New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-19


every stage Of their enterprise-frst, By exhibiting
to him a false and forged letter, purporting to DO
hom Thomas o. Lsrkio, last L. S. Consul "
San Francisco, 70 induce him TO embark In the
venture; next by selling him half 40 old, unsea-
worthy vessel for SC, 600, when the actual cost oi
that half wss but S2 80; then by false or fraudu'
lently altered invoices or bills for almost every
thing put on board said vessel, whether as stores or
cargo. Such was the substance Of Mr MnvIHes
charges ard affidavit, wbereupon an Indictment
against Wood was found by a Grand Jury of this
City; and when the time had arrived for trying II,
it was qusshed by the Recorder on the dstloct and
OILY ground that it was barred By the statute o.
hmitations-tbrse years having elapsed 1T was
held) since the Indictment was found. That was
the precise ground on which our late Mayor avoided
d trial on Indictment charging him with the most
fagrant and complicated knavery and swindlng.
Could comment render the facts more expressive
But the civil suit of Mr. Marvine against Wood,
alleging all manner Of fraud and robbery, could not
be so disposed Of It WAS finally referred to three
eminent lawyers a arbitrators-John Cochrane,
poH in Congress, and Henry Hilton, last Fall
Democrats being two of them. These referees,
after due investigation, found Mr. Marvnes charges
against Wood fully sustained by the evidence, and
made an award accordingly That award tho
Court confrmed but up to the date Of our last
Advices on the subject, Wood had not paid it, but
was still fighting of the judgment by every means
n lis power We shall be glad to hear that he has
ince paid it, and 70 make the fact known to our
eaders.
Our inputatioDs on Mr.. Woods character rest
entirely Oh these legal proceedings and the docu-
ments connected Herewith. The hardest blows
We ever dealt Mr.. Wood were the successive publ
cations of Mr.. Maryine's affidavit, the unanimous
award Of the referees sustaining that affidavit
throughout and the indictment found against Mr..
Wood by City Grand Jury, which he escaped
trial upon only by pleading the Statute Of Limita-
tons as aforesaid. If we have charged him with
any crime, or applied to him Any epithet which
theee documents do not warrant then we were
WRONG in so doing and will retract such charge or
epithet if any friend of Mr.. Wood will point out
our error. But if We have said nothing worse Of him
than these legal documents fully warrant, then we
the premises, considering Mr.. Woods public sta
ton and higb-reachiDg ambition; and his late Veto
Message discharged at US from the Mayors Office
just as he was preparing to obey the Peoples man.
date by leaving it, was an act of cowardly abuse
and waLtOn scurrility.
AS to Mr. LaDing, we have few words to waste
on hin. He may be as bad man as Wood, but he
doesn't XII ow enough to be so dangerous. He sub
mitted to the Assembly a resolution for an inquiry
into the operations Of Kansas Aid Societies, &c, in
our State, which the organ Of bis party in Albany
declared TO be leveled at THE TRIBUNE. Such
being the fact, we have done what We could to
nerve him up to the point of actually requiring the
inve,tgation he pretended to ask for. Our belief
is that he never meant to have any such investiga
tiop but merely TO indulge his natural propensity
for defamation under the safe of resolution
of inquiry. AL we want is to compel him to press
bis resolution, and to make the Investigation which
it cOntemplates. Let him do that and he may
indulge against bis natural procvity for abuse to
his hearts content.