Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-12
NEW YORK.
The Coming Italian Pageant.
srasI, Republican,

lasive provision which took effect Aug.
regulating the issuing of licenses to drug
gists' clerks. The Apothecaries Uniol
held 8 meeting yesterday afternoon an(
discussed the question of enjoinipg By lie
gal steps the doings of the Board of Elk
aminers which provided the license Law
they have set on foot 4 movement tC
secure the repeal of the Objectionable
act in this mornings Tribune, presents
a detailed statement of the trans
actions of the quarantine officials,
and charges the health officer, DR.. Carna
chan, with having prosituted his officia
power for pilfering purposes aud enrich,
| ment of himself and the quarantine ring,
and damage to the commerce of this port.
1t says 800 and odd vessels were driver
from our port in a single year by the &C.
tons of quarantine, this officer and his
colleague.
Forty-five thousand dollars were plum
dered from a few score merchants whom
we can name, during four quarantine
months, on single items.
Stevedoring and unnecessary Tightening,
by which many thousand passengers have
been most unnecessarily put to the incon-
venience of transferring themselves and
baggage in the lower bay, and then com.
PEELED, under threats of detention, to pay
from dollar and half TO five dollars tax
for transportation distance of less than
u miles, while at the same time the tugs
maintained by the State at extravagant
rates to do this very work free of cost to
passengers, have been employed as
pleasure boat by the health officer.
Private shipping merchants have been
detained until they consented to pay for
their transfers by quarantine boats st q
rate a hundred fold higher than that for
which the United States postal depart
ment does the same work. Other cargoes
of valuable and perishable goods have been
ordered by quarantine officers to ware
houses distant from the business part of
the city in order that those who pay
brides might have the benefits of large
commission illegally obtained.
The Fail Campaign.
Local Democratic organizations are
already discussing the course to be pur.
sued with reference to the fall campaign.
The prevailing opinion is that the
strong anti -Tammany delegation to the
September State Convention, for the
nomination of State officers, will this year
be reinforced by representatives from the
German and Irish bodies, and those
Americans who have been long hostile to
the present city ring, and that, if posi-
bic, concert of action with Republicans
will be had 10 elect anti-TammaDy legis-
lators from the city districts. The Tam
NANTES are already showing great activity
by the organization of local clubs and
making vigorous campaign preparations.
Trying TO Get Up Another Riot.
Statements have been made that gen.
eral attack is to be made on the Italian
procession on the 25th, but are not credited
in police circles. The assertion that
armed organizations of Hibernians would
interfere to prevent the parade, is also
believed to have no foundation in fact.
The police authorities, however, though
they do not anticipate any breach of the
peace, will make all necessary arrange
ments for the preservation of order.
Notice has been served upon Capt EN-
met, guardian of the Irish military or
ganiZstion in Jersey City, that the per-
mission accorded them of using the city
armory by the Common Council last year
has been revoked by committee of the
present Common Council.
ThurIow Weed Dying.
A letter received from Miss Weed to-
day states that her father, Thurlow
Weed, will take the next steamer for
home, due here Sunday, and expresses
fears that he might not survive the voy-
age.
The BLONDES.
The Queen has arrived with Lydia
Thompson and her troupe of blondes as
passengers.
GibbeIted.
ROCHESTER, n. Y, Aug. 11.-Joseph
Messner was executed at 1928 this after
noon. He fully confessed of having
murdered his wife in April, 1868.
An Unlicensed Engineer.
Henry Romley, owner of the steam
boiler, was arrested to-day on complaint
of Capt. Yule of the Sanitary Company,
for employing man to act as engineer
who had no certificate as prescribed by
law. He was brought before Justice
Hogan and subsequently, admitted to bail.
Diamond Digging and tho Peanut
BUSINESS
A private letter from Hebron, South
America, says the diamond diggings in
that region do not pay. Every dollars
worth that is found costs two. The
writer advises any one who is thinking of
embarking in the enterprise to stay away.
Put your money into comic newspaper,
or go into the peanut business.
The Horrors of the Sea-
A number of seamen lately attached
to the ships Sardis, of Boston, and Mary
Bronze, of San Francisco, who have just
arrived here, say that reign of terror
was carried on by the officers on board
of these ships during their last trip, which
was by the former from San Francisco to
Liverpool, beginning here, and by the
latter from San Francisco to Hong Kong.
The crews of both were cruelty maltreat-
ed, while on the Mary Bronze four men
were fouliy murdered.
The WesGfieId-Cheap Labor.
The Coloner's inquest this morning on
the Westfeld murders developed no new
facts. Ward B. Hart, ESQ.,, thought the
Westfeld's boiler capable of carrying
thirty or forty pounds of steam, and that
the wages received here are 500 per
month, whereas the Staten Island Ferry
Company pay but $s5.
The Government Investigation.
Erastus W. Smith, a practical engineer
for thirty-fve years and designer of the
engines of the Dunderberg, the Metropo-
lis and other well known steamers, testi
fed that ne had found the Westfeld's
boiler of inferior iron, cracked nearly
through in consequence of inadequate
support, one of the saddles having been
removed and never replaced; and it was
evidently well supplied with water at the
time of the explosion. Smith pronounced
hydrosuauc pressure no proper test for q
boiler.
George G. Sewell, United States en-
gineer, testified that he had examined the
boiler of the Westfield and found that
the iron of which it was made was of the
most worthless character. The iron had
not been welded thoroughly, and in some
places the alag was visible between the
LAYERS of metal. He considered the
cause of the explosion to be the careless
ness of man, rather than the Providence
of God.