New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-08

Treasury without any loss or deficiency
and the entire amount which Ia In de-
fault upon the collections OF three years.
amounting to $343, 100000, is just $2,7oo.
This sum will be recovered by suits. Ana
vet Democratic members of the Senate strove
to show at the last session Of Congress that
the public service was honeycombed with cor
ruption and wastefuness. When they can prove
that any private business however scrupu-
| lousy conducted, is managed with so small a
percentage of loss, the country may listen to
| their complaints, but not while there is such
a balance-sheet as this before It,
The excise controversy in Newark has
| reached a point where the politicians are
| showing great bitterness against the clergy
| men. One of the latter class had the bold
ness il seems, to oppose on application for a
license, and was then publicly informed by
an Alderman that he ought to be the last
man "to appear against saloon-keepers Tor
making loud noises near his mission church
"when the concerts and variety shows at his
mission made the night hideous and rendered.
sleep impossible" Another clergyman con-
| templates asking the Indictment OF the hAci7e
! Board, and several vialS of wrath were pouieu
| out upon his head also. The manner OF tho
! disnnte. besides suggesting that the clergymen
are in the right, would seem to show also
! that the Alderman is a distinct species OF AMI
NAL. whose characteristics 40 not depend upon
| his locality.
No doubt it would be gratifying to the
whole community to learn that Mr.. Stewards
! body had been recovered, and that this shock
/
ports 70 this effect will not help the matter at
all, and will tend to aggrayate rather than to
/ relieve the uneasiness with which the public
| still regards this successful attempt at grave
robbery. There seems TO be no better foun-
dation for the latest story of recovery that
has been set aAoat than for any of those which
preceded it and the only circumstance which
| tends to support the theory is the fact that
| the construction of the crypt and mausoleum IN
| the Garden City Cathedral is preceding accord
! ing to the original plans. Whether this is done
with certain knowledge or merely vague
! hope that Mr.. Stewards body will one day lie
| there. it, is, of course, impossible to decide,
but the public will probably decline to believe,
until convinced to the contrary, that the body
has been recovered and the recovery kept a
secret No one would urge that there Is any
Obligation resting upon the representatives OF
Mr.. Stewart to crafty morbid curiosity IN TINS
matter; but the blow which was struck at his
| family NAV be said to have been felt in all
families, and if it had failed, it would seem
TO be social duty to make the failure known.
The cold wave must have started from Baltl-
more and in the neighborhood of the Mary
land Democratic Convention. Surely the mer-
curry must have dropped several inches
when that eminently respectable body
calmly remarked yesterday that when
the Democratic Conservative party re-
gained power in the Congress OF the
United States, il enforced an economical
administration Of public affairs, and made
"the resumption of specie payments pos
sible eyentpl Fortunately for the makers
of this platform there was no one to call on
them for specifications of the methods by
which the Democratic party had made resump-
ton "a possible event." Il was the Democratic
party which denounced IN ITS National Con-
vention, the Resumption Act by which it was
made not only ga possible event." but Il reality.
! The Democratic party supported almost in a
body the worst schemes OF imitation, whether
of greenbacks or silver, that were proposed In
Congress- and gave the same generous AID to
every attempt to delay and ObstIuct re5ump-
! ton. The country has reached specie pay
| ments in spite of the Democratic party,
and not because of it. and large share OF
| the organization, well represented by the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor Of OHIO, is
hoping and praying and predicting that re-
SUMPTION cannot last The idea that Con-
eressional economic" y brought it about is
too absurd TO be discussed For the Demo
Gratis of Maryland, therefore, to smile in q
patronizing manner upon the accomplished
task and to remark that their party did it all
is masterpiece Of impotence not often be-
held even in politics.