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begin 20 founder about in search Of rem
edy for existing abuses they are at once and
easily baill,d by their astutc and expert
cnced foemcn. When they assemble as they
did on Tuesday TO discuss methods Of re-
trcnchmcnt and reform, they are met with
the utmost politcncss by our city officials,
are entertained with speeches full Of excel
lent sentiments, made TO pass blathcrskite
resolutions drawn by tho fussest and
cmpticst man among them, and then
go away like q parcel OF fools.
Every onlcchcldcr present Processes to be
anxious and eager for reform in every de-
partmcnt save his own. Mr.. KELLY thinks
that the Dock Department and Police De-
partment are In great need of pruning, but
his own one hundred and eighteen en-
ployccs and their $4,000 Of annual salaries
are as little as can be safely got along with.
The Board Of Education are sure there is
great waste elsewhere, but the taking of 50
small sum as $4,000 from the $2,7OO,OOO
they pay their three thousand teachers,
causes them TO set up howl that rcsOunds
throughout the city. The Commissioners Of
Police are at swords points with the Board
of Health; but they strain every nerve To
add to the 100000 with which they main
tain their twcnty-six hundred employees.
And thus, as we go through The whole Of the
twcnty-cight separate departments into
which the city Government is split up, We
find in each the same approval Of economy
In the abstract, and the same vigorous re-
sistance to its practical application in their
own particular case Sometimes, even, this
resistance takes the shape Of the lcvying Of
fund 20 send agents To Albany to prevent
legislation calculated 10 bring about reform.
Ten thousand dollars, skillully employed,
will accomplish more in day to perpetuate
abuses, than u whole year of such conferences
as Mayor ELY called on Tuesday can do To
reform them.
Judging by Tuesdays meeting we should
say that it IS in vain for our taxpayers to
contend with their destiny. 1t is Darwin
ian ease Of the struggle for existence and
the survival Of the littcst. Certainly the
taxpayers will not conquer 81 long as the
wisest Of their number confess that they are
ignorant of the purposes for which they are
taxed and how the taxes are spent. Milk
and-watcr resolutions like those they adopt
cd on Tuesday are good only TO advertise
their mover, and have no more effect on the
enemy than a paper pellet would have on a
granite fortiiicatiOn
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TIE WI OIEKI HOLNE.

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'ahho' W 700 Hu'" ."n.t""''r'l On Ms up
pearnnre before the New York public in an on
tirnl,. new. ohnrn,a.r namely. IA Il patron of art
,'.,t.,I ,..,.t
anu 'i"S~l'" hu7lr'
Heretofore. the Vandorhilts have rather avoid
cd thnu eoiitfal thr MUSES. Nor can they Lee
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WN'' win eN'rANa'uh' 90 III 'h' way "i pul'nnE
libraries, onlowing hospitals Duylhs pictures,
ar .neourn,ins the fine arts
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burlng VA hl7t phtl OF HIS Su'FH~lul 'hr''r'
tho f,- whistle ~ a Steamboat Ininr in life h.
l,, h i, i ,., a., f..,.i,.. ,,. ~ 49,,
~,
dor tho g'ise ~ locomotive. IN" shrill scream
81 which irnve him far r,nrn renl .nfov,nant
=, =. a. =, - =,
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But. like the man who priird himself on COM
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his wife. William II. Vanderbilt plays the part
If NJ .,.,.t- n,,t,,,,fs a. "A nttr,n If tha arr ,f
Ap',lo' anu N'r7' AZ u'e s",''e 'lihe' Ho,p
nbl,, r.,,,rtoI Mr. william, II VnnI.rhit hns
~ -, f. -. -, H. Al 49,.
a,,1 va,,,r,'lt ,,.,',,... E.,r,,..,,IrI AMI r-,,
fourth streets for siul a,o th,t IL nj the rnta of
- a. -
W'w''h lW''y-'W' Nh' !" h'N-N" WouShhp
dollars a lot all round. he has done good thing
Tho rr,n.rt. WA. nu-nl,ll,. for l,valli n h,usa
-,
iurp"s. = III u'-' uf'S'ne'aus' oi us proNlm-
ity To Ia" Grand Central depot. We do not
mean to ray but what the opera house
projectors have likewise don" % good thing .
/ ~ believe they could not for their purposes
| dr.d feet front on Madison avenue. every OPP
portunity fora grant facade Is Afforded. whilr
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u "oo4 ,"rv hard with MoRToN, SHERMAN,
'HANDLLR. CAMERON, GRANT, and the other
:onspiratprs. after having set up their gamo
90 nicely arranged all their plans. and even
marked out the spots at the capital where
.hc artillery was 70 be posted ON the 18th of
February, that the props should he knocked
iway and the whole plot tumble down about
.hcir heads. They were entirely confident
Of success, and had begun to organize the
new Administration by sending the So
CALLED reforming element with BRIsrow
sclIuRz, and company to the rear, as dis
,urbers of the harmony Of the party.
Their whole scheme turned upon the count
% be made by Mr.. Ferry. No division
existed in their councils Every con-pirator
know when he entered into the plot that
HAYES was fairly defeated in the Electoral
Colleges and by the popular vote. There
orc. two things were necessary TO cheat
rrTDEN out OF his rights. First, n false
count by the Returning Boards; and next, Il
declaration that this count codld not he dis
.urbed 10y Congress.
An in lispensablc part Of the programme
vas TO have the fun sympathy and support
IF the President OF the Senate who would
act only adopt the Republican certificates
rom Louisiana South Carolina, and Florida,
out declare the three votes OF Oregon for
HAYES Mr. FERRY did not long hesitate TO
AXE his share Of the scheme, being easily
convinced that the power 10 count and
announce the result depended Oh him ex-
clusvcly.
With these details all arranged, and no
show Of organized opposition on the Demo-
cratic side looking to determined resistance,
II is. perhaps, not surprising that Mr.. Nor
ron was sanguinc, and even So cxultant as TO
affirm that HAYES would be inaugurated
without trouble, a. "thn Democrats would
not fight" He looked forward with the ut
most confidence 70 this contamination, and
discarded all doubt a. absurd.
When he discovered in the Electoral Com
mitteo that his plans were INSTRUCTED. that
his own political friends denied the right OF
The President Of the Senate to count at all,
and that they intended TO report bill by
means Of which the elections in the disputed
states would be turned inside out the wrath
Of MoRroy was great. He was beaten on
his own ground, and, what Is far worse, was
beaten without suspicion that at the final
pinch he would De left solitary and alone.
This defeat is rendered the more inglori-
Gus because these conspirators are well
aware that when tho whole truth Is exposed
b. view, they must necessarily suffer from
the verdict which will cOnsgn their agents
t. lasting nfamy. There T., hardly any con-
lngcncy possible, consistent with the char
meter of the proposed new tribunal, and viii
an honest examination Il the votes, By
which HAYES can be declared President
This is the sore point with MOTION, SHLR
MAS, and their associates, who anticipated &
now lease Of power, tho control Of the Treas
ury, aud the old rule under now name
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Another Claimant for Royal Honor-."

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-ST: l am
painfully aware Of my presumption in even
seeming 10 crticise 40 learned gentleman IA
the noble historian George. the Count Joanncs."
but II say it with all di1lden'el think there
may be some slight mistakes in his letter in The
Sun Of Saturday. Jan. 90 For instance. A. to
The O'Connor Don" 90" lofl is understood
according TO the translator OF Keatng's His
tory Of Ireland, John O'Mahony. the best IYish
schoar in the United Stat,sl 10 mean gran l.
son" TherefoEe "oConnor" means "granlson
OF Connor.' The Don" Is corruption OF the
Irish adjective Dun" tpronounced rhun."'
with the til" soft. and meaning brown and
T. added to the name Heont to dsinGgish
family. called Dhu" (black. Therefore The
oMonnor Don" means, The brown Q,Connor.",,
These. titles We're given from the d, col
Christian namcs forget. Now f5rthe .,Mahop' "
is ugyl 30 not think. with all due deference
that The O'Gorman Qull name Patrick O'Gor-
ramots d@Srec Ma P2S M MeRon
ln Irish Mo'') means son therefore Mao
Mhhon is son OF Man9 N, S9r. ae,orling To-
head Of the sept. That work says II have not
s.nn the work since $50 and quote from mem
~ 'kestown, IA NJ COUNTY ~ No~, ommun,
minister Of the Church of England, CREATION
4. ID. 1870. This noble family Is descended from
the m .t"nt princes oi Minister. AMI "a TIE tine
OF held large possess ions IN That PROV
in'e. The elder hroiher 81 Brian Boro hme
lpronoun .Hl Blrul, the monur Il of lr land
Was eall i Mlhon, and rclgaol sixteen years
King II Nun tor" The laia william smith
OBrien was los IN l,nl OF, Brian Boru,
and Was thus related To- the Mahpn family.
Lord Hartlanl rrpT m y the Pr3t' stnt and
Tho OGormnn Mahoun the Catholic. bran II
OF the Mah0n family. Mahou. X NJ 81 VI An-
STR, was called :, Mahen Mao annalcish'
tMahon. son of Kennrdy'l. and IN t with a
violent death. sir Eo-, Ma.,on OF Castlrgar,
about whom there was some trouble win
O'C"nnell about 1888 MAS also of the Hyrlanl
branch. IT." Ahas 'rlgh people tore down "A
triumphal ar ii rroted 10y sir ROSES t'nuntry.
and O,Connell struck tlnt village out Of the map
of Ireland.
Gnn. the Hon. s'ei't.n M,hon. Of the Eng
lsh army, WAS hrir lat -umptNs 10 tho Rltit
Hon and Rev. Thomas Lorl li,gtanl lmt he
having dicl before ThpWS the Hon an ] J, y.
Maurice Mahon succeeded. Althehrotn"rs died
without ISSUE. ana the estates passed to a rnia-
tN,. Major Mlhuh. WAC VS. shot ia the StrHHt,
of lios ommon by one NJ tu' uluis. Nud now
/ comes the milk IN ~ = .o 'uduut' arm the
son Of one Thomas Mihor ni Stroh,stown
county OF Rns Oumon, Wlo | Was tlid IN my
hoyuood. WIS "A nHar T.. iNuse Of LItI HArtllni
aud who also hrlou-.d to the English army. II
therefore. Patrick OGnrmln VI ilun h- g." The
.QGorman Mahen.' i ann The other JOAN
scendant oil Mahon. Kns 90 Munster. J. NJ.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE Sun Sir, Owing
10 the great and rapidly increasing demoraliza-
ton in the city AMI country, think II is the
duy of inventors t. throw an thesafo-,ulrlthey
can around public property. hnNr ust I'm
i-hrd pHrfet marVel of ingenuity In tln shnpa
Nr-trN men who take up contributions ia
chur 'h"s. ! rrgr,t e. Say that upnn URGING the
claims at the instrument upon the KV Dr.
Blauk, instead of uppre 'la.In- nay Efforts, hn
ord r'l me- IA tho most per nutlrv nmnn.r to
leave hiT house. THIS. however only shows the
nrHcss ~ ol the instrument.
would cst 'em It a great favor II yor wrnll
call public att 'Eton to the value OF ms lrir
mach ne.
be- ready r. IEAtLE.
I. S.-Lot no guilty mnn oso.nn.
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The result ~ the conference Of citizens
held at Mayor ELY's Office on Tuesday
afternoon was simply 10 demonstrate afrcsh
the ignorance and helplessncss Of the tax
payer Of this city and the power Of its tax
oonsumers.
\ statement compiled in February, 1876,
by our lpte Comptroller, ANDRGw II. GREEN,
ESQ, and submitted 10 the Legislature,
shows that there were then eight Thousand
six hundred and clghty-hve persons en-
ployed by the city, and that their aggregate
pay amounted 10 il0,2,l, $3.50 annually. Their
number and the amount they receive have
not been materially diminished since. The
population Of the city is about one mill
lion, and its taxable property about
81 900 900. Allowing that each cm-
ployoo represents u family OF five
persons, II follows that there are forty-thrcc
thousand one hundred and t~cut y-hyc out
Of the million, or one out Of every twenty
three OF our population, supported by tine
taxes paid 10y the remain Ter, and that they
consume, altogether, one per cent. OF the
principal, or one-sevcnth OF the income
reckoning that income at scvou per ccut.
ol the general mass of property. That IS 10
say, we have IA small, compact body Of tax
eaters bound together by the all-powerful
tie Of soli-nterest, and headed by politicians
who depend on them for their positions, OPP
posed ~ an unorganizod mob Of taxpayers,
who know that they are robbed, but who do
not know how they are robbed nor how To
protect themselves.
The Consequence Of this condition OF
things is that whenever our rich citizens
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Our State Legislature have Just as mu h
authority to give an opinion upon the proper
node Of counting the electoral votes. "a
the Aldermen Of this city have, or the SUI
pcrvisors Of Westchcster, or the casual
visitors at "A crossroads tavern, and no
more. In other words, as legislators they
have nothing to do with the subject; and,
therefore, Whatever they may say upon il,
IN the form Of resolutions or otherwise, Will
identified to no more weight than ifthcy had
uttered the same sentiments in AN oyster
saloon adjacent IL the State Capitol
Whether in the Senate Chamber or In Tn"
oyster saloon, they can speak Oh this grave
constitutional question only as Individuals
and their opinions Will derive all their force
from the standing OF the speakers as law
yers and statesmen.
Tho most eminent constitutional lawyers
In the country have been for months en-
gagged IN the discussion of this subject. In
the midst Of their learned lucuhrations, out
steps WILLIAM b. WOODEN and delivers an
opinion thereon in writing. II WooDIN had
given his views Of this complicated problem
i'm the shape Of letter bearing date at
Auburn, everybody who hns measured his
culbrc would have laughed at his cgoti-m
and presumption. Docs it relieve the matter
OF its absurd features that he presents them
in the form OF a string OF resolutions III the
State senator
WOODEN is unusually acrimonious in sup
port Of his resolutions He has never re-
covered his temper since he came SO near
being defeated in his district because OF his
completely in the iobhcrics If Boss TWEED.
He has no affiliations with high-mindod
statesmen Ike Roscoe CoSKLlNG. Dlsap-
pointed in his aspirations for profcrmcnt
within the state, WooDIS was looking for u
fat berth under HAYES; and he fears that
! Mr.. CoNkLING's cours" ON the Electoral ill
will dash his hopes in pieces Therefore
WOoDIN bulldozcs our distinguished Sen
utor.
No matter for small light like WooplN.
| He may bee easily cXtinguishcd, or II bet
alone, will soon - out. But are there no
sensible Republicans in the Legislaturef
| Are all Of them So infatuated as to imagine
that WooDISs feeble string ~ resolutions
can stem the popular tidcY Have they for
! gotten that WOODEN, and far greater men
than WooDIN bullloled senator CO&KLINd
| ut the Syracuse Convention last March and
at the Cincinnati Convention last June and
AT the Saratoga Convention last August
and now that they have had time for rcllcc-
ton, DO they think The party in this State
gained anything by III
We advise the Republicans Mt Albany -
consign the WOODEN resolutions to the waste
paper basket without delay.
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come to n head and then the public may expect
many curious revelations. Whatever GRANT
may now do viii have no lnsting importance.
After the Senate Committee OF Investigation
make their partisan report. he will be press, ID
TO recognize PAcKARD's fraudulent concern us
the legal Government; and. under an attack OF
neuralgia Of the brain. may 60 further than he
recently did in his order to Gem AUGUR. But
that recognition will be worthless after the 9Th
Of March, happen what may; for the people Of
Louisiana do not intond to support that usurpa-
ton in any way. SO much is certain.
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A bill TO withdraw the logal-tcnder notes
by funding them into four pr cent gold bonds
has been introduced in the House of Rcprcscn-
tatiNcs by Mr.. S. i. CHfTrENDEN. The idea Of
the bill is ono suggested aud advo ,ated 10y THE
Sun more than two years ago. and 1t was pre-
scntcd TO Congress in March, 1876, by Rcprcscn-
tative WILLIS, in much better shape than it
has been ~ Mr.. CHITTENDEN.
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The Constitution declares that "the
United States shall guarantee TO every State in
this Union IL republican form of government"
Is that republican form Of government. accord
ing To the American notion Of republicanism
and the intent Of the Constitution. under which
four men are clothed with power To decide how
threc-auartcrs Of u million Of people ought TO
have voted
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Yesterday morning the Republicans OF the
New Jersey Legislature. or portion Of them.
ran together and dropped FRELrNGHuYsEN rs
their candidate for Senator. and put up SEcoR
RoBEsoN. They did this because they were
told 10y RoBEsoN's tools in the lobby that he had
bought one Democrat. and was therefore sure
TO win. When the voting began in the Joint
meeting Of the two Houses. it became apparent
that screw was loose in ROBEsoN's machinery.
and that all the Democrats would stick 10
MCPHERSON. Thorcup u, the mass OF the
Republicans deserted RoBEsoN. who obtained
only eleven votes out Of forty cast 10y Rcpub-
leans.
RoDEsoN has become odious in New Jersey.
WILLIAM WALTER PuETrs, the candidate Of
JAY GOULD's Trbln,e. got ono vote
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The sudden solicitudc Of certain Ropuhli-
can statesmon and journals about the Constitu-
ton Is cdifying. not Ia say refreshing. Ten
years ago, when u Republican Congress was re-
constructing the southern States. these very
statesmen and journals took the greatest pains
to impress upon the public mind the distinction
between an unconstitutional act and an extra
constitutional" at. They were also quite clear,
in those days. that the safety Of the republic was
the supreme law.
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One OF the stock objections urged against
our political system 10y English critics. has been
its want of ncxibility. The members OF the
Federal Convention. sagacous and provident
as they were. could not fore-ee and pro, de for
everything; it was impossible in the nature Of
things
Wait" thesc crit have said. II Is all very
we'll now; the Unforeseen and unpro> ided for
contingency has not yet arrived. But it il only a
question Of time When Il arrives. you will find
yourselves shaclled, il not throtued by this
fine written Constitution Of yours"
1.-THE pending bill FOR Presidential Commits
sion be- Nncs law. AMI answers the purpose. it
will be- practical demonstration that our sys-
TEN has a good deal more hcNibillty. after all.
than il has been credited with.
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has raised It's walls and buttrcsses In
strength and order. The speech is sure to
be studied by the whole country, and must
have n controlling influence over the action
of Congress-
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As said before. | believe RUrHErFoRD b.
IAYls l. elected ~, .dent elected upon the Jft-s
,ernd under every iorm ot law that Dec ought 10 be M
ausurated. -ho.ioA 90 Tie k,tsai Dsviisi.n1
The shrcwd Senator from Indiana took caro-
not to say that Mr.. HAYES WIS elected by votes
but e. upon the papers and under the forms Of
law. In other words. it is commended that tho
papers" furnished b, the Rturning Boards
were a technical compliance with the law and
TINT the rcrii a ats given by KrILoGG. SrEARNs
and CHNMBERLAtS must b" ceptnl because
they comply with the legal forms. By this
process election. might easily hn dispensed
with. and tho most glaring frauds be- perpc-
trGtcd under the abused forms Of law.
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Tho most significant commentary upon
the charges Of bulldozing, which the Louisiana
Returning Board used ns prctcxt for throwing
out many thousand TILDEN votes, is found in
the fat that, in three of the parishes most rolled
upon as examples Of negro intimidation. honest
Republicans who had been counted into OH e
10y WELLS and his associate rascds have refus II
Ia accept the result Of such barefaccd vllainy.
Mr. LoNG OF De soto. Mr.. BucKINGHAI of More
house. and Mr.. KELLUM " Baton Rouge all Re-
puhlieans. have given their testimony as TO the
absence Of intimidation by the Democrats. and
have all declined to accept the Offices awarded
b. them in the fraudulent count OF the Return
inA Board. To these may now be- added q. W.
HAMLET Of Ouachita. Republican candidate for
Senator from that district. who was defeat "a by
Mr.. MEREDITH. Democrat WELLS * CO.. 10y
throwing cut some 900 vcscs that were east for
HAMIET's competitor. succeeded in declaring
him elected. lie went 70 New Orleans. took his
seat In the PACKARD Legislature. whore he re-
manned but one day. when he resigned. and has
since returned 90 his home to again become a
candidate for the sane OH 20 In new election
shortly 10 be held in his district under Gov
NIcHoLLs's order As Mr.. HAMLET was Sheriff
Of the parish. and one OF the most active Repub-
lcan leaders in the late canvass. it appears very
singular that he should never have known Of
the outrag's upon the poor negroes in his dis
tri regarding which WELLS senator SHERMAN.
and the HAYES organs seem to be 50 well in
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Tho downtown praycr-mecting for the
regeneration of the money changers Of Wall
street and vicinity was oven moro successful
than upon previous DAYS. single skept' ap-
pcarcl who had hrayod storms at sea and bat
tbs on land. but could not Tenn on his early re-
llgious teaching. rs it would not stand the tcst
Of science. This nvowal did not weaken tn
faith or zrul Of the scollanoous assemhlaeo.
which enjoyed the prayers, songs, and cXhoifa-
tious
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AT the opcning Of the January term OF the
Circuit Court for York county. S. c.. the other
day Judge MAcKEY informed the Grand Jury
that the HAMPTON Government was the ono
which, under the decision Of the Supreme Court,
would be recognized IA the legitimate State
Government in that circuit; and that any war
rant or commission signed by Gov. HAMPTON
must be respected and obnyed. The Court also
instructed the jury that the pretended tax levy
of the CHAMBERLAIN Legislature is not legal. az
the supreme Court has decided that the House
which levied IT Is not u constitution body. and
that Should the County Treasurer. acting under
the authority Of CHAMBERLAIN. even advertise
the property of "A taxpayer for sale TO satisfy an
execution for the collection Of this tax. he would
Individually lay himself liable for damages.
After the adjournment Of the court Judge
MAcKEY who is u Republican. delivered. 10y re-
quest. an address upon the political situation. in
which he lahorcd TO prove that the Inauguration
OF HAYES would be better for the South than
that Of TMDES. CHAMBERLAIN seems to have
no friends in South Carolina except those who
expected TO profit personally by his election.
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There has been n time when Mr. MORTON
seriously regarded him- H. AMI was regarded
by his admirers. rs the leader Of the Senat".
This pleasing illusion il in q fair way to be
rudely dissipated.