The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1866, Page 4

—————— 4 Amugements. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUML DAY AND EVENING-OLD ADAM. Mr. C. W. Ol ol gompaey. WO HURDRED THOUSAND CURIOf VAN AMBURGH'S COLL ON OF WILD ANIMALS, R Ut‘;?ZN. & STRANGER end DON CESAR OB 18 AFTERNOO! rA AN, M, Lawin Baoth in two charactecs. @HIS EVENING— TALIAN OPERA—THE MUGUENOTS. . .thElh UARDEN, IS EVENING-THE BLACK CROOK—Grest Padeicone Pl Trowpe. NEW.YORK THEATER. ZHIS EVERINO—-ORIFFITH GAUNT; Or, JEALOUSY, VRKv on ¥ L T CIRCUS TROUPE. Robert 2§ o'clock. WALLACK'S TUEAT ~ THIS EVENING-CENTRAL PARK. N stor Wallack, Mr. o R i (O bore. M. Chacion Fisbes, Bliss Made- Hine Heoariques, Mrs. Vernon. - e JLYMPIC TREATER. L‘MP()NI) STRIKE, Mr Charles Wheat- Js"l 58 BABY. Mr. Staart Robson. FOX'S OLD BOWERY THEATER. 48 EVENINO—ADRIENNE.; Or, THE SECRET OF A ufi. Misw Fanoy Herring NEW.YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 20K, WASHINGTON W INS—ANATOMICAL COLLECTION. Gpen daily frou 8 8. m. to 10 p. v, - ! NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESION KU L ERRINTHON OF TIHB ARTISTS FUND aSE Y. Open trom 9 a. . to 10 p. m. N b impalas OV BROADWAY TUHEATER. PUSEVENING—ARMADALE. Miss Kate Reiguoids. . STEINWAY MALL. THIS Am“flofl‘!WllDl&DlNlW CONCERT OF GNOR ,fi\'lllfil AND lll. A II. PE. 3 o'clock. I8 EV (G—FOURTH WEDN! AY O fi Mz Julios Eichberg, Mesass. L1ill sud Colby, sud Theodore 's Orand Orebestra BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THIS EVENING—FRENCH OPERA—THE CAID—LE MAI- TRE DE. CHAPELLE. ;.I.IOK'S NSTRELS, ATRIMORY—CITY CARS—BLACK STA- K THIS EVERING TUE, &e. . GERMAN THALIA THEATER. THIS EVENING-SIE IST WAHNSINNIG. DIE WIENER TN PARIS, M. Bogumil Dawison. STUDIO BUILDIND. TENTHS! 181 NTH ST, ;. EXHIBITION OF FRENCH AND FLEMISH PIC rform the trade that they sre producing m-w““".( m.,«‘;‘:‘:.l“l:n-- wnd Tea Tanin Wk of every . ‘end of now and eicgunt desigue. e Nreer Biver, ‘which s a deposit of Pore Silver such thickess that ol the sdvantages of solid sitver in . aud from and e, sl are undistings from it anafuctutiog Coumpany rebr they have rotublished Al articies yads by theas are stemped GURHAMAG, ., el fi.......""“ g Sty oy dogr 4 oeen talensis oy Imitated. Thode poods can from reeponeisls dealeors throughout th+ Turrany & Co., > Nos 580 axwp 552 BROADWAY, opewing 100 of choice goods, of their fan ek mads e thols oo e Sesbrsaing ol the. movel s Tha Gokian Maxvr Providence, R. 1., is wvet wcbibited on this contivent. Davis Couuamore & Co., laving E Thele Stote by Exteuding Ut theough to Mercerst., bavo sddrd - WILVER PLATED WARR B0 thoir 1 arge Btock of OHINA AXD GLASSWARS. . W desire Eapecial Altention to a Large Astortaent of NEW CHINA DINING SETS. Tux HOLIDAYS. _ 1 Tus Lasgser AreO>nTaasT Ix Tau Covwrar 03 . RIOH DINNER AND TEA SETS, PARDS OLOOKS AND OTATUARY, oad Fawn.FAx0Y Goons—of out own importation. ,_1"‘_@1%_,':‘ 940 Fhoast., Beoohirn. BeavTievr, HAIR —CHEVALIER'S LIVE YOR THR Blatn positively restoree gray hair to its original color and youthfal Beauty , imparts lifs and strength to the weakest hair ; stops ite faliing @Wt st ouco; koops the head closa; is unparalielod as & hair-dressing Boid by ail druggists and fashionable hair-dressers, and ot wy office, o.1,128 Broadway, N. Y. Sanaw A, Curvaum. M.D. + The most solected assortment of elegant Wona in this city, snd st ates far below the * seneation prices” of the T T Y - INOIPIERT CONSUMPTION | BRONCHITIS ! CATARRN! Hfiw-fl other vkin diseeses, Liver and Kiduey com- P “hronle: m Piles. Diabetes, Asthma, Nervous Debil Rbeumatisn. Gustritia and Mercurisl Affections. For N Sovereign Remedisls pr--rud.:'lfi .ltlrc-lulii .-n:.h'l'm stamp. . WHiTE & GLRNNEY, PracTican Duxrisrs, A e PO T Sy .~ Bloti ANp FreckLES. —Ladies aflicted with Dis- Freckles, e \TED Fu Dr. 8. C. Panay, Dermat , by all druggists in New-York and slsewbere. Price $2. 18 DYE.—The best in the world; N ouly dye—black Genuine At EVEADELL'S CARD Deeor, No. 302 Broadway.— E" m‘*mgnu will be : Dee. l:. e o, Daxz's 0-BroxomIaL Tnocnes Qougha, Colds el Trost and Lvug Dissasen. 8ol evveywhers Jiscard lqjlrl'ou-:rddinp. Madame Jumel's Balm and Patent Elevator to developthe form pbye- Depot 363 Casal-ot. Soid by dioggiste. Send for circular. llm.nd!holm: Foa sud . 4237, Wackss, No. 78 Browdway, op stairs. wica PoMADE Restores Gray Hair, Rl s g pom Semire] et . _.:_nu:l.-.by B.VMxPu:‘u.LLD.— Lock-8rrron MAcuunes for Tailors and Guoves & Baxse Sxwive Maomixs Cowrasy, g E:rm BTOOKINGS, SUSPENSORY BAND- Bevrenruss, W Manex & Co's Radiel Cure Trs Offce CL AL Ghendusl. - ‘charm of METOALPE' oai-r REFUMATIO w_&'fim ULSPATLER, Pt T —— No. 498 Brosdway. X boen agooed apon for the opening of the wid of the Masonie Hall and Asylum ¥und, at the corner of reconstruotion. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBIR 5. 184 —t——— WEPKESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1866, TO ADVERTISERS. - Wo will thank our advortising owstomers to hapd 1n their Advertisenents ol as early au hour se possibie. 1f recelwed aftec 1 o'mlock they cannet be Classbed ande thew proper heads. SOLON ROBINSON'S NEW NOVEL. The publication of this story is commenced in Trar Weskex Teipuns of this week, ready this moming. Tho roadors of Mr. Eobiuson's agricultural writings in Tk TRISUNE for 80 many years will, very many of them, wish (o read this novel, “THE WexkLY TriSUNE is for salo by all newsmon, Or is sent by mail for #2 per year. . 3 On the second. paga of to-day's isewe willbe found lA:A-udMn;‘uumofm ll?. the b‘«mmfib ftevior and the Commissioner of Agri- evlture. Financial and Commercial News appears on the third page. Gov. Ward, Chairman of the Netional Republican Contral Committeo, has called that body Lo meet in Washington on tho 17th of January. e e e Congress already ropents. Mr. Schenok l;ld Mr. Cobbhave both introduced bills to repeal the inorease of pay of members passed at Lhe last session. ‘Me. Boutwell made an intorosting explanation in the House yesterday, in which he repeated his aseer- tion thathe had good reason 1o bolieve that tho Ex- ecutive Depactment had had knowledge, as early'as last May, of the hiding place of Jobn H. Surratt. e Gov. Peirpoint's message stands in strong contrast with the messages of the other Southern Governors, a4 an able defonse of the Constitutional Amendment. ‘Thers is no likelibood, however, that the Legislaturo of Virginia will take his advice. Mr. Wentworth offered a resolution in the Mouse, yesterday, (o the offect that the many recent acts of disloyalty in the Robel States are additional reasons why they should pass the Constitutional Amendment before Congress can consider the propriety of admit- ting them. It was passed by 119 to 32, ‘Wo may oxpeot that Congress will, at least, con- sider the prgprioty of rejecling the present Governments of the Rebel States, and submit thoir reorganization to the loysl people irrespoetive of color. A leading Senaler bolieves that an act to tids effoct will be passod. ‘The Democratic Central Committee of Indiana are o oool and comfortable body; they affirm that the rocout elections show that the President's policy is susiained by an overwhelming majority. Unlackily, the peuplo ‘who are ignorant enough to believe their address are too ignormt to read it. —— proper suporvision over the conduct of the Executive Dopartmont in_relation to Moxico and France, Wo bave s statemont that the Fiinoh Minister, M. do Montholon, accuses the President of not having statod fairly the imtontions of France in regard to the evacna- tion of Mexico, and that an important dispatch s ex- expocted from the Emperor in reply to Mr. Beward's recont message over the cable. Wo can sde but one reason for & foreign war—the desire of a few short- sightod politiciana o settle in that way tho question A motion to take up the bill passed by tho Honse on Monday, to repeal the Amuesty power of the President, was defoated in the Sennte yestorday. Mr. Fessendeoo, properly, we think, objected to voting upon & bill till it had been considered in Committee. ‘The assertion of Mr. Ghandler that pardons were sold by women of doubtful reputation, shows the necessity of promptly looking into the abuso of the power given to the President, but does not prove the advantage of unusual haste. Such facts rather show the import- ance of & thorough search into the pacdon system, which the immediate passage of the repoaling act would probably prevent. ‘We havg beon shown a card from the Craig Nows Bureau, boasting of its * enterprise” in printing the President's Message before it was read. The World newspaper also printed some extracts from the Mos- sage on Monday morning. Al we know is that the Meossage was placed in the bands of tho Associsted Press agent aud of the Craig agent, under promise to koop secret until it bad been read in the Houss. This promise was observed by every member of the Asso- oiated Press, although we might as well have printed it on Monday morning as not, had we broken our promise. The World and Craig call this ** entorprise,” but for enterprise like this many persons are now sorving the State at Bing Sing. When a newspaper descends to penitentiary tricks, look out for the Sheriff and bills of sale. THE CHARTER ELECTION. Seventy-five thousand votes was the maximum of certain shrewd oaloulations of the vote to be polled in,yesterday's eloction. By to-day's report it will be seen that the vote but slightly escaped the minimum of the estimate. But 71,597 votes were polled for the highest office on the ticket—that of Consroller. ‘We leave it to those who, by the showing of the returns, must have neglected their duty at the polls, to nurso the mortification rosultant from the defeat of Mr. Richard Kolly by the incopsiderable msjority of 2066. It is fair to say that neither party manifested its full strength by many thousands, aund this is conspicu- onsly true of the Democratic factions, whatever be said of the Republicans. But all true friends of the city must be sensible that the ceuse of reform bas missed _ an opportunity, the roal yalue of which was by no means approciated before- baud. Consequently Richard B. Connolly, a Tam- many Democrat, pledged to the *‘Ring," to whose effort be, more or less, must owe his triumph, and in all respects the least desirable of the three principal candidates, has been elected Con- troller of New-York. We have but to hope that the lesson learned by forfeit will hold good to another day of reckoning with the organised abuse of power which afflicts this great city. The resuit surely de- monstrates that the City of New.York can with fair effort bring to sgreement.a combination of its best men of all parties strong enough to sweep cor- ruption out of its highest offices, or secure ot least an improved and progressive ad- ministration ,of its interests. The lesson of defeat, if well studied, may be applied at some | future time to » contest in earnest, and a viotory therefore assured. It is doubtless necessary thet our TE 184, 1 Theodore Allon aad tho not less unrofreshing Alderman Masterson. But woe regret exceedingly she defeat of Christophor Pullmaa, the choice of whom for Alder- man would have boan a robuke of some significanoe to the “ Ring," aud & woll-won reward of an honest maa. THE AMERICAN NAVY. Army and Navy Reports bavo ceased to bo a8 inter- esting aa a little whilo ago, when every sbip was in line of battle, and every soldior hurried to the front. Our army of half a million bas dwindled down to & littlo corps of 54,000, just onough not to keep the In- dians and the Robels in the best order. Tho decreaso in the active forcs of the Navy is less. Beoretary Wollee reports that of the 278 vessols and 2,351 guns now in the Navy, thers are in commis- sion and on duty I15 vessels and 1,020 guns. Evon fog thoss, wo judge, there is not much nocessary oocupation, though we sbould roluctantly see the squadrons which bear our flag on all tho seas rocalled home and laid upin idleness. An army can be dis- banded and calied out again, but ships must be kopt inuse to bo serviceable, and 163 out of service are cortainly enough for sconomy. Of those 54 are iron- olads, now stowed away at Leaguo Island, in the Delaware Rivor, fresh water being conaidored neces- sary to thoir prosorvation. Mr. Wellos justly con- siders that Congroas should make some provision for the safo-koeping of vessels which have cost the conntry several millions of dollars, and we trust that early in tho session & depot for irou-clads will be se- leoted. ‘The House last Summer accopted the offer of League Island, but the New-England influencs in the Sonate defeated tho bill. In time our monitors will bo superseded by better inventions, yet for years thoy might safoly be trusted to defend our harbors againat the navies of Franco and England. The Mon- adnook and the Miantonomal have crossed tho At- lantic, and in comparison with the bost monitors of -Europe did not need to hide their turrotted heads. A squadron is maintained in the Gulf, with as much roferonce to foreign as to home affairs. These ten vessols patrol the Gulf from Havana to tho Rio Grande, but bave had no ocoasion for asserting the rights of the United States. Mr. Wolles rofers to the roport that colored mon wore kidnapped on the South- orn coast and sold into Cuba, but says no such out- rages wore “discovered. Bquadrons have also been sent to ornise in the waters of Europe, Asia, Africa, and in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific and South Pacific Oceans, making in all eight squadrons employed to some oxtent in exploration and ocoan surveying eervice. No unusually import- ant work of scionce has, however, beon assigned to the Navy, though we novor had an orgaaization better fitted to make discoveries and observationa. Among the special subjocts which tho Repott consid- ors is tho establishment of Goverument shops for the oconstruotion of iron and armored vessels. Mr. Wollea observes that the waut of building-shops, ship-houses, and dry-docks was & cause of serious delay duting the whole war. He wishea this deficiency supplied, and thinks that every unv)'-yui should have a dry-dock. The restoration of the yards at Norfolk and Pensacols is urged upon Congross, and ho adds that, in caso of & war with any of the great naval powers, we should suffor sorioualy from the want of a navy yard in the Gulf, provided with all appliances for the repair of vessols. Harbor defense is briefly cousidered, but no satisfactory report is made; it appears that the Board appointed by the War and Navy Departments, of whioh Rear Admiral Dahlgren and Gen. Barnard were prominent mewmbers, failed to submit acomplete plan. Mr. Wollos suggests that a bureau should be estab- lished to take charge of the interests of our seamen, thosa of the merchant marine as well as of the Navy. ‘We know that the race of sailors is dyingout; thero aro not many of those tarry haroes loft, who thought the sea tho natural element.of man, and regrottad that so much of the globe was wasted in dry land. Jaok in & torado exclaimed, *‘Lord! bow I pities them poor folks on shore " Our sailors now age half landsmon, and in vther navies the service is equally detoriorated. England finda it very bard to get good sailors. Lifo before the mast has ceased to be altract- ive to the imaginations of young mon, and the Bec- rotary advises that measures should be taken to im- prove the service, and to secure the comfort of sailors. ‘The system of naval apprenticeship, recently revived, i 80 far sucoessful, the Roport ators, and certain im- provements in it are recommendod. The agaregate naval pension fand is $11,750,000, an increass of $2,750,000. The income is more than enough to pay the pensions now on the roll. The expenditures during the year ending Jun wore $43,124,526, leaving a balance of § The available resources for the fiscal year endiug Juna 30, 1867, are $117,944,060, ‘The appropriation asked is $93,568,436. Altogether, we ars satisfiod with the condition of our Navy as exhibited in this Report, and urge upon Congross the importance of cousidering Mr. Wellos's suggostions. Wo do not se that he could bave made a bolter use of the large force leit on his hands at the close of the war, and Congress must take further moasures for the complotion of that groat system of which the war laid the rough foundations. The Seo- rotary winds up with an jeloquent appeal to the Gov- ornment to do its best for the Department, and an earnost eulogy upon the services of our ships and men, and we will all gladly join bim in the old chorus— Huzza ! for the Army and Navy, And three choers for the Itad, White and Bhua." THE FENIANS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH. 1t will be rememberod that at the trial of the Fenian prisoners in Canada, application was made to the Court by the Counsel for the condemned prisoners for & rule wisi, calling on the Attorney-General of Upper Canada to show cause why & now trial should be bad, and the verdict set aside. On Batarday last the Judges of the Queen's Bench gave their decision rofus- ing the rule. Thus the law is left to tako its course; — that is, the sentence of death by hanging will be carried out on the 13th of the present month, uuless the Crowu shall, in the interim, exercise its prerogative of meroy, and commate the sentence, The subject demands o few words at our handa. Our goncern at present is not with the technical grounds on which tho rule has boan rofused. These may, or may not, be sufficient to justify the course adopted by the Judges; but tho purely legal points aro completely overshadowed by the higher considera- tions which the case unquestionably involves. Assum- ing that the Fenians now under sentonce of death bave had a fair and impartisl trial, and that there is no good reason in law why the former proceedings should be reversed, the question prosses itself upon us, is there any necessity, in the intereats of the public safe- ty, for carrying ont the extremo sentence of the law 7 Most certainly not, we think. On the contrary, wo aro of opinion that in this instance olemency will do much more than severity in subserving those interests. We aro aware thatit is strongly urged by those who are crying out {pr the blood of the Fenians, that to spare their lives would have too much the appear- ance of yielding through fear of unpleasant conse- quences. The Fenians, it is said, havo assumed & menacing attitude in ocounection with this business, and England, therefors, must show that sho is not to be frightened by threats. But we need not attempt to show here how unworthy it would be of a great na- {but of this wo are confident—she will not avert that ‘danger by & systom of wholosalo stranglivg. To sparo these condomusd prisomers now lyiog ‘in a Canadian prison may have little or no offect in allaying the Fenian excitoment; but it is certain that to execute them would groatly oxasperate the Irish, both hore and elsewhere, and possibly load to retalia- tions of the most -deplorable character. The “ gtamping out ¥ process is replote with dangor, even to tho strong. There is such a thing as driving men to desperation, and when that point has been -reached wo must look for desds of blood at the thought of which hnmanity shudders. Even under present cir- cumstances, then, a wise policy would dictate clemency to the British Government. Thore is another consideration which ought not to Do lost sight of by the British authorities: the United States Government has askod that the lives of the Fenians be spared. Into tho conduct of our Govern- ment in the whole business of the invasion of Canada wo will not now enter, as only recoutly we expressed our sentiments frosly and fully on tho subjeot. But it i notorious that but for the prompt action of Presi- dent Johnson in enforoing the neutrality laws, the invasion would, to say tho loaat, have resulted in conaequonces very much more serious than those that followed it. This is universally aduiitted by the English Pross, and the members of Lord Dorby’s Cab- inet have mot been backward in acknowledging the important services rendered by President Johnson in protecting Canada from tho Feniana. Considering the tacit encouragement given by Mr. Johnson in tho first instance to the Fonian plan for the invasion of the British Provinces, ho could hardly have done less than ask that mercy be shown to the unfortunate men now awaiting the' falon's doom; but in view of what the English Govornment regards s his good offices in restraining the Fenians, by vigorously putting tho neutrality laws in operation agninst them, wo hardly ses how the applicatiod of the Ametican Gov- ernment on behalf of the prisonors in question can be disregarded. 'Wo aro bound to assume that the appli- cation has been made in good faith; and if so, its ro- jection cannot faif' to have the effect of disturbing those cordial relations whigh we learn, on the autbor- ity of Lord Derby, at present exist betwoon the En- glish Government and that of the United States. Notwithstanding the decision of the Canadian Judges, wo cannot bring ourselves to boliove that the Fenian prisoners under sentence of death will be exo- cuted. But should the Government allow itself to be influenced by the ravings of that portion of the En- glish press Which urges that in dealing with the Fenians all considérations of mercy should be ignored —should it yield to the clamors of those who demand the execution of thesp prisoners—it will require no proplietic faculty to predict the consequences of*guch unwise severity. It is folly to imagine that men im- Dbued with the feslings which animate the great body of the Fenians will be intimidated, or driven from their purpose, by a relontless policy. There isbutone only means of disarmirig hostility, aud that is—doing Jjustice to Ireland. ————— THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. The Report of Mr. Browning, Secretary of the In- terior, is not romarkably interesting. We learn that the number of acres of public lands sold during the year ending Jitue 30, 1366, wore 4,620,312.87, with cash roceipts of $524,645. The entire public domain is 1,465,485,000 acres, of which 474,160,155 have been surveyed. The number of homestead entries ex- ceeded that of the previous year by over 60 per cent— a fact which is encouraging. Mr. Browning refors to the difficulties in New-Mexico and Arizons, arising out of claims under the Spanish and Mexican laws, and the interests of those young Territories seem to require the interferenco of Congress. Ho calls atten- tion egain to the immense value of our mineral lands, and especially asks that the working the mines on the Pacific Slope should be placed under a more definite law, and made tos greater oxtent tributary to the general prosperity. Mavy of these topics are considered at more length in the Roport of the Commissioner of the Genersl Land Office, which we elsewhere exawine. Much of Mr. Browning's attention is given to local matters in | the District of Columbia, and he closes with a request that the salaries of the clerks in his department should be increased. We think tha whole matter of salaries might be examined by Coogress, with good rosult; there appear to be many inequalitios and un« just discriminations, and a revised aystem should be ostablished. OUR PUBLIC LANDS. Although not perliaps of such immediate and strik- ing intorest as several other of the Reports from the different departments of the public service auvually presented to Cougress, the resumé of the operations of the General Land Offica is always a document of considerable importance; and that for the past fiscal year, of which we publish a synopsis this moruing, | does not fall short in any of the elements that com- bine to give value to such a document. The chief wealth of the United Ntates lies in their vast territory, embracing not only extensive areas of fertile arable soil and exoellent pasture-land, but abounding also iu the precious metals, and the other minerals | #0 largely employed in the daily material appliances of civilized life. To develop to the utmost the latent riches of our lands should ba a matter, therefore, of | the first consideration with the Government; and it is gratifying to know that its vital importance to the nation has been duly appreciated by those to whose hands the control of the destinies of the country has besen from time to time committed. The sticcess which “has attended the system adopted of late years for encouraging settlements, amply proves the wisdom of that systom. What a tale is told by the figures disclosed in this report! “The quantity of land sur- veyed on June 30, 1566, including private olaims] is equal to 831,250 farms of 160 acres each, or more than s million and a half of B80-acre tracts!" These, it must be remembered, if we would estimate aright the tremendous significance of the statement, sre settlements. They are * homesteads;"—spots sround which ultimately are to gather all the best ele- ments of modern civilization; centres from which are to radiate the influences of education, intelligence and Christian morality, Their relation, too, to the in- crease of the material wealth ofthe country is a mat. ter of great moment. The public lands are being fast pooplad by o class of men who look to the soil for their support aud advancement in life, and who as- sume ownership propared and resolved to expend upon that soil all the resources of a vigorous industry. This division and settlement of our lands gives assurance, beyond anything else weo know in the wide circle of merely human agencies, of s prosperous and glorious future for the American nation. That is an eminently wise and patriotic policy, too, which appropriates directly a portion of the land for purposes of national improvement, such as the sup- port of public education and the comstruction of great highways. The former is essential to the maintenance of ropublican institutions such as ours, Intelligence is the very life, the vital sustaining principle of & free govern- ment, for none but an intelligent people are capable of governing themselves. The latter is as absolately necessary for agricultaral development and cow- mercial progress;}for without fucilities of transit, indus- try, disheartened, is sure to languish, and degenerate into fitful efforts for supplying the commonest wants of lifs. By making the land contributory to the purposes just named, we make it what it was destined by the Creator %o be, & common benefit, a universal blessing. In some countries the ownership of the soil 15 the monopoly of the fow, whom it supports in dis- graceful idlonsss and princely huxury, while the many, yhose (ellsome dustsy extincts from the agll s lamadui the Old Word appreciate the advantages held out (o them by our Homestoad laws. - The Ieport gives us aome intoresting and valuable information relative to the minersl lands of the United States. The extont of our goal deposits is something astounding, and gives largo promise of a prosperous. future for domestic manufucturing interests. As to iron, that most useful of motals, we have enough, it is catimated, to last us for centuries o come; and in rogard to silvor and gold, wo have just bogun to draw upon the large stores awaiting the miner's skill and toil to enrich the nation. * ‘What a page in American histosy is that of ‘‘ our public lands” destined to become! 1t daszles and confounds the imagination to think of the wealth yot tobe drawn from our agrioultural lands, our pasture lands; and our mineral tands. It is the part of a fore- socing and prudent legislation to help the steady do- velopment of that wealth; and judging from the past, thero is no cause for fear that such assistance as Gov- ernmont can render in the good work will be wanting. Let us add, that such suggestions as those made in the Roport relative to the planting of trees are worthy of practioal attention. This subject is one of great importance, and deserves the serious eon- sidoration of farmors, ospecially of settlers on the ‘Western prairies. CONFIDENTIAL . RELATIONS . WITH - THE PRESIDENT. Wo did not publish the Prosident's Message last Weodnesday; that kind of enterprisc we left for The Times, and congratulate it upon its success. That | o paper, in double leaded type, startled its readers by the announcement that it was able, ** through some who have recently had confidential relations with the President,” to state with ** almost absolute certainty” ita character, and then gave what protended to be an abstraot of what Mr. Johnson intended to print. He must have changed his mind very suddenly. Tho good people who pinned their faith upon the almost absolute certainty of The Times wero shaken a little, when they read the Message as Con- gross roceived it. No less than three amendments to the Constitution were promised by The Times &5 part of the document. Mr. Johnson was to recom- mend the abolition of the Electoral College, snd the election of President and Vice-Prosident by voters en masse ; he was to advise the election of U. 8. Senators by the people of the States at large, instead of by the Legislatures; he was to suggest that Judges of the Supreme Court should be appointed for & term of 12 years. The first of these amendments, in Mr. Johnson's opinion as given by The Times, ** would oventually regulate the question of sufftage, by making it of imperative interest that each State in- clude as many voters as possible, anu thus, in proper time, the franchise will bo extendod to the ocolored people.” What a terrible interest would have been taken mmwwmfi-uum been | acceptod as the truth ! 2 Unluckily, the Message of The sage of Mr. Johnson prove to be about as different as Milton’s * Paradise Lost™ from Smith's Primary Grammar. The grand line of national policy marked out for him by The Times Mr. Johnson has unkindly refused to follow, and he does not propose to Congress a solitary amendment, excopt the amendment of its wicked ways. We wonder who were the persons froin whose coufidential conversations with tho President The Times got its startling * Roorback.” Could it have been deceived by the waiters t Has it been the viotim of misplaced confidence in the cook 1 THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The Anbual Report of the Commissioner of Agricul- tare is a very briel dooument—too brief, indeed, it would seem, if we take into consideration the vast in- terests it treats of, and the bulky documents issuing from other departments. ‘The faots and considerations presented in the Report show the condition of the Northern States to be very flourishing. The increase during the past year in the number and value of farm stock, in the amount, average and value of crops, ap- poars to be most gratifying, and many readers of the Roport will lay it down regretting that no more is of- fored, a feeling which is by no means shared by the readers of other documents of this class. With regard to Southern agriculture, the Report justly dwells upon the immense prospects of Southern agriculture, which only need the adoption of a rea- sonable labor system to secure a prosperity nnpar- alleled in the past, and unsurpassed by any other State in the Union. The Department of Agriculture has & great mission to perform in these States. Some of the leading men in the Southern States have begun to see clearly the causes of the inferiority of the South. Nothing will be better caloulated to disabuse the minds of the masses of the Southern people than the statistical statements showing the relative progress and wealth of North and South. The Agricultural Department is still in its youth, and for its progress and development needs the foster- ing care of Congress. No Department of the Govern- ment is more worthy of this care. DEMOCRACY UPRISING. John Brown's ‘‘soul” is ‘' marching on” in En- gland. Witness Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, in all of which great centers of population there have been of late immense gatherings of the people to demand from their Tory masters the rights s0 long withheld from the masses. * Witness London, where, on Monday last, 8 popular demonstration such as has nover before been witnessed in that mammoth metropolis took place in tavor of Parliamentary Re- jorm. It is **marching on" in Scotland. Witness Glasgow and Edinburgh, where the sons of the North mustered in strength to add their voices to those of their brethren in England, in boldly insisting that justice shall be done to the people. It is * marching on” in Ireland. Wit Dablin, where Irishmen of different politics and an- tagonistic religious creeds joined heartily in doing honor to the eloquent champion of the Liberal cause, the renowned John Bright. All this shows that the spirit of Democracy, which is the spirit of freedomn, the spirit that knows man simply as man, taking no cog- t:::mmm:zg ; Times and tho Mos. | nizance of the accidents of birth, or color, or temporal condition, has been fairly roused on the other side of the Atlantic, and that *the beginning of the end " has come for caste and privilege. Who can doubt this in face of the fact that on Monday last the Stars and Stripes had a prominent place in the mighty procession which paraded the streets of London ! The Tory must be stolid indeed, who fails to see in thdse things the near approach of revolution, which,should he attempt to resist the march of progress, will leave him bruised in the ruins of & doomed system. And what means that playing of *‘The Wearing of the Green?” Sympathy with Fenianism? With Fe- nianism a8 & political organization and insurrection. ary movement, likely to end in disastrpus failure?—no. With Fenianism as the embodied protest of an op- pressed people against their oppressors!—yes; at least, 50 we interpret the feelings of the English masses on this subject. And if it means this, then it means more; for the circumstance -l:nw as the expression of a deeply consciousness that the cause of QOMMW hout the ), @ :ln:‘hh world, uno::"mmvum the playing of this populsr Irish air is the sams foel- iqvflobmg‘dflnwflonfi“dhm in our late civil war, when they ssw that that war had become & war of It is the same Goliae whiod hps faneed thom on e side of Wy walch m; but, i the mai, 1t in trus, Gobdsmith's (he gonuinoncss of the oid sohool of writing, 1 1 ey o gt vy of Pl i i[l 4 i vl ly at | 'was BOOTH MATINEE TO-DAY. v The reader is especislly reminded that & Matinée will be glven at the Winter Gardon to-day, whon Mr. Boolk will appear ia * and ** Don Cesar do Bazan.” The oxtromes of awful -l“um'lfl :-M—th epectator passing sweotly from 'MISOBLLANEOUS. It is propor that wo sbould again protast against the use of tho word * readition” in dramatio oriticism. fliq rupt Boglish, Rendition means tho sonding back of Pk e orioe] o Conauaat artiodl o o -fifi' The farce of ** Jones's Baby” is nightly p Iatter pleoo. The new fairy spectacle * Cendrillon” will st 2% B el ok week o - GRS Conms INDIAX, mittee of?m"ldhu {ssued an crats and National results of the late political canvass, claiming whelmi m%«uh Ut