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Year: 1866

The figures of the Report Of the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue present the strongest possible proof
Of the ability Of the country TO sustain and pay its
present debt. The total amount raised from this
source of taxation ia $4,000 95i II, an amount, the
Commissioner informs u.s. within twenty-five millions
of the total revenue Of the British Empire, and far in
excess Of the amount raised from similar taxes in that
country This is an increase the proceeds OF the
last official year of nearly ninety millions Ananay'
ss of this amount presents less cause of rejoicing
The tax on Iron and Steel, notwithstanding its
reduction, has produced Sl3725, 1873 80, an
increase of four aud half millions over
last year. Petroleum pays S5,3r39b
an increase Of nearly two and quarter millionsi to-
bacco and cigars nearly sixteen millions, an increase
ofover four mons while spirits, Notwithstanding
the eyasiOns of the law, Of which the Commissioner
complains and almost despairs unless seltregsterng
still be invented produce $50 95575 TO- an increase
of over thirteen millions; and the three months that
have elapsed since the close of the fiscal year show
more than corresponding increase in the tax arising
from this article yet more remarkable increase Is
seen in the growth Of the returns of income tax, from
800 567 $50 26 TO $50 994 1856 S. and though por-


ton of these returns arises in each year from tho M
comes Of previous years. the continued progress OF this
item from eleven to twenty and thence to sixty millions
cannot fail to be taken as mark Of continued pros
perity. The Commissioner, among his recommonda-


oas at the conclusion OF the Report suggests tho IN
crease Of the amount exempted from this tax to
81 900


Other sources from which this great sum is derived
Year: 1866

Vote for Richard Kelly, the Republican candidate
for Controller of the City and County Of New-York,
if you are sincerely desirous of a reform in the Gov
eminent We urge his election not because he is the
Republican candidate for on that ground alone he
would have little chance, but because he is man of
unquostionable integrity, ability and experience in
public affairs He is not in the power of the Ring,
and that association Of harpes after his election, can
bring no influence to bear upon him in their schemes
of plunder The taxpayers of all parties have a
direct interest in his election, and WILL wetrust labor
hard to effect it, before the polls close to-day We
have already shown that the Controller has an office
Of great importance and that hitherto it has not been
used for the full benefit OF the people. Mr.. Kelly
we know, would discharge its duties with energy and
see that the full income the City possesses should be
returned to tho Treasury while at the same time his
signature would never be given to the warrants the
"Ring" manufactures so easily. Vote for him, all
honest citizens and taxpayers irrespective of party
his election will be a triumph Of economy honesty
and reform.
Year: 1866

A telegraphic dispatch from New-Oreans informs
Us that it is rumored there that Macmillan, yielding
to the wishes of his political friends has returned to
the City of Mexico with the view of resuming the
functions which have been given to understand be
had virtually abdcated. Oh these "rumors" about
the unfortunate monarch When are the positively
bewildering contradictions with which we are daily
favored relative TO his movements to come TO end
Why will he not either leave Mexico at or make
up his mind to stayl 1t is much to be desired that
he would forthwith decide upon something.
Year: 1866

The spirit of the House was expressed yesterday in
the repeal Of the law giving power TO the President to
pardon Rebels without trial Mr.. Johnson's course
in pardoning first, and then appointing to Office
leaders of the Rebellion, has convinced the country
that such unlimited authority cannot be safely trusted
TO his hands
Year: 1866

No notice can be taken Of Anonymous Communications What
intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
and address Of the wTer-not necessarily lot PuDhoA
ton. but as a guaranty for his good faith
All business letters for this Office should be addressed 70 TN
TRIBUNE" New-YOrk
We cannot undertake to return rejected Communications
Year: 1866

Viewed in relation to the great and peaceful contest


Of principle in which Congress has come of victor,
The enthusiastic Yeleoms given By the people Of
Washington to the Representatives of the Nation
exceedingly proper. Three thousand persons, one.
Year: 1866

n First Use OF CHIMNEYs IN Enc
LaAND.-Not until perhaps about the
l4th century was real chimney seen
in England; previous to this the
dwellings of even the opulent must
have been miserable places, in so far
as regards domestic comfort when
compared with that which is usually
uppermost in the modern mind. In
the middle of the spacious halls of our
ancestors was placed the hearth, upon
which stood the andirons, where hori-
zontally lay the ends Of the brands,
which by means of heavy two
pronged fork, were arranged in the
best form for throwing out light and
heat. On the roof, over the hearth,
was turret or tower, filed with
boards, disposed in such manner as
to exclude the wind and rain, and al
low the smoke to escape. "In this gaunt
and aguish apartment" )" says a writer
on the subject, cheated by single fire,
the company were in a position not
much different from what they would
be in the open air !; not a particle Of
heated air could add to their comfort for
as fast as produced it escaped through
the louver. Light was the only solace
the greater number could derive from
the blazing fuel and the few who
were in situation to feel the radiant
heat were incommoded by the current
OF cold air, sweeping like hurricane
along the floor towards the fire. From
the height of the louver, and low tenn
perature of the smoke, few of the buoy
ant flakes of charcoal found their way
into the atmosphere, and the larger
the bonfire the thicker was the layer
OF SCOT deposited upon each individual.
boisterous weather also brought its
annoyance had the fire been made in
the open field they might have moved
from its miaeries.'' AS it was with
our ancestors before the invention of
chimneys, so was it with the Greeks
and Romans, who with all their arts
and learning, their fine minds, elegant
tastes, lofty idealism;' and beautiful


forms and faces, must have presented


but indifferently cleanly exteriors after


having been exposed a while to the
smoke of their own dwellings. II The
Sanitary Reporter. 90
Year: 1866

A case involving the constitution
ality of the Civil Rights Bill has just
been decided adversely by Judge
Thomas, of the Circuit Court of Vir-
ginia, sitting in Alexandria. In a
civil action between white men, one
OF the parties offered to produce negro
evidence.


The Judge decided that inasmuch
as the State laws of Virginia forbade
the introduction of negro testimony in
civil suits to which white men alone
were parties, the evidence of the negro
was inadmissible, and that no Con.
gressional Legislation could impair hei
right to decide what persons or class o.
persons were competent to testify in
her courts.
Year: 1866

Horace Greeley urges every body to
"buy land" He says:


Gland is still amazingly cheap in
most parts of our country, and is not
destined to remain so. immigration
is very heavy; we are all sick of war /;
and our population increases at a rate
which will double it every twenty
years. The common notion that we
still have an enormous area of arabic
soil unappropriated is a mistake
West of Kansas and Nebraska-that
is, over three hundred miles west of
the Missouri@-there is little good
land. The central table-lands of our
continent lie SO high as to be cold and
frosty, and in summer are parched by
persistent, pitiless drouth. Even
were not the lack of timber a serious
obstacle to settlement, not one acre in
fifty could be rendered productive with
out irrigation and artesian wells, and
these are very costly.
Year: 1866

WRAPPED IN THE FLAG.-A cor
respondent of the New York World,
writing from West Point the night
before the burial of General Scott,
says:


ID ain the spring of 1861, young lady
of Washington made for General
Scott large American flag, every
thread of which her own dainty fingers
sewed and having sometime preserv-
ed it with pride and affection, the Gen
eral, no longer than a month ago, said
that he wished to be buried in this flag.
1t was unfolded last evening in the
ante-chamber of the dead soldiers
room, and will contain his remains y
Year: 1866

The Boston Traveller says that the
following incident lately occurred on
one of the Cambridge horse cars:


A car going from Bostonwas crowd
ed, when a lady entered and looked
with dismay at the scarcity Of seats.
A gentleman rose and offered her his
seat. Sheimmediately took possession
of it without word of thanks. The
gentleman seeing this, turned to her
and politely asked her if she would
rise a moment and let him get bundle
he had left in his seat. The lady rose,
the gentleman Immediately occupied
his former place, remarking that a
seat that was not worth thanking for
was not worth having. The lady was
somewhat mortified, and was obliged
to stand the rest of the way.
Year: 1866

SAVING Corn FoDDER.-Nobody can
tell what kind of a fall we shall have.
If we have as good September as We
had August, there will be large corn
crop ripened. We never saw corn pull
up as it has this last month; but there
is a great deal that may not possibly
ripen, and the question is bow to make
he most of this Keep sharp eye on
the weather, aud when the chances are
in favor of frost, cut up the fodder, and
secure it at once. Tender corn fodder,
saved without mold, is most royal feed
tor cows, colts, sheep and in fact, for


nearly every kind OF farm stock. Corn
blades cut and cured in the shade be-
fore they FIRE in the field; and stored
in bundles on dry scaffold is super
royal feed for fast colts.-Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1866

Take good new cider, fresh from the
press, dissolve in it sixty pounds Of
common brown sugar to each fifteen
gallons ofcider, and let it settle. Then
put this fifteen gallons into a clean
barrel, and fill the barrel up with clear
cider to within two gallons Of beingfull
leave the bung out forty eight hours
then put it in, with a small vent. Let
the barrel stand a year-the wine is
then fit for use. 1t needs no racking.
The longer it stausd the better. 1t il
so much better TO drink wine without
poisonsous drugs, that costs but twenty.
i've cents gallon, than the vile pois-
ons which cost from SO to S5 a gallon,
that we think the change would be an
Improvement.
Year: 1866

SORT THE SHEEP FLoCKs.-These cool
nights should admonish the wool
grower that it is high time his sheep
were separated for their various uses,
the bucks to be secured in the pasture
and their condition attended to; the old
and feeble ewes put by themselves to
iatten for mutton, rather than to be
ALLOWED to run the risk Of breeding and
die in the spring; the ewes for breeding
to be kept in good heart but not allow
ed to become fat The young especially
of the gne wool varieties should not be
allowed to b:eed until they are Two
years old.
Year: 1866

EARLY FALL WoRK.-Have you
ditching 10 be done? A we'll to be dug?
A swamp hole to grub and clear up?
a roof to be shingled or any such dry
weather work to be done? Allow us
to hint that now is tho time to get
ready for such labo-s. The days are
getting shorter at both ends, by and
BY the rains will come sousing down
their cold buckets full, giving the
workmen wet feet and chapped hands
to nurse and grumble over. A day
now is worth two days late in the fall
in the quality and quantity Of the
work done, besides the certainty OF
having it done.
Year: 1866

If one pine tree can make pitch, how
many will make a pitcher3


If one twinge of pain mako an ache,
how many will make on acre2


And if it take four men two days to
eat ham, how long will it take them
10 eat hammer?
Richest Is be who wants least.
Year: 1866

Ing pictures should not be reduced to q
mere branch of manufacture. The 'Yan-
lkeesn have earned q fame for getting up
things in hurry and turning them into proata-
BILE channels; but we need not say that when
applied to tho fine arts this Is very damaging
reputation. The proverb cart is long and life
Is shore is as old as the days Of the Roman
poet and older; because ages before the adage
was written its truth was attested by the great
est monuments of art the world ever saw.


Therefore we must not make pictures as we
make clocks, or sewing machines or corn
reapers, If we would build up a school of
American art. Pictures hastily and carelessly
'got up" such as we regret to say too often
make their appearance in our exhibition rooms,
do no credit to our reputation. Shoddy may
purchase them for time, it is true, but Shoddy
will 60 abroad and learn in Europe to
discriminate between good pictures and bad
ones and it will patronize foreign collections to
the detriment Of native artists It is, therefore,
a matter of interest to the latter to cultivate
higher style, as it should also be the instinct of
national pride to elevate American art to the
loftiest standard.
Year: 1866

ANOTHER DREADFUL GLYCERINE TRAGEDY
We publish to-day very interesting account
of catastrophe that occurred at Aspinwall a
few weeks ago. 1t was occasioned by the ex-
plOslon Of a quantity of nitro-glycerine, equal
ing in power seven hundred kegs of gunpow-
der. Seventy lives were lost and the massive
fre-proof warehouse and depot of the Pacific
Railroad Company, together with adjacent
buildings, were completely demolished. Fol-
lowing as this disaster does directly upon the
terrible event arising from similar cause in
San Francisco, we are again forcibly admon-
ished that some action should be taken by
Congress to guard against accidents of this
description. With the power to regulate COM
merce Congress has certainly the authority to
regulate the mode in which so dangerous
material as nitro-glycerine shall be inn
ported and transported. Now is the time to
take such action; for delays in all
matters of public benefit are dangerous, and
especially will they be so if legislation on this
subject be unnecessarily deferred. A large
amount of this compound is stored in this city,
with no more precautions taken in regard to it





notice that the Mayor has authorized the Fire
Marshal to seize large quantity and put it
out Of the way; and the inventor or agent in
this country has been placed under arrest for
importing 80 dangerous compound without
proper representations. In regard to its ter
rible explosive qualities, we have only to re-
fer to the frightfal occurrences in this city, in
San Francisco, and lastly in Aspinwall In
stances Of less consequence are also at hand.
Among others we hear Of coachman who
oiled the wheel-hubs Of his carriage with the
article, supposing it to be common lubricating
oil, and that the vehicle had only been In mo-
tion few moments before grand explosion
occurred, demolishing the coach and killing
the coachman. We again urge upon Congress
and the local authorities to adopt such meas
ures as may be calculated to prevent q repeti-
ton Of the catastrophss we have been obliged
to chronicle within the past few days.
Year: 1866

The Senate took Up on Thursday the Tariff
Bill as it came IRON the House, and after
remarks by Senator's Fessenden and Wilson,


to the effect that the bill needed important
alterations, motion to refer it to the FL
nance Committee with instructions to report
it next December, was carried by vote OF
% yeas to l6 nays. This Of course leaves
the Tariff. as it now stands. from SIX to eight


months longer. We presume the decision Of
the Senate was based upon the considerations
that it would be impossible to bring the
House and Senate to an agreement on some
Of the more important points Of the bill
without consumption of time which was
needed for other and highly important mat
ters before the close of the session, and that
the public interests Of the country would not
suffer so much detriment by leaving the
Year: 1866

Inc jealous eagerness with which the ra-


bid copperhead papers and politicians of the


North. and the active supporters of the re-


bcllion at the South, join their acclamations


in favor Of the Randa -Doolittle Convention


to meet at Philadelphia on the l4th of Au-


gust, has revealed its true purpose and what


will be Its character


For a few days there was show Of doubt


in some quarters as to It's object. 1t is to


be merely concern, said some OF the
democratic papers, to modify the Union-Re-
publican platform IN some particulars, thus
to make it more acceptable to the people,
and give additional strength to the party.
and we will have nothing to do with it
Now, however, the tune Is entirely changed.
Delegates from the rebel States are cspeciai-
ly urged to attend and the sound OF prcpara-
tion. by the call of conventions to appoint
delegates. Is heard on all sides throughout
the States lately in armed rebellion, and the
ranks Of those at the North who gave them
aid and encouragement. The great object
Of the convention Is to bring together and
re unite, If possible. the shattered links of
the old Democratic. pro-slavery. State-soye-
relgn'y party, and to give it power for fu-
ture action and the hope Of Its chief IA
yorers is that they shall weld Andrew John 7.
son fast into their chain. The convention
will be chiefly made up of men earnest for
that sort Of work, and they will be the only .
ones there who Will have influence or power 4
IN it. There may be present scattered
handful OF purjlind, uusta5le-minded men
who heretofore called themselves reruhli-
ans, or unionists while the war asted, but
Eho are now ready to take up with any side
Thlch they believe viii prove the winning
me ; but they viii be of no more account
n the convention than pile Of old hoops
md burnt out stove PIPE is in d Wholesale
hardware s.1re.
Year: 1866

Let it he engraved on every heart that
treason is a crime and traitors shall suffer its
penalty. While we arc appalled,, over
whelmed, at the fall Of one man in our
midst by the hand of a traitor. shall we al
low mon-I care not by what weapons-to
attempt the life Of the State with impunity?
While we strain our minds to comurchend
the enormity Of this assassination, shall we
allow the nation to be assassinatod / speak
in no spirit Of unkinluess leave the
events Of tie future TO be disposed Of as
they arise, regarding myself as the humble
instrument Of the American people In
this. as in all things. justice and Judgment
shall be determined by them. | do not
harbor bitter or reyengeful feelings toward
any. In general terms, | would say that
public morals and public opinions should be
established upon the sure and inhexible
principles of Justice. When the question
Of exercising mercy comes before me, it will
be considered calmly, judicially-remember-
ing that am the Executive Of the nation.
| know men love to have their names spoken
Of in connection with acts OF mercy; and
how easy it is to yield to this impulse. But
we must not forget that what may be mercy
to the individual is cruelty to the State


ANDREW Johnson. April Is, 1865.
Year: 1866

ISTEErsr.-iiaw many people in the
country have found out tie truth OF the fJl-
lowing, ly Henry Ward Bcochcr


" NJ blister draws sharper than interest does
OF all the industries none il comparable TO that
Of interest. Il works Jay AMI night IN fair
weather AMI foul. L guaws a mans substance
with invisible teeth. Il binds industry with its
film as a fly IS bound upon a SPIDERS web
Debt Tolls man over and over, binding him hand
and foot. and letting him hang upon the fatal
mesh until tie long legged interest leyours him.
There is TO crop that can afford 10 pay interest
on a farm. There Is but cue thing raised on a
farm Ike it. and that is the Canada thistle,
which swarms new plants every time yau bleed
its roots, whose blossoms are prolific. aui every
one the father Of q million seeds Every leaf is
az awl, every branch q spear, and every single
plant Ike platoon Of blyouets, and 4 field Of
them is Ike an srmel host. The whole plant
Is a vegetable curse. And yet the farmer had
better make his bel Of Canadian ihistles than
attempt to lie at ease upon interest"
Year: 1866

Before Congress votes an increase of our
regular army to seventy-odd regiments,
costing at least $50,000,OO0 per annum, we
hope some will attempt to answer our ohiec-
tiOn that there will be no such army only the
official skeleton of it-wherein there will
be about as many officers as soldiers. ,r,s d.


Understand, then, that we object to an
increase of our infantry regiments to fifty
and our cavalry to ten, because the men
will not and cannot be enlisted to fill those
regiments-that the intent is to make good
places for officers who will have no COM,
mands, and who will divide their time
mainly between Washington, Saratoga and
Newport living in idleness and luxury on
an already overtaxed people. Let Congress
ascertain whether the regiments already
authorized are or are not full before they
create any more. If we cannot fill few
regiments, when we have just mustered
out nearly a million men, we surely are not
likely to fill twice the number after the taste
for War has subsidized, and our people have
had las we trust they may have-genera-
tions of profound peace-N. Y. Tribune.