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BIZ sHIsI.EGRAPH.
AFTERNOON DEsPATOMHs.
FROu WASHINGTON.

i, CnlcAeo, Nov "a.
Tho 1En3 Warrington special says: Com
| missioner Vilson i in receipt Of retarns
| showing tho disposal Of 1900 acres of the
public lands, at the local ofics At Fort Dodge,
Iowa, during the month Of October. Tho
| greatest portion Of the land w1s located With
Agricultafaa ColleGe Scrip, and some vas -
ken under the homestead law, and some sold
for cash.
New YoRx, Nov. 2s.
The Times Washington special says: 0eus
eral Grants estimate of the appropriations
for the military service, for the 6scal yeer
ending June 90, 1869, is $77, ,000, 600, and
not $177, ,00O, 900, ~ reported in some pa
pers. The increased estimate over that Of
the present year ID explained by the fact that
At the beginning Of the last year large
amosnt Of expsnaed appropriations was on
Was also use1e for River and Harbor I'm,
provemeatG The pressnt estimate covers
the deficiency in the appropriation Of last
year Of $13, ,OOO, 900.
Son,hernloyalists urge General Mower for
the Freedmsn's Bureau, in ease General
Howard \ removed. It il thought he 10 too
radical tO.enit the President.
It has bsen decided that after the South
ern electioDsae over the number Of military
posts will be diminished, and the troops con-
solidated witha view to economy.
The Herolds Washington special says,
Many Of the Senators hesitate - to tho 'le4
gslity Of the session, and they propose to nd
journ from day to day until Saturday, and
then adjourn stne de TO .is.s
The Iribunes Washington special says:
Secretary Stanton dces not desire to be re-
instated in the War Office but expects Con-
gress to take action and rebuke the President1
for violation of the Tenure of Office law.
The friends of Gen. ,Averin ARE pressing
hi. name for the War office, and Is he Wis :
victim to the late Secretary's ire he may
get it.
1t is rumored that treaty for the purchase
Of the two Danish West India Islands has
been signed at Copenhagen.
From the reports Of the hesds of the eight
different Districts, il is understood thstthe es-
coming fiscal year will be much
larger than the appropriations required last
year.
A Washington special says: Gen. Now
er's recent general removals of civil officers
in Louisiana meets with the disapproval Of
the President, who will probably issue an
order relieving him from command Of any
kind n the 9th Military District, and assign
ing him to duty elsewhere
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rURNITUxE

Pans, Fancy Deeds. Fins Cutlery.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

CHICAGO, Nov. 25.
Gable dispatches report apprehensions Of
riots to-day at the execution of the con-
demned Fenians Manchester has the APP
pearance of a state of siege, and in addition
to ihe infantry and cavalry ordered to the
city, two or three thousand special police
men have been sworn in.
Tho Queen yesterday in most direct
manner refused to grant the petition for q
postponement Of execution.
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Cold Silver. and Ivory Mounted Canes
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Il A1MUNITION.-Huntersean always fnd
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From CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, Nov. %.
Wheeer's distillery, situated on the North
Branch, was seized last night by the United
States Collector, Mann, for the illicit manu-
facture of highwines.
The live stock sold at the Union Stock
Yards, during the month Of October, amount
ed TO S9,252, ,260.
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GAS a STEAM FITTINGS. Nss
Mooar a Son johnson street, bet Sd / 4th
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CLOTHIERs.

CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &C.
hn Copelin ......- ............ -. .53 Main stre,
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-09-19
who binders ReconstructiOnl !

FROM Ute ~. T. ITt0Uqe.
Congress has prescribed the terms and me
thod of reconstruction; the generals command
ing the several Southern districts have obeyed
the laws prescribing the registration of the
legal voters in the several revolted States; and
elections might and doubtless would have
been held in most of them ere this, but for the
Intervention of Andrew Johnson and his Cabi-
net. They have ordered the elections post
poned and the registries reopened, under con-
ditions which General Sheridan so Justly con-
demned as opening macadamized highway
for perjury, And those elections still await
the signal from Washington.
II, then, military governments, such as
Congress has established are despotic and in
every way Objectionable, the President is re-
sponsible for their continuance. These "sa-
taples," as our adversares stigmatize them,
are designed for gateways through which the
Southern States shall return to that position
in the Union which they deliberately aban-
doned. Not by Congress nor by the laws, but
by the Presidents arbitrary will, are these
states kept under military rule.
II these States shall not return TO their nor
NAL condition in season to vote for President
next fall, let the blame rest where it should
ON the shoulders of Andrew Johnson
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Reaction ana Returns.

FROM me ", Y. HOftd.
We are prone in these days of steam and
the telegraph to boast of our extraordinary
facilities in the speedy reception and trans
mission of important news; but from the
silence OF the Tribune and other radical Jour
nails hereabouts, we are inclined to think that
even with their boasted 'enterprise." they
have not heard from Maine, or Vermont, or
California, or any other State in which elections
have been held of late. To be sure, the Ti4-
6une, which has lately received 'letters" in
four days time from San Francisco, expects
some time in the course of the autumn to re-
ceive "actual figures from the Golden Staten
which will materially abate the Democratic
disposition to shout over the returns already
given. 1t should be remembered, however that
the telegraph agencies are nearly everywhere
in radical hands; that the most favorable show
for that side has been sent over the wires
first and it is a fact that in every recent in
stance, in Maine and California particularly,
the additional returns from day to day have
been in favor of the Democrats. The gains
have been greater even than were at first re-
luctantly reported by the telegraphic agents
While the Tribune is waiting for the ''actual
figures" from California, we will refresh it's
memory by repeating the returns received
already:-ln California the Democrats have
gained 26,000 votes; they have gained 5000
votes in Vermont; Ia, 600 in Maine; and, within
few months, they have also gained II, 700
votes in Connecticut; 10000 in Kentucky;
1000 in Rhode Island 5000 in New Hamp-
shire; and 1000 in Montana-in seven States
and one Territory, 84, 900 votes. The
gains in single States-for instance, in
Maine, in Connecticut, and in California
relatively far greater than will be neees-
sary to carry Ohio Pennsylvania, and New
York for the Democracy. In the last election
for Governor in Ohio, in 1865, the radical
majority was only %, ,926, and the negro suf-
frage issue presented in this falls canvass, the
Tribune predicts, will cost the radical party
"many thousand votes; change of $4,000
votes will enable the Democrats to carry Ohio;
a change of less than 1000 votes in New York
will secure the same result, while in Pennsyl-
vania a change of less than 5000 is necessary
With only these gains the reaction will be less
manifest in these three States than it is in
Maine, Connecticut, or California.
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now sitting in this city, will throw some light
upon these cases.
Under good system Of taxation, and with
proper management, the Government ought
to raise about ten per cent. of our whole reve-
nue. from tobacco alone. In Great Britain
eleven per cent. of the revenue is raised from
tobacco, and the article is neither grown in
that country nor used to nearly the same ex-
tent as here. At present only about FIVE per
cent. of our internal revenue is o tanned from
tobacco, snuff, cigars, etc. Instead of raising
$1,000, coo upon this article, we might, if the
tax were collected as fully as in Great Britain,
raise between $4,000, 600 and $40, 600, 000 In
France the taxes on tobacco yield an annual
revenue of over Gas, coo, 600. 1t is true that
there are greater facilities for evading taxes
here, especially in this article, than in either
of the countries named. The chief difficulty
with us seems to arise from the fact that
tobacco is grown here aud is an article of ex-
port. To overcome this difficulty and to OBJ
tain the largest possible revenue from tobacco,
its manufacturers urge the plan of laying
the whole tax upon the leaf. To this there
are many weighty objections. Perhaps the
further discussion of the subject may bring
forward some scheme better adapted to pre-
vent frauds and enrich the Treasury without
detriment to one of the most important
branches Of our agriculture.
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Chase nnd Inhnann
From Me N. y Herold

''O"' 6tS w 4, Herald
What are the exact political relations he.
tween Andrew Johnson and Salmon P. Chase
AS one is the idol of violent radicals and the
other the bugbear of radicalism, they ought
TO be- politically, as far as pole from pole
types, indeed, of the extremes of difference in
puohc sentiment. But are theyY On the
contrary, some facts indicate that these ,Uor.
thies understand each other very we'll WIZ
indeed, was it but the Chief Justice that f,r
hiShed Mr. johnson with the only respectable
weapon he has yet employed against the Re-
construction lawsl The country will remem.
Der that' Mr. Chase persstently refused 10 hold
court IN Virginia, for the good and snt6ciery
reason that the State was snbiect
10 10 military authority; vet Mr
OhSse '-il ald not wait for nilitafy 10 o;ve
pace 10 civil authority before he bald g.. Swe
IN IN Nor.h Carolina. Why the difference 'S r.
she reason s was good for one state. was n not
goou ior the other Itis sieni6cant ~ no'
stance that the judgments given bv MI oilSu' Tnul
III North Carolina are what Mr. Toi,,,n,, w. Ghase
upon IN the new opening Of the disnnIa sIanus
the military laws and in the removaI nf
What is Chase's position in ~ oioKles.
his holding the courts and making os.n ~ sAs -
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Johnson only great piece of stupidity or
was IL political move-a thing done for
consideration not apparent to the public, but
which they may guess at who know Mr..
Chase's interest in keeping up the present
revenue system, and know also that if Mr..
johnson were inclined he could SO easily sweep
that system away Again, we inquire, what
are the relations between these two men
Who will answerY
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The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-03-14

Rebel States 2" Will whipped people
never cease to twaddle about rights which
they could not get by fghting2 Have
men lost their reason, and has judgment fled
to british beasts?" viii the people continue
to listen to the old secessionists who have
never guessed at the truth since Breckenridge
was defeated? Shall such men and their
new allies be permitted still further to injure
us by their obstinacy, and to cause our lal !;
to be parcelled out to the negroes, as Mr..
Reyerdy johnson says will be done if we do
not accept of the terms now offered2 1 am
glad to see little yielding now on the part
of some. 1t is evident that they do not ex-
actly know what is to be done with them.-
1t is natural, too, for some persons to sur
mise that Congress might do something more
in certain contingencies. For the first time,
think am beginning to peer through the
darkness and to sec the end. Much, how
ever, must depend upon the selections to Of
lice which President johnson may make. In
any event, Union men should be ready for
action at the proper time in view of peace
and final settlement of all our troubles. 1t
has'always been evident to me, and now it
must be to all that nothing can be gained by
delay. 1t is useless for US to say what we
are in favor of, or what we are opposed to-
Men sometimes must let policy alone govern
them. The Howard amendment has been
proposed and rejected. The same thing is
again presented. doubly rectiied, with great
deal more. The scales will now surely fall
from the eyes of blinded linen. Our para
mount duty is to go back by any open road
to the Union, where we were prosperous and
happy as long as we clung to it, and only
became poor and miserable when we for
sock it.
presume that about ten thousand men
are disqualified from holding office, or vo-
ting according to Sherman's act. When and
how Congress will remove the disability as
to any know not. In certain cases, doubt
not that it Will be DONE and perhaps the
modus operandj will soon be made public
In conclusion, however, I feel entirely GER
tain that refusal for the present to remove
the disability from any fre-eater and hatel
of Union men would be for the good of the
country. The doctrine of pardon first and
repentance next is not to be found in the Bi
Bile. JOHN B. ODOM.
jackson, March 9Th, 1867.
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The bankrupt bill which passed both Houses of
the Thirty ninth Congress, and is now Il law, is
one of the most important measures disposed of
during the session just closed. The law is gen
eral throughout the country, and supercedes all
State insovent laws, stay-laws, and laws of i'm
prisonment for debt. The necessity for such Il
law has been recognized in the Legislatures of
every State of the Union. All the States have in
solvent or bankrupt laws, and occasionally they
hayc staylawS or other measures Tor the relief of
debtors. But this law, while it accomplishes the
former object, also provides for the security OF
creditors, and affords facilities for settlement
between an insolyent and his creditors without
any appeal to legal measures. An opportunity
for trouble made by few obstinate creditors, on
the one hand, or hard-headed debtor on the
other will be removed. The debtor cannot die
tate terms, nor delay beyond reason the distrbu-
ton of his assets, and single creditor cannot
prevent release by refusing to sign unless he re
ccives an unequal share of the estate. This will
smooth the way to Il greater frankness on the part
of the falling debtor, and to more forbearancc and
lcniency, where those are appropriate from those
to whom he is bound. As permanent and uni
Versal measure of relief in this country, where
shocks in the mercantile world causing financial
embarrassmerts, are of periodical occurrence,
parulyzing enterpris and prostrating industry,
and where the laws enacted by the States have
been of the most diverse and sometimes partial
character, this law will be hailed wise and
beneficial 4asure, particularly at this time, when
the contingencies of the late war have wrecked so
many energetic business men North and South
Wash. Star.
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Reconstruction.

The Judiciary Committee of the House,
:. occordauce with instructions previously
vowed bv Mr.. Kelly, reported bill on the
,1th 70 facilitate the reconstruction OF the
~obel States. The bill, which at once passed
the House by III to 81, provides that all
elections shall be by ballot; that the Gener
al commanding shall cause thorough reg
istration to be made of voters, and maJorl-
tv of the registered voters is required to rat
;fy the Constitution to be adopted by the
Convention.
We are glad to observe that the General is
not to be allowed to delegate any of his
power to the acting rebel Governors of the
States. We agree with Mr. Sumner that
these rebel Governors ought to be dropped
through as soon as possible. They are an
incubus and an eye-sore to the loyal people
of the rebel States. 1t is hard, for exam
pie, that the loyal people of this State should
be required even to tolerate Jonathan Worth,
who, in his message, pronounced the Con-
gress an unconstitutional body, and
gravely proposed to distribute the colored
people Of this State throughout the United
States; or that the loyalists of Mississippi
should be afflicted with Gov: Humphreys
who was hardly warm in his seat before he
spoke of the presence of the national troops
in Mississippi as g a blighting curse" to that
State. But we suppose that we must bel pa
tient, since it is certain that in due time
these rebel Governors, with the meshes OF
treason that surround them, will be ripped
up by the roots and cast into the sewers o.
contempt and oblivion.
1t is stated that the Senate has determined
in caucus to postpone action Oh adjoTnment
until the supplemental reconstruction bill
becomes law We may, therefore, take i
for granted that it will be the duty anC
privilege of our people to re-organize the
State under a law of Congress specially
passed for the purpose. This fact, however
does not do away with the propriety or ne
ccssity of the meeting in this City on the
eth. 1t is every way important that thu
Unionists should meet for consultation, tt
perfect their organization, and arrange thei
plans for the future.
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The Legislature of Louisiana is impertinent
enough to array itself against fact: Such fact is
Gov. Wells has recognized in proclamation;
ordering that all elections held in Louisiana shall
for instead of bowng to the supreme law Of the
land it resolves itself into grand Jury to sit upon
an act of Congress. The egg of Reconstruction
has been laid by Congress, but the Louisiana
cacllled over. Congress will be sensible OF the
patronage extended by late rebels to its last and
strictest act, and Gen. Sheridan will make proper
note of it. Though advised even by Gen. Sheridan
to postpone the municipal election, we see that
the Legislature refuse to do it. On par with
this folly is the movement to impeach Gov Wells !;
but both are likely to flil.-N Y. Tribune.