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EDITORIAL ARTICLES:

Pacific Railway Subsidies...............
Copper Legislation.

A Very Black Crook Indeed...
Ritualism in England....

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whom, of course, are truly loyal in the highest degree-more than $100,000,000 have been diverted, during the past year, from the vaults of the Treasury "into the pockets of these fraudulent officers or into the pockets of their confederates." Mr. Jenckes mourns over the fact that if the revenue were honestly collected the whole public debt would be paid, so soon as it matures; but it is not collected, and cannot be,. whom? Not the rebels-nor the copperheadsbecause the larger portion is annually stolen. By nor even the War-Democrats-but by the representatives of Radicalism itself-its chosen officers. -its selected officials. Let us be thankful for the

cannot be whistled away as a "rebel lie”—a "copperhead slander." But we fear that such frankness will scarcely be repaid. A new and a hungrier swarm are gathering for the Ides of March.

Will a hundred millions content them?

it will hardly be made the hook to hang speeches truth! All hail, Mr. Jenckes! Your statement. upon. What is to be done? Mr. Speaker Colfax act as is in the habit of eulogising the present Congress as Com- the ablest, the wisest, and the purest in all our history. Yet it ingloriously gives up the questions of finance and revenue, as too deep for its comprehension, and is content to remit them to General Grant. We fear they will not fare much TO CORRESPONDENTS.-To remove all possible better in his hands-as, from all appearances, he ground of misunderstanding, or any imputation will have a heavier administration de bonis non to of discourtesy, the Editors of The Statesman settle up than he can well manage. beg leave to say, that while they are happy to receive and consider communications upon all topics, and from any quarter, they cannot undertake to answer the letters and inquiries of correspondents, or to return contributions which are not accepted, or to hold either personal interviews or correspondence upon the subject.

It seems that the Republican Metropolitan Police of Superintendent Kennedy suffers also from this epidemic of truth-telling. A New York correspondent of a Boston paper communicates the startling information that the experiIn a recent debate, Mr. Schenck entertained ences of San Francisco are to be repeated in the the House of Representatives with some Brazilian commercial and financial metropolis of the Union. reminiscences. Among them he referred to the "Many of the most respectable citizens have active prosecution of the slave trade, while he organised a vigilance committee"-writes this represented the United States at Rio de Janeiro, correspondent-" and subordinate lodges have and mentioned that Northern men and Northern already been organised in several of the wards." capital were very energetically employed in bring- These citizens have, at last, become dissatisfied ing negroes from Africa. What prompted the with the manner in which the Police authorities confession we do not recall-for we certainly did deal with such criminals as thieves, murderers wade through the whole debate-but it was and incendiaries. Commenting upon this, the capped by the additional admission that the most New York Times grows melancholy and seems enterprising and successful of these virtuous disposed to make a clean breast. "Our city govNortherners was the son of a lady in New York-ernment is certainly bad enough, and there is need a life-long abolitionist, greatly and justly distin- enough of some measures to check the impunity guished for her zealous and untiring labors in the which thieves, murderers and incendiaries enjoy great work of emancipation. Thus, after a long among us. But a vigilance committee is not time, is the truth vindicated. It was a favorite needed, and would only aggravate ten-fold the After the close of the Presidential election we weapon of Parson Brownlow-that pro-slavery worst of the evils from which we suffer already." were promised that the Radicals in Congress, Boanerges-to charge that the North was ready How mildly and doubtfully is the inauguration of having satisfactorily gotten through with all the to engage actively in the slave trade, if it would Lynch-law thus deprecated. And yet these are excitements and manoeuvering of the canvass, only pay a profit, and in his discussions with the people who denounce Baltimore-style it a would go to work earnestly upon the many ques- Prynn-or some other Philadelphia abolitionist-"ruffian city," and declare that it is dangerous tions of public importance which had been so long after exhausting the scriptural argument which to life and property to enter its limits. deferred. First among these was that of Finance. proved slavery to be a divine institution, he would

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Notes of the Week.

The opening days of the present session indicated send as a parting shot some such damaging missile The collectors of internal revenue have a hard.

time in some of the loyal counties of East Ten- was the amount of consideration to be paid. We tions of The Tribune are very much to the purnessee. Committees of citizens do them the dis- are somewhat surprised that the outgoing admin- pose. It says: tinguished honor to call and notify them, in the istration of Mr. Johnson and the provisional We have other cardinal objections to Pacific politest language, that if they attempt to collect authorities in Spain should be entering upon a Railroad enterprises at this time. In the first place, the taxes they will have their brains blown out. bargain which neither of them will be able to con- its immediate attention to the husbanding of its the Government of the United States should give The intimation is, usually, effectual. The Gov- summate. The one has less than six weeks of resources. A farmer may say to himself, "I should ernment loses the revenue, but the officers retain power-such as the Radicals have left it-remain-like to buy the farm that adjoins me, and make my estate more complete; or, "I should like to their brains. This state of things, abstractly, we ing to him-while the other must soon make way add another building to my house and have a suppose is wrong. But when it is remembered for the establishment of a fixed and permanent how little evidence of the existence of brains, in authority at Madrid. The question, like all others connection with the collection of the internal in this country, resolves itself into-What says revenue, has been exhibited to the country, one General Grant? to which we may add-What is almost hardened enough to wish that some will the King of Spain say? daring collector would defy these threats and test the determination of those who make them. Good will result, one way or the other; either the revenue will be collected, or it will be demonstrated whether the tax-gatherers have any brains to be blown out.

library and billiard room; or, "I should like to tendency of all men and of all nations to gain as change my horses and get a better pair." It is the much strength and as much comfort and convenident man, however, will overrule any suggestion ence as the use of money can give them. The pruwhich adds to his estate at the expense of his income. We are spending great sums of money in payment of debts contracted at a high rate of interest. We see our civil service in a state of demoralization, and millions of dollars squandered which should be paid into the Treasury. To think of giving subsidies for any purpose, would be as absurd as it would be for a private business man to borrow money upon mortgage at high interest and spend it in contracting new obligations.

PACIFIC RAILWAY SUBSIDIES. Loaded with debt-overburdened with taxation-the American People are modestly requested to give away ninety millions more of money and one hundred millions of acres of land, in the In spite of the different and contradictory dis- shape of subsidies to the various railway com- The Tribune is not satisfied with the examples patches received from Spain, during the past panies now seeking Government aid. At least presented for imitation by the advocates of admonth, it was very easy to foresee what would be the New York Tribune so foots up the amounts ditional subsidies-that of Great Britain, which the decision of the Spanish nation upon the im- asked for by the various bills pending before Con- is represented as loaning $440,000,000 for the portant subject of a permanent government. The gress for that purpose. The number of bills di- construction of railroads in India, and of France in indications of the first elections held were clearly rectly or indirectly relating to Pacific Railroad giving credit for domestic railroads to the amount favorable to the establishment of a liberal mon interests alone, is estimated at two hundred. The of $620,000,000. The Tribune fails to see the archy, and the conclusions based upon them are amount of land already granted to these Railways parallel between the densely peopled empire of fully sustained by the results telegraphed from is estimated at 124,000,000 of acres. The proba- India, only requiring the construction of roads to Madrid on Tuesday last. Complete returns of ble cost in money to the Government, of the Union develop vast resources which already exist, and members of the Constitutional Cortes show that and Central Pacific Roads, is put down at $50,000,- the uninhabited wastes through which the Pacific an overwhelming majority of the Spanish people 000. Nearly one-third of the public domain has thus Railroad runs, and where the supply is clearly are opposed to a republic. Of the members been made over to the control of railroad companies. years in advance of the demand. Besides, it obelected, three hundred are classed as Monarchists, Says the Commissioner of the General Land Office:jects to the introduction of "the centralisation thirty-five Republicans, and fifteen Bourbonists."The quantity of lands conveyed by these grants ideas of the Emperor Napoleon into an American What will be the limitations imposed upon the is of empire extent, exceeding in the aggregate Congress;" although we do not know that The sovereign power must still be left to conjecture; by more than 5,000,000 of acres, the entire area of Tribune and the politicians of its school have left but it is very plain that, whatever the provisions the six New England States, added to that of much room for improvement in that department, of its Constitution, Spain has unalterably decided New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, or anything to be learned. that the administration of its government shall be Delaware, Maryland and Virginia!" He says The Tribune charges the responsibility for all entrusted to a King. It would not be difficult to that the grants to the Pacific Railway alone "are this waste and extravagance upon Congress. It suggest a number of substantial and controlling within about a fourth of being twice the united speaks plainly of "the scandal which surrounds reasons for this decision. The traditions of Spain, area of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Guern- the halls of Washington"-of the "public avowal its long-established institutions, yielding, in so sey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, and the islands of that $500,000 had been spent by one Company to many years, to no change, and the marked pecu- the British seas, and within less than a tenth of secure the passage of a certain bill." We are liarities which distinguish its people-certainly being equal to the French Empire proper." No not sure that the Executive Department of the indispose them to try the doubtful experiment of wonder that the magnitude and multitude of Government does not come in for a share of the popular government. And it is more than prob- these demands upon the Public Treasury, of these blame. It is not responsible for the legislation able that this indisposition has not been lessened schemes of plunder as they are in fact and should itself, or the means, perhaps, employed to proBut, in the case of the Union Pacific by the abundant illustrations this country has af- be called, has called forth the comment of the cure it. forded of the facility with which one portion of a leading Republican organ, and a protest on its Road especially, the slight conditions which Confree people may devote all its powers and energies part against such scandalous waste of the public gress saw proper to annex to its bounty have been to the oppression of another and weaker portion. disregarded. The few checks interposed to secure Constitutional objections to this sort of legisla- a compliance on the part of the projectors of the It seems that after all the disclaimers, on the tion it would be old fogyish to suggest. Nobody Road with the terms upon which these subsidies part of those who assumed to be best informed, cares for a point of constitutional law now-a-days; were granted have not been enforced. It was a negotiations have for some time been in progress very few care anything about the Constitution condition prescribed that the construction and to acquire Cuba by purchase. On Tuesday, one itself. General Grant is reported to have said equipment of the road should be equal in all reof the most accurate of Washington correspon that the completion of the Pacific roads will "go spects to that of a first-class road. The Report dents telegraphed to a morning contemporary in far towards a permanent settlement of our Indian of the Secretary of the Interior discloses the fact, this city, that the Spanish Government was favor- affairs." General Sherman is said to regard the already sufficiently notorious, t the Governably inclined to a transfer of the island to the road as "a military necessity," and General Sher- ment Commissioners who have had to perform United States, and that the terms proposed were idan believes that its completion will "almost the duties of Inspectors of the road, since its of such a nature that they would meet with the substantially end our Indian troubles." The commencement, have invariably reported unfaapproval of the Administration. Usually, such opinion of these eminent statesmen and jurists is vorably. Narrow embankments, cuts not taken reports are made one day and, very pointedly, enough to silence all legal and Constitutional out to grade the line, insufficient bridges, badly contradicted the next. But on Wednesday the scruples. The only argument that is likely to built abutments, defective ballasting, &c., &c., are same correspondent strengthened his first report have the least effect inside or outside of Congress, according to the report of the best engineers the by the statement that negotiations are actually with the people at large or with their Represen- characteristics of the work thus far done. The pending between the two Governments, and had tatives at Washington, is that drawn from econom- Government aid which was designed only to be reached the point where the only open question ical considerations. Upon this head the observa- given to a fully-equipped and fully-built road, is

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