The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1866, Page 4

c ] NE — RS - Amngements. IN THOUsANDS OF CASES MRs. WINSLOW'S SooTH- Ly ISLO'S GABDEN assanssasiacas | 1xa STuop, for all disesses with which clildren are afflicted, such e ":II);‘];.." No- e l“l‘ivl.‘\; K CROOK—Orest Parisianas | teothing geiping in the bowels, wind eolic, &e., bas been used with and pever failing ssocaw (3 tho casen 1t oflens the P sma, reduces inflazamation aud allage all pain. Mothers, do not fail WINTER GARDEN. g 0 —OTHELLO. Mr. Edwin Booth, Mr. Begumil |t prosure it - 2 b ol | WHILE WAITING tok A COUGH ** 1o g0 as 1t can e WALLACK'S THEATER. | ) t THIS EVENING—OURS." M. Lester Wallack, Mr. Frederte | Y01 418 ofien aowing the sseds of Cousumpt Better try at once Kobuwow. Mr. Johw Glibert. Mr. Charies Fisber, Mise Madelive Hed | yooonis poppononive &0 or all Coughe and Colds. Sold xiues. Mra. Vernon. - - averywhere. Couais AND Cowps. —Those who are sutfering from & INDIAN, BROADW P AY THEATER THIS £ E'S LAWYER — LIVE i . Sore Thre Ad try Browxs Coughs, Colds, Hoatsen FRENCH is Jn slmost every 1 : ¢ AFTERNOON--MEDEA. Baénomuih Taeouss. ple « Ths Troches have besu tesed by time, sud pro- . THIS EVENING— LUCIE DE LAMMERMOOR. | case effootusl. NEW.YORK THEATER wounced universally superior to all other articles for the same purpose. ,.““ '\:.\'4.14 ENDRILLON=GEAND FAIRY BALLET. BeavTiFun HAIR—CuEVALIER'S LIFE FOR THE - s Haw positively, restores gray hair o its origioal color and youthful ? OLYMPIC THEATER beaaty ; imparts life aud strengih to the weakest hair; stops its falling THis EVENING—(HE HUGUENOT CAPTAIN=M:. Charles | 0ot at once; keeps lleled as a bair-dressing Burcos. Matioee ai 2 oclock. Sold by all dr air dressers, sud at my office, BARNT NS AMERICAN MUSEUA No. 1,123 Broa: _ Sawan A Crxvavimn, M. D. R T O AR JONERE SRR TAS FAK See the advertisements of the ATLANTIC SAVINGS 3 T NCHOLY. ~Mr. C. arko an. g ud Divider ™ O 1N b U ANy CURIO g (g | BAxE, under Savings Buuks and Dividends. { VAN N OF WILD ANIMALS, | . For Sau he undersigned offer FOR SALE their — WHOLESALE o Hovax. The stock, location, and business in NEW YORK GIRCUS one of the ud. and doing an excellent W YORK CIRCUS TROUPE. Robert | bustvess. Famiy and Mille, De . Matigee at 2} o'clock FIFTH AVENUE OPERA HOUSE, Op Eves Mape New without spectacles, doctor, TUS FVENING -5 DWORTH'S MINSTRELS ~THE MAN | or medicine, Sent post-paid on receipt of ten cents. Address IN RLACK T W01 £0TPEYS = WARE UP ABRAHAM, Lco | Dr. F. B. Foors, No. 1,030 Arosdwar, New-York Matins st 2§ o'clock CoMPORT AND CURg FOR THE RUPTURED. stage nwid on Taceipt of e conts, Address Dr. E. B. Foor 130 Brosdway, New-York A FiNg Cunnarn Sand for Circalar sh and elegant Holiday 18 Nassan-at NSTRELS, t\NCE OF LITTLE MAC, MACHINE GRATIS to Jrders for two Machines e York. AGRNTS WANTED Hat go 1o ESPEN- LE & LyoN SEWIN( ~Al6o to ANY ON# #e No. 537 Brosdw For a st cun's, N WiILLCOX & GIBBS'S SEWIN: INWAY HALL, D HOLINAY CONCERT. Mme. Johan- wn. Me. s, Theo. Thowav's Orchestra. ALL Y MACHINE, o NG—EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY CON- t s Orcuestrs. 0 1esa lisble to rip than the lock-atitch.”—| * Judges’ e Grand Trial*] Send for samples of both stitciea. No. 508 Brosdway. THIS EVENINO=M: VALENTIAE VOUSDEN'S ENTER- AT OUSDEN'S ENTER SL1AVE. SKATING POND. —~GRAND CARNIVAL. NewoVork Daily Tribune. EMBER 23, 1866. ¥ TiIS EVENING FAIRS s Presbyterian Charch, corner of Grand Grast Masonic Faic o wnd Geondy-ate —— T —— T —————— fusincss Notices. SATURDAY, DEC TO ADVERTISERS. Wo will thank our advertising customers to hand 1n thair Advartisements st as early an hour s possible. 1f recaived after 9 0'elack tiey oannok be classified under their proper Bends — e e Srarr & MARC JEWELERS AND SILYERSMIT No. 22 John st N. Y., {nform 1o pubiio thet they have added to their stock of ¥ioh JRWRLAT and SILYARWARR & superb awortment of the GORIAN MAnuracTURING CoxpaNs SILvAR PLATAD WaRN. This ware is the first of i« kind ever produced in thie cauntry. sad Yo dastined o surpas ton of Birminghsm, Dizon of Shefliald, or Chrix ty of metal asd platiog waristy of elegant de. 1 finish, we commend ft orsble consideration To provent imporit Roapa-: 2 y H &7 Notices of the Books of the week will be found on the sixth page to-day. The Commercial news and the Markets appear on the second pags. The Court reports are om ths third page. THE LEGISLATURE AND THE EXCISE LAW. Last May, when it was made plain that the citizens of New-York did not mean the Excise law to be a mere formula, and that the Metropolitan Polico were ¥ to enforee it to the letter, the liquor-dealers of formed an asso u for the expross purpose of preventing ita operation during the year, and of obtaining from the coming session of the repeal of, at least, its most important provis That they have not been idle thus far, the suspension of the law since the mid- dle of last Summer, the 834 injunctions issued by Judges Cardozo, Brady, and McCunn, are proof. Prob- ably the oity has no more powerful association than this, and in politics it ia especially influential. The articles bear their trade mark thus: GOBHAMATG, » in being the introducers of thess goods by persons of refised taste, to whose wa are indebted. in pecfect barmony with the beautiful y We oharish & laodas wa they meet s want | £99d opinion snd patro Thess goods wo arte which we by e wall ar #4 to embody in all our productions of je the Legislature Howarp & Co. JRWKLERS AND SILVE) 0. 619 Proapwar Have made an arrareem ot with the Gonmax MANUPACTURING CoXPAXT, of Providence, For tull supply of the CELEBRA(RD GORHAM PLATED WaARR, AN AT & Rum and Beer interest, in Mr. Parto: » o 0 | it is well fortified by statistics—could, if united, decide Which thay offer a! as ow pricas as any other Bouse fn the co D s i e Al asortmest of SOLID SILYERWARE, DiAsoxos, tho county elections. In opposition to the Excise Avcy Gioops, Ae. law it is a unit, and we know how strong i» the eue- my wo are to meet at Albany this Winter. Here, Rum has been too powerful; it bas controlled all the Police Courts, and eucceeded in carrying its claims to the Court of Appeals. With the whole Met- ropolitan Police ready to ex the laws of the Leg- islature, they are violated with impunity. Women in GREAT RepveTioN IN PRICES!'! Uxo1u FEpRuaR 1 Locis Hagr & Co,, Nos. 4 and 6 Bvieraxg Sup, Foot of Jobn-at. PraTep Wake ¥oR NEW-YEAR'S Dav. Hor axp Cowp! UiNs AND ICE PITCHERS. underground saloous disgrace Broadway; the taverns °r. B. Brynzr, Watches and Jewel ) $iind A e atches and Jewelry, ara kept open ali night; on Sundays more liquor is P00 Mptadioray (o s sold than on any other day; unlicensed drnkipg - - | varsevade the penalties. Cardozo stands sentinel Ye- fore every low saloon in the city, and no policeman ocan pass him unchallenged. How complotely the 1w bas been nullified since June is shown by the amount | of fines and penalties credited to the Excise Revenues | for 1366, The total is $6,320, of which Brooklyn paid | $5,775, Gravesend $165, and this great city of law- Dbreaking rumsellers the enormous sum of $330, ‘We think there is nothing to fear from the decis of the Court of Appeals. The constitutionality of the law caunot be overthrown, aud the higher the court tho more certainly will it be sustained. Simply | a3 a legal question, and without any reference to mor- ality and public order, we have a fight to assume that Mavinanp, CnourcaMaAN & ExcGraxn, op Stavn N 47 Jouvsr, Naw York FreNcm CHINA. Wa ars recelving from our factory in France, richly decorated Dixsen, Tea axp TolLer STs, Vases, &c. Lack CORTAINS retalied at wholessle ion BBROUATELLE. Now quality S {ne and Furnitare, Kxurr. No. 47 Brosdway. Faoe, for Curta i.&J. B. K Fiano axp Tanuz COVERS, All the New Styles, at O. L& J. B, Keuers, No. 47 Brosdway, Prie's O. K. S0aP, SALERATOS, the injunctions will be diyulved by thr-»(?mm of Ay:.- peals. The only dangerisin the Logislature itsell. A G R It made the law, and it cao unmake it, and we have Economi a articles for family use. | Al reason to believe that the Liguor-dealer's Association il A1 by rocer ' Daror. No. 350 Wasitxoros 3.—The cheap expects to secure that result. We have recently shown to what an astonishiug extent whisky is illegally made in this city, and the public bave some kuowl- edge of the tremendousiufluence it wields. The manufacturers, who bribed the very Government to overlook their frauds, will join with the sellers in this attempt to break down the Excise law. Injunctions will not last forever; they know that to insure the safety of their bad trade the laws must be framed to protect it. The friends of Temperance, and common decenoy, and religion, must go to the Legislature with equal zeal and ability. The Legislature cannot honestly repeal a single section of the law in defiance of the demonstration of its usefulness. So far as mere revenue is con- cerned, it caunot find apy fault with thess new regulations of the liquor-trade, which have fu 1866 yielded a revenue of $1,108,024, against but $12,450 in 1864. It cannot deny the beneficial influence of the Sunday law. The statistics of arrests for intoxication and disorderly conduct, for 1866, furnished by the Polico Department, are emphatic on this point. The follow- ing table of arrests will show the difference in favor of good order on Sunday, which the Excise law seonred during the months in which it had a fair trial. 1865. Old system: HoLIDAY PREs t and only genu- Son Mo ichavm is boagt st Rorw's MexescuavM MaxvracTORY, o417 Rroomest, Davis COLLAMORE & C No. 470 rosiwa, 4 docrs below Broome st Having Ealwged tanc Sito by Bateodiag i hrough o Moreer o, have adde SILVER 1L ATED WAKE € thoic Largs Btock CHINA AND GLASSWARE. » Artention to » Large Assortment of CHINA DINING SETS. WiiTs & GLENNEY, Fraricat Dex . Wa desire Fu N i 291 Brosdway. Dasaivg YOUNG MeN 1 iad the new style of HAT for calie 5t G The most elegant “fabrie of the season.No. 513 Brosdway. AKES OF EVErRY Kixp.—Plum, Cit- sud, Cocosnut, Pound, Spange, Lady Ceke and b, 304 & Jarge varioty of mall Fancy Cakes, snd every kind of New Year's table, made o 4 Stand, No. 205 Gresuwicb-st., betwesn blished in 163, % e oo Hapry NEW-YEAk.—Ladies, if you wish for your- welvos aud fanilies beatiful Boors and Smons, for Holidey Presents, % ] & Co., No. 37 Cansl-sh. FORS FOR THE HOLIDAYS.—$30,000 worth of Furs, ¢ a0 kiude, selling off at greatly reduced prices, st Banta's, No. 387 " NKW-YEAR'S won. Hickory Nut, A Claniat., corner of Wooster, AT SBEMMONS'S, id sssortment of -— € Reversible Feed I:-mwn On 8 Tuesdays in May and Jun .1,018 Sawine-Macuixes, On 8 Supdays in May and June. 1,078 Bext fawily wisshive ia the world. ¥ we , Fionzxcs 8. 1366. New system: On 8 Tuesdays in May and June. Qu g g days in May and June Thus the d%erage #Frosts on the Sabbath wero dis- minished by the law more then ome balfi The moment the operation of the law was suspended the avils became evident, In July, August, and Septem- ber last, the arrests on the thirtecg Sundays were 2,125, and on thirteen Tuesdays, 1,803, Could cloarer proof be given of the value of the law, and the wickedness of an attempt to repeal this great protec~ M. Co., No, 565 Brosdway. | A HOLIDAY PRESENT. ar Fourth-st., MENRACEATN der. repaired and mounted. 3 dozen: Du f‘:‘:’ e ":__._*_‘ -~ e bk Y AIR Dyg—The best in the world; fect_dye—black or Genuipe sigued “ BATOHKLOR'S H g:mu-. Relisble, Instantatieous; the ouly 1 i jwent, vo ridicalons ali Druggists and Perfumers. p T . ‘TrUssEs, ELAS 0 STOCKINGS, SUSPENSORY BAND- sam, Scrrourans oo Munse b Co's Radical Cure Trum OBee | (550 of tho Sabbath 1 The people will hold the “HoLIDAY PRESENTS OF AFPPECTION AND CHARITY— | Logislaturo guilty of s crime sgainst the publio & Wisox's Lock Stitch SewingMachises No. @ | n5rq)s and the public safety should it remove oue of those rostriotions which this law imposes upon the drunkard and the maker of drunkards. If we urgently demand that members shall be faitbful to their duty, it is because we know how much the Rum Interest will do to make them false. We will not assume that there is great danger lest the Legislature prove weak sgainst the sort of arguments that will be offered to it, but we mean that the 1o shall thoroughly understand the merits of the law. Then if the Logislature mars it, members will understand that some explsuation must be given not inconsistent with the facts, yet satisfactory to their constitaents. Wann 2 Tue Howr MacniNg C0.'s Loek-Stitch SEWING- B e e T o e Sewnel “HOLIDAY PRReENTS.—STEREOSCOPES and VIEWS, s ALsUNs, LAYDSCAT RS, .:g .Il:..b 5 T Amum Tur BesT HOLIDAY PRESENT.—GROVER & BAKER'S No. 498 Broadway. Pronuer Puruion Sewing- Macuins, 7. Certain counties in Maryland have hedged them- selves in with & barbarism of which we have read in stories of China. In famous old Anus Arundel they are still cruel enough to convict & negro of homicide for not sllowing himself to be shot; to tear chil- dren sway from their motbers, and gell them into apprenticeship by tbe hundred; to deny col- ored men all right to testify, and to sell them into alavery whepover larogpy can be proved egainst them ANT AXD Uskrur HoLipay Girr.— Morr's CHEMICAL PoMADE Restores Gray Hair, ot ) A Parwee, LL. D.— o v WekD SwING-MACHINE CoMPANY, No.506 Broad- The 1t meedie, apd EM"I 'A;Il.l Ullluwum & i - | serve whose interests W-YORK on a white man's oath. In Calvert County, too, the old traders in flesh and blood have been barter- thousand. ing away apprentices by the It is no wonder that the Freedmen's Commis- | sioner for the a District, whose report complains | and is full of cases of which make no appear: stics, renticeships in oue 3 than can be The freedm: help against the ignorance of the law, cau have li vast machinery that is used to oppress them; and we quite agree with Brig.-Gen, Howard that, unless they are aided by agents of the Freedmen's Bu- reau, the Civil Rights bill will hardly be operative, since Virginia and Maryland judges dare disobey it in every particalar. “All the real justice administered to the froedmen within the district of Commissioner Howard, has, with few exceptions, come from the Freedmen's Burean or the United States Army. The miseries which the colored loyal- ists of the South thus suffer from being denied the commonest rights oaght to be as plain to Congress a3 an opon scroll. Tt is equally plain that justice in the South is as much s farce to the whites as it is a trag- edy to the blacka — A PHILADELPHIA THOMPSON. We believe it was Douglas Jerrold who defined a Conservative as & man who wouldn't look st the new moon out of respect to the old moon. It is of the samo class that a great orator says: ‘‘They can “neither be convinced mor converted—society can “only hope they may die.” Specimens of this class present themselyes, from time to time, to the public view noticeable ouly because they are standing still while the rest of the world moves ou. The last who has attracted our attention is Mr. Jus- tico Thompson of Philadelphia. We observe that, like the original owner of Mrs. Toodles’s door late, he spells his name with a p. Whether he has been distinguished by any other trait of char- acter we do mnot know. He now appears upon the scene, epelling his name with a p, and kecping ** niggers " ont of the street cars in the Quaker City. If Mr. Justice Thompson have a mis- sion, this would appear to be it. The railway cor- porations are keeping up an obstinate war against one large class of the public—of the public in order to corporatiops are permitted toexist. They have heen well served by their agents; by drivers and conductors whose brutal con- tempt for the rights of negro passengers almost equals that of the officers of the corporations. 1, puvlic opinion is a bard thing to fight against, aud the cor- porations became in moed of some further assistance than that which drivers and conductors could render. They were able to reénforee mselves with Mr. Justice Thompson. As a matter of policy, we think they made’'a mistake, for the public, finding the corporation morals judicially defended, may like the bench a little less, and the corpora better. Annie Foster and Mary Johns wo colored women not alleged to be otl than cent in appearance and of decorous behavior. They sought admission into one of the cars of the Philadelphia and Gray's Ferrs Passonger Railway d ) 1 1ot any are de- and Company; were received without objecti their fare to the conductor. They gave him fi- teen cents, and received no whenee we may infer that the conduc was aware s conts of their color, und thought it s from “‘nigge When be bad the m pocket, hie ordered them ont ¢ appear in it vhether the regulation pany direct their conductors firat to rob and the maltreat their negro passengers, but we pre any case a zealous officer is pe pocted, to exercise u wid degree and kind of outrage the three cents extra may be demanded by the com. hich these g to be s not m- Or | inflicts. he pany as compensation for the trouble w negroes occasion by being black and req put off. The sum certainly cannot be consid- ered large, if we consi the very diry charactor of the work d¢ Wh the col- ored women—upon the frivolous pretext that | noney the con- they were entitled to the ride for which had been accepted--refused to leave the ¢ ductor stopped it; threatened his pa violeuce; then went on, and refused to let them leave the car when they desired; then kicked them off—showing, in his violent wrath, a quickness and variety of invention which must bave been bighly pleasing to his employers. Genius of so deli- cate a quality ought not to be neglected; the con- ductor surely desorves to be made a director. Dut the company, a8 companies will, betrays ingratitude, engers with and, upon being sued, interposes as a defenso that the conductor had exceeded his in- structions, If we may be pardone the expression, the corporation ** goes ba faithful servant. Mr. 8. G. Fry, its President, admits that their rules require the exclusion of colored peo- plo, but allows it to be intimated that ho ob- jects—in a formal way, aud for the purposes of this trial—to being mado responsible for the manner in which the conductor carried out his instructions. Mr. Justico Thompson needed not even this hint to spur his zeal. He snaps up the plaintiffs’ counsel with the following bit of what he calls law: *‘Unless you can show that the * company had a regulation directiog the driver and « gonductor to maltreat the passengors, this testimony ¢ would not be proper.” We caunot imagine what broader invitation could be given to these negro-hating corporations, and their employés. Everybody kuows bhow surely the epirit of the company's managers penotrates its lower officers. If Mr. Fry and his dircctors don't want negroes to ride in their cars, they may find it difficult to prevent them by a mere probibition, but they will find it easy if they can add to that an unre- strained use of force, To encourage violence by their conductors they need not enjoiu it in terms; they have only to causo it to be understood that offenses against negroos will bo favorably, or even leniently, regarded at headquarters, In other words, they need only issne just such an order as this com- pany did issue; their conductors will perfectly under- stand that it is meant to cover all outrages, and a convenient judge will be found to hold up the letter of the order as a defense to all gotions at law. We will pot do Mr. Justicp Thompson the injustice to suppose he believes his opluion to be law, 1t is & maxim that & man is presumed to intond the oons equences of his own acts, It is another that he who fastens on the lotter of & written instrument sticks in the outside of its meaning. No company dare defy publio opinion Dby directing that negroos be roughly ejected from their cars. But Mr. Justice Thompson declares that unless they do this in plain language they aro exempt trom responsibility for the aots of thoss who are acting in the spirit of thelr instractions, ITo knowa better, or if he does not Lnow better, ho should give place on the bench to somebody who does. Upou bis TRles the plaintiffs were driven out 3& Ml‘l.njnllly then less PR they 'T:dim.‘.'-' out of the car by the conduotor whom Mr. Justice Thompson recognizes as bis follow- servant in the interests of tho company. Botween the conductor, who is & paid servant, and ::ethd", hom we to be a volunteer sgent, of the com- ;n:y. we m conductor, and deem histheless dis- croditable office in this wholly disgraceful businoss. Judge Thom puontcfhhnyw-y M‘. the :'\':fion for the rights of fthe colored people is ‘‘most unfortunate,” and ‘‘can “do no good,” that « until recently the colored « people have been Liviog i Plilsdelpbis most 0pm- DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY . DECEMBER 29, 1866. - “ fortably"—with much other stale talk of that kind. They will live somewhat moro comfortably when this unfortmate agitation shall have secured to them j from the beuch, and protection from public opinion. That time cannot be far off, and when it comes. the worst enemy of Mr. Justice Thompson will searcely be cruel enough to remind him of his present decision, B BLOWING A GALE. report of to-day’s papers the comfortable citi- ors Will be made aware that an extra- ordinary storm has occurred; but he must be deaf if he has not heard it, even by the safe sanctuary of his fireside, blowing more or less about bis ears. Experi- enced toilcrs of the Sound aver that the present gale is the fiercest and most boisterous that has swept our chantel to the sea for twenty § If it exceeds in devas ation the half-hurricane of 1253, when 8o many vessels were lost or damaged, or blows us no more good han the January gale of last year, it is, indeed mighty and cruel visitor. The most magnanimous of sailors can bardly now afford ;0 indulge a sovereign pity for unhappy folks on shore. The most redoubtable seamanship must need the tantible support of stanch planks and beams, and uwmonquerable steam-power, to insure its cour- ago whelly from doubt in this blustering weather. Even lre, in such brief and commonplace marine oxperietce as a passage across to Brooklyn, the gale threaters to brew us sea-sickness, and the East River istroubled like a sea. Inland, the snow-storm has bem working the most unwelcome wonders. Trains ot trains have been snowed-up on the New- York roals, and about Albany the snow lLas an average 'pth of twenty inches, while the drifts are high enmgh to cover locomotives, and imprison railway jassengers, The train due at Albany late yesterday afternoon, on the Central Railroad, is still unextrica’ed. Excepting the “urricane which some yeas ago pelted a Western train off its track, wo can thok of no recent weather whose freaks hare worked mre peculiar mischief. Happily, we hear of very fow lves lost; but the storm at lass accounts was still whroken, so that we must wait till its work i3 qite done before wo can count the a wrecks., 1 will be grievous to hear of these day by lay, as we certainly must if the fury ot the gale at ses is in proportion to its bad effect ot land. Every Winter brings us just such wrecks, and last year, from October to March, with cyclones in the Gulf and storms on the British and Atlantic conits, we counted them by hundreds. All that has been said in judgment concerning theloss of the steamship Evening Star will now return with in- terest to shp-owners, We bog them to ponder it once more, while s fresh case of shipwreck brings its dismal moral homs to them. It was only providential that the pasengers by the steamer Commodore, wrecked yesterday on the Sound, escaped with their lives; for we ear that nothing in poiut can be said to the credit of the vessel or its owners, The steamer Conmodore belonged to the Stonington line, and was built nioeteen years ago. Its timbers nust have fairly betrayed this age, for a year ago it wi taken off the line, and has only been put on again o replace the steamer Plymouth Rock while that boa has been undergoing repairs. ~What possessed the Sonington Company to send out its least seaworthy vessl in sucha storm as that which prevailed on the Sound, t is difficult to perceive. The tremb- ling bark to wheh they committed their passengera be- came unmauagble on the very Tirst assaalt of the storm; bulwark, coal-bunkers, guards, smoke-stacks, and by the 1 away in o short time all carrid we | force of & galo more mereiful than the Stonington (ompany appeatto bave been wise, she was blown into sholter. We graut that the storm was unusual, and must have tried the stanchest vessel; but this very fact brings into gest relief the apparent recklessness and impotence of tie means with which they under- took to encounter it, The loss of the steamor Even- ing Star, the burning of the ferry-boat Idaho, sud the wreck of the Commeodore, prove, conclusively what ueods no proof, that the public safety ¢ trusted to the seil-interest of corporations. We hope that the case of the Commc may be at opce subjected to o rigid investigation, and that ne offonco uf alluwed or con- trived shipwreck, if , indeed, be the case, will be suffered to escape the penalty of the law. The storm teaches us no bater lesson than that which it im- presses] on every one st sea in th torrible nights— we mean the trage and costly folly of sending out unseawortny ships m the name of enterprise, and for the greed of mouey AHE INDIANS, Later dispatches rom Fort Laramie leave, unfortu- nately, little room for doubt that the massacre of United States troop: near Fort Philip Kearney in Da- kota, which we repoted on Thursday, was to the full as borrible as it was'rst represented, Eighty-sevon men were drawn into w ambush by the savages, and every one of them vas slaughtered. Itisof little avail now to wonder hww an experienced officer could lead his troops into sum a trap when the hostile dispo- sition of the surrounding Indians was well known; if the commander of ths unfortunate detachment was to blame, he is aleady punished beyond his deserts. But the friquency of Indian outrages during the last few months, and the fact that the disturbances are cosined to no particulariocality, bus extend over the whoe region from New-Maxico to the northern border, ind from the westernmest sottlementa of Kansas to the frontier towns of Cali- fornia, demand of us a very careful and intelligent consideration, We expressed our conviction, some three mouths ago, that s general Indian war was imminent, but many pecple, deceived by the lying reports of those who find their profit in the wretched system of Indian misgovemment which is responsible for these borrors, made light of our appreben- sions. Now, we belie.e thero are few who will question that 8 war is Inovitable, and that the only way to secure the future safety of our Western settlers and emigrants is to make that war short, sharp, aud decisive, A Fort Laramis dispateh montions & rumor of & Coealition of twelve tribes, numbering 11,000 warriors, against tho white settlers of Dakota and Montana; and a fow weoks ago Wo had 8 report of a similar confederation swong che Arapaboes, Cheyennes, and other savages of South- orn Eansas, Every mail brings us accounts of rnhlll and massacres, LOW in Arigona, now in Idaho, m?' in Kansas or New-Mexico, Supply trains fo the minivg regions aro cut off; mails and telegraphs are inter- rupted, and emigrants who are fortunate eaough nof to leave their bodios rotting on ,the plins only through to their destination by shes fighting . o Whether the whites or the ¢8V0808 60, o ,alls to blame for the chrovio ill-feeling “ o Tople between thom, it is not easy to B T who have never boen on the f5 (o v ere sottlers of tho intense bitterD®Gag the bloods sewTity With regard the fg¢er thoy have the wWer. they ropay whitkimallest dopredations, B¢ they ba'e 1O alight reason for this feeling: tho story of thar dealings with the sborigines, though it W& b @ story of fraud and wrong-duing on the o4 :‘:I:‘ no loss record of nameless uuv'm'“ 7 on the 4 olieso -theé Indias can be overwhelming mlitary foroe, m“:;..e‘:nbc Kept in order only iy 8 1adical re- foem s wat official intercourse with thea. Tirire have wrongs and abwes ¢ommitted worios of oo ;mby::;noflhflmllih('m; bat we have nodoubt that the conduot of the {ndiausgents appointed from, civil life has npon the ¥hols, vestls Worso. W bave 30 thet these mep, ehoson too often wiv'ti no rogard (or eithor thoir moral or intollectual fitnesa for the position, and accepting it with no view but to “‘make a good thing” out of the anuities to friendly tribes, hiave done more than any others to fomer. .he sp/rit of massacro which i3 now raging over the Plains. In his last official report, Gen. Grant repeated the recommendation which has so often been made before that the manage- | ment of the Indians should be taken away from the | Department of the Interior and pmmitted to the care | of the Seerstary of War. It certainly does seom | rensonable that if the savages are only to be governed Dby sword and carbine, the soldiers who do the work | aud know its difficulties and requirements should have the entire control of it. We make no doubt that the work would be done mo:e thoroughly and more Louestly thau it is done now, aud that it would not need 50 often to be doue over again. But aside from the particular wrongs and petty depredations which have helped to fan the present flame of was, the Indians have two great causes of int against us, and these may account for the hostile combinations which it is said aré now about to call forth the greater part of their fighting strength. We mean the two Pacific Railway lines, through Ne braska and Kansas, The construction of these ave- nues of civilization through the heart of thé buffalo hunting grounds has been watched by the wandering tribes with bitter dissatisfaction. They have repeat- edly interfered with the workmen, eud threat- ened to destroy the lines. At a great coun- cil bheld at Fort Zarah, Kansas, in vember, 5,000 delegates from various tribes Commissioners who bad been met the United Sta instructed to negotiate for aright of way forthe r: il road and stage routo along the Smoky Hill Valley; but they stubboruly refused to make any concession, and the council broke up with indications of hostili- ties, The same thing occurred when the Government endeavored to obtain the consent of the Indians to the construction of the route along the Platte. Of course, these roads will be and ought to be built, whether the red men like it or not. In view of tle trouble which they seem likely to arouse, the recom- mendationsembodied by Gen. Sherman in his report of the 5th of November to Gen. Grant deserve par- ticular attention. He proposes, with the consent of his superiors, to restrict the wandering Sioux north of the Platte, west of the Missonri, and east of the road from Laramie to Virginia City. In like manner the bostile tribes of the South should be prevented from coming north of the Arkansas or west of Fort Union. This would leave us the exclusive use of the great belt in which the two railroads lie, and through which passes most of the travel overland to the Pacific Coast and to the mining regions, Thke messure seems effectual and necessary, and we trust that ( Grant and the Secretary of the Interior, between whom the disturbed empire of the Plaius ems to be divided, will give it due attention. The Senators and Congressmen who are enjoying 8 Christmas excursion throngh the South have reached -Orleans, and fon their way been cordially re- ceived, evon Gon. Beauregard presiding at a dinner givon in their honor. We do not suppose that the excur sionists expect to obtain a better idea of the condition of the Rebel States by this trip. New-Orleansis on her best behavior when Congress pays her a visit, and even Mayor Monroe will be as cordial in December as if he had never been cruel in July, At the same tino that the axawssiwatsts 8T8 TOry properly enjoying their brief visit, Congress is represented in New- Orleans by a committes appointed to inves- tigate the massac We do not think that the festivities giv by the city to its visi tors will be enjoyed by any self-respecting Union man, while the head of the City Government, Mayor Monroe, is oonvicted by overshelming testi- mony of contriving the attack upon the Union Cone vention of July. The dispatoh which intimates that Congressmen have accepted a dinner from the city is no doubt prematnre. We can scarcely imagine two representations of Congress in New-Orleans, one in- vestigating tho most atrocious mumers of the year, the other recciving eourtesies from :he murderers, et [# Worth's Inaugural Moesage, of which we printed the important passages the other day, begina with a false statement which makes bis whole argument idle, Ho informs the Legis- lature that a bill has bee introduced into Con- gress to reduce North Caoliua to the condition of & Territory. Wa need oardly say that the word “Torritory® is ne o Mr Stevenys bill, which simply provid® for the reorganization of the * district formerly comprising the State of North + Caroling,” wihout establishing that fore, of government which, according to the laws, constitutig a Territory, Gov. Worth's term does not expiretill Jauuary 1, 1369; by that time his political educatien will probably have been improved USRS S-S Music. —p— POZNANSKI'S THIRD QUARTETTE BOIRBK. Mr. J. B, Poznanski gave his third Quartotte Soires, e Steck's elegant Music Hall, Eighth-st., noar Broadway, on Thursday ovening, when, notwithstanding the boistarous and inclement stato of the weather, quite large audioncs was present, attracted by the excellent reputation of the quattotte perforresncds, Mendelssohn's lovely quartetta, Opus 12, was the first pieco on tho programme. Each movement is a rounded beanty, replete of course, with the r's delighgful manoerisms, but £ono the leas fas- g on that seeount. Tho Canzonetts, and the an- dante rmovements ars exquisite 1n thought, sentiment, and exprossion, and they were executed in a manner worthy of their beanties, The nrum-m Ly Schumann, Op. 41, is & masterly work, but it lacks that genuine spontauiety which distingnished the previous 'uri, and in comparison with whiek it is cold and dry. Stll it possesses points whose beauty rescues it from weariness, ‘The adagio is by far the most interesting movement, and this received most thoughtful and expressive treatment from the artists. In the Allergo, the second violin, aud viola, were rather looss in marking the rhythm, aud the scherzo was by no meaos clear or marked in its interprotation. TLo presto was, Lowever, brilliantly rendered. The Quintetts for piano and strings, by J. N. Hummel, Op, 87,8 a sterling o«-mqunmuu y an author whose works ara too rately heard in our concerts. Its subjoots are melodious, graceful and expressivo, and thoir treat. , variety and effoct, ment in am % lint and masterly. Tho Mennetto is & guaint and peautiful m pt, and tho adagio is full of dig- t, an nity and sustained exprossion. The piano part was interproted by Mr. H. Kalliwoda, & pianist somowhat of the old school in classie severity, and the more welcome on that acconnt, wno did it ample justice. Ie Tios & cloar and procise touch, his reading is intelligent and acourate, wnd Lo plays with that in! ity of purpose which secures 1o his ‘or honest treatment’ Ly a just interpretation. was cminently satisfactor His performanen throughol lacking only a little abandon in the giving out of the su jectof the Largo. The quintetto, as & whole, was ably and med, and give unqualifiod satisfaction. ski, Nozendorf, Bernstein and Liesegang v o cause of the quartetts. wa play Ay throughout; notwith- ral i ha subdued bis emphasis ession to the Limit of true quariotte playing, prov- jug humself t amaster of the school. Signor Tamare assisted, and sang two selections in o pleasing and effsct. ive manner. The guitar playing was in exceeding bad taste, and was very poor in exscution. The fourth Quartatta Soiree will bo given on the 19th of January, whon Madame Varian Hoffan, who made 80 brilliaut & debut at the concert of the 71st Regiment, at Steinway Hall lnst week, will assist tho quartotte actists. Mr. James Wolili will malo a short concort tour through tern States after New Year, He will be accom- by Mwe. Variau Hoffman and other oxeellont EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY CONCEBRT. The eighteenth Sunday concert will take place at Stoio- way Hall to-morrow sveni Soveral well-known artista will appoar, and Theodore Thomas's popular orehostra will perform choice selections appropriate to the occasion. HOLIDAY CONCERT AT STEINWAY HALL. A grand boliday concart will be given at Steinway Hall, this evening, whon Mme. Johannsen, Mr. Hill, Mr. J. Pol- lack, Mr. J. N. Pattison, Mr. Iiben and Mr. Colby will perform, togather with Theodore Thomas's orchestra. FRENOH OPERA—THEATRE FRANCAISE. his evening, the French Opera Company will give their last representation at tho Theatre Francaise. The opers chosen 13 * Lueie do Lammermoor,” and tho prinei- ol charaeters will be sustained by Atlle. Naddio, Armand, Wilhem, Surmont, Walter and Scribot. We hopo that & full bonse will grace the last reprosentation of this oxesl- lent but uafortunats company. THE DRAMA. i rar DEBORAH AT THE YRENCH THEATRE. © Deborsh” was acted last evening at tho Fronch Theator. The audiance was smaller than ususl—probably because of the intensely cold weather that has lately taken a caprice to prevail. The performauce was not caloulated to supply the place of hot-air furnacos. It moved slu ishly; %o that those spectators who arrivod in 8 mood fively and laudable enthusiasm, gradually subsided, in the course of the evening, into gentle melancholy and frigid resignation. All our old friends of the well-known Amer- icanized German drama, nevertheless, exerted them- 8 to make the time pass agreeably, though it was msnifost “‘that they, too, were somewhat congealed by the boreal weatlier. Tho old farmer and his pretty daughter, the clergyman, the schoolmaster, the venarabl; aad quivering Jew, the addle-headed lover, the poor J ish waiden, and all the rest of the familiar personages, wa readily recognized in their Italian dress. Jonceptions ot these characters somewhat differed from those to which we bad been accustomed, were presented by the subordiuate players in Madam Ristori's company, but the difference is scarcely worth consideration. » Signor Mancini, who played the part of the apostate Jow, preseuted, perha) the most prominent type of this dissimilitude. Ho lwira liko the Amsmdab S’k of the American atago, and kept the sceret of his shame and suffern 30 woll that 1t might be seid of him rs 1t was of Macduff, that “‘no man bears sorrow better.” Signor Borghi's curate and Signors Casati's Jewess, Lowever, were fruit- ful, simple, and thoroughly good pieces of aoting, and Signor Buti flickered merrily, for a littie while, 38 the pugnacious and loquacions taflor. The prompter, also, spoke his lines oxceedingly well, It is a pity that so much voies, not to say genius, shou!d ba bidden under a half- bustel. To coms to Hecuba,;Madame Ristori's Deborak impressed ua b{ its tremendous force, aud by litile else. But whatever she does, is so colored by her individuslity that it can scarcely fail to interest the mind, oven though it does not always stic the emotions. Hor delivery of the curse, which occurs at ths end of the third act, was vital with a passionats enorgy that we have oply seen equaled by berself. But her Deborak is never lovable, though occasionally pathetic, Something of the tigress—and not the young tigress, neither—pervades it, and warns off the -‘out!ot.u. The truth is that Madame Ristori js, in every respect, toc mature aod too graud for the part. Her iutellectual nature requires, for its best expression, dramatic situations of great breadth and stateliness and fiery forco. She finds but one such oppertunity in the play of ** Deboral,” and she makes the most of it. Her audionce, last evening, aroused itself from time to time, and recalled her before the curtain at the end of the second, third and fourth sots. The piece was dono in four, and appeared to us to b0« fourishing candidate for the pruning-knife. 1t will not, probably, ba repeated. AMedea will be actad at the Matinée to-day, POLITICAL. T WORKINGMEN'S MovEWNT—NOMINATION o HORACE GRERLEY #/8 THE SENATE. THR MATINEES TO-DAY. Tho ninataenth weekly Matinée of “ The Black Crook’* will be given at Niblo's Gardon to-day, when the apectacle At & mooting of the Wixkugmen's Eight-Hour League | will be prosentad for the 112th time. ¢ Cendrillon " will of Utica, rocently, rosslitvn8 woro adoptod, to be pre. | be presented at & Matinée at the New-York Theater, to- sented (o tho Common (suncil of that city, propoing an | day, 8t 2 0'clock. The usual programme of performaacos ordinanee to the effect Bat “on and after the first day of | will be executed this afternoon at the New-York Cirous, January, 18¢7, eight 1ours shall constituts and bo con. [ Mr. Owens, at the Broadway Theater, will appearat a siderod o day’s work onall works of the city, or under and | Matinée, in ** The Live Indian,” and in * Katherine sad muance of the auhority of the Corporation thereof.” | Petruchio.” in pu “*Solon Shingle” will be acted for the last :t 10 bo prosente: to the State Legislat i '/;T‘ :Lul” 1; nufi vt ‘5" Jul“fi &'{"‘z’fl time, in the evening, together with “The Live Indiaa” a5 an aftorpisce. hours shall constitut & legal day’s work in this State” was Ristori, at tho Froach Theater, will appoat at a Matins, also u-luplgd.h A m“']l"u urgiug the -meudg:ent of the Homestead Iaw, inSuch & way as to protect the working- g ,\'.'n from the techscalitios and subterfuges of the Coun{v (n,;h;:b:;,cm * M'd.u' a4 1,0 . i Oork’s ume:"u:‘jl‘?‘d- i s ’ & nFn«; ‘s, Mistrel's will give a Matinée, to-dsy, at “ihe following solution, declaring Horace Greeloy the o Fifth Avenue Opera House, presenting ** The Maa i Workingmen's ggl:dns‘e for U. 8. Senator from this §tate, | Black,” for the last time. Mr.'flplm tho!lllunionmuv:rl was Bopted wilat o disenting voice: " Matioés, at Dodwortt’s Hall, commencing ¢ 11 weas, T: i3 ¢ the utmost importance to the frie “Tho 'Hoad 1a tho Air" will Lo shown, as Iabor refirm, i thistato that that important positio s Mol in’ Pares,” will e stecaiel. = The. bo 6llo¢ 1y 658 In Wm the working clases of the U4 Tagat Fasiels 95dsnoe, and. 15, whoes ohaceotE L Efigg;":; uf.'f,"‘"" will be actod, at & Matinde, ot 2 wavering il Atnuworving rctiui of onduet tonching lympio Thester. 10 great pri reformation. in all th . ' s Poh ons, 470 Whestionably beyond zf-upmfl;cfim':r Owi et i wdontt ,‘;,..“.‘! be unazimosly wing to the severo storm of Thursday, the Matindo * Redolved, orkingmen's Eight Hour League of | porformance announcad to take place on that day at the Traica do dereby MOSt weotfilly and sincerely present and mfl:fl “lf-:_ ‘{'fi.‘,fl" "1"5.“.?,‘ é.h::ll'q as the wext United PRoTEST BY A SOUERN LOYALIST AGAINST THE CONSTITUAN AT, AMENDMENT. Me. Albort Grifin, ~ of 7%, Loyal Georgian, and | Th one of tho most actife Ongy oo pp oy loyalists, has ad- ‘.'In'amn“‘of'&'. {?u'.'\{; opres & erm against the | The Winter Garden, this .evening, will be thowcene of 1t is & great mists :m{‘l‘lo. Amendment : a vory siogular performance. jMr. Dawison and Mr. Booth It woulduels the pending Amendment, | w11 s " e witiiug electi] conkof tho South auy guod. I , respoctively personate Otkello aud Jago—one spoak: T certaiv men would be subjJust ::f:fi""* aud they would | ing German and tho other English, The ro Wintor Gardon, for the benefit of Mr. J. W. Lingard, was ivoned. The performance will, however, be given ata st period in the season. Meanwhils wo have to nots rformances, afternoon and ovening, for Mr. K that two Lingard's beuetit, were given yosterday at the Old Bowery eator, BOOTH AND DAWISON, +Bqts an loss protectitd loyal men to office, the tragedy are well cast, aud we may safely T0 T e oé twoal b voifom eused persecutions, | that the pieco will be 'A\l"put on the The pros- ! It body powerless to o loers of the law. | pect of seeing two of the most famous of living actors in i would be tpiposite—with Tebels eoft ioue hevould rrader | thy samo play, and that play * Othello,” must cartainly g the por us. It 3?‘0- “'xi';‘:f:::'m u:::ll’ m v?‘lhl: and if Com, x| S4troct s multitude of spsetators. mak ty it would osr, bad matter worse, by keey up s Shaes of Bcommpiouing hay G0k resa fad ¥, {1 e Our best men are rapidly coming to the con thoso States whese edicntlon fa freo, no man shott! 10 vote until he has learned to read the lullE‘ it the section cons| ould olass of political demagogues against b rvedy KENTUCKY. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. Several Democratie Conventions have met in Kex tucky, aud recommended ex-Goy, John L. Helm: for Governa | and rus W. Powell for United States Seaator. Baail Du aud Geu. Preston of the extinet Confederac, tioved for the Lonors of Goy ernorship —~———— NEW-HAMPSHIRE. NOMINATION FOR CO'AGRESS [N THE SECOND DISTRICT. "\ ANOESTER, N. P Doc: 23.—The Republicans of the 11d District in conv ention, held here yestarday, ted Gen. Aaron B, Stovens of Nashua for Congress. B —— soh Hon. Behuylor Colfax, whose scoouns of his journey peat his fwCoutineati 14 already widely knows, will re- Boooher's), Brodlls #vening at Plymouth Church (H. Wy that, fa permit- SERIOUS w“m—:-_vmon HY TELNORAPR 1O TAR TRISONE. e THE REMAINS OF GEX. 8. R. CURYIS BY CELBORAPE YO FEB TRISUNR. / xpAR Ro.pivs, Dec. 29.—The remsins of (en. R Curtis, sovompanied by Gen. Dr. vhlu' ldl.()olmnll . Nutt, A \amlu\h estorn mnnu‘. Im‘r‘ d" o route (or Kee