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QURHAMATG ther house in the co a full t Lay, Warcues, Faxcy Goops. Seizoxn Eisex, Prodaced from the ore Frenkiinite. or Crystallized Tr: frand. in whioh ti 8 combination of Iron, manganese. & alisr metal which is barder than the burg ac's drill, is covered by mfl.fl of H & Floyd, when used sss oTion rrox BURGLARS. and 0o Bank Safe or Safe Deposit Veult is secure without it. * Stes! Bafes,” ** Chilied Iron Safes " and * Case Hardened Safes,” have bad fhew duy; oach have bo-n robbed by burglars, and the beit security mow knows agaivet deilling is SUIEGRL EISEN, found only i our new Paiout BANKNRN' SA7ES, which, when made s the best rosistant to & Burgler's drill ever wen- perienc few years has demonstrated that Burg- « Tare are faily up to the times. end that, not only many banks snd . Banking-Houses are locking up their securities bek 'se pro ‘but that it remaine for & Banker to sy bow secarity thay will bave—their saioty depending emtirely upon the prios they way. 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Orxruesan: Doring o visit to the Wes last Fall 1 contracted chills sud fover, which brought me to my bed, aud Aaally terminated in typhoid fever, snd confised we to my room for sevarslmonths, durtng which time | was physically #o prostrated that 1 almost do apaired of ever rocovering my hewlih; baving slmost entirely lost wy appetite for days, uot being able Lo e distrossod with & voeling sensation in my hosd, and passed many “leaplons nighte—all from debliity caused by my prostrate condition, brought about by fever. At this stage of my condition s friend rocom mended me to uss your celebrated Stomach Bitters, but, belug morslly opposed to the use of atlmalants in any form, I et first declined, bt afierward ylelded my prejudices, snd, siter tak medigine for seversl woeks, my appetite returned, and with it | am rapidiy rogain ing wy former strongth and vigor. My sleep (from the 1ows of which [ have suffered muoh) has oever been better than it is vow, and the rosling seosstion (belre alluded to) has entirely loft me. My bo which were much constipated and irregular, are now quite natu and, In fact, T am glad to sy that I feel myself & vew man, and tander you this testimonial of my ppreclation of your s preparation in order that others may aval themaclves of ite virtues, which preju- dice kept me from enjoying for o long & perfod. 1 may sl add that my physician, after sasing the beneficial effoct of your Bitters on me, rocommonded iliat | wge thom rogulaily, Yo ety reapectfolly, E. Booaxs, No. 45 Marketat. WinteR Croraing.—The bost place to buy superior OvERCOATS of yvery texturs, atyle and make. Alvo, Deess and Busi- ness Suits, ready made or to order. FURNISING (100D3, CHILDREX'S Croruise, &o. at F. B. Batowin's, No. 10 sad 7 Bowary, the largost assortmibnt fu the clty aud prices less. ~ WiLLo0X & GuBs's SEWING-MACHING — ' 113 seamn s less lisble to rip than the locl el “Grand v ‘ond for " No, 509 Soxn, No. 692 Broadway, New-Yorl “Pouuax & Sox, N near Fourth-st,, MERRSOHAUM Piry MANUPACTURERS. mounted. Piges cut to order, repaired NetoDork Darily Tribune. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1366. T0 ADVERTISERS. Wo will thank our advertising oustomers to hand 1n Ahoir Advertiscments st as early an hour ss possible. If received after 9 o'clock they caunot be classified under their proper heads. Advertisements for this woek's issue of TaE WEEKLY Twinoxs wust be handed tn 7o Day. %" The Musical Criticisms, the Civil Courts, the Money and General Markets and some interesting neiws matter will be found on the second page of to-day's paper; the Book Notices appear on the sizth page. e §7° The Semi-Weekly Tribune, this morning, contains the Speech o . Butler on ** Impeachment ; "' Letters from Bayard Taylor and Petrolewm V. Nasl A Monih among the Pennsylvania Coal Mines; Specch of Wendell Phillips ; Our Correspondence from different rts_of Europe; American Instituts Farmers' Chub; ?M First Fiddle; National Taz on Cotton ; The R Tl;y 3 Mountains and the Plains; Juarcx and Ortega; the Week ; Edito- D Magazines and the Books of t Summary of the Latest News: Commercial Mat- ters; Grain, Provision and Cattle Market Reports, & B A dispatoh by the Atlantic Cablo states on author- ity of The London Daily News, that Mr. Seward has demanded the settlement of the Alabama claims. [ ——— The evidenco already taken in regard to the Dis- tillery frauds indicates, we aro sorry to sy, the too frequent connivance of U. 8. Iuspeueon with the dis- tillers. The casos on trial have not been decided, and wero yesterday adjourned till the end of the week. 8ix bills introduced in the Tennossee Legislature to establish colored suffrage look well for the future of the State. Gov. Brownlow, a candidate for renomi- nation, opposes amnesty, but the Legislature in that matter will probably be governed by the policy Congress shall adopt. The great Lake Tunnel of Chicago, running for two miles under Lake Michigan, and one of tho trinmphs of modern engineering, is 80 nearly com- pleted that but two feet remain to be dug, ‘and the work will end to-day. We print the bistory and des- cription of this remarkable achievoment, honorable not only to Chicago but to the whole country. Judge Betts delivered au important decision yester- day, in the case of the Chilian privateer, the Meteor, which required a very close analysis of the principles of heutrality. The argument, which is elsewhere given, establishes the distinction between merely sending contraband merchandise to the market of a belligerent, subject to the chances of capture, and the fitting out of a vessel to cruise directly from our ports against a friendly nation. The Meteor was con- demned upon this argament. A Southern Republiean Association has boen formed by such men as Gov. Pease and Judge Sherwood of Texas, Judge Hiestand of Louisiana, Judge Saffold of | Alabams, Judge Bond of Margland, N, C, Mercer of Tennessee, Gov. Boreman of West Virginia, Gen. J. W. McKee of Kentucky, and the Hon.J. W. Ed- monds, D. C. Thomas J. Durant, one of the purest men in the South, has been chosen its Pres- ident. The Association will continue its session until Congress adjourns, desiring to present to that body the views of the Southern Loyalists upon the issues that will ai John D, Defiees, late Public Printer, is suggestod in several Indiana journals as a candidate for U. S, Senator from that State, vice Gen, Henry 8. Lane, who declines a reélection. Mr. Defrecs has for a quarter of a century been o leading citizen of Indiana, honorably ideutified with her progress aud history, and never held an office, to far a8 we can recollect, but that of Public Printer, in which he earned far more than he reccived. Indisna can hardly have a more upright aud capable ¢itizen; and, while we do not know what other names may be submitted to the Legislature, we feel sure that Mr. D.'s election would be a wise and satisfactory choice. 'We speak not of claims; nobody has any claim to a public trust; but the country has a right to the services of her ablest and worthiest citizens. The purposed official investigation of the charges against Charles G, Cornell, late Street Commissioner, came yesterday to a sudden end. Mr. Cornell having resigned as soon as he heard of the appointment of an investigation, the Attorney-General conceived that tlere was no further need to proceed in the matter, which may be said to have onded before it begun. After lavish professions of a willingness to have bis official conduct scrutinized, Mr. Cornell has abruptly dodged investigation. Failing to appear, Judge Whiting took the trouble to explain that his case was not to be tried before the Commissioner, who had nothing to do but forward testimony to the Governor, and that the fact of his own position as & contractor did not at all concern Mr. Cornell's late jurisdiction as a Street Commissioner. The pretenses st up by Mr. Cornell against his supposed judge are, therefore, utterly groundless. Whether yesterday's dismissal will end all procecdings In the case, legal or other- wise, remains to be seen. ——— It is thought by some authorities that a person having less than one-fourth negro blood in bis veins is & white man within the meaning of the State Consti- tation; but the case of Darnall agt. The Board of Registers involves a question whether a white man, according {0 all visual tests, is alter all only a negro, If this were a setfled fact, thore would be less preju- Qice against color; and should the Court decide that the supposed white maw, o the alleged colored man, Mr. Darnall, is a nogro, white people no doubt will have a caro of their faces when they visit an office of registry. In deferring the case to trial at Circuit Justice Sutherland becomingly deprecated the pre- judico against descondants of megroes. The case promises expansion, and the question invelved is not only What is Man ? that laws and the Declaration of Independence should be mindful of him, but What is & White Man? For we maintain that in our present Constitution it is just a3 necessary to define who is White a3 who is Black. If the case of Darnall fails to load to a result, wo hope some ostensibly White person—a member of the Ring, for instance— will be arrested, and the question be broughttoa decision. The examination in the case of Matthew T. Bren- nan, late Controller of the City of New-York, in charges proferred against him by tho Citizons' Assvei- ation, was held at the Police Headquarters in Mul- berry-st., yesterday, Mr. Jamos Watson, County Anditor, and Mr. Anson Herrick testified concerning tho chargos brought (orward some years ago by Mr. Horrick against Mr. Brennan . The Atlas. Mr. Horrick now pretonds to have no personal knowledge of the very positive charges made against Mr. Bren- naw in The Atlas; for sinco that time a considerable change has taken place in his relations to Mr. Bren- nan, ** his opposition (to use Mr. Horrick's own words) to Mr. Brennan having ceased when his political foel- ings pormitted." —_— THE TRUE BASES OF RECONSTRUCTION. Aboat to start for some wecks' sojourn in the West, whenoe I cannot readily and constantly confer with the general public, I wish to leave my contribu- tion to the general mass of suggestion and criticism touching the true bases of National restoration and concord so plainly set forth that it cannot be mis- quoted nor misapprebended. That I have long held the main foundations of a genuive, enduring résettlement of our disturbed and upturned National structure to be UNIVERSAL Amsesty and IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE, must be tolorably well known. It only remains to bo said that I commend them not es re- ciprocal concessions but as common benefits. 1 trust our great differences are to be composed and ended by no gradging, higgling compromise—no pea- nut dicker. It is essontial to the North that the South should be thoroughly tranquilized and re- assured: it is essential to the South that her principal body of Agricultural Laborers—her peasant cultivators —should live and labor in contentment based on per- foet trust that their rights of person and property— their earnings and their homes—are as secure and in- violate as thoso of the proudest magnate in the land. There is no Northern, no Bonthern interest in the premises, but a common interest of the whole Ameri- can People, Iam for Universal Amnesty—so far a3 immubity from fear of punishment or confiseation is concerned-~ even though Impartial Suffrage should for the present Do resisted and defeated. T did think it desirable that Jofferson Davis should be arraigned and tried for troason; and it still seems to mo that this might prop- erly have been done many mouths ago. But it was not done then; and now I believe it would result in far more ovil than good. It would rekindle passions that have nearly burned out or been hushed to sleeff; it would fearfully convulse aud agitate the Southy it wonld arrest the progress of reconciliation and kindly feeling there; it would cost a large sum directly and a far larger indirectly; and—unlass the jury were scan- dalously packed—it would result in a non-agreement or no verdict. I can imagine no good end to be sub- served by such a trial, and—holding Davis neither better nor worse than thousands of others—would have bim treated as they are. 1 hope to see Impartial Suffrage established by very general consent. Many will favor it because they Liold it eminently wise and just; others because they aro tired of contention about negroes, and wish to put an ond to it. And the one simple, obyious mode of taking the negro ont of politics is just to treat him as 3 man. e will cease to be an object of special interest or champlonship from the hour that the law disregards the immaterial circumatance of his color and treats him only a5 a human beicg. I trust the States wili gonerally accord to Blacks the common rights of Manhood, irrespective of the Nation and of each other; and I trust they will agreo to place those rights under the protection of the Federal Constitution. This may not, in one sense, be necessary; yet it is best to leave no ** loop to havg adoubt upon.” The whole country needs absolute peace and rest. I'am very willing that each State should impose a moderate’ poll-tax on every citizen, and allow no one to vote who shall not have season- ably paid this tax, I hold that lunatics, idiots, crim- inals, vagrants and public paupers, have no natural right to vote, and that they ought not to be enfran- chised. If there be negroes—as I presume there are— who choose to prowl over the couctry, begging and stealing, I think these should not be allowed to vote. But every honest, diligent, industrions, useful citizen, however lowly, onght to be a voter; and that State is weakened and imperiled which excludes any such from her electoral body. 1 dislike the suggestion of an “intelligence” basis for suffrage. Let us not be deluded by false analo- gios and vaguo abstractions. Ina State where each child grows up within sight of free school-houses wherein be is more than welcome to be a pupil, it is perfectly reasonable to prescribe that those only who can read may vote. Where'half the people have not only been denied all public facilitiep for education, but have grown up under laws “hich made teaching them a crime, the case is very different. Establish common schools in the Soutb,and you may fairly prescribe that no one sball vote after 1576 who does not know how to read. Bat do not put out a man’s eyes and then punish him for blindness. It would be morally impossible to enforce fairly and uniformly an iotelligence test in the South. Just think of Mayor Monroe, with his chief of police and first marshal, sitting as a board on the eve of an ex- citing election to determine how many and which of the Blacks of New-Orleans were so literary as they should be to make them voters! Faney the Copper- heads of Southern Maryland passing on the literary pretensions of their late slaves, from whom they feared defeat in an exciting political contest! The bare attempt to enforce such a test at the South will manifestly inflame and distract that entire region. I trust it will be forborne. 1 commend Impactial Suffrage as required by the true interest of all concerned; yet I caunot admit that it is a matter in which the North has no rightful concern. The Blacks are a portion not merely of the Southern but of the American People. They played sn important and beneficent part in our great Civil War. We cancot ignore the obligations sprivging from our necessity and their loyalty. I hold that honor and good faith absolutely constrain those who triumphed in that struggle to take care that their humble supporters and backers shall not be made to suffer for taking the side of the Union, To say now, in view of the recent past, ** Lot the Southern negroes have such rights ouly as their White (late Rebel) fellow-citizens shall see fit to accord them,” would be ingratitude and perfidy such as might well invoke the lightnings of heaven. No matter at what cost, we of tho North must take care that the Southern Blacks are not left at the mercy of that diabolic spirit which manifested itself through the late massacres of Memphis and New-Orleans. “But there is the Federal Constitution in your way," I hear objected. Perhaps I do not comprehend the forco of this —_—_——'— objection. Let me illustrate my view of it by a familiar example. Suppose CGen. Grant, when ho first approached the boundary of Tonnessee—but no, Jot us suppose that Gen. Lee, when in 1863 he reached tho southern boundary of Pennsylvania, had found his way barred by a pompous, puffy personage, who accosted him as follows: “Sir, I give you notice that this is the ‘sacred soil” of Pennsylvania; Iam one of her magistrates, and, in her name and authority, and in virtue of that Federal Constitution which you have sworn to obey, I command you to turn back!"— it is just possible that the General would have ordered the justice to get out of ‘the way, but more probable that he would have simply kept on without vouch- safing the judicial magnate a word. Wao kave boen engaged in a fierce, dosperate, pro- tracted struggle for the very existence of the Republic, whereof the Constitution is but an incident. (I know there were those nominally on our gide who said Lhe:y fought for the Constitution; bub 1 never heard of their hurtiog anybody.) In the progress of that struggle, it Dbecame necessary to call the Blacks to the resoue of the imperiled Nation. Had we made them no promises whatever, our abligations resulting from our peril and their services in averting it would not have been essentially lessened. Had we been worsted, they must have shared our misfortiine, and gone un- der the feet of the trinmphant Rebels. Had woended tho struggle by treaty or compact, they must havo been governed by the torms of that compact. But we were not worsted; we did not compromise nor end the war by treaty; we were entirely and absolutely trinm- phant; and T hold it a moral obligation thence resulting that we sball guarantee and securo their absolute, per- fect freodom. To provo unfaithful to this oblization isto bury ourselves in perfidy and onduring shame. And this responsibility, springing directly from the Na- tional reseuo from ruin, I hold far before and above the letter of the Constitution. The soundness and urgency of this view would not have been so palpable had the Rebels, after the utter collapse and disappearance of their Confedoraey, evinced a grain of common sense. Had they so acted that their friends might have plausibly argued that the Blacks wero safe in their bands, we might have guessed, or trusted, or hoped, that the most vital rights of the Freedmen would be respeoted and shielded by State action; and there upon gone to sleep. But the last shota of tho war had barely ceased to echo when Southern legislatures, assembled by Mr. Joln- son's Provisional Governors, began to concoct and on- act laws bearing exclusively on the Freed. men which would have disgraced the worst days of Egyptian or of Algerine despotism. For in- stance: no reasonable person ever objected, while Slavery existod, to laws placing the Blacks in Slave States under police surveillance, and forbidding them 1o keep or bear arms; butsuch acts became absurd- Iy tyrannical from the moment wherein. Slavery dis- appeared; and the wrenching of their arms by Rebels from honorably discharged Union soldiors, under color of State authority, solely because the Unionists were Blacks, was & very cowardly mode of renewing tho war of Rebellion. So of all acts revived or re- enacted which shut Blacks out of the witness-box in cases where only Whites were parties, or inflicted on them any kind of disability which was at the same time an indignity. ‘This kind of legislation (sco Mc- Pherson's Manual) was common to all the Rebel States, though that of Mississippi was probably the worst. I rejoice that South Carolins has had the good sense to repeal her share of it, and T bail her netion in this respect as greatly conducive to an early restoration of the Union. But it is proved unsafe to trust to local authority aud opinion, which way be right to-day and wrong to-morrow: we must place the essential rights of every American citizen under the express guardianship of the Federal Constitation. That will be the end of controversy; until then, even unsuccessful attempts to abridge them will prove a grave and general calamity, I bave eaid that I favor both Usiversal Amnesty and Tmpartial Suffrago on their respective merits, each without regsrd to the other, I hold that the North is bound to insist on Manhood Suffrage—not in the South only, but in every State and Territory— becanse of the service reguired of and rendered by the Blacks in putting down the Rebellion—that it would be perfidy and basenéss,’In view of all the facts, wot to insist on this. I hold the South bound to accord Suffrage to tho Blacks, a3 an important and nseful, though humble, portion of her people, whom it is ber interest as well as her duty to conmeili- ate and satisfy, even thongh the North aid not desire it. There is no conflict between the interests and duties of the North on one side and the South on the other—what is best for each, or either, is best for both—the only collision is between their respective resentments and prejudices. The North wants to keep at lenst the leading Rebels under ban indefinitely; the South—that is, a majority of the dominant caste at the South—wants to keep the negroes uder foot—despised, powerless, and often abused by tho White rufians, whose crimes the better class disavow, but neither prevent nor punish. The logal North Las demonstrated her ability to keep the Rebols out of Congress; the Robel South has likewise proved bLer power to prevent indefinitely the due ratification of the Constitutional Ameundment. This dead-lock affords to those whom I must con- sider the more generous and far-seeing minds of oither section an opportunity which, once lost, may never return, Even though the South were able to force her leaders into Congress, they could not hope for full restoration to power and public favor; even though the North were able to force Impartial Suf- frage on the South, it would prove of little value while resisted by a strong majority of the dominant caste there. But let North and South striko bauds on the basis of Universal Amnesty with Impartial Soffrage, and the resulting peace will be perfect, all- embracing and enduring. Each section will gain everything and lose really nothing. As to bow the Blacks will vote if enfranchised, T have not inquired, and do not care to know. That they will not vote for the reéstablishment of Slavery, nor for their own disfrauchisement, nor to exalt to power those who burn their school-houses and mob their camp-meetings, I take to be solf-evident. They way make some mistakes at first; but experience will tend steadily to their diminution and correction. I'do not coucur with the eareful mother who insisted that her son must be kept out of the water till he should have learned to swim. And I feel confident that Blacks, like other men, will vote first to secure their ownrights, then to promote the welfare of their country. I the South shall insist on ber abstract right to hold the Blacks as a subject race, the North will doubt- less insist on the indefinite disfranchisement of all the prominent Rebels, and matters will thus go on as they have gone for the last year. I must still cherish my opinion that this is unwise; but I shall stand with my own people, while awaiting the calmer and wisor view that I am coufident must ultimately pre- vail, The disinterested will say, * Lot the Rebels re- main under the ban so long as they insist on keeping the Blacks there"—and they will say so with ample reason. If the adjustment I urge should ultimately fail, and, in the mutations of party ascendency, the Rebels should be let up and the Blacks be kept down, I shall regret it as much for the sake of the South as of the North; and I shall feel that the blame does not all attach to the South, And, whatever the immediate issue, T shall bate no jot of heart or hope that at last—and at no very distant day—our people will be thoroughly harmonized and united on the basis of Impartial and Universal Freedom, 1 G It now scems that there will be another addition to | tho contestod districts for Cougress. In Schuvler | R66. County, Ill., which is in the IXth District, it is wo- ported the Copperheada disregarded the Registry law, and really leld no legal election. If this be true, the Sohuyler County vote will be thrown out of the count; Gen. Lippincott baving & majority over Ross in the other counties in the District, would then be entitled to receive the certificate of electio THE RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA. The Russian Empire is in point of territory far ahead of all other countries of the world, its prosent area being nearly double that of Chins, and nearly three times that of the United States, and it still contigues to extend at a rapid rate. The independent tribes lining the southern frontier have gradually been ab- sorbed, and China and Persia have had to cede prov- incos equal in extent to the largest States of Europe. During the last two or three years the advance of Russia in Central Asia has attracted particular atten- tion. ‘There is a conntry, inclosed by Russia, China, British India and Persia, and kuown by the names of Turkestan, Turan or Independent Tartary, which is furnishing the most recont additions to Russian terri- tory. It contains about one-fifth of the territory of the United States, with a nomadie population of ounly about 7,000,000, belonging to various tribes, and con- sists of the territory of the Turromanui, the little Khanate of Magmene, and the throe more powerful Khanatos of Khiva, Bokbara and Kbokand. Intes- tino wars have been the chronic malady of these regions from time immemorable, and as regards their foreign relations, they were on the whole restricted to outrages against the few merchants and travel- ors who ventured to penetrato into the inhospitable land. For some time Russia has begun to gain a firm footing in this country. It has destroyed the Khanate of Khokand, the largest and most populous of the Khanates, embracing an area of wore than 300,000 English square miles, and a population of about 3,000,000, Last yoar a considerable portion of the Khanate was formally annexed to Russia under the namo of the Province of Turkestan. Recently, the Russian papers inform us of the formal annexation of Tashkend, one of the most important cities of the country, which alroady numbers 100,000 inhabitants, and is rapidly becoming the greatest commercial city of Central Asia. The general oxpectation is, that the remaindor of Turkestan will be annexed in the course of & few years, and that thus Russia and England will be brought face to face in India. Tho growing powor of Russia is one of the most important featuros in the political history of our century, There is this important difference between the annexed territories of Russia and the colonies of the other Great Powers of Europe, that most of the latter are sure in the course of time to resume their autonomy, while Russia will, without doubt, thoroughly absorb all the tribes of tho annexed territory, and thus constitute oue nationality whicb, it can hardly bo doubted, will be and remain the most powerful of the world, WOoOL AND WOOLENS. The Woolen manutacture is just now depressed and stagnant in this country. A Rhode Island manufac- turer accounts for this as follows: “The trouble is now, with the woolen manufacturers partic. ularly, thot, notwithstanding the bizh dutics om the finished article, the margin of Protoction is t off by tho high duties on wool, chemicals, dyestuffs, &c., and the internal rove. e tax, duplicated and triplicated, in many instances, from which foreign goods are oxempt, and the wanufacturers bave to bear rltw odium of receiving Protection, while not actually get- ting it.” —This manufacturer, be it observed, holds that the Wool-manufacture is now witheut Protection in this country—the aggrogate taxes paid by them equaling those paid by their foreign rivals. But The Evening Post says: “There is no better {llustration of the inconssquent logie of tho Protective system than is afforded by this very case of the Woolen maunfacturers and the wool-growers. 1f two and two make four, and threo from five leare two, it must bo that & tax on the importation of wool raises the price of the raw material, and thus lessens the profits of the manufacturer. If, therefors, the political situstion s such that the manufacturer has to choose between netual freedom of trade and the benefit he derives from the duty on eloth burdeaed with the duty on wool, it is plainly his interest to have all liko free, so thut the vrice both of his materials and his products shall be rogulated solely by the law of dewand and snpply.” — It is very clear that, if the Woolen mannfacture isn 't protected it isn’t; but how that proves ‘the inconsequent logic of the Protective system,” we oan- not imagine. Suppose a British manufacturer to ob- tain his Wool for a shilling sterling per pound, while his American rival has to pay 60 cents greenback, equal to 1. 9d. sterling, it is quite clear that the American manufacture has no chance for its life if the foreigu fabric comes in free of duty, Our manufac- turers might weli prefor Free Trade in earnest; but then how pay the Debt? But how this proves Protection good or bad, we are covfident no one can 500 but The Post. RECONSTRUCTION DEHA}VDL‘D IN ORDER 70 DESTROY PROTECTION, The World is fast enough to speak of free trade when there are no elections vear, and when there is no lssue of the kind up. If it is in carnest, as a froe tra; show that hereafter ; and it can take no better way of showing it than by adrising the Southern Mates to adopt the Amendment and thus clear away the reconstruction issus, so that we may not ot without delay to the consideration of other important s, as that n{'nbullcliny the injurious and swindiing pro yetem, but have the bewept of the wrhole country's advice and action therewpon, (New-York Evening Post, Nov. 13, Southern newspapers record with joy and pride the erection of new wills, factories, furnaces, and tan. neries in tho *‘unreconstructed” States, and wisely Did their readers to look to manufacturing as the only permanent source of independence of the [North, and the only source of power and equality in the Union. They fairly crow over every new industrial enterprise which is started within their impoverished limits. And well they may, for they know their worth. Not one newspaper, not one politician, in the fallen Confederacy, has breathed the folly of seeking a restoration of lost power, or the reconstruction of ruined wealth, by destroying the infant manufactures which the Rebellion gave birth to. Neither newspa- per nor stump orator has given the suicidal advice to the South, to get back into the Union in order to break down the Protective system and allow the in- dustry of the nation, both North and South, to be swamped by British Free Trade. That advice fitly and solely comes from abroad. It comes from that hostile and selfish interest which ran our blockade during the war and furnisbed the Robels with materi- als of war, and did its utmost to destroy our Govern- ment. It comes from the British Free-Traders. - The copartnership the South made with them during the war was natural and profitable. A copartnership with them in peace would be unnatural and suicidal. The South intends to do its own manufacturing. We sincerely hope it will; and we bid it a hearty Ged- speed on its way to complete industrial independence of New England as well as of Old Englaud. The organ of the foreign importers may summon the South to get rich by blockade-running throngh our custom- houses till it is hoarse. The Rebellion has taught her political economy with awful rapidity and terrible truthfulness, She is going to do her own manufac- turing. e The Commereial Advertiser, copying the statement of & Boston paper that the stocks of manufacturing, but especially of woolen companies, are now much depressed, asks us: Will our cotemporary bave the kindness to inform the pub- lio whether the present distress among the cotton and woolen Tumufacturers 1 due to Free Trade! Ts it Freo Trado which mills and factories—makes idiers and of thousands of our working men and now ‘slits up shop, beggars of hundred women 1" Answer.—Our advocacy of the Tariff bill passed by the House last Summer should bave precluded the above question. We do believe that the vital in- terest of this country, and of every part of it, requires the imposition of higher duties on foreign manufac- tures, to counterbalance and orerbalance those now paid by the makers of our domestic wares and fabrics. It the Government exacts in various ways $10 in axas on arore tan of Pig Tron made in this country, ‘| tinetly refer to the and éxacts but $9 per tun duty ujnmi;;; when imported, we think this equivalent to Free Trade, oralittle worse. And we hold that the heavy burdeny now borne by our home manufactures (which we would not remove till our National Debt is paid), absolutely require the imposition of higher and mory discriminating duties on their foreign wools when im. ported. We trust The Commercial understands ug - now, ' We mean to be plain-spoken, WASHINGTON. : id ik TAK PRESIDENT'S OPINION OF THE EFFECT OF Ty ELECTIONS—THE MESSAGE AND THE ANNUAL g PORTS—REDUCTION OF POSTAGE BETWREN py- GLAND AND THE UNITED STATES—BUSINEAS IN Tig FPOURTH AUDITOR'S DEPARTMENT—PERSONAL, WasaNGTox, Monday, Nov. 26, 199, BY TELEORAPE TO THF TRIBUNE. In conversation with a friend a few days singe, President Johnson remurked that it was & mistaken idea that the rocent elections had established the fact that the coming Cougress would be more Radical than ever. The elections had indeed perpet of Congross, but the same alntl:eongch:h&: ed the fact that the Constitutional Amendment could not be passed. Was it not therefore the duty and interest of both parties to unite on some middly plan that would admit the South on terms satisfactory to the North? Although the President did not gis. lan of Universal Suffrage and Universal Amnesty, he was understood to allude to it. Thé message of the President was to-day placed i the bands of the Government printer in zge p'r’:g: - D.rmnonl. The members of the Cabinet and &:2 of departments are busily employed on their annual reports, and soe as fow visitors as poasible. The office seekers, h apparently aware of this fact, do not diTi?hh in rl'a:dm&en. 1 t is repo at & new al arrangement been eflegtd with England, &fl:tzou Iizwm ?: two countries to be reduced one-balf (12 ceuts), and to be prepaid, each Governmeut to keep what it re- ceives. The number of cash requisitions of the Fourth Auditor's Office for the past year were 2,240, amount. ing to $45,083,956 03, this sum being the whole amonnt of funds for the navy which the Fourth Auditor authorized to be expended, beiug about a third of the amount for the same period oxpended during the war. The number of cash refunding requisitions were 707, amounting to $8,948,503 03. Theamount of Internal Revenue tax collected was $377,613 63. The letters received during the year were 70,117, being ao in- crease ot over 3,000, The lotters written nuwber 79,- 866, being an increase of 13,545, There are now 349 bound volumes of letters reoeived since 1793. The amount of prize movey distributed by the Fourth Auditor from July 1, 1865, to July 1, 1506, was 2,509, 269 30. Total acconnts settled 233, involving dis- barsements to the amount of 4,100,276 24, A statement has beon published that the President has (flnn to Mrs. Thompson permission for her hus- band, Jacob Thompscu, to return home. This is un. true. He positively refused to give any such permis- sion, but said Thompson must take the mnn:gm of mumum: m:n(inmhdnmfl ro:‘ A consi numl ol dmhnrd o dicrs are copstantly arriving here from Northerm cities to enlist in the invalid of the army. Many are hnvinmhn paid from the funds of Soldiers’ Homes, ol 0, and other institutions, and as no more cripples are received into the army, these men are thrown penniless upon the Board of Relief of the Soldiers' and Bailors’ Union, and must be u;,vpomd or furnished transportation to their homes. The faot that such men are not reeruited here should be made public, and their coming discouraged. The clerks of the differeat Government Departments to-duy signed petitions to Congress, asking for an in- crease of compensation. In their memorial they represent that, owing to the high price paid for the neoessities of life, it is impossible to properly provide for the future, edueate their children, or to live in any other style than that of a common mochanic. A concert of aetion has been had by all interested, and it is contemplated that the constituents of every Member of ess shall individually constitute & C%mikuu to funh:;;::d su‘oem of the nx‘u‘;ngnt. ‘'orkmen are e n preparing ld Fair building on Pennsylyania-aye. rum banquet to be ven to the Republicau Members of Congress on turday next. Nothing definite has yet been roceived from the British Government in_relation to the claims for in- demnity growing out of the depredations committed on American commerce by the Alabama and otber Robel privateers. The correspondence is still in pro- {’rm between the two Governments. The prasept ritish Ministry, however, show a better disposition than the former oue in the consideration of the im- portant subjeet. ————— LAND OFFICE REPORTS BY TELXGRAPH TO THR TRIDONE. Returus received at the General Land Otlico show that 70 acres ofthe puble lands wate dispascd of & Octaber ot the Oliowing local offiges: loaia. Mich, actes; Lrowawrill- Ne- w......‘ s seren r:" ‘por{on of the lend was located " o 3 A8 iommestond ALk The O up for actusl settienieu: under L hat and will 0000 submit to the Secretary of the Tuteror [ Lis -nmd 8 list of snlections for the Coutral Pasific Railrosd of Califoruia ew: Dracing in the aggrogats over 40,000 scres of land, being an iosta laxt I‘..&vnclr”x:. Cowpany under the Pacific Railwsy grast, by scte of ¢ . OBITUARY. ot Gy THE HON. A. J. BALDWIN. s We recently announced the death of the Hoo. Dan- fol Shafer, Member of Assembiy elect from Schoharie County. Since then the Hon. A. J. Baldwin, membor olect from Sulliras, has died. The doceasod ware both Democrats. The elsotions 10 il the vacaneids will orgauization of the Asso! CAPT. A. N. BREVOORT. Capt. A, N. Brevoort of the United States Marine Corps diad yesterday, at bis residence in Brooklyn. Capt. Bre- voort entorod the service in March, 1320, and was placed 0po# tho retired list in November, 1861 He was a faithful servast of his country, and loaves behind him an hovorabie record a large circlo of mourning fricads. The funeral services W take place at L o'clock p. m., Wednesday. JOHN THOMAS. One of the best known men to the older printers of New-York died yestorday morning at Rahway, N.J. Joba Thomas came to this city from Utica when a boy and engaged in learning the printing t Hosubsequent] ned a print- g o Ui Miman ot wheto bo doskingad tbs s pess for maoy years. | probably, the most influeatisl of any man in the countey in introducing the steam cylinder press into our newspaper offices, and was the first who over printed & newspaper upou such press ia this city. He for man years printed The Courier and Enguirar, and also The Sun Was a member of the firm of Baker & Godwin for five and that of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck for seven yoars. tired from the latter firm aud from aotive business two years ‘mflnbly pot take place unti after the Iy ago. He was 62 years of ago at tho time of his death. .\ wife and two daughters sursive bim. His funeral will be ol in this city on Wednesday. Dia notios of which 7 ¢§ BOSTO. — THE MASSACHUSETTS LIQUOR CASES TO GO To TOB SUPREME COURT BY TELRGRAPH TO THR TRINUNE. Bosrox, Nov. 26.—At the lato term of the Uaited States Circuit Court, a case came up for trial on 2 indict- ment, charging the defendant with selling liquor withous having paid the required United States license foe. q Goeorge Sinnott, the counsel, objected to the indictment, taking the ground that the United States could ot I tako money froma person for carrying on an uolavfel business; and made the query, ‘‘cad United States, as & Government, Ilz s tax upon & criminal business, say, for instance, the business of knr'flll house of ill fame; or make & porsou pay & licanse for car- rying on the samo?” Upon ‘this, the Court ordersd the arguments in writing to bo made aud submitted, and that having been done, the Judgos to-day informed the that they were unable to agree npon any of the quostions raised by Mr. Sinnott, and thercfore she case must go 10 the Supreme Court of the United Statos, upon the octifi- . cate of division of opiuion. FIRES. i LARGE FIRE IN SKLMA, ALA. SeryA, Ala., Nov, 26,—A destruotive firo mnfl“‘ fu this city last Dight. Every building on the north side Water-st., between Washington and Beva buraed, and il tia bulldizgy on tho cast aide of fi""‘.‘. Linton's.alley and Water at., excopt two, McReos & Johasow store and The Messenger offico, which were both ‘e loss by the conflagfation is estimated at over heaviest losers are: Mossrs. Judson & Duncas, & 45,000 ; insured for §20,000. Mosgrs. Burnett, Martin & Svaat $200,000; insured for §60,000. Messrs. McReo & Johnsod loss is about $50,000; insured for $25,000. Messrs Bowea THooper, $12,000; insured for §8,000. IN LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. L 8r. Louis, Nov. 26.—A fire in Leavenworth 08 g-l:nhy uf mmiu on_Thirdst, Spoonable & Co., dr, ; c é"mflugfll‘f S tr i W Witherell, grocers. , 8, [amilton, an m. 3 all thelr stock, &, was lost, but is fully corered by Lasurasce in Eastorn oftices. Post-Orrick GuaRD.—On Thanksgiving-Dey, clorks in the New- York Post.Office DOpu:lOll lnt:l for target practice. The shooting groun .M' o e g X I ber .'.‘I-‘.."'..v‘:i’#“ gt r'.‘-n ‘many valuable prises shob o be pl-"l‘ for, There is no doubt that w:-n:r:m-:u{a:u r.lg ‘E‘ v Jitahic appearance, as ! : fi::'f-"rf;‘glfn o ahy & hard wou Geld—erv et with I% ol - the