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Year: 1872

-, e IL. Oakley Hall Tor grave
misdemeanor in officially approving and paszluy
forged and fraudulent bills against or City,
whereby her taxpayers were defrauded, Is set
down for this morning, and VIC trust there will
be no further postpOnement on any pretext
whatever. The Mayor peremptorily insists on
being tried; the public insists that he ought
to be tried; the case presented in the indict-
ment seems very simple and narrow in COM
pass; and there will be general and just in
dignation If it be again postponed, or il 1t
fail through any tcchnicality whatever. The
Attorney General leads, through the counsel for
the State chosen to repreent him there are facts
enough developed whereon to base an indict-
mept and we should suppose that Oakley might
be convicted on his own public, repeated admis-
siOns-if the record is properly made up. But,
whether guilty or innocent of legal offense,
he ought surely to be either convicted or
acquitted without further delay. A Mayor may
be criminal, Pike any one else; but an innO-
cent Mayor should not remain under indiCt-
ment, and a criminal should not continue to be
Mayor.


Abstractly, high official in the dock is a
wholesome spectacle. Byron, in his Vision OF
Judgment" says it is well to


"see If kings may mt he damned, like me or you"
We know that the republicans of Europe
were exhilarated by the spectacle of our Presi-
dent, Andrew johnson, on trial before the
Senate; they rejoced at this proof that there
was country wherein Law was higher than
any personal authority or power. Let us hope
that Halls trial may further exemplify this
truth.


For, whoever may sit on the bench, the
Judiciary as well as the Executive Of our City
will to-day be put on trial. Either the scales
of Justice viii be held as even and
true as when Fiddler Jack or Ostler
Mike is on trial for an alleged larceny, or
New York will be disgraced as no Tweed or
Connolly had ever power to disgrace her.
Millions will watch this trial expressly to see
whether the bandage over the eyes of Justice
is thick enough to prevent her recognizing
and defcrring to the Office which Hall is
charged with prostituting to the qualification
of other mems venality and his own ambition.
Let us presume nothing, but patiently, can
didly observe
Year: 1872




The Quarantine Ring is utterly broken.
| Merchants may snap their fingers in the
| Health Officers face and laugh to scOrn his
extOrtiOnate bills. He himself entreats silence,
and his miserable tool, fled from the subpenas
| of the Committee, and frettng under cOmpul-
sorry exile at Washington, begs permission to
return and testify at Albany, far from the
witnesses who could confront and disprove
him. There is little TO be added to the over
whelming disclosures of Quarantine corruption,
yet our merchants must not hesitate TO come
forward boldly and pile up proof of the in
fanny of the Quarantine officials until their
immediate removal is secured and an act
adopted which shall leave their successors no
opportunity to practice piracy under the guise
of law and the plea of public health and
safety.


We speak in the plural now with reference
to the Pirates of the Quarantine, because we
have concluded, very reluctantly, as we must
confess, that the investigation of the Legisla-
tive Committee ought TO be extended to the
affairs and accounts of the Quarantine Com
missiOners themselves. While we are at it, let
the Augean stable be thoroughly cleansed.
The reasons we have to advance for this are
given in detail elsewhere. The official reports
of the Commissioners alone establish all that
we now say. and certainly what is said is
enough to warrant inquiry. Let the Legisla-
ture extend the powers of the present Com
mittee, of which Mr.. Alberger is Chairman.
If the members have not already learned what
witnesses to call, they have listened to the
testimony against the Health Officer very in
attentively.


And we may say with as much pOstiveness
and satisfaction that the Judiciary Ring is
already shattered. Lawyers need not fear
that it can ever be put together again to their
discredit and ruin. The documentary evil
dence already secured by the examination of
the District-Attorney's Office is in itself
sufficient to convict the Judges charged,
and send to State Prison others holding
minor positions who are implicated. No
man outside the legal profession, and not
all in it, can have any conception how
personal liberty has been trafficked in by this
Ring of Police and Supreme Court Judges.
HabeaSes have been common objects of barter
with them, and the abuses of Referees and
Receiyerships which we have exposed
are positive virtues compared with the viO-
lations of tho sacred act which the
Bar Association has brought to light. Let 40
honest lawyer fear those men more. The
guilty may tremble, for at the fall of those
they have used or who have used them, their
exposure must follow. But let honest men
who have facts to tell-nOt personal griev-
ances, for these only weaken the general
cause-come forward now and help in. the
general overthrow of the worst Ring that has
| yet afflicted us.
Year: 1872

The Kansas Legislature heard the report OIL
the Bribery Investigating Committee on Sat
urday, and more disgraceful, disheartenlng
exhibit of legislative debauchery never before
came to the ears of public assembly in this
country. The entire machinery of the State
for years past seems to have run in grooves
of dishonesty. At every turn the Committee
was bampered by men in power, who strove
to impede the course of investigation as though
not daring to face inquiry. Yet in spite of this
persistent, formidable opposition, the fight of
witnesses and the obduracy of the criminals,
q record of corruption has been developed
which can only find fitting climax in the
arrest, trial, and conviction of the men now
dishonoring high places in the national coun-
ellis. Senator Caldwell, it is shown,
paid and boasted of paying 100000
for his seat. Senator Pomeroy and
Congressman Clarke are implicated not
less scandalously in making common mer-
chandise of the machinery of legislation and
election. The facts have been sent to Vice
President Colfax, and we shall sec in time
how much impunity there is in that larger
assemblage for the men who bring disCredt
upon our institutions.
Year: 1872

1t is quite possible that the pro-Administra-
tion Senators may contemplate the remarkable
stroke of policy on the French Arms question
which is described in our Washington dis
patches. They are capable of committing just
such an absurdity, as they have frequently
proved but if Senator Wright of Iowa shall
suffer himself to be thus made catspaw, and
shall make the suggestion that the whole thing
may as well be dropped, because there is
nothing in it," he will be more ridiculous
person than we had supposed could get into
the United States Senate and that is saying
n ercot deal The longer Mr.. Summers resO-
lutions are debated, the more grave seem the
charges therein, and the more conclusive is
the evidence which comes up from day to day.
Let the superserviceables smother the invesi-
CATION if they think it safe; they cannot put
out the fire.
Year: 1872

Col. Forney, apparently under great pres
sure, has let out some curious secrets concern
ing the ways and means by which Gen. Grant
was first brought before the public as candi-
date for the Presidency. 1t now appears that
somebody promised that lie should be renomi-
mated. if he would consent to be elected by the
Republicans in 1868. Whether that somebody
was authorized to make that bargain is not so
clear but it is very certain that the aforesaid
somebody may have some difficulty in carrying
nut his compact.
Year: 1872

The Government of British India has con
quered the Looshai tribe. The recent rebel
lion of the KOokas, however, is a sufficient
indication that no adequate security is afforded
by strong military force against the recur-
renee of acts of violence by the natives. BY
a little judicious diplomacy the Looshais might
bave been converted into serviceable defenders
of the frontier; but now there is too much
reason to believe that they will revolt on the
first convenient opportunity.
Year: 1872

The letter published on another page from a
regular correspondent of The TRIBUNE at
Paris confirms the fact, if any confirmation
were needed, that copies of the American Case,
under the Treaty of Washington, were in the
possession of the British Government about
the middle of last December
Year: 1872

any party. IL you want to face these men at
the next election as Tammany had TO lace
them last Fall, you will beat the Seyenty's
Charter; if not, you will perfect that instru-
ment and let our City choose Mayor and
Council under it, no matter though the ward
politicians should withdraw the light Of their
countcnanccs and leave tht people to their
Year: 1872

Are we to be subjected to another installment Of
the pugilistc nuisancei Apparently 80, for here is
OBadwin challenging Mace to fight him within four
months at place within fifty miles OfNew-Orleans,
for $1,000. Whether the combat ever comes off or
not all the shall we be bored with paragraphs
and rumors and cards and telegraphic dispatches;
and there will be all the drinking and cursng and
crib fighting with knives and pistols usually at
tendant upon match. In addition, there is the
fight to take place between Rookie and Kelley, on
the 22d of May, somewhere in Canada, for $1,000
If tho Prize Ring had any of its old show of
dccency and pretense of honor left these pro-
ceedings would be moro toierable Its first state
was bad enough there are words sufficient to
express the degradation of its last. The only con-
ISOLATION is that, hard it may die prize-fghting is
certainly dying.
Year: 1872




The costly and beautiful collection Of fans belong
ing to the wife of Louis N. Bonaparte is offered for
sale in London. Many of them are exquisitely
painted by frst-rate artists, and richly adorned
with precious stones. Their sale would seem to in
dcate that Louis is in need of money, and that these
toys are to be devoted TO their legitimate purpose of
raising the wind. SO fade the geres of the lavish
and luxurious Empire-the Empire of Ostentation,
sensualty, money-making and prodigality Does
hungry and naked France look back with regret to
those days of hollow and seeming prosperity If so.
what is to be hoped for her in the futuref How his
tory repeats itself Mad. Tussaud exhibited the first
NapoleOns old coach in London. and now an auc
tioneer there is exhibiting the Empress Eugenles
old fansl


The great clothes controversy in the church some
times RACES and sometimes abates. Bishop Randall
(P E.) having freed his mind regarding Methodist
minister who somewhere at the West preached the
everlasting gospel in linen duster" The ZOns
Herald newspaper wants to know why one man has
not as good right to preach in duster another
in q surplice in linen as in lawn " And indeed"
says The Z's Herald what is the difference except
in the cut and color ~ Well from the good Bishops
point of view that is difference enough-and he has


right TO his opinion AS the proverb says, there is
no disputing about tastes, which accounts for the
fact we suppose that in this tboughtess age there
Is hardly any dispute about any tDlng else.


Good heavens or bad heavens, just as the case may
be- for here is great astronomer in Switzerland.
NJ. Plantamour by name who predicts the coming of
q comet more gigantic than any heretofore observed.
which, with indescrbable velocity. is heading for
this unfortunate world, and will arrive the 18th
day of next August. The first thing we shall no
tce is that il is growing uncomm0nly hot but this
being quite usual on the 18th of August it is prob
able that very few of the inhabitants of the earth
will be ready for the catastrophe which must in
| evitably follow. Our only chance of escape from
| combustive destruction is that some bigger planet
| may cause the comet to deyiato from its regular
route, If it doesn't, we shall be snuhod out like
| tall ow candle.


| The AldiRe dinner brought together on Friday
night. an unusual number of gentlemen whose
names are known in literature and art. We publish
| in another column some specimens of their post
| prandal wit and wisdom, which refuto more
Year: 1872

nonds IN the London market and the aegsu IN, heVoS @
81 the sale OF the COmpaDy's stock to poNiuon ~ se ed
for fine construction OF the now buidihS !" "po 0i0''0
on Broadway In this city.
concerning this rumor permit me TO state


First The bonds OF this Company for SlSOooo' ssueu
for the purpose Of providing the funds wherewh TO pay
for the land and the erection of building thereon at the
corner Of Broadway and Dey-st, in this city, were SOLD
and delivered 20 and paid for by London house In June
last at par in currency.


secondly As payment has already been made for the
land and the remainder OF tie proceeds Of the bonds
il, ample for the erection Of the building upon the plans
adopted the alleged necessity OF the sale OF the Oom
panys stock to provide the means for the construction
OF the new building" does exist Not one share OF
the stock purchased for account Of the Company has
been or will he sold.


The managers Of this company have never hao SO
many and so substantial for being satisfied with
the condition OF its affairs and with the prospects Tor
the future as at the present time Its revenues gross
and net are larger than before and the evidences
are abundant that the Of both in the immediate
future will he greater than during any corresponding
period in the past. Very respectfully,


WILLIAM ORToN, President.
Erecutire once, Western Union Telegraph Company
Teio- York, Aug -, 1872.
Year: 1872

is cleansed of all contagious and infe,
tious isease.


1t further makes it your duty-(see
Sec. 4, of said Ordinance) to investi
gate all such cases of infection, and not
allow any person or persons infected
with any contagious or infectious disease
to go upon the street, or from house to
house, or in any public place whatever,
or in any way put himself in contact
with persons not properly in attendance
upon him. The same Ordinance makes
It the duty of the Board Of Health (see
Sec. g. to provide a Pest House to which
all persons SO affected may be removed,
if SO ordered by your Honor-which we
pray, and believe, you will not be back
ward in doing.


In proof that it is not only right and
proper. but that the safety and purity of
society depends upon the arresting the
spread of all such contagious and infec-
tious disease, we have only to call your
attention to the well known fact that
ever since the establishment by John
Pinnell of that Sink of Pollution con-
tagious and infectious disease more to
be dreaded, and more terrible in it's con-
sequences that any other. has been
spreading among our citizens until its
victims are daily seen by scores upon
the streets of Seattle, while about the
house and premises to which we have
called your attention, the sight is heart
reding. This evil in our midst We have
long deprecated, but felt ourselves pow


rless to lawfully crush it out, until our
City Council-God bless passed
the Ordinance making it the duty of the
Board of Health to remove all conta-
gious and infectious disease from our
midst.
Year: 1872

To the Trade and the public generally
we return our thanks for past favors.
Our mutual transactions in business,
heretofore, is our chief claim for in
creased patronage.


The rapidly increasing Trade of this
City with the Merchants of the Sound
Ports warrants our present importation.
Year: 1872

my business rs a nn,sic-teacher is so pressing
that don't lave time to read much; / heard
y great deal Of talk about the murder; but
never said anything about having seen
Forester on the night Of the murder for a
long time after the crime, except to my mo.
ihcr; in telling my mother about seeing
Forester. said To her that was very much
frightened nj his appearance on account of
his wild looks. .s


-. Have members Of the police force called
upon you frequently s.nce you told them
your story 4. They have not; have not
seen Superintendent kclso ar any officer until
this week, since the time saw them two
years ago this autumn.


Q. Did you read in any newspaper, after
the murder, that Billy Forester had coui.
mitted the crime! A. never heard his
name connected with it until yesterday;
did not know that was the name OF the man
whom identified until then. ,g


The witness was then asked TO point out
any cont in the courtroom corresponding in
shade TO the one FORESTER wore when she
saw him in the detectives Office. A piece Of
drab flannel was cut from the dress Of u lady
present and shown TO the witness, who said
it was about shade lighter ti,an the cont III
Question. Mr.. Howe insisted that the court
worn by Forester OH the day he was identl-
fed should he produced in court. The coat
had not been brought to court, and Justice
Bowling adjourned the further hearing oil
the case until Monday next at ii A. NJ.
Year: 1872

UNpER THE GAsLIGRT--M MAYOR kElLEY's
ISvEsTIGATIuS.-At the last meeting OF the
City Council the troubles of the City Gas
Works were referred to Mayor Kelley, and
the Committee on RetreDchment and Reform
requested to aid him in the investigation.
Yesterday afternoon the preliminary arrange
ments were made by the committee and the
Mayor, and a number Of witnesses directed
TO he summoned to appear at an early day
next week, when the Investigation will be
continued. The committee was engaged
yesterday afternoon in preparing plan to
be carried out and in reading the testimony
heretofore taken III the case.
Year: 1872

exercise of its functiors, the officers and
members occupy the same status they did
before the suspension but when defunct
lodge has been restlscitated on the applica-
ton of only 4 part of its members, those
members making the application only are
restored ut once, and rhe other members who
were in good standing may resume member
ship upon such terms us the local laws of the
jurisdiction may prescribe.
Year: 1872

RuNAwAY.-A frightened horse attached
to buggy ran away yesterday afternoon
down Fourteenth street towards Mayo's
bridge, and when between Main and Cary
coiIided with Il dray. One of the buggy
wheels struck the driy horse in the breast
and the buggy horse became detached from
the vehicle after having injured it slightly.
Nobody hurt, .s...
Year: 1872

Only two Baptist papers IN the world have larger
circulation than the Religions Heroid OF this city


II is rcnd in every section of the country, and Is the
best medium In the South for advertisers. Its charges
for advertising are very moderate considering the
extent and character Of Its circulation. .
Year: 1872

STRENGTH OF G1BRALTAR.-Until you set
foot upon Gibraltar you can form no idea OF
its impregnability. Very properly its real
strength cannot be seen from ship in the
bay only when you land do you find that
the sea-wall bristles with heavy guns, and
groans beneath piles of ball; only as you
traverse its flank do you see how formidable
the breech-loaders peep from every availa-
BILE chink, and powerful mortars lurk be-
hind every convenient embankment And
not until you penetrate the body of the rock
do YOU pet any just notion Of the marvellous
piece of military engineering exhibited in its
agalleries." These are tunnels excavated from
the soldid rock, parallel to its outer side, but
some thirty feet therefrom, and large enough
to drive carriage through. They are in two
tiers, and comprise total length OF nearly
three miles. At every thirty feet or so along
them, spacious embrasures are out-hewn, that
terminate in commanding portfolios, which
look to spectator outside the rock like swal-
lows nestholes in a sand cliff. These en-
brasures contain heavy guns always standing
ready for action, with powder magazines hard
by. From the portfolios beautiful peeps OF
the bay and the Spanish country are obtained;
out of these, on the north side, you look down
upon half sandy, half grassy flat. perhaps
half a mile long, and as wide or wider, con-
Meeting the rock with the mainland, and sep
arating the bay from the Mediterranean. Two
lines of sentry boxes, one at the rock end, the
other at the distant end, mark the boundaries
of British and Spanish land, and between
these lines is the neutral ground" The
guns in the quarried embrassures, and those
hidden cannon that stud the western and south
ern slopes of the rock, cover the neighboring
Spanish land, the whole of the bay and the
straits; and the strengthening work is ever
going on by the forti6cation ofnew points that
Year: 1872

The Cincinnati Gazette RadicaD has
this manly article in its issue of Jan. 81:


cit is incredible that a great nation as
this is, will keep Mrs. Lees Arlington es-
tate upon such title as it now holds bv.
without compensation. We do not object
TO the principle laid down by Andrew
johnson in that fortnight's believing after
he came into the Presidential chair. which
persuaded many weak minded GOOD peOple
that Providence had removed the meek
M ses in order TO bring IN the stern Joshua
for reign Of vengeance. We mean that
we do not object to the principle that ''trea-
son must be made odious, and traitors i'm
pOverished." We have nothing TO say
against a systematic cOnhscat0u: but TO
pick out the property Of this woman alone.
and lay the strong handOn It, does not be-
come great nation. Instead Cf making
treason odiOus. it viii make this nation con-
temptible.


"True, there is a pretense Of sale for
taxes; but, in the first place, this viii not
save the transaction from contempt: and. Ia
the second place, the title is worthless for
illegality, for several reasons. If it were
legal TO sell this estate for this tax. and il II
were legal for the United States to buv il
in at such sale, still the law viii not allow
a great and valuable estate of ], 100 acres TO
be sold for tax Of S92.G7, when two or
three acres of one corner would have
brought the money. The fact that the tract
was bid in by the United States at S26. 500.
which sum the government still holds in its
hands, shows the nature of the sale as to
this feature. Persons may make savage de-
claratiOnS against the Rebels to stave or
reflections in this affair, but an honest ma
ton cannot maintain the position which
ours holds as to this estate. Sooner or later
compensation viii be made. The sooner it
is done the sooner viii the government re-
heve itself from a position which viii not
bear examination"
Year: 1872

Debate was resumed ON the report of the
Committee on Ways and Means and as to
the transactions of the syndicate. Mr..
Maynard, of the committee, made an elabo-
rate argument in defence Of the Secretary
and in support Of the resolution Of the ma
iority of the committee.


Mr.. Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, followed,
and asked what sort of an Outcry the Dem
ocrats Of the House would have raised if
the Secretary of the Treasury had refused
the clfer of the foreign bankers to take a
hundred and thirty-five millions of the pub
lie debe at five per cent, and had continued
TO pay six per cent? What answer would
it have been for the Secretary to say that he
Year: 1872




Ma. Davis, of Kentucky, said that BTr.
Summers amendment was to be put upon
the amnesty bill for the purpose of defeat
ing it. Those wEO insisted on the amend
ment knew well that the Southern people
would rather do without amnesty than ac-
cept it, saddled with such a provision and
for one he would say that human ingenuity
could not devise proposition of the charac-
ter of the civil rights bill that he would ac-
cept. He then discussed at great length the
history of the doctrine of secession and the
unconstitutional acts of the Republican
party, and announced that having been born
in a land of freedom be would 60 down to
his grave in the association Of the rights of
free thought and free speech.


Without reaching a vote the Senate
went into executive session and soon after
adjourned till Monday.