The New York Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK'HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE.—! B HELENE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrry Dymptr. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—The WHITE Fawn. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Canis Boy—Inist- MAN's HOME FOOL OF THE FAMILY, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Farny Cmcur— Custom or THE COUNTRY. GERMAN STADT THEATRE.—Manrua. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. ~ Panis AND HELEN. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—GYMNASTICS, EQUESTRIANIEM, &o. a THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Batuer, FaRor, 0. * KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SONGS, Boorntarorr1e8, &c.—GRaND DuTou “8.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHT0- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPE Vooarism, NeGko ML BTEINWAY HgLL.—Cuamire Droxnns! READINGS, USE, 901 Bowery.—Comie 6 we antt: DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—Mz. Gro. VAN- DENHOFF'S READINGS. *~ BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.--SELEOTIONS FROM Vanious OPEnas MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— O'DONNELL's MISSION. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSEY—FOLLIES OF A NiGHT. HALL, 954 and 956 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF THE War, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SHEET. a TRIPLE ’ New Yor NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. ‘Advertisers should bear in mind that, in order to insure the proper classification of their business announcements, all advertisements for ins¢rtion in the HrraLp should be left at the counting room by half-past eight o’clock P. M. THE NEWS. IMPEACHMENT. The High Court opened with the customary cere monies yesterday, the audience in the galleries being larger than usual, Mr. Frelinghuysen’s order to permit as many of the counsel and Managers as chose to speak in the closing argument was read, and after general dis- cussion was laidon the table. The examination of General Sherman was then resumed. Mr. Stanbery asked him if he had formed an opinion that the good of the service required another man in Mr. Stanton’s place, but objection ‘was made, and after along discussion the Senate refused to admit the question, The Managers de- clining to cross-examine the witness, he left the stand. The Clerk of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict was then called, and testified to the aMdavit of My Stanton upon which General Thomas was arrested. Objection was again made, but the Senate permitted the introduction of the papers by a vote of ‘34 to 17. i General Sherman was recalled and a question rela- tive to his conversation with the President was put to him by Senator Johnson. Some severe argument ensued in consequence between Senator Johnson and Manager Butler, but the question was admitted and General Sherman thereupon detailed the conversa- tion in which the President offered him the position of Secretary cd interim and expressed a wish to get the law before the courts, The Managers declined to cross-examine the witness at the present ahd the court soon after adjourned. CONGRESS. In the Senate nothing was done beyond proceed- ing with the impeachment trial. In the House Mr. Washburne offered a resolution ~inquiging into the proposed transfer of the Island of St. Pauls toa private company, it being one of the islands ceded by Russia in the Alaska purchase. An invita- tion to the dedication of the Lincoln monument was received for Wednesday, but could not be accepted, ag the House had resolved to attend the impeach- ment trial. The previous question on the resolution to print 49,000 copies of Butler's opening speech on the trial was ordered, and Mr. Eldridge offered an amendment to print also the same number of Judge Curtis’ speech. A vote showed that there was no quorum present and the House adjoyrned. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills relative to the abate- ment of certain nuisances in Brooklyn, and probibit- ing gas companies from charging rents on metres were passed. A bill was introduced relative to the employment of convict labor in the State Prisons, ‘The Avenue C Railroad bill was advanced to a third reading. In the Assembly a bill was introduced to amend the charter of the Associated Press of the State by permitting any publisher of a daily paper to become a member on paying the uniform dues, Bills to in- creage the pay of the Fire Department, for the erec- tion of the Highland Suspension Bridge and for the widening of Thompson street were advanced to a third reading. LUROPE. By special cable telegram from London we learn that the British War Oftce had just published despatches froin General Napier reporting his ad- vance to and position at Lake Ashangl, Abyssinia, confirmatory in every re#pect of the special tele- grams from the HERALD correspondent attached to his command, dated at Ashangi March 16, which appeared in our columns on the 2d inst,, as well as of special cable reports from London, published on the 29th and 30th ult. The news report by the cable is dated yesterday evening, April 13, A Paris newspaper states that the office of the United States legation in that city is “overrun” with crowds of persons anxious to emigrate to Amerie 80 as to escape the operation of the new Army bil Having heard of the German-American Naturaliza- tion treaty, the Frenchmen seek to obtain their papers as citizens of the republic before they leave home. A grand review of British volunteers was held at Portsmouth. The Newmarket, England, and Paris races were commenced. ‘The London Stock Exchange remained closed and the Liverpool markets were irregular in consequence of the faster holidays, Middling uplands cotton was at 12d. Breadstuffs firm and provisions easier. MISCELLANEOUS. Our special telegrams from the West Indies state that General Baez had been refused a passage at Curacoa on the United States steamer Sacd to Jamaica. The floating of the Monongahela at Santa Oraz had been twice attempted tneffectuaily. The Hannah Grant affair has been settied, the United States navalomMicer fully justifying the Venezuelan authorities. The American brig Billow Crest was recently fired upon from the fort at St Thomas. Our special telegrams from Mexico are dated Vera Cruz, Aprit 5. The severe penalties of the law of January, 1962, against traitors are to be modified, A revolution is threatened in Nuevo Leon and Coa- hutla. General Alatorre has been ordered by the courts in Yucatan to release all his conscripts. The republican members of the Pennsylvania Legislature have recommended Stanton as a mem- ber of Mr. Wade's intended Cabinet, but in the Trea- sury and not the War Onice. ‘The funeral of D'Arcy MeGee took place in Mon- treal yesterday. Sixty thousand people witnessed to the twelve who are cettain to vote for Johnson's acquittal will be enough to acquit him. of Andrew Johnson cannot be justified by the law or the evidence, but can only be carried NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1868-TRIPLE SHEET. the procession and twenty thousand marched in the ranks. * Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson the States Rights Society of this city celebrated the fifth annual anniversary of the society with a reunion and banquet at the St. James Hotel. Mr. T. H. Seymour, of Connecticut, was the principal speaker on the occasion. Other speakers also addressed the society* upon the political topics of the day. The party broke up at @ late hour. Portions of the Fifth ward, Brooklyn, were yester- day the scene of great excitement owing to an attempt of the Revenue officers of the Third district, under Deputy Collector Egan, to seize the illicit stills there. ‘Two companies of marines were sent as a protection against an expected murderous attack from the inter- ested parties, but they, with the ald of the police, did not prevent a violent demonstration, which cul- minated in a shower of bricks, clubs and stones, knocking down Collector Egan, Captain Squires, of the marines, and one of the nen, the latter being severely injured. A son complicated will case came before the Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday on @ motion to dissolve an injunction which one Ward had sued out to prevent one Von Hoffman from administering on the estate of his (Ward’s) wife and son. It appears that neither of the deceased parties left any of their worldly goods to the husband and father, and the in- junction was sued out to stay proceedings until he could find out why he was ignored. Argument was heard on the motion to dissolve the injunction, but the decision was reserved. A Grand Jury was empannelied in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. Judge Gilbert in his charge referred especially to violations of the laws relative to the elective franchise, usury and excise. Judge ~Blatchford adjourned the United States Circuit Court yesterday until the 27th, when Judge Benedict will sit. Judge Blatchford will in the meantime ait in the District Court to hear cases in ity, Pe me me Bei ‘The Court of Appeals has affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court in the old Hermitage Hall case and directed the heirs of Mr. Reilly togpe restored to possession, from which they can only be ousted by 4 regular suit in ejectment. Ta, cag ae as Argument on a number of motions in the great Erie litigation, which was to have been heard yester- day before Judge Sutherland, have been postponed until Friday, when they will be heard before Judge Cardozo. . In the Supreme Court, General Term, a decision was rendered yesterday in the case of Matilda Moody vs. George A. Osgood, and a new trial ordered. Mrs. Moody at the trial before the Circuit about two years since obtatned a verdict against the defendant for $3,500 for injuries sustained by being knocked down by horses which the defendant was driving on the Bloomingdale road. The case was appealed on ex- ceptions to Judge Foster's charge to the jury. A de- cision was also rendered in the case of the Mayor, &o., vs. De Witt C. Lent and others, affirming the judgment against defendant. This was the suit brought for the recovery by the city of the letter of George Washington to the Mayor and Com- mon Coundil, acknowledging the receipt by him of the freedoni of {he gity of New York in iist, Zhe detendants had patckasad the Validea anctiot, Ad it appeared that it had been in the possession aad recorded on the minutes of the proceedings of the Common Council in that year. How it came into the possession of the parties who sent it to be sold has never been explained. The old Appleton divorce case came up again yes- terday at Supreme Court, General Term, on appeal from an order allowing defendant alimony during the pendency of the suit. Decision reserved, weet d The Impeachment and the Revolution in the Government. Under the whip and spureof the House Managers the impeachment trial ‘goes bravely on.” There were some curious votes on the admissibility of General Sherman's evidence on Saturday last, from which it is apparent that there is a detachment of republican Senators who are not inclined to act as the supple instruments of the domineer- ing radical faction. Indeed, at various points in this trial, from the beginning, Messrs. Anthony of Rhode Island, Fessenden of Maine, Frelinghuysen of New Jerseys Sherman of Ohio, Grimes of Iowa, Norton of Minnesota, Hender- son of Missouri, and one or two others, have shown such a disposition for fairness and liberality towards the defendant as to give some color of plausibility to the conjecture that they have little or no faith in this prose- cution, Any seven of these men added Here, then, as it is manifest that the removal upon the plea of party necessity, we may ask the question, will these apparently honest and fatriotic republican Senators to whom we have referred rise above the petty considerations of party on the final vote in this trial or fall into the, radical line under the party lash of Stevens and Butler ? Has it come to this, that even in the United States Senate justice is nothing, the country is nothing, but that party is everything? Are we to witness the degrading exhibition of such Senators as Anthony, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Sher- man, Grimes and others cringing to the whippers-in of the radical faction as preferable to the independent course of free- men? Are they prepared for the ignominious future of party slaves in doing wrong rather than the glorious record of men who in doing right are fearless of party consequences? Johnson's removal on the trumpery charges under which this trial is prosecuted will be simply a revolutionary act, an act not contem- plated in the impeachment provisions of the constitution, and consistent only with some revolutionary programme ‘‘outside the consti- tution.” Nor can any conservative member of the Senate be ignorant of the radical objects and purposes which depend upon the removal and which have brought about this indictment and trial of ‘the man at the other end of the avenue,” Let us see. It was some two years ago, in the House of Representatives, that Mr. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, warned this man of the fate of Charles the First, and upon the issue of a reconstruction policy proposed tantamount to a declaration of war against him. In the outset, upon the radical system of measures proposed by Stevens and his radical wing, there was a majority of the House against him; but where he failed in getting the republican conservatives he succeeded in carry- ing his points by securing the democrats, Messrs. Brooks, Eldridge and the rest of them voting thus for radical bills and amendments which otherwise would have been defeated. Thus step by step, as in the regular approaches of a hostile army to the siege of a fortified city, “Old Thad Stevens” has pushed his lines from point to point, strengthening his forces as he has advanced, until Andrew Johnson is on trial before the Senate for “high crimes and mis- demeanors.” Now, assuming that he will be removed, and that under President Wade in the White House for the remnant of this Presidential term, Southern reconstruction, according to the radical plan and pur- pose, will be accomplished; that the lows :—Whites, 631,791; ten outside Southern States will be restored ! with thorougbgoing radical delegations in both houses, excepting a straggling conservative here and there—and let us suppose that under this arrangement General Grant is elected to the Presidential succession, with a radical Con- gress at his back sufficiently strong in both houses to sustain him or overrule him—what then? What comes next? A new field of reconstruction opens before us, “outside the constitution.” With President Grant held under the leading strings of Con- gress, with the Supreme Court reorganized on the radical platform of loyalty, with the Senate reduced to 8 mere servant of the House—call it the French Council of Five Hundred, or the Directory, or the Assembly, or what you will— we shall be close upon the Consulate and the empire. Carlyle says of Disraeli that “he is the honestest of the tory leaders;” that “‘ he is a scoundrel, to be sure,” but that he ‘makes no pretence to any principle.” We may at least apply this opinion to ‘Old Thad” to the extent that “he is the honestest” of our radical lead- ers, and the most deliberate and methodical, with all his apparent audacity, rashness and viclance. He is the genuine type of the revo- lutionary reconstructor, with whom audacity is the great secret and essential of success. He has so managed the republican party that there con be no bolting without danger of a general disruption, and he tells them so. Thus, in bripz- ing Andrew Johnson before the Sepite the chief accuser sa substantially to the jury, ‘S Here ts our = Jeoner, here are our charges. Try him, judge him; but acquit him at your peril.” We await the issue without much hope of a retrograde movement. The firet Casar aa the head of the Roman republic was assas- sinated, and under the seéond the work of re- construction culminated in the Roman empire. If, for the purpose of a historical illustration, we may take the statesman Lincoln as our first Cesar, we may yet, perhaps, find our second under some imperial Augustus, with the disap- pearance of the triumvirate known as Congress, the President and the Supreme Court. The Coming Elections in the South. South Carolina will lead off to-day in tho Southern elections this month under the Con- gressional plan of reconstruction. She fol- lows Alabama and Arkansas, both of which, it is alleged, have adopted radical constitu- tions and elected radical State and national officers, The latest registration (March 81) allowed to he published is that of South Caro- lina, where we find at that date 47,171 whites registered, against 80,379 blacks—showing a black majority of 32,209, It is somewhat singular that while the mili- tary commanders in the South are willing to allow publicity to be given to the latest regis- tration in cases where the blacks preponderate, they studiously withhold the figures where there is good reason to believe the whites have increased the number of their registration, or, it may be, are in a majority. that in Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana and other Southern States where registration was revised after the Convention vote, the returns have been pocketed by the generals commanding the departments, It is well known and as yet are only to be judged by the ratio of those who have declared their intentions to register and those who still adhere to their determination to have nothing whatever to do with the business of voting under the negro reconstruction policy. Calculating by this standard, there is good reason to believe that the white conservatives have largely increased in numbers upon the revised registers in all the States, and now immensely overbalance the white adventurers from the North and those original white Southern Union men who can take the iron-clad or any other oath, perhaps. The whole difficulty, therefore, lies with the votes of the blacks—how they shall be cast so as to conduce towards the common advantage of both races in the South. The total registration in 1867 was as fol- blacks, 697,950— showing an aggregate black majority of 68,259. That this majority has been more than over- balanced by the increased white registration in 1868 under revision is almost certain. It only remains, then, for the conservatives to adopt a policy of moderation towards the blacks in order to carry the whole Southern country like a whirlwind over the radicals. The white conservatives—the natives of the soil, those tothe manor born—have not come out in their strength upon any po- litical contest yet had at the polls since the be- ginning of the rebellion. The blacks have not yet seen their old masters going ina body to deposit their votes. Instead, they have fol- lowed the lead or have been led by the arm by some Northern rapscallion who had been ex- pelled from his own region because he would no longer be tolerated therein and fled South to benefit his fortunes and humbug the poor blacks. Now, when the Southern whites con- clude to vote—a conclusion they should not hesitate to arrive at promptly—the blacks will naturally be inclined to think twice before they shackle themselves to a Northern and a more odious taskmaster than the intelligent among them were ever accustomed to obey in the South. That they will in large numbers go with their old ‘masters, their old friends, their old neighbors, their old protectors, is as reason- ably to be expected as that the Prodigal Son returned to his father’s welcome roof after a season of inappreciable mental suffering and bodily torture. By the whites voting they will bring the blacks to them; and once with them they well know how, with kindness, conciliation and familiar treatment, they can be managed. By this means the conservatives can carry at least half of the Southern States yet to vote, ahd, securing majorities in the Legjslatures, may send Senators to Congress who will be admitted, while those sent to the lower House will be admitted as friends to the radicals, but will eventually prove true to the old constitution and to human rights, white as well as black. We therefore urge upon every white Southern conservative to put his shoulder to the wheel, and, with coat off and sleeves rolled up, push on the work of reform and civilization so much Inpecency oF Party OnGans.—Recently we had on the same day in the respective issues of two party journals choice specimens of ‘the elegance, the courtesy and the polite style of partisan journalism in the city. From the radical organ we had an article made up of the usnal radical balderdash, all the point and purpose of the article being in its title, The, tile was, “Governor Seymour ag a Liar.” From the other side, an organ of opposite politits, but having the same taste in style and the same instinct toward we had on the same day an article headed, ‘Is General Grant a Drunkard ?” and detailing the tittle-tattle of twaddling Tilton, the puerility of Mrs, Stanton and the spleen of Wendell Phillips. Such is the decency of the party press. The Impeachment Trial—General Sherman’s Evidence Admitted. The proceedings in the Court of Impeach- ment yesterday were important and interest- ing. After the Senate had decided upon allow- ing all of the Managers and counsel to make speeches after the close of the testimony, General Sherman was recalled, and the question of the admissibility of his testimony was again brought before the court, Hon. Reverdy John- son, of Maryland, completely overwhelmed the prosecution by sending up a written question to the effect that when the office of Secretary of War ad interim was offered to the witness whether the President “‘at the time of making auch tender stated what his purpose in so doing was.”” Mr. Butler of course objected to it; but, probably shamed by the manner in which it had acted on A the Senate by a vote of twonty-six to twenty-two decided that an answer could be given, General Sherman replied in the affirmative, when Senator Johnson -offered: the additional ques- tion whether the witness could state if the President said what his purpose was. Again did the prosecution object, but the Chief Justice ruled that it was admissible, and the Senate sustained his ruling by the very close vote of twenty-six to twenty-five. General Sherman then upset the entire case of the Managers by testifying that the President had informed him that his, relations with Stanton prevented the duties of the office being pro- perly administered, and that for the purpose of promoting the interests of the army he desired to have him removed. The General further testified that the President expressed to him a wishto have the constitutionality of the law tested. That this admission of General Sherman's testimony was a very important act was made evident not only by the strenuous opposition of the Managers to its reception, but also by the insolent manner in which Mr. Butler in- timated that Senator Johnson was acting as one of the President's counsel, an insinugtion which was .promptly and emphatically de: nounced. Onevery side the case of the prose- cution is falling to the ground ; for besides testi- fying that the purpose of the President was to test the constitutionality of the law, General Sherman also declared that nothing more was said about the use of force than that Mr. Stanton was a coward and would not resist an order for his removal. Tue French Theatre. ‘ The success of the French theatre during the last two seasons has been of the most marked and unequivocal character. The most gloomy anticipations were indulged in by some at the commencement of its career, but the re- sults, as they can be seen at the present time, must compel the most inveterate of those cynics to alter their opinions. The causes of the won- derful success of this establishment are féw, but sufficient for any one possessing a know- ledge of the manner in which a theatre should be conducted. There are stockholders con- nected with it, it is true, but their course has been different from that of its larger rival on the same street. They do not seek to mono- polize the best seats in the house without pay- ing for them, neither do they strut on the stage behind the scenes, dictating to the manager what he shoulddo. On the contrary, the stockholders of the French theatre en- deavor to assist and encourage their manager in the most substantial and efficient manner. A suggestion has been made by the trustee in his last report that the subscribers’ rights shall be confined to engaging their seats in advance, at their own option, for each season, by notice given beforehand that they will take them, or in default of which they waive their prior rights, The manager for the past season has faithfully fulfilled the condition of his lease by giving the subscribers forty-five nights of French drama. With regard to the immense popularity acquired by the French theatre, it is easily accounted for by the uniformly superior character of the enter- tainments given there. The enterprise, energy and artistic appreciation of the wants of the amusement public of this city shown by Mr. Bateman in bringing on the stage an opira bouffe company of unrivalled excellence, have been emphatically endorsed by the liberal support of the public. The success of the “Grand Duchess” is now an undisputed fact; and “La Belle Héltne,” with the merry, sparkling, inimitable Tostée, bids fair to be even a greater favorite. Then the brilliant season inaugurated by the great tragédienne, Ristori, under Mr. Grau’s direction, in the fall of 1866, was an epoch of more than ordinary interest in theatrical annals. ‘‘Medea,” “Elizabeth,” ‘‘Mary Stuart” and ‘Marie Antoinette” presented an ensemble of art, with all its accessories, that woke up many of the Rip Van Winkles of other theatres to the knowledge that they were twenty years behind- hand in the amusement line. Thus all the ominous predictions of theatrical fogies have received a deserved rebuke in the triumphant career of this beautiful little temple of drama and opera. One hundred and ninety-nine and a half mourners sit on the steps of the Cata- combs and wonder at this state of things, while their establishment is deserted. The answer, as we have shown, is a simple one. Common sense might have suggested it to these afflicted people before. Now the French theatre has taken a hold on the affections of the -people that cannot be displaced. Ssexator Gres, or TIows.—How will Senator Grimes, of Iowa, vote on the main article of impeachment—that article that alleges the exercise of one of the Presi- dent’s most necessary functions as a reason why he should be reovmed from office? He knows that its charges are false, that its reasons are ridiculous, that it is a mere party sham. He knows this, as every man of com- mon sense in the country knows it. Ie knows that to depose a President on such pretences is to establish that in future the President only holds office during the pleasure of Congress, and that to establish such a principle is to destroy definitely the vitality of the gon- stitution under which we live. Can he, then, in his conscience vote yea, feeling and know- ing it to be wrong? Can a man who has been Governor of a great sovereign State like Iowa, and who has had such ample experience in the national legislature as Senator Grimes has, permit himself to become the mere tool of a faction? Can he be bullied or driven into playing the catspaw by Butler and Stevens? Senator F, T. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey. The first article of impeachment proposes to remove from his place the President of the United States for having issued an order dis- missing from office the Secretary of War. It is alleged that this dismissal violated a certain law, though Congress declared at the time the law was made that removing the Secretary of War would be no violation of its letter or spirit. It is also alleged that in thus removing the Secretary the President has exercised a power not given by the constitution, though all the learned expounders of the constitution hold that it gives this power, and though every President of the United States has exercised this power without question. It is obvious, then, that this main impeachment article is a tissue of frivolous pretexts and falsities. Breng man in the goaniey wot Wnteg Pee fury sees and understands this. How will Senator Frelinghuysen vote on this point? When the question {p distinctly put to him in the Senate ‘whether upon this tissue of nonsense he will consent to a removal of the President of the United States from office will he answer yea ornay? Mr. Frelinghuysen is an honor- able man, comes of a family distinguished in the annals of the country, hoth in the field and the forum—is a man of cultivated intellect and calm reason. Can he possibly vote to depose a President on charges that it is already seen are without color of right? Will such a man give up his reason to a faction and serve a party rather than his country ? STATE RIGHTS. Fifth Annual Banquet of the State Rights Soclety—Speeches by Thomas H. Seymour and Others. © acces ‘The fifth annual banquet of the State Rights So- clety, of the city of New York, took piace last evening at the St. James Hotel, in Broadway, between Twenty- fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, and was the occasion of a distinguished gathering. Among the gests were Mr. Thomas H. Seymour, of Connecticut; Mr. ‘Acres, of Missouri; Mr, Edward Ingersoll, of Phila- delphia; Mr. W. W. Eaton, of Connecticut; ex-Mayor Gunther, Brick Pomeroy and other distinguished per- sonages. The table was spread for ninety guests, ali of Who eR bree, aie regular toasts of the evening were b, a8 follows:— . Th Jefferson—The Father of American democracy. F eaee ae eetrnce The fountain of all federal powar snd the palladium of our liberty. cai 8. ‘The Constitution and the Union—May we never pray for eace on any other foundations than thoso established by our forefathers. 4. The Chief Magistracy 6f the United States—The highest office within the gift of the American poople; may It for ever stand as the shield of liberty against the usurpations of cor- Fupt legalation or the factioua spltit of party. ‘The Supreme Court—May its Independence anf Integrity survive the memory of those who threaten to deatroy it, 6. The Constitutional Congress of the United States—May it soon be restored. 7. White Sup -—The doctrine of the framers of the constitution and the keystone of the arch of our civilization. 8, The Militla—Our fathers’ standing army for the protec- tion of liberty. 9 The Indepondent Press—The torror of tyrants and the last hope of freemen. 10. Wont_May she emancipate herself from the tyran- ny of distant capital, until her prosperity shall be as broad as her prairies and as unrestrained as the winds that sweep over them, 11. The South—The birthplace of the greatest statesmen, orators and heroes of the jution—desolated by the mili tary rule of strangera and tyrants, may she rise Uke « poobolx from its ashes and bestow agaln the inestimable blessings of Peace an upon her people, 12. The Democratic Majority of the House of Assombly of the State of New York. pak, Women—May she rule by the power of her virtue and uty. Mr. Gro. W. VARIAN opened the speaking with a brief address, Mr. Varian said:—Gentlemen of the State Rights Society, I have the honor to greet you once more on the return of the anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Je(ferson and of the fifth annual celebration of the society. This society was founded in the midst of a reign of terror, for the purpose of upholding the standard of those sacred principles of ul ry and self-government which a merciless party had organized to overthrow. It was born at a time when a vigilant despotism frowned over the whole land. Terrorism to a [ el extent had displaced the guarantees of law. ‘he name of State riguts was clally the object of that malice which springs from furious ignorance on the one hand and a studied determination to over- throw the system of free government on the other. ‘The leaders of the ni revolution in federal legis- lation sneered at State rights, but no more so than they did at the constitution of their country. The constitution and State rights were aimed at twin obstacles in the wi of negro- emancipating sedition; and from that moment to the present time the work of consolidation has one on With fearful rapidity, without a single society in the whole country, 80 far as we know, except this one, attempting to siay the movement of this insidi- ous foe of free government. Such, however, has been the delusion and insanity of the public mind that we have been able to accomplish little more than to keep the flag flying. But, although a cruel despotism still holds over half the land its terrible grasp, there are signs of returning reason and patri- otism which will at last open the way for a suc- cessful resuscitation of those sacred princl- ples of State rights and equality on which this government is founded, and which alone can save it from destruction, With this sign of returning truth and patriotism the State ben my Society will put forth some fresh exertions to useful in the t work of re-establishing liberty and Brosperity: e are glad, gentlemen, to sec so many distinguished ges present on this occasion. [ can offer no igher wish than that the society may prove in every way worthy of the talent and patrictisn, it has . Varian having concluded, after an interlude by the band, the first toast was announced by the President—“‘Thomas Jeiferson, the Father of Ameri- can Democracy.” The toast having been drunk, all standing, Mr. Thomas H. Seymour, of Connecti- cat, was introduced and spoke as follows:— MR. SEYMOUK'S ADDRESS, Mr. SkYMovR, on ggg to respond to the toast, was loudly applauded, He said:—Gentiemen of the State Rights society, 1 ain proud at seeing myseif surrounded by gentiemen of your association, with whom I am now and have ever been in sympathy, and as I may say in full communion on all the great issues of the day. (Applause.) 1 regard the present year aa the most momentous of our lives—in many Tespects more momentous than those years in the life of Mr. Jefierson which first brought him into public notice, We are on the eve of @ crisis which it sceme to me tvolves the life or death of the very liberties for which he contended and of that independence which we sup- posed had been organized and secured to us by the declaration from his pen and to which his name Is appended. 1 suppose we shall all that Thomas Jet mn, whose birthday we are now celebrating, ‘was one of the most remarkable of the age in which he lived—a man—not mereiy a statesman, but a we her, and a very far-seemg one at that. e find that even on the subject of race, which is now under discussion in our country, Mr. Jefferson apprehended the very issues which agitate the coun- try at the present day. But the statesmen of his day and of whom he was the representative were some- what different from the statesmen of the present day in some portions of our country. The men of that day, if he might use the words without giving offence to any one present, were what might be called “fire caters.” (Great applause and cries of “Oh, good, good.") Jefferson. says of Otis, in allusion to his celebrated speech it the “writ of assistance,” that he was ‘a flame of fire.” And such was the class of men required at that == order to put in motion the bail of that revo- lu which was to give us freedom and indepen- dence. How was it in regard to this great and patri- otic man of whom we are to say something on this occasion? We are told by the historian that he was present at the great debate in the Virginia House of Burgesses When the resolutions denunciatory of the Stamp act were introduced, and that there, in listening to the eloquence of Patrick Henry, his soul was fited with that patriotism and love of country which was afterwards to be illustrated in $0 memo- rable a manner in his life and conduct. In describ- ing the debates on the resolution, Jefferson says of Hamilton that, in his reply to the monarchists in the resolution agalust that body who opposed the Stainp act, tiat he came down upon them with an incessant storm of ieee and = thunder, Just what was requi in the present crisis of our country. (Applause and cries of “Oh, good, good.”) In these days we find Jeiferson inscribing on his seal the significant motto which was to ring throughout the conntry lo the after future—'Abeo lwerias a quo apiritu,” And ane other, Which may yet become more significant in the history of our country, which 18 familiar to all 1, friends present—“Resistance to tyrants ts obedl- ence to ol.’ (Applause) In this crisis of out country, when attempts are beiti made to destroy ail that was accomplish by the early fathers of American independence, it seems to me that we should study the statesmanship of those carly days in order that we may preserve that independence now menaced by a factious Con- gross (applause and Cries of “Good”. 1 will now belofy reieg to that pertod of his history when be of t] ig the duty of towards the South, hat What has brought this re change about? In year aye the midst of that dead calm, Jefferson, A R Lee, Francis Lee and Patrick got tu Gree, in the old Raleigh tavern in Williamsburg, ‘@., and there inaugurated the celebrated committes of co} ndence with the Legislatures of the ditfer- ent colonies, which under Providence led to the first British America and Ee ze fi H é i f admirable Billof its and that col ition which now menaced by the monarc! who are endeavoring to destroy all that La) edt tous by our Sonata fathers. (Applause,) Ti men insist that they find in that of the Dec- of Independance says all men are created free and equal, sufficient to a their con- duct in their treatment of the Sou! still find themselves condemned by every other passage it that Declaration, Now no reasonable man can for an instant that Jeiferson su) ent the: idea of creating here a government whose powel was to be exercised by any other class of men those who represented. among the siemens ofliberty! 1 weare (amnow enjoying Wwhiat Ws called natural Uberty. ‘There 1s a 4 ie Ye i a much we may pa ae a ct ernment or any other. I say of these men wh insisting on liberty and squaiars that they have in the Janka reern Oh ons i one. more a destruction ry than if Geor7 the Tal Ha aubogiog in avbaug Tottérsoh and his lots, (ADI era gon never for a single moment the idog that the or should take part in our government. (Cries of “That's so; never, never.”) In his own decs {eration ‘on that subject he says that he only favored the emancipation of the negro on the ground that the negro should be colonized in om distant part of the country or sent oul the country. (Applause and cries of “That's g9,"' Ifat any tine the trustees of the government usurp powers thatdo not belong to them, as we seo is thé case at the present time, then the people are called on to say Whether they wiil be transferred like cattie in the market from one set of rulers to the other without interposing an nae remonstrance, and, if necessary, something org. ‘thai a. [pmopstrance, Yt the people do “no stir themselves in this orisis, then I will be com: pelled to say out of the depth of my heart and in sack cloth png ashes, God has given you over to the tyranny which you desire. (Applause.) If on tie other hand yan will prove your courage and fidelity to the great principies, you will achieve the victory that is within your grasp, ana the time will come when we will celebrate tle redemption of this people as people in the years. Cer celebrated the election of Thomas Jeiferson with bonfires and iijuminatior taking up the hymn of that day with wuichI wi x Rejoice ! Columbia's sons rejoice | 'o tyrants never bend the knee; But join with heart and hand and voice For Jefferson and liberty. Applause.) ‘The yarious toasts on the list were drank and ap- ropriate speeches made by the speakers selected for Tie poepouiaes thereto, The political topics of theday were fully discussed and commented upon in the ante oe the society. The party broke up at @ lave jour. ey eer . THE CAR FARE QUESTION. Some days ago there was published in several of the city papers a statement to the offect that so much of the Congressional act as provided for the collection of one-eighth of one per centon every pas- senger carried in the car of a street railrod com- pany had expired by limitation, and that if the owners of the roads persisted in charging six, whem their charters permitted only five, cents for a nde they would not only be violating the terms of the contract into which they had entered, but be impos- ing grossly on the public. A gentleman of the name of Campbell read one of these paragraphs, and as he was im the dally habit of riding on an Eighth avenue ~ car to his place of business he ;om Wednesday last tendered to conductor Smith five cents, which that person accepted, under the impression, however, that Mr. Campbell was with- out other chi and persuaded in his own mind that he would at some other time get the odd cent, - Shortly subsequent to the payment, Mr. Campbell and Mr. Smith fell into a conversation on the ques- Uon of fare, when the former informed the latter that he did not intend hereafter to pay more than fivé eents. Smith replied that in that cage he would under the necessity of putting him off the car handing him, if he made any CineaEEEON CYee te the care of a police officer. Upon this Mr. pbell declared he would test the question on the return of the car. Accordingly, when the car started for the upper part of the city, Mr. Campbell got and when the conductor attempt to collect hig fare he tendered him five cents. The conductor de- manded another cent, and upon its being refused stopped the car, and by the use of force ejected Mr. Campbell into the etreet. Claiming the protection of om the conductor and the assailed party proceeded the Fourth District Police Court, Justice Connolly pi where a complaint of assault and battery was duly, entered aga‘ st the fare taker, Ball being accepted, yesterday iorning at nine o'clock was appointed the hour to enter upon a preliminary inv as to the right of a railroad company to chi six cents fare, and in the event of its refusal to authorize its agents to expel passengers by force from their conveyances, . It seems, however, that between Wednesday and yesterday morning Mr. Campveli consulted “some authorities’ and withdrew, a3 will be seen by the annexed, his compiaint against the conductor. Apuit 10, 1868, some age thorities whom I respect. I have concluded to withdraw my Ses ir. Sraith, oem gend of the Eight venue Kaliroad. Respecktully % yOu" 4, H. CAMPBELL The Judge, for tho information of the counsel of Mr. Campbell, who was present, read the above im open court, and thtn remarked that the street rail- road companies had the legal right to charge six: cents. He added that Mr. Darling, President of the Sixth Avenue RailroadwWompany, while in Congreas pecans assage age Of of = lanatory Rig - Congressional Uni es Kevenue under this clanse, which has been in force March 3, 1865, persons availing themselves of the sireet cars are necessitated to submit to the extra — of one cent, and that in case of ex- pulsion as a trespasser could not be, unless accom- panied by undue violence, regarded as an assault, that is, of an aggravated character, ‘The section in question reads as follows:— ind be it further enacted, That whenever, under the toAcciton 105 the ndaiion to. ny fared shal amoust tos sum involving the fraction of one cout, any person or come Papy liable to the duty of two and ond‘half per cant, a ia Batd section provided, sball be authorized to add to such fare One cent in leu of such traction. Even if the clause to which that above tory and at the same time authoritative h ne of ‘ho effect by limitation of tie statute, the right to charge the itional cent cannot be Cyt = view of a decision by Judge Daly, of the Court Common Pleas, in the case of George W. Block, wha brought suit to recover a penalty from the Sixth Avenue Ratlroad Company, which in 1866 compelled him to pay certain portions above the legal fare, which disallowed the set up by the complainant, and pel mitted him to collect of the company the extra fare that had been unauthorizediy charged. This ‘was before the p: of the paragraph Oe and since 1864 the question has not been raised, The tem- ability of the charge is admitted and before tix amendment can be made inoperative the opinion the Supreme Court of the United States as to its com- atitutionality must be invoked. We have made the above statement to disabuse the minds of those who, like Mr. Campbell, may have been led astray by reading the paragraph’ in quos- tion and thus prevent troubie between passengers and the agents of the railroad companies aud possi- bly vexatious and costly litigation. FINE ARTS. We have just received a copy of a very elegant, large sized colored lithograph of “The Great Inter. national Caledonian Games,’ held at Jones’ Wood, New York city, July 1, 1867. The lithograph, whick ia dedicated to the members of the Caledonian Clubs. throughout the United States, is designed and executed by J. L. Giles, No. 111 Nassau street, Besides being a tasteful and well executed work and a faithful representation of the scenes annually witnessed at Jones’ Wood, it derives special value from the fact that it presents the forms and faces of certain well known characters. JUDGR CONNOLLY :— DFAR Sik—After consideration and Svtcrns.—On Sunday John McCormick, a native of Ireland, called at the Boston Hotel, corner of West and Vestry streota, and engaged a room. In the course of a few hours the guest was found tnsenalble, 2 Taken to Belews Mospial, where’ deuth: ocourred yesterday. Coroner Rollin’ will hold an inquest when, it is expected, the facts will transpire.