The New York Herald Newspaper, September 14, 1871, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY ane eae STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter + aad telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Volume XXXVI No. 257 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Tarr To RichMOND— SHrw Fann. Broadway, between Prince and Drama oF Faiz. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Houston sts. g THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot _ Tu Mencuant oF VENIOR. aN SORE LINA_EDWIN'S THEAT! & Stowe Minera NO 7 Broadway.—Karry FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, T -_ Tuk New Drama oF Divorce. ae WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broad “Frock — THE PRINCES# OF TREBIZONDE. perenne OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Tas BALLET PAN: ‘TOMIME OF HUMPTY Dumpry. BOOTH’S THEATRE, 234 st, Devwrgem th and 6th ava,— Per or TE PRITICOATS. X JARs. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad f@nces afternoon and evening. GLOBE THEATRE, 728 Broadway.—N8GRo ECCENTEI- CITIES, BURLESQUKE, £0. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, corner of Fourteenth street and Broadway.—NEGBU ACTS—BUKLESQUE, BALLET, 4c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HAuL, 585 Broadway.— Tue San FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSF, 234 at, between 6th and 7th ave.—BRYANI"S MINSTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, aS i Bowery.— NxGRO EocenrRici ties, BOXLESQUES, & STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth strect—VocaL AND corner 30th st.—Perform- T LYNNE. UxeTRUMENTAL CONCERT. CENTRAL PARK GARD: SUMMER NicHuis’ Concrers. TWENTY-EIGHTH STREET OPERA HOUSE, corner Broadway.—NEWooMB & ARLINGTON’S MINSTRELS, |.—Tuzopons Tomas’ ITUTE EXHIBITION, Third avenue day pa arenes TRIPLE SHEET. New Yorks Tharsday, Eecceeas 4, 171. =a Sy PSSEte CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, PAGE, 1—Advertisements, 2—Advertisements. 3—The Great Eight Hour Parade: Twenty Thou- sand Sons of Toul Marching in Solid Phalanx; Tne Red Flag of the International Unfuried to te Breeze—Mass Meeting at Cooper Instt- tme—North Carolina Ku Klux—Enforemng the United States Laws in the Old North State— News from Washington—Obituary,. 4—The Great Injunction Case: The’ City Goyern- ment and Heads of Departments on_ Trial; Afidavit of William M. Tweed and What It fets Forth; Able Argument of Counsel, Pro and Con—Tha Joint Comuuttee’s Secret Inves- tivation—W here's Ingei soll:—Reception of the New Haven Grays in Brooklya—Tne Westches- mty Fair, 8 tpg od Problem nated e1 Parker Again Music and the rhe Conrts—A ger Brought to neient Order of Good Fellows—Depart- of Public Edueatiol val _ Intelil- e—Pacific Co Survey ne Swedish av Car RuManism— — Sequel to the Connolly Gate Excarsion—Ilicit Sal Tragedy The Heli Whiskey. G—Ediiorials: Leading Article, “The Cnimination and Breaking Up of q Corraption—The t Upon Poliucal Parties’’—Amusement ouncements, om France—Affairs in land—The Grea Leger: Baron Rot = ‘8 Hannah Ure Winner of the Cup—A Federal Detalca- tion; Mr. Norton's un in the Post Office; 5,000 Gone—Def by an Army OfM- er: Half a Mill! ars Embezzled by Paymaster i ‘Miscellapeous eee of the A 7—News fpiscopal Couvention—Tho Cold. Spring Race Course Eighteen Fect Short—The steamer Ju- niata—Fmancial and Commercial Reports— Marriages and Dea 9—Disiufectivg the City: Sanitary Measures of the board of Health—Richmond County Agricul- pad Fair—A Walf on the Water—Adveruse- ents, 10- orkingmen’s Wages: An Army of Laborers atthe County Court House; six Weeks Withy out Payment and Some of Their Families ben Butier: Wendell Phillips to ihe Massachusetts Democracy—Min- pene Democratic Convention—Shipping In- e—Advertisements, 12—Advertisem Cororapo and New Mexico have both gone fepublican by increased majorities. Marse.—The republican gain in the late ‘elections on the party majority of last year is reported at three thousand, and they didn’t go for Horace from the beginning to the end of the fight. : Trey Go For Him Aut tHe Same.—The Second Ward William M. Tweed Association— heads up, drums beating and colors flying— have renominated ‘the Boss” as their cham- pion for the State Senate, Connolly or no @onnoliy, vouchers or no vouchers, Tae Cvban Ca & APPRENTICES have been taking ‘‘Preuch leave” of their masters, Two thousand of them have been collected by the local authorities and sent to Havana. This is hard on the children of the Celestial Empire; but why do they run away? Toe Harpy NewrounpLanpers.—They never bad before such a catch of seals as they bad last spring, and they have never had such shoals as they have this season. No wonder those happy islanders feel proud, and no wonder they are beginning to talk of annexa- tion to the United States as their “manifest destiny.” The New Dominion is getting too emall for their ‘‘great expectations” and high aspirations. A Desperate Fiaut between drunken ruf- fians and passengers occurred on a Second avenue street car early yesterday morning, in which stones and other missiles were freely used, and one or two passengers were severely injured. We would like to know what bas be- come of the policemen who were to have been stationed on theae cars in citizens’ dress, under Mayor Hall’s instructions some time ago? “Toe AMERICAN Parry” Breakrxa Ovr Acatx.—They have a little organization of this sort under way in the Twentieth ward of this city. It has very much the look of the old long ago exploded Kyow Nothing organi- ; but tue organizers of this new move- men! t be ignorant of the profitless career and ignominivus collapse of the old dark- lantern party, for otherwise, at this late day, they would hardly attempt to galvanize it into | Aife again. eee ‘ Waxre Is Mr. PEeNoLEToN?—The demo- Yratic mind of Kentucky is said to be “all tore up” on the important question, Did Mr. Pendle- | ton, of Ohio, in his late Loveland speech, take the new or the old departure? Mr. Pendleton | is the man to answer this question; but, from the discords prevailing among the democracy | on this “new departure,” he is probably wait- Jng to see what they will do with it before he | , NEW YORK HERALD, ‘Tne Culminetion aud Breaking Up of Ring Corruption—The Effect Upon Politi- cal Parties. The collapse of the Ring, which but a few days ago was all-powerful in this city, so suddenly and under such extraordinary circumstances, bas changed the political current and must lead to new combinations and a fresh start, ~ This Ring, which grew out of Tammany and rested upon that old organ- ization, not only controlled the city govern- ment, but in a great measure the State as well, and aspired with some reason to great future influence in national affairs. But in a day the mighty power vanished, and “‘like the base- less fabric of a vision” will leave not a wreck bebind. Nothing, we believe, can save it, unless it be the venomous attacks of party papers, All the injunction affidavits and explanations, with Court proceed- ings and investigations of commit- tees, however they may _ terminate, can neither arrest its downfall nor restore its prestige and power. Even if there should be a failure to show by legal evidence that any of the leaders of the Ring have directly stolen the city money, people will believe they have. At least all are convinced that there have been unparal- leled extravagance and a participation in the proceeds by some of these leaders. People point to the enormous fortunes that the Con- nollys and Tweeds have amassed in an incredi- bly short time, and cannot be persuaded that such men got their vast wealth honestly. Whether the city treasury has been plundered directly or indirectly, the crime is the same, and the people hold those in power responsible. Then, to cap the climax of official delinquency and of public indignation, comes the alleged robbery of the vouchers in the Comptroller's custody. It is impossible that any men, ring or party could stand under such a state of things, The corruption growing out of the war appears to have culminated just now in this city and with the Tammany Ring. Not that this is the most prominent case of corruption, or that the amount stolen is as great as in some other instances, or that the democrats are more cor- rupt than the republicans; but it has made more noise and will arouse public attention to the magnitude of the evil from which the country has been suffering for the last ten or eleven years. The moral atmosphere has been charged with the destructive element of corruption ever since the war commenced, and occasionally there has been a storm; but the Tammany Ring corruption burst upon us with an un- usual shock. Who does not remember the stupendous whiskey frauds, chiefly perpetrated by and under republican office-holders ? The federal Treasury was robbed by these despera- does ofa hundred millions of dollars or up- wards, Then look at the corruption and extravagance, with nothing to show for it, that existed under the republican commissioners in this city before the present Charter went into operation, Look at the Treasury rings at Washington, which have made colossal fortunes within a few years 5 at the national bank; ring, which has taken” twenty “million or more Byear from the public that ought to have gone Into the national Treasury; at the rail- road rings, that have swallowed ‘upa large portion of the public lands besides a vast amount of public money; at this new Syndi- eate job to enrich a ring of bankers ond speculators, and at all the other rings and jobs too numerous to be mentioned, under both the republicans and democrats. Both parties are alike. We question if there was ever before in the history of modern times such general and flagrant corruption as has existed in this country since 1861. But the party press sees only one side of the picture. While it bitterly attacks its opponents it is blind to the crimes of its friends. We belong to no party and condemn the wrong-doing of all. In this very matter of the city frauds the Heratp has been unsparing all along in exposing and condemning them. The papers that have made so much noise about these frauds for party effect or from personal motives, have followed in this instance the course we have invariably pursued with regard to corrupt practices of all parties. One of these papers, a blanket sheet, feeling the necessity of making a desperate effort to save itself from sinking, has thought proper to assail us. The motive is apparent through the gross indecency of its assaults. In its rapidly declining condition it felt the need of doing something to give it notoriety. We have eschewed personalities toward our contemporaries, and have treated the 7'tmea with journalistic courtesy; but that paper seems incapable of like conduct. In truth, the Times has been carried away beyond the bounds of propriety by ambition to rival the Tribune and to become the organ of the republican party, in the ranks of whica it has always borne the stamp of the guerilla. It is this inflated and ridicuious vanity to rival or eclipse a really able party journal that has led it into such indiscreet conduct. Whatever may be said of the partisan character or cries of the Zribune, it has rendercd valuable ser- vice to the country and to its party, especially during the war. It has an able corps of journalists in Mr. Greeley, Mr. Hay, Mr. Ried and others, and is not in fear or danger of being supplanted by any Bohemian rival in its own ranks, It is a power in the land, and will continue to be eulogized and acknowledged as such by the republican party. The spasmodic efforts of | the 7’mes will not answer in place of genius or journalistic ability, and that paper must | soon find its proper level. To recur to the frauds of the city govern- ment, we repeat it appears to us that the power of the Tammany Ring is utterly broken, Not only have some of the leaders provoked public odium by their conduct, but they have shown themselves to be incapable politi- cians. In their eagerness to become rich they have lost sight of the advantages they held, both for their own advancement and the good of their party. They bave not evinced the most ordinary prudence, They have probably destroyed the party, both in the city and State. They may drag down with them others whoare not guilty. Even Mayor Hall may suffer from his association with them in the city government, though his official record for a namber of yearsas Dis- trict Attorney and a# Wayor is, we believe, unimpeachable, Perhaps the best thing he gefines bis position, Your old q itician does boys hike to take @ Jeap in the da can do under the cireumstances is not only to eee that the guilty be removed, but to resign himsel) if an 2d appealdo thé public for his justifi- cation, This would remove every obstacle to a thorough reorganization of the city govern- ment, would satisfy the people, restore credit and give us an entirely new departure. We have no doubt Mayor Hall would in the end receive his reward by a renewal of public favor. There are no. lack of efficient and honest men in the city—such men as Judge Bedford, Recorder Hackett and others we might name—who have served the people faithfully and who are fitted to take the control of affairs, The breaking up of the power of Tammany and the reproach brought upon the democratic party probably settles the qnestion of the next Presidency. General Grant will most likely be re-elected and the republicans hold the federal government for another term ; not that the people are entirely satisfied with the republican party, but they are willing to take what they consider the least of two evils. The time is coming, how- ever, and is not distant, when there must be a reorganization of parties upon new political issues. The South, seeing the inability and failure of the Northern democrats, and being disgusted with the carpet-bag radicals, may take the lead in the new movement, and by the influence of the negro vote regain that power in the federal government which it held for so long a time previous to the war. The liberal-minded statesmen of that section are evidently prepared for some such move- ment; and if they will throw overboard such old Bourbon politicians as Jeff Davis, Alex- ander H. Stephens, Toombs and the rest, they may succeed in re-establishing the political power in their section before 1876. The time is opportune, too, for the democrats of this State who are not bound up with the Tam- many Ring, as well as for those independent of the existing parties, to initiate such a new reform movement as the South can readily co-operate with. Able leaders with far-reach- ing views are dione wanted—men who will leave the dead issues of the past behind them and make a political programme out of the living issues of the present. Let the earnest, honest and patriotic young men of New York move in this matter, and a greater power than Tammany may yet rise in its place. France and the Assembly—A Monarchy or a Republic. The cable despatches from France which we publish to-day present, perhaps more clearly than ever, the state of uncertainty ex- isting among the people and the government of that untortunate country. President Thiers, wishing to compliment the Deputies on the manner in which they have acquitted them- selves inthe Assembly, prepared a lengthy and elaborate message, which took more than half an hour to read it. The document stated that they had well earned a sus- pension after their arduous labors, and in the meantime that he, the President, intended to work incessantly for the reor- ganization of the country. But he is a para- dox. Afier siating his own views up6n the condition of the country, he asked the Deputies to go home ad frankly ascertain from. their donatituents Whether ‘they wished for r Urecon- struction based on the glorious traditions of a thousand years, or for the abandonment of the ship of State to a torrent leading to an unknown future.” President Thiers next exhorts the members to work like a crew in danger of shipwreck with the port in sight. What docs he mean? Does he mean to infer that the “glorious traditions” of a thousand years of monarchial tule would be the best foundation on which to base a permanent government, or what might be so-called ? Or, on the other hand, does he mean to tell the Assembly, and through them, France and the world, that the republic of which he is the recognized head is a danger- ous current, and that the inference, or simile, of a shipwreck is the ‘‘unknown future” of which he speaks ? He will have puzzled not only France, but every other civilized nation by such a statement. He could scarcely have used more ambiguous language, which leaves the same impression on the mind as the show- man’s words to the little boy—‘‘You pay your money and you have a rizht to choose.” The Assembly laughed at the message. It certainly is laughable; but in order that no eccentricities may be carried on during their leave of absence, from the 17th of September until the 4th of December, they have organ- ized a committee of twenty-five members to watch the government. This is also a para- dox, and will require considerable explanation, Tue HEALTH oF QueEN Vicroria.—Queen Victoria, we bave known from a series of cable despatches, has been qnite ill, It now appears that she had been suffering from an abscess, which bas been successfully opened, and that she is progressing satisfac- torily. It is gratifying to many in this coun- try, as well as to the many millions of Her Majesty’s subjects at home and abroad, that the life of the Queen is spared and that her health is likely to be established. To the British nation, in these peculiarly trying times, the death of Queen Victoria would be an irre- parable loss. It is notorious that the heir to the British throne is not popular with any large section of the people. His advent to power is*not eagerly longed for. Many good judges are of opinion that his reign will be disastrous to the monarchy. History will speak approvingly of the reign of the good Queen Victoria, It will be well if her reign, already a long one, be greatly protracted. We congratulate the British government and people on the prospect of the Queen’s restora- tion to health, Tne Great St. Leger Cup ar Doncaster has been won by Hannah, a sprightly and well trained mare, owned by Baron Rothschild, Our despatch in another column states that the races were attended by immense crowds of sporting men and others from London and the provinces; the weather was delightful, the betting good and the people enthusiastic, The present winner had before brought her owner considerable laurels by carrying off the prize of the Oaks at Epsom this summer, Anovr Four Hunprep Lanorers aesem- bied near the Comptroller's Office yesterday and clamored for their pay. They had been six weeks without any, and the families of some of them were suffering, The Comp- troller’s officials informed them that thev would probably be paid to-day. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1871. Opening of the Mont Cenis Railway. A telegram from Italy which we publish this morning in another column announces the successful opening of the Mont Cenis Rail- way. ‘The labor of years is thoroughly ac- complished. The Alps have been pierced, a tunnel through them has been constructed, and trains, carrying passengers and merchan- dise, are running beneath those lofty moun- tains whose rugged and rocky sides seemed almost impassable barriers set up by nature to defy the passage of human progress. France and Sardinia were the first nations to perceive the importance of a railway beneath the Alps, and those countries, together with Italy, bound themselves to carry through an accomplishment which stands prominent among the great achievements of the pre- sent century. The labor was so stupen- dous that it was at one time @pared it could never be successfully accomplished, Innumerable difficulties were constantly al- leged to show that if the mountains were tunnelled that even then all obstacles would not be overcome. Imperfect ventilation and the intense heat of the tunnel were among the stories industriously circulated, with the view of showing that the vast expenditure of time, money and skill would all go for naught... Like many similar prognostications which preceded others of the great achievements of human skill in the history of the century, these also have proven erroneous, and the Mont Cenis tunnel and the railway which runs through it have realized the most sanguine expectations of those who conceived it and had faith in its practicability. The total amount expended in the construction of the work is $3,250,000. In order to hasten on the work the French gov- ernment agreed to pay $850,000 if the work was accomplished within twenty years, dating from 1862, and if the work was done at an earlier pe- riod France still further bound herself to pay twenty-five thousand dollars a year for every year gained. It will thus be seen with what activity and energy the work has been con- ducted and the immense gain which has been realized in consequence, for with the sums obtained by reason of the time gained, together wiih the amount contributed by the Northern Railway of Italy—one million of dollars—on the com- pletion of the work, the balance of the moneys which make up the sum total for the construc- tion of the tunnel amounts only to nine hun- dred and seventy-five thousand dollars, The end is now gained, the railway isa success, science has triumphed, and a peaceful result has been accomplished in the successful open- ing of the Mont Cenis Railway. Tue Salzburg Conference—Two Dificult Jobs. A cable despatch which we print this morn- ing, dated Salzburg, the 13th, informs us that, since the departure of the Emperors William and Francis Joseph, Prince Bismarck and Count von Beust and the other diplomats who happen at present to be there have decided to suppress the International Society and to set- tle the Schleswig-Holstein question, Two dif- ficult jobs, most certainly. Austria and Ger- many in holy df waboly alliango can do much. They mky whip Russia and keep France in order. Butafter they have done this, and much more than all this, they may have to confass that the International is too strong for them. It is-« big task. Let them try it. As for the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, we sup- pose, if a solution is possible, Austria and Germany should be able to effect it. We havé little doubt that the solution of the difficulty might be found more easy than the understand- ingsef the question. It was Lord Palmerston, we believe, who once said that the Schleswig- Holstein question was thoroughly understood by but two persons. One of these persons was a German Professor, who died from the efforts put forth to unravel the tangled web. The other was himself; but he had now for- gotten it, The Salzburg conference will not have been held in vain if it removes from the diplomatic arena this knotty problem. Den- mark had better be on her guard lest the set- tlement of the question should mean her an- nihilation. W2NpELL Pius made a strong speech in favor of Butler for Governor, at Salisbury Beach, Mass., yesterday. He said Butler (who was present) would make a better Governor than any Massachusetts had had since the days of Sam Adams, at which Butler complacently simpered, and then added that he would enforce the Prohibitory law and make rumsel- lers howl; at which Butler seemed undecided whether to frown or smile, Tar Frencn Herrs of Louis Bonard, who recently willed so much of his property to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, have now entered a plea claiming that he was not Louis Bonard at all, bat one Charles Marain Bonard, a notorious burglar and ex-convict of France, Whether these heirs expect to receive his money by thus defaming the memory of their relative does not appear. Tue JAVANESE ARE IMITATING AMERICAN Srreet RaiLRoaps.—According to our cable despatch a new line of street cars, modelled afler those in New York, with all the para- phernalia complete, has just been opened in thecity of Batavia, The Javanese are as en- terprising as they afe ingenious, and they will soon find the immense benefit of this new departure from their old systems of locomo- tion, Gampiine 13 Doomep 1x Spain.—Some time ago the Minister of the Interior issued orders from Madrid. to all the Inspectors of Police throughout the country, instructing them to thoroughly suppress all gambling houses, and a epecial notice with additional restrictions was furnished to the chiefs of the departments in the capital, Many of these officials did not suppress the gambling houses, go he has retaliated by dismissing them from their positions, Served them right. Tue Cuorera Intropvucep Into CarpiFr, England, by the arrival there of an American vessel from Hamburg, does not please the ancient Britons. Our cable despatch informs. us that the Lovellet is looked upon as a sailing curse, a hotbed of cholera or something analo- gous to the Black Hole of Calcutta. They strongly denounce the authorities for permit. ting her to bring four dead bodies, with the infection still clinging to them, into their port. Probably they are right; but what about the poor men on board the ship. —TRIPLE SHEET, The Ondvtion Charres Against the Buflde | The ing Department. In the midst of the excitement over the war upon the city financiers there has arisen another petty war, which, like iis big brother, did not go far until it got into the courts. We refer to the charges made with sweeping generality against the Superintendent of Pub- lic Buildings, Mr. James M. Macgregor. The proceedings appear to have opened in the form of a disgraceful row at the Superin- tendent’s office, wherein a Williamsburg builder, Mr. Tostevin, received a pommelling at the hands of Mr. Macgregor and bis assistants ; so at least alleges Mr. Tostevin, and his per- son appears to bear evidence of, to say the least, a recent struggle. Next comes the case of Judge Tappan, of the Supreme Court of this State, who, through a brace of affidavits, brings one specified and a multitude of unde- fined but serious charges against the Super- intendent. The Tostevin incident may reflect upon Mr. Macgregor only as showing a readiness of resort to ungentlemanly means of enforcing opinion, and touches few outside of the com- batants ; but Judge Tappan’s charges are of a nature to cause a rigid inquiry into the manner in which permits are made out at the Superintendent’s office. The affidavit of Mr. Sexton, a builder, alleges that Mr. Robert Murray is the person who, not’ to put too fine a point on it, levies blackmail on the builders, by means of excessive charges for small legal services. The modus operandi, from the evidence, appears to be as follows:— Ifa builder requires a permit to erect a build- ing, or alter or deviate from a previous speci- fication, it is necessary to have the affair set- tled through Mr. Murray, whose legal docu- ments alone are said to be effectual in procur- ing the signature of Mr. Macgregor. To this obscure Mr. Murray a sum varying from seventy-five to five hundred dollars must, the complainants aver, be paid before his magic pen touches the paper, It is further averred that — this work performed by any other legal gentleman would not be worth more than thirty dollars, The question then arises, Why should the builders and architects of New York submit to this alleged extortion on Mr. Murray’s part, while other legal gentlemen would per- form the work at the price stated? Mr. Sexton answers the question by implying that no one else would be treated with at the Saperiutendent’s office, and alleges that Mr. Murray asks for the extra money ‘“‘to divide it around among the judges.” On the Tappan case (the deviation required being a twelve- inch party wall above the second story) Mr. Macgregor writes a letter to the HERALD, which we publish in this issue. This letter is almost entirely confined tothe case in point, end has among its passages the curious an- nouncement that an order had been issued by the Court directing him to issue a certificate to Judge Tappen, which, he says, ‘I have done, though I protest agalnst it as unwar- ranted by law.” He challenges iny ‘Now, out of these facts. and impl fraud we Yay down a few points demand a settlement. They do not ¢ specially out of Judge Tappen’s case, but are of interest to the whole community. If ex- cessive charges are made and submitted to by builders is it not because the agent is believed to be the visible. link in a chain of uncom- atable official corruption? The charges against the Judges we are e inclined to Scout, and the question then remains, where does the money go? Will the public be suflicientiy simple to believe that obscure Mr. Murray is assigned the office of. making his fortune at steam engine velocity and that there is no rogue behind the curtain who shares the spoils? Where matters are so deftly man- aged as to have none of the money pass through the Building Bureau it is a difficult point to settle. Mr. Murray says that he does not know Mr. Macgregor, and the latter gen- tleman reciprocates the mutual ignorance. There is a Mr. Armstrong mentioned, who ap- pears to know Mr. Murray, and by whom builders are advised to see the latter gentle- man, There is something wrong in the whole matter, but it will need some more light before a positive conviction can be reached. If any parties have further charges to make let them come forward and indulge in no vague gener- alities, but state precisely their personal experience only, If the charge of collusion in a scheme to defraud can be traced to the Building Department the offenders should be punished by removal, ifno other penally is attainable. The rumor of these practices is not new, but the very men who complain of the system have hitherto declined to take the place of accusers. The fact is that the public suffers in the end. The builder is mulcted and he charges it to the owner; the latter takes it out in high rent. It is due to Mr. Macgregor and to the public that the whole truth should be gleaned, and that if wrong is committed the guilty may suffer, Diamonps iN Dakota.—It is given out that a splendid rough diamond, valued at a hundred thousand dollars, has been found among the pebbles of one of the hills of Dakota, Why not, when nearly all the known minerals and precious stones in the world have been found in our new States and Territories of the West? Moreover, from all that we have heard and read about it, Dakota in its geological features very much resembles the diamond district of South Africa, belonging apparently to the same ancient geological epoch and of the same formation as the Orange River region. And yet, so indefi- nite and uncertain is the evidence as to the existence of diamonds in Dakota, that rather than recommend our enterprising but pen- niless young men to go into the business of searching for those diamonds, we would advise them to “go ont West and buy a farm,” “Ir Never Rains Bur it Pours.”—Enor- mous frauds and spoliations, as it appears, have been unearthed in the corporation affairs of Long Island City, and several purloiners and defaulters in heavy sums are reported as having been brought to light in our City Post Office. Official corruption, in fact, seems to be raging through the land like an epidemic; for, according to General Butler, the evil demands a thorough purging out of the “powers that be” even in the supposed healthy old Puritan State of Magsachugetts, Workinsmen's Demonstration = The American Internationale, There were twenty-five thousand working. men, skilled mechanics and unskilled laborers, in procession yesterday in favor of the enforce- ment of the Eight Hour law. The proportions and characteristics of this procession were un- usually suggestive. The rain in the morning doubtless deterred many from takiny part in it, and the sidewalks all alony the route wera lined with hardy-looking, rough-coated fellows who were evidently workingmen too, but from some cause or other had neglected to join in the line. If the weather had been fine and these spectators had taken their places in the procession, it would have been the most immense demonstration of people that New York has ever seen. It wag not partisan or particular in its cle. ments. Americans and Irishmen _ pre- dominated probably; but there was an enthusiastic company of Frenchmen carrying a banner with the inscription, ‘‘Comité Inter- national,” who shouted ‘‘Vive la Répub- lique,” and two or three solid and soiemn companies of Germans who, side by side with tho Stars and Stripes, carried the red, white and black of united Fatherland; and in the. midst of all was a company of colored men with four of their best looking dignitaries riding in a carriage. It is difficult, indeed, to sea why the enforcement of the Eight Hour law, which has certainly not been painfully or unusually agitated of late, should have called forth so immense and enthusiastic and, we must say withal, orderly and intelligent an assemblage. Probably there were not one hundred government employ¢s, for whose benefit alone the Eight Hour law has been established, in the procession, nor one man in the crowd who would be willing to work only eight hours a day if he were paid by the piece, or who does not comprehend that eight hours work means eight hours pay. The present agitation about a matter of such little interesi as the Eight Hour law could alone have called forth such an army of earnest, orderly, well dressed and intelligent workingmea as paraded the streets of New York yesterday, The demon: stration was rather meant as a fraternization of the laboring classes of this city with the at Internationale ‘of Europe, that closely welded and deep-pervading society that hag just begun to mak» itself felt in the kingly capitals and imperial cities of the Continent, aud boldly asserts itself in the streets of Londoa under the very eyes of the Queen, and shouts its harrahs in Phoenix Park within hearing of the English Prince. As such a demonstration it was complete, Its elements were of all nations, races and colors, and if we were convinced that it isa fair counterpart as to intelligence and decorum of the main society itself, we would feel more sympathy for this strong giant, that, just learning how to direct iis strength, aims to overthrow kin.s and kaisers and form a universal republic on the principles of the rights of man and the just rewards of labor, ns le Tre ManYyLANp RUDTHLIGAS: .—Tho repub- licans of Maryland, in a State Convention, have nominated Jagob Tome, a prominent citi- zen of Cecil county, as their candidate for Governor (election in November), and, heartily endorsing General Grant's administration, bave resolved that “we now declare it the unanimous opinion of the republicans of Maryland that he shoald be renominated by our nex National Convention ;” ; whereupon the organ of Mr. Greeley says that “Baltimore is so near Washington that we are not surprised to see national capital influences guiding the action of the Maryland Republican Convention,” and that ‘it would have done better if it had left the nomination of the next republican candidate for President to some of the States who have had some hand in electing the present Chief Magistrate, and can be counted on as sure to help elect the next one.” “How came you in this place?” asked a sym- pathizing stranger of a mild-faced man in a lunatic asylum, “Why, you see,” answered the unfortunate one, “‘it was a mere difference of opinion. I pronounced my neighbors all crazy; but they pronounced me crazy, and they being in the majority, here I am.” Tne Last Baron or OrrioraL THIRVES.— The unfortunate magnates of our municipal government are not destined to be alone in the enjoyment of the unenviable notoriety they have recently attained. Following closely upon the charges of corruption, the mal- practices, frauds, burglaries, investigations and injunctions which just now hang like a dark cloud about tle City Hall, comes a defal- cation of over one huadred thousand dollars in the New York Post Office and a robbery of half a million by the a Deputy Paymaster of the army at Washington. As the republican organs have been blatant over democratic plundering for the past few weeks we may expect now to witness a return fire from the democratic side and to hear volley after volley discharged at the heads of the dishonest radical officials, Tura about is fair play. In the meantime the stolen money, whether pur- loined from the Finance Department, the Street Department, the Post Office or the army chest, all comes out of the pockets of the dear people. Tne Democracy or MassaonuseTts, tak~ ing heart by the muss that Butler has raised in the radical party, have determined to make a zealous fight for the Governorsbip. John Quincy Adams is the man they propose to run, and if Butler succeeds in running two re- publican tickets their chances are by no meansforlors. This action of the democrats is likely to impress upon the Republican Con- vention the absolute necessity of nominating Butter. Senator FENTON oN His TRAVELS. —The last report of Senator Fenton is that he has lately been in Cincinnati, where his visit was not appropriated toan inspection of ‘‘the institu- tions,” but to a conference with some of the leading anti-Grant politicians of the city. We suspect, however, that the cunning Senator is out West pipe-laying to head off Mr. Greeley as the farmers’ candidate for President of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington, JorL PARKER was nominated for Governor by the democrats of New Jersey yesterday, although as soon as his name was mentioned one of his friends read a letter from him posi- tively declining the nomination, It is still doubtful whether Parker will accopt.