The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1866, Page 4

——.——-——-———f Amnsements. ARNUNS AMERICAN MUSEUM. ENINO-RALRE OF THE WOODEN SIHOF W Clarke wd 8 full compuny. TWO HUN- B CURLOSI IES—VAN AMBURGH'S (OL VILD ANIMALS ANTER GARDY X BRROON ~TILE FTRANUER--PET! s § VENING - ITALIAN OPLY wer Pwi oot BER OF 5 FIBLOS GARDER, Tty BYPHING=TiA BLACK CROOK—Grem Parbipace Barios e po NEW YOUK OeUs 118 EVENING_KEW \ORK CIRCUS TROUPE. od Bille De Berg Matine st 3} o'clock EilNiso ALLACK'S. TUEATER ruts vemmo SNE 5 10 Cokaree, Mo l’-mz Wallack, Mr. Frodetic Robluson, M. Jolin Gilbers, Mr, Chiadics Fist - M Henriques, Mis, \Vernon. OLYMPIC TUEATER, TR EVENING-MASTEN OF WAVERSWOOD. Mr. Oeo. Sordan, Miss ifova L ytiny PIFTH ATY TS BVENINO-8 SHADOW PANT NEW.YORK OB RA TOUSE. PWORTH'S MINSTRELS. WARE UP ABRAHAM, &e. NEW MUSEUN OF ANATOMY, RUR WABHIROTON TV I8S=ANATOMICAL COLLECTION Open daily fiom 8n w. 10 W0 . w. . NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESION VENTI ANKUAL EXHIRITION OF THE ARTISTS FUND SARTY. Opeutomde . 4o 10p. » -aegy BROADWAY Tl;!‘l;tflur 3 THIS EVENING=-ST. MARC. Mr. E. L. Davenport. GERMAN THALIA THEATKE, TH@ BVEKING-ROUOET DE LISLE. KUH VON KU- ) BORY. M Dogumil Dawison. “ QLD B0 T INO-MYSTE OF PARIS —JOCKO, THE FE-TUL PACHA'S PETS, Mis Famuy Horring, INWAY MALL TUIS AFTERNOOS ST GRAND MATINEE OF MR J. . DAWSON. THIS EVEN . bakine Kichbare. Mr. Doche: ANESBAY TOFC LA CONCERT. Miss Libbia THIS E EADLIA O L.¥ & LEONS MINSTRELS. I8 BVENING-MATRIMONY—FERSECCTED DARKEY, STUDIO BUILDIN }'lu.lru«’l‘. ‘”,'H EXHIBITION OF FRENCH AND FLEMISH PIC FATR AND FES HALL OF ST. STEPHEN'S OHT Awgton wud 34 GREAT MASONIC FAIR AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. comer of Grand end Crosey s CLin THIS EVENING—MIL STINE TAINEENT, « PHE UNITY OF NATION T LADIES FAIR. THIS EVENING—IN ATD OF TIIE 21ST.ST. REFORMED ol C.:l‘lll I, AT SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, cor. - MANCPACTURING COMPANY SILVE! 1.. iuform the trade that they dre produring Joovs. comprising foll Dixxrn sud TEA W AR 0f every desciiption of a yery superior 4 elegant designe. The base is Nickel Sitver, wask ol Furo Siver, of sach, (hickuets that advantages of ol utility, en “Ashable from it." tlon by the productiou of ELz ‘@ud extrome durabiiity s w ohsscr. Al astic'on made by thom are stamped ous: z.-‘.“-.‘:‘:&.‘.'l"a"'m""w" It heen m‘-fi Garar Baraarys v Foas. Loowus Bariano, Wuorssans Maxvracrenen or Foms. Now. 50 esd 52 Howard-st., Will offer at retail. commencing Moxpar. Dec. 10, \ Prisuores, Buursas and Tarwas o Sante, Rovis Enwinw, Mivx, Frron, Squinast, Coxry, ko, Also goods for Gentlemen's wear. in Ovrun, Braven. Coxer, sud Novata 3 i 3 A ¢ L'k’“,..q"" of thei im 9 now openiug over 100 cases of choico ir own im- 96, sud specially wade to their order— embrecing sll the novel- Juwainy. Crooks. Broxses. Axp FANCY Goons Wis sesson in Purls, Londom, Vieuns. Gevevs, Eaples. “ehe... otc.. tortwiug the most extensive sworiment of rick and 7oro wrticles of luxury ever exhibited on this continet. Tur HOLIDAYS. Tun LAnGsr ASSORTMANT IX THN COUNTAY OF. RICH DINNER AND TEA SKTS, PARIS CLOCKS AND STATUARY, wnd Fine FANcY Goovs—of our own importation. OvixaroN BROTHXES, _Nes. 336, 938 snd 949 Fulton ., Brookiyn. Puuransp O O PALM AND MACE, for Proserving, Restoring and Beautifying the Hair. It o the most delightful sud wonderful witicle the worid ever produced. Tus Manves or Pumo, o now nd besutiful Perfume. Woe sale by oli Droggiste sud Perfumers. Price $1 por bottle, each. T W. Waiewr & Co., No. 100 Libertyat., N. Y. Watcurs No. 189 Broasdway, up slaire. ~Fiesr Pruaios EsteY Orasxs.—None other con- Aain the wow ead admirable Vox Humans Attachment. 6. 0. Saxa & Co., Ne, 417 Broomest. Dauz’ l’ru‘tfllowmu Trocues For Coughs, Colds and 41! Thtoat snd Lung Diseares Sold everywhere. Ladies, discard injurious paddings. Madame Jumel's w ‘Balm and Patent Bresst Blevator to developthe form phys fologically. _Depot 362 Canal ' by dioggiste. Send for circulat. SEwis Bost family mashioe in the world Fronsxce £ M. Co. No, 505 oy A positively restores grayfhair to it original color and youthful Doauty ; impert life and strength to the weakest hairj stope ite falling 0ut ot once; keepe the head clewn; i anparel'eled oo 5 his-dresing. Sold by a!l droggists wnd Masbionsble No. 1123 Brosdway, N. V. bair-dressers, and st my office, s lgnu A. Cuxvavien, M. D. ‘ALY AND No1s#s IN THE Heap.—Nor- wode of trestwent breaks up Temoves st once pain in the discharges, tainted breath forever. Send o ate v No. 090 Brosdway. “ " T'a Most BLVGANT AND USEVDL HHOLIDAY G, ot u the unrivaled Eiuiemio Uoox Lockamrew Sxwing-Ma- v guums. No. 50 Brordway. New Rsaunatioy Navy Car Axp C MAPLAU. . L DL w— - reat Be.tllncfion yln Pri waiocted amortment of elegany pr e e Ly e vy Gy, No. 313 Breadway. e e S5, Bo 10 Broedeny. o A Cusz At L h‘l‘.-Allhthou 'h.lhnh :m suffering from oan b restored to perfect heal . doues of Gaaas Raewniose Rammor. | 8 * ** S T Fuas, - cales MorTs CHEMicAL Posavk Restores Gray Halr, S SRl S R T ST A e L B clvilians. i opl, N.Y.; 10 Green st, Boston. Avoid vateuts MACKINE COMPANY, No. 06 Broad- atiteh x Maouixn St uses o straight Prosent. ke.~Mansa & Ci ‘ll'-z:l Cure Tyus o:: o o Trom Y O APFEOTION AND CHARITY— Sewing Machives. No. €28 i Y l.m—lrnlw;om and ZI EWS, [ 3A apono's Haix Dye.—The evor manu- Notacns. 'M-bdu-l.uh_-gblnmmm ; x —Groven & BAXER'S Mo, 498 B ; Srgesv Tox TRuTH ' sen isist Lot it is uudigaified Lo advarts T may bo. Quesr reasoning thie et o artiole whick the wou'd voeds sLould be bid in o corner <that benefits ond blesalegs may be loo widely diffused—that the mesoe of tiag and_tos arivg bea'tl should be s close wonopaly, and not ot wccensibie to all. Wbt spgumont bs bad, [t b worss than that: It fe inhuman. Buppows Mosrerr oxACH Brerwns— oo sbeolute apecifis for i, Litiousuess aud mervous debility— ad uever boen Muown beyond the repertoire of ths faculty, what would bave bes: the consoqrence’ Tnstead of ourlog and lavigorat: ing willions, the good cfecta of (e proparation would have been con- fined to » comparative fow. Thers is tha bighest anthority for saying thet light should not be hid undar 8 bashiel; that whatevor is ex t whould be placed w & city on & bill, where all men can toke cognizince of #£. 1t ia upon this principls that the Brrrers have beon sdvertised wnd continne to be advertised in avery newspaper of aay prominence in the westorn bomisphers, and that the apontaneous tastimonials iu ite favor have been transiated into sil writien fangusges. Thoussods enjoy perfect heatth to-day who would bo languishing ou beds of sick wene i€ (he newspapers bad vot epread the trath with regard o thiy wnequoled dnvigorant and corvective far and wide, Suppose proft has besn ro1ped from this publicity. s that sfiy argament agaiont i1 I the public health bas been p-otected; if Hyes bave been saved ; if the feehle bave been atreastlhensd and the sick resiored, great good hay Been accomplished; and who so mesn as fo gruds (o exertions (hus directed their Gaie rowerd | ' Davis Couusmone & Co. No. 470 Brosdway, § doors below Broomest Having Eolarged tbeir %10t .EZ o adiag bt Vor ough 10 Mloroat-ot., o BILVER PLATED WARE to thor Largs Stock of OHINA AND GLASSWARR. We desire Fupecini Attention to s Lacgo Assortmont of NEW (HINA DI BETS. Tavigasp, Covronsan & ENGLAND, O Staxp. No. 47 Jomver., Nuw-Vonx. FrexcH CniNa. W are receiving from our factory in Frauce, richly decorsted Dovser, TEA AYD TOILET BETS, VASiS, &o. T HOLMAY Gierst FAMILY SILVER'! < Lucivs Haxt & Co., The Oldest Plated Wace House buthe Cily, Nos. 4, 6 wnd & Puning Sur, (Foot of John-at.h SILvER-PLATED WAKE, At Moderate Prices. 8 MATISM, NKURALGIA, HEART DiSkass, Spi- T 1 0 peediiy cured by D ous sflections, apeedily cured by Da. ot i e, N 33 ost Fourth-st.. tird door frou the Bowety. gnd between Bowery and Hrosd WiLLoox & Groes's less Habile to rip then the Iock-stiteh.” —f wud Trial.” | Fend for samplos of both stftehies. No. NewDork Dailp Sribune. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1866. ‘70 ADVERTISERS. We will thank our advertising eustomors to hand 1n Aheie Advertisements st as early an hour as possible. 1€ seceived ater 9 o'clock they.caunol bo classified wuder theic proper houds. —— TO CORRESFONDENTS. No uotico can botaken of Anonymous Communications. What- ‘over is intended for insertion must be muthenticated by (ho name and address of the writer—not nocessarily for publica- tion, but s & guaranty for his good faith. All businiess letters for this office should be addressed to * Tug Tumwvse,” Now-York. Wo canuot uadertake to return rejected Communications. ——— S0LON kOBINSON'S NEW NOVEL. Tag WeekLy Trisuxe, ready this morning, con- {alns the second chapter of Mr. Rubinson's Novel. Last weok's ‘number, contaiuing tho first chapter, can alsobe kad. Al new” men have it. 7 On the second Hll&‘ly'illh/“l‘lhflhfl and Criminal Court reports, Brooklyn News, the Mar- kets, and other matters. —_— Mr. Henry Osborne, himself a distiller, yestorday testifiod before the Commission who is investigating the alleged whisky frands in Brooklyn, that Mr. Til- ton had repeatedly since September 15t branded newly- manufactured lignors as having been inspected pre- vious to that date, and that Mr. Devlin had once done the same thing, ut November Ist. The House yesterday passed, by 123 to 21, a bill to provide for the erganization of the next aud succoed- ing Congresses, Its purpose is to leave each Congress to determine for itself, after it shall have been organ- ized, who are and who are not entitled to claim seats; aud it proceeds on the reasonable presumption that States unrepresented in this Congress must abide the jadgment of the next before they can get represonta- tives inside the Hall. Proper safeguards against negleet, mischance, frand, or force, Ate provided by the bill, and the measure is meant to pre- serve to Congress its just control over its own affairs, no matter who may seck to interfere with them. The President yesterday sent a message to the House in reply to a resolution asking for information concerning the pardon of the Rebel Gen. J. E. Pickett, who sanctioned the hanging of a nimber of Union men of North Caroliua. Gen. Holt recom- mended the arrest of Pickett, but the Secretary of War, in a letter to the President, deemed it preferable to wait for a decision of the Supreme Court. Gen. Pickett admifs the main charges, but sots forth that the men hung were desertors from the Southern army, and hung as such. Gen. Grant recommends Pickett to the clemency of the President, but we doubt whether the public verdict upon these | maurders will agree with the official exculpation Elsewhere will be found an interesting dispatch from our special correspondent at Albany touching the election for President of the New-York Central Railroad to-day. The contest is one of great interest not only to stockholders in the Central, but to every werchant, manufacturer and cousumer, in this State, for the question at issue is whetber this great rallway shall be run for the benefit of the public, or for the benefit of the Demoeratic party, as hitberto. And that includes fhe question whether it shall be mdn- aged so economically and honestly as to carry freight and passengers at the lowest paying rates, or so ex- travagantly and corruptly that trade shall be fet- tered, its stockholders taxed, and its patrons plun. | dered, in order to feed the political ambition or snp- port the political interests of a partisan clique. It is for the stockbolders themselves to say which sort of man‘emefl they prefer. The Senate devoted yesterday to a discussion of the right of women to vote—~a side question, which Mr. Cowan of Pennsylvania interjected into the debate on suffrage for the District of Colambia. Mr, Cowan chooses to represent bimself as an ardent champion of the claim of woman to the elective franchise. It is not necessary to question bis sincerify, but the occasion which he selects for the exhibition of bis new-born seal subjects him to the suspicion of being considerably mage anxious to embarrass the bill for enfranchising the blacks than to amend it by confer- ring upon women the enjoyment of the same right, Mr. Cowan was once s Republican. He aban- doned his party, bas been repudisted by his m.‘wl may well be casting sbout for some Dew issue by to divert atten- tention from his faithlessness on the old. We have heard that Mr. Cowsn affects the classics; we are xmmmum thank us for reminding of familiar story out of Platarch respecting Alcibiades. . When thy dishol Atbenian had out off guestion whether ‘woman shall vote. At a proper time, wo mean to urge her olaim, but we object to allowing & measure of urgont nooessity, aud on whicl the public has made up its mind, to bo rotarded and imperiled. Nor do we thiuk the Radical majority in the 8Benate need be beholden to the enemy's cawp for suggestions as to their policy. 'We want to sec the ballot put in the bands of the black without ono day's delay added to the long postponement of his just clnim. When that is done, we shall be ready to taks up the next question Br Wilson reported yostorday fiom the Judiciary Commitiee of the House a very important bill to reguiate the counting of eloctoral votes i the next Presidential election. It enacts that those States unropresented in Congross shall not. ba represented in the Klectoral Collage, and that no elootoral voto ehall bo received or counted from thom, ecscept a4 oach may horeafter be Jared restored to tho political relations in the Union, and entitled to reprosontation in Congross. “Phis bill was made a special ordor for Thursday next, aud is understood to bave beén well considered by the Radical loadors and its passage to be counted upon. 1t is ono of tho seried of measurcs designed to socure 1o the loyal and victorious States the adjustment of the terms upon which the disloyal and defoated Statos shall resumo thoir relations with the Govornment. THE EVACUATION OF ROME. (o meptombor 15, 1864, France and Italy concludod & couvention ovor the affairs of Romo. It was agreed primarily that Ttaly should neither attack nor permit attack upon the territorial temporality of His Holiness, Pope Piua the Ninth; second, that France should with- draw hor Poutifical garrigon within two years; third, that Italy should not protest azainat a Papal army, oven if composed of foreign Catholic volunteers, suffi- cient to guard the Papal frontior as well a: interior,pro- viding, of course, that the Pape should not be 30 rash a3 o contrive or provoke war with his untioly neighbor. Finally, the Government of Italy declared its readi- ness to arrange to tako charge of a proportionate part of the dobt of the former States of the Church, and, as & corollary to theso propositions, it was understood that the capital of Italy would bs removed from Turin to Florence. Dut the covenant does mot appear to havo been entirely satisfactory. The Pope was sen- siblo that its terms simply implied that two very solicitous nations would wateh him carefully whilo be waa allowed to dio at his convenience. He could bave France to take care of him, and thus nurse its holy invalid with the gentlest of bayonets, or bo could organizs an army of bisown out of all sorts of the faith- ful willing to accept pay for their salvation, and keep the good people of the Papacy from anathematizing the Holy Father. But the Conventivn only took care of bis lands; it did vot relievo him from such a bod of thorns as a threatened spontancous revolition of the people of Rome. It would bave been ro com- fort to St, Lawronco of old to know that, while his body was being devoured by torture, a million of acros had been left to him by two designing rolatives. The Pope had been endeavoring for many years to sloep over an Etna, but holy water, salutary though it may be as a epiritual baptism, wanted the temporal virtue to cool or quench thosg “Titavs of reform who belong to steam as well as to firo. Be ho never #o quict & Pope, there never,was 8o restioss a people; aud if he oould sleep on topof & revolution, they bad to keep awake under an incubus. The Pope wns uncasy about conspira- cies and revolutionary oegencies; o the terms of the convention were interpreted by France to restrict the Italian Government from employing, among othor violent means against the Pope, the maneuvoers of revolutionists and agitators, all **moral means” to * consist sololy in the forces of civilization and progress,” and the only legitinate napirations to be ** those whose object is the reconciliation of Italy with the Papacy.” The transfer from Turin to Florence had an obvious military meaning, and was & pledge to France. M. Drouyn de Lhuys further explained that **the event of a revolution breaking out spontaneously at Rome is not foreseen by the convention, and Franco reserves her liberty of ction for this eventuality,” while the Italian Cab- inet is to conserve the policy of Count Cavour, who «declared that Rome could only be united to Ttaly and become its capital with the consent of France.” The tone of Gen. La Marmora’s letter of reply evidently signifies that this extra-French intepretation of the code was somewhat uunccessary. Italy must of course cherish aspirations unfriendly to the temporality of the Pope; but, as these moral desires “helong to the national conscience, they cannot form the subject of an international discussion.” Italy would abide by her compact, and, in an attitude of strict non-intervention, await its end. The Govern- ment of France having reserved its liberty for the eventuality of an outbreak in Rome, Italy could do no less than save for herself tho ssmo freedom. The convention, while it, no doubt, served a purpose not altogether inimical to Italy, was denounced alike by the Roman Catholic party and the friends of Gari- Dbaldi and Mazzini. But Gens. La Marmora and Cial- dini, of Victor Emanuel’s Ministry, and Baron Ricaso- li, a distinguished ex-Minister, favored it as a measure of prudence and economy. Said Ricasoli: “It is eventually certain that the Italians will count among their finest jewels, the noblest and the greatest of them all, the City of Rome. We are in effect taking | Rome dai I will say more—daily Rome is coming | tous of h [Ad The convention went into effect at about this time two years ago. Consequently, the period of French occupation, according to the terms of 1864, has ended. If, indeed, Rome has been ** daily coming to Italy,” the withdrawal of French aid must mean that she is | almost at her goal, and that the people of Italy, di- vorced as Florence is from Rome, and man is from wife, are almost one again. We doubt if the world is gonerally aware that an event of so much meaning is quietly taking place. It should be looked for with more apxfety {han u}({nqn!gr.n :r:lc}g [m; omets and star showers, for, if it be all that we suppose, it is the great waymark of epochs and ages. Unless Napoleon intends to act in Rome the tedious ceremony of French leave avhich bLe is carrying out in Mexico, the Franco- Papal garrison will Lave left on the stated day as quickly as the Arabs that folded up their tents and silently stole away. The Pope will have still left him his holy janissaries recruited from every ' Kingdom, and ready, if need be, to slaughter the sbriven and un- shriven in the name of the cross. That blessed body- guard cannot be large enough to feel that in meeting a larger number of their foes, they assuredly carry with them certain religions mystifications of victory. On the contrary, it will be well enough if they yet succeedfp muzzling o poor Romau on a dark road at night. , + The evacuation of Rome by the French troops begun on the 11th, and is proceeding to-day. Thus is about to pass off the stage of history the rear-guard of the durk ages. Desperate abuse of power in the name of re- ligion; crime committed a8 policy; the heart of the people wrung out of their prayers in order to feed an exchequer; pomp 6nd circumstance such as no other sutocratio power bas o applied to bring alike the conscience and mind of man under the do- minion of his fellow; these are the phases of & history for which there is no parallel in its grandeur and ead- poss, and such a history is that of the temporality of Rome. It has served ite day, and, in certain respects, its duty, no doubt; but this, it seems to us, must have been very long sgo. The intrinsic nsefulness of the Church of Rome &8 8 material power is many centuries stale. It had long ceased to menacs kings, to excom- munioate and burn out heresy. the W-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 18065. even of sinister scrvico. The carcer of the more re- cent Popes scoms to have been #pent prinei- pally in administering tho cstate of their pre- decossors, awaiting nervously the time when thoy should roceiro notice of evic- tion from its roal owners, the peoplo, Pope Pins tho IXth is about to go out of businoss. All the better, we say, for bim and for the world, Priests Lave no calling to trade and pray at the same time; to deal in usury as gatherors of taxes from the peopls, and between Churoh-oraft and State-craft sell religion in effsct, as Jndas sold Christ. The day of that sad misuso of Christian authority onght now to expire by limitation, ‘Whatever bo the goodness and greatness of individnal examples in & chureh that has givou #0 many saints to the calendar, though on the othor hand it has sent ita tyrants unscourged into history, wo boid it best that the memory of the saints should rost in better sanctuary thau among the rusty rubbish of & now almost effote tyronny. Botter by far that tho people should bo- coms more healthful, and therefore more holy, by the oulasgoment of tho liberty to possoss their own minds and to worship according to the sincerity of thoir hearts, than that a college of learned oppressors should be supported in temporal eway. If the possession of one acre of Roman territory— held by no more solemn tenure, carthly or divine, than that with which British superstition clings to its law of promigeniture—could work good to the world or religion, we should be glad to see the Pope romain alord of lands as well as churches, But there aro millions of clamorous heirs to the proporty he holds,.and lot him be ever #0 tenacious, might must bo at last with the right. The evacuation of Rome, if it horalds the downfall of the temporal Papacy, signifies even more. It is the beginning of the end of many wrongs extending through all Europe —a roluctant aud moody concession to progressivo civilization, and the earnest and onward will of the poople. The Church and the Btate are hereafter to bo di- vorced, and may that divorce be final, unloss the spirit of the people and of liberty penetrates the church as it has already entered the council chamber and the parliament. Whetber it be the Church of England or the Church of Romo that is destined for the divorce, the world, let us hope, will be the gainer. That we desire not more for the sake of the State than that of the Church; but for Liberty's sake also. —_— THE CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION. The abridged Report we publish this morning o the Excoutive Council of the Citizens' Association will give tho peoplo of New-York some idea of the good wervice which is being rendored by that body to the causo of municipal reform in this city. That such an Aasociation was imperatively demanded, the facts disclosed in the Report will make manifest to all. When rockloss extravagsoce and shameless corruption had become common, to the disgrace of our city, and’to the Dbitter cost of her people in the sbape of burdensome taxation, it waa high time that men of public pirit, and of tried probity, should combine to expose and put down the eystomatic plundering which was enriohing the few at the expense of the many, How the Citizens' Asso- ciation has done its work as yet, let the report speak. Enough is disclosed by it to make us bupeful for e fiture, and to induce every lover of order, and every foa te jobbory, to rango him- sell on the side of the Association, aud render it all possible aid in prosecuting the good work it has in band. The disgraceful condition of eur wharves and piers, the nefarious gas contract, the lavish outlay on the New Court-House to put money into the pockets of jobbers, and the other similar matters alluded to in the Report, all show the weeessity for united and vigorous action to rescae the city funds out of the Dhands of jobbers. The report refers to the obstructive influences which the Association has to encounter in its labors. But opposition should not discourage them, and wo sre glad to find that it does unot. It ought rather to act as a stimulus to wiore strenuous exer- tions in devising and applying remedial measures. The work of the Association must, however, be re- garded a8, after all, only initistory. It s but the preparing of the way for something nivre sweeping than it is in the power of nny local voluntary body to originate and make thoroughly effective. In this view the reélection to our State Legislature of the men who stand pledged to the reform of our City Government is an encour- aging circumstance; and the recent vote of the people for a State Convention is another hopeful sign. New-York must be redeemed from the disgrace which the mal-administration of her affairs has brought upon her, which is waking her a gy-word in other coun- tries, and throwing discredit on republican institutions. “Where thero is a will, there is a way.” Will, we fre happy to know exists in this case: the way, there- fore, for a radical, regenerating reform, wo are per- suaded, will soon be found. The Report deserves the thoughtful perusal of our oitizens. Let them **read, | mark, learn aud inwardly digest” its ontents, T OUTLAWS. It is a mercy to withhold power from those who will but abuse its possession. In South Carolina, for instance, exclusive of the freedmen, there are three classes—the Loyal, few but firm, who kept their faith Secession—the Rebels, who really repent their mis- “take and aro sincere in their profession of re-allegiance —and, lastly, a motley variety of men, of different social grades, some educated and some ignorant, some refined and some conrse, gentlemen and loafers, well- born end low-born, who are united by a common hatred of the Government which conquered and now controls them, and who mean to fight on a small scale for a cause which they failed to successfully defend upon a large one. Gen. Sickles's report shows that Law and Justice have not attained very firm footholds in South Carolina—that crime is not yet intimidated, and vielence: not yet abashed —that men of blood are still bold and busy, and viurderously meddlesome—that the peacful and law-abiding still noed thory 23 miyvry Pnftectionlovl‘ their lives and their propurly—-trnl 16 Qeibqin Jocglities loyalists aud freedmen are in constant danger of ill-treafmént, and even of death, and are tormented (to use Gen. Sickles's words) by ** bands of outlaws and marauders, com- posed of the most recklees and abandoued characters, organized mainly for plunder and pillage"—scoun- dvels who do not seem to have much reason to fear the civil authorities, and wlio are to be restrained, if at all, only by the dread of summary wilitary punish- ment. We are glad to learn from Gen. Sickles that * justice is administered by the Superior Courts with a conscientious respect for law.” The difficulty is in gotting there offewders into the upper courts at all. Magistrates are dilatory in issuing warrants. Bheriffs and constables are far from diligent in making arrests, Coromers, when freedmen are killed, are more than traditionally obtuse. With bands of monnted robbers prowling about the country, with justices of the peace afraid to do their duty, with officers of police’ either cowardly or corrupt, what chance, in a sparsely settled locality, have honest men of escaping from any outrage which the devil may prompt, opportunity inspire, aud passion consummate ? There is nobody who will arvest, and, if there were, there is nobody who will eommit for trial; there is no resource but to fall back upon the military power, and thus indefinitely to postpone that hour, so much to be desired, whon it can ba safely and sensibly with- drawn. ‘These facts, which are officially stated, and which are worthy of esedit, pat the Government of the United States in a oew light, and exhibit it in that yery statq which s0 often has defied and insulted it, s the protector of the weak, as the vindloator of the prinoes, power o admonish the rost, {§ long sge coased to be | injused, and gs the payox be whioh wlove fouth Cer e e e b olina ts soved from the shoorest and savagost anacehy. The very sohdiers who were bailed upon their arrivel as intruders md opprossors, as plundarors and ¥oderal mercenatios, noww alone stand betweon the so-callod ro- spectable classes and all tho evils of anarchy: for the blood-stained ‘thieves who mortally snd materially abuso (Le loyalists and the freedmen would be quite as ready to despoil and destroy the most ultra ssces- sionists, When the promoters of the Reboklion made disobedience to the law the test of manhood and of State patriotism, thoy awoke a busy devil with no moro respoct for those who conjured him than for those he was summoned to destroy. It was the benevolent justice of the United States which saved them from all the possible horrors of & servile inpur- rection; it is mow the military force of the United States which preserves tham from dostruction o the hands of their own violont population. What & com- mentary is this upon the much-vaunted doctrine of a self-sustaining and isolated State supromacy! What proof, plenary and irrefragible, of the suicidal mad- ness of secossion! Bat the present troubles in South Carolina and the adjoining States are the reault of & condition of affairs existing unchecked and unnmeliorated long before the Rebellion, The public mon of thess States, many years ago, bagan to teach thoir inkiabitants lessons of contempt for law; and by their example more than one eminent porson there has inoulcated the dootrine of personal vengoance, and too proud to accept the protection of courts of justice, or too passionate to await their tardy processes, has taken the law into his own hands and shot and stabbed at his own sav- age will, not seldom with impunity. When felony, however chivalrous or however bedizened with a fine name, is fashionable among the upper sort, what wonder is it that the contagion of & bad example spreads, and that the lower orders give us a sangui- nary caricature of the death-dealing oxploits of their social superiors? We refer to these things certainly not for the purpose of strengthening old projudices, or of fanning the embers of old hatreds; but we would fain point out to the gonorally well-meaning althongh somotimes sorely mistaken men of the South, that the true loyalty which it is now in their power to display will be a bright example to their weaker brethren, and will tend to make their own lives more sacred, and their property more secure in & State which they love too well to sbandon, and which they would gladly see restored to order, peace and prosperity. It is eaay to indulge in factious complaint; it is not hard to nurse useless and hopeless resentments; it is a mo- mentary gratification to sneer at authority, and to spit upon the statutes; but he who doos 8o in the States lately in rebellion is destroying his own peace, picking his own pocket, and filling the bosoms of his own family with constant fears and poisonous appre- hensions. 1f South Carolina desires to enforco her own laws, she must begid by inculeating a redpact for those of the United States. Her leading men little undorstand the North if they supposo that there is any desire to trample npon them—any wish expect to e the errant State restored to its true and constitu- tional orbit, prosperous, progressive and peaceful. If we must wait for this consummation, we will do so hopefully and patiently, for the descendants of the Huguenots must come right at last, and the better mind of the State in time assert itself. e —] AN INTERNATIONAL CODE. At the recent annaal meeting of the British Asso- ciation for the Encouragement of Social Science, Mr. David Dudley Field of this city read a very able and interesting paper setting forth the advantages which might be derived from the preparation of a codo of international law, under the authority of the leading. juristg of all civilized nations, and with a view to its ultimate adoption by all nations as the basis of their through the dark awd discouraging midnight of | ofticial action. We regret that our space will not admit of the full ropublication of Mr. Field’s argu- ment, but we will endeavor to give its substance. After pointing out that there can be no common superior to all nations by which a positive law can be prescribed to them, yot that certain doctrines and rules of conduct are so generally recognized as just a8 to be commonly spoken of as laws binding upon all nations. Mr. Field mentioned a-number of the most important subjects which are regulated by this com- mon understanding of the world, such as the right of mutual intercourse, the right of expatriation, the privileges [of embassadors and consuls, and the in- numerable questions arising out of the relations of belligerents and neutrals in time of war, He reviewed, also, the numerous matters which are or may be regu- lated by treaties, such as the extradition of criminals, postal arrangements, copyright, patents, weights, measures, money, rights of fishery, internal naviga- tion, and the like. He showed that svars could b in a great degree prevented, and in & slil} greater de- gree mitigated, by » distinet uXderstanding upon many questions beforehand, S_llvh an ugderstanding, he thought, could bé firrived at by the cobperatiop of the cbist publicists of Europe and America in reduc- ing to positive and definite form their common Views of the rules prescribed in such affiirs by usage and sound reason. Such a compilation, even iithont any official sanction, would cowmand ubiversal respect, would mold treatics and judicial decisions, would overshadow any treatise on the subject yet written, and in time would be accepted by positive treaty stipnlations. The Association received Mr. Field’s suggestions with much favor, and appointed a committee of eleven | able lawyers, representing America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, aud Spain, to prepare the draf®f such a code, and to report to the Association in September, 1 We shall watch the progress of this work with much interest, having a strong faith in its practicabil- ity and necessity. Notwithstanding the absence of any common authority over them, the points of con- troversy between nations bave become constantly fewer as civilisation has advanced, and even war it- | s has ceased to break up all the onds of mutual obligation. Indeed, almost every war is magked by some new advauce in moral ideas as to the mode of | its conduct, It is difieult to ever-estimate | the ndva'r‘ntuoa thn.l might flow fsnul o general agree. ! yuént, enteted fto in fne of peatd, a¥ to the Hmit. ations of war. ‘The admirable code of rules prepared by Prof. Lieber, and sauctioned by our own War Department, is an apt illustration of the fitness of & code for this purpose. If those rules had been pre- viously agreed upon by all Europe and Awmerica, & multitude of misunderstandings which greatly aggra- vated the sufferings of the combatants, without doing either party any real benefit, might have been avoided daring our recent civil war. So the conflict of opinions upon the Alabama and Alexandra cases would doubtless have been anticipated, aud the whole controversy disposed of in the preparation of a code of international law; nor can there be much doubt that Great Britain, of all nations, would have been most anxious, at any time before 1861, to have made the law clear against such cruisers as were afterward fitted out in its ports. Judioial decisions, which are at present the only basis of international law other than treaties (which are very limited in their scope), are peculiarly unsatis- factory for that purpose. No decisions in the couits of one nation are held absolutely binding in courts of another nation, while mixed commissions are ravely of suffivient caliber to be influential. America has ne voice inthe selection of English judges, and may well hesitate to be bound by their decisions; but America snd England could very well have an equal share it framing a code fur the guidance of both. and both countries would coeerfully submit to the author- ity ot rules thus framed. If all countries could not agree upon every letail to which such & code might properly extend, spocial ogdos ight be framed G tese pations which 1id jo e . agrhe, whilo the goweral code of the” world wonld provide for t.9s¢ Cases a3 to 610 i unduimous consent. Tu 00rt, wo can sev no Biiciont objeotion to tho plan, and it” tbd honorable enthus v and public apirit of its proje *lors shall miccend sy accomplishing -the work, tho whole world will Le under a lasting obligation to them. st THE NEW-YORK CENTRAL ——— RAILROAD. THE BLEOTION TO DAY ~CANDIDATES FOR PNBIIK:T — ALBANY PILLED WITH RAILEOAD MEN. BT TRINGRAPN TO TN TRIDVNS. 3 . Aunaxy, Doc. 11.—he New-York Central Rasirond stookbolders hold their anuusi election for & Box™ of Diroctors to-morrow. There is & great cotigtogation of railroad men at the Dolavan House this afternoon &nd evening, and delegetes are arriving by every train, to take part iu the elestion, 3t will hswnd'uzmw, 05 & great numbor of the stackholders doclars openly that thoy are dissatistiodfwith tho management of the road for the past yoar. The Board of Directors comsists of W mombers, and this Boord, when elected, will chooss & Prosidend. end Vies-President. Tho capital of the road is said to be ebout $26,000,000, and it employs directly over 6,000 porsons on the road. It has hathorto been used as a political maebine for the benefit of the Democratio party, but the siockholders amert that they will not allow this to be done in fature. Under the managemont of Doan Richmond it is said that the oapita! of the road was deproclated jto the extent of $4,000,000, plundoring and stealing bave been - permitted among somo of the principal employés. Lobbying buttonholing are going on et & fervible in bar-room, “and saloons the Delavan House. There aro balf a dozon candidates for Prosidont montioned, the most prominent being Wil - lism G. Fargo, ex-Mayor of Buffulo, and ono of the prin- cipal proprictops of the American Express Co.; Bewnuel Sloan, who was ousted from the presidency of the Hudsou Rivor Railroad by the influence of Commodore ¥andor- bilt; Erastus Corning, formerly President of tho Road, and Henry Kcop, formerly Treasurer of the ' gan Central Road, & resident of New-York City. Leosar? Jerome has also beon mentioned, but it is probable that he fis not solicitous of ‘Twe howor. A majority,of tho stockholders, it is stated, owning about $17,000,000 of the stock, have combined against Vander- bilt, who, it seoms, either owns or influsnces about $12, 000,000 in tho Hudson River and Harlem Roads, snd who, itis also waid, offored tho Hariem road at s rental of ten por cent of tae par value of the road at previons moeting of the diroetors of the Central, but was checkmatod by o stockholder of the road, named Boody, who prooured an injunction from Judge Barnard, and when Vanderbiit attempted to sell tho #Harlem road to the “Contral the project wasj, defoated. Boody it seoms was alsc interested in the Athens and Schenectady rosd, whick was built to divert trade from Albany, by allowing oceas steamers to run up to the head of deop-water navigatios through tho Hudson River. This schome would have do- prived Albany of all commercial interost. The New-York City and forsign stockbolders are dividod in their support between Samuel Sloan and Henry Keep. It i stated that all the foroign proxies ave held by Keep, a4 tho majority of stockholders cannot bs reprosonted in person. Tho Sloan and Keap intorost i combined againat Vanderbilt, as is also the Corning in- torest. Both of Vanderbilt's sons-in-law, Horgeo F. Clark and James H. Baukor, arc as the Dolavan, but it is not known as yet whom they will support for President. The entire influence of the American Express Company s to bo thrown for Fargo, who is working like s beaver, supported by Col. Butterfield of that Company, father to Major-Gon. Buttorfield of the Twentieth Corps. The Merchaats' Union Express is working against the Amorican in risalry to get tho trado of the Ceu- tral Road, its roprosent E. P. Ross of Au- burn, & stockholder of the Central. Ex-Gov. Seymous was among the atockholders at tho Delavan House, seemingly déeply interested &s fo Tha robult, an was also Marshal Robert Murray of your city, who isjsmd to sound for Corning. Dean Richmond’s old room, No. 57, in the Delsvan House, is ocoupied by the *Ring,” who are supposed to bo laying wires for the success of the Fargo ticket. Danicl Drew and the stoamboat interest is ropreseated by Drew’s man, Acker. Soine of the opponents of Corning declare that ho is eafi¢ for tho Preaidency, owing to his age and infirmitios. Ome huumunflhnnmh&rflywm- ent that newspaper men wore unfit to live, and that ho would give o information whatever about (hs road to THE TRIBUNE. KEEP TO BR ELECTED PRESIDENT, AND FARGO, VIOB- PRESIDENT. ALBANT, Dec, 11=Midnight,—A private cancus of the principal stockholders of the Central Railroad was held at a late honr to-night, and it has leaked ont that Houry Keep of New-York is to be clected President, and Wil liam G. Fargo ot Buffalo, Vico-President, of the road. Keep is o mild sortof a Ropublican, and Fargo isths Dem- ocratic ex-Mayorof Buffalo. The caucng represcatod oight- eon millions of the stock of the road. ————— ALBANY. i | CHANGE§ IN THE GOVERNOR'S 81 arr. ot TRLIGAGN TOTHE TRIBNR. ALuaxy, Dec, 11.—There is fo be an entire change w» the Governor's staff, it scems, with the excoption of the prosent able Inspector, Gen. Batchelder, who will not be an, less to moted to & rank, Geu. P iy oy m'u&hop- Chas. W. Darling, formerly of Gen. inted on Gov. Fenton's steff, he poaly oeareset ing already conversaut with the duties of that ofiico. e THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ae Nt THE PHILADELPHIA PAPERS. PamLADELPRIA, Dec. 11.—An editorial statemont in 7%e New-York World of to-day that 8out of 13 daily papers published here receive their news from the opposition is calenlated to give a wrong impression as to the status of the Philadelphia ‘Thero are but 3;:. daily that have ever paid for telegraphic news, and these still continue in the renks of the Associated Press; so the opposition cannot boast of having induced a single desertion. If the opposition have uot accomplished more in othor cities than they have in Philadelplia, the prospects of suc- cess are poor indoed. "ELECTION anLLl&ENEE. e BOARD OF CITY CANVASSERS. The Board met, pursuant to adjournment, at 10 o'clock on Tuesday mo) - the Chairman, Mr. l"l;'ll, " - sl‘nmly after organizing, Mr. Vardum prosented the jowing: Whereas, The law of the State, of which this Board is Wusd to take potice, requires that. in nddition to the returns nmr\'qnlndd.nmm shall be made to the Police Commis- joners; an hereas, Tt ts by a cértified copy of the return o | m’.{ ortssoners fo fho VEIh Distrit of the m"'-d that a discrepane, wy,uhll between the votes for L4 ed thero ag roported here, Teport | " Resolred, That the Commitice on Protests bo o summon the Keeper of Eloction Records of the Pulk;- = | sioners to sppear before them with said .0 smne relate to said VIIth District of the Ward, and re- the cause of such discrepancy, and what correction, if any, 4 mrw to bo made ou the returds, before this Board. ferred to the Commuttee on Protests. The following was received. CENTRAL DEPARTMENT OF 118 METROPOLITAN PoLICE, l NO. 300 MULBERRY-8T., NEW- ¥ ORK, Dec. 10, Iri6. l,kni'i that tho retarns of the Seventh 'Distrier of the'Eighth Wi o fle at this oftice, aud signed by Charles F. Thowpson August Schmids, Canvaseers, are a8 follows ‘Whole namber of votes for Alderman was 608 Of which Eugene Ward received. i Of which Theodore Allen reecived. Of which Samuel J. Montgomery 13-6- do original the Puil Clerks of said District, also t this office, agree with the u‘:o:ol:l:nlhlhm* The Board and Nineteenth SIXTH WaARD.~R. BfConnolly, 1,191; R. Kelty, 479; M. Con- nolly, 802 J Warp.—~R. B, Connolly, 163 R. Kelly, 634; M- 0&7 1,180, ‘Nixerivou Wan.—R B. Connolly, 1,378 R. Kolty, 1,6 M, ) 1,078, ‘ 1t was understood that the canvassers in the Soventh Eleotion District of the Eighth Ward bad boa srrested ety et o M o on & cherge of »ping the returns of their district P ‘%I“:M;M—'l“:owmn of the Board hold & meeting, st which will be the {