The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1868, Page 6

aay 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. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Camu. .. FRENCH THEATRE.—La BELLE HELENE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Domrry. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae Waite Fawn. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— ROSEDALE, BOWERY’ THEATRE, Bowery.—Pzcoy Grren—Doo OF THE OLD MILL—LaFirrTE. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Jor. BANYARD'S OPERA HOUSE AND MUSEUM, Brond- way und Thirticth street.—Rip VAN WINKLE, &c, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—GrmNastios, EQuESTRIANISM, Sc, Pe lice COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BaLuet, FaRcE, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Soncs, EccRNTRIOITIES, &c.—GRAND Duron “8.” * SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETu10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comto Vooatssm, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. " BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATRE, 472 Broadway.— BALLET, FARCE, PANTOMIME, &c. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— MEECHANT OF VENIOE—BLACK-EYED SUSAN. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—ETnrorran MINSTRELSEY—BURLESQUE OF THE WILD FAWN, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOE AND ART. March 27, 1868. New Yerk, Friday, THA NIWsS. CONGRESS, Inthe Senate yesterday the veto message of the President was considered. Messrs, Hendricks and Johnson, and the democratic members generally, made speeches in opposition to the bill vetoed (the Sapreme Court bill), and it was finally passed over the veto by a vote of 32 to 9 A committee of con- ference was appointed on the Manufactures Ex- emption bill and the Senate adjourned. In the Honse the resolution regulating the tariff on the Pacific Railroad was the first business in order. The previous questiow, moved the day before by Mr. Price, was seconded on a motion to refer the resolution to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad. The rules forbidding members to vote on a matter in which they have @ personal interest were read, and the bill was so referred by a vote of 83 to 49, Under a call to reconsider another unim- portant matter connected with the Pacific Railroad, the two Washburns, from Wisconsin and Illinois, secured the privilege of explaining their position on the first bill, which they did at some length. The Reconstruction Committee reported back the bill to admit Alabama to representation. Debate ensued, and Mr. Farnsworth gave notice that he would move the previous question this afternoon. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday numerous bills of an un- important nature were ordered to a third reading. A bill was introduced by Mr. Creamer relative to steam boilers in New York. The Erie Railway Com- mittee were given until Thursday to prepare their report. Bills were passed relative to the storage of combustible material and for other purposes not of general interest. The bill relative to Hell Gate pilots ‘was recommitted. In the Assembly the Annual Appropriation bill was ordered to a third reading. A communication from the Judge of the Court of Appeals was received an- nouncing that the court was ready to act in the im- peachment of Robert C. Dorn. Two mere mana- gers were then appointed. Bills for the erection of wharves and piers in Harlem river, relative to Ferry- boats on the South and Hamilton ferries and the Canal De y bill were passed. A motion to consider the Arcade Underground Railway under a suspension of the rules was lost. EUROPE. The news report he Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, March 26. The House of Commons of England is being ac- tively petitioned in opposition to Mr. Gladstone's resolutions in the Irish Chlrch question, Captain Deasy, who was rescued from the police van in Man- chester during the Fenian riots, has been rearrested, ‘The Prussian government is said to have officially declared that Prince Napoleon's visit to Berlin had no “political object.” Italy has ordered a war ship to the Consols 4. Five-twenties, 72 a 72j in Lon- don and 7 ‘ankfort. Cotton closed with middiing uplands at 10% pence. Breadstuifs strong. Provisions quiet and steady. American produce dull. By the steamship China, at this port, we have in- teresting mail details of our cable despatches to the 14th of March, including @ report of the fierce assault made on Premier Disracli's political course and its tendency by the opposition peers in the English House of Lords, MISCELLANEOUS. Our spectal telegrams from Mexico are dated Maz- atlan, March 16. The revolution in Sinaloa is gaining . A forced loan was levied in Mazatian, but is Were disturbed, A rising in San Luis A federal regiment proclaimed for is reported. Juarez, but was immediately put down and some of the officers, it is said, were hanged. The State of Tamaulipas continues to expel foreigners, The British Consul at Vera Cru: ‘nies complicity in the smuggling operations of the Danube, Mrs. Burdell Cunningham, with @ clairvoyant physician, was at Mazatlan. In the Board of Councilmen yesterday messages ‘were received from the Mayor vetoing the resolu- tions to pave portions of Twenty-ninth and Ninth streets and Maiden lane with Nicolson pavement. In the Chamber of Commerce yesterday @ memorial to the Legisiature against railroad monopolies was adopted. Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr, has written a letter to Bishop Patten protesting against the late ecclesiastl- cal trial and admonition, and announcing that after Lent he will presenta review of the whole proceed- ings to the public and to the Bishop. The schooner Philander Armstrong was wrecked on the New Jersey coast, about twenty-five miles bo jow Barnegat, on Thursday the lth, Although within sight of the government i at house and Cape May Court House, the crew wei mpelied to remain aboard, assistance being impossible, all through the late gale, untii last Sunday, when they made their ‘Way ashore in the smail boat. General Buchanan has assumed command of the Fifth Military District. Fifty thousand doilars in one package was. quietly abstracted from the Canal Bank, New Orleans, during business hours yesterday, without a clue to the chief. The Virginia Convention has found some one will- ing to negotiate a loan for its use. The inquest inthe Fast Houston street homicide was continued yesterday. Testimony was adduced to show that Byrnes, the prisoner, had quarrelled with the deceased, and also, that the latter was in adjourned. Baltimore is jubilant over @ new steamship line to Bremen. A great snow storm in the neighborhood of Omaha has snowed up several Pacifie Railroad trains. Nicaragua has ratified the treaty with the United States. San Frdfhcisco capitalists have been granted the privilege of establishing a bank in the republic, with thé éXcluslve privilege of issuing paper money. ‘The sherry Wine case, so frequently reported tn our columns, was bfdught to ® conclusion, at least for the present, in the United States District Court yesterday, before Judge Blatchford. The jury, after having been nearly twenty-four hours in consultation, were discharged without agreeing to a verdict, six holding out forthe claimants, five forthe govern- ment and one juror being absent, owing to indispo- sition, The case of Hatch vs. The Rock Island, Chicago and Pacific Railway was up again yesterday before Judge Blatchford in the United States Circuit Court. Counsel on behalf of the plaintiff was heard in sup- Port of the motion for an injunction to compel the railway company to call in certain shares and re- strain them from executing a proposed line of road. The arguments have not concluded, Aaron Degrauw, a citizen of Jamaica, L. I., com- menced a suit against the National Fire Insurance Company in the Kings county Superior Court, Cir- cuit, yesterday, to recover insurance on his house and furniture destroyed by firesome time ago. Defence sets up the plea that the property was overrated in value and that the fire was caused through the pro- curement of plaintiff, Case still on. ‘The steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Leitch, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river, about one o’clock P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Liver- Pool, via Queenstown. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve o'clock 28th inst. ‘The National line steamship Erin, Captain Forbes, will sail from pier 47 North river at noon on Satur- day, 28th inst., for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The fine steamship General Grant, Captain Hil- dreth, of the Merchants’ line, will sail from pler 12 North river at three P, M. to-morrow (Saturday), for New Orleans direct, The steamship Huntsville, Captain Crowell, of the Black Star line, will leave pier 13 North river on Saturday, 28th inst., for Savannah, Ga.- The stock market was dull and variable yester- day. Government securities were steady. Gold closed at 13834. Movement in England for Telegraphic Com. munication with Eastern Asin and Ause tralia. There is a suspension in the impeachment trial, there is a lull in the Connecticut canvass, there is a flatness in the proceedings of Con- gress, there is a prevailing stagnation among the ring masters and party managers, cliques and coteries in reference to the Presidential canvass, which invite us for the passing morn- ing hour to the consideration of other subjects. So we are drawn to a few observations on an important movement in England looking to the vast commerce of the teeming nations of Eastern Asia, and of Australia and all those countless and fruitful islands of the Indian and Pacific oceans. Of this vast commerce our im- perial city of the Pacific, San Francisco, bravely aspires to become the commercial centre, as New York, in view of the early com- pletion of the Pacific Railroad, should aspire to become the commercial centre and settling house of both hemispheres. The British capitalists and merchants show they are alive to the importance of having tele- graphic communication with China, India and Australia. We learn by the Atlantic cable that an influential meeting was held on Tuesday af- ternoon at the Mansion House, London, over which the Lord Mayor presided, to urge for- ward such communication by means of sub- marine cables. It is stated, too, that the British government will be asked to assist this important enterprise. ‘To urge forward tele- graphic communication to India, China and Australia” is the expression. The trade of the East, and particularly of China, has been the aim of all great commercial nations, Every means has been resorted to, and some very questionable in point of justice or morality, to acquire and stimulate this trade. The arts of diplomacy and the thunder of cannon have been used, and there has always been the most intense rivalry for this great prize of commerce. In former times the English and Dutch were the principal competitors, and in the end the English succeeded in getting the lion’s share. But a mighty revolution is going onin China, Japan and the East generally, and in the commercial relations of that part of the world with other nations as well as with the English. Within the last few years the United States has loomed up as the foremost commercial nation in the North Pacific and with those populous countries bordering it. The fabvious growth of California, Oregon and our Territories on that ocean, the vast emigra- tion of Chinese to the gold fields there, the establishment of regular steam communication from San Francisco to China and Japan, and the rapid development of our republican em- pire and trade on and across the Pacific, are winning for us the prize for which all great commercial countries have been and ate con- tending. The British, always farsecing and on the alert where their influence and commercial advantages are rivalled or at stake, see the progress we are making, and, therefore, will do their utmost to check or get ahead of us. They are well aware that the magnetic telegraph is the most powerful agent in modern times for promoting and stimulating commerce. Hence this important movement at the great centre of British commerce and empire to con- nect China, India and Australia with England by telegraphic communication. They see, doubtless, that we are ina far more favorable position, geographically considered, as well as in other respects, to control the trade of China and Japan by means of the magnetic tele- graph and steamship lines, and, consequently, they are moving to get the start of us, This meeting at the Mansion House appointed a committee ‘‘to urge forward telegraphic com- munication.” The Burlingame mission, which shows in what a favorable manner the Chinese government regards the United States, has had its influence, probably, in stimulating this movement. Apropos of this mission, we may remark that it is gratifying to learn from the proceedings in Parliament that Mr. Burlingame will be received with due honor in England as the envoy of the Emperor of China, In spite of the petty jealousy of the British in China and of the silly: remonstrance of the French Minister there, Lord Stanley informed the House of Commons that the British govern- | ment would receive Mr. Burlingame as the envoy from China, and would be prepared to enter into negotiations with him. But what are we doing or what are we going to do ‘to urge forward” telegraphic communt- cation with China? Will our merchants and capitalists take the oue from those of London, and bring China and Japan within speaking distance of San Francisco and New York? An American company—the East India Telegraph Company—has already obtained the privilege of laying telegraph cables to connect the great commercial cities of China with each other, and itis understood that the same company has acquired or has every assurance that it will receive the further privileze of extendine telegraph iines to Pekin and other parts of the interior of the empire, This is an important step. The next will be to lay cables across the Pacific connecting America with China and Japan. A few years agoa cable was actually shipped to connect Russia in Asia with this continent, with a view.of carrying a line that way to Europe by way of the Amoor river, but the enterprise was abandoned when the Atlantic cable was successfully laid. But now there is another object, and, perhaps, a greater one, to connect the populous countries of Asia with America as well as with Europe by the way of Behring Straits or the Aleu- tian Islands. We have arrived at such perfec- tion in laying ocean cables that probably one’ might be laid direct to Japan and then to China under the broad Pacific, or, at least, by making a station or two on some of the islands found in that ocean. But a far more practicable plan and one easy of accomplishment would be to lay short cables by the way of Alaska, the Alaska peninsula, which stretches half way across the Pacific, and the Aleutian Islands. Here we should be on our own ter- ritory up to near Kamtchatka; and we may remark here that our Russian purchase is worth far more than we give for it for this object alone. By this line no cable over three or four hundred miles in length would be required, and every station might. be within a comparatively temperate climate. None, in fact, need be further north than fifty-five degrees of latitude. We regard it as easy or easier to make telegraphic communitation with Japan and China by this route than it was to connect Europe with America. Will our mer- chants and capitalists, will our rich telegraph companies, see the immense value of such an enterprise and carry it out at once? All com- munications to Europe from Asia, as well as the bulk of the trade, may be transacted through America if we be alive to our own interests and to the great movements of the age. But for ourselves alone, for our own trade only, itis of importance that we should be first in establishing direct telegraphic communication with Eastern Asia. In the language of the meeting at the Mansion House, London, we say, then, to our merchants and capitalists, ‘‘urge forward” this enterprise. Napoleon’s Keforms—The Right of Public Meeting. © It is well known that the French people under the empire have been grievously re- strained as to one of the rights most dear to a liberty loving people—viz., the right of holding public meetings. A knot of people assembled in an upper room ina private house or at the corner of a street are conspirators under the law, and liable at any moment to be dispersed by the police. The Emperor, however, seems ina reforming mood. A new press law has been passed; and now the French people are to be fayored with some modification of the law in regard to the right of public meeting. According to our latest news the bill had passed the Corps Législatif. Mean- while it is difficult to resist the conviction that Napoleon is really desirous to broaden the area of liberty. Napoleon has no natural aversion to liberty, but he is naturally enough deter- mined, before all things, to preserve his throne and to establish his dynasty. If the liberty of the people can be made compati- ble with his authority and with the permanence of his dynasty he has no real objection. The true explanation of the Emperor's reform move- ments is, therefore, to be found in the fact that he is feeling the pulse of the nation and striving to ascertain how far the free expression of sentiment can safely be tole- rated. We must wait to see how far this new law in regard to the right of public meeting is to be considered a real or only a seemingly liberal concession. It is rumored on good authority that Napoleon is anxious to govern by means of a responsible ministry. This, with universal suffrage, wonld certainly be the crowning of the edifice. Whether the edifice shall so be crowned will depend very much onthe French people themselves. Tae Torr—Tne Openinc or tHE Sza- son.—Notwithstanding the melancholy an- nouncement in yesterday's Heratp that the Passaic Agricultural Society is dead, and that the Paterson course, ‘‘with all the beauty of its grass-carpeted turf,” would be discontinued, thus sweeping from the turf the Jersey Derby and St. Leger races, it is gratifying to learn that racing is not dead in New Jersey, that the Hoboken course is being resuscitated, and that Colonel McDaniel has fully consummated plans for the distribution of five thousand dol- lars in prizes for a three days meeting, be- ginning on the 26th day of next May. A fort- night later there will be a meeting at Jerome Park and another in July. There will be meetings in August at Saratoga and Narra- ganset, and later still at Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis. What with these and the fall meeting at Jerome Park, the American turfmen will be kept busily interested throughout the coming season, which promises to be brilliantly inaugurated at the Hoboken course. It is probable that this year will witness more racing, and racing of a higher style, than has ever before been seen in America. Tre IMpgactMent Case at ALBANy.—In the impeachment of Canal Commissioner Dorn at Albany they are following the rules of pro- ceeding in the case at Washington. But while the eight articles of impeachment against Dorn cover allegations of “high crimes and mis- demeanors” positive and substantial, the ten articles against Johnson rest upon his removal of Stanton and his appointment of Thomas ad interim as Secretary of War, and upon two or three stump speeches. Dorn was a radical favorite and is taken up as a scapegoat, while Johnson, as an obstruction to the radical cor- ruptionists at Washington, must be removed. Dorn’s impeachment hardly attracts attention, screened as he is from the public eye by John- son; in truth, they are in this prosecution, under the circumstances, making a big man NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1868-TRIPLE ‘SHEET. A Historical Photograph. Brady has made an imperial photograph of the Impeachment Managers—Bingham, Bout- well, Logan, Butler, Wilson, Williams, and last, though not least, “Old Thad Stevens.” If he will add to this a photograph of the scene in the House of Representatives when Thad Stevens delivered hig last speech on impeach- Taent, the scene in the Senate when the Im- peachment Managers appeared at its bar and Thad Stevens eat his raw oysters, the scene when Chief Justice Chase took his seat as pre- siding officer of the impeachment trial, and the final scene when the verdict of the Senate as 4 court for the trial of the President of the United States shall be pronounced, Mr. Brady will have made a series of historical photographs of the highest interest and value. He might also add photographs of the President and his Cabi- net, with Stanton, of course, omitted, and with old General Thomas as a dummy in his place. If he were to add still another photograph of Stanton ‘alone in his glory” in the War Office the series would be complete, and Congress might be induced to make a special appropria- tion for buying it from Brady, distributing in- numerable copies throughout the length and breadth of the land, and devoting the proceeds, together with the accumulations of the con- science fund, to the payment of the national debt. Had Brady lived and photographed in the days of Charles the First or of Louis the Sixteenth he might have supplied the world with photo- graphs surpassing the famous pictures of Dela- roche and all other historical painters in fidelity and verisimilitude. The sun itself would have aided him to portray Cromwell as the Protector wished to be painted—just as he really looked— and all the stern regicides of the Rump Parlia- ment, who, in their impatience to compass their predetermined purpose, trampled upon all ob- stacles in order to take a single head, and of whom it has been well said, ‘‘Not only those parts of the constitution which the republicans wished to destroy, but those which they wished to retain and exalt, were déeply injured by these transactions.” Brady might have photo- graphed the scenes of the condemnation and the execution of Charles the First, and also Cromwell lifting the coffin lid of the murdered king. Or had Brady been a contemporary of that magnificent radical, Robespierre, the pro- totype of Thad Stevens, and that other auda- cious revolutionist, Danton, who wore more hair on his head and face than even Stanton wears, he might have photographed the terri- i in the convention, the leading forth of Marie Antoinette after sentence of death had been pronounced upon her, and the guillo- tining both of the Queen and of Louis the Six- teenth. If Brady has not to add to his Wash- ington photographs a scene of an execution by the broadaxe or by the guillotine, asa grand finale of the impeachment trial of the Presi- dent of the United States, it is simply because he happens to live in the nineteenth century and in this country, and not on account of any lack of malevolence on the part of the prose- cutors of the President. The City Post Office. Fifty-two plans for this building have been presented by the same number of architects, and it is stated as a remarkable fact that not one of the plans provided for a convenient mode of entrance and exit, which a person, not being an-architect or even a postmaster, would suppose to be a very essential point in the construction of a public building like a post office, which is a depot of constant entrance and departure—a mere highway through which the thoughts of the community in litera scripta have to pass from one part of the world to another. The amount of postal service which New York performs is well un- derstood. As the only port of departure for all the European mails, the business conducted here is very heavy, and it is very evident that the accommodations in the Nassau street build- ing are wholly inadequate, which may possibly account, in some measure, for the loose sys- tem generally complained of which now pre- vails in the Post Office Department. Perhaps ifthe Postmaster had more room he could do better, and it is to be hoped that he will. It appears that the clerks employed are so nume- rous that they obstruct each other in their work. If this. be so it is certainly not economy of labor to employ so many; but the remedy is to be found in hurrying up the new building. It will only cost three and a half millions, exclusive of the half million paid for the ground. This is a very comfortable sum to be absorbed by the contracting parties, and therefore we are not surprised that Congress has appointed a committee to investigate, or, in plainer words, to delay the construction of the new Post Office until the patronage passes into other hands. Meantime, the necessities for a more enlarged location for the Post Office are pressing. Evxouisn Cuvrow Rares.—Mr. Gladstone's Church Rates Abolition bill has passed the House of Commons. Will it pass the Lords? We cannot think that the Lords, unless they are absolutely blind to their own interests, will offer any serious opposition. It is, of course, a bill little to their liking ; but to refuse to pass it, they cannot fail to see, would be certain to force upon them more unpalatable measures, The struggle on this question between the Church party and the dissenters has been long and severe. The Liberation Society, of which Mr. Edward Miall, editor of the Nonconformist, has been the life and soul, gained a great tri- umph when Mr, Gladstone espoused their cause. If the Lords reject a measure of re- form #0 powerfully supported they will only precipitate the revolution which seems already inevitable, and which, come when it may, will be the humbling if not the ruin of their order. Jensny Crry aNd THR CAMDEN AND AMBOY Raitroap Comrany.—The Jersey City people are very much exercised at this time about the alleged encroachments of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company upon their rights in the streets and along the water frontage. It seems that the Legislature at Trenton has passed an act conceding additional powers to the already extraordinary privileges of this chronic monopoly, and the citizens protest, perhaps for a thousandth time, against another invasion of their natural prerogatives. It is somewhat astonishing that anything worth retaining has been thus far kept from the grasp of this overshadowing of Dorn, and so he ought to be thankful to | railroad influence ; and the citizens of the State Johnson, in a decent respect for the rights of their fellow. sufferers in Jersey City if they do not come to their relief in the present emergency. The Camden and Amboy tyranny has been endured for many years in New Jersey, and the ques- tion now is, shall it be endured forever ? Another Case of Your Bull and My Ox. In November, 1866, General George W. Morgan, a soldier who had served with distinc- tion during the rebellion, was nominated for Congress by the democrats of the Thirteenth district of Ohio. The result of the election was that he received two hundred and seventy- one more votes than did Mr. Columbus Delano, his radical opponent. The defeated candidate was not satisfied that a majority of the voters did not require his services; he smelt that tre- mendous rat—fraud—and he forthwith peti- tioned that ,highly loyal and patriotic junta called the House of Representatives to turn Morgan out and let him in. To speak plainer, he appeared before the House as a contestant of Morgan’s seat. Until Tuesday the radicals were too much engaged in tlle work of negro- izing the South to attend to the case; but on that day the Committee on Elections, “by a strict party vote,” decided that Morgan was- not elected, and that Delano was—the majority of this last named gentleman being set down at eighty-two. Such a hair-splitting majority shows at once how. diligently the radicals on the committee went to work to elect one of their own party. It is true they entirely ignored the fact that this iden- tical Thirteenth Congressional district of Ohio gave .a democratic majority of twenty-two hundred. at the gubernatorial election last year. But, after all, what differ- ence does this make? The radical majority in both houses are noted for the excellent man- ner in which they take care of their friends and punish their enemies. Delano is a radical ; Morgan is not; therefore Delano is entitled to the seat that Morgan was elected to fill. One Senator elect is not allowed to hold his office because at some time or another before the war he gave his son one hundred dollars, and that son afterwards entered the rebel army; some three or four representatives from Ken- tucky are rejected because before or during the rebellion they said something which, by a fearful stretch of the imagination, might be construed into meaning something, to say the most, very indefinite and vague. But then all of these men were democrats. Un- pardonable crime! Butler and Stokes, of Ten- nessee, who for a time supported the rebellion by word and deed, are both admitted, because they have repented and become radicals, What Roman firmness on the one hand! what sublime magnanimity on the other! General Morgan must go ; he must give place to Delano. We advise him never again to be elected by a small majority while the radicals are the ruling power in Congress; and we further tell him plainly that not even a brilliant war record can, in the judgment of our present national Legislature, warrant justice to a soldier who is anything else than a loyal and patriotic radical. Tue Exevarep Broapway Rartroap Scneme.—Mr. Beach on Wednesday last intro- duced in the Senate a bill authorizing the stockholders of the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway Company to organize into a corporation and proceed with the construction of the elevated railway between the Battery and the Park on both sides of Broadway. This scheme is to put a railroad on each side of Broadway, on anelevated iron bridge over the sidewalk, on a general level with the bottom of the second story windows—a scheme which, if carried into effect, would be simply the ruin of Broadway. Witf a railroad over their heads the foot passengers would be driven off, and the Broadway retail dealers below Canal street would have to retire, and those above, in order to save themselves, would have to make their principal entrances on Crosby or Mercer strect. All these under- ground and overground railway projects along Broadway are out of place. The community want this one street, at least, in the business section of the city free from railroads, over- ground or underground, or on the ground; and yet all these railroad combinations for the re- lief of this city settle upon Broadway. We sus- pect they will finally form a joint stock alliance for a Broadway surface railroad, and all parties concerned against this design should keep a sharp eye on the Albany lobby. CroMWELL AND THE Kincs.—There is some progress in British reform, for men have become bold enough in virtue of it to discuss Oliver Cromwell in the House of Commons, and to ask the government whether it would per- mit a statue of the Protector to be set up be- tween the two Charleses in Westminster Hall. Naturally the government did not give a very satisfactory answer. It may well make royalty a little nervous to contemplate the his- tory of Noll, as well as to hear people propose to glorify him in monuments, On this occasion the answer was that the statues that were being set up, and among which it was proposed to put Cromwell, were set up in pursuance of a report in Parliament recommending statues of the “‘sovereigns of the houses of Stuart and Brunswick,” and as Cromwell was of neither of those houses he could not go in. Parliament, therefore, will have to give Noll some central elevated position, looking down on all those boobies. He should be represented putting the keys ofthe Parliament House in his pocket just after his soldiers had turned out “the Rump;” and members might feel as queer to see such a figure put up in the new Parlia- ment House as Charles himself would feel to have Noll for his next neighbor. Tne Brit Exemprino MANUFACTURES FROM TAxaTION.—Althongh there is a large majority in both houses of Congress in favor of the general features of the bill exempting manu- factures from taxation, it still hangs between the two houses. Amendments are offered and accepted, first in one and then in the other, to suit certain classes or interests, making it, in fact, a sort of omnibus bill worked up and rounded off on bargain in order to push it through. But the New England manufacturers, as usual, have the lion's share of advantages. It is a bill in the interest of a section and a class, and one from which the people will de- rive no benefit, while it will seriously derange the national finances and credit of the govern- ment. The only amendment that ought to be passed isto strike out all after the enacting ‘1 generally will be wanting in common sense and | clause of the bill and abolish it at once. the so-called Reconstruction laws. cept in this ‘avowal the radicals did not attempt to argue or defend the merits of their cause. of Mr. Fessenden, they were prepared to vote and not to discuss; thus, when the roll was called, thirty-two men, the representatives of a political organization that claims to be the most consistent defenders of civil and personal’ liberty, deliberately voted away the most sacred right of an American citizen. forth, then, the military commanders in the South can imprison or hang any person who shall be convicted and sentenced to imprison- ment or death without the courts of his country having power to judge hiscase. We say hence- forth, because the bill is as certain to pass the House of Representatives as it is certain that it: has passed the Senate. that can be done to perpetuate their Power, our Senators have prostituted their high office and the dignity of the Senate by avowing that the sole object of the bill is to prevent the whites of the South from ever having a judi- cial decision on the constitutionality of Ex- To use the language: Hence- An UnoonstitutionaL Murper.—Wonder of wonders! It has been discovered im Mexico that the law under which Maximiliam was executed was unconstitutional, and ‘‘the: press as well as the judiciary” now, denounce it. If the law was unconstitutional, then it’ was not law, and the act was murder. is to be tried for it? That isa practical shape: for inquiry to take. Since it seems, then, that’ even in Mexico people may discover their great mistakes when it is too late to remedy them, who knows but it may yet prove that the removal of Mr. Johnson will have the same history, and the law be declared unconstitu- tional when the obnoxious President is out of the way? An InperenpeNT RepusitoaN ON THE IM- PEACHMENT.—The report which we published yesterday of the late speech at Cincinnati by General Cary, an independent republican mem- ber of Congress from that city, who voted in the House against the impeachment of Presi~ dent Johnson, is a speech which gives in a nutshell the whole game of the radicals in this‘ prosecution. The Tenure of Office law was’ the trap set to catch the unmanageable man of the White House, Stanton was the decoy, both houses were watching, and the President was’ bullied and badgered till they caught him.! The main object of all this business is not to vindicate the constitution and the laws, but to get ‘“‘Andy Johnson” out of the White House and “‘Old Ben Wade” in, so that the spoils and plunder under the control of the administration may be used for radical electioneering pur~ poses in the coming Presidential contest. This is the whole case as presented by General Cary to his constituents. He was the one in- dependent republican in the House of Repre- sentatives who voted against the impeachment, and in spite of an inside and an outside pres- sure which few men could have resisted; but he has truth and justice on his side, and when the time comes the people will sustain him. OPENING DAY IN BROOKLYN. The goodly but unpretending village that from its craggy and wondrous “Heights” frowns down with all the indignant hauteur of Puritanical con- tempt upon the gorgeous splendors of modest Gotham, not to be outdone in following the crazy whirls of fashion, yesterday held what its pious and charitable inhabitants were facetiously pleased te term “the spring opening.” Now, in the expressive vernacular of the West, this “settlement” may rejoice in the possession of vast proportions long drawn out; of nearly an equal number of drug stores and bon- bon stores; of a church to every square block, and a political parson to almost every church, and of a host of beautiful girls; but it certainly can- not brag of its “Opening Day.” It proved to be nothing more than a miserable burlesque, founded upon wares and materials imported for the purpose from New York, From the high tone and self-reliant air recently assumed by the mantua- makers and milliners of this “City of Churches” we were led toexpect a most magnificent dispiay of original and unique novelties in the way of dresses, bonnets and cloaks; hut woe are we to have been thus miserably disappointed! The opening, how- ever, was characterized by a harmonious and friend! feeling, and a unanimity that reflects the highest credit upon all concerned, The modistes and mil- liners over in that lively town deserve some praise for being so remarkably early this year, But Wednes- day last did the Empire City spread Itself in the spread- ing outof ribbons, of laces, of flowers and of bonnets; and on the very next day (Thursday) Brooklyn, be it stated to her glory and renown—for she needs something of that sort—followed suit with her ‘bi, show.” Marvellous advancement in so short a time For be it known that last season her caterers of fash- ion were eight days V@hind their sisters of Manhattan in these very matters. Perchance another year will find them leading the advance. But this is a “for- lorn hope ;”’ for in that case, where would they pro- cure their “styles?” It is a well known fact that the American women are sadly behind the in fash- fonable m&tters—that is, as far as originality ts con. cerned. They never invent a “style” of their owns they but imitate or copy. Our modistes import a few bonnets and dresses every season from Europe, and these serve as models to bred from; but we must do them the justice to say that some littie im- provement is sometimes noticeable, here and there, in the shape and in the trimming. Then, twice in every year New York holds “openings,” which at~ tract to the great metropolis myriads of pretty milli- ners and dressmakers from the provincial towns to procure or pilfer the latest ideas in colors, cuts and styles; and it is but fair to presume that upon these interesting occasions Brooklyn, too, sends her en- voys over the turbulent stream for the same de- lectable purpose. If New York, instead of inven’ fashions of her own, chooses rather to pilfer frot the European modes, and if the whole of bi Continent in turn next pilfers from the ae New York, what is to interfere with the pious City of Churches also taking a hand in this edifying little game? In view of these facts we are of opinion that there the oat of @ chance of Brooklyn taking the lead im fashionable matters, and more especially in ‘‘Open- ing Day.” Our modistes and milliners may rest per- fectiv contented upon that point, for there is no pos- sibility whatever of such a prodigious event ever occurring. The day was all that could be desired, and the strects and shops were thronged from early morni until the shades of night had fallen upon our riv: on the “Heights,” with beautiful women all eager to sge the sights and latest styles. Many @ purse was opencd and lightened of its plethoric burden of “greenbacks,” and many @ lovely bonnet was ordered home for summer wear. All of feminine Brooklyn was apparently out for a holiday, and the stiles that they wif showered upon one another in passing betokened that they were enjoying: the sensation of the rare festival with a degree of un- alloyed pleasure and complacent satisfaction which might have been, however, only @ veil to hide their chagrin at having found nothing new after waiting one whole day. is scarcely e styles and materials were pre= cisely the same as th Xhibited in New York on Wednesday, wiih an occasional trifling difference in the mode of trimaming, which, we must admit, was scuetiines a decided improvement and sometimes vice versa. Having already fully deseribed in the HeRALD everything pertaining to the latest sprin, fashions, and as our neighbor over the river coul furnish us with nothing new in this line to tell our readers, nothing of interest, of course, can be ex- ted to be sid of the modes over there. In a Brooklyn Point of view, howéver, the “opening’* may Le regarded as @ grand success. Who .