The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1866, Page 4

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De Berg. THIS EVENIN Btickney. Austral BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. PUIS EVENING-RUY BLAS-KATHERINE AND PE- WRUCHIO. Mr. Edwin Booth. {FTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE. ¥1F v THIS EVENING=BUDWORTH'S MINSTRELS —THE MAN IN BLACK—TWO POMPEYS—WARE UP ABRAHAM, ke KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS. LTI EVENING-CHIF OF THE 0LD BLOCK—HOTEL AFRIQUE, ve. NEW-YOR LUM_OF ANATOMY. THE WASHINGTON TWINS—ANATOMICAL COLLECTION. Open daily from 8. m. to 10 p. m. NATIONAL ACADI SEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBI BOCIETY. Open fom 9 s m. t0 10 7. DESION OF THE ART!S. S FUND CSTEINW THIS AFTERNOON HOVEN MATIN T OF 7lsr REGIMENT Mr. J. R. Thomas. THIS EVENINO=MR. VALENTINE TAINMENT, “THE UNITY OF NATIC DODWORTH 1A TIS EVENINO—M. HARTZ, IHE FIFTH AVENUE THIS AFTERNOON—CONC BAND sad SKATL LL. ILLUSIONIST. SKATING POND. CERT BY DODWORTH'S FULL AIRS. ! 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No 501 lv-d--y[‘t ,N‘f‘,"l",""" Tus Bust HOLIDAY PRESENT. —GROVER & BAKER Haenser Prewion Sawino- Macuixe. No. 435 Brosdway. A Sure PiLe CURe. Du. Giusanr's Pius IxsTauMmsT. oures the worst cases lins. Sent by mail on e ok w. eve: Brosdway, New DaMe's PrLMo-BRONCHIAL TROCHES o Bioks. Wideme Jamal's B Wi Wor Conghs, Colde wnd all Throst s Ling Disesses. Sold everywhere. clroular. ~ Ladios, discard m_s;m_wfiu-‘ o » ING-MACHINES B To Ruwr. LW, Wickrs No. 144 Brosdway, up stairs. CrigtApoR0'S HAIR DYB.—The best ever manu- Bctared. Wholesale and retall; sieo appiied wt No. 6 Astor Hous. At Smuuons'’s, No. BROADWAY—A id g S, o 64 Baagpnss ) mlekt Alss. the calebraiad Pabbie Spactecies aud !,bfln—. T Wi Evempreur's Soxs, No. 104 Fulton-st., _Cuwvsrar Visimine Cano for the Holidays. Crosivo OUT SALE OF Nion to "Tairiy Dodars.” A Sait of Clothes from mmn N A Kwary, No. 1§ Courtiandiat. Boors, Smors and Garrses at Howr's, No. 430 4 5.'1):‘- avdes i short sotice. Frensh Boors STk A A i'ugl'r g m“l.l:.m HOLIDAY sz E T R Tux -ael.-. by B. Frax¥x Parusg, LL. D.— o T Company, No.506 Broad- Ahat uses o atraight BT EIT Gt s o o e e et — NEW-YORK DAILY 'TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1860. THE LAwS or Heauru, 1t i weelons for State Legislsturee to paas lws for tho preservation of the public heaith, if thé great Law of self preservation, which depends tor ite eaforcamont upon the will of the individual, is suflered to remain desd loteer There is acarcely an sdult member of the community, of elthor sex, i this country, who has not seen the testimony in favor of Hosteraxn's Stomacn Brrrems, furnished over their own sigustares by persous of ackuowledged emi- nence in science, litorature, art, commerce, and every department of business and prof fe. Theeo witnssees have declared in‘the most explicit terma that the prop: ard againat epi- demics, & sovervign remedy for dyspepsia, a valuable snt modicine, & promoter of appetite, & genial and harmlos ot g00d scclimating mediciue, & strengthener of tho nerves, fuvigorant, & protection against the deloterious efficcts of malaris aod impure water, and that it imparts a degres of vizor sud aotivity to the il forces which Is not communicated by any othet of the tonice snd stomachics in use. Under thess circumatances the self-preservative aw of nature should teach every rutional persou who, cither by reason of inherent debility or in consequonco of exposure to un who'osoue Inflencos, is in peril of Ling the greatest of all tampora bleasinge, REALTIL, the importance of using the BITTRRA & & defensiee medicine, Dyspeptics who negiost to give it o trisl sre simply their own enemies. It Is guaranteed to cure Indigestion in ali iis forme and the bitious sud nervous will find nothing in the whole reiuge of offiolal aud propriosacy medicines whioh will afford thom the samns roliel. general Houay Grers! FAMILY SuLver'! Lucios Hazr & Co., The Oldest Plated Ware House in the City, Now. 4, 6snd S BURLIXG SLip, (Foot of John-st.) SILVER-PLATED WARE, At Moderste Prices. b Fons vor Tie HOLIDAYS,—$30,000 worth of furs, of il Kinds, solling off st great'y reduced prices at Banta’s, No. 357 Canal-a., coruar of Wooster WILLCOX & GBS SEWING-M ite ale ss linble to rip than the | Grand Tris ad 1 niNe—** 118 seam wa' Decimion” at the No., 508 Broadway. NewVork Dailyp Tribune. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1866. TO ADVERTISERS. Wo will thank our sdvertising oustomors to hand 1n their Advertiserents at as early an b possible. I recsived after 9 olock they eaonot be classifisd un + proper besds. pldmbi TO CORRESFONDENTS. No uotice can be taken of Anonymous Communications. What ever is intonded for insertion must bo authentioated by tho name and address of the writer—uot necessarily for publica- tlon, but as a guaranty for his good fuith. Al business letters for this offico should bo addrossed to * THe Trusk," New-York. We oanuot undertako to return rejeoted Communications. yronsdhadiberoirh b oo £ On the second page of to-day's paper will be found a report of the proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, a hist of the unconfirmed appointments in the Internal Revenue Service, the Court reports, City news, Commercial news, and the Markets. On the sixth page are Scient fic item —— The Lower House of the South Carolina Logisla- turo have rejectod the Constitutional Amendment, by & vote of 95 to 1; and there is no prospect that it will fare any better, if as well, in the Senate. The vote was a matter of form, meroly; the sentiment of South Carolina on this subject is many months stale. A resolution, offered by Mr. Stevens, was adopted in the House yestorday, for the organization of freo sohools in the District of Columbia, in which no dis- tinotion shall be made on sccount of color. This is the inovitable result of the bill establishing equal -uflrugo_‘ Iiu'lu more § VP legislation will make the District more worthy than it now is to bold the Capitol of the nation. o weny The Emporor of Austria seems, after all, to have deemed it safost to make peace with the Magyars, for a Cablo dispatch informs us that in yestorda, of the Hungarian Diet, the Tavernicus (the highest ad- ministrative officer of Hungary) announced that the Emperor had resolved to restore the Constitution. This step—supposing that it is not made dependent upon offensive couditions—will produce an immense enthusiasm in Hungary, but it will greatly excite the Sclavic tribes which belong to the Hungarian Crown, and will increase the dissatisfaction in tho German provinces. —— Gon. Bheridan's version of the Mexican difliculties is given in two lettersto the Commander-in-Chief which we print to-day. He claims that Ortega was arrested on the principle that was applied to the Fenian invasion of Canada, though it does not appear that Ortega sustained at the time of his arrest the charac- ter of an invader. The invasion of Mexico by Gen. Bedgwick is consistently condemned, buyis explained also by the supposed scheme of the Mata- moros merchants to create & diversion in the interest of Maximilian, and get their goods otit of port free of duty. Orioga appears to have been mixed up in the intrigne, and Gen. Sedgwick was used as a cats-paw. BWe print on gnother page an important list of Assessors aud Collectors in the Internal Revenne De- partment, appointed by Andrew Johnson during the past four months, but unconfirmed by the Senate. No less than 215 officers out of 440 have been removed by Mr. Johnson in that brief time, for no other reason than their fidelity to the Republican party. The Senate will not consider these appointments till Janu- ary, when it will find that most of them are known only as Democrata or doserters. Nineteen re- movals were made in this State, and thirty-four in Pennsylvania. Many of the men appointed are notoriously unfit for the positions, and the Senate will reject the great majority. The impression appears to be general in the Houss of Representatives that the bill to increase salaries baving been passed at the last session, the members are legally obliged to accept the extra sum. Wo as- sure them that no penaltics will be enforced against any member who declives the money. The method by which Congress secured that extra pay was es- pecially discreditable because it was cowardly. Tho people expect to see the act raising the salaries re- pealed, and the mileage cut down to a decent figure. Had it not been for the transcendent importance of other subjects, the recent elections would have con- vinced even Mr. Driggs that the peopls were dis- gusted with the extra swindle. But now that the question between Mr. Johnson and Congress is set- tled, the members who vote against the repeal of the appropriation will not be overlooked. e e Judgo McCunn is the somewhat notorious author of many curious decisions; one of them on the New- York Gambling law. He comments on the ** gentle- “*manly spirit of the common law” in refusing to allow the victim of & gambler to recover his money. Fancy the genteel spirit of the common law allow- ing your pocket to be picked or your house to be rob- bed without even a gentlemanly apology therefor! That is pot quite so cool, to be sure, as Judge Mc- Cunn's assurance that it is the politest thing in the world to fleece or to be fleeced, and that all that & gentlemanly law or a well-bebaved judge can do is to tako sides with the robber. This idea of what is gen- tlemanly would not surprise us as coming from the faro bank, but as a judicial opinion would be deemed ourious if it had proceeded from almost any other than Judge MoCunn. Corporal punishment has long been the common penalty for petty offenses in the South. Until lately it was prevalent in the most northern of the Border Btatos, surviving the auction block, as a last relic of berberlsm. The with whioh the actual opeta- P& s el i, tions of the whipping-post inspired our soldiers in North and South Carolina led to several military or- dors prohibiting its further use. But inveterate advo- cates of the whip and of mean wages have come as far as Washington to beg that the whipping-post be con- tinned. It is chieaper, they think, to scourge a crimi- nal, and let Lim go a moro wretched vagabond than he ever mado himself, than to maintain bhim at the public expense; _ hence, & great business in cuts and bruises, and iron-stringed cats-o’-nine-tails, is done at the Southern whippiug-post. Mr. Wilson's resolu- tion, introduced yesterday in the Senate, it an effort to put a stop to these legal barbarities, The rescuc of & negro at Raleigh from the pillory. by a U. 8. officer, is mentionod in our news to-day. It meots the spirit of Mr. Wilson's resolutions oxactly. — No vew light on the Mexican question, or on the policy of our Government with regard to it, is obtained from the public documents which were lnid before Congross yosterday. Santa Anna has long been known as an unscrupulous demagogue, and this cor- respondence will largely add to that reputation. Santa Anna was desirous of obtaining thoe sid of the United States in the war against the Government of Maximilian, and, although a private citizen, intimated that he would engage, in the name of the Mexican Republic; to pay for such aid any price that might be domanded. He was answered that the Govermment of the United States would treat only with the legiti- mate chief of the Mexican nation, President Juarez. In a lotter to Mr. Seward, Santa Anna maintains that at an interview bo had with Mr. Seward, at St Thomas, the latter expressed approval of his proposed movements. How much or littlo truth there may be in this statemont is one ef tho fow matters in this correspondence the public would like to know more about. THE TRIBUNE FOR 1867, Tug TRIBUNE enters upon the year 1867 more pros- perous in business than ever before. The expedicncy of enlarging our pages—thus making Tug TrizuNE the largest and the cheapost newspaper in America— was doubted by many. We have found our account i The circulation of Tng Tripuxk is steadily inoreasing, and our advertising patronage basincreased s0 much that it is more difficult to print our news than when wo used a smaller sheot, aud this diflicuity we oan only meet by frequently publishing supplemen- tary pages. The close of the war bas imposed upon Tug Trip- UNE the discussion of momentous and peculiar prob- lems. We have met them as best we could, laboring with sincerity for Freodow, Social Progress, Political Equality, Impartial SufTrage—All Rights for All A Ropublican President became the enemy of Repub- licanism, and ave beon called upon to denounce and expose the treacherios of a degraded Administra- tion. It was not without pain, certainly not without much thinking, that we made an issue with President Johnson. The people approved our course by re- turning their radical representatives to power. Tho elections of 1366—as important to the nation as Lee's surronder—make new duties, Reconstruetion is now the duty of the country—political rocoustruction— reconstruction in finances aud tariffs, We are no longer pressed by war necossitics, and we must amend our war experiments. The present condition of the currency is & grievous evil. Trade suffers; our manu- faoturing interests are in a precazious state. A dollar does not mean a dollar, but its fraction. Itmay be sixty cents, it may be ten. It is a sentiment, not & fact. When the laborer carns his dollar, he does not know whether he has one loaf of bread or ten. ALl business is feverish and unsettled. We think this can only be remodied by a wise and intrepid policy at Washing- ton—by reducing the currency to the mpecie basis. Upon this we shall insist. 3 The necessity of Protection to Labor again presses upon us. We regret that on this most important moasure the Republican party is divided. An hovest but mischievous minority in the West, partioularly, are ondeavoring to create a policy which can only re- sult in the prostration of American Industry—the degradation of Labor and the aggrandfzement of Fn- glish capitalists. Duriug the many years of our work we have struggled against this Interest. We believe Protection more necessary now than over be- fore, and we shall insist upon the broadest and wisest legislation for the Rights of Labor, In the perplexing question of Reconstruction we sep no reason to amend the policy which we have asserted since the closo of the war. It then seemed to us that Emancipation of the Black should be followed by Suf- frage for the Black. We did not sce the wisdom of policy of promiscuous confiscation and hanging. We had too much blood in war to ask for blood in peace— even to gratify angry vengeance. It seemed import- ant that the South should concede Suffrage, and that the North should concede Ammnesty. Some of our friends disapproved of this; but Congress has followed our advice. Amnesty has been ap- proved by Congress—to a greatsr extent than we claimed in Tz Tmisuxe. We have held that the men who starved captives in Rebel dungeons, who murdered surrendered prisoners, who violated the rules of war, and aided the assassination of Mr. Lin- coln, should be tried and punished. Congress and the Administration have agreed that no punishment should be inflicted even upon men who are charged with these crimes, and the only measure looking like puuishment is the amendment of disfranchisement from holding ofice, which is merely a sentimental and not a practical penalty. On the othor hand, the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, the Freed- man's Burean Bill, and the Bill for Suffrage in the District of Columbia, show that recoustrue- tion will not be consummated without suffrage and protection for the Blacks. 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With many of them wo have already entered into negotiations which will result in giving to the readers of Trr TRIBUXE 8 scries of essays that, both for their intringlo value and the fame of their illustrious suthors, will long bé memorable in the history of journalism. Weo postpone for the present s more definite announcement. Friends of Impartial Justice and Progress! wo greet you on the bright prospects before us. Friends of Tras TriBUNE! We appeal to those who believe that an increased circulation of Tus Tripuxs would con- ducg to the politiosl, intollectuyl, aad moral well- being of the Republic, to aid us in effocting such increaso. TERMS. WEFKLY TRIBUNR. Mail subseribers, sinsle copy, | yoar—i2 numbers.. Mail subseribors, clubs of Ten copies or Tweuty copis Ton copies, to one ad lrew..... Tweaty copies, to oue aidrens. . An extra copy will bo sent for BEMI-WERKLY TRIBUNE. Mail subsetibers, 1 copy, 1 year—104 numbers. do. 2copies, do. do. do. % copies, or ovor, for Persons remitting for 10 copies $3) will reccive en extrs copy for 6 mouthe. Pervons rewitting for 15 coplos 45 will receivo en extrs copy one enr. For $100 we will send thirty o copies and Tas DALY TRIDUNE. DAILY TRIBUNE. Ten Dollars por sunum. Terms, cash in advance. Drafts on New-York, or Post-Office orders, payablo to the order of Trk TrIGUNE, being safer, aro prefera- ble to any othier mode of remittanco. Address, THE TRIBUNE, New-York. ————— THE TAX ON COTTON. The Chamber of Commerce have had under con- sidoration & memorial to Congross, asking that the tax on cotton should be abolished, on the ground that it is'injurious to American interosts. The subject was debated yesterday very fully; we print elsewhere the proceedings. The leading argument against the repeal of the tax was made by Mr. Elliot C. Cowdin, and from the importance of the subject we give his ontire address. Mr. Cowdin, in reply to tho claim that the tax is unjust, bec no other agricultural product is 8o Dburde ed, shows that North- ern products are chicfy in wanufactures, and are moro heavily taxed thah cotton; the South, on the other band, s elmost exclusively devoted to agriculture, and thereforo to re- move the tax on cotton would be to compel the North to bear almost tho entire weight of taxation. It is not quality, but quantity of production that is considered in the distribution of taxes. Take the cotton tax from the South, and it is not taxed at all. The ohjection thut a tax on cotton dis- courages production st home and encournges it abroad, is met by Mr. Cowdin with the argument that “tho principle contended for would virtually abolish all internal taxation.” The decrease in cotton production recontly is domon- strated not to be the re of this small tax, but of the war. It is notorious that the planters from 1862 devoted themsclves to raising grain to support the Rebel armios. Ho exposes tho non-application of the argument that the tax is unin means of helping to pay the national debt, dent fact that it was not imposed to liquidate that ob- ligation, but to provide revenue for immediaio use. OF $190,000,600 raised from customs and internal rev- enue in the fiscal year ending June 30, but §20,000,000 wore supplied by the tax on cotton. Beyond this tax the rovenue from the Southein States was insignifi- cant. Mr. Cowdin pertinently aske what the planters bave ever done thet the North, now bearing &n enor- mous proportion of the burder of taxation, should assume tho whole weight 7 No tax has been-imposed 08 o ponalty on the Rebel States, and it is but just hat the duty should be fairly distributed. It is true that the constitutionalty of the cotton tax has been denied, but, as Mr. Cowdin well suggests, that is not the business of the Chamber of Commerce, but of tho Supremo Court. We can bardly afford to exempt the South from all taxation, nor is it to be forgotten that it was by the Rebellion alone that the burden was imposed. No attempt was made to refute theso arguments, aud the almost unauimous voto by which the sul) was indetinitely postponed ghows that the merchants of Now-York beliove with Congress that the ta is at present not only just but expedient. —— MR, SEWARD'S DIPLOMACY. Mr. Boward's friends sssert that the reeent batch of Mexioan rumors wero set on foot by personal hostility to Mr. Beward. They do not seem to comprebend the fact that whatever credence might be given them arose fiom the want of principle, cousistency, and truth which bave been exhibited in the diplomacy of the Sccretary and his subordinates. Those un- bappy characteristics, displgyed again and again throughout the voluminous corresponcence of the Departwent, bave impaired, if they bave not utterly destroyed, the confidence of the people in this branch of the Governmont, and they aro con- sequently left in painful doubt whether the extravagant rumors in relation to speculative jobs about to Le accomplished by our National diplomacy may not have at least some basis of truth, It became known that the return of the French troops from Mesico bad been ordered by the Emperor, not in con- sequence of any manly and decisive protest by our Miniser at Paris, epeaking the unanimous senti- ment of the American people against the bastard empire of Maximilisn, but for the reason that Mr. Bigelow had voluntarily tendered to M. Drouyn de Lhuys our recognition of Maximilian as a bribe for the departure of the French forces. No tale could thereafter be invented half so inored. ible, or involving a larger sacrifice of the National dignity, & more wanton insult to the American peo. ple, or a more disgraceful cringing to a foreign power, under circumstances of premeditated wrong and menace, The sbuffling policy of the State Department. in the wholo business is thus far without explanation. Why did Mr. Seward attempt to ward off the just suspi- cions and allay the patriotio fears of Mr. Corwin, our Minister to Mesico, by assuring bLim that the scheme of an Empire and an Austrian Prince was abandoned, at the very moment when it was |progressing rapidly to completion? Why did be make so marked s difference in extending custom-house facilities to the sgents of France for the shipment of material of war—facilities which were de- nied to Mexico in a manner that called forth the in- dignant protest of Signor Romero? Why, after the Senate and the Fouse bad declared their invincible repugnance to the Empire of Maximilian, and their determination to recognize only the Republic of Mexico, did Mr, Seward's agent in Paris voluntarily tendor & recognition of Maximilian? Why, more recently, did the Secretary himself, after pledging the Governwent to the strictest neutrality in the affairs of Mexico, violate that pledge by ordering or approving the arrest and impriconment of Senor Ortega? These are questions which have been repeatedly asked, and to which the country receives o reply, and this is one of the occasions when we are disposed to regret that our Ministers have not seats in Congress, where they might be held to a just responsibility. Ono prineiple that governs Mr. Seward's foreign policy we have definitely ascertained, which is that our foreign policy is made entirely subservient to the partisan and personal views of the Secretary in refer- ence to politics at home. 'This was memorably shown in his assurances to Europe, 8t the beginning of the rebellion, that Slavery had nothing to do with the war, and in his subsequent admission that this assur- ance was absolutely untrue, and that he had pursued this Machiavellian and most fatal line of policy—it was met a3 the world knows, by a recognition of the Rebels as belligerents, and by their wholesale piracies on the ocean—gimply beosuse ho hoped to conquer the Rebels by concilistion, and was therefore unwilling to expose their weakness in regsrd to Slavery. Mr. Soward's present position toward tho Rebel States, toward Congress and the Republican party, is well defined, and possibly his utterances during the Presidential tour (when he did his utthost to betray g groat pasty of tho Rapublio to whom bo 9wed bis l elevation, and when, with his wsoal ‘sucoess, he pre- dicted its downfall in his native Btate by a majority of 40,000) may assiet us in understanding his crooked policy toward Mexico. Iie represouted the adoption of the Constitutional Amendments by the Southern States a8 *“ tumbling them in the dirt” and ** eating “the loek.," He described the President as having by his advice given pledges to those States for their return, and declared that, though heaven and carth might pass away, thoso pledges must be fulfilled; and then he declared—incredible as it may seem—'‘tho people want a war with “Spain and & war with Brazil,” and ho urged the immediate rostoration of the South on the ground that he could not conquer all the nation with one lamo leg. Despito tho assurances of Mr. Seward, ““the people™ do not want & war; and however much the Democrats, the Rebels, and Mr. Seward may want o war, Congress should see to it that they are disap- pointed in their anticipation that they can defeat the Constitutional Amendment and stay the restoration of our National peace by any further complication with the Mexican question. STEALINGS IN COURT. Yesterday there appeared in the official report of the proceedings of the Supervisors a resolution inoreasing the salaries of the attendants of the Court of Common Pleas, Superior, Supreme, and Marine Courts, and General Sessions and District Courts, to §1,200. The fact that theso officers have been thought worthy of the salary to which the law has limited the Clerks of the Court of Records—men who have grave responsi- Dilitios and must necessarily have some education and no little labor—has provoked inquiry into the number and the dutics of these *‘attendants.” The Controller's reports show that the muster of these attendants, exclusive of clorks, librarians, eteno- graphors, eriors, and _interpreters, is one hundred and one, distributed a8 follows: Twenty-nine to the Su- preme Court, which, during nino months of the year, has five terms in session; cighteen to tho Superior Court, with ordinavily four, and sn extreme limit of five terma; eighteen to the Court of General Sessions, with a singlo court; nine to the Court of Common Plens, which bas three terms at most; ten to the Ma- rine Court, which has two terms; two to each of tho first soven District Courts, and three to tho eighth. This Is exclusive of attendance at the Court of Oyer and Terminer at its occasional seasions, Evenincluding door-openers, scarcely threo can be moro than partinily employed in any Court. The District Courts, it will be seon, and several of the other Courta, are actually attended by two only. Lot us observe the labors and high responsibilities for which these gentlemen have been receiving $101,000 per annum. It is well understood that some of them seldom or never appear in court at all. Their chief duty appears to be to sign (or in case the acquirement of writing has been denied them, make their mark on) the monthly pay-rolls, Some fultill the irksome and complicated duties of doorkeepers. Others bave tho solemn responsibility of placing the Biblo in the hands of witnesses and crying their names aloud, to tho great confusion of seusitive people, not omitting to shout “‘Silence !" and rap or: the desk or railing. Occasionally one of them undergoes the real labor of keeping a jury in charge, which once or twice in a year involyes the necessity of remsiving up all night. This, with an oceasional errand for the court, or for counsel—(politoness is probably too heavy a tax, considering the salary)—is the bulk of the work now performed for $101,000 per anoum, but which after Jauuary is considered by the Supervisors to be worth §121,200. How much time do these gentlemen give in return for their wages? In the Courts of Record the genoral hour of assembling is 10 a. m.; but on many days no Dbusiness is done,and the Court never sits beyond three in tho afternoon. Even four hours a day is a large average of work. Nor do4he District Courts, though gomewhat more irregular, exact apy more time or labor. They sit sometimes ouly throe weeks of the torm, though instances, like memorable cold winters of oldest inhabitants have been treasured up by veteran attendants, when the terms bad actually run into five weeks. There are usually nino terms in the year, though in the General Sessions more. One hundred and sixty days of four hours each are as much a8 tho majority of these costly attend- ants can possibly allew, without grumbling, from their private employments. For the rest, $120,000 per year, extractod from our groaning tax-payers, scems a prodigal waste of wages; and the recklossness with which this sum is appropriated and spent by our Board of Supervisors is the more deplorable, since it is supposed only a portion of the sum finally roaches the pockets of those who are deluded by its bounty. ] PROTECTED MANUFACTURES THE BASIS OF TAXATION. The ability of the people of the different States to bear taxation will be found to be in proportion to the magnitude and variety of their manufactured produc- tions. The quantity of production depends on the extent to which it is diversified. The following table contaius in & nut-shell the entire argument in behalf of protective legislation to dovelop American manutactures. It is unanswerable. It contains, too, the theory of the ouly system of taxation that will keep up tho revenues of the Govern- ment, while augmenting the wealth and power of the nation. Wil the Finaoce Committeo of the Senate permit us to invoke their thoughtful consideration of the figures and logic of this exhibit? TGateroal T TaE 516 00 §3,946,81 23,230, 80| ORES 1 13 04 40,566/ 12 60 049 344,917 ,157,012 Indians . Vermont Maine .. Wisconsin 175, Tenuesse 4 95| 1.516.907) 138 The advocates of British Trade will argue in vain until they shall be able to argue away theso figures. . Recall the encoursgement given by the Govern- ment to invest in tho natlonal bonde—seven and three-tenths per cent interest, exemption from taxa. tion, convertibility into gold. 'Twas wige; for the war could not bave been carried on without the money. But thae duty of & Government to provide money to pay & War debt is quite as great as its duty to run into debt in order to save its life. Can't Con- gress and the Secretary of the Treasury see the para- ‘mount obligation of inviting capital into productive industry by offering it permanency of investment, sat- isfactory profit, and exemption from burdensome tax- ation? The prineipal and interest of the publio debt, into which capital was coaxed Dy attractive terms, have got to be paid, and there is no device known smong men whereby they'can be paid save through profitable, diversified, domestic magufac! that oaly a protective tariff can create. Tho experiment is being tried of taking $300,- 000,000 a yoar from the peeple of the United States, in the shape of Internal Revenuo taxee. The point of oxhaustion has already been reacbed in numerous quarters where profits of industry do not yield the tax, and where it is levied on and collected out of capital invested. ‘The stone-blind surely can see the end of this. Unless American industry can be made profitable, so that taxation can take from profita and not foucky capital, the publio reveuses will ipovitably e U——. f.il, tho business of the country and mush of ity realizod wealth will be whelmed under bankraptey, and the party now in power will be hurled obg of office with a passion 8nd unanimity unprecedented y our politics. 'Waro the day, gentlemen in Washing: ton, when politics shall erystalizo about the question of direct taxation. You can only avert that day by saving to American Industry its own market, by imposing sufficient checks on foreign importations through a Protective Tariff. MUSIC. — ITALIAN OPERA—WINTER GARDEN. This evening Bellini's boautiful Opers, “La Sonnam. bula™ will be performed at the above theater with & strong oyL Miss Hauck, the young American prima donna, will make her first appoarance in this city, as Amine, Iy is a character well suited to her ability, and one in which :;P;:x;:dltn ';nh:.::n. hsm“kn. success. She will be y ny Stockton, Signor Barag) exgellont i, -nd_fl\gno’l umnueelli iy 0 Saturday morsi Opera! 14 at Winter (hidnn, on‘&l‘l:h ocoa:i‘:n &:’fifim’&‘; of Faust will bo porformed. The cast of the Opera will be vory strong, consisting of Miss Louise Kellogg, M'lle Bonhour, Signori l-oh-l‘ Bellini apd Antonucei, ‘The prico of admission will bo $1 to all parts of the house, BEETHOVEN MATINEES. Mr, Carl Wolfshon will give his fourth Beothoven ::“unh nl.:h aftornoon at 3 o'clock, at Steinway's Small 3 fifth Boethoven Matinds wil Packor Instituto, Brooklyn, on snunhlyl m e FRENCH OPERA. Rossini’s immortal Opera, “Il Barbiere” will bo given at the French Theater this evening, for the benefit of the French Benevolent Soctoty, Wo trust the performance will be graced by a crowded and brilliant audience, THE DRAMA. it ‘CBNDRILLON" AT THE NEW-YORK THEATER. A spectacle play is rarely, if ever, seen to advantage on tho night of its first representation. Mindful of this well-es- tablished fact—lsarned in the course of a long and painful ex- perience of first nights—we delayed, until last evening, to wit. ness the performance of **Cendrillon,”" now holding tho stage of the New-York Theator. Our delay was rewarded. The fourth representation of the spectaclo was far smoother than its first could pounbl[v have been. The bitter cold weather of last evening was, indoed, most hostilo to tho Fairy Queens, and Spritos, and Cupids, and all manner of airy divinities wherowith the picce abounds ; and a certain uneasiness, not wholly uncon- nocted with coolnoss of tho legs, was perceptible on the part of those beautiful beings. But, making curnhl allowances for tho shiverings of alinost frozen Lumanity, it is just to say that the play passod off iu a very lightsome aud enjoyable style. It isa now five-nct dramatic version of the old'story 6f * Cin- derella and the Littls Glass Slipper,” snd was ori, ly writ ton in French by M. L. R. Beaneux, aad ly played in Paris, Itis now presented heroin the form of an English transation. Several libarties have been taken with the original story, with a view to extend its scopo and introduce new incidents, and load up to fins stage effeots. *"Twero to consider, too curiously to cousidor,” all these changes. Enough Yo say that the result, as scen of the Now-York Thoater, is & bright and pleasing spectacle, sufcioatly well adapted to the holidayg to win popularity. To speak of “Cendriflon " ns & work of art, either literary or dramatic, would be to waste words. A very little of its” dialogue goes a great way. The spectator soon tires of followiug the conversation of the vari- ous characters, and is content to have bis atteation eugrossed by the songs, and the costumes, and the scenery, aud s beuties of the ballor. All these are attractive. Miss Sallie A. Minckley, who 4 Lueiola, Prince of How-sworms, 18 & conspicuous figure i thy spootaclo, and a remarkably hand- somo one. Mrs. Gomersal, who plays Cendrillon, merits the sawe acknowledgment. 1o go oa in this strain would be like essnying to analyzs rainbows anl catelogue sunbeams. The topic is not one for eriticism. call to mind po acting in the iice, except that of Mr. Mark Smith as the King, and Mr. Lowis aker as Panshonniere. ‘Lae former will be rocognized a4 a truly humorous bit of burlesque. It is statiug an obvioas truth to say that Mr. Su —who i3 recognized as one of she beat comes diany of the time,—oiwers awmong his present theatrical com- any, like Gulliver among the Liliputians. To revert to the main attractiveness of - Cendrillon"—which is the element of temale beanty—we may as well take occasion to remark that much of the eurrent talk, both in anl out of the press, ubout the iodelicacy of balletplays, is rubbish. ~Every. body knows what a8 Ballet 1 It does not claim ie illustrate high dramatic art; and, o long it appears in its true colors, and is not an_imposturs, the critie ean unve no logimatn cens: rge against it. Moralists dif- ¢ for on the subject of its in AIl wo can say s that per- #ons whose virtue is to bo un ned by the contemplation of beauty are living in o very precarious world. And we only say thia, becanse the thome has recoutly been thrust, in & most un- Seatoly maaner, upou public attcation, and boouse sileaco e tlila respect might bo misinterpreted. OLD BOWERY THRATER. Mr. C. K. Fox takes a bevefit at this houso tos night. Let tho Orieutals remember and obserso the occasion. LEGERDEMAIN, Last evening Signor Pianalini, an Illusionalist, hitherto a stranger here, gave a complimentary entertuloment to his friends, [at the ball. No. 97 Sixth-ave, preparatory to entering on & series of exhibitions for the Winter season. Several amusing tricks were perfor Signor Pianalin will undoubtedly uttract admiring audiencos—sines wntertainments of this charseter are alwuys popular. BOOTH IN BROOKLYN. A performance of *Ruy Blas” and “ Katherine and Potruchio” will be given to-night at the Brooklyn Academy * of Musie. Mr. Booth will appear in both plays. The charee- ters are strongly contrasted, aul the sotor's genius illumises both. His Petruchio is one of kis very best impersouations, B ] EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS: s BY_TALZGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. & W ASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The Senato in Executive Ses- sion to-day coufirmed the following nominations, namely: Thomas~ F. Craven to be Rear Adwiral, vice Rear Adwmiral * 1. Bailey, retived; Capt. Berrion to be Commodore, vice Commodore R. B Hiteheock, rotired; Cupt. Alfred Taylor to be Commodore, viea T, A. Selfridge, retired; Commandor Louis C. Sattori to be Captain, vice Capt. J. M. Berrien; Commodore Melanctoa Smith to_be Chief of Burean of Repairs and Revruiting, viee Commander A. N. Smith; Third Assistant Engineer J. M. Clark to be Second Assistant Evgineer; Third Assistant Eagi- neer Henry M. Slosson to be Second Assistant Engineer; Third Assistant n‘lnwr A. M. Mosley to be Sccond Assistant Eugi- neer: Robley . Evans, now on the retived list, to be Licutes- ant in the Navy on the active list; 8. Wilking &‘rqf_ 10 be First ‘Assistant Engineer; Capt. Simon P. Biss] to be Commodore, vico Commodore T. T. Craven, p A; Passed Assistant Surgeon James 8. Kulght to be Surgeon, vice A. W. H. Hawkins, resigned ; Passed-Asst. Surgcon Hoary M. Wells to be Surgeon, vice L. B, Hunter, reticed ; Josephi G. Ayres of Hampshire to be AssistantSurgeon; George S, Fife of New-Hampshiro to be Assistant-sur, of Maryland to be Assistant-Surgeon ; con; Joseph B. Baker assod Asst-Paymaster Charles P, Thompson to be Paymaster, vice H. IL l’anF'.nfll. deceasad; Asst.-Paymaster Albert W. Bacon to be Passed ‘Assistant-Paymaster; Asst-Paymaster Charles Imlay o be Passed” Assistant Paymaster, i Gilbert = Ao Ttobertson, resigned. Assistant Pay 5 nell to be Passed Assistant Poymastor, vica J. H. Mulford, re- rnost J. Dickmon, W. W. MoClax, P. Marston Miles, ylor, Ailen D. Brown, ‘H' Woodleigh, Tobn D. Clark, A. 5. Crowningshiold, €. Wildes. W. W. Hendrickson, Augustus J. jan, James H. Sandes and Yates Geo. . Cravon, Fi Kellogg, Joseph B. Coghl Sterling, to be Lieuteuants in the Navy. C. F. Good- Tich, XA 3. Caldwell, A. W. Kennody, B. H. Mot F._E adwick, Baker, T. F. C. F. Sehmits. « oodw , Kennat. onler, J. . Weaver, Dayis, C. rain, G, B, C. Roctel, 6. . Pix- Ensigns, promoted: to b A large numbe 3% midshipmen were contirmd to ba L ants in the navy. ‘The only conirmation of a civil apreir s that of D. I Carpenter, to be Assessorof Iuterua. levesse for the X11th District of New-York. ———— BUFFALO. ————— THE CENTAL SYSTEM—DIRECT COMMUNICATON BS- TWEEN ERIE AND LIVERPOOL. Burraso, Dee. 20.—Itis undumu«:i that un? “"‘;2 Trude has tponed action on the cental system. of weig O e B Gonctrt of sction can o had. wilh the ards e of other citios. Bl ol o erio, Ponnsylvanis, are makizs offurta 10 ia!nhlhh direct lines of vessels o cairy petroleam from Eno o Th have & oapacity 0 carry 2,500 barrels erpool. The vessels are {0 ‘%} sud are to mako three trips por season. “Tlo weather yestorday was the coldest of fn scason. ‘Thermometer stands at degraes above zero. ——— THE CENTRAL RAILROAD. et ANNUAL INSPECTION OF THE ROAD. BY THLRGRAPH TO THA TRIBUNE. s Buwraro, Dec. 20.—Thoe new Board of Directors and the officers of the New-York Central Ratlroad arrived this mmpn' the anuual toux of Inspection lefs Albany on Wednesday moraing, o of the property. Tho ol i fine .. One of the pal objeets uf the e tin séo whas, I arg, improvenoat can b8 businens. party will leave thenoo Eost via Auburd. DraTH oF A WaLi-Kxowy Paims.—Alozaadse Hamilton Bayes, a printer, well-knowa. throaghost the Unind States, but especially so in New.Oreans, several days ago. He was bornin Gottyshurg, tho year 1806. Choosing the profession of printer, e employed iu Philadelphia, but afterward went to .\ug.w- Qied: n the latter LY Peun., sdood % i 5 il of them, e o o Orasent ol 10.0a7 e el ok . Hayes was an roj 3 ’.:fl.:‘a.-.."“‘ ll:bmh,l.':‘bdu ‘aud The Cresegut. 12 185 The Crescent was m-hmh-mm-_-uur.% took up that wanderiag life which continued to mdmhm w‘t‘cmmfimul and {hina aad backt to California, which State he on the breaking out wllnr. "Ho made his way overland to Tesas, where he sided during the Rebellion. A few woeks "ph'fl‘&'h back o The Picayune office by the Lors, but he day after ng in New-Orleans. He gtood high 1o his e feasion, 'waa estoemod by all who new biu. o bis Orloans Typographical Society paid ep '