New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-27


sort" and drawing full pay for every Office.
1t will thus be seen that the twenty-five Com
missions ordered by the Board OF Aldermen VIII
furnish sxty-sx separate COmmissionerships' worm
at low average 1900 year each; twenty-five
cerkships worth the same; twenty-five surveying
Jobs worth about $500 each; twenty-five cases
Of room.rentng averaging from $500 to s75o
year; and twenty-five aristocrotic bill-posting
Jobs, worth about $50 or SIS each, taking the
general run. With the thirty or forty additional
Street-openng Commissions now only awaiting
the success Of the first batch to be brought FORTH
we arrive at a total Of trO hundred and s'rfy
siaseare places, with an average OF one thousand
dollars year each, now created, or rather in
process of being created, by the Board of Alder
men Let us follow the matter up aud SEQ in
whose hands, and for what purposes, this mighty
engine of patronage is about being placed
The Commissioners are to be appointed by the
Judge of the Supreme Court holding session at
the time tho various matters are brought up for
action by the Corporation Counsel or his Assist
ant; and " things have been so 6xed," they
say, that this Judge viii be no other than Mr..
George G.. Barnard, who will make. we doubt
not. discreet selection Of Commissioners.
These Commissioners are then to appoint their
own Clerks, hire their own rooms aud SO forth;
and ss the Assistant Corporation Counsel occa.
sionally has leisure not occupied by the business
of the City, it is quite likely, as has heretofore
been the practice, that be may receive liberal
share of the Clerkships attached to the Commis-
,ions which he so essentially helps to create, and
that be may also have the pleasant duty of receiv-
inc room rent for several of these Commissions and
making extra charges in every case for his SER
vices as Assistant Corporation Counsel.
Meantime there are Offices to be disposed Of,
nominations 70 be controlled this Fall, aud men,
bers of County Nominating Conventions are
merely poor human creatures at the best. In
these hard times, sineeure Offices worth 81 900
year are not to be despised; and with two hum
dred and sixty such places in market and open
to the highest bidder, miraculous changes may
very possibly be Effected in the views Of those
who are to nominate candidates for our local
November contest. Such being the facts of the bu-
siness, and the parties who must act 10 concert
before this patronage can be reached consisting
of the Aldermen, Councilmen, Mayor, Corpora
ton Counsel and Judge Barnard, it ia not sur
pri.ins 10 find that the following gentlemen are
prominent aspirauts for leading County and City
offices, and that their whole eIertions are now
being brought 10 bear on the Board Of Council.
men to procure an Endorsement Of the action al.
ready taken by the Aldermen;
For SkeriE-Supervisor VIM. NJ. Tweed Judge
BarDards political manager and heretofore even prior
TO his being called to the bar of tho n.Os fre-
ouenty appointed " Referees" in pending be-
| fore the Supreme Court, and which Judge Barnard
should himself have tried and decided
For Judge Of the Supreme Cosrt-Samuel Jones'
ESQ.,, Judge Barnsrds brothern-law and law partner
Al.o stsndng Referee In nearly all the important
and lucrative brought before Judge b. for decs
iou This arrangement tronble the Judge having
full confidence in his partner, hearing each from
that partners lips in tho confidence of private friend
ship aud therefore seldom If ever hesilaiug TO con-
| ' irm the Referees report"
! For CopHiy Cleyk--Henry W. Genet: President Of
the Board Of Aldermen and first sgner of the call for
the Special Meeting a, which these twenty-five Com
isoners were motioned into life by Alderman Farley
For Mqvor-PSRsASDo WooD, who must approve
and sign the proceedings Of the Aldermen and Council
men before Stree-openings can be put in shape to
be brought before Judge Barnard who s TO hold Court
| al precisely the right moment
These are the more important prizes TO be
captured by the judicious distribution of this
! patronage; but the scheme, We are told en-
braces all the County and City Offices to be filed
at the next election, including the nomination of
| oil members Of "the Ring" in both Boards of
! the Common Council, Justce Charles X. Smith
! for the Marine Court, and other codfdental can
didates for every legislative, Judicial, aud eIecu-
| tive Office 10 be disposed Of at next election.
! Ii will thus be seen that We are threatened
with a conspiracy Of no ordinary dimensions,
| certain 10 cost quarter Of q million dollars to
the City Treasury should il succeed and to
entail on us q race Of public officers not desira-
bic at any time or under any circumstances, but
| least Of all when gaining position by such agen-
ces as are hereinbefore set FORTH
As two-thirds Of the property holders on each
Of the streets covered by Farleys resolution
have not asked for these Commissions, but are
! opposed to them, the cost cannot be levied on
their property, but must be paid ont of the City
Treasury; while not q dollar of the money thus
expended will go to relieve the wants of any
other of the unemployed poor" save needy
journalists, willing to sell their papers for places,
and ward politicians having influence in County
Conventions. Dozens of streets are already
legally opened, and have been opened for years,
on which not dollars worth Of work has yet
been done. If the Aldermen had any wish to help
our laboring classes, they should order the Street
Commissioner to ut once commence work on
these, "gradng, curbing, guttering, tagging"