New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-28

Hampt WA dishonest and, in collecting money from
bis customers he clipped into his own pocket iossead
of giving it TO bis employer. On che isth OF July,
having acquired private fortune, he retired from
busness but stDgs of COINCIDENCE found him IN his re-
tress and the st small voice" would not be husned.
So greatly was be upbrsided BY his inward mooitor
that he wss COMPELLED 10 confess his dishonesty to his
late EMPLOYER. This he cid through friend, making
out list Of the exact sums Of money which he had
collected, giving also the names of the psrsons who
had paid him. He thus ackno wedges the receipt OF
also, which he had appropriated TO bis own use'
Upon receiving tina letter, Mr.. Polhman caused she
arrest Of Hampt the charge Of embezzlement, and
also ALL ging that DE hsd stolen 20 dozen shirts, vaiued
at Sl75. The prisoner denied the latter charge.
Justice Welsh locked him up to answer.
The examination Of the csr dd,es Of the Nineteenth,
Fifth, and Eighth Ward schools, for the West Point
and Naval Academies takes place at the Hall Of the
Board Of Education at 10l o'clock this morning.
OBrruARY.-On Thursday morning, Mr. Samuel C.
Paxson one Ct our oldest merchants, departed this life.
He bad inst taken warm bath, whom he was seized
with paralysis, and died ia few minutes. The old
s;pu Of the firm CT Allen & Paxson, weather-beaten
and scarcely readable now has for more than quarter
of century been familiar to all whose business took
them through Front street; while scarcely daily
paper bss been issued in all that time hat did not
mention their names ia connection with the arrivals Oh
vessels ut this port. Mr. Paxson was modest IN MS
deUeanor, and rather shrank from anything that
wouh render him conspicuous but he did not fan TO
make his mark in mercantile circles as man OF clear
intelligence and INN sculate integrity. And II 1t DO
true. az was remarked to US by one who knew hi
well that there is not clerk ab,rer who had ever
been employed in his service but remembered nun
sfeconately and loved him, his DEATH 80 sudden, 80
unexpected, must be cad blow to ttose nearer and
dearer friends who in daily association with him.
The funeral will take place this afternoon at O'clock
from his late residence, No. l37 East Fifteenth
street.
On Thursday. Theodore X. DE Forrest, esq., Alder
man of the First Ward in 1917 and 1913 and for ten
years CIoton Water Commissioner, died suddenly at
his residence in this city. Mr.. De Forrest was the
son Of an old KDickerbocker grocer of the First Ward
where he was born. He graduated as an M. d., and
practced several years but not liking the profession,
he entered the drug business in the First Ward which
he carried for many years. only prescribing Tor or
attending on the poor of his Ward gratuitousy Being
selected by Mayo Woodruff, with Nicholas Dean, as
Water Commissioner he gave up business, and applied
himself with Dean bring up the Department to such
"a tandard that all our citizens proud of it. In
I847, while in the Common Council, as Chairman Of
the Committee on Wharves and PIERS he suggested
and reported in favor Of the widening and extending OF
piers from No. to No. on each river, from 25 to As
feet in width and from 800 t. 600 feet in length The
report YVES very elaborate and convincing, and was
unanimously adopted. Many other original and useful
measures were suggested by Aid. De Forrest. He
was always at his post, beloved by bis colleagues in
the Beard and honored by all who knew him for his
stern integrity. He was man Of very few words,
seldom taking part in debate but was clear thinker,
and of unoeasing industry.