New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-10-25

shuddcr. On Saturday n rnTOr ran about the
streets that the law had laid its hand upon
the Erie barons, and their time had come
| at last. There was not much IN 1t; only
twopcnny Jersey suit, on bniabe charge !;
but what do YOU suppose were the feelings OF
Mr.. Fisk and Mr.. Gould when the officer came
into their room and told them they were
"wanted about that little conspiracy affair ~
Such pleasing latitude of judicial inquiry
seemed TO be opened by the nature of the
accusation, that there must have been
terrible Huttering in many parts of the city,
and il, doubtless, more or less uneasinesS Sill.
The popular appetite for justice, which has
not been cloyed of late, was wonderfully
tickled by the promise of an investigation or
sucb boundlcss proportions. To be sure, the
nr;soners when they appeared in the dock, had
only to plead to charge OF unlawful COM
binatiOn for the purpose OF running certain
express companies; but out OF this small matter
who knows what developments may come
Shall we have the original compact under
which Mr.. Fisk and Mr. Gould cOnspired as
Mariners in the general wholesale larceny bust
nessY Shall we be enlightened once moro up
on the terms of the bargain by which the
barons of Erie Ito quote Mr.. flsks languasel
sold themselves to the devil" and committed
Gan almighty robbery" of the funds OF the
railway company? Shall we have the famous
gold conspiracy again the conspiracy with Cor
bin the conspiracy with Butterfeldf the con-
spiracy by which foreign stockholders were
preyented from voting for directors the con-
spiracy by which the laws against watering
shares were evadedf the conspiracy by which
Fisk and Gould voted for themselves on the
strength of shares which they did not own
the conspiracy by which they deprived the
owners of the road of all control over their
own property the conspiracy by which they ran
down the stock of the Erie Railway from u to
25 and tho conspiracy which diverted the
earnings of the road from the payment OF
dividends to the support of theater, an opera
company, troupe of dancing girls, half
dozen fashionable actresses, and regiment OF
militia 2 The Fisk and Gould conspiracy is a
tremendous and far-reaching thing, which
jersey court will hardly be able to deal with.
OF course Mr.. Tweeds share in the unholy
alliance must be looked into. We must know
how the Legislature was corrupted, and how
the Erie bill was engineered. We must have
description, if possible, of the thrilling scene
when Gov. Hoffman was brought into the con-
claye of conspiratOrs and forced with dreadful
threats to swear, on stuffed ballot-boX,
obedience to their instructions. There is
another and still more interesting branch of
tho conspiracy, upon which Judge Barnard and
judge Cardozo may be asked to testify; and if
they only tell the truth and the whole truth,
how they will make our flesh creep! Let us
have it al. Turn on the lights. Show us the
interior of Box A at the Grand Opera House,
and Room 10 at the City Hall. The great con-
spiracy which began in a back-Oiiicc i'll Wall
st. has undermined the administration of the
whole City and State. From stealing rail
road it has gone on till it has seized the pub
lie treasury appropriated governor, and
bought up a number of courts. Two of the
who have long deiied arrest, are
now, so to speak, in quod. Can't the jersey
Judges hold them till the whole plot is brought
to lightP Perhaps, with a little judicious pres
sure, the prisoners, Gould and Fisk, might be
made to squeak"