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GRAPHIC NRWS, _ CUBA. —_—-— SPECIAL TELEGRAM T) THE HERALD. ‘The American Minister to Hayt!. Havana, March 22, 1863. The British steamer Mersey sai!ed to-day for St. , She has aboard tne American Minister to Slaytl, Mr. Hollister. He will tranship at St ‘Wnomas for Port au Prince. ST. THOMAS. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Whore Shocks—Paralyzation of Business. Havana, March 22, 1868, ‘We have advices from St. Thomas to the 16th inst ‘There had been strong shocks of earthquake. Business is paraiyzed. i ST. DOMINGO. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD, Baez Still Abroad—Cholera Disappeared. Havana, March, 22, 1868, From St. Domingo our dates are to the 20th inst. General Baez had not yet arrived. General Hifhgria governing in his absence. ‘The cholera had ceased, and a Ze Deum had \ghanted in consequence. PORTO RICO. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE HERALD. Awfal Shocks of Earthquake. Havana, March 22, 1368. Onur latest intelligence from Porto Rico is to the ‘Ith inst. Some awful shocks of earthquake had beer felt, and the inhabitants were feeing to the vessels in (port for safety. been AUSTRIA. ‘Whe Concordat Virtually Repealed—Public Re- Joicing. , Vrenna, March 22, 1868, The most enthusiastic demonstrations of joy are made over the recent action of the Reichsrath on é Civil Marriage bill, which ts regarded as pract! annulling the Concordat. Yesterday, when it became known that the Upper ‘House had rejected the motion of the clerical party defer the passage of the bil, there was great re- joicing among the people, and iast nignt the city was erally iiluminated, { ITALY. ‘i General Garibaldi and Secretary Seward. ‘ FLORENCE, March 22, 1868, Garibaldi has sent to the United States Minister, }Mr. Marsh, a letter declining an appointment which ‘was offered to him by Mr. Seward, ROME. FLORENCE, March 22, 1868. Admira’ Farragut, who arrived at Rome tast week, ‘will be obliged to remain there four or five weeks in Consequence of a severe abscess which has broken Out in his .eg. KENTUCKY. ‘Alleged Embezzlement in Loutsville—Fire Near the Oakland Race Course. LOUISVILLE, March 22, 1868, John W. Arnold, Secretary of the Hope Insurance \Company, has been arrested on a warrant sworn out iby D. G. Bly, President of the company, charging LArnold with culpa 00d of the company’s ds. Arnold gave bail to the amount of $5,000. ‘A large three story brick dwelling at the Oakland bce track, owned by 8. B. Thomas, was destroyed by fire yesterday, involving the ioss of $5,900. MISSOURI. Wreight Shipments to New York by the Guif— @ Baldwin and McCoole—The Bonds for the Mississippi Bridge. ' Sr. Louis, March 22, 1868. The route to New York via New Orleans for the \transportation of grain in bulk is becoming more pular daily. The towboat Kellog, which left here ‘turday evening, has eight barges in tow, with 000 tons of ge? eS which was 43,000 bush- els of corn for New York. Another barge, with 000 bushels corn for the same destination, is here. corn comes from The exhibition of 0” oints on the Illinois river. aldwin, the Irish giant, Satur- night, was numerously attended, and netted about $1,000. Mike McCoole was present. He is in training, and has already reduced himself eleven *'The Merchants’ Exchange of this city passed reso- Autions esterday requesting the Legisiature to au- 01 he city of St. Louts to submit the question of | eg mere four millions of the Bridge Company's “bonds to the vote of the peopie. OPENING OF THE HUDSON. Arrival of a Propeller from New York at Albany. ALBANY, March 22, 1868, The propeilor Taylor, which left New York last ~evening, arrived here at eleven o'clock this morning. She encountered but little ice, and there ts no im- Pediment to navigation, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. \ STABBING AFFRAY IN THE EIGHTEENTH WARD.— lobo O'Shea, the man charged with having in- Micted frightful and fatal injuries on the person of ‘William McNiff on Saturday night last, was yester- Gay morning brought before Judge Dodge to answer to the charge of “felonious assault, with intent to kill.” The brother of the wounded man, residing ‘at No. “3 East rate Jonge r. oe ine ‘complaint ear! e facts of the case Ju Pe the ‘accused to await the results of sthe injuries. McNif died at Bellevue Hospital last evening. ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE Excise Law.—Wil- Siam Brutman, keeping a boarding house and liquor Saloon at No. 3 Hoboken street, was yesterday ar- ested by oMicer Buddington, of the Fifth precinct, yon the charge of Monn | the Excise law in not Maving his place completely and effectually closed. in the examination of the case before Justice Dow- ling it appeared that the bar was closed, no liquors ere exposed and no one was behind the bar for the urpose of dispensing liquid beverages. The officer leposed to seel about twenty rsons in the bar- m, but a witness for the defence testified that rutman’s bar, dining and sitting room were all wether on the first floor and that the persons dis- vered in the | yd were the regular boarders of e defendant, The magistrate, therefore, dismissed e complaint, A PickrockeT OvTRAGE.—Benjamin T. Hammond, pecond sergeant of the Fourth provisional company, jstationed at Fort Wood, Bedloe’s Island, came to Rottoe Headquarters yesterday afternoon and stated Inspector Dilks that, as he was riding on ‘car No. 18 of the Third avenue tine about four o'clock in the afternoon, he detected a woman picking his Forest of a pocketbook containing $23 and a check or $60, besides a due bill for a considerable amount. ‘On discovering the woman at her light-fingered work he at once accused her of the theft, after he had seen ithe pocketbook in her hand, when a man, evidently a confederate of the woman, famped from his seat and struck Hammond @ severe blow in the face. The jan and woman then escaped, the woman retaining he pocketbook. Hammond alleges that the conduc- r acted in such a manner as to lead him to believe ‘Shat he was in league with the thieves. A Youn@ DEFAULTER FROM Down East.—William ‘White, a young lad, applied at one of the station fhouses yesterday for relief, and stated that he came Jrom Boston. He was taken to headquarters and Bhere Inspector Dilks recognized in him a correspon- \dence with a description sent from Boston a few days ‘wince; but in the telegraphed description there was corded the fact that there was a mark on the boy's rm, On the boy arrested there was no such ark, but in other respects the description allied with the lad’s appearance. His story ts that he was in the employ of a firm doing business tole $65 of the money, loss, and instead of going back to the store or to his ome he came onto New York and has been rovii ronnd ever since, He was detained at Police Head- ‘quarters and information of his arrest was tele- ‘Braphed to the Chief of Police at Boston, WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, March 22, 1868, Impeachment—A Wild Goose Chase. Impeachment ts becoming lively, and the impeach- ers are in vigorous halloo after their fated victim of the White House. Last evening was the most ex- citing time of all. The impeachers held a meeting and resolved that Butler's well watered article should receive a strong decoction of additional testi- mony, and it was forthwith arranged to institute a search all over Washington for some three dozen in- dividuals, reporters, editors and a variety of others who at one time or another, at some point on the wide circumference of the circle around which the President swung, heard directly, in- directly or by inference words of misdemean- ing and high criminal intent spoken. Accordingly all the employés of the Senate, doorkeepers, committee clerks and policemen in disguise, were sent on a wild goose chase to find out and hurry up the neces- sary witnesses, The newspaper offices were invaded every fifteen minutes by a different brace of Senato- rial messengers, buttoned up to the throat, blue at the noge and in breathless eagerness making inqul- ries for the reporter of the Bungtown Bugle, the edi- tor of the Trumpet of Freedom or the correspondent of the Eagle of Liberty. It is needless to say the representatives of these distinguished journals were all out of town; but the zealous and indefatigable messengers, undeterred by their fruitless search among the newspaper offices, started off afresh im ail directions, while a fierce and bitter wind whistled forcibly around every corner, shook the leafless branches and the swinging signboards with unceasing vigor, and drove everybody indoors but thd hapless prosecutors of this haple&s search. Through the mud and through the pitiless cold, out on the wide bleak avenues, where no lamp nor ray of moonlight illumined their pathway, looking in vain for the name and the number of this and that house, the sturdy toilers of the night held their way, cold, weary and disgusted, Sick of Congress, im- peachment, Ben Butler and his specifications, they turned at midnight without a solitary laurel to re- ward their heroic efforts, and are doubtless devoting this Sabbath to well earned physicai repose. Sw of Witnesses for the Impeachment Trial—Who the Witnesses Are. The form of the summons issued to witnesses at the instance of the Impeachment Managers is in part as follows:— You, — » are commanded to appear in the Senate chamber on the 23d day of March, 1868, then and there to testify your knowledge in the cause which is now before the Senate in which the House of Representatives have tmpeached Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. Fail not. Witness—SaLmon P. Cuask, Chief Justice of the United States and President of the said Senate on the trial of said impeachment. The summonses were prepared yesterday, about twenty-four in number, and each is signed by Major W. J. McDonald, Chief Clerk, for Colonel Forney, the Secretary, who was absent from the city. The depu- ties of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate were en- gaged last night in serving them. Most, if not all, of these witnesses have been ex- amined by the Impeachment Managers, including Brevet Major General Emory, Adjutant General Thomas, Colonel Wallace, Samuel Wilkinson, Hon. Burt. Van Horn and ex-Postmaster General Horatio King. At least seven of the witnesses are reporters. A portion of them have already testified before the Managers as to the President's speech in Washing- ton on the 18th of Angust, 1866, in response to the address and resolutions of the Philadelphia Con- servative National Convention, while the others tes- tifled relative to the language made use of by the President in his subsequent speeches at Cleveland and St, Louis, alluded to in the articles of impeach- ment. The testimony of Mr. Wilkinson before the Managers detailed the conversation with Adjutant General Thomas, and that of Mr. Van Horn narrated the colloquy between Adjutant General Thomas and Mr. Stanton, when the former, in the presence of the witness and other members of Congress, came into the War De- partment, and, claiming to act under the orders of the President, demanded the surrender of the office. General Thomas on that occasion was ordered by the Sepretary to go to his own room, which he did. The testimony of General Emory and Colonel Wallace re- lating their separate conversations with the Presi- dent concerning military affairs has been published, that of Genergl Emory laying the foundation of one of the articles, Another of the witnesses testifled that he delivered at the President's house a copy of the Senate's resolution which declared that under the constitution and laws the President had no right or power to remove Mr. Stanton and to appoint Ad- jutant General Thomas Secretary of War ad interim during the session of the Senate; while au- other witness, also in the employment. of the Senate, testifed to having served a copy of the same resolution upon General Thomas who was at the time, a late hour of the night, at a masquerade ball, but whose partial disguise did not conceal the stars on his shoulders designating his official rank. As far as can be ascertained these witnesses are called tb appear to-morrow to testify in the Senate, as they did before the Managers, in support of the articles of impeachment. Impeachers Photographed. Yesterday the Managers of Impeachment, includ- ing Thad Stevens, after a meeting at the Capitol tn the morning, repaired to a photograph gallery, where an imperial picture of the group was taken. A Radical Congressman Threatened. Representative Mullins, of Tennessee, has received through the mails a threatening letter purporting to come from the secret society designating itself the “Kuklux Klau.” Virginia Radicals at Washington. Several members of the radical party in Richmond have been here for the past few days consulting with leading Senators upon affairs in Virginia. The ad- vice given them is of a conservative character, and to the effect that the convention now in session at Richmond would do well to reconsider some of the articles already adopted for the new constitution, and modify them to some extent, especlally in regard to the oath required to be taken by candidates for office. It is also suggested by the leading radicals here to delay the event of submitting the constitution to the people in order that some decision may be rendered in the Alabama question, which will be a rule for the admission of all the other Southern States. But it is said if there is any conservative modification of the constitution the blacks in Virginia will place themselves in an- tagonism to it and vote it down. The blacks are already complaining that it is not one-half as ex- treme as it should be, Reclaiming Barren Lands. ‘The Commissioner of the General Land Office has addregsed a letter to the Surveyor General of Nevada saying the attention of that office has been drawn to the subject of rendering fit for agricultural purposes different localities represented as “barrens” or “deserts,” which would by cultivation be reclaimed, It 1s therefore desirable to collect information in re- gard to any such localities within the Surveyor General's knowledge, and as to the most efficient measures to insire their reclamation and adaptation to agriculture, with a view to ascertain whether or not these lands can be improved in their condition by artificial means, or inany manner be made to subserve the public welfare, The Commissioner requests that the Surveyor General will, at his earliest convenience, send to him such data as he may be able to coiject respecting the extent of such lands within his dis- trict, making the same on a diagram, the means and natural facilities that can be employed in trrigating them, the soil and character of vegetation peculiar to them, the effect of irrigation where {t has been tested, if any actual experiments have been made, the best methods of irrigation and any other tnfor- mation that may tend to throw light on the subject, A Stolen Sword Recovered, About a week ago a sword, the golden head of which was studded with five or six diamonds, was taken from a case in the Patent Office. It was a pres- ent from the Peruvian government to Commodore Biddle, and vaiued at $2,000, Through the vigilance of detectives the sword has been recovered, The thief had removed the diamonds, two of which have been found. News from Dr. Livingston, the African Kx- 4 plorer, ‘The United States Consul at Zanzibar, unger date NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 23, ‘1868. is almost impossible, and tt remains to be seen of November 10, 1867, writing to the Secretary of Stat sage Erect’ abe act's he Suet eer About a month ago a caravan arrived at the port | hend the ralnous conahouenres fivedy ‘ed of Bugamoya, on the coast of Africa, opposite this Place, and one of the leaders thereof reported that While on their way Lf @ European traveller, who was accompanied by twelve native attendants, and who wrote letters to her British Majesty's Con- Sul here and delivered them to one of the members of the caravan, who, from some cause, remained behind, keeping the letters with him. ‘After a) thorough investigation and comparison of schemes would entail upon their party. A somewhat pompous contradiction has been gue by @ local paper here to the report that Ben ‘ade 1s constantly beset with applications for office in view of his prospects of succeeding Mr. Johnson. ‘The report is not only true in its local application, teavin moose Geese to have received int agence ricts vigorous contests are going on between aspirants for Sy rospect who are jt Eo ag gh mies A cap ponies oe eae wiralling cack other in fret Kaos toetecare ance. recommen: satisfied that the traveller in question could be 4 gp A a “amember,"’ with instructions to labor with Benjamin “the ,’’ and prospectively the great. That Mr. Wade condemns this premature poem of political incubation the HERALD has hitherto recorded his testimony. THE LATE STORM. none other'than the explorer, Dr. Livingston, the \"eport of whose death was communicated to the department under a ot ber 9, 1866, from this consulate, An influential Arab who arrived from Quillow yesterday, informed me that while there he conversed with the chief of one of the tribes of the interior, who informed him that he had met Dr. Liv- ingston, whom he knew, about eight months ago. ‘ms, therefore, to be room for noes that the reports oi’ his death brought by the probable desert- ers from h is party are false, and it is the opinion of ali Europeans here that the Doctor ts still living. News from Crete. Accounts from Crete just received here, relate to the massacre's committed near the end of January of upwards of sixty Christians by the Turks, in the fortress of Heraclion and Rhethymaus, the Grand Vizter at first undertaking to punish the murderers, instead of whtch he gave a cordial welcome to their chiefs. The Christians of the two towns were so much disgusted by this proceeding that they apptied to the consuls amd the Russian Admiral Boutakoi for permission to be conveyed to Greece. The Cretans comtimue to maintain their independ- ence, and although fresh Turkish troops have arrived in the island no battle of any importance has re- cently taken place. Greece has become the asytum not only of the €retan but also of Espirot familes, who leave Epirus in increased numbers in order to escape Turkish oppression. The ministerial) crisis in Athens led to the withdrawal of the Moraitini and the formation of the Bulgaris Cabinet, the new administration having issued a proclamation to the people on the 8th of February, which characterizes. the forthcoming parliamentary elections as destined to express the opinion and the will of the people; and which enjoins the utmost regard for the main- tenance of law and order, so that all the aspirations of the Greeks and their sympathies for their suffer- ing compatriots may be attained and displayed without violation of the constitution ‘and without interruption of peace. The proclamation is equally emphatic in respect to the assistance due to the suffering Cretan families, IMPEACHMENT. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. English Impeachments—A Radical Parallel— Grant and. Impeachment—Who Are for Both—The Consequences and the Accounta- bility-The Good and Prospectively the OGreat. Detentiow and Disasters—The Sound Boats— ‘The Ferries, the Railroads and the Mails Yesterday. ‘The driving storm ceased falling late on Saturday, the dull, murky clouds broke away, and Gotham awoke yesterday morning to find the sun shining on the piles of dirty snow left near the gutters in all the streets; yet the wind blew with a cutting freshness all day from the northwest. Travel was to an en- couraging extent resumed on all the city railroads, pedestrians nimbly accepting the warmer confines of the cars than to meet the keen, chilling wind, ‘The ferries ran without the least detention through- out the day, but the few trains due with the mails from distant portions of the country did not arrive with that promptness that gives joy to the anxious clerks atthe Post Ofice. Those’ on the Erie Road due at three o’clock in the afternoon did not arrive until half-past nine o’clock last evening. The Boston mail by the Shore line, due at six A. M., did not arrive until half-past eight P. M., and the mati over the Central road due in the early morning had not been recetved at ten o'clock last night. ; The merciless character of the storm and its serious detention to the traffic of the territory over which it passed find no better evidence than in the present almost inextricable confusion of the Sound steamers in the matter of their arriving and depart- ing from this port. Sunday, a day of quietness generally about the piers where these boats are accustomed to lay, was yesterday marked with some excitement. The boats of all the lines in both of their trips were greatly delayed, of which the sub- joined notes will fully show:— NEPTUNE LINE. The Electra, for Providence, left New York on Fri- day evening and was compelled by the blinding char- acter of the falling snow to put into New London. She did not arrive at her destination unt! this morn- ing. The Galatea, from Providence to this port, Fri- day evening, anchored off Huntington, turdas mornt two o'clock, her officers not deeming it safe to leave until ten o'cock A.M. She reached here at half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon. FALL RIVER LINE. The Empire State, leaving Fall River Friday night, anchored near Stratford at half-past three o'clock Saturday cabana B remaining in that position until three o'clock tn the afternoon, when the storm had abated sufficiently to allow their proceeding. Arriv- ing off Riker’s Island at half-past six, and not considering it safe to proceed through Hel! Gate inthe teeth of the blinding snow in commencing to fall, she was again anchored until yesterday morning at daylight, at last reaching her pier at seven o'clock A. M., about twenty-four hours behind her time. The oeoeeas on her eastward trip suffered a like de- ention. WASHINGTON, March 21, 1868. Referring to the summary of prominert cases of impeachment in England, tt appears, in years past, to have been the popular method of dismissing ob- noxious officials. Treason was an impeachable of- fence, as in the example made of the Duke of Suf- folk and others; but there were lesser crimes which sometimes provoked the presentation of articles by the House of Commons to the House of Lords, and by their illustrious example the lords and commons of fragmented America have recently profited. One of the counts in the indictment against Lord Somers was “delaying justice.” A peccadillo for which the Duke of Buckingham was impeached was “giving medicine to the King without advice of the physi- cians.” An alleged weakness of Lord Bacon was taking bribes, while the Duke of Suffolk coupled with his treason the audacity of tolerating Papists and en- ticing the King to Popery. For these examples of long ago the radicals have discovered a parallel. The English Commons found impeachment not only a useful but a prompt and practical politica! corrective. The .exercise of the power was without limit, and it was applied without discrimination to obnoxious incumbents. The par- Mamentary practice of England was the basis of the constitutional plan of this country, am@ as we have copied the rules of procedure theoretically, so now we are about to inaugurate the system and make it available as a modern political appliance. The tenure by which ‘Mr. Johnson holds his office, and by which future Presidents wili possess the Executive chatr, is to be demonstrated by the result of the case now pending, and upon the uncertainty of the issue the deepest anxiety ts beginning to be manifested at the capital. By the verdict of the Senate it is to be determined whether the President's contipuancé in office is to be dependent w the discretion of the two branches of the national! legislature, whether the Executive Department is to maintain its permanency or to become @ mere transi- tory snyendsee: transferable fo the political party that nay 4 STONINGTON LINE. The Narragansett, more fortunate than her sisters, during her trip from Stonington on Friday evenin was not compelled to anchor in the Sound, but, wit reduced rate of 3] necessary in su¢h a case, ar- rived at her pier in this city at one o'clock P. M. Saturday, and teft again at her usual hour in the evening. The Stonington, on her trip from New ‘ork the same evening, reached the harbor of Stonington in food season, but her officers dared not approach her dock, as the fury of the storm was almost tful. She remained at auchor until six o'clock P. M., then steamed to her docks, unloaded, and yester ay morning left for New York at five o'clock, reaching here at f-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon. NORWICH LINE. The City of Boston, from New London on Tee. evening, anchored off Charles’ Point, at one o’cloc! A. M. of Sataiday, remained in that position until noon, anchored in at Th: 3 Neck in the evening, arriving at her < in this city yesterday et seven o'clock. The City of New London and the City of Lawrence were similarly detained. BRISTOL LINE. ‘The Providence left Bristol at the usual hour Fri- day evening, but, like the other Sound steamers, was compelled to\anchor at half past two o’clock A. M., Saturday, off Brantford Point. She left there ai half past one o'clock P. M., and arrived at her dock Saturday night at twenty minuies to seven o'clock, with the loss of one of her anchors, sixty-five fathoms of chain, and a damaged windlass. The captains of these several boats all ~~ that the blinding storms exceeded in fury the worst gales they ever experienced on Long Island Sound. The disasters reported are as yet but few. Those known of are the following:— A schooner, name unknown, sunk of Brantford Point, Long Island Sound. A schooner blew ashore high and dry on the beach near the same point. ‘The schooner 8, J. Waring, reported ashore on Staten Island, was safely got off and towed up to the city Saturday evening. This is the vessel that during the early part of the late rebellion was taken by a rebel privateer and a — crew put on board, ‘who were subsequently killed by the cook, a colored man. At that time the vessel was retaken and brought into this port. The pilot boat Fdwin Blunt, No. 2, also rted ashore near the Narrows, rode out the gale in safety. A rather unusual circumstance, owing to the northerly winds for the it few days and the strong freshet In the North river, there is no fovud tide through the Narrows. The ebb tide runs at about eight knots per hour, and all vessels of any consider- able size, as a consequence, must be towed up to the city for the next few days unless a strong wind from the south should set in. All the vessels that di their anchors during the storm remain in security in the rivers and bays, without the fear of damage or collision. The ocean steamers outward bound detained since Saturcay went to sea yesterday morning. TELEGRAPHIC. REPORTS. Marine Disasters Reported in Philadelphin— Four Men Drowned off Cape May—Light- ship Adrift=The Railroads at Philadelphia if PHILADELPHIA, March 22, 1868. The bark David Nichols, from Philadelphia for Barbados, is ashore at Cape Henlopen. A sloop capsized on Friday off Cape May. men were drowned, The steamer Roman, from Boston, reports five fathom myn adrift yesterday, although recently towed to her station. f All the buoys in Delaware Bay are reported to be in very bad condition, ‘The track of the Philadelphia road is now clear of snow, and the trains are running as usual. The Storm in Massachusetts—A Railroad ‘Train Thrown fram the Track by a Snew=- ft. Lo Worcester, March 22, 1868. The storm yesterday proved the most severe of the season, and the trains om all the roads in this vicinity were greatly delayed. The Bosion road was closed at 7:20 P. M., when trains consisting of four- teen engines and a large number of passengers cars had accumlated at Brighton. The last train on the Boston, Clinton and hbarg Rallroad, consisting of a snow plough, three engines and two passenger cars, left Framingham at nine o’clock P. M.A snow- drift near Northboro threw the plough from the track down an eiabankment, smashed the forward engine and threw the two following engines and pas- senger cars from the ti All the railroads centring at this city are clear of covetous of its partisan benefits. ussia 1s said to be “a despotism bo efet by assas- sinations,” and some one has sepia the’ simile, with a slight alteration, to the head of our govern. ment, likening it to “an authority tempered by im- peachment."’ Each day reveals with more and more accuracy that the party who have legislated to ignore executive power, and place the President practically in the position of a clerk to Congress, ‘whose principal occupation has been to furnish Ing to possess or ¢ departments not in eer, with its sentiments nor tributary to its per- uation. Peand it is undoubtedly the case that the scheme to depose the President originated with the men who have pesrepeltiee General Grant to their uses, and conceived the idea of making his military popu: larity available to their success, I feel justi in view of recent revelations to assume this and to tn- dulge such comments as it suggests. Previous to the positive and final separation that occurred between Mr. Johnson and General Grant, in consequence of the Stanton imbrogiio, the im- ego project a a utterly = ron beans oF projectors, remem! ne teen General Grant for the Presidency, but were only committed to him contingently, endorsing his supposable political sentiments Crater ee the conditions only stipulating enmity to the dent. The quarrel over the War Secretaryship completed the compact, and Grant was received into full radical fellowship, havi fully complied with the positive conditions—viz., delivering up the War Department to Stanton and defeating the President's plan of bringing Stanton into court, Mark the skilfuiness of the plan. By General e whole ground of President Grant’s sole and single agency t! and cut off from all recourse to legal — ia Four im hment was compassed, the cation or defence. Impeachment has, tl become the peculiar business and interest of General Grant. The watchword of the impeachers is, “Grant and impeachment,” and they have no alternative but to Ue it to conviction, because they comprehend and privately admit that to fai! with impeachment ts to mail with Grant, It is true that the Senate and House are divided upon these matters, but the status of the members in each is clearly defined. In the Senate, Wilson is for Grant and ee and for both from purel, interested motions. He covets a seat in Grant bi in the character of Vice, as he drives over the Presidential course, and he covets a seat in Ben Wade's Cabinet, a contingency dependent upon impeachment. Chandler is for Grant and impeach. ment, because he is hopeful of a place in Wade's Cabinet, and that he may hold over under Grant. Sumner is for impeachment and Grant, be- cause Wade would give him the English mission, and Grant would renew the lease. In the House the quartet of Washburns are for Grant and impeach- ment, because they think they hold a titie deed of the General, and they cherish hate inst the Prest- dent enough to last them worid without end. Butler is for impeachment, because he ts a fadicale! snow thisevening. and hates the President as in duty beund. ian = His special Cay gn Pgs “nn the a Clearing Up of the Weather—Ralilronds at ter, however, e significance here- Boston Opn—High Tide. tofore attributed to it. Impeachment may fail, s < but in no event can there be any faliure in Boston, March 22, 1969. the development of circumstances that will gratify his enmity and degrade an enemy upon whose head at a propitious time he designs to pour the accumu- lated force of his bottled wrath, no love for Grant, and he dotes upon a “muss,” Thad Stevens enjoys the struggle, and with keener zest the more distress he witnesses. The scene before him is his stimulant. The power he has wielded has always been adventitious. He has never had a hold upon the love of his party, if to an organization which has exem) wear of those oe and deformities which infinite wisdom sometimes permits for the benefit of the stronger light that contrast gives. As an aid and’a witness to these unsightly Retry pe has fulfilled his office, and his occupation ‘el! nigh gone. Thave on enumerated a few In either house, and The weather cleared up this morning. All the trains due from New Yor8 and other points arrived here about midnight, and the roads are open. ‘The tide was unusually high last eventing, some of the wharves being a foot tnder water, The damage {# not serious, ead 58 Cessation of the Storm in Maine. Avavsta, March 22, 1868, ‘The storm ceased at nopn to-day, after a contin- uation of twenty-six hours Ten tnches of snow bas fatien and a wind pretalied. A Mystertors CHaracter.—An old ho has lived solit and alone for thirty- five years near Albion, Mith., was found dead his hut a few days gince. A correspondent of the Chicago Journal writes:—‘The greatest mystery has alway surrounded tiim, thaigh since his death the following story haa been ulated by those who any results White House. peak y radicals—who do regard it In kaa Pas dy of future con- claim to know:—It {s said that years ago ences, They are those who! heard denomi- | he waa A bho merchint in New York city, nated by one of the oldest, members ‘the murdered to ® beautiful and accom. and was ena. lished pone, addy; but his brother, who was In business with him, becamt his rival and secured the hand of the lady in qipstion, upon which this man betook himself to the is of Michigan, bought some land, built a small hat énd here he lived in the utmost secinsion. He raisedhis own produce, For clothing, he used nothing but cotton bags, which he put op in every shape imagimble. In the winter he wore neither boots nor shoes, plways going barefoot, bl a slept in his coffin, in whieh he was found \e. men the Senate.” They realize that the inevitable ae of tmpeaching the Presi- dent will be the depreciation and return of ernment bonds held by foreign capitalists and a errible financial revulsion at home, They see that ; we are at this moMent upon the verge of a monetary create, snd they are app from all past experience that the party under whose auspices financial dis- tress occurs Is certain to be held accountable for it and to suffer final condemnation. Under the inflic- tion of ab UnreMiitting, pattisan pressure resistance al THE GREAT RAILROAD WAR. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Prospective Result of the Railroad Consent in the Legislature, ALBaNy, March 21, 1868. The great comtest between the raliway kings has for the time betmg driven out of sight all the numer- ous railroad and other schemes pending in the Legis- lature. One gentleman, famous for his lobbying labors in connection with underground railways, has temporarily abandoned’ al! his projects and thrown himse‘f into the present struggie. The lobby influences which are to be brought to bear will be of magnificent proportions, Like a greedy man who grows more. avaricious with the increase of his gains, the “ring” are apprehensive of losing even the usual percentage to the go-between, and the question is under discussion whether tt will not be better (it certainly will be more profitable) to have no dealings through the lobby, but transact business directly with the principals. A paragraph from the pen of a famous lobbyist, in one of the morning Papers here, slyly indicates the extensive character of the lobby tnfuences which are or will be at work, It says that Mr. Vanderbilt, one of the parties interested in the measure now under con- sideration by the Railroad Committee, Is reported to be worth about seventy miilions of dollars, and that which left for Havre, $172,000 i of freight; Pe wel the 3 the City, son street Hospital, an inquest thirty-five #ix Cabin passengers and 112 in the steerage. costing vessels were:—The Ocean Queen, for Call nia and China, with 1,100 General Grant, for gers; the Mariposa, for same port, twelve passen- firing a pisto) of Vesey street. The seaman was 5 ee ample et of the libera! and nigh-toned principles of lirectors I. of Mount Sinai Hospita! DEPARTURE OF STgaMERS.—The steam packets this port on Saturday for Europe were:— The Louisiana, for Liverpool, with ten saloon and 167 steerage passengers and a general cargo; the Pereire, had ninety-three first class passengers and specie; the city of London, with twenty- The ifor- passengers ond 1,200 tons the Charleston, withe twenty passengers, for Florida; the Saragossa, for Charleston, thirty-five passengers; the San Salvador, for Savannaa, thirty seseneats) the Rapidan, for Havana, twenty passem- r3; the imington, for Texas, twelve passengeras New Orleans, twelve passen- Montgomery, for Savannah, fifteen; the for Galveston, and the Gulf Stre: for New Orleans, and severa! others, all well fre! and having a fair proportion of passengers. ACCWENTALLY SHOT.—Abont eleven ofclock your terday forenoon a seaman residing at No. 33 Harr was shot inthe hip by a boy who was #ta mark on the dumping ground, fous en to Bellevue’ The boy escaped, Focnp Drowxep.—Coroner Flynn yesterday hel® on the body of an unknown maa, about Fears of age, appgrently a sailor; which was found floating tn the dock foot of pier No. & North river, by an officer of the Twenty-seventh pre- Deceased had his opponent, Mr. Drew, 18 worth about fifteen mil- | cinet. on blue woollen shirt, dark Hons. It is 'hazarding’ very little to say that the | striped pants and brogans, The jury rendered a ver- chances of success are decidedly with the Vanderpilt | dict of death by drowning. The bedy apparently had Party, The bill of gilt. , Bristol 19 of too loose a been in the water for some weeks. pre rT. ven rie vr are rea Oo x = m™m Sault that: te wil be amectiods | The ‘anu’ Of || oem canoume Lesterdar mening the contest is wholly with the Erie party. The are fighting around a cfrcle, at the centre of whic! the Vanderbilt party are intrenched, They will find it necessary, in the first piace, to get the bill through the House, and then through the Senate, both stu- Bentone undertakings in themselves, even without he: pesiizon which the other side will throw in, But tf successful in both houses it has to run the risk of a veto from the Governor, The dimicuities in the way of the Drew party are thus manifold. On the other hand, the Vanderbilt men have only to defeat forty yeara wards. despondent eleven o'clock Mrs, Dora Gletsch, a German women of age, was found hanging to the door of her room in the rear of premises 26 Marion street, by a bedcord which ‘she had used for the ,urpose of terminating a miserable existence. down while yet alive, but death ensued sown after+ The busban months ago, since which time she has bee*n very She was cut of deceased diet at out atx and drank to excess, No camse exce) ‘a8 already stated 1s known for the commission of the it in ‘one of its stages of legislation just enu- | act. Coroner Rollins was notified, and will h old am merated, and it defeats it entirely. The Erte | inquest on the body to-day. Deceased has le ft two party have, therefore, undertaken a task for | children. he execution of which they wiil have to expend Se errs * ney MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. more than thrice the eres of their opponents. are at the short end of a long lever. Again, the democrats are committed to Vanderbilt politically. The vast influence of the New York Central machine is cast for the democracy, and the democratic Majority in the House must reciprocate. The ques- tion is, therefore, not likely to obtain adjustment at the hands of the Legislature, but will be left to the decision of the courts, The session of the committee next Tuesday, to which day the discussion has been postponed, will be a most interesting one. - The Senate select committee appointed to investt- gate the affairs of the Erie Railway Company have decided to remove the injunction of secrecy, and their sessions will in future be held with open doors. The fifth hands woul each instant Gazzaniga Aetion of the New Jersey Legislature. The following is the text of the act passed by both branches of the New Jersey Legislature to enable the Erie Railway Company to establish offices and trans- act its business in that State:— An act to enable certain corporations more effec- ally to transact their business in the State of New jersey. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That where any railroad corporation which has been created by the laws of any other State or States has, by any law or laws passed by the Legisiature of this State, been authorized to hold property and exercise fran- chises and privile; in this State, it shall be lawful for the directors of such company elected in another State to hold their meetings in this State and exercise all the powers and franchises of such com- pany within this State, so far as it may be necessary to transact any business of such pamiees . ‘Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for such company to have an office in this State for the transfer of stock, and the officers and agents of such company shall be authorized to transact the business of such company in this State. Sxc. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall bea public act, and shall take effect tmmedt ately. satisfactory “La Gran another of produced in this week. the gorilla, Effect of the Railroad War on the Western Roads. Referring to the litigation between the Erie and Central Railroad monarchs, the Sandusky (Ohio) Register, March 20, has the following:— control of nando" from three numbers of Gluck’s “Paris et Héléne," “Mid summer Night’s Dream,” overture to Dr, Freischutz, and the “Persian March,” by Stvauss, in ity usual Sunday concert at-'Steinway Hall fast night introduced Miss Alida Topp, the celebri ited pianist, who played a “Valse Etude,” by Rau T, @ very uninteresting composities, whieh in any:og her \d prove a failure, and Liszt’s well kna wr transcription of the Indian march from ‘LAI Ti- caine.” Miss Topp's admirable playing drew ce an overwhelming encore, Ardavant sang a ‘‘Pleta Signor” tn super style, and Madame was warmly received in the ‘Mio Far- “Fayorita.” The orchestra played manner, de Duchesse,’* one of the most successfat and popular operas ever produced in America, and one which reflects the highest credit on Mr. Bateman for bringing it out im such superior style, will be re- placed on Thursday next by “La Belle Héiéne,”” Offenbach’s merry, sparkling works. Consequently only three nights remain for those who have not seen the real Grand Duchess (Tost¢e having recovered from her indisposition) to make up for lost time and for her myriad admirers to pay her their re- spects for the last time. “La Belle Héiéne"? will be superb style. The New York Circus will hate a genuine sensation The Cynocephalus, a trained specimen of baboon or chimpanzee, will perform some extraordinary feats on horseback. . Mr. Herbert B, Williams, one of the best English jestera we have had for years, will also appear, The “White Fawn” of course continues at Nibio's, with its bewildering ballet and scenery and excel- lent dramatic company. At Wallack’s the ever popular “ Rosedale,” with its ses cast, is still the reigning favorite on the If the Vanderbilt party fail to the Erie the officers of the Erie oF ig immediately | || Man fee romero he Shao ‘eee join the ra of the Michigan Southern and | the week at the Bowery Mi a aw Ai 4 Wabash roads fn carrying out the project of extend- | comedienne from California, of whom ing the broad gau Sandusky and Toled in the hi » Via 0, to Ir Erie fails {nto the hands of Vanderbilt heat terms. Also, the east wi will have Edwin Blanchard and thelr wonderful nl Mr. and tiulder the new road, fuake it of the nadrow gauge | _ Miss Kate Relgnolds enters upon the fifth and last and form a connection with one of the narrow gauge | Week of her bi it 5 ment at bey New igi roads leading to the seaboard. So that, whatever | She will essay the wel wo of Cam! may be the outcome of the Erie war, the new ie, which Matilda Heron has won her greatest triumphs. is morally certain to be built, the only point yet Chanfrau presents to-night at th anew undetermined being the Yeiitoh it wit not ‘be | comedy by Be Walden, a it pee ae be absolutely necessary to decide until most of the [ecg gerd four characters, Sam' grading ts completed. here is no doubt that this favorite theatre willbe - CITY INTELLIGENCE. Tur NEw York MEDICAL CoLLEGE FoR WOMEN.— This evening, at Steinway Hall, East Fourteenth street, the trustees of the New York Medical College for Women will hold their fifth annual commence- ment. Since its institution this college has been ex- venport pla: La Gi will and Mra. Conway a8 Ophel e ement. crowded every night. Ri oy Dumpty,” Fox's tomime, is still rum- ning at the Olympic, and as spectacle with pantomime it proses well for many @ night to come. At Mrs. Conway's giro Pronto ny E.L. it combines ballet’ and Da- nway as the Ghost This is his farewell trou] Hamlet, with Mr. ys ty Pas range and Brignoli. Italian ve one representation of ‘‘Lucrezia Borgia” ~* ceedingly successful, and it certainly merita from | "AP pipet we will have Harrison's Valian opers .. our eltizens all the encouragement It is possible to | company on Wednesday. bestow upon it, its aims being high and noble. Ole Bull, the great violinist, will appear at Stein- The trustees have succeeded in securing a piece of eligible ground on which to erect a college and hospital; and it only remains for some among the ‘wealthier classes of our community to become almo- ners in behalf of humanity by endowing, and thus rt ne J in all the future an unquestionable andmark of nineteenth century, civilization—a col- lege for the education of females to a comprehension of the most intellectual and benevolent of the pro- fessions, and a hospital in which, without thought of indelicacy, the ills to which womankind i By - Marly heir may be promptly and wisely attended to. ‘THE FUNERAL OF COLONEL LINEBACK.—Yesterday afternoon the friends and brother Masons of the late Colonel Charles Lineback met at his residence, 219 West Forty-first street, to pay the last tribute of respect to his remains. The coffin containing the nounced at ment. rawn, It week. a dai deceased, having been placed in the reception room, | Scroas the the relatives friends were enabled to give a last glance on the features of the dead, which worea calm and — look as if he had but fallen asleep. A wreath of evergreens and one curiously constructed | 4 are of white roses in the form of a square and ee was laid = the comin, and the service by the Rev. . Ewen, who gave the impressive burial service from the well known words, “I know that a Redeemer liveth,” to the end with the most solemn effect. The Rev. Mr. ker then made a short address to those present, which he touched upon the qualities of the de- his eminent Christian virtues and his sure hope of salvation, while praying for comfort and con- solation to the surviving relatives. On the conclu- sion of the service those present took a final look at the noble dead, and the Masonic fraternity passed in Procession around the coffin, which was finally borne out and placed in the hearse. The funeral | on sion then set out for Greenwood Cemetery, Ma sonic brotherhood of the Lebanon Lodge, Je leading, with all the insignia of their order. ¢ deceased was originally Marshal of St. John’s Lodge, No. 1, in the rt 1838, He was sul uently Grand Secretary ‘The shi nitentiat hn’s Grand Lodge 1887, and in the year $s00 ine vormed the Lebanon Lodge, to which he be- F. A. Dall longed up to the time of his death. Colonel Lineback committed ‘was an officer under Henry ©. Attwood, and was of Tate years the pfoprietor of the Utah House. ‘Tus Erout Hour Lasor MOVEMENT.—The journey- men house and ship painters of this city held a meet- ing at Demilt Hall on the 20th tnst., at which, at the close of a protracted and not altogether harmonious discussion, it was resolved that, in conformity with the law of the State, the hours of labor for those in their craft should henceforth be eight in every twenty-four. It was also resolved that fora day's labor, constituted of eight hours, $3 50 shall ve Ask for “2 Hall on Tuesd: elly & Leon’s burlesque of the “Grand Dutch 8S” on the bills. A fine variety bill, abounding in novelties, 4 Mr. B. Eddy pl roo! nm ‘The Brookiya > spite of the storm, with the admirers of the - Gran end of North Saturday nigh At a recent fire in Mount Vernon, IIL, o pamben et t patriotic ladies turned out and assisted in saving tly » perty of their neighbors. The total loss was. nea r to su As posse the House of nder its provisions the princl prize fight are punishable by IT 18 TRE BEST; and Saturday. instrels still keep the laughable is an Butler's American theatre. Mr. H. W. Eagan, Ethiopian comedian, and Miss Jennie Eagan, danseuse, are the latest -arrivals at this establish- A_new local drama, called the ‘Ballet Girls of New York,” is the latest sensation at Tony Pastor’s. The “Wild Fawn of the Woods” has proved toe, . it an attraction at Hooley’s, Brooklyn, to be with- will, therefore, be given every night this . the “Corsican Brothers” at the , louse to-night. m Academy was crowded on Saturday, ess, This titled songstress will prove rival to Plymouth church in popularity , East river. NEWS ITEMS, esterday morning on Bennehoft Rua. de~ stroyed four thousand bartels of tanking and twa thousand one hundred barrels of ofl, phia, Shendon, Steele and Getty wells are the princi pal losers, The Philadel. le bee of a Sore fg he y was. re Om sa sae os asad one fora village of but tweiv @ 000, hundred inhabitants. ‘The Obto Senate on the 18th jams. re the ith Praviow sip renentatives it is now ais iw, cipal performers fi p.m imprisonment in the. , and spectators and reporters are Wt pple. prize Nhe fine aud imprisonment in jail. jane, editor of the Warsaw (Ill) But suicide on the 15th inst. zig . ‘The Hartford Times, March 20, states th at workmen at Sprague’s mill one thousand f State or country—are on @ “strike,” has stopped. r cent which was not long ago taken. ‘here must be fifteen hundred of them, the it cotton mill at Br iic—a ng and the lat tin the ‘all work twenty fv »m them, e operatives demand the She cuna pe S Tne . i's. BYNNER & (CU, 189 Broadway, N. demanded. snd Rertees ate oe MeTROROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.—The weekly re- | Uilsraleouolle washes, port from this department shows that last week the Amd weather reached its maximum at three o'clock on Wednesday, when the thermometer indicated 58,00, At six A.M, Saturday the coldest time showed itself, and, the mercury steod at 27.50, presenting a difference of range of 2.50, The average for the week was 41.40, This was in the shaded open air. ‘The barometer on the obsefved ioe ts was as fol- lows:—Ay' for the week, 29.919; maximum at seven A, M. of 19th, 90.291, and minimum at seven ‘A.M. of the 2ist, 20.201. There was rain of a dura- tion of six hours and fourteen minates on the 16th, 17th and 18th, On the 17th thunder was heard at fifty minutes aix P. M., and polar lights were visible ‘on the 19th from half-past ten P.M, unt! mid- night. Snow on the 2ist comme: at thirty-eight minutes past one P. M. and continued for eighteen pa and thirty-six minutes, with @ depth of 11.25 ches, brown. Ito way. Sold im 1 ib. cers. _ Colors the hair, whiskers and mustac! + * ‘s Double winiast cbt £108 if Hair Stain. be beautiful black or peers oe oul one prepa ration. Color will not FREMHOLD, 004 eva 'e ‘all ‘aruggiata. vadway, Dext lo Metro- An Acknowledged Fact.- ‘The Only New Style of Genta’ Drese Hats | square and 10 Broadw: to be (@ and at TERRY'S, 19 Union Codar Camphor for Piotha 50e4 91, 81 50. HEOD, 8, HA Furniture. New styles first class Jurntture at KELTY'S, 447 Broad- juperfine Loadee igheat Medal at the Paris Exposition, ‘and 341i, Ung (full weight) by ai Gret clase gro. ‘Tae MounT StNat Hosrrrat.—The annual report of | yficroecepe for @5.2McAllister’s Houschold the directors of this matitution for 1868 has just been | Microscope bes Pil tre cmon pa fa frst clean tora published, and must rank among the most interesting fegreuntp iP fog povern sy Teg} Himes the ate, a8 ia” of documents laid before the people. The hospital is ican, 49 Nassau street, New York. supported by private contributions, principally from Description Executed with those of the Jewish faith, and ho the doors are open P| PA ac nd at Tower Estos than elsewhere, at for all, irrespective of nattonali ity or religion, and ‘he | the MBTROPOLITAN JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT, beat attendance and treatment are to be met with at | 97 Nassau street. the hands of the officers who so creditably conduct ite affairs. During the last year 543 patients were admitted, but the present means of accom nodation are not equal to the demand made upon the direc- tors; efforta, however, are being made to enlarge the premises or get a new building, and they are seconded by. most of our city officials. The report is The qu luy eucouragiog, aud we Written Wy a spisit that is | WILD OLE at new! rintiny tained The Me ENT, 07 Nasea’ rs, Pamphlets, La itan J Printing Establish. street, 18 pacpared to furnish Carda, Ctreu- ‘ase, Posters and every description of rates twenty-fre per ceat less than oni be ob- here in the city, cation Settled.—Wister’s Balsam af BAY (ls We remedy for Couahs aud Golds,