The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-10-03

been doin' TOO much for themselves Just think
ov Tweed and Connolly and all OF lem stealing the
whole Court House. and all the money In It ~
.Wnat 40 you meanY"
mean Why, bless your soul, you oughter
know and the old man looked at me suspicousy.
II mean what the papers Is talkin' ov. Didn't they
20 TO work and build the Court House with
THE PEOPLES MONEY
then put all the money they could get by taxin Of
lem into the Comptroller's Onlce and then hev the
deed OF the house made GU: to therselves9 Dye
suppose ef o lot 0v fellers In Schenectady-thaps
near whar Iive-wud go and do that with SOME OF
our stores we'd stand 1T Me and the boys hes got
our dander up, and we're gon fer to vote 10 put
them Tammany folks down. So be all the neigh
bors.n
It was in VAIN that attempted to explain matters
In New York to my Ioquacions friend, who said his
name was Joseph Cuyler-or "'Uncle joey as they
calls me-" to use his own expression. The more
attempted to show him Just what
THE FIGHT AGAINST TAMMANY
was about the more he persisted that he and the
boys and the neighbors and Bill Jourdan knew all
about II, and that Bill had read the papers that
the "Ring" had stolen the entire Court House.
When get out OF the cars at this city "Uncle
Joeyn was busly engaged in striking bargain with
q candy veneer, who, to his disgust, had no ''a1y"
in his stock.
THE coUNTRYMEN ON THE FRAUDS.
1t is a long and tedious journey from New York to
Buffalo, make the pest we can OF 1t, dnd the way
stranger increases the number OF his acauaint
ances along the route be accounted for only by
the TACT that everybody feels natural impulse TO
chat and talk with everybody else Just to Kill time
Tor ms own sake. | made many acquaintance5
during the trip, nearly every one OF whom was a
countryman; for after we had passed Albany the
station we stopped. The frauds discovered III
New York city were the chief topic or conversation
papers. | was about to say they were the CHEF
topic or discusslOn but to be candid, there was no
with his neighbor that they were outrageous, and
that an example should be made OF the guilty par
ties Strange to say the most vehement IN their de;
was quite amused to hear the exaggerated stories
That some OF these countrymen entertained one an
other with about the fraudulent accounts-eXagge
rafions In point OF tne amounts Stolen and the open-
handed way In which
THE WHOLESALE STEALING
was carried on. To be sure, these stories were not
quite Of the ridiculous Xix as "Uncle Joey's,n
but absurd as they were they went to show all the
what effect the discovery OF the frauds has
made upon the rural mtnd given as 1t Is SO freely 10
example. / heard quite an integent.looking
VINO lives e 81 gyey tell
account OF the latest details concerning the city
accounts, which he had moment before read aloud
! from country newspaper-that he was well posted
about the way the ''Ring' were wont to steal, aud
that tue four men who compose 1t were III the habit
city treasury, the Comptroller forging false vouchers
l to make everything look straight And what did
the mans nelghb0r say to tnis do you Think HIS
| answer was:-"I have no doubt OF It," Indeed,
judging from the conversations about the frauds
tnat heard on the cars and at the little way sta
tons where was enabled occasionally TO draw one
Of the 'nhabitants" into talk the subject there
Is nothing too monstrous lnat could be said about
THE DOINGs OF THE RING"
which the more ignorant masses In the rural re-
gions must swallow now as gospel ruth. The ng..
ures paraded before their eyes the total OF
what really has been stolen have completely upset
Inem. were you 70 tel them tnat ane ling hsa
New York during the past ten years and had pocK.
eted the money IN every case, believe that every
man OF them, while shaking his head ominOuSly,
would exclaim, ~ have no doubt Of it,,