Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-01-02
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Daily Kennebec Journal.
News from New York.

eral Sickles will hold a daily conference,
with Attorney General Barlow with view t,
perfecting the arrangements for an attack OF
the Atlantic & Great Western and certain
English Erie stock holders upon the Fisk
Gould and associates. The war will be carried
on both in the courts and the Legislature
The latter will be exclusively attended to b,
Gen. Sickles in order. 1t is stated that h,
will be able while annihlilating Fisk and Gould
to make combinations for Senatorial con,es
next winter. Sckles in the opinion Of man,
well informed politicians will prove for
midable opponent of Conkling.
The old board met to-day and received
report of the committee on investigation OF
city frauds, and the following resolutions wer,
passed:
Resolved, That A. Oakley Hall, Mayor OF
the city of New York, having been found
guilty Of malteasance and misfeasance in Of
nee, In having failed to communicate to til,
common council a statement of the finance OF
the city, and in having failed to be vigilant
and active in causing the ordinances of the
city and the laws of the State to be executed
and enforced; and in having failed to perform
the duties prescribed for him by the city
ordinances and the laws of the State as re-
quired by law; and in having failed to proper
ly fulfil and discharge the responsibility i'm
posed upon him by law for the good order
and efficient government of the city; and in
having neglected and refused to direct that
proper reports of the operations and actions
Of the various departments Of the city gov
eminent be made to him, and to require that
all such information as might have enabled
him properly to discharge the duties of his
Office be furnished to him. as he vas author
lied and emPowed by law to direct and re-
quire, although furnished by the comptroller
as required by law, with report once in
ninety days, proving the name of every per-
son in whose favor an account had been
audited, with the decision of the auditor upon
the same, together with the final action upon
the same; and in having failed to check the
reckless extravaganza which said reports
must have made manifest to him and in hav-
lug recklessly and wantonly signed warrants
upon the public treasury, which under the
law he was bound to investigate under the
provisions of the law confering upon him the
power to require i. y information which he
| might demand, be md is hereby impeached
for malfeasance and misfeasance in office
aforesaid.
Resolved, That as counsel to the corpora
ton, Charles OConnor and John lladdy, be
| and are hereby appointed to prepare the ar
ticles of impeachment and prosecute the same
before proper tribunal.
At one minute to II o'clock Alderman
Cowan declared the board adjourned sine
die, and at u o'clock read the call for the
| re-assembling OF the board for the ensuing
year. \ loud knocking was then heard at
the door of the chamber. and the sergeant-at-
arms opened the door cautiously. Admittance
was demanded in commanding tone by
| Henry l.. Clinton lawyer, heading the new
board. Mr.. Clinton said that he had a writ
| from Judge Brady to serve on the old board,
ordering them to vacate the chamber for the
| reform board. \ camor at the door caused
| the members to rush to assist the sergeant
alarms, amGGE them Jim Irving. ex-assem-
b!emaA, who was lately tried in the federal
courts on charge of assauting United
States Mars lie threw off his overcoat,
and rushed, as he said, to put a head" on
l--The door was slammed in the faces
of the reformers and the clerk read the call
Alderman Cowan was then reelected Presi-
dent for the ensuing year. The clerk was re-
appointed and the board adjourned. The
door was then opened and before the old
board got out the new board rushed in and
| with them little boy, who actively served
them to their great disgust with copies of the
| writ passed by Judge Brady.
The Mayor on arriving at the City Hall
commenced writing document reorganizing
| the old board when being informed by Col
Joline that they had impeached him, he left
the document unfinished and issued another
declaring the offices of aldermen and assist
ant aldermen vacant, and appointing thereto
the newly elected aldermen and assist mt
aldermen. He also issued an address to the
court of common pleas objecting to their tax
ing any action on the resolution of impe ach-
ment passed by the old board on the grolnd
that when that resolution was passed the
court of common pleas had not prescribed
any mode of procedure in regard to the i'm
parchment.
Ex-Comptroller Connolly was brought from
| the Ludlow street Jail to-day on a writ of
| habeas corpus before Judge Barnard and re-
| leased on $1,000 in each OF fifteen indictments
against him. The sureties were given and
| Connolly returned to the bosom of his fami y.
| 1t should be stated that justification of the
| bondsmen in the civil case had been COM
pieted before his release from Ludlow street
Jail.
| The new board organized at 40 P. NJ,
| with Vance as chairman. All the members
were present except Cowan and Plank TT,
! who also belong to the old board. AT the re-
quest of the board Mayor Hall presided md
administered the oath of office. The board
then resolved themselves into a board of SUI
pervisors, Mayor Hall presiding.