The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-26

. MA IOy AOVN' 49,
beau and Louis Napoleon ~ rolled Into one
mac, and sheltered BY the same protecting
beaver.
The moral Of this contest may be easily IN
derstood. It's result IL practical e'xempilhcs-
ton of the power now welded by g Leading
Journalist, and . warning to Statesmen to
beware how they attempt to ignore it. Mr.
Seward was no ordinary victim, and his i.Ste
should be as beacon light to other officiaS
personages who may be welded to the old
prejudices respecting the press. 1t remains
now especially to be seem whether or not the
lengthy, lanky Hoesier politician who has
been brought forward through the irrepressi-
BILE conflict between the Senator and the editor
will profit by the moral lesson which the down
fall of Mr.. Seward affords him. The effect of
tn whole affair upon the public mind cannot
fail to be of the most salutary description.
TIE WASHINGTON HEIGHTS J0B-THE CANE
OF THE COMMISSIONERS BL0CKED.-The Washing
ton Heights Commissioners have been holding
meetings recently, here and there and every
where sometimes ct the top of the hill and
sometimes at the foot Their chief trouble for
the present is the disposal of the only salaried
Office connected with the commission-thst Of
Secretary. There is quarrel about this first
instalment of the spoils. One Commissioners
wants it for his relative another for his friend,
and they cannot agree about the proper person
to select, because two or three hundred dollars
are attached to the office.
This shows that the whole business Is q job--a
part of the extensive system of plumber organ
lied in the last Legislature, with Thurlow Weed
at the head on one side, and the Hon.
Dick Connolly at the head ON the
other. There is nothing can escape their
sagacity. The sanctity of private dwell
ings, the laws Of nature and Of public health,
are alike violated in the prosecution of their
schemes. So odious and so revolving had the
corruption of the last Legislature become, that
of the greatest Northern statesmen the country
has produced, and will probably soon result in
the defeat Of another. The fact of Thurlow
Weed, the right hand man of Seward, being the
leader Of the republican section of the spoi,s-
men in that Legislature, was quoted against
Seward at Chicago, and did him the most Sc
rious damage. Indeed, 1t is contended by those
who knoE all the ropes, that it was this alone
that killed him in the Convention; and the
fact that Hon. Dick Connolly, the principal
Douglas man In New York, led the democratic
freebooters on the other side ofthe two houses
of the Legislature, has had its effect on the for
tunes of "the Little Giant at Charleston,
and will probably finish him of at Baltimore.
Such is the effect of the political friendship of
these men, who plan the leveliing Of mountains
and the filing up Of seas as sources of plumber
for themselves and their accomplices.
Let any man visit Washington Heights, and
be will soon see the enormity Of the rsscality
that could deliberately mar one Of the most
beautiful spots In the country-one of the finest
suburbs In the world. All that is wanted to be
done for this magnificent rus In urbe Is to let 1t
alone. Let the property owners themselves,
who are the best judges Of their own interests,
lay out the grounds a. they think proper, and
as the increase Of population from time to time
may demand. But let them not be saddled
with o rulnous expense for cutting useless
roads through steep hills, which, so far
from benehsting the owners of the pro-
perty, or improving the locality, would
only destroy all its natural beauty, rem
der It unfit for suburban residences, and
reduce Its marketable value TO the lowest
figure. But the perpetrators ofthis barbarous
outrage on public taste, and on the rights OF
private property, viii soon be arrested in their
fragrant career. Eminent lawyers have been
consulted, who declare there Is good case for
an application for an Injunction from the
courts to suspend the job; and there can be
little doubt that the next Legislature will re-
peal the act, as 1t will probably repeal the
whole legislation of the most corrupt body
that ever disgraced the Capitol of the Empire