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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01

The LIVINGSTONE RELIEF MOVEMENT of
London is going ahead. AT public meeting
at the Mansion House on Tuesday night last,
called by the Lord Mayor, three thousand
pounds sterling were subscribed and measures
were taken to fit out an expedition and send it
off at an early day. All right; the sooner the
better, for there is no time to be lost If the ex-
petition would get safely across the swampy
country between the seacoast and Un-
yauyembe before the spring rains come on
This we ave learned from the HERALD ex-
pedition.
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consideration as a commercial city, This de-
partment was created in obedience to the
unanimous wish of our merchants and bust
ness men. Its members have possessed the
confidence of the shippers and importers.
There is not politician in It's councils, and
yet it is sacrificed, while other boards, made
up in the interest of politicians and hav-
ing only party purpose, are perpetuated.
This shows simply a desire to strike wildly,
to strike in the dark, to pull down something,
under the conviction that reform means
simply to pull down. If this is in any sense
reform, then the aspiring youth who fred the
Ephesian dome and the destroying Eutropius
were the most illustrious reformers 10 history.
This illustrates the radical error of this Com
mittee. Reform does not mean destruction, or
even arrested development New York is
growing city. In two hundred years it has risen
to be one of the four or five cities OF the earth.
In another century we may reasonably expect
to see upon this Manhattan Island and the
shores of the bays and streams that surround
it the largest metropolis in the world, the
centre of all the worlds business. Here we
shall nave transferred Lne commercial pre-
eminence Of London, united with the beauty
and taste of Paris. The merchants of all
countries, from Asia and from Europe, will
make their exchanges in Broadway. The tides
of business and trade and commerce and
finance all tend hither, and we must en-
courage them to come. What we must do
with this island is to make 1t worthy Of the
metropolis of the future. We must have
boulevards and highways and avenues,
parks and breathing places, docks and
wharves. There is no reasonable amount Of
money that we would not spend to accomplish
this. What we want from our reform Legisla-
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 as much upon
half-fnished 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 WELL Thus far they have not met it. The
Tammany Ring 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,
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since that power has ceased. Is Indispensable. nor
Is IL necessary conclusion that the assent Vi uio
people thus obtained was essential. Ther assenh
Dy representation through the Common COUNCIL IL
Is supposed would have been sufficient
And in another part of the same work ne
adds:-"But where the Legislature cannot
by its own powers abrogate or vary
charter privilege it may yet do 30
with the concurrence of the Corporation"
From this reasoning it would appear that
the validity of Legislative enactment amend
ing city charter is dependent upon its ratifi-
cation, either by the Common Council as the
representatives Of the citizens, or by the citi-
zens themselves. With regard to the char
tiers of 1857 and 1870, the approval of neither
the Common Council of the time being nor Of
the citizens was sought or obtained. How
far the citizens may be considered to have
accepted those charters by acting under them
Is matter for contemplation. The point is a
knotty one, which we must leave to the deci-
sion OF lawyers.
The article which we print to-day will be
found to give not only the full particulars of
the votes to which we refer, but the various
changes in our city charters which have taken
place during the last two and a quarter
centuries, and will well repay perusal 1t is
the only complete history of our local gov
eminent that has yet been given to the
public.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01

The LATEST NEWS FROM MEXICO, according
to our special despatch, is that the revolu-
tionary General Quiroga has fanked Cortina,
preparatory to making mncemeat of him.
Why don't the United States step in and flank
the whole lot of them?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01

How is IT that our immaculate reform Sem
ate appears to be afraid to touch ''the Boss ?"
They say II is because he has half dozen
Senators under bis thumb, and that If they
challenge him he can produce his "vouchers. "
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01

A COOP MOVE IN KANsAs-The resolutions
of the Legislature urging upon Congress
such action as will secure cheaper rail-
way transportation between the West ana
the East
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The PROOF OF THE PUDDING, &C.-The
Albany printing firm Of Thurlow Weed Il Co.
assure us, through their organ at the State
capital, that the majority Of both houses Of the
Legislature ''are honestly intent upon what is
right, and sincerely desire to answer the full
expectations Of the people," Well, will they
refuse to appropriate another dollar Of the
peoples money for worthless books and bogus
printing claims? And will they let the people
know how much percentage, If any, Weed and
his partners paid for the little twelve thousand
dollar job of reprinting the State Engineer
and Surveyors report of 1869 under direc-
ton" OF Speaker Younplove?
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A BIC JOB FOR TIE PRINTRR-That In pre-
paration by the Custom House investigating
Committee. Go ahead.
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The "LIrTLE JOKER" IN FRANCE. The
municipal Syndcates of four of the most cele-
brated watering places Of France have for
mally petitioned the French government for
the repeal of the law against public gambling.
They also offer to pay TO the French Treasury
forty millions of francs per annum for the
privilege of licensing gambling establishments
in these four towns-summer resorts of fash
ionables and invalds. NJ Theirs may we'll ex-
claim that ''poverty makes one acquainted with
strange bedfellows" when he finds that main
reliance for his government to pay off that
terrible Prussian indemnity is likely to be
had in the sale Of tobacco monopoly and
the authorizing, for sub-letting, of gambling
houses. If the French President can succeed in
turning the ''little joker" to any honest, profit
able, patriotic purpose, the fact will consti-
tute wonderful incident in the history both
of national and personal finance. What will
the French Bishops say to the project, and
what about the ''money changers" in the
Temple, and 80 forth?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01

SCOTT PRESIDENTIAL" CLUB has been or
gained in Cleveland. 1t is Tom Scott Of ~,
not the General Scott of '52, who is the figure.
head on the target
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01
The Audit Bill Misinterpreted-The Powera
of the New Board.

of the New Board.
When the Audit bill was about to pass the
Assembly Speaker Smith, who led the oppo-
sition to any measure that did not give Comp
troller Green sole power in the payment OF
claims and the apportonment of money for
carrying on the several departments OF the
city government, offered an amendment to
the following effect :-''But said Board OF
Audit shall not audit or allow any claim at
greater rate or amount than that fixed
by law or by contract under
which services were rendered or ma
terials were furnished" This was considered
to be fair restriction, and it was engrafted
on the bill. Its meaning was obvious. When
ever rate or amount of compensation for
services rendered or for materials furnished
was either fixed by law or specified by con-
tract the sum allowed by the Board of Audit
should not be in excess of such rate or
amount. That is to say, if claim for SER
vices should be presented by an employs
whose salary was fixed by law at three thou
sand dollars year the Board should
not allow him larger sum, and
If claim should be brought in
for materials or labor supplied under writ
ten contract, the claimant should not receive
more than the stipulated price. But when
services have been honestly rendered, the re-
muneraton for which is not fixed by law, or
when materials have been honestly supplied
and labor honestly performed without speci-
fed contract price, the Board of Audit is left
10 ok the amounts to be paid to the claimants
according to their own judgment OF fair deal
inc and justice to the city and to the citys
creditor.
Il is said, however, that Comptroller Green
nterprets the restriction proposed by Speaker
Smith as forbidding the payment of any claim
for services, materials or labor unless the
amount of remuneration has been previousS
fixed by law or specified by written CONTRACT,
| The ground the Comptroller is understood to
take is that any debt contracted in excess of
appropriations is rendered invalid by the
Speakers provso. This appears to be a
forced and incorrect Interpretation Of the law,
which simply restricts the award in cases in
| which the law or contract has fixed
| the sum due to the claimant, and does
not either in letter or in spirit pro-
hibit the auditing and payment of other
Just claims. We believe that the Comptroller
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The Mormon Murderers.

AS predicted by special despatch to the
HERALD q few days since, an attempt has
been made to liberate the prisoners indicted
for murder in Salt Lake City. A more
fragrant breach Of the laws of the United
States has seldom been planned. number
of men hare been arrested after full investi-
CATION of facts duplicating them in
the most atrocious crime known among
civilized nations; but in order to
save the expense of their maintenance in
prison, and that the government officials
might not be put to the trouble Of attending to
the duties for which they were appointed,
Judge Mexican is asked to let this villanous
gang loose again, to commit, If occasion
required, repetition of the acts for which
they are now held for trial. Why arrest them
at all? Why attempt to maintain order and
good government and pay heavy salaries
to officials to endeavOr to convince
the world of security and order when
these men proclaim by their acts that the
whole affair is hdeous farce and a mockery
of Justice? If such law be sound, as applied
by the Attorney General through District
Attorney Bates, then it would be clearly a
piece of cruel injustice for New York or any
State of the Union to hold for trial any man, no
matter of what crime charged or
however vile his character. No State,
perhaps, can ''afford" to keep its crimi-
nails in place of safety any more than
the federal government; but on the other
hand, the lives of citizens and their property
must be protected, and to provide for prisons
and punishment is the only method of doing
80. If gross injustice has not been done by
the circulation of false reports as to the actual
state of affairs in Utah, then the decision of
Judge Mexican, in refusing to release the pris-
oners, proves loftier conception on his part
of the necessities Of the situation than is
possessed by his judicial superiors in Wash
| ington.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-01

Two Coon TnrNes-Plenty OF coal on nsnd
for the winter and Russian ice crop Tor the
summer.
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ADJUSTMENTS This EVENING

BOwERY THEATRE. Bowery-STREETs OF NEW YORK.
HUSBAND SlGHT. Matinee
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OLYMPIC THEATRE Broadway.-THE BALLET PAN.
TONNE OF HUMPTY DUMPTY
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JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
PRoPR lEToR.
Volume XxxvII........ .................No 80
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING
BowERY THEATRE Bowery-srREETs OF NEW YORK.
HUSBAND AT SIGHT. Matinee
ST JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-eichth street and Broad
way.-MoNAI.DI
OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.-THE BALLET PAN.
TONNE OF HUMP1Y DUMPTY.
AMEEs OPERA BoUFFE. No 72u Broadway.-LA
PEErcnoLE.
BOOTHS THEATRE. Twentyihira st., corner Sixth
JULIUS CAESAR
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. rwsn.y-soarh street.
TnE NEW DRAMA oY DIVORCE
GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner of 9Th and a3a ST.
EUROPEAN hpPoTHEATRIcAL COMPANY
WOODS MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Both st-Perform.
ances afternoon and eyening-ON HAND.
wALLACE's THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.
JOHN GARTH
NIBLo's GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and
Houston sreets.-BLAoK CROOK.
MRS. F. B. coNwAY's BROOKLYN THEATRE
MAN AND WIFE.
THEATRE coMIoUE 81 groadwavCoxIo VOCAL
1bA6 MICRO nc TO- dC.--NEW YORK IN 1871.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE Fourteenth ST. and Broad.
way.-NEGRo AcTs--B URLRsoUE, BALLET 40. Matinee.
THIRTY-FoURTH STREET THEATRE, near Third ave.
nue.-VAEIETY ENTERTAINMENT
TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. No. 2ol Bowery -
MICRO ECcENTRIoITIRs. BURLEsouEs, &c.
BRYANT's NEW OPERA HOUSE, ed ST.. between 9Th
and 7th avs.-BaYANT'B MINsTRRLs
SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL. 5s5 Broadway
IuR SAN FEANCIsoo MINsTRELs.
PAVILION, No. 6S5 Broadway.-THK VIENNA LADY Or
1HEsTRA
sT. PETERS HALL. West Twentieth sreet.--AN EVEN
ING WITH DICKENS.
NEW YORK CIRCUS Fourteenth streer-soEsrs In
TIE RING. ACR0BATs. 80
DR. KAHN's ANATOMICAL MUSEUM 745 broadway -
SCIENCE AND Art.
NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, els Broadway
sCIENCB AND ART.
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ST JAMES THEATRE Twenty-cishth stree. and Broad.
Vay,-MONALDI.
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BOOTHS THEATRE, Twentythird ST. corner Sixth av -
JULIUS CESAR.
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FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE rwenty-sourh street. =
TIKI NEW DRAMA DIVORCE
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner Of 9Th and 23d ST.
EUROPEAN hpPoTuEATRIoAL COMPANY.
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| emoument. One material change, to be sure,
is that Cheap Jack has no trade in the old
line--no one to buy his weary, thrce-told
stories about corruption; no one to cheer after
his cart as before. So he has taken TO abuse
Charles OConor! The Mayor was to be hurled
into the darkness that envelops Lucifer, but he
sits in his curule chair, and has authority, and
finds reformers enough willing to have his name
on their commissions, and will probably remain
until his term is over, and win new one II
he cares. In truth, more real reforms have
come from the much-abused Mayor than from
any one else, and it would not surprise us to see
him leading new reform movement Instead
of Legislature obeying the new Commune,
we have the same kind of men who have been
seen for years and years at Albany. There is
the old Ring, with a new name This year it
comes as the Erie Ring and the Canal Ring,
and from all the indications the hard working
members at Albany will receive as large divi-
dends as were ever known in the most profitable
. sessions, in spite Of the Committee OF Seventy.
Have we any more purity in politics, any fur
Their assurance of sound legislation and add
tional security for the future because of this
Committee? We do not see it, although we
pray Heaven that some token may come.
: 1t is because wisdom has departed from the
: councils of the Committee, if il ever rested
there, which we doubt. Look at one point in
O its proposed charter, for instance-the pro-
4 posed abolition of the Department Of Docks
II This Department of Docks is one of the mos
n important to u.s. and vet by the Committee's
. charter it is abolished and made mere bureau
8 in the Department of Public Works Now,
b what New York as great commercial me-
g tropolis wants, even more than parks or wha
e are called public works, is a generous, com
: prehensive system Of docks. We have goot
9 share of the commerce Of the world; we ar
a competing for the control Of it, and we mus
r have docks as commodous as those Of Liver
pool before we can hone TO have permanen
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AMEE's OPERA BoUFFE, No. 72u Broadway.-L
u
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result CT an application made to the Legisla-
ture by the Common Council, as will be found
on reference to the proceedings of the latter
of January in that year. The altera-
tions then made were of considerable i'm
portance, but related chiefly to the legislative
power Of the Corporation, its mode of exer-
| else and the creation of various departments
| for the better execution of its municipal
powers, the latter of which had formed a
leading feature in the rejected charter OF three
wears previous. A clause in the act provided
for its being submitted for the approval Of the
city electors, failing to obtain which it should
become null and void. The charter Of 1853
was the result of general demand of citi-
zens, as expressed by them in mass meetings !;
but its validity, like the charters Of the
previous twenty-five years, was depend
ent upon the vote of the citizens.
Thus far, it will be seen that, since our
national independence, the people Of this city
were permitted to decide upon the manner in
which they should be locally governed; for, in
addition to the four cases above referred to,
vote was also taken in 1924 upon the expe-
| OlenCy Vi separating INC wv oo"Auo VI '">
Common Council, when the proposal to sepa
rate them was rejected. But these five occa.
sions form the only instances upon which
the people have been consulted in mattel
90 important to their welfare as thu
nature of their local government Neither
the charters of 1857 or 1870 were sub
mitted for approval by popular vote. It il
asserted by some that they are both invalid
for that reason. Hon. Murray Hoffman, IL
his ''Treatise upon the Estate and Rights
the Corporation" in referring to the popula
vote upon the charter of 1880, ssys;--
while thus the assent Of the incorporators to tn
amendments was obtained In the most autnent,
manner the authority OF the charter, as amended
still springs from the Legislature: me people Q
| the city and Common Council OF the CITY cou'
| no more amend an act OF hcoTporauol
than they could originally nave coniet t 9 9po
| themselves O corporate capacity. The wnOe Stat
is Interested In the establishment Of sucn bodies
aud hence the powers OF the Crown, In TINS partlcu
lar representing the STATE, and OF the LeRslatugt
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WOODS MUSEUM Broadway, corner Both st.-Perform.
noes afternoon and eyening.-ON HAND
New-York tribune., 1872-05-28

AMELUNG-On Sunday May 20 John A. Ameluns I-t y yirs
The Will place from the church OF tie Ne" JersAe
Tint ah-st between Pak and LexngtonaEes io-sI a. p
Friends Of the taEly respectfully nnel
BARLOW-At Huntington West Virginia, May -, iast q
eryapelas RchaFi b. Barlow, agsi y years.
DIMoCK-Sudlenly Elizabeth Monday MAY D. s. O'Clock
friends nylpd 10 attend ns fuaera on NelsY
May % at 40 o'clock from ths BTo1l bApa" CharA
Elizabeth, NevJersey.
ELLIOrTln Brooklyn on Monday 27h inst Grace Elliott.
only daughter Of ABna o. aid the late Henry Elliott ag- vye
months and days - , ~, . -.
Funeral residence Of her uncle D. b Elliott 90
Cn,on ave on WEDNESDAY AZ 10 Remains sl be- taken
Bridgeport, Conn, for interment On the same DAY
Bn.geport papers please copy.
.ueuv on "Wednesday morning hAr p l5z Anirr~ A. Fnoks.
sou MAJOR FHcEe oi the Revolutionary Army e ss@
year Of Eis age
HAwEsOp SATURDAY. May 25 1872 Priscilla Haves widow
tbe Lad. WIN p Hawes e-q.. Of Nov forA Ctf.
The funeral place TUESDAY As L5 hom her late resdeass
IN Sigstt0rd, Conn
IoyA Ovid Seneca County YeYork Saturday May 49, 1874
CahaIne Fisher Vi The ate Ard JOY, Eg-i 81 ycan
NAYLOROu sunday May % Margaret yan se Of Peter NAgie.
IN the list year Of Der
d. funeral residence 81 Fihrye. wednesday
aeuaoOH iast clock, s hout frher Invitation
RoGERs-oa saluAy 25L Jaaes Rog tie 1ith q
P. of the family are invited attend
deuce No. West Nneteenthst. on rueslay kts, Al
sRToS-Oa SATURDAY May Is Emma seton daughter Of The
The respectfully invited % attend The iaasr a
"a D. TUESDAY iEOm the CuTch " the Ascension fitA.
and reutAsL
sKDNORE-In this city az The residence q bis aer, simne r.
Sunday morning Nay ~, S2 william Robert sAiiG0r1
10 3lst Of tls
Church BroadTa opposite "ast oa NelnrsaAy nori1s
The .yth Ist, 40 clock.
TEALL-Is Albany ~ y SsuriaY May p. o heAt disease
Wallace Francs A. and T. Orcea iea aged -
years, months, and , days
friends invited attend TIE funeral A. ls pAfea
- RcEsoHst, bEooAyn, - LAY tIaeSiAl a.
0COck p.
New-York tribune., 1872-05-28
NEw-JERsEY MALFEAsANCE TRIALS.

In the Hudson County Court, the trial OF
Messrs yreeland Bumsted and Welsh for conspiracy 70
detraud city purchasing grounds for new reser-
vOr continued yesterday President Gilett OF ths
Board OF Public Works testhed that action taken in
the reservoir matter April g. 1871 IN the latter pars
Of June he had mentioned the necessity Of purchasns
the land; witness thought Commissioner Bray could
assist In the purchase he was familiar win ths
values Of property; witness asked him TO do so and he
consented; Mr.. Bumsed also consented 20 ah ID ths
matter the resolution 10 purchase was passed on April
ls; another was passed on June o. suthcrizm ths
Committee to ascertain the prices Ior "Acn
property could be bought: the Committee vas
redlesfed buy all that could be bought az prices s-
taDlshed by the Board, aud 10 condemn tle resi- mo
report Of the Committee received Cn June =.
warrant in favor Of the City Treasurer for ss5y vas
issued at that date; when the warrant was 'Oeu ior
witness did not know % whom the money ,Woluu -
paid; witness did not know that NieeAnd had pur-
chased lands, or that the city was pa lng au
the land witness had inquired Of every meuDet o hs
SOard, and informed that not one OF lAeA A- h
thOrized Vreeland 10 act az agent.
Commissioners oarup and Bray gave DesthonF sIllAH
70 that OF the President John T. Culver CLleI LnsAeer
OF the Board Public Works testified that ne hd Iur
nished Vreeand with map Of the property required IN
reservoir Tue case VIII probably occupy most OF tAe
week. . -
Judge Barkaow in the Circuit Court at Paterson, yes
terday dismissed the indictments FOUND Two years ago.
against members OF the Board OF Chosen freeAOdess
on the ground that the had failed Tor the sAta
tme TO act upon the indictments, though ne accused
had presented themselves for trial at four terms