The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1867, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, Broadway. near or tax Country. Broome BROADWAY THE street. —F any Crncus NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway, opposite New York Howl. —Kuvicwouth—Tax Femaue HOnss Buxaxen, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Stexers or Nxw York. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Tux Huncapack Maxguis; Or, Tux Rice Harness. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Haxper's Gueat Oxatomo, Tux Massian. DODWORTH'S HALL, 806 Breadway.—Prorssson Hants wit Pxrrorm His Mimacixs—Tur Heap in Taz Ain— Tax lmpian Basaet Tricx—Paorevs. SAM FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 535 Broadway, opvosite he Metropolitan Hotel—[x rusia Gruioriax Entertain ENTS. BiNGING, Danctxo aND BuRLESQUES.—TuE BLACK Coom—Araican Baier Trovurs. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. oppo- site the New York Hotel..—[w tain Sonos, Dances. Eco en- ‘TRICITIRS. &c.—Cin per-LeOn—MADagascan Bauer vor 4 Wirs, FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOD! Nos. 2 and 4 Wi Pagers street.—Gairrin & Ceuta rata a Bun.usques, —T Ooman Yacut face—Tam ‘Buack ore TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic focalasa, Necro Mixernuisy, Batuer Diveatisemenr, 40.—Taz New Yorx Vovunremrs. Matinee at 23 o'clock. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—Ix 4 Vanrery or Licitr anp Lavanantx’ ENTERTAINMENTS, Comrs DE BALLET, £0. Tum Loxp or Cuarreapurrr. MRS. F. B. CONWAY’S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tus New Lean. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE. i, Sa gy Mix- ovenisy, Batiavs axp Buriesques.—Tur Buack Cxoox. CLINTON HAL! uae Lectures on NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 RBroadway.— Hxa ano Iigut Amu or | Fuoner—iun Wasningron ‘Twins—Woxouns ix Narvnat Histomy, Scimnce anp Axr. Laoronss Daicx, Open from 8 4. M, til WP, M. DERBY'S NEW ART ROOMS, &5 Broadway.—Granp Exutsrrion or Pauwtivas.—Rosa Bonuzun'’s Horse Fain. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, February 27, 1867. Astor place.—Dr. Hxssarv’s Pxcv- tian Tees. yer : = pe THE WaW sé. EUROPE. By the Atlantic cable we have a news report dated yesterday evening, February 26. Mr, D'Israoli has withdrawn the Derby reform ‘‘reso- lutions” from the House of Commons and intimated that the Cabinet will propose a reform bill. The North American confederation bill has passed the House of Lords. The act suspending the habeas corpus is con- tinued in Ireland. Captain McCafferty, 2 prominent Irish-American Fenian, has been arcested in Dublin. Earl Russell ‘‘censures”’ the United States government for “pleading” forthe Fenians. The King of Prussia isto be declared Emperor of Germany. The Italian elections are, 30 far, adverse to the Ricasoli Cabinet. Consols closed at 91 for money in London. United States five-twenties were at 73% in London and 773 in Frankfort. The Liverpool cotton markel was irregular and decidedly downward; middling uplands cloegd at 13%d.—a decline. Our special European correspondence by steamship, dated in Cork, Dublin and London, contains matter of great importance, forminy as it does a current nar- of the progress of the popular movement, Fenian reform, progressing in Engiend and Ireland to the 14th of February. From Cork and Dublin we are informed of the first acts accomplished by the Fenians in the “rising” in Kerry, which is sbown very clearly to have been part of a comprehensive movement maturely considered and directed to follow an attack om Chester Castle, England. ‘The Fenians, who are described in tho latest report from Chester as “well officered and under complete control,” moved rapidly from that city across the Channel and arrived at Dublin in fighting trim in small parties. The news from Chester having been flashed by the telegraph to Dublin Castle, the authorities, recovering from an exciting shock, d'sposed the city police force im such manner at the quays that the ton were captured in groups as the vessels were being swung to their moorings. The Fenians thus arrested had evidently no knowledge of the betrayal of their secret in England. They accepted the consequences, however, in a very cool manner. The names of those arrested are published in our columns. We also report the proceedings had in the Cour: of Oyer and Terminer, Dublin, at the arraignment and in- dictment of Stephen J. Meany and other Fenians charged under the treason-felony act, The English government expects that Mr. Meany will, in his defence, make “startling revelations’ concerning and against James Stephens, Our special correspondent in London furnishes a very animated report of the scene witnessed during the pro- gress of the great outdoor reform procession through the streets of that city on the 11th mastant, placing, at the same moment, the exact position of the British people towards the government in a clear point of view. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday John D. Detrees, of Indiana, was elected government printer. Several bills of a por- sonal nature was passed, aud the bill to amend the act relative to the aavy, which provides who shall be the ranking officer, &c., was reported from the committee. The House amendments to the bill giving extra com- pensation to the civil employés of the government were concurred in. The House bil! establishing a department of edecation was taken up, but pending its consideration ‘the morning hour expired, and the Army Appro- priation bill was taken up. An amendment direct- ing the disbandment of rebel militia organiza- tions was adopted, and the Dill was passed. ‘Mr. Chandler, after vainly trying to have the Niagara Ship Canal bill taken up, gave notice that he should at an carly day present a bill for the construction of euch @ canal by the goverument, and not by a corporation, and have it free to the navigation of the world. The Compound Interest Note bill was called up but post- poned until aad the Senate took a recess, In the ovening session & bill relative to courts martial was passed. Its provisions will be found in our Con @ressional proceeeings. Several other matters of minor importance were disposed of and the Sepate adjourned. Im the House the report of the Wentworth Committee om alleged bargain and corruption with the President was read, and the committes was discharged from the farther consideration of the subject. There was no tes- tumony reflesting on the integrity of the President, or the members. A committee of conference was called on the dinagreeing votes on the resotution relative to the payment of claims to loyal persons, The Fortification ill was considered in Committees of the Whole, the enacting clause was stricken out, and on being again considered in Committee of the Whole the bill was finally reported with several amendments and passed. A lengthy Gebate ensued on the joint resolution for the removal of the Naval Academy st Annapolis and Mr. Sehenck’s @ubetitate therefor, and both were rejected. The House ‘then went into Committeo of the Whole on the Senate amendments to to the Tariff Lill, and, while the bill was doing read by the Clerk, a recess was taken. On re- sewormbling, the Tariff bill was again considered, and twenty out of its two handred and seventy-five amend- ‘Mente were disposed of, when the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. Tan the Senate yesterday bill providing for n Niagara Ship canal was introduced. The bill to establish « Board 0f Public Works was made a special order for Friday. Bills authorising the Christopher Street Crosstown Rail- road, amouding the act relative to Protestant Episcopal public sohests in New York, and making an appropria- tion for the payment of the principal and interest of the Jand debt were ordered to a third reading. ' tm the Assembly several communications were pro- eonted, among them tho annual report of the state Huginesr and the report of the Metropolitan Police Com. soimtoners relative to prostitution in the city of New |York, ‘The Constitutional Convention bill was discussed at some length and made the special order for to-day. THE CITY. | A lecture wns delivered last evening in the Brooklyn Academy of Masic by Wm. Lloyd Garrison, on the im- Qercumont question, The lectures reviewed the rebel. “Ay NEw YORK 8 lious constitution of the Southern States and attributed their disloyal condition to the President, whom he de- nounced in the severest terms, and whose impeachment and removal he demanded from Congress. The lecture was received with much satisfaction by the large au- dience present on the occasion. Professor Louis Agassiz delivered the last of his series of lectures under the auspices of the ‘‘Association for the Advancement of Science and Art,”’ at Cooper Insti- tute last evening. His subject was “The Monkeys and the Native Inhabitants of South America.” The audi- ence was very large and comprised many of the most intelligent and respectable citizens of the city. The re- marks of Professor Agasmz were listened to with close attention, as they were characterized by a large acquaint- ance with the subject on which he discussed, and were presented in a pleasing and popular form. A full report of the lecture 1s published in this issue of the Henaup. An interesting lecture was delivered last evening by General John Cochrane in the Union Reformed Dutch church, Sixth avenue, on the “ ents of National Prosperity.” Several selections of appropriate music wore pleasingly rendered by the choir. The lecture was well attended. The vestry of the Church of the Resurrection, of this city, bave sold their church and parsonage in Thirty-fifth street for the handsome sum of $35,000, and intend butiding further up town. The funeral of Archdeacon McCarron, late pastor of St. Mary’s parish, took place yesterday. Father Quinn, of St. Peter's chutch, pronounced the eulogy, and the remains were interred in the vaults of St, Patrick's Cathedral. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday John Kane was put upon his trial before Judge Ingrabam and a jary for murder in the first degree, the charge aga‘nst him being that he caused the death of Mary Sandford, who died from the result of burns received at a fire ina ‘tenement house on Thirty-first street and Second avenue, which fire, it is alleged, was maliciously occasioned by the prisoner, who owned the promises in question. The case occupied the whole day and will be resumed this morning. Reiny Browne, assistant engineer on board the steamer Havana, was brought before Commissioner Osborn yos- terday on a charge of having caused the death of a fire- man named John Shaffer, while on the voyage from New York to New Orleans, Evidence was given to show that deceased died from heat and oxhaustion, and the Commissioner ordered the defendant to be discharged on his own recognizances. ‘The case of Ross & Co., tobacconists, of Fulton street, who are charged with having rendered false and frau- dutent returns of their salesand manufactures to the Collector of Internal Revenue, was up again for bearing yesterday before Commissionér Osborn. The defendants having put in some papers in their defence, the examin- ation was again adjourned. On the opening of the Court of Common Pleas yester- day morning Mr. Tracy, on behaif of the bar of New York, presented to that Court a life size portrait of Judge Daly. The painting was accepted on behalf of the Court by Judge Brady, who responded to the presentation ad- dreas of Mr, Morrison in a few appropriate renfarks. The proceedines were entered upon the minutes, sp that the portrait will remain the property of the Court. Judge Russel sentenced Charles B. Manual yesterday in the General Sessions to be execated on the 19th of April next, for the murder of H»nry Schblesser, of which he was convicted durmg the term. A large number of cases were d'sposed of during the day. The stock market was dull yesterday. Gold was strong, and closed at 139% a 3. The exceedingly vaciliating course of Congress on the tariff and financial bills tends to perpetuate or at least protract the unsettled condition of commercial affairs, hitherto mentioned in the commercial résumé of the Hesatp; and the prevailing situation of affairs is fall as unsettled and uncertam as ever. Though the Thirty-ninth Congress is nearly over, yet there is as yet no certainty that any of the important questions having a direct bearing upon finance and trade will be settled, and it is quite gener- ally feared that these questions may be left for the next Congress to determine aud pass upon. The now Tariff ERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1867.—TRIPLE {SHEET, Political Reconstruction — The Impending Crisis In Connecticut. We live in wonderful times. The march of fdeas is carrying everything before it It is the momentum of a heavy railway train de- scending one of those long sweeps of the Al- leghanies, and the cry is “Clear the track!” The patriarch Noab, the builder of the original Great Eastern, the chosen vessel of the Lord— old Noah, who lived six hundred years before the flood, who sailed his big ship over the flood, and who survived three hundred and fifty years after the flood—passed, we dare say, through a small experience in the progress of ideas compared with that, for instance, of William Lloyd Garrison or Wendell Phillips. The ancient patriarch, it is true, passed through a great deluge of water, but Garri- son and Phillips have passed through a deluge of fire, the most terrible in the world’s bis- tory, and they still live. Only look at it. In October, 1835, 9 female anti-elavery society was riotously broken up in Boston by a collection of conservatives de- scribed as “gentlemen of property and stand- ing;” and Mr. Garrison, who went to the meet- ing to deliver an address, after attempting to conceal “himself in « carpenter's shop from the fury, of the mob, was captured, had his clothes torn off and was dragged through the streets with a rope around his neck. And for what? For preaching in Bos- ton negro emancipation. Cotton, then, was king, even among the Pari- tans, Still later im the day, in New York, the famous democratic Empire Club an- nually set apart a contingent fund for the reception of the abolitionist Phillips with a welcome of rotten egzs. Now, mark the change. Garrison is hailed as a public-bene- factor everywhere. He has had a jubilee in Charleston. He -is the object of a filty thou- sand dollar subscription fand ; and as for Phil- lips, if he now becomes comparatively tame in his philippics it is because he misses the in- spiration of Captain Rynders end his shower of eggs. Are not these among the wonders wrought in Israel in these latter days? Who can tell what next is coming? With the country turned upside down and inside out there is no telling what may come to the surface. In the work of political reconstruc- tion the materials at hand must be used. Thus our bard set democracy in our last November ‘+ election were compelled to take a new depar- ture. At Chicago they were headed by the banker Belmont and his coach and six ; two years later, in New York, the ex-pounder of Yankee Sullivan, the banker Morrissey (taro and keno) is called to the rescue. He pays his way and goes into Congress, but his friend Hoffman, of the old democratic pat- tern, is leftin the lurch. He was not suffi- ciently reconstructed, like Morrissey, to win. He was, in fact, behind the drift of events and the spirit of the age. He was still running the old go-cart of the Dred Scott decision against the steam engine of emancipation, and so Hoffman was capsized, while Morrissey is hailed as the new democratic champion for the belt in Congress against the mighty Ben Dill is condemned without stint by the mercantile pub- lic, and the opinion is general that it would diminish rather than increase the revenue, A hope begins to be entertained that it may be defeated after all, although it is taken for granted that the daties will hereafter be higher on nearly everything than they now are. Still @ bill could scarcely be formed which would be more objectionable than that now before Congress. Cotton was dull and lower yesterday under cable news quoting a fur- ther reduction to 13344. a 1334. in Liverpool Bread- stuffs were dull and drooping. Provisions quiet but ua- changed, Naval stores were moderately active. Gro- cerios quiet but very firm. Petroleum was dull and heavy. Whiskey was nominal, and wool was dull and ys MIACELLAWEOUS. Our special despatches from Zacatecas, by way of New Orleans, give farther particulars concerning the capture of that place by Miramoa, the narrow escape of Juarez, and the defeat of Miramon by Eecobedo at Aguascalientes, The imperial garrison at Colima capitulated to Corona on the 2d inst. The capture of the Tehuantepec was officially reported. Juarez bad arrived at San Luis, The prison- ers Ortega ané Hotoni had also arrived there. Guana- juato was captured by the liberals on the 27th ultimo, Marquez bad captured the city ot Zamora, in Michoacan. General Grant favors the Reconstruction bill. A most atrocious murder was committed at New Mar. ket, N. J., on Monday night at midnight, the victim be- img a Mra. Mary Ellen Coriell, wife of Dr. Lester Wallace Coriell, of that place. The alleged murderess, who was yesterday committed for trial by a Corouer’s jury, was the servant girl of the family, named Bridget Durgan. The Pennsylvania State Temperance Convention met at Harrisburg yesterday, over two hundred delegates being in attendance. Governor Geary was appointed temporary chairman, and in bis spcech said that he haa never used intoxicating liquors, either in the war or during his recent Gubernatorial canvass. He also said that he had been informed that General Grant had do- termined to identify himself with the cause. Resolu- tions were adopted favoring a prohibitory liquor law, and appointing @ committee to address the people. The New York State Convention of the Fenian Brotherbogd of the Roberts persuasion are in secret segsion at Utica, In the Ohio House of Representatives yosterday a Tesolution to strike the word “white” from the constitu- tion was lost by a vote of 26 yeas to 50 nays. The Tennessee Legislature has adopted the gold stand- ard in the payment of members. The Illinois Legislature will adjourn on Thursday. A large Union nominating convention was held in fort, Ky., yesterday. Colonel Sidney M, Barnes, of a federal regiment daring the war, was nomi- nated for Governor, and five other soldiers for important "Wiliam Brown, of Nicholasvitie, has been nominated by the Unionists of Kentucky to represent the Seventh district in Congress. The resignation of Governor Swann, of Maryland, and the installatiqn of Lieutenant Governor Cox inte his va- cated position, which was to have taken place yesterday at Annapolis, has been postponed, and it is now said that Governor ‘Will decline the senatorship to which he was recentiy elected. A woman named Weiss attired herself in man’s ap- parel yesterday in Newark, N. J., and undertook to came along and, distovering Deating » ¥ tustnteted ond gave hin wit « vend vingping bone ko discovered who she wad, Martin W. Bates, a boy nineteen years of age, was banged at Burlingame, Kansas, on the 20th inst., for murder of Abel Palloy. A mangttempted to obtain admission to Surratt yes- terday by pretending to be bis brother, jast from Texas, but the guards did not believe him, and admission was denied. : Coriovs Srscutations ann Rowors Apovt Pactrtc Man. Stocs.—The de- cline of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany’s stock has caused o flutter and a great deal of spectilation among stock operators, From what we learn it is probable that there will be some rich develop- ments soon about a certain combination and pool, through which the stock was to be ma- nipulated and worked off the hands of these parties and upon the public, as well as how certain individuals in the combination cheated the rest by secretly selling stock contrary to agreement It is also said that some of these ingenious operators have been fearfully bitten and that » smash up among them is expected. ‘We walt for farther developments . Butler. Profiting from this example of a new experi- ment to meet the new order of things, the radi- cals of Connecticut have struck upon still bolder adventure. They have made'the irre- pressible P. T. Barnum, the living embodiment of Yankee notions, their champion and their new platform, against Wm. H.Barnum, an old fogy, famous only for those old-fashioned vir- tues of times gone by and for his well earned success in-the iron business. But he and all the other Barnums must give way to The Bar- num, as all the O’Donoghues stand back in the presence of The O’Donoghue. And what are Garrison and Phillips com- pared with this Barnum? Men of one idea against a man of ten thousand ideas, Take, for example, twenty-five years of the career of Phillips and twenty-five of The Barnum, and mark the contrast. Phillips begins, with some silver and gold in his pos- session, to preach emancipation; Barnum begins his negotiations for the old American Museum with nothing but brass; Phillips continues, year after year; out of pocket, harping, like Paganini, on one string; Barnum plays on a harp of a thousand strings, and # thousand different tunes, all in the same key. Yet he, too, has had all along one grand idea. Old style people might call it the idea of obtaining money on false pretences; but it is more than that. It was the poet’s idea of a mermaid painted on canvass outside the museum and the dried up head and arms of a monkey deftly joined to the tail of a codfish inside the museum ; it was a dray load of old bones transformed into a Greenland whale; it was a woolly horse from an ash cart changed into a ferocious nondescript captured by .Colonel Fremont on the Gila river after a three days’ chase with a squad of dragoons; it was in the day when Santa Anna was mighty hero, the transformation of an article bought, perhaps, next door, into Santa Anna’s wooden leg; it was in the person of a leprous African, the living embodiment of the negro turning white, & point of philanthropy in behalf of Sambo which Phillips and Garrison have never tried to reach. Bc oye Nor does the record of The Barnum stop here. Sir Philip Jones says that men consti- tute a State. They are certainly the strength of a State. In this view, while Barnum has the improvement of the various breeds of and chickens in his Sades chown to bin dpecnghalio teeeste ment of man, and the white man, in his baby t four, the best three best ¢wo babies in the market. What « con- trast in this encouragement of population is thus presénted by Barnum against the original ruling idea of Jobn Morrissey of pounding the life out of men for a premium! Against this Barnum and tke progressive radicals what chance has the other Barnum in Connecticut? None, Whe ofher Barnum is behind the age. The Hon. Ben Wood himself would stand no chance again# the Barnum who commenced the lottery business “‘on his own hook” at sixteen years of age. Behold also the ground which his platforn covers in the making of the most hideous masters and im- postures subjects of public gatification; in proving by practice how the most belligerent varieties of creatures maybe nade “a happy family;” in producing a living etample of the negro turning white, and in inproving “the white man’s government” by premiums on thage reloicing mothers blest with the most bountiful supply of babies. Against this com- prehensive platform of the one Barnum the other Barnum can only show a first rate quality of iron, a good income and a good character as a man of business and as a citizen. His chances im the field of politics are gone by. Recon- struction is the order of the day, and repre- sentative men of modern ideas and moderna progress, such as Garrison and Phillips, Ben Butler and old Thad Stevens, John Morrissey and P. T. Barnum, lead the way. Andy Johnson is nowhere, Greeley is befogged, and Thurlow Weed, with his bogus dead body of Morgan, is laid on the shelf. The impending crisis in Connecticut is be- tween the two Barnums, and as the issue is of November. Taking into the account the farther numbers that will be brought over by sailing vessels and the’ return steamers that make extra trips to take visitors to the Paris Exposition, we may set down the aggrogate trom Germany, Belgium and Switzerland in the period named as at a little short of two hundred thousand. The causes influencing this immense move- ment are, first, the conviction that is gradually spreading among the masses in Germany that our political troubles are over, and, secondly, the tear of conscription at home. In Prussia this latter feeling operates to such an extent that in some of the villages of the older pro- vinces a third of their inhabitants will leave in the spring. Seeing how rapidly these additions to our population will repair the ravages caysed by the rebellion, and how enormously they will add to the material wealth of the country, it should be the policy of our national, and State Legislatures to give every encouragement pos- sible to the movement. The prompt adoption of the Congressional plan of reconstruction by the South, the modification of the present un- wise and almost prohibitory tariff, and an avoidance of those fanatical extremes in legia- lation which war against the ideas and habits of our adopted citizens, are among the things that will most conduce to it. We mast dispel any lingering belief that may exist abroad as to there being a chance of the revivul of civil war among us. We must prove by avery differently framed tariff trom the present one that we are not behind the rest of the world in an appreciation of the truths of political economy; but more especially must we satisfy those desiring to immigrate that in eceking freedom of thought and action here they will not” make a poor exchange for the systems of government under which they have been living. In other words we must not allow for fanatical or other objects such an in- terference with the innocent amusements and enjoyments to which they have been accus- tomed as would not be tolerated in their own country under the most rigid of despotisms. We are emphatic on this latter point, because the tendency towards Pharisaical legisla- tion observable in our State legislatures bears particularly hard upon our Gor man fellow citizens. When we oon- sider their habits of sobriety and in- dustry, their love of open alr amusements and the beneficial effect of their example on the other foreign elements of our population, it becomes our duty to protest against restric- tions which must end by disgusting them with our institutions and prevent the further inflow ot immigration from the same quarter. Of all the foreign nationalities that are absorbed into our own the Germans make perhaps the best citizens. In the South, but more particularly in Texas, they firmly resisted the heresy of secession and stubbornly refused to take up arms against the federal goverament. In all our principal business centres they are among the most enterprising and prosperous of our merchants and business men. Why, then, should we by foolish enactments seek to op- pose limits toa tide which is daily strength- ening and enriching us, and which, if we do Congress, and, believing something was in the wind, had told these members what mony bas been given any member of Congress, republican or demo- i nothing more nor logs than @ gharo mancuvre of some newspaper correspondents at the | 1 capital to raise a little ready cash. Having secured the entrée to the White House, they saw the President and talked with him shout the good thing it would be to come to a har- monious understanding with Congress. The President naturally and properly enough remarked that he would much rather be in harmony with Congress than in opposition to that branch of the government. The correspondents next visited Banks and other Congressmen, reported to them the President’s remarks, colored and exaggerated to suit their own purpose, and urged that the mem- bers should get together and talk the matter over. A few Congressmen fell into the trap and held a meeting, and the sharp corre- spondents, as soon as they got the affair into this position, immediately wrote out a full and startling secount of the great pending harmonious arrangement between the Presi- dent and Congress, and offered it for sale at a good round price to the leading newspapers. This is all there is of the affair, and we could have given its whole history to the Smolling Committee in less time than was consumed yesterday in the reading of their report. {n to-day's issue ‘we publish a letter our special correspondent giving full details of the great reform demonstration on the 11th and the proceedings in the House of Commons on the same evening. The information it con- veys, though rendered somewhat old by our cable telegrams, is still full of interest as giving the impressions of an intelligent spec- tator amid the scenes described. Our correspondent, it will be observed, is not deeply convinced of the sincerity of Mr. Disraeli or of the party with whom he acts in the course of apparent concession on which they have entered. It is impossible, indeed, for an intelligent observer to come to any other conclusion. Disraeli, the world has long been convinced, is more able than honest, more cunning than consistent—in all things infinitely more skilied as a theoretical than asa practi- cal statesman. At the same time we. cannot divest ourselves of the thought that but for his commanding ability neither in 1859 nor now could the tory party have been induced to listen to proposals of reform. Disraeli is of and yet not of the party with which he acts. He -is a tory rather by adoption than convic- tion, by deliverate purpose rather than by unconscious training. The first colors he ex- hibited when seeking a place in Parliament were those of the radicals. It is difficult to believe that he adopted other colors for any higher or nobler purpose than to win a position. It is equally difficult to believe that he adheres to those colors for any higher or nobler purpose than to maintain the proud-position he has won. He is not unwilling to serve the party who have hohoted him and who acknowledge his | leadership. We can hardly conceive him guilty of betraying them, He sees, and sees clearly—more olearly than any of the heredi- tary aristocracy who compose his rank and file—that concession is necessary ; that nothing else can save the nobility from utter rain ; and it is bis object to make that concession in such a shape as shall render it as little injurious, or rather as highly advantageous, to his party as possible. It has ever been the opinion of the tories that the Reform bill of 1832 was a bill too exclusively in the interest of the whigs. Rightly or wrongly, this is conviction in which Disraeli professes toshare. We can con- ceive to ourselves the advice which he has uni- formly given to his friends:—You cannot resist this powerful current of reform. Resistance, in fact, is ruin. You must yield if you would save yourselves, Let us, therefore, make con- cessions; butletus make them in such a form, let us so manipulate the franchise by balanc- ing the votes of the rural population with the votes in the towns and cities, and by otherwise introducing the conservative element, that the concessions shall actually prove to our advan- tage, This is the game which Disraeli wishes to play, and to which his aristocratic friends have become a party. He played it in 1859 and lost. He plays it this time more cautiously, but whether with greater suc- cess we must wait to see. There is one man who knows Disraeli’s game and who greedily watches his every move. Mr. Gladstone, who trampled on Disraeli’s last re- form bantling with merciless severity, is little likely to be more tender with this one. The discussion of the resolutions will occupy the House, in all likelihood, for a considerable number ofnights. The real tug of war will come at the close. Whether the debate will result in « vote of want of confidence and return of the liberals to -power, or whether, by grudg- ingly yielding what is demanded, Ministers will be able to retain their seats and proceed with the settlement of the question, we shall not venture to predict. One thing is manifest to all—to tories and to liberals alike—that the spirit of the people is roused and that it must not be trified with. The terrific scenes which were witnessed in and the disastrous results 1789 in oe which then wed the outbreak of outraged popular feeling, 98 well ‘ks the causes which led to them, are not'yet forgotten in England. do not succeed, the best thing for Lord Derby and his friends to do in the circumstances will be to imitate the conduct of the defunct Post- master General of Germany, the illustrious Prince of Thum and Taxis—bow to stern ne- éeasity, make the best bargain possible and retire, thankful that worse has not befallen them. a ‘The Internal Revenue System and Ite Abuses. The committee appointed by Congress in December last to inquire into any frauds or evasions of the payment of the internal reveaue duties on distilled spirits, tobacco and cigars have made their report. They deal pretty generally with the question, but do not appear to have given any detailed facts which might lead to a specific result. They state, for example, that in New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, over which area their labors ex- tended, stupendous fraude have been commit- ted ; that in the case of whiskey seven-cighths of the quantity manufactured pays no tax to the government, as proved by the fact that whiskey, which ought to pay two dollars a gal- lon revenue tax, is openly sold in the market for one dollar and fifty cents, leaving » fine Profit to the illicit distiller, as the actual cost of the spirits does not exceed forty cents per sallnn However, the committee skim over stroys public morality by exposing people to temptation; and this is true both of taxpayers and officials. It is not equitable in its ope- ration upon various classes and occupations in the community. Take the income tax, for ex- tunity for levying blackmail. Even if the ty of this tax was not very ques- tionable, its spplisation and the interpretation put upon it by subordinate officials, to the dis: gust of people of common sense and the op- pression of all classes, render it obnoxious to the entire community. If we are to receive « revenue by internal taxation we must have 9 system like that adopted in England. A few articles of luxury—some eight or ten, for in- stance—must be made to bear the burden; but industry should not be crippled nor labor oppressed by the imposition of taxes in a shape which irritates and embarasses, as our present internal revenue system does, without in the - end effecting the object for which we may pre- sume it was designed. As far as its workings can be judged, it has been highly dele- terious to public morals and rich in frauds and corruptions. Ex-Geverner Brown, of Georgia, em Recon- otraction. We published some extracts yesterday from a letter which ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, had prepared for circulation in the South on the subject of reconstruction and the political situation of the Southern States. They are marked by good sense and ‘sound advice, and they express substantially the viows we have been urging all along upon the Southern people. They give usa ray of hope that light is about to break in upon the South ‘as to its real situation and the folly of resist- ing the will and power of the North. If other leading public men of the rebel States will follow Governor Brown’s course reconstruc- tion may be consummated within @ short time. wrest 4 Mr, Brown says:—“If we reject the terme proposed in the Sherman bill, I ¢onifeas: the best terms which we will ‘ever be able to get. I am aware of the rapidity of the changes which we are required to make and of the people entertain interest at the ballot box.” He therefore urges upon the call the Legislature of the State together with- out delay, and to recommend the passage of place in the public mind and seized the op- portunity to make capital out of it. The con- sequence was that harder terms of restoration were demanded by the party in power. ff the | rs advice—should throw overboard the old secesh politicians and begin # new political existence. ‘The committee appointed by ue rites tngebrecnins