Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-05
NEW YORK.
Last OfIieiaI Communication OF the
Eats aRyOr Havemey er-I he 9 Ross
the subject Of H.
BuFeII's Aurcessor-Aetfer from LAin
bris ia Reference 90 Tw weed-AnOtiier
sIrike-InfePnatfOn Eic.

1 lowing was the last official cUmmunica-
! ton sent by the late mayor, and was
drafted by him Saturday last, after hav-
/ ing signed, as a part of his duty, more
than one thousand warrants:
MAYORS OFFICE, November 2S, 1874.
/ To James Bowen, President Commissioners OF
Charities and Corrections:
I am informed, on reliable authority,
that VIM. NJ. Tweed, who / supposed
was employed in The hospital on Black
Wells Island on account of his health,
or because his services were needed, has
a room furnished with all the convent
ences and comforts of life, that he is al
lowed to wear his ordinary dress, that
he has the liberty of the penitentiary
grounds often without the presence of a
keeper, is permitted to receive visitors
at pleasure, and, in short, while this
malefactOr, who with his cOnfederates
has plundeTed the city OF millions, is
thus shielded from the chastisement of
the law, hundreds of his fellOw-prisOn-
ers, undergoing sentences for stealing
property of a trifiing value, are subject
TO all the restraints of prison discipline.
This distinction between man who
has become rich by public plunder, and
man who, perhaps, to relieve press
ing physical want, has appropriated to
his own use an incOusiderable sum of
money or property OF little value, is dis
graceful to the city, a criminal violation
of duty by those who have granted the
indulgences in utter contempt of the
law, and the determinations Of juries
ard courts, and cannot fail to bring last
ing disgrace on all by whose official in
terpCsitiOn the abuse may be corrected.
would thank you, therefore, at your
earliest convenience to report to me the
facts Of this case. Yours truly,
W. r. HAVEMEYER.
Acting Mayor Samuel B. H. Vance, in
consequence Of the death Of Mr.. Have
meyer has taken the matter in hand,
and addressed a communication similar
in character to the above, to the COM
missioner Of charities and corrections, in
regard to the case of Mr.. Tweed. Mr..
Vance, however, adds: "You are hereby
offered an opportunity Of being heard as
TO the matter, which, in my judgment,
if true, is a sufficient cause for your re-
moval from office. Whatever you have
to say as to this matter l will thank You
to communicate to me on or before Mon
day, the seventh instant"
NEW YORK, December A dispatch
TO the Herald says that Walter Fearn,
who has been appointed Durellis success
sOr, is a relative by marriage to the
President.
NEW YORK, December 3.-A meeting
Of the conference comm issiOneTs OF the
various Pre- sbyteTian bodies in the Uni
ted States and Canada was held this
mOrni z, to bring into representative
federation all the churches in the world
which adhere to the PresDy yterian tenets.
NEW YORK, Decem Der 1t is stated
that James Lou, OF Lou, Hartman d
Co, has been rendered the presidency
Of the Pacific mail company 1t is also
stated that Russell Sage viii retire from
the presidency of the Panama railroad
company.
NEW YORK, December A. Albert
Jackson was found guilty Of mur-
der in the first degree last evening
as an accOmplice of Jarvis in the MUIR
der of Samuel Jones, at South Oyster
Bay, Long Island. Judge Armstrong
Immediately sentenced both Jarvis who |
was convicted two days ago. and Jack !
son to be hanged on the fifteenth of Jan
uary.
NEW YORK, December IA Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, dispatch says man
named Ludwig, his wife and infant !
were found in bed yesterday dying from |
poison. The wife died within an hour, |
without returning to consciousness. The |
husband revived long enough to say he !
had been gwen something so drink, but
refused, or was unable, to say by whom. |
The child is still living, but suffering.
NEW YORK, December 4-COmmis- |
sioner Laimber, of the department of |
charities and corrections, sent o.day a
letter TO Mayor Vance, resigning his
Office as commissioner. In the letter he
quotes numerous instances from the
executive meetings of the board, show
ing that he had expressed himself averse
to The laxity Of the discipline in the case !
of Tweed, and had introduced resOlu-
tons to cause prison rules to be enforced
upon him.
New YORK, December The long
impending strike in the pOtteries in !
Trenton, New Jersey, began yesterday. |
The establishments OF Yates, Benedict |
& Allen, and J. Moss, closed, the en- |
ployers guaranteeing work through the
winter at a reduction of ten per cent. in |
the wages. The employees refused to
work, with the above result. The move |
ment of the employers seems individual,
and not on the part Of concentrated
action.
NEW YORK, December A meeting |
of the international code committee for
America was held last night, Ex-GOv-
ernor Washburne presiding. About |
fifty persons were present, among them
Pruin, Of Albany; President
Barnard, of Columbia college; Presi-
dent Chaplin, of Beloit college; David /
Dudley Field, Judge Charles Peabody.
James B. Miles, and President WOlsey,
of Yale college. These gentlemen,
with VIM. E. Dodge, E!itfu Burrett and
Edward S. TObey, were appointed an
executive committee. A. resolution was
adopted requesting the government to
take part in the approaching confer
ence, to be held at the suggestion Of the
Russian and German governments.
NEW YORK, December 4.-Judge Du-
rell, who is now in this city, was inter-
viewed by the Tribune reporter, by
whom he is represented as saying he is
the victim of party exigency; that the
head and front of his offending is the
literal construction of the enforcement
act, bad law, known to him as such
passed by a Republican congress seek
ing to perpe'uate the Republican party,
but which he found on the statute book
and executed impartially. He gave in
detail his objections to the law as strong
as the worst enemy could desire, and
said when its unpopularity and inexpe-
diency had been exposed he was desert
ed by those who passed it, and by them
accused of having overstepped his au-
thority.