The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1867, Page 4

QAmnsements. WINTER GARDEN. THIS EVENING-MERCHANT OF VENICE. Mr. Bdwin Booth. NIBLO'S GARDE! THIS BVENING-THE BLACK CROOK—Great Parisieane Baliet Troupe. WALLACK'S THEATER, THIS BYENING—A DANGEROU BROADWAY THEAT TIIS BVEN CINDERKLLA. ~ Worrell Sisters. OLYMPIC THEATER. THIS BVENING—-GERMAN OPERA—FAU ST. NEW THIS RVENING—THE T o JKNUM'S AMERICAN MUSKUM DAY / - RED THOUSAND RIOSITIES—VAN AMBURGH'S TION OF WILD ANIMALS. 3 BOWERY THEA' TER. TRIS EVENING<BRIAN BOROIHME—THE MAID OF ERIN. M. W. B, Whalley. Muas Founy Herring. NEW-YORK CIRCUS THIS KVENING FRAINED PONIES New-York Circu THIS RVENING TROUPR—THE T THIS EVENT Ploatiag Head, elc b UNION HALL. 3 THIS_AFTERNOON AND KVENING—BUNYAN T. oruer Twenty-Luirk-st. 4 dw Fi¥ THIS EVENING—GR Acta, Music, Siagiag, Dancing, ete NTINGS. DAY AND EVENI DERBY'S ART ROON MANUFACTU esury Geseription of & e base is Nickel e production of S0 b they bave been for m jou to the purchaser. CORIANAZG, And all ench are fully guaranteed. They feel it neceasary pai SaH the shiention of parchasers to the abote 7 extensively umitated. Th e dealers throughout th wulily ae will adt by 1ave been aliad red from mtry. " CHILDREN TEETHING. The mother Sals & 10 is perte 8 sain, cures dyweatery and diarrhes, relieves griping in the bowels, cares | Court is drawn. wind colic, sofleus tie gums and reduces infammation. By nd bealth to the 3} Be sare and call for “Mps Wixstow's SooTHING SYRUP, comforts and rests the motber. Waviog the foe stoile of * Cuntis & P Ham positively resto seanty; imparts Ife wat at once; Keeps Bold by all druguiats cs 118 Broadwa Sanan A Cn GAME. Mr. J. W. Wallack. ALADDIN, OR THE WOADERFUL —CHRISTIAN MARTYRS—TWO HU —ACROBATIC AND EQUESTRIAN FEATS— ALL. THE ILLUSIONIST. K. OPKItA HOUSE. ¥IN & CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. New Hotse Fair,” ke, at H. W. Bnsincss Notices. AMERICAN (WaLTHAM) WATCHES. RING COMPANY 1. inform the trade that ther are pro- o3, comprising full Dixxxx snd Tra kness that they from beaaty of desigu aad it refer with eonfidence to the high SCAMP— UNT COLLEC- Proteas, ABLEAUX. superior Silver, upon owscas al WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1867 Pany TriBuxe, Mail Subscribers, $10 per annum. Seyi-WEEKLY Trisuse, Mail Subseribers, $4 per an. WeekLy Trisuse, Mail Subscribors, §2 per aunai. Advertising Rates. DamLy TriBUNE, 20 cents per line. SeMr-WeekLY TBIBUNE, 25 cents per line. WeekLy TRIBUNE, $1 50 per line. Terms, cash in advance, Address, Tuk TrisoNg, New-York. B 70 CORRESPONDENTS. No notice ean be takea of Anouymous Commaications. Whaterer is intendod for insertion mast b autheaticated by the nanie and addrest of the writer—aok becessarily for publication, bub as & guarsaiy for hus good faith. All bausioess letters for this office shoold be addressed to oxg," New-York We canot undectake to retam refectad Communications. “Tue Tein 57 On the second page will be found Letters on the National Banks from a Special Corre- dent at Washington ; Musical Notices; a ‘,H’Ilvr fn.?m Judz: Whiting ; the Civil Court Reports, and U Commercial News. The Markets are on the third page. A bill was yesterday reported to the Senate, direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue temporary loan certificates, bearing interest not exceeding 3 per cent, and payable on demand, to the standing amount of $80,000,000. These certificates may be held as reserve by the Na- tional Banks, and are to be applied to the re- demption of compound interest notes, and the funding of the debt. There is an interest in the sciences which Prof. Agassiz has popularized almost as great as that which attaches to the most prominent of other topics. His present course at the Cooper Tnstitute has attracted large and cultivated audiences. Last evening Mr. Agassiz developed 11D SILVER v 'years engaged, and they now sinin_ that_repuation by the pro- of such quality sad extreme dura- Al articies rtiealarly to mark, astheir desigus oods can ouly be pro- it Nable and barmless. Tt relieves the child from giving relief 18" on the outside wrapper. ® M. D. ate's Hoxey ToiLeT Soa demand, i Cor Thia celsbratad Tortrr Soar, in soch upirersal e cHOICRST \ FRAGRANTLY BRAWION For Faney Gow le by all ou upon tise skin. Victory Haime RESTORER Wirnout Seniwest ox Inpvrrry: will pos s color. For sale e,{ and the wai B Vax B kXTxD, and Drugy P. s ore the bair and No. 475 Sixth-ave Tur makea 3,000 sntendid Brick per howr, v 10 e gelting out of order or breaking down. 118 grest Warveioas pos er command the aj) We chalicuge the wotld to p Satisfoction ¢ + parfact simplieity, great strength, JUARANTERD, with cight men and 0 1o 3,500 eleyant brie r No.71 Brouds TPOSITIVE REMEDY FOR CATARI oerous decentious by iwale the sier b of 3 ¢ hat of the disease utlem: w rosiTion, Box N A Cune AT L Yo Rivean ¢ o Mrroaiei's BaronuLow’s Haw | s, Reliable, 1 AST RRAT . oniy per Wine axo Biavoy Borrioe Bros., wholesale A, TELuvnic S. M Aackinms, No 543 ighest premisws Maryla . and Pous b Beat fawiy wacuiue in the world FLonks “Waerten & WiLson's Lock w6 MaoHixg Trox-Hatr MACHINY Grov JAKER' wo Macn x Cartes Vize A1) ppgati vee repiie el Parese Burecw! Adirass Dr. Parukr Lie Howe Maciixy oo Macuins jowr, J thine), Prosidest. No. 854 Broidws ‘Prussks, Erasric Banwaaus, KosPox: tit adical Trial | Bon " REMOVAL mowed For Conghs, Calda ad all | ml h‘: Ew WE ng unuwal atte Trik HaReiso Tue BAvre For Carculars, SEWL v BorLer. Agent. No. 119 Brosdway, or to o Hyox, Ha THE PUBLIC HEALTH. — The following is the regular report of Dr. the Bursau of Vital Statistics, on the Sanitary This rioriality is equal sec city, exclusive of the iniands, ymotic discases ate eharged with 8 dexihs, or 21 per cent ‘mortality of the week in Nes of the tota! in Bl 180 perasia in New-Y clase the fact is » orin ' 1 wnd other tul DEATHS FROM TUBERCULOUS DISEASES AND BY Af EASES OF TUE LUNGS. 1% aght lossons scareely ) Tobel in eight weeks.. Thews 1,142 deaths Lare Suage which chler taizit with s abare of this ki f mortalin) The wean tem) e past el works was ¥1° Pabrouhelt. The raoun. ol Lo 4197 The severity of the prossut Wister bas been marked by Ttnhmarably I sl s ot vy awortality o, w Saaual st i iavargh, 5 o1 150 b dverpas Juiges' dee 4 Broad X Macuine Co. HIAL TROC wd Lnog Diseases. MH!"I NG-MACHINES t new store, No. GI3 Broadway » Biast BOILER IN THE WORLD, o Boiusk Wowks, Philadeiphis, Pa S L U 17 A BRI S . KA Brick MACHINE ) only nine men and ons pair Novars, or 4,300 per howr by stedn power. Has no comples s inehinery smplicity sad wal of every expert, at sig) ¥ rlin.r.. 9 )ye—The best in_the . (0.5 LOCK-STITCH SEWING- | nd Institute s Higuest Presios Sew- ch SEw- Cure Truss t the HES, Harris of condition to a of_the total berealar dig- eding nnd very cold weeks. | CUTE bIs- nd immense 0 horses, W0 his theory respecting the Ancient Glaciers, and in another column we report him, as usual, in full. We print to-day the full opinion of Chief- Justice Cartter of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia, on the Test Oath. In this opinion, in which all his associates concurr d, the recent positions of the United States Su- preme Court are measurably controverted, but shful frieud in Mus. Wixsiow's Soornrxa | an important distinction between the present case and that before the United States Supreme We expressed yesterday a doubt as to the correctness of the reports announcing important Imperialist victories in Mexico. A dispatch in this moruing's issue informs us that the Mexi- can Miuister in Washington is in possession of FORTHE s e R . » i R el o s lariae news fully as late as that of the pretended Im streagib to the weakest hair; stops ite falling s baad cleas; is unparalleled asa bair-dressing. fashionable hair-dressers. and at wy ofiice, No. perialist victories, which represents the situa- tion as being quite different and most favora- ble to the Liberals. The Liberal forces had ad- vanced to attack Miramon’s army, but no en- gagement ha aken place. Judge Whiting’s letter to the Street Commis- sioners explains some of the difficulties of street-cleaning in New-York, and vindicates his earnestness in the work. It will app little odd that personages of 80 humble a nature as ash and dirt collectors should occasion any controversy as to their appointment; but this is the opening text of Mr. Whiting's letter. On all points he makes it clear, however, that he has endeavored to do an unen- viable duty, and in some instances he has, in fact, done more than he contracted to do. The Police Board and the Board of Health should attentively heed some of his suggestions, as for instance that certain Wards should be oftener cleaned, and the contract so modified | as to render this possible. We should spare no | reasonable expense for the Juxury of clean streets, if that be possible, or, at least, for some cleaner system of making them tolerable. The Bankrupt bill was passed yesterday by the Senate by a vote of 22 to 20. It would have had a larger majority but for the refusal of the Senate to consider Mr. Sumwer’s amend- ment preventing Rebels from becoming volun- tary bankrapts. The Dill has thus been passed in precisely the shape in which the Senate re- Jected it last w Thousands of houest mer- chants ruined before and during the war, and all who have at heart the industrial and busi- ness interests of the conntry, will thank the Senate for this great meassure. It is not only beneficent ; it is just. It will give new energy | and life to busiuess, and have no unimportant | ¢ffect in preventing the finaneial troubles which are threatened by the refusal to contract the currency, and the long delayed resumption of specie payments. The bill now goes to the House for concurrence in the Senate amend- ments, and will, we trust, be considered with- out delay, and an agreement had. For the | sake of the bill, let s friends sink all dis- sensions on de In refere The nce to the breach of trust by whic . Y. Times printed the New-Orleans re- | . : i " | port in advance of its presentation to the House, Suseexsory | and in violation of its pledg we have received | the following note: | 20 the Editor of The i [ Stk : In view of your editorial allusion to me this morning, of which I do not complain, may I ask you to publish the followiug letter from the Chairman of the Select Committes on the New-Orleans Riot: . “ HOUSk OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 12, 1867, “T.. L. CROUNSE, esq.—Dear Sir: 1 am in receipt of gour note of this date. I regretted to see the report in The Times, but 1 did not for a moment impute to you any violation of the agreement e, and lnowing the fucly as 1 now de ly iree from all hlame, T. D, Euor” I remain, Sir, with much respect, yours, &e., L. L. Crounse, appy to believe on the anthority of hat Mr. Cronnse is not to blame in the matter, but this only transfers the respon- i for the treachery from Washington to w-York. Mr. Crounse does not trouble him- self to make any explanation; possibly his | employers may think it worth while to inform {the public how they came to print a report | which was given to their correspondent under a pledge that it should not be printed. A conenrrent resolution for adjournment to the 25th has been offered in the State Assembly. We ardently hope that no such resolution will be adopted, and no recess taken until the Legislature shall have passed a bill for a Con- 543 fimportant than e aaventilated lewant Louses are chagged perature uf week was 1 bigher ample: the per 1,000— T 1000; in vau citics stitutional Conventian. The people of the State have not geased to bo earnest that their Coustitution shall be revised, and that the chronld abuses suffered under it for so many years shall be weformed. There has been unaccougtable delay in the Com- mittees in maturing and reporting a Dbill hitherto—a delay that to those who know the urgency of the case secems like trifling with a momentous responsibility. Late in the session ! the Convention bill is a special order for Thurs- each other, and possibly requiring & con- forence before either can be enacted into a law. Yet it isa matter in which time is of great consequence ; and the Legislature has no right to indulge itself in a holiday till the Con- vention act is agreed upon. In the Assembly day. If the Legislature adjourn—the day following the bill will go over the recess in- evitably—a method of attendiug to public busi- ness against which we protest. RECONSTRUCTION, Mr. Eliot’s bill to establish a Provisional Government in Louisiana, and provide for the reorganization of the State on the basis of loyal and impartial suffrage, passed the House yesterday by the decisive vote of 113 to 48. The Democrats opposed its immediate passage upon the plea that it needed longer examination. But the principles of the bill have been discussed by Congress since 1865; they have been again and again voted upon by the people; there is not an important section which has not been thoronghly debated, and the bill embodies many of the absolute convictions of the Republican party. l; does not follow that this measure was hastily adopted by {ho Honke merely Decanse the bill itself was 80 recently proposed. Whether the bill goes ta the root of the mat- ter we do not need to discuss; nor whether Congress should make it the basis of the recon- struction of all the Rebel States. Uniformity of reconstruction has not been proved to be What is required for Texas or necessary. Louisiana may not suit North Caro- lina. The MHouse, we believe, establishes no arbitrary precedent in passing this bill, and does mot probably intend it to stand as the final method of reconstruction. It is simply a practical measure, which the House, acting upon the report of its Commitlee appointed to investigate the New-Orleans massacre, deems necessary to protect loyalty in Louisiana. And it is a recognition—which the House, we judge, begins to fecl—of the urgent necessity of passing some measute of recon- struction. As a beginning, at least, of that great work Congress has only talked about for two years, the passage of a measure which has some principles of justice and permanence may be welcomed. It takes at once the State of Loui- siana out of, the power of the men who dragged her into the Rebellion, and who are oppressing the men who opposed rebellion. It is useless for the Demoerats to object that the Louisiana loyalists were Rebels, for if they were, ‘the bill excludes them from office. Of more importance than the exclusion of di oyal citizens is the declaration that in the reorgan- ization of the State Government all Toyal male citizens, withont distinction of race or color, shall have the right to vote for officers, and a voice in forming the Con- stitution by which they are to be governed. This is the at principle of the bill, to which the appointment of a military commander, the Provisional Governor and Conncil, the pro- hibition of the payment of the Rebel State debt, &e., ave but necessorics and preparations. We rejoice in the passage of an act which peremptorily asserts the power of Congress to restore to all loyal citizens in the States which have forfeited their old Constitutions by rebel- lion, their inalienable rights. Mr. Stevens's bill to cstablish military gov- ernments in the South does not appear to conflict with this of Mi. Eliot, for it is nnder- stood that it is meant to be but preg to such measures of permanent reorganization authority ; it would end the rule of men who, like Mayor Monroe, instigate murder, and those who, like Gov. Throckmorton, appear powerless to prevent or punish it. It aweeps away that machinery by which the men who maintained the Rebellion, and who surrendered to Grant, have regained possession of the South. It is thonght that this bill will be passed by the House in a day or twi When it becomes law, it will place every Rebel State exactly where it stood at the end of the Rebellion. Then will follow those grander measures for rebuilding State Governments which shall not be the tyraunies of a priv- ileged class, or an aristocracy, but the work of the people, in which all citizens ghall be represented, and by which all shall be pro- tected. ———— THE SUPPLY OF CROTON WAT, The Croton Aqueduct brings to New-York a larger supply of water than is provided for any other city in the world of equal population, It can supply sixty millions of gallons a da whieh, if equally distributed, would give one hundred gallons to each eitizen. Yet with this vast flow of water throngh the Aqueduet, there has been for years a general complaint of its deficiency. In the lower portions of the city water is difficult to obtain; in the upper stories of housea and hotels the pipes are almost useless, During the war, when the Rebel attempt was made to burn the city, the want of water cansed universal alarm, and since then there has seareely been a fire by which the danger has not been proved. Yesterday, a new instance was furnished by the total destruction by fire of the large building No. 346 Broadway, which, partly from an insnflicient supply of water, the firemen were unable to control. In brief, for every purpose of convenience, indusiry, or pro- tection, the supply to the lower part of the city is notoriously inadequate, and year by year the water is diminishing and the evil is inereasing, The causes of the deficiency are well known., Lias increased in population, and the main pipes have been tapped to supply new strects and new buildings. The current which ten years largest hotels and stores, is now drained near its sour This is tho chicf canse of the trouble. Another is the general waste by citizens who leave the water running from faucets and hydrants, Under the wise system which taxes the property of the city to pay the expenses of the Croton Aqueduet, this waste is scarcely to be avoided. Water is as free to the poor as the air they breathe, and the benefit is incaleulable; laws to limit its use would be as unpopular as unwise ; therefore, while econ- omy sheuld be urged and practiced, we shall hardly iverease the general supply of water to this section of the city by appealing to the care and thoughtfulness of individuals. _’l’hc‘ ouly plan which, so far as we know, will gfl"f to the lower section of New-¥ork its just shate of Croton water, is an cxtension of the main pipes. The fault is not with the A1|lleduct, but solely with the means of dis- tribution. A mew and large main should be laid from the upper Reservoir, which should not be‘t.'npped at any point above Canal-st. At some point South of Canal it should connect with the present pipes. - This, and this only, will give a two bills have been brought in and are pending | constant ‘and sufficient supply of water to the i laagow, "; 1.0m. 'n ulh‘lnnd'A“-‘lrv:r“ulnl % b . & Mawn L i the bwo Loyses. considorably ditforing from | lowey part of (e citv.Zaud tho (roton Bowrd J ratory | | swimmers can reasouably hope to live; yet as those the Iouse has just adopted, Mr. Stevens’s Dbill wonld remove every officer in the South who lhas usurped | ago flowed freely into fhe wpper stories of oiir | Within ten years the upper pait of the Island | | | D relatives and friends are pretty e | ih consideration. HELPLESS PEOPLE. This is a cold, hard Winter, not in our coun- try only, but throughout the Temperate Zone. Cold came early, and heavy snows followed fast in its teain, obstructing highways, limiting travel and transportation, and paralyzing the pursui's or callings whereby many thousands were trying to subsist. There have been bread riots {in different parts of Iurope; there is very general want and destitution throughout {hose extensive regions of our Southern States which were devastated by the late Civil W thero aro need and suffering fearly everywhere; and all the des- titution that is felt in any quarter of the civilized world reacts upon this great City, wherein the meeting surges of European and American want are hurled against each other. Every one who cannot find a position or career to his mind elsewhere scems to faney that there nust be room for him in New-York; and 80, with a population largely in excess of our needs, thousands of strangers throng our plérs and streets ecach month, eagerly, hopefully, padly seeking here Soluethgs to Do. There should be & general, concel effolt to warn ochmmififiw rt; but there aro selfish influences at worl chunteract this: 0 our prisons, our charitable institutions, our haunts of crime and vice, of pollution and shame, are constantly crowded with recruits, who came to New-York in quest of honest bread, and, finding none, were driven by what seemed to them necessity to take service in the armies of Satan, There is no day, no hour, which does not witness the entry of many souls on the road to ruin 'who might have been saved by timely warning against the fatal tendency to seck in some great city either a royal road to wealth or the means of ecarning an easy livelihood. Some have suffered reverses of fortune, ard plunge into a city to escape sneer- ing observation while they eamm a liv- ing by means which they would con- sider beneath their standingiwhere they form- erly flourished. Some want to see and be seen; many ave bored by the dullness of their rural neighborhood, and want to live where they may partake of the intellectual or fsocial life of the age we live may see Ristori aet, or hear Parepa sing or listen to a sermon by Beecher or a lecture by Agassiz. A thousand various motives impel the mighty throng which is constanlty overpeopling a great city, dooming each other and their predecessors to famine, and aggravating, for the thrifty as well as the needy,the miscries and horrors of a hard Winter like this. The saddest featare of this grand mistake is the accumulation of helpless people in every great city. Speaking generally, cities should be resorted to only by the able, the skillful, the efficient. If you know how to do the work of three or fonr average men, and are sure of a chanee to demonstrate it, yon may get on in a city ; but, if you can do but one man’s work, the heavy cost of living in a city will soon devour you. A single person of average eapacity may, whiles in the flush of youth vigor, get on here asa journeyman, laho) ar chambermaid ; but let such a one marry and have ehildren and he or she is on the high road to a pauper's grave. Rents and food will be high here, at least while almost everybody prefers to live in a city; and the coustant in- flux of youth and encrgy tends to erowd out the burdencd and the flagging. In this boil- ing, breaking surf, only strong or dexterous Liere & just where the halt and the lame love to sregale, Let any one evinee chronic inea- acity to make his way in the country, and his iin to ship 1 him off to seek lis fortune in a ¢ The bgions of incapables thus piled upon this emporium exceed all belief. There are probably one hnndred thousand people here to- doy w of Eden vhen Adam was, would have soon starved todeath there for want of some one to plick the fruit and put it into their mouths. That a lnman being some other Linman being to hire bim, and direet him, and pay him, is to these utterly inconceivabl:, It is a chomic fatuity of helpless and inea- pable persoms to insist on doing either what ¢ eannot (o tolerably or what nobody wants 1o pay them for doing. Mr, Reginald Granville Stiggs, for mitanee, having read aud admiced Shakespeare, Byron, and Tennyson, and being pressed to exertion by hunger and thirst, sets up to live as 1 poet. But, where the poet’s im- pulse to write is born of hunger, and thirst, you may bet ligh that the reading world does wot, and will not, hanger nor thirst for his poetry. It is not according to the laws of the rse that o man's need of shelter and writing a screed of verses inst ping a cord of wood; and the this rule seems to be controverted, oughly, fairly scrutinized and considered, really serve to aflirm and establish it. "I'wo-thirds of the misery to-day endared on earth results from defective or mistaken eduea- tion. Our starving needlewomen were gene- 1 ¢ starved into needloworl ;. had they been wonably and properly trained fto it, they might live thereby and not starve. There is a smaller percentage of suficring to-day among the unlettered laborers living in this City than among the graduates of European universities, We would not affirm that as many are educated out of usefulness as into it; but there are too many who make very poor and useless lnwyers, doctors, or teachers, who might, if prop L"\‘i.'fll' I.xin's_ proved quite yespectable o carieis or wodd-sawyas. They would thus have cost the world far less, and done it more good, than as they are. Understand that we do not objedt to special training for special callings. It may be very well that Miss Slingsby should he fitted to teach mmnsic for a living: we only protest against so educating her that she can only teach musie—that, if nobody wants to pay her for teaching music, ghe is bound to steal or starve. What shall the helpless do? What shall be done with them? What can be done for them? Diflienlt as it may geem to find answers to these questions, we are bound to face them. We propose them as subjects for meditation, not as themes for essays, Let us each render them all the help we fairly ean, while we give onr best thonght to the problem—How shall they be made helpful, while the rising and future generations are 2o trained and warned that the pumber of the Lelpless shall grow fewer and fewer evermore ? — A resolution to grant the use of the hall of the Maryland House of Delegates to Major-tien, Howard and Judge Bond, was lately offered in that body. But the Democrats appear to have cherished a lively bitterness against the Judge, whose decision in the case of the Baltimore Po- lice Commissioners saved Maryland from the worst effects of Gov. Swann’s political perfidy. ‘They suceeeded iu baving bLis nuue ilucken “houkd atonce give the subject the most thorough | from {the resolution. We will not do Gen. Hoy ¢ discourtesy to suppose that he will accept the hospitality which the Maryland Legislature can only offer coupled with an in- sult—that, too, to the vast body of loyal men who approve the course of Judgo Bond, and honor his long devotion to the unpgpular m’— The London Reform demonstration of Monday last, details of which are given in a Cable dis- patch which we publish this morning, must re- move all doubt—where doubt existed—as to the true character and ohjects of the great political movement which has been qg‘it_ag_in_ql England for several months past. Evidently, the popular demand for an extension of the franchise goes much further than what'is understood by a “moderate measure of reform.” It means nothing less than equal rights for all; and, thanks to the obstinacy of the Tories, and the treachery of the “Adullamites,” matters have reached such a pass that no concession short of this will satisfy the people. The ovation to the American legation was one of the most signifi- cant facts of the demonstration Hn-!mv “'ARI; Bercner will speak this evening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music upon National Affairs, COLORADO. e s IMPORTANT [RTTER FROM THE HON. J. M. ASALEY. BT TRLEGRAPI TO THE TRIBONK. WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.—~The Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio, Chairman of the House Committee on Porritories, has addressed the following letter to the Hon. B, ' Wade, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories, with reference to the admission of Colorado : HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 11, 1867, DEAR BiR: I herewith inclose certified copy of the amendment to the bill for the admission of Colorado mto the Union, as originally offered by me in the House of Ropresentatives, and adopted by that body. Ido this to correct a misapprehension which I learn exists as tothe origin and nature of the difference between it and the amendment to the Nebraska bill. This misapprehension doubtless originated in the incorreet roport of the amendment and my remarks in The Daily Globe, When otfering the amendment I re- marked that it was “ substantially” the same as the one adopted by the House, and incorporated with the Ne- braska b\fi. A correct report will be found in the pro- coedings of the House of Representatives on the 15th of January ult., in Oongressional Globe, page 451. By com- paring * the” amendment offered by we with " the Rinendment to the Nebraska bill, page 480, HeBORmY be hon | that tho " Aundamental rondition” is the same, and that in both cases the ratifi- cation is v Legislature. The differ- ¢ case 0f Nebraaka the Terri- 0 call the Btate Legisla- ture together within thirty days, to sot on the ratification of the fundamental condition of admission. Tn that of rido, the Governor elect of suid Stale1s authorized to together the Legislature elocted under the Constitu thon within sizty days, to ratify the proposed fundamental conditions. While the amendment to the Nebraska bill was under discussion, a conference was had with the author of that amendment and several members,as to th oty of tiese chang ey, to which no objection was made, The friends of Colorido thought that the Gov- ernor eloet of Mo State, At least in this case, Was the more 0 to call the Siate Legislature to- rritorial Governor, Who was to be e in case of tavorable action, was known 20 b openy ostile to- the ndmiesion of the State. And as the Stale Legislature eould oply be valid as such when the met of Cougress took effect hy the ratification of the proposed fundamental condiuion, it was thought wore proper to designate it as the Legislature elected under sakd State Constitution. This lnuu;fnwvl- .‘:n also of th body, ldity. designed to recognize the existence ove any doubt on the questic and This was belieyed to be proper, as b titution could be operat fee, until the sct of o effect. This is the Le ted by the peopleto be such upon t ¢ into the Union. This view of the case is sustained v the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas, in the case of Crawford agt, Robinson, The difference in the time | allowed for convening the Legisiatures i the two cases is obylously proper, becatise of the greater remoteness of Colorado from the capital. Kespecttully yours, J. M. ASHLE irman Committee ou Territories, Hon. B. F. Wade, U.8.8. if they had been placed in the garden | should get on without | | Tous. RRY SYSTEM. e —— LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATION —FIFTII AND SIXTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS—SOUTIL SEVENTH-ST. AND OTHER FERRTES ~ADJOURNED TO ALBANY. On Monday the testimony taken before the Ferry Investigating Committee was not of great fmportance. The principal witnesses examined were those regarding the general condition of the ferry-boats, and the ainking of the N ka. From the evidence taken it was found that the boats on the Roosevelt-st. Ferry were in a most disgraceful condition regarding liness, As reganls the botlers of these vessels, it was shown they were in the most deplorable condition, an ordinary et knife perforating the fron with ease, These are putched up o as to carry 36 or 40 pounds of uing the forry investigation was resumed. William Wall, who re- K and Brook- o 1 psterday he Tirst w wod his ey vt mpany ny bought out the property on bot vo recelved i fee simple from that ferry some | property on South Eighth nning to the river; we al- lowed them $30,000 for i not sel! it now for less thiyn 100,000 up $%00,000 paid up ; out amouht $1,000,000; fece of v: the lease of the slip on the other side i up by the Commeu Council of tue City of 1t was then asked if the company bought that forry for the pitrpose of discontinning it Mr. Wall roplied that that was the intention. As to the of the boats, he was of opinion they could make bt owing to the smonnt of navigation on suld not be prudent to run the boats too g the pilots are to be careful of 3 I ma boata the aware that to rum . it would not be prudent wecount of tho swiftness of the tide; the ples ai P most dilapidated conditios life-preservers on mmodore Perry b bout & year and there are 50 or lere are ot ot n X Slip it You were to « they would only sink down to a sank down to her guards only; fon; the regulat ave about every nine fre- i $11 o of {0g boats ar are run fu the moruing ti n off (i 3 or 4 o'clock quently delay o'clock, then one fs ta noon, when it is put on n; the agent of i required to see that the bodts are kept cleaned; many of the complaiuts made against the company are frivo- Upon many of the pany would power e wou After a fe T, wasn general deficiency ou all the 8. Bellows wis ealled, swora aud ¢ nned inref- 1o the Greanpoint Feory: e was a resident of t wasu growing place, aud heen for Lto have been forgotten ¢ deal might be said for tie u.-)-‘llllufiglhl, 1u ghe ghonld Do son. it 1 thoy should be Lo the ventila- it is wlmost im- ras of opinjon that ectyfied if the Com- If it wore in his bl 10 stated there routes, Mr. & a 3 Wals u‘;wfif" e coupy the Cabilin in all of ., '%fl!f ::V!j Menpoint T nt; Gideou Lee Knahp is thé i \-)ulurnl the ferry; as to & man wykiug (he time on that frry that ho wants to and ex- pects to, 16 was only a matier of luck; it those boats ire, hie did not know anythin:s to prevent the 9 wesengers burning up with where clse, and i popujntioy and th 5 that those u{mm R ivoa wxsy Loy ple 128 854 laii gl thing to #0 mai sperity and growth. Comimittee had o1l woilld now adjourn. Albazy. of the birth of Abrabaw Lincoln was cclebra the Honse of Assembly. A portrait of the late Presi- dent was presented by a Commiitee appointed to pro- cure it This and the day itself was wade the ocea- sion of eulogies by Mr. Moore of Cumber] Morris of Hudson, Mr. Stausbury ot Passa Speaker, and others, ¥ TAE LINCOIN MEMORIAL IN KENTUCKY. Lovisvir ] Col. A, I, Henry’s marble bust of Abraham Lineoln was dedicated to- at the Aeademy of Musio. The hall wasdonsely crowded by a seleet i proportionof ladies. ov. Bramlette presided and gave an account of the life of the senlptor, a native of Kentueky. After- ward he unvailed the bust, whichelicited the appro- 0 of the audience as o work of art. Ex-Attorney- General Speed was introduced and delivered an address, which was one of the happi Fhomas D) s . Davis followed, Subse- ved to the Castom-House life, Gons, ) T8 laa BY TELRGRAPH 10 THX TRINONE. X "u"\suf GREAT BRITAIN. v o LoNDON, Feb.12.—The Reform demonstration o, Monday was a great success. There were 20,000 pers . sons in the progession, and the streets wore lined with more than 200,000 spectators, A hundred mounted ploneers, drilled as cavalry, headed the procgssion, The best WS tained. during thé march; and axmm a h!:h‘cuu of ben. neting and throwing of stones no arrests were made. The day was bright and full of sunshine, and was in striking contrast with . the day on which. the Queen’s procession to the Houses of Parliament took place. All London seemed to be out of doors. Flags and banners were everywhere displayed. The American, French and Italian flags were carried in the procession, as was also a picture of the yacht Henrietta, During the - march the bands played “Yankee Doodle,” the “ Mar. seillaise,” **John Brown,” and the Garibaldi Hymn, The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred observed the . display from the United Service Club, but their pres- once elicited no cheers. A superb bvation took place at the American Embassy. All the men i 6T cession took off their hats as they pass vo nine cheers, The following t455 “Which :« liberally displayed o3 Thie banners, indicatethe senti- - fnents of {he people: “No Surrendor,” * Liborty, Equality, Fraternity,” * Manhood Suffrage,” “Serfdom is Infamous,” “ The voice of the people cannot be opposed with safety,” *“Disobedience to tyrants is duty to God,” *“Taxation without Ropre- sentation is Tyranny,” “Liberty to those who dare demand it,” “Trust God, but keep your pow- der dry.” The procession terminated its march at Agricultural Hall, where an imwmense meeting was held; 50,000 people were pres- ent. A letter was read from John Stuart Mill, M. P, The O’Donoghue, Mr. Potter and Mr. Taylor, all Members of Parliament, made speeches, Resolutions were passed denonncing the Derby Government and . demanding manhood suffrage. A deputation from the Reformers waited upon Mr. Gladstone in the morning and presented to him a complimentary ad- dress. They ived an encouraging reply. But neither Mr. Gladstone nor John Bright was present at the meeting. On Monday afternoon the House of Commons was crowded to hear the expected announcement of the Government programme. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Teck, and Earl Russell were present. Disraeli deliverod & long historical essay on reform and the English Con- stitution. He showed only a few flashes of his usnal spirit, but was especially brilliant while denouncing Gold- win Smith as a * wild man,” and ironically defending~ Earl Russell. Toward the close of his speech he said the Government would introduce resolutions te test the sense of Parliament before present- ing a Reform bill, and fixed the 25th inst. e the day for offering them. The resolutions are vague and unsatisfactory, and merely state general princis ples. Gladstone, in a few commonplace remarks, accepted the Government’s plan of proceeding, bu protested against the delay. With the conclusion of his remarks the debate ended. During the session & rumor prevailed that the Fenians had taken the city of Chester, which caused great excitement. The Duke of Cambridge hastily left the House during the session for the War Oifice. Dispatches from Chester state that 1,400 strangers arrived there on Monday from Liverpool and Manchester, in the style of Canada raiders. Their appearauce caused great alarm. No outbreak has occurred as yet. There are some troops in the Castle, which is sup posed to be the point of attack. passt £ FRANCE. Panrs, Feb. 12.—The American squadron, it is um- derstood, will visit Cherbourg during the continu- ance of the International Exposition. prascton GERMAD BegrLIN, Feb. 12.~Prussia will send plenipotentia- ries 1o treat with the ex-King of Hanover in regard to the disposition to be made of his private property. The conference of South Geérman States has adopted an arwy system similar to that of Prussis. ot ITALY 2, —The Cabinet Ministers of Italy FLORENCE, Feb. Lave all resigned. SPAIN. Maprip, Feb, 12.—The Cortes will be opened by the Queen on the 30th of March. LoNDON, Feb, 12.—It is reported in Madrid thas the Government intends imposing a forced loan, el TURKEY. CoNSTANTINOPLE, Feb, 12.—In the new Turkish Cabinet about to be created, Ali Vizer Fuad will ac- cept the office of Foreign Mmister, RU S1. PrrERsBURG, Feb. 1L—Lient.-Col. Knox, an embassy of the Russo-American Telegraph, waited apon the Emperor yesterday. Ile represented that the line on the Asiatic side will be completed in July next, Gov. Korsackoff and Gen. Shelasinkoff, in Siberia had formally acknowledged the courtesy of the A n Congress in regard to the attempted assas- sination of the Ewperor. v FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Loxpos, Feb. Noon merican securities opened at the following rates : Tlliuois Central shaves, S1j; Railroad shares, 393; United States Five-Twenty bouds, 75 316. At Paris, the bonds are quoted at 82§; and at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 763, Consols for money closed at 91, Evening—Consols closed at 9%F for money, American Sceurities wero last quoted at the following rates : United States Pive-Twenties, 73 3-16; 1llinois’ Central Shares, 81§ Erie Rallway Shares, 503, At Fraukfort United States bonds elosed at 75§, At Puris American bonds to to. q’unnll_\ Building and placed westerly ewd of the Il W 03001t LA oualy ol ntly ona peds Librury, the United MISSOURIL. THE SUPREME COURT DBCISION ON THE TEST OATH. BY TELEURARE TO TUR TRINGNE. &1, Louls, Feb, 12.—A spacial dispateh Joffor- son Uity to The Demoerat says: Mr. m . Couservative, offored a bill in'the Senate to-day, submit to a vote ol the people a proposition to ratify the dm-iswP of the Units tates Suprcme Conrt in_relation to the Test Oath required by the Constitution to be taken by lawyers practicing, &c. The bill also provides that no person shall be disqualificd as a voter unless convicted of treason or elony. The bill was rejected by a vote of 6 to 23, Iy Bpdicals prowised that while “their party will abide by the decision of the Supreme Court, they do x‘mll nlmw;e to give Rebels the right to vote yos awhile, ——— TENN THE NFGRRO SUFFRAGE BILL. BY TELRGRAPH TO THR TRIBUNR. Nasuviree, Feb, 12.—The Senate passed the Col- orod Suffrage bill to a second reading, refusing to * strike out the clause prohibiting negroes to sit om juries or kold office. It will probably be passed to & final reading to-morrow. Pt A, THE FLOODS. padtiv-dadms Y TRLEARARH TO THE TRINONE. HIGH 'WATER AND LOSS OF LIFE IN VERMONT, Bostox, Mass,, Feb. 12.—A dispatch from Coneord, N. H., says that while the river was so blockaded with ice at West Hartford, Vt, the water rose as high s the second story windows of Mr. Williamson's hotel. The oldest daughter of Mr, Williamsou, the propei r‘n«- |‘mml. was drowned while trying to eseape depot. THF. FRESHET IN CONNECTICUT. AY TRLEGRAN TO THE TRIBUNE. Norwich, Coun., Feb. 12~The end wall of the nearly completed paper-mill of Campbell, Hall & Co., at Greenville, having been undermined by the freshet, fell into the Shetucket River this evening, damaging the milt to the vglue of $20,000. Several workmen had a narrow oscape. ' The mill was being finished fn the highest and was on e of the finest structures of the kind in the country. The whole building is in danger. The total l..m Dy tho fieshofia this gection of the State will reacl