Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 13, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 19 March 1868 — Page 1

PLYMOUTH WEEKLY DEMOCRAT.

VOLUME 13. PLYMOUTH. INDIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 18(38. NUMBER 29.

MR. PEHPLETOH'S FIHftHCIAL PUN. A tacclitct Statement of It.

"And now I say that not only these bonds are payable in legal tender, but that they ought to be paid as soon as it is possible to do so. T do not know that it is possible to pay these bonds as fast as they mature, even in currency ; but I do know that every possible effort ought to be made to do it. "But at this point I am met with the tatement that this poliey will issue an immense amount of paper, and thus so far inflate the currency as to destroy its value, and bring disaster upon the country. Now, gentlemen, let me examine this objection. Mr. McCulloch in his last month ly report stated that the public debt which bears interest is comprised in three kinds; mat coUU.Uov'UUV oi inn ueot, count uoi . n , .. . i-knvrk r .1 . .... j . be redeemed before 1874; that $300,000O00 more could not bo redeemed before 1381; and that the rest of the debt, amounting to nearly $1,700,000,000, is comprised in five-twenties and bouds which bear interest in currency. "Seventeen hundred millions of 5-20's and bonds which bear interest in currency will fall due within the next five years. I cannot sttte to you the exact time nor the exact proportions in which these it y due. I mean these 5-20's. verv name implies that, when five bonds ! Their j years ; hall elapse after their issue, the govern went may pay them; but need not pay them until 20 years have elapsed. ''Now, gentlemen, I mainiaiu that the 5-20 bonds should be pail as far as it is possible to do 6o without inflating the currency beyond a safe and just point. And it is my business now to show you how rapidly that can be done. The unliquidated debt of the United States consists of greenbacks and claims which have not i been adjusted, and amounts to $800.000 000. It pays no interest. "Three hundred and thirty-eight mill

ions of these bonds are, by the report of sphere. On the other side the executive the secretary of thc treasury, deposited j power being restrained within a narrower to-day as security in the vaults of the J compass, and being more simple in its natreasury. Three hundred millions of bank j turei and the judiciary being described paper is hjsued on thc faith of these bonds. Dy hodmarks still less uncertain, projects Now, gentlemen, I maintain that this cir- t,f usurpation by either of these deDartculation ought to be called in ; that shea i ments would immediately betray and debonds ought to be redeemed with legal i feat themselves. Nor is this all. As the

tenders, which will take the place of that bank circulation. Applause. "What would be the efTcc: of this? The 81. 700.000,000 of interest bearing bonds would be reduced to 81,403,000,000; and 820,000,000 would be saved to the government from th interest which is paid to thc bankers for the bonds which they have deposited. Cheers. "Now, then, suppose you take this $20000,000 of interest which is saved aud add it to Ute 848,000,000 which these gentlemen say they can pn from the current revenue, ami you nave W,WU,UW, year ; or w i by year, and if you couvcrt thai sum iuto I greenbacks, at 140, you have 1 100,000,000 1 a year, and if this is appropriated as a sinking fuud yon can pay thc whole debt i o less man id year, witnout auuing ?i ; to your taxatiou or SI to thc circulating medium. Applause j "Bear in mind that I am arguing a proposition that these bonds can be paid in greenbacks without inflating the currency. Bear in mind this can be accomplished in 12 or 14 years without the addition of 81 to your taxation, or 81 to

jour circulating medium. And now bear magistrate of the state. In order to conin mind, also, that I have not touched thc ! ?y fally the ideas which his experience revenues of the government, which, in had impressed him on this subject it 1S66, amounted to $500,000,000 j nor , Will be necessary to quote a passage of have I attacked the expeaditures of that some length from his very interesting year of radical administration. j'4 notes on tho state of Virginia," page

iut r ff r- DTifaviiftnon I M. - J 7 V M J t W tfl HUI I ec thjtrovomment to 8150.000.000 a vear. isi mm reduce thA current oxnonsefl ot

O - ' S 1 w ... w ...... ia J.IWIOV.IJ . I mean expenses iudependen. of the inter-j defiuition of a despotic government. It est on the public debt. though it ought ! will be no alleviation that these powers U be reduced to 8100,000,000; that will be exercised by a plurality of hands would be $25,000,000 more than Mr. Bu- aud not by a single one. Ono hundred chanan expended; that would be asmuc'i and seventy-three despots would certainly in one year as Andrew Jackson expended ; be as oppressive as oue. Let those who in aoy of the four years of his administra-! doubt it turn their eyes on the republic of t'on. But let the expenditure be reduced ; Venice. As little will it avail us that to $150,000,000, aud what do you have '! ; they are chosen by ourselves. An elective $150,000,000 for current expenses, $130,- j despotism is not the government we fought 000,000 for interet upon tne public debt, f0r but one which should not only be and 8100,000.000 of a sinking fund, as I j founded on free principles but in which luve described, and you have the aggre- the power of governmeut should be so digate of $380.000,000, and if you take ; vided and balanced among several bodies that from the revenue of 1866, which j 0f the magistracy as that no one could mounted to $560,000,000, you have a transcend their legal limits without being r-lance of $180,000,000. which you may ; effectually checked and restrained by the !d to your sinking fund, and thus bring 'others. For this reason that convention

it up to 1:30.000,000 annually. And with that you can, in five years pay evr v cent of the principal and interest up ' - i on yonr public debt, without the addition of a dollar to the circulating medium of

tne country. LAppIause.J era of more than one of them at the same "When five years shall have passed, you time. But no barrier was provided becan reduce $150,000,000 of your taxation j tween these several powers. The judiand yet be able to pay the 8300,000,000 ciary and executive members were left dewhich falls due in 1874. Then you can pendent on the legislative for their subreduce your taxation $200,000,000 more, I ststence in office, and some of them for and, by retiring your greenbacks as the continuence in it. If, therefore, the leggijt burden of taxation is reduced, you islative assumes executive and judiciary w:ll be able to put the debt maturing in powers, no opposition is likely to be made, 1881, and at the same time to call in your ! nor if made can be effectual, because in

greenbacks and return to the constitution - al currency of the country. "And yet you see that I have not proposed to increase the taxes or add one fartiling to the currency." Thc radical newspapers claim that the trial of the president will be a judicial and not a partisan one. Ilere is what that old wretch, Steven, Raid, in speaking to the senate about the affair : "Let him hope who dares ,o hope that so high a body as that venat; will btlmy it trust, will forgot its own acts, will tread hack its own action, will ding-ace itself in the face of the nation. Point me out one who darf to do it, and you bhow me one icha daret to be regarded as infamous by posterity. Let me see the recreant who Hnrss to tread back upon his steps, and tots on the. other side." And yet these radicals have the impudence to claim that the trial will be a fair one ! Chicago Times. Yoanjr couple, girl 16, Louisville, Ky., loped the other day, and " had their own wsy."

LEGISLATIVE USURPATION.

Dangers of Encroachment by the ; had been flagrantly violated by the UgtaLegislative Body-Tlie Warn- ; jaturc in a variety of important instances.

Frosi the Federalist In a government where numerous and exteouve prerogatives are placed m the hands of an hereditary monarch, the ex - ecutive department is very justly regarded as the source of danger, aud watched with all the jealousy which a zeal for liberty ought to inspire. In a democracy, where I a multitude of people exercise in person the legislative functions, and are continually exposed by the incapacity for regular deliberation and concerted measures to the ambitious intrigues of their executive magistrates, tyranny may well be appre hended, on some favorab o emergency, to Ltart up jn the same quarter. But in a . ... representative republic, where tho execu tive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired by a supposed influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in itsowu strength, which is sufficiently numerous to feci all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of Dursuincr the obiects of its uassions bv means which reason prescribes, it is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their pre cautions. The legislative department derives its superiority in our government from other circumstances. Its constitutional powers being at once more extensive aud less sus ceptible of precise limits, it can with greater facility mask under complicated and in direct measures the encroachments which it makes on the co-ordinate departments. it, j3 00i unfrequeutly a question of real nicety in legislative bodies, whether the operation of a particular measure will or will not extend bev:nd the lesrislative legislative department alone has access to the pockets of the people, and has iu some constitutions a full discretion, and in all a' prevailing influence over the pecuniary rewards of those who fill the other departments, a dependence is thus created in the latter which gives a t i 1 1 greater facility to encroachments of the former. 1 have appealed to our own experience for tho truth of what I advance on this subject. Were it necessary to verify this experience by particular proofs, they might be multiplied without end. I might collect vouchers in abundance from the records and archives of every state iu the union. But as a more concise and at the same fime equally satisfactory evidence, I w refer to the example ot two states, attested by two unexceptional authorities. inc nrst example is tnat ot irgioia, a state, which, as we have seen, has expressly declared in its constitution that tho threo great departments ought not to be intermixed. The authority in support of it is Mr. Jefferson, who, besides his other advantages ior remarking the operations of the croveroment. was himself the chief I M.I Li Mii . . i ! i - , ."t. 1 UV J.olWV UVVII - SlU, V Ul lIMiailll Lf tW in uMm; h,nH. aa,u tho mmjativo Kw r rr ha ,,.-n.r. which Dassed the ordinance of rrnvermnnnt m ri - laid its foundation on this basis, that the legislative, executive and judiciarv departments Hhould be separate and distinct. !to that no person should exercise the pow- ; that case they may put their proceedings into the form of au act of assembly, which wiJl render them obligatory on the other branches. They have, accordingly, iu many instances decided rights which shouid have been left to judiciary controversy, and the direction of thc executive during the whole time of their sessiou is becoming habitual and familiar' The other state which I shall take for an example is Pennsylvania, aud the other authority the council of censors, which assembled in the years 1783-4. A part of the duty of this body, as marked out by the constitution, was " to inquire whether the constitution had been preserved inviolate iu every part, and whether the legislative and executive branches of tho government had performed their duties as guardians ot the neonle. or assumed to j themselves or exsreised other or greater ; powers than they are entitled to by the constitution." In the execution of th's . ,l - :i i i i . trust tue couDsu were necessarily icu to a comparison of both the legislative and ex ecutive proceedings with the constitution al powers of these departments, aou trom ifhe facts 0'jm?Mted and to thc truth f

I most ol which both side in the council subscribed, it appears that the constitution

Tlae Contrast. Elected to the present congress is a man ; by the narm. nf Butler, from the state of ! Tennessee. Butler is a radical after ' Brownlow's own heart a " truly loyal " j geutleman, who would rather shoot a rebel than eat his breakfast. When the Hon. ; M, Butler presented himself at the bar of thc not!se however, there was a slicht im pediment in the way of his taking his seat. He couldn't take the iron-clad oath. Being a conscientious man, he couldn't exI actly swear that he had never given aid and comfort to the enemy, tils lapse consisted in simply having been a member of thc Tennessee legislature iu 1861, and as such voting to take the state out of the union, and attaching her to the rebel confederacy, which had just been formed. Certainly for a truly loyal individual this was a very small matter indeed, but it has had the effect of keeping Mr. Butler out of his seat thus far during the session. But the committee on elections have found a remedy for Mr. Butler's case. They have agreed to report a joint re?olution omittiDg the aid and comfort part of the oath, so far as he is concerned. lie is willing to swear that he never held any office under the confederacy, which is probably the cause of his turning rcdical he couldn't get one. And so, we suppose, Mr. Tennessee Butler will soon be in his seat, voting side by s?de with Ben Butler. Now contrast this treatment of Mr. Butler with Senator Thomas of Maryland and j0in y0Un? Brown of Kentucky Both these jreutlemen were willing to take the test oath, every word and letter of it. They cou!d do it conscientiously. Neither of tliem had ever given aid or comfort to the rebellion or held office uuder it. Yet both were excluded. Such is the manner iu which the radical majority in congress treat conservatives and radicals respectively. Stokes, who voluuteered to raise a rebel company to resist the M Lincoln despotism," is admitted without a why or wherefore, and the test oath is emasculated so as to allow Butler to come in ; but democrats upon whose garments there is no smell of secessionist'.!, are ruthlessly excluded. Printing One TIiomn;m1 Years An extraordinary discovery has been Bade of a press iu India. When Warren Hastings was governor-geueral of Ind'u, he observed that in the district of Benares a little below the surface of the earth, is to be found a stratum of a kind of fibrous woolv substauco of various thickness, in horizontal layers. Major Roebuck, informed of this, went out to a spnt where xn ascavatioa had been made displaying this most siugular phenomenon. In diggiug somewhat deeper for thc purpose of further research, they laid open a vault which, on further examination proved to be of some size, and to their astouishment they found a kind of printing press set up in a vault, aud on it moveable types placed as if ready for printing. Every inquiry was set on foot to ascertain the probable period at which such an instrument could have been placed there, for it evidently was not of modern origin, and from all the major could collect it appeared probable that the press had remained in a state in which it was found for at least one thousand years. We believe thc major, on his return to England, prescuted one of the i learned associations with a memoir con taining many cuurious speculations on the . - a subject. 1 aper we Know to have bcCD manulactured in tue east many centuries manufactured in the east i belore wc had any knowledge of it, and 1 we have man' reasons to think that tho j tninese naa been acquainted wiin tnei i . lit -.i .11 joode of printing they now employ, many years before Faust and Guttenburg invented it in Europe. It does littlo credit to the inventive geuius of the Romans to know that, while they approached so neir as to engrave in a style not to be equalled in the present ago on gems and stones, aud of course thc taking of impressions of them, they should have remained ignorant of the art which has bestowed so many blessings on mankind. More About Alabama Voting. A correspondent of tho New York World, who attended thc polls in Alabama during the voting there, aud who has been collecting information in regard to thc manner in which the election was conducted in different portious of thc state, presents the people of the north with this pleasant reminiscence : M Something like a third of the entire vote cast in the state was received on no better evidence than affidavits of registry in other counties, and, for my own part, I saw several administered. This was the process. Enter Timbuctoo. ' What's your name ? ' 4 Pomp.' 1 Pomp what ? ' ' Pomp Jones, sah.' ' Show your ticket, and a great paw would reach out a ragged sleeve and thrust a dirty scrap under the judge's uosc. No such name as given would be found npoa the list, and then would come the balance, of the formula. I quote from thc printed document : 4 1, , do solemly swear that am duly registered as a qualified voter in the county of , in thw stato ; that I now reside in this county, and that I have not voted at this lection, so help me God. ' Pomp, or Cuff, or Cudjo would swallow it all, meekly taking off hi hat as he was bidden, and holding up his hana and uodding like a toy mandarian at every other word iu tho oath, la would go his vote; and now take him out aud ask him what ' solemnly ' meant, or 'qualified or 1 reside and Pomp's big mouth would open and his eyes would stretch, and nine lira -in ten would tell you, 1 Fore God, mrs'r, I dunno nuffin 'bout all dis yer, but dcy tolc us we mus' come and put deting in de box, or dey would fine us or put us iu do jail.' " And thce arc tho kind of people the ; radical wish to make tbe rulers Of the kouthcrn tatrs !

THE NEWARK STEAM IM.

flow He Looki, arid What lie dSolns; to Do. From thc New York Express, The inventor and e xhibitor of the Newark steam man, (Mr. Zadoc Dederiek.) has improved the occasion of the Barnaul fire excitement by hiring rooms In the opposite house, on Broadway, for the purpose of exhibiting this eighth wonder of the world. As a speculative enterprise, the idea must hare been a success, for at 10 o'clock this morning a lare number of persons had congregated at thc door, clamorously seeking admittance. Amongst those who thus sought admission was one of our reporters, who thus descrihes his interview with this last specimen of thc '"genus homo: " Mr. Steam Man is a person of commanding presence, standing seven feet nine inches in his stocking vamps, weighs 500 pounds, measures 200 inches round the waist, and decidedly bucolic in general appearance. At this early hour in the morning he was rather dishabille, and minus his pants This eircumstance, though detracting rather from his comeliness, was yet more than counterbalanced by the greater facilities it gave for the study of human anatomy, und was eagerly availed of for that purpose. The Jegs are made of iron cranks, screws, springs ad infinitum, not quite as attractive in exterior as those we see in the weekly pictorials, but evidently of greater durability and strength. The motion of the legs is almost fac simile to that of thc humar. extremities, and thc manner in which the arc set agoing strikingly calls to mind the philosophic apostrophe of the human donkey to his namesake, "ITow fearfully and wonderfully are we made."' Thc abdominal region is occupied by a goodsized furnace, which was in full blast. The team man's boiler is delicately concealed from the profanity of the public gaze, but is presumed to be somewhere above thc furnace. This complex piece of machinery got once out of order, but was happily restored after a careful investigation of the cause r.nd the application of the appropriate remedy. Thc steam whfttla is fixed in his mouth, the gauge at the back of the head and the safety valve in an appropriate position. He tvean large stovepipe hat, stovepipe literally, for it is through the cranium that thc funnel passes. Iiis hands are gloved, a good mustache ornaments his face, and in outward garb he is rather good looking than otherwise. The steam man proper is but the figurehead, SI it Were, of S handsome phaeton, capable of accommodating four persons, togetber with a tank to contain half a day's supply of water, and a bunk for a day's coal. entire driving machinery is at tl rear of thc steam man, and within easy grasp Of the driver, seated on the front tout lr. any time, em Increase or turn, stop, curve, etc. rweaj pouuds ot team will set the man in mot ion, 20 cents' worth of coal will work him for a day so I the inveutor avers. It was the original intention of Mr. Dederiek to have exhibited thc steam man to-day in full running motion, but this he says would not be permitted by the insurance company, (it says he can easily accomplish a mile in two minutes oiMi level course, and offers to test this on Long Island course as soon as the weather gets fine. The engine Efl four-horse power, and tho man takes 30 inchea in each stride. Perhaps the most extraordinary attribute of the auim: I is the faculty of stepping over all ohstrnctions not higher than a foot. (Uf course all these assertions are the inventor's, und not the result ot the reporter's investigations.) It or lie may be detached from a phaeton, and yoked to a sleigh or any kind of wagon. Mr. Dederiek 'p ready to procreate without any regard to the conventional idea of nine months parturition steam men at ft cost of $800 apiece. He will also shor'ly produce a steam horse, adapted to ploughing, and the heavier kinds of draught and burden. Whether the steam man proves of any practical good or not, he Is unquestionably a great cariosity. I lie Disgraceful Spectacle. From the Xo.t Albany Loder. A distinguished clergyman, in a discourse an evening or two aio, in one of our city pulpits, in illustration of a point he wished to impress upon his hearers, spoke of the Emperor of the French as the embodiment of that nation, and said that a pistol or a dagger pointed at his breast would arouse the whole people to a determination to avenge thc insult which, in him, had been offered to the nation. And the clerical gentleman was no doubt correct. Volatile and factious as are the modern Gauls, an indignity offered to their inter would be regarded J I national insult. "Wc have no emperor in the United States, but wc have a chief magistrate, who is chosen by the people, according to thc forms of thc constitution, to preside for a limited period over the executive department of the government inpowers arc limited, but tie h, in the eyes of the world, the embodiment, the impersonation of our country. It is he who makes treaties, w bo gives instructions to our ambassadors abroad, who receives the emhaewdore of foreign powers, and who is regarded, and justly so, SS thc tangible and responsible bead of the nation, the representative of it power and dignity. When an .kinerican amb,. - idor in London, Paris, or ES rlin gives a banquet, the first tens! Is, "The Prestdei ' as the head of thc nation. liut what do we now see? A great politi Oil party tho party which placed the pved4b at in the position w hieb he now occupies a pally which claims to number among itmembers the most patriotic portion of the community is engaged in the ihameful work of degrading thc president to the position of malefactor, and of holding up the representative of our national power and dignity as a criminal, about to be placed on his trial for heinous offenses. Tk spectacle (as shameful one. It is a dishonor to the nation. It is disgraceful to itic faction that has placed us it. this humiliating posiiion before the world, fee Frenchman would leap to avenge an insult east upon the chosen ruler of tho nation, even though that ruler if known to have made man IniUurei hhI tu hers te?n rui'ty

of some crimes. But he is the person ideation of the empire. If lie is dishonored, the

(ft whole nation is dishonored in his person. A j bioSaimc(l at him is aimed at the state of j which he is the first person. But no such .spirit no such national wide animates the i jacouin laction wiucii now rules tins coun try through the holy called congress. To accomplish tneir hell-born schemes of party atrcran lizcment they would strike down the chief magistrate of the republic, simply because he cannot he made subservient to their constitution-violating plans. What to them is the dishonor of the nation in the eyes of the world if their own lease of power is to be endangered ? National honor, national pride, national glory, national self-respect must all be sacrificed at the shrine of faction. Were the charges against the president of a serious character were they in fact high crimes and misdemeanors, such as are contemplated by the constitution when a president is to be impeached- the case would be different. But all men must and do feel that the charges against the executive are utterly n fiiv ulcus aud coutemntible. If the suit ; whtch is to be tried by the senate with so much mock solemnity were brought before a common pleas judge, every attorney knows that it would be kicked out of court. Aside from its party aspect, the whole case against -Mr. Johnson is utterly contemptible. io will impartial men among us judge it now. So will intelligent, unprejudiced foreigners judge it. So will posterity judge it. N. A. Ledger. "Give Me Some Squills, Mother." From the Boston Saturday eniiig ('azctt. 'Baize" claims the authorship of a poem about which there has been much discussion, and sends us one unpublished stanza of thc song to prove his right. Here it is : ''Mother, dear mother, O ! give me some scpuills ; I have - rown weary of duns and of bills; Weary of working 10 hours a day, Weary of working tor very small pay, Weary of trying to see my way clear, Tired of cocktails and tired of beer, Ticd of dining with Parker and Mills, Give me some scpuills, mother, give mc some squills. Wc append a letter from a distinguished citizen, which we think will finish the controversy : ''Grees 33a i :. Esq.: Dat? Sfr About the year ISUl I called at your house to grind a pair of scissors for your cook, and you took me up into the back attic to hear your beautiful poem, entitled. 'Give He Some Squills. Mother.' I remember thc year distinctly, because I fell asleep before you concluded. "Yours, truly, TS. Sa AK KS." Thc ImpcachcrM on Jud;?e Chase. The only excitement at present on the

, impeachment uustion continue4 to be condiminish the speed, - . T i m A , ' ' nnea to the action ot Judge Chase in the

matter, past, present, and prospective. It is confidently asserted, by those who ought I to be posted as regards the judge's real KDtluieotl, that he is oppo?ed to impeachment is t' to. The day previous to the publication of his letter to the senate. whicl i 'ave rise to so much commcut here and elsewhere, I was informed that ho would positively refuse to preside at the I trial. Thc next day, I learned that he had written a letter to his intimate friend, Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, to that effect, liut this letter ha.s been .suppressed ; and though efforts were made to procure it for publication, it could Lot be hid. It has come to mc from a direct source, however, that a very near relative of Senator Pomeroy made the charge against tho chief justice that he had turued traitor to the republican party. This was ou the evening of the day that the senate received the judge's letter. Senator Pomeroy, however, did prevail on the chief justice to leave thc bench of the supreme court, aud preside iu thc senate. But, pending his hesitation to do so, leading republicans emphatically asserted that, it he did not i reside, he would be impeached also. In thc meantime, republican newspapers in the iutcrest of the chief justice which papers, of course, hate to see him put himself in au attitude hostile to his party are whitewashing thc whole affair of his so-called defection from the party on this quettiOPj which is now so essentially partisan iu its character as to compel the leaders to ostracise any man who does not give it his cordial support. liut what do republicans who are bold enough to speak out what they thiuk, say to the present attitude of the chief justice, which was as totally unexpected to them, but which your readers will remember I pointed out as extremely probable, some weeks siuce ? They account for the judge' conduct iu this way : They say that Jerry Black, Atty. Cien. Staubery, and others, including Andy Johnson himself, arc trying to seduce the judge from his p'irty fealty by promises of future democratic support; that, he has been fed by hopes, and flatteret! by all sorts of promises j that, ii he would only do thc fair thing as regards impeachment and the McCardlo case, involviug the constitutionality of the reconstruction acts, he can havo whatever he wants from the democratic party, &c. And this is the way the radical republicans now turn on their former idol, whom they exalted unto their political heaven, and try to plunge him dowu to their political hell. In fact, thc chief justice is the tuest abused mau in Washington to-day by leading republicans, nut even 'Xeepting the president himself His son-in-law, Senator Sprague, also comes in tor a fair share of invective, aud is also prononnoed unsound upon impeachment ; while fears are expressed icspecting other senators. This state of things begins to create some little 5tir on thc dead sea of impeachment, aud threatens to revive to teioi extent tho popular interest therein. But, thc fact is, unless we newspaper correspondents can get up somo side show to attract the public, which admission to thc big tent, we greatly fear the whole thing will prove agraud tirilc; On tho other hand, if wo can say to the dear people, "Here's tho side-show, and there's tho big circus ; you pays your money and takes your choice," wo may, after all, preveut impeachment from turotHg out a dead ffiilar

From u New AUkihv Arus. THE HARD TIMES.

Who is ItPSi;ousillc Ttier'tor Plain Answcn. Mr. Editor. Thc democratic papers charge the republican party with the reIsponsibihtj ot the very " bard times are upon us. ill you explain to a republican who " can't see it in that light," how the republican party is responsible ? A Kf PUBLICAN. RF.M.V. The above communication comes to us through thc postoffice. The question is a fair one, and we will acswer it frankly. il Kepublican " will recollect that gold was selling at about 131 when this congress assembled the 1st of December last. It is now over 140. It makes a great difference iu the whole amount of government securities. Still money is plenty. It is loaned in New York at 4 to 5 per cent., and goes begging at that. This is an unuatural state of things. Business is depressed, manufacturers have sacrificed large portion3 of their fortunes, many laborers are idle, large amounts of goods are piled iostores and warehouses, but no customers come to buy. A large house in New York, a few days since, sold a stock of goods that cost 195,000 for 635.000 ca?h. Thousands of clerks are idle in New York, and nearly all the merchants are losiug money. We have passed through many severe commercial revulsions in this country, and business for a brief period becamo stagnant. But did "Republican" ever know tho time, previous to the last yc ar, in which money was plentiful and easy to be had on good security at a very low rate of interest, when business was stagnant and manufacturers and merchants were losing money, and so many laborers were idle? Pleuty of money afloat, and a panic iu business circles. Something unusual must be the cause of this. The telegraph yesterday brought us thi3 item from New York : ,: There is not a vessel now building in this city.'' Let us see. Congress has laid such taxes upon ship building and materials, that the business has been driven out of the cou.itry. Ships can be built in Canada, in England anywhere cheaper than in the United States. So we get no revenues from this source no taxes for congress is obstinate, and has driven away the business. For two years, petitions from Maine to the Gulf have beeu poured into congress praying that taxes which destroy ship-building i i i j . i i. . suouMi uc rcpcaieu or lesseneu. uut congress is quite busy in thc colored business, and turns its back upon ship builders. Congress has laid a tax upon cotton upon one of the great producing interests of thc country, equal to the profit on the crop aud this is oue reason why no more cotton is raised and shipped abroad, giving employment to ships, and bringing gold to this country in exchange. CongroiB has taxod xunn4n.M'.!rea to an unbearable extent ; and one of them within a few days since, on finding that his profits and most of his capital were gone, said : " Within three years I have paid United States taxes to the amount of my capital, and this has made mc poor." Congress has taxed every department of business since the war closed, to the full extent of taxation. Its object has been to keep armies and bureaus at tho south, and to change the character of our government. This work has cost two hundred millions of dollars, a year. Place six hundred rail!ijns of dollars, the amount improperly taken from tax-payers and laborers the three years, back into the pockets of those who have paid that money, aud it would greatly relieve present distress. Congress has paid no attention fur three years to the interest of the couotry, but has squandered money upon schemes which arc destroying the union. Frantically mad, these who have ruled congress have have done nothing but devise M reconstruction" bills, appropriate money, initiate impeachment bills, break down states, and place their governments in the hands of negroes. Two years ago the union wr.s complete. Every state in the Union, north and south, was in harmony with the constitution. Thc rebellion was crushed slavery was abolished. Then congress broke up the uniou, and commenced what it callgd" reconstruction laws. They were despotic and not adapted to free institutions. From that time to this, there has been confusiou, trouble, distress. Congress did what the rebel armies failed to do it broke up the union. What has been the result ' The ten producing and exporting states have been in a stato of chaos. They have been starving while they ought to have been growing rich and prosperous while they ought to have sold cotton enough abroad to pay for the surplus goods that are now weighing down on manufacturers and raerchants. They ought to have been aiding largely in paying thc national debt. Instead of that, congress, through freedraen's bureaus, has been issuing millions of rations to tho south and spending two hundred millions of dollar iu various ways to k reconstruct'' states which its laws have destroyed. Congress has violently stricken down representation a deadly blow to the free institutions and the prosperity they would encourage. It was impossible for these measures of despotism to be extended over the south witlout also inflicting injury and distress upon the north. Had the states of the 6outh went on as they were two years ago, with slavery extinguished and secession destroyed had not the foundation of society been broken up and confidence destroyed, by despotic decrees end military possession, to secure negro predominance over the white race there would have been prosperity there and here to-day, instead of bankruptcy and distress. It has cost tho north six hundred million' of dollars, since tho war, to crush out the white race of thc south, and bring the negroes into power. This has crippled tho north. It has devastated thc south, and prevented it from buying of us, or of helping to pay the national debt. Tho measures of congress have reduced incomes, and cut off the revenue of the govorniueut, and the national debt is in creasing now at the rate of 20,000,000 doltAry month Urtk the cahniitit nf the

country, OoagtnasaSM in mockery are aooAng, and revelling in the luxuries purchased by the plunder cf the people's money. They boast that they will not

" step backward " in their work of de duction, but will push onward, lhc people, only by coming out from party, and sustaiuinz the constitution and preserving the checks upon unlimited power, which it imposes, can save the couutiy from ruin. Tho republican party support i ccngr in its destructive measures has chosen thc men who have enacted the measure outside of the constitution, and we can assure our orre.pondent that the democratic papers justly " charge the republican party with the responsibility of the very hard times that are upon us.'' Wc hope " Kepublican " will examine this subject carefully look at the proceedings of congress- -consider the course jit lias pursued, step by step, encroaching more upon the rights of states and of tb people, and upon the constitution and satisfy himself whether or not we have exaggerated the case in the least, or attribute J the hard times to the wrong source. Old age and faded flowers no remedy will revive. Mrs. Senator Spraguo bus declared for democracy. The court of impeachment ts called " High Old Court." " Mynheer, do you know what for we call cur boy Hans?" Life is the best of conundramns, 1st we all have to give it up. A French newspaper's definition of a whale an an e iiluvian 6ariiLe. There are variou3 stations iu life, but the least desirable is a police station. The advantage of having corns N. that you can always stand on your owu achers. An exchange asks. Luther die!'" He was ty a bull. How did Martin excotniuroicatcd JH.RE?ö'"iTf.D BOT "Blessings on thro. Utile man. Barefoot boy with check. of tan. With tny turned-up pantaloons Aud thy mrry w histled tune ; W ilh thy red Mp, redder still Kiaaed by strawberries on the bill : With tbc sunshine on thy fac Through thy torn brim a jaunty irraoa : From my heart I gir the Joy 1 was once a barefoot boy ! Prince thon art the grown ap man Only i republican. Let the raillion-dollared ride; Barefoot, trudging at hia sid. Thou ha-.t more than he can boy In the reach of ar ar.d eye, Outward ransUSM; inward joy. Bleesinze on the, barefoot boy: " Whitiier. The republicans of Massachusetts have placed themselves under the Graut standard. Gen! Longstreet says, "when a man uitn. auoul a new wr, ficht in thelast odc." La auva lio lii4 tint There are already judications of s 'third party" movement in thc approaching political campaign. At a ball in New York a few evening ago, some of the ladies had servants tu hold up the trails of their dresses. A toast given at a supper at Parker's on Thursday. Stick the same one poundei over Sumner's head by Brook! Greeley wants a president who cau " take an oath." Ben Wade is excellent at making as well taking them trong, too, rr! Th ortk-tree bough onca ton-bed the grau ; liut every year they grew S little farther from the proand. And nearer toward the blue. So live that yon each year may be. While tiiuv glidt-6 swiftly by, A little farther from the earth. And nearer to Ute eky. Over Boyt and GirU. The Austrian Field Marshal Kondelka, has got into trouble and pri?on by the orthographic indiscretion kDown as forgery. " Sir, you have broken your promise," ßaid one gentleman to snother. " Ob, never mind, I can make another just as good." A crusty old bachelor says that Adam's wife was called Eve because when be appeared the day of man's happiness was drawing to a close. "Ferley," says Thad. Stereos i in the habit of making statements "while under the influence of stimulants," that are not consistent, with truth ! Mr. Pullup, coming home pretty full." finds the walking very slippery, and exclaims " V-v-very singular, whenever water freezes it alius freezes with the slippery side up. Singular ! Resolutions charging Governor Fentou with M high crimes and misdemeanors," and asking the legislature to impeach him were presented at the meeting of the board of aldermen of New York, on Saturday, 7th inst., by Alderman Hardy. First oil boy (reading)'4 Thc wife of an Irish laborer presented him with three children at a birth. " 4i What d'ye think of that, sir ? " Second old boy Shameful, sir, shameful ! Fenianisui in its vory worst form ! At a school at Wallsonc, near Newcastle, the master asked a clas of boys the meaning of the word appetite. Alter a short pause, oue little boy said, u I know, sir; wheu I'm catin' I'm 'appy, and when I'm done I'm tight " When you find fie joint of a dog and a brass button in your sausage, you may infer that the joint and button in yonr sausage, or yourself, are in a wrong place' It hungry, however, do not let inferences affect your appetite. A gentleman presented a lace collar to the object of his adoration, and in a jocn lar way said : " Do not let aoy one else rumple t." No, my dear," said thc lady, "I will take it off." ; The latest improvement on stock is a new breed of cats iu Vermont, which have tails only an inch long. The advantages claimed for such tails are. that they cannot get uuder a rocking-chair or bo stepped upon, aud that the door can be closed quicker when they go out.