The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-18
NEW YORK CITY.

merchants at the failure Of Collector Al
thurs custom house reform In the genera
order business. The World says tina
Leet & Stocking sent letters around L
several steamship companies addresses
to the Collector, and recommending theil
firm and warehouses. The canvasser
for Leet Il Stocking In this business, q
inducements, get signatures representing
that the Collector would consider 1t il
their favor, and have the letters signed 81
that the signers would lose nothing.
The police yesterday arrested DR.
Charles Manches, and Rice & Co., for deal
ing in immoral articles.
One Of the charges presented against
Judge Barnard, relates to the appointment
OF receiver in 1867. The defence con
tend that this charge should not be enter.
tained as the time goes back to his former
term of Office. This point Is a very i'm
portant one and will hereafter be dc
cided. a
Jay Gould, in his testimony last
evening, said in 1860, he saw President
Grant and Judge Barnard at the play o.
the Twelve Temptations, and had q son
OF tho President with them, in a box with
Fisk.
Different bankers OF the city have been
requested TO furnish ALL accounts they
have had with Cardozo and Barnard.
During the performance OF the play fol
the benefit Of tho Women's Home, Of
Newark, last night, and in which large
number of little boys and girls partici.
pated, two Of the girls dresses caught
fire from the stage lights. There was a
scene of the widest excitement for short
time, but the fire was put out and but ono
girl seriously injured.
About sixty thousand men will join in
the procession on st. Patrick's day, and
fifty bands Of music. The military will
number six thousand.
From the testimony taken by the Senate
Committee in tho case Of Senator James
Wood, Tweed said that Wood was elected
in 1870 in opposition to Erie candidates,
Notwithstanding Gould came to Wood
and lent him ten thousand dollars and
then Tweed lent him fifteen thousand
dollars, whereupon Wood voted accord
ing 10 tho wishes Of Tweed.
In the suit Of Challis against the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, in which an
was asked restraining the COM
pany from using its reserve funds for
speculation, the testimony to-day before
the referee showed that the President
was unworthy of belief. ]. J. Anderson
and Robt. L. NJ. Lawson, of Kansas, tes-
titled as to his good character.
The Judiciary Committee to-day heard
the testimony Of VIM. M. Tweed and Jas.
II. Coleman, concerning the charges
against Judge Barnard.
There were eighteen deaths from small
pox during the week.
The jury disagreed in the suit Of
Cherierer against the Staten Ferry Com.
pany, for damages by the Westlield ex.
plosion.
The grand jury for Staten Island in.
dicted eight justices Of the peace, four
commissioners Of highways and others on
the charges of having testified falsely
against their country.
Judge Shipman charged the Jury in
the Jumel case this p. NJ, going over the
testimony at length.
The jury out on the insurance investi-
CATION Of F. w. Ballard, said they were
authorized 10 state that the charges in the
Times were utterly false.
Elizabeth Hoare, was burned to death
in Brooklyn, yesterday. She had taken
liquor and fallen on the stove.
NEW YORK, March 17.-In the Barnard
investigation, yesterday, George Fowler
testified to having visited the Judge on
The 9th Of August, 1869, in company with
Mr., Sterling, Of the firm of Field s. Hear
man, at house in West Twenty.third
street, owned by Jas. Fisk, and occupied
in part as a real estate Office by; Mr.. Ford,
and after brief interview, Barnard drew
up an order appointing Fisk and Coulter
receivers Of the Albany &c Susquehanna
United States Commissioner Davenport
testified TO the release OF q number OF
criminals from the Penitentiary, without
bonds, on an order issued by Barnard.
Samuel J. Tilden stated to reporter
last evening that his only business transac.
tion, direct or indirect, with Gould or the
Eric Company, was as TO his appointment
rs arbitrator between that company and
The Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad,
which position he held year and per.
formed all he undertook, and for which
he was paid by the latter company $1O,.
OOO.
The Committee OF the New York Pc.
troleum Association returned from the
OIL Regions to-day, and report that the
producers are in earnest in opposing the
attempted monopoly Of the Southern I'm.
provement Company. The producers
can, 1t is claimed, hold out tour months,
but they need more assistance, and offer
in security the oil in tanks, which is Sc.
cured by insurance and guaranteed
against leaking. The object OF the South.
ern Improvement Company is said to be
10 sustain the Cleveland retineries and the
central market by raising the freight
charges on producers, and not selling 10 a
They already begin to feel
IN opposition, % oil has been coming hero
Tor several days which they feared TO in.
Ierlerc with. owing 10 the strong feeling
IN the oil regions.
1t is stated that fully $19 100000 Of
Erie stock is now under The control Of
Jay Gould, half OF it being his private
property. Itis rumored that he retired
rom tho Board to be enabled TO renew
.he fight.
The Delaware, Lackawana & Western
and New Jersey Central railroads have
made consolidation Of their interests,
Under which equal dividends will be paid
on the stock Of both companies.
The funeral Of Detective Lambrecht,
who was murdered by George Lowry,
.ook place to-day, attended by the Police
Commissioners and about six hundred
policemen in full uniform under orders Of
Kelso.
Weather Report.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
OPYIcE or THE CHEEE SIGNAL OFFIcER,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Mar. 1850 r. N.
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