New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-08

structed to " fill up the ditch" Had the Fer
nando Woods of forty and fifty years ago been
as powerful in the State as they unhappily were
(and are) in the CITY, the latter would never
have become the Commercial Emporium OF the
New World Is not the lesson worth needing
Mr.. Wood devotes his Message mainly to
what he calls ntasiOns aud uSurpatlons of the
Citys chartered rights by the Legislature. There
is nothing singular in this. The City Of Bati-
more has been rescued from local msrnle and
anarchy by the Democratic Legislature of Mary
land precisely rs ours has been by Republican
Legislature. In either case, the measure was
energetic but necessary, and was approved by
tie best citizens of all parties. Our present
Police is too costly; We want to see It's expense
retrenched but as q Police, and we never had
one before. An ignorant and simple young gul
NAV now come TO our City on any regular pas
senger boat or train, and be sure OF watchiul
care and protection: she viii be entrapped into
TO den of depravity unless she chooses knowingly
70 90 there: whereas formerly she had scarcely
chance OF escape.-And tie last act OF legs
latiye 'usurpacn" was the creation OF the
Board of Charities and Correction, by which our
CITY is saving at least 100000 per annnm.
Had similar action been taken with regard to
the Cleaning of our Streets, our City would have
been saved at least 100000 per annum more,
and had far cleaner streets than have been
youchsafed u.s. But low the Mayor would have
shreked over Black Republican usurpation
The Governor Of our State-himself an hcnored
merchant Of this City who has served her IN the
Common Council az well az the Legislature-has
officially recommended the appointment of com
mission composed of our ablest and best citizens
of all parties, expressly to consider the whole
subject of Charter Reform, and to amend the
present Charter or make an entirely new one,
which il to be valid only in case Of aud alter its
approval by direct vote of the People hereof
at the ensuing State Election. Here is q tender
of abdicati0n on the part of the State OF all
practical interference in our Municipal concerns,
provided the People can be alow'd t. say
whether the Charter shall be amended or stand
as il is. Why does moi the Mayer close with
this proposition and endeavor to make the CON-
mission commanding, as effective, and az Tree
from partisanslip as possible Why but because
he don't want the anomalies he pirates OF cor-
rected--because he is pinine for grievance
because he wants to continue to be the patron
saint of Municipal abuse aud the martyr OF Re
publican usurpation.' But all will not serve
his turn. lie has launched his last annual far
rago of sedtion and disorganiZaton from the
Mayors Office Of our City.
No other man ever 40 reckcssly presumed on
the ignorance and stupidity Of his followers as
case the Fire Eaters stay out in the cold - Cal
" ifornia and her sister States the Pacific
=" will no doah set up an independent republic
is the iasthood of an ingram traitor. The, have
no idea of doing any such thing. And when he
speaks of this City as supporting by her CON
" tributions in revenue two-thirds the expenses
of the United States" he evidently presume'
the mass Of his readers to be hopelesey i'd.
otto az he is immeasuraby rascaIly. Our City
no more pays two-thirds Of Federal Revenue
than she consumes twO-thirds Of the IMPORTS al
this City were severed from the Interior the
Custom. House would be just over the line in the
State, and the revenue now collected here would
be collected there not at all to the advantage OF
this Cat presently emporium. Our present Gus
tom. House Officers might just as well assert that
they pay all the Revenue and threaten to secede
from the Union and take il all with them, as
the City think of enrichng herself by seeding
rom the State and the Union.
We would Ike to expose dozen or two
more of hs swindes, particularly that wherein
he seeks to blame the Republican party for
creating our Board of Education, which was in
existence by general consent years before the
Republican party ever existed. So of his pa
ra1e of the various Commissions as created by
Republican Legislatures, emitting the hrst OF
them-that which managed the introduction Of
CrotOn Water, which was created and filled by
the Democratic ascendcncy at Albany thirty
years age. Look, too, at his attempt to make
people believe that the Sl,792697 raised IN this
City for School purposes is all carried into the
Country and distributed there, when most of It
is devoted to the support of Schools in this City.
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