The New York Herald Newspaper, March 25, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ERY THEATRE, Bowery.—SPor.en Cui.p—Dog or ent Orb STONE CROSS-STAGH BTEUOK YANKEE. BROADWAY THEATR Broadway.—JoE. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— CAMILLE. FRENCH THEATRE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Dompry. Matinee at 2. oi NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tan Waite Fawn. E GRAND DUCHESS. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 23d street, corner of Eighth avenue.—TRAVIATA. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street.— ROSEDALE. ote BANVARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Broad. way and Thirticth street.—Rir VAN WINKLE, &c. NEW YORK CIRCU Fourteenth street.—-GYMNASTIOS, EQUESTRIANISM, &c. Matineo at 236. g THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brondway.—BaLter, Fancr, 0. KELLY & LEON’S M EOoENTaRICITIFA, &e. . 720 Bronstway.—S0NGs, p Duron #8, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGT 85 Broadway.—Ernto- , DANCING, &e. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO} 201 Bowery.—Comio VocaLisy, NEGRo MINSTRELSY, &. Matinee at 2), BUTLER’S AMERICAN TH BALLET, FARO, YANTOMIME, TRE, 472 Rroadway.— Matinee at 2). MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— OTHELLO. HOOLEY'S OPFRA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—ETmiorP1an MINSTRELSEY —BURLESQUE 0 E WiLD FAWN, YORK UM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— AND & T RI PLE SHEET. noo 25, 1868. ee York, Wednesday, THE NEWS. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday the bill regulating the present of bills to the President and the return thereof was passed bya yote of twenty-nine to ten- jock, the High Court being in convened, on the part of the Managers, pre- tion to the answer of the President adopted by the House. The motion of counsel for a reasonable time to prepare their defence being under discussion, Mr. Johnson, of Maryland, moved that an order be entered aliowing ten days. ‘The Senate retired to consider, and on returning an order was entered that the trial proceed with all de- spatch on Monday, the 30th inst. The court was then adjourned to that day, and the Senate, after a short executive session, adjourned tiil this morning. In the House Mr. Boutwell, for the Board of Mana- gers, presented the replication to the answer of the President. Al hy and lively debate ensued upon it between 4 . Boutwell, Butler, Wood, Eldridge and others, and it was agreed to by 116 yeas to 36 hays. The House soon after departed for the Senate chamber and returned at half-past three. After receiving a report of the conference committee on the bill exempting certain manufactures from tax the House adjourned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the bill for the construe- iron tubular tunnel across the East river ed adversely, the report being agreed to, »wo Railroad bill, which was de: ton Monday, was passed by a vote of 19 to 6, under a reconsideration. Bills were also passed abolishing the Canal © ‘acting Board «nl amending the New York Mechanics’ Lien law. A resolution was introduced giving the Finance Coimmittee power to send for persons and papers to compel joint stock associations to make reports of their business. The Erie, Central, Harlem and Hudson Raiiroad companies are among those which have so far failed to answer. The Board of Wharves and Piers bill was called up for recon- sideration, but was again referred back to the com- mittee. In the Assembly bills were passed amending the Registry law; appropriating struction of tt 1 hanna, the W nd PI and Washington, labout improvement, EUROPE. The news report by the Auantic cable is dated yes- terday evening. 1 for the cou The citic Tations of the new on Bordeaux and P s and other towns were posted with seditious plac It is urged in Loudon to place England in mediate communication with india, China and Australia by submarine raph cab Consols 9 Ss. Five-twenties 72% in London and 75% a 75% in Frankfort. Cotton quiet, with Middling uplands at 1054. Breadstufts advanced and firm. Provisions and produce without marked change. MISCELLANEOUS. jal telegrams by the Gulf cable from ica and St. Thomas, In is quarreling with Con- ¢ dissi.tistied with the manage- nment. The rebels were besieging nas Wad healthier, and the cholera ‘The evidence ot W. J. Edwards was heard in the Assembiy ¢ ittee at Albany yesterday in refer- ence to the Drew-Vanderbilt railway controversy. In the case of Josiah W. Brown aga Raymond, New York Tax Commission of Appeals to-«: ndered a 4 ion in favor of the appellant, and declaring the act under which the Tax Commissioners were appointed unconstitutional. Further particulars of te wreck of the ship Gen+ eral Grant, from New Zealand for London, reveal a Most romantic story of danger and privation. Twenty lives were lost and the survivors lived upon the Auckland Islands, @ poverty stricken colony, for eighteen months, They made @ fire with the only Match they had and Kept it burning all the time they were there. The brig Amherst rescued them on the 2ist of November, 1867. ‘The argument in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Raiiroud Company's litigation, on the motions for the continuance of the injunction, for attach- ment against certain ome of the company for contempt of court, and for a receiver of the proceeds of the sale of the new issue of forty-nine thousand shares of stock, Was concluded yesterday before Judge Cardozo at Superior Court, Chambers, De- cisien reserved. In the Court of Oyer and Torminer of Kings county yesterday the trial of Otto Schade for the murder of Henry Shear was continued. Judge Lott charged the jury, when the latter retired for del After a short absence they returned to co verdict of manslaughter in the third degree. ‘1 t James M. , the Court prisoner was thereupon sentenced to three years and | #1X months in the State Prison at Slag Sing. John Galvin was arraigned before Judge Le his associates in th ‘ourt of Over and Terminer, | Brooklyn, charged with the murder of | John Mullen on hight of the 17th of November last, In adrunken vow in Navy st Phys’ Qeath, The prigone: vulbeel i that he not die by violence, but by apoplexy, superinduced by too free indulgence in liquor. After the sum- ming up of the case by District Attorney Morris the court adjourned until to-day, ‘The Sherry wine case was resumed yesterday, that being the twenty-first day during which it has occu- pied the attention of the United States District Court. It will probably be concluded to-day. Yesterday Commissioner Betts committed John Sullivan to await the action of the Grand Jury ona charge of passing a counterfeit five dollar bill. The North American steamship Company's popular sidewheel steamer Fulton, Captain Merry, will leave pler No. 29 North river at noon to-day (Wednesday), for California, via Panama Railroad, connecting at Panama with the new steamship Nevada. The stock market, including government securi- ties, was weak yesterday. Gold declined to 137%, but afterwards recovered to 1385. “Halifax Law” for Mr. Johnson—The Radi- cal Old Woman with Black Teeth. When the Earl of Leicester, acting under his best judgment for the interest of England, accepted the title of Stadtholder of the Nether- land provinces, then in chief part under mili- tary occupation by the Prince of Parma, his royal mistress, Elizabeth, being in one of her passionate and frenzied moods, took the matter in high dudgeon, driving from her presence with violent curses and stamping feet whomso- ever attempted to justify her late favorite, “dmpeaching” him before the bar of her own imperious passions, refusing to hear any de- fence in his behalf, and winding up this phase of her passing insanity by sending orders not only for his removal as an “obstruction to her policy,” but likewise for his public disgrace before the Grand Council of the United Pro- vinces, over which he was then faithfully and, to the ruin of his own private fortunes, pre- siding as her viceroy. Thus punished for up- holding the highest iaterests of his country by endeavoring to restore constitutional and civil law to the Netherland provinces, while rescuing them from the military bondage under which many of them were enslayod, and by which all of them were threatened, the Earl thus rote to Sir Francis Walsingham:—‘“‘To me it seom- gth Tam given ‘Halifax law’ in this matter; being first condemned and hung out of hand, with a gracious order that inquiry into the facts of my alleged misdoing shall be made thereafter.” As it was with Leicester, falling under the rage and jealousy of an old woman whose dar- ling he had once been—an old woman “with black teeth and a white bosom,” for so at this period Queen Elizabeth comes down to us in history—even so is it now with President John- son, He has fallen under the hatred and jealousy of that incarnate Old Woman, the radical majority in both houses of Congress, as whose darling representative of loyal devotion he stood prominent during the whole of the late rebellion. By endeavoring to rescue the ruined provinces of the South from military despotism, reconstructing them under the con- stitution and upholding the mild sway of civil law over the bayonets of an occupying army and the continuous plundering schemes of Congress, our modern Leicester would scem to have wholly forfeited the favor of that infuriated radical Old Woman who gathers under her Congressional petticoats such precions chickens as Butler, Bingham, Logan, Wilson, Thad Stevens and the balance of their impeaching associates. Curses are heaped upon all who attempt to take his part, explain his motives or vindicate his line of action. "a | No defence will be heard in his case if the Old Woman shall have power either to close her own ears or to silence the tongues of his counsel. ‘Halifax law” will be meted out to President Johnson with a vengeance ; he is to be condemned and politically exe- cuted without trial; nor is there any ‘gracious order” in his case that “inquiry into the facts of his alleged misdoing” shall be made even after he shall have ceased to hold official life. It is between this mad and bad Old Woman of the radical party and the President of the United States that Chief Justice Chase has now to interpose the buckler of his grave authority, even as Lord Burghley, her oldest, wisest and moat faithful counsellor, was finally compelled to interfere with acrimonious protest between the suicidal rage of Queen Elizabeth and the just rights of her whilom favorite, now hated all the more because be had once been so faithful, so usefal and so beloved. In the Queen's case, however, fortunately for Eng- land, the nity of anger was but transient, and her usually sound judgment soon clearing away the clouds, pe ted her to see and ap- preciate the true interest of her country and the Netherland provinces in sustaining the Earl of ester's authority, Not so, how- ever, with the black-toothed and black-hearted Old Woman of the radical party, whose grim talons are now twisted in the quivering vitals of our ten Southern provinces, This latter hag has no soul to remember past devo- tion, no tenderness to be touched by gratitude, no recollection of heroic service and gallantry inher days of bitterest need. Her eyes are bloodshot with anger and too inflamed by jealousy—the jealousy of power in any hands but her own—to perceive even the most obvi- ous considerations of her own true interest. Debauched by the spoils of the ‘whiskey rings” and a dozen other plundering “rings” in the loyal States, and doubly debauched by the licensed robbery and brutal oppression of her black sway in the ten Southern provinces, this Old Woman with whom Chief Justice Chase has now to grapple presents about the most odious and at the same time one of the most tremendous aspects to be found in the whole historical panorama of political witch- craft and ghoulism. She will brook no rival near her throne of rule and robbery. What- ever she may deem an ‘‘obstruction” in her path must be crushed to powder and scattered in ashes, If the Supreme Court will not bend to her dictation it shall be broken; and the President having been true to his oath in de- spite of her maledictions, threats and final violence, she now demands his speedy condem- nation and execntion—“at railroad speed” says Bottled Butler—and under “Halifax law. In all the charges made against the Presi- dent there is but one of the slightest conse- quence—but one which could hold water for half @ moment before any ordinary court or iry—the charge, to wit, of having removed ecretary Stanton without the consent of the And to what, when we examine it, amount? A charge boiled, this cha: forms of cookery only the substance of a single charge. The Tenure of Civil Office act, for violating which by the removal of Secretary Stanton the President is now undergoing a solemn and costly farce of trial before a partisan jury of Senators, specifically provides that all mem- bers of the Cabinet shall hold their offices respectively “for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been ap- pointed, and for one month thereafter,” unless removed from such offices “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” Now, Mr. Stanton has never been appointed ‘‘during the term of the President” under whom he so meanly and factiously insists upon retaining his position. He was reappointed Secretary of War by the late President in April, 1865; but certainly no sane man will contend that President Lincoln's ‘‘term of office” could continue after his ‘term of life.” The constitution expressly regards death, insanity, or impeachment by the Senate as bringing a Presidential ‘‘term” to its end; and again, if Mr. Lincoln's ‘term of office”—four years from March 4, 1865—' not yet legally over, why is the Senate now sitting as a Court of Impeachment, with Chief Justice Chase for its highest expounder of law, in the matter of trying “‘Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,” for high crimes and misdemeanors? The whole trial would be ridiculous were it not for the grave conse- quences with which it threatens the peace of the country, our financial credit at home and abroad, the stability of our institutions, and the dignity of the American people. Never before have we seen so complete and crushing a re- joinder to partisan charges as may be found in the President’s answer to Butler, Stevens and company, published yesterday. The defence is perfect in its madre statemopt without calling a slogle witness; and if Chict Justice Chase could rise to the fall greatness of his duty he would at once put the black-toothed and black- hearted Old Woman of the radical party out of court, on the ground that her accusations, even if proved in their extreme extent, are too utterly trivial and too obviously malignant for the serious consideration of serious men in such serious times as we have now fallen upon, Mr. Gladstone’s Resolutions on the Irish Church. On Monday evening, in the House of Com- mons, Mr. Gladstone introduced his resolu- tions on the Irish Church. We reproduce the resolutions as they appeared in our telegraphic columns yesterday :—First, that in the opinion of this House the Irish Church should cease to exist as an establishment, due regard being had, however, for personal interests and the rights of property; second, that no new personal rights should be created, and that the commission on the Irish Church should limit its operations to matters of immediate neces- sity, pending the final action of Parliament upon the whole question; third, that a peti- tion should be presented to the Queen praying that the Church patronage of Ireland be placed at the disposal of Parliament. The resolutions the reconstruction laws of Congress. having been read Premier Disraeli stated that the government would be ready to consider them by the end of the present month. What will Disraclido? The resolutions as they stand are a positive gain to Ireland. No such victory has been won by the Catholics of Great Britain since the passing of the Catholic Emancipation act in 1829, certainly not since the Maynooth grant of 1845; and if Mr. Glad- stone’s resolutions become law hfs name will be associated with one of the grandest triumphs of religious liberty in modern times. What, we ask, will Mr. Disraeli do? Will he go as far as Mr. Gladstone wishes to drag him? We have little doubt that he is willing to go such a length himself. But will the tory gentry of the three king- doms follow him? If they will not follow him will he fling himself on the democracy and outbid Mr. Gladstone? Disraeli is both skilful and brave. He has worked wonders with the tory party already. Like lambs they have followed him on the pathway of reform until they find themselves contemplating with indifference their open graves. Having felt themselves so comfortable in foliowing him in the pathway of political reform, why should they hesitate to follow him in the pathway of ecclesiastical reform? Mr. Gladstone has hit the real Irish difficulty, has hit it Grmly and with hearty good-will; and if Mr. Disraeli reveals the slightest disposition to play with the question the game is lost, Mr. Disraeli has tripped up Mr, Gladsone by out- bidding him in one difficulty, It willbe strange if Mr. Gladstone should so soon repeat the compliment by outbidding him in another. As matters stand we note progress, Ancient in- stitutions, even where most revered, are crum- bling away like the mouldering stones of some venerable ruin. The places which know them now will soon know them no more forever. The remains of the dead past will soon all have disappeared from view, and the gulf which separates the modern from the ancient world will be broad and deep. This changing state of things, visible everywhere all over Europe, is particularly noticeable at the present mo- ment in Great Britain. In Gladstone and Disraeli the British people have two bold and skilful statesmen. It remains to be seen which is to be master of the situation, and into what new political and ecclesiastical grooves he will drive the empire, The McCardle Case=The Supreme Court's Postponement. It appears that the Supreme Court of the United States the other day, at an informal consultation, decided by a vote of four to two upon the postponement of the famous McCardle case, in view of a probable collision with Con- gress if they hurried the matter, In other words, the two houses some ten days ago passed a little bill very quietly and advoitly, which after its passage was discovered by the democrats to be a bill taking away the appel- late jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in all such cases as this of McCardle, and evidently intended to head off, on this very ease, an ap- prehended adverse decision of this court on It seems, too, that the majority of the court agreed to the postponement, with the understanding that if this new bill of Congress should become a 1, roasted, fried, hashed and stewed, | law before the declaration of the judgment of | | with Lorenzo Thomas and General Emory | the court in the MeCardle os this case trinm! in nearly a dozen different styles of | would be throwa oul. Thuy the bill in ques- impeaching 9 »” but haying under all | tion, over the President's veto. or in default of NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, any action on his part at the expiration of ten days, in becoming a law, heads off the Supreme Court on these reconstruction laws. After the removal of Andrew Johnson, the Jonah of the radical ship, who must be thrown overboard, we may look for a reconstruction of the Su- preme Court itself, and for other reconstructive measures, which will probably wake up the people in season for a decisive rebuke in the great November election. The Impeachment Trial, The replication of the radical majority in the House of Representatives to the answers of Mr. Johnson is general in its character and, with but few alterations, the same as was tele- graphed by our special correspondent at Wash- ington. It briefly denies all of the averments in the answers and declares that the President is guilty of the high crimes and misdemeanors charged in the articles of impeachment. The replication was adopted by the House by a strict party vote, after a futile resistance by the democrats, one of whom (Mr. Eldridge) protested against its going before the world in the name “of all the people of the United States.” The action of the Senate upon Mr. Reverdy Jobnson’s motion to give the President ten days’ time in which to prepare for trial was of interest. The court retired to consult on the motion and onan amendment of Mr. Sumner’s to proceed forthwith with the trial, and after being absent for two hours returned and announced the decision to be that the trial shall commence on Monday next, thus giving Mr. Johnson but four days in which to make gll necessary preparations. By this decision it will be seen that the Senate appears to be as anxious to rush matters through with in- decent haste as the radical majority of the House themselves, What transpired during the consultation we publish in our report of the proceedings. It will be noticed that the vote by which the short space of time granted was arrived at was close, being twenty-eight yeas to twenty-four nays. Some thirteen republican Senators voted with their democratic col- leagugs against the iotion, but wisther their object in so doing was to prevent the President from having any time granted at all, is, of course, not known. Senator Wade was not present, and consequently did not vote. The decision of the Senate having been given there will be a pause in the proceedings, and for the remainder of this week the solemn farce which has been enacted at Washington for the past two days will be suspended, although on Monday next it will be restored to the boards for the edifica- tion of the public and the benefit and perpetua- tion of the power of the radical party. he New York Post Office—Curious Pros ceedings in Congress. We were to have had a new Post Office, and it was to be located on the southern end of the City Hall Park. The ground was pur- chased by the government for half a million dollars, and paid for, cash down, The plans of innumerable architects were received, care- fully examined and paid for. But it appears that none of the plans were acceptable to the artistic mind of the committee, and a kind of patchwork made out of the whole was agreed upon, So far the new Post Office pro- gressed, although the probability was that the new Court House would have grown green with age before the Post Office building was completed. Now it turns out that Congress has appointed a committee of three gentlemen to proceed to this city for the purpose of decid- ing whether we really require a new Post Office building at all. The capacity of this committee to settle this question may be judged from the fact that one of them is a member from Michigan, another from Pennsylvania and another from a country district in this State. How much they know about the ne- cessities of New York city, or how much they will learn on that subject in the course of their investigations, can readily be imagined. Absurd as this proceeding may seem, it hasa meaning, and the public may well ask what the object of itis. It means this—that there isa million dollars or more to be expended on the Post Office building, and that if the work is proceeded with just now such patronage as may be disposed of in the employment of a thousand workmen orso, for instance, to say nothing of contracts, will be in the hands of the President and his friends; but if the work can be delayed until Mr. Johnson is got rid of the patronage will be enjoyed by the powers ad interim. Wence we opine this committee is appointed for the purpose of delaying the work, and not with a view to facilitate it. Some people may think that this is a small business; but after all it ts entirely in keep- ing with the spirit and action of the ruling majority in Congress, Samana = ProjectAnother Rumor. The six hundred thousand dollars (in specie), United States money, which it was re- ported the other day had arrived at Havana in the steamer Morro Castle, was, as it appears, destined for St. Domingo. A despatch from that republic to Havana (on the 23d) says that the American steamer Palos had arrived in the bay of Samand with Sefior Pujol (Dominican agent to the United States) on board; that he was the recipient of a grand ovation; that he brought (from the government at Washington) six hundred thousand dollars on account of the lease of the bay of Samand; that Sefior Pujol will forthwith see General Baez, who is again at the head of the Dominican government, in order, with the hard cash, to bind the bargain. There may be some sub- stantial foundation for this report, excepting the six hundred thousand dollars in specie—a sum of, money which the Secretary of State would hardly advance towards the lease of said bay of Samand, or any other bay, without some authority from Congress. The bay in ques- tion, however, is a very desirable piece of property for the United States, and it ought to be secured, especially as it seems to be under- stood that the treaty for the purchase of St. Thomas will most probably fall through in the The Bay of MAROH ‘25, 1868=TRIPLE SHEET, Senate. It may be, too, that Mr. Seward, who for some past has had his eye upon this | safe, deep and spacious haven of Samand as | the very ra coaling station and harbor | of refuge for ow v | in the Gulf, is anxious to, close the = | fore his retirement to the shades of Aut wn. Lf so, we hope he may succeed in the enter- | gr prise, though we apprehend that It will be apt to go ov-r, with the Alabama claims and the other unfinished business of the State Depart- ment, to his successor in office. The Spring Season of Amusements. . To-night Pike’s Opera House will reopen with the superb company whose season was so rudely broken in upon by Lotta’s negro minstrelsy, The opening. opera will be “La Traviata,” with Mrs, Agatha States as the consumptive heroine, To-morrow night Bateman will introduce the ever popular Tostée in a classical dress at the French theatre, and explain in Offenbach’s best style why Paris ran away with La Belle Héltne and the causes of the ten years’ siege of Troy. These two interesting events may be considered as the opening of the spring season of amusements; and as the modistes throw open the treasures of their establishments and display the spring fashions about the same time, additional brilliancy will be communicated to the new season of opera. There % every prospect that the coming season at all the theatres will be a gratifying one to the managers and to the public. People arenow so weary of the impeachment and Erie muddles, of the stagnation of business and the pranks of the weather that they will seek refuge in the paint, tinsel, ballet, music and red fire of the theatres and laugh away all care in listening to the extravagances of Offenbach. The ladies will have gn additional motive now to patronize the opera and other places of amusement; for where can they find a better place to display their new spring toilets and criticise those of others? Again, we learn from our Paris correspondent that some of the American ladies there who have been the acknowledged belles of that gay capital during the winter contemplate an early return to their homes on this side of the At- lantic in order to try the power of their charms on the susceptible hearts of their countrymen and to" compete for the prize of beauty, like the three goddesses on Mount Ida, with shelr faky sisters. As 8 bluster. } Winter, aver ils late fit of unproydiced ill- humor, grumblingly retires before bright young Spring, the managers on au sides are preparing greater attractions for the coming season. But in all] this bustle and excitement in the amusement world there is one immense concern that once claimed to be first in the metropolis and is now deserted. ‘The harp that once,” &c., has gone to Pike’s, and the one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders of the Academy are weeping in vain and calling on their lost impresario to come back. What can be done, then, with this un- happy concern? As a circus it would be necessary to keep the horses constantly blanketed, and even the Cynocephalus might be afflicted with bronchitis or influenza were Mr. Lent to exhibit him there. It might be turned into a huge tenement house, the necessary changes being made; but then the tenants would be haunted by the ghosts of departed voices or managerial suicides. In all the other places of amusement, however, the prospects for the season are encouraging. Before the season commences at Pike's a word of advice to the management may be of service. There is every reason to fear that the same narrow minded prejudice and monopoly which ruined Italian Opera on the east side of town will interfere with the prospects of this estab- lishment. Madame Lumley, the splendid con- tralto who made such a triumphant déddt here some time since in the réle of Azucena, is not engaged in the company, as her predecessor in the same réle became so frightened at her suc- cess that she threatened to leave the troupe and go off to California with one of the prime donne if the accomplished sister of the London impresario should appear again at Pike's. We warn the leader of the orchestra who sup- ports her demands to remember what a fate a simil&r course at the Academy entailed upon him. The public want good artists, and will not submit to the exclusion of any one to please the whim of another. This has been hercto- fore the principal obstacle in the way of the success of Italian Opera; and the managers at Pike's should see that it is removed in time. * The Abyssinian King Rendy for Battle. By special telegrams from Abyssinia, for- warded through England and the Atlantic cable, and our special written correspondence from the seat of war in Africa, received by mail, we have placed before both the Ameri- can and British public evidence to sustain the assertion that in undertaking a war against King Theodorus, by direct expeditionary in- vasion, the English government entered on a very difficult, expensive and hazardous work. This position was first indicated by the publi- cation, simultaneously in London and New York on the Sth of March, of our special telegram from Antalo, detailing the hardships endured by the Queen’s army in its advance, and the statement is fully supported by the war report contained in another special telegram, dated at the same place on the 8th of March, which appeared in the Heratp yesterday morning. We now learn that King Theodorus has in- trenched the position around his palatial stronghold at Magdala; that the earthworks are defended by ten thousand native warriors; that he has cannon and plenty of provisions, and that he is ready to do battle with Major General Napier. Naturally brave and cautious, and, it may be, regulating his strategy by direction of European officers, the king may maintain himself in his works for a term very damaging to the name, fame, money chest, object and intent of the British military mission, which, although it will doubtless accomplish all that was intended—perhaps a great deal more— must be ready to suffer many hardships before its day of complete jubilation in Africa. Mr, Holman’s Resolution on the Payment of Government Bonds, Some of the bondholders’ organs are trying to make a great fuss over the vote of the House of Representatives on Mr. Holman’s resolution last Monday to pay the bonds in lawful money. The House -refused, in fact, to entertain the question at that time, and very properly, for it has no practical application now, and may never have, But there was no vote strictly on the merits of the proposition, If this were a practical question—if the five-twenty bonds were due and the holders could demand pay- ment now, and the question were before Con- s whether they should be paid in legal ten- ders o¢ coin. there con be po doubt ag ta what the vote would be, It would be absurd to sup- pose the government would pay these bonds in coin at par when they are worth only seventy- three per centin the market, and when there is no legal obligation on their face for such pay- ment incoin. By the time payment can be de~ manded we maybe ona specie basis, The question, then, as we have said, isnot a practical one, and the House of Representatives, seeing this and having other and more important mat- ters to attend to, wisely refused to take it up. That is all there is in the action of the House, and there is nothing for the bondholders or their organs to make a fuss about, Very Interesting News from Paraguny. Our latest information from the seat of war in South America, published in our issue of yesterday, contains the interesting state- ment that the Commander-in-Chief of the al- lied forces was about to make another attempt to storm the Pafaguayan stronghold of Hu- maité. When we consider how frequent these assaults have been and how invariably the Brazilians and their allies have been repulsed. the announcement, notwithstanding the flourish of trumpets with which it is made, does not in- dicate anything more than another severe struggle and probably another triumph for Paraguay. For about four years the war has been waged, and although the allies repre- sent thirteen millions of people and the Para- guayans about one-tenth of that number, the contest is not yet closed, and the present indi- cations are that when it does come to an end the heroic little republic of Paraguay will be the victor. Nor can we withhold our sympathy from her, for really the war is waged in the interest of the only monarchical government on this continent against the essential prin- ciples of democracy. The refusal of the allies to make peace through diplo~ matic negotiations, except upon the condition that President Lopez withdraws from the’ country, is an outrage iupon the right of the | people of Paragnay to choose their own rulers and a dictation which would scarcely be sufii- ciently punished by a final and overwhelming defeat to the arms and arrogance of their enemies. " While it seems doubtful that diplomacy will ever end this tiresome Paraguayan war, our correspondence from Buenos Ayres reports an opposition to the struggle that may at any day bring it to a sudden termination by the withdrawal of her allies from Brazil. It is true that the Brazilian government controls a’ powerful army and navy, but the desertion of the Argentine Confederation and of the Oriental ‘republic would have a most disastrous effect upon both, The discontent in the Argentine Confederation particularly, we are told, is so great that “‘at the public meetings no one who expects to be heard will advocate the triple alliance for a moment.” Should this spirit of disaffection continue to spread, as it evidently will, the end of the war against Paraguay can be readily foreseen. At any rate we cannot but wish her the complete triumph which the heroism, sufferings and unconquerable deter- mination of her sons so well merit. The Situation in Georgia. There seems to be some want of concert of opinion among the conservatives in Georgia in regard to the propriety of running tickets for all the offices, national and State, at the next election. While some are in favor of nomi- nating a full list of candidates, others propose to let the Congressional election go by default, arguing that if they should succeed in electing even a part of the delegation the radical majority in Congress would not allow them ta take their seats. With this view it is proposed that the consergatives concentrate their full strength upon carrying the Governor, State Legislature and other local officers. On the whole we are inclined to think this the best policy. Successful in their choice of offi- cers in the State government, the conserva- tives can so arrange their local legislation as to suit emergencies that may henceforth arise upon questions affecting purely local and, te themselves, most important interests. The natu- ral iustincts of self-preservation dictate the pro- priety of adopting this policy. By this means they may eventually secure two sound represen- tatives in the United States Senate. No dele- gation the radicals in Georgia can possibly send to the House of Representatives at Washing- ton will enhance the popularity of the radicala in the North and West ; and if they can squeeze in a negro or two, so much the better. Give Congress rope enough and it will hang itself. Therefore let the conservatives of Georgia look to the securement of power in the State Legislature, and let the Congressional delega- tion take care of itself for the present. Royalty in Australin, We see by the Australian papers that the young Prince Alfred has not favorably affected the people of the antipodes with the idea of royalty. There are sad complaints about the conduct of himself and suite while in that country. What his precise offences were ara not stated ; but it id more than insinuated that in private as well as in public his conduct was not exactly suited toa scion of royaliy, and that it bas had a damaging effect upon the prospect, if any exists, of Australia accepting a branch of the reigning family as its resident ruler. Perhaps the air was too pure and ex- hilerating for the Prince, and set him all agog like the inhalation of laughing gas, which may account for his pranks whatever thoy were. The fact is that Australia has fora long time been nursing an idea of republican independence, It is far more likely to rid itself of its connection with the mother country than Canada. Indeed, we have heard. before now of a South Australian republic. The Prince of Wales did mugh better than his brother during his tour through this country, but he had good managers to take care of him, and that makes all the difference, He behaved himself so well in Canada that the people there took a very forward step towards a vicarious monarchy, with a royal viceroy at its head, by establishing a new dominion; but we are afraid that the late royal visit to Australia will have the effect of turn- ing the thoughts of the population in the direc~ tion of a further separation from the Old Country. Avsrrta Marcnks Ox,—In spite of the Con- cordat, in spite of the bishops and archbishops, in spite even of the Holy Father, Austria mareles on in her new career. Bravely and like true men Austcian platesmen haye age cette