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New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

Senator Morton of Indiana cuts an oratoricaf
pigeon wing which we do not remember to
have seen described before during the present
session. 1t must be regarded as a marvellous
feat. seeing that the orator was not on skates
at the time, and had no tights" on. lie de-
clarcs that "the Reconstruction column ia COM
"posite 1t is composed Of solid blocks from
"the quarries of Austrian despOtism; ADORE that
"a huge mass from Africa, finished Of Tih fras-
"ments of our Constitution. But it would soon
% be in ruins, and in its stead the American people
would place 81 columns of pure white Parian
marble" The author of this feat OF arclIitec-
tual eloquence deserves to be paid for it by
" The foot
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

would pyess vote in the case OF MI lhomas'
Senator elect from Maryland.
NT ~ fro,vo nf Wisconsin made an elaborate
speech. Adjourned to. Monday ,..;o ,,os
HoTsr jan sA jG9Ft jSFd,msSS 5ssSS'Sn IN nesard %ni
,n tLe recrnt action of the Ohio Legislature IN
aftempting TO Iescind that states ratification
Of the Constitutional Xy A%Gnd%e9t 4Se 1%5ca4t ~
Comniftec 70 report whether a State has a
right to Withdraw such assent and III that
form adopted. -. in
The Military Academy Appropriation oil
(amount, S3O3O00) was reported.
A bin to continue the Freedmen's Bureau
was reported.
The Kentucky Contested Election case was
debated for long time, but no vote was taken
The report of the Conference Committee on
the repeal of the Cotton Tax was agreed TO-
1O4 to 43. The bill now goes to the President
The Naval Appropriation bill (amount, sl9',
096.O45) was reported, and made the special
order for Feb. 1S. Adjourned.
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

4 meeting OF publishers and authors was
recently held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, to
discuss the subject of International Copyright.
revived after sleep of. many years. by the
visit OF Charles Dickens 90 the United States,
and the publication of numberless editions of
his works, for which the author receives no
royalty. The laws of Great Britain on the
subject of copyright are very unsatisfactory,
and, in some respects, those of the United
States are equally so. In neither country can
q foreigner enjoy the fruits of his intellectual
labor AS soon as his book leaves the land to
which he owes allegiance, it becomes the prop
erty of others, and there is no law to give
him redress. BY our Patent act of Aug.
90, 1s42, any citizen or alien r
" having resided one year in the United
"States and taken the oath of his inten-
ton to become citizen, who, by his own
industry, genius, efforts, and expense, may
have invented OF produced any new and orig
inal design for a manufacture may take
ont patent in manner and form as set forth in
the statute, andhold his right for term of years.
The report of the Judiciary Committee, on which
tins act was founded, contained the following
protest against ignoring the authors rights:
" If labor and effort in producing what was not
before possessed or known will give title,
" then the literary man has title, per
feet and absolute, aud should have his re-
" ward. = 1t cannot he for the interest
" OF honor of the country that intellectual labor
" should be deprecated" Five years previous to
the passage OF the Patent act, an attempt was
made to extend to British authors the same rights
enjoyed by those of America. A report to this
effect was brought in by Henry Clay, but was
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

When a man makes his mark he ought to
have due credit; therefore We hasten to record,
for the admiration of his constituents and the
world at large, the bold stroke for Immortality
of Mr.. c. l.. Smith, member Of the NewYork
Assembly from Brooklyn. This is it: In view
of the fearful loss of life by fire in theaters
public halls, and other edfces in which people
gather in great numbers, Mr.. Smith proposes
that the propretors of such buildings (and of
school-houses and churches, alSo) shall, by the
1st ef August next, provide all such edifces
with-what do you think, readerl Why, light
ming rods Now we know what the L. stands
for in the honorable Asscmblymans name; lie
is Caleb Lightning Smith, and may his shadow
never be less A lightning-rod for frees
cape is good
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

President Then we must seasonably call home
our voters now wandering afar, and see that no
more straggle off and remain away till next No
vember. When the polls closed last Fall, at
leost Twenty Five Thousand Legal Voters IN
ON, etate were absent on business, in the West
in tbe South. or in the Old World. If there be
third so many away when the polls open
merit Fab, We shall probably be beaten.
In every Election District, careful list Of
the Legal Voters, including those who will be-
come such by next November, should be made
ot tbc earliest day, and corrected from time
70 time. so that the exact number may be
known. If there shall be Twenty Thousand
illegal votes polled IN our State next Fall, at
least Nineteen Thousand of them will count
against us if there be Twenty Thousand le-
gal votes npolled when the votes begin to be
counted. we shall be at least Ten Thousand
worse in the canvass than if the last OF them
had been offered and received. Two votes lost
in each school district would put the State
against us.
Our State Convention assemblies at Syracuse
next Wednesday, and will doubtless take all
these matters into earnest consideration. We
trust it will iraugurate the measures requisite
TO make the Republican vote next Fall as large
as possible, and to take care that it be called
ont to the last man. Let it do this, and we
NAV rest assured that New-Y0rk will, in 1865
as in every former election when her full vote
was polled, take her proper place in the front
rank of those States which stand fast for Ma
tionality, for Humanity. and for Universal
Freedom
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

of hills there wonderful valley 80 narrow ha fat
valley lay undiscovered aud unknown for thousands oi
years no pcr,on dreamed OF ts cXstenoe hut at last
long lime ago two Indian hunters entered II by chance,
and then what do you think they foundf they iound
small tribe of unknown people speaking an unknown
tongue Who had lived there since the creation OF the
world and without knowing that other beings existed
Now this is too bad. More than forty years
ago. Mr.. John Cloves Symmes, bona iide Jer-
seyman, told us about this strange valley,
which is neither more nor less than symmes'
Hole, leading to the interior Of the globe
where may be found nations and tongues un'
known, and treaSNe untold. Doubtless tins
wonderful Alaskan valley is the entrance to
Symmes' wonderful inner world and the un-
known tongue of those who had lived there
since the creation is that of the subteuanean
inhabitants. 1t is supposed that these strange
people aye the descendants of Cain, who wan
dered away to the land of Nod, and were
thencefbrth not heard from until the purchase
of Walrussia by our great land-jobber.
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

We owe an apology to our readers foi having
accepted and published the other day special
telegram sent us from the office OF me Hera'd,
and purporting to have been received by that
paper through the Atlantic Cable. 1t gave an
account of the falling in of portion OF the
side of Mount Vesuvius, engulfng number OF
houses, and destroying nobody knew how many
lives. 1t now appears that nothing OF the klho
took place The dispatch was a sheer fabrication
1t may be considered enterprise to humbug
the public with these sensation stories but IL
does not accord with our ideas of the province
of journalism. We care more about telling the
truth than selling extra editions. The sinking
of a whole island in the West Indies, the out
break of fictitious Jamaican linsurrection, the
drowning of the British Minister, the founder
ing of mythical "iron-clad mail-steamer,
with The loss of nearly four hundred imaginary
lives, and now the caving-in of yolcano-it
seems to us that these are inventions enough
for one year for paper which pretends to give
the nelrS
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

Our correspondent i'll Porte-au-Prince, Hayh'
give us an interesting account on the relations
of the Government and people of Hayti to the
Roman Catholic Church, a subject on which
little is generally known. The Concordat docs
not work in Hayti any more than 1t did lh
Austria and other European countries, and at
present the President. as well as the majority
of the Chambers, are opposed to it, We hope
that in changing the relations of the Church to
the State the Government of Hayi may fully
adopt the American principle of complete
separation between Church and State, instead
of the European idea of a State Church, which
interferes with the freedom of both State and
Church
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

Mr. Pendletons friends, we learn, arc already
sure of unanimous delegations to the Demo
cratic National Convention from the States OF
Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky West Nir-
ginia, Maryland. Delaware, and Nebraska; /;
while, as yet it is not known that the Demo
Gratis of single State have expressed ali ad-
verse preference. MI. JOhnsons offce-holders
are meditatDg Peoples Convention" to
present their man; which is saying, in effect,
that they give mp the Democratic Convention
as hopeless An attempt TO break the Pendlc-
ton column in the West by starting Senator
Hendricks of Indiana as a candidate, has
achieved no palpabc success, so far as we have
heard; yet we believe it is not abandoned.
The talk this way of Commodore Vanderbilt
means of course, opposition TO Peudleton; what
more it means, we have not yet learned. The
Commodore is "a years old, and great deal
too shrewd to consent to be a candidate for
any office OH earth
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

Ig A Glimpse Of Prise" Life in England; The
dent ct Port-ON-P Prihce; The IVestern States-
a Letter from our Special Correspondent in 81:
Louis; Baseball on the Ice; The Citizens
Association; The E1ec. Of Pardon upon an
Oiraers Rights; Literary Reputation; TIE Money
A rficle and 0thei matters on The second page of
Ills morninq's Tribune The Markets, Shipping,
and Court intelligence; SeisHre Of Illicit DisM-
ic,ies IN BrooklyS, and the Arny Of fhe Can,ber
Land on The HiTd. Scie"ce on the sixth, and Real
Esfafc on he seueRH.
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

The destruction yesterday by fire OF three
cars on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the killing
of one passenger, and the serious injury of
dozen more, pOtently renews our recent pea
for iron cars. Here, within less than two
months after the awful catastrophe on the Lake
Shore Road, we have an almost exact ropeti-
ton of the horror. The Pennsylvania Leglsia-
ture is in session; these three cars were burned
almost at their doors. viii they look to the
mattCr at once?
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01
GRrEyBAcKs AND NATIONAL CURRENCY

GREENB1CKS AND NATIONAL CURRENCY
The Bill to substitute grecnbacks for our
National Banking Currency" in other words,
to destroy our National Banking system,
which is said to be supported by the Commit
tee on Banking and Currency, would, if passed,
be an infinitely more substantial victory for
the sVaandigh0m-Pend Democracy than
any they won at the polls last Fall. We hope
the Republican party will receive no such
Biutus-like stab at the hands OF lis friends.
The National Banking system is an indis-
pensablc financial bulwark of National Sow
eregnty against State Sovereignty, and the
accepted mode of attaining II sound, uniform
and rcdeomablc paper currency. The attacks
which have been made upon it arc grounded
mainly in sophistry and ignorance, and we had
hoped that, so far from receiving the approval
of the Banking and Currency Committee, they
had received IN eflectual quietus. The bill of
Senator Henderson TO so amend the National
Banking act as 10 make the amount of the bonds
deposited thirty three per cent greater than that
of the currency issued by them, will place their
circulation on sound basis for returning to
specie payments The accompanying provision
which makes the National Banking system free
lo Hll WIZ AoHluil WIN It's SbuullioiSJ aNlii 'hu
its Objectionable feature as monopoly, and
its currency will thenceforth expand and con-
tract according TO the wants of the community.
But an increased Issue of greenbacks will only
tend toward depreciation and reputation. Hav-
ing no element OF redoemability, they will have
no capacity to expand or contract according to
the wants of the business of the country.
Above all, the destruction of the National
Banking system would ultimately drive us
back into the system of local or State banks,
with all their insecurity, heteroeeneity, ire
deemabity. and dangers. bill to retire the
grcenbacks and convert them into National
Banking currency, enargiDg, perfecting and
consolidating the National Banking system,
would he sensible aud wise. We trust. if the
Banking Committee have concluded in favor
OF the measure attributed to them, Congress
will squarely and exactly reverse their con-
clusion.
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

The Clereldnd Leader thus explains and ac-
counts for Gen. Beatty's success at the recent
special election for a Member of Congress from
the With District of Ohio:
First OF all tho Republicans OF the District generally,
sinking all local claims aud personal interests cndesv
ord 10 select 40 their candidate their best and most pOp
lar man In choosing Gen Beatty, they were lbnuehceu
by the highest and wOrthest motives that govern ue
And then there most COmfDcndaDe acguirSccnCc III
the nominaton on the part OF all the gentlemen whose
names had been mentioned for the honor aDd none ~
bored more zea0usly in the cause tban GaA. Beaty )
most formidable competitors in the Conyentt3f success
Is due also to the fact that ererV county, ocn dnd o@-
shin OJ he district MOr0hty and Sysfend'c0uy or
OaHi,fd And 40 admirable the organization tha
nol OF the vote OF the District some days prior 70 tie
election made Beatty majority eight hundred, whlch Is
but little modified by the official result IN shorl,
the Republicans that the eyes of the Union were upo
Them ior they opening the great campaign OF ls6S
They fought as truo soldiers who realZeu the import
ance Of routing the enemy in the first onslaught
The Cincinnati CommercioI (tishy) says:
Other thinss being equal very large majority OF the
people OF Ohio prefer Republican 10 Democrat rms
Is tic lesson taught bv the Nith Congressional Dilct
election Both candidates we're citizens wen esteemed.
had military service during the war OF lhe
same side and both called home by private business
before the war Gen. Beatty served Iol a
longer period. and with greater distinction, THAN Col
Burns but this fact had perceptbe influence upon the
election The only points about which inc c3hdlhates
differed seriously TO the comparative RESPONSE
by OF the Democratic aud Republican parties IN BRING
ING ON the war and the political rights Of conquered
Rebels. This the whole dobatahle ground, anu u
was uufrutfuL The voters in the With District mao:
some time ago. settled their convictions as 10 the origin OF
the war end the absence OF welldefned policy OF
reconstrucon by Congress- Republicans could hardly be
expected In their private capacity To rush III ana com
nit themselves"
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01
The Cincinnati TOmmerci1l (tishy) says:
A dispatch from indianapolis of recent date

says that;
In the Criminal Court yesterday, Lewis Washington.
negro was sentenced TO pay fine of 5000 ara TWO
years in the penentlary FOR marrying white woman.
Poor darkeyl Had he only followed the
example of the schiyalry and avoided the
marrying part of the business he might have
raised This tawny brood in (Democratic) virtue
and honor; but to marry, and marry Whue
woman, how could the demoralized son of Ham
have expected anything except punishment
There was time-alas! there WaS when
the value of the product might have been
plead in offset of the damage Fat their average
market value But the good old days are gone,
and now we can neither sell the dingy offspring
for money, nor nveigle the mother for enjoy
ment, without being subjected to the imper
tinence of lawsuits. Indeed, lthe age is sadly
degenerate. Fine "nigger" flor marrying
white woman! ."Nggers" must be rising in
the world by the way, what punishment, if
any, is there for the white woman whc marries
a negro? Or is all the sin on the black side
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

Ii wo remember rightly, Earon Muuchausen
once travelled in Russia, where his horn was
frozen fun of musical notes, which thawed out
one by one in full sound as the horn hung by
the fire at night where ho hitchod his horse
one evening to what he thought was stump
and, through the effects Of sudden thaw,
found next morning himself on the ground,
and his horse swinging at the top of church
sprc-so deep had been the snow. The Baron
is again abroad. He has been to Alaska, and
here is his report about certain ranges OF
mountains
They nre mighty IN size and cause much cold Wonder.
ln things are told Of them Is said that soe places
There are deep pools aud lakes In which dwell monsters
serpents as long as Dir tree which, they I'm tho
open sea. would commit mighty damage One thing is
efTts 1haI yonder far away 10 the nor n the heart
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01
WORDS FLTLY SPOKEN.
Reading casually review, our attention was
..od b1 those naSsaOps.

Reading casually review, our aVtehtloh was
arrested by these passages:
Thero a. good deaIsf the ape and tiger stu LEFT In
mos, of s ard for this IL IL not uchraDe that Ve
sbof haze unchecked authority 10 Ptc PAN upon any
of ar o,c-crcdfUrcs often as ut may WuH heB dc
S,,ye ~ our theories what they deserve are too
81 90 no framed from purely egOtisuc point OF view
have sid it; right; you arc wrong anu snail be
Ragged We will who is 10 be master snch We be-
IeSe 10 be the temper in which corp0rea punishment u
,,srafiv inflicted. II is not native, easy good
natnIeit is nothing short OF power OF sen control
,r'rv rarely met with--whch VIII preVeht men ana
en from becoming odously cruel As soon as espotlc
never IL put Into their hands. IN The mere PERMISSION 10
iGir nam mon Others there Is something ,erty oeodnch
g IN oir moral ndibfos-sometlng Which, sooner or
iafer il likely TO awaken the savage passions Nch ale
nr inheritance from bafbarOus ages, ana WHICH Ie ht
lrnant iu most OF us. Aud those who can DC plougt
n nerpa rrte such ctueties ms we nave above quoed
are siIulv 10 be commserated as the victims Oh an ev
system II is the systeIn not the persons "hleh needs
to be attacked"
-"Of course" you say, "the writer is some
"philosophic Abolitionist, arguing That 1t Is
"not the exceptionally harsh master VINO should
abe held up to reprobation, "but Slavery Itself,
(which consprcd to make him despotlc ana
"cruel. Crush the institution but pity Its We
tins. White as well as Black" Yet the topic
under consideration is not Slavery, but Cor
poral Punishment in Schools; and the essay
appears in The World.
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

SENATE, Jan. 31.-The joint resolution of the
Legislature Of Ohio, resembling the, agreement
of that State TO the Constitutional Amendment,
was presented, and, after 9. long debate, Il was
strnetions TO report upon It's legality
The Tenure e-of- Office amendments were dis
cussed during the morning hour. -
Mr. johnson gave notice that on Monday he
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

Mr.. Field, Chairman of the recent frcr.trads
meeting, was very severe upon The Ne'c- York
Tines lie merely believed that The 1imes
"was also to be counted as free-tradc news
paper" The Times is in favor of absolute FREQ
trade, with a tariff purely for revenue, though
incidentally protective to the manufacturer
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01
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never acted upon. The revival Of the subject
by New-YOrk publishers is opportune, and there
is little doubt that with their usual perseverance,
and enefgy they will succeed in inducing our
Congress and the British Parliament TO enact
such laws as shall fully protect both American
and British authors.
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

rigbt point. Our friends, and the friends OF
liberty and Justice, are among the English peo-
nle-not the aristocracy. When their otten-
tion is fairly turned to the point, the Govern
ment will yield to just arbitration
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

GIVE MINUTES FOR REFREsIIMENT. Livery
body who travelled BY railroad has heard the above announcement
and has probably suffered from eating hastily thereby sowing the
ssis of Dyspepsia comfort know that The PERUVIAN SYRUP
Dysppsa thousands are read 70 ie,u
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BRONCHIAL among he acknowledged niiaor o. The
land lecturers lawyers DO without
these Invaluable To what amount Of ahes and coughs
.ud esps wOa be all subjected not feT those all
powerful and soothing los,nges We have tried them and they did rs
.,oA -fNeU-Yefk
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

A Copperhead paper in Michigan threatens
Gen. Grant with assassination in case Congress
puts the work Of reconstruction into his hands.
The Copperheads tried once before to defeat
reconstruction by murder.
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

The Rev. Newman Hall is advocating the
settlement of the Alabama claims before the
people Of England. This is beginning at the
New-York tribune., 1868-02-01

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New-York tribune., 1868-02-01
ANNOUNCEMENTS

CoNCrRTs THIS EvFNING.-ThiTteenth Regiment
Promenade Cone State Arsens PorsntsEe, near h1he
Brooklyn.
sre,srt a, Snwsy Hall evening. Lectures PhysoogF Tor
B. n q s h, Mr. Hilton this morning at the cooper
Goodrich The Midnight hs on
Col James Fairmsh on Inc hHs'
Preparation" the Cooper Institute evening
MEETINGS THIS EVENING AND IO-MoRROW-hO-
ssc Lodge Ne l. o. G. s., In Oriental Han tms evening
Intutc at the Reformed Du'u NhuiVn ' A' ~
TWENTY hist; tomorrow evening
SKATING-Childrens Fancy Dress "CaInlval at
Omsn Pond. Brooklyn teuoon snd evening
Match fos championship medal Jerey City SkangLsie TINS ae