New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-01
rhe maror and sbe EYening: Post.

tiously swear in the Alderman and Assistant whotn
he knew the People of the Sixth Ward mad aiected
because the returns not perfectly IN form out
h. .or,d ,nnstsr his Watchmen and other officials
% h,,doeon them out Of the Council-reoms If they
attempted to take the seats to which the People
bal chosen them At the very moment that he
wa. thus disorganizng and arresting the City Gov
eminent on the pretence of reverence tor the
strict letter of the law, it now appears that ne
now ordering subordinate to take s., 900 of mon
eys he had collected for the City and apply it to
the Cleaning of Streets, not only without shadow
of authority, but in utter defiance of the most sa
cred and necessary principles Of Republican Gov
eminent. No money had been appropriated for this
purpose-no pretence Of authority exists for such
appropriation by the Mayor-he had just as good
right to order that the City Treasury be emptied
into the mid ale of the Ocean.
But the money went; and now the Wing Com
mon Council are on the track. ." Sirs, says the
e3-SupeIintendent of Streets 20 | spent it ali for
:. the public good here s my account balanced in
my way by means of the notes of Tom, Dick,
" and Harry, which have taken for City property
sold by me-" This does not satisfy the nve.tiga'
tors +; they say. We thought the Wig Credit
" System had been discarded by you Loco Foeos
"w we understand you to be opposed to mixing up
Z" the Government with private persons business:
&c it is now neatly six months since you had these
dealings and if they are not fictitious intended
to conceal dealcations, just collect the notes you
"have taken, and pay over what you owe the City.
" At any rate, Mr.. Mayor, there is no mistake as to
your liability. Fork over that $500 that you
"unlawfuly diverted from the Treasury But
the money does not come; and the Post may bus-
ter about "trick - and " falsehood ~ till dooms-
day without convincing any one that this was
fair business transaction. No paper knows better
than the Post the limitations of official power,
has keener regard for them when the offender is
not of its own party
T The Annual Course of Lectures before the
NEw-YoRK LYcEUM commences tomorrow even
ing with an introductory by Rev. DR.. S. H. Cox,
whose ability and eminence, both as scholar and
a speaker are known of all men in this region.
His Lecture will doubtless more than interest--it
will instruct and elevate his hearers. The reader
will remark among the Lecturers for this season
WoopBURY, Hon. RurUs CHoATE, Prof POTTER,
CHARLES EAMgs, and several of our most eminent
Clerical thinkers and scholars. The Lectures of
this Society have ever heretofore given decided and
general qualification to large audiences, and we
trust they will continue so to do. Gentlemen who
do not wish to pay twice as much as necessary will
see the propriety of purchasing tickets for the sea-
Il. -.
D The Evening Post Of yesterday day-ulterly una
bic to gainsay or deny single statement of the
Committee as put forth in the Extra Tribune of
Saturday-undertakes to defend the Mayor by mis-
stating the facts in the first instances by positive
untruth in the second, and then repeating as an
excuse for the utter disregard and violation OF the
law by the Mayor, the old story about the filthy
condition of the Streets &c.
The charge of the Committee, the charge of the
People Us. the Mayor is, that, without authority
nay, more, in direct, gross, palpable violation of
the laws which he has sworn to obey and faithfully
to execute he caused a subordinate officer TO pay
over $4,000 of the money in his hands (Which be-
onged to the City, and which he was bound by
law and his oath to pay into the hands OF the City
Treasurer, into the hands of the Mayor and that
he, the Mayor appropriated and paid away the
money as he thought best. We challenge the Post
to deny that such was the case--and that 1t was
an open and fragrant violation of the law.
The Post next says, in order to introduce the
old excuse of the Mayor for breaking the law, that
"from the l1th of May last until the 10th Of July
owing to disputed seats Of an Alderman and an
Assistant, the City Government was not organized.
If this is not msstatement, we know not what is,
and the only answer will give, in case there
should be any one stupid or ignorant enough to
credit it, is the decision of the Supreme Court on
3lst of May, and of the Court of Errors on the
I'd JULY that the Common Council ,caS duly
organised the llth of May.
The Post concludes with this very wise para
graph:
We Dee. cole eromine into the facts out Of
tih other charges of dfa'cat,on are nahutacu,ed FROM
sadcrs may form judgement OF what confidence can be
placed in the other charges
We care not Mr.. Post, whether yeu have " been
able to examine into the facts or not, bat we
challenge you to deny disprovc the truth of the
statements contained in the Extra Tribune of the
enormous defalca,ions and robberes, the gross yio
latiens Of Law and the Frauds of the whom the
Post has been not the least instrumental in adj
vancins to places of high public trust. The read
ers of the Post, to whom ne appeals in the last
sentence must be very thick headed if thsy anbe
led by such preyaricatons and false interences, to
believe that the People have not been plundered
and cheated by the Tom Lleyds, the Stevensons.
the Aherns. the Prices, and scores of others of
their stamp to the tune of thousands of thousands
&c dullnrx Ind Il. d ,.ot,l