The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-06

THE SPoILsMEN AND THE LOBBY ASKING
TON uEIGIITs.--From reliable Information re-
ceived from Albany, we learn that the lobby and
the spoismen are secretly working, with all
their ingenuity, to have the names Of the first
named Commissioners erased from the bill before
the Legislature for laying out the avenues and
streets of Washington Heights, in the Twelfth
ward OF this city, and the names of others in-
serted in their stead, who do not own foot Of
ground 10 that region, aud who are spoilsmen,
who intend to make all-they can by the JOB.
We trust that the Legislature will not lend itself
to any such corrupt transaction, and, what is more,
that it will cut off the whole matter by rejecting
the bill IA toto, aud leaving the arrangement to
the taste and Judgment Of those who have the
deepest interest in regulating the streets and
avenues according to the laws of nature, the
laws of health and beauty, and therefore to
the hest advantage Of the whole community.
No commission is wanted-the owners Of the
land will act as commissioners for themselves.
They can meet in the course of the next two or
three months and agree upon satisfactory
plan which the Legislature will ratify as mat
ter Of course and thus all further trouble will be
prevented, the owners Of the land saved from
the inilcton of job, and this magnificent sub
urb bs preserved TO postsrity from the levelling
hands of the Goths and Vandals who would sacri-
fee the public health the natural beauty of this
island, every thing, to the alldevouring cupidity
in which they live, move, and have their being.
COMPROMISING WITH BANK DEFAULTERs-It is
somewhat strange that i'll one or two instances
where bank officials have absconded with the
property of the stockholders. and where rewards
were offered for their arrest, these rewards were
subsequently Withdrawn. This, we remember,
occurred in the case Of bank short time ago;
and 1t lie only yesterday that an advertisement
anpeared III onr columns revoklDg the offer OF
reward for tie apprehension of Oscar W. Field,
an a,ieped defuu.ter to the Atlantic Bank OF
b. ook'yn.
Wbat is the meaning Of this? II these par
ties really robbed the banks they ought to be
pursued. captured and brought to justice. If
they did not, where are they? WHAT has be-
come Of them? Are they to be found now be-
bind the counters of the concerns that formerly
employed them? Why do not the directors state
publicly that they were mistaken in their suspi-
cons, and they are low convinced that 1t was
some one else who stole the money? But if their
suspicious are true, this private arrangement
with the absconder is little better than COM
pounding a larceny, and 1t certainly looks very
Ike Offering premium to bank clerks to swim
die the stockholders. If a man can run away
with a hundred thousand dollars and his friends
can afterwards plead that the 'poor deviF' has
only twenty thousand unsquandered, which he is
willing to return, and thus hush up the matter
and withdraw the reward, it strikes us that
strong temptation is presented to weak, extrava-
CANT or speculative bank clerks to make haul
occasionally, and abscoud with the Stockholders
money. A little explanation on this matter is
desirable.