The Sun (New York) Newspaper, June 13, 1871, Page 2

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1871. Rmpire City Wink We von’s Great 400-Mile Walk With Ay. Theatre—No Name, Joillen Gravd Lyoee. Mind Mice FARMERS’ AND MECHANICS’ CANDIDATE, TNE GREAT AND Q00D HORACKH x TEXAS ——— Mayor THall’s Annu This document, which is published in other part of this paper, covers the opera. lions of the City Government from May 1, From its array of 8 we learn that New York Island has 1870, to April 30, 1871. Batist 1 Message. ad NEW YORI GREELEY, An area of twenty-two equare miles and twenty-nine miles of water front; that the Streets, roads, and avenues measure four hun- dred and sixty miles, two hundred and ninet, one miles of which aro paved, and ono hundred and sixty-nine miles unpaved ; Vhat to Pght this area, water front, and Kreets, nnetocn thousand gas lights are ‘purned every nig + at the public expense ; that beneath the surface of the city there are three hundred and forty m water pipes, ond two hundred and seventy. Bve miles of sewers; that one thousand horse railway cars, two hundred and sist: weven of Croton omnibuses, about twelve thousand licensed vehicles, and as many more private ones constantly traverse our thoroughfares ; that the resident population of the city is 012,252 souls; that during the ten months 284,000,000 worth of foreign merchandise was imported into this metropolis, and that during the same period New York city paid the Federal Gov ernment $120,000,000 for duties on imports, while the value of exports, exclusive of preceding Mry 1, 1871, specio, was $25 of fixed vi property of the city is $1, the taxes for the year $23,000,000, * This ie certa 000,060; that the amount uation for the real and personal 75,000,000, and oly an imposing array of facts, and shows what a great city our muni for, keep in repatr, sustain by taxation, protect by policemen, cipal officials have t) cai firemen, and sanitary iegulations in the present, while they also make pre its more important future. for the future .of the city. om for Mayor Hall is emphatic in his declarations as to prov If twenty mil- lions, he says, could be expended wit on n the next three years, Now Yuk city, at the ex- Piration of ‘hat time, would be entirely ronovated, and the increased valua on thereby given to assessable proy erty would almost immediately 1 hten the taxation Ly better distributing it. amount of the city aud county debt is over $80,000,000, and the value of the property owned by the y is $267,000,000. oy Larden of ‘Tue total makes the eredit of the city #0 good that the Mayor and Comptroller find it the easiest of their duties to negotiate both at home and abroad, in small or Jar some premiums, all the bonds authorized tho last Legielat sume, and at hand a One Term, Professions in favor of the One-Term doe. trine, especially idency, aro as unstatle as the principle iteclf rests on Buch has long be water; y aspirants to the Pres bat a solid basis. n the conviction of the great body of the people, for only once dur ing tho last thirty wht years have they departed from it, and that was in the case of Mr. Lixco~n in the very crisis of the rebellion, making his retlection as much of &n exception to the general current of events as was the rebelli itself, The two-term doctrine was ov 1°40 in the person of Me, Van ft will never again be revived, exe circumstances as unpre: which eurr row Bonen, aud pt under dented as th unded the reélection of LIxcoLn Indeed, 80 thoroughly is it fixed in the pub. defeat of VAN BuKEN has any party ventured to re. t, that never ite Pr of Liz infatuated as to instan COLN, ! Klux Klw He shou America Joes and his conelus! The one forced Presid has scandalizod his of ous experiments in mat term pr bocanss for any at who Las al:nod people scout his prem th 18 AS preposter ought to yeara past every ren Gna T can leat, except in this onc % set 12 Isit in the vain hope of bringing himself within the exception that he has Leen trying to get up a sort of rev.val of the rebellion under the guiso of putting down the migerable Ku Ll know that the us, 3 ne base bo en mination by trying danger raof national policy by prostitut ng his patronaye, and by draw ing around him an army of rotainers whero with to secure his personal ends, This is especially true of Tyner, Pisner, and JouNsoN, who respec vely couval 5 @ountry with the annexaton of Texas, the tepeal of the Missouri Compromise, and re- tixtance to the policy of reconstruction, and all of whom debauched the public service by teaching their officeholders that their chief business was to plot and work for t Domination of the man to whom thoy were lndebted for their bread and but What is notorionsly trae of the dine of Guant, the campaign of ius be avowed himself in favor of the onatern Aoctisne, And yet, hardly had ho crossed the threshold of the White House than © wont back on his pledge, turned bia eyo t 1 the succession, and be Ran, first covertly, then openly, aud now shamelessly, to make everything eubscr vient, Loth in the #h the bestow alike renominati: diehoncet and dier from @ reluetant le to arty San distracted ¢ tnd ho got up his abeurd whome, Having geriovsly yeas und t and ng of lus poliey and ° 8 wring @ ‘To this Domingo Iraders and the Republican masses by the ears over this jobbing measure, he was forced, apparently at least, to abandon it. Then he turned to the Ku-Klux, tried to convince the people that we were on the verge of anew civil war, hurled a message at Congress, and finally got from it a bAl which is nugatory for all practical purposes, 80 far as concerns its ostensible objects, but whose machinery may be so managed as to secure him a few Southern delegates in tho nominating Convention of next year. with Grant himeelf, hie sa. gaclous supporters know that the Ku-Klux already turning out to be as dreary 8 failure for Presidential purposes as the San ever it may bi scheme Domingo investuaent Not only has Grant distracted the coun- try and demoralized schemes to secure bis renomination, but he aims to coerce it through the machina: tions of the most numerous set of office holders that ever fed at the public crib, Every one of them, from Maine to Califoroia, was either originally selected for this pur pose, or fa now taught that this degrading work is lis appropriate calling, and that hi retention fidelity, plics his House le relies for obtaining a vi and disinterested Republicans in the Ni of vocation, It jon, place depends zeal, and skill with is his party tional Nominating Convention, other reason than this, the patriotic and hon- est members of the party should rise up and enforce upon Grant in the Convention the one-term principle; and if his household troops prove too strong for them there, they should adjourn the battle to the polls and overthrow him there, Gen. Gnant, who was to pass through the city this morning on his way from West Point to Long Branch, had not the grace to come down last evening and be present at meeting, although Mr. Greenery, with characteristic liberality, has attended several GRANT meetings. the great GuEELEY Why He Wasn’t Theres Gen, B, F. BUTLER was in the city yester. day, but he is so bottled up by Grant at present that he did not dare to attend the GUEELEY meeting. ee Waut of Courtesy. —o- pally in the street. We supposo therefore that the Hon. Wr- L1AM M. TWEED, in his capacity as Street Commissioner, ney be presumed to have bi constructively present. USELESS S. GRANT. ———— The particulars of the school whippi case in Penvington, N. J., which we print else —— Constructively Present. he Gueet meeting last eveuing was so large that it was necessarily held princi The Greatest Walkist. The way Honack Gneevey is walking over the course beats Weeron out of sight ————— OFFICE-HOLDERS’ C4 For President: where, are somewhat interesting, that the Re case, as it stands, is in The Albany Daily Evening come decidedly the most spirited and interesting ——— Dr, Haxton whipped four boys who richly merited whipping, and whipped them hardor ti that he has not the moral courage to tell the people the truth over his own signature. be intended to, but & painful one, poper publisned at the State capital. by the Hon, T. C. Catticor, formerly Speaker of Mr. Catuicor is a man of ability a scholar of rare acquirements. pleased to learn that the prosperity which the enterprising publishers of the Bening Times de- and improving the the Assembly. The advantage of d tor enlarging already ness prince Boston. Hou wri ott manuf. for any damage or loss caused by fire. occurred in the House of Correc' belonging to this Claims for the va! and the Committee of tt whom they were referred requir destruction by given by part of the sure. a firm begun to he re. fire with di lur precautions. In British Guinea the cooly conducted that the in the Southern pail to the health of the coolies, among whom the rate of mortality from 18¢4 to 1868 exceeded The system of apprentice ship practically leads to perpetual bondage men are subjected to fincs personally maltreated in the most shocking man. four p ner, while the few cooly women who go there are \led to become concubines of the overseers ihe mon are given tasks beyoud thvir strength, and many of any indenture at all, and «le under the protection of recent, a yea bt more nor ry ina most revolting form, conducted British mowy of an eminent Ey Mracmont, Guivea for more than fi estes iat Bly A silver mountain has been Colorado near a tte ning Georgetown, Tho ore was frat * and afterward several voluabie lodes we rtruck. A correspondent ase wae o4 near a vill ret; 0 oULECR per te Ko, the discov: and as ag young amateur and —— wre States, m are In oh who was ¢ oon as neral professional OF surpiog money in the Mutual Bons bik 1h be SUB Builds set that sue! hokt te rt, the cooly systen than As the y could zed, ng business on busi les has recently been illustrated in A clothing firm, which was in the habit of sending goods to be manufactured at tho ¢ of Correction, with every package seat an invoice of the goods, which was uniform! en under @ printed notice reciting, among t things, that parties receiving goods to b ured would be held strictly responsible ion, J other firms were destroyed of the goods were presented, rd of Alderme Jed thut custom 1 that every party sending out goods to be manufactured should take the risk of damage or less by special contract the manufacturing party bad agreed to take that risk; but that tt notice had be it any objection on tors, even though 4 observed it, was equivalent to a contract to in The result was, the the claim of the first-named firm, amounting to 21,443, without litigation, while it rejected tho 2s of other firma which bad neglected simi ‘ommitiee allowed There is no d penalties, and are service without the slave trade ist Justice © years ending in 1863, Village known 6 discovered in the of the Denver News wa’ shOwn picees of mineral, averaging fr dred (o Wire hundred pounds eac mouniain,which Whep assayed gave areturn of from mountain was pot be long kept © news got ont Lucre Fuso to the place of old and miners, listance it rewombled a mammoth aus bill, . taken from this Adv, upon which he upon bodyguard, these Swiss cohorts of the White that Gen. Graxt mainly ory over ragacious DIDAIE. Times line be system iss gs inflicted upon th unfortunate immigrants are more flagraut than those which characterized the system of slavery laws, discovered ENDING TH WAR IN CUBA, pa heme A Telling Victory for the Patriots In Sa- bans Abajo—A Lone which the Spaniards cn Kepair—Spain Uttorly Exhausted, Correspondence of The Ban, Santiago pa Coma, June 2.—The patriots have within a fow days had ® real stroke of luck. The pluce of action was Sabana Abajo, at the junction of the roads of Guantanamo and Las Yaguas, A force of $00 Spaniards, commanded by Liout-Col. Miguel Pores, was completely routed, and saved themselves by a sbameful fight. The affair happened on the Wh of May, and soventeon men fell ab the Aret fire Of the patriots, Among the killed wore the lealer and one lieutenant, After being thrown into ¢on- fusion by the maexpected attack of the Cubsna, they attempted ounce to rally; dut,on being again at tacked in flank, they threw away their arms and fled in utter disorder, not stopping mntil they reached the town of Guantanamo, Miguel Peres ts the grestest loss whic the Spaniards coald have experienced in the death of anyone man in this department, Ho was a pare Indian, and one of the few left in the island, He was born in the village of Caney, close to this city. In the interior of this section of the island are the hannts of tho runaway negroes from all parts of Coda, Between this place and Baracoa, and also toward the north, are namerous of the haunts of these gelf-ireed slaves, who are kuown by the name of cimarrones, ‘They congregate to the nam- ver of (rom Ofy to two and threo buntred fa gach Of these pices, which aro culled palenques Those places are generally on almost inaccessible Is, far removed from any habitstion of white nien, ad in them tuese cimarrones have their pateves of corn, plantain, &e. Ab Lines they have been fn the habit of making raids on well-etocked farms ena running of with what cattle they wanted, Occa- sionally, when there raids were too frequen’ and threatened to result in atter ruin, the planters of the neighborhood would band together, and with cood gnides attack and destroy one er more ol thess pole.ques The runaway negrocs they felcom ree covered, because they would always know of the threatened danger beforenand, and would escape through the woods to the next one. Miguel Peres wus the guide par ercelience of the planters on all these excursions. Le was conver: nt with every mountain, every streom, every path, every defile of the country, and when'he ce tented to serve the Spauiards, the acquisition of p Vis services was beyond price. ‘His lows caunot be replaced, and yet, just to slow how Mitte the Span Jards care even for those who serve them best, nis Lody was leit on the #pot where he fell, Tuirty corpses were (ound Ly the Cabaus on the eceuy of action In the jurisdictions ef Holguin and Las Tunas the patriots are Aghting with erent bravery and enth ort wm, Groves Si the despatches of the Span.eh authoriges, in whieh, aithongn tMey seek to Inde tho whole truth, Leavy losses are acknow ledced. Within the three or four days past, the patriots bagged m body of movilized volunteers at Tisinicu, a the Government its’ end to aceoun or it, € world that wor iy nearly over, It is, but mot exactly us (bey Word nave people believe, Jun Migares, who was concerned in. the Cobre affair, bas been condemned to ten years’ Ward 1. bor. Lili and Engene Stable hive beco pardoned, and they are the only ones who have yet returued, and (hey Owe their salvation to the fact that the Preneb Consul elsimed them iw time Fix war versele guard the const from this port to Caye Crug : « lauding is feared on that wide Epein Suds i almost impossible to send more troupe; her resources are ,utterly exhausted, and ven the ministerial organs Coniess thet they Way out of the situaticn, In fact, the work (@ pearly coucluded, aud wo one knows this Detter thay §) ain, ne : A TERRIBLE HORSE DISEASE. Spotted Fever Taking Down the moat Saea- cious of pur Dumb Servante- Something for the Veterinarians to Study. Within a few weeks past an alarming and fatal malady has made its appearance in the stadies of some of the city railroad line By some is isp nounced to be that terrible disease keown us cerebro al Meningitis, or sometimes termed spoited fever, although many eminent veterinary surzeor say that it divers from that disesse in some essen. | requisites, It recently showed i'relf among the horses of the Second avenue line, where there have been over 13) cases, although not more than about 12 have as yet proved fatal. Tho first symptoms are manifesto! in the slow, Juggish movement of the mind quarters, aut in “tumbling. It is a disease of the mem>races over the wpival marrow, and beginning apparently over the lambar vertevrw, effecwually para’, whe bint quarters, ‘The distemper’ gradnally works {tsel/ along the epinel cord until it at last reaches the brain, when the fore legs give wa), and the Lorse ix eprived of the ase of bis limbs, The most remarkab e feature of tis disease in its Present aspect—one in whied it differs from the real corebro-spinal meningiile—is thet the horse con Unues to eat and drink os heartily es though he was well. hi appetive to incronse rather than diminish: a» the ease advarces. If the lio! when stricken with the disease is allowed to he down, he will never gel up. There(ore, jart a soon as numbness in the hind quariers is nouce!, the horse is suDperted by brotd cauvas ban is, aud ds 8400 as le Is able Lo * vo is turted loo ‘There ix no effectual remedy for this frightful malady yet discovered, External app ications are appiied klong the apinsl cord and tie horse is keot ne quiet as possible, Tt is ontagious or infec: tious, Where there are Eve Horses in a stable, two may be stricken down and the rest not siow te sligutont signs of the discase, Tt as appewred aur avenge weil as among the horses 0: In some localition it bax wept over the cou Corse, paralyzing in A day the farmer's foest The poor truckman, too, who ts 40 dependent woon his horse for Lis Hvelinood, has not beon exempt irom the f this epidemic, but in a‘ew hours bas b ved to aoe his horse stricken lown helpless and die. A gentleman in Westeuester county, out of seven One pores, hut lost five. Uy ts reported that another gentlenian on Long Islan’, fe owber of many fant trotting horses, hus already st six from sease Valued at $23).000, It nay ve noticed as a tingull nee that inci cerebro spinal meningitis, although not of & malig nant lorm, iv Drevailing exteusive.y fu many ports ot Virg A few years ngo ix! en persons died of this irighifal disease in Sutvlie coun'y, L dy woere it appeared iu its mort virulent form, 4 MEDDLBSOME POLICEMAN'S WORK eee Interference with the Industrious Potit- clans who were Operating in @ Weat Side Physicion's Mansion Dr, J. H, Gourlie’s residence at 26 West S enteenth street was broken into by Thursday morning at 8:3). T tronce by chirelling away part of the lock attacte to the iron gale to the b , and cutting one of tie panwis from the insids door: Mies roumner the nol burglars last ellecved their ou ia Brady, wLo occap of the family opening the ding on tho sidewal yard chiseliing Neen was aw window, nid two othe tthe lock, ‘ih finally yielle non the sidewalk entered (ho yar Appeared from view Hirady now desceuded to the second opened the window, and looks! for an oMcer longi she saw OMicer Joropts Hi, Mead ceows Stxtu avenue, She bailed Win without slaraing te Heighhorhood, ant told bin what ane had seen The officer went on tip-toe Ww the gute, ‘ound a nw represeuiod, abd that the burclirs Were in tie third story of the house, Keturuing to the Waik, ho rapped for nasisiance, and then, unaided, Joshet into the dark house, determined, if pomsibl, Fresi the burgiais, ut they had made their reparations for exic Uitouwh the back yard, and ut be souud Of the siurm Lad darted down stairs, umped through the window, breaking two very lnrse panes, ad chinbed the iences, escaping into Fifth avenue Officer Mead grappled with one of them, who awey, but was so closely pureued that Le time to take te course of toe others, aud ped aver the fence inte the back yard of Ly West Sateenth sireet. lie ten attempted to moke his Way turouxi the house, but was captured by Udiewr Mond. of police hid arrived, but wait on the midewaik, not knowing What Was golLK On, And Unobie Ww Fender aby wsrimtauce bo baw Intrepis OMcer Mead Tue burvlirs are desperadoes of the worst elm Kkened b and w one man + inside the one of then) un escaped Uuel, for Woou a rewur | 0. #00 wb fered. Ho gave bis came ae Wn Demorest, but has several aliases, His real umwe ts Wisdom Davia. ——— Gen, Sher! aud (he European War, limspguaurens Minivagy Division of Tue Mie soumt, Chica June 8 Dear Sint Your very wind letter of June 44 Juet reac od me throuch the Wer Leportnent, I ber leave to deny shear ticles publinved jn tue German mews} apers We, POrDUTLIDg te be opi i ‘on the German French cambaig Liave nol spoken one word taut Ges not iu my opiniin Leen complimentary bo the courage and good conduct Of biw German artaies, both ofcers and men, Aw Jority of these ardieles ure; uo shed ax you ay for political eftect, o# it would be a labor tank for me to correct then, L we our eran trends, Whose Kood opinion a wil L desire at w there rie Very truly yours, ch hae ny sige P. A, SHERIDAN, Lieutenont General t Ary Prorpe, Editor New Yor Demokrat — Emancipation to Bragilt, vo, May 23.—-The Brazilian Govern ehied to the Chambers ® btlh for te Hil sloven beonyiig to the Crown ; convict slaves aloo are to become free afer seven years’ imprisonment, their cwners to be indemel fied from the ireasur, ‘The bill meets strove opposition in the Cus a Cannibation in Persia, The famine in one district of Persia bas reached such w alate Moat the starving people Lave kuled wud eaten Oty children, Fe wtlicied ro Dx. G Rio Jax ment has pre emancipation o ESDAY, JUNE 13, 1871 THE MAYOR'S MESSAGE. Hats Irreperttate ane. ie ee “4 ‘ winiaven To the Common Council of tha Olly of New York. Saicbn, sha hed ‘nostpone! mecosbery timprovemmente: GaNvLEWEN oF rm Common Counctt: Tho City ‘consequence has been, 18 restored city RO¥: G@rament found It ef a legates of all such irresponsible OXiravegance and at the ame time a trustee for de- Charter requires an annual mosaage from the Mayor reports trom the City Departments, The inten | Miyhy' “io aur’ snccastors. “aad. wosterity. cao ng tion of the requirement is to furnish information to parer be postponed. fi Mayor neti nen Rd Our constituents, as woil as to afford material for | the “expenditure, to incur & iarger deot in Order the practical cobperation of city officials, to Improve the water front, repave #treets, fnieh be levards, supply defects ip sewage and drainage, aud Copies of there annual reports are bereto annex | py papers cr one rh and exyendisl ot bad Nay ef: ; Adape thoronghtareas ty” the fucare demande of (ho ie A wren oy HW panna 6 by Ha kreat American metropolis. A million of dollars their narrative or statistics to a period which best Agrees with (he aystem of work established by exch should be used for repaying the covblestoned streets Inthe districte eaet of Howery and south of Canal Sireet, AD equal eum ongnt to be expended for drain. fue and extenaing heads into the river. It i y Just that old portions of the city should have their Cro. department for ite own convenience. They are | {on maiperenewed, and obtain @ eoubied oF larcer thorough tn {nformation, and do not need eincidation | Aupply for water, Therefore however much the peo; le demand economy, and however many of bit of- or explanation, bad queef differ from a eeyor w , no ng to go on. Feed out a pro. Before proceeding to general comments, a fow | not piling, to go on. record without ® pro, Statistics should be premised. New York istand | of fores at as nerority bY: fad ineny of the tax a : niles anid _ | payers of today fist lay, ad to whore el orstie cry hus an aren of twenty-two equare miles and twenty. | Ofliais have ree) ohded with vconomical eudeavors, nine miles of water front, about three-fourths of which stretches along the Hudson and East rivers and the remaining one-fourth upon the Harlem river and Spayten Duyvel creek, The streets, Tf twenty muico¢ could be expended w/th o the ne three years, Now York city at the exp fime Would'be catirely Fenovated. And the Increased vaination thereny to aseentabie property, and the additional attractions afforded to trate ant ‘com: meree, eapeciaily at portions of tne city which have ‘ ‘® 100 of that - anne hundred en hewn "Jong neglected, would almost immediate y roads, and avenues measure four hundred and sixty | eit, et oceden of taxation. by. Dever distributing miles, Two hundred and ninety-one miles of those | fi" ‘Oucery ngnnt * planderers,” “jopbcrs." * nat Are paved; one hundred and sixty-nino miles aro | taxation,” « ratnons expenditure.” etc. haa been heard in New York for forty vents. Of eonree the outers. In crenses tn volume as the city expands; Dut aby ove Who doubts tne stereotype character of tue ert may Verify the facuoy cons ting i the Hitt rical Library unpaved. Nineteen theueand gas-lights are burned every night at the public expenee to light this aren, Water frout, and extent of streets, Beneath ¢ rontinvous flev of New York journas during the pe surface of the elty there are throe hundred and forty | Td mentioned. pinanee, 3 miles of Croton water pipes and two hundred ant Pie Comperesiee’s Repent enmah dawn co ne ane 6f toventy-fve miles of sewers, If we accept the Inet Federal census, the number of our constituents the faeal year, December 81, 1? Cliy Finwuece upon May day way be su nitalis the 00 up (huss f¥ nine hundred and frty-two thousand two CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, hundred and fifty.two. One thousand horse STATE OF TUR TREASURY trod yee Reerints from January 1 to April $0. 183).,.@14.801 948 67 railway cars, two hundred and tixty-seven | Heduct amount of over-araft Lec. si, 06.07 34 omniboses, obout tverive thousand licensed tes 8 Vehicles, and quite om mony more private | payment: —Warrants drawn... TOT IRM Vehicles continoally traverse the thoroaghfares, Sabject them to increasing wear. It is claimed that 40,000 horses are constantly siabled or used within Naiance in the Treasury April 80, 18 Dedt of the Cty. Frnded Debt December 91, 1970 8.018 76 81 the city limits, On the 2th day of Moy last, reliey- | Lese umount redeemed to April $0, i8ii,; "£1 452 00 ing officers of the ordinance equad, statione! on 147,65 SO 81 Broadway, opposite the City Hall, were instractet 01 to April 80, 1871, a* follows: to report the nambor of vehicles that from 7 oe! ock #00 (0 A.M. wotil 7 o'clock P.M. pated and reparred; 940,800 00 d Whey reported 16.246, exclusive of onnibuses mnt 100,000 00 niyiy bow greatacliy we fee Aitriet Court How epnir, #usiain by taxati Bisex coun ee 4 ct by policemen, fireme, OF sanitary reeula’ | Croton Waier Main Sek... 400,000 = 1.748.170 00) tions, and make provision for in reapect tw ita more Important future, During the ten months proved Outstanding April $0, 1871. cesese ATO ST Jog May 1, 1871, two husdred aud eiems-four mil Temrorary Debi, representing bonds ened to pro- Hop dolars worth of foreign merchandise. exclusive | vide + for payinente of awards .or opening 4 Of specie, Wak Imported into this city, During the | 804 for the expense of wiproving the @ period, New York city paid the Guverument | Amount Decemoer SIRI... oo bundred and twenty mifione of dollars for | ,Amonnt traned.te Ary Biiov tuties oo imports, and toe ¥aiue of exvorta, exclu Street improvement Fund Houds, 6,000 00~ 889,400 00 sive of specie, wae two hunired and dfy-oue mil Lone, Ontetandines.scesssereegcsecrenes 410,010.20 00 Certain peenifarities cf city ard {te people |. This deut is redechiabie frum asses mente to be cot may be serviceaoly recalled, New York ie the cos. | Meter: Revenue Donds, 1870. 870... 89,080,000 00 ry 18, 18H, Mopolitan cily of the globe, People Alities, wiany Jeslousies, and diverse ere f ali nation Ie inbabit ont nding December & it, Every evod and bod habit of Daman nature is bonds were redeemed January Ninstraved within ita limits, Every development of Revenue Bonde of 187. wisfortane, poverty, ¥ ce, bere be » Apri) $0, 1°71, 10 anticl found, To'the evil manifes well us the ex piisetion Of the taxie for | cellent ones of our ety 1h me coutrivute ; sia ave svat ‘ tT s0 It tea mistortane to New York population sua, | , 1h, Dundes are pavabee at staed periods, fram Oct. contributed to, as it is, by all parts of the world, develope within our city under incre THR BENKING FOND, i Every other etty # to have ite pul Sinking Fund for ihe hedenpuon of the Cty Dede. pit and ie eitizcus more prone from motives of ool] «ay ie inn, Dee. 1. tet Riba foysity, Mf wot to apologize for of sere, nt least to | increase sitice, to April 20, 1841 eid act kindly toward the defects aud faulte of tellus Kati Citiarns and -alers. Topegrap rciuy UNA pon ee arr | Culiar, Decanse it 19 long and narrow, gud lacks er. | Raymente, expenses. @s Poe, erence of inmediave rural suburbs, The se ate 10 ly tribuuary cities 4 frou New Caysted April 90, 1871 Tebhi e Dia wapheaate ot Naw’ Wotk oOeon kant nding Fund for Pnyment of Intere Heb iat'y business Innabitants of New York own or rene | %_Sndina Fund for Poymenter Interest om City Lede Creh palanee to credit of this fund, De- practically under the covernment of New York . +04 ‘orp City, and they are tore juipressed to blaue where | CF balance, Apri! %, 1871... they have no domestic Interests, Thus, while the THE COUNTY OF NEW YoRK. ment of comu.erce sud wealth, other references {rn Ralance hs t Dece EO, 162 Keo jis frm Jan Fy 210 ABT By i how eifficult tis to irame, und Wow vexatious it for rulers to try apd develop a per.ect or univer sa.ly acceptable Municipal government, Aller u quarter-century of iecisiauve experimente upon the covernuent of tits ely—all of which have been from time to tiwe compiained about aud Fr Paymente—Warrante drawn,....... Balance ta Connty Treasnry April 29, 1871, DENT OF THE COUNTY OF NEW TORK. Funted Debt-Amonn' 1 @ ruber $1, 1970, $20,981,890 00 Ues— the existing ina: Went into oper: nat Ronde ‘Wweaed ation one year ago, .We simply returned ten | * April $0. 18:1 owe to the original form of our city government. | Sew Court House sr a, Tie ayetein. le almost identical wah that wilch n four fithe of (ie cities iu the Union. Bui Wwe find been #0 long accustomed t) something 0 uh Orn has been actually receive ti Quarters as un innovation, It bas become in some partisan directions common eant bo eall the govern | om ment of New York a cespotisu:, What is this eys ian) 0 em? The Commonalty elect the Mayor, Execut've a duties are disirivuied Ciuewidied among many Bem w ueparimenta, The Mayor appointe the wads of de- | Amount feeued tn 2871 to April... b te, “These beads aypornt thelr snbordinates i nition Connell or lestslauive aeparcinent is ; near; om filed by election, The oliest legal tribanul AEOEN eopenieoeenen teat the Court of Common Pieas—is @ Court of lin Outstanding Api! % aie peachment, Leore which the Common Cou ee been superfelally ex cil way ‘preer charges against the Mayo: ihe Siuking Fuod or the Mayor ig lis turn prepar inst the | of the City Debt" are Lot caucelied, acd the prinetpal ety departments. How oversio. | of the debereducess oe babes Sud what sad): cu they apjroprial 9 of Cewnen the onject for which the tnd was oriein wile duccvered in t Kabiished Ie understood, It Witt be evident {hae coutrol ents must Continue Wut the whoie City nt cont ¥ for ligaidation inevusstency of malucaining bs Tdinavce erealing (he fund declares that the Alter, ee te averted, the. eaveca a rece ved. trot Cetlaln specifea sow 8 euy vor Hdetiouueed ihem tledged. to and cousuitnte Fuad f Ke. tid denoauee Woatde aud Com drinption (of the Cy Dept. wtih th tt have wiways exised Will 4 Our of New)} of shail c guy Oppusiiion wae ObIY to the ceptranged mel te libs haidieagldelald dia puiitine Bt ATbAuY Boanisaid Cycauimions of Local The sae ordinance directs the Comm CoKLFOL ANd wikhoN! aay Voice Wha'ever from local | invest ine monje wnicn. a muare On oficers of coasuimency 4a the appolutment Siovke, miuking ft umperaure, then, at Llogieal ang erroneous © oiuente have been made | tines, to give reference to the stock of the city ik avon ae recently authorized (nad what Is supposed tO | sane can he proe bow hovel) ode oF esuimaung, apport ‘The ordinsné Iw city Rud COUNLY Exe chased by tl evying by Lax pastorate examiia however, G2. ¥luces that the Fra syeiem is w cus y Sew Yo: y alway ring there arly be carried Ula i thie respects an abomalons powicicn’ I vety og Fund for tuo todeuytsow of due city Ported tem to woe Boards ch Supervisors, aud ‘ur Lie ord nance created a cumulative fund for aap: Dion the Alien lev ed taxes fo reek those stun gine omicce ta wit, thet rececantton or tin cite cone Herevotore Wee Jeg mato iaade up curtax vudgets, | gicuial itd 1) bot t tenled sn marcos whe, Ad sunny ein Aloany” Hut taese were « celled sia f A ene para ive'y dieresarded, Aud } Canis to pass ene 8 The net proceeds of ail reat e sold, and atl th wou thacwhen « tox levy ap earcd It wae accomba: | oer revenues Lo thie 1d. have beeu uiclady jiedved ¥ shorae of Joo Jatwants, who. turned | Yo qo be were of the eloca Cur putation for the Hidy by the loraf auiborities, sOUEbE to (and sine | pes m Der wock wt maturtiyy aud. the pode ) tupeee Upon ity! forined rural logialators. | ear not be wihdrawn Wihoul a viclalion of the PUD e the Metropoliiah Pouce law was euaccel | faiths. end such A virletion ‘of the pub le tats ne of ia provisions created w Hoant ot Apour | ot the eerperat on, would tend not only toedenre te Leisting of the May roulers ot | Claw the value of (he stoess Of Ube City Bow OUtetAInl K snd Bookiyn au rot | ing. but render it dilficu.t Lo negowate future loans o Pitice, who met, euimated. a feline advantages tne chy OF pe ice viryows ty each ¢ Liceiies, It the ncenmtlaiiour of more than twenty Ported this a Ave seats in se Tund. sy Often refrrred to tu the yu The Court o Gocumenie of ue Derariment of Finance, ae hed " p wat foutd. 6 he Mingencres, IF Lhe redemprion of the cl eo a clea and Ue piecge thue oMernily mac aruipents Fark, Aid lepeated to the hi idere of the city evocke tovite . i iver iu dxing etic | [wold creme tistrust ty the puLie Muda, Ald & eh at 2 of Volee. | frustecs, and foreign shock fA rouitol® Vorke, ana Charitios | would bo that iageamonits of socks must cone a) f Inture assemvled in | Che market, to be diepored of wt prices iar bewww the Fon! Value, Bid Canse loos to thote Who Lave Inve td Urhet and Other funcesn the securities of the Corp ors Uon, ANd relying UpoD the predse Ol tue haele ot th i Fund. & a guarantee for te payuient oft Huvesitente a! maturity, of of their Feud) bale, Witiow Woes, In Cas: ri What cou pensadne benefite wont acerne to Justhiy An interference with (his iid MW ite OPewent | Roepe ron Sendiion. by eaneeiing Va assets, ih wLOle OF IM pm The inv ia ety eloeke are, ta Filet, 1 wot eondeut, aud form, © redwemon ty debe & line AMoUrL there aight are Lit ppec Be PUrpoee, Whie rang power Th goiie arts mar interest goes to Ine en a for | Ted mipten of the ely hat 16 lee Of LOLmer real eet wte cefore sed In hese wese.s) The ver city t rtmentot Pitube we each ove of Ms oF Sih were. therefore. pre-umed to. be best and thcreugh ‘i: f3 compered of two Democrats aud two Kepnbieans Stor in the cons imately Arcertained |} betore this propos favpo rH? 4 Uoniment War browcued, Jhere could have been ull Hon teu be made, lmnmediaiely Ulon We propos.uion be fonnd anexact cacn € € PULL C thete Brose In Ce@riain Quarters | cop tine te ent. because i suspected Joloerv when the plab pr ic f * ont tected liuitation OF expenditure, aud granted pow DYPARTMENT OF TAXES priation ek In weveral independ Py thy iray w te * eae ted " at Muowal aud enprecedcuied, wien the like tiauiad | sear us By certiny awe of began ore tH been ton OF Afterh youre 1b CoumLaLE exeteLer, aud This wet reorgat ized "Departivent, and w Web! ‘ Ueto exeoed in miu ithe city and ¢ New vore.. J is per cent on the af Honed faed valoat we well as Vigilance © the cart of the € ne : HOD tO The fChobal Ver cout. Becemmary to pay Bud the F deputies, ax it becomes the tn autatorial | “1 Zod Vacation is BL, Two per cent. on thie able to Lazaliop. ava Whe equa ining power to dy is s 81,00.00. 80 shal Only BZ) O01U0 wil b re (han hit proper share, ‘i mt Oat mons f at two intiiione and & half for Age and vp he authority of the Commissloners t Uh 1.0 fats in teduciag tx; entes iu | Yempczinted as to whe raitiatly hele ee ued a srevavanre whic arity, ‘We age. oven 1 Hovality of some of Uiene inwe, the Legislature up rhe. He was to enrien wll oiictals, cor | Ave" presene iuenmbeate were ei painted and. ite Cousidered tn partion aspect, this limitation of | desu pnre renmnene rict gee eee He WHME I RbOUId Pf fasation two percent bit | he Devartriens tas rect th ei vonetbihiy forex’ | as-one of tne most edherens ih bab ats eavie wort ands variety of enty officials. Buch con. ell who parcicipute un the diveet support of the focal ravon of Peapanaibilty of eoluve may noite iocal | govesmin ple, 1 was'a measure doritad Nitecver Couriardtl amet, aha Adrind MUM Ser Ye nd the “fleet ‘at “lout ol re Ww enieuged Ww ccibylia A tater est nie Cf reel And jo! But toe pr y fw etcow Uuue bo iuitiaw oF Lo pros Uce grvar economy, yine city, Pending tte recepuon, (he Mayor extracts ® gapcie) eatuale cade editoriully | yy OME of the dally papers of Henublican politics. but BLS Sptntos REP be fatttneie vos eosin os vaae © But while the city bas enffered by trresponstble min Ament, 1t has held @ large ercace of its own. which aa eTown 18 value fat more ratidiy than lie debt, aud which ts to day propably worth, In cash, five ines as Mach @8 it owes. For Inatance, at the present prices Of land and bonses im tne city.” com sarverors Fepresént the following as low estimate of the public Property held in trust for the people by our municipal ruler t The Central Park, containing 11,000 10,000, AL VOM cece eee ceses cere nty smaller parks and places mH public markers ¥ lots not In pa Water lots and Hrookiy Seventy piers, North and Eas Croton Aqaeduct property. vcs. Fire Depariment—tand, boildiige, and prratns, Police statior Pup te Educat co and ane build prikons, and the ike, With y pros spehine te pio ‘scout Lent Deparunent wil lols In copnection with ree of ieveuDE to the of Incoine to th bected toat pla make the plers Ahem almont ae imps gity br tue eve Can t true that bat of all thie prc likely ever to be ‘but the city debt is @ ten upon AU All, #0 that the poseession of IN Rustains the pubic credit: and, ran proverty in ductive enton why it will because it is rrore Die to thie Cay MBO Whule [oF pabiie than for private purposes,” It nes deeo urged that the cit improvable prorerty and on'y aniform scheme of improv: Were dono, there would not com which the mente eonid progress or bi ea improved piers would sell f 0 (han DOW, 6Ven adding tue exyebib tires with laterest. There have recently been made attacks upon the eity ere inated in the heawents of the ve ‘olnted to pla mild eel! tte piers narket F 10 add. they by th ¥ of whe Trens tor the Mayor an ene their duties to ne, Abroad, 1 #r a 16 mime, All the bonds authorize ant Leela ture, ‘The fiscn) books of th eopen to Lis creditors, b Mayor is Totten re: {uring their irresponsible persous who de- sired to exan coun for undoubled purposes of Mitrepresentacion, etuer by couces tog sine detale OF dittorting etners. Buch Is also the policy of the Federal Government at the Custom Fh ‘and the ‘Trensury. And becnase the accounts aud Teronrces of 6 CILY Bre found to be roFrect ADA ani iat Alors Fe\nin oF renew tele os rewd Feaud COFOFAtIONS Wake request fur city secu ‘The rate of taxa’ been bo erent aw Albany, By ‘whic jon ta New York city hae never Ain Brooklyb, Boston. Philad Rochester, and many over Could be nained. ‘The ke upc morally could betvor tm- Aisintereet 1 the oppr suspices of the eUrAved undue belong, * veeD Faved, ovoF and over again, by them HOU CITY IAXAUCH was Ingre than dongle per capita nthe Abc To refute this Aosurdi'y, preveute stable in which is shown an ex o meoription of commodities for the city of Ne we untlonal tax ehorged thereon, and the #woUDE Of taxge ludjrectiy collected Ob Lié millon of ivhabitante in New York ¢ EATIMATED OONSUMPTION OF AUNDRY APTIOLES IN THR CITY OF KEW YORK TAXED NY GOVARSMBRT. or| ewaced Anricies. tun pion perl Tnvrnad | Govern annum Tur. | meng | DAO OWE. svoeee/ 87 ® bOD..| $0,090 tone, ......|82¢ P ton, | iO) Bes f80. BM || and wire. 4,4..00 Work’ AV 48 et Haraware. cut| Tery aiid tou 6) 82,100,000 worth Av 3 # ct ci oad 070,002 worth.|Av 40% et,| nO he) tous Hibmw.o0 he (4,000.00 AL S220 aw 010 me Vite, | 000,000 gaiton’ Tt 406 000 kegs. won 40.009 gi flone: 2 $n.00 0.00 dored..... | 9 R doz. | SW 6.0 190.000 eallons..|85 # dor. 9,00 10,00) pounds. B® Doniestic \ | @iépre.| 8,00 co aud cigars, Total tax for the collected 4200.00... Tec eseenere ee] 800,008 jae” chy rojur Ineo e tax on...|$120.000.000....../24 Bot...) 8aM,60 pesos 400,08 62 10 | aBO. 1 08) ‘ai [Veutie i] 62,000 wese/ AB collected 10 [ren ennies 1,560,000 Jus, velvete,| Tinbone, asd He CH MINE | $6,000,009;....4..]80 8 et....| 3,600,000 le tress gous] | marca with | her miateria |$2,000,00)......../50 # eb....| 2,000,800 Clottis. Wooiten,| wolleus, drest, Foods, wie | Binuxer Petar) Os0m cotton & sun 0 elay.| 2.0.00) Bos.cing mater | | nis, tucluding woinber. sore | eintee, cemnt pein ease. #20.c00 00, Ave wet! 5,000,000 Hters paper Rad stationery 810.0.900...... la Wet...,] 2,000.0%0 seit 9 010 \nithels 130 PD ie Bn Toots And echoes, | SHAMON ce. Foreign ‘Ar.ed| 40.07 trait «0 0n0 Green feuiis22.°°| 1,000,000 Bo Lien and het | 21,000,000... B00 hn inten and toware 43,000,000, 280,00 Giawwrecr ery. aud por fat 43 ¥ ct Oa Hanipe however ner the mark, 1 te tm Ir may be fairly we system cf SANDUAL THiiCted 10 pore our cl pay HOnR, TAX es press. The c de, the Teal property (a & The vatier aves w 4 But the about $1" G0,000, Le renal er would t Ato wt of rental valuc of rental valu rer an ¥ y OF fix, wou Bee now ali thin? ray cen the bat four ehiid of covet 7 hoapita Nelation, 1 ments tg t Rats ove t Military prover Ite more showa Mat while the ott taxnvo ais heay C Abd stately mace! family consisting what would att bart tue ine Sui pore, again. a city mi the veur 19 dogcn of ine he Government tax ih Which ie ouy 30 ber cent Pope @ city Ioctanh to Use (Works wiPUM, at $) per gallon. the tax! Faon oF ID) ber Sout! on the gross a the apsurd charce thas by ark HaxBHOL the Wo Gierpal te OU; Reeve 7 Tele Ab Coni@icladon to dispose of much eity pop: erty. snoh ae plots and balidings heretofore osed Wel! AF market City Department fe ve Fond that at least five million ined to the fund for the extinction ot Je. Within ion tea, and eof the Sin rviceall= shay barcase mark diseneumber themselves o of pubhely mamntaining markets alter deve'onnent Of puble economy have slows. ti ‘can bet'ér private corporattol We Oe | hea Can & MAME pal corporation. Indeed, trem sas POLICE. | ton to ew) New ¥ Ii at sore ichstanding that, 9 ~ tty of th id 4 Citaen the troan, E orthree months, wirls reading vs inediey C Beh wrudge-cherined murdere mo plotted crimes. the, eerfation ives. aq Imei sew Vurktuefuar tie: ok | ys nota. Wenaeratic ey tidg aponethe reen'e in th tried i Alinos! any. oth when CIty Rec: Keeorder fo evildoers: and ex. he belleved that to Hoff Bedford, New York was other thre erime aod th Jostice bine . Hofhnat mency to was bot coniplains in thi whieb, either by Intilsi¢ evi ‘enc: or bi exist some absolute reas f h ert x the ter. made himeelt ethILy Morgan once an, Hach: more indebte e NER year the Inteation of th fag Puno wile ie. ata th Property now used for malssts. would contin Po'deed but ia the Naade of judividual eo hd it hee hot been the wish of do. city autwoticie Telvileger or y ye had ever hal for Ly ped pariian’ able of be ne the wa, wal the Distrtet ‘8 grouadl For tot ime when the pret int OF th oralty resigued the Distries Alorbeyahip, arte ve years of a! e extrinale evideuce easily procured th the Iaw oF tn the character of proof 10 the coi malicious one: lie ear throug! Chak if tp a neither of the I hit social rein 1 bas veen alieg Baie exteta, Coo any cl dina tncom; ‘erlininals are now ? exh. But the ti \dure an addition The present District Autor Nin office, and challeng rleved © mplainanue si 1 Foady a MieD, The police report state At 2.85 (shore whieh © po hundred of our Inbal census. force labore, politan Keport oltan Hage vonig ayater Of system, aliaou the obvious objection tial every fol ecoaaarily uncoverca (or ion Defiod, and that no one KLOWS Wher Lo find w ponies how tem want “Te way be paid ae that ne 100 when a policeman f+ in siehe road fiolo, acUvity aud laveliiwence au ‘se poe D Aevet ities vo tn supnly di r ater; th OF the ‘people must ve practically, the poll prevent a bertain prv tayue ageregasion 1 DUINDEF Of @ cine great Oring the yeur And tue lanier offences: Buard.ts so e Dearly 10 00 after repreasion, 01 Lae vO 3 to be wel ne enobalble mystery) Nas wot £0 Yoars uu eats beo. as excunpiarily @ le at haud when ine elie 1 tax ‘The report o1 the Police Department makes a go ‘® imi tion dollars. Year (o maintain seven or ely t handred more patrol Ditants, Computlig Upon we ‘The ordinary diMculties onder which even a te tated in the follow Quoted (rom w recent Loudon mais se Indispensable to every polict Host, Is ove Of Lhe great desi clean the fwprovement of the woral ft to bagne annot bope to Bat it moet be ren tatisuts smbrace ropeated arrests of the amine Or vagrancy, donkennass, d Bui the report of tue Pole That kt would Le waste Ol tis ta pie as they certn. iy « ew-DOF Real agatnac criint en, hOWeVEK, recall the C ‘ado of euljrit D theae qi iderace of Buy oxic ¥ dent Is dest F COmMpAnICR, em ¥, out only 4 bie and exp {individual of td (us ork ts h unt 49 i Gov. Ho: Feputation, Aine, anf wiials Cou the Ju charge that erimin: eo by convict in ine tne nper pon deferts i #. OF 10 the. 84 Lo the pada the pabite phe yuled had geur tru * would have (oun whoed erime (nile jeaik wih ber of the tor ound Loadony most ee force, At utaide luguige in J el! be #atd of the reports of al the ouier departwents, "All of them deserve the ittentive perteal, ‘They would each ant all he he fuumariaed if it were not certain that the reporce furtie prose will discharge that Outy to the publ beed ter ad micte & edly. Th found peculiariy in Tarives a0) bh merit how neat by ite works, 1 Commiseion duty om re la of maki ed th ven the old Hor r opened ianeses im), ADA Ite for ine prevailing set_of men who hi it te But moinory green, by pre’ To tre pubile, Th 8 places g F rosponslDility wit taste and ¢ left Central Park as a loeac be, the advocates of the vow go fo rit tte improved. di Jus UNIVERYA! ¥ nent appearanc ac. jinistration In preventing di # pIADS, Carry With them many re t Wondering how wil the worid progres ven copy-books Inforin ws dowe man can do, mortifving 96 ay be to one who ho & olbers trou ahari OF eniulating vis Own greatness, Wine AND UEALT. Not a suggestion of complaint haa heen made th out the year against the Fue Doparuwent. 1 Tersaily appreciat The Health Department (warring as it pe does and whet agaliee persoual liberty ar Uses) Mat Biso WOR Gacomiude fro the clticeie, works. ‘ The Department of Pabiic Works fe just now a cutiy one Horeswht of Fe eniivenily” exeed Wr 6 Tusk extiiner preveted ereal disester to. tue a hreatened Ineumiciency of w Iitely urcommary howl the water property portibie In to New York, so order to provide not ac present ae fOr the tururé attan Teiand. ct Moen Sut they 4: vo thelr f Vane, yer notn not he year Is Roveru. « Vatrect the rly Ana D1 ferk wine. Frat Rie \ and that ‘ae well of Woe maord I Deer inthis . | es thay yr shoud emp hisslee Nuar verdict to. M tks, aud practical ability im hie pocxs, The re the Department of Do: sof ny Kner. Gen. McCletan, * as tern we favors 4 skreat value to the chy demands, As tw 0 o ew alk &_Very Important oue, Het kes Cocasion to WAKe especial couse: d/o Chigteries. Of years the w 4 piste of of New York have heen inadequate to “ tnedale the commerce OV the port. This hae Pesul'ets ine fart. from the Want of Lreisiatien t 3 the leeal governmet t om broad a prenevslve wharf and p Atthony the Legivinty We state nat O " his suljert \ Year by 4 F tbe imirod Ca whart wud por ene “mag ' fron the Department of Public Parts wit! hy jormer cla at ite wid age, 18 newly vue vopulacs. Wits ‘ut most climaver county, WAEEy owing (owns nid Wake large expen