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New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

French manof-war is ashore ON the coast OF Hayt'
- Four hundred women have Joined the English
strikers Over emgrants left Liverpool during the
last three months - The treaty negotiations between
France and Germany have been concluded. Several OF
Napoleons political agents have been arrested In Paris
s-== The Swedish Ministry have resigned 60 Sehor
Rvero is now President Of the Spanish Cortes
1t is believed in Rochester that the Tammany oeega1es
will be excluded from the Democratic Convention -
brigham Young was too sick to appear in court yeser-
day. and his arraignment has been postponed Another
prominent Mormon has been arrested s. Nine OF the
KuKlux prisoners in North Carolina have pleaded
guilty. == Intense heat continues throughout Call
Tcrnia and Arizona.
The Board Of AppOrtionment authorized the Issue OF
over S. 900 Of stocks and bonds Justice Joseph
F. Barnard is renOminated in the Second judicial DIS
trict =-= Judge Geo. G. Barnard charged the Grand
Jury concerning municipal corruption - The Ger
man Republicans ndorse the action OF the Syracuse Con-
vention. - Commodore Ashbury of the yacht 1.-Two
MIA has arrived The jury disagreed in the case OF
Madame Van Buslirk the abOrtiOnist -= The Kings
County Republican General Committee held stormy
meeting 60 Gold, 1141, ia, 1l4t Thermometer, &c.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

Under the new order of things under Acting
Controller Green a very gratifying change is
manifest; instead of closed meetings of the
Board of Apportionment and the Commission
ers of the Sinking Fund.- the public are now
enabled to know something of the proceedings
of these Boards. And in complying with the
public desire for information in regard to the
expenditures under Mr.. Connolly's admins
tration, he is also doing good service in fur
nishing the Committee of Seventy with such
particulars as they desire to enable them to
institute such legal proceedings as they may
think advisable. 1t is to be hoped, however,
that in doing so no interruption may occur of
the labors of the Investigating Committee of
which Mr.. Booth is Chairman, which has al
ready shown itself 80 fully intent ON making
the "thorough and exhaustive examination
nromiscd
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04
GENERAL STATE POLITICS.
RFprRIICAN STATE CENTRAL CoMhiii-1
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.

prprRIICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEES
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The Repnblican State Committee met at neon
,ardav IN the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Among the men,
ho nresent were A. B. Cornell Chester A. Arthur,
Gardner g. b. French, E. A. Merritt, Levi Blakeiy, '
smart. q II. Brown, r. D. Benedict, ". r. Rcnaf''.'
R,chard Crowley Rodney W. Daniels. Joseph ID. hsnNy
wallace Tappan, Charles H. Van wyck Wm d. hooe..
sor and Others The Committee was called 10 oruo. -
A r. Cornell and permanent officers were iminoaisSr
elected, as follows: President, A. B. CornelI
York Secretary, John N Knapp OF Auburn; ',,su
George Opdyke OF New-York On motion Oh W." "L
Richardson OF Kings the following resoluton'~"
mously adopted: ...Asd,.a
,solped That Executive Committee be and are s
"a der and report any action which LeJ NAY deem bs
y..hle In the most liberal mApaer me 1 A.
rmhly District RepubHeaa Asocaious IN the City Of Cal,
The Executive Committee then sppsnisa.,
lows: A. h. Cornell Geo. Opdyke, j. n Ksapn ~, n
A. Arthur. Vim. RICHARDSON, Hugh GarSa9,erhh rhhanuel C.
Robertson, Joseph H. Ramsay, e. n hef''"
Taber. and Rodney ". Daniels vent into :es-
Atom and dsoussed the pretUnaTfes VI INC nsenenis
canyass They will meet regularly 10 mane sa,sn ~
for the successfui prosecution Of the campais" 1u
THE GERMAN REPUBLICANS INDoRsis.s ny-
srATIs' TIUxET-PARrT pisskSsao"'
NoUkCED. ns,m;ttee
The German Republican Central % SoaSs I'm.
s.,a ,rcs,sl meeting 1t the seuoen Hcrs s ,'nS o.
ws, slslsmun9 kal ltu.aap W Ies Se%-.; NJ ~
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04
A NEV DEPARTURE.

The charge delivered by Judge Barnard
yesterday to the Grand Jury in the Court OF
Oyer and Terminer will possibly be denounced
by cautious critics as a moDstrous example OF
political ingratitude. That the celebrated Erie
Judge should denouncs election frauds, and
threaten the severest penalties against gangs
of dissolute men" who have "banded to-
"gcther either for purposes of maliclousness
cor money! is much as if o maR should
strike his grandmother. But for our part we
have no disposition to quarrel with Judge
Barnard's consistency. There are many careers
which are much the better for little inoOn-
sistency; and if we remind the Democratic
convcrts-Judge Barnard among them-that
they have been accomplices of the rogues
whom they are now helping to prosecute, it is
not to reprOach them for the past, or to
question their sincerity for the time being,
but to remind them that they are on proba-
ton, and that for the present the sentence of
the public is merely suspended. 1t is not
enough for the friends of the Ring to shout
"Stop Thief" after Tweed and Garvey. They
must do something more than that before we
take them into the ranks of the reformers
Judge Barnard, whose worst enemies never
said he was fool, is shrewd enough to see
exactly what we do require. "The time has
"arrived," no says, "when these things Ii. e,
election fraudsl must be put down, or re-
publican government must fall" and he
promises that his court shall exert it's utmost
powers to break up the Infamous system by
which the Ring has kept itself in place. 1t
would he rash to conjecture what the powers
of Judge Barnard's court may turn out to be.
His promise of yesterday will not be for
gotten when the time comes to redeem it, and
if he shall seem to be sincere. in his profess
sons of reformation we shall not look too
closely into his motives, but shall thank him
heartily for whatever good he may do.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04
4 IFTTPE DE CdCHRT

Mr.. Tweed has been 30 long accustomed to
hold our rights in contempt that he no longer
hesitates to strike at our personal liberties.
He has for 80 many years bought and re-
tanned political influence with the people, g
money that in his recklcssness he has VEN
tured to barter at least one mans freedom
for power. 1t lis mOnstrOus and almost beyond
belief, but nevertheless it is true that William
NJ. Tweed is using his influence to
aid the emigrant robber, Charles Moore,
whose vilanies we have repeatedly
exposed, to escape the punishment
he 80 richly merits. He has agreed with ex-
Alderman Moore, brother of the emigrant
thief, that the rascal shall not be prosecuted
provided the influence of the ex-Alderman as
a First Ward politician is used in the Ring ln-
terest hereafter In order to carry out this
Infamous bargain, not only is the thief to be
let 90 unwhpped Of justice, but his innocent
victim, who has remained here as witness,
has been thrust into prison, and now lies
there helpless while the robbers go free on
bail.
The shameful story, true, as we are assured,
in every particular, is detailed at length In
another column. Anton Kornach, the victim
of this robbery and conspiracy, in which VIM
NJ. Tweed IS leagued with the lowest and most
desperate of thieves is a poor Prussian, a
stranger and friendless in this city. For four
years he labored hard in the far West, deny
ing himself every luxury and many comforts
that he might save enough money to bring his
aged parents to this country. Robbed
by Moore, detained as witness while
the thief was let loose on bail, he was lately
forcibly taken, by order of District Attorney
Garvin, from the Hospital on Wards Island,
where he was living as charge of the Com
missioners of Emigration, kept in station
house twenty-four hours and there intimi-
dated, subsequently insulted with offers to
compromise his suit, and finally thrust into
the cells of the House of Detention, where ac-
cess to him of all concerned in his welfare is
denied by the District Attorney. And here he
must remain until he consents to compromise
and let the villain who robbed him es-
cane. This is case which should
awaken sympathy for the poor victim
and arouse indignation against the men who
have robbed him of money and liberty also.
His case is one of public concern, for the pros
ecution and conviction of Moore, who robbed
him, are demanded by the public safety and
morality. 1t is a case well worthy the atten-
ton of the Committee of Seventy and the
LAWYERS retained by it. Let this infamous con-
spiracy be broken up, and those who take part
in it punished
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

The conviction of the editor of the Rappel
of Paris, by court-martial, for publishing
false news, will strike the average Republican
mind as being excessively unrepublican.
False news" in France means that sort of
political intelligence which the authorities be-
lieve calculated to disturb their own peace of
mind. So the editor of the Rappel who may
have printed statement of real factor what
appeared to be fact--in his paper, Is caught
up admoni shed and fined, just as he would
have been in the palmy days of the late En-
pire. The French Republic may not be desti-
tute of Republicans, but it certainly has less
Republicanism in its management of the press
than the German Empire, where there is much
larger liberty to the Fourth Estate than IN
France.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

The roll of Tammany Delegates to Rochester
seems to have been made up by the Ring with
out consulting the gentlemen upon whom 1t was
proposed to confer the perilous honor of get
ting kicked out of the Convention. Several OF
the nominees have protested against the un-
warrantable use of their names. Gen. Nc
Mahon, who was announced as delegate from
the XIth District, belongs to the opposite
wing of the Democracy, and ran for Congress
last year on the anti -Tammany ticket. He has
refused Mr.. Tweed's polite invitation to com
NIT political hari-kari; and we understand that
other gentlemen announced as delegates Will
likewise decline the appointment. Things have
come to pretty pass indeed when Tammany
can't persuade people to accept its nomina-
tiOns.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04
GENERAL PRESS DIsPATCHl

ROCHESTER, Oct 3.-Senator Tweed and l.
Fields reached this city, with large delegation OF new
Workers. about 10 O'Clock this evening On entering .n0
Osburn House, Tweed greeted with applause Ino
Tammany delegation thsn held secret session. Dut sooa
adjourned. In is said that Immediately on Iweeds
arrival Gov Seymour had an interview with him. ous
satisfactory result reached. On the s%
journment of the meeting OF the IaninAJ
delegation, 1t was learned that the eta~
Committee had made O proposition to them tne
nature OF which was not made known, but which Wa
rejected Tweed is understood 10 be willing 70 sccepe
compromise, which recognizes the regularity oi 'no
Tammany dele egation basis, but no other hemDei.
Of the delegation are oupoken In their declarations tns
they will accept no compromise short OF fuli re'o.
milton OF their regularity, and some go so lar - ~
saw they will bolt the ticket II they are not gwen 0
seats On the other hand. the State Committee oa.A
ing TO represent the opinion Of large msJory y. ~
Convention say they no chance for tne aun4'
sion Of the Tammany delegation. Hence appearances
indicate severe fight in the Convention tomorrow.
The State Committee had q long session lo-hisH" a'
adjourned until $50 tomorrow morning. IL Is thouSn
compromise will be effected by that time II s
stated that the State Committee proposed 10 l"eou
Temporary Chalrnian Of Tammsnys bitteres' o. ~.
mics and the proposition promptly and muiSnan"
reiectAd.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

gave freely of their stealings to enable him to
sign Erie bills and appoint the Health Officer
and HarbOr Masters whose merciless exactions
have driven to other ports so large share OF
our City's legitimate commerce. There is
nothing more heinOus In all their thefts than
their stealing of the Government of our State.
"Then why are they to be prescribed anu
branded nowf"
Simply because their last developed frauds
inure to the disadvantage and discredlt OF inc
Democratic party. Stealing the Government
from tho Republicans and making the State vote
for Seymour by fraud only commended l"eeu
e. Co. to the highest seats in the Democratic
synagogue and made them arbiters in Lcgisia-
lures and Democratic State Conventions mono
of our Belmonts and Tildens objected to that.
But stealing the City bankrupt reduces tho
value of real estate, takes money out of Dem
ocratic pockets and threatens to ahenate Dem
Ocratic voters; 30 we have Committees Oh sew
enty, and Barnard injunctions, and Bixby ci-
tations, and Rochester humiliations. Democ-
racy can no longer fraternze with thieves who
steal so impartialIy and get caught 80 unmls-
takably.
We believe the rejection Of Tweed a. Co at
Rochester will be q sham-that they VIII oe
ostentatiously kicked out at the front door
only to be coaxcd in at the back, and begged
to steal more circumspcctly in future, so as not
to injure the prestige and diminish the vote OF
the party in localities where Mayor HalPs In
spcctors do not handle the votes. The Demo-
cratic party cannot carry this State without
fraud and it means to carry it anyhow. we
bave No doubt that Seymour e. Co. would pre-
fer that Tweed and his henchmen should rob
only Republicans but, since that cannot be,
they will sustain them in q more comprehen-
sive and less invidious rascality. If you dcmur
to this as unchartable, do not jump to con-
clusion when you read the "glitterng gener-
"alities" sonorously enunciated at Rochester
by Tilden g. Co., but watch and wait till the
close of tho canvass now opening. we ask
only to be judged by the developments of the
ensuing month.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

The concluding scenes in the trial of the
unhappy ROchefort are graphically sketched
ly a special correspondent of The TRIBUNE.
1t is evident that the case was beforehand
made up against. the accused, and that the
Bonapartism of the Procureur, rather than the
crimes of Rochefort, caused the bitterness of
the prosecution. 1t was RochefOrt, editor of
La Lanterne, and lampOOner of Napoleon I'LL,
who was tried at Versailes-not the indicted
"enemy of France" as Col. Merlin, after the
French judicial manner, called him.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

The Hon. VIM. H. Seward arrived in New
York from Europe yesterday, and Immediately
proceeded to the residence of his son, Frederick
W. Seward, esq, at Peekskill. He has employed
his first year of recreation, after life spent
in laborious public service, in making O
voyage which not many years ago would have
been considered a reasonable achievement for
any mans lifetime. He has not merely put q
girdle round about the earth, but he has visited
with deliberate interest the interior cities of
Japan, China, and India, and although holding
no official position, has been received every
where with the honors due to his long and
distinguished service In his active and varied
career he has of course created many antag-
onisms, and provoked much severity of criti-
cism; but we are sure that among opponents
and partisans there are none who will not bid
him cordially welcome home, and rejoice that
he has been able safely and prosperously to
complete this self-impOsed and most instructive
expedition. The good wishes of his fellow
citizens meet him, and follow him to his we'll
earned repose.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04
THE DEMOCRATIC CONTENTION And
LILLE T1MMANY RING.

IHE IHMMANl HINu'
That the Democratic State Convention,
which assemblies to-day at Rochester, will re-
ject the Tammany delegation and admit that
made up by the outsiders, is generally under
stood. The oracles Of "the hay-loft and
"cheese-press Democracy" very generally de-
mand it; and they are not apt to speak till
they know what their leaders desire them to
say. If anything may be inferred from pre-
monitiOns Messrs. Horatio Seymour, Sanford
E. Church, Samuel J. Tilden, Erastus Corning,
Amasa ]. Parker, Francis Herman e. Co. have
decided that the delegates from Tammany
Hall shall not be admitted to seats in their
party's State Convention.
That this is an avowal of their conviction
that Tweed e. Co. have stolen Millions from
| our City, no one will honestly question. That
the Tammany is the regular Democratic or
ganizatiOn in our City, has been adjudged by
State Convention after Convention until her
adversaries have ceased even to contest it. If
any point was ever settled by adjudication,
this has been. Tammany is to be ruled out
at Rochester, not because she is not regular,
but because her magnates are thieves.
| But why should that circumstance expose
them to Democratic reprObationf Has it not
been notorious for years that they were steal
ing the rights of the entire People of our State
by conspiracy and fraudf When they re-
turned One Hundred and Seven Thousand
votes as polled in this City for Seymour and
One Hundred and Twelve Thousand for Hoff-
man in 1858, sending the former across Kings
Bridge with Sixty and the latter with
Seventy-two Thousand majority, was it not as
clear that they had forged Naturalizations and
hired thousands of "repeaters," and bribed
canvassers to make false returns, as it is to-day
that they have sacked the City Treasury and
added Forty Millions by frauds to the County
and Municipal debit
| Nor is it enough to say that they have now
been detected and exposed. They were de-
tected and exposed then. No man doubted
the evidence elected by a Committee of Con-
gress who knew enough to read plain English
and could infer from frozen ear that the
weather was cold. John T. Hoffmans testi-
mony before that Committee suf6ced of itself
to prove the existence and the magnitude OF
the frauds at which he had connived and
which the bolder villains who made him
Mayor and Governor had devised and executed
No one affected to doubt that his election in
1868 was the fruit of deliberate conspiracy
to falsfy the peoples verdict who was not a
sharcr in the guilt or the plunder. -.
The men who made him Governor by fraud
are they hV h4,c stolca the CIV Uo0l They
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

The statement in a San Francisco dispatch
that the Superintendent of the Branch Mint
in that city has been compelled by pressure
from Washington to make many changes in
his employees, in the interest of the Admins
tration, is hardly reasonable. At least, we
prefer not to believe that the President has
authorized any such misuse of bis authority,
though it is possible that some of his super
serviceable followers, chagrined at the GOODNESS
which was manifested toward the present Ad-
minstratiOn during the late active Republican
canvass in California, may have been swift
to make representations to the effect that the
changes in the Branch Mint are only part of
a system of quiet revenge. We choose, how
ever, to believe that a President who has no
policy to enforce against the will of the people,
and who believes in Civil Service Reform, will
not descend to these small tactics.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

Our special correspondent at Yokohama fur
nishes some additional information relating to
the progress of civilization in Japan. The
abolition of the hereditary privileges of the
clans is of great moment to the country, and
will have an important influence upon its fu-
ture welfare. Three clans, only, have changed
their status from feudal retainers to peasants
or agriculturists, but the fact that these have
taken this step is one of great significance, as
it indicates a transition of large mass of
the people from idleness to industry; and it
is also a sign that the aristOcratic privileges
and the unthrift of warlike people are about
10 DaSs away.
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04
THE "YOUNG REP UBLICAhS" ABSTRACTS

THE "YOUNG REPUBLICANS" ATSYRACUSE.
The Young Mems State Republican Associa-
ton, which was organized by the greater num-
Der of the Republican members of the last
Legislature with view of bringing about
harmony between the two wings Of the Re-
publican party, after the mass meeting which
It held at Binghamton in June last, decided to
hold another meeting at such time as appeared
most desirable before the State Convention.
The great danger to the success of the party
which its divisions threatened caused the
Executive Committee to call this meeting for
the day before the State Convention, IN hopes
of exerting good influence in the direction
of compromise and harmony. Meanwhile, they
issued an address to the Republicans of the
State, in which they urged the election, as
delegates, of men not identified with either
the Conkling or Fenton interests, but "sterling
Republicans, owing no political allegiance
"save to the party at large"
At Syracuse, the first regular meeting was
held ON the afternoon preceding the Conven-
ton, at the Empire House, and was largely
attended by delegates and others. Among the
members of the last Legislature present were
Senator Elwood, Messrs Scribner, Sanborn,
Alberger, Burhans, Burns, Bignall, Durfee,
Flensgin, Goodrich, McDougall Northrop,
| Pound, Prince, Sage, Stevenson, Strahan, and
Sunderlin. Mr.. Scribner presided. At this
meeting, after full discussion as to the best
modes of achieving unity of action, it was re-
solved, on motion of Mr.. Raines OF Monroe,
that, as first effort In that direction, the
name of the Hon. G. Hilton Scribner be pre-
sented to the leaders of both sections of the
party for Temporary Chairman. This was
considered important, as the Temporary Chair
man has the appointment of the Committees,
and the election of non-partisan to that po-
sition would, at all events, start the proceed
ings IN the interests of harmony. At subse-
quent meeting in the evening, still more
largely attended. the. following resolutions
were unanimously adopted: ....,s
Resoired That. in the opinion N this Assocfat6n. tho
H. uVny Auu of this Iu
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

It iS impossible TO predict with any certainty
the result of the legal fOray upon the polyga-
mons heads of the Mormon Church, but the
proceedings 90 far are quite regular, and just
what we should have expected long ago. To
Brigham Young, arrested upon an indictment
for adultery, we now have added Bishop
Wells, the Mormon Mayor of Salt Lake City
and a high funCtionary in the Church of Latter
Day Saints. The indictments are modest In
their charges, Young being credited with only
sixteen wives and Wells with only one super
6uOus companion Of his joys and sorroWs,
while 1t is notorious that both have many
more. We have no information as to the
number Of MOrmons indicted, but it is obvious
Eat the arrest aud tIial Of large number
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

Reports from Persia, regarding the rnvages
made by pestilcnce and famine, are mghiy
colored, to say the least. One MIR. Dickinson
writes to London most narrowing account
of the state of affairs in the province of Kho-
rassan, in which tho destruction Of life has
been most dreadful. He says that 5000
persons have died in the city of Meschid, and
that 10000 people in the province have been
carried into captivity by the Afghans, who
have taken advantage of the starvation, chol-
era, and inundations to recruit their slave
force from Persia. The story has a flavor of
sensational romance,
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

1t is said that many of the Adjusted Claims,
which were audited, allowed, and paid by Con-
troller Connolly with the proceeds of Accumu-
lated Debt Bonds, originated in the Street De-
partment and bear the certifcation of W. NJ.
Tweed, Deputy Commissioner, or Commissioner
of Public Works. If such claims were really
correct so far as concerns the public creditor,
it may still be asked how Mr.. Tweed can ex-
cuse his disregard of positive laws which for
bade the incurring of Indebtedness beyond the
amounts annually appropriated for the respec-
tive PURPOSES,
New-York tribune., 1871-10-04

Our correspondent at Berlin, whose letter is
published on another page of The TRIBUNE
to-day, gives some information concerning the
religious movements in Germany. Some ac-
count of the vagaries of the Bishop of Passau,
an irritable prelate who is solicitous for the
honors of martyrdom, will remind the reader
of similar enthusiasts in our own land.