New-York tribune., 1872-09-26
TIE RING ARRAIGNED At LAST.


At length, after quite ten months delay
Attorney General Barlow has been driven to
give notice that in spite of the bargains and
intrigues which, it is well known, nave Deeh
made between Tweed and the Grant managers,
the great Thief of the Ring, along with some
of his lesser satellites, is to be brought TO trl
in October. Notice was yesterday served on
William M. Tweed, Mayor Hall, Nathanlel
Sands, James NJ. Sweeny, Henry w. Genet W.
II. Cooke, and all the rest OF the IN
dicted persons, that proceedings would
be begun at the next session Oh tho
| Over and Terminer, over which Juuge
Brady will preside. In Judge Brady tno
people have every confidence. lie VIII deciue
all points of law without consideration Oh tne
consequences politically, and without sympathy
for the thieves to whom though of his own
| marty. he has always been antagonlstlc. Inc
nroof AGAINST the indicted is ample Tor thelr
| conviction. and no danger is apprehended from
tbo lack of competent testimony. That the
iurv nanel will be tampered with and that
friends Of these men will be smuggled into the
iury-box, if it be possible, there Is not queS-
tion or doubt. The utmost vigilance OF the
public prosecutors and the public journals Will
| be required to keep the fellow rogues anu
| tools of the cOnspirators out OF inc jury
box. Some nervousness is felt too, as
to the conduct of the prosecution. IL
ia not vet understood that either MIR. I'll
don or Mr.. O'COnor is to be actively associ'
oted in the prosecution, and this causes not
little anxiety among men truly desirous d
seeing Mr.. Tweed and his guilty confedcrat,s
| CONSIGNED TO States Prison as an example tOr
the whole country, and proof that all write
and Justice are not dead with us. There is
some cause for disappointment too In tle
further fact that, at the very commencement
of proceedings, the Attorney-General has COM
mitted tho blunder of giving notice to the
accused that they are to be tried in the Oyer
and Terminer, when in fact their cases, with
one exception, are still in the General Ses-
sions. This can be readily remedied it, is true,
| but it is an indication not at all reassurlng,
that the prosecution has not the cases SO
well in hand rs after this long delay they
| should have had them.
And now let it be understood, at the very
beginning of these important proceedings,
that the public mean to stand no trifing In
this grave matter. The prosecution has now
| been driven to action; it must hereafter es-
tablish that it is thoroughly in earnest. And
! to the end that there shall be no excuse for
| the cry, which is sure to be raised, that the
prosecution is actuated by political motives
the men who pushed the prosecution year
ago and secured the indictments should now
be intrusted with part of the more difficult labor
of convicting. Francis Herman, Charles OCOnor,
and Samuel j. Tilden organized and conducted
the Reform movement which finally under
mined and destroyed the Ring and redeemed
Tammany. The first is engaged in broader
and more important fields in extending that
Reform throughout the State and rescuing, to-
day, the whole party as he helped save fac
ton a year ago. Mr.. O'COnOr and Mr.. Tilden
have really never relinquished, except formally,
to the new Attorney General, the general
management of these cases. Let them publicly
appear as the guiding spirits of this prOsecu-
ton, and public confidence will be restored
and strengthened. The people know that
Tweed and his gang are guilty; the proofs
are cOrrOborative and overwhelming; the
crimes committed by them have been of such
magnitude that the formal language of the
indictments conveys no idea of their charac-
ter; and the conviction of each guilty man,
and particularly of the chief of the gang, is
demanded by every consideration of public
safety and public virtue. This the people
demand with one accord, and will have, in
spite of all the political managers whom Mr..
| Tweed has deceived into believing he DOS
sesses political influence which can help Grant
to carry New-Yor City, as his organ has
boasted.