New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-04
THE POLICE DIFFICULTIES.


THE MAYOR SUCCUMBS AND DlseAND' A''
POLICE
,, .,o,.,,. %, o. coaching his Office yesterday
n;nn crdsred hi. men TO report themselves at tneir
-: @, ,;, Iouses and remain Tor further oiooi''
m 1891 e.. at the Essex Market Ponce Cou''
were withdrawn, leaving '"'
to serve processes. 81, su;,, o.,eraI
IT. - aaerward issued the following genera.
" 80. ~ which were forthwith prepared ana
W.. .be captains of police in the various WARDS;
sent '0'' orrer or rye S" jul, Gs hS4'H
General Order 7S' : p.iSil s' iO'N '1''
cssrs The Court of Appeals having decided IN favor
Of the constitutonay of the Act 10 estapnsn Mei o
a,;tsn Police District il Is our duty to yield TO thai
Sec;sion and to acknowledge the law as binding ana
oblie atory upon our conduct. &c
Wbsteyer NAV be he opinion OF the great body OF
he people as to the yHny sHS Of and
Reviewer repugnant this law is to our local PRIDE ana
INDEPENDENCE have no present resource ou' GULL
pliance and submission. ;..,;o,
60 far therefore as the existing police organzatoh
,Sa DIV ia concerned as formed pursuant 70 the laws
nossed anterior to 1857 now repealed, we nave no us
rreton but TO abandon and dissolve II at once auu
forthwith. haze no or,boritv
., non,;nne 4 another hour. You will therefore as,
semble your men and read to them TINS order, ana
re "a them from all patrol or other oihclai service.
Nbafhp n
emf with this decision aud whether it shall be estab-
Isbed pursuant to the ordinance of the Common Coun-
ci approved June 3 1857, Is matter OF future oe,e
n;naiion. shall announce the conclusions on that
suhiest at an early day.
Won will in the mean time, and until further orders,
remain in charge of the Sation.House and all the
Corporation property intrusted to your care ana re-
ouire the officers aud men under your command 10 de-
liver up TO your custody the Police property ID the
Fossesssr ~ order FERNANDO WOOD, Mayor.
As soon as this order could be received and read,
,tars and buttons piled and the streets were ih-
undated with policemen out of uniform. 1helr curses
Of Che Mayor were loud as well as deep. Cd
6-n him." said prominent member of the Depart
ment che been telling us for three or four weeks
snow, that he had private word from the Judges that
"tbey would decide against the law and that g the
away he s. kept US on his side.' Those VINO TWO
weeks ago were most determined to fight for him, and
who were obliged to pawn their watches to raise the
s. which wa. levied to pay Charley o Conor for
defpdin u.s." now that they find how they have been
tricked, are most exasperated against him. Fifteen
davis ago the City Hall was filed with uniforms Yes
terday afternoon not one waa worn in it.
meeting of the Captains called for . o'clock
Yesterday afternoon Its purpose was said to be to
the orders issued to them for the Fourth
of July. However, as their occupation is now gone,
everin the opinion of the Mayor himself, the folly OF
This WAS too apparent to allow the farce to be en-
acted. Still he has ordered them to protect the prop
erty of the city at the Saton-Houses AS they have
been dismissed the servce for some weeks past and
as the Mayor has had legal control over them since
the law went into effect this last order is as much
usupson of authority as that under which the heads
of the Metropolitan Police were broken.
The Mayor has become responsible for the costs IN
the suits against him. They will amount to about
$4,000.
1t was currently reported about the City Hall yes
terday that Monday caucus OF the Democra'ie
Councilmen would be held, in which preamble ane
resolution would be drafted in view of the decision
the Court of Appeals rendering the use OF the Station
Houses, the Geographic apparatus, and the office
the late Chief Of Police to the Metropolitan Ponce
Commissioners and that the same would be introduced
into the Board Of Councilman and adopted.