Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-23
Our New York Dispatches.
More Light ON the Custom House Busi-
MESA MurderOus AssauIt-FrOm the
Episcopal 10 the Catholic Church, etc.

New YORK, Jan. 22.-There is large crowd
in Nassau street Of depositOrs in the Market say.
ings bank Cries of "swndlers, robbers and
highwaymcn," arc frequent, but lno overt acts
have been committed Excitement is visible on
all countenanceS. No one is admitted TO the
bank but the receiver and officers of the broken
institution. The general impression is that the
statement will show unparalleled knavery The
run on the Third Avenue savings bank about
ceased to-day. A deposition to day petitoned
that the Bowling Green savings bank be declared
bankrupt
The retrenchment committee resumed their
sessions at their hotel this morning. George X,
Leet testified that he came here in the spring of
1863, had been engaged in the general older
business the past nineteen months; began the
business by a partnership with Bixby through
an arrangement engineered by Mr. Lindsay,
confidential adviser of Grinnell, by hich he
(Leet) received $1,000 per year of the profits be.
cause he enabled BiXby to get the business
through his influence with Grnne In answer
as to what induced Grunell to give him the bust
ness, Leet said he was introduced to Grinnell by
letter from President Grant, as follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WAsHINGToN, March 10, 1869.
~ II. GriHBeH: Dear Sir-This will intro.
duce TO you Col. G. X. Leet, who served under
me from early in the war to the present day
from the fall of Vcksburg forward as a staff
officer. He is business man of unquestiOned
integrity. His experience before the war fits
him for business OF almost any kind. He now
proposes to resign from the army to engage in
private life, and cheerfully commend him as
possessing all the qualities necessary to insure
confidence. Yours truly,
(Sgned) L. S. GRANT.
Leet continued-The profits annually from
the general order business were from five TO
eight thousand dollars; resigned from the army
in February, 1870; when the president gave him
the letter to Gunncl did not tell him / was 20.
iuu IN onnlv M n no Inns
At the evening session, the examination of
Col. Leet was continued. He remembered hay
ing written to Mr. Lindsay TO come to Washing
ton in reference to an investment in San Domin-
90; while receiving about five thousand dollars
from Bixby, his salary from the army was about
twenty-eight or twenty-nine hundred dollars!
he never made any threat against Grinnel; the
rents for the stores Of l.eet 4 Stocking are S1g-
600; the profits Of the concern amount to S5S,
900. In starting business witness put in $1,000
and Stocking $500
j. D. Bradley delivered sermon Yesterday in
the torty-third street church (EpiscopaD an.
nOunCiug his secession and his adOptiOn Of the
Catholic religion, He was educated at Oxford
university, England,
John Glass was assaulted, stabbed and cut in
seventeen places last night by James Costello,
for abusing the latter in yituperatiye manner |
Glass presented shocking spectacle when taken |
to the station, being covered with blood. His |
face and head are hacked awfully. The assault |
was made with large carving knife which Cos. |
teo was using in his restaurant, where Glass |
had just ordered supper, Glass will die He |
was once in the state prison for killing police
man, and the attack upon him by Costello last |
night was not made until he had been threat |
ened and abused beyond all endurance by the |
scoundrel. A policeman who was requested u |
mt glass OUT Of Vie saloon Was alfhd to do SO |
and sueaked away, Costello Is known "a a
quiet and peaQeahle man.
Forty thousand citizens have signed petition
for opening the Cooper institute library and
reading room on Sundays.
Jacob Wetze shot Emma Behreps in q con.
eerl SALOON this Iaornng Is. ana
Kings dishllery at Williamsvllle VS. - ~
sured. g MI UT " "a, ~
Michael Flttpev was fatally assaulted s 4 co.