The New York Herald Newspaper, February 28, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1868. NEW YORK HERALD. | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS TUls EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Roverto 11. Diavowo. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Toe = Wurre Fawn, OS AnH THEATRE, Broadway and 13th strest.— PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 334 st., corner Kighia ay.— JARMIVAL OF VENICE, BROADWAY THEATKF, Broadway.—Sau. '. BOWERY THEATRE, . jowery.—E.oMMANT—New Foor. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Nonopr's Davouren. FRENCH TAEATRE.—Granp Drowrss, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Prant or Savor. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fouriscnth street. —Graxasrics, Equestrianism, &c, THEATRE COMIQUE, 51 Broxdway.—Hancon Compr BATION THoUFE AND MisiaToRE Ciucus, KELLY & L.BON'S MI —Sonas, ACU, LCoRNTRICITIES, REGS, 730 Bro: Granp Dutox 53 Broad way. —Ernio~ FRANCISCO MI bys G AND BUREMSQUaS, rias Exrecrainunnes, TONY PASTOR’ s OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comte Vocatisa. NuGRo MInsTuKLSY, XO. AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Brosdway.— Rok, Pantomime, &e, YAN MALL, Broadway and Fifleenth street.—Tue Tuenm, Matines at 2. STEINWAY HALL.—Dv Cusiuv’s Lxcronx. MRS, F, B, CONWA HEATRE, Brooklyn— Tor Nounrai Beu. EL. OPERA HOUS ue OF TH | Brooklyn, —Tiruior1ax Wino Fawn. tA HOUSE, Willisinsburg.—Insina- AN. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — Scu nce any Att. w Yorks tv. Mebrnary t2aS8 WNAWa., ELROPE. By especial telegram ihrouch tho Atlantic cable wo | Foport the proceeduge of a democratic reform twcecing | beld ins v3) Hall, London, om the 26th just, at | which Jobu Brent, MP, others alyoc Rey. Newwen Hal! and a prompt setiemont of tho Alabama | claims bill by Ko Jand and the restoration of the mot | friendly relatious belwoen Great Britain and the United States, amidst enthusiastic appiause. The news report by | tho Atlantic cable is dated tem o'clock last night, Pop. roary 27. Mr, Disracli was at Osborne with the Queen, Tho re- Construction of the British Cabinet would be completed, it wns said, within a week, and tho canvass for special appointments was quite active. The Loudon press is favorably to a settlement of. tho foreign na uraizution Question with the Unued States, Feniamsm and the consequences of the {ate nogro rebeition in Jamaica engaged the attention of the Hoglish courts. The bul- lion in the Bank of Kng!and iucreasod during the week. Admiral Farragat wos in Genoa, Tho new eaturaliza ion treaty between Germany sud the Untied Stntes applios reciprocaliy to Germuus ant | Americane ‘lhe esiradition eagegemants hitherto in force are to remain, ‘the new treaty is awado to termi- nate in ten years, CONGRESS. Tm the Sonate yea: ¢ * the bill relative io the pro posed grant of Leiba Bucua, in the harbor ot Sau Fran. cisco, to tho Wescerm Pacific Rsilroad Company was taken up and discussed until the expiration of the marne jug Dour, she bill for funding the national debt me up and Mr. sherman made a long speech tn its favor, ‘The bil relative to the proceeds of the sale of expturod und abanaoved property was taken up aud goncrally dis- cussed. In tho Houso a resolulion was adopted permitting tho ; Sumner, in his hot haste in enjoining him to lican Coucressmen did not desire the election of colored members to that booy Thanks were teudered to Con- ‘gress, Generai Grant and Secretary Stanton, | In the Mizsissipp! Convention a resolution was adopted thanking Congress for impeaching the President. A bow {ax ordinance was adopted and trensmitted to General Gillem, ‘The squatting population om Gowanus Bay aro in dreadful expectation of a high tide, which may at any moment engulf thet and their shanties, Such an oc currence, doing much damage, took place about four years’hgo, The jury in the ease of R, M, Kennedy, in the Court | Of Sessions, Brookiyn, charged with having adm‘nis- tered an overdose of morphine, which caused the death oi Mra, Wobster, fatled to agree on a verdict after do- liberating all night, and were discharged from further consideration of the case, The Iuman lino sicamship City of Boston, Captain Roskell, will leave pier 45 North river at one P, M. to- morrow (saturday) for Liverpool, via Queenstown, The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. 29th inst. ¢ Tbe Natioval line steamship Helvotia, Captain Cutting, will gatt at noon tomorrow (Saturday) trom pier 47 North river for Liverpool, wuching at Queenstown to land passengers. 3 The fine steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, of Cromwell's line, will sail from picr No 9 North river at three P, M, to-morrow (Saturday) for New Orleans direct, + Tbe popular steamship General Grant, Captain Hil- dreth, of the Merchant’s line, will leave pier 12 Norih river at threo P, M. to-morrow (Saturday) for New Orleans, Tao Block Star line steamship Huntsville, Captain Crowel!, will sail to-morrow (Saturday) at three P, Al, from pier 13 North river for Savanna, Ga, counecting with steamer for Flor.da porta, Tho populer steamship Matanzas, Captain Ryder, of Arthur Leary’s line, wiil leave pier 14 East rivor, foot of ‘Wall street, at three P, M. to morrow (Saturday) for Charleston, 3, C,, comneceting with steamer for Ficrida poris, The fine sidewhec! steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will satl from per No, 8 North river at throe o'clogk P. M. to-morrow for Charleston, & C., conuect- ing whl steamer for Florida ports, The stock market was steady yesterday. Governments closed steady, Gold clo-ed at 14134. Miserable Tho Farce and Impeachment Its Probable Consequences. Already the imposing and overwhelming proceedings of the House of R»presentatives in impeachment of Andrew Johnson are assumiag the appearance of a solemn but ridi- culous firee, Alroudy upon the case against the accused it is apparent there can be no con- iction by the Snate. What are tho high t cmeanors upon which he is indicted—the overt acts which legally render him t to removal from office? Tho sremoval ‘of Mr. Stanton ‘as Secretary of War and the appointment of General Lorenzo Thomas to the offices, In this removal and in this appoin'men!, it is charged, Mr. Jobnson hos fliily violated the Tenure of Oftice law and defied the soversigu authority of Congress. But here these questions recur—Is Mr. Stanton removed? and is Mr. Thomas filling his place in the War OMe? No. Mr. Siantom still holds absolute possesion of the department, end General Thomas, after making his daily dem ind for a surreader of the office, gracefully retires, leaving Stanton still master of the situation, Stanton sticks to bis pos‘; but Mr. subj Johnson. Tu point of fact, however, Stanton is the man who ought to be impeached ; for he is clearly guilty of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” of resisting the anthority and disregarding the orders of his superior officer and of returning and remaining the War Office against the express commands of the President, What is the government but that of a mere cabal or French Directory if this or that subordinate has spoiled ihe impeachment of Impeac iment Committee to report in private. A bill | authorizing the builting of # railroad bridge across the | Odio river at Paducal, Ky., by the New Oricans aud Ohi+ Batiraud Company was passed, The Sundry Ex. | Appropriat.on biil was discuased in Commitice of | tho Whole, bui “as not finally acied upon whou the | committee rose. A communication was read from | Superintendent Kennady, of the New York police, say- ing that five caus of nilro-glycoring, enongh to blow ayy the 8t, Nicholas Hovel, t bly boon carried to Was! The soars of ihe demo by a republican, were vor the reading of this cor THE L’ GISLA( URE. Tn the Senate yesterday 4 bill to ay of $50,000 in Kings county for tne 8 was reported, Bills were introduced pre for erroneous assoest and authorizing life insurance | Companies to make anuval dividends. Jn the Assembly, 9 report from tuo select commiticaon | canal frauds was presented impeachrng rt. Dorn, | Canal Commissioner, of igh erimes and misdemeanors. | A resolution directing Whe committee on cities to 1aquire into tho alleged unluwfa! proceeding of the itetrope evently | remarked | atic members, generally vacated soou after cation, i tw 6 thor \ ort of the poor | iding a remedy tan Polico in seizing a private oMlco ou Broadw. was adopted. MISCLLLANEOUS By spocial telegrams from Havapa we have later news from Mexico city to the 10h instant, A plot to as. srssinate President Juarez in the theatre and rob the trensury Lad been discovered, and several foreigners and m lilary officers had been arre-ted. Special tolegrams trom Cubs ray that the foan offered | to Captain General Lerauudi by a Matanzas firin had beou accepted subject to the confirmation of the Matra government, which as yet was reluctant to agree to the verins demanded, Our Mexico city letter is dated } news has been genoraily autielpatel by cur Gulf cable despatches. Congress has been im cess'oa two months, and has given very little promise of sblo legislation, General Sturm was expected to return to the United | Staios without a setilement of the mattor on whieh be | visited Mexico, | Treasury report. ! ‘The Prosident yesterday gave instructions for the pro- | 8 procurement of a writ requiring Vr, Stantou to show | indictumont against them. cause why ho hols pos n of the War Department, Tt is ead on the one hand a has yielded to the persuasions of radicat friends ond will soud in his Fran resignation to-day; but this is denied on the othor. | General Toomas bas filed bie applestion for damager againat Mr, Stanton to the amount of $150,000 for fale imprisonment. The Impeachinent Committee of tho House have nearly comploted the articies upon whicl the Mrerident | is to bo tried, They ore five in umber, and charge tho President with violations of tho coustitution and the Tenure of OMice act and bribery, They will probably be ready for the Houre to-day aud tho Seuaio on Mouday Ve is believed now that @ cwo-thirds voto agaiust the President cannot be obtained in the Senate, In the Constitutional Convention yesterday a com. mittoo of ten was appoivted Lo prepare an address to the poople in reference to the new conetitation, The report of the committce on the method of submitting the cou- stitution to the poople was rejectod. ‘The Kevision Com. mitteo reported an addivonal clauso providing that the Siato officers eloctod in 1869 ohall hold olive only one veding State officers shall ne thot offices at (he same ime. Resolutions of thanks were tendered to ali oficers and reporters of the Convention, The North Carolina Radical Nominating Convention met in Releigh yesierday and nominated a State ticket, Some of the nominees are pat down as from Ohio and Massachusetts, District meetings have so far made their Congressional nominations, all of white men, suppored to have no residence in the State. A negro who wre nominated declined ou the ground that the radicals in Congress bad expressed am opposition t0 negroes bei ng revurned, ‘The Alabatna election returns are all in the hands of Genera) Moade, who bas again refused to allow of thoir pudlication, [n the South Carvlina Convention a colored cormmit- (0 Just roturgod Crom Wastington reported that repub- | ors," such as usury | States” the chy Minister Romero bad mate bis fire | offtcial can flout and defy his superior becaus2 the subordinate is under the protection of the dominaut party ‘or the time in Congress? We sty, iu this view, that no conviction of the President can be secured in the Senate for his efforts to get rid ot tis obnoxious and intol- erable subordinate, Stanton. Twice belore has the House of Reprosenta- tives aitempted the impeachment of Mr. Jobuson upon “hich erimes and misdemean- ons, briberies, co: ‘uptions, &e.; but in both fas!znces the attempt was a signal failure, first before the House itself, and, secondly, in the prelimmary investigation by the Co ruction. The same commities, by a party vole, upon this third ment, did meke up a case, and the miltec on Reconst ex The Social and Politicat Revolution in Fagtand. Our special cable despatches prove how deep and how widespread is the excitement which has heen created in England by the ad- vent of Disraeli io power. On ail hands it is admitted that the right honorable gentlemin is the only man who could in justice have been called to take the lead of the tory party, aud that his claim to the high office he now holds has been fiirly and honorably won. In the House of Commons, among his own party, he has no rival, nor is thera any one in the Upper House ia the same ranks equally entitled to honor. It isa deoply suggestive cireumstance that the most conservative party in Enyland—a party historically identified wiih the heredi- tary aristocracy—should have felt themselves compelled to make such a selection. A politi- cal leader is required, but a man equal to the task is to be found, not in the ranks of any of the old Norm:n honaes, but in the once despised son of a despised race, whose pedi- gree, however, is more ancien! ani certainly not less honorable than their own. By sheer force of intellect, by indomitable —perse- verance, by unwearied watehfulaess of his opporiunities, this man, without funds or friends at the commencement of his career and with many bitter enemies during its entire length, has worked his way to the proudest position under tho English Crown. It is difii- cult, indeed, to believe that he is now, or that he has ever been, the object of sincere aff tion to any large number of those who are now necessitated to accept his leadersuip ; nor is it | too much to say thai at the present moment he is an object of envy to many and an object of | hatred to nota few, both in waig and tory ranks, ‘The advent of Disracli to power marks a social and political revolution in the history of Eogland, It breaks down long standing prejudices, Noble birth or university reput tion, one or other, has hitherto been the pas port to political success, Henceforth, how- ever, the man of the peuple cannot be barred from the highest political honors, The path- way bas been cleared and the example has been sot; anl to Disraeli must be accorded the praise of having cleaved the one and exhib- ited the other. What Disvaeli’s programme will be is perliaps as little known to the honorable gentleman himself ag it is to us. Tt is safe, however, to take it for granted that he will not be found an obstraction on the path- way of progress. He has initiated a policy which is revolutionary in its tendency. With his own hand he has broken down tie ancient tidal barriers, and if the popular wave rises again and rolls on in its iury he is much more likely to yield, to his advantage, than to resist, to his ruin. The aristocracy and the monarchy may both of them be seriously imperilled. It remains to be seen whether he will shine in the role of Richelieu, who consolidated the French monarchy st tho expense of the nobles and pavel the way for the grandour of the reign of Louis-the Fourteeath, or whether he will fail, like Mirdbeau, by attempting to stifle # revolution which he has helped to create, Radical Le ation for the Yours. During the three years which have clapsed since the war was ended the country hes bad a specimen of legislation from the radical majority such as few nations in past history have been compelicd to endure. Not alone have uncenstituiional laws been enacied, and the constitution iteelf osiontatiously trampled upon, but the whole force of tho party ap- peared to be aimed at the purpose of destroy- ing the commerce of the whole country by every method of embarrassment which thoy could devise. No people were ever taxed as we are taxed when the government was on a peace footing, The internal revenue records | show that the minutes! ariicle of consumption as well as the bighest Inxury has to boar some portion of the “public expenditure,’ the poorest as well as the richest being compelled to carry the burden, But is it really to mect the public expenditure the! these taxes are enforced? If it were vo one would complain, No one did completa, in fact, when there were heavy war expenses to be paid. No people Past Threo House, by «# elean party division, has sustained and reported that in bebalf | “of all the people of the United 3 to be preferred will be made good before the Senate, The indictment, thon, is this time a snecess; but the trial has yet to come. The Senate in this trial oasumes the character and responsibilities of 2 court of jnstice. Party considerations, party annoy- ances and party prejudices raust be cast aside, and the guilt or innocence of the accused must be determined by the law, the facts and the | evidence. From this ordeal we undertake to | | say that there will be no conviction, but that | the President will come off the victor from the which to condenm him. \ What then? The noxt thing, then, in order ; will be the impeachment of this radical p: in Congress betore the bar of the American people. Nor will there be any scanty budget of “high crimes and misdemeanors” in the general Their attempts to take away the constitutional powers of the Uxecutive Department; their éfforia to upset \ | mere party machine; their negro supremacy | policy of Southern reconstruction; their finan- | cial follies, extravagances, spoliations and cor- | ruptions, will all be in the bill; and we shall probably have au’ inkling in the approaching New Hampshire election of what is to come in the aatitmnal Congressional elections. In New Hampshire the impeachment question is ow uppermost, and tho election (10th of March) will probably be determined upon | thisisene. It is hardly possible now that the | Senate can roach a judgment before’the 10‘h of March, They may keep Androw Jolneun for weeks. and montha suspended between heaven and earth, like Mahomet’s coffin, but if the democracy carry this New Hampshire election it is all up with this radical party in power, whatever they may do with Johnson, Thia impeachment farce, however, we say, will finish them, because the Senate cannot remove the President upon the flimsy charges presented ; and if they cannot, out of their own mouths will these revolutionary radicals stand condemned, and all the public money and time they have squandered, and all the distresses and financial embarrassments they have brought upon the country in their negro schemes of legislation, and in their persecu- tions and prosecutions of Andrew Johnson, will react upon them to their destruction, © Judicial Department or to reduge it to a | in the world submi!ted so cheerfully to tax. tion daring the war ag the American people. But we are now three years at peace—at least such peace as the ious faction in control of the government will permit us io enjoy in the face of a militsry despotism imposed upon ten States of the Union. The taxes enforced from all classes—and which of course weigh most heavily upon the poor and the working classes—are not requisite for the support of the government, ag is pretended, but for the support of tue tadical party. It is to keep themselves in power that, with mateb- less effrontery, this faction fliunts its corrup- ary 10. The geld for lack of law, facts and evidence upon | tion in the face of the people, hurries on upon | its reckless course, and keeps the tax collector at every man’s door, @émanding a portion of the meal he lays before his children, It Is notoriously the most corrupt and reckless party that ever had predominance in this country, and we might stretch our imagination for a parallel in even England or France during their worst revolutionary times of Rump Par- liaments or States Generals. We look in vain over the records of the last | three years’ radical legislattun for anything calculated to extend the liberties, to proserve and fosler the commerce, or to lighten the | financial burdens of this people, Cowardice aud malice have been its prevailing features, | the former manifest :d ia the dealings of the radicals with their schemes of impsachment, in which they are stariled by their own | shadow, and the latter in their policy of dis- franchising the white people of the South and placing that region under the control of a bar- baroue and ervel race, Old General Thomas-Heavy Damages. The venerable. General Lorenzo Thomas values his personal liberty and his time ata very respeciatle price, He demands from beeisteak untouched, are both amenable to the ‘law; but it is not at ull ely that either Train or Thomas will ever recover a dollar, and in both eases the complainants are only prolong- ing a farce by adding an unnecessary act to ii. Mr. Du Chaillw’s Lectures. The course of lectures which Mr. Du Chailla, the distinguished African explorer, is delivering at Steinway Hall is so interest- ing that we are not surprised at the largo au- diences attracted by it, The lecture of Wed- nesday evening was particularly successful. Its subjects wero, “A Journey to the Cannibal Country, Elephant Hunting, Serpents, Cape Lopez and the Slave Barracoons,” The charts and paintings with which the lecturer illus- trated his discourse enhanced the interest of his vivid descriptions .of personal adventure and strange discoveries, Two points which he made are very suggestive to all who are studying the actual condition and the probable future of the African race - in this country. Mr. Da Chaillu clearly showed that their negro brethren in Africa are the most determined advocates of slavery and the slave trade; and his queer bill of fave, illustrative of the tastes of epi- cures in the cannibal country, where a corpse that hes been* buried for five or six days is considered as relishing as “high game” is with 3; women, a3 among ourselves (but in a, car niverous light), are regarded as tenderest, le girls as splendid, small boys as not bad eating and old menas tough, This queer bill of fare suggests what appetites the Southern | blacks may exh.bit when, left to themselves and deprived of the superior influences ty which they have hitherto been subjected, they guall have relapsed into barbarism. Mr. Da Chaillu leciu to-night on “ The Negro Tribes of Equatorial Airiea, Types and Races of Mankind,” on1 will doub less pro- duce many facts and arguments of deep inte- rest and impor'ance, not only to ethnologis's, but to practical Americxn politicians, In this connection we my remark that not enly the lectures of Mr. Da Caaillu on Equa- torial Afric1, bul those of Mr. Fietecher oa Brozil and of Mr, Squier on Peru, haye been remarkably successful, and attost the increasing interest which our Am n public very natu; r all's of explorations of countries whic) si daily less remote in this age of rapid mtercommunication by means of steam and the electric telegraph. Some Americin traveller should give us a course of lectures on Abyssinia, Mr. Risley ought to have leciured on Japan when he came here with his ttoop of acroba's; and perhaps Mr. Anson Burlingame may not deem it be- neath his new dignity a3 Minister Plenipoten- tiary of the Chinese Emperor to favor us with lectures on China when hs shall reach New York. At present it looks as if winter and the lecturing scason were likely to last long enough for any enterprising American to visit Abyssi- nia, or Japan, or Caina, gather his materials for lectures end return in time to deliver them before tardy spring shall have arrived. A Small Business. The frauds and peculations in the Rovenue Department are a matter of public notori-ty. So boldly has the government been robbed by its own employés that the income trom the tax on distilled spirits has almost wholly disap- peared and its pretended enforcement has become a mere farce, A Congressional commit- tee, of which Congressman Hulburd is the head, was appointed a year or so ago to investigate these matiers ant to devise some means of protecting the Treasury from ths operations o/ the commissioned thieves. Up to this period *it has done absolutely nothing; but has been wasting its time in pelsy assaults upon the New York Custom House, which happens to be in the hands of s Collector who is an hon:st and upright business man, and who has wisely persisted in holding himself aloof from the tricks, machinations and bargains of politi- cians and discharging his duties in aa efficient and honorable manner. Last year the committee spent several weeks al the Astor House in this city and examined a number of dis.ppointed place- hunters and soreheaded poliliciins, in the hope of exposing some startling corruptions on the part of the New York Collector; but at the close of their arduous labors they found that the only transxction that could be construed into anything like bribery was a present of forty cents’ worth of candy made to a member of the President's family. Under the encoursging spur of impeachment the com- mittee again set to work to unearth the enor- mous profits supposed to be realized by the Collector out of his fees and emoluments, But the response of that officer shows that his total perquisites only reach a few thousand dollars in the year. This is becnuse the Col- lector is a plain, hon¢st business man, and con- ducts the Custom Honse as le would his own bauk—upon sound business principlee—giving entire satisfaction to the eommercial men of the city and refusing to regard his office as a mere political asylum. If the commities will leave the New York Custom House alone and turn its attention to the revenue officials, who are plundering the government of millions of dollars every year, it will better discharge the duties entrusted to it and save itself from general ridicule and contempt. becoming American Commeree=The Construction of Aron Steamships. In yeeterday’s Herato the attention of American capitalists and American ship- builders wae called to the utter prostration of Awerican commerce, with the recommendation that if they did not desire the carrying trade of the world to devolve upon foreign corporations remedial action must at once be commenced. To more satiefactorily demonstrate that the impression that this country does not contain the shipyards, engine establishments and en; ginecring skill to construct Jarge and ime proved scrow steamships . is very er- roneous, we give this morning, in another column, from our correspondent at Wilmington, Delaware, a detailed description of two very | peri Stanton the sum of one hundred and fifty thou- | large and well known ostablishmonts of that gond dollars as damages for being eubmitted to | place, where for years iron steamships of large the kind attentions of a marshal for a few hours, } tonnage have been constructed and are now Thia beate George Francis Train, who sues (by | plying, not only in the seas conliguous to the telegraph) the British government for » hun- | United States, but steam along the waters of dred thousand pounds sterling for two or three | distant lands, These shops are equal in capa- days’ incarceration in a “ British dungeon” | city to any character of steamship work, and known as the County of Cork Jail. Of course | give in evidence of what they can do the suc- there is a clear caso of false imprisonment in | cessful results of formor trials, We shall not both instances, Tho stupid policeman who | rest here, but continue the description of other contributed to Train’s notoriety, and the stub- | engineering works that havo alroady made born Stanton, who took General Thomas from | themselves famous in the production of iron the hroakfest table, leaving bis hot coffee and ! steamships, both reliable and speody. Readings from Sbak»peare by Mre. Fran- + ces Aune Kemble. Mrs. Kemble will begin ber readings from Shakspeare at Steinway Hall on Monday even- ing. She announces “Coriclanus” for that evening, “Midsummer Nght’s Dream” for Tu sday evening, “The Tempest” for Friday evening and “King Leir” for Saturday morn- ing. Her selections, 1t is obvious, bave been expressly made so as to afford opportunities of displaying (o the best advantage the mar- vellous versatility of this greatest actress whom England ever sent to the United States and this finest reader in the world, T.e enthusiasm with which a cride like Tal- fourd welcomed Miss Fanny Kemble at her first appearance on the stage as Julict, in company with her father a3 Mercutio und her mother as Lady Capulet, was amply justified by her sub- sequent triumphs on both sides of the Atlantic, And Americans may take pride in the fict that she first gave in this country those readings trom Shakspeare by whi-h she won additional celebrity both here and at home, and which she is now about to repeat in New York and other American cities, Her first appearance on the London stage was truly de- scribed as “a splendid event” The sang description was applied to her first Appearance as 4 reader, and will doubtless be equilly applicible to her reappearance next Monday evening. Hers is a genuine occasion for ticket purchasers to faire queue for hours, and we have heard, without surprise, that not- wi hstinding yesterday’s furious snow storm the sale of season tickeis was thronged, as that of single tickets will be to-day. Mrs. Kemble wears still the same nobly formed head which was so much admired when she mde her first appearance at the Covent Garden theatre, October 10,.1829, with expan- 6.ve brow, eyes full of a giited soul, features signifisant of extraordinary intelligenes, and “the itense expression that brought Mra. Sid- dons most vividly back to us.” One of her eulogists thus describes her voice at that date :-—“Her voices, while it is periecly femi- nine in its tones, is of great compass, and, though perhaps not yet entirely within her command, gives proof of being able to express the sweetest emotions without monotony and ihe sternest passions without harshness,” We have been assured that this wonderful voice retains the full power to which it ait-rwards ripened, and we know that it must be under set command, The genius of Mrs, Kemble os a reader is | sulfored teartuliy i 1849, especially evinced in her skilful eharacteriz\- tion. We remember wita what astonishing facil.ty an fidel.ty she would individualize a dozen diff-rent charicters in reading a single play, bringing each and all personally before the mind’s eye. What has been said of another gifted woman is true of Mrs, Kemble— “Sho ensouls as well as embodies her charac- ters. By conceiving character in the concrete, through the instinctive processes of imagina- tion, she preserves the unity of character amid all the varity of its manitesiation.” Tue effects are magical which she produces entirely alone, without change of costume, without scenery, wichout any accesso-ie3 of the stage. | It will bea treat to witness again such an exhibition of genius, =~ The success of Mrs. Yelverton and of Mr. Dickens was, in a large measure, a suc- cess of curiosily, due to the romantic experiences and fervent love letters of the former, and to the novels and extrapr- dinary story-telling faculty of the latter. The success of other readers who have followed in their wake this winter—of Mr. Murdoc’, Mr. Vandenhoff, Mr. Charles Eyt nge, Miss Licoste and the rest—ha3 been more strictly independ- ent of morely personal considerations. Mrs. Kemble will combine with her attractions as the most accomplished rcader alive the inter- est inspired by her brief but brilliant career as an actress, and by the assoviations of her name and lineage. Impending Destruction of the Republican Party. Politically, the effect of the great “impeach- ment uproar will be to strengthen and precipi- tate that reaction of the public mind against the radical party that had already set in so positively in some States, Already “radicals themselves sco that if they base their impeach- ment articles on Mr. Stanton’s late acts they will be beaten—that they cannot sustain their case on these points. Siall they impeach the President for “removing Stanton ?” But Stanton is not removed. Shall it be for’ the effort to remove him, which is merely the effort to put @ great case before the courts? Where is the man of any party who in his cooler moments docs not jusify this? Indeed, this is mainly what the radicals fear just now; for the inci- denis of the case of Lorenzo Toms indicate on their part only an anxiety to avoid bring- ing the Tenure of Office bill before the Supreme Court. They want to try impeachment first— that is, they want the Senate, one of the bodies that passed the Tenure of Office law, to decide on the constitutionality of that law before the Supreme Court does, But they feel that they have no case in the recent acts and that they must go back to other acts and take broader ground, and the doing this will convince the public of two points—that Congress has just made a grand excitement without sufficient cause, and that it tailed in its duty before in not impeaching the President for the acts on which it now endeavors to rest its case— pffences which it condoned when committed if they are impeachable now, And this line of thought works in the public mind all against that party ; and we should not be surprised to see some result of it even in the New Hamp- shire election, The Rival Opera Houses, Althongh the contending opera troupes met this week for the first time in direct conflict, yet the horrible condition of the weather placed the combatants in pretty much the same situation as Washington’s army at Valley Forge and chilled the enthusiasm of the public. The present week concludes the bril- liant season of La Grange and Brignoli at the Academy, and Strakosch will soon evacuate Irving place, leaving the one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders to shift for themselves, What they will do with the Cata- combs is a mattor of extreme doubt to the public and to themselves. By turning the Irving place establishment into a variety theatre, or, still better, by introducing circus riders in opposition to their neighbors across the stroet, they may secure an audionco of the peanut order and create a sensation, A break- down, walk around, great trick act or the “houp la” of the ring master, will undoyptedly Prove more profitable to them than saddling themselves on the back of some unfortunate im- presario.. Oa the otaer hand, Pike’s splendid Opera House will become the centre of fashion. Beauty and rich toilets will throng the spar cious vestibule and adorn every box, and the manager will b2 enabled to cull from European conservatories the rarest exotics of the opera and surround them with a bouquet of American talent. Madame La Grange, Brignoli, Phillips and Orlandint communicated a brief vitality to the fast waning Academy; but after their departure the last spark of life will leave this obsolete institution. Atl eyes are now turned towards the west side with hopeful antic:pa- tions of the progress of Italian opera in that quarter, BOOK NOTICE, Rais—How, Wirx, Waere, Wuy it Is Mua- suRED, By G.J. Symons, F. M. S,, editor of “Sy- mous’ Montuly Meteorological Magazine," &. London: Edward Stuutord, No. 6 Charing Cross. ‘This is a neatly printed iittle bouk on rain, rain gauges, rain measurements and their value, and the anaual rain fall through a series of years in all tho various conti- nents, islands and countries on the face of tne globe, The volume also embraces an interesting chapter of “A Few Facts Relative to the Fal ot Rain,” anocuer “Om Rainfall aud Salmoo,” and axotuer on ‘Kain and Dis- ease,” from the Afedical Limes and Gazette, from whick we make the following extract, and it deserves a general and thoughtful reading throughout the Uutied S1atos:— Dr. Ricuardsou proves to us, in bis valuable aud prace tical lecture vu the poisons of spreuding disvases, how & certuln amount of dilution by water renaers tho mest Viruent orgautc polsuns inpocuous, ava Dr, kdward Gatard, to 8 most e avorate paper lately 1ead before we Koyal Medical and Cairargioad Svci.ty, on ine influence of temperature in the production of disease, bas ape peuded 4 diagram whch well ittustra es the eilects of @ down.all of raiu in diministiag the amount of sickuesa, Wune Dr. Ricuardson shows, however, tuas muca diius+ tion may desiroy orgauic pol-on, be diavs our serious ate tentiva to the (ict Luays suilicient rainsull over au area bee epreud with animal excreia tor the purposes ot uyricule lure may Lave @ most ijurious eflect upon the hewih of the neiguburing community; and, while on this sunject, we Caunot do better thau refer to a fact which has imely Come under Our observalioe, and of Wluch au aruicie 1m Mr. pymons’ Meteorviogical Ma; ne, On the into. ence of raintell ou the depth well water, has ce- minded us, Last year, a town in tue wesiero part of Engiaud, at ait times’ subject in its eastern distr ct, wurcu is on a lower level tuan, aud sepurated from, bbe wesvern by a deep river, to a preva.euce of low lover and Giarrioa, owing to its impure waier Bupply, De came Suddenly the seat of cooera—tbe whole town bad On examining tue govlugical character of the stra:a of the disurice we found imue. day D-low the suii-crust a stracum of bricé clay, varying from twelve to tweuty-tive feet im thicku 8%, resilug on « bed of sca stud irom eizbt to ten feet bic! below wuich wore strata of gravel, warl, aud, lastly, 6 Sandstone of undefined dep L. in the consrucdun of the wells the clay Would necessariy bo pierced and water would then betound tw abundance tnmediately ou reaching tue rand. ‘Ihe waier thus obiaiwed bad from time immemorial beea cousidered bad, but every now und then it was observed ty have Ms evil qualiites iniensilicd, and this apparendy in a most eccentric manver, wuul it Was found tha: the rainfall infeaced vorb 1s quantity and quatity., On our beings cousutied, we bad ittie villlcuity in golving the provlew, tor we very well knew that within fuur mutes of the wwe build waier-beacing stratum crupped out on the suriaee, Dave ing at sume remote geological period been eievated through the clay ver an ares of mmuy Baudred acres, where vast quantities of potatucs are culuvated, the hauls of whicu, afier tue tuvers have been collect being ullowed t rot on the growud fur tae cake mauure, 10 addiuon to animal excreta, Which are plouti- tuily, scautered over the feds, nus an exiensive supersiratum ot decom) and decowpo-ing vegeta. bie aud auimal matter overspread at times Lue paural sol), aud lay as tt were im +e mou of this saud ute crop; thus the rain that falls tuereon, after saturaiom with orgauic potson, readily and quickly finds it way: through ihe loose texture of the coudiuuous sundbed beucatu the clay tothe low lever of the wets of the im fected own, Wie the cuviera lasted the municipal and poor law authoritics seemed 10 appreciats the meteorviogical and geological causes of the uuoeathy siute of au fwportaur aisirict of their borougu, amd Wore arouged tor & snort ‘ime (0 a Senge of their dutiog, and actually began to think of volaiming water from the Pure aud uncontanunated gources iu tusir neigoboring red sandstone bills, ihe immediate cause of their alarm, Lowever, passed away, aud their good resolue ions were all bound up in red’ tape and strangled; se tual now there is no time to avert a similar cammity to tuose of 1849 and 1966, should it recur this autuna ta our country. Letotner towns take warning from the lolly of this one, Hore is the solution of the agues and fevers of Long Island, Staten Island, Jersey and all the other infected gurroundings of the metropolis, and of all the fever and ague and fever districts in tho world, with their various modifications, Stagnant water under the surface seal arrested by lard pan and evaporating from the summer beats, stagnant ponds and decaying vegetation, the exbalations of stagnant rivers aod canals add immensely to the bills of mortality overy whore, but these bills mignt be immensely reduced by drainage, and by elmply re- membering that this fever producing malaria begins te rise with tho setting eun and continues to rise till killed by the heat of the suai the morning, This is well unver- siood amour the o:d inhabitants ot south Carolina, and it 18 their first precaution to the stranger coming among thom in the sickiy seagon. ¢ Mr. Symons’ book, however, {s too much made ap of figures of rainfalia in various places, and too little devoted to a general treatment of bis important subj-ch Jo a shor chapter, for instance, be might bave toid his the great readers how the rains are controlied by currents of the ocean, such as tue Guilt stream, witbous which ive British islaads would be as destitute as Lab- rador; how they are affected by great modntain ranges a8 condensers, by the prevailing winds over tue uidvrent seas, and how the winds passing over great deserts become thirsty and when they strike the sea, a: from the desert of rahura, how they sbsorb waver like @ spoage to be discharged upon the Srat condensing woods of mountarns tu their course, But s.{ll as books of very facts and Ugures, Mr. Symons, in this of bis bas ad something of value tor the information of all gpacerued in the blessed rain, AN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BOAT RACZ. There seems to be some probability that the proposed race between the Oxtord eight and tho crow of Harvard Colieze will come off om the Thames this yoar, The success of the Canadian boat's crew in Franco last year has no doubt created a desire on the part of our Bostom collegians to compete for honors in England; and there appoars to be every desire on the part of the English univeratty to accede to their request, In the prelimina- ries of all such contests there must necevsarily be matters difficult to settle; and the conditions affixed by the sta- dents of Harvard will require some little modification before they can be accepted, The stipulation as to the course being three milos in length can of course be agreed to; but the further proposition that such course ehall be straight 1s absolutely impossiblo in England, ‘There is no partof the Toames whereon the race can come off that can boast of a straight three miles; and the Mortiake and Putnoy reaches—the course of tho an- nual race between Oxford and Cambridge— afford decidedly the best room for any siml- lar contest. The bend of the river, however, at theo points is so gradual that it can make hittle difference to a well traioed crow; and this condition will, no doubt, be expunged from the chal- lenge. The point that will require most consideration part of the English crew 13 that which enables a crew to use oF dispense with tho services of in, as they may deem most expedient; for the boats are not only invariably steered by a coxswain, but on hia ability in a variety’ of ways de- pends tho result of tbe raco. His duty in the boat so nearly resombles that of # jockey in a horse race that the loss of bis services would have a most injurious effect on tho efforts of the crew. Acourso of training duriug the summer monshs for the purpose of trans- ferring his iacor to the bow oar may enablo the Oxonians to waive this point; but, should they deem it of too much importance to be it is to De hoped the Harvard crew will moet the case by piacing ecoxswain in their own boat, Septembor is the time chosou by our crew for their visit to England; and, although @ more desirable season might have veen se lectod, the necessitios of attendant circumstances: require itto bo thus late; and there 1s wo probability of our friends across the water raising any diffl- enlty on that score. London i, comparatively speaking, empty in September, but distances are 60 short and travolling facilities 60 great in Engiand that thousands who may be in the country and at the seaside at the thas will ran up for the day to witness the ra Ins dead, the ovly tear ie lest the desire to see a race between Americans sod Eaglish will attract such num~ bers that those pesia of the river, the penny boats, will so far encroach on the boundar! course a8 to seriously impede the race and se cay accomplished on more than one occasion, Hagtieh removing the scone of their annual race to some other locality, unless dhe river authorities will bettor reguiate the movements of te stoamers on ir own partiowar wo trast that prompt orous action Wilk possibly ruin of owe oF oiher of he boats a font they have Niniversities have declared their iateation of ven: race and avreeablo relationship between the conien y indace the Engiiah crow to virit this country t international meeting, when they will find we aa capabie of appreciasing skill, pluck and endurance in tho fi uy contests of the flold as we S' of ackuowlodging their vi im the sterner duties of oD © At Sociwry.The annual reunion of the 0 Al Society of Bellevue Hospital Medical College was cote. brated at the college Inst evening. Addret delivered by Edward 0, Harwood, M. D., Pres’ Dore, ro nt of the ‘seciety, and Professor dea us, M.D, After a goodly entertainment had been duly honored, tn whion oo eatabies and drimkabloa Were bot deaoiwed.