TWEED'S FUTURE PROSPECTS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 49, 1 August 1877, Page 2

TWEED'S FUTURE PROSPECTS.

The American correspondent of the Argus says :>— While Hall was running away. Tweed, the " Boss " of the Eingi was preparing to publish a story of his own flight in the winter of TS7S, concluding with the announcement that he had determined to give up all the property left to> him, to make a clean breast of his- knowledge of the frauds, and to leave the country for good. The fact that this publication was pending was known to Hall, and doubless hastened his flight. The story appeared on April 3 in Harper's Weekly, accompanied with numerous illustrations, which are said to have been submitted to Tweed and greatly enjoyed by him. It is the work, so far as. composition goes, of an Irishman named Carolus O'Bnent Bryant, formerly an attachi of the Herald and a pet of Tweed's, who made him a member of the State Legislature. The narrative is inganiously constructed, and has an air of fullness and frankness, but I do not think it will tear examina-

tion, and I regard it as only a trick of Tweed's to enlist public attention and perhaps sympathy, and to pot the public prosecutors off the track. In bis proposition the State lawyers be describes himself as "an old man, greatly broken in health, cast down in spirits, and no longer able to bear any burden.'' In reality he is only 54, has fair health, and wiuds up his story with the statement thai if released he " intends to enter upon important railroad work in Spain." Tbe fact is that Tweed is as big a rascal as ever, and that he is by no means so shrewd as he is persistent and bold. He i g u k 116I 16 larger parl of vis Pander into the hands of those he can trust, and beyond the reach of the law. If be can now get bis freedom by surrendering a quarter of a million of dollars ia dubious securities, be will no doubt have enough to "enter on important railroad work" wherever be may desire. His release would only oe another proof that the laws and the law officers of New York are by ho means equal to the task of holding big criminals to acccount. Our Courts seem to think that justice should be adminis* tered as Hahnemann administered power* ful remedies, in very small doses.