The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 9, 1867, Page 4

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BT THLGKAPN TO THN TRIBUNE. -Impnninl Suffrage, North, The best in the | Netw Dork Daily Crilbane by the naws sod sdiress tiou, but a8 & guaranty for letters for this office should be addressed to * Tuw Tain- + New-York. uNE We cauaot undertake to return rejected Communications. T0 ADVERTISERS. We will thank our advertising customers ‘to hand Advertisements at as early an bour as possible. If received aftor k they cannot be elassified under their proper heads. e e Tue Trisuse Aymaxac for 1867 will be ready on the 15th Jaxmary. It will contain full election returns from all the Btates, beside a vast amount of other Political and Statistical matter. Orders will bo filled in the order of their reception. See advertisement. e Ay 77 On the second page to-day will be fa'nnd a letter from Pesth, Curiosities of the Last Census, an ariicle on the Excise Law, the Moncy Article, and the Markets, beside other interesting matler. The Proceedings of the Qivil Courts and the Court Calendars, and the Reports of the Sessions Courts, are on the seventh page. o et and the Police ST Kentucky has rejected the Constitutional Amendment by a decisive vote, acting promptly upon the suggestion of Gov. Bramlette. jabiibmbimdiahi “Our Harrisburg dispatches indicate the election of the Hon. Simon Cameron to the United States Senate. It is said to be probable that he will have a considerable majority on the first ballot. Tha House yesterday conemrred with the Senate in passing the District Suffrage bill over the President's Veto: Yeas 113; Nays 38, We thank the majority for their fidelity and cournge. Affer this, we trust it will be nowhare denied that the Republicans aro for South, and every- ! The world mov s The year 1866 will be re: blo in the his- tory of France for the fiasco of its foreign policy. The expedition against Corea has been abandoned, as well as the oceupation of Rome and Mexico. It is also reported that the Em- press has been compelled to give up her inten- tion of visiting Rome, because the Papal Gov- ernment beforehand indicated its unwillingness to listen to any proposition for effecting a reconciliation with Italy. ] where. We have now in full the speech made by Gen. Dix on presenting his credentials, and the reply of the French Emperor. Both speeches are remarkable for their silenco on the Mexi- can question, and on the unpleasant corre- spondence which has recently taken place be- tween the two Governments concerning the evacuation of Mexico. The French Government even goes 8o far in ignoring this correspondence that the Moniteur denies that the Government has (officially) received the famous dispatch of Mr. Seward of Nov. 23, The French people are discnssing the meaning of this official an- nouncement, The Colored Soldiers' and Sailors’ Conven- tion may not attract as wide a public interest as many conventions which have had less o sion and less honesty. It deserves, however, grave respect, as the organization of a manly and intelligent effort to assert well-founded and self-evident rights which, it is our shame and folly, are still denied. dkers from the draft may be prond of their right to disfran- chise a colored soldier; but nobody else ought to regard his own right to the ballot perfect and just, until the black soldier, and those whom he represented, are assured their rights and the exercise of them. Gov. Crapo of Michigan, just dead or dying, was a Massachusetts man—from New-Bedford, we believe—who migrated to Michigan sev years gince, settled at Saginaw, and largely in lumbering. He is understood to n quite successful, while h achieved an enviable reputation and a widely diffused influence. He was first chosen Governor (by the Republicans) in 64, by 17,063 majority; while President Lincoln had 16,917, Tle was elected, two months ago, by 20,038 majority. (The vote of Houghton County, not returned, and of that part of Wayne which was rejected by the County Canvassers about neutralize each other.) His loss to the State at this juncture is & grave one, Under the XIIIth Amendment to the Consti- tution, construed to legalize Slavery in the recent | passed an act declaring, in effect, that any judge rash enough to sell his fellow-citizen shall be punished to the limit of two years imprison- ment, or $10,000 fine. It will be observed that the act does not construe the amendment, but simply enforces the intent of its framers. The consistency of the Civil Rights bill ‘with the Constitution is thus reasserted, and we may hope | that hereafter it will not be disregarded in its most essential partie Seven Democrats, | three of whom, we are pleased to see, are from New-York, were intelligent enough to vote in favor of the act, which passed by 116 Yeas to 24 Nays. ‘We heartily congratulate our City on her pros- pect of having—at length—a Post-Office that will not shame her by its unfitness, nor in- sult her by its inaccessibility. The President, with Interior Secretary Browning and Post- master-General Randall, virtually recommends to Congress the purchase for $500,000 of the site formed by the south-west angle of the City Hall Park, and the ercction of a suitable edifice thereon at a further cost of §1,000,000., Let that edifice be 8o planucd that every mail- car shall be run into its ground floor and ee- cutely locked in, before a mail-bag is touched or rendered accessible ; and let each outgoing bag be locked in the proper car before it leaves the office. It is high time that the business of receiving, forwarding, and delivering letters were put on a footing not absolutely disgrace- ful to the Nineteenth Century., It is also high time that New-York should post and receive at least half so many letters as L@Mon does. i ‘ The statistics given elsewhere, from the cen- sus returns for the Metropolitan District, show that our City has not reached so large a figure in its population as wo have been wont to be- lieve. Instead of having one million of inhabi- Arpaxy, Jan. 8.—The Northern Convocati b o R Y L Dissoas of New-York, and tho erection of the Dioosss of Albany. After an interchange of views, there was Wfimwhhhv&d&.w jon of of ; and it was that ‘boundaries sbould be the same ag i ey "5:‘1':"“"0""::".';' WAl 0 Waetom Boundicy of the bressas 1 Lawrence River. . . BXOW BLOCKADE REMOVED. /BT PRLBORAPN T0 ¥NS TRIAUNS. tants, New-York City contains hardly three- quarters of a million. Brooklyn has a little less than her boasted three hundred thousand, the two cities together footing up 1,022,764, The total population of the Metropolitan District is 1,224, ) 8.—The blockade of snow m?’-f “Ratiway hetwoen this piace und | 679. In New-York there are 33,024 more women %"& suspended, wil, it 18 | than men, and in Brooklyn the excess of women —— . | judicial slave sales in Maryland, Congress has. tables which we print are instructive. Our landlords have silenced our murmurings at their outrageous prices by the plea that the population of the City had 80 enormously in- creased that there were not buildings enough to shelter the people. Their skillfully com- piled estimates of the number of dwelling- houses upon the Island in which to shelter the one million men, wonien and children whom they assumed to e resident here, were formid- able supporters of their increased rents, and formed a bulwark of extortion against w Lich mild remonstrance made feeble impression. In view of the actual figures of the population, we can shortly verify or confound these state- ments. If the latter, then the February tariff of prices for the coming year should be ma- terially lowered from the standard thus far de- termined upon e landlords. Concerning this matter we 1 to have further light. REDUCING TAXES. Shall wo or shall we rot vigorously proceed with the payment of our vast National Debt ? We say, “ Hold on to our taxes and pay!” and we confidently believe the People would, by & large majority, say the same if they could hear both sides and then vote. Yet we greatly fear that Congress may be impelled to listen to gpecial importunities and reduce our taxes 8o as practically to stop the payment of the Debt. There is much complacent talk of the large receipts of the last fiscal year which disregards {he fact that the Internal taxes were reduced at least twenty-five per cent. at the last Ses- gion, 8o that the accruing revenues arc less by at least One Hundred Millions per annum than they were a year ago. DBut even this is an 'r(luuln view of the reduction impending. When the war closed, the country was ne arly bare of goods, and prices were very high. Of course, importers and home manufacturers rushed in to reap the waiting harve Mann- factories were run day and night; steamships from Europe came laden with rich and costly fab- ries. The daily Treasury receipts were largely swelled by this preternatural activity, and amounted to over Five Hundred Millions per an- num. And when, at a later per d, the demand for goods fell off, it was freshly sti ated by re- ductions of prices, extensions of credits, and by the illegitimate devices known as “drumming.” You must travel in the North-West to realize how thickly it is covered by agents of New York, Chicago, and other jobbing houses, all intent on tempting purchasers by the display of samples, by concessions in prices, and by ex- tensions of eredit. These arts cannot pern nently prosper; we know how though not when must result; but meantime they impart a actitions stiwmlus to trade, manufactur revenue. We estimate that there are at least this day in the hands of jobbers and Jetailers than there were eighteen months ago, and that it will not be found possible to distend the balloon much further, Very properly, importa tions faM off, and manufacturers, instead of running night and day, are working short time Imports will probably yicld far less in 1867 cent. excise on home manufactures. Taxes and $100,000,000 (gold) from Duties in the calendar ycar 1867, it will do well. leave less than £150,000,000 to be the reduction of the principal of our —which is quite little enong 3 We trust, therefore, that the be reduced, s s such reduction may tend rather to inerease than diminish income. If, for instance, an ¢ s of 50 cents per gallon on Distilled Alcoholic Liquors will yield more rev- enue (as we do not doubt it will) than the pres- ent tax of $2 per gallon, we ftrust the duty may be rednced to 50 cents. And if the dotton- | growers will agree 8o to extend their cultivation this year a8 to insure as great an aggreg in- come from an excise of two cents per pound as from the three cents now exacted, we say Di- minish the ta But let us hold fast to the policy of paying our Debt promptly. We are no fonder of paying taxes than other people, but we'want to see the Union out of debt once more. If we hold fastto the pay- ment of at least $100,000,000 per annum, it will soon be easy to fund whatever ghall remain of our Debt at a rate not exceeding five jer cenf. o idly getting out of debt. But let it bo settled that we are not paying off, nor meaning to pay, the prine to float even Si the truer econoimy . We cannot, therefore, unite in asking Con- gress to take off the five per cent. now levied on Manufactuses, nor the five and ten per . on Incomes, the three per cent. on Advertise- ments, nor, in fact, any tax whatever. We all understand that these taxes, the Income ex- cepted, are really paid by the great body of the people, and not specially by manufactur- ers nor by fotton-growers. And it is very plain that, if we repeal taxes because they are inconvenient to those who (whether direcily or indirectly) pay them, we shall soon have not only no swrplus but no revenue at all. Let us consent to no reduction’ that precludes our pay- ing at least five per cent. per annum of the principal of our Debt. By-and-by, we shall be wise enough so to levy and adjust taxes that they will serve to increase rather than diminish the aggregate of National and individual wealth. If, for ex- ample, a tax of $100 in rural districts were imposed, $200 in villages of 1,000 to 10,000 in- habitants, $500 in cities of less than 100,000 people, and $1,000 in all more populous cities, on every store or bar where Intoxicating Ligquor is sold, there would thence be realized many mil- lions per annum without loss to any one. There would be liquor enough sold and drunk; the businéss of selling it would be quite as gainful as now ; but, instead of employing and subsisting five per cent. of our population, it would absorb bat about one per cent., remit- ting several hundred thousands from rum-selling to the more healthful and useful labors of the farm, the workshop, and the factory. And the principle here indicated is capable of varied and beneficent application. But we must not expeet nations to cut all their wisdom-teeth in infancy and at once. We trust Congress will revise and stiffen the Tariff, so as to secure to our manufacturers and artisans a larger share of our own markets, and that many who now await orders or meditate 'to{ping will thus be enabled and encouraged to Roabead. If we could only go at once to Specio Payment, thus reducing the nominal or cur- rency cost of materials, labor, &c., we should thereby incite many to build, and improve, and invest, who are now repelled by inflation and exorbitant prices —who will neither buy nor erect a house while it costs $15,000 and they know it will be worth but $10,000 to $12,000 after Resumption. And whenever we do resume, or move resolutely toward thay end, there will doubtless be a pause in business and temporary falling off in the weekly receivts 8. Rely on it, paying off is Two Hundred Millions' worth more of goods | | or stopping altogether. Hence the Duties on | Everbody is willing to trust those who are rap- | al of our Debt, and it will be hard | NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, P, shonld be no tax rémitted than they did in 1866; and so will the five per | If the | Treasury realizes £300,000,000 from Internal | Import | | have lived in almost constant rebellion against And this, if we do not mistake, will | | | | | | | pointed if this Congress shall blast the' con- | daily have unmistakable proof. JANUARY 9, of revenue. There or réduced till we have returned to solvency and stopped the fssue of promises whereof each is an ostentations and demoralizing untruth, A BANKERUPT LAW. Wo have always regarded the enactment of a National Bankrupt Law—one contemplating and providing for every case of insolvency—as among {116 most imy ortant and imperative duties of Couciess. The express suthority for such egactt ont embodicd in the Federal Constitu- tion i a virtual dis cction to enact—in fact, little less {an o positive demand. The provision that “ Congress shall have power to levy and “eollect taxes, duties, imposts, and excin-_u," means more than that Congress may raise revenue—it not only confers power, but imposes obligation. And so, in our view, does the express grant of power “to establish uniform “Jaws on the subject of bankruptciep through- « out the United Stites.” Rights involve duties. There was never an hour within our recol- Jection when we would not have heartily voted for a National Bankrupt Law, if only to check and moderate the tendency to excessive and improvident eredits whereby the business of this country is so generally bloated and tainted. Nowhere else do the temptations to commercial gambling requite such vigorous counteraction. But the extra stimulus given to every form of mercantilo excess by our present inflated, will- o-wisp Curreney gives double emphasis to every argument for a Bankrupt Law. Where six or eight speeulators in National falschood, gathered in secret conclave, may make gold scarce or plentiful, cheap or dear, as they shall judge most profitable to themselves, and thus diminish if not destroy other men's ability to pay their debts, it is the hight of injustice and cruelty to leave unfortunate debtors forever in the toils to which their own inexpericnce and others” eraft have consigned them., The Senate, it is said, will soon take up and act on Mr. Jenckes's House bill establishing a National system of proceedings in bankruptey. We trust this action may be prompt and deci- sive; for wo are sure it cannot be adverse to the prayers for relief of the tens of thonsands now struggling and suffering in the bondage, of indgbtedness which they can never pay, and forbidden to earn by the knowledge that every dime will be snatched away by remorse- less creditors before they can grow it into a ollar. Wo shall be sorely, grievonsly disap- fident, cheering anticipation, of its enactment of a Bankrupt Law. THE CLOUD OVER MOUNT IDA. The little island of Crete, in the Mediter- ranean, in early mythology the cradle of Jove and in later times the scene of some of the most desperate and valorous exploits recorded in his- tory; that romantie island about whose famed mountain cluster the associations of familiar ucient fables; whose very name calls up the heroes of Troy and the divine songs of the old Dlind poct, and whose soil has been consecrated now by over 200 years of struggle against Otto- man despotiem, is once more the theater of hero- ism and the battle-field of liberty. Since tho Turks wrested Crete from the Venetians in the 17th, century, after a twenty years' siego of its capital, the Christian inhabitants of the island their Mohammedan masters. Time and again have they been on the point of throwing off the slavish yoke, and twice their fet- ters have been tod and their glori- ons aspirations thwarted by their Christian brethren of Europe. When the Turkish power was shattered at the battle ef Nava- rino, in 1827, there was good cause for hope that the independence of Greeee would involve the liberation of the Cretans; but the arbitrary partition of the Hellenic territories by the allied powers of Europe, handed over Crete, bound hand and foot, to an Egyptian despot ; and when fresh com jons in 1840 rendered a change of rule inevitable, the same unholy | mbination gave back the island into the hands of the same eruel master at Constanti- nople, from whom it had suffered during so many generations, Its subsequent history has been little else than a history of oppression and | revolt. Its population has dwindled away under overnment and ontrage, until it is now hardly a fourth of what it was in the palmy days of Venetian supremacy. But the inde- vendent spirit of its indomitable people is as hardy us ever, and the insurrection which is now raging among them seems only to have gathered strength from long repression. And mi that this revolt is no trivial uprising, to be put down in a few mouths with a few bandfulls of mercenaries, we The bravery of that heroic band of 500 priests, women, and villagers, who defended the convent of Arkadi the other day against 16,000 Turks, and when the gates were forced fought to the death, hand to hand, at the doors of the cells, finally immolating victors and vanquished by setting fire to the magazine; or of the few soldiers who held the stone mifl of the convent with such obstinacy that the Turks had to blow it up to silence them; or of the 3,000 Cretans, who, if reports can be trusted, were drowned in a cave on the sea-shore by the rising tide; or of the troops who, after repeated defeats, only with- drew to their mountains, and, while preparing for fresh resistance, renew again and again their oaths never to lay down their arms until the Ottoman despotism has been overthrown— the bravery of these men, wo say, is not of a kind that can be easily overpowered. 4 But a more formidable enemy than the Turks now presses upon them. As the Russian trusted to his best Generals, Frost and Fire, to defeat the triumphant armies of Nupoleon, so the Sul- tan looks to the Winter to conquer the patriots whom lhis bayonets cannot subdue, In their mountain fastnesses the insurgents, if unincum- bered by women and children, may reasonably hope to defy for months the strongest force which Turkey can bring against them ; but in the meantime what will become of their wives and families ¥ How can they live while their crops are abandoned to the ravages of the enemy T Iow can supplies be conveyed to them from abroad while the Turks have full control of the country between them and the sea? The Winter is a terrible ordeal through which their endurance must be tested ; but they are prepared to face it boldly. The leaders of the insurrection have held a council at Askyfo, und resolved that a small number of men chosen from each of the principal villages shall remain with the armed bands and act on the defensive in the mountain regions, while the rest shall make their peace with the Mussulmans and do what they can to protect their families and erops during the Winter. The openming of Spring will see them again in the field. The main stay of the revolt at present must, of course, be in the stout hearts of tho insurgents; but in the Kingdom of Greece they have a powerful auxiliary, which is destined, a8 wo believe, to play an important part in tho his- tory of the struggle, Popular syppathy with the Cretang has risen in Grece to lever-heat, | Thomas's * Cadi)” Offenbach’s wild burlesque of the | Mr. 1867. $en of all ranks, com!;h“h merchants as well as fiery adventurers, ¥ join then. Arms and supplies are smuggled through ¢he Turkish blockade, and o little Grecian Tsland of Syra bas become to the 10- surgent Cretans what Nassau used to be to the Rebels of the South. The request of the Cre- tan Assembly for annexation to Greecomncets with an enthusiastic responfe at Athens. Bub the Greeks, cautious and selfish as ever cven in their enthusiasm, purpose letting the Cretans fight out the Winter alone. If the insurrec- tion survives this trying period, Greece will come to its aid in the Spring. This means a war between Greece and ‘Turkey; and & war between Greece and Tur- key means a reopening of the Eastern question, and not improbably a war between some of the greater powers of FEurope. The crimes of nations, as well as individuals, drag after them their own punishment, and the perpetrators of the great wrongs of 1832 and 1840 may encoun- ter their predestined scourge in the determined struggle for freedom which their outrages upon Crete have excited and kept alive. FREE TRADE IN WOOL. Mz, H. D. Tellkampf, an eminent wool-broker of our City, has memorialized the Senate Fi- nance Committee in favor of allowing foreign Wools to be imported duty free. Here are his essential facts: “Since 1842, in England, there has been nodmion wool, and prices have been ruling about 50 per cent, higher, on an average, for the last 24 years, than during the pre vith the so-cafled ¢ protection for wool-gro sinee 1842, the increase of the flocks of & in ritish Islands and colonies has been enormoi 1l 2, 8150, the increase of wll farming products, uring o steady, good market for the same. “Recond—In January, 1859, the French Government re- dnced the duty on wool from twenty-four per cent. ad ralorem on forelgn unwashed wool, to about one-half cent per_pound for common, and one cent per pound for fine qualities, The prices, stead of declinfug, rose, and have ruled higher thero sinee for domestie fleace than duriug lar period previous to this change Thus Free Trade in Wool, instead of cheap- ening that staple, considerably enhances its price! Where, then, is the consumer’s gain by taking off the duty? The revenue loses; where is the counterbalancing gain? Wo thank Mr. Tellkampt for helping us to demonstrate that inereasing the duty on a staple does not neeessarily oblige the consumer to pay more for it. We have proved this many times and in many ways; but the Free Traders will not heed us, while they must defer to Mr. Tellkampf. Uere is Mr. T.s own specific: “ It may be well to state what I now believe to ba the Dest for all concerned in the wooleu interest, but prinei- pally for the wool-growers, and it is briefly this: A1l wool free of duty, and with no revenue tax on the wetion of the manvfacture, but instead of it, a ten per eent. vevene tax on their profits or income. “ Five per cent. on production is utterly ruinous in bad thmes, For fn mill with a capital of $300,000, hav- L $200,000 1 will, machinery, &c., aud 800,000 s its work . producing $1,000,000 worth of goods per year, al ‘{mu five per cent. revenue tax (or §50,000 per year), would lose all means of working and absorb, a5 will easily be seen, $100,000 In two years, tu tiwes wheu no prefits aro made, &8 will happen.” —This might do for those who live by Wool and Woolens ; but, with our Two Billions and a Half of National Debt, and at least One Bil- lion more of State and local debts, the rest of us may have a word to say as to relieving these favored classes from taxation. A ten per cent. tax on profits would prove a sheer illusion, It would produce little or nothing. And then the growers and spinners of Cotton would like immensely to commute their heavy burdens into a “ten per cent. tax on profits.” And how could their claim to do so be re- sisted 1 No, Mr. Tellkampf! we have a great load to cawy, and every shoulder must bear its part. Give us a good duty on Wool and a correspond- ing impost on Woolens, and they will con- tribute handsomely toward the National in- come, Give us all a chance to work, and we will cheerfully pay our several shares. A live woolen factory peurs money into the Federal Treasury ; not so a d Four different schools of opera appear almost simultancously before onr Metropolitan lights. The elegant Theatre Francais has held for a time the genius of the French Opera Comique ; and Ambrose “Tromb al-Cazar,” and more such voluble and garru- lous children of music and comedy, have treated us to o fresh sensation in musie, from which we have, no douht, son The in passing. Neither pro- nor shallow fulfills the idea of I'rench vivacity and v tility in comic opera, and it is frequently and artistieally characterized. With out doubt, it is the work of an excellent musi- cian. On_ Wednesday, Verdi's Trovatore will be given in French at this theator. The Germans at the Thalia Theater reappeared last evening in Der Freischutz, a work rich with the patural strength of a master who knew the secret springs of music, and a romance of music which is genuine as it i imitable, and therefore not to be omitted trom a man repertoire. Of course it was th familiar spirit, and satisfied the love of d which keeps time to the Hunter’s Chorus. Der Freischutz is certainly full enough of hobgoblins and mysticism, of demon-hunters and magic bullet- makers, without the exploding pyrotechnic display of the catastrophe. Musical fireworks may be in order, but the supernatural blazes and scintillations in Der Freischutz have never seemed to us necessary to the fame or the muse of Weber, if they do serve a l;ur;m:«- of capturing the ears of Young Germany on oliday nights by storming its eyes. A season of English opera, of which Miss Richings is the prima donna, will be opened at the Olympic Theater on Monday, Jan. 14. Miss Zelda Harrison, Mr. Wi Castle, and . C. Campbell will be the leading voices, and, among other works, Wallace's charming opera of Maritana will bo produced. This troupe wrve the credit of having presentod for the first time in very many yeard an American comic opera—" The Doctor of Alcantara,” of Julius Eich- borg. The delicacy and liveliness of this little work have already secured for it the success of a season, a reputation which its tasteful compgser merits. ng, Miss Nettio Sterling will give a Con- inway Hall, assisted by the tenor Hill and orchestra. On Thursday, a compli- Concert will be given _at the same hall to Henrictta Beebs, when Madameo D'Angri and Centemeri will appear. Miss ngnor THE DRAMA. ——— OLYMPIC THEATER, Mr. Edmond De Mondion played Hamlet last even- ing at the Olympic Theater. The audience wag con- siderable, in point both of numbers and intelligence ; and it certainly received him with enthusiasm. His personation of Hamlet was applanded at many points, and ho was several tiwes called before the curtain, Mr. De Mondion, forseveral years past a journalist in this city, has, nevertheless, had some experience in the dramnatic profession, which he now proj s to follow. He appeared last' evening for his pls:x it, brother journalists. ——— CONORESS YRSTERDAY-THE Iy BY TELEGRAPE TO n: w.y;r.,r““ MAIL Cowraior, 5% WASHINOTON, T There was very littlo done in ::nfl:’s':n:o"-l‘, Ths bill cLanging the mode of a Agents was nuder diseussion, but was eut off expiration of the morning hour, The Nehn.)‘i came up at 1 o’clock, was debated untj] little else than mn iteration of arguments | con, already made s grent many times, A- y ment was at last entored into to take a vmw m. to-morrow. The bill will pass with the M‘I amendilent, admitting the State immediatel; o attaching to tho bill the fundamental conditio gt « there shall be no denial of rights on account of in the new State. Brown’s ameudment af same condition, but required the people of N, to consent to it before the admission of the Edmunds’s is a condition subservient; ln'.fl.“ eondition precedent. .. The number of absentees in the Senate is yers large. Senator Wilson is home burying his = Sprague is home also. Harrls is at Albany et Conkling and the other Senatorial candidates, is home sick. Yates has been in llinois sines befors the holidays, and Trumbul¥has gone to join him have himself returned to the Senate, Pomeroy iy » in Kansas on business with the Legislature, Guf o is home sick, and his colleagne, Garrett linvi., i ia Kentucky looking after a reéleetion, Nye is a out in Nevada and Buckalew is in Pennsylyanis The Senatorial election in Missour! is 30 exciting they Gratz Brown had to go home, Stevens, Coukling, Hurlburd, Blow and other members of gouse, are in their respective States helping to eleey, Senators. Col. Forney and others go to Hurridturg nigltt, £ 4 The House to-dmy presented an inspiritin e, The important events ocewrring in Congr'e...‘ terday led the masses to infer that to-day would velop others equally important, and so the proved. The spacious galleriea were filled to over- flowing and the attendance on the floor was greater than on any day since the recess. After an ineffss. tual attempt on the part of the Demoerats to adjoum over on account of the anniversary of the New-Orleans, the District Suffrage Bill vetoed the President and passed over the veto by the ¢ was received from that budy. By the requirements of the Constitution the President's objections were spread on the fournal of the Honse in the reading at tedious length of the veto message. When this was finished the previous question was seconded and all debate thus cut off. The House then voted on the question, “shall the bl pass, the objections of the President notwithstand. ing 1” and it was decided in the affirmative by Yeas, 113; Nays, 83. When the Speaker announced the re- sult one solid ronnd of applguse burst from the crowded galleries over the trinmph of loyal manhood suffrage in the District of Columbia. The House fol. lowed the good work by passing, after brief debats, Mr. Kasson’s bill to enforce the thirteenth Amend- ment to the Congtitution of the United States, by preventing the further sale of citizens of the United States into Slavery, as has been the case lavely in Maryland. Mr. Kasson, whose manner of speaking is exceedingly pleasant and agreeable, made a very effective speech in support of his bill. Ross, Niblack and Phelps of the Democratic side, put forth several’ interrogations in defense of their party, which inter- ruptions Mr. Kasson answered so promptly and ap-" propriately as to call forth the admiration of the ‘whole House. Three New-York Democrats, Messrs. Winfield, Bergen and Hunter, voted for this bill. The House took up Mr. Stevens’s Enabling bill, and, after listening to a sixty minutes speech from Mr. Broomall of Pennsylyania, on recoustruction, ad- Journed. The House Judiciary Committee at their meeting this morning under consideration the Ashley impeachment resolution. They decided to proceed at at once with the investigation, with the view of ascer- taining whether the charges contained therein of high crimes and misdemeanors on the part of the President have sufficent ground upon which a bill of impeachment can be found. It was detérmined there fore to call Gen. Ashley, the author of the resolution and charges, before the Committee to-morrow morn- ing and examine him at length in regard to the mat- ter. The Committee have all the power required to send for persons, and it bids fair to be & very pro- tracted inwestigation. The Committee will hold daily sessions until the matter is disposed of. The decision of Speaker Colfax, that the proposed impeachment of the President is a question of privilege, was based on a decision by the Speaker of the XXVIIth Congress on a poiut of order made by Horace Everett of Vermont, and not by Mr. Everett as Speaker, incorrectly stated. The Secretary of the Interior and Acting Post master-General Skinner have approved the report of the Commission heretofore appointed to select & site for a building for a Post-Office, and for the s commodation of the United Btates Courts in the City of New-York. They recommend an additional appropriation of $1,500,000 for the ercction of aibuild- ing for the purpose mentioned. An urgent neces sity, they say, exists for early action, and they are of opinion that economy and pokicy require that the United States shall be proprietors of the buildings in the City of New-York, appropriated to such im- portant public uses. The report inclosed from the Commission says that upon investigation it was as certained that the average amount of outgoing and incoming mails had increased in less than twelve years from ten tuns to ninety and one hundred tuns a day. That the present Post-Office building was totally unfitted for and inadequate to the present wants of the postal business, and that a buudl:, fitted to accommodate it, and the business the United States Courts would require aspaco of land equal to from 25 to 80 city lots. I8 was also apparent that a location should be proeured in which streets were wider than those upon which the present Post-Office is situated, the latter being 00 narrow to permit large mail wagons to be turned in them without using the sidewalks on one of the sides of those streets, Only one definite responst was received to the proposals the Commission fo~ vited—namely, from Smith Clift, esq., relative to the salo of St.John’s Park. This property, located on the Hudson River, was considered to be so far re moved from the central part of the city es to be um fitted for the purposes proposed. The Commission for the reasons stated, at length recomunend that the United States accept the offer of the Corporation of the City of New-York to sell to it the portion of the City Hall Park, in area 65,259 square feet, for $300,000 for the purpose of erecting thereon a City Post-Office and rooms for the Courts of the United States and for the necessary offices conneeted therewith. Thes documents were to-day transmitted to the House of Representatives. The House Post-Office Committee had under con* sideration to-day the proposition of Elihu B. Wash Vburue, to establish Government telegraph lines along the various post routes of the United States, to b and at the invitation of nmn¥I T'he performance 18 not one t| Do Mondion's Hamlet evinced couscientious effort, and personal culture and refinement. Weo cordially wish him all the suceess that he can desiro in the honorable, difficult, enticing profession which he has chosen to adopt. Mr. art Flnyed Polonius Inst evening, and made us regret that we do_not oftener see him in Shakesperean characters. Miss Kato Nowton likewise made & pleasing impression as Ophelia. . Ho-niht, “The Tong Strike” will be revived at this theator, and it wil{ hold the stage for the rest of the weck. RISTORY'S LAST APPEARANCE, There will be a Matinés to-day at the Frenoh The- ter, when Madame Ristori will make her last appear- | ance here for the present. The play will be * Eliza- be&hl.;’ Let the ‘o‘mlnuntmm m hh;? andience and hearty greoting w8 says -Liye. not to mu again for about {gur moutls. BROADWAY THEATER. Mr, Owens has made a positive and remarkable hit a8 Grimaldi. We regret that m:pumuan Was not given at un earlier in engagoment. Hu- EE et e N E S ) n a8in ‘chis ro| tation imeicasiir ki s vovely Fiod” b Fench nobla- man, Grimaldi ou by al) E to be NMM B WAL fls Mi{; fifi. 5{'& g at calls for eriticisin, We are e Irathvv-',&c Saturday he will nact ingle, nl;htlo{ m& I:i! hm'mnll:“m m.fl: under the control of the Postmaster-General. No conclusion was reached by the Comunitteo. They have determined to give an sudience at their nexb meeting to & committee of telegraph men who ar® favorable to the scheme, The Postmaster-General # favorable to it, and bolioves it can be worked with advantugo to the Government in coanection with the postal service. The Committee also agreed to report nNntnrmmld:molsdhhlpuwfluh" ity of Now-York on the grounds of the City Hall Park. The bill provides for an $1,500,000 for that purpose. ; The House Naval Committee will leave here 08 Thursday for Philadelphia for the purpose of i) quiring iato the facts in regard to the burning of 9 Ironsides at League Island. The Committee to inguire into NMH will also leave hore on Thursday for Wfl ™ ol purpose of taking testimony in regard to some ditional faots which have just come to light. ' e Ry Ll Loy the House the Treasury which looks to an expediting of th # tinetion of tho pational debt. - i