The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1866, Page 4

4 REVIEW CF NATIONAL AFFAIRS. POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES OF THE REPUBLIC Conflict Between Congress and the President, and What It May Lead To. The Proposed Constitutional Amendment. Why No Southern State Can Ratify It. sPOLICY OF THE SOUTHERN STATES. ‘New and Last Phase of the Irre- Pressible Conflict. &o. &e. &o. ‘With the best disposition to see an ond put to tho con- (M@ict between Congress and the Premdent, and to see the States rustored to their representation in Con- grees by their own voluntary act in ratifying the pro- poeed amendments to the constitution, it is but too to us that noither of these things are at present thia the range of probabilities and that the political Pomplications in which the country is involved are more ikely to lead us into inextricable confusion and trouble. prow time to time since the return of the Presidential y from ite unfortunate pilgrimage to the tomb of nglas, special correspondents at thé capital have wpreased the opinion that Mr. Johnson, warned by the ‘elections of Mahe and Pennsytvania, was about to repre- pent to tho States recontly engaged in rebellion the {futility of further opposition to the will of Congress and {he propriety of ratifying the proposed constitutional f)mendments as the easiest terms that could be secured; | ind it has also been alleged, in the same connection, that iPovernor Orr, of South Carolina, was about to recom- fend that course of action to the Legislature of that Jtate, We aro convinced now that there was no good Youndation for either of these statements, and that, on phe contrary, Mr. Johnson is determined to persevere in ftho policy which he has entered upon, regardless and Aefiant of consequences, while the late rebel States are ‘equally disposed to spura with contumely the terms pro- posed to them. If we are right im this interpretation of Bhe signs in the political horizon, then indeod there is Little hope for a settlement of our national difficulties for peveral years to come, ( But it is intemated in certain quarters, repeated by the lips of demagogues and echoed in public assemblies and private conversations, that an easy remedy cap be found for at least one of those difficultios, and that so far as (Mr. Johnson stands in the way, that impediment can be summarily removed by impeachment. We do not be- Move that the radical portien of the republican party can muster strength enough to carry out that programme, ‘The ultra measures proposed at the last session by the representatives of ihe radicals were alinost invariably defeated by a junction of the conservative elements; and Bo Lhe attempt to impeach and depose President Jobn- gon, meroly because he does not coincide with the views Bud measures of Congress, would be such an outrageous eo'ling as to render certain the failuro of any euch ovement. And yet not only do we flud such ranting hum- fougs as Butler of Massachusetts, Chandler of Michigan, "Wondell Phillips, and others of that’stripe openly pro. | ‘claiming that the President 1s to be impeached ai the next Bession, but wo even find the quiet, thoughtful, sober Banks giving utterance to the same sentiment. In fact, ith the meeting of the miscegen convention in Philadel- hia at the beginning of September, that idea was started and wo are sorry to say that it has been gaining ground vor since and is now confidently talked about as one of ‘the leading measures lo be carried through at the next sossion, Butler has even gone so far as to outline the charges to be preferred against the President, hich are that he was responsible for the New Orleans massacre, that he has been appointing disloyal men to office, that ho has been endeavoring to bring into odjum and contempt the legislative department of the govern- ment by designating it as the ‘so-called Congress,” the “‘bogus Congress,’’ &c. And discussions have been already entered on as to whether the President will, in paso of impeachment, recognize or disavow the legiti- macy of Congress, whether he is compelled to appear in ®erson or ooly by attorney, and whether, pending the Proceedings, he shall continuo to exercise tho functions of his office. We allude to these circumstances, not ‘because we believe that any serious attompt will be moade to doprive Mr. Johnson of the Presidency, but frather as indicating the extent to which the discussion the subject has gone already. The anticipated change the War Department, by which General Sherman, jwho was oven ahead of President Johnson in liberality the rebel States, is to succeed Secretary Stanton, is @oenorally regarded as an important movo in the great @ontest which is expected to take place next session be- Swoon Congress and the President. One thing is vey and that is that Congress will be disposed to look with approval upon any means of putting an end to Mr. fohnaon’s tonure of office, and that if any means can be ovised to prevent it he will not be tolerated in the Pre- ‘eidential chair till the 4th of March, 1869. If no such means can be found, however, then it is morally cer- that the present disorganized and unsatisfactory gtato of the country will show no amelioration or im- provement before that time. Mr. Johnson’s stubborn, qunyielding disposition will prevent his making the slightest concession to Congress, and that body cannot Portainly be expected to yield to him. Y In the méantime are we justified in expocting that the tates recently in rebellion, or any of them, will of their own accord, and in spite of executive influence, ratify Proposed amendment to the constitution and thus gout an end to the whole controversy in regard to recon- ptruction of restoration? Would they even do so if Pr.tent Johnson were to back the proposed amend- with bis strongest recommendation and quans (uence? These questions we must cer- = In {08 negative. If we had not before us pulroomaen ‘t Humphreys, of Mississippi, to on cone gaing ‘n which he characterizes {the proposed amendment as ‘gn ,"Sulting outrage’? and {f "gross usurpation of the rights of »..\tes" the oy ag of which would causo its rejectw.' * id not see tbat idea practically silamw.*¢ Texas we would still come to the conclusion, the very nature of things, that no fairly ted governtér of a Southern State would re- mend, and no fairly elected Logislatate would ‘pprove, such @ measure. In fact Congress, in pro ng it, proposed what was as nearly « moral im, ity as the buman mind can well conceive of. Ij is or ail of those rates woate be pestiges i= Rejecting the first section of the amepdment, Which pimaply extends the protection of the foderai op over, and ides for equal laws to, all classes of witizons — the several States; or gree the second hich practical)” bases represen’ Bite ot rote: ‘Br the fourth section, which declares ty of bite dehy and 6 rebel debt, These ood and the Southerh States or om. Perhaps if these alone were embraced in the Reseans! it, ‘hore would be litéle or no difficulty as to Ate ratification. Bat that which ensures ite tion ia Bvery Southern “tate where the have any fair Ghow in the election of the re is the third sec- ion, the enforcement of which would render every high official of thi ” and probably three-fourths of the members of t gisiature, { of exercising their Hunctions another day ‘That section ia in these lo, shall be a Se ntative ‘or military under the Unived States oF ai wing previously taken an ‘oath ase member — . ‘a8 an oMfcer of the Unit fi: te, ve ei 4 0 inv! iy : ame tsemica tefeok, But Com. ris of exch House, remove 1s might be all right and proper for Congress tn deal- bad communitios which levied war acninst the gov- nities upon their leading men a@ ‘as those Go eo could not be questioned. The policy of is would be the su to ‘a vole of (wort ined im this section. The right to of consideration and argument, rT) le whom it |; Ne Ane tbe 8 proposed to Pats Tera’ wa sreyotroon r . of cruelty; Ye cortainly Ls ee the see. in framing the propetel conatitalfonal + eo G ys Ag to preclude in ots Oovéraor ar cab ot those Brownlow ot Ten. npssee and Pierpoint of Virginia, whose eicctions were | peed impositions on the people of ther respective Les), #nd that there is not avy bigh ollicial, either tm vo departments, who under the section above goated, immedi- cone from holding office. tion, who did not identify themselves with tion’ Or did not, at least, give aid and comfort to the rebela, may be counted on the fingers of a man’s band. In very Fare instances, indeed, were loyal men found ai the better class of Southern citizens in those portions of the Confederacy that were held for avy jongth of time by the rebel armies, In fact, no matter how Well disposed orginally to the Union cause, there was no alternative left to the people of the South but alleviance, voluntarily or compulsorily, to the Confederate government. In the Southern States public positions were held much more permanently than in the free States, and were confined to a much more restricted class of the community. The game men continued to be elected time after time to Congress, to the legislature, or to executive or judicial offices. The survivors of (heh aieneane still the men to hold similar positions. Aud pow those very men, con- stituting certainly three-fourths of those who official functions in the South, are called that they themsolves, having in the to observe the of having subsequently in unworthy and in of “holding military, under the United States or Will they do it? Is it within babilities that they could do it’ and likelihood of sueceas might the sacred it ‘m general legislation, discriminate parte the country. The laws must as all sections. And even if Coneeran were discriminate against the outh, the presence of y or fifty members in the House and of twenty eenators in Senate, would hardly stand in the way of that disposition, So far, therefore, as general eee goes, the States of the South lose sothing seaed ly the exclusion of their representatives Congress, They have their independent State and municipal — ernments, admininistored by such persons as = 4 choose to elect, without to any supposed disquali- . To get three or four score representatives into thoy must be willing to forego the privilege and rivht of these independent local governments. And while, on the one hand, the men whom they must, in such cases proscribe and disfranchise are those who in days of disaster and suffering identified themselves with the whole body of electors, those who would represent them in Congress must of necessity bo men who either fought against, condemned or refased to participate in the cause for which the people of the South rashly, un- wisely, but bravely and conscientiously, staked ir lives, fortunes and honor. ‘The simple statement of the alternative proposition is enough to show that the people of the Southern States cannot possibly be expected to entertain seri the proposed constitutional amendment. Governor m- phreys, of Mississippi, was not far astray in presuming that tho mere reading of it would case its rejection by the i ure. It will be the same with the other Southern legislatures. It is no answer to eay that if Ten- nessee has ratified it other rebel States may do the same, The mass of the voting population of Tennessee were foroibly deprived of their franchise, first under Andrew Jobnaon as Military Governor, and then under Parson Brownlow as Provisional Governor, and the Legislature elected under such circumstances might with as much Bro riety have framed iaws for New York as Tennessee. oy fa this Mr. Johnson may see the fi of retri- bution for his infamous proclamation while Gov- ernor, by which no person was allowed to vote at the intial election in 1864 who did not swear that he Seannres. and would support the policy of Mr. Lincoln. Proclamation, imitated by his successor, secured the return of a legislature which, in its turn, inced ‘against dis own policy as President. So that Mr. John- son, who ia fond of quoting poetry, may apply to his own case the following pen ‘vorse:— Phere needeth not the holl that bigots frame ‘To punish those who err. Earth In iteelf Contains at once the evil and the cure; And all-sufficing nature can chastise ‘Thore who transgress her law. She only How justly to proportion to the fault ‘The punishment it merits. co Tiare hd yrs - this respect ia, if not Proportioned to the fault, at Jeast exceedingly appro- Priate, . kt was iit that the means which he pint pe- vent votes being given to General Mc should also react against himself. . > But. .as wo were saying, the action of the Tennesses fear on thus constracted, cannot be regarded as any indication of the action of the Legislatures of other Sout States, where no such influences were at work and where the people exercised their elective frauchise without restriction. The action of the Ten- Ressee lature reflected the sentiments and wirhes of the prople of Tennessee about as much as it did those of the people of Timbuctoo. Still we it must stand as a legal and constitutional act, nessee must ba regarded ag knows amendment. It is possible .the organization next session of four oF Pg erg territories in the far We and = perhaps the — division Tennessee two J of Eastern and Western, thus increasing the number Btates to forty or over, the consent of the ten excluded States to the amendment may be rendered upnecessary, ‘as there would then be threo-fourths of the | res of the several States ratifying it, in case all pot pate Fg Pe of is by no ach clits 2 entuc! not ely to accept negro s or submit toa diminution of representation; nor is California more hkely to view with favor the pro- of making Joba Chinaman an independent voter. jut no matter how that may be, it !s morally certain that none of the ten excluded States will agsent to it. How will the matter then stand? Tho executive and i for the last year—the now with oue, and now with t #s e other; the torness and antipathy which led to the war in the first wing moré and more intense; the politicians 20 instance will be colored for whose welfare ‘pen . Only av taxes which the South boul exchequer will be received, in contribute to the national — - swept oq culty Of appointing the necessary officials in communi- ties where there =e to white men who can take is known as the “iron-clad oath.”” Thad last session, in a debate on the internal revenue bill, half the whiskey distilled in the country was distilied in the South, and that it wasa business for in that trade to ship corn into Southern States Se eens ot — Canons into nes an paid no duty. It is the same in regard to arti. cles of internal taxation, forfeits @ hundred mil- uthern States have not If this be not “ om too a hy government. ing lear our whistle’ it would bo difficult tore what would be dear emough. And all for what? In orderto shut out of such men as Orr, of South Carolina, eel of and Houston, of Alabama, and to admi' others the class of Hamilton, of Texas, Stokes, of Tennessee, Hunnicutt, of par ame) and other wandering miscegens of that siripe, If weever succted in that Pp 'licy we will find, when too Inte, that we have been @ thering in the chaff and rojectiag the wheat, But it is impossible that we can succeed. Southorn communities can never be forced into repudiating their most trusted, able and popular citizens, and repysitg their interests in the of men srg Bae 06 sympa- thies in common with th Taey wi fore, go sna Ui prokaply onttr ss takes! thence tetaeeeses’ and wi ly suffer no injui 5 the mean- time new parties will be formed at the North. The re- Heo Dag § which ro — to bear the odium of res- por y for & state of things which perpetuates dis- cgrd and exposes the blionv constant peril, will, of necessity, a} 8 division, the radicals ranging them- selves on one and the moderate, yg «hse people on the other. The one will represent New Engincd; the other will yp the middle and western so8tem. It is not likely that latter, whose armed € hed the rebellion, will allow ‘narrow ded ww useless their wor C and Preaiet Sonnson will both be swept aside, and practical men and ideas will be brought forward. This political contest will culminate in the tial a of _ if it does not aa tely take @ more y\olent revolutionary direction mreagttmy 7 fhe iprotaoiivies are that the radicals would nom'nate for the presidency such a man as Senator Wade, of Ohio, Chief Justice Chase or Benjamin F. a say pd the cholce of the conservatives would probably fall on General Sherman, General Grant, or General MoClellap. The recent elections, while they have resulted in re- ablican majorities, have nevertheless ehown that there Fe after all, wut very small margin for them to work on. ‘ith @ persistence by Congress in i licy of excludi: the Southern States and ‘preventin; accomplishment of the work of restoration, that margin wtil undoubtedly disappear. Then the time for cementing the States, North Poutb, intoe sorebiie, one a4 redivinite, ‘will have arrived; the work nen) bring to the party of Union and conciliation, the radical rty will be Whoronghly routed and demoralized. Let le of the South, then, pursue the policy Indl- cated, That ta, let them keep aloof from national poli- tics, attend to (heir State affairs, wipe from their statute books ‘voatige of the slave code, establish equality berore the laws for all men, try to build up their shat- Er tered fortunes by establishing industrial and manofactur- i ed their midst, and, above all, let them solulocet such causes for calumny and sangul scones of Memphis and the rewalt. ill ‘be that, without Prefer their independent State governments toa in achieved by the forfeiture of Sra: that they will bold themselves aloof from affa rs and ay to retrioviog their shattered fortunes; that then the “irrepressible conflict” will manifest itself in @ new form, between tho bigoted pore nrepe pen New Encland ae the olicity of view: great Middle and Western “tates that in this conflict radicahem will be crushed ‘as com? pletely as secession bas been, and that then the whole nation, ragenereediand digenthralled, will make a new start in fle career of greatness, Let all who wish for that consummation fiown alike upon the violences of tho pacifention of tha countay nod brought dlagrase pow bd 2 count an 3 upon our fustitutions: en Oa Presents itself of help erin men of moderate views oe eee liberal ideas, for Convress or other hi poai- tion, let their votes be given to them of party or political clap-trap. GISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL ITEMS. Sprecn sy Samus, Smetianakcer, M. C.—On theeven- ing of Oct. 11, Samuél Shellebarger made a epecch at Xenia, Obio, in the course of which he alluded to the probable results of the election in making the constitu. tional amendment part of the io law, He de- sorfbed the high and vast import of the action of Tues- day in making these amendments certain of adoption, ‘These amendments put all of the nation’s children alike under the great shield of the nation. They made the States and the electors thereof equals in the proportion of the numbers of their electors. They rendered the authors @? rebellion outlaws, and marked treason with infamy. They consecrated the national faith to perpe- tual inviolability, Who, he inquired, can take in a con- Coption of all the vastness of these resuits, or measure their consequences to the people and to the nation? ‘Well may you light these bonfires; well may these shouts of joy go along with this circle of light stretching to-night acroes your continent; well may you exchange, State with State and citizen with citizen, these congratu- lations, For truly the nation hath triumphed glo- Tiously. Tre Lapazr Despatca,—Forney says in the Philadel- phia Press that he has sot conversed with a single intel- gent observer who does not believe that the questions published in the Philadelphia Ledger on the 11th of Octo- ber came from Andrew Johnson himself. Intelligent thinkers must conclude that no intelligent observer has had anything to say to Forney lately. Extreme Mussurns at 4 Discount.—The Albany Zoning Journal repudiates the radical extremists, and plants itself squarely on the constitutional amendment as the basis of reconstruction. Weepett Pauirs.—The New Orleans Times calls Wendell Phillips a lobby member of the radical Congress. Boston Consxnvatives.—The following description of Boston conservatives from the Galveston (Texas) Bulletin is good, however inapplicahle to Mr. Dana:— Richard H. Dana, United States District Attorney, has resigned and has taken ground. against the President. Mr. Dana is one of the most conservative men in the Bay State. He belongs to the political school of Win- throp and General Couch and Hilliard, and the bard shell class interest jocracy, the most immovable, uncon- vertible and irreclatmable men that live. Learned, rick, aristocratic; made of ice, and granite and sunlight; cold, and bard and clear; positive and persistent. one of those men changes nie pole! sentiment or abandons 8 line of political action there must have been a political Pentecost up that way. Cattrormta Potrrics.—The National Union State Con tral Committee of California has issued a long address, of which the argument is concentrated in this paragraph :— The vk Pose not er es because ce Union ‘was nover disrapted. tn) 8 ‘al exam that the people of the Ubited Psa og ‘will constantly exercise the power to maintain the Union inst all internal convulsions. It also, but only as a ang to this end, destroyed slavery and the South of the most dangerous element in its Ratkations At its termination, the om in a law Sen SA very lergo oxygber of persons bea Mit jarge ny L gelvea liable T theories and wo bad to = been results of four years of military and Davi rations upon an ‘unprecedented But tne Constitution and the laws remained ot 1e different States which had tuents wore removed. ized communities thi their constitutional fut nish or pardon individual offenders resume poopie leper onty for duly out the country to for the Governm justice or policy might and for the selves to repair ae tereane ane the In.another portion of the address occurs this declara- tion:—'That conciliation after victory 1s the wisest policy, the experience of all free nations attests, and it is was had by a tyranni ki and that they Ded ercaped from the ‘mal sdmiciscration’ minis- ters who hi office under one who ruled by perpetual succession and divine right ‘That constitution was made for a state of internal peace. Our fathers never seem to have dreamed that in a country where all the institutions were free; wi by the vote of the majority of the people in it the faws ‘could be changed for the better; ‘whore by the vote of the people every law, however Oppreasive, codid be altered; they never seem to have for cane part of the could made ‘were could and there! offence. provision 8 civil crisie—| its provisions were framed. It was framed for difficulty had at cope. \Mcult tn my judgment, is culty is that the constitation is not Present exigency. To romedy this weakness of the constitution General Butler proposes to impeach the President, a strategic movement in civil affairs entirely consonant with the character of his notorious manquvres in war, The peo- ple have a better way and mean to amend this constitu. tion making it equal to the present or any exigency. Suxaton Tacusotz.—The Republican County Conven- tion of Cook county, Ml., (Chicago,) instructed ite nom!- nees for the Legislature, ii elected, to vote for the return of Lyman Trumbull to the United States Senate, Orrosrs Tae AMENDMENT. —Judge G. F, Comstock made & specch at Albion, N. ¥., on the 17th inst., inthe course of which he attark6d the constitutional amendment at Great length, on the ground that it would not secure what it pretended to—the political equality of white men. Tax Norra Caroma Exectiox.—The Raleigh North Carolina Standard makes the following comments on the recent election in that State:— The people of this State voted on Thi lest Governor and members of the Legislature, incumbent, J Governor. General for. z “2 Daring the week ending lat Saturday evening, there wero 475 deaths im this city, being a slight increase over the number reported the previous week. Of potent Sere From colt Nad ge cholera, , the tet. Pat Ty at 1a; ayootery 0, <P uphold foven, & ae 5 THE PHILADELPHIA CANARD. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE O€ THE NEW YORK WERALS. It was set Afloat by the Geld Gamblers of Wall Street, who were Aided by the Phila- delphia Agent of the New York Associated Press—Despatches are Mutilated at the New York Associated Press Office, where it Charged that Gambling and Speculation bapa bee's Wasumvaror, Oot, 82, 1868. In the city of New York there is a man who has an office in Wall street and whose business it is to supply |. In addition to this he writes letters to poor newspapers published, North and South, and he has been in the habit of sending “Washington news,’’ made up from specials sent to the New York evening papers, from New York to the Philadelphia Ledger, This is one branch of our subject, Now for another, Among the “dead beats’ in this city is a notorious correspondent who wrote letters during the war to & New York copperhead journal over the nom de plume of “Druid,” who has made it a practice to wend “notes” and letters to his friend the Wall street gold gambler. This arrangement between these is of long standing. Exactly whea or where “! id” got “his information” your correspondent cannot say. At any rate, he wrote it ont and sent it by mail to the Wall street gold gambler. Hore ‘‘Druid’s" connection with the matterended. And just in this place we make the point that if anybody ought mever had any connection or comm: gambler or some of the grand speculators in New York and Philadelphia? It is of little consequence what the Philadelphia agent of the Associated Press may say on this point, when we can assert itas a fant that ween the President had authorized the canard to be contradicted, igi besorgen mnoms bad gone = oing over the wires, when gentlemen were ing & their friends in differert of the Nortkorh and Middle States not to believe Ledger a delphia agent of the Associated Progs sent a which get out before the public, that the Ledger ceived information leading to a confirmation of ‘‘ report.” We will not say the Ledger did not reoei: such information. It is not atall unlikely that it did, It certainly was not hard for the man who sent the orig- ina) to, directly or indirectly, dend another despatch, for the purpose of affecting the market a little longer. The cablers wanted to let the canard down easily. But one tis plain, the Philadelphia agent of the New York Associated Press must have known when he tried to ald the gamblers in thelr next morning’s operations to keep the market excited, that there was a grave doubt—that the thing looked plainly like a canard—and if he had been a disinterested man, and not a igen, as showed Irtmself to be, he would have that doubt in favor of the President. There is it the Avecciated Press at cone on ng and New Fisk. Some One ts or speculati some quently rekabls report which ach De dovcloted Peat office are mutilated or suppresed, while sensation ones hardly ever fail to. @ niche find among the neve, “Druid,” in his letter of explanation, says that he has some friends here who can, with wonderful unravel the, skein of doubtful be ya and got at its and facts, This is all bosh, 0 best friend which “Druid”? has at Washington {s his imagination. When ho losce this his ability is gone forever. ‘Draid” is a fallen 5 mn sod, [nen who eed Mich at ste a pwd just gone by, he receives a greai y ‘ima, facts” from those of the weaker sex to be “reconstructed.” If the effect of the canard only began and ended in Wall street the public would ‘not be as deeply interested as they are jut when we look abroad aad take into consideration the great mischief other canards have al- done there—when we notice how intently Faro- pean governments are watching the course of political events in this land, and that even the insignificant French newspaj published in Mexico devote consid- attention to matters transp! here— ‘we can seo\why it is that the people should hun! and drom e the culprits in this Ledger affair and thém fo trial and punishment of some sort. THE RUSSIAN-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH. Return of a Party of Explorers to San Fran- cisco—Interesting Statements, &c. the Alta Calif¢ 28. Mi ve Pope has Intsly returnedte ina city, after an adventurous exploring expedition in the service of the Russian- A: can hip os Company. Accompa- of Victoria, two Indians and , near in October he ead’ of Fraser river, after a miles, Here he spent about four months, he ‘estminster, Frasor river, on the lst of May, 1865, and reached Lake Tatla, the hi trav. ray saw it, it aust bo led, be- The other 80 soft four miles that the; to push leaving tiling, sod they Touse they were ea 's streams, rassing on a Seat anade Mya eno ee tea bey nents the them- LA es whence took ring eay He found a valley of three miles wide, bounded on the east side hee mourtains, extend:ng northwestward from Lake Tatla to the bend of the Stickeen river and the divides between the Fraser and the Skesna, and be- tween tho Skeena and the Stickeen are so low that the traveller would scarcely notice-them if the waters did not flow in different dfrectiona. “This valiey is and favorabie for the construction of * sleraph Hao, with enough timber for poles. The country, } pre- ee tee eee As roeidence of - men who wo ve charge 0 Pope's Valley, as we name it, is about (wo hundred miles from the coast and raliel with it, The jh line is now finished to her de Boutler, on the Skeena river, about fifty miles west of Pope's Valley, it ts dout oT waa at the of Fraser river by the hundred miles; so the "AL Buck's Bar, on the Btickeen, hi miles from Ihe Soven,, there are ton whe ue that mines are rich and extensiveand that there are val lodes of silver and copper ores in the vicinity. T Pope says he saw one jump of native copper nearly as ase quart bowl ‘NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1966—TRIPLE SHEET: MORE EXPOSITIONS. trae in fact, though the manner | ‘stated conveys a false impression, 4 This which the fact is contractors stipulate, by written aw will commence hard ay ae it or within a given time, agreed upon by both Sas tan slgnbay ot the contrack aoa thas the Iny of the inspectors shail run from that time. Tha vision Why the Comptroller Does Not Attend the Opening of Bids for Contracts. Ul justice to and fer the work ie er jald ‘oak ready Statement of the Croton Aque- duct.Board. &. at | il A 8 EE i Crorom Dearne, } . Nuw Yorx, Oct. 19, 1866. | at ie easy to utter in afew words a slander which will +2ke mapy peges to answer. If the slander be couched in a perverted statement of facts, it is even more diffl- oult to refute it by any short explanation, than if it were told in a direct falsehood. We therefore ask, for the sake of justice, that no ono be deterred by its length from reading this paper. It could ssarcely be abbreviated, and some explanation to the pablic has become necessary. The public Jetting of a large amount of work in the construction of sewers and pavements by this Board was sivertised to take place on the 36th September Inst. In comsequence vf the absence from town of one of the members of the Board and of the refusal of the City: Comptroller, Mr, Brennan, to attend the opening it was adjourned ¢> the Ist October. The Comptroller stilt re- fusing to be present it has been adjourned from time to time to this date, and will continue to be adjourned until he perform the duty required of him by law. Asthe law makes his presence necessary at the opening of all proposals this adjournment is unavoidable. ler bas given extensive publica- on which he seeks to justify his attempts to create injurious im- thi ent. Under these cir- cumptances we deem it incumbent on us to to make to the very many who will suffer by his illegal course a true statement of the case. To the Comptroller we have Sebo of rom ment apt el one an ssceeuse, aituie oud: eontea the cperailens of this department, Sha segnegetele which he seeks to excuse himself are utterly fallaci ‘because founded on a per- verted statement of facts; what, however, these argu- ments lack in candor they make up in ingenuity, and thus unfairly adduced may have sufficient weight with the public to justify them in looking for some explana- tion, To the public we ly give it, and we trust that our statement will be such as to satisfy every just erson that the general confidence in this department pect Bhp undeserved nor abused, and will not be felted, The Comptroller's first ground of refusal (see his letter of 26th September), is “because the list of embraces work which cannot legally be done, such as building sewers where the street is not opened by law.’ There is one sewer advertised in 127th street, between Third and Fourth avenues, which street has not been, as we have since ascertained, legall: Bipot This street has , , for years, and the assessments for such improvements regnenly laid and collected without objection. As it is built upon and the owners of the property on both sides were the appli- cants for the proposed sewer, thore was no season to suspect that the street had not been regularly opened; nor do we believe that the owners of property there would have been so dishonorable as to avail themselves of this circumstance to avoid assessment; still the error was discovered soon after the advert it, and a no- tice of the withdrawal of this sever publ: reported be- forea bid had been ved, and before any commn- nication from the Comptroller had been made this The necessity for withdrawing ocourred be- at 4 i if Et g Ei 5 z § i i E E i 3 i ‘ rea vee fie i: E i as to execute it, ang even had Mr. Vanderpool addressed note tous of to the Comptroller we would not have had, any mere than he has, ee et ane The remonstt of Mr. Ellis others, and the note of Mr. J. J. Astor, Jr., refer to asewer in Forty. eizhth street, Since the new seworage law has enabled this department to devise Cy Ad a wo je i its 4 SREREERSS oul Cpe) more perfectly. certain expenses, such as the advertising, which are common to and contingent upon every tract, whether it be for a single sewer one hundred in length, or for an entire district. If the whole trict is let at one time these are comparatively light. If asingle street or be sewered under each cont these expenses or even by the num» ied by the number of ed erabraved in (hat ‘The eamo js true torthan he that such withdrawals have been made. and ivars will be made at the first moment of the discovery hi ““Hle greater work be ed this owing of ‘same description already let by your elas a0 tracts: a to be suspended at |, the con’ wou! ve the setting in of ,winter weather.” The more important of the work sewers, and the that there is a doficiency of material for their construction ts simply untrue. ig an abundance of material and of contractors 8 and recent indications may be re- which would be bid by they have been heretofore. In regard to the material for pavements, we have positive assurances that there would be no deficiency. dtl i Hi i iH j ize chit i i ale FE bia? if i ik i instances even bave im and the Coed ty a8 when a is | tompt at what the Comptrolier calls sew ay a prsed to be gent of our duty in this the | the ‘of the Common Council would, under the Constant of those in whose behalf and on Eired prorat, of ih, law fhe at wan be nal spplication the work le ordered would prevent all inae- | and void, and could not be made the means of a ae oa ——— —_ ioe ip i = eet a new pavement they done; when contracts," improper pon the panmage ae astern ee im- ”” ke. red mediate prosecution of the work, we ‘that the y of the | ‘ ee oan oe ie mais und: Giddinwduieer’ conn whe wil be benetien Septang nothing to do with the price. It is simply our duty to | trof Jet the contract on the most favorable terms, and to see work, and are +4 pole w ~ Wats of - out an undue quaatity of in oe blocks) in will be say the least, disingenuous, foreven if the amount | thrown fo, The were it would be mostly indicative of the prévious | prices to action of the Common Coumtil, and by inference of the | gt prices lors when oy wishes of property owners. made their Ba sone ee Se queens at oe ee ot The persons Sra saaad cio cu tag ety | eer a Ay] fey See ea aid In sanitary poy ed — tT emecetecameind Py fy yt PR 4 In 2S ively few = pavements ; a uninhabitable by the chy {a's pation of” their. com wilhou) any ‘of Provision for “that cost being made by thé Com- mber of laborers whe mon Council) which are either under contract ingens or advertised for the presest opening, but for Camel sewers, there are now upwards of ninety applications property owa- awaiting action in our department. These spplications eer les womens ove kon ony ryt ‘roton Aqueduct Board, Seay iy tee Board of Health. Some are asked for Aqnefne by persons who wish their cellars freed from water, while others are demanded by owners of new blocks of houses, the tenants of which will not occupy them “y splanet Incgs portoen ot thoes sewers are reat, a ' and, Ue. consractiog, ofall of thom dlayod Wy the me to Prin dilating Sosa’ tes Yoo sesame Phy May mma ere Comptrotier refers vaguely to the fact three or four heserd inspectors are placed on one job. This is true, but it fs uncandidly stated. There is an explicit provision formed: toed subscribed to tn every contract, that the work shall be os corried on fa 00 many diswrent _o AR ae per acre. Ry com) mn, and an t shall be placed at every of old ma int where work is ‘On the same sewer, there- eatate was ‘wo sometimes have two inspectors ; in each instance jie ~=month. ‘where this occurs it is due either to the length of the war he wae Sewer or We 1s tanerel beemenes, Seen zeny fer OE —- ee Pee neh bol penny Bern of vise the preparation of the road bed in advance of the coe pavers, and the other to see that the blocks are for selected and put down. £0 faf from its being the house, for one man to properly supervise sub- be took from, Sree ot ee te ee ee eee borses and on the of both inspectors ie ‘ly necessary to te en elon the use of im; materials ang the doing of bis slave work. If, owing Tength of the “job” or a ne- iy yt ceasity for ite more rapid asccond party is he stood security. Wadi att mee, Gems Spee Roe cote are - bon ge areca eran carefally ag on i go sak Tight, under certain circumstances, to put four or even ae ‘Ges. eight a one undeniable, re founded by a ra Eat) seceatty of ordertag, ‘work faa mhere ‘ cnsiesine for wements now in pro- Third avenue, Tyee sopen to iain street, The work pared and fa one mile in ler and there is for the working | yoars of four or ndinber of fi »i2 | = g i : |