, 1873-12-05
NEW YORK.
The Conviction and Sentence
of Tweed.
End Of the Great, Triumylrate Of FL
nance, Bench, and Ballot.
Something About n Qucor Old
millionaire.


Correspondence Of The chfeaao Tribune
NEW YonK, Dec. !, 1873
Somehow or other, whom q New York City |
Judge, Jury officer, Commissioner, or Deputy |
doea hss duty, tho town is In an uproar of on
thusiasm uowsboyB soil out thcr oxtraB for
fabulous Sums citizcns Bit up late to congratu~
late with citizous; and q buzz OF admiration
goos up from tho whole country, over which tho
wircs work. In dolirum OF excitement to eprcatl
tho wondroua talo. 1t has como to bo Bome-
thing supernatural and beyond belief. for nll--
for Judge, jury, olcer, Commissioner, and Dup
| uty-to combine, and do oach his duty In en-
| glo transaction; and no wondor, In these droop-
| iug days. that tho sensation Of the Tweed trial,
verdict, conviction, and sentence. and tho oonsnre
of Lis counsel. las boon clear streak Of Bilvcr
for us, ro7iving something Of tho Junaun and
the strepttun, II 1t has not particularly nfrootod
tho opes, of our nome.
Perhaps, nny We, there arg, after Ill, such
things ~
| VIRTUE. AND rnuTH AND JUSTICE.
But what a courageous faith It has needed to
believo steadfastly in their exintouce through
thcse long yoarB II Bco1ns but yesterday TINT
our Judges were not likc Cnaara vito when
Exccutivos, from principal to cronturo, wore
|
jurymnn caEried bis tariff Of prices, arranged in
tubular form. about his mock. 80 that counsel. by
tho moro nnsistanco Of their forotngor, could
easily arTivo ut hss particular charge for
disagreement or nj acquttaf, in horizontal lines,
uuder tho various columns of Murder, Arson,
Embozzlement, or Thofs and when candidate
or admission to tho Bar, on being asked to st6ta
tho modus oporandi Of collecting money from
| tho City Of Now York, stated 1t tn these worls
| "BEE boss TwEED!"
It seems but yesterday that this ono stout,
ohcery-faced individual, with countonanco like
one Of the Brothcrs Chooryble, aud nama that
Boomca to toll of plain, homespun, ingram aud
sturdy honesty tall. good-humored repro
bate, who carried hs osn carpot-bag, aud mover
forgot friend as long as thero was ta1-payor.-
asleader as pasrfot, phi!anthropist. and Chria-
tian; WAS toasted and eulogizod, and walked on
a PAVEMENT OF E1oT1cs,
whoao petals wcto dearer than gold, and whose
green loayes were greenbacks, acroas public
thoroughfarcs that were blockadcd and roofod
in to do him honor, 30 that we, whose money ha
wnR spilling, could not pass, but climbed up
some other way.
But, ono morning, mono OF those friends ho
Rover forgot we're near to do him reverence,
when, attended only By his own wife and ohl-
dron, le Was to ride once more at tho peoples
expense, to tho Island, there to be rcgistorcd,
weighed, and recoiptetl for; to DO bathed, shaved
cropped, aud clothed in a Josoph'B coat Of many
coiors and left III chamber, moro Hccuro than
aumptt,ons,. to mediate upon the wlirliglg OF
Tinlo, and tho
LAWS or MEuM AND TuuM.
| II the majestic criminal whom cortain car
icnturist ollce drew nB too tall for tho Lnw, had
only beon found guilty bya jury, it would hava
been miracle for Now York; albeit, in these
+itr1no HIN "a En6.F at1fF
than any otler to spread the monetary deBola-
tion could hardly have looked for sympathy.
Had hfB sentence been but nominal, or been
stayed instanter by @ tributary Judge, It would
we did not oven dream Of But. ns it is. we
, shnlo our eyes. and murnur, underbroathcd,
"Porhnpa, utter all, there are such things at
Long before this reaches TIE TRIBUNE you
will hnvo spread before your readers the details
| Of this wonderful ttial ana, after oyery step.
, carefully, surely, and trinmplantly taken, tho
: ''Not thine, Oroatea, half 80 hard fate" Thy
, persocutors we're the insatiato Furios. Hero the
f'urios wero tho People, tho Law, and the nowy.
, wakoued Justice that, though it hath long slept
on our soil, lnB grown but stronger IN tla
J | mother-Bleop.
, Tho arraignmcnt OF Twecd's counsel for con.
i tempt, their disclaimer and fno, form an ors
without precedcnt, parallel, or tradition in leGa
t scripture. MeeBrs Graham, Bartlett. and Fuller
D ton were mulctcd in $3.50 apiece but that, K
. nv mind, hardly did thom justice, when thei
D Juniors wcro obliged to hear such
4 sCArurSa FAINT PRAISE
D aa tho following: I ask you, young gentlemen
to remember that good faith to client never cal
J Justify bad faith 70 your own conRconccs ans
i that. howoyor good thing it may be to be know
Us successful and great lawyers, it is evcn bet
9 ter thing to DO known as honest lnwyors."
4 These contempt proceedings deserve to bo pre-
o served in the Hcrap-book Of every lawyer in th
q | land.
Q How latoly we wore bound, hore in Now York
o hand aud foot, ut the throne OF the Yreat Tri
:, umyirato,-at tho throne OF banded
q FINANCE, BENCH, AND BALLoT,-
= who can furGct3
o Now, Finance sleeps amid tho frosty hills q
Brattioboro (houostest Of tho tllree); Boncl (i1
O tho porson OF his lato Honor, Alr. Justice Bar
8 narj) iB selling cigars freely us he onco aol
!. his own soul, to wl,omsooyor will buy. at Mo
8 s6s Pearl stroot and Daot-,mighty Bal!ot-
o grnning duiofMy ut tho stately ships that r.
it on, to aud fro, before Ills gyved proaccniun-bo
Y at tho Island. $500.
is It does not require any effort Of the imagna
J. tion whatever to roalIza Tweed III tho new liver
II for which ho has doifed the raraphcrnalia 0
Il Americus. One has only to turn over tue carl
or catures Of two years or less ago, which plonti
1t fully supplied him with tho regua Of jaiI-birds
lo though, il rocall, thoY unanimously forgot Il
Nell. wo breathe again / faucy, althoug
tho newspapers hnyo discovered
TIL; PANIC
:. to DO over and money to be "casy," eliat thor
It il nouo too much OF that invaluable at hand
i md TINT tho seaaon will not 60 aK merrily a
il ;B its wont. Poor Je,,l;ins! lto has not hal
1t single ball party to report 10 far, and ho ha
1t lind to invent, with spinning hoad md wear
ly heart, tho most fabulous toilets for n fow ver
r unnasuming weddings. T4oro noyer was Paui
III 10 diHtrbntod na thin.
ii In those brat-now days WHOM tho tiger Q
10 Auioricus rompcd in our midst, oven tho woat
,E TINT ila,i taaon years to nccnmuato WAS Mn
j. fashionable compared with tho wealth. tha
O. Bprang togathor in IN hour, from mont littl
H. operations with tho unwilling and often I'LL
ct conscious capital of strangers,-tho
70 aLon1oUs WEALTH or MARGIN.
Of During those days, tho millions Of Aatora an
b. Sto"arts wero rather anubbablo beside til
ut millions OF tho Fisks, tho dollda, aud til