New-York tribune., 1872-09-30

Mr. Brewster resumed in conclusion; NOW, Bo"'0
men-let me see-where II lLaughter'I ! an
afraid am like tho man in tho old sOng-lu give ltt'
| you:
There was a man in our town.
And he was wOndrOus wise.
He Jumped into bramDe bush
And scratched out both his eyes:
And wheD he found his eyes we're OUT
He jumped into the bramble bush
And scratched them In again
And so must dol must scratch them in again.
| But even the "men of business who were
deluded into this meeting and thus Insuitcd,
| "loyalr as they are, would have felt them
selves deeply aggrieved had they known that,
at the very moment they were straining
point to sustain Hartranft, he and his conii-
| Dental friends were consummating plan by
which public opinion should be again dehed
and his mariners in crime discharged from
nrison. The pardon of Yerkes and Marcer
was then on the way from Harrisburg. Simon
Cameron guarding the President at the Con
tinental, knew of 1t. Gen. Porter knew IL,
and, Judging from the active agency OF the req
eral District Attorney for the Western DIS
trict. the President knew it. According TO
the documents printed, curiousy enough WIN
ont date. the scheme had been Matching fOr
several days, but its consummatlon had 10 De
delayed till the "men OF business" shouiu
have vanished Hartranft.
Of the exercise Of mercy in any such case
it is our inclination always to speak cautiously
and sympathetically and If, for reasons OF
broken health, or what are ordinarily known
as mitigating circumstances, Gov. Geary, at a
proper season, had chosen to pardon either or
both of these men, it would have been no
matter of reproach. Marcer, who is clearly
understood to be the less guilty of the two,
nod hrnLpu
ously enough when his pardon was cOmmuni-
Gated to him. that "he had hoped for 1t, but
"not so soon-not till after the election" He
probably did not know all anything that
was going on outside. 1t was necessary to
get Yerkes out in order that he might rescue
Hartranft, and it would not be safe to leave
Marcer behind. Yerkes knew good deal
more He had been, according to the evidence,
preparing exculpatory documents for several
DAYS, and when tho pardon was brought to
him and read he laughed and cracked his
"iokes, seemed in right good humor, and
shook hands all round.n And well he might,
for it was a distinguished party that greeted
him in his cell-the Mayor of Philadelphia,
Colonel Lee of the Governors staff, and
District Attorney Swope-Federal, State, and
municipal authority each represented-and he
was carried in triumph to the Continental
Hotel. and then to an Administration newspa-
per Office and the next morning the aston
ished men of business learned the news that
he was set free who but seven months before
had, by the Judgment of an accredited court
Ga new trial being refused) and with the ap-
proval Of the whole community, listened to
these words with head bowed down in
conscious shame: "Charles Il. Yerkes, the SEN
"tence of the Court is that you pay fine of
" $500 to the Commonwealth for the use of the
"County, that you pay the costs of the prose-
"cuton, and that you undergo Imprisonment
ain the State Pententiary, for the Eastern
"District, by separate or solitary confinement
"at labor for the period of two years and
"nine months, and that you stand committed
"until this sentence is complied with" Moth
ing remains now but for the Board of Brokers
to restore him to membership-the Broadst.
League of which he is a member with Came
ron and Mann and Allison Ito whom he will
no doubt take off his hat now and Cattell to
welcome him back, and the Farmers and Me-
chanics' Bank to lend him another $2GS0OO!
1t remains too to be seen in what spirit the
true responsibility of Philadelphia will receive
this defiance of public opinion. Down to this
time but portion OF the factS mas Deen maze
known. The pardon itself, which is supposed
to recite the reasons for the Governors action,
is carefully kept secret. That it tells the truth
as to the real motive, of course no one for a
moment imagnes. Six months ago Hartranft
and Mackey asked for this pardon, and it was
refused. Gov. Geary saw no reason for mercy
} then What influences have been brought to
bear since can only be imagined. They must
be powerful, or there would have been a little
prudent delay. The Governor was very feryent
with Burnside and Hawley at Pittsburgh, and
it would not at all surprise us if, in the i'm
probable event of Pennsylvania being further
prostituted in October and November, he
should be made Director of the Mint, vice
Pollock removed, or Collector of Internal
Revenue in the place of Brookes, whom Hugh
| Mara tried TO shoot. This matter of Yerkes's
being disposed of, the "men of business" will
look with some interest to the unfinished cases
of the assassns and the forgers--of Mara and
Mrs. Furey, as to the latter of which one of the
most respectable and considerate of the Phila-
delphia newspapers ominously enough said
| last week: