The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-13
Venerable VivncItY.

Venerable VivaCity,
From 1e ", Y. Tribune.
1--WE waited with some natural curiosity for
the Te De,n which we knew would be played
upon the Presidents organ, with all the stops
out and all the pedals in full activity, in honor
of the late elections; but we were not pre-
pared to find this superannuated old sheet,
with supernatural friskiness, preluding its
hymn with nine lines from Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage. Musical disciplinarians might
object to iigs ON an organ; but an elation like
that of the National Intelljgsncer is not to be
restrained by the laws of science. 1t seems,
we confess, a little inhuman to investigate
critically the rationale of this magnificent
jocundity. The happiness of a flunkey may
he stimulated by causes which hardly affect
the feelings of human beings of a higher
grade; and we are the more certain of this
because when we come to inquire what there
is, for instance, in the Massachusetts,
election which should rejoice the soul of the
organ, as an organ, we find ourselves per-
picked in the extreme. Governor Bullock,
the radical cagdidate for Governor, is reelected
by a majority of over $4,000. Young Mr..
Adams, the Johnsonian candidate for Governor,
is elected to the House of Representatives of
he State There is no pretense that there is
not large majority OF Republicans returned
to both branches of the Legislature. In
view Of this result, the htelligencer cries out
that radicalsm is near its end. However
this may be, it is clear enough that a Johnson
party in Massachusetts, is nowhere near its
beginning. What, pray, has the question
of rum or no rum in Massachusetts, to do
with ''My Policy" in Washington 1t
has nothing to do, we may be sure,
even with his EXcellency's private de-
canters They will be filed and they will
he emptied without the slightest reference to
Massachusetts laws. So far as there is any
expression of opinion in regard to his admin
istration in this State, it is most emphatically
against him. His man is decidedly defeated;
the other man is just as decidedly elected; and
if the President anticipates any aid or comfort,
or expression Of appreciation from the Legisla-
tuTe Just chosen, he may make up his mind to
be frightfully disappointed. His happiness,
therefore, however great, can hardly be con-
sidered as rational. This is consideration
which continually suggests itself as we run
the eye over the InteiHgencer'S exuberant para
graphs. 1t claims the credit of victories which
bear no relation whatever to the Admins
tration. Even here in New York, it would
be difficult to find a single Democrat who
would allow that, in contending for success,
he has been working for the President.
When A. J. rushes in unlimited and unwel-
| come, to participate in the Democratic fes-
| tivities, nobody bids him welcome-nobody
| takes him cordially by the hand, and says:-
''This all your doing, dear Andy !" Nobody
whispers that he must be the Democratic can
| didate for the Presidency; nobody cares a straw
either for his happiness or his misery. He
| will find ere long that the strength of the
| party to whose skirts, with pitiable, upturned
| ace, he is clinging, is simply his own weak
ness. The greater its majOrities, the less likely
IS he 10 receive its support. The more indie
| pendent it may be, the more likely it is to look
/ IL
| an emergency 1T might need him; in pros
| perity it will regard him simply as a bothera-
| ton and a nuisance. He may think differently
| now, but time will show that we are right 1t
| is very easy for the organ to say that the De-
mOcratic majority is 'wondrous strong"
"Yet lovely in its strength, as in the light
| OF dark ey In woman"
If that clark eye" shall be found amorously
! pgling the beloved Andy in 1868, it will be
because the brains above it have become pitt
| ully softened.
the Treasury Department and the
| Whisky Tax.
| FFOm the ~ Y World.
The most gigantic and methodized system of
fraud by which rapacity was ever enriched at
he expense of nations revenue, has been
FOR many months in successful operation in
his country, to the disgrace of the important
department of which Mr.. MoCullooh is the
igure-head. Who is the pilot, or whether it
riits without any, are mysteries not yet pene-
rated by the public. According to the esti-
mates Of leading Republican journals, from one
t. two hundred million dollars a year are lost
| bv unrestrained frauds. The proofs of their
| prevalence have long been notorious, although
he public may have little precise knowledge
Of their methods. The fact that the average
price Of whisky has long been less than the
| tax, proves that there can be no honest dstl-
atiOn. Who believes that any manufacturer
continues business wherein, besides his other
expenses, he pays two dollars a gallon to the
Government, and sells the product at one dol
az and ninety cents
Mr.. McCullooh recognized the existence OF
hese frauds, and the necessity of repressing
them when, without any warrant Of law or
color of authority, he constituted the board in
this city which has proved as inefficient as
hins elf We have no intention of attacking
the honesty of that board until we are more
fully in possession of the facts; but even now
We could put TO its officers some embarrassing
j questions, We expect sOOn 10 construct q