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A BRIEF summary of a few of the official corporation and other obliquities, especially prevalent in towns with some suggestions for their remedy, is now proj given.

The local affairs of towns, cities, and counties, t roads, streets, bridges, strays, water, police, &c., al could be abundantly attended to by one competent a magistrate, even in the largest cities, are in some pl the population and property are large, made to serv abusive purposes of political and party strife, and pe culations.

Intrigues for Low Office.-"Histories are daily wr discover the subtilties and tricks of state: but sure there is as much false dealing, close practices, cunn tions, dissimulation, breach of promises, and every w dishonesty, in a petty, poor, base, paltry corporati choice of their town clerk, their bailiff, or some s as you shall find among the great bashaws, for the and supporting of the Turkish empire."-GOODMA Man, p. 207.

Halls, chambers, galleries, and other superfluou are sometimes made; chartered privilege for taxatio tions of mayor, double legislative departments, tax

parate apartments, and swarms of subordinates, with all tations, ceremony, and pomp which belong to national

ents.

salaries, favor, patronage, contracts, intrigue, corrupulations, police, knavery, petty oppression, and open ce of required duty are unblushingly perpetrated with

ourt-house, a building, a road, a street, or a bridge, rebe repaired, or rebuilt, the public may wait for years, ain.

courts and grand juries may demand from the approdepartments of these petty governments the funds for cution; reference to committees and indefinite postponeill follow every motion upon the subject; unless the for the work, and the whole appropriation can be prerranged to suit the views of the insolent and corrupt ts who thus insult and defy the people.

ingle city, whose increase of business and population Overswollen its old court-house, and other necessary ommodations, as to have made their confined and inapè condition a notorious and common nuisance; and I the public archives to constant dilapidation, after e enactments, authorizing new buildings, and the conand urgent request of all the required sources of , with unexceptionable plans and estimates; a petty ard, the whole bunch not worth $10,000, who had the veto the demanded appropriation, baffled and deviled e for more than twenty years, for no reason but that acts could not be intrigued for, so as to accommodate es and their tavern-haunting, rum-drinking associates. improvement is proposed in the construction of a pier, a street lamp, a gutter, or the size of a paving-stone, ary or police regulation, grave committees are raised, he is liberally spent in excursions and feastings, at the pense; and of all these pretended efforts for public imt, no report of any of the hundreds of these commitds anything but stupidity and ignorance.

a recent cholera preliminary, they demanded from a of medical practitioners that, whereas this epidemic is

by ebook damn or carbonic acid hu culnhurotted

answer, by way of a liber primus hit, from a single re the following appropriate rebuke: That every de and woman should keep their dishes and noses clea there was so much dirt about them as to disturb th bors by its deportation before cold weather comes, should sprinkle it all over with a quarter dollar's worth of lead and chloride of zinc, or some other antibrom when winter time comes, to get moon-catchers, with boxes, to make a thorough exculpation of these mor ences. That, however repulsive and intolerable, t observer, all these fetid odors may be, including dead animals, the spinning of their entrails, and the of hartshorn from their bones, &c., for many years p been discovered, by special and accurate hygienic ex not to affect the workmen and families about them. became familiar with and unconscious of the inl these odors.

And that the numerous and effectual purifying all these noxious odors, by the most conclusive and periments, had been found to possess no disinfect over febrific malaria.

A city legislature, composed of some twenty or t rant politicians, had to be told these simple facts, w woman and child knows who has read any compend useful knowledge, or the respectable newspapers and of the day.

A majority of the members of the conventions and d from whom their nominations emanate are boistero without homes or employment; who never pay the hold no property, and pay no taxes. And the war trict meetings where these delegates are chosen are al in the night, amidst the uproar of tumultuous rabbl there from other districts, and plied with rum by the and factions to overawe and bully down the people.

No registers are used to test the right of suffrag order and integrity of proceeding are lost in the vic

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ttic ward-rooms and odious rum-holes beggar all the es of aboriginal savagism.

re city and county legislature delegations by these infaens have been nominated, and by faction, frauds, and excitements been elected, who have been wholly unto their constituents.

irectories or assessors' lists will indicate their names, occupations, or one dollar's worth of property they ever

are reckless, irresponsible, ignorant, corrupt, and venal; ross and depraved animal appetites, and the most abanmoral and sensual propensities.

he distance of every square or two, there is a dingy recess sign on it in large letters :

"MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE.

LS, DEEDS, AND ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS REFULLY AND LEGALLY DRAWN HERE.”

ne city there have been more than three hundred comed police officers, with a Mayor and Recorder, at an expense of $130,000.

profess to watch and guard, by blocks and beats, the eity day and night.

sands of fights and riots, mobs, fires, and murders d; not half of them were published in the newspapers. ever heard of the arrest of a criminal at these scenes age, or of the presence or interference of the police. 7 stand at corners, smoke cigars, and stare at female gers; impudently swagger through the streets with large talk politics, pimp, and spy out a dirty tub or a carriage ; for the proper accommodation of the owner; or pick e poor inebriated countrymen, not the rowdies; for they with them, and sue for and pocket half the fines. y constantly annoy, persecute, and bully the people; der them no indemnity against robbers, conflagration, irder.

orger or burglar was ever arrested by them unless for

turions, the streets were insolently patrolled and blocke days. Full warning was openly given of the intended

sions.

The police was present at these riots and fires in qu cation. Loud and vapid harangues were ejaculated from fire-plugs and cab-tops.

A squad of some forty or fifty ruffians, most of the grown boys, clambered over each other's shoulders, da the windows, and fired the immense and splendid str tore down chancels and altars; ripped open magnificent valuable libraries of learning and science; and amids shouts and demoniac yells dashed their desecrated plun the flames.

The entire bevy of miscreants could and would ha knocked down and dragged out by this police four to they had been ordered to do it. No blow was struck; was raised; not one of these ruthless scoundrels wa touched or has been since then arrested or brought to j

All the world beheld with horror this formidable pol away into the crowd, and an audacious mob of not th dred, including the aiders, abettors, and all told, in open bridled insurrection.

These perpetrations, on one occasion in Philadelphia pay to the temporary police and military more than $ and in damage by fire $160,000.

Not one check was given to it except the commendab of a militia officer to fire upon the mob in Southwark presently dispersed them; and for which the wailings crations of the non-taxpaying idle politicians, and drun ble, who claim to be the law and order, free school lovi people, were poured out in street corner and town-meet

rents.

Under the pretext of sanitary precaution, a detestable r called a "Health Office," is licensed, which avails itsel ostensible necessities and purposes of philanthropy to from time to time from the legislature, the most prep and oppressive powers, for example:-

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