The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-15

Corporation SwNDIING.-Our readers may
! remember that the Commissioners of Record
/ have been for long time besetting the Board
of Supervisors for an extravagantly large sum
| of money for the printing and binding Of the
records of the County Clerks Office The in
vestigation by committee of that Board into
the claims of the Commissioners has revealed
one of the most stupendous Corporation swim
dies yet brought to light.
1t appears that 100000 was paid for the
printing Of these records, and that the exorbi.
taDt price of two dollars and ninety cents a
volume was paid to some contractors fer the
mere binding alone. The usual process Of car
rying out Corporation jobs was then resorted
to by the contractors, who relet the contract to
another party for sixty.seven and half cents
a volume, thus netting the handsome sum of two
dollars and twenty-five cents on every bound
volume. It appears, further, that the work
would have been done by other parties for
fifty cents volume SO that five times the
actual value of the work has been paid for it.
In addition, it has been shown that thousands
of these printed volumes have been wilfully
thrown away; and upon the whole, this case
demonstrates clear swindle of some three
hundred thousand dollars upon the County
Treasury.
Such is the way our Corporate affairs are con-
Quoted now; and this is but trife in the az
gregate of fraudulent contracts made and con-
summated in other departments. Who can
wonder that our taxes amount to ten millions?
and who will doubt that under the regime of
the recently elected Corporation they will be
fourteen or fifteen millions next year?
MEETING OF SYMPATRIZERS WITH JOHN BRowE.-
This evening, at the Cooper Institute. sympa-
thy meeting, like that in Boston, is to be hela,
for the purpose of raising fund for the fa~aily
of John Brown-whether it is his mystic Il ia
mily, or his family according to the flesh, we
are not informed. Perhaps the fund is intended
for both, and that while some Of it will be given
to Mrs. Brown and her children, the balance
will be expended in the purchase of pixies and
Sharp's rifles to carry out the second American
revolution, which Wendell Phillips says John
Brown began. At the Boston meeting it was
explained that the family Of John Brown num-
bered million, and Waldo Emerson endorsed
| that interpretation; SO that when million of
! abolitionists of the John Brown stamp are sup
piled with arms and ammunition they will
make short work of slavery at the South. To
give effect to the meeting, and to propagate the
anti-slavery sentiment portraits of the horse
thief and the murderer Of Ossawatemie are to
be sold at the door, and dirges and solemn
marches are to be performed on the occasion
| funeral obsequies to the shade of the idol of
the republican party. The following is the ad-
vertisement, as it appears in the columns of the
New York Tribune, the leading organ of the re-
volutionists:--
THE JOHN BROWN FUND.
/ DR. GEORGE B. CHEEvER,
WENDELL PHILLIPS
PROF. HIRAM AM MArr1sos
Will speak at the Cooper Institute in aid Of the fund for
the benefit OF John Browns family on Thursday evening,
18th inst.
Admission Is cents or 81 the 81 tickets emitting the
| purchaser to a John Brown photograph.
Doors open at ~ exercises to commence at IA clock.
Tickets to be had at the door.
l s'BLow TRUMpET, BLOwl'
JOHN BROWN,
| which was sung ut his grave TO his favorte tune,
"Iennox will be played Thursday night, 18th inst at
the COOPER INSTITUTE,
BY Shetons celebrated Band assisted by the
| VOICES OF THE WHOLE CONGREGATION.
! DIRGES AND SOLEMN MARCHES
will also be performed during the intervals between the
| speeches.
WENDELL PHILLIPS,
| THE REV. GEORGE B. CHEEvER,
| REV. HIRAM MATTISON
/
| REV. j. Il. SLOANE
win address the meeting.
Other eminent speakers will also be present
The meeting will be opened by prayer.
Doors open at 5S O'Clock. Exercises 10 commence at
precisely Tickets rs CENTS TO be had the door. Also
Dollar Tickets, emitting the purchaser 10 elegant pho
tograph Of John Brown.
As the purpose Of this meeting is TO raise money for
John Browns destitute family IL is 70 be hoped that the
Dollar Tickets will be literally purchased.
Here the reader will perceive that three
clergymen are to take part in the posthumous
rites in honor Of Brown-the robber, the assas-
sin, the insurgent and traitor-whosc avowed
intention was to subvert this great republic
Thus do the republican leaders at the North
identify themselves with the Harper's Ferry
insurrecton, and encourage q renewal of the
bloody struggle on larger scale.
The HONORABLE JEFFERSON BRICK & Co. can
! not bear misfortune Since they took up the
, cause Of Tammany and got so dreadfully
, beaten, they have been as nervous and restless