TAMMANY'S AGENT.

Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 2664, 13 November 1871, Page 3

TAMMANY'S AGENT.

[From the JVcw York Times, Sept. 20.] The iniquities of the dismembered Ring have not been half told. Every day something fresh and startling comes to light in regard to the manner in which they schemed to enrich themselves by theft and swindling, and at the same time pile up the public debt. It was generally believed that the last of Tweed and Sweeney's scandalous Broadway job had been heard from ; but it now transpires that there are disclosures remaining which are equally as shameful as any that have heretofore been made. With the death of James Watson,thelateCounty Auditor,everything to connect the Ring with the job was supposed to have for ever passed away, and to have become a3 silent as the grave which received his body; but rumor now says that new facts have been discovered which drags the names of Tweed, Hall, Sweeney, and Connelly prominently into the Broadway-widen-ing swindle. Humor, apparently wellfounded, asserts that when the fatal character of the accident which befel Watson, last winter, was first communuicated to the Eing, it was thrown into the greatest consternation, and that it quickly devised measures to prevent him from divulging what he knew about the great frauds. Dame Eumor goes on to say that County Clerk Loew, who was personally unpopulnr with Watson in his lifetime, Police Justice McQuade, another person took possession, of the dying man's house, and kept every one away from his bedside known not to be in etricT unison wicn mc King. George W. Hoome, keeper of the City Hall, was called on to guard the door of the house, and to see that none but the close friende of Hall, Tweed, Sweeney, and Connelly passed through. The dwelling, in fact, was converted into a sort of restaurant and prison combined, where strangers ate and slept and watched, compelling Watson's strickened family to remove to the top floor to hide their grief and obtain domestic privacy. These harsh arrangements were taken, as before-men-tioned, to prevent, by all possible chance, the guilty secret of the King from escaping Watson's dying lips. He had acted as its " tool" for a long number of years, and was particularly useful as its agent in obtaining purchases and refusals of real estate oil the line of the Broadway widening for Sweeney, Tweed and Co. The members have provided for enormous amends, and anticipated making large fortunes out of their investments. The death of Watson could not be averted, however, and consequently their villainy was brought to an abrupt end. Enough facts leaked out about the job to make it highly important that the full story should not come to light in making a settlement of the property left by Watson, who died intestate. To avert this danger a bill was hurriedly engineered through the Legislature by " Boss " Tweed, annulling the original bill for the widening of Broadway, and enacting a new one in its place. Watson's property was taken in charge by the agents of the Eing, and County Clerk Loew was appointed administrator of the estate. It is said that Mrs Watson was given 500,000d01. by the Eing, but the most probable statement is that she was allowed 2000dol. a month, which sum. was afterward reduced to 1200dol. or lOOOdol. a month, her present stipend from the King. It is also alleged that Watson's horses and carriages were taken possession of by the Eing, under plea of disposing of them for the benefit of his family. One fast animal, worth 5000d01., still remains unsold in the custody of Police Justice McQuade.