The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 8, 1866, Page 4

mmuumrma 3 nnum DAY AND LAEND Var nm(mou NEW.YORK THEATER o VENINO—GRIFFITH GAUNT; O, JEALOUSY. k olak " NEW YORK GIRCU Tills EVENING—NEW YORK CIRC Buckooy aud Mlle. De Berg. Matinoe ot 2§ W TiI§ EVENING-CENTRAL [eodale Robiason. e Jobn G hert M- Chaties Fichor B vs Houriques, Mrs. Vernon. OLYMPIC THE. THiS EVEMING-THE LONG ST Me. Ghiarlos Wheat- oigh, i Kate Nowtou JON BABY. B, Stuars Robson. Bitinse st 2 oolock. FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, g EYENING-IUDWORTH'S MINSTRELS. A TRIP TO CHE MOON. Matinée at 2§ 'clock. 0X'S OLD BO Tii1S EVENING—ADRIENNE | LIFE. Mise Fanuy Horring YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOM GTON TWINS—ANATOMICAL wx.ucnou 0 10 py . NAL ACADEMY OF DESION GEVENTH ANKD AL EXUTUTTION OF THE ARTISTS FUND BOCIELTY. Open from 9 a. m. to 109, . NE THE WASHI Opea daily from § BROADWAY THEATER TS Al‘fllNOflh—AlIADALl Miss Kate Reignolds. THIS EVENINO—DAMO! L. Davenport. TS EVENING - LRSER MARGUIS LES DEUX T0M. IDES—LES MARI DE LA VEUVE. IRVING HALL THIS AFTERNOON—MORNING CONCERT OF MR, WERLY, PIANIST, THIS E\ENISG—MR. DxCOKDOVA'S LECTURE! M35 BRIGOS, (STRONG: ) MER COURTSHIT. STEINWAY MALL. THIS AFTERNOON—PUKLIC REHEARSAL OF THE PHIL- HARMONIC SOCIETY. olock. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THIS ¥V ?NI\(-—(‘(N(‘!.I'I OF THE PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY OF BROOKLYN. KYLL\ & L -HATIIIO!\\—CITI LAIS—BLA(‘K STA- STUDIO BUILDING, TENT "I‘ll'ls EXHIBITION OF FRENCH AHD ".-lebH Pc- FAIR AND FESTIVAL. HALL OF ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, 20that., between Lex- mgton sud 34 AT . S L . T T S A flnlmzu Notices. Sfu & & Marcus, JEWELNRS AND SILVERSKITHS, No. 23 Jobast., N. Y., Rospocifully Inform the public that they have sdded to their stock of tich JuwsLRY sud SILYARWARE o euperb asortmeut of the GORMAN MATrAOTURING COXPANT StLvan-PLaTRD Wans. This ware is the first of ite kind ever produced in this country, sad 1o destined to srpase any made by Elkiugton of Birmiughawm, Dixon of Sheffieid, ot Chiistofle of Peris. Tn quality of wetal and platiog, wvarioty of elegant designs and finish, we commend it b0 & favorable constdersiion. To prevent imposition, ol articles boar their trade mark dhus: RHAM MG, We cherish & laodsble pride in beiag the lutroducers of these goods, 4 thoy meet & want long felt by pervons of refined taste, to whose #20d opioion and patrousge we are Indebted. Thess goods we claim are fn perfect harmooy with the besatifal arta which we have simed to embody in all our productions of jewslry :“{ n)llv‘l'l‘. Howarp & Co., Ixwriems aNp SuvmmeiTHs, No. G19 Bmoapwar, Naw.York. Coupaxr, of Provideace, nuhu?vy of the RLESRA D GORHAM PLATED WaARE. & e, g, Which they offer at as low prices aa any ether house in the country. 40, & full swortment of SOLID SLVAKWARE, DIANONDS, FiNE eweint, WaTours, FAxCY Goobs, &e. Tovrasy & Co., Nos 50 All lfl Bw' Are now opening over 10 cholcs goods, of their own fa muhu Aol e etk ool Socbosciog oh the ovele x. Cuoous, Buoxase axp Faxcy Goons edosed e sonien o Pl Lendon, Viesas, Gosers, Naples. ete... ete... forming the mort extensive assortment of rich end ¥are aticles of Kixury ever exbibited on (bis continent, Davis CoLLamore & Co., No. 479 Brosdway, 4 doors below Broome st. Haviog Enierged tueis Store y Extendiag it through to Mereer-st., ! tn.vn VLATED WARE 8o thir Lazge Stock of AND GLASSWARE. We desire Eepeoisl Attention to o Large Assortment of NEW CEINA DINING SEIS. BeAUTIFUL HAIR.—CHEVALIER'S LIFE FOR THE Blarn positively restores gray bk to ite originel eolor and youtl £ Boauty ; imparts life and strength to the weakest hair; stope ite (slling out st once; keeps the head cloan; s unparalieled as s bhair-dreasing. druggists and fuskionable balr-dressers, sud st wy office, D Bosedwny. JL Y. (T 1.1 Rocomamend auy medicloe which we did not know te be good, partic- wlacly for Infanta. But of Mra. WiNsLow's S00THING STURP, we can wpbek from knowledge. Toonr own faim'ly, It has proved a blewing tadesd, by giving su infent, troubled with colic pains, quiet sleep, and §ta parsate usbroken rest at night. Tas HOLIDAYS. Tun LaRessT AMORTNENT IN TER COUNTRY OF RICH DINNER AND TEA SETS, PARIS OLOCKS AND STATUARY, wnd Fimm FANCY Goops—of oor own importatien. OVINGTON BROTHERS, Nos. 336, 238 and 240 Fulton st., Brookiyn. " BRONGHITIS, CATARRE, INCIPIENT Lmummfl| axp ScRovwLA.—Not one of these diseascs uum Soen cuted by by e e T e ot sous BT ot Syptaaces bave prvves ‘wortniess sbortious. Neture's * Ph”‘nl. L, plnatory uu;..‘;l one siamp. ue frow Plaste pre- e e 2 E T 'X. Barousion. Amm'-'.a';-'-'u B A orais FLORENCE Reverubi Feed Lockuiich Sxwine-Macminrs Best fawily wachine in the world. Fromsxcs & M. Co.. Ne. 5 Brosdway. m CrsmicaL PoMapk Restores (:uy Hair, “‘ falling ont; removes Dandruff: the finest by Rusnroy, No. Omlhu-o,m Draggiste. RM AND LEO, by B. FRANK PaLMER, LL. D.— The “bosk™ freeto seldiers, ind low o offeers and clviluns. 1609 Chontauiot., Phils. ; Aud--l.. N.Y.; 19 Green o, Bosion. Aveid M imitations of his vatents ““IMPROVED LOCK-STITCH MACHINES for Tailors and E—nm Groven k Bakzs Sxwine Macmine Copany, o. 495 Broadway. ‘I'RUssEs, ELASTIC BTOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BaXp- aous, SurronTans, ke—Mansn & Co.'s Radieal Cure Trues Oftice omiy s NG D Veser-eh Lady sitondast. cxo C".!.’.fi.'fl boloss! .m.- 1 Ju. 1, 1867, w o 1 - 1 B Kery, Yo. 7 Brosdway. g quality Satin Fuce, for C; wnd Furmits Piavo axp TasLx Covims, je) Usk Houu's Bay Rom Soar, 33 Park-row. Boid Everywhere. Vmoocnz and Gmm Duonm- vy, les, ot BLivs, No 47 Bradmey. HExnia, spacialy evaied by ihe updersigued, ot Neo 154 P Tromes p " Snaciiec Braces. S B wmwn w-nyu,muuunu\ J. €. Mansm. _m—’l’ho cheapest and only ‘enu Emlm-:. g « Oup EYes MADE NEW without BT Poorn . 13 Brendrar: S Yerks 1+ COMPORT AxD CURE FOR THE Bvrn'ln.—sot mw;‘:-m Addres Dr. E. B. Foors, No. 7 HIOLIDAY PRESENTS 0¥ AFPHOTION AND CHARITY— Wussias & Winiox's Lock Stitch Sewing Machives. No. 625 ?oeueln. doctor, % m wnd VIEWS, ! AR e, u'n' lnu-.y‘mm Fiock. F_lwi:a Wiisox's Sewing-Machines in BBOOK- Co.'s Lock-Eriron Bawino-Ma- BT RS ey, Sttt o e GROVER & BAKxR's HIGHEST PREMIVM ELASTIC b— Suwine Macxiwm for inmily vee._No. 85 Brondwey. THE Hows Macking Co.'s Lock- BEWING- ST e o e Sovi i Clllfmll Dre.—The Desk ever ant: ’”urm?owfi'&”&— b OVEL, by ml RomiN- A-‘F’l—'l’l_ll' h::' -u-bnn-. m Pv 'll. Bewing-MACHINE Company, N Broad- " “Tue only Lock stitch Faminy Macwisn li: -2-‘ otraight NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER B, 1866. Grpat BAL or» Croramva ar Ravmonn's, Nos 121, 123 anp 125 Fovromer Tho daya (or bigh prices having passod. to meet tho domsnd of the timon Rawmon is saling off bis immenss stock of Clothing for Men a0d Boys AT GreATLY REDUCED PRICES. Porsons dosiriog fius Clothing, at s rexsenable figore. will find it grotiy b hoir intarset to call and examing the supe:b stock of OVERCOATS, Bosivess AxD DRess Buims, aow offarod, balure purchasiug olsowlars HAvinanp, Cavmonman & ENGLAND, Ous Sraxp, No. 47 Jower., Naw York. Frunen Cnixa. Wo ars rovaiving from out factory in France, richly decorsted Dovnse, Tea axp Toist BBt GreaT BAraAINS (v T'oma. Loowts BALLARD, WhouasaLs MaxuracTuRan or Fons, Now. 5 and 5 Howsrdst, Will offer at rolail, commencing Mowpar, Dec. 10, Hix ontire Stock, consiating of Murrs, Cotians, Cottamurrna, Pruxnoms, Bunrias aod Tanaas in Bancu, Rovix Emmuxn, Minx, Frron, Squinnes, Cower, &e. Also goods for Geniismen's woar, i Orrum, Braven, Cownr, snd Nornia Winres CrorniNg. —The Ovmucoury of prory fxture, sylo snd nees Suita, roady made Crorune, ko, st F. l! lAuIIl s, No. largest assortment in the city snd pricos less. _xlm to buy suparior 0. Also. Deees snd Busi- Fownssixo Ooone, CHILDRRX'S and T Bowory; the T T A Bumk Piik ( Da. Gruowers Py bxvraexons Il o e e ioa. Sent by wail on re- ‘t realare free. Boid by .A nt wanted svary- Sdrons - B Komarxs, blaoss N'. 475 Brosdway, New- Vovi A HOLIDAY PRESENT.—POLLAK & Sox, No. G2 nnt-ew Piew Maxy Brosdway, New York. uear Fourth-st. paoTURERA. Pipes cuf (o order, repair or S A Coucw, CoLp, Lone B) and il almost invariabty give i Priies, Piigs, and all affections of the Bowels, | p«r- mauently cured by Spec ofies. at DR A, Upnax‘s Medical o. 39 Fast Four (hird door liom the Bowery, snd w-- Bowery and Broad: Cartes Vlgnol(v t per dosen; Duj atos, '2 Al vegatives registered. . b Luwis. No. 166 Chatham .. N. Y. _ NEW Kearration Navy Car AnD CHAPFAT. _Oem, N B3 Lanss' Furs.—A very choice solection of my own menaactare, BANTA, comer of Caul sod Woostorw'a. N. B.— Fors shtered, rovaired wid made over. " WiLLooX & Gruns's SEWNO-MACHINE. — ' 1Ls seam 4 dea Hable bo rip than the lock atitch.” [ Judgrs Deciaion” ot Uhe *Grand Trial. "] Fend for snmples of both stitches. No. 508 lirosdw. NewDork Daily Tribune, ——— SA'I‘UR'DAY. DECEMBER 8, 1866. TO ADVERTISERS. ‘We will thank our advertising customers to hand in their Advertisenents st as early an hour ae possible. If recoived after 9 o'clock they canuot be classified uder their proper hoade TO CORRESFONDENTS. No notice can be taken of Anonymous Communications. What- ever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the uamne and address of the writer—not ncoessarily for publion tion, but as n guarauty for his good faith. Al business letters for this office should bo addressed to “ Tux. Triwe %, " Now-York. | We cannot andertake to return rejooted Commuvioations. SOLON ROBINSON'S NEW NOVEL. The readers of the Reports of the Farmers' Club who wish to rend Mr. Robinson s new novel, "' Me-Won-1-Too," can buy Tur WEEKLY TriBUNE of any news.agent. Price 5 cents. Subseription price, by mail, #2 per annum. e 9 The notices of neto publications, wmcluding ** Books of the Week,” ** Christmas Books” and Literary Items, appear o the sizth page this morning ; the court reports and the markets be found on the second page. Both branches of the Leguluum of Georgia have passed the bill postponing the payment of debts till 1868, and it will no doubt be signed by the Governor, ‘who recommended such a measure in his Message. Florida is added to the States which prefer non- | representation to acceptance of the terms of Con- gress. The House has unanimously rejected the Con- stitutional Amendment. ‘We fear the report of the lndln Bareau did not give sufficient emphasis to the outrages of the savages in the West. We have a dispatch reporting addi- tional murders in Montana, and new hostile move- ments by the Indians. It will be seen {rom our lelo dlspllclm that there is no abatement in the Fenian excitement on the other side. 8o serious are the fears entertained of an ontbreak of the Irish in London, that guards have been placed over all the depots of arms in that city. In the Virginia Senate that part of Gov. Peirpoint’s message advizing the adoption of the Constitutional Amendment was referred to the Committee on Fed- eral Relations. There is little doubt of the rejection of the measure. Mr, McCulloel tatement of the public debt on December 1 shows that, deducting $135,364,637 in the Treasury, the total is $2,549,631,238. The report does mot compare these figures with those of last year. November 30, 1965, less cash in the Treasury, the debt was $2,714,633,314, which shows a decrease of $165,002,076. The Senate of the Fenian Brotherhood met in this city yesterday and is understood to bave debated the propriety of attempting a rescue of the prisoners in Cansda. No doubt it speedily decided against an effort which would, in sll probability, be an utter failure. 1t would be especially unnecessary now that the conderaned bave been respited until the 13th of March. The Legislature of Alabama has rejected the Con- stitational Amepdment by & large majority, and it is significant that Mr. Johngon's opposition to it wae quoted as ap argument by its enemies. Gov. Patton, in recently recommending the Legielature to ratify the Amendment, was unsuccessful in undoing the work of his message on the opening of the Legislature, in which his decided opinion was given for its re- Jjection, ad Gen. Whittlesey, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bareau for North Carolina, hes been found guilty of » technical offense sgainst military disci- pline, and sentenced by the Court to be reprimanded by his superior officer. Gen. Howard reprimands as follows: Lot | llnwny that the findings and sentence of the secoud specification of charge No. 1 are deemed sufficient censure. A lifo of integrity, devoted to the wolfare of hiy follow-men, an gruy record ghove roproach, and conduct that calls from the Court such an_ exprossion as to his fidelity to the Govern- ment and his honesty and jlllllco to the freed- men under his charge, make me jom with the Court in the Dbelief that some iu- adyertanca to the gravity of the facts reported to him oooasionad his negloot to order a f"""‘l" and thoroug! oxamination. To the extent of | I do bereby reprimand Brovet Bri Whittleser, On the receipt of o orde Whittlesey will repoit by letter to tho € omini for reassignment to duty.” Wo need only add that (hs proceadings aga‘nst (icn. Whittlesey were based on the partisan and long since disorodited report of Messrs, Steedman and Fullorton, and that & Court “organized to convict” could find vo charge nor render any vordiet against Gen. Whittlesey which weighs againi’ either the emphatic indorsement of Gen, Howard or his own honorablo reputation. MEXICO, FRANCE, AI\D TIIE UNITED STATES. Of our forcign questions, that of Mexico at present engrossos the attention of both America and Europe, and the diplomatio correspondence published in our isane of yosterday, whioh furnishes the official history of tho questions from May to November of the present year, is, therefore, sure to bo read with universal and profound interost. A portion of it, and that tho most important portion, was received so lato that it did not appear in the whole of yesterday's morning odition; wo therefore reprint it. The correspondence treats of our relations to Moxico in their two entirely distinct espaots—first, our relations to the Fronch invasion, and, second, our attitude toward the Gov- ornmont of tho Mexican Republic. With regard to our relations to France, it will be "romembered that, according to the arrangemont con- cluded botween our Government and that of France, the first detachmont of the Frenoh force was to be withdrawn in November, 1366, and the third and last in November, 1867, and that no additional troops wore to be dispatehed. Seme French troops having novertheless, arrived in Moxico aftor the conclusion of this arrangemont, M. Drouyn do Lhuys, in May, 1866, assured Mr. Bigelow that these troops wors ““to replace others whose torm of servico had expired, and in numbers loas rather than moro than were thers be- fore.” Mr. Hay, Chargo d'Affaires ad interim, writes to Mr. Seward, Aug. 17, that ho oalled on the French Minister of Foroign Affairs toiuguire about a rumored modification of ths Frenoh policy, and that he was as- #ueed that the plan determined upon would be exe- cuted. Rumors, nevortholess, maintained thomselves in France, as woll as in Moxico, that the French Gov- ernmont contemplated the withdrawal of the whole Fronch army in the yoar 1867, instead of its being withdrawn three semi-annual detachments beginning November, 1846, These rumors, Mr. Seward writes, Oot. 8, to Mr. Bigolow, unavoidably produced ‘‘awide popular distrust of even the Emporor’s sinoerity in making the engage- ment and of his good faith in fulfilling it.” Tn Wash- ington they wore, of courso, ** waiting for the begin. ning of the evacuation,” but continued, so Mr. Soward assures us, ‘*to rely with implicit confidence upon the fulfillment of tho Emperor's engagement.” Oct, 12, Mr. Bigelow gives an account of his first interview with the Marquis de Moustior, the successor of Droayn de Lluys. The Emperor, he was assured, was still desirous to retire from Mexico even “with- ont referonce to the convention with Maximilianif a shorter timo would suflico;” but the assurance was modified by the resorve that the evacuation would take place ‘a3 soon a8 possible,” and ‘“‘as soon ms the Emperor conld do it with honor aund dignity.” On repairing to Biarritz, Mr. Bigelow waa informed by Mr. Pereige, the owner of the Frauco-Mexican line of steamships, that the contract had beon finally signed by his agent at tho Ministry of War for the ** repatriation " of all the Frouch army in Moxico in March mext, and that some of the troops would be *repatriated " this Fall. Mr. Bigolow had reason to thiuk that Mr. Pereire was “instructed to make this communication " to him. Cloar intimations, it will ke seen, were thus given of an intention of the French Government not to abide by the agreement, as far as concerns the number of the first detachment to bo withdrawn, or the time when it was to be withdrawn. The French newspapers moanwhile continued to discuss this one- sided modification of the contract, of which no notice was given to either Mr. Bigelow or Mr. Seward, and which was not communicated to the former until Nov. 1, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs ex- plicitly stated that it was the purpose of the Emperor to ** withdraw the troops from Mexico in the Spring, but none bofore that time.” The reasons for this violation of of an explicit contract were, the Minister said, “‘of a purely military character.” This as- surance was repeated to Mr. Bigelow by the Emperor himself, who also stated t he charged Gen. Cas- telneau with informing Maximilian that France could pot give him another man nor anotber dollar, and that he (Napoleon) counseled him to abdicate. The Emperor barely admitted that it would have been proper at least to notify the President of the change of the agresment, but suggested that it might bave been ‘‘neglected ” during the change in the Min_ istry of Foreign Affairs. In his reply to this import- ant intelligence, Mr. Seward (Nov. 23) charges Mr. Bigelow with telling the French Minister that the Gov- ernment at Wasbington is *‘sarprised and affected with deep concern” at the postponement of the evacuatien having been determined upon **with. out conference with, or even without notice to the United States.” The latter “‘cannot acquiesce’—1st. Because the term ‘‘next Spring” is too vague. 2J. Because there s oW no better guarantee for the evacuation in the Spring than the United States had before. 3d. Because measures had already been taken to cobperate with the Republican Government of Mexico for the pacification of that country, and it must insist on the execution of the sgreement. Cable dispatches, dated yesterday, state that the large Freuch fleet was now ready to procced to Mexico. The withdrawal of the French troops, will, of course, put an immediate end to the Ewpire. It was therefore, deemed desirable in Washington that our Minister to the Mexican Republic, Mr. Campbell, should be either on Mexican territory or rtoit as possible at the time when the great would ocour. In a dispatch to him, dated Oct. 20, Mr. Seward lays down the main points of the policy which the Government has concluded to pursue. First, Mr. Cawpbell is accredited to President Juares, and is to recoguize ** in no event any other person or combina- tion as exercising the Executive autbority in Mexico, withont baving fist reported to Washington and received instructions from the Presjdent of the United States.” 8econdly, the United States and their representatives will not obstruet the departure of the French troops, Thirdly, the United States die- claim apy intention to conquer Mexico, or any part of it, or to seek an aggrandizement by the purchasing of 1and or dominion, but they desire to see the peoplo of Mexico live under the Government of their own free choice. 1t wmay possibly bappen, it is added, that President Juarez may desire **the good offices of the United States,” or even more effective pro- ceelings on our part to advance the pacification of Mexico, and in such caso it is possible that some disposition may be made of the land and naval forces of the United States which would be useful in favoring the restora- tion of law and order and republican government in Mexico. Mr. Campbell is authorized to confer on this subject with the Government of President Juares, and informally with other partios, abould such an excep- tionel confarouce bocowg ghwelytoly gagosiary- Tho Prosident of the United Statos dosired Gon. Grant to accompauy Mr. Campbell as bis adviser, but when Gen. Graut found it inconveniont to assumo theso duties, Lieut.-Gen, 8herman was substituted for him, and departed with Mr. Campbell for Mexico. At late hour yosterday ovening, & dispateh was received announcing that the Emperor of the Frenoh, notwithst, n,nl ug the interviow with Mr. Bigelow, and ch of Mr. Seward, adheres to his de- all no troops this yoar. Wo pro- no student of Napoleon's character or Mr. Seward's diplomacy will be surprised by this resoln- tion. It is & breach of faith on the part of the Em- peror, which is not excused, although it may have been fuvited. by the always vacillating yot half-im- pertinent tone of Mr. Seward's notes. Napoleon does not oven tako the troubls to conceal the contempt with which he receives the apologetic remonstrances that our Secretary of State put into the mouth of our Minister at Paris. He is polite to Mr. Bigelow, but it is difficult not to fancy that the shrewd old Fronoh- man has seen the contradiotion in our policy, and understands that the United States, in tho attitude assumod by Mr. Seward, have neither any Bolid ground for a quarrel, nor, in fact, any intention to go to war for the object we are now sure of attaining by the mero lapse of time, SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Ono of the disappointments of last session was the torpor of the Senate on the Suffrage bill for the Dis- triot of Columbia. Tho House early passed a bill to strike the word white out ot the election laws. This was Judge Kelloy's measure, and, having been intro- duced December 5, 1865, was passed January 19, 1366, by & vote quito strong enough to confront an expeoted veto. Popular applause followed, as the popular will bad demanded, this just act. In the Senate, Radical mombers manifosted at first & disposition to press the bill to a vote. Thure could be no doubt that the North required it, for the loyal press was almost unanimous in its approval. Whether the bill could got & two-thirds vote might be doubted, but that it ocould command & majonty was not denied. But for roasons mever made known, the beneficont measure was allowed to languish first in committee for more than a month, and then on the tablo of the Senate till the end of the session without a vote. Thus did the Republican majority of the Senate assume a reaponsibility whioh they might have transferred to the Presidont. We havo lately heard that certain eminent Radical Senators yielded to porsonal appeals, and that assumed party necessities in one or two States came toout- woigh both the voice of the people uplifted in bebalf this act, and of the cry of justice long withheld from & proseribed race. Thore was also a Senate bill which had been intro duced on the first day of last session, but which had fared no better than the act which the House sent np. On the first day of the present session, Mr. Sumner tried to call up this bill and pass it, but his offort was cbeckmated by a technioal objection. It was then un- der«tood that some bill should be voted on next week; a bill which the friends of impartial suffrage had & right to suppose would be a real and not a delusive measure. It is not a pleasant surprise to learn that tho Committes bave changed the bill into one of partial, not impartial suffrage, and that to the qualifi- cation of manhood is added a requisition based on an artificial standard of intelligence. It provides that the elector must be able to read the Constitution and to write his name. As it is known that a large part of tho colored population of the District entered it during tho war, from Virginia, the restric- tion is practically a disfranchisement of very many of its most loyal people. The Committee Which interjects this limitation of the eleotoral franchise knows that it does not fall with equal force upon the two olasses of population, although the distinetion of ocolor is nominally abolished. Here are white men to whom schools have always been open, sud black men to whom it bas been forbidden by law to learn the alphabet. Uutil the legal long enough removed to tolerate a presump, tion of equal intelligence based on equal opportunities they are not left on equal terms nor endowed with equal rights by & law which imposes the same literary aud clerical tosts upon the two. This law deals with the franchise radically, establishing a basis of citizen- ship. Its framers or supporters are bound to know with what elements they are dealing, but they have assumed & condition of things which does not exist, and constructed a statute which might confer equal rights upon some district in the moon, but confors very unequal rights on the actual existing dis- trict for which Congress has to legislate. The business of statesmanship is to adjust principles to facts; thisbill ignores both. We are compelled to say of it, as Mr. Bright said of the expected Tory Reform Jegis- lation, it will not be an honest bill. We do not be- lieve Mr. Sumner and Mr. Wado approve it; they are both on record for an uurestricted franchise, and for practical, not fanciful, justice to the blacks. Yet they are both on the District of Columbia Committee,and are put before the country as the indorsers of an arbitrary intelligence qualification for men in whom intelli- gence has very lately been acrime. The country will desire an explanation of the action of the com- mitteo before a vote is bad, and Mr. Sumner or Mr. Wade will, we are sure, give the Benate an opportu- nity to vote on a suffrage bill stripped of the clauses which make Mr. Morill's present measure unfit to become a law. THE NEW-YORK FERRIES. The Board of Health yesterday began an investi- gation of the caiises of the burning of the ferry-boat Idabo, but no witnesses were examined, and no facts proved. It is, therefore, nnnecessary to express any further opinion in regard to the Idaho; and the Board of Health will, no doubt, place the responsibility of that accident where it belongs. But we shall be disappointed if it does mot go farther and examino the condition of all the ferrics between this city and the cities adjoining. We kuow that they need an investigation, and bundreds of thousands of people, who use the boats daily, know that few precautions are taken (o prevent acci- dents, Of the deficiency in life-boats aud life-pre- servers, we need only say that it is notorious; but there are other criminal omissions on the part of all the companies equally evident. When a ferry-boat approsches the slip two crowds meet—one eager to got off, the other to get on—and the moment the boat is uear enough for & jump the foremost rauks of these opposing crowds straddlc tbe uncertain gap. There is something amusing in the sight, and jumping on and off of a ferry-boat no doubt requires a certaiv edu- cation of eye and foot; but it is even more dangerous thav it looks. There is actually no provision against gccident, except that for any unfortunate wan who happens to be jostled off a rope stretched along the water-line is provided. If bo misses this rope, which is very likely, and capuot swim, he is likely to dis- cover whether drowning is sach a chanping wethod of death as it is seid, It should be the bysiness of the companics to prevent this danger by enforcing the proper regulations. No one should be allowed to legve the boat, or enter it till it is fastened to the slip. The short aund frequent passages of the ferry-boats re- move the appearance of danger, but aman may sseasily be drowned at the end of a five minutes trip as at the end of a vogage around tho world. The Idabo was burned to the water's edge within & few yards of the wharf, aud notwithstanding all the boats and vessels near, the passongers barely escaped. We think the lbit of crogsing the ferries makes the companies, the pilots, the forry-masters, and the public, careless of dangor. The other day, at a Wall-st. Ferry, undor some wisqggucoption (hy eaplply yang W boll iy syt disability has been | while the boat was fastenod to the pior. Ono revolu- tion of tho whoels, and tho chains whirled round the whools, snapped, flow into the air with & violonco that shook tho pier, and tho boat went off dragging ber chains in the water. This is au oxamplo either of carolessness or tho want systom. Mr. Cross, ono of the Dirsctors of the Company which owned the [daho, said to the Board of Health that “ there are many prajudic the minds of per- sons who cross the feiry.” Wo they ar preju- dicos which ought to ba respected—prejudicos againat drowning, projudices against being burned vp to avoid drownivg, projudices against burnin and drowning togethor, Then thero is & genoral prejudics in favor of life proservers, which, though uo one wants to uss thom if it can be holped, are still pleasant things to have conveniently at hand. Thore aro prejudicoa in favor of cloanliness, polica rogulation, and & syatom which will protect a orowd against its own rashness, and wo think it timo that tho ferry companies should admit that they are well founded. —_—— UNSOUND GRAIN AND FLOUR, Does the use of bread and other articles of buman food mado of unsound gruin and flonr produce inju- rious offeots upon the public health—upon the hoalth of persons whose subsistence, in any considerable pro- portion, consists of such provision? What diseases. if any, are consequent wpon that kind of diet? It has often been said by physicians, and believed by unprofessional people, that fovers of a low, lingering, typhoid character often come from low living; from want of nourishing food; especially from bread made of unsound grain or flour. Apprehensions that on this ground have beer: entertained and expressed, are now roalized; and the attention of the Sanitary Board is drawn to the cause and tho remedy. ‘' Prevention is preferable to cure.” Have our preventive powers been promptly snd efficiently called into action? 1f our Sanitary Board should be of opinion that a rigid inspection of flour would aid them in their pur- pose of protecting tho pablic bealth, or the interests of the State in its property, revenue, tolls or pur- chases, have they not powor to apply to the Governor to appoint an Inspoctor, and has not the Governor in such case full power to make the appointment? Lot us look at the Constitution, and see what power is granted in such an emergency. When the cholora was upon us last Summer, suppose the Board had boen of opinion that the disease had been caused or aggravated by unsound, musty flour, would they not have applied to the Governor to appoint an Inspeotor, and failing in that, would it not bave been their duty to appoint one themselves ! Aye; and to take care that he should have Deputies enough to aid him in tho efficient performance of the duties of his office. But to refer to the Constitution of New-York, adopted in 1846, Article V., Section 8, says: ““All offices for the weighing, geuging, measuring, culling or inspecting any merchandise, produco, manufacture or commodity whatever, are hereby abolished, and no such offico shall hereafter bo oreated by law; but nothing in this section contaiued sball abrogate any office created for the protection of the public bealth, or the interests of the State in its property, revenue, tolls or purchases; or of supplying the peoplo with correct standards of weights and measures; or shall prevont the creation of avy office for such purpose hereafter.” Thus it appears that the office of Flour Inspector was ** created for the protection of the public health.” Every barrel of unsound flour was branded conspicu- ously in large, black, deeply-indented lotters, BAD," in order to warn all mankind to beware of the poison- ous character of the contents. Apothecaries were not more carclul to label arsenic poison, than was John Brown to brand barrels of unsound, sour, or musty flour, **Bad.” The office of Flour Inspector was not abolished, for in the same sentence which abolishes other things it is provided and declared: ** But nothing in this section contained sball abrogate any office cre- ated for the protection of the public health, or the in- terests of the State in its property, rovenues, tolls or purchases.” What interest can be nearer and dearer to the State than the preservation of the public health? What more immediately acts upon its property, revenues, tolls or purchases, favorably or unfavorably, than the preservation or the ruin of the public health of its commercinl capital ? Verily, the Constitation, in this single instance, is not so shorn of power as many have apprehended. At request of many of our public men, Speaker Colfax Lias cousented to repeat his thoughtful aud very populsr lecture, ** Across the Continent,” this evening st the Cooper Iustitute, ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. i 07 0 BOARD OF CITY CANVASSERS. SECOND DAY—A PROTEST FROM JUDGE MICHAEL CON- NOLLY. The Board met at 11 o'clock on Friday mornicg, and be- gan the canvass in seversl wards for Controller, Alder- mwen, Councilmen, School Conimissioners and School Trus- tees. ) e Wi lr-l'nu—nm eted. At the opening of the session the Board received the following protest from Judge Michael Connolly : New Youk, Dee. 6, 1as, the City of NewYork otice that 1 protest #ofceof Controller of New. To the Board of City Canre York." or of any ball and County, Number Six, " and demand that you keep & recetd of the iudorsement of the ballots counted. Yours, very respectrully, MiciaEL COXNOLLY. Which was received aud referred to a Specisl Commit- tee of tive, which was not appointed. The Bosrd then ad- Journed to Saturday worniug, st 10 o'clock, ———— { the up Maibtrain on ARMY GAZETTE. ———— | BT TELKGRAPH TO THE TRINUNE. | TLESEY'S REPRIMAND. 0% REFLGLES AND ABANDUNRD Wisnizeron, Dec, 4. 146, Srrcias Onpens No. 178 — » compliaace with nstructions | ewbraced in Geversl Court Martial Orders No. 212, dated Nov. 17, 1966, War Department, Adjotent Generai's Office, Washingten, requiriug we to reprimevd Brevet Brig.Gev. Eliphalet Mittle- sey. Colonel #th United States Colored Troops, | have to saythat e finciugs and sentence of the recond apecification of charge No .1 wre deemed sufficient cemsure. A lis of integrity, devoted to the of hie fellow wem, an srmy recerd above reprosed, and cen- at calls from the Court vich an expression ae te his Selity to the Government ond sty sud (istice to the fresdmen under ort i the bellef thet some in- Elighalet Whittlesey. On the receipt of this order, Gen. £. Wkit- Hlesey will report by lettes to the Commissiover for resmignment to duty. 0. 0. Howanp, Major-Gen., Comminander. MISCELLANEOUS. ved o duty ork Harbor, § ANNOUNCED, Brovet Major-Gen. Absiom Baird, Amistant luspeeto: Gerarsl Department of Lukes. Pl ey NAVY GAZETTE. ———— BY THLEGRAPE TO FER TRINONE. ORDERED, Nov. 30.—Actiog Ensign Geo. H. Hallett, to report to l':',!uuwy of the Treasury for duty counected with the Cosst Sur- DETACHED. Nov. 30 —8u Lewis B, Ilmuu and W, 8. W. Ruschenberg- 8. Walas fom duty te o1, from duty ss wembers, snd Surgeon PMN Retiriug Board at Philadeipbis, aud waiivg or- 'Mnunuu of ke MISCELLANROUS. h- l‘-u.‘smnmw Chi. to ploor *avY doul '.‘l 0l 0 Dadly 'i'u ¥ _l'r-a. Palme fived 4 Charoolen sad wrosld sty fox cther Southers po Anepect vessels of U usdion. Hatterss the Ubicopee speke o ork wosmer oond or & o prtmchontuisnsy CASE OF JUDGE CULVER. BY TELBGRAFN THS TRIBUNE. Pirtsnvaan, Dec. 7.—Advices from Franklin, Pa. way: The Hon. (. V. Culver,held in custody here by civil was brought before Judge Frankey on a writ of habeas corpus and asked to be dlul- on the grounds that Le was & member of the Thirty-uinth Congress from the Twen- tieth Congressional Distriot, Pa. After able s by Gosgal onboth akdes Judge Franker' decided fodey that. the | M momber of was not entitl wlhm!lmwhlhdl for &unh an offopes g8 (he louorable gentloman was ohargad it ——l THE ASS0CIATED PRESS. —— AOTION OF THE NEW-ENGLAND JOURNALS. BY FPALEGRAPH YO PHE TRIBUNR. Boarow, Dec. 7.~Tho Pross of Boston is firm in “ purposo to maintain its rolations with the New-York Angociatod Pross. Tho samo is truoe of New-England gom- erally. Tn tho opinion of our cditors the practioal working of tho Association, since the rscont change ia ity manage: mont, has improvad a hundrod per cent. BY TELEORAPH TO THR TRIDONE. Hantrorp, Deo. 7.-Tho Now-England Way Pross Association, through their Fxooutive Committes, at o mfll‘y‘ufiu‘hu‘ Allyn Houso u‘n- gc vo;oa unAbi- ntinuo their engs wil Now- and Boston Associated Prfll’:‘““ el e THB ORAIG BNTERPRISE REPUDIATED BY THE WESTRRM P33 BY TRLEGRAPR €0 TiIR TR187; CoLvmnus, 0., Dec. 7.—The following oditorial appears in to-worrow's Oheo Stats Jowrral : D. M. Crlg, Agent of ssociated Tross, vrm n Goumh“t‘n l.nmp::: L‘;:m ‘on-n- on o NI o w ) 0 We hayo wade the mmuuho:' 13 nf it groat diudm of Mr Craig. We hm carofully enm i from tho commencement, and 6 boasting Wi d‘lth" o St e 'ing what ho is '!in 10 do, or the Anochu:m Which discharged him, ”mm.'““"' - ‘no tmh i3 tho New York Associsted Press in d(}m;mfl;-o.(lu-llflnfi‘flrflfim ‘e nblo feature, and has since thal : talographio mows lunury whh‘h hl ever appoarcd the country are covering this fact, and by o i ke them now take the dispaichss of tho New.York Press. Among this -n-h-r n my Inc!ud-, Hn m u‘ mistakon, cvory tm ocountry Clovel dlo.vfil‘lhurlfi l ihmbu v elan or mosf mpm n hicage Repr ...5"-.., other Press and Trbvne, The O/ {mportant points, bl s WS CANADA. g WY TELEGRAPE TO THE TRIBUNI SweeTspura, Doc. 7. —'l‘hn military stationsd here having no Kenians to encounter, find difficulty in hfi.. timo, Some of them wero fooling with their woapons in the barrck rooms this morning, whona B«g-nl.ul Ilnvin that a charge had boen left 8 mvvlnr itat private vato named Watson. The ball hit Wat- w the chin and lodged in his nnderjlv n h- nm boen extractod, and no danger is apprehended. volunteers had Spencer loaders served out to he. to<day, and wore out drilling with them. The Court was occupied all du{vvnln “ml'lfi\ O‘H'A'A‘ 0 Hon. Messrs. Cnnpb-ll, Cockburn and Chapais lefu for Montreal this evening. The lflmhve (.ouncll will meet in that city. It is under- stood that the Governor-Genersl will be s:unt ol the Mng Tha weather for the pnl two Lf t. All our steawmers are into Win qrumm O17AWA, Deo. 7.—Tle Ufcml azette contains a proc- hmlwnfor the proroguing Parliament uutil Jan. 19. Commissionor of Ounmn‘h a circular declarod to be twonty-seven ‘MowTREAL, Dec. 7.—About ten tuns of the Geological ut are to be sent this Paris Exposition, Hunter and Inchnruol in charge. Bir Wns..lngl':‘:nl!' attend m‘hkxlfl:mm. Great of- forts are lo to re tho best minerais, ot that Canads can T i s e et o 8 0 {ida for tho ......."'“m".".?"c.m. e by MonTeEAL, Dec, 7.—The Govornor-Gieneral arrived this :r:l The g'mc-un Council convened at ::on m ive s Excellency was preseut ng entio sitti A large amouut of Dovn‘lnn DESTRUCTIVE PIRE IN NEW-HAVEN. BY TALEGRAPK TO THE TRIBCNE. New-HAvsN, Conn,, Dec. 7.—Early on Friday morning & fire was discoveredfin the engine-room of the Plants Manufacturing Company, located on Grand-et., and in less thas one bour from the breaking out of the fire the entire buildings M m'::y:d_ The :l:-:mmm manufactured frearms amber of importaut The flames from the fire bebold for = 4 L i iy Ef ’Eg;iifii DESTRUOTION OF A NEW-ORLEANS THEATER. BT THLEGRAPH YO THE TRIDUNS. New-ORLEANS, Dee. 7.—The beautiful and # theator of New-Orleaus, was totally destroyed by fire morning - IN PEARL-ST. A few minutes before 12 o'clock last night & fire was discovered in the rear of tbe three-story frame building at the south-cast corner of Pearl and Dover-sts. The flames n c-l'lhlhd with the upper floors, and before o portion of the bullding was g ox y dl while the nnmedar was inundated with water. The front was occupied by Edward Meyer u . nonu the Franklin Cot Hu.lnou.-upk-l rear the first, second and third a8 o lodging-bouse. Loss about §1,500. Insured for $2,500, in the Germanis Company. ‘The front Mdlhcmfldlfldllfid lmmmfld by Michael Tieroey, as & k-dctu it $1,000; o insurance. ‘The buikling ia owned b:‘ v dl i damaged to the ulem y lnu h believed to have originated lrfl @ lam| ness of one of the lodgers. L ———— ACCIDENTS. ——— RAILROAD DISASTER. BY TRLEGRAPE TO THE TRIBONE. LousviLLe, Dec. 7.—The tender sttached to the ine of fou the Mo Clarksville aad T e Hiroad Tan S i tack this moruing ight mles wouth of Clarksville, tea) up the track and precipitating two cars dowu an embankment M the CxXpress mes- seuger aud injuring & pumber of passengers in the second car. RAILROAD ACCIDENT NEAR WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VERMONT. BY_TRLEGRAPE TO THR TRISUNS. BurLiNaroy, Vt., Dee. 7.—On Thursday afternoon ‘ermont Central Rail:oad ran off the four miles below White River Junction, precipiating Iban;tu down n;tenhnlnlt » distance of r‘ pltely ov e fireman engineer were caught underneath the coal nl. eruhn. the former's nd soalding them. The | Jarred. The accident was caused by the spreading of & rail. ———— THE FISHKILL OIL CASE. | #3 vazuenarn 1o ¥H® TRIBUNE. PovGHKEEPSIE, Deec. 7, 6 p. m.—All the evidence for both sides iu the Fishkill Oil Case hae been given in, and the counsel are ready to sum up. The evidence for the defonse bas bore heavily agaiost Higge the **Swamp Angel” so far an Lis gencrs) character is concerned—quite a vumber testifying the) w.u.nl not believe lim uuder oot ’I'MI Hn! of ltlhl in T8 ml"l“‘ '“"‘.:h'::‘z, iy to] by R prostoution, 1he, 1 ng_willin go 5 we that Jom'nml hu'n-pmll with w lnnve -n-l!).n was_the wan for the bosi The defense will be summed up by William Fullerton. n-l 1he prosecution by the Hon. H. A. Neleon. The crowds oo are still very large, and \Mn 18 50 ahatervent in m given to the to- ten interest felt. The caso will probably be night. Tt s the opiuion of leading Epea in this viclnity that the plaintifs Lave made s very strong cese. et —— ATTEMPY T0 BLOW UP A FOUNDERY. TO TRE TRIBUNE. Toum. Dec. 7.—Last night an attempt was made wblu'n-lufl-mndfl'ylypluu.sh ted lanters under of corl oil, where it was found this morning hn'm "ont, the barrel being badly charred. The failure of the m was caused by the improper mauver of placing the pw - -— THE KDAH() DISASTER An investigation into the burning of the ferry-boat Idaho, belonging to the New-York and Brocklyn Ferry Com- pany, was commenced yesterday ab the beadquarters of the Board of Health by Dr. Daltov, Sanitary Superivteydent. The Board ordered Dr. Dalton m make o preliminary exawination, mdl!luhwhl-mrb;fl ‘the disester was ocees sioned by reckiess and caveless eut, tke Board will immediately institute o suit n“lln the Company. Mr. Cross, et et B P necompanted umber of ) MAM“I:A the fiu:r‘:( the hmm‘ )lrplhu!lq. couneel for the C A uxl'!nnyn:.l: B. Frron. ‘counsel for the Board. made & fow re. wnarks, stating that it was not the intention of the Beard to l- agement of the Ferry Com) ln d-nnr nmvh pany. stated th ke enceed. ol . with the anud l!-lll. that et u:ium-“u ot} I avery way in their power i glving all bu formation on t! Mflt rued uptil pext Monday "after- mm o :l"“hmA‘l')" who were on ihe boat at the lllnoflltdlulur are requested to be present. The head- quartors of the Board are at No. 301 Moit st. ‘moeti m‘flofl“’l’m “boat J Watt on the en AR wmoes u‘mw relation to the unsaie condition of the boats on said forry, and a committes, consisting of . N. r. Lord (of umlrr.,m» R C. Browniug, Mr. Colling nmlhu and K. B, Starr,was appointed to at ond at the meet: g of th Board of Toalth, now lnvestygating (he foryits, aod roprosaj yg conditiop of Holwhen Kerry.