The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-14

against Che other prisoners. aud discharged them
also.
In the Court of General Sessions yesterday
Patrick Ryan was convicted of passing a counter
felt five dollar bill on Henry D. Barto's Bank q
Johannesburg. N. Y. and was remAnded for sen
tence. The trial Of Mathew T. Sennett, fer steal
ing Sill from Jacob l.. Phillips. Of Catharine
street. was commenced, and will probably be con.
cluded to-day.
Surrogate Tucker has rejected the will of Peter
Darmen, both attesting witnesses to the instrument
being dead, and the signature of only ono Of them
being proven. Letters of administration on the
estate Of Epenetus Wood which had been granted
to Juliet Wood, claiming to be the widow OF de-
ceased. were yesterday revoked by the Surrogate,
it now appearing that she was never the wife Of
Mr.. Wood. The trial Of Thomas Keliys will was
continued.
Tho stock marke, was mora quiet yesterday bat tho
business transacted again large at small reduction
10 the prices Of most Of the shares which seemed to be
caused BY tho anxiety Of sellers to dispose Of portions Of
their surplus for cash. Cold was fraction down from
the quotations Of tho previous day The money market
eased up little account Of tho banks oaning freely
the interest bearing Treasury notes Government stocks
wore Arm atFesvicus Quotatious
The dswswarl tendeucy Or cold az sot exert much H.
aasncs ssssssaay. though efcheadsS ~Ss Ss generally
ee'a 9 arm a.. wss On TUESDAY Al the Produce N
osasss tho oc.sisxtoa q things scout tho sans. 30
far ~ prices wore concerned bu ors was less general
activity, though business fair Groceries quiet
bst without DECIDED ohasss Cotton scarcely soara
Petroleum continued very dull but was arn Fregots
we're quiet at about tuesday, rates
The UaParataeled orruptions Of the
Administration.
Every day brings us some new develop
ment Of the unparalleled corruptions Of the
present administration The frauds, peoula-
tons and embezzlements of the federal officials
are so fragrant that it requires no investigations
to bring them to light. Like dirt and death
they reveal themselves aud force themselves
upon the public attention With the exception
of President Lincoln who is personally honest
because he Is too imbecile to be otherwise, no
member Of the administration is free from the
faint Of guilt There is corruption in tho War
Department; there is gross corruption in the
Navy Department; the Treasury Dep artment
is corrupt from top to bottom; even the State
Department. which has very little to do with
jobs and contracts, hos not escaped oalumny
President Lincoln, who presdes over all these
departments, and who must be aware Of the
frauds perpetrated in them. cannot avoid the
responsibility Of the evils which he permits aud
takes no measures to correct.
The copperhead-or, as they cali themselves,
acknowledgements are making great deal
Of capital out Of the corruptions Of the admins
tration. Nobody can. blame them for 30 doing.
although most people believe that the copper
heads would be just as corrupt as the Niger
heads IL they only had the chance. Neverthe-
less. such an administration az this IL fair game
for even its worst opponents. When nearly
every contract made by the War Department is
q swindle, and witnesses are exiled by Seorets.
~ Stanton lest these swindIes should be ex-
posed when the Navy Department employs .
two and a-half per cent Morgan, aud refuses to
buy ships except through such agents. and
charters vessels at higher prices than are de-
handed for their purchase; while Secretary
Welles winks at these abuses instead Of reform
iug them; and when the Treasury Department
illegally employs persons like jay Cooke to
sell Uaited States bonds on percentage, and
allows its employees to pocket the bills they
are ordered to burn, and transforms the Gus
runners, while Secretary Chase busies himself
with laying pipe for the next Presidency
certainly the copperhead or democratic
journals are fully justified ia everything
they may choose to say against the administra-
ton, and Independent journals like the HERALD
cannot avoid joining them in the attack. OF
course such revelations are very unfortunate
for the republicans, especially upon the eve Of
q Presidential election; but robbery, like
murder. will out" aud the republicans must
make the best Of it.
In fact, they are trying very hard TO make
the best Of it, as an attentive perusal Of the
niggerhead or republican organs will show.
These organs appear to be little bewildered
as yet, and adopt two different lines OF defence
The Evening Post leads Of by declaring that
all the corruptions Of this administration are
merely the second crop of the bad seeds plant
Cd by Buohaaaa. The Tribune. which lacks
the brains and the impudencs OF the Post,
whiningly acknowledges that the repablicaa
underliugs are guilty Of Frauds but claims that
tho heads Of departments cannot be held 70.
spoHsIble, since Secretary Chase has been 10.
vestigatiug these frauds for moro than year
past. This claim put forward by poor
Greeley. himself o partner In . gun con-
tract, has been received with Q gene
raj Ruffaw. Greeley cites the Custom
House frauds as On example of Secretary
Chase's investigations; but when, pray, did
Marshal Murray receive Instructions from
Secretary Chase to Investigate Palmer's cases
No, no, Mr.. Greeley, that dodge Is too Aimsy to
deceive anybody. Secretary Chase wotld have
hushed up the Palmer business IL he could,
just as be has hushed up half dozen. other
cases OF corruption; and he would have con-
tinued to keep Palmer in ONCE, just ~ he
illegally continues to pay Mr. Jay Cooke for