The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-02-07

ioi momons look ~ tDe terriDle consequences
brought upon the country by those fierce, wbis-
key drinking democratic Jacobia clubs OF
Charleston and Baltimore, Of 1860, without
heartily wishing the complete and permanent
overthrow of these revolution-breeding ma
tional party conventions They are nothing
but clubs Of desperate gamblers and reckless
Jacobins. They have been to the nation at
large what the grogshop rowdies and savsges
OF Tammany aud Mozart Halls have been to this
city-a source Of terrorism. corruption, demo.
ralization and crime from the beginning.
With these opinions, strengthened from our
observations of thirty years of the vicious ele-
ments and consequences OF these national Pre-
sident making party conventions, we can have
no objection to the new system proposed
by Mr.. Draper. It is the HERArp's thunder
that be has been stealing,y but with this diff
ference: that while we would use it in behalf
of great man, capable man, and popular
and acceptable man, fresh from the people,
Mr. Draper and Company are employing this
stolen thunder in behalf of a man who stands
before the country a decided and deplorable
failure. But adopting the day designated by
this Lincoln association for these popular meet
ngs in his behalf why may not the friends Of
Gen. Grant turn it to good account We.
think theyshaye only to act upon the hint thrown
| out by Mr.. Draper in order to turn the tables
upon him, and upoa the Lincoln shoddy re-
publcans and the "shent-per-shent' democracy
THE Jon AND LOBBY Work BEFORE THE LEGS.
LATuRE.-If respectable members Of the Legs
lature will devote an hours pains to the inves-
tgation Of the subject, they will ascertain that
about all the swndling railway jobs and
schemes before them proceed from crew Of
spectators and legislative jobbers, whose trail
like that Of the serpent, is seen in the out
rageous Harlem bridge swindle, which was to
cost but two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, but which has already cost nearly four
hundred thousand, and is not yet half finished;
that ii has left its mark in the appointment, Of a
commission to destroy the value of Washing
Heights, by laying out thereon ten broad ave
nues, on which railway franchises ars to be
monopoized in advance-a commission that
has already cost forty thousand dollars, and
realized nothing but map of mischief and
that if this crew be allowed to proceed with
their railway jobs down town, through for in
stance. such narrow and extremely busy streets
as Nassau, from Spruce to Wall; up town
through all the avenues into tho county of
Westchester; across town-clipping danger
ously near the Park-from the East river
to the North river, and through nearly oil
the streets where railway can be laid with
out absolutely eucumbering the sidewalks,
they will be the recipients Of privileges which
will eclipse in extent aud enormity those of the
famous Gridiron Railway, aud the right of way
Of our citizens through their own streets and
suburban avenues will have been surrendered
to a rapacious set Of cormorants and scanlps
who only look out for their own pockets, and
care nothing for what a community may suffer-
What the Legislature should do is to examine
thoroughly into each Of these schemes, find out
their rottenness, lay bare the corruplons
which abound in all and every one Of them,
and then pat an iron heel upon the whole crew
of spectators and jobbers who have brought
them forward. The Legislature has already
commenced probing into the mysteries of one
of the early projects Of this class OF jobbcrs-
the Harlem bridge .swindle-the creature of
former legislative corruption. What IL should
do still further in the way Of reform is to
abolish the Washington Heights Commission. re-
woke its past doings, and save further, and thus
needless, expense to the public treasury, and at
the same time remove from the longing gaze Of
legislative brokers and jobbers the tempting
scheme Of cutting up into railway routes and
grocery, groggery and shauty lots a region that
has scarcely parallel for romantic beauty in
any part of the country.
MAKE HAY WuuE THE SuH SHrSEs-THE
GREAT EXPANSION or TIE CURRENcY-From this
tine through spring, summer, fall up to and
perhaps through the Presidential election, let
the people Of the United States prepare for the
livelicst and most prosperous times since the
war commenced. Let them understand that
the paper currency Of the nation is to be vastly
augmented within the period named The paper
currency now amounts to only about eight hun
dred and sixty-three millions of dollars, and
there are not less than six hundred millions
more to be thrown into the market TO influence
trade, to initiate prices, to increase rents, to in
crease the price OF every commodity-thngs to
wear, TO be eaten, to be consumed in every
shape Gold will 60 up, stocks will go up,
everything will 60 up, and tho consumers
wages should 90 up correspondingly. or these
new issues OF six hundred millions of dollars in
paper the five per cent interest-bearing Trea-
sury notes will afford four hundred millions,
and the new national bank currency will afford
the other two hundred millions Beside this,
the state banks in whose vaults great pro-
portion Of the bullion Of the country now lies,
may feel at liberty TO increase their circulation
to basis warranted by the amount of specie
they have on hand. This will still further aug
ment the floating paper capital OF the country;
so that before the present year is out the United
States may boast Of . currency Of some six