The New York Herald Newspaper, March 18, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heracp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Aunual subscription Price $14. The EvROPEAN EDITION, every Wednesday, at Srx CENvs per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include postage. Volume XXXIEL...........-::ceeesereeee ee No. 78 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE.—THE (iRAND DUCHESS, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humery Dompry. Matinee at 1/5. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tag Waite Fawn. . WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th strect.— ROSEDALE. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 2d street, corner of Eighth avenue.—PET OF THE PETTICOATS—FAMILY JARS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Turer Fast MEN OF New York—Baian borotume, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sam. 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NATIONAL HALL, Harlem.—Mz. GEonGR VANDEN- ‘Horr's READINGS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. ‘New York, Wednesday, March 18, 1868. THSB NIWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated mid} night. The condition of Ireland was earnestly debated in the English House of Commons in the sitting ending the morning of the 17th, Mr. Gladstone and Premier Disraeli stating their views and arguments. Fenian organizations have, it is said, created “alarming” dis- affection in a large portion of the British army serving An Great Britain. The Pope proclaimed the newly consecrated American bishops. A French “pamph- let” in support of the Napoleon dynasty is looked for. Political rots of a serious character took place in the island of Madeira. The Pope rejects Napo- leon’s plan for a settlement with Italy. Consols 93 2 93%. Five-twenties 72 in London and 7534 in Frankfort. Cotton dull, with middling uplands at 103d. The trade report from Manchester is unfavorable. Bread- stuffs dull. Provisions firmer. The German mail steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, from Southampton March 3, arrived at this port yesterday, bringing mail details of our cable despatches to her day of sailing from England. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Edmunds, from the Joint Committee on Retrenchment, made an expla- nation, stating that the report on whiskey frauds recently made was not the report of the committee, but was made on the respon- sibility of only one member of it. A Dill was introduced to provide a temporary govern- ment for Alaska. The House bill to exempt certain Toanufactures from tax was again calléd up and generally debated, Several amendments were offered, but no action was taken on them. In the House Mr Jenckes offered a resolution from the Retrenchment Committee, denying that the re- port made by Mr. Van Wyck in reference to whiskey frauds is the report of that committee. Mr. Van Wyck being absent the resolution was not received. Another long debate ensued on the bill to remove political disabilities from certain persons in the Southern States, and it was finally recommitted ‘with instructions. The Freedinen’s Bureau bill was discussed and went over on the expiration of the morning hour. The bill for the admission of Ala- ama was then discussed, and Mr. Stevens, with the remark that “to force @ vote to admit the State against our own law, witha deficiency of twenty thousand against it, would not be just,” moved to Tecomumit it, which was done. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday a memorial was presented and referred asking that a law be passed for the prevention ofa monopoly of other railroads by direct- ors of the Hudson River or Harlem. Bills were passcd felative to the Board of Education, and amending the act to facilitate the construction of the Southern Central Railroad. Bills appropriating $250,000 to aid in the construction of the Whitehall and Piatts- burg Railroad, and authorizing additional facilities for the interment of paupers, were ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly bills to amend an act relative to assignments for the benefit of creditors; to amend an act relative to the taxation of stockholders of Danks; relative to taxes and assessments in New ‘York, and others of a private character, were passed. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special despatches from Havana contain far- ‘ther interesting intelligence from Mexico. Several Spanish oficers are implicated in the late conspira- cy, and It ts believed that Santa Anna, Marquez and others originated it with the intention of pro- claiming Ortega President. <A plot to block- ade Vera Cruz has been unfolded to the government and it was probable that Juarez would send a com- mission to General Leraundi to demand a more rigid observance of the neutrality lawa. The Mexican Congress had appropriated another sum of $55,000 to redeem the convention and internal bonds. ‘The ‘war between Alvarez and Jiminez on the west coast ‘was being prosecuted with considerable vigor. Affairs in Cuba are interesting. The Captain General and the Bishop of Havana had had a ditter- ence on account of the latter interfering to prevent a performance by Ristori, and during Lersundi’s tour through the island the Bishop in consequence of the disagreement ordered that the priests should not pay him the customary honors. For this, ‘Lereundi, first obtaining permission from his home government, placed the Bishop in arrest and ordered aim leone seca, deans e Spanish mail jguese schooner which had landed six hi PAKr vee at Caivaries had been found abandoned. A terrific hurricane and rain storm visited the ‘West on Monday night. Over forty houses are re- ported to have been severely dimazed in Chicazo, and the blacksmith shop at the Rock Island depot was completely demolished. ‘The rivers and streavas in Indiana are overflowing their banks, and the draw of the Rock Island bridge over the Mississippi was blown down, killing one man, The breaking up of the ice along the Hudson 1s causing some consternation among the villages upon its banks, The water in several places has burst its boundaries, and the Hudson River Railroad is par- tially flooded. Several ratlroad bridges in the north- ern part of the State have been washed away. Secretary Sewrrd left Auburn for Washington yes- terday morning, but a despatch states that he was detained last night at Utica by the storm, St. Patrick’s day was very generally celebrated in this city and elsewhere yesterday by the Irish socie- ties, We have edvices by special telegram from Hondu- ras to the 15th inst, ‘The cholera had disappeared. The North Carolina Convention adjourned yester- day. The conservative members refused to sign the new constitution, The South Carolina Convention also adjourned. In the Virginia Convention an ordinance was re- ported levying a further tax to support the Con- vention, The Richmond judges were made elective by the Legislature and not by the people. The British war steamer Chameleon arrived at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, from Honolulu, yes- terday. An Assembly committee, now in session in this city to inquire into the management of the ferries, received considerable testimony relative to the Brooklyn ferries yesterday and adjourned till this morning. The action for libel brought against Moses S. Beach, of the Sun, by Mrs, Mary Boker-Dean, was commenced in the Brooklyn City Court yesterday afternoon, The defendant acknowledged that he published the alleged libellous article, but claimed that it was not done maliciously. The summing up will take place to-day. Mrs. Dean was not in court. ‘The stock market was on the whole heavy yester- day. Governments were dull. Gold closed at 13034. Progress of the Revolution. Where shall we stop? At what point will all the people unite to arrest the tide of revo- lutionary fury that threatens to sweep away one after another every breakwater, every in- stitution that the fathers of the republic set up in the hope of giving stability to the govern- ment of the people by securing the rights and liberties of the masses? Sometimes doubtful powers may be assumed; one department of a government may invade the prerogative of another, or the laws may be absolutely sus- pended in their action, All this may be rightly done to save the government in times of great peril—in times when the rage of war makes. imminent necessities, and the law would obstruct those who would save the nation; but never at any other time. And to argue that any fact but open war can justify such things is to excuse every act of perfidy and usurpation of which governments and peoples have been the victims since the world began, Yet here we are in absolute peace. Not a foe is arrayed against us anywhere, save such as an effective police could cope with. Our tranquillity is not menaced by any organization even one hundredth part so dangerous as the Fenians might be to Great Britain. But in a time like this we see the whole body of the law absolutely pushed aside and the pride, the passion, the revengeful spirit of an arrogant oligarchy put in its place. Congress abolishes the executive, usurps all the powers of that office, and then, in a mock- ery of legal forms, proceeds against the officer for the crime of protesting—not to show that it has right on its side, but only to show how worthless is the mere name of law against the fact of a majority. Not content with this, but afraid of any supervision over its pretence to act legally, it takes away the prerogative of the Supreme Court. By implication of law and common custom and usage that court had grown to be a council of revision, pronouncing with authority on all the enactments of the national legislature; and no Congress had ever desired to escape that revision, for all had at heart the good of the people and felt that safety for all alike lay in strict observance of the law. But this Congress desires to escape that revision, and so enacts that the Supreme Court shall not pronounce on its laws—by that very fact con- fessing that it knows its law to bein defiance of the constitution made to secure the safety of the people. How is it, then, that the people stand still? that they look on so patiently? that they move with such moderate protest even at the polls? Have they suddenly grown indifferent to the national welfare? No. They are deceived. They are cheated as to the purposes, the policy, the spirit, nay, the very identity of this party in power. When the devil crept up behind the dozing parson and from the pulpit preached murder, robbery, blasphemy, every horrible crime, the quiet congregation won- dered a little with itself, but concluded that it was all in God’s justice, though simple people might not understand it. So the people now, though they wonder at these laws and cannot see the necessity for all this violence, yet accept all on their faith in the party leaders; for they believe that the party in power is still moved with patriotic purpose—is still the same party that led the nation in the war. Here is the real trouble. The people do not see exactly where we are in the history of the revolution. They do not see where the great party of the war, the real political embodiment of the people, was switched off and its place and name seized by the horde of scheming, eorrupt, un- scrupulous rascals and insane dreamers that are now driving the nation to ruin. They do not scan closely enough what took place at the end of the war—on the main points of the his- tory of which allagree. Certainly the Southern leaders began the struggle in pride and folly. On them must forever rest the blame for that, And they began the war with a fixed object in view—with full, deliberate purpose. What they could not endure was that the country had grown so that the free States must forever con- trol its destinies under the constitutional ays- tem. Power was passing out of their hands, and they precipitated a conflict, hoping to compel the free States to accept such changes in our system as would assure their strength in Congress against the growth of the North. The constitution and its equal distribution of power was what they struck at; and to defend and maintain it was what the Northern people fought or. During the war we became used to the ffirst abuses of power we had ever known; but there was no protest from the people, for all saw the necessity that some things should be done for which the law gave no authority. Many important points in our financial system are in doubt as to their constitutionality; so was the way in which our armies were brought out; and the law was violated every day in the but the people practically assented toall, and | the war was brought to a close. Here was the first error, The terms of the retura of the insurrectionary. States, should have been arranged and settled on the very field of battle—should have been part of the conditions on which the Southera soldiers laid down their arms. Reconstruction should have gone with surrender—not in the in- terest of the South,, but of the Norih— that we might seeure the real result of the war, and not lose that result by driving be- yondit; and because on that last field we h authorized representative of the Southern with whom to treat. But the communde forces was too much a man of mere ro had too little political sagacity to perceive this. The thought seems to have vaguely shaped itself in the mind of Sherman, ‘The chan passed away, however, and the mea who had brought the war to a close left their work half done. Reconstruction then fell to the hungry throng of political speculators, eager to secure the power and spoil they saw it might yield. These were men who had embarrassed the government at every step through the war, in trying to make great events accomplish their little projects rather than secure the country. They were the men of cotton jobs, nigger pro- clamations and peace conferences at Niagara Falls, It is this class of political reprobates that has come into power now, pushing aside the men and the ideas that led the country through the war. Knowing the necessity of deceiving the people and keeping up an honest appearance, they have fooled General Grant into lending his name to their ‘purposes. He who has been upright, and whom all believe to be, like Pompey and Marius, competent as a soldier and well meaning, but unpardonably, incomprehensibly dull in poli- tics, is fairly in their clutches, and serves to cover to the people all their mischievous and dangerous manceuvres. But if the people do not awake to the true character of this party all will be lost; for the object of these men is exactly the object of the Southern men who made the war—to secure power by destroying the established order of the constitution. Their triumph insure’ the very result against which the nation carried on the four years’ war, and the people must fight them for the country as fiercely, as earnestly, as unceasingly as they fought the Southern enemy. One leader has already gone down in the fight, but one remains. Around Farragut, therefore, the masses must rally and fight once again the glorious battle for freedom. Hell Gate, the Pilots and the Parsons. The pilots and the tugboat men are making a stout fight at Albany for and against the privi- leges of the former in Hell Gate. The pilots, according to the existing law, are entitled to half pilotage from vessels which employ tug- boats instead of pilots, and it is proposed to amend the law so as to strike out this clause. The tug men are all in favor of the propo- sition, and of course the shipowners are back- ing them. Now, we are decidedly in favor of the pilots. We hope that they will not only be sustained in their present position, but that the tugboats will charge twice as much for towing vessels as they do now, so as to make the navigation of Hell Gate such an expensive nuisance that Congress will be compelled, by a heavy pressure brought to bear by the dam- aged shipping interests of this community, to clear Hell Gate altogether and open an eastern entrance to the city from the Atlantic. When things come to a point that they cease to be endurable somebody is generally found to remedy them. The shipowners and merchants have hitherto been apathetic in this matter, although they might have had the obstructions in the East river removed long ago if they had taken the matter in hand. If it was the real Hell Gate we wanted to have cleared no doubt all the parsons would help us with their prayers. Henry Ward Beecher would certainly lend a hand, and the two discomfited Tyngs and the triumphant duo, Stubbs and Boggs, might be counted in as valuable auxiliaries. However, as it is only an ugly bunch of rocks, with an uglier name, in one of our principal water highways, that have io be removed, the parsons could do us no good, so that we must look to the tugboat men and the pilots to put up their prices to such a figure that the shipping men will have to bestir themselves and insist upon the government opening Hell Gate to navi- gation. A Case Whick Hits Camden and Amboy. The Sxpreme Court of the United States on Monday last, upon the case of an appeal against a State law of Nevada imposing a tax upon passengers crossing her territory, de- cided that no State has the right to impose any such tax. This decision, it seems tous, knocks the Camden and Amboy through ticket pas- senger tax on the head. The State taxes the company one dollar per through passenger be- tween New York and Philadelphia, going or coming, and the company draws the tax from the passenger for the State. Some tax upon passengers of the same sort, we believe, pre- vails on the road between Baltimore and Wash- ington. Now, ifone man, or a number of men, on the ticket of a throngh passenger will only make an issue—with Camden and Amboy, for instance—npon that one dollar State tax on the passenger's transit over the fair domains of Jersey, this business may be speedily settled. It may be settled in another way. This Sn- preme Court decision does not interfere with any law of this infallible Congress, and this Congress, therefore, may put this decision everywhere in foree by a law upon the subject abolishing these State taxes, direct and indi- rect, upon passengers from other States, The Camden and Amboy monopoly has been a dead weight upon Jersey for many years. Tt may now be lifted by an act of Convress or by & public spirited passenger or {\v ing to pay that dollar of the State tax. We say noth- ing of the Jersey Lecishiture, because it is held between the finger and thumb of Condea and Amboy. ArrioLte Foortens—Wiy mw fr Not Pro- CLAIMED ?—It is gencrelly agcepted by the radi- cala in Congress that Article XIV, as w nend- inent of the cons lon (which, ¢ y other ure to be regulated by the » basis of representation) needs only a procla on from Congress to @x it in the constition, Why, thea, is it not pro- ned? Does thie Congress intend to repu- diate it, because of that jon of suffrage npon which the present radical majority in the invasion of personal rights by arbitrary arrests; | jiouse wae glecled? We siould like to know, NEW YORK. BERALV;“WBDNHSIAY; cee ————E nnn Wee cme The Connecticut Hiection. The annual Siate election in Connecticut oc- curs on Monday, the 6th of April next, or a lide over a forinight hence, The result is viewed with much interest and anxiety all over | the Ugion, as being practically what failed to be the case in New Hampshire—a decision by | the people of a State upon the vital political | issues of the day. Connecticut is naturally a republican State, as will be seen by a glance at the following table showing the majorities during the last eight years :— MAJORITIES IN CONN! 1st0— 18) Rep, maj. 076 It will thus be seen that the democrats have sueceeded in carrying the State but once in cight years, without going back any further. This was last year, and it is clear that this was only an exceptional case, Last year the defeat of the republicans grew out of the moral de- linquencies of the leaders of the party and trom the obloquy cast upon the ticket by the per- sonal characteristics of at least one of their leading candidates. This destroying virus spread through the body of the party until it aroused the sensibilities of the decent, respect- able and virtuous, disgusted them, and from absolute fear of being contaminated they either refused to vote at all or accepted the demo- cratic ticket. Barnum, the showman, was the pitch of the Connecticut republicans last year. By touching him they became defiled. He de- moralized and split the party and opened the way for a democrat to reach the executive chair and for a inajority of the democratic can- didates to be elected to Congress, It is a little curious that while the democratic press here failed to discover the weak points of the repub- licans in the Connecticut canvass last year the independent press—the Heratp—observed it and pointed out to the Connecticut democracy the avenue through which they were bound to achieve success. In short, the only practical sup- port the democrats of Connecticut had last year from the newspaper press was that furnished by the Heratp. ‘This shows that a sentiment of morality, piety and probity is deep rooted among the people. It is the foundation stone of society, and upon it is based nearly every- thing that is good in our institutions; and when knavish politicians or humbug showmen attempt to make use of respectable citizens to carry out disreputable and demoralizing pur- poses, or to elevate unfit, unworthy and dan- gerous men to responsible official positions, the natural instincts of the people become awak- ened, and political sharpers and impostors are sent to perdition in a whirlwind of indignation. But the fact is patent and notorious that the immorality and. corruption of the republi- can politicians did not die out with the defeat of the party in Connecticut last year. In the satanic interests of party leading re- publicans, bad men, actuated by the most cor- rupt motives, have been plunging the country from one frightful extreme to another for the past three years. Their legislation at Washing- ton has been the most atrocious that ever dis- graced civilization. Gigantic frauds go un- punished, gross corruptions are whitewashed or covered up, unprincipled characters wield the greatest power, and to despise the consti- tution, to break down the bulwarks which the fathers of the republic erected to protect the liberties of the people, is to reach the acme of republican distinction in Washington. Impeach- ment is leagued with and is only another name for repudiation. To punish a temporary poli- tical offender they would crush forever the credit of the nation. To smash up the demo- cratic party they would not hesitate to dash the country into the vortex of irretrievable bank- ruptcy, anarchy and ruin. The more effectually to subdue an already subdued portion of the country, once in rebellion, they have brought to their aid a race of barbarians and clothed them with all the prerogatives of the reigning race of the land; and through their instrumen- tality they hope to perpetuate and strengthen their hold upon a political power they were only created to abuse. To build up their nar- row-minded oligarchy they have laid violent hands upon that gallant soldier, General Grant, and are endeavoring to weld him to their partisan purposes. With the prestige of his name and the assistance of the Southern negro vote they expect to carry the next Presi- dential election, and thus entail upon the American people another four years of intoler- able misrule, Now, what is the plain duty of the democrats, and particularly the Connecticut democracy, in this exigency? It undoubtedly is, if they are at ali moved by patriotic impulses, to exhibit the largest-mindedness and take into considera- tion the critical condition of affairs all over the country. Assuming the ground that impeach- ment means repudiation, they should go solidly forward to the rescue of the financial credit of the nation, Taking for granted that Congres- sional reconstruction means negro supremacy, they should go into the battle for the white man’s rights, Conceding the republican party to be corrupt, immoral and demoralizing, they should go fora thorough purification of the political atmosphere. And allowing that the popularity of General Grant will be used to perpetuate republican power, let the democrats come. ont promptly and universally for the brave old sea-fighter, Admiral Farragut, thus equalizing the popularity of the soldier with the popularity of the sailor, and enabling the democrats to go before the people on equal terms, so far as personal and popular attributes are concerned, with the republicans, The democrats can make no fight with Pendleton or Seymour, or any other candidate yet named, against Grant. With Farragut there is a fine chance of carrying the ten Southern States newly reconstructed or to be reconstructed by Congress--of course against their will and inclination, Therefore, with the name of Farragut at the masihead, let the Connecticut democracy hold public meetings everywhere in favor of the “Sailor Hero in the Shrouds;” let them con- tinne the brave contest against the immorality and corraptions of the republican party they waged last year, and in the end we shall see a purified Congress and a redeemed, united and powerful national government. Our Mexican News.—In. the Henan of yes- terday we printed a series of special telegrams reiative to the situation in Mexico. Almost all that can be said about this unhappy country is said by each snecessive despatch. It is the old atory repeated over and over and over again. Mexico sugers from a chronic disease which seemslincurable. Maximilian ‘came t6 cure it and perished in the attempt. The disease re- mainsand seems more virulent than ever. As- sassinations, conspiracies, suicides, robberies, unlawful imprisonment make up the budget of news from time to time. Looking at the state of things which exists it does, indeed, seem a8 if the blood of Maximilian, which cries for vengeance like that of another Abel, was being heard and answered, Certain itis that since the murder of Maximilian confusion has become worse confounded, Improvement there has been none, but the reverse. Unfortunately, however, we have a Mexico on our hands, in the South we have all the evils to which Mexico isa prey. It remains to be seen whether they shall prove equally incurable. The Condition of Ireland—Debate in Par- lament, The debate on the resolution of Mr. Maguire Yelative to the condition of Ireland was re- sumed in the British Parliament on Monday night, and resulted in the withdrawal of the resolution after Mr. Disraeli had threatened “an appeal to the country” if the question were pressed to an issue. The debate was opened by Mr. Gregory, member for Galway, who de- nounced the long continued misgovernment of the island and the manner in which the demand of the people for reforms had been evaded by the ministers, who “offered them changes which they did not want.” Mr. Gladstone followed, and for the first time expressed his views on the subject. The Irish tenants, he said, lacked enterprise, and should be encouraged ‘‘in making improvements on their farms;” the ministers should submit a definite plan for the settlement of the Church question, and Parliament should lose no time “4n declaring itself in favor of religious liberty in Ireland.” Mr. Gladstone referred to the general content which reigned among the Irish in Canada and Australia, and affirmed that this happy state of affairs ex- isted in those colonies because ‘“‘they possessed the fruits of their own labor and en- joyed civil and religious liberty.” After referring to the ‘‘wide and deep” discontent in Ireland, and to the rapid depopulation of the island by emigration, Mr. Gladstone went on with the declaration that the gravity of the crisis made it the imperative duty of the government to give the subject an early and earnest attention. He reviewed the measures of reform proposed by the ministry, and, after speaking at length on the subject, closed with ‘‘an eloquent appeal to the House to take immediate action.” Mr. Disraeli, of course, spoke in opposition to the resolution. He combated the argu- ments of Mr. Gladstone against the govern- ment measures of relief, and denied that the Fenians had influenced the ministry, or that Fenian outrages prompted any measures. “Re- ferring to the remarks of members in support of the resolution, the Prime Minister hoped that the members were not alarmed ‘“‘by the speeches of men who, when in power, did nothing but make speeches.” He admitted that the state of the Irish Church establishment was unsatisfactory, but deprecated the unsettling of a system that had been in operation for three centuries in the face of a panic, and declared that “‘if pressed to an issue on this question the government would feel justified in making an appeal to the country.” Mr. Disraeli concluded his remarks with an assurance that the ministry were dis- posed to consider the Irish question, and only asked for time. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Maguire’s resolution was with- drawn, and thus ended the debate—for the present, at any rate—on the subject of Ire- land’s grievances. The Rival Opera Houses. In the race for public favor between Pike's and the Academy the former has so far dis- tanced its tortoise-like competitor that the con- test may be fairly considered at an end. The result could not be otherwise, considering the weight of one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders borne by the opera house on the east side, the avenging shades of hundreds of departed voices and managers, the cold, cheer- less, forlorn appearance of both stage and audi- torium, and the antipathy of the American pub- lic to anything in the shape of monopoly. The La Grange and Brignoli Opera Company entered the Catacombs in an evil hour; for both the artists in whose name the troupe has been or- ganized, and even the trusty Orlandini, have been obliged to succumb to the deadly atmos- pherethat, likethe malaria of the Pia de Tole- mei, surrounds those fatal walls, Ifthe history of both houses were dramatized the usual finale of “virtue triumphant over vice” would be exem- plified in the present state of affairs; for the wilful murder of splendid voices may be reck- oned among the capital offences. The perplex- ing question for the worthy one hundred and ninety-nine and a half now is, what will they do with their mausoleum? Opera has failed in it and met with extraordinary success else- where; Janauschek, one of the first of tragé- diennes, was obliged to seek a more congenial element, and her pathway has since been one uninterrupted series of triumphs; and even the “Devil's Auction,” with its ballet troupe, ruined the managers to such an extent that their sub- sequent success in other houses can hardly make up their losses at the Academy. We suggested before the idea of turning the estab- lishment into a circus; but then the horses and their riders might fall victims to the same com- plaints that have carried off so many prime donne and tenors. As a factory it would require too costly a steam apparatus to keep it warm, and the same reason unfits it for a me- nagerie, On the other hand, Pike's has commenced well and proved itself satisfactory during the two seasons of Italian Opera given there. The admirable acoustic qualities of the house, and its cheerful, brilliant appearance, have made opera enjoyable, and the artists have never been heard before to greater advantage. The é:ves of Torriani and Errani and the other American artists who are now coming forward every day have distinguished themselves in this house. At the same time the proprietor and manager should not lose sight of the object for which the house was built and its reputa- tion, by allowing every kind of entertainment, down to negro minstrelsy, like the present week's programme, to be held there, The public will soon frown down such ‘degradation of @ magnificent opera house, and the sooner the management restores its legitimate entgr- talnment the better, " ‘Tennessee Dimcutty>feneral Condition It is doubtless true,.as we have been in- formed, that the reports of an impending revo lution in Tennessee were and are greatly ex- aggerated. - A people ao wholly in the power of their opponents and so ly ruled as those of that State, are not likely to bring about an insurrection which from the very nature of the situation would be utterly hopeless. But while we apprehend no violent manifestation at the present time, it is impossible to ignore the dangers which threaten the future. The position of Tennessee byno means promises peace and prosperity. Over one hundred thousand of her white male citizens are disfran- chised, although forced to pay the expenses of the oligarchy governing them. Inthe middle and western sections of the State fifty thousand half barbarous negroes rule as with a rod ef iron, and a deaf ear is turned to the appeals of the unhappy whites from the shameful oppressions and indignities to which they are daily subjected. Is it any wonder, then, that, failing to obtain redress for their grievances, these ill-treated and oppressed people should organize secret societies for the purpose of eventually overthrowing the government which has proven, and is daily proving, a curse in- stead of a blessing? Wedo not defend suck organizations; indeed, they are much to be deplored because of their tendency to violence and bloodshed. But does not the fact of their existence point with unerring finger to what the finale of radical reconstruction will be? Is not the present condition of Tennessee appll- cable to the entire South? Ever since the policy of Congress became fixed by the passage of the Reconstruction laws our large corps of correspondents in the South have kept us fully advised of the po- litical situation in that section, and at no time has a more deplorable state of affairs existed there than exists at the present moment. The white man has become either a myth or an in- dividual so decidedly insignificant that he is only noticed to abuse; wh the irrepressible negro is the Great Mogul of the Blue Bottle, the creature to be petted, praised, fed and ex- cused, if not encouraged, in his acts of dishon- esty and violence. We are assured that the insolence and domineering disposition mani- fested by the negroes are almost beyond description. Outrages on and indignities prac- tised towards the whites are of frequent ocourrence, and are only submitted to because of afear that retaliation or resentment will array political sentiment in the North against the sufferers. Instances have come to oar knowledge where white men in Georgia, be- cause of their openly expressed hostility te universal suffrage, have been waylaid, seized and whipped by negroes, who, when arrested, have been saved from summary pun- ishment solely because of the desire to conciliate the people of the North. From every part of the South comes the tale ef robberies perpetrated by the newly enfranchised race; larcenies, too, which are rarely or never punished by those special guardians of the negro, the agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Society, in fact, is wholly disorganized in those sections where the negro element is largely in the majority; and so general is the desire of the whites to leave their colored masters in un- disturbed possession that the market has be- come overstocked with lands offered for sale, and plantations which sold readily for from twelve to thirty dollars per acre before the war go begging now for purchasers at from one to three dollars per acre. To cap the climax, and despite the general anarchy and poverty, the South is crowded to repletion by adventurers from the North (and almost entirely from New England), who have gone there for the purpose of enabling the gullible negroes to vote them into office. So extensive is this emigration of prospective officeholders that it is called by the natives ‘‘the second Northern invasion,” and is one of the principal causes of irritation on the part of the people. Not many days have passed since two Northern radicals were nominated for Congress in two districts of Georgia, although neither of these aspiring candidates has resided in the State for eigh- teen months, The present condition of the South is the cause of the troubles in Tennessee; and whem all of the States have been reconstructed by the radicals in the same manner that Tennes- see has been, we may expect secret organiza- tions in every part of that section of the Union. It is true’ that the radicals can apply that panacea of theirs for all political ills—the mili- tary ; but how long will the people consent te support a large standing army for the sole pur~ pose of keeping the negro up and the white man down? Impeachment Leads to Repudiation. The impeachment of President Johnson, it will be observed, is producing a depression of our government securities in Europe. They have an idea over there that this thing means a revo- lution outside the established order of things, while here we feel comparatively easy because we all know that the impeachment even of the President of the United States is a con- stitutional proceeding. But for all that, con- sidering the extraordinary circumstances under which the radical party in Congress hold the power of impeachment and the purposes they have in view, this impeachment of Andrew Johnson is a revolutionary movement, from which the government may be so radically re- constructed as to leave our five-twenties and ten-forties as worthless as the rebel bonds of Jeff Davis, ‘payable one year after a treaty of peace between the government of the Confed- erate States and the United States of America.” This impeachment is a thing which, carried out to the removal of Johnson and the promotion of “Old Ben Wade” to his place, cannot fail to produce a political agitation and confusion of ideas in regard to what the government is, what it was, and what itis to be, which will swell -the ranks of the rising repudiation party, East and West, till they hold the balance of power in Congress. Even Wall street, we apprehend, will begin to feel a pressure of this sort before the 4th of March, 1869, Tar Cevepration or St. Patriox'’s Day.— We give a full account of the celebration of St. Patrick's Day in our news columns, The day was unusually fine and was amply taken advantage of by the outdoor