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Show GENERAL. California Hop. New York, 4. The first bale of new California hops was sold to-day for seventy-five cents per pound. The New Loan. Washington, 4. It is not yet known what course tho secretary proposes to pursue in relation to the three hun drcd million fivo per cents, which remain re-main of the new loan, under the funding fund-ing bill, but tho impression prevails in financial circles that no more new bonds will be offered for a month to come, and that when Boutwell decider-to decider-to place more of the new loan on the market, he will offer all three classes of bonds authorized nnder tho funding act, in equal portions of each class; uulcss Congress shall, in tho meantime, authorize him to withdraw the four and half and four per cents from the market altogether. ColLyer, Crook and the Arizona Indiana. In-diana. Washington, 4. Vincent Collyei lias written tho Secretary of the Interior, Inte-rior, dated Fort Craig, August 22i, in which ho says ho had several inter-views inter-views with messengers from Cochizc, but they gavo him no satisfaction, aoc tho chances to bring that chief tc Washington wero very slight, lie ap pends the following to his letter: "Canada, Alainaza, Aug. 27th. Nathan Pope, E-q., Dear Sir: Mr. Trcjillo has just go1 in without seeing Cochize. ilo say; ho very unexpectedly met Genera Crook, who ordered him back and rc fused to recognizo his authority to g to Cochize's camp, and threw his leltu: down in disdain, saying neither tin Superintendent of Indian Affairs o I New Mexico, nor any agents, hat authority to send parties to Arizona and that his instructions authorizef him to capture any American or Mext can found in his route. He also say. they attempted to arrest his Indians but Lieut. Ross knew Saco and inter ceded for him. General Crook wouli uot let him get his rations, which wen at some distance from where ho mo tho party. Tho General told then they wero lucky to get back with the i lives without rations. If you retun hero I think this affair should b investigated further. Vniiri ImK- (Signed,) C. h Piper." The New Yorta Alleged Fraudi. New York, 4. The meeting of citizens in relation to thealleged frauds in the city finances, held to-night at the Cooper Institute, was largely attended. at-tended. Much enthusiasm was ehowo by tho audience when the city officials were denounced by the various speakers. speak-ers. Among tho prominent citizens present wero Nouh DavieB, W. M. Evarts, Henry Clcwcs, Isaac Bailey, S. B. Chittenden, Morris H. Grinncll, Lockwood Jackson Schultz, Marshall O. Roberts, General John A. Dix, B. J. Arnold and a number of others. On motion tho chair was taken by ex-Mayor ex-Mayor Havemeyer, who said that the meeting ws non-parii.an in its composition com-position and tho objecia of all parties alike were equally interested in having ' an efficient and ecocomical adminittra- i tion of the city govc-nment. After addresses by a number ol prominent citizens, demandiug municipal muni-cipal reform and a rigid inquiry into tho past expenditures and present condition of the finances of the city, tho following scries of twelve resolutions resolu-tions was adopted, which declare the Icity and countydeht more than doubied j within the lat two and a half years, being now one hundred and thirteen I millions, over t-iity-three million!-i million!-i more than when Mayor Hall was inaugurated, in-augurated, while vbcre is reason to be-ilirtp be-ilirtp "any millions more will be paid lout 'on floating and contingent claims, ' unless the present officials are removed, 'lor their proceedings arrested. The .manner in which the parties lmpli-I lmpli-I cated have met tho czposure of tben 1 fraudulent praotioes, tue oontemptu I ous denial of any power to interfere. 1 the flippant evasions, studied conceal Imentofa larpc part of the public ae . 1 omuts, and the attempts to garble an 1 confuse the residue, are cbaracten:e ;i : as a cont'e-Mon of guilt; and oooplei with the facts and figures already Oil closed, furnish ground for belief tha: : the same men who have squandered or : stolen hundreds of thousands of thei tax-payers" monev. an? s;;ii engaged in sirai;ar fiauds and -pfc;i:2;:ons. The fourth re.-olur.i'U Dimes iliiam M. Tweed, Richard B. Connelly and A Oakey Hall, as cSeers directly ar- J raigned at the bar of public opinion lor ! these offenses, and declares that nnies-they nnies-they can meet the charges by othei evidence, and on different pleas, tbar have been furnished in their beha:l. the credit of the city of New York and the material interests of its citizens citi-zens wiil demand that they bo deprived de-prived of the offices which they hav dishonored and the power which ihcy are abusing. The tilth resolution demands a full and detailed exhibit of the public re ceipts and expenditures for the pas: two years and a half. While the sixth isserts the right of the citizens to snow, and their determination to ascertain, as-certain, who are and have been on tht pay rolls of the city government; what pay they receive and what service they render. The seventh resolution demands that legal remedies be resortea to, to recover the stolen money, and that tbe aw should be altered to effect this ob lect if necessary. And the eighth ap peals to the next legislature to repea 'he present city charter and give New Y ork a form of government devised oi approved by the wisest and bet citizens. citi-zens. Tbe citizens are urged to unite n the next election upon municipal reform candidates, making that tht-controlling tht-controlling issue. |