The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1866, Page 4

QAmnsements. 1BLO'S GARDEN oo lIs EVENINO-THE BLACK CROOK—Grest Parisionue 2a'tet Troupe. WINTER GARDEN THIS RYENING=HAMLET. Mr. Edwio Booth, WALLACA'S THEATER IS EVENING—“OURS." Me. Loster Wallack, Mr. Feaderic Rsbtun B Joba Oiitert Charles Fisher, Mias Made ine Ho: fr OLYNPIC THEATER THIS EVENINO—MASTER OF KAVENSWOOD. Mr. O Jordsa, Miss towe ¥ ytings BROADWAY THEATER. THIS EVENING—PEOPLE'S LAWYER — HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE. M: ohu E. Ow:ns. HEATER. N—GRAND FAIRY BALLET. THIS EVENING=CENDitILLO OLD BOWER TS ENING=TRUE TO Miss Eainy He Me. Fox. 8A AMERICAN MUSEUM. DAY AND ELENID ABRI; Or THE WOUDEN SHOE MAKER. Me . W. Clarke sud o full compuy. TWO HUN. ar KIOSITIES=VAN AMBURGH'S COL- NIMALS ® DiED THOUSAND CL LECTION OF WiLI GERMA THIS EVENING=\r, CEIGH " aud * ARTHUR VA THALIA THFATER, WML DAWISON s “SIR HAR NORDEN HFEATRE FRANCA'S, THIS FVENINO—FRENCH OPERA-L' TOREADO, L AMOUR QUE OU' ('EST OU CA=Vaudeville, NEW YCRE CIRCUS. THIS EVENING-NEW YORK CIRCUS TROUPE. .Robert Stickaoy. Austrnfin Family aud dille. De Bezz., PROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THIS EVENING=ITALIAN OPERA—ZAMPA. FIFTH AVESUE OPERA HOUS TUIS FYRAING=KUDWORTH'S MI —THE MAN R¥ IN BLACK=TWO POMPEYs—WAKE UP ABRAHAM, ke KELLY & LEON'S MINSIRELS, THIS EVENING=CHIF OF THE OLD BLOCK — HOTEL DAFRIQUE, wte. NEW.YORE MUSEUM_OF ANATOMY THE WASHINGTON 1\WINS—ANATOMICAL COLLECTION. Open daily frow 8. m. to 10 p. . NATIONAL ACADEMY 0 SEVENTH ANXUAL EXUTBTTON O SOCILTY. Open from 9 5. w. to 10p. m. ¥ TH STEINWAY'S H Mr D. KENNEDY" AD. THIS EVENIN NTERTAINMENT— SONGS OF SCOTL CLINTON HA SING=MR VALENTIN THE UNITY OF NATIO! JRTU HAL T2, THE /OUSDEN'S ENTER- DODWC M. HART ¥iF ; SKATING FOND THIS AFTERNOON—CONCERT BY DODWORTH'S FULL BAND acd SKALING. FATRS. Graat Masonic Faic st the Presbyterian Church, corner of Grand . Fair. in the Hall of St Stephen’s Chorch. Twenty-eighth and ‘Twenty niiith stw. between Lexington and Third-aves. Wair of the Union Howe aud School for Orpbe of Soldiers, st Roows, corner of Broadws; Bueincss Notices. STARR & MgRCUS. JxwaLEks AXD SILYERSMITHS, No. 22 Johu-st., N. Y. Respacifilly inform the public that they have added to their stock of rich JawELRY and SILYERWARE & superb assortment of the GOREAN MANOPACTURING CoMPANT S1LyER PLATED WaRE. Thie ware is the first of its kind ever produced in this country, sad §o doatined to surpase any made by Elkingion of Birmiugham, Dizon of Sheffield, or Christofle of Paris. In quality of metal and platiog, variaty of elegant desigue sud faish, we commend i to & favorable conaideration. To neevent imposition, all articles beer their trade mark thos: GURIAMMIG We cherish & laudable pride in being the fntroduc s they meet & want long felt by persons of refined taste, to whote «0d opinion sad patronage we are indebted. Thass s00ds we c'aim aro fu perfect harmouy with the besutifal arts which we bave aimed to embody in all our productions of jewsiry oo wel aasilverware. Howarp & Co., JrwrLIRS AND SILVERSMITHS, No. G19 Froapway. Nuw-)omk. Havs wade an arrangem nt with the GoruAN MANUPACTURING COMPANY. of Providenoe, Woe o tall supply of ths GRursra rep GonmaM PLATED WARE, NG, P Which they offer at as low prices as any other bouse in the country. Also, & (il ssortment of SOLID SILYRNWARE, Diaxoxps, FiNe JrwaLny, Warenrs, FANCY Goods, ke A NoTED CLERGY AN and PUBLIC LECTURER says of + Buowx's BroxcHIAL TROCHES N my locturing tours 1 pat Troshes into my carpet-bag s regulaily as I do lectures or linen.” Public speakers, vocaiiats. and @l others who exercise the voice, should mever fal of usizg the Trocmxs. They sarpass al other preparations 1o clowlag snd strougthening the voice, removing Loarseness, alaying Srritation of the throat, and ss s CovGH REXEDY are pri Samivently THE Pre's 0. K. So. axp CEaw TARTAX, for family ase. Sold by Grosers 2POT. No. 550 WASHINGTON OT. TOm or PALM AND MACE, for Peoserving, Restoriog and Besotifying the Hair. 1t is the most delight/u! and wonderfu! article the we:ld ever prodoced. AP, SALERATUS, Economical and relistle articles Tux Mamver or Peso, o new and besutifal Perfs ¥or sale by all Drug: snd Perfumers. Prc T. W. Wiianr & ~ Frrst PREMIUN ESTEY Ok tain che wew and sdmirable Vox HUXAXA Auschme:t. G U, Sll'j & Co, No. 417 Broome-st. at BaxTa’s, No. 357 Canal- H: d infauts; gents’ per bottle, each. berty-st. ¥ Y. T. B. Bysxer, Watches and Jewelry, No. 169 Brosdway, (up staits). y. They will find all {ie fasbionabis varieties, made up in the vew Peris styles. aud st Toes dictated by » determination to comunsad populsr :rede in this partment ‘The Holiday call fc by the introduction of his HoLiDAT HAT for calls, grows livelier day bY day o6 the festal crisis spproschion GENLY, No. 313 Brosdway. “No. 6695 BroavWaY—A splendid 14 aud Murise Glasses, ebivle Spectesias and tiful Boois snd Snoes, Bows. Rosettes, ke.. with Geute Embroidered "Toilet S!ippars, for Holidsy Presents. patronize Mizium & Co., No. %7 Canalat. LAcE CURTAINS rotailed at wholeasle prices nntsl Jan. 1, 1667, G. k. & J. 8. Keury, No. 47 Brosdway, ¥. New quslity Setin Face, for Cortalus sud Fo R ety 0.1 kJ. B !.n." ‘( Praxo Axp Tapie COVERS, All the New Si tylen ut 6. L % ). B. Ksury's. No. 47 Brosdway. Hrir's Bay Ruy Soar, Parktow. Sold Everywhere. 1A, VARICOCELE, and GENERAL DEFORMITIES ) by the undersizned st Neo 154 Furlcnat. Troves, b ™ Yanparters Bpivel wod ‘Shouider Braces. Silk Fiastis i-wqmls.mmymmj c'_'fi"“::‘ " M ~ HoMDAY PRESENTS.— Lo cheapest and only genu- 'b‘: s bought st Reri's MukaetmavM MaNTPACTOMY, “.0up EvEs Mave NEw without g, edicine, Sent postpaid ou recoipt o _!..m-"fi W .'-,".," '.-—' e CoMyoxT AND CURE FOR THE KUPTU om receipt of ten cents. Address Dr. E. P Gedadway. New Yorx. p : A FIxgLe & Lyox SEWiNo-MACHINE GRATIS 10 1 CummaTHES —Alio {0 ANY ONK seuding us crders for two Mackines Reud foe Cirouas. No. 567 Hrasdway, New Yorh. AGRNTs wanran AT Wx. Evesoriy's Soxs, No. 104 Fulton-t., N, Y., the Caverar Visrmise Cawp for the Holidaye, ) FLORENCE b Revernibie Ferd Lockstiich SEwiNG-! WIS Bestfoadly wachive i the warld. Tis WONDERFUL VICTORY HAIR RESTORER, WiTHOUT SEDINENY OR IMPIRITY. Wil positively restose the hair and its color. For sale by Druggiste and the proprietor. B. Vax Boxex. Proprietor, No. 475 Siath-ave. (fll:ll‘b O‘l."r SALE OF 1¥TRR (LOT) Over Costs from Nine to thrty o.,i'.’:' A £t of Clothes from Toa to Forty Dolirn L A Kxafy, piselisgoandi. AN, 3 [ L TS Boors, Smoks and GaiTers at Honr's, No, 430 Br . Largest, choapest, aud best asecrtment of made -fl‘il.-v. Aivo, wade o ordet 8 sb0Tt mn"’v'::riom ad Garrama of On's Porie maks o;li‘l Mowt ELEGANT AXD USEVUL HOLIDAY GI¥T.— t -mmltxmw loos Locxsmrom Sawine Ma _ MorT's CHsMICAL FOMADE Kestores Gra . y Hair, B B, S S P Ly b T Covstavbet.. FRin ; Autor pis HX; Gl Lrera Al et Jo- | - WeED BEWING-Maciing CoMPANY, No. 506 Broad- . The Lock T I TS, i 1 von ¢ sreipht N RTISTS FUND | GreaT BarGArys 1y Foes. Loox1s BAZLARD, Waorssars Maxwracronek or Fore Now. %0 nnd 52 Howard-ot Wil offor at ratail Dec 10 owmeackg Moxvarc Hix entie Stock, con g of Mowim. Coutans, Covsanarran | Pecssives, Baurnas, sd Tackas Sanra Rovas Enuive, Frrow, Squinges, CoXY, WG | Ao goods for Geutiemen's wear fn Orrxe, Bravee, Consy. and Noruia | Houway GIrrs! FaMuy SILVER!! Lveres Harr & Co, | Tie Oldest Plated Wars Hoose i the City, Nos 4, 6 wud 8 Bonixo Sur, (Foot of John-st.) SILVER-PLATED WAKE, At Moderste Prices. T'ag HOLIDAYS. Tus LaRGraT AssowTssyT ix T8 CODNTRY OF RICH DINNER AND TEA SETS, PARIS CLOCKS AND STATUARY, end Fuxk Faxcy Goops—of our ows importation. OVINGTON BROTHERS, Nos. 236, 235 and 240 Foltow Brooklyn Tirraxy & Co., Nos 550 AND 552 BROADWAT. ? Are now opening over 100 cases of choice goods, of their own im portation, and speciaily wade o their order=embracing oll the novel- Giow i Jxwriay, Crocxs. Broxzns. arp FAXCY Goons roduced this season in Paris, London, Vienna Goveva, Naples ome, cto.. rming the most oxlensive e t of rich and vare arti-les of luxary ever exhibiied on this oo pELL'S CARD DEPOT. 302 Broadway, Vistiing Corde, Movograms, French Note Paper, the o CHRYATAL V151110 CARD for the Holi | TA HoLpAY PRESENT.—POLLAK & S0, No. 602 Brosdway. New York. ucar Fourthat. Mermscuavx Piew Maxo- ACTURRRS. Pipes cut to order, repaited aud mounted. i Cartes Vignette, $3 per dozen; Duplicates, § | Al nogatives recistered. K. A. Lewis No. 160 Clinthamst HELOK'S HAIR DYE—The best in the world; Bare Harmle Relable, Tustantan perfect dye—black or oo e opelatment. fate, Gonuine sigued A. Baonsvon. At all Dr ‘TRUSSES, ELASTIO STOUKING sams, Sorrowrens. ke.—MARSK & C only st No. 2 Veserat. Loy attendant. " HoLIDAY PRESENTS OF AFFECTION AND CHARITY— w m & Wiksoxs Look Stitch SewiugMachines. No. 625 SUSPENSORY 13 AND- Radical Cure Truse Tock-Stitch SEWING- \ fyvontor of the Sewing Me- Tux Howr MACHINE ( Mackixus. Eias Hown )r. (o1 il Prasident. No. o Hroad TOLIDAY PRESENTS. —STEREOSCOPEs and VIEWS, fine ALBUMS, LANDSCAPRS. &o. _E. & H, T. ANriont & Co. = No. 501 Broadway, t. Nioholss BIML Tue Best HOLIDAY PRESEN (ROVER & BAKER'S | Hioumst Puxsiza Sxwixo-Macuixe. No. 435 Brosdway. A SURE PiLs CURE. Dk. Growmnr's PiLe IxerRosesT. Pottraly cene the wors of Piles, Seat by wall on v ceipt of Cirenlare free. y droggists. nt wanted avery yieis. Addreat ). 6. Rouawwe, Minaper o 915" w " CRISTADORO'S HAIR DyB.—~The best ever manu- factured. Wholewale avd retail; aiso appiied at No. 6 Astor House. WiLLcox & (1uBs" * 1ts seam lock-atitch,”—{ * Judges Decision’ st the eamples of both stitches. No. w8 Broadway. NewDork Dailp Tribune. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1865. TO ADVERTISERS. ‘Wo will thank our advertising customers to hand 1 their Advertisements st as early an hour ax possible. 1f recaived after 9 0'clock they casuot be claseibed uuder their proper boads. ————— TO CORRESFONDENTS. No cotice can be taken of Anonymons Communications. What ever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer—not necessarily for publica tion, but as & guaranty for Lis good fuich, Al business letters for this office should be sddressed to * Ty Tritar " New-York. ‘We cannot undertake to retnrn rejected Commupications. —_— Notices of Calvert's * First Years in Europe" and Whipple's ** Character and Characteristic Men ™" will be Jfound on the sizth page of to-day's paper. e We print elsewhere a dispateh trom Jefferson City indicating & possible conflict of autherity between Gov. Fletcher and Gen. Grant. Intrinsically the state- ment is improbable enough, but it comes from our regular correspondent, and states, we have no doubt, what he believes to be the fact. We trust it will appear that he is mistaken, or that the difficulty has been amicably arranged. — Dr. Harris, in his report to the Board of Health, notices the fact that 21 persons: were burned to death in this city last week, and justly says that for the deaths of the 14 persons who perished in the burning of tenement houses, **a later generation and wiser laws will hold the people and the laws of our day guilty of homicide.” Dr. Harris asks if the sad lesson will go unheeded. The Legislature will soon be called upon to apswer, e The French Governwent, it seems, is getting into new trouble. It must have a more efficient military organization, unless it consents to be vastly inferior as a military power to Northern Germany; but the measures which have been prepared for reforming the military eystem are spreading discontent among all classes of the population. After the Mexican and Roman fiascos, 8 general discontent in France fore- bodes serious danger to the Napoleonic Government. —— The Diet of Croatia, we are informed by a Cable dispatch, has declared in favor of 8 separate adminis- | tration. This means that the Croatians, who have heretofore been subject to the crown of Hungary, de- mand to be independent of Hungary, as Hungary wante to be independent of Austria. Thisie a new embrrassment for the Austrian Govenment, which offends the whole Sclavic race if it refuses the demand of the Croatians, and gives new offense to Hungary if it sides with Croatia. —— At the last session of the Legislature, a clause was inserted in the Tax Levy, by which it was provided that the Commissioners of the Croton Aqueduct ghould remwain in office three yeurs, and that apy vacancy should be filled by the members remaining upon this clause. Mr. Stephens, late President of the Board, declines to yield to Mr. Jobn J. Bradley, who has been recently appointed to the position, claiming that Le may remain in_office three years longer. Mr. Brodley claims that the clause is void, being inserted in & bill not concerning the Aqueduct, and not men- tioned in the title of the bill. The guestion will ent | probably need legal decision. —_— e The debate on the Appropristion bill, which took place in the House yesterday, elicited several opin- jone end facts which are moteworthy. Mr. Went- worth opposed an amendment striking out a provision for a ** Clerk of Pardons,” inasmuch that as the Pres- ident had been called upon for information on that point, it would be impoesible *‘to rake out all the pardone with his own hende.” The visit of the Floride Legislature to the Dry Tortugas, for the purpose of lhunting up - subjects for Executive clemency, was considered by Mr. Wentworth an instance in proof of the Executive need of & special clerk. Mr. Scoficd heightened the oppoite view of the question by stating, not as it sppears on any given authority, that all the pardons expressed South were marked ‘ $300,” and the sum collected. Mr. Bingham took occasion to remark that when the President made a removal trom office corruptly he was guilty of & bigh crime and wisdemeanor, and answerable to Congress. The amendment, that asseseors and collectors shall not re- ceive pay unless confirmed by the Benate, was adopted. If we rightly interpret the actic ¢ the Senate Judiciary Committee upon the Hou. \ension Agents w_——i ORK DAILY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1_866 B W niMt, the purpose of the House to restrict in all con- stitutional ways the appointing powor of the President is to find support in the Senate. The Judiciary Com mittee is & very conservative one; it is hardly likely that the Radical majority will fail to go at least as | far as the Committee. Other measures designed to | arrest the usurpations of the President are to come | before the Senste. The question of removals, of the | evasion by the I t of that constitutional provi- sion which requires the advice aud consent of the Sen ate to make the nomination of the President & perfect legal appointmont; the perversion by Mr. Johnson of Lis powers for partisan purposes; the prostitution of his office to ohstruct the will and defeat the declared purpose of the people—-all theso offenses must come before the Senate in its consid- cration of the measures already devised for the restoration of the safeguards of the Republic and tho welfare of the conntry. We ardently hope the promise now made is to be fulfilled, and that the Senate means to keep step with the House. The appointing power mtst be exercised by tho concurrent authorities in whose hands the Constitution places it, and must be used henceforth for the service and no longer for the destruotion of the Government and the country, NONSENSE IN THE SENATE. This is & query which we fancy often euters the heads of those who, for®their sins or their solace, peruse the roports of Congressional doings and de- Datings. Most public creatures who talk for the sake of talking partiy, and partly for the sake of being resurrectionized the next morming, inthe journal, to an immortality of from soven to ten days, have some- thing smart, sweet or savage to say about - Amorican Principles,” which would be more satisfactory if they would deal a little more in particalars and a little less in generals. Mr. Davis, for instance, who is, 83 they say in Erin, a knowledgoable man, bo- sido boing a Benator of the United States, was good enough, a day or two since, to tell us that ‘it is a fixod American principle that suf- frage pertains exclusively to white mon.” This looks promising at first, but when you scrutinize it, you find that Davis is talking as loosely about fixity as the rest. It is frightful presumption, we know, to cross- question an honorable Senator, but perhaps Mr. Davis will be good enough to attribute it to our uncontrol- lable thitst for knowledge, if we inquire, the principle being fixed, who fixed it and when it was fixed? By whom was the principle first enunciated? By what hody wag it reduced to an enactment? By what pop- ular vote was it confinmed and incorporated into our fundamental law? For it should be there, if any where, It is dangeroua to tho public safety to bave principles lying about loose—they should be codified, ongrossed upon sheep-skin, printed and published for study, for instruction, and for reference, Now itis our opinion, whatever may b its value, that to save his body from destruction and his soul from torment, it is not in tho power of Mr, Senator Davis to put bis finger upon the smallest authority for bis glib as- aumption—if we except the dictum of Judge Taney, whieh, indeed, bas long ago ceased to be authority at all, if it ever was, which is a matter of grave doubt. Suffrage for White Men an American priuci- ple! Why, ever since the foundation of the Goveru- ment, in many of the States, tho Black Men have been voting. Massachusetts, for instance, oge of the oldest of States, one of the creators of thenation, whose great men were among the most illus- trious framors of the Constitution, has never dreamed of confining suffrage to White Men, and bas never made in this matter the least distinc- tion oa account of color. Don't they know ‘‘an American pripeiple” in Massachusetts when they sce it? Herein New-York we require of colored men— i. e., men colored black—a certain spocial qualifica- | tion, but, possessing that, they vote; so tbat here, too, Mr. Davis's ** American principlo” is quite aa far from being suthoritatively recognized as anywhere else. So, too, in North Carolina for years qualified blacks were voters. What was *‘the Americaa pri ciple” doing all this time? Was it discarded? Not atall. Nothing can be discarded which neverex- isted. The written word alone remains. And it is safest tostick by it. The underlying axiom of vur institu- tions is the freedom and equality of all men. Every | deviation from that has proved to ba both a crime and | ablunder. And if Members of Congress, profound and sagacious as we know them to be, will permit us to say 8o, it is their business not to establish princi- ples, but to enact laws in accordance with prineiples already established and clearly ascertained and de- fined, not by Senator Davis, who has neither call nor | warrant for the work, but by the Declaration of Inde- | pendence, the American Magna Charta, and by all the traditions of the Republic, as illustrated | and interpreted by common sense, without | special pleading or the quibbles of a desp yphistry. As for the empty effigies of * principles, | which such men as Senator Davis are always manu- facturing and setting up and falling down to worship, we know the hearts that conceived them and the hands that made them too well to crook our kuees in | their presence. We have seen scores of them ele- vated and praised, and finally pulled down to rot | awhile and then utterly to disappear. Weo have been | called upon to salute them, and assured by Presidents, and Senators, and Representatives, and Governors, and Mayors, that the world would ccase to move | upon its axis if they were disregarded. Weo remember when Human Slavery was an “ American principle.” We remember when catchiug runaway slaves was an *‘ American principle.” We remember when mardering the Free State emigrants in Kansas was an *‘ American princi- ple.” We remember when acquiescence in all the de- mands of sword-bearing Rebels was an ‘*“ American principle.” We remember the distinctive ** American principles " of Mr. Saulsbury, of Mr. Vallandigham, and of many others whose heads were of copper and whose hearts were of adamant. And now we have the * American principle” of Mr. Senator Davis, which turns out to be just about as un-American a8 possible. In short, whenever a scheming factionist or & discontented disturber of the peace has a notion to support or a poiut to carry, we may be sure that he will have an ** American principle” to match the one or the other; but the time for bringing such goods to market has gone by for the present. THE ORPHANS OF NEW-YORK SOLDIERS. Among the duties imposed upon us by the war, not | the Tenst pressing is that of providing for the children of soldiers who perished, yet it is one easily dis- charged, and diminishes every year, Some of the States have adopted a system for their education, and have made appropriations for their support. Pennsylvania, especially, bas paid her debt to her dead soldiers; two years ago all the orphans of her soldiers were adopted «i the children of the State, clothed, fed, and educated by the people whom thei iathers defended at Get- tysburg. Prussia did Dol lose a day in gathering in ber orphang, and in the Bismark Foundation, the pame of the great statesman will live as honorably as in the history of diplomacy and war. New-York has done little for the orphans of her sol- diers, yet the duty needs only to be understood to be fulfilled. It is mota question of generosity, but of juetice; it is not charity, but honesty. We owe to the men who fell in the war for the Union a debt which no bounties or pensions can pay; few of them enlisted for the sake of a soldier's pittance, and many sacrificed business interests and the comforts of home to the pure love of country. Some of them sleep in unknown graves, and have bequoathed us not only the blessings but the duties of peace. They have left us their children. These little ones are now scattored in every county—soms of them unvrovided for, and without hope of education: others a burden to rela tives unable to support them. The cars of these children is & rosponsibility New-York cannot hon- orably evade, and one which we kuow her loyal oiti- seus are ready to assume. The State is rick; the ex- pense would be but slight; and wo urge the subject upon the carliest attention of the Legislature. Wo do not need to go to Pennsylvania for instruction in 50 plain a daty, yet wo may profit by an examplo 8o Lenorable, and take a lesson from tho reaults of her liberal policy. B WOMEN VOTING IN NEW-JE During the debate in the Senate, a fow days ago, on Cowan's amendment to strike out the word “male” in the Franchise Dbill for the District of Columbia, inquiry was made of Mr Frelinghuysen whother women ever voted in Now-Jersey. His re- ply admitted that they once did 8o **in local elec- tions.” But the fact is that, for many years, women wero recognized there as voters on precisely the same torms as men. Lucy Stone and H. B. Blackwell, citizens of New-Jersey, have made an investiga- tion, the result of which is remarkable, and proves that previously to 1776 only men voted, but that, in 1776, tho original State Constitution con- ferced the franchise on ' all inkabitants” (men or women, white or black) possessing the prescribed qual- ifications of £50 clear estate and twelve months resi- dence, and this Constitution remained in force until 1844, In 1790 the Legislature, in au act regulating olections, used the words **he or she" in reference to voters. In ‘1797, another act relative to elections repoatedly designates the voters as ““he or she.” 1In tho same year, 1797, 75 women voted in Elizabothtown for the Federal caundidate. In 1800 women generally voted throughout the State in the Presidential contest between Jefferson and Adams. In 1802 a member of the Legisla- ture from Huntordon County was actually olocted, in & closely contested election, by the votes of two or three women of color. In 1807, at a local election in Essex County for the location of the county seat, men and women generally participated, and were jointly implicated in very ex- tensive frauds, In the following Winter of 18078, the Legislature, in violation of the terms of the Con- stitution, passed an act reatricting suffrage to froe, white, male, adult citizens, and in reference tothese vir- tually abolished the property qualification of £50, thus oxtending it to all white male tax-payers, while ex- cluding all women and negroes. In 1520, the same provisions were repeated—and remained unchanged until the adoption of the presont Constitution in 1344, , 1t thus appsars that women and negroes possessed and exorcised the right unquestioned under the Con- stitution of New-Jersey from 1776 to 1807, 31 years, and that from 1807 until 1344 they posscssed the right, but woro arbitrarily deprived of its exercise 37 yearamore. This is, we believe, o fact unparalleled in the politcal bistory of the world, and was probably duo to the strong Quaker influence in West Jersey, then, as usual, oxerted in behalf of Equal Rights. New-Jarsoy enjoys, we believo, tho distinction of hav- ing boen the first Stats which conferred upon all its citizens equal political privileges, without restriotion of sex or color. —_— THE " FAR KATHAY." years ago, when the bold merchant about to sond a ship to China sate himself down to conaiderthe probable political relations of the kingdoms of the earth a twelvemonth later, the probable influence thersof upon the tea aud #ilk markots of that remote period, and guessing as sbrewdly as be could the possible present intentions of few rivals n that distant trade, he gave up bis days asud nights to the compo_ sition of elaborate treatises on these abatruse topics aod sent them round the Cape of Good Hope, for the enlightment, the entertainment, and quite often to the utterand complete bewilderment, of his correspondent in Canton. If the ponderous dispatehes of these pains- taking and prophetic gentlemen—dispatches which would completely overshadow the diplomatic cor- respondence of Secretary State— were not hopelessly muddled aud in the wrong, the result was o fow by d thousand dol worth of teas and silks back by the same ship that carried the vo- luminous lettersround the Cape, to pay a profit of two orthres hundred per centam. But thirty years have made o change in this great branch of the world's COmIne! Ti it is true, still come and go by the same highway round the stormy Cape; but the owner at howo now prophecies of events and markets for a quarter of a year only, aud sends out bis orders by Overland Mail. For years past he has looked for” ward for three months only, instead of a twelve- month, and blessod Lis stars that he was nota China- merchant of the olden time, But presently Overland Mails will be out of date for commercial purposes. 15t of next month the first of a new live of ors direct for Ching leaves San Francisco, and s modern of 4 ship P the New-York or London merchant will send his orders by telegraph to his correspondent on the Pacific Coast, to be put into the hands of his agents in Shanghai or Hong-Kong within 30 or 40 days. Even speedier, though probably not quite so certain a method of communication, has been for some time open by the telegraphic wire from Lon- don to St. Petershurg, and thence to Kiachta, on the northern frontier of the Chinese Empire. The Shang- bai merchants have sent messages by pony-express from Pekin to that place, to be forwarded thence by the St. Petersburg telegraph line, which have reached | London in 13 days. The American Minister at Pe- kin may communicate in this way with the Depart- ment at Washiogton in 14 days. But ponies do not go by lightning, and a dispatch sent by such a con. voyance for =50 miles is both expensive and uncertain. Pekin, moreover, is about 600 miles from Shanghai, so that messages sent by this route would probably gain vory little in time, would be much more uncertain and far more expensive than 4 telegram to San Fran- cisco to go direct to Shavghai by steamer. The burden of American stesmers in Chinese waters now exceeds thirty thousand tuns; the quantity in European vessels is probably larger, and the trade with this country and Europe is counted by hundreds of willions of dollars. At this moment the Western World is connected with the East by Telegraph to Calentta, and by Telegraph from St. Petersburg to Kinchta on the Baikal Sca, to be continued, in the course of 8 year, to the mouth of the Amoor River. By another electric nerve Europe and Amer- | jea will, within eighteen mouths, be joined by the Colling line, now building, from San Francisco across the Russisn Ewmpire, to meet the St. Petersburg line at the mouth of the Amoor. ‘The principal ports of China will then want only a few hundred miles of connecting wire between themselves and a few hundred more through Mon- golia, on the great Caravan route from Pekin to Russia, to intercept the Amoor and St. Peters- burg line and insure their daily communica- tion with the great commercial centers of | the world. From Canton to Pekin, within a distance of 1,500 miles, 8 submarine cable may be 1aid along the coast at a shallow depth, but beyond all possibility of interference, connecting Hong-Kong, Amoy, Foochow, Minaho, Shanghsi, and Nankin— citios, with an aggregate of not less than 7,000,000 of native population, the residences of all the foreiguers and the seat of all the foreign trade in the Chineso Empire—with the termini of the line at Canton and Pekin, Eorope is already tra- versed liko ® sioeve with & met-work of wire. In North America, from ocean to ocean, and from the Gulf to the Lakes, there is no town of any moment whenes the bridled lightning, held and guided by iron rains, i* not sont aud used. The two coatin- euts are bound togother by tho Atlaatio Cable, gathering, as it creeps on shoro at either ¢ud. in great ganglions these electrio nerves of & civilized world. It noeds only, when the Collins line shall e finished and knotted at the Amoor to the wire from St. Peters- burg, that this cable shall unwind its coil up the coast of China, from Canton to Pekin,ito put New-York and London in daily communication with the centers of trade in Eastern Asia. In this enterprise—of such vast importance to the commerce of the world, of quite probable influence, if not less importance, upon Chinese character and habita—the conipany chartered by the Legislature of this State has embarked, and, under an exclusive grant of the Chinese Government, has already commenoed its work. From the Treaty Powors, as well as from foreigners engaged in Eastern trado, it is roceiving every encouragement and aid in an nndortaking in which all commercial nations have 30 immediate an interest; and from the Russian Gov. ornment it has the assurance that, when the cable is laid to conneet these great Chineso cities, the line shall be completed that will join Pekin to the Amoor. The importanco of the work is almost incalculable, and a feeling of pride that it is to be accomplished by Amorican forethought and energy is neither unnat- ural nor unpardonable. British telegraphists, who have made an expensive aud by no means certain communication between Constantinople and Caleutta, baye, perhaps, reckoned upon extending that line to Canton. But a seouro right of ‘way through Burmah, Cochin-China, or Sism seems, at present, very im- probable, though, should it ever be obtained, comwu- nication Northward would still be in the hands of the American company owning ‘the cablo from Canton to Pekin. At present, thercfore, at any rate, the vast commerco of Eastern Asia will depend for its telographic facilities upon this *‘East India Telegraph Line"—with Europe directly by the wires to St. Peteraburg; with America by those to San Fraucisco; or indirectly, in the case of either, by the Atlantic Cable. The old China merchant of 30 years ago, who filled his book-cases with volumes of his voluminous correspondence sent by way of the Cape of Good Hope to Lis agent in Cauton, may well con- tomplate with amazement this prospect of daily intercourse between New-York and London aud Hong- Rong and Shanghai, which the East India Telegraph Company promises to the commerce of ** the farthest Ind." _— Sevoral persons send us communications about lotteties, asking that wo will help this, and denounce tho other. We have ouly to say in reply that wo have no relations with people who mansge lotteries, and no special sympa- thy with thoss who invest iu thew and get b0 returns. Whether they are cheated by ono pretanse or another is of vory little cousequence. ——————— The issue of an engraving of Mr. E. T. Carpenter's woll kuown portrait of Abraliam Lincoln as a holiday publiea- tion, i advertised elsewhere. Mr. Corpenter had unusual i PR NUSIC. y —— FRENCH OPERA—~THEATRE PRANCAISE. Loieldseu's charmiug opers, “ Lo Dame Blanche,” aae Lroaght out in excellont siyle at tha above establishmeny on Tucsday oveniug, beforo one of the larzest audicnces wo have yot seen assembed to listen to the Freneh opors. The company 18 now # common-wealth, azd we are ghad to sse an evidence of the irtention of our Freuch citizens tain their praisowsrthy oudeavors. [dien was one of the musical lights of the present ntury, having diod ouly ns late ds 1334, He wos the author of seversl operas, which met in their day with varied success. The tvo operas by which be is to-day the best known ars ** La Dime Blanche' and © Jean de Paris," both of which keep the stage, and will probably hold theis place in the wmusical literature of the future, on account o & certain perfection in their atylo which stands the test o critictsm and the chauges in musical fashion and testa, The wmusic abounds with fresh, natural molodics, which we recognize thronghout the opera distributed be- twoen the voices and the ingtramentation, The choruses are beautiful, both in melody and barmony, and the instru- montation abounds with beaatiful tigures, and is dashi b““““l’lm?-lm:i of :;la.. We do not claim 1::- the wi musical inspiration of & high order, but we find in it melody, with able working of the sibjocts, & Aol o preciation of dramatic effect and a rounded beauty as re- gards form, which makes itself folt from the beginning to the end. The concerted and ensemblo pieces are uumer- ous, » featare now much negleoted for the sake of voeal display, and are worked with masterly skill, It is a thor- oughly enjoyable opera; its variety precludes all sense of lousncss, aud the audionco on Tucsday sat three houre and & quarter of music with & satisfaction which could 13 W“l’ spring from positive enjoyment. The ance of the opora was eminently satisfac- tory. e choruses, which are namerous and folly har- monized, were sung with admirable correctus it and prowptitade, and proved ono of the pleasantest foaturos of the performaaco, The orchestra was well drilled, and, for 1ts numbers, besides il:ying with accuracy and spirit, im) much color to the seore. 'he principal artista aro all excellent singers and accom- plished actors, wi Jnk with graceful flnency, with pro- prioty, piquancy and emphasis. M'lle. Naddie is an edu- eated singer, fluent in exceution, and gracoful and camest in expression. Sho uses her voice, which is of moderate power, ski/lfully and with effect, and both in her singi and acting the charm of refinement is agroeably mm'ifl “I'ho same may be said of M'lle. Laurentis, who is aspirited and piquant actross, and an accomplished singer. Another pleasaut teaturo obsarvable in the Froneh Opera Company is the elegance and proprioty of the cosutmes; the eye is never offended by violations of taste, for the artists do nok forget what is die to the conveutionalities of society. M. Anthelme appears to be the n%mill favorite of the public, and was greeted with remarkable demonstrations o’:oplh Lar rogard. Ho has a light but very plensing tenor ve blending the sombre and head rogisters with rare grace a; akill. ‘The musie calls for frequent use of the falsetto, which M.Antholme's careful and artistic management rendor agree- able rather than otberwise. s rolo is singularly ardu- ous, but he knows so well how to reserve his powers thad Le went through it most successtully, without apparent effort. He is a graceful and ees, or, and vy y and dramatically well desorves tho favor with- which he is re- garded by tho pablie. ‘The other artists—Mme. Daire, MM. Vert, Scribot, Walter, and Olivier—meriv warm and special mention for the spinted and effective render- 1ng of their respective role: Commenting upon tho e rformance, we would re- mark that .t was perfeetly its excellence; it be- trayed no weak points. The solos were spiritedly and sffectively renderad ; tho duos and other concerted music a perfect unanimity of thought and caretul practice for combined effect, and the ensemble pieces were well studied and drematically rondered, The andience felt the intlu. onco of this equal excellence, and, asking for no speei Anzzling stars, acknowlodged it by bearty wpplause frequent recalis of the artists. advantages of personal intimacy for studyiag his distinguished sabject, and bis work, for that reason if no other, is sure to re- awaken interést. At another time we sball speak of it as o work of ast. e — CLOSE OF THE ARTISTS FUND EXHI- BITION. The seventh aunual Exbibition of the Artists' Fund Socioty will close on Thursday, the 20th inst. It has been a much better exhibition than that of last year, and enjoys tho distinction of having offered to our public the first op- portunity it has ever enjoyed of seeing 8 good collection ¢ water color drawings. We hope that, now a beginning has been made in this matter, it will not be suffered to drop, but that exersthing will bo done to intercst our peo ple in thismost delightful branch of art. We want to be convinced that watoreolors can do everythiug that asks to be dono in ecolor and drawing, and that its results are as permancnt in their beauty and effect as those of oilpainting, The English have long known these things to be true, and bave practiced the art with enthusi- asm these many years, and it 18 now in its glory, All the beat paintig of Lurope for centuries was done with water-colors, and, when panel was employed to work upon, the colors are as fresh to<day as they frobcbly ever were. Our graodehildren will only know Turner through his wator-color drawings. His pietures began to crack and change color 1 his lifetime, and every year makes them The water-cplors, on the other hand, are as good er. T. (. Farrers * Blue Bird.” and his brother, Mr. Heury Farrer's, *Flowers,” were remarkable for the co trast in them—one showing & man escaping from s cotsciously or unconseiously, carrying his new tield of work: the other showing an aracter, but with very different powers-— developing itself in the same n which the first began, but with difference enough in that sameness to promise an individual growth, Mr. Heury Farrer's work is couspicu- ous for its extreme delicacy”of fivish, combived witha remarkable strength. 1t 1s {mpossible to say, as yet, how much there isin him; but we shall be surprised if he does not soon get away from flowers into subjects callin more thought snd purpose, What a wmost in- prizciples in equally strong telligent critic meant by saying that Henry Farrer's work in is ** ghastly " was, thit the strength and will displaye it were too much for the theme and overpowered it. itis better to have begun with the thewe too humble than to have wasted oneself on a theme too high, and there are suljects enough under the heaven to tax all the power that the painter of these remarkable ** flowers” may have. Mz, Henry R, Newman sends a subject that puzzles us at but a little lo kmg dispels the doubt, and s that the artist bas been in Japan this summer. n the shelf before the door of a laequered cabinet, this Jupouica, in a green bowl standing on 8 tray with a bamboo rim, and the color pleased hun so that he & straightway, and paiuted it. And very deli- truly he has dose it, too, and we have the leasure of knowing that, enewed health and spirits, 0 is rapidly perfecting himaclf 1n his art by patient study and hard work, aud adding & new name aud ove of real promise to the Miss McDonald, too, praise to say her work | wo think it better praise o say rhi:l(v has thus far shown no sign of fal an! and if it were any we would say it, but working for truth, and tering. Hor portrait in lead-pencil we bave -ke-.y apoken of us & work of great promise We know very few of our men who could have done it better when at her stage of study. Her landseapo is excellent in tho sky and clouds, but we are not so well pleased with the trees; the color is not true, a8 it scems to us; they are too little influenced by the light in the sky. It wonld neither leave them so green nor so opaque. should have been glad to seo some more of the Hills' work —futher and son—but we suppose we never shall, it they can helpit. John Henry Hill's beautitul sketch of Mount Washington, which be afterward painted in oil, 18 here, and bow beautiful it 15! The mountains are very satiscy- ing, and if bis theory had only allowed him to vt a little something more into his foreground ! J.W. Illfi'l“RA»cb at Mount Desert” is o strong, truthful sketeh, interesting alike to the artist and to the man of science, —Agzassiz could lecture to & class with this drawing as an illustration —and yet we can take a pleasure in it quite upart from sy scientitic interest it may have, If we should say that the drawings by Rossetti are the first that have ever been extubited in public on either side the water, we helieve it would be a true mexnt, and | not a little singulur vither. *These are are the property of | Mr. Nor of Cambridge, whom we have to thank ulso for the p o of secing & genuine bit of Turner’s work, sore, howe to disappoint all whose minds Kuekin has filled with the overflow of his enthusiasm. This is only & rose petal from & garden of roses; to those who have ~seen the garden fitself, enough to recall its splendor, its perfume—but 3 tantalizing to those who have but read of the garde: Neither do the Rosettis do Rossetti justice—but the Be- fore the Battle” is noble in color and sentiment, and must give delight to many, Mrs. Elizabeth Muray surprises us with an unexpected strength and skill. There is some beautifal K-\nnun in A Milk-stall iu Seville.” We can- not like the great lubberly boy asleep in bed, but the rest of her work makes amenda for this pieco of weakness. We wish Miss Oukley’s work could geta little stronger; she shows so much real cleverness tht it seems a pity she should not add more cleverness to it. iroat interest has bean felt to see & picture by Mr. ‘Whistler, the American naturalized in Evgland, whose works have been 80 much talked about of late. Nor will the specimen on these walls disappoint any oue who had carefully read what has been written about him by good critics, Thi n early work, and not one thut shows his Eowurur color—one of his strong points—to advantage: | ut it is a picture one do t easily get away from. It We | La Dame Blanche will be repeated this evening, when the same charming peeformance mway be expected. M Varian Hoffman gave a brilliant concert af Now-Haven ou Monday evening last before an audience of pearly 2,000 people. Tho fair artist was enthusiastis cally reecived, and was cncored in every selection. She was nssisted by Mossrs. Poznauski, Severini aud kKd. Hofman, whosa artistic efforts added greatly to the sue- . ceas of the concert. ITALIAN OPERA~WINTER GARDEN. The socond representation of Herold's beautiful opers of Zawpa was, a8 we expected, superior in “:H nt, It was Just that one rehearsal upon time that parties concernod noeded, and, that obtained, the whole work goes on with smoothness and brilliance. The music is very diftieult and arduous in the exireme for the principal sing- ors, but the aitists on this oceasion were equal to the de- ‘mands and acquitted themselves admirably. Mazzoleni has made a strong mark in character of Zampa. The music requires a powerful and an exteusive voice, and Muzzoleni supplios both these requirements; it also requires taste and expression, and in those respects Mazzoleni is by no means wanting; on the contrary, he exhibits o and a tenderuess not uswal in his man- ner. He sang his Brindisi and his Aria in the second act with infinite power and Tril, ga enthusiastic rhuu, and his singing in bis duet with Pocb, was a iant effort of power and passion. Mdme. Poch sings with much dramatic effect and ably supportod Mazzoleni, gaining ber share of credit from the duet, and deserving especial praise for her duet with Testa, who also sang well thronghout. Mume. Testa sang correctly aud judiciously, and were sbe to be less demon- strative, vocally and dramatically, would find ber efforts far more effective. Bellini and Ronconi Hmfl{ and they threw into them all acted and sung with a genialit infoct the audience, and add beyond a doubt, the success of the opera. The orchestral performance was a delightful feature; the delicate, fanciful and melodious instrumentation was executed with grace, precision, and artistic coloriug. i undertook two inferior parts, their artistic knowledge, and of spirit which seemed to vastly to the interest and opera last night was asuccess, giving unqualified ploasure to a select and fashionable audienes, who sighed audibly for the brightness and luxury of the Academy, to say nothing of the acoustic effects. Zampa ' is given to-night at the Academy of Musie, Brookiyn, where all that is excollent in it will certainly be doubled in excellence and effect. " THE DRAMA. ‘*OURY,” AT WALLACK'S. “T'o write & thoronghly amusing comedy s to make & positive addition to the common stock of human happiness. Qurs " is a thoroughly amusing comod) fore, justified in bailing Mr. Kobertson play of * Socfety,” which was produced here last A% nncommon merit—arising from keen aualysis of social cus- toms and from delicate perception of the of and fact in life. But Mr. Robertson’s lotest work largely ex its predecessor. Its portraiture of social conditions hasa scops and greater warmth of thought. FElements of Swotion and tender pathos are blended herein with brillisng .Lmhinflr character and truthful reflection apon the n": the worl Yet there is no elaborute didactic e in the piece. Its effect is ot merely ~that of dull realism, but of realistic features happily chosen and grasped, and then truly photographe.l lervr;;gnlfo the mind of wan who has obséerved human nature and life through the heart e brain. ond whose artistie culture ennbles uim to produce clear and clean results without the rubbish of mental shavings. The comedy is comprised in three cts, and introduces twelve charncters. ‘The scene of the first two nets is laid fn England, That of the third act is laid in the Crimes. Its parpose is to sketch the Jove affairs of five unmarried (3 o the sons and one married couple. The plot is very slight. need not nrdertake to unravel ir. Enough to say that in end true lovers are jwited, sud o painful had obscured the hunflnu- of R weds pair is " bappily explained. Al ends well. Perkaps the defect of the < thit the promise of the Arst two acts is not fulfilled, as as s expected, in the kind. Down to the end of the sevondd wet, the moveiment s uicommonly spirited. The third act would be tedious if it were not so_perfectiy well acted, by the principal players. Its points are frequent and memorable. The contrast of love's young dreaw and matrimony's too often s reality, in act firs e of these. and is very telling. The badinage between Chaleots and Mary Netley, jist prior to the of act secon!, i witness its repressutation dny, and also m ey reatest chari entel n glimpse of English social Jife. of tod limpse of the' great Crimean war. The one is ful of fight anek’ it rnat—the other full of spirit and fecling. comedy has ow-York with ater thoro ol a eyl e orvg A The T ol setting of ** Qul MINNESOTA. Frow Our Special Correspondent. St Crorp, Ming., Dec. 10 1566, Thore are now 306 miles of railroad in operation i@ | Minnesota, nawely : ntral sud Winons Road— Winona to Puul—100 w branch of Pacifie—St. Paul to 8t, Cloud—746 wiles: Valley Road—Alinuéspolis 1o Belle Plai—40 wiles; Southery Road—La Crescent to Rushford—30 miles. 3 Anotter railrond, which will affect Minnesota, is the ove running from Motiregor, lowa, to Cresco—55 miles— aud which. it is expected, will in & year be tinished to Austin, Minn., there to conneet with thie St. Peter Road. What has been done is only a begiuning of that ilroad system required for the proj 1 developmert of onr agrieul- tursl resorces. A miltoad from Lake Superior to the Mississippi River will he a fit_extension of & rhn\!m is full of foree, and trath, haracter, aud there is wo trifling in it either. ’l‘urdll‘ is in it, and the evil of to-day. We cannot meation even with a word the remaining inter- esting pictures on these walls, The Allston already des- cnb-s ln these columns, * Spalatro, or the Vision of the Bloody Hand,” is here, and portraits by Stuart aud Copley and Stantield and Linton: two beautiful drawings by Samuel Pmt‘r-nd sowe large drawings not beautiful, by Mr. Nash. hen there nre several very fine foreign 1 8, 10! one by anse es Gotle, whici s al pictures tably by Bl Des Goffe, which isan astonishing piece of realisim by 4 famous artist whose work ein America, thanks to M Kuoedler. Humon's * Ma Socur n'yest pas,” and Cabane! “ Poete Florentin, ' ought to be fooked at often, Thes are copies, with variations, of the original pictures whic! have mado the artists so many friends, Nor must we for- get Charles Moore's lovely ** Catskill,” whose truth to n ture, and beauty of color have at last conquered tion and compelled admiration. Tlis littls picture with Mr. Whistler the honor of making it worth while to go into the 8 uth Room. But, when you got there, reader, look at May's its of Laboulaye and Gasparin. They are the best works May has ever sent us, and en- title him to our respect. They are strong, manly pictures, and look as if they must be good likenesses. Now that the Artists’ Fuud bas had one really good ex- hibition, we trust it will keep ouin the path. Its managers this year have deserved well of tho public, and wo hope their oxchequer testifies to the public gratitude. copvenient route for immigrants via the st l',umvnm the Lakes. Mr. Buckle insists th ineipal agents of vilization, an lopg time between I this i g the B winistpation of ! ulation of Mingesots by immi- | far short of 100,000 souls, & consleratle portion being from the older Western States. Between the Missigsippi and the Red River of the .th is room for more than 200,000 fumifics. Under the United States Homestead Law, 160 acres of jand are granted (0 pr peace for & aliost _constant'y at war. railronds is & beueticent ad The increase to the po) gration, in 1866, will not actusl settlers st a cost of ouly Afteen daliars—1and, too, that will raise 30 bushels of whi i# ready for the plow. able 1o et bomesteads wit such claims .@zwmomufl' Eoterprising settlers e m:rl' and timber about equally divided, being numerous on the lakes aud streauws. THE OTERO MURDEL. TRIAL OF FRANCISCO VILA—THIRD DAY'S INGS. The trial of Francisco Vila Sagard was oontinued i Cirenit Court, before Judge Scott. m esteray b e faportant. The Court sdjourned uatil il this morving. PROCKED-