"who Is To Blame?"

One ov moro writers under tlie abore caption, who intended t.o dlsguise theniselveá by a signature significant the farthest possibla from any f fheir dealifcgs, via : " Fair Tlay," but who exposé themselves by tbc wiley Btylfl of the disappointed senator-seeker, and the total disrogard to truth so characteristio of the Mayor's brothér-in-law, have come out in the last Courier -with a long tirade of faleehoods, in order to makc the laboren having . claims against Hip city believe we are the ones ivho keep thera out of their pay. We are aware that wo are too well known as always having Hved up to the doctrine that the "Ia1)orer is worlhy of his liire," and being ever ready to pay a full priee promptly foT the'ir labor, to have them believe any anonymous writer who so industriously labora to make out a case against us, on a charge that we Will without cause step between them and the City Treasarer, to prevent their receiving their pay for wages honestly their due, but as our namos havo been tiras wantonly held up in the aforesaid tirade, we deem it due the public Lhat we inake a plain statement of facta in regard to some of the transactions ofthe Mayor and certain Aldormen tliat seeined to us to make it our duty to cnjoin them against certain unlawful acts. It is truc that the accounts for July wore allowed, and that Alderman Nye as "Recorder pro tem " was directed to draw the orders, and altliough he doubted his riglit so to do, he would h-ave drawn tln-ni had thero been a little more condescension on the part of the Mayor, for Aldernian Nye called at the Mayor's office several times for the order book, which has been held by him since the time Recorder Pitkin left and he assumed tlie duties of Recorder, and could not obtairf it. - After sorac thne Deputy Marshal Martin went to Alderman Nye with the order book, and requested him to draw an order for the amount allowcd him. which was done, and Alderman Nye said to him if he could have the order book he would draw the rest of the orders as soon as he could. Mr. Martin said tlmt the Mayor directed hira to-bring the book back with him, but Aldennau Nye retained the book ; afi hour Oï two after Mr. Martin again called for the book, saying that the Mayor said there were some orders in tlie book already drawn and signet!, and they might get lest, clearly Intimating that AlderiianNye might stealthe orders, and that the order book was not safe in his hands. The wok was given to Mr. Martin and has never lever been called for by Alderraan Nye since. The accounts for August and September were. uever to our knowledge reported üpon by the iïnance couimittee, though we believe Aldertnan Smith, xv.i assnined to act as a self-constituted finance committee, said h hal sorae accounts in his hands which he wished allowed. We therefore held an adourned meeting ior ha purpose of exainiuing ihem. the ürst week in October, but neither the Mayor or his privy counselors attended, consequcntly we adjourned from week to week giving them iriformation of the time, but they persistently kept away. No accounts weïe presented at the regular meeting in November, but at an adjourned meeting in tliat xnonth, Alderman Nye objected to Mr. Gfeen's acting as Recorder or voting as a member of tbe Council, the Mayor decided thát lié was Recorder and had aright to vote". Alderman Nye appealed from that' decisión, and protested against Mr. Greon's being ullowed to voté upon the appeal, the Mayor allowed him to vote, and alsó voted hiinself to sustain his own decisión, thusmakittg a lie vote, when his honor the Mayor declared the appeal lost. After trying in vain to get the Mayojyto put votes oifered and secondedby us, andfmding that at a nod from the brother-in-law, or the otber dictator, he mulishly persistedjn paying no attention to any motiou from us, one of us told hiin and the Council that il' he would'not put to vote any motion properly made by us, we would not sit there to be insulted, but' would leave the room-: as no reply was made we rose and followed the example set us by the Mayor, who, at a previous meeting, at the order' of tbe brother-in-law, joined in a skedaddle, leaving us without a head, wliich made us more incompetent to do business than with the dull one ve ave so unfortunate as to have j over us. After we liad risen to go, and when all but one, who was detained a moment to put on kis overshoes, had left the room, the Mayor took up a large paekage enclosed in au enve'.ope, and said, " All in favor of allowing these accounts say aye," and that moment the last one of us left. What was done after that we have no means of knowing, but iiavïng been told that this paekage contained several hundred dollars of accounts, somc of them in favor of the Alderman who so adroitly contriveS to gei them allowed, one of which, ihough not in his ov.-n name, was in his own hand writing, ajid which he had once befare attempted to smuggle throngh, and -no one of us ever haring had an opportunity to see them, we feit it to be our duty to stop their payment, until we were permitted to examine them, for which purpose we met at the Council Room at the time of our recular meeting in December, but the Mayor and bis conferees came not. Now, fellow-citizens, after Ibis statement every word of yhicli can be proved true, say ' ' who is to blame?' WILLJAM S. MAYXARD, ) Aldermen of the L. PKITZ, 2d Ward. N. B. NYE, ) Aldermen of the JKIIK.UTAIÍ PEEK, 'M Ward MICIIAia DEVANY, Alderman of the 4th Ward. WARREN JACKSON, without giving any opinión in regard to the author or authors of '; Fair Play."