The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1878, Page 6

THE CITY'S SEWERAGE RD ferrible State of Affairs Said To Exist Underground. WHERE NOXIOUS VAPURS COMB FROM. Foul Odors Complained of by People on the West Side. LIGHT ON A DARK SUBJECT. For some months past the residents in the neigh- verhood of the foot of West Twonty-third street, as woll as thoge doing business in that locality, bave been complaining of a vory offensive odor which seems to impregnate the surrounding atmosphero and 1s almost sickening in its effects, especially at low water. The long suffering people of that section have Deen to some extent im the dark as to the cause of the poxious Vapors, which are at times almost over- powering, Some believed that they emanated from the cattle establishment at the foot of West Thirty-tourth street, while others said they were muiniy traceable to the garbage and kindred refuse which is regularly dumped into an immense floating receptacle at ‘i'wenty-first street aud North River. Those, however, who take moro than an or- inary interest in the nuisance firmly believe that the foul odors are of subterranean origin— an short, that they preceed trom detective sewerage on Twenty-thira street, 3nd perhaps also on those Streets immediately north and south of that thorough- tare. Ltis alleged that when the I'wenty-third street ferry was built a Coropration ordinance was passed authorizing the cutting off, at Eleventh avenue, of the sewer on each street from T'wenty-fifth to Eighteenth Street, both inclusive, and the construction of a large sower on Eleventh avenue which should carry the contents of the street sewers indicated down to Seventeenth street, where it emptieu into the North River, AHexatp reporter visited the neighborhood a day or two ago and ascertained Irom persons doing busi- noss there that on all the streets from Twenty-third to Sevonteentn a peculiarly offensive gaseous odor ts porceptivle at low water. This, and especially the Mench at the foot of Twenty-third street, is geverally accounted for on the theory that tbat portion of the sewer trom Eleventh avenue to the river being cut off tnere 1s not a sufficient flow of water from above to tarry away whatever foul deposit may be in the elbow of the sewer at Eloventh avenue and Twenty-third strect, and consequently the deleterious exhaiations trom this extensive bed of filth are constantly escap- tng ioto and centaminating the surrounding air. The writer, while prosecuting his inquiries, found one or two citizens who were of the opinion that a portion of the bad odor on the streots indicated might be traceable to reluse matter from the Manhattan Gas Works, located on Eighteenth Birect and Eleventh avenue, a largo gasometer of the fame corporation being situated between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, and extending {rom Nineteenth to Twentieth street From the works on Eighteenth Street thore is a good sized iron pipe running to the river, aud this is said to be used for the purpose of carrying off some very noxieus commodity, the pipe emptying into the river some distance under the sur- face at high water. At low tide, it is asserted, the end of this pipe is partially out of the water, and then Whe atmosphero is flooded with very noxious vapors, INJURIOUS TO HEALTH. é Agentleman doing business at the foot of West Ewentieth stroot informed tho reporter that the ter- buly affected tho health of those living or carry- tng on business there, but also the business in_ \erests of that portion of the city, as those Fesiding elsewhere visit the place only when they Bannot possibly avoid doing so. He ulso called the Attention of the writer to the condition of the gutter bn the north side of Twentieth street, which was Aled with foul smelling green liquia for some dis- tance up the block, This gentloman said:—“It 18 net surprising that wo have to endure sickening odors hore, even if there wus no worse cause for them than the state of that gutter, It remained eveo tn a worse conditien than you see it now all the summer, until the HxxaLp commenced its oxpusures of the filth in tho city; but lately they have begun to wash the gut- ter out from the hydrant once or twico a week. Of course it is still in a very bad state,” Mr. M,C, Dexter, in business at the foot of West Twentieth street, remarked that when the wind was from tbe north, or Twenty-third street direction, they suffered most from the bad edor, but he thought a good deal of it came from the garbuge receptacie above Felerred to. Mr, Ssephen Cable, ferrymaster at the Twenty-third Btrect terry, ou belag usked about the uuisance alluded to, said:—"Yer, there is asmell bere and a very bad ove,too, Where dol think it comes from? I believe the old sewer underneath this street, which was cat off some time ago at Eleventh avenue, is filled up and tbat the deposit cannot flow away, The water jn the slips on the nor and south ndes of this ferry building y, and the smell coming from it at times is abominable. Every time a boat comes in she, of course, stirs up the wacer, and then the odor is worrible for avout half au bour atterward, It is the same way at low tide Tee ust be all choked up, and they can’t get a. i 0 remedy the difficulty oo account of tue water Tuning up so far trou tue ordinary lecation of the Duikbead You see, this Ty house 16 bulit alto- gether over the water; it stands on piles, and the Mouth of Lue old newer is aWay iv vehind Lhuse piles,” SOURCE O¥ THX STENCS. A gentleman connected with ine Twenty-third Street Railroad Company, on being spoken Ww by the writer, suid:—“Ihe steveh here i# something awiul, 1 am taking quinine every uay. My physician leeds me With Itai) tbe Lime. Tho stench comos from the old sewer under the ferry house, Sometimes when the ater 18 u UVery Ligh It bulls up trom the bottom and Vueu spreads On (he surlace, causing a friguttul oder, Which poisons the atmosphere of the whole Belguborhvcd, We bave dredged tho river were every scusou, in order that the eenteuts of the sewer might have a chance to pase away, but the bottom bas not yet been dredged to @ suMicient depth tor that pur- pose. Now every time a terryboat comes in she Washe® away a portion of this filth our ol the sewer, nod (bat is, 1D my Opinion, the sole cause oO! the smeti that ailiicts this locality. Tbe top of this old sewer, Or Where tue culvert pipes connect with it, must be fourteen feot irom the suriace of the sirect, 60 \wagiue the difllsulty there would be 10 clean. out tbat pleco of sewer to give us @ boultny Is it trae that the drainage from the Twenty-third Stroet Kailway Company's stables Lag bo outlet to the river exeept throu, tructed sewer ¥”” “Qoite tue coutrary, Our stables bave bevn bailt 40 combive all toe modern iwprovemonts in tuat Clase Of urcuitectu We have & separate sewer wo tue river, composed of u large eartheaware pipe, the end ol wiicn, as you may here see tor yoursei, 1 boxed up abuve the suriace of the water, This pipe, deur im mind, carrios away ouly the liquid retuse trom our stables, ue remainder being carted away ory morning; aod UNL It 1 removed it is kept tu Jek Vauiis having wirtight Lops, and besides boing Ventilated by « chimuey leading lo tue rool of the buildings 1 can bring you forty witnesses fr Tight arvund here who will tell you thar the cause of the smell ares from the wlth that 16 constantly washing out from under the terry (bave no doubt 1 proceeds from that vid p tower, and it wil temaio there uatil the sip ts fredged deep envagh, when the Hlth will naturaily Gna is way out aud ‘pass off. At present the water around (he terry house 18 so foul thar it turned the bottoms vf uli ihe Rockaway Beach buats black tn 4 suors ume.” Iki PRRVYORMED CONTRACTS While soarouiog tor iuivrmauou i regard to ra- Mored irauds op (be part of the Coutraciors who built lve sewers HenaLp reporter obtained an iuter- View with a eily vllical bigh 1 authority, Oo tu writer making kbown tue ouject Of his visit the Koo- Wewan alluded to salaz—"ie is pretty weil known \uat a system of fraud im coonvetion with (be build. ing 0! soWers hus beou curried on lor some time The iuutraccors rarely, if ever, lollow Out (he specitica- Nous.’ AN BX-SUPERINTENDENT SPEAKS. Having ascertained tuat dir. Joou M. iuornton had for about two yeurs filled the position of General nueut vi Sewers Under Commissioner Camp: riter called upow bim ut Lis resivence In wikth MFeek, Wheu tne fuliowing tuters you afford me auy inform n of constructin present coud etat the North wits, OF | tion o the sewer oo Tw iver? Mr, 1MORNTON—In fogard vo the Twenty-third street wer | cunout way anything except that] bad the ervision of tnres receiving banins at Twenty. seoonu, Iwonty-thitd aud Iwenty-lourth sureeis #nu ‘Thirteenth avenue This Was about August, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, [878.--QUINTUrus SHEET. depth of & grade. You see the se tion of Thirteenth aven and bat part of tt crossing I'birteenth avenue went completely down. About eight feet below the present suriace of the street we came upon regulariy formed, curved and guttered street corner. This was owing to the fact thas when Thirteenth avenue was Hiled in the original grade of the street and the con- vition of the gutters and curb siones were undis- turbed. Now, considering that we found such con- Glusive evidences of the former grade of the sircet at i uriace, it 8 w about sx teen feet irom the present suriuce of the street. “Do you know auything about the sewers naving been cut off from mty-Hith to Sixteenth street aod made to conner 1th @ math sewer on Eleventh avepue??? “Nothing whatever, of my ewo knowledge. That was done belore | became conmected with the Depart- ment of Pablic Works. I came to the conclusien on finding no sewer Lo connect with at Thirteenth aveuue und Twenty-secoud street tbat there was some deleot in Lhe sewer east of that point, aud reported the mat- ter to Mr, Towle, the engineer im charge, and ho in- sirveted me to connect directly with the river.” “Did you during your connection with the depart- meut Mid any other so tive than the one you have meutioved?* “Well, yes; 1 found onela Vesey strect at its inter- section with Greenwien strect. I dou’t think, how- ever, that this Was constructed by the departments, I wm ibelined to believe tuat it was ouilt by parties who wore the lessees of the Astor House. it isin a feartul condition. T'bere 16 now, I sbould think, at least three teet of an accumulation of olleasive stuf of every sort thore.’”” DEPRCTIVE SEWERS, “Do you mean to say that this sewer bas no outlet fo the fiver?” “No, but 1 tniuk the flow bas been cut off some- where east of Greenwich strect, and that it bas been cunneeted with some other sewer having an outlet 1a the river. ‘The present flow through this sewer ts ‘over the three feet of deposit 1 have alluded to, and of course 18 very inadequate to the capacity of the sower, AS you Say, Lue fuul gases from such a sewel must decidedly come through the culverts wna the man holes.” . ‘Did you find any other defective sewers 1” “Had known you were comiug here | could have told you of a dozen places, Everywhere we connected with pipe sewer we found the pipe broken almust 1n- variably ‘and the sewer either more or less stopped up. You aoubtless know something of the manner in which the sewers ure constructed t”” “Well, Io the sewers are constructed now in @ more decept! Way than ever belore, I rave had supervision of a sewer in Fifty-ninth street, trom Twelith uvenue to the North River. Ip this case w portion of the foundation required piling. The con- Lractor’s price was $2 50 for eueh pile, This price evidently did not pay the contractor, und he accord- ingly sunk no larger numvor bau be could pessibly avoid. ireported to Engineer Towle that the sower could not possibly stand without piling, but there was ho notice whatever tuken of my report, Here is a copy of the report made to the deparunent at the tune, Di BuRxAU OF Bxwxus, Koom CY WALL, NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 1876, Severson Towss, Esq,, Kngineer in Charge of Sewers :— Din—I have examined the condition of that portion of the sewer Dot built upon piles ut the toot of West Fifty- ninth street, Lalso report the present foundation for te continuation of this sewer to be utterly useless, aud in my opiaiun 1 think it would be unwise tu proceed turtuer wt at wnd rospectiully suxyest, iy reasons, | Kirst The ing machine 1s at work in tho rivor opposite the out- order that the erib may ‘on the solid bottom, i—By waiting a week the dredging will be done ‘crib will bave settled, tuen Lhave no reason to 4 finish our contract. and t doubt that we cua drive piles WUN M. THORNTO. General Superintendent of . “Was there any answer returned to your note ?”” “dis roply was, ‘We mast go on, sir; 1 doa’ care wheter 11 ialis down or not, we must nish our con- truce.’ Vory respecttully, COLLAPSED SEWERS. ‘Now, what was the consequence? The day when wo were completing the brickwork about one hui dred and filty feet of the sewer tell 19 and was cal away with the tide. The grades of this sewer wel changed at loust threo times in the Vanderbilt inte: ost, and without the opinion or consent of uny of the surrounding property owners. 1 would also state tuatin ihe cage of the coniractor who camstructed the Fifty-niuth street sewer his pay was retained for #ix months after be bad ftuished the work, us the 1n- Spector of the sewer would not sign the contract, but I believe he finally dia sign it, There 16 anvtner sewer which I bave bad supervision of that fell down also, ‘This one ig in Vortieth street, betweor Tenth avenue and the Hudson River, It is of cylindrical torm, five feet in diumeter, and tf built uc- cording to the plans aud speciticasions would be of great strength, 18 Duilt to increase ite durabitity, and 1 should have Deen a piece of tirst class work. But, on the cont irom the inferior mauuer of its coustraction, both as rogards materiais aud mechanism, it fell in for a dis- tance of several yards immediately alter it was built, and not only shis, but absur tive bunared feet of it bay settled 1a such irregular form that it 1 probable pertious of 1t may tall ut auy moment, ‘This work was progressed under the circumstances L have alluded to against my protest not only to the contractor but aso tothe department. My inspector und myself reported tho mattor daily in succession the engiveer in charge, but all to no purpose. 1 con- tinued for some mou to ort to Mr. Towle, not Wisning to ignore the dignity of bis vilice by making ry int to a higher quarter, At length, when the sewer foli down, I theagnt 1 time to acquaint t1 Commissioucr with thy elroumstances im the caso and called upon him for that purpose. “Were your reports in regurd to the detective cou- struction of the sewers noticed at any time by the De- partment of Public Works?” THK REWAKD OF BONKSTY. “No, they were noi, but 1 was rewarded for my bonesty o1 purpose in baking them by being relieved from the supervision of tbe Fortieth strect sewe: Upon receiving a brief notification that I was thus re- lheved | asked Mr. Yowle if suck action of the depal ment was to be cousidered by me as 4 reflection on my efherency, and rephed that 1 had better see Mr. Thompson, the Deputy Commissioner. 1 lost no lume in Waiting on that geationan, apd Duving stated the case to bin ue suid Lhe matter rested altogether with Mr. Towie, the engimeer in charge. By tbis lime wy eyes ‘had been opened w the fact that the onstruction of the sewer involved altogether what might be termed ‘a big job,’ aud that, ua I believe, 1 wus prourrauged in the iuterest of the contractor. | Notwitostanding this, powever, I wrote at the time to Deputy Commissioner Tuompsoa, in she bope tual my communication would reach Commissiouer Campbell, setting tortu tu detat: the detects of the yower and the museriuls used tu Its con- struetion; and, alter ulluding \o iny irequent reports to Engineer Towle, | requested an investigation of my Guiies in the matter of this sewer, setting forth that if such investigation should reveal uny official eulpa- biluy on my part { woald immediately rosiga. 1 ulso piaiuly intimated toat it any official 1uquiry was made {ne disclosures would surprise him, Here 1s a copy Of the communication I allude tox— A DISKEGARDED WARNING. Bunxau ov Suwans, Koos 21 Crry Has, March Abii. Hvsent 0. Tnomrsox, Esq: sin—I beg leave vo cull your atventh street sewer, which |s allowed to jative and abuse of all rule: to the Fortioth ue to be built im specitications, anu of tl evon of comumon sense. The interiur quality and at De work of any cousequ ore on all my 0% The concrete is unworthy of the composed of & proportion of eighteen arrows full of concrete made The reGiling, on wh ponus the entire xafety of thissewor. is done in & thous earelons manner aud of very inierior waterial, whieh is either mud wor water, bas slush. Some portions of the Urick work that become iavisivle whom the work ts 8 nud decopt! from on ther things, the Insvector previously sugaesting to Lim ty of doing so; but by repeatedly told the tn- Ifthas bo would bi vd te or's «book of offictal returus Twili wot 0 itu further detulis bat iy atten. tion having been called to each of tue above matiers vy the inspector, aud Loth be and I being setuavod by vur quod opiuions of the Commissioner aud you, ew pocure to the city urdiuary, tRir work. “Bub vy di have incurred the displeasure of other parties, whose post ould piace them aby clon, wud fud my frou aod super. pers in the dis- churce of his dasy, DUC AS sues L Will cuutinus to be, for my opinion of the Commission hat L may be proof positive | urgently req missioner give th tor & sonrehi: irmy ¢ & person im Mm loner retain it, Boyging you wilt exew have the kowor to be, your most ubsale! Ju “After this the affidavits of sell were fled in the Comm Jorth in detail that the Work Was tm ty the specifications.” “Are there any vther defective sewers that you know otf” ® villce, sotiing dono wccording “a, MULTITODR OF ‘THtitab'? “Sy dear cir, vow that you Lave revived the sub- ject in my memory | may sav that there is a muiti- tuue of them. I hardly kuow where to resume the Ueseription of them, There is u Very large cuubruct now ib progress nd that 1 bad suupervision of, is koowo as ff ot, and irom Third ave- Second avenues streets trom Third fo properly deserive the “trae inwardoess’’ of (his job would (uke up more space thau uny Dewspaper in this city would bo will. log to give it When 1 took cnarge of the sowerl Supposed that eVeryiuing was beibg doOe 1M ship shape, arter a lew days, to my astvoisimeat, | fouod of Without plans, aud soemingly Bltogetber hue to the Bust Rive: and im all the in The plans o floor of timber, TL found that onl, was bOIDg Pal! fi ail Hee jue fiver, 1 also id that the cumorete was omi> ted, and further that the number of yards in the - 4 @regate, when the sewer would be completed, would cost verween $30,000 and $40,000. ‘bis was # saving to the contractor, and it the work was done accord- oat decidedly uupecossary. aguinst bis owa interests ?’” 3 OF CONTRACTORS. was allowed $5 50 for but 18 my belief that be ts allowed for piles th were pever driven. Shortly ufter I took charge of this sewer | found the greater portion of turee blocks of the sewer, which was built aud fully completed uoder the supervision of a pevret Superipiendent and au luspector, to bave fallea in. These are not isolated cases, and 1 am Dot surpriged that we bave so muny bad sewers ch as 1 have meationea are per- mitted to ve built.”” “Thea, do | understand you to assert that Bumerous delective sewers 10 the city f’’ “Most certainly there are, but among the many that bave come under my observation it would, of course, be difficult jor me vow to remember them all, In Lexington avenue, between Sixty-xecond and Bixty-flth streets, we took up a smali pipe sewer and pat in one of greater capacity, und even thea wo found the larger ove inadequate to meet the flow, the pipes being contipually jul, ‘he cellars in that uelgbbornood continued to be Gilled with water, and the department at tust concluded to build 4 brick sewer there,’” “Would it pot have been a groat saving to the tax- yers bud this brick sewer been constructed iu the iret piace??? HOW THE TAXPAYERS ARE PLEKCED. “Decidedly 14 would bave beea u saving, but the fatlure to muxe the necessary change at ouce 18 attrid- Uled to ivelliciency of the engweer im charge of sewers. When we touk out the smail pipe aud sub- Stituted the iarger one the trevch was bos completely filled until we bad agaia to dig up the nd bad the vrick sewer. Au oxactly smilar oecurrence Look piace on Ninth avenue, at Sixty-tourth street, und o1 the sume avenue at Ninety-second stree. lo this manner thousands of deliars were unnecessarily re are taken irom the taxpayers, una Vil tell you bow, When the first contract was awarded jor the coustruction of tnese sewers it was plain to be seen that the pipes called ior in the plans wore altogether too suull, and wben complaints were aiter- ward made by the property owners setting forth that their cellars wero flooded, a chuuge evideutly had to be mauve. ‘he repair i several weeks at sumo of these pluces, but reason unknown to me they failed to make the required improvement, and the jobs had nally to be awarded by special con- ti You can sacly say thai or the city th work. Lm: rob hes fallen 1D passage of th iu which there We bave met several place: sewer, ‘wus nothing but a crust of earth over the sewer, the arch baving compictely dropped in.” “Cau you menuon avy of the places where the only Covering over the sewer 1s the Bireet?”? A GIGANTIC FRAUD. “There w: case of this kind at James’ slip, but & much more extraordinary circumstance came to my knowledge when tue repair gang 10 1807, while look- ing for w sewer in Sixtieth or Sixty-lirst strect, 1 have forgotten which, for the purpose ol connecting 16 with tbo sewer in Eleventh avenue, was surprised, alter excavating (0 supposed depth, to discover that there was o at all there. Yo vil appearance, however, the excavation had at une time becu made.” “Would you bave it iulerred that the excavation was made aud tilled in again with eurtn, leaving out the sewer altegethor?”” “You've hit the idea exsotly ; that’s tho very thing that was done, and the property owners paid for a sower that was bever constructed, Yuu may be sure tuere Was a good laugh among the boys ut the dis- covery of this baretaced iraud. I may say bere thar in making the counection between this sowor wich we afterward buit und the sewer iu Kieventn avenue we ound the latter completely choked.” HINTS YOR THE HEALTH BOARD, “such defects as sbut, then, may account to some extent for the stench that constantly pervades the at- mosphere of that portion of Eleventh avenue?’ ‘dt mast certaiuly have tbat effect. 1 huve had charge of the construction of «& ateon receiving busius onjus many coraors of Fourth avenue, between Sixty-second aod Soventy-eightn stroets. [a connec ing these with the sewers, I jound tn almostevery case thut tho pipes in the sewers wore eomplotely broken, and in these cases alvo tue sewer gasos Would have to escape through the culverts on the coruers. Why, 1 Fecellect, some few years ago, the HkkaLp showing up a block of houses that it suid Ws # regular tuver nest, several persous, 1 believe, having diod there, and the result was that the property becumwe unto antable. ‘That diock of butidings is in the vicinity of where | found those defective pipes, aud I am sat by the escaping gases that I some ol the pipe sewers having many cuonections there 1s no flow whatover, and nobody knows whei tbe water runs to. Of course this can’t bring about very beultuiul results. in lik: her a grout wany ef (hose basins on she street cor- ners leak badly They snould ve mado water tight, but they are not.’ “Huve you ever beard of a contractor in Tweed’s timo wno charged tor a sower that be uever baile t”? AN ALMOST INCREDIBLE STORY. bat ulluir has uiwuyo been regarded as a true oF not, “Yes; good joke, 1 uen’t know whether 1’ bat 1 buvo olten heard it toid as fact. Well, contractor got a coutract to build ao wer up town 1D street that was pot ut thus time built up, Healsout tho sume time bad tho contract for puving the street, and for the purpose of making @ fortuue out of the contract he didu’t exca- Yaie to tue exient of a snovel full, but delberaicly went to work und paved the strect, taking care to pluce she munhole custiugs iu the usual position of 100 feet upar. By aud by a goutlemenu built binself 4 costly residence on that street, und lor the purpose Of connecting bis house with the sewer applied at the Depuriment of Public Works tor a permit to open ine street, wuich was duly granted. Un excavating to make the connection he was surprised at uot being uble to find the sewer alter digging all around and beyond the point desigouted in tue permit, Pus- zed 10 know what this meant the Jeman examined oue of the manholes, and on lilung up the metal cover foaau that it bad been sn- ting comiortavly on the top of the 4! 4d, wna the street iupocent of any cavity underneath it ‘The matter was reported to the Commussiover, who sent for the contracior and also ior the yentieman who odeavored to make the connection, On Com. missiozer Tweed asking the contractor where the sewer was, the latter repiied that it was io the reet, but was flatly contradicted by the property owner. The contractor, however, insisted that ho had built @ sewer there, adding, ‘1 dou’t intend slaying there to mina it? The city bad alterward to baud Fin this street’? ‘Do know of upything wrong 10 connection with the furnishing of maubole castings to tho De- partment of Public Works? WHRKE ANOTHER Jon COMES IN. “I am satisded that tuere is a good doal that is wrong there, When l was io the department these castings Were furoiwbed by # tirm to brovkiyo, becca Oue is supposed to Weigh ubout five hundred and seventy-(ive pounds, Tho average welt of tnose luruisbed was 443 pounds, whie the city paid lor age Ol ubout six Lupdred aud twenty jas 6175 pounds of metal ia that was pad for und w 1 reported this mater to the oi months before 1, and it i ManUlactUrer, WHO Could Det obtuia & COL: A CONSULAR CONUNDRUM 18 THE BARK JOHANN HOLZERLAND UNSEA- WORTHY AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT ir? 'Twas in tho bad ship Hoizerland From Mexico wo sallod ; Which we forsvok, off Sandy Hook, ‘Tbough load the captain railed. An this and similar strains did Carl Loitrch, Jobann Bondig, Carl Scurmidt and Hermann Lossman yeater- day beguilo their prisou Lours. They were cgin- mitted on Friday by Commissioner Osborn, at the request of the German Consul General, tor retusing to continue 4 voyage to Falmouth, England, on the bark Jobave Hoizerland, The vessel vad a cargo from Santa Anna, Mexico, and the captain caine to anchor off Sanay Hook for the purpose of getting orders in Now York. When he returned the orew of the ship experienced some of the vory tougbest kind ot ber in a figurative sense. They ciaimed the rigging was out of order aad unfit for suiling service, abd the captain 18 said to have taken much umbrage fat their gratuitous criticism. ‘Ino result wus a row, during which the mate got into an altercation with the captain, and the four sullers left the sap only te be arrested and taken to the office of the German Con- al. The captain complained tha: they would not sail with Lim, which the men frankly admitted, and wero takeu before the Untied States Commissioner and thence to Ludiow Street Jail with a prompt. ness that astonished therm. they told the Commissiouer tha: the captain's side of the story was alone received by the Cousul, but a ikKaLD ro- porter Who called upon the German represontative was differently inturmed, Mr. Hermann A. Sobu- mand, the Consul, suid the case Was exceBsivoly por culiar, as the bark Was Dot in port aud wore oF loss 1s jurisdicuon. Tho sailors made no to tim about Uuseawortbiness of the would not gail. i tnorrow mornin the row! situation may be @: tracted from Luo preseot maddie. CONBULAK JU; It the satlors should make the Huizeriand 18 unseaworthy it will be the first in- stance of the kind that Mr. Schumann bas Leen called upon to deal With, The treaty laws between Germany aud the United States ploinly pornt out the course to ken where a disabled vessel ts in pork ‘Then the exports, and oo their report if slip UNDUE IuF Bervice be orders We requie away Maes site ropairs, If the complaints ure proved to be irivo- jous the penalty 10 for the com: ix months? imprisonment in Ger- ent the United 5 Dit interfere uniess the eoulty h shore, of wales parties uot belonging to t cvucerved in it, With the Hoizerland, howe caso 18 dierent, as the Vessel requires ne pupers trom the cousuiate here aud cam set bai irow Savdy Hook Whevever tho captatu plouses, If the ion appear to be in the wrony they can be sent back to Gormany lor pi imposition, If they are right then the captain i! | at liberty to procure other sailors and proceed on bis voyage. Fromm tt of affairs the mVestigae hon to-morrow will prose over 1uLerest BUTLER'S CAMPAIGN. His Headquarters in the City of Boston. HHS HENCHMEN ANONG THE OILERS. What the Manager of His Canvass Says. VIEWS OF DEMOCRATS PRO AND CON, aeeiiemertiaecleaaie Bourox, Mass., Sept 20, 1878. G al Butlor’s campaiga headquarters are ut No, 12 Pemberton square, in a tall end stately brick build- ‘ng that was once the private residence of a blue- blooded Massachusetts tamily. All the buildings in the square, most of which have bowed fronts, were formerly private dwellings, but are now cooverted imto offices for lawyers, patent agoute, engineers, arcbitects and various other professional people, Only asinglo private house remuiny, and this is oc- cupied by ancid gentleman to whom the pluce is ‘endeared by a residence of many years and who can- not be induced to tear himself away from it, Hero the most exclusive set 1u Boston society lived a qual ter of a century ago. Istrolled into Butler’s head- quarters at No. 12 to-duy, and 1 thought to myself when I peeped into the front parlor on tho sec- ond floor if the original occupants could only come back to seo the motiey set there as sembled bow red with astonishment their bluish blood would turn, Conspicuous among those seated around the room was a young colored man, dressed in the extreme of fashion, bis silk hat set to one side, his capacious hands encased in lavender kids and bis ample foct in patent leather pumps. He wore a yel- low seart, with a red coral piu, and was altogether perbaps the most sumptuously aitired darky in Bos- ton, “1 m \,”? he said, in a swellish accent, to another, but a far more modest looking negro sitting next him, “to vote fo’ Gen/I Butiah, by Jawge, and git all de gen’imen of my pussonal acquaint- ance to vote de similior way; but’ 1 want dis yere secatary to know dat de cullud vote aint agoin’ for nuffin’, an to toll de Gen’! dat we’se after de stamps as well a4 de white folks.” HIBERNIAN MENCHMEN, Thore were somo unmistakably Hiberolan faces in the crowd, nd all were of the working cluss of peo- ple. Copies of Keuroey’s paper, The Open Letter, and a labor organ, called the Standard, wore picati- fully distributed around the room. A pile of packages, containing Butler’s letter of response to his nomination tor Governor and his speechos in Cong: and elsewhere on the greenback issue, stood in one cornor, and in another sat a weazen-faced man with s grizz'y mustache, scratch- ing away at a.sheot of paper, taking down dates and places of meeting of different Butler clubs im the city. “be Sixth ward will givo the Gincral a rousin’ vote,” said a hardy son of toil to the weazensiaced man, “but I think if we bad the laste bit ef money to buy @ banner an’ put upa platform an’ bire a band, an’ mebbe hist a liberty pole, we'd do a thrifle bet- ther.”” ‘Yes, we'll seo about that,” answered the weazen-laced man, who aidu’t soem by bia looks to seo his way to getting hold of a solitary dollar bill While there were several strikers among those pres- ent, there wore others, especially of tne Irish class, who wore honestly bent on working con amore for the General’s interests, and indeed this class is so numer- ous that the cost of conducting the campaign will be comparatively nil, BUTLER’ CAMPAIGN MANAGER, In @ small room off the main parlor, where the crowd sut and talked, the General’s secretary, Mr. McDavitt, wus found busy disposing of callers, Mr. MeDavitt, who made such a figare at Worcester, 1a the manager of the Butler campuign, and all the details, along with the expenditure of the money, are confided to him. Ho is a black haired, pale faced man, with a large oye and wourved nose, and appears te have as mucb eonf- dence in bimself as he basin tho General. He suid the latter bud gone Wost aud would not return for about eight days. When ho comes back he will re- sume his specch-making througa the State. “Hag the General any purticular plan of opera. tions??? askea your correspondent. ‘go far as | kaow,’? unawered Mr. McDavitt, “Gen- oral Butler bas no particular pian of operations. The people bave calied on him to be their nominee tor Governor and be has responded by aco»pting the pomination, He proposes to go through the State ou a stumping twur and leave tno result to the ballot box. ‘This 6 bis only plan of operations,”” KSTIMATE OF BUTLER’S Vora. What vote do you ostimate te will receive t”” ‘estimate he will receive 70,000 votes, 35,000 republican votes and a greenback vote of ut least 35,000—total, 140,000, which is more than we need. The greeuback voir, as near as wo figure, is about equally divided between tho two old parties, The regular greenback orgunization num. bers 7,500 votes, but we caleulato that there will be four mea vote the greenback ticket to one that 1s en- rolled in the organization, There are thousands in the State who for various reasons don’t wish to be known ag greenbackers wuo will go tbe ticket when ine time comes.” ‘THK GENERAL'S RITTER OPPONENTS. “What class of peepie ure WOst bitter ia thelr oppo- 1 t rd money men of both parties acd the so- called leaders of the democratic party. They are afraid if he 1s elected Governor be would become too prominent us a Presidential canuidate tm 1680. ‘They Hud no fault with bis platiorms of reform, and many of them doeiare he would muke un excellent Gov nor, ‘There are ulsv republicans opposed to Dim, bo- cause they know it he should be clecied he would ex- pose the corruption that bus existed in the party ip tue State for the last twenty years.”” WHY BUTLEK 18 LOOKED DOWN OX. “What is use of the Opposition of tho Beacon ‘Hill aristocracy f” “Phat opposition dates back a good many years unfortunate u# not to bave 4 grew outol the fact that he came of very pour parents who could not afford to send their sou loge. He wentt Institution tu Lowell wu could work part of the time and meet the expenses of his board and tuition, Alter his admission to the Bar be championed the cause of tho poorer classes and came io coutlct many times with the largo cor- porations of the State, He bas never boeu known as @ corporation lawyer, though be hud ail (be oppor- {uoitics and every inducement to become such. His 8 clients against corporations ba’ Irequent and bi we corporations great majority of cases, by woat uro call bloods’ of Bostoun—meu who hold presi- anu oth: men are also down on But cial views, Which to them are rank beresy.”” SATISVIRD WITH THK DEMOCRATS. “Is the Goueral satistied with the action of the Democratic Convention ut Worcesor?”” “He is, and leeis very grateiul for the pomipation, Tt exprosses tho contideuce of the democratic f tue State in bim and tn his ability to reform have so long oxisted bere.” G REPUBLICAN TIOKRT, “How docs he regard the republican pomii “Ho went away belere the nomination pounced, but in my opinion it ts the sirengest tuat could be placed in the Held, and yet 1 uuderstaud there is 4 sirong feeling oy the bard meney men of both purtios luoking toward # fusiot settle on a candidate, as anything to b the cry.’’ tions ?”” HE PERLS WELL “How does the Gunerai feel about the situation?” “He feels that he will win, and ia the language of Shakespeare, bis ‘soul ts 1 arms and eager Lor the tray.’’ THK TOLLERS FOR BUTLER, Ali day long tuere wore calle tao Butler head- qu y had an interest tur the people, nove that bud the appear oo Of belonging tot eli-vo-do Classes, wore those of tue totlers who live by the sweat of their brow, auc who believe in Butidr with an im. plicit wud unquestioning faith, ThE GKKAT TOPIC OF TALK. Batior 1 the great staple of walk im this city, Pieuty of democrats are to be met with at every turn who denounce him just us bitterly as the republicaus, some of the moat ru! Ad experienced politicins way 1 18 IINpORSIvlE win, They tigure it outin this the total yore of the State is in round numbers 240,000, Of this 100,000 18 democratic aod 140,000 republican, Allowing Butior a tib- eral «pull of 70,000 vo on the uemo- crauc and 30,000 on the republican strength, his total Voto would be 100,000 «gaiust 30,000 rexu detmueratic aud 110,000 republican, Butler is given « ample ullowanee ip these Ogures, lar more than ho is likely lo recorve, ad yet tt 1s demonstrated that he caunot win, ine whole repudlicaa vote will be drawn out, for the party was wever in better (rim, and ite mind is tnudo up that Butler sball and must be cruehed. purty of ibe 10 poling It invor party would not Butier tu the party, sult many ub ‘Thougu b hosts of em 8, ud wany a mao 10 this oF Buvier may win, if it wore the etarch out of the proud, bluceolovded aristocracy of Heacou Hill, ViRWS OF DKMOCRATS WHO WANT TO WORCRSTRR. Alvus (he deiczavos W tue Democratic Vouveation a. V. Lynde, sa'd yesterday that be went to Worcester without in- structions, but when he saw oud heard tho act f the Siace Central Committee, which he thought savored ef bulidozing, be made up bis wind how to act. He thougot toe committee nade & great mistake im try- ing Wo run the Convention to suit themselves. He was of opipion that the Mecnantes’ Hall Convention was regular ip every respect, ang that Geucral Butler was tu be accepted as the regular nominee of the Conven- Hen. Colonel A. A. Haggett, of Lowell, aid that while he Was not in sytmputby with the inavner iD which the ball was secured, be could not consistoutly recognize tbe right of tbe the Cunventio: snail and who by custom been conceded the privilege. Gen without doubt nomiuated for Governor by 1! ruts of Massachusetts, und the best thing t crais can do isto beal all diflerences, accept the result of the Copvention aud work harmoniously for the election of their canaidate. Mr. John E. Fitzgerald, of Boston, head of the local domocracy, beheves the State Cevtral Commitice uwcted exactly right, and that the action of the Coo- Vention had no more legulity than the actien of a mob, It was muscle azainst right aod justice, As for Butler he had no chance whatever of being olected, vo watter how many democratic vetes be received. Whatever chauce he had before—and he did not think he ever bad apy—be bus far Je w, for bis course bas united wudemboldened the republicans ana will draw out all their vou Mr. Joun K. Tarbox, of Lawrenee, suid that the paraliel between the action of the Stute Ceatral Com Tmitiee and thas of the Louisians Returoieg Bourg was perfect and eqauily iniquitous, aud deserved un equal Fotribution in the interests of public morality, Th he says wet from any friendship tor Butler, whose nomination he did not advise, but as a triend of com- mot fairness and bonor. Weautever ubjection may be mado to the regulurity of the Convention that assumed to actat Worcester it doubtless reprevented the mn) or public sentiment of the demoorais of the State. William D, Nortnend, of Sulem, said the meeting at Mechanics’ Hull, Worcester, was the regular au- thorized Convention of the democracy. Mr. Avory, the chuirmun of the State Central Committee, cam juto the hall and said:—“I have to unuounce that the Democrauc Central Committee met at their rooms at the Bay State Houso at bt o'clock th morning, and after remuining lo session somo time decided to adjourn the Conveution wil next week (Wednesduy), at Faneuil Hull, soetou.” Now, what right had they to du this? action of the delogates called for upon the subject. He submiticd 100 OF proposition Lo the delegutes present Jor weir action. The claim, then, of the majority of the State Ceutral Committee, i tbat they had the right to adjourn the Couventivn without cunsultation with or approval of the delegates to tac Convention. Such a position needs only to be stated to show the avsuruity of (he claim ol the majority of the State Contrul Committee, Mr. Francis Piunket, of Worcester, a well known democrat, said the act of tne State Central Comittee ‘Was one of usurpation aud revolution. ‘The Convo: tion itself 18 the ouly judge of whom its members shall be. The committee acted ua if it was determined torulo orruin, and were bound to have their own way despite the wishes of the majority of the dele- gates. ‘They way have their owu way and see how many will be leit of them. '@ propose to stick to the platform adopted on tho 17th, and they muy bave as imany committees’ resolutions aud mutual admiration societies as they wish. Major M. J. McCafferty, of Worcester, said uo other body than the Cvnventivn bad the right to say whetber it should aujourn or uot. In otber words, the whole power of uction wus ia the Convention tuself, Ifthey were authurized the committee could itiverate the Convention trom place to place all ovor the State until patience and pockets wero worn out uud the will of the people deteated. Tue Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts nas met and traos- acted the busiuess ofihe year, The meeting iu Fun- curl Hall next Wednesday will bo a bolt und outbing more. Air. Pat Co!lins, an active democrat of Boston, said Butier bad dug bis political grave Dis Outrageous utsempt to capture the Democratic Convention. Tne whole procoediugs of the so-cailed Convention were a mnere turce, because they bad neithor order, mothod nor, above ail, legality, and they would nut bind the democratic party of the State any moro than & set of resolutions passed by any ordiuary mob, ‘The Con- vention ncxt Wodnesday at Faneuil Hall will give tho true voice of the democratic party. It will be har- monious and dignified, und at wall assert the time hon. ored customs and principles of the party. Mr, W. GC. faliman, of Somervilic, a delegate to the Worcester Convenuon, said, in taking possession of Mechagics’ Hall the Buticr faction \ook the only course that was left them, and in doing 60 simply beat the State Committee at their own game. the Copventivu wus pertectly regular in every respect. He ielt no douvt of the triampbaut election of But- jer. Ho was really surprised to se2 what an uprising of the masses there was. It the Fapeuil Hall conven- ton accepted Tulbot he felt sure that Buticr would be elected. Butler was the man to reprosent the masses m the = gubernatorial obair. He bad confidence in his integrity, will wad perseverance, aud believed, It elected, be Would carry 0 the | duties ended upon the election of temporary chairman of Convention, He p dicted that General Butler would be elected, und he would not dislike seeiag bim Govoraor, provided nis election was by the people's wail. Mr. Henry Tiusicy, of Camuridge, said he could not understand how democrats could vote for such a mau as Butler, especially alter bis Wagrant conduct toward tbe Democratic Convention at Worcester, Ho was saticfled the action of Butler ou that occasion would bury him under a load of obioquy that no public man ever suffered betore. Mr. Wilhem Tayler, of Boston, who was at the Convention, sald it was proporly orgaaized, and was opened by a member of the State Contrut Committee, Conceraing the success of Katicr he thougnt 1t was bard to gay anything dellaite at present. He will havo the best part of the democtutic voir, & @ repablicin ballot und a large independeat vote. The people who think will vote for Butler, a8 they wish to see reform in the ndmiviatration of Stato affairs, whilo his lettor’o! acceptance to the petitioners was strong democratic platiorm for the people Wuen he citizens of the State eee the position the delegates took, and that they would not come jn ander ring Tule, 1¢ wiil bave a good effect iu bringing men to vote effect on the purty, Mr. Taylor ail cleared away ses they would of the people respoct them, and thus the party would be ssrengthencs, Mr. John M. Way said tuat the Worcester Conven- tion wus ag fair as any ever bela, In getting into the hall no doors were broken 10, no windows were vroken: there was no breaking intothe ball. Tho Butlor men did not act trom impure or vase motives, but only to matotuin their rights, The leaders of the democratic purty ure all old political hucks, who have ‘own way for the past twenty years. They fare not to be toudied touny longer. 1 think General Butler the ablest man in the Cominooweslth, and, if stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars State politics would not imtertere witn tho duty of Genorai Butler 10 the matter, NORTH CAKOLINA SENATORSHIP. A TRIO OF DISTINGUISHED ASPIRANTS IN THE FIELD—MERRIMON, VANCE AND CLINGMAN— #KETCH OF THK CANDIDATES—TARIL TAC~ TICS AND PROSPECTS. Rauiag, N. C., Sept, 14, 1878, Upon the Legislature which was elected by the people of this State om the Ist day of August lust devolves the import nt duty of selecting the successor to United States Senator Augustus 8, Merrimon, whose term of office expires on the 4th day of March, 1579. The Legislature meets in December next, and will enter upon the Senatortal contest in the second wook Of its session ; but the Aight for the distinguished huoor bas already commenced, and a deep Interest 18 beli manifested in tt all over the State, The promive aspirants and, indeed, the enly oes, are the present iocumbent, Mr. Merrimon, Governor Zevuion b, Vance and Gen ‘homas 1. Clingmaa, of Buncombe county, all demoorats. SENATOR MERKIMON, ‘This gentieman is very unxious to bo his own suc- cessor, aud points to nis six years’ record in the Sen- ate, now being closed, with « considerable degree of prido; and weil may be, for be hus made an upright and able Senator; but bis record just previous to bis elevation to the Senate is not #0 satisfactory to the democratic porty, which basa tremendous majority in the Legisiature. He was tho democratic candidate for Govornor in 1872, when it was believed that the election 10 this State in August of that yoar would ip a measure docide the national coutest In November following, and being defeated by Tod R. Caldwoll by a vory slim majority im the hottest canvass ever known in the old North State ho was taken up by the ti-Vance democrats ef the Legislature und offered in caucus their candidate for the United States Senate, © contest in caucus Was @ loog and bitter vile, the eoventeen supporters of Merrimoa making & fight whieh, for bittermes® and stub- boro endurance, was somowbat remarkable, Fiuaily Vanco was declared the nominee of tho caucus, where- upon the seventeen tuithial Merrimouites bolted and the next day’s session of tho Legisiaturo combined with the republicans theromn—who were willing to vole tor anybody to detoat Vance—aad elected Merrimon by five majority im violatton of tho edict of Kiug Cau. ous, Merrimon accepted the high bonor thus con- ferred, and bas sought to Justity bimsell in the ot the democrats by charging that the caucus was @ packed affair in Vance’s interest, and about the time of the adjournment of Congress las tater he issued wu circular persooally attacking Vanco und justilying intimated very plainly her proud of his beiting record and wa! pot at all loth to try in, This circular undoubt- edly bad a dumaying effec io party ip the last eloction, many for legisiative aud sMmaliof bowors regardt ae oncouragment irom bigh auspority to lauore marty discumine. bolt pare Rowress. ne | sum 1aauous aud run 1agependentiy for any office thes might wich, Independent democrats took advant. of it in nearly every strong democratic county, jew of thom were successtul, aed in other ia- mon 18 not and scarey politicians are composed. ere- fore, changed his tacties, jumped squarely into party traces aud 18 pow actively canvassing Lho State osten. sibly in the interest of democratic Congreagional eandidute, but really looking earoestly to his ows laurels, WHAT MERRIMON’S ENEMIRS CHARGE. His oppouvents charge that the Senator is responsie bie for the present demoralized coudition of the party, aod that bis course ta ignoring caucus bebests in 1872 and bis implied deflauee of party discipline ag payed in his widely ‘tbuted al: say 1mpui bands of party tuat be has so grievously wroagod and #0 seriously injured, old Coulederate soldivs jon, for it is bard it under the baunor of & man who was not during the waria every reapect one of them. Tue Sepator’s war record is not as brilliant as that of either of bis oppenents, for the Dighest position he evor neld uader the Confederate government was that of a captaincy in the commissary department, and old soldiers are always »“dead down’? ‘op commissary men. ARGUMENTS OF 113 FRIENDS, Iv 18 urged by Merrimou’s fri denied by his mies, that be is an able mau—s made an uvexceptionadie Senator, And has as cleur a democratic record as any membei of the Senate; that be has been there six yoara ‘*learoed the ropes,” and is therefore competent u take a position anu wield sa jufluence in the nex Supate utterly impossible with either of bis competh tors; and that, in short, bo is, in the present stage o national affairs, the only mau ia the State fully com petent to til tho bill. GOVERNOR VANCE. ‘rhe old war Goveruor is, a8 usual, a candidate fos Senatorial honors, aod, in the opinion of your eor TresponJeot, huids the ae track in the race, thougt the opposition 1s strong against bim, aud many regu lar democratic members wad all of the independents 1n the Legislature prefer most any prominent man to Vance, The Governor 1 sprewd politician and knows how to work nis wires, His bi been ever since the democratic party gain cendancy in this State, set upon a seat in stati te, and baving been, ashe and claim, twice cheated out of bis proper place ia that bouy, the keen edge of uis Senatorial ambition 18 all the more sharp, aod { ao vot think Vance will ever b¢ happy until be loilg on a cushion tn the Senate Chamber of the nation. He was elected ts 1871 to succeed Abbott, republican, but wal not allowed to take his seat, he baving tailed t¢ get forgiveness for the pal took 10 ui jar of the rebellion, Of course hv had to rosign, he pres ent Senator Raasom was elected. La 1872, woea Jonna Fuol’s term expired, Vance was uipased by the democratic ciucus, but ted in the Legisia- ture by Merrimoa through a collusion of M: 120 bolting democrats witn republicaas, as above do- taned. Vance 1s bus been popular with the people, and it 18 believed that no over maa in the State could have veaten Judge Settle, the republi- oun candidate for Governor iu 1876, as Settle was not only the strongest man with bis own party, but was the only prominent republican who ceuld count on uny demvcratie votes. ‘heir canvass of the State was thorough and warm from the beginning to the ud wound up with the election of Vance by an helming majority. ‘VANCK’s TACTICS. The Governor hay uow served asarly two years of bis term, aud knowing oves say he Das wade good usd Of bis position to pave bis way to the Senate, Know. ing that bis strength was witu the people he vir tually transferred the ight tor Bational honors trom halla to the hustings As a reform Goverpor be inaugurated the presont State Agricul tural Department, an institution immensely popular with the sturdy grangers all over the State. Ho hag tuken un unusual interest 10 reviving the University of North Carolina, ome of the stute’s most be. loved pets. He algo established there a State Normal school, which bas taken the people by storm. All these schemes and others of smaller maguitude ure known as Vance’s progressive measures. Tho Governor “swuag around the circle’ no little In getting theso measures on fvot und 1s Ho made specobes to the gran, ud scratched thoir backs; vi the Untvereity aud started the Normal Schoo! himeelt; got u vill through the Logusiature aiding aud encour. Aging the vust fisberies in the csstorm part of ibe Stace, und then w the ishermen; aid all in bis power to push aloog tho sysiem of narrow gauge raliroads 16 the western part of the Stute aad weat aad drove the first spike in several of them with much éclut, und, tually, wuon the circle was completed, the | tiwo hud ‘avout come to held county conventions to nominate candidates for the Legisias ture, wad whut thout Why, whorever *‘Vance’s pro- had beeu put in working ordet Jegisiative nominees to Vote for Vance for Senator, first, lust and all the time, Were curried uoanlmously and with wuch gustotn couventions [he result of this 1s that pearly ball of the regular jocruaic meme bers cloct tu the Legislature are instructed by their constituents to vote tur Vance and they dure not dis- ovey. Merrimon’s friends made bitter war on tata mode of wireworking, and are still denouncing it. COUNTER CHARGES. Tho Governor's vppovens cuarge bim with untae electionveriug yonerully, and say De is attompting bis eld game of packing tue caucus. They say also that Vance makes « good enough Governor and ought the peopie uavo put eruor ter tour y: the gubernatorial chair that long, and bi 14. His eneuites in the west attuck bis war record ag Governor, while tn the east they object te him oa accouut of bis anti-war aod Union sentiments ais churged with beimz too lenient with oriminals and wo free w tue use of the pardoniug power, but what tbat Bus to do with bis fitness for Senator bid Irieuds can’t see, and 80 1t goes, Vance will certainly £0 into the caucus with the largest loliowing, aud | twink wilt be the nominee, thougn Merrimoa may 0 Kill off Vanoe, but if, when 16 will be date reierred to, positions, Hi meinber of Congress, and, at th war, was a United States Senator by Ho leit Washington witn iis Southern entered tho Couiederate army usu capta’ to u brigadior general bofore its close. G man is & man of sound sense and matare judgment, bat 8 Vory old fogyish and uuprogressive, Io the army be received, on account of these traits, the soubriques of “Vid Granny Chogman,” by whic he is kuown vow ail over the State, No thing would please Clingman more than to bt @ severe thora Vance's flesh, ior bates tor Governor with Vauce’s lack of sentative is of the opinion that the Generui’s ouly chance istocome in as a compromise a wi + shall be found that the Vance-Merrimou Oghs will en in the beheading of both of tuem oF the disraptios of the party. Ihave tnus given the status of the Senstorial com test in this State, which biracting no small amoual of wl on aud interesi—oi interest, because with the Legislatare, divided as itis, it is hardto figure out the result beloreuand. HOW THE LEGISLATU The joint ballot will suow 97 io jemocrats, 1 greeubuck who is a democrat, aud 62 repuviicans. Of tho 9 regular domocrate ut 70 are Vance in caucus, bi iy caucus In the election, whatever that may be, and the Dalauce are unpledged. It Merrimen succeeds dividing the democratic caueus aud waking a bolt, at he did iu 1872, be can reasonably count upou the votes in the legislative balis of all the republicans und independents, the republican piatiorm being “anybody, uvt excepting the devil,” to beat Vance, tho ladependeats baving « fellow feeling fot which will maxe them wondrous ki! tands r to get another y ERVIRW OF THE St But tak! 9 ovusideration your cer. Texpuadent docs Merrimea can contre walliciont votes to tl to make a respectable bolt; for, mind you, aircady pledged 1o Vance are toiluencs of Lieuteusat Go oustorn men will be exerted lor Vance, Jarvis ts regarded us the most popular man in the 14 can control the eust’s reprosentation. He 4 would like to be thea, | am persuaded that Vance has tl aa “Ss at pragont, aud | Kuow he ts surewd enough to hel it to the end, ‘The truinp card which the Vance me ing is party fealty aud the dangor of 1 4 pointing to fourful inroads made by the tnaes peudeuts at the last etection and the number of dependent Cougressioual aspirants now in the floid, This logic 18 having u gvod effect lor Vance, and nence the necessity for Morrimon to go out belore the people, “SOW I VOS (NOT) HAPPINESS.” “New Fritz’ Joseph K Emmett may have bad on: casion tw shghtly vary his beaming exclamaty “Now 1 vos happiness,” when ho yesterday received notice of ao attachment issued against bis property trom the Marine Court, at the suit of John K. Rogers ‘The Jattor claims that “riz” owes him $840 ‘ior f and services!’ doue for tu New York nd “olsowhere, as yout 24 of Januar; allegation tiat de! this State, Piasntil turwber atleg tas $1,500 now ou deposit in Fuole sod Thomas L. Doaneilly, lessees of the Gr: Opera House, and aiso a wardrube, all of whiek bio Lo Attwchment; Lat defondaut is abeut to louve the State und take this property with bin, aod thus Without Ao atuichment he believes No would lose bie claim, Unless « it is made the Poole tu will no douse b plaoutt nose of ti