New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-21


rowdy ylsines of sll kinds, including murders and
attempts at murder, it seams at the present time
to be worse than ever We have bad TO record within
two or three days one uuprovoked murier tf man
while in the street with bis wife, three uuprovoked
attempts 70 murder as many men by stabbing them
in the street while together one of them accom-
panied by bis wife, and an organized, brgand like
assault with deadly weapons by numer-
Gus gspg Of ruffisns On unofending COM
pany Of Germans. That such crimes are rife,
is due in considerable degree to the character Of
Mayor Wood, who himself is out of prison only
because the statute Of Limitations saved him from
Sing Sing. 1t is natural that every thief forger,
rufian, murderer, pimp AMI strumpet should be in
favor of Wood as Mayor; and it is nasuIal that
Wood should reciprocate the services Of the de-
bauched ard criminal by keeping the city govern.
mept at the lowest point Of wrong and shame pos
sbe this side of civil dissolution, AID the hemp Of
Vigilance Committees. When rufhans stab and
kill men accompanied By their wives in broad gas
light, ,uch murders or at 3npts at murder being
inctsd simply by the love OF shedding blood, it is
question how soon organized extra Judicial citizen
power may come to the rescue and make examples
fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell of the vii
lans.
At this time, when a Charter Election is near at
hsnd, it seems rank truism to ray that every de.
cent man should lend his efforts to secure the
election of Mayor not qualified for Sing Sing, but
respectable, worthy and able. But notwithstanding,
we find in Tue Times, in an article on the Mayor
atty, the following:
ave have received great many communications
vehemenfly assaling the character and conduct Of
Mayor Wood, and denouncing the party which has
and we shall not waste the time Of readers by ask
ing them to peruse these diatbes The people Of this
city have had every possible opportunity to make the
personal and Cficisl acquaintance OF his Honor the
Mayor, and need 10 enlightenment on the subiectfrom
"a st this late day. II they Ike him, they will proba-
bly, reeiect him II not nr, This is q Iree country
and they certainly entitled to their preferences
So it seems that the desire of some honest CORE
spoDdents of The Times to supply the grave oms
,;ons Of the Editor, apprsing each and every
voter of the true character Of Fernando Wood, are
"diatribes" 1t is not, then, the duty of an editor
to fesk REFORM and tue exposure Of the real charac
ter Of Wood, in view Of the ca'1mtOus slts Of az.
fsrs, when corruption has eaten into The core Of
public morals, that the veriest chain-gsng dictate
the choice Of municipal officers and seek the re-
election Of Wood as chief magistrate Of the city
The people of this City have not had every posi-
bic opportunity to make the pergona and official
acquaintarce Of his Honor the Mayor. There are
Thousands who would sco,n to make the persorsl
scqusintance of common swindler; there are
thousands who would avoid even official acqpant
a1ce with such man. And in regard to a know.
ledge of the swindlng business transactions of Fer
IandO Wood, if that be the meaning Of the sipgerly
elegance Of The Times, how are the public to know
ITEM i On the eve of an election quirers after the
tiuth look in vain in the columns of the independent
journals for enlightenment II is the business Of
an editor TO scan the characters of men candidat's
for high Office-to recommend the good aud con-
deDn the bad. Wood is bad man, who, though
saved from Sing Sing by the statute Of limltltons,
still freshly repeats bis crimes by endeavoring
through the Courts, to prevent their victim, from
collecting from his estste the sums out of which he
has swndled them. The Times knows all this.
The facts are iudisputabe. But to echo then until
they reach every ear, aud awaken the attention OF
those who "do not me idle with politics" and yet
vote, is diatribe
The Times, moreover, informs its readers that
Mayor Wood "has shown executive ab'itJ and
"uubounded audacity-quaGties which go furthe;
"to make man popular in this City than the most
"apgelic virtues of less startling and impressive
"siamp." Now, the executive ability Of chief
msQistrate is shown in the economy, morality ac-
tvity and reputation which he infuses into the de
partment over which he presdes in all these qual'
ities, Mayor Wood is wanting In audacity-she
audaaity of the sneak and ruffian coalesced-we
grsnt bis power If the people Of this City prefer
,huffliDg, swindlDg and brazen-faced contempt OF
the main reasons for the institution Of civil power
protection to property and Efe-so angelic virtues,
that is an overwhelming reason why the guides ot
public opinion should iumine their Understandings.
Good government is simply impossible with per-
sopa and political kDave for Msyor; riots, murders,
the tsturnsla of vilsny, must grow under such au-
therity and if the press DO not produce reform by
exposing the wrong and teaching the right it is slm-
ply recreant to its duty.
Among the humors of the psnlc, we must cer-