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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
A DLSGRACEFUL ACT

We respectfully submit that State Conven-
tons had better stop passing resolutions indoors
ing the Civil Service policy of the Administra-
ton, or the Administration had better stop per-
hitting it's officers to write letters like this:
YoRTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW, YORK;
ROCHESTER, July 81, 1871.
NICHOLAS LEONARD. Esq, Deputy u s. Marshal, Albany
KeW- York.
DEAR SIR. Political considerations render It neces
sary that should vacate your appointment as Deputy
Marshal do 30 on account Of personal consdera-
tons and assure you that official relations have al
ways been Of the most pleasant and satisfactory char
acter Yours respectfully.
IF. QUMBY, U. 8. Marshal.
Whatever the State Conventions may do, we
do not indorse that sort Of Civil Service Re-
form. This Nicholas Leonard is represented
as thoroughly good executive offcer-indeed
the above letter implies as much-a sterling
Republican, and man of unsullied record, but
not much of a Ward politician. He has also
it seems, the misfortune to be a friend of Gov.
FentOn.
We wait, with some anxiety, to see whether
the President will permit his old classmate
and friend, Gen. Quinby, thus to outrage the
first principles of the Civil Service Reform to
which we have rejoced to believe the Admin
istration committed. We do not care a straw
whether the removed man be q Fenton
man, or Conkling man, OF Quinby man /,
we should probably think better of him if
he were not anybody's man. But he was
confessedly good officer, and was avOwedly
| removed without cause, under an Administra-
ton protesting to regard this as political
practice utterly intolerable. Let us stop our
Convention boosting or reform our practice.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

The World exultingly cites certain British
journals in commentator Of Mayor Halls
course in forbidding the arrangements parade
of the 18th ult., and thus comments:
1T had not entered into the mind OF the writer's,
living In land OF caste and privilege, to conceive that
in country professedy free mob of decent men could
be found esteem the right Of one set OF citizens to In
suit another OF citizens sacred and fundamental
right worth asserting at the risk OF indefinite
massacre and rapine, In great metropolis"
Every word of this reproach strikes di-
rectly at Gov Hoffman, who did that very
thing which The World so savagely condemns.
If The World is right, then on Gov. Hoffman's
head rests heavily all the blood shed in our
streets on the 18th of July. But we do not
agree with the Mayor, The World, and their
British echoes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

The Secretary of the Interior, acting under
the advice of the Assistant Attorney General,
has decided against both claimants to the
famous PanOche Grande Rancho in California.
The gist of the whole matter appears to be
that the Interior Department considers no
valid patent for the land claimed was ever
executed to McGarrahan, and that the cancel
alton of the record by Secretary Cox was
legal. On the other hand, the applica-
ton of the New-Idria Mining Company
for this same tract of land was in
formal. Under this ruling the disputed
rancho becomes the property of the United
States but of course we have not heard the
last of McGarrahan yet; and it is intimated
that the New-Idria Company can go on and
prove up their claim to portion of the prop
erty. We are forced to the conclusion that
this decision is, after all, only another phase
of this interminable contest. 1t is phase,
however, which disposes of the idle calumnies
that were rife against Secretary Cox about the
time of and shortly after his retirement from
office,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

If it be true, as was yesterday currently be-
lieyed, that, instead of furnishing Controller
Connolly's accounts, the gentlemen connected
with the City Government were engaged in
attempting to distract public attention by get
ting up an ostensibly anti Tammany meeting
TO consider the late developments, which
should really be in their interest the fact
does not do much credit to their
sagacity. Public meetings just now are not
likely to clear their skirts. There is just one
thing that will do that if anything under the
Heavens can. 1t is clear. honest reDOrt from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
The Worlds London correspondent sovs

seVen years ago. royal commission reported to Par
Lament that horrible cruel disgracefu and i'm
moral practice existed In the prosecution Of certain
pranch OF industry In England, aud that the victims Of
THIS practice we're young boys and girls varying in age
from three and half to years. law. which
could have been passed In single day, would have put
an end TO this practice but Parliament, acting Mr.
John Brights principle that is rroNg 10 interfere 9Th
any trade oy legislation shelved the report and for
years more this horrible cruel, disgracefu and immoral
practice has been allowed to go and to increase"
John Bright holds what seems to us mis-
taken theory of the rightful limitations of the
sphere OF government; but he lives up to it,
Profoundly convinced that "The world is gov
"erned too much,"-that "The best govern
ment is that which governs least'-Mr
Bright opposes all legislation designed to
promote Temperance by restricting the Liquor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
WAITING FOR THE VERDICT.

-
SIR: Before you take it for granted that the
recent disclosures of fraud in the city and County
Treasury genuine why do you not wait for Mr. Con-
noly's statement Do you mean to condemn the &C
cused before you have heard his defense JUSTICE,
Neo York, Aug. 2, 1871.
Repiy-If the accounts as published in The TRrB-
UNE and The Times were not genuine, Messrs. Hall
and Connolly would say so at once 1t does not re-
duire two weeks to do that. They have answered,
however, by confession and avoidance which is
tantamount to an acknowledgment that the disclo-
sures are genuine. Instead of disputing them they
abuse one of the agents concerned In the publica-
ton and accuse him of mean and interested motives
He and his motives of to Us or to the
people Of New-York but the undisputed over
charges are of the highest. AS to waiting for Mr.
Connolly's report" we are doing that very thing
not very patiently to be sure but with as much
good temper as we can muster.
SUPPORTING THE TINES
To The Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: Your answer to the correspondent who
asked you to copy the disclosures printed by The Times
seems to well deservedi but have you really given
that paper hearty support in its battle with the Ring
You publish all the transcripts from the Controllers
books but you speak OF them surrepttiou copies and
you imply suspicion that they may not be genuine. Is
this generous to rival paperi Yours, &C.. yIsDEx.
Nep York, Aug. 1, 1871.
Reply-Wes speak of the copies as surreptitious be-
cause that Is just what they are and the discredit
belongs to the Controller, not TO The Tines They
were made by clerk in Mr.. Connollys office, and
sold to that paper; and we should have bought them
If they had been offered first to u.s. We do not in
snuate that they may be incorrect; the contrary
we have distinctly said that believe them to be
true; but there is proof of their genuneness,
cept the fact that the officials whom they impeach
have not ventured to deny them. Now word about
supporting The Times" That is style Of thing
we have not yet undertaken We Do support the
cause OF honest government and sound Republican
ism,-a work in which we have not always had the
assistance of the journal in question. We are
heartily glad of whatever good service IL does now
but, now always, we think it best TO give calm
aud well-consldered statement Of facts so far as
ascertained, and to demand searching examina-
ton of charges which rest upon rumor and con-
lecture. The rancorous temper with which our
cotemporary has for months treated the matter
TO lis illjudged for it has led great many foolish
persons TO mistrust it's motives The Tines means
well, but it never keeps cool
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

Mr. George n. Sanders writes to The London
Times to show that the ballot in America, in
stead of preventing bribery and intimidation,
"has been made the hot-bed of duplicity and
Corruption According to this authority,
there is 30 marked q difference in the appear
ance of folded ballots Of the opposing parties
that anybody can tell at a glance how man
is voting Thus there is no secrecy, except
when voter who has been bribed or intim-
idated is furnished with a" masked ballot
in which names printed on thin adhesive paper
have been pasted over those which the ballot
originally bore. "You place this legitimate
"pinioned voter with the deceptive ballot in
"hand Immediately in front Of a reliable
partisan, whose duty it is not to lose sight
"of the ballot until he sees it safely de-
"posited in the box ; this vigilant watch re-
"pOrting all right, the money is paid. The
"rascality of the voter passes unsuspected by
"his friends and partisans, the ballot thus
"enabling him to do with impunity that which
" he would otherwise most probably have
"shrunk from doing" These statements will
be new to most politicians In the United
States for in point Of fact the Republican
and Democratic ballots are not as a general
rule distinguishable from each other when
folded, and any man who wants to keep his
vote secret has no difficulty whatever in doing
so. But it is in facilitating repeating and
other forms of illegal voting that Mr.. Sanders
believes the ballot has worked much mischief,
and he fears that 1t will prove to be as great
"a delusion in England as it has in America"
unless certain complicated precautions are
adopted, which we do not think 1t worth
while to explain. The party of which Mr.
Sanders is distinguished ornament did render
the ballot something like delusion in New
York and other Democratic stIongholds, until
we secured the passage of an efficient regis
tration law, and that law the Democrats have
just succeeded in neutralzng in this city, by
Amendments to iaciiisSco repeating. Ihe
Kentucky statesman would be more usefully'
employed in reforming his political friends at
home than in teaching their little games to
innocent Englishmen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

1t is exceedingly wearisome this perpetual ecclesi-
astical squabble about things of no consequence.
The Protestant Ckurchman tells us that the Low
Churchmen will ask the next General Episcopal
Convention to prefix to the Prayer-book declara-
ton as follows, whenever throughout the book
the word priest Is used designating minister
of this Church, it is to be understood as equivalent
to 'presbyter' and meaning the same" Well, does
anybody understand it any differently nowf When
an Epscopaan speaks of his priest" he is not sup
posed to mean Jewish, or Greek, or Roman, or
Buddhist. OF Mohammedan priest, but minister ofre
ligion according to his own creed The word is
good word, and for all we good "presbyter"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

Controller Connolly, which shall disprove the
charges of enormous frauds, based on the
recently published accounts. Mr.. Controller
every day of your delay adds to tho difficulty
of your position, and deepens the public sus-
picion that you do MT furnish the accounts be-
cause you dare not. They have now been de-
layed long after the time they were iateiy
promised to say nothing of tho defiant d'so-
bedience to the law which imperatively re-
quired their production months ana months
ago. Whyi The people will assign the "of''
answer. if Won do not show the BEST
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
Netu!2orIi Dailu Gtih1a>te.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 8. 1871.

NJ Theirs threatens TO resign, in consequence OF the
defeat of a Government measure In the Assembly, NJ
de Remuset mentioned Jules Favres successor II
Ia reported that the Orleans Princes will take their seats
rs Deputies. The instruction In Algeria Is spreading
So Switzerland protests against armed German troops
crossing her frontier. The Emperors OF Germany
aud Austria will shortly have conference 60 Inc
Grand Duke Constantine has arrived In England
tits reported that Gen. Peasonton will certainly retire
in day or two. 80 Secretary Boutwell, has decided
adversely on the claim Of Kentucky g. The
Secretary Of the Interior has definitely disposed OF the
McGarraban claim. 80 Serious railroad accidents
have occurred in Delaware and New-Hampshire, four
persons being killed and several wounded. -= The
municipal election in Charleston very close, both
parties claiming the victory. 80 An attempt was
made to poison the guests at hotel in Atlantic City,
M.
There were three additional deaths from the WestGeld
explosion. == GOld l2, li2s thermometer o'''S4''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
THE ALLEGED CAR OUTRAGE.

The following are the facts of the car out
age OF which some of the papers have attempted TO
make a sensation. At 1918 p. m, on Sunday Thomas
owens of No. ee4 Douglass Brooklyn, and John Della
tour Of No So Hester-st, during an aiIercation 1u
tho front platform Of car No. ~ OF the
second-sve line, and at flrst;aye and Fif r5
The driver The car passed the right legs OF Doth
causing compound fractures of both limbs They were
UosptaI Both are recovering. Flood was taken, on
Monday before Justice Scott ut the Essex Market Police
Court and committed on the complaint OF tne iQarea
aft "A tri1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

What Is man without his newspaper Even this
wretched little diamond colony in South Africa,
which is nothing after all but few clusters Of tents
long days journeys apart, has It's weekly thun-
derer which promises for the ridiculously small
price of six British pence copy, A" to inform those
who need information and to guide those who necd
guidance" The editor judoiously observes that
"notbing is moro desirable than that the camps
should know what each other Is doing;" but beyond
the fact that three men at Gong Gong New Rush
have found a diamond weighing III carats, that the
venerable Mr.. Richardson out in a violent storm
and got drenched, and that the Music Hall at Kip
drift keeps choice assortment of wines and spirits
Cbut apparently no music there seems to be STIR
ring intelligence to record and if Judge altogether
from this dingy little sheet, "what each other is
DOING must amount to very little indeed The recent
formal establishment Of British rule within the set
Elements is treated in gorgeous and coruscant
leader tempering loyalty with independence in a
manner that would do credit to much bigger news
paper the editor vowing that while he Is "enthusi-
astically in favor Of British rule, and loves
The Flag that Freedom rears,"
be ia mot prepared to surrender himself soul and
body to Downing Street," and he closes with the
promise: ave have no space for further remarks
upon those subjects to-day, but our readers may be
confident that we shall not shirk them" Well, good
luck 20 with you, organ of the canvas camp. You
dom amount to much yet, and your thunder Is
pretty cheap; but you are an unmistakable symptom
of civilization and every tadpOle will be frog some
day-if he live.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

The Kentucky Democrats go mourning
They have failed to get the sinews of war
from the General Government for their cam
paien against it. Secretary Boutwell, has de-
cided adversely on the Home Guard claim
from which they expected to draw their cleo
ton fund ;-holding that these troops
we're always under the command of State OIL
cers, were not called out by the Government
or mustered into its service, and that most of
the service for which pay is claimed was per-
formed after the surrenders of Lee and john
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

of $4,000 by consenting 10 the fraud OF $4,000
upon the City.
And now will The World display as much
zeol IN endeavoring to force this matter 70
judicial investigation as it has in calling ior
the evidencef Mr.. Frink says he knows .he
parties to tho fraud, but when called on ior
the names, now refuses to give them ieS' no
might make trouble. Tho District Attorney
knows what 30 do with witness OF that sort
and I've World has great influence with inc
Distriot-Attorney. VIII il use it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
INFORMAT TON FOR An ANXIOUS INQUIRER

We published, some days ago, the case of
business man having a claim against the City
for $4,000 which he could not collect until
after many failures and on an intimation
from the City Hail. he made out his bill for
$4,000, when it was promptly paid, he taking
his ten thousand, and the rest going to
the City Hall officials whose hint he took
The World, which has been painfully silent on
palpable frauds of millions, given with dates
and specifications, and undenied even in its
own columns has developed wonderful
anxiety about this particular case, and day
after day has clamored for the evidence. We
have at last concluded to crafty it. The
information was communicated to THE
TRIBUNE reporter by Mr.. Samuel E. Frink, a
broker, believed by us to be entirely reputa-
ble, doing business at the Office of Wheeler &
Peers, No. 81 Exchange-place. Mr.. Frink
states that the details of the case printed in
TIE TRIBUNE (for which he originally gave
the informahon) are correct, and that he
know, the man who thus collected his claim
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

Those already familiar with the local attrac-
tons of East Tennessee will be glad to learn
on the authority of our Southern correspond
ent, whose letter is elsewhere published, that
in that favored country there is neither deed
nor spirit of Ku-Kluxism. And to those who
desire to learn something of one of the most
fertile and salubrious regions of the South
West, our East Tennessee letter is commended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

The latest information from the Internal
Revenue Bureau indicates that Commissioner
Pleasanton has decided to waive a formal no.
tice from the President, but will hand in his
resignation soon. Much as this unhappy business
is to be regretted, it must be confessed that it
has been somewhat tiresome in its prolonga
ton, and that there seemed no issue from it
save in the retirement of one or other Of the
officers in conflict.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

morning paper takes an elaborate survey
of the political situation in New-Jersey and
bases various solemn representations upon the
assumption that Gov. Randolph has been driven
out of the field in consequence of his manly
behavior at the dme of tho Orange celebra-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

To add to the troubles of the French Gov
ernment, the instruction in Algeria, which
has been smoldering with more or less ac-
tivity for upwards of year, has famed into
alarming dimensions. Now that peace has re-
turned to France, we shall probably see what
can be done with NJ. Thiers's famous army of
100000 in distant colony, where SO many
great French soldiers have won their first
Iourala
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

"a Young Democrat in Maine groans at the i'm
beciy Of the Fogy Leaders of his party and declares
that SO long as they run the machine the said
party will be beaten. For one, he does MT relish go
ing every year to the polls to be whipped out of his
bootshe has no courage, much less heart, In such
contest "Under such leadp he says,l"we merely
20 to the balot-box every September to have GEN.
sus taken of the Democratic partyP The poor young
man wants to vote with reasonable prospect OF
being victorious" Still, in spite of faction, the
party is said to be about well united as ever. The
Hunkers have tonly to snap their fingers. and the
young uns" fall into line like good boys as they are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

Traffic, to limit tho hours Of labor In facto-
RES, &C., &c. In his conception, the law of
Supply and Demand, the "Let US alone pol
ICY, is to be trusted everywhere, under all cir
oumstanccs. We do not agree with him; but
we can readily perceive that his acts and his
principles arc in perfect accord.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

In another part of this issue of THE TRIB-
UNE will be found a valuable series of tables,
showing the number of white male citizens
of New York, their parentage whether foreign
or native) and comparison of these figures
with those of the election returns of 1863,
which may prove interesting and suggestive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

Mr.. Grceley's Letters from Texas s and the Il,
Nsi.sias,,pI, with his Address to the Farmers OF
Texas ara MS speech on his return to Now'Iork are
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
sIY EInEs IN II LnUIS.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. Six fires occurred
In this city within the past hours, the most disastrous
OF wbieb WINS tbe burning OF the Excelsior Brewery,
owned and occupied by KOchler CO, Loss about
$4,000; insured for 1000 saloon and dweing-douse
adjoining were badly daInaged. Insured for 1900
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

The abandonment of their old church by the
Battle-square Society in Boston has recalled tho
fact that in the days Of the most rigid Puritanism
this society was comparatively liberal. Among the
curious innovations to which it gave rise was the
reading of Scripture as regular part of the Sunday
service. This occasioned good deal of opposition
from the sister churches in which the Scriptures
were not read-a fact. we suspect not generally
known. The present edIfce was built in l77S, and
the interior is so fine that it seems pity TO have 1t
destroyed. But in some other matters tho Battle
square Society took new ground Baptism was left
at the liberty of the pastor admission to the church
was granted without the relation Of personal expe
rience no special right was claimed on the part OF
the church as distinguished from the congregation
The last was great step in liberal advance, and for
some time tho frequenters of this church, withits
pastors were considered to be no better than her
cities. Then came the Unitarian movement, and as
matter of course the church speedily became Uni
tartan, and has 80 remained ever since.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

ton. What pity the editor had not read the
Constitution of New-Jersey Then he would
have known that the reason Gov. Randolph ia
not a candidate for reelection is that he Is
;nolioihia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03

City subscribers to THE TRIBUNE can have
the paper sent by mail their temporary residences In
the country by giving orders direct to this Office Terms
q per MONTH payable in advance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-03
AT THE PARK HOSPITAL.

Two patients remain at the Park Hospital.
whittier, they were conveyed on Sunday afternoon.
TIMOTHY BUCKLEY Of No. At Essex-st., dangerously
injured.
REGINA FREEDHoFY OF No Isl ThompSonst, a lite
girl, who was identified Tuesday norning. She Ia M
urecarious condition.