Year: 1863




THH CHARGES AaHCsr TIE POLICE Gowns
sIoNERs.--We publish n another column thil
morning tho charges and specifications against
the Metropolitan Police Commissioners. The
Commissioners have until the 18th inst to reply
to these charges, and they viii probably be
tried before Judge Daily, or the matter will be
decided by Governor Seymour without the in
tervention of the court. There seems to be no
doubt that the Commissioners will be removed;
but Governor Seymour is desirous of being in
tensely legal in the premises, SO that any action
he may take may not be subject to the imputa-
tion of partisan prejudice.


But, though the Commissioners may be
changed, We sincerely hope that the police
system will not. II is undoubtedly the best
that has yet been devised for this city,
and every citizen will feel an interest in
having it preserved intact. The police cap
tains, officers and men are almost uni
formly polite, attentive and efficient. We
can speak of their merits from our own expert
ence, particularly of that portion Of the force
located between Manhattanville and Kings
bridge. The present Commissioners have man
aged the department very we'll in every other
respect than in regard to those arbitrary arrests
and confnements. They have been betrayed
into their present trouble by Kennedy, who al
lowed himself to be used as the tool of Secre-
tary Stanton, and whose illegal acts they very
foolishly endorsed for political reasons. Sec
retary Stanton who is a sort Of small lawyer
by profession, ought to have known better than
to interfere with our police department, and
deserves all the blame of the affair. These
Commissioners. are at fault because they were
not bold enough to disavow the atrocious pro-
ceedings of Stanton and Kennedy, and they must
now take the consequences


The RECENT TREMENDOUs DEM0cRArrC MEET
NG.--The greatest meeting ever held in this
city was that of the democracy on Wednesday
evening. 1t numbered thirty thousand men,
including all the fighting elements of the city,
manifesting such an unmistakable bitterness of
been witnessed before in the history of the
United States. The enthusiasm was up to the
fever point. A spark Of opposition to the OBJ
jects Of the meeting, or the right to hold it,
would have exploded a mine and let loose q
volcano. The most singular phase Of this meet
ing was the absence of the democratic political
leaders. They were opposed to it, and kept
aloof The sickly weekly papers representing
Tammany Hall were against it; yet the rank
and file Of the democracy were there, not only
the men of Mozart Hall, but the whole legion
of the Tammany section. All agreed that
Failure" was written on the brow of the ad-
ministration, and that it was high time to stop
the war. "Peace" is hsnceforth the platform
of the democracy.


Tue IGNORANT AND PoMrous WORLD-The
World is the most ignorant and pompous
newspaper in the country. 1t began it's
career as pious organ; was soon trans.
formed into an abolition organ; then be.
came shoddy organ; then subsisted upon
Cummings army crackers and cheese, and
army ale and porter; then, for brief space, it
was an india rubber organ; next it appeared as
stock jebbing organ, and now it pretends to
be q democratic organ, protesting to represent
the very party which few months ago it exc
Grated and denounced. Such is q synopsis of
the history of the World, which is now under
the control of set Of ignoramuses from Wall
street, who know no more about dem ocracy than
they do about the man in the moon. For such
paper to presume to defend democracy against
Fernando Wood is absurd and ridiculous. Let
it conine its efforts to attempts to obtain cir
culation, and say nothing Of topics with which it
is totally unacquainted.


MOZART HALL In Irs GLonY.-Moz art Hall has
taken the wind completely out of the sails Of
Tammany. The best thing the remaining ad
herents of the latter can do is to join Mozart as
fast as possible. Mozart Hall and its leaders,
boldly seizng on the elements of discomfort