The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1864, Page 4

Wetmme EXER ....0...005--+- 008 = AMUSEMBNTS THIS EVENING. AOADEMY OF MUBIO.—Kixe Baxar LY, MIBLO'S GABDEN, Broadway.—Conxis Soogan. WaLLACK'’S TABATRE, Broadway.—Rosavare. = GARDEN, Broadway.—Twser or Leave x Cc. Outueto FREATRE, Breedway.—Comovs Casr~ THEA’ Z et a Ber Lone Banner Le! BAaRNUM'S MUSEUM, Broadway.—Four G1 Two Breer APRN: west ints an a bom, “aura Bonce, Dances, eekaunscax Grass, Ou! WERICAN TREATRE, No. 444 Broadway. —Baccers, paneaen Buriasqoss, &c.—Mazeiun. ~~ Z third reading. law library in this city was on its third reading, and again defeated. The Brazil Navigation Company bill was ordered to a third reading. Among the bills introduced was one designating the day next succeeding certain holidays; that come on Sunday to be observed in the payment and acceptance of bills of exchange, &c. A resolution was presented that the Board of Commissioners of Pilots present plans for the completion of the Battery extension. It was tabled. " In the Assembly the bill establishing a Bureau of Military Statistics was passed. Reporte were made from committees on the bills to establish the Home for Disabled Soldiers and for the incorpora- tion of a company, with a capital of one bundred and fifty thousand dollars, to establish ® public market in the, Eighteenth ward of this ity. Included in a large number of méasures introduced were another Health bill for this city and a bill for the con- struction of \a bridge across the East river, between New York and Brooklyn. Bills were jiced for a Department of Real Estate in our city government, to incorporate the Public Stock Board, to build an armory for the Eighth regiment “of the National Guard, and for the construction of ship canals in Broadway and all the contiguous streets, in lieu of the mumberless railroads, com- pleted or projected. A resolution was offered instructing our Senators and requesting our Rep- resentatives in Congress to vote for printing an additional number of copies of General McClel- lan’s report. . é The democrats of the Assembly held a caucos yesterday to consult over the Metropolitan Police bill. - There was considerable discussion; but no course was decided upon, and they adjourned to continue the conference to-day. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. A meeting of the Lincoln Campaign Club was held at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-third street last evening. Mr. Charles 8. Spencer occu- pied the chair and Mr. George Terwilliger acted as secretary. After an address from Mr. Spencer inad- vocacy of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln, a commit- tee w@ appointed to make arrangements as tothe organization of the club. The nfeeting then ad- journed to Wednesday evening next. The proceedings of the Board of Education last evening were unimportant. A resolution, intro- duced by Mr. Hitchman, to suspend a by-law of the Board in order to permit the children of the public schools to contribute to the Sanitary Fair, was adopted. A strange anomoly was that the re- publicans were the'principal opponents of this re- solution. The proceedings of the Court Martial on Lieut. Cole's case was quite interesting yesterday. Gen. Spinola and the Judge Advocate were both on the atand, and furnished some spicy evidence on the method of enlisting at Lafayette Hall. An important revenue case, which has been for several days past engaging the attention of Judge Shipman and a jury in the United States Circuit Court, was yesterday brought to a close, the jury retarning a verdict for the government. The cause of action was an alleged excess of duty imposed by the Collector of the Port upon an importation of French calfskins, technically veawx cires, or waxed calfskins. The article was detained at the customs until an additional tax, imposed by the ‘Tariff act of 1861, was paid to the Collector. The additional tax was paid on protest, atid it was to recover the supposed excess of charge that the action was brought. Plaintiff sought to show that a portion of the invoice, which weighed more than thirty-three kilogremmes, or about cighty pounds per dozen, were uot tanned calfskins within meaning of the Tariff act of 1861, but an article known to thg trade as kipskin. On the other side experienced leather , importers testified that weight is no criterion by which to judge of the classification of leather skins; that the growth and quality of the skin is the only safe test. A verdict was returned for the government. There was an interesting diverce case on tria, in the Supreme Court yesterday entitled Mellville vs. Meliville.. The parties are well off and hold a respectable position in society. Mrs. Mellville appears as complainant, and charges her husband with adultery, committed, as she alleges, during a period extending from 1858 to 1861. T..e case of Gudeman va, General Wool was argued yesterday in the Supreme Court, General Term, before Judges Leonard, Clerke and. Suther- land. It was one of those cases of arbitrary ar- rests similar to that of George W. Jones vs. Wm. 80 forth, for the rebels, valued in all at about | H- Seward, Feported in these golammns' about. twe 4 | weeks ago. The defendant sought to remove the 10900 poundsaterling. She came from Havana | cause into the United States Cireuit Court for direct, but her cargo was most probably put on | trial, contrary to the wish of the plaintiff, and the board on the other side of the Atlantic. argument yesterday was upon the legality of the CONGRESS. | arene the lower segitag ra a aR mrs as remove the cause out of the State courts. The = os See ree ™” apis isdtat ccs court took the papers and announced that they eonri, offered a joint resolution’ proposing the | wouid render @ decision in the matter at the con: ebolition and prohibition of slavery throughayt clusion of the term. the land. It was referred to the Select Committee Tn the Court of Sessions yesterday, before Judge r Russel, Mary Walke, a middle aged Irish woman, on Pivotpen one Biavery. (fr- Puma | Oe | sa coilty of having obol at WAly Cabuiht ba @mendments to the constitution, as a substitute | 14 19th of January last. The complainant is em- for thowe reported by the Judiciary Committee | ployed as housekeeper at No. 54 West Broadway, & few days ago, and asked that they be made the | where the prisoner entered without leave, and, on special order for Monday next. These amend- | peing ordered out, committed the assault above ments prohibit. slavery in the United States, pro- | mentioned with a six barrelled revolver. John vide that representation arid direct taxes shall | Fisher, a German, was tried and convicted of be ‘apportioned among the States according to | their numbers, and annul the clause relating | to the rendition of fugitive slaves to their mas- ters. The Judiciary Committee reported back adversely the House resolution explanatory of the Confiscation act, and also adversely upon Mr. Sum- | ner's bill relating to said act. A bill donating lands for the support and education of orphans-of soldiers and sailors was referred to the Commit- | james McKenna, an Irish laborer, pleaded guilty tee on Public Lands. A resolution authorizing | of having attempted to utter a counterfeit ten the printing of five thousand copies of General | dojiar bill on the New England Pacific Bank, MoCiellan's report was adopted. Several unim- | North Providence,’R.J., at the store of John Portant subjects were disposed of, and after a | Fitzpatrick, No. 154 Eighth avenue, on the 2d executive session the Senate adjourned. inst. Ail the prisoners were remanded for sen- In the House of Representatives the Committee | tence. of Ways end Means asked leave to introduce & | Surrogate Tucker yesterday settled the accounts resolution authorising the Secretary of the T of Henry A. Mott, executor of the estate of the eary to soll, from time te time, whatever gold coin | jate Mrs. Clotilda Smith. Ail, application being there may be in“his custody not required to pay | nade for a collector for the estate of Mary Noble, the interest on the public debt, &c. The balance | deceased, the Surrogate declined to make such an Of gold in tho treasury beyond the wants of the | ,ypointment until some decision should be made Government’ is eight or ten millions of dollars. | in the Common Pleas, a¢ to whether the latter Objections were made by the opposition, and the court would interfere by injunctions against the resolution, therefore, was laid over. The House | representatives of estates appointed by the Sur- being unable to agree with the Senate's sliding | poate jn his discretion. It is understood that 3 Houses Taat Jason mer. ~Bravora x Hoss. | BROADWAY AMPHITHEATE! Ore. BOPS CHAPEL. 8 Broadway.—Tas Sreeroscorricon on Menaoa or rae Universe, “yg 085 Breadway.- FB a padwray. Airenroscorticox snp Min- INGTITUTE.. h cogras. te Foden of Doxeuvs' Lacroar on ABW YORK MUSEUM OF Broadway.— Ovmtesmiss axe Leorenss, fron? A Mule Me SLES ST See Sew York, Thursday, February 18, 1964 THE SITUATION. It is understood by common report in Washing- ten that Mr. Lincoln will issue a proclam@ion of wniveraal emancipation of slaves—including the border States—on Monday next, the 22d of Feb- raary, the birthday of Washington. A rumor was prevalent in Genefal Kelley’s De- partment yesterday that the rebels contemplated another raid (a ta John Morgan) into Ohio, at Guyandotte and Barboursville. The story comes from a rebel refugee. Reports from Tennessce state that desertions from Longstreet's army are atill very numerous. Longstreet's headquarters at last accounts were at Morristown. According to information received at San Fran- cisco by the bark-Rogers from Kanagawa, Japan, of January, the rebel privateer Alabama nin the port of Amoy, China, closely watch- ed by the United States vessels Wyoming and Jamestown. The story is confirmed by a letter to the firm of McCondray & Co., San Francisco, forwarded onthe bark Rogers, by a respectable mercantile house in Kanagawa—Walsh, Hull & Co. When the Rogers left: the Tycoon’s palace at Jeddo had been burned.. It was set on fire on Christmas day. Another fire destroyed a large Portion of the town on the let of danuary. Nearly all the town of Hakodadi was burned by incen- diary fires im-October last. Interesting details of the escape of Union: offi- cers from the Libby prison, showing all the diffi- culties and trials through which they passed in their daring but successful attempt, are given in eur columns to-day. It took them fifty-otle days to cut the tunnel through which they reached the air, outside of the line of guards, and thyg relieved from captivity, they scattered over the country in email parties until they met the protection of the soldiers of the Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, which was the first body of Union troops they fell in with. The rebel prisoners at Point Lookout, Md., made ew attempt to escape a few days ago, but signally failed. The United States steamship McClellan, which arrived here yesterday from Key West, brings news of the capture of a British blochade runner, the Cumberland, by the steamer De Soto. The Cumberland had aluable cargo, consisting of gunpowder, Enfield rifles and uniforms, boots and backs. Schreiber is one of the many returned volunteers who have lately been relieved of their money while intoxicated. He took part in the ‘battle above the clouds,” and returned to this city on a furleugh, when he visited the saloon No. 51 Bowery, where he imbibed pretty freely, and was relieved of his pocketbook by the prisoner. scate tox on whiskey, the subject was referred to | this question—which comes up in the Lawrence’ & committee of conference. The Senate's | estate will be decided by Judge Cardozo in a resolution of thanks to General Thomas | fow days. end bis army, for their gallant conduct at the bat- | The stock market wae again strong during moet of the te of Chickamangs, was taken up. General Gar- | day yesterday, but Harlem, which is voted as being the field moved to include the name of General Rose- {| most fluctuating stock 0 the list. a(ver selling ac high an oraas ia the revolution, and proceeded to eulogize | 115,suddenly fell fo the afternoon \o 160. The transag- that officer in cloquent terms. The resolution was | tious 1 gold were light, and the prices of the previous Gaally referred to the Military Committee. A | 48Y Were not sustained, the closing quotations being Joiut resolution of thanks to the bra | 16074 2 160. Capital continues to flow into the city for oldiers | th | investment, and lendere have great difficulty to get eix have re-enlisted in the army was adopted ‘ per cent (or their money” Government securities were enavimously. Beveral windy speeches on slavery higher, under an increased demand. aad the war were delivered, and the House | qpere was comparatively little business transacted adjourned. yesterday in commercial circles—the variations in gold THE LEGISLATURE. A large amount of business was transacted in both houses of the Legislature yesterday, and the @enperen receiving attention were very nume- fending to restrict operations on 'Change and elspwhere. Prices Of MO8t kinds of merchandise were ccaeates, Op ‘Change trade wasdeil. Exporters of breadstuls bold Off for lower priges, with the fall io gold and oxobango, . having robbed Wm. Schreiber of $170 in green- | taking the ‘lion's ahare,” and as rates aoarls as low as eailing vessels. » Wendell Phillips’ Recemt Speech on Re- construction. Mr. Wendell Phillips is evidently in « state of mind. Like Othello, be finds bis occupation gone. So long as slavery existed he bad some- thing to talk about, and scold about, and be eloquent abofit; but now that alavery is prac- tically dead he is an orator without a subject. His speech at the Gooper Inatitute on Tuesday evening was wild and incoherent throughout. It disappointed his friends and admirers, and afforded his enemies sufficient grounds for sneers and laughter. Without being either the one or the other, and looking at Mr. Phillips from our usual independent standpoint, we |. are compelled to say that he made’ bimself ri- diculous. His turgid, confused; senseless ora- tion was as different from bis customary clear and eloquent speeches as a brickbat from a dis- mond. Mr. Phillips promised to speak upop recon- struction; butit is painfully apparent that be does not know anything about reconstruc- tion. The only thing he. seems to un- derstand is the darkey; and in less than ten minutes after he began his address he mounted upon this old hobby aad rode away, leaving the reconstruction question to take care of itself, Perhaps this was the wisest and most sensible thing that Mr. Phillips could do; but certainly it was not what he had undertaken to do, and did not carry out the programme of the evening. The only reference of any import- ance which the orator made te reconstruction was this:—Now there never will be a set of men in Tennessee fit to sit down and legislate on the interests, pecuniary and honorable, of the Empire State, until Andy Johnson sees John Hancock under a black skin. That is my idea of reconstruction.” Now, if this is not ar- rant nonsease, what is it? We doubt if Mr. Phillips knew what he meant by it. His audience, deluded by the jingle of long words, showed their ignorance. by applauding it. What bas Andy Johnson to do with the Empire State, or John Hancock with Tennessee? The Sassage might bave been written by the author of the “elbows of the Minclo, formed *by the sympa- thies of youth;” but it is decidedly unworthy of Mr. Phillips. And yot it is a fair specimen of the whole of this droadfully silly and incom- prehensible lecture. In spite of the record of Mr. Phillips’ aboli- tion martyrdom, we must accuse him of a lack of moral courage. He wanted to advocate amalgamation, and be was afraid to do-so. What could have prevented him: we do not know. That is what he means, and there is no reason why be should not say it boldly. It is the logical deduction from ali the propositions. which he has labored so many years to prove, and he cannot be allowed to back out of bis own theories at this late day. The intermar- riage of white mea and black women and white women and black men is wt “Mr. Phillips desires. What, then, bindeted. btm from avowing his desires? He has so long set all decent society at defiance that he cannot be afraid of sociul ostracism. Can it be possible that he has hada sudden attack of modesty, and that his lips refuse to express the gross and sensual ideas which his brain has con- ceived? Do his senses and his stomach revolt at that close cemmunion of the two races which he is now called upon to advocate? Does the color of the negro offend his eyes, or the odor of the negro disgust his nostrils? Does he shrink from embracing the representative of a race which he has so often declared to be the highest and noblest oa the face of the earth? Has he fopgotten his fine- spun theories upon miscegenation and the grand mulatto species which is to result from them? Is he going to retract his former decla- ration that amalgamation is. the only way to save the nation? If we answer these questions fh the negative, what does Mr. Phillips mean by his silewee upon the theme most dear to his heart? “if we answer them affirmatively, why has he not the courage to confess himself in the wrong? . The fact of the matter is that we are getting along too fast for Mr. Phillips. While he was arguing that slavery ought to be abolished the war abolished it without bis assistance, and he was left out in the cold. Fanatics never can comprehend facts, and facts alwfys kill off fanatics. The abolition of slavery ise fact, and Mr. Wendell Phillips is a fanatic. Everyb can deduce the corollary for himself. Phillips fondly imagined that he eould gradually do away with slavery some- how or other—he never was very cer- tain how—and might then insinuate amal- gamation. Probably he supposed that be would die full of years and honors just as the | Slavery question was settled, and so leave the amalgamation part of the business to his disci- ples, having laid down the laws for their guid- ance in a series of speeches and letters. But, unfortunately for this bright dream, slavery allied itself to rebellion, and so committed sui- cide before Mr. Phillips was ready for this con- summation. Now he has to face bis amalgama- tion doctrines in person, and before a practical people, who are prepared to say to him that they do not care to intermarry with the blacks, but that, if he thinks it such a very good thing, they have no objections to bis trying it himeelf and introducing it into bis own family. , The anticipation of sucha reply puzzles Mr. Phil- lips. He cannot make up his mind what to do. He does not know whether to go ahead ‘or to fall wack. The speech which he intended to deliver and ought to have delivered on Tues- day evening was simply this:—“My plan of re- construction is amalgamation.” The speech which he did-deliver was a cowardly dodging of the subject. But let us give Mr. Phillips « little time. Perbaps he will see a suitable wife under a black skin before Andy Johnson dis- cevers a John Hancock in the same location. eng ncsie A Gevtie Hive rrow Wistgn Davis.—The Hon. H. Winter Davis, of Maryland, is one of the ablest men in the present Congress. Elected ae an out-and-out loyalist, adi jion man and emancipationist, he cannet the silly, crude, inconsistent and dangerous expe- dients of Honest Old Abe in the way of recon- struction, but flatly tells him these things will never do. Let President Lincola prepare to take in bis spils accordingly; for all dispassion- ate, thoughtful men agree ia opinion upon this business with Winter Davis, olety been regarded asa ‘“‘olcrical bull against the fair’—against the Sanitary Fair as well as egsinst the fair of New York. With shameless disregard of the docencies of private life, these clergymen, with gowns and without gowns, New York before the rude gaze of the public a instruments in a movement whose tendency {a “to debauch the publio conscience and cor- rapt the publio virtue.” This was sufficient to stamp the protest with odium, and to arouse. public indignation against the authors of it; and, a8 an offort to thwart the patriotic inten- tions of the getters up of the fair, and to throw obstacles in the way of its success, it is as im- pudent as it is disloyal and unpatriotic. To bring this matter of raMfling again home to them: what have these clergymen to say in extenuation of the public sale of their church pews? Is:not the privilege of hearing a favor- ite and eloquent preacher a “prize” to which the pew buyers aspire? And is-not the up those pews to the highest bidder literally a raffle or @ gambling operation for a prize, by. which their ohurches are enriched, and in which the mont opulent are most likely to win? Those | who can afford to invest the most greenbacks get the beat seats and hear to the beat advantage, while the poor devotee either has to takea -back seat, or, in other words, draws a blank. Moreover, is it with the parishioners of these clergymen? Will either of ‘the reverend signers of this protest, having a rich congrega- tion, point his finger, during his next Sabbath discourse, to the gold operator or atookjobber of Wall street, sitting among his congregation, and say that he is not, in the completest sense, @ raffier, a gambler, a‘ seeker after prizes in the lotteries of speculation, but is w Gt subject for clerical denunciation? We have yet to witness such a sublime spectacle among the clergy who occupy pulpits in our fashionable churches; and several of the names of such divines are appended to this indecent protest. A man may become a maniac-on an exchange, arising from bad speculations, from drawing blanks when prizes were expected, and may brandish dirks and wound publi officers, and put to fright a whole batch of his victimizers; but does either of these clergy- men pretend to say that they would denounce the entire operations of that exchange as im- moral, as gambling, as tending to “debauch the public conscience and corrupt the publio vir- tue?” When they do this they may attempt to justify their course toward those ladies of New York who are engaged ia this purely patriotic and purely benevolent enterprise of a Metro- politan Fair, Norursa Very Wonverrer.—Some of our’ slow-coach newspaper contemporaries appear to be astonished at the decided ground taken by the Heratp in favor of an amendment of thd constitution completely and eternally abolish- ing the institution of slavery. But there is nothing very wonderful in this, The Herato is @ progressive journal. of the present day, and not an organ of the dead past. It has no time to waste upon dead institutions, dead is- sues or dead parties. It deals with living things, living men, living questions and the on- ward march of the great events of these stir- ring times. We are in the midst of a mighty revolution. The Heraxp sees it, recognizes it, and shapes its course accordingly. It is free to do s0, because it is not tied to any politician, clique or party; and so the people understand it. Presipent Lixcoun’s Amnesty.—It is un- derstood that President Linceln wit! probably extend his amnesty to the colonels of rebel re- giments, from this consideration, among others, that if we offer the pardon involved to the colonel of a rebel regiment we may get the whole regiment, officers and all, where now we only get a few scores of straggling deserters. Let the rebel colonels, then, be invited to come over. Nay, more: as an occasional rebel general is beginning to drop in at a venture, why not extend the pardon to all rebel generals who will within a given time return to the old flag? As there is now a fair prospect of demol- ishing the rebel armies in this way, why not try this extension of the amnesty as an ex- periment of strategy? Tue Favorep Cr.ass—The House of Repre- sentatives has decided that the favored class, to be enriched at the expense of all other classes and the Treasury, shatl be the whiskey State officials. This, asa matter of course, forced upon \t @ partisan character, and she republicans, as thoy have Over since the war commenced, charge everybody who was not a member of their party as being a copperhead secessionist and traitor, aud is doing se they have got thomuselves inte Rot water. Te was somewhat slaguiar to bear moa who protend to know all about the milltin asserting that the law bad not York, but that tived ia scart rai oe ene ire ge i f Hi fl iB sf iy: i i z ii ail if i 55 $2 F Hf E if ial sees cts i ay Z E i ay Ue denounced @ repub! Governor it appointed republican officials, The bill was one by republicans, to be executed bya republican vernor; Dut it #0 ‘that a demoorut is in power. ave been ca Own trap. There is n0 doubt that object! bave been made All such injure the Governor's party; bu ig such @ thieg as the republicans, under excitement, doing that which will prevent them being benefited by uch errors as the Governior’s. Senator Bell this morning offered the following pream ble and resolution: — ‘Whereas, the Common Council of the olty of New York did, under authority given to it by the Legisiature of the State in 18—, contract the extension of the public round known as the Battery iato the bay and or lew York; and whereas, through the neglect of tho city authorities this extension has been lett for a long time in an unfinished condition, and it has been showa bor, tho gre to the progy 1g: and whereas, ervation of the harbor of New York is essential rity Of the Stato; therefore, Resolved} that the Hoard of Oommissionors of Pilots be at ouce authorized to have plans pre, Tor finish. ing eaid pauyery extension, and estimates furnished of the cost of the nme, aud that the expenses attending the paeery of auch pianos and estimates, and of the Auish- \ttery extension, avt exceeding the amount io ye levy, be paid, after or = missioners of Pilots, by the Comptroller of the city of New York, The Senate commiitees reported several bills this Osiy one or two bills to New ‘ate; but in the rauddle that Senate it was the balance of galize ai In the Seuate, reported this morniog, aod referred tothe Committee of the Whole aod ordered toa third jing. Tho ew York and Brazil Nat ion y was this morning ordered toa hire tending te tbe Senate. Most of the session was taken ap in the Commit (io igo Whole. The New York Law Library bill was Billa wore noticed ia the Assembly this morning to construct @ over the Kast river betwees the cities of New York and. Brooklyn; to create a commission to putchase asite and erect an armory for the Eighth regiment New York Natiopal Guard; to create a department of real est im the city and county of New York; to incorporate the Pubiie Stock Boned in the city of New York; to construct a ship canal ia Broadway, New York, acd in all other streets contiguous thereto, ia place of the one hundred and one railroads proposed to be constructed ia said city. The bill relative to the Bureau of Military Statistics was to-day. A resolution wae olered this morning iestructing our Feuators and requesting our representatives in Congress to vote for printing an additional number of cupies of | Geu McCleilan’s report. . Among the bills reported in the Assembly were those | to incorporate the Army aud Navy Savings Bink in New | York; providing for the construction of a public market | in the Eighteenth ward of (he city of New York, auibor- izing the expeaditure of one bundred and (ty thousand doilars,and to mcorpyrate the Home for Disabled ¥ol- | diers. A Lirge number 0 bills were iatroduced. Among the | number is ove it relation to the pubile heaith in the city of New York. It provides that acy person caught in the act of violating the ordigance in relation to throwing gar- bage and filth Into the streets, may be arrested by pol of any subordinate officer of the City jospector’s department, and fortuwith carried be‘ore the’ we, there to be deatt with according to speculators. Such is the lobby power of whiskey, The Ta ‘The two purses of $1,000, with a stake of $250 cach, to come off over the Fashion Course on the 15th and 22d of June ext, have closed, with Robert Fillingbam, John ‘Morgan and General Batler in both races. Fine Anrs.—Mr. Sintzenich sells this.evening, at the Derby Gallery, the choice collection of old paintings and statuary belonging to Mr. Grimshaw, of New Orleans. It comprises specimens of the Italian, French, Spanish, Duteb, English and American ech ols, including a portrait of Washington, by Gilbert Stuart. The whole of these works to be sold without reserve. Backert To Niout.—Thi ing the Academy, though fe auditoriom is too larg 4 is otherwise not well Guited to the representation of any of Shakepere’s plays, is to be open to the great dramatist’s King Henry IV., which te to be given witb proper historical costumes and appointments, and some players of note and ability, who will, we hope, take pains to support Mr. Hackett im his famed role of Falstef. tant Revenue Case. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. Before Judge *hipman and @ Jury. ‘WHER DORS THB SKIN OF 4 CALF CEAXB TO ME 4 “CALPORIN’? AND BECOME 4 “KIPeRIN?”? Mendelson v8. Gollecor Barney.—This was an action to recover an alleged excess of duty to the Collector of this port under protest. The js 1D question were the manufacture of agereau Freres, of Vernon, France, aud were invoiced as + veauz cires,”’ or waxed caifekins. They varied jo weight, and the plaintiff claimed thas @ portion Of the invoice, which weighed more than thirty-three | kilogrammes, or Ky pounds dozen, were fel Meaning of the Tarif in trade and ecommerce es ‘Kipskine, ly to the dut, all ‘upper leather except ‘kine.’ On bebalf of plaia- jing over forty five pounds to the tanned «1 ther dealers and shoemakers testified if, that any skin hg an dozen 18s kipekin, and 90 called by the tr of the ronment several prominent Ned, and testified that weight ce sicio Ie ‘of thesia . Several taunere d ontioia ae ‘skin Of a‘‘veal,” or ® young rena a ture fed om milk, and the flesh of which is used for fooa; aloo that the term ‘'Freach Kip’ is of recent origin among home'deaiers, and is @ term unknown among importers, that it is sometimes used by buyers to designate caliakin. The case, which has been op for red Ml peed this morning, the jury renderfhg a (or \. tothe Sne She ashore A Me eh ‘anton down. | en we the . with tae } fourth act, were (itely rendered acd greatly applaedeq— ir magistrat law. Jt also provides that upon re/using to psy fine, and where there is no property that can be seized for the payment of Gne thus levied, the party shati be imprison- ed one day for every dollar of fine im Algo “a bill to reduce the capital stock of the Harlem and Hudeon River and Spugted Duyvil Canal Company from $50,000 to $25,000. A namber of other bille were introduced of more or less importance. Some time was spent io the Committee of the Whole. It bas Leen, in fact, a busy day in boih bouses. m the Police Bille Avenue Ratiroad—fhe Twentictm Regiment of Votunteers, dc. | Aeayt, Feb. 17-—11:30 P. M. The democratic members of the Houge held @ caucus this afternoon on the Police Commissioners bill. There was a lengthy diecuasion over the matter. Most of the | country democrate were in favor of the bill as it now stands. Some fe@ objected to the republican names, but | not strenuously. The New York city delegation were | generally oppoeed to the bill. The canons ws until | to-morrow withoug coming toa vote or taxing any de- | cisive action wi | The friends 0: the Lexington Avenue Railroad bill made their appearance to.day. hey claim that the bill was | set down for wo-day inevead of yesterday, aad are now endeavoring to get the bill recommitted to the committee. A motion will be made to-morrow in the Senate for that as | ¢ House was io session on the Governor's message to-night. ‘The officers of the Twentieth regiment of New York | State Voluateers w ted on the floor of the Houee. Colonel Gates made neat ih, and stated that the regiment had re. war, aod that they Were at home to prevent their old colors to the wife acd Son of their lamented Colon onel Geo. W. Pratt. opera, | 1 Poliuto, one of Donizetti's freshest, mest melodious | Operas, was sung inet evening at the Academy of Music. Owing tothe bitter cold there was cot as large an audi- ence as has been customary since the commencement of this operatic seasce. Etill the bouee was weil fillea. ‘The performance was is every way most pleasing. The gems of the opera, the second grand feale, the tener aria | im the second act, and the world renowned duo in the | ole of the beautiful music gave evident Wolon, aad ree 16 chorases Ive ore Magzolem aud Beilial were im fine ceived loud and long continued plaudite. were well sang, the mise em sceng was very effective, while the orchestra, under the direetion of sigoor Nuno, played with great ensemble: The opera was 8 well merited a To. morro mr ar enine Gounod's charming opera, Faust, Oe Monday evening next Signor Brigaoli will make bis entree i Po ‘This event will doubtiens create & ‘excKement ia our musical circles, Brignoll being 80 universal a favorite. Btections. _ SyPacuee, N.Y. Fob, 17, 1004 mot clatme ny | soventecs aetnan efociod at ie wa meeting ia Oude Feere Pi Bey pan ped cafe Be Te account of their esoape 1s Cull Of thrilling taterest; ‘but (or prudeatial reasons many particulars are withheld from publication at present. Sam pe mag «ma tarag fferea, meceasarily vory low. do close was the atmosphere im the tunnel that they could remaia in it but a fow minutes at @ time, and their candles would goout. At one time Hi provided with rebel uniforms. In order to elude their pursuers, who they fnew would goon be on thoir track, they scattered aemuch as pos- day at « mooting held here:— Ata mooting of oe Wo, the undersigned officers of the United States Army and recently prisoners of war, desire to express our ratitude to Major General Butler, Bri Gi ‘istar, Colone! West, of the. West vania ‘artillery, and’ the gallant Kleventh Pennsylvania cavairy aie fe ean eben < our escape from y. mond, and the lives of pickets aud Dlosdhounds of . of New Yor! compietin: tne rebel army; and also many acts Of kinduess se gracofglly tendered us in our present time of need, We desire also, ia commoa with every toyal heart ia the Union; to tender to Major, our . ©. CLARK, LBERT WALLBER, Firet-Lieat. JAB Me WELL, Lieut, Oo. Fe Os Wasumworon, Feb. 17, 1866. Twenty-seven of the cacaped Union officers from Libby wearily ‘all ‘Tower, Thirteenth Massachusetts; G. Davie, Fourth Maine, and Captain M. Gallagher, of the Seoond New Jersey regiments. Attempt of Rebel Priseners te Escape from Point Leckout. ‘Wasmmaron, Fov. 17, 1866. ‘The King Philip, Acting Master Frank, arrived at t@o Navy Yard yesterday afternoon from the Lower Potomac. * A fow days ago the officors at the camp of the rebel pri- soners of war at Point Lookout discovered that some @ the prisoners were evidengly making srrangemects te ~ escape from their quarters. Tt appears that by some means the prisoners in one of the quarters hed procured come lumber, with which they had built two boats, in which it was supposed they were to embark for the Virgiuia shore. Fortunately they were detected in their operations be- fore they bad caulked the boats. It appears alse that they had collected some seventy old muskets and a tot of stores, ascarcé article im that locality, aod which mast have been brought some dis- ‘ance, which they probably designed using against aay person who should resist them. It is thought, however, that but few of the prisonerg were to attempt the escape, unless, indeed, more bate to be built, as the two boats discovered would —, NATBD—MR. LINCOLN THS FAVORITE FOm NEXT PRESIDENT, BTC. Hanrronp, Feb. 17, 1666. . The Union Convention met at ten o'clock thig. morniag. The Comveution ig a large ana able one, Hom. James F. Pratt ie President. Governor Buckingham and the whole of the present State officers have been readmiaated by acclamation and without debate. @ Convention adjourned at five 0’ with as one Ny President Lincoln, ‘covervor Buobingham e Union. - The delegates to the National Convention First District—Colonel, James R.. Hawley, Dr. H. N. PO Digrict—E. 3. Busbaell, Orville H, Platt ang uel L. Warner. jsivie'—-Auguetus Brundage, Giloert Phillipa rd Di | aud James Lloyd Green. Fourth Di: icrict— Wan. F. Miner, Oliver H. Perty and Dr, bos cle tis ieee tions passed one heartily Among tl jutions was ea- dorsing President Lincoln, regarding his Lal vitally Important to the best iatereste of the a | and requesting the delegates above mamed to give their united support in the coming National Convention. o” Chey Intettigence, Fine uv Prince Otmaet.—About nine o'clock morning & fire broke out on the third floor of the dwelling house No. 87 Prioce street, occupied by Wm. A. Vi the faraivure will be aboct @100; iasur tel $3,000 ie the Mechavice’ and Traders’ Ineu! r. - # building is owned by Wm B. Astor. It ie fon ake is insuree tor $6,000 in the bvueey' Losmene ompany. : Fine ux WasuinGron Srnmet.Between one and twe o'clock yesterday afternoon's fire broke out o@ the roof No. 826 Wi tt sche ene eal oa by ie, C. Brandt, who bought it the day prev: nt ‘North River Insurance a ineured for $2,500 im the North about $600. Buringe. an $100. » Lore $50. No insuran @rnnet Areray—A Wouan Baur lnscitmp.—On Tussdag evening @ canman, named Beary, end tee + gag into a0 ¢ ere a bat tar seagoing eats Sr te her Mo. 74 Baxter street, where she is ing the necesseey medicel aid. Sxamxe Teturn of the cad weather hae reproduced skating? The Fiftn avenue posed was for the sport, to-day a jefiett been. z Oey eetiven the movements of the cee | Tet eae hs tie lk ta ekating there to day. aa ache Oogpor iustitage this oveuing, saveaiog a (rest t all woo S Fire at onal, eo 1,4 5 Seba, ae