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privileges. And in the character of the bill
introduced by Mr.. Disraeli the people find
ample justification of their distrust of the
Tories. The bill 'holds the word of promise
to the ear and breaks it to the hope" With
an ostentation OF liberality in its concessions,
1T has been, nevertheless, so framed that by
an artfully arranged system of checks and
counterpoises, its liberal provisions, should it
become a law, will be in large measure
neutralized by its conservative reservations
The leaders of the Reform party i'm Parliament
have tried to amend it, but they have failed
in their efforts; and it now seems certain that
the measure, with all its odious features. will
pass the Commons and find its way into the
House of Lords. What reception il will meet
with in that intensely Tory body remains to
be seen.
Our dispatches by cable fail to tell us what
Mr.. Disraeli's compromise is; but from the
way in which his proposal was opposed by
Messrs. Gladstone and Bright, we infer that it
is of nature decidedly inimcal to the popular
cause. 1t is, we suppose, like all compromises
proposed under similar circumstances-prin
ciple sacrificed to expedienoy, right postponed
to interest, justice practically ignored in favor
OF power But like all such miserable expe-
dients, 1t will, assuredly, bring its retribution
in due time. Some one has said that "politics
is the science of compromises" but there are
periods and occasions when nothing in political
action can be more dangerous than ComprO-
mise 1t may succeed very veil in ordinary
times and ordinary circumstances, when
society is comparatively quiescent, and when
political agitation is a mere ruffing of the sur
face of the waters bat it will never answer
IN revolutionary periods, when mems pas
sions are stirred to their very depths. and
political excitement assumes the character OF
the storm.
And it will not answer in the case now
under consideration, because the spirit of revo-
luton is abroad in England. The people are
resolved on having their rights. They say so;
and we believe they will carry out their deter
mination. Disraeli, as the accepted oracle OF
the British aristOcracy, may deprecate as much
as he pleases the advance of democracy in
England that will not prevent it from ad
vancing. 1t is steadily marching on, and that
which the American Congress, acting on the
inspiration of liberty, and in accordance with
the will of a great and free nation, has Just
given the lately emancipated slaves of the
South, the working classes of England will
wrest from an unwilling olgarchy. Thei
battle cry is manhood suffrage and the bal
lot" and that it will ultimately come to thi:
we have no doubt The compromise ovel
| which the Tories are so jubilant, so far from
settling the question of Reform, will only hav,
1 the effect of intensifying the agitation nov
going on, of which John Bright is the master
spirit, and the Reform League the organized
power,
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we likely to have, since few persons who are
fit to fiji the place will readily incur the
trouble and modification of going to Europe
in June with commission which Is pretty
sure to be annulled in December. And now
that death has removed Mr.. Wright, who was
filing with credit post to which he had been
formerly appointed by President Buchanan,
we are very likely to be left unrepresented at
Berlin also and this at a most interesting and
important moment in the history of Europe,
of Germany, and of Prussia. The recent ex-
tension of the Prussian authority over those
parts of Germany with which our intercourse
has been and is the largest and most constant,
cannot fail to be fOllowed-it has already, in
deed been followed-by consequences of i'm
nortance 10 American interests in those regions.
New fiscal and commercial regulations will be
almost hourly taking effect in one or another
point now for the first time subjected to the
direct authority of the PTussian crown, or
really brought into dependence upon that
crown through its incorporation with the
North German Confederation. The applica-
ton to the whole of Western and Northern
Germany of the stringent and onerous Prus-
sian military system, will be continually
raising new, various, and vexatious questions
of personal rights in connection with our
American doctrine and practice of naturaliza-
tion-questions which will demand the utmost
delicacy and frmness combined in the treat
ment of them, since, while we have no
earthly interest-in quarrelling with the Ger
many of King William and Count Bismark,
it is clear that the Germany of King William
and Count Bismark is pursuing line of
policy which makes it imperative upon the
Prussian rulers to make the very utmost of all
the military resources within their reach.
The agreement of the Great Powers upon the
naturalization of Luxembourg, while it is an
immediate gain to the cause of peace, will
| hardly make smoother the task of recognizing
Germany to minister who, after leading the
German people to believe that he would never
abandon an inch of German territory, is now
forced to withdraw the Prussian troops from q
| position which the Germans rightly or wrongly
hold to be essential to German greatness on
the Rhine, and to respect in the case of Lux
embourg the principle of local independence
upon which in so many other instances he had
| successfully set his foot.
IT. at such time, and in the presence OF
events of so much actual and prospective in
terest, America is to be left without a cOmpe
tent representation in Central Europe, it must
lie remembered that we owe this to the party
of "great moral IDEAS" which regards all the
ordinary human subjects of policy, and all the
gravest matters of the public veal, as less thar
nothing in comparison with the high and holy
duty OF reserving 'to the saints" the earth
| and all the offices thereof.
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The Freedmen and their Friends.

From the Times.
We alluded the other day to the mis-
chievous effect which has been produced upon
the colored population of New Orleans by the
efforts of those who claim to be their peculiar
friends. We showed, on the authority of local
journals, that the doctrine of right is pushed
by the negroes far beyond the limit fixed by
their white counsellors and advocates, and
that one of its earliest and least expected
manifestations is a demand for prime consi-
deration in the distribution of offices, to the
exclusion of the majority of white candidates.
The circumstance was presented as a sug-
gestive illustration of the danger consequent
upon every attempt to separate the races, and
to build upon the distinction fabric of privi-
lege for the blacks and disfranchisement for
the great body of the whites. For the un-
tutored negroes, flushed with the possession
| of power they know not how to exercise,
will be likely to use it in manner at once ex-
travagant and unjust, and thus produce diff
cultes more disastrous in their character than
any that have yet occurred.
The letter we recently published from a
! correspondent who has Just returned to Rich
mond, shows that the tendency which has
been traced in Louisiana may also be dis
cerned in Virginia. A marked change has
taken place, our correspondent writes, in the
disposition and conduct of the Richmond
negroes They are no longer orderly, civil,
industrious. They have ceased to be content
with their emancipation, or anxious to prove
themselves worthy of it, On the contrary,
they are growing insolent, unruly, domineer-
ing are seeking dominance instead of equality
in other words, they are setting themselves
up as a privileged class--a class privileged
over all else in streets, in courts in churches,
in markets-wherever men and women con
gregate. 1t is alleged that few months have
suf6ced to bring about this change, which, i
continued, must naturally re-establish colo
, as a dividing line, with the negroes mistakinl
license for liberty, and the prevention o
anarchy dependent upon the strong arm 0
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mestic animals first, and then the wild let
them protect the horse and the sheep and the
OK, and proceed TO others as they have OppOr-
tunity. But, meantime, let us abandon false,
or at least inconsistent, reasoning. We may,
for instance, give to domestic animals the first
benefit Of our pity-they are our familiars,
our companions, almost our friends but when
we talk in this connection of the effect of bad
treatment on the healthfulness of veal or beef
we are caring for ourselves the mercy we
seek for the brute has, after all, respect only
to our own stomaohs. One of the Philadei-
phia speakers, for instance, in the midst
of warm address, brought in the lob
ster, and dilating upon the cruelty Of
plugging its claws, wound up by say
ing that the lobster, in perfectly
healthy state, was a great delicaoy, but
that this plugging his claws might injure
his health, and make him unsafe for the
human stomach. This reminds us of the
well-known wish of Sidney Smith for his
friend who was going out as a missionary to
New Zealand-he hoped the preacher would
agree with the man who might eat him. This
speaker had similar kind feeling towards the
lobster. Let us be careful of our logic and
consistency in this delicate works it is easy
to give wit a handle against the best of causes
1t must be right to diminish the miseries of
life as much as possible, even among inferior
! creatures, and it is especially so as cruelty
/ blunts our better feelings. Let cruel sports
be condemned as well as cruel anger. Let us
| not only be kind to the domestic animals that
! render us service but let humanity prove its
nobleness by gentleness to everything that
| feels.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
More "Nary Harrising."

AT fremons ball in Hoboken, Friday
night, Mrs. Swentz shot her husband, John
Swentz, who had taken another lady to the
ball, leaving her at home. Two balls entered
the body Of Swentz, one just under the left
shoulder near thecentre of the back, and the
other about six inches above. He was i'm
medately taken into hn adjoining room and
q physician sent for, who succeeded in ex-
tracing one of the balls; the other could not
be found.
On examination, she stated that she had
only been married to Swentg, about six
weeks; that her name was formerly Dobbs,
and that she formerly resided with her pa
rents in the vicinity of Bulls Ferry. She
alleges that Swentz seduced her under
promise Of marriage about eight months
ago; that he for long time refused to
marry her, but finally { consented, and was
united to her about six weeks ago. Ever
since then he has, she says, neglected her,
and repeatedly kept company with other
women. Last evening he left her homo and
took with him TO the ball another young
lady. Determined to have rcvcngeIs Isbe pur-
chased revolver and proceeded to the ball
room, where she found her husband dancing.
As soon as Swcntz saw her he came over to
where she was standing, and wanted TO know
what she was doing there. She stated she
had followed him. lie then told her to 20
take off her hat and remain TO the ball. AS
he did so, he turned and was passing out ol
the ball room in the gentlemcn's room,
where SHE fired the first shot.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25

CALIFORNIA GoLD.-Thc San Francisco pa.
pers give detailed statement Of the ship
mcnt of treasure from that port in the past
year, explaining that the shipments on mer-
camille account became very heavy from the
middle of May to the middle of August, un-
der the pressure to employ gold in New
York at the high rates then current there
The largest shipment was on June 30, when
the drain caused such pressure that prompt
measures were taken TO check it. From that
time the markets became gradually easier.
The total of mercantile shipments for the
year foots up $37 ,l43,3 the treasury ship
ments Sl2,6OO,OOO, and the shipments to
China 70032G6, giving total Of $780,
l4G,577. These treasury shipments embrace
a considerable sum on hand at the beginning
of the year, as follows: On hand January ],
1866, 1861 ,064; received at custom.house
S7,457,4 supply $lG,4ls,536; shipped,
$4,000, 600; balance in December, S4,4l9,-
53G. or the shipments per steamers, the
whole amount of coin on mercantile &c.
count was $4,397,2l0, which, added to the
coin carried off by the treasury, makes &c.
1920, or rather more than three-fourths
Of the whole amount coined at the mint
there.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
RECEPTIONS.
pRkwrNo.RooN REcgrrIoSs.


We are authorized TO announce that
THE PREsIDEST's daughters, Mrs. PATTERSON
and Mrs. Slower, will be at home on Monday
aftsrnoons. ,..n ..... ,.. .r,. Dr.
CABINET RECEPTIONS. Do
pot The ladies Of Secretary BRowNNos family
will receive their friends on Wednesday after
Moons. The residence Of the Secretary Of
the Interior is on the east side Of Montgom-
cry street, Georgetown Heights.
The ladies of Secretary McOuLLocus fam
lily will receive, as usual, on Wednesday Of
ternoons, Residence 3O6 II street, between
Connecticut avenue and Seventeenth street.
MRS. POSTMASTER GENERAL RANDALL will
receive on Wednesday afternoons, at No. 4OI
New York avenue.
%" SPEAKER CoLFAx's RECEPTIONS.
The receptions Of the Speakers mother and
sister, Mrs. and Miss MATTHEWS, for ladies,
and gentlemen accompanying them, will con
tihue every Wednesday afternoon from l
to 4 o'clock, p. IN.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
THE GREAT PLOTTER.

FoRNEY's Sunday Chronicle throws a
double loaded threat at The President about
the military reconstruction bill, and asks /:
Will ANDREW JOHNSON rise superior TO
plotters2 2" Did anybody ever dream that
JouS W. FoRSEY, who is the chief Of plotters
and jobbers, would ask such an impertinent
question! When FoRNEY plotted to destroy
the power of WADE, HANLIN, SUMNER, TRUM-
BULL, WILSON, and other old Wing and Free.
soil Senators, did not ANDREW JOHNSON rise
above him? When FoRYEY plotted to pro-
cure private secretary for Vice President
ANDREw JOHNSON did not the latter rise
above him. When FoENEY plotted TO seize
and control the public patronage under
President ANDREW JOHNSON, contingent TO
hisrcontinuing johnson man" and turn
ing against Congress, did not ANDREW JoHE.
soN rise above him and repudiate him
When FoRNEY plotted to obtain possession
Of the New York ustom-house did not
ANDREW JOHNSON rise above him Why
then, should JoHS w. FoRNEY PROFOUND this
question, "Will ANDREW JOHNSON rise supe
rior to plotters p when no man knows better
than he how well ANDREW JOHNSON can dc
it? Why don't FoRSEY join WILSON'S tenn
perance society, and reform and become G
good man, quit plotting, and tell the truth !?
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION.

If any misunderstanding radicals suppose
that President JOHNSON intends to pocket !"
the military reconstruction bill, which
reached him on Friday evening last, they
will find themselves very much mistaken.
He is no such man. He will not allow it
to be said that he obstructed the great work
Of reconstruction in that way. The two
Houses of Congress will have on opportunity
Of making the bill law, Notwithstanding it
is clearly unconstitutional in many Of its
provisions. If it becomes law, If that is the
best that the Thirty.Ninth Congress can pro
duce after laboring for two years, The PREsr-
DENT will do the best he can with it. He will
execute it, and, il possible, will bring har.
mony out of the present national chaos
through its agency, unless prevented by the
constitutional interference and check Of that
august and ever.to-be-respected coordinate
branch of the Government, the Supreme
Court of the United States. We have no
doubt that The President will return the
reconstruction bill to Congress at the earliest
possible moment.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
TELEGRAMS
TO b.
The National Republican.
GRY TILE ASSnC1ATEn PREss1
IBY THE EAssoCIATED PREss.l
WORKINGMEN'S CONVENTION
ITS POLITICAL INFLUENCE,
RAILROAD IN KANSAS.
ARR EsTs FOR AR 20 NJ.
Connecticut WorItingmcn's Conyen.
lion.

Connecticut WorItingmcn's Conven.
tion. a.
NEw HAVEN, Feb. 22.-Thc workingmen's
Convention adjourned at p. m, after an
excited and stormy. session. MK @. NJ. Glib.
son, Of Norwich, presided. d"
The question Of nominating State ticket
was thoroughly discussed, and decided mega
lively.
Ofthe resolutions passed one is in favor of
eight hours as legal days work. Another
sets forth that there is no conflict with capi-
tai, and recommends the same energy and
perseverance in the use Of honorable means
TO accomplish their objects as was shown by
so many sof their number during the war
which saved the nation. -
The third resolution says that it is the
duty Of all interested in the cause to do all
in their power TO elect Senators and Repre-
sentatves who will support the cause.
The fourth resolution is against nominat-
ing State ticket, but advises all to vote for
candidates who favor the cause, and closes
by saying that oil attempts of employers, by
threats or coercion, TO control the votes Of
employees, are outrages on thc franchise,
and demand, at the hands of the Legislature,
law punishing such offences by imprison.
ment in the penitentiary.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
European Capital for virginia.

The Richmond Dispatch says cable tele-
gram was received on Wednesday by Col
ELLIS, president of the James River and Ka'
nawha Company, from Mr.. DE- BILLET, stating
that the Societe Generate de Paris had
agreed to furnish the maximum capital OF
S4O,OOO,OOO required for the Virginia Canal
Company, But some conditions precedent
require certain legislation of the State of
Virginia, and here the great "conundrum"
is Virginia a State for certain purposes
and not State for certain other purposes p
is liable to demand solution before the
French capitalists will come down with the
money
The national Republican., 1867-02-25

A WESTERN EDITOR, who has been q law
yer, in one of his lucid intervals, writes the
following:
A practice of thirty years in the tribunals
of civil and criminal justice has satisfied us
that any man who will wilrully and delbe.
rately lie, for the purpose of benefiting him
self or injuring another, will as readily swear
to that lie. Oaths have been so cheapened,
by being so universally and unnecessarily
required, that they have come to have no
sanctity at all. We would just US soon take
a mans testimony without his oath as with
it. We have seen more than hundred in
stances of direct md deliberate perjury As
to the moral guilt, the man who attempts to
injurc another by lie, is just as guilty us the
one who attempts to do it by perjury.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
Wallis Opera House.

The WEBB Sisters, who are extremely
charming condolences az JaH III the most
delightful comedies burlesques, and farces,
are to appear six nights only at Walls Opera
House, closing up the present Congressional
season at the theatre. This evening JouN
BRouGHAM's extravaganza of "Pocahontas -
will be produced, with Miss ADA WEBB as
PocahCntas, and Miss EMMA WEBB as Captain
John Smith
The national Republican., 1867-02-25

LOUISIANA CRoPs. The Houma Cicic
Gaard speaks thus of the crops: "Our
planters have had delightful spell of
weather for planting cane, and, from all we
can learn, have been improving the time
All the large plantations are being planted
in cane. Only the small farms, where there
are no sugar.houses, will be planted in cotton,
Most of the freedmen have contracted for
the year. In most cases their wages have
been increased; the average price paid for
men is about $l5 per month and rations."
The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter says cane
is too scarce there to make much sugar be.
fore 1869, by which time there will he plant
and FattoOn cane enough to make a full crop.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
Sewing Machines.

Pending the motion by Mr.. DARLING, of
New York in the House on. Friday, to re-
move the tax now imposed upon sewing ina.
chimes, that gentleman paid the following
eloquent and truthful tribute TO this invcn.
ton, which we clip from the Globe report Of
the debates;
Now, sir admitting that II few of the
pioneers" in this art have, after years Of
labor, after years of unceasing and almost
unparalleled enterprise and perseverance, sue
ceeded in acquiring competence; they have
richly earned it, and | say let them enjoy it.
But these parties have generally retired from
the business, and il is now in the hands OF
new and younger men; men who are not
rich. nor likely soon to become so Men
who, however are eminently public spirited,
proyerbially liberal, and always loyal. Men
who have striven from the outbreak of the
rebellion to keep their prices at the gold
basis. and who have done SO. Men whose
avowed policy it is to reduce rather than ad-
vance prices, and whose ambition it is to
place a sewing machine in every household
in the land. ! say shall this interest, shall
these men suffer because their predecessors
one perhaps out of every hundred Of the in
yentors in the art) have made something ?
Shall they be driven to increase their prices
or add the manufacturers tax, (which they
have hitherto rcfrained from dOing) to the
price Of the machine?
Who suffers by this? Is it not the poor
sewing girl? Is 1t not she who is watching
and guarding her meagre earnings prayer.
fully looking forward to the day when she
will be able to buy Il sewing machine When
she, too, in common with the thousands now
possessing them, may have the means of al
ways acquiring u respectable and honest liy-
ing? Why, sir, there is not person within
the hearing Of my voice who does not know
and acknowledge that this invention has
done more to elevate, ameliorate, and i'm.
prove the condition of woman, whether rich
or poor, whether in the workshop or in the
family, whether in the "boudOlr" Of the re-
fined or the garret of the toiling seamstress,
than any instrumentalty ever before devised.
Why, sir, this is public benefacticn-it is
an art which this Government should be
proud to foster and encourage; for it comes
home to every iireside-it lightens the bur
dens and gladdcns the heart of every mother,
every wife, and every sister in the land.
Every widow made desOlate by the war and
dependent upon the scanty earnings Of her
daily toll to feed her helpless orphans is in,
terested in this question. | say then God
speed to the thousands of men who are man,
uiucturng these machines and who are dis,
tributing and educating the people in their
use throughout every section Of our country
| hope there is not member of this House
who will not vote for this amendment.
Pure gold, every word. Yet the House
strange as it may appear which seemed but
the evening before ready to place the valua,
BILE article of sewingmachines upon the free
list by general acclaim, now, under the ad
verse manUuvering Of Mr. ALLISON, of Iowa
and the unfortunate opposition of Mr. CoNE-
LING, Of New York, failed to sustain Mr.
DARLING's amendment.
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
From Kansas.

TOPEKA, KANSAS, Feb. 22.-Thc appropria-
ton bill which has passed the Kansas Legis-
lature provides for the assumption and settle.
ment Of clVms growing out Of Prices raid
and the Indian expedition.
The iron has been purchased for the first
twenty-four miles oil the Lawrence and Gal
weston railroad, south Of Lawrence. New
York capitalists promise to push the work
yigorously
The national Republican., 1867-02-25
TO THE NATURALIZATION.

JoHS w. FoRNEY, the Secretary Of the
United States Senate, snubbed that body in
one of his 1.-TWO newspapers-both daily"
last Saturday, for confirming certain nomi-
nations made byTHE President. That grave
body had better look out or JOIN will refuse
to receive his salary some day, in which event
the Senators will wish that they had not in,
CURED his wrath.