The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1867, Page 4

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THIS EVENING — CINDER-LEON — MADAGASCAR BALLET TROUPE—THE TWO PEIMA DONNAS. STRINWAY HALL. TAIS EYENING—THEO. THOMAS'S FOURTH SYMPHONY 801- RER. The Mendelssobn Union, Grand Orebestrs. TOMORROW EVENING—THE MESSIAH. NewYork Harmosle Bociety, Mime. Pareps, etc., Theo. Thomas's Orchesirs. DODWORTH HAL] THIS RUENISG—M. HARTZ, THE ILLUSIONIST. Proteus, Fioating Hesd, ste. Matinée at 2 o'clock. UNION HALL. R h NG TABLEAUX. TIIS AFTERNOON AND K Cornee Tweaty-third HOUSE. : AN YACHT RACE. Grifia \ing, Danciug, etc. 8. Horse Fulr,® ete., st g the Forts at New-Or Dusincss ‘Notices. )s for 5-20s, hecause so pay better interest than the 7.5 EXCHANGE YOUR T, Tong as gold s over 121 the noies. P I selling 7.30 notes you receise all the accrued Interest in addition to the quoted price, whilé you buy the 520 Bonds “ fat,” i €. you get all She acerued mterest incinded in the quoted price. By selling your notes 1 get from & half to one per ceut clear proit, will be no_ difference in the market G, F. Bakxk, Cashier First National Bank, N W, G. Wirk, Cashier Natioual Corrency Bank, re Fiscal Axcuts of the Governmment. AMERICAN (WALTHAM) WATCHES. THE BEST IN THE WORLD. l‘nh! Evervwhere. e Tk Most IMPORTANT ACQUISITION FOR A SUPFERING ¥KOM CONSUNPTION. Ten Wixe, Mian., Jan. 16, 1967. Daan Mie. Horr: T was very sgreeably surprised to learn by the pa- pors tiat the gencine Hore's Maut KxTaact Bevewaox o Haars Bas beea introduced into this country This aequisition is of the greatest i) sumption. My consio, the Prossian Conn Informed me » long time ago of the preparstion ; e bad prescribed last Sumumer several dozen, and obtained Ale best rasnits of its use. D. M. C. . BLECKEN. Hoff’s Malt Extract Depot, No. 5i2 Broadway, opposite Barnuw's. Oue dozes upward delivered 1o any part of tis city aud suburbe. Bokd b all Druggits NEVER-FAILING . WinsLow's S00THING SYEUP s 4 safe and eertain re portance to all suffering from Con- of Medicine, Dr. Sandersieben, bad ishing remedial properties of this AFETY AND SUCCE:! weds for all diseases Tt has b which childrea are afllicted duriug the process of teething. known to fail Gives rest to the stood the test of thirty vears. Nev Cures wind colic aut regulstes the bow- mother and relief o the cbild. els. 35 cents 4 bottle. Be sare aad call for Mxs. Wixstow's Sootuine Svrue, All others are fae simile of * Cartis k Perkiss” on the outside wrapper udden changes of ¢li- | i mate are sources of Pulmonary sud Bronebial Affections. Experience | kea i the eqrly S AND PARTIES A Kid Slign 0d ers, al styles and prices, st Tw makes 3.0 eplendid § Tarses, or-4,540 per hor 40 be getiing ové of ey elows pose: cor We clalieoge the Satisjaction guare ABkAN RrgUa, Genernl Minik & REKA Brick MacHINg v and ons pair with only wine v Has » its ¢ exper ek per howr, v steam ponce ina dowm, wval of eve o its equal No. 1] Broadway, N. Y. Tue FraNKLIN Brick MACHINE, Jnatly celebrated for perfect simplicits compreasiug power, 18 GUARANTEKD, self-bemper the clar and mmake 2000 | 3. M. KRxICK, Proprietor No. great strength and immenas b eight mea ) Wit WAITING For A CoucH “to go as it | Better try at Sold eame,” you are often sowing the sceds of Cousumption once Javu s EXPRCTORANT, & sure care for all Coughs and Colds. every e Coreate’s Hoxey ToiLer Soar, | Government is charged with swindling op NetwVork Daily Eribwne. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1867. MS$ OF THE TRIBUNE. Dary Trmone, Mail Subseribers, $10 per annum. 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A Cable dispatch from Berlin, dated yester- day, states that Count Bismarck's condition is improving, and that it is now thought that he will recover. His death at the present moment would be an irreparable loss to Germany. —— The question of the validity of Mr. Fernando Wood's lease of certain office-rooms to the city came up before the Supreme Court yesterday. We print a report of the case on our second page. Gov. Brownlow was yesterday renominated by acclamation by the Republican State Con- vention of Tennessee, and Gen. George H. Thomas was unanimously declared the choice of the State for the next Presidency. Resolu- tions approving the policy of Congress were also adopted. The Senate yesterday, by a vote of 24 to 13, refused to concur in the House amendment to the Indian bill, transferring the Indian Burean to the War Department, and a Committee of Conference was appointed. The plan which promises most speedily to end the swindling in the Indian Department is the one which should be adopted. e — Rhode Tsland has renominated and will reélect her Radical Governor, Gen. Burnside, and her Radical Congressmen, Mr. Thomas A. Jenckes, and Mr. Nathan R. Dixon. This she docs with a remarkable resolution ; to wit, that any plan of Reconstruction will be welcome ving for its basis equal rights for all, as enunciated in the Deelaration of Independence. From Chili it is once more reported that a spoedy conclusion of peace between Spain and the Allied Republics is probable, and a truce was said to have already been agreed upon. The internal condition of most of the republics continues to be most deplorable. The Peruvian tions to an almoat unparalleled extent, and the specdy fall of the President was expected. President Mosquera is rapidly losing the repu- tation which his Liberalism had gained for him. He is strougly suspected of an intention to ‘unu»x Ecuador and Venezuela, and even of endencies, | monarchical t The House yesterday debated the whisky sec- tion of the Tax bill, properly defeating an | amendment to allow distilling and rectifying on the same premises, and refusing to reduce the tax per gallon from $2 to 50 cents. It was shown t! the Government in 1866 gained but $37,000,000 revenue from whisky, and lost £100,000,000, collecting the tax upon but two | gallons out of five, The 23 section was rightly amended fo make the salaries of Inspectors ble by the United States. This will prove economical, for the Government will not ex pend half as much in salaries as it lost last | year by the cheating of Iuspectors who were 1 by the distillers. This cclelirated Torrer Soar, the CHorcrst s, HENERICAL in Faves Goods Dealers “BrAUTFUL Hat—CHEVALIER'S LIVE FORTHE FRAGRANTLY SCRXTED, and extremcly pon the skin. For sale by all Druggists aud | e originel colur and_ yout Kest Lai " leiod 8sa bair-iressing. wers, and a Samam A Curvarie, M. D. Restores Gray Dandroff: the finct and Druggista Mt positively restares gray bair stopn its fall 1y office, No. t of ten cents. Address Dr. B. B. Foorx, No. 1,130 Broadvay. New-York. Old Eyes made new without spectacles, doe- | Sor o mediciue. Seat, receighof tea coute No. 1,1 _ Address Troadwas, New-York. Barcurron’s he best in the | ol Ha e e—black or | No diseppofutmeit. 1o d Wi A. | Baronsio A TADORO'S 1AL best ever tored. Wholesale aud retail ) Astor )l:luv. ‘I ITCIT SEWING- Eruieric 8. M. Co. -ST. Macwines, No. S0 Broadway. Highest prewsiuws Macylaod 1 NV and Perr. State o, S T g ‘he Improved WEekn MACHINES, | warcantesd in all respecta, at their uew | '3 INCE Reven 4 Lochstisch e Bost faumily wachiae ia th Puozexce 8. M. Co., No. 55 Broadway. e SEW- | | Broadway. | ll\u[m.:x PreEyivy SEw- | & Winson's Loc AcHi e, No. ( 1x6 Macuines, Cartes Vignette, 3 per dozen; Duplicates, $2. ell uegatives registeied. R Lrwis, No. 160 Chatham-st., N. Y. “PALMER'S PATENT Lix Best!” Last | Rerour! Adiress Dr. Posrc ouls, P & Baston. Tur Hows: Macuixe Co’s Loek-Stitch S e Macwivus Erias Howe th wident. No. 009 Froad TRUSSES, ELAsTIC Bawnaurs, svrrontERs, & Dibee onle at i WiLLCOX 1o s lean labie lirnzd Trial. | w- original luveuior of the Sewiag-Ma- . N Y SUSPENSORY At 25 minntes past 4 o'clock yesterday morning Dantel Devlin, City Chamberlain, died at the Fifth- Hotel, of Bright’s disease of the kidneys. In 1, during the temporary absence from the city of ) Alderman Peck, President of the pard, and acting Mayor at that time, sent in the f Mi. Dev 1 Ald: i rl‘v}lwem:r vas Nathan C. riisans’ Bank. At the time | was about 55 years of age. I n C Hall, the Controller’s Office, Croton Aqueduct Department, and Street Departiment ¢ d on these buildings up to mine o'clock yesterday wmoriing, in hagior of Washington’s birthday ; but after that hour, as soon o such universal demand, is made from | If it is true that outside pressure has o far nged the opinions held by the House two | weeks ago, that the friends of the Bankrupt | billare even a d to move a Committes of i Conference, the fact is not creditable to Con- | gress. The Bankrupt bill is indispensable to | healthy condition of national business; its necessity has been demonstrated again and again, and asserted by the majority of the v 86t | lI:mw}. That a fow merchants who are afraid | of losing their bad debts by its passage should have the power to threaten its defeat would | be a startling proof of the weakness of the legislators, and their inability to form an opinion in the Iall of Representatives which eanuot be changed by a walk into the Lobby. The | country insists that, the Bankrupt bill shall be passed without dela The Legislative Committee on Tnsurance yes- causes of the recent fires, and was principally occupied with testimony in regard to the storage of petroleum and other dangerous articles,. We think it might properly consider the steady decrease of the supply of Croton water to the lower part of the city, which is unquestionably, if mnot the cause of lin-.n, oue of the principal obstacles to their extingnishment. From the Fire Department, no doubt, evidence might be obtained to show that in the event of a very large fire in this part of the city the want of water would be the canse of serious loss. Our merchants and insurance companies will not feel safe until another main pipe connects lower New-York with the reservons, We have never yet seen any specific vote of the Senate on the naked question of inflation like that given in the House on Mr. Stevens's proposition, and the previous vote of the same body against contraction. In our ignorance we shall be pardoned for expressing our hope that the Senate is wise enough, and resolute enough to resist the blind and reckless infla- ists of the House; and that they will place the seal of their condemnation on the wretched measure in which they were asked to coneur, But should the Senate fail of its duty, we shall turn to the President for a veto upon such wischievous and dangerous legislation, as as the news of Mr. Deviin's death became kuown, they were immediately pulled down to half-mast, w aonor of his memory. o THE HON. HENRY P. ALEXANDER. The Hon. Heury P, Alexander, a prowivent poli- tician of Herkimer County, died at Little Falls 'mwr«luv. He was born in New-York, and has been or more than 30 years o y known in the tate as arnest and influential member of the Whig and Kepublican partics, being, at the same time, uni- versally esteemed for his commercial integrity and pocial virtues. In 1848 he was eleeted Member of E‘unurw ou the Whig ticket. He was about 05 years ago. = applied. increasing the volume of our paper currency, with the coufident expectation that it will be % — = - Though the Tariff bill was made a special or- der 'in the House for Thursday, it has not yet n-rmvtjd the slightest attention. For this delay there is no excuse, for the House has no biusi- 1/:1-»04 before it as important as the protection of Meri n Industry. It has disposed of the prosent, and is bound by every consideration of the genoral welfare to do its share in making the Tariff bill a law before the end of the ses- gion. We should like some system and regu- larity in its legislation. As things are, the public are unable to conjecture the fate of any measure introduced in Con- gress, no matter of what imporance; bills which secure large majoritica early in the ses- sion are afterward negleeted, and defeated, more, it may be, by the indifference of their friends than by the encrgy of their enemics. We know that the proposed Tariff bill has a majority in each branch of Congress; to be carried, it only needs to be pressed to a vote. We repeat, then, that there can be no apology for a failure of the XXXIXth Congress to carry through the Tariff bill it has proposed and matured, and we speak for the entire industry of the country in demanding that the Protectionists in the House shall, without wasting time in debate, pass the Dbill at once. The House yesterday, by a vote of 63 to 54, amended the Tax bill so as to remove the tax directly to this result. The country must be o mm{: realize that irredeemable paper money is a bold swindle, by whomsoever issued, and is a disgrace to its ntterer ; and that they W).IO would increase its volume, or prolong its existence a day, except under the pressure of a dire Na- tional necessity—a necessity which has long since ceased to exist in this country—are as much public enemies as they who would con- spire for the National ruin in any other man- ner. The people have snffered enongh from the evils of a depreciated currency to insist on the demand for its extinction. The vast body of consumers have been long subjected to inordivate prices through the powerful com- Dinations of gigantic speculators dealing in and controlling all articles of consumption, ments in the South, and their testimony is strong and unanimous that in none of the Rebel States do the civil courts offer the slightest chance of justice to a loyal soldier, or a Union man, or a negro. “You could nqt find “a jury in South Carolina,” says Gen. Sickles, “that would convict a man for killing a Union “goldier.” Constables won't arrest, sheriffs won't detain, magistrates won't try, juries wnu.’t conviet for such offenses. It is the same in Louisiana, the same in Virginia, the same in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and part of Ten- nessee—the same, in fact, wherever the Cm.x- federate flag has ever waved. Gen. Wood in Mississippi*never heard of but one white man being punighed for killing a negro, and he only got a year in the penitentiary. Gen. Thomas, and especially the necessaries of life. These apeculntive' combinations are supported by the banks, who earn their exorbitant profits by issuing ondless promises to pay, which they are never called upon to redeem; and thus they become co-conspirators with these plunderers upon the the public. The upon raw cotton—a curious proof of the vague and inconsistent way in which the House legis- lates on financial subjects. It has repeatedly, and by decisive majorities, refused to tako the tax of three cents per pound from cotton, and seemed to approvo the ar- guments by which Mr. Morrill and others de- monstrated the justice of the tax—the only important revenue derived from the South- ern States. Here are about $20,000,000 to be thrown away, upon the pretext that the small tax discourages the production of the staple. But Mr. Blaine, who moved the amendment, should know that all the caleulations of cotton brokers, socretaries, and others, of the production of cotton in the Southern States bave been far below the true figures, and that the quantity of cotton raised has not only been systematically underestimated by the South, but is greater than there was reason to expect. We do not believe that the tax [is too heavy for planters to bear, especially as they throw the weight upon the consumer. The House, however, having begun to reduce taxes, seems resolved to go through with the work. Yes- taxation that there is reason to expect that the Free list will be larger than the Tax bill itself. OUR FINANCIAL DANGEES. A very proper complement of the late pro- ceedings in Congress on the currency question, is the proposition of Mr. Davis of the House, a member from New-Yotk, to authorize the Sec- not bearing interest, to re: due this year and next. offered by Mr. Davis after the passage of the bill for the issue of #100,000,000 of greenbacks, the consideration of his resolution. Proposing to pay the 6 per cent componnds in this way, paturally suggests paying off the remainder of our national liabilities in the same man ner. It certainly wounld bhe a great saving of interest to adopt Mr. Davis's scheme. We are paying £350,000,000 a year interest on our 7 we save it by paving them off, bodily, in legal tenders? They are payable in eur- rency, and are not greenbacks ewrrency, and legal-tender currency We are told on all sides that nothivg can by Lptter, gs ;l-w of banking, a8 an instrament of trade, as a our- rency for the people, than Unele Sam's prom- iscs to pay. They are claimed to be just as is required for sometimes told the purposes for which mouey our internal trade. And wea it by men who are not positive fools on the but it is the very best thing for everybody to have them so paid. And when we shall have paid the 7.50s, have only legal-tender aet, and under 5-208 by the same process. done this, we shall have realized the logical | results of the inflation policy, supported by the thirty majority of the House in its vote of Thurs- day last. If this po gle step, it is sound for every similar step in the same direction, until you fetehup by paying your whole loan, the entire National indebtedne: in irredeemable promizes to pay. And we say to pass one more it pay off our When we have s sound for one sin- to the holders of the National loan, and of every form and description of the Nuational obligations drawing interest, that the logical resnlt of the action of the inflationists in the Honse of Representatives is the utter destrue- tion of thoso sccurities by their conversion into worthless paper money. There is no end to the mischicf which can be wionght by the vicions principle of the inflationist—that the irredecmable legal tender note of the Govern- ment is money, or is as good as money for any pupose under heaven. We say that in its irredeemable state it is a worthless rag, a transphrent swindle, a glaring lie; and the whole fabric of trade, commerce, industry, speculation, banking, based on it, is a rotten fabric, resting on rotten snpports, and liable to erumble and go down in one universal crash. The more especially, we say, i3 this true when the whole superstructure and foundation rests on a reckless majority of spoliators in (ongress. The inflationists need not tell us they do not mean this, and they do not mean that. They do not know what they mean. Their exror and their vice is that they trust themselves to the guidance of an unsound pripciple which leads them, nolens volens, Willing or unwilling, straight down the precipice of individual and National bankruptey. They hold that to be se- curity which is not seewrity. They hold that to be money which is not moncy. They bedevil themselves and gy bedevil the comntry with the idea that the irredecmable paper money of the Government is a blessing. l-‘ullowimz'llu- lead of these false and pernicious ideas, they reason and they act accordingly. Adopting the vicious principle that a small inflation is a good thing, they pave the way for a large inflation as a better. If ”Tl‘i Lolders of Government securities do not wish to sce these securitics substantially L repudiated, and themselves stripped, they have got to send somebody to Cong 5 beside infla- question of Recoustugtion, ab least for the Uioniste Whose ideas aud whose measures lead terday 80 many articles were exempted from | Tlfis proposition was | but a singlo ohjection was sufficient to arrest | panks are 1o Jonger g]lng\_gq:cred for the purpm of facilitating commercial opera- tions by legitimate loans. Released from all obligation to pay, except in paper promises, they issue their notes, they afford their credit, they grant their aid, to bloated speculations on stocks and on commodities of every kind and description. And still, not content with the enormous and ruinous agencies of inflation now controlled by them, they, and the operators they sustain, besiege Congress for such ad- ditional means of prosecuting their illegitimate, oppressive, and dangerous courses, as is af- forded by the additional grant of the One Hund- red Millions of greenbacks voted by the House on Thursday. Wo warn all concerned that the way of the | transgressor is hard. This sort of thing cannot long go on. The banks and the speculators lave their way for a time, but the day will come when the loose principles now avowed by their represen es, and the lying pretenses on which they operate, namely, that a promise may be disregarded without shame, and that the shadow is as good as the sub- stance, will work their own disgrace and de- struction. Every solvent man and every sol- vent institution in the country is deeply inter- ested in maintaining the idea that there is and can be no mereantile honor and no national finandial credit inseparable from striet fi- delity to pecuniary engagements, How far we have wandered and are wandering from this inflexible standard we forget to remenber, in the midst of this rolling, inun- dating sea of lying promises to pay which the conntry has consented for these past few years to dignify with the name of money. The peo- ple have become debauched with its demoral- | izing influences, and both individual and na- tional eredit is in danger of going down before | the influenees and ideas it has created in the great crisis upon which the country is now entering in its financial and industrial concerns, | The cloud on the horizon may be yet no bigger | than a man's hand. We have intimated what shape it moy take, and indeed is likely to take, Why should n't | good as gold dollars, or silver doltars, for all | subject. We have been complained of for | styling our National Banking system “a rotten “gystem,” because it is based on lying promises | to pay. Now, here is a proposition which tests | the sounduess of our eriticism. 1f the | tender notes are as good as is alleged, why not pay the loan in them, | as proposed by Davis? Wiy p #30,000000 a year iuterest on this loan when we can wo casily get rid of #uch a bur- densome tax? If the legal tender notes of the | United States are just as good as coin for our zmlt-u:fl trade and business, as we are told— |if they are In fact moncy—then we cannot | have too many of them, for no people under hieaven have too much money. The argu- maent s irresistible that not euly is it a good | | thing to have the % paid in greenbacks, unless by common consent we are 1 willing to unite in the declaration that all irredeemable promiscs to pay, whether bank promises or Govermuent promises, alike swindles and glaring lies, disgracing their utter- | ers, and which must be relentlessly pursued and proclaimed as such, till they are driven out of exlsteuce, -+ i o are THFE MURDER OF T 2 On the #th of October, 1863, a corporal and two privates of the Maine Veteran Volunteers | were brutally murdered at a place called Brown's Ferry, on the Savannah | South Carolina. They had committed no wrong and done nothing to provoke hostility, but were aeral in cold blood for no other reason o beanse they wore the the uniform of the | United Sutes. Four men were arrested for the crime by the military authoritics, and a Mili- tary Coumnission, convened by Gen. Sickles, lafter a leng and careful trial, found them | guilty, upen undoubted testimony, and they were senteced two to be hanged, and twoto be fimprisoned for li Of course all the South was enraged at learn- ing that foir of her citizens, bad subjects though they were, had been cony 1, and were | going to be punished for the venial offense of and drowning three Yankee soldiers, | The President was besought to interfere. Pe- titioners reminded him that his “avowed policy demanded his interposition ; and Alexandgr H. Stephens, Gov, Orr, Hersehel V. Johnson, and others of the leading men of the South, united in applications for the discharge of the prison- crs, or at any rate for their tran: civil tribunals, which they knew would amonnt to about the sime thing. The Hon. 0. H. Browning, now Seerctary of the Interior, re- ceived a fee of $1,000 for his services in influencing Mr. Andrew Johnson's mind on the subjeet, and persuading him to remove the criminals to some fort, where a writ of habeas corpus could be served on their { without danger of a contlict between the civil | and military autherities. It was supposed that alter the Milligan decision there would be no difficultygin ha ial declared unlawful. A writ was served npon Sickles at Charles- ton, but he disregarded it, and the Sceretary of War approved his conduct, Several weeks after this service, the deut coputed the two death imprisonment for life at the Tortugas, but eight days later all ‘four of the prisoncrs were re- moved to Fort Delaware, and there the com- mandant, Col. Howard, was served with a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Hall of the United States District Court of Delaware, which he was fustructed from Washington to obe ing was had and the prisoners we on the ground that at the time of the tr the murderers the civil courts of South Carolina were open and the gular administration of justice was unobstructed. We need hardly remind our readers that this assertion of Judge Hall's was very far from the truth, The pri oners returned to their homes, and their fe low-citizens, who, be it remarked, were almost unanimonsly convinced of their guilt, received them with ovations, and gave them a banquet. To quote the language of a surgeon in the army, “the town was, as they cxpressed it “there, literally drank.” The eivil anthorities never ook measures to try the assassins, and they are still at larze, . peser: » 4 Mo Treui of Kepresentatives appomied onsé prezentatives appointed a4 Committee last December to investigate this flagrant case, and to recommend such action as it might seem to them to require, and their report has just been presented. After re- hearsing the facts as we have given them, they stute the result of inquiries they have made as to the administration of justice in other por- tions of the South, rightly judging that any law passed by Congress to correct such evils a8 the one under consideration would have to m: | shootin Presi- ‘ntences to be general in its eharacter, and not restricted dacious | enstodians | whose department comprises five States, does not know of a single instance of punish- ment being inflicted for a serious offense against a freedman—-though the offinses were plenty enough and serions enough. And this state of things does not improve as time goes on, but groys worse and worse. The military officers are all very decided in their opinion that justice and good order can- not be maintained in the South without the interygution of military courts; and Mr. Stan- ton concludes his testimony with a particularly downright expression of belief that such tribunals are perfectly legal in the present condition of the country; that the Milligan trial was perfectly legal, and that the decision of the Supreme Court in that case was not justified “by any principle of law recognized “by any civil government on the earth.” The Committee adopt and repeat the recom- mendation of Gen. Thomas that there should be established “some supervisory authority in “those States, with power to devise and in- “gist on the impartial administration of justice, “accompanied by a sufficient force, if neces- “sary, to induce the people to feel that the “authority is able to enforee its advice and in- “gtructions"—a recommendation so completely covered by the Reconstruction bill which has passed Congress, that neither the Committee nor we deem it necessary to enlarge upon it. We have mnot the hardihood to hope that the cogent reasons bronght forward in this re- port will have any effect in persuading Mr. Johnson to affix his signature to the bill; but we rejoice in the testimony it bears to the wisdom and necessity of the principal features of t measure, —_— PARTIES IN GLAND. By those who know anything of the spirit of political party warfare, the moderation and forbearance of the Opposition in the Debate on the Address in reply to the speech with which the Queen opened the present session of the British Parlinment, will be regarded particularly noteworthy. It is true that arl Russell, in the House of Lords, animad- verted in rather severe terms on the discredit- able tactics by which the Tories defeated his Reform Dbill of last session, and over- threw his government; but his speech was, on the whole, mild, considering the aggra- vating circumstances of his vecent defeat ; and his bitterness—such as it was—was counterbal- anced by the suavity of Mr. stone, speak- ing in the Commons on the same occasion. | From the disy in both Hou t would really seem as if the Derby Ministry had nothing very scrious to fear from their opponents, and as if the vexed question Parlismentary Reform was destined to with an amicable settlement at an ¢ period. But appearances are prover deeeptive, and the present ease will prove to | be no exception to the rule. The Government | have propounded their plan of Reform, and | already, as we are informed by a Cable dis- pateh, the voice of John Bright had been raised inst it, denouncing the propositions of the Tory Ministry, and urging the people to con- tinue the agitation for th political rights, From this fact we are justified in inferring that the plan has fallen far short of the demands of the more advanced Liberals; and we shall not be surprised to receive intel- ligence shortly that the tug of w the progress has fairly commenced., Some of the English papers are hinting at the probability of a compromise on the subject but it seems too late in the day | for such an expedient to succeed. Were the settlement of the question left solely in the hands of the politicians of the hereditary ruling <5, both of the Whig and Tory school, mat- ters might be patched up easily enough. In that ease the interests of the masses would, as matter of conrse, be sacrificed to the greed of power. But the people now claimthat their voice shall be heard and respected, seeing that they have a vital interest in the matter; and it is upon their decision that Parliament must ulti- matel 'ties may sueceed in put- ting off for a time the much desired settle- ment; but the signs in the political sky of England show that this cannot be for long. The position of partics in relation to this question of Reform furnishes a subject for eu- | ¥ speculation. |, The popular voicg is in favor of manhood suf{ragewof “residential, “registered manhood suffrige,” as it is termed. To this the great bulk of the Liberal members of Parliament are unquestionably opposed. Are the advanced Liberals in favor of the prin- ciple? It is yet to be ascertained that they ave, for, with very few exceptions, they have be together silent onghe point. Indecd, Earl Russell, the leader of the Liberal party in the IHouse of Lovds, in his speech on the 6th of this month, already referred to, said that he did not sup- pose that any member of cither Honse of Par- liament approved of manhood suffrage. In the same specch he said that he did not ask their Lordships to coneyr in the principle—an F ance which he might have sived limself the trouble of giving, for who wounld expect a Lord to coneur in anything so liberal? To whom, then, if Tory obstinacy compel a stand-up fight, are the people to look for leadership? There is one man to whom all would be turned, and that man is John Bright. And to this complexion, we incline to think, matters will come at last; before Re- form can be carried, a new party, a people’s party, will have to be formed with Bright as its leader, The so-called Liberal party is already in a state of disintegration. The Adullamite defection shook it to its founda- tions, for that schism deprived it virtnally of some olm ablest members, 1t has now no cotfpactness, and, in fact, no cordially accepted leadership, The younger and more advanced of the party would aceept Mr. Gladstone, but the old Whig scetion) yepresented by Earl Russell, ave averse to following the lead of a Commoner, By the aid of he Adullam- ites Lord Derby might be abled to retain power; but in the present tempe? of the I)rupli' it 18 doubtful whether Mr. Lowe and his following will give a cordial support to the Tory Government. Appearances, then, indicate a break up of present combinations, and the formation of a new party under whose banners, sooner or later, the j to the State of South Cawoling, They exam- ) ¢ ple of manhood sul- Lrage will bo established. between | \tionists and the friends of liberty and | ; ; ined all the commanders of military depart- WASHINGTON'S BIMHDAY. e THE DAY IN NEW-YORK. Yesterday was more generally observed as the anniversary of the §Birthday of Washington than corre- sponding days for a number of years. All the publio buildings, the bauks, and the larger stores were closed. The eivil courts, with the exception of two branches of the Supreme Court, were not in session. The Post-Office and the Custom-House were closed at 10 o'clock a.m’ The Stock and Produce Exchauge strictly obsorved the day. A few speculators were on the street, but fow shares of stock changed hapds. The fow bulls and bears who had hazarded an appearance early became disgusted with the unusnal calm and speedily left, and the money streets of the metropolis were deserted. Throughout the city but little business was transacted, save that of & necessary character. A saluto of one hundred guns was fired at 12 o'clock; the bells of many of the churchea were rung; flags were displayed from the (‘l‘t&“flw. Custom-House, Post-Office, an mu{h other buildivgs ; many people walked in the principal thoroughfares, snd t with less of the high- ..Bure, m-egfln:ln; common to n;fiul;r uslne: ! riders bolaif p) recent storm ; and what with the great quiet in the chan- neld of trade, and what with the bell-ringing, and flag- flying, and the promenading, and the sieigh-riding, and the soldiers, d&c., the city wore]all the appearauce of & loliday. According to the ottial prograanie, e ccording to the official programme, the 7186 Re; under command of Col. Parmele, ought to nvnm in line on Bond-st. at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoou. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, this was nos done. The 71st Reghuent, instead of parading, went di- Tect tothe State Arsenal,corner of Thirty-fifih-at. and Heventh:ave., where they were prescuted with a hand. 9B ot OF Colars B thty popresentaigves of the State. e e eI 7 - TR hnd of ‘Col. Kreibe lorflned md‘ljne lm.\ Bond-st. :m o ck g‘g_'(-hl\flflw l:’l'%fl'nfu quite & soldierly appearance, Soon al 0 *for- ward” was mv’uu,‘:-hen the Toriment, escorted by a de- tachment of the 1{th Regiment, comzanded by Col. Miaid- Doff, marchied to the City Hail, wher they rocoived & handsome set_of colors from the hands Or wgeVor Hoff- man, on behalf of the L'ilg authorities. In HtING veem., flags the Mayor made a brief speech, complimenting the 96th on their goldierly appearance. The officer in com- mand responded, wheu the regiment filed passed the Mayor at salute, hid was at ouce djsmissed (o ta srmory. 1f the state of the streets had permitted, the milita play would in all probability kave beeu of a more elabor- ute nature, SERVICES AT TRINITY, Tn celebration of the day a special choral service was held at Trinity Church. At 11 o'clock the choir sang the Processional Hymn, which was followed by the “Te Deum Laudamus” of Boyes, The “Credo” m Mer- beckéd’s Maas, and the ** Gloria in Excelsis” from Mozart's Twelfth Massswere also executed, The Farewell Address of Washington was read by the Rev. Dr. Vinton. The collection taken is intended for the benefit of the suffer- of the South. The edifice was crowded to ex- INTH REGTMPEXNT, he Ninth Regimen n, in the large hall of nstitute, last evening, Lis subject being ** The onor, or the Citizen-Soldier.” The officers and rivates of the regiment acted as ushers in the hall; Col. ilcox presided, und on the platform were sevoral emi- itizens, among them Gen. Willlam Hall and Major- . Robert Anderson. A few ye to lecture upon the rltuvn—wfuwr upon @ topic of no practical significance ; for until the outbreak of the Rebellion soldiery, as we saw, was & more theatrical show of tinsel. But we have passed through a most remarkable period in the world’s history, and the events of that period have given to the ci\lwnwhfl:z that practical siznificance which previously it wante The speaker would not like to affirm that War belongs to the Divine order of things; but the conditions which create the necessity for war are inherent in man; and we ay a8 well accept war as an inevitable occasional neces- sity. Therefore the necessity for the citizen-soldicr—the citi- 7ei1 whose love of law and order is sodecp s to impel him in time of peace to prepare for war, and in time of war to draw Ins sword in defense of his country’s Lonor. Dr. Chapin drew a glowing pieture of the glorions oth, as, on the zith of May, 18, It marched down Broadway foward its baptism in blood': of iis ach {urper's Ferry, South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg (where its colors and 400 privates fell), at Bolivar Hights, where, when summoned to strike its flag, it returued the ohal lenge, ** Come and take it {® and of its services undel Grant in the terrible azmgfin of the Wilderness ; ai after paying o graceful tribute to the memory of the abers of the oth who fell in the last trinmph- zn, the Doctor said that o regiment in the prouder record. The Inghest type of the ut and loyal citizen wiio springs to arms at his country’s call, and wio is both Christian and soldler, Dr. Chapin having fimshed, Col. Wilcox introduced M ien, Robert Anderson, and that distinguished ter the applause had subsided, remarked that uite agreed with the cloquent orator’ of the evening, That the hest eitizen, ndeed, he wonld say the bes Cliristian, invariably makes the best soldier. L INSTITUTIONS. The day was celebrated on Randall’s Tsland in much - the usual manner. The Commissioners, Messms, B«m:z Nicholson, Bell, and Brennan, paid a visit there, ai brief addresses to the children. A suitable response rt of the children was made by Master Me- of Drave mi | Laughlin, alias George Washington, The clilldren had & liberal supply of cukes, fruit, &¢. A *musical matinée " was n at the Lunatic A'l]!ll-. at which quite number of the lunatics * assisted.” No work was done at the Workhouse and Penitentlary, the Inmates of those institations, poor people, being kep in their cells. THL UNION LEAGUE ASSOCIATION O THE TWENTY- s LR SECOND WARD, ! Tnion League Assoglajion of the Twenty-second ave lust night an u.mf..'imm 1o their friends in , at the corner of Fortieth-st and Eighth-ave. The which is not large, was filled to overflowing, | The platform was handsomely decorated with national bunting on the desk itself. Crossed swords wore crowned with the oltve wreath, and both resting on the opened | Bible. Mr. Dauiel B. Mellish, the President of the club, opened the meeting, expluning i a few well-chosen words the purpose of the club, His address was followed by a number of songs of a patriotic and senthmental character, Juring the meeting a letter was read from the Hon, Wi, A. Darling, expressing hig regret at Lis inability te atge gl e \ix?f-"r hnNg‘m Campbell who was announced tode- liver the address was received with consideruble @ lause. After this had subsided he announced bis s us “Washington and Lincoln—the men aud thelr imes.” He called attention to the differenco between them, one born_an English subject, of aristocratic birth, wealthy, educated, and of polished manners ; the other, 1 in 4 log cabin, hardly knowing his grandfather, un. uncouth, and ungainly. Yet both had obtained of their countrymen and under the accidents of tance were to be found resemblances. Euch wag fmany expedients, of nerve, of fortitude, eacl essful for each worked from the heart outward, an | ench was a representative wmau. The former of the peo- ple as it then was, requiring to look up to leaders, and | Wwith English habits of thought, the latter of that America which iad grown up from 10 years of demoeracy and freq sehools, and desired no dependence ou any. From the Characters of the men he passed to their times and i | doiug so pointed out that while the North had become democratic the Sonth had become aristocratio and this was an evil which we had to correct. Tt Lad fostered and been fostered by negro Slavery, which, to our shawe, we had toleratod, That crime had been expiated by a long and bloody war, but it was essential to cut at thé root of which hl\‘flz and the aristocratic fecling wero but offshoots. The ¢ mate and soil of the South tempted to indolence, and the stem of large plantations were the great enemios of the h. By jsola ndividuals 1t Lindered education i only Way Lo ct this was by fostering wanufao build up such communitics as might, by thei gation, encourage and proteet education, and raise the status of labor and the lab au. The war, ned, had not been witho its on the highe 1s and incroased self-knowledge it had given us,” He ucluded by urging all to maintain tho great principle, rfect equality p law Tho thunks of the Society were to him at the close of bis wddress, THE DAY 1N BROSRETY. Yesterday was very generally observed as a holiday (w Brooklyn. All the public and many private buildings were rated with flags, and most of the stores were closed in the afternoon. The public offices were shut upy and the courts all adjourned for the duy. By order of the “ommon Council & salute af 100 guns was fired from Fort at noon. In the evening all the halls were in use , receptions, &e. The arsenal in Portland-ave. wus oceupied by the 56th Regiment; the F. F. C. C.’s had possession of Montague Hall, and D. C. Aitken Mus- wteers were out in force at Gothic Hall. THE DAY ELSEWHERE. BY YRLEGRAPM TO THE TRIBUNE. Maxcuester, N. H. Feb. 22.—Manchester cele- brates the day with great enthusiasm. The famous Amoskeag Veterans have had a parade, an oration and & dinner, closing with a grand ball. Six companies of the volunteer wilitia also cawe out and were reviewet by the Governor. PHILADELFNIA, Feb, 22.—To-day is observed as a hold day by the banks and courts. The public and private buildings display flags. The formal presentation of Hancoek's e table on which the Declaratiog cied, was made by Lowis W. H :, i Independenco Halk by Mayor MeMichael. Harisn Washington's Birthday annives sary isduly observed. A national salute was fired af noon, and an additional gan for Nebraska. 3 BALTINORE, Esb, §-The day i3 obscrypd as 3 boliday general suspeusion of business ; nd eShirts closedy flags displayed from public and private bulldings; ne public demonsiration ; weather delightfal, CICAGO, Feb. 22.—Business generally throughout the city was suspended to-day. The banks and public offices and Board of Trade were closed. Wo have thercfore ne fmancial or marks ports. BosTON, Feb. 22.—Washington’s Birthday was observed here in a quiet manner. Business was geuerally sus per ed. Flags were displayed from all the public build ngs and a national salute was fired at noon. AUGUSTA, Ga., 22.—To-day has been partially obe served as a boliday. The Fire qummm"mudel{ pa rad N Feb, 22.—The day has heen quite genen erully observed as a holiday, The bauks and public of- fices were all closed, unanimously tendered the S The Tespos Wity LLovp Garrison will give the third of the Fraternity course of lectures at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday evening next, the 26th inst, His subject, “ Our National Affairs,” will, it is understood, embrace Impeachment. - The “New-York Associat on for Improving the Com dition of the Poor,” earnestly appeals to tho publi through an advertisement in avother column, for aid bsudigy W suticriugs of thie Roor Qf this iy,