Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-08-20

The Cry CousCIL.-The editer of the Gazette
continues to assai the members of the City Council
week after week. for the purpose of making political
capital. 1t his desire was to do justice, he would
give the public history of the past twelve years
in which he would nothing exenuate nor set down
nught In malice. When the Wings attained the
ascendency in the Council, in 1850, there was
floating debt Of between twenty and thirty thousand
dollars, the finances were in terrible state of
confusion, the treasury frequently empty, and the
orders of the Council were often hawked about the
streets, and sold at a discount, by those who had
worked or rendered value to the city, and were
unable to wait for tho money duo them This state
of things was brought about by tho reckless and
improvdent course Of the locofocos who controlled
Tho Council, and yet were defended, end upheld by
the 1azette. The Wings instituted a more rigid
system Of business providingt hat the expenditures
should not greatly exceed the receipts, that work
should not DO done when there was no probability
Of raising the money TO pay for it, and by their
economy and the change of the mode of collecting
axes, there is now over $25 ,0G0 in the treasury
circumstance unparalleled in tho history of any city,
Of the size, in try, II not in the werld
This is fact which speaks volumes in favor of the
PARTY which have tho ascendency in the Council show
Ing that the members oan BIO trusted, that they
good andlnthlul Stewards treasury withS25 900 is
something to boast of, and the men by whose man
cement this has been brought about, should have
ho credit of it. The finances Of the city arc safe
ouch hands and the people should be slow 10
credit the charges of ineficiency preferred by the
Tools of party for selfish and sinister purposes. The
members of the Council will compare favorbly with
amy similar number of men that can be selected in
cur city, and the attacks on them may be attributed
0 envy desire to nslead and deceive in order
to secure a rarty victory. We ask the people to
! COX ut the facts and judge for themselves.
THH PoLICE.-Ihe editor Of the Gazotte ia unjustly
sovsre the police force Of this city, who being
without leader " that can direct control them
Tor the public good cannot be expected to accom-.
llish "a much as they otherwise would. The con
stables will favSrAbly compare, in every respect
rom Mr.. Hawkins down, with those Of amy other
ity, and they are in respeca bty and intelligence
ar superior to the force that wero employed pres
v ious to their selection. If rowdyism exists or
rime goes unpunisbed it is fault Of theirs, but
to fault Of him, whom the Gazette has styled:
a. mbece and intfisiebt,'' and who has frequently
p emitted men to go at large, without hearing or
tprimand when they have been arrested for viola
thug the laws. This is TACT that cannot DO gain
said, and yet tho "hoad of tho police" is again a
andidats for nomination, and heads Tho lisi pre-
scented by his party friends II he is SO fortunate
as to got majority Of the votes on Sa turday We
xpect that the editor Of the Gozette with all the
rrofessod lovers Of law and order in tho party who
lave condemned him time and again, W i'll conclude
thar he is not utterly Inefficient after ALL and
asst their votes for his reelection on the first Tues
day of September.