The New-York Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1867, Page 4

A ‘ = iuu? ok o 85 VE_E('C& Mr. Biwin Boots. &;{. .v.,'u;:*:‘.n?‘:m%"q - Wallaok's a‘l’ R. S OUREN Ilr.?! inck. mnwu TREATER. A nvmukgf DIN, OR Tili WONDERFUL SCAMP— CXDERELLA. T orrell Bjsters. mmumfh'?f Paristenze Ballot EBVENIN K THEATER. PABADISE ~GRAND CORPS DB LYMPIC THEATER. Kot Qi Wv&:x;‘o;n%mu urm—l‘w OF CASTILE. Rich- fr e PR R o 108 8 WAL ANipcAA WERY TLEATE * amis myrxNG_pPANNDLTOMN CAISGLR. e W. &L Whal lv\.lbvn-y Herring. . - NEW-YORK CIRCUS. -’m BVENING - JOCKEY CLUB RACES. -Now-Tork Cireas B BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC. THIS l'mxn?—?rm. AN OI‘EKA—PIA DIAVOLO. - v E QPERA_HOUSE. cm!wv]&l_’rn‘)lug CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. George Oscar Byrbask, Dick Fands, ete. T Tovrd, DODWORTH HALL. TWIS BYENING-M. HARTZ, THR ILLUSIONIST. CLINTON HALL THIS BVENING=Mr. VALENTINE VOUSDEN'S ENTERTAIN- Li. N10} NG —BUNTAN TABLEAUX. THIS AFTERNOON AND E Corner Tweuty-sbird-st. and Broadway. Brosdway. COLLECTION AT LEEDS'S GALLERY, No. JAY AND EVENING— D&;{‘t RT oo!n,km . 8. P. AVERY'S B17 Broadway. ot s, DRSS Wofiren AnericAN (Warrmay) Warcnes. THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Sold Everywhore. #A Suint CoLv.—CouGs.—Few arcaware of the lmportatos of chocking congh or ‘' sLIGHT oLV In ita first #tage; that which In the begioning would yield to amild remedy, if eglocted, soon sttacks tho lungs. * Brows's Broxcuiar Trocues" fiv¥onre and sluost fumediste relief. “The Trockes” have proved Whelr officaey by a test of many years, and have received testimonialy from emineut wen who have used them. Tue EvrexA Brick MacmiNe 182 model of simplicity and power, it porforms it work (o perfection, ot eontinuolly breaking down. After ordering a mechine, brick-makers in this State said: Tean rum your without y £y purchacr, No. 141 Broadway, N. Y. Tue FRANKLIN Brick MACHINE, v, grest steength, and fmmense cight men 4nd two borses, 0 e od two b elegunt bricks per hour. Troadway, X. ¥., Room 60, ATARRH ! BRON crofula ! I)?'s[wpsln! , Liver and Kidney Diseases! Nature's Soverciqu Remedialy N Y., will prove to sreey v e produce positive cures. Bx- W, By PRiNcE, Flushing, who calls on him that these Rewedi Phoenlge on pamp. = ik is altogether wrong to trifle with a bad Oouigh or Col, when remedy as sure, prompt and thorough as JATNE'S ANT can e readily btaived. Solleverrwhere. + "Ar EverpELL’S C Dxror, No. 302 Broad- Frouch note paper, il thonew atyles; pE Restores Gray removes Dandruff; the fncet . 01d Eves made new rithout g or medicine. Beot, i ipt of i R oo, ¥e. 110 ectacles, doc- rll"x(‘“;si M. 0“‘5 }:}cx-fl'rrrl(l;u o845 ety P T O e THE_TRIBUNE ALMANAC FOR 1867 is NOW gapy. - Price 20 coue See advertisement usder bead of New Publics- SEWING- land Tnstitute, 6 MACHINER. smachize in the workd Frouexce 8. M. Co., 505 By n; Duplicates 0 Ohathamat B Y, Vignette, wies et e 'HE Howe MACH ect dy ints. Genuln sigaed o t No. 3 Vesey-st. Lady stte ILLCOX & GIBBS SEWT rllhulubhlorlp thau the lock stitch. jeand Trial.] Seud for Tue THx SAVEST AND BEST B * Wor Circulars, H:y:m. J. B. Hxox, Agent, No. 119 Broadway, or H Len W * * A concert, complime: ¢ to the contralto singer, Miss Florence A. Rice, will be given at the Brooklyn # Academy, February 1, Friday evening. Miss Rice will be brilliantly assisied. This evening, Mr. Max afizak’a company, including Kellogg and Ronconi, ;fiefir in opera in Brooklyn. At Steinway Hal, TASAD, . Jerome Hopkivs, aided by Madame De 5 g A wson, Henry Mollenhaver, and other well-known artists, wil ¢ his fourth_popu- lax tfor the Orpheon Fund. Madame Parepa ive a matinée turday. On afternoon, at Steinway’s Rooms, Carl Wolf- -mm--dmnr«d_pluyn of Beethoven, will play the | ated Moonlight sonat performance on § OBITUARY —— HON, DAVID RITCHIE. ‘M. David Ritchie of Pittsburgh, Pa., who died on Thursday lost, was born at Cavonshurg in 1£12; was to the bar in 1855, and subsequently pursued studies in and receivell an Dommeary dogree from University of Heidelberg, in Germany. In the 1852 he was elected a Member of Congress, eroafter served with eredit in tho XXXIIId, th, apd XXXVth Congress. Gov. Curtin ap- him to ‘a responsible Judgeship, and_since time, both as judge aund lawyer, he has been inciigh regard. o ARMY GAZETTE. > e follewing named oficers have bern mastered oul an : mr..u. -u:, h\n.x rlm.mx A R R The followlng ooers have Leen wustered out and Louorably dis- barged the service ofthe United States, their services being no longer " Lheat. Col. W, Sl W. M. Beehe, v, 190t Regt., Usited States Colored , + Brevet Dieut.-Col. 3. AL 'Houg, 41b gt Colurod i R 31, Mékenol, #24 T e B b e Kt to delay Joi . Reser.e Cos qasten: P an the vectuits ondered by Speels] Onder No. 9, Jun. §, 1667, e, to bo sent to the T U. 8. Cavalry, in the wnilitary divis: ‘thy Misouri, have bocn remored, the Nuperistendent of the Service, Carlisle Burracks, Pesnsrivania, will pre. shie of the recrutis which are oF may from succes. Cavalry, samed! recruits, requirad; Hocond, Co- e Cuamtany o, Nakbeil, ool yequin " oy 30 recruie. requiredy stk Comsany Beveurh, iy H, Alken, 8. C., i Alpes, 8, ., 3 recrits v Va., 6§ recruits uired. Upon to thisolics. The R SR, S o oy NAVY GAZETTE. o —— compisy 8 lled 1o the Netw-Dork Daily Crihune, PRESSSS THURSDAY, J;UABY 81, 1867, 70 CORRESPONDENTS. No votice ean be taken of Avovymous Communications. Whaterer 1s {ntended for tnsertion must he avtbenticated by the name and sddress of the writes—ot necessarlly for publicaifon, bub as u gusrasty for bis good faitb. usiness letters for this office should Le eddressed to * Tuw Tain: " New-York. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. DaiLy Trisuxy, Mail Subseribers, $10 per annum. SEMi-Wrrkyy Tripese, Mail Snbscribers, $4 per an. WERKLY Tl:l)l'xp. Mail Subscribers, $2 per annum. Advertising Rates. Datuy Trisuxt; 0 cepts per line. Ses-WegkLY TBIBYNE, % conts per live. WrekLY TRIBUNE, $1 50 per line. Torms, cash in advance. Address, Tug Trrguxe, New-York. contains letters from our 15 T'he second (g:m Special Correspondents at Nashville, Savannah, and Jacksonville, F'la., Arvest of an Absconding, Clerk, Board of Fdgeation, the Prisoners at the Tombs, the Union-Home Lottery, & communica- tion concerning the Hudson River Rail Acci- dents, the Court_Reports, Commercial News, and other matters. The Markets, Police Trials, and Shipping News will be found on the third fagf Reviews of (George Arnold’s Poems, and St. Elmo, a Novel, appear on the sixth page. Part of the foreign mail destined for trans- mission by the' steamer Asia was lost off the wagon on its way to the wharf at Boston. Con- sequently, the steamer sailed without its mail, thanks to our perfect system of carrying. The mails are likely, however, to blunder into good luck ; for they have been recovered, and will be dispatched by the next dutward-bound steamer, nd will reach Europe probably not later than the Cunarder, gwhich takes sixteen days for its mail service. Tennessee, though held by Union men, and rapidly settling her industrial and political questions, has & Rebel population which does not appear to realize that the Rebellion is ended. Such outrages as the murders of Union men committed by Frank Farris, of which we print the particulars, are not uncommon, and indicate the temper of the Rebels, and the nocessity that tho Legislature should efficiently protect her loyal people by enfranchising the blacks. Permanent security is not to be ob- tained by military rule, but by justice to all The Hon. Garret Davis has just been re- elected United States Senator from Kentucky for gix years from the 4th of March next..The Rebel and the Copperhead vote was combined upon him. We are sorry for the Senate; but a body that unceremoniously. helps itself to $2,000 per man from the Treasury deserves to suffer. Let Garet increase the average length of “his rangnes to four hours and make two a till they realize that “the way of the “ transgressor is hard.” The trouble on the Cheeves plantation, South Carolina, between the negroes and United States troops, was the result of long misman- agement. A little common sense would have prevented it. Tho business relations of the freedmen to the planters in the South do not need to be determined by military power, and especially that power should not be always used against the negroes, as it has been. We should have mo difficulties of this kind were ‘we just to the freedmen. At the end of the war they expected kindness; disap- pointed in that, they demand justice, and jos- tice is all they need; and we shall be satisficd if they, get justice and nothing more. P —————— Gov. Cunmings of Colorado has not ceased to busy himself with defense. Thus, over the Goyernor's own signature, we have a series of resolutions wherein he is styled “His Excel- “leney,” to whom “the thanks of the people of “(olorado Teritory ave due, and are herchy “tendered.” Mr. Cummings maintaing that he vetoed the law excluding negroes and mulat- toes from the right to sit as jurors, and we trust that he 'did this at least a year ago. Since then, however, under a direction which has ill-paid his agency, Mr. Cummings has de- nied the people of C8lorado character, popula- tion, and representatives. He may consider himself a model Governor; we regard him as too good to last long. In the Senate yesterday the Tariff on Coal was, unwisely, not reduced. The duty on Borax was increased to 10 cents per pound, and on Borax crade to five cents per pound. The discriminative duties on stone were re- pealed, and a tax of #4 per tun imposed on all stone, except that used for monuments, By a vote of 18 to 15 the duty on Serap Tron cast was raised to &4 per tun, and on Scrap Iron wrought to $3. The duty on brown and bleached Linens was changed to 4 cents per yard and 25 per cent ad valorem. The duty on Wheat was doubled, and placed at 40 cenfs per bushel; on Flour, ete., the duty was raised to 80 per cent ad val- orem; 10 cents per bushel were imposed upon Oats, and upon Malt 40 per cent ad valorem. i At the muanicipal election held in Wheeling, West Virginia, on Jan, 28, the Democratic can- didate for Mayor, together with the rest of the Democratic ticket, were, as nsual, elected; but it is gratifying to lemrn that the Democratic majority was this year considerably reduced. Last year Mayor Sweeney, out of an aggregate vote of 2,481, received a majority of 515 over his Republican competitor; this year, out of a poll of 2,421 votes—or 60 less than last year—he received but 191 majority, a falling off of 824 votes. An equal decrcasé in the Democratic vote would next year elect the Republican ticket, and put Wheeling in harmony with the rest of the State, which at the election in 1866 again showed itself firmly attached to the principles of the Republican party, giving to the Republican candidate for Governor a ma- jovity of 6,644. There were, in 1566, euly ten out of fifty-two countics which gave a Demo- cratic majority. In five of the ten Demo- aratic counties the Democratic majority was less than- one hundred, and in nine it'was less than thres hundred. If the Democratic vote in these counties should fall off, as in Wheeling, the number of Demoorati¢ counties at the next election will be very small, The Heralds Washington dispatch sys: “Tho debate in the Benato to-day established the fact Massnchusetta ,dm it least dw“i:b y &8 bt Rhode Tsland aro af VL e L scrlows competition with them, part A-mnmmmw TP —Precisely! They are notthe firmly established manufacturing interests that Mllill: Protection, Mmfiuovhid are still in embryo or in fnfavey, A good part of the New-Englund ! would live under any or no “Tatiff: not 80 3 whicy exe 74k ia e o REK D LY TRIBUNE Protection —n'— o ures in the East. What, then, becomes of Secretary McCulloch's suggestion that high duties may ereato home monopolies? And what of the I.‘E('(L\'S/TRL'CTIO.V. Thongh we were éonfident from the first, wo are very happy to be more fully assured, that Mr. Stevens was mistaken in asserting that the reference to the Joint Committee on Reconstruetion’ of his bill providing for the reorganization of the ten States not now repre- sented in Copgress was equivalent to an indefi- nite postponement of the subject. On the contrary, we understand that the subject has already been taken up by that Committee, with a determination éo J‘lectdm_ld mpo‘rt a bill that ought lgfe , and {o pass it at d:g; &Pfigfiofi% Igm e, And, (hmgh but five weeks remain, with very much to be done, wo earnestly hope that their efforts may be crowhed v{}th gucccsa, Better let two or three Appropriation ills, or even the revision of onr Internal Tax system, go over to the called session of the XLth Congress, than fail to pass a Reconstruction bill. As to the great leading features of that meas- ure, we have repeatedly offered suggestions that have mot been favorably yeceived; and wo may iflir]’v presume that the Committee de- sire no more from this quarter. Yet the sub- ject is of such transcendent, such imminent consequence, and the peril of misdealing with it 8o very grave, that we must once more 8o- licit their attention. Even if it were certain that our views would be disregarded, that would not discharge us from the responsibility of offering them. The chief mistake made by Congress hith- erto, in our judgment, is, that it seems to con- template the people of the States lately in revolt as divided politically into barely two in- stead of the actual three classes, which are as follows: 5o 50 i ohab 1. Those who, though possibly coerced or frightened into yielding some aid to the Re- Dbellion, were always at heart Unionists, and rejoiced when the Confederacy was overthrown. 2, Those who, sincerely believing in Slavery and State Sovercignty, went heartily and promptly into the Secession movement, and fought it out on that line -until they were un- deniably beaten ; but now honestly and frankly say, “ We appealed to the sword, and the issue “js decided against us: we accept the re- “gult in good faith, with all its legitimate con- “ soquences ; and will henceforth loyally main- “tain the Union as of paramount authority, “and the rights of all its people as established “ Dy .the triumphant Emancipation policy.” 3. Those who—no matter what they may say or swear—are ot heart just as much Rebels to- day ns they ever were; and, being debarred from further open, manly hostilitiea by defeat, keep up a cowardly, sneaking warfare, by way- laying and assassinating individual Unionists, especially Blacks, beside burning negro school- houses, and subjecting the unfortunate race to every form of abuse and outrage. These crimes, though sceming isolated and casual, are really prompted by the spirit of Rebellion, and imperatively demand the sternest and promptest repression, in the interest alike of natural justice and of National integrity. Can we be wrong in our conviction that the action of Congress hitherto has seemed to ig- nore the second of these classes, and caleulated to drive its members back into the third? If those who were once Rebels, but are to-day as hearty Unionists as the best of us, are to be treated exactly like Semmes or Pollard, how are wo to develop and diffuse a hearty Union sentinrent ‘among those who have at any time been Rebels? Does not such treatment tend to drive back into the Rebel fold thousands who might and should be henceforth pillars of Unionism? How shall Unionism be expected to grow and flourish at the South, if we repel aceessions to its ranks after this fashion? We beg all to understand—since there seems now to be no obvious temptation to miscon- cel that there is no “sickly senfimentality,”. no “humanitarianism,” no special tender- ness to criminals®or repugnance to penal inflictions, in this view of the ‘matter, but simply sound, hard sense. The distinetion we insist on is real, palpable, and ienportant. If we are ever to stop the murders and outrages to which loyal men are still subjected throughout portions of the South, we must have the aid therein of Unionists who were formerly Rebels. We ean have it; it would be culpable not to have it. Then why not take such a course as promptly to secure it? Mr. Stevens's Reconstruction bill of this Ses- sion was about the first submitted from our side of the House which elearly recoguized that there were thousands of good Unionists at the South who have been Rebels, In this respect, it marked a signal agvance in the Congressional sprehension of the subject. We think the posi- tions therein, affirmed might be more happily developed and more acearately applied ; but the right prineiple is clearly recognized in his bill; and—whatever else the Joint Committee on Re- construction may dp—we trust—nay, we entreat —that this principle be embodied in their forth- coming measure. As to those school-district oracles who still talk ns thongh military execution might be wisely decreed and extensively enforeed against three or four millions 6f people, argument would be wasted on them. Silencé refutes them with adequate cogency and respect. But to those who can distinguish what is practicable from what is nakedly impossible, and who would not have an empire lie waste, amid general poverty, insecurity, and suffering, while they prosecuted fmn-ifi* illusory projects of vengeance, sug- gestions may be made with some hope of re- sulting advantage. To such, certainly, we need hardly urge the wisdom of embodying in the forthcoming measure of Reconstruction all the kindly, reconciling provisions that ave intended to be carried into effect. If (for instance) there are to be no further prosecutions for simple treason, let the bill so provide. If there are to be no more confiseations, or none but under certyin aggravating circumstances, let that likewise be specified. And let all the required conditions of Reconstruction be distinetly set forth; so that any State which shall in good faith comply with them shall thereupon be promptly restored to self-control and repre- sentation in Congress. We hope it may not be found necgssary to leave anything essential to contingencies. Let us have a plan which exe- cutes itself, or which must at all events be executed. 1 —Do we seem to cavil and complain where the thick-and-thin partisan finds everything lovely and is entranced with admiration? Let us close with a citation from one of the greatest Americans (though he was a South Carolinian), Hugh 8. Legaré, who concluded his memorable spoech in the House against the Sub-Treasury scheme as follows : “ I M ol i the ire, it are dis- B R et _THURSDAY, - 1) BR A ¥, his Hadst thou Whea | = shoak thy bead, or made S g e " ing Jots, A V., sesma 2. e 4 : e POLITE LETTER WRITING. 5 Great paintershave occasionally kept in their galleries, thongh Sir Joshua Reynolds held .thn practice to be dangerous, the worst possible pictures, in ordet to be constantly reminded of faults to be avoided. The Spartans taught their children the Dblessings of tem- perance by exhibiting a drunken He- lot as a warning. All along our consts we build light-houses for the benefit of mariners. Farmers in their corn-fiel ang up dead crows to frighten the birds from pilfering, and <he_chief object of prisons and ibbets is not to punish but to prevent crime. pon this general principle, we suggest that all future Secretaries of State should keep a copy of Mr. Seward’s letter to Mr. Motley constantly before them, as a perpetual re- minder of what Diplomatic Correspondence should not be. - Mr. Seward appears to have forgotten not only Mr. Motley’s position, but his own, when he wrote this letter upon no better au- thority than that of a spy, who, by his own showing, was not entitled to the slightest credit. The authorized speaker for the Exceutive of the United States shonld preserve the decencies of official fntercourse, under any real provocation; how then can he outrage them upon the mere report of an eavesdropper 1 Mr. Seward cannot even ex- cuse his letter upon the plea that this tale- bearer was a trustworthy person, selected by bimself for the duty, for Lis report, to any in- telligent reader, would prove that the keyhole must have been too small for the creature's eye, or that the draught whistling through it had interfered with his hearing., Receiving such a report, Mr. Seward should have refused even to entertaiy it, except on legal proof that the crack in the door was large enough to trfmsmit conversation ecorrectly. But the Secretary chose to place against the official position of Mr. Motley, his distinguished rank as a man of letters, his acknowledged patriotism, the scribblings of & vagabond, whose name even he was ashamed to give Mr. Motley, as authority ; probably the same person, “ 80 en- “tircly obscure,” that Mr. Sumner regarded a gimilar letter “as nothing but anonymons, and “threw it into the fire,” Upon such idle or wicked xeport of a spy, self-constituted or employed, he chose to ask Mr. Motley for a con- fession of want of patriotism, contradicted by every word that gentleman has ever uttered. Mr. Seward is prolmbly the only American who can find no pleasure jn reading Mr. Mot- ley's reply. He has the satisfaction of know- ing that Mr. Motley, with diplomatic reserve, has contented himself with denying that he ever said that Mr. Seward is “hopelessly de- “ graded,” or that Mr, Johnson's “whole con- “ dnet is disgusting.” He is “ Not bound to all that slaves are frec to, Utter his thoughts."” Nor has Mr. Seward anything to do with what Mr. Motley may think, or even what he may y, in the privacy of his houschold, when fully ignorant of Mr. Seward’s agent at the keyhole or in the chimney. We respect that privacy ; we do not even presume tocon- jecture how far Mr. Motley's opinion of the Secrotary was changed upon reading his letter. But we are glad to know what Mr. Motley does think of a subjeet infinitely more important—the reconstruction of the Union—and we attach special value to hLis opinions upon that question, as they are those of a man who, since 1861, has been a calm observer of American affairs, uninflu- enced by the struggles of partics, and beyond the dust and smoke of the battle. Not ordinary respect should be given to snch a man when Le declares that strong,guarantees should be taken aguinst another- Rebellion and the reéstablish- ment of Slavery, before v dmit the Southern States to Congress, and the “noblest and “the safest course” would be an amendment of the Constitution establishing Impartial Suffrage and General Amflesty, Thowgh Mr. Seward may be uncertain as to what Mr. Motley thinks of him, he can have no doubt of his thoughts of that wicked, fatal policy for which the Sec- retary has betrayed his own past and sought to betray the future of his country. A MIRROR FOR GRIMES. The World gleefully anticipates a solid West- ern opposition to the Protective policy, because that policy (it assumes) is adyantageous mnd de- sitable only to the manufacturers of New- England and of Pennsylvania; and the latter, it says, are already adequately protected, so far, at least, as the markets of the West are concerned, by the cost of transportation from the sea- board. Yet it goes on to say that “The gross injustice of the d 1 iron for the bene- fit of the Pennsylvania manuf % will be still more apparent in tho course when the produetion of iron on a large scale is establis on the banks of the Tt is well known that the State of Missourl est iron mines in the worll. The obstacle to their dovelopment heretofore has been the want of conl. But there lins recently been dlseovered in Tllinols, near the Missiscigpl, at a polut just opposite to the marvelons Missourl At "conl flelds, in which thick strs ath other thick strata, thre the coal being of uusurpassed gnal adap to the manu facture of fron. The present eost of transporting iron from Pittsburgh to Bt 13 88 tun: so that the new eatablishments on the Mississippi will have a_proteetion to that anwunt against Pittsburgh, and tale aeay its Western mark When buslness reaches that the absurdity of the Pennsylvania clamor for pro will be fully approciated at the Wost. 1f the Pennsylvania clamor {3 hhon kept up, 1t will b or proteation wgninst Minsouri, as that State will be the oply formidable competitor for the Western market ; and the idea of protecting the Missouri «n‘mhhmmu nfnhu! Europe, with a brond ocean and balf a eontinent between them, and frelght to be be paid 1 the distance by the European tron, is wild and ridicu- ous.” —We commend the above exhibit to the earn- est attention of Mr. Grimes, Gen, Lane, and other Western Senators, who used to be pro- fessed disciples and admirers of Henry Clay, but who seem of late to have gone a roving after strange gods. Bo far from Pennsylvania having a monopoly of iron-making for the Great West under a Protective poliey—as those Senators strangely seem to imagine—Missouri iron, made with Illinois coul, is to have #8 per tun the advantage of hers in that vast and almost hourly expanding market west of the Mississippi, which the Pacific Railroad is about to enlarge so rapidly and so im- mensely. Now if we are to go on mak- ing no more Iron (perhaps less) than we have done, it is quite probable that no more furnaces will be erected; and the vast resources of Missouri and Illineis may thus remain for years undeveloped, despite their unique advan- tages. But, if American Iron-making is to be laxgely and rapidly increased—as, under full Protection, it certainly will be—it is morally impossible that the new works should be con- structed elsewhere than in that locality whence Iren can be most cheaply supplied to those who buy and use it. Weecall The World to witness that this is inevitable. A stone at rest may seem reluctant to move; but, ence in mo- tion, its obedience to the law of gravitation is infallible. If, then, we arc to double our pro- duct-of Iron within the next five years—as, under efficient Protection, weo shonld confi- tiseissippi. boa. o i ek wiabtn LK B JANUARY 81, 1887, ;‘?" :fi ‘ By m.m%} sylvanin can it; w x Missouri is to be mainly supplied Iron by furnaces upon or west of the riyer. If this is not so—The World being biter—we challenge it to say why it is And if it be go, then the outery against Pro- tection, as favoring Pennsylvania and New- England at the cost of the West, is a false, de- lusive clamor, which, however natural as emanating from The World, old Clay Whigs like Mr. Grimes ought to be heartily ashamed of. Why not? it ¢ prard Iy THE POT. Those who, in spite of the Levitical law or the wisdom of Mohammed, will persist in eat- cess peculiarly nasty—we beg pardon, but in Webster's biggest dictionary there is no word so proper to use—lame hogs, sick hogs, un- washed hogs, whole hogs, with hogs found dead in the street, are thrown undressed and ‘The component parts of hog are thus severed, the solid parts sink, the lard is drawn off and, sent to market as a beantiful, steam-refined article, What is then done with it is known only to the initinted. There are those who be- lieve that it suffers another change into that mysterious’ and exasperating grease * known as “boarding-house butter,” which, spread upon a hot and hideous abomination called bread, made from that kind of flour of which we have recently spoken, and floated down into the hu- man interior by pure Java coffee made of beans or something worse, alleviated by blue milk from the carts, and tempered by sanded sugar, has a tendency to produce that state of the physical system known as dyspepsia, and which we are sure not seldom ends in strings, and strychnia, and justifiable felo-de-se. In such case, the ingenious extracter of the essence of pig in Cincinnati may be regarded in a strict moral sense as o murderer ; but there is a crafty way of taking off people of which the gentle grand juries never [take cognizance. We know that this story of commercial adul- teration and cozenage is an old and stale one, but we submit that it is a relief to write about it and to growl at it. In the Augustan days of Joseph Addison, that graceful essayist, who was an excellent judge of brandy, and died a martyr to his passion for trying it, complained in The Tatler (No. 181) of “a cer- “tain fraternity of chemical operators, who “yaise under the streets of London the choicest “products of the hills and valleys of France; “who squeeze Bordeanx out of the sloe, and “draw champagne from an apple, thus doing “great injury to his Majesty's customs and to “the bodies of many of his subjects” Substi- tute “Internal Revenue” for “his Majesty's “eustoms,” and of thee, O American Republie, the fable is narrated ! It is not at all creditable to human natare that such a phrase as “tricks of %rade” should have become stereotyped, and that such a thing as adulteration should have been reduced to something like a mystical science, known to adepts and transmitted by tradition or in little books, from one generation of sharpers to another, Everybody knows it. It is no secret that there is. a secret. “Caveat “emptor"—“Let the buyer lookout"—is a masim of the benevolent common law; but how is a buyer of small stores for family use to be continually on the lookout for poison in tho ounces or the pounds which he pur- chases for a daily or weekly supply of his kitchen? He must trust the small tradesman, and he (if he be honest himself) must trust the large one, and the large one is too ~often the last to be safely trusted. In all quarters of the globe the work of sophistication - goes on. In an evil hour, here at home, the convenience and also the profit of grinding and granulation were discovered, and since then nobody has been sure of a good cup of coflee, no- body has sprinkled pepper on his chop without fear and trembling, no houscwife has been cer- tain of the spices which she used. And the general quality of all articles of this descrip- tion has steadily deteriorated. It is so in every- thing. In solids there is sham and in fluids there is destruction. What stuff the imbibers of “pure old Bourbon” swallow, to the aston- ishment of their innocent and insulted stom- achs, is known only to the *mixers"—what dia- bolical porridge is soll under the honored name of “lager,” it is not probable ' that the brewers will tell us, unless they happen to quarrel among themselves—what dried foliage is smoked or chewed as tobacco perhaps the cabbage gardens and the brave old oaks could inform us, But we considerately abstain from details, If one is to be fed upon witeh soup (recipe in Mae- beth), or cat-meat, ignorance is certainly bliss. But the best of the joke, and a striking proof of the adaptability of man to circumstances, is, that the world is like certain hearty individ- uals who do not care what they eat or drink, and go on teustfully swallowing the most dubious dishes and beverages, fearfully and wonderfully made. In this very carelessness of the purchaser is the strength and safety of the adultercr. He expects and he gets nothing worse than an occasional growl, which does not in the least diminish the Amount of his mouthly bills against his patrons, He knows very well that, by sticking to the sale of inferior goods, he gradually debauches the taste of the neigh- borhood and brings down the standard of ex- cellence, Having destroyed the palates of five or six of the blocks about his premises, he is thereafter at liberty to dust, and mix, and gen- erally bedevil his wares, without the least fear of detection. He is responsible for thonsands of stomach-aches, bt he never hears of one of them. If an epidemic shonld break out in the vicinage, nobody can tell whether it is to be attributed to bad air, bad sewage, bad water, or bad gro- ceries. The retailer has pocketed his money; the wholesalesman has pocketed his, and the undertaker has smilingly pouched his gratuity, and it s all right! Under sugh circumstances, is it at all strange that the bills of mortality swell so, and that the grim old Reaper garners such a weekly crop of tendér children and of tough adults? The wonder 8 that anybody lives in such localities, and that they are not, in the very middle of our municipal Dbustle, a8 lonesome and deserted a8 the Roman Campagna. It is only another proof of the won- derful adaptability of inan to circumstances. Sometimes one sees & man with an exeellent con- stitution after he has been working forty or fifty | years to destroy it; and this 1 phenome- non is to a certain extent repeated in the race. Man seems to be the only animal who ean violate ‘the laws of nature and live, How he lives—in degradation and squalor, the subject of diseases the bare catalogue of which fills folios, with what aches, and pains, and pangs, with what fre- quent howls fo tés, and with what perennial for s to set forth! Ifheis tobe at all protected P e ngn ing lard, will be pained to hear that by a pro- | uncleaned info & Soid¥, nd the steam Jeb on. | -, to do that. in the f amount claimed, and it was paid by the troller among the first claims which v tled. The arms in the othier building o & gen in New- hfid.w a claim for $47,030 50, which was ) Supervisors Davis and Pusdy for examination, These gentlemen, after a protracted inveatiga- tion, deeming it their duty to make award as they could induce the elaimant to - accept, finally - compromised with ~him £34,000, amd reported it to the Tie “Ring” of thit notorious body, | had not yet been seen, and was tabled. Theé agéhf of t 2 the report acted upon; after being several monthd was finally constrained o adopt a suggestion made to him, that he should see the Supervisor whose influence is reputed to control the majority of the Board. Aftes a frank conversation with this official, he was referred to one of the elerks of the Board arrange a final adjustment. This young man, _after several interviews, finally agreed that the bill should be passed in econsideration of the payment of 5,000 to the “Ring"—cons senting, also, to increase the award, so that the extortion should fall upon the public and not upon the claimant, if the latter conld induce the committee who had investigated the claim to alter their report. This alteration the un- fortunate claimaut could not effect, and he finally accepted. the terms proposed, only ask- ing not to be ealled upon for the $5,000 he should receive the money from the troller. The agent of the Supervisors to accede to this, and demanded the advance; whereupon the other party, the matter was fully ripe, threatened an unless the report was adopted by the before a certain day. The menace whs effectual; the bill was passed at $£34,600, and the claimant felicitated himself that he had finally escaped from the clutches of these official cormorants. But he little knew how far the power of the “Ring” extended. Al- thongh the award was regularly audited and passed by the Snpervisors, all his solicita- tions and importunities for payment were disregarded in the Controlier’s office, and he was compelled to institute a suit at law for the Yecovery of the amount. After much trouble and delay the matter was decided last week by a verdiet of £53,52¢ 75 in favor of the claim- ant. It will be perceived that the sharp prae- fi:} of the Board of Supervisors in this instance cost the county abont 19,0005 but it ia gratifying to reflect that the City-Hall thieves failed to secure the 5,000 which they antiei- pated. It is not less consoling to be told that the Legislature is likely to put an end to the robberies of the Board of Supervisors, by ter- minating their existence, g Fi ] ’ THE GERMANS AND THE EXCISE LAW. The New-York Sa Committee have is- sued for general circulation an Appeal to the Germans of New-York and vieinity in behalt of the present Excise Law. It is a timely document, It is moderate and kind in tone, and convineing in ‘argument. It explains to them the nature of the law; refutes the gross misrepresentations of its encmies; shows its necessity and ‘ussfulness in a city like New- York; and answers the ohjections urged against - it. Inan appendix, it gives statisticsfand facts etting forth the evils of thé Sunday Liquor Traffie, in its connection with crime, pauper- ism and taxation; gives extracts from the de- cision of Judge Allen on the constitutional basis of our Sunday laws, and from the late décision of the Court of Appeals sustaining the act, and officipl statements from thg Metropolitan Police concerning the striking fi and moral results of the law. This pamphlet must exert a favorable influc ence upon the canse of orger and morals in the City. The German Mass Mceting in Cooper Ine stitute last Sunday shows conclusively that a large number of Germans of all classes are in full sympathy with the vast majority of Ameri- cans on the Excise and Sunday question, and demand a fuir trial for the law. The force of the German opposition to the law is effectually broken. So soon as you tamper with the law and exempt lager-beer, you make it practieally worthless. Let the law be faithfully and vig orously executed, and it will soon produce a revolution of sentiment among those who are The Express points to the Senate's vote to impose (or rather, retain) a duty of $1 per tua on imported Bituminous Coal, as one of “the ecruelties and follies of mos bounty men, modern, protectioniata, of ll kinds R minkter no wich b misery they inflict upon the wuititude, they seem to car not if they can feather their own nesta.” —Now, will The Express tell its readers whe proposed that duty? and name those Sevatord whom it considers Democrats who voted for, and then those who voted against it? Lot us see if you can be honest! : THE NEW SENATORS. ey TION. GARRET DAVIS. The Hon. Garret Davis, who has bosn reélected Senator for Kentucky, is a native of that State, and was born in 1801, He received o liberdl education, and, after serving for some time as a writer in the County and Cireuit Courts of his district, he studied Jaw and was admitted to the bar in 1528, In 1833 he tod for the first time to the State Legislature, :;‘:Iexli?:fi he :':s t:dee reélec In 18590 he was chos s s membet o L o C g s flopec B same v 0 Ot m‘;flaflv: from Kentucky, m‘:flr 1847, when he declined a reéle elected recourse to ph it is totally needless vy