The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 4, 1867, Page 4

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FRANK T e et i, Glhow e wbms }:fl])vlm‘-n.’ No 160 Chestout-ab, Phila. ; Astor-pl., N. id frandalent Gnitations of Lis pates LD SEWING-MACHINE The 016 Greesst, Dow. Fresent CrisTADORO'S HAIR Dye—~The best ever mannfasiored. W uolcnale and retall. also applicd at No. 6 Astor House. WiLLcoX & Gisbs's SEWING-MACHIN “*Jtw ae urw 19 less liabie to rip than the Jock-stitc! Judges decinis Tl ) Bend for saiaples of bot BOARD OF HEALTH. | our Government bonds to | at fifty to seventy-fi NetwDork DailyEribune. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1867. Tre TriseNE ALMANAC for 1867 w I be ready . few days. Orders will be filled in the order of thelr TPl e <Ly Tripuxe, published to-day, ar past, Tne Semi-WE contains a carefully compiled chronology of the t value to students of the time, and of interest to readers generally. 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When, in the agony of our great struggle, we were driven to the desperate resort of making the promises of our Government a Legal Tender for the sums specified on their face, no one sugeested or imagined that this was to be jus- tified otherwise than by dire necessity, or en- dured one moment longer than mnecessity showld compel. The notion that the people might be enriched by the persistent use of “a false balance” in the purehuse and sale of their products and commodities—by the compul sory employment of a dollar in their dealings which should be worth from forty to ninety cents according to cirenmstances, and which the tricks of gold-gamblers and kite-flyers should cause to fluctuate in value from day to day—is of far more recent origin. The “Legal Teuder” paper dollar has served its purpose. Born of our ional agony, it should have died with it. There is not a fi- nancier fit to manago the smallest vilage bank who does not know that the Government might have resumed Specie Payment directly after the surrender of the Rebel armies—far more easily then than now, or hereafter. Of course, some high-flyingZspecnlators fwould have been pinched, as many more will be whenever we move es and fab- a8 done, and Millions’ worth less of foreign yvies since May, 1865, than it amount. The ve cents on the dollar, to be paid in full, principal and interest, by our children and grand-children, is one of the di- rect and disastrous results of our insane per- Currency. We are opposed to all the bills now hefore Congress, or yet to be presented, which aim at the perpetuation of an Irredeemable Currency. They are all wrong in purpose; so that th cannot be other tl unsound in their proy sions. All the legislation now needed is a short “A bill to provide for the ie Payment. §1. The cretary of the Treasury is hereby author- “ized to borrow, from time to time, at the “most favorable rates which may be attaina- “Dle by advertising for bids in open market, “such sums as may be necessary to enable him “to resmme and maintain Specie Payment.” —Armed with the power thus given him, let the Secretary simply give public notice that the Treasury Notes and Postal Currency (ugh!) of the United States are henceforth redeemable in coin when presented in even 100 at the Treasury of the United States in Washington, between the hours of 12 and 2 p. m. of each and Postal Currency will henceforth be re- ceived as coin in all payments to the United S@t(-s, whether forfDuties on Imports or other- wise, ~Well: why not? Do you say that everybody would rush to the Treasury for specie? What would be the motive, the inducement? The gold-gambler's occupation would be gone from thé moment that notice was given. The Two or Three Hundred Millions of Gold and Silver coin or bars now lying dead in the country would at v, No. 506 | once be added to our circulating medium. The t nede, | One Hundred Millions per anwum that our Mines are producing—and which every year is increasing—would all be money instead of mer- chandise from the hour of its coinage, if no sooner. The One Hundred Millions of Specie now .helfl by the Government might at first be heavily drawn upon; but to what end? The regular week] memng“nrf the Board of Health | Gold 80 drawn would not be annihilated, and Echultz gave notice ngers who arrived The T b o Yo he Vlrfi n, Peruvian an vhe Health officer for disinfection, can on spplloation to Castle Garden. Most of the ‘week 20 D o L rej m " n, Ba portu Nich i i T R S typhus, Nod stiatiig ocourrods b viiiea 5. offered a resolution, that in s o the Board, which adjourved unsll Th Unfon, which | try; precious lm.l'c of it would go out of the coun- 'for prices would fall and importations be light for some time after Resumption. Those who drew the gold from the Treasury would not annibilate it; when they found that they had not broken the Government, they have beon visited | would very soon want to set it to earning them fature, when- | Something. Being just equal in value to Green- backs or National Bank notes, and not half 80 convenient for business uses, it would either “Sn“:c. run back into the Treasury or find its way into the Banks) which, being authorized to pay in earnest toward Resnmption; but the country | would have imported. Two or Three Hundred | ¢ exported less of our National Debt | sale since Peace of | Juropean capitalists | the sistence in the use of a fallacious, juug]inul business day, and that said Treasury Notes NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1867 their notes in Greenbacks, would generally prefer these to coin, though they would keep both for the accommodation of their customers. Never was it easier to maintain Specie Pay- ments in this country than mow. It is sheer cowardice—nay, it is knavigh, gambling Spec- ulation—that makes a bugaboo of Resumption. We do not need any currency tinkering—any arbitrary withdrawal of Greenbacks or of National Bank notes. Make the National Banks redeem their notes at par at some central point; fedeem the Greenbacks in gold where any one chooses to present them, and the Currency may be safely left to regulate itself. 1f the National Banks shall prove un- sound, the people will refuse their notes and force them into lignidation; if Greenbacks are not as good as Gold, they will follow the Bank notes. But this will not be, simply because onr existing Currency needs but Specie Payment and Central Redemption to make it the best in the world. We, for example, are doing a busi- ness of £1,000,000 per annum, Which could hardly be done at all on a purely Specie Currency. Both Greenbacks and National Bank nof Deing redecmable at par, are better to us than Gold: we should probably never present a dollar of either for redemption. And what is true of our business is true of most other peoples’. Even if some competent Court should decide that—the War and its necessities being ended— Legal Tender is no longer legal, it would be of no practical consequence; for the Green- backs would thenceforth circulate on their merits, not by virtue of Government compnl- sion. In Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and Colo- rado, they would often, if not always, com- mand a premium over Gold, becanse equally valuable and far more convenient for remit- tance. Whether there is too much, too little, or just enough Currency in the country, Re- sumption would speedily determine ; and if for- cigners (as is absurdly imagined) should see fit to send our bonds home and scll them at a sacrifice for Gold (as they can do now or at any time), why so much the better. Detter pinch ourselves a little to pay them now at a heavy discount than be obliged to pay them ultimately in full. 0 for courage and foresight in the regulation and management of our Curr THADDEUS STEVENS. The contest for the Senatorship in Pennsyl- vania has a national significance. We h not ventured to speak, because we have always felt that the States should settle these matters for themselves, without outside interference. But in Pennsylvania the Republican party seem to have a duty, from which it would be timid to shrink, and that is the election of Mr. Stevens ssor of Mr. Cowan. We are not, as the s unmindful of the claims of Mr. Cameron, Gov. Curtin, Col. Forney, and Mr. Grow. Mr. Cameron has been a good Repub- liecan, and during the war was con- sidered quite radical. Gov. Curtin, a8 the Chief Exceutive of the great State of Vennsyl- vania, showed Joyalty and energ Few Re- publican leaders ghave been more courageous than Col. Forney. He has done true service for the Republican party in Pennsylvauia, and did mueh to clect Geary, We regret that he has retired from the canvass, although most probably his retirement now will make him a strong candidate of the party when it comes to elect the successor of the esilent Mr. Buck- alew, two years hence. Mr. Grow enters the canvass with all the vigor of 1861, when he stood among the rising statesmen of the Re- ion of the 1en named, s still think, with all app services of the distingnished gentle that Thaddeus Stevens should be elected tor from Pennsyl We say this of Mr Mhough perhaps we have had as many wces with him as with any of our leaders, Our ways have been apart at times. Dut in choosing a Senator it is not wise to select mere like ships at sea, who wait for wind and eurrent. It is this foolish temporizing, this aceepting of men who talk loudly, in preference to the sturdy and patient soldier who Las stood true to his guns for years, that destroys the integrity of a party. It is not much to be a Republican to-day. We take with us now the drift-wood and scum. But it was something to be a lover of freedom and protection forty years ugo. Forforty years Thaddens Stevens has been champion of freedom and pro He has 1 by our party when it was a corporal's gnard; he leads it now when its columns cover the nation. It is waid that Mr. Stevens is too old. We wish one-half of his colleagues were as young. Venice found a savior in the great Dandolo, and did not feel that his years prevented him from defending the gonfulon of St. Murk's. Penngylvania need not hesitate to ¢ with high honors her most illustrious The Republican party will always be strong when its captaing are selected from veterans who have served it arnestly and wisely as Thaddeus S row anotl clion. son, OUR SANITARY DE The report of Dr. Dalton, Sanitary Superin- tendent, which accompanies the Report of the Board of Health, containg many hints for the future as well as facts of the past. As soon after the passage of the act authorizing the appointment of the Board of Health as its or- ganization conld be effected, preparation was made for a detailed inspection of the entire District as the first defense against the ex- pected pestilence. New-York divided into seven inspeetion districts, and Brooklyn into five. Semi-weekly reports were required upon all nuisanees found to exist. A book was also placed in each Station-House for entrance, on the part of citizens, of known or alleged nuisan- ces, The condition of the city may be judged from the fact that complaints were soon filed at the rate of fifteen hundred per week. The original number of inspecting officers was found totally inadequate, and thirty-seven additional claks were needed to properly inspect the streets and buildings. The most prolific canse of disease was found in the condition of the tenement- houses, whose want of proper convenicnees, ventilation, drainage, and sunlight were all active allies of pestile epidemie, The investigations of the inspectors led to the conclusion that reformation, to be permanent, must be made by forcing the responsibility upon the owners of the property, from whom it is now tog frequently shifted by the practice of lnS-]cMin.g. cqiire Tandlotds 16 fae weekly examination of their houses, and then hold them Aaccountable for any condition of such houses which is detrimental to health, aud the dangers of tenement living would be very grtnjatly rt;dllce:j pon the subject of disinfectants for the pre- vention of the spread of cholera, the Reporf of the Buperintendent is valuable, and, after read- ing it, one must concur in the opinion of the Hu.l!h Board, who ascribe our comparative ex- emption from the ravages of the pestilence %o the judicious and liberal use of such mutexinls politicians who to-day go this road, and to-mor- | A depot and laboratory was established adja- cent to the Central Health Board Office; Torses and wagons were kept ready for use at 2 moment's notice in carrying the prepared disinfectants to any point from which reports might be telegraphed of the neeessity for their use; the Superintendent’s Office was always open and medical men always in attendance, and the entire city was one huge patient, whose long pulsation aud' exlmls'l- tion w5 noted by the council of physicians in attend nee. In the case of tenement-houses or board’ z-houses, in which successive cases of choler., occurred, & novel method of fumiga- tion was adopted, Ly which the entire building was rendered wholesome. We quote from the report: “The process was this: All tenants “were removed from the house, being allowed “to take out nothing more than the clothing “then upon them. All the windows and chim- “neya were closed. The gas was then set free “in quantity—if chlorine, by the addition of “gulphuric acid to chloride of lime; if sulphur- “ous acid, by the burning of sulphur in large, “open pans, supported by long iron legs. The “men employed commenced the process on “the upper floors, and descended, leaving the “pans in operation on the different floors, and “finally closed the strect door—the house thus “filled with the gas was left undisturbed “for from ecight to twelve hours. It was “then opened and freely aired, and finally “the tenants allowed to rcocenpy.” This plan was found eminently suceessful, future immunity from the diseaso resulting in nearly every case. So effectual were the vigil- ant efforts of the Sanitary force that the high- est dail§ average of cholera cases did not exceed 30, and early in October the disease had prac- tically disappeared. The lesson of 1866 should not be forgotten in 1867. Unremitting diligence and thoroughly organized sanitary reform must be our depend- ence in the scason to come. It is estimated by the Health Commissioners that there oceur an- nually 8,000 deaths, and {216,000 cases of sick- ness, which might have been prevented by proper ganitary precautions. Such a cloud of witnesses should be enough to affright even those ornaments of our elective judiciary whose chief delight is to enjoin those who seek to do good. THE CITY MARKETS. The value of the market property of the City of New-York is estimated at considerably over 2,000,000, The report of the Health Commis- oners, after showing the down-town markets to be detrimental to health, and deserving of abatement as public nuisances, assert that were the said property charged with city taxes and interest, it would not only fail to pay its own way under the present management, but would ron in debt nearly §130,000 per year In another column will be found a synop- sis of a bill introduced into the Legisla- ture providing for an entire change in the management of our public markets, It is pro- posed to vest this management in a Board of five Commissioners, to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, which Board shall have power to sell, remove or es- tablish any market according to its convictions of the public necessities. The bill enacts that the present markets shall not be sold or abol- ished until others have been provided in suitable localitie For carrying out the decisions of the Board, the Mayor, Aldermen and Councilmen are to create and issne a publie fund of stock for this specific purpose, to an | amount not exceeding 1,000,000, and bearing interest not exceeding seven per cent per an- num. i Our markets could hardly be worse managed than they are now; with such a commission they might be much better. We now squeeze | our way through struggling masses of basket- | Jaden humanity, and dizzily emerge from en- |l.mkllux knots of teams to find ourselves in | | | | wretched market-sheds which would be dis- graceful in a tenth-rate town. have public markets, give us wide, high, clean market-halls, built of iron and glass, located in points accessible by wide streets, and under strict discipline by this or any other Board of Control. That will be a great im- provement on matters s now managed, but the | greatest improvement of all would be that the city should go out of the market business | | and stay out. Our readers already are fu saddest episode of the Candi the blowing up of the Monastery of Arkadi with its heroie Christian garrison and several thousand besieging Turks. We publish to-day a letter from our special correspondent in Candia, containing full details of this pitecons tragedy. Let none of our readers who take an interest in the great events in the East fail to read this graphic yunt. ‘The heroes of Arkadi will secure a place in history beside those of Thermopyle, who more than two thousand years ago fell in the defense of the same cause. The event is, moreover, one which is likely to have important consequences, The recent let- ters of Garibaldi and Victor Hugo show how profound an interest is felt in the issue of the struggle by the European Liberals. The waves of popular indignation are beating with renewed force ngainst the decayed Ottoman Porte, and almost daily dispatches by the Cable report the steady approach of the fatal hour of collapso, THE DRAMA. e DRAMATIC NOTES, Mrs, *. Howard will reappear at Barnum's Mn- senm next Monday as Topsy in ** 2inele Tom’s Cabin.” Her personation of this part is remarkably good, is thoroughly well knowu aud is widely popular. Mr. Dawison and Mr. Booth will appear in ** Othel- cen this remarkable Anglo- an porformat 1do wisely not to neglect this last opportunity of seeing it. Madame Ristori will make her first appearance in her great charucter of Canuna this evening at the French Theater, This perss on is said to excel her Elizabeth. We trust that the theater will ho crowded. That much is due to the importance of the asion. There is to he u Ristori matinge on Satur- day, and on Mon o great actress will maks her |v1;'~l ;Ip]wlmlm:t here prior to her departure for the Madame Ristori will give, on Tuesday evening next, at Steinw v Hall, the first of a series of Read- ings aud Recitations from the Italian and French Poets. Mr. Theodore Thomns's Orchestra will attend, to perform suitable classical musie. ico of ad- mission will be $1, to all parts of the house. This enterpriso is under the joint management of Mr. J. Grau and Mr. Lafayette Harrison, The Female Detective” and *The Pacha’s Pots” are thy pieces M' ow hold the stage of the Old Bfl’vfif?’rfi@%{. {f?? anny ?&i i & mflfi.‘fi usudl. ” To-night a performance wi iven for Benefit of Mr. Thotas Ward. b A scries of performances will be given at the varl. ons theaters in the city for the benefit of Mr, J, W. Lingard, who lost nearly all the rmpert nad fcqu&ru“ in many yur{ of industry, ,b‘h‘l‘l-!”ll“ hutning of the Now Jowery Theater: Oneof :a:k;n“v' the Stadt Theater, on nex’ ening. OBITUARY. — BY TELEGRAVN To THE THIUNR. CINCINNATI, Jan, 3,—Mrs, " and the eldest nm-uu:':l"frw clty, 4 +e Alad to-day. saed 90, If we must | kept | WASHINGTON. e CONGRESS YESTERDAY—IMPRESSIONG OF TIE EX- CURSION PARTY—THE NATIONAL MILITIA BILL— THE PARTITION OF TEXAS—RAILPOAD MEN BE- FORE THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE—THE RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISION—SMUGGLING FROM CANADA—INDIAN AFFAIRS, BY TRLEGKAPH 70 THE TRIBUNE. WasHiNGTON, Thursday, Jan. 3, 1507, In the Senate, to-day, after the offering of a num- ber of petitions for high tariffs, extensions of cur- rency, ncreased pay of army officers, &c., Mr. Sum- ner offered a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire what legislation is necessary to prohibit the sale of persons into Slavery as a punish- ment for crime, which was adopted after debate; also a resolution inquiring what legislation is necessary to prokibit enslavement or peonage of Indians in the Territory of New-Mexico, which was referred to the Military Committee, The first of these resolutions was the consequence of recent advertisements in Maryland papers, in which colored persons were of- fered for sale, to the highest bidder, Mr. Johnson said the result desired would best be arrived at throngh apending ease under the Civil Rights bill; a Maryland Judge had been arrested for ordering the sale, and the matter would probably be brought before the Supreme Court before it was finally adjudicated, Mr. Creswell took exception to s remark of Mr. Johnson that there was as little of the spirit of Slavery in Maryland as in any State of the Union; he hoped this was true, but he believed otherwise. He was willing, however, to wait and see what the Legislature would do toward repealing the odions Black laws of the State. The Nebraska bill came up as the unfinished business, but Mr. Wade consented to its postponement until next Monday, as the at- tendance of Senators was small. Mr. Edmunds gave notice that to-morrow he would call up the bill to regulate the term of tenure of office, by prohibiting removals from office without the consent of the Senate, &e. Mr. Howard offered a number of very stringent amendments to a pending bill relating to Utah, which were ordered to be printed. They pro- vide for the punishment of the solemnization of matrimony by Mormon priests, aud for the punish- ment of any man who shall claim as his wife any woman so married to him, If the bill should pass with the pending amendments, Mormonism will not last long in Utah. When the Senate adjourned, Mr. Sumner’s bill to punish persons who shall induce ne- groes or mulattoes to emigrate from this country un- der frandulent representations, was under discus- sion. The House opened with an attendance of 80 mem- bers—15 less than a quorum. It evinees immediately an earnest disposition to take up the Reconstruction question. Mr, Wentworth offered a resolution in- structing the Judiciary Committee to inquire as to what measure can be taken to prevent the release, under the recent decision of the Supreme Court, of the assassins of President Lincoln. It required unan- imous consent to consider the resolution on this day, and ridge, the most bitter Copperbead of the Honse, objected. Mr. Paine of Wisconsin introduced a bill reorganizing the militia so as to include the foyal colored men of the South ; it was duly referred. Mr. Bundy of Ohio presented a bill to erect four Ter- ritorial Governments in the State of Texas. Mr. Stevens then took the floor on his bill for the forma- tion of loyal State Governments in the South. It was published in Tue TriseNe of Decem- ber. 22 Mr. Bingham of Ohio raised a point of order on the bill, the point of which was that, as it related to reconstruction, it should go to the Committee on that subject. The Speaker decided that the point was well made but for the fact that the House had given its unanimous consent to cons- sider the bill without reference. Mr. Stevens, being entitled to the floor, proceeded to make an earnest appeal to the House for immediate action on the re- construction question; he declared that the recent decision of the Supreme Court was iniquitous and infamous, and rendered the necessity for Congres- sional proteetion to the loyal black and white people more imperative than ever. He cited in feeling terms the ease of Dr. Watson of Richmond, recently re- leased by this decision from trial by a military com- wission for deliberately shooting a colored man dead in his employer’s presence, because he had by acci- dent run & wagon he waa driving into Watson's team. Apology and reparation for the accident had been | toudered by the colored man and his employer, “ but the answer of the Virginia scion of chivalry, Watson, to that,” said Mr. Stevens, “was the drawing of a revolver and the instant shooting dead in cold blood of the colored man.” The civil courts of Virginia had refused to take cognizance of the crime, and the mili- tary commission ordered by Gen. S8chofield to try him had been dissolved by the President in accordance with the Supreme Court decision in the Bowles and Milligan case, Mr. Stephens then made an exhaustive argument in support of his bill, which was listened to with marked attention, Mesars. Joshua Hill of Geor- | giaand A. J. Hamilton of Texas sat near Mr. Stevens. | Mr, P of Maine followed, denouncing “My Poliey,” and urging Congressional action. The bill was then laid over till to-morrow and the House | went into Committee of the Whole. Mr. Kelley of Penusylvania delivered an elaborate and very ex- ut speech on what he sharply termed * that bud- ket of inaptitndes, incongruities, and non sequiturs, known ss the report of the Secretary of the Treasnry.” Mr. Holmes of New-York followed in a well written argument or Reconstruction and in favor of Congressional casnres. Although the | House will be in session to-i. wrow there will be no | business transacted until Monday. — The session to- morrow will be occupied wlolly in speech-making. Most of the Congressional exeursionists have re- turned to this city from their Southern tour, and the rest will doubtless return Dby the first of next week. Little change has been effected in the minds of those participating in the excursion regarding the political questions of the day, and those who be- lieved that the toasting and feasting which the Southern people extended would blunt the purpose of some of the party are likely to be mistaken. An anecdote may illustrate the feelings of at least one man in the excursion: While the party were at New- Orleans thiee men elbowed their way through the crowd and inquired for Ben Wade, and, upon being introduced to the Senator, announced them- selves as Rebels, declaring that they had always been Rebels and would always be Rebels, a8 they were honest in their beliet of the righteousness of the lost cause. * Well, gentlemen,” said the Senator, “I am happy to meet you. You are the first Rebels [ have seen since the war closed ; the balance of the Southern people claim to be Union men. Now tell me, if you please, how did you three men mwanage to carry on such a dreadful war against the Government, and keep it up for four long years by yourselves?” The crowd reccived the rebuke in silence. The three Rebels did not attempt to explain how they did carry on the war. The members of the party who went for ““a little recreation,” sncceeded in obtaining it, and those who went to have *“a good time,” had that also; only those were disappointed who accompanied the excursion “to obtain a correct idea of the feelings of the Southern people.” champaignes, turkeys whiskys, brandies, win sters, iees, turtles, &, &c., had no limit, an It was ascertained that her cargo was of war, consisting, in parf, of swords and other itary implements, and also buttons marked with the United States Snpreme Conrt overruled the decres a8 to the vessel and affirmed the condemnation of the eargo on the ground that the latter was contraband of war, and that although there wag nothing to show that the Springbok designed to pup. sue ber journey from Nassan to a Southern blockaded arrayed against the United States Govermment. The Senate Committee on Territories had & meets ing, to-day, on the subject of the bill now for the admission of Nebraska into the Union. The probability is an amendment will be reported to ob. viate the objection on the part of some members of Congress to the clause of her Constitation restricting suffrage to white citizens, by providing for the im- mediate admission of Nebraska on the foudamental condition that there shall be no distinctior in the ene joyment of political rights, on account of race op color, in that State. The same principle is applicabls to the State of Colorado. The Delegates from the Arkansas Legisiature, consisting of four members of the Senatc and six of the House, who are now in this city for the pur pose of conferring with the Government on the political situation of the conntry, had an interview with the President to-day. The Delegation is headod by State Senator Alexander Hunter, who is also United States Senator elect. That gentleman intro- duced the different delegates to the President, and also made a brief statement of the object of thele mission, after which a general conversation ensued on the prominent political topics of the day, namely, the present condition and fature prospects of the tion, and the parties retired at its close well pleased with the conference. To-morrow they will meet the Cabinet and Gen. Grant at the Executive Mansion. Under date of Dec. 21, the Assistant Commissiones for Mississippi reports tothe Commissioner that there have been 34 cases of murder in Mississippi in which freedmen were either victims or parties. The Burean Inspector in North Carolina calls theattention of the Commissioner to the course of the civil authorities tm various partslof North Carolinaflin whipping negroes, ostensibly as a punishment for petty crimes, but in fact with the purpose of disqnalifying from ever ex- ercing the elective franchise under the laws of North Carolina, shonld that right bo extended hereafter by the law of the whole land to people of color.” Citizens well known as Union men assert the above to be a fact, and that members of the State Legislature have openly stated that they wished tohead off Congress from making the negroes voters. There seems to be a deliberate and general purpose to seize negroes, procure convictions for petty offenses, punishable at the whipping-post, and thus disqualify them forever from voting in North Caro- lina, whatever may be the further action of the na tion, It is stated here that a duellis in prospect. The principals are a distinguished Democratic United States Senator and & well-known General, who fig- ured prominently at the Cleveland Convention. The General has challenged the Senator, but has yet re- ceived no reply. The cause of the trouble grew oud of jealousies between friends about a vacant office a the gift of the Pretident, which friends of the respect- ive parties were seeking. A communication from the Secretary of War trans. mitting facts and estimates concerning the Northera Pacific Railroad was sent to the Senate to-day, in response to & resolution. A statement from the Quartermaster-General estimated that transportation would be required by the War Department for 15,000 men and 15,330,000 pounds of military stores, basing the calculation upon the supply of 15 military posts, each manned with 140 foot and 70 mounted men, 10 of them from the eastern terminus and 5 from the western Estimates of the cost of the road prepared by Brevet Brigadier-Gen. Simpson, which are as follows: For for rolling stock and fixtures at $11,200 per mile, $22,800,48; for steamers on the Missouri and Colum- bia Rivers, $3,000,000; for engineering and contingen- cies, $10,000,000; for tnnneling beyond the estimated average per mile, $11,078,598. Theso and other items named make a total of $206,600,340, or an gverage per mile of §101,040. The following is a synopsis of the bill for organizing arming and disciplining the militia which was intro- duced into the House to-day by Gen. Paine : All able bodled citizens are to be enrolled witnin 60 dave after the passage of the aet and yearly thereafter; @ nationa! guard of two regiments of loyal voluntesry the Militia s to established in eaok Congressional District. A Burean of Militia s t4 be established in the War Department whi hall be presided over by a Major-General, who shall the commander of the wilitia, subject to the orders of the President and the Secretary of War. The term of sel is fixed at three years. ‘The organization shall be same a3 that of the Regular Army. The officers are to b¢ elected by the troops and commissioned by the St Governors. The Governors aro to excreise all s nuthority over the National Guard as Is by the Constitus tion reserved by the States, The test oath is to be taken by all exercising authority, The Government is to arm and equip the troops upon requisition and proper bonda There 1s to be an annusl encampment. On being called im toactual service,the pay and allowances are to be the same 83 in the regular army, Congress is to have ennam: the National Guard fnto service; to execute the laws the United States, or to suppress insurrection in any State at the request of the Legislature, In case of war Con, ia to have power to order such u portion o ‘the Nutionsl Guard {nto service ss i3 needed. Al forms, parade dress, &c., are to be the same as with the Regular Aml{. Four schools of the National Guard are to be established by Congreas with the same course of studies as are now ex isting at West Point. Commissions in the army ..h{l:'a nted only to graduates of Weat Point, to gradustes he National Guard schools, and to those who have sel honorably, at least one year in the wmilitia or dymy. The Paymaster-General issued a circular to-day re- garding the pay of band leaders in the Regular Army. It states that those who enlisted prior to May 1, 1864, are entitled to bounty from the date they ceased to Dbe mustered for and to receive the assimilated pay and allowances of commissioned officers. The importation of carriage springs from a cortain manufactory in Canada, in undervaluation with intent to defraud the Government of revenue, is still being followed, regardless of the late large confiscas tions for such violations of law. Twenty-eight hund- red pounds of steel carriage-springs, such as have previously been taken, have been seized at Buffale by the Deputy Collector at Ogdensburgh, as learned to-day from a telegram to the Treasury Department. Senator Wilson expects the Loly of his son, the late Lieut. Wilson, to arrive here to-morrow and will accompany it to his home, remaining absent about a week. Senator Morrill of Vermont left to-night for New-York on business connected with the Ways and Means Comumittee, Philadelphia sent in to-day over $i00, in money and provisions, for the New-Year's dinner on Satue- day next for the freedmen in Arlington, and for thelr support during the Winter while out of work. There ave nearly 1,000 of them, a large proportion children and aged persons, the robust males generally finding work elsewhere. Commissioner Bogy has made written application throagh the Becretary of the Interior, for an iuvesti- into the recent Indian massacre near Ford Kearney. In his application he states that this occnrrénce if not immediately attended to will be likely to bringon a general Indian war in all tha$ was | territory drained by the Yellowstone and its tribu- not the fault of the Southern people if any gongress- [ taries. If properly and promptly investigated thess man came home hungry or thimx. not, however, without its lessons. (e The Affair was | consequences may be averted. The Indian agent at Congress- | Leavenworth, Kansas, has forwarded his report re- man lost his overcoat, another his yalise, otbers ad garding tho recent Indian outrages in Texas. The™ their pockets picked. The wife « ® Senator lost a Kiowas killed a Mr. Box, and captured his wife and valuablo gold watch, and the#bly members of the party who lost nothiug the newspaper corre- spondents, the reason ip gase being that they h P Ik*h? i which the mAIor{ty of SI'QNII: pot their opinion in regard to the uncohsfital ity of trials by Military Commis- ngly opposed at the time by President Becretaries Btanton and Seward, who its consequences. The Judiciary Committee o voth Houses are determined to take some action n the matter. The opinion is regarded by leading members of both Houses as more injurious than the {nfamons Dred Scott decision. The United States Supreme Court to-day decided the steamer Springbok ease. This vessel was seized in 1863, about 200 miles from Nassau, whither she was bound from London. S8he was suspected of an intentlon to ruy the blockade of some Southern vort. sions, three ters and a young chi ini in cnp%v“i Ly some ume{mdkufl‘ll:‘rl&on}‘zfi;:wuw ing, t[mi were ransomed by the military, A party of Cnun.lw es captured a boy, but delivered him up upon demaiid of thy rfim They also captured Mrs. Sarah Juiie Luster, killing a Mrs. Bab and carrying of hee two children. Mrs, Luster escaped, was recaptured, and again escaped. One of the Camanche chiefs dis- approved these acts, and promised to return the Bab children. Measures have been instituted to recoves the captives and prevent a recurrence of the outrages. Owing to the troubles among Indians on the fronties the 15th Regiment of Infantry, whioh has been re- cruiting in this city, Lias boen ordered to proceed im mediately to Omaha.. Two regiments have also been ordered to the frontier from the Department of the Potomac, one of which will probably be the 25th infantry, ‘Tho Honse Committep oo Indian Affairs to-dav ea 1 port, the goods were evidently to be carried from letters “C.8.A” The Southern District of Now. = York condemned both the vessel and the cargo, buy W ] A Nassau to supply the military forces at that time : country. The interview was over an hour's durse the construction of 204 miles of road, $140,458,66% $