gancoter Outtiligeturr. WEDNESDAY, DEC. N, 1888 Munising—How to Make It Pay Comparatively few men understand the art of advertising judiciously, but those who do reap immense profits from the money thus expended. In some of the larger cities there are talented wri ters who live by preparing advertise ments, and they are frequently paid at rates that would astonish most persons. Several hundred dollars have been known to be cheerfully given for the preparation of a single advertisement. That the writer received. Of course, the newspapers were paid thousands of dollars for spreading it before the pub lic. Yet those who have expended their money most liberally in this way have been the most successful in busi ness. Colossal fortunes have been built ttp by this most effective agency for securing the patronage of the public. The proprietors of patent medicines are most liberal in their use of printers' ink. They spread notices of their wares broadcast over the land. Num hers of them have spent the great bulk of their prolitsin advertising, for years at the start. They begun with an ob ject In view, and within proper appreci ation of the best instills of amassing a fortune. „Drs. Jaynes, and Ayers, liehm bold, the New York druggist, and others are instances in pint. Every man who starts In business adopts seine method of advertising. The lawyer " hangs out his shingle," and, if he Is enterprising, puts his card in the column marked "professional" of the local papurs in his district; the shoe maker parades u sign with pictures of Ills wares upon it ; theliatter hangs out a huge hut; the gunsmith dkplays gum such us only aglant could handle; the merchant blocks tip the sidewalk with his taxi's, tills hid liand,onte and costly show windows with line goods, displayed to the b”st po, , sible advantage and marked cheap; the manufacturer stamps his name indellibly upon his wares ; the tailor wears the latest style .of goods, cut and made up iu the height of the fashion ; the doctor employs a boy to call him out of church during service ; and the under,aker tries to t<at his rival in the lastefulnessof the hearse on which he rides with solemn visage, composed to suit the "last sad occasion.- •Iml, aim( in all that hut arta,,t;.,:,,, True it. is 01113' advertising in a steal wt.iy. IL attraets the eye of IL ettutipara Cicely nicturre itorlittli of the pulthe Compared with the re,tilts lo Iteohtainet from "a jutitetott , ti , e of itrititeis ' all the ileviees we Itave.utenlittiletl art insignificant. lie who inserts a jutlic lusty arranged atlverti,entent in newspaper ',end-. a special nie, , , , enger to lay a notice hefo;,,very °llea Ito reader , . .11.iq :Agent , are thii, working night. and day for Ilion. They go into Ow laniily circle, into the place of hu,iness, into the lintels, into over} place ,or l wn, and privv.tt , re,ort. They aro übiquitous and untiritus, working with an unimbi p, NVIT hui . ai up a f,r tune for bin' who under -tangs tni uunlern =ci•re! nl I,ll,lrieS, itilVutti , ing c lit= 111011ey, " "old fogy'' tiealer. ;-'O, it th.es, LuL it is returnhd twenty, or one liontlrtii fold in every itt,tance. N' Loan t . vi:i• failed to 'oak', money by adverii ihg who tried it while tivist• who bate paid the lint.it for tolvertising have in variably reaped ro,vartl. Mali Who the ailVtilitilge of iLho The human wind is easily inlitieheeth and it is not to turn the title of busine,s in 0 certain tlireciion. I'eo will go wl . ere linty art-offend ti,: great- intlucomtmt- to pu rchaec, awl th,ro is uo I:How nit•tio.tl (Jf that c:s:lll,3r, with I all iliiVelqi,( . ll With ( 1111 the allvantage aver annlher. But, rill (In not, awl 111,Vt'l . will do i4ll. T 11, consequence is that tho,e wln,llnadver tiso properly reap :111 rxtraortlinary profit. , • The niethial of advertising has much to do. with 4Lo sureess of it. We could mention firlliti t lais city which have reaped ' vvrfi large rewards from their skill pri IVO:Catkin of :Myer tisemetits, ;mil the liberal ill:11111LT ill which They have employed thi.4 great lever to move public The jurlieiaus advertiser oat u: ally wishes Ni ot the l'.llll - lie 1t111 , W,, other narrow-nittided inejudiers t i it, terfere with his Irtleiliess. 'l'o adv, r ti,e habitually ill the papers of 11111 party, and not in thost‘ of aim; her, is :8 much as to say to a certain largo elasstil customers, that their patronage 1:4 ilOl. desired. Si;ich tradesmen are never as stkccei-sful its, those who are mole haga- CiOLIS and Übe...al-minded. \\•e have re peatedly adviot•d our re:Cili.p: to buy ui tho..,t‘ dealers who advert:i.e most, in giving 01101 advise We have been perieetly It is ji.-t vi hat we W(a.lid do .I.lrotives, if we had no t.eresE in a iieNespaper. Tl,err is no 'tile immure i 1 on able than that those 0l aile'erth, lare,,ly are the uu,t libel' I deale:s. EVcry 1110.1; kt.S the experie:ciii will he fully cetivitut it or the entire truth or whm say. A . . 1 u❑ I.IIV:.1 (Ili• IN- r,1,11:::. It is the hilly lh will ratio I,:tper v.11;4•11 irt•ii!::ti,ll city anti county. It ht hklien hy neatly every I)eio.,eL•a: v. ire o.:iltely to bevotr,. ft porolta , er. This no.kes ti DAILY and %Vl:Et:h.\ IN11:1.1.1,;ENC!,:1; vvry be-t this !Or.D! and f•i! . 1* c,tlll:y nvn. Luilci• of stelc:os The tcplitt going the round, a the ;,) ;lie .11 • sr1 Nvi,ll that Iti.ti. ,i,at is not trii Mr. Sit2vtlis twver utterance t..):toy,ueh the I r. o':0 ,eri - Ololy OW a humor :0..111 tile impuil , tit action of liutler appropria , ,iw4 the seat. "l'lte shovin to lie a but uutui,u red 11..:1:4 in Oils. wai ter. IT is announced that Ben. Butler will take an early opportunity to deliver a speech on the finances in which he will Tine present Congress has made itself remarkable for a want of decency. On more thou Due occasion the country has been called upun to witness the most indecent exhibitions by its members. The gross insult tittered to the President when his Annual Message was being read cannot admit of excuse. The Con stitution thus defines one of the duties of the chief executive: President shall, from time to give to the Congress information of Ike state of the Union, and I'i-commend to their consideration such MC11,119,3 ilk ho :sledl judge necessary and expedient." That gives a large latitude to the President in the preparation f his au• nual message. He is not only left free to express his views iu regard to all public questions, but it is made his duty to communicate to Congress his opin ions upon "such measure as he shall judge necessary and expedient." 'ln discharging his duty in this respect he is entitled to a respectful and patient hearing, and no good citizen can help condemning the action of the Radicals AN effort will soon be made, under in the two houses. ' • the inspiration of E. Washburne, to Tue people will be at no loss to ac legislate the Court of Claims out of count for this disgraceful exhibition. existence. This would open the vast The clear exposure of the unconstitu fields of private claims to hungry Con- tional and injurious action of Congress gressuien and their hungrier friends, made by the President, was calculated and give them a chance for pickings to excite the ire of those who are re and stealings, that one seldom gets in a eponsible for it. We do not wonder the lifttime. . Radicals writhed and squirmed under the home truths contained in Mr. John son's message. It affected them as salt does snails. Their conduct will lead to a universal perusal of the document, and in that way their want of decency will be productive of good. take the ,:tnie ground he formerly' occupied. It will lie reweinberedl that he, Thaddeus Stevens, and otner lead ing Radical:i, agreed that the law crea ting the Five Twent lithe rendered them payable in currency. COL. A. K MeCLuni.: and several other friends of (lover or Curtin are in Washington looking out tor places under (taut. McClure is pushing Cur tin for a Cabinet appointment. The Ex Governor is said to have abandoned the contest for Senator. He has not money enough to go into the fight with a show of success. THE Washington Sub Committee on Retrenchment, which has been holding Investigations in New York concerning the operations of the Whisky Ring; will make a report to the House in a few days, which will, it is alleged, ex pose some astounding facts with refer ence to frauds on the revenue. TURKEY, through Its Grand Sultan, sends a peremptory ultimatum to Greece and demands an answer before live days are fled. Within that dramatically short time there will he war in Europe .43r a Grecian bend, THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. WEDNESDAY, - DECEMBER 16, 1868. The President's Message. We publish today the last Annual Message of President Johnson. Like all his State papers, it is distinguished for the clear and forcible manner in which it sets forth his views. Every one who:reads this message must COll - that it is an able document. The follies of the reconstruction measures of Congress are shown up in language so strong, and yet so plain, that the hum- blest citizen can fully understand every sentence. It arraigns the.. Rad cals of Congress before the bar of public opinion, and clearly con— victs them of the most criminal con duct. It shows how a restoration of the Union has been delayed and prevented for partisan purposes ; it exposes the costly machinery of the despotism which was substituted for free govern ment in ten States ; It demonstrates that the reconstruction acts are substan• tiully a failure; It points out the per nicious results which have followed the attempt to enforce them, and urges, with sound and convincing arguments, that they be repealed. The Tenure of Office Bill is success ully attacked, and is shown to be pro- Waive of great disorders, and the fruit- Col source of gigantic frauds. The most convincing reasons are given why the restrictions put upon the President us Coin mander , in•Ch lef should be at once removed. The disorders in our finances are dealt with at large, andithe fully which has I Inouns of clr la less 0301 In the prevailed In the management of this trem 82,517,129,552 82 ur)_ , !wit lln portant branch of our national lit' i Ai co MPA RISON' OF THESE fEMENTS, IT APPEARS THAT affairs is made clear to the dullest 'Com' STA THE DEBT, Iip:MD:EN THE Finsili prehension, The workingmen, the tax- DAY OF ) , A N . vV ( lnli c h ) :, N ß, ;.ll B l l i l7a t ,,, N ls l , l lB Tl -1 1 . .. , payers of both parties will read this ! It tl l si S L I E D $35 , 625 ,10 1.8 . ' . " portion of the President's Message with Had the Express published the state especial Interest, and will find In It meld, to which it now given currency at 'ouch food for thought. It is the clear the time lt . was transmitted to the press est and stronge.,L. arraignment of (ion by the telegraph, and corrected its m Is grol,s for lie extravagance and Its imbe take afterwards, it would not have ten cilily in the management of the mom,- tiered itself liable to the suspicion of Lary allkirs of the nation which we have intention ... y il misrepresenting a most ti •en. Whatever may be thought of the ha portau t matter of pubkic interest. The plan suggested by the President for the false report which it now puts forth,ap pay meat of the National Debt, the tax pears three days after the official rep sit payers will all agree with . him that it of the t , ecretary of the Treasury was laid should be paid as spee dily as possible, before the country in full. Does the in (Halar that the :rest burthen which editor of the Express suppose he can presses .s •,. the life out of industry may be conceal from the readers of Lis paper removed.- , _ the facts that, through the extravagance The President gi yes a brief and clear resume of the annual reports, and calls attention to their recommendations. The foreign affairs of the nation are reviewed and shown to be in in StaiSfaC • tory condition. ilut slight mention is made.of the Alabama claims and of tire negotiations pending in England with regard to the rights of naturalized citi -I,lls. The pr,sent condition of these Tieslions, they being the subject of pending consideration betwo.n our Minister and the British authorities, furnishes good reason for this seeming of a Radical Congress, all the vast sums of money wrung from the people by the most onerous taxation have been ex pended in conducting their foolish sc . lienies, and that nearly fifty million of dollars have been added to the national debteince the firstday of November,lB67. We do not wonder that he should desire to do so. The fact that the Radicals have squandered all the vast sums wrung from the people, and run the country into debt to the extent of near ly fifty millions in addition, in so short a time, is not calculated to commend the Republicatkparty to the favor of the It) concluding Ili, message tire Presi • mu-ses. dent recommends the Mllowing amend- We shall wait a day or two to see meats to the Constitution of the United Whether the Expreds will correct the States: gross in is statement which it has made. It can net plead ignorance, for the at . motion of the whole country was called ' to the errollm statement it pub . almost a week ago. The wince a istine" designation lion was not generally made in the He witt) shall be President, in ease publican papers,hut we did not suppose death. the and Vi " auy one of them would have the impu• dent. dente to pm'sist in claiming that the Third, fic election of Senators by the ; debt has been diminished, after the i•eople• publicatioh of the official report which Fourth, for limitation of the term of shows so large an increase. Such con years .r office of Federal Judges. duct is utterly inexcusable, and no This message will be universally read, paper making any pretensions to truth aiol'it can not help but deipeu in the , none,s would eu act. minds of the Atnerwau people, the con- _ _ cieiiou thaia change in the policy par- I :Near!) Twelve Millions More. :lied by the It.ulical majority in Con• The tit hi statement for December has gre,-, is al.soiutely essential to the safety at last been given to the public. 11 and prosperity of the nation. shows an increase duriv .Norrinbir of 511,002,202. The statement also shows the total funded debt on December Ist to be :.": , '.2.G45,711,134 '‘, fev; d,"ys since the I. ' " " mmi"" ;' t ,n e These figures are .f decided interest 'car, , , i - newspaper is Ito every person hi the country. Every hullcounty, na a snort editorial article fa-' dollar added to the public debt is a " ring the adoption of an amendment mortgage to that extent upon the prop to the Constitution, enforcing Negro erty and the labor of the people. 'lire Suffrage upon all the States. Since then poorest man in the land must pay his it seems to have thought better of the share of the interest and principal. Thu matter, and it is now doubtful about , laborer pays it in the shape of taxes on the propriety of such a 111W:eaten it t * What, he buys. The burthen thud ere argues, with considerable force, that Med is already extremely oppressive. It such au amendment would clash with cripples business and grinds the. faces the one lately declared to be adopted, of the poor. Still, there seems tin beau by which 014 question is left to the hope orachange. Radical extravagance eision of the States, with the provision , has add, , , , heady y nit millions to the that any State which declines to confer I public debt within the last thirteen the right of suffrage upon the negmes rum, . h „ . t That is almost as much as was within its limits, shall be restricted in I expended during any year of Mr. Bucti- Congressional representation to that anan's administration. extent. It shows a disposition to i s r ' If this kind of thing goes on a while nit the people to express their views on I longer repudiation will be the inevitable this question of negro suffrage, and ) result. That disgraceful disaster can intimates that it Will be time enough to j only be prevented by the most rigid attempt further constitutional atueml- economy. There is no use in declaiming clients when "the Union is fully re about the national power, if the financial I affairs of the country are to be misman aged as they have been. We claim that every dollar of the public debt ought to be paid according to the contract, but it can never he done, unless, there is a speedy and complete change in the management of the monetary affairs of the nation. The army must be reduced ; the navy must. Inc reduced; the horde of public officials must be diminished ; there must be an end to that louse system by which !'many millions have beet, annually voted away to railroads and other corporate monopolies; tile Southern States must be left tin sustain their own lineal gov ernments without the costly machinery I which has been kept up by Congress to I control negro votes; the tenure of office bill must be repealed, and all oilichtls held lo a strict accountabil , ity by the executive, and he held re Spolisihie in turn by the people; the expenses of every deptortinent of the government lutist tie lessened; the in terest upon the public debt must be reduced ; anti means must be devised by which a considerable portion of the principal can be paid annually; If that is not done, and done speedily, national bau - Kruotcy and repudiation are as inevitable as fate. We do hope such a disaster may be prevented from coming upon us. It can be averted, but not by the pursuit of such a policy as the Radicals have inaugurated. Un less there be a change, the direst mis fortunes are sure to follow. MEM First, for the election of President, and Vice Pre,itlent by the threat rote of the people, and making thew ineligible for re•eieetion. Til' Examiner on Negro Suffrage We are glad to notice this appearance I or rationality in our neighbor. We imagine it sees clearly that any attempt to force negro suffrage upon the people in the way proposed, would result in the destruction of the Republican party to Pennsylvania. It has sufficient sagacity to perceive that a sforsii of indignation would h... ! raised s hould the present Leg islature attempt to ratify an amendment enforcing ill gro suffrage. It knows that the people oi ink State are opposed to any suelt Unt,V: n.eit, and that. they would insist upon the right to lie can• suited about the matter. We do no , lieve a InDjority of t he present Leg bila i tore could be induced 101100001111111 11 g. If they did, we are confident that the Dennwracy would :;weep the State eels Lull by an overwhelming majorit), electing a tlneernor, and securing both bratichesof the Legislature. NVe imagine the Examiacr secs these things, as clearly as we do, :old that accounts for its change of position. It is not blind ! to the fact that it very slight change would have given this Slate to the De inoeraey last October, and it ki i ivws that our party is as strong tii.day all was then. It is nut strange that sagacious Radical politiciana in Pennsylvania should be ready to " halt." They know how vet y slender is the thread by which they hold their ascendency in this State, and are not disposed to com mit political suicide. We commend the I sagacity of tilt Exalnincr. Bad Manners in Congress Attempt to Conceal The Increase In the Public Debt. The Express, instead of publishing something like a fair abstract of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, contented itself with laying before its readers a meagre and incorrect tele graphic synopsis, which appeared In certain papers of the larger cities days before the document was made public. The most marked misstatement in the abstract to which we allude reads as follows : The Secretary's report will show that the public debt has been reduced during the year from Nov. 1, 1867, to Nov. 1, 1868—the dates at which the comparison is made-435,624, - 02.82. The true statement is to be found in the official report as published In all the larger newspapers of the country, and reads as follows: - - "The nubile debt on the first day of No vember, 1867, amounted to $2,491,504,470, and eouaLmted of the following itema: Debt bee rim; aein interest 8!,778,110,901 87 Debt batring currency Interest 426.5e8.010 00 Matured tleot not presented for payment 18,231,6:38 Debt nearing no Interest 402,585,077 25 Total Comb lu albliednuty Amount ra debt lcei caBh In the 'freak my 2,491,504;150 00 tm the first day ot November, 1868, it amounted to 82,527,129,532 82, and consisted of the following items: Debt IA arlng coin luterod 82,r:7,577.03 1 00 Det.t. boo , Ica; tourrt ney Interest /11,5111,000 00 Matured debt not presented lo payment Debi bearing no interest Taal Cub!lu tho Trea,ury Ihe Ind lan Bureau A bill has been summarily rushed through the lower House of Congress, transferring the Indian Bureau from the Department of the Interior to the War Department. The act was not even debated. It was understood that some of the Generals of the army favored , such a change, and that seemed to be I all that was needed to control the action of the House. Military government is popular with the Radicals. No good reasons for the change has been given. Twenty years ago, after careful discus. sion, the War Department was de , priced of control of our Indian affairs. For a long time thereafter we had little difficulty with the aborigines, and there is plenty of evidence now exist ing to show that e disorders which prevail are the r ult of the rascality of the agents. A). parts of our govern mental machidery seem to be put out of joint by similar agencies. The ,cor ruption of officials which has become BO universal under Radical rule lies at the root of almost every evil, which this country suffers. No mere shifting of the management from one department to another will bring relief. The cause lies deeper, and until that is removed we shall continue to go on from bad to worse. Murders In rhlladelphla Forney's Press says Thirteen prisoners were in the dock yes terday in this city charged with the crime of homicide, seven of wbotn were boys on • der the age of nineteen years. Is it not time that insuranes companies should make residence in Philadelphia an extra risk? Query ? Have they aKu Klux Klan in Philadelphia? What Southern city has ever shown such an array of mur derers at one time? Folding and Pasting by Contract. The increase of employees about the State Capitol, during the sessions of our Legislature, has come to be a crying evil. Front year to year the Radicals have been adding to the numbers of the long train of attaches and dependants, until last winter saw more employees of that description than there were mem , bers. A number of those whose names were on the rolls were never in Harris burg fora day during the session. Yet they drew nearly one thousand dollars a piece from the State Treasury. .The case of Illyus, the appointee of " Hon est" Andy Armstrong, Is familiar to the people of Lancaster county, and of the State. For the pasting and folding of documents alone, about fifty men were assigned, and to that gang of insignifi cant Radical parasites was paid forty thousand dollars I This seems to have excited the ellen. Lion of some of the Radicals themselves. We accordingly find two of them in this city offering to do the pasting and folding for the next Legislature by con tract. Messrs. Rauch and Cochran have made the following bid : We, Rauch &Cochran, of the city of Lan caster, hereby prepose to do all the work of "folding and pasting" for the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, at' the State Capitol, Harrisburg, which work was heretofore' dune by men employed as t•Pasters and holders," that is to say: We will fold and puck all the Legislative Records. Executive documents, messages and paers usually issued and circulated by the house of RepreserLatives ; thedally Records to be properly packed and in wrappers, and delivered on the desks of the members at or before 9 o'clock A. M. daily, if delivered In the fold lug room, by the printer before seven o'clock on the preceding eve Ling. This work, during the entire session, we will do and perform for the sum of Five thou• sand dollars, iind give bond and approved security, in the sum of Twenty thousand dollar, that the work will be well dime and according to contract. and specification, and alsll, that no property belonging to the State alai entrusted to our charge will be stolen or carried a way; that no papers and public documents shall be stolen by under lings anti hangers ou about the Capitol and sold to the paper makersof the Cumberland Valley or elsewhere, but render a faithful account ofall our doings, and of all property winch may pass into our charge. The men who make this proposition are the editors and proprietors of asmall Radical newspaper in this city. They claim to have a considerable circulation, and we do not presume they are asking Ulla jOb as a gift of charity. We take it for granted that they believe they can make money by the operation. They claim that they can, and their proposi• tiou is so fair a one that the Legislature ought to comply with it at once. Here 1. 9 is what they say,' , r paper to mem bers of the Legis Mug by way of en• forcing the mloptioi ' of their sugges -1 lion : s2 ' 025,F 02,848 02 133,008,308 02 U - '3 - 23 6 1.9,151,698 12 82,611 0U572 00 113,b73,010 24 Now, gentlemen. bore i. a bid, and we respectfully submit, fogyon r consideration, that it is your duty to give us the contract, unless somebody else should "go better" by offering do it for lees, In which case we should have notice, and a chance to cone down yet lower, if necessary, to secure the job. And candor compels us to say that at the price tor which we propose to do this forty thousand dollarjob—onlyfire thousand —Win, sic Think, allow us a reasonable margin. At this price, we would consider ourselves duly " provided for." Indeed, at live thousand dollars there is yet some money in • it—enough, perhaps, f. r a small "divvy. It will be noticed that Messrs. Rauch & Cochran offer to give good and sufli cient security "that no ' r eapers and public documents shall be stolen by un derlings and hangers on about the cap itol." This is an important part of their offer. It will be remembered that tons of new documents were stolen and Isold by the Radical employees a year or so ago. NVe favor the employment of Messrs. Rauch & Cochran on the I terms they offer. Thirty•live thousand I dollars are worth saving, to say nothing ' of the prevention of stealing. Ilemoval of the State Capitol The Philadelphia Post favors the re moval of the State Capitol from Harris burg to Philadelphia. We du not think the country members will be foolish enough to entertain such a proposition. It has always seemed to us that Harris burg was especially well suited to be the seat of our State Government. It is central and more easy of access than Philadelphia. If there into be a change, we shall insist upon the selection of Laucaster. There would be some ob jections, to be sure. The morals of our city would be likely to suffer seriously, but we could offer many inducements, which we need not specify at present, but which we think would have great luflueuce with the members. If the question is seriously iigitated, Lanca. to will pii in strung claims. Chief Justice Clime, who has just returned from Richmond, speaks in the warmest terms of the Southern people. He declares that the whites are loyal and anxious for peace, and that, if per mitted t') do so they would very soon recover from the result of the rebellion. He regards many of the acts of the Radicals us unwise, and calculated to produce difficulties. Such is the testi mony of all honest and sagacious men who visit the South. The stories with which Radical newspapers are filled have fur their basis the exageratious of ' tereste d carpet-baggers and scalywags, I who are seeking office as a means of subsistence. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. We publish to-day a complete abstract of the repo: t of the annual report of the Secretary of ille Treasury. It is a docu ment which greally interests the peo ple..,. The busi ' interests of every man in the C oot are constantly affected by the con( l tion of the national finances, and every citizen is directly interested in the character of our cur rency, the increase or reduction of the national dela, and the other matters with which tills report deals. The great problems fur the people of this country is how to pay the debt speedily. The report of Mr. McCulloch will be read with interest by all classes. THE (louse of Representatives has,' by a very decided vote, adopted the sug gestion of General Grant to transfer the Management of Indian Affairs from the Department of the Interim• to the War Department. It is only a question be tween these two departments as to the best and most expeditious way of dis posing of them. The Indian agency has been Idled for years by as rapacious a pack of knaves as have ever disgraced a government. They have hesitated at nothing from bilking a w.iole tribe of their annuities, to cheating a lone Indi— an out of his blanket. Instead of dis tributing the supplies put in their hands by Government for the use of the Indian they have frequently disposed of them before reaching the Indian country.— They have robbed them, and cheated them for years, and to do both with complete success, they have drugged them with vile whiskey. After long years of maltreatment at the hands of the agents of the Indian Bureau, It is now resolved to turn the Indian over to General Ouster, whose tender mercies are less cruel. THE Washibgton correspondent of the New York Herald Bays the Secre tary of the Treasury has concluded to discharge the negro messengers in his department, and to give their places to disabled white soldiers. We hope the proposition may not excite the Radicals, in and out of Congress, to the usual fury they display when any preference is given to "white folks." There are about eighty of these negro office holders, all hearty, fat and sleek. Some of them have saved considerable money out of their salaries. We hope no objections will be made to their retiring in favor of crippled soldiers, who are in want of a means of making a living, and unable to work. THE death of the late Thaddeus Ste vens will be formally announced in the House next Thursday, and 0. J. Dickey, his successor, will lead off among those who are to pronounce eulogies upon the deceased. From the report of a late Grand Jury in Erie county we conclude that it was possessed of more than the average amount of intelligence displayed by such bodies. The report which it made to the Court was not a mere routine af fair, such as is generally presented, but a well written document full of impor tant suggestions. Here is one recom mendation made by it: The publication of the different county statements, and other matter which inter ests.all the citizens of the county, should be distributed, without political distinction, among those papers which most nearly en able the object of the law to be accomplish ed. In order to do this, one or more jour nals of each party should be selected,-and it is no more than reasonable that the re quest of that portion of our citizens who ask that they may be permitted to see these important documents through their favor ite political medium should be gratified. In a country where the people govern them selves, each man has a right to Inquire Into the acts of those who have been delegated to perform official trusts, and every avenue of knowledge should be opened to public investigtion. A liberal spirit, consistent with a just degree of public economy is advised in all matte's connected with the better Information of the masses. No reasonable man will deny the en tire reasonableness of the views thus set forth. Such should be the univer sal practice. The system of favoritism which prevails in some counties, where, 0 from narrow-minded political bigotry, Southern Sentiment An Intelligent Grand Jury stuiements which should be most pub Holy made known are confined to Jour nals of a single party, ought to be done away with at once and forever. People of the different parties are taxed alike, and they have a right to demand that all such publications us are paid fur out of the common tax fund shall be publish ed alike In the papers of each party. • But here is another wise suggestion from this enlightened Grand Jury: The Jury take occasion at this period, when no exciting political event diverts the people's attention, or induces them to look ut suggestions trout a mere partizan stand point, recommend that hereafter sessions of the court be held, ut specified periods preceding each election, for the purpose of enabling all well disposed foreigners who may desire to assume the privileges of citi zenship, to do so with as little delay and annoyance as possible. The spirit of our institutions, no less thou the dictates of public policy, demand that every encour agement should be given to these emigrants to become partakers in the responsibilities of the government which gives them pro- tection and secures to them prosperity, free dom and happiness. • Considering the Radical complexion of Erie county, we confess we are a little surprised at the liberality of that recom mendation. Yet it is eminently wise and proper. To attempt to impede well disposed foreigners from becoming citi zens, or to impose harsh restrictions upon them, is a very short sighted piece of policy. It is emigration which has made this country what it is ; and to encourage the full flow of bone, and muscle and brain to our shores, is to draw hitherward the real wealth of the world. When the foreigner comes to us the best thing we can possibly do with him is to make him an Ameri can citizen as soon as he is pre— pared to discharge the duties of cid izenship. The sooner he is completely identified with us in feeling and in fact the better for us and for him. Any party which attempts a different method of dealing with that valuable class of peo ple must strike a direct blow at the material and political interests of the nation. We are glad to see such a sen• Bible recommendation from the Grand Jury of a Radical county like Erie, when aset of Radical fanatics iu and out of Congress are beginning a new war upon foreigners. Every able-bodied foreigner who enters this country now helps to lighten our. bur then of taxation, and will help in due time to discharge the great mountain of debt which is weighing us down. We need their strong arms to enable us to build up the places made waste by war. Then, let us net place barriers in the path of emigration by legislating figaiust well disposed foreign ers. Let us rather welcome them with open arms to all the rights of citizen ship. So shall they aid us i u the severe struggles which lie before us. The Legal Tende'r Act It is said to be certain that the Su preme Court of the United States will declare the Legal Tender Act to be un constitutional. How they could reach any other conclusion it is impossible for us to see. The law made creditors take depreciated paper fur debts already con tracted, thus causing a loss in many instances of more than half of what was justly due from the debtors. If that was not in plain violation of the clause of the Constitution which declares that "Congresi.,= shall make no law im pairing contracts," then we confess ourselves unable to comprehend the meaning of very plain Euglisn. The wonder is that any Congress should have had the brazen impudence to en act such a law. It was, however, only one of a series of the foolish and uncon stitutional acts of the Radicals. Their ignorance of the rules which control financial affairs, the world over, was most profound. They hunted up all the exploded theories which had been condemned as worthless in the world's past history, and there was not a cast off suit of old clothes, discarded as worth• less by other nations, which they 'did not try to make fit the limbs of this young republic. The Legal Tender Act was as foolish as Jack Cade's pronun ciamento in which he declared : "There shall be, in England, seven half- penny kiaces sold for a penny ; the three hooped ale pot -Mill have tell hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer;. all the realm shall lie in common, and in Cheapsideishall my pnlfry!go to grass. And when I am King (as King I will lie) there I shall be no money." The difference between Cade and our Radical Congress was only this: The former declared there should be no MO. ncy in England; the latter decreed that there should be no inomg in thc Unitcd LS'latcs, c.rupt "grccnbaoks." Jr seems, from the report of the SLe.. retary of the Interior, that the name of but one Revolutionary soldier remains upon the pension rolls. Soon the last survivor of the heroic army which achieved our independence will have passed away. But, it also appears that SSS widows of Revolutionary soldiers still survive. The mothers of the Rev olution were evidently younger than the fathers, or else they live longer. Yrobably a good many of these survivors were second or third wives. THE Hon. Caleb Cushing is on his way to Spain, ou a special mission from the Department of State. It has only recently become known that the object of his mission is to arrange fur the pur. chase of the Island of Cuba from the Spanish Government. It is understood that he is vested with full power to close a bargain with the authorities of Spain should that Government express a will ingness to sell. Mr. Seward's friends say it is his earnest desire to connect his retirement from the State Department with the acquisition of the Island of Cuba. SPAIN has got rid of the Bourbons only to be drifted into a supplementary revolution which bids fair to culminate in a long and disastrous civil war. The leaders of the revolution which banished Queen Isabella waited too long before organizing and putting in effective operation some settled form of govern ment. The new revolution which has broken out may sweep away the present leaders and their party, and what will be the ultimate result no one can more than dimly conjecture. THE end of the Freedmen's Bureau is not yet. The carpet-baggers and scalywags from Virginia, Mississippi and Texas are present at Washington in strong force to protest-against its abolishment; and their entreaties it is said prevail. They have nice pickings ings about the concern which tLeydo not want to give up, and it is almost certain that the people of the North must con tinue to be taxed to run the concern While longer. The Scape Goat or theltadlcals Our exposure of the attempt of the Express to misrepresent the report of the Secretary of the Treasury has " touched it on the raw." In his efforts to escape from an unplea , ant dilemma its editor writhes and wriggles until his distortions become painful to behold. In sheer desperation he exclaims : " Neither we nor the Republican party are under any obligation to defend the no ministration of the Treasury or any other department of the government under the o mtrol of two such democratic partisans as McCulloch and Andrew Johnson." tinder a proper and constitutional' administration of the government there would be some force in the above ex tract; but, now, there is none. The most ignorant man in the country must know, that neither the President nor any member of his Cabinet*has the slightest con'trol over officials. Congress has deprived the Executive branch of the Government even of the power of appointing and removing subordinate officers. The rogues sit in; their snug berths, and steal without let or hinder ance, so long as they do not offend their backers in Congress. They laugh at an Impotent President and defy his Cabi net. So long as they contribute liber ally to the corruption fund which the Radicals raise annually to carry elec tions, they mny plunder as much as tiey please, and no questions are asked. Congress, with its two•thirds majority, has exercised supreme authority ever since Andrew Johnson has been in power, and it is solely and entirely responsible for the present condition of the finances, as well as for all the mis. fortunes under which the country suf fers. By the silly and blundering legis lation of the gang of Ignorant and cor— rupt men who make up the Radical, Rump Congress, the resources of the nation have been so wasted that, in spite of the almost intolerably oppressive taxation to which the people are sub jected, the national debt is rapidly and continually Increasing. This Increase of the puidie debt is the "damned spot" which can not be washed out. It hangs in the political sky, like a black cloud, charged with the destructive thunderbolts of national bankruptcy and repudiation. The coin• ing tempest can only be averted by the wisest legislation and the most rigid economy two things which we see no good reason to expect from the party now in po o On the f th of next March Andrew Johnson wil etire from office. He will leave his administration to be judvd by impartial history, and need have ho fear of the verdict which will be ren• dead when passion has died out, and the clamor of prejudiced tongues is no longer heard. He will soon cease to be a scape goat for the sins of a Radical Congress. From the day of his retire ment the Republican party will assume full responsibility for whatever happens under its rule. It will be compelled to answer for sins of omission and com• mission. If the corruption and extrava gance of Congress continues, if the "whiskey rings" still rule, if revenue officers steal, if the taxes wrung from the people find their way into the pockets of Radical thieves, as they have been doing, instead of into the public treasury, the Republican party wil have to answer for it all. If heavier taxes be laid upon an oppressed people, to fur nish means t support an army of useless officials and political parasites in idle ness, the masses will know who to blame. If the public debt increases who will the Exprrss lay the fault upon after next March ? Where will it find a scape goat for the sins of its party when Andrew Johnson retires to pri vate life? Morrow B. Lowry on Arbitrary Ahrtsts. ' Morrow B. Lowry, State Senator from the Erie District, has been drawn into a controversy with one of the Radical papers in Erie. It charges him, among other things, with having been instru mental in securing the release of some parties during the war who were im prisoned in this State merely for the expression of their opinions. Mr. Lowry admits the charge, and administers a very sharp rebuke to the Radical editor who thus assails him. He declares that "in those exciting days of the war" " many good men and more weak ones seemed to lose their balance"—that what he did he " believed duty both to God and humanity" required him to do —that the arrests referred to were " il legal and unjustifiable,"—and that his " chief anxiety" was to " ward off this great shame" which did more to hum ble our country in the estimate of patriotic men than rebellion itself. In an editorial referring to this mat ter the Erie Obserrcr says: All this simply reiterates our own views at the time, and coming from the pen of the admitted leader of the Rupublican party in this part of the State, will do much to wards changing the views of the members of that party in respect to the position of Democrats upon the question. It is a pity that Mr. Lowry did not feel impelled to make his views publicly known while pie events alluded to were transpiring, since tie might have prevented much wrong from being done, and helped dispel much of the prejudice which has grown out of the very occurrences that he now characterizes as "illegal and unjustifiable" One of the most important revelations which Mr. Lowry makes upon this subject is that in which he states that it was at one time seriously contemplated to arrest Hon. Wm. A.,Wallace and Boy. Bigler. "Many," he says "were clarnorous for their arrest— some influenced by excitement, others -by mercenary motives"—but better counsels pr evaileil, and he congratulates himself upon having been one of the most active in averting the stigma, in which, for their credit let it he said, "the leading Republi cans of the Legislature and the men of the party" sustained hint. How much basis there was for the proposed incarceration of these gentlemen - we leave Mr. Lowry to tall in his own language: "There is this that I may say of Senator Wallace—that while I have and did differ from him all through the war, as our Sen. atorini record shows, as far as men could differ, yet I have always found him in pri vate life an honorable gentleman and true ' to his friends. And of Gov. Bigler t ids: that the hardest day's work I ever did in my lite, was in 1961, in the hospitals after the battle of Bull Run. administering to sick and wounded soldiers, and that my best, most faithful, and untiring asststant —among many—was Gov. Bigler." It seems scarcely possible that the period could ever have existed in this country, boasting of its fredotn, when men like these could have been dragged trout their homes and thrown into a dungeon without charge or trial ; and yet, shameful as the fact nil appears, such occurrences did once happen daily, and citizens claiming to be liberty loving men sustained the crime, while those who had the courage to stigmatize it as it deserved were either treated in the same manner, or hounded down witu the meanest of epithets. The progress of timeis rapidly exhibiting all these things in their true light, and it will not be many years until those who had a share in them will be ashamed to acknowledge the fact, either privately or publicly. One by one the positions of the Democratic party during the sear are being endorsed by the popular judgment, and among them none will be more unan• inmusly approved than the one it occupied in Ibis matter of arbitrary arrests. Andy Johnson and the Bondholders Andy Johnsons's proposition to pay the national debt by a sort of dissolving process of a novel and ingenious Character excites the indignation and fury of the bond holders, and especially of the worthies at Washing ton. They should, however, moderate their hostility to the proposition. as well as their anger against its author. If the world goes on for many years longer at its present rate of speed and under the system of gov ernment now prevailing on both sides of the Atlantic the whole debt of Europe, amounting in the aggregate to over thirteen thousand million dollars in gold, as welt 119 our national debt, will bo liquidated by a more sudden and summary process than originating with the White House and Treasury Building financiers. The main tenance of large standing armies on a war footing in time of peace; the general pen sioning of politicians upon public treasur ies ; the systematic plunder of governments by their own officials, and the prevailing extravagance and corruption of the age will pile up taxation higher and higher until the restless people kick over the load. The reckless career the world is now pursuing can have no other end than the repudiation of all the national debts and a general wip ing out of the bondholders, and officehold ers and all other pensioners upon the peo ple.--.W. Y. Herald. THE celebrated McArdle case has been up before the Supreme Court again, and, on motion of Judge Black, the first Friday of February has been set apart for an argument, as to whether the court has been deprived of jurisdlc• tiou in the case by the sot of Congress, Report of theSeeretary of the Treasury. The Report of the Secretary of the Treas ury for the presantllyear•la an elaborate work, making in itself, without the mace of ' bureau reports and statiitical tables, a document of Sixty-six pages. In opening his present report Mr. McCulloch reviews and states the opinions and views in his lrevious reports, and proceeds to argue at ength against the wisdom of the legal ten der acts. Ho says, to use his own language. If there is any question in finance or political economy wuich can be pronounced settled by argunfent and trial, It is, that inconvertible and depredated paper money, is injurious to public and private interests a w reli t tte there can lit I be but an d oo fi o nricial e;7 1 11 01, for or excuse, to wit: a temporary necessity aris ing from an unexpected and pressing emergency ; and It follows, consequently, that such a circulation should only be tol erated until, without a financial shock, it can be withdrawn or made convertible into specie. If an irredeemable bank-note circulation is an evidence of bankrupt or badly-managed banking institutions, which should be deprived of their fran chises, or compelled to husband and make available their resources in order that they may be prepared at the earliest day practica ble to take up their dishonored obligations, why should not an Irredeemable Gov• ernment currency be re - garded as an evidence of bad management of the national finances, If not ,of national bankruptcy? And why should not such wise and equal revehue laws be enact ed, and such economy In the use of the public moneys be enforced, as will enable the Government either Judiciously to fund or promptly to redeem its broken promises? The United States notes, although declared by law to be lawful money, are, neverthe less, a dishonored and disreputable curren cy. The fact that they are a legal tender, possessing such attrileutes of money as the statute can give them, adds nothing to their real value, but makes them all the months': honorable to the Government and subver sive of good morals. The people are com pelled to take us money what is not money ; and becoming demoralized by its constantly changing value, they are in danger of losing that sense of honor In their dealings with the Government and with each other which Is necessary for the well-being of Society. It Is vain to expect on the part of the peo ple a faithful fulfilment of their duties to the Government as long 88 the Government Is faithless to Its own obligations; nor will those who do not hesitate 'to defraud the lublic revenues long continue to be scrupu ous In their private business. Justifiable and necessary as the measure was then re garded, it Is now apparent than an unfor tunate step was taken when Irredeemable promises were issued us lawful money; and especially when they were mudea valid ten der in payment of debts contracted when specie was the legal as well as the commer cial standard of value. The legal tender notes enabled debtors to pay their debts in curreie ; largely inferior to that which was alone .ognized as money at the time they were 1. rred, and thus the validity of contracts we virtually impaired. lly the legal-tender acts a portion of the property of one class ofcitizens was virtually confiscated for the benefit of another with out an increase thereby of the public reve nues, and, consequently, without any coin. pensation to the injured class. There can be no doubt that these acts have tended to blunt and deaden the public conscience, nor that they are chargeable, in no small degree, wito the demoralization which so generally prevails. The konomical objections to these notes as lawful money—stated at length in pre vious reports of the Secretary—may be thus briefly restated. They Increased im mensely the cost of the war, aria they have added largely to the expenses of the Gov ernment since the restoration of peace; they have caused instability in prices, un steadiness in trade, and put a check upon judicious enterprises; they have driven specie front circulation and made it mer• chandise ; they have sent to foreign coun tries the products of our mines, at the same time that our European debt has been steadily increasing, and has now reached such magnitude as to be a heavy drain upon the national resources and a serious obstacle In the way of a return to specie payments; they have shaken the public credit by raising dangerous questions in regard to the payment of the public debt; in connection with high taxes, (to the ne cessity for which they have largely contri buted,; they are preventing ship-building, and thereby the restoration of the commerce which was destroyed by the war ; they are an excuse for (if indeed they do not neces sitate) protective tariffs, and yet fail, by their fluctuating value, to protect the American manufacturer against his foreign competitor ; they are filling the coffers of the rich, but, by reason of the high prices which they create and sustain, they are al most intolerable to persons of limited in come. , Ile thin'ss the legal-tender notes should be divested of the character•which was con ferred upon them in a condition of country so different from the present. He favors ;he legalization of "coin contracts," and sacs: . . . Agreements for the payment of coin seem to be the only ones, not contrary to good morals, the performance of which cannot be enforced in the courts. " Coin con tracts" executed before the passage of the legal tender acts, as well as those executed since, are satisfied in all the States except California by,the payment of the amounts called for in depreciated notes. This shackle upon commerce, this check upon our national progress, ibis restriction upon individual rights, should no longer be con tinned. He makes the followinghighly important recommendation and emphasises it in capi tal letters. He says The Secretary believes that the legal tender notes should beef divested of that character, and he therefore recommends in addition to enactments by which contracts for the payment of coin can be enforced, that it he declared that alter the Ist of Jan uary, 1i370, United States notes shall cease to be a legal tender in payment of all pri vate debts subsequently contracted, and that after the 151 of January, 1871, they shall cease to be a legal tender on any con tract or purpose whatever, except the Gov ernment dues for which they are now re ceivable. The law should also authorize the conversion of these notes, at the pleas ure of the holders, Into bonds bearing such interest as may be authorized by Congress nn the funded debt. The period for which they would continue to he a legal tender would be sufficient to enable the people and the banks to prepare for the contemplated change, and the privilege of their conver• sion to save depreciation. The substantial information contained in the report in regard to revenues and the public debt is given in the following re ceipts : The receipts froth customs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1866, were V 70,040,651. 5S ; for the year ending Juno 30, 1867, $176,- 417,810 0:1; and for the last fiscal year $164,• 461,500 56. These figures show that the to has produced large revenues, although it is in no just sense a tariff. In this re spect it has exceeded the expectations of its friends, if, indeed, it has not disappointed them, and has not checked importations; and complaint is made that it has not given the anticipated protection to home manu factures, not because it was not skillfully framed to this end, but because an inflated currency—the effect of which upon impor tations was not fully comprehended—has, in a measure, defeated Its object. It has advanced the prieeof dutiable articles, and, by adding to the cost of living, has been op pressive to consumers without being of de cided benefit to those industries in whose interest it is regarded as having been pre pared. AMERICAN SECURITIES ABROAD. Although it is impossibleto ascertain with precision the amount of our securities held in Europe, the Secretary thinks the total is one hundred to one hundred and fifty mil lions snore his former estimate of $600,000, 000, including other securities besides Uni ted States bonds, and thinks it safe to put the whole figure at the present time, exclu sive of stocks, at 450,000,000, of which not less than $600,000;000 are United States bonds, nearly all of which have left the United States within the last six years. The amount is formidable, and littlesatisfaction is derived from the consideration that these securities have been transferred in payment of interest and for foreign commodities; and just as little from the consideration that probably not over $500,000,000 in gold values have been received for these $850,000,000 of debt. In this estimate of onr foreign indebtedness railroad and other stocks are not included, as they are not a debt, but the evidence merely or the ownership of property in the United States. We are even now increasing our debt to Europe at the rate of sixty, or seventy millions of dollars per annum in the form of gold bearing-bonds. GOLD PRODUCTS. The Secretary estimates the gold product of the United States since 1838 at $1,300,000,.. 000. Allowing that $100,000,000 have been used in manufactures, and that the coin In the country has been increased to an equal amount, the balanceof this immense sum— eleven hundred millions—has gone to other countries in exchange for other productions. The fact is cited in this connection too that our exports as well as imports are carried in foreign bottoms, the carrying trade be tween the United States and Earope being mmost titerally in the hands of Europeans. .- - - Mr. McCulloch gives the following state ment of receipts from internal revenues for the last three fiscal years: Ending June 30th, 1860. $309,226,813 42; ending .1 one 30th, 1807, $266,027,537 43; ending June 30th, 1808, $191,087,589 41. It thus appears that the internal revenue receipts for the year ending June 30th, 1867, frll below the receipts for the year ending June 30th, 1866, $43,199,275 99, and that the receipts for the year ending June 80th. 1868, fell short of the receipts for 1867 $74,939,- 918 2. The receipts tor the first four months of the present fiscal year were $48,736,348 33. If the receipts for these months are en index of those for the remaining eight, the receipts for the present fiscal year will be $146,• 209.044. ECONOMY IN EVERYTHING. Thir. large reduction of internal receipts is attributable to inefficient collections and to a reduction of taxes. The first thing to be done is to introduce economy into all branches of the nubile service, not by re duced appropriations to , be made good by " deficiency bills," but by putting a stop to all unnecessary demands upon the treas ury. There is tio department of the gov ernment which- Is conducted with proper economy. The habits formed during the war are- still strong, and will only yield to the requirements of inexorable law. The average expenses of the next ten years for the civil service ought not to exceed forty millions of dollars per annumn. Those of ._the War Department, atter the bounties are paid, should be brought down to thirty five millions of dollars, and those of the Navy to twenty' millions. The outlays for pensions and Indians cannot for some years be considerably reduced, but they can doubtless be brought within thirty mil lions. The interest on the public debt when the whole debt shall be funded, at an average rate of interest of 5 per cent., will amount to one hundred and twenty-five millions, which will be reduced with the annual reduction of the principal. When the internal revenue and tariff laws shall be revised ao as to be made to harmonize with each other, it is supposed that three hundred millions can annually be realized from these sources 'without burdensome taxation. Emmran The Secretary makes the following esti mates : Receipts from customs and Internet revenues -- Expenditures for the civil service... Expenditures by the War Depart. Matured debt not presented for payment: 3 year 740 notes, due August 15, 1417, June and July 15, Mi..— Total Compound In- Leav Ingm an excess of receipt s $50,000,000 mature:l o Jt e na to be applied to the paymentol the principalla July 15, - of t he debt. What is required then at tits gust 15, t tem present time is a positive limitation of the her di A ug med J ILT annual outlays to three hundred millions of 15, lst . dollars,lncludlug fifty millions to be applied Isee.lS 15, wua to the payment of the principal of the debt, Oct. le t Mkt_ and such modifications of the revenue laws llonds,lexas In as will seoure this amount, without unwise Tr d e e n T u n r 1 ' not restrictions ues pon commerce, and with the acts or July 17, least possible oppression and lucouvenicuce teat, and prior to the taxpayers, thereto /NCREASED TAXATION. Bemis, April 15, 15 t: Jan'y 7s, Assuming that the receipts from customs 15a : war. will be reduced by a reduction of duties, or 31, ISIS by the effects of a return to specie paymen a Treasury notes, upon Importations under the present turlff, I March 3, M. 0... and that, consequently, I bere must be on I ; I : ! ..`,',. m t g e r n, " t r & a t u n. increase of internal tuxes, there are three dthtedu . e•s • ' sources of revenue which are likely to be considered : Tots: First. An increase of taxes upon distilled Debt bergrin ! , /to spirits, winch the Secretary opposes, con- 1.; '..1 1 ,7,1"‘ i sidering that the restoration of the late ex- - awes orbitant tax, or any considerable increase Fractional cur of the present tax, would lead to a repeti- I reneY lion of the frauds which have brought the internal revenue Ely Btelli into Ruch utter ills. of grace. ment. Et i mnpiures for pensions and -In __ Expenditures for Interest on public debt. Second. A restoration of the tax on man ufactures abolished In M arch last. The Total Debt objections to the restoration of this tax are, s per cunt, btn•mi that it would Indicate vacillation on the tnwtey hands part of Congress, and that Lids tux, prin- l'ucltlc It ai J ell:tally on account of numorona exemptions road co to wns partial and unjust. It Is also apparent Nat. , that, if restored, it would fall to be perma nent by reason of the persistent and milted hostility of it class of citizens intinential and powertul, and whose influence and power are rapidly increasing. Third. An increased and uniform tax on sales; and this the Secretary respectfully recommends, saying: "tinder the present law wholesale and retail dealers in goods, wares, niereinindize of foreign or domestic production, whole sale and retail dealers in liquors, and deal ers in tobacco, are subject to a similar but i unequal tax upon sales. This inequality should be removed, and a tax levied upon all sales, Sufficient, with the revenues from other sources, to meat the wants of the gov erumeut. The reasons in favor of a tax ! upon sales are, that it could be leyied gen erally throughout the country, and would not be liable to the imputation Of class leg islation; that it would be so equally dis tributed as not to bear so oppressively as 1 other taxes upon individuals or sections ; end that no depression of one branch of in dustry, which did not injuriously affect the business of the entire country, could greatly lessen its productiveness... TILE DEBT, The public debt on the first day of No vember, 1567, amounted to $2,491,304,450, and of the following items: Pent bearing coin interest.. Debt be4rtng co - rency Interest. Matured debt not presented for rayment 1},117,5:14 El Debt bearing no Interest 4U,,365,677 39 Total 4 , .1 $2;625 StS2,SIS 02 Cash In the Treasury .. 123,81)S 398 02 A'mt o' debt less each 5.491,501,450 to On the first day ot. ''ember, 1860, II amountel t 052,527,129,55:: ..and consisted of the following items: Debt heAring co 0 Interest 1 . 2,107,57,1150 Ott Debt bearine curre, cy Interest. 114,510,100 00 Matured cl,bt not presented for psyruent 9,753.713 01 Debt bearing no Interest 009,151,098 52 TOW Case In the Treasury Ain't of debt less ea-L1 In Treas. $2,527, 28,552 82 By a comparison of these statements it appears that the debt between the first day of November, 1867, and the first day of November, 1868, increased $35,625,102,82. Of this:increase $24,152,000 is chargeable to the Fluidic railroads, and $7,200,000 to the pure" rise of Russian America, Within the same period there was paid for bounties $44,000,515, and at least 84,000,000 for inter est on compound and seven-three-tenth notes which had accrued prior to the first of November, 1867. If these extraordinary advances and pay ments bed not been made, the receipts would have exceeded the ex penditures 843,787,412,18. The ability of the United States to main tain their integrity against insurrection as wpil as against a foreign enemy can no longer be doubted. The question of their ability, under democratic institutions, to sustain u large national debt, is still to be decided. That this question should be affirmatively settled, it is, in the opinion of the secretary, of the highest Importance that the tax-paying voters should be en couraged by the fact that the debt is In the progress of rapid,extinguishment, and is not to be a permanent burden upon them and their posterity. If it Is understood that this debt Is to be a perpetual encumbrance upon the property and industry of the nation, It is certainly to be feared that the collection of taxes necessary to pay the Interest upon it may require the exercise of power by the central government Inconsis tent with republicanism, and dangerous to the liberties of the people. The debt must be paid. Direct repudiation is an impos sibility; Indirect repudiation, by further issues of legal tender notes, would he mad ness. To insure its payment without a change in the essential character of the government , every year should witness a reduqlion of its amount and a diminution of its burdens. Am I Not a Ilan and a Brother? It was in tho shape of such an interrong don that Menard, the negro Congressman from Louisiana, presented himself last Monday in the House of Representatives nt Washington. He had not yet received his credentials from the Governor of Louis lane. He was expecting, however, to re ceive them soon, when he will offer them to the House and test the sincerity of the Radical majority which has clamored HO loudly about the rights of the negro. Mean while this malority has betrayed the most chilling indifference to hisindividual claims. At first for a long, uncomfortable time be was loft severely alone upon one or the sofas, in the rear of the ball. No member accosted him except Blackburn, of Louisi ana. The poor fellow, annoyed at the so cial ostracism to which his Radical col leagues from the Northern States most illogically condemned him, arose and sought in vain for an opportunity to secure a desk. Everywhere the Radicals turned up their noses as he approached, and at leygth be felt compelled to leave the floor of the House in disgust and to seek retuge in the gallery behind the great clock, where a hun..red or more of his own race were congregated and kept him in countenance. Here he was manifestly more at home than below, But so soon as he shall have receiv ed his credentials as a claimant for a seat In Congress he will give his Radical colleagues a chance to extend to him the hand of fel lowship or to contradict their own lying profes-tons of regard for his claims as man, brother and citizen.—.N. I'. Herald. Another (Outrage by Loyal. 31111tla M EMPII IS, December 7.—A private dis patch from Augusta, Arkansas, this aft€ r noon, says that last evening a regiment of State militia, under General Upham, enter ed the town and took possession of the telegraph office, directing the operators to send no message without their being revised by an officer. They then placed guards on the street, and proclaimed martial law. No reason has been assigned for the occu pation of the town. M ENIPIIIS, Dec. 9.—The Avalanche' Lit tle Rock special to-day reports that serious outrages were perpetrated near Lewisburg on Saturday. On the night of the 3d a die guised party went to the house of Alvin and Washington Lewis (colored), living near that town, with two white prostitutes, who had been repeatedly ordered to leave the county on account of their bad character. The party broke into the house, killed Washington, and run Alvin off. Captain Matthews' company of colored militia went to the neighborhood, and meet ing Joseph Jackson and Robert Perry In a cotton wagon, arrested them. Four negroes took Perry into the canes stood him against a tree, and shot his ear off. He then broke from:them and escaped. They then shot Jackson, mortally wounding him. He Was found, and told before expiring who shot I him. - The negroes then went to the house of Thomas Hooper, aged 60, who tbey took out of the house and shot down on the road, afterwards saying that he bad tried to es cape. The Sheriff, who is a Republican, says Hooper was murdered, and told lbe citizens to organize, place themselves under him, and ho would arrest Matthews and his band. He also sent a petition to Governor Clayton to disband the militia. Tbo great est excitement exist& and arrests continue. Large Estate—Eceentrio Will. Cuicacio, Dec. B.—The will of Walter L. Newberry, who died recently on board the steamer Ville de Paris while on his way to Europe,and was proved to-day. Hon. Mark Skinner, E. W. Blatchford are named as executors. The testator places the value of his property at $2,000, 00 0. The executors are required to give bonds in the sum of $4,000,000. With the exception of a few small bequests to friends and distant kin. dred, he leaves his entire estate to his wife and two daughters, both unmarried, with certain peculiar conditions attached ; if, for instance, the daughters marry, the first male issues of such marriage shall each re ceive the sum of $lOO,OOO on condition that they take the name of Newberry. If either daughter shall marry a man by the name of Newberry, this condition shall hold good with their issue. In case his wife dies, and his daughters die without issue, the estate is to be devoted to founding an immense library, to be known as the Newberry library. STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC) DEIST LARGE INCREASE The Nesult of Radical Extravagance WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. The following statement of the public debt of the United States on the Ist of No vember, 1868, has Just been issued: Debi bearing coin intereg 5 per cent bonds. $241,558,100 Od 1221,54400 CO 6 Der cent. bonds. 1831 6 per cent. 5 U., bonds. Total $5,107,57,000 10 $2,167,510,100 CO Debt bearing cur rency fatercil: 3 per cent. certifi cates__ 58,325.000 00 56,140,000 00 Navy penalon fund at 3 per cent 1300.000,CC0 $40.0W,L00 To!al bt Am'nt In Treik Al.ury C01n..... .. Total Amount of Debt loss Tre.ury. $2,:,:;0,0:11,,11 The foregoing, Is is correct statement of till• rubric, Deo!, apps Irons the books slid Treasurer's returns lu the Depurtuu nt, oil D.:timber I, • HUGH MeCUL , OCR, Beeeettiry oc the Treacury. E COVE MTATI,SI ENT, 01511:ABED lA' !Tit THAT OF THE PRE 'EDIN.i MONTH, 8808 S AN INCREA t.tE IN THE PUBLIC VENT, LEstS CAtill IN TH Tick Ar,UltY, OF 811,902,21)2. Another Prbooner Pelensed lu Alrginin by Judge Underwood. RICHMOND, Vu., Dec. 112—In the Coolil States Circuit Court this morning, Judge Underwood presiding, the case ut Sally Anderson, colored, sentenced to death by the county court for arson, was brought up on n writ of habeas corpus,'on the ground that ont%of the magistrates composing t h e court which tried her had held the oflice ~ f constable before the war, anti being thinly disqualified under the 11th amendment, the whole court was illegal and its proceeding' vitiated. Judge Underwood sustained the prisoner's plea, and discharged her Iron custody. In delivering his opinion he said if even the clerk of the court was disquali fied it vitiated the proceedings. There arc a hundred and fitty•nine convicts in the State prison, sentenced since the adoption of the 111 h amendment, who may now be ! released by habeas corpus, and termed base i under Ills decision. 3L,778110,991 NI) 4.6,764 610 W The particulars of Sally Anderson', In iva• are as follows: In March last st n • set tiro to and burned to the ground Lim suburban residence of Mr. Itlcharil Magruder, at Ful ton 11111, because Mrs. Magruder luel given her a reprimand or hoe bad n•nduet wards a negro woman who hail caucht he stealing. The house was ileee pied Ott ibe time. She Miele a de lihenuoatiee.l.l burn Mrs. Magruder's iniant by first Ow ing it MI a !rather bed and kindiqiga fir, beneath it. By the merest aevi,lont air dames were diso.vered, and the t a lkie.. babe rescued ere it bees eh:. te, of the enraged negro's the crimes Sally Anderson was on a lair trio! convicted : but the court, nes:rens of uivinr her every opportunity to defend leirsen, granted a motion fora new trial, which w, had will , the same result. She wire thee sentenced to be hung, but the day or esi•- cution was long delayed on account of h e r delicate condition. $2,611002,572 Oti 1.3,b73,049 24 The Loris of the Mtenniuhlp lilbernln. Toni, Dec. O.—A cable dispatch to Henderson Brothers, Agents of the Anchor Line, in New York, from Ilandyin A lien - derson, of Glasgow, dated Iles. ft, says, "tim Hibernia, In a heavy gale, broke her shalt and steam pipes, and sprung a leak and foundered on the 25th ultimo, ill latitudi 53, longitude 29. The passengers nod crew behaved admirably and were embarked in an orderly manner, in five bouts fully pro visioned. The captain and „boatswain's boats, containing tifty-persons, Including all the cabin passengers except Nelson A. illds and G. Mason, have:arrived safely. Three boats, under the first, second and third officers, and containing the remainder of the passengers and crew, eighty-one per sons in all ware still missing, but their safe ty Is hoped for." The steamer was a first-class bout, very popular, and both swift and safe. She was built In June, liilei, by the Finiston Steam ship Company of Glasgow. She was reg istered at 1,015 tons, was ship-rigged, and very handsomely appointed in all her de• partments with a view to the comfort and convenience of Gm passengers as well as the officers and crew. Her length from stein to stern was 270 feet, her width was '.1.1 feet, and her depth 22 feet. She was worked by two engines of an aggtegairs power equal to that of 400 horses. The news of her loss way all the morn leo tounding on account of the implicit faith which everybody who knew her had lu her seaworthiness. She was returning on her twenty-ninth voyage, haying left New York, Nov. bith, and was only about 700 miles from port when she met with her calamity, on the 25th ult. The company owns 20 steamers, trod this Is the first dis aster of a fatal character which any of these vessels have met with In running direct from Glasgow to New York. Another nowt of the Itibernin 'mord Lorrno:4, December IO,—A telegram has just been received here announcing the ar rival off Donegal, Ireland, of one of the 'vis aing boats from the lost steamer Llibernia, The boat containing the second officer nt the ship and two other persons. Twenty eight, all told, embarked In bur, bat twen ty-five were drowned by the capsizing of the boat. Toe Ohio Hirer Trngetly CiNcilitsArri, Dec. B.—The excitement rroutive to the terrible dituviter to the xlrutn er United States ix mill Intense. nirtteti sir- living from all quarters are making in - quiries for lost friends and rulativea who known to have taken passage on tttoatt boats. A portion of the remain,' will ar rive here to-day on the fiteamer I rectal Lytle, for regognitiog and interment, i'despateh to the Commercial iron?, Flor • ce, Ind, eeye thdrty•three bodice have been recovered from the wreck of the Umted Staten and America. 'rho following have been Identified ; James John, of Louisville; John Fennel, of Newport, Ky.; Emil Johnson, and Walltos• Farris, of Lexington, Ind.; Mr. Furties, Hanover lad.; Mrs. George W. Griffin, 'New wield, Mrs. Mary T. Thompson, Philsdelphin. Sixteen colored men composed the crest' of the United States, and, with the excep tion of a few ladies, the remains are sup possed to be those of the colored crew. Th,• soonest Warshaw, Ky.ffietmarsdei.crioniiii. Everything has been done to render 11w in jured comfortable. Eud 01 thelMerule I unary Ca.•e NEW YORK, De?.. mod. pre Mr ad e was produced In court to-day, under 11 writ of habeas corpus, and Dr. Halstead, who was appointed by Judge Sutherland to ex amine his condition, tastliied that he was perfectly sane. Dr. Brown, of the Bloom ingdale Asylum, testified that Meade had acted strangely, out he was not prepared to say it was the result of mental delusion, or that It was not the legitimate result of the great domestic trouble he had passed through. Judge Sutherland said that Commodore Meade is not insane, and directed him to Dim discharged from custody. PLIMADELPEIIA, Dec. 9—About 4 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Fanny Craig, aged air, years, residing on Oliver street, between 10th end 11th streets, south of Christian, in the Second Ward, was found with her throat cut. The woman was lying upon her bed in the second story. The gash in her throat is about three inches long, mid. r the left ear. She WWI aptechiess from the loss of blood—the bed clothing being com pletely saturated. She could wive no ac count of the unfortunate affair. In bed in the third story, hor son, Hugh Craig. 2.3 years of age, was found with bloody hantie and clothing. 'He feigned sleep, uad when questioned, he declined to say anything about the blood on his hands or garments. The wounds are not coneidored of a fatal character. A new case knife, with a keen edge, was found in Mre. Craig's room, the blade all smeared with blood. Another son of the unfortunate lady , who was asleep In an adjoining room, was not aware of the bloody deed until ho was aroused by the police. The young man Hugh Craig, who this morning cut his mother's throat, is ascer tained to be insane. Lato advlces from Central and South America state that an agreement has been made by which Spanish vessels trading w ith Ecuador will not be molested by the Chlltan navy, and wilt be allowed to touch at Chil lan ports. Affairs In Peru are reported Im proving, and the Government-, growing stronger. A great flood on the Isthmus had otteolted operattosus on tnePanamn railways; 3,077.300 00 f 1,t077,30) 00 1,602,312,2.50 00 Lan 570.400 CO 14,000,000 00 1-1,000,040 OU 172,3:.5.00,1 (N) SIi2,IW,OLV 00 DEETS MEE 1!1=i=1:19 151,61161 1111,311 61 1=:11!IIICIIMI {G 192 00 I 1.1,49 . 2 041 314.eti0 011 $1.,7;,:.1,7:2 uo ea5u,0.:1,,c3 I=l MEM El= Zl=l MIL i 1 I IA .....i VIII I:1 It i - It I L.,. Ll I Attempted Horde,
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