The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1868-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HE RALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business “4 news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. wong a8 THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. ‘The EUROPEAN Epirion, every Wednesday, at Six Osnrs per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to Volume XXXII = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. y,-StoNRT RING—WaToH “BOWERY THEATRE, Ey eIKG TACK. mam AND His Dous— session, when it occurred that the bills were passed 80 late they had to be engrossed from the original hieroglyphies by guess work. In the Canadian Parliament yesterday Sir John A. McDonald stated that the government had under consideration the matter of the new customs regu- lations of the United States prejudicial to the Cana- dian fishing interests, The Indian Commission now at Omaha expect to leave immediately for the North Platte, where they wiil meet Spotted Tail and other chiefs who did not sign the treaty last fall, but who will now probably shree to the terms proposed. | ment, without engrossing, as was done at the last | | things of the past, The newly elected Legislature of Arkansas met and organized at Little Rock yesterday. It is still unde- cided whether the constitution 1s ratified, both par- ties claiming a victory and the military having the i returns in their own hands. Colonel Grenfelat, the ex-Confederate Englishman, who haS been imprisoned at the Dry Tortugas for conspiring to burn Chicago during the war, has escaped from prison and is now at large. The Lower Mississippi is steadily rising. A cre- vasse ia threatened on the west bank, by which the wide sugar planting country known aq Acadia, in Louisiana, will be inundated. The political contest in Georgia is becoming ex- cited, The friends of Irwin (the independent candi- date) and Buliock (the republican candidate) for -No. 93 | Governor are working hard. Linton Stephens and General John B, Gordon addressed the democracy of Richmond county on Thursday night, advising the people to vote against the Reconstruction constitu- tion, . The examination of the Galveston, Texas, ware- jpRoapway THEATRE, Broatway—Jor. Matinee at | nouse frauds on tobacco shows fifty-eight thousand ite New York Hotel.— wEW FORE THEATRE cu FoR GOOD NATURE- BOLL IN 4 Cutna Suor— FRENCH THEATRE.~ “La Be.Lk HELENE, OLYMPIC THEATRE, “Broa way. —Hunrry Doumpry. Matinee at 1's. eee NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Waite Fawn. Matinee at 1. 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Advertisers should bear in mind. that, in order to tnsure the proper classtfication of their business announcements, all advertisements for insertion in the HERALD should be left at the counting room by half-past eight o'clock P. M. “IMPEACHMENT ‘The High Court assembled aa usual at noon yester- day. But few spectators were in the galleries and only about a dozen meinvers of the House of Repre- sentatives attended. 5 The rule proposed by Mr. Drake on Thursday was amended so that the yeas and nays cannot be de- manded by the presiding oMcer, and thus adopted. Tmker, the telegrapher; J. B. Sheridan, J. 3. Cle- phane and F. H. Smith, phonographic reporters, and Colonel Moore, the President's Secretary, were severally examined in relation to the speech made by ,the President in the Executive Mansion in- August, 1366. The reporters testified that the speech as published was altered from the literal copy which they made in short hand, and that the reports produced in court were not exactly cor- rect ones, Col. Moore testified that he altered the speech considgrably before it was sent to the press. At this point a motion waa made to adjourn until Monday, but it was lost, A Cleveland editor was then placed upon the stand, who testified to making an acourate report in long hand of the President's speech in Cleveland during his Chicago tour. He also read from a memorandum an account of the interruptions by the crowd and the replies of the President to their hisses. Objection was made to the admission of this testimony and that of other reporters of the same specch, The objection was sastained by the Chief Justice but overruled by the Court by a vote of 35 toll. The testimony was there- fore admitted and the Court adjourned. In the Senate a motion was made to admit porter of the Associated Press to the privileges of the floor during the impeachment trial. Mr, Ferry violently opposed it, charging that the Associated Press agents syste tibelled the radicals in their reports. I ussion on the motion the Senate adjourned. In the House of Representatives a report as to the plans, cost and material of the New York Post Office ‘waa presented, The repori makes several objections to the plans, claiming that the size of the building wit! be larger than there is any prospective need for, that the veatilation will be defective and there will ve an excessive nse of iron, No other business of, interest was transacted, THE LEGISLATURE. Ta the Senate yesterday bilis lng the act relative to frauds local improvements in New York, and others of a character wot of general inter- eat, were passed, The Heli Gate Pilot bill was re- ported back for the consideration of the Senate. Bills ‘were introduced for the establishment of a line of coaches through Central Park; to reduce theemi- | ‘grant head money at Castle Garden, and to constt- tute the Comptroller, Corporation Counsel and Re- ‘corder of New York a board to confirm assessment lists instead of the Common Council, { Inthe Assembly the bill for a railroad in Thirty- fourth street was referred to the Committee of the Whole. A motion was made to authorize Mr. Glea to employ counse! tn perfecting his charges of cor- ruption against members of the House, but numer- ‘ous objections were made, and the motion was lost. ‘Mr. Glen thereupon asked leave of absence for one ‘week on account of ii] health, which was granted. ‘The Annual Appropfiation bill was passed. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday, April 3, There is a heavy overfiow of specie from the Bank PRE April 4, of France. ‘The division in the English Honse of | term of power at Washington. Oommons on the Gladstone ‘resolutions’ on the Irish Church question was anxiously looked for in London at midnight. Consols, 93 a 93. eat pe in Frankfort. Gotton very active, with middling uplands at 128 hax pence, Breadstuifs duli and irregulsr. Provi- ‘Stons firm and buoyant. Produce without marked Five-twenties, 12% in London ‘etteration, t MISCELLANEOUS. : We have further reports by the Atlanttc cable from seat of war in Paraguay. The redoubt at Humat- had been stormed and taken by the allies. During Combat the Braailian Meet steamed past and hed Asuncion, the capital, which was found de- ‘ted by troops and citizens, seven hundred and nine pounds credited, over one- half of which is missing. Two negrocs were hanged at Tarborough, N. C., yesterday, for the murder of a white man named Cutchen, in August, 1866. They both met death bravely, protesting their innocence to the last. A very large crowd of negroes witnessed their execu- tion, and, with the exception of a slight attempt to break through the guards, no disturbance occurred. Miss Weaver, the alleged boarding house swindler, was yesterday arraigned before Justice Dowling, charged with stealing some $15,000 worth of goods, and, on a full examination of the charges preferred against her by many witnesses, was fully committed in default of bail, to await the action of the Grand Jury. The General Transatlantic Company’s steamship Europe, Captain Rossau, will leave pier 50 North river at two P. M. to-day for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at the Post Office at 12 M, The Hamburg American Packet Company’s steam- ship Borussia, Captain Franzen, will leave Hoboken attwo P, M. to-day as an extra steamer for Hamburg via Southampton. ‘The Merchants’ line steamship United States, Cap- tain G, L. Norton, will be despatched at three P. M. to-lay for New Orleans direct, from pier No, 12 North river, The stock market was irregular and lower yester- day. Govyernmeat tae were strong. Gold closed at 133% a 138% ‘The Presidential Gontest—The Reconstruc- tion of the Democracy, Is there a ghost of a chance for the demo- cratic party against General Grant in the ap- proaching Presidential contest? From present appearances there is not. The republicans, under the banner of! Grant, are cohesive, because they are confident of success. The democrats evidently feel that he cannot be beaten. This prevailing impression is naturally operating to attract the floating materials of the country to the republican camp, and especially so when the adverse party is not only without a field mar- shal but at a loss where to look for one equal to the emergency. Tammany Hall, for instance, KNOWS “thet «vtec: Feuateton, nor Seymour, nor Fillmore, nor Buchanan, nor poor Pierce, nor'even McClellan, will do to set up against Grant; and yet the Tammany Suchems can find nothing better to do than to keep swing- ing around this circle while waiting upon the chapter of accidents till the Fourth of July. They have whistled poor Andy Johnson down the wind, disregardful of the last bequest of the lamented John Van Buren; they have turned the cold shoulder npon General Han- cock; they have given the go-by to General Sherman; Mr. Seward is too old, Grandfather Welles is played out, antl it is useless tq talk of Chief Justice Chase. In this extremity we are reminded of Mr. Fillmore's opinion that old Francis P. Blair is the greatest man that ever lived; but, alas! he is older than Seward. Francis P. Blair, Jr., however, is in the prime of life, and is a man of talents, a scholar, a good lawyer, a first rate stump speaker, an experi- enced politician, and has a fine record as a Union soldier against the rebellion. But here comes in a growl from the Albany Regency— “Say no more of those Blairs. Our kitchen is too small to hold them.” What, then, are we to do? The democratic organ of Messrs. Bel- mont and Barlow has been spreading broad- cast over the land the Fenian capital and ersdit foncier of George Francis Train; but outside of this island, and even inside, the de- mocracy cannot understand it. Train, in fact, will not answer. Suppose, then, the demo- erats put up, say three Presidential candi- dates—one in the East, one in the West and one in the South. How would that plan work ? Pretty much, we fear, as the same plan worked when tried by the whigs in 1832 against Gene- ral Jackson, and in 1836 against Van Buren, It would operate rather to weaken and divide than to strengthen and unite the party. Are the republicans, then, under the flag of Grant, to be permitted to walk over the Presidential course? Perhaps 80; but we hope not. We believe that a decided majority of the American people, from Long Island to the Pacific Ocean, are opposed to the general policy, schemes and tendencies of radicalism, and if the opposition elements were placed under a new organization, with a new set of books, new leaders, a new departure and a popular Presidential champion, identified with the Union side in the late war, we believe that the present complexion of things would be wonderfully changed within a month, and that before November the radicals would be taxed to their utmost efforts to secure another four years’ With Andrew Johnson's removal, on or about the Ist of May, and with the transfer of ‘Old Ben" to the White House, there will be a grand rush for a new division of the spoils, and a new impulse to radical enthusiasm thereby. This must not be overlooked; for there are many hungry ones who, like the warhorse of Job, “‘snuff the battle afar off” and shout “ha, ha!” John- son disposed of, Jeff Davis will, perhaps, on his new indictment, be next brought to trial, for electioneering purposes, iffor no other ; for thus, in reproducing the events and the managers of the rebellion, Davis, with the » Peter Cooper, of the Citizens’ Association, has ritten @ letter to Senator Crowley, Chairman of the | Atate Senate Committee on Municipal Affairs, urging ‘him to have the city and county tax levies reported Ammediately in the Assembly, in order that they may ‘be discussed at length and amended as may seem pecessary, aud not hurried through wt the last mo- postponement of the judgment in his case, will electioneering thunder—there is but one course left to the democracy if they would escape a complete rout, ‘‘horse, foot and dragoons,” next fall. That course is to let the ‘dead bury the dead,” to let the old democratic party | and its dead issues and bad record of the war go where they belong, @mong the and strike for a new organization, a new policy and a new ticket. All this may be accomplished in the nomina- | tion of Admiral Farragut as the united opposi- tion candidate against General Grant as the radical candidate. Thus the moral forces of the war, now all on the republican side, will be neutralized in being divided between the two parties; for the victories of- Farragut on tae water were equal to those of Grant gn the land. , Of course, under the broad pennant | of Farragut, the democratic narrow gauge of 1856 and the so-called ‘‘ time-honored prind- ples of the democracy” will have to be dropped, and a broad gauge suited to the year of our Lord 1868 will have to be adopted. This can be done in a Pronunciamento recognizing the absolute abolition of slavery throughout the United States, of equal civil rights to all races, and a qualified negro suffrage and a universal amnesty in reference to the late rebellion. Sachems of the democracy, what say you to this? You know that in 1862 we put you fairly on your feet in putting Horatio Seymour, with the aid of John Van Buren, on the war- path. You know that once more, in 1867, we brought you round again on the right track; and the advice we give you now is sound and good. We know it~is. Yes, gentlemen, if Mr. August Belmont, who has the power, will call his National Democratic Committee to- gether, and call for a national convention, on a short notice, with a view to the proclamation of the conservative Union candidate and plat- form we have indicated—Admiral Farragut, universal liberty, equal civil rights, a qualified negro suffrage, a universal amnesty, low taxes and a sliding scale for the national debt—we undertake to say that Mr. Belmont will become as distinguished in the reconstruction of parties and of the government itself in the United States, in the nineteenth century, as the great Disraeli of the same glorious race has become in the reconstruction of the British empire. The Timpoachment a Failure. Benjamin Franklin’s idea of impeachment was a quaintly honest one, Knowing to what extent the tendency to clamor against authority might go, and tlfat the accusations of political opponents are groundless as a rule, he urged in the convention that framed the constitution an argument in favor of impeachment drawn from that knowledge. Others favored im- peachment as a means of asserting the supre- macy of the law—as a means of punishing treason—punishing the abuse of power—pun- ishing ambitious assumptions. In the general view impeachment. was always o punishment. Franklin favored it as a means of exploding unfounded charges against the Executive—as the true way in which the President might put before the nation the exposition of the motives that bad governed him in cases where his acts had been misunderstood or misrepresented—as the means of proving his honesty. Franklin urged impeachment that the President might have “the opportunity of vindicating his char- acter,” and that there might be a national inquest for ‘‘his honorable acquittal where he should be unjustly accused.” é The impeachment trial wonderfully sustains prosaic Old Ben’s view of this great national process, There is no punishment in the case at all; it is all vindication, For months the President has been held up by bitter political opponents as the most atrocious criminal ; and it has been vehemently declared that the safety of the government depended upon his removal. So persistent, so positive, so extravagant have been the declarations against him of the radical party, that had there never been an impeachment trial it would never have been possible to quite efface from the mind of the people all that has been said ; the impression would have gone down to posterity thal in view of such denunciation there must really have been grave acts of offi- cial misconduct in the President's career. But impeachment has brought the accusers into court; it has given them the chance to pose their charges formally and produce evidence. They have now nearly concluded their labors; and with what result? One more obvious than all others—the vindication of the President. They have done their utmost and {ind them- selves utterly unable to prove anything to his prejudice—unable to show any reason why he should be displaced, why he has not been a good and faithful servant of the people. Impeachment has absolutely no case at all. Its allegations were pitiful enough, and it cannot even prove those. All the evidence of guilt it has produced to this hour reacts against it and proves the contrary to what it desires, But- ler's effort to prove a conspiracy has made it as clear as sunlight that there was no conspi- racy, and that wonderful impeacher was him- self ashamed of the evidence he had brought and tried to cover his shame with a laugh. But exactly in proportion as the radicals find themselves unable to carry impeachment by evidence and the forms of justice, so they become more energetic in their attempts to carry it by bullying and outrage, Old Ste- vens’ threat againgt any Senator who would “dare” to vote against impeachment seemed at the time it was made to awaken the Senate to some sentiment of the position in which it was thereby put before the country, There was some appearance that the repulsion of that old virago’s domineering might stimulate the court to an honest discharge of its duty; and we may hope that the last effort to influ- ence a verdict on matters beyond the record may have a similar result.’ We have it said that “General Grant finds it not inconsistent with his duty as a soldier to announce it as bis opinion that the only hope for the peace of the country is the suecess of the pending im ment trial.” Thus it is held there is “pF room for doubt as to the duty of the Senate.” Of course the allegation in regard to Grant is an invention. He never said such a thing and never used words that could be fairly construed | to such a shape. But we see here the whole | radical plea and plan. The radical cry to the | Senate is, if you cannot convict the President | on the evidence, convict him anyhow; con- lain tt aetaiadl Gladstone and Disraeli Playing at Revolu- | Pale, in the name of the Holy Ghost, with | have fallen into a state of somnolency from Bibles, bayonets and bullets, and set forth | which the gong of judgment day is necessary The cause of Fksoeecea ae monarchy in heretofore as the anointed precursor of the to arouse them, But here is a chance fora . tion. England is likely to be impaired and endan- | gered through the jealous rivalries of ambi-— tious political extremist leaders, just as has been | the cause of democratic self-government in the American republic by means of the factious | cabals and fanaticaMvehemence of a set of public | corruptionists who affect to speak and act for | the country. The steedy advance of the British péople towards a full enjoyment of the elective franchise at the ballot box is working a com- plete disintegration in the organization and tactics of the old parliamentary parties, the leaders of which have managed to prevail | | in the Cabinet and Legislature of England with a moderately equitable alternation of the en- joyment of the profits of place since the year 1800, the period of the Irish union. In antici- pation of the new and vast power which ‘the enfranchised masses will wield at the first general election under the Reform bill, and in the hope of seizing and controlling its force, the party managers in the present House of Commons have almost obliterated the broad and well defined lines of High Church, tory, conservative, and liberal whig, which have hitherto prevailed, by hurriedly ranning for- ward and backward from one bench to the other, and seeking, in caucus, and secret party council, to devise some new watchword which will captivate the p@blic taste, indicate still further changes in the plan of government, overshadow the banner of John Bright, and thus inaugurate an era of British political radi- calism in which the existing institutions of the United Kingdom will, one after the other, be held up to innovation by revolutionary amend- ment, the principles and nature of which will be get forth in the electiongering agitation cries of aspiring candidates for the Premier- ship. The great English vote conceded to the people by the Reform bill will be battled for with the same avidity as that displayed by the Ameri- can politicians in their pursuit of the control of the great negro vote accorded by the sword of the Union in the war ; and it appears, judging from our cable reports of the debates which have just taken place on the Church question in the House of Commons, as if the fight will be conducted with all that personal acrimony and reckless disregard both of citizen pro- fession and consequences which have dis- tinguished the party leaders in Congress since the completion of the peace conquered by our soldiers under Grant and Sherman and Han- cock, and our sailors under Farragute Moved by an unhealthy anxiety for place, we have seen the Amcrican radicals, under Thad Stevens, assail the Executive of the nation’ and the conservative party of Fessenden, Sherman and the rest, with almost equal ferocity; while in the very utter de- moralization of political incongruity and de- basement we have also seen the course of the radicals sustained by the votes of the disappointed copperheads who follow Mr. Brooks. Broken as a party by the result of the war, the American copperheads prefer to affiliate with the disorganizing fanatics who now seek to ruin the country, instead of strengthening the hands of the conservatives by the exercise of a compact minority vote which would go far to save it, i As it is heré so is It likely to be in Eng- land. Since the retirement of Lord Derby and the sudden elevation of Mr. Benja- min Disraeli to the Premiership, the party leaders have commenced to toy with revo- lution, With his personal ambition grati- fied to the very fullest extent, the Israelite Minister endeavors to feel his ground and steady himself for’ a retention of power by means of a new party and the crea- tion of new party issues. He has sur- veyed the whole field, and regards it as favora- ble for his future party operations. He sees on one side many institutions hitherto regarded as venerable and on which the Crown resfs more or less directly for support, and on the other a powerful leverage in the new voters, capable of working their modification or overthrow, according toitsapplication. Place, patronage, emolument and a still deeper niche in history are to be had and secured by the exefcise of political science in either direction ; and hence, with the aid of the votes which he has been able to detach from the old téty and more modern conservative parties, Disrae¥ assumes to become both the architect and chief workman in the designing ang formation of perhaps a new temple of liberty in England. Mr. Glad- stone, the leader of the opposition, a man of great intellectual force, a valuable Minister, and with a powerful following of lib- erals and liberal conservatives, cannot en- dure his personal disappointment in behold- ing Disraeli at the head of the Cabinet. Ilis patriotism does not diffuse warmth suffi- cient to render the cold benches of the opposi- tion comfortable ; so, instead of coming forward and reconstructing his party with the aid of the more progressive of the modern aristocracy and solid liberals from the agricultural shires, he commits himself to a course of factious opposition to Disraeli, and seeks to embarrass his opponent by the adoption of a system of Parliamentary tactics which enables him to bid for votes here, there and anywhere, but permits him at the same time to avoid com- mitting himself to a positive policy by active legislation on any particular subject should he suaceed in obtaining place. ° British radicalism is courted and toyed with by both parties. The Puseyism of Oxford and the ritualism of its disciples are held out asa present bait to the Irish ultramontanists and Cardinal Cullen, in the hope of obtaining about eighty Irish votes, to be cast in solid phalanx in the Commons as the Catholic clergy of the sister island may indicate after the next general election. John Bright plays with and magnifies Fenianism and tenders the hand. of the trade unionist of England for feiondly grasp of that of the small farmer and peasant voter of Ireland. Disraeli compliments Bright and endeavors to render him acceptable to the descendants of the Conqueror by vague hints about a worse revo- lution from ‘back of a hedge” and alluding to some “future Robespierre.” The Irish branch of the Protestant Episcopal Church—than which no other institution of England has been serve as “‘a good ¢hough Morgan till after the vict him because General Grant thinks you , more tenderly fostered or more violently de- election,” and then he may go scot free, All these things considered—the popularity of Grant, the removal of Johnson, the exalta- tion of Wade and the trial of Jeff Davis for ought to. General Grant's opinions are of more account than te evidence, therefore | when you know what he thinks there can be \ “no room for doubt as to your duty,” fended during three hundred years—is held out to the people by all parties as the first objective point of political assault for change. ' gioned in Ireland from the first days of the Mis- | Crown in that country, the English party men | just now pronounce that Church a failure, and | its ‘“disendowment” and ‘‘disestablishment” | are spoken of as.a consequence at a moment when it numbers a million of communicants. \ Ignoring the fact that a royal commission is preparing to report to the Queen, from | sworn testimony, the exact condition and | position of the Church in Ireland, Mr. Gladstone *preases forward a series of resolutions in the House of Commons seeking for its immediate separation from the State ‘by legislative enact- ment. Mr. Gladstone wishes to tumble the edifice down, but presents no plan of substitute, nor does he even promise to elaborate his. reso- lutions into itive shape, shonid he succeed | in ousting Disraeli and obtaining the first | place in a newcabinet. Timid, yet honest, | members are confused and affrighted, and the baronial aristocrats are forced to draw themselves into closer phalanx, and thus iso- late themselves more completely from the advancing masses. Earl Russell refused to attend Mr. Gladstone's caucus at Carlton Gar- dens, in which it was arranged to spring the Irish Church resolutions suddenly on the House, and Earl Russell is blamed for-this by those who. do not see that his lordship— who once preached the ‘‘finality of re- form”—would by his attendance approve a principle of church ‘‘disestablishment” in Ire- land which might end in restoring to the State, for secular purposes, the territorial founda- tions of the House of Bedford, the Abbeys of Woburn and Tavistock, despoiled in the main from the ecclesiastical foundations of another sect. And so it will likely be. The Irish Church will most likely be sacrificed for party votes. The Church in England will be attacked next, in order to obtain the votes of the Dissenters and Quakers, and, asa natural sequence, the law of entail and first estate in land will follow in order to gratify the wishes of the working classes or ‘‘men of no property.” Viewing all this from an American standpoint and in a country of religious quality and com- plete toleration of sect, we cannot but rejoice that the people of Great Britain are becoming areal power in the State, although we regret to see that their sudden advent to the franchise reveals such 94 bitter and unscrupulous conduct on the part of their public leaders, All this, however, must and, will be remedied by the people themselves, as will our political troubles. Disraeli hints at a Robespierre and Gladstone intimates a day of no religion, just as Ben Butler is quoting precedents to sustain the im- peachment of President Johnson from the mar- ried life of Henry the Eighth, each seeking to }+ mystify and intimidate and thus gain and hold place. Robespierre and Henry the Eighth were powerful personages, each in his day and according to his opportunity. M. Thiers, who has studied the history of the French party leader attentively, illustrates its close by his illustration, ‘‘ The Last Cart to the Guillotine ;” while of the unscrupntous violence and pas- sion of Mr. Butler's British ruler England is reaping the bitter fruits at this very: hour in tone | | of the day. | | cheap trip to the Land of Notions, of which it is likely more than one who is not sound om the nigger question will avail himeelf. Hot for Connecticut. A Singular Political Biography. The story of General Grant's early life, the romance and reality of his boyish days, writ- ten by his father and published in Bonner’s Ledger, is one of the most original and sug- gestive contributions to the political literature It is a matter of some moment to know what Ulysses S. Grant, the leader of armies, the hero of the Appomattox apple tree, the dumb politician who will not gratify the curiosity of either friend or foe, was in his bib and tucker days, and that more advanced period of his young career when he broke horses, reduced almost untamable steeds to discipline and did a good deal of circus bus{- ness; for example, riding on a mule with a monkey on his back. All these interesting points are touched upon by the elder Grant in a genial and paternal fashion. As an addition to contemporary literature this biography is quite equal to Queen Victoria’s book about her Highland journeys, and in the category of nursery tales holds about the same prominent pesition, The book of the Queen of England minutely describes her travels up the moun- tains- and down the glens of Scotland, with pretty descriptions of the scenery; tells how amiable her “dear Albert” was, and how she imparted lessons of morality and good breed- ing to young Vic, so that she might adorn the Prussian court, and curbed occasionally the somewhat unbalanced temper of ‘‘Bertie,” the Prince of Wales, and praised the fidelity of her favorite attendant; John Brown. All this is {mmensely interesting, refreshing and ‘curious, The work, in fact, is not excelled as a nursery tale by the story of “Cinderella,” “Goody Two Shoes” or “Jack and the Bean Stalk.” Old Father Grant has launched him- self in the same boat. He goes elaborately into the details of his son’s early life, gives us pictorial views of his circus feats, his pluck and courage in the ancient Greek virtue as a “‘tamer of horses,” and lays particular stress upon the exercise of his indomitable will in loading wagons under difficulties. All this presents 4. fine lesson for the boys of our day. I¢ will teach them how coolness and courage can lead to a generalship and a prospective Presidency. There ought to be a new edition of Father Grant’s story published immediately, with copious illustrations, not forgetting, as the most prominent of them all, that of Grant, junior, riding on a mule witha monkey on his back. Such an illustration, although retro- spective, would be quite apt to-day; for is not Grant riding a mule, the animal sometimes represented by Andy Johnson and sometimes by Thad Stevens and the radical party? Bué whichever animal he rides he always carries a monkey on his back in the shape of the poli- ticians. What effect this literary contribution may have on public opinion or howit may be used by the Bohemians and other men of genius we know not. We know, however, what was the Gladstone resolutions and the ‘ audacity” and ‘‘zigzag” course of a Premier who is almost a stranger in the land on account of his exceedingly ancient lineage, direct from Abraham, Virtue Versus Corruption at Albany. Now and then virtue enters the lists in the Albany Legislature and makes a tilt at corrup- tion; but, like the mock fights in a circus tournament, nobody is ever hurt. The latest ; conflict of this kind is the indignant exposure by Mr. Glenn of the assault on his virtue by a five hundred dollar battery. Mr. Glenn de- nounced the reptiles who offered him only five hundred dollars for his vote on the Erie Rnil- road bill, and further bitterly declared the fact that other members had been tempted with an offer of twelve hundred. Mr. Glenn: has dis- covered the remarkable fact, which, of course, nobody dreamed of before, that the committees of the Legislature are “‘bought.” Upon this con- viction the honorable member proclaims himself “ashamed” to be called a component part of the Assembly. The lobby agonts of the rail- roads ought to be only ashamed of them- selves for not being more liberal in their esti- mate of the value of votes. Only five hundred dollars! A Tombs shyster can command more than this from a pickpocket. Albany virtue is grossly insulted. There is a maiden blush upon its cheek, and if this kind of thing Gon- tinues every member of the Legislature will share in Mr. Glenn's humiliation at being ranked as an Albany legislator. nop Narvranizep Crizexsmp. —In the Hera of yesterday we printed the leading speeches of the debate which took place in the House of Commons on the 20th of March. The debate was unquestionably able, presenting in this re- spect a striking contrast to the blundering and useless waste of words which we are compelled to tolerate in our House of Representatives, The question at issue, however, is one in which we have little interest. It is their affair, not ours. The question has long since been settled, so far as we are concerned. The war of 1812 arose out of this same question and was ended, leaving the question as it was simply because we had not then strength enough to make our opinions integral parts of international law. We have been silent since then, but the pro- gress of events has been entirely in our favor. We have said little in the interval, but Europe has, nevertheless, come round to our views, North Germany has concluded a treaty to our mind and England cannot but follow. France must follow England, The truth is, the Euro- pean nations now know that they cannot resist the great republic of the West. Our opinions are respected because we can now enforce our demands. foe He A New War or Buyine Vores—Ho! ror Conxgoriour.—The Radical Executive Com- mittee of this city have, throngh the editorial columns of their leading organ, offered to pay the passage both ways of any poor Connecticut radical voter who will go hence to vote on Mon- day. This is a cheap and anovel way of buying votes, and one likely to prove more profitable than the ‘cranberry plantation” dodge adopted ! by the radicals to get democratic voters out | of that State on election day. Whichever way the State may go on Monday one thing is cer- tain—the radicals have left no stone unturned, no election machinery unused or unoiled to carry the day; while the democrats seem to” Sunday Liquor jaw. |W. Morgan, the well known or; the effect of General Scott's speeches about the sweet Irish brogue and the delightful Ger- man accent, the delicate allusions to ag which shall be unmentionable, and the hasty plate of soup, the fire in the rear and all the other well-timed yet ill-timed allusions of that disappointed poitician; but we cannot conceiva what the effect may be of this paternal biogra- phy on the fortunes of General Grant. Rartroap Joss In THE LEGISLATURE.—The raflroad legislation going on in Albany is a curious mixture of stupidity and knévery. As an example take the Arcade Railroad, as it is called—the most ridiculous scheme ever pro- posed, if it really was intended to carry it out at all. But the bill is nothing more than a blind to cover up other railroad enterprises which it is hoped may be carried through during the fuss made about the Arcade pro- ject. The Surface Railroad and the Fifth Ave- nue road are the real things aimed at. In the hope of carrying these profitable lobby jobs through the cunning plot has been designed to make a great noise about the Arcade subterra; nean concern, which the jobbers have no In- tention of establishing. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, We are happy to state that Dr. Carnochan has en- tirely recovered from his recent severe tliness— resulting from a poisonous dissection wound. Madame Dora d'Istria, who was already a member of the Athens Archwological Society and of the Geo- graphical Society of France, has just been elected & member of the Athenwum of Venice. POST SEDGWICK, BAR The above association or conmeand held a cele- bration last night at Steinway Hall, in commemora- tion of the evacuation of Richmond by the Confeder- ate forces. Miss Clara Barton, a young woman of @ self-denying disposition, who nas distinguished her- self in connection with the Army of the ac, both in-the field and in the trenches, during the war, and who, it is reson, has on more than one occa- sion mounted the breach with the forlorn hope, delivered a lecture upon army Iife and army inct- dents, containing some tnt and exeit reminiscences of her campaign aye mi . the amusement of the ya a Yonwneery on the organ. Mr. W. H. Pope, of Wallack’s Yt oy a most excellent recitation of * Barbara Frietchie,"’ im which his reading was mach commended. iy prayer was read by Comrade 8. B. Willts, ae Q tattoo dy the Second Regiment Drum Corpa closed the enter- ment. ‘The Legislature of British Columbia yeaterday se- leeted Victoria as the seat of government. Weston, the pedestrian, left Walnut Creek, Pa., ten miles west of Erie, at five o'clock yestentay afternoon for Buffalo, on his walk of one hundred miles in twenty-four hours. -He passed Erle at 6:56 ina heavy snow storm. Agang of burglars effected an entrance Into the First National Bank, at Port Jervis, N. Y., last night, but notice was instantly given of the fact through the ae of an ingentous telegraphic arrangement between @ Dank anid the residence of the President tye wien ee pe, of A. J. fre ye Eker a Tra Pf ture. ‘The loss ls between pn ants bees eptgesetai ima hte coe house at Buffalo was shown yg for the time time this seagon. The Af — will be open for navigation on ber seraean a ey tara match Secatory (oth yn a ai vi econ! tae an Poster and Maverite, Was Dayed in Montreal yesterday and resulted in favor of Dion. ‘There was nothing of importance done in the Missisatppi Convention yesterday. Fast day in Maine April 9. A fire at Wadsboro, N. O., on Thuraday, destroyod "Neenal House, Jail aud seven atoroa. The Legislature of Penpaylyania haa repeated the ry