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Year: 1868




Banum's Museum has passed away, and the
closing scene the grand Transformation, OF
passing grandeur and far exceeded anything that could
even enter into the heart Of WheaEey TO conceive not
withstandlng his great conceptions and achievements
Rgl and sanga and BOnfanti may hop. skip, jump and
excite wondermont by their remarkable performances
bound cages Monday night far transcended by their
saatory exercises the tabled feats OF the rooster on


hot gr1ddle Smoke, and ame, and the cruel acts OF
oharitaby disposed men may put period to the exist
OF the reconstructed giraffe, which has
shown remarkable wisdom in submitting 70 its fate bnt
neither a deluge OF water, density OF smoke. 10,
combined could affect the rugged bear which, after Nv
ing two nights and day the midst OF the fray choss
to out from amid the debris Yesterday morning ana
streets adjacent 20 his old headquarters and as he passed
1t, apparently wondered how respectable animal thas
could mOnopOlize the streets at his will should bs
four walls for the delectaton and edincatiOn OF
pumpkins at 80 cents head children half price on he
and conducting himseust like gentleman bear he H.
Reaching Nari0nst aud catching sight OF ehe green
lamp In front OF the statonhouse be dverged and made


dash for provision store which he broke INTO and In
medatey became master OF the situaton-but only for
short time Sergeant Polly OF tho Fourteenth Precinct
and officer Crown OF tho Eighth who had been following
and thus secure dragged drove the boast in most
proved style 10 the Sprngst station House, followed oy
thronR OF old and young On reaching the
the animal was hurried into the yard and detained unh
his familiar keeper and feeder presented himself 10 claim
and to what he had supposed had to that
bourne OF which We have no definite knowledge Ihs
baby Tom Thumb) elephant is doing well - coud to
expected and it believed he will sOon be restored 20
his former self And as these SURVIVORS OF the wreck
and ruin Of the great temple OF the moral drama were noe
enough for contemplation in day. people Interested
in the Museum delighted with the appearance OF
the ponderous safe which indefinite number OF labor
lng men dragged from the snoudezng building yestsr
Year: 1868

The communication from Chief-Justice Chase
TO the Senate, claiming that he is part OF
the High Court of Impeachment, under the
authority of the Constitution, and has right
to participate in framing the rules of procedure
for the trial of the President, necessarily calls
the attention of Congress and the public to the
relations which the Chief-Justice sustains to
the Senate for the purposes Of such trial.
The language of the Constitution i'll this respect
is as follows


The Senate shall have the sole power to try all I'm
peachments when sitting for that purpose, they shal
be on oath or affirmation When the President OF the
United states is tried the CheiJusce shall preside and
no person shall convicted without the concurrence OF
twothIrds OF the members present.


Ii ia evident from this that the Senate is the
entire Court, no more and no less. The franz
ers of the Constitution supposed that in the trial
of a President. the ordinary President of the Sen
ate, since he would succeed the President on his
conviction and removal, would not be the most
impartial presiding officer. In looking for some
other officer topreside they could only select either
the Speaker of the House or the Chief-Justice.
They preferred the latter. But still 1t Is the
Senate that tries, though the Chief-Justice pre-
sides He acts not in the capacity of Judge
sitting with jury--he to administer the law, they
to determine the fact-fOr this would make him
the Court. His position is the same as that of
the President of the Senate on the trial of an
impeachment against any other officer lie is
a presiding officer, merely entitled to decide
points of order, subject to appeal from the
Chair to the House, and to preserve order, and


is subject to the rules which may be adopted for
the trial by the Senate. The term High Court
"of Impeachment" in frequent use, is bor-
rowed from the phraseology OF English
law, and finds no warrant in our Constitu-
tion, which mentions no Court whatever,
but simply declares that the trials on
impeachment shall be by the Senate. The
Senate seems to have assumed that the pres
ence of the Chief-Justice would not be neces-
sary until the trial should begin. But one of
the most important parts of the trial is the
adoption of the rules for the trial, and 1t is
conceivable that there might be at least very
great advantage in having those rules adopted
by the Senate under the presidence of the same
officer who is to preside at the trial.
Year: 1868

! We published yesterday brief report Of the
proceedings of a meeting of citizens TO protest
against the repeal of the present Excise law.
That some judiciOus amendments might be
made TO this law, we do not undertake to
deny; but that the repeal proposed in the
Legislature would be prolific Of great evil, no
reasonable man can doubt. As we understand
il. the repeal, if carried, would place the
licensing business in the hands of the Common
Council and the Mayor it would effectively
cut off every cent of the fifteen hundred thou
sand dollars now paid into the public treasury,
since the intention of the movers is to make
the license fee merely nominal it would place
in control of the dominant party for the time
being the most powerful and unscrupulous OF
all electioneering agencies it would array the
drunkard- makers aud the officers of the peace,
and lead to infinite disturbance and trouble !;
it would break down completely every vestige of
law having respect for religion and the Sabbath,
and convert the now peaceful and orderly Sun
day into a season of vile and reckless dissipa-
ton. In purely partisan view, the full con-
troll of the rum interest would augment the
Democratic vote of this city next November
by many thousands, and it is for this advan-





the business and its patrons that the Demo
cratic majority in the Assembly are working.
We hope the friends Of order and public virtue
in the Senate will take care that the sweeping
repeal of the Assembly shall go no further.
Since the Court of Appeals wiped out Barnard,
McCunn and CardOzo, with their five
hundred iDjunCtiOns, our city's quiet has
been rapidly improving; drunkenness has fallen
off, and the number of fearful crimes that
spring from liquor has greatly diminished.
Even the moro respectable liquor dealers are
in favor of the present law, If for no higher
reason than their own protection from lawless
violence. We entreat the Legislature to hear
the testimony of our really leading citizens,
and of the Police and Almshouse Commission
ers, of the Directors of the Association for the
Relief of the Poor, and tho managers of char
liable and reformatory institutions, before
venturing upon any modi6cation--much less,
total repeal-of the existing salutary laws.
Year: 1868

We hear that the City Hall conspirators have
concocted a new plan TO perpetuate the
Dynasty of Thieves. 1t seems that they are
afraid to trust themselves to the people in
separate election next December, and SO an act
is to be passed Mt Albany restoring the
charter elec ion to its old place in. Novem'
ber Under the overwhelming Importance
OF the contest for President, the conspira-
tors believe they can ride triumphantly
into Office and get new lease OF power.
Tweed and Tammany are at the bottom of this
trick. Tweed is afraid of Mozart and Wood.
and the now almost imaginary Constitutional
Union party, and invents this plan of lodging
their fire. lie expects the city to give at least
$4,000 majority for the Democratic Presidential
ticket, and on this avalanche he may ride tri-
umphantly. 1t may be a question whether the
separation of the Municipal from the State
election has improved our condition; but cer-
tainly a return to the November whirlpool is
the last measure of relief that any sane man
would propose. The Governor and Senate


must save us from such a catastrophe.
Year: 1868

But estimates and comparisons are of little
account. What is wanted above all else IS
downright, earnest ,rork-work by day and by
night, work without ceasing-until the close of
the polls on Tuesday next. Let no Republican
relax a single nerve. The battle is broader
and more important than the State and its
home issues; it is the "first gum OF the
great Presidential campaign; it is the first
opportunity afforded the people to ex-
press their opinions upon the momentous
questions now agitating the country. a
Democratic victory would dspirit and to some
extent demoralize the Union forces; rousing
Republican victory would close up the ranks
from the st. John to the Rio Grande, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and inspire an enthu-
siasm that would increase until the crowning
triumph in November should end forever the
worn -out and worthless Democratic organlza-
ton.


Friends of Liberty and Equal Rights! Re-
pubcans of New Hampshire, shall we have
the hoped for vctoryi We hear that you are
sure to give it, While we see no reason to
doubt. wo again urge unceasing uorE. Let
every voter he reached let every honorable
means be used to win over the doubtful
let ample provision be made To get
our voters to the polls provide before
hand upon the suDpOsition that the
day will be stormy and travelling difficult. You
tell us the vote will be much larger than ever
before cast. Make good your prediction, and
see that the larger portion of the increase is on
the right side. The eyes of the nation are upon
you. Six millions of Southern loyalists await
in profound anxiety the next blast from the
North Congress, now Engaged in the
most solemn duty that can fall to
the lot of the peoples representatives, looks
to you to indorse and support, by the power
of your votes, the course they have taken
Connecticut looks to yours az the pioneer
State, and as you 90 she will follow. You
promise us 5000 majority! You can give it
you must give it. Work Wal do twill you
do the work
Year: 1868

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE of this week con-
tains full history of the impeachment move
ment during the last seven days, with all the
important documents bearing on the subject,
and also the entire text of the new COnstitu-
tion proposed by the Convention of the State
of Nau- York
Year: 1868

an invitation to dine at the White House. "An
Invitation from the Chief Magistrate is by
etiquette, commando BY which The World
means that nobody would dine with President
Johnson if he could possibly avoid it.
Year: 1868

From the following article, clipped
from the Jefferson County Free Press, it
will be seen that there is one scoun-
drel left among the Registrars of the
State. 1t is to be hoped that the Gov
ernor will promptly see that his officers
in Jefferson county execute the law. II
the Radicals have the handsome major.
ity in this State they boast of, they can
certainly afford to execute this very un-
just law honestly aud fairly:


Though Monday last was the day fixed
for the registration of voters IN this
county, there was no Registrar to be
found in Charlestown, and numbers of
citizens who were on hand to register
were compelled to return to their homes
without doing so. This failnre to have
a Registrar was, no doubt, one of the
tricks of the Radicals, who, in state OF
desperation, are resorting to all sorts OF
measures to secure the success which
they already begin to feel is doubtful
The appointed Registrar, being Of
conrse in league with the rest of his
party, neither accepts or declines
the post, but simply fails to be on hand
at the proper time, and thereby aids in
keeping oat number of votes which
would be cast in favor of the Conserva.
tive candidates. 1t is a poor, paltry
piece Of chicanery, transparent as day.
light, and of a piece with all other de-
vices of the party to defraud the people
OF the exercise of the franchise.


The sooner party which can only
sustain itself by such means is blotted
from existence and its leaders consigned
to an infamous and shameful oblivion
the better for the credit of the natior
and the welfare of the people.
Year: 1868

Some of the Radical stumpers who
have thus far kept out of the way of
the "fool-killer," are still deceiying
themselves with the belief that the peo-
pie can be hoodwinked by being told
that the poor man pays no taxes. The
Indianapolis Sentinel, in commenting on
An assertion of that kind, says:


ave would like some of these gentle
men to tell us who paid the sl63, 900, 900
in gold, levied and collected upon i'm
port during the last fiscal year. Does
the poor man use no coffee, no sugar, no
tea, no salt, no cotton, calico and wool
en- cloths to elothe himself, his wife and
his children; or do these Radicals think
that the peor men go without toed and
clothing, and allow their child
rem to go about nakedi In the good
old times of Democracy, coffee was
bought at twelve and half cents and
the price of coffee now is twenty-five
cents. The difference between the price
then and the price now is the amount
every poor man pays to the Govern
ment, on every pound of coffee he
and his family consumes. Aud so OF
tea, sugar, salt, and indeed all the nec-
essaries of life which are imported.
Every cup of tea is taxed, every spoon.
ful of sugar is taxed; every pound Of
salt is taxed; every fibre of clothes upon
the back of the poorest man that lives
is taxed, and the grand aggregate Of
these taxes amounts in ono year to the
enormous amount of one hundred aud
sirty- three millions Of dollars in gold :
And ye: the sHub-nosed, Goldfish aristo-
Gratis of Radicalism toss their heads dis
dainfully at the idea that the poor man
is taxed.


Again, who paid the $4,000, ,000, 900 in
currency levied upon home industry and
received into the Federal Treasury dur
ing the last fiscal ycari Do these fell
lows not know that every time poor
man buys even box OF matches he
pays a cent to the Government And
so almost everything that he is conf
PEELED to purchase. Your deeds and
your mortgages, your notes and
your receipts, are taxed. The glass OF
beer that the poor man drinks to re.
fresh tired nature at the end of hard
days work is taxed, like the rich mans
wine. The medicine he purchases for
his children is taxed. The knives and
forks and spoons and plates that he
uses at his meals are taxed. A taxed
doctor waits upon him in sickness, and
makes him pay the amount of tax
es the Government levies upon his
profession. OF truth We are
taxed nation. AS Sidney Smith
said of England, so it may be said OF
us under Radical Rule, that from the
swaddling clothes fthe new born babe
to the rope that lowers US into the grave,
aye to the spade that throws the last
lump of dirt upon our mortal remains
all, all are taxed. And yet the Radical
leaders would have the people believe
that the poor man is not taxod-that
those alone who pay the income tax are
taxed, when really the income tax is but
q mere drop in the bucket to the enor-
nous taxes collected from other sources
The people are too well posted on this
queston-they feel too deeply the hand
of the tax -gatherer-to be humbugged
by the silly sophistries with which the
Radical leaders are trying to mislead
and deceive them.
Year: 1868

In proportion to the wealth OF the
two nations, the taxes in the United
States are five times as great rs in
Great Britain. And yet England sup
ports the largest navy the world has
ever seen, has monarchy and royal
blood whose pensions amount to mil
lions, and is a proud and naughty aris-
tocracy. This is just the point at
which the Radicals are aiming. They
have changed our form of government
in ten States from q republic to mill
tary despotism, and will control the
balance of the States in the same man
ner, unless prereAted by the people.
Their Journals and orators declare that
we must have q strong consolidated
Government, and adopt the monarchi-
cal idea that national debt is n nation
oil blessing. Their theory and practice
make the rich more aiiiuent and the
poor more decidedly the dependents and
slaves of capital.
Year: 1868

member that nothing short of mira
Gle can work agreat political revolution
in that section. We believe that the
masses are disgusted with the follies and
crimes of Radicalism, and that the day
must como when that party will be
swept from existence. That day is not
far distant. 1t has already dawned up.
on the country. Its growing Eight is
filling the Democratic heart with joy
The Democratic column is moving sure
ly on to victory; and when that tri'
umph comes, the good old times of the
Republic, when all its ways were ways
of pleasantness and all its paths were
paths of peace, will be again realized by
happy, prosperous and contented peo'
Il
Year: 1868

In Tennessee the people pay six per
cent. tax on all their property, and the
negroes and carpet-baggers disfranchise
fifty thousand white men. This is what
the Radicals call reconstruction.
Year: 1868

From this table are deduced the av-
erage vote of each party for Governor
for tho last four years, together with
the average vote Of the State and the
overaue Radical majority. to wit:
Year: 1868

there has been no lack of successors, for the
number who now own fair alotments of land
is so large as to have no parallel in any re-
spect elsewhere on the face Of the earth.


Unless we are so attached to old and decayed
days as to be blinded to everything else, we must
see that this large class of landed propretOrs,
containing within themselves the imperishabe
accumulations of human prOgress-co containing
all that was worthy to live of those old and
decayed days--are at no remote day to become
power which will give and not receive laws.
For the time at last has come when every ad-
vantage which has been gained will be saved.
Nothing is more certain than that, as civiliza-
ton in any country advances, the highest classes
will be found among the prOprletOrs OF the soil.
Even in England the landowner is the leglsla-
tor. America is n reflection of England; but
all reflections are inverted. There are mighty
problems before us, and their solution must be
commenced by our children after we are gone.
We stand amazed at corruption in high places,
at the peryersion of talent, the waste OF OppcT-
tunty, and the headlong plunges after
pleasure in our cities and towns but
in comparison with the great industrial classes
steadily struggling and slowly winning, these
are as the waves tossing along the shore the
miro, while far away the deep waters roll
clear. For, remote and over n wide extent
there are millions who are honest and true,
and who, so far as circumstances and the light
which the age gives permit, are improving
their condition. nor is their knowledge limited
or to be despised Ir may be well enough to
speak of foreign laborers, or of the degenerate,
whose lands the most enterprising among the
foreigners are likely to possess, as dull and be-
soued but it is a great mistake to assume
that any Lative Americans who are at all
likely to read such advice engage in labor so
protracted and seryile that they read little and
think lessor indeed, who do not flush with
indignation when they find themselves placed
upon a level with peasants and Doors
Year: 1868

The Committee Of Congress now investigating
the election frauds in this city viii soon begin
to sit by subcommittee in different parts of
the State. We join our voice to that of the
Union League Committee in urging that every
effort be made TO arrange the evidence OF
fraud in the different counties, so chat it can
be promptly and lucidly presented when the
Congcssmcn arrive. Let us show how che
frauds were committed. and TO whose benefit
they Injured. Especially We cXhort Gov.
Hoffman to present lis proofs Of enormous
Republican frauds, which he declared in
solemn proclamation that he possessed Let
us have all the facts honestly disclosed, and
let the guilty heads bear the hlamc.
Year: 1868

4 renowned writer of the renowned City of
Boston has recently given some instructions to
labOring men, and To farmers in particular, to
the effect that they ought to devote moro Of
their time to study and to thought, and less
to checkcr-bOards and pipes. He grants that
they cannot DO expected to do much, for, be-
ing Obliged to labor ten hours n day. they
must eat much that they may build up and
sustain strong and coarse muscles hence their
progress in the intellectual way will correspond
to the "gait of an OK, not to that OF fast
"trotting HORSE Still, since they are entitled
to vote, the safety of the country demands that
tlcy shall not have idle brains As to giving
more time by establishing the eight-hour sys-
TEN, he thinks it will be degrading to ask it,
but he proposes that the time required for
making one qualified TO vote shall be gained
by diminishing the hours of sleep. and he men
tions eight hours as sufficient though some
great names are noted, by the way of ex-
ample, who needed less than six.


These ideas may or may not express the
views of the educated people of New
England, but they by no means express
the ideas of large class of intelligent
and educated men in other parts of our





to tho grand idea which in Congress prepared
the way for the Agricultural College bill, and
which is proressedly the leading one of the
Cornell University, as any Monarchy in tho
Old World is opposed to cur Republic in the
Now There was time in cwEngland when
her clcrgymen spent portion Of each day in
labor aud the other portion in study, and
thereby they acquired an intellectual vigor
which even yet cmits some flashes from their
descendants. But this is not n question re-
garding clergymen, nor lawyers nor physicians
but regarding men--rcgarding society, civllla-
ton, and the future condition of the race on
this continent. A great struggle is going on
in this country, that there may bc utterance
and acceptance with regard TO the new position
to which the common people gradually have
fought their way When the law Of primo
gcniture, which, with few exceptions, had been


in force from the earliest ages, was in the
framing of our Constitution abolished, the
foundation was laid for more general division
of landed property among the people than Gyel
before, while in its working it breaks up large
fortunes and redisributcs wealth as if 10y the
power and sanction of n natural agrarian law
! Land having bcca assured to the laborna
people, and having been possessed for more
than three generations, and in parcels SO large
n, TO enable them to accumulate wealth which
in the aggregate is immense, they have moi
failed TO make the new position fixed through
tbe mower derived from Il general diffusion oI
knowlcdgc, aud at the same timo they hay,
. provided comfortable dwellings in which tlieJ
live in rs much allluencc ds is FOR theii good
That portion of landed proprielors OF eael
generation have sought other and varied pw


suits is true. and % has been glont adyantae'
Lo our couugy VA. .AoY have ~ dVuc. StIil
Year: 1868

A correspondent sends US an account of A
scene he witnessed last September, on thecars
between Philadelphia and New-York, while a
gentleman, to all appearances sane, was being
forcibly conveyed to a lunatic asylum Oul
correspondent asceItaiued that the pa.euta
guardians had no legal warrant for whal they
were doing, and on reaching New-York hs
reported the case to the police, but he believes
that nothing was done about it. We think it
highly probable that the gentleman really was
insane, and his removal necessaryj but there
can be no doubt that in the present lax stats
of our laws it is comparatively easy for inter-


ested relatives to commit a perfectly sane man
to any asylum they please, and convey him
prisoner to distant city with no better war


rant than the signature of single physician,
who may be rogue or fool. The bare pos
sibility of such thing Is horrible to think of
Year: 1868

Gen. Grants order that only mammoth
"powder" shall he used in firing the fifteen
inch guns does not seem to us very hgh
certificate of the strength of that particular
kind Of ordnance. AS the war has now been
over several years, and there is no immediate
necessity for spending large sums ior great
guns that are not known to he trustworthy
perhaps it might not be amiss for the Ordnance
Committee to inquire whether we are dong 1t
and il so why.