The New York herald., 1871-09-14

Letter from One WHO Knows.
The following letter. written by a gentleman
whose official position enables him to know whereof
he writes and whose words are those OF one having
authority will satisfy the pubic that If any difl-
Guilty arises at the Court House to-day Comptroller
Connolly must be he'd responsible for the con-
sequences Of that as well as ali his other acts Of
folly
NEW YORK, Sept. ls, 1871.
To TEE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-
There are az present employed on the work en-
titled additional Alterations of Aqueduct Ninety
third TO Hath street," eighteen hundred laboring
inen, Wnom lhe press often Improperly denoInihate M
Department or Public Works under the working
control OF its Engineer Bureau and reside In the
various districts OF the city and eDvrons; nearly all
are poor, and utterly dependent on their wages Tor
subsistence.
They are or should he, paid on semi-monthy
rolls and any considerable delay In their pay
ment is sure TO work them much emoar-
Tso sas anq ros ae asaay Fl
and passed through the proper channels to the
Comptrolers ONCE, and in few days more pay Will
previously unfulded promises, were yesterday def
ntey assured OF their pay to-day but TO their intense
formed that the Comptroller refuses 10 sign the
necessary warrants on the ground tnat ne Is re-
II the Comptroller imagInes these men, because
they are laborers, are destitute OF proper appre
They understand his position thoroughly and the
erect OF the injunction, to which understanding
they have ueel aided Dy the remarks CT the plain
Interpretation given by Judge Barnard in
granting it and his subsequent explanatory
remarks on this very point. These creditors OF the
city put their non.payment just where 1t belongs
and charge their present sulerirgs to the account
OF Comptroller Connolly. 1t Is but Just to state. and
the men are fully aware, that the rolls have been
pushed through all the intermediate channels to the
sioner of Pubic Works. the Chief Engineer and others
have urged the prompt relief OF their employees; that
theCtty chamberlain has requested the nee esSary
warrants, and finally that the only obstacle to the
payment OF these men lies in the inconceivably
improper and impOlitlc position assumed by Mr.
Connolly. These men know all this and no sophistry
can deude them. Because Mr. Connolly seems
to have utterly lost his head and choosef TO
1t need not follow that these working people have
lost theirs and are prepared to follow him In his va
carries. II Mr.. Connolly after assuming the r0Ie of
tine ASS OF Apueius, makes his choice of OF his
bundles OF provender ana gorges himself to safety
1t would seem that the public should be secured
from the effects OF his resulting Indigestion and not
be deprived OF the peaceful enjoyment OF what he
sees fit to leave them through his splenelc eoulll-
lions. Ii tue Comptrollers head cannot be reached,
perhaps his sympates may. 1t is char
liable to believe him ignorant of the fact
aud aud Supporters, nave been dispossessed BY
their landlords because they could not
pay their rent; that many OF them nave abandoned
their work IN order to obtain their pay tickets,
chasers saw lit to make that many have walked
from the remotest parts OF the city, and even from
Williamsburg, to their daily labor and back, be-
cause they had not sufficient to pay car iare that
without money to buy their noon meal at their
work some have had to beg a crust from their
fellow laborers or 60 hungry. If neither these
sideratlons, nor that OF gratitude TO these by
whose aid ana votes he rose to power will avail it
may be that they Will be impelled by despair to
urge others on his notice more effective 10 base
minds Ve7'6una sap sat- HABET.