The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1866, Page 4

Amnsements. AMERICAN MUSEUM. KABRL, Or. THE WOODEN SHOE W full cowpany. TWO HUN- 111E5=VAN AMEURGH'S COL TIUS KVENING-ITALIAN. —~CRISPINO E LA COMARE. NIBLO'S GARDEN THIS EVENINO-THE BLACK C Ballat Troupe. OK—Grest Patistonne NEW.YORK THEATER. - THIS EVENINO—GRIFFITH GAUNT; Or, JEALOUSY. W YCRK CIRCU w ‘uum CIRCUS TROUPE. Robert 3 THIS EVENING Stickuey sud Mle. D THEATER. it NOT TO MARRY. Mr. Le- Mr. Johu Gibert, Mr. Charles WALLAC THIS FVENING-TO MAR ator W Mr. Frederic Fuaiar, Misy Madeline Hon OLY THEATER. THIS EVENING-MASTER OF RAVESSWOOD. Mr. Ceo. ¥ Jordaa, Miss llos Eytiage FIFTH AVEXUE OPERA HOUSF. T8 FVENING-BUDV ORTE MINSTRELS. T NEW SHADOW PANTOMIME, WAKE UP ABRAHAM, ke SEUM_OF ANATOMY. NATOMICAL COLLECTION. Ypen duily frow 8. m. to 10} NATIONAL ACADESY OF DESIGN REVEETH ANNUA THITION OF THE ARTISTS' FUND SOCIETY. Open from BROADW THIS EVENING=ST. MAKC HALL. TI'CKER'S FIRST CONCERT . W. Morgan. THIS EVENING. Mee. Grugee, Mr. Sim Y & LFON'S MINSTRFLS. THIS EVENING—MATRIMONY—FERSECUTED DARKEY, ko STI'T FREE EXHIBITION O TURES FATR_AND FESTIVAL HALL OF ST. STEPHEN'S CiiURCH, 2ithat., between Lex- ington sud W ave GERMAN THALIA THEATRE. THIS BVENING=HAN LET. Mr, Bogumil Dawison. OREAT MASONIC FAIR AT TUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. corner of Graad aud Crosby-sts CLINTON HA THIS EVENING-MR._ VALFNTL TAINEENT, “ THE UNITY UF N, OLYMPIC THEATE! ENING—at 7} o THE MASTER OF RAVENS- earre Jordu THIS wi Business Notices. REAM MANUFACTU idence, R. 1.. b forw the ThD Goops comprising foll Drxxem and TEa AxE of every desciiption of & very sy The base is Nickel Siiver, ver of such thickness that wiiver in utility, sod fom babie from it. h are uadisting with o pro . thay wow sssurs the pablic i tiow by tha prodaction of FrLrorro w0 axtroue derubility e wi'l insure Slhasor Al articies made by them ar (B7] GEREAMATG, ara fully goarataed They foel it nacessary particalarly the above trace merk. as their v imitated. These goods cen rs throughout th+ Co., dasigne hav only be procarad from FFANY & Nos 55 A Aes now opaning over 100 cases of portation. aul specially wade to their or s sn is, of their own Im —embracing all the vovel- Jewnray. CLOCKS, l‘-mfln; Axp Faxcy Goons Vievns, Gevova, Naples. this seston in Feris, | nk of vich and — wte., torming the 1o wors arth Loe of lunory ever exkiby Davis CoLra No. 479 Brosdwar, 4 Haviog Falarged their Siore by F bave BILVER FLATED WARBR 0 their Lacgs Btock of CRIN, We dwite Eape niim to & Large Awortment of NEW CHINA DINING SETS. PreeaRED OiL OF PALM AND MACE, for Prosseving. Restoring and Beaut fying the Halr. Tt o the most delightfal and wonderful article the wo:ld ever produced. Masven or Pxne, nd besutifsl Perfume. Potfumers. Price $1 per bottle, sach. wiout & Co., No. 100 Libertyst. N. Y Tag HoLIDAYS. Tuk LARGEST ASSONTMENT IN THE COUNTRY 0F RICH DINNER AND TEA SETS, PARIS CLOCKS AND STATUARY, and Fixg FAxcT Goons—of our own {mportation. OviNgTON BROTHERS, Nos. 238, 238 sod 240 Fultou st., Brookiyn Houivay GiFrs! FAMILY SILVER'! Lucios Haer & Co,, The Oldest Pisted-Ware Toose inthe City, Now 4, 6 end ® Prauive Sup, (Poot of Johr-t.) SiLves-PLated WARE, At Moderate Prices below Broome st.. ting it through to Mercer-at., d ND GLASSWARE. CONSUMPTION these disenses bes ever been cared by Tstaud ready to prove tist sl the Pro- Jstipid applisn-es bwve proven Remedisls frow Plauts pre- o bes i the only perfect dye—black no ridiculous tints. Ovnuine eigned " FLORENCE Reversible Faed Lockatiteh Sewing-MAcH N TS Best family machive i the world Fronexos 8. M. Co.. g ' No. '3 Rrosdway. Morr's CuxMic. ores Gray Hair, Roepe it glosey and from falling oot: removes Dandruff: the finest drossing usad” Soid by Ko No. 10 Astor House, and Droggists. Tak ARM AXD LEG B. FraNk Paumer, LL. D.— The “baet” fren to woldiers, and low to officers and civiliane. 1,600 Chestastat. Phile. . Avtc 19 Gresn at., Bosion. Aveid M wll:lfl-‘ oIVI TrUssE3, ELAST aom, Survoutrms ke.—M. t.lvllllnAl \"'."Hl“fl cviion woviaw 3t comouy § HOLIDAY PRESEXTS OF AFFECTION AND CHARITY. Wasnian & Wiisons Lock Sutch SewingMachives. No. [ ety | HowpAY Presexts.—Sremkoscorrs and VIEWS, @00 Ausoms, Laxpscarss ke E. & 1. T. Axrnoxt & Co.. No. 501 Broadway. st. Nicholas ilock. _ WageLkr & WILson's Sewing-Machines in BROOK- orw ot o 38 Fonronat. : STOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BAND- & Co.'s Radical Cure Truse Office ndmnt. T. B. Bryses, “Fiesr Premion A taln Ubs mew and adumirsble Y ox HOMANA Attachment. sazs & Co., No, 417 At C‘:nn l)l:«’r;r. No. 302 'l.lmud- 7 adding Cerds, Bl X rder hameing—all wtyle ne Cuvarse V - Cu-: -m‘:fll Dec. In. s Daxs’s PULMO-BRONCHIAL TROCHES P Congha_Colas aud all Throat a:d Luug Disesses. Sold everywhers. Ladio, discard injurious paddings. Madame Jumel's Mamumarisl Baim and Patent Brasst Elevator to developthe form phye- {ologiouily. _Dapot 02 Canalot. $0'd by drugsists._Serd for Circalar, SEWING-MACHINES fa .fkkl W . No. 7;:!‘;:-:’-1’, up etaire. LOCK-STITCH BEWING-MA- Mary- “Fuurerio 8. Mo S g e 0 S Hhr g a0 e Tax Hows MAcHINE (0.8 Lock-Stitch Skwi Maowinse Fusas Lows, jr. (orisinal inveator of the Sewiog Proddant. No. 08 od'q._‘. %. 15TADORO'S HaLz DYB.—The best ever manu- bolesels No. 8 Astor House. Gootasnd, Wholosss sad weinl sl spplied st ‘WEED BewiNG-Macur way. The only Lock sk Faminy Macwixs (hat uses & straight “Pun Brst HOLIDAY PRESENT. —GROVER & BAKER'S 1gnmer Praniun Sxwisg Macm No. 495 Brosdwa; A Sumk PiLe CURE. Du Guwwer's Prua | Positivaly cures Lo wores cases of o8 e Mroas I . Kouars, Micager: No. i T e O SRR L S Pn.r ~Thia dlquminh nlfl‘n.etlon permanentl, o Dm‘l‘. Soge worst _cases successfully A HouipAY Presknt—PoLLax & Sox, No. 652 Brandway. ¥ Purm v Sent by mall on re. Ageot wanted 8 Brodnay, New' ork, nesr Forrihat.. MEERICHATN Maxv Pipes cut to order. repaired and mounted. ignette, $3 per dozen; Duplicates, $2. Al wogativos ragiatered. .i‘.l:l.“n l); 160 Chatbamn ot.. N. Y. New RrouraTion Navy Car Axp Cmarrav, Omwin. No. 513 Heoanwar. Both Chronic and Inflammatory Kheumatism are :;t: ly cursd by Murcaron s Gurar ll’l'lm Rumeoy. Sold ~ CrasTADORO'S HATR Dye.—The best ever manu- “luchured. Wholessis and ratall; oo app!ied st No. 6 Astor House. ":mh&lfl?&l‘r':kan MACHINE —'* Ita soam o loes llabie e \oeh-atitch.” — [ * Judge' Decinlon” o th Grasd Taial | ‘wead (o wamitan f bk wishs. Mo 8 Brosdwey. Sereap TnE TRUTH! ndignified to advertise o remedy. reasoning this, It is like sayirg the world needs should be bid in & cormer—that fused—thst the means of th sliouid bo & close monopoly, sud not It is worse than that: it is protecting snd resioring b The srzoment is baa. Suppose Hosrerran's Stomaca Brrrens— an sbuolute specific for dyspepsis, biliousness aud pervous debility— liad nover been kuown beyoud the repertoire of the faculty, what would have beau the censequence? lnstesd of curing and invigora- ing willions, the good efiects of the preparation would bave been con- fiued to 8 comparstive fuw. There is the hizhest authority for saying that whatever is excellent ean take coguizance neiple xs have been sdvertised ed in every newspaper of any prominence in the western bemiapbere, aud that the spontaneous testimouials in its favor bave been tran: into all written langusges. Thoussuds enjoy perfect bealth to-day who would be languishing on beds of sick- wews if (he newspapers had not spread the fruih with regard to this wnequaled ineigorant and corrective far and wide. Suppose profit has been 1esped from this publicity, i that sny argument agatust ft1 17 tho public health bas been protected if Hvee bave boen saved ; if the foeble have been stiougthened and the sick restorsd, great good Aas been accomplished ; and who so meau a8 to grudgo L0 exeriions thus directed their fuir reward 1 inhuman. ofit. It wnd cor NetoDork Daily Cribune. MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1866. T0 ADVERTISERS. ‘Wo will thank our advertising customers to hand i their Advertisements at as early an hour as possible. If received after 9 o'clock they cannot be elassified under their proper hesds. —ee e No potice can be taken of Anonymous Communications. What- ever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer—not necessarily for publica- tion, but us & guaranty for his good faith. rs for this office should be addressed to ‘' Tue New-York. ‘We caunot undertake to return rejocted Communications. by 7" On the second page of To-day's paper will be found a column of Militia Intelligence, contaning the ‘miltitary events of the week, Brooklyn and Queens County news, Base Ball items and other matters, beside the Court reports and calendars and the Money and General Markets. The New-York World, after consenting to be bound by the rules of the Associated Press, violated them, and was dismissed from the Association. This will account for its anxiety to get into a quarrel with the remaining members. The World boasts of its enterprise. It printed in advance extracts from the President’s Message, which had been given to it under a promise of secresy until read in Congress. We believe this form of enterprise is known in law as * breach of trust." A day or two later a dispatch was printed in its columns purporting to come from The Cincinnati Commercial, which never saw The Commercial, but was stolen from the proof- room of another newspaper. ‘Thisfeature of enterprise is called, wo believe, * petty larceny.” We accord to The World preéminence in Sing Sing journalism. The speech of Mr. Thomas Hughes, member of Par- liament for Lambeth, is, in view of all its circum- stances, as frank and candid as an English legislator can find it possible to make. Mr. Hughes honestly | seem to indicate a distrust of the ability of the Govern- ment to cope with an insurrectionary outbreak in Ireland; for surely such a desperate andrevolting | measure as an indiscriminate massacre would never be dreamt of or permitted by any Government worthy of the name. The fulfillment of The Times's prophecies would convince the world, more than anjthing we can imagine, that the power of the British Govern- ment was gone. It would do more: it waild cover the English name with deep and everlasting infamy. Whatever turn affairs in Ireland may take, let us hope, for the character of that Christian civilization which we share in common with Englanc—for the sake of our common humanity—that mercy will not be incontinently discarded, and a system of warfare pursued worthy only of a race of savages. —_— REVOLUTION AND REFORM. The dimensions to which the Reform movement in England is growing cannot fail to arrest attention on this side of the Atlantic, and the progress of the wide-spread and daily intensifying sgitation will be watched with deep and sympathetic interest by all Americans loyal to the principles of human freedom and politicalequality. There s a portion of the Aweri- can press, however, from which we can hardly ezpect any sign tending to encourage the English people in their preseut struggle for equal rights. They wo de- fended negro slavery to the utmost of their alility, and to the last moment of its existence in Amsrica, and who are doing all in their power to prevent our freedmen from obtaining possession of the complanent of their personal liberties, cannot be expected to have either good wish or good word for a cause such as that which is now engaging the energies of the Reformers of the old country; while there are some who, holding to a sort of bastard conservatism, seem to consider that they are bound in consistency to belittle as nuch a3 they can the eignificance of the Reform move- ment, and to express grave doubts of its snceess. ‘Thus, we are told that Jobn Bright is ruin- ing the cause he has taken in hand—that his speeches aro too intemperate—that his denunciations of op- pression are too violent—that the measures be pro- poses are too sweeping—that his proceedings are alto- ether too revolutionary. All this is but the echo of the objurgations of the Tory press of England against the great popular leader—the stale reproduction, in- deed, of the sentiments which in substance reaction- ists in all ages, have held respecting men laboring to ac- complish great 1eforms in the interests of liberty and buman happiness. But such sentiments carry no weight with them, and are powerless to resist the on- ward march of the race. There are conceivable con- ditions of society under which en excess of zeal in the cause of Reform might defeat the purposes it is in- tended to serve; but there are periods when what trimmers would call violence is the only meaus of ensuring success. In the case under consideration, we are persuaded that it is only by striking bard and beavy blows that the end in view can be gained, But we are told that there is little hope for the ul- timate success of the movement, owing to the mortal aversion of the English peoplo to anything revolution- ary in character. They have *a horror of revolu- tion," it is aseerted, by the unsympathetic prophets in It is quite new light to us onthe national character to Ve told that rather than disturb the existing order of things the Euglish people are willing to submit to oppression and wrong. We adwit that the English are dif- ficult to be moved to decisive action in cases where radical changes are involved, and averse to running question. believes that in the union of Church and State the | bastily into viclent extremes; nor do we deny that advantages have preponderated. We do not, nor do | we see how Englishmen can resson themselves into | any such expensive belief; but, on the other hand, | Mr. Hughes thinks that the Church ot England | “would be quite as useful and as strong if she were separated from the State.” A comfortable aud mod erate opinion surely—but it is plain that Mr. Hughes has not thought uppermost of the immense benefit such a righteous disunion would be to the dissenting per- suasions, Other and unobjectionable points of Mr. Hughes's speech refer to his efforts against the railroad evictions, by which 20,000 persons were turned out of their homes in the metropolitan district, the adultera- tion of the food of the London poor, and his intelli- gont and very liberal stand in favor of a broad educa- tional test of suffrage. Alabama olaims will be read by every Americau with interest. He is not prepared to admit that England should pay for the Alabama's mischief; but he insists that the question thereof should be fully and fairly arbitrated. WHAT;STAMPING OUT REBELLION MEANS. We publish this morning several extracts from the | London press, illustrative of the spirit in which it is proposed to deal with the Fenians in Ireland in the | event of the apprehended outbreak. We observe that the Tory portion of that press is all but unanimous in urging a courso of relentless severity toward the Irish; and even the Liberal journals, with oue or two honor- able exceptions, join in demanding that measures of the sternest severity should be employed. The Times especially seems to auticipate something like a carpival of blood. ““The rebellion,” it says, “would be stamped out as we stamped out the cattle plague;” and it indicates pret- ty cloarly what would be the character of the process. *‘Should there be another Irish rebellion, there will be no false sympathy, nor even respect for those who take part in it. No doubt Government and the high civil and military authorities, and public opinion, will all be in favor of all possible mercy and tenderness. But no government on carth can tie the hands and restrain the passions of subordinates on the spot, in the heat of the conflict, and half maddened by the sight and report of recent atrocitice.” No one endowed with common understanding can fail to perceive what is really foreshadowed in these remarks. If they mean anything, they mean indiscriminate butchery. They mean that the British soldiery shall Dbe let loose upon the Irish population, to take summary and blooly vengeance. They mean that the cruel tale of the Ja- maica massacre shall be repeated on a wider field and with more numerous victims than Morant Bay could furnish, They mean that neither sect nor age shall be respected, and that the innocent and guilty alike are to fall beneath the same stroke. In view of such a hellish riot of the passions as all this involves, The Times says: **The result would be one that we shudder to think of.” For our part, we shudder to think that in the present age of Christian civilization there can be found & journal with the pretensions and the position of The London Times suggesting—yes, actually suggesting—such & retribution as that st which the remarks we have quoted un- mistakably point. The Times, we are aware, hasfiino sympatby to spare for the African race. It attempted at first to defend, and afterward, when driven from ite original position by the evidence of incontrovertible facts, to palliate, the atrocities per- potrated under martial law in Jamaica. But we did think it bad some little **fellow feeling” for men of the Caucasian stock. We are undeceived, however; and if The Times is to be regarded as the exponent of English feeling, then we are forced to the conclusion that under British rule the Celt struggling against in- Justice and oppression, has no more chance of mercy than the Sepoy and the negro asserting what they believe to be their rights. But we cannot bring our- selves to believe that in a matter of this kind that journal speaks the sentiments of the great bulk of the English people. We cannot be persuaded that the men who are themselves struggling to wrest their rights from a selfish oligarchy would desire to see even rebels dealt with in the way whirh The Times suggosts. ‘The romarks of the great London journal would What he says regarding the | | the Anglo-Saxon race is o the temper of the nationul mind is more conservative than radical; but we have yet to be convinced that tbe English have *‘a borror of revolution.’ The fact is, Revolution plays no inconsiderablo figure in their bistory. What, we ask, gave them the liberties they at present enjoy, and which distin- guish them &0 notably from the King. idden peoples of contineutal Enrope? Why, Rovolution. WLat was 10 the the movement that brought Charles the First block ? Most assuredly a revolutionary one. What was | the abdication and flight from England of James IL, A and the final overthrow of the Stuart dynasty’ revolution. And what the ¢ ment that wrung from an the Reform Bil of 1 ary, Itis a common unwilling Decidedly revolution- mark, we are aware, thaj evolutiopary by nature. And yet the history of the race presents many a noblo struggle, fought out to * the bitter end,” for Lberty | and right. Indeed, we doubt whether there is race more revolutionary by nature than anothe Revolution is & law of human society. It is the in. evitable struggle of right sgainst might. It is the expression of the infinite and irrepressible yearning of man after perfect freedom and complete political equality. When the mwillennium, for which haman nature looks end longs, sball have arvived, there will be no revolutions;~but not before, 8mall consolation, then, may reactionists draw from the argument—if argument it may be called—that the English have ench a horror of revolution that the prob- abilities are all against the success of the present movement in favor of equal rights; and smaller still from the alleged lack of sympathy with the movement on the part of the middle classes in England. The great Reform banquet lately given in Manchester to the liberal members of Parliament furnishes a direct contradiction to the assertion, that this agitation is regarded with cold indifference, if not positive disap- proval, by the great English middle class. And the remarks addressed to the class by Mr. Bright in his specch on that occasion show that they have a vital interest in the issues at stake in this question. More than this:—even if unfriendly, they could no more resist the mighty advancing tide than can the stolid and dogged Tories. It is earnestly to be hoped that the necessity will notarise for giving effect to the threat held out by Mr. Bright in his recent London speech; but he must be altogether blind to the signs of the times, or wofully ignoraut of the teachings of history, who fails to see in the present temper of the masses in England the strongest pos- sible indications of & coming radical change in the po- litical condition of that country, whose direct and in- evitable effect will be to destroy, root and branch, the pernicions system of class legislation which hag for so long & period disturbed the harmony sud detracted from the excellence of British institutione. LEGS, AKMS AND MONUMENTS. There is something more than red tape in the Re- port of the Secretary of War. Reading down the dry details, the statistics of men and of material, we stumble upon startling and curious facts which are full of pathos and touching suggestion. To s man who duly apprecistes the two legs upon which he stalks to his business, and the two arme with whish he fights the battle of life, it will be interesting to know that the War Department has furnished up to July 1st last past, 3,981 lege, 2,240 arms, not to mention 55 hands, and 9 feet. But the work is not yet finished, The Socretary estimates that 1,000 limbs remain to be supplied; sud a8 there are cases in which an adaptation is impossible from the nature of the injury, it is recommended that the money value of the limb which be would have received had his stump been more compliant, be paid to every one in such wise & sufferer. Thus the Government seems to be doing all that it can do to soften these surgioal austerities of the war, and to restore the maimed snd crippled soldier to something like usefulness and a self-support- ing status. But however kindly and efficient may be this provision, and however groat may be the trinmphs of mechanical skill, the sufferinga, the disadvantages, and the corporal inconveniences remain. And no art of the inventor, no cunning of the physician, can re- store the nerves which have beon rudely severed, or wmaka the patient physically whole bgain. The NEW.-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1866. natural comploment of limbs is the best, simply be- oause it is natural; and although habit may acoustom the wearer to his succedancum, he will always be consoions of the loss which art bas merely made tolerable. He may have the power of locomotion, but not the strength long to continue it; and the new arm which rostores his outward appearance may be incapable of severo exertion. ‘When tho bost is done the loss remains, and that loss must be entered upon the proper side in tho acoount current of the Rebel- lion, But there are torn and shattered bodies which are beyor . the reach of the surgeon’s hand, and to whom the § scretary of War can send no assistance. They sloep peacefully enough in the forty-one military cemsteries of the Nation—one hundred and four thousand five hundred and twenty-six of them—and every moldering body represents a human life which, Dbefore the Robellion, was useful, active and productive. There are more to come, and the number will probably be increased to two hundred and forty-nine thousand throe hundred and ninety-seven, To theso must be added the remains of those who were buried else- where. What & haryest of death! What gxpendi- ture of the virility of the land! What a draft upon the production of the future! What a diminution of the real wealth of the country! But, putting aside the cold caloulations of the economist, every reader of ordinary sensibility will recall the mental and physi- cal sufforing, the bereavements, the untimely depar- tare of the dead, and the long and sharp sorrow of the surviving—of wives, of children, of sweethearts, to whom the telegram or the letter bore in- telligence, which, if it did not palsy their souls, at least changed the whole tenor of their lives, aod while it darkened all their future, loft them possibly self-dependent and alone in a bleak and busy world! There are wounds which pensions do not heal, and wants which the Government, however generous, cannot supply. All the laws in the world cannot give back the som to his widowed mother, or restore the husband to the arms of his lonely wife. There is and oan be no record in the War Department of broken hearts—there is no bureau of blighted hopes, no Secretary to compute the sighs and tears, the days of distress, the sleepless nights, or the false and mooking dreams of women whom the red hard of war, stretch- ing from the far-off battle-field, has remorselessly smitten, upon the very hearth-stone of a blasted home, with all its tender recollections, and, may be, stern material necessities. The Government places a little iron monument at the head of the soldier's grave; it pensions his widow and provides for his children. Can it do more? Yes, more, much more! Itcan remembeor in all its vaunted policy, in all its law- making, in all its care of the present, and in all its provision for the future, how much the very oppor- tunity of doing anything has cost us, and by what sacrifices we have earned the right and the power to shapo the destivies of the Republic, and to make it indeed the guardian of all its children against every form of oppression. We want no wasted lives, We want no gratuitons mortality. We want a steady re- membrance of the past, unvexed by revengefal memories and perpetuated hatreds, but always fresh when principles are at stake, or social equities again endangered. So much is due to those who have suf- fered and to those who have died. THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. If Congress intends to approach a radical solution of the problem of Reconstruction, it will doubtless begin at the center of things, and ordain, as soon as possible, equal rights for the colored people of the District of Columbia. The objection of the President was the only reason for deferring, last session, & meossure of such iustant and familiar necessity to Con- gress itself; but as the Prosident’s veto can no longer endanger any well-advised measure, the speedy de- cree of suffrage must be looked upon as & matter of course. Tho progress and development of this ques- | tion up to the present session of Congress, we will here state briefly. The first bill in behalf of the colored people of the District introduced in the XXXIXth Congress was by Judge Wm. D. Kelloy, and is as follows: the Senate and House of Representatives of America in Congress assembled, That from iaws prescribiag the qualiicutions of elec. tors for asy offiee in the Distriet of Columbia the word white' Lo and the same ia hereby stricken ont, and that from and after the passage of this sct no person shall be dis- tied from voting st any election held fn the sald District count of color. a0 further enacted, That all acts of Congress f Maryland fu fores in said Distriet, Washington and Georgetown ous of this sct are bereby repealed th | wud all ondinanc h inconsistent with the prov and annulled. This! comprehensive and compact measure was presented on the 5th of December, 1865, and passed the House January 19, 1866, by a two-thirds vote. It was there read the first time, and sent in due form to the District of Columbia Committee, of which Kenator Morrill is chairman, It was reported February 21, without amendment, read a second time, and now stands among the first bills on the calendar. On the 25th of Jannary last, Senator Morrill re. ported a bill to ** resume the legislative powers dele- gated to the Cities of Washington and Georgetown and the Levy Court inthe District of Columbia.” This bill provides for the repeal of the city charters, and, in brief, the government of the District by means of adirect Congressional Commission. The officers proposed are thres Commissioners; a Privato Secretary of the President for the District (filling in some sort the Secretaryship of State), a Solicitor, Assessor, Col- lector, Treasurer, Controller, Engineer or Surveyor, Superintendent of Police, of Weights and Measures, of Streets and Highways, of Water Department, and Fire Engineer. Boards of Health and Education aro also provided, These officers to be appointed by the Prosident and confirmed by the Senate, in the usual mode. The powers granted to them are in effect those commonly delegated to municipal and county authori- ties. This bill (Senate 97) was recommitted amended, and reported to the Benate May 9, 1866. It now stands) upon the calendar for action, and will be dis- posed of at an early day. There are many persons who desire the passage of this measure. The character of the municipal author- ties of Washington is almost as bad as that of New- York. Itis affirmed by publio men conversant with civic legislation that the jobs are as great and the ring as perfect, proportionally to opportunity, as in this oity. Many doubt, also, whether Manhood Suf- frago will in tho District effect & cure. The idea is entertained that even with the colored vote the old pro- Southern and corrupt influences will prevail for a longer period than is desirable. Again, thers isa reasonable argument that no municipality can properly make this *city of magnificent distances " what itshould be. Topave, light, and establish a proper and efficient system of sewerage, ete., would, it is belioved, beggar the property-holders, especially when it i remembered that the General Government owns avery large percentage of the real estate—that on which the publio buildings are situsted, and other ground not yet publioly ocoupied. There is at loast $50,000,000 worth of National property in the Dis- triot, all of whish is, of course, untaxable for civic or county purposes. It will be urged as » principal roason for the passage of Senator Morrill's bill that only by means of adirect Congrossional Commission can the Federal District and Capital be made worthy of the nation; while, at the same time, citizens re- siding in Washington wifl not be rated at more than an equitable proportion of the taxation to be incurred for what is beld to be a/national duty. Congress has passeds saveral laws providing for col- ored sehools & pro-raga division of the District taxes: but every provision /appears to bavo been ingeniously and industriously, evaded by tho munieipsl su- thoritios. The sdbjoot, therefore, must ho again re- vlewed by Conggross, and some positive measure detor wined whioh qunnot be practicelly aunulled by a dis- loyal quibble. Senator Wilton introduced a bill in the Senato last session granting a million of acres of the public lands for the endowment of the District schools, providing for the issue of serip, procecds of which be invested in United States stocks, the capi- tal to remain undiminished, and the interest to be applied to the mainteuance of schools without dis- tinetion of color or rmace. This bill was amended and reported back to the Senate, where it remains to be finally considered. On the leading question, we have the redical measure proposed by Judge Kelloy, and the Hon. W. A. Darling’s bill for the election of & delegate to Con- gress from the District by all male persons twenty- one years of age, citizens of the United States, and rosident for one year in the District. The essouce of these bills has found wide favor in Congress, and we trust that before Congress enters into any wholesale legislation over the subjoct of Reconstruction it will administer instant and specific justice nearer home. A delogate from the District of Columbia may boe an individual ornament a3 costly as useless, but this de- pends materially on what Congress proposes to do with the present municipal governments of the Dis- trict. —ee AUSTRIA, The first proceedings of the Provincial Diets which the Government of Austria has recently convoked do not augur well for a reconstruction of the Empiro upon a basis more lasting than the one it has rested upon thus far. The most important of these Diets is that of Hungary. It represents the population of more than one-third of the monarchy, and it is feltin Vienna that, in case of another foreign war, the disaffection of Hungary would be more dangerous than that of any other province. The Imperial rescript with which the Diet was opened held out tho hope for a speedy termination of the difficulties Which bitherto have existed between the Government of Austria and Hungary. The party of moderate Liberals who fol- low the leadership of Deak, and who number 126 votes in the Lower House, are willing to treat with the Government, but insist on the restoration of the laws of 1543 as a preliminary to the discussion of common affairs. The extreme left, or the Radicals, who number 85 votes, have re- solved not to vote for any address until the Constitu- tion i3 entiraly established. A groat agitation pre- vails throughout the country; the Radicals are gain- ing, the moderate Liberals are losing .ground, and @ crisis, which may decide the fate ot tho Austrian Empire, seems to be near at hand, Should the Government continue to refuse the restoration of the old Constitution, the most powerful of the races of the monarchy will again become its most implacable enemy. Should the Emperor, on the other hand, be induced to grant all the demands of the Hungerians, there would at onee be trouble with the Slcavic tribes belonging to Hungary. A dispateh from Agram, tho capital of Croatis, says that thers was in that oity an assembly of Sleavic chiefs, that the Hungarian flag was trampled under foot, and that a great agitation begina to spread against the Government and against Hungary. In the Diot of the Tyrol, the representatives of the Ttalian districts speak in favor of annexation to Italy. In the Diets of the German Provinces, leading men declare that a permanent separation of German Aus- tria from Germany is an impossibility. In Gallicia the Poles are jubilant that a native hasbeen appointed Governor, and that the proceedings were for the first time opened in the Polish language; but the Ruthe- nian deputies, who represent a majority of the popu- lation, appeal louder than ever for beip to Russia. All this indicates new troubles and new dangers to the monarchy. THE YACHT RACE. An ocean yacht raco of suffivient magnitude to draw the sportive attention of a continent or two, is announced to come off the 11th of December. A cotemporary of considerable enterprise and of bound- loss bounce may be said to have the affair in tow; and if the great ocean yacht trial does mot become the event of a century, it wil certainly be for no want of racy historiane. The vessels, Heurietta, Vesta and Fleetwing, are to start from Sandy Hook for the marine light on the west end of the Isle of Wight, at one o'clock on Tuesday mext, amid the imaginable cheers of the assombled hewmispheres, Great sums of money and great principles of seamanship are at atske; thou- sands and tens of thousands have been bet on this breesy contest. The yacht Henrietta enters this race perhaps a victim, and it may be to become a con- queror to the extent of the entrance-fee of thirty-thousand dollars; but all land-lubbers must be improssed with the oceanic character of the sweep- stakes. Mainsail, jib, flying jib, jib topsails, fore and gafl topsails, and other marine tackle aud tog- gory, are talked of as only amateur sailors can, with & perfect windiness and hurricane of epithets that in these cloudy days of December must be the wonder of your safe landsmen and the delight of weather- beaten tars. There are as many as three agreements vetween the rival yachters, Messrs. Bennett, Osgood and Loriliard; Commodore MoVickar of salt notoriety is to be the umpire, and Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, whose regret must be that he cannot enter a sea-horse and carry off the stakes with Neptune as & jockey, is to hold the purse. By all accounts the race is to be as spiritod as it is prineely in its preparation and out- lay. Ningty thousand dollars have been subseribed to the common fund, and a hundred thousand, at least, enter iato the sport in the form of wagers. The gentlemen who take partin the race are all men of wealth and position, whose amusement takes the shape of the oceanic and heroie. Mr. James Gordon Benuett, jr., who, we believe, is the sole owner of the handsomest yacht of the fleet, goes into the race with a daring energy which the fast-sailing newspaper he edits will strive in vain to emulate. The race, as mapped out, deserves our admiration; for it is the very first time in the history of Ameri- can sporting when the love of exereise, that still at times stirs the pulse and blood of young Man- hattan, has taken the ocean for & field. Let us add our best wishes to the general breeso that will carry these yachtsmen of ours to the Isle of Wight. MUSICAL. —— ITALIAN OPERA—WINTER GARDEN. The popular opera of **Crispino e la Comare™ will b performed this evening by Max Marotzek's Ttalian opers company, at Wintor Garden, with thefollowing admirable oast : w weason. ‘Those who have ot beard it sbould take advautage of the opporsunigy. GRAND CONCEET AT STEINWAY HALL. Mr. Henry Tucker, the well-known composer of ' When the Cruel Wae ts Over,” and other popular songs, gives his first coucert at Ml;{ Hall, this evening, He will be assisted by o large asrm M:l::t,l and will T‘:n .m:: ttractive programme. We at & liberal patron :rm:nniunmm first concert _Mw WA;I-) SCHOOL RGCEPTION. Last Frida) ‘c_nmng there wes lun‘ocpm- at the 3 ‘ashin, Hights, oa tation :;finm?}ldm, wne nl'l"o:w of the Fwefih m:{ hum 'to wohalars. The Proe''—' 3 ensy to write “of " us * by in mm%o bappy The to suitable L000s, all the nothi ‘mare pleasnre than ** Shamos O‘Bm:" P fa.m Cm\:h‘y, 5'-'0'.. action aud brogue were excellent, who was At once rewarded Dy o gontlomaa present With e priee (og Lis aprformanoe. 4 e e e e - WASHINGTON. I PR THE MEXICAN QUESTION—COLORADO—THE NEXT VIOR- PRESIDENT-—~INTERNAL REVENUE DEPARTMENT— THE TEST OATH—MR. WELLS'S PROPOSKD TARIPY BILL—8)LDIERS CEMETRRIES—PERSONAL. BY TELBGRAPH T THE TRIBUNE. > 3 WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 1865, The Presidont is displeased with the tenor of Napo. leon’s reply to the telegram from the State Department y calling upon him to fulfill his and withdraw | his troops from Mexico in installments. -The Cabint, with one exception, it is understood, side with the President. It is considered doubtful, howeyer, whlelhher any lmnher romonstrance will be 4 and the probabilities are that the French will be_nl’loved to have his own w-yl.w lm it is hinted that Napoleon's action in . refusing d withdraw was mainly se of what he regards violation of the pl of neutrality and non-ln:: ference on our is position being that by the arrest of Gen, Ortega, the dispateh of Gen, and olt}:er olqet:hr:::'h momnu. our m':( neutrality was broi and the compact therefc widdrawn, endered uif and void : "e apoleon having cbanged the time for the evacus. tion of the French troops from Mexican soil, ::d the ports of Mexico being still blockaded by France, o question has ayisen whetherthe United States m‘! War can Gen. Sherman and Minister Camp It is asserted that the probabilitios are that the vz will remain in Mexican waters until advices reach thera from our own and the Frepch Governments. Count Montholon now efpects to sail from New- York on the 20th inst., instead of the 16th, as pre. viously stated. Yoy agr The friends of Colorado are confident of her early admission into the Union as a State. They say the ?ponifinn at home comes almost entirely from the erritorial Governor, and the tleman whom commissioned &s del e to Congress in the face the repoit of the of Canvessers against him a few of their personal and political friends, It understood that Senator Wade will to-morrow present to the Senate documents and s 10w in the city which will fully counteract the impression that Colorado Las been ining. They show & great inerease in population, uWy; that. the tax valuation from the year is $10,610,800, an increase over last year of nearly two millions of dollars; that the mines are not valued or and would probably double the total valuation; the filings and entries in the said offics for-actusl settlement under the Homestead and Pre. emption Laws, for the ten months November 1, 1866, were 251,000 acres, an over the same period last .{eu of 111,000 acres; that the First National Bank A Denver City, from May 10, 1863, to Nov. 1, 1868, drew exchange to the amount of nearly $12,000,000, and other bauks do nearly as much business as that, The assesement for Internal Revenue, for 1966, ig $141,368, That dur'm{):hopon ear, 250 new . ings were erected in Denver City alone, at a cost of $176,000; and many other towns are proporti prosperous; that oxiht new smelting furnaces, st cost of §180,000, have been completed; that 58 miles of mountain roads, ata cost of $60,000, have been constructed; that 136 miles of large irrigate ing ditohes at & cost of $136,000 bave been wade, sod that the production of gold has more Mdnb: within the past year; that.the Post-Office the year endiog June 30, 1866, were $33,206 more than in several of the States, and an increase over the preceding year of $15,990; that the crops have been, abundant, and it is thought enough to supply the home demand; that the pretended census is one-third of the important oounties mot being re- turned, and the eount in others made by the assessors being confined to the tax-payers; that the indication by this census of only about 36,000, is contradicted by the property valuation as it would show & wealth, larger than that of any State in Ry that the votes also indicate a larger population. o 750 o 1800, ot Ak S for Governor, 7,457; in , for delegate, 8 light wuont,infwvm time, for an office expected abolished by admission, yet it was wi k :;nn l:.hcnund. l"m:u | these f::u it l:h:hnl at the t jon cannot be less or sixty t:onmm itis being rapidly Inmu.:?y emi| n. It ie claimed that the rapi "3 v h:l of the Prngllc Railroad toward and the vast extent of her agricultural grasing, silver, copper, lead, - 1a g %2 £ that she is soon to be one of the rich and lous States of the Union. R L~ The question of electing a Vice President in place of Senator Foster, whose term of office expires on the 4th of March next, will be brought up in caucus in & few days. Several members of the Judiciary Commit- tee are of n that, in the event of the removal of President Johnson by death or otherwise, that Sens- tor Foster, whose term of office expires on the 4th of March next, could not hold the office of President beyoud that time, and that, to avoid all contro- versy on that subject, aud to provide against accident, it is the duty of the Senate to eleed another person—a Senator who Lolds over. There are a number of Senators opposed to touching the question for the present. It is probable that the matter will be formally fixed in caucus in the course of a fow days. The bill introduced by Mr. Kelley of Pennsylvania looking to the creation of & Department of Intemal Revenue, aims to takethe control of the revenue from the Treasury, but there are doubts whether it eu}: come & law. The bill is at preseut in the hauds o Committee of Ways and Means, and even if reported upon favorably by that body, and is passed by Con- gress, it would be certain to receive the Executive veto, In that event, the Senate would sustain the veto, and the bill wonld fail. Thereis ap impression, however, that the bill will never reach Congress, but that it will be emothered in the Committes. The statement that the Supreme Court has decided to render s decision that the test oath is nnconstitu- tional, by a vote of five to four, is without auy fouu- dation in fact, There has been no conference at the resent time of the Judale« in regard to the matter. ‘;‘ho question argued at the last term was a8 to the constitutionality of its application to attorueys prac- ticing before the Supreme Court, which was srgued st great length by able counsel. The Court prior to their sdjournment rendored no decision, but it was given out at that time the Court held that the test oath was uncol onal. It was generally un- derstood that the would be definitely acted on, and the decision rendered at the meeting of the present term. 1 am assured, on the very best sutherity, that the question has not xu been definitely acted on. The decision, when rendered, will not be-as to the constitntionality of the test oath iu its general cation, but only as applied to attorneys practicin, fore the Supreme Court. At least, such is the 3 standing of some of the judges on the benoh. - It is sscertained that & prominent feature of Wolls's proposed tariff bill is a specious show of relie manufacturers by reducing duties on raw il The duty on wool competing with American fleece is to be placed at six cents instead of ten cents, and tes r oent ad valorem, 88 provided in the House bill of mtmaiou, and this in the face ofa aw woolin Buenos m alone for this year of 100, pounds more our own production, and re- ceived at one fifth the cost. — Duflugthnputycqmoovm-dhupl great attention to soldiers’ graves and cemeterios. Everything that & patriotic respect for the dead ovuld suggest has been dove. Enf( grave has been care- fally tended, and its ocoupant’s name and rank put st the head as well as on the monha(uuu% At first this was done on wooden headbeards s-ous to perpetuate the record of its brave g Government has now determined to make the boards more lasting, aud have comstroted iron. The whole number of bodies of Union soldiers by i8 341,670, at an 144, %’l‘.d‘l‘d .‘leh:om:- buried kn'mmgi.hhfi i ilitary Departments; e gfll:"‘ . 5498 | Ploride... u: Middle. . 16992 7,1 Carolinas. . 17,885 Washington. 05, 287 gh R Platte. 1,34 Arkansas 11,62 Louisians. 500 ?.-4. Hickman, aad o large individuals. Ristori's altogether a suceoss. peared to houses enly called before the curtain made & of took her to comumit to , in order 10 speak it i.,°&‘."&..u - i 51‘“'&3 ten hours in sdvance of ite dolivery: ladelphin 4