New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-06
A FEW FACTS OF IMPORTANCE.

On Friday morning, after the confirmation by the
public journals of the decision of the Court Of Ap'
peals affirming the judgment OF the Supreme Court
in favor Of the constutionalty Of the act establishing
METROPOLITAN Police Fernando Wood issued an order
TO the Captains of the Police, who had sustained him
in his rebellion to disband the under their con-
troll. The order though il stated that it was their
"duty to yield to that decision and to acknowledge
"the law rs binding and obligatory upon their con-
"duct" was yet iLfamatory in its character-speak-
ing Of the act as "tyrarny and iDjutice depnUng
"them Of the right Of selfgovermLent, and intimat-
rg that naynicipal day and night watch might yet
be established under the authority of the Common
Council. 1t was ingeniously framed to present an
osensible acquiescence in the law, and yet preserve
in the minds Of those who had pinned their faith to
his skiIts the feeling of rebellion and riot that had
been engendered therein by the example of q man
who occrpied the chair Of the Mayoray Of this city,
and to keep alive the hope that soon they would be
relieved Of police obnoxious, because promised TO
be the means Of subyertiDg the domination of rum,
rowdyism and ,asca.y in the City Of New-York, and
of enforcing an acquiescence in the laws by those
known in the past under the protection Of men in
high places to be utterly lawless The concluding
paragraph of the Mayors order taken in connection
with subsequent events, is Of small import. II is
as follows:
"YouAil in the mean time and until further or.
cers remain in charge of the Station House and all
the Corporation property intrusted to your care, and
require the officers aud men under your command to
deliver up to your custody the Police property in their
possession
Previous to the order Of the Mayor being read by
man Clancy called upon the Commissioners of the
WI ar.Ittn Dc,
the Wood oice about to be disbanded to act as special
patrolnen in the Sixth Ward, under the direction of
himself and Capt. Bowling, without pay to preserve
the peace Of the Ward
The Commissioners believing that they were not re
dued to the necessity Of accepting the services of men
WHO had aided in rebellion against the law to pre-
serve the law until at least the civil and, in the
exgeLcy, the military force OF the city Should prove
Intellectual, declined the offer, and Alderman Clancy
announced the fact 10 the men, when they were
dis banded
In the mean time il was whispered about the Ward,
AID especially about the rooms OF the Metropolitan
Police Commissioners in White street, by class of
individuals well known for their supposed superior
facilities for obtaining intelligence, and the urgent
readiness Of their advice founded upon the ntelg
they obtared that the Ward could not be kept quiet
and orderly without the aid of Capt. Dowlug if any
dared to suggest that the law carried weight with itself
ard was not dependent for its execution upon partc-
ular man, they confidently answered with a
"Me see" The Fourth Of July will tell the story
:" Mark my word, but therell be riot in the Sixth
Ward" These predictions were confined to no par.
ticuar political party, but in every instance so far as
our reporter was able to learn, they proceeded from
men WI have been known for years as professional
politicians.
For many weeks, dissatisfaction with the new Police
ias bad been tomenang among the ignorant and de.
PRAYED, inei.ed by the sdo,s of the Wood Police. VIII,
nave e.t 20 neaas a:rseo within their power "a cain