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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
AUSTRIA.

Army 1sReersnnizatiOu'' with a Million -
Men.
VIENNA, June B. 1868.
The panS for the reorganization Of the military
forces OF the empire being gradually carried into
effect The standing army is to consist of eight hun,
dred thousand men and the landwehr of two hun
rcd men.
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spending length

THE ELECTION OF OIEeoN-SUcoEss OF THR
CoNsREvA TIvEs.--ln the far-of State OF Ore
gon the first election since the opening OF the
Presidential campaign took place on Monday
last. and the kilograms from san Francisco
announce that the radicals have been defeated.
Mr.. J. s. Smith, conservative candidate for
Congress, has been elected, heating Mr.. Logan,
his radical opponent, by about two thousand
majority. The State Legislature is also largely
conservative, and. altogether, there appears
to have been quite revolution in politics in
the State. For several years past Oregon has
been steadily republican, although since the
close of the rebellion the opposition have
gained rapidly upon their antagonists. The
State casts only three votes in the Presidential
Electoral College. Her present Senators and
Representative TO Congress are all radicals
Of the most pronounced type. The telegraph
reports that the intelligence Of General Grants
nomination was received with much eutku-
siasu but II does not appear 10 have influenced
The vote TO any extent,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
T ExAS.
state Reconstruction Convention.

GALVESTON, June ., 1858.
The Texas Constitutional Convention met nj Austin
on the LIST OF June. u. ]. Davis was elected Pres-
dent. No business OF general importance was DONE
The delegates do not seem TO I've In hurry 70 COM
mencc business, and outsiders anticipate long
session. The radicals positively said to be IN the
majority but not enough to prevent the conserv9
tivcs from holding the balance otpower,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

OFF wnB THEIR PORTRAITS. 1t appears
that petition has been received by the Bank
ing and Currency Committee of the House OF
Representatives, signed by nearly four hun
dred citizens Of Montgomery county, Pennsyi-
yania, asking that the likenesses of Chase and
Fessenden he removed from the faces OF the
uoticpol currency. From this we inIec that the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

Tho English Press and the Queen.
What grumbling set those English are!
There is no such nation Of grumblers in the
world. If they have not one thing to grumbls
over they are sure to find another. For some
time past they have been growing in succession
at Earl Russell, at Earl Derby, at Mr.. Glad
stone, at Mr.. Disraeli, and now they have COM
menced in right earnest to growl at the Queen.
As usual in all such matters the London Times
has taken the lead. In the HERALD Of yes
terday we published an editorial from the
Times, in which there is much lamenta-
ton made over the fact that the Queen
has removed herself far from the seat
Of government by taking her accustomed
trip at this season Of the year to her Highland
home at Balmoral. Balmoral, we are told, is
some six hundred miles from London. Ire
mendous distance, that Tremendous incon-
venience! Six hundred miles is a small
affair on this side of the Atlantic. Railroads
and telegraphs have made six hundred miles of
but little account, indeed. Balmoral, with the
exception of very few miles, is directly
connected with London by telegraph and rail
road. Poor Victoria! we pity her. She
takes pleasure in visiting the scenes made
sacred by the memories of the loved partner of
her early years, and because Mr. Disraeli did
not forcibly prevent her from going both he
and the Queen are loudly and somewhat
coarsely berated by the grumbIing people and
it's gsumbling press, the Times in very
offensive manner taking the lead. Surely the
crisis must be serious when the Queen cannot
be allowed quietly for few weeks to visit that
home which to her is far dearer than Windsor
or Claiborne or any of the royal palaces. Truly
may the Queen say there is no pleasing this
nation of grumblers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
The Neutrality Laws Revision.

The Neutrality LAWS hevusiOn"
LONDON, June 3, 1888.
The London Herald in its issue OF to-day COM
ments on the report of the Royal Commission on tho
Neutrality laws The writer says the changes In the
existing laws recommended by the commissions arc
altogether too harsh in character and II carried out
will fall with great severity the shipping interests
Of England.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
FRANCE.

Napoleon Reported Sick-Peace with TunisS
LONDON, June B. 1858.
1t is rumored in Paris that the Emperor Napoleon
Is sick.
PARIS, June 8, 1885,
France has resumed diplomatic relations with the
Beg OF Tunis
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
Session Of the General synod a the AHs~ricas
Reformed Church nj Hudson.

HUUsUN,
The General synod Of the Reformed Church i'm
America commenced its annual session in this city
this morning. This is the highest judicatory OF the
church. and is composed OF delegates from oil parts
Of the country where the Church has an orgaplzs-
ton Full delegations are present, comprising some
of the most eminent dvincs In the Church. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year.
President, Rev. 4. s. Porter d. u Assessor Rov. A.
g. VermyeA ID. IL; Clerks, Revs. A. p. Peeke, and q.
w. Strong>
This afternoon addresses were made by Rev. Dr.
Wells ara Row. ". W. Bentley.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

An IMPERIAL LETTER From THE BROTHER
aF THE SuN.--lt is manifest from the extreme
length of the letter Of the Emperor OF China to
the President of the United States that the
Chinese carefully graduate the size Of their
correspondence TO the grandeur of its subject
and circumstances. The imperial letter from
the Brother of the sun which was formally pre-
scented on Tuesday TO the Secretary Of State
extended over twenty-five feet Of parchment.
No wonder that Mr.. Seward could not restrain
his delight at the prospect of being called upon
by the President to prepare reply Of CORE
spending length
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SPAIN.
transatlantic Telegraplsy.

Transatlantic Telegraphy.
MADRID, June. D. 1858.
The spanish government has granted the necessary
authorizations for the establishment Of additooA
submarine telegraph lines in the Gulf OF Mexico.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

quite another storv With Chase in nomina-
ton on one side and Grant on the other the
issue is so clearly defined, so stripped of all
deceptive accidents, that none can fail to re-
cognize the constitution and the laws arrayed
against revolutionary force AS we live now
the constitution is practically in state of sus-
pended vitality, and the revolutionists clamor
that it is dead. 1t might as well be. Such is
the spirit of terrorism and prescription with
which they have acted on their assumption Of
it's death that the President has had the mar
rowest possible escape from removal, only
because he acted on the constitution rather
than on the will of tho revolutionists, and
because he made conformity to the constitu-
ton the test of the validity Of law. For the
reason that it was the duty of the Supreme
Court to determine against certain of their
laws they laid their Decorating hands even
on that institution. With these men in power
all this will 60 on apd gain impulse and extrav-
spance a. it moves. Hitherto nothing was
too sacred to stop tit only wanted power.
Now, with the glitter Of great ONCE, it has
caught the commander Of the army, and who
shall tell what it will essay next? Destructive
tendencies danger to every institution, uncer-
tainty as to the future of the country, oligar-
chical rule-these are what the success OF
Grant entails; and the very nomination Of
Chase insures the defeat Of Grant, With
great statesman and honest man like Chase,
and the high spirited old hero Dix, the democ-
racy can win Without Chase they will GER
tainly be beaten, and this ought to be to them
ample reason for his nomination.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
ENGLAND.

Political Reform In Walcs.
LIVERPOOL, June 3, 1863.
MI. John Bright made speech here tonight at .
meeting held by the Welsh Reform Society. The han
was crowded and the audience very enthusiastic.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

Governor fenton has al last signed the New fork
city aud comfy tax leves and also the bill IN refer
ence to the experimental railway.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

Trn DELANo- MORGAN CONTESTED, ELECTION
GAsr-THE DEMOCRAT DEPRIVED OF HIS
SEAT.-As we several weeks ago. predicted
would he DONE the majority report Of the Com
mittec on Contested Elections, on the case of
Columbus Delano against General George w.
Morgan, of Ohio, was adopted by the House
of Representatives yesterday, the vote being
eighty yeas to thirty EIGHT nays. by this
decision General Morgan, the conservative,
has been deprived OF his seat, and Mr.. Delano,
radical, installed therein. Two.or three replb
lcans only voted against this most unjust
measure. The district which Mr.. Morgan
represented gave democratic majority of
nearly, if not over, two thousand Inst year at
the gubernatorial election, and is to-day one
of the strongest anti-radical districts in the
State of Ohio. II is very doubtful, therefore,
if Mr.. Delano will long enjoy his present
triumph. At the election for Representatives
next fall Mr.. Morgan will almost certainly be
sent to Congress again in rebuke OF the radical
partisan decision of yesterday.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04
NEW YORK.

The New York City and County Tax ssovaeS
md Other Bills signed by the Goveruer-
Accident an the Central Railroad.
ALBANY, June 3, 1865.
The Governor has signed the New York City Tax
Levy; the New York County Tax Levy, aud the act
supplementary chapter 4s9 Of the laws Of 1857 to
provide for the collection and application Of revenue
In the county OF New York in certain cases. Tue
latter refers 10 the experimental railway.
The Bunalo express train, due here at three dfty
this afternoon collided with freght train shortly
after leaving schenectady. The locomotive and ca
boose were badly broken up, and the conductor,
Homer Williams, who was standing on PLATFORM,
was badly injured by beng damned between TWO
cars. No one else was injured.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

THE WASHINGTON ELECIT0N.-In the late
Washington municipal election the radical cam
didate for Mayor, Sayles J. Bowen, was elected
by some seventy-four majority upon total
poll of eighteen thousand votes. There are
over eight thousand colOred voters in the
city, who voted, with few exceptions. the radi-
cal ticket. Now, when IL is considered that
Congress over the District of Columbia has
exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever,
and that for the last seven years this legisa
ton has been directed to the object OF making
Washington radical city, the result of this
lection shows that radicalism, even in its CEN
trail stronghold, is an uphill business, and that
when the break in the fall fairly begins-as
now appears probable--against the reign of the
radical party, its overthrow will be as signal
and decisive as was the downfall and dissOlu-
ton of the old wing party in 1882 The Oregon
election points that way.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

THE Sr. THOMAS PURCHASE. According 10
telegram which we published in yesterdays
HERALD, the Danish Commissioner is on his
way to Washington TO have the treaty of sale Of
81. Thomas ratified. Considerable excitement,
il was at the same time reported, had been
created in ST. Thomas BY rumor that Con-
gross had refused to ratify the treaty. Mr..
Stewards land speculotions have not been all
or altogether TO our mind; but we see no hon-
orable way by which he can avoid concluding
this purchase. In spite Of the earthquakes st..
Thomes uay yet be found Of some yslQe y ".
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-04

France has
Beg of Tunis.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01

EW Speaker Colfax writes to New
jersey gentleman, who had apprised him
of the favorable feeling entertained to-
ward him for the Vice-Presidency in that
State:
At Chicago, the first question above all
others should be as to who would best
strengthen the Grant ticket in the doubt
full State--the real battlefield. If that Sc
lects another, / shall say Amen with all
my heart, for with me all personal consid-
erations are subordinate to the success of
the cause we love, and we mast save the
country from that last calamity of all,
Democratic and Rebel rule If should
be nominated, I should regard it as high
honor, because conferred despite locality,
and should be especially proud of the vote
of New Jersey, because it is the home of
my ancestry. - IY
Us Says the Washington correspondent
of the Cleveland Leader: ",Whiteness is
no word for Secretary Welles' beard, SO
superfinely bleached that an Albino might
envy it. Said beard is short, downy, and
very healthy of growth, so that with his
clear, pink skin, he looks like Persian
or Syrian. His hair, clean as the
combed wool of Mary's little lamb,
suggests, also, with the innocent eyes
of the old gentleman, the patriotic rhyme ::
johnson had little lamb, 2. s e3
5f" Its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that j ohnson went g
The lamb was sure to go,
t Shouting the battle-cry of freedom
rs We give below specimen sample
of the high toned, chivalric literature now
prevalent in the Democratic journals of
the South. The following is from little
one-horse newspaper printed i'll Missis-
sippi township:
The Southern people will never follow
the crazy, God and morality y negro-wor-
Shipping, spoon-stealing, white-man- hating,
outside ofthe Constitution standing, black
and-white blood-mixing, woman growing
baby-straL cling, compromising, hell
deserving, New England Yankee clock
peddling, chicken-stealing box-angled,
handy shanked round-shouldered, hypo-
critical, cantmg, psalm-singing, cowardly,
cut-throat, slandering, vulgar, Shiny
mouthed, onion-eating, whisky-drinking
sausa ge-stuffing scoundrels. .'1,<
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
Meeting of the Societies of the Armies
Of the Tennessee, Cumberland,
Ohio and Georgia. iY
WAsHryeroy. D. g. April 90 Is.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 20, 1868.
Notice is hereby given that the SOcie-
ties representing the armies of the Ten
nessee, Cumberland, Ohio and Georgia,
will meet on the 18th and 10Th days of
December, 1868, at Chicago, In.
The object is purely social and designed
to preserve the memories of the war, and
to cherish the friendships formed during
that period of our National history. All
are cheerfully invited to be present and to
participate. -.
An orator has been appointed for each
army; addresses will be delivered on the
night of the 10th of December, and a
Grand Banquet will be held on the night
of the 18th. 700 9 oIJg fatE" u
Letters of inquiry may be addressed to
Gen. Vim. E. Strong, Chicago, ILL.,, who
will attend to all preliminary business un-
til joint committee of arrangements has
been appointed to carry into effect the
above plan. VT. SHERMAN,
~psa !. ressf5 e It, Gen. u. s. Army.
Newspapers throughout the West will
please copy the above. re e.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
POLITICAL.

IS The Atlanta (Ga.) Era suggests that
the name of Sergeant Bates should be
spelled baits-to catch gulls. o
Ataspecial election for Alderman in
the Eleventh Ward of St. Louis, on the
22d, the Radical candidate was elected by
200 majority. " ,s.1 .s...4
sB The new colored school house at
Carthage, DeKalb county, Tenn. was
burned down about midnight, on the 10Th,
by the Ku-Klux .~,
rs A National Convention of Soldiers
and Sailors will meet in Chicago on the
10th Of May-the day preceding the meet
ing of the Republican National Conven-
ton. .- .5s
rs An Atlanta dispatch, of the eth es-
Inmates the majority in Georgia for the Con-
stitution at 1000, and for Bullock, (Radi-
caD at 5,000-with probably Democratic
majority in the Legislature. A dispatch
from Raleigh, N. c., says the Constitution
in that State is undoubtedly ratified, and
the Republican State ticket elected by a
majority of $4,000. The majority for the
Constitution in South Carolina will be
about 10000.
.8 Speaking of the late election in
Chicago, the Journal says: :" A more care
full revision of the returns of the election
in this city on Tuesday, shows that the
Republicans carried the city by a majority
OF nearly 400, taking the aggregate vote
polled for candidates for Aldermen as the
basis OF calculation. The Chicago Times
carefully conccals this important fact from
It's readers, but still howls over It's pre-.
tended Democratic victory"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
Illrpeachnlent.

AFTER the opening of the Court on the
25th, the Chief Justice stated that the first
business to be considered was the order
offered by Mr.. Edmunds, the day previous
to admit official reporters to report the
proceedings on the final question. A mo-
ton to postpone to the 27th was agreed to-
Mr.. Sumner offered an order "That the
Senate, sitting for the trial of Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States,
will proceed to vote on the several articles
of impeachment at 10 o'clock on the day
after the close of the arguments" Object
ed to and laid over Two additional rules
were offered by Mr.. Sumner, objected to
and laid over. They wereas follows:
Rule %. In taking the votes Of the Senate on the
articles of impeachment, the presiding officer shall
ticle propose the following question, in the man
ner following: . Mr.. -, how say you? Is the
respondent guilty or not guilty, as charged d the
article Of impeachment" Whereupon each Sen,
or +" Not guilty" .s. u.
i1Ae "a. On a conviction by the Senate 1t shall
be the duty OF the presiding officer forthwith to
person, according to the requirement of the Con-
stitution, and any further Judgment shall be on
the order of the Senate. SRI
Mr.. Groesbeck then addressed the Sen
ate on the part of the respondent, occupy.
ing the remainder of the days session
closing at 4:3G, when the Court and Senate
adjourned. a. tJiEGt@@ So
After the assembling of the Court or
the 9th, the order introduced by Mr.. Ed
munds and the rules offered by Mr.. Sum
ner were postponed until the close of the ar
gument. Mr. Stevens then took the floor
and began thereading of his argument. AT:
ter he concluded, Mr.. Wilson took the floor
and occupied the remainder of the days
session until four o'clock, when, as he was
unwell and would not be able to finish on
that day, the Court on motion, adjourned.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01

I'm the Troy Methodist Conference a
Clerical Life Assurance Association exists,
with 100 members. The average of insrr-
ance TO each member Is $3.50, and the
average cost 81 per annun.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01
The Alligator.

The alligator is not natif of M Eng
land he is too useless critter to be born
there. .-.
He belongs down south, and resides in
the same swamp that the copperhead duz.
He lives upon raw pig, and don't hesi-
tate to take them whole, if there don't
happen to be smaller one handy.
He is also fond of little negro once in
while by way of fresh bite.
They are amphibicus, and several other
kinds of cuss tew plenty tu mensben.
What on earth they are good for, j don't
seem to know, unless tbs tew watch for
pigs. m y lief 4rio4 tGTqLiI3
q Their hides can be tanned into leather,
Bbut they are as hard to skin as a beesh tree
liz and the leather when tanned IL just
about as timber as q cooking stove. But
one pair Nv boots made out of alligator
will last as long as mans name duz the
only way to wear them out is to heave
them away. ........ - i.tia't is7aa. e y asisi
Alligator meat is not luscious. If you
ask for it at first klass hotels they alwus
tell yu that they are just OUT 1t tastes
as should think the beef Nv mule would
who had been worked forty years in
brick yard, and then been struck by light
ming to get rid Nv him.
When the alligator mouth is wide open,
the head is just about in the center NV his
body; but they have one virtew / came
very near forgetting they make very
still noise, altho they have more jaw than
any ether critter ] know Nv.
These are some of the heaviest fakts
have been able tn gather about the ALI
gator. d.
The alligator seems to be seckond ad-
dition NV the krokadile, made out Nv what
was left
b i think the krokadile usually lays eggs
when they want some more krokadiles,
but I don't kno-but if they do, and ]
ever find the nest, and the old fellow amt
on the nest, should't hesitate to hatch
out the eggs myself-with klub.
This is all ! kno at present about the
alligator. JOSH. BILLINGS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01

The philadelphia Academy of Natu-
raj Sciences has received from Kansas the
bones of an enorInus reptile Embedded in
crystalized gypsum, and is now engaged
chiseling them out and putting them to-
gether. The vertebral column is over 80
feet long, and the whole monster is be-
lieyed to have been more than so feet III
length. Prof Cope pronounces it a hith-
erto unknown species of saurian, but
would perhaps have difficulty in pronoHnc-
ing the name he has given it, esasmosaurus
pEdtyurus ... d. "a, -s.-e
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01

Ia Says Baptist brother: ie"I don't like
your church government. 1t isn't simple.
enough. There's too much machinery
about H." Methodist brother replies: 1t
is true, we have more machinery than you;
but, then, you see, it don't take near 50
much water to run Ii.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01

= ATLANTIC MoNTHLY.-The May number
contains 'sThe Turf and the Trotting Horse In
America won a Pair OF Spectacles,' by j. K.
Babson; 1.-The Clear Vision, by j. G. Whittier;
IA Gentleman of an Old School, BY j w. De-
Forrest; "our Roman Catholic Brethren, (second
paper,) by James Parton; Lagos Bal" part ii :,
by W. Winwood Reade; . The European House
Sparrow" by T. NJ. Brewer; "a Modern Lettre
de Cachet," by L. Clarke Davis: Did he take
the Prince to Rider" by Edward Everett Hale
- Bv-Ways of Europe part " by Bayard Taylor
!" After the Burial by James Russell Lowell;
s.The Next PresideDt;' Reviews and Literary
Notices. Ticknor d Fields, pnblishere, 1874 Ire
mont street. Boston, Mass. 800 per year; two
copies, 800; i've, $500; ten, $1,000
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-01

OUR FoUNe Folks for May contains
part four of Holiday Romance by Charles
Dickens; ''One Saturday, by Marian Douglas;
"Dotty Dimple making CALL by Sophie May;
sThe Peterkins at Home,' by L1cretia z. Hale;
How June Found Massa Linkum,'' by Z. Stuart
Phelps; tAbont Me and the Big Sea-Water, . by
Mrs. z. A, Walker; 'Princekin,' by Louise Z.
Furniss; !" RAIN by Mrs. Auna M. Wells;
"cast away in the Cold,'' continued, by Isaac j
Hayes; " Fdehtened Eyes, by Annie T. Howells.
Music, by julius Eichberg: found the Evening
Lamp; Our Letter Box Several appropriate
illustrations. Ticknor u Fields. 1874 Tremont
street, Boston, Macs. 81 90 per year; three copies
$500; five, Sc 90; ten, 1890; twenty $1,000, with
extra copy.