American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-04-21

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New YORK, April 10.-When
was on the Rapidan. in the Spring o
1864, the music of the cannon was /;
frequent accompaniment at the break
fast table. 1t was not a very un
pleasant accompaniment there, fol-
we were all used to it and it never
startled us. But when one sits dowI
to breakfast in the very centre of {
great city, spreads a napkin nicely
on his knee, and settles himself
comfortably to the discussion of his
coffee and rolls and the morning pa
per, and then hears half a dozen
stunning cannon shots within fifty
yards of him, it is not surprising
that he should be just little bit
startled. | confess that | did not
exactly know what to make of it this
morning when the music Of the can
non came laundering about my ears
as l sat at my breakfast table, not
many miles from Union square; but
when | went out and discovered the
meaning of it, my surprise passed
away as quickly as it came.
1t was a very trifling thing after
all. Only the Union League firing a
salute in honor of a victory over their
own President. One might object to
the sort of taste that lies at the bot
tom of such proceeding, but taste,
after all, must stand aside sometimes,
and if the Union LeaguerS want to
celebrate victory over the PrcSl-
don't of their own choice and their
own party, l suppose they have a
right to do so. At all events, they
did do so, and they expended about
one hour and vast amount of gun
powder in doing it. One hundred
guns were fired, and then the Union
Leaeuers went down town to read
the Tribue, and see how their ledgers
stood. | remember the timc-it'S
only about twelve months since
when these same Union LCaGuprS
would insist on sending a man to
Fort Lafayette if he dared to say
anything hostile to the President
not this President, but the other
but they have changed wonderfully
in those twelve months. To be loyal
now, YOU must oppose the Prcsi-
dent-if You can manage to hint at
the propricty of impeaching him, SO
much the better-to support him is
diSloyalty. Well, let the Union
LeaguerS go ahead. Mr. Johnson is
their President and | suppose they
have a right to do what they please
with him-but it does not look well
for them to be firing one hundred
guns in honor of his defeat It's de-
moralizing to their purity, and dam
aging to glassware.
And speaking of their party, it
seems to me that the party is pretty
well demoraIized already. Jim Lane
said in the Senate last Friday that
the Republican Party (tor goodness
sake don't print that the "Union
Party'O is crumbling to pieces, and
the Times says what amounts to the
same thing. There must be com
promise, it says, a reconciliation be
tween the Radicals and the PrcSi-
dent, or the party will go towel,
to everlasting thunder. | think the
Times is right on the main point I
But the conditions Of salvation are .
not attainable. The Radicals won't
back down (sce how they conducted
themselves in the House yesterday, !
when they pitched the veto ont of
the Window and thus far the PreSi- I
dent has not manifested any thing
that looks like weakness III the Spi-
nal column. | think he has just as
much fight in him as they have; and
am pretty sure it will come ont if
they provoke it.
For a wonder, we are having de-
liciOuS weather Only two days ago
We had u Snow-Storm that lasted
from sunrise till late in the afternoon,
and to-day the air is as warm and
genial as a June morning. The
'hange from January snow to June
sunshine is very pleasant one, hut
t is one of those sudden changes
which make our climate so unhealthy.
And it is feared we have Il very I'M ;
healthy season before us. The news I
rom Halifax this morning, though
lot unexpected, is most unwelcomr.
The cholera is coming ut last, and
nay be here before YOU publish this,
or emigrantS are arriving every day
rom places which have been infect ;
ID with it, and, for all we know, they
nay have brought us the seeds of
he pestilence already. If it breaks
nut here during the warm months I
that are approaching, ] fear its
ravagcS will be great. The Health I
Board is doing the hest it can TO
cleanse the city, but the task would ,
require months instead of weeks for /
is completion. The streets are I'M I
Usually clean for the season. but ,
here are accumulationS of filth in ,
ards and cellars, and even in the |
lwelling rooms of tenement houses, /
which it will take a long time to
'leansc away.
Some portions of the fourth, sixth,
ELEVENTH, fourteenth and seventeenth
wards are still in fearful condition.
70 enter any of the dcns in which
human beings are huddled together
here, is like going into a receptacle
or the most nOxious vapOrS. The
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