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s.ussIing aud Other Frauds Upon tho Gov
ernnsnt.

SmugGling aud Other Frauds Upon tho Gov.
Hardly day has passed lately without
some news having been published in our
columns about smuggling, dstillery frauds, or
robbery Of the Treasury In one way or an
other. There Is something radically defective
either In the revenue system itself or in the
management Of It Perhaps In both. There
ID, too, deplorable laxity Of morality in gov
ernment officials, and In those having transac-
lions with the government We seem to be
fast running into state Of fearful demoralixa-
ton, which, unless checked, will inevitably
bring us 10 bankruptcy and revolution. Il Is
not surprising that the revenue Of the govern
ment has fallen OF greatly, when there are 90
many leaks and evasions Of the law. One Of
the frst things Congress should attend to, when
/. meets, il thorough investigation and over
hauling Of the revenue laws, and OF the causes
Of fraud. Unless these frauds be stopped, the
revenue better collected, and the governments
funds be made more secure from robbers, We
shall soon end an empty Treasury. and tho
people unwilling 10 be taxed heavily for the
bens0t Of plundsring rascals, ofacial and nm
ofacial. Lot "a have an investigation, and
such laws - wn be carried out without
evasion
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composure that the officers OF both boats had
been blown into the air and drowned in the
water, If it could only be hoped that such q
consummation would prove an effectual warn
ing for the future.
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the intention OF studying the science Of running ma
chinery.
Doctor Hepburn has completed his Japanese dicuos-
airy. The words are In Japanese and Roman charac-
ters The work 10 far in advance OF ny,hing OF We
kind yet attempted.
A severe earthquake experienced al Nsgasaki %
the 9Th Of May and another the l4th This unusual
phenomenon at that place caused great alarm
Mr. Brown and partner, formerly OF the frm Of Don
Co., OF Shanghae, have been seized conaned in
place called Sanboro near Nagasaki but BY the inter
cession Of the British Consul both were released
Tho Voyage Of the Colorado.
SAN FRANCISCO, June l3 1867
The steamship Colorado during the frst part OF hsS
outward voyage had heavy weather and strong westerly
Winds after which she experienced hne weather tke
greater part OF the time she made the from Yoko-
hama 70 Hong Kong In I'VE and half days There
we're three deaths among the Chinese passengers.
On her return she was met OF the Yantzee river ~
the steamer Yesso, with passengers and freight from
Shanghas. She left Yokohama May %. with TIVE
hundred and thirty passengers for San Francisco Aal
hfty for New York, and had nine hundred and forty
tons OF freight including twenty tons for Now York.
From the 1st OF June she had good weather nearly III
the tme. The general health Of those on board has
been excellent
The Colorado isf q Hong Kong the United State
war vessel Mouocacy; at Yokohama tho Shenandoah
and u Osaea the Hartford and Wyoming.
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A fresh instance of The contagious influence
of crime is furnished by the Elizabeth street
tragedy, which has SO quickly succeeded the
tragedy in Nineteenth street Murder and
suicide were the elements villanously COM
pounded in each Of these dreadful tragedies,
although in the second the intention Of murder
failed to be contaminated. AT the inquest on
the body Of Henry Bundy, who attempted to
kill his wife and succeeded in shooting himself
last Thursday night, letter which had been
found in his pocket revealed the fact that his
wife, like the reputed wife Of King, had been
concert saloon girl and one Of the witnesses
testified that the other day, after reading the
account of Kings killing himself and wife in
Nineteenth street, he said "In o few days
there will be another account in the paper
like this; only it will be Henry Bundy and
wife," 1t is obvious that the weak mind Of
the suicide and Intentional murderer was
supplied with proximate impulse to crime
by the deed which he tried to initiate. In
Paris whenever one poor fool leaps from the
top Of the column on the Place vendome it is
likely that he will be followed by as many
imitators as can elude the vigilance Of the
guards. In New York suicide complicated
with murder seems to have become equally
contagious. In all individual cases Of crime,
however, the predispostions to 1t exist, although
latent, long before some proximate cause arises
to determine the fearful shape which it may
assume. Hence we must repeat the moral to
be drawn from the recent outbursts Of crime
that its seeds should be carefully cxtirpated
by thorough early education Of the reason
and the will.
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woRRELL SISTERS NEW YORK THEATRE oppo
ste New York Hotel-FAusr. DEMON, THK DocroR
DKVL's DRAuGHr-A KISS DARK.
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ToHsAOots IN TEXAS

NV ORLEANS, June IS, 1887
Texas papers contain accounts OF devastating storms
OF the ID and Sd insts, by which lives aud much
property DESTROYED
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BROADWAY THEATRE. Broadway near Broome
streeI-Tax FLOWERS or THE FOREST
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TERRACE GARDEN. Third Avenue and Fiftv eighth and
Finynnth streets-THEoDoRn THoNAs Popri an n apn.S
CoScERrs ats O'Clock +. NJ
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SAN FRANCISCO MlNSrRELs, 5s5 Broadway oppo,it
the Metropolitan Hoel-IN THEIR ErHoPAN ENTKRTI I'M
nKS1s SINGING DANCING AND BuRLnsoUKs-THr Wal RI
HUNTERS FROM RUSSIAN AMERICA
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BANvARD's NEW YORK MUSEUM Broadway and
Afternoon and Evening. $500 '~.
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BowERY THEATRE. Bowery.-THx MARBLE HuAxr
Fool FAMILY
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THEATRE FRANCAIs Your,csnth street. and Sixth
Avsnue.-RIoHARp Ill.
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KELLY r.gON's MINsrRELs. 7.o Broadway. oppo.
site the New York Hote-IN Soy;s DAyjrs ~ "a
rRiorIiES, BuRLEseurs. &c.-NoRxA-THe JARS
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FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE Nos . and Wa,
Tweniyfonrth sree.-GRFrfN CuRIsrysx M,y srpvys y
ETHIOPIAN MfNsrRrLsY. BALLADS. BuRLrsouEs Gc -THa
RIVALS RESDEzvoUs-Lo Pooh INplAs
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TONY PASTORS OPERA HOUSE. 2)l Bowery -coxo
VocALIsM. NEGRO MssrRELsY BuRL.souKs BAII.r D,yrn
rIsskhKS. 6c.-THK BRlcAND Boy
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BROADWAY OPERA HOUSE, No. 900 Broadway The
SfokGA MssrRELs THE SLAVE TROUPE, PIcuLIAl
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The Voyage OF the Coloredo.
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WASHINGTON.


Financial md Monetary Matters.
Tho securities hold by the Treasurer Of the United
States in trust for the national banks reported today
follows:-
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THE BUNYAN TABLEAUx. Union Hall corner OF
.wen.y.'hiTd street and Broadway. at s-MovIso MR.
soEsEs. Matinee every afternoon %, O'Clock
SUNDAY (THlS) EYENING.-GRANp SACRED COScrrr
ninth streets. at o Clock. ~ 10y,
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HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brookivn.-EruIopraS Mts.
sTnkLsr BALLADS AND BuRLEsoUEs-THE TERRIFIC FLIcHr
JAPANESE. A's"i
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BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway
SALLkT, FARCE PAsroNiNK BURLEsoUEs ErHIoPfAN
COMIC AND SENTIMENTAL yocALIsxs, &C.
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Offices" The vote upon the first was, in the
House, yeas 1856, nays 4S; in the Senate yeas
3S, nays 10. The second was passed in the
Senate by yeas 35, nays IL; in the House by
yeas 13l, nays 81. 1t is the first time, we
believe, in the history of the Government, that
a President has failed in o deliberate attempt
to control the action of Congress by means OF
Executive patronage. To the Thirty-ninth Con
gress belongs the honor of a victory over Exc
cutive usurpation and intrigue, not less i'm
portant than the victory of Grant over the
forces Of the Rebellion. The people will gladly
forget the mistakes and shortcomings of a
body whose inoorruptible fidelity to the prinCi-
pies of Justice and equality has preserved them
from the untold calamities that must inevitably
have followed the contamination of the Presi-
dents policy. 1t is the duty of the President
Immediately to assign a military commander
to each of the five districts into which the
Rebel States are divided, and to detail suffi-
cient force to enable such commanders to
perform their duties and enforce their au-
thority in their respective districts Any failure
on his part to perform the duties enjoined
by the law, any attempt to evade or nullify
its provisions, will certainly lead to his inn
peachment by the Fortieth Congress. Reverdy
Johnson voted for the bill after as he did
before the veto; and in doing so he took
occasion to say that he was glad to see
from the public prints of the South, and to
be informed by many of the leading men
in that part of the country, that it was the
purpose of the Southern States to organize
under this bill. They were, he said, ''talling
lessons from experience" In other words,
Mr.. Johnson believes that the South will
consent to the enfranchisement of the
negroes and the disfranchisement of the lead
ers in the Rebellion, as the only means of
regainng her place in Congress and the Elec-
toral College. The World, we observe, ad-
vises the South if she means to submit at
all, to do so promptly enough to prevent
the radicals getting control of the new
State organizations. The planters" it says,
''can control the negro vote if they begin in
season; and, by accepting at once what
they will be constrained to submit to at last,
they can help their friends at the North
elect the next President, and rescue the
Government from radical domineering and
insolence." To this complexion it has come
at last The Tenure of Office bill makes it
impossible for the President to remove faith
ful and competent officers, and fill their places
with his tools He must procure the advice
and concurrence of theBenate before he can
| remove any officer, even a member of his own
Cabinet. The "bread and butter' argument,
| by which he vainly attempted to demoralize
the Republican party, is no longer available.
| Henceiorth he must walk in a narrow path,
walled in on both sides by Congressional
| enactments, not to be disregarded with i'm
| punity. Thus does a liberty-loving, loyal
nation protect itself from the treachery of a
faithless Executive! Impeachment is the
step next in order.
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PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY

legal-tender would be of no account TO a credi-
Tor, while a debtor might often be shielded
from an exhibition of spite or malice by his
legal right to pay his debt in such lawful
money as he happened to possess.
We refuse to be drawn into controversy as
to the present volume of our currency being
too large otherwise, or as to the preferability
of gold to greonbacks or greenbacks to the
notes of National banks. We only insist that
greenbacks shall be redeemable at sight in
gold and National bank notes in greenbacks
so that people may take their choice. Expe-
rience will soon determine how much currency
we need; when that amount, and no more,
will remain in circulation and the proportion
of gold, greenbacks, and bank notes will be
such as the public interest and convenience
shall require.
We decidedly object to prospective resump-
ton, that is calculated to depress enterprise
and diminish employment. The capitalist
will naturally say, 81 can't afford to improve
farm, or build house, or make any perma-
nent improvement whatever because labor
and materials will be cheaper as we approach
resumption; so that l will hoard my means
and wait" Hence idleness, want, and suffer-
ing. But let us resume at once, and after a
transient pause, the price of labor, materials,
and every commodity will adjust itself to the
new basis; and then houses may be built and
land improved, with a reasonable expectation of
profit Mechanics will not obtain $4 per day,
as now; but SO will buy as much as S4 does at
present, and there will be more building,
more planting, and everything will soon be
looking up.
We rest on these truths:-
l. He who owes debts fully due ought to pay
them if he can.
ii. It is the interest of all sound business
and useful industry that our currency should
be of fixed and uniform value, and that a dol
lar should mean the same to-day, tomorrow,
and every day in the year.
III. "The true way to prepare for resump-
tiOn is to resume" So says Salmon p. Chase
and we most heartily agree with him.
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In ). Is. 9. Murrays History of Usury"
(hppincOtt, 1860, valuable little historical
treatise (Which fails, however, to record or to
avail itself Of the latest legislation in Great
Britain, viz.;-The act of Parliament passed
in 1854 repeating all former acts imposing
penalties for usury, excepting such as relate
to pawnbrolers)- usury laws in all the
States of the Union are collated, and the d<bris
exhibited which remains for reformers to clear
away.
All the States establish legal rate of inte-
rest which is per cent. in most of them: 8
in Louisiana; in New York Michigan. Min
nesota, Wisconsin, South Carolina and
Georgia in Texas, Florida, and Alabama; 10
III California. Arkansas, Illinois. Indiana,
Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin
permit, under special arrangements. 10 per
cent; and Texas II. California alone gives
freedom to her citizens, who may under spe-
cial contract, take and give any rate what
ever Inc penalties for usury likewise vary.
Arkansas, Kentucky, Maine. Vermont Missis-
sippi, Michigan, Ohio Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee, and Rhode Island forfeit usury only;
Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Illinois, Wisconsin,
Louisiana, Missouri, South Caralina and
Iexas 1orielt interest and usury; Indiana for
teits double the usury; Massachusetts, and
New hampshire forfeit three times the usury
Iowa forfeits 10 per cent on amount of the
contract, Delaware forfets the whole debt:
NOllhSCtlCulj maryland, ana Jne DlSJflCJ Ol
Columbia void the contract; New Jersey voids
the contract and forfeits the debt; Virginia
and North Carolina void the contract and
twice the debt; New York voids the contract
and makes it a misdemeanor.
The pride of Massachusetts, will come to
have better foundation than it has lately had,
If, following the advice of Mr.. Dana, her
Legislature shall wipe all usury laws off her
statute books, and, following the recommends
tions of Mr.. Amasa Walker Gone of our best
political economists, who is also a member of
her lower House), shall refuse to write upon
them any eight-hour laws, thus leaving every
person in the State at liberty to make his own
money-bargain and his own labor-bargains
without hindrance, control, or interference of
any sort whatever. If Massachusetts shall
thus recognize the value and the importance
to her own citizens of what Mr.. Gladstone, in
his remarks on the Queens speech, Justly
entitled "the full and absolute right of all indi-
viduals, employers and workmen alike, to
bring to market the commodity they have to
dispose of, whether it be labor or capital, (and
to dispose of it) on the best terms in their
power, as long as, ard only as long as, they
exercise their own rights without prejudice to
the rights of Others, we shall hope to see
her example spread to the States which have
followed her in more uncertain paths, and to
hear her voice raised at Washington for the
removal Of every national barrier to freedom
of trade.
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The viorory of Congrsss.

From the Independent
The great event of this week is the victory
of Congress over the President in the passage,
by more than the requisite two-thirds majority
in both Houses, of the ''Act for the more eff
cient government of the Rebel States" and
the "Act regulating the tenure of certain civil
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r. o O F III m O.

OLD SHINGLE ROOFS, FLAT OR STEEP
GOV NEKED WITH GUTTA PERClIA ROOF
lhG-CLO1h, ana coated with LIQUID GUTT1
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proof. VT 0-7-' -
LEAKY GRAVEL ROOFS repaired with Guth
Percha Paint, AND warranted Tor five years.
LEAKH SLATE ROOFS coated with LIuuU
Gutta Percha Pant, which becomes as hard as slate
For TIN, COPPER, ENG and IRON ROOM
this Paint Is the nc Plus ultra OF all other projection
1t forms perfectly mpervlous covering, Completely
resiSls the action of the weather and constitutes a
thorough protection against leaks by rust or other
foot. H~
,TIN and GRAVEL ROOFING done at the
shortest notice. - S
Material constantly hand and for sale by the
MAMMOTH ROOFING COMPANY.
kEChLESS a. EVERETT.
q bm No 3O2 GREEN Street.
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The Mode of Resumption.

Erom 1e Tribune
Our esteemed correspondent J. S. p, in his
last letter on resumption, says-
''As TO the policy of sudden resumption,
have no faith that it could he maintained If un-
dertaken; because / believe the credit we should
require In Europe, oyer aud above our specie
reserves, to relieve the amount of currency It
would be found necessary TO redeem of the
existing inordinate supply, in order to bring
the volume down to the wants of our internal
trade, would not be found available. That credit
would need to be, probably, several hundred
millions, and the sum is too great to be brought
under control"
Dissenting entirely from this view of the
main question: we here restate our reasons for
our faith,
The Government holds, in round numbers,
one hundred millions of coin; its outstanding
greenbacks are four hundred millions,
whereof the National Banks hold, and must do
their best to retain, over one hundred mil
lions The Treasury, then, must endeavor to
meet all demands for coin from a reserve of
one hundred millions, backed by its daily
income. Can it do so?
1t is an element of the problem by no means
to be ignored, thatsours is this day the largest
specie-producing country on earth. The Off
oial estimate of our last years product is one
hundred and six milions-an aggregate larger
than that of any former year, and still rapidly
increasing. With the Pacific Railroad in opera
tion to the eastern base of the Rocky Noun
tains-and it will be there before the close of
1S67-we can produce gold at least twenty-five
per cent. cheaper than we have ever yet done.
If we assume its average cost in 1865 at $225
in coin per pound Troy, we can produce it in
1868 at or below $l75 per pound. In other
words, we can mine at an average profit in
stead of an average loss. That this will largely
stimulate and increase the production is in
evitable. We estimate our national product of
gpecie for the next ten wears as follows
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tacitly conceded that the monarohies of the
Old World have neither right nor power to
mould the policy, direct the Government or
regulate the trade Of American States. The
dawn of a political system peculiar to this
continent, with the United States as the chief
regulating power, is already in effect admitted.
How readily Spain indorses the conclusion,
and avails herself of the opportunity of termi-
mating its war with Chill, is proved by its
prompt acceptance of the overture embodied
in Mr.. Stewards circular. The conference it
suggests will be important on account of what
it ioreshadows, as wen as because of its imme-
diate advantages.
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ROOFING.

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THE NEW YORK PRESS.

EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING JOURNALS
UPON CURRENT ToPICs-COMPILED EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING TELEGRAPH.
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HON. r.. BARNWELL RHETT.

We notice by the telegram that Hon. X. b.
RHErT is now in Washington for the purpose
of examining the public archives for informa-
tion to be used in history of the late civil
difficulties which he purposes to write.
Telegraphic news is not always reliable, but
we sincerely hope that this is true.
Whatever may be or may have been our diff
ferences of opinion on public matters with
this distinguished man, no one can recognise
more fully than we do his great ability, the
purity of his private character, the singular
and tenacious consistency of his public life,
and the fact that he is pre-eminently the repre-
sentative of school of statesmen whose creed
and influence have indeed passed away, but
who must always occupy large and enduring
place in the political history Of the country.
From his early manhood Mr.. RuErr has been
one of the influences Of the State, and he has
always enjoyed the full confidence of his con-
stituents. His long personal experience, his
intimacy with all the great political leaders OF
the last forty years, his active and ardent par
ticipaton in oil the great events of our political
history, the energy and pertinacity Of his con-
victions, and the fact that he has survived most
Of his famous cotcmporaries, will give both i'm
portance and interest to his history of the
past
NJ. RHErT has lived to see the utter ex-
tinction of the Constitution and the civilization
under which were nurtured his warmest affec-
tions and his most earnest convictions. For
him the active strife of life is over, and he can
do no better service to those who arc to come
after him than to place upon lasting record
his recolections of his political life.
1t is more than likely that the young and
earnest men who are growing up to be the
thinkers and actors of another and very differ
ent generation, will not read his history in the
same light by which he will write, but they
will turn to it with tho assurance that they
will find in its pages honest convictions, i'm
portant truth, rich and varied inform ation
aud, above all, devoted love to that State
whom in their day VIC hope they will serve
with equal fidelity, ability and honor.