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Year: 1870

Oakley Hall being authorized by law to
divide the City into election districts, provided
he did it on or before Sept. 10, issued a
proclamation on that day dividing the City
into three hundred and eighty-seven districts.
He accompanied it by an attack on Marshal
Sharpe, alleging that the Marshal was taking
the census in such manner as TO disiranchlse
voters. Mr. Hall in that proclamation left an
entire block of the Seventeenth Ward out OF
anyelcction district, thus virtually DISTINGUISHING
some four or five hundred voters. This prOca-
nation was printed in pamphlet and delivered
from the Mayors Office in that form. 1t was
also placarded about the City. But in making
up the new election maps this blInder was
discovered and Oakley quietly proceeds so TO
change the boundaries of one of his districts
as to take in the omitted block, and "Docu-
"ment No. 81 of the Common Council Is issued,
in which the altered boundaries are inserted
without note in the proclamation dated Sept.
10. OF course Oakley had no right to change
his original proclamation or-to make new
one. But altering official records is mild
exercise Of power for the Ring. 1t is true that
this is form of forgery; but when did the
Ring stop at this, or at anything
Year: 1870

expressing the hope that the dcfaulting mem
bers of the Association will pay their past-duo
bills for such dispatches of ours as they have
used, before they do anything further in the
way of resolutions.


In the mean time we have our satisfaction in
the steady increase in the circulation Of TIE
TRIDrSE. and our advertising customers find
their proft in the increased business secured
TO them through our new readers.
Year: 1870




Mr.. Thomas Hughes may have failed the
other night to show us good reasons Tor
abandoning our position on the Alabama
claims but he certainly succeeded in showing
us good reasons why we should prize the
friendship of the English people and1approach
the settlement Of our international quarrel IN
an amicable and generous spirit We knew
that a strong party of English Liberals stood
our friends through the darkest hours of our
struggle with the Rebellion; but we did not
know. until he told us in his Boston lecture,
how zealously they worked for us, or how
large a proportion of the English people they
carried with them. We did not know how IN
our defense they faced discOuragements at
which we ourselves might have lost heart;
and if we knew we hardly appreciated the
length to which an unsympathlzing Govern
ment went in resisting the demands of the
South and IFS English adherents for recogni-
ton and assistance. No man could have told
ns this story better than Thomas Hughes.
We trust him entirely. We can speak with
him more freely than with any Engllshman
who has ever been here; and when we tell
him that we feel he is one Of us, it is not, as
he seems to fear, that we question his entlre
devotion to bis own Government, but that we
know he can take broad view Of both sides
of the question and put himself in our place
for the purposes Of argument. There is some
profit in disputing with such a man as this
who can understand our patriotic feelings
without sacrificing his own.
Year: 1870

The tone of NJ. Jules FavIe's official report
of his interview with Count Bismarck, which
we publish in full this morning Will sur
prise and grieve the many admirers of the
old French Liberal leaders. His cause was
weak, and his arguments naturally appear all
the more barren in consequence 1t is painful
TO see that he did not maintain the great dig
nifty of the occasion and his own position, but
acted and talked in strangely fippant and
nnerulOus manner.
Year: 1870

1t is reported that Col. James Fisk, jr, (Or
Admiral James Fisk, jr., we are not sure which
to say in this case) is about to increase the
number Of his mounted staff to thirty, and
dress them all in the finest clothes that can be
bought for money. Let us hope that, in filling
up the number of these shining heroes, he will
give a good place to his friend Mr. Oakley
Hall. We should say the post of military
secretary would he about the thing for him.
Year: 1870

figure that he makes in our annals but 'no
country pardoned him he bore hlmseit man,
fully and modestly after his overthrow; ana
he will be carried to his grave amid the
passionate sorrow of the gallant people that
made him their leader, and the respectful
silence of the people that conquered him.
Year: 1870

The Prussian Government has called upon
ours to enforce the neutrality laws forbidding
the sale of arms to belligerent Powers. The
Prussians have little reason to doubt the
anxiety of this Government to maintain its
neutrality. If past assurances Of good viii do
not suffice, it is not likely that the action now
ordered by the Government will be satisfactory.
Year: 1870

The cry of "war TO the knife" against the
new election law has died away as suddenly
as the cry-Of "war to the knife against the
Tammany Ring raised. in the same quarter
few months ago. What is the matter' Has
Mr.. Tweed sat on our unfortunate friend
again
Year: 1870

The iron dog Democracy made faint
attempt to carry out in Philadelphia the policy
of mob violence which their organ recon-
mends in New York; but they were promptly
put down in the former city, and We are pre-
pared to put them down lust as promptly here.
Year: 1870

A novel method of reform is to be tried IA
an experiment upon large scale in Boston. About 100
night walkers arrested in the streets on Saturday
night Their conditions OF life have been investigated
and II Is found that than 100 OF them are poor girls
who would glad OF the opportunity OF decent employ
ment 1t il Intended 10 place them under some whole
some restraint the Court imposing some sentence upon
each ruspendng its execution until the result OF inc
experiment In each ease ascertained. Homes VIII be
found provided for those that have none those tha
have homes will he to them. Work and means OF
support will be supplied and the entire police force VIII
their supervision. Two Catholic clergymeh end
that the report which to made In Court In the latter
part OF jane will Justify a majority OF Instances,
revocation Of the sentences.
Year: 1870

Preliminary steps are being taken by the
Freewi Baptist Society Of Harrison to erect
meeting house for the use of their Society,
at the Flats. The News says the enterprise is
in good hands and will undoubtedly succeed.
Year: 1870

criminals who do their fOuest work mt eiectlon
t;mes and other times, demanded this; ana IL
was not at all hard work for them to succuino
TO these demands. They did it, however, Ill
their own way, by pretending, after fashion,
not TO do it. While changing the law, they
asserted that its leading features were retainer
i'm their new enactment and we learn Dy us,
patch from Albany that the Attorney-Uenerh
of the State has just given an elaborate OPINION
on the subject, in which he shows that there
il no conflict between the laws OF 1867 ana
1870: that the only essential and important
difference is in the change of the authorities
empowered to grant licenses, and that the re-
failing of liquors or Sunday is still prohlDlted.
He also gives his opinion on some other points
of the new law; but, as it appears from the
proceedings in the State Senate yesterday tliat
his opinions are likely to be Overruled by the
Legislature, we need not give much heed 10
them till we are able to find out their actual
and practical value. In any event, whatever
be the terms of the law, or whatever be the
legal Interpretation of its terms, the fact that
there is, and will be, no sort of effective pro-
vision for its enforcement, is the main 1act ol
the whole business. When the police are not
required to enforce the law, what is the use OF
plaving the farce of its enactment1


Already we aye beginning to see the results
of the Democratic liquor policy. On Sunday
last the lquor-dealers, who during the
last few weeks of uncertainty have ventured to
KEEP their doors unlocked, opened their shops
and their bars to all who desired to drink, or
get drunk. In many parts of the city the bar
rooms were in full blast, and in many places
there were scenes of drunken disorder, when
brought back to public consciousness the OLD
times of Democratic license. The number Oh
arrests made by the police for various oiienses
was far beyond anything known on any Sum
day for years past; and the day was further
signalized by horrible fight between gang
of drunken rowdies in a bar-roOm, which cul-
minated in the murder of one of their number


The citizens of New-York must now look for
ward to the realization Of all the evils OF an
unrestrained liquor traGic-riotous bar-rooms,
uproarious night scenes on the streets, drunken
Sundays, and a great increase Of crime, dis
order, and indecency, on every night OF the
week. but especially on the sacred day.
Year: 1870

The industrial humor of the House was of


brief duration and fruitless of good result.


Two hours or more were wasted yesterday IN
renting the fines inflicted at an expense of
several hours on Friday and Saturday. An
effort was made in vain to dispose of clause
or two of the Tariff bill and the session of
the entire day was productive of no business
like result whatever. There has been no
duller day in Congress these four months. We
wish we could hope that there may be no more
as idle We have been compelled to charge
procrastination on Congress so frequently OF
late that we are heartily ashamed to be found
repeating our complaints, lest they be thought
the mere carpings of fault-finding nature.
But does not Congress recognize that this out
cry is become generalq And, further, looking
back at the net results of the past four months
of legislation, that it is justq
Year: 1870

Have the English friends of the men muir
dered in Greece to thank their national sloth
and circumlocution for such victimsf we
trust not. Yet we have seen it written that
the Greek brigands carry on their business
punctually, sharply, ruthlessly. When they
demand ransom, they mean, with all the
spirit of murder in their nature, to be paid
either in money or blood. The captives lately
sacrificed were well known, widely advertised,
and powerfully connected and their ransom
should have been prudently forthcoming. 10
attempt their rescue was, so far as we can
now Judge, ill-calCulated and rash.
Year: 1870

If the Democratic party of this city had any
intellect to be reasoned with, or any conscience
to be appealed to, it might be worth while for
us to implOre it to apply the principles of
common sense and morality to the recent leg
isation for which it is responsible in regard to
the liquor traffic. For some years past this
dangerous business has been kept under some
measure of restraint by the enactment and en-
forcement of the most effective Excise law
which the city has ever known. Before the
passage of this law, the business of liquor
selling went on, under full blast, night and
day, every day of the week /; there was nom
inal system of licensing, but there never were
any returns or any results from it there
were regulations for the suppression of disorder
and the maintenance of decency i'll bar-roOms,
but they were never enforced; and the baser
orders of rufiianism in New York ran riot in
their drunken Obscenities. The change for
the better which resulted from the law passed
by the Republican Legislature was quickly
recognized by the respectable portion of the
community. The drunken orgies of the
rum-shOps terminated with midnight on
the secular days of the week; the
business of liquor-selling on Sunday was alto
gether prohibited, and, in consequence, the
sacred day, instead of being the day on which
drunkenness was most rampant throughout
the city, became by far the most orderly day
of the week-the streets being quiet and de-
cent, and the police arrests for Ofienses against
law exceedingly few. The traffic, as a whole
was kept under rigid system of surveillance
both for its own good and the public good.
The returns to the public revenues from
licenses amounted to million dollars or more
annually, large portion of which was en-
ploycd in sustaining institutions designed to
palliate the evils flowing from drunkenness and
the liquor traffic.


To these stringent laws and regulations there
was but little opposition that ought to have
been listened to. A portion of our German
American population, it is true, disliked to be
deprived of their lager on Sundays but, at the
same time, they rather enjoyed the necessity of
making Sunday excursions to the suburbs
where lager was sold without restraint. Some
of the liquor-sellers also objected to being
restrained for a single hour from carrying ON
their traffic; but the great body of decent
lquOr-dealers were rejOiced at the Opportunity
furnished them hy the law for daily, or
rather nightly, period of respite from their
duty of standing behind the counter. In
fact, the rowdy class, the criminal class and
the regular sOakers, were the only people who.
as a body, felt seriously aggrieyed at the ex-
istence and enforcement of the Liquor law and
the police regulations on the subject. But, of
course, when the Democratic party obtained
control of the Legislature, at the present ses-
sion, its leaders very quickly took measures for
modifying and practically multiplying the Excise
law. The noisiest of their supporters in the
rum shops, and the biggest bullies and worst
Year: 1870

It is an odd enough circumstance that there
;s q man now under sentence of death in En-
gland who, by all the laws, should be hung,
but who. by some curious deformity OF the
neck. cannot be hung-at least, hanging him
would be a kind of cruel experiment, with the
chances against its proving fatal, even after
acute and prolonged suffering, causing (as the
iail surgeon has delicately represented to the
Home Secretary "a most unpleasant scene."
Here is a pretty state of things, indeed! A
man defying "the eternal verities," and the
Mosaic law, and the law of the land, and able
to commit murder without adequate punish
ment, simply because Providence has blessed
him with a particular kind of neck! 1t is
very embarrassing.
Year: 1870

The rather limited and not over choice language
of the teegraphic reporter daily becomes hOre con-
tracted. One of his best beloved phrases from time
immemorial has been that in which every pGbbc
document emanating from National or State Execu-
tive was invariably described as "an able State
paper" And now comes Memphis reporter who,
without thought of the necessities of his brothers or
fear of their wrath ridicues that pet phrase into
disuse. He announces with the greatest gravity


imaginable that the message of the principal chief of
the Choctaw Nation calling council of chiefs is ian
able State paperw 1t is difficult to decide whether
the reporter has more for dignity love
OF fun In his composition, but shall ALWAYS
believe that Memphis possesses an undeveOped John
true valuation,
Year: 1870

It is true. then, as we supposed, that the
Canadian DISPATCHES representing our Govern
ment as confessing its inability to defend us
from the Fenians were gross ISLANDERS. we
have accordingly to ask the inventors of these
dispatches to recognize the fact that for
the unseemly panic which has resulted from
the latest misuse of the Fenian name and
prestige the Government of Ottawa, and that
Government only, is to blame. The United
States are not responsible for its absurd alarm
over a visionary danger and an impossible
campaign. Verify, the Dominion folk rage ana
imagine vain things.
Year: 1870

We give in our Washington dispatches
very complete synopsis of the Senate bill for
the reduction of the army. 1t does not differ
materially from the bill as introduced by MIR.
Wilson and published several weeks ago. The
time for reducing the army to $4,000 men is
extended to Jan. 1 next The pay OF the
principal officers is largely reduced, and the
muster-out of a great many subordinates Is
provided for. Altogether the bill is one OF
which the country will hardly complain. 1t is
not so good as we hoped, but better than we
feared. It's passage and the early reduction OF
the army to something approaching proper
peace footing will be gladly hailed.
Year: 1870

the defalcation, and Collector An
thony. in whose hands the claim against Spear
has been placed for adjustments In pursuance
of this maneuver, it is affirmed that Pinckney,
an Assistant Assessor, has already been removed.
Tn short the plan is the old plan often resorted
70 in such emergencies-tO poison the watch
dogs. We give the facts as they have come to
us, not without hope that there has been some
misapprehehsion or some exaggeration. zen
tlemen are supposed to give their bonds win
full knowledge Of the obligations and the
conditions contained therein; in all cases OF
default an honest bondsman will repair the
delinquency of his principal, although dong
so may strip him of his last sixpence and II
the plan of evading such obligations is to be
adopted, very few bonds will be worth the
paper upon which they are written.
Year: 1870

Capt Eyre has the goodness and the cool
ness to ask for the restoration of his certif-
cate. But this is only one degree cooler than
the Judgment of thecourt Withdrawing that
certificate, and the sympathy of the public in
England who profess to feel for this man.
We say cool-for the partisanshp which
Year: 1870

What The Times Reported.


"The laws OF matrimony
should be so remodeled thai
the husband and wife could
not be jealous Of one another
so that the bond should
not be merely a legal one
but that a condition Of mar
riage should be "A permission
To each to act as he or she
thought proper, and at the
dictates OF the feelings and
affections"
Year: 1870

DR.. Harris, of the Board of Health, is q
balmy old humbug-a terrible fellow for
statistics-perfectly innocent SO far as relates
to any incendary attempts on the North river,
but not without bewildering ambition to
make sensations. He has recently made a
great noise over relapsng fever. As the
Board of Health was not organized to super
sede the dispensaries or hospitals-as its
especial province is to guard the city from
epidemics Of dangerous disease-it properly
has nothing whatever to do with relapsing
fever, because this fever is not dangerous, is
destructive to life in very slight degree, is
merely an unusual type Of fever The Com
missioners of Charities and Correction, who
have charge Of the hospitals, have had
patience with the vagaries of this monger
Of pathological wonders until patience has
deprived them of hospital space, and now they
have refused to receive his cases. He is thus
placed in peculiar predicament by being
compelled to recognize the innocence Of the
disease he has so twaddled over; for the Board
Of Health cannot establish hospitals unless the
Governor has previously issued a proclamation
declaring the prevalence Of pestilence, and
to ask the Governor to proclaim relapsing
fever as pestilence is q fancy that has not
yet occurred even to DR.. Harris.
Year: 1870

LAND GRANTs.-A lengthy discussion ensued
in the Senate yesterday on the policy or expe-
diency Of large grants Of land to railroads or
other corporations. 1t is well enough to give
lands to great national enterprises like the
Pacific Railroad. The evil arises from dona-
tions to bogus companies, who make a show Of
their proposed enterprises merely to obtain the
land. tits by the land grants that they make
their money, and they are never disposed to
spend it again in building railroads that by the
nature Of their location will never pay.
Year: 1870

1t is pleasing to notice in our exchanges
accounts of the religious feeling that prevails
at this time throughout the West. Winter is
the season for serious reflection in tbe rural
districts, and it has been improved to more
than the usual extent during the past and
present months. The Week of Prayer has
everywhere been productive Of the most graft
flying results In the city of Peoria, Illinois,
on one occasion, five churches grasped hands,
and after week or two Of continuous pray
ing ten in all were Joined in supplication
Seven thousand families were visited and spir-
itual consolation impaired with the happiest
results. A special committee of mothers
two from each church-was appointed to labor
for the salvation Of fallen women, with ample
funds to draw from for the aid of any outcast
who might wish to lead better life. On one
Sabbath evening as many as FIVE hundred per-
sons rose for prayers at once. A similar re-
ligious revival prevails in other parts of ILL
nois, as we'll as in Ohio-Cincinnati being
especially biessed--in Indiana Michigan, Wis
consin, Missouri and in other Western States
These are glad tidings coming from a
comparatively newly settled portion of
our country, and are indicative of what
is real and tangible truth-namely,
that thoroughly religious sentiment is
entertained In the hearts of the American
people, and that religion is the bulwark and
foundation of our free institutions.
Year: 1870

THE CASE OF PIERRE BoNAPARTE.-The
correction of the former despatch in regard to
the trial Of Prince Bonaparte puts the matter
in quite a different light. The Prince is to be
tried under articles of the Criminal Code that
involve the death penalty If the prisoner is
found guilty, but leave it in the discretion Of
the court to modify this penalty If there are
extenuating circumstances The least possi-
BILE punishment, in case Of verdict of guilty,
will be long term of imprisonment or depor-
tauon.
Year: 1870

GENERAL REYNOLDS, military commander
in Texas, declines to be a candidate before the
Legislature for the United States Senate from
that State. This will be sad news for some Of
the copperhead organs who have been insist
ing on having all the Southern military COM
manders in the Senate.
Year: 1870

PROPOSED NATIONAL STAY LAWN the
House yesterday Mr.. McCrary introduced
bill to provide stay of execution in certain
cases. 1t is intended as counter movement
to the Supreme Court decision relative to the
payment of old debts in coin.
Year: 1870

Two MURDER CAsEs.-In the rural districts
at least there still remains satisfactory tone
in regard to the sanctity of human life and
prejudice against immunity for murder. Two
persons convicted of murder in the second de-
gree at Rochester have just been sentenced to
Imprisonment for life.
Year: 1870

PRESIDENT GRANT has vetoed the Kaw In
dian treaty swindle by withdrawing it before
the Senate could find time for its ratification.
He ought to veto all the others now before
that body in the same way and never send in
aDy
Year: 1870

Doubtless when the Emperor surveys his ruined
work from his prison OF Williams Height (WUetn,'s
HOhe( he will think that ne has been wiser than his
people--he has known that this new Germany must
be overcome by France, or must take the lead
OF France in the councils OF Europe as mill
tary power OF superior weight. Did King William
choose this rock fortress Of CasSel the place OF
confinement for his lllusJrious prisoner because it
bore his own nameY Perhaps. His character Is
certainly misunderstood by the French journals and
by many OF England. The truth Is that the wonder
which the old KING expresses in his dispatches, and
his constant mention OF the name OF God, are thor
oughly natural. King william does wonder at his
work. He Is himself amazed ana horrOr-sricken at
the catastrophe. II Is well known in Berlin that he
hesitated to make this war; and was only reassured
by his cOunsellOrs. What a revenge for the con-
quests OF tse first Napoleon "Dead or Victorious
was the answer which the living and captive En-
peror gave to the question as TO whether he would
return to Paris. He will probably keep his word.
Whatever span Of lie may yet to him, 1t Is
scarcely probable that his ashes Will not some lay
lie in that splendid city for which he has done SO
much.