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Year: 1868

A powerful digging machine is now in
operation in New Jersey, which is said to
be achieving wonders. It is run by steam,
and is located in the mari beds Of Mon
mouth county. It is at work excavating a
canal fifteen or twenty feet deep and
seventy five or hundred feet wide, taking
up a ton Of mari minute, and depositing
it in cars running on rails laid beside the
canal, to be conveyed miles away to the
doors of the farmers in that part of New
Jersey. A correspondent describing it
states that machines like these can exca-
vate any canal, and illustrates by showing
the mode that might be put in operation
on the proposed canal from Camden to
Egg Harbor: gall that is necessary is
first to find the highest point on the route
where there is sufficient supply Of water
to float the diggers in line, build and launch
them at that point, set them to work dig
ging in opposite directions-one set to-
wards Egg Harbor, the other towards
Camden building locks on the route as
required. Another set could also be
started at each end Of the route, working
towards the centre. In soil SO easy to
move by machines as that Of South New
Jersey, the building of canal at the point
named could be performed with great
speed and economy"
Year: 1868

City osT-oFrICE-FREE DELIVERY
1t has been definitely determined by the
Post-office Department that we are to have
a free delivery in Richmond, and the sys-
tenn will be put into operation some time
during the present month This delivery
will include all portions of the city inside
the corporate limits and the town of Man
chester. There will be three deliveries
each day and one great advantage to our
citizens will be that a letter from citizen
in one portion of the city addressed to
friend living remote from him, if dropped
in one of the lamp boxes, will be de-
livered the same day, probably the same
hour. A merchant, on arriving at his
counting room, and finding that he has left
some memorandum at home which he
wants, by dropping note to his wife can
have the package sent down to him at
once. There need be no surprise OF the
housekeeper by the master of the house
unexpectedly bringing several friends to
dine with him, for through the aid OF the
iron box hung on the lamp-post the lady OF
the house may be notified almost certainly
of the coming of the visitors.


At the time that this free delivery goes
into operation the price OF the city drop
postage will be increased to t,ro cents in
place of one, as now charged. This in
crease, however, should not be regretted
when the great advantages which it con-
fcrs upon the community are considered.


Persons who intend to avail themselves
of this system Of transmission of letters,
and have them taken to their residences
by carriers, will do we'll to give directions
to their correspondents to direct their let,
ters not only to the street, out also gave
the number of their houses. This will
more certainly insure their prompt de-
livery.


The boxes for the reception Of mail mat
ter will be hung on lamp-posts in various
portions of the city. They are ready tt
be put up, and can be arranged in day
There will be over $50 of them.
Year: 1868

STREET FIGHT.-The corner of Twelfth
and Main streets was the scene of lively
mill yesterday morning. The belligerent
parties were two well-known citizens
one the senior partner. of well-known
firm, and the other salesman in whole
sale dry goods house.


The cause of the difficulty is involved in
mystery. The first glance of our ubiqui-
tous reporter took in scene painful to his
sublime sense of dignity. The contestants
were pegging away with fist and stick in
silence, but with evident determination to
settle the difficulty then and there. The
blows fell hot and heayy-one party adj
vancing and the other retiring, until a
temporary halt was made against lamp
post, when, after indiscriminate pummel-
ling, there was a tumble Oh the ground,
and the combatants were at length sepa-
rated, both being more or less bruised and
bloody.


A large crowd collected; the fight was
lively, and afforded a subject Of converse
ton on Main street for the rest of the day.
Year: 1868

ANOTHER HALL THEFT.-The hall of
the residence Of Mrs. Thomas Samanni,
on Broad street between Seventh and
Eighth, was entered at an early hour
Thursday evening, and an elegant clock
carried off. So repeatedly have we re-
corded such thefts recently that it
seems scarcely necessary we should again
caution our citizens to be on the alert.
Year: 1868

The WEATHER, which has been shocking
for the last week or more, We rejoice to an
nounce, was convalescent yesterday. The
sun shone out brightly the streets were
filed with people; and business revived
somewhat in activity.
Year: 1868

BEAST BUTLER.-We have reliable in.
formation that Beast Butler will make his
long promised visit to Richmond to-day OF
early next week. The colored portion OF
our population confidently expect that he
will address them on the great questions
of the day during his stay in the city,
Year: 1868

The Hon. Joshua Hill, of Georgia, one
of the United States Senators elect of that
State, takes the stump for Grant and Col
fax. No less was expected of him. Every
body knows Joshua HILL He will be a
tower of strength to the Union cause. He
is Union man. He has always been a
Union man. He received eighteen thou
sand votes as the Union candidate for Gov.
ernor of Georgia after the war had actually
begun, and when it was almost as much as
a mans life was worth to vote for him.
He did not, it is true, declare himself at
the time Union candidate. That would
have brought swift destruction upon his
gray head; but every man who voted for
him knew well what he was doing, and
knew that Joshua Hill was a Union man.
The secessionists raised shout over his
election az Senator as if he were one Of
themselves. Let them shout on. 1t will
do them geOd.


Mr.. Hill declares that the election Of
Grant and Colfax is the only hope of the
country. He sees that their defeat would
inevitably bring about the reign Of anar-
chy, with all Of its attendant horrors.
Good men in every part-of the country
perceive this fact, and they viii prevent
such a calamity.
Year: 1868

The attempt on Saturday evening to
create a disturbance among the colored
people of New Orleans is part of system
adc plan which has been devised by the
more desperate Democrats of our city TO
inaugurate reign of riot and bloodshed.
It would not be fair to accuse the sober
minded among our opponents Of com
plicity in this diabolical scheme, but it is
proper to call their attention to it, and to
ask them whether they have not sense and
influence enough to crush it.


The plan which exists, and which all de-
cent men ought to denounee, is a very
simple one. 1t is to excite riot among the
colored people upon political questions,
and then under the pretext of quelling the
disorder to massacre the colored people
with indiscriminate butchery, and at the
same time let loose the forces of hate and
inurder upon all the Republicans of the
town. Bands of desperadoes have already
been organized for the purpose of carrying
these measures into effect.


y
cufians and thugs who have banded them
selves for the purpose we have indicated
would be, on our part absurd. They have
nothing to lose by riot which should lay
the city in ashes, and sprinkle its ruins
with the tears of our best people. But 10
the portion of their party who claim to he
respectable, who own property and have a
stake in our commercial prosperity, we
address this note of warning. Upon this
latter class rests the responsibility of con-
trolling the reckless and wicked conspira.
tors who form part Of their political or
ganisations


The duty of all Republicans in our city
is equally clear. The bad men who are
arrayed against MS desire to put US in the
wrong. We must disappoint them. We
must not be provoked into any unlawful
act. We are Che party of free speech, let us
never be betrayed into any apparent denial
Of the right Of free speech. If colored men
choose, for the sake of money, or for any
other reason, to make Democratic speech
es, J" let them do so in peace. They will
do no harm. They have the right to speak,
no matter how illogical and absurd their
speeches may be, and we have no right 10
interfere with the exercise Of this privilege.
Our record thus far has been bright-let
us- not stain it or suffer ourselves 10 be
even tempted to stain it.
Year: 1868

The secession organs have declared that


it will not be twelve months after Grants
election-which they take for granted-be-
fore he will declare himself dictator. How


did they fad this outf We had supposed


that the General was keeping this part of


his administrative programme profound


secret. His opponents, however, with their


usual sagacity, have penetrated his pur-


pose, much to the chagrin of his friends.


As the thing is now out we may as well tell


the whole story. He will not only make


himself dic&tor-he got a taste of the bust
ness in that confab with Lee-but he


will turn the Capitol at Washington into
stable for his horses, abolish all offices ex-
cept his own annihilate trade and com
merce, and pave the courts of his palace
alternately with the mint drops of the treas
ury and the skulls of his enemies. He will
rule by the mere nod of his head and the
twinkle Of his eye. The gift Of CAB will be
smotbered-a terrible punishment for the
Secesh. As matter of precaution every
house in the country not wanted for his
purposes will be razed to the ground. He
will employ Andy johnson to make him a
dress suitable to his regal rank and role
By an invention which he will at once
order some Yankee to make, he will appear
with seven heads, ten horns, and thirteen
tails. Sulphurous smoke will issue from
his mouth and nostrils, which will darken
the sun, moon, and stars. His tread will
make all Secessiondom quake and expire
They had better make their peace with him
now while they have a chance. 1t will be
too late after the election.
Year: 1868

disposition made his men fairly detest him,
They will not forget him in the coming
election. His nomination by the secession
convention was meant as sep 10 the sol
diers. Never was greater mistake made.
The soldier heroes of the republic will vote
against him in solid phalanX.
Year: 1868

The Australasian news which we printed in
the HERALD of yesterday from the pens of our
special correspondents in those regions giving
the Duke Of Edinburg, the state and condition
of the Prince and the trial and condemnation
of the miserable would-be assassin, O'Farrell,
is, we have little doubt by this time and
through the agency Of the Atlantic cable, in
free and general circulation over Great Britain.
We have reason to believe that the special
intelligence printed in the HERALD of yester
day has been telegraphed to the Queen and
government of England. The Cabinet in
London, not to speak of the British press,
will thus again be indebted to the enter
prise of the NEW YORK HERALD for first intel
ligence of great and important facts. To our
agent in London they were again and again in
debted for news of the condition and prospects
of the army in Abyssinia. Now they are, as
we are informed, equally indebted to us for in
formation as to the facts and circumstances
connected with the attempted assassination of
the young Duke of Edinburg.


From certain point of view all this is i'm
portant but, after all, it is only secondary to
this other and grander consideration-that the
Pacific world, which is just beginning to de-
velop ITSELF is to prove an immense source of
wealth to the United States. China and Japan,
so long sealed books to all the rest of the
world, are taking their places among the COM
mercial nations of the earth. Their immense
resources, when more fully developed, will
give an impetus to trade Of which as vet we
nearer China and Japan than Great Britain or
any Of the nations of Europe; and American
influence in both countries, as is manifest even
now by the Burlingame mission and other cir
cumstances, is to be paramount in those coun-
tries. II is now equally manifest that Australia
is nearer to us than 1t is to England, and that
Europe generally must at no distant day receive
its Australian news almost, IL not entirely.
through us. The whole Pacific world is thus
bound up with the growing prosperity of the
United States. The star of empire, which has
moved westward for SO many centuries. has at
length halted, and il is now shedding and promi-
ses long TO continue to shed its benignant rays on
the great central nation Of the earth. Whether
European enterprise seeks field in China,
Japan or Australasia, or whether the wealth of
the Pacific seeks a market in Europe. the
United States must inevitably gain. Ours is
the favored position. We stand between two
worlds. We must benefit by--perhaps at last
absorb-the wealth OF both. The Pacific and
the Atlantic coasts of this Continent will
become richer and richer The interior Of the
Continent will be developed beyond even the
highest expectation. San Francisco and New
York will, in point Of bulk and wealth. at no
distant day be without rivals on the surface of
the globe. Real estate in both cities, in New
York especially, will reach q point unprece-
dented in the annals of the world.
Year: 1868

The Managers who have presented their in
dictment against President johnson to the
Senatorial Court of Impeachment seem to be
disposed to create another court and present
new impeachment. The respondents in this
trial are the Senators who are supposed to be
honest enough to vote to-day according
to their oaths and consciences. The Pres
ident's counsel were also cited before
the Managers court. The testimony of Mr..
Evarts was sought for, and sundry reporters
were notified that their evidence would be ac-
ceptable in order to substantiate the informa-
ton furnished to the honorable" Managers by
the spies and detectives whom, 1t is said,
they have employed to ferret out, through pub
lie and private channels, charges of bribery
and corruption against the Senators who are
considered doubtful on conviction. Are the
Managers going to play the r6le of the Com
mittee of Public Safety in the French Revolu-
tion? II looks very like it. Not content with
trying the head of the government for high
crimes and misdemeanors, they are undertaking
to try some of the Senators and the counsel
for the defence for bribery and conspiracy to
bribe. II is not necessary to say that their
constitutional powers do not extend thus far
but the faction which the Managers represent
has so little regard for constitutions and laws
that it may dare anything while the reins Of
ascendancy remain in its hands.
Year: 1868

The French Transatlantic Mail Steamship
Vile de Paris leaves this port to-day for
Havre, under command of Captain Duchesne,
taking off numerous representation Of Ameri-
can wealth, fashion and commerce, the men,
bers of which avail themselves Of the accommo-


dation of this favorite transit route to enable
them to commence the enjoyment of their
summer tour in Europe, or transact their bust
ness affairs, as the case may be. The tourist
exodus from the United States promises to be
very large during the present season, while our
trade relations with the Continent have so multi
piled Of late that the fine vessels engaged in the
service of the General Transatlantic Com
pany-the VILE de Paris. Europe. ST. Laurent
Year: 1868

Revolutions move by definite laws. Essen
italy they are always the same, having an orr
gin, a career and an object that differ only as
the ages and peoples differ in whose history
the most notable revolutions occur. RevOlu-
tions are, in their rise, natural national
impulses-efforts of people always sincere,
even if sometimes mistaken, to force the facts
of national life, to force laws and institutions
to accept such changes as will put the State in
harmony with the intellectual character of the
age. So the people of England, in the great
and real power in the State was not recognized
in the laws; finding that system and statutes
that were centuries old could be practically
produced at any moment to oppress an age
that had altogether outgrown the system and
the statutes; finding fact and law at exact
contraries, revolted and rewrote the law, cor
recting it down to that date. So the people of
France, finding one day that they were the
great vitality Of the nation, while in the writ
ten law there could scarcely be seen anything
but mobiles and priests, arose and changed the
law; and since that change no one has dared
to attempt the government of France without
at least pretending to found the structure on
the people. And so in our own country, the
inevitable development of the free States
having brought them into direct conflict for
supremacy in the government with the slave
States, and these latter making war, the
people saw that il was no longer possible to
live in peace with slavery, and they arose and
destroyed it, determined to reorganize the gov
ernment with that power left out. This is the
essence of the three great revolutions OF mod
ern times.


But revolution does not accomplish its
object at once, and it's progress, its Interrupt
tions, its final success, depend upon the root
the obnoxious institutions have taken in the
national life, as well as upon the honesty Of
the men who become its leaders. If laws are
deeply based in the social fabric; If their pre-
servation coincide with the interests of power
ini classes; it, as in England, all the royal
prerogatives and nearly all the great families
are against the coming change; or, as in
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Ohurch-heaven and earth at once-are
against II; or, as in the United States, polti-
cal hierarchy, and an oligarchy prouder and
richer than any ever before known. see in IL
the inevitable destruction of their wealth and
Importance, in such cases the movement will
meet with stubborn resistance, and the struggle
by which it finally carries it's great points must
be prolonged and desperate. During that
struggle there must be many halts. and alwavs
are-halts and hesitatons-tmes when Tho
nation beats about for its object. when the
original impulse is for time lost, and the
revolution stands still or goes on AZ random


This is never the hour that is seized bv tho
old abuses to make head against the revolo-
ton. They accept IL as an hour of grace. and


hope that the struggle is done with. But il il
the chosen hour of more dangerous foe Il


is the hour of faction. II is the time when
the ambitious, the INSCRIPTIONS
] ana wretches of every sort-come for
Year: 1868

THE FAMINE IN ALeRRrA.-By official reports
and news advices the American people have
been informed through the HERALD of the ter
rible sufcrings of the people of Algeria by
famine and the visitation of cholera. The land
is almost desolated, and away from the glens
and plains of Northern Africa it's surviving
inhabitants appeal to the American people for
aid. The case stated in our columns to-day
will be placed personally before our citizens by
two clergymen accredited on this noble mission
of universal charity by the Archbishop of the
territory
Year: 1868

has win and way of his own, from which
nothing can bulge him. Let Mr.. Chase, then,
be brought into the field by the conservative
Union republicans as their Presidential candi-
date, and by the 4th of July there may be
popular rising in his favor 80 strong as to
merge the democracy for this fight, at least, in
the battle OF Chase and the peoples party, and
with the best re suits.
Year: 1868

blOOd Cahe0 FOrs


There is general assumption from various
radical quarters that unless President johnson
is convicted there will be bloodshed. Tho
radicals of Missouri, in their communication to
Senator Henderson, threaten bloodshed. Mr..
Schenck, of Ohio, talks in the same sanguine-
GUS strain. Mr. Moss is the bloodiest of all in
his prophecies of the red tide that is to flow IL
the radical views with regard to the immediate
decapitation and absolute annihilation of john
son are not carried out. Even General Grant
is reported, upon the testimony of this gentle
man, to incline to the opinion that dire disasters
are about to befall us if Mr.. johnson is not re-
moved. Now, it might be worth while for
sensible people to ask who is going to fight
about this matter. Who is going to shed his
neighbor's blood whether johnson is convicted
or acquitted? Who, in fact, cares a button
about the result Of the impeachment except the
persons in Office and the persons who expect
to get Office? The general public, outside the
line of betting men, perhaps, care nothing
about it. Everybody, Of course, is anxious to
see the disgraceful affair brought to an end,
one way or the other, and wiped out of memory,
in order that the country may 90 on evenly on
its path Of progress, prosperity and the de-
velopment of its resources, unembarrassed by
the miserable factionism of which this impeach-
ment farce is the fruit. As for any bloodshed
coming out of it, this is all humbug. The
thing is so fat, stale and Improbable that no
one is stupid enough to hit his neighbor on the
sconce either in behalf of Andrew johnson or
in opposition to him.
Year: 1868

them, and


wHEREAs, 1t is the duty Of this body to protect
the citizens and taxpayers as far as possible
against all ilegalsusurpadon Of power or increase
people are suffering; therefore


BE a resotred, That the controller and treas
urer are hereby ordered not to audit or pay any
OF the pay rolls Of the METROPOLITAN police, the
ofhcers ard large portion of the force having
been plsced on duty by an authority considered
unconstitutional and illegal, oppressive and odious
10 tax pay yers and property owners of this city.


ResolCed, That his honor the mayor be- re-
quested to resist further payment of any polio Q
force. except such as may be organized under the
charter of the city. and placed on duty by the
proper municipal authorities of this city.


Resolred further. That the controller bs and
is hereby Instructed to reject all applications for
supplies made on him by the chief of police.
Board of Police Commissioners, or any Of the
police department, known as the metropolitan
police force.


Resolced, That the chairmeu of standing com.
miitees and all officers and employees OF the city of
New Orleans be and they are hereby instructed to
abstain from acknowledging or in any way recog-
niziDg the legal right Of the SO called Board Of
Police Commissioners and their appointees to the
positions which they assume 10 hold, aud that the
Common Council respectfully request his honor the
mayor to conform to the spirit Of the foregoing
preamble and resolutions.


ffcSolvo< fur tcy-, Th~t tho attention of t'so ofty
attorney be specially called to the foregoing, aud
that be be instructed to take such steps for the
protection Of the interests of the city Ia this matter
as may be necessary. the Common Council hereby
pledgiDg itself to sustain him in any efforts to
prevent what is believed to be violation of the
rights Of the whole community.


resolution by Mr.. Farrell, instructng the
treasurer to submit statement of the number,
denomination. and amount Of million dollar loan
bonds paid out by him also to furnish the finance
committee daily statement of such payments
and requesting the mayor and controller to fur.
nish the council weekly statements of the number
and denomination of bonds signed by them, was
adopted on its second reading and sent to the
Board of Aldermen for concurrence.


recess Of fifteen minutes was then taken. and
the board subsequently, without further business
of importance, adjourned to noon to-day.