The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-16
NEW YORK.

from washington states tnht ocinms, lhlo
postmaster at Atlanta, Ga, who Is charged
with epbezzllng postofiice. funds 10 The
amoun. Of $50, 900, for which be is now
Ing relieve himself from The charges
ssainst him. His Office has been placed
unfot the control of a, spscl'a p9stoiHea
"The hdb-co,nhiies oftbe citizens com
mi,teo, for the purpose ofinvcstiga.ing tho
city and cousty accousu, say they are
| making ADVANCES slowly but surely, and
ARD Investigating everything bearing upon
tie affairs Of the financial department.
The county auditor repo-ts that the list
Of stolen vouchers for paid claims against
the county for 1870 will lot be made out
in less than ten days.
The Tribune criticizes the conduct Of
Naval Officer Latin in sending abroad 10
politicians, under his frank, letters of his
own and Chairman Cornell, CT the repub-
'ican state committee, which misrepresents
the situation 50 Ear as TO affect the issues
between Fenton and Conkling, in this city.
II says Latin is circulating falsehoods re-
| spccting Greeley, one Of which is state
| ment that Greeley, six months ago, favored
| the denomination Of Grant; wlereas Gree
| ley never favored bis denomination. This
Il
response to tho call Of the Tribune upon
| Latin 10 stop his calumnies, that gentle
| man seeks 10 cvade the question like Chair
| man Cornell, whom, II declares, Greeley
convicted OF having uttered six falshoods
in the Hotchkiss letter. h
The steamer Columbia which reached
thi. port last night, narrowly escaped be-
| ing burned in the bay, yesterday morning.
The fire broke ou, in the hold, which cre-
ated intense alarm among those on board.
The fire was subdued without any great
| damage. The extent Of damage done
TO the cargo is not stated.
The Fenian leader, James Stephens, ar
rived yesterday from Havre. The object
of his visit to this country is to establish
himself in the wine trade. He has gone
out of politics.
The union republican county conven-
tion last night proposed to have fusion
with the other political bodies Of this city
upon municipal reform.
Jacob Vanderbilt, president of the Is
land ferry company, was to-day arraigned
on tho charge of man slaughter. he
| pleaded not guilty.
The messenger Of the North River bank
of this city confessed, to-day, to theft of
$4,000 in gold certificates which he said he
l was rODpeQ OF Two weeks ago.
There was q smaller attendance than on
any previous day at tie hearing Of the ar
gumert on The Injunction case this morn
ing. .-- .
| F1-Judge bartlett, Twecds' counsel,
said .-.....'
II am here to show cause why the in
/ junction should not be continued. i would
be safe in submitting the case on affidavits
| without argument Our answer is not
put in YET but we have met all points gen.
orally by seperato afidavits. Your honor
enjcins my client TO perform certain du-
ties he answers that he has faithful y
and fully performed them, and his state
men. is corroborated Ia under oath
by the mayor Of tho city.
The law says an Injunction against the
corporation shall not be granted except
on eight day q notice. Here is an injunction
granted &c parte, without notice, and Is
therefore void as regards supervisors. In
fatal difficulty for plaiStif under the de.
cision Of your homer the plaintiff has nc
legal standing here as against the corpor
tion OF New York city, or mayor Hall a
an individual. There is no body TO CON-
pei US TO do what we are doing.
1 The counsel held the plaintiff responsi
bic for bringing false charges against hi:
Il II,
prompted the injunction suit as a band Of
| cataline conspirators without Cataline
and that they had sworn to libels. HI
asked that the Injunction be Immediately y
dissolved SO far as his client was
, concerned. The very form Of government
under which the acts charged in the com.
plant were done, has passed away, and the
legislature has ordered the payment Of ths
claims. Barrett, for the prosecution, ar
gued that the officials had no right &c
raise and spend money ontside of the tive
| per cent. act. ,t.....-.-.,
The first ten sections Of the complaint;
show the mischief 10 remedied is the pay.
ment Of fraudulent claims against thecity
and the two per, cent. act comes in TO pre-
vent tthe,expendture OF ono dollar outside
of II. There. is no word denied of the acts
of fraud charged in the first ten sections
Barrett CON inued reviewing the acts OF
Mayor Hall, and charged him with max
ing paltry' excuses. He then proceeded tc
the case Of Connolly, whose atfiaavits, he
said, was the boldest and least tricky doc.
ument before the court, and which proves
tho falsity of Halls answer, He argued
that Tweed, and Connelly's answers con
I,tradicted each other. s,, a9,,.., g.s ,...
Il Beach, ,interrupting, Charged Barrett
with grossly ssgarbling Coaaelly's ailidav'
its. nj s4yl.s 80 s2aaui ell l.J5 r. 49,
| 4. After brief and sharp controversy be-
tween. tho counsel about tho mannel
that they wero eontradicted by portions
Of Tweod's and, Connelley's own MINUTES
Ho argued that the supervision, BY com
4 ing into court and praying for judgmen
on, plendings, were stopped from making
The objection ! that the plaintiff has nc
standing in court. The eestaguei trps
can fellow his property Wherever hes find,
4 ii whsther oin the hands of the names
trustees or their servants or eonfederates
now come to the construction Of the tWf
per cent. act. xos .1g.ds q .9aa,
Judge BarnGrd.--I have come TO tn
conclusion that il is constitutional, exccp
as far as docks and parks are concerned,
BarrsH.--It is said it you conflne th'
money specified in that act that you viii
stop the wheels of the government; bu
it, authorizes the sum of twenty-thre
millions. Tho parks also received 100
dollars from the council and they don't tsl
VS. what they done with the money. Th
counsel added that he was sure Mayor Hal
was not concerned in the associations re
ferred to in the first ten sections. s6asig-
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