New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-23

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BESIDE Tie, ther. dra Of 90 tho New-iorh
City Bank which perhP' tho surplus on hand at the
close Of operations, AID hsnoraby RENTED by Mr. Baldwin to
his employer
Mr.. Frederick S. Littlejohn would seem
from his testimony TO have been rather the
employer than the subordinate Of Mr.. Baldwin.
He rays: " gave tue money TO Mr. Baldwin
" TO deposit to hIs credit" aud as 10 amount,
at might have been $4,000 or more" and
that " what money was dIsbursed, | dsbursed
" myself, employing counsel and in ether hgii.
Z" mate RAYS" aud that " was a member Of
- the Chanjr Of Commerce of this city and
&" Was selected BY the Committee OF that body
" to prevent the removal OF the Post-Oiiice
" site" And he proceeds 10 give the names OF
Caleb Barstow, a. \. Low y Brother, Capt.
T.. Morgan. lhomns Testou, Of the firm Of
Spoflord Iilcston n Co., as his iellow-nem-
bers Of that Committee; and be gives the
names of Mr. Rugeles We trust not Sam.
uel b. and Mr.. Stiles as associated with
him in the receipt Of - about $1,000" raised
b. said Committee Of the Chamber of Com.
"merce,' to effect the passage Of this Post
Office site bill And this, according 10 Mr..
Littlcohn's testimony, was but one of quite Il
number of measures pending before our Last
legislature in which lie was " interested, and
which of course he promoted in none but
" legitimate ways"-as in this instance.
Yet tbe Grand Jury Of Albany indicted HIN,
tecause of the checks given By his order 10
Mes-r.. Underwood and Easton, officers of the
last House.
Mr. Royal Phelps OF our City plumply de-.
MED that the Chamber of Commerce, rs such,
took any part in this Posi-Oifce controversy;
aud ia this--though Lis simple word Is con
frontcd by Sir. Littlejobn's oath-wc presume
he is correct. When Messrs Low 4 Brother,
f.. Morgan, and Thomas 1Ileston, as plumply
contradict Sir. Littlcjohn with regard 10 thar
agency IN the matter, We shall presume hl,
testimony mistaken with regard TO them also.
Until then, We cannot.
Now let US see for ,eha this $1,000. or
$1,000, or over, wac raised and coulided 10
Mr. Littlrohn, and We shall be able TO give
4 pretty good guess as to how " legitimaiely"
II was spcnt.
Our City Post Office, burnt out Of its for
mer location in Wall street was removed to
the Rotunda in the City Hall Para; aud in or
upon that Park it ought TO have remained.
But it was jug,led down to the old Middle
Dutch Church ON Nassau street, between Lib
erty and Cedar; one Of the most crnmped,
unsightly, dlsobliging, unacccmmodating loch.
tons to be found in the city. The old church
Itself is more fit for coffin warehouse or
loger-bcer brewery than a post-oice; while the
approaches To IT are 50 narrow, unescn, aud
bad that no railroad ever has and probably
none ever will come near it, when every con.
siderable mail should, before it leaves the
pOst-oilice, be loaded aud locked in the car
which is TO bear it 70 New. Haven, Albany.
Eimira, Harrisburg, or Philadelphia. We're
the Post Office in or upon the Park, this ney-
itably would be the ease, saving thousands to
the Government in the cost OF wagoning the
mails TO Twenty street, OF Thrtieih
street, or Jersey City Ferry; saving still more
in putting a stop to the present shameful ex-
posure of the mail-tags while being thus con-
yeyed, loaded and uDloaded, in the midst of a
busting crowd, and in the considerable economy
of time which the right course would necessa-
rily effect. But the owners OF property below
Fulton street hold that q restoration of the
Post. Office to the Park would diminish the
value of their real estate; "and now, ladies and
gentlemen, you see the origin of the milk in
" the COCOA nut" The bill Of last Winter was
link in the chain by which the Post. Office
has been--at least for the time-fxed in the
most unfit and incOnvenient locality possible
one that could not, by any conceivable outlay,
secure the votes Of One-quarter of our citizens.
And 80 you zoo why certain gentlemen Of the
highest respectability can afford to expend
largo sums at Albany, employing such agents
as "know the ropes and arc more famed for
the efficiency than the scrupulo'ity of their
manipuations.
Now look ut the above list of payments, md
remember that Mr.. Littlejohn directed, not
those only, but others which do not appear in
Dir. Baldwin's checks. and see what they ind.