: hook behind his bedroom door, Tho cause of bis rash act is reluted by those who knew him as havir disagreement with bis partner, Who kept asaloou at | the corner of Sixty-filth street and Third avenue He ‘Was quietly sitting 10 the beer saloon under bis voard- ing house yesterday reating a mewspaper. He was | observed to startup hurriedly and rush up stairs to | vesty | mate removed to the Morguo; that of the boy Kelly 8 FXPLOSION OP NAPHTHA. Three Men Burned to Ashes in the Lighter “Caution.” ‘ A SHOWER OF BURNING FLUID. Narrow Escape of Neighboring Shipping. At noon yesterday the lighter Caution reached the jetty running out into the North River in front ef the Metropolitan Gas Company's Works, at the foot of Forty-first street. On board were ninety-five barrels of sapbtha, which had been brought from Lombara, Ayers & Co.'s oil works, at West Sixty. filth street, und which was to be used for rectifying purposes «= and «Ss ins the. production of coul tar oil. The establishment of the Metropolitan Gus Company is a Jong, rambling struc- ture, covering all the area between Forty-first and Forty-second streets from Eleventh avenue to the river. In frout of it a long picr runs out into the river with tramways on it for the con- veyance of coal, and beside this but re- moved from it about fifty feet, is the jetty at which the lighter was moored. Word had been sentto Mr, Isauc Herzog, chiet engineer of the gas works, of the arrival of the naphtha, woieh wag wanted at once, and he instructed a gang of mon to begin unloading lighter immediately after dinner time. As the hour for resuming work drew near a number of men proceeded to the end of the tram- way pier, and Rudolph Brenner, who had charge of tho donkey pump for lifting the oil from tho lighter, stationed himselt at his engine alongside the lighter, Two men were then known to be on board of her, Ono was the Captain, Wilham Smith, of Sixty- fiith street and Tenth aveuue, the other Charles Fink, of Sixty-second strect and Teoth avenue. There was no one else employed on the Caution, and no one was aware of the presence of a third person on board boc A TERRIFIC ¥%XPLOSION, Just asthe steam whistles wore shrieking out the hour of one, anJ as the machinery in the gas Louse was set in motion, the neighborhood was slartied by a terrife explosion, A red tongue of flame roso into the air at the ond of the jetty and a confused cluster of timbers aud barrels were hurled aloft, fol- lowed in a moment by a devso black volume of smoke Adolph Brenner, standing at hia pump was flung vackward by the shock, and at tho same inoment a sheet of fire rolled past him, while a shower of burning oil was poured upon bim, on the wooden planking undernoath and upon the sheds near at hand, Blinded by the flames dna stun by the din, he fell to the ground half unconselo witu a movement which sell-presorvation su; he toro up his shirt and rolled it about his ti neck and then struggled to the other end of the jetty, where he was picked up and carried to a place o saioty. As be was vorne tway he was barely able to cry out that there were two mon in tbe lighter, and then be became insensible, A RAIN OF BURNING OIL. Meantime the wooden planks had caught fre and the het framework of some outhouses Igniting under the raio of buruing oil burst into flames, Officer Ma- Jone beard the explosion and secing the glare of the fro gave the alarm aca tho Fire Do- partment wero promptly on hand, Soon Sevefal streams of water wore turned upon the biazing jetty and upon the lighter, whicn could hardly bo distinguished in the cioud of smoke that on veloped it But tue wood of the pier was all afro ana Ube vessel was thoroughly satarated with oil, and upon either the water seemea to be poured iu vain. Upon the river itself floated large patches of burving oil and some were carried down stream to the imminent risk of tho cralt moored there, Not til four o’ciock, and after a great (oa) of labor had been expended, was tne fire got uncer control, and it was oven then baZardous to approach ine vessel, a8 the piles of the jetty had beon burned tc cinders, and the lighter was reduced to « charred wreck. Some of tue firemen reached the deck, how: ever, and begun a search for the unfortunate men whom Bronver bad said were ov board, THY SEARCH FOR THY DEAD. In the hull, partly submerged tn a pool of ofl and water, was found the body of tho Captaiv, William Smita, The upper portion was burnt tocinders. The face was quite beyoud recognition, and only a few borned rags wel left of his clothing. Close by Charles tho mate, was found, He, too, bad been almost’ reduced 10 ‘ashen Wohile carrying off the romains of the two ub‘ortunate men, the firemen sturnvled upon a headless human body from which the limbs, too, lad been partially burned mero stump remained of the arm which bad be raised as if to guard the face from the de- vouring element, In thts posture, too, the bodies of the other men haa been found, all seeming with their latest effort to have striven to shut out the sight of death. Whose this third body was no one could tel! and it was laid on a barrow on the pier and covered with canvas till some one should appear whe could identify the few remoaots of cloth. ing that remained. Many — anxious pari who bad ‘ of theirs working in tho gashouse throngod about the place, tor the gody seemed to be that of a young man. None, however, 11 Jobin Kelly, of No, 416 West Ferty- firstsireot, came along He lifted the canvas slowly and reluctantly, it seemed, from the dead body, and, with a cry that weat to every heart, ho turned away and began to weep, In the churred trunk he had recognized bis ton. He was w boy of sixteen, Michael was his bame, and for somo time past be hag been employed ou board a canal boat, whicn was moored at the tramway pier. What bi Corvndr Ellinger had been notified of the tragic re sults of the explosion, and, accompanied by Deputy Coroner Goldschmidt, he viewed the bod scene of the burning and made some inquiri ing the case, to be used, no doubt, in the evening ine ion. He bad the bodies of the captain and was taken home. Herzog, the chief engineer of the gas works, states that the conveying of the naphtua to the barrels is 2 unusual occurrence, does not approve of it Ho believ carrying the oil otherwise than in tank, as is the usual wi is dange! there was a dearth of btha to tl rous. he works, and ag the material was wanted word was sont to Lombard, Ayres & Co, to send on 14,000 gations of i. Thisthey did, storing it in barrals, A THEORY OF THE KXPLOSION, Mr. Herzog tninks that in Oxing the suction pipe te one of the barrois the hammer used, no doubt, threw off a spark, which ignited the napbtha and exploded the whole cargo. The damage done by the fire hoe estimated at only $3,000, the jetty being Valued at $1,500 and the lighter at about the same figure, In speaking of the disaster Mr. Herzog spoke very favorably of Brenner, whom ho said was a man spe- cially fitted by bis coolness and sagacity to occupy ois position, which was kuowa to be one of groat im- portance, A survey of the scone of the explosion would serve to show that the fire caused much Icss bara than inight have been expected. Glows tothe lighter, only beyond the tramwuy pier, te located the receiving tanke for the oll, aud these escaped only by a marvel. At tho first sound of the dia the men in the gas works fancied that the gasometer which exploded two yeare ago Was ugain the cause of the trouble, and a general stampede, which might bave been attended with dis astrous results, was imminent, BROOKLYN COMMON COUNCIL LOOKING AFTER TIE COMMISSIONS—STREE? CLEANING—JOURDAN’S REAL ESTATE. Ata regular weekly meeting of the Brooklyn Board | of Aldermen yesterday afternoon, President Ray in the | chair, it was resolved that the nomination of Gencral James Jourdan as President of the Board of Police and Excise should lie on the table till the Governor should dotormiue tho fate of the Salary bill. This: action proved a great source of disappointment to hundreds of politicians who are awaiting the appointment of from Mayor Schroeder calling attention to an amend- ment to the charter providing for a change in the system of stroet cleaning. The Mayor believer that the prevailing system gives more wore for the amount spont, $75,000 per year, than any otuer that could ve devised. There is no reason tor tranaterring tue work to the Board of Health, as pro- posed by the amendment, and His Honor states that he wrote to the Governor, requesting him to withhol@ Hoal action on these ainendinonty, and he urged the appoiwtment of a committee to carry out this view of the mau A committee of three was so appointed in accordance with the wishes of the Mayor. A resolution was introduced oy Alderman Marth calling for the appointment of a committee of @ investigate the charges’ made last year by Dr. Huvchinson, ex-f Gon- eral James Jourdan. purport the churges alluded to was that in 1874, while Jourdan was @ member of the Health Board, some thirty vacant sunken lots on Stockton street were ordered to be filled in, und a8 this was not don were condemned The owners, two wid property ip question tor $11,000 to Mrs. Jourda 1876 the lots were resold for $32,000, Dr, Hutebinsoa ipuimated that the property was sold under duress, und that the lots wero Worth no moro 1m 1876 thao in 1si4. When the charges wero made last year they wero investigated by Mayor Sechroe ler, but were not substantiated, and were duly refuted by General Jour- dap, Alderman Murtha said it was bis wish thas the Genoral’s character tight be cleared of the imputa- bis room, An hour tater be was found banging, as de- scribed, and quiie dead. His frionds cay be was a lit- Ue out of bis wind, was ib good circumstances, HPAP MII Oe MP GROEN Le Mee OS ee ORE, eNO OT, Ss Meee ANT YGAT US tions cast upou bim by the oewspapers, The resola- uigave Was lost by a vole of 16 to 8 alter