The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-04-18
THE WARREN HASTINGS OF
NEW YORK.

THE WARREN HASTINGS OF
NEW YORK.
Tweed, the Chief Of the Tamman!
Plunderers.
Geo. A. Townsend'S Correspondence in the Chi
cago Tribune.
1 have lately been talking to severn
gentlemen about the inside history
TammaDy Hall, and some OF this GOSSIP
may prove readable in Chicago.
TWEED, TIE R4JAn.
William NJ. Tweed is now believed t
be tho third may, in point Of wealth, Ii
the United States, lie having boosted t
several persons that he was worth nearel
$2O,0O0OO0 than $l5,00O,000. In 1851 hi
was in the city oil Washington, and, on in
quiry by some friend here, he stated that
by a good deal of work and thrift, he hat
got together 10000, and, lie added
that he meant to keepit fol, aSyou may mo-
know, Tweed and his brother, who were
in business, failed few years before the
wRr, and tweed took the benefit Of the
Bankrupt act About 1862, Elijah Purdy
n respectable TammaDy Democrat Of the
former day, who was an officer of O
savings bank on Astor place, remarked &c
a group Of gentlemen:
"Old TGmmany Hall is losing all its
character, There is Bill Tweed, who has
never had any standing in Tammany, and
he has absolutely got $4,000 now. ]
know" said Mr.. Purdy, "that he has got
$4,000, but how could he have come by
itT
What would the old "wheel.horse ofthG
Democracy" say If he were now alive, at
the fact that Tweed stands next to AstOI
and Stewart in worldly possessions and
that nearly the whole Of this he has made
since 1862, and the bulk Of 1t between 1860
and 1912 Some time ago his eldest son
wanted 10 be nominated for Congress, but
Tweed refused to let him have the nomi.
nation, saying contemptuously:
"He shall not throw away his time on
an insignificant place like thatw
What Office would you let him have"
said the interrogation.
"Why, he ought to aspire 10 be an Al
derman Of New York city, or IN Assistant
Alderman anyway"
SOME TANfAfANY JOBS.
One ofthe most efficient adjuncts to
Tweed's great fortune Is the city printing
Of New York, which concentrates In an
unknown paper called the New York
Ddily Transcript, and In the New York
Printing Company, which is q concern
supplied with machinery, type, and all
thcappurtGnances Of vast printing house,
Tweed frequently draws checks for $780,.
900 to 100000, and even more, against
the Treasury Of New York, on account Of
the Transcript, During tho years 1870
and 1871, he has obtained immense re.
ceipts from back accounts on street ex.
tensions, tho Court House construction,
and other things. Tho two great jobs
now IN hand by his ring are the widening
OF broadway far up town, and the COnsOl.
idation Of all the market house interests
Of Now York in q new market house
structure which the ring has erected on
the North River in the region OF Thrift.
eth street, In tho former case they as.
sess the cost widening the street through
some Of the most valuable blocks In the
world upon the broad area Of tho city,
and satisfy the Immediately Affect
cd properly holders by setting the
estimates high. Many Of these very lots
have been bought before hand by the ring,
and they paid for them in their entirety
by widening the streets. Ii you can esti.
mate in your minds eye the immense
market stall interest of New York, and
then conceive that it Is Tweed's object TO
drive all tho market folks into one new
establishment, by breaking up the other
market houses by enactment, and by for
bidding private markets, through the al.
legged necessities Of the legal system Of
market inspeCtOrship, you can understand
what hyena Of avarice IL this utterly
shameless form Of man. One might
think that citation at his success would
drive Tweed to dissipation, and 60 happily
rid mankind Of his presence, and l am
told by some who know him that his
family have TO keep watch over him lest
he should kill himself with much eating.
lie has always restrained himself some.
what in tho matter Of drink, and he has
Outlived another one OF his vices; but his
stomach appears to take example from
his hand, and wants all that it can masti'
cate without collapse.
TwEED's coNPLACENCY.
Some gentlemen were giving me an
instance Of Tweed's selcgratulation over
his wealth in the case OF an old man
whose name, rs l remember it, was Van.
derpool. Vanderpool was one Of Tweed's
creditors when he failed, some years ago
and there were $l6, 900 in that one account,
Expecting never to get it, VanderpOol lei
the matter rest for years, but on one &C.
casiOn, finding himself annoyed in some
matter OF municipal law, he thought lie
would go TO so powerful a man as Tweed
to get relief. He found Tweed in the best
Of humOr, and was reproached for moi
having come Oftener. Tweed instantly
wrote note, reforming the matter Of com.
plant, and said to him:
"Abram" ( am not sure that l have
either Of the names correctly why don't
you send in that little account which has
been standing SO lOngy l need not pay
y0u OF course, because l have taken the
benefit Of the act, but it is u small matter,
and we have been generally good friends,
YOn go home and look over your papers
and get tho memoranda together and send
them to me, and will fix the thing for
you"
"Tweed," said the other, "they say you
are worth $5OOO,OOO. Is that SOP"
"Abram," said Tweed, "you can multi.
ply that five million by three, and you
won't go far out Of the way II you multi
ply II BY four" The Emperor Tiberius
then chuckled and went on good.humor,
edly with his mode Of life.
FARMERS will be alarmed to hear that
thieves are getting adventurous enough to
steal herds from the pasture. A flock Of
stolen sheep was driven into st Louis
last week and aOll NhHoa faPTn fannaa