The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 17, 1867, Page 4

a o ————— = - 1 Amnsements. RDEN. L0'S GARDEX. THIS lv:xma_-rm’s";lmcx CROOK—Great Parisicane Ballet Teoupe. RDEN. EVENGE. Mr. Bdwia Bootb T8 BVPNING ALLACK'S T VTN RVEKING—" OULS." Nr. Leste ack. PROADWAY T = IR :vn«ma—({\ln.\uu.\lm ADOURA. The Wor roll o NEW-YORK TH! 01 IILL TUIS KVENING—CE OLYMPIC T P18 RVENING—ENGLISH OFERA. Opers Company. ¥ THIA RVENING 1 BUBPPARD. bilss ¥auny Herrivg; 1N, Mrs. 6. C ITLES—VAN A Al WO HUNDILD THO) COLLKCTION OF W1 T THIS BVKNINO—FR THIS BVENING —JOCKEY CLUB RA Wroupe, Mile. De Derg. TTERATH {D CARNIVAL AT OATMAN Pusiness Notices. f1AM) WATCIES. N THE WORLD. yhere. S THE SEASON OF STORMS. “The Blasts of Avtusan nod the chill storms of Wiater are aptto mske sl Surosds upon the constitutions ef the focble. 1n old times, at the com- enoasement of every senson it was the fachion to take 8 strong cathartio a6 & safagiand agaiust a change of temperstore. It was & worso than sonseless practice. The people of our day undersiand the matler better. ustesd of depleting the syriem th force it. In the method they adopt they exhibit & wise discrlu . Tustesd of resorting to the vitiated stimulants of conmerce, or any of the compounds derived from thom, they pat thelr fith i the ouly sbsolutely pure favigorast pro- carave in the markel— Hostazrrsn's Szoxacn Brrvens Their tlth is well founded. Never Las aay tonke medicive been with such serupalous precision and consciestious care. Itissv compowad of whick every fugradicat is sound, wholesome, aud medicinal 1n the frus seuse of the word Now we have thres prominent nationsl pomplaints. One-balf of the adult poyrlation of the Unlted States suffer more o lea, either from diseascs of the stomach, derangements of the Hiver, or afections of the Kidueys. Tnuo otler land wiler Heaven are Sueso maladics o geveral us in this coustry, aad Hosteren's Brrrens §0 & apeciflo for them ell, usless orgaule in thclr origin, and, therefore, Doyond cure. And lel those who are fo te enough 1o be exempi from Liom ot ‘waderstand one great fact, viz: that an occasional use of Bhis vifalizing tonle. will as certainly prevent them as the san will prevent o oarth frou froezing wbere its gental bearns desceud. —{ Communicated. “Gouvens—~As a soothing Pectoral Browx's Puowomiar Trocuws are sdvantageomly employed th alleviate Coughs, Bore Throat, Hoarsensss sud Brouchial affections. Those ex. posed to sodilon changes of weather houkd bave them, aa they ean be earried in the pocket and taken as occasiou requires upon the first #p- et ofs Ot o Tre EvRExA BRICK MACHINE 1 tho dlmplest aud by o1l odds (e most swerfl Briek Machine in e o Zwmpis minchinery o Bek ont of order, v slowed Tever or 00p gearing to be perpetually . It works all kind clay, wakes b v howr with oge pair horses, ot 4,52 .,r 41 Broads “TrHIRD ANK- from Jnninr 1 O0PK-STITCH S Bay Hamrrox Hot from three o five ears ; capacit ) it from Xew- ok e Ful and extensive parks. Pities couduct 8 frst class botel wi Box No. 5,154 New-York Post-0! and alilitr to with references, B. L. Crass, hest r lied at No. 6 Astor House. ACIHINES, 8178, for uss by Kxpress everybere. ‘comuer Prince-t. Waniaxre " WaksLer & Wi ano-MACKINE aud Be TIO¥ N " GroveR & o Macmings, No " Cartes Vign Di. Gt Pomitioaly onrea the worst cases of Fies. tree. BERT et by mail on reeelpt of $4. cxenyviere. A k. Tne Anm AN 1, ': * beat,” s ta el . Avoid sl WHLCOX & GiBBs Sk T e T vamples of bt sl ~Trae Hows MAcin s Lo o OBITUARY. by GEORGE COGGILL. Cogeill, esq., who died on Friday last in the rof :hlm.:"u one of the leading |'nun¢m'nlm of and after being sotively engaged in business there yoars, came (o (Mis country in 1811, Alnost his here was to be ordered from the seaboard and 1 eonseqience he took up lis resi- e i T8 0,1 e uen! ness with wool and manufacturers, was very Few men reach their g1th en'r,"lnd fewer their vigor ard facuities as did Niv,'Coggtll. It generation since he retived from active busi- :tMI within o few months he might be seen al- ily, vn.kinfiwllh a short, quick step, down and his residence above Thirtiethst., and the ‘his sons and succcssors, below Wall-st.' He conld wfilontgg:&«:x.hls licaring was but very slightly and he preserved his interest in his fefends and m.-mmw the last. Educated and refined in his and uuuilw was # Christian gentleman, who se- _“W of stravgers, and the warm affection of his aud-a large circle of friends. DIEGO LENNOX KENNEDY. 6th inst, died at Vera Cruz, at_an advanced an fllness of some ponfim, Dicgo Lennox of the United Btates at Jalapa » vodflurnuuz{v ears in this country, and w of his uflim on the Pacific ‘const, to an estimable wie marvied young la by whom he had several ehildren. Tn mghs g | wee “a vote of 28 Yeas to 14 Na "*-?-'—“_v"?'——_———‘—‘_"‘-‘_'"" Newo-Deork DailyEribwne, THURSDAY, JANUARY"17, 1867, 70 CORRESPONDENTS, Bo notice canbe tiken of A nications. Whaterer ls Intended for insert st be ted by the nuwe and sddrees ot necessarlly for publiestion, but &8 & guarsaty for nony) of the writer: bis good fuith. AN business ltters for this office shiould b addressed to Tus Tuts New-York, dertaka o return refected Communications. + v TISE Wo will thank our advertising customors to hand 1n their Advertiscments at as oarly an bour e possible. 1f roceived after 8 'clock they caunot be classified under thelr proper hoads. m————— vV A Review of the Lifo of Tessing will be Jound on ke sizth page; a Letter, from our Washington Correspondent on Business Pros- pects for 1887 ; an Article on the Indians in the Paris Exposition; Miss Clara Barton's “Roll No. 5 of Missing Men;" the Court Reports rm(l Tong Teland Newge on the second page; the Commer- cial News @hd Markets, Mortality Report for the Week, Army and Navy Gazetics, and other matters, on the third page. The Supreme Court yesterda with the thanks of the New-Orleans Rebels ; to-day with those of the New-Hampshire Cop- perheads. It ought to be satisfied. We hope that Me. Fessenden will persevere in his annoimeed purpose to keep tho ’l‘urffl‘ bill before the Semate until it is finally dis- posed of. He will eall it up on Monday. ki The Democratic State Convention of New- Hampshire met yesterday at Concord and nominated the Hon. John G. Sinclair for Gov- ernor. ‘T'he resolutions adopted show that the Democrats of that State have learned nothing, and are content with their ignorance. The bill regulating tenure of office came up again before tho Scnate yesterday. Mr. Cowan took occasion to say that removals from office in the departments were invariably on account of the use of disrespectful language toward the President. He omitted to comment on the example get them by His Excellency. The bill for the admission of Nebraska has passed both houses of Congress, and now goes to the President to be approved, or more prop- erly speaking, vetoed. Yesterday the Senate debated the House amendment, concurring by s, The bill as it stands provides that the actual admission of Nebraska shall not occur until the Legislature of the State shall agree to the abolition of all distinctions on account of color. One of the provisions of the amendment as pass ed is that the Legislature of the Territory shall be con- vened within thirty days to act upon the con- ditions submitted in thé bill MR. WELLS AND THE WOOL-GROWEES. Edward IIL, King by that grace of God which gives nations rulers with senso and pat- riotism enough to develop the industry of their realms, summoned a parliament to make laws for the enconragement of the woolen manufac- ture of England. For five centuries the system of protection to the wool-growers and wool+ manufactures, which this wise monarch inangu- rated, was continned by succeeding British sovereigns and parliaments withont a break. Monument of legislative Jabor in behall of national industry, the abstract of _4the Buitish statutes relating to the growing and manufacturing of wool enum- erates three hundred and eleven laws, all tend- ing inexorably to one object—the encourage- ment of cloth-making in England. One of those statutes required that all black cloth and monrning material worn at funerals should be made of British wool exclusively. Another of them, thoroughly carried into effect for 130 years, and which was in operation close down to the present century, required that every per- son buried in England should be buried in a shrond composed of woolen cloth ex- clusively, and of British cloth. Talk of Protection! On the application of the London and Canterbury woolen weavers, the wearing in Great Britain of Indian cotton calicoes was forbidden by law. Afterward, when the rising cotton manufacture gave cause for apprehen- sion that the great national woolen industry might be interfered with, the use in Greai Britain of British printed calicoes was restricted by statute to those of a single color—blue, Surcly, such legislation would seem to have exhausted the resources of Protection. But it was supplemented and braced by the policy of the great commercial companics of England. The all-powerful East India Company, holding the key to boundless markets, by a rule that was inflexible, and in operation down to 1826, required that both the material and the manu- facture of all the cloth it exported should be English. Yes, these British statesmen were great men and greatly in earnest. The five centuries of continued protection which the wool and woolen interests of Great Britain received we on the sentiment embodied by a wise com- moner in these words: “The encouragement of “onr wool manufacture i eminently the founda- “tion of Englishriches, the flower and strength, “the revenue and the blood of England.” The “wool-sack” upon which the Lord Chancellor of England hus for ages sat as the presiding officer of the Iouse of Lords, is the symbol of the importance which the nation and its gov- ernment has for ages attached to their woolen industry. $ee how, on the contrary, this great interest is treated by an American Government official. Commissioner Wells argues in his report that the farmers of the United Btates east of the Mississippi cannot compete in the production of wool with California, New-Mexico, Texas, Min- nesota, and Iowa, and that they had better give up wool-growing! And he adds: “The in- “quiry, therefore, becomes a pertinent one, as “to what protection the wool-grower of New- “England, New-York, and Ohio expects to ob- “{ain, as against the competing wools of other “parts of the United States, which are already “offered in the market at about the same price “as the foreign Mestiza wool? And more es- “pecially when it is considered that those cheap “domestic wools are to receive, under the pro- “posed increase of ‘rates, an ad valorem pro- the founders of | “tection, and & tariff stimnlus as much in ex- “cf-ss of that given to the wools of New- “England, New-York, and Ohio as the pro- Y mg:oe: and on mwndrmm-g b, ty of fis situal 3 ’.M'fi::umu-n mmmrlfi‘::é “ducing cost of the former is propor- reuainder of his 1ife, excepting a w 880, he went down to Vera Craz, and " EDMUND AIKEN. P f>¥ --n-nr-;‘:xmn.nnd Bavk of of "% this city, and one of our , of disease. £ very suddenly at Lis residence yes- ‘WILKINS UPDIKE. (I B e o, e Yesteiday at his Tesiaende L Bouih ¥y well-known r of this city, ,Wubod Dokl Bvy did b Uy cliy Jgelerday maruling. “tionately inferior to that of the lat- “ter. In short, s it mot = evident “that any advantage to be derived from an Aiken, esq., President | “increased duty on foreign vool—iufling it as “high as it could in any way be e—-must “of necessity be delusive and of temporary “benefit; and that for the future the business “of wool-growing in the United States is to “be regulated by climate, soil, and the valuo “of land, rather than by any artificial in- “fluencea resulting from tariff ennctments? If “the wool-growers of the older States are wise, "‘?‘ g',,‘,f:: ‘Hazard of the “we believe they will recognize this necessity, “and sogk o hold their own by rajging choige | regist foundgd | “gheep to recruit and revivify the flocks of “the more fayored States, and in turning their “ aftention more fully to supplying the markets “yith mutton, leaving what can be obtained “for wool as o mere make-weight in their cal- “culation of profits. * ¢ It needs, therefore, “no gift of prophecy to predict that between “gtimulated domestic competition and the in- “creased consumption of cotton, the wool- “grower who now asks for higher protection “will (if his request is aceeded to) be ground 44 between the upper and néther mill-stone.” What are the ackuowledged consider: that impel Mr. Wells to urze the d ance of wool-raising in neaily half of the United States? What is his justification for his endeavor to strike down, by the influence of his office, the gheep-husgbandry of twenty-seven States, and to destroy an interest of the greatest national consequence, which every Government in Europe sufiiciently i ized to desire to pos- s0ss tho means to clothe its subjects, has always sodulously fostered ¥ 'Why, he says, if we don't frame the tarifl so as to favor the importation of foreign wools, “ the considerable number of “ yvossols yed employed” in the Cape of Good Hope, the Australian, aud the Brazilian trade, “will at onco bo withdrawn!” Likewise, M we don't continue the pur- chase annually of 70,000,000 pounds of foreign wool, at a cost of §10,500,000 in gold (to be Dbought with our bonds, at an average ghave of not less than 40 per cent and interest), w shall not collect at our Custom-Houses some 3,500,000 “immediate gold revenue;” and thercat will ensue a delay in redueing the Internal Revenue taxes, which Mr. Wells assures the farmers are really the causo of the low price of their wool! 1a it for this Free Trade mess of pottiige that the birthright of the farmers of twenty-seven of our States to keep flocks of gheep for the sake of their wool, is to be sold? The telegraph reported last Friday that Gen. Palmer, candidate for the effice of United States Senator from Illinois, had the night be- fore made a speech to the wool-growers of the Prairie State, in which ho expressed pity for the man who in the present condition of the country conld talk free trade. Another feeling than pity may be excited by an official recommenda- tion to establish free trade in wool to the extent of destroying sheep-husbandry in all the old States of the Uni HELP FOR TENN EE. The Republican Canens of Congress lately voted to coiperate Tearitly with the loyalis of Tennessee. Recently, the Union League Club of this city held a speeial meeting, at which the subject was thoroughly discussed, aud the views of the Tennessee Union men explained by Judge North of Knoxville and Gen. Eaton of The Memphis Post. We believe the matter to’be worthy of the attention of all carnest Re- The old battle of ideas we fought in Kansas is to be rencwed in the of the South. Tennessee is the only position now held by Republicanism within the late rebellious ferri tory. Unfortunately for Northern knowledge of the State, Kentug intervenca. But we know it to be a beautiful State, with a delightful eli- publicans, mate, and rich soil, combining the product of cotton with that of cereals of the Northi; pos- sessed of vast supplics of minerals—eonl copper, &c.; singularly i i iron, rsected by navigable ating ecommerce by ers, and already fae a thousand miles of railroads. six thousand square miles in arca more than Ohio, and was admitted to the Union six before that State. One of the first anti-Shivery movements in the country was made at Jones- boro. The megroes voted till 1835, aiding ot ent times in the election of Jackson and his compeers. Yet, overwhelmed in t) of Slavery, the State had in 1860 about 500,000 slaves and £00,000 whites, and of the lat- fer 78,000 who could not read, and had only about QTess one-tenth a8 many issues from the press as | Her Unionisi strongly resisted rebellion, but finally su nbed to trick and violence. The heroie sufferings and deeds of herloyalists have never been told; but enough has been known to thiill the hearts of all Union people. They rallied to the old flag, and as soon as safety warranted, began to reorganize the State on the basis of a loyal franchise, They purged their Constitation of Slavery and in- trusted the regulation of the ballot to the first General Assembly. That sterling body of men, in spite of their old prejudices, have swept away from the code one after another of the cs of Slavery; given the negro all rights of court aud of industry and to the asylams of the State; enforeed law_ in the cities by a Metropolitan system of police, and now pro- pose n bill for the establishment of loyal militia which shall be ready at the Governor's com- mand to enforce law in the country; another for the establishment of a school sys- tem, free for whites and blacks and another still, crowning all the rest, for the enfranchise- ment of the negroes. ' lating ou suffrage, they first allowed ation for voting on the taking of a strin- gent oath. Alas for Rebel morality ! this proved an insufficient barrier. No election for State officers was held; so the State was not lost. But in the local elections bad results often fol- lowed. In Memphis, for instance, John Puk, who surrendercd the city to our forees, was elected Mayor, and then, through his police, came the May viots, Forewarned, the Gen- Obio. ersl Assembly revised the Franchise law by making the oath more atn'nfeu(, and requiring additional evidence. The ~ local elections held under this law, which is now in force, with a few execeptions, as in Shelby and Davidson Countics, have resulted in the tri- umph of the Radicals or thorough Union men. But the Rebels threaten to disregard it, and have in some instances; and it is feared, since the President does not use the troops for the enforcement of laws when tho interests of Union men require it, that in any important election, as that of next August for Governor, Legiglature, Judiciary, and members of Congress, they would altogether set it at defiance; and, out- numbering the Union men (as they do), would take possession of the Government as they did in Maryland. Should this be so, the Union men of Middle and West Tennessee fear they will be dviven from the State, This fear, we are told, quite as much as any sense of justice, is prompting the enfran- chisement of the blacks, by which it is con- sidered beyond question that the State would remain in loyal hands, thus giving the North a strong hold upon the ten non-reconstrueted States which adjoin Tennessee. Gov. Brown- low and other leading mén of the State, n- cluding Senator Fowler, and Messrs. Maynard, Stokes, Arnell, and Hawkins of the Lower House in Congress, have openly declared for negro suffrage, and must go to the people on that issuc. If Tennessee trinmphs in this confest she will do in the period of a single dtate Ad- ministration what New-York has not fully accomplished in the half-century since freeing Ler slaves. It is not strange that the interest of the friends of civilization is aroused. Such progress is wlmost without parallel. Owr ex- | giderable opposition, but at the confirms tho wisdom of our Tennesseo selecting the press as the means of influencing the people. Any one observant of political changes has observed the relation the circulation of Tne TriBUNE has bad to the results accomplished. One or moro of the loyal papers of the State, should at once be put into every family that will read, and sent free whero they will not subscribe, until the election. Tnnessee is in the Union, and must participate in the general legislation for the cowitry, and in tho mnext Presidential election. Republicanism is, strong for that conflict, but has nothing. to spare, and should gain all it can. Besldes, a successful solution of the question of Reconstruction by Tennessee would relieve the difficulties in reference to other States. THE STATE OF EUROLE. The two great questions which are at present. engaging the attention of the European states- men are slowly but steadily approaching their final solution. In Turkey, tho resistance of the Christian population to the brutish despot- ism of the Turks has, since the beginning of the new year, largely gained in dimension and strength, It is no longer Crete alone which is in arms. The smaller islands in the Mediter- ranean have followed the example st by their larger sister and united " to chase the Tuks from the sea. The province of Thessaly, which borders upon Greece, is like- wiso in full insurrection, and furnishes a con- venient rondezvous for tho great number of Greek youth who can no Jonger restrain their warlike patriotism. In Greece the people, with an astonishing unanimity, are bringing an irre- sistible pressure to bear upon the Government in behalf of an open support of their kindred and co-religionists in the Turkish provinees. The schemes of the Servians in Northern Turkey, who arc the most warlike of all {he Christian tribes, and who constitute the bulk of the population in the Provinces of Ser- vis, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montene- gro, are still more ominous than the movement of the Greeks in the South, and the impend- ing outbreak in Dosnia may, therefore, give to the Turks, in a few weeks, more trouble than the Cretan insurrection has done during the past cight months. Russia is quietly but firmly matur- ing her policy for the rapidly approaching crisis, while England and France irresolutely confine themselyves to a declaration that they will not interfere as long as Russia remains neutral. A European Conference, which ia now much talked of, has no more chance of saceess than the late London Conference for the scttlement of the Schloswig-Holstein diffienlty, According to present appearances, the establishment of one ontwo Christian empires upon tho ruins of the Mohammedan power in European Turkey is an event not far remote. A In Rome, the people are quictly awaiting the call of the “Committee of Action.” That this cull will ere long be issued, and that it will be complied with by nearly the whole population of the Papal dominions, cannot be doibted. \e Papal Government, in the meanwhile, by new acts of intolerance against the forcign Protestant residents, and by its obstinate fusal to manifest a conciliatory spint toward srnment of Italy, notwithstanding all the advances made by the latter, seem to I anxious to destroy the last re nder of sym- s friends in It Tt pathy that amay yet be felt with it as a tem- contidis pornl power. Germany is preparing for the meeting of the first North German Parliament. We have as yet no of mnts of the proceedings of the Pleniy es assembled in Berlin. What has become known of the Prussian draft s with con- amo time the ails generally that more or less ill hardly weaken the of u new German Constitution » eonviction pr unpopular provisions impulse which the meeting of a Parlinment clected by universal suffrago will give to the national y movement. ‘The idea of a South Gierman Confederation has been alto er aban- doned, and with Baden and Bava looking avowedly toward a confederative reunion with Prussis, Wurtemberg alone cannot stay out. The embarrassments of the Austrian Govern- ment in nowise lessened. The Hungarian y almost unanimous vote, adopted ration against the new military law of I between Hungary and Austria is therefore as wide as ever. The new Teichsrath, which the Government has ordered to be clected and to be convoked within a few weeks, will only tend to make the conflict more apparent, for the differences between the several nationalities arc still greater than those betwe the ernment of Austria and the Magyars, Fhiough trouble may not be so imminent as in Turkey and Rome, it is fully as sure to come at the proper time, France has sent out.the last vessel of the squadron that is to bring back the expeditionary force from Mexico. It appears to be certain that the Government will so far yield to the popalar dissatisfaction with the new plan for reorganizing the army as to introduce import- ant modifications. ‘There is a strong carrent of popular opinion that the military forco of France is ample for defensive pueposes and that it cannot begonde sufficiently powerful for aggression. The Fenian movement in Ireland is for the present entirely suppressed. The reform agita- tion in England, on the other hand, is gaining strength, though it appears doubtful whether it will soon lead to any practical result. nee of the extravagance of the Houso bill, in giving 20 per cent increase of pay to Government clerks, is the petition of the Government printers for tho same bounty. In the precedent sct by the Honse no reason can be found why they ghould not have it as well a8 clerks; and so with hundreds of other functionaries or dependents, from Cab- inet officers down to tide-waiters, who serve their country for fair wages. There ghould be an equalization of bounties all around; and when that is done, perhaps the Seerctary of the Treasury will be good enough to tell us the sum total, and the percentago of tax neceasary to meet it. Mr. Bingham evidently considers that as a plan for quicting the country at large, not to mention the South, the Stevens Reconstruction bill is simply intolerable. Yet we do not see that he offers us any- thing bgtter. Mr. Bingham made a speech yesterday which, from the Amendment point of view, we take to be strongly Conservative. 1Te denounces Mr. Stevens's willingness to recog- nize the Southern Governments as valid for municipal purposes ; but he perhaps forgets that to appeal to them for o ratification of the Amendment is equally a recognition. e thinks it absurd, too, to deny that the Rebel States are States, as tho Executive, the Judiciary and Congress, he maintains, have recognized them; which i5 not a true statement Finally, Mr. Bingham believes that Congross is bound to the Constitutlonal Amendment; and liere we aro obliged to digpule with Lim ou rational grounds. If we are bound now, we are bound for twenty years to come to that very Amendment, should the ex-Rebel States see fit to reject it every year meanwhile, as they have for the past year absolutely. The simple qnestion is, whether Congress has not fully acted up to its bargain—if any bargain there. were. day ratifed by the Legislatures .of West Vir- ginia, Minnesota and Maine, and by the Sen- ate of Indiana, the majorities being large, and in the case of the Maine Senate the vote being unanimous. The Republicans of that State, howover, do not consider the Amend- ment the sole basis of reconstruction, but expressly declare that the elective franchise must be given to the black man, and that Congress shonld reorganize the Rebel States. Every day adds to the strength of this policy, and the adoption of the Amendment by the loyal States is uot nearly so important as its rejection by the South. Maine will soon repeal - the law prohibiting the marriage of whites with blacks. WY=L Mr. Seward has written a letter to Seiior Ro- mero, in which he formally disavows the occu- pation of Matamoros by Gen. Sedgwick as being not only without authority from the (tovernment of the United States, but in vio- Jation of the orders of his military superiors. Seiior Romero has also received official con- firmation of the capture of Guadalajara and Aguas Calienfes by the Liberal forces. Guada- lajara is the third city of the Mexican Repub- lic, and o glance at the map of Mexico will <how that the rule of Maximilian is rapidly being restricted to the capital and its immediate vieinity. P —— On n motion in the House yesterday to make additional appropriation for a more thorough i ation into recent marine disasters, ashburne spoke of the case of the steam- boat Commodore as one of a most flagrant char- acter, and the vessel itsclf as “a rotten, condemned, unseaworthy hulk, to which the Supervisors lad refused to give a license.” Thie fact ought to stimulate the rigorous in- vestigation demanded of the Government. THE DRAMA. pclas: . 2 TESTIMONIAL T0 EDWIN BOOTIL On Tuoesday evening next, the 22d inst., after the close of Mr. Edwin Booth's performance of Hamlef, at the Winter Garden Theater, a committee of gentle- men, chosen for their eminence in literature and art, will present him with a testimonial, intended as & tribute 1o bLis genius as an actor, and especially as & recognition of the beauty of his Hamlet. The sub- seribers to the testimonial include many men dis- tingnished in all the liberal professions. The follow- ing letter will more fully ex};ln‘m their gllu]m: CNEW-YORK, March 6, 1866, EDWIN BogTH, esq.—Dear Si Yo ’:cdonnnlu'o of ITamlet for a hnndred suece: ghts §s hu event unpre- cedented in the annals of the stage, and so hohorable to the publie taste and your own genius, that we wish to sig- nalize aud o rate it by tho accompanying medal Which "we Offer to you with our sincerest respect and triendship. . It is not, wo are very anre, the emotion and applause of howeyer rapturous they may bo, but it s the owerlng into a thousand klmlrl‘y‘ 0 deeds which is the true flory of art, staction of the artist, and your por- “That unmatehed form and feature and delicate, so pathetic and t will always hereafter b Hamlet in our minds—a per- e—we know that we tell a truth eful pralse. nre, dear sir, but a very few of the many of your conntrymen who would ul:ull‘vjoln in such an acknowl- ud‘rlm’*l\( ur wmasterly fnterpretation of our great poet, fhd fore, to a k{'ml to accept this token, n offering, but asthat of all ‘whom your publie eareer has made your faithful s, and who earnestly hope for your continued wel- t. exhibition at Tiffany’s, and be seen until the evening of the presentation. g monies will be conducted on the stage of the Winter Garden, and Mr. Booth will reply to an ad- dress deliv u behalf of the subseribers, ME. HARTZ AT DODWORTH'S HALL. Mr. Hartz, the illusionist, will give his 131st per- formance at Dodworth's Hall to-night. An evening spent there is spent pleasantly, We have often wentioned My, Hartz as oue of the best of the magi- cians who have displayed their art before this com- unity., praise is merited. The feats per- formed by Mr. Hartz are invariably clever and enter- taining, W several of themn are positively wonderful, His *Hoad m the Air,” for engple, is a feat to challenge not alone the wonder of fhe mul- titude but the scrutiny of seience. A living human liead, resting upon cushion, and suspended in mid- air, four feel from eeiling, floor, and walls, is revealed 1o view, and is seen to nod, nmlumih-, and frown, and wd is heard to speak!’ Another marvel is the fenitful hat, whi Jreviously described. To enumerate g he illusions would be to some portion of the reader’s pleasure by fore- uulllmu the surprises which await him at Dodworth's e medal is now on Hall. mgh to say that the pro; e now nightly offered included a large number of skillful and ing feats. The renowned *‘ Indian Basket plea inent feature. This involves the of a young lady, under circum- liar barbarity. We hear her ehold the blood-stained sword. and the youn, further énd of Triek” i P apparent slaughl stances of shrieks, and w ut the basket is fonnd to be emmf'. Ly reappears, safo and sound, at the «hall. To eabellish his performances, Mr, Hartz has been mindful of the poet's preference for * music to play in the pauses.” Herr Haselmayer presides at the piano, and fulfills his duties with taste and skill. Ho plays, too, in the course of the even- i strimont invented by himself, which rubber and wood, and which pro- quid to of rare melody. AN IMPORTANT BENEFIT. W record with peculiar pleasure the fact thata benefit performance will shortly be given at Wal- Iack’s Theater, in aid of the families of the poor fellows who were washed overboard from the yachts Fleetwing and the Hearietta, on their perilous voyage across the Atlantic. Mr. Wi k kives tho theater, and his own pany and stagoe work- ctive bill will be pre- s Sum, ssured, has heen raised wio of the water, in aid of tho sufferers by the aceident to the yachis. Let not the metrop- olis of Ametica be backward in 80 good & work ! DEAMATIC NOTES, An interesting ovent i3 to ocour at the Winter Garden on Tuesday evening next, the 224 inst. The play on that occasion will be Hamlet, and at its conclusien o publio presentation of “a Hamlet Medal” will be made to Mr. Booth, This mark of esteem for the eminent actor proceeds from a large number of the artists, and men of leiters, and loading citizens of Now-York. The names ;'.7 the committee having the testimonial in charge will be published at an early day, The medal is now on exhibition at Tiffany's, Wallack’s Theater is crowded nightly. “Ours,” which was first acted on the 19th of December, still holds the stage and delights the town. Its success is genuine and it is deserved. * Unclo Tom's Cabin ” is in its second week at Bar- num’s Maseum, It attracts good houses, Mrs. G. C. Howard's personation of Zopsyis, of course, its chief feature of merit, There are, by tho way, signs of a contemplated withdrawal of (he bideous advertising drop-curtain which has s0 long disfigured this_theater and dis- nsted its eultivated attendants. We shall be glad, ndeoa, if our oft-reitorated protest against this nui- sanco has thus its proper effect. Mr Barnum can never have cause to regrot the change. — att B YRLEGRAPH TO THE T) GALYESTON, Jan, 16,—Col. A, Smith, Chairman ot the i e e S, Sl move . 4 " opostt, shom |u’m’(u-u- Cemetery Ly Orleans and doposit, ot Austin, left on his mission to-day. The Froedmen’s Buremt agents report that the freed- men ave contracting for the year's lumuh great rapid- ity. Georgla freedmen arrive in almost every steawer. THE WEATHER. Qe freer oy ufl:(':s:lx: fi"u*.':!':;‘m. 1867.—~The thermometer at Franconis, at 6 0’clock this morning, stood at 23° below noro. CINCINNATY, Jan. 18.—8now has fallen here steadi; aiho6 3 p. e EneFmomOter o 6 P. ., 36° Wind weat. 4 KINGSTON, €. W,, Jan. 16.Thermo $1, PAUL, Minn,, Jan, 16.—Mercury to-day ro, “l’llublu'lm. Jan. 10.—8now commenced falling at ANY.—Tho meroury eatly this moralu stood six Qukrogs below 2erg, . . POLITICAL.- MAINE. RATIPICATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDS . MENT—TIE RECONSTRUCTION QUESTION. BY TRLHGRAPH TO TAK TRIBUNX. AUGUSTA, Me,, Jan. 16, 1807.—An interesting and able discussion took place to-day in the Senator Boynton of Somerset County, in open- ing the discussion, expressed his belief that the Amendment is only a step in the right direction, and. not an ultimatnm for the admission of the rebellions Btates, He took the ground that the governments of those States had ceased to exist; that when three- fourths of the States now in the Union should ratify the Amendment, it wonid become a part of the Cone stitution of the United States; and that the lately re- bellious States should be reorganized under an or. ganic law of Congress, with full guaranties for civil and political rights to all males over 21 years age, and that Rebels should be allowed no politial - power. Senator Woodman of Cumberland contended thag the great question before the country wud?h}e eXe tending of the elective franchise to the black man, and declared that he would sqoner trust him with the ballot than [iut it in the hands of & member of John- son’s _Philadelphia Convention. Senator Crosby of Penobscot belioved that the real umtimsnto{r the eople of Maine i3 in advance of that contai {l}e resolve passed by the Legislature of med in giving «}:nl civil and political rights to the b‘: man. It 1s in favor of giving the colored man social e(mn.ht)l'i even to the extent of marmage. Caldwell of Hancock was opposed to incorporating nn{thlnz into the Constitution of the Unitd States not in conformity with the Deelaration of Independ= ence. ‘I'c him the most important provision of the Amendment was the assumption of the Federal debs and the repudiation of the Rebel debt. He disa) ved of incorporating anything into the orgmg aw as & provision which should disfranchise any citizen except for crime. Senator Porter of Penob= seot, who was the last speaker, declared that the only path of safety was universal suffrage. 8 / The speakers were unanimonsly of the opinion that the amendment did not go far enough in_expressing the sentiments of the loyal people of Mnmubut, a8 it was a step in the right dircciion, th:Lu 1d vote for it. Fho most radical portion of remar] was received with warm demonstrations of Kpronl by members and the crowd of spectators on floor and in the gallery. The Yeas and Nays Deing or- dered, the Senate concurred with the action of the House, ratifying the amendment bfi' a4 ungoimous vote. Two members were absent, who, on their re- turn, will be permitted to vote, and who will record their names in the affirmative—thus making the Senate a unit. _The following preamble and resolve, was then offered by Senator Boynton, and on bhis mo~ tion was laid on the table. ' Whereas, The lo{nl ple of Mafne belleve, and will never cease to insist, that equal justice, and equal liberty, A aqual legit protection re the inalienabl rights of alf me of whatever race or color; that there should be na restraint but those laws that arc common to all a0 denil of political Tights to maie citizens of tho 5 of 21 years or upward, except on punishment of i or other crime; that loyal men must rrh our destinles; and, whereas, treason and rebellion de, the people of fon of the lately rebellious States of R government; therefore, wudthh&?g ticae Btates should now besecken un uthority of the Congress of United States, sl ht actoh of (e kiynl prople of thex Blaten under organio laws that fully guzrantee and tha full benefit to those great principles to mii thé mfl. thereof, and withhold &ohllml Powar from traftors theres in, before it 15 proper o readmit those States to represons talion in the General Government of the United states. | As asequel to the discussion that mok.rhu.ll order was passed calling for the repeal of th: portion of the statues prohibiting in Maine the marriage of & white person with an Indian, negro or mulatto. Maine, true to her motto, takes the lead. ——— NEW-HAMPSHIRE. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION—JOIN C. SINCLATH NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR. BY TALROXAPE TO THE TRINTNE. Coxcorp, N. H., Jun. 16—The Democratic State Convention met in this city to-day. There were abont 500 delgates present. The Hon. Edward Burke of Keene was President, The Hon. John 4. Sinclais of Bethlehem was nominated for Governor by ac< clamation. A series of resolntions were reported and adopted. The first approves of the holding of & Na- tional Union Convention in New-York. The second says that New-Hampshire Democrats adhere to theix i:_:m principles, and ‘insists that the powers of the ‘ederal Government are limited by the Constitution and that all other powers are reserved for the State. The third bolds that the right of extending suffrage belongs to the States alone. The tolnhgoldl that all States have the right of representation in Cone ress. The fifth that the United States Supreme Court bas manifested by its recent decisions a respect for the only authority which has legitimate powers. The eixth tenders thanks to President Johnson fox his ""tl"'" of the Constitutional rights. Theseventh says that the impartial 'lmgoeilmn of the burdens of taxation.is needed in the State. The eighth declares that all efforts tmnl'm({ o subvert the Executive are rebellions. The last pledges n‘ppnrt to the nominees of the Convention. After brief addresses by severak gentlemen, the Convention adjeurned. e s MARYLAND. TIK LEGISLATURE—NO ELECTION OF BENATOR. BT TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNR. 3 ANNAPOLIS, Jan, 16.—The State Senate Committes on Elections has reported that Dr. Ohr (Radical), member from Alloghany, wos not duly elected, and that Col. Spates (Conservative) was entitled to the scat. The report was made the order for the day fox next Tuesday. Both Houses met in Convention, to ehoose a United States Senator. The vote was the same as ye«hxd:fl therefore there was no election. Another vote be taken to-morrow on the Susqu which was reported in the Senate. i The bill {ocall a State Conventien was amended in the House so as to prohibit the Legislature from paying for emancipated slaves. An smendment is R«mhn to increase the representation in the House, y the formation of small_counties to send ono mem- ber each. This matter will be discussed to-morrow. e e WEST VIRGINIA. THE CONSTITUTIONAT, AMENDMENT RATIFIED. BY TRLRORAPH T THE TRIBUNE. WIEELING, Va., Jan. 16,—The West Virginia Legis- lature has ratified the Constitutional Amendment. The vote in the IHouse on its passage stood 4§ to 11, o INDIANA. TIE SENATE RATIFIES THE AMENDMENT. WY TELEQUAPE YO THE TRIDUNE. IxpIANAPOLIS, Jan, 16.—The joint resolution rati- fying the Constitutional Amendment passed the Seu~ ate to-day by a striet party vote of Yeas, 20; Nays, 18 In the House tho bill go punish the members fiury:oltv ing by a fino of $1,0001s under discussion. It wae made the special order for to-morrow. ——— ARKANSAS. BY TRLRGRAZH 10 THE TRIBUNE. Mesemss, Jan, 16.—A special to 2he Arvalanlg (Little Rock) says that both Houses of the Ark- ansas Legislature had passed a bill reducing m stmmwg r cont ; also a bill provi for sup) f wlnd soidiers and for supplyl lthl: with artificial limbs, and also for the support widows and orphans of soldiers, pistoss st MINNESOTA. THE AMENDMENT RATIFIED, BY TEIMONAPH TO THE THIBUNE. . §1. Paur, Minn, Jan. 16.—The House yesterday ratified the Constitutional Amendment by a vote of 40106, The Senate to-day passed the u_-olum by a voto of 16 to 5. NEVADA. .—The Nevada Legislature SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 16: L b to-day voted for l;n A States Senator. No election. CANADA. — GOLD NUGGET—QUEBEC RELIEF COMMITTEE. RAPN TO THE TRIBUNR. EEC, Jan. 16—t is reported that a gold nugged weighing 30 pounds hias been found in the Gilbert River miros, but no official report has ‘been made of it. i e 0 the ¢ ures . dllumudnn as to the best m.:‘n n}n&ou{ xtl'umlhds:kl‘ho Mayor's plan W at the next meeting. The Grand Trunk Rajlway Compan; are preparing & beautitul model of & Ang cax, in every par R AN ICE-BRIDOR. o KiNGsToN, Jin. 16.—The ice-bridge from Kingston Cnp:lvnwnlllw'ln‘ood ordor and stages are running regular, ol R S NAVIGATION ON THE Om'g;lh - CINCINNAT . 16.—The ice in 8 g i e ”Mm q:am-:uw::-mmnny of l:;lnm BY THLEGRAFR TO THE e, T 16 b, Soh, Celoro Vel S tor Lheyr Gl disclyise. - . ; Chamber, when the subject of the i Conslitutional ~ Amendment was taken from the table. The House had previously i the Amendwfnt by a vote of 12 to 13