The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 23, 1867, Page 2

2 TINANCES OF THE CO UNTRY. From Our Special Correspondeat. Wasy 0N, Jan. 20, 18¢7. Waving laid down somo genersd propositions, and 1 the oxprossod somo general Vi « financial condition, we €oma to the practical ques- ion of the remedy, if rem dy there be, for the di- emma in which the coantry finds itself. If there be any weight in the statements made and Yudgments given, we mil Iaceept the fact that the Dusiness of the connry is enterix Tepression and trial, which ¢ grom a state of war toastate of peace. The prec why and wherefore bus been explained. At the same time,welare left with a great debt, onw hich we st pay the interest, and with a great sum of irre- deemable paper money afloat. 1 have shown that while to a certain extent this paper money has been 1 useful investment, and an indispensable instrunujut for the conduct of the war, the exeeptional prosperity of the industrial interests of the conntry, during and since that period, is in no sense to be imputed to it. I bold now that the time has fally come when {his expensive and demo; lizing instrument of traffic should bo set aside and its use dispensed with, Be- cause—First, the necessity for it has passed away with the war which brought it into being; second, Decause of its mischievous influences, which we have already briefly depicted ; and lastly, and above all, Yecause, until it is got out of the way, stability in mercantile and fina affairs is impossible. 8o Jong 8 it lasts the trading and industrial interests of the people will be kept afloat and shivering in the wind, or stauding on shifting and treacherous fonnda- ‘tions; will continue to be the sport of legislative caprice, and the football of gamblers and speenlators, Until Congress retraces its steps, and removes its band entirely off the money concerns of the country, it is impossible to commence the roconstryction of any stable basis for the future prosperity of either its capital or its industry. 1 hold that so much as this, if not demonstrated, js yet demonstrable from the views already ad- vanced and intimated. Views clearly defined, not yocondite, or difficult of apprehension, but capable of ‘being considered and judged by every man of com- in the country. the supply of the cirenlating medium is Jeft to the regnlation of Congress or the Treasury, it s in vain to attempt to make any calenlations in re- gard to the future. That supply will depend o ging opinions, en extraneous inflnenc jndgments. This uncertainty is 1l sonnd opinion in regard to the ffairs. The manufacturer, the ows ho trans <l fish and defectiv necessarily fatal t¢ course of mercanti agrienlturist, the ship-owner, the ¢ the ginancior, will continue to be, as they now are, alike embarrassed and baffled and confounded in regarl to anch of husiness is safe Prudent men will he future, No man in any b in any ceulation he may make. make none, beyond the necessities of the hour. Up o the time of high water, in our war tide, it was safe to indulge in a general calenlation on the set of the current. But now th man ean tell wi Jereafter to ercet dams to o cilitato the flow of that current, or how often it will ‘chango from one policy to the other, it Yecomes an mrgent necessity to gét the whole subject of paper money ont of Congressional hands and out of tive bands. In a commercial country, as, indeed, in every comntry, the laws of commerce are the only . goand guide in regard to the amount of money that COMIMETCe Tequ If Government meddles, it only meddles to make mischif. No legisiator, no exeentive officer, no man is wise enough to see the operation, measure the inflnence, wark the bounds, or direct the currents of the trade on like this. And what can do, aud thus they t the tide has t such a subject may be enacted. Specifie provisions, never. Without undertaking, the apon the opinious of indiv paper circulation this count moment, or upon their other theorctical opivions touching the same subject, wo have a rightto demand of our legislators that they acknowledge their inev- jtable imperfections, and that they leave matters beyond their ken and beyoud their proper jurisdie- tion to the natural laws that govern them. We got into our present dilemma in <wonsequence of Congress crecting an artificial standard of in place of the nniversal standard. the inflexible metaliic measure, and we set up this shiftig and va ing standard of a government refore, to sit in judgment luals as to the amount of sent where it started. It nec act. This is the direct r only policy npon which the reconstruction business and industry of the co basis is possible. Let Congress, th flying its paper balloons; let it have done with trying to variable and indefinite quantity of promises to p requisite for the commercial needs of this greas people. Let it establish the policy of restonng tho state of things as they existed before the war. They should have no difficulty in doing this. The hard-money men will of course agree to it. Tho expansionists €ay there is 1o more paper money afloat than the business of the country requires, If this be true, resorting to the metallic standard will not diminish the quantity. Yor, with onr innumer- able agencies of supply, the country cannot fail to get all that is necessary 80, too. these who hold that prices are guite inde- peudent of paper mon as was argned at length and approvingly in the House the otherday, Thoy surely should consent to this pohiey. For if an undue sup- Py of paper money does not influence prices, then its diminution will not. So that all such persons a logicaily precluded from opposing the metallic standard. This long hour's speech to which we refer, proceeded upon the idea indicated, and also upon . this: that it was evident we had none too much paper afloat, because prices had fallen and were falling. An answer to which position can be com- prised in a single sentenc money does cffect prices, but it does not pre Taws of supply and demand from operating “This practical issue of the repeal of the Le; der act is not suggested a5 a measure nece: manding instant operation in order to subserse the wost useful purposes. It is not necess: it should be mado_to take effect at once; neither to-morrow oor next day, nor next week, hardly even next year, though this we shall not say. Ifa for the repeal of the Legal Tender act could be passed with suffi- cient sanetions and gnarantees, fixing a prospee but unchangeable period for it to come into operation, we might have almost at once many of the benefits of resumption of specie Only let the country understand hat the legal standard is tobe testored at some fixed period in the future—and from the hour it should be the nation could begin o e {:-‘;::::‘ :i(m.m:]\| Ry Stk ally resume its n::‘l::}h:):::::-‘l': Jal “”I:ill':r‘\{‘m:']::i certainty in comm 1 ond financis irs 'w(,:“ begin 1o supersede the wncertainty, the.confusion the cinbarrassiient and perplexity that Lave so lowg svigued theein, 4. 8 .."“ ent the Iso. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The following is the weekly mortality Registrar of Vital Statisties: tality report of Ul xTRoPoLITAY Boaxn ov Heacrn, Bruxar or V) AT S sl colg o 8 e £ o B o el il inatitutions, and in Brookl;n fhere were 155 deaths, exclngive of Viatbush tastit Thia wortallty is 4 10 73,57 denth oo anawal e’ (cxlodig i) o . aad 200 per ith 10.9 alent en York, o e & Jmarked decrease b this i her f " The. - okt e e:::t:llnrull; o n‘:‘"e-' R causes i - e 0 perishas s Sets dsoeiars of e Topbiens 13 470 F., was the coldest of the season. The theroartrie pressure umusaly gty i J v merica, (% 1 Unled s i West Lutio 1 Tolel trn.—Men, 9: women, 3; Loy, 4 Nativitiva—Kaglond, 2 Veree. 1: Germant o, Lo fbgn i 165 # R e s Sen ki Tl i, o el ject of our | I rare exo o oors, T snowe | ete day day, and portions of tho night pr ceding and fo! Children, trol. General laws'on | BOSTON. Skt IHE STORM—A HARD-HEARTED BROTHER—ELIZUR WRIGHT'S CASE—MASSACHUSETTS ON IMPEACH- NEW-HAMPSIIRE POLITICS. Bo! weo-deop in now, and its whole m lo ¢ pick Lovel, whilo the wo- TON, Jau. 18, 1837, ton is ki 1 is Land s kept by imprad found thelr way home with difficulty, and in 8o had to be taken in by strangers. The thousar ds of busit- ness men who came into the city by the morning trains and staid untl after dinner, found themselves compelled to stay &till longer, and not ono per eent of them reached home at night. All the railroads, steam and lorse, were blockaded, and travel will not b regular for a day or two 0 come. The hotels were erowded, and many men had to sock lodgings in the houses and stores of friends and ao- quaintances. Ten years ago this day we had o similar storm, but have had none since at all equal in severity. A Winter like this often directs the thoughts toward man’s inhumanity to man. 1do not propose to inflict upon you a homily on this topic, bat to give llustrations of it by quoting fairly, though bricfly, from a printed cor- respondence (connected with a law suit) ‘which has come into my possession. It is not published, but I conclude that those who printed it are not averse to giving it pub- licity. I shall give no names, but there is no lLarm per- haps in saying that all the letters are dated at a town in Plymouth County, all the way from Feb. 1 to June 16, 1865, and that the correspondents are brothers. A Tn the first place A. informs G. that ho can occupy the Touse and barn this Winter at the rate of §50 a year, pay- able quarterly. G.replics that he should like the plan, and will pay i he can find employment; but as he had been obliged to relinquish an office he held becanse of his inability to give the large bonds required, he doubts his ability to pay. “1f you want me to move I will doso."” A.,inanote of two lines, repeats his former terms, and then waits until April, when he sends a bill for a quar- ter's rent, &n, “T ghall take the hay and fruit from the place tl " G.replies that he cannot pay the bill, but will do 80 as soon a8 he can. He hopes he should have been allowed tho improvement of the place this year; it would have boen a great sccommodation ; 18 oxpecting o eltuation soon, and so0 on. A. sharply an- ewers that he shall take the hay and fruit, and if G. has anything in the cellar he must remove 1t jmmediately. Cannot consent to Lis remaining in the house. *“ The short time you remain will be on suiferance to remove At Again demands prompt payment of the suceeed in getting an office. G. writes again ving the manure and some.turnips in the cellar; if does not want them, will remove them, thongh it 15 ince venient to do 5o, Asks the privilege of planting a garden, which he will give up if required to move. A.says he does not want the turnips, but they can remain in the cel- Jar ten days longer. G. can have a garden spot 0pposite the store,but he must remove before ve les can replies that the lot in front of the store is not rden, and hope will consent to lis use of Id like to sses by saying, " and destitute, and you must deal with e as you th Apparently mollified, A. replies, You can plant a snall piece where you did lust year.” April 21, he gives G. notice to quit on or before the 1st of June. AW later he orders G. to take the turnips out of the cellar {mmediately, repeats the notice to quit the house, and also the barn and out-buildings. June2, A. Have vou vacated the house and premises, as I requesicd and gave you notice to do? If so, please send me the key; if not, why have you not done o1 Let mo know fmme a3 T wish to have house and premises vacated at 3. says he eannot vaeate withont en health and Iife and that of his family of remaining during the year. A, teimmediately.” @, follows with stwo dangiiters, and his woun Asks th replies, “ You must vaca anotlier appeal, es the health of one of | soldier som 15 exjy | town before long affect his future stances T hope xpects to lea i to be ousted now will disistrously rospects. “Under my pre reunt u will forget me and rewember m blics Ly repeating the notice to quit, a; cript says: “You can move into the old house by the store.” not the AAd ho T mere replies, setting forth th 5 is fit ol d plaintively begging and gnpport my ave my children cless, but am turned into the strect homeless and lol repared to meet the adversities of the w One-half hour's conversation with yo and coolly, T think you would be satisticd [ hav d withont eanse.” “Don't, for God's nd children into the street.” acter of the old ho t and paper necessary for healtl, you will have to do so. 1 eanmot con come. “ unless you con- s for re rnt for you used, ther A You speak about being unjusty ans, T st You s kit s & pose, by me; but I are not lost to ul of jus- you s and propr 1nm glad of §€. Being poor is no dis grace o any o 3. writes agnin, presenting his* last plea for pity and compassion.” “1 nm wipated and ye mbled in the dust.” Do spare me ar For Go's and for the sake of my chillren remain the present year” “If T mn deprived of this ilege, T canmot possibly keep from the poor-homuse.” “If T bave done youwrong Twill makeyou all the | amends in my power.” “I have wituessed this after- noon @ gang of men examining the grass, 1 suppose for the purpose of purchasing it, but T pray you | to let e have it, as it will enable me i part to support | my family, and \f at the end of the year Tam alive I wil | lea the place in good condition.” And much more in the same sirain, (o which, fiwally, A, replies: “ T am sorr tohear that you are sick, and Lope that you will soon re- As for your occupying the premiscs for the year, ling more to You caunot remuin, and o as per notice gi The hay and fruit 1 shall will be sold at anction.” over possession of the real 1 an decided in favor of the rich brother, , 1 believe, still me of tho rich ed i the ¢ SO1S 0 s were taken ing. These two br hobs of the OM Colony ; 6., as you will infer, is ( and poor; A. Is rich and vigorous, at least in on tion. G. has been a politician, o for Congress; A. got his monc Tonorable pursuits of trade. The most interesting event in the Legislature isa de- hate on a matter uninteresting to the publie, in which Mr. Walker, the eolored member from Charlestown, met several of the leading me) s and best debaters in the 18 ler 1 was once @ ca and his Lumanity in the House, and carried his point by 19 majority, Elizar Wright, the ipsulted and abused Insurance Commiss) rof last year, has been signally vindieated by a debate and vote in our House of Representatives. In the Legislature 1o be der the ban of Mr. Wright and the S| tain practices as receiver of a failed insurance company. ‘There was also another membor, inocent of all k of insurauce, who befng put upon a commitice ¢ with investigating the subject of the vaiuation of life- policies, went to Mr. Wright for information, and was a come un- furnished with one of his avuunl reports, ac- companied with the gentle information that he was an ass for not having already informed bimself, Thisjui- pradent, and perhaps unjust, estimate of the country mem- Ver's standing in the animal creation naturally enough exasperated him, and he forthwith proceeded, as is sup- posed, in Gombing first alluded to, to prt Mr. Wright down and turn hin out of office, Busy with Lis logarithms Mr. Wright did not suspect that mis- ehief was afoot until the bill abolishing Lis office was welluigh through the House. 1t did finally pass, but the attention of the Leglslature was acoused to the in- Justice, and a bill was framed by the Judiefary Commit- tee for the establishment of the office of State Actuary, which failed by ouly one vote in the House. DIr. Wright retired to a lucrative private business. but found time to write and print a pamphlet which 15 as sclen- titic a specimen of skinuing as we bave had for many o day. One of the pleas on which Mr. Wright's office wns legislaed from under Iitm was that he was getting many thousand dollars for bis family by their mathematical work in the office, and that the work could as well be done by one eommissioncr With a salary of $2,000. 80 the one comuissioner was cr::hd. He soon found himself obliged to hire two actu- ; . % and !Avs young Indies on this swmb work, and the b ;:w Committee put into their first appropriation bill o ": a‘:;‘;: mmu two or three thousand dol- L in the course of which Mr. Harris :::»nmm, n:h knows something about frandulent mll:l o: A receivers, and Mr. Jewett of Boston, m‘?l'"-. oieits dm‘ -"“:lt:z t";:muue, fully viudicated racter, Appropriation wi - Auced and limited to the first of Aprlf. nd the rh;; Tusurance Committee for mves- take some action for the purpose of .W 10 public opinion yet on one side or the There 14 ot tila Biatcs Bouisof theoyupapess “:Q”M‘""’.,,, | Qusly stating day by day, thst W projeo) wevts wid uo T - response, dead or foarly so; but T think peoplo are merely walf for dovelopments, and that very likely {hio events of the next two months willmako them nearly unanimous for the proposed measure. Tamnot a convert to the poliey yet, but when nsked what the country 15 to do with Andrew Johnson in tho White Iouse from this time till March, 1869, it 1s hard toanswer, There 13 doubt- less o political risk in impeaching him, but a will mot rm a risk for the throwing a poll fch Is Impeding ¢ our nat stopping all indua- g &a 1 g the murder of of all eolors in that region, keeping the finances zed, and obstructing business and government in overy possible way, 18 not worth agreatdeal. Two years of Republican rule now would'be worth more tief ten by and-by, to all except the office-holders. Prima fucie, d« it not seem little ridiculous for tho party which swept the whole North and West two months ngo, and which holds two thirds of both branches of Congress, to be sat- fsfied with this halt-Rebel who now squats in tho Presl- dentlal ehair, vetoing bills, kicking Lincoln men out of office, and keeping the grayback State machines—he calls governments—runhing In the Robel States? What aid our victory of last Fall amonnt to If this state of things is to continue? We have power to keep Southern Senators and Representatives out of Congress, no doubt, and shall Ao 80; and we shall also pass bills by two-third votesover presidential vetoes, and reject Presidential appointments. But we only aggravato the evils of Eebel misrule in the Southern States. We cannot get our laws executed nor Republican office-holders appointed. In fact, we aro checkmated at every turn. New-Hampshire polities begin to bo interesting. Ed muund Burke, uot the English statesman who wrote con- cerning the Regicide Peace, but tho country demagoguo who would ecment a regicide or any other kind of peace which would bring the Copperh ad party into power n, presided at the State Convention held at Concord yor b at the Unionist dera and made @ flaming speech. ” Burke Y diseatieficd with the aspect of affairs st Washing- Tt 15 ot 1any months since he came home from B dles having made arrangements with Mr, S ouht nsured the transference of 15, and ton. there i Johnson whi “offices to the Copper} Wl the Now-Hampshire i eloction of one or more Congressmen of the same sort. Hejtinds tho people and their representatives have, some or swears, “The t that Burke is Linfer that Gen. Harri- und 80 he sing From the f der of the Democr: andid pre strength ye alry is gor as the mun, the Republican larger wajority than POLICE COMMISSIONELS' ANNUAL REPORT. Of all the tables which accompany the aunnal re- port of the Commissioners of Metropol n Police, none are more instructive than the two that detail the occupa- tion and offenses of the arrestedgpersons. Thus, we fiud in the first of the annexed tables 13 editors, 41 reporters, 703 printers, 04 artis sholars, 91 engravers 122 lawyers, 139 phy achiers, 795 merchants, tors, i 0 and 33 otficers of : and then, ¥ ) 1 thio DETAILS OF THE ¥ persons ‘ery man of the ¢l and, indeed, the mije | 1y du the i but those f litan District m. Meird Attempt t Accessory to cr ndounient.... .. ad money ving stoien prope of ‘Corpora Ainincen ) psof State law, . 89 lations of Boat law, 18 0 Tenlth) were disor intox! 1, and 1ty lareeny, 1,404y vagraney, i B d hattery, 1,057 ats were inade in th varions Police Pr Precinets XXVI (City Hal) XXX B court and pther aquads. .6 618 nets compose the number of arrests ud if any person should {n- 1l Ward—once a favorite ] citizens—exhibits 8o black a record of ) W a eite the ing ecnsus of the eastern half of the Ward, which wa en under the orders of the Bouid of Exeise, in April Jast : v 1 . = 5 o4 - 4 [ - [ ‘ 3 - 8 1 - - - 1 ot P {1t 120 1. .0 an xt in pohit of wieke i1 the number of arrests of thestate of morals—is o abode of o con indus the First Ward, o ith Police Py 1 J the'F trious population. braving the First and and then the Sixth Ward, N quired to inform the city reader ¢ tlon of these three slums of Inignity. 3 T ct-or western half of tho Seventcenth WAFA et ugthie_city, w1 "l sever p? oSt o contrast it : T owlng s thelr Tiouses re Concert Thieve es. Saloous. Dens. Third st . Fourthi-st Fitth-st Bixth-st Beventl Elghth-st. Ninth-st.. Tenthst. . Eloventh-st, Leaxl ok L L pth-st .. 14 Fowrteenthet. « 10 3 ery......... 132 3 Total who were arrested duriig The nativity table of persons the last police year shows the following suggestive facts: Males. 28,482 Country. Females. os. Pomaos 10,98 | Africa.. 5 e Trelamd. Unitod States. 19,623 German; kf 6778 Brithl Prov- r | NEW-YORK DATLY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1867. IRELAND. R THE WATERFORD ELECTION—CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE MILITARY AND THE PEOPLE—THREE PER- S0NS KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED—SEIZURES OF ARMS IN BELFAST AND LIMERICK From Our Speclal Correspondent. oo e e The Waterford election has led to tragieal results, Thres persons have died of w yunds recelved during the rioting that then occwred, and & number of others are cinjured. The electoral contest from the very ontzot oceasloned great excltementd throughout the county. The popular party had a man very much after {iefr own heart in the Lideral candidato, Mr. De 1a Poer; and they saw in his opponent, the nominee of the land- lords, & supporter of that hated aseendancy against which thelr fathers had snceessfully struggled 40 years ago, and ‘which they were Aotermined ghould not now be reimposed on the county, Three years previous to Catholle emancipa- tion a memorable election—one little less important than that of Clare which sent Danicl 0'Connell to the English Parllament—ocourred in Waterford. The ‘people plucked up heart of grace and went to the poll agalust the Berestord family, represented there by the Marquis of Waterford, whoso estates and consequent influence in that locallty are immense, In so doing the fenantry dared everything, risked home,and land,and life; but aware that their futuro freedom or slavery was the Issue to be tried, they nerved themselves for the contest, deficd their territorial masters, recalled the memories of all they had suffered at thelr hands, quoted the tyrannies and the cruelties of the Beresford’s during tho '98 rebellion, went into the battle, fought it, won it, and suffered for it. Binco then the Jandlord party, in other words, the Tory party, have usually returned ono of tho two members sent by the county to Parliament, but never has it happened that their desires and those of the people stood in such direct and complete antagomsm as they did on this occaslon, and hence the severity of the contest. Both parties wero resolved to put forth thelr wholo strength. The landlords sent off requisitions for troops o Dublin Castle, and had the county filled with military. Word was sent round to the tenantry to be ready to march to the poll with thelr landlords on the day of clection —there was 1o need to tell them what the penalty would be In case of disobedience. Parties of military and police were brought to the different points of rendezvous, and the voters marched in the midst like squads of prisoners. On the other hand, the populace collected in excited crowds at different points along the way and at the vari- ous polling places, and seemed to bo ripe enough for mischief. They hissed and hooted the voters and their escort, 1n some cases pelted them with mud, and moro than once had reconrse to the welghtier argument of stones, A sort of pitched battle took place at a spot called Beary's Cross, near Dungarvan. The peasantry, to the number of some hundreds, erceted a barricade of stones acrosa the road, and disposed themselves by the ditches at each side s0 as to flank the military. On their arrival the people ealled out to them to halt and turn back, and on their refusal to do 8o a furfous attack wi made on them with stones, SBoms of the,soldiers w tambled off their horses, many reecived severe contus rs found fn the confusion an e making off homeward. The soldiery ra to escort, found themselves under an & more serfous very severe sions, and the v and opportunity fo then, havin the ne meléet there, , ® bitter animus msclves eager for lish regiment, which it of one of the s T are an sunt for the fact. A correspond Tocal papers writes: I was gn eyewitness to most of what passed hero on Saturd il hiad @ VOry Darrow with my life when on th I} ple in_ the T will tr, adl aneers. nt first and re n you g Jnte the that 1] Nugent Humble' ct They we and it 18 repor y of driuk fr Vil J and be the that the priv They had no we 1 t i they alil ) Tt and iny ‘orse s 111 you not da tption of the scene, th ) Lancers, actin “tre 2 their] aame Jonr it 18 antd, nfter the on the ground. 18 passed awa isturh s the Gove men I Lave couven ¥ they won his hand hero while they We are m i, livided attention. On Moy At ab himn thels [ with avrests and sefzures. Tiaul wits made in Belfast the pol srocecded to the Carroil, and after hay the door and took fuio 1y mix persons whom t Theae persons had apparently been « i f intllets, A quantity of theu, still Lot from the was found in i pot with e on the fire. Ina 1 part of e hotse a hundred welght nt 10 o'cloc of a4 man named Ch I I not o Fenlan party had et 1 be fighting would sh it ther inglish i Treland, Michacl Hi rested, is said to have held o high i organization. On y the police revisited Car rely for arms, which resulted ritles and” bayonets. On County Limerick, a more lo i e fonr | voll’s hotse and m \ the discovery of il at K seizure was Lolning the resid i Beanlgn, in the stables and wble fari Cof o respec teen beanti flew nnd | ws with 1 and hls son were iy stx men of thy ely after huvis wers, and 15 were e AN Quieens! the pleture, we huve courts-martil f ters in full swing again ovelty, 1t 1l in anothe. In Dublin arrested s of the b Joln the Fenlan e Reghment at Ne thie spliers of his o ment A enlisted in the #oth, ) this el and nlso of his having endenveo lers to take the Fenlan oath, The trial is uot yet conelud {nk of a Repeal association ealled the Trish cine was Lield on Thi il Daunt and other Ing the posithon that the legislative union with England is an offective bar (o the prosperity of Treland, and a wrong st be undone be Know peace or I Govegmingat feel . The Rev. Father fi outh of Trelund, made tlonal L iing remnants of the Iy 1o be swept away. A ders nndl and vo yman betw tant at any thne This monstrous for the vilest Rartien either of o hay Quring the previons twely ennetment has frequently be purposes. 1L vitiated, Tegally, the marriage of Major elberton with Mius ‘Meseas Longwocths o whicl the public heard %o wuch @ few years ago. Since then indrel who wis teled at the Assizes here for bigamy, aded punishment on the same ground. e was testant, and marrled to w Protestant wife; but having faney to o young girl who was a Catholie, ho concealed the latter fuet trom Ler, and affected to chan, his faith to hers, After the lapse of some months the palr presented themselves before a priest, who married them, knowing nothing of the man's previous life heyond what he learned from the partics themselves. Som furthér time having elapsed, the bigamist deserted th glrl whom he bad decelyed, and she discovered that b h i another wife living. 8he brought an action a, . His defense wis that the mgnml m-:'m e, nm":nl; invalid iu law, was no marriage, and he should therefore o held guiltless of the crime, The Judgoes hnd 1o contess that it vnnfiwd defouse, at tho wame thne tey in- velghed heavily agalnst the law which offered such fa- cilities for erhme, and I fact held forth to seducers w xuwu! and legnlized plan for the secorplishment of their eslgnw; and Liaving thus condemned the law, they stated that Parliament ought to s J)npul it. Tshould have added that any Bu celebrating & marringe hotwoen partics both of wl ngud not hoen Catholics sl et sl e e 47 e JaiETe 3 0 rought the whole ques- tion be*mtln n c.&nn K Cuvan, w;ou " e the not furni Ghown 07 ¢ the pro- LETTER FROM AN ARTIST. To the Editor of The N. X. Tribune. Sk : Judging from the comments of the upon the petition recently presented by the art to Con- #ress asking for a change in the duty on foreisn pletures, the . objects of that petition scom’ to be misunderstood. For instance, in ‘your editorial of Wednesday, headed * Protection to American Art,” while acknowledging the desirableness of keeping out the poorer pletures, you declare that it wo gain our polnt we prolubit the fmportation of the good ones. Wo admit all you say regarding the beneficial influenee of the best for- elgn art, as well as the injurlous effoct of cheap, bad art. Tappend a table of duties on pictires embracing the changes we nsk, 80 that there may be no misapprehension {n the mind of any one who caves enough about the mat- ter toread it. We ask In our petition a specitic duty of $100 on all picturcs costing $1,000 or less, and on the excess above $1,000 10 per cent addilional. Thus a picture costing 100 pays a duty of $100, which Is 100 per ecut, or $90 mors than "(E: - e T o0 W 1 lig woiviu » - PR - gin! 3 ngpindg % Bradin wwimns b Bl sannh » B et e ' it ’ L o t cent, which is the present rate " a the Fre Csauy. You will understand that the additional 10 per cent 1s asked only on the excess over $1,000, o that the tariff on all pictures costing §1,000 or over remains precisely as at resent. You will observe, also, that the duty grows ichter a8 the picture grows more exponsive, aud by, inference better, and bears hardest on the very lowest- riced ones, Wil any one prejend to eay that an addi- fonal duty of §50 on a reall 'guod fcture costing will kcr-p{t And will not a duty of ont of the country $100 on & pieture costing $25—4 copy or a forgery, or abad picturc, a3 it 1s quite sure to be—be a serious obstacle to ltx fmportation 1 If there bo any doubt that thousands of nd. of Karl i % m:m!n 16 o Frossien ovonas tergarton, also TR0 They are Aosigied for emtiran. m i o twelve years, 1 ng, mosic and dancing, as well 4 reading, writing snd arithmetie, Latin, Ge Fre B tho syatem. & Ohject tehchiig : methiod " are prominent featurcs, A child sliown o Tctter and ol to draw 16y with el 1o 15 thien told the lt-llhfi is .lm“nx. uot em, and aeked Lo sound llz' a od the Ietters by sighit, and the ' el 1 18 €85 10 eombine thaim In ot sy 4 of this Al columus of words Jn the ctandoy Spellexs, th d learns 1 comblgie et b ¥ i i words In senten nearly at the same Pre ¥3Mother Goose and the pretty Heelo agories in wiien “little mouse,” and “my * ficure so t e bed on with renewed surprice to *Bandford and Mertot” aud as well as inducted into the mond @l atises of seience and langnage. Buch 13 what is ol for the systet by its fricuds, Little attention in this coun! d constang i bub it bas ws you lwm.rA CRICKET ON THE ICE. e —— NEW-YORK V8. BROOKLYN. A very interesting cricket match took place on the Satellite Lake yesterday, it being the first cricket matey ever played on the ice on Long Island. The contestanta “vore elevens of the Manhattan Clnb of New-York and of the Batellite Club of Brooklyn. The Lake was in good condition, the proprietors having cleared th#ice from suow, The weather, too, was favorable, beir mmml‘: fively mild, " The wickets were pitehed, as i the reglag gameg on the field, and in nearly eves PApect wil | epppeor i o e d shacdir et :n.." Wil skates on tho ice, fustead of spiked shoes 4 1o the turfy field. The New-York players were delayed on peconnt of feo in the rivers, aud, consequently, the commence until after 1'0elock, gido belng flnyca.l ‘Tho Bate and Hamer leading off, each scoring fo fors thoy retined. . Walton ‘sdded 3.t the scors’ o Thoms 6. Tilly followed, and had scored 20 A pictures are imported which are invoiced at the Custom- Touse at §10 each, let any one interested in the matter go and sati-fy himself as o how highly the |In{mlf£l‘! of somo of the very tespectable collections which have been presented to thé public value the mass of what they offer 1 'w of this statementof what we aslk, does it look as though we are trying to resist the importation of good lctures; or, rather, is it not plain to any one who will Lllmt rotble to rinderstand us, that we are endeavor- ing to shut the gates against the floods of bad picturcs htich, as you yery justly remark, are deluging the country, to the serfous perversion of the public taste For it 13 not in N alone that we come in confact with these things, A well-organized business system is push- ing than into every eity and considerable to: o conntry, and the false and the meretriclo; European art ministers to a certain demand which would Do moro Lealthfally met by the purer works of our own artists. AN ARTIST. OUR ARTISTS AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION. One of the most delicate and difficult questions which the Adyisory Committce of the Paris Exposition in Now-York were called upon to decide, was the apportion- ment of the space allotted by the Imperial Commission- ers to the United States in Group 1,10 a manner satisfac- tory to our artists and subservieut to the best intercsts of the country. The whole subject was referred to Mr. Wi, )pin, Chatrinan of Group 1, and it Ia beliefed that has been solved to the satisfaction of all n good when he was run out. Moore and Redficld added l.nuj‘yh' afterward, but the rest were disposed of very easily for blanks, the Innings closing for the good score of 63, of which 21 were byes, the Maubattans not ficlding up to the mark anticipated, 88 they had some excellent sk flm""i"wlr party. The stfugzlo was mainly in Datting, for but few opportunitics were afforded for satches, the bl&.’_h balls golng out of reach in nearly every instance. e Manlmttans sent in Sebring and Sweesey ns thele first representatives, and before t were parted the score hid been run up to 30 0dd, the batting beisg excel lent. The ficlding, too, was good, but the hits made were mostly to long field for doubles. Hatficld followed Be- bring, and ngain tho ball was sent flying to all parts of the fleld, and bofore Sebriug retired--which he did from being run out throngh the good flehllns of Archer—s acore of 48 testified to Eebring's abilty at the bat. Lane batted finely for 23, and Chadwick renained in for nearly an_hour, scoring 48, Hatfield's 47 was also a fing display of lively hittiug, Sweesey. Bishop and Jenking also secured double figures. In the fielding the Satellite eleven bore off the palm. The innings was soon cons cluded atter the retirement of Chadwick, the total score standing 235 to ¢8 in favor of the Manhattans. We append the scol . SATELLITE. Beore. Bllshy, b. Hatfleld...... 4 Livesey, run out. Tacker Walton, b, Hatfic Thoms, b, Hatfleld. Tilly, run ont. . Moore, b. i MANHATTAN, Be _ 0 Love, ¢. Walton, b. . 0 Bishop, not out, ~ 0 Byms, b, Walton he purpoes o resentation of the art of the coun- proper te, try at Paris, A mittes, consisting of Mr. Chureh, Mr. Cropsey and was appointed to report a scheme for the con- Wil sideration of & siubsequent mecting. M. This committee reported i favor of necepting the space offered to the United States, and of making au effort to i1l 1t in the most creditable manner. Thelr report was not adopted, and the matter was dropped. In the mean time there was great delay in tho tion of Congress, and considerable uncertaiuty pofher the war in Europe = would not whole enterprise. Valnable time thus until it was no longer feasible for aint pletures axpresaly for the Expe ative left was to s of the artists v a8 works of their collea; o the decision of well-known and Philadelphia, For ves best adapted to fllns- the past_ten years, the d: Mr, William J. 1 th Wi defeat than Sirges, Mr, William Robert M d Gandy, M | ieh Mr, y t Ageat, las been present Ly faenlity in his power. v estabtished Dt unly the best things wo have dono since s of 145, and to procure them, If possible ation to th owners, As the American urly fine landscapds, & AV e ptings of this class.” The fio Vo o committes was 2, upper line of whieh is 18 feet fro 1 three feet from the floor. T b hung igher th 1, or 1,600 tht floor, this > thi P et. A large list of our best pi wde ot and the space they wonld occupy p was to apply to the owners for pern ot fulliire to obtain the first choice t best work. The ap) io ntmost © oSt ¥ 1 d return to th to super fon, an xpense 51 | tore then | s Whelice they od to guard these , and the patri f ommended. Fitty dif- abont 100 productions possible too i i tists will be esented by the galleries of U o 110, he followiug persons Ao A. M. Cozzens, F. Prentice, Jostah Caldwel), dus. Meifenry, Robert L. Stunrt, J. ¥ wsett, Sheppard Gandy, R M, Olyphar M. O. it Roborts, J L W, Derhy, Mal yphant, Geo, W iy ¢ J. P Wi, H. B. Cromweli, the Century k Commissioners. sted by the Police for , in having kept their pl The folfowing persons, violating the Exeise La open after widulg) Police Justices y ALY 1 TOOMES POLICE COURT, Nos.103, 105 and " 1 142 Grand-st.; Chris- topher MeCormulek, No. 365 Washington-st. Each of the above were held to bail i the sum of §200. AT JEFFE CE COURT. The following lique yesterday arralgned before Justice Dodge, on the fng the eise Law: Frank Horton, N $o. 26 BIXL. M nor, N 302 Ay Wilkins, G. 8, , cortier of Sixtii- flenry Rudiger, No. 112 Thind- r Rogers, No, 412 ast Fiff ith-et.; s, Ball was givei s in the sum of 500, aves Niuth Henry re hetwoen midnlg Clinton-st., and George of selling without licenge. Each of th e s of raing a number of permits have Col. Bertram’ to parties applying for reat rish, however, for these documents wssedd, The Board will meet to-morrow,but whetlier action will be taken fn regard to the applications on file ha on decided upou. Evidence is betng proeured against Heensed sellers in- ested in Anjunction snits against the Board. Those tonging to this class who have refused to hand e 450 to help defray the expenses incurted by the o fn he sults, will, it {5 understood,” have Pliere are almost 400 of these per- o warraug o revoeation of hus already been procured in uearly all of 2 THE EXCISE LAW IN BROOKLYN, Kelley, Frederiek Beese and H. H. Unlandpern were yesterday arvested for violating the Excise Law. The tivo former were held for trial and the latter was fined $30. THE KINTERGARTEN SCHOOLS. The Kintergarten Schools on Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventli-sts,, near Sixth-avo,, gave o reception yes- terday mworning at the Soclal Rooms of the Broadway Tabornncle, which wis well attended and passed off pleas. ontly. The exereises wmd of reeitations, singing and sposking, sl thwlffl all childpen wore very young t Hperfnrmml thele parts With grat correctness, cape: elally fu the enunciation of words.” Theso schools, oue of which 13 for boys and the other for girls, both beln&npm- sented at the reception yestorday, ure on the Kinter- garten plan origiually established b, Froehel, garten means a gnrden of children. not be confounded with "gnmn T4 o tratn the ohild with the early snd unremltting atten- tion a on his plants. The object of the tom is & full and harmonious development of the we ;nl«ty otequals for the cuitivation of the to to i o o e Rigbowa F mo the oyl o o T 53 at %, with th;’u "l Sork iy not._talk, that o i R on his prinei | contra nnd suffered tion of the b e e e iy Howpitat 404 * 1 Frankiin, absent .21 Byes, 16; Leg! il Total... Messrs, Palin & Weston. osars, Motcalf & Kendie, ae—3 hours and 45 minutes, played some day next weel, . MeKa ! Byes, 20; Wides, 1. Total.. Umpire Beorers—; Time of ( The return mateh will be at the same place. CLEANING THE STREETS. — WHAT WILL BE DONE WHEN THE SNOW MELTS. A snowy visitation such as we have had during the past week brings us much merriment, many enjoyments, and makes the whole city alive with pleasurable cxcltes ment. But there is an unpleasant phase of it which we all know, and of which the contractor for cleaning the strects is required to'take special notice. A heavy snow Jike that which Invests the city at the present time Is & matter of serious eonsideration to the contractor afore- said, a8 it also {s—more or less—to every person who is c! anfsm within fhe metropolitan IXing, threatens everybody with e direct canse of consider- It If the objection- At resuly Y nd Bel- rtainly would ~asing to the city, if it ecomplished withe But that can’t be done. It is oue of those s which rank with the fmpossibilitics. Tiire s one thing, however, which tie contractor’ for “ng the streets can do, and lh?tn 10 prepare ngainst e avich & Faly of snow Threaténs {0 subierge cellars and other lower portions of the city. And this Judge James R. Whiting, the contractor for cleauning the streets, is at present eugaged in doing, Al day yes o o the day before an army of men equipped with o fall coraplement of brooms, shovels, and hoes wore set ot work cleaning out the gutters and uln £ the sewers, juifie snow 1 1o nd be k:-[: from n cellars, y and alley-ways a baptism » umediate result of the heavy snow-fall was the tion of the work of street eleauing, it being utter) sible to carry on the work in anything like an ctl . Even if the carts uscd in removing the garbage conld have been used, the absence of 1 which the refuse is taken from the city from )2 grour 1 ba :ndered tho comples work impossh sence of these o e fn the river aod thase places Was can vy wind which prevai men w put to work in opening the sewers ff the eross-walks. By night nearly every and the water cased by iuto them, preventing the owed and the midd the Yosterday the i« ready for the up or slip dow! matizing and cleanin Sewer i the city was op sidewalks from being « s from being imy leted, and the Head ol tor Is required to keep convenjently passable for vehicles during the Winter, and the eross walks aud all gutters intersecting the same wust be kept clear of snow nud ice, and the enlverts of the sewers frée ar, so that the water shall not be prevented from througi them. igo Whiting sneceeds in fulfilling thiz part of his twith thé city, 1t will be the first izstance of the Kind that lias ocen; la ave iuvarl re- rr-flooded 1if wo are to be exempted tor no one certainly will find any fanlt with that condition of affairs. Yesterday the ash- wen resumed the work of removing the ashes and garb. re and the dumping-grounds were rea e refise that could be brought (o then namber and are lo ot of Roosevelt st. third-st,, Thirty-third nth- h ¥ Vesey-st., sevoort-st., Twenty-first-st., Thirty-four A o 08 the snow melts and the refuse which eannot hed by the ashmen settles to the pavement, ag v of laborers will be set to work, and the eity speedily put into the best possible condition. At the pres pit time all sweeping 13 becessarily suspended—the efs forts of the Deparment b»hu( used to prevent the flood which, without uecessary and ample precautions, must take place One complaint made by the contractor {s that many perso! I 1 in the streets—takd hide the proof therefore, this refuse Is di streets are in teat condition wl public deew fit ta deseribe as horrible. The polie authorized to a all persons found violating the eity ordinance in that re- spect, bt as theso persons are carcful not to perpetrate the violations while the policoman is around, arrests are but few and far begween. The munbet of scows in the employ of the department 8 nearly 100, each with a carrytng eapicity of 150 loads. The eity 15 divided tuto four districts, each of which is undes the eharge of an iuspeeter, There is a foreman in Ward, under whose fmmediate direction the workmes heir labor. The number of carts regularly em ving the gavisage and aslics 15 500; numbes b re extra indance, and the p Pl of workwen, THE MANAGEMENT OF OUR MARKETS. pesitsncony OPPOSITION OF TIE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING . FUND T0 Ti ] At a meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, held Jau, 19, 1867, the followlug resolutions were 3 ers of the Siuking Pund, hu-lI' - P e Markets ln the City of New-! in the Assembly, 0n the Sth of Javaars, 1987, t the passage thereof. Kepresenting a8 foel it their duty to declare that sid _h:.lhh rights of sueh ere and impates Sheir | monnt of |\n:1|-rlv. and i:vv-nn l“{wn mnl. I':’hhd'u:‘:“ went of the eity debt: and the spirit of the adl ’l'l' ohligations |:’l the City aud IQ‘:lr. to the holders of the ity stock, payable from the sinking fund, which (he Legislature Las ore suld pever be violated. Resolved, That if markets are to oontinee ed mblie aut oners of the Siul reet new markets where aial Whesever u Y Iy the fucome therefrom the sivl fund, o o recelve and ap the reveunes of all markets now bult are by las X lation of th with power ledae Resolved. That the Commissioners view '“ith great ttewpt to interfere with the securitles sacredy p! fund, s which eredit esolved, Selah B. Carll, a gentleman near Myrtle-ave., Brooklyn, was thrown ave. cat at the corner of Gold and Watersts. with other severe o properly e —e Aceriox 8atx o Books.—A largo number of the fine editions of illustrated books published by the Publishin , and_sold by Heury A Bro , will_be t to-dny 1 al Neg, Bh gud o B A o v b