New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-16

brCugDt tDe CRY ~ lpe verge vi cNn war III o'""'
TO obtain control Of the Street Department How
great the cash contribution toward the expenses OF
hir general struggle for reflection derived from the
person lie assumed to appoint, We do not conJec-
ture; but it is certain that parties who were outod
made handsome Offers But it was not alone in this
direct manner that Mr.. Wood had personal ad'
vantage in view. He desired to establish some Oh
his intimate friends, pals We believe the professional
term il, in the rich pastures Of the Department.
We propose to illustrate this point by two e1'
amplts.
Mr. Deylin, acting in obedience to Mr.. Wood
has just appointed Mr.. Geo. Fl. Z. Lynch 70 the
Office Of Contract Clerk one of the most Important
in the Street Department. Dir. Lynch Is no new
man. He has bed public Office before. He was
CLERK Of tie Superior Court from May, 1888, to
July. 1855. While holding that situation, he ap-
propriated to bis own use sums amounting to not
far from $l2, OOO belonging to various suitors and
deposited with him by orders of the Court. Lynch,
being unable to pay over this money when called
for by its owners, was sued by some of them One
of these actions-Tae People, on the relation Of
Flora joel and Others, agt. Geo. H. z. Lynch
was fought through all the Courts. until Judgment
WAS finally rendered for the plaintiffs for the sum of
50 $50 81. IL January last, on his examination as
a Judgment debtor in this suit. Lynch admitted the
receipt of the money, and answered to one of the
interroga.ories propOunded. We quote:
"That the money has been spent; that he cannot
state to whom the has been paid or oaned that
he has papers memoranda notes in hand or securi-
thereof il was spent for different purposes-family
exper ser living that he cannot recOlect the par.
tcular oh eta or purposes for which the same was ex-
penced; that there is of said money now due TO
the examiuant ffom any person or persons
In the other subtitle People, on the relation Of
Leuis s. Ley and others, agt. George II. E.. LYNCH
in which judgment was recovered against him for
81 627 7O-Lynch was rather more specific in his
answers He says:
"That the money has been spent by this examiOant;
thet be cannot state to whom the same has been paid
or any part portion thereof; that he has no notes.
checks other securities arising there
from, or any pat thereof or which can show when or
where the was paid or expended, or for what
purpose; That the same part loaned to friend
ano by Inn paid back in email sums to examinaut and
BY him spent received that portion thereof has
been paid in small sums for election Parpose', but the
particular persOns to whom paid he cannot state"
The Court being sat,fed that Lynch was unable
to pay the amount Of the judgments in these cases.
and that longer imDris ,nment would not benefit
the creditors and would only punish his family,
discharged him from attachment. An attempts
making to bring the burden of the loss upon the
depcstor Of the larger sum mentioned, and one of
the Judges of the Superior Court, Judge Hoffman,
we believe, has decided that be is liable, an appeal
from which decision is now pending. In the other
Gaze, Flora Joel, who held the money as a trust
fund, has petitioned the Common Council to REIN
burse her from the City Treasury, inasmuch as
L. nch Rad not given or been required to give secu-
rity to which she could look, and as he was a city
'fiicer when he committed the embezzlemcnt The
ther parties aggreved, in despair Of success, have
Ot commenced proceedings against this public
Winder. His course as Clerk Of the Superior
court recommended Lynch to Mr. Nathaniel
'eah, who appointed him to an Office connected
With the Department Of Repairs aud Supplies. He
3 now, if Mr.. Woods man is legally Street Com
missioner, Contract Clerk-a post which affords a
wider field for the exercise of his peculiar talents
han any other in the Street Department.
Our second illustration is no less q person than
H. Benjamin P Falrcbild, whom Mr.. Wood has
au.ed to be appointed to the Office of Deputy
superintendent of Repairs and Supplies under Mr..
)eylin. Mr.. Fairchid has long sustained pretty
Ultimate relations with the Model Mayer. He was
ne Of the grantees of the proposed line of stages
bropgh Lexington avenue, invented by that virtu
US magistrate, and which Mr. Fairchild expected
o sell out for at least $1,000 Some time ago a
espcctable legal gentleman of this city had procured
lie passage through beth Boards of the Common
,ounc Of an ordinance allowing him to complete the
purchase Of certain lots upon the Central Park,
n which part Of the purchase money had been
aid and forfeited. Several days after the passage of
he ordinance it ~as suggested to the party inter-
sted that it might be vetoed aud that i. would be
roper to zee the Mayor. An interview took
lace when the Mayor caused the lots to be
,oibtcd out to him ON the map, and then remarked
o the applicant that the bargain would be good
ne, and that he would make good deal OF money
y it. The conversation closed, however, without
ny assurance that the ordinance would receive the
,iayors approval. But on the ninth day, or one
lay before the term of the Mayors power over the
would expire, gentleman, giving his
.ame as Mr. Benjamin P. Fairchild waited on the
,arty Interested, and proposed that for cOnsidera
ion to be paid to him (Fairchild) the ordinance
hould receive Mr.. Woods signature. This pro-
,osal was naturally received with surprise, and the
interview ended with suggestion from Mr.. Fair
hid that inquiries should be made about the City
Hall touching his character, and bis ability to con-
such arrangement These inquiries
we're made, aud the result Of all was an agreement
hat Mr.. Farchd should have certain proportion