New-York tribune., 1878-05-27

City Treasury, which there is no evidence to
support, and which the missing mans reia-
tives Indignantly deny.
Sixteen Aldermen arraigned at once in Re-
cOrder Hackett's court. This is the edlfylne
spectacle which is promised to us, and when
the Grand Jury will not fail to present
There can hardly be any issue more important
than that of compelling Lawmakers not to'De
law breakers. The offence is without excuse
or provocation, and the prosecution shonio De
thorough and vigorous. And Recorder Hackett
will probably look after the sentences.
By granting liberal concessions to the canal
company which purposes opening mari
time highway through its territory, the
Colombian Government has done its part
towards promoting that important enter
prise. But until it is shown that practl-
cable route has been found, and that the re-
ceipts will warrant the needful expenditure,
the new charter will not be Of much practical
account. The small return which the Suez
Canal has so far made to its constructors must
serve to discourage further investments Ill en-
terprises of that kind.
Peter Cooper has been most successful
man in the making of money, and one OF the
wiscst of men in giving it away; but the
shrewdest and kindcst OF men are sadly taken
in at times. The testimony in the suit OF VAL
lace p. Groom against Mr.. Cooper for libel,
in which the jury has just disagreed, seems TO
show this pretty clearly. Mr.. Cooper paid
Mr.. Groom a considerable sum of money
enough to convert him at once into be-
lever in the virtues of hard money and the
rights of property-which was to be expended
in the printing of tickets, the care Of booths,
etc. Mr.. Cooper seems never to have suS-
pected that this money or most of 1t might stick
in Mr.. Groom's pocket and the Grccnback cam
paign be allowed to continue to the end as
pure and imDccuniOus as il had begun. Yet
this is now Mr.. Coopcr's theory of the mystic
rious disappearance of the funds; and II the
testimony of Carolan 0'Bren Bryant is cOnclu-
sive Oh any subject, Mr. Groom at the same
time filed his other pocket by selling ont the
Greenback party to the Democrats. But very
astute men have paid more dearly for their
experience, and Mr. Cooper may conclude. after
all, that he has not made bad bargain.
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Tie Brooklyn clergyman who recently
charged in his place in the pulpit that the
District Attorney of that city was engaged In
shielding young Johnson, the wife shooter, from
trial, was sufficiently answered, it would seem,
by the action Of the Shcriff's jury on Saturday.
The evidence of Johnson's wife, his father and
father-in-law, and his fathers partner, as to
the insanity of the young husband as shown
in his daily life, was confirmed by the tesh-
mony of four physicians based upon obserya-
ton of his present mental condition. One OF
these physicians was the Superintendent OF
the BloOmiugdale Asylum. To tins was added
an examination of the prisoner himself, after
which the jury, with ten minutes deliberation,
found him insane, and declared that he had
been so for a year. This is an official deci-
sion, reached by the usual forms and sur
rounded with the prescribed safeguards, and
it is to be respected. DIR. Buckley continues
the controversy, nevertheless. If bis aim has
been to create a local sensation. he has un-
doubtedly succeeded, but the public is likely
to conclude that while the pulpit should never
hesitate to attack fragrant abuses, preacher
may find some more profitable subject than a
complicated controversy With a District-At-
tornev over the management of his Office.
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