The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-11-16

TIE CHARrEE ELECrros-BosrLE IN THE Pc
LTrcAL CANVAS the charter election ap-
proaahes there Ia hustle In the different camps
Of the political factions. Some of them, we
candidates for the offices to be filled; but from
all We can learn there are about q thousand
people in the field who are auxioua 10 become
candidates FOE the thirty or forty places TO be-
given away Aldermen and the rest OF them.
In this state Of Affairs We shall have nice
mixing up of things; for il ID pretty evident that
there are 90 regular parties ia ex stence; they
are all divided into little personal cliquss, each
etriving after Its share OF The ten millions Of
spoils involved in tie coming election.
The last election left us witt three distinct FAC
tons; but now t.ess seem TO have been entirely
dsiDtegrated in view Of the plumber, and we my
look out for grand revolntioa among all tbs
political parties Of the metropolis. There is some
intimation that the Committee OF Fifteen, who
took charge OF the fusion movement, intend to
nominate q set OF candidates for Aldermen ald
other corporation Offices whom probably the
taxpayers in body would vote for, and let all
the grogshop nominees 70 their own way.
They might possibly be able to do tnis or the
taxpayers themselves might call meeting
and form ticket composed of respectable men.
But the difficulty would be to manage the votes
st the polls. The gro9shop politicians would
be potent there, and those who had the largest
share Of the spois to promise would be most
potent with the grogshop politicians Of all par.
ties
Now 1t happens that after the 4,h Of March
the republicans will have the Custom House
ard Post Office appointments in their hands,
and they will be therefore more than a match
for all their opponents. These appointments
will be promised iavshly to hundreds of the
governing classes, and We fear that the respect
able portion Of the republican party, who might
give Us few decent officials, viii not outweigh
The grogshop republicans-for this class exists
In that party, too, though of different brand
from that Of the democratic factons-their
moral, or rather immoral, standing being the
same. Everything indicates just now that the
charter election will be an exciting affair,
very curious and complicated affair, and will
be attended with more turmoil and fuss than
the Presidential election; for what Il the cleo
ton of President, to our grogshop politicians,
compared In importance with the spoils Of the
corporation, which they are all hungering after,
THE TICKET SwNDILya BusnEss-Am OF THE
CAIroRSA LEGISLATURE REQuREp.-The sys-
tenn Of ticket swindling on the California lines Of
steamships, which 30 repeatedly furnishes SUBJ
ject for comment In the newspapers and cases
for our courts, has grown TO be one of the
greatest grievances with which the metropolis
Is infested. There is hardly day that some
poor stranger Is not made the victim Of these
sharks, who hang around the railroad depos
and piers, known a. ticket agents for the diff
ferent lines Of steamships to California. They
are the objects Of frequent complaint before
the magistrates, and jet In very few instances
are they brought TO justice. The case 10 either
nhlised TO be dismissed through some legal
weakness, statutory inde6nitanesa or lawyers
adroitness, or else II Is compromised by re-
funding the money fraudulenty extorted At
all events the system appears TO flourish a. we'll
as ever. The victims continue to be as nu
merous, and the ticket swindlers a. bold as
they ever were.
A case of particular hardship recently oc-
CURED, In which, we are happy TO say, the per-
petrators were convicted. In June last gen
tsman OF Bedford, Mass, arrived in this city
by the steamer Plymouth Rock, and was met !
on the wharf by ticket agent whose name has |
been more than once brought into question In |
connection with ticket selling, who took him TO |
the Office Of certain friend, aud there sold |
him what purported to be second cabin tickets |
for California by the North Star for bis sister |
and her infant He paid sls7 for the tickets;
but hey proved TO be Storage tickets, worth |
only sl25. The uLforan woman was thus |
compelled TO endure the discomforts OF a st.er |
age passage with her little infant, and wa
cheated out Of s62 besides. The two partie,
copcerned In this s~indle were arrested. tried
and convic ed few dsys ago.
This Il only one case out OF many. The |
truth Ia, every new enterprise or new branch Of j
is made the subject OF s~indling
and cheating by q class Of siveIiurers who
take advantage Of the opportunities offered by |
the necessities or enthusi.sm Of the public to
make money out OF them. There IA only one
way by which THE ticket s~indIing business
can be efectually put y stop to, and that IL
by the Legislature Of California appointing .
or commissioners to reside 10
New York and supervise the emigration ant
sale Of tickets bere-some parties who may o.
applied 10 with confidence, and who would b.
responsible for their acdons II appears i'm
possible for our courts 10 reach the numerous
band Of fellows who represent themselves Is
AGENTS for the different lines, aud clerks OF |
agents, and 40 forth, aud in this guise succeed |
N evadiug the Law and swindling the public.
Boz IL there ~ss some conmssicner duly &C |