Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-21
Our New YORK Dispatches.
Another SwindIe - Concerning Public
Accounts - a New Investigation and
More Corruption, etc.

/ LARGE SWiNpLE.
| New YORK, Feb 20.-POllotk. the linen
Smuggler who has been arrested BY United
/ States Treasury Agent Howe is reported to
| have Swindled Henry ClcWS banker, out of s25-
/ OOO, by giving MIN fraudulent invoices of lineu
| and then BY some unknown means obtaining
possession OF the few goods they represented and
| selling them.
| PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
President Fowler Of the water board refuses
| TO allow the committee of fifty TO examine his
accounts. The committee are about proSecut-
inc tue excise board for frauds on the civ The
committee have also requested the legislature to
suspend all action upon Brooklyn affairs Tor
short time, to enable an exposition 10 be made
of the corruptiOns in the water board, the Pros
pect park commission and several other depart
mentS.
MORE CORRUPTION.
In the quarantine Investigation, Mr.. White
testified to having arranged to send quarantine
curgoes TO Dr. Carnochan's stores by paying
him twenty-five per cent; other parties offered
| TO do lightcrage oue-third less than we did but
| we could not do II any cheaper on account of
| the heavy bonus we paid DR.. Cdrnochau TOR the
| business; by using our tug vessels, we were re-
lease quicker from quarantine; he considered
| the arrangement made with DIR. CarnOchan the
biggest fraud he ever struck
THE NEW CHARTER.
There was an immense meeting of citizens at
| Cooper institute tonight, in support of the new
| charter OF the committee OF seventy AMONG
| those ON the platform were Henry Clews, ex-
| Mayor Havemeycr, Col. Stebbns and ali the
! leading members of the committee. The speakers
| were Horace Greeley, eX-Gov. Solomon Gen
| Dix, Joseph II. Choate and VIM. l.. Dodge
| RESOLUTIONS were adopted endorsing the new
| charter. The republican central committee
(Greeleyite) tonight endorsed the same docu-
| ment.
EFT CETERA.
The grand jury yesterday handed in a large
| number OF new indictments, several of which
are said TO he interesting to officials of this city
The cargo OF teas, silks, etc, of the barque
| Robert Fletcher, wrecked at MOrcheS Long
Island has strewn the shore for twenty miles
The aldermen yesterday instructed the city
council to proceed to recover the CO.. poration
property on annual leases in the hands of per-
SOUS paving Il nominal rent.
ii IS stated that the principal charge of the
bar association against Judge CIrdozo is brib.
cry.
The United States district attorney has been
instructed 20 prosecute all merchants who have
brihed custom house officials, and actions will
begin next month.
The quarantine legislative investigation will
extend TO emigration affairs. Scion Humphrey
merchant, yesterday testified relative to the
eNorbtant charges of the health officers of this
port
OConnor, the embezzler of the Delaware and
lAckawanna railroad, arrived yesterday from
| Savannah, ard was taken to Scranton. Pa
| where he was imprisoned in default of bail.
The Methodist convention last evening re-
| solved TO petition the Methodist conference TO
| place this city under one instead of two dis
| Ticts.
statement is current that Postmaster Gen.
eral Creswell is about resgnng, to be succeeded
| by Forney.
An unknown woman was run over, her head
crushed to atoms and her body horribly man
gled, by dummy engine of the Hudson River
railroad, ut the crossing of DesbroSses street.
yesterday afternoon
over one thousand CrispinS surrounded six
non society men in Warren street last eyeninr
and but for the strong body of police who es-
cOrted them, serious violence would have en-
| sued. Trouble is threatened, as party employ
| lnE them viii not submit TO tho dctatlon of The
| CrlSpln society,
| Edward lllnchen, merchant, testified that
| llghterage charges on Havana vessels at quaran-
tine in this port were one third the vessels ex-
| penses
H. q. Qninan, treasurer of the Atlantic steam
| snip company, testified that passengers by their
| vessels, who were brought up by the doclors's
boat from Quarantine, paid from one to seven
dollars for the privilege; the company did not
| complain, rs passengers had 10 pay; the health
officer had arbitrary power Of OBTAINING vessels
| as long as he saw tit; one more year last
| at quarantine would nearly ruin til
| of New York.
| ChaS Ii. Marshall well know
| testified TO abuses in the quaranr
stance, one Of his vessels was de-
| doctor charged $4,000, which he 10.
and Gov, Hoffman had the bill reduced IT,
Extra steamers are to be placed both on
the Atlantic and Pacific, to carry the great
amount of freight offered to The Pacific com
pany al both ends Of lheir rouOe
Samuel 5. Sloane was reelected president of
the Delaware, Lackawanna ana Western rail
road.
The controller paid out eight hundred and
forty thousand dollars in two days for city ex-
penses.
The board OF health has discharged forty
physicians for the purpose of curtailing ex-
peuses.
There were fourteen new cases of small nox
yesterday aud three deaths