The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1867, Page 4

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New Acts, Musi CLINTON HA HEBBARD'S POPULAR ik LAWS OF HEALTH OF Rosa Houheur's 5 Broad Horse Fair" ete., at Pawing the Forts at New-Or Toath st The GoREAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY Mreymusirus of Providesee, R. 1., infor the trade that they are pro- ducing Bne KLSCTRO-PLATED ‘comprising full Dixxew and Tea and Tanw Wake re superior legant Silver, upon all of deaign and ! f woli superior Gish are undis Tue Gorliam M o the high [puation ther b SiLvek ‘akn, i which euga. they now reputation by the pro- 2 And all nch are full eal! e attention of have boew already e cared from respoi ntry. “The best and sw y the World ar) goods caa oa) v thronghout NewDork Daily Sribuns, Semt-WEEKL WeekLy Trisese, Mail Subseribe NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, which only three-fourths of the value of the property insured can be claimed by the loser. It is doubtful whether such a measure will be popular with the publie, though in the long run it might be very benefi al to the companies. Mr. Learned thought that it would be decided illegal by the Courts, but he is a hold man who can tell in these what a Court may do. Mr. James M. McT of New-York was elected President of the Board, and an Exceutive Com- mittee chosen, The Legislative Committce on Inswrance also met yesterday, and received tes- PRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1567, TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Dary Trisose, Mail Subscribers, $10 per annum, Trmune, Mail Subscribers, $3 per an. $? per aunum. Advertising Rates. DALY TRIBUNE, 20 conts per hina. Semt-WERKLY TBIBUNE, 25 cents por line. WeEKLY TRIBUNE, $1 50 por huc. Terms, cash in advance Address, Tur Trisune, No timony in regard to the canses of the recent fires, by which the efficieney of the Paid Fire Department was generally sustained. An important bill has been submitted to the Legislature by the President of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals, We com- mend it heartily and urgently as offering the only means by which certain deplored evils of our city travel can be moderated, and man and beast be alike benefited. The bill of Mr Bergh provides that no vebicle drawn by two horses shall ecarry therein more than twelve persons in addition to driver and conductor, and that no railroad car similarly drawn shall have more than twenty-four passengers. Fur- thermore, passengers shall have seats, and om- nibuses conductors; and when the grade of any street exceeds an elevation of one in fifteen an additional horse shall be attached to the horse-car. We value all these provisions Lighly, and so will every one who paitakes of the suf- fering incident to the city's ill-regulated travel. As the bill contains nothing but what accords with common right and con sense, as well as humanity, we leave the public to infer the exact extent of the wrong under which man and beast groan when fifty persons are crowded in a Bowery car. It is a shame, in- B — deed, to our intelligence and lumanity that The amendments to the Tax bill, passed by | this community, man and Dbeast, has been so the House yesterday, added other anticles to | long car-ridden. Nothing will be more wel- the Free list—another step on the wrong road | come than the passage of the timely bill which which helps to postpone payment of the debt. | Mr. Bergh has submitted. To let the taxes alone is vastly better than this sort of worl 70 CORRESPONDENTS No motice can be taken of Anonymons Commuuications. Whatever is intended for insert on must be autheaticatal by the naws and sddress of the writer—gob ueceasarily for publication, but a3 a guarauty for his good faith. usiess lettera for tis office shoald be addreased o oxe! New-York. We canntt uadertako 0 retura rejected Communicationt. B — Al “Tus Tuis- A typograph error made us say yesterday thet the Sherman bill “ set aside the Stevens bill so far as it declared that no Jegal governments existed in the Rebel States,” ete. 1t should have been ““reénacted the Stevens hill,” and the tenor of the sentence no doubt enabled most of our readers to make the cor- rection, % To-Day being Washington'’s Birthday, no Evening Edution will be issued from this oflice. 87 Reports of the second day's session of the National Board of Underwriters and the meeting of the Assembly Committee on Insurance yester- day, “ Thieves' Nurseries,” the City Mission, the Clildren’s Aid Society, and other City news will be found on the second page; the Civil Court re- ports, and the Commercial news and Markets on the third 1»01;!’. and the Criminal Court reports on the seventh page. KITE-ILYL. IN CONGRESS. We learn from our telegraphic reports the rea- son why the Senate bill for exchanging the six per cent compoind legal tenders into three per cent demand notes was defeated the other day in the House. It was merely a preliminary movement of the inflationists to stop contrac- tion and get afloat another hundred millions of greenbacks. This interesting job was fin- Wegivein a condensed form an account of the proceedings at the opening of the British Parliament on the5thinst. Theutterancesof Lord v, Earl Russell, and Mr.Gladstone on such subjects as the Alabama claims, liamentary Reform, and the Cretan insurrection, are of the highest interest, and will meet with the atten- o all diseases with which children are afficied during the process of 1 tion which the importance of the questionand It not only relieves the teothing, is Mis. WiNsLow's S00TuING SYRUP. . ” the eminence of the speakers demand. stomach and bowels, cares wiad ealic Per- 1, but invigorate: iving quiet sleep to the ehild, gires rest to the mother, The Auditor of the State Canal Department reports the whole amount of tolls received at #14,496,630; the total of barrels of flour arriving through the canals at 2,107,537; of hushels of comn, 26,516,525, The whole amount of tunnage trausported on the canal last season of navigation was £270,963, the whole nwmnly boats registered, 435, These are the most striking of a mass of inter- esting figures. —— foetly wafe in allc 25 ceuts a bottle. e sure aid cal “Mes. WixsLow's S00TRING SyRee.” 3 the fac gimile of * Contis & PERKINS " on the oatsile v cs. per. . ERA Brick MacniNe Tue E PBrick per howr, rur by stea Hus no publish this 1 will find ind open the ple who are We hope the warning wi against emigration to Bi le circalation the deluded inclined to believe too readily the fallacious promises of the agents of the azilian Gov- ernment. All the aceounts from Rio agree that the fate of mnearly all the emigrants who ex- (| peet to find remunerative labor in Brazil is a most wretched lie. The whole il offending liquor-dealers Excise and Police is the most charming pl of the operation of a bencficent law. Sou years ago it was not expected that sneh whole- some fruit as the fines and penaltics of con- victed liguor-dealers would be f mormmng the widest possib s of some of A wondertul medicine wcts like magic, curis en o’ standing iu a fow o DI e “Dame’s Prin Por Coughs, Coide and all T disposal of the before and ret of our ciases d growing “The Improved Ween SEwn of in ail respects, at their new Frox Rerenibe Fead Lackstitch in such over-ripe clusters on our tree of justice. Yesterday, any number of u ere tried and found want still another seal to be ope police wrath to be peured out are, Ko, sed dealers ; and there is another vial of Muy the good Best family wackine ia the wor'd Frokexcr S M. o No. 55 Broadway. Stiren SEw- 5 Broadway CEMIUS SEW- L & WILSON'S Lo work continue, —— The fc ren's / of the Child- which we print a sum- | mary on the second page, shows the value of its work. At a cost of $02,000 th: ported 13 Indust Lodging House, enth ann id Society, of 1! reps Cartes Vignette, Allwegatives registered “PaLmen’s P Repowr | Adices D Philadelphis, New-Ya d 'l:lF. Howe Macuixe Cos 1 -Stitch SEw- acnings Einas fows, rig ual iaventor of the Sew. R Shine), Proudent. No. 60 Broad N Y. M 160 Clat Livns, Best! Society sup- the Newsboys' for Homeless schools, Refuge TOCKINGS, Suarsnsony | Children, and the Girls' Lodging House, and L Co's’ Badical Cure Tru provided with employment 1,046 boys, 552 e et wd 8 adnlts. From the Newsboys' “:|ilb\::u‘v'plh 5 th h g House 707 boys w to homes ¢+ West. We be th ty is well only more uscful to wanderers it revenue to teasts and ittle vors to prot hern Ger- tions of the result of the elections in Noy is ¢ he Dizpatch (newspaper) of | le telegram was received | ry to the ex . ik of (e Salii Wivee Pr ussian Government, whi had issued an nd Ko \hi. Comy 1“..,,. Mr. E. De Belloit, | official warning against e election of the ptating that the So ale of Paris had agreed | aral candidate: rreat 1 r of to furnish the maximum capital of #4,000,000 required ‘.’”""’ candidates. “ A great majority of thig for |]n.-\num\.| anal Com eipt of | German people have VoI d by the uni- the telegram a meeting of t tors of | versal vote that, while ready to support the the James River and Kanawha Canal was held, the President was inseructed to lay the telegram be Government in time of war, they persist in r:tl: l;’\fi‘ l’.".:lh ::;'All .\;\‘n' ich other i demanding more liberal institutions at home 5 than the Government has thus far consented to \ who bas re coucede., ty inopportuncly, Count Bismarek, sntly adjnsted so many difficoltics ument and people, is 8o ill that doubts are ente MISSOURL Levi Parsons, Assistant-Presi- | between Ge dent, and J. R. Robinson. Chief-Engineer of the At- lantic and Pacific Railroad, are heve from New-York on business connected with the vizorons prosecution of the work on thut railtoad in South-West Missouri. Major-Gen., Si sveral officers of his staff camo from Cin ati to Odin, 111, to-day, whe thay teok the train for Cairo, en route to Ne #iloans. Our advices by Cable to Irish affairs, ave by no n 1g a8 to an early restoration of peace to distracted Trels “Exeeptional legislation” for that 0! y is still to be the order of the day, it having been determined that the suspension of the Habeas Corpus shall be prolonged. Troops Lave been stationed at various points in Kerry and Cork to overawe the population, and the British Government has aunounced its inten- tion to treat aliens found in rebellion in Ire- land as pirates. Meanwhile no clue has heen obtained to the whereabouts of the i ble Stephens, who, report says, bhas been recently in Paris. —_—— THE WEST INDIE —— By the arrival of the steamship San Francisco from Greytown, which vessel touched at Kingston, Ja- maica, on her passage ont, we intelligence that the French transport sicam oude, bonnd to France, via Martinique, from Vera Cruz with 90 troops and five months provisions on hoard, ws wrecked on Bare Bush Key, about 12 miles from Kingston, on the night of the 6th inst. The British Mou-of-War Doris and Royalist, which were lying in Kivgston Harbor, were dispatched innnediately to aid the Gironde, but it was supposed she would prove & tofal wreck. The Governor of Jamaica, SirJ. P. Grant, had re- rlmul to that island from Honduras, ha failed u lus mission of peace to the Indinus, who were still threatening the British settiements. Three hundred soldiers had been sent into the interior from Belize w%‘::wu !lmhnun in check. vsecond mate and fonr seame » Dani Awerica, and sunk off {he fiio 24 utt., bave wrrived ot fundy Hook, on The leading Powers of Europe have heen officially informed by the Turkish Government that an assembly of representatives of the dif- ferent religions creeds will be callel together for the purpose of securing an effectual execn- tion of the firman of 1856, . bat firman prom- ises to the members of all religious denomina- tions equal rights, bat it Las hitherto remained a dead letter. It is pot clear from the tele- graphie dispateh whether the assembly of rep- resentatives is called solely for the purpose specified, or whether it is to be the beginning of a permanent representative form of govern- ment. The report that Crete will be made semi-independent, and receive a Cluistian prince a3 Governor,'is confirmed. eh. 21.—A efi pxpadioncy of establishing o Qitaec and the Lower Progince:. 1 Vi favor of undertaking the cnterprise, and oy 1o motnt of capital stock at $100,00, half of wWhich s (0 was subseribed on the spot, A Board of Provision, IHM roctors was appoiuted. " Dl BOUTHERN RELIEF ASSOCIATION BY TRLEORAPI TO THE THINUNE. Boston, Feb. At an adjo @vening of the Sout i Relief Com Lhat Mr. Walters of ZThe Advertiser, and ned meeting this A:"'Mr!nfll\’d'(l st be tequested to act as Treasnrers, and that o o, E ,T.f' bo made o the public as K00n 18 possihle to conty bt Funds for the temporary reliof of the exticue destitution The National Board of Underwriters debated an important subject yesterday—the proposition that the Insurance Companics shonld adopt ished yesterday, The House voted, 95 to 65, not the six per cent legal tenders, but to sub- ks for them. By tlarty majority broken away from its old finan- w, and embarked on the sea of b . We always desi un- to pay stitute green the House ady cial derstand the precise situation of affairs, and thus we are, in view of reeent de- velopments on this subject, glad to see this vote and to understand the ground the House have got any gement of the enr- MeCulloch, | of it. If Congress or specific views on the rency different from those of Mr. it will be a relief to the country to ha them developed, Not in the shape of sporad votes, but in intellizent discus Let us have an intelligible Congress or the House desire to adopt, in lien of that recommended by the Sceretary of the and hitherto sustained by them. If there is an antagonist poliey, as there seems to be, et us know precisely what it is. Give us the particulars. Let in light upon this subject 80 vital to the business and indostrial interests of the entire nation, It is of quence that the country should know what is before them. And they do not want merely, they want views clearly defined, and iutellig If the onal 1 1s of the paper-money men, and they intend to leave Mr. MeCulloeh in the lurch, and to pursne a policy leading to bankruptey, let ns know it, and let us know their precise methods, Let them declare themselves in the face of day by Treasury immense conse- votes measur ature is veally in the ha open and exhaustive discussion. If we have got hitherto come to the smface, trot them out, and let them bless us with their exponndings, We grope in the dark ever since that twenty major- ity vote in the House, now mereased to thirty in opposition to contraction. The country does not want to be led biindfold down a pre it wants its way illumined by the new lights of finance which judging from vesterday's procecdings, ¢ it from under the bushel where they have been hidden. If Congress is going to reject the principle of moder contraction, let us know what we are to have instead. Show ns where we stand, If there s anything in this matter beyond the neeeasities of rotien banks, or the renewal notes of bankrupt debtors, we should like to gee it defined, No solvent man, no solvent bank, no solvent community, can honestly ob- jeet to the principle of a steady contraction of the eurrency until we reach specie paymen s, or need fear its results. It is the bankrupts and the gpeculators only who have anything (o apprehend from the application of this touck- stone of national and individual solvene, The sce-saw debate and voting in the House yesterday aptly enough illustrate the stability of opinion which, on finay topies, distin- guishes our legislators. Mr. Hooper's bill as reported was a bill to retive the compounds, plus a section to repeal the law now anthoizing the 4,000,000 per month contraction. Mr. Hooper does not believe in flying his kite without a respectable tail; his bill therefore proposed to issue in place of the compound notes certificates at 8.65 interest—not a measnre which commen itself to us as sonnd, but a miracle of prudence in comparison with what the House finally adopted. North-West- e finance in the person of Mr. Wilson ob- jected to the extravaganee of this plan, on the ground that it invelved a yearly pay- ment of three or four millions of intevest, It is a generons chavity to suppose that Mr. Wilson and they who follow his lead hon- estly believe in this saving-at-the-spigot econ- omy. We concede the necessity which lies upon them to advance an argument that shall have the merit of plausibility. M. Stevens, howeve is much too intrepid ©xisking lu tho Bouth. a legislator on finance to allow himself to be interrupted in the pusuit of his policy by any such trivialities as aguments. Delieving in greenbacks as a national blessing, Lie natu- rally thinks it impossible to have too many blessings. A promise to pay that is repudiated, is in his eyes a8 goofl as a promise meant to be kept—if anything, is a litgg better, The high- est stretch of financial virfue is to issue a thonsand millions of National promissory notes, and the true poliey to sustain the National eredit is to make it impossible to pay the debts we have aleady inewrred, Mr. Stevens's view of the country's future is like that of the bank- rapt spendthrift who complacently congratu- lated himself on his hoggless insoleency, and besought admiration for enormons debts as the evidence N6 he had ondt enjoyed un- limited credit,, * whiat s kisown as tho auburg Clause,” by | ‘Pho House did not seew very ggitain whose exposition of the poliey which | itly shaped and expounded. | profounder financiers in Congress than have | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1867. : [ tead it would follow. One half hour it is half conservative with Mr. Hooper; the next it adopts Mr. Stevens’s amendment for £100,000,- 000 of legal tender lies, by an even majority of 40, Then, in a moment of dyspeptic remorse it hesitates, and rejects the whole bill for the sake of [the second clause prohibiting the paltry £4,000,000 of monthly contraction which the law now permits, Soothing its conscience by striking out the repealing section, it finally s the bill, and the country wakes up this morning to find the greenbacks of yester- day considerably multiplied in number and re- duced in value—for we presume the Senate, under the whip of Mr. Sherman, will readily concur. Gold yesterday took a jump on the rumor of this bill Decoming a law, of two per cent, or thereabout, up- ward. If the policy of indefinite extension for which the insolvent North-West clamors is to be pursued steadily in Congress, we 86 no yeason why this most volatile of metals may not again reach the highest point it touched during the war. If it docs not, no thanks to Mr. Stevens and his clients, the National Banks. THE TARIFF AND ITS AMENDMENTS. We print to-day four columns of amend- ments proposed by the Committee of Way and Means to the Tariff bill as passed by the Senate, and, thongh these are interesting to persons engaged in various branches of business,, they do not change to any important extent the protection of Industry for which the original Lill provided. The principal amendments are as follows: On sugar the duties ave unchanged, except that § eent per pound additional is im- posed upon sugars made by the centrifugal process, or filtered throngh bone black. Upon cotton goods 1 to 5 per cent s added. Upon Woolen cloths and shawls the duty is changed from 45 cents per pound and 35 per cent ad valorem to 50 cents per pound and 30 per cent ad valorem. On bunting the rate is changed from 50 cents per yard and 30 per cent ad valorem to 20 cents per pound and 35 per cent ad valorem. The Senate paragraphs on carpets are stricken out and in the substitutes the spe duties are lowered, and ad valorem duties added. Flax is to pay %20 per tun instead of little change, excepting & se of about 1 per eent upon certain artic Files and cutlery are subjected to higher daties. The duaty on Copper ore is changed from 3 cents per pound to 15 per cent ad valorem. Numerons arbitrary changes are made in Dr and Chemieals, many of the amendments, however, not affecting the duties proposed by the original bill exeept so far as they give stricter definition of the '8 enumerated. The duty on plate Glass is raised, the inerease beipg from 2 to 10 per cent on the different grades. The natme of the other changes will be casily found in our reprint of the amendments. These changes, we 1¢ or injurions to certain 1 2 industry, but they make no great difference in the value of the bill as it was passed by the Senate, They not justify the Committee | Ways and Means in renewing the deb: upon the Tariff the of the seasion, when every hour is valuable. To de- | bate this bill is to defeat its passage. Its ene- wies, and we know how determined they are, will find plenty of texts in the 275 amend- ments the Committee proposes, even though the most of these are but verbal and definitive, The XXXIXth Congress has been long enough working at this Tarift which, passed by the House in its first session, was postponed by the Senate to the second session, and now, return- ing to the House, is in danger of being be | queathed to the XLt Congress to be inished | when it may choose. We do not call this legis- | lation; it is the want of it. The national interests must not he individual branches ¢ before ns 80 near close | | | | | | sacrificed [ to those of individuals or of industry. We have not all tin to talk abont protecting our mann ures; if they are to be defended against cheap foreign Labor we must begin the work at onee. That the woolen manufaeturers, the chiemists, the cutlers, | are not satisfied with theSenate bill is no x | why a hundred other interests should wait in | vain for the helping hand of the Government, I The House has but one way of repairing the mistuke of its Committ wl that is to pass [ the bl with the new amendments at We do not ohjeet to one of them; il there is any or of detail, the comntry will gladly overlook it for the sake of ! the general merits of the bill ; and we appeal ! 1 the friends of Protection in the House | 1ot to be drawn into nunecessary debate, it Lo send the bill back to the Senate at the | carliest possible « — HIS BIETHDAY. To-day is the anniversary of n @ man, affectionately vamed the Father of his Co try. He well deserved the grateful title w nations have been proud to bestow on the chief whose virtue and genius have been their has been their continned safeguard. ton was indeed a man in whom the p! strength of talent and virtue united, and in whom could be found not many weaknesses considerable enough to need the mantle of a Christian charity. The judzment of posterity | reaffirms the praise bestowed on him by his cotemporavies, He was, in many respects, the ripest, best developed man the na- tion has produced. But the intelligence of our day rejeets the idea that he was per- fect or to be worshiped, for the best that be said of him, after all, is that he was a faith- ful representative and servant of his fellow man. The mnoblest type of the aspirations which took shape at last in the living, breath- ing Republie which endures to-day—the man whose character gpeaks volumes for the conrage and virtue which foundeéd our freedom—he is to be honored as one who had no higher wish than to serve his countrymen and hig race. Thauks to such an example, the nation has had another servant hardly less a genuine representative of his tipe, After many yewrs, during which, in accordance with the truest teachings of its founders the Republie has wrought out its own mighty reseue, the character of Abraham Lin- coln celelnates that of George Washington, The latest man of the ‘m]-h- honors the ear- liest. The prophetie connsels of will naturally be revived in the celebra- tion of the day and the man. We cannot better observe the occasion here than by ve- calling the attention of his countrymen to the kindly wisdom of his wvell Addiess, in which, almest a century ago, he spoke of the problems which the ion has so Washington l lately solved in blood. “Is there a doubt “whether a common government can embrace “go large a sphere?” he asks. * Let experience “golve it.” Seventy-one years have passed | ince this question was asked and given to the for decision. Expevience has affi it is possible for a common government “to hope that a proper organization of the | “adjourn withont the adoption of some meas- “whole, with the auxiliary agency of govern- “ure that holds out a hope, however distant, “ments for the tespective subdivisions, will “that this may he the result of our delibera- “afford a happy issue of the experiment. It is | “tions; and, believing that this will be done “well worth a fair and full experiment. With | “by the adoption of the measure as it uow “such powerful and obvious motives to union, | “stands before you, I shall now give it my “affecting all parts of our country, while ex- | vote.” “perience shall not have demonstrated its im- | But this is not all, Afterthus declaring himsel? “practicability, there will always be rcason to | against the reconstruction measure, and then « distrust the patriotism of those who in any | going with the Radical Republicans in support “quarter may endeavor to weaken its bonds.” | of it, he yet proclaims himself a contingent The *fair and full experiment” has been tried, | disunionist in the event of this same radical and the nation, which the Union created, has | measure being applied to Maryland, We quote not been found wanting. There is no higher | again from The Globe: * Maryland has been tribute to the Father of the Union than the | ¢ threatened. It is gaid that onr Government fact that it survives. “js not republican in point of form, and we There is another passage in Washington's | “are to have a military government thrown Farewell Address the specific application of | “over us, I hope that time may not eome, Mr, which may be opportunely commended to our | “ President. Devoted as T am, heart and soul, Jegislators and people. It is not often that | « to the institutions of the land, willing to sus- Washington is quoted on a question of finance, | tain the Union with the last drop of the blood Dbut it may be well to remember his counsel to | “that is left me, the effort under that clanse cherish the public eredit at any time when the | “to interfere with any of the loyal States will, nation is suffering under the evils of a great | «if nothing else will, be the death-knéll of the debt, a debased currency, and, we fear, an ex- | « Union.” pensive Congress, We beg that our sulers will | We must leave it to onr readers to determine heed the advies and return to first prin- | from these ufterances of the veteran Senator ciple, “we should avoid the acenmulation of | what weight is to be attached to his position. If “debt, not only by shunning oceasions of ex- | his own words place him in very questionable “pense, but by vigorous exertions in time of | shape, that is not our fault, peace to discharge the debts which unavoida- “hle wars have oceasioned, not ungenerously | The detailed account which we reccive by “throwing upon posterity the burden which we | steamer of the rcopening of the war on the “ourselves ought to bear.” Gentlemen in Con- | river Plate is unfavorable to the Paraguayans. gress who go for inflation, for reducing taxes, | The Brazilians again feel themselves suffi- and for indefinitely postponing payment of debt | ciently strong to act on the aggressive, and at or keeping of promises to pay, will you listen | the date of our last advices had an army of to the wisdom of other days? 35,000 men—to whom, it was thought, 10,000 The reflections suggested by the recurrence | more would soon be added. On the 8th of of the birthday of Washington will be common | Jannary four iron-clads ascended the river to every one. It is one of those days by which | to Curupaity, and made an attack upon we may test years, We must compare the eur- | that city, with what effect is not yet kuown. rent history of the nation with that earlier his- | We have sinee learned, by a Cable dis- tory of which Washington was the inspirer | patch, that the fleet has sailed north- and hero. We shall then have to congratulate | ward to attack Humaita. The invasion ourselves that every principle for which our | of the western provinces of Brazil by the first commander-in-chief and President fought | Paraguayans has nearly come to an end. They and labored has been revindicated and devel- | only held Coimbra, a town near the frontier; oped by an American Army and People wor- | but a Brazilian brigade was advancing, and thy of the noblest days of the Republic ; that | threatening an invasion of Paragnay from the the history whose glory makes the fame of | north. The report of an insurrection in Para- Washington a light to the centuries after him | guay is believed to be at least exaggerated, has been equaled by the sacrifices of the terri- | while the revolt in the Argentine province of ble conflict past. We bring to the celebration | Mendoza continues. Thus there are advantages of the day a nation saved and still on the | and disadvantages on both sides; but, on the march of progress in every direction;; Freedom | whole, the prospects of Paraguay do not appear ordained where Slavery was before; and the reconstruetion of a grander Union on the basis of All Rights for All Men, Surely, we cannot offer a higher tribute to the memory of him who was first in war and first in peace, than the bright moral results of dutics uobly done in both peace and MONSIEUR TONSON COME AGAIN. We understand that the Committee on Foreign Relations are again in a state of gestation on t case of Sanford, Minister Plenipoten- 3 ainst Sanford, Minister Resident, and expeet to be delivered of an opinion in fav of the plaintitf at an early day. We had hoped the Committee of Foreign Relations would cease pestering Congress with the ambitions longings of our Minister sells, This Committee have lefore gress to have this gentleman Minister Plenipotentiary, and No” for an answer Why are not content with it? What earthly son is there for making Brus- sells a full mission that does not apply to every other sccond-class mission in Europe? Have we any important concern with this little third-rate kingdom ?—a kingdom merely exist- ing on sufferance, and soon to be swallowed by France, aided by T in the general gulp- ing down of all the Germanie and French pop- ulations yet surviving under small separate Jjurisdictions, by one or the other of these mil- itary despotisms, Bat perhaps we are under obligations to the Belgic dynasty for recent serviee Carlotta, wife of the decomposed M an, is the daughter of the late King Leopold of Belgium, and sister of the reigning King. Both she and her family have had mueh to do in enabling Louis Napoleon to find a man mad enongh to play the role of a make-believe Emperor in | Mexico. But for the activity and ambition of this uneasy, childless woman, and hev grasp- ing Camily, it is a matter of doubt if the French ruler wonld have been able to find any person of respeetable position in Europe willing to ake the execution of his Mexican pro- gramme. Carlotta and her brothers not only persuaded her man Max to go, but got that powerful potentate, her fatler, to send along a portion of his grand army to help hold her and her husband on their ticklish eleva- tion. We believe there were a hundred or two of them, or it may be a thousand or two. Itis all the same which, Little Belginm did ber lit- tle best to help along the scheme which was to facilitate the destruction of the Great Re- public. It is nothing to us that it was little. She would have done more if she counld. But in these dirty services we sce nothing and know nothing to induee the American Govern- ment to add a single s or button to the dig- nity or position of our representative at the Belgian Counr We wonder that the self-re- spect of the Senate Committee on Foreign Re- lations does not prevent them from making the request for such a mark of exceptional consid- eration toward an unfriendly and insignificant comrt, MR. REVERDY JOHNSON. The vote of Mr. Reverdy Jolnson in favor of the Reconstruction measnre just passed by Congress occasions speculation and comment, Mr. Jolnson is in some sort considered a repre- sentative man, though we hardly know of what. A Border State man, an anti-Secession- ist, an anti-Republican, and of late rather an anti-Johnson man, it is hard to define his po- litical position affirmatively. It may help elu- cidate his position to say that by a recent ar- rangement among the leaders and managers of Maryland politics Mr. Johnson i3 to be retived at the close of his present term. He can thus talk and vote with nncommon independence, as he has certainly done within a few days with uncommon looseness, For example, we find Mr. Johnson reported in The Globe of the 20th inst. as saying what follows, in speaking of the Reconstruction Amendment, then proposed to be added to the Military Dill, of which it now forms a part: “The South can bear up under it [the bill] “hetter with the Amendment than it can with- “ont it; and it will be less obnoxious, though “still very ohmoxious to censure, with than “without it. It was for that reason I offeved “the Amendment, and shall give it the support “of my vote when the question shall be taken, “and then vote against thegbill whether it suc- “eceds or fails.” A day or two after saying this, when he 1w to vote on the same measure and the same amendment—intensified in its passage to be so bright as at the close of last year. —_— MEXICO. - Puser, o 4T DECREF. FROM CORONA—MOVEMENTS OF THE LIB- ERAL CHIEFS—AN ENCAMPMENT NEAR VERA CRUZ. BY TELEGRAPR TO THE TRISUNE. NEw-ORLEANS, Feb. 21.—Later dates from the in- terior of Mexico state that Corona had issned a d cree to the effect that all persons taking part with the Empire must leave the State of Jalisco within five days. Guadalajara papers of the 23d of January state that the Imperialists still held Guanajuate and its vicinity. Some petty Liberal chiefs had gained trifling advantages. Morelia was in possession of the Liberals. Bariozabal had completed the organ- ization of the National Guard at Mitamoros, consist- ing of 1,000 men completely officered and well equipped. Escobedo informs Bariozabal that he will immediately place at his disposal 2000 men, to be employed in preserving ovder in the State of Taman- lipas. Cortinas was in the State of Guerrero with & small force. Maximilian had issued another proclamation, con- demning the oc ion of Matamorcs by Sedgwick. Both French and Mexican flags were waving over the forts and Custom-House at Vera Cruz. The Lib- erals were encamped 13 miles from Vera Crz. ESCOBEDO'S VICTORY CONFIRMED. WasaNGToy, Feb, 2L—Official news from Vera Cruz of the 12th inst., reccived to-day at the Mctlf'au ~eation, confirms the report of the defeat of Mira- Escol near the City of Zacatec are reported from Matamdros. he ture of President Juarez by Mua- ild rumor. All the details report of the ¢ mon was ouly \ OBITUARY. e b darals THE REV. DR. GOODELL The Rev. Wi, Goodell, D, D., who died on #he 18th inst. in Philadelphia, was widely known by bis labors as an American Missionary in Turkey. He born at Templeton, Mass., on the 14th of Fel ry, 17%2, was graduated at Dartmouth Collego in the'class of 1817, and at Andover Theological Sewinary in 18%). He was ordained at New-Haven, Conn., Supt. i} 1822 and embarked, with Mrs. Goodell, at Nevw-Youl on the 9th of Decomber. After spending niwe moyiths at Malta for the purpose of studying the uagnagdg of the East, he arrived at Beyrout in November, ¥ Ho remained in Beyrout five years,and from there, it 1831, removed to Constantinople. In both places hé* passed through many perils, but always escaped an” hurt. Dr. Goodell, in particalar, distinguished him- self by tl anslation of the Bible iuto Armeno- Turkish. The work was completed iu 1343, and thor- oughly revised in 1863, MUsIC. gl —Mr. Theodore Thomas wiil give Lis Fourth Grand Symphony Soirée on Saturday, with an orchestra of 80, aud the Mendelsohn Union chorus. A great march and_chorns from Beethoven's “Ruins of Athens,” the Heroie Symphony by the same composer, and & snite in Canon Form'by'J. O. Grimm will be the dis- tinguishing featnres of a fine programme, THE DRAM.L. st ** A Dangerous Game” continues to prove attractive The house, on Tussday eveniug, was erowded, v porsons being compelled to stand. Last even- ing the storm prevented—as at all the theaters—a very large attendance, Miss Henvigues, as Genevieve, b ¢, won a remarkable success in the A sweet, ingennous nature has seldom eted as it is by this actress, in this haracter. note that a new comady, by Mr. Watts Phillips, is in preparation at allack’s, shortly to succeed * & Dangerous Gan W =The louz expected company of Japanese perform- ers, popularly known as “‘The Japs.” hasarrived here, from California, and will shortly commence a series of entertainments. A suitable place for the exhibi- tion has. we belteve, not yet heen found. The Japs are said to be wonderful athletes and tricksters. It is presumed that many pleasure-seekers will bo abroad to-day—this being the anuiversary of Wash- ington’s birth-day. For this reason extra perform. ances are aunounced at several places of public en- tertainment--uotably at Barnum's Muscum. A per- formanee will be given here at 11} o'elock, o, m., a8 1L as in the afternoon aud evening, without exteas charge. Ourtestimony to the merit of the Bunyan Tableaux —which are continually attracting large audiences at Union Hall=has been cordial and emphatie. They constituto a beautiful and affecting panorama. Especially do they merit the attention of he religi- ous community. To this point we have the testimony of the Rev. Dr. I, 8. Clark, pastor of the Twenty+ third-st. Presbyterian Chinrch, who, ou Sunday last, addressed the following words, from his pulpit, to i congregation ¢ “ I desire to commend to your notice the Bunyan Tab- leaux, now ou exhibition in this city. I have not solicited to mention this, but having scen the panorauis of thut wonderful allegory, I must cxpress my desire that an ontertainment so pure and elevating may uot be over. looked. As the scenes passed before me, [was dolighty with their high artistic power—~they being the work eminent masters in art—while, at the close, I found my- self under a powerful religions jufluence. I think you will thank e, if this notice shall lead you to g0 and ‘seo this admirablo exhibition.’ Tue “Jornt Compraxtes.”"—Gov. Waud yesterday sont to the New-Jersey Houso of Assembly the annual report of the * Joiut Companies (Camden and Amboy Railroad and Delaware and Rarftan Canal Companics), by which it appears that the amouut of transit duties pa by the railroad company to the State during the past yoar, was $156,474 92; by the caual, $101,542 57, T'he re- o embrace a still lavger sphere—a union of thirty- six instgad of (bitteen States, Wit sagacipus throngh the house—he voted for it, and is repoited as waking the Lollowing romayl celpts of the companies from all sources Live Leen $,007, 034 G4y aud thelr groeuses RILYRY 17 <