New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-07


lisllment is not necessarily a nuisance.
| The arrival yesterday Of the Commission
appointed by tho Holy See to bring to Arch
bishop McCloskey the official announcement
| of his elevation to tho rank and dignity OF
| the Cardinalate, was an event anxiously an
| ticipated by the Catholics of New-YOrk, and
| the reception given the Ab-Legate and his
companions was evidently as cordial on the
| one side as it was unexpected and welcome
! on the other The ceremonies attending the
greeting on board the Pereire are fully de-
scribed on another page.
| In tho letter from Buffalo, printed on our
second page to-day, 1t is very clearly shown
| that even though the desirableness OF the BACK
| Rock Harbor Improvement be admitted, the
| plan adopted therefor was unnecessarily e4-
nensiye. while the work has been imperfecty
executed The investigation of The TRIBUNE
engineer discloses the fact that the cost OF tho
;mnroyement might have been diminished at
least one-half by an expedient that seems TOO
onporent to have been overlooked otherwise
than Intentionally.
The extraordinary Pacific Mail business gets
new complication to-day in the quarrel with
the Panama road, and the sudden abrogation
of contracts between them. In the midst OF
the i'll luck which its haphazard management
for some years has entailed, the Pacific Mall
has, in this emergency, at least one streak Oh
good fortune. Its late alliance with the Pa
cifc railways enables it turn at once ell its
China and West coast traffic over this line,
and Thus, SO far rs the transaction Of its more
| important business is concerned, renders u
practically independent of the Panama road.
The promises of improved relations between
the Pennsylvania coal operators and the
| striking miners have not yet been Justileo.
| The operators are determined, and the miners
| still present stubborn front; riot seems
much more probable than reconciliation. but
| Gov. HGrtranft is reluctant to proceed TO cx-
IRENE measures for preserving the peace
| The Philadelphia police now appear on the
scene, and only in the event of Their failure
to restore order will the military be called
out. This seems to be giving good deal OF
rope TO the "cvil disposed persons" and I'm
lawful combinations" referred to in the
Governors proclamation.
Postmaster eneral jewell and his assist
ants deserve great credit for the discovery OF
the ingenious system of fraud in securing
mail contracts, which is very fully described
in our Washington dispatches. 1t has been
suspected for some time that this
swindle was going on, but the per-
sons implicated laid their plans and
kept their secret so well that they
seemed to defy detection. An ugly feature of
the disclosures now made is the prominent
part played by United States Marshal Kinds
Of Alabama in the work of bribing clerks
and counterfeiting of official stamps. Post
master General Jewell is of course night IN
demanding the dismissal of all the Govern
mcnt officers criminally involved in this affair,
but full justice will not be meted out to them
unless they are also tried and punished for
their conspiracy and breach Of trust.
The pardon of j. Ii. Ingersoll, one of the
notorious Tweed Ring. is probably to be con-
sidered in connection with the new civil suit
against Tweed, of which an account is given
ON our second page. The present complaint
against Tweed is a charge that lie and Watson,
the County Auditor, whose sudden death dis
arranged so many Ring plans. by con-
splracy defrauded the city out of over
SIX IlllllOuS OI ny maCiihciy VI tbO
Board of Audit 1t leaves out all entangling
questions as to the degree of guilt or innO-
cence of some of the members of that Board,
and makes tho simple issue, whether Tweed
and Watson defrauded the city. The now
law disentangles the complication, which was
fatal to the first suit, of cross interests in the
city and tho State. The city is made a
party that it may protect its rights, but it
does not control the suit. The extraordinary
bail fixed secures that if Mr.. Tweed escapes
the punishment of the law, he shall restore
enough of his plumber to repay the expense
of his pursuit. 1t is probably safe to assume
that the pardoning Of IngersOn has reference
also to the beginning of vigorous campaign
against Mr.. Peter B. Sweeny. This, if prose-
cuted with anything like the energy displayed
in the Tweed case, ought to lead to better re-
sultr. If it did not put Mr.. Sweeny on
Blackwell's Island it might at least reclaim
from him half million or more of the City's
property. 1t will be remembered that in tho
analysis of the Tammany Ring divisions
Mr.. Sweeny first seemed to have worked
for glory, not for pay. When, however,
fair percentage Of the plumber
was traced to his brother tho dividing line
between the glory and the pay seemed to be
getting little thin. With the aid of the new
laws and by the pardoned Ingersol, Gov.
Tilden may be able to break through it.