New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-15

crad1,atss have consumed $tSSS, seavine Gear
surplus of sone g. 500 most Of which sat interest,
and IL tacredy regarded az the foundation OF per-
manent fund for this most bene6cialpurpo Truly,
The v.iI,e of small things is here most strkingy il
mstrated. Among the works which greatly inter-
ssted me 10 q dictionary for the blind some 200
pspes of which have been printed here, with 400
pages vet to be done. II will no doubt be used by
all kindred institutions in the country. This has
press almost constantly employed in producing works
especially for the blind. No public charity more
certain TO command the sympathy Of every we'll
regulated mind than this.
The great Blockley Aims House, wherein some
1890 paupers are continually fed and cared for,
the scene of such atrOclOus cheating and stealing
while under the dominion Of the Democracy, that
the Board Of Guardians Of the Poor acquired the
significant name Of " Board of Buzzards." The
title was surprisingly appropriate Flocks OF IN
clean birds lowered around and fed upon ts enor
NOUS supplies Of money and provisions The steal
ings rivaed in magnitude the plunderng Of the ac-
complished thieves who riot 10 Office in yOnr own
city, In barefaced impudence, too they have been
not a Witt deficient. An investigation last week
disclosed the curious fact that $3.50 had been
charged to the purchase of himtes for the paupers
The Board Of Buzzards had purchased q, 600 Thin
bles. Some of these cost $42 per gross, aud were
siyered at that But the late election has cleared
the atmosphere Of this vulture crowd, as they all 90
out of Office in July. The fact is people are so
little accustomed to being robbed in this shameless
way that the thieves no matter to what party they
may belong, are turned out bodily as soon as their
guilt proven.
The Governor bestates to sign the new usury
law, and also another most important bill which
roots out and extermnates a countless swarm OF
bogus insurance companies, which Tor years past
have been plundering the community in every quar-
ter of the State. The papers hint at private and
nal anHu 70 ha hv a q
the newspapers are so well informed nowadays Oh
all matters of public private interest, there is too
much reason TO believe the allegation true. TheG
the Governor has already vetoed bills without num-
ber-some for good reason but others on the shall
lowest pretexts.
The curse Of too much legislation has lighted on
us in the shape of twelve city passenger railways.
These railways are authorized to occupy thirty of
our principal streets, some of them with double
tracks. Spectators have run the matter intO the
ground OverdOne the business, we hope, and VIII
fail to raise the S. O00 600 necessary to bud these
tracks 1t is already ascertained that dwelling
houses depreciate in value on every street wherein
a railway is laid Private carriages Immediately
abandon it, az the rails destroy the wheels, and
drays, carts and wagons alone are able to use the
street. Some of the charters thus hastily granted
possess extraordinary privileges overriding private
rights to mOnstrous extent This wholesale inva-
sion Of municipal soil is destined to work great
changes in our city-sOme for good, but much for
evil. Our position should be n warning to all other
cities into which this unnatural Juror may chance to
spread.
Mayor Vaux having been SO shamefully Ousted by
the people, the talk now is that the Administration
ought to provide something good for him. 1t was
so with Loring; and has not Vaux been equally
victimized3 What pervereion of power given for
honest purposes the thing implies Whom the PEG.
pie rcpudiate for unfathfuness, the Administration
rewards.
There will be hearty union of all the opposition
to Democracy in New.Jersey this Fall. The CO.
menta'ion is complete, unanimous and cordial. 1t
viii result in displacing one doughiace from the
Senate and filing his seat with one of very different
anteccdents.
A great depression prevails in the coal trade.
Prices are unsettled and nominal. Proposals for
furnishing twenty five hundred tuns TO the Aims
House were opened yesterday, when thirty-twO
bids for the contract appeared. The highest price
asked by the bidders was "a and the lowest So 10.
So much competition to secure the contract, and
such extremely low bids, argue an unusual stagna-
ton ia the business.