New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-06
New 0rk EIecriOn-Heavy Rnins-Public Mo.
ney-Hnrd TO Raise the Wind'-Judge
Crunch, &c.
Correspondence of The Tribune

WASHINGTON November 1, 1916.
Great anxiety is felt here on the subject OF the
New York elections We had hoped for news Of
the result By the Telegraph but unfortunately the
recent storm Frustrated several OF the posts be-
tween this city and Baltimore. and, at the last &C
counts the broken wires had not been connect
ed We are consequently still left to stay our APP
petite for news with the unsatisfactory morsel OF
speculation.
The heavy rains III this vicinity have proved very
injurious The wharves of this city and George
town have been for the last eight and forty hours
several feet under water and the great ireshet
which has come down the Potomac like torrent
injured and at one time endangered the Long
Bridge It is understood that on some parts OF the
route the water lies on the track of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad four or five feet
Asregards the amount OF the public money now
on deposit, the statement sent you last week is
confirmed by the official report from the Treasury
while the actual receipts for the quarter ending
3oth September Excluding Treasury Notes s6.7:2
600, and the expenditures for the period were
sl4 Osa COL leaving deficiency of - 800, DOL The
amount OF the deposit in the hands OF Messrs. Cor
coran i Riggs. deductng the amount ordered to be
transferred is now S273,i5- The amount Of specie
exchanged b. them Tor Treasury Notes at an inter
est OF % per cent is $4,000 $50 900 having been
deposited this week | understand that about
$1,000 were exchanged III New York and only
few hundreds III Boston and New Oreaus,
A r1mor has prevailed that the loan OF five mil
lions was taken before the advertisement OF the
Secretary appeared. Probably the rumor original
ed In the fact that Mr.. Beebe OF New York, was in
this city for some DAYS before the publication OF the
oriy pa \ +t-irE
Rotary and that the latter displayed so little
gard for the established etiquette OF official dignity
IS 70 dine with MIR Beebe al the public table IN
public hotel. The sagacious inference may be that
all this not for nothing Still, do not believe
there is any truth IN the report believe that the
loan Is not taken but suspect that IN three ioar
days offer viii be made for it at par or frac
ton above. but very small fraction, i any The
Secretary believes that be get along until Con
gress meets without absolutely paying out more
than the moneys now on deposit and the sums au
thorized BY law TO be borrowed But if he is able
10 do so, ne will come 10 Congress with his pock-
cts turned inside out-not dollar any where and
noe item OF the hundreds of just claims the pro-
geny of this unjust war, which hourly docking
in, and which will come in accommodating numbers
regarded Q. paid. Whenever the bill comes y be
footed. We shall have found that the schooling we
have just received IN the art OF IS about as ex-
pensive any other OF the various branches of edu
cation which are necessary 70 the production of
great and influential nations whether called Mon
arches or Democracies
Judge Cranch Is not yet sufficiently recovered 70
sit In Court The case OF Elk Governor Thomas on
charge Of libel, IS therefore not yet called on and
Il may probably 60 over the term. As TO the Van
Ness case II IS also postponed TO some day OF the
present term, which VIII not be fixed before next
week. There IS impression. founded perhaps
on the TACT OF the abandonment OF the case bv Nr
Dallas and the other counsel originally retained
or perhaps On the intrinsic deiectiveness of the
claim itself thar The t-al OF the case will turn out
70 De ridiculous exhibition: that Mrs CJnner will
be doomed 70 wear thai name, with all its accom-
PeEiEenrs OF poverty and distress until the end OF
ne. days unless she car succeed in attaching
valid claim 70 some other name more successfully
than she IS likely 70 90 in relation 10 the name OF
Van Ness
No news from the Army or Navy. Some appre-
hensioa, are entertained for The safety OF our squad
ron on vera Cruz, IN consequence of the recent
storm which has committed such havoc in Key
est and Havana II IS hoped that few days
VIII sutice % remove the fears Of numbers here
WHO are deeply interested IN the safety o; many
on board VERITAs