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TI'.- Biatc nf New-York is tobe reeovered from tim
<?],.; Ikk ,f her Heiii.Klillie misnileia this Pull.
Fraud, mmintainoua and delilterate, pave li. r 1.1. t -
total Vote? t?. (Seymour aud Blair in 18C8? Fiaud,
i.-it* rat?d ?uni extended, baa aiiiee kept her under
iii. ?way <'t Hollinan and Tweed, Money? ?toidi i.y
Millions from tho taxes or added to tbe deb? ..i her
gnat City, baa been used with effect to foi ?e and
distribute certilieatefi oi Naturalization by the ream
to grind ont voten who bad no1 been two yean in
thin country, to rabota twelve-barrel "repeaters"
ini.l bribe eanvamets to make fabtereturns. The net
reanll is the autocracy of Tweed, Connolly and Hall,
tbe mireluue ol Hinaus and other bctravcrs of lb? ir
trust, ami the ?addling of the metronolU with Mil
liona un Millions of Bebt which represents mithin?
lim fraud, forgery and theft. Bach is t!io roiurh
outline of a long career of audacious, wiceea-nil
< limo which lia? culminated in a barden of taxation
and a mountain of del>t at which property-holders
niiiv well uland aghast, wondering what remains un
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Our friends in the rural districts may fairly ask,
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palpable and redress wrongs so enormous V We
answer, their enormity is the stronghold of their
i. : i.itrat. ts. Money stolen by millions buys fraud?
ulent votes I.y tena of thousands. To facilitate
Diga! voting by wholesale, nil the saferna ids
win-iiliv Republican legislation hail surrounded the
Kiifht of Suffrage, have, under Democratic rule, been
.1tlili.Tat.ly broken down, lhere in nomme a reg?
istration of l.'L'al voters except in our city, ami hero
it waa laat Winter reduced toa mere .taree. Those
whochoom not to regiattf may vote neverthclta?.
The object of this subversion was to enable the chief
criminals to jh.11 voti s enough in this city to swamp
the adverse vote of the country, as was done in 18118.
They tan only be beaton by determined Republican
etmrt ?md an unprecedented volo in every i>urt of
the Slate.
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2fc&$?rk Thuin iTriimit
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER l8. 1871.
The Mont Cenls tunnel was formally opened yester?
day, mi The French Assembly having accepted tho
customs treaty recently negotiated, the Ormans will
lu.mediately evacuate several of the Departments. Pe?
titions for the dissolution of the Assembly are circulating
lit Fiance. ?.? The (?rand Duke Alexis has arrived at
l'ii inuiitli. ??lb Roumanian ilnauci.il troubles will
shortly be settled.
Prof. Mahan of the West Point Academy has committed
suicide, na Three colored men were executed lu Lou?
isiana on Saturday. -.- ? * -? A serious firemen's riot has
o?-furred In Norfolk, Va., two men bel?g severely and
four slightlv wounded. ? ? A Maine ellpper-ship Ii.h
U-en wreek??<I on the Pacific Coast. == Nearly 400 Ku
Klnx have t)?en taken to Raleigh, N. C, for trial.
Mayor Hall has removed Controller Connolly, and
offered the position to Gen. MeClellau. --_ The wife of
a Detroit clergyman bas mysteriously dinapiN-ared. aw
Gold, 114|, 113J, 114. Thciuionietcr-?aturday, C7C, Ti0,
Ob* ; Buuday, 70?, 72", C8?.
Our London correspondent givos us a fair
resume of the avvrago of English public
opinion with reference to Ibe labor atrikcfl
ind the initutions growing out of thom. It is
quite evident that public 6cntiuiciit in Great
Britain is more on the side of the workingmen
than of the employers this time?and this is
not by any means always the case.
An important speech, delivered by Mt. Glad?
stone at Whitby, published in another part of
The Tribcne, is a defense of bis administra?
tion ajroiust the criticisms which have been
made by his enemies. His opinion of the
Press is not spet-ially flattering, though suf?
ficiently patronizing in tone. Taken altogether,
however, the defense is admirable in tone and
t?mi>er ; it is the speech of the Ttople's Pre?
mier to his constituents.
The authorities of fiennsny having deter?
mined to atlopt a riKid system of iiiipt.bts on
articles crossing the frontier between Alsace
and France, the French National Assembly is
suddenly alive to the danger of the manufac?
tures of that Province boin? diverted from the
French to the Swiss market. That body has
accordingly hastened, by the exceedingly large
. iiuyoriljr of 533 against 31, to ratify the Cnatomi
?Treaty concluded between the representatives
4?f immeiomkuy aud France. Thus the com[d?ca?
tions, whick ui peart d imminent, have been
averted, ___mmmwmm__mmm____mmm^
The long war against Tammany has its
human as well as its serious points. One of
the most comical things which has happened
lately is the adoption by " the friends of Con
" troll? r Connolly'?" of a aeries of resolutions,
prefaced by a long-winded array of whereases.
The sarcasm with which Judge Barnard is
referred to aa " the pliant tool of that dcipot
" ism of the Bench," only shows that Con?
nolly's di fenders feel that the Judge is going
back upon them. Nothing, however, can
?peeed ?ye pathos with which the Controller is
beeoughl not to allow the eonspirators "to1
" brilia down his giny hairs to a dishonorable
"grave." In pursuance willi the eternal linn > ?
qI tbinifs, wc trust that the M monster meeting ?
"and torchlight procession" in Mr. Connolly'?
honor will he postponed uutil the Twood
statue in inaugurated.
The withdrawal of Mr. Harvey ?Tewell from
the cnnvasH for Governor in Massachusetts
greatly simplifica the frort of the Republicans.
Their piiucip.il labor npm'UMi to lap, " how to
"get rid of Buller;*1 against lum tliere. have
been font candidates, two of whom?Jewill
and Rice?are from Boston. Now the opposi?
tion to Hillier will he concentrated upon three
candidates, representing dilVerent parts of the
Statt? and mt altog<-ther irreconcilable elc
nii nis. The lett, i of Mr. Jewell is manly and
sensible, nnd will please even body lut the
meddles! ne bii'-.ybody whose ini-c!iiivous Con
i - it luis bronght the Republicans of Mussa
c'.tii-ctts tio nun li I rouble.
The completion of the Mont Cenia Tunnel
po-.st-ssos uoi 1,1-wido intcie*-t as a great en?
gineering triumph, ard as affording inijn(?vid
menus of communication between nations.
During fifteen years, in the v,-iy b:i-i.s of the
Alps, 5,000 fiel below the eternal snows,
workmen have toiled from either end
of this tunnel until, at length, the
calculations of the engineer! were realized,
and the sep?rate highway formed or.e con?
tinuous road. Tlie memorable words of Louis
XIV. may now be applied with moro eohect
ne-s and in a more gi lierons spiiit lo the
Alpa than the I,yi?i,</es. The Alps no longer
exwt M a barrier between peoples,
Sweden appears to have taken the general
Rnropean alarm and is talking of reorganizing
its military VjeU in. Sweden has only a small
array?about 136,000 men, in addition tovolim
I teem and free-t-hootcre. Tie "regulara'' or
! reserves ?ne distiibiilt ?1 in the cantons, and
J earn their living by working for the landed
I proprietors? bul are obliged to drill ?me month
! each year. In comparison with the Prussian
' military machine, or even the British thirteen
j thousand men wlio lately marched to Sand
I hurst and then marched back again, it must
be sein that the army of Sweden is rather
undisciplined, and would not be very effective
even as a home guard in ca*><- of invasion?
The Germans in Bohemia do not take kindly
to the proposition of the Emperor of Austria
to ni?ke himself a triple-crowned sovereign.
Wlien consideration of the Imperial rescript
regarding the wish of Francis Joseph to recog?
nize tin* rigMs of Bohemia by a coronation
oath came up in the Diet, tho German dele?
gates adopted the tactics of an American
minority and descried in a body. They had
the coolness, however, to send back word that
no illegal votes must be passed in their ab?
sence. There are about two Bohemians to one
German in the Province, and the probability
is that this movement toward Tan-Slavism
will be sine,ssfully carried out eventually.
The industrious gentlemen who have been
loudly ?declsring that no Ku-Klux outrages
could ever havo been rerpctraled in South
Carolina, because none are now committed,
will lind some comfort, as well as explanation,
in n communication fiom Spartansburg on
that subject. It is reported that the United
Statc-B cavalry stationed in that region have
been r?ding through the coHutry, making
arrests and otherwiso preserving the peace.
Of course, the cessation ol' Ku-Klux outragea
is an argument for the declaration of martial
law?which extreme step we should be sorry
to see taken except as a last resort, hu* it
also shows why we hear now that Spaitans
burg County is quiet.
The snggestionof _flwa Prison Discipline,
Congress, held at Cincinnati last year, has met
with a favorable response from Europe, and
an International Congress is to meet at Lon?
don next June. The Cincinnati Convocation
was meant to be international, but, owing to
the disturbed condition of Europe, few foreign
delegates were present. It is difficult to
overestimate the importance of these Con?
ventions, at which men who aro most familiar
with the management of prisons, and the in?
fluence of the various modes of punishment
and discipline upon crime, exchange views
and agree, as far as possihle, upon the best
means to be adopted for the reformation of
elimin?is and the prevention of crime.
THE SITUATION.
Connolly refuses to resign, and resolves to
carry down in his own nrin his late confed?
erates. Samuel J. Tilden, Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, the adroitcst and
most far-sieing leader whom the death of
Dean Richmond left to the Democracy of
New-York, seizes the opportunity to use
Connolly for the destruction of tho
j Ring, as the only salvation of tho party.
At his instanco Connolly meets the
demand for resignation that Hall might
appoint bia successor, by viitually appointing
his own successor, Andrew II. Green, to whom,
j as his Deputy, he makes over all the powers
j and duties of his office. Hall meets this cheek
by assuming the power of removal ho
had declared the day before he did
not possess, removing Connolly and ap
I pointing George li. McClellan in his
j place. Green is in possession by Connolly's
j legal appointment ; McClollan is outside, await
| ing possession, uuder Hall's appointment ??the
j old hilders of the Democracy are coining for
I ward to scourge Sweeny, Hall & Co. back to
' their obscurity in the ranks, and against them
these members of the broken and dissolving
King are in open revolt. That is the situation
this morning.
In the interval, while the two factious of the
, Democracy await McClellan's answer to see
whether they must light for the possession of tho
Controller's office, with if s hundreds of damning
papers yet uiistolcn, there is an opportunity to
trace in their order und relation a few of tho
! late crowding events.
For wicks the members of the Ring, incre?
dulous of danger at first, had been coming to
: see mon and more plainly that at any rate
j they must throw ?onie bop to the snarling peo
pie. The Controller seemed to them
exactly adapted to the emergency^ Ha
had failed to make the exhibits re?
quired by law. Hit office contained any evi?
dences theie might be of fraud. On him the
? demand for investigation had mainly centered.
( Pal him out, and great credit might be gained,
i under cover of which, aud of the confidence
insMired by a respectable appointment in his
place, the citizens* investigations could be sus?
pended, no that the new Controller might
? prosecute them himself. Give the rc
| Baining mahen of the Ring that chance
to tide over the present emt-rgency, and all
j might yet be plain sailing, ?ind so they pri?
vately asked him to resign, coupliug with tho
request the warmest protestaHoni? of friendship
and rou?denee. lint "slippery Dick" was
sns| ?clou*?. He knew what his office con?
tained, in theil hands, its evidence mn-lu 1
be used to exoulpato them and ruin him in
the protest. In his own, it would, al worst,
only send timm all to the bottom togother.
As they liad b:en lovely in their
lives, so in their deaths bo pre?
ferred that they should not l>o separated.
Ami so ht? went to the. Chairman of tho Demo?
cratic State Committee.
The derision of Judge Barnard on Friday
bad created a Bitnation which could be no
longer regarded with indifference by the lead?
ing Democrats of tho State. It is tine that
his judgment struck only at Connolly in ko
many words, but in spirit it waa a condemna?
tion of the eui ire action of the Hing. The loading
Democratic papers of Hie Interior, among them
notably Tltv Hnfftth Courier ami The Albano
Argus, came boldly out demanding the. dismis?
sal of those shameless robbers who were die
gracing the name, ami destroying the. future, of
their party. These and other ?vidences of popu?
lar feeling of course produced a strong effect j
upon the prominent Democratic politicians who
were not dependent upon tho lung, and
tho instinct of self-preservation induced them
lo join in lim movement, from which they had
too long held aloof, for the redemption of the
City from that corrupt and dishonoring rule
They took advantage of the breach occasioned
between Connolly and his treacherous associ?
ates to iuduco him to take the official btcps
which wo chronicle this morning, und against
which Mayor Hall makes Hie unavailing demon
si ral ion willi which wc elsewhere deal in de?
tail.
We cannot but regard it as a subject t'"r
high congratulation that the affair lias taken
this turn. Ah long as there seemed any pros?
pect of obtaining through the action of the
Mayor, some .satisfaction of the public demands
for justice on his associates, lhere was a dispo?
sition to strengthen his banda, But it has
been evident for several days that, instead of
wishing to turn the light upon the malfeas?
ances of Hie. King, it was his intention, in
coinpany with his bolder and more guilty us
Hociat.i s, to stille investigation, and to attempt,
by merely sacrificing the Controller, to divert
public attention from tho stronger and abler
rogues who were to remain in place and
power. Nothing moro strikingly ex?
hibits tho wolfish nature of these
plunderers than their readiness to devour their
wounded comrades. In this case ther.i seeinetl
to be not a moment's hesitation about
turning upon Connolly nnd rending bim
for tho joint sins of Hie. quartet.
Agalnai Hurh creatures, and against, their muni?
cipal debauchery so long sheltered under its
name and power, tim D?mocratie party of tho
State, through the action of the. sagacious
Chairman of its Committee, stands pledged.
It bears tho burdon of responsibility and
?hame for our long robhery ; let it now in
penance work for our relief. It was not pos?
sible for tho Republican party alono to carry
out the great and radical reforms which aro
needed in the administration of this City. It is
only by a combination of all honest and
well-intentioned citizens that we can hope to
do anything toward eradicating the inveterate
evils of years of fraud and waste. If tho
Democratic organization should resolutely
oppose so desirable a consummation, it would
require infinitely more timo and effort to
accomplish it. It is possible that the virus of
Tammany may still be too strong in New
York for Mr. Tilden and his friends to
overcome. The loafers of the Americus Club
will not be inclined to ?rive up their sinecures
aud their diamonds without a bitter fight in?
side of their organization and out of it. The
"Tigers" will not lie disposed to listen with
teachable hearts to tho sermons of their hon?
est fellow Democrats from th^ provinces and
Mayor Hall has given them in the name of Gen.
Mci. hilan a popular rallying cry. Hut the
events of tho last few days alford the, most
cheering evidence that the combination
of tho men of good-will, for which
we havo hoped and labored so
long, is not impossible. It is
not in the power of any one party to effect
the reformation of tho government of this
City. The rescuo of our State and National
organizations for questions of general concern
is of course necessary and salutary, but there
is no good reason why the contest for yean to
como in this City shall not be one without
other partisan bias than that of intelligence
against ignorance, of economy against waste?
fulness, of honesty agaiiibt knavery and cor?
ruption. _________^___
HALL'S EFFORT TO CHECKMATE TILDEN.
The importance of the step taken on Satur?
day evening by the Committee of Citizens and
the members of tho Democratic Central Com?
mittee is most clearly shown by Hie despera?
tion to which it seems to have driven the
common enemy. Mayor Hull's crazy resolu?
tion of attempting to drive Connolly from
oflice is an effort to do to-day what ho has
expressly declared he was unable legally to do.
Only a week ago ho wrote to the Controller:
" I cannot suspend any Head of Department, not
" even pending an investigation. J can only pre
" fer charge* to the Common Pleat, teHo alone
" can remove, after a considerable time for trial;"
and to-day ho has the effrontery to pre?
tend to remove the Controller, alleging that
" the power of removal exists as an incident
" of the power of appointment, and that the
" process of impeachment is a morely coordinate
" but not conflicting power to remove in effect
" an impeached officer by procuring a vacancy.'
Ho further attempts to cover the gross illegal?
ity of his action by charging that the Con?
troller in delegating bia authority has re?
linquished it. There is no shadow of founda?
tion for this preposterous claim. Fax better
lawyers than Mr. Hall have decided this matter
The langnage of the statute is clear and explicit.
The Controller is, by section 8 of chapter 574
of the laws of 1871, authorized to appoint a
Deputy Controller, who shall, "in addition to
" his other powers, possess every power and
" shall perform every duty belonging to the of
*' flee of Controller, whenever the said Control
" 1er shall by due written authority, and during
" a period to be specified in such authority, de
'" s?gnate 'and authorise the said Deputy Con
' trollcr to possess the power and perform the
"dnto aforesaid." . i ?_* "
It is impossible for any provision of law to
be couchod in more unmistakable terms.
No1 This last dodge is too palpably the
resort of mere freney. The gang of hunted
conspirators, finding every avenue of escape
closed to them, seem resolved to make one
last appeal to violence and disorder. There
can be no other meaning attached to the
ominons words with which the Mayor con?
cludes his letter to Gen. McClellan, ?rging
him to accept the office of Controller as the
only means 0f preserving the public peaae.
We do not think so ill of the common
sense or the patriotism of Gen. McClellan
us to Hrfnh he will array hlms^W on tho sido
of these panic-stiirken criminals, against the
publk sentiment of the country and the cuni- '
?els of the best mon of his own parly. Thero !
is a spirit abroad which wiU bear with no
moro trifling from th?eee unfaithful servants.
Tho sooner they drop this comedy of bluster
and resistance and retire from the positions
they have disgraced, tho better it will be for
them and for tho public tranquillity.
PETROLEUM AS FUEL.
Certain experiments with petroleum ns fuel
uro attracting great attention at tho West.
The Illinois Central Railroad Is using a gas
obtained from refuse petroleum oil t;> heat a
stationary boiler ami in a f< rgo at its WOlkl
in Chicago ; and within a few days au excur?
sion parly from (bat city WHS taken down the
river out Upon the lake in a steam-tug using
petroleum as fuel. There aro certain great
advantages in using the oil; absoluto free?
dom from smoke and duden being a prin?
cipal item? There is less labor and cost in
handling such fuel; no deposit of snot in the
boiler flues; no acid gases from locomotives in
long tunnels, ?ind, with ocean-going steamers,
ii is possible to lay iu the liipiid-fiiel for much
longer voyages than is practicable with Coal.
It is roundly stated Unit in the Chicago ex?
periments the cost of petroleum is less than
coal as a fuel, the saving being estimated on
the sieain-tug as from 30 to 50 per cent.
Similar announcements of success in such
experiments, in different localities, havo been
made from time to time during several years.
In 1881, at the Woolwich Dock-Yard, England,
it was found that one pound of fuel was re?
quired to vaporize l8) pounds of petroleum,
v hi,di raised st, am in a boiler holding 3,000
pound.-; of water. Locomotives burning com?
mercial naphtha alone have made successful
trips, and iu France, on the Strasbourg Rail?
way, two engines were fitted with furnaces
for kerosene, the consumption being from 10J
to 18 pounds per mile. Rut the most extended
of these experiments and most suitable for
comparison willi those at Chicago, because the
process was very similar, if not exactly the
K?me, were those of our Navy Department in
.lune, 18G7, willi the U. S. gunboat I'alos, at
Roston, and in the following August, at tho
Brooklyn Navy-Yard? The difficulty in previ?
ous experiments was that tho vapors of petro?
leum do not readily mix with common air
sui?ii-iently for thorough combustion, and hence
produce much smoke in burning. Rut in
these experiment! superheated steam was in
troduoed into tho vaporized petroleum; tho
compound vapor being capable of burning
thoroughly and without smoke, because of its
capacity for mixing with air while iu tho act
of combustion.
In lill the cases enumerated, except the pres?
ent ones at Chicago, the ultimate objection has
been the extra cost of this fuel. Ou this point,
and on this alone, there was an unfavorable
report to the Nuvy Department on the exper?
iments in 1807. And although the coat of coal
at Chicago may bo somewhat greater in pro?
portion to petroleum than in some other lo?
calities of these experiments, it is difficult to
understand how so much difference M to show
a profit in the use of petroleum could havo
been obtained there. The problem was thus
stated, probably with correctness, some yean
ago, by The American Artisan: The absolute
theoretical evaporating power of a pound of
anthracite is 12, and of a pound of petroleum
22 pounds of water. The average cost of crude
petroleum is about 21 cents a gallon, equal to
3 cents per pound ; thut of coal $5 per tun, or
1-5 to i of a cent per pound. Tho petroleum,
therefore, costs 13 times as much as tho coal ;
and the evaporating power obtained from the
former costs seven times as much as that
from the latter. It may lie said that in practice
we do not get more than a small proportion of
Um evaporating power of coal, owing to the
imperfection of our furnaces; but surely an equal
o? gi'?ater los*, of theoretical power must take
place in "burning pc'roleum, when it is con?
sidered that tin, process incl'ules the vaporiza?
tion of the petroleum and ?M'auJ'tfOQ to it of
superheated steam before the compound vapor
li tit for ignition under the boiler.
If burning petroleum as fuel on locomotives
and steamboats were found practicable and
economical, it would be difficult to prevent
such use of that dangerous fluid. However
safe it may bo so far as tried with the appli?
ances used for experiment, the conditions are
entirely reversed in case of accident; and it
needs no prophet to foretell what increased
horrors would bo added in cases of a collision
on a railway train or of a steamboat's taking
fire, if for the fuel ordinarily earned an equiva?
lent quantity of petroleum were substituted.
THE WORLD AND THE RINO.
If any simple souls havo been deceived by
Tlie World*? pretense of honesty for the last
few days they will be sadly undeceived by a
perusal of its columns yesterday morning. It
has been clamoring for the retirement of Mr.
Connolly from the Controllership, so aa to give
place to an honest man who can take care of
the interests of the City; and now that Mr.
Connolly has virtually retired to make way
for a gentleman whom even The World cannot
refuse to call perfectly honest, it knows no
bounds in its disgust and rage. It breaks
louse from the men who created it, and speaks
despiteful.)* of eminent Democratic personages.
Its indiscreet anger is full of revelations.
There can no longer be any doubt as to tho
amiable understanding among the men of the
Ring to set in Connolly's vacated place some
pliant tool of their own, who should apply a
coat of whitewash to the remaining three wise
men of Gotham, and send the good-natured
Controller alone into the wilderness. The
game has been blocked in a way so effectual
as to make it highly probable that the light
will be turned upon the dark places, and loug
baflled justice will at last have her way.
There was never a Journal so subject to
these feminine inconsistencies aS The World.
Every period of stormy weather brings to it
an attack of nerves. It waa absolutely sure to
be wrong on every great event of the recent war.
At the time of the Irish Riot, it changed its
ground radically every morning, cruelly
tortured by its allegiance divided between the
Governor and the Mayor. And in this Tam?
many business, jt is hard to imagine
a position it has not taken. >Vhat
makes its final advocacy of the
Rin 9 so incomprehensible is the strength aud
vigor of it? earlier attacks upon them. N-o
paper iu New-York was more fearless and out?
spoken in denouncing the di shorn** ty and
profligacy of Tweed, at a time when there
seemed no possibility of displacing him. But
now, when the long chase is nearing Its
end, and the ?oareer of fraud and
rapine which The World once (-diaractei-ke,!
in such savage phrases is drawing to its
close, this singular newspaper tarns suddenly
upon itself, eating not merely its words of
last year but those of last week' as well, and
denounces in the most intemperate language
kit? emly square aad hopeful ?effort which han
yat bean reads for the destruction of that in?
famous combination of robbers. It seems as
if Ihe World had conceived such violent ?va-- 1
sion for the Bing in the day of its wealth
and glory that now, in its condition of squalor
and disoaso, it is, like Swinburne's Leper, far
dealer than ever. Instead of the bad names it
?noo shouted from Park-row to the City
Hall, it now sings plaintively, "Come rest in
" this bosom my own stricken deer ; though
" the. herd liavo fled from theo, thy homo li
" still here." And after all it would be hard
to lind a more appropriate ti nal refuge for
tho power that in its own coarse and vulgar
way exemplified that airy disregard of politi?
cal morals which is tim boast of I'he World.
If the Tit publican Senatorial Conventions,
Rfider the authority of the regular organiza?
tion in this City, at their meetings to-night,
find it best to maleo nominations, it
behooves them to select their candi?
dates from among tho very best citizens in
their respectivo districts. In most of these
the prospect of carrying a rigid Republican
ticket ia exceedingly small, and in the
present aspect of City affairs it would be
vise to take the best and most popular men
they can lind, without inquiring too rigidly
into pest political aflUiations, provided they
can be hu? o of present honesty and
iidolity to the cause of munici?
pal reform. In the case of the district now
disgraced by William M. Tweed, there is
special need of carefully considered action.
With some fmch man as ex-Ma\or
H.-iveiiH-yer or Henry G. Stebbins, that
arch conspirator ought to be removed from the
counsels of the State almost as soon ns we ex?
pect to remove him from the trust he has vio?
lated in this City.
It is unfortunate that to Hie horror of the Kn?torn
Ballway catastrophe should be added the dreariness
of a theological controversy. At an Indignation
meeting held in Swampeeott, the Rev. Mr. Wurt-of
llaltimora supported the position that " ia the event
of Saturday night wo reeogni/.o not the mysterious
providence o? God, but tho reckless carehiane-s of
niau.'' Whereupon a religious newspaper aflinns
that this si'tisihlo view "is at variance with the
teachings of tho Bible and of reason." Ikon Dr.
l'.llis, in preaching the funeral sermon of the late Dr.
?Gannett. ?MidI "Aernel bun.i may bring the spar
r?)w to tho ground, and yet ' not without the
Father does the sparrow fall." Thus it
will bo seen that wo have a plenty of dis?
tinctions mure nice, if we may bay so, than wise or
profitable. If WS do our work well, we may safely
trust tho Deity to do His; but no ichema of theology
aflinns linn, although omnipotent, to be superior to
bi-iown bttvfl. In ovil as well as good, while His is
tho controlling hind, man remain* a free agent.
There ia no natara! solution of the problem. If we
run extra trains carelessly, then is nothing for us
but to accept the frightful cons?quences. There will
bo no miraculous interposition?there is none in
other forms of murder. Wa must submit to the
effects of given causes, and ar tho same time admit
the benevoleuco of the Creator.
That f?>rm of infanticide known as " abortion," of
which newspapers must needs speak while they
loathe the necessity, is foully nourishing (if we may
credit The Cldcajo Time,) in that city. Ihc Ti.ne*
fills six columns with the subject, and mentions hy
name, giving their several addresses, the surgeons
and mitlwives who devote themselves to these bom?
bie practices in Chicago. A sharp reportar was sent
aWut the town, ami had interviews with the mur?
derous qiiaeks, under the pretense of employing
them. It in alleged that not less than thirty of these
aro women. Thora is an excellent statute against
this Iniquity, but the business Is exceedingly lucra?
tive, ?m?l these harpies run the risk of punishment,
which docs n't seem to be (Tent.
The relations between the Archbishop of Canter?
bury tl)r. Tait) and his clergy must be delightfully
tender, for he has asked every Bevorend in his dio?
cese to have himself photographed at tbe expense of
his Ki. Reverence. He will also allow catii sitter to
retain two copies of his own miniature, and will give
him also a photographed Dr. Tait. Are not these
teader and fraternal little exchanges vastly hvttar
than a brisk battle of words, written "Ti? spoken,
between Bishop and I?ect<?rT If Bishop Potter aad
ft? ?-'-'-. ?T. Tyn?- ti Bishop Whitehouse and the
Rev. Mr. Cheney, ?'.""bl be ilid'.iced to exchange pho?
tographs, how might the spirit of peace and love in?
crease in either diocese.
Wo think that whoever may hereafter be called to
govern France should .seriously consider the aboli?
tion of the Legion of Honor. Even as a relic of the
exploded .Bonaparte -system it should be dropped ;
but it is also a feet that the loose, promiscuous ami
nrodigal way in which the decoration has been con?
ferred, especially under the Orleans and Republican
Governments, has divested it of most of its vulue
and honor. It is stated that the roll of legionaries
comprises now 120,000 name*. The expense is also a
consideration. There aro C0,n00 military knights,
whose pensions vary from 2T>0 francs to fiJMQ fiant s
per annum?the round total expense being 2t?, 000,000
frunc?s.
One more effort Is tobe made to enforce the Pro?
hibitory law in Bonton, and we shall see what will
como of it. The Police Commissioners have directed
the Chief Constable to warn all persons known to
be engaged in the illegal sale of liquors to abandon
the same. If the request should be disregarded, then
ali offeuding persons and platea are to be alua pros?
ecuted?the first-class hotels, the great wine and
spirit merchants, the genteel restaurants, as well as
the gin mills of low degree. It is rather unusual for
a demonstration of this kind to be made just before
the State election, aud perhaps it is intended as a
practical refutation of Gin. Butler's assertion that
no man eau enforce the Liquor law except himself.
We hope that nobody will be alarmed by the intel?
ligence that tho Bonapartists are about starting a
newspaper iu Paris, to bo called The National iliik.
Thotitlo of this, at least, is unpromising; for the
people of Paris (who consider themselves to be the
French nation) are not in the habit of holding fiwt
by any particular wish for more than a week, and
are oil and on with old loves and new in a remark?
ably irregular and promiscuous way. The delusion
of the present Bonapartes ia that the French cannot
exist without them, whereas ibe reid feeling may
rise to a pseudo enthusiasm, sink to a point of indif?
ference, and change to ? aenthneot of diagnat, and
all while the ex-Fniperor is packing his trunk.
The (London) Anglo-American, in speaking el the
aoaalag great Boston Peace Jubilee, say? : " It should
bo known that Mr. Gilmore comes accredited to
Europe by the President of the Halted btates." It
should be known, also.tthat Mr. Gilmore is not ac?
credited by the President, but by Gen. Orant In Ins
personal < upacity. As President he has no more to
do with ^recommending jubilees than with recoui
meuoiiig jfw.shaij.s. Abroad, the general notion?, in
regard to the duties and functions of officers of the
General Government are en miserably muddled that
it is well to have it distinctly understood that neither
Congress, the Constitution, nor the Chief F.xecutive
has anything to do with Mr. Gilmore'b couta ts.
bishop Whitehouse told hit Diocesan Convention,
In speaking of his troubles with Mr. Cheney of
Chicago, that "the irreligious tendencies of the
day " were partly owing to " the reprehensible con
duet of the preee in sustaining theui." This ia the
old story. Whenever thttf? is ney eort of bother or
trouble in the Church, its governors and director?
instead of looking for eoiutto in the Church itself,
invariably fall ?foul of the newspupei?. But rioU
in inectiug-UouacnwiU continue to bedietiussed by
the public journals. ,,-. well as riot? In more piofano
pla.-.-?. Ui-i,!. lin- llulit.p should UnoW M Well M
w, 'tin thal it i* th? ?no-i alh-d " religious " pceaowbkk
maiiib' diacueaea eoclasiaetkal wimmlet? I
THE RING'S DANGER.
_ r?Btln??4 from Mr?** ra??.
tatn qutv
?inU'jr of
?1 U? iii?
tlmt my ?(Mo? WM l*.-n?noUl ort only U Mr. Con no1 1/
bul to Hie whole commuai?*?- h I wah j tint i,y.
MU. TIMIKY.S Vll.tVS.
Samuel ?I. Tilden, Chairm.m of rTr**? Dernow
eratic Vjtmte CBBlial Committee atti m *M*mat4Mt at in*
n? w nrd< r nf tlilnn-a, wa? a**y*t*m\ to ye?t.r<!.,y fe? m KV?.
ls,rUT4.fTni;Titii,i:*4r. br lafurtiUI?? mm the ."Banner
In Milli li Controller **MMtMteJ lie! I?f4*n tndiiceil to ***?
pola! Andrew if. Green to ti,u Deputy O ni I roi It ?elf
and iii.'hi* lum with the fal] *m, win, of ti., ( imtrelicr,
Mr. TI len stated that on Thuisday lint!, Mr. CmtmV?M
t li rutii-li a common friend, r*>?ires?r*tl m drain- t.. Mt i,|ra
hihI ?li?t 11 Hs certain auhjYrta with Iiini. Mr. Tihlrt
n -jillcd li .it be could not mo him as (Minnel, or, Indeed,
?aaiiiananyrentihiiilUIroltHni to Mu, hut wini taja
uiiili-rf-'untl?;i^' lu- wtmid bo inojt happy to rw't Mr.
rmiiioHy at any tuno. Sir. Tilden** answer to the Con
Unlit r was ?tetatm? by lil? repr? ?--i.t tti\i? position mm
('li.iiriiutii nt Um D?mocratie hiato central ('i?ininitt<M>,
v.M? li ut u fut un- dato Might ileiiiand of him < inciul ?ve
tiin regarding Dio local gn\ eminent of this rlt '.
On Friil.iy Mr. Connolly talM on Mi. TIM n, at hU
lioiisi? in ('ramcrpy-iiiuari', and propound? d M
rio? to Mm, referring to t:io propriety nnd I
paying tim laborer?, on tho puiil!? work?, ai
i .riir-?' (or lum to pin .n,- wi'h r?-K*?rtl to lot, I gktetta
uu-nt. Mr. Tullian r? yarnel that lui fore bo cul 1 *mrw*M'
tiioso ,|,i4-8lii?ii.i it wnuld bo r.d ?mary for l,m (Mr. TU*
don) to Mt other pMMMi To\!n?, Mr. Connolly' i- m-ii ted,
iiini mi the ?uri edina; day (Saturday? it ine.tia ; wau u
HMNtai tB which Mr. Tilden, Mr. Connolly, iir. Ilav?y
meyer, Mr. Courtenay, Mr. Reach (ilii* lattas two lieln**
Mr. Couiu/iy'a Liwjoi?; ftrUfljatS?t tit Mr. Tiiilta't
),Dii-ii.
In the ?Mn*tMtmm witt h cn"iii I Mr. roni-nlly's conn?*?,
threw upon Mm the onus of statin.; whether ho vu,nit
come out boldly In the cause of h"n?s?v aii'l re/uno. anti
reveal the exact condition In Ms nf.l-e, MSSWtlajrSal
only hlinsi'ir but tho other hiaSI>H Di-ino, r.iln- olboe
holders, without regard fur whathuU *jao?.;J, ?t m to
be e*;pectoil lu the future.
Mr. Connolly Immediately, and without !? ivlnn* the
room, ?i.-nlfled hi.-, desire to do all that was |n*t ami
l.i iii n ai>ii\ and plac'-d hiuut-lf In Cn, hand*, of tims?
wkoM ioiiiiM'1 he had soukM, no threw ?low n n.o k?y?
of tho Clt.y Treasury aud a uimbcrof linpi.rt.iut tlocu
nie-it-, and expressed hi.?, hearty accept MW4 of th" nomi?
nation of Mr. On">n. proposed by Mr. Hivemiyr. Th?
appointment of Mr. tireen wa,*, at onen iir awn up hy Mr.
lit in li, who had an t?i>.-ii volume containing tho ?UtuM
I'?-Mo Mm ou tim .table, to wMeh ho role, red whue ho
wtwte?
Mr. Tilden said flint the nomination and appolntmcnl
of Mr. Oreen wen? mad,* with the hearty concurrence of
William II. Booth, President of the Citi/en,' CominltM?
of Investigation. Mr! Tilden ?rife?, it a?. Ms beliof thal
the appointment of Mr. Oreen cannot fail to have an ex?
cellent erect. He has been appointe?! for a k.'tm thal
will not expire until uno mouth after the I/'gi-lntun' ha?
assembled. This will give, that body ampio f.nio to ?vc?
upon the matter. There was no question but that
tho present state of the local government would
'je ma'Ie the subject of Investigation and ceusiiro at the
next Democratic Stale Convention. Mr. Tildiudid not
feel at Iib? rty to state the probablo course of the Conven?
tion, nnd he could not irfvo hlsopini? :i asto the probabil?
ity of* Tammany's reception or rejection at the uext Con?
vention. One thing was certain : the men who hid bee?
the cause of all this corrupt Inn aud demoralization would
have to go under. Reform was to rbaracterlM
tho future of tho D?mocratie party, and those whs
should oppose It would not be tolerated In Its ran*rrg. upo?
being n*ked whether If Sweeny, Tweed or nail should
favor a reform movement, their assistance VMM be ac?
cepted, Mr. Tilden said he could not refuse the aid of any
Instrument? that as.-l.stod In the accomplishment of any
i-nd which lie believed to be rood. Ile dil not bellet-?
that the Kin;?- could Interfile with tho progress of r*>
form, as they would not haro me pow,r. He I??*
lleved In the mass of the jieople ami of th?
public men. Notwithstanding the di-sonstons and the
ciriiiitiiru that h.nl demoralized the party, lie believed
there would be a union that would in-uio :, Deinoeratlo
victory' this Fall. Be did not affiliate with local fiction?,
bia duty btimgtmtMttmmet the Deuio racy. II. favored
anew charter that should restore the power to the peo?
ple, and wanted the cniiiiui-sioQ system a).oil-lied and
st If-.ouilu.?:lit aUtfWod to tho largest prat.licuulo ox
F.XriTF.Mr.NT IX TnF PUBLIC OFFICFS.
In the United States buiMiti'?, on Cliiinibirs
st., on Saturday, and in and around the Ni w Court IloiiM
ami the City Hall, thi' present ciisis in the City Govern?
ment was gi-tieially anil very cxdtciliy diMSMet| hy
every one except tho nfll luis in the t~S La>t ?s***_*tb*a**t
?;v.i?'..Jngs, who appenr*??! to +"1 t-K> nun li bSWikl reduT
have much to say about aiiytl?n*?. Orca? aii'l IglStaMi
surprise was expressed at the promptness with which
Jiulfre Banmril ifrauiod both the pruUmlnary and final
Injunction against the city ofiic,.ils ; und tha almmht unan
iiiious opinion wa? that our corrupt rulers had run tL*
u.'i^.'i.-vfu-'T-r.i'ive r...,..?, aua ^.-;i;.wlJ
soon to be achango non. Viou? tg right lu tho adminis?
tration of Municipal affairs.
N*. hell jt became kuowu that Oov. Hoffman wa? In tha
city, and that ?iii was boMlmf a ?'. 'Tit confereneo with
Sweeny at tho Claioiuloa Hotel, It ?ral at ?ince ?uj'tvose't
timt he waa here to consult with tho Tammany Sachent*
about the feasibility of calline; a special ne-mion of Mam
Leu-lalature to take action uimn the complicated aff.iira
of the city, an?l if po-siblo to restore its confidence aud
credit by providing against* future frauds. Ahmt 1 p. in.
Oov. Hoffman had a private meeting with Col. Jollne,
Mayor Hull's Chief Clerk. Soon after iu t4:nnlna
tion, the Colonel called for a large qiuutitjr
of manifold pauer and locked himself in his
private room, where it Is MMtJad that he mani?
folded a message from the Ooveruor, which will bt
made public tiniay.
Toward evening thrro was another rnmor to tbt
.?fleet that, if thire luid ever been uny mil .liilieulty t>e
Iween fweeny and iVced, if was n?w settled, and thal
thi-y, together with Hall, would net in harmony te -ocure
the overthrow of Connolly. Still another rumor wa? to
the effect that Connolly and ex-Sheriff O'Brien wer*?
forming a new ring, luto which they would euilt-iivor* M
draw the (lennans and the Young Duma-racy *?f show?
ing that the vouchers were btolen for the benefit of
Tweed and Hall, and that they, ami not the Coutroller,
aro responsible for the euoru.n.is am.?unt of tho iieople'l
money he has paid out.
THE IUvliI8Ttlli*IIIP?LtTTi:n FUOM MR. sCBIlCnTISO.
The Information glvou lu Tuu T.nutNU ou s nur.lay ra*
spoctlng the 4?ffer niiule by the Iii:.g of the Bl glstershit
to Alderman Scliliohting, created considerable oustern?
tlon and bittor feeling agaiust the leader?, and a ?-cut-ral
want of coufidi-nee in Sweeny ?fe Co. ?is j? .ilaly
nnajuiesto.1. The gean ii belief was that ei?ior of
the four would "sill out," as It waa termed, theil
lust friends to save themselves from destriiciion.
I n? ml-of Judge IMwaid J.- Sbitndlu?- ?aid that tha
eftlce of Register wit? |SMB|mJ to Sliandley by *!'wet ny,
last Fall, us a couiiveusatinu aud iiitlnceinent for bim ia
withdraw from the contest for Sheriff against Matthew T.
lii'umau. Tim inform.ittoa alluded to wa? pub?
lished on nuthorlry In which we pla.-* ?treat
reliance. Mr. Schllehting has written us tot
following letter, In which he explicitly denle?,
not that the offer was made to bim, but that H
was made by Mr. Sweeny, or that he has hail any con?
versation whatavrer with Mr. Sweeny. Tin? report bat
been innuucdmloiiiuce the receipt of Mr. Sohl ich tlnVa
:? i! r. ?ind the gri'iiii'ls for I ?bil \ iu*. n the nk-'-no* ol
any explicit denial Hutt tlie utTi-r whs ma?le bv soin?
liii'inli. r of th* Ring,a??' w ruliily tMtff stro?g ?ml wiftilJ
warrant tiK- publication ?*?? tiaer *tMt*M. Mi. SchlU-Wtel
Is, of eourao, cutlUeU to tuo uisol^im^ tw punUsl????*
lu low :
To the F.?itor of The Tribune.
Sir: l'eruut me to stn?, that tlv? rt>'>?>r.?*T who wrote
tin- arl k1? ?iituiltid " The Rlmr lnu Iguet.'' In tue Ta?ai ?8
of SatiiriUiy th.- 16th, ooiuuuitt-.l uu arror lu suiing thal
Mr t?weenv had offered me the Regtstershlp provuled I
would n*-e my iulliK-uri? to linlmx! (ho ("-ertrifttii, to i?wi
to iu? ir aliwKWiiiii toTmuJa.iujj. XuiMal mui with gt<a>4l
r.u?in7rTtT ***** I ha?^-^?-?*???*?S^?*',?**i
hw woy for over four weeli?, aud that be has never u_*
the offer you ?tate to me; nnd fiuther. In all my eot?
versatious which l have had with Mr.?*\**mty, I_**
hone?tly say that he ha? neter demaniled or to?ar*x*A_i
pledjre of tlia natur?* to which you allude. The **ir?__***
Leen got up by ?erne one to creal? a new ???*???????-??,?
of ^ih tt?aire ?uuair. lilly too niaitjr-andin JU Wf_i
?Uffrtf would tlidluwarafidu SK *?_*t?
este4iiieii palier, >^u wTnolillge. _._a
jgT-aaCtSlVBLm g m ***** a*e*Ee_ma**%
CONN?>?l?S TRIEWS "it?tOPOfl? A MASI
The friend? of Controller Connolly *<***}*'
witoS by aa ob^sura advextUeiuant to ???? U? ?? ******
Hall Park, la?i Sa4u?Uy **_*__* +*** *\*~?*
fur dafeudlhg that offldal fWm ?he eibat*** ???????J
Thef.wwhoa^mulod decided *^^??^?,
Woxd UoUl, where Mr. Daly wat oho-en *^*^\**'
l\"Li. Vi! e-?rcldeut. and ?, Kelly? ??aij? V*
following.1U?t P?***?**"?'*1 l,y tt>0 t**-?***"*
???alMf If eam**mli ____? ?ti, j***? _
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