The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 25, 1867, Page 4

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Rep Wixg, Mins., Jsa. 16, 1967 greeably surprised 1o learn by the pa- faue Bxtract BEveacs or HEatru wrs. nuportance to all saffering frm Con cularly to g e Most Iy Sv i M Horw: Tum at the gemuine Hory teen introduced into this This sequisitios is of the womption. My consin, the Prosisn Connsedar of-Medicine, Dr. Sandersiolen, bad Anforaned me & log thue oo of (e astonisbing remedis] prope | preparation; he bad pre last Summer several dozen, aud_ obiained Ulm hest rouult of ity use D. M. €. i Burexes. Hoft's Malt Fxtract Degol, No. 542 Broadway, opposite Barwn's. Aelivered to auy part of this city sad saburbs. IXCELLENT ARTICLE. NG SYReP is am excellent article for all the child from pain, regulates the stomach th to the ehild, comforts and rests the wotber teething its value is inestimable ; eures During the proce- o griping in the havels. and call for “MRs. Wixsiow's Seormixe Svury, NEW- NewDork Dasily Tribune. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1867. 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A sess letters for this office sbould be addressed tg * Tux Tris: oxg,' New-York. ) We canast uudertake to return rejected Commanications. e . of 4 h an Advertisements for this wee Wrrkey TRIBUNE most be handed in To-Day. issue of Ture VP Aletter on Life in Washington, Arizona and Idaho news, the Trial-Trip of the Dunder- berg, The Woman's Rights Conventions at Troy and Newburgh, the Fire Investigation and other City News, and the Court_ Reports will be found on the second page. The Money article and Mar- Jets are o the third page. We print on the second page a brilliant chap- ter on social life in Washington. It has the merit of containing neither politics nor news, and is none the less entertaining on that ac- count, According to Greek accounts, the Candians were bravely holding out at the end of January, and had gained several victories over the Turks. They are reported to have been invited to send de es to Constantinople to treat with the Government, The offense Kentucki the Reconstraction bill— which we print to-day, of the Democratic Convent There is a still pson’s somewhat bitter but not too loudly ant speech. That of the Rebel Gen. Preston is about as moderate as we could expect. Itis a plea for the Confederacy, and a demand for | Rebel franchise. The joint resolution forbidding the payment of any person who does not prove to the proper wounting officer that he was opposed to the Rebellion, and in favor of its suppression— though the application and meaning of the latter phrase is not perfectly clear—should In rejected. For the first time the closing commercial in- telli e of London and Liverpool has been published in New-York on the same day. The Cable dispateh which appeared in our second evening edition of Saturday, giving the closing quotations, could not I left London before fonr o'clock p.m., and yet was received in New- Yok at noon of the same day. This gives a little less than one hour for transmission be- tween the two cities. This dispatch was imme diately telegraphed to rancisco, and would, probably, be published in the papers of that ¢ity at noon Bnving the fac simile of * Cruris & PRRKINS" on the outaide wrapper. Al others ave base ianitations Tue Eveeka Brick Macmine howr, with only wine men and Has no complex e y 2 satisyaction guarant Aunax Brars Tue FraxgriN Brick MACHINE, eelobirated for perfe ¥or A CoLGH “to go as it Better try at T WinLe WArmsG came," vou are often sov g the seeds of Consumption wnee JAYNH's BXPECTOKANT, 4 sare cure for all Conghs sud Colds. Sold sverrehere, MATIC REMEDY is ic, both Chrowie and Tn. " The afficted are advised Puiio-Broy oMds and all Thvat asd Lang Corcate’s Hoxey ToivLk: ted TorLEr Sarr, In such unlverss] demand, ie wade from | waterials, 1+ VAAGKANTLY SCENTED, Al extremely | o tie akin. sta and | For ssle by all by e M. Co. v, No. 543 Brosd's State ¥, e Feed Lockstiteh So-MAcHiNRs, 5 wackiue u the world, Froxexcr & M. Co, | No. 905 Brosdway. STITCH SEw- Best s VER & Bakun's Hi wixes, No. 495 Broadway, N. Y. Cartes Vignetie, 83 Per dozen; Duplicates, Lewis, No. 160 Chatham-st., N. Y Nt Liwns, § Lasr | . Iy, Philadelphs k& B | ACHINE C0.s Lock-Stitch S ow i of : Sresions. = -‘_Ar (original inventor of the Sew: T'rUsSES, STOCKINGS, S Bawoaows, Sorroxrans, &c—Marsa & Co's Radical Cure Trasw O #t No. 2 Vesor-st. Lad Wi @eam is Jeas luble o rip than the lock-stiteh.” Girand Triak) Send for sawples of both stite TiE EXCISE LAW. —— “Iie following are the arrests made np to 11 o'clock Jast night for the offenses mentioned, no arrests having been made in those Precinets whose numbersre omitted: Precinete. Wlations. Intox.| Precinets. Violations. Intor. ] 1 XVI.. AW 1 1 o | Xvi 1 2 2 o | xvir 1 ‘ 0 1 XI1X 2 [ o 3 XXI. o 1 4 2 XX 2 0 2 2 | XXV o 1 Ed 4 | XXVIT 3 0 1 XXX . 0 3 1 = 5 n Total . 09 o 8 Descest vroN Drayatic Havn—Last evening, Bergeant Looney and a squad of men visited the well- knowa Dramatic Hall, Nos. 46 and 48 East Houston-st., #nd arrested the proprietor, Emil Unger, and a number of persons whom they found there engaged rehearsing for “n o) formance. The followlug are the names of those & : Emil Unger, an(yaln. rmany ; Morrls Ponsinsky, 42 barles Lehman, 29 years, CGermany ; thel, 45 jermany ; Hermou Dieking, 35 years, Germiny ;° il :(w 3 i Kl ‘Richotan Nevers, n year, i Rncmn.tlnlwny. rl St cars, Ger- piany ; Henriett 5 yenrs, G g Carrle Hall, 24 Sears, s n > fi."ehm" 27y . 8. All the' y were loc : &nl.‘ lfln’lm pflmr! were locked up for i M- ARMY GAZETTE. Y YRLEGNAFN TO THR TRINUNE. Brevet Gewersl R E. Clarr, Assistant Quariey Gon o .?fignl‘-. ln-dnumo:l teore ievel dered Lo report by umafimw.«h y 1l Brevet Brig General 8. B. Holwbind, Deputy Quartermaster. enl, .‘!.'!..u,.. Chief uaster, 1.3."-...' ekt Colamel 1. G. Chandler, Avsistant Quartgnassicr v ho Lo Mgy aal. i i w T tha Militarv Divigipy of | it safest to leave with them. We have later news from Mexico, which fully confirms the report of the total defeat of Mira- mon, after a brief oceupation of Zacs The Liberal Generals are advancing f sides against the City of Mexico, Diaz has even interrupted the regular commu- nication between the City of Mexico and Puebla. The French evacnated the city on the 5th, the prominent adherents of the Emperor deemed It was generally expected that in the course of a few weeks Juarez would again find himself in the City of Mexico at the head of the Republican Govern- ment, We have another batch of correspondence issuing ont of the wretched espic ¢ wystem of the Secretary of State. Mr. Seward seems to have been circulating the McCracken story among all our diplomatic vepresentatives abromd. Europe hears of it, and might take 8 Jesson from our Seeretary for the management of its own spy system, if it were not for the bad breeding displayed. Heve in America we should certainly like to know what remains of the suppositious MeCracken after Ministers Motle Hale, Sandford, and Morris, and Consul-Gen Murply, pronounce him with one ve a falsi- fier. They pay too much respect to his rges by denying them—and we should been glad to find in their letters more of the tone which made Mr. Motley's 8o eredi- table to him and to the country. i We are almost sorry that the provision in the Indian Approffriation bill that no mon for the Indian service in Colorado should be d bursed by the present agent, Mr. Alex. Cum- mings, was stricken from the bill, though there were obvious and good reasons for doing so. We are more interested to know that Mr. Sherman regards the whole of the patehy and ragged | g system as a ruinous farce. Sixty pag ppropriation bill are made up of items— cach of them Leavy enough, we presume—for 50 years old and moldy, made with tribes which ave now dead. Mr. Sherman regards the system as a fa hink it ix a swindle, and 2 most extensive one. But, at all events, there is a general understanding that the curious sys- tem which we support in order to make onr In- dian wars as chronic as possible, shonld he put an end to speedily A Government vessel will, under a late joint resolution of Congress, leave this port in a few days, to carry free whatever may meantime be contributed by our citizens to feed the famishing poor at the Sonth. The Commission are anxious that she shall he freighted with Corn and Meat to her utmost capacity. We are amazed at the apathy with which the appeals hitherto made for onr starving country- men have been met. As yet, apart from what our noble women have raised, only 35,000 have been contributed. Ten years ago, a like appeal would have been responded to at the rate of hundreds of thousands per day. Are these people less near to us because of their need ? Let us resolve that at least $100,000 shall be contributed this week by our City. Let us not be shamed by St. Louis, which has given €126,000. James M. Brown, No. 61 Wall-st., is the Treay- ner. -y I, e The Speaker of the House of Representa- tives is reported ' as saying, on Saturday, that “in the British House of Commons there is “generally much uiore noise aud confusion thun “in this House.” We cannot imagine how the Speaker got his information; and lest the House ghould take comfort in its disorder from this unhappy remark, we beg to inform both the head and the heels of that body, which are quite too often to be scen on the same level, that the House of Commons is usnally a quiet and assemblage, where every speaker is easily heard, unless the House is determined not to hear him, which really oceurs but seldom; and where nothing whatever is permitted to go on at any time, except the business before the House. Not a document, not a newspaper, not pens or paper, not anything whatever, is per- mitted in the hands of any member, excepting only the printed order of business for the day. Conversation béing likewise prohibited, as well as the peanut and apple trade, it follows that no public legislative assembly is or can be more quiet and decorous in their demeanor than the House of Commons. As a matter of sober fact, though it seems a pity to despoil the poetry of the amiable Speaker, our House of Representa- tives ig a den of howling Dervishes beside it. THE Washington advice veto of the Reconstraction bill. to be sent in to-morrow or Wedne: i We can regard this veto no otherwise than as a very grave mi and a National fortune. And, hopeless as may be the task, we cannot refrain from showing why this bill should not be vetoed. Let us begin by admitting that the terms of Reconstruetion proposed in the bill are har er than we wish they were—as they are harsh- er than they wounld have been had not the Democratic minority of the House chosen to follow the lead of Mr. Thaddens Stevens. They knew—for he frankly avowed—that his object was to make the bill 1 ot they saw fit to unite with a minority of the Republicans in voting down the Blaine-Sherman propesition, after it had passed the e by 20 to 10; every Republican Senator voting for it. The Democrats so voted as to compel the majority of the Republicans to accept such aj of Reconstruction as isfactory to Mr. Ste- vens or have none at all. The fact that a ma- jority of the Republicans are at heart wit Blaine and She n, and not with Stevens, is one to be regarded in acting on the main question. As to the Military provisions of the bill now before the President, it must be considered that they , amount in substance to this—7he Presi dent is clothed with power {o maintain order and The President is to seleet the com- of the several districts; he is n in their duties; he is to supervise wctions, and to r their judg- South. mandants instruct tl their off ments. What oppression? Are not these provisions nee ise chance is there of *s report on the murder of the th Union soldiers on the Savannah river, the eseag these murderers from justice through a writ of habeds corpus Issued by Judge Haull of Dela- ware, and the general satisfaction with which their return was greeted by their ex-Rebel neighbors. Is it possible that any man who calls himself a Unionist will say that the pun- ishment of such r ahould be left to the loc And, if not, who visions of the Re or too stringent ? A murders ean safel ¥ pro truction Lill are vimeeded H one wiil contend that no neg s been Killed sinee the snrrender 5 armies. We know that Lilled Whites, and have We know that Whi v, and have not been o punished. Weeks ago, we point us to a single iustance Rebel slayer of a negro had 1 tried, convieted, and punished, by the local an thoritics at the South. The answer is hlank sile The fact is virtnally eded that the ex-Rebel Whites at the South will not—at all events, do not—punish the assassins of Union soldiers or of negroes, Need we argne that those must and will be punished, even though it should be necessary to this end that judges should be hutled from the benel and consigned to the dungeon? If thero is any thing on which the loyal heart of the conntry is fixed, it is ghat there shall be law and order at the South, and that the Rebel assassing of loyal men shall be punished. And, if you do net ohject to this, why object to the Military features of the Re- construction b are essentially pro- tional. Who need in the ex n arrested, a8sasing dread their o) “There’s nos at the truth ahou But they whom the truth would iudic Now as to Reconstruction : willithose who are advising the President to veto this bill tell him what is to be gained by “the Sonth” from such a veto? We ask a praetieal question and desire a practical answer. If this w the bo- ginning of a controversy, it might be well to veto by way of taking an appeal from Con- gress to the People. Bat the appeal has been taken; it was fairly, boldly made by the Presi- dent a md the verdiet is overwhelm- ingly ag: It eannot be mistaken, nor argned down, The People have decided that the terms of Reconstrnetion shall be settled by their representatives in Congress. If it was right to make the appeal, how can it be wrong to abide the decision? T ) Congress is already chosen—in 80 far, at least, that its political character is fully decided. Tt is notorions that the next Cou- gress will be quite as Radical as that which closes with this week. Evidently, nothing is to be gained for “the Sonth” by delay. Look, now, at the fifth and sixth sections of the bill, and note that they zecognize and legal- ize the existing State Governments at the South—recognize them, indeed, as “ provisional “only;” but who ever contended that they were more ! We claim that this act legalizes all that has been or may be done by those governments, except that which Congress may expressly overrule, Is this nothing ? As for the residue of these scetions, it is almost wholly promissory or permissive in its character—that is, it anthorizes “ the South ™ to reconstruct herself in a certain way, but com- mands nothing, compels nothing. If “the “South” does not choose to accept the prof- fered conditions, 8He declines them, and remains a8 she Why deny her a clance to say whether she will or will not be so recon- strueted ¥ The exclusions and disfranchisements stipu- o told, lated ave, in the nature of things, temporary. They are sure to be remitted whenever we shall have fully returned to order and peace. Aund you cannot destroy the natural weight and in- fluence of able and wise men by preseribing that they shall neither yote nor hold office. You are quite likely %r {v-ug’me them. A law pre- scribing that an ounce shall outweigh a pound would not avail. Profoundly believing that the President’s ap- proval of this bill would, be a great step toward the restoratigy of our country to harmony and Py protect loyal men from ontrage and murder in the | to | wrong and | ad M. | South? ! ‘ORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1867. true peace, we cannot quite forego the Liope that he will sign it. And we will thank any one who has his ear to remind him of this anecdote : When Mr. Donglas had eanvassed Illinois against Lincoln in 1858, and won his réelee- tion as U. S. Senator, he came on to Washing- ton, and, like a good Democrat, called on the head of his party, President Buchanan. After mutual greetings had passed, the President was first to broach the all-absorbing topic: “Mr. “ Douglas, what ean we do with this distract- “ing IKunsas-Lecompton question?” “Why, My, President,” responded the Little Giant, “1 can imagine that we should have some “tronble with that matter up at the Capitol ; «put T don't sce how you should have any. “For the Constitution says, ‘Congress shall “make all needful regulations respeeting the “Territories; but it says nothing about the “ President’s making any.” Surely, when the People have decided a matter on appeal, and have affirmed the ndg- ment of Congress,. the President may Justly feel discharged from further responsibility. THIS (ITY AT ALBANY. Our Legislature meets this evening after its recess, with more bills on its general orders than ean be, and many that ought not to be, enacted. Believing that there are some mem- bers of either House who mean to legislate for the public good, and not to fill their ‘own pockets, nor those of their cronies, we proffer them a few snggestions with regard to legisla- tion for this City, They must and shall be brief, 1. We do pressingly need some means of more expeditions transit from the lower to the upper part of this island, and so out of town. An hour is now econsumed in conveying a passenger from the business portic of our City to Harlem or Morisania, ‘when thivty minntes, at the outside, should suffi There is no difference of opinion here on this point. As to the precise mode, we beg you to hiear the advoeates of all, and give us the hest. We have been favorably impressed with that which uvoids the great thoronghfares altogether aud goes throngh the center of blocks; bat, if any other should scem preferable, give us that one. Do not let the squabbles of rival project- ors keep us out of some road that will tuk us up town and ont of town in half the t now required. We cannot wait even i her I1. As to Horse Railroads traversing our as a block. ts Iy of one. Do not extend one so mud We bave too ma now. Our str nd blocked by them al s0 th ks in some 1 being run ress to an- six rail tro strects, rendering it diffieult to a over by one ear while seeking other. These cars are overcrowded at some Lours, and would be if there were double | tracks in every street, beeanse Horse Railroads | do not mect the public want. We pray yon | not to charter another. 111, As to Commissions, we really need a Board of Public Works and a Board of Picrs | and Wharves, and we need a complete over Dauling of our Market system by some means. ent, our Markets are at one end of the A their enstomers mainly at the other; | o that carts filded with meats and vegetablos ‘\llll ont 1t thoronghfares every mort [ Fravel Bown' i oHr SithR N A | Abyssinia; yet the ground they eover would sell for more than enough to build good o where they are needed. Yet it seems to us t a Board of Public Works ought to be charg with this whole matter, and save the oxpense | of a special Market Commission. V. Thire are varous applicati creasing the mumber of our Pol he pay of Firemen, Health Commissioners, &e. W nst them in for nen, inereas all, The times are hard, taxes high, and can't afford to increase them. They should be reduced if possible ; indeed, the If any bill involves an increa Our office wi soon must be. of taxation, put your foot on it! holders pensation than the people ean afford to pay them more. We support certain measures above commended beeanse we believe they will re taxes rather than inerease them; but if bill proposes to add a dollar to the publie hu dens without bringing two into the treasury, we wish that bill defeated. V.As to our Excise Law, better let well alone. The Republicans must lose votes by it anyhow ; but if we hold on to the law and en- force it, we shall lose less than if we attempt to split the difference between right and wr by allowing the grogshops to be open part of each Sunday ivery one interested in the Sunday Traffic will still vote against us; while the relaxation will disgust and repel | some who will go with us if we stand by the [ Jaw as it is. Sunday is no longer a day of riot and debauchery ; it is a day of quiet and good order; and thus let it continue. Rum is now subordinate tolaw ; let it so remain. Any change in the law wonld give a new chance to our Cardozos and other nullifiers to paralyze its operation. Let us have a fow months of ex- ternal dec people vote to return to the bad, old w Give them a fair trial of both before they called again to decide between then. ———— OUR CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. To-day the Legislat reassembles, suf- by its holiday, both Houses is made a and to settle ficiently refreshed, we ftr to work with energy. the Constitational Convention special order for to-morrow, questions at issue in respect to it s the first business of the Legislature. The various plans have been fully debated, and are well understood ; nothing remains but to vote upon them. We think that the general opin- ion of the Republican party in the State sus- tains Goy. Fenton’s plan for the division of 33 delegates at large between the two great parties, and we do not doubt that it has a majority in the Legislature. It has also been indorsed by our Union Republican Gen- eral Committee, and whatever objections may be made to the gift of 106 delegates to the Democrats, none can be urged of suffi- cient weight to make advisable further post- ponement. We think, also, that the delegates shonld be elected from Assembly districts, and that this plan is generally considered the better, Bat the important matter now is the immedia passage of a Dbill to organize the Convention. Either of the plans will provide for the satis- factory representation of the people, and a Re- publican majority is certain. We presume that each House still adheres to its original plan. Each then should pass its bill to-morrow, and then if a Committee of Con- ference is needed it may at once be appointed. There is no sound reason why the Senate and the Assembly should mot agree without farther difficulty ; why a Dbill cannot Lo vassed by tho Legislature aud sigued by the streets, we cannot stand another, nor a picce | passable by ordinary convey- | Governor before Thursday. The earnest of the people of the State that the should be revised, must be trifl any decision of our legislators, more haste to vote themselves a the people a Convention. negleet of business, they must work in earnest, and we nrge that in neither house nomecessary debate be renewed to-morrow, but answered. WHO DELAYS THE TARIFF BILL? active than in their opposition to the proj Taviff. Tt is a military prineiple that the smaller the force the greater should be the energy, and just in thé proportion that Free Trade loses credit with the people, it increases its efforts to postpone the consideration of the Tariff by Congress. Against the over- whelming proof the statisties of business for forty years afford, the Free-Trade argument cannot stand ; and though its organs continue to send out pamphlets and hand illf in which- protection to American industry 1s eld up a8 the parent of all evil, they searcely hope to reversé the decision of the conntry. They can- not succeed with the people. They tum to Congress, not hoping to conviuce its intelli- | gence, but only to delay its action. We look to the majority in both Houses, who believe in Protection, to disappoint these schemes. The failure to pass the Tariff bill in the Senate last year, its dangerous postponement in the Honse now, are probably results of Free Trade intrigne, which, unable to fight the bill on general principles, would kill it by continual amendments. For six months it has been the policy of Free Trade journals to excite jealous- jes and rivalries among our manufactu- rers, They have sought to set industry inst industry, and as there can be mo bill framed that will exactly suit everybody, they have to some extent suc- ill, it is the almost unanimous demand 1ches of American industry that the f bill shall be passed. Nine-tenths of the people are opposed to giving up all protection, utry demands the passage of some i iff bill by this Congress, and we warn the | Honse that in attempting to make the Dbill better hy a series of little amendments to which there seems no end, it may end by | making no bill whate The sculptor who, | in the vain wish to make his statue perfect, chipped the marble away, is a bad example | for our legislators. My, Counkling, on Saturday, vainly tried to the Honse to finish with the Tax bill, that it might consider the Tariff to-day. No | new principle has been introduced by the | amendments of the Committee of Ways and Means, and no important discrimination hias been beg you to set your faces sternly | an better live on their present com- | y on Sundays, and then sce if the ‘ made. Had Congress months to diseuss these | det we shonld not object, but as it has but { a few days we caution it that every Free Trader !is laboring to prolong the debate. There are | plenty of gentlemen in the House, who would | gladly diseuss till the end of the session the ‘ duty on buttons or brass thimbles, but we ap- ! peal to the majority which does believe hon- [ estly in I tion to press the bill to a vote, without waiting another day. wr. DISRAELI'S REFORM SPEECII. Our mail advices from England show that the interest of the Reform drama is increasing. On the 11th inst, Mr. Disraeli, in an elaborate | specch, a portion of which we reprint this morning, aunounced the intentions of the Gov- vernment, and deseribed the nature of the resolutions they intended to in- trodinee on the subject of Reform. The | | speech, it appears, has created great dissatis- faction, and the course of the Government is | Even The and some generally condemmned by the press. Times pronounces it unsatisfactory. From My, Dismeli’s Jabored sp that the te salutary eff They et upon the Tories. nest in demanding their rights. elective franchise is a popular privi- and not a democratic right, and he makes a ridiculous attempt to prove that universal suffrage means class domi- nation, His reference to the United States and ! our House of Representatives is most unhappy, and betrays an amount of ignorance astonishing in a statesman of his accomplishments and reputation. It is laughable to hear this great Tory chief telling the Commons of and that the American House of | Representatives “is elected by one class,” and to find such a statement reccived with “loud cheers” from his followers. Surely he ought to know that our House is elected by the whole people, and that it represents every the loge ns the majority rules, and, according to the priuciples underlying the British Con- ), it ought to do soin England likewise. however, the Constitution has been per- verted to subserve the interests of the few at the | expense of the many, to put power in the hands of the minority, and enable them to override the will of the majority. The Reformers are labor- ring to rvestore the Constitution to its pristine simplicity and purity, and they are resisted by the Tories becanse it is felt by the “higher orders” that suceess in that work will lead to the down- fall of class legislation, and will place the en- tive people of the country where the Constitu- tion intended they should stand—on the same political level. It is evident from the tenor of Mr. Disraeli's reference ta the United States that the Tories are still haunted by the dread of the “ Americanizing” influence in remolding the institutions of the country. If they were not blinded, they would see that what in our political system is most objectionable to them, is the very foundation of the Constitution abont whose merits and glories they are so boastful. An inflationist cotemporary indulges in de- clumatory observations on our opposition to issuing greenbacks to pay the National loans. We do not want any portion of those loans, whether 6 per cent. compounds, or 7.30s, 5-208, paid by more additions to the ewrreney ; at least till we have resumed specic payments, I'his is where our opposition begins and ends , as fast as they become due, from money on hand in the Treasury, so far ns it will go, and if the supply is legal tendes tsuffigient, borrow on ordinary loan cnongh “-‘h, desire | to take up the balarce. longer. Half of the session passed without don’ . , who were in | go straight forward to resumption. holiday than | which underlies the proposition to wait for the To redeem their | country to grow into specie payments, taking any steps to secuve that result, meyns indefinite suspension, that the | pay any demand of the people be properly and promptly | of the Government by issuing more greenbacks, hit is elear ‘hings of experience have had no are [ Wlind to the signs of the times, and seem as if they cannot believe that the people are in ear- Mr. Distaeli boldly reiterates the old Tofy doetrine that Tssne 'no more Constitution | legal tenders, at least till you ready ed with no | to pay specie for them when presenfid ; and 't stand still, nor take the back trik, but Tl ides withont And the proposition to part of the interest-bearing obligations is just as applicable to the whole as a part ; and, in its logical application, means the con- version of our whole debt into irreeemable We have never known the Free Traders more | paper money—in other words, repudiation. o N 4 THE OLD FIGHT. ¢ Chi ibune having had much to say of{ie absul 'tfi &okEm, extravagances, and ultraisms of H. G. on the subject of Protection and the Tariff, we were impelled to ask its editor to answer frankly and squarely these questions : s “ Wherein do these notions of H. G. differ frota the doe- trines and views which lled and justified tho of th&'hrflf of 1842 and_the l\apvn of Hen President in the clection of 1844 1 Wherein do essen- tially differ from the doctrines maintained by A Iu1 Lincoln in canvassing Illinois for Clay in that contest And wherein does the line menf now held by our licag it of hir. Clay's of Chicago namesake differ trolnz opponents in the canvass aforesaid 1" —To which our Chicago namesake responds in these words: “ If this means anything, it means that if Heory Chny‘ . G., and Mr. Lineoln, committed an error 1 1844, a got overwhelmingly beaten in New-York and Tllinofs, and also fn the United States, they ought to do the same thing again. What is the next question 1 —The Chicago Tribune thus admits that the 3 Protectionist views of H. G. in 1867 are sub- stantially if not precisely those held by him in 1844, in common with Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln. We beg those who honor the memory of Clay and Lincoln to bear this in mind. But our Chieago namesake is all wrong in his facts. Henry Clay was not “overwhelmingly beaten” in 1844, whether in New-York nor in the Union. He was so beaten in Illinois, because her population was far less intelligent, and largely of different stock, than that which has since made her populous and powerful. But the popular vote of New-York was thus cast: Clay, 222,4%2....... ‘Birney, 15,312 Polk, 237,588...... merely beeause one-tenth imagine they | And that of the entire Union was: will e too much or too little. | Clay......1,288533 | Polk. 577,39 | Birney.......62,569 It was the Birney on that barely beat us in this State and in the Union. Had there been no third candidate, ‘Mr. Clay must have been elected. As it was, we were beaten by the gross frand of insisting that Polk was as much a Protection- ist as Clay. By that bold imposture, we were swindled out of an overwhelming triumph a? the October election in Pennsylvania—a triumph that would have given us not only that State, but New-York, Indiana, Michigan, and Louisiana, also in the Presidential vote the next month. These States hung on a pivot, and our defeat in Pennsylvania in October inclined them against us in November. We were beaten by the nomination of Dallas as a blind, by the Kaue letter, by the Hughes debate, and by snch arts as were snmmed up in the Pennsylvania ditty which ran— “ O poor cooney Whigs ! Phat makes you look so hlue We will have Polk and Dallas, And the Tariff of "42.” —We give the Free Traders fair notice that the Tariff issue is to be tried over again so soon as the decks can be cleared of the débris of Slavery, and that cheating eannot win next [RI THE NORTH GEEMAN PARLIAMENT. The speech by which the King of Prussia on the 9th of February closed the Prussian Diet, as well as the one by which he on Saturday opened the first Parhament of the North German Con- federation, express great confidence in the speedy establishment of German unity. "1t a full agreement between the Government and the liberal representatives of a majority of the people has not yet been obtained, and if the un- friendly disposition of some of the minor Gov- ernments toward Prussia has not yet been fully | of the papers hint at the probability of a | removed, 50 much progress bas of late been | Ministerial erisis, or a spe ly break up of the | made by mutual concession in the | Cabinet from internal dis reconciliation of all the different parties, that the new Parliament must be said to open under the most favorable auspices. The President of the Second Prussian Chamber, is a prominent member of the Party ot ss, referred to the past session of the Diet as one inspiring great confidence in the future. The King spoke of the important concessions which the Government has made to the majority of the Second Chamber and of the many measures which have been adopted by the Legislatures and sanctioned by the Govemn- ment. All this seems to indieate that both the Government and the Liberal majority of the f;urmam Parliament intend to continue pursu- ing a policy of reconciliation for the purpose o.f accomplishing what both assert to be their aim: the unity of Germany, Nor do we anticipate any great troublo between the representatives from the different States. In Saxony, it was recently reported by a Cable dispatch, that all the non-Prussian candi- dates had been elected ; but even the party which has thus been sueccessful in Saxony interest in the country without respeet to | has decla | classes. He ought to know that in the sense | new G.-nm {Il‘x)nlltfi"i:m::nynlly“l:l'fl(;':n th.; in which he cmploys the term, in the | a new Federal (‘onsn'tutlou.which o b‘: sense in which it is understood | made by the Conference nl' Plenipotentiari - by his istocratic compeers, we have | at Berlin, seems to bave received the M‘: ¢ | indeed no “elass™ in the United States. With | mous adhesion of all the Governments. Thus there m a spitit of mutual concession mani- festing itself everywhere, and promising good results, i ssor Agassiz's last lecture on * Monkeys, and ve Inhabitants of South America,” will be de+ livered in the Hall of Cooper Institute, to-morrow evening. This will be the lecture of the course, which has, thus far, been numerously attended by lovers of science and nseful knowledge. B SovTnEey, Rever.~Mr. Richard O'Gorman deliv- ered & lecture last evening at Cooper Institute, under the auspices of the Bloomingdale Catholic Assoclation, iu aid of, the suffering poor of the South GOVERNMENT FINANCES. ———— AY TRLEGRAPH TO THX TRUSUNE. ‘eb. 24.~The amount of Natienal ssued during the week wi 405, wwount issued to date, $301,664,421. From this is to be de- ucted the currency returned, inclnding worm-out notes, amonnting to $2,811,62, leaving in actual circulation at his date $208,553,850, The disbursements for the week were as follows: 'War Department, 5,347,026 L #805,824; Luterior Department, 7,000,079, The amount of fractional ¢ the Treasurer from the Printing Bureau ending Satnrday Was §552,962 25, The shpments of frac- | tional cuy tor the were us follows: To Assist- | ant-Treasw Yok, $100,000; to National banks | and others, 1 200,904 69. The ww-lrh | from infernal re king MEUS, ..».—d‘i(hn ('nluln!iall:n»:ufl‘ ln; i Raltroad hridge over the ve Uamagolis Cont il ecn carvicd away by floods At . . - ks, 1x now substantially re. on that subject.” We say, pay your 6 per eent. | jon it the et e e stauen thOIF TeRUIAF A vina hAVS resuns s DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. GRAYH TO TN TRIRUNR. ANApoLIs, Feb. 26.—Alexandor Pape, a labower v, dlod Tast night of hydeoplobia, By iug bec WegRs lnee. of this city, dle bitten ubout 1o