New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-05

Still another Army officer has been ordered TO be
couri.mart allied for alleged dup Ication Of pay nc
coInts. II tnerr is a good deal OF crime and fraud
just nov 10 the Arng, there appears To be CORE
spoud NJ degree of prompt exposure which must IN
time remedy the eyIl. and watch the honorable men
who make the great body of Army oiicrr' should
be grateful Tor The Paynas or G.ncra IL ~ SAID,
! is considering plan By which tho duplication OF
nav accounts can bs prevented IL ought not to he
difficult to do tis II ought 70 be easy to devise
system by which Army officers can be paid from the
Treasury VITA no greater facilities for fraud upon
bankers than other persons enjoy who draw money
from the same oourco. Tao curious feature of Tins
form of "coufdence game" is tnat II II certain TO
be detected II Colonel Smith draws for his pay for
the month of July, SS3. throu Sh Smith. banker in
81 Ions and then again through Brown. ban ker
IN Washington. th' deception Is bound To he DIS
covered. The fact undoubtedly Is that tho officer
either resorts TO his method Of raising money n a
temporary expodent. expecting 10 have money TO
make things straight after time. or no counts on
the general reluctance TO bring disgrace upon an
officer TVS TO bo hoped that this motive will not
he sufficient TO save any offender hereafter. If tne
Government aud IN victims OF this practice will CO.
operate to punish every officer who is guilty of it,
will soon be made too dangerous even for desperate
men.
Superintendent Jones who has just been stirring
ND a hornets nest by cutting down the trees on the
nort of he Spa in Central PARK, explains that he
intended TO "plaat the spot with shrubbery and
improve the same according TO the ideas of correct
landscape gardening" Fancy those masters OF the
art. Messrs. Omstcd and Vaux, sitting meekly at
the feet of this GamaeI while, axe hand. he do
stroys their WORK, and then expounds to them the
"Ideas OF correct landscape gsrdening"l The pic
80 hat. D.,f
Conmis sioner might blush AS he contemplates it,
Our excellent contemporary The Herald congratu-
latng Mayor Edison upon the indepen lence, cour-
ago and public spirit he has shown in the selection
of Controller" patronizingy remarks that the
Office of Mayor Of New-York may easily become q
stepping stone to higher things'" True, true in
deed but why not com plete the quotation What
the poet saysis
"Tnat men may rise on stepping stones
OF their dead seires 10 higher things"
Ii strikes us that in this sense the Office Of Mayor
is the surest kind of stepping sone" for il there
is anything III politics deader than New-York
Mayor at the end OF his term have yet to sec it,
The Buffalo Courier says that before many years
have passed every member of our political organiza-
ton will claim TO be a Tiden Democrat No
doubt, no doubt. lP. S.-Send q marked copy of
tine paper containing the information to Hon. J..
Kelly. care of Iammany Hall, New-York.
The selection by the Mayor of his private secre-
tary for Controller is open to two constructions 1t
may be that he Is entirely sincere IN the belief that
the interests of taxpayers will be better served by
the appointment 10 tins place of competent busi-
ness man not known ~ IN active politician than
by the choice Of representative politician from