Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1869 — The Internal Revenue. [ARTICLE]

The Internal Revenue.

The new administration Ik redeeming its promises of retrenchment in expenditure and of reform in the collection of the revenue. The doubt which existed in the minds of many, whether the corruption of the internal revenue system, especially, had not proceeded too far to allow of any other remedy than excision, must give way to the demonstrations of figures. The prompt and rapid increase of receipts from all sources is a guarantee that the last two years are to remain a miserable and shameful fact by themselves. It is well that it should be so. Another such two years might have sunk the vice of official corruption too deeply into the constitution of the public body for any peaceful remedy There has, indeed, been reason to fear that the country was approaching the condition where legal penalties and executive vigilance are helpless to prevent fraud and peculation, and that the President of the United States might became as impotent as formerly was the Czar of all the Rnssias to bring the proceeds of a tax into the Treasury, secure the honest performance of a contract to victual a ship-of-war, or devise bonds and conditions effectual for the execution of any public trust We seemed in the way to illustrate the melancholy lesson of Rome in her last days, and of Russia in the Crimean war—that nothing is so helpless as corrupt strength. The increase in the Treasury receipts is a matter of gratulation therefore, not became the treasury balance is at present of great consequence, but as Indicating that the floods of cor motion are at last fairly stayed.— Lippincott'i Magazine for August. Jj” A correspondent of the New York Tribune administers the following anecdote as applicable to Andy’s case : “The persistence with which this individua! hangs on to the idea that somehow or other the people want his services, or at least his opinions, reminds me of the man who persisted in going to a ball where he was neither invited nor wanted. All sects of hints were given him to leave, but in vain. He was the* forcibly put a kicked down several flights of stairs, out into the middle of the street, where, seated in the mod, be was heard to sxclaim, *1 don’t much believe they want me up there.’ It is true, A. J. has not come to the same conclusion with regard to himself yet, but let us have frith that he will in time. As there is a limit to ell things here below, probably his self conceit has bounds somewhere. Thirty-five against nineteen on impeachment was a gentle hint that might have made some men distrust their popularity, but it had an opposite effect on him, and he evident, ly expected that the dear people would make him President for the next four