The New York herald., 1862-04-24

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iivered In May proximo-when oil our army
Is already supplied with srms-snd tho last in
1868, when the war will be over. The profits
upon this ave hundred thousand dollars
worth OF useless and unnecessary muskets Will
be about two hundred thousand dollars. With
these illgotten gains Greeley proposes to re-
establish the Tribune. A more palpable job
does not disgrace the history Of this war.
As II TO entirely identify the Tribune with
this contract, Secretary Cameron endorsed
upon the back of the document the name OF
the paper; and telegram from Snow to Will
kinson, explaining that the Iribune's Eagle
Company was not identical with one in Rhode
Island Ito which the contract was first given,
by mistake). Is appended to the original paper,
and explains the agency which Influenced
Secretary Cameron. Thus by the revival Of
an old concern, and an adroit manipulation OF
. Secretary Of War, Greeley has secured
contract paying him more than Morgan's two
and half per cent brokerage, more than Cum
mings' commission on army stores, more than
Raymonds Broadway Railroad scrip, more even
than our old friend, the Chevalier Webb's, sale
Of himself to tho United States Bank. Dana,
who Is something Of journalist and not much
Of jobber, refused 10 consent to this transfor-
nation Of the Tribune establishment into
musket mandatory, and was therefore incon-
tinsntly kicked out, and his shares bought up
by quack doctors and members of abolition so
cieties. BY . singular chance he has since
been appointed commissioner to examine, at
Cairo, the accounts Of the purchase Of part of
the two million muskets, costing forty-six mil
lions Of dollars, in which Cameron indulged
II would be providential retribution if, at the
ncr should be sent here to investigate the
7ribunes musket job, the first fruits Of which
are to be resped by Massa Greeley during the
sessions of the anti-slavery societies in May.
Greeley has worn the white hat, white coat and
white choker of hypocrite very long, and it is
most fitting that one who knows him 30 we'll as
Dana shall strip the sleeps clothing from this
abolition. contractjobbing wolf, who has been
defending Fremont's Californians only because
he secretly knew that he himself deserved to
share the fate thoy merited.
The Necessity or Passing the Tax Bill
without Delay.
Some Of the Philadelphia papers and other
journals elsewhere, Judging from the delays
which the Tax bill has encountered in the
Senate at Washington, have intimated the sus-
picion that there is secret purpose on the part
of Congress to adjourn without passing the Tax
bill or any tax bill. Il is suggested that Con-
gress is slow to take action in this vital matter
from the fear Of the operation of such q bill
against them at the elections next fall. II this
should be the case, and Congress were to ad-
journ without passing an adequate tax bill,
they would inAict greater blow to the credit
of the country, and to its financial prosperity
and prospects, than could possibly be inflicted
upon the nation from any other quarter. Should
this be true, and Congress should contemplate
such an unworthy trick as to postpone the
safely Of the country to individual hopes and
fears, sacrificing the nation itself and all its
best interests to advance their own political
fortunes, they may be sure that they would not
succeed in saving themselves from the ever
lasting odium and infamy which would follow
such an ignoble and self-serving course They
would not conciliate any party or persons at
the fall elections by such step; but, on the
contrary, a universal clamor would be raised
against every single member by every party
throughout the North. They would commit q
much greater error by failing to pass the bill
hxu for
imperfect one. They would injure themselves
more than they possibly could by any bill Of
almost any kind.
We do not believe, for our part, that any
such unpatriotic course finds favor in the mind
of Congress, and we hope they will prove il by
at once passing the Tax bill, leaving any acci-
dental errors to be corrected hereafter by sub
sequent legislation.
1t is also reported that there is a great pres
sure of individual interests upon Congress,
seeking to obtain peculiar exemptions for par
ticular cases, and that much of the delay Is
owing to this fact. If it is so, it goes to prove
the general ignorance prevailing US 10 the ac-
ton and ultimate bearing of a general system
of taxation. All THE taxable wealth and re-
sources of the country resolve themselves into
the two elements Of land and labor On these
two the whole weight Of taxation must uiti-
mately fall. 1t ia the land which supplies all
the raw materials of wealth, and it is labor
which works them up and fashions them. Land
and labor, therefore, are the Atlas whose
shoulders will have to support the burden. In
this view of the case no mere local or individual
interests should be allowed to interfere with
this great national measure. 1t is q new thing
to us to be taxed directly. We shall probably
have to raise two hundred millions to pay the
interest OF the debt, provide sinking fund and
obtain revenue adequate to the requirements
of government; and this amount, compared with
| the total value of our annual productions, will