New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-22

ing force Of the county the standard OF deeeny 10
say nothing of honesty or efficiency lImcs'
We believe the foregoing to be substan-
TALLY true and fitting. But where, . where,
sleeps The Tmess thunder that was destined
to blight and blast, wither and annihllate,
every one who should dare to take office at
the hands of the Tammany Ring or its satel-
litesf
Once more "a sweeping change" is promised at
the Custom-house. Well, that sweeping has been
on the way so long. that we'd like the luxury OF
seeing something swept And we give notice that
nothing ,riH be swept clean, if the change consist
solely in dispensing the General Order tumor all
along shore, instead OF cutting 1t out. We do MT
want half dozen Leets instead of one. For the
rest. Mr.. Schwab of the Bremen line has
made some very sensible suggestions, in
document laid before the Senate Committee,
about sweeping the Custom-hOuse. "No thorough
reform he SAYS can be expected unless the Gus
tom-house service is completely disconnected from
party politics. unless the appointments are made for
ability and character only, and for long term or
for life; unless the tenure of Office is made depend
ent exclusively on good behavior promotion to
higher places secured to merit and thus better
class of men obtained for the service than hereto
foreD-What was it we heard the other day from
the Northern part of the State about Secretary Bout
wells new way of enforcing the Civil Service Re-
formi
Mr. Wood, it appears is to prove that he only bOr-
rowed the money he received from William NJ. Tweed
and Jay Gould, and that the curious relation be-
tween the time he got it from them and
the time they got a great service in
the Legislature from him is merely what
You may call an inconvenient coincidence. Now,
let Mr. Tweed come into court and claim that he
only borrowed the sums which Mr.. Tilden so pro-
vongly traced in his bank account after every big
theft of the Ring; and then, let him hurry toAbany
to take Mr.. Woods place at the head of the
Judiciary Committee. If we are to have
one of these luckless victims of perverse COIN
cdenees in that most important position, prefer
the master to tho beggarly hireling, and don't
want Mr.. Wood assuming to speak for any part of
the Judiciary Committee, on Mr.. Jay GOuld's Erie
Classification BILL and the like. That would be
rying the business accommodation trfe too far for
even the strongest stomachs-say those of the In
vestigating committee.
Mr.. Banks said, in the House of Representatives
lately, that laborers were not employed removed
in the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy-Yard with any re-
gard to their political sentiments. Two newspapers
in Boston contradict Mp Banks point-blank and say
that nothing but mans politics are considered in
employing him in the Yard. From the tenor Of his
remarks, we take it for granted that Mr.. Banks
would not approve of the test which it is asserted
has been adopted by the Federal authorities at
Charlestown; he will therefore, we suppose see the
propriety of making more extensive investigation,
and an effort at least to correct abuses if such exist
Nothing could be less defensible than the policy Tor
impolicy) of turning away good mechanics because
they are unfortunate enough to DO Democrats"
eve warn the wives Of artists to be careful how
they treat husbands in the least likely to become
illustrious. Hundreds of years ago, in old Nurem-
berg Mrs. Albert Durer was MT good to her genius
of a husband, and now, whenever he is lectured
about as he was in Boston, on Saturday, by Mr..
Waterston the audience is informed that the wife
scolded the artist numerically and kept him hard
at work for the sake of his earnings. The reputa-
ton of the poor lady is exactly that of the wife OF
Socrates, tho unfortunate Xantippe. although, as
Sir Alexander Grant remarks, Socrates could not
have been very comfortable husband" But per-
haps too many of the wives of great men have
had but scant justice done them by one-sded
biographers.
The latest curiosity of Life Insurance is that the
existence of Mr.. p S. Gilmore has been insured for
5000 GOO in fifteen different Offices by the guarantors
of the Boston Jubilee Fund the policies to run for
six months. This is the handsOmest testimonial
which Mr.. Gilmore has ever received-all the gold
headed canes and pieces of plate in the world would
be nothing to it, for it simple admission of the
fact that without him the monster te could not go
on at all. No Gilmore, no Jubilee! Under such cir
cumstances the least that he do for half year
to come is to look well to the soles of his boots to
be careful how he changes his flannel in the Spring,
and to suffer considerations of expense to limit
him in the purchase of umbrellas.
Springfield. Mass. has elected Miss Sarah j. Will
liams TO be City Physician. Twelve Doctors of
Medicine in pantaloons cOntended for the honor and
emolument of physickng and bleeding the Spring
field paupers; and wise "a they were, they all
beaten the whole dozen of them, out Of the field by
q woman the Board of Health considering we are
told, that the aority Of patients coming under
city physicians care are women and children. aud
their cases such as a woman can best attend.r
What is TO be done with tho cases in Springfield
which woman cannot best attend We arc not in
formed.
The Times asserts that a postmaster is at Albany
lobbying for the robbers who have conhscatcd the
Erie Railroad II such no che fact we call for that
postmaster's prompt expulsion FROM office, To
neglect his official duties in favor Of lobbying rs bad
at best to lobby in the interest OF gigautjU theft
is intpersbie GA win h: beadl