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street intersected by any such navioable
stream. Section provides that the ferry
shall be a steam power chain or cable ferry.
Section provides that the municipal board
of the city shall have power to contract
with any person or corporation to keep and
maintain said ferry for any period not ex-
ceeding twenty years. Section 5 empow-
ers the city to borrow the money necessary
to change the grade of the streets and the
establishment of said ferry. The act is to
take effect Immediately.
The True Americon thinks it sees some
connection between the quarrel of Keeper
Laverty with the Republican State Prison
Inspectors and the impeachment. We
can scarcely credit the thing. It is almost
| impossible that political motives can iusti-
fly any man to his conscience, in particle
pating in conspiracy that tlooks to be
worse than the murder Of political antag-
onist.
e. O. Chamberlain showed a very
unfair spirit by stating in his New York
! Sun account of the impeachment trial. last
Friday morning, that Mrs Layerty was in
court the day previously, especially as he
was present when Jim Layerty told another
| reporter that the lady referred to was Mrs.
Marsh. Mrs. Layerty has not been and
will not be in court at any time during the
trial.
| Freddy Fish seems to have the i'm
preston on whauthe Senators allowed him.
| by courtesy to call his "mlnd" without
correcting him the other day, that he is
running the impeachment trial. He
| spends the biggest part of the day at the
feet OF the witnesses impudently staring
them out of countenance, and the rest OF
it in telling Stenographer knight what of
the testimony to embody in his notes.
| Party had nothing to do with the with
| drawal OF Mr.. Throckmorton from the
House Managers of the impeachment trial.
| He feels naturally and properly indignant
| over repeated snubs administered by his
| four Republican confreres of the Board.
| They employed Gray, of Camden, and even
made three new charges against Laverty,
without even paying him the poor compli-
ment of asking him what he thought
about it.
| = The World has found the man who
nominated Gen. Mcclellan. It saws it was
Mr.. Harrington who has Just died in this
city. As we remember, little man with a
| piping voice from some distant part of the
State, was the first man to suggest McClel-
lan's name to the convention. Hon, ]. B.
Cleveland who, with the ex-Congrsssln.Il.
is responsible for McClellan's nomination.
says that Col. Zulick, of Newark, put No
Clellan formally before the convention.
"A good story is told of John L.
Murphy, the well-known State p.iuter.
Last Wednesday an editorial squib ap-
peared in his State Gazette to the effect that
the Senate galleries should be locked
| against the crowd Of morbid curiosi ty
seekers. On Thursday one of the mostia-
terested spectators was John L. Murphy.
Some friends of his cut the note from the
Gazette, put it in envelope, and sent it by
a messenger to him. Two minutes later.
John L. had disappeared from the gallery,
and he now listens to the proceedings from
one of the committee rooms below
The memoirs of the late Governor Nc
Clellan will be published next Winter. Il
appears that he had two copies of the mad.
uscript, one of which was stored in the
vaults of safe deposit company; theother
was destroyed by fire when his residence at
| East Orange was burned. General Nc
Clellan rewrote the memoirs, finished their
| editing and placed them in his publishers
hands just before his death. The writer
critieises the actions and motives of Secre-
| tary Stanton and General Halleck very vig-
orously and IN his usual outspoken way.