The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-09-12
NEW YORK CITY.
Resignation of another Protestant
Episcopal Minister.
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NhW 4OhhI september IL,
Rev. Mason Gallagher, associate mi
ister of the Fiity-seVenth street Emanu
church, follows the example of Re
,f Throll, by rendering his resignation
0 minister Of the Protestant Episcop
r church. He takes the same view thi
r Throll does, to wit: The existing liturp
of the Episcopal church has objectionab
. features, from which the new unio
/. prayer book which the secessionis
!. adopt, Is purged. Rev. Throll was
!, Chicago yesterday, assisting Rev, D
. Cooper in opening his new church, wherC
in the union prayer book is to be used.
CHARGES AGAINST CHAIRMAN CORNELL.
Chairman Cornell, of the State Reput
lican Committee, is charged by the Tr
bHne to-day with having uttered six false
hoods in his letter upon re-Organizin
the Republicans of this city, and declare
that in his Saturdays communication
he has repeated his former misrepresenta
tions 1t thinks that Cornell and Murphy
have done, and are now doing serious in
Jury to-the Republican party.
TAMMANY CoRRUPTIoNs.
Public attention is again directed to thu
extortional charges OF the SheritE's off
cials, There have been already paid L
the Sheriff for the first half OF the yeaI
1871, by order of the Board of Superyl,
sors, the sum of $685. 851. 1t is alleged
that according TO the Sherifrs bills OF &C.
count, to which he is entitled for commit
ting persons, Is $403,06. At the rate al
lowed by law this gives him credit fol
having imprisoned inside of six months
S07,0 people, and 1t is calculated at this
rate that by Christmas, allowing for no
moral improvement in the people or Sher.
IFS office, one tenth Of the gross popula.
tiOn will have suffered in either tho
Toombs or the Ludlow street jail. The
deputy SheriIls are said to be protesting
against the imposition, and say this mo.
nOpoly Of fees by tho Sheriff leaves them
bare subsistence. One Of the rumors
in relation to Sheriff Brennan, Is that he
is to be sacrificed by the Tammany ring,
and be displaced at the next election.
There is strong feeling oil opposition
shown him in his own ward by the poll.
ticians who control things there 1t Is
also said that Brennan Is preparing to
sever his connection with the ring, and
aid the movement commenced against II,
on account principally Of the trouble to
which he has recently been subjected by
the action OF the local politicians.
CORRUPTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The Tribune alleges that the public
school system Is tainted with frauds and
abuses by the Tammany ring. 1t says
that the school department has been do
moralized and oil but ruined by the cor.
ruptlpg influences Of those who have con.
troll of public affairs. The notable fea.
lures of the system, as II exists, are said to
be the wasting Of money, the discourage.
ment Of attendance by scholars tho
creeping into the schools OF seCtarian
spirit, and the awarding of contracts for
book supplies to party favorites,
THE CITY ACCOUNTS WANTED.
1t Is understood that an application will
soon be made to Judge Barnard for com.
pelling the production OF the books con.
tanning the city and county accounts,
with a view To getting information touch.
ing tho payment Of claims by the city
If the facts in the case war.
rant 1t suit will be begun against the
officials for the recovery Of such monies
MS have been Illegally abstracted from the
Comptroller Connolly denies that he Is |
guilty in the way of malfeasance with
which he is charged in the policy injunc.
lion suit, He sets up as his defence In the
case, that he has been governed in bis |
conduct by the laws passed by the last
by the constructions which |
have been placed thereon by the law do.
Dartment. He AYERS that he has always
been governed in the administration Of
bis office by a conscientious regard for the
BEST interests Of the city.
TIE INJUNCTION SUIT AGAINST TIE TAM.
MANY OFFICIALS. 81
Great crowds assembled at the court
house to-day 10 witness the proceedings
N the injunction suit against the city,
Counsel O'Gorman, who appeared for the |
city officials, said his clients desired no
leiay, and that they were ready 10 meet
she charges against them. The motion
Ior an Injunction was made without no
lice 10 any one, and at tho same time the
which was put In has more Of
an air of newspaper action than q legal
document. This complaint was accom-.
panied by false, unlounded attack upon |
The city government.
The personal counsel for Tweed, Mr.. |
desired delay, and put in q sep |
lrate answer as TO Tweed, as lie had |
failed to secure any specific statements Of
The charges against him. m -. .
Messrs. Hall and Connolly represented
through their personal counsel that they
were ready TO proceed with the case,
when the court adjourned TO more spa
cious room, where the reading Of afllda-
Vits and It's papers for defence arc now
going on. I.u..I.. a
Mayor Halls answer Is that he has not
been guilty of the malfeaance charged,
or that he has in any way diverted the
funds OF the Treasury from the objects to |
which they, were legitimately applied
The Tammary people about the city seem
hopeful that Judge Barnard will dissolve
The injunction. There. .wassome surprise
upon the announcement that the city of. |
1cials we're ready to go on. II is thought
that they will pursue their side Of the case
with prOmpitude and vigor
THE TAStMANY THIEVES DESTROYING THE
EVIDENCE OF THEIR CRIMES.
1t was found at the Controllers office
his morning that an entrance had been |
Effected by burglars into tho rooms, and |
some Of the vouchers for bills paid in 1870 |
had been distracted. The burglars broke
one of James plate glass in the door and
Inserted hand and forced back the
ratch of n patent lock. Search Was i'm. |