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NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXII..... chabaanna sank Xeneh en +-No. 81 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Dompty. Matinee at 1). NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Ware Fawn, ‘Matinee at 1. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ROSEDALE, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 254 atreet, corner of Eighth avenue.—PET OF THE PETTICOATS—Nan, Matinee at 12. Bor EN OF CATARACT OF THE RW YORK. BOWERY THEATR! Ganoxs—Tunke Fast BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Sam—Winow's Viotim, Matinee at 153. NEW YORK THEATRE, Lieut at Last. Matinee at FRENCH THEATRE.—L'A: MIRRE—La GRAMMAIRE, Matinee at 1—Tuz Gkanp Ducurss, oppoatte New York Uotel.— "8 OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad: way ad Tires wect—iticHauD Tt. Matinee at 2 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place..—Matinee at 1 Bouwnro 1 Diavoio. STEINWAY HAUL.—Matince at 2-OLw Bouts Con- cent, Eveuing—SYMruony Somme, NEW YORK CIRCU! EQuesTRianisa, &c. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.-- Roston Comiqok BALLET AND PANTOMIME TROUVE. Matinee at 236, Fourteenth street.--G ¥MNASTIOS, jatinee at 2g. KELLY &UEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway. --Sona: Ecozntricitixs, &c.—GRAND Dutou “8.” Matinee at 23v. SAN FRANCISCO MINST! PLAN ENTEGTALNMENTS, St LS, 585 Broadway, —-Erito- NG, DANCING, Ace TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery. —-Comto Voca risa, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 234. BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— Bauet, FARCE, PANTOMIME, &c. Matinee at 2). MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooktya.— Cwimney Counger—IkeLanp As Ir Was. PLE S WEET. turday, March CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a petition presented by Mr. Sumner trom colored citizens of Delaware, asking for their rights, w: ferred to the Judiciary Commit- tee, with instructions, as suggested by Mr. Saulsbury, to inquire into its authority, A new rule in the matter of impeachment, directing that the presiding oMcer in the trial shall be addressed as “Mr. President” and the court as the “Senate” was offered, but being objected to went ov Mr. [Henderson's bill author- izing a treaty with the Navajo Indians on the Bosque Rotondo and appropriating $150,000 for their removal was considered and passed. In the House the resolution to attend the Impeach- ment trial in Committee of the Whole was agreed to. A Dill to equalize the bounties of soldiers, sailors and marines was reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. Van Wyck asked leave to make a personal explanation relative to his report on whiskey frauds, but Mr. Washburne objected. ‘The Miscellaneous Appropriation bill was passed. The joint resolution to regulate the freight and passenger tariff on the Pacific Railroad ‘was taken up and discussed. In the course of remarks uponthe subject Mr. Washburne sald that $500,000 had been originally expended by the com- pany to secure the passage of the bill, and that the Drew-Vanderbilt quarrel showed that Congress should retain control of such matters where it could, Pending the discussion the House adjourned. ‘To-day’s session will be devoted to speech inuking. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills were introdnced granting State aid towards the construction of the Lake Ontario Shore Railroad, and extending the time for the construction of the Grand Hotel in New York. [ills were reported for the incorporation of aliens in social socictles, providing such aliens file certificates that they actu- ally intend to become citizens of this State; amend- ing the Metropolitan Police law; and adverse reporta ‘were made against the Manhattan, Peopie’s and Me- tropolit an Underground and the People’s Suburban and Metropolitan Transit Railroad bills, all of New York. The bill fixing the salaries of New York Councilmen at $3,500 per annum was reported favorably. The Senate Canal bill was ordered toa third reading. The Committee on Railroads was in session, but reporters were not admitted. In the Assembly bills were reported for the better Teguiation of the city railroad cars; for the com- pletion of the Wallabout improvement rela- tive to the storage of combustible material, and to regulate the running of certain ferry- boats on East river, Several private bills ‘were passed. The Committee on Rallroads heard arguments during the afternoon on the bill to legalize the issue of certain stock by the Erte Ratiroad Com- pany. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable ts dated ten o'clock last night. The Irish Church and foreign naturalization ques- tions were debated in the British Parliament. Eng: Jand surrenders her claim to life allegiance and is ready to settle the remaining points in a friendly spirit. The Fenian, Captain Mackay, bas been con- victed of treason. The French army in Rome is re- duced to one brigade. The Grand Vizier of Turkey reports that Candia Would be pacified but for the support given now and then by the Russians to small bands of insurgents. Consdis 93 a 931%. Five-twenties 72), in London and 75% a 75) in Frankfort, Cotton easier, with middling uplands at 10)4. Breadstutls dull and lower. Provisions active and advanced. Produce dnl, By the steamship Jaya, at this port, we have a mail report in detail of our cable despatches to the 7th of March. MISCELLANEOUS, Onur special telegrams from Havana state the pro- posed joan of a London banking house had been abandoned by the government. An attempt was being made to land a cargo of negroes on the island, as an experiment, it is said, to test the intentions of Letsundi. The Bishop of Havana remained obdu- rate, and @ military officer had been sent to bring him to Havana, We have later advices from Abyssinia, General Napier makes an encouraging report. He is leading @ strong reconnoitring party with the friendly sup- port of the Prince of Tigre. Later advices from Japan state that the Tycoon has been defeated in battle and fled to Jeddo, The Mikado issued a proclamation assuring foreigners of good faith. The foreigners evacuated Hioga and Osaca. A foreign war vessel, French or American, ‘was fired on by the Japanese. Our correspondence from Rio Janeiro is dated Feb- ruary 7, Nothing new Is reported,from the seat of war on the Parand, Marquis de Caxias was still sitting idle, although it was believed that the army was ready and willing to make a bold fight if a bold lead- er could be furnished them. The California Assembly has rejected the proposed new constitutional amendment known as the four. teenth article. The election in Arkansas on the ratification of the Proposed constitution ts progressing. It is thought probable by conservatives that it will be defeated. Joun Ward, alias Jerome Levigne, was executed pt Windsor, Vt., erday for the murder of old Mrs. Griswold in August, 1466. He said before his execu- ion that he had a brother in New York, but that his ‘own name was neither Ward nor Levigne, and that the wanted to die unknown. He exhibited much frepidation on the scaffuld, and his body was un- claimed by any friends. ‘The bill abolishing the State constabulary has been Passed in the Lower House of the Massachuseus NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, Legislature by a two-thirds majority over the Gov- ernor’s veto, The towns of Cony, Titusville, Harrisburg and Bedford, Pa., went Democratic yesterday. The two first named were never known to do such a thing before. iJ General Hancock has arrived in Washington. The Virginia Convention is trying to negotiate a loan of $90,000, and the Mississipp! Convention, in view of an adjournment, have appointed @ com- mittee to superintend the coming election. The encampment of Daniel Drew and his followers continues secure, rigidly guarded by the Jersey militia, The Legislature of that State have passed a bill authorizing the directors of the Erie Railroad to transact business on Jersey soil. i John Devlin, for alleged heavy whiskey frauds, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Benedict, in the United States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, to pay a fine of $500 and serve a term of two years’ imprisonment in the Albany Penitentiary. : The Inman line steamship City of London, Captain Brooks, will Jeave pier 45 North river about one o'clock P. M. to-day for Liverpool via Queenstown. ‘The European mails by this steamer will close at the Post OMice at twelve M. oes The fine steamship Mariposa, recently purchased by the Cromwell line, will sail from pier No, 9 North river at 3 P. M. to day for New Orleans direct. The steamship Rapidan, Captain Checsman, will jeave pier 36 North river at 3 P, M, to-day for Havana and New Orleans, The stock market was dull, but steady yesterday. Government securities were strong. Gold closed at 138} a 138%, Shee paral Be Congress on Jeff Davis and Andrew Jonson A Public Disgrace. At the end of the year 1860 and in the early days of 1861 the air of the whole South vibrated with the preparations for war. It was war to be waged against the Union— war for the destruction of the government of the United States. In those same days every stone in the Capitol echoed the valedictory eloquence of the Southern leadgrs, men leav- ing the very halls of the national Legislature to go and head the treasonable movement, in- sulting the common sense of the country with parade of the reasons that impelled them to Strike at the nation’s life. Prominent if the number of these men was Jeff Davis. He, with his confederates, played this part of the drama with impudent defiance. He went away denouncing the constitution and boasting what should be done to destroy it—boasting the way in which he would return, Cataline to the very letter. None stepped forward* to impede his path. Nay, he went with the approbation and encouragement of the men who became the great leaders of the re- publican party. He went with the applause of Mr. Chase, now Chief Justice of the United States; of Horace Greeley, the restless, vitu- perative and inconsequent agitator of the radi- cal press; of Mr. Stanton, the oily-tongued plotier for power. All these men argued for the right of Jeff Davis to go and do what he might for the destruction of the government, as covered by ‘the sacred right of revolution against tyranny,” claiming that to prevent or oppose him would be inconsistent with the doc- trines of the Declaration of Independence. Davis, thus applauded, thus stimulated, thus encouraged to believe that he was heading a movement as noble as that which made the colo- nies free, went out to organize and conduct the infernal work. Davis went out thus, and every Southern man of political note went with him save one. One man alone of the representa- tives of Southern Constituencies in the United States Congress did not sympathize with the purposes of the slaveholders to establish an aristocracy on the ruins of our freedom. One Southern man prominent in the world of poli- tics adhered earnestly, unfalteringly, with all the intense fervor of a positive nature, to the canse of the Union; and this man was Andrew Johnson, one of the Senators from Tennessee. Ile denounced the whole treasonable attempt from the first blow. No whisper of tolerance for it ever passed his lips. From the United States Senate he went to Tennessee—nearer to the rage of battle. He was made Military Governor, and ruled the State with uncon- querable will and unchangeable fidelity to the cause the nation had at heart. He was thus participating in the dangers and savage turmoil of the struggle, while the radical leaders were making plans at Niagara Falls for surrender to the enemy, plundering the nation in the issue of ruinous contracts to poli- tical adherents, and breaking down the barriers that guarded popular rights by arbitrary arrests of inoffensive persons. Such were the relative positions of men through the terrible four years, until the soldiers and sailors—the men of the nation—making their own generals and admirals, ended the war; and the attempt that Davis had led, that Chase, Greeley, Staton and Gerrit Smith had enconr- aged—an attempt that came nearer success than ever did such a revolt before—ended in failure, thanks to the people, to the man of the apple tree and to the ‘‘hero in the shrouds.” Peace came and the country breathed free in the anticipation of returning happiness and prosperity. Over the whole lund men had the | same hope, indulged the gamg rejoicing that the trouble was over. Wisely generous, the people would have shaken hands with the South at once and taken it without reserve into full fellowship, conscious that the men who had felt the war in their homes, and the bitter- ness of the failure in their hearts, needed only their own memories to keep them from renewing the great attempt. But as there are over righteous men, so there are men who have more than the normal quantity of patri- otic spirit; and both classes are very nice on particulars. It turned out there were a num- ber of superabundantly patriotic men to be heard when it came to settling terms. They were the men who had helped Davis to make the war—the extravagant abolitionists who could yet so sympathize with slavery as to justify its revolt on texts from the Declaration of Independence. These men had not been the absolute and earnest enemies of the South- ern effort till it had failed beyond redemption, and then their enmity blazed out all the fiercer for being so new and coming so late. These men would not hear of peace‘on the terms the people declared for. They made difficulties, | | insisted on conditions, and made the nigger the basis of all propositions; and thus they have kept up till now we have a reign of anarchy. But even yet they will not consent to the punishment of the greatest criminal of the age, and Jeff Davis is now at large, with the names of Horace Greeley and Ger: the types and symbols of rad ism—on | his bail bond; yet these men seem to recognize the natural necessity that some man should | suffer, that some great trial and punishment | should signalize the close of the war. On | him a copy of this of satanic irony, they have chosen for the vic- tim that one faithful “Southern Senator. The one man who adhered to the Union when all the Southern Senators beside went out with the encouragement of radical leaders— the man who stood up stoutly for the cause when these same leaders were compromised in corrupt plots of every sort—that man is now tried as an enemy to the nation, while these same radical leaders stand between Jeff Davis and justice. Did Mephistopheles ever fool his poor victim to such a startling result? Will not this story forever damn the justice of the republic as the synonym of all that is most pitiable and contemptible in human remem- brance? Is it not diabolical, atrocious, past all patience to contemplate, that these impu- dently corrupt wretches can pervert justice to this degree, and so foul the name and fair re- pute of a great party? and that, worse than the rest, if possible, they dare threaten that they will make chaos at the capital if their attempt against the President shall fail? The Railroad Fight—Auothet Trojan War. The conflict between the Central and Erie Railroads continues with unabated fury. There are no signs of a cessation of hostilities on either side, and the strategic movements of the belligerents indicate preparations for a long campaign. From present appearances we are to witness in this mighty struggle between the railroad kings another Trojan war. Vander- bilt and his party, who are the assailants, have more locomotives at their command than the Greeks had ships; and the Erie Trojans, al- though driven within the walls of Jersey, have ammunition and provender sufficient to enable them to stand a protracted siege. Taylor's is their Ilium, the Mayor of Jersey City their Penthesilea in pantaloons and the Jersey Chief of Police their Memnon. The lesson of the wooden horse will teach them to guard against the introduction within their stronghold of an “‘iron horse” filled with New York pugs and dead rabbits, and hence they are likely to hold out indefinitely against the besiegers. It is very evident that nothing can be done to settle the difficulty in the State courts. The facility with which injunctions are obtained renders the whole proceedings a farce. One Judge, on an ea parle statement of one side, issues one order which another Judge, on an ex parte statement of the other side, immedi- ately sets aside; a ferryboat or a rowboat takes plaintiff or defendant out of the reach of the judicial arm of this State in the space of fif- teen minutes, and thus the muddle of the Brokers’ Board is transferred to the bench; the Justices of the Supreme Court are made to assume the characters of bulls and bears, and the reputation of the whole Judiciary suffers serious damage. Under these circumstances there appears to be only one way out of the dilemma. If there are any legal points at issue between the parties let them be taken at once to a United States court and there de- cided, This is the only course by which they can be effectually reached, and as the Erie road runs through more than one State the matter comes within the jurisdiction of the United States courts. In the meantime, the bill now before the State Legislature empowering the Erie Rail- way to issuo stock, make contracts with and guarantee the bonds of other roads, for the pur- pose of completing its six feet track to Chicago, gets over one of the main troubles and will dis- pose of the attempt of the rival narrow gauge roads to prevent the extension of the broad gauge route to the far West. It also comes as a Godsend to the hungry legislators and lobby- men, who have had up to this time such a beg- garly session that their board bills and whiskey bills are all in arrears and their washerwomen and bootblacks are becoming insubordinate. As the Erie bill promises to carry the fight up to the Capitol, the whole army of strikers, in- side and outside, are in ecstacies ; and numbers of experienced lobbyists, who had left Albany in despair, are packing up their paper collars and making the best of their way back, in the hope of sharing in the anticipated spoils. It is whispered about that Vanderbilt is determined to defeat the bill, and febulous sums are men- tioned as having been ‘‘put up” for that pur- pose. Upon its merits the bill ought to go through and become a law; but its fate will probably depend upon the comparative amounts ready to be paid for its success or defeat. Ben Wade’s Cabinet. The political quidnuncs are all busy in making up a Cabinet for Old Ben Wade, the prospective occupant of the Presidential chair. But they unaccountably omit from every list of Cabinet officers the name of Horace Greeley. Now, to leave Horace Greeley out of the Cabi- net would be to leave out a main spoke of the wheel. Horace Greeley is as indispensable a part of the new programme as Ben Wade him- | self, and there can be no peace until the white coated philosopher is appointed Postmaster General. One of our travelling correspondents, in de- scribing an interview last summer with Mr. Fillmore, related how warmly the ex-Presi- dont, inspired by Widow Clicquot, eulogized old wan Blair as the greatest man in the world, The same high estimate of Horace Greeley is entertained by Old Ben Wade, who pronounces him one of the wisest men of the age. Pity as we may the President in futuro for his infatuation in holding so extravagant an opinion, and the administration that cannot dispense with such a Postmaster General, it is obvious that Ben Wade and Horace Greeley, the ‘‘two remarkable men” who have so long constituted by themselves a model mutual ad- miration society, are as inseparable as the Siamese twins. Horace has blown Ben's trumpet in season and out of season for these many years. In fact, Horace Greeley has been the making of Ben Wade, and Ben Wade will prove ungrateful indeed if on his accession to power he shall fail to be the making of Horace Greeley. By all means let Greeley be Post- master General. Grant ON Niocer Svrrracr.—There are a great many efforts being made in various radical quarters to prove that General Grant is in favor of negro suffrage. Now, we do not believe it, and we will not be- lieve it until General Grant comes out and states it himself. We hope some one will take sue of the Hrratp and show him this paragraph, He may ‘talk when he reads it, as it is said he did to Ben Wade, but it will do bim no harm to horse” whom should the blow fall? Strangest pi EEE read it, nevertheless, MARCH 21, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET The Great Melodrama at Washington—The Tickets of Admission—A Chance for the Treasury. On Monday next the ten days’ grace given to Andrew Johnson will have expired, and the Senate, as a High Court of Impeachment, will resume his case. Meantime, the House Com- mittee of Managers have been holding their councils of war from day to day for the exam- ination of witnesses, the shaping of their plan of operations and in hunting up precedents, points of law and legal authorities. The de- fendant has also been active in his consulta- tions with his corps of legal advisers, and it is given out that he will fight the impeachers over every inch of ground to the last ditch, and will do everything in his power to make the fight last all the summer. Furthermore, it is said that his Excellency is mortified with the discovery ‘that the world can get along with- out him,” and that he is ‘‘deeply chagrined at the equanimity with which the country and his friends, especially the Northern copper- heads and Southern rebels, "take his impeach- ment.” But, whatever he may think or the impeach- ers may think, the public interest in his trial and the public curiosity to have a good look at the High Court of. Impeachment in session has increased, is increasing, and might be made to pay a good round sum into the Treasury. A thousand tickets each day to see the show are distributed gratuitously, including four from each Senator and two from each member of the House to their friends, which, we think, is throwing away a good opportunity for help- ing the Treasury. These tickets could be sold at an average of ten dollars, each at a fixed price, some higher and some lower, according to the location of the seats. But the best plan would by to employ Bar- num to get up an auction for the sale of the tickets, say for six successive days at one sale, the tickets for each day to be classi- fied and sold independently of any other day. Barnum, it will be remembered, first tried this plan with the ticketg to the Jenny Lind con- certs at Castle Garden in this city, and the experiment was a splendid success. The first ticket brought two hundred and twenty- five dollars, and out of it the lucky buyer made a fortune and then spent it. Bar- num, then, is the man for the impeachment ticket lottery auction. With the burning out of his second museum of living and dead curi- osities and the’ moral drama he has been left in a position for the useful employment of his talents elsewhere, and he is the man who can turn over a good round sum to Secretary McCulloch in an auction sale of tickets to the impeach- ment drama. He could apportion the tickets among the principal cities of the Union for sale, giving due notice of the time and place in each forthe great event. By this plan, we dare say, the sales of the impeachment tickets might be made to reach the handsome figure of twenty thonsand dollars a day. There ought to be a special sale of the tickets for the last grand scene of the drama—that is, the day of the final vote which is to rule Andrew Johnson out of the White House and “Old Ben Wade” in. Under a proper notice the tickets for that great day might be sold at an average of a hundred dollars, which, for a round thousand, would foot up the splendid sum of one hundred thousand dollars in greenbacks, Should the impeachment Board of Managers resolve upon the adoption of this plan they can leave all the details to Barnum, with a liberal commission for his services. We think, however, that at least five free tickets ought to be allowed for the whole trial—one to Jeff Davjg, one each to his three most enthusiastic bondsmen—viz., Horace Greeley, Gerrit Smith and John Minor Botts—and one to Barnum. The New French Pamphlet=The Napoleonic Dynasty and Constitationalism. It has for some time past been publicly and on good authority stated that France and the world were to be favored with a new pamphlet from the pen of the Emperor Napoleon himself, or written at his direction or under his inspi- ration. From a cable despatch which we printed in yesterday's Hzratp we learned that the pamphlet has been published, and that, though the Napoleonic authorship is denied, it is said to be traceable to the Secretary of the Emperor’s Cabinet. The object of the pam- phlet, we are told, is to prove that Napoleonism, pr “‘Cesarism,” in its modern French sense, is the flowering, or rather fruit, of the most per- fect form of constitutional government. In other words, so far as we can gather its pur- port from the telegram, the painphlet declares that the French people have elected to be gov- erned on those principles which have come to be identified with the name and family of Napoleon, and that the present Emperor, ever mindful of the votes which raised him to and established him in his present position, has fully justified the trust reposed in him and in the family of which he is the recognized head. Appearing at this particular moment, the pampblet has a special value. It is only a few weeks since the Count de Paris—chief of the Orleanists, prospective chief of the legitimists, and thus heir presumptive to all the claims of all the French Bourbons—published a long let- ter in one of the French journals, in which he very clearly showed that he was ‘“‘biding” his time, and that he was not without the hope of yet ascending the throne of his fathers. Now that the Emperor is growing old he is very naturally scanning the future and balancing probabilities. The Napoleonic dynasty is safe enough so long as he is spared to watch over its ‘interests. He knows how to manage the French people better than all the Guizots and all the Thiers and all the Lamartines who ever made the attempt. Judg- ing, indeed, from what he has done and is now doing, we should conclude he must have some Jew blood in his veins. He is the only living ruler who can control the great Jew financiers, and who, in point of administrative ability, can be likened to Disraeli. Disraeli, Napoleon, Bismarck—these are the three great men of the day. The first is avowedly a Hebrew of the Hebrews; the other two must, from some unre- membered source, have inherited some Hebrew blood. Able, however, as Napoleon is, his administration must come to a close. With conspiring Bourbons beyond the empire, and with conspiring republicans within, Napoleon's death would place the dynasty in peril. An infant Prince and an Empress Regent would em a feeble barrier against the attack of the It is his object, therefore, by all the enemy, means at his command, to lay broad and deep the foundations of his dynasty. That he will be successful we see no reason to doubt, He bas already given the French people prosperity—such prosperity as they have not enjoyed since the days of the first empire; and to the prosperity of the first empire the prosperity of the second empire presents a favorable contrast. He is now granting them reform—reform of a very genuine and very sub- stantial sort. Every year of his life is not only a year of guin to his family and a year of loss to the exiled Bourbons and the defeated republi- cans, but a year most skilfully turned to ac- count in the interests of his dynasty. The chances of the Bourbons and of the republicans become fewer and weaker every day of the Emperor's life; and if even that life should be cut short sufficient Napoleonism will remain to baffle all the skill of the enemy. Failing even with the Emperor's son, who is said to be delicate, there is still Prince Napoleon to fall back upon; and Prince Napoleon would at least be a good man for the editors. Anarchy in Washington Threatened by the Radical Organ of This City. : Their decreased majority in New Ilampshire, and the prospects of public sentiment setting in yet stronger against them, have so alarmed the radicals that their leaders are endeavoring to stem the torrent of unpopularity by plunging the country into another revolution. Divided and quarrelling among themselves and pressed closely by their political opponents, these men, afraid of a forthcoming overthrow at the ballot box, would rescue their cause from irretrievable disaster by the exercise of any means, no matter how injurious or prejudicial to the best interests of the republic. For some time past the news from Washington has indicated that Mr. Stanton and his allies are hatching a pre- tended plot against Congress for the. purpose of getting up a row and forcibly taking possession of the government, On yesterday the radical organ of this city published as its leading edi- torial an article evidently intended to prepare the public mind for the receipt of startling in- telligence from the capital. We quote:— The government is in chaos. There are two officers claiming to be Secretary of War, each asserting the right to direct the operations of one of the most im- portant of the executive departments. The army is probably divided in_ its judgment whom it ought to obey. Now, Mr. Johnson is trying to secure the presence in Washington of some prominent general who will be his partisan inany case and whose repu- tation may secure the adhesion of a good portion of the rank and file. This isa situation fraught with Aeadly peril. An accident, a mere trifle, an impru- dent word may whelm us in anarchy. All of the above means, .simply, that the arrival of General Hancock in Washington will be-used as a pretext for a revolutionary move- ment on the part of the junta of which Stanton isthe head. If the radicals were the purest political party that ever came into power, and if Mr. Johnson was the most corrupt man that ever lived, there would not be the slightest occasion either for the article above quoted or for the extraordinary precautions which are being taken by the War Department. The President has done nothing and said nothing to indicate that he called General Hancock to Washington for the purpose of arraying him and other officers of the army on the side of General Thomas. Indeed, the object of the visit has been repeatedly stated, and we can find nothing in the explanation to warrant pre- dictions of ‘‘deadly peril.” But if even any dangers of violence on the part of Mr. Johnson did exist, they cannot make matters much worse than they now are. Is not the government in a state of anarchy at the present time? Do not impeachment, negro suffrage, our financial blunders and mismanage- ment, and the bill passed on Thursday which decreases the amount of taxes to be collected and thereby probably increases the National debt, bear in themselves the very elements of anarchy? The fact is that the radicals are in a maelstrom of difficulties, with ruin and death facing them at every point. Seeing no way out of their troubles other than by unlaw- fal deeds, they will probably endeavor to pre- cipitate the anarchy which their city organ foreshadows. We advise all good friends of the republic to keep aloof from the plans and plots of those bad men who would invoke revolution and change our very system ‘of government itself for the purpose of perpetuat- ing their power. If the radicals can succeed in their plots and get the better of Mr. John- son, let him be turned out of the Presi- dential chair; but let us have no deeds performed which must hereafter be de- plored. The despotism of the few over the many may last for a time, and we may be compelled to submit to grievous wrongs ; but neither the one nor the other can last forever. The people will come to the rescue in due time, when the men who have trifled with the liberties and prosperity of the country will be called toa strict account and jusily punished Erie Wars, The rival opera houses in this city are in the same condition as the Drew and Vanderbilt parties are in the Erie muddle, each trying to oust the other from the patronage of the public and to secure for itself all the available materials necessary for Italian opera. Various conflicting rumors are abroad as to the schemes of the one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders of the Academy, and it is supposed that Maretzek will act as lieutenant for Kings- land in the same manner as Dick Schell does for Vanderbilt. Pike and Harrison have hoisted the flag of ‘no surrender” over the walls of the opera house on the west side, as Drew and his associates have done in New Jersey, and they dare the entire Irving place force to dislodge them. At the same time these managers should beware of treachery in their own camp, and remember that their one hundred and ninety-nine and a half opponents will try every plan to induce their artists to secede from them. The last season of Italian opera at Pike's, which was unfortunately broken in upon by an Uncle Tom's Cabin enter- tainment, and which deprived Messrs. Pike and Harrison of the present week, was so uniformly successful that the guardians of the Catacombs became frightened and resolved to bestir them- selves in order to win back their old manager and his troupe. As affairs stand at present the entire operatic situation seems to be ina muddle, but with energy, perseverance and close attention to the schemes of their unseru- pulows antagonists there is every prospect of success for the west side. If the contest ter- minates in this manner, nothing remains for the stockholders but to convert their building into a cotton mill or dry goods store or sell it to Pike for a distillery. The Wonderful Gettysburg Springs. We publish to-day an interesting paper on the extraordinary virtues of the wonderful mineral springs of Gettysburg. From this statement and numerous others that we have seen and heard touching these remarkable mineral waters, we cannot doubt that the shrine of Gettysburg will in a short time become the most famous among invalids of all the watering places on this Continent. We may say the same of mere pleasure seekers,.too; for Gettysburg will henceforth be famous for a thousand years to come as the field of one of the grandest and most hotly contested, of one of the bloodiest and most momentous and decisive battles of the nineteenth century. There is that famous field and the plan of the battle, with the posi- tions held by the two great armies, marked in the everlasting hills. There is’ the National Cemetery on the apex of the Union position, eloquently telling of the carnage of that bloody fight ; and then below are these wonderful waters, whose healing properties were first tried and proved by some wounded soldiers left on the field, intermingled with the dead, with the retirement of both armies—the one in flight and the other in pursuit. Besides, - Gettysburg lies in the midst of one not only of the most salubrious and fruitful regions in the United States, but in one of the most charming to the poet and painter as it is to the histo- rian. Add to these attractions the wonderful virtues of these Gettysburg mineral waters, and we may safely predict that the day is not far off when Gettysburg each summer will have its hosts of pilgrims as numerons as those of the Asiatic caravans which, across the Ara- bian desert, yearly visit the tomb of the prophet. “ Allah! Mashalah!” Wudnut, Heratn build- ing, has the water, without money and without price, a 7) ALASKA AND St. THomas.—The considera- tion of the required appropriation of seven million two hundred thousand dollars for the * commodious Russian territory of Alaska still hangs fire in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and pay day, it is suspected, will probably go by (the time is nearly up now) without the production of the cash. We pre- sume, however, that the Czar, in this event, will survive his disappointment, and that in England be will find a customer who will produce the cash for those walrus, seal, cod and salmon fisheries, to say nothing of those bears and beavers of Alaska. In the next place, the treaty with Denmark for the sum of seven million five hundred thousand dollars for that interesting little volcanic island of St. Thomas hangs fire in the Senate, and the probability is that the volcanic sexhibitions under and over and all around said island last fall have taken the conceit out of Senator Sumner and his Committee on Foreign Relations. Should this treaty go by the board the King of Denmark will be grievously disappointed, and will probably have to call upon his royal English relatives for the needful wherewith to meet the contin= gent expenses, such as the milliners’ bills chargeable to the royal marriages of his pretty daughters, Singular Prediction—A Tremendous @Etat Expected at Washington. The prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezckicl and Hale vakkuk were not only prophets, but poets., They wrote verses in their day, as best they knew how, and prophesicd in mysterious language and with startling and often menacing predictions to the kings and judges of Israel. Now, in our own day, Miles O'Kelly is certainly a poet, and, for anything we can say, may be a prophet. There may or may not be divine inspiration in certain of his dithyrambics, and as the last chapter from the Book of O’Reitly appears surcharged with some mysterious meaning in regard to the trial of President Johnson and the probable fiction of Judge Chase in that connection, it is hereby placed on record, with a request that Dr, Cummings and the Rev. Stephen U. Tyng, Jr., now that the latter is freed from his late canonade with Boggs and Stubbs, may act as commentaries on this canticle:— Coup TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE. FROM MILES O'REILLY. Incedimus per ignes, suppositos cinert doioso. Guardian of liberty and right, Of law and justice in the land! Hold the scales firm with even hands For thou must either greatly stand, Calm as a Fate, with pure grand— Or sink beyond all reach of ight. Down to the deep foundation stones On which our country’s pillars rest, Propping the roof, once brightly presse? By stars—beneath which many a guest Came in to share the banquet blest Of liberty—our temple groans: Groans tn this ee te helpless iose (The war was nothing—and ts past); ut the temple thrills with tremors vast Seeing the sacred things, amassed By our great Fathers, rudely cast Down to the dust as worthless dross, ‘Tis thine to bid the storm be o'er— A right almost too great for speech: ‘Tis thine the sacred vessels each To lift again: ‘tis thine to teach Lessons of love, that yet may reach And knit all sections as of yore. High omeing over the vulgar train By rage and greed of gain debased— ‘Thy lines in loftier planes are placed: Aud, with thy heart to Justice braced, Faction may all her arrow’ waste Against thy calm decrees in vain. It is no common thing to sit, Clothed as thou art with power so great > Balancing points of subtiest weight Between the Ruler of a State And a Cabal's unscrupling hate: Thy place in history here ig writ! J know thee well—thy life’s — lot, A strnggle vehement and long, ‘With soundest heart and Judgiment strong, Against whate’er to thee seemed wrong: Now, raised by virtue o’er the throng, ‘Thy record must receive no blot. bs pas eon a, aaa eee i ol we Round'thee ty site ermine draw: Pluck Justice Hate’s ravening maw: And—grandest sight the world e’er saw— Let one man’s firm soul save the land! Now, the meaning of the foregoing, when inter- preted from the misty lingo of poetry into the simple language of common sense, we take to run something as follows:—Chief Justice Chase is said to regard the High Court of Impeachment as an ordinary legal tri- bunal under the constitution, and therefore subject tothe common law usage that the jurymen shail pass upon and confine their decisions to questions of fact; while the Court—im this case the Chief Justice— shall reserve to itself all interpretations. of common, statute and constitutional law. He regards the Sen- ators as jurymen in this impeachment trial; and if they attempt to step beyond their rightful preroga- tive and to overrule his decisions upon any ques- tions of pure law Judge Chase—or at least so runs the story—will gather up his black robes over his right arm, take his hat, make a brief specch to the Senators, refusing to let his high office be degraded into a mere cat's paw or recording clerkship for their unjust or illegal decrees, after which he will win them a good time in carrying out the balance of President Johnson's trial, in his absence and against his most solemn protest, uttered as Chief Justice of the United States. Thus rans our interpretation of the last mysterious predictions put forth in the last chapter of the Prophet O'Reilly. Suppen Deati.—Jobn Delaney went into a liquor store in West Fifty-third street last night and catiea for n ginss of liquor, which he drank. Immediately after he fell to the floor aud on being picked up he was ito be dead. He was taken to his late noe; but it is alleged that bis wife refused ta, admit him and he was taken to the Morgue,

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