New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-18

.i.rds - Mayor Wood mean henthsy cay they don't
r., t;s ,srti'e Grgeries aud frauds, long a..
=. :. an scpsst Mayor, then We shall know aow they
ds6te honesty in official transsctiors.
HOW TIE THING WAS DONE.
We will explain the msuner n which the Mayor
moved in THE matter. He was Intimately acqusnted
with bis friend Jones, aud knew exactly how TO AXE
a pyoftaJe bargain With him. Whether Jone, or the
Ma, or fret conceived the project is unim portaut We
will give both o. them the credit of the original con
oeptiop, if you please. In our eIplsnation Of the
swpdle. we viii rely mosty upon the testimony Of his
Hopor ard that Of Jones.
The Mayor tes'ifes before the Committee thst he
.sw on lookiog his complaint book one m ,rning
that somebody had complained Of this wreck and that
soon afer other complaints came to him. 10 April,
be testi6es, just bsfore be made the con!rsc. With
Jones: 81" This Honor "reo.ived memorial from
"nany eminent merchants doirg business in the vicr.
city (Of the wIecl) "sskng to have her removed,
stating that she nuisance, and preudicisl TO
health" His Honor took q walk and visited the TO-
fected district, and on Ills return sent for Controller
Flagg al Street Commissioner Furey, and consulted
them, and decided TO have the thing done. He swssrs
that Fsgg told him that he he Mayor was the proper
person to have the veesel removed; though Fia9g
sWeNs, before the same committee, that he has
no recollection Of ever having told bis Honor any
such thing. He the Mayor then swears that
he wrote to several parties, but particularly
to Mr. Jones, because, as be says, be knsw Mr..
Jones had great experience in wrecking, and he
wanted his opinion, though he had idea at the tins
of making contract with him He also swsars tina.
be supposed thai Jones would make sub-srrsnge-
ment with some one to raise the vessel He said he
would assume the responsibility and that when he did
assume the " one man power" he would sec that TO
the extent of hs means the city should not suffer.
In the face Of Barnss proposal to do the work for
90 500 his Honor swore that JOness bid was the low
est, and that he was willing to make good any money
"the city might lose by any act Of his while Mayor,
" in al cases where he assumed the responsibility"
In the very face of the fact Of hi, having agreed to
assign TO Jones all the claims the city might have
against the owners for Reimbursement; he swears that
the city has valid claim, and that he has no. disposed
Of it to Jones' Jones swears just the reverse aud his
testimony seems to be corroborated by the letters he
wrots the Mayor, which We have published, aud
which were part of Jones's proposition, and condi-
tion Of the contract.
The swiodle was ::planned in th. wise:-A spurious
end fraudulent memorial" was prepared by some
body, we don't say who a. this time. This memorial
was exhibited TO Col Ming, the Mayors chief clerk,
ard it was probably seen by the Street Commissioner
as Col Ming swesrs that it was given into the hands
Of that individual, ard aferward returned to the
Mayors Office. 1t was enough that Col Ming, the
chief clerk to his Honor, and Street Comm ssloner
Furey had once seen gu IN document, and tina. the
chief clerk had road and filed in its proper place
Some scOundTel must have stolen this important docu-
ment from among the other pspers on the same sub
jec where Col Ming placed il. But if the paper was
genuine one, actually prepared aud signed by "msny
I" eminent merchants doing business in the vicinity
"the wreck ed vessel and whose health was so much
in danger in consequence of the pestlenia nuisance
20 one would desire to steal it from the Mayors office.
Of what use would genuine document of this char
acter be to any one outside the Mayors Office? But
if it was forged memorial, got up to justify an ile'
gal contract by which the city would be svindled out
Of $13 600, then, in case of investigation OF the
swndle, it would have been very important docu'
ment, and there was at least one person who would
have been delighted TO hear that the document WAS
missing lost mislad or any other disposition made OF
it, 70 that it never would &c! before an investigating
committee But why suppose it was not genuine
document actually received by his Honor, and not got
Up TO suit contingency that might arise One res
son for pot so supposng is that the Committee, when
they found they could rot the document, endeav-
ored to find of the msuy eminent merchants
shore names the Mayor swore were appended to
it, and who had eloquenty urged him to remove the
pestientia wreck from their neighbOrhood. Bat not
one of them could be found Is i; reasonable to sup
pose that they, too had been lost or mislaid or
got in the wrong pigeon-hole They who had
memoralized hi. Honor in April, being quite numer-
Gus body-merchants in high standipg-must have
all died or left the neighborhood, abandoned their
business before the vessel raised within the short
period of about ninety days. At all events, they could
not be found. Although the public mind was much
excited while the investigation was proceeding, and
the press related the fact that the memorial had been
lost or misaid not Of these eminent merchants
informed the Committee that his name was appended
TO the memorial. His Honor said he would search
for the document, but he has searched to no
purpose. We feel convinced that the deeu-
ment will never see the light. May 1t
not be of the character as his Honors bill OF
sale Of the bark John w. Cater ard the 7. o. Larkn
letter exhibited TO his friend Marvine, and which
half dozen respectable men swOre they once saw but
which were never produced in Court when they would
have been useful in exposing fraud. No human eye
will ever see those documents again; they served q
purpose the same as the memorial OF eminent mer-
chants and then di. appeared. But this d'appear-
Of apaper is not half so unaccountable aud mys
erous as the sudden departure of al who signed it,
Where are these eminent" menu
Harvey LOOMS, connected with the finn Of Esgle-
ston & Bst.ele, iron msrchsnts doing business in
South street. in the vicinity Of the wreck testified that
he had done business there for fourteen years, aud
that he had heard the wreck frequently spoken OF,
ard thought she was an obstruction to commerce., and
very properly thought che ought to be removed on
that ground but he had supposed that she was
ptsjudcia TO healh hesrd tina. she wa in
all the conversations he had about her. OF oourss ne