Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-18
EASTERN NEWS.
ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY SENTINEL
YESTERDAYS DISPATCHES.
NIw YORK.
Ross TWeed'S Confession.
Many Prominent Persons Implicat-
ed in the Tammany Swindles.
AID EDITION, DIVISION AND 81.
EENtE..
THE BOSS MAKES A CLEAN
BREAST OF IT ALL.
NEW YORK. Apr;l Il.

/ Townsend, Tweed s counsel, arrived
tonight with weeds confession. 1t
gives a history of The ring from its in.
ception; how Tweed, Sweeney and
Hall elected fat offices; duplicates sew
eral Republican Senators, as we'll as
the New York Board of Supervisors.
Halls proportion was ten per cent.
He shared in the profits and was in
full collision, and was fully aware OF
the fraudulent nature of the contracts
he signed. With reference To the doc
ument purporting to be a record of
the proceedings OF the Board of Audit,
of MAY, 1870, by which Hall on his
trial secured an acquittal, on the
ground that he acted only in a min
isteriai character, Tweed says it vas
manufactured after the expose.
Among the various persons to- whom
he paid money for their Influence in
the Legislature was Hugh Hastings.
editor of the Commercial advertiser.
| He gave Hastings a check for $50. 900.
Tweed also gave Hastings addi-
tioual Hastings brought
Jay Gould to him in regard
to the Erie influence, and through
Gould and Fisk it was used
in behalf of Tweed and his associates.
The Confession says all paintings and
book cases in Recorder Hackett's house
were paid for by the city. He gives
the names of five persons who, If the
promises of immunity are given them,
will swear 10 the truth OF all his stale
ments. He has preserved all his
checks, and kept a memoranda of all
his Transactions, all of which will Ne
placed at the disposal of the Stale. The
five persons, ID. b. Barber, ex Senator
James Pierce, OF Brooklyn, Alexander
Frear and William King, Tweed's
former Deputy Commissioned of PUP
lie Works. Shortly after the puullca-
| ton of the secret accounts OF July II,
Tweed says Bixley and the eX-Sheriif,
then State Senator, JAS. O'Brlen, came
to him aud offered TO secure HIM against
any further investigation OF his bank
| accounts, his relations with the city, or,
indeed, from any further trouble. If he
would pay $l50,000 toward O'Brien's
claims against the city for S296 900 for
unpaid lees. The trio represented 10
him that they had such influence owe
Tilden, Judge Barrett and William G.
Barrett, AS to Immediately quash any
| further steps in the pending Investiga-
ton. Tweed says lie has paid them
500, 600 in cash and mortgages which
thew afterwards collected for the rest,
and he understands they afterwards
secured the anne moun from Con
nelly, upon the same representations.
| He says he does not consider O'Brien's
claim has any real merit.
Speculation About the Withdrawn.
Of the Troops In LOuisiana-The
Yellowstone Park.
WASHINGTON, April ID.
The President has no intimation as
to when the Louisiana Commissioners
will return. The opinion is expressed
that they will return by Saturday or
Monday. The troops will doubtless
be Withdrawn, as intimate friends of
the President say that it is not 10 he
expected hat he will pursue in Louis
lana a curse different from that in
South Carolina, hut it is an open ques
ton when it will be best to act. 1t is
the desire Of the President that the
Commission shall have the fullest OPP
portunity for the completion OF its
work.
CHICAGO, April IS.
A special to the Inter Ocean from
Washington asserts positively that the
troops will be- Withdrawn from Louisi-
ana this week.
WASHINGTON April. Is.
The Government, represented by
the War Department and the Postofiice
Department, is making every prepare
ton for the protection of visitors to the
Yellowstone during the coming sum
mer. General Sherman Is in avor of
extending a mail service to the Yet
lowstone, and will himself visit that
section during the warm weather. In
obedience to general demands the
Postoffice Department. has ordered a
ri-weekly mail service from Boseman
and Fort Ellis, Montana, to Tongue
River, on the Yellowstone, "A distance
of $50 miles. The contract has been
awarded to 8. ). Huntley, at $34 600
per annum. The service is to begin
May LIST.
Douglass Makes n speech.
WASHINGTON, April l6.
This afternoon the colored District
militia paraded in honor of the ami
versary of the emancipation proclaina-
ton and called on Marshal Douglass,
who said he was glad to receive them,
and still more glad that they were cell
ebrating; the day which never should
be forgotten by their race. The war was
waged in the interest of slavery, but
resulted in giving liberty to the negro,
and the last gasp OF the Confederacy
was "Help, Cassius, or l sink" The
change had been miraculous and he
hoped they never would prove I'M
worthy of the gift. He was glad to
meet them, glad to see them clad in
blue with eagles on their but
tons and swords by their sides, and
hoped their arms never would be used
except in the right.
The Louisiana COmpromise-Every.
thing Working Smoothly.
NEW ORLEANS, April l6.
Members of the Nichols House are
in caucus tonight considering the ad.
justment proposals, which are, that the
present organization Of the Legislature
shall remain intact, the roll to be called
to be the same as that called by Clerk
| Trezevort on the first day of the assem-.
| bling of the Nichols Legislature. at ST.