New-York tribune., 1872-04-03

large lot of rifles to tho French agents, some
months after the Presidents order, forbidding
such sales, had been issued Gen. Dyer, who
was not allowed to sell the War Department
arms, was a bad adviser of the Navy Depart
mcnt us the Secretary must now see.
Full returns from Connecticut place the
reelection Of Gov. Jewell beyond doubt
The complete vote gives him plurality OF
1.04O over Hubbard, and majority of 30 over
all candidates. The paucity of the
vote polled by the Labor Reform and
Temperance candidates will surprise and
disappoint their friends The Legislature is
overwhelmingly Republican, there being a
majority of so on joint ballot--a gain of six
over last year. The whole result is now made
up, and will be most gratifying to the active
and enthusiastic workers in the Republican
party of the Land of Steady Habits.
Mr.. Controller Green, we regret to learn,
has been making the tour of the NAL
odorOus tumble down, ram-shackle rat-hOes,
which disgrace our City by bearing the name
of her Public Markets, and considering how
they may be repaired and rendered serviceable.
There is just one thing to be done with these
fever-nests, and that is to sell them; and this
should not be delayed to the end OF this
month Sell them, and capacious, commodious,
creditable structures, located exactly where
markets are needed, and paying the City more
in taxes than she now receives in rents, Will
speedily replace these dens of filth and squalor.
How long, o how longf
We hope the Legislature will take notice OF
the card of Mr.. Thomas BOese, Clerk OF the
Superior Court, in which no intimates that the
Jury fee fraud on the people is an
intolerable infliction ON the Clerks OF the
Courts, denounces the swindle, and asks for
the repeal of the law which makes it possible.
Mr.. Boese was an active refOrmer in the late
political revolution, and his recommendation
for repeal ought to have weight. Many OF the
Tammany clerks remain in Office, and would
| oppose repeal if they dare; but their protests,
under all the circumstances, hardly deserve
| grave consideration. The Legislature is largely
composed of honest lawyers who know that the
law of 1870 is an imposition on the people for
| the benefit of a few of Tweed's adherents, and
they will hardly fail to give half an hour OF
| the session to the repeal of the obnoxious act.
Meantime, the clerks themselves should be
! required to hasten the completion of their
| accounts and settle up their balances.
| Some broad burlesqie was introduced into
the Custom house Investigation, yesterday, by
| calling on one Peterkin to relate how he went
| to Syracuse last Summer, in the character OF
| bold ruffian, to drive out officers hostile to
the nti-Custom house party. How this
story could possibly be connected with
the investigation into the affairs of the
New-York Custom-house does not ap-
| pear But the witness told how he went up
in the interest of the anti -Custom-hOuse Re-
publcans, and with desperate gang of ruff
fans, twenty in number took possession OF
the platform, armed with three-legged stools,
| instructed to drive the officers of
the Convention provided they were
Cornell g. Coz off the edge of the
| platform, when they were to be trampled to
death by the infuriated crowd in front. This
| bloody programme was spoiled by the inter-
ference of two noble policemen, who disarmed
the twenty ruffans Of their three-legged stools,
and ignominiously put them out of the hall.
1t is clear that the redoubtable Peterkin is not
the man his employers took him to be, or else
has gotten his stories mixed.
The second dispatch of Lord Granville in
regard to the question of consequential dam
ages was yesterday laid before the Cabinet at
Washington. If we may judge from those
indications of its substance which have reached
us, it justifes the hopes continually expressed
by THE TRIBUNE that the Government Of
Great Britain would in the end conclude to
~ fharn lya
those objections to our Case which may seem
to them proper. 1t is of course not to be
expected that the Arbitrators should give us
any very heavy consequential damages. They
will very certainly give us no more than is
due. More than this We do not ask, and this
Great Britain processes to be anxious to give.
1t is therefore entirely proper that the
scene Of discussion should now be shifted
to Geneva. Lord Granville and Mr.. Fish can
never convince each other. If England is not
inclined to go to the Arbitration, she must
break the Treaty on her own responsibility,
without any help from u.s. Our Government
cannot, without confession of carelessness
which should be followed by immediate resig-
nation, admit that it has put forward ground
less or frivolous claims. As we have said so
often before, the only way out of the diff
Guilty is for England to carry to Geneva her
exceptions to our Case. and for us to justify
before the Board of Arbitration, and nowhere
else, our rights and our claims. We shall re-
joice, if fuller details confirm the indications
of this morning, that this is the course to be
pursued
We hope The Brooklyn Eagle will manage to
calm down before another issue. In its virtu-
GUS indignation about the laundering report of
the indictment Of Judge Pratt, it attributes
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