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, 1868-01-24

Jokes ON JONES Jones is very fine old
gentleman-a gentleman of the "rale ould
stoch"-but will press his tansy too often on
occasions. Recently, he was on "run,
when friend of his took the opportunity OF
putting card inside the lining of his hat
every time he got chance. In few days
his hat became so tight, in sympathy with its
wearer, that it would not 60 on. Jones be>
came alarmed and consulted his friend, who
advised him to take black draught. Jones
did SO, and was very sick. His friend then
removed all the cards from the lining Of his
hat, and slipped it on with remarkable ease;
Jones told the singular story Of his head
swelling, and contracting again, lot some
time, but finally discovered the truth he
has not spoken to his friend since.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

SENATE, Jan. 21.-The protection of citizens
abroad occupied some attention, and resOlu-
ton to look into the recent alleged Outrages
was laid on the table.
The President was called upon for inforna-
ton as to the completely of James A. Seldom,
the Confederate Secretary Of War, i'll the bar
barous treatment of our prisoners in the late
war.
bill were passed to a second reading.
A bill to fund the public debt and to amend
the banking laws of che United States was
referred. Its provisions will he found in our
Geographic report. ......
There was some debate, but no action, upon
the House bill to provide meters for whisky
distieries.
The remainder of the session was devoted to
discussion of the case of Senator Thomas of
Maryland. The vote will be pressed on
Wednesday. $780,.
The Reconstruction bill just adopted by the
House was received and referred.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22
SHORT METER.

A grave. momentous issue now divides the
American People:
On the one side, it is insisted that all those
who participated in the late Rebellion shall be
Immediately, Internationally, restored to every
political franchise, while the -Four Millions of
Colored people inhabiting the various States
shall have no voice whatever in framing, modi-
flying OF administering the laws under which
they are to live.
This is the position of the so-caed (after
the similtude of Bottoms Idream) Democratic
party.
The Democratic party insists on this policy,
because II knoics that the Rebels rW all rote NTH
that party Gas they do in Maryland Kentucky,
etc., whiIe the Blacks acOuid nearly all rOte
d0ainStit.
The Republicans, on the other hand, very
generally desire that the Blacks shall vote
forthwith while they require the more con-
spicuous Rebels to stand back a while. But no
one demands or imagines that this disfran-
chisement shall be more than temporary. Gov.
Bullocks, Gov. Fairchild's, ana Gov. Chamber
lain's messages, Gen. Buffers late speech at
Richmond, and every other recent commanding
declaration of Republican sentiment, prove
llldJ JHC party ID NONhlu
the comprehensive generous platform OF Uni
versal Amnesty with Impartial Suffrage.
The Democratic party expects, by suppress
ing the voice of the Blacks in the Southern
States, to secure decided majority in each
and every one Of them, and thus elect the
next President and House of Representatives.
For, while its adherents are not majority of
the ,chole people of those States they are n
majority of the Whites; so, if none but Whites
vote, they can sweep every State southwark of
| the Potomac and the Ohio.
Andrew johnson, BOoth-made President, is
their leader in this effort to suppress the voice
of majority of the loyal people of the South,
and thus give the control of those States to
that portion of their inhabitants who profoundly
regret that the Rebellion did not succeed
Johnson's power not being likely to suffice,
they now seek and expect the aid of ma
jority of the Justices of the Supreme Court
whereby they hope to nulfy the power of
Congress over the subject of Reconstruction
and reestablish the Rebel performance in the
South, and thus their own in the Union.
! The Republicans do not mean 10 he put
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

down either by Andrew johnson, or by the five
Judges who are expected to supplement and
finish his work.
If they arc beaten, and the Blacks crushed
into non entity the ex- Rebels and their Northern
allies take possession of the Federal Govern
ment. and reverse the results OF Gettysburg,
Vicksburg, Five Forks, and Appomattox !;
making ours such a "White Mans Govern
"mentr as the Southern aristocracy sought to
establish through Secession and Confederation.
This can only be done by the Supreme Court
constituting itself sovereign arbiter in Ques-
lions purely political; contrary to Its own de-
cision in the Rhode Island case and (passively)
in that of West Virginia.
Understand, then, that it is false that the
Republicans are keeping the Southern States
ont of the Union. They are doing their best
to get those States back into their proper po-
-sition in the Union-but not Rebel side up
"That s what s the natter
1t is false that the Republicans are seeking
to prolong Military rule at the South. On the
contrary, they are tying to hasten the super
cession of that rule by governments elected
by the loyal people of the respective States.
We favor government by the whole people ;
our adversaries would perpetuate the rule OF q
caste.
We seek to educate ond elevate all the
people of the South. They would keep the
Blacks in ignorance, and make that Ignorance
pretext for their Acknowledgement. Judge
them by what they are doing in Maryland,
Kentucky and Delaware, where they have full
swing.
Republicans! be not deceived by false
charges against Congress, even though they
emanato from those you have hitherto
trusted Congress is doing justly, nobly, what
must be done if tho Government is not to be
tamely surrendered to a minority rule of Cop
perheads and Rebels. Stand fast by your faith
full and fearless representatives in the councils
of the Nation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22
OLD IND NEW DEMOCRACY.

The Democratic party will not know itself
much longer, if Mr. George Ticknor Curtis is
allowed To furnish it with Constitutional doc
trines. We have looked carefully through 1.-THE
"resolutions of 0Sr without finding any recogni
ton of the alleged right of the Supreme Court
TO determine all disputed questions OF conflict
ing Federal power and reserved State or in
dividual rights. On the contrary, Mr.. Jefferson,
soon after his accession to the Presidency,
liberated at least one person who was in prison
under a decision of that Court that the Sedi-
ton law was constitutional: but Mr.. Jefferson
didn't see it, and let him ont, on the express
assumption that the act was invalid, for lack OF
constitutional power IN Congress to pass 1t.
And no one ever heard Democrat of the old
school affirm the doctrines now foisted on the
Democracy by Mr. Curtis.
Questions arising under treaties are especially
referred by the Constitution to the arbtrament
of "the judicial power Yet, when the Supreme
Court expressly affirmed the binding force OF
our treaties with the Cherokecs which Georgia,
in her haste to clutch their lands, had over
ridden, Gen. Jackson Chen PresidenO observed:
"Well John Marshall has made his decision
"now let him enforce IT, And, as he could Mt
that decision went for nothing, being set at
naueht by Georgia, with the Presidents hearty
concurrence. And Democratic Congress sub
sequently refunded fine imposed by that
Court on Matthew Lyon under the Sedition act
expressly on the ground OF the unconstitution
atty of that act, maugre the Supreme Courts
decision.
We believe in that Court, and uphold it in
the exercise of its rghtful powers. But, when
it attempts to set its foot on the necks of Four
Millions of our Contingencies it did in the
bred Scott case-we afiectionately advise it
not TO do 80 again. And we guess it will not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

Late adyices from Hayti, which appear else
where, give very different version Of tho cause
of the death of the Ilaytien General, Leon
Montas, from that which was published by one
of our city journals some time back, purporting
to have been received by cable from Havana.
1t was then stated that Montas, who had been
incarcerated at Cape Hayticn and was awaiting
his trial for having stirred up revolt against the
government of President Salnave had been bru-
tally murdered in prison by order of the President
of Hayti-that poison had been in the first in
stance administered to him, and that, that agent
having failed, the unfortunate soldier was dis
patched by being struck on the head with
sharp chise, which penetrated the brain. OF
course, the publication of this alleged horrible
deed of blood was accompanied by some very
strong remarks, in the course Of which great
stress was laid on the barbarism OF the negro
and cognato topics. 1t turns out that the whole
story of the assassination was a wicked false
hood. Montas, it appears, died from stroke
of apoplexy--a fact which was arrived at from
q post norton examination of his body, made in
the presence of the principal civil and military
authorities Of Cape Hayden, and number Of
medical men, both natives and foreigners. We
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22
9mustmtnis.

BAltNUMS AMERICAN MUSEUM-Day and Evening
Nobodys SON "A Living Gonlla-Van Amtarsh Co.'S hena
Gere-5OOoO Curiosites
BANvARD's OPERA House. This Evening" The
FROST King 1.-The Mammoth Cave
BROADWAY THEATEE-This Evening" Peep o
Day" Mrs D. p. Bowers
BUNYAN HALL. Union Square-Ths Afternoon AMI
Negligible Pilgrim"
FRESCH THEATER-This Evening" La Grande
Duobesssd De Gcrohen"
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DEsIGN-Day and Evening.
The Paris Pictures
NEw-YORK CIRCUS, FOurteenth-st.-ThisA Afternoon
and Evening Feats Of Miss Lucille Watson
NRwlORK THEATRR-IhiS Evening.-"Ihe Pick
wick Papers" The Worren Sisters
NIBLOs GARDEN-This Evening.-"The White
Pawn" Psrseane Ballet Troupe.
OLYMPIC THEATER-This Evening" Midsum-
nsr Nights Dream"
Pixies OPERA House 49, This Evening. Do La
Gunge Brgnoi Italian Opera" Rgoeto"
STEINwAY HIL-This Evening.-Mr. j. W. DaW-
sous Concert W
WALAcK's-This Evening-The Wonder, No-
Keeps a Secret" Lester Walsck.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

HOUSE, Jan. 2l.-The Reconstruction bill was
the absorbing matter OF the session. The vote of
Yesterday ordeiing the main question was recon-
sidered, and Mr.. Butler explained his amendment
to vest certain appointments in the State COnven-
tons. Mr.. Stevens supported the motion. After
some debate the amendment was rejected. SO to
49, The vote was then taken on the blll and
it was adopted 10y 1913 to A. All the Yeas were
Republicans, and all the Nays with Cary of
Ohio besides) were Democrats. Fernando
Wood moved to amend the title of the bill, but
no vote was taken on his proposition.
A resolution asking for information as to
Government bonds was adopted. A joint reso-
linton was adopted authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury TO issue, for the relief of the
sufferers in the South, such preserved vege-
tables provided for the army as are not re-
CURED.
The Joint resolution limiting contracts for
stationery to one year was adopted
Several bills concerning p0St-r0utcs were re-
ported and appropriately rcrerlcd, and bill
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22
THE DRAMA.
DRAMATIC NOTES.


On Saturday evening. at the French Theater.
the dramatic performance will consist of"Le Mariee do
Mardl-Gras" and lies Femmes qui FieurenL"
Mr. Days new dramatization of The Pick
wick Papers" will be acted for the first time, tDS eygu-
ing. at the NewYOrk Theater with very srrog cast
Balls statue of Edwin Forrest as COriotdnus
still remains exhibition. at No. s2 broadway, ana AZ
tracts good deal Of attention IRON TIC ADMIRERS VI the
veteran actor
Miss Lotta's first appearance at the Broad
way Thcater next Monday, VIII be made ms LdNe Atd,
and The Warehouses, IN BrOuelalns Naturalization of
The Old Curiosity shop II
"The. Pilgrim at Dunyan Hail. is in tie
nineteenth week OF prosperous Mrs G. Shepard
the principal vocalist Mr. T. " BaiD delivers tie de-
scripye lecture. Matinees are given every afternoon.
The first appearance Of the new troupe OF
japanese aerobats and iaggers - assigned for Friday
evening neA AT the Acieiny OF Music AZ Is claimed
that, In skill. daring and artistic merit thus tfuis
largely SURPRISES all It's predecessors here. Tiae will 10
q Matinee Oh Saturday.
Several new beasts have been added to the
fine collection at Barnun's Museum, among Hem Po n
nagerc IL Of the eouudost exhibitions noY ~ New
York. of really fascinating Interest ald OK manifest posi-
tive value IN the student.
Mr. Dickens concluded his readings in Brook
Ign, at Plymouth Church, last evening His audiences
have been large and his reception has been hearty for
the months We shall hear Of him In various parts
Of the country where doubt no will be
daily welcomed as he has been the Eastern cities
Votaries of the Drama should especially bear
in MUD that tho beautiful spectacle OF " Mdsunliner
Nights Dream. now holding the stage. OF The olympic
Theater Is shortly To be WITHDRAWN With IL VII dsla.e
tuncs OF seeing It be improved. Msegie Mitchell comes
this thcater ia February, aud alter her engdgemcis
has closed to PanOuiuic produced IN the Dess
possible manner with Mr, Fox IN the chiei character
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Returns, &c, &c, forming condensed POLITICAL
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cutting down Post Office advertising was

cutting down Post-0fice advertising was
passed
The Conference Committee on Currency Con,
traction reported that the Committee had
agreed to recommend that the Senate recede
from its amendment and agree to the House
bill with the following amendment: " Bnl
nothing herein contained shall prevent the
"cancelation and destruction of mutilated Uni
ted States notes. and the replacing of the same
"with notes of the same character and amount.
The report was agreed 10.
The Conference Committee on the Cotton Tax
bill renorted that the Committee had not been
able to agree. The House then ordered another
Conference Committee.
The Committee on Appropriations reported
back the Senate amendments to the Deficiency
bill. Pending its consideration. the House
adjourned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

financial question. " Hamilton Of Baltimore
could wait no longer, and has rushed into 81
pages of print to say that gold ought no longer
to be part of our currency, and that hence
forth it should consist entirely of paper Lot
Hamilton be happy To prove his own pam
phlet needless, he need only have looked into
his pocket book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

We trust The World will feel relieved when
it learns that the paragraph SO ostentatiously
quoted from our Washington column of Mon
day was accidentally copied from Democratic
paper in our own Office and that our Wash
ngton correspondent never saw it until sur
prised at its appearance among his dispatches
To. any paper but The World it would be I'M
necessary to make this explanation. The char
acter of the paragraph is of itself enough to
prove it a stranger TO us.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

wonder II those who gloated over the story,
and gave marked prominence to its revolving
incidents as illustrative of the true character of
the negro, will now have the honesty to pub
lish the truth as to how Montas came to his
death? Perhaps this would be expecting too
much of men who seem to think that, where the
depreciation of the negro is concerned, the most
baseless falsehoods and the basest ISLANDERS are
legitimate weapons of attack.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

Compare the following assertion of The Nec-
York Times with the manly statement of the
truth by ex-Gov. Brown of Georgia. Gov.
Brown was one of the first to see through the
delusive, swindling promises held ont to the
South to draw and keep the State in the Re-
bellion, and is now one of the clearest in ex-
posing the like swindling pretcnses 10y which
the reconstruction of the State is sought to be
delayed by truthless demagogucs and renegade
Republicans:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

" We print on the second page Of this Morn
ing'S TRIBUNE Letter from Om Special Cor
respondent on Me Cole HiScoek Murder, the
Workings of the Ercise La,0 Shoe Business in
Lynn, The Southern States, Information Wanted,
Great Suffering IN II4nis, An i4diO- Morm9nite
he third; Foreign Items on the sirth; and
Real Estate, Shipping NeWs, The DutcheSs and
Columbia Railroad, La,C Intelligence, A Scrap
of History and other Matters on the Serenh.
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As we anticipated, the whole George Francis
Train business has turned out to be an adver-
tisement. Mr.. Train has been released, as
everybody supposed he would be, as soon as
the British Government discovered what sort
of person he was. England is not going to
wantonly interfere with American citizens who
respect her laws.
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From The n. Y. Tine.

lNNh - AaHf"H
"Undcr the law which
Congress proposes 10 enforce
upon tho Sonth, the negro
vote will decide the political
complexion OF six or eight,
and probably OF all the
Southern States; and this,
IL is assumed, will decide tho
Presidential election, and
the policy OF the nation foI
q good many years 10 come.
Ifthis programme be carried
out, wo shall not only have
given the slaves their free
dom, but shall have con
ferrei upon them the power
Of shaping the policy, the
laws. the destiny Of our Re
public In this crisis OF It's
fate. We do not believe that
the people are prepared for
sO tremendous "A step.
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rnE MANuFAcrURERs, coNyENrIoN.

WORCESTER, Mass, Jan. 2.-The New-En-
gland Manuiaeturers Convention 10 DO held here to-.
morrow promises 70 be important gathering. The
storm delays the arrival OF delegates but enough are
here TO indicate general representation OF all
serest Quito spirited consultation OF delegates was
held this evening but no definite action was resolved
upOu. The Convention meets AT noon. The storm has
6ated and there win probably be 2Oo delegates present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22
DROWNED.
SAVANNAH,

SAVANNAH, Ga, Jan. 2l.--The Mems and
HsruM has an account OF the drowning Of j. Fulayson,
native OF PeOtlaD0. ard Miss McRea by the upsetnR
Of a boat on the OcOn0 River Mount Vernon They
are well known thTops 'lout tao State.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

lFrom er Gov. Brown Of Georgia
THE people North have
lbecn told lately that the
acts OF Congress establish
negro supremacy and white
Standardization In the South.
The charge is false. II was
the perrorse obsti,ldcy Of Tie
ichne race refusing 10 take
control hat gdre he negroes
DOtrer IN the Contention.
There ia 1900 white ma
ljority in Georgia. With this
majority. aud the boosted
superiority OF the race In
Intellect. education, expert
ence, and wealth, It Is q libel
on the trhiie men 10 say that
ner.oes can rule intellect and
capital, aud control numbers
everywhere. The charge
that Gen. Pope gerryman-
ldercd the State 10 give
negroes power is false. lie
adopted the districts as left
lby the johnson Convention,
without alteration. With
absolute power 10 set aside
every officer In Georgia, and
I'm their places with Test
lOath men, not one In nifty
had been disturbed, and not
lone who did not obstruct
Reconstruction. Not q sin
Gle citizen OF Georgia has
been tried by military com.
mission, when Pope had
power 10 set aside the courts
to try every officer by com
mission. A majority OF the
thinking men In Georgia
would have preferred his
lrulc for years to the chances
of "a better. The press has
mIsrcprcsented him. Ills
TORY will do him justice.
Democratic triumphs will
InOt relieve U.s."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

Among the thirty four millions of Amer
lean people, there arc stu few hundred left
who have not published their pamphlet on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN EAIL-
UII.r ID. ..N.f ROAD. .NlI t'' t| t''
HARRISBURG, Penn, Jan. 2f.-Attorpey Gen.
Brev ster to-day sent the PenlsS vne senate re-
port relative 10 The Atlantic and Great Western lssra
setting forth that Tue company has Violated ITS chair
by not conptlnk ITO road 70 rrh. and that vrlt OK
qito vdlrupid Win cunsealeL ~ ls le Iep9ss Was ts-
ierred to the Railroad COiDalitte.
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Neto2DotA Daily Gribmtre.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY %, 1868.
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8usimss Nutitts.
Axswrn ro MrpIcAL INorIRIEs.

The large number Of daily receiving from Physicians in
oil p Of the United states Canadas &c. eng Information
gard curative powers Of Saparan and It's associates
and the principles secured the Renovat0g Rsovent eo rs
publish replies through the press the clerical labor involved
would require force nearly equal to the United
States Treasury Department Washington RAILWAY CO.
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THE TRIBUNE answers :

]. The circulation of THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE is
larger than it year ago. Instead of losing cir
culation it is gaining very rapidly the actual gain
in the number of subscribers over last year being,
for the week ending