New-York tribune., 1877-11-23

elsewhere made that Attorney General Fair
child, having become convinced that the ap-
polntment of Mr.. Jewett as Receiver was OBJ
taned by fraud and cOllusion, Will oppose any
further steps in the reorganization movement.
These statements are denied 10y the friends OF
the present management, and little is yet
clear except the fact of renewed contention IN
the courts.
Gambetta's proposal to have the Deputies
and Senators meet in joint convention to
settle the pending crisis, is doubtless sug-
gested by the constitutional rule that the
President shall be elected by such an assem-
blage. As the Conservatives would be In a
minority in the proposed congress, 1t is prob
able that they will regard the scheme unia-
vorably, and that it viii fall to the ground.
Meanwhile the Republicans may derive COM
fort from the difficulty experienced in forming
coalition ministry, and the resignation of
several projects
The will of William Watson, bequeathng
an estate supposed to be worth $5,OO0,OOO, is
noticeable for the care with which many per-
sons near HIM and related to him have been
remembered and the eyenness with which the
estate is divided. After the wife and chill
dren, relatives more remote, his partners
and clerks are given bcqucsts that serve at
least to show that they were not forgotten,
and the executors are allowed something III
addition to their lawful commissions. Between
the children there seems to be no disclmlna-
ton. This is not the sort of will that provOkes
Quarrels, and the lawyers will hardly be al
lowed to drag this miliOnaires dead body into
court.
The friends of Mr.. Peter b. Sweeny, who
know how greatly he was shocked by the dis
closure of his errng brothers completely in
the ring frauds, will see by yesterdays
testimony before the Aldemen's Committee, to
what a strain his feelings must sometimes have
been subjected. On one occasion an envelope
full of Ring dividends was carried to the office OF
the Swecnys by Ingersoll, who tells this inter
esting tale. and, James being out, was
left on Peter B. Sweeny's desk. 1t was
marked "S.," without the James When In
gersoll returned, he was told that he had made
a mistake in giving the envelope to the
esquire" But "the Squire" probably knew
what was in it-this mysterious little envelope
marked "S."-and his failure to return it, and
his careful omission to take it up, in MIR. In
gersoll's presence meant, no doubt, that he
was lost in soITowful astonishment at the sim
fulness of a wicked brother Ii must have been
a trial, and we feel for Mr.. Sweeny.
Now that the Democrats have secured at
least temporary control of the Senate by the
capture of MesSrS. COnOver and Patterson, 1t
becomes of interest to know how these votes
were obtained, and, if they were bought
by any sort OF bargain, for how long
the purchase was made. To take the last
point first, it is not yet certain that both
men have contracted lasting alliance with
the Democracy, though it is altogether prob
able that Patterson has done so. One Of them
has avowed in the Senate his willingness to
vote for Kelloges admission, and the other
had already declared the same intention else
where. Mr. Conover has evidently some com
Functions 20 which Mr.. Patterson is
stranger and wavercd once yesterday into the
Republican ranks. If Kellogg should 0e adj
mittcd, and Mr.. Sharon could be induced to fill
his seat the Republicans might find them
selves at least equal to their opponents, in
which case Mr.. Wheeler's casting vote would
give them majority, without considering the
probability of occasional aid from Mr.
Conovcr As for the supposed conSidcra-
ton to Patterson, stories come from
Washington which are almost incredible. 1t
does not seem possible that men Of such high
character as many of the Democratic leaders
in the Senate are could have bargained to
save a man apparently doomed to the peniten
tiary, in return for his vote as a Senator. If
any evidence Of such shameful sale is given,
the men vino have cOuntenanced OF aided it
will be as Infamous as the men they bought,
and the party which gains a small advantage
by such methods will be laStingly disgraced in
the eyes of the people. But until there is
proof to the contrary, the public will prefer to
believe that Patterson chooses this course in
the hope that his conduct may possibly soften
the hearts Of his pYOsecutOrs.-AS for the mo-
rality of the Democrats in accepting his
aid-supposing that there has been no such
bargain-it must be said that the Republicans
having not only accepted the Pattersons in
wears past, but having embraced them as kin
dred Republicans, and having used the United
States Army to support them, are not in
position to cast the first stone at the Demo
Gratis