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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

Recorder Hoffman, in bis charge to the
Grand Jury yesterday, directed their 81
tention to the great difficulty with which
petit jures, for the trial of important criminal
cases, are procured. Under present ruling only
the most stolid and ignorant are permitted to
try homicides, and tie natural result is that in
most instances the jurics disagree; or, if they
convict, it is oftener of minor degree Of the
crime than of the capital ofense. One OF these
days we hope to see little more common sense
in the administration of our criminal law, ard
if Recorder Hoffman can aid in its development
he will have done the public valuable service
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
THE ENROLMENT BILL.

The new Enrolment Bill was considered yes
terday in the Senate. 1t contains one much
needed amendment to the present law, viz, that
substitutes may be furnished from among per-
sons enrolled and liable 10 draft. The enforce
men, Of tho contrary rule has largely helped to
introduce into the service the diseased, disabled,
newly imported. and more than oil the bounty
jumping recruits who under the late calls have
added to the number without adding to the
strength Of the army. The present law was
based on theory which has been shown by ex
perience to work badly, and it ought to be
amended in season for the approaching draft
or the draft ought to be postponed to give
time for improving the law.
This bill further provides for the trial b. mar
tial law Of fraudulent recruiting agents, substi-
tute.brokers, and the multiiarious orders OF
scoundrels who have carried on the brokerage
in bounties under the present law, and have for
the most part wholly escaped punishment.
They have not escaped, nor have they seemed
to fear, detection, but have piled their trade
under the observation, and often with the con-
nivance, of military officials who ought to have
shot them or been shot themselves. Possibly
the new statute will add to the difficulties OF
this business.
Mr.. Wilson's bill makes or attempts some re-
form in these and other details. But what
Senator Vii earn the gratitude Of the country
by presenting system Of filling our armies
which shall sweep away the crude, inefficient
and bungling methods now cherished on the
statu,c.book and at the War Department. We
have been four years at war; In all that time
we have notapprcached have not even seemed to
consider the perfection Of the French and other
European systems Of military administration.
We cling to one just as compulsory, just as
odious to the people, and not a fifth part rs
effective. Say rather we have no system, but
arc conducting this war by hand to mouth ex-
pedents, and great, clumsy drafts, that demand
in masses the troops which might be more
economically and benefcially obtained by or
ganizaton and method. Who will not merely
tinker this, but obey Hamlet's injunction and
reform il altogether"
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

Blaine Boutwell,. Bran3egee. Broomal. Ambrose w.
Clark. Cobb Cole. Grinnell. Harding. Harrington,
Highly, Holman. Asahel W. Hubbard. HuIburd Julian.
Orlando Kellogg Herman. King. Loan, Samuel I. Nil.
Ter. Morrill,, Daniel Morris Norton, Perham. Pike.
Price. Edward Ii. Rollins, Scoield. Sloan. Smith
Spaulding Epson. Elihu h. Washbune, William Is.
Washburn, Wheeler. Wilson. Window. Woodbridge
and Worthington-47
Ancona Anderson Ashley Blow. Boyd, James s.
Brown. Clay, Cox, Crsvrns, Henry Winter Davis.
Dawes. Dawson Demng. Dixon briggs, Dumsnt,
Eckley, Edgerton Eidridge. Eliot Farnsworth Finck
Ganson, Garfield. Order Griswold. Hall. benjamin g..
Harris Charles NJ. Harris Herrick john II. Hubbard.
Ingersoll Jenckes. Philip johnson, Kasson Kelley.
Francis W. Kellogg. Knapp. Knox. Law. lie Blond.
Long Longyear. Marvin. Mcbride, McClurg, Nc.
DowelL Mckinney. William II. Miller. James T. Nor
rs Amos Myers. Leonard Myers. Odell Charles
o. Neill john ONc Orth. Pendleton. Pomeroy Pruyn.
Radford Samuel j Randall William II. Randall. Rob
inson Ross. Schenck. Scott Shannon. Smithers. Ste
yens Stiles, Strouse. Townsend Van Valkenburgh.
Whaley Joseph w. White. Williams. Wilder, Whitfield.
benjamin Wood, Fernando Wood, and Yeaman-s3
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
BLOCKING THE WHEELS.

Deficiency bill of large amount is now pend
ing between the two Houses after having once
been defeated; and it is not denied that there is
suffering among the sick ard wounded soldiers
in our hospitals for want Of the appropriations
contained in this bill. Still, it is not passed,
simply because the House insists on cmhodying
therein an item of $3S, 900 for eItra pay to is
clerks, door-kecpers, messengers, &c, &c.
There is no law authorizing this payment; but
the House has chosen TO vote it, aud now says
the Deficiency bill shall not pass until TIE Senate
consents to appropriate the money. The follow
ing is the vote on the I'd inst. on the motion to
concur with the Senate and pass the bill without
this item:
YHAs-Messrs. Alley Allison Amos Bailey. An.
gustus L. Baldwin, John ID. baldwin, Baxter. Bea man
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
GETTY CONTINGENCIEs,y

1t is well known that all the departments OF
our local government literally swarm with sine
cure holders, whose sole business it is to
appear once month to draw their pay, and to
be active about election time in their various
wards in the political interests of the parties
to whom they stand indebted for their
respective pinches Of the public plumber.
There are Swarms of inspectors and superintend.
ents, and deputy inspectors and superintendent,
and messengers and. assstant-messengers and
wardens and deputy-waidens, and clerks and
assistant-clerks, and commissioners and deputy
commissioners, all drawing from three to ten
dollars per diem from our municipal or County
treasury; and yet all Of them pursuing their
private avocations as groggery keepers or bar
tenders, policy-players or fancy men, shoulder
hitters, bounty or watch-stuflers with
out the loss of single hour employed in the
discharge of any public duty-the brief period
necessary for visit to the Finance Department
for the purpose Of drawing their pay alone ex-
cepted. So, too, in all that can be required for
the transaction Of public business-ofice-clean
ing, furniture, stationery, printing, fuel, and oil
other kinds Of material that can by any posi-
bility be thought requisite. Each department
and bureau of our local government is supplied
with double or treble the amount Of men and
material that would be considered necessary in
the conduct of the wealthest bank or other pr-
vatc enterprise in this rich and business city.
Of course. to all this we offer no objection.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

DIR. l.. J. CzAPKAY,a physician of high standing
in San Francisco has recently arrived in this city
to sail for Europe the 9Th inst. in the steamer
Cuba. He will attend the International Exhibition
at Stettin, Prussia, in May, having authority from
the Commissioner Of Agriculture to look after the
agricultural interests Of this country at that Exhibl-
ton. DR.. Czapkay is by birth Hungarian, but he
is now citizen of the United States. A portion OF
the time he spends in Europe will be devoted to
enIightening Republicans abroad as to the great
issues involved in the war with the South, and in
convincing them that revolution here is in favor Of
Slavery, and not, like recent European revolutions
on behalf, as many even of that class believe, OF
liberty. He carries ample testimonials from some
of our leading statesman of his ability and zeal
in the cause of free government in his adopted
country
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

lsh iron clad vessel captured by admiral fortershee'
at New Inlet, and vaued with her cargo atsiyoo".
The Bermuda Adrocate says that the Doid anu
bravo Cant Braine Of the Confederate navy whom the
British authorities were so prompt in setting at liberty
10, vomo.ed from the Bermudas after vctmizng mer-
chants hotekeeperS and others to the amount Oh sew
eral hundred pounds
NIessrs. Hill d Hulbert's commission ware
house and the Allegheny House, on Waterst' Cincin'
natl were destroyed by fire on Sunday. Loss s3oOOo
which is insured.
Roswell Parish, 20 years old, resident of
Hartford was killed on Saturday while walking on the
track of the Hartford and New-IIaven Railroad
The Hartford Cour0nt, the able and loyal pa
triarch among newspapers in Connecticut grateS Its
readers by dress of new ard elegant type.
In Hartford, on Saturday night, Mr.. James
A. Mcneil while in a state of somnambulism, jumped
from On attic windew and killed himself.
Three attempts have been made recently 10
set FIRE the house at the corner Of Front
and Garrson.sts., Brooklyn.
The bill approving the consolidation OF the
Gacna and North estern Railroads passed the Illinois
Senate Friday.
The sales of seven-thirties by Jay Cooke, the
subscription agent since Saturday, are s3.O96'2oo
Gold is higher opening at 2l2, selling up to IA 4
and closing 23. Government stocks continue strong at
the advanced quotations and in good demand The private
sales very large IN Railway Bonds and Bank Shares the
business was small In Railway Shares there was more
active movement than for days with decided advance
pI,c After the call prices lower but at the Second
Boa hey rallied and closed firm at slight concession om
the quotations Of the morning. Later in the day
prices firm. Money svey abundant at sac per cent
and al, call any amount could be had.
Ereng-Stocks and gold active and stronger on
the call God after the call sold at ais, and Stood at the
close Of the report. at 2l4i.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
PEACE THROUGH WAR.

Whatever may have been the Interior purpose
of the Rebels in soliciting the recent conference
with President Lincoln, and whatever may be
the ultimate fruits of that conference, it is now
certain that the immediate result is futility and
disappointment. All questions of etiquette and
ceremony were happily put aside, and for four
hours the Chief Magistrate Of the Republic,
supported by the senior member of his Cabinet,
discussed freely, earnestly, courteousy, with
three deputed representatives of the intellect
and force of the Rebellion, the rival
assumptions of the Union and of its assailants,
anxious to discover or to devise some ground
wherein these could be so far reconcled as to
arrest bloodshed and restore Peace to our coun.
try. Our information leaves no room for doubt
that the President not only eagerly sought but
confidently expected to achieve O pacifcation
before returning to Washington. This expecta-
ton was not realized though ingenuity was ex-
hausted and no practicable concession withheld
in his efforts to attain the desired end. No ques-
ton concerning Slavery was seriously inter
posed-no collateral or subordinate issue pre-.
cluded the present achievement of Peace. The
one SOLE sufficient obstacle which the President
encountered and could not overcome was this:
The Rebels required Of him an immediate, un-
qualified cessation of hestilies, tearing in acey-
anee all questions concerning the integrity Of tho
Union and the righufM authority Of its Government
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

The Legislature of West Virginia on Tuesday
last reelected the Hon. Waitman I. Wiley to
the United States Senate for six years from the
fourth of March next. In the Senate Mr.. Will
ley only was nominated. He received 10 votes;
Judge Polsley, 6; Mr.. Campbell, 2; and ID. II.
Strother {" Porte Crayon y, ]. In the House
the vote stood-Willcy, AZ; Lee Roy Kramer, Z.
Whole number of votes cast 60, of which Wiley
received 80 and all others 16.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPOND
ENCE.
The First Volume Issued-Thc United
states and Great Britain.
WASHINGTON. Monday, Feb.

WASHINGTON. Monday, Feb. G, 1868
The first volume, only, of the diplomatic
correspondence has been printed making 800 pages
1t refers to our affairs with Great Britain bat does not
complete the record. Another volume is 10 follow
under this head.
THIS correspondence commences As far back as Nov.
y. 1863 with letter from Minister Adams to Mr.
Seward with regard to the Alexandra ease the facts
connected With which already familiar to the public
The document Also shows what passed between our
and the british Government on the SUD
cc OF the violation OF neutrality by the fitting OUT OF
the Rappahannock and other Southern privaIeers Mr.
Adams it appears, sent to Earl Russell copy OF 10"
ter from the United States Consul Liverpool, cover
lug number of dispositions establishing in the ee'es'
manner the existence Of regular Office al LNerpoo
for the enlistment and payment o: British subjects lot
the purpose Of carrying against the Governments
and people of the United States. Russell promised thas
these papers should be considered by Her Maiessys
Government Numbers of other papers on kindred
subjects we're sent In the same direction.
On the ith OF January, 1861. Mr.. seward wro'e T"
Mr.. Adams;
Il have froul the first been satisfied that all sympa-
thies for the American insurgents when sh1 ,,
awakened III Great Britain would prove 10 pe II
of ultimate domestic contention there, ehurr Sh;ngs
SHOULD be restored in the United states We hNe ~.
failed at any time 10 give evidence that we uss" r.
such consequence of civil war IN Great o' ,.',
was not this Government that appealed 10 Eu,oP a..
tribunals: It was dragged into that presence w ,ss
statesmen OF Europe. The sooner II Is gism'''e
better for Europe, Us well ~ for America s.
In a letter from Mr.. Adams, dated feorn''! - ''
he says: -, ,,o, bs,
ct gives me great satisfaction 20 narn roven, The
M,esys Government have taken steps 10 pIe.ghns s,.
81 Al, rati nv M
,,,d sm ,bs frontiers Of her possessions Ia oan
ada are peculiarly danssrcas Oy sSstan from arms:
obligations Of the two countries " aus II gives me
msnts on the waters that separate them UToec
sreat leSres hostile operations from one or MOT
oop,s a,ors those lines have not yet been cs
and that Considerable numbers of aen are aetua ..
Ssntratnr in Canada with view 70 MAKE an orSshiUs
eon, a,'n so -, ,pc, beg your Lor9saip
some souau ~ n ,ency for the adoption o. SON.
nsNsa. which ma, mole e1ectuay remove tnis
ger at its very source. Nah o. 1874 says:
..Th. Archduke Macmillan came here li.ondon ,O
A., nTnose OF getting recognition OF his new ph,sct
t t P a Leopold is here " favor his oo
The Goyerapeat declined u act On the subject !" w.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
The Erening Post has a bitter leader on the

The Erening Post has bitter leader on the
late Peace Conference, beginning thus:
thereafter IL is TO be hoped that Goyornment viii
leave interviews with Peace Commissioners from the
Rebel capital to be held By such men az stephen ii.
Branch and Colorado Jcwett--men who are LITTLE IN
sound rs the saying IT, in the upper story In their
case there would be nothing which could surprise any
body; nothing which would not be perfectly In chaIac.
ter; but il is painful to see sensible men wandering on
in chase Of such delusion.
We place in contrast with this small spite
the proceedings in Congress yesterday, especially
the demonstrations Of MeSsrs. S. S. Cox and
Fernando Wood, with the patriotic outburSt of
The National Inteiiigeneer, and in fact of half
the Opposition press Of the seaboard cities-to
bc followed, we doubt not, by that Of the in.
terror. The Government and the War are im-
mensely stronger throughout the loyal States
for that CONFERENCE.-THE will be still further
strengthened by Developments yet to be
made. Mr. Lincoln has often sgnally served
the National cause in opposition to the strenu-
Gus circumstances Of many Of his leading
supporters; bat he has rarely made so forcible
and happy hit as i'll attending on the Hampton
Roads conference.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

1t is reported that new Rebel pirale' nalheu
the Ranger-a small. light-draught swift Enghsh
steamer-was in the barbor OF Montevideo, South
America in the middle of December last The United
States steamer Iroluois also in port keeping close
watch.
A baker at Memphis recently got permission
70 pass through the Union lines barrel Of -four FOR the
Use Of his family in Secessa. Some inquistye detec'
tive found out that the barrel contained qunne instead
of flour, and hence baker done very brown and cor
respondngly crusty.
Litchfeld, KY, was visited few days since by
wiiamss gang of guerrillns and the next morning by
seventy or eighty of Quantrells mounted men. They
appropriated quantity Of boots and shoes and whisky
but LEFT without doing further damage.
Z, The Vermont, an old style ine-of-battle-ship,
for many years lying idle at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
has been made receiving and Scholarship the old
North Carolina having proved unequal to the accommo'
dations required.
Maior-Gen. John Pope has issued an order,
dated the 4th inst, assuming the command of the Mill
taiy Division of Missouri embracing the departments
of Missouri Kansas and the Northwest
Over a hundred bounty-umpers passed
through Albany last ok going to the towns In the
interior to enlist and desert. Many Of them were no
torious Albany thieves.
1t is reported that Gen. Veatch had been re-
Geved from duty at Memphis and assigned to the COM
mand of Little Rock AK. The successor oil Gen.
veatch at Memphis is said to be Gen. Roberts
Deserters from Tennessee regiments IN Hoods
army come almost daily into our lines near Nashville
and Memphis The lie el army, they say. has gone
into winter quarters at Tupeo, MISS
The United States screw steamer kenslngton
arrived here on Sunday morning from Port Royal
where she has been for long time on duty she 10
be oYerhauled and repaired
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

The Commercial says of Gen. Dick Taylor,
who has succeeded Hood in the command OF
the Rebel Army of Tennessee
"TIe is an effective fighter when leading small
force but have never ascribed TO him the capacity
requisite TO the command Of whole military depart
ment."
That, perhaps, explains the appointment of
Hood last Summer. lie was employed to fight
the army down to such size that Dick Taylor
could properly command it.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07
CITY Notwithstanding to the City In.

CITY Notwithstanding TO the City In
spec.os report there 473 deaths in this city dur
women IA boys and 1871 girls. decrease of % from
the prcyous week, aud - less than TIE corresponding
weck lest year. OF the deceased. 229 were children
undrr years Of age OF he deaths. 20 from con.
sumption: inflammation Of the lungs. as iufane con.
WILSON'S. 3d. small rox. 81 scarlet eTer 49, dphthertc
y; crouY, -, typhus tcver. TO- disease OF heart u
suicides, and Killed by accidents There were 90
deaths in the Institutions
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

orer The people of the sereral States; ,ohieh the
President cour,cously, promptly, but decidedly ap-
prised them that he uas ncithu authorized nor
disposed to concede. And thus the conference
terminated.
Now we firmly believe that the great body of
the Southern People, when correctly informed
with regard to these rival propositions, will
refuse to sustain the Rebel chiefs in their mad
schemes of class ACKNOWLEDGEMENT at the expense
of the life-bood of the masses; but it must be
considered that Military coercion and terrorism
are so potent and so omnipresent at the South
that, even in those portions Of North Carolina
which are four to one for the Union, none dare
openly denounce or resist the Rebellion. If the
Confederate chiefs at Richmond see fit to sus.
tain the positions taken by their deputies-and
we must presume that they will until they
openly evince an adverse purpose-there must
be more fighting, not to subjugate but to lib
crate the Southern people, who were first
swindled. bulied terrorized into rebellion. and
then told: "You have now no choice. The
Yankees are coming to devastate your homes,
outrage your families. and strip you of all you
possess. Defend your homes and fresides",
And tens of thousands are this day fighting
against their country only because they have
been duped into believing that thus only can
they defend and preserve all that they hold
dear.
This monstrous delusion the President has
done much to dispcl by lis attendance on and
bearing at the Hampton Roads Conference, and
we thank him heartily therefor He has fast
ened more clearly on the Rebel chiefs the
responsibility of continuance Of Wholesale
carnage and devastation. He has made it plain
to the impartial world, as it will gradually be
made plain to the Southern masses, that these
can have Peace on the simple condition OF
fidelity to their country and obedience to
her laws. And this knowledge, slowly diilused
at first, will gradually detach all but the
aristocracy from the desperate fortunes of the
death-struck Rebellion.
Now, them let the People of the loyal States
rally with enthusiastic energy to the support Of
their Government. Let the thinned ranks OF
our gallant armies be promptly filed, not by
bounty, jumping thieves and perjurers, but by
men who love and would gladly serve their
country. Let the Treasury be likewise filled
by generous subscriptions to the loans now
open, SO that the War may be prosecuted with
ample means and appliances, and not suffered
to drag as at times it has done. Let every ore
contribute as he may to invigorate the National
arm, aud we shall very soon have achieved a
substantial honorable and enduring Peace.
With full ranks and full Treasury, sixty days
will suffice to stamp out the last embers of the
Rebellion and secure us a country shielded
eyermore from the perils Of Dsunion and
Treason.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

A brief abstract Of the report Of the Com
mittee on the Conduct of the War on the failure
of the Petersburg mine, is supplied by telegraph.
1t amounts to just this: that the mine and the
assault which followed its explosion would have
succeeded had its direction remained with Gen.
Burnside, who supcrintended it from the
beginning. That General wished to put his
colored troops in the van. Gen. Meade
objected. Gen. Grant says, "Had they
made the assault / have no doubt 1t
would have succeeded" And the Committee
say generally that but for the interference OF
Gen. Meade at the end, who from the beginning
had disbeleved in and contemptuously criti-
cised the project of the mine it would have
accomplished its object. But when Gen. Meade
came to understand that the explosion and as
sault had a probable chance Of success, he
assured the direction of it, and by his disar.
rangement of Gen. Burnside's plans became
responsible for the resulting failure.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-02-07

Advices B.. ON Col. Webb, United States Min
lister at Rio Janero, received at the State De-
partment, bring the gratifying intelligence that
the Government of Brazil has issued a decree
excluding the pirate Shenandoah from the ports
of that Empire At the date of these advices
Mr. Stewards answer in the case OF the Florida
had not been received at Rio.