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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18
4 SMALL stbyECT BRIETIT H4!EDLED

A SMALL SUBJECT BRIEFLI a.
Among tho journalists of Washington the
correspondent of The New- York Times has long
been notorious for abusive attacks upon
gentlemen with whom his relations 0ught 10
be those of honest professional rivalry. Emu
Iating his employers in the cOarseness OF DIS
language no matches them also In the reck-
lessncss with which he makes false statements
assailing personal character. On Monday lhh
TRIBUNE, besides publishing exclusively
SYNOPSIS of the forthcoming decision OF the
Supreme Court in tho Mormon imbr0gllo, ana
Senator Summers important letter, gave the
full text of the Tariff bill, which The Times
had been unable to obtain. The correspondent
of the latter paper took his revenge for tins
little defeat in the following characteristic
dispatch: "The copy" [of the Tariff bill
&" telegraphed from here last night to one OF
" your contemporaries was one printed for
" confidential use on Friday, and stolen hke
Z" the Washington Treaty, and by the same
"parties. Since then one hundred changes
"haye been made, so it is of little account to
"show the actual condition of the BILL"
There are three falsehOOds in this dispatch.
I. The Washington Treaty was not
stolen by our correspondents; The Times does
not know how we got it and probably never
will know, and its accusation of theft is with
out shadow of justification. 2. The Tariff
bill was not stolen, but it was obtained in an
honorable and legitimate way, and 1he Times
might have got it also if its correspondent
had beer smart enough. 3. Our report was
strictly correct, and the few changes made in
the bill up to the time of its transmission to us
were maze in our copy, anI those adopted by
the Committee afterwards were insignificant
in character and in number. Last night the
Associated Press came along with its copy of
the bill, which The Times will probably try to
publish to-day. 1t proves to be almost abs0-
lutely identical with ours, published four days
ago
Writers for The Times seem to have no sense
of responsibility for their words, and certainly
do not comprehend that the first duty eOf
journalist is to tell the truth. The one now.
in hand has been indulging in this so OF
disreputable misrepresentation, whenever ne
missed the news, for long time past, without
provoking our notice. He can now lilo easy
for long time again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

accounts and resOurces, remain in tho hands
of those thus eulogized. and who will naturally
make things look pleasant while they are
see,kine a now lease of power. Yet we hear
of defalcations in this pension agency, that
cOllectorship. and the other post oflice-$6O0O
here. 100000 there. and 30 on; while the
Army paymastor on duty at Washington up
TO last Fall has confessed TO an embezzlement
of e473.000 which he gambled away at the
stock hoard. How many more such yet remain
undiscovered least, unpr0claimed-who can
sayf
Now. the mere fact that defalcaions
have occurred. while it should preclude
such ridiculous vaunts as are quoted
above, do not necessarily condemn tho Exec
utiye. Prodigals Wu squander; rogues WiH
steal: and tho utmost vigilance will not al
ways exclude these from Office. But those
who collect. hold or disburse public moneys
are required to give sufficient bonds to make
tho Treasury safe. and every instance OF de-
falcation which results in serious loss raises a
strong presumption that due vigilance has not
been exercised. Why should paymaster in
time of peace and at the seat of Government
have chance TO steal s473,OO0i How could
he get ahead of the Treasury to that extent
if the laws were properly cnfOrccdf These
questions we have repeatedly asked, but they
elicit no answer. Is not this silence signifi-
cantq Are not such vaunts as we quote above,
in view of these facts preposterOusly impu-
dentf
But we 60 further. The keeping of over
500, 900 in the Treasury through year after
year. in defiance of every remOnstrancc, tempts
to embezzlemcnt. The public chest is so brim-
ming that thieves fancy their modest steaings
will not be missed Thus we find that over
100000 has of late been stolen in the very
Treasurer's Office. which ought to be the safest
place in the land.
We have looked with a kindly eye on Sec
rotary Robson, for he is Z downright good
fellow and .net his accuser5 like man. Yet
we can find no legal warrant fOr his payment
of $4,000 extra allowance to the SecOrs from
fund plainly appropriated to other uses. Was
it necessary to drag ex-Secretary Welics from
his retirement to make th'. plain and
we do not think the Secretary's ncighbor
Markly would have earned $4,000 so easily as
he says he did. by speaking about guns to MIR.
Robeson if the business of the Navy Depart
ment had been managed as strictly as 1t should
have been.
Had it pleased Mr. Boutwell, to pay OFF debt
80 fast az he had the means to pay with.
drawing down his repositories constantly and
vigorously, and keeping strict watch on the
requisitiOns of paymasters and other disburs-
ing agents. we are confident that Millions
would have been saved that have gone beyond
recovery Yet nothing suiiices to move him
To take the wiser. safer course.
So much for ono of the claims vocifer-
ousy act up lasi evening. We may consider
one or two ~ 20 MS hereafter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18
POLITICAL JUDGES.


The rule of the Judiciary Committee which
prevented inquiry into the acts of Barnard and
Cardozo during their previous terms placed it
out of the power of the Bar Association to
show how these men had been created by a
corrupt political organization solely that they
might become its creatures and how their
judicial acts had largely contributed subse-
quently to other successes of their friends
There would have been no difficulty in prov
ing that these men deliberately made the
Bench subservient to the basest party pur
poses of Tammany, had not investigation into
their conduct anterior to their last election
been thus debarred.
Judge Barnard in his protest to the Legisla-
ture claims that his qualifications for his high
office were emphatically Endorsed by the cleo
tors of his district, because at his reelection
in 1868 he received 109,268 votes whereas in
1860, when first elected, only 53,746 votes had
been cast for him. But he studiously avoids
saying that the election of 1860 was conducted
with comparative decency, while that of 1868
was VIGOROUSLY unfair. And he takes equal
care to conceal, what is just az notorious, that
no man did more than himself, by the issue
of false naturalization papers, to create the
fictitious majority by which New-YOrk State
was carried for Seymour and Blair, and this
Judicial District for George &. Barnard.
In other words, no man cOrruptly did
so much illegally to elect himself as this same
Judge. He is discreetly silent about it now
but there was a time when he quietly boasted
the service he had thus done his party in the cleo
ton of Hoffman and the carrying of the State
for Seymour and Blair 1t is not, however,
forgotten by others, and should not be disre-
garded by the Legislature, that this and like
Outrages are the acts to which he habitually
points with lOudest self-praise.
Nor should it be lost upon a Legislature
elected in the interest of Reform, and existing
only because of Tammanys downfall, that it
ia on the retention of these men who thus
served it in the past that the Ring depends for
security in the future. Tammany itself has
repudiated the Ring; it is now q party without
organization; combination without a
single member in actual power, ex-
cept the two Judges Of the Supreme
Court of whom the Legislature is now
entreated to relieve US. Their impeachment
and conviction complete the ruin Of the Ring
absolutely. Left in place, they have the power
and the cunning to save it from punishment
perhaps revive it. Shall this power DO left to
the corrupt Ring which all have united to
break
The news of yesterdays action in the AS
semby inspires renewed confidence in the early
favorable conclusion of the important investi-
CATION into the conduct of Barnard and Car
dozo. Mr.. Prince, who ia the Chairman Of the
Judiciary Committee. introduced resolution
to 20 into proceedings for impeachment o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18
IDGII OPTION.

SJmptJ}y must decide whether dramshOps
slall or shall not bo licensed: and by whom
may this power be moro fifty exercised than
by tho community to bo directly affected, for
good or III, by tho decision The principle Of
Local Option that il, of referring the quest n
of License or No License to the legal electors
of each city and township. and of making their
Judgment conclusive within the limits of such
city or township-has our unrcserved approval
If they do not know what is good for them.
who doesf And, should they make a wrong
decision this year, experience will enable and
inCite them TO correct it at tho next election.
We do not approve Of holding special cleo
tons on this or any other subject. Each city,
each township, annually holds an cleo
ton for municipal officers. and these
elections should be- but are not, held
on one day throughout the State
the reasons for holding them on different days
having ceased. The first Tuesday in April is
"a acceptable q time IA any other; and we
urge that hereafter all our municipal elections.
whether city or township. be held on that day.
At that election, box labeled License
should be provided for votes on the Liquor
question. and each voter should be invited to
deposit a ballot reading on the outside "Li
'censc Question" and on the inside License"
or "NO License" AZ he prefers. Next year
and every year. let like vote be taken, and
let the peoples legally expressed will be
Obeyed.
The bill that has passed the Assembly looks
to special elections. which we deprecate. They
will cost large sum in the aggregate and
tho taxpayers will be told that the "cold
"water fanatics are. responsible for this adj
dltion to their taxes. We hope the Senate
will amend the bill 30 as to require no special
election whatever.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18
A NATTER TO BE REFORMED.

Late exposure in this journal has led to the
reform, in some measure. of the sale of dan
gerOus oils, and the close inspection by the
Fire Department of this traffic has led to con-
siderable decrease in the number of deaths
and fires resulting from the use of the dan
gerOus compounds. Before that exposure was
made. the sale of burning fluids was without
restriction and in absolute defiance of the
officers of the law; the average number of
fres each month resulting from their misuse was
over thirty, and of deaths from kerosene ex-
blossoms there were fully fifteen month
Since tho publication alluded to many illegal
dealers have been forced to discontinue their
sales; and tho fires and deaths do not now
number One-fOurth as many.
The result of that exposure leads US to
hope for some success in o similar direction,
which we point out this morning. But it
is tho Health Board, and not the Fire
Commissioners. who are concerned in what we
have to tell relative to the sale of foul meats
in the private markets of this city. To that
article the attention of health inspectors, ply
sicians, and hOusekeepers generally is earnestly
directed. with the suggestion that the much
needed reform in this matter is easily
attainable. The law provides an In
spector and Superintendent of the Public
Markets. Happily. under Controller Green,
we have an efficient officer in this position; in
the markets very little foul food is now
openly sold. and we hope for thorough reform
in this mattor. But while the same law pro-
vides for the inspection of tue private mar
kets by officers of the Health Board, and
D furnishes severely the vending of any sort of
impure meats. the officials wholly neglect
their duty. and in almost every shop in New
York the dangerous traffic is openly con-
Quoted. How it is done il explained in the
article on the third page. To what terrible con.
sequencos it may lead during the Summer in
a city threatened with moro than QUO cpl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

soon a. the regular business of tho Assembly
was disposed of. In plain English this means
that tho Committee has decided upon impeach-
ment. The resolution was laid on the table,
at Mr.. Princes request, by tho positive vote
of OF to 10, and can be called up at any time
In nlain English this means that the scheme
n snrine an adjournment on the Assembly by
Tho friends Of the Judges is already frustrated.
Rut thong impeachment now seems assured,
iha fr;enis Of Reform must not cease to urge
action upOn the Legislature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18
Amnsemenls. ETC.. CHS gpenlne.

BoOrH's THRATrR-"The Hunchback." Miss LIE
Cleroa
FIFTH AVENUE THEArER.-" Article Az"
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, -" Lalla Rookb." Miss
Cbsris
LIMA EpwIN's TIEATER-"L Little Don Giovanni"
The Chapman S's,erS , A.,
NIBin's GARpEN.-"Poll and Partner joe" Mrs.
John Wood
OLYMPIC THrArEB At and at 8: Humpty
pumr,v" Remcded g. t. Fox
UNroN-sQuARE THEATEE-At , and at s: Variety
Coupsny
OLYMPIC TuEATER-" Humpty Dumpty' Remod-
sled G. l. Fox
UNION SQUARE TnE,rEr.-Varietv Company
WML,CK's THrATER.-"L London Assurance" Les
Yer Wsisok and Charles Mathews
COOPER UNIoN.-Lecture. John b. Cough.
NATION AL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. Twenty-tmrd-st.
and Fourth ave-SpiBg Exhibition. Day and Night
STRINwAY HNL-Concert Miss MOTHS
SAN Francisco MINSTRRIs.-Birch Wambold etc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

demio ia also pointed out; and how it may DO
romed,ed is also therein Indicated.
These explanations and suggestions, comm 9
.s thew do from the highest authorities, and
counlcd with facts which indicate how cx-
tended tho traffic in foul meats mas become
should not be lost upon those who have or are
to have the health Of the city in charge. In
view Of what may follow from neglect, no
public official can afford to ignore tho hint we
throw out to all concerned.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

Senator Wilson is ambitious of Gen. But
ier's laurels. He too had, last night, to mako
his small attack on the press. But We
could MT hear his eulogy of the treatment
given his colleague, Senator Sumner. by this
generous Administration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

TO have taken q contract moro easily man
aged, if not more congeniat-that Of fur
nishing from his banking house officers
nv Wholesale for Administration indorse-
ment meetings. Out of tho ffty-nine
Secretaries announced for last nights meeting,
every single man of tho first twenty il q
clerk in Mr.. Clcws's bank. Well done. Mr..
Clews!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

BY a vote of 60 to As the Assembly has re-
traced its action on the Red Book question,
and has actually appropriated $4,000 to pay
for the pretty and useless trife which gives
title to this small job. The spirit of Cushman
has not fled from the Assembly Chamber.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

The CHEsAPEAKE AND ONO RAILROAD FIRST
MoRr.sE SIX the most substantial
and ssacory Securities recommend for investment
The the line Of the road are attracting the
attention capital practical workers these minerals in this c0un
try All re., Britain valuable and important
thsn tbo~e Of ,ny other country.
TIE IsoS Coal and AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES Of
the traverse together with the through trac which
will command Is short lo,c0rdd economical Eas'a"d West Trunk
I'm, sue "a immense profitable business
Pe the Bonds % from Nov Principal and
ioetr, p.y able gold in NewYotk CITY.
Pull Information furnished on application
sell GovBnSxEST and CENTRAL PACIFIC BosD aud re-
cve them exchange Chesapeake AMI Ohio Bonds their current
pnc. FISK HATCH
H,RvHT ItsX.
IS HATCA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

Two more Communists have been sentenced
TO death in the Versailles Court Martial. The
policy of retribution is carried out with great
faithfulness and pitilessness and one must
wonder if the people of France will sooner
become used to the taste of blood or familiar
lied to the idea that government authority is,
after all. purely relative affair, hOnored to-
day and condemned tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18
Guslnc5s Notices.

Fine Gold Watches of all descriptions,
Ppc Gold EarnEs and Pins Cameo Buscan Garnet Csbunc nc
Corsl SeS Sls. go, SA % SOD 80, -,
Gold Band Bracelet told
sees seal Ring and Studs Diamond Rings
W.tches aud ewtry repaired
Gro. {. ALLEN,
8t Broadway.
Fourteenth st.
BACHELORS HAIR DYE.-The best in the
harmless Periec. Applied at Factory NO 10
Sold everywhere.
ARTIFICIAlITIES -PALMER'S LIMBS.
Bosdway Y; 1860 Chestnlst Phla; 81 Greenst boon
234554 ACCIDENT Policies WRITTEN to Jan.
J. hy TRAVELLERS LlFK AND ACCIDENT Insurance Go.
Wedding Notes. Ball Cards. MOnOgrams, Orders
ofDanng Bal Badges Eyer 800 Broadway Established 1870
WOOD CLARIFYING (4S0 Broadway Is used for
erery elias. room and ParOr STYLES and prices for each
NEw DEPARTURES Leaving off whisky and
using WuLAsss EXTRACT JAMAICA GNGKR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-18

Jay Cooke used to take the contract Tor
furnishing the Government twelve or h'oeen
millions per week. Henry CLOVIS would seem
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-17
CITY TAX. LIST.
STATE or ILLINOIS, :
IasaLLE COUNTY, ,

Ia sALLE COUNTY, So x,-,..s q, the Jsuu " tern
sisl e. ttrUgg. NiCIea,, .. "rn-, IN ~. m.
-,aof he County Court al La Sail county, N i i
n I;H-cfs IN case entitled "The City :" u''Sa I'm
noe and others- Judgment was REM, a o. 80 y,s -
,I sra,nS The following described town 'c' iU PARE oI
town lois land and psri5 OF rsS. e ,, ls
within the limits the corporation OF the cp a. La
sale county, state Illinois, for city and sooi aNes
81 and costs due and unpaid e'eon for u~ year VI
Io-i one thousand ht hnndred ard seye0' 70 Wiz. w.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-07-13
TO THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
COUNTY.

When, few months ago, | was an
nounced candidate for the Office O
Sheriff, | did not suppose that any eff
fort would be made to affect the cleo
ton by other means than the usua
expressions Of mere personal prefer
ence. From that time, however, til,
most unfoundcd assertions and rumor,
conceived, nobody knows when, ant
born, nobody knows where, have beer
circulated with u pcrsisteucy indica
tive of downright malice. And when
a few days ago, convention called
together for the purpose Of nomina
ting one, out of some twenty or NOR,
names offered for Jailer, l, in consul
tation with my friends, deemed it bes
to withhold the contest for Sheriff
from that body-we are, therefore, dc
nounccd as disorganizers, and a few Of
my friends, sticklers for the supposed
rightful authority of convention hav,
withdrawn their support. Conven.
ton Convention will be rung into
your ears as if some vital principle
affecting the State were involved, and
as if party organization could possibly
be injured by a contest between two
individuals of similar political antecc.
dents. Now ! wish to warn my friends
throughout the county, to give no heed
to the fal.ohoods which may fly thick
and fast against me, for they will be like
that which has been insisted on with 50
much pertinacity, viz: that Mr.. Smith
was Radical candidate for Sheriff.
which his card below, attestod by two
of the best citizens in the county,
abundantly proves to be false:
To THE VOTERS OF MONTGOMERY
COUNTY.
Certain persons, for sinister and in
terested purposes, have used my name,
without authority, in connection with
the candidacy for Sheriff of Mont
gomery county. / desire to state en-
phatically that ] am not, and will not
be, a candidate for Sheriff of Mont
gomery County, at the coming August
election ID. l.. SMITH.
J JmGs. f. (. k kETSrs' Witnesses.
New Providence Tenn, July 6, 1872.
/ am still a candidate, notin defiance
of the convention, but as, from the
beginning of the canvass, on simple
appeal to the choice of the people of
the county. and am happy to say that
there is every indication that their bal
lots will triumphantly vindicatc the
course of myself and my friends.
IRWIN BEAUMONT.
July 13, 1872.
Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-07-13
ELECTION NOTICE.

l Will open and hold an election TO
County Ofhccrs, nt the vario,,s precincts II
MN o,.ss, ,.,y couney, on TIE ,irst day Q
open and hold an election to MI the vacan
cy on tho Supreme Bench. caused by III,
resignation OF Hon. T. a. X. Nelson, by or
der of the Governor of Tennessee:
District No; 10 G Bryant, Jesse sadler
Hitter. Clerks; c Wilcox. officer.
Dist No. 2-W j. Childs, ] A hollow, ID !
Hackney, Judges; WIN Rollow, 1, Il luck.
ley, clerks; III Whitfield, officer.
Dist No. 81 l. Killebrcw, ! NJ Anderson
Haywood Mason, judges; u ]. johnson
J II Mason. clerks. ii Armstead. ofiiccr
dist. No; i-Wm Gritfey. s Y Moss, } "
clerks; W DTaylor, officer.
Dist. No. 5-J + Atkins. q W Bradbury
] Frey, Judges; q Fry, Ross bourne,
clerks; a Hamlet, officer
Dist. No. CT II Walthal, q III Slaughter
a Johnson, Judges; Ed Ross, { p War
field, clerks; J NJ Collier. ofYicer.
Dist; No. Il Trlce. NJ J. higgins. J Is Os-
9q = h, Judges; " Hester. il W Watts, clerks;
Dist. No. ST ogburn. b r Burchett, ]
Prewitt, judges; W NJ shelton, Jr, X II og-
burn, clerks; d n Buck, officer.
Dist No. "a X Coleman. Hanson Nor
row, Ed Og6urn. judges; WIN Caudie, wal
ter Leigh, clerks, j q Thomson, officer.
Dist No. lo-H A Dickson, John Heflin,
x Miller; Judges; VIM Rogers, g W Stack,
DIST Nu. I'LL NJ Brown. Richard VIM.
Nv stephens, Judges; !. NJ Brnwner, II ID
M9scly clerks: J NJ Rudolph. officer.
Dist No. l2-S a Caldwell, w Kieemann.
T. q Irwin, Judges; J II King, 10 Campbell,
clerks; Rawls, officer.
Dist No. III u Taylor. q " burton, Il,
Gnpton, judges; 4 TAtkins, 10 Council,
clerks; X l. King, officer.
Dis, Dist No; l5-R Brown, q W Denney.
Jesse Crotzcr. Judges, n r. Bagwell. S a
clifton; clerks J Ransdale, officer.
Dist No. lG--W u Bats0n, J Mavrty, S c
Harris, Judges; Blackford, J. Nebiett,
clerks; y L Harper, officer.
Dist No; III p DAILY, = p Ncblett, G c
Cooke, judges; Dick Richardson, lick Ed
mondson, clerks; 7 q IIargrovc, officer.
DIST NO. ls.-A Lyle, w II Martin. VIM
CHANNEL, Judges; John steele, Marion Var.
brough. clerks; y ID Allen. ofiicor.
Dist No. o--M G Powers, X III McFall, A
outlaw judges; w ] Powers, I W Williams
clerks; J 4 Trice. officer.
Dist No. 20--W !. Allen. 8 A Nesbett. 7
Wilke, Judges; ETricc, Wiley Rye, clerks:
4 Nolin, officer,
q. X. HARRIS, Special Deputy,
ny appointment of the County Judge.
July IL, lST2-tdc.