Tweed's Confession

The Xnw York Iierald devotes tliree ii s to '!' coiifcssion of Tweed, which 1 is crrtainly ono of tho most remarknble f clocr.iiicnts ever published, and windt tin' Jhrnlrf alkes is perieetly genninc. 1 'Fho confrssii'ai hpjrins Tvith tlio followiug i statement: "Forreara Mr. Tweed has : luilrn id' mental and physica] panisLnii'iit vliich others, with cqnal jnstioe, should have ahared; and yonnger men flian he íuigTrttvell have uuecumbed to it. Up to tliis time no argumente could induce hini to break the Bilenee which, from tho iirst, he has kept. lie is now an ulil man, is suffering fnnn a diS88S6 which his iinprisonment but aggriviti'K, artd ho wully Jicods rest írom i lie mental strain to which ho hns so í lojifí bien Kubjected. From his former companionH in criiue lio fec;ls himself isolated. Tliosc wluim he looked upon as liis friendo in his palmy days, and for ■vs'kase ofíenses he has siíentíy suflfered, havo notonlyheld themselves nloof from him, but some Jiitve becomc the loudest in their deimnciatione of liim. Mr. Tweed aaks notliing further from them. ; He will recpgnizo, no hirther claim that ! they uiukc upon him íor silence. Hence: forth, if the people will accept him as thcir witnoss, Mr. Iweed proniisos to do all t lint lie in his power to rectify the gxca.t wrüugs that he lias doue. "?Jr. Twooil suys that the íirst combination was a political óne, and commenced when John T. Hoti'm;ui was Mayor of New York, and was composed of Charles G. Cornell (Street Commissioner), John T. HolTman (Mayor), Petor 15. Hweeney, Matthew T. Brennan, antl "Williain M. Tweed. These gentlemen were in the habit of dining together in the City Hall, in tho kceper's room, and there promised iidelity and devotion to eaeh other." The following prominent persons are involved, among otliers, in Tweed's confession : Tiloma J. Creamer. John B. Van Prilin. Stephen J. Williams. Bepublicau Senator. Albcrt G. Mattoon, Kepublican Senator. Williaci M. GraAiam, Democratie Benator. Oeorgc-Bftichj Dpmoorutie {Senator. Johu F. liuLbard. Democratie Senator. W. J. Buruphrw, Bopublican Senator. Samuel H. Frost, Democratie Senator. Henry W. Genet, Democratie Senator. M. Nortou, Democratie Senator. A. Bleekcr Banks, Democratie Senator. Tsaiah Blood, Democratie .Senator. Norri Yul)low, Ilepublican Senator. Au},'. 11. Etwood, BepnbJican Senator. William N. Brand, ltcpiibliean Senator. Abraham B. Harponuing, Itepublicaa Senator. Willia B. Woodin, Republican Senator. Theodore S. Minier, Bcpubliean Senator. George Bowen, liepublican Senator. James Wood, liopnbliotvu Senator. The an-ay of uames is a startling one, and shows that all other swindlcs sink into insiguiftcance beside this mammoth robbery of the tax-payers of New York.