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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Mr.. Phillips, writer in The Anh-Sidre'y
Standard, thus warmly concludes recent
article:
Cursed be the soul of Benjamin Franklin,
"for persuading this people that the noblest OF
"all human action was the saving of cents"
The reader will be reminded by this of The
Great Curse, as given in the immortal Life of
Trstram Shandy. A careful study of this doc
ument which so pleased DR.. Stop and so aston
ished Corporal Trim, will enable the excellent
writer in The Anti-Slarery Standard to do his
cursing of dead and of living people in style
of much greater force, variety, and precision,
and either in the English or Latin language,
as to him may seem fttest. He might then,
with his enlarged capacity for cursing, include
many other historical personages, as follows:
Cursed be the soul of George Washington,
because he did this
Cursed be the soul of John Adams, because
he did MT do that
Cursed be the soul of John Jay, for the deeds
done in the body
Cursed be the soul of Alexander Hamilton,
for reviving the public credit
Cursed be the soul of Samuel Adams, because
| do not admire him
Cursed be the soul of John Hancock, because
it is unpeasing in my sight
Cursed be the souls of all the signers of the
Declaration of Independence-for reason that
| have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Washington kilograms are assigning as tho
Presidents reason for removing Gen. Pope that
the latter had ordered that any person should
be allowed to vote upon making oath that his
name had been registered, and that under this
order $4,000 minors had voted as is proven by
aflidavits filed with the President. Now, as one
oath is good against another, and as each OF
the $4,000 persons so voting must have sworn
that he was of full age, and had registered, it
would require $4,000 afidavits to establish the
truth of the above statement That is about
the number which would be necessary to estab-
ish the truth of any other statement original
ing with His Excellency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Major-Gen. Scott, Assistant Commissioner of
the Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, has
issued a circular stating that the failure in the
planting season has been from causes above
human control; that the general testimony is
that the freedmen have worked well that in
some sections Of the State they contracted to
work for inadequate wages, and, finding them
selves in debt at the end of the year, distrust
their employers; and, finally, that the interest
of employers demands that they offer liberal
contracts for the coming year; wages payable
in money "a considerable portion at the end of
the year, are preferable, but where contracts
to work on shares are the only ones planters
can make, fair division of the proceeds of
the crops would be, one-third to the owner of
the land, One-third to the owner of the stock,
tools implements, and food of workmen and
one-third to the laborer. He condemns the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Before us lies nearly the hundredth PROPOSE
ton we have received and read that the Ma
tiOnal Banks should in some day be allowed to
issue legal tender currency. The proposition is
as absurd on its face as would be one to allow
every man in New-York City to issue notes OF
A. II. Stewart. The legal tender is Govern
ment promise, and can only be issued by the
Government. The National Banks are private
bodies of men, and can only issue their own
corporate note. 1t would not answer for tho
Government to make the note of private cor
poration legal itender,i nor to give private
corporation the power to issue Government
notes in any other way than to buy and sell
them as they now do. The whole proposition
is q crudity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

A correspondent at Middetown, Conn.,, asks
us if President johnson as Commander-in-
Chief of the Army and Navy has not full power
to remove and appoint his subordnates at
pleasure, and if so, how we can compare his
removal of Ord and Pope to the move of men
on a chess board, and especially how we can
object to Gen. Grant becoming ian instrument
"of Mr. Johnson's will"
We answer: THE TRIBUNE has the same con-
stitutional power to criticise or object to the
Presidents appointments and removals as he has
to make them. The question is not one Of
power, but of the right and wise exercise of
power. If all subordinate officers were the
blind and dumb instruments of the Presidents
will, he would be an autocrat, and this would
be a despotism. They have the right either to
obey without protest. to obey with protest, to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
A correspondent, manufacturing news from

A correspondent, manufacturing news from
Augusta Ga. for The N. Y. Times, shows q
trihe the most astounding powers of personal
observation and knowledge" OF any witness
we ever saw put upon the stand. He says:
I'm hundreds Of instances within myown observation and
KNOWLEDGE negroes have taken to tho nearest town or
village the hHie remnatof corn wheh rds len them 10 feed
them and their children and have sold 1t in order 10 get
the money 10 buy frearna of some sort"
We suppose the correspondent of The Times
is a white man. What if such prodigious and
magnificent lying on the part of white men
should induce the Reconstruction Conventions
in States like South Carolina, where the blacks
are in majority, to exclude all whites from
testifying in the courtsi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
Smusnntnis.

=, ACADEMY OF MUsIo-This Evening Richings's
English Opera La SonnsmbulA"
BARNUMS AMERICAN MUsEUM-Day and Evening.
- Little Dew Drop "A Living GonlaVsn Ambugh Co.'S hena
gene-5O0 900 Curiodtes
BANvARD's OPERA HOUsE-This Evening" Our
Mutual Friend The Mammoth Cave.
BROADWAY THEATER-Ihis Evening" Mary Stu
art" Mrs d. r. Bowers
BuNYAN HALL Union Square-This Afternoon and
Evening The Pilgrim"
EXHIBITION OF Balls STATUE or FORREST AS
CoKioLASUs-Day and Evening. at No sl2 Broadway.
FRENCH THEATRR-This Evening"" Les Projects
de Ma Tsnie" ana La Msrice da Mard GraA"
NEw-YORK CIRCUS. Fourteenth-st.-Ths Evening.
-fess Of EquestranEn-' The Miser Of Bagiad"
NEw-YORK THEATER-This Evening" Under the
Gssligbt" The Worren Sisters
OLYMPIC THEATER--This Evening A Midsum-
mer Nights Dream"
STENwAY HALL This Evenng.-,Jerome Hop
kns Third Concert for TIE OpheOn Free Choral School Fund
WAIIACK'S-Ths Evening" Oliver Twist" John
Gilbert. h. L. Davenport, Miss Rose Kytnge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

VIII the Legislature at Albany provide us
with some means of travelling through the City
of New-York by steam, adequate in all weathers
to the wants of the people of the cityf We
care not whether it be by surface railroads,
underground railroads Eve have done some
business in that line in past times, and rather
like the underground railroads), or suspended
railroads provided they be not 700 long sus-
pended). At present, every fall of snow I'M
pedes business, and involves wear and tear
of horse-fesh and of human piety that involve
a financial damage Of hundreds of thousands
of dollars, to say nothing of the cruelty 10
animals and risk to souls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

The new City Government was organized yes
eecting Thomas Conan President, and Joseph
Shannon Clerk. The old Board of COuncilmen
met, and elected John Stacom President, and j. T..
Greene Clerk. The new Board of COuncilmen
demanded admittance to the Chamber, but were
refused, and afterward organized in the Super
visOrs' Chamber, electng James A. Monaghan
President, and Peter Mcknight Clerk. The
Mayor virtually recognized the old Board in
sending his message to them. The message
will be found elsewhere. 1t opens with a COM
plant against the Legislature for its ac-
ton in projecting the city, to certain
extent, against the political sharpers filling most
Of our municipal offices. The Mayor thinks 1t
would bemuch better, and more gratifying to the
majority of our citizens, to vest the appointment
of all executive and administrative officers, and
all boards and so-called commissions, i'll the
Mayor, and that he should have the powerto sus-
pend or remove them Mr.. Hoffman then gives
us bird's-eye view of the city and county debt
in summarized items, appending thereto the
tax levy for 1867. We learn therefrom that
the increase of taxation during the second
year of Mr.. IIoffman's administration was
$4,93s,SSS 10. of which he says $2,12j,39O were
exclusively for city purposes. The total tax
levied in 1867 was $22176,S7S 63, of which
or IS were for the county, $lO,599,359 OS
for the city, and the remainder for the State.
The Controllers estimates for the coming year
make the tax S91G1 ,122 60.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
the Baltimore DaiIy Commercial SAYS: "TI

The Baltimore Daily Commercial says: "THR
NEwYoRK TRIBUNE is the best conducted In this
country and that includes the entire world for there airs
no papers in Europe equal TO rstclass daiies In
making this assertion ignore entirely the question OF
politics. There yagaries peculiarly itoue'shc with
which the world at large has very little sympathy put
even these are enforced with vim and ability, when,
but for the tendency OF humanity TO THINK anu
choose for itself could not fail 10 carry conviction with
them In all its departments the same energy and ability
is perceptble and though II would take little moro
time could be spared In this OF business driving
read the entire newspaper every reader can IND 10
partment somewhere inside of its immense dimensions
containing abstract OF Just the news he s anxious 70
have II Is In all respects newspaper an epiomo OF
daily life, a credit 70 the Journalism OF this country o.
which. az we before remarked t stands at the head
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

A correspondent writes us to learn if the alb
surd statement is true that the National Banks
have made $50 per cent dividends within the
past year. Bosh! Inside the leading cities tho
banks made very fair pickings-from 20 to 30
per cent-but throughout the country they did
not clear over per cent This year the pros
pect for them is anything but encouraging, and
some of them will have to wind up; in which
case bill-hoders will do well to note that the
bills of National Bank that fails are more
likely to be at premium than at discount
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Louisiana, or the Declaration Of Independence,
or Hardee's Tactics or the Westminster Cate
chism, he would rather not 8. He is "pro-
"hibited from action in many particulars"
6. Nevertheless, he will stand no nonsense.
Z. Finally, don't bother me. If this patriotic
and self-denying manifesto does not entitle him
to the name of the second Washington, then
there is no merit in words and no virtue in
DroclamatiOns.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

A correspondent at Rondout, n. Y, asks us
how we can reconcile the reconstruction policy
of Congress in 1867 with that clause of the Re-
publican platform of 1860, which declares that
the right of each State to regulate its own do
nestle institutions for itself is essential to the
Union, and guarantees every State against in
vasion, &c. How can our correspondent recon-
Gle it that he lives, bodily in the year 1883,
when his mind has only caught up with 1901
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Those who predict that Gen. Meade will be
able to correct" $4,000 names off from the
Registration lists as minors in Alabama, and
so enable the Rebels to defeat the new Consti-
tuition by 1900 votes, belong to the same class
of prophets which lately predicted that the col
ored race were all dying off. They vote very
much as if they were still alive, and we ven
ture to believe they will be found voting very
much as if they were of full age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

1t appears that the attack upon Judge Bus
teed in Mobile was one of the grossest assaults
upon judicial officer for simply dong his duty
which we have ever had to record. His assail-
ant, Martin, the District Attorney had been
indicted by the Grand Jury for extortion, and
Judge Busted had remarked upon the case
with becoming severity. For this he was shot
down in the street like dog. We are glad
to perceive that all parties in Mobile unite in
detestation of the cowardly act.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

~ City Government, Real Estate, A Descend
ont of" Old Putt under the Direction Of Ben.
TranklinS Ghost, and the Money Market may be
found on oar second page THIS morning; the Mar,
Verp- York State Government, A Contested Seat
On the Assembly, Hon. the Verdant are Swindled,
and the Citizens Association and the Fire De-
,,0rfment on the Serenth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
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versements for THE TRIBUNE and supply copies OF the
paper to Americans temporarily in Europe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

The Legislative caucuses yesterday at Albany
went off according to programme. The Demo
Gratis nominated Mr.. Hitchman of this city, and
the Republicans renominated Mr.. Pitts of Or
leans, for Speaker of the Assembly. The Re-
publican Senators named Mr. Terwilliger for
reelection as Clerk. The Governors message
eoes in to-day
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

resign, or to disobey, according to the nature
of the Presidents command. If he commands
what they think it right to do, they simply
obey. If he commands what they think it
wrong to do, they may either obey under pro-
test, or resign. If he commands what it is ille-
gal and criminal for them to do, they are to
dsobey him. This involves the right on their
part to judge whether his commands are wrong
or illegal, which judgment they are compelled
to exercise at their own proper peril.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

The Ner Orleans Times says the value Of the freed.
man productive laborer while under Bureau pro-
lection and tuon) may be judged from the fact that No
has almost invariably failed, when working as partner
in the products of plantation to make enough for his
subsistence.
Where did he get the stamps" from the earn
ings Of which he has deposited over Ss,OOO,OOO IN
the Savings Banks established by the Freed
mems Bureau
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Gen. Hancock has just issued remarkable
order The substance of it is this 1. He gets
too many letters. 2. He is not justice of the
peace, nor yet surrogate, nor a constable, nor
a judge of the Supreme Court. 3. "The rights
of litigants do not depend on the views of the
General A. Some people want him to exercise
arbitrary power, but IA he finds no authority
for doing so, either in the Constitution Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

The Judiciary of our State has sustained a
severe loss in the resignation of the Hon. John
X. Porter of Albany, Justice of the Court OF
Appeals; but Gov. Fenton has done his very
best to repair that loss by nominating the Hon.
Lewis b. Woodruff of this City to fill the place
Tins vacated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

absurd imposition of fines or stopDages for I'M
pertinence or disobedience of regulations as
relics of Slavery and inconsistent with the
laborers status as q freeman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Since the Cunard line has been withdrawn
from Boston to New York, the line of steamers
formerly running between Baltimore and Liver
pool has its discontinuance. NewYork now
monopolizes foreign steam communication
which, alas is almost wholly carried on in for
eign vessels.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

In the Senate yesterday, after memorials and
petitions, it was voted to look into retrench-
ment 10 public advertising and printing. A bill
was brought in to slightly reduce the weight
of our gold five dollars, SO that it may conform
20 the weight, fneness, and value of the French
twenty five frame or Napoleon; other coins to
he graduated TO that standard. and the coinage
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

Alexander II. III. Stuart has been invited to
attend Democratic banquet in Washington to
celebrate the capture of New 0rleans, not by
Farragut, but by Jackson. His reply to the
Committee reminds lis so strongly of the Hon.
Elijah Pogram that we give it in full:
sTAUSToS, Va, Jan q 1868.
Under ordinary circumstances IL would be peculiarly
gratifying to participate in the festivities OF that
OCCASION and 20 enjoy the feast OF and flow OF
SOUL which doubt not will give zest TO your entertain
But situated a. am, DISTINGUISHED as citizen
denied the political privileges which accorded TO my
negro servant repealed from the House OF Representa-
tiyes 10 which elected almost by accamati0n my
native Statctbe proud old mother OF Washington, Henry
and gniLed as Military DstrclNo
your board. In former days, when visited Washington
representative OF the people. the associate OF
Webster. Crittenden and Corwn, III the Executive Coun
ellis of the nation felt that In the eye OF the law at least
10 think freely all matters Of public concern We're
10 join In your circle now should feel painfully conscious
Of the difference between your position and mine. No
military order can consign you 10 dungeon beyond the
reach OF habeas corpus and no persuasive bayonet adj
monish YOU TO speak with dated breath" With Inc the
Virginia mourns cannot rejoice; while the cypress
circles her brow cannot entwine the myrtle around
But may not hope that the present condition OF
things temporary III do not misnterpret the signs
OF the times the day Is near at hand when by the
date Of magnanmous people the shackles will be
stricken from the limbs or Virginia and her Southern
sisters and there shall be unto them beauty for ashes
the oil OF JOY for mourning and the garment OF praise for
the spirit OF heayiness When that glorious day shall
have arrived, will be happy to meet you and your fell
tribute OF gratitude TO the noble Conservatives and Dem
ocrats who set her free.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

The first annual meeting of the Grand Army
OF the Republic will be held in Philadelphia the 18th
instant. Arrangements have been made with q number
OF the railroad companies By which members attending
the Convention will be furnished with excursion tickets
al reduce rates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

The 34th National Anti-Slavery Subscription
anniversary will te held in Horticultural Hail. Boston,
on WedL esdav, jan ~. 1863 The aim, heretofore will
be 10 give he American Anti Slavery Society the
CONTINUE its operations, and especially 10 sustain tho
publication Of The National init Sidrery Standard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

The name of Gov. Dennison of Ohio must
now be added to the list of distinguished poll
ticans who have ayowed themselves favorable
to the nomination of Mr.. Chase.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
~ cOpPFSpONDEyTs

he Of Communeatonl Whatever 70
intended BY the address
psssan for PUBLICATION bat AZ guaranty for
bn good faith
An business letters for should be Addressed Tee This
kew-iOrk
w. ssnS.t UNDERTAKE 10 return rejected Communications
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

CONSTITUTION LIFE SYRUP, for all forms OF
ULCRRAuvR DISEASES Nose Throat Tongue spue
Scalp remedy has proved its equal For sale BY all
drugg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07

A.-RREUMATIsM Legally Warranted Cured
or money Refunded Gea. Vegetable Rheumatic Remedy
t'k,n inwsrI References, 1877 Principal depot No 10
Broadway.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-07
Susin,ss aOtitss.

A FAVORABLE n oToRIETY.-The good reputa-
zion BRowvs TRocHEs for Coughs
Colds Throat Diseases has caused the TOches to be extensively
initiated Obtain only the genuine Browns Bronchial TrOches and
BY profit by selling worthless
limitations