, 1873-11-09


BosroS, Mass, Nov. 8.--1he Railroad Mama
gers Of roads terminating hero consider reduce
tion Of e7penseg necessary Worhng hours and
wages in shops will be reduced; also, the number
Of trains whore practicable.
THE TENNESSEE RAILROAD TROUBLES.
CLEVELAND. O., Noy. 8.-Chnrlcs Wilson.
Grand Chief Engineer, authorizes tho statement
that no subdivision Of tho Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers will bo sustained in strike
unless they first obtain tho advco Of the whole
organization, and no division or member will bo
sustained that interferos in any manner with tho
Company's property or employees. The proaent
striko in Tonnosaeo Ia without authority Of tho
Brotherhood.
TIE MISSOURI KANSAS TEXAS.
sr. Louis Mo., Nov. 8.-The Missouri, Kansas
Il Texas nailrond has reduced the wasas Of it's
employees in their shops at sedalla, No., 10 por
cent, and their time 20 per cent. It is sa!d that
the men will refuse to work On these terus
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE ERIE HALLWAY
COMPANY.
ERIE RAILWAY co't*s PnssApET9s PEI + o9FszTsor
The Hon. Ed,saras perrtpsnt re-" t:AA' oS '''''
Silt: am instructed by tho Board Of Diroc-
tors Of tllls Company to lay bofore YOU tha fol-
lowing facts:
For uomo time past tho Directors of this Com
pany havo been aware Of the persistent and un-
Eorupulous efforts of tAe friends Of Its 1ato ad-
minstration to injure tho credit Of tho Com
pany and to dofame the character Of its officers.
The principal means through which these TO-
clerks in the Office 10 procure for publi-
SSs Soo o. fa cempsay ea:"1 but 'f pro as
tended statements have been wholly fictitious,
o. garblea aud incomplete, intended to impair
the credit, Of the Company, to doprecato its
stocks and securities, and to aid q reokloBs apec-
1ltation by thus decclving tho public. Some Of
| tho prominent leaders IN this conspiracy, as mn
| additional motive, arc ac!natod by revenge.
knowing that they. will be compelled by legal
proceedings to nuke restitution ior fEau1H COM
! mittcd by them while they MORO iu tho service
Of tho Company. The Company has recently
learned that within a fow days two If its clerks
had complied yoluu,jnoua account, .oatensibly
from Tho booka Of tho Company, which they had
Of thousand dollars. Private meetings with
theso clerks havo bcon held to doter-
niue ig wi'at vt & manner .,, the greatest dam- a.
fraud would llnye beon conssln.,nated but for It's
fortunate detection. Tile original account. thus
Invented, isn III tile possession Of this Com
pany. by the sworn confession Of these clerks,
tie Company, for the first time, understands III
full detail, tile notifications Of this conspiracy,
aud tue plaus OF these unprinelpled adventurous
mud spoculators upon the good fan1e Of the Cont
pany and its present administration. Not only
Ut this fraud should Ds made III Now York aud
IN London, 60 as most to injure the credit OF
this Company. and o,lablo tho perpetrators to
roap rich harvest III both markets. by short
| 81le6 OF GElo htpcR but II BotI1la 10 uAfb p06n
scrioua!y questioned whether legal proceedings,
In bankruptcy, or By all application for q
Receiver, might not simultaneously be begun, to
still further assss this stock -jobbing specula-
tion. by tho anino sworn confession 1t appears
that this pretended statement WIS In every part,
III eacl OF thonl, i'll gsosH and IN dotaii, q mere
fiction, not talon from, or compiled from, day-
books, accounts, OF vouchers whatever, but was
invented out Ut the mere imagination OF its nll-
t!tora, to suit tho taBto and purposes OF tin pro-
poacd purchasers aud Tho eamo clorks alao
lost!ly. III Ii tile fact (aud on this pont speak
from personal examination and knowletys),
that tlio accounts Of thin Company, recently
published by its Prosidont, are just. accnrato,
and true acco.atH uH they appoar OIL tho booka
Of this Company, and tint the utato-
! u,enta OF oBtimalod weekly earnings fur
nisllcd to tia proua llaya III every instance
been losu iA amount Than tho actual earnings for
tttu periods i.nuIod az tlusl!y returned. Tho nc
co,lnL,s uf this Company nro, aud always ha ye
been, open to the isGEcallon Of my honest 1eos
or after truth ~hu las any proper Interest In
| their axa,ui,lnllon but t!is Otl'nrahy will no
lousor porn,lt continuance Of ticss hasa nt-
touipts to aeduco and degrade Its employos, no
destructive OF sll discipline 10 injurious to itn
credit, to 20 Unpublished, II by an appeal to the
| law tile conHpiratogs can DO restrained from fur-