The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-12-29
NEW YORK CITY.
The Disappearance OF TWesd-His
Resignation as Grand SRchen--
The CustOm.IIOlse. Investigation
"A WhlteWRsh Expected.

cials. VINO arc on the lookout for him.
His friends saw that he will turn up at the
prOper time II ia assorted that his priv.
ilepe ns Senator will cyempt him from
arrest but il appears that Inc law does
not cover n case like Tweeds, inasmuch
rs it is specified that the privilege Of free.
dom from arrest does not extend to any
person against whom suit is brought for
Inc violation Of any of his trusts ia Office.
The Tribune asserts that It's nevertheless
TwGeds design to remain concealed until
he eau take his scat in the Senate, but that
this step cannot save him from arrest
and that il Is known that steps have been
taken to rcarrcSt him, on charge grayer
than any heretofore made. '.
Tho Times says that Charles O'Connor
Is opposing the framing of an indictment
against Mayor Hall by tho grand Jury.
1t is said that Twccds resignation rs
the Tammany Grand Sachem is already
in the hands of the proper officer Of the
institution. Isaac Bell, u prominent
Sachem, says he secs no necessity of dc.
posing Tweed MS Tammany is no
longer what 1t was, and his resignation
does little good, as his retention will do
no harm. The order DENYING the reduc.
ton of bail in the civil suit against
Tweed Is 10 be appealed from the court at
Albany on Tuesday next.
Mayor Hall is said to have resigned Us
a member of tho Union Club TO escape
tho action which was to have been held
to consider the question OF his expulsion.
The Tribune says that us a precautionary
measure in the mnttcrol an investigation
of the custom house by the Congressional
Iletrenchment Committee, four inspectors
and one clerk, who are witnesses, will be
dismissed, also, that the impression Is
sought to be conveyed by the custom
house runners that the investigation will
be whitcwashing affair
Neither Cornelius Carson nor Chas. L.
Miller, of the N. Y. Printing Company are
to be found in the city. Abundant evidence
Of fraud In their accounts with the city,
the Times says, have been found.
The World, edtorially, says that it Is
probable that Tweed has fled to escape
lodgings in the Ludlow street Jail that
his expulsion is certain II hc takes his
seat in the Senate that his fall is per.
haps the most sudden and impressive of
any that has happened in our time, except
Louis Napoleon.
Five of the worst immigration swim.
dlers were arrested Yesterday and TOmbcd.
Charles r. Burroughs was found yes.
terlay dead, by the sheriff, who went to
serve an attachment on him, sitting in
two chairs, in his house in Paterson, N.
j. lie shielded by taking poison on the
10th Of December, tho body remaining
frozen stiff until found in his room ycstcr.
day.
The steamship Cuba, which shoacd
Yesterday, lloated off this morning, and
has now passed out for Liverpool.
A considerable crowd assembled at the
court house today where Twecd's sure.
ties were being examined expecting
Tweed to be there, but he didn't come.
An engine and tender on the Morris &
Essex railroad were destroyed by coils.
ion nt bergen tunnel this morning with
the Lacknwanna. No passengers on eth.
or train were injured.
The grand Jury today asked further OK.
tension Of the time to examine tho ring
frauds, and Judge Bedford granted II, and
extended the time TO tho 9th Of January.
The grand Jury also passed an order that
they would not pass upon any indictments
for municipal frauds during the sitting OF
the other grand jury in the Oyer and Ter.
miner court. w l.
There Is good deal of comment on
tl,e statement by tho grand Jury that they
can do nothing while the Court Of Oyer
and Terminer Is in session. 1t establishes
a point oil opposition to the legality of
tbe indictments heretofore found.
The Comptroller has promised the wa.
pes of the batch of Court officials.
James II. Hackett, veteran actor, died
Inst night at his residence in Jamaica,
Long Island, aged 70.
The whereabouts Of Tweed arc said to
be constantly known to tho Sheriff. lie
never left tho city and had no such inten-
iions lie was al the office of the Public
Works This morning, and had an inter.
view with several friends. Justice Scott
says he saw him this morning in com.
Portable place in the city.
The Justification of bondsmen was con.
tlnued today, and MessrS. p F. Fairchild
and G. G. Cornell were accepted. The
Sheriff and his attaches express the be-