The New-York Tribune Newspaper, March 9, 1867, Page 4

PR Y O Y (7.1, SRRl _.[ Amnsements. NIBLO'S GARDEN. & 1 TR EVENT THE BLACK CROOK—Great Patisieane Dallet ( Troups Matiucoat ) o'elock. Mr. Edwia LACK'S THEATE T. Mi ). W. Waltack. OLYMPIC THEATER. THIS EVENING—STRELTS OF NEW-YORK. BROADWAY THEATER 1 THIS RVENING-IRELAKD AS 1T WAS—-ROUGH DIAMOND— TTKE RAPPY MAN. Mr. aud Mrs. Baraey Williuas MailaGe at 14 oclock, THE FAIRY CHUCLE—ROUGH DIAMOND. t————— NEW-YORK THEATER. THI3 RVENING—VERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA (Burlesqne)~ NINK POINTS OF THE LAW. Lady Do THREATER FRANCAIS THIS RVENINO-LA FAMILLE BENOITON. BOWERY THEATER A THI3 RYENING=TIMOUR, THE TARTAR—JONATHAN DRAD- FORDPLOATING BEACON. ACADEMY OF MU THIS AVTERNOON—ITALIAN OPER AMBURGH'S COLLEC- A SOMNAMBULA. DAY AND EVENING—CIRISTIAN RKD THOUSAND CURIOSITIES—VAN TION OF WILD ANIMALS. pstemsmBueensSS P KELLY & LEON'S THIS RVENING — CINDER-LI TROU'E | HOUSE. : ROOK (Burfesque). Grifin & , Danclog, ke FIFTHAVE. O TS EVENING=THE BLACK Curuty's Miastrels. New Act MILHARNONIC A0- OW EVENING— (ONIST. Proteus, CTH 1 FHIS EVENING=M. HAL Floatng blead, ete. Mauinée at 2 o'clock. Business Notices. _ T AMERICAN (WaLTHAN) WA THE BEST IN THE WORI Sold Bvervhere. Aviicax Porvtak Lism Issvnascs Co., Nos. 419 and 421 Broadway. Buer Lives Taxey AT Lownst Ratest OF his Company rectans, writes iu The Express, of which be is oue of the editors: “+7he American Popular Life Insarance Company held its first ananat smteting » few days since. The busiuess of the rear bas beea vecy suc- cenpfl for the first year, 8ad has Leen conducted upon the safest sud most econaruical hisivess principles for the stockhiolders and pa Giea insured Theré aro some piaas In the orgasization of this Compaoy popatar in their characier, which make it well worth geaeral inrestign: o, aad which the oficers specially iurite.” Katen Bes aco rated down, and save mouey in this Compans. Soud or el for New Cincvrax, @xplainiag the featares of the Company. s stand between ous ilctug M and the Telie that will be absolutely sure to follow Whe aae of Ms. Winerow's Soomitise Syuce. It corrects acidiiy of lates the bowels, softens the gams, child. 35 ceats @ bo fhe stomach, relieves wind colic, 1 irearest to toe wother and health to Soes, No. 213 Futton-st., New York, aad No. 205 High Holbors, Loadon, Eugiand. Ba atre aul cal for “ Mg, WINALOW'S SOOTHIN Havieg the 3o smile of “ Crums & PErxixs” oa the outeide wrapper. Al % are base imitations. <135 83 1B “T'he remarkable properties of Brown's BRON- owrat TRoours have beeu thoroshly tested sinen et introdaced. demand for them Las steadily inereaned, and, parely opon the! meits, they bave foand faror wich those who, from Pulmonary, Brou- ehial, or Asthmatic complsints, require Wew For Conghs and Colds Moy gueoadoot) g o ORIGINAL - RITPATINNY Srw Yo | Montela vhodr shenld Hare it Tue E wekes 1000 splendid - Noraes, or 3,320 per howr by’ ster rEKA Brick Maciise wolth only nine men and one pas; poreer. Has wo compien wachinery dowa. Ha preat sisvilcity wid expert, ab sight Juatty eelebrated for perfect simpl omprARsIng PORET, iS CUARANTY selftener (e elay and i 4. Mo Ruxicx, ¥ CorcaTe's Hoxey TorLe “Tiis eelehrated Torur Soav. in saeh unirersal the emGICHT materials, s B rric s LIVE FORTHE 1 color and youthful Deaaty; Gnparts Lfe and streagth to the weakest Laiz; stops iy falling #at atance; keeps the head clean: is naparalloied as s haiv-d Sold iy all druggists aud fashionable bair-dressers, sad at my o L1%Broadway, XY, Suem A Cuxvarres, M. D. A Stumrsory Covea that will not yield to srdinsry temedies may be thoroughly cured by Javsi's Exrrctonasy, & most eTective wediclae in sll Brovehial aad Palmovary Disorders. Sold The_ best ever 112 alvo applied st No. 6 Astor House. SUSPENSORY Rabieal Gure Truss Duplicatcs, stharmit., N. Y 1 B8, Brsr!” Philadelphia, Sew-York, & ddress Dr. Patsm ouly, T FLORENCE d Lockstiteh T P o 394 | t & WiLsoN's Lo Houw Macuin TTWEED 8 Improved Wheel, o1 Droy Vool e s 1 i 0 GROVER & BAKE € PREMIUM SEW= oM, No. 45 Broadw . A CAgp URKE, th atter, has removed bis Hat bnsiness to No. 126 Fulonst., Son Bailding, where he will be appy ko B¢ all bis castomers with & ststish and becomring Hat at popular vices. Ml Far bustuess will b6 earried ou at his ol stand. No. 49 roadwnr, Cararrit! Broxcritis !—=The only true rem- edy' Not ooe cere has becu pe ned of the false pretenders! Certiteates have bee fabricated Lo delu Fiombiag, N. V... bas discove fovs plasta. ASBY'S AND NRON, with 83 by alldenlers. ~Goies, free by wai, 2 ceotu oach. Haxey Cex-York. 'I'his distressing affection permanently wared, Bo suwgics) o) on requirel. The worst eases snccessfully Trasat Appht (Pitan's Medical Offce, No. 39 Eax. Fourth t..thisd doot from the aud betwees Bowers and Broadusy. “ibirty years special uttestion £45¢a to (hin patufl ?on'a CHEMICAL POMADE , hoeps it i ot ; remore prtlop sy 16 Astor o Kt etopes, ¥ it and _cure for the RUPTURED. rad, oa IK(B" of ften cents. D E ? Yoor, No. |.l‘tl¥| made new without spe Sent, s Fegeat 0. 110 “ oM Eyrs e ticiue. doc- Dr. E THE PUBLIC LANDS. WY TRLRGRAPE TO THE TRISUNK. WASHINGTON, March 8.~1u view of the act of Congress approved July 4, 1666, the Commissioner of the General Land Offico bas lustructed tae District Land Officers at Nebraska, Wisconsls, to procced o Gireeu Bay on the Lrat of May west, and thers offer ot pob i 10 thes Lighest bidder for cash, the vi lots, seventy. o ekt S e, oS i e, O b | #tevior : aud in order that the Departinest wet understaudingly in may atter, the local oicers Luve been directod (o report, afier fugn e e b S moet reiable soutees of aiorimativm, the Yulue b ereml ot The Commissiony oved 12,117 e 3 of WA S SN P tr e, 1 aeves oliad 1o (34 Dicing the vaeaner of s of Receirer of Public Tazes st Oumaha, € last, the Register received warrauts, seriy, anl To'make ach loeations aod entries requires (he #1d Revelcer. Therelore Ahis action of the was prematare md ircegulnr, but, fn view of the fact that partie v eases o insuio the necesary Seifeatesorreepts ofcarren, e, wnd report the sawe to the Masoxs' Wa At & meeting of the Muster ¥, held on Thovsday. night, it was do 1kl con ith the demands of the ¥ the 15t diny of April noxt. Mr Erstus Brooks,oue of s shoekboliessand DU | o tion failed in the House yesterday by | the eve | ple | eruelty to animals or men. Our public protest | against being driven, pa NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1867 ‘Bak £ IERIBUNG " SADURDAN, GAREIY BV S New Dok DalgBribune. ATURDAY, MARCIT TEEMS OF TH Dary Trisuse, Mail Subscribers, $10 per annum. - WkERLY Tn Mail Subscribers, $4 per an. WekkLy Trrouse, Mail Subscribers, $2 per aunii. Advertising Rates. Datry TRIBUNE, 20 cents per line. Semr-WEEKLY TBIBUNE, ‘:‘.’»ums per line, WekLY TRIBUNE, $1 50 pei Hie. ‘I'erms, eash in advance. Adilcoss, Trg TriBUNE, Now-York. 70 COR No sotics can be taken of Avouymons Cownuaications. Whaterer i3 latended for iasertion must be. satbenticated by the same and address of the writer—aot necassarily for publication, bub & & guaraaty for bis good faith. AL business letters for this offics should ba addreased to oxn) NewYork. e cannst uadertake to retara rejected Commuo) ations. “Tuw Tais CONNECTICUT. MISSTRELS. Gov. Hawley, Judge Pitkin, aod P. T. Barnum N MADAGASCAR BALLET |\ O pen addressing largo and euthusiasto moctings this week in Litchfield, Danbury, and Stamford. They speak in Norwalk to-night. 1@ Oivil Court Reports, the Commercial News and Markets, will be found on the sccond page;, Tepors of the New-York Juvenile Asylum, on the thivd page ; and Notices of the Looks of the Week on the sicth page. The Senate yesterday promptly passed the deserved resolution of thanks to Geo. Peabody for his late munificent gift to the causo of Southern education. Elsewhero we print a number of replies to some of the charges contained in the report of the late Custom-House Investigating Commit- tee of Coungress. A motion by Mr. Stevens to suspend (..he rules in order to introduce a joint resolution reappointing the Committee of I'ifteen on Re- v 50, The statement of the Captain and Chief- Eungincer of the burned stcamer Andalusin | would scem to leave the cause of that vessel'’s disaster a mystery. To the & amship Man- hattan belongs the credit of saving four-fifths of the passengers and crew. The Senate and Assenbly have agrced to a Conference upon the Coustitational Amend- ment bills, and our Albany corvespondent thinks the Senate will agree to 32 delegates at large, and the Assembly abandon its plan of choosing delegates by Assembly Districts. This eompro- mise should secure the speedy passage of the Yeas 87, Na bill, What we print to-day of the report of the Commissioners appointed to revise and codify the Customs Laws relates chiefly to the regis- try of vessels. The Commissioners propose that every vessel shall be registered and licensed, so that the actual tunnage of the Uni- ted States can be ascertained; and are in favor of allowing foreign built vessels to become na- tionalized upon payment of a duty. Other specific changes iu the laws are recommended by the Comumittee, The owner of a swill-wilk distillery was ar- rested the other day at the instanco of Mr. Bergh for inhumanly torturing his cows by shatting them up in ill-ventilated stables. | That is what is called cruelty to animals, and |‘ Mr. Bergh proves a rather strong case agninst the owner of the stump-tails. Bat, shutting men and women up in ill-ventilated, combust- ible tenements—what is that? And who will dare arrest a proprictor of one nfl these torture-houses ¥ Perhaps we shall come round to that by and by. The example sct | by the President of the Society for the | Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is at least a | step forward. We Lope that the Legislature will think many times before actually passing the bill, which has lately gone through one braneh, authoriz- ing the driving of eattle through our crowded streets, This is a nuisance 8o long and loudly complained of that we wonder al the audacity which aims to force it on us in an aggravated shape. A bill to abolish this nuisance totally is what we want—nob one to perpetuate it to day discomfort and disgust of the Our legislators can invent no surer of mauking the overcrowded peo- of New-York just a little more herd- like than by driving cattlo through them, The practice i8 bad for beef, and bad for beef-consamers; and is one or other way of public. method cattle cularly by and cattle bills. Mr. Reverdy Johnson did nol improve on Senator Wilson's motion against making a grog-shop out of the nation’s Capitol, by hoping that Senators would be allowed to bring their private bottles. There are a number of Con- grossmen whose habits are argument for the most sweeping prohibition of whisky; but we forbear being personal. Certain it is that the committee-rooms are wow and then, as Mr. Wilson has broadly hinted, a disgrace in the way of vulgar tippling ; and a hole in the wall, as the speeches of one or two Senators testify, i8 not a well-spring of pleas- wre. We do not think it enough that the public sale of liquor in the Capitol should be prevented. The representatives of the na- tion onght not to compromisc its honor by still allowing the mean and underband sale of “the “accursed thing.” Thercfore, we are gorry that Mr. Wilson's resolution has been referred to the Public Buildings Committeo instead of being at ounce pussed. The vote en this result was 21 to 22; which does not speak well for the Senate. The bill aunthorizing the appoiniment of a Board of Public Works for our City was yes- day defeated in the State Senate by the de- cisive majority of 20 to 9. Mr. Pierson of DBreoklyn and Mr. Andrews of Otsego (both chosen as Republicans) were its chief assailants, They were most ably and forcibly met in argument by Mr., Low of Sullivan; but argument was of no avail. The Demo- erats were of course against it, with those Re- publieans whe feel constrained to oppose what- ;?vn-r 'mm\sumd th;‘y suspect lGu\'. Fenton of avoring; and these two classes combinod Conthost X imajority of tho Senate. v But these were uot all. The bill stenck at some of the most flagrant and luerative corrnp- tions and swindles imbedded in our Municipal administration—robberies by which at least Half a Million Dollars are annually filched from our tax-payers. And that Half Million defeated the Vill, by hiring the entire Lobby, ably led by the Father thercof, to work deaperntely for its defeat. Somc of (hese have long sinco given their last Revublican vote; yet they vehemently denomnced the bill as calenlated to destroy the Lepublican party ! It is sad to seo snch arguments from such sources seem to prevail with good and true men, a8 are some Scnators who voted in the majority on this bill. The insincerity of much that was advanced in oppesition to the bill was happily . exposed by Scnator Low. Mr. Andrews had had much to say against the bill, as abolishing the ('n.;. ton Water Board, whieh he culogized as cmi- peptly capable and trustworthy, ~ Mr. Low theréiipon proposed so to amend the bill as to make tho three Crotop Water Com- migsioners (t;::. of “them Democerats), Commissioners under this act, leaving bat two to be appointed. This placed tho opponents of the measure in & position 80 uncomfortable that Mr. Folger felt compelled to oppose it by a flank movement. He pro- posed that the enacting clause bo stricken out of the bill; which, of course, prevailed ; and then the Committee of ‘the Whole could do no otherwise than riso and report. So the bill was | killed. On behalf of our systematically fleeced tax- payers, and of all who desire honest, vigorous, and frugal government for our City, we thank Judge Low for his uble and effective though unsuccessfol efforts, —Wao presume this precludes all hope of any essential reform in our City Government at this session, We can but trust that tho Constitu- tional Convention will bo less infested by the lobly, or less pliant to its seduetions, than the present Legislature is. If the Excise law of last Winter escapes disastrous modification, we shall be fortunate GKLLION. tovornments muty THE IRISH America is with Treland. be bound by International laws, but the sym- pathies of the peoplo are unfettered. A thrill of admiration ran through the land yesterday when the telegraph flashed the news that Ire: land is in rebellion, and strikes one more I»!qv for independence. Nothing can erash her spirit, or destroy her hopes. Since the day Great Britain adopted a policy which made the island little more than a recruiting ground for British armies, her action has been one unceasing pro test. In Parliament, 0'Connell; in rebellion, Fitzgerald, Emmot, O'Brien, have attempted to win back the rights of their country, and each failure has but added energy to the next effort. Millions of Irishmen have left their homes, despairing of snccess, to geek freedom in America, and emigration is not the least evidence of the injustice of Engligh rule. Yet, though drained of her population, poverty-stricken, subjugated, with a British garrison in every town, and a British fleet en every coast, Treland will struggle to be free, and the American heart beats in sympathy with the brave people who thus measure their weakness with the strength of a monarchy that not very long age was reckoned one of the The odds are ter- rible, the rebellion moie heroi that reason commands more sympathy and re- spect. ), All we know of this rebellion is the Engl story, relnetantly told, and no doubt but small part of the trath. But it is plain that this is the long deferred goneral uprising of the Feniang, upon which everything is risked. There is rebellion in the North, the South, tho East, the Weat. “They seem to have risen “suddenly in all parts of the island,” ay the London telegrams. Everywhere, according to the English account, they have been defeated. | t milea south of Dublin two hundred were taken prisoners, and Dono bue, their Teader, was killed, Fifteen hundred Rebels threatened Limerick ; they fought at Tallaght, at Killmallock, at Killelagh, at Kill fanane, al Clonmel, at Caryfort, at Haly Cross; armed bands roam through Clare, Tipperary, Limerick, Down, and at night signal fires burn on the hill tops in all puts of tho island. Ircland is fall of Iiish Americans, the Dublin corvespondent of The London Times, but the people give then no aid, though they refuso to betray their hil- ! But the 1,500 men did not hide in Tipperary, nor 500 at Clowmel, nor was thae any disposition to hide at Killmallock, or T'sl- laght. It was not to protect Ircland from the invasion of strangers that the tish Gov- ernment seut cutb after regiment into county, and distributed through all the towns a foree of 12,000 military police. Lord Strathnairmn, the commander of the British forees, better Lknown as Sir Hugh Rose, who blew the Scepoys from the mouths of cannons in India, did not merely go to fight with Irish Americans. No, the fact » plain that England is fighting all Ircland, and that the American Fenians are but a recuforce: ment to the people. These facts indieate at once the weaknes and the sirength of the rebellion, It is strovg because it is unanimous ; it is w because i3 forces ave distributed. Seeret orders, no doult, were issaed for a general uprising at o certain date, but the Fenian leaders had not the power to unite their troops and move with any cor- siderable army upon y Dritish post. Open organization was impossible, and that effected in secret mnst have been imperfect. Toe Fenians are fighting in bands and not in regiments; probably their largest lody does not number 2000 men. In such a contest tho DBritish troops have all the advantage, for as long as they protect their citadels dnd remain massed the rebels ean gain nothing. The Trish may take posscasion of the country, but they win nothing by that; such a contest differs from wars in which strategy aims to ocenpy lines of railroad and important towns, for the Irish are fighting in their own Jand, and theie objective is mnothing moro than the British army. Unless they drive it out of Ircland, they win nothing, and for such a trinmph there is not the slightest reason to hope. No doubt the plan of the leaders is to scize tho arms. of isolated garrisons, and gradually combining their forces, to advance npon the enemy, but in the mean- while they will be beaten in detail. England i3 strong now, stronger in Ireland than ever, boeause of her continental policy of peace. The “Government of the Trish Republic” have issued a proclamation whioh declares the objects of tho rebeilion t bo national union, public safety, political freedom, and the separa- tion of Church and State, and appeal to Re- publicans throughout the world for sympathy and support. A resolution of sympathy was yesterday introduced into the Iouse of Tep- resentatives, and would evidently lave been adopted at once by a large majority bad it not awkwardly coupled with the expres- sion of sympathy doctrines which pledge the United States to interferenco with European affairs. 1t was referred for this reason to the Committec on the Judiciary. But though the Government is very unlikely to adopt such o policy, the American peoplo plainly show that it is not with England they would side. The st gf that nower Lo recoguize the Confed- i erato States as belligerents is not forgotten, nor the moral aid which American Slavery received from the men and journals whose misrule Lo caused the Fenian rebellion. If it is so set down in the bond, England will have her de- mand, but ghe will gét nothing that is not in the bond. As Americans we cannot deny to Ireland what we gave to Hungary, to Italy, to Crete. While we may hold this rebellion to be a mistake, we may acknowledge that it has grounds, Treland needs better government, but when the Fenian movement fails, as we think it will, lhg Liish may be convinced that the best way to obtain their emancipation is union with the English Liberals. If Great Britain is to be rid of Tory rule in this generation, it will be by the great reforms John Bright leads, and from the day their principles are embodied in the English Government the regeneration of Ireland will begin, yITAT IT COSTS UNCLE SAM T0 KEEP HOUSE. The appropriations voted by the Second Ses- sion of the XXXIXth Congress to pay for the current expenses of the Government during the coming year and to supply the deficiencies of tho last fiscal period, amount to the pretty little sum of $144,792,037 61. The Army takes $23,- 861,654; the Navy, §16,794,244; Mr. Seward re- ceives two allowances of #30,000 each for his Atlantic Cable bills; and the Postmaster-Gen- eral gets £20,000 worth of twine. The Mili- tary Academy at West Point is very lib- erally provided for, at an expense of $268,913, of which that eminently useless body, the Board of Visitors, consumes 35,000, and another 3,000 is applied to an enlargement of the cadets' laundry, which we should think ought to be big enough now to keep that dapper little company of soldiers as clean as a row of new pins, The printing of our Govern- ment money costs $200,000; the management of loans and notes cannot be effected for less than #2,000,000; and for the detection of counter- feiters we have a bill of £150,000, Our expen- aive old friend Pub. Doc. dances in to the tune of 2,100,108, which surely onght to make Congress ashamed { of itself. Next to the ealary of Mr. Andrew Johnson, the charge under which it strikes us that we get the poorest equivalent for our money is that of £314,605 for the Department of Agri- enlture. The purchase and distribution of sceds which nobody wants costs $%0,000, and the Bo- tanical Garden, where Mr. Commissioner New- ton . raises hot-house flowers for Members of Congress, is supported at an outlay of #10,6 Ten thousand dollars for bouguets! But after all that is not worse than the *legislative ” ap- propriation of £10,230 for horses and earringes —a little bit of luxury in which we mistakenly supposed the Common Council of New-York were unrivaled, The most bewildering thing of all is the list of appropriations for keeping our public oficers warm. Here, for example, we have ng the Supreme Court Room; £ ing the cadet's mess-room at West Point; $40,000 for heating and ventila- ting their barracks; 10,000 worth of heating apparatus for the public buildings; $1,000 worth of ditto for the library of Congress; 5,000 worth of fuel for the White House; #15,000 worth of fucl and lights for Congress; 500 for heating the Capitol; $2,000 for fuel again at the White House and Capitol. How in the world it is possible in o single Winter to consnme such enormous quantities of coal, isa problem quite beyond our comprehension. oo is an item of #35,000 for lighting the tol and White House, beside which the uation of the Rotunda by electricity in- of 3,000, and the Government has to pay an electrician $1,200 0 | year to attend to it illum volves an annual expense which comea next to Pub. Doe. in atrocity, the appropriation for The Congressional Globe. On this costly luxury the Senate expends no less than #85,157, and the Hounse #120,502%—a grand total of $206,040. But this swindle is to bo stopped, Congress having already given notice of its intention to break off the contract with the proprictors of that concern as soon as the two years' warning which they ave required to allow have expired. ————— USURY LAWS. The State of Massachusetts is about to try the experiment of legalizing unlimited Usury. w nuot advise this; but, while she is about it, we ask her to do the job squarely and thoroughly, carly every such act hitherto pussed weass a sneaking, shame ( air, as though its anthors w conscions that they g & mean th They usually start with a general implication that money is a commodity, liko cheese or sugar, which the owner has u perfeet right to sell or rent on the terms he deems mos! antageons to him- self ; but, in the very next section, they turn a short corner, and stipulate that Banks, or per- Liaps all corporations, shall be forbidden to do the very thing which the first section has pro- claimed cvery one's right to do. If the Bay State is Lent on legalizing Usury, we exhort ber to “go the wholo hog.” Alabama did this on her organization as a State; but she soon backed ont of it, because Usury wns eating lier up. Notes were found running at ten per cent. per month, and plenty of fools to borrow at any rate. This writer has somchow acquired a most wdeserved reputation for wealth and benevo- I'mee, and is consequently inundated with oplications from those in need. It is quite within bounds to say that he is nrged to lend o give ten dollars for every one he earns or meeives. And the tenor of the letters asking lim for money runs generally thus: “ 1 have a little farm and a little tamily, and am dong niddling well; but badiy need n toam, without which T @n make no crop this year. If you will lend mo 250 t buy @ yoko of oxen, T will pay you next Winter, with my interest you may require.” Or thus: “f haye a amall, rocky farm, and am makiog a falr Aving on it; butl owe a morfgage of $400 which the noller Insists on having pald. T eannotfraiso the money, and shall be turnod out of house and home just as Spring opens unless you can lend mo the $400. Doit, for merey’s saake, and accept tho blessings of my atirighted family, will certainly pay you within two years.” Or thus—most touching of all: “ 1 am n young farmer, and was dotng well till the war broke out, when I felt it my*duty to hazard all for my country. L enlisted, fought the War out, and camo home with o erippled arm and a broken constitution, to find myself virtually a bankrupt and a beggar. My wifo did Jer bost; but our children were very young, and labor was very high; 5o our crops were light, goods high, and {axes hoavy : the upshot of all which is that Lam tn debt 00, and_ st pay at once or lose my furn. Can't you Loud mo that sum, and take 4 mortgage for it on wy place, werth at least troble the amount 1" ~These are fair specimens of at least a hund- ved Tetters with which we have been favored within the last two months, We take no account of those whiclt virtually solicit alns; for these lave no bearing on the Usury question. But we ask thoughtful, generous men to consider what will be the probable effect of repealing all Usury laws on the enormously numerons cluss of poor, but not bankrupt persons already opprossed with debts which thoy kunow: not Thoe standing and familiar ontrage of all, | — et - how to pay? Will they mot, in the average, be impelled to say to their principal creditors, “We can't pay you now. Charge us whatever “interest you must, and let the debt stand over i1l next Fall?” and how many of them, think you, will ever get out of debt, when Shylock is enabled and encouraged by law to fix his own terms ¥ The subjeet is a large and grave one. We apprehend that, if Massachusetts legalizes nn- limited Usury, she will banish her industrious middle class by emigration to the West even fastor than hitherto, _ UNIONISM IN NORTII CAROLINA. The Unionists of North Carolina heartily in- dowse the Reconstruction bill passed by Con- gress, The Union members of the Legislature, together with other loyal citizens, recently held a meeting in Raleigh, in which it was unani- mously recommended that the people promptly accept the plan of Congress, and that the Chairman of the meeting, the Hon, C. L. Har- 1is, State Senator from Rutherford, Cleaveland, and Polk Counties, designate not less than 100 of the leading Union citizens to assembie in Raleigh on the 27th of March, to plan and call for a Constitutional Convention, The Chair- man of the meeting was also instructed to as- certain the views and wishes of the colored people of the State, with a view to a prompt and 'harmonious eobperation of all the loyal peoplo of the State in the work of reconstrue- tion. The Union men of North Carolina, it will be seen, are determined to reorganize the State on the basis of the plan of Congress, without regard to the existing State organizations which owe their existence to the votes of ex- Rebels. The unreserved acceptance of negro suffrage by the Union party of North Care- lina is one of the most remarkable signs of pro- gress in the views of Southern Unionists, since the overthrow of the Rebellion. Not more than two years ago both the Union papers of Raleigh, and with them the great majority of the Union- ists of the State, declared themselves very em- phatically against the enfranchiscment of the negroes. Now there appears to be an entire unanimity in favor of cordially acccpting it. As regards the prospects of this new Union movement, it will be well to bear in mind that in 1865 tho Unionists polled 25,800 votes, while the Rebel candidate for Governor had only 32,5680, Last year, when the platform of the party was much more radical, the Union candidate for Governor polled 10,749 votes against 34,343 given to the Rebel candidate ; but the reduction of the Union vote was altogether owing to the ab- stention of the majority of Unionists. Accord-’ ing to the census of 1860, the number of whites in North Carolina was 620,942, and that of the colored people 361,522, There can be no doubt, then, we believe, that the coiperation of the united white and colored loyalists may secure a largo majority of the votes which the Recon- struction bill admits. NO! The people of Monmouth County, New-Jersey, respectfully solivit of the Legislature of that State tho privilege of constructing a railroad from Frechold, the county seat, to Keyport, their most convenient and considerablo seaport. They are gardening, froit-growing tillers of the soil, whe Lave trebled the wealth and doubled the population of their county within | a few years, and they could readily treble both | wealth and population again if they had proper facilities for sending their produce to our mar- kets. And they want no help from the State toward building this most important Railroad —they want only permission. Yet we cannot make room for the terse and foreible appeal they send us, because it wonld | do no good. Monmonth County, like the State, is o satrapy of the Camnden and Amboy mo- nopoly, and chooses to remain so. She has sent its tools to the Legislature year after year, and they have bound her fast in the toils of the giaut corporation, so that nothing we could | do would help her ont, Whenever she sends to Trenton a delegation heartily favorable to a Free Railroad law—not for a county, but for the whole State—wo will give it such aid as he must not ask to be let out » she helps to keep others fast of the prison w bound within it. ——— THE LATE VETOES. The World, after a superlative laudation of the Recounstruction veto—says: «Tay, WEEKLY TRIDUNE has & very considerab Iation in Connecttent, ag L ossibly, a8 the & of The World, bul it goes to & dif- 'NE print the full the special ben- T nfident that it ¥ 10 commes ent to the calm o every elector fn that State to earry Con- t by aun overwhelming majority for the Demo- o ticket."” —Two days before this request was published Tur, Werkny Tripese had been sent into nearly every school distriet of Counecticut, con- taining “the full text ™ of both Mr. Jolmson's re- cent vetoes—that of the Reconstruction and that of the Tenure-of-Office bill. We have sent not less than ten thousand copies of those two vetoes into Connecticut—nearly all of them to a very “different class of readers” from those of The World. 'We have not only printed them in full, but we have called gpecial attention to that which The World deems so important and unanswerable. And it is our custom to deal thus with important state papers whether we like them or not. Will The World so inform its readers? The Ion. Samt B. RuGGres sails for Furope this momning, to enter upon his duties as United States Commissioner to the French Exposition. Mr. Ruggles has devoted the last year to an investigation of the sources of our country's wealth, and especially of its mineral and agricultural capacities, Fow of our citizens more fully comprchend or more accurately estimate the vast capabilities of the United States, and no one is more competent to present the subject, in its soeial, scientific, and industrial aspects, than Mr. Ruggles, Ilis scholarship, as well as his facility in im- parting information, will insuve for him a prompt recognition from the savans of the Old World, The World says: Tho speech which Nyo inflicted on the Hartford Radi- eals Inst night §s complained of as unconstitutional, being “4 cruel and unesual punishment.” —0f course, the Copperheads felt badly while Nye was flaying them ; but then they should 't have deserved it, or should n’t have gone to take it. They shonld have remembered that 4 No rogue e'r felt the halter dra With good opinion of the law,” o the exccutor of its penalties, and kept ont of hearing. MARYLAND. BADICAL VICTORY AT WILLIAMSPORT. At the corporation election of Willinmsport, Md., 3eld on the 7th, the Radicals elected the Burgess, Assistant Burgess, and two Comnussioners, fi‘m. Copperhead Commissoners were also clected. Last year the Copperheads lind o majority, The vote was he largest over cast on kuch an oceasion. Tuw LarpERKEANZ MASQUERADE. — The annual Grand Muskod Ball of tho Gerwan Licderkranz Society will take place at the Acadomy of Musio on Thursday evenlng, 2ist. Tho committeo having the in aharen or BOTY of tho LyskKnown Gerua | CHARLES ¥, anWh!— .m'rmxw'mw A dispatch by the Atlantic Cable gives intout gence of the death of this' pipular Americanbaor. bft. which oconrred on the 6th inst., at Routhampton, England. The news that Mr. Browne had recently been cqmwllodby illness to suspend bis entertain. ments in London was not eofficient to prepare the public for the announcement of Lis early death, It was generally supposed that his disorder was merely temporary, and that he would presently be able to re- sume his prosperons eareer. But more intimate friends had long been aware of Lis dai.gerous con- dition, and by them the information which comes to- day could not at any time within the last year have been entirely unexpected. Mr. Browne was somewhat oyer 53 years old at the time of his death. He was bomn in the town of Waterford, Maive, where his mother still resides. His first connection with any newspaper was in the eapacity of a compositor for T%he Skowkegan Clarion of that State, and it may be interesting foe those who were acquainted with him only in bis later characters of writer and public speaker to know that, before abandoning this handicraft, he had rendered himselt one of the most, if not positively the most expert, of its followers in the United States. It was while cnznficd as a type-setter for The LT ) & comic weekly journal formerly published B'n\:tu, :hr;‘l hl(;c:m Hlltcmpt'eale:nyflliu%i'xtx the form of Liter- € Was Kome and :hmo enrly offorts were natural \,;e(agx:tm'fi:i trifling and unimportant character, In a Western aity, where hie had risen to the position of reporter for a daily paper, he eemmenced the publication of those skotches which, under the name of Artemus Ward's H"i“l"‘n:fi zllnve since bommcllnw;u k}:wvm un'd tlllxn" rende) he name so popnlar. At the outsef, articlesin The Clrrelau} ;’laindudxr 'fl: «:Mu:?; written in hasty moments of leisure, und with ne expectation of "attracting especial attention; but finding that they rapidly attained a notoriety which, thongh unlooked for, could not but be gratilying to their author, he applied himself more earnestly to their preparation, and presently gained for himselg the reputation of one of the cleverest and most original humorous writers that the country had pro- duced. Ho was persuaded by the proprictors of Vanity Fair, a comic periodical, wlach lrul, a few eary ago, a brief and brilliant existence in New- York, to become one of its regular contributors, & for a time, to act as its editor. While associa with Vanity Fair he first turned his attention to the line of business which he afterward. develo) i such remarkable success. T i dehivered rooklyn, and in the Wood,” ' Sixty Minutes in Africa,” ete., was re- peated in the )flmmlcfiu of the Eastern and West- ern States. e scheme of a visit to California and Utah, more especially with refercnce to a lively illus- tration of the characteristics of the Mormon provines, was formed by him in 1862, and was carried out with the good fortune which from that time distinguished all his enterprises. Returning to )\'ew_-ankfi 184, he commenced a series-of lectnres with panormnie appliances—the Iast and the best entertainments with which his name is connected, Of their peculiar kind, indecd, they were the best ever attem in America, if uot, also, in England. Mr. whe's peculiar cleverness as an actor, and the quaiot droll- ery of his nflwumn ited to the mirth-provoking quals ourse jtsel are” the wost attractive made the ** Mormon 1 the light pogu]ur diversions of the city. After con. clnding bis New York season, he need it in all 8 the principal towns of the Union, North and South, winning everywhere the same applause and profit. At this time the first syamptoms were served of the discase hich has fust proyed fatal. He gave little heed to them, and, insensiblo to the mvny of these premonitions, "PTM“ modify the somewhat free manick of his life in time to resene himself from danger. During sevoral months, however, he wis. Qbh’:d to suspend his por- formauces altogether. But in the Spring of 1865, find- ing his health in some degree improved, andfull of that nnconsciousness of peril which' the consumptive invalid so often shows, he determined to make a pro- fessional visit to England, He arrived there in June, but in too exhausted a state to undcrtake immedi- ately his new duties, When, however, in November last, he did begin, his success was so ute and complete as to ontshine the best of Wi American achievements. He appeared nuder sivgulacly happ; and advantageons cireumstances, His writings M been, to say the least, asgenerally read and ‘s popu Jagly apprecinted as as home. His I-znkl. Teprinted by varions publishers, were o1 every city stall, and in every railway station. He had been heralded by many prominent. and even distingnished, authors— mong_thema Mr, Charles ade and Mr. G. A. a. He was weleomed, on arriving, with the great- t conrtesy and kindness by the young writers of London—the contributors to Punch, Fun, Al the Year Kound, and the magazines—all of whom co- operated earnestly to place his success bayond the chance of doubt. "His few contributions to althongh, inconsequence of his illuess, the Jess spirit and energy than the earlier s hes, were flatteringly reccived, and their popularity was hailed y his new friends as a sure tokea that his enterprise would thrive. The irresistible fun of the “lecture,” | at once satisfied them all that their sympathy wis wel) bestowed, aud that their good offices had not | been misapplicd. For about threemonths Mr. Browne continned iu delight the lovers of humor among the London populace, and was then, as onr readers are aware, compel to seek the ement from which he was destined never to reappear. e first went to the Island of Jemey, but, finding no improvement in his health, returned to Southamp- tou, whence Le had lwpvd:r De able to sail for home. But this desire was opposed by the physicians, wha declared that it would be in ible for Lim cven to leave the harbor alive on ship Letters dated the 23 of February state that he was at that time fully conscions that his life conld not be prolonged. He recetved the kindest care from the gentlemen who so cordially received him in London, and during the Tast month of his life he was closely attended, day and night, by sympathizing friends, Capt, Britton, the United States Consnl at Sonthampton, to whose enerous solicitude so many Americans have been indebted, was unceasing in his endeavors to con- tribute to the sufferer’s comfort, No effort wag spared, in any way, to render his last honrs s t{unquu and composed as human care conld waks them, Browne's personal qualities it is impossible for any person who has ever known Dim to speak otherwise than with gentleness. A mote tender- hearted and _affectionate mature eonfd mot be imagined ; and the swectness of his disposition way always snfficient to atone for faults of manner which nobody ever deniced, and of which he was himself perfectly conscious. His _sphere was fixed, though in it he was unapproachable. He will be very widely, and very profonndly lamented, and his Of Mr. memory will be chierished by all who ever knew him, as that of a charming companion, & generons friend, and @ man whose Leart was always warm and toue 10 the tenderest impulses of humanity. ¢ e A FORGER ARRESTED, BT TRLRGRAPH TO TUR TRIAUNE. BostoN, March 8.~A young man named George MeTrean has been arrested for passing forged ehecks for small amounts. He says hie belongs to New-York. ors 8ay thats oore of Ohig and Ny York, occur: and resulted in the death of the formor,’ 'y sovere wounding of the two later. MORE DEFALCATIONS IN BALTIMORE, BartvokE, March 8.—Reports of two additional defalcations are current on the strect, one ina Marine Insurance Compauy, and the other in a large funcy store in Baltimore-st. The amounts arc variously slated, bub in neither easo are they very heavy, ous of the persons oceupying o high social and” wercantile position, and has Docn for tome years manager of the vietiuiged instite: tion. The other was & confidential clerk on & swall THE ALLEGED LOTTERY SWINDLE. Yesterday the prisoners who were arested at Noo 62 Broudway, on a charge of violatiug the lotiery 1n¥s were brought before Justice Dowling at the Totbs. The ouly member of the firm of Clark, Webster & Co., the al Jeged managers of the “ Bankers and Merchants’ Gra Presentation Entertainment,” 18 Henry Ellls, Officer Walling of the Fifth Precinet, on whose iuformation the arrest was wade, entered a compluint against Fliny charging that the dccused confessed ( him that Lo was & meniber of the firu of Clark, Webster & Co., and that he had cireulated an rr-uom‘nt of Lflil"dlt‘l 'm lot'lrry. n which money, watches, pianos, &e,, were 0 dispos .‘r ‘h" chn:wl({ ’l‘!«-lu-l-hl each, the drawing to take rlld it the Cooper Tnstitute on April 25. The fact o the sizure of tickets and eireulars, and the arrest of r'm)l‘ Vo swere found employed in the place, was also duly s forth in the complaint. The magistrute deci was the first otfense, to discharge (the vm&; and female, who were arrested, and comuai await an examination. BURGLARY IN UNIC UARE. : The store of William IL Roberts, merchant tailof at No. 39 Union-square, was entered on the mght of e 26th ult. by burglars, who burst ina um,mn“-: door and stolo abous $2,000 worth of cloths, which took awsy in & wagon stationed in nt of tho building Recently Detective Dusenbury learned that the and wagon used on the occasion were under the charge, a colored man named Wllnn. yoste! was arvcted, Ln s potsth ", Jusioe representing a piece of the % committed ma’muud for trial. He is years of age, and lived in Park-st. THEFT OF MONEY AND no.\:?n. ) ives Niven and Vaughan on Tuesday Pepsctind) Charles W. Brewster, personal alte wud Prof. Hod ut Orofing wnd ve st stole from o Giin risoner stole f:ond- to_the amonat of .lwmv Koston. Ho yas aer A (Ao s Fthe & c of b Dbitt.of Taunton, ! n it tho custody of Sherif Ba oty T Bl it aud s vrisoncy devatted | & | that place.