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more than once proved successful before. He
expected TO bully the party into subservience.
He thought that, when forced to vote upon it,
the members of the party would not dare to
vote against 1t. He stood ready to denounoe
them as "COpperheads, +" as ''cowards, - as
''minons of the Executive" if they did; and
he knew he would have the active aid, in
such a crusade, Of a large force of radicals
more voluble and violent than himself His
little game" did not succeed. For once the
Republicans stood their ground and defed
his menaces, and he now finds himself in a
small and not very reputable minority. He
doesn't like il, and Graves sympathy and for
giveness.
His project Of impeachment was a direct
blow at the Republican party. It was calcu-
lated to strengthen the Democratic party more
decidedly than anything else which had been
done or attempted by Congress. To say
nothing of It's intrinsic injustice and of the
fatal precedent its success would have estab-
lished, its effect upon the business interests Of
the country would have been so disastrous
that no party responsible for it could have
held its ground for a single campaign. Nothing
but the courage and 6rmness of the majority
of the Republican party has saved the party
itself from wreck and ruin at the hands of
Mr.. Ashley and his hackers.
Still more outrageous has been Mr.. Ashley's
mode of conducting proceedings under his in
dlCtmenJ. lie pleads tnaJ ne never OlQ accuse
the President, in his public speeches, of having
been party to the assassination of Mr.. Lin
coin; but he confesses that he did, privately
and publicly, declare his suspicious and belief
to that effect. In other words, he played a
double part in the matter. While careful not
to put upon record-so that he could be held
responsible for them-declaration of this
character, he was all the while busy in poison
ing the mind of Congress and the country
with 'insinuations and private assurances
and, when summoned before the committee he
had himself invoked, this brave champion of
official integrity was compelled to confess that
he had not a particle of evidence to support
either his public or his private assurances on
the subject and he caps the climax of his
cowardly retreat by dragging before thepublic
bar two or three other members of Congress-
who went still further than he did in charging
the President with completely in Mr.. Lincoln's
assassination. He may damage their reputa-
tions in this matter, but he will not thereby
protect his own.
Mr.. Ashley has played the most conspicuous,
but not the most disereditable part, in this
business. If he had been wiser he would not
have allowed himself to become the tool of
men at once more malignant and more saga
eious than himself. If he were only little
sharper than he is, he had learned lesson
now which he might profit by hereafter; but
he probably won't.
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risk Of railway journey TO degree that many
casualties besides this has epabled us 10 esti-
mate. Some Of the fimsy structures have
been broken through, and trains, as in this in
stance, have been precipitated from others. A
railroad bridge without parapets has been
shown, often enough, to be like a trap set for
human lives; and as it is seen what a further
waste of life may be caused by fire, steam ra-
diators, or pipes conducting hot air, ought to
replace the stoves now in use in the railroad
cars through the United States.
II there are no laws to compel the companies
to repair their bridges and dispense with the
further possibility of a railroad auto dd .fe, we
hope the forty-four people wounded, and the
friends of the forty five people slaughtered at
the bridge near Angola, and the press of the
country at large, may succeed in holding the
Buffalo and Erie Railroad Company to an ac-
count, and exciting an indignant public
opinion, which will compel the enactment of a
law in every State that all companies will
have TO obey. Thus at least two of the evils
connected with our present railway system
may be obliterated, and the companies may be
melted to save legislators and themselves
further trouble by instituting on their own
account other reforms.
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THE FLITTINGS OF F0RNEY.

LETTERS FROM EUROPE. By j. w. Forney.
Secretary of the Senate of the United States
Proprietor and Editor of the Philadelphia
Press and Washington Chronicle (both dailyl-
With a portrait of the author engraved on
steel by Sartain, and a complete Alphabetical
Index. Philadelphia: T. b. Peterson q
Brothers. (No date)
From The ~. Y. World.
1t is not often that title-page tells the
whole story of book so fully as does this
which ushers the expectant world INTO the
treasure-house of the thoughts and expe-
riences of j. w. Forney on his travels. The
political eminence of the writer is attested by
his quality of Secretary of the Senate. The
information that he is the Proprietor and
Editor, (solemn and imposing combination y
of two daily newspapers, is fitted to convey
AN awfuI sense alike of his intellectual and of
his financial resources. That he should have
gone to the expense of having his portrait en-
eraved, and "by Sartain, 4" assures mankind
that his physical beauty must be at least as
worthy their attention as his moral and
mental perfeotions. His pains to provide his
readers with an alphabetical Index" argues
the permanent value of his fluctuations, and
induces the belief that large edition of the
book is about TO bo struck OF at tho expense
Of the nation for the use of the Congressional
Committees on Foreign Affairs.
For our own part, VIC sec no reason why
4asf - . q - = s
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The labor Question,

From the Toronto Globe
When we return from New York to such
cities as Detroit and Chicago, we find the same
story, with certain variations. One writer
gives very minute view of the state of mat
ters in Detroit, and all ending with the same
advice to all intending visit to such large
cities in search of employment. The nature
of such advice is easily OWNED. eff you can
get along at all where you are, don't go to the
large cities at present; and if you can't get
along where you are, still don't gO.'
A Western paper says very emphatioally:-
The occupations thought gentlemanly are all
overstocked. Thousands of young men, in
their determination not to soil their white
hands darken their sallow complexions,
apprentice themselves to callngs which enable
them only to live in sort of genteel pinchery.
In all branches of trades and professions clerks
are thick as the leaves in Vallombrosa. Ap-
plioants for clerkships in the post Office are
exceedingly numerous. Telegraph operators
of a certain class swarm like bees. Female
school teachers are to be had in any quantity
and at most accommodating wages. On the
other hand, those trades most in request are
even over-crowded.
We cannot give the particulars, but surely
we have said sufficient to show the folly of
those who leave Canada to crowd into the
large cities of the Union, with the idea that
once across the lines all will be well. We
have before this remarked upon the aversion
to honest labor on the part of many young
Canadians. The same thing is spoken of and
deplored on the other side. The result there
and here is the same. very great amount
of anxiety and suffering and disappointment
on the part of multitudes who might lead
comfortable, healthy, and prosperous lives in
cultivatiDg in the fields as their fathers did
hafO In far mo-
for the honor and wealth and power of their
country than they can ever likely accomplish
in the lines of life they have actually adopted.
We do not hear that there is much want of
employment generally throughout Ontario.
For the season of the year, we rather think
there is more than usual We are quite sure
at any rate that some of the unemployed SER
want girls of New York could find ready en-
plOyment and at fair wages almost anywhere
in the Province. Our advertising columns are
sufficient evidence that in Toronto, at any rate,
the demand is far in excess of the supply.
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Mr.. Ashley and Impeachment.

from ute ~. y. Times.
Mr.. Ashley, the author in Congress of the
Impeachment project, appeals to public COM
passion on his own behalf. He thinks it very
hard that he should be ''assailed' so severely
for the part he has taken in this business, and
is particularly aggrieved that Republican
papers should join in the crusade against him.
He has written a long letter to the Toledo
Blade, in which he invokes pity and pardon
for the part he has taken in this proceeding.
Republicans, he thinks, ought not to be so
hard on those of their own party who happen
to differ in opinion from them.
This is refreshing. Mr.. Ashley has always
been among the foremost to denOunce and
vilify everybody in the Republican party who
happened to differ from him in opinion. If
we remember Alright, he once made motion
in patty caucus to expel member of the
party who had been guilty of this offense
He always had at his tongues end some Oppro-
brious epithet for those who ventured to favor
opinion or a policy which his profound and
patriotic judgment did not approve. He nOw
thinks Republican journals ought to be more
charitable than he has ever been towards
those who cherish opinions and pursue
policy which the party itself cannot approve.
Mr.. Ashley's course in this impeachment
business was simply piece OF oonceited AFRO
gance. If impeachment was TO be prosecuted
as party movement he ought to have con-
suited the party about it. He did nothing Of
the sort. Prompted, probably, by men Of
greater shrewdness and a keener sense of re-
sponsibility than belongs to him, he pre-
sented articles OF impeachment in his own
persOn-assuming to know that the President
had been guilty of high crimes and misds-
meanors, and coming forward voluntarily as
his aoouser. He relied on tactics which had
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From the ". y. Herald.
II we can judge from the statement that
land in Alabama sold recently at sheriFs
sale for from Eve cents to twenty cents an
acre, Alabama must be a good place for real
estate spectators, But does it not seem
curious that while we are paying immense
prices for land in Walrussia aud the West
Indies our own land should be going off SO
cheapH II would be almost worth while to
buy up all Alabama at the present quoted
prices, and cast it off to fill up the gaps in the
West India Islands which the tOrnadoes,
floods, and earthquakes have made, as it ap.
pears likely that we are sooner or later to own
all these fragmentary portions OF the earth's
surface.
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General Butler Drops a HInt for his Bio.
grapher.

From The N. Y. Herald.
At last the world is permitted to know
exactly what General Buffers claims are
in the matter of heroism. 81 claim" he says,
'to be the hero of New York" New York is
one of the few spots in the country not
known as a battlefield of the war. 1t was
particularly safe place. Many drums were
beaten in the streets, it is true, and many sol
diers marched up and down, coming and
going. There was great deal of the "pride,
pomp, and circumstance of glorious war;" but
marvellously little of the reality, little of the
hardship, little of the soul-wearing work, but,
above all, little of the danger. There were no
bullets in the air, and the only flight of mis-
siles that the illustrious soldier ever had to
complain against was when his bronzed and
brazen front proved harder than an added egg
or rotten apple. He never had the sensation
of a wound save when
An egg let fly
Hit him directly DER the eye,
And running down his cheek, besmeared,
with orange tawny slime, his beard;
or, in the absence of beard, perhaps his shirt
collar. In short, the streets of New York were
nothing like the glaois OF Fort Fisher and
therefore he might easily be a hero in them
who would be quite another sort Of character
in place of less safety. Butler has desired
that it shall be written on his tomb that he
"saved his men at Fort Fisher" Let it be
added, also that he saved himself at a Broad
way hotel, and that he was the hero of city
five hundred miles from the nearest battle
field.
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Tho New Alabama OonstItutlon,

From the Montgomery State Sentinel
We cannot conceive why there should be
such clamor as TO this instrument, when, If 1t
is compared with other Constitutions, it will
be found to differ so little from them. We
propose to take that Constitution, par eSceI-
Ience, which was adopted by the repentant
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Powers of the Southern Conventions.

Powers of the Southern Conventions.
From the 81 Louis Republican.
The Reconstruction Constitutional Conven-
tions, in the Southern States, have very liberal
ideas of the extent of their powers. They
assume general governmental and legislative
powers, passing divorce laws, stay laws, bank
rupt laws, adopting enaotments regulating
judicial proceedings, annulling DEGREES and
judgments of courts, setting aside contracts
and vacatipg offices. When it is remembered
that the law under which they are assembled
is not one passed by the people of the States,
but by Congress, and that that law prescribes
the object of their meeting and limits it, the
inquiry arises, Where do they find any
authority for assuming the right to exercise
the functions of Legislature, and to legislate
on general topics of State interests
They are assembled, by authority of Con-
gress, to frame Constitution, with no power
whatever to impart any validity to that Con-
stitution until it is ratified by the people, and
also approved by Congress. Where do they
get the authority to do a solitary thing which
is not plainly essential to the execution of the
purpose specified in the law of Congress which
authorizes their coming togetherf They are
not ordinary Conventions of the people Of the
States they assume to represent. They are
not assembled by call of the Legislatures, or
by virtue OF the provisions of any State Consti-
tuition permitting the call of such Conventions,
nor by any spontaneous call from the people
themselves. An outside power has author
lied their existence and prescribed the OBJ
ject of their meeting, and there is nowhere
legislative or constitutional State enactment
which recognizes or sanctions their assemblage,
while the only law which assumes the right
to sanction their assembling limits the work
they are to do TO the business of framing a
Constitution. And, as If Congress intended
that il should be understood that they had no
power to do anything beyond that expressly
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RecOnstructIOn Two Hundred Years Ago.
From the NJ y Tines

From the NJ Y Times.
Hon. E. Dougherty, of Texas, has exLumed
from the archives of New Mexico case Of
successful 'reconstruction'' in that region
nearly two centuries ago, which he thinks has
its lesson for our day. A great insurrection
of the Rio Grande Indians against the Spaniards
having taken place in 1880, it was not checked
till 1859. In the latter year, one Ojeda was
ordered to declare upon oath, as the archives
say, whether the puebla of Cochiti, "that
apostatized and took part in the wars, being
very rebellious Indians" would probably
'rebel again at any future time as it was Gus
tomary with them"
Ojeda answered that "they were indeed very
arrogant Indians, and very rebellious puebla,
but after what had happened to them he
judged it impossible for them not to yield
obedience" History, adds the lecturer, shows
that all those original insurgents in Texas were
thoroughly reconstructed" and he good
humoredly owns that she can appreciate, in
degree, the willingness of the Indians to 'ac-
cept the situation.'" Let us hope that the
historic parallel will hold good in another
pOint-namely, in the fact that the lands of
these Indian insurgents and "secessionists"
were restored to them, that they might cuti-
vate them as of old, as soon as they had laid
down their arms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-04-01

A VESSEL LiBELLED-AU.g,F Afteagt h. trEs
IsT Grgg tH FOTce.-rhis moIulng. MaTtia Raw
Lor ana Charles r. Barnes were before Justice
Boswell, having been arrested BY officer " hue
charged, on the oath of LucIus Hanev, with
having committed an assault ana bait nv ON
him by throwing him overheard. and also
WIN malicious mischief by cutting the sails
from bis vessel MI FendaII appeared for the
prosecution and Mr.. Davis for the defense II
appears from the statements OF witnesses that
on frIaay last Gen. D. +. GOodIng served a
Hbel OF the prosecuting witness, who - the
C&preln OF me schooner Ioldtnch. Mr.. RaynOr
bsing The hbellant.l and placed the vessel IN
charge or "a COlOItd man named Ben CI1mus.
mat Haney- with some others. went out TO the
schooner, and threatened 10 heave anchor and
put OF. RaynOr and Barnes went aboard. and
n IS alleged that HaDey was thrown over
board, after being ordered to leave the boat.
ora was sent to the police. ana the captain
was arrested and taken 20 the station, when
ne gave bail - keep The peace; and the vessel
was brought 10 the wharf and her sails taken
OF ard placed in the loft OF Mr.. Barnes, but
unCeT an order from the court they We're re-
turned the next day. The eolOred man testi-
NED that ne and Mr. Barnes took the saiis off
70 prevent any person from getting the vessel
away The case was submitted 20 the justice.
VINO sald that there vas no question in his
mind but that the parties intended 20 take the
vessel sway by force, IN violation OF the Wit,
and that the others were present on the vessel
IN behalf OF the nIted States 70 assist in keep
ing the vessel, and he therefore dismissed the
charge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-04-01

FAREWELL SEEMON-Last evening, the
rector OF Trinity Church for several years
past, Rev. Dr.. Keeling, preached his farewell
sermon to his congregation, taking the follow
inS text from PHILIPPIANS, "OnIy let Your con-
Ners aticn be as becomefh the speech OF Chris.
tians that when come and see you, or else
be absent. may hear OF your affairs that you
may stand last IN the spirit. with one mind.
Striving together for the faith of the Gospel -
AMER the conclusion Of The services a large
mum Der OF the congregation took leave of the
doctor, who leaves for Chicago Tomorrow
The vest OF Trinity Church will meet this
week anC confer win Rev. MIR. Addison, Of
Wheeling, as to the call rendered HIM to accept
the rsctorsbip @! this church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-04-01

CRIMINAL CoURT-Jad1. Wu,,,.-Sa,nrd,y
Wm. Brown, convicted Of larceny, was ser :
fenced to fifteen days in Jail; ana John II art,
conNie,ed OF the same offence, was sentenced
Years of age.
tbs morning. the case Of Leonard Huyck,
cnargeo WIN the larceny of Gums OF money
LEV oh npeelai deposit at the Merchants Ma
uoHal Rank, of which he was pr, si teux. was
ehIIec' ana he not appearing, the District At
,nSyIh,y suggested a forfeiture of recognzance
W.T.. DaNicge, who appears for Huyck. sus.
ees.ed that the accu ed, be ng in New York
under srrest at the instance of the Govern
menf, the case had bet err be passed. and the
Court ord red the case 10 be LETT open
joseph Alstros, indicted for the larceny of a
quantity of blankets and sheetIng from the
Government, was found not guilty. Aiken
Tor defence.
In The cases of W. A. Butler. indicted for
receiving stolen property, aud W. = Silliman,
for keeping bawdy heuse. n aoAIe pres was
entered
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-04-01

REDUCTION IN PRICRe-Our euterprisIng
fIienos, Foley Co have lately received one
OF the hnest and best assorted stock of China,
triass, Croekery. Cutl'ry, Plated Ware, and
We mention ia part looking glasses. casters,
lager and weiss beer glasses. with yarIous 9th e.
FL mousse furnishing goods toe numerous to
mention. 1t is astonishing to observe at what
low prices they sell their goods. Call and
examine their stock. and our word for il you
Will not regret your visit to No 275 Penrsyl-
y2nia ayenue and Ne. 3I6 street, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets.
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THE EVENING STAR.
LOCAL NEWS.
.MUsEMENTs. &c. TONIGHT

WALLS Nav OPERA Horsk-ktrst night of
ne celebrated Lady Don, who will Apo ar ia
the " Child of the Regiment and The Pretty
HoTsebreaker.r
NATIONAL THRATRR--Miss Rachel john
son and hr Il Macauley IN % East Lynne, o {;
the ElOpement"
FORREST HALL, Georgetown.-Mr.A All Bur-
nett IN one OF bis popular entertainments this
evening.
NOOVWAED HALL-Cfrand exhibition OF n !,
stereopticon. dss0lving views aud microscope,
Tor benefit OF the Young Mems Christian Asso-
CIaiiOn.
NAGERIE will open on 9Th street, lust sJuth of
Pennsy lyania avenue. this afternoon aud eve
ming. II Is SAID TO comprise the most Gem 1INra
collection of wild ANIMALS, and the finest tronpe
OF gymnasts, &c, ever assembled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-04-01

BURGIARY.-About O'Clock this morning
the residence Of Casper Herbert, corner of OH
fuo = streets, was entered by a thief or thieves.
who ~fCle pocket-b0O containing about 50
Mr.. herberr has a valuable watch. dog on his
ne miseS, but the burglar, it seems. got over
TIE fence near The dog, hOisted q rear window
OF the house, entered the bedroom, put out the
light. and took the property from Mr.. Hsrbert's
pocket, and decamped Just as that gentleman
aEgke
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-04-01
RY CoOPEB LArIMER, Auctioneers
IMPATIENT or TIE IxrERIoR.

nEPARTdENT OF THE ISTERIOR.
~ UNITED STA TES PATENT OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, March Is. ISL.
On the petition % eHBRBCRkE o. BLoD-
GAIT, Of BIidseboro, New Jersey, praying for
the extension OF O patent granted 70 nim the "a
day OF January, lS54, ante dated July S. 1883 Tor
90 Improvement In Aemming aud Cording Um-
b ellis Covers, for seven years from the expirs-
ton o. said patent, which takes place on the 81
II is ordered that the said petition be heard AZ
the Patent Office on Monday, the 10th oay OF
June next. 1T Il o clock NJ and all persons are
notified TO appear aud show cause, ~ any they
have, why said petition ought not 10 oe granted
Persons opposing the extension IeQuired TO
hle in the Patent Once To cir objections, specially
BET forth In writing. at least days before
the day OF hearing; all testimony nled BY either
party TO be used at the said hearing must be taken
and transmitted In accordance with the rules OF
the ONCE which witt be furnished on application.
Dispositions and other papers relied uoon ss tes-
lore the day Of bearing; the srguments, IL any,
within ten days after ElIug the testimsny;
Ordered; alse, that this notice be publishes IN
the Republican and the tnteliigencer, Washing
ton, d. C.. and In the Times, New York, Y
a week for three euccessi We weeks the nrst OF
said publications 70 be at least sixty days Pre-.
vious 70 the dsy Of hearing n rpKakKRs
Commissioner Of Patents
P.S. Editors OF the above papers viii please
COPY and send their balls 90 the Patent Once nth
Q paper coufsisins this Dotice. nh 1s-isvsw
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CITY ITEMS.

JEWkLRY.-Corat Bar Sets and Buttons
Plain Bog Wood Sets. Ornamrutai Bog
WOOD Setts. Gilt Chains, Silver Plat d
spoons, Forks, Cups, Gail Bells, received 'nis
mornlns. 81 Prieg's One Dollar Jeweiry Store
NO. sS5 pennsylvania avenue, near ~ street.