The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1872, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-PAY’S HERALD, paae. = Advertisements, 2—Adverusemenis, 3—Waushington: The French arms Fusilade in the Senate; Morton’s Hot shot Failing into Poltti- cal Mud; Sumner’s Bombs Bursting Between Legs: Beck’s Back Up; Who succeeds Forney? The Snow Liockade Italsed—The State Capital; War of the Factions on the New York City Unarter; A Poor Bureau of Municipal Correction; Sentimental Legislation by Weak- kneed Reformers; The Seventy in a Quandary; A Tammany Member’s Unreasonable Check} Amendmeuts to the Charter—Amusements. 4—Congreas : Hot Work in Both Houses; “Leaves from the Chronicle of Hell; Beck on Brown- low in the House;a Piery Philippic irom Ken- tucky—The Naval Appropriation Bill—Another Congressional Self-Stultiticaton—Art Mat ters—Literature—Literary —— Chut-Chat—New Publications Recelved—Englisn Sporttng In- telligence—Trotting and Racing In Call- formia—Chicago Municipal Muddie—A Hor- rible Affair in Illinois—The West Street Burglary. S=The Gallows: Execution of Isaac Van Wart -Buckhout at White Plains, Westchester County; Extraordinary Firmness of the Mur- derer; The Sleepy Hollow Murders; ‘The vic- tums and the Vengeance of the Law; A Fright- ful Crime and lis Consequences; Another Peniteat Malefactor; Strenuous Efforts to Save the Criminal; Hopes oi bxecutive Inter- ference Entertained to the Last Moment; Buckhout Not Dismayed When Uncer the Gallows; Scenes and incidents of the Execus tion—Stokes’ Grand Jury—The Foster Car- Hook Murder: Decision of the Supreme Court, Generai Term, Upon the Writ ot Error in Fos- ter’s Case; Conviction of Murder in the First Degree Affirmed by the Court; Opinions of Judges Ingraham and Brady—Grant and Greeley—The Bar Association: A Wholesale Investigation To Le Heid by the “Judiciary Commitee” on the Conduct of New York’s Judges; Spicy Developments Expectea; ‘rhe “Committee on Extortions’’ to Overhaul tne Sheriffs, County Cierk’s, Kegister’s and Sur- rogate’s Oftices; The Legislative Committee to Mect on Monday; No Appropriaiion for Wines or Cigurs—River Thieves—A Kailroad Col- lision—Virginia Legislature—The Catholic Temperance Union—sta»ting Aflray. 6—Eaitoriais: Leading Articie, “Tne Day of Small Men—The Deoate in the Senate—The County Wants —Statesmanship’—Amusement An- nouncements, 7—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims: England's Recapitulation of Her Case as Submitted to the Geneva Arbi- tration Court; The Rignts of +Belligerents”’ aod Duties of Neutrals; Mr. Fish’s Reply to Earl Granville Looked for anxtously io London—Teiegrais trom England, France, Germany, liaiy, Spain and India—Interesting from Utah—Movements of the Japanese Em- bassy—Personal Intelligence—The Weatner— European and Havana Markets—Miscellane- ous Telegrams—Business Notices, S—Europe: John Bull ina Fury Over Jonathan’s Demands; Tone of the British Press; What the German Journals Have to Say on the Subject; Voice uf the French on the Masterpiece of Re- cent Diplomacy; The Royal Geographical So- ciety; The First Lord of the British Treasury on the Herald Livingstone Expedition; sir Samuel Baker—New York City News—The Central Savings Bank—Curiosities of Commer- clal Speculation—Marriages and Deaths, @—Financial and Commercial Reports—Pupiic Vac- cination- Skating atthe Park—Texas Pacific Raiiway—Dutch Heinrichs—Alleged False Re- resentations, 10-The State Capital (Continued from Third Page)—The Popular Paroxysms—Shipping {n- telligence— Advertisemenis, A1—_Miller’s Insurance Record: Reconvening of the Assembly Committee—The New Mineral Conundrum—Attempted — Suicide—Ovituary— Brooklyn Affairs—A Prize Fightin New Jer- sey—Proceedings in the New York Courts—Nu- nictpal Affairs—The Yorkviile Keformers— Proceedings in the Board of aAldermen— “subscription Patriotique.’” 19—Advertisements. Sznator Wirson, of Massachusetts, has concluded torun his chances against Colfax for the Vice Presidential nomination on the ticket with General Grant. Very good. Who speaks next? Tae PaiLapetriia Ccostom Hovst.—The resignation of Colonel Forney has resulted in aregular scramble among the big fish and small fry politicians for the desirable plum. And such are the principles of all our politi- cal parties—‘‘the five loaves and the two fishes.” What, then, is this hue and cry of “reform?” Bosh! spoils and plunder—the outs against the ine. That's all. JowaTHan’s Birt oF DamaGes AGAINST Jonn Butt is creating quite a stir abroad. The latest files of the English and Continental papers discuss the question at great length. From the English, German and French news- papers we make extracts which will enable our readers to form an idea of what is thought of our ‘‘case” at the other side of the Atlantic, Owe or THe Latest Rumors concerning the American case before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration is that a proposition is under consideration at Washington ‘‘to offer such explanation of our case as shall relieve the irritation its language has given to British pride.” British fiddlesticks! The case is clear enough as it stands, and if the language is a little sharp and peppery it serves to show that there is to be no more humbugging in this business, buta square settlement. Our ase needs no explanation. It explains itself. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Day of Small Men—The Debate in the Semate—Tho Country Wants Statens- manship. The debate in the Senate yesterday is a painful illustration of an observation yester- day upon this era of small men and small measures, A few days ago the regular busi- ness of the Senate was interrupted by a reso- lution from Mr, Sumner of a trivial and extra- ordinary character. The nature of it was to make inquiry into the reported sales of arms by our government to the French during the German-French war, When Mr. Sumner in- troduced his resolution the sentiment of the country was expressed by Senator Cole and Senator Sherman. Mr. Cole pleaded for a consideration of the appropriation bills, which are well on their way through the House, and are the necessary duties of Congress. Mr. Sherman expressed his contempt for the whole proceed- ing by declarinz that he would not attend the Senaté during the debate. As we understand this matter it is this: When France and Germany were in the death struggles of their great campaigns Gambetta, as the head of the French military authority, made stupendous exertions to purchase arms in every part of the world, Naturally he came to America. We were atill on the verge of a protracted and expensive war. We had arms and ammunition in abundance. In the interest of economy we were endeavoring to sell them. We had made sales and were continuing to make them to other Powers. Mr. Remington, a noted dealer in arms, was the agent of the French govern- ment, Gambetta gave him a commission, and Mr. Remington addressed himself to the United States thrqugh an attorney. In the interest of neutrality we deelined to sell our guns and munitions to either of the belligerent Powers. Mr. Remington was the known agent of France, Knowing he would not have a hear- ing at the War Office, he appointed an attorney, who made large purchases. The same oppor- tunity might have been embraced by Germany. Prince Bismarck was told that he could purchase certain guns from American agents by paying a small advance in the way of commission. The Prince did not feel that, in making these sales, America had violated any law of neutrality or any treaty obligation. At the same time, with characteristic cynicism and good sense, he also said that he would not buy arms from America which, if sold to the French, Germany could obtain for nothing, as her troops could pick them up in the rear of the retreating French army on the banks of the Loire. So the case stood. It was well understood in Germany, by our own government and in France. But it was too good a point to be missed by the desperate and sorely pressed gamblers now playing the game of the Presi- dency. These men, Senators as they are, and charged with the defence and protectioa of the nation’s honor, have no other purpose but to defeat General Grant. To that end they seem to care nothing for peace, for our inter- national relations, for our success in the solemn questions at issue between America and foreign nations. Germany, for instance, isan arbitrator in our dispute with Great Britain on the San Juan question. An un- favorable impression upon the mind of the Kaiser—such an impression as would un- doubtedly be created were it to be determined that we had dealt with the Germans in an un- friendly spirit, or as mere tradesmen, caring nothing for law or justice, or the comity of nations—might go far towards determining the royal mind against America in its decision. The part of every Senator who has patriotic impulses would be to strengthen the German Emperor in those feelings of friendship for America which he has never failed to profess. Yet we have Senators, even such @ man as Sumner, strenuously arguing, for political purposes, that our government, in the war, was a secret ally of France. If Mr. Sumner and Mr. Schurz were the retained counsel of Great Britain, charged to go before the Geneva tribunal and make such an argument as would rescue England from the consequences of her perfidious course towards America during our rebellion, they could not serve England more effectually. They have striven to degrade and dishonor the country simply to make political capital against General Grant inthe next cam- paigno. Can we say anything too severely condemn- ing Senators who are guilty of so flagrant a breach of patriotic duty? And if our condemna- tion must be severe upon Sumner and Schurz, as men who have behaved unworthily, what shall we say of Senator Morton, of Indiana, and this wild, incoherent person called Tipton, who seems really to be a Senator from Ne- braska? Mr. Morton came forward as the cham- pion of the administration. He made a logical, calm, dispassionate speech for a part of the time. Although arude and not always a clear speaker, he showed, so strong was his case, that he was more than a match for the expert and accomplished Senator Schurz, Having made his case, instead of submitting to a vote of the Senate, he swung away from the ques- tion to intrude a stump speech in favor of General Gratt’s renomination and re-election. We agree with Mr. Morton, that the re-election of General Grant is a necessary and proper duty. As things go now, with the record the President has made, we shall prob- ably aid the Senator in that work. But, in heaven’s name, what had such a Speech as this to do with the question before the Senate? Why should public business be postponed and the decision of a necessary question be avoided and the time of the Senate and the patience of the country be wasted because Mr. Morton desired to say in a rude and clumsy way, and simply to flatter the Presi- dent, what everybody knows, that he favors the renomination of General Grant? We cer- tainly expected better things of Senator Mor- ton. He bas been too many years in public life; he knows too well the value of the nation’s time; he has on occasions shown himself to be too much of a statesman to thrust upon the Senate a speech that might have just as well been reserved for some cor- ner grocery in Indiana during the canvass for the Presidency. and, of course, with this famous example it one word was said about Germany or France, or a single phase of the unwise and untimely resolution of Senator Sumner, Instead, this irrepressible ‘‘sorehead,” for this is the com- mon phrase, read a carefully prepared address, embracing column after column of quotations from obscure country newspapers, mainly denouncing General Grant and adding his own meaningless invective upon the removal of Mr. Sumner from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, And so the Senator con- tinued until the close of the session, and we may have an appendix on Monday. There was not the slightest allusion to the question at issue; but the wild man had an audience and a grievance and a much-enduring Senate at his mercy, and under the shadow of a villanous custom, which makes a Senator imperial and uncontrolled when he is on the floor, he dived into his bilge-water rhetoric, plunging hither and thither, bespattering the President, the Cabinet and the Senate with offensive phrases, and making one of those speeches which are never heard without pain from the lips of an American Senator. We do not expect too much from the Senate at best, We know that even Tipton must subserve an inscrutable pur- pose. But we complain that we have a Senate where such things are possible. In the House of Commons, that sterling and sensible body of legislators, Mr. Tipton would have been coughed and shuffled down inten minutes, But our Senate endures it, and there is no remedy. There is no relief from this saturnalia of imbecility and incapacity but in public opinion, The nation ia coming to see that it is at the mercy of small men, who feel that as Senators and legislators’ their highest mission is to gratify their vanity and ambition at the expense of the public welfare. As there is no apparent escayie from the caprices of Senators like Morton and Tipton, we can only hope to make them an example to our statesmen by putting them in the pillory of public scorn, and promising to do as much by any others who like them may wantonly paralyze the public business, bring contumely upon Con- gress and the Senate, and in so doing out- rage the good sense of the country. The British Case in the Alabama Claims Question. The English government has placed before the members of the House of Commons the complete case which its representatives in Geneva submitted to the members of the Ar- bitration Court in the matter of reply to the Alabama claims demand of the United States. A synopsis of the points of the statement reached us by cable telegram last night. The despatch is published in the columns of the Heratp. The British executive argument appears to be collated and briefed from all the public statements, legal, of the press and by amateur jurists, which were set forth in the United Kingdom in defence of the action of the Queen’s government just subseqaent to the infliction of the terrible damage which our commerce sustained from the operations of the Alabama and other privateers during the war. Mr. Gladstone asserts that the American claim is indefinite, ‘‘that the British government did not really violate rule two of article six of the Treaty of Washington with reference to having made the ports or waters of Britain a base of naval operations for either ‘belligerent;’ or for the augumenta- tion or renewal of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. This rule, it is alleged, does not really prohibit the sale of arms or of munitions of war to belligerents by a neutral in the ordinary course of com- merce. The tribunal of arbitration must determine, did ‘Great Britaig fail in her international duty?” If it decide “Yes,” it must name a gross sum for damages, or submit a rule for an equitable assessment thereof. The remaining points are, to a great extent, technical. Mr. Gladstone's explana- tion corroborates the facts which have been already set forward in the Herarp special telegrams from London and Geneva on the same subject. England concedes that she is bound to and must pay an American bill of damages. She wishes the United States government to fixasum in lump, for which she will obtain a discharge from our national bond on her treasury. This is a really important point in the matter. Secretary Fish’s reply to Earl Granville’s despatch on the Alabama claims case is looked for anxiously in London. Premier Gladstone was questioned on the subject in the House of Commons yesterday evening. He replied that the Queen's government had received nothing official from the United States, but that Minis- ter Schenck thought the reply of the American government would reach London about the lst of March. An eventful moment in the history of two great nations—the one in which the long-pending Alabama controversy will come toa point of exact issue for solution, The English ‘‘case” is concluded by an appeal for justice anda declaration of placid acqui- escence to the decision of the Geneva Board on the part of the British government, even if aggrieved thereby, as it is hinted, by infer- ence, that it will be if a heavy cash compen- sation should be transferred from the pockets of Brother John Bull to the Treasury of Brother Jonathan. Tae Torres in the British House of Lords have abstained from attacking thé Gladstone government on the ‘‘American case,” prefer- ring to await the answer to Lord Granville’s letter to the government at Washington. This looks like discretion, and a wise discretion on this ‘American case” is needed now in Eng- land by both whigs and tories ; for the English republican elements, active and powerful, are watching them, and are eager tor a war in view of their own purposes as a third party in the fight. ‘ Tue Horrors of THE CooL TRAFFIO goto make up the ‘terrible subject” for the consideration of the British Parliament just at present. The House of Commons has always a terrible subject held in reserve for the par- ticular consideration of the country members. The legislative indignation of England is now was natural that the wild Tipton, who, as we have said, is really a Senator from Nebraska, should make a speech against the renomina- tion of General Grant. The question before the Senate was about the good faith of the turned against Spain, Portugal and Cuba. The story appears to be a very sad one, cer- tainly—just abont as bad as was ever told of the African slave trade, and the subject of it should be remedied by the great civilising Powers of tbe world. and Oaxaca The Kevolutionary War in Mexico—In- terposition of the United States Neces- sary. The telegraphic despatches published in the HERALD yesterday, relative to the progress of the revolutionary war in Mexico, show that the Juarez goveroment is getting into a critical situation, The news is from the city of Mex- ico, and dated the 8th of February, and though we had previously published later news from Brownsville and Matamoros, on the Rio Grande border, representing a similar state of things, these despatches from the seat of government are more full and gloomy. The in- formation sent from the city of Mexico has been generally rather rose-colored and favorable to Juarez, and, therefore, the deplorable picture of affairs from that source now must be re- garded as indicating the probable ultimate success of the revolutionists, The insurrec- tion is too widespread and powerful, and has too many of the leading chiefs of the different States of the republic engaged in it, to be sup- pressed by force. Supposing even that Juarez can hold his position in the city of Mexico, or over a limited circuit of surrounding country, and that the revolutionists should be unable to subjugate or reach the capital, there is little prospect of the President being able to reduce the revolted States and leaders to subjection. Whichever way the tide of battle may turn from time to time, it is evident from the power- lessness of the government and the rivalry and selfish, ambitious schemes of those who are engaged in overthrowing it, that no stable gov- ernment is possible, and that perpetual an- archy will prevail. Let us glance at the situation as the news from the city of Mexico represents it, which, of course, is made to appear as favorable to the government as possible. The number of revolutionists in the field is estimated at thirty thousand, This is a much larger force, no doubt, than Juarez has, or larger, perhaps, than he could raise and support. Admit that the revolutionary troops are scattered in com- paratively small bodies over a large area of country, yet they seem to have been in suffi- cient force at several important points to de- feat those of the government. The States of Nuevo Leon, Durango, Zacatecas and Sina- loa have revolutionary governments; the revolution was spreading in Colima, where General Julio Garcia had pronounced and was at the head of five hundred men; there was a revolutionary movement in Guadalajara, and the Legislature of that State appear to favor it; the larger portions of the States of Vera Cruz and Puebla were in the power of the revolutionists; the revolution in Tlascala was growing more for- midable; and so general and threatening is the movement in every direction that the Juarez government could do little more than assume a defensive attitude. Consternation prevailed at the capital as well as in other large cities and parts of the re- public. law and assuming more and more dictatorial power, becoming that a plan was proposed for Juarez to resign and for Mejia, his Minister of War, to assume the Presidency. other details not necessary to recapitulate, but all of which go to show the desperate charac- The President was extending martial So critical was the state of affairs There are some ter of the struggle. Among the other reports from tbe city of Mexico was one that Juarez had applied to the President of the United States for assistance, and that General Grant had replied that he would support Juarez as a last alternative. The Juaristas say that President Grant must now act promptly if he intends to help Juarez. There may be no foundation for the report that Juarez had applied to General Grant, or that General Grant had promised him aid in caso of extreme danger to his government. Still this shows that the idea or hope of interposi- tion from the United States has entered the minds of the Mexicans, and that it had become the subject of speculation at the seat of government. ligent Mexicans, we think, who would not hail with pleasure intervention by the United States at the present time to save their country from disorder and the fate that is threatened. fortune has taught these people wisdom. A few years ago they seemed to dread national extinction and absorption by the great Ameri- can republic. change. United States, and many of the most enlight- ened desire annexation. into a dependent condition upon this country at the time of the French occupation and ephemeral empire of Maximilian. helped out of that trouble by the United States, and though not always willing to ac- knowledge it, the Mexicans feel in their pres- ent difficulty the same dependence on and hope from this country, There are few intel- Mis- But time has effected a great They now wish to lean upon the In fact, Mexico fell She was Whether President Juarez has appealed for support or not to the United States, or whether General Grant has expressed his intention to intervene or not to sustain the established government of Mexico, there can be no doubt that the interposition of our gov- ernment is necessary to save that country from ruin. Policy, humanity, the protection of our own people on the border, the interests of commerce and many other considerations, call upon the United States for intervention. In what manner onr government should inter- vene is a question that ought to be well con- sidered. Butif the policy and necessity of that be admitted, the proper way will soon be found. Nothing short of absolute control of Mexico, either by a protectorate or annexa- tion, should be thought of. Annexation would be best, undoubtedly, both for the people of Mexico and the United States. As a protectorate might lead to complications and difficulties, and as that must result ultimately in annexation, would it not be better to annex Mexico at once ? It is a question, therefore, whether our government should support either of the parties in the war now raging, or should take possession of the country for the sake of humanity, civilization and the protection of our own border, without forming an alliance with one or the other. This, however, as we said, is a question of policy. The best means to reach the end desired—the annexation of Mexico—should be adopted. Some of our citizens might oppose annex- ation. There have always been those so ex- cessively conservative and timid as to resist every proposition for national expansion. It was so in the case of the acquisition of Louisi- ana, Texas and California. But the mass of the people, whose instincts are almost alwava 1 nnn eee UEUEEmEDiitenme reasanenersaaananaameeeenneemamiiied government in dealing with Germany ; yet not right, and all far-seeing, intelligent men, are |The Jersey City Frands—The Tammany impressed with the value of such ac- quisitions, National pride in the ex- pansion and grandeur of the country has Proved to be in accordance with its best interests; and happiness. So with regard to Mexico; the impression is general that the annexation of that country is inevi- table, and that it would prove a vast source of wealth, prosperity and power to the United States. This creates an irresistible impulse in the public mind to territorial aggrandizement, and operates. like the onward passage of a flood of water carrying everything before it. Mexico has to become a part of this great republic, just as the other acquisitions named have gravitated to it from one cause or another, and, if we mistake not, the proper time has arrived for the incorporation of that country. The acquisition of Mexico would prove far more valuable than California, or several Californias; and who does not know what blessings to this country and the world have sprung from that rich State? There is more mineral and agricultural wealth in Mexico than in Cali- fornia, and there isa population of several millions, whose labor would be turned to the best account under the guidance and capital of our people, The annexation of Mexico would elevate the Mexicans themselves, in- crease the wealth and prosperity of both countries immensely, and would do more than anything else could to restore the shipping and commerce of the United States. General Grant is just now in the position to carry this great measure if he will, and should he be resolved to do so be can add greatly to the lustre of his name and make his administra- tion famous in history. President Thiers and the Crisis in France. The situation in France daily becomes more interesting. The Right has formally decided not to join the Orleanists, It has done more— it has sent a delegation to Antwerp to submit to the Count de Chambord its programme of action. Meanwhile the conviction grows that the cause of the House of Orleans and the cause of the legitimists are equally desperate, and that the re-establishment of the monarchy has become an impossibility. latest items of news is to the effect that the Bonapartists are busily intriguing, and that the workingmen of Belleville and Vilette, so recently the hotbeds of Communism, are sigh- ing for the reatoration of the empire. It is only a few days since France narrowly escaped from falling into the arms of revolu- tion. Ifthe Assembly had not humbled itself, and if M. Thiers had not changed his mind, France would most certainly have fallen once more under the heel of the military power. It is well known that the monarchists on that occasion lost their opportunity because they were not prepared, It is as well known that MacMahon, to whom an appeal was made to assume supreme authority, hesitated to take a step which would have left him without a rival in France. In a few days more the situa- tion will be repeated. The Army Reorganiza- tion bill will come up for discussion, and M. Thiers has distinctly told his friends that on the Army bill he will have no compromise. What will happen? If the President does not change his views it is certain that he will be out of harmony with the Assembly. Another deadlock and another resignation are almost certain, All parties in France are now looking for- ward to the Army bill, and making prepara- tions for the crisis which they consider cer- tain, It is difficult to see how the monarch- ists in their present divided state can make capital out of the situation. But itis not difi- cult to see how MacMahon may make himself master of the destinies of France, and do for the Bonapartes what General Monk did for the Stuarts. Come what may, a crisis is certain ; and it is not unreasonable to conclude that the present unsatisfactory state of things is about to be ended. Tue Heratn’s Livinastong EXPEDITION.— We now learn that the refusal of the British government to supply from the treasury of the nation a sum of money to aid the Royal Geo- graphical Society in starting an expedition to search for Dr. Livingstone was based upon this reason: The Chancellor of the Exchequer, when appealed to for aid, thought that money spent in the direction indicated by the Royal Geographers was altogether unnecessary. The new expedition he considered unfavorably, “If the New York Hgratp expedition cannot find Dr. Livingstone,” says Mr. Lowe, ‘‘there is no use in the Royal Geographical Society attempting todo so.” These, or like words, we are told, were used by the British Chan- cellor to explain why the government did not aid the Royal Geographers with funds. The new expedition has started for the East, nevertheless, and we wish it every success; but it is somewhat sur- prising, to say the least of it, that little or nothing was done by the Royal Geographers looking to the relief of Dr. Livingstone until the news that the Heratp expedition was in the interior of Africa on that mission was received in England. ’ “Can Suon Trincs Br?”—It is given out that a committee of the Florida Legisla- ture has made a report to the Governor of the State embracing the startling statement that in Jackson county alone over one hundred and eighty-four murders—some of the victims women and children—are charged against a band of Ku Klux, with similar outrages of the Klan in other parts of the State. Martial law is recommended, and, under the circumstances, if correctly reported, the only wonder is that the recommendation comes in only after one hundred and eighty-four men, women and children, in a single county, have been mur- dered. Tue Lanor Rerorm Party will meet in National Convention at Columbus, Obio, on the 21st inst, The Missouri delegates have been instructed to labor to bring the party out on an independent Presidential ticket, and to oppose all bargains for compounding or mix- ing up the labor reformers as & political party with any of the other parties of the day. Those Missourians are certainly taking the lead in all the outside party movements of the day, active and passive, excepting the tem- perance party. ‘This exception is due to the fact, we suppose, that the temperance move- ment has hardlv aot out vet as far as Missouri, Approaching One of our Ring Qutrivalled by the Jerseymen. Jersey City seems destined to pass through an ordeal similar to that to which New York city has recently been subjected. There are Tammany Rings, although of a smaller and meaner type than our own, across the river, and it would appear, from all accounts, that their operations are as reckless and unscrupu- lous as any in which our own municipal pecu- lators have been engaged. It is curious and suggestive to observe how closely these Jer- sey frauds, as they have been from time to time exposed in the Hrap, are modelled after the example set by our Tammany politi- cians, and it is evident that the Jerseymen have copied very closely from New York in the conception and working of their schemes of plunder. There, as here, the grandest speculations have been made through the instrumentality of a Board of Pub- lic Works; contracts on street openings and improvements have been awarded by the “Ring” to partners and relatives, without competing bids, in defiance of the law; special legislation has been resorted to, and is still invoked, to facilitate schemes of pecula- tion and to protect the perpetrators of the boldest frauds; property has been purchased and rented at exorbitant rates for public pur- poses, and the overcharges have been divided up among the conspirators; dishonest claims have been audited and paid; and, finally, to crown the sufferings and sorrows of the vic- timized citizens sf Jersey, a new City Hall job has been concocted, which, if suffered to proceed, bids fair to prove as magnificent a swindle as our own still uncompleted Court House. To make the similarity yet more striking a charter was passed by the last Legis- lature, at the instigation and through the or- rupt appliances of the contractors’ ring, which entirely destroyed direct responsibility on the part of the public officers, and opened the door to the perpetration of just such frauds as our late city officials are now called to an- swer for at the bar of a criminal Court. There is one point of difference between the citizens of Jersey and ourselves. They have the benefit of the experience through which we have passed to guide them in dealing with their own, unfaithful officials, while we were compelled to fight against a powerful and ua- scrupulous conspiracy in the dark, without any light to show us the proper path to pursue. Many blunders were in consequence made by us which the Jerseymen, if they are wise and prudent, will be able to avoid. While we lost time over the good-intentioned but inefficient labors of a committee of seventy highly respectable citizens, and afforded many of the principal rogues the opportunity to escape with their plunder or to place their property beyond the reach of the law, our neighbors, profiting by our example, will avoid any such cumbrous machinery, and seek the direct aid of the law to reach the offenders promptly and effectively. We were compelled to await the empanelling of Judge Bedford's Grand Jury before a single step could be taken to bring our city frauds to a practical, legal.test, and to place the parties alleged to be crimi- nally implicated in them at the bar of a criminal Court. The people of Jersey have now in Judge Bedle a judge as fearless and upright as Judge Bedford and a Grand Jury which promises to do its duty as resolutely as did the famous Grand Jury of our General Sessions. They have no need, therefore, to burden themselves with the load of a highly respectable committee which might embarrass the action of the Courts and facilitate the escape of the rogues in spite of the honesty of its intentions. The citizens of Jersey are masters of the situation to-day if they have the resolution and the will to protect themselves. Governor Parker is bound to give them all the assist- ance in his power in extending the services of the Attorney General and such other counsel as may be needed to aid the work of the faith- ful Grand Jury now employed in investigating the alleged city frauds. The people can con- trol the action of the Legislature, provided they let the membera understand that their eyes are upon them, and that any act they do to protect and screen official rascality will be remembered against them. Such men as Pat- terson, of Monmouth, and Niles, the Speaker of the lower House of the Legislature, can readily expose and defeat the attempts now being made by the Ring to repeal such clauses of the Jersey charter as provide for the indict- ment of municipal corruptionists, If they fail in this Judge Bedle and his Grand Jury can reach the rogues through indictments under the common law. ll that is needed is earnest and determined action on the part of the people themselves and a resolute ignoring of all political considerations until justice has been done and the power of the corruptionists broken. According to all accounts the frauds committed in Jersey are comparatively as great as those of the Tammany Ring, and the conspirators who are engaged in them should be dealt with decisively. They have a trick of hanging murderers promptly in Jersey; it will be well if they show that they can make short work in dealing with municipal robbers. Tue Parts Rapicats aNp “Reps” remain excited against the monarchical idea and indignant against the Bonapartes, as will be seen by our report of the scene which occurred near the Pere la Chaise Cemetery yesterday. M. Rouher had a new, but not enjoyable, excitement. Tue SNow BuiockaDE 18 RatsEpD on the Union Pacific Railroad, to the joy of thou- sands. Many with very little romance in them have felt it through the pocket nerve, Joy to the imprisoned passengers who for twenty-seven days were left to admire the snow drifts of those barren regions. Joy to the Japanese whose morals were in danger at Salt Lake City. They can now come straight through to Washington and learn more of the beauties of our form of gov- ernment. Joy to those watching for the mails which for four weeks have been snowed up. Five years ago the news that there was deep snow along the great divide of the Continent would not have occasioned more than passing comment here. Now, what ,a change! The fact is that the human mind lays down its sensitive ligatures of plow and passion, mak- ing, marring and contriving beside the track of the iron horse, and the interruption of, traffic on an important line becomes as oninful to the people generally ” /