The New-York Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1867, Page 4

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Y., bas iacovered the ONLY POSITITE CORE ! w THat 1E aznjos, Reliable, Latagtancons; the only perfct dyo—ack or e Wu‘gnmmmum Geaulue siguel Wi A PTIC S, M. C aomivms, No. 543 Broad . X, aad Peun. State Fairs, and Perfun . Co., Brosdway. e lf\l_Bl"l:fjnl HoLz MA\‘H]!! S Bro . Grover & BAKER'S HiGHEST PREMIUM SEW- was, No. 495 Broadway, N.Y. per dozen; Duplicates, $2. 160 Chath ,NY. PALME Addross Dr. Pasxi " Tue best PANILY Machine, naing o st Ylso, large Sachines for all Mauufact and shuttle. Agents wanted « Tiabie ta rip than t ] Send for sa: oeam ia Grasd Trial BY THLORAPIL gD THE TRIBUXE. TeENTON, Feb. 27.—A joint meeting of the Legis- lature was held to-day. Howard Ivans (iRep.) was olected Btate Treasurer; Peter P. Robiuson was clected Keopor of tho State Prison : Samuel Stockton of Burlington was elected Directar of the Delaware and 1 Chnal, and Amboy Eajiroud Company: e e Afternoon ‘was spent in debating the Morris Canal bill granting a lease of lands under water, and the bill finaily Passod by a vote of 44 to 14. — MARYLAND. THE RADICAL STATE CONVENTION. WY THLEGRAPK TO THN TRIBUNK. Barrmwore, Feb: 27.—The Radical State Conven- tion assembled to-day, and was nmumcpously attended. The lower part of the Froutst Theater was filled with delegates. Dr. Obr, of Alleghany County, presided. Btrong resolutions were adopted as a platform for the party in the State; uviversal maulood suffrage awas proclaimed, and the Conserv threatened with Covgressional interferen of calling a State Constitutiona? Co. except on the broad platf same party held a 1 to-night ; the house wa by the M ‘olubus Delano of Ol negro suffrage. The President was denonuced, and the course of Congress commonded. —_— FIRLS. o — 2 - IN BROADWAY. * ‘This morning at about 2:50 o'clock, a_fire was dis- covered in the bascment of the building No. 234 Broadway ocoupied by M. Mbrgenthau & Co., a3 2 wi ault. The alarin was sounded and water was speedily thrown futo the basement, but for an_ hour the exact loeality of ‘the ifire be determined About’ 1§ o'clock a colummn of dense black smoke issued from the cellar, and a bright red glow indicated that the whole under part of the building was ablaze. T l::n, however, broke futo the side ecellar, vy streams of water were thrown in. reas chs'nn socins as though it would be E:mn i =5 As We go to d to the White, Whitman & Co., cloth vily from damage by water. ANOTHER FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA—INSURANCE BY TRLEGRAPE TO THE WRIBUNE. PHILADELPHIA, Peb. 27.—The extensive cotton mill Mr. Blundin, In the Twenty-fourth Ward, was hurned his morning. The loss is sustained by the following mpanies: Commerce, Lenox, Awerican Exchange, g ara, North American, Albany City, Providence, ngton, Norwich, Humboldt, Resolute, Excelsior, jew-England, People’s, Merchants’, Maryland, Howe of ew-Huven, Arctic, Citizens' and Mechanics', Harmony, QCity of Hartford, Citizens’, Phanix of Brooklyn, each $10,000 ; Motropolitan, 87,500 ; Home of New-Huven, North merica of Ia kerboeker, Howngl, Fulton, NewDork Dunily Sribwmne. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1867. TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Day Tamuxe, Mail § ribers, $10 per annum. SEMI-WEEKLY ' ail Subscribers, $4 per an. WegkLY Trinune, Mail Subscribers, $2 per annum. Advertising Rates. DaiLy Trisuxe, 20 cents per line. SkMI-WEEKLY TBIBUNE, 2 cents per line. WeekLy TrisuNe, $150 per line. Terms, cash in advance. Addrogs, Tue New-Yo! PONDENTS. ommanications. Whatever 18 icated by th nams aad address publicatioa, but as a guaraaty for T0 CORR No motiee can ba taken of Anouymons sboald b addrsssed to * Tua Twin: e— & The Money Article and Markels will be Sound m‘; the second page, the City Budget for 1867 on the third page, and a review of Se ele De Vere's Studies in kinglish on the sixth page. The Radical State Convention of Maryland mot and adopted strong®resolutions yestorday. e The President's expected veto was not sent in to-Congress yesterlay, but we may look for it to-day. & The Fenian Convention has adjourned, leav- ing observers as much mystified as ever. The Fenians love a mystery, if thoy caunot always keep a secret. ‘We print- the Police Commissionors' report to the Legislature on Prostitution, in which they recommend more efficient surveillance of the houses, and ‘dditionnl ponaltiea. o rorn s e Mayor Hoffman has nominated, and the Board of Aldermen have confirmed, Peter B- Swoeney as City Ch#berlain in place of Danicl Devlin, deceased. This is the act of a Mayor chosen upon his pl that he would reform the character of the City Government. A great Temperance State Convention had its second day's session at Harrisburg, Pa., yes- terday. That 8o prominent a politician as Mr. Cessna of Bedfgrd presided shows the strength of the Temperance movement in that State. Mr. Greeley addresscd the meeting, and tho resolutions reported as radical as they are temperato. « The French Liberals are too obtuse to under stand that the recent abolishment by the Em- peror of the reply to the address from the throne is a reform in disguise, and they insist on the preservation of what they regard as a privilege. The Government, however, seems to be inclined to force upon them the unwelcome present. 2 Tleo dispatches from Japan via San Francisco which we publish this morning, and which state that the Tycoon bad invited the representa- tives of the Foreign Powers to a conference at Osaca, are probably of not so recent a date as those received a few days ago from Tientsin, in China, announcing the death of the Tycoon. The latter report is, therefore, not contradicted by the news from Japan in this morning's issue. The arrest of the five magistrates of the Corporation Court of Norfolk is a proper peace-offering to offended Civil Rights. Thoy refused colored testimony, and it will be well if they for once go to jail for it. A United States Commissioner who will promptly arrest judicial breakers of the law of the land is to be prized—and such a Commissioner Mr, Foster appears to be. We hope his example will become epidemie, &0 to speak, if necessary. The Senate bill increasing the pay of officers of the army was yesterday passod by the House, with amendments adding bounties and allowances. There is apparently to be no end of this kind of extravagance—it is called “equalization,” but certainly does not help the balance of the gigantic debits of the Nation with its disproportionate eredits. It does not help to pay the Debt, but steadily provides for its in It appears from a Cable dispateh that the political schismatics known as Adullamites, have consolidated into a distinet body under the leadorship of Mr. Roebuck, notorious for hig anti-American prejudices. What is meant by these men .Joining the Liberals we are at a loss to understand. Nominally they have all along been Liberals; but in resistance to the just demand of the people relative to the extension of the franchise -they have been quite as violent as the most rabid of the Tories. Probably they aspire to the place hitherto held by “the Irish Brigade.” At any rate, this new combination widl have the ef- fect of tncreasing the present confusion of par- ties in the British Parliamént. “The Medical Education of Women in Eu- rope” i3 the subject of the lecture which Dr. abeth Blackwell will deliver at the Historical Society’s Hall this eveming. The lecture is to be for the benefit of one of the most excellent and most necessary char- ities of the city—the Infirmary for Women and Children on Second-ave. No subject more deeply concerns the cause which the ablest and most generous women have at heart than the medical ~ education of their sex; nor 1s any one more competent to treat it than !)1-. Blackwell. The effort to establish a Med- ical College for Women is one that has en- listed the sympathies of many. of our best citizens. Its progress will be still further ad- vanced, we trust, by ing to-night. proposition to inflate the currency by the issne of $100,000,000 of demand legal tenders,and fell back, substantially, on its own previous measure to retire the six per cent compounds by three per cent demand notes. . We shall be altogether satisfied if the bill falls between the two Houses. And we cannot believe that the Treasury would regret this disposition of it. We are of opinion that the original measure of the Senate was urged upon the Treasury by the bankers, as a matter of convenience and profit to them; and that it was concurred in by the Treasury for the small saving it would effect W interest. But we entertain no doubt that the mischiefs"of the arrangement would quite outweigh any advantages the Treasury would derive from it. We shall be glad, therefore, to see it go overboard. If the bill still persists in showing its head above water, we trust Mr. Wilson will persist in his amendment, and make it even more comprehensive. Let him provide that the banks shall pay no interest on-any deposits, and moreover that they shall neither erehiuuty’ and Moehanics', cach 82,000, Total insurauce, 46,000. deelarg nor discount their profits until they sha have resumed specie payments. If these two polnts could be secured we should not bo long in finding all the banks on the right side in the matter of resumption. The Legislature made some progress with the Constitutional Convention yesterday, if we may take the liberty of so misnaming the action of the Senate in voting, by 16 to 14, i the clection of 82 delegates at - is something, however, that the has moved, even though it went backward, With an herculean effort it has at last succceded in doing something with its bill, though ‘it did the wrong thing. We are glad that it is probable it will change its resolution that 16 additional Democrats shall not be added to the Convention—an admirable resolu- tion did it not also exclude sixtcen Republi- cans, and effectually prevent the Republicans of this city from obtaining any representation. Senator White ably proved the justico and value of the Governor's plan, but in this case the best argument in the world could not out- weigh the bad votes. The election of delegates by Assembly Districts was wisely carried, se- curing 128 members. In the Assembly, the amendment allowing colored citizens to vote for delegates was defeated by 83 to 90; bnt by a vote almost equally decisive the election of 82 dele- gates was agreed to by % to 40. This is excellent, and we trust the Dbetter wisdom of the Assembly may benefit the Senate. But the Assembly did nothing more—we are thankful it did anything—and adjourned without passing the Dbill, as it should have done. We again assure the Legislature that the vast majority of the Re- publicans of city and State send this message to Albany—that they want 82 delegates at large, and the immediate passage of the bill, e ] THE TARIEF. We should really like to see what sort of a Tariff our Western Republicans who are striv- ing to defeat the bill now before Congress would frame if they could have their way. We are willing to suppose they desire to defray the necessary expemses of the Government, and to pay the interest on our National debt; and they they know this will take a large an- pual income. They know also, as well as we know, that there are but two ways of raising the money. One is by duties on imports, and the other is by taxes on the prop- erty and industry of the counigy. But they exhibit the extraordinary pectaclo of opposing both. They say, “ Reduce your tar- “iff, the duties are too high, the consumer is “oppressed by them.” Turning to the other source of revenue, they exclaim, “Take off “your internal taxes; the way to encourage “ production is to lighten the taxes on industry, “pot increase them.” Suppose Congress to agree to this view of the case, what would be the state of the Treasury when called upon to pay current expenses, soldiors’ bounties, inter- est on tho National debt? It must post a notice on its door, saying, “No Fuxps. How else? Less from imports, less from in- ternal taxation, is the ery. It is a simple policy, the casiest kind of a policy fo advo- cate and enforce. It consists in merely throw- ing away your revenue. You have only to establish Free Trade, and get rid of your in- ternal taxes, and the thing is done. Now we wish to ask gentlemen who have just as much interest as we, have in administering this Government op proper priuciples, and more responsibility, what sort of a policy is this to urge upon Congress, in the face of the enor- mous and inexorable demands of the Treasury? Do they want the Government to go to protest on its obligations to its civilians, its soldiers, its hond- holders? Do they want to disgrace it to com- pel it to go into bankruptey * What object have they in resisting, with temper, w rimony, with prejudice, plans matured with pationt labor, with thoughtful providence, with unsel- fish care, to provide the ways and means to supply the Treasury with the sums adequate to meet all its obligations? One would suppose, from the way the Tariff bill is resisted in the House, that it the scheme of an enemy to plunder the nation, instead of a measure de- vised by its friends to preserve its cherished credit and proteet its struggling i The friends of the Tariff have to fight for it as though it were something for their - individual benefit, and designed to rob everybody else, instead of Deing a measure designed by de- voted friends of the whole country to advance the interests of every part. Suppose those hostile to the measure, of whatever side in polities, should lay aside for a moment their personal feelings, which are liable to be roused, unconsciously, in all of us, and for once, while there is yet time, regard this subject from the point of view of patriotic statesmanship. Let them consider how much is at stake, the difficulties of the position, the rivalry of interests, the absolute impossibility of harmonizing every conflicting claim and every opposing view, and at least be willing to give a vote for the country, although it be a vote for a Taviff which they do not in all respects approve. The debate in the House yesterday will prove a trial to the patience of the country. With a calm deliberation, worthy of the gentleman who stopped to pull off his gloves before res- cuing his child from drowning, the House, while the industry of the country is imploring its aid, pauses to “pick “out the words” from a dozen or so of amendments, With as vague a conception of time as Mr. Skimpole had of money, it then devoted itself to an exhaustive discussion of the duty on Woolen Flocks, with 80 general an impression that the speakers did not know what Woolen Flocks are that some of them were obliged to make full statements of their knowledge of the article. The House Lad apparently not forgotten the Senator who recently veliemently denounced the duty on Bromide of Potassium, and being asked what the said Bromide was, could not tell, though had he been wise he might have perfeetly satisfied his questioner by defin- ing it asan Oxyd of Manganese. After adopting some of the Committee’s amendments on Wool, the House substituted its paragraph on Carpets, and might have got as far as Drugs had not Mr. Schenck, whose sole idea of a Tariff seems to be that it should suit Ohio, insisted that the duty on Flax should be increased from $15 to #45 per tun, Then followed a debate, in which the respective importance of the Western and Eastern States, the patriotism of their inhabi- tants, their rights under the Constitution, the number of soldiers they had sent to the war, were examined with great care, with occa- sional reference to the British Isles and the probable incomes of New-York merchants. This course of argument convinced the House that Mr. Schenck was only wrong to the extent of &5, and it raised the tax to #40. Elated by this triumph, but resolved that the $5 should somehow be imposed, that gen- tleman then moved foraise the tax on hackled flax to §30 per tun, Mr, Farnsworth proposed $80; and after continuing a discussion which to an ill-natured Protectionist might suggest the propricty of adding hemp to the free list, the House, in a state of exhaustion, voted itself a recess. The Flax question being finally settled, the House at last reached the important section upon Iron, making several changes, most of them inereasing the duties, but without materially altering the general rates proposed by the Committee on Ways and Means. At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Stevens very andaciously suggested that the®riends of the bill had better hold their tongues, if they wished the bill passed, and wé hope his advice will not be forgotten to-morrow, when Mr. Morrill intends to obtain a final vote, if pos- sible. The House has now considered 38 pages of the 123 the printed bill contains, and there is hope for the passage of the bill by both branches of Congress CONNECTICUT. Connecticut, on the 1st of April, will hold an election of more than ustal importance, fogghe bas not only to choose a Governor and other State officers, but four Representatives in the XLth Congress. The nominations are com- pleted, the Republicans presenting Gen. Joseph H. Hawley for reélection as Governor, Oliver H. Perry for Lieutenant-Governor, William T. Elmer for ®Secretary of State, Henry G. Taintor for Treasurer, and Leman W. Cutler for Controller. For Congress, Hcpry (. Deming is revominated in the First District, and Cyms Northrop in the Se- cond, H. I. Starkweather in the Third, Phineas T. Barnum in the Fourth, are pro- posed as successors to Messrs. Warner, Bran- dagee, and Hubbard, the present representa- tives. The Democratic ticket presents James E. English for Governor; for Lieutenant- Governor, Ephraim H. Hyde; for Secretary, Leverett E. Pease; for Treasurer, Edward S. Moseely ; for Controller, Josse Olney, and for Congress, Richard D. Hubbard, Julius Hoteh- kiss, Ear] Martin, and Wm. H. Barnum. These names, to those who have watched the State since the beginning of the war, aré known to represent principles the most opposite, and indicate that the campaign will be one of ex- traordinary vigor. There is no doubt of the result if the Repub- lican party works to the utmost of its power. Nothing but the hardest kind of work can in- sure victory, for in Connecticut the vote is so close that the change of a few hundred ballots may be sufficient to defeat the State ticket. The majority fluctuates; Lincoln, in 1864 had 2,400, Buckinghag, in 1863, 11,035, Hawley, last year—when Afldrew Jolnson's uacertain plinciples were used to tremendous advantage by the Democrats—had but 541, These varia- tions make Republicans in other States watch the Connecticut elections with unusual interest. For ourselves, re convinced that there isa strong and increasing Republican majority in the State, and that it can only be defeated by its own over-confidence, or the trickery of its opponents. There is the danger. Connecticut is one of the two or three States the Democrats have any hope of regaining ; it is their chosen battle-ground, and this year they-are concen- trating all their forces to win, The Democrats are fighting under a false flag. We want the Republicans of Connecticut to make it known in every nook and corner of the State that the only issues in this can- vass are such as grew out of the war—the old issue between the Copperheads and the Union men. James E. English was last year defeated by a gallant Union soldier in just such a con- test, and James E. English is again op- posed to Gen. Hawley for the sole purpose of vindicating the disgraceful record of the Democratic farty from the day Sumter fired on the Union flag to the day when Lee surren- dered to Grant. Mr. English and his party were at home opposing the Government when Gen. Hawley was in the field fighting against Rebels, and the election of the Demoerati ticket now will mean that English was right and Hawley wrong—will mean an indorsement of Democratic opposition to the war. The men who vote against Gen. Hawley vote against the principles of Mr. Lincoln’s administration; vote not* to go forward one single day, but backward six years; vote against the deliberate judgment of the whole country; against the interests of their own State, and vote for the restoration to power of a party which in 1864 declared the war a failure, and avowed its readiness to surrender to the Rebellion. Then Thomas H. Seymour and Toucey were the standard bearers. To-day they are kept in the background, but are just as much the real leaders as ever. We reiterato this because the truth must be kept before the people, and because the Democrats are doing their best to substitute for the real issue an imaginary Labor question. The attempt of the Democrats to bully and coax the Workingmen's Convention, which re- cently met at New-Haven,,to nominate Mr, English as the Workingmen's eandidate, was a dead failure, though it was carried so far that the Convention was nearly broken up in disor- der. We have only to say that any working- man who reads, writes, and thinks, and yet be- lieves that the Republican party is his enemy, vote or anything but the champion of his rights, must read, write, and think in a very estraordinary way. We do not suppose the Republicans of Connecticut will per- mit the Democrats to conduct the canvass upon this basis of fraud. To place the Republican party on the defensive, in regard to the rights of Labor, would be like arguing that the sun shines. We want the falschood fairly met (for Truth is the stronger for overy lie it crushes), but let no Republican journal or speaker be duped. Push on against the Democratic lines, and strike them where they are weakest. Our opponents know they cannot stand before the people upon the real issue ; we must take care that they do not fight this battle in a stolen uniform, which would be disgraced by their wearing. The Republicans have a noble ticket; Gen. Hawley's adminis- tration has been honorable to himself and to the State, and our candidates for Congress are gentlemen worthy of the fullest confidence ; they have the advantage of men and prinei- ples, and to succeed they have ouly to leave tricks and falsehoods to their opponents, and Tonestly go to work in the good old straight- forward way. We print to-day the speeches of Gen. Logan and Gov. Hawley, made at the great meeting at Bridgeport last night, and are glad to see that bLoth gentlemen placed the real question plainly before the peoplo. Theso were the first guns of the campaign, and they ring out grandly. The artillery is irresistible, #nd for Victory Connectignt only needs that overy man should do his dut; The “Ritualistic Controversy,” which for sov- eral years has been convulsing the Church of England, and has, of late, assumed a greater importance in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, has just called forth a Jjoint declaration from twenty-cight Bishops aud Assistant Bishops, in which somo of the peculiar usages of the Ritualists, as “the repeat, ummammuun “of incense,” “the burning of lights in the “ Order for the Holy Communion,” “ reverences “ to the Holy table, or to the elements thereon,” are condemned ns innovations which violate the discipline of the- Church. Among the sig- natures we find not only the names of all the well-known Low Church Bishops, but also those of some who have hitherto been re- garded as High Churchmen, such as Bishop Coxe of Western New-York. Among those who have not signed the document are the Bishops of New-York, New-Jersey, Illinois, and Mary- land. The total numer of Bishops of the Pro- st Episcom Clurch s 4 _ THE CITY BUDGET. The Aldermen’s Committee on Finance have made their report on the draft of the City Budget, submitted to them by the City Controller, and wo print it in full on the thixd page. It has been made the special order for next Monday. We need not bespeak for this document a careful perusal. The interest which every tax-payer naturally feels in the estimate of our an- nual expenditures will “secure for it tens of thousands of attentive readers. The impression which it will make fwill be auything but favorable; for what tax- payer can read without alarm that the an- nual budget of expenditures is steadily rising with amazing rapidity, and has now reached the grand total of $19,303,9417 The expenditure of our city is about equal to that of the Kingdoms of Bavavia and Portugal, which have a population four times as large. Of course, the budget must increase annually with the increase of population, but it is ot an equal necessity that it should increase at a more rapid rate than the population, and that, as the Financial Committee themselves antici- pate, an increasing amount of tgx must be annually levied upon their real and personal estate. The authors of this financial report are well aware of the general dissatisfaction which the unuatural rapidity of the increase of our taxes could not fail to produce. They have read the very direct and very personal charges which American and foreign papers have brought against the unparalleled corruption pre- vailing in the financial administration of our city, pointing out enormous rents for rooms which -had never been used, and salaries for clerks who had never been employed. They make no attempt to exphkin or refute these charges, but find the only canse of excessive taxation in the disbursement of the larger portion of expenditures by State Commissions or Boards. They include the whole County Expenditure under the head of Expenditures by State Agencies“as the “present County Legislative body is nothing “more nor less than a State Commission, com- “posed of members half of whom are elected “My the people, the other half being apppointed “hy thé Mayor, after the useless formality “of receiving the vote of a minority of the “electors of the county.” . Thus they find the total expenditures by State agencies to be $14,308,206 28, leaving the city authorities elected by the people respousible for a sum of only about $5,000,000. Wao need not repeat what has so often been proved before, that the great frands with which the City Administration has been charged refer almost exclusively to the second class of ex- penditures. Here we find again the large sums for “advertising,” a large number of “contingen- “cies,” “rents,” and the like, which can only be needed if they are misappropriated as in former years. The stealings are covered up as well as they can be in this report, but the gravity of a committee of Aldermen would not be proof against an attempt to argue that the city finances are honestly administered. A NEW KI ; NEW WORLD. If the British Government has been eriminally tardy in responding to the demand for justice to an old kingdom, subject to English rale, it has certainly dis) 1 re able alacrity in seizing the opportunity which is apparently now presented for creating a new one. 1If Treland lies bleeding and languish- ing from grievous mismanagement, extend- ing over a long series of years, her cries unheeded and her miseries mocked by her masters, Canada has no reason to complain of neglect and wrong; for she is about to receive a special and notable mark of imperial favor. Immediately after the opening of the present session of the British Parliament, a bill for the confederation of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Capada, Nova Scotia, introdueed into House of Lords, through which it has ady passed. By this time it must be bee the House of Commons, and as it will t with but little opposition there, wo may expect shortly to hear that it has passed that branch of the legislature too, and reccived the assent of the Queen. The bill provides that the Confederated Provinces shall be designated “The Kingdom of Canada,” and that the and New-Brunswick was the machinery of the new Federal Gov- crnment shall be similar to that of the mother country. The supreme exccutive authority will be, of comrse, exercised by the Sovereign, through the representative of the Crown, and there is to be a Senate, corre- sponding to the House of Lords, and a popular Chamber, corresponding in its constitution and its functions to the British House of Commons. It is unnecessary to enter into the origin of this Confederation scheme; but, taking a dis- passionate view of the matter, it appears to us to be more the work of the politicigns than the fruit of a popular demand for change. It is notorious that the people have never been properly consulted on the subject. It is equally notorious that the scheme has met with considerable opposition from the inhabitants of Lower Canada. There is a con- siderable party in both Nova Scotia and New- Brunswick totally averse to the proposed change. Newfoundland audi Prince Edward’s Island refused point blank t& become parties to the scheme ; and it is charged that very question- able means were resorted to to induce many members of the Canadian Legislative Couneil to give it their support. The names of the Queen, the Governor, and the Admiral were freely used, it is said, to influence members to accept a policy which, it was stated, Lad re- ceived the deliberate sanction of the Queen's Ministers ; and threats were freely uttered that if the Legislature refused to confederate, the protection of the Imperial Government would bo withdrawn, and the country left to its fate at a time when the Fenians wero threatening an attack upon the Provinces. It does not appear to us that a case of neces- sity for confederation has ever been made out; and in view of all the circumstances attending the inception and the progress of the scheme, as well as of the unexpected announce- ment that a new * Kingdom is about to be established on -our Northern bor- doers, we cannot resist the conviction that there is m.m'wthing of a sinister character in-the Whole affair, This ¢onfedoration scheme, we who have doubtless received their inspira. tion from a soupce outside the Provinces; in fact, from the Imperial Government iteelf, Many of the most prominent and active advo- cates of the scheme were formerly among the loudest in their denunciations ef the British Government and its policy ; and some of them, like the Hon. Mr. Rose, who, a telegraphic dis- patéh from Canada informs us, is to be ap- pointed one of the Lieutenant-Governors and to receive the homor of knighthood, were even leaders in the movement for annex- ation to the United States. The con- version of these men has a suspicious look, The haste with which the Confederation bill is being pushed through the British Parliament is suspicions. Afd the designation which has been chosen for the new Confederation is sus- picious. ‘Some may say there's nothing in 4 name. But in this case, taking all the circum. stances into account, we think there is some- thing in the name. It ean no longer be disguised that there iy among a certain party in the Old World—irre. spective of nationality—a longing desire to ses monarchical institutions set up on this conti. nent. And for this reason: our Republican Government is a standing menace to despotism, and a powerful protest against the iniquity ot class legislation. TIf it eannot be broken down altogether, then its influence must bo curbed and weakened as much as possible. Hence the tripartite Mexican expedition, undertaken a period when it was supposed the great Republic was in the throes of its final agony. That expedition has collapsed, however, and Republicanism still enjoys a vigorous life in America. Tt would seem that in another quarter, and under a more specious guise, a fresh attempt is about to be made to establish monarchy in America, but even without the gift of prophecy it is dasy to foretell the fate that awaits so foolish an en- terprise. \ THE SOUTHERN STATES. i immiy VIRGINIA. MAGISTRATES ARRESTED FOR EXCLUDING NEGR) EVIDENCE. BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNN. ForTrESs MoNROE, Feb, 27.—United States Com. missioner 8. B, Foster lssued warrants this morving fe the arrest of five magistrates of the Courtot bill by refusisg Norfolk, for violating the Civil Rights coll testimony in legal procecdings. Al gation of the Delaware Leglslature, accompanisd of the principal citizens of the State, ?(c‘ll”l:‘l‘?llll -nihp:mrubur , arrived at Nodollma Dover, by the Air-Line route, this a 1001, i ——— KENTUCKY. GOV. BRAMLETTE AND UNION CITIZENS THREATENEY BY REGULATORS. i BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. Fraxkrort, Ky., Feb, 27.—Gov. Bramlette, Col. 4 G. Hodlges, editor of The Commoninealth, and other Uniot men have been notified by Judge Lynch, the psendonys of the Rebel Regulators, to desist from their effars to stop mob procoedings and to leave the State. Thy are threatened with violence If they do not, Gov. Bras lette has received a letter warning bim against issuly any more proclamations against Judge Lynel's Courty # IR e CHINA AND JAPAN. — THE CHINESE REBELLION—GREAT FIRE IN YEDDO—MER: ING OF THE TYCOON AND THE FOREIGN REPRESENTL TIVES. BY TALRGRAPH TO THR TRIAUNE. 8AN Fraxcisco, Feb, 27.—Hong Kong advices via Yokohama, January 13, are received. Hankow wa threatened by the Nienfel Rebels. The country people yreey flocking to Craven Island. The Chinese at Hankow for an attack, and had been E e B S o Sl t Gt Vs T R ke povi o the capitol. A v the yA. trigate h for ox at Hong Kong in a few ‘The 1 war pected 0% Ko or Apan seas. Theré was & great destruction of rice by the fload Perang. Thousands were nuf!erl;:( nnwutunl ‘fi complete destruetfon of thetr rice fields. A moat disastrous confizgration had occurred at the City of Yeddo, ‘Thousands of houses, """"-fl plob of four miles, had been burned to the greand. of the city which was laid in ashes was the most | nent busineas and commercial part of the eity. The conr flagration at Yokowa was comparatively R he Yokohama Herald of Jnnun?' 24 has invited the foreign representatives to o the great question of opening Hiago, The mo cous dered tmportaut in the political gams belng n Japa . Advices confirm the arrival of the at Yoko hama, Jan. 23, Groat tldmrnhfl at Yokobamn 14 the rebuilding of the burnt rict of the town. The Japauese Embassy, consisting of five 1 thelr suite, proceed to Washington on the re the Pacific Mall Steamship Company’s steawer to t the Navy.Yards, vessuls and 3 | American Mintster roturned to N ki, after an absence of four weeks. The United State v g while ing_through the Inland Ses, was everywhert cordially received. . CRIME. —me ARREST OF KENO PLAYERS AT LAPAYEITE HALL Last night Sergeants Ferris, Schofield and McDer mott, Roundsman Kass, and a section of men from U Eighth Precinet, by direction of Capt. Mills, entered th well-known Lafayette Hall, in Broadway, near Houstow at., and 1 an upper room found a muuber of porsos there assembled- playing “Keno.” The eutire were taken into custody, iucluding the ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY FROM A WALL ST. BROKER. et Yegterday, dn elderly man named Henry Welly a redldent of Westchester County, was Urought befor Justice Hogan, at the Tombs Police Court, on the com laint of Mr. George M. Bowen, o broker, £I No. 68 Wall-st. fiu complaingnt '.?:m‘?gfu coused attemwpted to extort from him n case of refusal, to make & against Mr. Boweu to the Internal Revenue in this city, accusing him of defraudipg the of large sums of mouey. His an«.r occasions since that time the is to have called upon the complainant, and demand and_threats, with a like result, mmm establishment of Mr. Bowen was seized by the Govers ment officers, bu‘rwnu released after an in lon the anthorities. he prisoner was committed for ex: ation by the magistrate. It is stated that the has attempted the same u‘weleunt extortion with merchants and brol with better success, and thert Will probably be othér complaints against him, FIVE'CORPSES DISCOVERED IN A RAILROAD DEPOT. BY TRLEGMAPY TO THE TRIBUNE. Burraro, Feb. 27.—Five dead bodies, two males, two females, asd one new-born {nfant, were found by the detective police at the Grand Trun| Rlllg depot. nrmmmn.’o'l'hoy ‘wore m:‘d n'mn A-uz w it Express Com) for Al were packed Ww‘;mu in :'nm 3‘ been dead over a weok, They were not dee 10! vement. bore no marks of viole bodha cleansed of flour, u'ulo fifl“he’?;‘ nl‘“a to-morTow morning. The city umwun oxcll ARREST OF A POSTMASTER. Burraro, Feb. 27.—F. W. Parso) ‘master Niagara Falls, was n'rmt«l on mnd:y'iul:‘m t gpening lotters reccivod at bis office, "o Wi before United States Commissioner Gos lield to bail I $1500 to appear tor i N 9, Horatlo States Court, to be held at Utica on A Parsous, farmer, father of the aoc! beconiug surety. KeNO—PoLICE TRIALS.~At the trials before the Board ef Police Commissioners yesterday, the oue of mosé Juterest to the public was that in which a police sergeant was eharged with refusing to aid io the “leno™ layers at Lafayette llul;‘on ‘Thursday Mm et T e bl 6 el e el oy Fears that * ko 1a nfimmfm"gunfflmnfid e of roulette, The Ay T e S e ARREST OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER,~A man was yesterday arrested at Viueland, Cumberland County, N. J., whois ch: with being implicated in the of Mrs. Keys at Stewartvil ‘arren Counl . account of which we mn:my pnbllm:d. N Pt stasts. S Sven el Tie SECOND-AVE. ArsoN Case.—In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, yestorday, was continued the trial of John Kage, charged with willfully setting fire to the tenement-house at the r of Becond-ave. first st., on the 13th of Docomber lnst, and o o 0 0 death of Mra, Mury Sandford, her tn.&'?mm% o s and her sister-in-law, Esther Matioll, from :fik& Beveral wituessos wore oxauingd, %“:fl