Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-19
NEW YORK.
Who is Patterson +?
VIII He succeed Richardson.

Will He Succeed RichardsOn?
NEW YORK, April 1S.-A Philadelphia
dispatch says Joseph Patterson, President
Of the Western Bank of that city, has been
offered the position of Secretary of the
Treasury.
Is there no Punishment for Pecula-
| fion?
| Emil Sauer has retired from the Presi-
dency of the Gernan-American Bank. He
says he could have settled the difficulty sat
| isfactorily if he had not been pressed after
the Irregularities had been discovered. As
1t Is, he believes the bank has ample Sc
curity for the amount he owes them, and
| says his present dilemma is the result of
the ambition and enmity of other officers
of the bank. A clerk in the institution is
implicated and it is said will be removed.
An Appeal for the Orphans
Mismanagement Of an Asylum.
A statement is published this morning
that the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum
Society of Brooklyn is on the verge of
bankruptcy with liabilities for over $IT0,-
600, and no perceivable means of payment.
By reason of the liabilities the property Of
the society can be at any moment seized
and thousand helpless orphans turned
if possible, so dreadful a calamity, the
Bishop has taken action and invoked the
aid of his cO-religionistss lin the matter.
1t seems the society fell into the manage
ment of a ring the members of which |
were also members of several social and |
political organizations, and by means of |
these outside associations secured their |
annual return to the directory of the Or |
phan Asylum Society Among the ex-
penditures last year is S11, ,64S.44 on ac-
count of building and repairs. This sum,
together with mortgage, interest and in |
crease of the floating debt, added to the |
total expenditures in 1873, gives the total |
amount paid for building the new male
asylum TO date, as S2SS, ,276.55, the original |
estimate being $4,000. The greater part /
of these expenditures, it is stated, were
distributed among needy relatives of the |
ring. The last finance committee included /
two men who could neither read nor write, |
and sister Baptista, in charge of the Asy-
lum, says the Society's accounts are never /
correct.
1000 LabOreTs Discharged.
The Commissioners of the Park dis
charged to-day one thousand labOrers, the
fund being exhausted.
LOuisiana's Prayer.
The Mayor has received telegram from
Mayor Wietz of New Orleans asking for
from citizens of New York,
for the relief of many thousand families in
Louisiana ruined in fortunes and threat
ened with starvation by the overflow of the
river and its lower branches.
The Career Of n Suicide
Alexo WOlner, who committed suicide a.
a hotel in Hoboken three months ago. turns
out to be JOhan Kreinel, Who was in the
Royal Hungarian State Treasury, and alb
seconded with $4,000 worth of railroad
bonds. The owners of the bonds have be-
yun suit to recover twenty Thousand dollars
in money and valuables found in the pos
session of Kreinel at the time of his death. |
No More bookkeeping.
Judge BlatchfOrd has ordered that books
Of Plat x Boyd, seized by Custom House
authorities be returned to the firm. He re-
fused to allow the District Attorney to
Keep the books longer for trial on the
TOund that they were only seized for the
of the collector who has had
sufficient time to examine them.
A British Brave.
. Sir Lanbton Lorraine has declined q
public reception a. the hands OF the city |
/
nent. Next week the gallant captain will
risit the public institution accompanied by
he Mayor, aldermen andOther civic func-
.iOnaries.
Capt. Lemairie, of the abandoned steiner
Europe, sailed to-day for France.
John Brougham Seriously HI.
John Brougham is very i'll and fatal re-
,ult is feared.
James p. NJ. Stetson, for many years con-
lected with the Astor House and other
lotel enterprises, has died of paralysis.
Age sc.
Ike Junior Tying.
Rev. Stephen II. Tying, jr.'s, new and large | I
:hurch is to be dedicated Monday next, the
ervices to continue eight days. The church :
S highly Ornamented but has not single
symbol. Mr.. Tying says his ;
.hurch is working and preaching church
N which the ritual is subordinate, and If ;
Bishop Potter and the church authorities I
ct him alone and let him work in his own
ashton, he shall remain as he is. If they
neddle with him he will go out Monday
hight. All denominations are to occupy |
he church.
Iurder not an Evidence of Insanity.
ALBANY, Y. Y, April 1S.-Jas. Waltz,
lnder sentence of death for the murder of /
cissors grinGor at Catskill, will be hanged
Nay l, a medical commission having re-
'Orted to the government that Waltz is sane
low and was sane when the murder was {
committed. [
LATER-Two of the directors and one of {
he officers of the Orphans Asylum deny
hat there is any danger of bankruptcy, or S
hat there has been any squandering offunds
S alleged, {