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Wiscunve, Rises Junction.—What State 1 iee ean be taken of Anonymons Comssunications. Whatever Is tended for iasertion must be wutbenticated by the name and address of the writer—sot necesarily for publication, but aa & guarasty for s good faith. AL businasg letters for this office sheald bo addremed to * T Tuis: Now-York. o ET | o7e eanaed undortake to return rejocted Communications. \ Advertisoments for this week’s issue of TuE Wikmket TwiBuNE must be haoded in To-Day. 7 Impeachments in History ; the City Taxn Levy; a ’(:'nrd from Mr. (Feorge Peabody; Court Reports ; the Money Artiele and Markets, will be JSound on the second page. New-Hasesuiee holds her Stato Election to-morrow. The Republicans confidently expect to carry it by 2,500 to 3,500 majority. The Senate has passed a joint rqmlufion recommended by Gen. Howard, granting one million dollars to relieve the destitute people of the South. The latest cable dispatches tend strongly to show that the distarbances in Ireland amount to the dignity of a rebellion. Tipperary uforw the trs re undistinguishable from it. bufactusing Company refer with Dare establisbed in the prod 'y bave been for many ablic that they will fully sustain duction of E’,ml(brl—lflli Wal Dility as will insura entire satisfa wade by Wom are stawped thus. amiANMIaCy 1 wuch are fully gusraoteed. Ther feel it nocessary At e Thention of parchase above trade-mark, ted. These goods cau ouly be pro- aghout the countr. call the attention of pure bars boea already exteusi enrad from responsible dea ry l!!:krlpnni ;u. rer 1 elega ue. The bass is Nicke ;’«.‘fi of Pure Silver of auch thickuess that they "of solid silver in wility, and from beauty of acturiNGg Com ade that ‘comprising full Dixx tion of engaged, reputation Being the introducers of the celebrated PLATED n and contdence to the high 1 SILVER ind they ow by the pro- o of such quality aud extreme dura- clion 10 the purchaser. All aricles partientarly to s their desigus Comaty is reported the center of one of its chief demonstrations, and the Galtee Moun- tains, it is said, are swarming with Fenians. Other counties are excited, and the ris- ing is general enough to.give employment to considorable numbers of British troops. This ia the color of the story as filtered through the English press; and it is possible that the situ- ation, from a British view, may be still more troublesome. The fact of the insurrection is at last decided. Weo have still to await news of its fate. Tle Sanitary Police considerably reduced the mortality lists for the carrent week, on Satur- day, by seizing more than five hundred carcasses Wansof the Gomiax MANTUPACTURING Co., above advertised, we now of iimmature veal at Washington Market, which, offer an eatirely naw and extoasive stock, from which very desirable selec- STaRE & Mancvs, Lona can be made. but for the sejgure, would have composed many’ Sunday dinners amoyg the poerer classes yes- terday. How ‘many lives are annually lost in SPECIAL NOTICE. Partinlar aftention 1s requested to oar extensive variety of pattarss of this city by the use of such food has mot, to our knowledge, been definitely computed ; but' i i Foms, Sroomsand Kxivws, at prices whick will vepay 88 | o) o oeeer woq considered 8o important by thes examiustion of the elosest burers. STATR & Mances, 22 Jobnat,, N Y. Metropolitan Board of Health, that among its Are You DIsTURBED AT NIGHTT earliest sanitary regulations wasone forbidding b Wivhaiat ety 418 "':‘:‘ ’:I': 'i;' :::.:-::: the sale of the meat of any calf whick at the Ay ol T whea® @ Ve 0.0 A MY time of its death was less than four weeks old, Soorwixa Staor. 1t will relieve the little sufferer immedistely. Tt eatos wind " colie, Tegulates fhe bowels, 3nd s perfectly mafe in all eases. Thirty-fve ceata a bottle. Bewure aad call for “Mgs. Winssow's Sooruixe Srve.” Having the fac sin:le of Al others are base imitations. mris & PRKINS” on the outside wrapper. any violation of such regulation being punish- able as a misdemeanor. This action of the San- itary Police should be extended not only through our retail meat markets, but to the commission men, and to the cattle ya rds, wherelive “ bobs” are sold every week, which go thence direct to ORIGINAL KITTATINNY F. Wissiaxs, Montolair, N. J Tue EvREkA Brick M: makes 3,000 splendid Brick per howr, with only wine men and one pair & machinery reat simplicity and | BT€8S, 1t, at sig neer. Has Nowses, 074,320 per howr by steam g dowon. o ba getting out of order or breal marvelons power eommand the We challenge the world to prouce its equal. Butisfaction guaranteed o all purchasers. Amkax Requa, Geaeral Agent, No. 141 Broadway, N. Y. roval of every © Brack ACHINE comy BERRY. “'5’;‘."“' ',]""M," e it Tue FrANKLIN Brick MACHINE, iy, great strength, and immense | TOSOIVES i in el j i “h Gt s, and lnmenee itself into a grand jury to sit upon Juatiy celebated for pe 71 Broadway, N. ricks. .. Roow 20, CorGare’s Hoxey TorLet Soar. is made from JEvRrICIAL B it Act g v, ind estemcly RPICIAL i its action upon the skin. For sa Fanes Goods Dealers. skin. For sale by sll Druggists sod Mrated TorL et Soav, in such nniverssl tha wsT materials, is PRAGRANTLY 8CK: de N7 the cheap meat men, to be sold on the sly. The Legislature of Louisiana is impertinent enough to array itself against fact. Such a fact is the Reconstruction bill passed by Con- which Gov. Wells has recognized in ordeging that all elections iana shall accord with its ture is foolish; for instead supreme law of the land, it a proclamation ; held in Loui ~ | terms. The Lej of bowing to th an act of Congress. The egg of Reconstruction has been laid by Congress, but the Louisiana Legislature is of opinion that it must still be ocackled over. Congress will be sensi- ble of the patronage extended by late Rebels to its last and strictest act, and Gen. Sheridan A otlinary remedies may be thoroughly cured by JavNe's Exercromat, @ wost efective medicive iu all Brouchial and Puliwosary Disorders. Sold ererywhere. UBBORN CouGH that will not yie]}! to | will make proper note of it. Though advisec even by Gen. Sheridan to postpone the munici- pal election, we see that the Legislature refuse todo it. On a par with this folly is the move- TAYLOR'S SALOON, 535 Broadway. Tox Hors BreawBzumies and Cucrmnnna for male MINTON'S ExcavsTic T For Floots, Walnseoting ‘Ill.l"! & Coarss, No. LMO-BRONC all Throat aud Luug ILES ete., AL TROCHES, Discases. Sold everywhere. SUSPENSORY Trose ment to impeach Gov. Wells; but both are likely to fail. The subject of Capital Punishment, we find is engaging the attention of the British House of Commeons, the Government having intro- duced two bills to carry out the recommenda- tions of the Royal Commissioners relative to the punishment of death. One of these defines anew and amends the law relating to murder, Pest family mackive in the worl WiLLCOX & GInBS SEWT aeam 1n e lablo o rip than the lock-stitch.”— [ J Geand Trial] Send for samples of both stitebes. “I'ne Howe Maciixe Co.’s Lock-Stitch § ; Duplicate ) it J 2 1" Lasr k, & Boston. ng daily | gible. EW- aund the other provides for alterations in the mode of carrying that punishment into effect, 80 as to securc as much privacy as pos- It is proposed that there shall be a classification of murders, similar in principle to that which obtains in France, into murders of the first and second degree, and that executions shall in future be intra-mural. These are steps toward a more rational and humane method of stibe | dealing with homicides, which, though small, must be thankfully accepted at present. Mean- tor of the Sewing- Ma- | While, it is pleasing to find, from the tone of 495 Broadway, N. Y. © been fabricated to delude the pub i ill prove their suecess. Explanat & BAKER'S HiGuest Presius BEw- Broxcriris '—Th cure las been performed by ..,e-f(:al%fi"e e the Tle ory Cireul preicadenst Prixoe, . P ;. als | accommodating spirit the Directors of the » | Flushing Cemetery l!m debate which took place on the introduc- tion of the bills, that public opinion in England is steadily advancing in favor of the total wa“g’;fifi“ SEW- | aholition of Capital Punishment. Colored men must find it hard to escape the pursuing kindness of their white brethren. It kills them sometimes, and sometimes is good enough to bury them. In perhaps a similar announce a benev- OBI TUAR Y. ) — SALATHIEL TUDOR SELLES 8. T. Selleck, a well-known member of the typo- graphical fraternity in this city, died at his residence | people ! in Re wick-st., on Saturday afternoon. CK. He wasa olent intention. They contemplate (mark the sepulchral coolness of the announce- ment) purchasing several acres of land opposite their present property as a cemetery for colored This is what we should call being Pecksniffian in the face of eternity, and acting native of Johustown; Pa., and came to New-York | a snob’s part to death itself. It would be as good- about 20 years since. As a com| superior Lit attainments. ¥ho New-York phical its formation untifnhiu death. itor, were far above the average, and he was He was a member of phical Union from the time of e i o, the Wi"fllt:o spect even for fossils, we forbear, sinceroly felt by a large circle of friends, J. R. ORTON, M.D. , his lbifitifn natured to ask the Flushing Cemetery own- f | ers to step into their graves, but, with a re- [ ] Can they imagine for a moment that the burial of colorod people will alter the complexion of ; uln '::: d:;:h of Dr';‘()rtan the public has lost one of | their cemetery? Or is there a phrenology of mable feitizens. He was s man of a | graves as well as “aphysiognomy of shades " We eultivated education, of » refined and spotless life. | fear that these Flushing graves offer the black He was a native of Hamilton, Madison County, in this Btate, and trom an early age he has been known and re- cognized as a writer of promise and ability. Educated to the profession of medicine, which he followed for many years suocessfully, he was & man of enlarged views au ripo understanding. He was a friend to the poor an opprossed, and poverty mnever asked hLis aid in entle, vain, Ho was kind-hearted, and loving disposition. on 0¥/ bis mmm ors and emoluments, and in l#:““h New-York City as a writer for The - to @Quriu hhnu-e'. in Binghamtou, ;e‘:u H‘a“flomu ,nd ""':'."M wity, and gave wed ] publi Camp Fires of the Red M from vm&n al-ldsrud:n';n::: y from Jis unpublisie from (o press of Harvep his coming to New-Y it Ably for several ited The W Lievie wfl And‘;l or mgo pnm: 3:' tlllllll: mn"m" ‘.. mu:e of poerus Feceived by the publie. - The his pen, and Depers, which ) will be Brgthers, i ® most eufihl delicate organization, the onerous duties of the medical wers 1o such a degres of 3 @ | struction under the late act of Congress is to “Tho o ind wat man, it is for the South to accept the position man the meanest kind of white hospitality, in- viting him into a back grave, just as in cars and halls we give him a back seat, The substance of ex-Gov. Brown's address to the citizens of Atlanta, Ga., is that Recon- the South an inevitable expediency. The North ’ " }6 Jz‘;z cannot be escaped in any event, he thinks, and D The the South may go further in a course of politi- cal chagrin and idleness, and fare worse than by accopting the wholesome finality of the Recon- struction bill. Congress having settled the question of the enfranchisement of the black {Jlld act upon it, 8o that the hallot will remain in tho bauds of winastent's of ity whito NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1867, men. The difficulty of accepting, sooner or later, what is unavoidable, does not strike us as, philosophically, a very great one, Step by step the South have conceded 80 many po- litical matters-of-conrse, shameful it would seem only to those hidalgos who quarrel with honest living, and fight and beg equally on horseback. There will be many sensible South- erners who will ere long agree with Gov. Brown, that, after having done everything else, the South had better take the last, best step, frankly and in earnest, and return to its place in the family of the I‘Juion_. o i ] PROGRESS OF RECONSTRUCTION. The Reconstruction act which passed the late Congress over the President’s vetois already vir- tually accepted by the South. It is (of course) denounced and execrated by certain noisy ex Rebels (mainly of the bomb-proof v'nriely;) b}lt notmany, even of these, talk of registing it, while the polioy of “masterly inactivity” has few 'nd- vocates, and their number is rapidly dwindlmg. And for this) thero is excellent reason, in the fact that, if the ex-Rebels refuse to organ- ire their States wnder the act of Congress, the Unconditional Unionists (White and Black) will organize each of and by themselves. 'If, then, the ex-Rebels should insist on testing the constitutionality of the act before the Supreme Court, they will simply compel fl_mt Court to decide whether a State organization by loyal men in obedienco to an act of Cm}- gress or a rival organization by ex-Rebels in defisnce of Congress shall be recognized and upheld by the authority and power of the Union; and it does not seem probable that a majority even of our present Judges will decide that issue against Congress and the loyal or- ganizations. i The ten Rebel States are to be reorganized under the late act of Congress, and are ,w choose Representatives and Senators to claim seats in the present (XLth) Congress. So much is already assured. And it is morally certain that the great body of their people, irrespective of past differences of polities or condition, will participate in such reorgan- ization and election. Nor is there any symptom of violent pertarba- tion or deadly collision likely to result from the act which was so lately stigmatized by its enemics as one “ to organize hell 7 in the South. On the contrary, the prospect is decidedly favora- Dble to & nearer approach to peace and order than has been exlybitcd at tiie S6nth for ydiifs. Outrige a0d violence are less prevalent there than they have boen; and there is reason to hope that the Reconstruction at hand will be marked by no such hideous tragedies as those which in 1868 disgraced the cities of Memphis and Now-Orleans. The only clouds on the horizon are fairly !l chargeable to an omission by Congress to pre- seribe the machinery whereby Reconstruction is to bo effected. Had the act prescribed a | day (say the 4th of July) whercon the people of the ten Stgtes respectivaly shall (not may) meet and choosé delegates to & Constitutional Convention, and directed either the provisional State authorities or the military district com- manders to designate persons to hold the polls, count the votes, &c., all trouble would have been precluded. That the omission is unfortunate, is already manifest in Virginia and in Louisiana. In Vir- ginia, the Blacks and other loyalists are ex- horted not to vote at the election which will doubtless be held under the auspices of the State authorities, but to hold an election of their own. We trust means will bo found to avoid a double election; and we cannot help advising the loyalists of that State to follow the lead of Francis H. Pierpont rather than that of James W. Hunnicutt, In Louisiana, it is reported that the els propose to hold a Constitutional el if in conformity to the act of Congress, but to reject the votes of all colored men! We do nx-Reb- not believe they will persist in this stupidity. | If they mean to deny and resist the authority of Congress in the premises, their obvious course is to adhere to their present State organization, and take no part in the choice of delegates to make another. On the whole, the good work of Reconstrue- tion i8 progressing favorably and rapidly. Those who have for years vociferated that the Radicals were bent on keeping the Southern States unrepresented and in chaos until after the next choice of President, will be singing a very different song before December, PRESIDENT JOHNSON MADE 70 THREATEN REPUDIATION. That this country owes a very great National Debt, is an incontestable truth, That most of us who are to pay it do not regard it as a Na- tional blessing, is equally clear. True, there are incidental advantages resulting from its ex- istence. Here is a great savings bank, wherein any one may invest his little or his much, re- ceiving a good interest punctually, and selling out on fair terms whenever he needs his capital, The Debt is a first mortgage on all the property and all the industry of our people, and may be fairly estimated as subtracting one-tenth from the value of the former. By sternly re- solving to pay off at least One Hundred Mil- lions per annum—as we did in the last calendar year—we might wipe it out within the next quarter of a century. And we firmly believe the People would prefer to do this, if their true opinion could be ascertained. Of course, they undorstand that this implies forecast and self-denial; but we hold them ready to pay somewhat higher taxes to-day and henceforth rather than transfer the Debt incurred in put- ting down the Slaveholders' Rebellion to the shoulders of their grand-children. Yet there are many who take a different view. Some insist that we should pay only the an- nual interest, leaving the principal to be dealt with at some indefinite future day, when our country shall have become immensely richer and more populous than now; others seem to think that it would be still more convenient not to pay at all. And these look forward to a time when the Debt may be sponged out by some gigantic exhibition of National rascality. The Citizen of Saturday contains a Washin, ton letter from its editor, Gen. Halpine, detail- ing such portions of a recent conversation with President Johnson as relate more especially to the National Debt. Mr. Johnson figures therein a8 regarding the country as on the high road to perdition because of the policy of Congress with pogard what might, Eastern, and as if the West would somehow be impelled by it to join the South in repudi- ating the National Debt, which he assumes to be mainly held at the East. The President is represented by Gen. Halpine as saying in sub- stance— “But what do we now find 1 » aristocracy based on 000,000 of property in outh of Mason and “@fi&m&mr\ peared: bt aristocrac Dased on ol ational se a8 arisen i Northern Btates to nssume. that politica] eontrol, which the consolidation of great financlal with polit “('::llncrly avo to the slave oligarchy of the lately Rebel cs. “Tho aristocracy based on negro propeity dis B0vears al Lhe Squthon eud of the Une, but ouly to rengpunn an oligarchy of bonds and National securities T thio States which l\lg[vmled the Rebellion. “We have all read history ; and 18 it not certain that of all aristocracies that of mere wealth is the most odious, wm.i:l-d nnical 1 It for the Jast dollar tho poor and helpleds havo got ; and,with such a vast machiue as this Goyernment under its control, that dollar will bo fetched. 1t Is an aristocracy that can 8eo in the people only & prey for extortion. It has no political or itary relations with them, such as the old feudal system cre- ated between liegelord and vassal; it has no futimate social and domestic ties, and no such strong bond of self- interest with the people as existed of necessity between the oxtinet slaveholders of our country and thelr slaves. To an aristocracy existing on the annual interest of a na- tional debt, the people aré only of value in proportion to their doeility and power of patiently bleeding golden bi under the lnwlmumr;’ al;umb—oenw. * To thg people, tho natioua) debt is o thing of Debt, to 1o paid ; bt o the aristocracy of bonds and uational se- curlties, 1t is n Pru’orty of more than two Ihowd five hundred willions, from which a reventie of one hundred and eighty millions a H?ll‘ 18 to be received into their kets. So we now find that an arstocracy atthe Effnn. based on three thousand millions of dollars in ne- groes—who were producing class—has disappeared ; find their place in political control of the eountry is as- sumed by an aristocracy based on nearly shree thousand millions of national debt—a thing which'is not producin, anything; but which goes on steadily every year, an mnst go on for all time until the debt is paid, absorbing and taxing at the rate of six or seven per cent. a year for every hundred dollar boud that is represeuted 10 1ts ag- mgunn. - apr b “Now I am not l{n-nh\go! this to do anything bnt deprecate the fearful fssue which the madnéas of parti- san batred and the blindness of our ownnew national debt aristocracy to their own truo interests, is fast forcing nwn(he country, Butis it not clear that the BM‘M who have to pay #180,000,000 & year to this consoj dated , IUSE 800Ner OF Jater commenco ask- ow much was actually loaned to our the civil war by these bondholders, 000,000,000 1" 1 do not moneyed oligarch ing each other—* Government durin, who now claim that we owe them nearly You know what the popular answor must say the right answer : * Less than half the amount they claim; for gold ranged on an average at over 100premium, while this debt was being incurred.) ¢ ¢ * * * ¢ “ And whither is all thfs drifting? To intelligent men, thero can be but ono answer: We are drlfllnmhn'lrfl re- pudiation; and the moneyed aristocracy of the Natjonal debt—tho very men whoke interests are most jeopardized —are 80 blind that they are practically harlll-lnxw acoeler- ate, not check our conrse in this downiward direotion, We need the industry and enormous possible products of the lately revolted States to help usin bearing our heavy burden. We need confidence and calm—wo need internal barmony; and above all, we need a return to the unques- tioned supremacy of the eivil laws and constitutional ro- straints, if our débt 18 not to be repudiated within the nextjLalf-score of ] I'!l.l .lhl 4 ;‘ f . lom; “No party as_yet—and y no party for yurn—l\.rmz nly hoist the mner of Repudiation. But a majonity of those who shaped the legislation of this last Congress must know—unless they deceive themselves, or are too ignorant to appreciate their own acts—that we are drifting in that direction, and that it is by their votes we have been swung out into the downward stream. Doubt- less, some of them would either be, or affect to feel, horri- fied if to-day branded as Repudiationists—just ag in the infancy of the Freesoll agitation, it was considered a bit- ter slander if the ‘ Freesodor’ should be styled an ‘ Aboli. tionist.” Thero are steps in everything, and the term of reproach to-day will be worn as a featber in the cap some onrs from now, unless the true conservative wil of {hn country ean bo awakened—and rapidly—from ita asphyxiating dream that our ‘Natioual Debt is s Na- tional Blessing.’ “And look at the effect of the Reconstruction bill just ansed over my unavailing veto! T mean its peculiar ef- E-n a8 & step in the direction bt Repudiation, and not its general effoct as a high-handed measure of Congressional usurpstion, llrllluil out of existence so many States, and establishing a military despotism over more than one- third of our geographical Union. This bill suddenly adds ction a8 | p%lg;é:, st:‘;%‘t’d; Ent iln::’l%n’ig | ceeds to talk as if this policy were specially | nger four willions of ignorant and penuniless negroes to the voting force of the country—an nccession of just so much strength to the party whoso interest it ls, mast inel 1y . become, to favor Re- 0 Bectro-the publie eredit, our at were possible—to reatrigt, rather than to extend the right of suffrage; for Money rapidly aggregatea in s fow hands; and whenever the men who have an intorest in secing that our national debt is paid hall have become out of all proportion few compared with those who have an int n it repndiation, the "t And the debt of threo K out of existence by bal- lots, just as rapidly and utterly as the similar smount in- vestod i Southern negroes has been abollshed during the recent war under showers of bullets.” —S0 much for what Gen. Halpine—a John- sonized War Democrat—reports as the language of the President ; and, while we can imagine no motive for misrepresentation, we trust the re- port does Mr. Johnson injustice. It certainly Teflects no oredit on his sagacity or Lis moral integrity. There was a time when the Union needed money in vast sums to save it from imminent ruin. To obtain this money, it resorted at once to a Paper Currency and to Borrowing from all who could be induced to lend it. Tts necessi- ties were 8o vast and so urgent, while its for- tunes were 80 precarions and its prospect so | gloomy, that lenders were naturally shy—or, at least, became s0, 08 Billion after Billion was “Leud us your paper dollars,” it continnally said, “and T will pay you princi- | “pal and interest in gold dollars.” The lenders had no voice in fixing the terms; they were the Government's own; and its agents from day to day incited us to urge every one who could raise oven £100 to invest in its loans. Those loans were commended expressly as the best | investment then offering ; the West took all it | would of them, and might have taken more if it had not preferred to use its funds otherwise. It has probably since sold considerably to the East; but it Lolds millions of these bonds still, and is able to hold them. Yet the Presi- dent seems to calenlate that, beeanse the Debt is largely held at the East, the West will con- spire to repudiate it, and for no better reason than that the jEast fraternizes with the West in a policy to which the President is opposed. (Has he forgotten that Asbley and Ben. Loan are both from the West?) We protest fagainst the President’s imputa- tion on the morality and honor of the negroes. Many of them may be ignorant; yet they know that the National Dept is the price of their free- dom. There may possibly be found a low-caste negro here and there whom the Copperheads can seduce into voting for Repudiation ; but no colored person who has any sclf-respect or re- gard for his reputation would associate with or countenance such a scandal to his race. If ever Ropudiation shall be attempted in earnest, the National Debt will bo found to resemblo the farmer's fstone wall five feot thick and four high, so that it was higher after it fell down than before. To repudiate is to destroy the value of all the money in every man's pocket, whether Greenback or National Bank, all the deposits in Savings as well as other Banks, all the receipts of Railroads, &c., &e. There are not five legal voters in each hund- red that would not be impoverished by the bare attempt. The mere suspicion that they might attempt it if fully in power, will consid- crably help to keep the Copperheads in the minority for many years to come. required of them.”/ A FACT FOR MR. OAKEY. A few mornings since, a Staten Island ferry- boat crashed into the Whitehall-st. slip with such force as to break strong chains like twine and 15-inch timbers like dry twigs. Had the criminal accident happened one hour later, there would have been a list of murdered vie- tims, whose surviving friends would not have been satisfied without a more searching inves- tigation into the cause of the slaughter than the Legislative Committee gave to general ferry mismanagement, Upon inquiry into the cause of the disaster, the public was informed that the engineer was asleep, and did not hear the pilot’s bell, and in support of this theory the engineer was discharged. It was natural for the Ferry Company to wish to hush up this reckless disaster, but it has become known, upon investigation by the passengers and patrons of the line, that the fault did not lic with the engineer; that but one bell—the sig- nal to “go slow '—hpd been rung; that the pilot 'I'r‘n'ig;u‘i: flcense youth, ZXEEJI & man- zer of the line; that having rung the one bell to “go slow,” he apparently became confused, and rang no more; that the engineer, shut up in the engine room, could not know whether the boat was in mid-stream or close to the dock, but could and did simply obey the one order from the acting pilot; and that the same pilot has been continued in charge of the wheel-house. The passengers, having learned what they considered the facts in the case, de- manded that the engineer bo restored to his position, threatening otherwiso to set on foot an investigation, sparing nobody, and the cu- gineer has been replaced, in compliance with that demand. The case of this professed pilot shows how de- fective is the law concerning our ferries, and how prone are the ferry companies to take advan- tage of every such defect, at the risk of the public upon which they are dependent for their profit. The Steamboat aet, passed by Congress August 80, 1852, provides that all pilots and engineers of steamboats should bo examined and licensed, but exempted from the require- ments of the act ferry-boats, tug-boats, and canal-boats, The Act of June 8, 1864, amended the former act by extending the requirements in regard to pilots and engineers to l.hou em- ployed upon ferry-boats “ when engaged in “ commerce among the séveral States.” The act therefore applies to the boats plying betweon New-York and Jersey City, but mot to the Staten Island or Brooklyn ferries, their routes lying wholly within the waters of this State, and upon these routes tl!e judgment —or whim of the is the only security oifere% tflfibllc%; gfi- petent pilots. Hence the employment upon the boat in question of a young man having neither the certificate of practical knowledge of his work which a license should give to every person en- tering a pilot-house, nor any cxperience of navi- gation among the tides and currents of the harbor. The passengers upon any of the Staten Island or East River lines have no guaranty against a repetition of the Whitehall-slip catas- trophe so long as unscrupulous managers will grasp at every advantage which a defective law can give them. We commend the instance to Mr. Oakey and to the Legislative Committee of which he is Chairman, That Committee made, some weeks ago, some sort of an inves- tigation into our Ferries, When may we ex- pect to hear their report 1 THE REFOLM DEBATE IN THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. The proceedings of the House of Commons on the Reform Question, on the 25th and 26th of February, will be counted in the history of the Reform agitation as one of the most bril- liant victories of the friends of Reform. It may be doubted whether a passage of the Reform bill proposed by the late Liberal Ministry could have been of equal service to the lasting triumph of the Liberal cause. When in the Opposition, the Conservatives denounced the chief points in the Reform bill of the late Minis- try, the extension of suffrage, and the rednction of the, roften borough system, as leading to the “ Americanization” of English institutions. It is highly amusing now to notice the effort of Mr. Disracli to make the number of persons who would have been enfranchised by the Reform resolutions as large as possible, mueh larger, in fact, than it is according to the calculations of the leading Liberals; and to propose to begin in earnest with the reduetion of the rotten boroughs. No more direct acknowledgment could be made of the strength of Liberal principles than this attempt made by the Tories to court popularity by a claim to Liberalism, But while making eoncessions to public opinion in some respects larger than had becn expected, the Conservatives were unable to conceal from their opponents the still more humiliating fact that their party itself was, with regard to the Reform question, entirely demoralized and disorganized. They no longer muster sufficient courage to defy boldly the demands of the people; and yet they are at the same time entirely unable to agree upon any platform. The Ministry deemed it necessary not to divulge their Reform resolu- | tions to their own party until a few hours be- | fore their introduction into the House, and there was nothing in the behavior of the Conserva- tive members to show that they had any sympathy with them. It is stated on good authority that Earl Derby told his supporters | that if the Ministry should fail on the Reform measare, he would not again assaume the oner- ous duties of the position he now occupies. It is probably not only magnanimity and patriotism on the part of the Liberals, if they omit to turn at once to their advantage, as a party, the most humiliating pesition of the Tories. The longer the latter remain in power, the more conspicuous will become, even in their own eyes, their entire incompetency to settle the Reform question. Already a reunion of the Liberals has been effected. Mr. Lowe has for once agreed with Mr. Bright and promised lis support to a more thorough Re- form measure than the resolutions proposed by the Government. Thus it is certain that sowe step in advance must soon be made. It will, of course, bo far from being a final set- tlement, but it will be an important advance in the right direction. THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN CONFED- ERATION., The English people are proverbial for their ignorance of the affairs of their colonies. It is only on this ground that we can account for the felicitations in which we find the English press indulging upon the legislative consummation of the long talked of scheme for the confederation of the British North American Provinces. Itis truo that in any case a project so flattering to the national vanity would have been certain of evoking no small amount of gratulation; but it is evident from the all but unanimous approbation which is bestowed upon the con- federation plan, that the matter is not properly understood in England. There seems to be a few, however, who do not take quite so favor- able and hopeful a view of the transaction as the great majority, and who evidently have their misgivings as to the successful working of the scheme when brought into practical operation. And these, we incline to think, have reason on their side. For, in the first place, it is & fact which cannot de denied that confederation has been forced upon the people of the provinces. When the scheme was first Dbroached it met with serious opposition both in Canada and the maritime provinces. Newfoundland and Prince Edward's Island positively refusel to have anything to do with, and it was only throngh o strong pressure put upon Nova Scotia and New-Brunswick by the Home Government that these colonies were induced to become partners in the affair. Up to the present time the pro- jeet has not been subwitted to the test of a popular vote; and Lord Carnarvon, in the speech with which he introduced the Confed- eration bill into the House of Lords, referring to the demand from Nova Scotia that the question ghall be submitted to the peo- ple, stated that the effect of remitting it to the hustings for a decision would be “an in- “definite postponement of the whole plan.” Indeed, there is a party in Nova Scotia, of no small consideration in point of numbers, in- fluence, and the ability of its leaders, which openly declares that annexation to the United States is to be preferred to submission to the terms of a compulsory confederation. In this division of sentiment, then, we think there are the elements of serious trouble. And if we look closely at the scheme itself we e ————————— e g shall find that it is 2ot quite so promising ay its advocates would muke it appear. It con. tains within itself the seeds of future dissen. sions and strife. The confederation act pro» vides that each of the confederate provinges » shall have a legislature of its own, and beside these there is to be a supreme legislative body, The former, are to legislate on local affairs, - and the latter is to deal exclusively with gen. eral questions affecting the interests of the | whole Confederation, In the event of a clashing = between the Provincial legislatures and the sa preme parliament, who is todecide betweenthem? “The Dominien will not be an independent na- - tionality, like the United States, and it does not appear, from the act of Confederation, that the = Imperial Parlisment has reserved to itself any - power for such an emergency as we have sap- } posed. Wo shall be curious tg seo how the machinery of government of the new Dominion will work. Again, should the Canadian Par. liament, in the exercige o tet ley o e e bl stk o policy adverse to that of the Imperial Parlige ment, to what court of arbitrament is the matter to be referred, or how is the diffieulty - to be settled? Or should it provoke collision between the Confederation and a foreign power, will England in that ease stand by the Domin- jon? And, once mere, by what means is the popular will to prevail over an obstruetive Senate, should that body set itself in stubborn - opposition to the demands of the peoplet In England the power ia reserved to the Crown of creating peers,in order to obviate a threatening difficulty, as was done in the case of the Reform bill of 1832, But should the Canadian Senate become overbearing and intractable, the Constitution of the new Dominion will furnish no such con- venient remedy, that we can see. This Con- federation strikes us as an anomaly, and some- thing of a blunder; and we shall be surprised if, taking into account the contradictions it in- - volves, the working of the scheme should an- swer the expectations of its promoters and ad- vocates. MUSIC, —— The Philharmonic Society gave on Saturday night, under Carl Bexgmann’s vigorous baton, the fourth grand programme of its twenty-fifth season. Signot Lotti’s part in it was not an unpleasant one —Doni¢ zotti’s romance, ** Deserto in terra,” from Don' Sebas tian, and Mozart's lovely cavatine, *“Il mio, tesorg "~ and it was otherwise iiniteresting, because Lotti hag returned to us after a considerable absence, and is ta leave us very soon. We do not accept his voeal offering with cordiality, simply because Lotti himself" is not cordial ; his execution of florid passages (Mo« ) are Weak aund inapt occasions zart’s, for instan ally ; but he has a ¢l aweet tenor and a good taste Chopin’s Concerto, F minor, Op. 21, and Beethos ven's Ss{m hony No. 2 in D, were the twe finest studies of the ev 5 is_just orchestral shading in bring out in gentlest relief the t one time a murmur 0 tb:tpky ~ the . light and "penho e ‘t’o tain the ufid 3 COR wel ng ol f{ is delicate, fantastic, m‘lzr, as an mno outside of Becthoven; an it Mr. Mills phdud it with sich singular purity of expression is highly to his eredit. Beethoven's Sym. hnquo.“onenc:‘lfiul\.: ulgnnmhzu amiliar wor ere, too, is a ito even more Dbeautiful than _Chopin’s, if comparis son were allowable. It is coneceived in @ large, and ]:IM‘II mood, and is _abundand in the elements of grace and sweetness, Finally, we heard Liszt's Tasso, a lament and a triumph in houog of the un! y bard, as Liszt himself describes ity Compared with Chopin or Becthoven, Liszt's impetus ous genius does not show to the best advautagey yet his Zasso is a remarkable symphonic poem in its way. Wo were ing to call it a porridge—but that it is not, whatever some of Liszt's other compositions may be. Just & bit thea for the habit or the nafure of Liszt’s invention was an appeal to npglnun Tasso is to be liked for its ap. preciation of the orchestra and the story. He dos clares that he borrowed the form of his tone. picture from reality, and chose for its theme a mel ody which_three centuries after the poet’s death he heard the Venetian gondoliers singing, to the first strophes of Tasso’s * Jerusalem.” ** motif,” saye Liszt, * has a slow, plaintive movement, the sensa tion of sighing sorrow, or monotonons mourning; the gondoliers, however, by the drawling of certai notes, give it a peculiar coloring, and the mournf: drawn-out tones heard in the distance, produce an_effect not dissimilar to the reflection of lnn. stripes of fading light upon a pure mirror of water. This is true enough, every word of it; and it is the reflection of this uliar idea on Liszt's that sfi:u it half of its charm. The jingle of bells, intended to conyey an effect of festivity and triumph, comes afterward to spoil the poetry of the lagoon-song. To celebrate Tasso’s spir- itual triumph with bell-ringing—what could be more theatrical ! The concert was altogether such a suc. cess a8 the able instrumentalists of the nig are certain to achieve at any time. Lucrezia Borgia was given for Saturday's matiée at the Academy, instead of La Sonnambula, as announced. Miss Hanck did not appear, owing to her illness, and Mlle. Carmen Poch, & donna_ whom _this public have learned regord with considerable favor, assumed the role of Lucresia. The voice of Mile, Poch is full, and well gauli and her action generally iri capable, me Testa’s Orsin wanting in mellowness—" 11 se_gretto” will ex what that means—but on the whole it was lik applauded. To-night Meyerbeers wide work, The SVin'of the North, will be presented, with Miss Kels lafl n the principal part. La Favorita and Fou make n{ an amplitude of attraction for the rest of the week. —Thereis an abundance of musical news, but it must perforce be gossiped pertly. The best of it locally is that Theodore Thomas will take a deserved benefi from Manager Harrison on Wednesday evening next, Rosa, Mollenhauer, and Kopta helping him with the bow ; that the Oratorio of Samson will be repeated in Brooklyn this evening; that the oratorio of Judat Maceabeus is to be chorused at Steinway Hall on Friday evening next, Mrs. Fanny Raymond Ritter in the cast as mezzo-soprano:_that Miss Kellogg, Mlla Camille Urso, and Mr. G. W. Warren will sing play at the Plymouth Churchfconcert on Tuesday evening, At the fifth and last of the Monday r » 1. ing concerts of Messrs. Boyerini Pease, » 4 Nettie Sterling (one of our best balladists) will ap- pear, ARMY GAZETTE. —— HY TRLRGRAPH TO THK TRINUNK. Major Isaac Lynde of the retired list has been orlerad to report fo () Commanding General of the Department of Bakota for datr The following have had their leaves of shweuce extended: Major John G.. Twrabull, Third Artillers, 7 days; First Lieat, 7 Mitchell, Seventeenth Infantry, leave extended 30 days; Brevet Caj e D. Willias, Fiftioth Cavalry, has 30 days’ leave. NAVY GAZETTE. — BY THLEGRAPE 1O THE TRIDUNK. Susgeon Charles Evensteld has been detached from duty ot the Nuvy- Yard st New-York, and placed on wai Midehipman W. R, Cest and J. C.. iug of the Naval Acadewy wsm Tesi; e o George Pockis ondered toduty at the Now-York Nery-Yesh on April | A riu Volunteer Lient, Alfred Wavon bas been honorabl Actiog Osear W. Farenbo't has heen detachel ‘W An and ordered to the Oblo. Thind Assistant 02 n Badd detached from tho Baranae and ordered bome. Acting Eaeg® Job Loemis from e Newhorn snd ordered to o X o puien have : Weare, A. A, Crane, J. aet, 3. B Pratt, 1. & Jaraages, Horn, ‘aud J. W, Perkiss. Mate J. W. Plauder P, LAND OFFICE REPORTS, BY TELEGRAPE TO THE TRINUNE. The Commissioner of tho General Land Offics has = celved returns exhibiting an aggregate disposal of 19,892 acres of the publie lands during the wonth of February last, at the following locsl offices, vis: Nebraska City, Nebraske, 8,724 acres; St M-n.ll: 4018 Kas., A of the e sl Vot iy tion, and the s0ld for aod located with Agricultaral Cok lege aerip aad milary warrsat, 'Fhe cosh Sle amousted to $3, C has transmitted to_the local office at Sa3 Cal., I addition to those slready i cures of known as Hancho Bolso de Tomales. sporoved Juse, 11, 1964, makiag in the 180 Tous Puicat N 8, ombrses 1l were of o o lands o 1he laie owa o. 1, » Bt g o 1 Blte wnda gran of ept. 9, 1650 SAINT PATRICK'S DAY.—An adjourned meeting ot delegates from the various Irish sociotioa—religious, civie, and temperance—of Booklyu, was held at No, 166 Fulton-st., yesterday afternoon, and arrangements com- sletpd for the celebration of 8t. Patrick’s Day. The Presk ont, Hugh Gallagher, occupled the chair, ‘consider- Wblo busitiess was transacted, mostly, however, of an ti interesting character. Tt was state that the would be roviowed h{ Bishop Loughliv, and by and Common Council. Tho line of warch o “4a sion has already beou published. M, fH