The New York herald., 1867-02-07


ment of the proprietsrs Of the wonderful nos
trum. The fact Is that their great Southern
panacea was for sale, cheap, some time before
it was published. We were offered the "origi-
nal" for one hundred dollars, but, not being
disposed 10 invest in quack medicines, refused
to become purchaser. Invent begging ct that
price and was eventually sold, probably at
heavy discount from the original figure. As
many cents would have been more than its in
trinac valgs.
A Grand spectacle Premised-TAs Latest
t4ea Novelty.
Spring is coming, the morning Of the year, |
when We sit among the renewing flowers and
speculate on what the long eventual day may
bring us. Everything starts afresh. The opera
season prepares its reopening, theatre man
ayers cast about for novelties, tailon and mil-
liners rack their brains and new fashions come
in, young ladies fresh from school and new
to society "come out" new Congressman
make their first speeches, crowds rush TO new
spectacles, and poets, in concert with the songs
verses about tho newness Of everything.
But the spring of 1867 is destined to be par
ticularly memorable. Heretofore new opera
or new star, imported at vast expense, was
an event which stirred society and reused that
innate love OF display and excitement which
has ever been characteristic of human nature.
The period known as the idcs of March--a time
full of significance and fatal portcnt once--is
to present spectacle such As this country
- ~x:.~
storms of rain or snow shall be able to hinder
the gathering of the audience. From the
NORTH south,eas and wess people will pour
into the strange theatre where Law has her
temple and her throne and where Justice
sits bandaged beside her altar. A man who
for two years has borne aloft the egis of this
great republic is there to be placed on trial.
We have had great trials, but none like this.
A Vice President Of the United States has been
arraigned. Before the ordinary tribunals Of
the couatry men Of learning apd social posi-
ton have stood as criminals The records Of
some States contain the names OF men who
were professors OF universities, eminent in
science, doctors of medicine and of divinity,
;ried for crimes the most foul and abominable.
ahead Of hewoisd The attempts made by
other cities to compete with them in.this species
OF reputation have failed. We have every !.
where exciting divorce cases, daring bur
glariss, swindling and robberies BY the hand
somsst, most polished and most unblushing
men; murders Of fascinating interest and
disbolical cruelty, such os make up the Sunday
raodsuo ofo 1a~No v,ortson NJ our fi0n
while crowds flock to the court room during
the trial, happy if they can catch the faintcst
glimpse Of the criminal. The simple fact Is
that any kind Of spectacle ~draws," and in
this respect our nature Is incorrigible. For
this reason, then, the extraordinary spectacle
in preparation at Washington will attract an
immense crowd and hold the entire outside
world brea,bless and spellbound.
The accused is no ordinary man. He is the /.
Executive of The will Of over thirty millions Of
free people. Whether, IL he should appear be-
fore the court which will summon him, he shall
bend the knee II, ackno wlcdgment OF . greater
earthly power shap his owa--as did upon
like memorable occasion in the old Hall Of
Westminster the famous Warren Hastings
how nc shall look and bear himself, how he will
be dressed and what words may fall from him,
shall all be matters for the historian. Then
the court, Ut once judge and accuser, rescm-
bling 20 nearly the Freach Convention,
with its Girondists and Jacobins. lis fierce
Dansons, its piiless Marats, its Mirabcaus
and Barrieres, its Isabeaus and Anacharsis
Clootzs- --those types which have their coun-
lterparts in all revolutionary cpochs--timcs
when fanaticism and common sense meet face
to face and contend for empire. ALI these and
| y thousand other considerations make mp the
interest of y scene unprecedented in the annals
Of this country.
But the chiei point in this impeachment scene
is that il will be nothing but spectacle. differ
| ing only in kind from that Of . new opera or
| drama. Should stranger from beyond the
sea press through the throng that will crowd
the avenues to the Capitol next month and wit
ness the Presidents trial. he viii be struck by
nothing 30 much "a the ease and quietness with
| which the affair will be managed. The au-
dience, embracing representatives Of every
profession, art and science, the very flower Of
our population in wealth, intellect and refine
ment, will assemble to hear the intellectual
contest Of finished orators, ~ did ths danes
and Senators OF ancient Greece TO hear poets
contend nothing more. Whatever Of national
| trouble may be in store for us, whatever revo.
lutions we may have TO face hereafter, the i'm
parchment, trial and removal Of President
johnson shall never be set down ss cause,
but, on the contrary, will astound from its
| noiseless simplicity, because In accordance
with law and the popular viii.
| DlunderiBG Financier Corrected.
| A shoddy evening contemporary pretends to
| put ms right In our views OF the effects of .