The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-17
TIRE CITY Railway Le.- :. .m.,v
More Schemes 10 Piussder IT,

old broadway Railroad affair In q new shane,
1t was presented by Senator from an adioiu-
Ing county, a. two of the city Senators are
tucked away In George Laws breeches
pockets, another has q little thing Of his own
on hand, and the fourth not being "iet Inv.
properly. This blu gives the right Of way
from Seventy-ninth street to the Battery,
all In Broadway most valuabss
grant. It would be Impossible to compute,
even in IN approximate degree, the future
value of such franchise as this. Butthe com
pany intend TO pay for II. Certainly they viii.
They want to buy the Koh moor diamond for
sixpeDce, and have twenty years tsnte to pay
for II. In other words, they will give half q
million Of dollars for the franchise, payable in
yearly instalments Of twenty five thousand dol
lars. In consideration Of the money paid, the
road b to be free Of all other taxes, dues, sa-
posts or assessments. We do not hesitate 10
say that this franchise might be sold, to-mor-
row, for million Of dollars, cash down on the
nail; and In ten years from now It will be
worth five times as much.
The other Senate bill contemplates the build
ing Of a road all around the city water front
another most valuable franehise-for which we
do not see that any consideration is to be given.
One of the House bills is for road from the
Grand street ferry to Hoboken ferry, crossing
Broadway at Canal street. As thereare already
no less than three lines of railway in Grand
street, and two in Canal street, and as the
business in these great thoroughfares is daily In
creasing with the up town movement, this bill
ought not to pass, oE any consideration what
ever.
We presume that there will be combinations
formed to rush one or more of these bills
through the Legislature; and they may paas
There is no telling what the Legislature Of
1860, which will long be remembered in the
annals of public corruption and official venali-
ty, may do. The mere introduction of such
baIefaced schemes to rob the city treasury
shows most lamentable want of common
honesty among our Legislators, and one whioh
should be rebuked in the most severe manner
by their constituents. No one member who
has been implicated with any of the thievine
lobby combinations should ever be permitted
to hold an ONCE of public trust or honor during
his natural life. Bribery in State Legislatures
and Common Councils has become AZ common
a. lying among the members, and It IL high
time that some sharp, exemplary punishmeat
were hfictedupon the guilty parties.
The Cause Of the shssmaksrs' strakes n
New England. a.,
A Boston journal says the subject of the
strikes of the jsurneymen shoemskers in New
England Is not well understood at the South
and among members Of Congress, and it goes
on to charge the NEW YoRx HERALD with I" psr-
tisan misrepresentation" How the statements
Of the HERALD can partake Of a" partisan''
character must appear riddle to Its readers.
who know tAse1t never belonged, and does not
now belong, and never will belong, to any
party. 1t has ever maintained perfect indie
pendence of all political organizations and
will continue 10 do 30 to the end of the
chapter.
That the HERALD has misrepresented. the
cause Of the strikes in Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire our Boston contemporary has failed
to show. We attributed them to the falling or
in the Southern custom. Whatfacts and figures
does he bring forward'to contradict us! None.
He says that this agitation at the North is ono
of those periodical reactions which are common
to all Industrial and enterprisipg commu-
nities;" andIhe asserts, without proof and con-
trary to notorious facts published to the world.
that the trade with the South has increased.
but that "the increase caused by he growing
prosperity of the South has been less than the
diminished demand In the West, consequent
upon the hard times which have prevailed
there for the last two years; SO that the West
ern failures Of 1857 hare only now taken effect
against the shoe trade, and are the real cause
of the strikes; and His not the South but tho
West that is to blame
Now, It cannot fail to be observed By everv
reader that the shoemaker strikes did not com.
mence in 1857 or 1865, when every ether BUSH
ness suffered, nor even in 1859, but in 1860.
when business IN. all liz branches has com
pletely revived. The coincidence that Il 60
unfortunate for the republicans is, that tha
troubles began just after the Southern people
had adopted non, intercourse resolutions in
every State, and that new local manufacturers
were beginning to spring mp like nushrooms
at the other side Of Mason and Dixon's line, in
consequence Of John Browns raid into Virgil
mia, aided and assisted by New England sub
scriptions; in consequence Of the endorsement
Of this traitor and rebel throughout the
North, and In consequence Of the adop-
ton Of the atrocious sentiments of Helper'a
book by the principal republican mem
beFs Of Congress, and By nearly all the
leading men Of the party which controls
the majorities in nearly every Northern State>
Is 1t not notorious here in New York that The
antislavery houses Of the city have done No
Southern trade daring the winter, notwlth-
standing "the growing prosperity Of the