New-York tribune., 1872-10-11

-a,t.cc were APPOINTED BY Gov. HOFFMAN; they
have begun at the right end of the business,
and, furnished with clue to the whole man
agement which can be followed with accuracy,
we hope they will proceed thoroughly and
without favor to the end of their inquiry.
We have pleasure in informing the organs
which have been anxOusly calling for it, that
we shall tomorrow favor them with tho fur
ther extract from the records of Erie We have
promised; and very much we hope they may
find it to their liking. Meantime, once more
what has Gen. Dix to say about demanding
from a poor, bankrupt corporation, when ne
was protesting to rescue from thieves, pay Tor
his services at the rate of sixty thousand dol
lars per annum9
Gen. Jno. C.. Robinson undertook, tho other
night in the Cooper Institute, to speak for tho
soldiers, but was curiously silent on the sub
iect of that lfe-pension of S5,G25 per annum.
The next time this man requests his fellow
soldiers to reward him for his services in the
war by giving him the Leutenant-GOvernOr-
ship of New-YOrk, won't they ask him what
superior title he has to pension of S5,625 per
in service, are put of with $3.50 per annum9
There was an exciting session of the Court
of Oyer and Terminer, yesterday, the Ring
cases having come up. But nothing was ac-
complished except in the Tweed case, in which
it was agreed that an argument to set down
the trial be heard next Monday. This does
not look very encouraging; nor does tho en-
borrasement OF Thos. g.. Fieldss affairs by the
absence of ex-Controller Connolly promise well
for the cause of justice 1t would be little
singular if the trial of one of the Ring should
be indefinitely postponed because the absence
of q fugacious accOmplice might destroy
part of his defense. There has been so much
trifing in these cases, the public begins to
settle into the belief that there is very little
heart i'll the prosecution.
There is not much that is new in the pre-
liminary report of the Commission which has
examined the Mexican boundary disorders.
We knew that incursions from Mexico have
been frequent and aggravating during the
past few years but it is not credit to the
military service of the country that the force
on our side Of the line has been so inadequate
to protect the lives and property of our citi-
zens. The infantry is posted at long intervals,
and the distance between the principal forts
is 300 miles. To be sure, there is a line of
500 miles to guard, and this would require
considerable force to be an e6ectual defense;
but the army ought to be able to afford some
reinforcement Of this slender line and, what
is more, the Mexican Government should be
given to understand that these raids must
cbaelr 4p0D hn hou1a authorities.
We have dispatch from Madrid to-day
which ought to be kept on the standing
galleys of all well-cOnducted newspapers. We
have used it frequently, and expect to use it
at rapid intervals as long as the Spanish flag
remains in Cuba 1t states that a Senator
attacked the Volunteers, and the Minister OF
the Colonies defended them. They will be
attacked from time to time as long as an
occasional honest man learns something about
them, and they will be defended by the Min
ister of the Colonies as long as his place de-
pends upon his defending them. A petition to
abolish slavery has also been presented to the
Senate and referred to His Majesty's Ministers,
who have no more to do with the matter than
His Majestys horses. 1t is idle for the COrtes
to talk about emancipation or any other re-
form in the Antilles The Volunteers of
Havana rule Cuba and Porto Rico, and they
will stand no humanitarian nonsense from
Madrid.
After falsely claiming Indiana for two days,
the Grant organs will probably, to-day. admit
that their boast was grOundless. The TRB-
UNE's announcement on the morning after
the election was correct. The special
and Associated Press dispatches alike con-
cede Hendricks's election; and Gov. Morton
now contents himself with still claiming to
have a chance for his own life in the Legisla
ture Even that the Liberals deny him
and past experience with the kind
of Legislature accustomed to convene at
indianapolis has doubtless suggested to
the Senator that if he has only slight ma
iority, his chances will be a good deal slighter.
But we warn our friends that great are the
mysteries of counting in the back counties of
Indiana Let them watch that majority on the
GOvernOrship.
1t appears that the partisans of the Admin
istratiOn are already taking measures to ac-
complish in this city, next November, sub
version of the will of the people by means of
an organized system of crime at the ballot-box
as serious as that which has just overwhelmed
the second city of the Union with disgrace.
A correspondent explains how one particular
broncb of tbia ulan ia to he axecutpd. and