New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-13
DECIDEDLY RICH.


of fat things where they would be very
unlikely, in the absence of this guide board,
to look for it-namely, in the proceedings
of the Board of Aldermen Messrs. Tie
mann, Sturtevant IL Co. seem to have at
length awoke to the conclusion that the
Spells falling to the lot of our Municipal
guardians are not obtained without some
compensating abrasion of character, which
they would fain avoid. So Mr.. Tiemann
comes out with a complaint that the news
paper charges against their wOrships are
not sufficiently specific, and challenge to
them to give day and date for the various
robberies which have been perpetrated by
Aldermen on the City Exchequer. Ditto
says Stmtevant
Mr. Tiemann is forgetful. He has not
failed to see in our columns tables of the
discharges by Aldermen of culprits ar
rested for various deeds of ruffianism and
villainy and let loose on the community
without bail or trial. We have shown in
what fragrant cases this or that particular
Alderman has liberated his favorite bull
lies, and how many have been liberated by
each member of the Board. We have
shown where the Reformed Charter gives
Aldermen a daily stipend in lieu of 're-
freshments,' and how the City has been
swindled by restoration of the Tea Room
as soon as the stipend had been secured.
We have shown how the Aldermen have
repeatedly contrived to be fifteen or twen-
ty days canvassing the votes of the City,
meeting and sitting but half an hour or so,
then adourning, in order to spin out the
job as long as possible, and put so many
days pay into each Alderman's pocket.
(Ald. Sturtevant do you hear ;? We
have shown how Aldermen have paid ia
vorite hackmen many times the legal fare
for carrying their precious bodies home
from the Tea-Room to their several resi-
dences. (Ald. Tiemann did you consider
this charge a vague abstraction y We
have shown how the laws requiring
certain qualifications in the keepers ofgrOg-
shops have been grossly deied, and licenses
granted to the very men the laws intended
to deny them. We have shown how the
grog shops are nearly all kept in full blast
throughout the Sabbath, though the law
makes it the duty of the Aldermen's police
men to see that they are closed and keptso
And, beside hundreds of other fragrant vio-
lations of Law, we have shown that Ferry
Leases have been granted for $4,000 by
this Board when other responsible parties
offered 100000 for the same privileges,
and would have given good security. And
we have shown how a shameful Railroad
job was attempted to be put through by
Aid. Compton, President of the Board,
sigsing it as Acting Mayor on the n,a-
tense that the Mayor wa:s - WY Az
we have shown, and nobody protends to
deny it.
But the Aldermen insist we shall go fur
Their, and show how they have divided the
plumber of the City! Really, gentlemen
is not this little unreasonable! The gem
eral understanding is that the amount paid
for the Railroad job was $4,000; but how
twas shared, you could tell much better
than we can. We can say that we think
Aid. Compton earned an extra slice of it,
but we don't know that ne got the first far
thing. Of the probabilities of the case,
every one will judge for himself. SO of
the Ferry case above alluded to-we could
name the Alderman who earned an extra
share of the $4,000 which is said to have
put 1t through but perhaps he didn't
get cent-perhaps none of you got any.
Our opinion decidedly is that none of these
little jobs are done from mere abstract
love of stealing, but that in every case
there is niger in the fence If you'll
tell us how the swag was divided, we'll
publish it with the greatest pleasure; but
if you choose to keep dark, we can only
claim our Yankee privilege of guessing.
And we guess you are hard set, taken by
and large, whom the People will get rid of
as soon as they can--and jolly good rid
dance it will be.