New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-28

troller Green's term, the Mayor sent in the
name of James S. Thayer. Mr.. Thayers con-
| frmation of course depends on Mr.. Kelly; IL
is not even certain that Mr.. Thayer can accept
| if confirmed; and the outlook OF the Whole
matter is about as it Mas stated yesterday.
There is little probability that the expedi-
ton TO Arctic regions which the Pandora Is to
undertake will supply any new answer to the
vexed question of route to the Pole. The
northwestern passage that the Pandora VIII
seek is the one where Sir John Franklin lost
his life. The coasts have been partially ex-
plored by McClintock and others. The PAN
dora itself, under Capt. Young, attempted to
penetrate through this route from the Atlantic
a.! to the Pacific last year, but was stopped by
! barrier of ice The new attempt,is doubtless
based on the hope that the barrier Is not per-
manent.
! There will be plans and plans for reforming
the present system of choosing Presidential
electors. Probably no well-regulated Congress
sional carpet-bag is by this time without one
| 1t is subject to be discussed in all sOberness
and with the keenest sOicitude lest any Just
right be sacrificed or any new door opened to
danger. A Washington letter, given elsewhere
details some of the schemes which have been
thus far devised. This is, however, but the
| beginning of the discussion, and thinking cltl-
| zens need be in no hurry to make up ther
minds on so weighty matter.
| The suit against the management OF the
Lake Shore Railroad, on the part OF certain
owners of stock, who demand and are refused
list of their fellow stockholders probably
means business. The precedents are III favor
of the right of stockholders to get such list
whenever they want it, and sooner or later the
plaintiffs in this suit will doubtless carry their
point 1t will be a good thing If they succeed
in enforcing upon the managers of our great
railroads a more immediate and pervading
sense of responsibility to the people whose
property is confded to their care.
That there will be eventually some diversion
of the negro vote to the Democratic ticket In
the South seems inevitable, when it is consd-
cred that not only the employers OF the negro
but most of the men of wealth end influence
in that section are Democrats, and that the
Democratic prepOnderance in the South Is
growing every day. Some of the blacks, at
least when they discover that they are not to
be reGnslaved or deprived of their votes, Will
find il to their interest to vote with the dom
inant class in the community, and probably
that day will not be long delayed, If indeed
it has not already come. The contingencies
of this break of the color line and their relation
to the past election, form the subject OF an IN
teresting letter, printed on another page.
An order of court yesterday restrained Com
missioner Campbell from interfering with the
tearing up of streets and laying Of tracks by
the horse-car company whose free and easy
ways of dealing with city thoroughfares the
Commissioner so summarily checked. The
order was subsequently modified so
as to allow the question to be argued
to-day. If these corporations can go about
tearing pavements to pieces and interfering
with traffic without the permission of the De
partment of Public Works the streets may as
well be abandoned to them entirely, and the
| Department resign its control altogether. This
is the cOmmOn-sense view of the matter; 1t Is
to be hoped that the judicial view will finally
come to the same thing.
The acquittal Of Commissioner Fowler of the
Brooklyn Board of City Works by the votes
| OF several hepUDuCdH AlutiHitu ouSHt w ohoh
the Mayor and his friends the folly of insti-
tuting suits for political purposes pending cleo
tions. Corporation Counsel Dewitt was in
duced to bring this suit by the hope, and pos
sibly the promise, of reappontment to his po-
sition. The Republican Mayor and some of
the Republican Aldermen appear to have been
parties to the bargain, because they believed
that exposures threatened against Fowler by
Dewitt would defeat the Democratic candi-
dates for Aldermen and the county ticket gen
orally. All such intrigues usually provoke the
fate of this one. The Democrats elected their
Aldermen only one of their candidates on the
county ticket was defeated the existing Board
of Aldermen now acquit the accused by a
handsome majority; and the incoming board
will doubtless reject Mr. Dewitt if nominated,
by as signal vote. All of which goes to show
that politicians who resort to bargains are as
likely to lose as to win.