The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1867, Page 3

Wasuixoton, Deo. 1 11:30 Clock P. Senator Sumner’s Views on Disfrauchisem: jn;, Impeachment aud General Grau Three delegates to the late council of the, yoy,) League—Messrs, Moss, Mackey and Vilsbury— a)ieg on Senator Sumner to-day to learo bis views ab’ ju, matters Pertaining to the government of the South yy reply to tho question whethor it would be better! » aanere to the Congressional plan of disframchisem’ gt or go further and dizfranchise still more, the Senr yo, replied that the wafest poticy, and the one calcu! g:eq to secure Joyal interests and loyal governmenir, would be a more ox- tensive scheme, of disfranchise’ ment, embracing, besides those who fermerly held Off) 95 in the federal service, all who took tive PAF! in furthering the secession movement and ail WhO ‘gere in any sphere leaders of the people and carried, the crowd with them, He felt outraged in readirg, g few days ago, the pro- weedings of the Conservative Convention assembled ‘m Richmond, ir, which men like Hunter, Rives, Letoher and others of chat class appeared and dared to dictate a policy to th. American people, Such men should never again obt sade themselves on public notice, and should especit uly refrain from attempting to offer advice or de- liver opinions on the affairs of the nation, He felt par- ‘Wimiarly incensed against the obstructionists in Con- tgress—tho so-called conservative republicans—whose timid time-serving action had already proved the bane ofthe party. He and Ben Wade had dono their utmost to carry out the true principles of the party, but they invariably found themselves thwarted by the progres. ‘sive and less sincere men on their own side. The two q@reat misakes of the republican party were the failure to impeach the President and the failure to pass a Political rights bill, In avoiding the execution of these two measures, they piaced the spoon im the ands of the democracy with which to stir up the praja- dices of the masses and misrepresent the motives of Fepublicanism. He contended that when Congress passed the civil rights bil!, the same arguments used to enforce it could have been just as well employed in the passage of a Politeeal Rights bill, which would have ‘Blven suffrage to all the colored people throughout the country. He believed that the constitutional amendment ‘ebolishing slavery gives Congress the right to pass this Political Rights bill, and had they done go the colored people could have voted in the recent elections, thereby taking away from the democracy the argument they used with such effect in different States of the North by holaing up the bugbear of negro supremacy. Speaking of General Grant, he said he considered him a good soldier, and nothing more. There was no record of his ever having expressed a political axiom or an idea which could afford the people an insight of his capacity for mtatesmanship, or of the course he would be likely to pursue if he were elected President. He was therefore opposed to endorsing him asa candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people. Referring to impeach- ment, he expressed himself sanguine that if the House had passed the bill, the Senate would have done its duty 4m supporting them. One of the deputation said they felt apprehensive in South Carolina that if they framed ‘too radical a constitution it might be rejected by Con- gress,to which Mr. Sumner replied that they should entertain no fears on that head, as Congress was aware ‘that the members of the Convention living in the State Knew what was needed better than they did, and would not, therefore, reject any constitution on account of its Being wo radical. : ‘Thaddeus Stevens’ Opinion of the Colored * Lawyer Langston. ‘Among other remarks made by Thad Stevens to the @eputation of loyal leagers that called upon him yoater. day, Was one in reference to J. M. Langston, the colored lawyer In the Supreme Court, ‘Beware of Langston,” exclaimed the old man; ‘I am told he has been talking @f the constitutionality of our legislation down South, ‘end endeavoring t6 persuade you that we have trans- ended constitutional limits, Why, it is just such talk, euch fiddiestick nonsense, that Andrew Johnson in- ‘@uiges, Beware of him; he is a dangerous man; and @void all those fellows who prate about the constitu. tien,” ‘The Reconstruction Question. ‘Tho Reconstruction Committee transacted no business ‘to-day for want of aquorum. When they next meet the ‘qeestion of the Southern conventions and the prospec- tive constitutions of the unreconstructed States will be taken into consideration, The committee are unani- mous in their desire that these States be admitted at the earliest practicable moment, and every effort will be made to effect this result in order to allow them a repre- sentation in the coming national convention, General Butler’s Financial Views. General Butler’s financial propositions lately set forth 4m bie speech in the House of Representatives having elicited considerable censure from his friends, be is en- @eavoring to get out of the fix by pretending that he took that stand merely to get up a discussion on the subject and draw out the views of several members, ‘The Secretaryship of the Senate. ‘The termination of the recent raid upon the Sergeant- at-Arms of the Senate is by no means the close of the contest for the Secretaryship. In the inauguration of ‘the attack both offices were included, but it is said that Forney shrewdly threw the besiegors off the track, eo far as he was concerned, by announcing his deter- mination to resign at an early day. The parties, antici. pating their success as certain in view of this fact, gor, } dropped Forney and concentrated their whole force spon the Sergeast-at-Arms. This fact is mentioned as the main causo of the failure of Burbridge, as Brown is too strong to be ousted upon genera! grounds. Forney is unpopular with the major- My of the Senators, and it is asserted that upon the pre- sentation of # proper candidate for the office there is every chance of his going by the board. If possible the Senate feels desirous of securing an ex-member of that body. A movement is now on foot looking to an inves- tigation of Mr. Forney’s accounts, lively controversy for this office may be expected at an carly day. Many of the Senators express their resolution not to let this matter rest until achango has been made. They state ‘they are averse to frequent removals, bat arc desirous of securing some one as Secretary with whom they can ave more friendly and intimate associations. ‘The Republican Party Name. Tam authorized to state that no motion was made or favored in the National Commitiee by Governor Ward, ebairman, to change the name from national repubii te national Union. No proposition for change of name, in any shape, was before the committee, which would have had no power to change the name of the party ‘The Weekly Financial Statement. Tre curreacy received from the Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department for the week eud- ing to-day, amounts to; $524,000, The amount forwarded ence was as follows:—To the Assistant Treasurer at New York $100,000; to the United States Depository at Baltimore, $80,000; to the United States Depository, $26,000, and to the national banks, $133,675—total, $368,675, ‘The United States Treasury holds in trast for the mational banks at this date the following:—As security for circulating notes, $341,107,750, and for deposits of public moneys, $37,917,950. The national bank notes issued during the week were $246,870, aod the total amount issued to date is $305, 284,561, From this is to be deducted the currency retarned, including worn out notes, amounting to $5,628,737, leaving im actual circulation at this date $209, 765,824. The fractional currency redeemed and destroyed dur- mg the week amounts to $373,400. ‘The receipta from intersal revenue during the last ‘Week were $2,554,000; to the fiscal year commencing with July, $94,047,000. Coliécter of Customs at Brownsville, Texns. The Senate has reconsidered the recent rejection of J. Warren Bell as Collector of Custome at Brownsville, Toxas, and his nomination is again before that bedy for vendrmation Deara of Tae Otoxsr Gon Fenvow.—The Columbus (Mims) /ndex gives the foll interest) respecting the Rev. Thomas Wolsteanvii there on the 2d instant at the ago of seventy-three ears, Ho drove to town Saturday morning in his cay, and was sitting om.the trial of thorae for murder wi taken iil tendance, exp! ver! ebil, When dying he desired that po parade should be made over his barial— that they sboald obtain @ plam coffin and carry bi Py A moment betore bis death he turned on back, and, looking ap at bis physician, said, spoctor, i'm free from wouble at Inst.” He fm Manchester, England, aad was dissipated Tho ised to reiate thal company with drunken com- Panions, he was woot to attend divine service to ridicule end geolf, and th One Gooasion he spat upon the robee of the Archoishop of Oanterbury to snow con. matiers That dignitary had bap- infant, He emigrated to thie coun Presbytérmn minieter, At bis death and | Delopped to the Order Hity years NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1867.—~rRIPLE SHERT. ) ' } Archibong, assuring im that if bedid not give up the | of the edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. Sivmondi ee. WOMEN’S RIGHTS. George Francis Train and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the Stump—Greeley aud Beecher Demolished—Fuany Sceacs and Funny Say- Peripatetic philosophers from the times of the old Greeks we read of, Who went about promulgating their peculiar tenets to throngs of the populace im the public streets, or in sacred groves, or on the house tops, or from ps of colossal temples, whichever happened to be the most convenient, have never been parti cularly honored tm their day and generation, The people somehow have always had a will of their own, ‘aud the wide world bas continued to wag its way im consonance with this will, despite the finely spun theorizing of these sel{-constituted teachers, claiming endowment of higher wisdom and to be abead of the age in everything connected with the politics, morals, esthetics and progress of the human race. No amount of protestations, of disbelief, no amount of abuse, contumely, ostracism and burnings at the stake bas ever sufficed to put these fel- lows down. ‘hoy are born of every age, they rant and fume and assert themeeives through every age, and every age they go to their graves, leaving behind them little or no trophies of proseiytism, The present age is ‘as prolific as any past age of these ranting, fuming and seif-asserting philosophers, The elder Disraeli’s “Curiosities of Literature” named no such amount of the curious in its speciality as might be written of the curiosities of ranting pbilosophy. To see this phase of the curious in adult perfection, as developed in the latter part of this nineteenth century, requires attendance only atone mecting and listening to the speeches at that meeting of that interest- ing trio of modern philosophers, George Francis Train, Mrs. E. Cady Stanton and Susan B, Anthony. These parties held out, or rather held forth, for it was the ‘audience who held out while they held forth, last even- ing at Steinway Hall. The hall was only avout one- third filled below, with a few stragglers or modest look- ers-on =e Ly wie h Anesth, - ss very jooking audience, though with iy per- Soins meen of mec’ long’ and and thin visaged and long flowing hair and profuse elongation of whiskers and mustaches, emblematical of sympathy with the views of this class of modern pin and there wero sharp visaged women, occupying seate apart from others, and clearly thawing that they had the strength of mind, to say nothing of the strength of constitution, to siem the cold come to the meet- ing alone, Though the meeting wag announced at hait- past seven o'clock, half an hour had passed and the speakers had not made their appearance, This time of waiting, however, was passably endurable, if not altogether as hay as some might have wished, by the presence of that continental counterpart of Dr. Franklin, George Washington and other colonial worthios selling phot of amall size of Dickens and of large size of hit ith a pleasantiy amiable looking female by his side representing the Goddess of Liberty, by music from the organ and by a nery. fidgety little man scattering printed slips about the house. These slips were in folio, fter the rather startling announcement, “Clear the track, the train is coming," gave achoice excerpt, from the so-called epigrams ‘woven in Mr. Train's speeches on the female suffrage and kindred topics question. These ¢) are in poetry of all kinds of rythm, from the Inest spondaic to the most difficult anapestic, and afforded choice preliminary to the audience—the lighter and appetizing ag bee the substantial courses to follow. And now, at eight o’clock, the train did come, havin; the way from Kansas, via Boston, Mr. the first Lig d mal looking light "brown ds fe con, Lag! an . [ui ® meagre, ant look! paleness and wearing Egy isn romeer Anthony, and the rear was made tfeay' two others— ing eye gi Applause, though rather feebly followed the appearance of tie quintet, Mr, of the dark ambrogial paige Sete of unusual capillary Lace for rudd, guggestive foctures on tems) “4 Grose coat with brass buy. tons, white vest, ditto cravat and ditto gloves, sugges- tive of a late vaulting exploit from a bandbox, at once bowed to the audience, and entered on his speech. Ho walked in speaki as usual, the whole width of the Sa ucts oe Sate etact: nary, ly by! on all occas: be showed himself oratorically more than a whole train— ‘@ train in fact, ogee trenfendous train at Enel? fow introd Mr. Train made a ere criticism upon American toadyism to dis- tinguished foreigners. , comtinued he, just look at happen that Mr. Dickens can come bere, all the time heaps one the question of tickets ? rou! city of New York, only a pro’ he has swindied us‘on b — Thus is not an American city ; the Trish, i A H Ly 8 if “i! (et Ta 8 E i, ; had and z te granted fa that Bante wiihout who accom. Panving me, ‘is the result of women's votes, In that district the of the men were bac! they said they were not going to vote for schocihouses to educate other people's children. But all the merried fen then brought out their wives, whe voted successfatly for the schoolhouse,” And another thing, Just so fast ag licenses are ranning out in the various places in that State, it impossibie to renew t for.the women wil! not vote for licenses. And this i# one of the reasons why I want women to vote on temperance and on ali our other hecanse | believe that the majority of women would vote for what i# right and true and good. In Kansas we have two-thirds of with as; we have most of the leading minds of that State also with us The Governor of Kansas, was lec eats in | succession, stamped ¢ ate for two entire mouths for woman's suffrage, and he who if the first man tating the righ for rear, when they have had the here to argue for wor but as @ citizen of mente to make for arguments that you ébisement during the last century. twenty years I have been before the Legisiature of state a dozen times, making arguments on this qi of enfranchisement 8 judges and politicians time at the clone of my speech and my arguments were unanswerable, hundred and fifty wise men in the Constit vention say when | @ont there and argued this question op the foundation principles of our Hilt i H ait it ment, and oa the idea that suffrage wee & natural right? What was their answer? ‘Your doctrines are too new and revolutionary for the nineteenth century.” I ask you when you look around, and see the moral corruption prevalent in poli- tics, the dissensions jin the Church, and the jealousies avd bickerings in families, do you not fee! that we need © something new and revolutionary in every department | of life? Do you not remember that all that is old now | wasonce new? If the nineteenth century is to be governed by the enth, donot you see that the world must be governed by dead men, New things! That is just exactly what we live for, to do things, And then, worse than all, Horace Greeley has given as @ reason for his report on female suffrage to the Convention, that the women of the State of New York did not want the ballot; and that after twenty theusand petitions have been sent in from every part of the State by women who demand the right to vote, It is au insult to the intelligence of woman and of the nineteenth century, to say that while | the extension of the suffrage bas been going on in all peg me world, we have remained insensibie to al! eloquence that has been uttered in Congress and in every State Legisiature upon this question of the enfran- chisement of woman. Do you suppose that while the two millions of emancipated Russian serfs are throwing up their arms to the heavens and demand: entranchisement, while the | paid made A men of our own country are rejoicing in the possession of the bailot, do you sup- that the daughters of Jefferson and Hancock aud Adame will forever linger around the camptires of an old civilization, and not join this grand army of freedom to roll back the — gates of a higher and a better civilization? No, it is not true, Inever talked to a woman five minutes and pointed out to her the intimate connection between bread and the ballot, but I found she was auxious to vote. But suppose women do not want to vote, what has that to do with it? When you were voting for tree schools, did you go to the chil- dren and say to them “Do you want schools?’ When you passed prohibitory laws, did you go to the drunkard and the liquor seller and @ay, “Do you want prohibitory laws?’’ And when you pro- posed to give the ballot to ignorant plantation hands, did you go them and ask if they wanted the bailot? No; you Knew that it was necessary to the safety of the nation that your citizens should be educated; you knew that it was necessary for them to be sober; you knew that it was necessary, in order to solve the problem of reconstruction, to place the ballot in the hands of the Joyat millions of the South; and so you passed all these measures, Now, you know that our polities are corrupt from the core, aud uniess you do something to stay this terrible Oe) i corruption, our republic will share the fate of all the republics that have gone before, I propose, in order to do this, to introduce Into politica, by the enfranchisement of woman, a new moral element and power, Then, when this 1s done, Politics will be lifted up into the world of morals and religion, the polling booth will become a beautiful tem- ple surrounded with flowers and fountaing and tri- umphal arches, where mon and women shail go up to ‘vote for freedom and equality, and our elections will be lke the feasts of the J t Jerusalem, Mrs, Stanton concluded by reviewing the improvement which would take place in the pecuniary compensation of woman if she wore endowed with tho ballot, and disclaimed the derogs remarks which haa been made by Mr. Train in reference to Mr, Beecher. + Miss Antuoxy and other speakers also addressed the meeting, Miss Anthony is a thin-faced, spectacie-wear- ing and decidedly strong-minded |ooking woman. Her dress was neat and plain. She was also whie-kidded, and hy rege a gold watch about her neck. Her voice is on abigh pitch, and she is not half as agrecabte or impressive a speaker as Mrs. Stanton. She was, how- ever, listened to with the same earnes: attention. Lucy Stone Repudiates Susan B. Anthony and Her Followers. Atm meeting of the Executive Committeo, held at their rooms, im New York, December 14, it was unapi- moustly resolved, ‘That thie association disclaims all responsibility for or en- ut of the series of meetings held by George Francis in, Mra, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. We do this because there 1s a misapprehension ip the public mind in regard to these meetings, which have been held without consultation with or approval of the American Equal Rights Association, EDWIN A. STUDWELL, Chairman Ex. Commiitee. Lucy Stons, Secretary. OBITUARY. A. Ti. Davenport, the Actor. A telegram from New Orieans brings the intelli- gence of the death in that city of Mr. AH. Daven- port, more generally known as ‘‘Dolly’’ Davenport. Mr. Davenport has been long «@ favorite on the New York stage, and bas been identified with tho metropolitan drama for many years. His last appearance in this city was in “Under the Gaslight,” at the New York theatre, About six weeks ago he left New York for New Orleans = ss comnrany. for the Mesa He aan then suffer- ing wader pulmonary consumption, to wi Probab; he was at length obliged to succumb, i we Robert Acheson Alexander. The death of this well known patrot tarf and breeder of blooded efock occurred a short time since on his vast and splendid domain in Woodford county, Ky. breeder of fine horses, cattle and sheep in the United Kentucky, farnished with splendid barns and stables, and supporting the largest stud in all the country, 4 gentleman of liberal culture and enjoying ao tion of his favorite of horses that shou! the finest in the world, To 1857 he im; the celebrated stallion Scythian, winner of the ( ir cup, and well known on the English turf. He afterwards purchased Mr, Ten Broeck the blind but incomparable Lexington, from whom bas descended a magnificent as Norfolk, Asteroid, Kentucky Lightning and Talewiid, Mr. Jennings uses these words of the statements of another English writer on the United Btates:—‘Theso @ line of worthies that Justified his and br rn 4 im selecting this American from best in the English stu which were offered for sale. To Colonei Alexander more than to otber man is the country indebted for the 8] specimens of rumning borses, roadsters and fine cattle and sheep which are such prominent features on geutiemen’s estates throughout the country, He gave an impetus to the business of fine stock growing that has had the happiest effects. Wr. Alexander was born in Kentucky in 1819; was educated in Europe, ‘and there inherited a vast property and a baronetc: from his uncle, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, He spent many years in England and on the Con- judgment horse tinent, but, becoming tired of European hfe he retorned and —— of his brother the homestead in foodford, Kentucky. Thore he has spent the balance of his days, frequoutly, hew- ever, making trips to Eu whera he was as weil known at the or at hamps as at New Ur- Jeans, Saratoga or Tatan he was a man of medium beight, slightly stooping, with ® spare form, thin face, unsteady eye, thi be Semvusen ant'an enpricked Ofcousivonese trill’ bea while nis memory will be cherished by a wide circle of friends, Mra. Loutse Morris Eustis. From the Washington Intelligencer, Dec. 9. on Prasy bi 3 last a cable ought to this city the sad intel! of the death of Mrs. Louise Morris Eur the wife of o Eustis, of a only ed fellow citizen, W. W. thter of our . Mra, Eastis was well known aud greatly admired as one of the belles of Washington a few years ago. Her marriage with Mr. Euatis. an clezant and dashing Representative from Louisiana, was an event that will long be remembered in the fashionable world of this District. Since her marriage she has resided principally abroad. Young, amiable and in end edmi: fitted to adorn society, she wae somo with consumptton, trom which, with until =. death, er ‘been already summoned, pti ~e$ present at the time of her death. Mra. of Commodore Morris. United avy, connected in this city, be mourned by a large circle of and acquaint ances, who hoped soon to greet her again in their midst. THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. War Slanghtered by Archileng’s Doings. The Atrios, eh Gee eee Meets Captal ry steamship ne in Robert F. Lowry, arrived in the Mersey about midnight on Friday, The dates brought by the Mand! are:— Benin, November 3; Fernando October 30; Cam- 29th; Old Calabar, 28h; Jeliah Coffee, Novem. Monrovia, 11th; Bong; oth Coast Castle, full cargo, and brought 2,907 ounces gold di . wrouny oor pamengera Kia Chie fe! ie chiens allow Allama | the same man who was so victorious io & war with Chanom! some time ago. en Oe ae My: the West Coast brought | us details, or of numerous innocent vic- rebibong, A Catabal River, and it wil! be remembered that the Europeans rescued six doomed victims in September, whom they sont to Fernando Po, ° The Mandingo brings intelligence that numerous other coldblooded murders took place in (etover. Twenty. four victims, many of whom were very young, were butebered in that month, Nine of these wore killed ate fer’ wring their heade were cut off, Fak A man, & woman end two children were ote wy i a, soa avy gee ie oan the ania heavily iron Seine river, King’ Arcbivong arent o lester Somsnndicg. beck " atm meeting Of the ee © wan resolved not to up the poor that they be semt out of the country in order to their lives, bloody aod barbarous customs which he was pursuimg the Europeaus would be compelled to take the strongest measures in their power to compel bim to do so, Great praise is due to the Ew traders for their vigorous and courageous conduct in the capture of the victims, and also for protecting and providing for these bouse- less wanderers ti y were got out of the coun- tury. When the facts of the case were represented to Captain Lowry, that gentleman very anger < ocd the four Oulcaxs @ free passage to Fernando Po in the Mandingo. A leticr was drawn up and signed by all the Europeans, expressing t warm admiration of the worthy captain’s generosity and courtesy in the matter, NOTES ON NEW BOOKS. An Englishman’s Opinion, Ecuty Years or RerusticaN Goysexmenr iN | tax Ustrsp Srares, by Louis J, Jennings. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1868. It bas been said of the soil of a tropical country that man had only to “tickle it witn ahoe and it laughed With a harvest."’ This rank and ready form of truitful- ness is peculiar to some intellects ag well as to certain soils, and is notoriously an attribute of the minds of writing Koglishmen, The slightest possible stimulus applied to their © brains provokes a written return, and the shelves of half the libraries in the English speaking world groap with the rabbish of their printed paper—paper that would have done quite as much good to mankind if !t had remained in its original rags and covered the nakedness of beg- gars. ‘Travelling Englishmen are naturally worse than all others, as they are exposed to more temptation. They enter a country at one end, rush through its whole extent by rail, and when thoy leave it at the other extremity they carry in their travelling bags manuscript volumes, whose primary purpose is to ee- tablish that the country in question is not Engand add nothmg like it; and to con- vince wen that the government of said county fg blunder, its pablic men scoundrels and the whole mass of its people fools and wretches, Mr, Jenalngs’ book falls a little short’of thia time honored type. ‘This gentleman was for a ehort period the correspondent of the London Times in this country. He now reproduces some of the lettors he wrote home to that journal, ac- companied with essays that se¢ the light for the first time we believe in their present form. And in a small volume thus made up he goes through the whole history and political aud social tem oof a people—discusses their polity, their jurisprudence, their theories, and ventures to pronounce for thom that their government, judged by the ideas | they set out witb, ia a failure, Hamilton, Madison, Jeflerson, Geary, Story, Kent, Webster, gave their thoughts and lives toa great sub,ect—did what was in them to set up a governmentand to make clear and perpetuate its principles; and Mr. Louis J. Jennings has the complaisance to let us know what blunders they made, No doubt he bas fulfilled his destiny. "Tis pleasant sure to see one’s name in print: A book’s a book, although thore’s nothing in’t, Mr. Jennings’ book is a paltry summary of such flaws and defects in our political system and in the ad- ministration of our government as he has observed or imagines he has observed during somé fow months’ residence here, which summary is constantly made to tell against us by comparison, always her stated or imphed, with the British system and govermment; and the author seems to fancy that he has made out bis cage and established himself above all charge of error when he has fitted to each allegation against us some citation from an American authority, outrageously dis- torted from its original purpose to ft into hie argument. He appears to write throughout trom the precon- celved thought, and as if to establish the proposition that in ite best points our political system is ao better while in all other than its than that of Great Britai Dest points it ia far worse. His chary acknowledg- ments of any good in our government show his stgnd- point more distinctly than do his objections, He says, “the United States passed through the tremendous amsaults made upon it in the civil war with resolution ‘and success which could not have been excelled had it been in the hands of @ small and privileged class,’ whieb phrase thinly covers the real thought that even the government of England could not bave done better, No question ever entered hit mind ag to whether it could have done so well. In following this argument from a preconceived notion, he fills his pages with comparisons drawn from Colonel Alexander was perhaps the most extensive | his prejudices against us and his natural preferences in “The House of Com- States, He was the proprictor of an immen¢o estate im | mons since thé yoar 1832 has been said to be an epitome of the English nation;” and any attempt to mako it more like Congress must be looked upon “with pro- Many passages Princely income, he devoted his latter days to therealies- | of this nature suggest that this little volume favor of whatever is Engliah. found anxiety and apprehension.” ides of id vival if-not etiam te Seat in Jeonly a faint attempt to set up @ barrier against the jet present tendency to popularize some British institu- tions against the tpevitable results of the Reform bili— to hold up our institutions as @ political bugaboo that may frighten England from following the reformers. Tepresentations are probably not intended to con- vey the truth about serve certain party purposes in England.’ party, and strikes at Jobn Bright over our shoulders, With this in view he gives vague declarations of ‘men Of long experience” on this side of the Atiautic who are said tohave eaid “the English government is the only one in the world likely to last, and the only one which is just and equal in ita treatment of all classes of the people.” How recreant must any Englishman be whe wiil not love all id. | In personal appearance | the old British institutions better than ever when Amer- cans can be quoted as saying such things in their favor! Shall an Eoglishman, forsooth, admire English institu- tions less than an American? But if thore is anything in this sort of argument we can match these utterances, Mime for line, by far stronger things that Knglishmen 4, Those, Mr. Jennings would intended to serve party pur- have said in favor of understand, were only poses in England.” Inconsistencies, misstatements, errors of all kinds | and classes are of course to be found on every page; but an error that swallows up all the rest lies im the | Hie | author's own misconception of what he is doing. ‘avowed purpose is to show that our government has in Hl practice departed from all the theories upon which its In the attempt to estadlish this he gives his statement of those theories, and then ® statement of the working of the government, and on the dissimilarity between the two reste his argu- ment that eighty years of practice have exploded our theories, He does mot see that the only thing exploded Eustis was the | is nie statement of the theories. He does not seo that ‘She | be has merely disproved by one part of his volume the leaves three young children. Her untimely death will | statements made at the other, and that the figure he founders based it, Knocks down is only one he had himself set up, But this w the fact. His on bis very first page of such matter of fact as the object of the American Revolution ore Victims | #4 bald error; while bis remarks ow our ‘‘theory of King of Catabar=King | #overnment” are such a Chinese puzzle of misconcep- tions as to be beyond all dicentanglement. In one page our constitution is pictured as worthless because of the readiness with which it may suffer change, being always ependont on the breath of an ignorant populace; on another we aro assured that it is worthless because the Dower to change it resides only in “an impossible majority.’’ At one moment our critic is of opinion that we must necessarily gq to the dogs because our govern. | ment is cot in “the bands of @ small and privileged class’’—because it has too much of the vulgar mans, too mach of the crude popular element in 't; at another he prophetically consigns us to eariy ruin because tbe peo- ple are not felt in the government st ail. There iano profit in following these blunders, Similar ones bare on great subjecta, care leas to set forth truth than to ven- tilate their own opinions, Mr, Jonsings’ volume adds to our knowledge only the one fact that an ingenious and persevering ploddor, without any “large discourse of reason,”’ can go through our political eysiem with his eyes open only for faulte and point out at last only the most paltry shortcomings, Historical. Samuel Smiles, author of “Seef.Help,’’ “ Laver of the and several other popular books, hay written a historical work, which bas just been reprinted in this city, under the title of “The Huguenots, their Settlements, Churches and Tedustries in Engtand and Itoland.”” His special object has been to give an ac- count of the cauaes which led to the second great emi- gtation of foreign Protestants from France into England, and to deacrive its effects upon English industry as well as English bistory. This second emigration, which tonk piace towards the ond Of the seventeenth cen. consisted = simont entirely of French Hoguencta it war & Consequence of the religious pPerrecutions Which feilowed the revocation America so ‘much as to No writer ever more accurately described himself in the attempt to describe another, Mr. Jennings does what he may to make opinion in England against the liberal statement = clear Omates the low whieh it oceasioned to France at not far short of a million of the best aod mom industrious subjects of the kingdom. The comparatively slight olice which histories have taken Of the circumstances connected with thie remarkable exodus of, the events that flowed from them, aod of the important infuevce exercised by them in the political and industrial history of Northern Europe, bas induced Mr, Smiles to write this volume, He traces the Huguenots to their ree subsequently almost simultaneously with the invention Of printing, and after a graphic description of the per- | Socie secutions to which the reformed were subjected in | | France and in Flanders, and of the first great emigration | | wnto Rogland, consi partly of french, but prinet- pally of Flemish Protestants, he enters upon the main topic of his work, ‘The manner in which he describes | the bloody scenes of the St. Bartholomew massacre is a favorable specimen of the earaestuess which he haz | Drought 10 bis iask—evidentiy a iabor of love. Hie spe- | cial studies have qualitied Lim for giving 4 fuli, minute | and interesting uecount of the influence of the Hugue- | nots om the industry and the commerce, tho literature and the statesmauship of ngland, An appendix con- tributes additional particulars a3 to tho early eettiement of foreign artisans in England, the registers of French Protestant churebes in that country and the descendants | Of the Huguenot refugees, togetier with an interesting | and valuable paper by Mr, Pr, Disosway on | “fhe Huguenots im America,” This element in | our population has been inconsiderabie neither | in numbers nor influence. Henry Laurens, Joba Jay and Elias Boudinot, three of the seven Presidsots who di- rected the deliberations of our earliest Congress during | the war of independence, were of Huguenot descent. | Bayard, Marion, the two Manigaults, and other britiant names that illustrated our Revolutionary history, must | be classed with them. Most of the exilet Freach fami- | hes that found a home tn America o long since dis- | appeared, but not @ few descendants of those pious fu- gti ves are still to be found in ail the Uniied States, par- | Ucalarly in the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland and New | | York. ‘In this State the Disoswaye, the Guions and the | De Lauceys; in Virginia the Foutaines, the Maurys and | the Dabneys, snd in South Carolina tho Ravenels, | the Hogers, the Manigaults, the Logares, aud | | scores of other families wear their old Huguenot names with legitimate pride, Some of these names are curious examples of the corruptions to which foreign nawes exposed. Thus, for a single example, D’Aubigné hus become, by successive transformations, Daubeny, Dabeny, Dabney. It is not a little singular, also, that the late Mr, Gaston, one of the most eminent Americans of Huguenot descent, should have been a Roman Catholic, and that Rev. Dr. Pusey, of Oxford, likewise of an ‘old Huguenot family, should be tho author of tho ritualistic movement now agitating the Church of England In this country the Huguenot colonists gave a great impulse to agriculiate as Well as to manufactures, introduciny, for instance, in Mussa- chusetts the culture of the pear, the quince and the grapo; planting along the banks of the Cooper, in South | Carolina, the olive, the vine, the mulberry, with other productioas of southern Frauce, and at Maunikin tow, on James river, in Virginia, as well as at Now Rochelle and a dozen other settlements, making the wilderness to biossem like the rose. Miscellaneous. An elegant illnstrated edition has just appeared at Boston of Silvio Pellico’s famous work, “My Prisons,’ a prose poem, which the world knows by heart, The Boston publishers of tho ‘diamond edition’ of Dickens’ Works have brought out in what they style “fhe Charles Dickens Edition,’? “The Life and Adven- tures of Martin Chuzzlewit.’’ Truly, of making many editions of Dickens there is no end. Nor of making many cookery books is there any end, ‘The latest published is ‘The Family Save-All,”” by the author of “The National Cook Book.” It hails from tion of work’ of this class. Mr. T, Hart Hyait, editor of the California Rural Jour- nai, formerly Consul General of the United States to the empire of Morocco, and for eight yenrs Consn! to China, has written a volume which has jus: beon published in San Francisco, and is fully described by its titie— “Hyatt's Handbook of Grape Culture; or, Why, Where, When and How to Plant and Ccitivate a Vineyard, Man- ufacture Wines, &o. Expeciaily adapted to the state of California, as also to the United States generally.” The vast importance which the culture of the grape is | night, The destined to assume in this country lends special interest to this useful handbook, The motto of one of the chapters in *‘Me- won-i-t vill you listen, my story is wild, but not long ?’ '‘Me-won-i-toc”’ is a ‘« of Frontier Life and Indian Character, exhibiting Traditions, Character of a Race that is Passing Away.’’ Robinson. It may be ‘‘wild” enough, but it certainly cannot be called “not long,” consisting,.as it does, ot one hundred and thirty-turee double columned aud ‘easion. closely printed pages, ART NOTES. At the Academy of Design three pictures by the iate Mr. Cole are conspicuous among the works recently | Hear My Prayer,’’ b; added to the exhibition, These form the series entitled “The Pilgrim of the Cross,” and were the last produc- tions Of the lamented artist, They are marked by the game characteristics which rendered bis “ Voyago of Life” so widely popular, The eighth annual sale of the works of art now ex- hibited by the Artists’ Fund Society will take place on the 21st inst, Nearly all our resident New York artists | Wis sae Been Do: have contributed pictures to the collection, A private collection of the exquisite lntla oll paintings of American and European scenery, 80 universally popu- lar under the mame of ‘ Raggles’ Goms,”’ 16 now on free exhibition at Leed's art galleries, on Broadway. pictures, by the late Dr. Edward Ruggles, display the | the throne, and this took up one week, fertility of invention, the factlity of execution and the fine effects of color which made them admired as “gems.” They will be offered for sale on the 20th inst, The inclement weather yesterday lessened the usual number of visitors at the Saturday reception in the Studio building in Tenth strest. But it would have been well worth the while to face the cold if only to see how much colder it looks up among the glaciers of duced on canvass, Mr. S, RK, Gifford bas completed such ‘a picture of Shrewsbary river at its mouth as ali would recognize to be the work of his pencil alone, Few artists sot their own seal of individuality more distinctly ‘on their productions, Launt Thompson, the sculptor, ig at work on a life size portrait figure of a child. Rogers, the sculptor, has finished another of his ex- collont statuette groups, “The School Examination.’’ James Hawks was so much admired at the Exhibition paring « number of busts and statuettes for exhibition and sale at Whiting’s, on Broadway, “A Cottage Window” (with » group of children looking eagerly ont), * A Laughing Child’ fairly squalls), two or three portrait figures of indies from Vedder, with portrait busts of Vedder and of Rev. Dr. Bellows, are among these works of one of our most | promiving sculptors. color’’—it may perhaps be calledan experiment, and a successful one—‘ the Messenger Stork, gested by one of Hans Christian Anderssen's stories, Hicks is busily painting portraits. Ordway has nearly compieted & charming !andscape, in which several stately elms rise from a wheat feild and cast their shadows on a pond almost covered with Iilice, Hicks, Leatze, Ordway and Bellows (who will return to- | New York in a few days) have quite e ‘studio building” to themaetves at No, 6 Astor place. wo lately gave an extended notice, is looking fora studio with a view to a prolonged sojourn in New York. The versatility of this painter is no less remarkable than his inventive power, bis vigorous drawing and bold, free color, Whether be depicts camels in the desert of Sa- hara, or le stones,” as he cails the dead oxen that strew the emigrant’s track on our own far Western | plains, whatever he paints—fyures or tand- srapes—he seems equally at home We learn | that he i# making studiee for pictures in whiel | | are most culebrated om the American turf. Woe aro giad to welcome an artist who is ambitious of making that noble animal, the horse, a speciality. Mr. Kooedtor has never exhibited a more choice col- lection of European paintings than thove which now adorn his gallery on Broadway, | pier, “The Card Players, Moliere;'’ Cobanei, “ag Mouraing over the Ruins of Pompei; Toulmouche, | “The Marriage of Reason,” “The |. and “Waite ing; Desgotte, “Flowers;” Williams, “A Lady with | Flowers; Perrault, “The Speiting Lesson ;" Hougereas, ‘Far from Howe,” and Plageau, “The Breakfast Hour, | GERMANS WELCOMED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. | —_— } a on News of the 20th wit. bas an oni ; astic welcome for the oid Bremeo bark Gaues and her | precioug cargo of German immigrants, from wbich it ap- worth of thie clase of new comers is fully pears, that w appreciated. Thismay be tbe reason why the article t# | sponasbrifis have published im the German language, which otherwive | tainly very. endhul others jar, We translate ite ints, The | aricle Beaded, UWiilioks othe nium and ik oe | ne Superstitions and | A. Rice, whose contralto w By Soion | better circumstances. Leutze has just finished a capital little “oil and water | middie of New Brunswick and An idea may be given | mou there of the collection by merely repeating the names of a few | colonels, majors, ke, who have deed common in all ages to men who, writing | % the artists whose works are on exhibition;—Meipo- | wy Parliament has done no! rome, “Louis XVL and | to give a chance of resascitat, * Humon, “The Muses | Bank, which may be expected to rise {| potiical economy shown thus far | is the treasury overtiowi —) Gauss were interrupted, and itis boped that they pot be mterrupted aga for «long time to come, while ause for many may Serve as « bridge whieb con- with old Fatherland, and while thoasande of others: be brougbt there from their old home by the Gauss MUSICAL. Phitharmonte Rehearsal. The two rebearsals for the second concert of the Phil- harmonle society showed sufficiently what a good seloc~ tou wae made in electing Dr Doremue pres: tof the Al the first rehearsal there was a large attend- ance, and tho weather, unfortunately, interfered on Fr- day last an thinned the Academy consideravly. ‘Yet, on that Occasion the musical attractions were something more than or The orchestra rehearsed Schubert's symphony in © and Xitter’e overture to Othello, and Miss Alida Topp played Webor’s piano concerto in I* munor, and @ fantasia by lis on the Ruins of Athens. Schubert is gradually wioving his way in this country into every musician’ heart, and this symphony, as ren- dered by the magnidcent I’b\\harmonic orchestra of one hundred performers, will gain him new adherouw at the next concert on Saturday, 1: is full of melody, rich, warm, soul-touchimg melody, and breathes the spirit of poetry from every*instrument, Inthe finale tuere is vigor and spirit, a gentle swell of rippling wip- lets, a (uléi crash, and the swell dies away, like an ocean billow jin calm weather, never discordant, never at vari~ ance with the laws of barmony, aever baving recourro to Wagnerian tricks and absurdities, bug always majestic, tender, plaintive, joyous or otherwise musically eapres- sive, Now melodies spring up atevery wave of the con- ductor’s baton. It 13 whispered by the violins, echoed by ihe reeds, breathed through the borns, until the air is filled with it from every part of the orchestra, and as it dies away in waves of harmony the spirit of Beethoven seems to settle over the wand of the leader, Mr. Ritter shows much ability and research 10 bis overture, but there is too much Liszt in it for our taste, A string pian- issimo and a tute dialogue lead into an allegro, in woich the syncopated movement kufully bandied, and the transitions of the theme from the violins 4 basses are very pretty. The oni introducing irrelevant ideas at composer bas not caught of wreathing one subject cally, after the axample of his great model Beethoven and Schumann, whom he sometim draws upon in the best portions of tho work, Jn the attempt to maas the ingtruments like Liszt be fails vory palbaply, for with all bis faults in orchestration that eccentric composer knows how to produce a climactic % A double igure is introduced and very cleverly worked up, and may, indeed, be considered the bost fea- ture in the overture, Mr. Ritter, unlike Othello, smothers Desdemona in the finale with the double basses, and he winds up the work in a very weak although original manner. He sometimes uses in it traghy means of display and iutersperses io it common ballard themes which are at variance with the rest of the work. Miss Alida Topp in her rendering of Weber's ‘‘C her touch the grand piano poured forth a stream of melody and harmony in which every note was board with the distinctpess and precision that only @ great artist can render, and every part of the work received ita due share of attention at hands, Even march, although it is beneath the genius of the composer, was given with an elan and brilliaucy that made the piano tones ring above the crasn of the orchestra in every partof the Academy, Miss Topp has proved her- self a true artiste in every sense of the word and one worthy of such an orchestra as that of the Philnarmonio Bociety. Pi The Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn. This society gave its fifty-fifth concert last night at the nary ery the divine afflavus into another artis Philadelphia, which seems to monopolize the publica- | Brooktyn Academy of Music, doing the sccond of ite eleventh season. Neither the nipping air nor the threatening snow deterred a very large and fashionable audience from attonding. In point of fact there was a jam in the Academy, and toilettes, embracing comfort- able winter colors, were everywhere visible, Musical people, like those of our sister. city, couid hardly fail to enjoy the excellent feast provided for them last programme coi 4 of Schumann's symphony No, 2 in C Major ‘Oscar,’ which was ren dored by the orchestra with care and precision, althougb the number of instruments was not as large as it ought w have been, The symphony was followed by @ cava- tina of Bellini, **Capuletti e Montechi,”’ by Miss Florence @ heard before under Her voice has been more gitted by nature than cultured by art, which is something that ives promise of a future for one so young in her pro- ‘Vieuxtemp’s concerto for the Violin in D minor was played for the first time in this country by Camilla Ureo in her accustomed exquisite style, of which too much cannot be said in praise. The romainder of the concert comprised two fragments of Schubert’s prothu- mous symphony in B minor, which has just enough of delicious melody in them to make us regret that the work was not brought to completion, “sweet Spirit, Miss Ric violin solo, “Un Réve,” by Madam Urso, and Liszts’ symphonic po “Les Préludes,”? completed an entertainment which evi- dently gave entire satisfaction to the Philbarmonie Society aud ite friends, DOMINION OF CANADA. SPECIAL COBRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Army Bilis—Cost of Legisiat! ft jou. napeoragan ate: Moxtreax, Dec, 9, 1867, The first question thet came before the House of ‘These | Commonr was the address in answer to the speech from members, espe- cially the new ones, desiring to air their sand let their constituents read their speeches in the public prints, The address passed, tho allow to be paid membera next came up, and that being question of much im terest to the House there was much speaking about it, Tt also at last came to an end after consuming hak a week at least of the public time, Then there was a flood of questions to be put to th Mont Blane, which Mr. Gignoux bas admirably repro. | ministry, to which Mr, Howe says the government gave “curt, unsatisfactory replies, ” After this came inelecuon petitions, which took up more time. Io the third week of the session government began to. feel uneasy at nothing being done, and intimated ite intention to bring in bills for the Intercolonial Railrowd act, for supply, and for acts to regulate the customs and excise, as well as for a Post Office act, The last has been got through, and the Intercolonial, Fraok Manley, whose fine medailion portrait of Mr. | bill ia in band; but, as thia imvoives the expenditure of $15,000,000, if not more, there is, and will be, a great deal of discussion among the fifteen Now Branswick of the Brooktyn Academy, is busily at work in pre- | members and the French Canadian members of the surveyed First, there is the frontier line. This rene along the and “A Grying Baby” (is | frontier, close to the State of Maine, and would, there- fore, in time of war be open to destruction or Tho lato war in the United States bas shown how a “Bodymion” and “An Arab Slave" medallion, copies | rajiroad may be cut up by small bodies of cavalry led by active and daring men. This route is not mech, therefore, although it is the most direct to Second is the central fine. This runs through the uid open ap ® new country now unsettied ; but tue | 9 wivo dangerously ‘the frontier, say the Railroad Committee of the ‘Commons, coming round Gaspe into Canada, This route is in all conscience far enough from fron- Vier, bat it ts the most indirect of the three ti ond, theref the most costly. are of view of this, that the cent) ine is the three, it not being so nearthe frontier as lime, and pot so ay ag eye horthern, ‘er, that the northern, t, ter all, the beat route to think the committee of the House of Commons, Bucksher, » Swiss artist, to several of whose paintings The railroad beinz projected for military reasoes, such - time of war ‘on govern its location and if to that x ible force which the dom! rae in ‘war is 400,000 men, some "niga sORG00. but thre would include the tame, the halt and the roe bo three-fourths of this would be raised in Canada; fore the 100,000 nen cut off from the mass of the army ni ‘oited States and lieve that the provi mainet a United States army, if are who inces are many im the volun’ i con to the here ane 0 for these twenty-oight yarrant this ex! if No, it is not. The teeneeen lnm ‘of four Lapoayt vising ways and called Some men who hare seen this confederation say that the Bw ame can't to ‘Time wili decide chat, af it does everything eine, the week age November 26 pe. A Potow', Mo. for St. Louis 24,490 w nde lend ond 944 000 feet Of sawed lumber.