The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-21

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THE FARCE or THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION
GREAT Fuss ABOUT rHE MAYoRAI.rY.-There are
now fairly In the field four candidates for the
Mayoraly. Mozart Hall presents Fernando
Wood; Tammany, at its Convention on Satur-
day, nominated Vim. T. Havemeyer; the second
division Of the Mozart army, composed OF the
non. contents of the late Convention have en-
dors-d Mr.. Havemeyer; the old line wings take
up J. Depeyster Ogden; and the peoples
Party" put forward Simeon Draper. The re-
publicans and Americans have yet to name
their candidates. 30 that we shall probably
have six names 10 nomination before the cleo
ton. 1t Ia probable, however, that the repub-
licans, at their Convention to night, may n0mi-
nate the Tammapy candidate, Mr.. Havemeyer,
on the ground that it is respectable name to
go before the people with
There will, therefore, be- a very lively time
over the election for Mayor; but it will, never
theless, be q complete farce, for, we repeat, It
is not of the slightest consequence to the pub
lie good who is chosen The Mayor goes into
Office with his hands tied; he Is the chief ma
gistrate Of the city in name only; the authority
which should be vested in him is distributed
among the subordinate officials of the different
departments, and they are the tools of the
lowest and most depraved classes In the com-
munity. There will probably be as many
candidates for Corporation Counsel as for
Mayor, though at present we believe there is
but one Samuel J. Tilden, the Tammany nomi-
nee-and this IL still more worthless office
1t is, in fact, only rich placer to be bestowed
upon some individual who is certain to dig
hundred thousand dollars worth of gold out of
it In one term. As a legal protection of the
interests of the city, it is humbug, because
the Corporation never pay the slightest atteu-
ton to his opinions, nor is the public purse
saved dollar in the year by his services.
If the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen
who do all the legislation, foster and encourage
corrupt jobs of every kind, increase the taxes,
and feather their own nests-were swept clean
Of the ignorant and INSCRIPTIONS politicians
who have heretofore filed them, we might ex-
pect some good from the charter election. But
there is no chance whatever of any such result;
tbese positions will do so this time also, and
we shall have the same old class of roughs, row.
dies, beggarly politicians and ignorant incom.
petentsadministering the government of the
city, and plundering the taxpayers. The citi-
zens of each ward might adopt plan, discard
ing partisan candidates imposed by grogshop
primaries aud corrupt conventions, and putting
forward decent and reputable men; but we
have no expectation of their doing so. The
municipal election, them is o farce.
TREAsONABLE APPEALS OF FRED. DOUGLASS
The black Douglass, safe in Canada or on his
way to England, utters through his newspaper
at Rochester diatribes of the most truculent Sc
dition. In another column of this days
HERALD we publish some extracts as specimens
of the style of Fred.'s paper. He endorses the
felony of John Brown as the most righteous
and holy Of good works, for which Brown will
wear martyrs crown. An accessory before
the fact, black Douglass thus makes himself
also an accessory after the fact He
not only repudiates the notion of John
Brown being mad, but compares him with the
historical heroes whose names are as household
words in the hearts and on the tongues of all
nations, and he proclaims the murder and trea-
son of that notorious brigand as the true and
only mode of dealing with slavery in the South.
In the meantime, Fred. himself is either laying
low in Canada or on the way to that England
whose aristocracy entertain no very nice or ex.
elusive ideas in regard to color. There Fred,
notwithstanding his sooty skin and woolly head,
and the cowardice he has evinced in shrinking
from the Harpers Ferry movement, will be
petted and feted, and made quite lion of,
while old Brown and his four or five Jail COM
panions will have to suffer the penalty of the
law for crimes to which they were urged or
encouraged by such recreant abolitionists as
Douglass and Phillips, and Beecher and Seward,
and Sumner, who have taken precious good
care to keep out of harms way themselves.
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THE RELIGION OF CHRIST AS PRACTIsEp BY
THE JEws.-Our Christian Pharisees, who de-
nounce Sunday funerals and innocent Sabbath
recreations, have, amongst their other antipa-
thies, terrible prejudice against the Jews.
1t would be well for them if they exempliied
in their conduct but 1.-THE of the Christian
qualities of the members of that persuasion.
Wherever great wealth is accumulated by
Jew, it is almost invariably to be observed
that the poor become largely the gamers by
his good fortune and this, too, without any dis
tinction of sect The Rothschild family are
the largest benefactors to the different public
charities in London, Paris and Vienna, and the
amount of private benevoence dispensed by
them far exceeds their public donations Baron
de Goldsmith, who died recently, left by his
will $4,000 to the Quakers of Great Britain,
and about 100000 to the poor of all denomi-
nations, besides immense sums to the Jewish