, 1867-11-08
Impeachment Insanity.

One Of the most alarming signs of the times is
the tnsensaie bowling on the part Of subsidized
and predjudiced partizan press for the impeach.
ment OF the President of the United States.
Were there any valid reasons offered for his i'm
Peaehment-were it even alleged that be has
violated the Constitution Of bis country, or bis
oath Of ofice-the threats of impeachment
would not be so alarming. In fact, in such a
case an attempt at mpeachment, to say the least.
should be made. But the alarming phase of this
matter is, those who clamor for Impeachment do
not accuse the President of violating the Cousti.
tuuon, or offailing to enforce the laws; bus they
dQaecuse him of being opposed to the policy
which dictated certain laws-which laws Thad
Slerfha himself boasts ara IN direct violation
OF we Oonstitution-(see bis recent letter.
aud threaten him with impeachment solely be.
cause he does not favor the partizan ideas of
Stevens, Wade and Sumner. President Jobpsoo
has not performed an official act during the
present year that be bad not right to perform
under the Constitution; not an act that the Con. d.
stitution did not compel him to perform. The
Constitution gave him the right, and required
him, if be believed it to he his duty to remove
Stanton, Sickles and Sheridan. In making
these removals and appointing men to fill the
places which they occupied, he did not even vi.
olate law of Congress which he believed TO be
wrong in principle, as well as uucons titutioual
but he expressly ordered the newly appointed
" SdII1 OuI sdlu OF congress, There
Is, then, no shadow of pretence why the Pres.
dent should be impeached, except that be does
not disregard the Constitution, shink duties that
instrument imposes on him, and make himself
Wiling tool In the hands Of a temporary parti,
Eau majority in Congress, which majority one of
Its leaders openly boasts has trampled upon the
Constitution, and acted wholly outside of its
provisions. Iu constitutional governments the
only safeguard and protection of the people are
in the express provisions of the constitution :;
that instrument cannot be set aside even tempo.
rarily, without endaugering the liberties of the
people and the institutions under which they
live, 1t is well established axiom that legis.
lalive oodies-especially Congress-possess no
powers except those expressly bestowed by the
Constitution. Congress has exercised powers
not granted to Thy the Constitution, as boasted
by Thad. Stevens, yet members of the majority
talk OF impeachlug the President they would
imp'ach him because be does not believe in
politics as they do because he will not violate
the Constitution as they violate it And has it
CONF to this, that an officer selected by the peo>
pie shall be prosecuted, prosecuted, bounded,
and crushed by partisan ma ajOrity, simply be-
cause he conforms to the Constitution and re.
CARDS the solemn oaths of Office be took to re.
spect that instrument and to faithfully execute
the laws? If so, then our Republic is fast ap>
preaching the end of its existence-iu fact, is
out by paracidnl hands IS. +. Call.
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The BREAD QuEsTIoN.-The people of Cali
forna are alarmed as to their supply of bread,
stuffs. They are asking the question, "Shall We
want bread And unfortunately the answer is
by no ueans satisfactory. They have been ex-
porting breadstuffs very largely and boast that
their eyports this year have reached the value of
Sl2, 10000. But now they are startled by the
announcement that they have been over doing
the natter-that so much wheat has been sent
out Of the State that they have not enough left
for home consumption. Their fear now is, that
they will be compelled to import at extrava-
On this subject a correspondent of the Sacra.
mento Union, writing from San Francisco, has
the following:
"The all engrossing subject in commercial
circles, during the past week, has been the ex.
traordnary advance in tue price of wheat. The
immense profits some of the exporters of bread
stutfs have realized during the present season,
have Induced many outside spectators to take
a hand in the business, and, as always the case
in California, where there is money to be made,
speculation will probably run to extremes
Nearly the whole Of the surplus grain in the
State already contracted for ,at har ,ome prof
it to tIe farmers, consequently there is some
danger that a considerable quantity of that
which will be required for home consumption
may be either shipped away, or placed under
the control of spectators. l am informed by
one of the most extensive millers and grain
dealers in San Joaquin County, that there is
scarcely any wheat unsold in the districts which
send their grain to Stockton. So extensive has
been the demand in that section of the State
that be thought he should have to ship wheat
from The Bay 20 that place, during the latter pa
of tn. season, to supply the inhabitants with
-four. While the good fortune of the agrcultu-
rists, in obtaining such high prices for their
grain as rule at present, is cause for congratu-
latiou, it must not be forgotten that bread forms
such an important item in the costs of living of
the laboriEg classes that any material increase
in its price restricts every branch Of business.
If a la boring man, with wife and family TO
support, working for fifteen dollars per week,
procures a barrel of -four for seven dollars, he
will have two more to spend for other things,
than when -four is nine dollars per barrel, which,
to such family, is more than equal to a days
labor each month. The price of bread, when it
reaches beyond fair profit to the producer, be<
comes an injury to the community. observe
that some writers for papers in this city are ex>
ceedingly jubilant over the fact that our exports
of our bullion. Such condition of affairs, if
carried out to extremes, would ruin us. Sup,
pose we shipped all grain aud no bullion. should
we not be worse off than if we shipped all bull
lion and no grain? We might do without bul>
Iion, but we could not exist without bread. 1t
is therefore, sincerely to be hoped that the spec
ulative shipments of grain may not be carried to
such an extreme speculations are generally
carried in San Francisco"
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BAcHELoRs.-Dr. Stark, in his report to the
Scottish registry Office asserts that the ratio OF
deaths among unmarried men between the ages
of twenty-five aud thirty is double that of mar
ried men, and that nearly the same disproportion
is maintained between the ages of thirty and
tbirty-6ve He adds that, husbands may count
on 20 years more of life than bachelors.
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BEAUTIFUL THoUGHr.-The setting of great
hone is like the setting Of the sun. The bright
est part of our life is gone. Shadows of evening
fall around us, and the world seems but dull
rejection - itself a broader shade. We look
forward to coming lonely night; the soul with>
a.-s into itself the stars arise and the night