The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 22, 1867, Page 4

IF Amngements. W 08 GARDEN. y A\ fl—TH:‘:I‘-,\LK CROOK—Great Parisionne Balled TER GARDEN. Mr. Edwin Booth, HEATER. W WA TS BVRNING—" OURS. BROADW A THIS EVENING — CAMARALZAX OF THE PARIERRE. The Worrell bisters. NEW-YORK T1 THIS APTERNOON—STILL WATERS RUN DE Yomat, My, George Jordan, Mr. Motk Suith Also, MR 3 x:....?umt mersal, M dee Cole, M / r. Blasd, & THIS EVENING—CENDRILLON—GBAND FAIRY ALLET. RTHA. Richings Opers OLY C THEATER. THIS BYENING—ENGLISH OFERA-MA! Company. DE MONS. PEREI THEATRE FRANCAIS. THIS RVENING-COMEDIE, LE VOYAGE CHON. BAR ¢ DAY AND EVERING-UNCLE TOM 5 CABIN. Y 0., Howard, T B RExe THOUSASD: I RiOSITIES—VAN AMBURGITS COLLECTION OF WILD ANIMALS. RK CIRCUS. THIS S\'m‘()-—Jt):’. CLUB RAUES. New York Cirens roupe, Milo. 1 VENUE OPERA HOUSE. THIS l\'rxm’a’—"xlmmx AN MINSTRELSY. Grifin & Cristy's Misatcels. J—— ] ELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS. THIS kvmna‘.n,uuuu.m BALLET TROUPR. DWORTH BALL. TH BVENING—M. HARTZ, THE IL LUSIONIST. 10N HALL. TABLEAUX. Coruer Twenty-thirdst. U THIS EVENING-BUNYAN Busincss Notices. Tue GreaT MepicaL ANNUAL. foserrei's USITep BTATEY ALMANAC for 1067, for distribntion, gratls, throughont the United States end all civilized eountries of the Western Hemisphere, will be pablished e 1at of January, aud Al who wish to nnderstand the true philc wder the valusble snggestions 't ¢ odical troatise ou the canses, prevention, and cura of & grest variety dlseases, it embraces & large awonst of information fnteresting to the (erohast, the Mechanic, the Miger, the Farmer, the Planter, and the oselona) Mas ; and the caleulations have been made for sueh meridians n4 Latitades a8 are wost suitablo for & correct aud comprebensive NATIONAL CALENDAR. The natars, uses, and extraordinary sanitary effscts of Hosrrrren's SToxacu BITTEes, tho staple Tonle and Alterative of more than half the Christlan worid, are fally set forth in its pages, which are also interspersed with valusble Mecipes, Humorons Aneolotes, aad other Iustractive and Amusiog Reading Matter, original and selected. Among the Anauals o eppest with 1the opesing of the year, this will b of the most and may be Jor the asking. Sead for coples to tho Central Manufactory, at tiaburgh, Pa., o to the nearest agent for Hosrrron's , The Brrres ate sold ia every city, town and village of il s In addition to an ted “TRUE MERIT APFEECIATED, —BROWN'S BRON- oupL TRocues bavebeen before the public many years. Each year {nds tho Trocus in some new, distaut localities, lu varions parts of the yoild Belagan of true merit, when oute used, the value of the Whndoums s sppreeisted, and they ars hept always st haud, (0 be wod ag oecaston requires. For Coughs, Colds and Throat Discases tho Trochos Bave proved their efficse Y 4 . SIS SSREEEE S S Tue FRANKLIN Brick MACHINE, “Yustly celebrated for perfect simplicity, great strength, and immenss # wmen nd two burves, to comprewsiag power, 1o GUARANTELD, with peil-tewper the clay 00’ Send for Rrealar to ). H. Roow 69, AMERICAN (WALTHAM) WA THE BEST IN THE WOKLD, Sold h‘l Yo the simplest and by all odds fhe most po America. 1t bas 1o compler machinery o ge y brenk 3 tever of cvg gearing 10 be perpet bricts clay, makes 1,000 good hoar by steam, et SEWING- ryland Tustitate, M. Co.’s Lock-S roudwar, ighest preniae ALMANAC FOR 1807 i3 NOW t uader Liead of New Publics- Trip! Price 20 conts. Sce advertiy “Tok Prie’s 0. K. Sosr, SALERATUS, A¥D Czrax TARTAR. ot medicive. L Addreasy on_recsiptof ten cents No. 1,190 Browdsay, New-York Reversih SEWING-MACTINES. . Bast fawily machine ia the world Fiouzxcx 8 M. Co 5 Broadway. 560 b Yoot, N D, v SryLe, for use by and or spress everyubere, 25, LocK-STITCH SEWS i ¥E N $2. BatourLor’s Hae D 'he best in_ the worMd; Harwless, Relia' tucons : the only perfect dre—hlack or brova. No disapp 5t Geunine signed Wi, A. Burcurion. ORY ELASTIC STOCKINGS, Ralical Cuze Truss ) vepoRTERS, &c.—Mansi & Co. No.2 t 1, 1STADORO's H anafactired. Wholesele as “ A'i—:l at No. 6 Astor House. JB. FRANK PALMER, d Jow JoiBeers and clriligua. o. 19 Greea . patente. i 2 Witrcox & Grsp: wanm is less liable to rip than the Guand ‘Trinl. | Bend for samples o D6 Macuines. s Hows, ot Presideat. ai 99 Broa Tue Harrisox Bomee. Tie SA¥EST AND BEST BOILER IN THE WORLD, Por Cisculat, apilrto 3. 8. Mxor, Azent, No. 119 Bre Hakwnay BoiLrx «diny, o to s, Piladelphia, Pa. PARLIAMENT PROROGUED—DEEE PLENTIIUL, B TALEUAAPH TO THE TRINUNE. Orrowa, C. E., Jan. 20.—The Gasetle publishes a prociawation further prorocuivg Parliament until the #1th dny of Pebruary. 1t is not then to meet for business The Hon. Sir Narcisso Bellcan 8 here. The Hon, Messrs' Campbell and MeGee and other Ministers are expeete There will be a m of the Cabinet to-morro is- v r the Cahinet o+ w. Dis- {'ounl on Awmerican nvoices for the ensuing week have declared at 26 @ cent. The deer are e o n than for €cveral years Dast, aud sportio s vely. MILITARY MATTERS—QUEBEC RELIFF YUND, Quinke, Jan. 21.—Tho cause of sonding the force of Govagnment police to Sherbrooke recently was fuforma. tion tecelved from Washington of an intended raid on the :n..l: by wl:enn.nu. The controversy abont the disposition rel £ fund coutinues, An expression of opinion mwflbcn is desirable whetlier the funds shall be (0 the sufferers or be used to rebuild the louses, RePRESENTATION AT THE PARIS EXFOSITION. , Jan. 21.—There will be abont 400 Canadian % wented at the Parls Exposition. The it .umdmlzaml:n'l:.l.mpnl Ottawa has arrived, 3 — FIRES. s sl ST, LOUIS. »” TRLRARAPE TO THE TWIEUNE, 81. Lous. Jan. 21.~8everal fires have occurred A t—only one serious—destroying t} . g and an adjgcent restaurant. 1l oy e 20,000, The mmr cx&;. (il o e tor 000 ok pupposc o A :olnwvfl, wr. { CwieaGo, Jan. 21.—There was a terriblo fire at Bloruouth, MHaois, vesterd-y, in the % Eamik : oo “ met of a kywling NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, — B TARY 22, 1887, 10 ComM No uolice ean be taken of Auonymous Com ~insertion 1must ba authenticated by th Whatever 1s | Al & guarasty for nten of the writer—uot necessasily for publication, bul fith. Jetters for (his office should be addressed to “ Tua Twin New-York. Al N We casuot apdertake to return rejected O nicatioas. T0 ADVERTISERS. We will thank our advertising customers to hand {a thei Advertisementa at an early an bour s possible. If receired after 9 0'clock they canuot be classifd nnder their propor heads. 5 The second page containg a letter Srom our Washington “Correspondent on The Cur- rency and Redemption, wsical, Dramatie, and Fine Arts Critieisms, a letter fl'om our }{ong Kong correspondent, and City News, The Com-= mercial News and Markets will be {numl on the third_page, with City and New-Jersey News. The Court Reports are on the seventh page. The Tariff bill was read in the Senate yes- terday, and the amendments offered by the Finance Committee passed, the most important being the chango of the duty on forcign hooks from 30 cents per pound to 35 cents ad valorem. b e o el Both branches of the Maryland Legislature yesterday passed a Dbill directing a new election to be held in Baltimore, February 6th, with the intention of superseding the present City Gov- crnment, which was elected for a term of two years. Mr. Williams's resolution, adopted yes- terday by the House, directing an investigation into the recent Maryland elections is, therefore, well-timed, It i3 notorious that Rebels, ex- cluded from the franchise by the laws of the State, voted, aud that Mr. Johnson assured Gov. Swann that the United States troops should be placed at his disposal, and under his orders. The Committee appointed yesterday will properly esamine these matters; the out- raged rights of the Union men of Maryland must not only be restored and protected, hut the abuse of the Executive power, in ordcring the military to interfero with elections and State laws, must not be left unnoticed. In this abuse are not merely involved the intercsts of loyalty, but the obligations of the Constitution, and Mr. Johnson's interference with the laws of Maryland might, with equal reasom, be re- peated in New-York or Massachusotis. P ——— My, Momill's bill to regulate the sale of ok by the Secretary of the Treasury, which passed the House yesterday, requires that public notice, of at least six days, shall be given of any sale of gold, in which notice the amouht offered and the terms of payment shall bo stated, and pro- posals for any portion invited. No proposal will be received unless accompanied by a cer- tificate of deposit in the Treasury of five per centum of the amount bid for. The Assistant Treasurer at New-York, who is to receive the proposals, is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary, to reject proposals, and it is pro- vided that the highest bid only shall be ac- cepted. No distinction is mado between eur- vency and legal tender notes as payment for the gold. Though considerable opposition was made to the bill, there was little debate upon the only point at issue—the withdrawal from tho Secretary of the power to sell without the knowledge of the public. If the passage of the bill by the Senate should result in the regular sale of the surplus gold in the Treasury, the benefit to our finances can bardly be over estimated. e e e FINANCE AND CUR. Y. As to the prospective action of Congress on Finance and Currenc§, our guess may prove quite erroneons; but it is our impression that the sum total of the doings of this session will be just about nothing at all. We judge that there {8 a major in the House who would be gratified if further iuflation and debasement conld be covered by any decent prefext; we trust that there is no majority in either House ready to venturo upon it without a pretext. The Senate, we hope, would not vote to inflate whether with or without a pretext, but it has not yet broken ground for prompt Resumption ; and does not allow us to forget that it origina- ted the provision of last session whereby the Secretary of the Treasury was forbidden to make good the Government's Greenback prom- 8es to pay. Undil further developments, we shall presume that the proximity of tho 4th of March and the urgency of other business will preclude decisive action on the Currency at this session. Meantime, Secretary McCulloch will go on with Lis regular withdiawal and destraction of Greenbacks at the rate of $4,000,000 per month, That is not much, but it is better than nothing. As to the various projects which look to the wholesale withdrawalof the notesof ourNational Banks and their replacement by Greenbacks, wo regard them all with complaceney if not with positive favor; but we insist that Resumption shall be the first step. Let us Lave no more systematic National falsehood. When our Greenbacks were first authorized and issued, it was with a distinet understanding that they should be convertible into interest-bearing bonds at the option of the holder, and that they should be redeemed in coin at the carliest possible day. They were issued as a gigantic forced loan, in satisfaction of our imperiled Union's urgent, imperious needs. The expedient scarcely differed little in prin- ciple from, but was an improvement upon, that debasement of the coin- age 8o familiar to the despotic rulers of the Middle Ages. Its justification is found in the National peril wherein it originated, and which it powerfully aided to overcome. But though a weary army may be marched five miles further on the stimulus of a gill of whisky per man, it by no means follows that its efficiency I'mn not only the greatest would be increased by keeping it drunk ever- mora. It is high time that we began to taper off ; for, though getting sober i3 a less delicious experience than that of getting drunk, it is decidedly more wholesome, and the lapse of time renders it indispensable. When the Greenbacks were first issued they were tacitly regarded as promises to pay so 8000 as we conld—so soon, at least, as the stress of war should have passed away. Now that we have peace, and are paying off National Debt rather than incurring it, let us resume payment; at all events, let us not multiply falsehoods which have not even the déubtful merit of de- ceiving. Only let the Treasury resume payment in coin, and then, if there be an equitable mode of replacing our Bank Note Currency by Groenbacks, we have not the Jeast objection, —— The Turks are making great offorts to con- tradict by lying dispatches tho sympathy which the wholo of the civilized world begins to Mut in the cause of the Cretans, A Con- stantinople dispatch of January 5 states (hat the wholo native population of Crete had made theg submission, and that it was only a few foréign adventurers who kept up tho insur- rection. Yesterday a cablo telegram informed tans. Bo this as it may, fhere &n be no doubt that the report about a submission of the Cretans was false. The Russian Embassa- dor at Constantinople has openly declared that he sces no peace exeept in the annexation of Crete to Greeo A HISTORIC MONUMENT. «pid Andrew Johnson, directly after his ac- “oession to the Presidency, resolve to break “with the party which had elected him Vice- «President, and place himself at the head of “its antagonists?” If he did, then the assump- tion that Congress has picked a quarrel with him is refuted; if he did, then very much which has been vehemently disputed must be accepted a3 undeniable trath. The Constitutional Union (relic of father Ritchie’s latter-day oracle) is the well-known organ of the Copperhead Democracy in Wash- ington City; and it had, on the 1st of May, 1865—barely fifteen days after Mr. Johnson's ac- cession to the Presidency—an elaborate leader, which says: “The record of Androw Johnaon, President of the United States, from which we, on Baturday, made some extracts, shows a consistency to the great principles of Democratio institutions which 15 no less commendable than It 1s rare. Himselt ‘ one of the prle.'lm has shown, in every action of his political life, that consideration for the wauts and dch solicitude for tho welfars of the peo- 10 which eminently fit him for the proud position he now {:\ulda a8 I‘n:.l'dmlo! the I.‘wph. % - . B . “And all the long period of his active and busy life, Andrew Johnson hias ranged Limseif among the most ar- dent, tho most determined, the most uncompromlsing partisans of the grand idca of the rights of the people, in all the application of (ts principles, as laid down by tho Democratio party of this country. 1o has occupled pre. clscly the smue ground which thisjournal lins maintafned in these principles, and shares in common with us the sentiments we have so often claborated in these colutns, ood of the greatest number, Wnous possible 1s the sole h piness can only be rence to democratie but the greatest iidividual b alm and end of government. attained through such rigid adhe riuciples a8 hus nlwui'u characterized Androw Johnson. flc 18 now the chiet ruler of the country, and wo look to him that the people, of whom he is in every sonse n rep- resentative, éhall enfoy the prosperity and_Lappiness Wwhich, in our judgment, ean only o obfainod through an unfaltering attachment and obedtence to that grand po- litfeal faith of which he i3 at onee a type and exemplar, & dovoted follower and now_trinmphant standard bearer. Ho ahall we work out to its brilliant closo tho grand des- finy of onr country, whose matchless beauty and - dor have uspired 1n his mind precisely the dame dreams of glory that for years of gloowm and darknoss bave kept our faith in the fiture progress of the Unfon alive aud hopeful. Ko shall tho onward and upward course of u- Jand bo steadily pursucd, till dreams become realities, and Utopia be ot altogether a sage's roveris or & poet’s dream.” The Cincinnati Gazette's Washington corre- spondent states that this article, before it was published, was submitted to President Johnson and by him carefully revised and corrected. At all events, it is plain that nosuch editorial wounld have appeared in The Union had not its editor been well assured that Mr. Johnson fully pur- posed to turn his back on those who had elected Lim, and rencw his relations with the party which did not support him for Vice-President. I3 not this & grave fact? CITY BUILDING. There were during the year 1860 1,630 build- ings commenced in this city, of which namber 1,120 were completed, while 873, which had been begun in 1855, were completed in 1866, The abstract which we publish elsewhere of the report of Mr. Macgregor, Superintendent of Buildings, will be examined with ecare by the statistician, the social economist, and the tax-payer. As might be expected, the extent of building in 1866 greatly exceeds that of the preceding years sinco 1860, This increase does not keep pace with the increase of the popula- tion which virtually belongs to this city. The | evils of onr City Government, the misman, ment of our streets and our markets, and the amount of taxation necessary to support the | harpics of the City Hall, have caused those whoso business has drawn them to this eity to look outside the limits of the city for their dwelling places. The result is seon in the greater ratio of increase of population in the suburban towns than in this city. Brooklyn, | Waestchester County, and New-Jersey, get the priucipal benefit of the influx of fainilies | whose heads are to be found in our ware- houses and offices, Complaint, which must be considered just, is made by the head of the Building Department that the law has been uniformly a hinderance to | the execution of such a policy as public safety | demands, Too much time is allowed for the | law's delay n enforeing necessary repairs upon | unsafe buildings, which maj ime during such delay be the cause of disaster and death, In this matter, as in all others concerning our city, the influence of speculators is too power- ful at Albany. The members of the Legislature, who are unacquainted with the necessities of the case, and consequently indifferent to the re- quests of the Superintendent for additional legislation, are bronght under the influence of bribery, or of party allegiance, and fail to give the attention and the support which the pro- posed amendments require, The discussions concerning unsafe buildings and modes of fire eseape are timely, 1t i3 not enough that our tenement houses, which may contain from a score to one hundred persons, should be provided with some way of escape in ease of fire; they should be so built, in the firat place, as to make a conflagration almost impossible. At comparatively small cost, brick partition walls could be constructed from the foundation to the roof, iron floor-beams could take the placo of wood, and brick arches be- tween those beams could supplant the present card-board style of lath and plaster. In such a case, every part of the building would be strengthened to such a degree that even if a fire should occur the increased stability of the walls, and their availability for future use, would be ample compensation for the inerease in the orviginal cost. If such radical im- provements were enforeed throughout this city, with the additional precaution of iron partitions between the wood and coal bins in the cellar, the danger to life and property by fire would be reduced at least three-fourths. So long as we have a department for inspection of buildings, and withhold from that department the power to enforee its requirements promptly, we shall never reach that degree of public safety to in- sure which that supervision was created. The days of wooden buildings in this city | has been generally depicted. should benumbered. Thereisno good reason why every man living south of a line 100 feet north of Eighty-sixth-st. should be required to erect his house of brick or stone, while those north of that line are permitted to use wood. Much of that portion of the island will be compactly built up in ten years' time, and those who nay erect substantinl buildings shoudd not be en- dangered by the shells which aro allowed under the present regulation. Only fire-proof material should be permitted in the walls and roofs of any of the houses this side of IHarlem River, An important bill was introdnced in the House yesterday by Mr. Williams, and referred to the Judiciary Committes, pro- viding that all cases brought before the Supreme Court, in which is involved the validity of United Statos statutes, or the construction of the Conmatitation, or the oppo- sition of State laws to the Constitution, shall be heard enly before a full bench, and that 1o decision shall bo given against any United States statute without the concurrenco of all TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 186%. voted to receive the bill—Yeas 101, Nays 89. It may be that here is a way by which a check can be imposed upon the enormous political power now wielded by the Supreme Bench. Trom the present temper of the majority of the Judges, it is plain that the people to whom power belongs must find some remedy against the encroachments of the judicial authority. FERRIES FOR CATTLE. The notion that some of the Brooklyn ferry- hoats are about to be discontinned for passen- ger purposes, and hereafter to bo used solely for the transportation of cattle and sheep (we beg the attention of the Society for Preventing Cruelty te Animals) is a good one, but, we fear, is misconceived and delusive, Capital boats, though, in many particulars of accommodation, aro theso wooden leviathans of the Last River marine. We confess that from an artistic stand- point we can imagine nothing drearier or uglier, especially on a rainy day ; but the shining and steaming virtues of the Brooklyn ferry-boats aro comfort and utility. They are well dented and rutted, and offer the firmest hold for the hoof; they have a soil which, with enltiva- tion, might be made a profitable and taxablo real estate; they afford a fair order of pens and stalls for passengers, but first-class cabins for cattle. They can be crowded to any extent, provided all live stock is paid for; in short, for cattle, sheep, or oystermen, or for a marine station-house, & Brooklyn ferry-boat would bea perfect water-palace. We trust that the probably humane inten- tions of the ferry companies will not be re- gisted by any New-Yorker whose spirit has be- come subdued to the steamboat ke travels in, and the corporation that ferries him. A respect for the old gentleman who counts his pennies at the gate, and for fthe ancient steam-galliot whose well-worn planks he has no doubt tripped over, whose-standing-room Le has enjoyed, and ifty different unventilated flavors aro the very breath of ferry-life—this is traditional and like sccond nature. We admit, too, that there are many reasons why new ferry-boats would not be acceptable to the man at the gate or the old-fashioned deck-hands, But on the other hand, it will be contended, there are no deck hands; certainly not enough to put out such a fire as might consume a good-sized Jersey City ferry-hoat. If it be, indeed, the intention to provide cattlo a transportation with tho boats that have earned so many thousand millions of pennics from passengers, we have bat one suggestion to make that will seem in any de- gree to reflect on the liberal, but impoverished gentlemen who constitute onr f lies. Our advice is especially addressed to cattle- owners. We hope that if any of this class of our fellow-citizens belong to the companies, they will insist on it, as a business measure, that, in case of an outbreak of fire, there shall be enough hands on beard to put it out, and prevent the loss of live-stock and prop- erty. Failing in this recommendation, we have nothing to do but again to beg the atten- tion of the Socicty for Preventing Cruelty to Aunimals, ] THE SUFPFERING SOUTIH. We rejoice that a vigorous movement is making for the relief of the desiitute South, and that all parties in our more fortunate re- gion, forgetting political prejudices and personal animos , are uniting in a combined effort to save our Southern brethren from starvation. The most pitiful accounts reach us from all quarters of the recent theater of war, Poverty is wll but universal, and is even worse than it We have already ion of ladies in collecting pro- called attention to an organiz this city for the purpose of visions and money for destitute Southerners, and we are now pleased to learn that a move- went on i larger seale has been inan- gurated auspices which take from it every appearance of partisanship, and seem 1o insure its sue A mecting of prominent 3. | citizens was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Satnrday evening, and a committee was ap- pointed to call a public mecting and devise the best mode of general effort, That meeting will be held at the Cooper Institute on F 4 evening. Peter Cooper will preside, and ad- dresses will be made by the Rev, Henry Ward ey, and other gentlemen, w-York, which did so much in years t for famine-struck Treland, and for revolu- tionary Greece, and which is now putting forth such generons exertions in behalf of the insur- gent Cretans, will not suffer this appeal from a people who have so many claims upon its gen- erosity to fall upon dull ears. If the mecting raises less than o million of dollars we shall be disappointed. THE NATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE. The resolves of this Committee, unanimously adopted at its adjourned meeting last Friday, were mangled in transmission by telegraph. Here is a correct version : “ Whereas, The descrtion by the President of those whoso generous confidence placed him in bis Ligh trost hins brought the National Uion party into a new and un- led position ut tinie of & vernment, 1ing for tho ex vigilance, 1 patriol { rinciples the natlo and wutho: 17 Union party o specially, n the so-called seceded States, and for that ]unk\ they iy estublish head- qui ity of York, appomt a Secretary and such assitants us ey may deem proper, and to take ASULTCS s Ly be necessaty o glve effect to bers of equestel , 'That the mcei ovory part of the country b this Commit ¥ mhln-nlh[i il an ot the head- ald, giving infortaation as to the state of eir several localitles, with the general coudi- tion and roquirements of tho Unlon eause. “The Union Nationsl Executive Committee is composed wing members : Mareus L. Ward, Chairmnn, i \ttsburgh, Pa.; Jo laflin, Newton, Mass.; N. B. Bmithers, Tho following resolution wus offored und adoptod with- out u dissentin 0 “ltesolved, That the Unlon National Commlittee con- gratulate the };euplu of Nebraska and Colorado on their admission by Congress Iuto the Union as States, and they would respeetfully express to the Leglslatures of those States their confident_ bope and earncst desire that the acts of admnlsslon h?' gress may be promptly accopted by them, placing U wclves thereby on the (rue ground ot equal rights to ull men, as proclalined in the Declara- tion Of Independenco. “The following resolutions were also unanimously adopted : “Jtesolred, Thnt this Commlttee congratulate the country on 1o 81CALY KrowEh AL Progress of RAtiOAL and DAL otic sentiments throughout tho Union, a8 evineed (i our Jast State electlons, and we look with ‘confidence to tio future to confirm the success of the past, and to seouro thie frults of onr falrly-won triumphs, “Jesolved, That, anxiously desirous that the States Intely in revolt shill bo restored o tholr forfeited position in thio Unlon and to_representation in Cougress at the earliest day conslstent with natioual integrity and national scen- , and disclaimivg all lu?nuw- of Vengeaneo or roammt- t, we would respectfully submit to Congress and the country this syowal of our earnest eonvietlon that no re- constrietion can {Illl oF wifs which does not seouro - partial suffrugo to all the loyal peoplo of those States.” Unlon party In orvarpoa with the 1t The Seventh-ave. Company ran no cars yes- terday, although the Brondway line, nearly parallel, was running all day. The pub- lic look to Messrs, Jacob Sharpe & Co. for more enterprise than to compel the public to walk or seck other lines of travel. The Bleecker-gt. and Fulton Ferry line was also re- 1wiss in not cleaning its track so as to allow the rauning of the cars. This Is a short line, probably one of the most profitable in the city, and we know of no excuse for the failure to accommodate the public excopt it be the poor one that the Colupany preforred ¢ save the ua of gaother great victory, qlamed VY Gl (vhg Judgon Qbiockion eivs wadey (o Houso | oxvouse, OBITUARY. —— NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS, The death of Mr. Willis, which took place on Sun- day evening at Idlewild, although not an occasion of surprise to the circle of intimate fricnds who had watched the progress of the chronie maladies against which he had so bravely fought for maiy years, will awaken a fecling of tender regret over @ wide por- tion of our country which recognized the brilliant qualities of his mind, and the pecnliar traits of char- acter, that gave him such marked distinction as an American poet, a lively and sparkling essayist, and a popular journalist. Mr. Willis was born in Portland, Mo., on the 20th of January, 1807, and had consequently just com- pleted his sixtieth year at the time of his death. Ho received his early education at the Boston Latin School, and at Phillips Andover Academy, where he was prepared for Yale College, at wLich institution he was graduated in 1527. His poetical genius was oxhibited while he was yet a school-boy, and during his residence in Now-Haven he published a series of poems entitled “Scripturo Sketches,” under the signature of *Roy.” After leaving coilege, ho be- came connected with the period literature of that day, and among other enterprises, established the ““ American Monthly Magazine,” in 1828, most of the contents of which were the productions of his own pen. He continued his labors in this Magazine for more than two years, when he joined the staff of the * Now-York Mirror,” a weekly literary jonrnal which had been started by Mr. George P. Morris about seven years before, Soom after forming his conncetion with Mr. Morris, he commenced an extensive tour in Kurope, where ho re- mained for the space of about seven years. The fruits of his Furopean experience were given to the public in his lively volumes entitled “ Pencillings by the Way,” which originally appeared in the columns of the “Mirror.” His travels extended throngh France, Italy, and Greece, and into portions of European Turkey and Asia Minor. As an attaché of the American legation at Paris, to which office he had been appointed by Mr. Rives, then United States Minister at that Court, ho gained free access to the highest social circles, and with the habits of keen and rapid observation which he had already formed, and which remained one of his prominent character- istics thronghout his life, he obtained a rich store of materials for sparkling d ption, and piquant, and not unfrequently, a little mischievous, comment. During that period, ho also published “Inklings of Adventure,” a seriea of tales and sketches written for the London “New Monthly Magazine,” under the signature of Plnlip Slingshy, which obtained a bril- liant popularity both in England and this country. His first work was severcly criticized by the British periodicals on account of the freedom with which he exposed the interior of houseliolds where he had been ived as a guest, and some of his remarks on the ngs of Captain Marryatt, then in the hight of his reputation as a popular novelist, led to a duel with that author at Chatham, which however hap- pily terminated without bloodshed on either side, After exhausting Enropean life in its manifold en- ticing phases, Mr. Willis returned to America in 1837, having two years previously been married to an English lady, the danghter of General Stace, superin- tendent of the military and naval arsenal at Wool- wich, Upon arriving in this country, he retired fo the beantifnl rural residence on the Snsquebanna near Owego in this State, which under the romantio name of Glenmary has obtained a celebrity as wi as the writings which date from that pl. In 185 he beeame one of the editors of a New-York literary journal called the “ Corsair,” and in the same year he made another visit to England, where he published “Letters from under a Bridge,” written originally at Glepmary, and one of his most agreeable productions. 11 his two dramas, *“Tor- Yisconti,” and a col- i European letters, enti- * At this period, hie pub- ted edition of his poems, and press deseriptions to Bartlett's of the United States and ates in 1544, Th ily follow tesa rer,” and lection of stories, poems, tled ** Loiterings of Tra lished a splendid illust ibuted the lettc ws of the Sc anada” He returned to the United and in connection with his former associate, Mr. Mor- ris, established the “ Evening Mirror,” a daily news- paper of this ¢ The death of his wife, and the failure of his own health induced him to make a third visit to ope, where he bronght out an edition of his magazine articles under the title of ** Dashies at Life with a Free Pencil.” Aftor a residence of about two years abroad he re- turned to New-York in 1846, and in the same married to the estim; wdy who still survives a danghter of the Hon. Joseph Grinnell of New-Bed- ford. He now published an octavo edition of his complete works, and in conneetion with his devoted fellow-laborer, Mr. Morris, esiablished the * Home Jou 1,” which rapidly won a large share of the pub- lic fuvor, and has eontinued from that time to ike present, a popular, aud almost unique organ of liter- ature, v, fashionable life, and the news of the day. The reputation of this favorite jonr was due, in a great degree, to the assiduity, tact, and ver- satile literary powers of Mr. Willis, Ile was never weary of Lis task, never at a loss for suggestive themes, never wanting in skill of adaptation, in curions surprises of expression, or in flowing wealth of original illustration. His devotion to his editorial duties was like that of a fond mother to ber pet child, The languor of disease seemed to produce no effect on the ferti'ity of his pen. His mental energy tri- umphed over the weakness of his bodily frame, and the dashes of quaint humor and the utteranco of dainty conceits which constantly enlivened the col- mmns of his jomrnal were often produced in the in- tervals of pain, or dictated amidst the pangs of lin- goring illness. Even until within a few days of his death, he would notconsent to relinquish his grasp of the pen, maintaining the same persistent energy which had kept i tirm at his post through so many of hopeless invalidism. The titles of Mr. Willis’s works comprise almost a library of volumes, and are doubtless too familiar to most of our readers to demand repotition in this place. Nor is it necessary to offer a critical estimate of their charaeter, inaddition to the comments which wo have 1 frequently called to make at the time of their As a fluent and graceful discourser on the lighter topics of social in- terest, he is admitted to have had few rivals. If they are to be found at all, we must not seek them in the stately reserve and polished dignity of English litera- ture, but among writers who drew their inspiration from the gay persiflage and graceful irony of Paris- ian life. No man caught with a quicker eye the fleeting aspects of social comedy, or reproduced their rainbow eolors with a more dextorous touch. His poetry shows that he was not destitute of the deeper sontiment for the exercise of which he had little use in the airy sketches which charm alike by the frivoli- ty of their tone and the piquancy of their dietion. As wo have not seldom had occasion to remark be- fore, his lightest compositions often betrayed a subtle d y of discrimination, an acute perception of ovanescent differences and similarities of relation, which, if applied to the discussion of graver and more profonnd topics, would have given him the name of a master in o sphere of intellect in which he has now scarcely the credit of an imperfect initiation, —— ALEXANDER SMITIL, Mr. Aloxander Smith, well known as author of “A Life Drama” and other poems, died at Wardie, near Edinburgh, on Jan, 5, after an illness of several woeks. Mr. Smith, who was the son of a pattern designer, was born at Kilmarnock, on Dec. 81, 1830, 80 that he had just entered his 37th year. His first work, “A Lifo Drama,” wos written by him while engaged in his father's busiess, and published in The Critio in 1852, and afterward, with other poems, in a volume, in 1833, In 1855, he published, in con- Junction with Mr. Dobell, * Sonnots on the (Crimean) War,” and in 1857, “City Pooms” and * Edwin of Deira.” At a later poriod he distiuguished himsolf a8 & proso writer, publishing in 1863, * Dreamthorp,” in 1866, “A Summer in Skye,” and *Alfred Hagart's ousehold.” Ho was alsoa frequent contributor to Good Words wnd other serinls, In 1834, he was contr 0c appointed to the office of Secretary of the Edinburgh University. Ho married about ton e #go, o Lt Lot @ widow sud fawily. ‘WASHINGTON. AR BEEUR CONGRESS YESTERDAY—-TIE TARIY BILL IN Thg SENATE—SPEECH-MAKING IN THE NOUSE—THR CURRENCY AND TAXATION QUESTIONS ¥ iy WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE—THE REGISTRA- TION OF THY. COLORED CITIZENS OF THP, DISTICY —EXAMINATION OF THE TREASURY ACCGUNTS, BY TELEGRAPE 70 THE TRIBUNE. WASHINGTON, January 21, Y467, In the Senate to-day there was very little bnsiyiesy done beyond the reading of the Tariff bill andghe proposing of amendments thereto by the Finance Come mittes, The President was ealled npon by Mr, Suma ner’s resolution for any correspondence he may have in his possession abont the resignation of Mr. Motley as Minister to Austria, in whose place Mr. Cowan’ has been appointed. It is denied that Mr. Motley has ever tendered his zesignation. The Tariff hill was amended in several particulars. The most im. portant change was on forcign books and papers, from thirty cents per pound to thirty-five per ceng od valorem. Mr. Sumner gave notice that at the proper time, when the bill is properly beforo the Senate for debate, he would oppose this, This was Resolution Day in the House, and an honp was occupied in a call of the States, The most ime portant bill acted upon was one from Mr. Morrill, providing for the sale of gold from the United States Treasury. There was considerable objection to the introduction of the bill by the Demoerats and & num- ber of Republicans, but it was finally passed with but little debate. Mr. Ward of New-York introdnced a resolution providing for the appointment of a sclec committee to investigate the manner in which the late congressional election in Maryland was held, and how far the President of the United States in.. terfered in said election. This was adopted aftee considerable opposition from the Maryland Demo- crats, The remainder of the day was spent in speach- making on Mr. Stevens's Enabling Act. Aream or two of foolscap, closely written upon, was disposed of, much less than a quorum of members being present at any time during the reading of these inter- esting essays. Aftera few more reams are disposed of the bill will reach a vote, The House is in session to-night for the purpose of speechmaking. The members of the Reconstruetion Committee were before the New-Orleans Riot Investigating Commit- tee this moming. They were summoned for the pur- pose of giving testimony as to whether the Commite tee, as the representatives of Congress, or any membes individually, gave the members of the Louisiang Convention any assurances or made any pledges thag Congress wished the Convention Leld and would defend and protect it. The testimony given proved that no such pledges were ever given, and no menibe of the Commitiee was ever authorized to speak for Congress. Capt. John Burke, ex-Chief of Police in New-Orleans, also gave testimony before the Come= mittee. He gave a list of names and identified & number of policemen who were engaged in the mage sacre. He will finish his testimony to-morrow. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs will tos morrow take up the nomination of Senator Cowan a8 Minister to Austria. The chances are the Committeq will report against his confirmation. The pressure from Pennsylvania against his eonfirmation is very strong, and will have considerable weight with the Committee, Senator Sumner maintains that Mr. Motley, the present Minister, did not resign, and he has called upon the President to send the corre spondence in regard to that question to the Senate, If it appears that Motley was removed to give place to Cowan, he stands liitle chance of confirmae tion. If there was a vueancy, it may make some difference with a few Senaters in regard to their vole when tho question comes before the Senate. The expansionists on the Ways and Means Coms mittee tried bard to-day to unite to the Gold bill & proposition to prevent the redemption and cancellas tion of the 70 or 80 millions of compound-interes notes which fall due during the present year, but {§ was defeated, on the ground that it wonld open the whole question of finance and lead to an inexhanstis blo debate. It will probably be reported from the committeoin some other shape in a few days, but i8 will hardly pass the house. There is a strong expans sion party in both Houses, principally from the Weet, and they will leave no stone untarned to change the present contraction policy of Secrctary MeCulloch. The Committee of Ways and Means also talked oveg the question of reduction of taxation with both Mr McCulloch and Mr. Rollins, and there are doubts ia the minds of the Committee whether it is policy to make any reduction, owing to the large falling off of internal revenue receipts. It is the opinion of some of the members of the Committee that the receipte from internal revenne during the present year will fall considerably below the estimates of the Secre- tary and the Commissioner, and therefore it is bettor to let the matter of reduction alone for the present. This course will probably be adopted. Mr. Stevens will introduce, ina day or two, the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill, with soveral important amendments. One provides for abolishing the mission to Rome because it is an uns necessary expense, and Rome has no minister here and also because the Pope has insulted this country recently by ordering the destruction of the Protestan$ Mission-Honse in Rome and prohibiting any furthes worshiping by Protestants in the Holy City. B The days of chivalry have come back to Washinge ton. Two *“affairs of hono:” have occurred hore during a week, and more are promised in certals contingencies. The first was the crossing of weape ons by two newspaper correspondents attached to leading New-York newspapers, who were tenacious of their statns, but whose blows were withont force § for, whilo the willing canes would eravitate down- ward naturally, they were restrained by the unwill ing arms of the combatants, and no damage was done. To-day Delegate Holbrook of Idaho made an assault with a cane upon an inoffensive man nami Henry Cummins, also of Idako, in the lobby o Willard's Hotel. The latter was considerably brnised, and, being unarmed, came out second best. The quarrel was @ political one, Mr. Holbrook being @ Johnson man, and Mr. Commins, it is said, being @ correspondent of some Radical papers. The Mayor of Georgetown has issued a proclama- tion giving notice to all the male inhabitants of the city above the age of 21 years, both white and colored, that the Mayor and Board of Aldermen will be in open session at the Mayor’s office on the 23, 2ith and 5th days of Jannary for a preparation of a list of the names of all persons they may judge to be qualified to voto inthe several voting preeinets, and for the reception of evidence of the qualification of persons claiming tho right to vote in all elections in that ity under the provisions of a late act of Congress, en- titled * An act to regulate the election franchise ig the District of Columbia.” The act of Congress of ders the municipal anthorities to prepare the list of voters on or before the first day of March. Georges town votes on the 25th of February, and eleets ite officers for two years. The authorities intended thereforo to register theirnewly enfranchised citizens after the 25th of February, so that they could no% vote for two years, but the Senate having introdnced a bill to register the votes immediately, on penalty of fine, Georgetown suddenly wakos up-and permits the registration to take place, prior to and not subsequen$ to the vote. Assistant Treasnrer VanDyck of Now-York arrivedy fo-day, having been summoned by the Ways and Means Committes to make explanations, &c., rogards ing the previous sales of Government gold. The detectives of the Treasury Department & tow days ago captured the plates. of a counterfeit on Amnusomtunuo}mowumwbuflun vignette of Washington. ’ Secretary McCulloch has decided to atlowa draw- back of twnmcelcmpndmhndplp-b factured from imported lead, less the rogulat 10 peg cent deduction. It has been deoided that all stones manufactured or up in should pay an import duty of per cend. ’ The friends of Colorado bxpect a veto bf the bilk admit ing that State into the Union. It'is that Nebraska will share the same fate, The bills are alike, except that in Colorado the Governor eleet the State is to call together the Legislature under the Constitution within sixty days, to 008 I on tho condjtion of sdmission; and in Nebrasks, the the State Logislature fos Territorial Governor calls dcex dnm, B astlon fox & spllac hpose, Wik