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New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
it is perfectly clear, it would bo absolutely

it is perfectly clear, it would DO absolutely
necessary to mine and to blow up, or TO cap
turc with great loss of life, by regular ap-
proaches, the Governor, meanwhile, discharglng
from front window every description OF tre-
aIm--the musket, the revolver, and the rifle.
How would poor Mr.. Wade feel when, upon
cyilly ringing the bell, q greeting of grapeshot
whizzed and whistled around his earsg Of course
Gen. Thomas would be there too aiding and abet-
ting, giving the word of command directing the
construction of the barricades, and keeping
watch and ward over the street door. Why,
the great siege of Genoa was boys game in
comparison with the extraordinary operations.
the loss of life, and the profuse bloodshed
which trembling nation would be called upon
to witness. Let Us, therefore, inscribe 1t upon
the roll of Gods mercies that Swami Of Mary
land is not either our King Log or our King
StOrk! For, truly, he is highly sanguinary in
his speech, and emphatically murderOus i'll his
metaphors. Having, or making, occasion to
speak of his removal of the Police Commits
sioners. he said in his Philadelphia diatribe: {:
al gave them fair and impartial trial before
"a Jury of their peers, and when found guilty
"off with their heads and put them into the
basket This is the true fe-fo-f-fum style
not exactly grammatical, perhaps but terribly
impressivel Indeed, there is a grim circum-
stantiality in the boast of putting the heads
into the basket which gives frightful yivaclty
to the illustration, and atones in some measure
for the outrage upon the memory OF Murray
of such Il verbess sentence as Il OIL with
"their heads" The truth is, more truculent
gentleman than Gov. Swami does not blow
and brag in this blowing and Dragging world.
81 hopen he says, that the people will not
"tamely submit to the despOtism that now
"rules the land.' AT any rate, when we
are quite ready to go campaigning we
shall know where to look for q leader; and
when Pennsylvania makes up her pacific
mind to be pacific no longer and when
Philadelphia determines to throw brothery
love to the bow-wows, Gov. Swami is without
a bit of doubt the generalissimo to head the
furious forces of the wet Quakers as they
march to the awful wars. All who are deter
mined to "tamely submit" to nothing whatever,
and to follow "little Maryland as her martial
son prettily styles her. to victory or sudden
death, will recognize in the great Marylander
natural leader "The Susquehanna," cried
Thomas Swami, divides us, but we are with
"you in heart and hand" The Philadelphia
mob repaid the exquisite confidence OF Its DIS
tinguished visitor by groaning for Grant and
by expressing great desire to hang Stevens"
When Thomas Swami passes from theory to
practice, anu cuus his merry iniiiiIamcii 10 the
sack of Washington we incline to the belief
that the eroans will be great deal louder, and
that it will hardly be Thad. Stevens who will
be hung.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
0fO "a, the amount of the claim. This attempt
at legislative smuggling should be defeated by
all means.
90 THR ERIE KdRr

The belligerents, 10 is given ont, are recon
ciled-or at least satisfied; the Erie bill, which
has lust passed the Legislature, is all that Drew
,eonires. and ia not Objectionable to Wander
bilt and nobody is disatfected but the mer-
cenary bulb. of the Assembly and the Lobby
which, having been bought once or twice each
at enormous prices are indignant Mt the fail
ure of the Vanderbilt interest to buy them over
again. OF compel Drew to buy them, when the
bill came down from the Senate. Hence,
furious rushes to cOncoct and pass all manner
of bills which, it is supposed or fondly hoped,
will be injurious or annoying to Vanderbilt.
But there is still another interest which has
not been conciliated nor cared for-that of the
People. On behalf of the millions who never
90 to Albany as members of the Legislature
or of the Lobby we protest against the Erie
bill as vicious or defective in these respects,
namely:
l. 1t gives quasi sanction and legislative
Endorsement to the $1e,OOO0OO of bonds lately
issued then converted into stock, by ma
jority of the Erie Directors, in furtherance of
certain gigantic stock gambling operations
This issue should have been in no manner
legalzed nor cOuntenanced; it should have
DPcn DfdUUtu tS llC llluu H. anu
III. 1t provides no effective safeguards
against future issues of the sort in further
ance of private interests and stock-gambling
ventures 1t should be fixed by law that no
new bonds or stock should ever be created by
the directors of any corporation without being
first extensively advertised, then formally
ratified by votes representing at least two
thirds of the preexistng stock
III. II does not forbid and punish stock
gambling by Railroad directors. Now, no
director or other officer of company should
I've allowed to make or take an interest in any
bet on the future value of its stock or bonds
certainly not on the short" side To allow
director to bet that the stock of his road Will
be worth less next month than now. is to tempt
him to wink at the robbery of his stockholders
and try to diminish the productivencss and
profits of his road.
". Stock gambling at aH-tlat ia, betting
on the future price Of any stock-should he
sterny forbidden. Ii subscrves no good end,
while it diverts means and abilities from be-
nefcent investments and enterprises. IL un-
settles. unhinges demoralizes. debauchcs, its
votarics. When shall we have Legislature
honest and yirtuOus enough TO forbid and pre-
clude, by adequate penalties, all time y con-
tracts or bets as to the future price of stocksf
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

The bill increasing the pay of the members
of the Fire Department calls for an additional
outlay of S1SS,S5O. AT the salaries already paid,
the Department is overrun with applications.
The rule which applies to all other services
should govern those rendered to the Fire De-
partment. When offers in abundance are made
at the pay now given, it is unnecessary to in
crease the rates. The principal object of the
bill is to render the city liable for upward OF
half million of dollars for the services of
eight volunteer companies retained on duty above
Fifty-ninth-st., at $500 per man per annum, from
August IS, 1866, to their muster out last year.
The dishonesty of the transaction Is shown by
the fact that while the bill pretends to apprO-
pirate only $4,000. it really, by sanctionng the
claim at all, renders the city liable for S5i5.-
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
PARTISAN OFFICERS.

Breyet Maior-Gen. Buchanan, commanding
the Fifth Military District has notified the Commissioners
OF the Frecdmens Bureau that lie has issued an Ordr
orbddng agents of the to take active part IN
politics, such acts will not be tolerated inns order
information that certain agents were interfering IN pot
cal matters II such agents persist IN their political IN
resgnatOns and failing to do this they will be summary
dismissed.
The above paragraph is floating among the
newspapers, but how much truth there
may be in it we cannot judge. At first
sight we may ask what Gen. Buchanan has to
do with the political opinions, the speech h-mak-
ing, or the voting of the agents of the Freed
mems Bureau, most of whom are neither mill
tary men nor civilians under his control. We
have had our hearing damaged by the yells of
Copperheads who insist that Government
officers (nOt on their side) are Outraging all de-
cency in even asking their subOrdinates to vote
this or that way. If Gen. Buchanan has issued
an order to his officers or men which in any
manner indicates even a desire that they
should vote one or the other way, then Gen.
Buchanan is going beyond his duty to do the
very thing of which his partisan friends
so loudly complain. If he has aimed
this order at United States officers or
agents beyond his official control, he
has grossly transcended his duty and his privi-
lege, and should be forthwith Ourt-martialed,
and if found guilty, cashiered. When Gen.
Buchanan has impartially preserved order
and secured the legal rights of all peo-
ple white and black. within his district
when he has made way at the polls for the
most malignant Copperhead, and at the same
time for the most enthusiastic Republican
when he has suppressed disorder, protected
the weak, justified the right, rebuked and put
down violence-in short, when he has secured
the full and free expression of opinion by the
legal voters and kept out those who have no
right there, when he has held the scales of
Justice 80 fairly that not even the humblest
can complain, then, and then only, can he have
the appreciation of his country. Gen. Buchanan
has an undOubted right to his opinion, right
to express that opinion. right to vote for
such men as he may choose and no man has
a right to take him to task. We do not deem
it proper that officers of the army
or navy should be conspicuous cam
pagners for any side. Still, their quiet personal
influence and example are their own; but while
they enjoy them to the fullest extent, they cer-
tainly have no moral right to impress them
upon subordinates through the powerful disc-
cipline of their profession. We do not want a
partisan army. Nothing would be more de-
sirable than to see the whole force a unit for
freedom and progress yet we do not desire TO
see even this accomplished through the partisan
appeals of their leading officers. The people
will do all necessary proselyting; il is enough
for general officers to sit quietly in their ofli-
cial chairs, and see impartial justice and the
largest freedom of opinion secured to all who
may be directly or remotely under their influ-
encc.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
OPEN EOR ALARAM4.

Three plans are before Congress for dispoSinl
of Alabama. The first is to admit the State,
under the Constitution which recently received
over 10000 votes, with the officers then elected
The second is to organize these officers into
provisional government under the new COnstl-
tuition, and wait until some means can be found
for carrying that or some other Constitution
by the vote of the majority of the whole peo-
pie. The third is to disregard the vote jusi
cast, and keep the State under military gov
ernment. The last is Rebel triumph.
The first is Rebel defeat. The second
is compromise, satisfactory to neither
party. We prefer to give the Unioniss
of Alabama a triumph. They have done
their best. They have rsked the en-
nifty of their employers, their property, and in
many places their lives, by voting for Congress.
But the act was framed in such way that
the Rebels had only to prevent voting to de-
feat it. Every Rebel who stayed away from
the polls counted one against it. Every Re-
publican whom he drove away counted two
against it. Although 10000 votes were cast for
it, and none whatever against it, it stands de-
feated, not by Rebel votes, but by the act Oh
Congress. Which is better, to amend the law
and order new election under suen In"
that if only ten votes are cast, and six OF them
are for it. it shall stand adopted, or to admit
the State on the vote already castf Admit
that the vote does not show that the majority
of the people favor the proposed Constitution
Exactly the same majority would vote against
the Constitution of the United States ana tiio
authority of Congress. Congress rejected the
State once because it was in the hands Oh
Rebels, and its Unionists were dissatlsnec.
Shall it now reject the State again because ].
is in the hands of Unionists, and the Reoei
majority are dissatistcdP Will such course
strengthen the Union power iii Alabama WIZ
it strengthen the respect of anybody, any
where. for Congress- Far from il. Lei 10
admit the State under the new Constita''on
first, and amend it afterward, and thus Vin'',
cate the ways of Congress to the Rebels Z"
Alabama,
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

Since the safe arrival of Sergeant Bates at
Washington, after his arduous travel among
the Ku-Klux of the South, the public begin
to inquire into the fate of another illustrious
traveller whose peregrinations began about the
same time and evidently i'll imitation OF the
Wisconsin rooster. Wemean the hen, or that hen,
a real feathered biddy, who was started some
two months ago by the boys of one of the
Eastern Express offices, and who has been
going ever since this side up with care well
fed and everywhere hailed with AS much salts
faction as was manifested in any place for
Bates and the flag. The hen cackled less, per-
haps, and we are not aware that any public
meeting was called in her honor; but she has
had quite as good time, and started with quite
as sensible an object in view, and her still uncOn-
cluded travels have quite as much political
significance as those of Mr.. Bates. With -
Piuribus Unum in her bill aud the American
flag painted on her off wing, she would have
been n better and honester symbol of the eagle
Of our country than was tho foot-sore aud
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

The Lower House of the Diet of Saxony must
now be added to the list of those European
legislative bodies which have voted in favor of
abolishing capital punishment. A resolution to
that effect was passed by two-thirds majority.
In the English House of Commons the oppo-
nents of capital punishment are still in deci-
ded minority. The subject was discussed last
night in connection with bill concerning the
execution of criminals, when an amendment by
Mr.. Gilpin abolishing capital punishment was
rejected. Many will be surprised to learn that
even Mr.. Mill spoke against the amendment.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

1t would appear from resolution oiiereo !"
the House on Monday that among the NAV.
rial aid contributed by the Administrator :"
carry the Connecticut election for the Den,o
racy was the United States sloop-of-war oau'n.'
which, it is charged, was detained severai ua,.
in the harbor of New-London after 1t hau wv.
ordered out of commission, so that the S,O"
might be marched up to the polls Tor uo,i
English. This arrangement cost the on"s Va
States $4,000. The Secretary OF the NAVY vi" vi.
appealed to for information, but Denoela> A'",'N
member of course objected, and so tne uer'se Leos
luton yet hangs fire. we apPSsal PSare % this I charge
thoroughly investigated.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
Gmnsrnrs..s-, T''

...SEMY OF MUsIc-This Evening" Meuca'
sIiis Fanny JAnausehek >,
ART GALLERY No 50 BrOadway-Day ana ENel'
lnE-Rsriuand PauWes's Painting The Ne" kepuohc
BROADWAY THEATER-This Evening at t4-, II any
Crrls and In and nt OF Place" Mr and Mrs Barney Nians
BeooXrYN ACADEMY OF MUsIC-This Evening
"goselale." e."-Lsster Wslaok aud Company
DoDwoRrH Hail. This Afternoon at 3-Mr. Je-
ron HopkiRss Piano Matinee.
EVERETT ROOMS.-IhlS Day ana EVenlng-St
Iimothy's Z. T. Church Fair
EueoPFAN CIRCUS, Broadway and Thirty-fOurth-
E-Tbis Afternoon sud Evening.
Firth AVENUE Arr GAIIERY-This Day--Mr.
Jerome Tbompsons painting, "Ths Old Oaken Bucket
FRENCH THEATER This Evening"" La Belle
Helene" Nile Tos5e
HALL No. 9j4 BROADwAY-This Afternoon at 2,
snI Byung 8-Grsnd Panorama Of the WarM Sae Goodrich
IRVING HAII-This Eyening.-W. j. Hills Annual
Concert Mdme Agatha State, Mrs Jenny Kempton &c
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Day and Even
inghe FOrty third ABuual Exhibition Of Pictures and Sculptures
NEw-YORK CIRCUS, -st-This Afternoon
At u and Bveang a; Gfhe Wonderful Cynocephan-AcIo
NIBLo's GARDEN-rh Evening at 7..-'lhe Nhl'o
Pawn" PRrisenne Ballet TrOaDe
OLYMPIC THEATER-IhiS Afternoon NJ II ana ENon
log 1t g." Humpy Dunpty" q. L. FOX
SrEINWAY HAII-ThiS Morning at p. m.-head-
lBg By Fraucis Kemb!e-"fWefh NSAt Ins h'"s
Uuion Giee Club Concert I'm, ,r
WAIIACK'S-IhiS Evening at s. Inc HohoS
tneoa" J. W. wslack, Clas Fisher
WATER Color DRAWINGS BY CELEBBATEp tI tIiLNcH "
AErisrsrhis BAY aud E.ening-i5re G eimoh'H 0i Tue
s. p. Avery at tbe Art Gallery. No ~ Fi'L-a'e
LECTURES AND MEETINGS.
IrcrURE-Mr Waterhouse Hawkins on The
Auims kingdom Past ani Preseat'
MrrTISG-The Quarterly Session Grand Division
e Oft Wash'ugion Hall, Wilhamshargh
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
fnpEACHuENF or TIE PRESIDENT

Extra TRIBUNE Sheet No. contains the
Great Argument of Gen. Butler on behalf OF
the Impeachment Managers, telegraphic dis
patches from Washington, &C., &c. Price
cents.
Every village Club should subscribe for at
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that they are scattered far and WIDE The
terms are as follows:
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dian twenty copies by mail to any one address
Address
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New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

Under the call of Mr. Peter Cooper, Pres-
dent, the American Industrial League will hold
a conference at the Metropolitan Hotel New
York, on Tuesday next, at IL o'clock. The
object is to take counsel as to the present
financial and industrial interests of the coun-
try, and to supply the treasury of the League
with funds needed by it to carry on its work.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
rns sUPERVIS0RS' LITTLE BILL.


Our County Tax Levy has passed the
Senate, and will probably go through the
House in its present form. Several years ago
the Legislature, on the request OF many we'll
meaning citizens. changed our manner of
choosing Supervisors so that six of each party
should be elected. hoping that by equally
dividing the membership one party would be
a check upon the other, and thereby the
public would be secured against the shameless
robbery which characterized the old Board
composed of the Aldermen of the city. For a
brief period there was an apparent improve
ment; but human nature is weak, and it was
not many months before the new Board
became as greedy and as reckless rs the old
Our change amounts only TO this: We have
dozen Supervisors-six Of each party-instead
of seventeen. nearly all Democrats; our equal
division has worked no actual benefit. while it
has estopped complaint against or throwing
responsibility upon either side.
The Tax Levy for County purposes now
before us has the following provisions:
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
.s57Q,3i7 el,279, ,6ss t7OO,3li


These specimens are sample of the bill,
and quite enough to satisfy the people of the
manner in which the Democratic Assembly
promotes retrenchment and economy. An in
crease from S5800O0 to Al ,9S0,0CO is over 120
per cent.
Aside from this increase, of which heavy
portion is under advertising and printing, and
intended for the nourishment of certain needy
journals that hang on the margin of Tammany
Hall, looking for crumbs, the bill has other
provisions open to criticism. The Supervisors,
it seems, have at last become ashamed OF that
Infamous swndle the New Court House, and
decline to name any sum in the Tax bill to
carry on the work but they ask the Lesisla-
ture (and the ready Democratic Assembly
agrees) to give the CONTROLLER the ex-
traordinary power of issuing just as puch
seven per cent city stock as he pleases to
think necessary to complete the building,
fitting up, and furnishing Of the concern. Well,
after their action in the Erie Road matter, we
are prepared to see this Assembly authorize
any officer from Mayor to Constable to issue
just as much city or county stock as he may
find use for. The reader may possibly look for
denunciatiOn of such an extraordinary grant.
1t would be mere waste Of Ink. II this Court
House stock issue goes into effect, the City of
New-York will easily give the Democratic ticket
next November 10000 majority; nay, it would
be strange indeed if with this purse of FOrtu-
natus at his belt the Controller could not add
handsomely even to such figures. What cap
italists might think Of such ty-bonds paper
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

charges against the Managers of Impeachment
concerning the examination of Gen. sherman
was also refused consideration:
The bill in relation to the Marine corps OF
the Navy was passed. ~,
The bill amendatory of the e., bankrupt act
limiting the time for the operation of the pro-
vision in favor of certain debtors to Jan, 1,
1859. instead of June I, 1869, was accepted. and
the bill passed.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

We call the especial attention of our citizens
to the memorial of the Citizens Association,
through Peter Cooper, its Chairman. entreating
the Governor not to let the property of our
people be confscated by swindling exactions
adroitly concealed in the Annual Tax Levy
We cannot doubt that this appeal will be
han1o1
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

Mr.. Jenckes's bill for the amendment of the
Bankruptcy Law was passed by the House
yesterday, after being amended as to tho date
to which its operations are postponed, Jan. l.,
1869, being substituted for June T. 1862
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

The Arcade" Underground Railroad bill was
passed by the Senate last evening 1t had
previously been passed by the Assembly. The
Senate added several amendments providing
for the protection of owners Of vaults along
RrOadWaY
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

The trial of Gen. Cole for the murder of the
Hon. L. Harris HiscOck at Albany, in June
last. was begun yesterday. Some difficulty is
experienced in obtaining jury.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

~ The Tar Lery, Alabama, the Pension bill,
Roilroad Precauti0n. the Courts, the Money and
et6ey Markets, are on the second page this morn
SrG; Shipping Intelligence on the third Free
Tdscation on the si1th. and Real Estdte on the
AoosofH
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

HousE. April 21-Mr. Robinson OF New
York offered a resolution that all the proceed
ines of the House in relation to the impeacl-
ment lie rescinded. The House refused TO con-
slider It by Yeas 18, Nays 01.
A resolution proposing an investigation lntO
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
Nem'Uork Daily gribm1te.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 90, 1868.

Persons sending money to THE TRIBUNE by
Express must prepay the express charges.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be ready this
morning, at o'clock in wrappers for mailing Price
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

The Governor signed the Erie Railroad bill
last evening.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

Mrs. Helen l.. 0sgood, whose name, t,,ssry 20 s
der and those connected with the wors Of che Mis-
Son, ssion during the war; will be nere familiar ~ rssr
Neilie ellison. died her residence at Newton 'v"'''
Ma.s ON tho 10th lust.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

dreadfully bored bould soger boy whose explo;u
have been so minntely recorded. His work !.
done, and now the hen takes up the wondron.
tale. Pass along that hen.
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22

Sum 10 be determined by three Commissioners.
The is left blank the Controller being authorized
TO issue Just as much stock as he may choose.
The above items do not include State taxes,
charitable institutions, police fund, common
schools for State. interest on certain debts,
and other items. Opening the Controllers re-
port of appropriations for 1854, we compare
son,e of the above Sums as follows:
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22


TuE VERMONT SPRING WATER is the most
CANCRR SCEpFrLA KIDNEY DISEASES end
ali rnp the Address Co, Sheldon VT, or No
Sl7 Broome-st NeElOrk
TRUSsEs. &c-MARsH & Co.'S Radical Cure
Truss Oce only at No Astor Housed Also Supporters
Bsudages silks Elastic Stockings, &c A lady attendant
New-York tribune., 1868-04-22
Eusin,ss AOtitss.
STARR & MARCUS,

No. p JOHS.sr Up St,irS
Rc-So Silver Fofk Spoons ani Knive' the quality OF shch
mpei guaranteed by s. Mint Assay at prices worthy the at