The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-06


term Of Office, happily for the city, en- res on -
last day Of December. and the voters WIZ ne
called upon to elect his successor on the first
Tuesday of that month. II is hardly necessary
to remind our readers, after all we have written
and published concerning the management ofthe
Finance Department for the past four years. that
the incapacity of the Comptroller has been one of
the chief causes of all the abomnable frauds and
populations under which this misgoverned me-
tropois has been lab0ring, which have swelled
the taxation to an uncomfortable amount and
which, If repeated in the new incumbent will
most certainly result in perpetuation of these
grievances What kind Of man do we want for
Comptroller! One not only of unimpeachable
character for honesty himself but possessed OF
intelligence and 6rmness enough to compel
honesty in others; one who will not permit his
confidential clerk to bamboozle him and cheat
the public; who will not employ in his Office par
ties who know nothing Of keeping accounts, and
entrust the best interest of the citizens to nd-
viduals either so incompetent or so corrupt that
every thieving rascal in the community can help
himself out of the city treasury. On the con-
trary, what we need is some active man who
understands his business, whose honesty
can be relied upon, and whose vigilance
in the performance of his high trust may be a
guarantee against the successful practice of
knavery, which, in its Protean shapes, hovers
around the Finance Department There are such
men to be had, and we trust they will be put
forward, and one of them be supported by the
people, without regard to political parties or
afiHities 1t matters little whether the Comp
troller is for or against Lecompton; whether he
halls from Tammany Though that might be
blot on his escutcheon) or from republican con-
vention; but it matters much to every one in this
city, and to property owners especially, whether
he be honest or dishonest, capable or incompe-
tent. There is no political issue in the charter
election. 1t is simple question, shall we have
faithful servants in Office or dishonest ones
officials who, at the close Of their term, can rem
der good account Of their stewardship, or
officials who will have to stand at the bar to an
swer the indictments of Grand Jury?
The TEHUANrEPEC ROUTE OPEN.-We learn by
the telegraph that the steamship Quaker
City arrived at New Orleans to-day from Nina
titan, on the return from her first trip carrying
the mails and passengers for California by the
Tehuantepec Isthmus. She brings no news from
California, as the San Francisco steamer of the
goth did not stop at Ventosa on her way down
with the up steamer of the LIST instant from
Panama, which there is no reason to doubt, as
she reports the transit clear, news to the 9th of
October, from the Atlantic States, will reach
San Francisco on the same day with advices to
the goth by the way Of Aspinwall 1t is antici-
pated that this route will carry the mails from
New Orleans to San Francisco and rice ycrsa in
fourteen days, thus shortening the time Of con-
veying intelligence by one week. As soon as the
railroad connections through Tennessee and Mis-
sssippi are established, which will be in few
months. there will be continuous railroad
route from New York to New Orleans, over
which passengers and mails will be car
ried in four days between the two cities.
This will shorten the time of pas
sage from New York to San Fran
cisco to seventeen or eighteen days.
which now occupies twenty-five or twenty four
days. There are three mail routes now open TO
California; the overland route, the Tehuantepec
route, and that via the Isthmus Of Panama. To
day the steamship Washington sails to open the
fourth route, 10y way Of Nicaragua The active
operation Of all these routes will give an immense
stimulus to the growth of our Pacific empire.
and produce very beneficial result in business
affairs on this side Of the continent. What New
York must now have Is a Decline connection
with the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec, by way of
Florida and Cedar Keys, which shall cut down
still further the time Of transit from here TO the
Tchuantepec Isthmus.
CANDIDATES FOR COMMON Council. At THE