New-York tribune., 1872-09-25

carry enough States to elect Jno biooA"i
candidates by an overwhelming majority
BONDS S-PENNSYLVAELA, PBILADELPHIA.
If we were called upon just now to ADVISE
a safe and convenient investment, we shouid
not counsel either Pennsylvania 5s" or
Philadelphia 6s.n A fortnight hence, when
Pennsylvania Will decide her own nnancial
fate, the state of things may brighten Dut as
il now ia, there is great cause of sollcltude ana
dstrust. Our simple wonder is that what is
so perfectly clear to us at a distance should
make 80 little impression on those who are
moro directly interested. That there Is some
uneasness near the scene of disturbance, Win
reference to the securities we have mentioned,
is apparent from two cautious and colncldeht
utterances of the Philadelphia press. On one
day the Republican Press says with emphasis
of the State credit:
ave advise every man who holds Pennsylvania
security at once sell out for there will not be doar
left in the sinking fund at the end of Harranits term
as Governor while the debt OF the State will not DO re-
duced farthing The necessities OF tho men VINO are
now plotting to elect Harranf well their greed
for money are such to force them, IN case they
can put the Governor Of Pennsylvania into thelr
pockets to devote the OF the sinking fund TO
cleaning out the vault accounts OF tho Treasury ana
fixing up their bank accounts with the same de-
partment"
And the next day the Democratic Age, local
izing its apprehensions, adds:
"The fraud in the OF Mrs. Parker's bonds VIII
draw fresh attention the OF 1.-THE City TreaSu
rer's Office Somebody that office, must suppose
com unicated TO the swinders the fact that certificates
were lying there belonging to lady absent ID Europe
This they knew before they laid their plot to personate
her The matter demands the strctest inyestlgatlon
and will spread alarm in this city as to the chaIac
ter OF the who have charge OF the interests OF te
citizens"
The citizens of Philadelphia, to whom the
incidents of this last case of fraud are familiar,
can hardly fail to be struck with one feature
in common between it and the Hartranft-
Yerkes affair. In the latter case Ierkes the
broker who is now in the penitentiary, was
tho trusted and confidential agent and broker
of the institution to which the transfer OF
State stocks is intrusted. He had access to
the State stock ledger, from which all others
are excluded He was allowed to borrow
quarter Of q million at time. :" My bank"
saws witness, "has loaned him S2OO,OOO in
" the Spring Of 1871 he owed us In loans
"s15OOOO. I sent for him and asked him to
Z" take $4,000 more for six months, which he
"agreed to do" Within the six months
Yerkes was convicted. When the mysterious
city fraud was committed, one of the agents
being woman named Furey, the very same
witness who attested Yerkes says: " Eknow Mrs.
" Furey very well. L think | added anything
she may say is correct. She has kept an ac-
"count in the bank for about five years, and
" has borrowed money from us several times,
"sometimes without security, &C." The result
ia that Mrs. Furey is, it would seem, Oh her
way to join General Hartranfts partner in the
penitentiary. The Public Ledger OminOusly
says
Detectives are now engaged in working up evidence
in the of the sOsO) Of city loan transferred as
Is alleged by one Tamar c. Johnson to De Haven
Bro, bankers. by forging the name OF Charlotte u
Parker the circumstances Of which were published yes
terday Tho missing link in the chain Of evidence is as
to how the certificates got out OF the City Treasurers
Office The transfer, 1t Is stated was made during tho
term Of Mr. Marcer as City Treasurer and there are no
receipts for the certificates in the City Treasurers
Office. The book "a sort OF scrapbook or blotter In
which tho certificates OF loan kept subject to the
call Of the owners after being countersgned by the City
Controller is accessible only to the clerks of the Treas
urers office and carefully locked In the vault at night
No certificates ever delivered unless the party who
claims them Is identified by some party known TO the
clerks in the Treasury Mr.. Widener has means OF
knowing whether these certificates delivered prior
TO his entering office or distracted atterward But
every effort will be made arrive at the true state of
the case"
We cannot help repeating what The Age
SAYS: "These matters demand the strictest in
vestigation, and will spread new alarm in
"the city as to the character of the men who
shave charge of the interests of its citizens.p
All this is the fruit of such spurious Republi-
cansm as has sol long governed Philadelphia
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