The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-08-25
NEW YORK.
The New York County and City
Accounts.

meetings of the Board of Supervisors
and Common Council were held sepa
rately to-day. to receive the city &C,
counts. These were huge budgets, be-
ginning January lst, 1869. and ending
July LIST, 1871. Long messages from
the Mayor accompanied each budget.
The proofs are made up in chronologi.
cal order, describing each warrant is
sued, the amount the pay and subjec,
matter. The Mayor sent, also, the
the valuation Of city and country real
estate made by three sworn appraisers,
whom the Sinking Fund Commission,
ers several months ago elected, Messrs.
Palmer, Becker and Miller, Republi,
cans. The valuation is within trac,
ton of two hundred and fifty-four mil.
lions. The Mayor officially says most
of the bonds OF other cities are issued
entirely on municipal credit, and
claims New York's great value OF
property as a collateral is unexampled
in the history Of cities. He asks from
each Board select committee more
particularly to investigate the vouchers
behind these accounts, and requests
these committees to permit all unpar'
tsau committees of citizens to join in
the examination. He quotes every
statute OF 1870 which he claims made
it ministerial and compulsory duty
for the authorities to pay enormous
claims of years standing, Of ten mil,
lions begun and made under the old
metropolitan city departments, and
abolished the Board of Supervisors so
as to allow the new Government to
begin unhampered. He claims dis
tinct understanding with the Legisla-
ture with the men of both parties, to
provide for these claims, and says unless
they had been provided for the new i'm
proved city government could not have
been legitimately inaugurated. The
partisans OF the present city govern
ment claim that the accounts so sub.
mitted, so far as they relate to the new
regime, cannot be subjected to criticisms
made so pointedly in the past few weeks.
Recorder Hackett, Supervisor Jerome,
a banker, and Supervisor Schlechting
a German merchant, were appointed
the official committee to act with the
committees of citizens. The Mayor
message is regarded as candid, but
officially bold and politically defiant
The accounts are partly printed md
partly in manuscript, and make enor'
nous budgets. When fully printed
they will make several volumes of a
thousand pages each. The reason as
signed by the Mayor for the delay is
that since the tables accompanying the
message two months ago, the public
demand for the utmost minuteness com
PEELED recall OF the tables, to be re
placed by this succinct and chronology
cal history.
Aquatic.
New YORK, August 24.-The Secre'
tary of the New York Yacht Club, has
received letter from Commodore
Ashbury, stating he is going to have the
Cambria fitted out to sail for the cup
Of 1851, in the international yacht
race, instead Of the Livona as first In,
tended. The Cambria will leave Eng
land September lst.
The Evangelical Alliance
Rev. Dr.. Scheuck, of Brooklyn, has
Just returned from Europe, where he
went as one ofthe Evangelical Alliance
with the memorial to the Car of Rus,
sia. He states that the deputation en-
countered considerable difficulty in ap-
preaching the Car for the purpose Of
presenting the memorial, and that
finally through the good offices of Cyrus
w. Field, who used his personal infu'
ence with the Grand Duke Constantine,
they obtained an interview with Prince
Gortschakoff. There were two memoir
ais, one American and the other
English. The former was the first
presented and accepted by the Prince
for the consideration Of the Emperor.
The English document was declined on
account OF certain Objectionable phrases.
DIR. Schenck is on the whole very san
guine of good results from the efforts OF
the Alliance.
Pension Frauds.
The following is from q Washington
speeial to the Herald: 1t has been the
opinion of the Treasury officials for
some time past that there is rapid and
continued increase of claimants. The
pension lists for a long time after the
war terminated were very irregular, and
the investigations made from time to
time developed nothing save few lso'
lated cases of fraud, where the offend
ers were brought to justice. The de-
tectives in the service of the Treasury
Department now profess to have got a
trace of information opening up wide
field of fraud in this branch Of public
snryice. 1t is asserted that large COM
bipations exist in many large cities, and
rascals in the Southern States make a
rppular business OF working up fraudu-
lent lists of colored claimants who new
er existed.
Misery in Southern Hungary.
The HeraRs special, dated Pesth,
August %, says: There is a fearful
misery in Southern Hungary, formerly
the most important grain producing
country in Europe. One-third OF the
country is under water. The dams
which were built to prevent the
overflow of the river have been permit
ted to fall into ruins. They gradually
Welded to the pressure Of water and the