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to be sacredly observed—by unblushingly re fusing to fulfil an obligation to which 9 havo sa¢redly pledged the national faith! For the tenor of all the bonds issuetl by dre Government is, not only that the principal shall be paid at maturity, but that interest shall bo paid in the meanwhile; quire aman who has received the stipulated interest for sixteen years and eight months at the expiration of that time, any further compensation, is Scenes in Lon: | nothing more nor less than repudiation. The hint conveyed in the last sentence of the paragraph quoted is also delicately sug. It is not well to be overanxious in exacting from the borrower rigid compli. ance with the letter of the bond.” the late lamented Dr. Wenstin of Boston Was somewhat too impatiently danned by his creditor Dr. Pankstan, he ingeniously knock- ed him down, and afterward burned up his | body in a furnace, Tho American people, } aesumed by each. The location of the inter. | President Jonxeon would remind us, are | colonial railroad is pronow Likely if hard pushed to treat thelr ereditors | job, and a awindle, In which tha public in in the samo way ; the moro especially as they | like Dr. Wresten, bo made to #wing for their conduct on the gallows. that they would, under any circumstanees, | time, the Imperial Government, instead of e verdict at the hands of the received at the hands of an unsympathizing Mosaachusetts jury, we have no manner of doubt. Of the attempt which President Jomeox posal, by urging that of our securities have already received all they are entitled to, and more, itis hardly possible to speak with patience, If the faet were as ho states it, it would af. | ford no reason for not doing: what wo agreed But, on the conteary, the truth Is, » larger part of our debt is held what was WOON'S MUSEIM—The Lydia Thompson Burlesque ‘Troupe, Living and Wild Animate, WALLACK’S-The Lancashire Lass, Elegant scenery, Appomntments, &e, A eplendia cast, KEW YORK CIRCUS. 14th Ft, opposite Academy of Mosic—Cinderelia, Star Matinées Wodnotdays and Saturdays, at 24 P.M. THPATRE FRANCATS.—Genevieve do Brabant, Mati née on Saturday. DODWORTH HALL, Broadway—Dee. 10, Vocal and Jostramental Concert. PHRENOLOGICAL MUSEUM, day Lectares at 12 o'clock. DOWERY THEATRE—Ater Dark, or Riders and Acrobats, o to surrender, oe wren er eee 1 tiie elatin Soe PIKE'S OPERA Tt Shines for ATL RSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1968, Terms of the ® Pary.per rear to wail eabseribery Eaxi-Worrty, per year Fifty copies to one But | fr ‘Werary per year... .... Twenty coptes to one & world as Dr, Wieuste packages, at Club rates, THE SUN {8 retvot to merihers at thelr homes, Wronghont the Ved at the BUX Otice | makes to justify his » ADVERTISING RATER rKed only for the »pavw An Warxiy—per linens adore, that much t by people who hole addrova e ¥, Seat Waenir, of Warent r to give thelr as well as tho new ploce to which they Wisk | Millions of of notes and Our friends tn seeding tn their Go well to remit tn nhwortntions wilt ate | gold was the only legal teuder, we in greenbacks, and those groonbacks ex changed for bonds ata considerable 4 To repudiate these bonds, either now or een years hence, would be the gros#est outrage on our creditor, ag well as a viola tion of our pligghted word Tn short, President Joinson’s proposition is a8 atrocious in principle as It is bungling If wo aro to attempt the highway, cand and del The President's Message. President Jouxeos begingl!s message with an attack upon the reconstrnet says of tho ennetinents which have been passed in referonce to the rebol Btates, that they have not only failed of their © proved positively pernt- 8 those nete with being In- population of purpose, but ha man's game and ery our creditors, let ua do fit at once 4 postponing it seventec food a right to do it then, and we should eave by d very pretty sain of money to for the fufamy we should incur, © the white those States under negro domination, ng il feeling among the citizens Tho exclusion of Vir cas from particlpa eaidential election he denoun tes as being contrary to the Constitution. Ho claims that he had, three years ago, brought the work of restoration nearly to completion, when Congre frustrated the accomplishment of his plans. Ho therefore recommends the repeal of all the legislation now in force upon the sub: tended to p! Wo have ae ow as wo shall bave | ng it now a mipensate us thus fortert sissippt, and Hion in tho P A Muddle Cleared Ups To thoee who naderstand Judge Ban. NaAnD's well balancedmind,it has always been | a mystery how he came to give that impul- sive charge tothe Grad Jury three or tow Certain facts have come to our | knowledge, which afford an amusing Mus tration of tho old adage, that “mistakes will sometimes oecur in the best royulated On the morning when this charge | was given, just as Judge Bansany took his some ono placed in his Hands an envelope containing a very abu. | awWarranted attack upon him, and | And economy, Let them require and ehorish deceased father, from the Daily Assuming on a hasty glance that | the New York andthe Grand Jury happening vurt room at that moment, his | under this libelous and | unjustifiable assault, laid the matter before | intervened and The Prosident then urges the repeal of the as demanded by the best interests of the country, The bill, he says, now provente that rigid accountability of ‘his essential to an honest ution of the laws, objeets to the Interferences by Congress with itutional functions as Commander in Tenure of Office bil weat on the ber public oflcers wh’ and efficient hind appeared i On the subject of tho national finances, the President makes a comparison of tho Present amount of our national expenditures | nal debt with showing how greatly they havo in S rison he draws 0 lesson of the necessity of retrenchment and | body without dissent. possible | yy to enter the or, smarting renpon, the Grand Inquest for tho of New York proceeded to take our neighbor of Printing 1; and our 1 nt of the | dor Bannann, thrast 1, but the plan he propos day by day, into the robes of Li interest payment, a 4to apply the six per cent nually to the reduction | 4y f partial ropu t Le too sternly i] examination of it turned out that hurled, not by the New y City Timea— , Upon a mor I, is a scheme | the missile had beon York Times, but by the Jer n assailant of a very diffrent caliber! tely upon the d arges the resumption of spectily ae px io payments as | bie, without Indicating his preference for any particular measure lenling y recapitulating the substance of the reports of the various Scerctarics of Departments, the President da tospenk of our The Alubama claims are luded to, without any ete dition of the ponding n The Paraguay tioned, but no oy conduct of Mr. Wasimenn. Ister to Parag Instructions to invest izrat and he will be supported in whatever demand | be may make by the whole nayal fore South Atlantic n have been asked for wery of the fact | the Ink that the article was published by a journal | °*' outride of this State, and hence beyond the | jurisdiction of the Grand Jury, they, at the | request of Judygo Bannanp, reconsidered their action in the premise Tt seems to us that this affords an oppor- tunity for explanations all around, oe Putting Indian Affairs under the War Department. The Honse of Representati ‘wesday in passing hi majority the bill'to trinsfor the Indian Bu- reau from tho Interlor Department back to the War Department. proposed chan, n. GHANT, G Srenan, a8 well as of 8 committed by the Prosident | publicman who has had the opportunity ef | 4p, becoming familiar with the subj is none the less gratifying to pr the House understands the pressing nature We trust that the ually prompt and clear in th tion upon the bill, It is now some twenty years since the man- ment of Indian tothat result. After Driefl fore\gn relations only remotely al % of the con on is expressed upon the The new Min, Mr. MeMatton, has received the whole matter, acted very | lives in crossing that w ive a | have their way this tin Tt is true that the | mem © has the earnest recommen Sueuan, and United Sta planation and satisfacti With other countries our relations Js of St. Th dica, Linve be mas and St, John of the exigeney, ir ac. | ¥ Tho confirmation of the re ndwich Islands is rec and after brief refere the mossage concludes with the renewal of the proposal electing the President and Senators of the United Btates, and the term of office of the Prowident and Judges of the contained in the message of the 16th of Jul om in the Sena procity treaty affhirs was tak partment and committed to that The lator Department waa ve the Indian Bu- n and Spain, of the Interior then new ; in fact, we bel roan was incorporated with it on its first. or. ‘The experiment has now been tried for a time sufficient to test it thorough ly, and its failure is perivet, We dare say | that the civilians of various political partics din the Indinn Bureau during these nas honest as tho average of politicians ; but the Indians have been steadily plundered by them, notwith: | By nature a politician is probably as upright @ man ad an arr | from the force of cirenmstanee will not rob the Indinns under his charge, the former will ty actually commi uupreme Court, In the course of Prosident Johnson's last paragraph occurs ; Ait whould he ans Message, th’ Teamay be assamod th have siready re amonol (han thelr original inve epold standard, tho Intter | powe of, and hope to get rid of them by ol paid by the Ge De applied to the reduction of the annua! Inetallt diminished by tho | inal presage of the bil rt from this © desirable to put the Lin m, however, it sunder the War rand more snd! Hiveral bor pd will thie Lucy evn * Of the past edmonish Ue leuler hit + in exacting from Ui convenient, thom in any case, in ont peace; nnd, wh ‘Tho exquisite irony of the first sentence in the above extract is unequalled in tho his | also, and save the exp sarv of Rate panera Our natioual crodit is nav Of Maintaining a numerous urray of efvilians for that purpose. des, fs Unie m ity i re, anid ag it is tho authority which pan. ea and ind, itis better that the sav. ages should undoratand that {t is the only futhority which they have te deal with. We are confident that the change will do much | to prevent the occurrence of Indian wary in the future, —— The New Dominion. The Dominion of Canada does not work well, Instead of producing that political um which was hoped, it has pro duced contention, disorder, charges of corrup- tion, and general distrust of the future. No- va Seotia and New Brunswick both want to get out of a union which they find incompati- blo with their interests and their tastes. agree whit proportion of the common debt of seventy two millions of dollars shall be terests are disrejrarded, and the land apecuta. | tions of members of the M nds are alone attended to. At the sar handing over at onee to the Dominion all the Fighta and powoiona of the Hudson's Bay | j Company, so that the Dominion may extend | the tuundation, it ia o tothe Pacific on the woat and the Arctic | ocean on the north, coolly informs the ambi- tious Canaiions that if they desire those ae. qnisitions they must pay for th th selves, for Bnygland will not make them #6 Dig a present, This refunal ia significant, It shown that | the British Government perceive that the j eubsidies, grants, and heavy peeuniary guarantees is gone by, It gives no eneow rogement to the wetation that England will give two hundred and fifty millions dollars toward the building of a Pacif Railroad across the Hudson's Bay Com territory, in order to enrich Cano tractors, speculators, and politic’ Preserve unquenched the firos of C loyalty. If this be indeed the determination of the Tlome Government, the disappointment. of the Dominion will for @ time be yi ardent; not because the things they ask are of much real importance to them, butt cause they want the evident that tho annexation to Canada of millions of acres of polar tee will note the happiness or the power of ita poople; and that the boilding of two thousand 1 more of rm y's an con, nt arel lee mn onnideringg that A through a wilderness not be of much advantage, the thousand miles they now have through a | eottlod country searcely pays expenses, But these truths make little difference, so long as the Canadian imogination, exeited about theeo great things, believes tho are furnished the ruin of the the failure of ita Interesting political expert- ment are close at hand, The proviners of the Dominton ought to understand thet it is not wild Inada, or unless thes | desert railroads, of foreign commerce thnt of a country, but density make th | of popu atne fi ation, im istry, intelligence he | these high trenaures, and ut easion to bey for charity at the Colonial Tt geoms that Judge Boannstan, of 'Tomp- kins county, has dissolved » injunction by A Judge Davies king possession of the Erie Railway as le which Judge Canpozo restral from Receiver, But this war of the dudges is of account «0 long asthe Attorney-General backs up Judge Barcom's proceed control the whol subject in behalf of the State, from which this corporation gets its charter, pon whose fat nid, os its exi nee dep When the between Las athing that wow going to be done, © humerous wisescres who insisted that project of constructing a tanned w York and Brooklyn was first an. there w it was impossible to do it, Chiengo, however, came to the resea a 1 its practicability by making atimnol more than two nm jes and a half long from that city into the deep waters of ne carcasse, rh sof the natural beverage, We are ylad to aro making aetive pt na to car project across the East River, We were to have had a bridge to connect New York and Brooklyn, but it scems that the ferry companies are too strong for the bridge builders. They would like, no doubt, to stop the course of the tunnel also, and give the people only one chance for their a ad the tunnel is likely to be a popalar institution, People don't relish the idea that they may be smashed up at ony be “sleepy,” lar; [and delegates his wheel to anskilfal hande, | Thoy remember the Brooklyn so there is no doubt they will largely patronize rry disaeter, and © tunnel as so fs it is completed which, it is right and in accortance with pro s4 that there should be move than one or tw les of transit between the two cities, and that | m a natural death nopoly should d very see ater obstructs trade and commerce by | jamming up the river with feo, and we ought | not to depend solely upon @ ferry boat for our cotmunicatio: It would be a good thing for the poor, as well as for large manufacturers who consume much fuel, if peat or turf contd be brought fairly | into the market as a rival of coal, But fiom re peated trials, made by competent persons, with | every advantage of machinery, capital, and skilled labor at command, it has been proved be- yond question that it cannot be so produced, It | generally happens at intervals of about a year, | or when the cold weather is approaching, that the case of Peat versus Coal comes up for trial in tho courts of journalism, But those who are behind the scence know very well that those who pull the ropes are chiefly interested persons who have either peat lands or peat machines to dis- a ting a popular excitement about the superior value and cheapness of peatovor coal as fuel for thepeopte, Our readers may take our word for it that ull fuel excitement is b | cannot be broaght into the mar pote favorably with the "black diamond ager ~The Chieogo Tribune eave thore tsa ramon, rald to be well auth Dr, John MeMut Jon, pastor of St, Paul's Roman Catholle Church in ninst be kept among | that city, who wont to Rome some mouths ago, to to preserve th officers are on the spot, they can attend tothe other business } prosecute aa appeal egainst Bishop Duggan, Las Ko far sued between te Bishop and his olerzy hay been taken up at Rome, where all he partios eoncermod have een HuMmoned to appear and be heard before that suoreme tribunal of the HK PRESIDENTS MESSAGR, a of the President tne nife@ Mtates two Houses of ( mencement of the Seco Of the Fortieth Conurens. Fruiow Crrizexs of rie Sexate axp Moret or cessors, This was dae not merely to the fact that | REPRRERNTATIVES: Upon the reassembling of Con- this was (Ue Inst appenrance of Madame Avbovann before the pubiie of New York, but doubtions also, im ‘& measure, to the pecullar interest of the subject. wirealy | adage 2 avpowARD's cor. atthe Com. io M Eevpt, is Peshas, Government—Suez Cans), “tothe a Madame Otxape Acoovann’s fifth and fast Con- ference, last evening, drew together a larger and more brilliant audience than elther of its prede- arees, it again becomes my duty to call your etren- tion to the state of the Union, and to its continarit disorganized condition upon the various laws which ‘The deseriptions of Ezypt by poets and travelices | bave been paesed under the ubjeetot reconstraction, are charming, bat Imperfect and false, Seen from a distance, Kaypt Is beantiful ; seen clove at hand, tt is the very opposite, In iilastration of the little confdence to be placed in the narratives of travel, | Madame Atpovanp related the deception sho th herself experienced from relying upon Lamantinn's account of his visit to the cedars of Lebanon, ‘These thor, are grand and im- ove the centuries; they nl einaio‘e ro iy dekecis aud, averdeviin witch, It may he ‘eafely axsumed, as an axiom in the gov- 0 greatest wrongs inflicted pon u people wre caused by unjust and arbitrary legislation, or by the unrelenting decrees of deapot!¢ and that the timely revoention of injurious and oppressive measures is the greatest good that ean be conierred upon a nation. wisdom and ms trace his steps, when convinced of error, will sooner or Inter be rewarded with the respect and gratitude Of an intelligent and patriotic people, Our own history— ernment of States, that m the Treas hw legiatater or | Ge ten Asean endien dense anituity to re- | 38.088, and riod were $977,910, ruler who ha are, according to that pressive; “they tower a know history better than Wetory knows herself; The two Canadian provinces aro unable to | they astovish the people of Lebanon | to visit these celebrated trees occupied three days, she saw what seemed @ Rioup of dwarfed and woravat treos, of no bewuty Iter enide asked if he shontd during the present fiseal 490, si owing a’ malt be! hough embracing a perlod Jess than a century=afords abundant proof thet mort, If not all of our domestie troubles are directly traceable to violations of the organic !aw and exces: ‘The most striking filustrations of fret are fnrnished by the ensetments of the part three years upon the question of reconstruction. they have substantiaily falled end and there seems \t Yonger remain 20, 1870) It in entininted that the receipts will 9 to $927,000.00, and the expenditures to 908,000 Jeqving an Pstlinated surpiis of $2 but on renching th F inajesty Whatever, 1 an immengo | carve her name with that of Lamartine. i accompanied the poet on his visit to the “ Accompanied him ? Ho rent me to curve ty and thelt mained in Beyrou nranee of keynt three different easous harvest i» gathered in wears the aspect of an tor he never came name, while bo ro | AMor a fiir tria proved perntetons In their results, to be no good reason why they # Hook, Statesto which the Consth tution guarantees a republican form of government hoon redunod to military depe of which the peaple have been mado eubject to the arbitrary will of the comm the Constitution requires that ench Stato ahall be Virginia, Missistippt, and tnfed from the two Honsee, | contrary to the express provisions of that in were denied porticipation in the recent and Vice-Prestient of The ntvempt to plrec the white pe ander the domination of persons of color in J, If uot destroyed, the ke viously existed between thom red a fooling of anl- of dollars when tn 1812 war Ww: Great Britain, The threo y lowed Inrsely Increased and In 1814 they bad al Wnodrot and “twenty-seven millions, — Wise anil cconamical legislation, however, enab the Government to pay ‘the entire amount within a period of twenty yenrs, and theo tlaygustenm: with re President duckeon’s a deeption alirge find rematved th the Treasney, which was depos Fal States, on. ¢0" when roqdired by the publie wante, Tn 1849 year after the te with Mexien—we found onreelves involved in a debt of sixty-four millions; © upon the statat jenclos, In each vast expanse o And turbid water,amid which rise the eities with | their white minare represented In Con exae are yet and) Moorish | beantifnl white head from the marshy When the waters wholly ret undiees eld, black a ywn without any pee the country & f the waters and flower of the lotus ¢, they leave but one lations that tad p and muteal distrast hae onsen monity Which, leading ia forme Instances to co shed, has prevented that codperation be: | mintma exhaled fro | Dominion is a luxury of much cost and Jttle | from the dead animals of every kind that have teen profit. Tt Indiente: t the arin | leftmpon the profit. It indientes that tho day of imperiol beoutifal part of the year tn Reypt ip civil war made an enc in the epriny fre tween tho two rhetw ao eevential to the enscess of aetrial enterpr Dave the mint ‘The Srerctary of the Traury shows thal ceeds all that is antry Is then a bonn Liion of affairs growing out Congresttonnt agitated by grave apprehensions of troubtes which might again involve tho peare of the nation; ity interosts by the derangement of businers and labor, and the consequent want of prowperity throughout that por tign of the conntry. The Federal Constitntion—the magna charts of nder whote wire snd ealutary neted nll our i ¥ stitid to trave heen # the Secretory that the ret The shy iv ctenr and briltiont, and the glowing sun shines perpendten no shadow. The atmosphere in full of iig Nilo wn clear as Venti na, and | ai, but after ail tnonot arly down, even the trees casting 6 boon Injuriously ‘The scene is splen- n upon the horizon, * the planes of Revpt were are without number, ed by a charining pleture ondrfa, with thelr beauty I thely horrore without bel once begin to | aadian | Aimeriean tights, provisions We live aneeessfully con ie and foreign aMalre, anstained ourselves In. war, and becom’ a creat nat ors of the eorth to the ecttl tof the civil war wn: famous rorpent | ‘This great Met fe ma tion of the ¢ nd thete ith, thelr charms urges tht the Must become its a the wise precedente ca and without further delay muke provis payment of ovr o' may be practicable. Be enjoyed by our citizens, mther thin deed to batid up an?! sustain the other lauds, | Que forel I. j by the Merretary of the Treasury at elgit milfions et tof quest out prow foat by the en ry when Congress ¢ thelr art now f Another plague ts the i wo intensely. It is | craved; the epirit of rebel outhorn State life, and thron: pt le the history handved and foreig) countries receive Interest upon a Inrze yor: tion of ont securition, and An timrent Nad tal koveruing | Dien provietona of the partment, with ronght the wor toning of thelr dynasty in 1 being the first, the celebrated Mo- | shoul te wt all tines disearde tc & very complete nd animated a fusing to perfect the werk ¥o newly consnminat: i, declined raembers fre reries of men at Constantinople to the niaeaacre of the M. the confirmation of his power, the Syrtan war, and finnt'y his tosanity and death, and that of the founded, a weil 6 wuntry and | peod of his oa, adonted © rated aL that tind bee so attece after three y aw left the country further fro" 4 fraternal feeling than at Mis character an Atrocions despotiam he | tion and str the eflurts he really made for tho | antry, were gudged with nei | fully uccompiianed, It nee ls no areument to a! | Jotion which hes protuced su fered ty This euceestnrs, Thraliim, Abbas, Sold, and I Were nest in torn mate historteal narrative and anuly- Him Wasa man of exceltent Inte Dat his relgn was of short dura nater of erncity and tnhn but Inetetent tout person of 2 genuine principles of ¥ Under the mfuence of party passion reynidiee, oar nets have been patsed not warranted ; ubliean goveranent, | the prevent Vieers | Jeet of an admieabl shape of bondhollers and tax-catherers, keen jniement; haw proved that ite eat Interests of the coun upon its run cred duty to tran: the blessings of liverty wine were t rigid accountability. of p niiy; | ty, m honest and eficient of Iheahio, ts a atnwll, with a Hight beard and complexion, . Senorant, stupid, avart qrord quality elther of mind or character. nelat of Arabs, living In the tin freedom ; of Turks, who oceupy all pincer will have no | com us, Without any people of Egypt re, brokers, ho they are Chris of the Butye! ons of their own nt once annutied Hest miletty i Gimes y.nd the Follabs have no. rig 1 by the Court dircet the cou teetion and pire on etre meth oft \. atiier is contrary to the tituilon, tat # i right of the people to keop und ery functionary bas the | ah to be punished Fall aveh laws would 0 obliged to work for the Vi the nation's sat use of the money borrowed, wiiicl w Feney greatly depreciated below the value of cot This fact te made apparent when we consid a their own linplements and | ME regularly 0 A year; Dutas there Phe cotton felts of Viceroy and Ms sugar refineries are al! provided | and ea with this sort of unpald labor, ated by millions of miitions, expectatiy * of wealth the by fit to the counter, stand aK 60 many Which has charact Imponitions ¢ © exered nine d thie Hut is never ob Dondholders recet m the ‘Treasury upon exch, dolar they own in Governtnent securitios #lx pert cent, Ingold, which is nearly te eqn te nei nits are the nidivures have reac Tie population of the arly {uur milous of us he adds to these whore there were no dead dogs ad | of money lending and various ather speculation ‘The politicnl divisions of Egypt were neat ex- ined, ne well as the meehanisin by which this sys: despolllng and enslav | twearrid down into its minutert details, Arnow ann coneluded by declaring that, revolting ns things whieh she had ex- a With Which she contemplated the fiets bad not carried ber beyond the pure and Tadeed, that is of such a nature, whe salt, that It would be Impowsible to exaggerate it, The lecture was terminated amid the cordial ap- Plause of the audience, who could not but regret that que and charming series of entertainments was bivught to an end. two per cent. In the f wherewith the | have an aggregate of seventern per cent. which letion—to poison the sweet. | In 1800, it Is es elelit miliions, or an inereare of eight hundved and sixty-eight por cent, bn per cent, on the population gtho working pen whether our fits whiel th Averic to A a plan whtel woald yield them th expenditures of the Federal Govern four million two dojinns : fn 19, eighteen nition two: i and dollars; in 1e0, forty-one millions; inf in 10, nearly thirteen hundr: millions , nnd in Ie) it ts estimated by the Beeretary of the Treasury, in his lo=t onntal report, that they ndred and seventy-two millions, disbursements of 1850, 99 } ment In 191 wer is the barbarous order posed, the indignati sixty-three million simple truth, f expenditure since th nent lias been eixht centui, while the incre pusand six hu Oovuginal tn ver!me r. Hut they will not | ud equitable that the six per cent, mte J siatyeight per centurn, of the Government in 16d Immediately preceding the war, White tn Te, the year of poace three Again, the ex- the year of pence | ton of the prinetpa' wanual Ls eres AND Meetinos,—The thirty-seventh synnal ball of the Thistle Ber be given Friday evening at Apolt eighth stecet, n three miions Nanidate the entire tna nt on aferry boat if the pilot happens to | or getting his broektist, | Mall, Twenty- + millions—an f per cont, While the 1 Was oly tweuty-t four hundred an debt or © this eveuing at : The Barometer.’ Toynion will deliver hia third lectare on the in the largo Ball of the Cooper Vaton, ing, on “The Introduction of Lie npon our ilanet t reception tikes places tls and the Twenty iF Armory In Four vive the testimonial from the iF periods=-the. war with evening at the Academy of Must and the war of the second Regiment will meet at teenth street, to ladies of Long Branct In Isi4, the annual ex whed ther bighort amount Population sightly pendiuury of ouly three ins aid eihity coals per capita, 7, st of the War with whed Hhy-five militons, and the population abort twenty-one nuliions, qiving only two dollars avd sixty cents per eapita for the War cxpenses of that In Loti, the expenditures: eal ached the Vast ammo: ety inallions, wh hirty-four miitions, gv And twemly Cents por capits, Frou. the ith day of Maieh, 1 Thine, 184t, thotentir lwcat’ Were seventeen that period we were Mexico, and w dent to the war of abont thirty-on L, Woodford will deliver his and the Cretans" this evening at all, in aid of the building fund of St, pal Sunday School, lecture on * Cre Peter's Protestant Bp: The Leving Literary Fellowship will give an enter- ta‘nment this evening at Brevoort Hall, Fityfoarth street, near Third avenue, to consist of readings and most popular authors, d for by the re- pared with a povuls Ahirty-eiglit de to the a0th of me 18 very select, ‘The Key. Henry Blaychard will repeat bis sermon on “The Religion of Free Trade" this eventn Defore the American worth’s Studio Buildings, corner of Fifth aven ‘The mevting {8 open and the hunered millions of do: Great Briusin an tes with powerful uirchased from France at a ¢ ctded tous by Spal juillions; California, Was w fitcon millions ; inyolved in hos. 1 tribes; Louisiana Wan Free Trade Le: | Twenty-stath street, pubjie are invited, ‘Theodore Tilton lectures this evening at Treanor’a tween Forty-first and Fort ots on Troe Statesmanship.” lecture in the course of Evenings Up-town, se Hawking, the fimons natura Jeventh Presbyte | Chuneb, Filyith street, between Lextig on the “Unity of Pian and Animal Kinga ‘exas for the sump Isl the war of the rebelli ot duly OF that year to Jane, 1565, the public expenditures reached the e: Nous aggregate of thinly Three years of pence the disbursements succeasively been five hundred nd forty xT 1 and nincty-tlire Hall, Sixth avenue, hundred millions, futervened, and during Government Lave tious, and ree tr Adding to thes and that peat | sixteen hundred years humedtawly suce J as Was eapended durmg the weveusywo years aL embraced the ex ‘Phe Bratt Gowns’ Club will meet at their rooms, Jon of Insect to Veg t preceded the rebel riy iastrate the neces All branches of { Abuses which were tolerated during the he nation Wil not be en profound peace pre revenues und eu the past throw years, gradnully diminisied, and tho comtinuauce of uscless and ex extravagant expenditures will involve ua ln national Davernbicy, OF else make inevitable au Hanwoxte Socrery.—The oratorio season will on Christmas night with the * Messtah,”* ted in bis tulssion that tho controversy | Now York Harmonie Society hae eng’ rtists for the solo parts: Houston, of Boston, Nips, alto; My. George Simpson, anor; Mx, Win. 1, s Beckett, basse, Miss Julia B. Adelaide Phit ‘Nhe receipts trom Internal toma huye, duriy soak is unt of tucit inquisitorial character, ne iilions annually are expended ior the ni P lar tion of which is employed in ex ‘of laws both unnecessary and ‘one iundred and. finy mf tion h year to pay the intercat on the public nconsti- Dt; an army of tax-gatherers Impoverishes the nation; and public agente, placed by Congress be- fond the control of the Execntive, divert from their leaithmate purprwes large gums of inoney which they iwet from the people in tae name of the Govern: red to exist, cannot fal! to dimirish confidence * ta the peblie given ‘and weaken the attachment 1¢ praple towards their political in. Mitations, Withobt. proper, care the emnall balance whicl it is estimated will remain in the Troasary at fae close of the. prevent facal year will act, be real. ized, and additional millions be added to = deut which ts now enumerated by billions, It is shown by the able, xnd_comprehenetve Hy, that the revelnte fo the Aacal year ending June OH 1°08, were $408, that the expen titres for the same pe- 1 leaving in the Treasnry a ene Tels eotimated that the Feeeipia ear ending dene 9), 1509, expenditares $M, Jeno 8H Government, Por th fieeal year ending 3 plas of $e,er1,71 Jill be $341 B04 008, and 000,087) Tt becomes proper, in this connection, to make a brief reference to onr public Indebtedness, which hae gceutnniated with such alarming rapidity and sasumed auch co! al propor'to Tn 1789, when the Goverement commenced opern- the Ntation. it wae hurr. indebtedness of seventy-five millions arine the war of the Revolntion, notnt bad heen reduced to forty Ave millions Jeclared again a Of the mguonal debt ‘Aled the tind tity anid was one. Of tho Brest evente istration, “Alter its ree for anfe-keeving with the sevrs n that it whould be returned the ination af an ompensive wir A this was the amomut hy the Government th 19M, Just prioe to the Ke of the rebellion. Tn monee ft net had heen retuced ¢ time hls re an incteass daglig the past year of 02; for the det onthe det day of Nov 12,602, P Nove habilittes £0 total | ng thirteen ty-stx and § half mniilton igo to Contress of Decen 180, tt teal that 9 po ley should be devised whieh OpEPessive to the people, wookd a ilect a reduction of the debt, aud, If preatated In, ally um bor of years, ‘The Secretary of the Tr continends te n of this ehnineter, and Jost or it ly dererred the more diMentt nt. We ahonld follow ished in 179 and 181, m for the eating at an carly a period as Tie fruits of thelr fabors should J monopolies tn our own and en debt ts already computed Rinens of rican taxnayers ai6 ide to contribute ‘Ierge sins for thelr suyort, 6 idea that suet a det i to become pertiavent involving tsi too heavy to be borin f danueraus * of the Govern * me servants ti the lend era of the people, We now imving given treelom to tour of the colored race; it will then be our that forty millions of people, by thelr own ion of uxurpation and profiguey, have suf elves to become enslaved, merely ex. rel slave-owners for new teskmasters in the ing to monopolies, perpetuitins, and clase are totally frreconellable with free insti+ Introd into OnF republican system, gridua'ly but eurely wap its foundathons, subvert our governmental iabrieand erect moneyed aristocracy, [tis our sa. it unbnpaired to our posterity. attest he the founders of the Republig, and by our ex teach those who mre te follow awefuily to the dangers which threaten @ ‘auch did nt pone, lous plans have been proposed for the payment publie debt, However Uiev moy hat tothe time and t th his report recom «ina b A prior t f duly n four ereentt while by eiany thre fo cont. has been Ho AMply suMieiont reurn for the Inve st ment eral impression a to the exorbitancy OF the oxieting rate of interost hit ied to an | quiry tn the public mind respecting the cousidern tion whieh overnment Las actually reeelved for ita bond: lnsion is becoming prevalent that (ie amount shiek obtained was fn real money three or four hundred per cent, less thin the oblige one Wh iasned in return. It ennnot ve den.e that we wre paying an extravaxant percentage tu paper eu rthat national banks, tipo: istuc their eiremlation, wis, cent. — inter and that they are from ta by Government and the § and by entianensd ove anielt Pee nea tow at the ex. further inquiry of the: tary Id themmclve deiitedness upon if remunrras n, and mt the nme time be just to the tax. vers Of the nation. Our national eredit should be sucredly observe tin aking provision for editors We should not forget what is due tnssea OF the people, Mmay be assunied iat the holders of eur securities have alcvady ived upon thelr bonds a later amount thin thelr measure! by @ gold standard, Upon this atatemont of fiets it woul seem bat just st now pall the re is just ‘ol the many ly the Government #) whieh in sateen i elgctit moont aldebt, Bix per 1 would at present rates be equal to ain hi ew and cquivaient to Ue payment of (he ail. ball ute dn @ fraction lees dian Feven teen years, ‘This, in ¢ tion with all the other ndvantages derived from their investinent, would afford to the public creditors a fair and bers com pensat Lee he i they should be sauisied. Pie monisi the tender iat it is anxious from the ie, but in tay tion dred d fifty millions of uid otherwive be wsed hy our et icing t0 the wealth of (he ne tion,” “Our Sommercey which at one ine. see futy “Tiyalie’ that “or the vervat.mnritime Powers, has pitly diminished, and our in. dustrial’ interests ire in a depressed ani laneuishking condition, ‘The devel: ypment of Inexianstity purces is checke!, and the fertile flelds of th hare becoming wast r want Of moans to Wil them. With the ticnae of capital new Life would be mfused into the poraly zed encryics of our people, and activity and vigor imparted to every branch’ of industry. Onr peopte need en. cou ement in ther ¢torts to recover from the effects of the rebellion and of Eiedtciogs tetatton 5 and I, ehould be the aim of the Governimert to stinva: ate them by the of nn early reteage fom tie burdens Which impede their prosperity, Tf we ean not take the bardens from their shoulders, we should at leost manifest a willingness to help to hear them, Th referring to the oonalition of the eiren dium ‘annualiy a tars, which w prising people i ng merely reiterate, substantially orion of my last aianal movshge whieh rela subject. ue proportion which the cnrreney of any country should bear to the whale value of the anbaal pr duce cireutated by It means ts a question upon Which polilieal esuncmists hav cau It be ee d by fegistation, bat nu laws wot The elreats to those pol greatest comand, The ad nid fu that whit lates the tite decd enreney, Wke tie Udes, hae its hronghant thb ¢ relat woz Atthe beriniing of fhe rebellion the bank note cirewation of the country amonnted to not much jwore than to Wuindred mulillons of doltars; now th circulation of national Oenk notes and thote known zal tenders” Is neacly seven hundred mbilions, itis urged by wome’ that this auonnt stout 1 re conten! thats decited reduc sulutoly essential te, the ext tntorests of the country. Tn view of thebe divorse ptr may be Well to arceriain the real valne of our paper issues, when compared with) metailic ur conver tt bie cubvency, For this purpoag, Tet us inguire how much gold’ ‘and sfiver contd Ne purchased by the weven hundred wAlome of pant more sow in cir mice. Our eire ply why those who defend un on t servant in mont; the farmer wh army ‘ant. the waite tolls in the nation'® warkshr and labore forts an ¥ of thetr just and hard-earned da ated pe creditors of the Govern currency possessing a int to the at return of the Tron remalning In the cown Auctions of our rleh and Inexisay fhotds reney do lone as Ui tioning to lesus frredoenal of ele wtanding handred and pie are now sirany signod for their use and benett, to ratify the intereet exe man to become a mere ar! the ¢ to the comiort of tie people, tw ty 10 Abolish oor mints, this ea: care anit expense ineldent to anol catablisiinentey nd fof all our precious mctals be exvorted tn butt «i J tike the moxt efctent by the ermmont and banks, wil 1 calation ? not more than half the amount of the latter—showing that when our paper currens cy iscompared with cold and silver, | Sonmertal value is compressed into three hundred and fifty m! Hons, “Tule striking fact makes It the obvious daty of the Government, ag enriy “as, may be consietent with the principles of sound politieal economy, to take such measures as will enable the holder of ite notes and those of the national banks to convert tinem, without loss, Into epcelc or ite equivalent, reduétion of our paper circulating medinm need mi necessarily follow. | This, however, won 4 on the law of demand a1 hy ‘be borne in mind that and bank notes convertible into coin or its equiva. lent, their present epecio value in the bands of their holders would be eniianced one hundred per cent, Legislation for the accomplishment of a resnit so desirable is demanded by the highest pablic consida= rations, The Constitution contemplates that the cirs culating medinm of the country shall be uniform alityand value. Atthe time of the formation of that instrament, the country had just emerged from the War of the Revolution, and. was enifering from the eects of @ redundant and worthlons paper cite reney, The eages of that period were anxious to protect their posterity from the evile which they thernselves had experionced. Hevea, in providing & circulating medinw, they conferred’ apon Com the power to coih money ani retniate the vane thereof, at the same thne probibiting the States from making angthing but gold and silver a teuder in pays mont of debts, he anomalous condition of owtr enrrency ts in striking contrast with that which was originally de- ation now embrac of the National Banks, whieh are made r for all dacs to the ¢ nt, excluding inp hy ail its cre iitors, execpting in payment of In teerat upon ite honds and the. acanritics themacty nd ned by the Uni ed B the law. Fequires aball be receiver wt ne all debie between eitiveus ag NM Government dnes, excepting Import ant, third, gold and «ilver y the operation of our preseut aystem of f however, te metalic eu reney, when collected, ts reserved Only for one eh Of Government ereditors, who, hoiduie. Its bons! Kemiannuaily receive thelr intrest in coin from tha oval Troasncy There is no roason whieh wil be accepted as eatletetory by the pens Jana nd protect us on the sea; th we cr ul he ar ude of th on, be ig the sears 4 wounds reertved while In be aervee: the pabile various Departments of the Govern. idiers of the ‘of Che navy; the artlhan wha or the nisehaniow and constenct ite «of war—should, In payment fecal ve viegyn of theif countrymen, ct ke t justicn requires that all the it should be palit in m value, ‘This can o1 aivet by th oration ‘af ¢ abil hed by the Con v" J remove « who vulld tte edit . while an ho moro deserving, are paid in coin of colt ter. Fquat ond ex be nccomy our enrrency correspon, wndlard tay be teen by facta derived from our commereiad ate Hroduet of preciows 1819 to 1867 amo ot ex nit shows an excums of W785 In coin} Pacillg const abint #40, sin the National and other ft than $190,001.00, Takin fito const terns ein the country prior to 140, aud. ab roared since to 127, and we have tore (hin €2%,- KL nol necounted for hy exportation or by the ry, and therefore most probably and show how eoine for cnereney will anjerrede the bets reine st from clreutation atnone the masses, and cadsiag {i to be exported me a mere article of trata, to add tothe money capita of foretan la a, They? ity of rotiriag our paper money, thriet of am! silver to the venues of trade Jind adem ereated yhieh will eans homie of at love +0 much of the pra roll bearing of cite! may be suftictent for purp easanablo fo etpoet a retin b lovern A bank 4, M1 the channe Paper, Notw itt shel 1840, OF eb dollars, (he peo rreney which was ¢ anil spe Thin with, y fonr millions # to the ou a the national when prodeced the precious mi view fre woidlom #6 thete novelty continued ns the pete ‘ountry, and all our coin te F trafle and epeentatte of alk that f= indie 1d be » tne 4 the Ii depreciated panor ts to b t currency of th haneement n price m. "The time hi neat come, however, when the Gove yonal By Ka should be required to ‘and make all necessary ngements for a FesHMIpLON Of spcete payare te specle payments once bo earnestly mancutited sivent and Danks, and the vaun of the ion would directly up XiMALe a BpCCLE Srerte payments having been resumed by the Gove bills ot paper issued by eliher ofa tess denominotion than twenty dollar siiowld by Jaw be ox tho peopien dat let from eireutution, so t ay hve the ben r curreney wile ws Will bo uniform ry man of proverty or industry, every man res to preserve hat he honestly possesses in what he cn honestly erro, haw a faterost In malntatning a site etrertiting meditmes fuch a mic HM As Sill be real cod aniatantial, not Viown ap or a by the breath of «1 tiom, but to bo made stave and scente, A dtscrdered ted by one o' und and most mon, that * of contrivances: {0 He laboring clas ni, HONE fh fectual than. that # the ey, This is the erulize the Fr poor than's tr sive taxation of the moms Anient wy a pak Br De. Het Intolerable « spised of doz reney ant Uy law or i by Government,” ‘It | ae in times of peace or War, Of expansi revulatons, Gy accomplish the transfer of all. th precions metals frow the great mans of the people Tato the hands of the few, where they a it ded in seeret places or deposited under bolts hnd bare, while the people are left to ensure all the fneont yenicnee, aaerilice, ard demoratization resulting from the'ase of depreciated und worthless paper, The Sveretary of the Inccrior, fw his report, elvew valuabie information refertuee to the jotereste confided to the sapervision of hir Department, and reviews the operations of the Land Ofer Office, Patent Ofice, and the frdiag Bur During the fiscal year ending June ™), million wx bindred and fifty-lve thous Handed acres of pubils land were dis entire cash receipts of the Gener l Land e period Wee HLT, being eroter hy 8 than the amount reahved from the same os durlig th ir, “The entetes sind the Homestead In cover two million thy twenty eight thouered nfne teondret ree acre, ERY of wh Florida the 99th of Mine, 1%, one hundred and stetys ston on the vite ed myer eur. nnnced pny way coun eof the most enecs Duraerment, rotien that expended tor hke purposcs during the preceding Diiring the yenr ending the th of Se © Inst, the expenses of the P: clpts. by andred and seve and tase en anit deren Sand one han teed ard Mfly-three patents were sened, reitics with various Indian trikes have been coms Anded, and Mi de snombted to the Senate for ite constitutional etion, Leorrifally eanetion the stin Jations whiel provide for resereing hws tor the vee Hons tribes, where they may heenconrezed to aban don thelr nomadte habits und engage in aurteultar and tndustria! pursuits, Thie pally, inn many years since, has met with efenal: si ever it tas been pursed in coming Nberality by the Ur sity for extending ft, ns far as practi¢atite, in. on lations with the aboricinal popniation ds grenter Suan a any preceding at n= nl oT anak with bee 1 Stowe. ‘The necewe re ow riod, Wile we Purntats sabe m to the Indions, and guaran stone Mid instruct tee the undisturbed en we should bab tnpon th 1 tier at to remain ¥ ectve reser This Is the only wore dy Which eullir nd with he whites can ue svelte fetiloments seenred constneting the railway fom eramento. have been n eget AVeiue the exprat an y The six per cent. Londs antes amounted, en the 5 i iad be ony froncier > Pe formed’ to the wxtent of $4,400"), ‘The Seeretary uf the Mtortor i A\ et fast invited ention to the report of A Gaver anent direct ‘ally inatemeted to examine the tocntioin, wstrurtion, and equipment of thety pos. t tied for ti n of the Attarney.Censral cote nh questions in regard to the authority wf the Hap tive which Aron upon. this Pep: Wileh had from toe to'tme heen Courabssioners appointed to inepeet ea feetlon of the work eavetuily low of the case, he afirmed the ve to onter, If}ineeesary, a Uhare entire toad. Comintenioners nied tu ekamiew the an ember tines art Pag the thy sabootttod w staement of thule javegtls iti of which the report of the Becrvtary of the bitoni Nyatien Varies Hore ae. he reputt of the Secrutary of War enntaine Infor mation of intercet aud favortance respectlig WON 4 thos ott of th ® Mhoceupon ape :

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