The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1868, Page 6

6 - NEW BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No. 70 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sam. . BOWERY THEAT! Bowery,—Mazerra—My Pou. weir raneeoe ne ‘ NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Nosopy's DAUGHTER. FRENCH THEATRE. —' OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrty Dumrry, IBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tak Waite FAWN. GRAND Ducuxss, “\ WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ROSEDALE, “| PHEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Broadway.—Bostox Comique BALLET AND PANTOMIME TROUPE. | BANVARD’S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad- Way and Thirtieth street.—UNOLE Tom's Canin, | exw YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.-GyMNasTics, EQuusreianism, &c. KBLLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 EoognTsi0itixs, &0.—GRaAND DUTCH SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHIO- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, 46. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vooa.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELOY, 0, Brondway.—Sonas, BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Baer, Farce, PANTOMIME, dc. \BUNYAN HALL, Broad 4 Fifteenth street.—T Pex. Pty a a 4 ACADEMY OF MUSIC,—ConveRsATIONAL LEOTURE, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— JzeurE BLOWN—CHARBLES SECOND. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, MINGTRELSEY—BUBLESQUE OF THE WILD Fawn. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. TRIPLE New York, Tucsday, March 10, 1868. THH NEWS. EUROPE. We have further intelligence by special cable telegrams of the British expedition into Abyssinia. ‘The situation looks more hopeful. Admiral Farragut had been tendered another banquet in Naples. \ Premier Disraeli’s plan of legislation for Ireland is of a wide scope in the way of reform, religious, educational and industrial. The cable report of the Alabama claims debate is continued. The London police tampered with their knowledge of the Fenian plot for the Clerkenwell explosion so as to permit it ;to go on to its sad result. The Fenian prisoners lately on trial in Sligo, Ireland, have been removed to London for trial. The French Press law passed the Legislative Body and the annual budget was submitted. Some “seditious” Fenlans have been liberated in Ireland. The Turkish Cabinet has been changed. An Eng- lish gentleman has beén appointed Secretary of Le- gation to Mr. Burlingame. f CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Vickers, of Maryland, came forward to take the oath, when Mr. Sumner offered a resolution referring his credentials to the Committee on the Judiciary to consider if Maryland has a republican form of government that will admit of her commissioning a Senator of the United States. Some debate ensued, when Mr. Sumner withdrew ‘his motion and Mr. Vickers was sworn. The resolu- tion to restore Alabama to representation was called ‘up, but mo action was taken on it. Mr. Wilson in- troduced a new Financial bill which was laid on the table. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation Dill was taken up and amended. In the House, bills were offered under the Monday Call of States for reference only, declaring that the national debt shall not be paid by the present gener- ation, and to reduce the expenses of the navy and of the government. A resolution favoring the gradual SHEET. Brooklyn.—ETHIOPIAN Executive Committee enjoining them any meetings or transacting any company while Frank Work ts prohibited strained by the order of Judge Balcom from attend- ing such meetings, and also prohibiting the issue by the company of any new stock or conversion of bonds into stock, j . The case of the People against Richard Carey, indicted for the murder, in January last, of William Connell, at Bayard street and the Bowery, was on trial during the whole of vesterday in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, and will be resumed fo-day. * Judge Lott, in charging the Grand Jury in the Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, took occasion to remark that it had been rumored that justices, in imposing large fines for slight offences under the Revenue and other laws, had misappro- priated such funds, and he urged the attention of the District Attorney to an investigation of the subject. MISCELLANEOUS, Our special telegrams from Mexico city are dated February 29. War was imminent in Sinaloa, Gene- ral Ochoa had been denied admission to his seat in Congress and was again arrested, It was considered Probable that the foreigners engaged in the plot to assassinate Juarez would be driven from the coun- try. The trial of the participators is progressing. Our special telegrams from Cuba by the Gulf cable state thata Spanish man-of-war at St. Thomas was about to seize the American ship Alice Ball, even if her papers show her to be bound for New York, Captain General Lersundi was at Tritlidad the-recip!- ent of great ovations, Charter elections came off yesterday in Augusta, Bangor, Belfast and Biddeford, Maine. The demo- crats elected their candidates in Augusta and Bidde- ford, and the republicans in the other two towns. A republican gain over last fall is reported in Bangor, A woman has been arrested in Toronto charged with poisoning her husband and three children. One of the children has died and the rest are not expected to recover, An avalanche five or six miles in extent occurred near the town of Cisco, Cal., on the Pacific Railroad recently. Six Chinamen were killed and seven loco- motives were injured, In the Georgia Convention yesterday a resolution was adopted requiring voters on the ratification of the new constitution to swear that they have not attempted to dissuade any one else from voting. Grant and Foster Blodgett were nominated as the choice for the next President and Vice President. In the South Carolina Convention yesterday an ordinance was adopted compelling all who vote for the constitution to vote also for the regular nomi- nees of the radical party. A number of negroes have been nominated for office. The Louisiana Convention yesterday elected a Board of Managers and adjourned, subject to the call of a quorum, In the election in Memphis, Tenn., on Saturday, four colored persons were elected, Mike McCoole has agreed to fight Allen two or three months after his great fight with Joe Coburn. Heavy freshets are imminent throughout the West. The Missouri and Kaw rivers are rapidly rising. The Hon. “Ren Wade” as President Pro Tem. of the United States. Rumor has it that there is some trouble among the republicans of Congress in regard to “Old Ben Wade,” and the important ques- tion “‘ What shall we do with him?” As Presi- dent pro tem. of the Senate, from the present posture of things, he will become, with the removal of Andrew Johnson, President pro tem., or ad interim, of the United States—that is to say, for the remnant of Johnson's term, which expires on the 4th of March, 1869, Mr. Wade was put in his present position by the radicals of the Senate as a game of bluff, in view of the contingency of Johnson’s impeach- ment and removal; but there is a little group of republican Senators who do not like the radical fanaticism and vagaries of Mr. Wade, and who dread accordingly his promotion to the White House. As President of the Senate he is comparatively harmless, but as President of the United States they fear that he will be that ugly customer, a bull in a china shop. The Republican State Convention of Ohio has proclaimed him the candidate of Ohio for the Vice Presidency on the republican ticket substitution of greenbacks for interest bear- ing bonds was referred. The resolution relative to covering certain money by warrant into the Trea- sury was taken up, and during discussion upon it Mr. Logan said that $18,640,000 worth of can- celled bonds was certified to as destroyed by the Secretary of the Treasury Printing Bureau, when, in fact, it was only blank paper. This startling assertion occasioned some discussion and the Committee on Retrenchment was instructed to investigate the matter. The Committee on Ways and Means reported a bill to exempt all manufactures from tax after May 1, except gas made from minerais, the product of distillations of crude petroleum, coal or other bituminous substances and wines and manufactures of tobacco. It was recom- altted. THE LECISLATURE. In the Senate a bill authorizing railroads in 125th and other streets was reported. A bill relative to the collection and assessment of taxes upon corpora- tions and joint stock associations was noticed. Bills extending the time for the organization of the New York Mutual Gaslight Company, authorizing an in- crease of its capital and authorizing the exchange of lands between the Commissioners of Charities and Correction and the Commissioners of gration, ‘were ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly bills were introduced to amend the charter of Brooklyn and for the construction of an iron corrugated railway in New York and Westchester counties, A resolution directing the presentation of Nestimonials to volunteers was tabled. Resolutions inquiring into the expediency of ma ig cruel and inhuman treatment and wiiful abandonment for two Years a cause for divorce and also inquiring into the changes necessary for the usury laws were agreed | to. Bills authorizing the United States to remove @ portion of Erie Breakwater and to improve Gra- ham and Van Cott avenues, Brooklyn, were ad- vanced to a third reading. A bill to aid in the construction§ of the Midiand Railroad was reported and referred for consideration, THE CITY. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a long disens: sion arose on the subject of the Church street exten- sion, in the course of which some points on the pecu- liarity of the proposed work were ventilated. Collector Smythe, of this city, has received oMectal information from the State and Treasury Depart- ments that cholera is pr nt at St. Thomas, W and Tangier, Morocco. are quarantined at St. Jolin’s, ‘ranger, Ceuta, Tetuan and the twenty-one days at Gibraltar. posed on vessels with even clear bills fro ports in Morocco. Se A special Senate committee appointed at Albany ts | ‘At present in this city holding its session in Metropoll- tan Hall inquiring into the contract system of clean- ing the streets and avenues of the city. The contract ig now held by Mr. James A. whiting, Against the manner in which he is carrying it out many com- plaints have been made. Mr. Whiting, Mayor Hott man, John L. Brown, Shepherd E. Knapp and Jack- gon Schultz, “ex-President of the Board of Health, were yesterday examined. The committee meet again this morning at ten o'clock. ‘The assembly committee to investigate the affairs of the public heaith officer of this port was tn session at the St, Nicholas Hotel yesterday. No charges Whatever were presented against Dr. Swinbourne, Bow estions were offered relative to changes in the « nttme system, and the committee ad- A meeting of the bench and bar was held in the | U ited States District Court yesterday, to take appro- ate action in reference to the death of the late Adresses mné after which ( by members of the legal t adjourned, were adopted and with General Grant. Indiana, in behalf of the republicans, quite as emphatically has put for- ward her favorite leader, Speaker Colfax, as the man of all men for the Vice Presidency. But if the heads of these two men are knocked together in the Chicago Convention they may both be killed off; for experience has shown that where, on nearly equal terms, there are several candidates in one of these party con- ventions for the same place, the chances are as uncertain as any one of so many tickets in one of the Hon. Ben Wood's lotteries, or as the chances of Hon. John Morrissey's fascinating but delusive game of faro or keno. Moreover, there are some republicans of a con- servative cast who think that ‘‘Ben Wade” as President now, and as Vice President under the succession, would be too much of the old Ohio fanatic. It is hinted, therefore, that some compromise will probablg be at- tempted of this sort—viz., the declination of Mr. Wade in favor of Speaker Colfax as the next man in the line of promotion to the White House with the removal of Andrew Johnson, and with the understanding that Colfax will turn over to Wade all his right, title and inte- rest in the Chicago Convention as a candidate | for the Vice Presidency on the regular ticket | with Grant, Should this arrangement be | agreed upon between the high contracting parties it is supposed that the Chicago Con vention may be relied upon to lay ‘* Old Ben’ up in lavender on the same shelf with Seward, Fillmor “Old Buck,” ‘* poor Pie: other fossils of the silurian epoch. ting him out of a re-election to the Si has m no doubt, a profound impr upon the mind of Mr, Wade in favor of that wise old maxim that ‘a bird in the hand is | worth two in the bush.” Hence he may decline to enter into any compact involving the sur- render of the White House, as the successor ad interim of Andrew Johnson, for the uncer- tain chartes of the lottery wheel of the Chicago Convention, What then? The ques- tion then recurs, how will Mr. Wade serve the purposes of the republican party in the place of Andrew son? First of all he is cheek-by- jowl with Wendell Phillips on negro suffrage and Southern negro supremacy, Phillips, therefore, may become the next Attorney General of the United States, ondly, Mr, Wade goes the whole figure of George Francis Train and his colaborers, the strong-minded and long-winded women, in behalf of woman suffrage and women’s rights. Accordingly, the Senate will | do well to prepare itself, with the installation of “Old Ben” in the uncomfortable chair of “Andy Johnson,” for the confirmation of Miss Lucy Stone or Mrs. Susan B. Anthony as See- retary of the Interior or Postmaster General, and for Fred Douglass and Downing, the oys- , | terman, as ministers to Hayti and Liberia, In the next place, if we may credit the original 1 | reports of a certain speech delivered by “Old Ben Wade" some time ago in Kansas touching and | But the last October Ohio election, in eut- | versal Western ultimatum of greenbacks to the bondholders, but equal rights in the matter of property, including new division all around every Saturday afternoon. Yet, again, we have heard that Mr. Wade is something of a Spiritualist, and that under a good medium he likes nothing better than 9 consultation with the ghost of Old John Brown on public affairs, and that he likewise adheres tg the faith of the olf time Massachusstis Purl- tana in the maicé? of Witchcraft, It has been said of “Honest Old Abe” that occasionally, when inspired by good news, he would ope his Cabinet council with the reading of an in- structive lesson or two from ‘‘Joe Miller;” but “Old Ben,” a more sombre and mysterious man, a sour and dreamy fanatic, when estab- lished in the White House, will be more apt to begin his official conferences with the ex- ercises of a spiritual circle till the round table is supernaturally lifted to the ceiling and the closed piano begins to play the ‘“‘New Je- rusalem,” There is nothing too radical or novel or grotesque to expect from ‘‘Old Ben Wade,” this old line roundhead and abolition- ist; this old hardshell Baptist, backwoodsman and Western stump orator; this queer com- pound of the leading mental peculiarities of Parson Brownlow, John Brown, Joe Smith, Lucy Stone, “‘Old Thad Stevens,” Gerrit Smith and Andy Johnson. From a President made up of such powerful elements we may surely look for some astonish- ing things. The danger is that he may run the administration into more serious blun- ders on the radical tack than have been com- mitted by Mr. Johnson in opposition to the radicals. The more prudent and sagacious re- publicans in Congress, and especially in the Senate, have their apprehensions looking in this direction. They fear that ‘Old Ben Wade” may disclose his policy so frankly and so broadly as to upset the party machine at Chicago or in the progress of the Presidential campaign, We may accordingly anticipate some curious movements and deep intrigues and schemes at Washington, in the progress of Johnson's trial, to effect at the same time with his removal the dislodgement of ‘‘Old Ben Wade.” Otherwise, in the change from John- son to Wade the republican party will be out of the frying pan into the fire. Superintendent Kennedy and Festival. The order for the arrest of the maskers en- gaged in the celebration of the Jewish festival Purim is the latest attempt of Superintendent Kennedy to make a grand parade of authority. As too often happens with this functionary, power is again used, not to any good purpose, but only in making a pitiful invasion upon pri- vate and peaceful pleasures. From the state- ments given in another column it will be seen that some Jewish citizen had had dn under- standing with the authorities—as far as certain of the authorities can be said to understand anything—and the outrage was committed in violation of permission given. This act is characterized by that small spirit, and pitifully ingenious effort to seem efficient that appears to distinguish all the acts of the Superin- tendent. The Purim festival is a religious rite. One day rather more than two thousand years ago the heart of Ahasuerus ‘‘was merry with wine.” This Ahasuerus “reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces ;” and who should dispute the royal pleasure of such a mighty fellow, especially when the fiery spirit of the grape was filling his brain with whim and extravagance? Nobody should have done it; but Vaspti did. Vashti was the Queen— and she may have been tipsy, too. She was a beauty, and the King sent for her to come into his presence ‘“‘that the people and the princes” might be gladdened with the sight of her charms. She stood upon her prerogative and refused to go—positively, obstinately, con- tumaciously, foolishly refused. ‘Therefore was the King very wroth, and his anger burned in him ;” and Shushan, the palace, was a stormy place. His Majesty sent for his con- stitutional advisers, the wise men of his Cabi- net, ‘“‘which knew the times,” and, asking their opinions on this unprecedented event, they were found to be of one mind, and that mind was that the King must assert the dignity of his position, and that the safety of all the provinces required an example—required a decree of divorce. So Vashti was sent home to her father. . Then the question was as to her successor, and the new Queen was chosen on a pretty principle. OfMicers were appointed ‘‘in all the provinces of the kingdom, that they might gather together all the ‘fair young virgins ;” and from such an assemblage the King was to choose the one he liked best of all. His choice fell upon Esther, the niece of Mordecai the Jew; wut it was not known who she was, ‘‘and the King loved Esther above all the women, and set the royal crown upon her head.” In tho: ame days the Jews were having a hard time of it generally, and the King's ministers and his absurd old superintendents of police were doing what they might in the way of little persecutions, and had arranged the destruction am in the her, the favored woman, saved the Purim generally of all the sons of Abra realin, But B her r: by a little plot of her own, and it fell out that the Jews, i 1 of being destroyed, “smote all their ¢ with the stroke of the sword,” and then rested and made the time one of “feasting and gladness.” And as their enemies ‘had cast Pur—that is, the lot—to consume them and to destroy them,” therefore “they called those days Purim, after the name of Pur;” and they avere made days to ‘be remembered and kept throughout every gener- ation ;” days of ‘‘feasting and joy and of send- ing portions one to another and gifts to the poor.” In keeping this festival now in our great free city the Jews were mindful of the fact that we have a law forbidding masquerading in public; but they could not fall to notice that this law had become a dead letter. Several societies of even foreign nationality have annual masked balla and no one interferes, and it was under- stood that in the celebration of this social fes- tival and in passing from house to house in carriages the maskers would not be disturbed. But this understanding was violated, and the brilliant first policeman gqhose to revive an ex- pired law against a class of our citizens least likely to abuse their privileges. Shall we ard dye Barnard | yea! granted an fajunc?ic inst the Board of | the money question and the rights of labor, he Directors of the Erle Railway Company and iis | may be expected not only to advooate the uni- never have done with this pitiful spirit at head. quarters ? Recedstruction im the Seuth—Trouble Among the Radicals. The total number of registered voters in the ten unreconstructed Southern States, accord- ing to the latest published returns, reached, in round numbers, one million three hundred thirty thousand. The total number ©%.o vote for. conventions was, omittig Texas, séven hundred and six thousand, thus showing thag the fnajority for calling the conventions was, in the aggregate, lesa than one hundred thousand and that the large number of nearly six hundred and twenty-four thousand re- frained from voting at ail, What proportion of this vote was composed of white and what of black it is difficult to determine; yet it ‘s safe to aver that the conservative whites largely outnumbered the blacks. But this is not a question of essential importance. The grand point is that these figures show a re- serve of some six hundred thousand conserva- tive voters in the South who have not voted at all on political questions since the date of their registration, and that when that army go to the polls the radicals will be overwhelmingly outnumbered, Here is food for the radicals to digest, and the sooner they set about it the better. Con- ceding the success of their candidates fer the present Congress, their chances for carrying the South in the Presidential election next fall are far from certain, On the contrary, there is no doubt that if. the conservative whites of the South bring out their strength and act ina conciliatory spirit toward the native blacks the latter will desert their white plunder-seeking radical allies and unite with that element in the midst of which they have been raised and are domiciliated and with which it is the natural tendency of their race to mingle and harmonize. This is the doctrine advocated by Wade Hampton and others among the sound- est Southern statesmen, and that it is the true one for the interests of the South is as clear as the sun at noonday. ; The radicals, therefore, are not yet out of the woods, They seem to be just entering the wilderness. As a prerequisite to re-entering the Union it is a matter of indifference whether they require the adoption of the new constitution by a majority of the whole number of voters registered or of the whole number of votes cast; for it is certain that from the bungling manner in which recon- struction has been treated in the case of Alabama, from the turmoil and confusion in Washington about impeachment, from the clamor of the New England manufacturers and capitalists for peaceful legislation and from other causes, there is a heap of trouble brew- ing in the radical ranks. The Northern moderate republicans are becoming disgusted with the imbecility and blundering perverse- ness manifested by the radical leaders in Congress, and while woe hear of hundreds of republicans leaving their party and joining the democratic, as is the case in New Hampshire, we hear of no democrats leaving their own and joining the republican ranks. With scarcely a majority of registered votes in either of the proscribed States and a sure majority in the aggregate against them, the radicals cannot afford to lose time in tumbling those States back into the Union by some means or other; for by delay they will not only lose the South, but alienate the North, increase the distraction among their own people and eventually be left with scarcely half a score of reliable States in the whole country with which to breast the Presidential storm next November. England and the United States—The Ala- bama Claims. The debate which took place a few nights ago in the House of Commons, and of which we have already published the substance in the Heratp, shows how England is gradually coming to her senses in regard to the depreda- tions of the Alabama and other vessels. The speech of Mr. Lefevre was as withering an ex- posure of the conduct of the English govern- ment as was ever delivered by any American legislator or penned by any American journal- ist. Mr. Forster and Mr. Mill were ‘equally just and scarcely less severe. The language of Lord Stanley and Mr. Gladstone was firm and decided in regard to one point—viz., the recog- nition of belligerent rights to the South; but their remarks, taken as a whole, revealed a disposition to adopt a wiser and juster policy. On the whole, it must be admitted, as we have said before, to have been a wise and temperate discussion. Weare always glad to see our English cousins coming to their senses, What will Mr. Seward do in the premises is a question which our English friends will naturally be asking themselves. What can he do? Mr. Seward, we fear, must no longer be taken into account, Events are marching rapidly with us, and there is every reason to believe that Mr. Seward will soon be under the necessity of retiring to his retreat at Auburn, there to reflect at leisure on the great drama in which he has played not an insignificant part. Ben Wade and his troop of strong-minded women will soon be masters of the situation; and then, unless we greatly mistake, this difficulty with Great Britain will assume a much more serious character. The men who have been bold and daring enough to proceed to the last extremity in domestic questions are little likely to halt or hesitate at the comparatively paltry diMiculty of a foreign war. Having swallowed the camel is but small chance that they will strain at the gnat. We are in the midst of a dangerous revolution ; the Jacobins are in the ascendant, and, as all history shows, they are not the men to sacrifice place and power by adopting a cautious or temporizing policy. War with England, with France, wjth the world, will be welcome, if it only promise to prolong their lease of power. {t is for this reason more than for any other that we would advise Great Britain to get this Alabama difficulty off her hands at once. To the radicals, with Bon Wade as President, and his strong-minded women installed in office, a foreign war would be a Godsend. Our swords are yet sharp, and love of the stir- ring scenes of the battle field has not ceased to animate the breasts of thousands of our citizens. We fear no foe. We have not only crushed out « gigantic rebellion, but we have dismissed the French from Mexico; and the fierce democracy has but to be let loose to drive the English from Canada, to extinguish the new Dominion and (with the exception of Mexico, whose time is oo%ning) to mako the there * | entire North American Continent our own, | . “HERALD, ‘TURSOAY, MARCH io, ies—TRIPLA SHEET YORK HERALD Our advice, therefore, is, let =? pay down the money in time, ad let France im{- tate her example. te Robert Dale Owen and the S){ritualists. Mr. Robert Dale Owen has had an <wnsettied, weirdlil ostly sort of existence dur: veal ow jes, fhe cau of hich are P- plexing to the physiologists and pastors, and may result in consequences '} earlier. We, too, have ¥ Foverend | unpleasant to the physical man in his own | proper person. Voluntarily losing his foothold on dérra firma, Mr. Owen has been attempting to float himself in a new and unsubstantial sphere, of a misty and will-o’-the-wisp forma- tion alternately, not ranging sufficiently high for heaven, darkened occasionally by unwel- come messengers from the celestial antipode, and yet far removed from that limbo of purga- tion through the discipline of which, we are assured on respectable authority, a post mortem quiet may be attained by the exercise of friendly prayer and the endurance of a considerable amount of pain. Mr. Owen, as it appears to us, manages to reach a certain point of elevation on his journey towards complete etherealization, and then lowers himself towards our earth, or, as Charles Dickens has it, flops” down again to relate his experiences. He never allows him- self to come squarely and firmly on the ground, however, but always manages to alight in some four story garret in Broadway, or at best on the floor of Dodworth Hall, where he is equally bewildered by the carnal presence of extraor- dinary admixtures of Spiritualism, Free Love- ism and Woman’s Rightsism, and mere flesh and blood, each inclining, coaxing, persuading and forcing him in this, that and the other direc- tion, so that he is almost compelled to fly away again in order to get rid of the influences and try to find out how all such people will fare after death. Mr. Owen has, in fact, got among the Spiritualists, and undertaken a very un- healthy mission in endeavoring to analyze hereafter in their behalf and for their special comfort. There is really no good cause why it should be so. Mr. Owen possesses a clear, sound mind, if he would only just preserve it in a sound, healthy body, by strict attention to the observance of the rules of hygiene and the use of plenty of exercise in the open air. This would effectually counteract all tendency to nervous eccentricities. Years ago Mr. Owen was in New York advocating the peculiar system of Fanny Wright, with the principles of woman's rights, in the columns of an evening newspaper. The incarnation of Fanny Wright- ism appeared to sicken him; so, acting wisely and well, he took himself out to the great West. Here, under the influence of the pure air of the prairies and in view of nature in her solidity and grandeur, he immediately recuperated. The men of Indiana sent him to Congress, and he arrived in Washington with his mind en- larged, well balanced, argumentative and in that excellent democratic training which kept him agreeably before the public from the year 1848 to 1847. President Pierce took him up in 1853 and sent him as American Chargé d’Affaires to Naples, and here, as his own relation at Dod- yee Hall last Sunday, and the publication of ‘‘Footfalls onthe Boundaries of Another World,” plainly prove, his real troubles com- menced, With the fire of Vesuvius and the facile descensus of its crater right before him, the threatened fires, and penances and fast- ings, anathemas and processions and decretals of the Church in Naples around him, the mur- muring of the infant democracy of Italy in his ears, the yellow moon of the glorious bay right over his head and the tidal action of the Medi- terranean at his feet, Mr. Owen became a little confused and began to imagine that he was on & very unsubstantial footing here on earth. Our representative, in truth, got somewhat “mixed” as regards matters sublunar and lunar. When in this frame of mind he was introduced, as he tells us himself, to a fair lady, a Russian, we believe, who “‘came over him” with a system which she termed ‘“‘auto- graphic writing”—whatever that means—and from ‘“‘autographic writing” Mr. Owen has gone on step by step to ‘‘coincidences,” ‘‘second sight,” ‘‘spheres,” “portals of the unknown world” and “‘spiritualism ;” in truth, to ghosts, and ghosts sufficient in number to affright whole nurseries of children, other than ‘*Young Americans,” in any land. He thinks that peo- ple come back to visit us after we have seen them to their last earthly homes, and asserts that it forms a very “beautiful” pursuit to in- vestigate the correctness, or otherwise, of the assertion. In our opinion the Investigation would be just as profitable as the enterprise of the man who purchased a raven to see if it would live a hundred years, as he was told. This Russian or Italian ‘‘autographic writer” has a good deal to answer for in Mr. Owen's case. If she has already departed this life the gentleman should have an inter- view with her spirit by all means—the first introduction at the Russian Minister's lodgings will serve—and find ont the true state of facts from her. In the meantime we would advise him to a course of Russian baths, followed by immediate runs in the Central Park. , This will likely cure him. Should it fail he must attach himself as an acolyte to the train of some Chinese Tannist priest chaplain in the Burlingame mission, who will perfect him in the mysteries of ‘ancestral worship” and show him plainly how a living man may be- come the veriost slave of the dead. Should Mr. Owen neglect both remedies and “stick” to Dodworth Hall, he must surely recollect the fate of the poor tailor in Newark. Our American Girondists—What Will They Do or What Will Become of Them? The Girondists of the French Revolution, of whom we may mention Vergniaud, Gensonné, Gandet, Brissot, [snard Lanjuinais, Condorcet, were the best, the bravest, the most eloquent and the most virtuous men whom the revolu- tion produced. Their conduct and their fate were pregnant with lessons to all future gene- rations, Their manly instincts rebelled against the extreme measures adopted ogninst the King. But the revolutionary current was too strong to be resisted with safety. Fearful for themselves, they yielded to the popular torrent and voted for the death of the unhappy monarch. This vote at once ruined their in- fluence and sealed their fate. Twenty-two of them soon after perished on the scaffold; nor was the vengeance of their enemies satisfied until Madame Roland shared their fate, Their names had poon greater if they had perished ———————— thony, Feasenden, Howe, Norton, Ross, Sher- man, Sprague, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Willey, Williams, | Morg are the men who are now dttemplidg to moderate the strife, They have played the part of the Girondists so far. It remains tg be seen how the will play it out. fo their nobler Tan “Or will they yleld and ‘uil like their great predecessors ? “™\. he z. wn It is not strau,%@ if the people sometimes get their ideas of right °24 Wrong sadly mixed— if the muddle of politic.’ #24 law so turns their thoughts topsyturvy thas guch words as virtue and vice, guilt and innocen’? have no satisfactorily distinctive meanings. Har* is before the country a strange contrast in thd respective positions of two well known men, The President of the United States is on his trial for grave offences against the law, and the President of the Confederate States goes free, Had the confederacy triumphed, had New York been burned instead of Charleston, had the Northern people been put down and the Congress that sat at Richmond been clared the Congress of the canntry, we might have expected such a spectacle. We might then have expected that Mr. Davis would be not only free but honored, as he is by the very men who are now pushing forward the trial of the President of the Northern people, and that this latter would be sovered with all the contumely of epithet and be brought up for trial; but who could have anticipated that such @ spectacle would follow the triumph of tl» armies of the North? Mr. Davis was tho Moloch of the struggle, as was supposed, and he cannot be tried. The Chief Justice is never ready, nothing is ever ready, and the culprit is at large méanwhile on a bail bond signed by radical leaders, And the same men, the same radical ranters, cannot find terms fierce enough to hound on the. trial of the Président of the United States. Strange fhat one man’s offences—offences that the people cannot see— should seem so great to the radicals! Strange that the other man’s offences—offences that the people can never shut from their eyes— should seem g0 little to the same radicals! It would be stranger than all, however, if a party so little in sympathy with popular views should’ long have the confidence of the country. The Erle Railway and the Courts. On the 3d day of March, on the application of the Attorney General of the’ State of New York, Judge Barnard, of the Supreme Court, granted an injunction against the Erie Railway Company and its directors, enjoining and restraining them from converting any bonds of the company or other securities into stock, or from issuing any additional stock whatsoever, and especially enjoining and restraining Daniel Drew from selling or in any way disposing of any Erie Railway stock or certificates of stock that might be or come into his possession until he shall have restored to the company certain shares obtained by him as security for loans or in exchange for stock of other roads. The application of the Attorney General of the State was based upon the complaint and affida- vit of Frank Work, one of the directors of the Erie Railway, setting forth alleged transactions prejudicial to the rights and interests of tho stockholders of that company. It appears that the defendants in these pro- ceedings have hunted up another Justice of the Supreme Court in the rural districts—probably somewhere on the line of the Etie Railway— who has been prevailed upon to issue an order which conflicts with and seeks to nillify Judge Barnard’s injunction, and to deprive the stock- holders of the benefit of the protection sought to be extended to them by the Attorney Gen- eral of the State. This country Judge steps im and issues a counter injunction against the complaining director, Work, the object being, as we have said, to embarrass the pending pro- ceedings and to interfere in a remarkable and apparently unwarrantable manner in the caso already before the Supreme Court. While there may be legal warrant for the course pursued by the defendants in this matter and for the action of their judicial friend from the rural districts, it is nevertheless a most singular pro- ceeding, and one which, however reconcilable with Wall street ethics, appears to be in con- flict with all our preconceived ideas of pro- fessional courtesy and public justice. The case comes up again to-day beforo Judge Barnard, and he will no doubt properly rebuke the extraordinary and apparently un- justifiable intermeddling with the case on the part of a Justice of the Supreme Court outside this judicial district, and reaffirm his former decision, vacating the order subsequently ob- tained. Meantime, on the complaint of Richard Schell, Judge Barnard yesterday granted an injunction to restrain the directors of the Erie Railway from holding any meeting for the transaction of business so long as Frank Work is prohibited from acting as a director of the said company, such prohibition being a por- tion of the order of the country Judge. There are other features of the case of interest to the. stockholders, to which it is unnecessary to allude, The whole affair presents a striking: illustration of the manner in which the business of railroad stock speculation is carried on, and the fullest exposure of all the facts in the case is desirable, For some years the Erie Rail- way has been in the hands of jobbers and speculators, and the Jona fide stockholders have been made the victims of the tricks of the manipulators ou Wall street. The. people would now like to know something about tho management of the company, and as the money of the State has been invested in the road the desire is not unreasonable. It is to be hoped that Judge Barnard and the Attorney General will persevere in. their efforts. to protect the stockholders, and will not be driven from, the contest by sharp lawyers or intermeddling Judges, The Strects and the Senate Commiitee. The Committee on Cities of the State Senate are at present in this city making an favestiga- tion into the condition of the streets of New York and the working of the contract system for street cleaning. Yesterday they examined Mayor Hoffman, and if they obtain no better information from other witnesses than they managed to squeeze out of that member of the street commission they had better at once sottle their little bills at the Metropolitan Hotel, return to Albany and devote their time to the several propositions for a Broadway railroad and the arguments of the lobhy for the our Girondists. An- ¢”