Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-11-03
Tammany Affairs.

After Controller Connolly's Office at New ork
YVES r,tbsI the latter gentlemsn's Clerks
wsat to work under deputy Controller
Green to identify the missing vouchers
They have been only partially successful,
vet their abstract completely fills four
n.oes Of the New York Times. Inge-tou Co.
figures in the hst for nearly S2.0O0,00o; Geo.
s Miller for over 81 100000 Andrew J.
Carney for nearly S2,676,O00; C. D Bollar *
Co. for shout S952, 600 A. G, Miller for
SiS9.Ol0, and so on. The late Auditor Watson's
name appears frequently and in queer connee-
tons Thus Prof R. Ogden Doremus gets So
800 for two chemical analyses, and Il. &.
Connolly divides 50, 100 with two other gentle
men for "expenses at Albany in relation to the
tax-levy Of 1862 Many Of the missing
vouchers undoubtedly represented honest claims
against The treasury. Messrs. Hsggerty anu
Bauleh were in toe much OF a hurry to PICK and
choose. They knew where the papers they were
after we're kept, snd, 10 make secure, they had
to take all vouchers they found there, number
ing in all 1858 1t remains to be seen whether
the burglary turns out the paying operation
that il war intended to be 10y those Who planned
it
The Times sAys "0lr readers remember the
fraudulent warrants which we published some
time ago. Many of them, it has since been as
certainei, we're forged The persons il whose
name they we're drawn never received a cent of
the money. Who did receive il On the very
day it was drawn large par Of it 'ras pad BY
Tlceea into his o,rH pirate account t. A
Woodward receirea SO much, and paid cut e.
much by check to Tweed That check was then
deposited BY Tweed for bis own use and benefit.
In this way, Tweed &" rsked in " about a mil
lion between May and September Of last year
alone
The Tribune has been looking up the official
record Of real estate transactions in New York
city, which shows that Connolly, Tweed, and
Sweeny alone bought real estate to the amount
of $40, 100000 from 1865 to 1871. Controller
Connolly, when sued in 1866 for debt, swore that
he owned nothing, but since that time he has
bought real estate and bonds to the amount Of
S2,3O0,G9l.
VIM NJ Tweed, bankrupt 10 1861, has bought
and sold real estate. houses, horses, &c, since
1865, TO the amount of Sl,474,95l, and had
other transactions to the amount Of 50, 100000
more.
Peter D. Sweeny's purchases amounted IN
three years, to Sl,479,7S6, snd Mayor Halls
to $50, 900 while Auditor Watson's, largely
on shares with the Connollys, reached SILL
III in two years. The transactions of the three
principal Ring men have thus amounted, IL less
than four years. to SIC, ,05l
To the surprise of all but the initiated, Po-
lice Justice Ledwith received the nomination for
Justice of the Supreme Court from the TAmmsny
County Convention Leiwith has been for years
foe Of Tammany, and wss an ant;-Tammsny
candidate for Mayor, sgsinst Hall. This cap
ture by the Boss will help the Tammsny ticket
at the coming election. Ledwith is 8 member
Of the Citizens Committee of Seventy, and it
remains to be seen what action that body will
take in view Of his nomination by Tam
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