The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 28, 1866, Page 4

QAnugements S10L0'S GARDEN. Tms v J-THE BLC Balies Troup w ™S EVENING — 11 BEVILLE THE BARBER 1r. Fradet w He WAL THIS RVENINA. Kb A , wiques, Mrs. Vero: ADWAY THEATER AEIS PYRNINGPEOPLY'S LAWYER— T/ Me. Joln E, v v FILNCH THEATER TH!S EVENING=OLBORAN~istari THIS EVENIE 01 THIS EVEN)ZO-THE H Burton. BARNL DAY AND FVE IS ENT—AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY o 10 LUNDRED THOUSAND CURIOSITIE>— fullcompe 15 VAN ANBURGI'S « OLLECTION OF WILD ANIMALS. NEW YORK CIMOUS THIS EVENING-VFEW YORK CIRCUS TROUPE. Robert Sticknay, Austreisn Fanily and biila. De Berz. Matineo at 2j o'clock ) BOWERY THFATER THIZ APTER VPN TIECES BY THE NEW BOY LUNTEERS MY OF MUSIC THIS EVERI) r. Bdwin Bootb. FIVT AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, TUIS EVENING= UDWORTH'S MINSTRE'S ~THE MAN IN BLACK—=TWO POMPEYS—WAKE UP ABRAHAM, &e KFILY & LEONS MINSIRELS. “‘rms EVENING-FIRST APPEARANCE OF LITTLE MAC, c STEINWAY. HALL. THIS EVENINO-GRAND CONCERT FOR THE SUNDAY SCHOOL OF ST, ANN'S CHURCH FOR DEAF MUTES DODWORTL THIS EVENING=AL HARIZ, T 7 K HE ILLUSIONIST. Gharch, corner of Grand FA snie Faic at the Presbyt T A A KLY T FUSMII CUY I T G e . inemess Notices. Na CoxnpaNy SILY & they ore produeiia % and 1EA The GoRHAM MANUFACT ¢! y e sarisfaction 10 the puF ton and extrewe duradiiity mped tuus ochisser. Al sctic.os vade by tiam are UBYANAIG And al such are fully guarsntecd. They feel it nacessry partioniatly 10 call the attention of purchas tho sbove trade tark. as their dosigne have beoon oy imitated. Tuese goods can enly be procured fio wughout the countrs. Tex BEASONs WHY Hosrerrai's Stoxaca Brrrens #HOULD BAVE A PLACE 1Y EVERT WOMY. Broavsr by iuvigoratiag the constitution aad the frame they aver wickne.r. BuosusE (especisliy) their use preveuts the stmospheric poison which produces epidemics from taking effect npon the system. BEOADSE Liicy cure indigesiion, and impa't unwouted vigor to the | otomach. BECAUSE they are the bast appefizing medicine st present known. Broavsm they ore the ouly preparstion upon which persous of & Bilious habit can safel 7 rely 1o keep the liver in good order. Broavst they tn them when constipated. wi bout cansing undue relaxation. BEOAUSE they strengiAen tie nerves, closr the brain, aud cheer the wnima! spirics. BacAvsE in case of su aftsck of spastua or bilious colic they sre tbe | best thing that can be sdm nistered on the instant. Broavss they combine the throe properties of & tonie, wn alterative a4 nervine in their utmost purity and perfuction. BECAUSE they are 4 specific sgunst Agne aud Feverand all inter- mittonis. and with o1l theiz potency s3 & preservative and a recsedy, sre 8 harmicom as waier from the mountain spring ! Az da 250 Buoswwav. Tha publie are vespecrtlly invited to coll ud exsmine the Safe which was the subjret of the late important lsw-suit. and compare it znh our BANKERS' SAFES, aud such as are now ol at the present tr. e to impress othe: o, re furmsbed with . re wlio provided with the ! rerent Suoprovemest wtion Locks, und o wew wetal kuowiias sprzomt Fusex than the timest tempered Stee). and the rill ever mavufactured. Made and soid ‘which is five tiwmes hard Dest resistant to 8 Burglar’ only by Urarine, Fannzs & Supaxax, No. 281 Brosdway, New-York. Fanaes Huweive & Co., Philsdelphia. Verring & Co., Chicagn, Dwissive Hovis Sarts. for Silver Piste, Jewelry ind Papers, and finished to reprereu’ the Dining Room PULMO-BRONCHIAL TROCHES - s ond 2l Tlv»lll'l)l Lung Diseases. Snlslweryvhfi-_ ard injurious paddings. Madame Jumel's Mummarial #alm s1d Patent Breast Elevator to develop the form phys- ot. Soid by diuggists. Rend for eircular, ment Xz & Co, Now 417 Brosme-st TLANTIC SAVINGS ASE, Leprosy, o s W Trysipelas, B T. B. Byxxer, Watches and Jewelry, No. 189 Broadway (up staifs). FLORENCE Reversible Ford Lockstiteh Srwivo-MAcHINES. Best family machine in the world Fromwxce £, No. 565 At EvERDELL'S CARD DEPOT, No. 302 Broadway, ¥ Monograme, French Note Psper, the V1617146 CARD for the Holidays. A HoLinay PREsext.—POLLAK & SO, No. 602 . New York. vear Fourth-st.. Muumsonavn Pire Maxv. PACTORSRS. Flyen cut to arer. Tepaired a1 €Lo0nied. All the worst forms of Rheumstisio M. Co Broad: *ae iicoioat Bote A. Barcumiom. At ol Druggiste end Perfamers. TRUSSES, ELASTIC 570CKINGS, SUSPENSORY BAKD- rans. Ac.—Manss & Cos Truss Office Aom, Surrons Gnly st No. 2 Veserst. sitendunt, “"HOLIDAY PRESENTS OF AFFECTION AND CHARITY— Wanmian &k Wizsows Lock Stiteh Sewiop Nechines, No. 615 Hormleas, Relwile Toutautaceons; (e woly m. No disappoint nent. e HOWS MAGHINE (0.8 LOCK-SHich SEWING' h-vo.nu the Sewing Ma HOLIDAY PrEsknTs.—STErE0SCOPES and ViEws, fine ALsuns, Laxvscaras, ke, E. & H.T. Awrwony & Co. Nienolss ‘Tag Best ¥ Hhanasr Pruxivs SEwing MAcaixs, No. 495 Brosdway. ) A SURE PiLg Curs. *"H oured Boors,” SHOES sod Brosdway. Lar “end Best swortmant of cu -3"21-"“ EDessl O Bont scrlmant of cusiom pade 8 atrens of Gan s Boris ake. THE MosT ELEGANT AND USKFUL HOLIDAY GILFT.— Ons of the uurivaled Frurric Mook Locmsmirck Bewing Ma- e e = or's CuwM10AL POMADE Restores Gray Hair, * wnd from falling out; removes Dendroff; “the nest - fm o oy b Xy e s ARy AXD Lio, by B. FrAvk PaLyes, LL. D.— 1o soldiers, tnd low (o offcers snd eivilians, 1,000 sor-pl, N.Y.; 19 ", Arvoid e oatants imhaciont WILLOOX & Gibba's SEW (o-MACHINE.— 163 seam e T A T et OO g gy o Win BEVING-Maonixe Compa 6 Brosd- e Te R SRR IR B T P T A e o flragte aea sed s H i “mn.*:ua A::;B’r:“i: universally acknowl- A o | ol regulate the bowels. and invariably relicve | o CLOOK—~Grest Patisiguve | 0 | i | | | | | _NEW-YORK. DAILY, TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25 1860 GreAT Repuerion 1v Prices!! Usrin Froxvary L Luoros Hawr & Co., Now. 4 and G Buxrine Suiw, Koot of Johm-ot PLaTsd Ware vor NEw YrAR's Dar. Yor axp CoLp! Corvpe UxNs AND ek PITOHERS. i clozant Hohday Hat go to Favin- “ Neto Dok Daily Cribune. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 98, 1866. T0 ADVERTISERS. We will thank our sdvertising customors to hand 1n Uheir Advertisements ol as early an hour ae possible. If recoived sfer § ¢'clock they camot b classifiad onder th 't yroper heads. —_— TO CORRESFONDENTS. No notice oan be taken of Anonymons Communications. What- ever is intendod for insortion must be authenticated by the name and rdress of the writer—not nocessarity for publioa- tion, bu cuarnnty for his good fith. All business for this cffice should bo addrosssd to “ Tug Tususk,” New-York. We cannot undortake to return rejected Communioations. L9 On our second page m-rluLm'll be found a table of the taz paid by brokers, banks, kc., in the Thirty-second Revenue ~ District, veports of the Civil Courts and the Court Calendars, a circular relating to the Paris Ezposition, the Money Article, and the Markets, The sizth page contains @ wumber of scien- tific items. e ‘The Newfoundland wives are still down, and we are without Cable dispatches. The prevailing storm bas cansod great damage to the telegraph wires North and West also. Vietor Hugo bas written, like Garibaldi, a letter of sympathy with the cause of the Cretan insurgents. It is eloquent and stirring, a3 is everything that comes from Hugo's pen. He sces in the future a united | Groece with Athens and a united Italy with Rome as capital. The unanimous support which the chief reprosentatives of liberal op.nions all over the world give to the national aspirations of the Groeks in Can- dia and other Turkish dominions, cannot fail to have an iuspiriting influence upon both the insurgents and the sympathizing Greeks, and thus to contribute to their final triumph. ‘We give in another column the bistory of our city | government fer the year—as usual a record of extreme indifference to the interests of the public, and extreme solicitude for the profits of officials,” We find the dobt of the City and County of New-York, at the close of 1866, to be $31,551,089, and a summary of ex- pensive legislation which will increase the tax levy, evon above that of 1865, when $18,203,052 were squoezod out of the pockets of the people. 'We might care Jess for this heavy taxation were the proceods honestly administered, but it is doubly oppressive when: we kuow how many millions are stolen by the Ring, Couneilman have, on behalf of the “eity, brought snit in the Supreme Court against Charles G. Cor- nell, late Street Commissioner. The charges are given in detail in another column. Mr. Cor- | el has escaped the danger of ove investiga- tion by suddenly resigning his office. He will not find it so easy to esoape judicial process. For the credit of the city, we are glad that the law which sends petty criminals every day to jail is about to take cognizance of the acts of a public officer who, if he be guilty of half of what is charged against him, ought long since to have been removed. A ——, THE METROPOLITAN FIRE DEPARTMENT. The long abstract which we print to-day of the reports of the Fire Commissioners aud the subordinate officers, gives ample proof of the eficiency of the De- parvment, and the superiority of the paid system. Two years of experiment have settled the question, and even the bitterest enemies of the system would searcely go back to the days when the extinction and prevention of fires depended solely upon volunteer companies, the services of which could not be com- manded, and whose members were only responsible as citizens. That there were many first-class firemen among the volunteers we know, but there were many others to whom a fire was but an occasion of sport, and who cared more to outrun rival compavies than to preserve property. This evil is ended. Tbere is 10 more reason why the city should depend on volun- teer firemen than on volunteer policemen, and the advantages of one system equally belong to the other. ivery fireman in the Department, from the Chief- Engineer to the private, is paid for his work, and obliged to do it. For neglect of duty, drunkenness, ¢r inefficiency, he can be discharged. It scarcely needs an argument to show the value of this system, though the stupid, senseless opposition it has met is not yet entireiy laughed into coutempt. In this city there were 798 fires during the year, by which 57 buildings were totally destroyed. The Department has 78 telegraphic stations, and 10 bell-towers, from which wateb is kept night and day; each of the companies is required to keep a perpetual patrol of three men, and this precantion has resulted in the discovery of 200 fires, which have been promptly extinguished. A standing reward of $1,000 has been offered for the discovery and conviction of incendiaries. To aid inease of fires among the shipping,a propeller has been used with success. A better system of telegraphic machinery has been proposed, and is partially in use. Experiments have been made in reducing the cost of fuel, and the time of generating steam. These are among the reforms introduced during the year, and show the practical value of the Department, and the progress made in the second year of its existence. The total force of the New-York Department is 564, exclusive of 99 men above Eighty-fifth-st., each com- pany including 12 men. In the organization it was | thought that this pumber would be sufficient for the | eity proper, but we believe that the Legislature might wisely increase the force so as to make each company number from 15 to 17 men. As the companies are necessarily organized, there are now a foreman and assistant who direct the movements of the men; an engineer and a stoker, who cannot leave the engine; @ driver who is ~ocoupied with his borses; a driver of the tender whose business is to supply the eugine with fuel and the company with hose; thus leaviog but six men to at- tend to the other work, and this number the regula- tions, which give each member in rotation a day off duty, reduce to five, It is plain that five men are not enough to enter the burning houses, remove goods, and hold the pipes. The Western District of Brook- Iyn employs upward of fifteen hundred men, and the Eastern District five hupdred. It was to be expected that the report wonld show the general good order of the Department, and the fidelity of the men to their duties, for the instanoes we have published during the year of the punishment or discharge of unfaithful members have indicated a strict diseipline. A system of reprimands and fines has, in many cases, made the discharge of good members unnecessary. The expenditures during 1866 were $035,807, and the estinmtes for 1867 £700,000. Anotber subiject to which thu attention of the Legislature should be directed is the. storage of dangerous combustible material; there are 1,444 places in this city which the Department is obliged to wateh constantly. . ‘Woare heartily glad to add that nove of the facts of this report show cause for any complaint of the Department. Mr. C. C. Pinokney, President of the Board, end the Treasurer. Philip W. Engs, appear to have worked in a faithful spirit of economy and en- terprise, and the Firo Iusurance Compauies of tho city, in_presenting each member of the foroo with a policy of insurance of $1,000 against accidents, did no more than these hardworking and not over-paid men have earnod. With this exbibition of the con- dition of the Department the public has reason to be satisfied, and in the coming year experience and ad- ditionc! legislation should make it even moro efficient. REAR GUARDS OF SLAVERY. Even those who wore content with a very casy generalization, as regards any reform of the South, are coming (o the opinion that the evils which vex that unbappy section are too specific and deep-rooted Lo be swept away by anything like partial justice Lo its op- pressed class. All over the South exist the numerous rumnants of a terrible system which did as much to corrupt and debauch white morals as to dobase black manhood. The new apprenticeship and vagrant laws aro nothing but the remains of the Slave Codo; and the public whipping-post stande, and overy country justice may chain a victim to it. Does any onosupposc that while men and women are publicly flogged, while the whipping-post oxists as the unsightly stalk for the common flower and fruit of Southern justice, the freedmen will be treatod with tender morcy in all that affoots their civil rights, or that the whites will be less priviloged than beforo to rob and oppress them? The whip- ping-post fairly typifies wll the prejudioe which the South has boen ablo to carry off in its forced retreat from Slavery and maintain in the body of its law. It may bo used to punish the white man, but so much more it tends to make the poor white worse than a negro. It will undoubtedly be for the most part an instrument of such precious laws as the Vagrant and Apprenticeship codes; and every negro whom these statutes ordain sball Lo less than & man, will have the pillory in the back-ground to assure him that if he is not con- tent with a fraction of his manhood he can have it all whipped away. . Congress is bound to sec that the whipping-post and the judicial slave-sale, now the twin relics of remain- ing barbarism, shall be abolished. How many negroes are flugged every day in the South we do not know; but we are certain that & State so far north as Mary- land sells its slaves by tho dozen. There is not only sufficient law extant in the South Lo make o free man as much a slave as ever were the most degraded rice-hands of Georgia, but there is also law to whip him to any planter's heart’s content. Seeiug theso things, it is a wonder that any consider- able sentiment of this country can coolly plead for the rights of oligarchs to sit in Congress while the vietims of their blind legislation are represented chiefly by the judge who orders them to be sold into Slavery, and by the public whip- per who lashes them for petty larceny. At recent slave sales in Maryland, half a dozen men and wemen were sold for an average price of about $30; 0 that it is actually ten times cheaper to buy slaves under the present laws of the South than it was for- | maerly to purchase them in open market. Ve observe that Judge Magruder, the autbor of these outrages, has been arrested by United States autborities, and held to answer for violating the whole spirit and essence of the Civil Rights bill both in this act and in refusing to adwmit uegro testimony into the courts. It is important that his case, which shows a shameful contempt of opinion and of law, should be made, if possible, au cxample, for there is hardly any crime which, under the civili- sation of this land, surpasses that of selling a human being into slavery. Pirates have been banged for no worse offense; and though Judge Magruder mey shelter himself in an obsolete code, it would be | a pity to lose the salutary lesson which bis due punishment would be to julicial task- masters furtber South, We hope that bis gonviction may fully satisfy justice; but failing this, we trust it may serye for a werning that the who aares again attempt the crime of selling a fellow- wan, and a fell i do i his peril. WHAT SOUTHERN LOYALISTS THINK. The Southern Republican Association, of which Thomas J. Duraut is President, Daniel H, Bingham Secretary, and nearly every leading Unionist of the South & member, has adopted a series of resolutions and & memorial, which have been presented to Con- gress. The Reconstruction Committee, to which they were referred, will seriously consider the principles they affirm. The resolutiops claim that, after the surren- der of the Rebel States, their population passed under the control of the President ouly in his character of commander-in-chief, and that in this capacity he had the power to control them and maintain order until the will of Congress could be asserted, but no longer. They deelare that, in author- izing a portion of the people to frame new Constitu- tions, the President trauscended his powers, and that the Governments thus created are illegal. Upon these grounds Congress is called npon to set aside these spurious organizations, and establish others, in which the following principles shall be embodied: « Admission to the right of suffrage and eligibility “to office of all Joyal citizens of the United Siates, of « whatever raco or evlor they may be. Exelusion, “until relieved by Congress, from the right of suf- “ frage, aud from all oftices of honor, trast, or profit, “whether under the Government of the United States, “ or any Territorial, State, municipal, or other au- “thority whatever, of all persons who held office ¢ under the Confederate Government, or any State or + power or suthority proclaimed, heretofore, by Con- « gress or the Executive, in insurrection against the “ United States; whether said office was military or * civil, or of whatever nature it may have been; and “glso of all persons who voted for the ordinances “of Becession, or who adhered to the Rebellion and “ gave it aid and comfort.” The memorial, in sustaining these positions, briefly reviews the Rebellion, the sufferings of the Union men in the South, and tho effect of Mr. Johnson's policy. 1t shows that the men who began the Rebel- lion control the Southern States and fill all the offices; that the worst Rebels have been chosen as re- presentatived in Congress; that the Civil Rights bill ia disregarded, Union men and Freedmen murdered, as jn New-Orleans, or socially and civilly proseribed; that the Constitutional Amendment has been defiantly rejected; in short, (hat Treason stands where it did in 1861, triumphant, and Loyalty lies prostrate, asin 1863, Our views of the policy now to be pursued do not in all respects agree with those above stated, but that does not prevent us from saying that this me- morial is entitled to respectful consideration, as com- ing from men who &re in a position to know the facts, and whose loyalty is beyond suspicion. ‘The report of the condition of the New-York Hos- pital for 1866, which we elsewhere print, shows that, as usual, the receipts of that valuable institution are much Jess than the expenses, The Governors of the Hospital will probably sgain petition the Legislature for a grant, asserting that in caso of its refusal they will be obliged either 10 raise the prico of board for patients, or to sell the hospital grouuds, and build & new ‘ bospital uptown. We regrot that this - charity which for seventy years has aided the poor of the city should itself suffer from poverty. Yet we think that as the grounds of the hospital aro valied st $2,500,000, their salo would be of far more benefit to the city than any sonual allowance from the Logislature. A hospital is needed in the lower part of the city, it is true; but & nale of & portion of the land would still leave the Bouth House for that parove, and give the Govera- ors a fund of $2,000,000 to build & new hospital and provide ample income for the support of both. In the end it wuat come to this. CALIFORNIA GROWING BRIGHT. A fow yoars ago agricultural writors spoke of tho soil of California as being thin and casily cxhausted. It was stated that the wheat orop had rapidly decreased, owing to the want of beat in the soll, and to poor farming, We understood that nothing could be raised there without irrigation, and that noither pork or beef would take salt. More than this, it was & country without natural grass, excopt & spocies of burr clover which only thrived in the wet season. Flax, hemp, and cotton promised well, but when the wet geason camo the glue in their stalks was dissolved, sud they sunk into a jelly. Now we are bearing different acconats. The wheat crop this year is as good as in the early days. The now process of salting meat, recently discovered in Buffalo, will give the Californians provisions. It has been discovered that flax, if sown eatly, so that it can be harvested a month in advance of the usual time, will be & profitablo crop, and we presumo tho same is the case with homp. It istrue that California ia not so favorablo to grass as the Now-England States; but we hear of dairymen with many cows making money, and, in short, that the soil produces every variety of grass with moro or less luxuriance. The State, in its capacities for fruit-growing, is con- codod to excel any other, and for silk culture it is unrivaled. Ono thing about Californis certainly is rofreshing. Ono can live there far cheaper thanin | the Statos, and on & great varioty of good food. “This should be a great inducement to immigrants, for there are plonty of men here who pay as much to sup- port their families a year as would buy & good farm in California. Recently, we learn that a lake of borax has been discovered in California, and that it is producing largely. All the borax hitherto used in the world has boon obtained from a lake in Thibet, in Asia (which is in the hands of an English monopoly), and some, though not much, from Northern Italy. The last California Farmer also speaks of the successful oulture of the orange. The tree requires ovly a slight protec- tion of canvas or loose Lbarde, and it yields remark- ably fine fruit. But another fruit recently introduced, or at least brought to notice, is justly attracting great attention, and such is its importance that it is of the greatest interest to the mining region, a territory nearly as vast as the whole of Europe. We refer to the olive, It has been proved beyond doubt that the olive flour- ishes in South California. When, in the course of destiny, we acquire the territory south of it, we shall have a large region cvery way fit for its cultivation. For several years it has been seen that it will be im- possible to supply even the majority of our people with butter or other dairy products, The only sub- stitute is the olive, and it is universally used by the people of all warm climates. Wheén the olive shall be cultivated on the Pacific slope, the mowntain and mining regions can be supplied with pure olive oil, which will take the place not only of butter, but of lard. Housckoepers well kuow how largely these itoms enter into their supplies. We have spoken of the cultivation of the olive before. Let the people of the Gulf States emu- late the enterprise of the Yankee Californians, who, after getting familiar with their strange laud, are making the soil as valnable as their gold. GIFTS AND GIVING. The advertising columes of W newspapers just now afford, from day to day, an excellent remedy for eynicism and misanthropy. This weck, our main mercantile business is the buging and selling of gifts— our main social employment, their presentation and reception. The young people who have uot yet learned to philosophize, and the old who have learned how little philosophy is worth, are all taking or re- newing that practical lesson of the value of human affection, which, once fairly learned, is the most inesti- mable of acquisitions. The art of giving wisely, and skilfully, sud gracefally, is one for which we may be born with a genius, or it may be acquired by practice and good-natured experience. To recoive a gift which gives us also & complete aud unmitigated satisfaction, is to experience 8 complacent conscivusuess that our characters bave been kindly observed, our tastes studied, our acquisitions duly estimated, and our prejudices respected if not approved. Civility requires that the tongue should proclaim an official vote of thauks, whether a gift be acceptable or otherwise; but nobody can counterfeit the gratitude which shinos in the eyes, and there is a pleasuro of manner which is beyond the smoothest Chesterfieldian art. All through the holidays we refresh gur kuowledge of comity, and burnish our rusty good will. Oar annual festival—antil we reach New-Year's Day, which is of heathon inatitution—is mainly a Christian one, and its informing idea is that of Christian good will. Considering the dire influences of selfishness and passion, and the inevitable jealousies and ambi- tions which make social life a conflict, it is wonderful that men have been able to maintain toward ecach other such tolerable friendly relations. In spite of public and private bickerings, the traditional glories of war, the squabbles of politics, the selfishness of parental anxiety, the false notion of success, the bardening am- bitions of the enterprising, the ignominy of material failure, the artificial arrangements whioh give triumph and defeat the appearance of mere good or bad luck, it is & consolatory fact that we are not always grasping each other’s throats, that we are still capable of friendship and of well-bred intercourse, | and that even these exceptional characters to whom the mass of maukiod is bateful, save a warm corner in their souls for the individual, The world keeps samiable in spite of itself, and goes on believing in good faith and the possibility of virtne and self-sacri- fics, mauger the demonstrations of Hobbes, the selfish theories of Rochefoucauld, the tragic sneors of Swift, aod the mournful aud musical wails of Byron. We soon enough find out how true it is that this is a world of sorrow aund of wrong, and that he would be more than human who should always escape dissppointment; but it is equally true that the majority of mankind finds no lack of com- pensations, and by a sure instinct continues to be gregarious, The solitaries and eremites are the ex- ceptions, Cities grow, communities increase, the social relations are riaintained; we find a pleasure in each other’s company, end, following the bumane theory of the common law, believe in each: othor's honesty until obliged by hard evidence to disbelieve. The world goes on oheerfully, leaving the cynic to split bairs snd to mumble bis low theories, as & dog guaws & bone—to find self-gratifieation in virtue, self- sdvancement in truth, self-complacency in charity, and self-esteem in the worm heart and helping hand. ‘Wo wonder if it would be possible to explain to the laughing and dancing circle round a Christmas tree, that “‘gratitude is a Yively sonse of benefits to come”— whether children could be made to believe that for this toy or that book they are much obliged, becanso the present donatiou is evidence of another toy or book next year? The little creatures, in the simplicity of | b their would be wiser than the wholo Porch, Acadoniy, and Lyooum, and would scout the potion 88 8 rank horesy. And what is true of the receivers is true also of the givera. If the pleasure of giving is MHMMMdhp‘urd dmmuumu-hnh-mumm« form of self-gratification. Unquestionably, we are so constituted that we do experionce a satisfuotion in doing good; but if this be not of kind totally distinet from the satiefaption of doing evil, thon there is no such thing as good and no such thing as evil in ths world—thon wisdom ia folly, and truth a Lie, and man more ridieuous-than humor, more_absurd than wit can delineate him. Wo are afraid that our readers, and particularly the younger ones—we know that this week wo have such, at lonst of the adyertisements—will think us a little too abstract for the season; but at such a time as this, it i3 a satisfaction to nuearth a wicked old errorand to bunt it down. Home, never so bright as now, is from year's end to year's end the standing and ready yefu- lation of the neatest syllogisms of the snarlers, Home!—it was the opinion of & well-known bonf- writer that ** there’s no place like'it; and it isobr opinion, and it is eyerybody's opinion, and it is espe- cially the opinion-of those who, whether through bachelorhopd or bereavement, bave no lromes to love. A lonesome man, about tho 24th day of De- cember, finds his sense of lonesomencss intensi- fying; and whatever be may pretend, we may be sure that he feels it keenly, as he sees Paterfamilias g0 by with the anviversary bundles under his arm, thinking kow the [little eyes will' open wider and wider as the strings of the packagzes are cut, and the triumphs of the confectioner, the book-maler, and the toyman are revealed. All the discipline of the nur- sery is broken down! Shouts aro permitted, screams are allowed, romping is taken out of the prohibitory code, jumping and running are consistent now with good manners, noiso of all kinds, held yuwrflq) to bo & nuisance, has been transmogrifiod into & sort of social duty; aod the boys and girls, in consideration of the undeniable fact that Christmas comes but once a year, may romp and roar at their own noisy will, and give loose reins to the innocent saturnalia. Boon nothing will remain but- a pleasant memory of the merry-making; the dolls will be fractured, the books thumbed, the wooden soldiers invalided, and the dainty morsels devoured; nothing left but a memory. Yot this may prove the most charming gift which the New Year brought with it, and the most lasting; for when theso brown locks bave been silvered, and these fine spirits sobered by age, the pleasures of the present week, fresh and unforgotten, will mingle with the last thoughts of senility, and sweeten the destiny of inevitable decay. Gov. Fletchor shows every disposition to withdraw his militia from the bughwhacking counties of Mis- souri as soon as lie can be assured that the political allies of the Rebel outlaws will not suffer the law . to be overthrown and its ministers assailed. There has been a great outery from the chastised counties, but we believe that, on the whole, the militia baye done a good work. POLITICAL. g MR. BODTWELL ON RECONSTRUCTION. BY THLNGRAPH TO THE THI Bostox, Deo. 27.—Ex-Gov. Boutwell delivered a lecture in this city this evoning upon the subject of * The restoration of the Union and its relation to business.” In the outset he stated that tho restoration of the Union was most fm- portant to the business commumty, and should e carefully con sidorod by them, He then ciearly defived what was meant by immediate restoration which many urged impatieutly; it meant the return to power of men who had been Rebels, and who were Rebels, men who unquestionably seek the destruction of the Government. After showing by figures that Slavery had touded to prevent the growth of the population of the South and the development of ita resources, Le discussed the various plaus offered for reconstruction. e condemas the President’s plan, and also that which suggested ouly the adoption of the Constitutions! Amendment ag simply a restoration of power to the Rebels and s returm of the ancient order of thiogs. The plan proposed by many of admitting the States when they should adopt the Amendiment aud also a of impartial restricted suffrage on o bosis of oducation or property, was also objected to, aa it would “givefo the R o Ures 10 m ush them {rom the ballot-box, ‘Lhe ouly plan that wonld be Fm ho bold, wos the adoption of the Amendment. i addition 1o o Law of Universal Sutlrage. & the colored population edueation, and thus ————— NEW-HAMPSHIRE, REPUDLICAN NOMISATION OF CONGRESSMAN. Dovig, N. H., Déc. 27.=The Repablican Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress in the Ist Distriet met hero to-day. Every delegate was present, and no little ex- citement porvaded themeeting. Charles . Bell of Exeter Throe ballotings were hLeld, the latter resalting Ela, 124; Wheeler, 119; Marston, 2; Rollins, winated by 1 majority. The nomiuation was made unaniuous by the Convention, Mr- Els ao- cepted the nomination i an able speech. e PENNSYLVANIA. THE APPROACHING SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE— APPOINTMENTS LY THE GOVERNOR. BY TELEGRAPH TO THR THISUNE Harvispuro, Dec. 27,—A number of Senators and Representatives have arrived, preperatory to the opening of the Legislature, The Hon. Benjsmin Harris Brewster of Philadelphia bas been sppointed Attorney-General by @ov. Geary. Mr. Brewster is well and favorably known as one of the best lawyers in the State, and his appointment will give “satisfaction to all, Col. Frank Jordan Las been appointed Secrotary of State. At the breaking ont of the Kebellion, he was ap- pointed Paymaster in the arwy by Gen. Cewmeron. Dur. ing the late eampaign he was’ the efficient Chairman of tho State Coutrel Committee. ————— SOUTHERN STATES. ) reas adeiy TENNESSEE. THE COLLISION DETWEEN SOLDIERS AND POLICEMEN AT NASHVILLE. BT TELEGRAPK TO THE TRIBUNN. Nas LE, Dee, 27.~The trial of the alleged murderers of soldiers on Christmas night has been proceeding al dny before Bench Magistrates, and .will occupy all to morrow. The testimony so far is vel who fired shots, and nove of the parties ou trial can be convicted on the evidenco as far as developed. It is definitely ascertaiied in proof that the affray onginated in soldiers cheer: e Union and Lincoln, while the r.n wen off duty cheered for Jeff. Dayis. Feelings of tense bitterness exist between the soldiors sud polices men, which threaten bloody consequences on the first substantial provocation, The commanding officers par- tieipate in the feelings of the soldiers, SELLING GOODS BY SAMPLE IN NASHVILLE. NASHVILLE, Dec. 27.—For sometime past many agents of housss in Western nud Eastern cities have been sell- g goods by sample for represantation. To-night the Common Couneil passed an act providing that all so sell- ing shall first pay $300 for annual license, and shall ve bonds in the sum of $3,000, with two securities living accurato payment in Dayidson County, conditioned on --l‘mfi monthly exhibit to the Recorder of Sales an thereon of & tax of ome per cont. MISSOURL BY TELEGRAFPE TO THE TRIBUNV. FRAUDULENT VOTING IN CALLOWAY COUNTY. $1. Louts, Dec. 22.—The Stato Cauvassers have tijected tho vote of Calloway County because of the palpable viola- taon of the requirements of the Registry law. The Regis- tering Office testifies to glaring frauds on the part of the Rebels. The certificate was awarded to A n. The :lvluolun Delegation stands: Radicals, 8; Conserva- ve, | PROBADLE WITHDRAWAL OF THRE MILITIA FROM LAPAYETTE COPNTY. $1. Lowss, Dee, %7.—Gov. Fletchor promiscs to with- draw the militia from Lexington, provided the citizens will guaranteo to execute the laws against bushwhackers. Leading citizens profess & vlllinrno- to do this. The oot aiiroad is haultig tan: carigdnof iri jeach'day for the extension of the Union Phcitic Railrosd beyond Fort Riley. The weathier is very cold. COLLECTION OF INTERNAL REVENUE SUSPENDED. 8r. Louis, Dec. 27.—Tha collection of Internal Revenue for Lafayette, Jackson and the adjoiniug Counties has Dbeen suspended, and the collector is a fugitive in St. Louis, in consequence of the troubles in that region. o — MARYLAND. BY TELRGRAPH TO THE TRINONF. Bavmivone, Dee. 27.—Tne Logislature of this State meots on Wednesday next. Itis uoderstood that an ef- fort will be made to declar the last slection for Mayor and City Council iliegal aud yoid, ssid election having been of to the exelusion of those registered last Fall. It is also expeeted that a gen- r bill will be introdueed looking:te the declaration of & eral ampesty, by whieh ‘Nl‘bu‘fiunfllneh‘md unde! l-hlromi-uuo( the State Coustitution, for s, y with or participation {n the Rebellion, will be to all their former pokiticel right+ 0 There is little doubt but tuat the National Constitu- tional Amendment will be rejected. But it is bokioved that many of the more obnox foatures of the codo with reference to colored poo&l: will and the opin- ion has oX] t there will be found & in the ture in favor of the admission of negro testi- “"l‘b’o’ engrossing l“'!‘j.?‘ of interest connected with the States .".7.?.',: «l:flm:?a‘:n% .t‘:.:a‘::ll.dfl’u sonu upuo‘ on the th of Mar=h. mE conflicting as to | — FINE ARTS. °~ T T MR. P. B. CARPENTER'S PORTRAIT OF ABRANAM LINCOLN. Mr., Halpin has recently finished his on, ¢ Mr. Cerpenter’s porirait of Abraham E.mnnh.‘ht: original sketeh for the head of the Presdent i his large picture of the ' Emnancipation clamation, The publishers of this engtaving in their eircular print letters from the immediate ily of Mr. Lincoln, from his widow, and eldest son, from ‘0on. ;_m-ud with :iln llh:‘a.lilfy life and l‘:t:: 8, tom mwen whose official “position ht them into daily intercourse with bim, aud frum those :hu friendship make them sharp judges of the claims of nl{ly [mrlr:}l, ;:‘g n':'lfl m&w leum‘ with one yoioe of approv ng tho portrait is an excellont ene, and that "wfiur sees it sees Mr. Lincoln. ™ Such a weight of testimony as is adduced in favor of this it onght to have great influgnce with the public, and go far toward establishing Mr. Carpen- ter's picturo as @t loast one of those on which tarity must rely in forming its judmnf,hwm Lincoln looked. For our part, We accept it with gratitude; and wo hasten to express our pleasure that the original sketch is secared by Mr. Halpin's careful and faitbful engraving from the danger of destruction by flaod or fire. 1t is not to be denied that Le who offers the world a portrait of Lincoln offers a gift that must be soruti- nized with severity proportioved to the duinmm the world bas to secure, some how, a true pieture of that great man. There is hardly & public man of whom it is not desirable to have a true picture, not merely for the gratification of a fugitive interest or passiug curivsity, but becsuse a good porirait en- ables us to understand the character of the man, and to form & t of him independent of cotem, rary record. But, of course, there is § vast dilmz; between the value we attach and that which posterity will attach to tho portrait of any merely scheming Eoudohn, no matter how mi or dangerous e may have been, and that which will be falt to be- long to the true effigies of a good and true man like Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Carpenter, Mr, Marshall, Mr. Jones, then— whoever offers us a it of such & man, one looked upon with warm feelings, mixed of reverence and love, )y thousands of men and women in America—must expect to bave his work examined with eyes eager to find out certainly if it be true. And it can hardly be hoped that we shall have the @ to seoure one portraitof Lincoln which wil ther all n!hr. sud stand the ope representative of the man—such as we bave inthe case of Washington. The truth is that Mr. Lincoln’s face was s0 1obile, 50 sure a reflex of his mood, and his temper had so wide a range, that it is not to be wondered at the portraits differ so. Some will prefer Mr. Marshall's, even knowing that it was not taken from life, but made up from graphs; and some will pt Mr. Carpenter's, which was taken from life under the most favorable circum- stances, and which meets the approval of those best fitted to judge. Others will accept neitber, but will chopse from th¢ multitude of p) iphs the one that beet answers the notion they have formed of the man. For ourselves, we caunot separate Mr. Lineoln in our minds from the time in which be lived, nor think of him except as a man who, having menu‘ and spirit- ual ‘organization of extreme delicacy and sensitive- . ness, was called to bear a load of care, ity, and anxiety, that must have left a deep i-dolil{c mark upon his face. There are men who could have borne all that be had to bear and never showed it in face or mind. - There are men who have had nearly all to think, to do, aud to sutfer that fell to biw, who have lived more than his years in the world, more than his years in publie who have been in the thick of the fight, and bave dealt and suffered grievous blows, whose experience is a part of their country’s history, and who yet seem to have gained no serfousness, no dignity, no weight from all tuat has befallen, They are men with gutta-percha minds and faces, which fate can pull all” ways, with grief and joy, with sin and sorrow aud disappointment, but “which can at last, by a few dexterous )‘)im-hen, b6 brought beck to_ their original vacuity. [here are such men with such faces, but Mr. Lincoln's was not one of them, and time lcft all his bitter deal- ings with him written on that scarred and weather- beaten And this record the true portrait of Mr. Lincoln must have, or miss the final verdict of acceptance. People do not want & ‘ vice” portrait, nor a ** handsome™ portrait, uor an ‘‘ideal” portrait. They want to say, fhis is the man who uflem and diedin our cansé, Let flaiferérs stand eside, and squeamish people. Show us the grim features, the shuggy head, the beetling brow, the big nose, the firent mouth. What do we eare for bis homeliuess ! is soul transfigures this scarred and m fuco as sunset strikes against a mountain side, auges rugged cliff, and black ravine, and darkest wood into olden or rosy cloud. And this is the fault of Mr. ‘arpenter's picture, which will make itself felt to us and to many in spi‘o of its literal accuary. It seems 10 us to lack emotion, to lack character. “Here is the man a3 he was, perhaps, before herntered on the path that fate bad so thickly sown for him with care and peril, when bis mind was free, when experience was ripening, while life was bright., But of what he was atterward, this picture says but little; it lacks imagi- nation, it fails of the deeper experience, and opens no clue to those who would stady the character of Mr. Lineoln during bis zreatess days. THE DRAMA. S o RISTORI AT THE FRENCH THEATER. Madamo Ristori reappeared at the French Thester in this city on Wednesday evening. The play was “ Eliza- both,” and the house was crowded. Madsme Ristori's personation of England'a gr atest queen requires no word of praise. Its power and pathos were folly realized on this oceasion, and the great actress was wi - I:WM To-night Madgwe Ristori will enact ) an Italioh verlon thal's German play. The American a tion of this piece is well known to the- ator-goers, as ** Leah, The Forsaken.” It 1s also insepar- ably associated with the name of Miss Bateman. Madame Rastori will, doubtiess, leave usa uew association with i of the wronged and suffering Jewess. to-night for the first time in this eity: fail to attract & multitude of spectators. To-morrow, at a Matinée, she will play Medey, a8d on Monday will appear sa Mary On Thnndn{' evening of next week Madame Ristori will make her last lwmm in Brooklyn, in the last-mentioned character. 0 new picces—uew here, "l‘.h“ “b'—on. mesawhile, in preparation at the French eator, ar figure lays Deborah She and her appearance in » new part cannot BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Mr. Edwin Booth will make his last sppearnnce in Brooklyn, this evening, at the Academy. The play will be *“ Hamlet.” Tho mournfu! and picturesque Priace was always much admired in Brooklyn; and we dare say bo will attract a large audience to-night. MR. VOUSDEN. No performance was given last evening Ly Mr. Valen- tine Vousden, Clinton Hall being wanted by its proprie- tors for another purpose; but the Polynational Mimic re- sumes operations to-night, and we heartily wish him & good audience, Mr. Vousden is 0 irth,” aud contiibutes to the merriment of all who him. EROADWAY THRATER. It is announced that the remaining nights of this week will be the last of Solow Shingle. Mr. Owens is tofap- pearon Mouday in & new piece—entitled ** Chloroform; or, New-York in 1967 "—and also to play Butterby, in “ietima.” A Mativéo will be given on Saturday. «The Live Indian is presented, as an afterpiece to “Selon Shingle.” It is scarcely possiblo to say nym:l new of the scting of Mr, Owens in either of these well-known plays. Wede not inclino to attempt the task. Solon Shingle is one of thie most porfoct pieces of charec- terization known to the stage,in our day—albeit the pictare is drawn from a low of life—aid no student of the drama shonld neglect to see it. 5 OBITUARY. r— GEN. 8. R. CURTIS. Samuel R. Curtis, of whose sudden death we have intelli-