The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 7, 1866, Page 4

Amusements. GARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM DAY AND'EVENIRGOLD ADAM, Me G, W, Clarks and o ! cowpan ) RUNDRED THOUSAND CURIOSITIES— CAN AL REI'S COLLECTION OF Wili ANIMALS NewDork m;ifn_a:ibun_{ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1866 WINTER GARDEN. THIS EVENING=ITALIAN OPERA—FAUST TO ADVERTISERS. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Wo will thank our advortising customors to hand in THIS EVENINO-THE BUACK CROOK—Groat Parisione | gheir Adyortiscurcnts at as carly sn hour as possible. I received afler Baitel Troupo 9 o'clock they cannot b classified wnde- their proper beads NEW YOIk TS EVENINO—GRIFFIT! TER. Or, JEALOUSY. y 73 N TO CORRESFONDENTS. No wotica can betaken of Anonymons Commumeations. ever is wntended for wsertion must be authenticate name and addreas of the writer—not nocsssarily for pt tion, but as & guaranty for bis good faith. All businoss lot for this-office should be addressed to ** Tue Triose,” New York. Wo caunot undertake to return rejected Commuuications, What y the lica K CIRCUS, K CIRCUS TROUPE. Robert THIS EVENINO—NE Bticknay aud Mlle. De Berz " WALLACK'S THEATER. THIS EVENING—-CENTRAL PARK. Mr Ledor Wa'l lla:t’v‘wn bort. Mr. Charles Fisher, roderic ine Houriques, Ms. Ve oLYMPIC 1'5:[]»:‘;1;‘,(:14 THIS EVENINO—THE LONG S wigh, Miss Koto Nowton. JONESS BABY. ¥. OPERA HOUSE, S MINSTRELS. Mr. Chwiles Wheat Mr. Stusrt Robson. U®" The Fine Arts column will be found om the sixth page this morning, and contains an article upon “Mr, Prang's Defense;" the Civil Cowrts reports, reports of meetings of the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Health, and the monetary and market news wili be found om the second page. —_—_— The House bill to repeal the act of 1862, enlarging the pardoning power of the President, was roported back to the Senate yesterday by the Judiciary Com- mitteo. ‘Its passage was oxpeoted, but Mr. Hen- dricks objocted, and it goes over for the second time: TFTH AVEN NG—=BUDWOR' A TRIP TO TS EVE THE MOON. 1 l()a OLD BOW THIS EVENING—ADRIENNE | On LAFE. Miss Fenny Herriog, NEW.YORK M 1_OF ANATOMY. THE WASHINGTON TWINS—ANATOMICAL COLLECTION. Open daily from 8 a. . to 10 p. m. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF THE ARTISTS' FUND @SOCIETY. Open from 9 8. m. to 10p. o, BROADWAY THEATER. THIS EVENING—ARMADALE. Mis K Reignolds. The Ohio papoers have wiscly chosen to, adhere to tho Associated Pross. That ** Mr. Craig," the would- bo Reuter ot American nows, has been telegraphing items West that are a month old may have something to do with thoir determination. MY OF MUSIC. ROOKLYN D EU. Mz Edwin Booth Bl THIS EVENIN KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS. T8 EVENING—MATRIMONY—CITY CARS-BLACK STA: The Honse has promptly satisfied the country by dirooting the appointment of a Committee to proceed without delay to investigate the New-Orleans mas- sacre. Aninquiry into the case of the murderers of South Carolina Unionists, reprieved by the President, and aftorward set froe, has also beon resolved. FAIR A HALL OF ST. STEPHEN ngtom aud id-ave. Business Notices. e e Wo cannot rocall the last previous occasion on which Mr. Le Blond made a remarkable spoech, but we can safely commend to the attention of our read- ers 80 much of his yesterday's harangue in the House a8 concerns Mr. Androw Johnson's relations with the Domoeratio party and the reciprocal benefits under- stood to have procoeded thorefrom. The GorREAM MANUPACTURING COMPANY SILVER- mmerns of Providence, R. I.. infori the trade that they sre producing ising full Drxxes and TA Ssurions end Tavis «quality, snd of new and ciegaat desii wpon which i & deposit of Pure N Rhiey possess sll the agv i silver in otility. and from of and superior undistinguishable from it. anofacturiog v refar with confidence to the ey have established in the production of SoLip ave beou for many yesrs engaged, and aseita the public that they will fully ‘that reputa- ¥ the production of ELBCTRO PLATED W, quality reme durability ea will insure eotice sstisfaction to the pur Olaser. Al aiticien made by them are stamped tows: GORIANAG, And ol euch are fully guarantoed. They foel it nacessary particolarly attention of pur to the above trage mark. s (hoir ws been alroady ively imitated. Thess goods can C v o eiptncibie 4 The Moniteur continues to keep silont on the abdi- cation of Maximilian; but nearly all the semi-official papers of the French Government state either that Macimilian has abdicated or that he will soon do so. Ouo of these papers, La Patrie, assorts that all the Frouch troops will leave Mexico before the end of Feobruary, 1867, ans of au A rosolution of inquiry as to what additional legis- Ganan daza lation may b required to provent the reception of i olostoral votes from a College not entitled Lo partici- Crotmixa pate in tho eleotion of President and Vioe-Prosidoent, s was yostorday adopted by the House. Tho House Judiciary Committeo was yesterday inatructed to consider the propriety of providing that the Presidont shall establish martial law in every ocounty or district South whore Unioniata are murdered with impunity. Ravrmonn's, Nos 121, 123 axp 193 Fouroxar. “Thia days for bigh prices having pasasd. to meot the domand of the Qmes RATMOND 1s soiing off kis immonse stock of Clotliug for Men nd Boye ar OreATLY REDTCED PRICER. Porsons desiring fine Clothing. st s ressonable figure. will fod it Wroatly o Lheiz intersst to call and examine the suporb stook of In hia chargo to the Graud Jury yesterday, Judge Barnard, referring to *‘the offanses which are con- stantly being committed in the City of New-York by OVERCOATS, public officers,” told the jury, in effect, that the evil Busivess AND Diess Sc1ms, was too great for them to cope with, and that in fu- Bow ofiered. belors purchasing e'sew hers. . | ture he should make use of the Citizens' Association in the warfare which he is resolved to wage unceas- ingly against official corruption.. We agree with Judge Barnard in bis compliments to the Citizens' Associa- tion; but what & commentary it is upon our municipal goverument that & judge should think it useless to call the attention of the Grand Jary to the crimes of “Tirrany & Co. ' Aro wow opening ovar 100 cases ol chaico goods, of g i2tion, and spocally mede to Uiclc order—ombricing ol the novel Jrwnixy, Crooxs, Brovass. axp Faxcy Goops od e senson, in, Foris, Luvdan, Vieuns, Geoevs, Keples ome. e ete . Lofmi e 08! eXLeMAITe AssOTURCTL ic] ' or with bos of luxary sver axhibited on this contiveut, publio officers! TaK HOLIDAYS. Tin LANGEST AssoRTHENT I8 THR COUNTRY OF RICH DINNER AND TEA SETS, PARIS CLOCKS AND STATUARY, aad Fixw FANGY Goobs—of our own importation. On motion of Mr, Washburne of Illinois, the House yosterday adopled a resolation instructing the Post- Office Committeo to consider the expediency of con- ferring upon the Post-Office Department the same ju- risdiction over tolegraph lines, existing or hereafter to bo constructed, as'is now exercised over post-offices and post-roads. The public will rejoice that an in- quiry of any sort is to be set on foot into the manage- | ment of the telegraph companies. Patientas the public i6, freely as it pays great sums of money for servios pever too liberslly rendered, we presamo there is no porson who has had occasion to use the telegraph often who bas not been made aware that reforms in its administration were possible, and that some sort of change would be very ben. eficial to those who are obliged to patronize it. Many of the telegraph presidents and other officers are men | of business capacity, and have a degree of shrewdness | which enures to tha benefit of their stockbolders; but we never yot knew wone who understood that corporations are established for the welfare of the public—not the public for the benefit of the corporations. As the Post-Office Committee in the . Tnstantancous: the only perfoct dye—black of Brown, Ko dissppointment, wo ridiculous tinte. Genuine signed W A Bavourron At wil Drogriste sud Perfumers. FLORENCE Reversible Feed Lockstitch SHwiNG-MACKIN £S. Best family diactins s the world Fuomwxos S M. Co., No. & ““Barcurior's Hate D Retiadle - A e MorT's CHEMICAL POMADE Restores falltng out. remeves Dandru tosnron. No, 10 A for & short time, METCALFE » world-wide regutati tors in New York as the ud cases which have been uested by bm. 3. Urpaax. st st third dooe (tom the Bow- _ PiLgs, in every form eansidered as . soccen e Modical Office. No. 39 East @t 7. wnd botween Bowery and B : A.ilum at the magaificent sssortment of 1°ars at ‘Orwin's. No. 513 Brosdway, snd sttne prices sffized to them, will onvinoy auy Iady of taste snd judgment that it will be to ber advan- Eage 10 wak. hor porchases ot et sstablishment o s _‘f“_":.wm‘?."‘m g TR House is composed of representatives of the | G. U. Saxn & Ce., No. 417 Broo people and not of delegates from the tele- | by B. BYNxEr, graph companies, we may presume that it | No. will bear in mind this fundamental maxim while investigating the structure and operations of the enormous monopolies which now control the telegraph wires throughout the United States. From an inquiry proceeding on this theory and intelligently pursued, we cannot doubt that the patrons of the tele- graph will derive great benefit; and we, being among the largest of those patrons, shall watch with interest the progreas of the investigation. The companies on the one side and the public on the other ought to be | fully heard; then let the Committeedecide and declare l what the [:ll:'hg welfare demands, T Mnaer & Co., wish beautiful Boors Axp Smoxs for yourselves and faumfl ‘L“f‘,’" 7-‘-_1‘#.!!&.‘. patrotize Mruuem & Co.. No. 37 Cw e L - . IMpRovED LOcK-STitcH MAcHINgS for Tailors and arers. Gnuvas & Baxes Suwive Coxrax, ELANTIC STOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BAND- som, Surronrans. ko.—Mansu & Co.'s Radical Cure Trus Office sy aBodVouret loloationdmt ___________ Howvay PRESENTS OF AFFECTION AND CHARITY— wn & Wissor's Lock Stiteh s.-ln.»xu;l‘bu No, 025 Prosdway. . “TWareiEr & WiLsoN's Sewing-Machines wow et No. 396 Frurower. ¥ “Euerio 8. M. C0.'s LOCK-STITon SEWiNG-MA- Brosdway. H Sastitote, Ovt. 31, Guovem & Bakkr's Brwon Swwive Macninm. for family ase. No. 485 Broadway. N McCULLOCH ON ‘* MONOPOLIES.” The Hon. Hugh McCulloch was formerly a Whig, and is accustomed still to assure his old friends that be is 8 moderate Protectionist. He has an unques- tioned right to be a Free Trader if his convictions . ;'l'il'fim’allllfiifi‘oo.fm-mim BEWING- . ..t’..‘.f’-‘.‘..«..-‘g«....\l.';.‘...,' N pomre ~ CwisTADORO'S HATR DyE.—The ?fl ever manu- frotased. _Wholesale and retail, alsa applied ot No. 6 Astos Hoose. Cartes V dosen: Dupli Al nagaiivos registered 'fl?’..m No. 160 'n.n...--.,‘ " % A SuE PiLE CURs. iliidis oo e g S o . ?5‘ YLy il Ly e, O Brosbuey, Neg. lead him to be; yet there is a moral obligation to | maintain a reasonable consistency between word and f act, professed creed and casual ineulcation, which we ! rogret to see disregarded—nay, defied—by our coun- " try's Minister of Finance, From the beginning to | the end of his recent elaborate Report, Mr. Me- Culloch talks as though he bad never been & Pro- ! tectionist and never knew bhow to be. Take, for ex- ample, the second of his ‘‘general principles” of VEITE & GLENAET . WmTe & GLENNKY, taxation, of which he “MI’?I that *‘the correctness Enlsipss. s No. 81 Brosdway. | has been proved by other nations,” so that they ‘*may | be safely adopted s & guide to the legislation that is | now required:” 24 That the duties upon imported eommodities shouM cor. t:r-d and harmouize with the taxes upon home pmd!wlkm: that these duties shoukd ot be o high a# to be prohibitory. nor to budd wp Aome ies, BT 10 prevent that free exchange of commodities which i# the life of commerce. Nor, on the other hand, shewd mth %0 low as 1o seriously impair the revennes, nor to subject the bome wannfacturere, burdened with beavy internal taxes. 10 & competition with eheap labur aud larger capital which they may be unable to sustein.” ~What és & * monopoly 1" 1sit not an exclusive privilege, by law conferred on & designated person op ‘persons, to produce or supply an article which others desire? Mr. MoCulloch, for exsmple, is onr only Becretary of the Treasury, and, while he retains his place, enjoys & monopoly of the privilege of uttering nousense and sophistry, (if be will,) from the highest sad most suthoritative financial position. But in what allowable, what conoeivable sense, can s high duty imposed on & foreign product *build up home monopolies," while every person living in this country is at perfect liberty to produce just such (or better) articles, and sell them so cheap as he may Do let us have this matter made so clear that human audscity will not suffice to attempt its further perver- sion or myatifioation. Liok ua yuppose that thore s ous, aad but Qug, ming At I'llq;’l Cakd Deror, No. 302 ‘;D:GJ y.— The nen Carmas st Calige witi oo ool Dec. & "7 T DaMy's PULMO-BRONCHIAL TROCHES “Ladies, discard injuriouspaddings. Madame Jumel's - Pt Al e T " Bawixa-MACRINES = ~Winioox & Gimoa's BEWING-MACHINE— " T13 seam T e S 'W-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, of Zine, or Plumbago, or Nickel, in our country, and that this mine belongs to an individual or company: it might be fairy urged that a high duty om im- ported Zine, Plumbago, or Nickel, (as (he case may bie,) woold create a gainful monopoly for the benefit of that person or company. In other words, it would enable the owner or ownors of that mine to sell their product (within cortain limits) at their own price. Now let us suppose Congress ghould imposo a pro- hibitory duty—say $100 and upward per tun—on all imported Tron (for instance), would any such result beproduced ? What would thenceforth regulate and govern the cost of Iron to our consumers? At first, for a vory short. time, there would be a deficient sup- ply of Iron, and a consequent enhancement of its price. But would not this fact inevitably, instantly stimu- late and insure an increased home production of Iron? Hore are blown-out furnaces all over the land, stand- ing idle because they cannot be run at & profit—would not an increase of even §5 per tun put many of these at once into Dblast again 7 And if the prico wore enhanced $10, $15, or $20 per tun, who does not know that more, and atill more, of them would be et to work, and that now works would be erected whenever Ore, Coal, and Lime, could be conveniently brought together, giving employment to tens of thou- sandsofblasters, choppers, masons, quarrymen, furnace- mon, &¢., &e, Who that ever read a page or thought an hour on the subject does not know that this process of erecting now iron-works and roviving those now disused would go on 8o long as more iron could be made at a profit, or until the profit of this pursuit had been roduced to the avorage profit of business in genoral? Is there any possible demur to this statement 7 Are ot the elements of Iron production abundant, widely diffased, and practically inexhaustible? Lel us suppose all Protectionists so stolid or so ignorant that they would persist in using their capital whero it would yield them little or nothing, when they might make 25 to 50 per cent. by employing it iu Iron- making, would not Free Traders evince more common sonso 1 If they now decline to invest in Iron- making, s it not for the precise reason that they can do better—that is, make more— in some other vocation? And will they not rush into Iron-making whenever they shall find this more profit- able than their present pursuits? Nay: would not the very Britons who are now making Iron for our warkot in the ** fast-anchored isle," come (or send) over and make it here, if they conld thus secure & Iarger profit than by making it whore they now do? Is there any answer to this statoment of the case? If so, what is it? And, if not, what reason or sense is there in Mr. McCulloch's bugbear of * building up home monopolies 1" 1f what he is the sbeor, bald, palpable fallacy it seoms to us, is it not discreditable to our country that its highest financial officer should presume to utter it? ’ That a * free exchange of ) commodities " is ** the life of commerce,” we have been hearing from Froe Traders these forty years, during which evory Pro- tective Tariff bas been confronted by The Eveming Post and its echoes with predictions that our Com- merce would be ruined and our Revenue dried up by its enactmont. We have heretofors reprinted those prophesies and contrasted them with the aotual returns of both Commerce and Revenue accruing under (hose vory Tarifls of 1824, 1828, 1842, and 1861, which The Post & Co. asserted would destroy both Commerce and Revenue. There are many countries which have systematically ignored or rejected protection—Portu- gal, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, for instance—and we in- vite & comparison betweon their Commerce and ours, especially in those years when Protection was here in the ascendant. Mr. MeCulloch's assortions cennot outweigh the statistics of all nations’ treasury departments, our own in- cluded. We dare the Secretary to compile and pre- sent & tabular exposé of our Commeree and Rovonue under Protection and Free Trade respectively. Buch o table, fairly made up, would be more ivstruotive and more valuable thau a volume of naked sd oft-re- futed lmflk}flk_—_—. i CONGRESS. Monday, the Third of December, 1566, will be a | marked day in our history, not only as that upon which our XXXIXth Congress met, but also as one upon which, without any proparatory confusion or preliminary nonsense, both branches of the Legisla- ture went promptly and intelligently to work to es- tablish the social peace and commercial prosperity of the country upon a basis at once politic and perma- nent. Every student of history, upon reading the de- tail of the first day’s proceedings, will be reminded of the energetic alacrity with which the Parliamant of Charles I, in 1629, began its session by appointing committees to inquire into the royal usurpations, aud Dy protests against the illegal raising of revenve by the King. But the English Parliament met only to e dissolved and to leave the country for eleven long and weary years in the power of an absolute and irre- sponsible and unscrupulous despot. No such bitter wisfortune can befall the American people. In a time like this we understand the strength and the policy of our representative system, and especially of the opportunities which it secures for the freshor and fuller expression of the public will. Frequent elec- tions, the safety-valves of popular emotion, 150 constant checks upon the conduet of individual mem- bers. The day of judgment is always at band. Almost every hour constituencies may audit the accounts of their stewards. The morning and the evening mail carry to every man's door a transeript of the Journal of either House, a summary of the debates, and an exact statement of the position of all leg- islative business. The doings of Congress are read by every fireside, in every country house, in every workshop, upon every railway and steamboat, and with equal though different interest by all classes of men—read intelligently, judged bonestly and decisive- Iy applanded or Gondemned. Each litdle District !lkeg care of its own member, and the result is an addfegate ot scratiny and vigilance from which no Representative ¢an hope to be exempt. It is, there- fore, no mere rhetorical flight when some legislative orator reminds his fellows of a ceaseless public sur- veillance, and exclaims: “The eyes of the people are upon us.” This is only the statement of & plain mat- ter of fact, The press takes care that the country shell not err for lack of information. Speeches, motions, resolutions, reports, the yeas and uayé, deliberations in full session and doings in | committee, what is said in the caucus, and what is done in the lobby—the public knows it all. Ne Member of Congress csn make an 8s8 or 8 kuave of himself in & corner. As a public mas, he will find it nearly impossible to have any secret. Whatever correspondents think worth getting they commonly contrive to possess themselves of; and the pet project of the closest-mouthed manager way any fine morning, to his utter astonisbment, be trumpeted to all the four corners of the Union. ~All wins of omistion and of commission are daly recorded; corrupt bargsius are discovered and proclaimed; fool- iah freaks of oratory are literally reproduced and re- morselessly ridiculed; and if a Representative be in- competent or untrustworthy, a swaggerer, swindler, or & sot, those whose agent he is have at least an op- portunity of revising their judgment, and of sending & better man to do his work. If he stays in Congress, it is because bis covstituency is no Dbetter than himself. ‘What we have said of the immediate responsibility of Congress is true at all times, but bow specially true it is at this moment we need hardly point out. For months to come the transactions of the National Legislature will occupy the whole mind and heart of the nation; the debates, if they be worthy of the emergency, will be resd with broatbless interest, and the deoisions which are arrived at will be considered and gonyessed Wit tho shagp sgruting o gelf-grwwerys- tion. Whatever elso the doings of Congross may be, thoy can bardly be dull. Wo may, without rashness, vonoh for the vigilanco of a tax-paying people; wo may roasonably presume that opinions formed under tho pressure of national disaster, tho politic al gospel of & bittor experienoe, cannot de disregarded in logis- Lation with impunity. Wo noed wisdom, firmu.cas, liberality and a rational bravery in our law-making, and of these qualities the people are excellent judges. The results of the late elections should teach every public man the folly of attempting to serve his own more porsonal interests at the expenso of the common woal, The country expeots from Congress a vesolute asscr- tion of its authority, for in Congress alono, at this crisis, it puts its trust. [t will wateh without sleep- ing, it will weigh evory measure withipatriotic anxiely, and it will judgo every man by that standard which the great responsibilitios of tho bour bavo oreated. The next Congress may nover meot if the pressnt Congress provo faithless aud incompetent. Weo havo atrust in the soundness of tho popular judgment which makos the futurs, to our view, full of hope and of national happiness; but wo know how dangerous are mistakos, how dostructive a false conservatism may. prove; and in every contest which may arise, wo would bave members recollect thal a great people are watching and weighing tho alightest measaro and tho lightest work, e e THE WAR IN MEXICO. Our latest dispatches from Matamoros indicate that the attempt of Gen. Canales is at an end, and that Gen. Escobedo, the representative of Presidont Juarer, holds possession of the town. With this ends the attempt mado by some American resi- dents in Matamoros to provoke an interference of the United States in the war. Gen, Sedgwick, who most inconsiderately yielded to the representations mado to him by the citizens-of Matamoros that Canales had deolared to his men they must help thomselves, and that this meant indisoriminate pillage, robbery, break- ing open of storos, ete., has been removod by Gon. Shoridan. This officer takes the ground that American oitirens in Mexico must lay their griovances not beforo an American General but before the State Department in Washington, Gen. Sedg- wick's oxplanation of his course, which is dated Brownsville, Nov. 22, shows that ho had no sympathy whatever with the attempt of Canales; but it alto- gother fails to extenuate his blunder; for there cao be no more glaring violation of our traditional foreign policy than the invasion of a neighboring country by a subordinate officer of owt army, on the ground that the lives and property of Amotcan rosidonts are in danger, and that a genoral of the country has vio. Iated the neutrality laws cxisting between it and the United States. “Tho offort of Canales was Lho only notable outbreak of the dissension existing belween the Generals of tho Liberal Army, and, so far as can be inferred from the accounts from Moxico, its ond will again unite the whole Libersl Army under the orders of Prosidont Juares. Ortoga, at Lho date of our latedt sdvices, &till remained on the American ido of the Rio Grande, asd although his condtitutional claim to (he Presidoncy s govorally regarded by those who have examined tho subject as betler (hea that of Juates, tho latler bas undoubtedly the support of nearly all the lTeaders of tho Liberal party. As the course of Juarer (except- ing his deorees againat Ortegn) has been eminently patriotic, and as he has already doclared bis intention to ordor an eleotion for President to be held shortly, an understanding between him and Ortega, who has boen no less conspionous for his dovotion to the Liberal cause, may not e impossible. Nothing, certainly.could be more calculated to strengthen the coufidence of the Liberals in their speedy success, and to improve the oredit of the Moxican Ropublic abroad than that the obiefs of the contending partios should muster suffi- clont patriotism to Iny down all persoual foeling, all party rancor, and oven what they regard as their rights, upon the altar of their common country, and unite all their efforts for placing tho restorod Republic upon a firm basis. Wo ardently hope and wish that the patriotic Re- publicans of Mexico may find some way of putting an end to the doplorable difficulty between Juares and Ortegs. But, in the mean time, we insist that it belongs to the Mexicans, and not to the Goverument of the United States, to decide the question who shall be the President of Mexico. Tho arrest of Ortega isno less a violation of Moxican autonomy than the seizure of "Matamoros, and to approve the one act and condemn the other is a glariug mconsis- tency. Should it be true, as a Spanish paper of Mata- moros claims to know from the best authority, that one of the instructions given to onr Minister to | Mexico, Mr. Campbell, is that the Government of the United States does not recoguize, nor sl it recogmize, auy other Government in Mexice than that of the Constitutional President, Juarez, we should take from A sovereign nation the vory first of its Constitutional rights, that of choosing its chief. SEASONABLE. We wish that somebody, in this age of books, would write & treatiso upon the weather in history. This would, of course, include a considoration of the influences of climate—of heat upon the passions, and of cold aporrthe understanding. It is a remarkablo fact that, in the bloody year 1794, in Paris, the executions in May were, in number, 324, aod in the very next month went up to 672, reaching to H35 in July; although Robespierre, who has the credit of all tho decollations, had retired in June from the Committes of Public Safety, Is it not, therefore, a fact which should encourage the lovers of order, peace and pros- perity, that the next session of our Congress will begiu g lhn‘-mubcrl Zero, o may fairly try revolutionary sign; snow-storms ard adverse to des- perate adventures, Ice cools the forvid veins of con- spiracy. The tempered wanuth of the Southern re- gions, we hope, may moderate passions which aro no longor at their hight, and make the hottest of Confed- erates willing to listen to reason. For ourselves, if we may venture to speak of ourselves, wo look for- ward to the many perusals which wo may auticipata by glowing firesides, in happy and cultivated homes, with & sense of renewed friendships and closer in- timacies, and fairer opportunities of giving pleasure or of doing good. In our own way, wo may be the ally of King Winter—the ouly royal alliance for which we have much stomach, We pray Lis Majesty to respect the mails ! The world goes round and round, but neither man nor the seasons change their relations. We are not accustomed to consider the Romans as a sentimental people, or even as particularly lovers of home; yet there is nothing in domestic poetry more beautiful than that ninth Ode of Horace, in which he sings of Mount Socrate white with snow, orders his servants to pile on the wood, and invites his friends to partake of & generous glass of four-year old wine. We see the little man rubbing his bands at the hearth-blaze, and chackling as he sends off his note to Thaliarchus, It is & cabinet home-picture, like that which Milton painted in his Twentieth Sonnet, from which we will not quote one word, but only advise the reading thereof as & cheertul resource upon the gloomiest De- cember day. Although the Winter is eminently favorable to study, perbaps 88 a people we need no incitement to intelleotual exertion, We read at all times and every- whare, sud it is bately possible that we read too much; but the tamptation of & good fire, a brilliant light, an easy chair and an entertaining book, is one whioh we by no means advise anybody to rosist, especially if it comes after & day of wearying toil. We will put the Dbraing out of the question, and say nothing of study; (o s opaien s Ui L b g & com 4 f nonsenso written agaivst reading for amusement ; since, other things boing cqual, there ia no amnsement more thoroughly harmless than that which a harmless book affords. Of course, thers is choico; and thero aro books which maa or woman, boy or girl, had better not read; but why shiould we avoid books which only talk to us and amuse us, becauso they do not pretend to improve our minds, any more than we should avoid tho cheery chat of our neighbors, which may not al- wags be tho wisest or the most improving when it is the most pretentions 7 Rest is as needful as labor; and it is bettor to road only for pieasure than not to read at all. Because onc has ot strength to master Butler's Analogy or Fearno on Contingent Remain- dors, is that a reason why we should forego Ivaunhoe or Tho Old Curiosity Shop? Which is doing best— Do who is reading the lightest gilt gingerbread of a fairy tale, or he who sits in blank inaction, twirling bis thumbs and thinking of nothing at all 7 If we put reading into the category of harmless amusements, wo do not close the rugged field of substantial acqui- #ition to those who please to enter it. Tho obliging booksellers and the gentlemanly librarians provide for many men and many minds; while the long hours after the non-inebriating cups may bo dedicated to light and elegant culture, or to soiid acquisition, a3 taste may dictate or.opportunity permit. But for a nation which has been intellectually so hardly atrained as our own, it would be invidions and probably useloss to prescribe tho rules of Winter en- joyments. Something must be left to the good sense of all. We have no censures for the light fantastic toes, if they trip at proper hours and in proper com- pany. We have only to regrot that thers is nota Tenth Muse for skating. Some tho wos or the wag- gery of tho theators will woo, and some the resound- ing walls of the opers. The botter part, whother of country sports or of city junkets, is the kindly soeial - foeling which they create and encourage. Some, though sufficiently gregarious, will find svciety onough in tho family, while others are best satisfied in & well conducted and harmonious crowd. That must be indeed a strange gathering in which thers are no benevolent and beautiful natures, to make us better for having met them and to add to our store of prized and grateful memories. Winter is the natural parent of charity—not alone of almsgiving, but of that giving of the beart and hand which, to the weary and deaponding, is worth farmore than material relief; and “ all thoughts, all passions, all delights” are to be invited aod warmly entertained, if amid the wintry desolation they bring us a perpetual summer in the boart. ————— Ex-Goy. Holden; in The Ralsigh’ Standard, frankly and urgently says that the expariment of Provis nal (lovornments in the South has been a failure. Mr. Holden, though but lately an appointee of Mr. Jobn- o, ia impelled to declare that the Prosident was do- coived, and 80 woro bis Provisional Goverors. He even more emphatically says that *‘all hope that existing Southorn organizations will concur in monsures. nocessary to restore the Soufh- ém Statos fo' the Union is at an cad® If Govornor and Editor Holdgn bas reasonad from {he charcter of Southern opinfon s gxprossed in his exchangos, lis has reached his conglusions Jogically. 1f hio has read the messages of the handful of ready- made Governors who just now vie with each other in biliously rejecting the bread of the Coustitutional Amendmont a3 a very upsatisfactory kind of stone, he might come to the same conclusion. As ove of the most intelligent public men of the South, though not by nature a Radical, Mr. Holdeu probably uttors the opinions of the mass of Union men from the most compromising to the most inveterately loyal. His judgmeout is theirs in respect to the permanent re- construction of that section. The New-York Printing Company, which is sap- posed to be only another name for Mr. W. M. Twoed and othors, print s calendar for the nse of the Courts, for a very weighty consideration. They also publish The Tramscript, a journal of fabulous circulation, and the imaginary organ of theso Courts. For several days the Court Calendar has been omitted, to the groat confusion and provocation of judges and lawyors, and it was found necessary to call the Calondar from one of the daily papers, whose energy supplied tho lack of the official organ and the paid printers. 13 it worth while for our tax-payers to pay and official organ $150,000 a year for the noglect of a duty which live papers perform for their patrons withont exira fea? I3 it possiblo to ehargs more fur simply wot doing it? ‘The Chamber of Commerce yesterday sdopted a resolution look ng to the importance of sounding the Atlantic in order to find further facilities for laying lines of telegraph cable directly connecting our coast with the western coast of Franoe and that of Southern Europa. The Government is petitioned to employ the navy for the purpose. In the discussion ensuing, atod that one such line might be established from Cape Cod or Montauk Point, to Brest, at & cost uot greater ‘than $6,000,000. The project, apart from its commercial importance, has value in view of any possible difficulty with Great Britain, and ita suc- coss would soem to bo assured by that of the Avglo- American telegraph cable. That live cost but $3,000,000, POLITICAL. vk SOUTH CAROLINA, KLBOTION OF UNITED STATRS SENATOR—THR USURY LAWS. Y TALEGRAPR TO THE TRIBUNA. ., Doo. 6.—J. B. Campboll was to-day olocted United States Seoator on the second ballot. Mr. Mauning’s name was withdrawn, 1t is very probable that the Legislature will repeal tne Usury laws a3 restrictive of commercial facilities and 1n- Jjurlous to the supply of capital. CORRKSPONDANMN ON IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE BSTWEEN MR. GREELEY AND GOV. PERRY. BY TALEORAFH TO THN TRIBUNS. AUGUSTA, Ga., Doc. 6.—Horaco Greeloy, in a letter to Gov. Perry, says the true basis of & settlemont of all our trouble is universal amnesty with impartial suffrage. I. would havo all disabihities because ot rebellion and of color utterly and absolutely abolished, aud [ strongly bope and trust o settloment on this basis will be made this Wintor at Washiogton. by permitting all persons black and white to vote who are 21 yoars of age, but the Southern poople will never con- sent to this, as it wonld degrade the right of suffrage and demoralize the Government and society. If the proposed compromise enfranchised negroes who eould read, write, and had property qualification, without disfranchising white persons, it might with reason sad propreity bo acceded to by tho Southern States. Gov. Perry strongly urges a National Convention for adjustment of all difficulties, and thinks the association of wise, potriotic overtures would have a salutary influence in adjusting present difficultios. — MASSACHUSETTS, GKN. BUTLER AND HIS SEAT IN CONGRESS, BT TALEGRAPE TO THE TRISUNE. Bostox, Dec, 6,—Attorney-Genoral Beal has given an opinion that it is the duty of the Govemor to give s cor- tiieate to Gen. Butler as member of Congreas olect from the Vth Congrossional District. He says that by tho record Benjamin ¥. Butlor of Gloucoster has a plurality of the votes, 8ad the Governor has no dfln:‘m behind that record and make inquirios a4 to his The question was raised by Mr. Northend ot Salem, who ran 84 the opposition candidate. pe— NEW-YORK. NOMINATION OF A MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY (N SOMORARIE. h-Mmcunycuv—h: of Schoharie met Wi and nominated Wm. 8. Clark of B e meabir 1 pate of {49 s Dasias R THE SOUTHERN STATES. . R o LOUISIANA. 3 HOITS BROUGHT AOAINST UNITED STATES OFFICERM-« RULING OF JUDGE HEARD, DY TELRGRAPN TO THR TRIBUNK. WasiiNaToN, Doe. 6. ~The following dispatch has bean roceived at this buresu from the Tribune Buresu at Now- Orleans. 2 NEW.OrLEANS, Deo. 6 —Judge Heard of the Fourth Distriot Court of New Orleans to-day overruled an application to trase- for to the Unitd States Gizcuit Court suits brought in his eours agninst officers of the United States for acts done in their ol cial capacity. The application was made under an act of Cems gress approved March 3, 136, amended May 11, 1865, the peo- * visions of which are as follows: 3 The fifth section of the act of 1863 provides th ‘ or prosecntion, eivil or criminal, has fl‘whnm in sy State Court agninat auy officers, civil or - aginst other persons, for auy arrest mln‘l‘rrtmm '- other trespasses or action done or committed, or any act omitbed to be done at any time during the ot virtus 4 or under color of authority derived from or under the President of the United States, or any M‘n} gross, aod the dofendat shall, at the time of his eotesing appearance in such Conrt, file a petition stating the facts 3 e e e oS T next Circuit Cous n to prooeed no further in the case. el Ak . ,4 “Thewe auits wero ordersd dismissed by Gen. Canby in A tast, and aro now renewed, since General Orders No.3, Wae Departmont, to prevent improper sults against officers of the Government in the insurrectionary States, was annulled. Judge Campbell, late of the U. . Supreme Bench, argued the unovn. stitutionality of the act. This is creating a profound seusatien in the city, and the court-room was denscly crowded duriug (e iscussion, i GEORGIA BY TELRORAFE TO THR TRIBUNE. © MiLLEDGEYILLE, Dec. 5, —The House has passed o bilt granting State aid to the Muscogee aud Air Line Railrosd, Tho House has also passod & resolution of thanks to the citizens of Kentucky for their donations of com to the: poor. —— NORTH CAROLINA. ADVERSE REPORT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND- BY TALRGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNR. ; Raveion, N. C., Dec. 6.—Col. Leach of County, Chmrman of the Committee on the Comm Amondment, roported in the State Senate to-day to the ratification of Howard's amendment. Both Hi of the Legislaturo resolved unanimously to accept the and proffor of assistanco wade by the Freedmen's Burean, 1o dostitute blacks and whites. ity SOUTH CAROLINA. LETTER FROM EX-GOV. PERRY—A NATIONAL CONe VENTION CALLED POR. Y BY TELEORAPN T0 THE TKIBUNE. , Cuarzeston, 8. C., Dee, 6.—Ex-Gov. Porry of this Stato has just addressed another letter to Mr. Wood- ward of Philadelphia, in which he says if a proposition is made by the North for the calling of a National Convess tion of the wisest and test men of both sections, the South would acceds to the call without delay. , - + * No danger,” says the Ex-Governor, * could pd’ rosult from such a gathering, as the final action of Convontion would huve to be submitted to the States for their adoption, and then ratificd by three-fourthsof the State Logislatures before becoming & part of the Constitu o s oF the Lagistitures of the States sy two- of the i res of the o8 plication for the callidg together of a National 00.': Lion, it will be¢ome infperative on the partof Cengress to rder its assemblage, aud he hopes that it will be done, ir - of his country, be- licving, a8 bo ‘does, that there is too much in o “The Ex-Govarnor does not in both ‘sections to permit of final destruction. © Admiral hlgtfl:nnundlngm North Atlantie! o0, was rece'ved s worning by the Mayor and authoritios 4 ? B ARKANSAS. THE NEW UNITED STATES SENATORS—THE FOR? SMITH CONVENTION. The Hon. J. T. Jones, newly-elected United States Senator for the short term of four years. is,said to have takes no part in the war, and to be able, therefore, to take the tesh oath. His opponsats were the Hon. U. M. Rose of Little Roek, and Col. Johnson, late Colonel of an Arkaiisss regiment in the Foderal service and the prime mover in the calling of the Rad- ical Convention to convens at Fort Smith on the 13th of De- cember. Tho yote on a joint ballot stood : Joues, 52; Rove, 3; Johpson, 6. The Senator for the loug term of six years is As- Qrew Hunter, President pro tem of the State Senate. His eleo- tion is stated to kave been contrary to his Mr. Huntor is & Mothodist minister of 30 years' standing in Arkansas, and kis political life began wil is election to the State h:lo.ahmuhu;mlm. o is “ conserva- tive” in politics. ‘With feforence to the Couvention called at Fort Smith %o take stops toward the mmninflou of the State m basis, a correspoudent of The Cincinnati Enquirer sayy 7" he Radica! Convention to meet at Fort Smith on the 13tk December is quite unbnrrudnf to his Excellency, . luqh.‘;. He, it is said, repudiates it. If so, it is the first ical effort at development yet started which he did, or oppose. This is the ostensible situation of the Governor, ho may act bebiad the scencs may be very different. A resolution, introduced in and passed by the House, lllzl‘ this Conveation movement, was not coneurred in by ate, as expressed, bocanso the faction, and class com) were ben:ul‘hbtuhc dngmtsv.:l the mn&r of aotion w t give tl dxfl such & thing could nocom| M—us might add to an otherwise temptible movement toward y." i i (B =Hiiy ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. | NEW-YORK. BOARD OF CITY CANVASSERS. The Board of Aldormen, si as & Board of Cily Canvassers, mot at noon on Th! . On motion Aldes- -:k l‘.l::n maloo&;dsm(‘_l&nu. D;:‘H T. Valontise, O Terrence P. Smith, Sergeant-at-Arms, The clerk stated that the retarns’ from & number of dis. tricts had not been received, On motion the Sergeant-st~ Arms was directed to bring the delinquent canvassers be< fore the Board. On motivu the then took & recees until 11 o'clock on Friday morning. TWELFTH WARD SCHOOL TRUSTEES. ' The eloction of School Trusteos in the Twelfth Ward, rosulted 1n the election of () Place for the full term and Lawson N. Fuller to fill the vacancy. For tho latter lace :::‘vou stood: Moore, 874; Dunuigen, 1,113; Fak or, 1,; THE TRI;V‘ITI’ CHURCH PROPERTY. S ~ - ACTION OP THE HE(RS OF ANEKA JANS BT TELMRAPN TO THE TRISUNR. Trov, Dec. 6, 1866.—The heirs of Aneka Jans, re- siding in_ this city, held & moeting last evepiag, and appoinied » committee, consisting of Judge E. F. Bullard, Jobo M. Bo- gardus, and Sergonnt Perry Bogardus of the Capital Pollee to Now-York, and investigate the clsims of 7. to Ptomd said heirs to a portion of the estates of Trinity There are quite & nuwmber of the of Aneka living in_Troy, including Mrs. Marion Bogardes, John L. _:nud-. . dson of the Rev. Everardus Bogardus the b S eka Jans. John L. Bogardus was in New-York, aod ws @ lawyer of considerable prominence in this city ) rears age, He 1t was who inatituted the third suit broght by the heirs of Ancka Jans to recover their alléged y rights of Trinkty. The widow residing here has o receipt inthe handwri Daniel Webstor ackuowledging & retaniag foe of #5,000) ‘ebater's Mr. Bogards -.mnng Mr, (canfonal servioes the sustm behalf of tho b ut Rrintly. The dated Dec. 22, 1837, M. Mhmefl betore that time had_become torment. The Kev. Everardus Bogardus the b Aneka, was . &7 k teili * 5 féii os voyage to ok, now Albany, snd widow removed mgnnr'y . “{ e i THE PACIFIC COAST. BT TALEGRAPE 70 THE TRISUNE. Sax Fraxoisco, Dec. &—"l;rm)milhobf‘ SITAbi seasva.” The Weatorn Continent will follow da, ement weather, the receipts of “é':'.in :;'p,::l::culnl:lnhnzvowuh Sinee Jamuary 1 te of 2,823,763 sacks havo been w‘b'* THE DRAMA. - To-night Edwin Booth appesrs in ‘wm‘h«mmm-mm»_—wd soenery, costumes, and appointments as at the Winver Gandese The rosh for seats has been unprecedented.