The New York herald., 1869-03-23

a. It were. By the crack Of whip or the snap
Of finger. It has poor Hon'mn in its
brooches pocket, and although the repubIi-
cans have . working majority In each branch
Of the Legislature, yet 1t finds no diff
Guilty In buying up all the votes 1t re-
quires to carry out its knavish and cor
rupt operations. Some republicans sell them
selves cheap, others for more than they are
worth. This ring will have its sway with
the Educational fund, the Excise bill, the city
railroad plundering schemes, the Tax Levy, the
Metropolitan police and all other matters in
which there is money. At the moment it sees
the Almighty Dollar it stops not at the means,
however venal and vicious, necessary to clutch
it. II corrupts the weak, demoralizes tho
strong, tampers with the wary, fatters the
vain and humbugs The ambitious. II Is q great
moral leprosy that has become a nuisance too
intolerable to be borne. Its touch contami-
mates and its breath is death. With its power
to whip in, to bribe, cajole and humbug, it has
the Legislature under its knuckles, and .
plant tool to execute its bidding in the person
of the Chief Magistrate of the State To veto.
to sign, to pass jobbing plundering scheme.
its influence is irresistible. Therefore the good
people Of the Empire State need not be aston
ished at the decentralization which prevails at
Albany, although there is republican majority
in both branches of the Legislature and demo-
orat in the Executive chair. The venality Of
the ring conspirators at Albany, with rotten
old Tammany at their head, is scandal and
disgrace to the whole country.
WALL STREET DoNas three little
jokers of Wall street are New York Central,
Erie and Pacific Mail. Within the past three
months Central has gone up forty per cent and
Pacific declined forty per cent. Erie has been
an invalid ever since the great cliques played
shuttlecock and battledoor with it last fan.
Sides were taken yesterday for a grand fight
on Central, the disappointed Albany lobbyists
of last winter being determined to punish the
''old man" for ''going back on them"
A Coop PLACE FOR Poor PEopLE.A
The Toronto Telegraph speaks of place In
Canada called Seaforth, where -four is only
four dollars barrel The trouble for poor
man in that place would be after he had
earned his one dollar to see fourth-like
Patrick, with his sixpence in Ireland,
potatoes can be bought for sixpince Q
bushel in the ould country, but the divil ov
it is to git the sixpince."
''OUR MINISTER'S ABROAD. The Western
papers, with an eye to some foreign position
for each of their editors, are looking into tho
conduct of our ministers abroad. II would be
well at the same time to look after the conduct
Of our ministers at home, especially in Chicago
''FsaHTING IT Our OK THIS LINE. The
New Orleans Crescent of the 18th instant
accuses President Grant Of all kinds of un-
steadiness. changeabiity, vacillation and, in
the same breath, accords him the merit OF
Elasticity. A man who may be moulded is
not unlikely to be skullptured:
DIsENTANGLEMENT.-T Lynchburg VSr-
ginian says the respectable and magnanimous
element of the republican party is fast disen-
tangling itself from the hot, selfish, ruinous,
black radicalism, and the effort recently inau-
gurated in Virginia against Wells and the pro-
scrptionists is the forerunner Of like move
m ant throu ohout tho IIniou