The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 14, 1867, Page 4

NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1867. “}ious” and “lowest characters;” we never blame the police for doing what the law makes their duty; but we do insist that the law's ministers shall treat rich and poor, high and low, alike. “Sneak-thieves” and “pickpockets™ have just as much right to break those laws which MUSIC. are in Congress ; 'tis yon who legislate—for you " S Tho sustained success of Mr. Theodore make and unmake Congresses—you make and ™ you unmake law-makers, Indeed, you are no: :’;fl"mm :‘;‘ :MO;G!WI 1o the beey “gearce.” But tarift-making, like the making of -York, as it proves conolusiy 2 T - e | that the classics of the art, in the hauds of :iulocol;z‘:hve.'.:ntn work of growth, requiring 1 0 mnl-\l_lhm.mbamndpinenqrwwmfl | ne. patient, satory. They summon large audiences by a spell ; wonder-working instrumentation deeper and o | Mero Dok Buily Tribune = MONDAY. JA ant, vagrant, irresponsiblo Southerners, White or Black, should be denied the same Right, we have no protest to make. But no man should bo left unfranchised for any reason not gronnded in his personal incapacity to vote intelligently or to vote patriotically. Avd what- WINTER GARDEN NO—THE FOOL'S REVENGE ARY 14, 1867, Mr. Rdwia Booth - » A iisabiliti i e i i he Hon. John Mor- - o e will thauk onr sdve ever disabilities may be imposed should be ex- ff)rbul gambling as the 3 r s e v | ..|‘h\,:p :‘.” A o pressly terminable within a biief period, unless | rissey or Mr. John C. Heenan and th'mr : 2 ESUMP TION. A potent in certain essentials of the finest thoughg AT ARy ADOERA, TheWer | | e the proseribed shall persist in demonstrating | wealthy customers; and we tell Superin- Thf Commercial Advertiser, in an article dep- | {hat which attracts us to any other work. ayme i i . = iso the trust of a voter. tendent Kennedy that he must either war | recating Currency Contraction, says: phouy-feast is the purest symposinm to vhiich thy 8 overlooking the essential : it fitness to exerel hig unfitne lover of music can sit down. Weshould haveit v Tue : ALsasac for 1867 will be o S 4 3 ble ] R § ( bt the existence of an intellizent earnestly upon our upper-crust gamblers an f he o LLET dy on the 15th Jannary, It will contain full election We doub ¢ D tates Notes, as a credit. The e ik :‘-;‘ul}‘l:;:nmil‘lh:'lfil‘.lri,\u-nhh‘ a vast amout of other | American who docs not realize that the day | shut up their sumptuous “hells,” or he must let greenback ts a prom mfllm)flm’l;hl:':b'[‘l‘!l’”’;‘l';':“f:;"'r’: but fl"]‘ us be "’t“, "f'gfi'"’,if:‘ onco in :”','"’""l. ’ o be far distant, wherein | Baxter-st. and its poor devils severel alone. 4 in abeyniice from the fnaditily of careful preparation, Mr. Thomas can bring his must come, and cannot b » » v wmens lo redees 11s noles. worked and intelligent musicians uphefore the Political and Statistical matter. Orders will bo filled in See ndvertisoment. —Not only is the last assertion above quoted untrue, but we think The Commercial, on re- flection, will admit it to be so. It is not “the “inability of the Government to redeem its notes’ that protracts the (present shinplaster mil- e can’t make fish of one and flesh of the other; for, if he does, the publio will suspect that it is not because the aristocratic gamblers are the better men, but because they are better pay. Either make raids on the boss gamblers, Richiags Opers of Sehumann, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Beethos face of andiences which delight to Liear the sym, The programme of Saturday opened with .~' and masterly work—the Suite in C, by Rafl,-‘ which the minuet, and the coneluding scherzo no inhabitant of any of our States will be de- nied the Right of Suffrage because ho is a Ne- gro or because he was a Rebel. And if we all know that Impartial Suffrage must ultimatc ly be the rule, why should not all considerate cit- — S the order of thelr reception. OLD BOWERY THEATER £ M - IE LITTLK BAKEFOUT—IACK CADK. Ml s - ‘ommusications. Whatever 18 cated by the name and sddross 70 CORRESP! No notice cau be taken of Auouy ertion 1must be aa THIS RVENL Baaoy Herring; MUSEUM. BIN. Mra G. €. Howard T&?"I?m 1bS—VAN AMBURGH'S ter—uob necessarily for publication, but as & guarauty for I ! COLINOTION . & wdiremsed to “Tus Tamn- | i2€D8 unite to hasten its adoption? Supposewe | who can afford to lose 140,000 per mghf,‘ or | Jennium—it is the inability of speculators, kite- | march, with their energotic pomp and iness letters for thls ofice should be adiress 1ot the penny and two-penny blacklegs enjoy | flyers, and gamblers in gold and food, to make | liness, were tho parts most thoroughly epe reconstruct the Union, and leave out Four Mil- lions of Rebels or Four Millions of Negroes, deny them any voice in makiog, amending, or joyed. A sacred passage from Mozart, “Avy Vernm Corpus,” was uttered by the Voices of the Mendelssohn Union with that finely modulateg oxm,” New-York. We cauuot audertake to retarn rejectad Commonications, money unless the Currency be kept inflated and impunity commensurate with that of the nabobs its value depreciated. If mobody's mecessities and Congressmen. My ACAI CONCERT. CIRCUS, ! RACES. New-York Circiis Boginess Nolices. 1 it sacesaary particularly to (rade-mark, 8s their dosigos And all such ave fully gaaranteed. ‘call the atteation of purchaser Tae SEASON OF STORMS. £ Wister are apt to make sad @ & safegurrd ageiost ecuseless practice. The Jostead of depleting the carable in tie market— Trw's StoMac BirTees. ed. Never bas any tovic medicine been prepared with sach acrupulons pr eompound of whiok every i 1o the true sense of the woal. complaints, Oue-balf of the s apeeise for them all, uuless organicin their origin, and, terefore, d let those who are fortunate snoagh o be exemps from tat an occasional use of ut therm as the sun will preveut 2 beams desoend —[ Commuuieatel Shem at present understand one great fact, iug touie will as certaily pre o sarth frou frcering where its go DYSPEPSIA AND DERIATY. Txox 1% THE BLoov. Tur Preoviax Svioe Viravizes, PURIFIEs AXD ENRCHRS it BLOOD, GIVING STRENGTH, Vigom Axp xEW Lirk 70 TR WHOLE SYSTEX. A T-PAGE PAXPHLET FRAR J.P. Dixsmors, No % Derst 80l by all Druggists. RED O1L OF PaLx axp Mack, | Mediterranean islands, and in for Prescring. Restoring sud Lesatif Bightfal aud wonderfal article the workd ever pr Tam Makves oz Prav, a new and besctiful Per For asie by all Drugrlets and hoee standard Amer Shmn foreign goods of 1 Sollors fu all porta of the coustry. <3 Luxa CoMPLAINTS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, &, are speedily relieved, aud if taken in time permanently cured, by Juvnws Rxprcromast. You will fud it aleo o certaln remedy for Qonghs and Colda._Sold everywhere. Tue EvrREka Brick MacHiNe No. 643 Brosdway. e furuishe on application xY pases._Bold everywhera 4 at No. 6 Astor Houss. o WakiARIRD, 404 et Lis distressing affection permanen: 1. The worst eases_successfolly 100 MAGHTY R, Ko 473 Brots Cartes Vignette, $3 Al Bagatives registered. R A. A J;l;; best in the e oaly perts mm.urlmrrunm u.’..‘i::'-fi’&"“’v‘:'i’ LOR’S sorid; Harmloes Balalle, listantasedis TRUSSES, ELASTIO STOCKINGS, SUSPEN Py - ol Yl R L0 o L T T AT EverpELL'S CARD DEPOT, No. 802 Broad- 4 wote paper, !l ibe gew ot ‘ards, Movograias, "higetal Vialtivg Cerd. PILE CURE. Da. GiLsears Piie Ixasrwe; cures the worst cases of 1] {3 Statager #5575 iriad RANK PALMER, aad_low to G'rtullhd cirilians. : L X ¥y Ko 19 Groeast, Bos ter is, that they build wisely, justly, benefi- pateu a . " ‘i']#d ] WING-MAC ‘“:55(_}' ‘A(JI=NZ ‘Its wnde an asslgnmont Lo wun, lerd oil manu- ¥ The second page to-day contains our Boston g Andren’s argument correspondence, with ex-Go X ) in the Moran case against Capital Punishment; the Court Reports and Militia mt(‘lhqcnge. The Commercial news and the Markets will cfi)lt'ml on the third page; and on the seventh ulppmr City aud Brooklyn news and Shipping intelligence. e —— The House on Saturday voted 20 per cent. additional compensation to Government em- ployés, which is so much specifically added to our taxes. We cannot see that the act is either necessary or bountiful; it is simply extrava- gant. The embarkation of the French at Vera Cruz has at length really begun, and wo are again assured that it will be completed by the 1st of March. By that time Maximilian will probably be ready to revisit the Old World in company with his protectors. One good effect of a general inquiry as to what can be done to better the condition of the City's poor, i3 the project to establish a cheap boarding-house for working girls. Tho well-known eclergymen who sign an appeal in its bebalf assure the public® that such a house will bo established as soon as money enough can be raised. The reconciliation of the Hungarians with Austria is still far from being complete. Mr. Deak has published a letter on the proposed Army Reorganization bill, which ho regards as a pew violation of the Hungarian Constitution, and in the Diet a motion has been made to treat every attempt to enforce the law as an act of high treason. The Annual Report of the Tnspectoe-General of our State Militia scems to show that the or- ganization is in excellent condition. Gen. Batcheller believes that 25,000 well-diseiplined men conld be put in the field within five days after the issuing of an order. Several import~ ant amendments to the military code are im- posed, one being that keepers of drinking saloons shall not be commissioned as officers. ee——— Our Hong Kong correspondent gives a full and interesti French expedition against Corea, and of the progress of the civil war in Japan. The letter is the wmore valuable as the intelligence on these subjects received by the cable and in other ways is so fragmentary as to be in many cases unintelligible. At the date of our letter (Nov. 15) the Coreans were disposed to show fight. Later dispatches by the cable inform us of the return of the French fleet, which thus far had been unable to extort any redress for the French Candin, in the other Thessaly, still remains unsubdued, and we alrcady he ol another province in Northern Turkey being on the eve of a general rising. Large reénforce- ments have joined the insw in Candi The igsurrection in and Garibaldi is said to be on the way thither. | At a ball given in St. Petersburg in favor of | the Cretan sufferers, the Emperor and several members of the Imperial family were present. All the Cabinets of Europe now admit the im- portance of the Eastern question, and it is thought that soon a European Conference for the settlement of the question will assemble. In another column we publish an appeal by the Greek Committee in this city for aid to the starving fumilies of the patriot Cretans, and we | again urge that what is given should be given quickly. THE LATEST PHASE OF RECONSTRUCTION. 1t is definitively settled and procluimed that the late slaveholding States, Tennessee only exceptod, will not, as at present organized, rat- ify the Constitutional Amendment matared and adopted by Congress Inst Winter. On the con- trary, they will each and all reject it. Most of them, in fact, have already formally done so. In a single instance only—that of Texas—has | this rejection been couched in indecorous or in- sulting terms. Usually, the manner has been unexceptionable, if not even conrteons, | The wiser and more considerate Sonthrons say to the North in substance: “ What you propose “may seem proper and just from your point “of view: we will not here dispute this, “nor deny your power in the premises: “it may even be right that youshould disfran- “chise us or debar our accession to office: we “do not judge you nor decide what you can or “ghould do: but, when you ask us to exclude ‘from office our foremost men, because they “were our leaders in the late struggle, our reply :muat be that l_aonor and good faith preclude +four assent. Disfranchise us all if you will— “debar us from holding office evermore—but “do not ask us to punish our leaders for doing “the work wo assigned them.” This rejection, then-—or rather, this reason for such rejection—has a manly aspect that ap- peals to every generous mind. But, whether you agree in this view or not, the fact remalns. There are fourteen States that will not rat- ify the Amendment; and it can only be car- ried over their heads by ignoring them in the count, and assuming that three-fourths of the States at present represented in Congress will suffice to ratify. That assumption, however, will certainly be eontroverted in the Supreme Court, and probably overruled. After our re- cent experience, this is a rock to be avoided. It is, therefore, plain that Congress must and will undertake the work of reorganizing the States now unrepresented in either IHouse. Wheflxer it shall regard the existing organiza- tions as temporary seaffoldings, to be used in it #t | making a more substantial, permanent struc- ture, or shall resolve to build from the foundation, is immaterial, The essential mat- cently. The first point to be regarded is the ultimate if not instant enfranchisement of all the South- Locl o . h-&uu.u-fivu'. ern people. If it be deomed necossary tompo- rarily to withhold the Right of Suffrage from somo of those who were zealous, active Rebels, wo have nothing to say. 8o, if it should be decmed (it that & portion of the more {gnor- N account of the history of the | | centration | Robert Willis, &c., &e., executing the laws wlhereby they are to be governed—who docs not know that a new and fierce struggle for their enfranchisement will commence directly—that we shall have made peace only to clear the decks for a new fight? Nay, who does not know that the champions of enfranchisement—whether it beof the Blacks or of the Rebels—will surely, and not remotely, triumph? And what is to compensate for the vears of fierce, sterile agitation which the inter- vening disfranchisement will have caused? We appeal to patriots, to thoughtful men of all parties, for prompt, decisive action in the premises. We have had six years of civil strife and convulsion—most of them destructive and bloody—let us try now to have peace. But an adjustment that leaves Four Millions under the ban will be hardly a truce. Tt is Ligh time that every one should be incited to go to work, with full assurance that the Government will not strip him of his property nor tamely con- sent to see him stripped by others. It is high time that good men of all parties should confer and consult, in the ‘hope that they may thus contribute to a speedy and complete pacifica- tion. And what basis for that adjustment can be found more comprehensive, more beneficent, than that of Universal Amnesty with Impartial Suffrage? e THE CASE STATED. The National ual Rights Convention of Colored Men, at Washington, demand the Right of Suffrage for their race on these grounds: First—Becanse wo ate American cftizens, and as such entitled to it Nes d—Becanse we o s, and as such Justly e to full reprose State and Federal ( patriots, and as s A natural o . pertaining to ever orn American citizen, ther White or Black, who bas reached his majority. —'T'hat is not a long story, but it is a forci- ble presentment of a very important requ ment and its rensons. We presume no intelli- gent person seriously doubts its justice ul its ultimate recognition. The practical question is—How long shall the country be kept con- vulsed and disturbed by its denial? What good purpose is to be subserved, what Na- tional interest advanced, by holding on for a few years to the iniquitous, unrepnblican pro- scription of Four Millions of our countrymen, when every one must see that it will ultimately be given up T What sincere lover of our coun try will not say—Let us have a prompt Recon- struction, and let it be so comprehensive and thorongh that we shall not need another ? ARISTOCRACY IN VICE. The Sunday Merenry is a leading oracle of It constantly and negro-hatii n Democr abors to prejudice the poor inst the Republicans as aristocrats, and against h ignorant | all legislation which secks to repress vieo aud immorality as incited by lostility to the poor. In short, it powerfully contributes to that con- on the Democratic ticket of the votes of all who live by pandering to per verted appetite, which has rolled up such hor | rible majorities for Scymour, MeClellan, Hoff man & Co. 1ts last issne opens with an elaborate, attract- ive exposé of “CGambling in Gotham,” wherein the most noted gambling-houses and King blers are arrayed in all their glory. Hon. John Morrissey figures as “the bright paiticular sta bling tirmament: he being reported more than adozen gambling-Louses ty, one in Saratog and one in ton City. John (. Hecnan, likewise of celebrity, is also reported as keeping ibler’s bank,” with a capital of #£50,000, Samnel A, Suydam, “0ld 1 Jolin Cham- berlain, “Fatty Welsh,” Samuel MeLoughlin, ppear as eminent in the le of the interested in this profession. The exhibit hercin m. gumbler’s carcer is attractive—we m ducti of the simple into the blackleg’s toils. ity condemns,but which, in_ hunian nat aociety Mselt ex ing D ever cupled . while men animated | by Jo that they run the risk of heavy losses for the chiance of stunmling upon great gain, it will present its allure fiding; and t of cxpericnes will prevent s rants after s the rink that o 2 aw will su ames of chal s cgislature cannot alier the fundamental elements of T T N A Y AR i . ,lul 1, 1ife itself Is a 1o u fatal to o u ery: a fortunate aecldent, per- urning down oue street-cornet knther than another, ¢ tntroduce & man to elrcumstances that will affect his carcer, and make Lin a nabob or & pauper, a — All this we can understand if not approve; but on the very same pago of The Mercury weo read as follow “Juvenile Depravity—One Tundred and Fire OLildren Arrested in Two Houses in the Sirth Ward. “Among the mavy purlious of this eily, which abound in dens of wickedness, many of them 0o filthy to be de- seribed, one of the wmost noted in nurrow lane known as Baxterst, Dozens of thieves’ orlts, acores of bugnion of the lowest character, filled with' the degraded of both sexes, grace this graceless thoroughture, For yeurs, it hos been a pest, n plague- spot, and bids fair 4o rotaly its old reputation for Ly s o heath of philanth “ soldom one heats of philanthropte efforts to amellorato the wretehed condition of lhelv‘;mnnu of m'u vl_?e.I |, poverty-stricken highway to ruin, Last night, Capt. Jourdan of the Bixth Precinet, with a squad of polloflnen, made a deecent upon two notorious Aens in Baxter-st., oup formerly known a4 Republican all, No. 17, between Park and Chatham-sts; the other 0, 33, botween Park and Leonard-sts. The first-named 18 the ranch of ono Jeane Batiste Crobo, a renegade Italian, & beast In human form, whose business 18 to sell Hgquor to bo u‘owmlve stolen goods, to harbor sneak-t loves; A .[:Kmpfll large percentage of his customers unholy gains, The second floor of this building is occu- pied by another degenerato son of Italla, Louis flu 00 by olico anuals is the name, who g dally bread in like tnanner, No, §2 48 the temporn i A 3 e o m“u ry rosidenee and place of business of ardn, whose avocation 18 the same as th his &mpumau wnd fellow thicves ubovnumud'u':yr{ loca ‘' From No. 11 were taken slxty-three hoys, ranging tro uine to thirteon yeats, wh: "%""‘"I."«”{:""‘f Ul lufl: Ing polsonous lquors. In fou ton{:w*h engaged in like e‘lu-tlu; ans monuxlnunmnl 086 wore also takoep in charge and conveyed to the station-house in company with Gi- Crobo, and Diluco, the enterprising laudlords, A more motley group of unmitigated rapscallions & would be difficult to bring togetbor. The s are all profes- slonal sneak-thieves and plekj ets, and are by Lirth American, Irish, German, Dufch, Bpanish, Juu-n, ng- Hish, and Danisi. Whon ‘we saw them huddied together }n colls, we shudde to think of the melancholy utuwut awalta them as citizens of a Great Republic toogn Hrote protso alliaions 6o e aciomusodations 8 sccomumodations furuished them by & munificent slty fnrurnment, in a :)I:'rghn :t,, ol our blood, we burned away with —Now this sort of “‘respect of persons” hy our police is just what we cau't abide. We noither lncite nor condpuw such raids on “our- il‘(dh o, orthern missionarics, indica | is that there i - | the HOW NOT T0 DO IT. Judge Abell of New-Orleans, in his charge of the 9th inst., sees fit to say: %00 of Northern ballots east for immediato 1, 10 the face of & storm of passion and pre: aned and kept alive by the misrepresentation ot that, 48 Aoon a8 Passion f, and statesmen of enlarged and liberal the country, o triendly intercourse cen the two ' sections of our great tion of 164 appearcd to be blind to nterest of the negro, happy as he then e who clamor for an has exhausted rnumrr, Tl o1 everything but th was, 1 now say to my count uality which can never be realized, they will have to ous of white people fn the face. and philosophy demand Juse yis yet storm policy and the clilis the“extension of the right of fran- s dangerous to their interest and the remain part of this great Republic.” puuuuuculuffixum —Let us see about this: Louisiana had in 1860 a total population of 700,002 persons, whereof 337,546 were White, and 930,546 Colored. She probably has to-day very nearly the same number, who may be thus classified: White Copperhieads or ex-Rebels, White Usionists—Republican: Colored Unionists—Republica Total ........ What Judge Abell proposes is simply that the ex-Rebel minority of 800,000 Louisianians shall be allowed to do as they will with the 400,000 hearty Unionists—to deny to 250,000 of them all political and most rights—and to deal with them in the spirit evineed in the New-Orleans Massacre of July 80th ult. This, he thinks, will be conceded whenever “ passion has exhansted itself, and “gtatesmen of enlarged and liberal under- “gtanding control the conntry.” Such is the spirit, such are the assumptions, which now impede the restoration of harmony and true peace. Judge Abell and his com- patriots saw fit to make an issue of force with the Nation, in the trial of which they were utterly beaten. Never was a defeat more signal and utter, Never was a surrender more complete than theirs. And now he accuses a portion of his conquerors of “clamoring for an “equality which can never be realized,” and stig- matizes their admission to a voice in the Gov- ermment as “dangerons to the public weal.” Is he pardoned ! or only paroled? Even John Morgan, when a prisoner, did not assume the chief eommand of the Union armies, and insist that Grant should be refused a regiment. Judge Abell seems to be laboring under some gravo delusion, e ) “SCARCE” LABORERS U MPLOYED. he first rcason which Mr. Commissioner Wells gmves for reporting against the House Tariff bill No. 718, and advising that a bill which he has constructed be substituted for it, “a searcity of labor, especially in the country.” He repeats aration that “scareity of labor “of skilled lal this in the dee “is the first canse which hus contributed to | “the reit inflation of prices;” and subscquently ates it by saying T'here is an acknowl- 1 scarcity of skilled, and to a certain “extent of unskilled, labor in the country.” While lost in wonder at the sclection of this hypothesis for the foundation of a scheme of taxation and finance for the United States, following letter to hand from Catasaugna, Lehigh County, Penn: © ¢ ¢ ¢ “The blow is coming, We learn from “Pittsburgh that the bar-mill proprietors can't “hang on any longer, and that the mills “will all close within a week or two, id the men be out of work. 1t will be just horrible. Some concerns will stop withont “an order on their books, and their sheds full “of ir Works are stopping all over Penn- ylvania. MHeve in the [Lebigh Valley, sece “what evil has been wronght by not passing “the Tariff bill last Congress. The fol- “lowing rolling-mills are standing idle: “two mills at Easton, each about 60 hands, “120 hands; Jordan Mill, at Allentown, 100 “hands; Lehigh Mill, at Allentown, 80 hands; “ Last Pennsylvania, Qatasanqua, 90 hands; asanqua cturing Company, 150 “Lands; two mills at Weyport, each 40 hands, “ 80, The number above is of the hands “directly working in the mills, beside those “who are also idle that were gupplying them “with coal, ore &e. The conl miners of this “wvalley aro also standing still, consequent on “the dullness of manufacturing. Three thou- “gand miners are out of employ.” “A searcity of lahor” is the evil our Iron manufacture langnishes and dies under, eh? Brothers in the Lehigh Valley, and you, poor doomed thousands of iron-artificers in Pitts- burgh, are you “scarce?” Scarce labor is labor which does not exist for a required nced. Do u't you exist? Does not u stoppage of your wiges affect you? Dou't you feel this Janu- afy cold? Do you not know that you have the right, not justly to be alienated, to stand at your forges and hammer American iron into shape for American use, striking out of it bread for yoursclves and families, and the comfortable living fit for govercign American citizens—a right in competition with which Bo tryo American will ever bring the “rights” of importers and forcigners? “Secarce” are you—so scarco that the dull eye of book economy, can’t sce you, and can’t see the truth patent to the whole conntry, that the fron-pro- ducing labor of Pennsylvaunia is amply suffi- clent for Pennsylvania’s capacity to produce iron, and that there aro skilled and unskilled laborers in the United States numerous enough to stock fully the existing furnaces and rolling came mills of the United States? This is the truth; and the assertion that there is a national scar- city of labor to run the machine in the pation, and to keep its capital invested in manofacturing employed, is an assertion working in the interest of forcign importers, and made to get a foundation for the theory that our importations must of necessity be kept up, and 18 utterly mistaken and wrong. now set up But patience, friends in the Lekigh Valley, and all over Pennsylvanla, fast dwrkening now at night with the extingnishmont of her forge-fives and her tuunel-head flames, framed in Radical Republican Congresses by Free Trado theorists or British Importers. The laborers of this country henceforth make its tarifls, You enrners of day's wages, '(is you who Tariffs are not and capabilities but the Government’s were in- volved, we might have Resumption to-morrow. The Banks of this country were never go able to maintain Specie Payments as the Government is to-day. With nearly One Hundred Millions of Gold on hand, & daily income of over One Million, and an annual surplus of One Hun- dred Millions, Secretary McCulloch might re- sume to-morrow and hold out forever with ease. But tho overloaded * pork-gamblers, gold- gamblegs, and stock-gamblers” would be dead broken—or rather, their insolvency would be made manifest. “That's what's the matter.” PRESIDENT MOSQUERA. The Panama mail, which amived last week brought us o remarkable piece of South American intelligence—the res- ignation of Gen. Mosquera as President of the United States of Colombia. Gen. Mosqnera has long been one of the most prominent leaders of the Liberal party, not only in his own Repubdic but in the South American Republies in general. The greater part of his life has been spent in the highest offices of the Colom- bian Republic—as General-in-Chief, as Foreign Embassador, as President—and in [all these positions he has maintained a irreproachable reputation. The resignation as N&dvnf, which he tendered on December 6, to the Supreme Court, will, therefore, attract great attention. As reasons for this unmsual step, Mosquera assigns _the mistule of his predecessor, which completely emptied the treasury; the wretched condition of the army; the rebellion of the Arehbishop of Bogota and other Bishops against the Executive, and the opposition shown to the Federal Government, and to himself persovally, by the Governoss of the State, The people of Colombin, he says, are so immoral, 8o debased, and so revolutionary, that such a magistrate as Le is should not serve them, The gloomy picture, drawn by its own Presi- dent, of one of the chief republics of South Amer (1 the more painful because Gen. Mosques stirely familiar with the subject, and becauso his past life furnishes the amplest guarantce for the honesty of his purpose. It is, however, plain on the other gide that the terms in which the resignation is couched in- dicate a state of mind which, from too great excitement, was unable to review the situation calmly. There will not be many among the pumerous friends of Mosquera, at home and abroad, who will approve his letter of resigna- tion. One of the last acts of Mosquera had been the invitation of the South American States to another meeting in & South American Con- gress, which is called to discuss especially the condition of affairs in Paraguay. The prop- osition haé been favorobly received in Chili, Ecuador, and other neighboring provinces. New-York day. Thoroughly sober, for the first Sunday since June, 1866, when the injunetions of Judge (ardozo suspended the Excise Law, and licensed 10,000 Rum-sellers to desccrate the day. Last Summer, in the brief mle of the law, we had some evidence of what it would do for public decency and order. The arrests for drunkenness were diminished one-half, even in the first month, when the police were un- familiar with the novel situation, and had mnot the experiencoe necessary to detect its evasions. On eight Sundays in May and June, 1865, there were 1,078 arrests for drunkenness; on eight Sundays in the same months in 1866, there wero but 503. Then the corrnpt judges, who made the law a dead letter for six long, weary months, opened the flood-gates, and once more the full tide of rum and ruin rolled unrestrained through our strects, and made the Sabbath the Loliday of the drunkard and the harvest-field of the drunkard-maker. Of the hundreds of Sundays that we remem- ber in this ci but few have been held sacred, and yesterday was the latest. The dazzling drinking palaces and low saloons of Broadway, the beer gardens of the Bowery, the gin shops of the Five Points, and the low dens of Water-st, were alike closed. The seal was set upon ds of fountains of dissipation and dis- It was o day to be remembered; a day that begins a golden era for the Me- tropolis. Bold attempts were made to defy the law, but tho police were faithful, and 111 arrests were made for violations of its terms, and 10 for intoxication. Next Sunday these figures will not be tépeated. The law has triumphed. The wiser liquor dealers made no further attempt to resist it; Cardozo found his oceupation gone; the drunkard was sober against his will; the Tavern no longer reeled against the Churehi; and more than all, the temptation of rum was removed from our young men on the day when they most ¢asily yig? to jts nations, Tho Excise Yaw is henéoforth 3- preme, and no pdwer ¢an dnmake it except the Legislatare that made. Ex-Gov. Andrew, before the Executive Coun- cil of Massachusetts, hos made a striking argu- ment against the death penalty, his text boing the cnse of the murderer Moran. We print it on the second page, The principal weight of this argument fs to be found in statisties of commutation, showing that the policy of the European governments has been toward a merciful change of sen- tence whenever deemed practicable. Thus, in Trance, with its population of forty millions, there were but twenty-fve persons annually con- domned to death, of whom about thirteen were actaally executed, and the same proportion of ac- tual executions to condemnations exists in other countries, In Holland, during five decades, there were but 102 executions out of any number of convictions, Our own administrations of the law may take some thought from these statistics. The natural ten- dency of man and the age is o?hut the legal- ization of murder, and the attack on civilization involved fu the carrying out of the death penall P A ity. Frank Mooro is now finishing np his * Rebellion Record,” wud will complote 1t withia he comlug few wouths. and Brooklyn were sober yester- | has just been opened in Parls. solemnity which its grave pathos demands, Mendale asohn’s memorable chorus, ** Arise and Shine,” have been still better rendered, if the stress of fge struments at one point had not made the voices nwmnl{ vague for & time, In the suc choral, “Sleepers Awake,” it again secwid ag if very high tide of instrumentation wonld overwhelm the ) t dreaminess of the voices, ]t always been the problem of the master, how to ago his voices and instruments 20 as not. to spoil dreams; and this difficulty, even with the finest my sicians, 18 not to be surmonnted without persiste and eonscientions effort. “The symphony in ) minor, by Schumann, in many respects the most inte part of the programme, concluded the concert, searching imagination, nml_efipet'lull{ the extraordine ary beauty of its romanza, impress the Learver ¢ At the next soirée we are lprulnim‘ll. the Heroly Sym hg.v_lyhby Beethoven, and Mendelssohn’s Wi pu ight. B A private matinée, given on Saturday by Mr, M Bittor Smottod crtical attention o o sri of good reputation, who are comparative stian New-York. Mr, Oscar Pfeiffer will be remem) as the son of Madam Ida Pfeiffer, an accompli and able woman, celebrated in her day as & trave eler; and M: e Altierl Pfeitfor comes to a along with her husband, after 8 brisk m experience in Italy, Germany, and South Amo Both of these artists have ently fair o to the public favor. Mr. Pfeiffer is a pi ?t !-k!ll l'n;id cultivation ; .:lnd in ltnio or antasias of his own composition on Italian t showed the vigor, m’slnmnd nerve of a m style. Few ists entertain us with the highest musical interpretation, and_we are not surprised to hear that Mr, Pfeiffer, like Mr. Gottschalk, jlays his 0Wn_ compositions prlngupally. The pianist has right to prove his creative capacity, and to set i his mdmdu-m{‘:‘n works of his own, provided, course, that he enough o;_'l{dnnlil,v to float him safely over the keyboard. Mr. Pfeiffer’s compositions ingenions and graceful, and embody the features ¢ as & planist. “Ihe delivery of the Scena in the o‘x»uinn of the second act of the Lallo in Maschera, by Madawe Pleiffer, concluded the matinée. Her voice is well developed, hor mauner free and certain, har enuncfation dramatic; and these qualities will be a fecommendation to public favos when Madame Pfeiffer appears inopera. Both pere formers have a measure of merit and ability will win them regard. Manager Bateman announces for this evening & final concert of the brilliant Parepa troupe in Brooke Iyn. Messrs. Brignoli Juranti, and Fortuna, are to sing, and Messrs, 8. B. Mills, Carl Rosa, and J. Ly Hafton will play. The orchestra of Theodore Thomag will assist l’.e neral performance. The m y which have won for Madame Parepa such s cordial guition as one of the most churming concertists, it is not ne ry to reiterate. THE DRAMA. . — Mr. Booth will play Bertuecio, in *“The Fooi's Res venge,” this evening, at the Winter Garden. He played this part in April, 1864, at Niblo’s Gardon, for the first time, and made’a deep fmpression upon the Knhlin mind. We remember his personation sa erfully vigorous and Fool's pathetic, Fool's Revenge” is_an adaptation, \H Tom Taylor, Victor Hugo's repulsive play, * Le Roi 8Amuse.” The Worrell Sisters, who last year gained some popularity at Wood’s Theater (now extinet), will tos night commence an engagement at the Broadwag Theater, which house w‘lfi. we presume, be giveR over, for some time to come, to spectacles, fak pieces, and burlesques. ' A novelty of more than™nsnal attractiveness fs promised at the Circus. It takes the form of “A Horse Comedy,” Horses and men will enact the rious parts, and a great deal of sport is -nufliph't Mr. Hartz will perform the *Indian Basket Trick® to-night, at Dodworth’s Hall. He will also exhibly » marvels of *“Tho Flnn('lm‘ Tead,” *The Fruitfal 7 and be will perform a large number of ninot feats, A new musicelinstrument is to be played upon, during the evening by its inventor. A performance of Victor Sardon’s ““Les Bons Vills- geois” is promised jfor to-morrow evening, at the French Theatar—by the lately formed combination of Freuch comedians. At wost of theloeal theaters, plays, of various merify ying tranquil “rups.” *Ours,” a¢ Wallack's. " at the New-York, “The Black Crook,* at Niblo's, and “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” at Barnum'e Musenmn, are topics, for instance, that searcely call even o word of meution. At the Olympic music has superseded the drama. The Richings Opera troups commence an engagement (o-night, under Mr. Grove or’s direction. . . FORFIGN DRAMATIC NOTES, 3 Miss Helen Faucit has lately played a brief ene gagement at Drury Lane Theater. 8ho enacted Julla in “The Hunchback,” and Paulinein *The Lady of Lyons. Miss Faucit was the first representative of "auline, a8 Mr. M«‘Cmfldf' was of Clawds Meinotis 'he comedy was originally produced at Covent Gare den, Miss Faucit stands at the head of the dramatie profession in Englanid. “ A Sister's Penance,” by Messrs, Tom Taylor and 4, Dubonrg, has beenJsuccessful in London. The scend is partly laid in the East Indies. A victaryfiffl British over the wutinous Sepoys is connected w the plot. Mr. Walter Montgomery has played Hamlet, s Drury Laue, introducing some new * business.” Thus, when telling Poloniua what he reads—** slage ders, Sir,” ete, ho tears a page out of the book ; when Le tells King Claudius the nawe and nature the play that is going on before the Conrt, he it and rudely seizes on that monarch. The rest of | new * business” seems to be of the same bad qualitys Mr. Montgomery has, apparently, yet to learn Jesson which young men are always slow in learning, that change is not necessarily improvement. Mr. T. J. Williams, the author of *Ici on Parle Francais,” has translated, adapted, and produced ® French piece eptitled “Un ’{‘my ' Horreurs,” undes the name of “My Turn Next.” It is praised asss excollent farce. Tho principal part in' it, thatof & village apothec: r{, was plaved, in Paris, by Bernard Leon, and ip Lond on by Mr, Belmore. The apethecary has married a vixen, whom he believes to have beea reviously married many times, and he lives in inual dread of being Iwnul“\n v her. ny comie incidents illustrate state of facts, the cilminge tion being happy. Another new play by Mr. Tom Taylor has been acts iq‘—n"t the Haymarket. I¢iscalled “A Lessou Fos ife. A T S T ¥ Mr. Fechter has reappented at (he iyeemn. ine now drama, of French charaeter and mnllmclm itled “ Ronge et Noi The picce 18 of the o The Duke's Motto.” It has made a hit. A now oxtravaganza, by the industrious Plnnrr‘ Tas been doneat the Princess’s Theator. Tt is cal i“'l'he Tuvisible Prince, or the Island of Tranquil Des ght.” v Bouclcault’s “Flylng Send” has passed ifs S0t representation at the New-Holborn Theater. Mr. H. J. Byron has written another extravaganzs, enti Pandora’s Box, or the Young Spark and the Old Flame.” It has boen successfully produced o the Prince of Wales's Theater. A new actor, Mr. Barty, from Australia, has s peared at Sadler’s Wells, in snch parts as Damony Jacques and Master Waller, and has made & favol impression. The recent annonncement of the death of Birs. Chatterly is deniod. Victor Hugo is building a private ol theater, neat his residence in Guernsoy, where, it is said, two of plays—hitherto unperformed—will be :l'“l'l:y' are pamed *Torquemada” and “La re. The little Théatre dos Nouveautés, lately ev-':‘: Parls, has been destroyed by fire, which Yo as the audience was assembling, in the evening. life, however, was A new theater, called the * Salle de Menus Plalsice,® A three-act play, in verse, called * Colbark et a‘“." has been acted with succoss at the lesting, in Lyons. The plece is unknown Victor Sardon’s “La Malson Nouve” is Jadan wolws e et