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New-York tribune., 1873-02-04
selves again to the selfish and shortsighted
advisers who then brought us so near TO ruin.
THE POLICE JUSTICES Bill.


Tho Judiciary Committee Of the Assembly
ia 10 listen tomorrow to the argument OF the
counsel of tho Reform Associations of this city
in favor of the bill for the reform Oh our
Police Courts. We hope the Committee anu
counsel alike comprehend the Importance Oh
this business There can be no thorough
reform of the Judiciary until these
courts. as now organized, are broken up
the present Judges dismissed from once,
and n new set of respectable and honest
men not mere ward politicians, selected
in their places by some better method
than that of direct popular election. The men
now in these places of trust, in which almost
absolute power over persons Is welded wltl-
out responsibility, are, as rule, wholly unht
IN fill them. They are for the most part un
educated in the law the only principle OBJ
served in their selection for their offices has
been that of personal popularity. They have
attained position only through pledges,
more or less positive to the most degraded
classes in their districts; and their power is
daily prostituted to the service of every one
of them who has any influence left. We
have happily succeeded in redeeming the
higher courts, in which the property OF
citizens unhappily rich enough to be itigants
was at the mercy of corrupt judges; but all
reforms arc still in peril when, in the courts
in which the persons and liberty of the poor
and rich alike are in danger, such Ignorant
and subservient politicians burlesque Justice.
1t Is not enough that the principal hucksters
of habeos corpus, Barnard and Cardozo. should
90; it is necessary to our safety and security
nnrfa
should be dismissed by even more summary
process.
The new bill gives the appointment OF the
Police Justices to the Mayor, but the confirm
ing power is delegated to the Judges of the
Superior Court. This latter provision is wise
and safe one ; there are no judges on the
Bench more directly interested in maintaining
the purity of the courts Immediately below
them. The vesting of the appointing power IN
the Mayor is also cOmmendable, but to secure
impartial and honest appointments the election
of the Mayor should be separated as far as
possible from all political considerations. This
can only be done by electing municipal Off
GERS in the Spring a provision we hope to see
prevail in any new charter.
We have before limited that the Police
Justices, afraid of being legislated out OF
Office, have made combination with Gus
tom-house faction at Albany to defeat the
bill of the Reformers. The integrity of any
member claiming to be RefOrmer is not
above suspicion if he fails to support this
bill. Nobody but the vile classes, who flourish
by the abuses ofithese courts, can be desirous
of continuing them under the present system
| and present officials. We warn country MEM
bers, who probably know nothing of the oper-
ations of these courts, that to sustain these
intriguing Judges is to continue an infiiction
upon this city which has greatly injured and
| disgraced it.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04
NeGu'2lotk Daily Gribmase.
BY HORACE GREELEY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1878.

President Theirs has made another speech before the
Committee Of Thirty. 1t is reported that the Rus
sian docs not approve Of the assurances
given to Great Britain by Count ScbOuvaloh
The Senate, yesterday, tabled the Australian Steam
ship Subsidy bill. === The House declared it inexpe
dent 20 code Goat Island for railroad purposes.
Tho Wilson Investigating Committee inquired con-
cerniug the fee Of $4,000 paid TO Gov Dix Terrible
boiler explosions occurred at Pittsburgh and ConshO
hocken. Penn.
The city defrauded out Of S26OOOOOO by the Ring
according TO a recent investigation. =- Samuel j.
Tldon has written letter municipal reform. =-
The proponents withdrew the PROCEEDINGS in relation
20 MI Greeley's last will. 60 Gold, llSt, 49, llS5
Thermometer, 2So, 80 $50.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04
ANNEXATION OF wEsrcuEsrER TOWNS.

A copy of an act having the following ends
in view was presented the Board OF Assistant Alder
men, yesterday by Committee appointed by residents
the southern portion of wetcheser County, To set od
the towns OF Morrssnia West Farms, and Kingsbrdge
from the County of westchester and TO make the sans
part of the City and County Of Sew-York; to make
pew dlsiEet teT the election of AssissSS. Alderman
for the City OF NevYork ney sSaS, District new
district for the election OF a civil and police Justice and
10 increase the number OF Commissioners for the Do
partment Of Public Parks for the City OF NewYors.
The territory named is annexed by this proposed bill
TO this city and county and entitled to the same privt
leges and immunities 1t will constitute, however part
Of the Ist Assembly, IXth Senate lid Judicial aud Xth
Congress Districts until districts shall have been
established electors will vote otherwise ss
dents of the City and County OF NewYork The Of
Morrisania will be known the Twenty-third and the
towns OF West Farms and Kingsbridge as the Twenty
fourth Ward and the two wards will constitute an a.
sistant aldermanic district.
The territory annexed will also constitute the Eighth
School District under the charge OF the Department OF
Public Instruction, and the Tenth Judicial Dstrtot
Civil and police. municipal school, judicial and other
officers will be chosen at tho general municipal election
following the passage Of the act and prior tho gen
eral election the present officers will retain their
ons. All the public property OF tho annexed districs
will be vested in New-York County.
The Treasurer the Board Trustees OF the town OF
Morrisana, and tho Supervisors the towns OF wess
Farms and Kingsbrdge, on Jan. 1874 will transfer 70
the Controller OF New-York all books money aud prop
erty IN their possession, and the city will be liable foe
all obhgations OF the towns The Probate and General
Courts OF New-iork will have jurisdiction over ths
towns annexed; the Mayor and Common Council viii
nave the same pewer over the wards "a th0y now
have over the old all the interest which the towns have
In the property OF Westchester County viii % reease
and proporonate amount Of the debts will be assumed
by NewYork County.
The number OF Commissioners for tho Department OF
Public Parks OF the County Of New YORK will be IN
ereased 70 seven two OF whom WIN 20 esueh,s y. sso s
exclusive power 60 locate and maintain all pars and 20
have general charge OF all public improvements Pr0
ceedas already begun for the 0peningof streets or no
OF sewers wall be complotcd by the Dopsxt
neat,
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

The Medical Union is the title of new
monthly periodical printed In this city, and edited by
Drs. Egbert Guernsey John c. Minor. Charles +. Blu
menthal, and Albert f. Sumner While IL upholds the
claims OF homeopathy a scientific method of prac.
ce" 1t objecto the division Of the medical profession
into hostile sects aims TO harmonize hostile schools aud
contends that 1t is the right and duty OF every quail
fed member OF the medical profession TO use his own
Judgment to the proper methods be adopted for the
cure Of his patents."
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

The National Theater in Washington has
been burned three times. The managers OF the fret
National were Messrs. haywood. Pratt and Rowbotham
and their stock company included Messrs Cline Rodgers
Dwight Peter Richings, Thomas Ward, Mrs Knight and
others Charles Burke used great fayore at the
Nat9oal- uian VI rare aud delicate geuius,
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

At last the project to refund the cotton tax
seems finally killed for this Congress. The
Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee
yesterday asked the House to give two days
for discussion of the matter; he was refused
by an overwhelming vote. After such a
demonstration of hostility to the measure, it
is not likely that the House will vote to sus-
pend the rules, and there is no other way of
bringing the scheme up again during this
sassiOn.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

Murderers under sentence of death, or OK
pecting soon such doom, will find no en-
enlargement in the action of Gov. Dix in the
Gaffney case. What might be called an intlu-
entail petition from the citizens of Buffalo
was presented to the Governor, asking the
exercise of executive clemency in behalf of
Gaffney, who brutally murdered young man
in that city. The Governors reply, while it
is temperate in its merciful tone toward the
convict. is conclusive as to his own duty to
protect society by firm enforcement of the
law
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04
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secure the friendliness Of Gen. Dix. who was
then Minister to France.

The announcement that evidence exists of
additional frauds by the Ring on the city and
county will hardly surprise any one, and yet
the information is very startling Not merely
six but twenty-six millions have been stolen,
first and last and the evidence of the thefts
Of the larger sum is as clear as that brought
forward year ago relative to the smaller
amount. Not only has the total been estab-
liShed, but we are assured that the division OF
the spoils has been traced through bank after
bank, and the percentage paid to each OF the
thieves has been established. There is en-
comagement in the statement that new CIVIL
snits are 10 be brought for the additional
amounts now known to have been stolen,
while the otheI are also to be pressed; and
that the present Grand Jury of the Oyer and
Terminer will be asked to bring fresh indict-
ments for the criminal Offenses We hope the
bills will be more carefully drawn TINS tihio'
Further investigation of the Louisiana cleo
ton cases develops some interesting facts.
The testimony of Jacques, a Republican super
visor of Elections, given yesterday, is most
damaging to the Kellogg party. 1t shows tha'
the Lynch Returning Board made up their
returns ON the basest and shall0west frauds.
Not only did they depend on mere newspaper
accounts for the basis of their returns, but
certificates of United States Supervisors at
tached to blank forms were distributed widely
through the State to be filed up by anybody
and everybody who would put in name.
These certificates, which were afiidavits that
the sieners had been deprived of the right
of suffrage, bore the names of the dead, the
absent and the non-voting. Such barefaced
fraud has not been perpetrated in this coun-
try, according to the evidence, since the days
when the Missouri Border Rufllans voted The
st. Louis Directory in the towns of Kansas.
This is the sort of Government which DureIl
justified and the Executive of the United
States recognized.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04
amuse.asnts, etc. Chic euenina.

BooTHs THEATER.-"The Hcket-of-Leave Man"
J. ". Florence
BOwRRY THEATER.-" Buffalo Bill"
GRAND OPERA HOUSE,. The Cataract of the
esngea"
New Firth AVENUE THEATER-" Alike"
NTBLO's GARDEN" Leo and LOtos."
OLYMPIC THEATER.-" Alhambra."
UNION SQUARE THEATER.-" One Hundred Years
OB"
WAIIACKs THEATER. -" Brother SAM" L. A.
eothegn
ACADEMY OF MUsC.-The Charity Ball.
ST. JAMES THEATER.-San Francisco MinstTels.
Tony PASTORS OPERA HoUsE.-Varieties.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

The dense snOw-stOrm of yesterday, of the
variety known as old-fashiOned," has turned
nto thaw The storm extended over con-
siderable portion of the country and this
city especially was threatened with another of
those blockading snow-falls which suspend
travel. wear hOrse-fesh, break down patience,
and teach men in most forcible terms that
the horse-car nuisance is the crowning dis
grace of our so-called modern progress in
locomotion.- We are spared the trouble of
blocked streets, but there is slight hope for
speedy relief from the street-car delusiOn.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

The Wilson Investigating Committee do not
seem TO make much progress in their attempts
90 discover what became of the $4,000 spent
jn Washington by the Union Pacific Railroad
Company. But it was found, yesterday, that
Mr. G.. NJ. Dodge, Chief Engineer of the road,
spent some $4,000 in Washington, in carry
"ing the game through Congress-" as it was
called. Every step of this corporation seems
70 have been with bribe or use of money for
special purposes. The only other new develop
ment in the case is the purchase Of Gen. Dix's
90 shares Of Union Pacific stock at par, when
the ruling price was low. The version OF the
sdair is :hat the hard bargain was made TO
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04
Business Notlres.


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New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

One of those mischievOus cOntrivances, an
omnibus bill. is threatened in Congress. In
this convenient vehicle are to be snugly
packed the Niagara Ship Canal bill, the James
River and Kanawha Canal bill, the CoOsa
River Canal scheme, and nobody knows how
many more of the same sort. This is dan
gerous expedient; it quiets local opposition to
each project by putting in one from every
possible locality; and the managers of this
gigantic internal Improvement scheme have
laid themselves out to carry at least one pas
Benger from each Southern, Western, and
South Western State in their omnibus.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-04

There will be great constellation in San
Francisco when it is learned there that the
famous Ssntillan claim has not only been re-
vived but has actually appeared in Congress.
This claim is not one of those which have
given such endless trouble to California, a
State covered with absurd Mexican grants
three deep 1t has over and over again been
wiped out as a grotesque fraud, annihiated by
every court and commission that ever heard
of It. 1t is a sort of moon hoax, an Arabian
Nights Entertainment legend; but it is q
claim to the major part Of the site of San
Francisco; so it has many lives.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-06
HOarding.

Now that we are all talking finance, il
is a good time to talk it philosophically.
A curious faith in very old fallacy
comes under our notice. 1t used to be
considered that wealth was money; that
the more money; nation had the moro
wealthy IL was, and tears were shed over
the supposed impoverishment Of a coun-
try when money went out of il. 1t must
be lingering faint of this ancient super
stition that leads the st. Louis ReDubiican
to extol boarding. "a money that is not
worth boarding." it says, fought TO be got
rid of by the Government. The habit Of
boarding good money is natural virtue
rather than vice."
What are we TO say to such talk as this
from leading journal of the great West,
where the rich harvest of capital
is plowed in and not hoardedl
But II anybody in the West is
to avow such doctrine, it ought
surely to be st. Louisa city whose
growth and enterprise have been checked
by the misery illiberality of her rich
men. Her millionaircs have ever been
given to boarding, and by their niggard-
ly policy have made her the Sec
Ond instead of the first great trade
center of the West But apart
from these exceptional cases, this
vast American civilization is grand
demonstration Of the sound political econ
omy, as we'll as the sound ethics, Of
Christ's parable regarding the invest
ment of the talents. The lord of the
estate denounced the man who twas
afraid and went and hid" his talent in
the earth, as wicked and slothful" fell
low, and the language was hardly too
strong.
Hoarding is trait Of barbarism. Just
so far rs nations rise above barbarism.
just SO far they abandon boarding, and
no farther War, another and the great
est exhibition Of barbarism, Is the great
modern excuse for boarding. The war
like nations cannot do banking. Ger
many, France, and all the continent Of
Europe are constantly subject to war,
with its devastations, its financial desas-
ters and its rupture Of all contracts.
Great Britain has not felt the terror of war
within the four seas this 200 years. The
inhabitants of the continent do not dare
to bank, and hence they hoard. Long
peace. on the other hand, has given to
the British people confidence to put their
money in bank. What is the resultr
Great Britain is, today, the banker, the
strong arm, Of the world. It is her capt.
tai that is subduing the world, her politi-
cal system and its natural outgrowth
that are supplanting all other political
systems, her morals that are making the
world Christian. She may say with tri-
umphant confidence: Let me supply
the capital Of the world, and l care not
who shoulders its needle-guns." Let US
cease to glorify France for paying her
milliards out of the old stockings. Let US
rather commiserate her that her contin.
ued wars have made any other bank but
the old stockings unsafe, and that when
her talents come out from their napkins,
It 10 not to found colonies, build railroads,
erect school systems and civilize the
world, but invest II In war loans and to liq-
uidste the gigantic ransom Of . nations
captivity. -hWjnNeAd RepvblieoN.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-06
MY ANGEL BRIDE.

BY ". c. cAPERs.
NEAR the golden gates Of glory,
Where sweet seraThs chat the story
.of their risen sauor's mission, while the gloomy
earth he trod;
Stands an angel, meekly gazing
ON thousand suns, bright blazing
In Their orbs Of bright supernal round the burning
throne OF God.
On her brow wreath is twning,
Formed by angel hands, combining
All the rarest flowers that bloom In the Eden land
And harp. ali bright and golden,
Ia her sprit-ha Is holden,
While she strikes it's quivering strings in an anthem
to the blest.
Never purer soul immortal,
Ever passed the shining portal
Leading to the bright sanctorum, where the God
head dwells in love;
And joyous shout flled Heaven,
On that balmy summer even,
when an angel bore her spirit to the realms OF
light above.
Now, amid the heavenly choir,
Touched with pure seraphic fire,
Sings she ever Of the glories Of the bright celestial
As they break upon her vision,
In that g0den-hued Elysian,
Where the saints, throughout all ages shall abide
fOrevermore.
On nv heart her smile once rested,
Like sunbeam, and invested
,EyeYV feeling OF BOSOM WIFI Tue WdIUtu VI loNc
and truth;
And beneath the starbeams' gsten,
With no ear but Gods to listen,
Loves holy vows we pighted, In that primrose
morn OF youth
But her smile in death soon faded,
And deep grief then pervaded
Every feeling of my nature, as that smile mad done
When we laid her meath the willow,
Where q rock breaks of the billow,
That would moan her grave around, on the ocean
lonely shore.
And now since she has vanished,
And my souls last hope is banished,
must wander, broken-hearted, in q wilderness OF
gloom;
For no smile, by beauty blighted,
Can relieve heart benighted,
OR revive the love that slumbers in the midnight OF
her tomb.
Now from her home supernal,
Near the throne OF the Eternal,
Where the angels plead forgiveness for the sins OF
mortals here;
Prays she ever to her Maker,
That my soul may be partaker
OF the Joys that bloom unfading in the courts OF
glory there.
Der my heart that prayer comes stealing,
Like q spirit voice, revealing
Ali the glories that shall greet me, when earth's
fleeing scenes are DER;
And when life shall reach its even,
MAY she bear my soul TO Heaven,
Where the vows of love here plighted shall be
sealed forevermore.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-09-26
A Jaunt to the Country.

COUNTRY ramblings are nice, provided
everything is properly arranged and planned TO
make it SO. Of course there are something's in
disprnsably requisite to make trip TO the
country enjoyable. and among which would be
a dozen merry, rosy-cheeked, romping, robust
girls. Well, some young men went with such
a fun loving crowd, OH chincapin hunt, Satnr-
day evening. We happened to be among the
number. We like the dwarfed fruit and often
contemplated planting number of acres in
chincapins for the accommodations of our lady
friends, but since Saturday trip, we are con-
fident that it would spoil all the romance of
regular jaunt through the fields and woods in
search Of these berries" After crossing
a half dozen old fields. Gin which chincapins
were never known TO grow,) we found our
selves tramping over several acres of ground
sirewn tlickly with hewed down bushes, and
as can be imagined this had no tendency to
impede our progress, but with the swiftness of
antslopes Tor anything else that could "lope,' ,
we passed over and found ourselves in q
swamp, from which, we were in need Of a
Moses TO lead us out of our dismal wilderness.
One young man more Aana- mated than any one
else, finally piloted US out, and IN this supreme
moment Of happiness we went on our way re-
ioicing. The girls were brave and bold noth-
ing daunted, they shook their red sacques de-
family at herd Of bovines browsing in clover
field, aud would crush a snake with their tiny
shoe heels, with the pluck Of Joan Of Arc
After making journey North ofseyeral miles,
we returned 10 the city loaded down with--two
chincapins
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-09-26
Backed Out.

DEKALB County will not contend for the
premium at the State Fair. The entry was I'M
authorized by the Agricultural Societies. For
syth Adrertiser.
Now we regret that DeKalb county has with
drawn from the contest, for the more counties
Cobb beats, greater will be the honor she will
receive But, felow-ctizens, let what counties
back out that will. Cobb must press forward TO
the mark of her high calling aud win the prize.
Cobb has done great deal in stimulating other
counties to enter for the premium and she de-
serves the title of being the Banner County"
and now while possessing it, letus make due
efforts to retain it, Other counties are hard at
work, but we know we have that within our
county limits that will place us foremost. Do
your duty like men and all will be we'll.