anything that would comply with the ordinances of the elty. I received information that mattresses from steamers were piled up in other parts of the city. I made an investigation, and found in a large stable on Newark street, between Madison and Monroe, occupied by a man named George Bishop, who dealt in mattresses, getting the same from the French steamship line in New York, and bringing them to Hoboken. I found the stock of mattresses piled up, possibl y three thousand His business was to rebale the straw in bales of about two hundred pounds and sell it for all purposes, for bedding for animals, etc. I also found a place in Harrison street, kept by a man named Semraler, and used as a cow stable. He had on hand about one hundred mattresses, which he procured from Jacob Schmidt, and used the same as bedding for his cows. I was informed by Kennedy that lie used the sea grass and straw which lie received from the Hamburg line in Idling sunken lots 011 the meadows. J received this day the annexed letter from the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, which I submit as port of my report, and 1 await Tui tlier directions from your honorable body before proceeding further in the matter.fu 11 ir I'anru