Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-02-02
THE NEW YORK PRESS.
Editorial Extracts From the Great Dalll

Ehltorlnl Extracts From the Great DRllles
THE HERALD's IDEA OF NEW YoRKs NEEDS.
TFrom the NY. Heraldl
What we must do with this island is TO make
it worthy of the metropolis Of the future. We
must have boulevards and highways and ave-
nues parks and breathing places, docks and
wharyes. There is no reasonable amount of
money that we would not spend to accomplish
this. What we want from our reform LePisla-
ture is the chance to spend this money fairly.
We did not complain Of the men in power that
they expended vast sums, but that they stole
them that they squandered al much upon half
finished court house as was expended by the
government upon our majestic Capitol So far
as the Committee of Seventy and the reformers
meet this wish of the people all will be we'll
Thus far they have not met it. The Tammany
hing has dissolved, but we have Canal Ring
and an Erie Ring and we really do not think
that We are much better in the hands of the new
combinations than we were in the hands of the
old one.
THE COMMITTEE OF 70s PROPOSED CHARTER.
from the N. Y. Timesl
At this juncture, decent New-Yorkers sbonld
he as one man know no party or nationality in
municipal matters know only the distinction
between knaves aud honest men, and demand in
terms not to be misunderstood the passage Of
the measures proposed by the Committee Of
Seventy, and thus wipe out the Tammany crew
and make their reorganization impossible. What
ever the defects Of the Seventys charter NAV be
and they are few and unimportant, it has This
one transcendent merritt is not drawn for the
Deheht OF any clique, class or party; it embodies
areform,-l. e., minority epresentation-which
places New York abreast of the age in political
thought and action.
PnDsIDENT GRANT AND THE LOUISIANA FACTIONS
tFrom the N. Y. Times.l
There Is no doubt that in the recent troubles
in Louisiana, the President was extremely cam
ioqs to take no part other other than that iuati-
neu by his sense OF duty under the Constitution
1t has been recklessly charged that he used his
power to favor one of the factions. Nothing
could be further from the truth. He was inn
portuned by both factions, both political parties
ana representatives OF the community generally
and of special classes in the community. To nss
the powers of his office peremptorly, and even
10 transcend them. In simple fact however. he
declined all these opportunities and the wisdom
OF his course is shown by the result
NEW YoRK's COMMERCE IN DANGER.
from the N. Y. Times.
One thing should be clearly understood Inv o,,,
citizens and Legislators, and that is that ii GER
tam public abuses corrected with New York as
a port Of entry be not connected the commerce
Of this city will be seriously injured,
All these things are iniuring New York TIL.
turning Of the tides Of commerce has already
begun, and may continue Merchants must i'm
port where they do 80 most cheaply and conye-
hlently. Our rivals in other American ports are
making prodgious efforts to attract trade in that
9irection And what are we doing in the other
direction Absolutely nothing Quarantine il
a. great nuisance and oppression as ever, and
the merchants have not had spirit enough, as
yet to present the well known abuses of II to
the Governor or the Legislature.
PARTIsANs, NOT STATESMEN.
from the New York Tribunel
The course of the Democrats in the Honse NJ
Representatives, relative to the Operations m tbe
Treasury Department and the Syndicate, is 30
purely partisan that we can expect nothing fair
or just from it. 1t is to be regretted that tbe
whole question Of the expediency of the system