New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-25

Jones should receive the whole Of the $13 900 from
the city, without contributing dollar toward tho
performance of the contract, the subcontractors TO
DO compensated with so per cent on the net Gales
of the ships hull and materials, when raised, and
81 per cent Of the net sales Of the cargo saved from
the hull. The sub contractors went on and did the
work, raising the ship to the surface and were pre-
pairing to float her from upder the staging, to take
out her cargo, when Jones, WHO had never paid
them dime, nor incurred one cent Of expense in
the job, went to the Mayor, and got him to
send down squad of policemen, and give him vio-
lent possession of the vessel with all her cargo and
appurtenances.
Barnes & Dodge, for this act of His Excellency,
brought suit against him personally, not officially,
and all the other parties engaged in the transaction,
and obtained judgment Of $l3,549 II, which,
with interest to date of payment amounted to
$14,665 65. This judgment the Controller has
lately paid out Of the City Treasury upon the adj
vice of Corporation Counsel Bronson, the Common
Council having as we are informed by Mr.. Haws,
in the previous year made an appropriation for that
purpose.
Such is the finale ofthe Joseph Walker swindle.
From beginning to end it was fraud. Mr. Bell,
who was at work upon the wreck, testified that
seven-eighths Of the task was accomplished, aud
the whole might have been performed for less than
$1,000, when Mayor Wood assumed the right to
step in, turn him out, ard give to fayorite the
task of raising private ship sunk 10 private slip,
and already nearly removed By the Underwriters q
private Corporation, to whom she had been aban-
doned by her OwGers, for sum four times as
great as competent persons had offered to do II or'
and 10 times as much as the man then on the
work says it would have cost him to do 1t. 10
give prete1t for his unlawful conduct, Mr.. Wood
pretended that grain and rosin sunk In the hui OF
sbip 30 feet under water for two years without Of
feusye results, would putrefy 10 the third Summer
and breed plague. Eight days after the contract
was actually made he told the Commissioners Of
Health that large number of merchants in South
street, fearing a pestience would break out
had petitioned him to remove the ship; but did not
tell them what he had done, nor did he show the
petition to them. They authorized him to make
contract--a power vested in the Common Council
alone, or the Board of Health, which is very diff
fereDt body. When the petition was asked for by
the Committee of Investigation appointed at the
time. by the Common Council, the only evidence
that such document ever existed Lay in an affida
Wit by Col Ming, the Mayors Clerk, who swore
that he had seen such a paper, but had lost it.
When the ship was up and ais favorite Jones had
got his $4,000, for work which other people had
done for pothiDg, Mr.. Wood stepped in and, in his
behalf, dispossessed those with whom Jones had
contracted just as they, according to the terms of
their contract, were about to get their pay, and
gave Jones the ship and her contents-a piece of
business for which he had no color of authority,
and for which the Courts adjudged him aud his
agents personally, not officially, to pay $l4665 Co.
This money Dodge has received, but refuses to pay
over any Of it to his partner. Barnes, individually,
also had judgment of $4,000 against Jones for
assault on the occasion of the dispossesson, which
he is informed by His Excellency the Mayor is to
be paid by the City in the same way.
1t seems from the above that the raising Of the
ship joseph Walker, which the wrecker Bell swore
would not have cost 81 900 to complete, and
which Barnes would have undertaken for $500,
has already cost the city in cash paid out, or to be
paid in a few days;