The New-York Tribune Newspaper, March 12, 1867, Page 4

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Of: Sces, No. 215 Fultonst., New-York, and No. 205 High Holborn, Loudon, ®ogland. Be sure and call for M Wistow's BooTaiNG Synor,” Having the fac simile of “ Curwrs & PEREINs" on the outside wrapper. All others ars base imitations. Particular atteation is requested to our extensive variety of patterns of 101 aifver Fouxs, Spooxs sad Kxives, at prices which will repay an A Unt SAL cuiaL Toours” for Cougbs, Colds, and Bronchial Afections, now stand the Brat in pablic favor and confidence; this resalt has been ac- quired by & test of many reara Ita merits and extensive use bave esused Moo Troches to be couterfelted, and we woull caution parchasers to be o0 their guard aghinst worthleas imitations. Tue Evrexa Brmick MACHINE makes 3,000 eplendid Brick per hour, with only nins men and one pair Borws, or 4,320 per howr by steam . * Has wo complex machinery eitng out of arder or breaking down, Its grest mplicty and warseloas power command the spproralofevery expert, We chalienge the world to produce its equal. Satiyjaction gnaranteed 1o all purchasers. Amitax REQUa, General Agent, No. 141 Brosdwar, N. Y. Tae FRANKLIN Brick MACHINE, Justly celebrated for perfeet simplicity, grest strength, and immense compressing POwET, 18 GUARANTEED, with --rm men and two borses, 10 s euper the clag and make 300 3,50 clegant bricks per bour No. 71 B N. Y., Room 2. 3. H. RRNICK, Proprietor N 3 y the best Brick-MAKERS, ATT YarLkw's now Iox-cLAD BRicK Macmix®. Mlakes two kinds of brick « n quantity and s saved each year. backs or on shelving as soon as drawn e can be worked iu foul weather as well as fair. ret premium st the New-York State Fair, dress J. A LAFLER, iuventor and man- ode of operating on_exhibition st Mer- ew-York Citr, by J. A. LAPLER, Laveutor bis macbive Conrricr, Vol 1L, is now 2 Brookiyn, by Jown st. A line to that Tur AMERI being deliversd to all subscribers in this cit ‘Tuomrsox, Agent, who has N addreas will receive pro ea) mar obtain it by g or writing as aforesaid. Office hours, ‘clock daily. Ageuts desiring to canvass in New York or Brooklys whove. T will oy ‘TrussEs, ELASTIC STOCKINGS, BUSPENSORY Bawoaas, Sverontens, &o—Mawsn k Co's Radioal Cure Truss . ll\f:—yl\. 71441 ! et Cartes Vignette, £3 per dozen; Duplicates, $2. Al egats v, b A'L-u,rn__ycng.&&n Y ¢ s PATENT Lismps, Best!” iress Dr. ?Aulimfln nl\lfli FLORENCE Reversivle Feed Lockstitch SEwing-MacHINEs. Best fasily wackive in the world. Fonrscn 8 M. Co,, No, 505 Bro ON's LOCK-STITCH SEW- x Macni B AKER'S H B diguest PrEMIUM SEW- ction permanent] The worst cases succemsfully ce., No, 39 Bast Fourth en Bowery and Broadway. ineane. from the Bowery, pecial atteution gives CHEMICAL Halr, keepa it glossy and fro dresstag weed. Sold by Rs AT EVERDEL] way, Kew York, the elegant Crystal Wed Kavalegas, French Note Paper, S, ¥ Restores G oves Dandroff; Carp Deror, No. 802 Broad- x sud Visking Cerds s3d ruins, Stamping ia- Colors, RTAINS FROM AUCTION cost. G.L&LE Fer Broaiway. »oro's HaArk Dy . Wholeasle aod retail; » e or ut No. 6 Astor House, UR ent, 1.1 Broadway, New-York, t .v..-mfleu, doc- ipt of ten cente. Broadway, New-York. 'omfort and cure for the RUPTURED. 0 paid, on receipt of ten cents. ress Dr. E. B. Foorr, Bent, postage pald, on D 1 Poore, N 1 Addres o ks A D EDWARD RUGGL . D Dr. Rogeles died snddenly unday morning, at his house in Brooklyn, aged nearly 50 years. After going through the nsual course of medical studies in this country, Dr. Ruggles finished his preparation for his ion in Paris, by visiting the hospitals and at ing leetures. Ou his return home he boe gam practice il.) Brooklyn, and became well known to that commmuity as a skillfal physician. He was, however, better known as the paintér of the “Rug- gles’ Gems,” the name given by the agent who sold them to certain small pictures which pleased a tion of the public, and the sale of which said to have been considerable. It would be idle to waste eriticism on these productions. Originally the em- ployment of the leisure hours snatched from a toil- some and exhaunsting profession, thwrv served to wnuse Dr. Ruggles and his friends, and it was only the ill-judged nmportunities of these friends that fi- nally induced him to abandon that profession and turn this amusement into a serions occupation. The pub- Jie gained nothing by this change, and we regret Dr. Ruggles death, not hecause we have lost an . artist, but beeanse an excellent man and a worthy citizen has gone to his rest. ROBELT E. LEE AND GAME CHICKENS. il Some of Gen. Lee's admiring friends have thought the best evidence of their regard and attachment for their late Rebel leader would be to present him with a Pair of game-cocks, Arrived at this conclusion, they wrote liim s letter, complimenting him on his fighting Guaditics, and intiuiating thnt the hirds and he were sotac: hing of & Teather. The distinguished “ General” and Golloe President recelved It o the proper apirit, sud, o I the me I Bpurs, replied in the xummw’fl::.'zu'n“wm whis ok i " “ LEXINGTON, Va., Jan. 25, 4867. “ My DEAR €0 T wm mach obliged to you for the sou- timent of esteem expressed in your lettor of the 15th nst. ad am very grateful to the former membors of the Arny of Northiern Virgiuln for their kind remembrance. 1 neod not asswre you the memory of all who ba- )o‘l‘lx ed mdn..rz mni is ;I-l. slied by me, and that their ‘weltare and prosperity will alwa (! el ppinoss “’ Wabe 10 me a source of T ahould be glad to receive a pair of yor ” o offos 10 tond me, and would value thom '.".".",,,:’,’;“'J} your friendship, but do not think they eould be tians- e with safety during this inclemont weather & - “ With sincere wishies for your kuppiness, L am, very re- spectiully, L SNOW BTORM IN THE WEST. Y TRLKGRAPH 10 TIE TRIBONE. MuwAUKker, March 10.~A snow-storm prevailed through Western Wisconsin and Minnesota last uight, .fi“wmmm,m“u’. Fhii da e auow kere L olpied pb g wgelivg of (e Libarol Rl et real gstate wlone within five miles of il.uf It carrects acidity of e stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, softeas the gums, LasT . NewTork, & Boston. 8, 52 ik, NewDork Daily Cribune. TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1867 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. Damy Trist 1il Subscribers, $10 por annum. SEME-WEERLY Trisu Mail Sub: hers, $4 per an. WekkLy Trinene, Mail Subscribers, $2 per annum. Advortising Ratos. DaiLy TRIBUNE, 20 cents per line. WEEKLY TBIBUNE, 25 cents per line. ckLY TRIBUNE, $1 50 per line. Terms, cash in advance. Address, Tre TRIBU New-York. Advertisements for *his we WrkKLY TrisUNE 1 st be Bamiind in To-Day. 's issuo of Tuw 7 A Letter from Boston, from onr Special respondent ;_an article on Our Quarts Min- ing; a Notice of Mr. Rothermel's © Republican “Court in the Time of Lincoln ;" a Communica- tion concerning the Pension (;/fire; Civil Court Reports ; the Money Article,and Markets will be Jound on the second page, and Literary dlems on the sixth page. (& Henry Barnard of Connecticut has been nom- inated by the President for Commissioner of Education. This is an excellent choice. Mr. Barnard has been long and honorably conspic- uous as an apostle of popular education, and we hope to chronicle his confirmation by a unanimous vote. Mr. Kelley thinks the National debt ought not to be paid by this generation, but by the nest—not by those who contracted it, but by their posterity. His effort to get the approval of the House to a proposition which was not much better than a qualified repudiation failed —33 to 63. We hope we may aoccept this as a hint that this House is a trifle less disposed than the last toward “wild cat"” legislation on finances. Our Special Correspondent in Crete confirms the news that the Turks had virtually aban- doned the larger portion of the island, and that they were not expected to be able to renew the war. The result of the latest engagements has been favorable to the Christians. In the mean time, a new Ministry has been appointed in Constantinople, which is favorable to thorough reform. A cable dispatch, dated the day before yesterday, states that Cretan delegates had ar- rived in Constantinople. Mr. Sumner wants further guarantees for Reconstruction, of which the essentials are the absolute surrender of the existing illegal gov- ernments South ; the establishment of public schools for the good of all ; and the securing of Lomesteads to the freedmen—one to every head of a family. Mr. Sumner argued that it was no burden to require education, or to give home- steads. On motion of Mr. Frelinghuysen of New-Jersey, the resolution was laid on the table by Yeas, 36; Nays, 10. Four hundred and seventy-five thousand dol- lars is a large tax on the city for pipe-laying, and for water meters. Thisis the amount as it stands in the city tax levy, and we commend the sensible objectious to its striking excess made in the Board of Councilmen yesterday by Mr. Roberts. We agree with him that the amount might be far better expended in increasing the water supply than in providing meters to pre- vent its flow. Our supply of water is notori- ously scarce, and the Croton Board should give us another main, not to be tapped above Caual- st. But this is a matter for the Croton Board. To the Council, “ hands off” 13 all we have to say—if that will do any good Pt — Resolutions in favor of recognizing the Trish as belligerenta were offered in the House yes- terday by Mr. Donnelly of Minnesota. They assert that as the British Government were over hasty in recognizing our own Rebels, and are still disinclined to pay us any indemuity for Anglo-Rebel outrages, the United has no reason to be slow in recognizi belligerent claims of the Irish. The resolutions aver that the Irish people are enlisted in an effort to establish a Republic on the basis of universal suffrage and the separation of Church and State. Mr. Stevens objecting, aud the Hounse refusing to suspend its rules, the reso- lutions went ov As the communication 1 con the Citics of Mexico and Vera Cruz was still, according to the latest accounts, interrupted by the Liberal troops, our news from the interior of Mexico is very meager. The Imperialist papers claimod extraordinary victories by Miramon, Marquez, and Mejia, but the adberents of the Empiro did not appear to put much faith in the re- ports, and were leaving the country by the hundred. We are still without news as to the further intentions of Maximilian. The latest advices from Matamoros state that Maximilian was at Queretaro at the head of 10,000 men, and that a great battle was supposed to be imminent. The supplementary Reconstruction bilt offered by Mr. Wilson of Iowa has passed the House by a strict party vote of 117 Yeas to 27 Nays. It provides for the registration of voters pre- cedent to the election of reconstruction con- ventions in the South, The registration will take place under military direction, and in- clude only those who can take a specific oath of loyalty and ave qualified by the act of March 2. Within thirty days after registration, tho com- manding general may order an election for delegates to form State Constitutions, which being adopted by a majority of the registered voters, the State may be admitted to Congress. M!_'.led opposed the bill, because it gave the initiative power to the military. As it stands, lho. measure is infended simply to supply the omissions of the Reconstruction act, and fixes the most important details of reorganization. z Is .(ht:’c ever tu. be an end of the “Equali- zation” of bounties? Mr. Williama of Indiana introduced in the House yesterday one bounty bill ; Mr. Schenck of Olio another; Mr. Perham of Maine added a third, and there were two more bills to take money out of the Treasury and put it into the pockets of the soldiers, Mr. Schenck said last session that he thought the bill he was then engineering would do to begin with. It was estimated to take about £400,000,000 out of the Treasury. Mr. Banks said Le did not care whether it took $400,000,000 or £800,000,000—he was for opening the deors and telling the soldiers to help themselves. The nataral frnit of this wild talk is the present crop of additional bills. We suppose the en- thusiasm of these gentlemen will stop some- where, but we fear not till they see the bot- tom of Uncle Sam’s strong box P The Adullamites having come back, for the present, to the Liberal party, there is probably in the House of Commons a decided majority against the Ministry. Lord Grosvenor, the leader of this small baud of Adullamites, de- o a2 o Lo ae § NEW-YORK DALY THIBUNE, TUTSDAY, MARCIH 12, Mr. Gladstone's Tesidence, that he considered the Government bill, a3 foreshadowed by the Chancellor of Exchequer, still more un- factory than the one which last year sed his secession from the Liberal party. Conservative papers, like The Herald, acknowl- edge the necessity of a compromise. Glad- stone, who is now the recognized leader of the party, and Earl Russell, expressed themselves lhopefully as regards the Reform bill to be brought in, but Johu Bright declared his total want of confidence in the Tories. ————— The Speaker of the Ifouse is in difficulty about the mileage due to members. There is a law directing that mileage shall be paid at the beginning of each regular session, and the present is a regular scssion. But the law Dby which this scssion was called ex- pressly provided {hat no mileage should be paid to members of this Congress who were also members of tho last—that is, no con- atructive mileage. We cannot imagine what difficulty can bo found in ebeying the latter provision. Tt is, 8o far as it goes, a repeal of the former law, and is a most just cffort to put an end to a certain part of the stealing which has long gone under the name of mile- age. Wo hope to sce it obeyed, and not evaded. B REPUDIATION IN PRACTICE. We happen to be the owner of a 85 Govern- ment note—in other words, a Greenback. On the faco thereof 18 the direct promise to pay, and on the back is the following : “UNITED ATATHA OPRAMERICA.—This note fs a Legal Tendor for all debts, public and private, exo?»t Dutles on lwru and Interdst on the Pablic Debt, and is exchange- able for U. 8 _Six per cent. Twenty Years' Bonds, redeem- able’at tho pleasure of the Unitod States after five years.” —Turning to the latest quotations of the stock market, we find that U. 8. Five-Twenties aro five to seven per cent. premium—that is, he who has Greenbacks, and wishes to ex- change them for Five-Twenty Bonds, must give One Hundred and Five to One Hundred and Seven Dollars in Greenbacks for every $100 of the Five-Twentics. How is this? Does the Government refuse to fulfill the stipulation printed on the back of itanotes? A private debtor who should refuse to give his note, payable five to twenty years hence as should suit his convenience, for a debt already due, would be considered rather slow ; but, if he had expressly stipulated on its face 80 to liquidate his debt, and should nevertheless refuse to do it, would he not be esteemed a barefaced swindler? If the Treasury will simply redeem or fund ita notes as it has expressly stipulated to do, we can make short work with the gold-gam- Dblers and gpeculators in dear food. We guaran- teo an effectunl check to inflation henceforth if the Treasury will simply fulfill its own voluntary stipulation aforesaid. The green- backs being clearly a forced loan, it is the more incumbent on their issuers to fulfill to the letter their engagements. Wao call the attention of Congress, and of the Seeretary of the Treasury, to this appa- rently repudiated promise. If the Secretary is not now expressly empowered to fulfill it, it is his plain duty to ask Congress for the needed authority, and it is the imperative duty of Congress to give it. Mr. John Sherman, we believe, is now Chairman of the Senate's Fi- nance Committee. If he does not see fit to act, we call on Mr. Fessenden—whom the pub- lic confides in as instinctively hostile to lying by the ream—to institute the needed legisla- tion. HOLD UP! Tho signs of the times indicate a pretty liberal assortment of questionable Railroad legislation at Albany this session. We have had so much to say on this head in past years that we are half inclined to say little or nothing now, but stand by and look on. We cannot offer the members 8o much ¢ash in hand for voting right as they can casily get for voting wrong, and other arguments would seem of little avail. Judging by the fate of the Board of Public Works, we conclude that the lobby has the Legislature by the nose, and will lead it whithersoever it wills, defying all exposure or remonstrance, Yet, before we turn away in despair, we would utter a few words of admo- nition with regard to one measure that is like a good many others—the bill “to facilitate the “ coustyuction of the New-York and Albany 4 Railroad.” We have already two railroads lhenee to Albany tluough that narrow strip of our State which lies east of the Hudson River, while much the lawger portion of the travel comes from the west slde of that stream, It is, therefore, wi and proper to constrnet a raifrond along t west bank, and we have a strong personal i terest in its early completion. Such a could not fail to add considerably to the circu- lation and sale of Tue TriseNe, and we hope to chronicle its completion at an catly day. But the road is one thing and the bill before us quite another. A road along the west hank of the Hudson, traversing or skirting the important villages of Haverstraw, West Point, Newburgh, Saugertics, Kingston, Rondout, Catskill, Coxsackie, &ec., &e., and intercepting the travel of a rich and wide back country, ought to pay fair dividends, if economically built with cash in hand. Ten millions of dollars ought to const and stock it; and, if thus built, hardly fail to pay ten per cent theroon. And there s ample 0 in the region it will traverse to construct it without incurring a dollar of debt. The bril- liant success of the Hudson River Railroad— whose stock went begging, and which was built with the money of men who hardly ex- pected it to pay a dividend—ought to fill up the books in a weck. Newburgh, Saugerties, Kingston and Catskill, ought to build it, if they were obliged to furnish every dollar. But, instead of proposing to build it as the two roads on this side of the river have been built, the projectors of the New-York and Albany Road brand their baytling a pauper in the eradle and send it begging in its swaddling clothes. They have concocted an elab- orate scheme for bonding towns and vil- lages by a popular vote, under the aus- pices of three commissioners, charging #3 each por day, chosen in each, and author- ized to subscribe for stock and issue honds in b(:lml! of their township or village. There is machinery enough in the bill for the govern- ment ulllndin; the road, with all its appurte- nances, is to be exempt from taxation (il in running order; and the City of New-York is authorized to lend its eredit to the enterprise to the extent of £1,000,000, as Albany likewise may to the extent of 500,000, Even at the risk of insnuring its suceess, we must protest against this most ohjectionable scheme. There can be no need of it, as theres i# no reason in it. This road is not to run across the desert of Sabara, nor the desolate Plains of North Ameriea, but through a rich and flonr- ct, equip, could it ishing country, thickly inhabited by a thrifty, | fore-handed people. The enhaneed value of 7 line wonld amply pay for its constrnction; and it ought to pay fair dividends the year after its opening. Our City has been dragged into every swindling job known to corrupt municipali- ties except that of subseribing to or investing in railroads; and we insist on maintaining this exception. Let those who want a road up the west side of the Hudson obtain it as those who wanted one on the cast side did—by putting their hands into theiv own pockets empty and taking them out full of the needful. Wo know that is an antiquated fashion, which scems excecdingly slow to this age of fast financiers; but we doubt the success of any other.” You may log-roll your bill throngh the Legislature ; but, having thus advertised your road as a pauper, you will find bonding the towns a difficult operation. Better take the good old way first, and give it a fair, honest trial. DONA FERENTI There are various ways of soothing a disap- pointed General, as well as of complimenting a successful one. Sometimes the recipient of sym- pathy gets also a Dig cheese; sometimes a louse; now a saddle, and then a suit of clothes from an advertising tailor. Whether those kindly persons who bave recently presented to Gen. Leo a pair of game-cocks, roosters of no ignoble lineage and dunghills of an elevated breed, exhibited a delicacy equal to their per- sonal devotion, may well be questioned. Why should a retired Brave who has had losses, and who is at present engaged in the praiseworthy occupation of teaching young gentlemen their mathematics, have disagreeable memorics aroused by the gift of a brace of fighting fowls, and be reminded of the doleful day when Le himself was forced by fate to knock under? Of what particular value to the General these plumy little warriors will be, untess he kills, roasts, and eats them, we are at a loss to determine. It will be inconsistent with aca- demic decorum to mateh them in the college yard. Placed, however, in a convenient posi- tion, they may prove valuable allies of the college bell in calling the boys to m{n‘n'mx prayers, and may be regularly sworn at by the sluggards. ~ Gen. Lee's letter accepting the poultry is be- fore us, and we would anote from it if there were anything to quote. Ie is simply grate- ful, and merely “yours respectfully.” He in- dulges in no ferocious allusions to the Yankees, and in no rhetorical howls over the corpse of the Confederacy. This may be in good taste, but really we do not think it is what the donors had a reasonable right to anticipate. We fear that it is of bad example to Major- Generals in general, and to our own officers in particular. Of what use is it to throw away kegs of butter and barrels of apples, hats, and boots, and other magnificent specimens of merchandjee and manufactare, npon ' military man who is so extremely afraid of dwmnaging his chances of the Presidency, be the same mote or less, that he naver permits himself to go beyond the polite vagueness of “ much “obliged 1" When, we should like to know, is & man to express his ‘opinions, provided he lins any, if it be not when his heart is expand- ing with gratitude, ot his stomach is full of cleemosynary dainties 3 That must be a very inflexible caution which generosity eannot coax out of its reserve. We think that a General who expects to be President is under a sort of moral oblization to have vicws; mnor is it any great stretch of suspicion $o distrust the sincerity of opinions which are never aired. It may be very comfortable for a time to be upon both sides or no side, on this side to-day and the other side to-morrow; but the safest and most truly American way, before eonfiding a at least twelye others who had been in like manner killed or injured. Another patrolman, within eight years past, had taken out six per- sons similarly injared or killed. These facts are enough to show the criminality of the rail- road corporation which allows the approaches to its tracks to remain in such a condition. The evil requires prompt and decisive rem- edy, every month’s delay inereasing the dan- gers to life and limb, a8 the pupulntion of that portion of the city increases in density. REPORT ON THE FERRILS. ¥ Mr. Oakey’s Committee have made their report on the Ferries. We print in another column a summary of its conclusions and recommendations. To those who watched the method of the investigation, it will be no sur- prise to find the Union Ferry Company plenti- fully whitewashed. The just complaints of the public are for the most part disregarded, and the Committee lacked cither the intelli- gence or the zeal to make a thorough investi- gation for themselves. It is doubtful whether the Committee succceded in freeing them- selves from the influences which the as- tute connsel and the amiable and industrious Directors of the Union Company suceeeded in throwing about them at an early period of their visit to this city. The result is a report which the people of Brooklyn know to be absurd, and which every day’s experience of thousands of people proves to be false in many particu- lars. Yet Mr. Oakey and his colleagues cannot avoid a condemnation of their favorite Company, so strong on one or two points as to neutralize all the good words they speak for its general management. They admit that the boats are greatly deficient in life-saving ap- paratus ; that their reliance upon other boats for help would, in case of a fog, prove utterly inadequate ; that the withdrawal of boats, without notice to the public, is o practice that must not be repeated ; that nothing was done last Winter to elear the river of ice, and that in case of fire the boats have no meansof saving their passengers from destruc- tion. The other ferries are pretty nnsparingly condemned—not having had the ad- vantage of representatives 80 assiduous in their attendance upon the sessions as those of the Union Company. The Commit- tee submit a bill placing the whole manage- ment of the Ferries under control of the Metro- politan Board of Police, with power to appoint a Ferry Superintendent. Let ns be thankful for 8o much. If not the best plan, we may be sure its adoption would compel the epmpanies to abolish many a nuisance now existing. ] LABOR IN EUROPE AND IN AMERICA. The Sun, under the head of * Wages and Poverty Abroad,” quotes a statement of the wretched, starvation recompense of the weav- ers of Velvets, &e., in Spitalfields, England, and, very propetly, adds: “The rate of wages pald to skilled laborers in some parts of Europe is very .....I'n‘m with that which the same work commands in this country. Recent letters from m state that all the fron works there are being worked to their utmost capacity, heavy orders from Eu 1and for locomotives and other machinery having lately woen received. (ood workmen are paid about §1 50 for a day’s work of 13§ hours. Other workmen, as weavers and wpinners, in the same reglon, receive about §9 a week, the hours of labor being the same, and no stoppage allowed for breakfast or ten. A letter from England gives some account of the distress among the or.»nnru at Spital- fields, where the nfacture of silk is largely ¢ on. Skiliful workmen elvets and costly silks are glad to get employment, working 12 to 16 hours a day, at # a woek, while souic do tnv.ul\'e w.mk for#2or sl a week. “The wretched, half-starved children of these pvnrlo are made to earn & few pennies by what are called * chil dren’s trades.’ One of these is the manufacture of match-boxes, at which little laborers from three years old and upward toil all day for the sum of three or four cents. The mortality ame these miserable children is, of very great. any families are uuable to sustain life by their united 'ul"L.hllld are thrown upon such public charity as the s able to afford. The ex- penses of these operatives are much less than would be hecessary to support the same class here ; but, notwith- standing this, the general domestic and social coudition eat public trust to any man, 15 to serew his no % out of hian, or to make sure that there are no notions to serew. If he does not yield to the persuasive influence of presents, and is not to be ted into explicit corre ndence and categorical lucidity by our donations, it is a very hard case for voters at least who desire to vote intelligently, and who are willing, ina certain sense, to pay handsomely for enlightenment. We thiuk if any more presents are to be made to any of these brave commanders who may be supposed to be laying slow and silent siege to the White House, that the accompany- ing notes might be so framed as to extract popular and nseful information, som sthing per- haps after this fashion : ** Dear era!, aceept and what do you think of the Wool "™ or, “Here is a little purse of green- ks which your friends have made up for “you, and please give ns your views of the “resumption of spe ments;" or, “ Accept “this barrel of apples, and let us know, if you “will be 80 good, whether you think the ser- “pent that tempted Eve, the venerable old m!u-, is not still alive and wriggling in various parts of this country.” This may not be a very delicate way of getting at military views of civil matters; but as the country has more than once been miserably and expensively imposed upon, it is safe to aver that delicacy is ont of place. 1t may mnot be quite agreeable for an old soldier to be forced to say something when he las nothing to say; but it must be remembered that if a man is to be President, he must ulti- mately speak and he must finally do, and that a little private embarrassment now is far better than a national botheration hereafter. We trust that wo fine old soldier wants the great office, who is conscious of his unfitness for it; and he may rest assured that he is altogether unfit for it, if he be without decided opinions upon the leading questions which are dividing the land. A man may be very grateful, and highly gratified, and extremely pleased, and much obliged, and *“yours, gentlemen, most “respectfully,” withont being exactly a safe political person; and if we are to have military personages mixing in politics, what harm is there in subjecting them to a mild examina- tion ¥ The condition of the Harlem Railroad cut upon Fourth-ave,, between Seventy-ninth and Ninty-seventh-sts,, and the daty of the railroad company in the p! ises, will be argued before the Railrond Committee of the Senate to-day, and will be considered by the Senate Commit- tee upon Municipal Affairs to-morrow. We have already explained the very dangerous and disgraceful condition of that portion of the Harlem Railrond—or rather of that portion of what should be a wide and handsome avenue, but which, by the culpable negligence of the rail- road ¢orporation, is made a continuous pit-fall. For a great part of the distance between the points above-named there is no protecting wall at the edges of the cut, the depth of which varies from 10 to 50 feet. At a late meet- iug of the property-holders to take action upon the condition of the cut, one patrol- man of the Metropolitan Police force mado affidavit that he lhad, within the nine years last post, assisted in convey to the n-Touse the bodies of from ecight to twelve persons who had been injured by fall- ing in the eut, all of whom were killed, or neatly 8o, from the full, and that he knew of of laborers of both sexes 18 wuckh worse in Earope than ln this country.” —The Sun habitually lends itself to those who hold it right and proper that American Manu- facturing Labor should compete unprotected with this half-paid, pauperized labor of Europe- ould spin and weave, fashion and fabri®ate on such terms as it could command in the absence of Protective duties. In other words, 7The Sun says to this Labor, “You must work as cheap as they do in Eu- “rope, or surrender nearly every branch of “ manufacture to the half-starved labor of that “gontinent.,” This is urged on the plea of chieapness, and in the interest of the so-cal led consumers ; as if we were not all consumers and nearly all producers, whese mutual inter- est it is to “live and let live.” We believe it the true interest of our whole ry part of it, to make here our own Iron and Steel (for instance) out of American Ore, fused by American Coal. But the skilled workmen who labor 13} hours per day in Belgium for #1150, here demand $3 to &7 for a day's work, and very properly refuse to wok so many as 133 hours. And as Iron and Steel are brought over virtually as ballast to light fabrics—consequently, at very low rates— it is manifestly impracticable to make them here so cheaply—that is, for so few dollars per tun—as in Belgium or Great Britain. Certain fabrics, produced mainly by costly and com- plicated machinery, can be made here about as cheaply as elsewhere, though by means of Dbetter paid labor; but Iron and Steel are mainly produced by manual effort, all the way up from the ore-bed to the coal-mine, and therefore must cost more here than where labor is far cheaper. In other words—assuming that the total cost of a tun of Bar Iron is twenty-five days' work, and that this work costs &30 in Belgium and $75 in Pittsburgh—awe cannot produce it so cheap here as it is produced in Europe. Is it therefore best to buy our Iron in Eu- rope ! We think not, for these reasons : 1. We believe it the true interest of mankind that Labor should be fairly paid rather than half or quarter paid, 2. We belicve it best for mankind that Labor and Skill should be attracted from Europe to this country, where they will be more justly recompensed and their children be better edu- cated and inherit better prospects and greater advantages, 3. We believe that our Iron, though com- manding a higher money price, will really cost our people less, if made here from American Ore, smelted by American Coal, than if it were made for us in Europe. For the produeers hore will consume American fruits, vegetables, fuel, &ec., &ec., which would have no conve- nient market while our furnaces and work- shops remained in Europe. Tue Tris- UNE, for example, has paid more than £100,000 for American Iron, mainly manufactured into presscg, building-plates, &c.; and we can better afford to pay #80 per tun for this Iron if made in this country, by workmen who buy and read maiuly American newspapers, than to obtaln it for #60 from Europe, where the iron-makers buy nothing of us, and (in fact) are gonorally too poor to buy newspapers at all. Wo are quito awaro that these views are stig- matizod as narrow, antiquated, selfish, rapacions, malevolent, suicidal, &e, by the Free Trade organs, and we who urge them are held np ta odium as championg of monopoly and extortion, We trust a time is at hand when we can take distinct issue with those who do thus rail at and denonnee us, and have the matter fairly tried before and decided by the American people, ‘Whenever that time shall come, we confidently anticipate that our adversaries—7he Sun con- spicuous among them—will dodge the great issue of Protection vs, Free Trade, and seek to gain a verdict by pettifogging details and juggling side-shows. They will try to make out that the act or bill in question gives too much here or too little there, and thus ea the jury on a side issue, as in Silas Wright's Watertown speech in 1844, 'Will the people taka ——— nofice ? A correspondent expresses the hope “to ses “the day wien, in England, a Lord, or the sou, “or heir of a Lord, is declared ineligible to a, “geat in the Honse-of Commons,” for, he says, “they are all represented in the Upper House, “and should mo more be admitted into the “Lower one than are Commoners into theirs® The exclusion of a Lord, or a son of a Lord, from the House of Commons would be con- trary tb the general usage of European Mon- archies. A House of Commons which should exclude the Lords or any other class of citi- zens would cease to be a body representing the whole people. The Radical party in Eu as far gs we know, has never ady cated auch o scheme, but rather at the total abolition of the House of Lo . | ————————— MUSIC. Pl Monday afternoon’s concert at Steinway's wan favored by pleasant weather, and crowds astended it, We remember only a few salient features of the pro. | gramme—the first, a mere dash of piano-spray ovet Godfrey’s * Mabel Waltz” b( Messrs. Mills and Pease. Then came Miss Sterfing’s contralto, wil Mr. Pease’s * Il Sospiro’—the flowing melancholy this excellent composition well snited to the calm, rich voice—the voice, one of tho best we know in I desirable whorgver the qualities of reposo and 08 _are to be ex in song. Severini ozart’s * Dalla sua pace,” the Elisirair, ** Una fur. tiva” (one of Donizetty’s very best) eleverly as usualy gave us a Norwegian soug i i Al tasts, and coms cluded by singing Beethoven's Addaide poorly. Itie the mm{ bund! , diffienlt of b\‘e-mn?, and to sing it and miss its rapture is easy enough for artisty or lovers who are not geniuses. C in 8 generati rhaps, some one may walk the stage nn: y its mannerisms—an evangeltst ot troubadours~ and sing Adelaide a8 the unhappy Staudigl sang the IWanderer—that is 1o say, 80 as to move to tears. Sig Severini had an @xcellent programume. Mr. Maretzek has thus far produced three favorit operas, none of which boast absolute novelty, but all of which bave presented a fi wh and excellent vocal strongth. The Barber and Fra Diarolo havy introduced Ronconi in some of bi m%mll'm im- rsonations ; Lucresia has presen‘ad.Mlle. Carmen och in a part well snited to her Mt{‘; and last night, the Star of the North, ory of Moyerbeery masterpiocs, e e cxmate vocaltan di ,gave us Miss 2R g rl'alf:n‘ua and Miss Hauck as the pretty warl Prascovia. Bellini's Gritenko and Autontcel’s s been many times as charaoterizations mflm mhot{sl and milil it of lhmu.", itsolf is sometimes and always unique. A :::l‘w strongly characterized work than this ?fl soma! Meyerbeer did not writa. To-night we Douizetti's La Farorita, w th MUe. Poch, . , and Antonucei in the cast. THE DRAMZ 2 i b Attracted by the announcemenof a * new local drama,” a large audience was assembled, yostorday afternoon, at Barnum's Museam, ‘when the new local drama was duly revealed. It is called *Our Toow ment Houses,” and it has been covstructed after the fashion of those remarkable buldings: that isil consists of bad materals hastily md carelessly pt together. It opens with a ** chorus’” of passengem= from California, or from Liverpool—just landed & one of the piers on the North lih’ur. It then p® sents, in almost wholly accidental :)\1 uence, numé ous incidents, which are supposed t illustrati® Much occurs, but aothing occurs ratiow of city life. ally. ylndiridunlu who, at first, aswume great o= inence, are snddenly obsesved to disappea aM are heard of no more forevow. One | utle man is slain at the ond of the finsf act. Another vanishes in a wirtuous mil an conscience, and it is afterward darkly int at that he becomes & permanent ;esident o owg - Branch. A very dirty young man who offic: assassin in act first, attracts atte gion lor& » but he i3 s ily eclipsed by a yourss philarthuvn s with a high forchead and a dark lartern. Fvents ' l!n-u: upv_n:’uch alhelj':dbgeli No ‘ldtlm iv'm‘ ph. anthrepist, accompai y his ag Juo! o the lllsli‘.l‘ of his dnl;l( lantern upon the face #u dfl vauper ; and presently the same [ynu‘h._nulm.t undes hle sudden splendor of a calciua-light, defies 3 bloated aristocrat in & glittering ball-room. It i3 un- derstood to be the opinion of this heroic personage that New-York tenement-honses are unfit for any« body to live in; 30, for the most part, they are. But the drama forbids {ong brooding upon that ori inal thought. It hastens to woo us with the spectacle of a German_ dance-cellar; with a_bit of Ethio- pian minstrelsy; with an Irish i with an attempted burglary; with another tableaa: and with more caleium light. Our young friend with the high forehead suddenly reappears, in mart al array, and again defies his aristocratic foe. Sufrering woman also comes in for a share of illumination, at this point. The police assist. The dnrtx\.' {onn( man comes on, with & bag. We perceive that a grand climax cannot be far off. That climax comes, in a harrow- infiwnumml-lumm death-bed scene. But for this, and one other scene, wo should not know that the drama had ing whatever to do with tenement. houses. this single respect, like one of peos Artemns Ward's lectures; it touches upon every topic except the particular one which it assumes te treat. It reminds you of “Sketches in India,” ob “Mose,” “The Ticket-of-Leave Man,” of “The Streets of New-York,” of the Ethiopian Minstrels, of the late Mr. Ingraham’s novels, of *Ten Nights in a Bar-room,” of The London Jowrnal, of everything that is hackneyed and commonplace. It isa thing ol “ shreds and patches,” and the shreds are flimsy and the patches colorless. The dramatist who could de liberately put such a medley of trash together must osity well worthy of a place in Mr. Barnam'e he players did the best they conld with the drama. Mr. Lev in particular, ‘merits nn“a — mendation for the very earnest effort that he made give an air of reality, and a warmth of feeling, t artificial emotions and barren incidents. Mr. E. M ton (an entirely new name ns), acted witi neatness and fidelity the thavkless part of » roculiorn —in_ the “hands = of sharpers. Th an Amburgh's oric was not far of dunnf the perforn e wus evidant by the odor that so gracefully curled from the umseen Inirs of the savage beasts. Mr. Barnum'sstore of cu- riogites, by the way, has, in_the lusus natura departs went, been rendereyi_moreth cgmmonly offensivg of Tato by the addition thereto o8 = a eapard cinld —one of the most repulsive objects we have ovet chauced to behold. « Our old friend, the adyertising: drop-curtain, still remains, and exhibits signs m'unnu\-rhl prosperity. 16 will, after all, baretawed. We would mva. the exfi«liency of covoring the walls of the theator i the sameo way. "'lfxrlfk thrift, Horatio!” *Our Tenement Houses” was rather placidly received by the audiency yesterday ; but we presumie it will bave at least a short career. Tho shorter the better. Madame Do Lesdernier, one of the lest read- ors now before the public, and, after Fanny Komble, the best of her sex over before our publie, announces a reading this evening, at the. Geographicsl Room, Clinton Hall. Having said ghat the highest American criticism applands her, it ought not to be much larger praise that London critisism assists, b since it 18 we mention it. It is & good thing when » woman has the capacity and the will to make & li for herself, and not to accept the one which she made to her l}nud, when she is old enough to think about it atall. So we thank Madame ornior, or any other brave w&\m Wwho usea to the utte t she has. In the case of this . her talent and her success 8o decided, that the people who go to profit her will tind* the service & :vh‘n:}n; mmoflm Virtue wh}:l.x*h :u o';n ro- The Southern Relief Fund will have a Denefit 8 the New-York Theater on Wodnosday aftornoon. "hv:ndm'\ Assurance,” for whioh the company of this henter have generously volunteer will be per- :9rmo¢|. Lauly Don :u‘lhi{nhe apiri:dd‘vlfl of m’ iay Spanker. The object of the entertainment W ::ll;iull;n:::vlm'onhy. aud will command a liberal en- cut. ARMY GAZETTE. i o i BT TRLKORAPH TO THE TW Brovet Liout. Col. Jumes H. Rice, Wh Regimest Veterasn Rosercy Frad Pt completad bis duties bafore the - iroe A Lowiatille, o o1 v B et T ae Provtmrs Bepean. oo o Jagngba e o —— NAVY GAZETTE, i T TELEGRAPN TO THE THIBUNE Mate Kdwand Culbert bas beeu ordored to th, Sxatara.