Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-27
New YORK, March Is, 1872.

extraordinarily large dose, not of croton
water, but Of croton oil, or some other
equally powerful purgative agent, and is
fast getting rid Of the evils which have so
long been aby-word and reproach. The good
work Of reform promises to be thorough
and effective, and the only obstacle in the
way of it's speedy triumph is the law and
it's delays, the very principle which the
movement seeks TO indicate. 1T Is rath-
er singular sight to see criminals indicted
in accordance with the regular process of
law, finding their only safety in the In
Vulnerable shifts and devices which men
well versed in legal lorep know how to
use. Here is our Mayor, for instance,
condemned for malfeasancc in office by
the entire respectable portion of the conf
munity, indicted by the Grand Jury, pro-
testing his innocence and demanding fair
trial, yet fighting desperately on every
conceivable occasion and Directing to
everything in the shape of evidence
badgering Judge and jury with tech
nicalities and giving the lie to his
own professions of innocence.
The Mayors trial, temporarily suspen-
ded by the untimely death of juror, con-
tains all the elements for first rate play.
1t ought to be a tragedy. 1t is comedy
and it may become farce. Garvey turn
ed up in the nick of time, appearing on
the scene like the harlequin in a panto-
mime all ready to tell what he knew about
swindling. Just as he was fairly started,
one of the twelve know nothings who sit
in the Jury box must needs get disguised
and die, and now the whole performance
must begin all over again. OF truth, it
is linked sweetness long drawn out.
But we must have some excitement, and
presto, there is music over at the Erie
headquarters. Sickles attacks the Ring"
and aided by q few vane-like directors, q
new Board of Control is organized, Gould
nd fri. he
ruption' 1t is true that outsiders are in
clined TO be suspicious, and it seems rather
strange to find the notorious eX-President
still retaining his place as director and
sitting by the side of Lane, who first made
him President and then became the chief
agent in deposing him but we must not
be too particular. Erie stock has risen
from 35 to AZ, and that looks as though
the all powerful "street" had confidence
in the new officers.
Just at present investigation is the order
of the day. Terwilliger, Clerk OF the
Senate, has been Investigated out of
office; Senator Wood has had his bank
account Investigated and it would mo
pun intended) not pass muster, so he will
probably be expelled from the Senate, and
by the by, his fate ought to he shared by
half dozen others, if legal evidence could
only be obtained
A SMALL TAMMANY.
Then the Registers office is to
be investigated " the Judiciary
Committee are investigating the official
doings of Judges Barnard and Cardozo !;
the Superintendent of Insurance is going
under the yoke" and the construction of
the Ninth District court house is found to
be another prolific source of corruption.
Look at the figures:
Amount actually expended ................ S5l 00C
Amount of money expended MINIMUM, 4OOOO
Now, who has the difference between
these two sums, which are only approXi'
mate statements, by the way? The Gus
tom house has been investigated; you may
have heard this fact mentioned before, bu
the result has not yet been made manifest
and SO on to the end Of the chapter. /
we could only feel certain of obtaining
some permanent reforms, if the leechei
who have drawn so much from the tax
payers could be compelled TO disgorge anS
chant "Sing-Sing, tits my earthly home
for the rest of their days, if the taxes coulC
be diminished, and expressions, extortions
impositions and corruptions be effeetuall.
removed, then would New York breath,
freer. But Peter objects to being robbed
in order to pay Paul, and politicians arr
curious birds. However do not wish q
grumble. Much has been already done
and the bow of promise is in the politica
sky, indicating that much more may ant
probably will be done. M
AN OLD HAUNT.
From politics pass TO more congenia
theme. Every once in while some curiou
investigator brings TO light relic of " Y
olden time " even in New York, and it !
right pleasant to find some old place will
a history going back beyond "a score 0
years, to have brought back to our recol
lections some "reminiscences of the reyolu
tionary time, or even back further to the
days when the phlegmatic Dutch burgher
made laws for Manhattan. We go ahea'
fast enough, we almost forget how few tn
years since our country was but wilder
ness. The other day i went out with
friend to lunch and we directed our step
toward +" Old Toms Coffee House, But
few doors from Broadway and in a littl
lane stands the old house which has q re
cord dating back nearly a century. Every
thing in and about the place savOrs of an
other day and time. For seventy year
no broom has swept the floors of the an
cient coffee and chop house," cObweb
many miles in length are festooned abou
the ceiling everything in the room is a
least seventy years old, and the ''toby" on
Of which you drink your beer may hay
been the favorite drinking mug Of Died
rich Knickerbocker. Old swords and pis
dence and records of the doings of tn
Continental Congress, venerable picture
of Dutch and English worthless, serve
adorn the ancient walls of this most an
cient spot. Although within pistol she
Of old Trinity, the house once marked tn
limit between city and country, and tn