Year: 1868

The Great MelOdrama at Washington-The


Tickets of Admisslon-A Chance for the


Treasury.


to Andrew Johnson will have expired, and the
Senate, as High Court of Impeachment, will
resume his case. Meantime, the House Com
mittee of Managers have been holding their
councils of war from day to day for the exam
ination of witnesses, the shaping Of their plan
of operations and in hunting up precedents,
points of law and legal authorities. The de-
fendant has also been active in his consulta-
tions with his corps of legal advisers, and it
is given out that he will fight the impeachers
over every inch Of ground to the last ditch,
and will do everything in his power to make the
fight last all the summer. Furthermore, it is
said that his Excellency is mortified with the
discovery ''that the world can get along with
out him." and that he is ''deeply chagrined at
the eqnanimity with which the country and
his friends, especially the Northern copper
heads and Southern rebels take his impeach
ment."


But, whatever he may think or the impeach-
ers may think, the public interest in his trial
and the public curiosity to have good look at
the High Court Of. Impeachment in session has
increased, is increasing, and might be made
to pay good round sum into the Treasury.
A thousand tickets each day to see the show are
distributed gratnitously, including four from
each Senator and two from each member Of
the House to their friends, which, we think,
is throwing away good opportunity for help
ing the Treasury. These tickets could be sold
at an average of ten dollars, each at fixed
price, some higher and some lower, according
to the location Of the seats. But the
best plan would be to employ Bar
mum to get up an auction for the sale
Of the tickets, say for six successive days at
one sale, the tickets for each day to be CLASH
fled and sold Independently of any other day
Barnum, it will be remembered, first tried this
plan with the tickets to the Jenny Lind con-
certs at Castle Garden in this city, and the
experiment was 4 splendid success. The
first ticket brought two hundred and twenty
five dollars, and out of it the lucky buyer
made fortune and then spent it, Bar
nun, then, is the man for the impeachment
ticket lottery auction. With the burning ont
of his second museum of living and dead curl
osities and the moral drama he has been left
| in position for the useful employment Of his
talents elsewhere, and he is the man who can turn
over good round sum to Secretary McCulloch
in an auction sale of tickets to the impeach-
H. H. II,
among the principal cities of the Union for
sale, giving due notice of the time and place in
each for the great event. BY this plan, we
dare say, the sales Of the impeachment tickets
might be made to reach the handsome figure of
twenty thousand dollars day. There ought
to be special sale of the tickets for the last
grand scene Of the drama-that is, the day of
the final vote which is to rule Andrew johnson
out Of the White House and 'Old Ben Wade"
in. Under proper notice the tickets for that
great day might be sold at an average of a
hundred dollars, which, for round thousand,
would foot up the splendid sum of one hundred
thousand dollars in greenbacks.


Should the impeachment Board of Managers
resolve upon the adoption Of this plan they
can leave all the details to Barnum, with a
liberal commission for his services. We think,
however, that at least five free tickets ought to
be allowed for the whole trial-one to JEFF
Davis. one each to his three most enthusiastic
bondsmen viz, Horace Greeley, Gerrt
Smith and John Minor Bolts and one to
Barnum.