Year: 1865

| and will trust to time and education to develop
the Union sentiment in the South as clearly as
we all wish. Then, when every Southern man
is an incorporating Unionist, there will be
nobody to complain. Human nature is human
nature, and we must not look for impossible
ties Under the guidance of President John
son, who understands the South thoroughly and
who Is himself Southern man, all these things
will come right. Patience viii be q much
better remedy for them than immediate negro
suffrage. That would be simply stepping out
of the frying-pan into the fire. ....


| Press.


The revelations in regard to the conduct of
municipal affairs in this city have been perfect
ly astounding. We have discovered that rebel
funds were largely used to influence our poll
tics, and that certain members of Ex-Governor
| Seymour's staff shared these funds and man.
aged their distribution. We have found that
one city journal was paid twenty-five thousand
dollars by Jacob Thompson, and we have every
reason to believe that the other papers which
sympathized with treason were bought up in
like manner. With an avowed copperhead as
Mayor, the whole city government has been
more or less infected with his influence. We
see, too, that almost all the city journals have
been bribed by Corporation advertising or are
maneuvring so as to receive bribe. Add to
all these things the notorious jobs and pecula-
tions which are constantly occurring, and we
have picture of disloyalty and corruption un-
| equalled in the. world.


Parties are rapidly dividing themselves into
conservatives and destructives. The conserva-
tives are those who support President Johnson
in his reorganization of the Union, and the de-
structives are those who labor to destroy the
President and the country. In the destructive
party the ultra radicals and the copperheads
combine, just as they combined in favor of
secession. Now, If we examine the organs of
the destructives, we shall find them all supported
by Corporation advertising. We loyal men pay
heavy taxes to keep these disloyal papers in
existence. We contribute heavily to sustain
the very journals which are trying to break US
down. In vain do we refuse to read them, to
advertise in them or to subscribe for them.
They know how to get the money out of our
pockets without our consent As last resort,
we have appealed to Governor Fentou to aid
US by removing the officials who oonnive at
this outrage. The Governor has returned to
Albany, and now there will be no further
excuse for bis delay. By displacing Mayor
Gunther and all the rest Of the heads of de-
partments, he will not only reform the city, but
he will also reform the press. In view Of the
coming elections and Of the future of this coun-
try such reforms are imperatively demanded.


Look for a moment at the organs Of the de-
eructives, and see the class OF papers we are
paying taxes to support. There is the Ne,ns, a
rebel paper, which never said good word for
the Union or bad word of traitors, and which
was suppressed by the government on account
of its reasonable utterances. That paper lives
upon Corporation printing, although it 10 not
Loyal men are compelled by an outrageous
swindle to hand their money over to Mr. Ben
Wood, to he placed alongside his receipts from
the rebel assassination fund. Next comes the
World, another copperhead sheet of the most
malignant type. That is also Corporation
paper, and the money by which II Is kept alive
is flched from loyal men by the same process.
Then there is the Express, another copperbead
organ, which boasts that it has printed the Cor
poraton advertisements for years, although
very few people ever read its scrappy columns.
On the other hand, there is the Tribune, which
belongs to the same destructive party and is
also fed out of the Corporation crib. The other
so-called republican journals enjoy the same
privilege; but, instead Of taking up our space
by naming them, we desire TO call attention to
the fact that our officials, who profess to be
democrats, actually pay over the peoples
money to sustain these radical papers, which
are endeavoring to break down the democratic
party This apparent Inconsistency Is accounted
for by the existence Of Q "ring;" for in "ring"
politicians of all parties, however antagonistic,
join together to fleece the public How long
will Governor Fenton allow this state Of things
to continued The HsRALD-whlch Is the only
independent paper in the city, aud which for
that reason expresses the sentiments Of the
people most accurately-now warns the Gov.
ernor that unless he reforms our municipal
abuses be will be held responsible for them.
He must destroy them or they will destroy
him.


FALSE RsosrEa or DEATHS. very curious
fact was developed In the communication Of
DR.. Ramsay, the Registrar of Records and Statis-