Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-07
HE'LL GATE.

HE'LL GATE.
New YORK, Feb G.-HeIl Gate and vicinity
are completely choked by ice so that sailing YES
sells cannot navigate. The dense for this morn
ing, combined with ice, occasioned hourly trips
between tis city and the suburbs, while the
Staten Island boats occupy from two to three
hours per trip.
THE CUSTOM HotsE BUSINESS.
Collector Arthur will meet with a committee
composed of five members of the chamber OF
commerce, five warehouse proprietors and five
experienced customs officers this afternoon, to
decide upon general order charges and other
rates in which merchants are interested.
A.. II. Beatty, late detective, testified that
Col Whitley, who is inspector Of customs with
a.; ties as head Of the secret service after seizing
$40 coo ,'orth of diamonds smuggled, paid dn-
ties on them am, sold them to his men, Beatty
himself purchasing ei!S%ht small ones for $50,
and witness has them now. Inc case cauie pc
fore Commissioner Osborn, and IL sui undecld-
cd bnt the records Of the court show no the
whole case. When cigars were seized by mite
ley, the police and reporters were allowed 10
help themselves, some reporters supplying them
selves twice day. There was one instance OF
$4,000 cigars being seized and taken TO White
Tvs office, and never heard OF atlcrward. Two
casks of Scotch whiskey, snid9&led by the
purser OF an lnman steamer, were seized, car
ried 10 WhiIely's office suddenly disappeared,
and the smuggler was never prosecuted. White
ly sends large quantities of seized cigars to the
treasury utpdllWeul1 NdouiHSAouJ ~ DduuOiu
and the clerks
A short lime ago Beatty was sent TO the depot
by Whitley, GOT trunk containing counierteits
on the Shoe and Leather bank; Whitley went TO
that bank with Beatty, Whitley telling the cash
Ter that Beatty had been three months working
up the case, spending his own money which me
government would not refund. The next day
the newspapers contained bogus story OF 'el-
rible fight, in which Beatty was represented as
shooting man 10 get the trnnS' oou1e t .s
after, the bank gave Beatty SlOO' bea'ty was
two hours in getting the trunk.
Another case of seizure of smuggled cigars
was settled by paying Whitley $500, and the cl-
.nars were used in Whitely's office. Whitley Is
now an inspector OF the custom house ana Sc
cret detective. Beatty also said that, during
EIGHTEEN months in Whtelys office, he seized
and brought to the office probably 100000 ci-
gars: taking seizures by Others into account,
probably half million cigars were brought
there during the time, at least two-thirds of
which were used up in the Office. Sometimes
he had warrant, sometimes not; sometimes he
took the man before the commissioner, and got
a warrant right there; never knew OF one pun
ishcd or of the grand jury indicting them. u
has frequently happened that arrest man IN
the forenoon, aud he has his case settled and
goes away before three o'clock. The settlement
was made in the district attorneys office, and
FUNERAL or GEN. ANDERSON.
The remains Of Gen. Anderson will be sent
here in few days under escort. They will be
received by Gen. Mcdowell, and proper arrange
ments will be made Tor the funeral honors here.
Il is expected that the first division OF the militia
will escort the remains TO the cemetery.
THE RING.
The Times says that Mayor Hall was indicted
by the grand jury last evening. An indictment
was also found against Nathaniel b. Sands. In
gersolI is hiding in New jersey. II is statedthat
Peter u. Sweeny arrived from ST. Caiherlnes
yesterday. He will be baed by Judge Barnard
under writ OF habeas corpus.
swINDLE.
An Albany dispatch says that It has been dis
covered that one Cushman, former clerk OF the
assembly, and now assistant clerk OF the house
OF representatives at Washington, has been IA
the habit OF paying off his debts IN old Sledl
three cent POSTAGE stamps. Among o,ner ,nlngs
paid In this way was his tallors OIL. u has
been the custom in past times OF the legislature
10 make annual allowances of postage stamps to
pay for the distribution OF documents py men,
bers.
WATER BOARD STATISTICS.
From the annual report Of the water board