New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-16
eral RobmsOn's nomination to any of the three
is considered unlikely.

THE TRIBUNE painted. without shrinking,
the portrait of Trenor w. Park. He there
upon sued for the damage thus done nina
damage which he estimated at $780, 900 TIE
TRIBUNE responded in an answer, justiying
unilinchingly and copOusly every assertion 1t
had made This was not the feast Mr.. Park
had desired to provide, and he sought to have
this answer stricken out. The courC instead
strikes his motion out; and Mr. Park, II he
now dares go any further in this matter, VIII
have the opportunity of explaining IN full
the numerous shameless swindles with which
he has been identified. The way of the rascal
who tries To silence TEE TRIBUNE by suing 1T
for libel is hard.
Something like a civil service reform seems
to have been started in the State Insurance
Department by Superintendent Smyth. The
first fruits are the turning out OF office of two
appraisers, who had been employed III valuing
the real estate of an insurance company in this
city, and made mistakes of about 80 per cent
The probability is that the appraisers have
followed the figures given by the company,
without any careful examination. Since now
the Department has got new brOOms, we may
expect some clean sweeping: but as yet 1t pro-
cecds rather slowly. At the past rate of pro
gress, two or three years may be required to
complete the examinations of both life and fire
companies
The activity displayed by Mayor Ely has
already led to the arrest of several policy
dealers; and persistence on his part will
eventually lead to the suppression OF this
most hcinous form of gambling. BIT the
Mayor must recognize that he is not only to
force the police to make arrests, but to com
pei the Police Justices 70 hold the culprti.
and then to see that the Disuict-AttOrney has
them indicted and tined. and does not let them
of on pleas and with fines of the lichtest sort.
This has been the custom; the several author
tiles have not acted in unison and the skilled
counsel Of the rogues have been too iniuen-
tal in certain Offices and courts. An impcach-
nent case or two might purify some of the
departments of justice just now.
All the materials for a romance may be found
in the legal struggle over the million
which tie public-spIrited Mr. Lewis, OF Hobo
ken, lately willed to the United States Govern
ment TO help it pay its debts. No sooner Is
the existence Of the million made known
than two persons appear 20 claim IT, one.
purportng 90 lie the wife, and the other the
son of the dead millionaire, who was supposed
never to have had either spouse OF children.
The second dramatic feature is the production
by the pretended wife of a marriage certificate
nearly twenty years old. and in three pieces,
and the appearance OF a witness 70 the same.
Whether the claim be unfodnded, the certificate
n forged or a stolen document, and the witness
an impOstor, or the claim be good, and the GER
tifcate and the witness be alike genuine, the
case is singular 1t will he interesting to see
what Jersey justice makes of it.
The Mayor is reported as expressing aston
iShment that an organization of lottery men
for the purpose of d" first breaking and then
deiyng the law should exist with impunity
in this city. Not one, Mr.. Mayor but four.
The gamblers of New-York have such an organ
zation, and regularly employ on salaries q
/ distinguished criminal lawyer and prominent
! Tombs SINISTER to defend them. The g fences"
| of New York have another society, which en-
| ploys an ex-recordcr Of this city 10 write rules
and regulations for their conduct. By which
they NAV avoid committing criminal acts in
receiving stolen goods. The dealers in obscene
literature have Just such another association
and are enabled to defy the law or bride its
administrators through legal advice regularly
Obtained. The organized viainy Of New-YOlk
would aetOnish more of It's old citizens than
the Mayor, if they could know all that goes on
in the lower courts and police stations.
There have been Aldermen and Aldermen,
but never before such collection as that in
| Brooklyn. From Donovan who voted for him
! self for President OF the Board, month in and
month out, DOM to the member who used to
attend in a state OF cOmpacent int0xicahOn,
/ il is one of the most remarkable gatherings of
| political prodigies in existence. The last act
of the members Of this Board is TO invite al
/ the world and the rest of mankind to prove
! that they are takers of brides, and they not
| only rcques. that somebody shall at once step
| forward and swear away then characters, hut
| they add such an inducemcnt in the
way Of reward that, If there is any
enterprise left in the city Of Brooklyn, there
will not he a reputation left in the Board by
the time the sun goes down tonight There
was temptation enough in the original figure
OF $500 offered for the information which
would seem TO he dear at any price, but when,
by formal vote of the Board, that SUR is in
creased to 10000 the Board simply asks the
community to come up and swear it to pieces
One can hear the rush of a cloud of witnesses
THE VEST md RESCM "TION.