The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-07

MORE INDICTMENTS AGAINST TAMMANY
! sarNi THIEVES a5a.t asg gov
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-The Times saws that
Mayor Hall was indicted by the Grand jury last
evening. An Indictment was also found against
! Nathaniel b. Sand. Ingersoll is hiding in New
ra .f7oI PETER b. SWEENEY.
1t is stated Peter B. Sweeney arrived from
| St GATHERINGS yesterday. He will be bailed by
! Judge Barnard under writ of habeas corpus
| THE WARRANTS AGAINST INGERsoLL.
The two warrants against Ingersol have not
yet been served, he having kept away from the
| city, but it is expected that he will surrender
himself this afternoon. aifa
| Sixty thousand dollars will be paid the city
| laborers to-day. There are but few more labor
| ers to be paid.
THE INDICTMENT AGAINST MAYOR HALL
The Indictment against Mayor Hall charges
him with signing warrants for fraudulent bills
| of Carney and Ingersoll. 1t is also true that
Nathaniel Sands is indicted. -,tr ..,..--,
q 5 AGAssIz AND PARTY. Eet 5ls .
The steamship South America, from Rio
Janeiro Jan. 18th, has arrived. The reports the
steamer Hassler, with Agassiz and party left
| Pernambueo for Rio Janeiro with the frigate
iconderoga Jan. 16. s-s.. sr-s.-. I'D. -
NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE INVESTIGATION
The Congressional committee resumed their
sessions This forenoon. W. I. Perkins, a form
er weigher, testified to the ightness of the la
bors OF government weighers; He paid alto
sessments for political business-some of which
was for the benefit of New Hampshire. He
believed that if he did not pay the political as
sessment he would be removed. 1t YVES not
compulsory but mild form of coercion. He
had been highly honored in his native town in
New Hampshire; had been member of the
Common Council, of the Legislature and the
State Central Committee. zfE-lL . va
Z A. c. Beatty, late detective, testified that
Col. Whitley, who is an Inspector of Customs,
after Selling $40, 900 worth of diamonds SNUG
ged, paid the duties on them and sold them to
his men, Beatty himself purchasing eight small
ones for $35, and the witness has them now
The case came before Commissioner Osborne
and is still undecided, but the records of the
court show up the whole case. When cigars
were seized by Whitley, the police and report
ers were allowed to help themselves, some of
the reporters supplying themselves twice day.
In one instance sc, 900 cigrrs were seized, taken
to Whitely's office and never heard of after
wards. Two casks of Scotch whiskey smug-
gled by the purser of the Inman steamer, were
seized, carried to Whitely's Office, subsequently
disappeared and the smuggler never was prose-
cuted. Whitley sends large quantities of seiz-
ed cigars to the Treasury Department, Wash
ington, to Banfield and the clerks. A short
time ago Beatty was sent to the depot and got
trunk containing counterfeits on the Shoe and
Leather Bank. Whitley went to that bank
with Beatty Whitley telling the cashier that
Beatty had been three months working up the
case, spending his own money, which the gov
eminent would not refund The next day the
newspapers contained bogus story of a terri
BILE fight in which Beatty was represented as
shooting man to get the trunk. Some time
after the bank gave Beatty 800. Beatty was
two hours in getting the trunk. < -e,.
Another case of the seizure of smuggled CT
gars was settled by paying Whitley $500 and
the cigars were used in Whitley office. White
ly is now an inspector in the Custom House and d
a secret detective. 1-.-,r al