The true northerner., 1877-04-20
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.


William NJ. Tweed has at last "laid down"
on his pals, and given to the world
free revelation of the operations of
the band of thieves, of which he was
the head, that so numerically plundered the
city of New York. The confession goes back as
far as 1867, when the ring first began to assume
form. 1t gives in detail the story of various
conferences between the writer, Peter
b. Sweeney, Richard Connolly, Henry
Genet, A. Oakley Hall, and Others by
which Tweed was elected to the State
Senate, Connolly Comptroller in 1867 and Hall
Mayor. Jan. l, 1869, Tweed, according TO the
story, transferred to State Senator Winsow in
person 5000, 900 to secure the charter of 1870,
which gave to the ring the control of the city
through the support of several influential Re
publican members of the Legislature. The
confession gives the circumstances of the
division of the spoils between himself,
Sweeney, Hall, Connolly, and Woodward.
1t duplicates Garvey, Ingersoll, Da-
wilson, Watson, and a majority of the
Board of Supervisors. Mayor Halls proportion
was 10 per cent He shared throughout in all the
profits. He was in full collusion with the fraud
in its various details, and was fully aware of
the fraudulent nature Of the contracts presented
for his signature. Hugh Hastings, editor of
the Commercial Advertiser, is credited
by Tweed with having received
snug amount of the swag. He also mentions
George H. Purser, of New York, as person to
whom he paid money. The confession con-
cludes with promise that the writer will be a
witness for the city in any suit brought by the
the persons mentioned.
West.
A fire at Pomeroy, Ohio, last week, destroyed
business property valued at 100000.
Seven men were killed and six seriously in
jured by the caving in of mine in Yuba
county, Cal, last week.
Edgar NJ. Moore, the love-struck youth who
shot Mabel Hall, ballet girl, at the Theater
Comique, st. Louis, a year ago, has been sem
fenced to be hung on the 1st of June.
There are now an average of seventy-iive
passengers day arriving and leaving Sioux
City for the Black Hills.
Hugh Riddle, for many years Vice President
of the Rock Island railroad, has been promoted
to the Presidency of the road, vice John F.
Tracy, resigned.
Crazy Horses band of 1,500 hostile Indians
arrived at Spotted Tail agency last week. They
were all well armed, even the children and
squaws having pistols, some of them guns, and
many of the bucks two guns and two pistols
each, but they were short of ammunition and of
food, and in a wretched condition. They will
be disarmed and fed at the expense of the
Government.
Chicago elevators contain 2,S40, $40 bushels
of wheat 3,6l7ss bushels of corn 645, AS
bushels of oats 1880 bushels of rye, and
666, 800 bushels of barley-making grand to-
tai of 7,956393 bushels, against 5,572, ,S7S bush
els for the corresponding period last year.
south.
The Keafer family, recently arrested in Ar
kansas on suspicion of being the Kansas Bend
ers have been released from custody, it hav-
ing been established that they were not the
Benders.
Several white citizens of Oglethorpe county,
Ga, have been arrested under the Ku-Klux act
on warrants sworn out by colored men.