The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 16, 1867, Page 4

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Hor Horss STRAWBERKISS " SALE T Barcn ‘world; Harmless, bror e respeetful Y el a8 CarLoue C0.5 LOCK-STITCIT SEWING- v, Highest premizue Murylsud Jus Tiws Wike o Nacwine Grover & Bak 1x0-Macwines. No. 435 i Cartes Vignette, $3 per dozen; All vegatives registesed. [t A Lawis, No. | 's PATENT Liy Dr. Aty onls, P MacuiNg Co. , SUs! RY | Radical Cure Triss £roT, No. 502 Broad- uote paper, 8! e new aislue, Mort's ay | Fair, keeps it Dandrff: the Guest | )y id, on receipt of ten ¢ L __DrRB THE SAFEST AND BEST BOILER IN THE WoRrLD, For Qirculars, anpls to 4. B. Hyom. Ag 5 119 Broadway, o Woiks. P nango, George Kirkwood, Henry C. Maine, Jefferse Fort Cra Triangle George P. Ross ; Wi Democrats—2.—Bin wille, Edward Northrup. 1n’ Binghamton, the Bapervisor, Was success E. ( , David D. Ho! smtou, Jabez F. 175 The Demoerats ¢! their Supervisol Jority. An cxe ing canvise had taker officer, durirg which persenal ass Mr. Nowell, the Republican ea the Board of Supery Coleaville was lost through local disatfoction wns, however, are strongly Republican. The Re Cans. fained Corkiin and Santord, lewvine tho po, eomploxion of the Board the same as last yoar. ors, Whici Democrals, 5 yenzo D. Hughson ; Ulysses Breeze ; Sonthpo Catlin bs u Republican o v Rupervisors to be elected by the eity of Eim: Charter Eleotion in March. 1f anything 1k effort skiall be made on the part of the Repul an elect three of this nuiuber, thy g the Board. BT. LAWREN( B ‘We have the following returns—all Republicans: D ster, J. B. Chavdler; Lishon artin fllg:'::*umlli E. Clary ; Mot R 7 egatchile, L V. V. t0 . C. Flisve Osan Vary; Waddingtou, € C. | + BYRACUSE CHARTEE ELECTION ’K"A:l; fiu-;;l;mcnm} ::IM.S,. weuse have pominated . 4 i for Mayor, sud G. K. Co T‘.__ aid G. K. 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We caunot uadertake ta retarn mjected Communi tions. 5" The Money Avrticle and Markets will ,be Sound on the second page, the Civil Court Re- ports on_ the third page, and Notices of the ‘Boolks of the week on the sixth page. P Anna Dickinson’s Lecture on “Something to which we mistakenly announced for the 6th inst., will surely be given on Tuesday even- ing next. It is probable that the Legislature will pass the Convention bill, in a shape which will pro- vide for 32 additional delegates, to be equally divided between the political partics. piaihitl The returns of town meetings in Broome, Chemung, and St. Lawrence Counties exhibit Republican successes in the election of Super- visors. Though Chemung elects tive Democrats to an equal number of Republicans, there has Dbeen a gain for the latter in one township, and more are to be he After an effort tokill the bill outright, the House, yesterday, voted to non-concur in the Senate amendments to the Bankrupt bill, with a view to a Committee of Conference. This course Mr. Jenckes took as the best means to save the measure. The vote in the House was close, but we beliove ita friends are strong enough to carry the bill through if they will work for it. We printa full summary of the grounds on which the United States bases its demand in the Chancery Court of Great Britain for the restora- tion of the cotton held by Trenholm and Prio- leau, the Rebel agents in England. They are in effect that our confiscation laws apply to all Rebel property, mo matter whether removed from the country or not; . that by the law of nations Rebels cannot fransfor to others property belonging to the legitimate sovereign; and that, even if such power existed, the complete suppression of the Rebellion, and the annulling by the Rebel States of all their pretended contracts, restores to the United States, as the ouly possible owner, all prope in dispute. eme—— The Chicago Tyibune has very many words respecting the erotchets and absurdities of I, G. on the subject of the Tariff and Protection. Will that journal squarely answer—dare it honestly answer—these plain questions : Where- in do these notions of H. differ from the doctrines and views which impelled and justi- fiod the passage of the Tariff of 1842 and the support of IHenry Clay for President in the canvass of 18447 Wherein do they essentially differ from the doctrines maintained by Abraham Lincoln in canvassing Ilinois for Clay in that canvass ! And wherein does the line of argument now held by our Chicago namesake differ from that of Mr. Clay's Ilinois opponents in the canvass aforesaid ? We ask those Nlinoians who honor the memory of Clay and Lincoln to mark well our namesake’s answer to these plain questions. The Hon. Lewis E. Parsons of Alabhama was recently reported in our Washington corre- spondence a8 figuring in a Cotton transaction whereby the Federal Treasury lost $1,440,000, Our special correspondent has since investi- gated the matter and fully retracted the impu- tation ; hut we mention the main facts here, lest some one should sappose the charge in any manner countenanced by us. Having known Mr. Parsons nearly a quarter of a century as a ' man of honor and personal worth, whatever the cecentricities of his politics, we feel confi- dent not. only that he never conspired to de- frand the Treasury, but that he is utterly in- capable of doing so. —If we conld stop the stream of calumnions fabrication which ever sets in all dircctions from Washington City, and wherehy our corriespond- ents are often imposed upon, it would subtract much from the bitterness of life received Wes The vitality of Fenianism has ther illustration in the outbreak in tl Ircland, of wl the cable ‘o lizenee yesterday morning. Particulars of this ng will be awaited with some an o a disappointment to many that, 0w ct of the telegraph wires be- tw id Valentia being still down, we have no news to-day from the of the disturbances. If the intelligence already re- ceived 18 to be ercdited, the outhreak is of so serions a character as to demand the presence in Trelan i o the Commander-in-Chief of the Britisl forees ‘n that country who, we are told, imnedi on the reeeipt of the news by the ¢ nt, left London, where he was attending to his Parliamentary duties as a peer of the rcalm, to direct operations in person against the insurgent Irish. The of telezraphic eommunication in tainly gives ¢ vlor to the report that the Ferians at ler blow. Another demoastration in honor of Mr. Bright took place at Rochdale on the evening of the h of January, particnlars of which we pub- lish elsewhere. His reply to the complimentary address presented to him on the oc 0 is one of his happiest oratorical efforts. In a re- trospect of his political life for the past twenty- five years, he shows that lie has been all nl’on;: doing battle for the people against the selfish- ness and tyranny of class legislation, and points out the substantial benefits to the cause of liberty 1 humanity which lave re- alted from his labors and those of his coad- jutors in the work of Reform. The repeal of the iniquitous Corn laws and the consequent chicapening of the people’s food, the abolition of the faxes on newspaper euterprise, and the deliverance of British India from the irvesponsi ble ruls of a Commercial Board, who adminis tered the affairs of that portion of the Empire solely in their own interests, are some of the trophies to which Mr. Bright could proudiy re- for in the quarter of a century's strugglo with and corruption. His remarks on the on the obstructive charactor of the wvrescut £ Dl - - , umns. are very striking, and in Jigening with his well kuown sentiments on Thoso subjects. Forcibly, too, does he dwell upon the cardinal doctrine of his political creed —which is, he tells us, “belief in the equality “of all men in the sight of Heaven, and of the “rights of all men before earthly governments.” THE DUTY OF THE HOUR. The Blaine proposal for a general reconstruc- tion of the States now unrepresented in Con- gress seems to us the proper complement of the bills of Mr. Eliot and Mr. Stevens which Lave already passed the House. By the former of these, a way is opened for the réstoration of Louisiana to the place she forfeited by trea- son; by the latter, efficient protection is ex- tended to the loyal people of the South. Mr. Blaine’s proposition virtually secures to the other unrepresented States what Mr. Eliot’s bill guarantees to Louisiana, We trust they may all promptly become laws, with such im- provements as the Senato shall be able to de- vise and enact. There is one very important provision of Mr. Stevens's North Carolina bill which seems to have been unwisely omitted in the later measures of the House. We allude to that which sought to discriminate between persistent, im- placable Rebels, and those who, though once Rebels, are 8o no longer. That distinetion was suggested by some of the firmest and best Un- jonists of the South; and it ought not to be ignored. No man will seriously contend that men who still hate and detest the Union—who are merely defeated, captured, paroled Rebels—have any moral or legal right to a voice in resettling and reéstablishing the boundaries of Federal and State authority. DBut it seems to us quite un- reasonable and harsh that men who are to-day hearty Unionists—who love the Republie and its fiag, and are ready to fight for the integ- rity of the one and the honor of the other— ghould be denied a voice in the Government becanse they were Rebels years ago. This point was conceded in Mr. Stevens's North Carolina bill; we have not observed that it was respected in the Eliot Louisiana bill or the more general proposition of Mr. Blaine. We trust the Senate may fitly and fully regard it. We will not here insist on our own broader and more comprehensive platform—Universal Amnesty, Impartial Suffrage. Let Time decide whether it is not as wise and safe as it is erous and forgiving. We believe the South will acquiesce in any conditions of Reconstrue- tion which the laws of the land shall preseribe. We expect, at all events, to urge a prompt and cheerful conformity to whatever Congress shall insist on. Let us cach do his best to make them such as should be heartily aceepted. The Copperhiead clamor that the Radicals are manenvering to keep the Confoderate States disorganized and powerless till after the next Presidential Election shonld be effectually si- lenced. 1f any State shall refuse to be recon- stracted on fair terms, ®he will lose her vote for next President by her own fault; bat it is neither the interest nor the wish of the Repub- licans to exclude her. We need proserip- tion, no nullification, to seeure our trinmph in 1968, if we shall meanwhile have deserved to trivmph. We are a majority of the Awmerican People, North and Sonth, East and West. We have Dbeen made such not by proscription but by cmancipation. To demonstrate this, it is only needful that the geceded States shall be reconstrueted on prin- ciples that will render them demoeratic m sence and in organization. Let every Rebel i the land vote the Copperhead tickel in 1868, and, if the Blacks also vote, we shall | clear Republican majority, unless we al large gections of our proper strength. Wo need not fear to be gencronsly just. But we do not urge Congress to the Sonth on our plan, nor on any plan, but on some plan. Let not the eventful week just before us clapse before Congress shall Lave ex- plicitly marked out for each and every revolted or seceded State the terms on which it ma would rather say must—be speedisy restored to the position and powers which it discarded in entering on its mad crusade against the Union. When the XLth Congress shall next December, we hope to see a roll-call of thirty-cight States, and a response of “Here!™ from every omne of them. To this end, it is essentinl that the ways and means of Recon- struction be settled and proclaimed forthwith. no reconstruet —we reconvene THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IN ITALY. In no country of Europe has the American idea of a complete separation betweon Chureh and State found so many and 8o earnest cham- pions as in Ital The founder of Italian unity, Cavour, emphatically declared that his ideas of the relation between Church and State could be described in the few words: A Free Church in a Free State. The Italian Government has ever since shown a disposition to carry out the idea of Cavour and to pre; the way for an absolute separation of the two Powers, in which it saw the only w: minate the conflict hetween the ing on the preseryvation of the Papal dominions, and the Italian nation demanding the consoli- dation of all the Italian territory into one Kingdom. Two years ago the King an- nounced, in a speech from the throne, that the Government intended to bring in a bill carrying out these ideas. Since then the Gov- ernment has steadily matured the prej ms, and in November, 1866, the Prime Minister, Baron Ricasoli, in an admirable eireular to the exiled Bishops, more fully developed the plan of the Government, poiuting to the Constitu- tion of the United States as a model deserving to be followed by every Liberal State Govern- ment. The substance of the bill, which was laid before the Italian Parliament in January, was given in our issue of yesterday. It fully an- swers the expectations which had been raised with regard toit. It offers, by one bold stroke, to tear down all the ramparts by which the Roman holic Stato Governments, during the period of the exeessive power of the Popes, tried to secure themselves from the encroachments of the hicrarchy into State affairs. Placet and ere- quatur—which even Republican Switzerland is not yet willing to abandon—nomination of the Bishops by the lsiug, and their taking of t oath of allegiance, are fo bé frecly relinquished by the Italian Government. In return for this freedom granted to the Church, she is to part with all her privileges, exemptions, immnnities, and prerogatives. She is to receive no support whatever from the State, but to maintain her- self with the free concurrence of the faithful, and by means of the property belonging (o her if legitimately acquired. Her property, how- ever, cannot be landed property, aud the Government must insist on an inex- orable enforcement of the mortmain laws, The ccclesiastical property in Italy is cstimated at about £60,000,000. Of this the State demands £24,000,000, or about one-third, foritself, The Bishops are allowed to effect the conversion Gagmsclyes i they are po iuclived. It they cration may be made though the Rgency of a Belgian house, which undgrta.cs to pay the Italian Governmen! £24,000,000, in half yearly installments of £2,000,000 for six years, and to execute the conversion of the remaining property for the benefit of the clergy within the space of ten years. All the remainder of the Church property is left to the clergy, subject only to the condition of con- version. The Belgian house stipulates for the consent of the Pope and the Bishops. Should {his consent be refused, the Government would attend to the conversion and allow the clergy a yearly sum of £2,000,000. In no Catholic country of Europe has the Church been able to maintain in modern times the prerogatives and immumties which she had acquired in the middle ages. Dut never before has she been offered by a Catholic government &0 great an in- demnification for the abandonment of pre- rogatives which are entirely inconsistent with all modern legislation. So liberal, indeed, were the offers of the Government, that the Radical party in the Parliament were declaring themselyes decidedly opposed to the plan. We bave since learned by Cable dispatclies that the bill has been defeated in Parliament, that on the 10th of February the resignation of the Cabinet was accepted by the King, and that on the 11th of February the Parliament was dissolved and the election of a new Parliament ordered. It is, therefore, still doubtful to what extent the liberal legis- lation proposed by Cavour and Ricasoli can he carried out; but to these great statesmen be- longs, undoubtedly, the honor of having boldly taken the initiative in one of the most needed and most sweeping reforms in the political sys- tems of European monarchi PROTECTION AND COMMERCE. It has been a favorite and confident asser- tion of Free Traders that Protection would destroy our foreign Commerce, and, by conse- quence, our revenue from imports. We di tinetly remember these assertions so long ago as 1822; and they were reiterated as veasons for opposing the Tariffs of 1824, 1828; 1842, and 1861, Protective duties were imposed, in spite of these predictions ; and the result proved the prophets grossly mistaken. Our foreign com- merce was not destroyed, even by “ the bill of “ abominations,” (voted for by Silas Wright and Martin Van Buren) of 1828; aud The World pronounces that the worst (most Pro- tective) Tariff wo ever had. Hereupon we said ¢ “As to those whoery out against the pending Tariff bill th at that it is caleul that It is a contri urers—to establish or per swer, more respect/ully o objections were made, in almost_identical Langwage, to the Tariffs of 1523, 143 and 1861, Now, then, §f Uhase’ Tariffs destroyed foroign com. meree, bl vp miomopolics, de.. de., then this will probably do the same ; for it 18 bused on the same principle, op putemplates the same en s a parade of fignres showing the Ameriean tuunage of us years, and thus comments: w fuportations of the last few years are owlng fian the Tarff. Th U vacnum by the war dimiiis for forel @ profits of iape arge fortukes by hosts of b demand for cxpensive or been manufactured in riean bonda abroad wis viows con portations over reat growth of 1 forth ! stitutes a proposition of its own for that it Free Traders have re- ently predicted that our purports to combat, peatedly and conf snecessive Protec Tariffs would destroy our foreign comm Those predictions were notoriously falsified by the event. We say, “What has been will again be” “No” responds The World; “he is a fool who attrib- “utes the great growth of importations to the “ Tariff "—that is, to P'rotection. Certainly; we agree so far. But how does that prove that you Free Traders were not mistaken when you so stoutly asserted that Protection would ?—or that, being wrong then, i wr predictions now ? CORRUPTION IN THE NAVY-YARDS. In 1864 the notorious mismanagement nd cormption in the Navy-Yards induced Seere- tary We s to appoint a Special Commission tion, of which Col. Oleott was made ehief, The inguiry more than substan- tiated the charges, and a thorough reform was begun, It does not appear to ve been ea ried out till recently. The Department was disorgunized, but the system of corruption was compaet and difficult to overthrow. Col. Oleott was st «d in 1865 by Mr. J. P Veeder, and it is understood that by tl efforts the collusion between contractors and Navy-Yard officials is in a fair way to be en- tirely broken up. The Brooklyn Navy-Yard, it is asserted, is a good, or bad, example of the general rottenness of the Department. It is charged that the books of aceounts have for years been systematically kept soas to prevent the business of the Yard from being inspected, and to give the fullest protection to fraud. This was the t diffi- culty of the Commission; that frauds had been committed was notorions, but by whom, when, or how, it was almost impossible to decide. But patienee will accomplish much, and it is charged that the system of swindling underlay the whole business of the Yard, and extended from the higher officers to the mere laborers. Reccipts for goods delivered were signed by officers who knew that the bills were false, and that one-fourth of the goods had never been sent, Inferior and d: ed goods were bought with- ont examination.* At none of the yards w regular inventories of stock taken, a neglect intended to facilitate open and wholesale rob- bery. Goods valued at millions of dollars were not placed upon the records, and it is asserted that metal, lumber, hardware, in fact material used in the Navy-Yards, have wted ont of the yards by persons employed thercin, to the amount of many millions of dollars. Fictitions names were placed on the pay-rolls, three clerks, it i d, receiving the pay of twenty men in addition to their own. On the pretense of raising funds for political purposes, the workmen were robbed by constant assessments of 15 or 20 per cent on their wages. Merchants willing to make fair contracts with the Department were underbid by men who afterward obtained extravagant prices for their goods. Indeed, the catalogue of charges is too long to be now repeated. We are glad to hear that the Commission have already saved Lundreds of thousands of dollars to the Government, and that sinee the beginning of the year they have established a thorough system of bookkeeping in most of the Yards. b much o need to be done, if these charges are true, as there seems no veason to doubl. The contract gystem should be re- d, and perbaps the best manrer in , Congress can aid the Secretary of the Treasury to complete the diffieult work he Lias attempted, is to appoint & Committee with instructions to investigate the matter from be- ‘ginning to end, and to report g_‘bx‘u which shall provide, if necessary, for Uid complete eation of the Yards. TEOTK By a—— -~ T AR . ENGLISH ErFOEM. The Derby Government have lost no time after the mecting of Parliament in taking ac- tion on the subject of Reform; but that action, our Cable dispatches inform us, has failed to give satisfaction to the bulk of the Liberal party. And this is not surprising. The nat- ural presumption, from that portion of the Queen’s speech relating to the question of Ré- form, was that her Ministers were prepared to introduce into Parliament, with all convenicnt speed, a measure for the extension of the fran- chise. But instead of bringing forward such a measure, they have adopted a course at once unconstitutional and unprece- dented. Instead of grappling with the ques- tion in the usual way on their responsi- bility as a Government, prepared gghstund or fall by the verdict of the IHousé of Commons on their bill, they propose, as a pre- liminary step, to take the sense of the House as to the plan upon which Reform, presuming the principle to be conceded, shall be carried ont. This looks very like a shirking of the question on their part, and gives color to the insinuation made in some of the English jour- pals that the Cabinet, being divided among themselves on the subject, a sort of compro- mise has been entered into by Lord Derby’s col- Jeagues. Taking into account the cirenmstances under which the Tories, aided by a few recreant Liberals, succeeded in displacing the Russell-Gladstone Ministry, as well as the pop- PORSE] ular ation on the subject of Reform which followed the change of Government, the first duty of the present Administration manifegtly was to Z’F"f"‘:"i to Parliament a meas- ure at least equally fheral with that on which their predecessors in office were wrecked. They were bound to propose a bill free from those alleged faults and demerits which the Tory party, and the faithless Liberals acting with them, made the prineipal gronnd of their opposition to the late defeated Reform bill. This they have failed to do, and the Tory leaders consequently lay themselves open to the charge that in opposing Mr. Gladstone's bill they were actuated, not by honorable and patriotic motives, but solely by a selfish desire to seize the reins of power. It is evident, the professions in the Queen's speech to the contrary notwithstanding, that the Tories are not prepared to deal with Re- form in aceordance with the popular will; and this being so, it is safe to predict the speedy overthrow of the Derby Government. It is cer- tainly a elever device to propose to throw the sponsibility of framing a measure of reform upon the House of Commons. Could the House be induced to accept the respon y, it is not difficult to foresee that the result would be to postpone Reform for at least another twelve months, and to insure to Lord Derby's party a further lease of power. The game of thetlast session would in that ease be played over agai pd any bill that might be brought in would be kille suecessive mutilations in Committee. But the device, we are strongly of opinion, will not sneceed, for the simple reason that the people will no longer tolerate delay in the settlement of the question. Granting that with the aid of those Liberals who helped the s to defeat Mr, Glad- stone’s Reform bill, the resolutions of which Mr. Disracli has given notice, are affirmed— what then? The Government will not on that account be rehieved of its responsibility in the matter. Granting that by the device which has been adopted the Liberal party should be so divided and weakened as to give Lord Derby’s Government an apparent triumph over Re- formers of the Bright school—what then? The victory will be dearly bought, and the disaster speedily retrieved; for outside of parties in Parliament, and independent of them, there is the great body of the English people, the dis- franchised masses, demanding that the rights of which th have been unjustly deprived shall be restored to them, and ing their fixed determination to have just No min- istry, be it Tory or Liberal, can long hold power failing to mect this demand. BOUNTY TH BILL. The Bounty bill passed the House yester by a strong vote after a debate which, if it did not properly show the wastefulness of the measure, proved that its friends were determined to carry it, no matter what arguments were advanced against it. When we find Mr. Schenck unable to tell what amount will have to be paid to the soldiers should the bill become a law, and quoting es mates which range from $600,000,000 to 000,000, we are convinced of the ignorance of such legislation; and when we find Mr. Banks declaring that nothing could be proposed for the soldier that he would not sustain, and that le did not care whether the bill would take 50,000,000 or 830,000,000 out of the Treas- ury, we are at a loss to know where such ree lessness is to find an end. We should be sorry to see the soldiers’ vote become like the Irish vote—the shuttlecock of politicians—but this is pre Bounty bill tends to make it. Schenck talks of its b impracticable, in the present condition of the reasury, to bring all bounties up to the “highest standard paid,” but thinks this bill will meet the first expectation of the soldier. Does Mr. Sehenck contemplate other bounties till he reaches his limit of $1,2007 Is this but the beginning? The second section of the bill is that which undertakes to equalize bounties; that is, it deducts all local bounties from the amount paid by the United States. By the de- duction of local hounti hundreds © of millions of dollars will be saved to the Treasury, for which reason we re- joice that the sceond section remains in the bill, though the Eastern members voted solidly ust it, on the ground that it practically zave all the bounties to the West. It is a great ervor to suppose that our sol- diers will profit by this petty appropria- tion of ®100 or $200 to each—this monstrons £ift of hundreds of millions in the ‘gate, In the end they will be the losers, Mr, Morrill proposes to reduce taxes,on the ground of ceon- and, as if in ironical comment on his the Iouse -within two days to take more money out of the ‘Treasury at one sweep than it may accumulate in o year, It is e n that the friends of the bill did not overestimate the appropriation it will require; it is not cortain that they did not undervestimate it vastly. comme——— 1QUAL RiGus Conventions will be held in Troy, W and Tuesdny, Feb. 18 and 19, and at Newburgh, ud Friday, Feb, 20 and 2. The meetings will ed by Parker Pillsbury, the Rev. Olympia Brown, Charles Lenox Remond, Bessic Bisbee, Louisa Jacobs, and Susan B. Authon THE WEATHER Nuw ¥ followiug is the v this eity todays T, W0 MUSIC. —— Miss Adelaide Phillips, by merit ~~ 7 ) star of onera at v 7 - T8ekiar, an fittingly welodhied on her fétiirn o our stage, last night. The Trovatore was gufdg and instrumentated with an ef- fort and effect in encouraging contrast to the per- formances of the previous evenings. Miss Phillips is one of the best Azucenas known to opera in ?:w- York, and it is needless to say that the success of lask evening was in great part due to her able assnmption. MWlle. Naddi and Signor Irfre sustained the other im- portant characters with customary credit. The eritical attendance of so many of the dramatio 1 of Count Fosco—we beg pardon—was & not a sensation. Just now, enjoying ar- ay, they constitute a very distinguish opera lobby of well-known characters, To-qfly wi be given a inatin€e of 11 Trovatore. —Der Preischutz, as sung last night at the Olympie, wanted a Caspar as experienced as our old Weberian stand-by, Herr Weinlich; and perhaps a tenor as good as Habelmann would lLave been welcomed. The opera was, nevertheless, not ill-done; the chorns as acceptable as ever; the prima donna in ood voice and spirit ; and the orehestra as a5 16 should be to give the pleasure which a proper play- ing of Weber's \-IF) ous and genuine juusic nevee *;ula to occasion. To-day a matinée of Flotow’s bril- iaut Stradella will be offered; and this eveni lAnitzing'n Czar und Zimmerman is promised in style. —Carl Wolfsohn gave the eighthof his Beethoven matinées yesterday at Steinway’s, with a programme including the famous Sonata Appagsionata, avd {l» Sonata in A Major, op. 101 A usus Mr. Wolfsohu's elimination of these beautiful difficuliies is mas- terly. In consequence of the regretted illuess ot Madame Johannsen a very interesting part of the pmfimmme. comprising Schubert’s Post song and Bar- carole and Schumann's Wanderlied, was unfuifilled. —To several announcenients of wusic we com- mend attention. This évening an éxtraordinary Concert will bo given for the benefit of the Ladi Sonthern Relief Association—a benevolence in il worthy of extensive sympathy aud aid, Mad. Gaz- zaniga, Miss Kellozg, Adelaide Phillips, Miss McCulioch, Sig. Brignoli, Sig. Ferranti, Qut‘ tho eminent pianist Webli, will appear, in_addition to Thomas's orchestra. The Tentl Public Rehearsal of LI)_:; Philbarmonic Society will ocenr at Steinway's -day at 3 o’clock, and the Seventh Regimoent will give the last concert of its season at the hall of the Regiment Armory. We note also that the So- prano, Miss Kate McDonald, will make her appear- ance at the Sunday Concerts of Mr. Harrison, and that Miss Maria Brainard will give a concert ab Steinway's Hall on Tuesday, dssisted by Thomay's orchestra. THE IMPERIALISTS HOLDING CAMPEACHY—FPOPULAR FEELING AGAINST MAXIMILIAN. BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNK. NEW-ORLEANS, Feb. 15.—Mexican news has been received via ], which states that Gen. Espego, with 600 Imperialists, holds Campeachy. There had been considerable skirmishing between the Imperial- ists and Liberals. The people were tired of Ma: milian, and were banding together to strike a final blow. Several leaders were organizing troops, but it was :Lnt kuown who would have the gen com- man RS S CANADA. et BY TRLEGRAPE YO THE TRIBUNE. ToroNTo, Feb. 15.—The present strength of the volunteer forces in Canada_amount to 63,540 men, in- cluding 22 _troops of cavalry and eight battories of artillery. The principal aboats, now in Winter quarters, are to be ;placed in an immediate state of efficiency for service on the Lakes. The Feniam news from Ireland causes little excitement. s LR L DISAS TERS. ol iy THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER CITY OF BATIL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUN CHARLESTON. Feb. 15—The following are the names of the four survivors of the burned steamer City of Bath: Charles Davis, Patrick Donovan, Jeremiah O'Brien, and Frank Tobey. Among the supposed lost are. three passengers, including one lady : Capt. Coney, —— Mead, first mate; — Bacon vannah kuown; A. Col socond chicf enginee —— Talbert, stewa quartermaster; John Ryan, cook ; second cook, name unknown; tiree coal-passe John Hamilton, Wi, Flynn, and one uawe unkuown, af two sallors, names unkuown. TWO MEN KILLED AT HONESDALE, PA. BY TRLEGRAPH TO THE TRINUNE. HoNESDALE, Pa., Feb. 15.—At the funeral of Capt. Joseph Scoven of the 12th Regiment of Peonsylvana Heavy Artillery, this afternoon, while a salute was being: fired at the gr. caunon was pred y discharged, and two men were fatally and ano thy in BY TELEGRAPE TO THE TRINONK. ToPEKA, Jau. 15.—Resolutions expressing surprise at the veto of the Colorado bill, and calling upon Senators and Representatives to pass the bill over the President’s veto passed both branches of the Legisla- ture under suspension of the rules to-day. TMME LE OF COAL. BY TRLEGRAPH TO THE TRISUNE. NewnureH, N. Y., Feb. 15—The Peunsylvania Coal Company sold yesterday over 200,000 tuns of Pittston coal at pricas varying from 8425 to § 40 per tun. Tids coal 18 deliv 10 at the works of the compaiy in this city, and the p doctine of from 874 conts o §1 024, CRIME. e g ROLBERY ON BROADWAY=TWO OF THE THIEVES AND A PORTION OF THE STOLEN PROPERTY Several days since the fact of the robbery of the store of Lionel Jacobs, No. 177 Broadway, of 24 gold watches, 110 silv %, 18 metalcased watehes, and 14 metal-gilt wa a4 publigged in THE TRIDU 5thins's ng occut pt.Jo urdan of t ooldridge of his force ve been actvely Tuey recently re- A youug man nd Jamen at No. 76 and Rogers ed in lookin g information ) mother 1 with the v Coombs was arresied, and in his possossion were found four of the stolen wateh He was com- 100 by Justice Hogan on a ciarge of a3 arrested, and for a time nothing of the matter, but finally con- olon watches were hid under a pile hed in the rear of his mother's rest dence in Allcn-st. The place was visited and the watclies found. Yesterday, on a charge of burglary, the prisoners were committed for trial in default of $5,000 batl. Twe other men, who had been arrested on suspicion of having Deen implicated i the atfair, v <clinrged, thero be- ing no evidence sufficient to w; 1r detention. "SCONVICTED OF ARSON HIGH SKA. -fhe trial of John Rot , eolored, cook on the ship Lady Blossington of Bost d for sotting fire to that vessel while on] her voyns to this port, took place in the United States District C renton ou Thursd, Th ts as elicited on tho pre- limina wmissioner Jackson a8 i witted for ex burglary. ' claimod fo knoy fessed that 41 of of coal {11 a woo! 3, foud the p rendered son to th (the lowest torm that could s s to Lis insauity. THE ERIE RAILWAY EMBEZZLEMENT. Edward H. Weylan, the defaulting clerk of the repair shop of the Now-York and Erie Railway, was cons dueted to the Hudson County Jail on Thursday evening. At Taylor's s Long Dock, whera he stopped to dive on his way to n, Weylan conversed with 1o have - his embe: p ,000; but they Wi vrincipal pors soon find ol He 15 also reported t, ado it that he was but the tool of & ria of the Company, who received the f the spol BOLD ROBBERY IN THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.~ON Thurs- © day afternoon Paul Grouing, a lad of 14 years, in the em- ploy of Robert M. Sloman & , ship agents and bro- Kkers at No. 19 South William-st., while passing the corner of William and Wall-sts., having in his hand $%0 which ho had deawn from the bank where the firm make thotr depostts, was met by a sirange wan, who cal 1 o deliver a lotter to a certain persou in the Costom-Hotwe, sromising, if he would do so, to give him 28 cents, hoy cousented, and the strauger went with Lim to pomns out the place. Avrived at 4 seeluded place in the Custom-House, the atranger draw a pistol, aud pointing it at the head of the Doy, threatened, if ho made a noise, 10 blow his bratns out. He then took the money and made s escape. 8o thoroughly frightened was the boy that several minutes clapsed before be 1 Timsalf suffic ive an alarm. Information of the affair was lodgod at Police Headquarters, but as tho boy could give but o poor de- seription of the man, there is but Httle hope of effocting lits arrest. B Noves oF NEWARK ACQUITTED OF donce in tHis case was closed on Wednes- 4 on Thursday morning the prosceutor ad: I 1. Mr. MeCarter followed for rev from Judge Depue, t than five minutes, returl verdict of tot guilly. Mr. Noyes was gratulated by lis bwuerous fulends- EX-ALDERMA ARsON.—The e