The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 8, 1867, Page 4

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OPERA HOUSE. THIS RVENING—GRIFFIN & CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. New Acts, Music, Blngiog, Dancing, ete- e L EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. DAY AND RVENING—Ross Boubeur's * Horee Fair,” ke, st nw. DERBY'S ART ROOMS, No. 845 Broadway. Business Notices. AMERICAN (WALTHAM) WATCHES. THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Sold Everswhere. The GORHAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY Bruvmnsurens of Providence, R L. ioforn the rade that they are pro- ducing fae KLXCTKO-PLATED GooDs, compricig fall Dixxan wd Banvioss and TABLE WARR of every description of & very superior aually, aad of new and eleguit d ‘The base is Nickel Silver, upon which {8 & deposit of Pure Silver of such thickness that “"L:t-." Ahe sdvastages of solid silver in utility, and from besaty of desige aad superior Saisb are undi ble from it. ‘Gorbam Manufacturing Company refer with consdence to the high fopuiuion ther bave eatablabed Ta the production of Souip BILYAR ke, s which they bave been for many 'years engaged, and they now ‘assurs the public that they will fully sustain that repuiation by the pro- daction of 0 PLATRD WARES of such quality and extreme dura- Dility s will fnsure entire satisfaction fo the purchaser. All articles made by them are stamped thas: &) QEBHAMMIDC, And all guch are folly goaranteed. They feel it necessary particularly to ‘call the attention of purchasers to the abore trade-mark, as their designe Dave been already extensively umitated. Thess goods can ouly be pro- ‘cured from responsible dealers throughout the coutry. G Speciric REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION. Ovas Two Hexorwp Dxarss rex Wink take place in the city of New-York alone, from CoNsuwrvion sud otber Diskases 07 THE RESPIRATONY OmGANS, nearly every one of which WoULD MAYR NEEY PREVENTED by & TOORLT USE of Wixonsstew's Hreorospiires or Lixe axo Sova, which has been tested for the last ten years, in tens of thoussnds of cases, with “EESULTS UNPARALELED IN THE ANNALS OF meoioive” EF All sufferers should send for our New CIRCULAR, awhich, with adrice, will be given frec. 53 Prices—Tn 7 and 16-0n bottles, $1 and $2; three large or s small bofties for $5, by express. Sold by wk Droggiste, aad, Wholessle aod Retall, at the Sole Depot, by the Proprictors, 3. Wincunsten & Co., No. % Jobust, K.Y, to whom orders ahoa be sddreased. It OrErATES LIKE MAGIC. Mrs WinsLow's 80oTHiNG Sywue, for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays &l pain. Sure to regulate the bowels. Perfeotly safe in all cases, as willions of mothers can testify. Thirty-five cents a bottle. Offices, No. 215 Fulton-st., New-York, and No. 205 High Holbors, Loadon, Eugland. Be sare aad call for “Mns. Wixstow's Soorming Saur,* laving the e simile of * Cumris & PEuKixa" ou the outaide wrapper. All otbers are base mitations. P Tue AMERICAN Coxrrict, Vol. I1,, is now being delivered to all subscribers in this d“_gnd Brooklyn, by Jons by Agent, who bas an office at No. 172 William-st. & line to that Teeeive prompt sttention. All who want the work (both Volumes) tmay obtain It by applying or writing as aforesaid. ~Office hours, La3oclok daly Ageate enirin to casvase s New York or Brooklys ok . Tae EvREkA Brick MACHINE fo 8 mode! of simplicity and power, it performs its work to perfection, and Gamot Uown.' After ordering a machive, one of the ‘et hrick snakers In this State said: *Sir, I can run your machive for yaars, without laying ot a dollar in way of repairs. 1te the best wachive out. ion guaranteed Lo every purchases ABRax Rrqua, General Ageat, No. 141 Bro 254 THE FRANKLIN BRICK MACHINE, Joatly eelebrated for perfect wimplicity, great strength, and immense horses, com ng power, ARANTERD, with eight men and two o bt lomper the clay ad make 3,000 to 3,500 elegant bricks per hour. J. H. Runicx, Proprietor No.T! Broadway, N. Y.. Roow 09, - = Victory HAIR RESTORER, reruour Supxkxs on Iurusrry: will poaively resiore the b and sale by ol draggista and tho mauuictarer, B. Vax Boxy, Chemist, No. 475 Sixth-ave. —DamE's PULMO-BRONC . Congi, Colds asd all Throat and Lung Discasen. Soid ev S PATCHELOK'S HAlk Dye—The best in & _‘!"‘; "u‘h-.h:i pl:‘lilbh, Jamariascoa. e onl p‘florl'dyol:lbhetlh: stmest, o rdien e o et i ™ G et Wi “lug T SUNE_ALMANAC FOR 1867 i o ¥ C FOR 1867 is NO we LB, TRY. (0 e sivertiscmeat usder bead of New Puer Gone. N Cristapono’s 1. AR DYE—The best ever + manwfhctured. Wholeasle ana [**4il. also applied st No. 6 Astor House. " CoMs _Locx-wrlr:u SEWING- Pries, Pives, and all affectious of the Bowels 'rr.uu I.\‘nni by ific Kemedies, st Dits A) (raw's Medical ~ Ofies, Kast Fourth-st., third door from the Bower?, xud between hu..,ée:?-‘ $ Galy for a sbort time, METCALYE'S GREAZ RRxU- waTio KENEDY has gaived & world-wide reputation, and is secom. proded by e best doctors in New.York as the ouly sure care for Hymsuc '—Be convinced, Though FLOMENCE Reversible Fead Lockstitch SuwiNG MACHINES ‘Best family machine in the world. Froxes 8 M Co, 45 Browiesy._ Macuixas. iias How '.:;-)."E‘tll No. 699 B Y. Trivsses, ELASTIC STOOKINGS, SUSPENSORY paoms, Surrontens, kc—Manss & Co's Radical Cure Truss lo. l"‘:.yvflu Ladr attendant. LCOX & UG1BBs SEWING-MACHINE—1t8 than the Jock-stit deeinie at the A R D A k. ST Tk, HARRISON BOILER. THE SAPEST AND BEsT BOILER IN THE WORLD, For Circulans, o k¥ Agest, No. 119 Broadway, or & & ‘"fhnw’u’fio‘ Wonks, Phiiadelphis, Pa. NAVY GAZETTE. —— BY TELEORAPH TO THR TRIBUNE. The steamer Don has sailed from Norfolk, Va,, for Kew-Yor Beannd Asisient Engineer W. A. Windsor, Carpent wod Gunser William Wilsos hate tias, rk. ter David Robinet, been ordered to duty at 4 Isiand, Penn. Second Assistant ne be Naval Sta’ s Vauboven- ‘Bagineer Job . Second Assetant T he Mosongabela and ahsence. O S deeriod from the U. 8. steamer De Soto oa the ARMY GAZETTE. — o Liswtenans Tosth Caraley Frod W. Saith aod N 4 Car 3 W?ny,n Gavalty. P [ s THE LAND OFFICE. o vt e of the General Land Office has just for the month of December last from the local offices et Ban Francisco, Stockton, :-ry-vllh.'.:.::‘n.;:‘:b::: [ oy 7 daposal of 13573 scros O smounting 10 S15AL% S v Sy "Commimioner, the past month, bas tranumitted for deliv .a‘;'l&.. a0 o cashy o oceted with fond warrants nd agrieultaral eollege gt The e en made t Omaba, Nebrasks City, Dakotn City, and , and Vancouver, Washinglon s, S e o, T § v, B O ‘aylors pi 1ad Detrolt M1 Groun, . o Pl Wil T CHL .im(u.‘-rfi‘lfl‘:"ofi has tranemitied to the Geverser Wo3 of buaip sad oreriowed lands 1n m,-.u-l.‘ md‘lfi‘ ;mml 1.31,1-‘:1?«". G, 1900, Patest No. | for 'va Dasute D) ‘bas heew trausitted to_ the Governer of Gt T aabracen 81,70 ores “This .-5.‘1‘:‘:.".'.4 1o porsunuce ofthe approval otdune 0, | 0o’ oot uny ref in @iz, City Depyricnanta A (3 as they are at present constituted. The true NeroDork Wil CrABWNE, | Sy it pas tho il cretng o Bowsd of ————— Public Works. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1867. Ouar correspondence from Crete pictures vividly and in detail the gallant struggle which the devoted Cretans are making against their oppressors. The Spartans and the Persians, 100, Seem to be at work again in Thermopylam, and it will appear a disgrace to the chivalry of mankind if anything approaching the extermi- nation of the heroes of Crete is permitted. TERMS OF THE TRIBUN; DamLy TrisuNe, Mail Subscribers, $10 per annum. Sesi-WeekLY TrisuNe, Mail Subscribers, $4 per an. ‘WEEKLY TriBUNE, Mail Subscribers, $2 per annum. Advertising Rates. DALy TRIBUNE, 20 cents per line. SEMI-WEEKLY TBIBUNE, 25 cents per line, WEeEKLY TRIBUNE, $1 50 per line. Terms, cash in advance. Address, Tar TrisuNE, Now-York. Mr. Stevens's Reconstruction bill was the sub- ject of long debate yesterday, and brought be- fore the House those fundamental questions of the relations of the Rebel States to the Government, which, first agitated two years ago, have never been decided by Congress. All its Jegislation on the subject has been regulative of the South, but some time the real subject must bo grappled with, and the country will rejoice if Congress shall exhibit a genuine radicalism end go to the root of the difficulty. The power and right of Congresstoabolish the Rebel State (Governments, and establish military rule as a temporary prepar- 70 CORRESPONDENTS. No notice can be taken of Anonymous Communications. Whatever is inteoded for insersion must be sutheaticated by the nawme and address of the writer—not mecessarily for pablication, but 84 & guarasty for his good faith. Al business lettars for this office should be addressed to “ Tuw Tais: unn,” New-York. We canaot undertake to retarn rejected Communications. PR 7 A Comparison of the House and Senale Tariff bills, the Ferry Investigation, Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Visit of the flm{- act, lat to the Wet Basi . 3 a::i“lvho m“o"'xn Reports will be y"ound on | ation for new State Governments, in which all the second The Court Calendar and | the loyal people shall be represented, is not to €. Criminal (/'wp:"[ Reports, the Money Article and the Markets are on the third page. A letter from Mr. Charles RKeade appears among the Literary Items on the sixth page. be questioned, whatever objection may be made to the present bill Of the debate, one of the chief featares was the appearance of Mr. Bingham as the cham- pion of the South, in an argument which, we believe, will carry with it few Republican votes. In favor of the bill, Mr. Stevens ex- plained the principles on which it is based, Mr. Brandagee the effect it would have, Mr. Pike and Mr. Farnsworth showed the con- dition of the Rebel States, and the latter gentleman declared that the bill was approved by many leading Union generals, including Gen. Grant. A stronger case could hardly have been made out. For the Demacrats, Messrs. Le Blond and Rogers spoke with their usual good sense, crying for blood, carnage, and destruction, “Yoloes of ovil, prophesying war,” Mr. Rogers, in particular, calling upon the President to resist the bill, should it pass, and Jead a new invasion of the North at the head of Sonthern Rebels. Blood is the staple of Mr. Rogers's thetoric; his imaginationrevels in carn- age,and acountry distracted by civil war is the picture he most often delights to present. This monomania would be of no importance were it not that Mr. Rogers is the leader of the Dem- ocratic party in the House, and appears to have been delegated as ono of their chicf speakers afainst the Lill. _To ws_jt appears that the great fact on which this bill m‘:}“!find 133 fall is, that the President, by withdrawing almost all the military power of the Govern- ment from the South, by restoring, in proclamation after proclamation, its people to full citizenship, and by usurping the au- hority of Congress, has given the Rebel States wholly into the custody of Rebels, and that for the protection of Union men and Freedmon, and the assertion of its own rights and duties, (‘,nn;fi-m is bound to reconstuct from the foundation. Mr. Shaw of Jefferson presented the main arguments in favor of Protection to the As- sembly, yesterday, in an able speech, which we hope will convince the Legislature of its duty to the industry of the State. Massachusetts will probably reject the Con- stitutional Amendment; which shows clearly enough the dissatisfaction of the true North with any disposition of Reconstruction matters so incompleto and delusive as would be a set- tlement on the basis of the Amendment. The Sanitary Committee’s Report on Prosti- tation presents some sfatistics not entirely new, but peculiarly instructive at this time. Certain police and hospital reforms, in connection with the social disease, the nature of which is under- stood, are also recommended Mr. Sumner charges the Secrotary of the Treasury with unfair and partisan diserimina- tion in the promotion of his clv:g'n, and the ap- poftionment of the extra compensation fund voted by Congress. If this be indeed the Sec- retary’s doing, it shows bad taste and poor economy. The facts of the case ought to be fully known. The precise stage which the question of the Alabama claims has reached is indicated in Lord Derby’s reply to a question put by Earl Russell in the House of Lords last Tuesday eveying, T m‘l Government, it appears, have at length to l.ul_)pit the matter to arbitration, and await front the United States Government a plain statement of the points on which adjustment on that plan is desired. This, we opine, there will be no difficulty in supplying. = P CONSTITUTIO. , CONVENTION. The People of our State, by a majority of more than Ninety Thousand, voted last Fall that their Constitution needed amendment and that a Convention should be held to revise it. The Governor, in his Message, called the Legislature’s special attention to the subject, and urged prompt action thereon. Nearly half the session has passed, and the bills pro- viding for a Convention are barely reported. At this rate, one of them may—and may not— have passed (if seasonably sent to the Grind- ing Committee) by the time the sossion closcs, The present Constitution of our State (Art. xiii. §2) expressly prescribes that “ At the'general eloctio in the year 1866, in each twentieth yca at auch a4 the Legislature may by e, the quest “Bhall there be a Convention to revie the Consti and amend the ssmo ' shall bo dociled by qualifed to vote for membes of the lgislatur cano o majority of the electors so qualified, suck election, shall decide in favor ob i Cony such purpose, the Legislatare, at ita next sessish, shall pmv.'!’., by 1aw foe th eloction of delogates to sueh Con vention.* —We presume no member dreamed, while voting this scctisn into the Constitution, that he was actually fettering the right to hodd a Convention; yet Senators have aetually con- tended that “a mmjority of the electors so qual- “jfied, voting as such election,” means, not a majority of those voting on this question, but a majority of those woting at all, no matter for whas! In other words: they try to count a¥l those who did not see fit to vote on this sub- Jject as practically voting not to hold a Conven tion! Now, had this scction been non- existent, no one weuld have held or imagined that a majority of those who voted For or Against a Conventiou, nuder the act of our last Legislature, was insafficient to make a call; but, because of the- above express warrant of -2 call i 1866, it is held that the large majority troops, the Liberals will soon dispose of the actually east for a €onvention is insufficient to authorize it! Common sense revolts at this Imperial army. Ome serious defeat of the A Imperialists would,, of course, greatly hasten [r#ophistry. the complete restoration of the Republic. | Gov. Fenton, in his Message, suggested the authorization of a geneml voto for sixteen .delegates to the Convention; the sixteen who receive the highest vote respectively, and the next sixteen, also, to-be all elected. The objects aimed at by this suggestion are the certain choico of the sixteen foremost men in either of the gseat parties ns members, We presume this result would have been but partially attained ; yet the proposition strikes us fa ably, and we hope it may receive more - eraticn from the two Houses than it seems to have done from their respective Judiciary Comumittoes. We deeply regret that it has not seemed practieable to hold all our Township Elections, us well as those- of the Cities and Villages which elect Charter Officers during the Spring, on one specifiedi early day, and choose dele- gotes to the Convention also on that day; so as to save to most of our people the cost of a special election. Weo believe this might wiscly bave been done, securing a far larger vote for delegates and saving at least Half a Million Dollars to the people. So much time has been yasted that we fear this has become impracti- cable. The Senates Committee propose a choice of delegates by Senate districts; the Assembly's Committee prefer Assembly districts. Might it not be well to combine these suggestions, so as to allow each Senate district to choose ome del- egate and each Assembly district one, thus making the whole number 1601 It seems to us that this would be none too many. The Senate’s Committee proposes to disre- gard the existing Constitutional restriction on the Right of Suffrage, whereby Blacks are re- quired to own $250 worth of real estate, and let them all vote for delegates the same as Whites. We believe there is ample precedent for this; and yet we cannot deem it advisable. It would enable the Copperheads to raise the mad-dog cry of “ Nigger! Nigger!” and so gal- vanize their corpse of a party into a hideous semblance of vitality. Believing that the Convention will pretty surelv sweep away tho The proud announcement of the passage by the Tennessee House of Representatives of the bill for negro suffrage was made in the U. S. Senate yesterday by Mr. Fowler. He scarcely overstated the importance of the event. It is, indeed, one of the greatest victories since the beginning of the war—incomparably the great- est achievement of Southern legislation since it closed. We should like to hope it may be the prophecy of similar laws near at hand in other States. We print on our second page a complete an- alysis of the Tariff bills as passed by the Senate and by the House, for the purpove of enabling our readers to see at once the difference of the duties proposed by the different Houses. From the fact that the Senate bill is entirely differ- ent in arrangement from that passed by the House, and that ihe amendments are numer- ous, it was very difficult to understand to what extent the Tariff originally proposed has been modified. We have endeavored to reduce the confusion to order, and to place the subject clearly before the public. nd also Our latest dispatohes frem Mexivo state that all the chieftains who were believed to favor Ortega have declared thei adhesion to the Government of Juarez. Ortega himself is te be conrt-martialled at San Luis. President Juarez, it may be hoped, will not think i¥ necessary to take the life of his rival Ortega, whose claims to the Presidescy, to say the least, seem to be encouraged by the words of the Mexican Comstitution. Maximilian has returned to the City of Mexico. Miramon and Mejia were said to be at the head of 7,000 Imperiatists, aud' to be marching upon San Luis. After the departure of the French A white man in Kentucky mardered his colored mistress the other day ; bat he explained that he was afraid she wonld tefl his wife that he had a child by her, and Kentucky justice was satisfied. The magistrate who heard his case was sym- pathetic, and accordingly the murderer, one of the cowardliest it appears, was released forth- with. Much as we are used to starthing reports of Southern justice, this case amazes ns. A# we read it in telegram, it seems that the taking of human life in Kentucky is & matter of as mucly indifference as the threwing away of a bad cigar. A man commits the two worst crimes upon the weakest and humblest of women, and a judge, in league with the marderer, lets him go. .As 0 how far the spirit of this hideous dispensation is shared by other megistrates, and by the public opinion of Kentucky, we do not stop to inquige. The state of things there must be almost hope- less, if it is possible for auy other justice ofsthe peace to set a murderer free on personal explana- tion. Evidently the negro has one right in Kentucky, which white justice hardly disputes, and that is the right of being killed. We are informed on excellent authoriy that Street Commissioner George W. Mclsean in- tends to resign his office ns soon as it is cer- tain that the Common Council wilk confixm Wi, M. Tweed as his suecessor. M. Twoed's friends are now making the preliminary ar- rangements, and when they are concluded Mr. McLean will resign, Mayor Hoffman will nom- inate Tweed, and Tweed will he confirmed. This will make little practical difference to the publie, for in Mr. McLean's administration Tweed has apparently been the controlling power. Expected to purify the Department, Mr. McLean has, on frivolous exeuses, refused to dismiss the men who have made it inefficient aud corrupt, and it may be better in the end to have the worst possible Comuiissioner to do the most evil in the shortest time, 8o as to com- pel Legislativo interference. Weo have ceased present unjust and invidious diserimination against colored citizens, and that this proposi- tion tends to prevent that most desired consum- mation, we trust that it may not prevail. Gentlemen of the Legislature! we pray you to pass some Convention bill at a very early day! FINANCIAL MYSTERIES. The Govenment of the United States owes in all the round sum of $2,543,349,748, over and above the sum of $142,428,791, which it held on the 1st inst, whereof $97,354,603 were coin. We can imagine no sound reason for holding so large a reserve, at a cost to our heavily taxed people of several Millions per annum. Our course would be to resume Specie Pay- ment—not by-and-by, nor soon, but now—this very day. The Treasury owes $480,163,803 pay- ablo on demand—about thrico the amount of its cash on hand—a little over four times the amonnt of its coin. Its credit is so good that our Banks have deposited nearly Twenty Mil- lions in Gold in its vaults, taking therefor Cer- tificates that draw no interest. Now we main- tain that the Banks of this country were never g0 able to maintain Specie Payment as the Treasury is to-day. Let it simply resume, thereby effacdng the distinction between Legal Tender and Coin, and evince a steadfast pur- pose to figtt it ont on that line, and it has nothing to fear. A large share of its Green- backs are held by banks, to whom they will then be equal to Gold, while they need every one of them as a reserve for the current redemption of their own issues. Let the Treasury resume, and thereupon reccive Greenbacks as Gold, and there will be no sarious demand for Gold; for the consequent falling off in importations will check the de- mand for Specie to pay balances to Europe. We need not contract—we may even allow $100,000,000 more of National Bank notes to be issned to new banks located in the South, where there are now few or none. Our bonds hold in Europe would be held all the firmer and at higher prices if word was flashed along the Cable that the United States, deeming themselves golvent, had resumed Specie Pay- ment. And, as the Greenbacks would still be a legal tender, no solvent Bank need be troubled about Resumption. Every Greenback held on the Pacific slope and in the Rocky Mountains will be better than Gold from the moment that we resume. But if we are not to resume, then let us sell our surplus Gold and thus reduce our debt at least One Hundred Millions. If we do not mean to use it, why hoard it? Let us have 1Ie Fsea Q‘afi"' ono way 8" nnuxh:r. THE POOR CLERKS AGAIN. A gentleman in some one of the pablic offices in Washington, apparently in that bilious frame of mind which is pertinent to the season, spoils soveral sheets of very handsome Government paper in finding fault with Tne TrisUNE. We found a number of the Washington clerks asserting, in print and by petition, that they could not live on their salaries, that the sti- pends of their plac “to maintain them and the in con nee many *had been compelled to “resign.” We praised the enterprise of those who pursued this course, and asked why the remainder did not follow so laudable an ex- ample? Whereupon, we find this protestant sorely aggricved, and comparing the clerk commanded by his to a Southern negro Rebel master to go and shift for himself. This is sheer childish petulance. No clerk in Washiugton, however small his in- come, has been forced to live on a pint of meal a day and a few ounces of rusty bacon a week. The masters were in debt to these slaves for years upon years of unrequited labor, and, in fact, owesd them a sustenance for the rest of their lives. The Government has always paid solid and honest wages. Now, when it is 8o poor that it is forced to tax every poor man's dish, its servants, who are suffering no mbre than other people, call for an increase of phy, which really means more taxes upon poor nien who havn't the good luck to be quarteted upsn the Gowernmens. This demand is én- forsed by the assertion that noboedy dan do she public work except- the petitioners, We took issue upow this, and declared that there were:a plenty of people who would be glad to do the work at the old rates. Whereupon enr rebuker informs us that we conldn't do it jat any price; but what our abilities or qualifica- tions for a clerkship are will become of im- portanse when we ask for eme. Herctofore our straggles have: been principally confined to helping: other people into fat places, and keep- ing them there. As for the mmique and rare accomplishments required of a Government clerk, and the impossibility of filling his place should he resign in a huff, we confess that wo do not believe in their exist- ence. This incredulity may ariso from onr ignorance of the arcans of the desk. Probably there are clerks whose places it would be difficult to fill well and at once; but we doubt if it be clerks of this class who are pe- titioning for higher salaries. Sueh men usually know how,to take care of themselves, and to command what is just and equitable. The in- erease of compensation comes of itself, without petitioning. It is the other kind that is always sending in little memorials, Our correspondent comes at us.with an argu- mentum ad hominem. Didn’t we raise the price of Tne Trisvse?! We certainly did raise the price sufficiently to enable us to pay for our white paper; but our correspondent must be very ignorant of business not to know that we sheuld make a great deal more money if we eould sell Tue TriBUNE for two pence. We didn’t make an advance to enable ourselves to live respectably, but in or- der that we might live at all. We practiced all possible economy ; but ecomomy amounting to penuripusness, in our business, would be the grossest wastefulness and extravagance. More- over, we more than give the worth of the money. 1f any old reader will take the trouble to compare Tne TrisuNe pinted at two pence with Tne Twisuse pristed at four, ho will see that we sell more geods and better goods under the new price than under the old. The public, wanting a good vewspaper, and instinetively knowing one when 't sees one, has not yet complained,jand is not likely to. We put our goods into the market and the fre- queaters thereof buy them or leave them, ac- cording to taste or necessity. But we do not undertake to bully anyboedy inte purchasing; nor do we, like these Washington clerks, threaten horrible vengeance if buyers prefer some other journal. Our correspondent asks: “Who ever heard “of clerks becoming rich on their salaries in “the best of times?” To this crushing inters rogatory we answer that [men’get rich by trade, and not by salaries, however large. Mere wages never made anybody rich, and nover will. Those who prefer a cortain stipend to the chances of business are not those who grow wealthy. TheKclerks who want to be rich wust carry their groat skill aud oxtia- ordinary acquisitions to a different market; and the gooner they do it successfully, the sooner they will 'have a handsome balance at their banker’s. The statistics which we have seen upon this subject are thus far extremely vague. We are willing to have it investigated; but as a gen- eral rule we have found Government always paying a little more than thefmarket price for every commodity, including labor. We know that even at the present salaries these offices are sought for eagerly by competent men. The presumption, therefore, is that in most cases the salaries are high enough, A sweeping in- crease is certainly not called for. AN OLD AMENDMENT. ‘While the important amendments, lately pro- posed by Congress, are under the consideration of the people, and being acted upon by the State Legislatures, it is an appropriate time to consider another amendment long since recom- mended by Congress, which has not yet been ratified by a sufficent number of States to make it a part of the Constitution. When there were but eleven States in this Union, Congress proposed to the State Legislatures, for their adoption, a series of twelve amend- ments, which were passed upon by most of the States within a few years, Some of those States never acted on them at all, and three- fourthsof the eleven did not accept them till the number of States was so increased that nine would not have been sufficient for their adop- tion. When the number of States had become fourteen,fand at the critical moment just before they became fifteen, it was found that ten of the series had received the assent of eleven States. Kentucky, the fifteenth State, though admitted under a previons law, was not, in fact, received into the Union till a few months later, and so never acted upon the subject. In this manner the first ten amendments now in the Constitution were barely saved, eleven being three-fourths of fourteen, but not three-fourths of fifteen. The other two were lost sight of, and have not been further acted on. One of them, the second of the series, was in these words: “No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect until an elec- tion of Representatives shall have intervened.” This amendment has received the assent of soven State Legislatures, and was at that time rejected by four. Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Georgia have never acted on this or any of the series; and the twenty-two States since admitted have never acted on this. New-Hamp- ghire, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Vermont, ac- cepted this, with the ten now in the Constitu- Tone NeygYork D 'nmylquin‘ fiww, and New-Jerseyy M‘;{ thi e accepting the other ten. Events that hive g urred lLave not served to diminish the lmfikfifib %f this amendment; and this is a favorable op) tunity for the four States that heretofore rejected it to reconsider and reverse their ac- tion, and for the twenty-five States that never have considered the subject,for so many of them as have not rejected and cast off their privileges as States in the Union, to take it up and form and express their opinion. It is far from being probable that the present or any fature Congress will ever again press this amendment upon the consideration of the people. FEADING THE PUTURE. As historical Teading is apt to be a little dis- heartening, it is wise to take note of all en- couraging compensations, and especially to ob- serve that the dearest hopes of mankind are not always flattering and fallacious. If coming events do cast' their shadows before, their in- timations are rather natural than mystical, and the deductions of men of thought and experi- enew from admitted premises are always some- thing better than guesses. Arthur Young, who traveled in France several years before the breaking out of the first revolution, foretold its approach, which he read in the hungry faces of the peasantry and the sleck-headed satiety of Versailles, for which he is duly quoted, with fit lLonor as a prophed, by Thomas Carlyle. Newspapers, which have to deal almost as much with the future as the present, are naturally compelled toresort oceasionally to a word of warning, which we are afraid is not always treated with the respect which it deserves. Thus, se long ago as November 30, 184, we find 7he (London) Spec- tator speaking thus of a provinee which is just now attracting the attention of the world: “The affinities of race and aspiration, the “eourse of events, are too strong for the Turk; “and Candia will one day obey its attraction, “and join itself, not by a refugee and nominal “representation, but bodily, to the kingdom to “which it as naturally belongs as do some “other provinees on the Continent. The dis- “ ruption and new combination caunot be pre- “yented; they may, indeed, be retarded; but “of far more importance is it to secure that “{ho new organization of the elements shall be “eonducive to she welfare of the native races “and the prosperity of Europe.” For a newspaper—one of those organs of opinion for which statesmen, when they do not happen to meed their assistance, are in the habit of expressing a mild contempt— this appears to us to be pretty good guess- ing. T'wenty-two years have gone by and the prediction is being literally accom- plished. 1t may be said that it required no remarkable prescience to detect the want of finality in the position of Grecce in 1844; yet it must be remembered that Kings and Cab- inets were then acting precisely as if the geo- graphical settlement of the Greek question had been aceurately arrived at, leaving nothing for the treaty-mongers to do—unless something un- unexpected should happen—for at least a century to come. The unexpected thing has happened, as it always does when the conditions necessitate it. Al Europe agreed to keep Can- dia out of the mew Greck Kingdom, and, what was worse, to leave her, a Christian Provinee, at the mercy of Moslem despotism stimulated by the very worst form of religious fanaticism. Our readers know the rest. Whether the world is ever made permanently wiser by examples like this, it is hard to determine. There never were any predictions more reasonable and worthy of attention than those which warned our own Re- public of the bloodshed and civil disorder which Slavery, persisted in, pampered, extenuated, and extended, must inevitably oceasion ; and never were the admonitions of wisdom addressed to ears deafer than our own. Now we are at the second stage of the drama; and still it is neces- sary to tell us that only in justice, in legal equality, in the truest humanity and the ex- nctest equity is there a hope for permanent peace. Congress debates; the President vetoes; the enlogists of the status quo talk themselves L U USSR - . TR show to whom this handy adjective best be- longs. The second session of the Committee directed to investigate the Ferries was held yesterday, and was confined entirely to counter state- ments of citizens and the Ferrymen. The Com- panies were represented by Directors and counsel, and summoned their own em- ployés as witnesses. Though many of the facts affirmed by the citizens present are unquestionable, and prove the mis- management of the Ferries, the investigation thus far seems to be without method. Several men of straw were set up and knocked down by the Ferrymen, as, for instance, in Mr. Pier- pont’s statement that “some years ago” the Union Company hired a tug-boat to open a channel through the ice, and failed. This is very well; there may be ice that tug-boats can- Dot penetrate, but a tug-boat is mos am jce-boat, mor is the failure of an effort “gome years ago” any excuse for the ab- sence of any effort since. So with the detention of the ferry-boat Roslyn some weeks ago. What if it should be proved that the Roslyn could not cross? That would be but an explanation of one failure, not a justifi- cation of numberless others. Again, if the Roslyn could not penetrate the ice, it by no means follows that the Company should not have provided boats that could. That there are few citizens who can spare the time to present general grievances forcibly and thoroughly to the Committee is to be regretted, and we repeat our opinion that this is a matter of which the Citizens' Assoeiation sheuld prop~ erly take charge. The public will not be con- tented if the Committee should rest satisfied with the voluntary statements of citizens. A hearing is not an investigation. The Assistant Treasurer in New-York, who was made the subject of a resolution of the House, inquiring into the stringency of the money market, is exonerated in the report of the Investigating Committee which we pring to-day. The Hon. J.N. Hubbard, of the IVth Congress District for Connecticut, is acandidate for reélection, and there is not the slightest probability that his name will be withdrawn by either himself or his con- stituents. We make this statement because the acci- dental omission of Mr. Hubbard's name from a list of candidates has led to repeated inquiries. et S MUSIC. Wiy, —— Announcements ¢f Qpera are various as usuaf. After having given us in eX¢gllent style and with praiseworthy spirit and talent such first-class works as Mozart's Magic Flute and Marriage of Figaro, the GerMan company at the Olympic propose to repeat *William Tell” to-night in the excellent manner of Monday evening. 1t is the Opera of all others, perhaps, to show popularly the grandeur of the chorus and of enlarged concerted music, as Gérmans. arr able to give them; a work essentially popular as it is great—o romance of revolution, in which musio fittingly honars freedom. On Monday evening, the, new Opera compa0y; under_Signor Mora’s direction, S apveac ot ¥ ,;‘"fi:v Frerneh Theates 18 Tratiale Giuditts Altieri in the leding part, asisted by ‘Adelaide Phillips. It will 129t be forgotten that the, new Aeademy of Music w” opened by & grand Bal d Opera by Marer:< on fhe of March. On Satorday next a bgenliar trea il be offered to tho patrons of the Freych Theater by its lively acting and niumugmmm y of hulorists. Victor Massee's Opera, * Les Noces de Jeanette” {0ro- dnced by Maretzek’s company some years ago), wilk be revived. It will need a fine spirit in its perforin- ance, for its musical animation is considerable. —Several interesting concert aunouncements are made. Madame Parepa will give a concert at the 0dd Fellows’ Hall of Hoboken this evening, and at 2 o’clock on Saturday a grand matineé at the Brook- 1yn Academy, assisted by Rosa and Mills. At Irving Hall, on the evening of Saturday, the teachers and pupils of Mollenbaner’s Musical Conservatory wilk offer o testimonial eoncert to a very worthy musicia Mr. Edward Mollenhauer. Madame Gazzanigs n:[ the brothers Mollenhaser are promised for the ocea- sion, and Mr. Boekelman, a new pianist, well recom- mended, will appear, with Mr. J, M. Pattison. The first of the new subseription series of five morning concerts by Signor Severini and Mr. Alfred H. Peass into a passion upon the subject of conciliation ; men who should know better tempt us to leave the problem in a state of semi-solution; and a newspaper predicting that out of cowardly con- cession can only comeo confusion worse con- founded. is branded as factious! Time will will take place on Monday, the 11th, at Steinway's Rooms. 'The programme will inclade novelti classic and otherwise, and we are promised a g selection, voeal and instrumental, for the series. THE DRAMA. S e g —Mr. W. H. Whalley, who is both an industrionsand acareful actor, and one who works faithfally in & diffienlt field of labor, continues his series of * star” performances at the Huv;ary lel'l!fl‘.' .: popular gramme, comprising four %, is just now ::le.'l. and gives l:;rrat m!;-f:w?imi to t{le l)'icn;.l:: —The New-York Circus offers new pleasures for chil- dren ; and for this reason we direct to it the particu- lar attention of our readers. An equestrian diversion called * Blind Man’s Buff"—which, though not new, is very good—has_this week afforded much amuse- went to considerable andiences. The nsual miseella- neons entertainments are given, including an aet of horsemanship, well worth winfl by the and spirited Carlotts de Hers. 'he horse comedy of “Jockey Club Races” will be withdrawn at the end. of the present week. A Matinée will be given om Saturday. —Our readers are again reminded of the Bunyam TFableaux, of which we spoke at length last Saturday, and which are exhibited nixhtl‘,y. and on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, at Union Hall, corner of Broadway and Twenty-third-st. The exhibition is one that richly merits popular attention. “The Black Crook” will be given at Niblo’s Garden to-night. The spectaele has, apparently, lost none of its attractivencss, and its withdrawal may be re- garded—if afact atall—as a fact of the remote future. A Matinée will be given on Saturday, being the 25th of the season. At the end of the present week the * Bird of Para~ dise” will be withdrawn from the stage of the New-York Theater, to lfii(vu place for the revival of Tom Taylor's ** The Ticket-of-Leave Man,” which is to he brought out next Monday. 2 Brooklyn readers are reminded that the favorite comedy of “Ours” may be seen at their Academy of Music this evening. Mr. Lester Wallack will a pear as Chalcote, and the cast of parts will be nearly the samo as heretofore at Wallack’s Theater. A mixed performance of comedy and opera will be given at the French Theatre on Saturday evening. ‘The comic opera of “ Les Noces de Jeanette” will ba presented—in_which Mlle. Naddi is to a) also the comedy of ** Le Meutrier de Theodore.” Mr. Hartz's entertainment at Dedworth's Hall this week is of an unusnally miscellaneous character, and is brim full of comic effects, so that it not only puz- zles his auditors, but keeps them in an almost con= tinued state of laughter. A few of the illusions pre< sented have been seen before—such as the Floating Head, the famous Hat trick, and the Talking Bell ; but most of them are quite new. It is scarcely need- ful to add that they are performed with that ease and grace and perfect skill for which Mr. Hartz is re- markable among magicians. An especially neat trick —illustrative of sleight of hand—is that which ia done with the egg, the hat and the three rings. Mr. Hartz makes & kind of egg-nog, putting in three rings, bor- rowed from persons in the audience, pours the mixture into the hat, and then takes out a garland of flowers to which the three rings are g seen to suspendpd. We mention this as exem]\lyim the fini m‘h the am char- acter of his general programme. _ His most novelty is an illusion entitled * Proteus,” and to the attention of scientific minds is eupodrllwvlhdi A bell The eurtain rises, revealing a cabinet six and three feet square, with but one door. hung within, and the door is elosed. The bell is them heard to ring; but when the cabinet is opened the ook for it. He, too, h a o0 comes forth. Mr. Hartz anmu entors and dis~ "i."-“"" In short, cal from which there is but one w? raised above the floor, so placed all deception—seems to possess the power of making those invisible who enter it, and fairly defies the koenest scrutiny. The illusion is ong of the cleverestt that has ever been shown in New-York; and, with the Indian Basket Trick, and the others that we have indicated, it constitutes a truly excellent presente ment of those acts of magio in which Mr. Hartz baé few rivals aud uo suverior.