New-York tribune., 1880-01-14

eral in obtaining loan. The county Is
apparently liable for the Over-issue, ana
Boqert's hOndsmen are in their turn liable TO
the county The successive revelations con-
coyI ing the real character OF this much trusted
man nave left nothing of his old reputation
but il is shocking nevertheless TO find thai
he had been stealing deliberately with both
hands.
The sum in which the Third Avenue Road
was cast yesterday is stated TO be The largest
amount that has been awarded for many
wears in our courts for injuries caused by an
accident. The claim WIS Tor $4,000; the
verdict fox $4,000. Considering that The
victim Of ,he accident, a fourteen year old
boy, had two ribs, both arms, one leg ard
collar bone broken, and will always be inca
pabe. it is said, of either physical or mental
labor, the verdict seems 10 be moderate one
after al. The boy could hardly Lave been
lr,cturcd ana damaged more than ne was
without a special and energetic effort III that
direction, aud the community would not have
been sorry to see n rather more complicated
verdict in return for these complicated injuries
The report OF. Aud tor Schuyler upon the
Of
rs Tins officer has always done, against the
poicy which puts the canals at q disadvan-
tage in the contest with the railroads. The
Auditor holds ont the hope that the steam-
towing system will be completed before the end
OF auother season, doubling the capacity of the
canals, ard moving freight at much greater
speed with 4 smaller cost, than under The
present system. Mr.. Schuyler's recommcn-
dations look toward removal of the restric-
tion which limits the expenditures upon the
carais to the revenue received from them. \
free canal will be a vast benefit to the whole
state and country, and our Legislature may
incline some day to tina view.
John Kelly is always a pugnacious politi-
clan, and sometimes an amusing one. His
answer to CHARLES O'COnor which is printed III
another column, is intended to be scatbnG but
is often only funny Mr.. O'ConOr had ven
tmtd to denounced the Tammany bolt last AG-
tumn, and 70 dscbt Mr.. Key's wisdom ds a
leader Mr. Kelly retaliates with abuso which
is in part savage and in part ridiculous. WHAT
can be more deiciOuslv absurd than
this remerk coming from man SO
impatient of criticism as the Tam
many chief p" Mir. O'CODor has always
had the reputation OF being unwilling
40 allow persons to differ with him on any
"pet subject of his own. This shows the little
"ness of his nature" With huge beam
in his own eye, Mr. Kelly peers around
IL to distinguish the mote in bis brother
Democrats eye. But not content with
CRYING down Mr.. O'Conor as a politician. he
disputes his rank us a lawyer. The climax is
L., 4 si, fho 10, ol,t,x llof,x
in Name. That alone will seem to many to
justify Mr.. O'COnOr's estimate of Mr.. Kelly.
1t is unfortunate for those who are camor-
ing for the abolition of the protective
duty on certain articles of American man
ufactme that movements of this kind
nearly always have the bad look OF
being grand specularOns managed 10y for
elm capital. When the bill to reduce
the duty on steel rails was intro
duced 20 Congress the other day. the price
of steel rails in England jumped up $l2 ton
at once. The abolition of a protective duty IN
the United States has had invariably of late the
remarkable effect of raising prices in
Europe at once to the level of the
American market, while not lowering the
priccs Of the article in this country at all.
Striking instances of this fact have occurred
in the last two years. The prompttude
with which the English market responded to
the present movement In Congress III regard
to steel rails shows what an enormous
speculatiou for the benefit OF our Euro
pean neighbors the reduction of this
dutv would be. There are many interesting
phases of this particular question of steel rails.
and Mr. Earrshaw has presented them forcibly
in a letter on another page.