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difficulties in the way of their political pro-
jeots-that he might interfere with the execu-
tion of the laws they might pass-and they
deemed impeachment important, therefore.
as the only means of putting in his place
some one who would be more obedient to their
wishes. Mr.. Phillips declared openly that
the President was en- Obstacle" TO the accom-
pishment of their plans, and that he must
therefore be removed. Governor Boutwell,
said that he did not see how it would be Dos
sible to pass and carry into effect the measures
which the public welfare demanded, SO long
as Mr. Johnson remained in the Executive
chair. Other leading radicals were equally
clear and explicit in their avowals of the
motives which prompted the movement for
impeachment. 1t was designed, after articles
of impeachment had been passed by the House,
to secure the Presidents suspension from
Office during the trial; and by way of prepa-
ration for that contingency, Mr. Wade of
Ohio was selected to be President of the Senate
not by reason of any fitness for that place.
but because he was supposed to be especially
qualified for the contingent service which had
been marked out for him.
The lapse of time has weakened the foroe
of this motive, if not destroyed it altogether.
President johnson is not so much an
"obstacle" as was anticipated. He has exc
cuted the laws of Congress in perfect good
faith and with full effect His appointment of
Military Commanders of the Southern Depart
ments was judicious, and met with general
approval. He aided in securing the exercise
by the blacks of the suffrage conferred upon
them by law. His appointments to Office have
been largely controlled by the radical mem
bers of Congress, and in all respects he has
left no room for serious complaint as to the
course he has pursued. There is little motive,
therefore, and as little desire now, even among
the Republicans in Congress, to "get rid" Of
the President in any other way than by the
expiration of his term of Office.
The Committee will probably recommend
the publication of the immense amount oi
matter which they have collected about the
President under the name of testimony
We can see no possible good to be thus
effected, but that consideration will have but
little weight. Much of this evidence is mere
scandal and gossip, some of it malicious, and
more of it merely reckless, which has very
little bearing of any kind upon the public
interest and will serve only to feed the appe
tite for scandal which is SO sharp and so uni
versal.
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an ample protection for their homes. But the
evidence is before us, and we cannot forbear
from uttering its lesson. This is the more
imperative, that several cases of this Sort
which have lately come before the courts in
this vicinity, have ended in way little cal
culated to strike the desperate classes with a
just and salutary terror. Only this week the
parties engaged in a particularly horrible
crime of this kind in New Jersey have received
their sentences upon conviction. Three of
them have been dismissed with fines ranging
from Eve to eight hundred dollars, and with
few months of imprisonment. A fourth--for
it is necessary, though siokening to say, that
this was a case in which one unfortunate girl
was made the victim of the brutality Of
whole gang of rufians-a fourth was actually
suffered to slip out of court before sentence
was pronounced, leaving his friends to pay
the forfeit of his bail to the amount of a couple
of thousand dollars While the courts of
justice deal thus leniently with denominations
so atrocious, it assuredly becomes citizens at
large to prepare themselves for larger crop
of scoundrelism than we have heretofore been
used to believe could possibly be grown on
American soil.
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ha5g~ OLD RYE wHIsKIEs
TRADE CIRCULAR.

Trade ClhCULAk.
PHILADELPHIA, June /, 1867.
Having, since 1st January, diligently searched all
the markets where OLD WHISTLES are generally TO
be found, well as the region producing them and
having bought up all good lots held reasonable
prices, we are now fully prepared to meet the growing
demand OF the TRADE for our regular standard Acme
grades.
Our stock of REALLY VERY OLD RYE WHIS-
klhS being, previous TO January l, the largest and
best held by any house is now by of these
ost extensive purchases doubly In addition to
the immense amount of stock in our Stores Nos. 2lS
PattersOn's extensive Warehouses filled with choice
lots of Whskies, both FREE aud in BOND.
Foreseeng an eventual great scarcity of Whiskies
having Two, three, and more summers upon them
(and which scarcity exists) have, during the
last four years. uniformly avaied ourselves OF the
mOmentary periods of dullness and depression of the
Trade quietly gather stock thereby saving the
quent and increasing advances in price. So scarce
has stock become, that even since the publication
last Circular (FebruarY 25) al advance OF $l(D2
ing three 10 ten years age. As TO bonded Fine Rye
Whiskies OF one and two summers, advance has
been realized in same time of 25D75c. per gallon,
coTdiDg to quality and brand.
Dealers .desirous of laying away lots Of fine Rye
Whisky for Improvement and Investment, during
the summer can be accommodated on most adVan-
IageOus terms.
Our principal Mr. II. S. Hsnnls, has for the last
seventeen years given his devoted and almost excu
sive attention the cultivation of this branch of
tcal experience and good judgment in the selection
Of the right material for Improvement by age than
any engaged In the business. For these
reasons together with possessing ample facilities in
every other respect and the at ali times requisite will
10 do WELL our customers and the trade may rest as
sured that the advantages offered them manifest
and manifold,
653l@ HENRY s. HANNIs & co.
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nOrs, for instance, as General Sickles General
Pope, or General Sheridan. If proof were
wanted Of this, the prompt action Of the latter
General in removing the Board of Levee Com
missioners of Louisiana, who were about to
appropriate the patronage of four millions Of
dollars to voting purposes rather than benefit
the sufferers from the overflow of the Missis
sippi, is a marked instance of the value of
military government in the transit which the
South is making from the old to the new con-
dition of things, and the bringing of order out
of chaos.
The one great fault of the South was their
rejection of the Constitutional amendment
which was first offered to them. In this they
could have shaped the suffrage question as best
pleased them. Now a radical faction imposes
upon them worse measure, to which they
find themselves forced to submit. This great
fault is not so much due to the Southern
people themselves who came out of the war
prepared to accept any reasonable measures
that the oonquering party chose to impose, but
rather to the Brookses, the Woods, the Val
landighams and the Seymours, who, represent
ing themselves as the exponents of powerful
party, advised the Southern people to a course
that has retarded the progress of the country
and been curse to those who have accepted
the advice of men who were really nothing
but the galvanized emblems of a COpperhead
graveyard. The sound sense Of the South
taught 1t that TO the victor belongs the spOils;
but the lingering and rabid Copperheadism
of the North totally misled this feeling, and,
turning it back, with the fattering hope
that by political management much that
the sword had lost might be regained, caused
the present retarding of a healthy reconstruc-
tion, and the burying of animosites to which
the radicalism of both sides appears to pander
The Copperhead press, catching at the smallest
straws upon the political sea, strives to main.
tain itself by still holding out false hopes to
the Southern people, while many of the petty
sheets of the South, catching at what they
think are the echoes of powerful faction, stir
discomfort in the hearts Of the ignorant, and
retard the work of a solution of our national
troubles. If the Southern people will analyze
the position calmly, they will find that those
whom they have called their best friends have
in reality been their worst enemies, and many
whom they have deemed enemies are their
best friends. 1t is worth the consideration OF
the South, that their position, as Governor
Perry states, may really be better under the
present form of government than under that
of the thick-lipped, tlat-nosed, woolly-headed,
and corpulent niger representatives, who
may soon be as proud in tracing back their de-
scent from Congo or Sousan as any of the
whites of the South now are of running back
to England for proofs of pure blood.
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The Impeachment Business.

cfDHs It6 ItgHcS.
According to reports from Washington
majority of the Judiciary Committee of the
House has decided that they have discovered
no grounds for impeaching the President.
This will probably end the whole proceeding,
although Mr.. Ashley threatens to appeal from
the Committee to the, House. Such an appeal,
especially when taken by him, will amount to
nothing. The House would in any case be
averse to impeachment unless "crimes and
misdemeanors" had been traced to the Presi-
dent of such character as to leave no alter
native and in the face of report against it
from a majority of the Committee, not one
fourth of the House will be in favor of such
proceeding.
Besides, the time has gone by when impeach-
ment would serve the ends for which it was
proposed. Its original object was, not to
punish the President for his crimes, but to
get possession of his office. Wendell Phillips,
Ashley, Stevens, and their associates, wanted
the power and the patronage of the Execu-
tive within their control. They feared, more
ever, that the President would interpose
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SPECIAL NOTICES,
w UNION LEAGUE HOUSE,
MAY Is. 1857.

At meeting of the Board of Directors of the
UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, held
March H. 1867, the following Preamble and Resolu
tions were adopted
Whereas, In a republican form OF government It is
of the highest Importance that the deli OF the
people, to whom the sovereign power is entrusted
should be selected to truly represent the body
polite, and there being provision of law whereby
the people may be organized for the purpose OF such
selection and all parties having recognized the neces
sty of such organization by the formation Of volun
tary associations for this purpose, and
Whereas, There grave defects existing under
the present system of voluntary organization, which
1t is believed may be corrected by suitable provisions
oflaw; now, therefore, be 1t
Resolved, By the Board of Directors of the UNION
LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA, that the Secretary
be and hereby directed offer eleven hundred dol
lars in prizes for essays the legal organization of
the people TO select candidates for office the prizes to
be as follows, VIII
The sum of five hundred dollars for that essay
which, In the judgment of the Board, shall be first
the order of merit;
Three hundred dollars for the second;
Two hundred for the third, and
One hundred for the fourth.
The conditions upon which these prizes offered
are as follows, wiz
First. All essays competing these prizes must be
addressed to GEORGE II. BOXER Secretary Of the
Union League of Philadelphia and must received
by him before the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1868
and no communication having the authors name at
tched, with any other indication Of origin. will be
considered.
Second. Accompanying every competing essay. the
author must enclose his name and address within q
sealed envelope addressed to the Secretary of the
Union League. After the awards have been made the
envelopes accompanying the successful essays shall
be opened and the authors notified of the result.
Third. All competing essays shall become the pro
perty of the Union League; but no publication o
rejected essays, or the names of their authors, shall
be made without consent of the authors in writing
BY order OF the Board of Directors.
GEORGE III. ROKER,
516lm SECRETARY.
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A New Era In Austria.

From The Tribune.
The speech of the Emperor of Austria on
opening the Reichsrath (Parliament) of the
German and other non-Hungarian provinces,
is one of the most important documents in the
modern history of Austria. 1t marks the be-
ginning of a new era. The Constitution
hitherto in force aimed at the consolidation
of all the provinces into one body polite, with
one common Parliament, embracing the repre-
sentatives of every province. The carrying
through of this principle was baked by the
firm resistance of the Hungarians, who insisted
that the Emperor, or rather the King of Hun
gary had no right to set aside the old Con-
stitution of the kingdom, and unite it, in point
of administration, with Austria, with which
it had never been united before. The struggle
between the Austrian Government, which
made the utmost efforts to carry through its
centralzing policy, and the Hungarians, who
remained almost unanimous in their resist
ance, lasted for several years. The Hunga-
rians firmly refused to elect any Deputies to
the Reichsrath, and that body, therefore,
although provided for in the Constitution, was
never convened.
The disastrous issue of the German-Italian
war impressed the Austrian Emperor with the
unavoidable necessity OF coming to terms with
hungary. The Chief demand or the Hun
garians was granted; the continuing validity
of their ancient constitution was recognized;
the policy of Capitalization abandoned; the old
constitution of the Empire set aside and the
principle of dualism adopted as the corner
stone of the new political edifce which is to be
reared. According to this principle, Hungary,
with its dependencies, Croatia, SlavOnia Dali
malta, and Pennsylvania, are to constitute the
one autonomous section Of the Empire, with
it's own Parliament; and the Provinces for
merly belonging to the old German Confedera-
ton, and Gallicia, are to constitute the other
half. With the Hungarians perfect agree
ment has been secured; and the Emperor will,
probably, in the course of June, be crowned
as King of Hungary with extraordinary pomp.
The Parliament of the other Provinces was
opened on May 22, by the speech to which we
have above referred.
The Austrian Government is experimenting
to find the right and lasting basis for the re-
construction of the empire. The new plan is
entirely satisfactory to the Magyars. 1t may
satisfy the Germans, but it has already made
a very large portion of the Sclavi, the most
numerous race of Austria, the most violent
enemies of the Empire. The triumph of
dualism seems to them to be identical with
the rule of the Hungarians in the eastern and
of the Germans in the western half of the
Empire, and with the servitude of the Sclavi
in both. The Sclavi are looking to Russia for
aid, and the National party in Russia eagerly
respond to their appeals, endeavoring to gain
| them over for the idea of the Pan-Sclavic En-
! pire. Thus new danger looms up for Austria,
danger which may yet become much greater
than any which had previously beset the in
| tegrity Of the Empire.
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Rag~ OFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
BSS COMPANY,

A q
The Board OF Directors have this day declared a
semiannual Dividend OF THREE PER GENT. on the
Capital Stock OF the Company, clear OF National and
STATE Taxes, payable in Cash on aud after May 3O
They have also declared an EXTRA DIVIDEND
prior to January 1867 clear Of National and State
par value of Fity Dollars per share-he shares for
Stock Dividend 20 be dated May i, 1867.
Scrip Certificates will be issued for fractional parts
OF Shares said scrip will not be entitled any Inte-
rest or Dividend but will be convertible into stock
when presented In sums OF Fifty Dollars.
Powers OF attorney for collection OF Dividends can
be had application AZ the Office OF the Company,
ASOt THOMAS u. FIRTH, Treasurer
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SIG Inn
rdag- REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.

HARBIsBURe, April 49, 1867. - The "RepubIican
State Convention will meet at the "Herdic House."
in Williamsport, WEDNESDAY, the 2Bth day Of
June next, at 10 o'clock a. NJ, to nominate a cand-
date Or Judge of the Supreme Court and initiate
proper measures for the ensuing State canvass,
As heretofore. the Convention will be composed of
Representative and Senatorial Delegates chosen In
the usual way, and equal in number to the whole of
the Senators and Representatives in the General
Assembly
BY order Of the State Central Committee.
+. JORDAN, Chairman.
j. RosEET W. buAaIIsoN Secretaries. 52Ost
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hS95@ IMPORTANT TO STEAMBOAT CAP
80 TAINS AND OWNERS.-By an act OF the
legislature of state OF New Jersey passed on the
9th OF April 1867, all captains, or owners OF steam
boats other vessels, are prohibited from Landing
excursion picnic parties on the banks or Mharves
the Delaware river at DelancO or Florence
Heights, or the Rancoeas river, etc, etc.' under
penalty dollars for each and every person so
landed or ed and shall be liable to arrest
and for all damages that may be committed by such
eXcursion or picnic parties TO the property per-
sons OF citizens orresidents Of the county Of Bur
nngton, 654t&
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rg UNlONPACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, E. D..
OFFICE, NO. 4a4 WALNUT STREET,

OFFICE, NO. 424 WALNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA, May q, 1867.
The INTEREST IN GOLD, on the FIRST MORT
GAGE BONDS OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAIL
WAY COMPANY, EASTERN DIVISION, DUE
JUNE l. viii be paid presentation of the Coupons
therefor and after that date, at the Banking
DABNEy, MORGAN IL CO.,
No. 5s EXCHANGE PLACE, New York.
(signed) WILLIAM ]. PALMER,
62l tuthslOt Treasurer.
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GOvornOr Perry ON ReoOnstructiOn,

from Tie Herald.
1t is reported that Governor Perry, of South
Carolina, is opposed to the present method of
reconstruction, under the plea that the South
will be better governed for the next ten years
by her military Governors than she will by any
black representatives who may be elected to
the legislative halls. We are disposed to give
Governor Perry credit for much good sense
for this idea. A good military Governor who
has been well educated is, from his position,
his antscedents, and his earnest attempts to
steer clear of all political parties, far better
suited to control the disturbed elements of the
South for few years than the fattest and the
sleekest nigger that may represent. a sixth par
OF our enormous national debt-such Cover
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1867-10-26
FOREIGN NEWS.
Gariba1di FsFty.tw0 Miles from Rome

, ooIiodluA roFsy'tWO = M1leS from Rome.
FLORENCE, Oct. 25.-Garibaldi, without re-.
garding the prohiDition OF the Italian authori.
ties, lett Foligno and pushed ON toward the
Soutn. AT last accounts he had arrived at
hieti, town not far from the Papal frontier.
and forty.two miles from Rome. Gen Blxio
mas accepted position in the new Cabinet, as
Minister OF Marine.
LoND0N, Oct 25.-Additional advices from
Rome acknowledge that the Garibaldians had
not all retired from the territory Of the Church,
but represent that the Pontifcal troops have
recently had encounters with the tnsurgent
bands, In which they have been uniformly
successful. 81 -
PARIS, Oct. 25.-The reception of the Empe.
ror OF Austria has been most cordial. His visit
is popular with Parifians; wherever he an.
pears he meets with enthusiastic manifesto
lioIs OF welcome and sympathy, for being a
brother OF the unfortunate Macmillan heirht.
ems the esteem with which the Emperor is re.
garded by all classes
LONDON, Oct. 25.-About two weeks ago a
Mr<0Donnel was shot in this city, under cir
cuuistances which led to the belief that the
outrage was lsrpetrated by Fenians; but the
poltca succt eded In tracing the crime to a per-
son named Mulridge, who, when examined,
acknowledged his guilt, and was found to have
no connection with any Fenian organization
Intelligence has been received from Chin l.,
that great battle had been fought betw the
rebel army and the Tartar forces OF the Empe.
ror of China. The imperialists were defeated
The battle was fought thirty miles from Pskin.
which was in great danger.
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THE NEW MORMON TABERSAcLE AT SALT
LAKE CITY.-The Salt Lake Daily Telegraph
says the new Mormon Tabernacle, about which
so much has been said, is nearly finished. 1t
has already been used for q meeting OF che
Mormon conference. The form Of the Taber.
nacle was suggested by Brigham Young;
whether he was guided by a "revelation" we
are not told. The head builder thinks sany
person who has not seen the building can ha ve
very good idea Of the roof by imagining the
back or shell Of common Eastern ground
turtle, OF huge proportions. but 1t is more fre-
quently likened 70 the hull of an old. fashioned
ship, without any keel and turned topsy tar.
Wy" This roof Is supported by ferty-four
piers OF cut sand stone, each nine feet by three.
Nine OF these piers stand in a straight line on
each side OF the building, and from them
springs an arch Of forty EIGHT feet Thirteen
piers stand in circle At each end Of the build.
ing. from which spring an equal number Of
arches. Between these piers are windows
containing altogether twenty five Thousand
panes Of glass, and doors. or the latter, four
teen re Tor the populace, one for the Presi-
dent-Young-one for the choir, and others
for the bishops and prizes hood.
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THE HIsKBY TAX.-Bennet Peters, OF Chi.
cago, has been held to bail IN the sum of $40,
GOO to answer the charge OF dealing in high
wines at aprice less than the Government tax,
sold W tth the prima fdcle evidence brand. II
was proven that the firm OF Peters &c CO. bad
purchased over 1000 gallons from q distilIer
in Omaha, at prices ranging from 81 ,O5 to 81 90
Thess facts are not denied by the firm. They
allege that they ceased the manufacture of high
wines more than three months ago because
they could not honestly compete with the
market. and further because they could pur-
chase the high wines they desired Govern.
ment tax prepaid, below the Government tax