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6 ' NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The aéat ‘Trial. thelr attention to this important subject, in | Zerman and others bave been banished, and » BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ‘The Inman line defence before the Impeachment Court yester- | be less of this indiscriminate slaughter on the | man eighty years of age on his departure. In day. He stated his case plainly and ably, and, | public highways. The directors of every rail- | view of these persecutions of “foreigners,” and TRLRGRAPHTG NEWS. for Liverpool via Queenstown. ‘The mails for Europe will close at the | as we are informed, made a decided impression | road and steamboat company, as well as their | of the anxiety betrayed by the Mexican gov- CUBA. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, q) Post omceattweiveM. © te? upon his hearers, The absence of all bom- | employés, should be held personally respon- | ernment to suppress the truth relative to the SEGAL TELEGAAM Tp THE tea PROPRIETOR. The steamship Britannia, Captain Laird, of the | bastic and sensational language was marked; | sible for culpable neglect of the necessary pre- | actual condition of Mexico, the rose-colored ene OE MMe. Anchor line, will leave pler No, 20 North river at oon to-day for Liverpool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers. 4 ‘The Cromwell line steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vaill, will sati from pler No, 6 North river at three o’clock P. M. to-day for New Orleans direct. , Woe Case of the British Ida ©. : Havana, 10, 1868, ‘The British brig Ida ©., which was detained at Cienfuegos on occount of some of her hands having been implicated in a robbery, has been released. She sailed on the 6th inst. ‘The culprite will probably be sent to the chain gang. : : All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore "HERALD. Letters and aaiiess should be properly and in this respect the difference between the | cautions against disaster. When a grand jury | descriptions of President Juarez, in an address opening of the defence and that of the prosecu- | deals with them as murderers are dealt with | to the members of Congress on the 2d inst., tion was qyite conspicuous. Mr. Curtis claimed io eal bam vary Sette of wtct nn Cle Lake with all his compliments to the country and his for his client the right and power of making igan disaster. flattering accounts of the state of the treasury, removals, and quoted the constitution and laws although réproduced in the samé glowing Guano im Politice—The Baroam Age of| to sustain his postion. Referring to tho | Semt# American A@aire~Dir, Obanler’s Ree} colors by the obairman, and reported as 2 ‘tealed. Politicians Departing. charge of conspiracy between the President ation: making everybody look jubilant on the occa- ABYSSINIA. * The reign of humbug politicians in this coun- try is drawing to its close. Whichever of the great parties attains the ascendant distin- guished and earnest men mustbe at the head and control affairs. Whether the radicals suc- ceed in completely revolutionizing the govern- ment and establishing an oligarchy, with Grant asits figurehead, or the democrats regain power, with Farragut or some such man as their chief, and restore in some measure the old constitu- tional government, the rule of political Barnums will soon be over. The war, with its terrible realities and consequences, the magnitude of the republic and governmental system, the vastness of the national debt and . financial operations, the wonderful developments of the age and the mighty future of the republic, are enlarging the ideas gf the people and evoking great earnestness in public men. We may still see corruption and extravagance and feel the despotism of a political oligarchy, but there will be a largeness and earnestness in everything. The little tricks of small politi- cians, which heretofore bave been effective in controlling legislation, the administration of government and parties, are well nigh played ont. The vocation of State barbers is gone. That celebrated State barber to Louis the Eleventh of France, Oliver Le Dain, was the prototype of our Thurlow Weeds, The French monarch, affecting a great deal of piety and honesty, humbugged his ministers, the Parlia- ment and the public, and was only confidential _ Rejected communications will not be re- and General Thomas, he said he would prove | Mr. Chanler, of New York, introduced in | sion, ‘will not wash,” we fear. by the latter that there was no conspiring | the national House of Representatives the other between them, The charge of attempting to | day 4 resolution (which was referred to the Done in Very Bad Taste. seduce General Emory from his obedience to | Committee on Foreign Affairs) declaring “that An officer of the United States army, who the laws Mr. Curtis claimed was disproved by | It is the duty of the government to take prompt received his .appointment and commission the testimony of that officer. Mr. Butler's | 0d vigorous measures to reconcile the nations:| from the Executive, and who is serving article charging the President with having | of South America now at war,” and requesting | 904 drawing pay under his commander-in- used undignified and disrespectful language is | the President to ‘appoint a special commission chief in the person of that Executive, ought well combated, Mr. Curtis claiming the right | to Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay for | to be moderate in his public orations when the of freedom of speech and of opinion, and de- | that purpose,” and that he ‘‘inform the House | #ctions and motives of his superior officer are claring with much sarcasm and appropriateness | of what efforts he may have already made to canvassed by him. At least, a proper sense of that Congress had resolved itself ‘‘into a | reconcile the parties tothe war now raging decorum, one would suppose, might suggest to school of manners.” between those countries,” which we consider a | & military officer the propriety of abstaining The first witness called by the defence was | Very good and appropriate resolution. The | from denunelation of the Commander-in-Chief |. General Thomas, whose testimony quickly | South American republics are in a bad way. of the army and navy of the United States in a demolished the charge of conspiracy. He was | When not engaged in fighting each other they, Political meeting. No such idea of the pro- not even aware that the President intended to | each foritself, are always over head and ears in | Prieties of military life appears to have occur- appoint him Secretary of War ad interim | theirrevolutionary plots and fighting factions at red. to. General Sickles when He made his until the 18th of February; and when, three | home. They have thus become so far weak- | speech at the Cooper Tstitute on Thursday days after, he received a note from Mr. John- | ened and demoralized that, while on the one | evening, in which he indirectly charged the Presi- son’s private secretary desiring him to call at | hand they are open, on the slightest pretext, to dent with a design to corrupt and misuse the the Executive mansion, he was ignorant of the | European aggressions, they are, on the other, | army, and dared him to carry it out. The object of the summons. The President never | liable to absorption by piecemeal into the great President is on his trial before his enemios ordered him to use force ; indeed, when, after | overshadowing empire of Brazil. on certain charges of misdemeanor, but among his arrest he called upon Mr. Johnson and} We have nocomplaintto make against the these charges there is not one which informed him of the measure taken by Mr. | Brazilians. The present Emperor, Dom Pedro, implies the guilt suggested in such very Stanton, that gentleman replied, ‘Very well, | has shown himself a wise and progressive ruler. bad taste by General Sickles—that that is just where I want it—in court.” Here, | His measures looking to the development of | Mr. Johnson has ‘‘run against that rock then, is the great conspiracy. Mr. Johnson | the illimitable commercial resources of the | upon which Grant and Sherman and Sheri- conspired with General Thomas to have the | mighty Amazon, and to the abolition of African dan and Thomas stand ;” nor has there been constitutionality of a law tested before the | slavery, and his liberal inducements to settlers |'®0Y evidence produced that the President is courts. Terrible offence! Unpardonable | from other countries in his dominions, as | * Usurper, “appealing to the army to second crime! It almost disgusts us to pursue this | well as his efforts to establish the | any effort he may make to subvert the institu- e King Theodorus in His Works at Magdaia— General Ngpier in Siege—The British Ready to Storm the Defences. ge / Lonpon, April 10, 1868, The War Office is in receipt of later despatches from the British expedition in Africa operating for the relief of the English captives. General Napier, the commander of the British forces, had reached latitude 21. ‘Sa The Abyssinian King Theodorus was at Magdala ready forasiege. His force consisted of about five thousand effective men. He had also twenty-six large guns. General Napler had already completed his plans for a general assault on the works. CANADA. SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE HERALD. Horrible Tragedy at St. Eustache*Attempt te Rob and Murder a Traveller—Frightful Dis- closures. Volume XXXIHI...... tees tenes serereee-NO, 102 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, FRENCH THEATRE.—Matinee at 1—Granp Dvcarss. OLYMPIC THEA’ = f. Matioce oie TRE, Broadway.—Homery Domrry. NIBLO'S G. — - x ey ‘ARDEN, *Broadway.—Taz Waite M9 WALLACK'S aS OMALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. (BOWERY 1) — DorceMan— Dt 7 DEBATE, Bowery.—FLYING “BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—OUR AMERICAN Cousin at Home—THE Toopixs. Matinee at 14. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—GYMNASTIOS, “BQueermianism, &o. Matinee at 29. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLET, FARCE, 4&0. Matinee at 235. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SonG Ecornraiorries, &0,—GkaNd DuTow “8.” Matinee at ‘ie ‘“ Monrreat, April 10, 1868. An awful tragedy has occurred at St. Eustache. A man named Lebau and his wife, who were in the habit of robbing and murdering wayfarers and travellers who stopped at thelr house, attacked a traveller, the man with an axe and the wife with a razor. The traveller knocked down his assailant, and the wife, mistaking her husband for him, cut his. throat, She has been arrested and has confessed al of the past horrible transactions, Three skeletons were found in the house. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, §85 Broadway.—ErH10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bow: Vooarism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c, Matinee STADT THEATRE.—GRaND RECEPTION. Comic DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Matinee at 1— ‘MB. GEO. VANDENHOFF’S READINGS. IRVING HALL, Irving place.—SorgBe OF CHAMBER Musio. ius . BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Gsanp DucuEss OF GRBOLSTELN, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— CoLUMBUS—Davip CorPERFIRLD, HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn,—ETmi0riAaNn ‘MINSTEELSEY—BuRLEsS Cinous. Arrest of Fenian Sympathizers—Promineat Citizens Implicated. MONTREAL, April 10, 1368, O, J. Devlin and F. B. McNamee, prominent citt- zens who were known to be connected with Fenian Ba, pein 86 Bro. —PANORAMA OF THE Wak. | to the man who shaved him and aided him in subject. most friendly relations with the United tions of the country.” It is not in evidence | sympathizers, were arrested to-day. 3 ara his trickery. In the same manner such lead- _—_—_—_— States, all him to bi f pili- | that the managers of the farce being played | 8 already telegraphed to the HERALD, corre- NEW YO! USEU = % prove him e & man of rare al iB ¥ Sea te peo REMRORTs SIP Broedwas, ing politicians as Seward and others have used The Crisis in England. ties for his position, It is évident, however, | 8t Washington share in the fears expressed idem rene: in Ottawa implicates several promt: the Thurlow Weeds to mislead the people and to carry out their public measures or private jobs, our political barbers, however, partici- pating in the results'with their patrons. They have had their bogus mermaids, gorillas and woolly horses; but the age of these Barnum politicians is over. The last destruction of the museum of humbugs in this city by fire is coincident with the fall of political charlatanry, just as the last destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem was the end of the Jewish nation and system of government. One of the last tricks of the old political dynasty which has come to light, judging from appearances, is concerning the so-called guano island of Alta Vela, on the coast of St. Do- mingo. It appears from the published letter of Judge Black, which app®ared in the Heratp Mr. Disraeli, as chief of the Cabinet of Great | that the imperial valleys of the Amazon and | by the speaker on thia occasion, There is not Britain, has given to the world two solemn | other rivers, covering an area nearly as large | ® particlé of testimony anywhere, so far as assurances—one written, the other oral—as | as the United States, are not enough for this | made known to the public, to show that the spoken in his place in Parliamont, to the effect | aspiring monarch. As Russia keeps her eyes President contemplates any resistance to the that England is just now experiencing a politi- upon Constantinople, so Brazil is aiming at the judgment which may be pronounced by the cal crisis, the issue of which is likely to prove | Rio de la Plata, its great tributaries and its Court of Impeachment, or, above all, to use dangerous to the cause of civil and religious | important commercial city of Buenos Ayres. | the army for that purpose. If General Sickles liberty and civilization and menacing to the | The little republic of Paraguay blocks the way; | knows of any such intention he ought to be Queen's authority. The Premier conveyed the | put with that impediment removed all the rest | More explicit in his statements, and should general assertion ina letter addressed to the | will goon follow. All South America, then, not confine the dire secret to the repository Earl of Dartmouth—published in the HERALD | gouth of the Orinoco valley and east of the of his own bosom, nor limit himself to insinua- yesterday morning—written just previous to | narrow strip of land and sand which is cut | tions at. a public meeting. This would un- the great debate on the Irish Church question | of py the Andes, will be embraced in the | doubtedly be the duty of so loyal and brave an in the House of Commons. During the pro- | empire of Brazil. This absorption, we believe, | Officer as General Sickles has proved. himself gress of the debate he closed his speech in | oan be prevented only by the friendly-interpo- | 0 be. If the charges implied in his speech defence of the position of the government by | gition of the United States with all the repitb- | 8¢ the Cooper Institute are not substantiated stating that a ‘“‘powerful party” was operating | jics concerned, in view of the union among | We fear that they will be regarded as mere to the peril of the Crown, and designated the | themselyes against monarchical aggressions, | buncombe. THE LAKE MICHIGAN DISASTER. Farther List of Passengere—Another Man Saved—He is Washed Ashore on a Dise mantled Wheelhouse—Additional Particue lars of the Casualty. MILWAvgEE, Wis., April 10, 1868. The following persons embarked in the steamer Sea Btrd from Manitowle:—George W. Emerie, Jos, D. Doncett, Charles Roacher, Henry Pfeifer, Jamea - H. Hodges, clerk; Frederick Henim, Frederick Hen- ning, Captain N, F. Nelson, Captain John Sovvensen, James Lykom, cashier; Legro Wenzel-Havlichck, Albert Meiva, R. H. Hunt, William Barton, P. 0. Donnolly and Fritz Klummer, of Chicago. Atso the following deck hands:—John Foncks, A. Wilde, Henry Nieman, Amos Meyer, Frederick Flosbach. James H. Leonard, of Manitowle, who was a pas- senger on the Sea Bird, saved himself by clinging to the wheelhouse,-and was washed ashore near Evans- ton, Ill, about two o'clock this morning. TRIPLE SHEET. New Paci Saturday, April 11, barcsies NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers should bear in mind that, in order to insure the proper classification of their business announcements, all advegtisements for insertion in the HERALD should be left at the counting room by half-past eight o’clock P. M. THES NSWS. IMPEACHMENT. Judge Curtis concluded his opening speech for the flefence yesterday and the hearing of testimony in dehalf of the President commenced. Adjutant Gen- tral Lorenzo Thomas was first called. recently, and from other revelations, that Mr. | party as made up of ‘‘Papists and ritualists.” | whether from Euro) i ia - pe or Brazil. We believe Finding it too hot to stay on the boat, and realizing . peaches or oceltal prepa i eedalgnat Seward has been playing a questionable game | We can scarcely go behind the word of the | that Mr. Seward some time ago was engaged THE McGEE ASSASSINATION. the fact that her destruction was inevitable, he interview with Mr. Stanton when he demanded pos- in the matter, adroitly ousting one set of | Prime Minister, pledged to his peers, as to the | in « movement for a convention of the sort, in SPECIAL TELEGRAMS TO THE HERALD. alate hig sie nytt dos orn tession of the War Office. From the lattet it appears | American claimants to put another in, We | condition of the kingdam, the governmental | view of a South American alliance against | gxpioded Rumore—Strong Evidence Agatust | climbed ona piece of the paddie box floating near; she two hostile claimants were as genial as boon | have not yet ascertained if his barber, T. W., | affairs of which he administers, and must European coalitions and the prevention of the Prisoner Whelan. he clung to this and drifted with the waves to’ the tompanions in their conversation, and even | is interested, but, looking at the antecedents of | therefore say that if the political condition of | domestic revolutions in the several States con- Orrawa, April 10, 1868. | Southwest landing, three miles north of Evanston, went so far, at Stanton’s request, as to take & drink together. He was proceeding to rive testimony relative to his conversation with the President after serving his order upon Mr. Stanton, but Mr. Butler objected, and a jong argument ensued as to the admissibility of the evidence. It was finally decied admissabie by a vote of forty-two to ten. The galleries of the Senate Chamber were only about one-third filled. General Sherman had a seat on the floor. In the House of Representatives no business of any Upportance was transacted, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday numerous bills not of gen- eral interest were passed. The veto of the Governor on the Whitehall and Plattsburg Railroad bill was sustained by a vote of 11 to 16. A conference com- mittee was appointed on the bill abolis#mg the (anal Contracting Board. The bills repealing the act authorizing an experimental railway; for te sale of market property and relative to assessments on real estate, were reported adversely and the reporta were agreed to. Bills extending Lexington avenue; for for the better reguiation of the Brooklyn Fire De- partment, and authorizing a telegraph cable to France, were reported favorably. A committee was appointed to investigate the reports of alleged bribery and corruption in the Erie railroad matter and the “Senate adjourned, i In the Assembly bills were reported for the estab- lishment of a line of coaches in the Park, to in- corporate the Highland Suspension Bridge Company and to prohibit the establishment of any quarantine buildings on Staten Island. The committee to inves- tigate charges made against Mr. Frear by Mr. Glen made a report to the effect that Mr, Glen refased to between seven and eight o'clock last night, after having been upon a fragment of the wreck twelve hours, drenched to the skin, his clothing frozen and himself more dead than alive, after his perilous ride of not far from fifteen miles. Mr. Leonard saw about twenty passengers jump into the water; some swam around for some time and others seemed to sink almost immediately; he saw no women jump overboard and did not see ang ‘women in the water; he believes that there were about ten women on board, all of whom must have perished in the fames. An attempt was made to launch the steamer’s boat, but the rapidity with which the flames spread rendered it impossible t) accomplish that object. ‘The sea was not very high and tlie boats could have easily weathered it if they could have been launched, From the best evidence which Captain Goodrich, of the Sea Bird, has been able: to obtain, no effort was made to stop the engine until circumstances prevented its further motion. The result was that the helm, having been put a-port, the boat began to describe a circle of nearly a mile in diameter. The belief of those who ought to know 1s that, had the progress of the steamer been stopped at the frst alarm the boats might have been“gotten out and all on board saved. The steamboat inspector of this district has de- cided to issue an order to engineers of all steamers on the lake and their assistants to stop their engines a on the instant ofa fire alarm, without waiting orders from their superior officers, and not to start ageim without an order, delivered personally by the chicf omer. . Statement of J. H. Leonard, Another Sure viveor, Curcaao, April 10, 1868, both and their relationship with each other, that seems probable. It has beon often ro marked that great events sometimes flow from small causes, and it would be remarkable if the conviction and removal of President Jobn- son, now on trial of impeachment, should be the consequence of this Alta Vela quarrel. The learned Judge Black was one of the Presi- dent's counsel, and he might, possibly, by his great ability, have saved the President ; but he quarrelled with Seward and Johnson‘on this guano business and abandoned his client. So we see that, after all, guano may have an im- portant bearing on the result of the impeach- ment trial. But the people will ask what all this fuss ‘and this long letter of Judge Black mean. They will imagine, doubtless, that from Mr. Seward’s-adroit scheming and Judge Black's noise about Alta Vela there must be mines of wealth in the guano deposits of that island. The truth is, it all looks like an advertising dodge to induce the people to believe in the virtue of this so-called guano and the simple farmers to-purchase it. There was a great fuss made about Aves Island, another guano island in the Caribbean, some few years ago, which had the effect of advertising the stock of the company and of selling the guano for atime. The history of that affair is laughable. Aves Island was claimed by an Great Britain has assumed a complexion 80 | cerned; and this idea ought to be carried out. ‘The McGee tragedy has as yet assumed no new closely resembling that which prevailed in | 4 confederation of the South American repub- Tome tiie ate mies pid & ay, s pce ony 1678—when the great “‘plot” was revealed by | tics may save each and all of them and put | exploded two rumors concerning the murderer. The Titus Oates—the crisis is really serious. them on the road to peace and prosperity; and | first was that he must have driven off into the coun- We must, however, recollect that Mr. Dis- | in this view, when the impeachment isdis- | ‘TY, 98 9 carrlage was heard passing near Sparks raeli is just now before the British le bid- street about the time of the assassination. The de- ding for a retention of office as suse Mr. Posed of, we hope that some action will be | tective found out that a carriage did pass in the J «| recommended by the House Committee on | girection indicated, but that it arrived at its destina- Gladstone, and can therefore make allowance Foreign Affairs on the basis of Mr. Chanler’s | tion—some thirty attics, vd—about a quarter past for a considerable amount of official exaggera- | resolution. two that night, and could not, therefore, tion, used, perhaps, for effect in obtaining votes Te aia oe have contained the murderer or his accomplices, as among the ‘members from the rural districts of Southern Murdors=Who Commit Them? the murder did .not take place till about that hour. England—gentlemen who do not generally Whenever any radical firebrand, loyal eoNnk aeaetes ase des, eectatae =i eargis sympathize with the poor old Pope or his leaguer or negro is killed or hurt in the suspicious way. The detectives followed up this particular system. The resort to such a parlia- South the radical press and orators of the | ciue and ascertained that such a man did leave the mentary weapon is in itself dangerous, and the | North make a terrible noise about it. They | city on foot, but that he knew the murder had hap- only excuse which can be given for it is that | Ting the changes and howl day after day about | pened, and stated so openly of his arrival at Aylmer, $ some nine miles out. That there were many accom- the people of England are advancing so rapidly | Febel outrages, rebel hatred and rebel mur- plices in the plot there 1s now no doubt, and the to acomplete management of their own afuirs | derers, but we never hear anything from them | gxpectation of the authorities is that some of them that the old party leaders are compelled to get | Concerning the murdered Southern whites and | will give such a clue as will lead to full conviction. up certain “cries” at intervals to aid their black outrages. The radical papers are full | Whelan is the man at whom all the evidence con- attempts to retain place and power. The | of sensation accounts and denunciations of the Gime Revooaying ti arent Saute bee great English “crisis” spoken of by Disraeli | murder of Ashburn, in Georgia, but they say | yoarg past he has openly avowed Fenian sentiments may, therefore, be set down as the ‘“‘crisis” nothing about the white one-armed ex-Con- | ana hatred to McGee in Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, of his Cabinet. The politicians of England, | federate soldier who was shot dead on his | and ataprior period in Hamilton, Ontario. In the like the extreme party leaders in Washington, | horse recently near Selma, Alabama, or of the pcr i ont Poh wes ahagd Fe ad his e Ridgeway fig! ing from Buffalo, gave ou! are commencing to class their own personal | other four white men who have been mur- | ‘10/h¢‘was a Fenian and ased such sentiments that interests as those of the Commonwealth and | dered in the same vicinity since the war and | tne authorities there thought tt necessary to arrest speak for the country—a mistake and assump- | 20 one arrested for these murders. No, we | and detain him several days. Whelan’s wife and tion which the people on both sides of the | hear nothing from these radicals of the numer- | some others were arrested in Montreal yesterday and 1 ted here to-day, but have not as yet made Atlantic will correct and rebuke almost | ous other murders of the conquered Southern | Were expec immediately. whites and outrages on them in other localities | ‘Me! SpPearance. ‘The authorities, I may state, are atill very confident that in holding Whelan they have t es Se ne Ghia a rie et aan a American company—the Philadelphia Guano iC Rte UE of the South, because there is every reason | tnoright man, but at the same time other clues are Juanes. Leonard,’ tie Gite nas varss ep Fae ees a cea nai i tecmaehs tee The Lake - Michigan Disaster—A Suamefal believe this is the work of the black loyal | being diligently followed the Glenster to the. sheamee 600 Sit: Ee 2 eer adopted, and a resolution was immediately offered | Company—and at the same time by the govern- to jeve ie we ick loy: ing diligently iP. ment, of which the following is the substance:— directing that Mr. Glen be censured by the Speaker, which was agreed to by a vote of sixty-one to forty- six. On motion of Mr. Frear the censure was post- poned for the present. A bill was Introduced for the laying out of a certain portion of New York city above Fifty-seventn street. Several bilis of an unim- portant character were passed. MISCELLANEOUS, Despatches from Abyssinia report that Ktpy 'Theo- dorus was still entrenched at Magdala and defended by twenty-one heavy guns. General Napier had advanced near the position, and the British troops were held ready for a general assault on the works, We have letters from Panama dated April 1; Lima, March 22 and Valparaiso, March 10. A hot dispute had arisen in Colombia between the Church and the State on the subject of chugch property. There was another revolution on the Isthmus, dnd agreat fire in Aspinwall had occurred, involving a loss of $208,000, General Santo Gutierrez was elected President of Colombia. Prado’s party, in Peru, was gaining ground. Reports from the Powder river country state that the Indians in that section refuse to make a treaty ‘until every white man leaves the disputed territory. Case. : leaguers. Ata public procession and meeting | yi.5, yneGee and the St. Patrick’s Soclety= The recklessness and utter disregard for hu- | of negroes at Macon, Georgia, on March 30, Prisoners Turning Qucen’s Evidence=Whee man life evinced by our public corporations | the “loyal blacks” carried a banner on which | lan’s Guile. received a startling illustration on Thursday | the figure of a negro, cut in pasteboard, hung Mrs, MoGee refused to patonn ren procs cops morning by the destruction of the steamer Sea | dangling from a gallows, and to which was | gojence from the St. Patrick's Soclety, as she thinks Bird by fire on Lake Michigan. The accounts | attached, ona piece of white paper, the fol- | it primarily responsible for her husband's murder. of this terrible disaster state that the fire origi- | lowing inscription:—‘‘Every man that don’t jam chet hag Lagat rg peosiepatag nated ina heap of combustible freight, which | vote a radical ticket this is the way we want OsSapon “4 was piled in the thost Fi manter under | to do him—hang him by the neck.” ‘These | “sively Sy a ee the ladies’ cabin. A porter, it seems, threw | radical loyal league negroes boldly pro- ; out a quantity of live coals and ashes to wind- | claimed, too, that the negro who failed to ieee noe: ward near this dangerous material, and it is | register should receive thirty-nine lashes; if | Important Disclosures Reported to Have supposed that some of the sparks were carried | he failed to vote at the election, two hundred Oreawa, Can ae; Agee is a00ts back by the wind and settled in the straw | lashes, and if he voted the democratic ticket | — 1¢ ig stin ramored that important disclosures have which was thrown about the deck. Then the | he should be hanged. Need we be surprised, | been made by one of the arrested parties as td the passengers and crew became completely de- | then, that white Southerners are murdered in | ssassination of the Hon. T, D'Arcy MoGeo, but moralized, and no effort was made to lower the | every part of the South and that the murderers pte troy hang vy Le aagplpr sis, hooy ae small boats. Some of the ladies and children | are not arrested? The Northern friends of fives une Tp oft this mot and there is are supposed to have been burnt to death be- | these black barbarians pretend not to know peeled tobe made today. as to the disclosures ex- fore they could escape from their staterooms, | anything about their murderous doings. At is | | Public meetings to ox; armpit he ay It is estimated that nearly one hundred lives | clear that the South under radical rule is fast | of the victim g held in aitferent parts of the ment of Venezuela. It appears that Venezuela owns a small island of that name among the Leeward group, which run parallel with its coast along the Caribbean Sea. Supposing this was the island meant when the noise about guano first reached the government, o vessel was sent to oust the American intruders; but this was a mistake: the real Aves Island on which the guano was said to be found was one of the Windward Islands, and far away from Venezuela, But Venezuela was in for the guano any way, and, though it had no claim to the island from proximity to its terri- tory, actually claimed it by discovery and througlt the sovereign right of first possession. It served the purpose of advertising the stuff there called guano fora time. It is the same now with Alta Vela, And here let us say a word about this so-dalled guano. It is nothing like the guano found along the coast and islands of Peru. It is not the manure or At about seven o'clock yester morning I went up on deck and conversed with the first mate of the steamor in regard to the distance to Chicago; learned that it was about twenty miles; then went tomy wife's stateroom, and soon afterwards heard the alarm of fire; went out to ascertain the cause a found the boat on fire and the flames bursting ou! near the stern, and close to the stateroom I had just left; I immediately rushed in to rescue my wife, but was prevented bead flames, which cut of communt- cation with the stateroom; did not see or hear of my wife after I left the stateroon when the alarm wea Vv ' . Leonard with the statement of Mr. Chamberlain in —— description of the catas- ioe Gare nbs oka a ra on board; a large wi kee, much larger, he thiaks, than the number that embarked at that port. THE INDIANS. Return of Goneral Sheridan to Omaha—The Powder River Indians Refuse to Treat— Movements of the Peace Commissioners. Sr. Louis, April 10, 1868. General Sheridan returned to Omaha from Black Hills yesterday, and leaves for Leavenworth, Kansas, to-day. : ‘The reports are that the Indians in the Powder week. We have mati advices from Jamaica and Havana. | deposit of birds, ‘The heavy rains of the Carib- | Were lost. Such a frightful sacrifice of human | tending to anarchy and to ® worse condition Pronere if @ sfowing conv tion in the public mind | river country refase to treat with the Commissioners ‘The news has been anticipated. In Cuba two negroes | ban and the Windw: a “i life may, therefore, be attributed to the want ! than St. Domingo was ever in. that the prisoner Whelan “area the foal ‘shot, and | until every white man leaves the disputed territory. claim thelr freedom on the plea that they are work. ‘ard Islands wash away all that there were a number of persons concerned in | Meanwhile those who will not leave will be driven ing in a copper mine which belongs to England, and | that excrement of birds which has been accumu- | Of system or proper Precautions against disas- | , the plot. oat away and killed. a ne as that country prohibits slavery they are free. The | lating for ages on the Peruvian islands, In | tet on this steamer. We have had too much Latest from Mexico. hs ‘wensad Basviske bo Seinen pang pence, Commisstoners left Cheyenne to-day The Indians ran of thirty head of stock from Plame creek, seventeen miles roma Sidney, yesterday. _—— ILLINOIS. epee Terrible Casualty in Chicago—Panic i- a Cathedral=The Galleries Fall—Three We men Killed and Several Persons Injured. Cxicaco, April 10, 1868, ‘A fatal accident occurred to-night at St. Mary's cathedrat, The cathedral was densely packed, the ocoasion being the Good Friday services, when an alarm of-fire was raised, which created a panio in the chi and a rush was made for ~ during which & tion of the galleries fell. ree. sons, all females, were instantly killed and sev- Brat others were sevetely injured, two of whom will probabiy die. New York, Conference of the Metho- au Bpicopal Church {a holding ita annual session no ‘hamton, Bishop Calvin Kingsley presiding « Nearly 100 miniaters are in attendance, Delegates General Conference were elected yésterday. Higher Dm George Fook Noloh Pauick and case is in the courta, Two men in an open boat have been picked up, and it ts thought that they are de- serters from some of the prisons in Florida, It will be remembered in this connection that St, Leger Grenfell recently escaped, with some soldiers, from the Dry Tortugas. Colored people are being arrested in Cuba for practising witchcraft. Another survivor of the disaster on Lake Michigan was washed ashore at Evanston, Ili., yesterday morning. He had clung to a paddle box of the steamer for twelve hours. A terrible accident occurred in Chicago last even- ing. While St. Mary's cathedral was densely packed a cry of fire occasioned @ panic, and the galleries fell, killing three women instantly and severely injuring several persons, The New York Fast Conference closed its session in this city yesterday. A list of the appointments made | the marls of a thousand other places throughout will be found elsewhere. tho States, It Is to be hoped this guano hum- ‘The motions in the Erie litigation for the diasolu- wie P gu 3 tion of two or three injunctions granted to the Van | Pug of Mr. Seward and Judge Black will, like derbilt party, and for (he removal of the sults to the | the of Barnum politicians, soon come to iPalted States courts, were yesterday postponed by en fact, it is nothing more than coral with some shells which have been decomposed and re- formed either in the form of a sort of clay ora harder substance baked by the tropical sun, Nearly the whole of the islands of the West Indies are composed of this material, and the keys and peninsula of Florida are nothing else. All the ships in the world for all time to come could be freighted with it from our own territory, What is the use, then, of making a fuss about Alta Vela, or Aves Island, unless it be to delude the poor farmers and to sell the stock of the companies? Indeed, this guano is not as valuable for the soil as Jersey marl or Hd ng ego oy disregard for} The most rund — our Sead (From the Ottawe correspondence ‘of the Toronto juman on railroads and steamboats this | telegram from Mexico, via Havana, every | rhe funeral a Pt dence of the winter, and it is, indeed, high time that | suspicious suppressio veri on the part of the docensed this morning, ler ine econ het ‘gat the proper authorities take the matter into | Mexican government. Thus we are informed foven McKeon, Spenker Capumn, Hon, hin ‘San: serious consideration. Here is this frightful | that the Diario Oficial has been forbidden to | Se!d Macdonald Sir John A. Becaoni j,c° the . iy and calamity, following close on the heels of the | publish ex-Minister Romero's private conver- | Kenny. The cortege was very numerous, extend- explosion of the boiler of the steamer Mag- | sation with Senators Sumner and Fowler. 108 As Gatholle” cathedral, toh i ‘iraped nolia, on the Ohio river, and innumerable | Romero’s assertion, it will be remembered, people fe tener wan otemnly chanted by evra railroad accidents, prominent among which is | was that the republic did not owe the United | cholr wit every demonsti the memorable Angola slaughter. The com- | States as much as was generally claimed at the Tf nf ie cee on nin Gn panies which control the travelling facilities of | end of the late war against the French. Wo | was comanowed by Fut ‘ther Dawson, the body was con- the present day never bestow a thought on the | are also informed that every mail fails, owing to | special train and taken to t and thence by possibility of disaster, and are only anxious to | attempts to bully correspondents into repre- Sretdnate with any mend ore Of Partiarment and make money, even if human life is sacrificed in | senting the tone of sentiment and state of personal ends of the deceased, accompanied his the pursuit, There is not the slightest use in | affairs in Mexico in favorable colors, The let- | "™*™* appealing to the humanity of those soulless | ters which the correspondents persist in send- | A _shooting-affray occurred pa Sunday in Hem , speculators; therefore, the only means of | ing seem to be regularly intercepted. The seaahers ine day provides, “ewe tes were reaching thom is by the strong arm of the law, | hasty exodus of tho French and Austrian resl- a dot of going Let the Loaislature of every State, thon, lena ! dente oangot, however, be concealed, General fore