TUB DAlii EVENING TKLEGRAFII PHILADELPHIA; WEDNESDAY; MARCH 3, ' 1SG9. Sr&IT OF THE TRESS. vditpiuaii unwn or thi LxAsnia joobbau pro 0CBK1BT TOriOH OOMKLED ITUT BAT FOB THI BTBHIKa tBUKJBAT. Mcncrai Wrant and the OntmlbSloncr of internal Keveiiue. prommlf- r. Times., General Grant is reported ts Baling to Mr. Pelauo tbat if be could Judicious! do ao he would gladlr giro bliu a place in Lis Cabinet, but tbe position of Ciuuiijisgioner of Internal Revenue be regarded as among the most important offices in his gift full equal to a Cabinet position. H General Grant be oorreotly reported, it Is manifest that he fully understands the great Importance of tbla oiHoe to his administration. Ilia conversation, together with the faot that the announcement ol this appointment pre cedes that of tbe Secretary of the Treasury, d must have been determined on without consultation with the person who is to 1 that office, shows that under tbe next administra tion the Commissioner, although nomina ly a subordinate of the Treasury Department, is, tafaoS to be tbe sponsible head of the Reve nue Bareau. This is as it should be. Mr. Rollins was never mre than the nominal head of that bureau, always liable to be overruled by the Secretary, and not iu'requently by a mere olerk in the Secretary's office. We believe H is true that, although Mr. Kollina baa held the office for nearly four years, no assessor or oolleotor was ever appointed on his recom mendation, while for the last two years the Seoretary has hardly gone through the form of oonsulting him upon the minor appoint ments of the department. Such a oourse is destructive of all disoipline and of all effl olenoy. No subordinate oared for the Com missioner, and they obeyed or disobeyed his directions Just as it suited their pleasure. All understood that to quarrel with him waa to gain the aotive support of the President. The Commissioner found himself at the head of a bureau the subordinates of which he could neither appoint nor remove, and whose official aotion even he was unable to direot. Mr. Rollins' administration has not been a suooess, but no one oan truly affirm that he is .responsible for the failure. Opposed as he has been almost from the start by the Presi dent, with the whole force of the administra tion, and particularly Its thieves, which cer tainly have constituted its most active if not its most numerous class of adherents, arrayed against him, success was never possible. A man with a different temperament from that of Mr. Rollins might have attempted more, but his failure would have been equally cer tain and perhaps even more disastrous. Dis sension and weakness at Washington have been the bane of the revenue service and the primary cause of its complete demoralization. But under the incoming administration all this will be changed. General Grant under stands, as only military men oan understand, the moral power of disoipline. He knows that to be useful his oommissioner must be re speoted, and to be respected he must be the actual head of his department. He must have power sole and absolute power and control over hia own subordinates. The President elect will never hold the head of a depart ment responsible for the oonduct of subordi nates be did not appoint, and whose removal from office he Is powerless to effect. We erpeot, therefore, that entire oontrol of the revenue service will be aooorded to the CommiBbioner, and for that branoli of the Treasury Department he will be held respon sible. Thus administered, the office of Commis sioner of Internal Revenue is one of the most Important offices within tbe gift of the Presi-aunt-elect, not surpassed in consequenoe by any in the Government. Id giving the Revenue Bureau a responsible head, General Grant will have taken the first step requisite to a successful enforcement of the Revenue law; but even with a united Executive Government at Washington, suc cess will not be attained without an effort. He who supposes that all whisky rings are to expire with the present administration, and that no bad men are to seek and obtain office under the next, has but little knowledge of the widespread demoralization which exists when it is only a question of cheating the Government. Many bad men will obtain office. Many who enter office with entirely honest purposes will be oorrupted afterwards, lot human nature will not change with the change of administration, and the temptation to oheat will be as great as ever. But before a Commissioner can suppress fraud he must be able to establish the faot of Its existence. Bpeolflo allegations of fraud must be supported by specific proof. Bow is the Commissioner in Washington to obtain the knowledge, first, that fraud exists, and second, the proof by which its existence may be established f This at best is extremely diffioult for him to do, and under the present law we deem it well nigh impossible. Of eonsse the matter would be greatly simpli fied if the local officers would do their duty. But the greater proportion of the local officers in the great centres of revenue collection will not do their duty. These never have and never uill; and under the present law it is not within the power of the Commissioner to compel them to do it. The difficulty is lor (he Commissioner to know what particular officer Is violating his outy. Take the oase of a distillery iu New York, that aooounts regularly' for 85 per cent, of Its assessed capaoity. Now bow Is the Commissioner to know whether the distiller aotually produoes 85 or 125 per cent, of the estimated capacity oi bis distillery,? Under the present law it is all in the hands of tbe local officers, and thev are a close corporation. The law prooeeds upon the, theory tha. the mere declaration that the local officer is ti ba held to a strict responsibility for the frauds commlttAii in t.i. district is sufficient to seoure his vigilance and f, 3 l ! ( j -i r ( . "uij, ua leaves lun vrumuusBioner no meana uui.ine impossible one of personal supervision, of tracing tbe vague and shape. less charge of fraud to the particular distriot wnere u nas Deen commuted. v Local omoers should undoubtedly be held responsible for frauds in their respective dis tricts, but human nature will have to un dergo a radical change before men are found willing to convict themselves, either of collu sion or inoomretenoy, by reporting the exist ence of corruption in their own districts so long as the law affords them the means of set tling and covering up matters that should be subjected to the widest and most searching investigation. . Hence it is a mere mockery to talk of hold ing them responsible without giving to the Commissioner power, througn a numerous and trusted staff aoting directly under his orders, and in conjunction 'with the Super visors, of ascertaining whether the law U enforced,' and if not, of fixing the responsi bllitv for , the failure upon the proper offioer As the law now stands, the Commissioner has no means pf ascertaining whether the law is nforcad in anr particular distriot other than those that are open to every oitizen. We have'no doubt Commissioner Delano will very aeon- dtaoover this defect in the present law and ask for its amendment Another ajii more eerious '.'difflculty which tbe CotnnlPBlorjr will enoountar In Wis eftrta at reform, arises from the faot that the ffloar upon whom he roust rely for the punishment of fraud do not belong to his department, and are not under his oontrol. Nothing oan be done in the way of enforcing tbe law txoept with the aid and cooperation of this Distriot Attorney.' The department must rely upon the courts for tbe enforoemnt of the law, and the faithful collection of the revenues will depend more upon a Valf-doten appointments to be made by tbe Attorney-General than upon any other dcsen appointment! to be made in tbe revecue service proper. With tbe right men for Distriot Attorneys in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cin cinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans, the revenue laws can be enforced, and the taxes on wLltky and tobacco collected. With a majority of these places filled with corrupt or Inefficient men, suooess will be greatly im perilled, if not entirely defeated. Knowing the oonsoientiocs efforts tbat tbe President-elect has made to inform himself thoroughly upon the workings of the revenue eervice, we are sure that be will at onoereoog size if be bas not already done so the vital necefsity of so filling all the offloes that have any direot bearing on the collection of the in ternal tax as to secure a harmonious co-operation of the various ofQoers of the Govern ment, in the interests of energy, honesty, and the conviction and punishment of the wretobes who have for four years robbed the country under every pretext that a orafty and oriminal imagination could invent. TJie New Administration and the Frcedmeu. From they. T. Nation. It is natural enough that those who have been laboring during the latt four years to secure the deliverance of the freed men from all legal disabilities resulting from their oolor or previous condition should form in their own minds, and should communicate to the minds of others, an exaggerated notion of the immediate value of what they have been seeking to accomplish. When the Recon struction aots were under debate, it was the custom of Messrs. Stevens, Bout well, and others to treat as sacred not simply their great object, but also the partioular means they fixed on for its accomplishment; that is, they put a person who was opposed to the elevation of tbe negro altogether in the same category with the person who was opposed to their mode of seeking bis elevation. It was, therefore, with the greatest reluctance they allowed anybody to debate their various bills. Out of pure "courtesy" they used occasion ally to give their opponents five minutes, or lliWen minutes, or, though very rarely, an hour, in whioh to comment on their measures; but they always made tbe concession with the angry and contemptuous air of persons whose opinions it was folly and presumption for any of their fellow-creatures to try to change, and who were oondemned by the silly usages of a corrupt age to listen to wicked men twaddling against the most valuable and effective refoim human wits had ever devised. It was, of course, impossible to hope for effi cient legislation from men in this state of mind. He is no statesman who does not want to bear his measure criticized by his oppo nents, beoause he is no statesman who is not more concerned with the question of making his measure work than with the question of getting It enaoted; and there is no way in whioh the obstacles to its working can be got at so readily as by hearing what its enemies have to Bay against it. Let them be ever so factious, they are seldom bo discreet as not to draw attention to its weak points, and betray the devices by which they hope to defeat its practical operation; but the working of the Reconstruction measures, provided they could get the House and Senate to give them three leadings and a two-thirds majority to pass them over the President's veto, seemed to give their promoters no more trouble than if they had received them directly from the hands of the Almighty. In this way of looking at them, too, they received, unhappily, plenty of support from a portion of the press. There was not one of their foolish predictions and wild threats and expectations whioh the New York Tribune did not hail as pure wisdom. The Immediate "regeneration" ol the South under the opera tion of the Reconstruction aots was talked of as if it were an accomplished fact. Anybody who was not convinced by Thaddeus Stevens' reasoning, and was not warmed by Mr. Bout- well's rhetoric, was set down as a man in sympathy with cjopperneaaa ana eaten up with "the sin of caste." It was. in short. impossible that legislation undertaken in suoh a spirit should be wisely executed, however sound us fundamental principles might be. and impossible, too, that utterly unreasona ble and extravagant expectations should not be formed by the public with regard to its probable results. OI course these expecta tions have been moderated under the stern teaching of events. The Tribune and Jnde pendent do not venture now to sing a double- leaded paan over the "regeneration" of another State every time the news comes that a new constitution abolishing discriminations based on oolor has been adopted by a "State lately in rebellion." After all that has hap pended in Uerrsia. Louisiana. Alabama. Mis tie Blppl, and Virginia, people are less hopeful and credulous. 1 hey see that the regenera tion of States aa well as of men comes slo wly, and tnat it is only in poetry tbat "old forms of vice and crime" can be rung out, like the dying year, by a peal of bells; and tbat, no matter how noble the theories you may have got hold of, their application to the practical regulation ei unman conduct is one of tbe most intricate and diffioult problems to whioh the human mind can address itself. Nothing is easier than to clothe them in bills and reso lutions; nothing harder than to make whole communities really respect and obey them in their daily transactions. What made it all the more desirable that great eare and deliberation should be ex ercised in the framing of the Reconstruction measures was that any mistakes made in the work were sure to be irreparable. It waa useless to hope for the long coutinuanoe at me xsoitb ot tbe temper towards the South, whether black or white, which carried the elections of 1806. It was useless to hope or believe that the extreme radical men would retain the hold on publio confidence which the war had given them. - Nobody needed to be a prophet, or even a very cloee observer of revolutions or of human nature, to foresee that when quiet times eame they would lose their Iniluence, and that those who came after them would hardly be disposed to sapplement or amend their work, and that If the Recon struction aots did not work well, there would be the end of them. It would be useless to go over this ground now to recall the failures or shortcomings of men who at least meant to do well and who, If they did not accomplish all they Bought, undoubtedly ac complished a great deal if it were not now more than ever seoessary to remind the pab lio that the failure of the Reconstruction polloy to do all tbat was predicted for it by no means rt leases either its opponents or its supporters from Ibelr responsibility to the South. The Government owed the negroes all the legal protection it oould give them. It owed them pel feet equality before the law; it owed them the tame measB of calling officials to aooount w4 of 1 and of 1 protecting themselves against class legislation whioh other nen and other olasse eujojeaj ana tbe.se tblngs It has given, and they can,' In our opinion, never be Uk.n Of this great glory the Reconstruction polloy oan never be deprived. But there is au evi dent disposition In every direction now to lot n.ecoD8vruouon aioue to let the a.ts aud the . ...... . - ' " neiore long win be adopted work aa vll they can; or, in other words, to Ih. th . groee memeeirfB to work as best they oan the legal machinery provided for their use. One eeeaims teDuency la tbe increasing oonoeu- traiion or tne public nulnd uunn (inn.n. cuuu b u. uubuu- nun maniotpal and ad- uiiDuvraiiTe reiorm, Wblob onlr afr,.nt th freed men as they alTeot aH other tne community, it was worthy of remark that although oobody doubts Grant's determina tion te enforce order whenever the lav ter mite him to interfere for its enforcement, he uJBue uu lueiiuon oi reoonstmotion, or of wnai tome people call tbe "ma In nntlnn ' la his reply to the deputation whioh Informed hlin of his eleotiou. He enumerated tbe leading objeots of his administration, but tney were an questions of revenue and of nnancial admlnietration. He is coin? to trv u nave me uoTernmeni eoonoinin iv and efficiently served and the publio obliga tions honorably met; but he is not going to asMut any man or body of men in taking ire vi lueuiftMFee. in oilier word, na is going to iouow tbe good Ameri can pian oi leaving evervbod to woik out his own salvation under the protec tion of the Constitution and the laws. Bven Wendell I'hllllps admits at last that he look for nothing more than the ratinoation of the fifteenth constitutional amendment, and de clares tbat with this he will be ooutent. So tbat the negro must dearly make up his mind to nbare the common lot and submit to the common disoipline. There is no doubt that for a time he will be dealt with unfairly. As we roiniea out last week, neither the amend ment any more than the Reoonstmotion aots oan, under all the oiroomstanoes, prevent him irom Demg frequently wronged ana oppressed, because there is no political machinery to proteot ignorance and inexperience completely against tkill, vigor, aud unscrupulousness, and the Southern whites can boast the posses tion of all three. But It has now to be borne In mind that there is nobody so much interested iu the suo oess of all the reforms now under discussion as the negro. Auj body who has entertained extravagant expectations as to tbe results of the Reconstruction aots or of tbe constitu tional amendment, and is now suffering from disappointment, has the consolation of know ing tbat there is no class of the community wnicn wiii oerive so tmicu Decent from a re iorm in the civil service, from an improved system of taxation, from the more honest and laitbml collection of the revenue, from iav provements in the administration of justioe, from the purification of the ballot-box, and from economy in all branches of the Govern ment, as tbe weakest and most despised class. wnatever in at may do. it is not tbe rloa or the dextrous Or shrewd who are most inte rested in good government. These generally manage to take care of themselves under any government, or even under no government at all. The people who go to tbe wall when legislators are ignorant and reckless, judges unlearned and corrupt, and tax gatherers thievish and lazy, are the very poor and very weak, no matter what may be their oolor, and the thorough remedies for tbe evils of poverty ana weakness are to una not in specifics but in general tonics. To make any part of tbe com- inunity permanently better in our day, you have to make it all better. To diminish the number of victims of oppression, you have to begin by diminisbing tbe number of op pressors. In other words, you have to elevate tbe whole oi society. The devotion of the best portion of this community through a whole generation to the task, first, of preventing the spread of sla very, and then of destroying it, bas permitted tbe growth of an enormous crop of abuses, which undoubtedly nave weakened all tbe usual guarantees possessed by either poor blaoka or poor whites for tbe enjoyment oi tbeir ngbts, so tbat the citizenship we now offer to the negro is undoubtedly worth considerably less than the oltizensbip weoouianave onerea mm twenty years ago. He is poor, and poor men count for lees in politios than they did tben, because the power of wealth, and especially of wealthy corporations, over legislation has enormously inoreased, and beoause the choioe of officers for nearly every position in tbe Government bas passed into fewer and less reputable hands; because the bar and judi ciary have deolined iu learning and lndepen dence. and beoause the weight of taxation has inoreased without any increase of skill in the distribution of its burdens; because the num ber of officials bas inoreased without any im provement in their organization or discipline; because oiimeB nave inoreasea, n not in num ber at least in variety and ingenuity, without any increase in the certainty or efficiency of the machinery of punishment or repression We look now for the rapid aud suoceBsfal application of the reformatory energy of the constrv to tne extirpation n vuee uew abases, and anybody whose history or sympa thies render him mere Interested in tbe lot of tbe negroes than in that of any other class of poor men and this many good and able men may confess of themselves may feel assured that whatever he does for the reform of the civil service, for the independence aud learn ing of tbe judicial bench, and for the bring ing of brawling, ignoraut, and corrupt poli ticians into disrepute, he does for the freed men. The next best service be oan render them is to assist in their education. To edu cate a black mau is to make him literally. In spite of tbe unpUa-aut state of things aQ the coast of Guinea, "an heir of all the ages." and to give him a weapon or onense ana aeieuue worth all the constitutional amendments ever naFBtd. Men who know their rights have never yet been utterly confounded or brought to naught. No tyrants have ever yet long tviannized over men who knew how to argue, and how to save money aud wait, though many tvranta have tyrannized long in spite of sta tutes and constitutions. Grant ami Our Foreign Policy. Prom the If. T. Eeratd. The war. tbe inoanaoitv of the expiring ad ministration, aud the scandalous devotion of Congress to the petty interests of party have left to General Grant a legaoy In our foreign policy whioh will require his early ana sen on s attention. While our civil war was raging France solicited England and Spain to join her in recognizing the Confederate tlov ernment and aiding the Confederate cause. Louis Napoleon's object was to arrange a tripartite treaty for tbe oontrol of the affairs and destiny of the United States, as bad been done for intervention in Mexioo. In fact, the Mexican policy of pronoe was an integral part of the plan of prooeduie against this oouutry. Spain was willing to go in if the. powers of Western Europe agreed upon the polloy, but England was afraid. She said that the job waa too big one to be attempted with any prospect of suooefs. But Pianoe prooeeded with the undertaking, bolstering up Maxi milian in Mexioo and the Latin race idea all through, Spanish- America, and Spain loaqed ber feeble aid, through kthe CapUiarGeueral of Cuba and tbe sly opening of the arneuala of Havana to the blockade-fanners during tbe war. ' With France we nave already settled this matter. For the attempted coalition against us we drove the French out of Mexioo and with them tbe Maximilian Government, whioh was probably as good, or,' perhaps, the best whioh Mexbo bas ever had. It was a part of the soheme against the , United States, and this was its deadly sin. Louis Napoleon, finding there was no other course left for him, came down from his policy like a man, aban doned the fallacious Latin raoe idea and all that, and like a gentleman pl0"d himself In tbe position of ancient irteudstiip. tmrao- count with France on this score is settled, aud we are ready for new and filendly business with her. With England the case is different. We bave a long account te settle with her. Un like her neighbor, sbe bas been putting on tb evil day and pooh-poohing our claims, in the hope tkat we should get tired of asking for justice and forget our rights. Recently by a lavish oonree of wining and dining she got Dandy Johnson to sign a foolish treaty, mix ing up all sorts of affairs with our war policy claims, whioh the Senate very wisely rejeoted at sight. This matter now calls for early at tention on the part of General Grant. There is but one honorable and rafe oourse for him to pur.ne. Let him order the Alabama olalms to be made up without referenoe to any ad ventitious matter, and send them to England by a special commission to present, with a de mand for immediate payment. We want no argument about the matter. If she deollnes to pay let tbe legation in London be oloaed, our Minister and commission corns home, and, closing all diplomatio intercourse with her Minister here, wail the issue of events. Time will not roll on long before our opportunity will come. With Spain there is the same aooount to settle. She was as hostile to ua while we were in the stress of our civil war as were France and England, and did not do aa muoh as they only beoause she had not the power. But what she did eo waa too much for a friend to do, and sufficient for an enemy to be oalled to account for. Full proofs of this exist in tbe fctate Department in the voluminous cor respondence and complaints of Consul-General thufrldt from Havana, and in the Navy De partment in the reports of our naval com manders in the Gulf. This aooount must be squared. General Grant's best oourse to do this is to recognize the belligerent rights of the Cubans, now in open war with Spain, as piomptly as did Spain recognize tbe belligerent rights ot tbe Confederates on being asked to do so, and extend to them the same facilities for tbe purchase of arms as did the Captain General of Cuba to the blockade-runners. As soon as the Cubans evince their ability to maintain their cause and establish a govern ment ttetacto, let tbeir independence be reoog- nized and their representatives admitted to the diplomatio honors of Washington. Should Spain make our aotion in this matter a casus belli, General Grant need only send Sherman and a few of bis marching men, or Sheridan with bis rough riders, to the Gem of the Antilles, and take lull guarantee for its good behavior towards us in the future. This legacy in our foreign policy is left to General Grant, and the whole country will be best f atisfi'd to have it disposed of in the manner we have here suggested. "lU'Coiistiuction." From the IT. Y. World. "3 he 'Tribune, tbe other day. In Its Wash in e" ion ccrresi ouaeuce, announces as a nxeu raoti 'Tbat tbe Clerk will not call tbe namea of tbe Representatives from tbe States of Ueorgla and i.onlsi8ua on the aanembllng of tbe next (Jon- grew..' far as Georgia la concerned, aud tbHt tbe Objeot to te enacted la tbe retention of a fall two thirds majority In tbe new House, are matters wblcb do not admit of doubt. The intimation to wblcb we refer waa not confined to tbe Tri bune's columns: and lis publication waa evl- aently Intended to pave tbe way tor a promised resolution or ice v construction (jommiuee in lavor of tbe expulsion of the present Georgia members. Tbe pretext for tbat proceeding, ai weil as for tbe omlselon ol tbe other names from tbe roll of tbe new Congress, waa of course tbe alleged violation by tbe local Legis lature ol tbe conditions of restoration " JY. X. Uimts, This pars graph is noteworthy in itself, but more noteworthy lor what it suggests. In itself it furnishes a new proof of the distrust and hostility with whioh General Grant is re garded by the radicals. They mean to make bis veto of as little account as f resident John son's, and by the same method, namely, the exclusion ol a sufficient number of Kepresenta tives to leave them a full two-thirds' majority for every bill wblob they wish to pass. Manacled, like President Johnson, with the Tenure-of-offioe act, and shorn, like him, of the veto power, President Grant will figure as a captive chief in tbe triumphal procession of the radicals. What boots It that he oan write a message saying that be dislikes a bill, when his veto can result in nothing but the mere formality of a new vote? The two main pillars of the President's authority are the veto power and the power of removal from office; the one giving him a oheok upon the passage of bad laws, the other enabling him to exeoute good ones. The Executive, instead of being the coequal and independent department of the government which the Constitution makes it, with power of self protection against legislative encroachment, is merely the ministerial vassal of Congress. 'ihe proposed exclusion of Georgia and Louisiana from tbe organization of the new House baa a satirical euggestiveness in con nection with the vaunted success of "reoon sttuction." It is now going on a year since tbe Chicago Convention pnt in the forefront of its platform a congratulatory boast that the great edifice of reconstruction was com plete. Its candidate is about to enter upon his Presidency with five of the teu States unrepresented. Those five chaotic States contain two-thirds or three fourths of the population and wealth of tbe South. Recon struction is an edifice in ruins, or rather it is a heap of rubbish which was never built up into flap. If the most vaporing and gas conading stump-orator in the Republican party had been elected President, instead of General Grant, be would probably shrink from the ridicule of repeating in blsiuaugural the bragging congratulations of the Chicago platform over the triumphant and completed aobievt meut of reooustruotion. Ihe dream of the Chicago-platform is soma what like tbat famous dream of King Nebu chadm zzarV, which he forgot in the morning, and tben was about to cut all tbe soothsayers iu pieces because tbey oould not interpret it. The magnificent image in that dream was dashed to pieoes and scattered like chaff, beoause the feet ou which it stood were made of ccromisgled iron atd clay, and crumbled as eoou as they were struck. Negro suffrage Is the clay in the great radical image, aud even in those States where the image seems to stand, the first collision will shatter it. That it can never be self-sustaining is conletsed by Congress in passing the pew constitutional amendment intended to put it under the protection of the Federal Gov ernment and uphold it by the whole force pi tbe national authority. Tbey have violated one of tbeir chief declarations at Chicago as a means of propping up the - tottering edifice of negro i reconstruction,, for -whose perfection ..." .. ... I -.Ji.iA3. J i .iluifc..'Ul..I.J'' they challenged the admiration f tbe oonntry In the same platform. In five of the ten States It is mere ruins or rubbish; and the same cause whioh make it a failure in these will be In full aotivity la the other and less importamt five, in the first general eleolions that take plaoe after tbe withdrawal of that great radical electioneering agency, the F reed men's Bureau. Even if the new amendment should be rati fied (whioh we do not believe it will be), negro reconstruction will be none the less a failure, bnt a failure masquerading in a au ferent dress. The abuses whioh will exist in the new State governments will soon oreate a Dew necessity for enlarging Federal oontrol over State affairs, and universal suffrage will be the same empty mockery that it is in France under Louis Napoleon. The new re construction debases suffrage to the very low est point, and if the ratification of the new amendment should fix it at that debased level, the only remaining remedy against corruption and chaos will oonslst in retrenching and curtailing, more and more, the looal authority In' the misgoverned States and absorbing their powers into the oentral government. Universal negro suffrage, riveted upon the country beyond reoall, would be the most gigantio stride that could be taken for trans forming our republican government into a consolidated despotism. There wouia then remain no other means of protection against the anaroby and abuses that would flow from authority in the hands of a brutal negro rab ble. If the new amendment falls, the recon structed governments will orumble to pieoes of themselves from the same causes that have made the attempt abortive in the five most important States. But if the amendment be ratified, a state of things will follow within five tears from which a strong military des potism, with General Grant at its head, would be considered as a lesser evil. FINANCIAL. Union Pacific Railroad. 1040 MILES NOW COMPLETED. The First Mortgage, Bonds, 11AYINU 30 YEARS TO BUN, , Principal and Interest Payable in Gold, TVE ARE MO W SELLIXtt AT PAR AH D INTEREST, Or exchanging for GOVERNMENT SECURI TIES on tbe following terms: For $1000 1881s, we pay a difference of 113117 SlOOO 1862a, we pay a difference of........ 141 '63 $1000 18618, we pay a difference of....... 107-62 SlOOO 1863a, Nov., we pay a diff. or. 121-63 $1000 laiOs, we pay a difference of.-.. . 90 42 1000 18058, July, we pay adlffdrenoe of 100-42 $1000 1867s, July, weoay adlfferenceof 101'17 1000 lfcCSa, July, we pay a difference of 10117 Or in proportion, as tbe market for Govern ment Securities may fluotuate, WEI. PAINTER & CO., BASKERS AMD DEALERS IS GOTERM OOTS, GOLD, ETC., No. 30 South THIRD Street. Z 19 PHILADELPHIA. URllOiU PACIFIC RAILROAD FIRST MORTGAGE 30 YEARS SIX PER CENT. GOLD BORJDS, FOR SALE AT PAR AMD ACCRUED INTEREST. m- DBALERS IN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, GOLD, ETC., No. 40 South THIRD Street, ti ti PHILADELPHIA. WANTS. WASTED LOCaL AND- TRAVaLLINO AKt-uU In .very olty and town la ih. Untied . -Urout luduoi uimui oil-rrd to mc'.- .i uii'ul ()11 or i()r w lib turnip, Wuoi x.i Aooin u . ! FINANCIAL. QA UK INQ IIOUS c or Nos. 112 ftnd 114 South TUllUl sirot ; PHXLADELFIIIA, Dealers In all Government Securities. HI) r OIV. W..l to VnliniMr..!!. ja mwi hi vmoi cum u v n m . Compound Interest Notes Waited.' ' ; ' " Interest Allowed on Deposits. . , COLLECTIONS HADB. BTOOXS boaai enfl I4U ' onOommlaalon. Bpeolal bualneai eoconuaodatlons reserve ladleaj W. will receive appUoatlons tor Policies of I. Inrarano. in tbe National Lire Inraraaee Company Of the TJnltea Buues. roll Information given at e e offloei utaa GLEMNNING, . DAVIS & CO No. 48 South THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA; GLEHB1MIKG, DAVIS & AMY No. 3 NASSAU St., New York, BANKERS AND BROKERS. Direct telegraphic communication wfti the New York. Stock Boards from tne FbllAdelpbla OSlce. u BUiMis(rtCo. SUCCESSORS TO P. F. KELLY & CO., BAKKEBS AND DEALERS IN Golj, Silver, anl Gmrenanent Bonis, At Closest Market Rates. N. T. Corner THIRD and CHESSUT Sts. Bpectal attention glren to COMMISSION ORDERS . in New York and Philadelphia Btoclca Board., eta. eto. ' 1 11 tin , ; LEDYARD & BAR LOW Hare Removed tnelr LAW AND COLLECTION OFFICE TO No. 10 South THIRD Street, PHILADELPHIA, v " And will oontlnne to give careful attention to collecting and eeoorlng CLAIMS throughout tbe United fitatea, British Provinces, and Ea rope. Blent Drafts and Maturing Paper collected at Bankers'. 128 6m - ilTIIIAHBOIW Dealers In United States Bonds, and Kern taAa srf UtAntr nwiit sUrtl1 IViihanvn. KTV&D VI UtVin. KUU UVIU A4AH(U1S V Receive Accounts of Ranks and Bankers oa Liberal Terms. ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE 03 C. J. HAMBRO & BON, LONDON, B. METZLER, 8. SOIIN k CO.. FRANKFORT JAMES W. TUCKER & CO., PARIS, And Other Principal Cities, and Letters of Credit Available Tnronghout Europe. , pm 8. PETERSON & CO., Stock and Exchange Brokers, No. 39 South THIRD Street, Members or the New Tork and FMladel phla Stock and Gold Boards. STOCKS, BONDS, Eto., bought and sold on commission only at either city. 1282 atuc rAcciMrorc rxn . V a W aavfl we w w a . a aw W B B w PANTALOON STUFFS! JAMES & LEE, HO. 11 HObTll SEtUNl) STBBHTi UJU Ul 111. WU&UbVSU UUi Lt U9 i. Have now on b and a very Urg. aud c&olc aw . m.nt or .11 th. iimw i tvlea or ' j . i.i Fall and Winter Fancy. CassimerM-.- IX THE MARKET, ' To whlcn tney Invli. the attention el lb. trad and omen. ii w w . AT WBMLKR4LK AWI BKT4IL. '' ' ' DRUGS. PAINTS, ETC. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & Op-, N. K. Corner f FOURTH and BACJS StSn r&lLADSXPHIA. ' ' WHOLESALE. DRUGGJSTfc, UtrOBTE-EM ASP ldANUPACTUfcEiW 0 Whit Lead uud Colorwl ' Faints,1 Putt ; : - VaruIshc W.Ct ; , , aOENTf KOH THE OKLKhaatUB FRl.ACJi ZDiC FA'INTS. , V'.? 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