New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-06

This patient community was promised that on
the 2Utb ut. the trial of Thomas Alb)ne Tor swim
ding the Bank OF Pennsylvania of all It's capital
deposits bills receivable and in fact everything but
the bricks and mortar Of its real estate. which il
happened he couldn't appropriate, should positively
come up in the Quarter Sessions. But public cor
fdence in the integrity of this prosecution is deci-
dedly giving way. week before the promised
day for trial. Mr.. Joseph ~ Bennett came into
Court. and BY his counsel. Mr.. Dropse m ide some
demands which nightly embarrassed the District
Attorney. Mr. Bennett is the owner Of 100 shares
OF stock worth just before the bank failed Sill
| GOO, and 10 also the holder Of $4,000 OF cir
suation. One would think that two grievances
of this amount would give hun some right 10 boil
ster up the lmpiDg justice of the day. and keep the
prosecution forward. Mr.. Dropse stated that b.
| had been employed 10 institute criminal proceed
| ings against AlliboDe and Newhal but that h. de-
sisted on learning that the District Attorney had
caused them 10 be indicted. Yet be had called on
that tuncIonary for the names of the witnesses IN
| BE- examined had had them promised Ia him. but
| now they were refused. He vas also refused per.
mission to examine the BILL and now demanded of
the Court As matter Of right that he should have
! access 10 the Indictment, without meaning IN any
!
latter repeated his refusal and Ia the astonisbInent
of every one present. Judge Ludlow sustained him
| in thus shutting out the pundered stakeholder from
| the information he sought.
| This efectual snothering up Of inquiry BODIED no
good for speedy trial Of the indictment. Accord
| ngly. when the promised day came, no trial was
| had The whole proceeding in the AllibOne case
| was limited to DR.. Dropse's declaring that the
subject must be reviewed BY the Supreme Court,
and the Judge replying that the motion might be
reduced TO writing. This closed the matter for
the day, since which, some two weeks, pro-
found silence has been maintained, with no present
prospect of ts being interrupted. Porter. the
Sunday School Union deiaulter was positively to
be tried the same day. But 10 his case another
shuttle was soon got up. The principal witness
was out of the State, and the prosecution was not
ready to proceed This Wal tue sum total OF ex-
PLANTATION given, except TINT the District Attorney
said he couldn't prevent witnesses remaining away.
| and as far as he was concerned he had done hs
duty. But on this point very different opinion
prevails in the public mind. Ii is believed that
Alhbone has secreted large sums of money. enough
| To make certain parties crook the pregnant hinges
| of the knee that thrift may follow fawning. Pub
| lie opinion in a case ike this, with so many
sinister facts before it, generally comes to the
true conclusion. Ii il now indignant at the
laws unreasonable delay. Suspicion attaches 10
all who favor it, This indictment was found IN
and can be had at any moment he Directors oil
the Bank impatient for trial. and ready 10 testify
in person and produce their books -plundered
stockholders and depositors urging an investigation
yet the wheels Of Justice seem so lar t. be blocked
by some agency as secret as u 4 extraordinary.
While this farce il going on between judges and
lawyers the assgnees of the Bank are playing
tragedy with the splendid granite folly erected IN
CHI, smut street under Alboncs administration.
They advertise il t. be sold 1T auction on the 10Th
inst II was two years in building, and cost S55o'-
COO In the center of the banking room Is an
enormous safe made Of chilled iron, from elaborate
" ornamented patterns. The doors are iron
throug hout; even the counters are oi the same
material II il probably the most thoroughly hire
proof building in the Union IL is possible the city
NAV purchase it. But il will psss away from the
Bank as not the smallest prospect VI resusciaton
exist.
Those iron pipes from Scotland are not yet done
with Mr. Owen Jones made speech on the sub
iect 10 his constituents last week, protesting Ia
deny that he has any share in the $4,000 profit
hich il is now pretty generally admitted some
bod, is going ~ make out al Interpretations lie pre-
ducrd handful Of documents which ne said would
prove his Innocence Of being one OF the benecisres,
but hs did not read one 81 them. W hle hoooilng
through TIL. part Of Il deploTable speech some
questions were pokcd at him by two or three per
sons which threw him into utter confusion, and made
one feel AZ b, med al his ptiable predicsment Nav,
M regards this iTOn-ppe question, only look al the
| facts Two companies ID Leh8h County, al Vat
| assuoua and Hoquendapua, have just completed
contracts for supplying pipes for the city OF Boston,
| amounting To 5000 tuns at $l9 80 per tun.
| What rebuke this preference Of American pro-
| ducts is to the Buchanan Administration.
| The newspapers of the coal and iron region,
| where both these minerals are growing side by
side waiting only the hand If labor IL shovel them
| into the furnace are spreading the facts Of this
uuustifable preference for foreign labor with good
! effect among the people Of that region. The issue
OF Protection for Home Industry - entering largely
into the canvass II is said that > 900 men sre now
| idle in the two Counties of Lehigh and Schuylhl,
| turned ot year ago by the whitening result OF
Free Trade A PottsYille paper insinuates that
the Hon. ". l.. DeWsTt had some interest IN the
| profit on the Scotch pipe contract. De voted
| blind for Lecompton. ard II Is supposed be must
| hive had something What he did not get bis
constituents will give him next month
| Railroad men, as We'll As the dabbers IN stocks
have been struck with the contTs.teTstlng between
the receipts secured BY the four great roads 70 the
| West. There are some considerations connected
with this question that convey al impressive lesson
increased from their appearing in new aud uncX-
pected quarter. The August receipts the four
great through railroads giving their lengths and the
| receipts of each per mile, art ~ follows:
Ha.<eo1.. IerrA Reeeiis. PT@E
| psnnsylrAzla...;.:......a5o s$:5 Sig,
| New -Yors Ceutrsl......H$ 5Slcs ~
| Sr.t!aor, AID Oe.o.....S" 57l,Ss 10
Those who AT. curious in statistics Of this kind,
or the large stockholders who ought 10 BE-, mag fol-
| low out the figures here gwen by comparing the