New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-08
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
ppr,rpv or JEFFERSON DAVIS.
RETURN OF JEFTLhoO1' -, -
FEW WORDS WITH HIM ABOUT no


a FEW WORDS WITH HIM ABOUT HID b'oh NM
coycrRsISG CONFEDERATE BONDS.
1sarson Davis arrived at this port on ths sIea i,
.b;n NecIar from Bremen yesterday; an0 L
reporter found him on me decH ~ He had met Mr.
navis in Canada IN 1866 and was Sreeted cotI h
M Daviss face perhaps little Iinnel mel, Erect
was ni.een vsmsnts We're active and while time had
%bitened his hair and short beard worn Lno'S u =;
derneath than upon the cha 50 Dot look to be
he win be seventyfour June B. his heal.n IL
now good. Much of his eonversaton " tSs NacHaT
who he said had preserved the lives OF the passcIi
GERS nv watchfulness and caution during the terTi-
Bic storm that had lasted through the voyage ~. IN
sea- as you came on board and thinking my ~ hot
deru i was that the ship had not gone srTb hi waves
Now that we are here, il is certainly Win Ie .hs
of thankfulness that we have al last Icaotd ~
harbor which at ono time we never eApo0"N "
see" ,,. o+ba~ matters Mr.
Davis in reply to question as TO MS plahs ioi '"'
have come over with my family to look after
my plantation in Tennessee ana my ogsiheSe CIV"
ing ont Of the pub Incsuss % o. my oOoA'
"Tbat cannot say, because Ihaye been away al
the time since it was published, and have not hearo
ni"I Have % Won published it in Engandp
Z" It has been published there, but so Tar nav ave
received but little information regaTuGlhg ~, @
stay abroad having been chiefly on the ConIlno1 IL
Are Won familiar with the facts concerning inc
recent speculation in Confederate bonds hoo
All 1 know regarding that matter is What naTe
seen in the newspapers abroad and that is probably
not as much as the people have read IN tne AlheIoa
papers do not recollect just at ms 1ne 0l n
Substantial reason why fund should have acculIhu
lated i'm the Bank of England or any where elso 1h
could in any way be applied to the payea b oi t
bonds But all can say Is thD opn them as of
course they represent money uhat can Ill NC 'p"''1
in many instances.
THE BROOKLYN ALDERMEN CRITICISED
The action of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen on
Tuesday in granting two Valuaple % "ioisJ
elevated roads called fOr.n roundv denounced as
the greatest of many similar ones aIteinpHu VI he
petrated in the Common Council ShaulP9e r,i ne
additions to the route OF lhe p t hSSd
EIeyated Road giving to it the right 10 oulIa
i'm three chief thOroughtares-fulI oI p coz" eos
# the City Ma 3 loudly condemned by properly
owners in these thOroughfares Those IN uitoh.9t
said that they had just been relieved OF rear ~ ino
adverse decision of the Supreme Court ComIllSsion
In rho matter of the one-sided road OF the DTooAyn
Transit Company, and now another schene MeS
fosted upon them, with no chanGe " ryated
r. The original charter of the BROOKLYN EleNa.eu
Poad nrovided for it's construction from the Easl
RIVER Bridge to Woodhaven, Queens County. Pul
ronte m bv.streets that it might be III such other
streets as the Mavor and Common CouhcH may ue
ter1nlne." AS the terms OF the charIei w. h nUC
that the company can hold the routes Vo'ed 10 on
Tuesday. , h,.o.; .xcrsssed
in regard to the East River Bridge and
Concv Island Steam Transit Conpanys
Tonte. inasInuch as that does not extend over me
principal streets But it was sand that the GGnPnag
of the two schemes in the action OF the Aldermen
Snas signiticant of their actual union when built
and that The Bru1 Company would build road al, IN
AdaIns-st. and FultOn-St. 10 tlatDush-aNc., anu
then tbe Culver Company would build The rest OF
its line SO as to connect with the Long Island Rail
There were many ruInors afoat yesterday of the
expenditure of a large sum of money, liked by some
al over 800, 900 in order 10 secure the needed
votes in the Board OF Aldermen. 1t was
stated that President Black, who opposed
fhe scheme, wac approached last week by
man who told him he could make $1,000 9y
certain action. The Alderman Indignantly
ordered the man out of his presence. The action OF
Alderman Roberts, of the Twentieth Ward III vSt-
ing with the majority caused much surprise 10 JUS
trends and TO property owners who Thought that
he would firmly stand by their interests, Mayor
Howell declined to state yesterday what he would
do when the action of the Aldermen came legally
before him for veto OF approval