Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-07-08
New York Municipal Troubles.

had plenty of excitement. Quite disturb
ance arose between the metropolitan police
and the state authorities ON the one hand.
and the city police with mayor Wood to lead
the van, on the other. The war, at one time,
waxed quite warm, and furnished plenty of
business for the enterprising members of the
legal profession; but now, the 'smoke of bat
tie is clearing away, and all parties begin to
feel ashamed of the whole affair.
We clip from different papers, the follow
ing comments on the disturbance and the
getters up thereof:
There is disposition evinced in certain
quarters to exonerate the mayor from all
share in the riot and rebellion of the 10th
June, since he has produced batch of affida-
Wits showing his ignorance of the nature of
the coroners errand when he first called at
the city hall with the warrant of arrest issu-
cd by Judge Hoffman. He has got nineteen
policemen, door-keeper and messenger, and,
we doubt not, could get as many more, to
swear that he was not aware, until Perry had
left the building, that he had come to serve
process Consequently he would have us
acknowledge that he has been guilty neither
of contempt nor of rebellion. Many of the
public have no difficulty, we dare say, in
striking balance between the coroners oath
and those of the mayor and his men, and the
partisans of the latter rest in imaginary
triumph upon the overwhelming weight Of
the avalanche Of testimony with which his
honor has overwhelmed the courts
We are greatly scandalized, as no doubt
are all good citizens, by the perjury, by which
on one side or the other, these proceedings
have been marked. Whether Wood or Per-
ry has sworn falsely-and one or the other has
assuredly done so-the disgrace to the city
is equally great.-NeO York Times.
Mayor Wood has, from the force of cir
cumstances, been placed at the head and
front of cause in which our very liberties,
our rights and our interests are all included.
Those rights, those liberties, the people are
now contending for, and are determined they
shall not be wrested from them; and mayor
Wood, while he continues to lead on and sus-
tain, doing battle for and contending as man
fully as he has thus far, he will receive the
appreciation of the people and their support,
for in doing this they but support great
and acknowledged principle.-N y Daily
NewS.
In this contest mayor Wood is not fight
ing the battle for himself and the city alone;
rightly understood his cause is that of the
whole people, Yonkers Herald.
The republican papers speak of mayor
Woods succumbing to the law" &C., as if
he had actually resisted legal arrest This
is intended to deceive. The mayor was
ready to respond to any legal process legally
served, but as he did not recognize the AL
bany police, he could not with consistency
have treated them or their demonstration
otherwise than he did. This is conceded by
the more candid of the opposition. The
Commercial AdOertiser, a strong conserva-
tive and claw and order" paper says
We are far from approving all that the may
or has done in connection with the difficulties
arising out of the late party legislation. But
we scarcely see how he could have acted diff
rcntly."-Alany Argus.
THE OTHER SDE.-We clip the two fol-
lowing items from the Saginaw Enterprise,
a paper published in the midst of the " star
walton district" These articles give truth
full statement of the condition of the people
in Iowa. Having lived in that state for
eighteen months, we can testify that the
plains thereof are naked and treeless, and to
us, desolate. Moreover, during our sojourn
there, the price of all kinds of provisions,
merchandise, &C., were much higher than
they are here even at the present time.
Scarcity an IoaOa.-Speaking upon this
subject, the Kanzas Herald Of Freedom, of
June /, says:
A gentleman directly from southern Iowa
informs us that there is actual suffering in
that country because of the great scarcity
of provisions. Last season there was but
one third of crop Of wheat and corn; and
this scarcity together with the backward
spring, has placed them at starvation prices
at the present time. Our informant paid four
dollars a bushel for corn, and found it exceed
ingly difficult to get it at that price. Cattle
are dying of starvation, and the state of af-
fairs is truly disheartening.
Provisions will bring high prices next sea-
son as well as this; therefore our Kansas
farmers should see to it that they make our
fruitful soil give forth its productions in abnn