The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1867, Page 4

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We quote the following closing paragraphs : “The immediate objeet of this Order is to provide funds for the uniferming of eur men and for the change of our rifies nto breech-loaders. , Brothers, the duty of vigorous and prompt action devolves pressingly upon you. Remdmber the nnh‘gv.mu *hie who gives promptly, To orgate and swccessfully carry out a aiust & powerful government, requires in thea days, 1ol only the *sinews of war,” and a well and skitifuliy vruwnized military force, but impiements of war of the hmosi spproved rw;rn and effective power. Breech-luaders make most readily breaches in the ranks of afoo. In courage,in incentives to heroism, in the fuspirations that liberty ‘;'.hrs to those fighting jn her canse, onr enemy will be in the future, as always i the past, inferior 10 us; We must 0t be iuferior to him in the oharacter of our arms on the ficld of battle. As at Ridgewny, we can afford to give Lim three or four to oue in mien, if we are nearly wluul to all things else. Ws must he thoroughly {ir(-p.rw before we move again, and we will not move until success shall seem assured. Our next march must be all a forward one; we will take 0o step backward. * Vietory or Death,” i%, and must he the gaiding thought of all our actions. To falter now wn-fd be tresson, to hesitate would be cowardice. All onr strength and resourocs miust bo wu forth to gain a firm foothold ou English soil. When there, with our men uaiformed, ccretary , and armed according to the requirements of modern warf nd with the ** Sunburat " unfurled over thiem, we can safely and hopetully rest the cause and the 0.8 oir native laud, tpon the God of batties, and braver, of the sofdiers of the frish Republican Biwy. : ry particalarly to | ark, as their desizne | NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, et Dok Puilyribune, £ FRIDAY, FE RUARY 15, 1867. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Dairy Trisexe, Mail Subscribers, $10 per annum. Sew-W seap, Mail Subsceribers, $4 per an. WekkLy Trisuse, Mail Subseribers, $2 per annnm. 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The Money Article and Markets appear on the third page. e ~“fhe bill to make League Island a site for a new Navy-Yard, especially for iron-clads, was yesterday passed by the Senate, by a vote of 24 to 17, and now only needs the signature of the President. The details of the bill before the Italian Parliament, proposing the entire separation of Church and State, will b read with great in- terest throughout our country. It is the first 1re of the kind introduced by one of the Powers of Europe. The letter on our second page, in which is detailed a recent conversation with Mr. Hern- don, the law-partner of Abrabam Lincoln, will Do found unusually interesting. It gives some new phases of Mr. Lincoln’s character, and in- cidents of his life never before published. In the House, yesterday, the bill to pay the war debts contracted by loyal States was de- bated, considerable objection being made to the addition of $115,000,000 to the National debt. It was finally referred to the Committes on Ways and Means by a vote of 81 to 44, B A Cable dispatch confirms the report brought by the last mail from Brazil of an insurrec- tionary movement against President Lopez of araguay. If not speedily subdued, this move- meat would totally change the prospects of the war, which in the latter months of the year 1866 were decid to Paragaay. I'he Loan bill which passed the Senate yester- day with litile opposition is variously inter- preted by different persons. Regarding it as a means of retiing and funding obligations which will soon mature, and which stand in the way of a speedy Resumption of Specie Payments, we trust it may become a law. That the British Government should assume the expenses of the defense of Gov. Eyre almost makes it an accomplice in the Jamaica massa- cre. It does not treat other criminals as well, but might as well. This shocking act will hasten the downfall of the Tory Ministry, and give new strength to Reform. In obedience to the Railroad Monopoly, the Senate of New-Jersey yes | passed the Dbill consolidating the Camden and Amboy and New-Jersey Railroads. We pre- sume this indicates that the pledge of the Cam- den and Amboy Company not to seek to per- petnate its monopoly, which expires in 198, will be repudiated with the conseat of the Legislature. A State Temperance Convention is called to wt at | isburg, Pa., on the 26th of Feb- ruarvy. The call is issued by the chief oflicers of the order of Good Templars and Sons of | Temperance in the State, the eting is the organization of a State Associa- tion that shall be ausiliary to the National Temperance Society and Publishing House in New-York. One object of Col. Hexry C. Demt wis yesterday re- | nominated for Congress from the Ist (Hartford and Tolland) District of Conneeticut. Col. D. | organized and led, in Gen. Butler's expedi- tion, a regiment of volunteers, which was one the first that landed at New-Orleans. He irst chosen to Congress, after a desperate in 1863, and trivmphantly reélected We trust his success now is assur Me. Eliot’s bill to establish a legal ment in - Louisiana was debated in the yesterday, Mr. Trumbull and Mr. Sumne | ing to amend it. Mr. Wade rightly v arod | the Senate that too many amendments 1401 defeat a bill of which the principles were ¢ ceded to be just. It was postponed till ¢ day, and we hope Mr. Wade will hold fo bis intention of giving the Senate no rest till it passed. Senate v il Parxeas T. Baenest was yesterday nomi- nated for Representative in Congress from the IVth (Western) District of Connecticut, after a spirited eontest, during which the name of the Hon. Jobn H. Hubbard, the incumbent, was withdrawn. Messrs. Beardsley and Byington were Mr. Barnom's remaining competitors. P. T. Barnum belongs to the present genera- tion, and is active and prominent in every good work. The district is apt to be close; but he is 't apt to be defeated. He must and will be chosen. Mr. Seward’s letter to Mr. Dudley, our Con- sul at Liverpool, states officially what we knew unofficially, that the United States Govern- ment has entirely repudiated the compromise which Messrs. Morse and Gibbs made last De- cember with the Rebel agents in England. Without repeating the history of the case, it is enongh to say that while the United States had suits in the English courts to recover a very large amount of property held by Rebel agents, Mr. Morse, Consul at London, and Mr. Gibbs, an agent of the Treasury Department, agreed to a compromise by which our Govern- ment abandoned valuable elaims. My, Seward's letter says the arcangement was made upon absolute want of authority, and that Mr, Morse had express instructions to make no contract with representatives of the Rebellion. — The debate on the Internal Revenue bill in the House, yesterday, was evidence of the dif- ficulty the Committee of Ways and Means will find in getting the assent of the House to their method of reducing taxes by arbiirarily exempt- ing certain manufactures. A number of motions were made to exempt other articles, whils the discrimination in favor of Gus Compaumds was rday unanimously | denounced as infamous and abominable. We heartily approve the vote by which the power _not the right—of Gas Companies to place their taxes on consumers is to be ended in April. Mr. Plants hit that absurd privilege hard when he suggested that any person liable to tax should have power to make ahbor pay it, and Mr. Schenck ridienled it with equal effect. 'We are sorry the special tax on distillers was kept at 100, instead of #500 as the bill proposed, and believe with Mr. Darling that 1,000 would be better than either, pr——— his n At last—after half the session has elapsed— our Legislature has taken up the subject of en- abling the People of our State to hold the Con- stitutional Convention they called last Fall But they have taken it up only to drop it; the Assembly resolution for a recess from the 15th to the 25th has been concurred in by the Senate. So, after a negligence and paltering that does the Legislature no credit, the bill has been postponed to the 26th. We approve Gov. Fenton's recommendation of the choice of sixteen eminent citizens of each party on a General Ticket, and trust it may yet prevail. We favor the choice of the residue by Assembly rather than by Senate distriets; though we should be willing to see one delegate chosen from each Senate district. But we are tenacious on mo point but that the Legislature shall somehow provide for the choice of delegates and the meeting of the Convention. And this ought to have been done long since. “ Business before pleasure.” —— The Hon. J. 8. Morrill of Vermont has been compelled to leave his seat in Congress to visit his dying mother ; and we hear that this will delay action on the Tariff bill, It surely should not. Mr. Morrill is a very able and very useful legislator; but the House will have to do without him after the 3d of March, now close at hand; and it may as well begin to accenstom itself to the privation. The country can better afford to take the Senate’s amendments in a lump than run the sn lest risk of losing the bill. We entreat the friends of Protection to take up the bill, strike ont the clause which contomplates the use of British Iron in building our great Pacific Railroad, with such other Sea- ate amendments as are deemed ill-advised, (the fewer the better,) and send it back to the Senate for conenry If this week closes without secing that bill throngh both Houses, we shall apprehend its ultimateo defe — REVENUE AND WHISKY. In eonsidering the bill to reduce taxation, Congress will do well to remember this fact: that any gain to the industry of the country from the lessening of its burden would be far loss than its loss by injury to the National credit. To exempt cortain branches of manu- facture from taxation amounting to $75,000,000 may not afford general relief, while if, in domg so, the eredit of the Government is endangered, oven temporarily, the effect on all business will be ruinous. We do not want y upon a system which, taxes reduced, espec exempting certain mannfactures entirely, will be sure to excite complaint from others, and thus result in an indefinite extension of the free list. If Congress begins by taking off the taxes from leather and sugar, it will end by taking them from iron and wool. Nor can Mr. Morill's argument that reduction may safely be made by using greater e omy, be ac there 18 no reason to expect econ The XXXIXth Congress has been dis extravagance, and the XLth Il no better Before trusting to the chances of economy we should like Congress do something in the way of contrac- tion, There is but one seetion of the Revenue laws that absolutely needs to be amended. The tax on whisky and the machinery by which it is cepted omy. tinguished for Ay e o see collected shonld be changed. Whisky, which should be the chief source of revenue, pays not one-cighth of what it shonld under the present rates. In 1860, 90,000,000 gallons were made ; in 1866, the tax was collected upon 14,000,000 gallons. Yet, we suppose, at least 70,000,000 were manufactured. Here is the loss of about %110,000,000 for Congress to con- sider, and we regard such an enormous deficiency as positive proof of the ineffi- ciency of the present law., The Committee on Ways and Means propose to continue the tax of two dollars per gallon, and to collect it by machinery more complex than the old; but the method is su tially the same, and we believe the new law will be evaded to, about the same exteni as the old. It continues'| the present ineffective method of inspection, one which could not have been improved as a protec- tion of fraud if the distillers had had the framing of the law, and which makes all the other exeise regulations inoperative. Mr. Darling, Chairman of the Committee to investigate Revenuo frands, should know something of the way in which the Government is swindled, and ; he emphatically assured the House, on Wednes- day, that the plan of requiring distillers to pay the salaries of local inspectors was the great "obstacle to the collection of the tax. Local inspectors receive five dollars a day while ! actually inspecting, and of course it is to their interest that distilling should be carried on without interruption. But investigation has shown that not one distiller out of ten will make whisky and pay two dollars per gallon , and that not one out of twenty can afford | do it, while his neighbors are enabled to “undersell him by evading the tax. The resnlt is this: the dishonest inspector becomes the ereature of the dishonest distiller; the hon- _est. distiller is forced to stop his busi- ess; and when a disgiller wishes to cheat and finds the inspector - cannot be bribed, he stops his pay by suspending business. This is done on the principle thab it is cheaper to stop making whisky for a short time than to pay the tax, afd the Ins who is thrown out of employment for :‘ weeks ls"stou replaced by another who will “pfobably be more pliant. This has been done again and again, and the effect is to force honest men out of the serviee of the Government, and w place the inspection of whisky absolutely under the control of the distillers. The 4,000 distillers of New-York and Brooklyn, who are ‘b_ehled swindlers, may long continue, if this ;V is continued, to sing the old Scotch _c_bonu of ¥ “ Here's your fery goot health, o And tamn ta whusky duty.” % ‘Wé do not suppose that Congress will re- e the tax on whisky to 50 cents per gallon, ugh we believe that would be wise, But that it should at least be cut down to §1 is | unquestionable. That done, let the inspectoss be paid by the Government, and, a8 Mr, Dar- ling suggests, frequently remofed to other distriéts. Our wish that the tax op whisky should be greatly lowered, and our objoctions to the reduction of other taxes, Iavesbut one object—the increase of the reve- nue, for the payment of our-estraordinary ex- penses and the steady deervase of the debt, Gongress can best do this by letting the present Bgvouso Lavy stgud, quggntips (hoso wuyiso FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1867. whisky laws which have so fully defeated their own objects. MEXICO. 1t has boen for some time no secret that the relations between Maximilian of Mexico and Louis Napoleon had altogether ceased to be friendly. Maximilian had been selected by Lonis Napoleon as & tool for carrying out what he regarded as one of the very best Napoleonic ideas, the restoration of monarchism in Latin Ame Long did the French Emperor refuse to admit that the Mexican expedition, instead of being the brightest page in the history of his rule, was a miserable failure; but when at length a further denial of its failure became impossible, the mortification felt by the Emperor turned to a large extent against the unsuccess- ful agent who had been selected to carry out the plan. The diplomatic correspondence on Mexico between the Governments of France and the United States was full of hints at which Maximilian must have felt profoundly indignant ; and if the repeated and concurrent reports from many generally well-informed Mexican correspondents deserve any credit, Marshal Bazaine has of late used to Maximil- ian a tone of outrageous arrogance. The latest instances of this kind are referred to in the Mexican dispatches in this morning's issue. It was not to be expeeted that Maximilian should tacitly submit to this domineering con- duct. We have repeatedly had indications that Maximilian either had given or would give vent to the feelings which the conduct of the French Emperor could not fail to produce. But the most important statement which we have as yet had of his feeling toward France, is an account given by The London Times of a cirenlar which the Imperial Government of Mexico is said to have addressed to its diplo- matic agents abroad. The statement of The Times, which we give in full in another column, charges Louis Napoleon with having withheld from Maximilian that moral support which the latter had a right to expect. The issue of such a efrenlar had been mentioned before in our reports from Mexico, but the account in The Times is the fullest which has yet been given. How far this correspondent had the means to acquaint himself with the contents of the cir- cular, we do not know, but there fare strong reasons for supposing that documents of this | kind have been issned from the Tmperialist Government of Mexico, and that Maximilian contemplates the publication of other docu- ments which will be anything but pleasing to Louis Napoleon. Maximihan has very good reasons for com- plaining of the duplicity of Louis Napoleon, but the latter is undoubtedly right when he identifies the withdrawal of the French troops with the collapse of the Imperial rule in Mexico. The dispatehes which we publish this morning leave no doubt that the last days of Mexican Imperialism are rapidly approaching. Alvarez is in the vicinity of the City of Mexico, and either he or Porfirio Diaz is likely to occupy it immediately after the departure of the last French troops, which was to take place yeste! day. We may have a few more sensation di patches about pretended victories of the Imperialist armies; but there is no risk, we believe, ‘dicting that if the Mexican Em- pire should at all survive the embarkation of the French troops, its further existence will be measured not by months but by days. —_— THE TENEMENT EVII We have to thank the Board of | for its enterprise in veform. There has been of Jate a reawakening of indignation ag: aocial nuisance known as the tenement s) and the Board has taken the opportune mo- ment to offer a report on the subject. Much | that this report contains leads us to hope that he Board will be at length enabled to do vore than merely deseribe a disease which so meh needs a cure ; but, all events, we are deased to see another careful iteration, this time in medical shape, of the standing com- plaint against a too long standing evil, The census of the tenement system never matter of awe and wonder. We real again that there are 18,582 of these houses in the city, and we can only imagine a small fraction of the suffering and discomfort of which this is the sum. More than one half of these houses are reported by the Sanitary Supernteadent as in a bad condition as regards Bealth; and it is even a more remarkable fact that 5,514 0 them are thus ill-conditioned on account of the neglect mostly of owners, sometimes of oceupmts. Thirty-two per cent of the tene- meut system is in a deadly plight, and the rest may be deseribed as a slower poison. Should an epidemic invade us in force, we have a fever ground in the heart of the city where its ter rible forces may encamp and quarter in defi ance of the wisest effort to quell it. We ought to look apon this part of the tenement system as an orzanized epidemic and lose no time in reforming it. The canses of the sanitary evils of the tene- ment system are simply enumerated by Dr. Dalton. They are, in brief, crowded structures, deficient ventilation, absence of light, bad cellars, and deficient drainage. It would be | impossible to imagine more evils than contained under these few | gross ountrage in the fact that the condition of so a portion of the worst class of tenements ¢ to the wretehed parsimony and cupidity swners. We are well advised that it possible to -institute a steady, inevi- reform—as regards these catacombs ground. By such a reform any increase of these evils can surely be prevented, and it only needs a persistent effort “on the part of the Board of Health, assisted by Lo other authorities, to work a gradual dimu- “lition. Owners are certainly responsible for tue sanitary condition of the houses to which they condemn those who pay them for i arivilege of being treated to slow poison. L e st that some time the power to call them | Wwoaocount, at least to insist on reform, will I be w ' apparent. ceases to be g is table above T Wo are sorry to learn that the benevolent and patriotic ‘éfforts of the Southern Relief Association to allevigte the distress prevailing in soveral of the Southern States, are not re- | ceiving the encouragement which they deserve, The ery-for help comes up day after day, but the Northern people are chary of their contri- butions, and the ds upon the Committee far leu'('d the means at their disposal. Col. \'illxun‘Nenles. Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Poer in Sumter Distriet, 8. C., writes that in his district *“the class de- “‘nominated paupers will reach three hundred, “without house or home, or any means of sub- “sistence.” They indlude both whites and ne- groes, the latter, of course, largely predom- inating. Similar destiution prevails through- out the whole State, and “the poverty and “necessity of all classes cut the right arm of “private charity.” The Committee ordered 2,000 bushels of corn t be shipped to Sumter District_ou Wdugsday, wad thisy i is sti- mated, will bo sufficient to supply the most needy until the next crops are gathered. Another correspondent writes from Lancaster- ville, S. C.: “ Let me beseech you to have sent “to this section of onr common country imme- “diately about 2,000 bushels of corn. Tt will “enable the poor to keep up their stock dur- “ing the very cold season, make small crops “during the year, and provide against a future “famine. . . . Unless something is done im- “mediately for our relief, many human beings “must perish.” We call again most earnestly upon our readers to help in the charitable work which the Relief Association have undertaken. We hear the objection suggested that this is a movement of “Southern sympathizers.” It is nothing of the kind, except so far as this: it i3 a movement of sympathizers with the starving, and when famine stares one in the face it is no time to inquire into the sufferer’s loyolty, or rake up his past offenscs. THE HARLEM RAILROAD CU A meeting of property-owners in the ity MUSIC. — No greater difference of style is imaginable than thas between any favorite opera of the Italian school and Richard Wagner's “fiery, untamed” Tannhauser. This is the merest troism, but it is the beginning and the end of the unpopularity to which Tannhauser is singularly but proudly fated. Tts utter remoteness from any received idea of melody, and its entire absorption in that harmonie philosophy which now more or less influences all strictly German works, make it s unfamiliar as possible to those whose vision of opera is an artificial paradise of things pretty, brilliant, and high-sounding—of beauty and bombast—growing out of the conventional plot and stage business, The attempt fo make a true mu- sical drama is daring, and Wagner mnst suffor like his Tannhauser. Those who sympathize strongly with Beethoven, Schumann, and the half-realism? halt-transcendentalism, in German music will be earnestly inclined to hear the revelations of Tam § hauser. They do not come to ns, howevef, with any too sudden flash or shock, albeit Tennhavser i as loud as it can be. We must hear it many times to judge properly its merits or defects. Tanuhauzer, as we have hinted, is altogether revo- lutionary, It is a sincere attempt to make a trus operatic drama, in the most absolute sense. Wagner conceives that his musie and drama shonld u uma of one nerve and mind—hence his music is speech. Hence, of Yorkville has been called for to-morrow night to take action respecting the dangerous condition of the deep cut of the Harlem Rail- road upon Fourth-ave., between Seventy-ninth and Ninety-seventh-sts. The avenue is 146 fect in width, but the Railroad Company has made an excavation between the above points, vary- ing in width from 30 to 50 feet, and being at some points nearly 50 feet in depth. This cut is uncovered, except between Ninety-second and Ninety-fourth-sts., while for nearly the entire distance it is not adequately protected at the sides. Upon the block above Eightieth- st. there are no rails nor fences upon either side the cut; between Eighty-second and Eighty-third-sts. the wall on the west side has fallen, and in falling has carried away a por- tion of the roadway, making it dangerous for passing vehicles; and at the erossing of Eighty- third-st. a portion of the roadway has fallen in, making it dangerous for persons to attempt to cross the bridge at night. It is alleged that one policeman has, during the past twelve years, assisted in taking the bodies of twelve persons from the cut, who were killed by fall- ing down the sides, and that there have been no less than thirty-two such cases during that time. Whether this statement is at all exag- gerated or not we have no means of imme- diately ascertaining, but the danger is not exaggerated by those who are now moving in the matter. Article 5 of the 28th section of the General Railroad Law of April 2, 1850, anthorized any Railroad Company to constrnet their road along streets or highways, “but the Company shall “restore the . . . .street, or highway . . . . “thus intersccted or touched to its former “gtate, or to such state as not necessarily to “have impaired its usefulness.” Section 44 of the same law requires every Railroad Company to “ereet and muintain fenees on the sides of “their road of the hight and strength of a “division fence required by law.” This re- quirement is repeated in the act of April 15, 1854, and in that of May 5, 1864, With these plain requirements of the law before them, the owners and managers of the New-York and Harlem Railroad need not be surprised at rather vigerous action npon the part of property owners in the neighborhood so especially mis- used. If any of the statements made to us can be controverted, the Company will see the necessity of stating their side of the case. If they cannot, there must be a remedy found, and if the Company will apply it volunt v so much the better. e Our mail advices inform us that a Conference has been held in London for the purpose of con- ing the propriety of taking measures for the jon of the Licensing system, with a view to restrict the sale of intoxicating drinks. One of the most notable incidents of the meeting was an address from the Roman Catholic Arch- bishop, Dr. Manning, in which he drew a painful picture of the increase of drunkenness among the poor of London, and powerfully urged the adoption of strong measu legislative and otherwise, to cheek the growing evil. ——— sid revis The N. Y. Times vebuts none of the evidence of its treachery in printing the New-Ordeans | report, but in secks to change the issue by charges against Toe Trisexe of ill conduct. It sueceeds in inventing no more plausible ab- surdity than that somebody in this of a telegram and invented an agreement to in- duce The Times to send us the test-oath dec jon. The lie is too preposterous to merit a serions denial, but it is not the first time the man with the stolen watch in his pocket eried “Stop thi —_——— The report of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, which was to have been submitted at a meeting of the sharcholders on the 4th st., shows that the great enterprise of the laying of an Atlantic Cable has been in every respect a decided success. the cables is described as eminently satisfac- tory, d theiv working proves everything that could be desived. The finanees of the Company are in a very healthy state, and the prices are to come dow —— The Church Union is a new and fair we issued in Brooklyn, and devoted to a pr. of all the Orthodox Protestant sects and denomina- tions into one church: It seems to be judiciously conducted, The following is its “BOND OF UN1oN.~We, the undersigned, believers in | s of the Holy Seriptures as sct forth in the and Niceno Creeds, do hereby pledge ourselves ioi, and the recog: I the futercha pits, thus to make visible the unity of the Chure And furticrmore solemuoly ige ourselves o stund by cach other ln securing these ends.” I3 ol Inquirer, so long the scholarly and dignified organ in our city of the Unitarian der ; paper is larger and better than the old, and aspire be unsectarian and large-minded, as its name im- plies. These who sympathise with the *Broad Chureh” tendencies of the age can hardly fail to like it. No. 82 Nassau-st. The Rev. J. B. Harrison, pastor of the Free Con- gregational Society in Bloomiugton, 111, solicits the communication to him by vl the name and tt with the Legislatu the mewbers to throw open the doors of Michigan Univer- sity to women as woll us to men. There Is some hope that this most famous of Western Universities will be recon- strue fleges to both soxes. Many of the younger Western col- leges are conducted on such a plan, and are abundantly suecesstul. [ probably leave areavging i dis o will then proese (o cowmaud s wom alalivuol location of overy rehigions society callingor consider- ing itself Liberal (that is, sunti-creed) in the West. Address as ahove, e——— Turovore Tuaon (says The Independent), on the morning after his Jecture in Lansing, had an interview ¢ of Michigan, for the purpose of urging oun just and generous foundation of equal priv- 1t 15 the best plan. Chief Eogineer Eldridge "ty st Bridgewater, Mags. ol bearing the fag of Admiral Palmer, will orrww for Beet upon our Southe ice forged | The condition of | : The Liberal Christian (weekly) veplaces The Christian ¢ also, he wrote his own poem, and translated it wor for word, feeling for feeling, into “ the music of the future.” No ome believes that the motive idea of this mu any dead secref to the grasl old masters whose harmony Wagner and his best follow- .ers may strive in vain to equal. But none of t ever strove to make a perfeet drama m the sense of Tannhauser ov Lohengrin. 1E there are to be, mdeed, such recognized wonders as natural, true, ideal, dramas of masie, Wagner pd a poet of se of drama on of i may well assert his elaim to be eons the futare—a poct in the combined and musie. He has aimed for the lil X cal form and idea, in the only on wherein s real progress seems possible. “There are many opin- jons as to his success : not all of those liberal enough to admire a discover; t Tannhanscr is a satisfactory work; but very few will fail i pressed by a’certain vigorons pre-Raphaelitism—we can think of nothing else that so suggests the com- ser’s cceentrieit ich g to_every word of his drama some musical meaning Wagner's opera is, in_ short, a drama literally rendercd into musical thonght and speech, But to eall it literal merely, would be o misinterpretation—it is broadly, and often powerfully, inative. There remains, however, the doubt whe the more complex pro- duct of modern musical progress, Riehard Wagner, has any ideality to make him kindred and poof among those simpler great ones, e harmonie song was in truth a music of the future, withont ever being so patented. The merit of the music of the future, be it more or less, is that which pervades the progressive id i the fine arts, and » is_toward a more literal sin Wagner contends, toward a recor _The orchestra of Zannhauser, as is extraordinary. _Some things are groate nothing is like it. It suggests, no such J the * heaven-storming” orchesfration of Fidelio ; it is vividly graphic and dramat exactly ealeulatod to take certain German audiences by assault, and to force a Parisian andience on the other hand, to ery it down in rage. Its wind-whist- ling, gale-blowing, and passion-braying insirnmenta. tion must have set Paris by the ears, The breath of an Arctie blast piping full in their faces, when in- vited to a Summer-feast, conld not have boen more impertinent. How to understand the contest of the minstrels—each minstrel apparently trying to make the least music—must have sorely ght-hearted Parisian, Tannhawser was en_up as a_terrible snccession conundrums put into sound, and all I’ broke into fury. Wagner's tremendous sphinx was nick- named humbug, and Paris quieted its mind. Sincs then the world has made & march toward the futnre, with Zannhauser’s accompaniment. It is impossible to cry down a work of great element, a3 it is to com- bat the wind. Wagner is voted a musical philoso- and from that day to this, thongh he bas no nwitators, though his influence, for the sake of the real truth which he has carried through a storm, has been felt on the mind of music. The production of Tannkauser at any time is an event. We dare hope that the good effect at its performance by the German company will be repeat- ed, if possible. Thongh as given a night or two ago it was not always intelligible, or correctly sung, there was evident pains to perform its difficnlties well Madame Johannsen and Mr. Himmer, the latter especially, deserve credit for their earnest asswinp- on of the parts of Elizabeth and Tannhauser ; aud scarcely less is to be said of M. Fenus and Wilhelm Formes's Wols an uncertainty of delivery even in these parts which another rehearsal would doubtless overcome. The overtare was admirably played; the choruses, onece or twice, badly sung, The depth and breadth .‘»l the Pilgrim’s Chorus was nevertheless apprecia- le; and, spite of defects and incoherences of chorus- ing, to which Tanuhauser is more sensitive than any other opera, the performance was interesting. The living, acting accompaniment to the drama was capi- tally sustained by Mr, Neuendorff’s excellent orches- tra, and the formidable dramatic passage of the lass t intelligently worked, It remains to be said that Tai s a drama, has a simplicity and mas- t suited to the genius of a compo- aim, as witness the grandeor of the legendas as operatized, is toward universality. —The second performance of La Traviata at the French Theater was an improvement. Chorus and orchestra were much better harmonized, and Madame Altieri's Violetta showed a gain at least in freedom. The new donna has vocal taste and a stately presence, but appeared to need an un- constrained dramatic enerzy—the only thing thas ) compensate for the waut of great voeal power in opera 5o hac ed by favorites and sensationisty as La Traviata. Signor Irfre gave usa fair_and pol- shed performance of Alfred. and Sizuor Fortuna's debutas Germont must be credited with good expres. sion. This evening, Trovatore will be given with in the part of Leonora, and Adelaide Phillips as dzweena. —This afternoon at 3 o'clock Mr. Wolfsohn will give his eighth Beethoven Matinée. The Sonata Ap- assionata, and a barcarole of Schubert. to be sung y Madaine Johannsen, will be among its great at- tractions. = TR Pl et FIRE IN EAST ELEVENTH-ST.—THREE FIREMEN BADLY HURT BY 11 KING OF A LADDER. At 5 o'clock on Tl morning a fire oceurred in n the fourth floor of the tene- ment bouse No, 17 enth-st., cansed by the ex plosion of a kerosene lamp. Before the flames were ox- tinguished the roof was burned off and the fourth flooe 1. Mr. Sick’s l0ss on fur- with its contents badly dam . Insured for $1,000 in 3 men's Company upied by Thomas Judge, 083 OB Not fusured. The second fiooe arns, whose furniture is da 3 ¢ to the extent of $100. Not insured. The first floor is occupied as w grocery by A. Freidemann Loss on stock by w $50. Not insured. The bulldmng ia 1 by William Kearns, and is damnged to the extent Tusured for $1,000 in the'Commercial Company. William R and John Piers of Engine Come 17, and W )'Neil of Eugine Company No. ing a length of hose up a long v to the fourth story, when v broke, precipitating the | was Yory budly fngured, 1. The others ¢ residence, No. 171 East Eleventh-st., tended to by a yhym—mu, They are Eections of police wero present from the Sevent and adjoining precinets, under the command of Capt. Mount. FXTENSIVE COAL FIRE AT THE CUNARD DOCKS. The fact has just become known that for the past 10 or 12 days an extensive fire has been burning under the #mmense heaps of coal belonging to the Cunard Steam- ship Company, on the wharf between Grand and York- sta., Jersey , caused by spontancous combustion, aud the guses confined there. There are be- aged by wal kept burning b tween 7,000 and 8,000 tuns of coal stored under the sheds, and the fire was first discovered on Tuesday, when efforts were made to extingnish it b hydrants, b Yeste applving water from the up 1o the present time without success. morniig a gang of men was set to work to re- the conl not yet reached by the fire to a safee oy nia ste It had peen constructed during €l and was the prop. erty of Mr. Heury Johnson, W $15,000. He was insured for $10,000. The fire is su to originated in the kitchen from the cureles: noss of ascrvant, IN CINCINNATL BY TELEOKAPE T0 TAX TRINUNE CINCINNATE, Feb. 13.—The publishing honse of the Miami mnm‘f"oo‘w.uv on anal, near Eihilest , was destroyed by morning. The Dresscs were saved i a damaged condition. Loss $35,000; Insured for §50,000. R o SAN FRANCISCO, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, 14.—A fire this morning on Missfon-st., between Soc : lght o to bundlnx..&"w“ wnd Thicd: destroyed Lot AR OBITUARY. v g A CAPT. HENRY E. RANIELS, BY TRLKGRAPN T0 THN TRINCXE. WastunGron, Feb. 14.—Capt. Henry E. Raniola, lately in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau, Distriot of Meridian, Mississippi, died in this city this afternoon. e ontered the army at the outbreak of the Rebellion as Captain in the 15t Long Islaxd Regi i Ty Wounded at the battiear FalrOaks. Havins sinet nio regiment In-r?In his wound was healed, nn!mm t chvonie diarthew om Which he never recovered aed West Ldies, wheco tho groater gortion of by whieh was the eavse of his death, luissioned 10 & lieutenaucy i the l;ml':‘“"-wwu com-