The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-15

the Comptroller in relation to the assessments for
the year 1882 which win be found in another part
of this days paper, is . document that deserves the
serious attention Of the citizens of New York, pre-
senting, as it does, picture Of taxation that may
well exotic inquiry into the cause Of extsavagsnt
and alarming waste Of public money. It appears
that the excess Of the expenditure, and above
the appropriations about 5000 OO0 which will have
to 60 into the taxation Of next year, and swell it
nearly to the enormous amount Of four millions of
dollars. Every year the taxation has been steadily
increasing, till now it has reached figure that may
well startle with horror the victims who are doomed
to pay it. The last feather breaks the camels
back; and if the people do not very speedily offer re-
sstance blu. continue to hold their backs patiently
for the burthens heaped upon Thorn, the day is not
distant when the fate Of the camel shall be theirs,
and they shall sink beneath the accumulated load.
Several Of the items which 60 to mako up the ac-
count unconstitutional, illegal and violation
of the charter. They are fraud upon the people,
ard the votes by which the money was abstra,ted
from the purses Of the tax payers are just as dis
honest as if the operation performed by pick
pocket For example, there is an item of $ll ,252
paid for Kossuth, still leaving 5000 due. This,
and the expenditure for the funeral Of Henry Clay,
and many similar items, are contrary to law, and
render the members Of the Common Council who
passed them liable to impeachment In view Of
such proigacy and iegality, if the District Ator-
ney was worth fig, he would impeach these gentle-
men; but the public have long since ceased to ex-
poet anything like performance Of his duty at the
hands Of that functonary.
The root Of the evil lies in the system Of primary
elections that has prevailed for several years-hrcd
bands Of rowdies securing the nominations for the
most worthless and corrupt men, who, no sooner
are they elected than they indemnify themselves
for the purchase Of their seats, by the preparation
of jobs for their friends, and their partners in con-
tracts and by the most reckless squandering away of
the public money for objects which clearly il
legal but out of which it is expected to manufac-
ture political capital for the next election. It is
notorious that many of the delegates to the nomi-
mating conventions get themselves elected in order
that they may be bought by the candidates for Office;
and it is we'll known that large sums of money
are paid to them at every election. The democra-
tic primary elections now in progress are not an
exception-thc rowdyism, bullyism, intimidation,
bribery and corruption, have been fully equal to
the same appliances In former years. How else, for
instance could it happen that such man as Robert
u
who has from $50, 900 to 1000 Of the money Of
the Irish people in his hands for the last four years.
and has never given them any account of it, and
probably never will-how else could he have OBJ
tanned the nomination ior Judge than by such in
fuences rs those we have enumerated!
Are the wing party any better Not an iota In
past years they have made the very worst nomina-
tions, and have employed the very same set Of Or
ganized rowdies that were used by the democratic
demagogues, to bear down all free expression Of
opinion at the ballot box, and to force upon the
people as candidates the men who bribed these
sanguinary bullics. Is there any prospect of an
improvement at the primary elections Of the wings
to be held to- morrow ? Not the slightest The
same Ium and rowdy influences will be at work-the
same riots will take place, and the same results
will follow. Hear what the Seward-Scott social
list organ of the rump Of the wings says on the
subject 1t is good authority for its own party -
The vote is to be by ballot under the supervision Of
tees who could If they would conane the suffrage
those justly entitled to exercise It, On the contrary
vote any and locofocos viii be as active efficient and
very probably numerous at the polls wings.
The men who ought to be most influential in these cleo
tions will not 60 the polls while the hired DULLES
end suckers who care for nothing beyond earning-we
,hGuld have said getns-tbeir promised stipend, will
The members Of our general committees were them.
selves chosen by the machinery whereWith seek to
sequence They know how to back and carry delega-
ton under the old system "Ye are
your father the devil and his works ye will don was
said Of 0den time and the philosophy holds good in 1852
In wards there will be old fashioned contests
rsdont OF riot and rascalty. We can't exhort
readers to near the polls where these being
enacted.
Such is the description, given beforehand by the
Tribune. Of the wing primary elections to be held
to- morrow, and, doubtless the organ of the party
knows what is going on within; it has been
behind the scenes, and is well acquainted with
all the machinery that is now In state Of pre-
partition for the conflict. Had q democratic
journal presented its readers with such a pro-
gramme Of the performances, 1t might well be
doubted; but coming as this does, from the lead
ing wing journal Of the city, there cannot be
shadow Of doubt that the drama, as set down,
will be enacted, and that the dramatis pason@ will
each perform the parts assigned them. The same
Iutians, who can sack theatre to order, get up a
row at a serenade. or condact torchlight process
sion-the same trained bands of fighting men, who
acted their parts at the democratic primary elec-
tions, viii be on hand tomorrow, and maintain the
professional reputation they have 80 well earned for
the last few years. The scoundrels who are able
and willing to pay most will be elected, and they in
turn will give the nominations to other scoundres,
who will pay them in proportion to the value of
the office, CT the amount Of pundor and peculation
that may be derived from it.
Such is tho system that has prevailed, both in
the wing and democratic parties, for series of
years, robbing the public treasury, and increasing
the taxation till the expenditure has now reached
the very acme Of corruption and profgacy, and
threatens bankruptcy and ruin to all classes, the
subversion Of public Justice, the overthrow Of law
and social order, and the insecurity Of life and pro-
perty.
hUNG NEWS FROM HALIrAx.-The Commercial
and Post, of last evening, published despatch
purporting to give the Nngara's news from Hall