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

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Tue EUREKA Brick MACHINE performs ita work to perfection, and fter ordering s mackioe, one of the Sir, I esn ran your machine for simplicity and power, ! iy breaking dow years, without r in way of repairs. 1vs the best madbine out.” Satigfuction guaranieed to every purchuser, R ¥o. 141 Broadwas, N. Y. NewDork Paily Cribune. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1867. Advertisements for this week's issne of WaskLY TRINUNE wust be handed in To-1 v The Money Article and thg Malets will be found on the second page. he Insurance Investigation, Military ~News, Civil Court Reports, Shipping Intelligence, ele., appear o the seventh page. . The Senate bill to regulate the tenure of office was taken up in the Honse on Saturday. The question being on reconsidering the vote by which the amendment of Mr. Williams was rejected the day before, the vote was recon- sidered and the amendment adopted by Yeas 82, Nays 63. This amendment makes the re- moval of Cabinet offi suhject to the con- sent of the Semate. The bill was passed by Yeas 111, Na Our Havana ing account of the meeting of the Council of Ministers to which was referred by Maximilian the question of his abdication. The majority declared against abdieation ; but among those who were in favor of it were Marshal Bazaine and the Archbishop of Mexico, The latter, with a number of other prominent adherents of the Empire, has left the capital, anticipating its early fall into the hands of the Liberals, who were advancing on it from all sides. Beside Porfirio Diaz, General Alyarez is now mentioned among those who are aspiring to the honor of capturing the City of Mexico. The acts of Congress revoking the Amnesty power of the President, and regulating the » franchise in the Territories, have been officially published—a speedy answer to the demand of Congress that the Seerctary of State showld inform it into what pigeon-hole or waste-paper basket the laws of the United Stites had been thrown. The publication of these acts,will not, however, entitle Mr. Seward to reply to the inquiry of the House, merely that they have been published. He is bound to show by whom they were solongsuppressed. This is but the dilatory performance of a duty; it is mot the explanation of a breach of truth. The Senate Tariff bill was on Saturday re- ferred by the House to the Committee on Ways and Means. We trust the House will take up the bill at once, and, wasting no time in making it better or worse, passit. At it stands, it is a vast improvement on the present Tariff, and we would rather have it become a law than risk its loss by del Three wecks' debate— and if the Honse begins to debate it we may expect that delay—will bring its passage so near the end of the session that there could be no hope of its overcoming a veto. Through two sessions this Tariff has fought its way, and the House should not now repeat the mistake of the Benate last year. B ] “BETWEEN US BE TRUTH! The Evening Post hias a leader on “Varions “Plans of Reconstruction,” whercin it sces fit to say: “Third—There was the plan on which Mr. Horace Greeley and Mr. Montgomery Blair united, of wal and un conditionnl amuesty to the Sov without re gard 1o the future of the negroes. Mr. ¢ ley wrote, After the election and when Ttk TRIBUSE had cast away the Amendment : * I amw for U niversal Amnesty—so far s fmmunity from fear of punishment or confiscution 13 con- cerned—eren though Dupartial Suffrage should for the present be resisted and defeated. " Jowrnal very Justly rema ‘without any condftion whatever. Cuffee and the Nai Debi get the goby together; the enlarged suffrage and the corretted basis of representation are surrendered in com mon.' This Greel Blair s ne has not had much sue. cess with the pub . S A “The favorite me of Mr. Greeley and Mr. Blair, of fiumediate, universal and unconditionial Amnesty to the Southern leaders, without any consideration Whatever for the negroes, was simply onc of those cowardly sur- renders for which Mr. is notorions. As he lowed Mr. Vellandigham's policy at intery during the War, 50 he contiuues now to follow the lead of that shining patriot.” —My carefully written article on “The Trae “Bases of Reconstruction,” whereon 7The Post bases its charges above, appeared in The Tue FRANKLIN Brick MACHINE, Justly colebrated for perfe b, and immense compresdag pover, 1o GCAX. 4 two liorses, to self lowper the clay and mako 3,000 o 3,50 elegant bricks per hour. 3. WL, Rex10K, Proprietor No.'71 Broadwar, N. Y., Room 69, Corcate’s HoNey ToIlLeT Soar. This celebrated TorL ve Soap, in such universal demand, is made from the CROICEAT materials, is FPRAGRANTLY SCENTED, and extremely BENEPICIAL in its action upon the skin. 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Tie SAPEST AND BEST BOILER IN THE WORLD, Por Circalars, apply to 3 Vi ProSTIIUTION=WHAT T1E POLICE COMMISSIONERS Dany Trisese of Nov. 27, In that article, I sand: “1 commend Tmpartial Suffrage s required by the true interest of all concerned ; yet I cannot admit that it is amatier in which the North has no rightful concern. The Blacks are a portion no of the Souther, of the American Peopl d an impo beneficent part in our gr We cannot ignor the obligations springing from ovr necessity and their loy alty. 1 hold that honor and good fuith absolutely constrein those who trivmphed in that sirujgle to take care that their humble supporlers and backers shall not be made to sufler for tuking the side of the Union. To say now in'view of the recent past, ‘Let the Sonthern negroes bave such rights only as teir White (late Eebel) fellow citizons shall see fit to accord them, would be ingratitwle and perfidy sueh as might well intoke the lighinings of heacen.” No maiter at what cos!. we of the North musl take care that the Southern lacks ave not left at the merey of that diabolie spirit which manifested itself through' the late massacres of Memplis and New-Orleans. * *°* L local authority and opinion, bt il WrODg 0-morTow: we mut place the essential vights of every American citizen wnds the express guardianship of the Federal Constitution. will b the end of controversy; until then, even w attemnpts to abridge them will prove a grave general calamity. “1have said that T favor both Universal Amnesty and Impartial Suffrage on their respective wmerits, cach with- out regard to the other. 1 hold thal the North is bound to insist on Manhood Sufirage—not in the South only, but in every Btate and Territory-because of the sorvice re- quired of and rendered by the Blacks in thoe Rebellion—that it would be perfidy and baseness, view of all the facts, not to fusist on this. 1 hold South buund to accord Suffraze to the Blacks, a3 important aud useful, though humble, portion of her people, whom it is her int ll as lier dut concilinte and satisfy, gh the North stween the in- and the South r either, s best for 1 thoir respeetive re- th wants 1o keep at witing down o bothi—the only collision is bet sentments and prejudices, The Jeast the leading rebels under ban indefinitely ; the South—that is, a_majority of the dominant caste at the South—wants to keep the negroes under foot—despiscd, powerless, and often abused by the White ruffiaus, whose crimes the better class disavow, but neither prevent nor punish. The loyal North has demonstrated her ability to keep the Rebels out of C Rebel South has likewise t indefinitely the due ratificat al Amendment. This dead-lock affords to thoso whom 1 must con- wider the more generous and far-secing minds of either goction an opportunity which, once lost, may never re- turn. u though the South were co her lead- ors int could not to pows n though tho North were able to force Iy e on the South, it would prove of little value while resisted by a stronjs majorit of the dominant caste there. But let North and South strike hands on the basis of Universal Amncaty with Ti- partial Buffrage, and the reswlting peace will'be perfoct, all-embracing and enduring. Each section will gaiu overything aud lose really nothing. * ¢+ ¢« “It the Southshall insist on her abstract right to hold the Blacks as a subject race, th B will doubtless insist on_the indefinite disiranchise of all the prominent Rebels, and matters will thus go a8 they have gone and WILL FAVOR.~The luformation for which application was made to the police, as to the number of prostitutes and of prostitution-houses in the city, §s being compiled b the Police, and the report will be made in a few days. It 18 expected, also, that the Sawitary Department of tho Board of Health will have a report in readiness at the meeting of Thursday. The police authoritics again unite the opinion of the most of those who have examined the subject, that this evil cannot be wholly eradicated by statutes, and that its n s the most that can be effected at present, The missloners will make certain recommendations, among which the fellowing are rhaps the most fm- portant : 1. That ommn plylug the trade of & prostitute shall be 1 any person yviolating this re- uirement to be subject to avy fine or imprisonment. hmulnnmt must effec it reduction in the B O e o Woul be Ll 10 put them. calling who wo 0 puf them- welves on record lu publio and -vom‘; X.‘nmuu-, for the last year. T must still cherlsh my opinion that this 18 unwise; but U stand with my own rople, While ‘awaltin calmer and wiser view hat 1 am confident mmust ultimately —provail. The dlsinterested will say, ‘Let the Rehels remain under the Dban 60 long s they fnsist on keeping the Blacks there'—and they will say so with ample reason. If the adjustment I urge should ultimately fail, and, in the mulallunsnl{-afl{(wuulmn- ‘. the Rebels thousd be et up and the Blacks bo kept dow regret it as much for the sake of the South s of North ; and I shall feel that the blame does not all attach to the South. And, whatever the immediate issuc, 1 shull Hrl&:q‘) ot of heart url horl-rl mnlirz last—and at no very 51 ay—our people w horoughly harmonized ;nd united on the basis of Inpartial wnd Universal Free- om. u.G6." ~The reader has now before him what I did urge, and what 7he Post says I proposed. 1 make no comment. If The Post’s charge is 2. That any property-owner leasing an; bullding for Txr- of u ess w gufl.lt tion shall be subject fo a fine of not for each time ¢omplaint 1a made and againat the house.) The impoitance of this meas- Epod 1t would compel every keeper of a publio o T R M A , and would cut of w 8 wow ronted for (he purpose. . RS ——— PersoNaL—dy. Jaspep Blackhurud editor of The Homer Dliad, at Homer, Loulsiana, and John Hitz, Consul ‘General of Bwitzerland, are at the Astor House ; the Hon. Wi, Bprague, Washington, ot the Fifth-ave. Hotel; Gion. of Ohfo at the Bt. Nicholas Hotel; L. J. The London Ti ’ punl : the Clarendon Hotel ; O o et o maitan Hovel; Col, JiowiAnd, o otel ; Col oW ' the Wostmlnstor Holel. well founded, that is now plain. If it is a willful, villainous untruth-~a lie with deliberate intent to injure—that, likewise, appears. I do flot say what it is. Read both sides, and judge. —But a word as to “cowardly surrenders.” Let us be cleat on that point. When our last Stafe Election had resulted in a complete Republican triumph, & number of influential friends united in proposing me as a candidate for the U. 8. Senate. They did not ask me to do anything to favor .ug‘,!l election : they urgod ouly that L should stand by the \ \ 1Y NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, Constitutional Amendment and say nothing about Universal Ammesty. If T would, they felt assured that T would be swelyy 5V0Twilamhig]y chosen. I could not stand on the Constitutional Afiendment, so long as there should be a hope of doing better, mainly because it afforded no adequate guaranties for the protection and en- Sfranchisement of the DBlacks. 1 felt that a far broader basis was neeessary to a true, benefi- cent Reconstruction—a basis which should in- cite the great body of the Southern people, both White and Black, to go to work, in the full assurance that their rights of person and property would be fully protected. And, while 1 would gladly have defeired to my friends—who, very probably, overrated my strength with the people of our State, but who surely meant to serve me—I felt constrained to put forth the article of Nov. 2ith. I presume 10 one will assert that I supposed it would im- prove my chances for the Senatorship. I knew uite well that it would probably be so used as to render my clection impossible. Where, then, was the cowardice ! I certainly did hope that some good would result from my distinet avowal that I was for Universal Amnesty (not political restoration) any how, which has not yet been realized. 1 knew that there were many leading Southerners who were as fully convinced as need be that Tmpartial Suffrage is a beneficent necessity. These are, for the most part, kept dumb by the consideration that they are under the ban, and may be supposed to favor Black Enfranchisement from a selfish desire to rescue their property from confiscation and themselves from proseription. I resolved, o far as T had powdr, to place these where they could speak out for Impartial Suffrage with effect. I hoped, moreover, that the President would say to Congress in his then fortheoming Mes “We hawe honestly differed as to the “true bases of Reconstruction: let us try “henceforth to agree: I am ready to confer “and to concede: Are not you prepared also “to make some concessions, ko that the country “ may have peace 1” 1 have not yet achieved all the good I in- tended: what of that? Hardly more than two months have elapsed since the attempt; and already the North and the South misunder- stand and misjudge each other less than they did. The Senatorship is ont of the way, carry- ing with it the most obvious motive for the misrepresentation that 1 proposed to abandon the Blacks to the tender mercies of the ex- Rebels. I belicve The Post alone still persists in that calumny. I know that the event will vindicate me fully, and in that faith T wait. . o B RAILROAD MONOPOLY. A mere loeal rivalry between the Camden and Amboy and the New-Jersey Rail- road Companies has hitherto been the only protection of the traveling public against these gigantic monopolies. The history of their long quarrel, which we elsewhere publish, will show that the fear h felt of the other resulted in the limitation of the inflnence of both, and therefore, to the extent of that limitation, in the benefit of the public. The Camden and Amboy Company, wishing more direet communication with New- York than it ean obtain by steamboat from Amboy, desired an extension of its 1 from New-Brunswick to the Hudson. This pro- jeet the New-Jersey Company suceessfully opposed, while for itself, it sought to extend its line to Philadelphia, by a road from New-Brunswick to the Delaware River at some point above Trenton. The Camden and Amboy influence in the Legislature defeated this plan, and for years the two companies have defended the public against each other’s encroachments. DBnt it was impossible that this rivalry could continue ; the monopolies were not 80 much the enemies of each other, as both were encmies of the public; the real danger was not in the increased power of either, but in the growing hostility of the public to both. We are not surprised, therefore, to learn that the Directors of the two corporations have consolidated them into one monstrous mo- nopoly, in which the stock of each will be the property of the stockholders of both, and the management entrusted to a joint board. This arrangement only needs the assent of two-thirds of the stockholders, certain to be given, and of the Legislature, which, except in questions of rivalry, has always been the obedient servant of the companies, Thus New-Jersey is to be surrendered to this grasping tyranny, the power of which is doubled by consolidation. 1If, while fighting each other constantly, the two companies could unite to govern the Legislature, to shape the indus- trial policy of the State to swell their own dividends, to crush all healthy and independent railroad enterprise, to retard the local railroad improvement of the ite, to impose what terms they pled on New-York and Philadel- phia, to rule even the pol of the State, and eleet Legislators and Governors and United States § ors at their will—if they could do all this divided, what can they not effect united 7 Instead of two grants there is one, and the power is not merely doubled by union, but indefinitely multiplied. New-Jersey lies prostrate under the feet of this colossal eor- poration; but if that State alone were in its power, the evil endured by its peo- ple might be borne by others. Dt the railroad tyranny of New-Jersey has been than a State affair; it is national. York suffers an immeasurable incon- ience and loss from the power of Camden and Amboy over her Southern commerce and travel; Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washing- ton, in the bulk of their business with this city and State, are controlled by a New-Jersey Board of Directors. Such a vast power should be held by no State—much less by a few capitalists, who care for the general interest only as far as it is their own, The State taxation on these railroads is, in fact, not upon the railroads, but upon the pas- sengers and merchants who, for want of other transportation, are compelled to use it. A direet and unconstitutional tax is imposed on each passenger and on each tun of freight, and all the arguments of the monopolists have never been able to prove to the contrary. The best they could attempt was to show that this un- just privilege—this absolute exemption from taxation on its profits—was not abused by the Camden and Amboy Company. If, hitherto, we have bhad high rates with more rival companies, is it not reasonable to expect increased rates with a monopoly above the fear of any competition? Tt promises to withdraw from polities ; but what is a such promise worth? The unrestrained power to exaggerate every evil and abuse, notorionsly exerted in the past, still exists, and we have not a particle of faith in the virtue of any monopoly confronted with the temptations of wealth and power. This consolidation is intended to mect a danger to the Camden and Amboy Company. I6 is the fxst gtep toward repudisting the MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1867. monopoly pledge not to seek to perpetuato the Its suc- beyond its ,present limit—1869. t « cess we shall mot regret, for it will compel the interference of Congress. Protection from these preséni and fhreatened evils is not to be expected from the New-Jersey Legislature; yet if it yields now to the railroad masters of the State, it will transfer to the Republicans that odium which hitherto has belonzed tothe Democrats. The only hope of the traveling and business community is in Congress, All that we have said in past years of the ne- cessity of an air line from this city to Wash- ington, is made doubly emphatic by the consol- idation of these tyrannies. We must have that line, and the interests of the whole country de- mand that Congress should give the power at ouce. e ——— IMPEACHMENT. The Washington Chronicle of Saturday has an elaborate and vigorous article urging the im- peachment of President Johnson, whereof the gist is as follows: James Madison, the leading writer of The Federalist, was & member of the Virginia Conventio lled for the purpose of considering the National Constitution, of Which he was & chief framer and cate. During the Convention which prepared the National Constitution, he kept full private notes, afterward published by order since regarded as infallible author- fon was submitted to the respect- the arguments of Madis uverting eve The Virginia Con- omviction to dov by thefr clearness and coge asscmbled in June of 1 know ledged chief of the p ssisted by Marshall, P and_ others, and opposed by Monroe, Grayson, and Mason. This array of intellectual giants sub- the Constitution to a terribly searching analysis. words, carcfully taken down at the time, are now id control a8 pletely as fl emlh fal winds. ctual sfruggle that the a vote of 8 to 70. When the 1 article of the Constitution thorough ,’ln_flu hetr : preserved among the archives of the nation statesmen and_constitusional la the profoundest opinions of th this meme It was afte debate took pl of the Army SrcTiox 2. The Pres of the United a everal States led into active e United Stat require the cipal oficer in each of the executive depart- o pi cet telating to the duties of their respective offices, er o grant reprieves and pandons for ofenses ) * od lates, except in cases of Impeachient. med at the ex- tion upon the and he shall b agalust the U The opponents of the Constitut traordinary powers couferrcd | xecutive, threw thelr whole fore ust it. Georke rly apprehensive and the prerogatives here so uded that the President Ex aly bestowed. NOT 10 1t Ly, CIT MAY JA Magon, “ THAT IE WILL ESTABLISI A I¥ ME A8 THE T AND QUIRY AND PREVEN - in_reply to theso Father of the Con- MAY HE NOT STOP TreTIoN 17 Now mark the lan welghty objections employed by th stitution, James Madison of Virgini; * Mr. Madison, ac ng to Mr. Mason’s objection ent's power of pardoning, said it would y improper to vest it in the House of Rep- much less so to place it in the ous bodies were actnated mgre might, in the y. It was an the Legislature to de ound, says he, that two 'h the que: tico in mine such ¢ ferent sessi eame with respect to pardoning th the R lion, were governed precisely by different sentiments: the one wonld execute with universal vengeance, and the other would extend general fs one seenrity in this case to which gentle- sident be N ¢ grounds Represents ) e they can remove him i/ found guilly ; they can suspc nd n suspected, and the power will derolve on the ident. Shonld he be suspected also, he may like- I'r wise be suspended until he be impeached and remored, and the Legislature may make a temporary appointment. This Viee is o great seeurity, —We do not gi ¢ The Chronicle’s comments, since their drift is obvious; but we will thank some one who holds the opposite view to show wherein and how Mr. Madison erred in suppos- ing that the House, in de g to impeach a President, can saspend him if snspected. And of the Viee-President. If an impeached President still retains all the powers incident to his station, how eame Mr. Madison—just fresh from framing the Federal Constitution— to blunder as above ¥ 50 THE UNION FERRY BRIDGE. What proportion of the profits of last yes busine 8 w8 the Union Ferry Company propose to expend at Albany in procuring the passage of their Bridge project, we have, as yet, no defi- nite knowledge. The New-York Bridge bill has been reported upon by the Committee to which it was referred, and now comes the task of “secing” a sufficient number of members to seenre its passa Undoubtedly, this work has already begun. The * gentlemen from New- “York"” and the “ gentlemen from Kings” will be provided with season passes by the bushel for themselves and friends over the pro- jeeted Bridge, and promises of eligible contracts after the manner of the Court- House job; while the honoruble gentlemen from the rural distriets will have elaborately- engraved and framed drawings of the proposed structure, in which they have been requested to hold a share, forced upon them to hang in their parlors beside the Washington Monument —and to be finished a few years after that dilatory obelisk. Seriously, the Bridge project, a8 introduced by Senal Murphy, the legislative advocate of the Ur Ferry Ring, is a frand. It has not one feature to commend it to the publie, while it has a half-dozen or more provisions which should eondemn it beyond all hope of resurrec- tion. It is in the interests of the Ferry Company and controlled by the same Company’s mana- gers; it gives one year—five in the original bill —in which to make the first show of work, and all time or eternity for its completion; itallows its incorporators to charge what tolls they pleage in case the structure is, by some mis- chance, ever finished; and it provides a loop- hole by which every cent of its profits may go into the hands of the stockholders, who are lieved from all taxation upon the property until it pays a certain per centage profit, which, by the simplest management known to financial speculators, it would never appear to do. There is no direction in the entire bill as to how the Bridge hall be built, or of what material ; the only clauses which in any way or shape define the character of the work being that in the first gection, which says it shall be a “ permanent “Pbridge,” and those in the tenth, which provide that it shall be 130 feet above high water, that there shall be mno pier in the channel, and that it shall lave a “substantinl “railing.” Such cloge attention to important details could only have emanated from the architeetural interests which have never been able to devise a decent mode of getting people on and off a crowded ferry-boat. There is yet one more specification as to construction, which must not be overlooked. Section sixth provides that “toll-gates shall be kept at each end of “the bridge, and the toll demanded and paid “upon entering on the bridge.” Trust the Ferry Company for that! Under this bill the incorporators may (there is no compulsion, but they may do it if they choose) build a bridge three feet wide or three hundred ; may build it of wood, or iron, or rope, 80 long as they make it “ permanent” and put at the sides a “substantial railing,” and no man can com- plain of them for having violated their charter. It need not even be inspected and approved by anybody save the all-powerful Ring, which gots the building into its own hands solely to forco people to take passago upon its boats. The more we examine the bill the more ridiculous aud guirpgeous §6 apvears. It prescrves its character to the last line. Tho concluding section provides that no tax shall be as- sessed upon the Bridge so long as the stockholders do not receive more than six per cent per annum in &vidends upon their stock, ¢ As tho third scction has provided that the Directors may at pleasure increase the capital stogk, the youngest boy in a broker's office can see how simple will bo the method by which the stock will be so watered that the dividends may be kept within non-taxable limits. If the Legislature is to submit to the dicta- tion of the Ferry Company in this Bridge mat- ter, we have a substitute to offer which em- braces all the points of this bill, and is vastly simpler. Thus: 1. Be it enacled, ¢, That ———— bo allowed to huild o Dridge between N ork and Brooklyn if they want to. 2, They may havo a year in which to begin, and a hund- red to finish. 3. They may charge what they please and keep all they et. !4. They may bufld such a bridge as they choose and manage it as they see fit. 5. The bridge shall have a substantial railing at the sides, and be 130 feet above high water. 1f anybody can make anything else out of this New-York Bridge bill, we shall be pleased to see the exposition, “THE SOCIAL EVILY Of all the miseries nowendured by eivilized man, those resulting from violations of the Di- vine law of sexual purity are probably most gigantic and appalling. The strength of man- Lood is sapped; the loveliness of womanhood transfomed into something inexpressibly loath- some and revolting; even the life-blood of in- fancy is tainted and filled with the seeds of agony and death, by diseases engendered by lust. The innocent suffer with the guilty ; the guileless purity of girlhood is ensnared to phy- sical and moral ruin; the stamina and health of the race are fearfully undermined; deaths are hastened and multiplied, while births are ren- dered fewer and fewer, because of the pesti- lenco that walketh in darkness, and threatens the human species with general impotence and anguish if not with extermination. The statistics of the hideous vico wherein this dreadful scourge has its source are revolt- ing, and need only be glanced at. All know that it exists—that it fs all-pervading—that it is rapidly on the increase. All admit that something must be done; but what? There is a bill now before our Legislature which proposes to legalize—its advocates say, to regulate—prostitution;; and, since Gov. Andrew heads the effort to legalize rum-selling in Massachusctts, we see not why some equally eminent and honored statesman should not ampion the regulation of harlotry here. The argument is substantially the same in the two cases: Men will drink liguor; they will violate the Seventh Commandment ; why not recognize and respeet the fact? Why not limit evils which cannot be rpated 7 Why not have that done decently and in order which will at any rate be done? Our objection is radical and fundamental. The ohjeet of regnlation is to lessen the chances of infection—of discase; and we would not have them lessened. On the contrary, we hold it desirable that it should be rendered abso- lutely certain that every man who v od A house of ill fame would there be smitten with an incurable and fatal leprosy. Tt is the chance of escape unharmed that stimulates lechery and multiplies libertines. Were certain and speedy death the notorions penalty, the transgressors would be few indeed. But the idea of securing men against the natural results of their own vices, is not merely immoral; it is a sheer illusion. Regulation been reduced to a science in France, especially in Paris, yet the judgment of God against sexual pollution is excented there as well as here. And so it will be everywhere, in spite of legions of qu: -in spite of all that science can devise or regulation achieve. We are not urging the passage of more stringent, repressive laws. We think onr legis- Lation might be improved; but we will not now insist on that. What we do urge is universal enlightenment, especially of the young. There should be o series of tracts, setting forth the nature, reasons, obligations,and requirements of sexual purity, and the awful, inevitable conse- quences of disobedicnce to the Divine command, These, so fast as prepared, should be systemat- jeally disseminated and universally studied. It is not difficult to teach the vital truth in terms adapted to every understanding and inoffensive to purity or good taste. In this great work, our churches, tract societies, Christian associa- tions, &c., &ec., should coiperate and vie with each other, till a great and hallowed reform shall luve been fully accomplished. OUR DIRTY STRE We are as much in favor of clean streets as any one, but we are not of those who are striv- ing to hound down a respectable and worthy citizen beeause he does not accomplish impossi- bilities. The greater portion of the press of this city seems disposed to put the blame of the impassable condition in which our streets now are, upon the shoulders of Judge Whiting, as if it were throngh lis influence that the City has been visited with one of the heaviest falls of snow of the century. We say that it is an utter impossibility to sweep our streets while they are covered with so many feet of snow. We are anxions that Judge Whiting should be held up to the terms of his contract, and, from what we know of his character, he is not one who desires to shitk any responsibility he has as- sumed. As regards the contract itself, wo must recollect that it was made in the interest of the “Ring,” and required the lowest grade of service to be performed for the highest price. It was evident, from the manner in which the former contractors were grossly negleeting their work, that something must be done, unless our people wished the City to beeoiie a sink of filth and disease. And in this eritieal juncture of affairs, when every one else held aloof from inter- feving in the matter, Judge Whiting stepped nobly forward, and, aftér being obliged to pay some £230,000 as a honus for the contract, took the respomsibility of exceuting it, with this ad- ditional burden upon it. Immediately after his assuming the work, he notified the Board of Health that he was willing to clean the plague- spots of the city, independent of the contract, and lie fultilled his promise and has kept to it ever since. It cannot be expected that Judge Whit- ing can afford, after paying so large a bonus to get possession of the contract, to perform con- stantly three times the work required by its terms. Weo know very well that it is not in the inte of clean streets that some few are mak- ing 80 loud an outery about alleged dirty streets, but becanse they hope thus to again get hold of a contract, whereby, while doing nothing, they managed to make so much money. We trust no sensible man will allow the mouatains of snow that now lic in our streets to make him forget that¥previously to the late heavy snow- storm Judge Whiting had kept our streets cleaner than they had been kept before by any other contractor, At a proper timo we shali offer the Jndge some adviee, which cannot he worth less than it will cost Lim. As ye ho Las not begun at the right end. He seems not yet to have com- prehended that street-dirt is property—actual, positive wealth—and that the main question ig —Tow shall this property be nost cheaply trans- forved to the points where it is needed and prized A man who undertakes to clean the streets ol.( great city withont making any use of the rails roads which gridiron it, is away behind the age. DBat we eannot pursue this truth to-day. THE HOBOKEN FERRI The people of New-Jersey, having suffers./ beyond the bounds of patience, are petitioning the Legislature to enact Jaws that will secure ' the safety, comfort, and convenience of passen- gers using the ferries, and compel ecach ferry company to keep and use, during the Winter at least, one boat fully provided for speedy passage through the ice. They ask especial attention to the condition of the Hoboken ferries, and that a Legislative Committee be ap- pointed to visit Hoboken this Winter and take testimony from passengers and disinterested engineers. The Legislature owes a gracions answer to this very modest request. If the peo- ple of New-Jersey had asked that Mr, Stevevs, who appears to own all Hoboken, and who certainly has a monopoly of its entire river front, should be required to idemnify them for th injuries they elaim his ferries have inflicted, they would not have asked a particle too much, The Hoboken boats are even worse than those of the Union Company of Brooklyn; of late, after 7:30 p. m. the boats are run but twice an hour; they frequently start in advance of the time fixed; they are wretchedly lighted with oil; and the waiting rooms are only a little Dbetter than the pens at the Brooklyn ferries; the bridges are unsafe; wagons are allowed to leave the boats while the passengers are dis- embarking, ‘many of whom avoid accidents only by agility ; there is no police system worthy of the pame; time is lost, travel res- tricted, and, as the petitioners correctly aver, the very progress of the State i3 impeded by the want of good ferries. The Morris and Essex |Railroad, terminating at Hoboken, hag greatly added to the ferry trayel, and, indeed, it may be said that every New-York ferry iy rapidly getting worse in proportion as the needs of the public increase. This week, we believe, the Committee ape pointed by our Legislature will visit this city, We cannot be certain that it will succeed in ex- amining the ferries on the Hoboken and Brook- Iyn gides, becanse it is possible that the ice will prevent the boats from crossing. We should be glad if the Legislature of New-Jerscy wonld re- ply favorably, and immediately, to this petition, for consultation of the two Committees might result in uniformity of the laws for the regula- tion of the ferries. Yet, as a little cold weathes might prevent the meeting of the Committees, we suggest that the best method of investiza- tion would be for the New-York Committee ta divide, and that one portion should take board- ing in Brooklyn for a weck, and the other ia Hoboken. If the New-Jersey Committee wishes to understand the system, let it make its tem- porary home in New-York, and cross, or ate tempt to cross, the river daily. One week of personal experience would put the Committees in possession of more proofs of mismanagement than we could print in a month. In such an ex- periment the only danger would be that both Committees would depart in disgust to theis Legislatures before the week had ended. MORE TAX. There are now three Tax Commissioners for the City of New-York, with salaries of $3,506 each ; but one would be enongh, just as we have one Controller and one Street Commissioner Subordinates would, of course, be necessary, The plan now on toot at Albany is to make four Tax Commissioners, with salaries of 6,000 eachy beside a great many assistants, with heavy salae ries also. Two of the present Tax Commission- ers are in partnership as real estate auctioneers in Broadway, and the other conducts a flonrish- ing newspaper in Frankfort-st. They are all at- tentive to their business, and successful in it The proposed new Commissioner is a lawyer, in full practice. Why not at once enlarge the Board to the dimensions of the City Council? The rea- sons for it are just as good as for the present scheme, and much better, if gains from the pub- lic are the object. Two of the present Commis- sioners have been Aldermen, and the other is now Chairman of the City Republican Commite tee. This may help the bill, but it should not. To l;nst this bill would be a monstrous injustica to the public. SHIP-BUILDING. Mr. William H. Webb, ship-builder, has been writing and printing his replies to the question, “ What has caused the great falling “off in American ship-building?" His answer, condensed, is: 1. Increase in the cost of labos —75 per cent ; 2. Increase in the cost of mate- risls—50 to 60 per cent; 8. High tariff on im- ports; 4. American boys will not be appren- ticed to trades, preferring to be counter- jumpers, or something else that will enable them to live without bona fide work. (The two latter reasons are seen to be amplifications of the two former.) 1t strikes us that this is the first question—Is the falling off in ship-building peculiar to this country? We think vot. Quebee shares it; and there none of the reasons above given have any cogency. Six years ago, we produced five million bales of Cotton; last year, scarcely two millions. Who must be told that we need fewer sea-going vessels in consequence of this vast falling off7 Whenever we have as much to sell as we once had, and will sell it on terms that will enable other nations te buy it of ns, we shall doubtless need more shi wherein to export it; and then we shall bufi them, tariff or vo if. We are requested to state that in eonsequence of serious illness in his fanily, Wendell Phillips will be unable to speak to-morrow evening. as announced, in the Brooklyn Academy. He is xr-cn«l to leeture Tater in the courso Beeeher will give the opeus ing lecture on Wednesday evening, the 13th iuss. ————— - OBITUARY. — TUE HON. PLINY MERRICK. Pliny Merrick, late Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, died in Boiton on the 1st of themonth, at the age of seventy-two years. He liad beem Jong a conspicuons citizen of that State, on the Democratia side of politics, but was m b n and more highly respected for his abilities as lawyer aml f"“'fi lt‘ifl remembered of his early life that 1o uat at Harvard, in the same class with Prescott, tha historian, and studied law with Gov. colm at Worcester. Afterward be beeame o law partner of Gov. Marcus Morton, aud under ov. Brooks and Gov. Lincoln held the of- fico of District-Attorney. In the year 157 he was & Demoeratie representative of Woreester in the Gene eral Court of the State; Lut it was in 154, as & Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, that Mr. Mes= rick _established his ¢laim to a wll reputat] Having resigned his J: in 1549, he was cal’ on to conduct as senios cow the_defense of Prof Webster for the murder of Dr. Gmlfe This duty he discharged with great ability, and wit :h"‘f‘ :;nu l‘n‘l pul:{e:louul I:mnr which’ fi'fifl 6 leading Engl w review unusual aftor having Common his advoeate. In 1 oy e o ?01":»'}”3"% A g was made a Jut 0 in place of the Hon. Caleb e faorik was to the last an inveterate beliover im the doctrines of the Demecratio party, but in hig tation ns & Jawyer, which was very wmldomblom volitician L beon forgotions