Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-01
NEW YORK.
Unofficial Estimates of Losses BY the
Government Bonded Warehouse
COnfiagratiOn-Insurance
Companies Involved.
A Free-LabOr Bureau Clerks Meanness
Shown Up-The Canadian Credit
MObilier-The WalwOrth Par
dOn-Ete., Etc.

NEW YORK, July 21.-An official an
nouncement is now made that the clerk
of the free labor bureau, sustained by the
commissioners of charity and correc-
ton, deliberately falsified the records,
and made it appear that many thou
sands of persons seeking work were
aided thereto, when in fact only an in
significant number obtained employ
ment through this agency.
No official estimate has been made of
the losses by the United States bonded
warehouse last night. The damage to
the Greenwich-street building is placed
at five thousand dollars. The value of
the goods in the building was about six
hundred thousand dollars; damage there
on about forty-five per cent. The goods
in Trinity-place building, worth from
four to five hundred thousand dollars,
were damaged at least fifteen per cent.
The damage to the surrounding proper
ty is about four thousand dollars. From
such examination as can be made at
present of the bonded warehouse,
in which the fire took place
last night, it is believed that
while the roof OF the Greenwich-street
building has wholly fallen. The sixth,
or upper floor, has not fallen at all, al
though even this could not at first be
ascertained in the wreck of the upper
story. The fifth floor is still in position,
though below this the damage was
wholly by water. In the Greenwich
street building the goods on the sixth
floor were chiefly carpets, wool burlaps,
gunny bags, jute thread, etc, while the
fifth-story floor was mainly devoted to
French flowers, hosiery, dress goods,
etc. On the fourth floor were leather,
book and drug rooms, and the leather
room is thought not to be much damaged.
1t is also believed that the loss on drugs
will not be heavy. Among them were
a large quantity of Turkey opium and
one hundred and thirty-six cases of bal
sam-copaiba, all very valuable, but these
were protected from the water by cases
of tin, while the fire did not reach the
room in which they were stored. Among
the valuable goods destroyed, or badly
damaged, were sixteen cases of fine
French books. The cutlery was in the
cellars, so it is thought the
damage to this has not been
extensive. There was no fire in the ci-
gar or liquor room. The total number
of packages in the stores, yesterday
morning, was fifty-two hundred and
whose average value is va
riously estimated at from one hundred
to two hundred dollars by the govern
ment officers. 1t is thought that one
hundred thousand dollars will cover the
entire loss on the goods. The loss on
the building is from twenty to forty
thousand dollars. Four watchmen, in
the warehouse at the time of the fire,
were promptly discharged this morning.
The loss on the stock and building by
the fire in the bonded warehouse last
night, will not exceed one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars. The
building was owned by DR.. John Aver,
of Louisville, and is said to be fully in
sured. The fire is supposed to have
originated in the wool-rOom, on the sixth
floor, from spontaneous combustion.
The silks, laces, and other more valua-
BILE goods, were on the lower floor, and
damaged only by water. The insurances
are by New York and eastern cOmpa-
nies, so far as ascertained. At a special
meeting of the New York board of un-
dorwriters this evening, it was found
that the risks of the different companies
interested in the fire at the government
warehouse footed up two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars in stock and
eighty thousand dollars on the building.
Petitions were filed in the clerks Of
fee of the United States district court
to-day by George A. Priest, asking to
have the books of Simon Haas, cloth
Platt d Boyd, crockery-deal-
ers, and Edward Rourke, glassware,
seized on the ground that they have, on
fraudulent invoices, got goods through
the customhouse at twenty-five per
cent. less than their real value. In the
case of Platt & Boyd, Priest charges
them with collusion with the officers of
the appraisers department.
A Toronto special says that the attOr-
ney-general has just ordered the royal
to investigate the charges
brought against the ministry, by Mr..
in the house of commons.
This commission will have the power of
Oaths, which the parlia-
committee of inquiry did not.
These charges involve the whole scan-
dal which has connected the names of
Sir John A. Mcdonald, Sir Francis
Hlncks and others with the alleged i'm
proper use of their official influence in
the award of railway contracts, and
charged to Sir Hugh Allen and his col
leagues.
1t seems that the district-attorney'
office has not been addressed upon the
subject of pardon for Frank e Wal
worth, that no petition is in circulation
for his pardon, and that the published
letter relative to it, purporting to come
from the pardon clerk at Albany, was
written in this city
Early this morning, while asleep in
bed, Joseph Guides, of Thirty-third av-
enue, aged thirty-three years, was
stabbed by George Lohn, of the same
house, and who, thinking his purpose
Immediately shot him
self. Both were removed to the hOspi-
tai, where Lohn Is dying. Guides win
probably recover. A woman was the
cause.