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the like, was actually raised to the exorbitant
figure of $40 per yard. One Of the interested
taxpayers has documentary proofs that the
same pavement was laid in another street for
81 70 per yard, and in Albany and Philadel-
phia for 81 per yard, the latter rate being le-
gally declared in subsequent litigation to be
q fair and sufficient price. Such evidence as
this seems adequate to raise a reasonable pre-
sumption of what may be justly called fraud
Gin relation to the contract"
III. Defiance of the Taxpayers wishes. law
passed April 90, 1870, contains the following
express provision:
No street. avenue or public place in the City OF New
York. which has been paved and the expense
paid for by the owners OF the adjoining properly
by assessment shall hereafter be paved with any patent
or special pavement unless pettoned for by majority
OF the owners OF the property the line OF the proposed
Improvement"
Under this law, expressly contrived and
passed for the protection of taxpayers from
these pavement jobs it necessarily follows
that in all cases where patent pavement
contract Is dated after April 26, 1S7O,' proof
that the interested taxpayers have once PAID
for pavement; that majority OF them dld
not petition for the requirement., but rather
demonstrated against it, and that they were
nevertheless assessed to pay for it, ought to
convince the most scrupulous of Commissioners
that fraudulent attempt to rob the tax
payers has been perpetrated in relation to the
contract in question.
Well-digested proofs of exorbitant charges
and of defiance of the taxpayers wishes will
suffice, we believe, to defeat at least the worst
of the pavement jobs now before the Contract
Commissioners; and it is the duty of the tax
payers interested to see that such proofs are
furnished, because, if the contractors secure
the remainder of their spoils by the operation
| of the act of May Z, the precise amount OF
| such extra plumber will ultimately have to be
paid by the city at large, even if the specially
interested taxpayers should evade the new
assessment by future litigation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
THE STATE FINANCES.

According to Gov. Hoffman's latest message
the debt of the State of New-York on the 30tl
of September last was S29,4S2,7O2. Our CORE
spondent at Albany gives this morning an
explanation of the astonishing financial mis-
management and complication by which the
real figures of our State indebtedness have
been so carefully concealed that the Governor
himself probably does not know what they
are, and the Treasurers books are burdened with
fictitious accounts which serve only to mslead
the people and facilitate legislative jugglery.
On careful examination, the debt last Sep
TENDER appears to have been no less than
S39,9S3.129, or about ten millions more than
the Governor represented 1t to be, and the
next year is likely to show considerable in
crease over this heavy burden. Under the
management of swinding Rings, which burst
not allow their expenditures to be made pub
lie, 1t has been a custom of the Legislature
for several years past, and especially since
1870, TO levy taxes for considerably less than
the amounts certain 10 be expended, and by
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
VOORHEES rs. TRUTH.

Mr.. Voorhees,, in his speech at Terre Haute,
objects to Mr.. Gre eley that he insists on the
education of Whites and Blacks in common,
whether they like it or not He says:
"Mr Greeley Is so much in favor of the principles
which 1t (Mr. Summers Civil Rights bill con-
tains that within ten days after his nOmna-
ton he went into negro church at POughkeepse, N. Y,
and there declared them his own, with especial en-
phass In behalf Of mixed schools"
MIR. Greeley's speech to the cOlOred people
of Poughkeepsie is given verbatim in the last
WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Here Is what he said, and
all he said, with respect to schools:
"In the next place. must consider the fact that the
African people in country will remain for an indea
mite period peculiar people. Certainly, trust that
with the outgoing OF Slavery and the political changes
necessarily resulting herefrom there will be less antag
onism less repuson between men of different races than
there formerly trust the day not far distant
when the rights of Blacks in public conyeyances
and in public meetings and institutions will be recog
nzed they recognized Of Old and they are
but imperfecy recognized STILL trust that Their po
ca equality lately established, will lead to recogni-
tlon OF their equality in other respects than this but
ter alwhile desire and expect that inydous and gall
ing dstincto will gradually fall into dsuse, still be-
eye that there differences Of which political
equality will not eGace, but which will remain long after
the memory OF slavery mas laded W lhnt tiautloh'
Blood is thicker than water and the time win proba
bly, never when Of diverse ours and
theirs will mingle socially with the freedom that
men OF either minge with their people, There
will always be recognized decided difference, which
need not be disparity, need not be inequality,
but still O difference. hope the time will come
when educational institutions and seminaries
will be open 10 Of all races with a free
dom, with q hospitality, which has never yet
been enjoyed trust the time will come whom no mans
color will exclude him from any church any religious
organization whatever. But though that time should
come not at all that the colored race will not
they now rule, prefer their society. and
prefer TO have churches and semnares and colleges or
their Nor am clear that this would not BIO wise
choice. 30 then, say. with regard to our common
schools where rural district contains but % or 80 fa
ies simply impossible where two or three OF those
colored. to have separate schoosi and In those
cases. 20 say that Black children shall not 20
" school with WhIte children " cay they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
THE REFORM CANVASS.
POSITION OF SENATOR SEIZURE.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIKI TRrBUNE1

WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Schurz having
been quoted as in sympathy with the New-York
FREQ Traders who, headed by William Cullen Bry-
ant have issued call for meeting in that city, il
is but just to say that all such reports positively
without foundation. He not only has nothing to do
with that movement, but will give it no support.
1t is also positively reported the best authority
that the rumors that Senator Schurz will refuse to
support the Cincinnati ticket all without founda-
tion He will, if Mr.. Greeleys nomination is in
dorsed at Baltimore, enter into the for tho
Liberal Republican ticket with all his accustomed
zeal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

What great effects from little causes come! CIV
idence accumulates," says The Boston Transcript,
" from day to day from which some people conclude
that but for thoughtless letter, for which the
writer is bameworthy. and the thoughtless pubica-
ton of it, for which thoughtless we-wishers were
still moro blameworthy, q third Adams, 'charnel-
house candidates though they be- might have sat IN
the White House." Twas a very thoughtless time.
But if Mr.. Charles Francis Adams did not care
two-pence for the Presidency, which seems to
have been the case, it was, we insist KIND and
not thoughtless of hun to inform us OF his
Indifference beforehand. AS for publication, If such
letter had been written, why should it have been
concealedf Were not the Convention delegates
and were not the people entitled to the letter I
1t was meant for their information; it was in the
highest degree honorable to the writer, and worthy
of the family in which downright love of the truth
as they understand it above all possibilities of per-
sona gain has passed for an inheritance from gen.
Grafton to generation. Why should whatever knowl-
edge it contained be confined to the recipientf 1t
was not a loveetter; it was not business letter;
it was not an epstle of private Friendships its con-
tents were of little interest unless they were IN
tended for public consideration; and it was for Mr.
Adams and his friend to decide upon its publication
or suppression. They did decide, as we think at
least in manly and straightforward way; and, in
any case, we protest against casting the RESPONSE
bility upon Mr.. Samuel Bowles's shoulders. He
is not TO be censured because Mr. Weiss card didn't
turn out to be trump.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
F1GH5IyG THE PAVEMENT sWIYDLERs

FIGHTING THE PAVEMENT SWINDLERS
The statute of May Z, 1872. requires Com
missiohers Sutherland, Van Worst, and Jaques
to examine the technically irregular pavement
contracts laid before them by the Controller
and to certify upon them, before August g.
either that they are satisfied that no fraud
has been perpetrated in relation to the said
contracts or the performance thereof, or that
they are not so satisfied. The reports of sur
veyors employed by the Commissioners or by
the Controller will probably disclose the frauds
in the performance Of the contracts, but in
relation to the contracts themselves the tax
payers, in cases where fraud exists must
obtain the evidence thereof and lay il before
the Commission in legal shape, without DELAY.
Such fraud ranges itself under three principal
heads
!. Bribery Of the Common Council While no
one familiar with the facts can doubt that
such bribery has been of frequent occurrence
it is almost impossible to prove it, and. even
if it were shown, it is not certain that such
bribery, which is fraud in relation to an cor
"dinance,n is to be construed MS fraud in re-
lation TO the Contract drawn under that Or
dinance.
III. Extortionate charges. Fraud of this kind
we believe can be proved in q number of
cases with sufficient clearness to more than
warrant the Commissioners in deciding against
the suspected contracts. In one instance,
known to us, patent pavement was laid at a
contract price Of s. 80 per yard, which, by
the unauthorized laying of crossing flags aud
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
GENERAL PRESS DIsPATCH.l

NEW ORLEANS, La, May 2s-The Repub-
lean State Convention called by Leut.-Goy. Pinchback
met at Mechanics Institute to-day. After appointing
number OF committees, the Convention adjourned
till tomorrow. 1t is thought TO DO the pro-
gramme TO introduce Greeley resolutions, and II they
are rejected the Greeley delegates will withdraw, hold
separate Convention and appoint Committee to con-
with other political organizations friendly to the Gin
cinnau platform.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

We have official information from Boston that the
Imperial Army Band of Prussia, the band of the
Garde R6publicane of Paris, one of the famous
Guards Bands of London, the Royal Irish COnstab-
ulary Band, and Johann Strauss with his orchestra
from Vienna, are all on the way to Boston to take
part in the Gilmore Jubilee. 1t will be a grand
show but the most curious thing about 1t is that
Mr. Gilmore should have persuaded all these foreign
musicians to come We can only attribute his sue
cess to the longing VIGOROUSLY perennial in the
European breast to see Boston.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

Science is never tired of trying to give men
religion. Comics fault was that he made religion
of humanity that in it's details wholly unscIen-
tifc although there are social philosophers who still
cling to development something like Comtes
But an American has at last had the courage to say
that not only heaven to be earthly blessing but
that accepting an utterly literal Interpretation OF
the Bible and avoiding the tropes of orthodoxy the
Holy Spirit was and is to be natural agent, only
higher in its actions than electricity and heat. AS
there is no indestructible thing he says, but the
diamond composed Of but one element, carbon, and
as death and destruction are in the oxygen of the
air, this one simple element the natural holy breath,
is to regenerate lis into undying ones Adam vio-
lated the conditions of the first heaven according to
this theory and lost eternal life and of the con-
ditions of heaven is want of sex. There is an OK
PLANTATION of the meaning of fgleayes for, as Mr..
Carlyle would say, sex and clothes were cognate
fashions. This theory might be applied to Darwin
ism, and the tail Of the original devil might have
been an apsh and necessary appendage for the pur-
pose of allowing his hanging to apple-trees and
tempting the woman" who probably took the tail
for a snake. But, it appears, tails went ont Of
fashion when aprons came in, though Lord Monboddo
would have it that the tails were lost on canebot
tom chairs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

shall not havo any schooling whatever. But in
communities such this while, II were q Black
man. should not ask for separate school, yet should
still say II the Whites chose TO have separate schools
I should not object to it, should only ask that
tho schools for my children should be made as good, as
efficient the schools provided for other mems children
Then II the majority chose that the minority should be
educated In separate schools, would say, Gehtemen
be 1t you please; have no choice in the matter.
gentleman lady discusses the question, Was
It proper TO refuse invitation to my neighbours
party He she accepts the fact and let's the reason
take OF itself Precisely with regard to religious
fraternity associations for maintenance Of divine wor
ship. would advise the colored to make q
distinction, and to refuse one. the Whites chose
that the Blacks shall not be members equal terms OF
general congregations, would accept exclusive congre-
Cations as my choice but the choice Of tho DOM
inant race"
Those whom Mr.. Voorhees, desired to mis-
lead by his speech may never see this exposure
of its untruth; but Mr.. Greeley's advice to
both races given in that Poughkeepsie address
is on record and some will read and heed it..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

Has John Thomas fallen i'll We missed yesterday
the sparkling wit and trenchant satire with which
for the past year-or is it longer f-he has flayed
Horace Greeley alive in six leading articles every
morning. Save single editorial reference and few
communications, his paper contained no allusion to
Mr.. Greeley This will not do it is like rose with
out perfume or pumpkin pie without sugar. How
can Mr. Greeley be expected to preserve his usual
serenity without his usual amusement 7 Let us
pray for John Thomass speedy recovery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

The photographers have all been trying their art
on Mr. Greeley since the Cincinnati Convention,
with even more vigor than usual. Sarony, Brady,
Quincy, Fredercks, lockwood, and Others, have all
made striking and successful pictures. Two of the
best and most characteristic are from Bogardus-one
large picture of Mr.. Greeley showing him seated
at his desk and the other of the size, showing
him in the center of group his Publisher on the
one side and Managing Editor on the other. Both
are very successful in presenting Mr. Greeleys fea
lures with an expression that will be everywhere
recognized as characteristic.
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amuesmsnls, elr., CHS Gprnins.

Ac.prMY OF MUSIC. - German Opera lann-
hsnseF." Franz Abt 49,,
Roora's THEATER. -" Enoch Arden" Edwin
Adams
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRR.-" Article A."
LIMA EDwIN's THEATEI.-At2 and at 8; " WOOD
leigh" - L..
OLYMPIC THEArER. AT and at 8: "Humpty
Dump.y" Remodelsd G. L. Fox
Union SQUARE THEATER,-At and at s: Bur
lesque The Yokes FAMILY - =, 80. "
WuIAcK's TnEATER-" Home" and "The Critic"
Lester Wsnsck and Charles Mathews
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN Summer NghVs No"
CERT Theodore Thomas
sHARPIFY's MINsrREIs at No. $50 Broadway
STFrSwAY Hn1--Coronation Festival.
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They are fast advancing in all the refnements of
civilization in Denver Colorado They have had a
concert and at this concert the ANVIL Chorus,
upon the performance of which critic IN an OF
gan writes: ct was rendered in manner calcu-
lated to drive one distracted. The singing was good
enough, but the hammerins was about as unmusicai
as a Chinese drum" 1t would have been an oDhging
sorvco 70 the cause of musical art if this critic had
exnla;nod TO us his idea of real, genuine musical
hammering."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

The strikers have conducted themselves in gen.
eral with so much moderation and propriety that
one is surprised to find how foolish and unjust they
can occasionally be. The painters employed on
North River steamboat refused to work the other
day because one of the ordered as the GUS
tom is on board vessels to do little coarse daubng
with paint-brush; he was not union man, and
the others would work with none but unionists
This absurd construction of a rule must result of
course in the paralysis of industry as well as hard
ship and injustice TO individual laborers, and no
class of men will suffer soon from such unforu-
nate consequences as the workingmen themselves.
1t will be understood before the world is much older
that workers and capitalists have an equal interest
in the general prosperity of industry Until it is we
need not look for settlement of the labor problem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

hends its opportunty, will provide the MEANS
Mr.. Geo. w. Cass has been talked OF as
Democratic nominee for Governor, but we
understand that his name will probably not DO
pressed. Ex-senator Buckalew is more prcmi-
nently mentioned and seems likely TO COM
bine the different elements of opposition W
Hartranft.
We have some details of the causes which
brought about the fall of the Sagasta Ministry.
If ANYBODY imagined there was anything Oh
exaggeration in the language which lhE
TRIBUNE has always held in regard to TINS uh-
scrupulous man, such persons will now be con-
WINGED of the justice of our appreciauons'
The statements of Our Correspondent, senior
Castelar,, in relation to Official interference
with elections, strong and startling as 'ney
were. are now seen to be far snort Oh 'hc
truth. In fact, human nature hesitaIes W
believe in such complete depravlty as that
exhibited by the acts of the late Government
of Spain.
Congress spent good deal of time, yestei-
day. in sparr1ng with contingencies, ra'nol
than in actual legislation. The Senate, 10 10
sure. made considerable progress WIN 'ho
Tax and Tariff bill; but it worried more over
the adjournment question than any otner'
The House killed the Civil Rights Dill ny
vote of 10 Yeas to So Maya t"o-tniluS
vote being necessary. 1t also put quietuS oh
the supplementary Enforcement bill. Mean
time. Congress is making progress toward an
early adjournment, and is likely to get
awav from Washington by the 81
of June, all tactics of the Admins
ton Ring having failed to keep the
House together. We have now but little un-
finished legislation which is important. VI
this the Sundry Civil Appropriation and lax
and Tariff bills are most conspicuous; tne
former is, of course, imperatively necessary
One Senator, speaking for the Administration
men. said he was determined to stay until sucf
legislation as the Ku-Klux bill and supple
mentary Force bill should be perfected. III Dc
waits for these he will probably not leave
Washington this year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

Mr. Samuel j. Tilden has the right to speak
for the Bar Association and for the faithful
body of legislators who forced through the
impeachment of the corrupt Judges His
speech, elsewhere given, is more encouraging
than the public have of late been led to ex-
pect, and they will give it the more credit
because of the unimpeachable and hOnored
course of the speaker.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
A COINCIDENCE.

From ras Spr,nlasd RTssasa
Shrewd politicians detect eolncldence Dc
tween the mysterious agitation among our revenue ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

traveller through New-Jersey is responsible for
thinking that region paradise for bachelors matr-
monially inclined. At divers and sundry hostelries
over there are collected together many fair and
charming bellies who can neither hear or speak. AT
the table Oh oe peace regns supreme the feast OF
reason and flow of soul is carried on with their adj
mirers through the manipulating of fingers.
"What wives they would makep quoth Rip Van
Wrinkle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

Tomorrow the Democratic Convention in
Pennsylvania has chance to nominate the
next Governor of the State. Perverse folly
never went further than in the Republican
nomination of Gen. Hartranft. Even so ear
nest supporter of all regular Republican
nominations as Col. Forney instantly and in
dignantly repudiated It, 1t is hardly too much
TO say that nearly all the able and responsible
Republican journals of the State pronounce it
a nomination unfit TO be made. Liberal Re-
PublieaDs and Democrats combined can defeat
1t. aud tho Reading Convention, if it cOmpre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
THE PRESS OF ILLINOIS.
STATUS OF THE GERMAN AND REPUBLICAN
PREss-PREPoNDERANCE FOR GREELEY AMI
BROWN.

SPRINGFIELD, May 2S.-1he State LEICESTER to-
day publishes a list of IT Republican newspapers In I'LL
nois which have unequiyocally declared for Greeley
and Brown. Tomorrow The Register will publish list
OF ak German newspapers in Illinois which declare for
Greeley and Brown unequiyOcay; nine others opposed
to Grant and two for Grant The list will also embrace
10 German papers published outside this State that de-
clare for Greeley Brown and Il that for Greeley
as against Grant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

The business of the missing records of the
War Department grows worse and worse.
1t would now seem as if the great
mass of the most important documents
have been lost in Gen. Badeau's hands,
or before he could return them to the War
Department. Meanwhile all others, save this
favored historian, have been denied access to
them under any circumstances whatever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

The Finh Arenue Journal has already attained a
length of life quito unusual in the recent brood OF
Society papers Its general merits seem ample war
rant for its longevity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

We publish this morning liberal extracts
from the forthcoming report of the sub-Com-
mittee Of the Brooklyn Committee of Fifty.
in regard to the transactions of the Board of
Supervisors of Kings County during the year
1870. This will be followed by another in
which a digest of the proceedings of the same
body for the year 1871 will be presented A
frightful picture of municipal waste and dis
honesty is here presented, showing how the
influence of an unpublished and powerful sys-
tenn of crime in New-York poisoned the
neighboring city with its contagion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29

Mr. Voorhees, and his allies of the Renom-
ination party have two distinct lines of attack
upon Mr.. Greeley. One shows cOnclusively
that he has no Republican strength, and there
fore that it is useless for the Baltimore Con-
vention to nominate him; the other shows as
conclusively that he has such great Repub-
lican strength that the Republican party is
hopelessly divided, and the Democrats have
an excellent chance to run in third ticket
and win. Each view is cogently pressed; but,
il they had not been given in the same
speech, each might perhaps have carried more
weight.