The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 2, 1867, Page 4

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Pareps, Mr. Ross, Mr. Mills, Theodore Thowas's SWORTI HALL RTZ, TIE ILLUSIONIST. o TIIS KVENING=r. VAL MENT THIS AFIERNOON AND EVE Coruer Twenty-third-st. and Broadway. OF PAINT! smhenr's “ Horse Fair," &e., st /L. W. No. 855 Broadway. LLECTION Al LEEDS'S GALLERY, No. DAY AND ETF G DERBY'S ART ROOM! Mr. 8. 1. AVERY'S 017 Broadwar. Bnsiness Nolices. AMERICAN (WALTHAM) WATCHES, THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Sold Everywhere. 10 REGULATE THE BOWELS.—MES. Winstow's 800THING SYRUP fs the ouly thing that motbers can rely upon for their ehildren. 1t corrects acidity of the stomach, regulates the ves rest and comfort to wother and clild. During the pro thereby giving rest to the clild, and Tt softens the gums, reduces its valne Is & fuflam A to the motler. Sl To it A COLD HAVE ITS OW To cure the WAY i5 to it stud the foundation of Cousumytion. e Dr. Javse's Exexcio] asist fa L 1o, Borm Cough or Cold you bave ouly to use s o Fox Chest, Sold everywhere. Tikoar Diseases and Afiections of the Waowx's BroxcHiaL Troours” or Cough Lorenges, are of In Coughis 4 by cold, or un- ugnal exeriion of the voeal orz itation of the Throat great valve, or singing, they in speaking in p produce the most benefelal results. The Troches bave proved tueir ef- Boaey Torr's MALT EXTRACT Brvexaen or Hrarre 1o abesersge particularly adapted to persons of weak and debilitated m wid Who are laboriug under drspepsin, loss of fuls, chloresis, ete., geveral debility and deraugemeat of the Jory's Marr ExTrACT Brverach or Hearte TAKES TRE FLACK OF, ale, porter and spirituous liquors as & remedial agent wlightly stimula ages aud tonic are poeded Mair Exfeact Liwven ond s supe ol s Horr's Neity, great strength, and immenss with ‘tight meu and teo horses, 10 practitioners who deem it impo eney of ollegiate course Beavtirt L HAmR —~CHEVALIL €y restores gray Bsir to 1y orig d stiength to the wea keeps the head ' by all drggist Hun posit o asa hair-dressing. aud st my office, No. i A Curvauixk, M. D, ¥ Ba €oLGATE'S HoNey TOILET SoAp. This celebieated TorLET Soar, in such rsal dom; the o Als, I8 PRAGKANTLY SCENTED, aud extremely 0u'upon the shin. For sale by all Druggists aud Vricerory Hamr Restores [ Cont l.n‘f.‘\']:l. i 95 ¥ \ reoetve p aiaes) veay obain it by e KIBRUNE_ALMANAC VOR 1567 is NOW 20 ceuts. See advertiscment uader bead of New Publice- s CAitb DE ltf % Freach u ¢ Mor1's CHEMICAL PoMADE Restores i, keepa it gloser and from faling ont; removes Dandruff drvamng wsd. - Sold by REsHTON, No. 10 Astor House, Comfort and cure for the RUpTURED.—Sent, postage paid, on receiph of G ceats Allross * D E H: Foorr, No. 1,130 Bros ade new without spectacl a8, postag receipt of ten ecn . K. 1w 1‘"" Iwar, Ne - York FLORENCE Reversible Peed Lockstitch Swing MACHINES Best family wachise ia the world. Flokrxca & ray the finess. Lt & WILSON'S Lock o Maciixa aod Brrros-Houe Macwixk, No. 625 Broadnay. HiGne: N Y. Vi Cartes Vignette, %3 per dozen; Dupli EWIS, No. 160 (‘hl{!u‘u . g Best!” w-York T WinLcox & Gib: sesuw ia boae liable o rip thas the lock Grand Trinl]_Seud for saimyles of 08 Broadway. Tur HarrizoN BorLer. “Tuw: SAFEST AND BEST BOILER 1N THE WORLD, Vor Gireular, apply to Wiy, Agent, No 119 Brosdear, onto mkisox Boiven WokKs, Philadelphls, We desire to call attention to the needs of the Homeless Colored Orphans of the State of Louisiana. At prescnt there are 77 quartered temporarily at a wmilitary hospital in New-Orleans, under the care of the Orphans’ Home Association, which was formed for their protection. A French gentleman, M. Bussuerre, Lias contributed $10,000 toward purchasing, to be per- manently used for this purpose, provided $20,000 ad- ditiona! Do raised by the 1st of March, 1567. $10,000 have boon appropriated by Gen. Howard, and from other sources $4,000 have been received. $0,000 are wanting to make the required sum, viz., $30,000 for (he ercotion of & building where these destitute children muy find not only a home, but be educated and in- structed in branches of industry which will fit them for lives of usefulness. Weo earnestly appeal for assistanes to carry out this work. Contributions will e received and forwarded Ly Charles T. Bunting, 0. 146 Bagb Tweldtl-gh. in thip city. JRARAA LAt 55, blic, it could not have succeeded better in NewDork Daily Gfibmj s s P i, Ty PRl SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1567, 70 COL No notice ean be taken of intended for insertion must he wutheoti of the wiiter—uot necessarily for pub bis good faith, All busivess letters for this office sbould be adliesed to “ Tur Twin une,” New-York. We canaot undertake to return rajected Commanieations. B —— by the nawe ation, but a8 & guarauty TERMS OF THE TRIBU. Dty Trimsuese, Mail Subseribers, $10 per annuin. SeM-WepkLy Trisune, Mail Subscribers, $4 per an. E. I WekkLy Trisese, Mail Subscribers, $2 per anuum. Advertising Rates. DALy TRIBUNE, 20 cents per line. SEMI-WEEKLY TBIBUNE, 25 cents per line. WiEkLY TRIBUNE, $1 50 per line. ‘Terms, cash in advance. Address, Tue TRiB! Vew-York U Fine Aris Notices, Sorid’/ in Washington, Sfrom our special correspondent, Ertracts Jrom the Report of the Board of Health, City News and Queens County News, the Court Reports, and the Commercial News, will be found on the second page. The Markets and b‘lniypg'ng Intelli- gence are on_the third page. Notices of the Tooks of the Week appear on the sixth page. We hope &oon to hear that a bill to provide for calling and holding a Convention for the revision of our State Constitution has become a law. What are the secret influences that have so long kept back this bill? The Bankrupt bill engrossed the attention of the Senate yesterday, and was threatened with defeat by a division on the question of allow- ing State exemptions to berespected in the dis- tribution of the bankrupt’s effects. We trust this obstacle may be surmounted and the bill passed forthwitl The House yesterday considered and all but passed the Senate bill regulating the tenure of offices held under appointment by the Presi- dent confirmed by the Senate, The action on this bill showed vigor, purpose, and common sense, All the amendments offered were re- jected, as likely to delay the passage of the bill, and thus expose it to be killed by a veto. We presume the bill will soon pass as it came from the Senate, The other side—and the right side, we be- lieve—of the Cheeves Plantation affair is pre- sented in our dispatches to-day. United States soldiers were sent to a plantation, under com- mand of an ex-Rebel officer, and the freedmen very propetly refused to leave at such bidding. Gen. Scott has settled the trouble, as far as anything can be said to be settled in the South, at a time when Rebel officers, in full uniform ride unmolested through the streets of Charles- ton. ——e The bill reported yesterday to our State Sen- ate by Mr. Lent “ fixing the term of oflice of the “ Commissioners of Taxes and Asscssments of “the City of New-York,” will add, we jndge, about £100,000 per annum to the burdens of our taxpayers. The Tax Commissioners are each to reecive a higher salary than the Governor of the State. No single department of our City Government, unless the Tax Office be a department, has solicifed or assented to this increase. 'We suppose this bill is to be put throngh ; but we ask every one who votes for it to note our indignant protest, and not say hercafter that he “did w't understand it.” 1€ this bill goes through, seve others will run behind it on the same track, and a full Million will be added to our City Tax-bill. Beware! We do not eredit the report, telegraphed us from Washington, that the House will reject the Tariff bill as amended by the Senate. Nor shall we easily assent to the prediction that the bill will be sent to a Committec of Con- ference. We hold that the wisest course that could be pursued by the friends of Protection wonld be to accept and pass the bill ex v | as it stands, concurring at onee in the Sen endments and correcting in a fature bill any 5 and anomalies that experience or seru- tiny may develop. There are some thing the bill as it stands that we would wish changed; but, as a whole, it is an excellent bill, and passed the Senate by a larger n ity than was ever before given for a m of efficient Protection. We entre friends in the House to try to concur in the bill as it stands before runming the risks involved i sending it to any committee whatever. We must not subject it to the peril of a pocket veto by delaying its passage to within ten days of the close of the Session. The President has made a report to the House in response to its inquiry concerning removals from office. Thanks to Mr. McCul- Joch's moderation, which is to be judged of at its worth, the total number of removals under the Treasury dispensation during the Senate’s recess was 199, out of a whole number of 973 officers whom the President may appoint. The War Department, merciless as it can be when it wills, has no formidable guillotine statistics to present, and it would appear that the trance of ‘the Navy Department has been undisturbed by any ex- citement of removal. Bat in the Post-Office Department, under Mr. Randall, have occurred 159 changes of a lively political character to offset 22 for the benefit of soldiers, and out of 222 in all. The President reckons that there are 2,434 offices in all the departments which are subject to his appointment ; and it is his own showing that in not more than one-quarter of them have removals taken place. The up- shot of it ail is that Mr. Johnson wants credit for the pumber of sins he might have com- mitted but did not. Let him have it. Mr. Qakey, in the Assembly, yesterday, urged the passage of the resolution authorizing the Committee on Commerce and Navigation to examine the condition of our Fersies. There is great need of immediate and energetic action on the part of the Legislature, for the Ferry Companies positively refuse to do anything for the safety and convenience of the public. The ice continues to choke the river at certain tides, and may continue for weeks. Not one step has been taken to guard against a renewed suspension of travel for five days or more. On the contrary, every day adds to the evidence of the unfitness of the ferry-boats for Winter naviga- tion, and of the insolent indifferenco of the companies to the welfare of the public. Yester- day one of the bridges at the Fulton-st. slip, in Brooklyn, was broken, an accident which should never oceur. We believe hogs are still allowed to run at large in the ladics’ cabin of the “Dirty Julia,” on the Weehawken Ferry. At the Wall-street Ferry, night trips have been en- tirely suspended, or resumed, if at all, without notice to the public. If a corporation had been {rmgd ox‘!reull for the incouvenionce of the boats throughont the Winter. By all means let the Legislative Committee come down here and go to work. COMMISSIONS FOR OUR CITY. Much has been said of late years in relation to the it and the expedieney of committing our princip: earnest efforts have been made to create public prejudice against them. — Our municips authorities have denounced them, of course, because they involve a transfer of power and patronage which our offi als would prefer to retain in their own hands. They have scen with disgust the control of the sanitaiy inter- ests of the City taken from themselyes and entrusted to enlightened sanitarians—men free from political ambition and independent of all local cliques and rings—and though the City is an immense gainer by the change, yet the Common Council has lost the spending of a large sum of money and the appointment of numerous officers, And so of other Commis- gions, They all take away patronage and power from the old local officials, and of conrse aronse their enmity, This i ily understood. But why any of the disinterested friends of good government should object to Commissions of wise and competent citizens, selected fto take charge of each of such local interests as it is thoroughly qualified to manage,is a problem not so easily solved. Take the im- portant matter of the public health, and is it not clearly much wiser to put the whole power into the hands of edueated, exper ieneed physicians and sanitavians than to assign it to an average Common Council? Even if that Council were composed of honest men, they would be unfit for the high responsibility, And %0 of other Boards or Commissions, each charged with its special department of loes administration, and each selected for its speci competency for the duties assigned : it must be far wiser and better than any miscellaneous collection of men gathered from those grades of society which usually furnish our Common Council with members. Look at the roll of the Boards of Aldcrmen and Councilmen ; inguire into their intellizence, their morals, their pursnits in life, and, even supposing them to be right-minded men, who would think of selecting a Committec from the members to guard the health and lives of their million of constituents? Would any one doubt that a far better and more competent Committee might be selected from the body of our eitizens not in offic Aund, after all the outery against Commissions, our City Council always acts through them, calling them Committees, and choosing from their own body men who have not the slightest knowl- edge of the intcrests committed to their con- trol. S ors to But the great grievance of the ol e Commissions is the source wh they origi- nate. Why are not the people of the City permitled to choose their own local rulers? Why does the State Legislature meddle with its right of self-government? It is enough to say that the State has vast interests at stake in this City, to be imperiled or promoted by its local government., The remotest connties and towns are deeply interested in the eharacter of onr municipal rule. They are bound np with ns in a partvership of trade, social improvement, health, comfort, and enjoyment. They are in- terested in onr Sanitary Police; Wharves, and Streets; in onr Fire and Wa cconomies, and in all that pertains to the gen- welfare, and which madiates from this | at center of business and influen It would he stran indeed, if the State anthorities did not keep a watchfnl npon this great City, and provide for its wise govern- | ment. This, instead of being ance, is an honest and honorable recognition of the high ms of this imperial jewel of the State the re and service of the best legislative aid and counscl. Besides, the question i3 not whether we shall be governed by Commissions; for this our own Common Couneil provides; but it is who hall appoint these Commissions—Albany, or Mack- erelville, the Hook, and Five other of these powers must settle that questic And should it be a ground of complaint that | this grand Empive State rises up in its majesty to protect this brightest gem of the continent from the degrading vandalism that threatens to overwhelm her? Have the thousands of citizens in the great western and northern counties of the State no interest in our muni- cipal affairs? Of course the men who have got possession of the local government wish to keep it. They m o work it to their own exceeding profit, whatever But the whole L] becomes of the public welfare. system of Councils and Boards and Bure is vicious and cumbrons—a relic of a low ¢ ization—and is held to for the facilities it af- fords to cheat the people. It is a great, lum- bering machi osting enermously, and yicld- ing no valuable return to the tax-payers. Ev- ery five years it costs us $100,000,000, and has nothing to show but dilapidated wharves and piers, and various other evidences of unthrift, extravagance, and neglect, If, ten years ago, the whole system had been swept from existence, and a half-dozen Commissions, selected for their knowledge and virtne, had taken in hand the various chief public interests of this City, on the plan proposed by the Citizens' Associa- tion, we should have sccured a development and a progress never dreamed of by our Com- mon Councils and City Inspectors, and should have saved many millions to the people. There are gentlemen enough of high and honorable standing among us, who wounld bave taken a just pride in rendering such services to tho City, had they been invited to the task. Now, since Mackerelville and our present officials will not choose such men, the only remedy is to solicit their appointment by the Albany authorities. California, while reducing her export, manu- factured 8,000,000 pounds of her wool-crop in 1866, and means to make the amount 4,000,000 in 1867. If the Senate Tariff bill passes, she will probably exceed that amount. The South, in spite of her extreme poverty, has many cotton- mills already running, and will immensely and rapidly increase them if the Senate Tariff bill becomes a law, Yet our Grimeses and Garret Davises—who used to huzza for Harry Clay and Home Industry—now talk and act as though all our manufactories were located in New-England and ever must be! The session of the British Parliament, to be- gin a fow days hence, promises to be an ex- citing one, and will probably furnish one of the most important pages in modern English his- tory. The leaders of the Reform movement are marshalling their forces for the impending conflict. Mr. Gladstone has fissued a circular calling on his supporters to bo at their posts on the opening of Parliament; John Bright is arousing the popular mind with his powerful oratory; and a Cable dispatch iuforms us that local interests to Commissions, and | | oints T One or the [ the feeling in England is that should the Speech from the Throne fail to recommend Reform, the Derby Governmeng will inevitably go to pieces. It is not impossible that a few wecks may see Gladstone in office as Premier, with a Cabinet constructed on the basis of liberal Reform. RECONSTRUCTION. The Ervening Post would have its readers be- | lieve that, last Summer, 3 mstret i | sentations of the South, and thought it wise for the welfare of the whole country, to haster, the w of reconstruction.” —If that is all like truth, the public will know it. We make no comment, The Post proceeds to say that “When Mr. Beceher wrote durng the Summer that the antry must inevitably suffer if reconstruction was de- ced, Tuy TRIBUNE attacked him in the most bratal but now it 18 quite of Mr. Beecher's opinion. e Eveniug I'ost sald the amendment was imprac- answered that it was the only and —Wedonot know what “Mr.Beecher'sopinion” now is; but, if it was expressed by the Cleve- Jand Soldiers’ Convention which he enlogized in advanee, we are not “ quite” of his way of think- ing. And whoever asserts that we *“attacked” him, in a “bratal” or any other manner, merely becanse he “wrote, during the Summer, that “{he country must inevitably suffer if recon- “struetion was delayed,” evinces an anzing economy of trath. The Constitutional Amendment proposed by Congress at its former Session was not “im- ticable,” but it was inadequate, and we or considered it otherwise, It failed to provide the proper and necessary guaranties for the protection and security of the Freedmen. Had the Southern States promptly and heartily aceepted it, we should have felt bound not to oppose their readmission to Congress there- upon; but they have rejected it, and we wear no willow, The Post asks tonching Tur TRIBUNE ¢ e entirely out of the question nd speak 0 though the w to have political power iu the HSouth 1 Does it mean to abandon the Blacks " —The Post knows well that we do not “ mean “to abandon the Blacks"—knows that our pil- lars of Reconstruction are, as they have been, Universal Amnesty—Impartial Suffrage. We do not see how there can be a really enduring Reconstruction, on any other basis than that of All Rights for All. We do not restate this in- cessantly, sinee our readers already know it by heart. We shall at all times be ready and eager to close the controversy on these terms, though we do not say that we may not ac- quiesee in something less. Had President John- son fu «d Re struction on our b we <hould have sustained him at whatever cost. But the public understand the whole matter, e——— PAPAL INTOLLER osing of all the Protestant pla of Rome, by order of the Pa- | pal Government, has lately elicited some com- be fullest account of it which we Lave yet met with is given ina letter from the Rev. Dr. Prime, the well-known editor of The Ob- rer of this city, » Roman law strietly prohibits Protestant | worship in the City of I The only excep- tion to th striction is that the Embassadors vernments may have divine ser- ted in their own houses. Under this protection, the Russian, the Prussian, the American, and other representatives of foreign | Governments have had for many years chapels {in their own houses. The British Govern- ment has no diplomatie relations with Rome, but the Dritish Protestants have for forty years past been tolerated in holding worship in a hayloft, finished off as chapel, just ontside the walls, by the Porto 1 Popolo. The practice, however, has been | more tolerant than the law, and the Roman vinked at or overlooked other | | aunthorities have religious assemblics of foreign residents. Thus there have been for six years two stations of Scoteh Preshyterians, which have never been in- terfered with until, on December 29, the chap- lains were served with the following most re- markable warning from the DBritish Consnlate : “BRITISH CONSULATE AT ROME, Deo, 21, 1806, It 15 my official duty to inform you that Monsig Governor of Rome, has just communicated are holding fllegal religlons meetings in s, which, yon must know, are prohibited by the Rom A that you have thus placed yourself in the | powcer of the 1xquisinio, both for nizest aud imprison W ment. “Butan the Monsignors permits ma to give you this notice, I would serlously advise that you at once put an A to these innovations, and that yon visit Monsignoro Rand! at Monte Citorlo and assure him that yon wily never again repent these fllegal acts. 1 hope in this way you may possibly auspend your oxile, which is now hug ing over you. 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, S Josern SEVERN, Biltish Consul [0 the Rev. James Lewis.” We are not surprised to learn that some countrymen of the author of this remarkable document suspected him of approving the pur- of the Government. All the representa- tions made to the Papal anthoritics were fruitless, and on Jan. 4 the Preshyterian sta- tions were elosed. Mr. Odo Russell in vain ap- pealed to Cardinal Antonelli. His refercnee to s liberty granted to the Americans to havo s hip drew forth the remark, that “the Government would attend to that also.” Our dispatches by the latest steamers are several days later than the letter of Dr. Prime, and they inform us that the Americans have really been attended to also. All tho meetings for Protestant worship within the walls of the City of Kome, except those in the private houses of the foreign Embassadors, are strictly forbidden. To the urgent representations of the foreign Embassadors, the Roman Govern- ment has only, at length, so far yielded as .to allow the Protestants to meet out- side of the walls of the city. Thus the case remains for the present, and in this state it may remain, until the Roman people, aided by the sympathy of Italy and of all civilized na- tions, shall forever put an end to the Roman Inquisition and to the prohibition of Protestant worship in Rome. UNFULFILLED PROPHECIES. The World mistakenly assumes that Congress deferred the subject of Reconstruction till after the War was over; forgetting that a compre- hensive bill passed both Houses in 1864, but was pocketed by President Lincoln, not as specially objectionable, but as premature—it being impossible as yet to determine con- clusively on what terms Reconstruction ought to be effected, in view of the unforeseen chances of War. Messrs. Wade and Winter Davis very pungently reviewed this pocket veto; yet we could not help thinking that, though their state- ment was much the smarter, the President had the sounder position. And at all events, the bill and the reasons adduced for not signing it were alike notices to all concerned that the terms of Reconstruction were yet unsettled; and they alike refute the Copperhead assump- tion that the Rebel States were left to suppose that they might, if beaten in the contest, re- sume their position in the Union exactly as they were before they seceded. The World proceeds to predict that “If o Uulon s not rostored until it is restored by Luwnany & 1 e um.vnnw,mmfl;flg;fi_‘-__m_."fl—m them, it will never be at all; and tho Republican party, 4 an auger that won't bore,’ will bo oast asido” —This is the old, old story. “If McClellan “is not restored to command, there will never “he Union victories; if the Republicans are not “Kicked ont of power and the Democerats let in, “peace will never come, and the Union will “never bo restored.” The World rung the changes on these doleful prognostications till the country was nanseated with them, “Augers “that won't bore” are poor tools; but what better are bores that will augar? e————— CITY RAILIWVAYS. The Speeial Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to report a method of increasing the facilities of transit in this City had not merely to mature a plan for the future, but one which should speedily and without too great ex- pense supply immediate wants. The present system of horse railroads is notoriously inade- quate to accommodate the public; the cars on the main lines, such as the Third and Eighth Avenues, are overcrowded, and slow, and interfere with business of the streets. It is indispensable to speedy, cheap, and convenient transit that a new system should bo invented. The Commissioners have reported that if every avenue lengthwise of the Island were to be occupied at once with surface rails, the accommodation would not be sufficient for present needs, and in three years would prove to be as inadequate as that of to-day. Understanding the necessity of a new system» the Commission appear to have had made a care- ful examination of the Tunnel roads of Lon- don, and are so well satisfied with the work- ings that they deelare “that underground rail- “yways, passing under streets, present the only “gpeedy remedy for the present and prospec- “tive wants of the City of New-York, in “the matter of the safe, rapid, and cheap “transportation of persons and property.” One London road cost 750,000 per mile, and now carries an average of 400,000 passengers weekly. This cost, it is estimated, will not be required in New-York, as the London company bad to buy the way through private property. Upon this suggestion, a bl has already been intro- duced into the Legislature to charter a com- pany, with o capital stock of £6,000,000, to build a tunnel road from Brooklyn to Jersey City, passing under the East and North Rivers, and under the surface of the island. We have not the least doubt of the value of tunneling, but do not believe that it will sat- isfy the wants of the community, unless com- bined with other methods. It would be many years, before depending upon it alone, safe and speedy transit wonld be obtained, All of the advantages of the tunnel system are retained in the plan of the Metropolitan Transit Com- pany, of which we bave already spoken, and to these it adds others equally important, 1. Upon a single route it builds three lines of railway, an immense economy of space, 2. It provides a basement steam line for the transportation of freight; a ground-floor track for the accommodation of transient passengers; and a second-floor, elevated track, for swift passenger-trains passing, with half-mile stations, the entire length of the Island. 8. By this plan no oune kind of transit inter- feres with the others; and any number of pas- sengers may be carried from Iligh Bridge to the Battery in thirty minutes, 4. Buying its way through houses and yards, it leaves the streets entirely free for ordinary transit and business, 5. It safely allows the use of steam, which the Commission bel must be banished from the railways of the wl. There are other rensons why it should be adopted—for instance, the protection from the weather, the fact that the basement track could be laid in a much ghorter time than the island could be tunneled, that it would be a speedy method of supply- ing transit, and that the immense business it would at once do would enable the company to establish a low rate of fares. Its freight Dusiness alone wonld be enormous. I'he adoption of the tunnel system would not prevent the trial of this admirable plan, to which the sole objections of the Commission are its cost and possible delay in the ac- quisition of the right of way. New-York, in time, will probably need both methods, for the city, being unlike any other in its extreme length, requires more than any other the means of longitudinal transit. The Legislature having begun in this matter, should not end till some plan is selected, and we be- licve that the three-fold railway of the Metro- politan Transit Company is that plan which should first be tried. et Tt is a matter of the first importance that the management of onr educational institutions should bo in the hands of men of respectable po- sition in society and unexceptionable character. How far this condition has been complied with will be scen from the fact that, of the present School Commissioners and Trnstees of this city, eight are liquor-dealers, while the names of no fewer than seventeen are not to be found in the City Direetory. We publish elsewhere a full list of the Commissioners and Trustees. A CARD FROM MR. MCMASTER. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sim: Will yon please to correet, unless you think n substantiate from my language in this week’s Freeman, your assertion that 1 * defond and applaud the expulsion of Protestant worship from Rome.” T cer- tainly do not “ applaud” that measure. On the contrary, 1 stato distinctly and houestly that my way of dealing with Protestaut preaching in Rome would be to publish rts of all such preachings, and to hand them, thus, over to tho tender mercles of Italian wit, And I rather explained than *defended” the measure #ald to have been taken at Rome. T sald Itallans had their way of getting rid of what they do not like, as we Ame us have ours, Imight have instanced how the antl-Catholle sentiment, in this country, got rid of having n Roman Envoy here, fu the person of the late Cardinal Bodini! As to yous inference that an American Minister- Rosident st Rome s a uscless functionary, I entirely agres with you. T advocated his withdrawal, both under the Adininistration of Gon, Plerce and under that of Mr. Buchanan. Asking of you the courtesy of thia correction, as s0on a8 conventent, 1 aw, very respecttully, JAMES A, MCMASTER. Ofice N, ¥, Freeman's Journal, Feb. 1, 1807, Remark.~The following is part of Mr. Mc- Master’s article referred to above.—~[ Ed. Trib. “It 18 & great grlm-nnn to Beccher, and Tyng, and Coxe, and other “iniscegenationists,’ that they eannot in our Catholie Cathedrals. " But the ave our churches blessed, In a way wll sieh spirits out of them. We buy a lot or two, and bufld a little church, perhaps only 40 feet by %0, But, A space of 500 feet by 200, An tho bigger the chu ko the smaller, iy sate for us from the howlings of all the fantastical and discordant par- sons. Now, pray, why cannot Catholics, numg:r- ing from two to three millions, having bought and vald for a larger area—the city of Rome—owuning every oot of it—and ssking nobody, thut don 't t to, to Ko thore even on & visit—why cannot the Catholics of the en- tire globe be permitted to own, and to consecrate, the fow square wiles ocoupied by the city of Rome, to the resi- denee of thelr Chict Poutiff, and to the offi of thelr re- liglont Have they required, as the Church ot En{lnnd does, poople thit don 't believe In it to_contribute to its support 1 Not atall! Rome 18 the property of Catholics, all ovor the world. 1€ is aa much 8o as the ground of the old St. Patriok’s, in Now-York, with its rain-looking walls, is tho property of the Catholics i this eity. “A thousand Catholics need, for their chugch, a certaln apace—-and they have the right to have it. Twent thou- t. he aand Catholies need a llrfnr space, and have a right 1 nee do nearly three hundred millions of C; ced, for the ummfi‘mm Inoonmon nmong them { “Wo reckon At would be o poser (o mmlml they did n nood all Zome, sud fiud 1t crowded at thai!™ & OBITUARY. - ——— WASHINGTON HUNT. £x-Gov. Washington Hunt, who died this morning at 10o'clock, was born in Windham, Greene County, New-York, August 5, 1811, At the age of 18 e entered upon the study of law, and in 1834 was admitted to the bar at kport, In 1836 he was appointed First Judge of Niagara County. Mr. Hunt early began to take an active part in the political lifo of his native State, and at first was affiliated with the Democratic party, but after having been several times defeated as a candidate. for office, he joined the Whig party, and, as the candidato of the latter party, was three times in suce 1 elected to nself in Con- during hi mmittes ty elected him ( Kk by a majonty o itor; Hunt receiv- * Locofoco”), Dewo- an, Abolitionist, 1,552 votes, Commerce, j Whigp: troller of the State of N 5,00 over his Democratic com ing 205,034, John A. Lott ( crat, 199,13 s In 1850 the small plar: votes ; whil and 3,416 for Chap e ists. In 1852, the year of the Presidential election, Gov., Hunt was a candidate for reélection, bot this time the Democr vept the State, together with all the St. m, except those strong- holds of the \\'hif porty, Vermont, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Maryland. Gov. Seymonr received 264,121 votes agaiust 241525 gi Mr. 2 ality 214, n o Hunt, and 19661 given to the Free Soil candi- date.”_Both i"l]lnt and Seymour ran nhmul"ut the l‘n-nitlenflllvflukn-lu of their parties; Hunt about 7,000, and Seymour 2,000. When the Whig flmy dissolved, in_conscquence of the rise of the epublican party, Hunt was one of the leaders of the conservative wing, which beeame gradnally absorbed by the Democracy. He eeased, | Lo take @ prominent part in politics and lived irement upon a handsome farm near Lockport, dividing his attention between his fricnds, his books, ln(“ the the pursuits of horticulture. Only once more he u&v[wmul in publie—in 1864, when )]n: attended the Chicago Convention as a Delegate of the Democratic arty of v-York. Mr. Hunt was a member of the *rotestant Episcopal Church, and was repeatedly a lay delegate to the Triennnal General Conventions of his Church. THE HON. PHILIP JOINSON, The Hon. Philip Johnson, Member of Congress from Pennsylvania, who died yesterday in the City of Washington, was born in Warren County, New- Jersey, Jan. 17, 1818. In 1830 the family removed to Pennsylvania, and he completed bis education at Lafayette College, where he spent two years, He then” went to the Bouth and vemained there two years, teaching school. Returning Lo t the end of this period, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and before long was ted Clerk of the Court of ions and of the Oyer and Terminer, In 1553 and 1554 he was elected to the State Asse ¢, was Chairman of the Democratic State Convention 1857, and Revenne Commissiomer of the IIId Judicial District of the State in 1860, in which year he was elected to the XXXVIIth Congress from Pennsylvania. He was twice reélected, and in the present Congress served on the Committees on the Post-Office and Post- Roads, and Expenditurts on the Public Buildings. "1"1 J;‘M also a delegate to the Chicago Convention o h JUDGE E. F. CHAMBERS, Judge Ezekiel F. Chambers, who died at 5 resi- dence in Charlestown, Md., on Wednesday the 30th ult., wasa native of that State, where he was born in Kent County, February 23,1758, After graduating at Washington College, he studied law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1808, Althongh elected against Lis will to the State Senate in 1822, he took an active part in the legislation of that body, and in 1526 was tlected Senator in Congress from Maryland, retain- ing his seat till 1534, In that year he was appointed Chief Judge of the Second Judicial District, and a Judge of the Court of Appeals, which offices he held till 1851, when the Judiciary becaino elective, In 1852 President Fillmore offered him the post of See- retary of the Navy in the place of Secretary Graham, but s health nof being equal to the duties of that office, he declined the honor. In acknowledgment of h o scholarship and important publie ser Colleg 5, conferred upon him the degree of Docto; Laws, and in 152 Delaware College honored him in like manner. He was an ac- tive member of the Convention in 1550 which changed o Coustitution. Judge Chambers was em- his prof distinguished Mr. B. F. Hancock, Was Collector of Intersal Reveuue in the Sixth District. THE TION. H. 8, MAGRAW. The Hon. Henry 8, Magraw, a member of the Mary- land Legislature, died yesterday, in Washington, t of apoplexy, with which he was seized last night. He was formerly State Treasurer of AT THE TOMBS POLICE COURT. Yesterday S8imon Lanterbeck, proprietor of a drinke ing saloon at No. 12 Morris-st, and his bar-tender Fre- derlek Kealt, were arrested for violating the Excise law. were held to bafl by Justice Hogan in the sumg ot at the Court of General Sessions, On ralt was arvested AT THE JEFFERSON MARKET ¥ ael J. Gibbon, No. 289 Wes twith, - Mic brought before Justice I of the license law, and gay KLYN. George Galloway, corner of Carlton and Flushing-avea., was yesterday arrcsted by the Brooklyn Police for open- ing bis place, us stated, three minutes hefore suurise. Ho ball to ‘appear for trial before Justice Morehouse on lay next. Joseph Hearne, corner of Columbla and rrested on o Y was yesterday liquor without Mullew was ul nse. For i slmils fined §0. Claus Rlohn, grocer, at the corner of Park-ave. aud Walworth-st., wi arreated for selliug peer withont a liceuse. Ho waa held for trial before Justice Cornwell, IN FLUSHING, The first arrest in the towi of Flushing for violating the Excite law was mado yesterday morning. The priss oner, Philip N as brought b il b jgailty of & Tie, and ipriso oN, Feb. the cornerof Summer and Kingston-sts., which is in process of being altered, so as to be occupied as & store, fell in this morning, burying a nuuber of workme Two of the men were rescued nlive, but were very badl brufsed. It is belieyed that two other men are still under the ruing, but it is unknown whether they hava perishod. The {njured men were taken to the hospital aud,their wounds promptly attended t RAILROAD ACCIDENT, 2 BRANTFORD, C. W., Feb, 1.—The mail train from Buffalo, duo here at 10'0'clock this morning, ran off the track half a mile east from Brantford, throwing the pas- senger cor down an embankment, killing the brakeman, Mr. Archer, formerly a telegraph operator, and slightly Injuring several passenger: FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE NEW-JERSEY CENTRAL evening the Central Railroud. on Thursday Afternoon, was passing near the Bay Cemetery, deceased was knocked from the engine by his lead coming in contact with a bridge, and, fall, upon the track, he was run over b{‘ the enti; was cut to pieces in the most shocking manner. dict of accidental death was rendered. Deceased was 27 years of age, and resided in Somerville, Somerset County, Where he leave a wife and three children. SeizvrE OF WHISKY,~Seven hundred barrels of whisky, supposed to be {llicitly distilled, wore yesterday seized at Hunter's Polut by Collector G. F. Carnan of the Ist District. Six hundred barrels were found in the ware- house of the Warren Chemical and Mauufacturing Com- pal Five hundred of these were branded “C. M, Worthington, ~Government Inspector, 1114 District, Ilinols,” and one hundred were marked “ Highwines, C. F. M. Schumaker, Ist District, Illinols.” The remaining 100 barrels were found by De) mr Collector Dailey in the warehouse of the Warren Brothers’ New-York Ol Com+ pany, and were sent on from the Wost; but it is belioved thln 10 taxes have been paid on them, and hence the selzure, P A QUESTION 08 WATER RIGNTS.—A process was brought by the Pilot Commissioners, in the Suprema Court of Kings Cannt, .{mmy. against James Nesmith aud others, owners of the property known as the Empire Stores, near the Catherine Ferry, for obstructing the ‘wharf 30 as to interfere with the pubiic use was claimed by the counsel for the defendants Pilot Commissioners lave no juri over wharves in question, h are private %0 by the acts of the Legislature of 1848 and 1 the Pilot Commissioners Mr. Butler conte that the jalature had no power to part with the right to control or regulato the use of such .‘uuwrv.. After some further SrEument he case was Al L0 ookl aa s Juigs A 0 lssnes were too sittiug at Circuit, and that up:n best to put it off for Goneral Term, Kixas County CirevirT (‘(;mu‘ CALENDAR.~The following is the Calendar g8 County Circutt B I L, 07)Cases—No3. 104, 119, 129, 68, 89, 92, W, 138, 10, 107 the the