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might yet have chances as a Delegate in the

future.
The Supervisor-at-La of Kings County
has under consideration resolution OF the
Board of Supervisors to pay ex-Sheritl Reilly
about $4,000 which he expended before he
could recapture two burglars who had escaped
with little trouble from the Raymond Street
Jail. The Sheriff had fat fees, and it was his
duty to keep his prisoners in. 1t is difficult to
see why what he spent in trying to remedy
the consequences of his own neglect should be
repaid to him.
That useful institution, the Assay ONCE
seems to he developing into something OF
nuisance. The tenants in the buildings
around it complain of unpleasant gases which
rise from its furnaces, and Professor I0rrey
tells one of the House committees that the
structure is inadequate and unsafe. If the
project of establishing a mint here should be
successful, some pressure would undoubtedly
be brought to have it placed on the site of
the old Post Office A better plan would be to
sell the Assay Office and the Post Office ground
and with the money purchase site where
bad odors would cause less objection. Then
the Chamber of Commerce could probably
carry out its cherished plan to erect fine
building on the Post Office site.
Assemblyman NJ. c. Murphy yesterday Of
fered resolution in relation to the much
criticised new Capitol, which, we are inclined
to believe, will commend itself to the majority
of the intelligent taxpayers of the State Inc
superintendent of the Capitol has reported
that it can be entirely made ready for occu-
| patton for $2,779,095 90. Mr.. Murphy pro-
| poses to have that amount appropriated at
this session, provided the necessary contracts
| can be made for its completion within two
years. This is a sensible proposition.
| 1t is certainly in the interest OF econ
omy to close up the work at the earliest
possible moment consistent with its thorough
performance. There may be differences OF
opinion in regard to the merits of the Capitol,
but all agree that, good or bad, it is to en-
dure and be endured during the rest OF this
| century, at least. The sooner it is all done
the sooner it will be all off the public mind.
Never before in the history of the Democ-
racy of this State were its prospects more
forlOrn than they are to-day. 1t is conceded
on all sides that without the aid of Tammany
it cannot triumph, and yet, with the Guberna-
torial canvass soon to open, The albany Argus
is now doing its best to read Tammany
out of the party, 1t names the repre-
sentatives of Tammany in the Legislature
Benedict Anolds and Judas Iscariots,
and pays them sundry other compliments
equally complimentary. Another leading Dem
ocratic organ in the interior, The Utica ObSer-
GER, also fercely antagonzes Tammany. 1t
quotes approvingly from a Watertown con-
temporary the remark: Now let us hear no
"more of John Kelly as a Democrat or of Tam
"many Hall as representative of Democratic
" principles Other organs of the regulars
| are equally pronounced in their opposition, and
the plain inference to be drawn from what they
| severally say is that in their Judgment Tam
many should forthwith be kicked from the
party, even as last fall it was kicked from the
State Convention. Before this thing goes any
further it might be well for these feroclous
newspapers to consult Lucius Robinson. lie
could inform them that Tammany found no
difficulty in standing him on his head when
he tried to be reelected Governor without her
aid and with her il-will.