The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1865, Page 4

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COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor Place.—Steruxx Masserr (Cxenns PRS VILLE) “SDRIPRING Asoc." New York, W sdmenday; December 27, 1865 ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Waaxty ake must be handed Im before ten o'clock every Wedmesday evening. Its cir- culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- sorted in the Werxty Hxnap will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United Btates. r ati 5B NEWS. Prov§sional Sovemee Sharkey, of Mississippi, has oen relieved ‘hy the President, ahd Governor Huin- phreys has been directed to assume the duties of tive ates State. “Five of the seven Pr Governogs appointed by the’ Presifeht have ni removed\by him 'to make way for thb, gent‘ ‘as their successors by the people-+y! . : ama, Gedrgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Mis siesippi. General Crook has given orders, In the case of two no :roes recent!y sentenced in the county court at Wil- mington, North Carolina, to bo sold into slavery for five yeara, for larceny, that the sentence must not be carried Into execativg, on the ground that no law can be en- forced which makes a distinction between white and black criminals. The District Superintendent of the Freed- ‘men’s Bureau has ordered a rvvocation of sentence, in default of which the members of the court are to be laced under arrest, The North Carolina sherifls have on instructed, by direction of the President, not-to force the coilection of the tux levied by the constitue malconvention. A man named Warring, editor of a por at Charlotte, has been arrested by ordor of General er, on account, it is supposed, of the disloyal charac ter of articles in his journal. No accounts have yet reached us of any formidable attempts onthe part of the negroes in the Southern States to effvet a realization of the apprehensions of fear- (ul outbreaks by them on Christmas day which were pntertained by the white people. In Norfolk, Virginia, ) negro attacked a policeman with a club, and was shot; fm Manchester, on the James river, opposite Richmond, party of colored men surrounded We jail and forced the ‘release of two colored prisoners, and in Alexandria negroes wero engaged fn noteus proceedings, in which several pcr- sons arc reported to have been shot; but there does not appear to have been concert of ac- tion ia these separate alinire. In Wilmington, North Carolina, there were fights between the whites snd Diacks, which assumed the proporttons of a riot, culliog into requisition the sprvices of the polier and troops, who arrested about one hungred negroes; but the tete- graphic despatches state that there was no evidence of any organized movement on the part of the latter. Some of the proceedings of the South Carolina Lgista- ture, wh ch adjourned on the 2ist Insts, and the work- ingwof the free lavor‘gystem ‘0 far in that State, are briefly reviewed in our Charleston correspondence. Laws Wore passed, among others, giving the eleotion of Presi-, dent.ai electors directly wo the people, for the orguniza- tion of the State militia, and) creating thirty-three new district courts for the trial of casesim which negroes are interested. The question regarding paymont of the rebel war debt was given toa commisee, with instruc tons to report op it at the next session, General Tobin, one of (he largest planters of the State, is making the {ree labor system progress very satisfactorily on his plan tations. He says the chief difficulty im the way of the success of the system is the foregone conclusion on the part of the majority of planters that it must fail Tho Chilean Min'ster in Washington has received in- formation of the protest of his government again#t the recent Spanish decision to treat as pirates all persons on board of the privateers of Chilo who are not natives of Shat country, If this decision is acted on by the Span Iirde the most sévere retaliatory moasures will follow on Bhe pari of (9 Chiveans, The Mobile Register of the 19th inst., ‘e an article on fhe government ection agenoy system ot the South. pro- pera that institution a total failure, a great public, vate, commercial and goclal misfortune, and a source f the hugest robbery and corruption. It eays that the agents seize all the cotton in private hands they ean find, on charge of its baving belonged to the revel govern. ment, and then, a3 @ general thing, appropiate it to their own emotument, and that from this example the planters f&nd other citizens have also beon led extensively into the Gotton stealing business, The paper also asserts that of ‘the one hundred and twenty thousand bales of rebel gov- @rament cotton surrendered by General Dick Taylor to General Canby, scarcely ten thousand bales have been or or will be received by the national government, the inder having been stolen. From the little straggling, unattractive town of Vi Toxas, on the Guadaloupe river, one of the Hera respondents sends ug a very dnterosting aceount of afvirs { the interior of that & and a description of hiv ride forty miles, from Indianola, behind a famine-strick f horse stage team, beneath a broiling sun, trenk of dusty rond ay straight as an arrow, across sterile Texas prairie, the perfect realization of dew ffion, where no water runs, where neither trée, shrub, Y 8 nor flower grows, and where neither house norrign civilization is to be see. The spirit of enterprise and rage to get rich have already since the conclusion of ellion penetrated the most seclurled recesses of rior of Texas, and in every dirbction wherever Y production to sell or any inhabitants to bey re or sellers, as the case may require, are to mee! the demand, the State being over- . From Layacca, on Matagorda bay, to 06 Of about thirty miles, a military rail outs In Toxas which were boing Mb_20° Lhe Daj idpy 4s found tue veevle Vietoria. Our correspondent vives | | “generally content with thé new. order of things, by ine, will sail at three o’otock this afternoon for Havana, from pier No. 4 North river. me ES which new life had been infused among them. ‘The special claims of Minnesota to the attention of per- sons designing to emigrate to the West, om account of its selubrious olimate, fertile soil, extensive water power, abundance of fine timber, &c., are ably advanced by our St. Paul correspondent. He endeavors to disabuse the minds’ of Eastern people of the general impression ‘that Minnesota winters are excessively severe. Thou b the temperature carries the mercury down to a very low degree, the peculiar purity and dryness of the atmo sphere reuders the cold quite endurable, and makes the State an excellent place of residence for invalids. A meeting of the Board of Supervisors took place yes- terday, at which a resolution to pay District Attorney Hail $5,556 12 for money disbursed from his office during the last six months was adopted. A report from the Commissioners of Harlem Bridge showed that of the $270,000 appropriated for the work in 1865, $154,007 92 still remains unexpended. ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon. A communication was received from the Board of Council- men calling the attention of the Mayor and Street Inspec- tor to the filthy condition of the public thoroughfares. The Committee on National Affairs was directed to pro- cure a stand of colors for the Eleventh regiment of the State National Guard. Resolutions ware adopted direct- ing the Comptroller to pay the bill of La. Edge, amounting to seventeen thousand seven hun- dred and fifty dollars, for fireworks furnished om the Fourth of Jujy last, and ordering the completion of the” soldiers’ monument in Calvary Cométery. The Mayor ‘was requested to offer a reward of one thousand dollars forthe apprehension of the murderer of Daniel Claffy, the victim of the Lion Brewery fracas, of last summer. Consideralle other business of a routine character was transacted, and the Board adjourned till Nib o'clock this afternoon. The Board of Councilmen met yesterday and recoived a large pumber of papers from the Board of Aldermen, which were tald over. 4 resplution directing the Coun- sel to the Corporation to take the necessary legal pro- ceedings for widening and extending Ann and Fulton ton atreetsg was Inid over. A resolution was adopted providing that Charles street, between Fourth and Bleecker streets, be hereafter designated “Van Ness placs,”” Two vetoes were received from the Mayor refusing his signature to resolutions in favor of increas- ing the salary of the Second Assistant Clerk in the Finance Departmont, and directing twenty-flye hundred copies of railroad grants and ferry leases to be printed. ‘The Board adjourned to meet this afternoon. The Hopper will case, which hag been in litigation for four years past, was finally settled by the Court of Appeals, at the Decembor term, affirming the decisions of the courts below, all the judges agreeing. The property involved amounts to some two hundred thousand dollars, and in the alleged will’ of Mr. Hopper was bequeathed to the American Seamen’s Friend So- cioty and the Ladies’ Union Ard Socioty of the Methodist Episcopal church of the city of New York. The heire- at-law of Mr. Hopper contested the will on the grounds of undue influence and the want of «montal capacity on the part of the testator. After hearing tho testimony in the case the Surrogate refused to admit the will to pro- bate, and it was carried on appeal to the general term of the Supreme Court, whore ths décision of the Surrogate was aMirmed. It was then carried to the Court of Ap. peals, with the result above mentioned. In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judgo Shipman, George White and Daniel O'Brien pleaded guilty to an indictment charging them with cro- ating a mutiny on the Amorican ship ‘Thomas Dunham, on board of which they were seamen,in the month of November last. The accused were remanded for sen- tence. A number of persons were arraigned before Judge Sh'jtann and pleaded not guilty to indictments for various offences, principally counterfeiting national cur- raney, ‘ summing ep of coutvel in the Strong dtyorce ease * was commenced-yesterday in the Raperier Court, Jadgo Garvin presiding. The foterest of tile public im the argu. ments seemed to be.as great as that manifested’ in tho | testimony, the court room boin-aa crowded, aid th> crushing and jammiag and pushing for admittance of the unlucky outsiders as flores, a%.0n .preceding days of the trial. Counsel for the defouce commenced speaking. at about Fieve o'clock, and continued up to-quarter-past fe wl Court adjourned. The argument for the ce hr ate to-day. i e <Seaie Particulars of the late Brooklyn ease gether with the'statement of an eye-witness, are given in our paper this morning. It appears, from # confession imade by Rugs to officer Powers, that be premeditated the murder of Miss Dayton ten days: prior to the attempt, and to offect that purpose purchased a revolving, pistol. He was visited at the Brookign Hospital yesterdiy by “numerous friends, with ali_of whom he conversed. His Condition is reported favorable by hig physicians; but certain indications wonid geem not to warrant this con- clusion, Mis< Dayton was doliy: véry well Jast evening, Lieutenagt Gouverneur Morris, sou of Genoral Waltiam W. Morris, whove doath was chronicled in the Hnaup of 14th inst., died at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, on Monday last, in the twenty-fdurth year of hig age. Lioutenant Morris entisted as a private in the Fifth New York heavy artillery at the commencement of the rebellion, aud + | Served througuout the war, A fire, the origin of which hax ‘not yet been aécer tamed, was discovered Durning between eight and nine o'clock yesterday morning in the cellar of the four story Dailding 188. Pearl street, whore about one hundred barrels of tury'entine and some rosin were stored. Owing to the combustible charactor of these, as well a5 soine cotton in the upper floors, the fameg spread rapidly, destroying the entire building, but being prevented from extending beyond it, Imring the fire an explosion occurred, scattering portions of the building in all direc- tions, and severely, but not dangerously, fojuring seVeral persons, The total loss is estimated at sixty thou- kand dollars. Some of the stocks in adjacent buildings were much damaved by water. A fire cécurred about noon yesterday ot the corner of Broad streot and Exchange piace, but was extinguished after doing slight damage, ‘Ten stofed and four hotels, comprising the bulk of the busitices portion of the IMtle town of Sheffer, in ‘the Pennsylvania oil regions, ani whose oxiatence is a ro. sult of the oil trade, were destroyoa by’ a fire, tho origin 6f which & not stated, on Christmas afterhoon. .No il was dostroyed, in consequence of the'wind boing favor- abic for the safety of ‘Io oil platforms, During the ex- Citdmont attandant on the fire « Mr. Parks was shot dead im a quarrel, ‘Tho prison connected with the almshonse at Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, was destroyed by fire on last Sunday night, aud three of the tumates perished in the flames. ‘The children of St, George's Mission achool had their Christmas festival yesterday, which pasged off very pleagantly. Great intercet is now felt in Fenian circles regarding the movement to effect the resignation of both O’Ma- hony and the Senate. The military olemont is expected to take the Jead in uniting the Brotherhood for immedi- ate action, The alleged Jersey City “outrage” is con- tradicted by an officer of the circle. Mr. Rodgere, Fenian Head Centre of the Manhattan district, delivered « lecture to a crowded house at the Cooper Tostitate last eventug. Though the subject was ual Reveneration,”’ the lecturer devoted a portion discourse to Feniniem and the Fenien Senate, which he denounced as 4 “bogus Senate." ‘There wero several cases of serious assault in the city on Christmas night. Patrick Dunleavy, living at 75 Mul- berry street, was dreadfelly beaten und stabbed during a fight among ® party of men i @ drinking place at 60 Mott street A’young man named Owen White was ar- rested on charge of inflicting the stabs. Uauiel Martin and William Lane were committed on charge of brutally, and it ie feared fataliy, beating Michacl Burns on the corner of Eleventh avenug and Twenty-second street. Owen Gattosy was seriously stabbed ta the abdomen on the corner of Tenth avenve and Sixteenth street, John Kitchen was committed on charge of being the assailant. During @ quarrel between Mary Bensel and Julia Cheat. nut, both living in the tenement house 144 Cherry street, the former was dangerously stabbed in the back, Choat: | nut was committed Yesterday the featival of St. Stephen was Colebrated in the Catholic and Episcopal churches. To-day will be dd the festival of St, John the Evangelist, and to. morrow'the festival of the Holy Innocents. Two laborers were killed and others wounded on board a train of the Dayton and Western Railroad, nou Rreh- mond, Indions, on Monday, during # difficulty which occurred iM consequence of their refusal to pay theit A cahision ocurred yorterday afternoon -betwéap, two passenger trajne on the S'onington Railroad, about eight mules from Providence, R. 1. One passenger had his leg vushed, as i a te a” ond severas oars Were pretty fer ly ‘aina® > sa. Theaph 4 aidewboo! Steamship Morro Castle, Captain RB Adews. vylgumipe Ww Movers, Sootferd. Cleaon & Co.'s “week, in view of which prices are abont 3c. Post Office at half-past one o'clock. The Hamburg ship Newton, Captain Horting, pet Now York for Hamburg, went ashore at Nantugket on Sunday night last, and went to pieces in a short time aftor striking. Every soul on board is supposed to have ‘The United States steamer Memphis arrived at Key ‘West on the 13th inst. from New York, and left on the afternoon of the 14th for the fleet, According to the City Inapector’s report thére wore 519 deaths in the city during last week, showing an inerease of 18 over those of preceding week, and a decrease of 73 as compared with the corresponding season of 1864, Of the deceased of the past week 207 were ‘children under five years of age. The diseases were:—Consumption, 56; convulsions, 37; inflammation of the lungs, 87; bronchial, 14; croup, 14; scarletina, 16; typhoid, fever, 15; typhus fever, 19; diphtheria, 10. The deaths from external causes were 33; in the public insti- tutions, 53. The interments in the Potter's Field were 27. ‘The stock market was dull, but on the whole strady, yesterday. Governments were frm. Gold closed at 145%. ‘The markets were unusually quiet yostorday, soarcely any business haying been consummated. Tho merchants generally declare that nothing will be done umitil a’ter New Year's Day, and they evidently mean to make their declarations good. Petroleum was dull and almost ‘nominal. Cotton was quiet. Grocerics were dull. On ‘Change flour was firmer, Wheat was dull but higher, Cora was steady. Oats were nominal. Pork and lard ‘were in-sellers’ favor under a fair demand. Butter and cheese were lower. Whiskey was dull and nominal. ‘The receipts of beef cattle were unusually light this, per pound better, varying from 100. to 180. a 181gc., with extras on fancy cattle as hieh aa 20c, a 22c, Cows were steady and unchanged. Veals were in fair demand, at from 10c. tole. Sheep and lambs were in good demand at about last week's quotations—$4 to $8—with fancy offerings at $10 to $20. Hogs were in fair demand at advanced prices, ranging from 10Xc. to 1c. The total receipts wore 3,481 beeves, 71 cows, 582 voals, 14,485 sheop and lambs and 18,178 hogs. General Grant’s Proposed Visit to the Rio Grande—The Mexican Question. It is quite positively Atated in the political circles at Washington that “General Grant will sil immediately after the holidays in the flag- ship of the Gulf squadron for the Rio Grande;”” and in proof of this statement it appears that “Commodore Winslow hns sailed in the Cham- pion, via New Orleans, leaving his flagship be- hind for the General.” Accepting this infor- mation as authentic, the question reours, what is the object of this projected visit of General Grant to the Mexican frontier? Going as General-in Chief of the armies of the United States, he goes upon a military reconnoissance, to learn from actual observation the condition of things on the Mexican border, and, as far as possible, the state of affairs on the other side of the river, between the republic and the empire, and whether General -Logan’s policy of crossing the Rubicon or the policy of “mas- terly inactivity” will be best in behalf of the Monroe dootrine. We know that General Grant is in favor of the removal ot Maximilfan’a’ establishment from Mexico as an -offensive and. intolerable usurpation.. This wag the substance’ of a little _apecch of his at & political reception in: this city in November Inst. “We know ‘that Presi- dent Johnson is fixed in the faith of the Moa- roe doctrine. If General Grant, therefore, after making ‘his projected trip to the Rio Grande, should return to the President with a report suggesting an armed invasion of Mexico as the only alternative left na in reference to Muximilian and bis m » Napoleon, anid if the President should submit this report: to |: Congress, with s recommendation for immedi- ate action thereon, we dare say that the movement . would excite neither surprise Nor opposition from the. great body of the American people. On the other hand, we have no doubt that the public opinion of the whole country would quickly manifest itaclf in favor of the enterprise. We dare say, however, that General Grant will go down to the Rio Grande for the purpose of adopting such measures as may operate for the time being rather to maintain the peace of the border than to precipitate a rupture with France; 2nd this, we think, is the purpose and policy of the administration, “Mastorly inactivity,” as defined by Cathoun, certainly promises the safest and cheapest set- tlement of this Mexican difficulty. When the first French republi¢ had expelled trom its borders the allied Powers of the continent, and had proved its capacity for aggreasive warfare in the first Italian campaigns of Napoleon, it was in 4 position to maintain itself as the arbi- ter of Europe. But the expedition sent out under Napoleon to Syria and. Egypt was a fatal mistake to the republic. In nndertaking to flank the power of Kngland‘in the East by force of arias the republio stepped beyond its sphere as thie propagandist of the riphts of the people. As an armed propagandist it naturally gravitated into the bands of a.military dictator, «md to the inevitable consequences of a rigid military despotism in the namo of the empire, Now, as history repeats itself, here is a lesson which history gives us as «warning. The com- monwealth of Cromwell affords as another ex- ample of the same character. Unquestionably, if the administration were to resolye upon the forcible expulsion of Maxi- failien from fexico, he would be expelled in short order. But the inevitable war with France might, perhaps, involve us in a naval war with England and France. Even from such a struggle we doubt not that the United States would ultimately emerge victorious; but in the meantime the suspension of the world’s commerce, and the heavy strain upon our national treasury, would inevitably involve us in all the evils of a financial revul- sion and universal bankruptcy. Such a war might precipitate a European earth- quake, from which kingdoms and empires would gq down to rise no more; but such consequences, instead of relieving us, would only widen the disasters and dangers of our financial collapse, with all its accessories of political demoralization and confusion. Could we, under such a pressure, escape the fate of the French republic and its assignota? If is upon statesmanship, and not upon arms, that we may now most wisely depend for the removal] of the French usurpation from Mexien In that experiment of » Latin bilance of powpr on this continent Louis Napoleon has beconle the owner of a costly elephant. We enn dé- possess him to-day or to-morrow; but we hate only to hold the rod of the Monroe doctrite over him in order to.consttain him to abanddn his elephant. Without our recognition he is in @ state of insecurity which must render futile al) bis efforts to make Mexico pay expenses, Be is weakened while Wwe aro strengthenal from every day’s continuance of « policy of “mgaterly inactivity.” It costs “us nothing to wait, while the uncertaintios of this state of peace hold him to the expenses of a costly foreign war in won and money. “Dbis cxplains ee ee. polog wha io hea thus far pursued in reference to rand as the Presidént bas told. us in his regular message that “at the proper time” the correspondence in relation to Mexico will be laid before Con- | « gress, we are satisfied that bis hints upon the Monroe doctrine mean that»negotiations are pending which involve the quiet’ withdrawal of Maximilian from an experimental empire, which, with the downfall of Jeff: Davis, is con- fessed a failure. The Republican Party and Polygamy. The formation of a new political party in this or any other country is always accom- plished for the purpose of enforcing certain avowed theories, incorporating into the ad- ministration of the government particular dog- mas, or to correct existing abuses. The pur- poses aimed at are invariably proclaimed at the birth of the party, or rather at the firat pub- Vic gathering of its godfathers, when. the obild is christened placed before the public for recognition and support. This feature was peculiarly manifest with the present repub- lican party in its youthful @ys. That. politi- cal organization was brought into existence in 1856. The sponsors who gathered’ At Pitts’ burg, Pa., in the early part of that year, to name the- political child and: announce its ‘fu- ture creed, ndopted a positive policy and 4 fixed faith which it should be held to in its ca- reer when it reached manhood. The party was then in possession of all its youthful purity, never having lost its virtue of infanoy by contamination with the temptations of the political world. On this august occasion the sponsors, who had watched over it and pledged themselves to become responsible for its ca- reer, announced that the great cardinal prin- ciples for its guide were the overthrowing in this country of the “twin relics of barbarism— slavery and polygamy.” Under those pledges and under that faith the party was christened, and went forth asking for public favor and support. A little over nine years have elapsed, and we find the virtuous child of that day grown to full manhood, and in possession of the general government. It has now the power to put the creed of ita infancy into full force. In fact, it has already accomplished a portion of its mission, as then announced. Slavery has been abolished; but it yet remains to be seen what it will do with polygamy, the other portion of its creed. The little band of polygamists gathered on the Western plains under the cloak of the Latter Day Saints rave grown into quite a multitude while the” party bas been engaged in disposing ‘of slavery. In fact, the developments in our courts lead to the conclusion that the practical Mormons are not all in Utah, but have found their way to the City, of Churches, and that polygamy is also praotised thereunder the cloak of religion, as well ad at* Salt Laké City., ‘The sponsors of the republican party, in ofder. to make their: pledges good in feference tothe becond: 3 evil which. they announced their intention: to Femove, will ‘now not only be obliged to look efter the Brigham Youngs in the regién of the Salt Lake, but the Strongs near the salt sea. The rebellion furnished the republicans with an excellent yet an unlooked for opportanity to dispdso of slavery. Do not the present high prices present the opportune moment to settle polygamy? ‘The faith of the party was just as strongly pledged at its christening to put down the latter.as the former.. The decrge having gone | forth that no-man should have but ono-wife of his own, or anybody’s clac, we now call upon the party to make its promises good. Unless this isdone the public will con- sider that its purity of infancy has departed, and that the tomptations of the political world have destroyed its virtue. How the party will accomplish this portion of its mission and enforce this part of its creed we are una- ble to see, nor is 1t our purpose to suggest. We simply take the factas it exists, that the god- fathers of the party have promised that they would overthrow Mormonism in this country, and content ourselves with calling attention to the fact that the pledge haa not been made good as yet. Slavery has been destroyed, and that work is now off their hands. Now what do they propose to do with the Mormons? This is the question that the party has to deal with now, or abandon that article of its creed. ‘Anti- polygamy, instead of anti-slavery, must there- fore be its party shibboleth. The task will no doubt be a difficult one, and put the high priest of the organization to the severest taal. A set ‘| of men who can manage a hundred wivos must possess the genlus to accomplish almost any- thing in defonee of their rights. It is considered @ mark of great ability fora man to manage one wife in these times; what, thon, must be the capacity of ® man who, like Brigham Young, manages one hundred or more? Such men must possess @ gonius far beyond any other class of the present age, and equal to that of David and Solomon of old. It is guid that a man will perform wonders in defence of his wife; must we not expect, thorc!ore, that their exploit in this line will increase just in ratio to the number of wives which (hey havo? In this view must we not look for miraculons deeds on the part of the Mormonst We throw out these general ideas for the consideration of the republicih party. . The public havo for some time puzzled themselves over the solution of this question of polygamy, and not a few are looking with foreboding in regard to it in the future. They realize the dangers of separating man and wife in ordi- nary cases, and cannot but anticipate groat convulsions when you come to separate the men of # whole community from wives by the score. Abolition of slavery is one thing, but the overthrowing of polygamy is quite another, The question very naturally arises, is there in the combined talent of the republican party genius enough to successfully handle this sub- ject? This point will have to be settled before we can tell whether this party has accomplished its mission or not. It may be that we shall be obliged to raise up another party for the special putpose of dealing with the Mormons before we can get rid of the evil. In the mean- time we awail patiently the developments of the republican managers, to see whether (heir vir- tue remains unisinted or not, as well as to as- certain whether they are opposed to or have become converts to the creed of the so-called Later Day Saints, and thus repudiate their youthfil vows. , Jvarick To Our DISCHARGED , sp SOLDIERS AND Gattons.—A polition is in éiroptition appealing to Congress for the passage of an act! granting bounties to discharged soldiers In proportion to who! wow een, ha Dog wP | oplytod dur- + In tho Kentucky Loulalature the abhor OY, ‘wat. This is*but a sitaple act of justice to the and thereby afford timely relief to many brave and worthy men. There are a few other points, while treating on the subject of boun- ties, that also demand the attention of Con- gress. There is no good reason why United States sailors should not receive government bounties. They fought weld and won deserved laurels by their heroic conduct during the war, and are entitled to the nation’s gratitude. This cannot be better displayed than in allow- ing them a few hundred dollars by way of extra pay. The petty officers of the navy are also entitled to the considera- tion of Congress. They are generally poor men, with families, and holding a semi-official position in ‘the service is evidence that it was owing to some particular personal merit they were 80 placed. These pétty officers deserve some consideration according to time of service promiged.government bounty of one hundred ing the latter period or in the last year of the brave men who stood by the Union in the most period, and we lope Congress will ly grant the prayer of the petitioners, and duties performed. It is well known that the dollars to soldiers was never paid: in full to thoge who were discharged before the expira- tion of their terms of sorvice. meanness in the government to “dock” a poor private soldier twenty-five or thirty dollars be- cause he has not had a chance to carry, out his contract with the government to serve for a yearin consequence of his discharge in the interval. The matter of appointing discharged soldiers to clerkships in the departments is one especially deserving tie attention of Congress, and should be immediately taken up. Briefly, the entire subject of seeing that justice is done to those of our army and navy who liave hon- orably served their country and been honora- bly discharged should be met by Congress in a friendly and liberal spirit, and, if necessary, made the business of a special committee. If such a committee should be appointed we will send to them some able documents, emanating from soldiers and sailors themselves, touching their grievances, which will no doubt tend to enlighten the committee and post them fully in regard to particulars. A Groat Movement. for Universal Suf- frage. We have received from a committee of ladies the following note, with the accompanying document:— 48 Bexxwan Srreet, New Yors. Mr, Epiror—Will you publish the enclosod petition, with such commentaries as you soo fit? It is now circu- Jating throughout the country, (o bs presentedas soon as Congress Seam etree behalf of the National W. R. (Woman's ittoe. . E. CADY STANTON. SUSAN B. ANTHONY. LUCY S10NE. Tho following is a 6opy of the petition above mentioned:— A_PETITION FOR UNIVERSAT, AUFPRAGH. : ‘To Tam Seyate anv House ov Rernesenrarrves: ‘Tho undersigued, women of the United States, pes, frliv-etkvamamend:ant to the conssttution 2 th prohib' he the several’ States from *disfranchising any. of Shel ene on the gronind of sex. ‘our demand for aiffrage ser woukd calt ie f gussutete tothe. fact that we it fifteen +m’ ser arrin a binresid ato) =e the Sater Hi ve bore rican citizens, ae vet are the rans class yey stand outside the pale litical recognition. oe The constitution classea ua as people, ” and counts us whole persons in the basis of reprenentation and yot aro wo governed without out conson, competed y taxes without for violati Ot Ine without ch PF ie ‘orfuree. The oxperionce ages, the declarations of the fathers, the statute laws st our own day, and the, sortal revolution through which we havo just passed, all prove the uncertain tenure of life, Uberty see property so long as tho-ballot—the Only woapon of self-pretection—is not inthe hand of every: citizen. + Therefore, as you are new ame! the constitution, and, in pana wp with advancing civilization, new ind the individual of four mil. Hons of pas wa ask ju extend the r ght of: to woman—the onl ing claas of disfranchwed citizens—and thus fulfil your utional obligation “to guaraates to every State in the Union a republican form of government.” ‘As all partial application of republican principles must ever breed a complicated log:slation as well as a I tented people, we would pray your honorable body, in ordor to simplity the machinery of government and in- sure domestic tranquillity, that a? hereafter for persons, cilizens, taxpayers, and net for class or oe juatico and equality your petitioners will ever We are always happy to please the ladies, and therefore comply with the re quost of the committee to publish the above. The privilege of “commenting upon it. as we see fit” is a favor to be especially appreciated, like all other favors extended by kind and loviag friends about Christmas time. We shall accordingly proceed to comment.. In all the length and breadth of this petition we don’t see a word about woman's legitimate spheres, the nursery and the kitchen. We don’t see a word about babies or broomsticks, crinoline or cradies, bombazine, poplin, rats, mice, puffs, water fulls or water wheels. We see no men- tion of the new opera or the.latest old woman’s ten party. This is a very singular omission, 1 the constitution be amended so. a8 to allow women to vole there must be another amend- ment t protect thet at the ballot box, which they qeeth to ‘consider tho great panacea for all politionl and domestic ills and troubles, Siow can delicate women pretend to compete with the plug uglies, blood tubs, dead rabbits and the other ornamental appendages of our polling places? Imagine ascene in the bloody Sixth when the balivis are being counted. What chance would gentle Lucy Stone, with her refincd and inteliectual instincts, have against the red armed Bridget O’Rafferty, who attends a bar in a corner grocery? Suppose the husband of each—we don’t know whether Lucy basher “Savage” yet or not—should be rival candidates for ¢] e gflige, aj the poll should be “close, wi why ‘Ss. Lucy her woman's rights would be knocked into a cocked hat by the very wind of Bridget’s knuckle bones. How would Lucy establish her equality in such a crisis? By a consti- tutional amendment? Perhaps so;, but it would be an amendment of her own constitu- tion, Those ladies talk of the elective fran- chise being denied to half of our entire popu. lation. They, of course, mean tie femalo half. How wonld this work? They declare they are laboring to establish women’s rights. This natarally includes the fights of the girls. What are you going todo about the boys? Shall they not have a vote, as well as the girls? Clearly they must, or there wil be a row in tho national nursery on'y equal in ferocity to the late rebellion, 4% little beauty Kitty be allowed to vote, ant the little bear Tommy is not, do you supose Tommy will stand it? No, nota bit of it. He will pitch into Kitty right and ft, and the way the, Christmas |. trinkets wil be smashed up will be a caution’ to Sant» Claus. Seriously; these ladies had. betior study the art of cookery, the propér training and instruction of children and other appropriate household duties, than aspire to ocoupy positions which can only be properly. filled by the other sex—burly man. Tue Counrny anp TH® Smatt PourrioraNae— some small politicians made,a great noise ove. slavery. Each"being anxious to hear hig<=1 neighbor. Slavery, they’said, was a reservac right, It was above the constitution, and there it was an outrage to make anything # part of to. But the world went around just the same and even the country did not stand still afte: thia grand conclusion, Worse than all, thé constitutional amendment did not stand still State after State gave in its adhesion, thougl all must have heard of the disgust of the littl fellows in Kentucky; and finally the Secretary of State declared formally that the amendmen heard from. What will they do? Declare {hei Tt looks like} | proach the confines of Europe ‘and begin t “the changes of fashion, and the lines of Michact sweet voice, and moreover to make all Ken) tucky hear it,every one tried to outbaw! hi: was no power in the land competent to destroy it. Going on step by step these little Ken tucky politicians rose to a very ridiculour height, and came to the grand conclusion tha, the constitution that Kentucky had not agreed was of the constitution. Since that th men of the Kentucky Legislature have not beer independence and have a little war about it}: Not at all. Slavery will die and make no there as elsewhere. The little fellows will mit like their neighbors, and immediately up some other subject on which to make 8 no! and keep themselves before the people. The same farce thus played by the Kentucky: politicians is played all over the country. Iti | what the small politicians live by. In all the | States and all the political circles in the Hi of Representatives and in the Senate it is kép, up. From Wendell Phillips and Stevem through the radical party, and from the littk Kentuckians through their party, it is the same The small politicians everywhere scream tre mendously over their chosen measures, tryin, their best to make the country believe that ir the adoption of those measures lies the opl: salvation. It is nigger suffrage—or some other | suffrage—spegie payments, slavery or aboli | tion, no matter what. And while the smal politicians roar and rage and fume the coun ; try goes on quietly in its grand progress, th - great common sense of the nation sweeps th little politicians aside into obscurity, and by an: by they even wonder themselves that the peo . ple ever had the patience to listen to their non x sense. Just as the little Kentucky chaps hav been squelched by the grand decision of th country, so will be all the small politicians wh are trying-to make themselves heard and kick / ing up such a dust in Congress. 7 ‘The Development of Art in America—Ou | Painters and Sculptors. J The history of a nation isgrand or contempt ! ible according to the spirit of its people. Th greatest Asiatic nation has no history but th ° record of the succession and downfall of dyna: -| ties—a record, as Hume has said of a certai i portion of English, history, “of as little momen to the world st latge as would be a descriy tion of the skirmishes of crows and kites. The same is true of mearly all the Oriente-: world, from the, Red Sea to the Saghaliaa, i modern. times; ‘and, {. was‘equally so in. tiquity, the, progpect only’changing as we a i lose sight of the progession of princes an “| priests, and to get glimpses of the people , Single cities in Greece and Italy have , grander story than whole empires in Asis Compare Athens, Argo, Corinth, Syracuse Rome or Florence with any baker’s dozen’ ¢ Eastern empires, past or present. As we se the distinction between Europe and Asia ac ‘cording to the appearance or non-appearanc © of the ple, so in Europe we see the distinc tion - een the several cities and ns tions as the people are more or less predom: nant, hold and free. We see the Europea shores of the Mediterranean, once the seat o political power, become insignificant as th people sink under the rule of popes and dukes» and we see -Western Europe,, as it throw | down its tyrant rulers, rise into prime impor, ance, until Eogland and France become mor! to the world than all the rest’of Europe to gether. In our own country—in the greatnes , of the recent war—we see the. extreme conse quence of this when the people*are made no , paramount merely, but the only recognizer source of power if thé nation. * Through th history of the world there are no four. year! that exhibit such s tremendous ‘concentratio: of energy—such a direct snd single purpoge- * such 9 straightforward progress of events fror, first to last. And this war packing into on™ Presidential term more and greater event than would fill thirty years’ of war in shows conclusively how incomparable ann is national history when it with the lif of a proud and brave people than when it cites only. the acts of kings and their puppets. It is the same in. the other facts'that make y the life of @ nation as in: politics and war, Literature and art also reach their highest d velopment only where they feel the full infl ence of the national character as it comes frest#) from the people. There they are true, original)’ great. Under all other circumstances they are trammelled, narrow, conventional and mean | The old wisdom which called the voice of thé people the voice of God recognized that there) could be no littlenes« in any utterance whict! had its inspiration from a whole nation dnd) declared the general thought of all. So in art if it bas the popular spirit it always cxpresse grand ideas in a worthy style; it treats th simple, splendid themes of nature in the apiri of trutlh The voice of the people is the voi of God in art as in all else. But if art has am lower insbiration—if it recognizes wn ari tocracy as its fountain —ii it ministers only, to’ the elegance of a court—it treats pitiful themes. in the fanciful dialects of the polite circles. It is the slave of fashion. ‘It is no longer Prome- theus, but only Harlequin. It does not handle, celestial fire to awake the envy of domi" gods, but only plays. with a wooden lath to win the admiration of the’ pigmies ‘{n the pit....It reflects, copizs, mimics the accidents of 9n artificial life. Go through « costumer’s and you can pick out every age of the so-called elegant world— every brilliant court by the cut of its doublet; > go through the galleries and you may do the | ‘same with the major part of the pictures. The | painter wae as conventional as the tailor. But } in medimval Italy, where the vitality of the ple was concentrated in art, we find the in and women of Raphael to be superior to |) Angelo to be those on which the universe iz made. Go to the Biazhle. remnanta of free Greece, and we find-tot Achains or Dorians, but the demi-gods ofthe human race. And all | this is in despite of Mic’ small notion that an aristocracy; and ® conseqnent concentration of wealth, is necessary for the growth of art. An Jeristgarmey,, of Su0lh eumoumpaes, ast fa