The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1871, Page 6

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" Ixeraummntat Conchur. ‘Matinee at LAY ANP \ OENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Tuzopore Tuomas? SUMMER Nicurs' Concerts. |. AMERICAN INSTITUTE EXHIBITION, Third a ‘end Sixty-third street.—Open day and evemiag. ieaen TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, September 23, 1871. — CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, PacE, 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—The “Boss” on the Stump: Twenty Thousand Sons of Toil in Tweed Plaza—The German New Departure—Kings County Politics—The North . ,Carolina Ku Klux Trials—Georgia Ku Klux. 4—The Ring Wrangle: A Dull Day at the Court House and City Hall; Deputy Green’s First Request; The Mayor Does Not Acknowledge its _ Receipt; he “Boss” Interviewed; ‘The Burned Remnants of the Vouchers in the Ash Heap; The Committees Stull at Work; ‘The Committee of Seventy Watching the Move: ments of Our City OMmctais; Workingmen Clamoring tor Their Wages. Ring Wrangle (continued from fourth age)—The Jersey City Ring: Sweeping Frands inder the Bumsted Government—The Political Campaign in Hoboken—The National Game— Military and Naval Intelligence—The Hudson Church DiMculty—Unveiling of the Lincoln Statue in Philadelphia —Kipnapping in Brook- lyn—Destructive Fire at Greenpoint—News from the Sandwich Islands—The Courts—Tne Cornell University. 6—Ediorials: Leading Article, “A Word to Pro- ty Owners in New ¥ Are the Public orks to be Stopped!’—Amusement An- nouncements. 7—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—Im- rant from Italy: The Jesuits Expelled m Rome ; Plot to burn the Vatican—News from France, England, Spain, Belgium, Mo- rocco, Venezuela, Hayt! and st. Thomas—The Gubernatorial Campaign in Massachusetts : Another ot Ben Butler’s Speeches—Miscella- neous Telegrams—Bustness Notices. jews from Europe; Treaty Made Between Russia and Prussia During the French War; Prince Napoleon's Pamphlet; The Attack on the Dubitn Police Premeditated ny the Mob— Foreign Persoual Gossip—Foreign Muiscellane- ous Items, 9—Fieetwood Park: Last Day of the September Trotting Meeting—The Jersey Sjate Fair— Brooklyn Affairs—State Inebriate Asylum— Financial and Commercial Keports—Marriages and Deatns, 30—News from Washington—Coliector Murphy's Batule—The Pet Halsted Murder—The Montana Indians—News from the Pacific Coast—The Knights Temp:ar—Shipving lntelligence—ad- vertisements, 41—The Indians: The Capital Sentence of Santanta and Big Tree Commuted—Oudd Fellowship: Meeting of the Grand Lodge ol the United Staves at Chicago—Butfalo Industrial Exbibl- tion—Advertisements, 42—Advertisements. Tar Mars Qvestion.—It is not what Tam- many Hall willdo with the democracy, but what the democracy will do with Tammany, Tne Kwuicuts Temrnar paraded in Wash- Ington yesterday, making a very imposing demonstration, and were reviewed by Secre- tary Boutwell and the Postmaster General, Goop For Mr. TippEN.—Mr. Samuel J, Tilden, in a letter to the democracy, in view of our November State election, says that “wherever the gangrene of corruption has reached the democratic party we must take a knife and cut it out by the roots.” Very good, “It is never too late to mend.” A Drwonsrration Was Mave Last Nicnt at the sqnare called Tweed Plaza by the friends of Mr, Tweed. The entire business of making any popular demonstration in favor of Mr. Tweed at this time, when he is at least im- plicated in the strong charges of prodigality and looseness made against the administration of the city government, was in exceedingly bad taste at the best. ‘Torre Arg Inpioations, according to a St. Paul (Minn. ) paper, of a Fenian gathering on our northweet frontier, with a view to raid- {ng on Fort Garry, in Winnipeg Territory. We advise our Fenian brethren not to do it, They might be successful, but the capture of the whole Territory, with the Hudson Bay Company's property and all the half-breeds in the country, would not help them one jot toward securing the liberty of Ireland, Tue Lixcotn Memoriar Statve which has been erected in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, was unveiled yesterday, with appropriate ceremonies, in the presence of a large assem- blage of citizens, Colonel William McMichael delivered the oration. He passed in review the leading events which occurred during the executive career of the martyred ruler from the day of its inauguration to the moment of its untimely and fatal close. Hig yords and the sympathizing expression of his Costes go far to relieve humanity from the oft-repeated Gkatze shat “cepublice are ungrateful,” NEW YURK HERALD. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER A Word to Property Owncrs in New York—Are the Public Works to Be Stopped & The city government fs in danger of coming to a halt for the want of funds with which to carry on the business of the departments. There is no monéy in the treasury and no means of raising any while the injuncilon granted by Judge Barnard continues in force. The Department of Docks is in immediate want of half a million, and no answer is made to its requisition upon the Comptroller for that amount, The Department of Parks requires nearly the same sum for deficit and labor, which is not forthcoming, although no money has been received by the Commissioners from the Comptroller since August 1, and the works on the parks and boulevards would have been stopped two days ago but for the action of Commissioner Sweeny in rais- ing on his own responsibility over one hun- dred thousand dollars to pay the laborers. The schools require money for tfe payment of teachers’ salaries and other current expenses. The Health Department may at any moment want large sums to fight against the cholera, and, asit is, needs funds for its immediate use. In short, all the public departments must have money to keep them in working order or must discontinue their operations and bring the administration of our municipal affairs to a standstill, It is useless at this time to argue who has had the greatest share in bringing the city into this deplorable condition. The shameless prodigality and corruption of our old city government lie at the foundation of the evil. The free admission of old claims by the present government, which ought to have been sharply criticised and resisted in the Comptroller’s department, as well as by all public officers who were called upon to sign warrants for their payment, helped to bring the crisis upon us. The action of the political agitators and plotters, who, under the specious pretence of reform, are doing their best to throw the city into anar- chy and confusion by “‘stopping the supplies,” is crowning the evil. But the evident duty of all good citizens now is to find a way out of the difficulty, so as to save the public credit, and to ward off the terrible blow threatening to fall upon the owners of real estate and all others who are interested in the welfare of the city of New York, The Department of Docks is now engaged upon most important work at the Battery and elsewhere—work which can only be stopped at a heavy loss to the city. Its labors do not immediately show and are not before the eyes of the great mass of the people; but they are laying the foundation of a future commercial greatness which will extend its benefits to every class of citizens. Are its hands to be tied, and all its enterprise and skill to be wasted? Are our schools to be closed, our Health Board.to be crippled, other departments to be paralyzed, and, above all, is our magnificent system of improvements, of parks and boulevards and avenues, to be aban- doned? These are the questions that present themselves to our people, and they must be an- swered promptly and decisively. Individual efforts to breast the storm are utterly insuffi- cient. The block must be removed from the wheels of the government or the machine can- not much longer go onrunning. This is pre- cisely the consummation the political plotters desire; but are the people of New York pre- pared to make the sacrifice demanded of them for the sake of all the political parties or fac- tions that ever had existence? We ask our property owners to recall for a moment the work that the Central Park Department has done in the past year and is new doing for the beautifying and enrichment of the city. It is little more than a year since the present Board organized their great plan of operations. Their first act was to make bureaus in their department for the more effi- cient working of the whole, and in so doing they retained all the usefal employés of the old Central Park Commission. Last year they put the city squares aud places in splendid order, commencing with the City Hall Park, the Battery, Bowling Green, Washington Park, the Canal street triangle and other places; and this year they made Madison Park, the Reservoir Park, Tompkins and Stuyvesant squares what they now are. Théy have pushed on the Central Park work with extraordinary vigor, as the belvedere, the observatory and museum buildings, the sheepcote, stables, conservatory, terrace, and the widened and well paved drives and walks on the eastern and #ifth avenue sides will show. Man- hattan square is being graded, to tho great improvement of adjacent property, with a view to the speedy construction of the Museums of Art and Natu- ral History authorized by the last Legislature. On the boulevards the progress of the year is wonderful. About two-thirds of the five miles from the circle of Fifty-ninth street to 119th street has been opened to the public during the administration of the present Board. Another section will be opened to Manhattan street this fall unless the work should be stopped for want of fands. The Sixth avenue, one hund- red and fifty feet in width, has been completed from the Park to the Harlem River, a distance of two miles. The Seventh avenue, the same width, for two miles and a half isin such an advanced state as to promise an opening this winter, or should the weather be unfavorable, in the early spring. Portions of St. Nicholas avenue are already thrown open to public use and all the work is being pushed forward with energy. Manhattan street extension and widening from the North River to Avenue §t. Nicholas is nearly ready for paving and will be completed by next spring. The improvement of Tenth avé- nue north of 155th street, in its entire length to Fort George Hill, is going on with rapidity, The legal steps for the widening and straight- ening of Kingsbridge road have already been taken, and as soon as the report is per- fected the work will be commenced. This road, one hundred feet in width, will traverse the whole of the Fort Washington district, and will develop and en- hance the value of property immensely. In addition to all this the east side improve- ments are not being neglected, and the vast and important duties entrusted to the Commission in regard = to the navigation of the Harlem River and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the bridging or tunnelling of the Harlem River, and the im- provement and development of the enormous district in Westchester county, now under the jurisdiction of the departmeut, are being faith- fully and energetically pursued. This mere glance at the works going on under ong department of the city government will afford some idea of the damage tha would be inflicted on property should the “‘supplies” be ‘‘cut off,” as ex-Mayor Have- meyer proposes. The stoppage of money. now would necessitate the dismissal of all laborers on the boulevards, avenues, parks and squares, as well as of all policemen, gatekeepers, engineers, surveyors and clerks in the department; would involve the city in heavy damages for the stoppage of contracts for work and mate- rials; would seriously damage all works of construction and would leave them in an unfinished state, and would have an effect on property which would be immediate and tremendous, If the great improve- ments now under way should be discon- tinued to-day for the next two or three months real estate would receive a blow from which it would not recover in the next five years. Experienced men declare that its immediate depreciation would be thirly per cent, 3A i dip We have no hesitation in saying that the people do not desire and will not suffer such a calamity to fall upon the city. We do not wish to retain dishonest or improper officers in positions of trust. Let us have a thorough legal inquiry into the management of every city department, and if there are found in them any officers unfit to be there, let them be got rid of as speedily as possible. The people will take care of this, But do not let us suffer intriguing and artful political ad- venturers to use the cry of reform in order to advance their own interests, or to block the wheels of the city government for the sake of destroying any particular set of men or any rival leaders. We care not one straw for Tam- many or anti-Tammany, for republicans or democrats. All are equally corrupt, and the gooner Tammany and other organizations of a similar character are broken up and thrown where they belong—into the gutter— the better it will be for the peo- ple and for the city. But let political scamps fight their battles and vent their spite in some other direction than over the public works of the metropolis. This the people demand, and the sooner the property owners make their voices heard on the subject the better will it be for their own interests. Txn oF THE Norta Carormsa Ku Kuvx were sentenced by Judge Bond in Raleigh yesterday, two of them to six years at hard labor and a fine each of five thousand dollars, one to four years and a fine of five hundred doilars, two of them to three years and a similar fine, three to two years and a fine, and two to six months’ imprisonment. The sentences are severe but just, and being of a character likely to make Ku Kluxing not only odious but dangerous, are more likely to abolish or decrease it in that State than martial law could possibly do, If the sentences are rigidly carried out, without any regard to the family influences that may be brought to bear, they will act as a most sudden and effec- tive Ku Klux astringent. Briauam Youna anv Fovurrern oF Hrs Wives, and Elder Smith, the second greatest man among the Mormons, have been subpe. naed by the United States Grand Jury in Salt Lake City, but up to the present have not been found. A Mornion paper, commenting on the recent purchase of arms by the Mormon Adju- taut General, says: —‘‘In time of peace prepare for war.” The Mormon problem is evidently near a solution. Whether that solution shall be a bloody one or not rests with the Mormons themselves. In the meantime it would be well for the United States government to have troops near at hand to render aid to the Gen- tiles and to help in enforcing the mandates of the United States Courts. Errgcts OF THE PouiticaL War.—One of the ill effects of the bitter political civil war now raging in the city is the license it gives disreputable papers to assail private charac- ter. The last assertion made by one of these guerilla sheets is that Park Commissioner Sweeny has within the past two or threa days disposed of his real estate in the city, We are informed that Mr. Sweeny has not sold a foot of real estate in this city for many months past. On the day the slander was invented the President of the Park Commis- sion was engaged in raising fands to pay the laborers on the parks and boulevards, and thus prevent a suspension of the great public improvements of the city. Gorp 1153.—It mast be a matter of deep mortification to Secretary Boutwell that, despite his sale on Thursday of six millions of gold—for which he obtained, by the way, an average of about 114}—the market should advance to still higher figures, His attention was directed to the fact last week that a gold pool existed in the market, and he inter- fered to the extent of selling four millions, This amount having been absorbed, and the outery having been repeated he made a fresh effort to stop the speculation; but his six mil- lions were cast against a rock. It is some- thing extraordinary that any combination of gold speculators should be possessed of power enough to defy the influence of ten millions of gold hurled at them in one week, Tae Latest Cask or Ku Kxvxine in Georgia occurred almost under the eyes of the military. A negro who had shot a white man in self-defence had been threatened and had in consequence secured the protection of federal troops, A warrant for his arrest ona charge of murder, however, was respected by the troops, and he was arrested. On bis way to jaila mob captured him and made away with him, What his fate may have been is only conjectured, but conjecture points very strongly to hanging. PayMasTER Hopes intends at the coming court martial to plead guilty, but he asks that enough evidence be taken to show the truth of his confession, He and his wife have urgently requested that some officer be designated at once to take the transfer of his property. While this man’s crime deserves all the cen- surg that can be given it, itis not in human nature to do otherwise than admire the manli- ness with which he bears misfortune, 23, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEET. | The Republican Troubles in Néw York and | 9 shaking among the old dry bones in Massae Massachusetts, aad Their Bearings Upon the Presidential Question. ~The democratic party throughout the coun- try is disheartened and more or less demoral- ized * From the centre all round to the sea, by the terrible misfortunes that have fallen upon Tammany. In this city the party is all atsea, and throughout the State amazement and fearful misgivings prevail in the ranks, And yet from the fight over the Custom House spoils of the republican factions, the ‘‘in- siders” and the “outsiders,” the result of our November State election may be considered doubtful. This fight is simply the old Custom House fight, which, under Pierce’s administra- tion, split the democratic party of the State into two parties—a Bronson party and a Red- field party, a “‘hardshell” party and a ‘‘soft- shell” party, whereby, in 1854 the fusion candidate for Governor of whigs and Kaow Nothings was elected. Thus dispossessed of the State the democrats did not recover its full possession till this year. They were thrown out partially or entirely from year to year for seventeen years, and now, after flourishing and singing forone short season as merrily as the seventeen year locusts, they are in a fair way to disappear, like those extraordinary locusts, for seventeen years again. We repeat it, as our deliberate opinion, how- ever, that this present Custom House sqiabble among the republicans may make an opening whereby, even upon a short party vote, the democrats in November may save the State. It is the avowed purpose of the republican fac- tion. represented by Messrs. Fenton and Greeley, outside the Custom House, to reduce General Grant to one term, if possible; and as this will be simply impossible, unless a break is made against General Grant in New York this fall, we look for a break in the com- ing Republican State Convention. In all their other State conventions, North, South, East and West, the republicans have heartily en- dorsed the administration of General Grant; but upon this test in this approaching Republi- can Convention of New York lies the danger of asplit. How the party can endorse its na- tional administration without endorsing Gene- ral Grant for the succession, unless they shelve him by a qualifying resolution in favor of Mr. Greeley’s one-term principle, we cannot divine. We dare say, however, that this State Con- vention will endorse General Grant's adminis- tration and will reject the one-term principle ; but what will follow this line of action? The capitulation of the Fenton-Greeley faction or their bolt upon a ‘‘new departure.” In this event of a bolt there will be an opening for the democracy in our November election which may give them the State, notwithstanding the collapse of Tammany Hall. Nor can we imagine what Mr. Fenton and Mr. Greeley are driving at, if they have not deliberately made up their minds to supersede General Grant as the regular republican can- didate in 1872, or to run an independent ticket against him on a subsoil platform. To super- sede General Grant they must now do some- thing in New York to his disadvantage, or the scheme ef cutting him out of the regular party nomination must be abandoned. In abandon- ing this scheme the disaffected faction must lay down their arms, or switch off the track and take to the woods as bushwhackers. This will probably be the upshot of the Syracuse Republican Convention, unless Mr. Greeley may graciously condescend to accept the party ticket, while repeating his declaration of 1852, that ‘‘we spit upon and execrate this plat- form.” The issue will be settled in the deci- sion of the convention upon the question of the admission of the Grant-Murphy delegates or the Fenton-Greeley delegates as the legiti- mate representatives of the republican party ; and we have not the remotest idea that the delegates representing General Grant as the head of the party will be rejected. In any event there is a chance of a republican split at Syracuse before the Ist of October, which may enable the democracy to save the State, and thus to get fairly upon their pins again for the Presidential contest. : On the same day appointed for the Republi- can State Convention of New York, the 27th inst., the Massachusetts Convention of the party will be called to order. Strange, too, as it may appear, the signs of the times fore- shadow a division among the Old Bay State republicans, which may give the Governor to the democrats, in the election of their candi- date, John Quincy Adams, The Massachusetts Convention will number over a thousand delegates. Of seven hundred and eighty- five elected three hundred and two are Butler men and four hundred and eighty-three opposed to him; but, on the other hand, Butler claims four-fifths of these delegates. He made a stout fight in Boston the other evening, carrying forty-six delegates against fifty-three for the opposing coalition, and he swept the board in Lowell, carrying the whole twenty-two delegates, From all these evidences, though regarded by the old Bourbons as an interloper, we see that Butler is a strong man among the repub- licans. But the danger to the party lies in the strong probability that in being rejected by their convention General Butler will bolt, and ran as an independent candidate. In this capacity he will carry with him, no doubt, a host of progressive republicans, all the labor reformers, and the temperance men and the women’s rights women and their bearded fol- lowers; so that the prospect of a political revolution in Massachusetts in November may be sufficiently cheering to encourage the democracy to bring out their full strength in the election, From these republican disturbances in New York and Massachusetts, at all events, the party nominating conventions in these two States will be by far the most important of all the conventions of this year, in view of the Presidential contest of next year. It is pos- sible, though we regard it as hardly probable, that the anti-Grant, Fenton and Greeley fac- tion may be reconciled to a sort of surrender or compromise in the Syracuse Convention, and It {s possible that, auder suggestions from Secretary Boutwell, General Butler may back out and gracefully retire from the contest if he be defeated in the Massachusetts Con- vention, for the suffrages of which he is now earnestly laboring day and night, But with a bolt from the Syracuse Convention Now York may still be saved for the democratic State ticket, and with a bolt from Butler and bia followora (a Ben Bolt) we may have such chusetts as will inaugurate that ‘‘aew depar- ture” for a new party for which numerous re- publican soreheads and mutineers seem to think the time has come. {0 a word, from these republican malcontents on the one side, and the Tammany demorali- zations on the other side, we may yet have a third party in the Presidential campaign of 1872 of considerable strength; but the chances for it depend mainly upon these ap- proaching republican conventions in New York and Massachusetts, Rome Under the New Regime—The Holy City tm the Light of Italian Liberty. The dangerous and demoralizing struggle which has been maintained in Rome between the extremist forces of monasticism and red republicanism, since the moment when Pope Pius the Ninth receded from his early position as a political and hierarchical reformer, is about to be brought toaclose. Free Italy will save the Holy City. A reformed and re- forming lay executive has interpreted the meaning of true national liberalism to the men of the cloister and the plotters of the Carbo- nari caucus equally. Our cable despatches from Rome, published in the Hxnatp to- day, report that the government of King Victor Emmanuel bag _ expelled both the Jesuits and the agents of the Varlous European revolutionary societies from the city. His Majesty's Ministers justify this step on the ground that the Cabinet received posi- tive information to the effect that the Jesuits and republicans had arranged for the carrying out of most violent demonstrations against eaeh other, personal and in property, on the recurrent anniversary of the occupation of the capital by the Italian troops. The revolution- ists had prepared, it is so alleged, at least, to fire the Vatican through the instrumontality of the secret agents of the Alfieri Society. The Jesuits were prepared to resist even to martrydom. They invoked, no doubt, the protection of the Iay sovereignty of the Tiara. The Sons of Loyola called to their remembrance the days of power and the moments of first might of the men of their order. They regretted, it may be, that the Communists could not be made to expe- rience,that sense of moral reform which inured at that time to the members of the ‘‘dangerous classes” from the application of the ‘‘thumb- screw” and the “‘boot.” The ‘‘Reds” and other republicans who are guided by the teachings of the Alfierists have been, and are, well aware of the reactionary tendency which move the minds—the single mind we may call it—of the monasticists. They determined to avert the consequences by a coup. The results of the execution of such @ movement just at present, and on what must be regarded as sacred soil, would be exceedingly disastrous to the cause of wholesome, well-regulated liberty in Europe. The Italian government appreciated the emer- gency. It applied the cure without hesitation, The remedy is a radical one, and will, we doubt not, be effectual. The disorganizers of both parties have been extradited from Rome, The city is in the hands of the officers of the law. Legitimate authority has been vindi- cated. The spirit of Cavour has been con- soled. The system of public terrorism which was inaugurated in Rome by the stroke of the dagger of Brutus has received a severe blow; it may prove a deadly one. Such pleasing effect of a quick, decided and firm application of the law by the Italian gov- ernment in Rome must produce a most excel- lent action in Europe. Mobocracy will be taught that there exists a power superior to its own evil passion or brute force, a power which it must respect. Monasticism will learn that there is a higher law, a law which can overreach that of consecrated congrega- tionism. This example will become conta- gious for the good of the peoples. The spirit will “‘move on ‘the waters.” It may ‘“‘shine like a beam” even in our own free “land of tho West” and assist in guiding American democ- racy through the gloom and darkness which at present encompass it. Rome for freedom and liberty from Rome. Lroyp Garrison Is said to be opposed to Butler. General Banks favors him, Sumner don’t hanker after him. Wilson is afraid of him. Wendell Phillips glories in him, and Dr. Loring hates him. With all these con- flicting sentiments in regard to him Ben ham- mers away with his figures and his reports, determined to do the most sensible thing he can under the circumstances—that is, stick to himself and do his own work. The Spring- field caucus last night, however, appears to have been made a disgraceful affair by the Butler delegates, who cast eight hundred votes according to the count, when there were only one hundred checked by the tellers, Such proceedings as these will be ruinous to Bea, Morg Spanish Troors ror Cuba.—Spain still continues to forward soldiers to the “Ever Faithful Isle.” Twelve hundred men have just embarked, we are told, from Cadiz for Havana. The belligerent spirit of the Cubans has quieted down of late, and the absence of news from the island recording great Spanish victories or important Cuban defeats led us to suppose that the trouble was over. From Spain comes an announcement which contradicts that idea, Fresh reinforce- ments suggest the probability of a new out- break during the winter, in which the guerillas who infest the mountains will ‘take a hand” in attempting to liberate Cuba, Tne Cororep Foixs 1x WASHINGTON yes- terday celebrated one of their anniversaries of emancipation, the occasion being the date of the issuance of Mr. Lincoln’s preliminary proclamation of freedom. As the colored folks in Washington, as well as elsewhere, are all at sea regarding the only original anniver- sary of emancipation, and have hot been able as yet to concentrate upon any one day for their celebration, the affair was insipid. Down witn Murrny, or We Bott.—From the dead set of the Fenton-Greeley faction upon Collector Murphy and the Grant wing of the republican party of New York, with which he is identified, it is evident that unless Mr. Murphy is ruled out of the coming State Con- vention of the party there will be @ bolt, split, and “a smashing of the machine.” When outside men quarrel over the spoils of the Custom House they are in earnest. Ninety-Seven Millions,.of Debt—‘low Wad It Done? The astounding increase of the permanent debt of the city, which the joint commitzee. of Aldermen and citizens has exposed, will lead, toa more rigid investigation anda more or-' gent demand for reform thamever. Ninety- seven millions of permanent debt, to say nothing of the floating debt which may add to that, is likely to open the eyes of our citi- zens. In January, 1869, the debt, less the Sinking fund, was $36,293,929 ; January, 1870, it was $48,033,741, an increase of over twelve millions; January, 1871, it was $73,373,552, an increase for that year of nearly twenty-five millions; and in the eight and a half months since—that is, up to September 14, 1871—it had swelled up to .$97,287,525, baing at tha rate of nearly three millions, a month, or thirty-six millions a yea The debt has been -augmenting in this extraordinary manner, notwithstanding the enormous revenue of twenty-three millions or so raised from the people.. Through all the changes of the city government and under every administration of city affairs, republican as well as democratic, we have been going from bad to worse. Therepublicanrule under commissions was as oxtrivagant and corrupt ag that of the Gemocrats or the present mixed government under @ charter. If our present rulers have expended more they certainly have more to show for it in the way of improvements. It is but fair to say thig while we admit and condemn the stupendous frauds of the Tammany leaders, There seems to be little doubt that some of the Tammany Ring have used the public money to enrich themselves, There is reason to suspect, indeed, that they have stolea, directly or indirectly, large sums and put them into their own pockats; but a larger amount, probably, has been applied to accomplish political ends, just as the federal government, through the cus- tom houses and other departments, uses the people's money. Our city treasury was to the democrats and the Tammany Ring what the federal treasury is to the party in power at Washington. The sinews of war have been drawn from these to carry on the political fight between the. two parties, The Tammany chiefs have overshot the mark in their unpar- alleled extravagance and frauds, Adding a cipher to a bill of forty thousand dollars against the city and making it four hundred thousand dollars, either by the connivance or not of the claimant, was too palpable a fraud— was, in fact, downright robbery. It makes no. difference whether the money thus fraudulently obtained was spent for a political object or put into the pockets of the officials, Possibly some of the city authorities may not have pocketed the money, but they had, no doubt, a guilty knowledge of the frauds committed, and to that extent were participators in the crime. We hope all the facts will be brought out and that those shown to be guilty, either as princi- pals or accessories, may be held responsible. But let us not be carried away by a mere par- tisan hue and cry; for if we be we shall only see one set of rogues thrown overboard for another plundering ring to take its place, French Presse en tho Trials. The lenity shown by the court martial which judged the Communist prisoners is made the subject of severe comment by many of the Parisian journals, The Hrance, in comment- ing on the subject, says “society will ask itself if it is sufficiently protected by the laws that defend public order, and if the undertakers of revolutions, the traders in social decorum, the adventurers of every sort, will be sufficiently deterred on the eve of insurrection by the risks they will have to encounter.” The Paris Journal speaks in far more severe tones, and declares that ‘the most promising career in France to which a father can appren- tice his son is that of insurgent.” No person need be deterred, it argues, from adopting this lucrative profession, as all the qualifica- tions requisite to make a first class insurgent are ‘contempt of duty, hatred of authority, self-love, desire of material pleasures for one’s self and of barbarous punishment for others.” The Liberté, with less severity, but wiih truth, remarks that ‘‘many a man who if taken in arms on May 25 would have been shot now gets off with a few months’ imprisonment.” The Monde draws the moral from the trial that “‘all honest folk should now take mea- sures to protect themselves.” It thinks, moreover, that “the members of the insurrec?’ tion who escaped to foreign countries will now understand the mistake they made in thus absconding.” This, indeed, is almost the general sentiment prevailing throughout France, and the French press in reflecting it affords us another opportunity of judging of the unsettled frame of the public miad through- out the nation at the present time. Justice has been sparingly dealt out to criminals who directed a well-aimed blow at their native country while she“ lay prostrate, bleeding and suffering. The Commuuise Tho Revolutionista of Moxtco, From the tenor of our latest despatches from Mexico it appears very probable that a revolution is once more to be inaugu- rated in that republic. We do not refer to the petty little affairs which are of constant occurrence and directed only against the State authorities, but to a grand outbreak against the general government for the pur- pose of preventing Juarez from longer occupy ing the position of President of the republic. This has been expected for along time, and the fact that Tamaulipas, Vera Cruz and Mexico Central have pronoupoed in favor of Diaz is proof positive almost that the move- ment will be ona large acale. The revolu- tionists of Mexico—and who of its population are not?—will now have another first class | opportunity to further damage their country. Gone, as Mexico is now, almost beyond re demption, her people must make the degtruc- tion sure; and they will probably succeed, if the season of war and carnage about to be commenced will only be prolonged, and it probably will be if once fairly started. By re~ cent accounts it was considered sure that Juares would receive a majority of votes for the Presidency, but it was not then thought that he would retain the position without trouble. There is a large proportion of people in Mex- ico who think that he has been President long enough and that it is time for others to have @ chance, and it is these who are now ned oe 1 4 1 }