Dow is it? le there DO remedy for sooh a
•tate of thiDgs If there be, it should be
resorted to at once, at whatever cost, else
tbe powers of Government might well be re
garded as absolved and surrendered. Soouer
or later, it seems, that we shall have to sub
mit to Jeff. Ilavis or fight him. There can
be DO middle course of aoj long oontinu
tions are united against tbe Republicans,
who only carried the State last year against
the oombtaad opposition by Its hundred ms
jority.
tar* member of the New York Legisla
ture is to be espeiled for soliciting a fifty
dollar bribe. If be bad accepted a fifty
tboussod doliar bribe there would not have
bsso tbs slight"«t trouble about tbe matter,
we presume. Tbiogs of tbat character ara
son
due
ted on a large scaU in Albany, and a
•as wbo would oqdiMicetid to tbe petty
meanness of accepting fifty dollars for bis
sots and influence, finds no credit with aris*
tosratis
Every duv our importers of foreign mer
chandise are receinn^, by way of New Or
leans, very considerable quantities of coods,
DiTf mi. The goo.'9 uro landed at tbe
|ort of New Orleans—DO Cu*t»ui House no
tice i« taken of them—no bonds are execs
ted for the pavment of duties on their arri
val there and on many article the saving of
one half the duty only would nff-rd a iud
sotne profit. If thi* is to bre-nie t''ruia
nent there will be an entire revolution in tbe
cf-uras of trad«, and New York will suffer
terribly. Our nif rcbants have enough capi
tal tn justify them in making th-'ir purohaets
in Europe, ardhipppg to New Orleans.
