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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20
EMANCIPATION I'M TIE WEST


A letter from the Rev. r. Van Caker,
Superintendent of the Moraviau Mission in
Surinam, dated Oct. 4, 1862. announces that
on that day the law recently passed By the
Legislature OF Holland concerning tho abolition
OF Slavery in the Dutch colonies was published
in Surinam. In accordance with this law, a
proclamation of The Governor declared all the
slaves of the colony free, on and after the fret
of July next They are, however, to remain
several years under the supervision Of the State.
THIS measure nearly completes the work OIL
Emancipation in the West Indies; one by one
the European monarcbies holding West-lndlan
acknowledgement, France, Denmark, Sweden
have acknowledged the most inalienable OF
human rights, the right of every man to has
personal liberty, aud decreed the adjustment
of Slavery. Different methods have been tried
In some instances, as in the French c0lonles
emancipation has been sudden IN Others II has
been gradual; but in every instance 1t has
been peaceably accomplished. The negroes
have neither massacred their masters nor re-
fused their liberty; and now that the opposition
of few planters has been overcome, aud oil
the negroes have been declared freemen, this
condition appears so generally as their normal
state that no voice darcs 10 demand their re-
ensiayement.
The immense majority of the negroes IN the
West Indian islands are Christians, and II IL
well known that the missionaries, who have u
more intimate acquaintance with them than
any other class OF men. bear favorable test-
mOny 10 their religious and moral condition.
They unanimously attest that their Christian
ization has made rapid progress since eman-
cipation, and that the churches are rapidly
progressing toward position which viii rem
der them self-supportng, aud allow the foreign
missionary boards which provide at present
part of the expenses for the pastors and the
churches, 10 withdraw their missionaries, and
tend them 10 pagan countries.
Surnam has Il population of about 10000
white persons, and nearly 81, 900 negroes. More
ohm one.half Of the negroes, about 1900,
belong TO the missions OF MOrayans, Who
employ among them at present no less than
siXty-six missionaries, all Of whom are hopeful
of tho benefcent Effects OF emancipation.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20

number Of the citizens Of his State have been
arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned by tho Con-
federate authorities; and he writes respectfully
TO their chief to know the grounds OF these
arrests. This is proper, just, patriotic. No
doubt, they are all incaicerated on suspicion
of having aided or sympathized with the Unlou
cause, just as others have been imprisoned GA
our side for alleged aid to Or sympathy with
the Rebel cause. The Governor deems it his
duty to ascertain officially Of the Confederate
President the grounds Of these arrests end to
insist thai they be brought to trial and con-
fronted by their accusers. Gov. Vance is an
old.time Wing and UniOnist and holds about
the same relation 10 the Administration ct
Richmond that Gov. Seymour does TO that at
Washington. But mark the difference in spirit
and dictiOn between the treatment by the
Rebel and the UDionist respectively Of pre-
cisely the same state Of facts.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20

knowing those that are without Slaves to be
Enthusiastically for his purpose. They may
crouch TO him to-day, but they will rise
against him tomorrow. 1t is possible to de-.
stroy, and even to subdvde the Union: it is
morally impossible to re.subject it permanently
TO the Slave Power. Exclude New. England
aud you have still Western New-York,
Northern aud Western Pennsylvania,
Northern Ohio, Michigan, all of Wiscon.
sin not mainly peopled from Europe.
Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas thoroughly per.
meated by Republican ideas. You cannot stiae
free speech and free IDEAS in regions where
scboo-hOuses are more numerous than grog.
shops; you cannot make those who have given
their brothers and sons to the defense of the
Union, love that Internal source OF Rebellion
which has cost the lives or limbs of those dear
ones. There are sentiments which may be " Of
.fectually crushed out, but hatred of Oppression
love of Universal Freedom, sympathy for the
degraded and imbruted, are not among them.
If they were earth would become pandemo-
mum and God be no longer God
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20
TEE PaEPARHxG REVOLUTION.

TIE Missouri Democrat has letter from
Springfield, Illinois, Wtere there has recently
been a general gathering of Democratic politi-
Clans 10 Influence the choice of a United States
Senator and agree on a programme for the
immediate future. The correspondent writes
that
"a wedigsted plan prepared by the Democratic lead
in the Western and Essem Sa,es. TIA. plan, though
revoluonsry In s end ia intended to be It's
up TO certain point II possible As many Legislatures Of
the Free States be prevailed be got send
Comnsso 10 Louisville, Kentucky, TO Commits
from the Border and many Of the Slave States
possible II the Republican. especially the New gland
So,es no. send Commissioners, they to be lett
II they do matter plan of compromise to be offered
which will force them OF tho Union, thus putting them
inc the attitude OF Rebellion. They not wanted TIE
Coaieieraoy is to comprise the Western States aud O),
NswYoTk, New.Jersey, PenDy lyana Maryland Delswsre
&c that shall be outlet to the the eAAt via
New-YoI and the south via New-OTeans When this
Convention socsed at Loasvie meets 1t Il to be virtually
Congress- II win invite the Southern States iuto It's deb
eons OF those tina, come in and with those of the North
that be got 10 join g. Confederacy to be formed in
which Slavery to lie lsg1sd aud in every
sbls way and Aboiliouism crushed out Cut OF from Now.
England 1t ia hoped that free speech and free ideas will be
enee'uy disposed OF a. to at rest forever all agitation OF
slavery Indeed sglax great many other subjects Is
also to be siecsually crvAhsd outn
These gentlemen reckon without their host,
whose name ia JEFF. Davis. Roll themselyes in
the gutter ~ thoroughly as they may, he will
have none of them. II they were to succeed
in e1pelling New-E England from new league
o. o. "a Middle and Western States, he would
refuse to take part ID il, and would cling to
his present COaiedcraY Of rsa. slays States.
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CAUSES of provOcatIon cannot be admitted III
evidence 10 mitigation Of damages unless they
happened at the time OF the assault or m,ne-
diately preceding it, 30 as TO form part of one
transaction"
But the second objection to the Judges rUl-
ing IS yet more to be regretted than the first.
He perntted, in spite of objection and excsp-
tioD, the defendant to testify TO an alleged
CONGREGATION between himself and his wife out
of the sight and hearing Of the plaintiff shortly
before the assault. The defendant sWore in
such way as to show that he was, to a con.
siderable degree, provoked BY his rifa to make
the assault, and that she stated to him matters
which we're distinctly disproved on the trial.
Now it seems to us that prOvocaton by I'M
true statements made by q mans wife are no
excuse for on assault by him on another
woman. IL we understand the term
provocation," it means something done
by the party assaulted and not BY
third party, and least of all by the assaJants
wife, If on assault upon an Innocent person
may be justified or damages for it mitig9ted by
showing that it was in consequence OF state.
ments made by the assailants wife, we do not
perceive who is safe against an assault and
battery; and, indeed, prOyocatons of that kind
are easy to invent and impossible to dis
prove. Undoubtedly the Jury must Rave been
influenced by this testimony, and have felt dis
posed TO lay the blame largely on tho wife
and deal lightly with the husband. The limit
of a verdict ia the Marine Court is $500, and
in the absence Of the defendants statements
about his wife, it seems likely that the J3ry
would have given more than $3.50 damages.
Our Judges cannot be too careful to hold
fast TO the ancient landmarks aud .resx no
rule which tends TO suppress ruffsnism,
rowdyism, and barbarian Our city is now
full of bad characters, who prefer beating our
women on their own henrth-stOnes to fighting
our men in the field Of battle. Let not tho
guardians Of the law do aught to encourage
this class of ruffaus.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20

xT have later Central America news, synopsis OF
xrbicb we give in another column Tie most stir
ring event OF recent occurrence wss earthquake,
which has given Costa RIGA an ague fit.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court proposes to ell
Join the laying Of track on Broad street. Philadel-
pbis, to connect the freight lines OF the New-fork
ana Baltimore railroads.
The Governor elect OF New-Jersey will be in-
augurated to-day at - O'Clock. A large number Of
military companies and citizens will be present.
"A fire at Portage City, Wis, on Sunday night,
destroyed the railroad passenger and freight houses
and grain elevator. Loss $4,000.
The Democratic candidate for State Treasurer
Of Pennsylvania, Mr., McGrath, was elected yester-
day by the Legislature
during the past year 24,S72 German cmigrant'
arrived at the port of New.York TIE number in
1861 was 81 ,8H.
The entire Union ticket for city officers 10 Mid.
detown City, COun, was elected yesterday by &
large vote.
The advices from Washington in regard to the
financial Of the Government crested buoysncy
in the Share market yesterday, With advance Of to '
cent The excitement. and amount Of transactions at thu
morning Board were scifcS so gfeI; some preyou
days, but the advance most descriptions OF Shares "a
steady and RESTLESS The excitement intense through
the session. and the registered list does not cover probably
than wohitGs Of the transactions At the noon Boar
there large business done. with an improving market
AZ the Second Boadhe excitement continued aud the trans
scOn large the leading shsres In some cases Their
wss natural reaction fom tie largo advance Of the morning
ont descriptions hsber AT the O'Clock cS IN
srke, OF somewha. the Shares which bad advance
most rapidly under Isazin. sales but at the cioe the ms"
sot wa, fru The market foreign bills very firm, wit
good demsnd. Sterling is l6It0l65. Freshs withoU
impor.ni change The market for gold was mach excite
eerdsy ana sslss made high a' 1891 against III
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20
0VR II. q. SENATOR.

The present term of the Hon. Preston King,
U. S. Senator from our State, expires on the
4th March ensuing and law prescribes spe-
ciically the time and manner of filling his place.
On the irst tuesday IN February OF noon each
House is to proceed in its own chamber to
nominate o Senator; and, their respective
nominations being thus made, the Senate pro.
ceeds to the Assembly Chamber, where they
meet in convention, the President Of the Senate
IN the chair. The nominations are then com
pared, and, if found to agree, the person thus
nominated is declared the Senator elect; while,
in case of their disagreement, the Convention
proceeds as in joint ballot to elect Senator
by majority of its entire vote cast. 1t is
thus morally impossible that an election should
he defeated save through an evasion OF viola
ton OF express provisions Of law.
The Seymourite press, in its rawlings over
the action of the UnionistS in supporting Mr..
CallicOtt for Speaker betrays the hitherto St.
cret purpose of the party managers TO defeat
the choice Of o Senator at this session. They
say that the election of MIR. C.. or any other
candidate by Republican votes secures the
choice of Senator not Of their stripe, and on
this ground PALATE the outrages of Friday aud
Saturday. Let us look into THE:
The House consists OF I23 members, AM is
politically tied; the Senate OF -, whereof at
least 22 are Cniorists. One OF these, we be-
lieye, is sick and absent; but the Union una
-. fho ,C.
tioa OF the TWO Houses, cannot lall below TO-.
Let u suppose, then, the legally specified
day Of erection arrived, and the Senate to have
dominated whoever may DO agreed upon AS the
Union candidate. The House proceeds 10
Ote, aud the "a Uni0nlsts vote Tor their can
lldate, while the 81 Seymourites, IN order to
defeat an election, vote for 50 many different
persons; and the result is no nomination. y
second vote is thereupon had; and now the "a
UniOnists, in order to get into joint ballot
cast all their votes for wbOmsOever may be
named By the frst Seymourite voting, intend
ing to place him In nOInin8tiOn. But nO--the
his vote 70 some one else, and there is again
no choice. And, as 1t ia easier to change one
vote than sixty-foar, this game may be kept up
until tie Assembly is wearlcd into an ADJOURN
men5, leaving the State with but one L.. 5.
Senator ter the I'd of March next. We pre-
sumo tbs is The plot, for thus only eau the
law be ey1ded aud an election defeated.
1t is the evident apprehension of the Sey
INQUIRIES that Mr. Callicott if elected Speaker
by Unionist votes, will not play this game Of
dodge for the benefit Of Fernando Wood.
Hence the Herculeon efforts to bully him into
declining or the Unionists out of his support
Hence the violence rowdyism and bullying
menaces Of Saturday We shall see how this
is 10 result.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20

A Warrington manufacturer o. news for one
of our most scandalOus city journals reports
The Editor of this paper as saying to the Pres-
dent Of the United States with regard to re-
organization Of his Cabinet, at must be
done, and being answered 1t sIaat be done. "
1t is such trash that expose, our people to
Disgrace and ridicule abroad. We never spoke
to the President of our country a word incOn-
sistent with the dignity of his high office, and
never were addressed by him in any spirit but
that of personal regard aud kindness. Nothing
like either of the above sentences was ever
uttered between US.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20
VANQE-sEyIOUR.

Rebel Governor Vance, of North Carolina.
has troubles Of his own with regard to arb.
trary arrests aud the privilege Of haJeas corpus.
Hear the following extract from his late Mes.
sage:
There confined In Salisbury by the CoRfedUae ou.
morie number Of citizens Of North Carolina arrested for
alleged political sns How long they remain ipcer.
eersied say but nO'e 0ho oIprehsndtd them.
What their guilt really consists in do not know but this
much IT becomes both you aud to know. IN view Of the
ostbs We take upon entering into Office hai hey
ayreed BY Iagui PrOe as citizen, Of North Carolina they
entitled under the Constitution to speedy tidal jury
of their peers and be confronted their Ihavs
laid their before his EEceeucy the President OF the
Confederate stses and wtsn his reply Ia received you will
DO informed thereof"
We must say that Gov. Vance has herein
set an example WHICH Gov. Seymour would
have dppa well to follow. Ha duis tdat q
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20
Nibio,s Garden.

II must be an infinite satisfaction for artist Ci
Miss Batemans youth and brief career to find such
proofs Of the attraction OF her name as were dis
PLAYED last evening AT this theAter. The audience
which greeted the opening Of this, her second New
York engagement during the season, was overflow
ngy large and cordially enthusiastic. Her personal
reception WAS especially feryent, and the applause
which WAS bestowed upon her throughout the even
ing betrayed a warmer feeling than perhaps she
mere perform vi tie occas.on would have eK-
cited
Miss Batoman appeared in a newly translated and
considerably modified version Of celebrated Ger
man DRAMA representing series OF domestic inc.-
dents founded upon tho persecution OF the Jews in
the seventeenth aud eighteenth centuries LIS title,
IA here offered, is " Leah, the Forsaken," and the
central character is that of a young aud beautiful
Jewish girl, who, abandoning her people in the
hope of being united to Christian is herself subse-
quently abandoned through receptions practiced
upon her too credul0us aud not faithful lover.
During the first three acts she suffers nunbericss n-
digplties for hs sake. In the fourth, she wit
nesses his marriage with another, and in a
scene Of peculiar power, visits her just wrath
upon him. la the fifth, the time of
which advances number OF years, she
returns from sfar is sofened and reyokes her male
dictlon and departs. leaving her former aanced in
domestic peace. Many opportunities are afforded
for the exhibition Of those vehement effects Of deca
nation by which Miss Bateman always appeals
most strongly to her audiences, and these are en-.
ployed in n manner which invariably secures tho
most tumultuous applause. Miss Bateman was called
before the curtain At the close OF the play, as also
we're Mr. j. w. Wallack, jr., aud slr. Edwin Ad-
ans, who assisted her with panstaking fidelity
throughout.
The general performance was good, and the man
ner in which the piece put upon the stage could
not DO surpassed. The scenery is in exquisite taste
aud thoroughly appropriate and harmonious, with
only an occasiona imperfecion slight rs 10 pass
unnoticed by the public. The whole OF the Incl
dental music, by Mr.. Robert S,ppel, is worthy of
that gentemans reputation, and one Of the choruses
was received last evening with particular spproba.
ton. The success OF " Lean with the audience
appeared positive, and it viii be repeated every
night until further notice.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THO WAR

'~-psostebes from the Army OF the Potomac OIL
,.,erday state that all wSs quet-nOthins gong On
hovona the usual routins duties.
Twenty OF the Union feet Of gunboats have ar
x;vsd a. Nashville. AT the shoals, three OF the boats
we're fired into by the enemy with rifles. Three
men on board Of the Freestone We're wounded.
Boats laden with supplies have also arrived. The
a,esmer Trio has reached Louisville, Ky. The cap
thin states that he was hailed by q body OF Rebel
savslry, who ordered him to remove his crew and
wounded men to the Hastings. The gunooat Sildell
surrendered without firing a gum Capt. CoolnoS
denies the existence of large Rebel force near
Nashville. There are reports Of large Rebel re-
endorsements having reached Shelbyyle.
f, The gunboat Sycamore reports the capture ON
the stu inst, at Jupiter Inlet, Florida, of tie Ln-
Sn.:sh sloop Ayenger, of Nassau, with an assorted
cargo Of salt coffee, gin and dry goods; also of
the English sloop Julia Of Nassau, Sth, loaded with
salt. The schooner ARIEL reports the capture OF the
sloop Good-Luck on the 6th off the Florida CSpes,
with turpentine and cotton.
The WAYS aud Means Committee OF the Honse
and tie Secretary of the Treasury have agreed upon
the necessary financial measures, and bill will he
reported to-day. A Message from the President was
read in Congress yesterday deprecating the Issue OF
more notes. though conserving for the present IN Or
der to ray OFF the army. The President favors tie
taxing Of bank circulation. ".
In the Mcdowell Court Of Inquiry, yesterday,
shs examination Of Lieut.. Col. TillSton was conti
ed his testimony being with reference TO what &C.
CURED 10 the movement of Gen Pope's army from
Warrenton back to the fOriifcations before Wash
ington, especially on the 27th, 25th, and 18th o
Angus
The Navy Department yesterday received Rear
Admiral Porter's official report Of the capture o
Arkansas Post. All the gunboats and men d
splsnddly. The loss in the naval branch on oursid
was only 81 III killed and wounded.
3D. Further extracts from Rebel correspondence
taken from young Sanders sre made public. Sander
the elder is greatly concerned about biz shls whic
he thinks tho only salvation of the Confederacy.
The steamer Florida, OF the Brooklyn Yard, i
ordered of at once, under command of Capt. Bank
head of the late Monitor
Letters from Rosecranss Army and from His
souri, are printed ca the 81 page OF this morning
paper.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20

Some of the writers of idle gossip from
Washington recently outraged the feelings Of
the widow Of lamented Senator from Illinois
by announcing her betrothal to an eminent
Cabinet Minister. IL was even asserted that
the banns had been published in Catholic
church, when in truth the parties so rudely
afliaDced had not met within the seven years
preceding the appearance of this eerard.
Ought there not TO be some restraint on the
utierapce of such annoying fsbricatons'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-20
ASSAULT AID gATTEHY LAW.

We published yesterday an abstract OF
tie evidence and proceedings in an as
sault and battery case tried last Thurs
day in the Marine Court OF this city.
One George Chapman hsilng from Mem.
phs, Tenn, struck servant gil belong.
ing 70 the hotel two blows in the face on oul-
day evening, December u. under the false
pretense that the girl had several days before
slapped bis child. An attempt was made by
one of tho attorneys of Chapman to make out
that /" the AboltiOnists' (Which is now, as
Bcauregard ordered it should be, the title
given by Secessionists 10 Unionists) Lad in
duccd the girl to sue Chapman, and he there
upon made a political harangue to the Jury,
hoping no doubt that at least one traitor was
among them. The Jury, however, do not ap-
pear 10 have regarded the question as a
political one and gave the outraged woman a
verdict for $3.50.
There are one or two rulings Of Judge
Hearne, who presided AZ the trial, to which
We feel bound TO object. We have not a word
TO say against that officer personally, for be is
reputed 10 be a humane and we-meaning
man, and We have no suspicion that ho would,
knowingly, allow his political feelings to inilu-
ence him on the bench. But it strikes us that
if two Of his rulings are correct, personal se-
curity against lawess violence will soon be.
come unknown in this city, and the Courts
will afford no redress for brutal outrages like
that in question. Judge Hoarno in the first
place refused TO strike out of the defendant
answer an alleged provocation stated to have
occurred three days prior to the assault, but
on the contrary, although the law was argued
and tho authorities cited to lin, he permitted
the defendant to show, or rather 70 attempt to
do so, tho old proyoeatiOn III justifca-
ton of tho assault, or in mitigation of dam
ages. The rule, IA laid down in the books,
is that where 1" tho blood has had time
20 COOL" no previous prOyocation will
justify or mitigate the ofense. Chief.Justice
Spencer in the case OF Lee agt. WoOlsey, says:
-" A contrary course would greatly encourage
breakers OF tho peace, personal rencOunters, and
every species of brutal force, and would tend
TO unciyiIize the community" SO in Massa.
chusetts it was settled more than half a cen.
tury ago, in the case of Avery agt. Ray that
the defendant may give III evidence in mtiga.
ton of damages, immediate provOcation, such
as happened at the time OF tho assault, but not
such as happened previously. And in the Gaze
of Willis agt. Forrest, the General Term OF
tho Superior Court decided unanimously Coax.
ley, Ewmet. md Campbell, Justices) that the
provocatiOn could not be given i'll evidence if
it did not happen OF the time of the as,
sault." Judge Ducr, who reported this dccs.
ion q Duer's Reports, 3lO). has this head.
.nO.s: "Ia az action Of assault and battery,