The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1867, Page 4

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THIS EVENING-M. HARTZ, THE ILLUSIONIST. A e i tise . UNION HALL. g THIS APTRRNOON AND EVENING —BUNVAN TABLEAUX Bornar Tweaty-third-st. and Broadwa; H FIFTH-AVE. H TRIS RYENING—GRIFFIN & CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. New ke, Musio, Ninging, Daacing, ete. WORLD. TURING COMPANY the trade that they ln}*r(— d Tra Swmvions -n?' m‘.‘ X aalit aut o s !m’(.fl:p.:'wwhn'filtem nch thickneas that ther The sdvantagrs of solid silver in utility, and from beauty of u aro undisti le from it. e Gorham Maonfact ompany refer with coufidence to the high ther have es hed In the production of Souip SILYAR W Ia which they bave been for many. years engaged, and they now aasurs the publio that they will fully susiain that reputation by the pro- o ifon of KLBCTRO-PLATED WARKS of such qualfiy aud exireme durs- &umqu-rm Toaure eutire satisfaction o the purchascr. All articles by them aro stamped thus: QUBHAMMG e e i, Theg e i e Bave been already extensively mitated. ‘These gools can ouly be pro- ured from responsible dealers throughout the country. Seecivic ReMEDY ror CONSUMPTION. Oven Two Hoxonep Dmatus e WxsK ke place in o city of Now-York alone, from Cowsuxpriox eud sthoe Diseass o vHE RESPIRATORY ORGANS, nearly evory ono o which WOULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED by & TIMELY USE of Winosssraw's HrrormosrmTes or Lixm axp Sova, which has Deen tested for the last ten years, fn teus of thoussnds M cases, with “RESULTS UNPARALALED IN TAN ANNALS OF amseoin” €7 All eufferors should send for our Nxw Cimcviasm, Which, with advice, will be given free. &2 Priona—la 7 aod 160n bottles, $1 and $2; three large or #ix Mmall bottlca for #3, by express. Sold by respectable Drgsists, ad, Wholeasle and Retall, at the Sole Depot, by the Propristers, f. Wiscumsran & Co., No. % Johast, K.X., to whom orlers Would be widressed. 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Address, Tae TRBUNE, New-York. 5" The Report of the Librarian of Congress upon the Library {f Mr. Pgter ‘oree, Cotton Storage and Insurance, the New Post-Office, the Weekly Report_of the f.’rgnsf:ar of Volva Statis- tics, the Court Reports, and City and New-Jersey News will be found on the sccond page. The Commercial News and the Markets are on the third page. Mr. Soward, un der date of Feb. 1, replied to the House resolution inquiring what had be- come of the daws repealing the President's amnesty power, and regulating Territorial elections, in a letter which we print to-day. It appears that the President luppmssed these laws, and did not send them to the Secretary for official publication until Jan. 81. Having found out that it was by Mr. Johnson that the laws of the United States were pocketed, there remains to be discovered the reason of this ex- traordinary usarpation. On that point Mr. Seward throws no light. The Committeo of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in conjunction with similar bodies in France and Spain, have determined to hold an International Anti-Slavery Conferenco in Paris on the second or third weck of June next. The programme of the discussions embraces the slave-trade, the abolition of Slavery where it still exists, and the results of emancipation. This is the first International Conference of the kind that has ever been held, and will, we hope, give a new impulse {o the speedy extirpation of the slave-trade and Slavery, and to the education of the freedmen all over the world. The Bankrupt bill was yesterday amended by the Senate, and, being pressed to a vote, was defeated by 22 Nays to 20 Yeas. This was the result of the objections of Mr. Wilson and a fow other Senators to somo of the amendments adopted yesterday. We deeply regret that any diffcrence of opinion a3 to defails should endanger the failure of the great principle of justice the *bill embodies. Its passage is demanded by the business of the country, now weighed down and struggling to be freed. Thousands of honest debtors will be restored to solvency by this bill, and we believe that it is sufficiently stringent to prevent those who are dishonest from profiting to any dangerous extgnt by its provisions, Our Washington dispateh is to the effect that & reconsideration will be carried. The Speech of the Queen at the opening of the English Parlinment yesterday is sent us over the Cable tbis morning. Of the do- mestic matters to which it alludes, the most important are Parliamentary Reform peace, wo go on adding to our already gigantio Foreign Debt in this fashion ¥ And if Congress flinches from and throws down every barrier it has chosen to set up against Perpetual Sus- pension, how can the world regard such votes but as proclamations that we never mean to pay what we owe? 1t is known that the Governors of several Southern States under the Johnson régime were recently for several days in Washington, gnd that they, after conforences with the Presi- dent, agroed on a plan of recohciliation and restoration which is to be first submitted to their respective Legislatures, prior to a more general submission. We were seasonably fa- vored with the result of their deliberations, but under an injunction of confidence, which seems to have been partial; since the identical matter which we were enjoined not to print until it had been acted on by one at least of the Leg- islatures in question, was yesterday printed without peserve by others. The following is the gist of the project: Whereas, de, Be it further resolved by the Legislature of —, that the following article shall be adopted as an mendment, to become a pars of the Constitution of the Btate of —1 “ ARTIOL® -, Every malo oftizen who has resided in this Btate forone year,and in the county in which he offers to vote six months immediately preceding the day of eleotion, and can read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in tho English languago, and write his name, or who may be the owner of $250 worth of taxable property, shall be entitled to voto at all eleotions for Governor of the State, members of the Legislature, and all othor officers, the elcction of whom may be by the people of the Btato. "};’mrfl;u} ’F:\‘l{ no person, by reason of this article, shail be excluded from voting who has heretoforo exer- cised the elective franchise under the Conatitution or laws of this Btate, or who, at the the time of the adoption of this amendment, may be entitled to vote under sald Con- stitution and laws."” Remarks. The aim of this ‘proposition, it will be seen, is to secure the Right of Suffrage to all South- ern Whiles, unless it be the newly naturalized and yet to bg naturalized, and exclude (so far as possible) the Blacks. We cannot see how this scheme should be expected to give satis- faction. We stand for Universal Amnesty with Tm- partial Suffrage. We do not balance one by the other: wo commend each on its own merits— boeause it is just, wise, and calcalated to benefit each soction and every class. ‘The North needs and will proft by Universal Amnesty as well as the South; for neither the country nor a part of it can truly prosper when another part is un- easy, approhensive, afflicted, wretched. We are for Impartial Suffrage, because the whole land needs rest from sterile, dangerous agitation con- cerning negroes and negro rights. We all know where this must end; then why not go at once to the end and bo done with it? The Southern proposition stops half way, and will settle noth- i 1t is more likely to intensify agitation than to allay it. 5 But the proposed restriction of Black Suffrage is radically unjust. Whero a State provides for the education of all her people, we have not a word to say against a requircment of ability to read a8 a qualification for voting. Men should know how to read; if they willfully refuse to learn, they may plansibly be disfran- chised. So—not 8o plausibly, but with & show of reason—the man who has had a fair chanee to acquire property, yet has none, may be debarred from voling, as thriftless and irre- sponsible. . But to say to men who have been slaves till and the question of Land Tenure in Ireland. With regard to the former the speech removes all doubt as to the intentions of Lord Derby's Government. A Reform bill is to be intro- duced into Parliament ; but whether the meas- ure will meet thé just expectations of the Refermers is yet to be scen. As to the latter, Mr. Bright's efforts will not have been in vain shonld they lead to the enactment of a measure of substantial justice to the tenant farmers of Ireland. Tt is something gained that the griev- ous wrong against which be protests is prac- tically admitted by a Tory Ministry. England, it will be seen, will continue to stand aloof from the cause of the struggling Christians of Crete. Toward this country the sentiments of the speech are friendly, giving hope of an early settlement of existing differences. ARE HOW WE TO UNDERSTAND NORTH-WEST? 3 This country is now debtor to what Elijah Pogram would call the decrepit, bankrupt, ef- fete despotisms of Europe, not much if any less than a round Billion of Dollars. We owe them very largely on National Securities; on loans to States and Railroads; on Railroad Stocks, &e., &c. Not a dollar less than Fifty Millions per annum are required. to pay the inferest on our aggregate foreign debt, without at all re- ducing the principal. In other words: If we sell Four Hundred Millions' worth per annum, and buy Three Hundred and Fifty Millions’ worth, we leave no balance on the right side of the ledger, but barely square the account. Of course, when we buy more than we sell, our debt is fearfully angmented. While we were fighting for the life of the on, we horrowed at rainous rates, and ran in debt wherever we could. That could not be helped ; at all events, it cannot now be helped. But, the moment peace returned, we should have stopped borrowing and begun to pay off. And yet in the year 1866 we increased our For- eign Debt not much, if any,less than TwoHund- red Millions of dollars. That is to say: we bought metals, fabrics, wares, notions, gewgaws and fripperies, to the value of One Hundred and Fifty Millions more than our exported pro- duce and specie would pay for, and we sent abroad and sold Two Huudred Millions’ worth of -promises to pay—mainly six per cent, bonds of our Federal Governmeni—to balance the account. British three per cents sell in the money, markets of the continent fully- fifteen per cent. higher than our six per conts: in other words, the promise of the British Government to pay three dollars’ per annum is held of far more value than the promise of our Govern- ment to pay siz dollars per annum. And we virtually say to mankind: “The estimate is «correct: Take our National promises to pay “ut seventy-five cents on the dollar, and hand THE Trusses, ELastic STOCKI Banvaoms, SorrorvErs, an & i iy thu e Jork e “;'.’.‘1""1?2“' 2 ip that » J &_fil for samples of both s Bty ' Knox's Nursery-at Your Door. Bes isoument * By Mail,” page & Tue IARRSON BOILER. BAREST AND BksT BolLug 1N THE WORLD, Wilen, Ageur, v 119 Risoy Boibx: Brosdway, or to i Wouks, Philadelphia, Pa. A CARD, % the Baitor of The N. Y. Tribune. Your issue of this date contains the following: bt tont the 3 jemaisted sier o4 i L rarEencs velative of Coarios O Govt smusve I know 0o soch the alleged cal Is neither s mfif’&.‘w‘rfwfif ofic'i'fl!fimxfl'i uy“:"fm CAS. O'Conon. ———e CANADA. BY TEEIRALE YO TUR TRIBUNE, 0, Fob, 5.—The testing of the Sni. i 30th Buflmeut to-day, ruulu:; .::l‘l':ll;uia)gi"ll;l ono cartridge in 700 faifed. Mouey is still com- fng Euylnfi for the veliof fund, “over your gewgaws by the ship-load!” Men and brethren ! how long can this go on ? How long will Europe give even such prices for onr obligations when we value them so lightly ? We can comprehend the Pennsylvania inflationists. They mean : “ Give us a good, “stiff Taxiff, and we ocan pay as we go, in “gpite of balloon prices” They .are sadly mistaken : for inflation mal our whole frontier leaky as a sieve, o country with foreign goods in spite of a high tariff. Put the duties np to high-water mark, and un- limited issucs of irredeemablo paper will tide over it. But when the North-West votes almost solid Jor Inflation and against Protection, what are we to understand? Does she suppose that we can go on piling up foreign debt forever? If, in n state of peace, with general health and plenty, we are to add Two Hundred Millions per annum to the principal of our debt, where wre we to stop? How shall we even seem to caro for golvency, f, in & state. of profound pow—who have been denied the right to ac- quire property, and to teach whom to read has been & erime by statute—* Youn shall not vote “unless you have $250 worth of property, or “know how to read and write,” is adding insult to injury. You might as well hang a blind man for not being an accurate judge of colors, It is not to be thought of. In the county of Logan, Southern Kentucky, as well as in several neighboring counties of that Stato and Tennessce, a number of negroes, several of whom served in the Union armies, have recently Been killed and their property destroyed or stolen by undetected villains, whose animus is fairly indicafed by a handbill they have posted up, as follows: 1AM COMMITTER. 1. No man ahall squat negroes on his loy, male and fen nll be empls b ace, unless they om yed by White persons. . ren shall be bired out for something, 4. Negroes found fu cabins to the msclves shall suffer the penalty. - & \- 4 G..Negroes shall not be allowed to hire nogroed. 6. 1dle men, womien, or children, shall suffer the pen:nl!{, 7. All White men found with negroes in secret places shail be dealt with, and thos (hat lire pegroes must pa promptly, and act with good faith to_the negro. I will make tho "Nim o hs part, and the white must, too. 8. For the first offense 18 100 lashes ; the socond 1s look- tng up a sapling. and tall, Black and White. Any one’ that may not Jike theso rules may try their lick, and se whether or ot [ will be found doing my duty. 10. Negroes found stealing from any one, or taking fpt';rlmll'heirmnylnycnumllmr negroes, death 18 the first nalty. L Tunning about Late of nights shall be atrictly dealt L. 12. Whito men and negroes, Tam everywhere, I have friends in_every place. Do your duty, uud I will have but little to do. ~The miscreants who post these handbills would all be voters under the Southern project; while the Union soldiers, whose property they have burned, will be disfranchised. It won't answer, —We are heartily glad that the Southern Whites are taking hold of the subject of *Re- construction. They might have started better; but it ds better to start faultily than not at all. They will improve in time, George W. McLean was appointed Street Commissioner in December last, to fill a va- cancy occasioned by the resignation of Charles G. Cornell, who adopted that course to escape an official investigation of his official conduct. The appointment of Mr, MeLean was cordially indorsed by tho press and nuhlir‘ who sup- posed ke {vould promptly purify the Depart- ment. This expectation has been disappointed, and Tweed and three other Supervisors, who held the principal positions in the Department, still remain in control. Mr. McLean's excuse that he is compelled to retain these persons-on account of their influence at Albany, is un- worthy of his previous reputation as a man of honesty and common sense. The new Com- missioner must have great confidence in the power of rascality, if he believes that the Legislature of this State is controlled by these plunderers, A correspondent in El Paso8Texas, gives us a suggestive picture of the progress of recon- struction in his neighborhood. It appears that El Paso and Presidio Counties, coustituting the Eleventh Judicial District, bad uniformly been governed before the war by the worst sort of chivalry, and that when these gentlemen ran away to join their fellow Rebels in tho interior, carrying all the money and valuables they could find with them, the loeal offices fell into the hands of Union men. On the collapse of the Rebellion the old office-holders came back, expecting to resume their former political pre- eminence. Our correspondent continues: Kk.“They held a secret meeting and nominated a ticket com| of Rebel had e By stirihond, b 2o been a resident of tM: ..'. & publio meeting and nominated s Union tioket, most the candiudates Wu(nm original appolntees of Pro- vislonal Gov. Hawilton. They were elooted whelinlng 1ajorily, tholr vopouonls 0. This T o for the benefit of all, young or old, high el et o8, T DL Tiot, i 5.8 s nes E1 Paso and mammv:"’mo Jurisdio- of a Rebel judge.” ‘Wo understand that a memorial has been pre- sented to Congress on this gubject, and we trust that it will receive attentive consideration. oo i o e NAPOLEON'S REFORM DECREES, In another column our readers will find the full text of the Napoleonic manifesto, which some days ago a Cable dispatch announced to the New World as “an important reform de- “groe The reading of the decree will dis- abuse the minds of most who have been led to entertain high anticipations about the de- cree, and will explain how, a few days after the pompous announcement of the great “reform bill,” another Cable dispateh could declare that the French people were “ disgusted” with it. Indeed, deceptive and illusory as all the Napoleonic manifestoes have been, there has hardly been one more calculated to disappoint the expectations of the publio and to spread now distrust as to the intentions of the Govern- ment. 4 Every reader of this curious document is at once struck with the curious circumstance that while it purports to “give to the institutions of “ the Empire all the development of which they + gre susceptible, and to the public liberties a “ new extension,” its most conspicuous feature is the repeal of the only concession of any real valuo which the Second Empire has ever made— the decree of Nov. 24, 1860, which gave to the Senate and the Legislafive Body the right to iscuss and vote every year at the opening of the session an address in reply to the speech from the throne. This concession was warmly wolcomed, not -only by the entire Liberal Op- position, but even by the progressive wing of the Bonapartists. It was ked upon, by those who were still sanguine enongh to believe in progress under the Na- poleonic régime, as the first step t,o' future reforms. It was the only feature in the Napoleonic form of government which re- minded Frenchmen that they were not alto- gether without a representation of the people. The great speeches delivered on this occa- fnstructing and educating the, sion were people. In vain did the Government or- der the Moniteur containing the official account of the proceedings of the Senate and Legislative Body to be publicly posted in Paris and in the provincial towns. It was the speeches of Jules Fagre, Simon, Thiers, and many other members of the Opposition to which peo- plo turned for information on the pol- icy of the Government. Never Dbefore had the debates of the Legislative Body been looked forward to with such intense interest as this year, wlwn k was thought the Mexjcan and fronihn qiiestions and the German-Italian war would furnish to the Opposition most danger- ous weapons. The prohibition of all discussion on the speceh from the throne on the very ove of the opening of the Chambers could not, therefore, strike the publie mind as a notalde reform ; capecially as nothing is said in the Imperial letter in palliation of such a reac- tionary measure, except that “ the diseussion of “theaddress has not produced the results which “were to be expected from it.” ’l'ln_) ight g[ # 'vficrjx-lluliuu," or interroga- tion, which is intended as some inden, ib;mliu‘n, amounts in itselt to very litdle, ds it dots not give to the representatives of the people any opportunity to discuss at full length the Government’s policy. But to mako the concession still more worthless, it is, in every particular case, made dependent upon a recommendation by several bureamr (committecs) of the Senate or Legislative Bodies. As long as the Chambers are consti- tuted as at present, the Government has it in its power to shut off every offensive interpella- tion it pleases, and the past history of the Empire isconclusive proof that the Government will uge its power unsparingly. The only thimg the “reform deeree” con- cedes, in addition to the right of interpellation, is the provision that the Ministers of State, and the President and Members f the &'owcil of State, may be delegated to represent the Government before the Semate or the Legislative Body in the discussion of affairs or of bills. This measure may be very commendable for the purpose of expediting business, bat in it involves no political progress, and will certainly not be thus construed by public opinion. Nothing else that might be valoed as a re- form is hinted at in this Imperial decree. But the lotter th the Secretary of State announces that a law will be proposed having for its pur- pose to bestow exclusively on the Corree- tionsl Tribunals the function of judging of- fenses of the press, and thus to abolish the diseretionary power of the Government; also, that the right of meeting will be regu- lated by legislative enactment, restricting it within the limis which the public safety re- quires. As these are only promises, it would be premature to dwell now on their real or apparent value ; but it will at once bo noticed that the promised reformn concerning the right of meeting is nmde contingent on conditions which announce beforeland that it will amount to nothing. Such a decree could not give satisfaction to the Liberal party of France, and we accord- ingly find that all the Liberal organs of Paris do not conceal their profound disappointment. It is already certain that Napoleon has not stengthened his party and the welfare of his dynasty by this deerce, and that the war of the Liberal OpFoeitinn will go on as before. The go-called reform decree is another feature of Napoleonie policy, which, together with the many failures of the year 1806, cannot but prove a serions blow to the edifico which it was intended to erown, . The millers of Troy, in a communication to The Troy Daily Times, complain of the action of the Farmers’ Club in the matter of bad flour, They say that the great quantity of ansound flour now in market is owing in a large meas- ure to the wet seasons of the past two years and the consequent deterioration of much of the Western wheat ; and they add that the story reported by the Commttee of the Club, of a Troy iuspector who passed, as superfine, flour whicle had been rejected in New-York, is untrue; there having been no inspector in Troy for the past fifteen years. Of course, bad seasons help to make bad flour; and millers make more, by mixing poor wheat instead of relying on his own jndgment. Boro is Just whess the Farmers' Club dissgreo | with them. The Committee, whose report we publlMWoonhmmhmwmpldn,ud we believe with justice, that the brands can’t bo trusted; and the Troy millers bave said nothing to impeach the justice of this complaint. If they want to deal honestly, they ought to be as anxious for a rigorous eystem of inspection as we are. THE FERRY INVESTIGATION. The Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Commerce. and Navigation, Mr. John Oakey, has given notice that the Committee will meet at«the City Hall of Brooklyn to-day and Thursday, for an investigation into the conduct and management of the East River ferries. He requests that prominence should be given to this notice, adding, “go that all citizens who desire to make com- “ plaints can have an opportunity so to do. It “is my desire to make the investigation as “ complete and searching as possible, and I “ therefore invite all persons who have sug- “ gestions to offer and are acquainted with the « gubject to meet tho Committee and coneult “ with them, The (ommittee have come down “to the City in order to hear the voice of the “ peoplo, and with an earnest desire to devise “ gome measures for the public benefit.” If this is all that the Committee intends to do, we respectfully but decidedly object to its method of investigation. All citizens who have complaints to make should have the oppor- tunity, and suggestions may be properly re- ceived by the Committee; but it was not merely to hear the voice of the people that.it was sent to this City by the Legislature. Mr. Creamer’s resolution was “that the Committee “on Commerce and Navigation be anthorized “and directed to immediately investigate the “present system of ferriage on. the East “and North Rivers, at the City of New-York, “and that they report at an early day to this “House a bill compelling the ferry companies “to afford better security and protection to the “public.” This resolution imposes on the Com- mittes other duties than listening to complaints and suggestions. Thorough iuvestigation of the ferry system requires that the Committee ghould adopt such a method as the following : 1. The Committee should examine all the slips, bridges, and boats, of each ferry, and take the opinions of competent engineers and builders as to their safety and convenience. It should see what accommodations ave provided in the wait- ing-rooms, and for the sale of tickets; what police system is adopted to maintain order among the crowds embarking and disembarking at the same time ; what precauntions are taken to prevent passengers from jumping on or off the boats before they are fastened to the slips; what means are provided to rescue persons who are pushed overboard ; whether a sufficient number of life-preservers are kept on the boats ; whether they céuld be ecasily réached if needed; whether the boats used in Summer are fit to uso in Winter; what number of ice-boats areemployed ; what means are taken to keep an open channel in Winter, &e., &e. 2. The Committee should examine the charter of ench company, and sed if it has been violated, or if the conditions it imposes on the company aro sufficient. et 8. It should summon the officers and direct- ors of each company, and require a statement f the number of persons carried on their boats, and should compare the iFavel #ith the accommo- dation. 4. It should examine the books of each com- pany, and, especially, the regulations for run- ning the boats, and the timé schedule. It should inquire whether these regulations are published for the information of the public, and if, when they are changed, any publie notice is given. 5. It should discover to what persons the practical superintendence of the ferries is intrusted ; whether they bave any duties, and if 8o, what they are. This part of the work, which would fuclude many inquiries we need not enumerate, com- prises, in short, a careful examination of the Xefr.i*‘i rd !lqu ferrymen. Having performed it, and hade itself thoroughly familiar with the condition of the ferries, and the system on which they are managed, the Committee should with good and by other adulterations. It is not expected that everybody should have first- rate flonr; the matter of complaint is that those who want it and are willing to pay for it can’t got it; the wheat that ought to be ground into superfine flour is used to raise the average of damaged and inferior grain. This is why good flour bears tho extraordinary premium of $3 or #4 o barrel. The Troy millers declare.that we need no State Inspector, the New-York Inspection Board affording the purchaser ample guarantees of the quality of what Le buys: no man need be chicated, they tell us, who trusts to tho braud receive the testimony of citizens. It can then intelligently compare fact with fact, rules with their violation, and measure the culpability of the companies by the injury to the general welfare. That doue, it will be able to determine correetly the justice of complaints and the value of suggestions. Without any wish to interfere with the plans of the Committee, we urge npon it that such a method of investigation is expected by the citizens of New-York and Brooklyn; they do not wish the Committee to act upon mere testi- mony. That Mr, Oakey and his associates are earnest in their desire to devise some measures for the public benefit, we do not doubt, and already the good effect of the proposed inves- tigation is scen in the sudden introduction of Dbarge floats on the boats of the Union Com- pany.- If these are of value now, why were they not used years ago? But, though Mr. Cyrus P. Smith & Co. have been frightened into the concession of barge floats, these are but trifles in the way of reform. The danger of drowning is but one of many evils in the ferry system, and the boats provide many ways of ghuffling off this mortal coil, in which the floats would be useless. The Committee should take plenty of time in the investigation, and the bill which it is directed to report should provide for the complete reorganization of every ferry in New-York., Our citizens do not want the present bad system patched up; they ask that it shall be swept away, and one that shall be safe, convenient, and permanent, at once provided by the Legislature. The Trustees of the Cornell University will hold a meeting in Albany on Tuesday, the 12th inst. Coryricnr Cas fr. C. . Webb alleges that The Philudelphia Evening Telegraph has violated his copy- right by publishing Liffith Lank, his popular travesty of Griffith Gaunt, and his counsel, Mesars. Haseltine and Washburn, have brought an action against that paper laying the damages at 86,000. The Telegraph reprinted Mr, WebD's book entire, and without permission. o ————— * SALE OF PAINTINGS.—A collection of choice paint- ings was sold at auction last evening at Leeds’s Art Gal lery, No. 817 Broadway. The bidding for some of the plo, tures of the more eminent artists was quite spirited, and they realized very tair prices. Bunset—Lake Scene, by Durand, brought $650; Early Winter, by McEutee, 3 Btoke Church—~* nly"n.b ’b O ,::; Niw, infer, by Gignoux, l')( ntsum, $350; Mounchestor by Buydam, 3 larndy Lake, b{_Wynlnt, $00; The by i $285; Mount Desert—Const of muna;: 1lazell $11 ! Dix Peak ~Adirondack Mountains, 5; Home, Home, by Homer, $250; Embroidery Lesson, $45; The River Bide, b{v mrmd.u .’ . The remainder rom Drought prices varyin 1o $200. Tur HonoxeN Frury. titions are cirenlating in Newark, and along the lineof the Morrls aud Essex Railroad, asking the New-Jersey Legislature to compel the owner of the Hoboken ferry to replace the present unsato bouts with new and substantialones, The petitions are belng numerously signed. PSR Tie DALY PRAVER-MEgTING.~The noon prayer: moctings In the Fulton-st. Church are kept up With cory tinuod and Increasing iuterest. E'"{Iw , for nine years, theno muctings bve beon bald, aud thera s noasly a int o ud 5 W WDISE LT ceived from Fort McIntosh reports that 12 or 15 dits are roaming about the country between Neuces River and San Antonia. ‘Yhey killed BY TELEORAPH TO THR TRIBUNR. NasavILLE, Feb. 5.—~The Senate to-day adopted the resolntion requesting SSnator to The Hi adopted bill in the onse A new of Negro Su restricting lun‘lr:;r, but flvlu to num? the v i LOUISIANA. REJECTION OF THE HOWARD AMENDMENT. BY TALEORAPE TO THE TRIBUNE. N New-ORLEANS, Fob. 5—The Hon. D, Voorhees, by invitation, addressed the citizens in the Hall of the House of Representatives upon the conditionef country. There was a large o Senate havo adopted thexeportot : Foderal Helations on the Constita 3 ments to theelfect that Louisiana . —— e —— - BY TELRORAPH TO TUR TRIBUNE. . LAGRANGE; KY., Feb. 5.—Asa P, Grover was nom- & Bova 43 BEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT NOMINATION. TheDemocratic Convention of the VIIth Congrose stonal Distriet of Kentucky was held in Lexington, on the 30th ult., and was largely attended. James M. Beck of Fayetto was nominated b‘{ acclamation, all ot.haa:‘mdldnul having-been wit] Reso- lutions declaring the recognition of the perfect cqual- ity of all the States with universal amnesty to be the only just basis of reconstruction, were adopted. VIRGINTA. The Pr*ant. we learn from The Richmond Ez- aminer of Peb, 4, has recently pardoned John Letcher, Rebel, and ex-Governor of Virginia. Letoher is now The Ezaminer's candidate for Governor. THE FENIANS. —— THE TORONTO PRISONERS AT KINGSTON. BY THLEGRAPN TO THE TRIBUNE. " KiNasToN, C. W., Feb. 5—The Fenian prisoners arrived here last night, escorted by the Warden to the Penitentiary. On arriving they had their hais. cut closely, Lynch resisted having his whiskers jmperial shaved, but when the rules were expla y he submitted. Lynch and McMahon were set to work in the Foundery Department. 5 FENIANISM IN THE CITY. The month of January, 1867, has been an eventful one for the Fenian Brotherhiood In the United States and all over the globe wherever it has its ramifications and branches. It has tested effectually the sincerity of the: inated to re t the Vth District in the fourth by 61 votes against Winchester. 50 March 1,000 cirel ‘enlan operation in America. The State of New-York hasalready 100 circles in good standing, workin, u:flvohlz.ud ujet Pennsylvania about the same num‘:or Ohlo 45, ".'I.n nion an o 15, Michigan 9, nd the other sumfl'«g U roportio tflrlng came end. %‘Ln all;e.lu tren' q:f« y and without ostons tation or any , aud uniforms are being proe vided for the members o7 the organizations in The Brotherhood has the most unanimous dependence on the promiscs of President Robe! 4 owing to the fact that ho is, as a prominent a3 1y8 ago, % rich enou to& > t‘l Tecelv , and .mtofbulne: transacted is WO The Ban nllll sent P n Quiét to 0 headguarters in Broadway, which arri 'm 's Express, also sent int . ¥ goming soon.” ‘The Fenians of Me& 3 oY B 2§ Robert El.ld dust, accompanied A0 e his patriotism, an gmfldanto(‘ e Meoeds h v rl:‘ " jovernment. very e ¢ s aathorky of fic Bento Penian Brotherhood, and 1] Stephens’s adherents are nea) al deserting him and ulr;‘{n moneys filul books n(’llu W A, BALL OF THE n;:u BROTHERTOOD. given at the Everett Rooms on o ttee of gentlemen from the Olrcles fn have ch of the arran, and it 18 this bull will be one of the ever given 881,500 ticketa have been band n en, for oceasion. An bfilh‘m by nt to all the Circles in the United States, members to lectures on the night o!‘llo 17th of March Day), for the of providing funds for ' unfforms for "“lu.lndmm"nlh n Gen, John O'Nell, the victor of Wnym :fl‘g every instance, in New-York to-morrow on busiuness connde fnterests of the Fenian Brotherhood. KANSAS BY TELEGNAPE TO THE TRIBUNE. 81. Louis, Feb.5.—A special dispatch to The Demos crat, from Topeka, says the House to-day passed o prohibiting any cattle from the country south of Kansas being driven into or this §tate, frous March 1 to Dec. 1, except the extreme Western partof it. The bill is designed to protect stock in this against gc ous and . disoase Spanjsh_fover, which, it is said, over worth of cattle died last year. It is stated cattle to the value of $7,500,000 were sold and drawn out of Kansas last year. ‘The Senate to-day passed xmmmnt resolutions, L by a unanimous .\ro{o. for the pointment of a Com= mittee to investigate the ch: of bribery in cone nection with the recent Senatorial election. In the House a Committee was appointed to inquire into the recent Indian mmu:nthnud what legislation, if any, is needed to'prevent such atrocities. FIRES. [ —— THE FIRE IN HENRY-ST. The stock of oils in the establishment of Cooke Bros. &'Co., at No. 59 Henry-st., destroyed by fire on Mon= day night (an account of wijeh was in Tui TRIBUNE yesterday), was valued at 000, on 1) ar{ is an insursnce olrd.m.‘ mmn.m: the L. 8, Smith estate, aud is damaged to the extent $15,000; insured. . IN DROOKLYN. : Au incendiary fire broke out at Ne, 141 Atlantic-st, yosterday morning, in a bullding owned by one Mr. Rodger. His loss was $900, and he was isured for $3,000 in the Mechanics’ Insurance Company. FIRE NEAR SCARSDALE. Last Monday night the residence of a farmer nnfl Henry Jolinson, about a half mile east of the village Bearsdale, Westchester Coanty, Was burned, with its cou- tents, M. Johnson estimates his loss at_about $5,000; in- Saben tor 84,000, Thao 1ire 1s supposed t0 b the Work oF Al incendiary. ' DESTRUCTION OF THE CARY OIL COMPANY'S WORKS. BY TRLEGRAPK TO THE TRIBUNE. Pt Boston, Feb. 5—~Atan url{.hmthk ‘works of the D1l Comy Cheisea, . the i 'fi"‘%@fl? mz . ' il ¢ shns . AT M. 3 y BostoN, Feb. 5.—The mpm Church, Odd Fel- loww' Hall, John Brown's house and barn, J. Hsrriss tensive shoe factory in Marblehead, were a night. The loss-on Mr. Hurris's factory is about Tusured for $65.000 —— THE LAND OFFICE. BY TELRGRAPH YO THE TRIBUNE. The Commissioner-General of the Land Office has trans- mitted to the Goversor of Towa five &fl-h for mumwumlu , 51, % 64 the {765 scres,Tae Commisctoner will, a0 fee dage, tmsec: mit to the loeal land office at for to thew, 4 patents, being old e from lMS«nfil{ohhlnhflnhfi.fisfl. o : that the Reservation, knows a8 been abazdoned as, EXEE River, Wi tio, (e land i e 3&“ o B B 'p'n':u-lyn,l-l. oo 20 . \ - ——— M-Ymnmmnwm: mflndfinu«w&w*-‘ : , ave 0ne