New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-12
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 70. 1854

kroeu "a Monroe Hs8; aplsce whsre tue ra'-
fans a. that region seemed aiwa!s to be 81 hone
Brtnn.n hsd been for years the Al lax OF Tam
r.apy in thai Ward. and having iOasht and o'l
through msny fierce primary election ne n1f'''
came in { his reward. The Irish Cathoi'c ru u
Interest SEED that he should be made Capta'a
Of Police: aud there was not moral courage
enough in the appointing power to resist the de-
mard. he was made Captain. laid dOwa tae
tc5dy.stick and took up the baton: aud from
that dsy to this the Police Of that Ward nave
been getting more and more inefficient. the!
mske no effort whatever 70 break up me yue
deus that sbouRd there, no effort 10 suppress
bawdy houses which are scattered all over the
Ward. no attempt TO close rum-shops % Sunday
or arrest those who sell without license. The
Ward is one of the most dangerous in the Cry
for life sud property: il is infested, day and
night, BY gangs of rufiians who set all Ia" az de-
fsrce: .counarels who are not only well known
to the Police. but most impudeutly familiar with
them. and from whose ranks more than one OF
the force has risen. They patronized the Cap
tain while he sold rum, always were his political
and soeisl friends, and, to borrow their phrase
clogy. Gap. amt a goiu to trouble the boys
"now." These are the wretches who beat
Brsdy to death the other night in the heart Of
the Ward, on a corner which has been for years
the rufisns' rendezvous; and people who live ia
that region cannot resist the belief that the Pc
lice Know almost to demonstration the very
men who did it, Is it not mOnstrOus to talk OF
the efficiency Of such Police of men who are
clearly chargesble, il not with sympathy with
these villains; at least with downright cowardice
Since the opening of the year more than
dozen murders have been perpetrated in this
City. Some of them could not have bee pre-
vented by the best Police; but at least halt would
never have taken place had the Police done their
duty by rumsellers and rOwdes. But with such
Captains SO Mr.. Brennan and some Others what
can be expected All tteir sympathles are with
the rum and ruifian interest; aud notwithstand-
ing this. we hear that Brennan even aspires to
the Office of Police Justice. Another Captain
was once presented with three or four hundred
blank rum licenses signed by the Alderman for
him to fill up with such names as he pleased.
And to that same Captain the people were t.
look for the suppression of intemperauce AMI
rcwdyism
We are well aware that the present Commits
soners have done much toward reforming the
Police, and we have no doubt they will continue
to do TO. But they can never hope to bring the
Department anywhere near the proper standard
until they put into the principal offices men who
not only haze no sympathy with prostitutes, rum
sellers and rufFions. but who will wage vigorous
snd unremiiting war upon them; who will carry
out the laws egsinst unlicensed and Sunday tip
ping shops, and drive DULLES and idle ysgabOnds
out of the City, suppress public begging, send to
the Juvenile Asylum the hOrdes Of young thieves
that now tbroDg TIE streets, and perform OF their
own free will the thousand and one acts of duty
now bsbiruslly neglected by Mr.. Matsell aud his
subordinates. When that is done it viii be early
enough to talk of gratuities Of clothing as re.
ward for increased efficiency.