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Reduction Of War Expenditures.
Mt ST. PETERSBURG, April 10, 1857.
The Russian governments has made reductions to the
amount OF twelve millions Of roubles In the annual
military and naval expenditures Of the empire.
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Regal Havana and All I.essl Lsuers Prixss-
j. r. CLAYTON. 10 Wall sure OF, New Fork
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FRANCE. :
FIuancfnl Deprcssion

Flnancial Deprcssion-A Fail ON tho Bssrse.
PARIs April 19-Noon-
Tho Bcurss is dull and heavy the rentes have do
clinsA one franc s4s
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We REGARD Mrs. WinslOw,s SesskhsE syruH
- nvaluabie for the Tor which Y ssgnsd s3S
would have n IL price wese double what nov ia We
shall DO all In our power TO insrpduce = amenf oMr
II relieves he child from pain he gums reduces
inflammation wind collie, and svre 70 rs9la1 ~
bowels: gives and health ~ she chaa sna ~
mother ~ sgTs W,SsWs ssd ss ,sT TsoorurSo srRUr.
having the fac smilo OF turts rerkrns on hs ousse
wrapper All others base imitst'ons~
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--A.--sprins styles at Gents and YeathsP
'-' BURKK, 10 Fuisoa street.
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bssSlo0H; .na =. s.ds % g Geld .ns.s. s.d ss " v
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CONCENTRATES ExvRACT OV sARsAPARlTLA ia-
variahly do0s Ask for HnLmpoLD'n Take % othsr.
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A.-Fcr Broyn DigcolorNeieus, cGstsd MctA
pared by Or. PERRY 40 Bond street Sold by AL drta~
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JEsa wcrt tIsSSsSs ssE sSEoruKs r~.u.y.,ss.A
street. second avenue and Twenty street.
urers Of every description Of IRON WORK FOk BUILD
Beams. shutterss Vault ghts, Ralngs, Stable rx,urs
patent OperA House Chairs Ac Particular atsntiou paid
70 the manufacture OF hne Castings.
Kstimates furnished when requessedA
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yos.s Ladies. Bswsscs. Of Ne 5.lss!ss. Es.
.r 49, .rs N hs skin and IN short tune destroy tks
cmp,ssion you would hsyes frssh healthy and yeush
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Tho Idahc Patent 4at fsy Lido snl
tint durability anA chsapness Csnnot 1nisd by water
This Il The most Mani novelty lnsradussd q ancv
fabrics for thn uromenade. Novr rsady at V77l
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Serious rense.ions for young NON "a gasays ct the How
ndsccd by ignoranss of NaurcH Laws, N the Irs
OF sent y ,s.isd liter snypss ros Of charge.
tlou Philadelphia, fa
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BY THE CABLE TO APRIL ls.
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GERMANY EXCITED AND DISTRvsTFUL.
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The Paris Bourse Anxious and
Rentes Declined.
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L PEACE BUDGET in RUSSIA.
90. &c. &c.


Germany Excited and Distrustful.
LoNDox, April 19-N0on.
Dispatches received from Berlin state that the speech
az King william closing the Parliament exctes distruss
throughout Germany. m4
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The Has 9ssssess .sos 4 e MAs Es
Broadway corner q Fulton street. a.l No Sss8voAdwsys
under the House. who os his ciennt Spring
style Hats Tor aonemen. ths superior excellence
Of which places Il, beyond rivalry 81 the vy head aud
front Of fashion.
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Noted Cleraym man and Pwblic I4ccsurc1
Browns Bronchial ec<urinG
tours put Troches into my carpet bae az reeu Ny
linen. Public speakers vocass NIL o<hers
who the should fail OF using tho
Troches They all other preparations - clesrne
and the voice. removing hosrsene allaytnG
Irritation Of the throat cough remedy prc-cf
ncntly the best
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Mars.e,s,. Rsvsrs,sls seyIsS Yscsi.ss: q 4 !:
rooms No. 000 Broadway corner OF Prince street ~ "
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Rsidses. .nd Gray. Hair P!svssssd aS1 %
0RANDJEAN, No. lJAstor place. Ha AhiasFH
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Ir the spyias Msrshs ,tss, ,Hxsge3 NATURALLY
cENfSsrED EsxfRSMcT M 81 sxRSAfxRfGEA y an e.
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BcautifuI Hair.--ss Cheyalier,s .lAfe for th1
youthful beauty impArta ns and strength 70 he vc.ass
unparalleled hair dressine Sold By a druHxist. ard
fashiouable hair droasors, oCo l nroadwAy,
n " - - - sARAH A. CHRvAtIRR h D.
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gardens viii snd iSs pcsdrstss o. ths Lsdi Manu-
featuring Company the best and tho hAdtest for
lawns grape vines vegetables and carly Send Ter
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:, ,Ges. .Gia ETA Cold &C Once BY Uai.g Jayae'e
ExPkoIOHANT. certain for al pulmonary sn4
bronchial affections. Sold everywhere.
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PosrRY-ssWoRK AND HoPR," written for the wsKxLy
HERALD by GsosoE WILCOX; "HoxoR THE RANK AND
FILE" from the Hungarian Of PErorL
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1o6K Broadway, Duane street.
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r BreaAway Theatre.
Tho Pearl e savoy, ssssA ,oenloopssaac-ao
drama b sn vsry pspalar Ao& Al patrons o. sns
play house familiar With IL >ry oas ashossa ~
presentation 1. New York d not en- city novelty. thu
work never fails % attract Last svssg the aadienet
that witnessed IL pssformanes was s s0d dsmsnsra
tive and hs arsss enacted their rsspscve pSss with
great spirit Miss Maggie Mitchell vas - Marie. and
her rendering Of tho character was Usd, heartily
applaudsd Mra G. ". StoddArd played Choashou very
effectively; her acting would however have bssa i'm
proved by tonng down. Messrs, Collier, Jack Hdwasda
Steddard, and Mines Chapman Rlaisdsu and Goert -
sumsd the oshsr r5Js&
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C'.sAs. M.sa.. Cedar ca-pAesI y Hsss i .eo.
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Hartz's Tcmplo Of Mystery.
Professor Harts still continues TO please mysty and
astonsh crowded audiences At Dodworth Hail. His per-
formances every respect remarkable and extraor
dinary worthy Of the extended patronage they receive
and deserving Of the impuaton often accorded thcm
OF being achieved by supernatural agency. Last night
the ria bell rung its responses In duicet tones, the
prolific and seemingly exhaustsss hat poured forth s
inconguous and motley stores the protean cabinet pro-
duced its unexpected denzens, and tho living head
Enthusiastically demonstrated ts claim to belong to q
denizcn Of this world, leaving the audience in mute
astonishment 70 wonder whore its body lay
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Kelly and Leon,s Minstrcls.
The spicy and attractive programme offered by this
favorite troupe continues to from discerning
public the acknowledgement It we'll deserves in the
shape OF crowded houses The inmitabls Leon whether
in his role Of Norma she highly rsspectabls young dy
Saucy SAL the colored female with conspicuous water
fall provokes roar OF laughter from the delighted audi
ence. Eph Horn, minstrel, oonjurof and clown, and
Edwin Kelly In CITY Can. also greeted with unmis
taxable marks Of popular favor.
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Governor, WIS prevented from spesking - e~nssOws
to-day by a gang Of rseusnsd rsbess. He vas wasss4
some buildings wers nrsd by - desperaases. avn
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Distilled Spirits.

WE have almost reached the belief that
whisky is the only really staple subject OF
discussion for the journalist whether in the glass
or the rood. 1t is regarded as one, if not the
most, fit object Of internal taxation. From
tobacco and whisky the American public ex-
poets the Government to secure the major
part of the internal revenue requisite for its
present wants. Such being the case, no
apology is needed for "caling up the ques-
tion."
Almost every one speaks in the most con-
demnatOry manner of the pretended attempts
to execute the Internal Revenue laws relating
TO the manufacture Of spirits. Very few stop
to reflect over the matter, generally believing
that it would be very easy to execute the laws
provided honest men were entrusted with the
duty.
The fact that tax Of two dollars on gallon
of spirits which costs to produce but sixty
cents on the Atlantic board, and about one-half
that sum in the great West, is great tempta-
ton to the cupidity of most of human kind,
and one embraced without scruple, so far as
the question of cheating the Government is
concerned has been too much disregarded;
and, Notwithstanding the protests made by the
better informed to the Thirty ninth Congress,
the system of filling the pockets of individuals
with whisky taxes, under the pretense of OBJ
tanning revenue for the Treasury, was con-
tinued. At length, the revenue derived from
distilled spirits has decreased to the rate Of
thirteen million dollars per annum since July l,
1867.
The bonded system, under which spirits
have been transferred from one district to an
other without payment of the tax, has proved
to be almost entirely in the interest of fraud.
1t was presumed at first to be essential to the
interests of the West, in affording interior
States the opportunity of market on the At
lantic board, without advancing the tax; in
other words, sending whisky III bond to New
York, where the tax should be paid on with
drawal for consumption, or exported without
any tax. Let US look at the figures for 1865
1866 (not having the official exhibits of 1866
1867 before us), showing where the twenty
nine millions of dollars collected that year on
whisky were paid
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S28 O36 6S6 u
(The remainder, 81, ,I8l 89l49 was collected in
twenty. five States and TerTitorles)
Thus, it is shown that the interior States,
established, paid oCer Sirty per cent. of the tax
collected; while New York, where bonded
goods are presumed to be sent and warehoused
for either domestic or foreign market, and to
the chief city of which State the West finds a
more direct transit than to any other point on
the Atlantic board, paid little more than fve
million dollars. 1t is said there are now in
bonded warehouse in the Thirty-second Dis
trict of New York (Wall street, city district),
between forty thousand and fifty thousand
barrels of distilled spirits, and the Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue says that not more
than five million to six million gallons were
exported last year.
1t is, therefore, quite conclusive that the
bonded system does not benefit the West, but
has been used as a cover to tremendous frauds
on the revenue; else, why should not New
York city pay as much tax on distilled spirits
as the aggregate payments from all the inte-
rior States, since as much has been manufac-
tured in that city during the past two years
as has paid tax in the West9 We are very
much inclined to the adoption of the plan for
taxing the mash from which spirits are dis
titled, and thereby getting rid of the question
Of export tax on spirits altogether, and doing
away with bonded warehouses.
The real capacity of distillery is the fer
menting capacity; and as there is no necessity
that should cause mash to spoil, so long as
the distiller knows his business, we can see no
good reason why the capacity of the fermenting
vessels should not be taxed. For example;-
The full fermentlng capacity of a distillerv
being 80, 900 gallons, and the process of fer
mentation requiring seventy-two hours to be
complete, it follows that one-third, or lO. 600
gallons, would be the quantity used each day;
hence the tax should be so much per gallon on
10000 gallons of mash for each and every day.
The details of such a system-such as
rigidly enforcing the law against any unau-
thorized change of capacity-making allow
anoe for lost time in event of breakdown in
the distillery, etc., can be easily adjusted.
No system that can be devised will be 50
perfect as not to be liable to evasion; but this
would insure fixed income from spirits, and
not leave the distiller at the mercy of the
Osassless demands of official thieves, as has
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OFF WITH THEIR HEADS THE President has
removed Generals Ord and Pope, and ap-
pointed Generals Mcdowell and Meade as their
successors. We have long since ceased to
seek for a reason in the vagaries of the Exc
cutive, and it is well we are not disposed to
search for them now. Why General Pope
should be removed may be found in his radi-
calism. But why remove General Ord? He
was the mildest type of military commander
subservient in all things, second Hancock
and a third Washington. But the President
is like the boy with the switch, he cuts off the
heads of all the plants he meets, for the sheer
pleasure of cutting them off. Mcdowell may
have executive abilities, but if they do not
excel his military capacities, we fear he will
be but sorry substitute for General Ord.
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been the fact during the past year in almost
every whisky district, because he would be at
perfect liberty to make as much alcohol or
distilled spirits from his mash as his skill
could command, and the most skilful would
have the advantage, as they would were there
no tax imposed.
1t would be wise, in our Judgment, to inn
pose such a tax on the mash as would be
equivalent to the rate of 80 cents per gallon
on spirits. That rate would yield fifty million
dollars, and at the same time favor those me-
chanical arts and sciences which require the
use of alcohol-a favor Of particular interest
to our own city of Philadelphia, for here there
are more uses for alcohol, with our manufao-
turing chemists, than in any other manufac-
turing neighborhood. .." .g.
We think this proposition to tax the mash
would find favor with the bona tide distillers,
and encourage the Legitimate production of
spirits in the West, where, by the use of the
odal of the distillery in the feeding of cattle
and hogs, the business can be prosecuted with
the greatest economy.
The Government wants tax, that is patent;
but the people need a system which shall
secure the tax and not demoralize the whole
community. The present law is a premium
offered to fraud, because it combines distiIler
with official in corruption. Take away the
Government officials, except Assessor, Col
lector, and the Assistant Assessor, and have
no necessity for their employment, and the
frauds will disappear.
Every distiller taking license will become an
excise officer, to the extent of crushing out all
unlicensed ones; and there will be enough Of
those who are expert in the distilling business
to keep close watch on the capacity of every
distillery, and guard against unauthorized
changes.
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EXPLOSION IN CHICAGO.
A Locomotive Boiler Torn to AtOmA-Ons
Man KnIed and Sever al IDju

From Chicago Republican, Dec. 2S.
Another terrific locomotive explosion oc-
CURED shortly after O'Clock yesterday morn
Ing resulting IN the instant death Of Que man
and serious injury 10 several. Engine No 90,
drawing a Car along the track between six-
tteEth street and the crossing of the Chicago,
Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, exploded,
scattering Its remnants to the four Winds,
and carrying devastation to the surrounding
buildings.
for the conveyance of workmen from the city TO
a point about mile without the city limits,
and the same being occupied Dy about twenty
five men. IT seems almost miraculous that
quite n number OF lives were not sacrificed.
The locomotive bad stopped at Polk street. and
there the work men took their seats in the
boose. A moment afterwards IL again stopped,
this time at the crossing, when the explosion
occurred. The greatest CONSERVATION ensued,
and everybody ran to and fro in the Widest
confusion.
out, carrying with IL two feet or more OF the
boiler, which was hurled into an adj jacent lum-
ber yard, The sand box was annlhIlated and
scattered in infnitesimal portions about the
spot and the belEframe was thrown through
the smoke stack. Fences and everything OF
fragile nature in the vicinity were dashed 10
The accident was attended by sad fatality.
A German lad named Wilhelm Mertes was on
his way to work at Boomers bridge yard; aud
at the moment the explosion took place was
passing along the sidewalk on Clark street.
small fragment OF the boiler struck HIM on
the head, and that. together with the force of
the concussion, which. carried him over the
I6uCe OF u ydTu ntbE Dyy u ulblduCe VI over
twenty feet, caused his DEATH His body was
trighifully mangled, Tue skull was fractured
near the left ear, and his right leg was broken.
He was eightt en- years OF age, and had been In
the employ of Mr.. Boomer as day watchman.
His mIther resides at No. 42 Finnell street,
where an inquest upon the remains Will be
held at o'clock this morning.
Eli Hoddin, engineer, James A. Thompson,
hteman, and Peter Desmond, wiper, We're on
the engine when the accident occurred, and
mere TTeeIe Violently hurled TO the ground. Mr..
thompson was somewhat scalded. and the
! olheIs We're Injured in various ways. Tneir
MOuhuS H however, are not considered danger
Gus, OmceI Barrett, of the Twenty second
sIeet SUB Police Station. attended TO the
! Wouh1tu men until the services OF a physician
SSoulu S5 nc Piu' PIucuittu' Nothing certain could be
learned regarding the cause OF the explosion.
! The engine, IL Is alleged, was a very old one.
! service owing to its weakened condition
There was cad OF 40 pounds OF steam on al
the time. A portion of the boiler iB now In the
yard adjoining the crossing
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SPEClAL NOTICES.

tFOr additional Special Notices sec ne h'ds Pays
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The Money Que estiOn in Connection With
Purchases of Foreign Territory.

The Money Question in Connection With
Purchases of Foreign Territory.
IT is daily becoming more doubtful whether
the House of Representatives will make the
appropriation necessary to carry into effect
the treaty with Russia for the purchase of
Alaska. The conviction is quite general that
the bargain made by Mr.. Seward is bad one,
and that the country is'not worth the money
we are called upon to pay for it. The Execu-
tive department of the Government seems to
have gone upon the assumption that the
House of Representatives would be concluded
by the action of the President and the Senate
in making the treaty. 1t under this supposi-
tion, we suppose, that the actual transfer Of
the territory to our control has been made.
1t would, doubtless, be little mortifying to
retire from Alaska after having taken formal
possession of it; but, in our form of govern
ment, the right of the House of Representa-
tives to refuse to make an appropriation is
as indisputable as that of the President and
Senate to make treaty. 1t would have
been in better taste for the President to have
awaited the action of the House upon the
money part of the question before pushing
matters so far.
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INTERIOR STATES.

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