The New-York Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1866, Page 4

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1866. QAmusemenis. “RARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSP DAY AND EVENING—MARY LOCKWOOT! wnd a full compary. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAN TIES. MPIC THEATER. P VAN WINKLE-Mr. Joseph Jefferson, oL THIS EVENING=RIF Miss Kate Newton. TERRACE GARDEN, Third sve. THIS EVENING st 8—~THEO. THOMAS'S ORCHESTRAL @ARDEN CONCERT. Prograumme varied every oveuing. Ninety- third concert. FIFTH-AVE. OPERA H( NU—BUDWORTH'S MINSTRE iomn, K. Hoghes. S—~THE BLACK ROADWAY THEAT| i—WILD OATS. Mr. B ER dwin Aduns. THIS EVEN]Y MILY ~GRAND MATI- NEE EVERY \ RDA NIBLO'S GARDE THIS EVENING-THE BLACK CROOK—Great Parisicans Baliet Troupe. ¥i i e ¢ NEW YORK THEATER. x AUTY AND THE BEAST — HARD ark Smith, Mr. Lewis Buker, Mesdames Gomer- w5 and Bland. OLD BOWERY THEATE \'m)-ul':r,}NlLL)\—uo\V()y i . G. L. Fox. wal, Wall, Wil THIS EVE! WYND. Miss BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THIS EVENING-HENRY IV. J. W. Huckett s Falstaff, TUFATRE, WALLAC HE FAST FAMILY. Mr. John Gilbert, Mr. r. Charles Fisher, Mr. Georgo Holisnd, Miss . Mrs. John Sefton, and others JRVING HALL. n'mls EVENINO—THE WONDROUS LIVING HEAD. M. artz, st e T T S L S S e Business Notices. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. MUSHROO® IMITATIONS. Suocess is the “ prevalent cradle” of innumersblo humbugs. No soover had Hosrerren's Stoxacn Brerens made thelr merk in the woild then up eprang & bost of imitations, and s the fame of the great restorative grow sud spread, the pestiferons crop of poisonous mockeuies thickened. But the true medicine bas Jved them down. Oue by one they bave dwappeard, When the Dellows of pufiery, which kept alive the feeble fire of thelr borrowed teputation, ceased to blow, they cessed to live, sud thus they con- tinue to come and go. Meanwhile, Hosturren's Brrrens, the great protective and remiedial tonic of the age, heve progressed in popularity with esch succeeding year. Thelr success as & means of preventing and curing the diseases resulting from melaria, unwhole s0me water, end oIl cubealthy cHimatic inflaences, bas been houndless; and s 8 remedy for Dyspepsis, Liver Complaint, Forer and Agoe, General Weakness and Debility, and ll compisiute originating in iu- digeation, they sre now admtted to e supenior to uny other pre- {parstion ever advertised o yrescribed Fron the home murket, to which & few yesrs ago they were confined, theis pale hus bren ex- tended into every State iu this /e, uver the whole of South end Central Amwerics, Mexico, the West Jadies, the Scndwich Islands, ‘Andtralis, Chinx and Japen. Home and forcigu testimuny Continue toshow that Ncw'@'z;fls Bniifi Tribune, ; HosrerTan's Brevsns are the most remarkable tonic aud invigorunt now before the wosld HIGH ART is as casily recognized in fashions for the Nead w6 In painting or sculptore, and u' Gexix's, No. 515 Brow ‘will be found the most. e in evers department &m- hat tade that hevs to the publ :’:'r New- ork. [ 3 Hrosdwry. TRIOMPE OF CHEMISTRY—VICTORY HAIR RESTORER. ‘This exquisite perfumed toilet article has No Sxo1ur¥T OR 1N, ProparTIES. sud will fmmv-ny beiug back the sud_row by the Manulsctarer, B. Vax Dows rk, and ol respectabie Drusgh “Itasesm s stronger und less lisble to rip in us Loek-stitch."—[* Judpe's Report " at the ** Idond Purk T Beud for the * Heport” aud sawples of Work ¢ stitches ou the same vieco of oo ds No Boors, Swoss and Garregs, for Fall and W wear, st Howr's, No. é3) Broadway. - Lacgest. cheapest aod b sortment of castom-mude work in the eity; also. made to order. at fiflfllflk:. 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COMPORT AND CURE FOR THE RUPTURE uncomfortabie trames. Pamphlc; mailed free. Dr. E. L13) Brosdway, New-¥ ork. W AWAY Wi USCOMPORTABLE TrUsSES. —Cure for e raptored, Psmphlet maved free. Addres .E. B, e el reus o call upon Dr. E. B PPORTERS, Monthly and Suspensory ) ’hc?‘;;zd-;;u. woild, wholessle or retail, at MADAME JUaFL'S MAMMARIAL BALM AND PATE Bruast ELnvaton, (3 u velop the natural ty of the form «ghysiologiea! principies. Depos, Ne- 33 Canalat. Scld by drucl THE Hows SEWING MaChiNE: urers. They dve world-renowned. The e Co.. No. Py?filoflwi} w-York. MorTs CHEMICAL POMADE Restores Gray Hair, Keeps it ‘removes dandruff; the fivest dress- fng used. o Ioave, and drugsiste, Tuusses, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BAxp- rens. kc.—Mansw & Co.'s Kadical Cuie Trus Office aems, SoPPOR: only ot No. 2 Vesey-st. Lady FLORKNCE LOCK-STITCH SEWING-MACHINES—Best tnthe worid. Froumxen SswixeMacnixe Coxravy, 8 rosdwar. el oL TMPROVED LOCK-STISCH MACHINES for Tailors and Monufactarers. GuovER & Baksk dewixg Macuixe Cowpaxy, No. 4% Brosdway. METCALVE'S relieves pain, and vever faila to cure Neuralgls, Nervous Headsc! and Paina in the Head or Face. GREAT RREUMATIC REMEDY ins tonat. Elastic Stockings. Suspendes CrisTADORO'S HAIR DYE it now universally ac- Knowledged as the Sest extant. Try ft. Factory. No.6 Astor Hoase. 's Hatk Dye—The best in the world; sustamtaecus; the enly perfect Dye—Black or Wittiaw A EATongion. Sold everywhere. ELLIPTIC SEWING-MACHINE C0.'8 INCOMPARABLE Look Stiten > " Agents Wanted, 543 Broadway. GROVER & BAKER'S HIGHEST PREMICM ELASTIO Srrrom Sewisa Macnixus. for family use. _No. 495 Brosdway. WHEELER & VWILSONS LOCK-STITCH SEWING Macmixe sud BorroxmoLs Macwixe. No. 625 Brosdway. ‘artes Vignotte, $3 per dozen; Duplicates, ¥2. Jane Viguee, €3 pr o gy, 95 700 BECOND-HAND SEWING-MACHINES FOR SALE M;hmm.upd-rhnr-muugwm ar, o THE SPRINGFIELD REGATTA. C—— o ‘POLL REPORT OF THE RACES—THE BEST TIME AT . WORCESTER REGATTA BEATEN. Special Dispsteh to The N. ¥. Tribune. 4 SeeiverreLp, Thursday, Sept. 20, 1866, ‘The regatta which occurred in this city this afterncon, was witneseed by & very large crowd of spectators, end was successful in every particular. The rain, which fell heavily all the morning, ceased about noon, and at the time of the race the course was in perfect condition and the water still and smooth. For the six oared race, three boats were entered, all from this city, as follows: J. W. Dickinson—J. O'Neil stroke; H. K. Baker—Thomas King stroke; J. F. Tapley—8. Hierch stroke. The first prize of $200 was won by the former in 20 minutes and 18 seconds, and the eecond of 00 by the second in 20 minutes and 49 seconds, wherry race of two miles was contested by ‘ard, P, Da{b, John McKeil and Walter and won by Ward in 15 miputes and 59 seconds, Wt prize of §75in 16 minutes and THE i o the second James M. Hard- in 21 minutes, 8} seconds; , and the Union [ July last. the y:nnlna e Tby riate . Th wn.h’(ml:ny IC:I':::I or fiil.- for those that areto come in fu- the City Hall iu the evening 7 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1366. UNION MEETINGS. | csday, Sept. 25, M | WA FIAICRIS, VAR WOODFORD. diors’ Conveation.ly T Famvoxia (The. Hon | Westeii 1o} Gan. STEWART W educuday, Sept 26, (8 § The Hon. IRA FIA JAMBSTOWN. } Gy, STEWART L. WOODFORD. Tharsday. Sept. 21. 5. § The Hoo. TRA HARKIS, ¥} Gen STEWART L. WOODFORD.Y The fiom TRA HARRTS e Hon ARRIS, Homsruusvires, § Gon STEWART L. WOODFORD. Monday, Sept, 4, Larmers Hars, Brooxiys.—The Hou, HORACE OREELEY. TowrxinsviLLe.—~Di. K O. SIDNEY. ‘wesday, Sept. 25. Frrpoxia —The Hon. 1RA HARKI Wesrrieep.—Gen. STEWART L. WOODFORD. BiNGEANTON ~Gen. CHAS. H. VAN WYCK. Wednesday. Sept. 2. The Hon. IRA HARKIS, | Gon. STEWART L. WOODFORD. Thursday, Sept. 2. Hon. TRA HARRIS, Gou. STEWAKT L. WOODFORD, Friday. Sept. 2. IRA HARRIS. STEWART L. WOODFORD. Ol Jaxsstows.— § Oueay. § Hosriuaviie { o Tiowrvarox. § 3! . M Oct. 1. Laroier HaLL, BRookLyN—Gen. 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(and partic 1he facts, they think themseives . selves, and are not to bo Msled by such flimky aud sophistical argumonts as they bave Leen troating us to of late. Isball endeavor to obtain more subsciibers, as 1 have opportunity, who will be permitted to cowme ia on the same terms o8 the P. V. D, SCHENCK. above, as I understand. - p: TERMR, We e an extra issue of THE WEERLY TRIBUNE (identscal in size and contents with the regular cdition,) ehich we will supply to_all Subscriptions received prior 0 October 1, on the follnoing terms, the paper to be sent and subscriptions "to commence on the receipt of the moncy. coples {of three months 8 § capies for three months. copies for three mon 1 copies for throe months. 49 100 copies for three months. PAYABLE ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. Al friends of the cause are duvited to form Clubs. Address THE TRISUNE, No. 154 Nassau-st., New-York. B NEW-ORLEANS RioT— ¢ Tts Official History'—is withholding the payment of bounties for political pur- poses. L7 On the inside pages of our issue of to-day is an Charities; Public Humanity; Property Assessment; Board of Health; Police Reports; New Publications i Commercial Matters and Market Reports. The Sol and Sailors' Union Convention ad- journed yesterday, after appointing delggates to the Pittshurgh Convention, and electing Col. McKeon of Saratoga as President. ‘his State meeting was a8 large as the entire Cleveland Convention, and far uore influential. e Mr. Vallandigham, in a recent speech, asserted that Major-Gen. Juo. Ewing, jr., who figured before the Cleveland Soldiers' Couvention, was the author of the terms of Sherman's treaty with Johuson, and that the President had confessed to him (Vallandigham) that he had never acted, and did not intend to act with the Republican-Union party. We cannot say that either of these revelations is astounding, nor are we the least surprised that Mr. Johnson, or Mr. Ewing, jr., make Vallandigham their confessor, With the Rebels who have sincerely repented re- bellion, Mr. Johnson's plan is extremely unpopular, for none know better than they its evils, Mr. Botts, in his speech at Paterson, N. J., quoted a letter from u distinguisbed officer in the Rebel army, which bore carnest testimony to the hatred of the Union still cherished by the leaders of treason, and the criminal folly of giving them again the power they forfeited. We print this letter elsewhere, and trust its warnings will be heeded. Wittiay 8. LiscoLy—who has just heen nomi- nated for Congress in the Binghamton district—is a capable, excellent man, and true as steel; and yet we canbot help regretting that Mr. Hotehkiss is superseded. He has been one of the firmest and truest members of the House; and the fact that he is now serving out his second term seems to us no reason for displacing him. Depend on it, our State must upset this fashion of giving every County its “turn,” and dismissing each member after four years' faithful service, before she can bave her due weight in Congress. The Union State Conventidn of North Carolina, which met yesterday at Raleigh, expressed the opin- ion of 25,000 loyal citizensof the State in unanimously accepting the Constitutional Amendment, and declar- ing its full confidence in Congress. From the tone of the sense of the North Carolina papers wo had reason to expeet that an attempt would be made to commit the Conveution to Mr. Johnson's policy, but it has chosen a wiser course. Alfred Dacken. who was nominated for Governor, has pledged himself to sup- port the Constitutional Amendment. North Carolina bas endured enough from Gov. Worth and Mr. John- son's policy, and will, we hope, repudiate both by the election of Mr. Dacken. ———— A CONSTITUTIONAL CONY The present Constitation of onr State, along with many objectionablo and mischiev features, has one very good o It is embodied in a provisi that the electors at the annual election held every twentieth year after its adoption, be enabled to vote directly for or against the call of a fresh Consti- tutional Convention. 1In other words: Itisan inte- gral part of our State Constitution that the people shail, every twentieth year, be distinetly afforded an it. NTION. af opportunity to revise and improve it if they Whatever changes may hereafter be made, we trust this provision will be perpetnated. We urge every elector to vote next Nov amber for o Convention; and not merely to vote for it, but take care beforehand that ballots for it are generally pro- vided, and that active, influential men are pl to distribnte them, Our present Constitut needs overhaaling. The long arrearages of (ot least, undecided) cases in the Court of Appe involve a practical denial of justice. Men are dying in poverty and need because their houest dues are re- fused them by reason of the failure of that Court to dis- pose of cases appealed to it years ago. There must be fewer cases appealed, and these must be dis- posed of with greater celerity. We suggest, with deference to the bar, a reduction of the number of Appeal Judges from eight to four, with a provision that three only of these shall form a court for the adge in turn shall have trial of causes; so that eacl a fourth of his time to him: bility should temporarily reduce the number avail- able to three, If more than one should at any time be disabled, let the Governor des pIEe OF MWore of the Supreme Court Justices to sel Judge of Appeals. The election of judges in our cities, especially of police magistrates, is a fearful blunder. The thieves, ruffians, blacklegs, keepers of dens of infamy, and other natural enemies of law and morality, now vir- tually select their own prosecutor and their own judges. As a natural consequence, not one of every three felons in our C ver brought to trial; and half those clearly guilty who are tried escape convie- tion. As there are more who suffer from this arrang ment than profit by it, we hope to change it in revis- ing our Constitution, A death-blow to lobby influence and to corrupt leg- islation is the most urgent want of our time. That blow will be given by enlarging the membership of either House. Our present Senate consists of 32 and our Assembly of 123 members—together, 160—no more than we chose when our population was less than half—perhaps less than a fourth—of its present amount, and when the enormous sums now won or lost by legislation were not even dreamed of. We should have a Scnate of 75 members, and an Assi bly of at least 301. The number should in any ca: be odd, so as to preclude the vexatious and pernicions dead-lock of a tie in organizing. But we shall never eradicate the poison of corrupt, mercenary influences in legislation till we have very largely increased the number of our legislators, The legislaglon of New-York, New-Jersey and Penn- sylvania is chronically, notoriously, scandalously venal; while that of Vermont, New-Hampskire and Massachusetts is otherwise. We never yet beard it even charged that a bill was passed, a U. 8. Senator elected, in a New-England State, by the shameful, perilous use of money. Yet humaa nature is the same in New-England as in the Middle States; mer- cenary,unprincipled men get into office on all sides; aud If, unless death or disd- ‘e pro tem. 85 0o man yas ikel -Eagtgr to Bipe fla!fidyh?fi%fié%? BKF a“unni% tightly document just issued at Trp TEiBoN: Office, which We | 4 to make the eagle scream. Buta New-Eagland ask help to put into the bands of several millions of our | Legislature is a miniature mass meeting—too numer- countrymen. It contains, we believe, every official dis- | ous to be **seen” by & lobby-king. Even were not patch and report, pro and con, Dle tragedy of August 30, and is in fact that dark page in our National history illuminated by the pens of Andrew Johnson, Gen. Grant, Gen. Sheridan, Gen. Baird, which clucidates the terri- | the divisor uncomfortably large, it would hardly be possible to buy a majority in such & body. The requisite ** transactions” would be too numerous, would require too many agents, and take too much time. John Quiney Adams, as the ripe conelusion of Mayor Monroe, Judge Abel, Judge Howell, the New-Or- | 1, g life devoted to public affairs, held that numer- leans correspondent of The Times, &c. We are greatly | oug [egislative bodies were among the stroagest bul- mistaken if these documents do not impress the candid | warks of republican liberty. mind as 1o partisan statement could possibly do. Friends in every State! help us to put theso documents before the still heedless millions! ey ‘We hear from Washington that not only has the Report of Mr. Stanton’s commission to devise the manner of paying the soldiers bounties been sup- There are many and cogent reasons for holding o Constitutional Convention in our State, but the above are sufficient, 'We exhort honest men of all parties to work and vote for a Convention. e The Daily Evening Voice (Boston) places at the head of its columns the name of Wendell Phillips as pressed, but that Mr. McCulloch has said that not { the workingmen's candidate from the IIId District. one dollar shall be paid for the parpose. An act of [ Mr. Phillips will, of course, give no pledges, but The Congress is—an act of Congress. There seems to | Foice nevertheless promises him the united support of besome truth in tho statement that Mr. Jobnson is | the workingmen. OQutside of any priaciple of which Mr. Phillips is the daring and earnest exponent, we recognize in his nomination a popular choice as sig- nificant in its way as that of John Stuart Millin En- gland. There is no good reason why we should not have in Congress our most intellectual men. Legisla- tion will not suffer from any accession of enlightened thinkers, however radical. We heartily wish Mr. Phillips could learn to judge more charitably those who seek ends identical with his own by somewhat difforent means—we apprehend that his uncharitable judgments and bitter words may now prevent bis election—yet we hail the sending to Congress of men of his caliber and independence as a public gain, and would therefore gladly chronicle his election. e < JEFFERSON DAVIS. The telegraph informs us that a Southern Bishop and another person recently visited the prisoner of state confined in Fortress Monroe, and tendered him their best efforts for his release; but that Mr. D. responded that he had given up all bope of speedy liberation; while his counsel had been told by the President that he would probably be tried on charges pending against him before a civil and also before a military tribunal. This reminds us that bis case went over last Spring at Richmond to October; which is now very near at hand. X : We cherish no ill feeling toward this prisoner; while, on the other band, he is a stranger to us, whom we have never been tempted either to love or admire. That he has played an important part makes no differ- ence in our view, He s just a man, after all, and in good part the creature of circumstances, as most men are. That some have wanted to bang him “on a sour apple-tree,” while others have done us like houor, is quite immaterial. But wedo feel that the Govern- ment of our country is disgracing itself by its treat- ment of this prisoner—that it ought to have brought him to trial long since, and let him know his fate—that it is playing a shabby, shuf- fling, cowardly part with regard to him—that it should either retract its charge of assassination or have him indicted and tried thereon according to law —that keeping bim in prison untried, and not even attempting to bring his case to issue, is diffusing an impression at the South that the Government dare not try him for fear of damaging developments and a dis- comfiting verdict. 1In short, if there was ever a case mismanaged, to the peril of momentous public inter- ests, it is, in our view, that of the United States against Jefferson Davis; and it isa high misdemeanor in soe one to permit it to drag on in this miserable fashion, . .- ¢ All this—most of it, at any rate—we have urged already—perhaps more than once—and, as no good has been effected, we might as well have said nothing. Some exceedingly smart people think capital may be made for or agaiust Andrew Johnson by letting this game go on. We feel that it should be stopped at once—that the prisoner should be arraigned forthwith on the most damaging charge that can be maintained against him—that he should be promptly and faitly tried thereon—and that all talk of punishing or par- doning him should be forborue till the verdict shall bave been rendered. There scem to be persons to- day who dissent from these views; but does any one imagine that there can be & question, twenty years hence, as to their soundness and importance ! —— “COERCING" STATES. The World professed throughout to support the War for the Union, and always acted in direct antagonism S0 now, with reference to that ational Com- e T - 1o its professions. clause in the Address of the Union N mittee, which says: “ Consider how utterly sil-nt and blank 1s the Federal Con- atitution touehing the treatment of insurgent States, whether during thelr Sagraut bostility to the Union or after their dis- comfiture.” Whercupon, gays The World: “The statement whieh e pot In ftalies is remark, noton the score of ita truth—for its truth eannot be Iy eontroverted—-but remarkable on accauut of the source fro which it, st this lat It is_preciacly the do trine, on that subj ident Buchaoan's last annual saze; precisely the point that part of the ms: st which the whole Republican press of that day ra natitation be suich & resounding ehorn toquy. T wtterly lowk’ 1n Tegard to the treatment of insurgo States (N. B, i1 18 not by any means silent and blaak in regard to the treatment of insarrections), but as, by the formal, the ofticial oo jon of the Kepublican party, the Constitution rants no power to deal with lasurgens States, it follows That the assumption by Corgress to deal Witk Dhomis & shese usurpation.” —We cannot see how The World's premises justify its conclasion. The Constitution, it is agreed, is si- lent and blank touching the treatment of insurgent States—which proves, says The World, that ** the Constitution grants no power to deal with insurgent States,” Ono! that is a horse of another color! The Constitution does not contemplate a conspiracy of ten or & dozen States to destroy the Union, and hesce fails to make express provision for that contin- gency; but it by no means follows that such a con- spiracy must be pa v allowed to take the Union by the throat, capture and garrison its fortresses, seize and empty its sub-treasuries, and devote its custom- the collection of imposts levied Ly it on the products of the non-conspir- ing States. There is abundant authority given in the Constitution for resisting such a conspiracy with such weapons, and in such force, as may be required to overcome it. The provisions that * the United States shall guarantee to ry State in this Union a re- publican form of government,” which it cannot do if such conspiracy is allowed to triumpb—tift ** this Constitution, and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thercof, * * * shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding "—that Congress shall have power “1o provide for calling forth the Militiz to erecute the laws of the Union, suppress in- surrections and repel invasion” — the ex- press inhibition—*‘No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance or confederation "—nay, even the stipulation that **the citizens of cach State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States”—each and all, with several others, emphatically negative The World's aud Mr, Buchanan's suicidal assumption. Among the powers grauted to the Federal Government by the Constitution is the power to exist, and to cause its authority to be respected over the entire territorial area of our country—alike over that portion of it which has been erected into States, and that por- tion which is distinguished as the Territories. The “power to deal with insurgent States” results in- evitably from the fact that they are insurgent, and that Congress is clothed with authority to call out the Militia * to execute the laws of Union,” and * sup- fix};g insurrections.” No power is specifically con- ferred on Congress by the Constitution to erect a Capitol; yet who doubts the legality of such erec- tion? Rigid old John Robertson of Virginia, who died while & Representative in Congress, protested, with his dying breath, agaiust being laid in {he Con- gressional cemetery, because e could find no warrant for such cemetery in the Constitution. Wo respect his fidelity to a cherished convietion; but the country has outgrown the narrow teachings of the Virginia abstractionists. The Constitution is **utterly silent and blank touching the treatment of an insurgent” Territory; (**sovereign Territories,” they resolved lately in Colorado;) but it by no means follows that a Territory may defy and seek to destroy the Nation. The World has been taught coustitutional iuterpreta- tion in o bad schoal, or allows its unacknowledged sympathy with the beaten Rebels to impel it to talk as though it had been. houses to T have been generally considered a Radical,” said Mr. Johnson in a senatorial speech delivered in 1860, I go for epactments by Congress, and for amend- ments to the C are right, sud upon no other ground.” As Mr. Joku- son “ngver deserted a principle,” we suppose Con- gress has become entirely too Conservative for him, e e The Texas Legislature, through the action of the Committee on Federal Relations, has respectfully returned to the Government the Constitutional Amendment, declining its further consideration. The ground assigned is thus expressed in the report: Article thirteen, sections one and two, have the honor to re- port as follows: The people of Texas, in Convention assembled, have already, by their ordinance, ackrowledged the supremacy of the Con- siftution of the United States; in whieh Constitution the above-naed article thirteen is embraced, as part of the sawme; thes courts of law 80 hold and administer said article thirteen. This Legislature bas no authority in this matter; any action on the same would be_surplusage, if not intrusive. The Committee, therefore, ask to be excused from the consideration of the same; and they Lerewith respectfully return the communication of the Honorable the Secretary of State of the United States. — e WHICH CONGRESS ? The Hon. E. B. Washburne, in Illinois, having been invited to meet his Johnsonite competitor, Mr.Thomas J. Tumner, in a public discussion, opens battlo at once with a bomb-shell. Mr. Turner advises his op- ponent that he has been nominated by ‘s National Union Convention,” whereupon Mr. Washburne ex- acts the following capital test: ofore acceptiog your invitation, £ wish to know from you what Congress you are a candidate fort 1f you are @ candi- date for the Congress to be composed of Northern Copper- heads and Southern Rebels, which it is semi-officially pro- claimed that President Johnson is to recognize, to the exclusion of the constitutional Congress of the United States, then I deaire to say that I am not a candidate for any such Congress, sud that I do not propose eutering iato o canvass for any office for which T am not & candidate. “Tf, on the other hand, you will certify to the people of this district that you are a candidate for the legal and constity- tional Congress of the United States, and for a member of Fortieth Congress to the established and to which no “fron-clad o that House of Representatives for the which shall be called to order, according precedent, by the Clerk of the present House, member shall be admitted without taking the oath’ of loyaity, and that you wili repudiate the illegal mvolnlionlryi} nr“l which President Johnson proposes to recognize, menPl ave to state I will accept your invitation with great pleasure.” Mr. Washburne's test might be generally applied throughout the canvass. The people will not fail to see, either by the silence or open commission of the President’s frionds, how far they approve his pro- gramme of usurpation as officially threatened aud foreshadowed, Which Congress? Choose ! _— TAKING THINGS FOR GRANTED. Gen. Dix is & man for whom we sincerely desire to retain our respect, notwithstanding bis gross blunder of falling into bad company; but while he i3 content to remain in the same boat with Copperheads un- blushingly unrepentant, and with semi-repentant Rebels, he must of necessity resort to a sophistry for which we can have no respect at all. OF this, at the Union-square meeting, he gave us & specimen brick, which does not couvey a favorable notion of his idea of a reconstructed edifice. He complained that the Republican party ** still keeps up a war of passion and of prejudice with unmitigated bitterness, al- though all resistance to the public authority has long since ceased.” This accusation puts a large majority of Gen. Dix's fellow-citizens upon the defensive, and compels discussion, however willing they may be to avoid it. The comfortable theory of Gen. Dix finds no warrant in the facts, The murders of Memphis and of New-Orleans throw over his millennial fancies an air of grim and un- timely playfulness, There is fresh blood upon his olive branches, and the groans of persecuted men mingle with his lively congratulations. Treason, it is true, has changed its tactics, and, beaten in a public war, is now fain to content itself with private hostil- ities; but Gen. Dix, as a statesman, must know that it was in this way the Rebellion began, and that in this way it may begin again. A gentleman who undertakes to leoture his follow citizens upon the du- tles of moderation, should at least read the news- papers; and we take it for granted that Gen. Dix is cognizant of the fact that ** resistance to the public authority " has not * ceased,” we will sy in Platte County, Missouri, nor in the somewhat important State of Texas; that disaffection, wherever it dares to display itself, has lost nothing of its bitterness and intensity; that the practical disloyalty of the Sonth is still encouraged by that theoretical disloyalty of the North, of whieh Gen, Dix's new associates are the earnest champions; and that, even in tlis city, newspapers calling themselves respectable, are not ashamed to hiut at two Congresses, and at the anarchy which the desperate measures of desperate men would assuredly entail for a longer or shorter period upon the nation. It is to this unsatisfactory and dangerous condition of affairs, while the President of the United States is, every day, proclaiming his unrestrained hostility to the Representatives of the people, that 1. Dix would have the Republican party blinded, Those who desire the absolute safety of the Republie are * passionate.” Those who would make areasona- ble provision for the future are ** prejudiced,” Those who decline to trust their s and fortunes to the nemios are guilty of **unmitigated | not to be Christian patriots, with o of foresight and pradence, but Christian idiots, fawning upon false-hearted traitors, and affectionately kissing the hands of murderers and incendiaries. A religion commanding such a lunii- Jess fatuity would forbid the exercise of any humau government wha It would have kept Gen. Dix out of the army, or at least reduced him to the position of a nurs itals, It is worse than useless to confound the reasonable expectations of the nation with their partial and un. satisfactory fulfillment. Kt is dangerous to pretend that the cessation of hostilities has been followed by perfect and fraternal accord. It is childish to urge that we have nothing more to do but to. slide simply back to old relations, remembering nothi learning nothing, and changing nothing, This would be to make the war as purposeless and as profitless as the duels of school-hoys or the rencounters of out of the contest all its historie dignity, and to redice it to the level of wide- spread waste and meaningless murder. We shall think the Union fully restored when all, of what complexion, who owe to it allegiance, shall be its protection; when aman in South Carolina shall have no more political weight than a man in Ne York; when those who bave forfeited their public rights shall sink into the publie insiguificance which they have merited, and shall ccase to disturb the peace of the land by insolent threats or by claims at once puerile and impertinent;- and when the States lately in avowed rebellion shall sensibly acquic¢sce (28 they have not yet done) in what Gen. Dix calls ** the altered condition of their domestic relations.” —_—— merey of avo: scolds; it would be to t The Frening Post say: *The object and use of o Constitution is to gnard the mi- nority aguiust intole; oppression irom & majority.” Welk: suppose **a Qonstitution” to vest in part of a people a close monopoly of power, leaving a majority in somo cases, a minority in others, the unprotected serfs and vassals of that self-constitated aristocracy— what then? This country has been the arena of a powerful, des- perate, bloody revolutionary straggle to increase the power and enlarge the dominion of a woman-selling aristocracy. By the blessing of God, the conspirators bave been routed and overthrown. We mean to make the most we can of the National triumph for the ad- vancement and security of Universal Freedom. The Post applies its drag to the wheel just as. the car. of Emancipation is gaining its proper momentum. Its logic, followed to its legitimate results, would bave precluded the Abolition of Slavery, as it now em- barrasses the Enfranchisement of the Freedmen. But the car of Emancipation will nevertheless roll on. PERSONAL.—Among the arrivals at the hotels are Gov. Bramlette, Gen, E. 1. Hobson, Gen. G. W. Moaroe and Col. Holman of Kentucky, and James M. Webli, London. at the Southern Motel; Gen. G, P. Estee, Washington. and the ctitution wpon the principle that they | fon, J. Y. Seamman, Chicago, at the St. Nickolas Hotel; tho | Hton. Wi, Digler of Peausylvania. at tbe Astor House. THEATRE FRANCAIS. — RISTORI IN MEDEA. Medea! shade of Euripides, is it not fame enough for o respocted classic like ypurself that though 2,200 years aga the eighty-seventh Olympiad marked your “Medes” down to number three, adorning the brows of your stalwart rivals, Euphorion and Sophocles, with the laurels you so eagerly craved—is it not fame enough to know that down the vista of these many centuries the work of your brain bas sped, bas found interpretation in living languages 8s well as dead, and in this Christian year of 1866 has been eclectrified into new life, in a new world, by the gepius of Adelaido Ristori? Be content old Greek; we thank you and not Legouv8, nor Mon’ tanelh, nor even Thomas Williams, for the dm.u.' faast 8t which we supped to-night. You are the head and front of all our feasting— you are the Camsar unto which the things that are Casar’s shall be rendered. Legouvé felt tne power of your ideal “Medea,” and put your soul into & French body for the incomparable Rachel. *Not so,” said the great actress; *I'll not accept your tragedy. Horrors such as teem in this ewbodiment of Greek wythology can find no place upon the modern stage. Putaway your manuscript.”” And Legouvé, repulsed by the priestess of the French theater, bided his time, until there came to Paris in 1355 one who was great enough to be called Rachel’s rival. The Italian who dared to per- sonate Alfieri’s *“Myrrba” could not scruple at the deeds of “la terribil Medea,” and quickly there was found s apt translator in Joseph Montanelli, whose Italian version of the French play does houor to Legouvé as well asto himself. Need the argument of Medea be told again? Has it not been read in classical dictionaries—if not in Greek—by every play-goer that ever went to school ? Liberty is taken with mythology, it is true, such as fiction calls poet- ical license; but the dramatis persone are the same; and whether Medea be deserted in barbarous regions 'rather thau At Corinth; whether Creon’s danghter be known as Glauce or Crensa; whether Medea have two children oc more; and whether they be called Mermerus and Pheres, or Lycaon and Melanthus, “ What's in a name 1 Mythol. ogy, that realm of liberties, need bave no bettoe fate than lustory with which Shakespeare has played such mad pranks. Have we not scenm, too, an Epglish version of Medea? a dreary, heavy spectacle, the recol- leetion of which 18 an incubus of drapery, stilts, in sandals, many shricks and much elbowing, a Medea of Fenian extraction, with here and there a lash of some- thing akin to genius, that made you sigh that such good material had not mado a better artist? “Ah, the little more and how mach it is: Tie little less and what world's away.” Remembering that picture, let us look on this. Yes, New-York is really experiencing a sensation. You feel it in the air as you approach the theater—it burstsupon you fully a8 a ealcium light—one of Mr. Grau’s marvelous coneep” tions and makes its brighest apology forthe wretched stato of the weather. Is it significant of the rising of a new and daz- zling sun in the dramatic firmament? In truth, America neods reformation, Speriamo. Anud theentrance ! Allis jostlo and hurry—* books of the” opera ! No, not exactly; yet it is tho Academy of Musie, with the singing left out. Freneb, German sad Italisn make your esrs ring with the memory of other lands, and yon wondet whether Now-York bhas not crossed the Atlantio and sat down in Paris. AL! But tho mterior of the theater brings oue back to onc’s native land. This is not the architecture of the Boulevards. Yet, though our sins are many, what has New-York done that we should be afflicted with snother amusing fail- ure. Suro it is in an architectural Switzerland we arc now, where an avalanche of galleries threatens to overwhelm an overconfiding parterre, You hold your breath for feer of the catastroplic, but it comes not, nor will it; still there is the sensation, and as seusa- tion goes vastly beyond fuct, the Theatre Francais may very decidedly be pronounced far other than 8 thing of beauty and a joy forever. The audience! 'Tis all our faney painted it. Fashion crowds the baleory in jausty attire. Newport has returned home to give the Tragic Queen a ftting welcome—prima donne, literateurs and artists sit in state, looking unutterable things, Iow much they understand of Italian; how much they love dramatic art, and lorg for a worthy exponent of it, is not for us to say. All New-York is there in fine feathers and flutter; end Ristori will appear before tho best intelleet that this eommercial city can furnish. The overturc from Norma; a fitting introduction, snd | then the curtain rises. Act 1. Before a statue of Diana, who wears a very low comedy smirk, appear Creon, Orpheus end Jason, the first not good, the last exceed- jugly bad, the second doing all in his power to redeem the short-comings of Lis associstes. Cesare Ristori is o conscientious aetor, looking so much lke Madame Ristori as to warrant our supposing him to be a brother. His school, though ultra-Italian, is good, his action is graceful, his manner carnest. The management declare, however, that the corps dramatiguecomprises the most eminent artists of the Italian dramatic stage, which, to the best of our very vivid recollection, is far from true. We will wait, ertheless, for the developments of the future. Creuza enters ! A pretty Italian girl of small dramatic pacity, who fails to do justice to a really excellent part. ou wateh, instead, that very humble persouage “The Nurse,” who is as beantiful o picture as we have seen upon tho stag yaday. Indeed, she brings back Raphael's Madounas. Nothingeould be more picturesque thea ber costume, and her faco embodies the true Roman type, yet beaming more then the ordinary Romen intelligence. Little as Virginia Casati did. she did that little well, and we are indebted to her for an unusual sen- sation—that of seeing a minor part excellently filled. Scene IV, Ristori appesrs on the hills above, carfying and leading her children in the attitude made so familiaz by photogruphy. Yes, it is she, and the sudience wel- come her, not a3 Ristori has been in the it of heing welcomed by audiences to whom she is known,but still ber reception is sufficicatly hearly to set the artist at her ease and assure her of America’s good will. But we. have scen Risto act Medea better— we bhave seen her when there was not more encrgy—for this quality was fully given—but when she displayed more tenderness, wore abandom. Once or twice to-night Ristori was simply Ristori; Medea stten and the eudience remembered. Careless as America is in things artistic, there are still those who watch with jealous 1 implore the great Itelian to be her best, and show the new world what it is inds greatest favor in the old. Ristc presence is oble, and as she salutes Creuzs, wo are inelined to exclaim with her, “Qual suon di voce P volee is Ly bea , frosh and round as that of extreme youth, and so well modulated as to charm ears to which the Italian lap is a wystery. MHer figure imposes, and ber face, though far from being tragie ideal, is expressive and sympathetic. You like the womad through the artist, And now, at this early hour, wh leidoscopic vision, with ope * po other that anything like proper eriticism becomes & typo- graphiosl impossibility, what shall be said of the aci @ s 7 15 she great in * Medea?” Yes. She has all that goes to make up a fine netress. She is great, but not consummate. She is worlds in advance of any woman on the American or English stage. She is a noble sctress without hping e perfect artist. Sbe does not do things so well that you are roady to excleim for joy, “ Nothing could be better " Here is o moment she had failed to make the most of; thore is ® situstion which should have brought tears —yet, though deeply interested, the tears came not. Hore is o point that required subtler expression, there was one that called for concontrated pas- sion. You foel all this—-or at least we did, and while mur. muring *brava,” mado the mental reservation no™ ex- pressed. Yot Ristori's poses were oftentimes 134, and at the conclusion of the first act she was called bulure the curtain by beer'y roundsof applause. The sccond act wos less eflective, yet ot its conclusion there camo a call, but less spontancous than the first. 1% was ot the termination of the tragedy, bowewor, when the infuriated Medea stood before the altar of Saturn, with her murdered children at her feet, and Jason, with the multitude transhzed by her malediction and hor pose, that Ristori rose to her full bight and wrung from Der andience the most heartfelt recoguition of the night. 1s Ristori, then, o success ! Most decidedly, if merit alone be necessary; most decidedly, if the American peo- ple realizo that art, as woll a8 politics, desorves tle thoughtfal attention of the noblest minds. Thus do we leave Ristori, uutil time shall have given us the oppoie tusity of wore glaborate eriticis E P was en Medea isstilla ka- s0 woven into an.