New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-20

officers OF tho State, n fair olcctlon. Inc
result cannot be doubted. Before the emu OF
January we doubt not the Erie Ring VIII DC
broken up finally, ana the road be IN the
hands of able and honest Directors
Tho desperate straits to which these rascais
are reduced is clearly illustrated in the OK
planntion of tho attempted compromise OF
the criminal suit instigated against Fisk, IT,.
by Miss Mansfield. Tho story, rs published
elsewhere, hints at degradation Of tho most
loatbsome character, and reveals Fisk, IT,, III
his true light of blackmailer. With all ms
bravodo and grandilOquencc, Robert Macaire
il. aftor MI, nothing but o common thief; and
bis cunning consists merely in cntrapplns
weak men and frail women into compromising
positions Fisk, jr., has robbed the woman "hom
no sed,ccd by the display OF the more thah
barbaric splcndor in which he lived OH the
stolen money of the Erie Railway, ana no"
that he is on the eve of being forced by law
to settle with her or 90 to Jail, he attempts
by his guilty knowledge of other mems Sc
crct. gained by criminal association with
them, to force them to pay his debts. This Is
the plain meaning of his infamous traIisac-
tions told in very plain and truthful words
Tho men whom he is attempting
to blackma;l arc prominent panAerE
of Boston, members of firm known
all over the United States, and with
branch houses in every large cry IN
his idle ard amoIOus hours Fisk has Betrayed
their confidence and the common dcccncies ol
life By writing to his mistress the full history
of their transactions with himself and bls us
cardcd fayorilcs. Now that tho letters OF the
indscreet chattercr are about TO be made pup
Tc in litigation in which he has vainy tired
TO suppress them by injunction, lie insists
that the Boston bankers, whom in faceflous
moments he has satirizcd - "BO!d Robert
"Alacairc and Jacques Stror" shall pay the score
Thus far 10 has failed. The, compromise W
which these precious documents were to be
kept from the public las failed. Now Let
Judge Brady dissolve tho injunction, and the
letters will be spread before tho people, TO
whom, in view OF the startling crimes they
expose, they really belong, and justice will be
forced from Tie villains whom they compTo-
mise,
WHY ahoald the Grand Jury hesitate to act
in tbs matter? Fisk has Ics0rted, IN the
course OF bis desperate career, to everything
dishonor,' lie and irjudcicrs, and is open to
conviction on d score Of charges. lie has COM
mittcd almost every oilcnse from stealing rail-
ways to subOrnnS witnesses We are assured
that witnesses offered to 60 before tho present
Grand Jury and swear to damaging facts
against him, but District-Attorncy Garvin
refused to tnkc up tn" case. Let
The Grand Jurymcn, without regard
to that officials opposition, demand that these
witnesses b. brought before them and let
Fisk's actions be inquired into. 1t will soon be
too late TO catch him if indicted for, like the
rest of the guilty rogues of the Ring, he will
fly TIE country on the first intimation of dan
ser. IT must not be forgotten that rosues art
towards by mature, and that in the finale OF
the farce "B0ld Ro.crt Macairc' proved him.
sci. IN arrant sneak after ALL