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volunteers. because they were once volunteers
these lucky fellows are drawing from tho
Treasury salaries ranging from $1,000 to
$685.. Leutenants are getting the pay OF
Majors and Colonies, Captains enjoy tho
comfortable emoluments of Colonies and
Brigadier- G enerals, and Majors npd Col
onels are salaiicd ns Major-Gencrals
The pretext for this fragrant favoritism is that
these officers Onco held tho command of these
high ranks in tho volunteer scrvice-perhaps
for q day OF an hour only, by the accidents Of
q battle. The real volunteer officers, who had
no life-position and salary in the Regular Army
to fall back into when their regiments were
mustered out, went from hospital to their
homes to find work, if they could, which their
crippled condition would permit them to do,
with no help from the Government beyond
their small pensions, in no case exceeding S3o
per month.
Take one or two examples to see how Mr..
Wilson's scheme works. Col. j. &. Robinson
Of the Regular Army goes upon the retired
list as MAORI General, and gets S5,625 year
for life. IL he lives TO be as old as
Methusaleh he will never have an hours work
to do for the Government to earn this salary
His pay is about $4,000 more to-day ,chile run
ming for Lieutenant Governor Of Ge,O- York and
attending to his private business than he received
while commanding lis regiment in The field!
The volunteer colonel who, like Col. Robin
son, lost leg receives just $500 year.
Capt Eli Long. because he was once Briga-
r-General of Volunteers and commanded o
Division, gets s5,625 q year for life, with
nothing to do. The volunteer captain draws
only $40 a year, 10 matter how severe are
his hurts
Lieut.. Preston, who never held higher rank
than q captaincy of volunteers, draws o
coonels retired pay of S2,G25. The volunteer
lieutenant who is crippled for life gets $lS
month, and must show his wounds to grove he
is not trying to cheat the Government out OF
this pttance
Many of these benefciares are apparently
able-bodied men. Some are engaged in profit
able business, some hold lucrative civil Offices,
and others live at their ease and enjoy them
selves on their fine salaries in the fashionable
capitals of Europe When Mr.. Wilson next
tells how much he has done to take care of
the brave boys who were fighting at the front,
we hope lie will be asked to explain this law
of his making. Let some One-legged veteran
get up on his crutches and inquire why he has
been put off with twenty or thirty dollars
month while Capt Adam Badeau gets $500
year. Col Robinson, $685.; Lieut.. Preston,
$1,000; Capt Lynch, $4,125, and some three
score other fortunate favorites receive salaries
equally large. Perhaps the Senator who is so
good at explaining, will tell how he was Stand
ling by The brave boys" when no passed this
law
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
DIGNITY AND MENDACITY.

In former days the threat of "naming" a
member of the House of Commons exerted q
superstitious influence over that tradition
loving Assembly. But the Evening Post has
invented for us q still more dire and dread
full punishment. 1t announces its intention
not to "namen THE TRIBUNE in future. 1t
does this without warning, without giving us
an opportunity for pleading or appeal. So we
suppose that is the last OF us. We did not
know how badly the dear old thing WAS Of
Tended We have not been as attentive as
we ought perhaps. We have sometimes an-
swered q column Of Numbering in paragraph
of common sense. But the Post should con-
slider that space is moro valuable in THE
TRIBUNE than it is in the Post and should
not expect 80 much as it gives us. We have
corrected it from time to time, but always
with gentleness and regret; aud if itigoes into
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GRANT AND GOLLADtY.

In the lid Congress District Of Kentucky.
Cant and Goladay running together. Mr. Go.iadsy
Is j. S. Of that k well known 20 the general public as
the Congressman who resigned his seat 10 an IN
yesgatiOn into his sale OF cadeshp which was In his
gift. lie wants 90 to Congress again. He claims to
he the GrantDemOcratc candidate in bis district, tbe
Republicans having taeitIy indorsod him by re-
fusing their convention 10 make any nomination
against him. Mr.. G0laday has printed an address TO
the OF the lid District Of Kentucky, In Which he
his preference to Grant, and then adds, tbat
there anything bad about this Administration, Mr..
Greeley has approved IL. In burst OF fcYOr he eX'
claims:
even the sln;o Domingo iniquity Of Grant, q,
claimed by Sumner has becu nGOrsed hy Mr.. Glerlcy.
He has apoogzcd OF his has recaned nothing.
promises nothing. Where, then, is he better than
GrautP
NJ. Goladay knows better. lie knows, or ought 70
know, that neither Mr.. Greeley nor THE TRIBUNE ever
Endorsed Inc S9ntO Domingo scEcme, favored 1t In
any particular. II suits this cadetship poddlcr to
about the country retailing alsehoOds; and this one IA
easily met, the occasion to expose 1t cannot be
sighted.
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CIRCUMSTANCES: AND ADAMS.

This is the irrevcrent way in which Ths
Springfield Republican deals with MI. Charles Francs
Adams j., anu his disgust with tho Cincinnati ronl'
nation:
Because Of the disappointed vanity ana iEc cAtra
lungs and their result IN the nomination, MI Charles
Francis Adams. r thinks the Cincinnati movement b-
cdmc a species OF political cant and CCauciy" Whirb
needs 10 hc rebukcd, aud ho consequently Yoies
for Gen. Grant. Had Br. Charles Francs Adams 81,
been nominated at CINCINNATI, the speech which Mr..
CHARLES Francis Adams, r.. made at Quincy, last mig
would never have been uttered and ~. present luuls-
nation mt presence Mr.. Reuben T.. FcniOn (w 10
not present when tho nomination MAS made or &c
terminct) Mr. Andrew Mcclure (whO, by the way.
voted for Adam,'s nomination with the Ly0lD o. lis
delegitIon) and Gov. WdrDOth (shO also, we belcNc
supported Mr. Adams on Oue or more DdlOtsl ~ Cihcin
nat never would have found expression; he W uii
have been laboring most cordially with them and WIN
leaders of the Democratic party, IN rhdeiY"rlnS 70
secure the election Of his father 10 the Presidency
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TUEED'S TRIAL.

The decision in the matter of the transfer
Of the criminal cases of Tweed and his con-
federates to the Court of Oyer and Terminer
Will doubtless be reached in the General Ses-
sons to-day. Recorder Hackett may insist
on maintaining the dignity of his own
Court and refuse to send the indicted before
q higher tribunal; and thus the most of them
may come to be tried either by himself, Judge
Bedford, or Judge DAILY of the Common Pleas,
who is also q Judge of the Sessions. OF course
all will be tried before a jury, and if fair and
impartial panels can be secured it is of no
material consequence what honest court Is
the scene of the trials. What the people want
is trial of these causes without delay.
Mr.. Tweed has suggested that the ques-
ton of chow he is to be treatedn is of
pressing interest to himself. 1t may be well
to remind all concerned in his prosecution
and particularly Attorney-General Barlow
that it is of still greater importance to
the people of this city that he have
Justice promptly done him. He has been
under bail OF civil actions for nearly eleven
months; and he was indicted for felony quite
nine months ago. The civil actions remain
untred-the consequence of delays for which
the Attorney General and his associates are to
be in no wise held responsible. They have
resulted from dilatOry motions which Tweed's
lawyers, knowing how weak case they con-
duct, have made to save time. But
there has been no sufficient reason why
Mr.. Tweed should not have been forced to
plead and stand his trial for felony. The dis
ruption of the Supreme and Superior Courts by
the proceedings against McCunn. CardOzO, and
Barnard has been made an excuse for delay that
should never have occurred. 1t was really
little justification. If convicted, Tweed would
undoubtedly have used Barnatd to stay pro-
ceedings in his case but there are others on the
Supreme Bench still ready to serve Tweed's
need, if the public indignation permits it.
Attorney General Barlow has the case of
Mr.. Tweed in his own hands; he has re-
leved Distrct-AttOrney Garvin of all authority
in the matter; both Judges of the General
Sessions are sitting; the witnesses are conve-
niently at hand, and we can see no reasonable
excuse for not trying this chief culprit. In
stead Of stuffing ballot boxes at the November
election, Mr.. Tweed ought to be breaking stone
in the State Prison, and it will be the Attorney
Generals fault il he is not. This is the sort
of treatment he has fully earned, and the sort
of treatment the public long ago expected to see
mcted out to him. Attorney General Barlow
owes it to himself and the voters who in the in
terests of Reform united to elect him to his
present position, to establish in the only way he
can that he is not party to any of the infa-
nous political bargains which others of the
Grant party have made with Tweed for
his protection. No individual and no party
can survive the suspicion of being privy to a
combination which tricks justice and thwarts
Reform by saving this notorious thief from
the State Prison, as it has rescued others in
Pennsylvania.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
A SAMPLE BRICK.

California politicians are still wrestling with
the Chinese labor question which has been syyed for
this campaign The Alta California, commenting tho
fact that the Labor party OF that State had asked for Mr.
Greee,' = views Chinese Immigration said they could
be found in THE TRIBUNE. and then added follows:
Greeley even insinuated that very large CblneSt i'm.
migration Is just the thing that California wants az
thing more than another which promises great things
for the trade and commerce OF California. It tue MAN
tepance OF AMIGA and close with China
What more ask, Is there needed 10 assure the boor
pnrty of California thnt N elected old nonct Horace
Mil carry out faithfully the peiuy IN fayorof Chese
Immigration, and win maintain asnicable ana close
connections with China Z"
Ire quotation from The TRIBUNE Is probably correct
80 far as the commercial question concornedi but ITO
speca meannoss OF this kind Of discussion consists IN
tho tact that the very newspaper which hoVoa to nAta
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o corner and pouts over 1t. our duty Is per-
formed and our conscience clear.

corner and pouts over 1t. our duty Is per-
formed and our conscience clear.
But, in spite of its sulkincss and its froward-
ness, we still cherish sincere affection for it
and shall IN oil proper ways labor for its
amendment. We must say one word about It's
fractions outburst of yesterday. Even while
pouting at us and coquettishly refusing to
mention our name. it cannot resist the temp
taton of fbbing about us. fst. II denies that
it accused NIr. Greeley of being KnOw-Noth-
ing, but admits that it put him in the Same
category with Mr.. Wilson. Now, Dir. Wilson,
The Post knows, was Initiated member OF
that order took its solemn Ooths, went to ITS
conventions, sought and gained offco at its
hands. 1t is very naughty OF The Post 70
deny this, knowing it to DO true. 2d. 1t con-
tinues its (alas that we should be compelled
TO use tho word y dishonest course about tho
Credit Mobiier business, denying or ignoring
tho existence of the letters Of Cakes Ames
admitting his bribery of Congressman.
1t also repeats its false insinuations about
the pitiful Carmichael matter; about MIR.
Greeley's reasonable sentiments; about Hoad-
leys absurd invention of the Dcs MOines I'M
provement Company. Now we do not expect
great intelligence from The EreniHg Post.
That would not be fair. But we have the
right to ask common honesty, and that we do
not get. The Post kRoWs that Mr.. Greeley
never was KnowNOthiDg and that Mr.. VIII
son was that Cakes Amos wrote letters to
McComb about using Credit Mobilier stock to
influence Congressman; that Mr.. Greeley is
not, and never was, and never said he was, in
favor of pensioning Rebel soldiers; that no
never bribed Congressman nor took bubo
himself Our hope of curing The Poet of its
frightful lapses from veracity are not lively.
But as long MS it keeps on wandering from
the truth we shall occasionally scOurgc it back
to the right path, not in anger, but with af-
fectionate severity. We do this out of pure
charity, and net because it is of the slightest
importance what it thinks or says about the
politics of to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT FOR GRANT.

Pat Carroll of Eighty and Third
ave. President of local Grant club. He is the
who while serving Controller ConnolY Superntcnd.
ent Of Public Markets, levied bla kmail the market
men, took their cabbages, and bacon. and potatoes
gifts for his master. the Controller and then, whes
the people kicked both out OF Office. guilty Of the In
gratitude of bringing suit against Connolly to
the value of his market presents Since the sudden
version Of Yerkes this is the most notorious accession
TO the Grant ranks Tie distinguished roll stands
Hartranft, Yerkes, Tweed oBrien. and Pat Carroll
For this class Of gentry there appears to 10 sort u
natural attraction to the party OF "Additon Division
and Silence" which ought to warn wardens OF Stats
prisons everywhere to look well TO the fsstenlngs
their prison doors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
HENRY WILSON As "THE SOLDIERS
ERIENnV


In q speech at Lancaster, Penn, on Friday
last, Senator Wilson told his audience how
much he had done for the soldiers. al was
chairman of the Committee on Military
Affairs during the whole war;" said the cand-
date for the Vice-Presidency, "and we then
promised the brave boys who were fighting
&" in the front TO stand by them, and by the
:" help of God we will do it," This boasting
of his devotion to the interests of the soldiers
is an old trick of Mr.. Wilson'S. How his con-
duct has failed to square with his professions
is set forth elsewhere by correspondent in
Washington, who has been q close observer
of his career in Congress, and has fire.
ouenty had occasion to enjoy a nearer
view of the working of military legis-
latiOn than is afforded the lOOker-On
in the galleries. He shows how this self-styled
"soldiers' friendn has all along been the
organ of the selfish, arrogant aristOcracy that
has grown up in the Staff Corps of the Regu-
lar Army, how he has shaped legislation, as
far as he could, in the interest of the regu-
lars, and to the prejudice of the volunteers !;
how he has repeatedly defeated the generous
impulses of the House of Representatives for
fair equalization of bOunties and has man
aged to secure enormous salaries to favored
regular officers upon the retired list, who re-
ceived in many cases annuities of over $1,000
for doing nothing whatever for the Govern
ment.
We hope every wounded volunteer officer
will read this part of Mr.. Wilson's record.
It is the most conclusive proof of the hypOc-
risy of his boosted championship of the volun-
teer heroes who conquered the Rebellion. In
order, as it appears, to benefit few personal
friends, Mr.. Wilson in 1866 slipped through an
inattentive Senate and forced upon the House
in o Conference Committee a section in the
Army bill that is not only gross injustice
but a cruel insult to every disabled volunteer
officer in the country. It's effect has been to
single out seventy-one Regular Army officers,
some of whom entered the regular service after
the war, while others went from the regulars
into the volunteers temporarily to get higher
rank and pay and returned to their old places
when the war closed and to place them upon
the retired list with pay enormously in excess
of that which their regular rank entitled them
to. This has been done on account of wounds,
severe or slight, which these men received
while acting in their temporary capacity Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
O'BRIEN'S MEN FOR, GRANT.

1t is vain for the Grant organs and orator.
TO declaim against Tammany corruption while they
busily scheming withho broken fragments OF the Ring
With hand they profess to the OBrien gang
and with the other they draw these rascas closer This
thin disguise will not be kept up much longer This
Grant men about ready 10 avow their combination
ami defy public opinion IL is notorious that The Admin
istratlon managers are in daily consultation with
OBrien, and that ex-Coector Murphy is the man who
q assisting In the manipulation OF this unsiyOry ele
ment Of the old Tammany crowd In addition to Other
evidence from undoubted sources. print the follow
ing letter from NewYorker, temporarily resident
in Boston, to friend the city emitting the name oi
tho writer and his correspondent:
BOSTON, Mass. Sept %. 1874
My DEAR O.: would have liked 10 have you
once to tell you that Thursday AFTERNOON saw
man named Mike Daley formerly aclerk In Mayor Halls
office, aud who Ia aA O'Bricn nlal. He says tney
are going for Grant TO man. and are "a 10 well paid for
IT, lie was then at Metropolitan Hotel with COngrnLd
assoc lstes getting money. Daley Thought mo Grant
man. and OF course talked freely. You may depend upon
n they have bought the old Ring elements aud VIII
Use the repeaters To accomplish their PURPOSES know
not what 10 suggest In order 10 cOunteract their ams
but begin to wish could De thore ~ help yeu.
Truly yours,
Forewarned is forearmed Our friends know now With
whom thoy have to contend Tho corrupt practices OF
the Ring and the brutal rowdysm OF the strikers VIA
rally at the blast OF OBren. the exeonyio will BIO used
To prevent fair election In ills city. GrdnFs o0n 10
Dragging OF its easy victory in advance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
TEENS or TIE TRIBUNE.
Netu'2lotk daily Griblrale.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4. 1872.

Sir Charles Addeily has spoken favOrably OF the
award of the Geneva ATbitratOrs. Sir James Shaw
Wiles committed suicide. === The fro the monas-
terry and palace the Escural has been eXtnguished
== The Pore has addressed another deputation ==
10 Is wmorcd that President Theirs intends TO propose
the proclamation OF the Republic IN France.
The Liberal aud Democratic majority in Georgia Is
reekoDed at from $1,000 to 10000 49, The liberal Re
publican tate Committee OF Pennsylvania has issued an
address.
Custom-house officers against whom testimony was
taken by the Senate Investigating Committee still re-
tain their places. The municipal debt Is Sos, 723,-
200 49, An inspection was begun in the case OF the
steamer Dean Richmond s== report was presented
to the Board Of Audit in relation to the lighting OF the
streets Gold, ll4i lis, 1l;5. Thermometer. t9',
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
. Amrermtnle. Eli. CHS Gpennn.

AcApEMY or MUsIc.-ltaliGn Opec: "Travata.'
tlO Cara Louise Kelogg.
Booru's TuEATER.-" Arrah-na-Poguo." Mr.. and
Ora D0n Boucic lut
FIFrU AVENT- TuEATEr. -" Diamonds" Miss
fanny Davenport aPi Miss Clara Morris
GRAND OPERN HousE.-"Le Roi CaTotte." Mrs.
foin Wood ana Bliss Rose liersce.
Union SoUARe TuEyTER..~" AgneS.' Miss Agnes
THE ana Miss Plessr Merdauuk
wNIAcKs InEArER.-"P ygmaliOn and Galatea."
.. II. StOdlar-
AMERICAN INSrTTUTE.-Forty first Annual Exhibi-
hoa. Day an Evenny.
BAuHY'S CIRCUS AND MES AGERIE, at the foot OF
uouston-sL. r. Il Dav AMI Evening
CALIFORNIA NlINsrREIs. at No. 10 Broadway.
STEINwAY HAII~-Concert. Anton Rubinstein.
ST. JAMES TnzATEa.-San Francisco MinstrelS.
ToNY PASrOR's OPERA HoUsE.--Varieties.
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ASPECTS OF THE CAMPAIGN
PAUL pRYs IN JorRNALIyM.

HE JRIBUNE mas mtcly had occasion -
complain OF tho mrcriiucncc Justly censurcd by Ths
Journal Of Commerce In tho following extract. Paul
Prys ord kcyoo inspectors who hope TO nd evidence
Of tho declining property Of TuB TRIBUNE would nd
small comfort In seeing the exact size OF any OF ia
editions. Perhaps about tho most discouFacBg thing
conceivable for Grant man nowadays, would be 10
have lin take his stand the pressroom door TIN
TRIBUNE occ and watch tho tbrco great Hoe presses
beginning carly Wednesday morning TO run on from
their "a cylinders tho weekly edition. and too carts in
Spruccsi.. hauling load after load away 10 the Post
Office, from carly morn M late the afternoon Wien
the dsconsoato man found that all this work wazonly
for the last side OF tho WEEKLY, much time having
been given the day before for the first SIDE measure
OF his discontcnt would DO full. But hear The Journal
~ Commerce:
We notice with regret, however OF species Of
Inpeiunenc3 GHd iudccCncy tlis year than formerly
There should lie enough courtesy between Journalistic 10
eech Othei.s sonntIngrooms IL - no business OF an
editor TO Spy out the crcul and cTtsDg support
ana nhhnfnl c"nht0D OF rival p1pcr There ~ some
thnR neXpreoslDy Paul Pryis In this, aud ones Tot
naturally yibfDtcs with impulse to Kick such an In
uuder. III statements made this key-hOse evidence
were worthy OF belief IL Sstl ine1cusabe ihde cney
10 print them Bnt IN nearly all instanccS--wO may
safely say allhgures given In paper protesting 10
show that the circulation Of another Ournal has iaen
81, are merely LcarsHy reports, and Desclfss waDtOn
abrications. The maj gnan iscnulty that veHfs
accusations against respectable candidates. IIiIy
fasihes The of IIvas subscription list, and ries
10 a. uie It's reputation 0s en- adytfsing medium. Nd
that direction to the paper GsSailcCiUr nothing "a
more permanent than tho business connection OF "a
journal with people who know and esteeD IL ~ lis tNt
Value-but the nabit Of making such cnyiOus aud
founded comments upon Bciglib,r rs eXecrabie. We
hope day 10 such tgnOble tactics hunlshed from
great cities 10 the Lto PedngtOns where tney belong
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04
CAN'T UNDERSTAND AN HONEST ACT.

The drO!lest thing in Grant politics now
adays the charge that Mr. Hassaueck must have sod
himself to tie Greeley side The only proof they gye
Of 1t is that the Grant side tried to buy HIM. raised
for the purpos and got snubOed for tbct
pains. These people really incapable Of compre-
bending any other than mercenary act. IL they Will
give their whole mind to H. however, viii try 10 mako
them understand tho OF Mr. HlssaureEs dcclI-
ration. His German people coming out
for Greeley. lie had been conspicuous leader among
them they not waiting for leaders by promps
he could regain bis place in tho van by standing
still no might get 80 after long hesitation.
Mr. nassaurek like the wise he s came out on tho
right side But the tuons Grant people, not capable OF
cOmprebending the still keep shouting that they
understand it, because they tired 10 buy him,
offered him enormous price, and, aitrr ALL had tho
door slammed In their faces. After The Pennsylvania
election, they viii hatit is possible to cary their
barciaccd corruption far enough 10 shock great many
people besides Mr. Hassaurek
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04

The Georgia Bond Man is greatly concerned
about the Georgia election. lie thinks that
with the condemnation of Bullock, the runaway
Governor, and his confederate railroad swind-
lcrs, chaos has come again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04

Advice to disconsolate Giant mon, gratis -
don't waste al your tears on Georgia; save
them for next Tuesday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-04

The Editor of The Nc,o- Yort Times has not
yet been able to defend Yerkes, or get COM
fort from Georgia. If ever there was proof
that two cases were utterly hopeless, this
affords il.