Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-11-02
NEW YORK.
The TribuIations Of Tammany.

| WIFI haVIlS accepted Ine Iammany nOmi-
nation for Supreme Court, the Judge re-
signed last night his membership of the
committee of seventy, The resignation
excited much comment
Deputy Comptroller Green declines TO
! pay the police, justices and clerks. on the
| ground that they have been overpaid, as
the increased salaries they have been re-
| ceiying under the vote or the Common
| Council, were in contravention of law.
Under this decision they will not receive
any salary for several months to come.
The Grand Jury was dismissed Yesterday
| without finding any indictment against
| Tweed. His case will be brought before
the new Grand Jury, to be impanneled on
Monday next, before Judge Bedford.
Imitators of DefauIter Bailey.
The Times has Information from the Cap
tain of the steamer Hermann, that Andrew
J. Garyey and wife went on the steamer
under the assumed name of Macdonald.
and upon their arrival at Bremen, proceeded
to Basle, switzerland.
Ingersoll had not returned at late hour
last aight His friends claim that he will
return to-day, and give the necessary bail
for re-appearance.
Short Division.
4 statement has been made, founded on
warrants paid by the Broadway bank, that
Ingersoll x Garvey, in depositing, invariably
gave AZ per cent. to Woodward, "A TO Tweed,
and kept "a for themselves.
No Fire Department,
AT meeting of the Board of Fire Com
missiOners to-day a statement was made
representing that the department is entirely
bankrupt. The board wants money to
make payments to employees but dislikes |
TO countenance payments by outside parties.
There was nothing definite decided.
The Committee of Seventy desire contri- !
buttons to defray the expenses of printing
their election ballots.
A Lively Row in the City of Chu rches
-Belligerenf Demonstrations on
KIabGeisch.
There is some excitement among the
politicians of Brooklyn to-day, in cOnse-
quence of All attack on the school mistresses
of Brooklyn appearing in the journal edited |
by Mr.. Delmar, formerly Director of the
Bureau of Statistics at Washington. The |
charge was that the body of teachers were |
paid TO suit the purposes Of vile men in |
power. The Sub Democratic General Com
mittee waited on the Mayor saying that the |
Mayor denied. Registrar mclaughlin, the |
spokesman Of the party, then challenged |
the Mayor to come into the streets, declar- |
ing that if he did he would knock the |
Mayors head off. There are suspicious |
that the Mayor had something to do with |
the publication, and Mclaughlin threatens |
to Use the cowhide if he discovers the real |
author of the libel.
The Erie ImpressariO.
The order of arrest, which had been is |
sued against James Fisk, Jr., charged with |
using funds belonging to Mrs. Josephine |
Mansfield, while acting in fiduciary capac-
ity, was served yesterday afternoon by De |
putty Sheriff Jarvis. At o'clock Mr.. jar
Wis walked into Fisk's room, at the Grand |
Opera House, and addressing his prisoner,
said:
Il have an order for your arrest. 1t is
granted in the suit of Mrs. Helen Josephine |
Mansfield against you.'
Fisk laughed heartily. $50 it's Mansfield, |
again, is it? Wen haves sbondsmen here"
and he called Chas. Robinson, of Fishkill, |
and b. w. Blanchard, each of whom quail
fed as bOndsmen, and both were accepted.
The amount of bail is $4,000.
\ letter from Mansfield to Fisk upbraids
him for perfidy, and says it is a shame
to compel her who grew up with him from |
nothing 10 the now great Erie impressariO, |
to vindicate herself in court She refers to |
his scheme, revealed to her four years ago,
of stealing the Erie books, and how, when |
he was buying the New York Legislature, |
he said it would result in either Fisk /
palace in New York or a stone palace at |
Sing Sing, requesting her if it was the lat |
for 10 taly ,rrtgi1a ~ r,Yfanu
She is willing to have affairs arbitrated by |
VIM. NJ. Evarts, but says if his power over
the courts is still supreme, Tammany is |
still able to protect him.
There was a great deal of comment in 1
the city to-day on the Mansfield-FiSk corr /
respondence. Revelations are expected ,
damaging to the Erie officials. as well as ,
Tweed and Sweeny and other Tam /
manyites. Fisk attempts to explain the |
Mansfield letter by declaring that the suit |
is an attempt TO eXtort money from him. |
He was to-day busy preparing his defence
snd holding consultation with legal gentle
men.
The Defaulting Postmaster.
Some of the property Of the defaulting
Assistant Postmaster, Norton, was disposed 4.
of by his sureties, at auction, yesterday. /
Nearly TOp,vOO MOlll WIS Sblu lOl ltSS I
than $4,000.
The GreeIeyifes DenOunce the Com |
nIittee of Seventy.
At a meeting Of the Greeley Representa-
tive Convention tonight, resolutions were /
passed condemning the action of the Com
mittee of Seventy in striking off the names .
Of three out of the four aldermanic candi- !
dates placed by the organization on the |
county ticket, declaring its adherence to /
the original ticket and that the other wing
Of the representatives as well as the reform
ers are dissatisfied with the alterations of |
the ticket by the Committee Of Seventy.
Registering.
To-day, the second of registration. 6S, ,0S0 |
voters registered. On the first day 23, 7}6 |
registered. Total registration to date 91,-
Sl6. Two days still remain to receive the
names of voters. Total registration last
year, 142, ,G66.
The German Joint Committee tonight
indorsed O'DOnoyan Rosa for Senator.
The Sweets of Speculation.
a Long Island Sugar Refinery Company
are reported as about TO suspend. The
embarrassments of the company, which are
nearly ST50,000, is said to be due to eXces-
sive specuations in mOlasSes, since which
the market has declined.
Anneke Jams.
Yesterday petition was presented for
letters of administration by the heirs of
Anneke Jams. The petition disputes again
the title to the Trinity Church property.