The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. his dwelling, No. 175 Bast Forty-ninth street, which Was discovered on fire in three places at two o'clock yesterday morning, A partial examination, con- ducted by'Fire Marshal Baker, was had before Jus- tice Kelly, at the Yorkville Police Court, and the accused was released from custody on $2,000 bail. ‘The case of Hatch, &c., against the Chioago, Rock Island and Pacific Ratiroad Company was argued yesterday before the Supreme Court, General Term, on appeal from the order of Mr, Justice Cardozo, de- No. 108 | nying a motion for the removal of the cause for trial to the United States Circuit Court, Decision re- served, In the United States District Court in Admiralty yesterday, Judge Blatchford presiding, the case of the Baron de Lerremento vs, the steam ferryboat Baltic was taken up, This is a collision case, in which it is alleged the Baltic ran into the Palmer, inflicting damages, for the recovery of which the plaintii! now sues. In the collision case of the owners of the steamboat Only Son vs. John Whitman the court ordered judgment against the libellant in default of appearance. The following named persons were yester- day sentenced in the Court of General Ses- sions by Recorder Hackett:—Mary Pickett and Louisa Farns, shoplifters, four years and four fs months and five years respectively in the grueATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brosdway.—BaLLer. Fano, | state prison; John Wilson, larceny, five years imprisonment; William Johnson, grand larceny, one year in State Prison; John Kevey and Thomas Col- lins, grand larceny, Penitentiary for six months, In the case of Lina Stern, accused of grand larceny and pleaded guilty, sentence was postponed, Mary Shyen, charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, was acquitted. The popular steamship City of Paris, Captain James Kennedy, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one P, M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Queens- town and Liverpool, The European mails will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M., 18th inst. The National line steamship Pennsylvania, Captain Hall, will leave pier 47 North river at noon to-mor- row (Saturday), for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The popular steamship Saragossa, Captain M. B. Crowell, will sail from pler 14 East river, foot of Wall treet, on Saturday, the 18th inst., at three o’clock in the afternoon, for Charleston, 8S. C., connecting with steamers for Florida ports and with all points in tne tuterior, The panic in the stock market made further pro- s Government securities were, how- sed at 138%. == Volume XXXIII...... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE.—LA BELLE HELENE. 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READINGS. HALL, 954 and 956 Brondw RANOFS A, KPMBLE'S ANOZAMA OF THE WAR. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF SOIENOE AND A ANATOM v, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. gE Ss ecanea esp eerie ca The Impeachment aud Removal of Andrew Johnson as a Presidential Game. It has’been charged by the enemies of An- drew Johnson that on taking the oath as Presi- dent of the United States, April 15, 1865, he a candidate for another term; for that 3. cE NEW IMPEACHMENT. ng of the High Court yesterday der that all evi On the op: Sumner over no! became vant or triv dand its value decided in Se i . aera Rannede Nha tena e Mn a a. otherwise, with the rebel States left broken up laid on ve ec by at vote or | by the war and with over seven months inter- 22 to 11. Mr. anbery was still absent, | vening to the regular meeting of Congress, his but counsel through Mr. Evarts expressed a jal act would have been to call an reac 33 lo proce Some furti une ry , ‘, Pepa J Aes a x Ps r wate ion of the two houses to ri e him Who defenied ; ulties and responsibilities of stand to prove sn reconstruction, in the case f 1g from this point of departure, let us what is the radical theory of Johnson's serrations from the true faith down to his im- peachment; for thas we shall unquestionably reach the predominant radical necessity for bis ruled th: Merrick, a Wosi Genera! Thon ence on lawyer, red on te va ed, and then ™ suggested an ajournment, to w made ob, n. Attempts were also ¢ removal. His original calculations, it has been sged, were these :—That in getting the sub- sd vebel States, in the absence of Con- NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET, of a radical President, a radical recon- struction of the Supreme Court, and the active employment of all these ways and means in’ behalf of the election of General Grant and another radical Congress. All these things are at hard with Johnson's removal, and they must all be given up with Johnson's acquiltal. Nay, more; a verdict in his favor, in condemning his radical accusers, will break up the republican camp and make room at once for a new national Union party. How absurd, then, to think that justice to Andrew Johnson can possibly welgh down the spoils and plunder dependent upon his removal and the party consequences that will follow his acquittal ! We are still inclined to believe, however, that there are some republican Senators with whom justice is greater than the spoils, and greater than any considerations of party policy or party necessity—some broad-minded states- men among the time-serving politicians, some independent Senators who look beyond the petty excitements and party objects of the hour to the judgment of impartial history ; and we still incline to think that these men will not sacrifice their sense of justice and self-respect to escape the wrath of the radical faction, or to share in the profits of the revolutionary radical game for the Presidential succession. So we await the issue of this trial still with some hope that justice will prevail. Abyssinia and the British Expedition. Abyssinia, which within the last year or two has acquired such notoriety, is an ancient name and not unknown since a time long be- fore the Christian era, Ethiopia, or as the natives have it, Iterpayawan, seems to have been the more ancient name, although it is abundantly manifest that the Ethiopia of the ancients covered a much larger surface than is covered by the more modern name Abyssinia. Itis now generally admitted that the Queen of Sheba, who came to Jerusalem to ‘admire the wisdom and splendor of Solomon,” came from some part of that country which is bordered by the Red Sea in one direction, by Egypt in another and by the Mountains of the Moon in still another. It is notorious that the traditions of the - natives connect the famous Queen with their country ; but whether the Queen of Sheba was at the head of the entire people of that vast territory or at the head of only one of its tribes, is a question which is little likely ever to be satisfactorily solved, It is a well known fact that the present Theodorus is a usurper, that he has not in his veins a single drop of the blood of the ancient royal stock, and that the representative of the ancient line now lives in neglect and poverty, It is also weil known that the ancient line claimed descent from the questionable offspring of the Queen of Sheba and the wise but ‘‘uxorious” King of Israel, If there be no blood relationship be- tween the present monarch and the ancient line, and if (ze obscure chief of the old line of monarchs be the lineal representative of the offspring of the Queen of Sheba’s visit to Jeru- St to change the hour of as gress, reconstructed on the basis of the consti- enrlier one g, but objec itional amendment abolishing slavery, any poe ab Look place, arities or concessions prejudicial In the It ihe question of prit Piles aL ean con aia Ba geeniholendi we Gh Batier’s ¢ sch was again to the black race wed be overlno) * by the Garfield nov nd " two houses on coming together, in view of the Judge A | paramount object of Southern restoration ; that cail of required to 1 Journed, uber move Was | thus, having all the glory of this achievement, {he votes of these eleven restored Southern ates would be his, in Congress and out of Congress, for another term, against all con- sencies ; and that with this nucleus to build upon he could ma his re-election in 1868 as the republican or democratic candidate. It is | next charged thal, failing to obtain (December, | 1885) a recoguition from Congress of his mem- | bers elect from the rebel States, and discover- ing that the dominant radicals of the two houses were dead set against his whole policy of restoration, he resolved to fight Congress and to make it the interest of the democratic party not only to support his policy, but to <e upa and the House THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate, general i upon a substitu company of bor road necessary guage to Ch enate adju iously, however 2 al school In New York, shal and deputy fire marshal u the M trict, for the better regulat ok lyn, and uumerous others of h unimportant character wer nced to a third re hits In the Assembiy the Hell Gate I ua ropoliian dis- ou of fire ady and the New York Central Underground Rail 1 were LAE aaa ‘ peseed, the lntter by one hundred aivantig adopt him as their Presidential candidate for eight. The appropriatt ) permile in aid | 15 es Le ; of New York railroads considered in Committee The Philadelphia National Johnsonian Con- of the Whole, and a motion to order it to # third | servative Convention of 1866, itis next charged, reading was Us for wid West street; | was intended to effect a fusion between the and to open May enue, f dered to a third readin, A bill support of New York county by tax was reported. ‘The bills re! e to convict labor in the Stat ise ons and to increase the salaries of members of th Metropolitan Fire Department were passed. rove or rity Northern democracy and the administration on for the the basis of Mr. Johnson's Southern policy nst the policy of Congress as defined in the constitutional amendment known as Article XIV, But the bad luck of that Chicago pil- ag sp EUROPE. grimage of September of the same year, and tel from London we lear | jhe misfortunes to the administration of the that General Napier reports to the British govern- Memphis and New Orleans massacres, and the popularity of that constitutional amendment, carried the country overwhelmingly for Con- gress from Maine to California. From this point, it is charged, the policy of Mr. Johnson was narrowed down to obstructioas and embar- rassments looking to the Supreme Court against Congress, and still keeping his eye upon the democratic party as the Presidential candi- date. Thus proceeding, step by step, against ment a steady advance of his army, in force and good order, toward. King Theodorus was be- coming “une A rumor prevailed im London to the effect that t lib ed and the war ended in excelient health and sy The ne evening, April The Prince of Wales appeared on an Trish race course near Dublin, and was well received by a large concourse of e Irteh rt by the cable is dated ye Magistrate of great w es, Was ¢ assassinated in the county We ihe six promi | the reconstruction schemes of Congress, it is nent Fenians embarked for NewYork. Uaron Bade conjectured that from the radical defeats in the tert cry t in Paris, was serious! elections of 1867, and from the failure of two on ba multe : betta Eagan beh attempts at impeachment, he was at length em- fn London. Earl Ku: i. Ir svas peaotve, | Doldened to risk the experiment of Stanton’s that Disracii's retention of ter the vore of the | removal from the War Office in the teeth of House of Commons was un Hiutional, and he | the Tenure of Office law. was called on to resign. T) of tolugna, Italy, | Now, assuming all this to be true (and so | far as the inspirations of radical hostility to mand | Jobnson are concerned it is all true), what fol- lows? On is, that the conflict between John- ess since December, 1865, has was the scene of violent trade and lapor riots, bu quict bas been restored. Consols 953%. Five-twenties 76% in Frankfort. Cotton dull at a decline, with middling 70% in 1 | son and pedcaG hee” uffs unchanged, Provisions steady. | oon a conflict for the Presidential succession. MISCELLANEOUS, Johnson, falling back on his constitutional We have special telegrams from Naesan, Cova and | rights, has been laboring to break down the Honduras. The New Providence Legisiature radical faction, and they have been laboring journed after refusing the annual supplie: Rawson, an lent proceedings hadt election for the new Legislature was goiny on, white and biack voting against one another, The news from the other points is not of much interest. Advices fr the Sandwich istands state that the Japanese ram Stonewall had arrived at Houolutu and courtesies ad been exchanged between the oMvers and Queen Emma, The volcano Mauna Loa was again in eruption. The ature was to convene | on the 18th of April. ‘The steamer Lackawanna had returned to Honolulu, owing to repeated troubles be- tween sailors and natives Despatches received from Lite Rock, Arkansas state that the Legislature yesterday elected B. F. Rice and Alexander McDonatd to be United States Senators. | all this time to get rid of Johnson. They have j him on trial, and upon a case contrived to | catch him, and his removal, in their game for the Presidency, has become a party necessity. ilis “high crimes and misdemeanors” are no higher than, if as high as, those committed against the dominant party in Congress by President Ty Wut had there been a whig majority exceeding a two-thirds vote in the Senate in 1412-3 Tyler wonld have been re- moved under the indictment of Botts, It is this accidental radical two-thirds vote in the Senate that makes all the difference in the case enoral Meade has decided that memers of he vill cens eel big Seiler Atel Georgia Legislature must take the test oath. bascanpematleds ke unit in his defence, because ‘The trial of Joseph and Josephine Brown for the | they see that his acquittal will not only be An murder of their little daughter, Angie, was cou- | according to justice, but will be the condemna- cluded in Hudson yesterday, and ti acter the | tion of his accusers; the radicals have already eahiead ¢ Seed r niogtes , hg tie * | condemned him because he stands in their way. Jencral Champlain for the prost fon, Was given ty > ay. the jury, | Only look at the important party arrange- ‘The contempt nroceadings against the directors of spendent upon his removal—an imnie- the Erie Rutiway Company were to have been @. liate division of “whiskey rings” and all the ht on bef t i ¢ ‘ ‘ ing el 1 yesterday, but | fuderal spoils under “Old Ben Wade” vere furt jonrned until Monday next, ‘ te . Mr. Robert 11. Rodda, pools ia a A onhoa’ ot ig the faithful, the speedy restoration of the ¢ rank Rallway Co war, (he outside States on a satisfactory radical yinpany on Broadw y BeBe Ye CS ie ween “we salem, then it is manifest that the Emperor is destitute of any claims to such illustrious de- scent. When, too, it is borne in mind that from an ly period it has been the boast of the kings of the East, including under that name the greater part of Asia, that they have sprung from thé loins of Solomon, it may well be doubted whether, either in the case of the Em- peror Theodorus or in the case of the more ancient but now dethroned line of Abyssinian rulers, there is any more truth in their alleged descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba than there would be in the claim were, it set up that they were begotten of a marriage of the sun and moon or of a marriage of earth and water. It is much more likely to be fable than trath, and is perhaps to be accounted for, as in the case of ihe Eastern monarchs, by the great fame acquired hy Solomonin his day and by the subsequent diffusion of 4 vague and im- perfect knowledge of the Hebrew scriptures. Abyssinia was not unknown to the early Greeks and Romans. To the enterprise of the merchants of Tyre it owes its conversion to Christianity. It is a common opinion that the country embraced Christianity in the days of the Emperor Constantine. This is not, strictly speaking, correct; for it was not until after the first Council of Constantinople—a council which assembled in 381, which condemned the doc- trines of Arius and which confirmed the Trini- tarian creed—that their conversion took place. The characteristic features of the Abyssinian Church are more easily understood when we bear in mind the views of Christianity which were popular at the date of its origin. Alex- andria, in Egypt, was the headquarters of Christianity in the East at this particular june ture. It was through Egypt mainly that Abys- sinia received a knowledge of the doctrines of the cross. Abyssinia, therefore, became a branch of that Coptic Church which, amid varying fortune, has had an unbroken history since the days of St. Mark, and whose Pa- triarch may be seen any day in an obscure nook of the Coptic quarter in Cairo, The Abuna or Bishop of Abyssinia has always received his ordination at the hands of, and been nominally subject to, the Patriarch of Egypt, whose headquarters, formerly at Alexandria, have now been permanently fixed at Cairo, The influence which the Patriarch is known to exercise in Abyssinia has invested him with more importance in the eyes of Ismail Pacha than was wont to be the case, The Copts are more tenderly cared for by the Vice- roy, because Coptic influence, it is hoped, may yet be useful in advancing Egyptian interests among the highlanders of Abyssinia. Our correspondent’s letters have enabled us to form a tolerably accurate notion of the geo- graphical and other features of that country. Indeed, what with the knowledge we have already derived from the explorations of Livingstone, of Beke, of Burton, of Speke and Grant, of Sir Samuel Baker and his heroic lady, it may safely be concluded that when this expedition is ended and the official reports are printed, and when Dr. Livingstone returns, as if from the grave, to tell us how he “passed along the northern end of Lake Nyassa and rounded the southern end of Lake Tanganyika,” and solved the mysteries of that wondrous water shed, Africa shall cease, throughout her entire length and breadth, to be the sealed book she has been in all past time, Of Abys- sinia, at least, we shall have little further to learn. Judging from what we do know, we must say it in all honesty that, though the wserg ploly with the gelye ageislauce | prisoners woreJiberated aud Lucadorus banged | or blown from the cannon’s mouth, the con- quest and occupation of the country would add but small glory and less wealth to the British crown, The inhabitants are poor and miser- able in the extreme. Grass of a poor and sometimes poisonous character, fuel in small quantities, and wretchedly lean cattle are all the supplies which the country has yet offered to the army. The villages are of the meanest possible description, and towns are nowhere. The monarch himself, according to our corre- spondent, seems to have relapsed into nomadic life, deeming it at once the most comfortable and the most secure. Sir Samuel Baker does indeed speak of a part of the country which is richer in agricultural wealth ; but that part has not yet been reached by the expeditionary forces, and it remains to be seen whether a teeming soil and a moist atmosphere are compatible with European life. That the expedition will accomplish its main object—that of liberating the prisoners (unless they are previously mur- dered) and of punishing the son of Solomon, and Emperor by the grace of God, there can beno doubt. But how soon or at what cost of life and treasure who can tell? If they are not successful in accomplishing their purpose by a dash the rains will be upon them, the hol- lows on the high tablelands will become so many lakes, the ravines and mountain passes so many rolling torrents, and from communica- tion with their base of operations on the lower grounds and with the sea they will be effectu- ally cut off, and cut off for months in succes- sion. If the expedition is not crowned with immediate success it will not surprise us to hear of a hasty retreat to the sea. End, how- ever, as this expedition may, whether it be soon or whether it be late, one important result will flow from it—we shall know more of the people, of the resources and of the pros- pects of that portion of the African Continent. Abyssinia will no longer be an unknown land. The Prince of Wales in Ireland—The Hopes nnd Necessities of the Nation. By cable telegrams published in the HzraLp yesterday morning we announced the arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales on the soil of Ireland. We also reported their reception on landing at Kingstown harbor and the enthu- sfastic greetings with which they were saluted and accompanied on the route from that point to the gates of the Castle of Dublin. From the same source we have to-day ac- counts of the commencement of the grand na- tional ovation with which Ireland intends to honor the future King of Great Britain and testify the admiration and respect which her people entertain for the beauty, accomplish- ments and character of his bride. The Prince and Princess of Wales are attended by a very noble following, including the Duke of Cam- bridge, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces; the Earl of Shrewsbury, Premier Earl of Eng- land and Seneschal of Ireland ; the Honorable Mrs. Stonor, a lady belonging to one of the most ancient Catholic families in England, in immediate attendance on the Princess, and others of like high rank and ancient lineage. ‘Taking in his hand the recent vote of the people of England on the Irish Church question, the Prince of Wales stands forth as a royal me- diator between the two peoples, so long divided through motives of State policy, and seeks in the most amiable and graceful manner to retain by his side that great and faithful force so happily described by Mr. Roebuck in Parlia- ment as the “right arm of the empire.” Dublin Castle will be regarded as a royal palace during its occupation by the Prince and Princess, and a series of f¢fes, military, naval and of a socially festive character, will follow the induction of the noble guests within its walls. Appealed to in their gallantry, chivalry, admiration of kingly and ecclesiastical pageant and hereditary love of justice, the Irish people respond with hearty sincerity to the friendly advance of the English. The ancient nation appeared in its best dress to receive the royal visitors. Tere and there amid the decorations of the cily of Dublin the green flag of Ireland peeped out near to the red en- sign of Britain; but, as if still afraid of the venture, the persons who hoisted it placed by its side in every instance its tried and never failing support, the free and sheltering banner of the American Union, thus assuring the Eng- lish cavalcade that even if again disappointed the Irish people can rely, as in times past, on one friendly Power which never betrayed them. The most imposing display which will be witnessed in Ireland during the royal visit will be made at the installation of the Prince of Wales asa Knight of St. Patrick, for, as on the occasion of the decoration of George the Fourth, there will be a public procession from Dublin Castle. to St. Patrick's Cathedral, four or five thousand persons awaiting to receive his Royal Highness within its venerable walls. Sir John Davies, English Attorney General of Ireland in 1613, stated his opinion of the inhab- itants thus :—‘‘There is no nation of people under the sun that doth love equal and indi ferent justice better than the Irish.” In this spirit the Irish come forward to-day to meet the Prince of Wales, and the occasion presents one of the most important questions occurring in the progress of the political economy of the world. Will they be disappointed? Since the landing of Strongbow at Waterford, in the year 1170, very few of the personages pos- sessing complete executive power in England have visited Ireland, and the majority of these visits were in object, intent and eifect the very opposite of that of the Prince of Wales. In- deed, his Royal Highness will find it difficult to turn around in the country without beholding evidences of military or hierarchical violence and spoliation on one hand and stern resistance on the other, Of the actual or pretended rulers of England Oliver Cromwell, the first visitor, landed in Ireland in 1649, and there, afier ravaging Drogheda, Wexford and Water- ford, the celebrated troopers of the Protector sustained a signal (their only) defeat. King James the Second reached Ireland ffom France in 1688, Tle was followed by King William the Third, from England, who at Londonderry and the Boyne annihilated the hopes of the Stuarts, bat with heavy loss to the inhabitants of the kingdom. King George the Fourth landed in Dublin in 1820, flying from the momory of his dead wife and the consequences of the Manchester massacre. His Majesty wore an enormous bunch of shamrocks pinned in his hat, and another In hid coat; but he had Castlereagh by his side, who “qgaassinated” the gopstitution of Ireland, Queen Vickerla'd {stalled “ab We obuer qpdOl WA ANSIIG visit took place a few years since—the first attended with pleasing associations—and now her eldest son, who may in this catalogue be regarded as King, stands on the soil of Treland, with his young wife on one side and the important vote of the House of Commons on the Church question on the other. War, rapine, confiscation, religious dissen- sion, the death penalty, transportation and in- voluntary exile have failed to subdue Ireland, and the Prince meets to-day, after an English rule extending over six hundred and ninety- eight years, in Ireland the embers of a smoul- dering rebellion and the roads crowded with emigrants flying to the United States—a land which holds in its government the democratic balance of mediation between himself and his future subjects, from which they have received twenty-four millions of pounds sterling in the past twenty-five years, and to which they may have to look in the end for their political future. Next after American democracy ranks the Princess of Wales as an agent of regeneration for Ireland. During Easter week her Royal Highness will no doubt visit the plain of Clon- tarf, near Dublin, where King Brian Boroimhe routed her ancestors and countrymen, the Danes, in the year 1014, after a battle which endured from Good Friday to Easter Sunday, when the Irish monarch was slain. The Irish people nourish a tradition to the effect that the Northmen will return and claim the whole island. There is now a splendid moment for its realization. Let Queen Victoria assign the government rule of Ireland to the Princess of Wales, and when her husband ascends the throne of England let his wife be proclaimed Queen of Ireland, saving ‘‘existing interests” and inviting a Danish immigration. This may accomplish the desired end and a ‘‘Pacata Hibernia” be secured, reversing the assertion of the British writer of Queen Elizabeth's day to the effect that ‘Satan did not show the island of Ireland to the Saviour to tempt him, as Beelzebub had reserved that country for his own special uses to the end of time.” Radical Plans The radicals are now committed to a policy of the future from which there is no possibility of receding. The removal of Mr. Johnson being settled on, the programme upon which they are to retain power is arranged in due order. What is this programme and what will be its results? When President Jobnson is lost out of sight, sent back to Tennessee, and Old Ben Wade sits in the chair of ‘‘the lamented Lincoln” in the White House, the tool rather than the leader of an unscrupu- lous faction, the radicals must do something to keep up the excitement which impeachment and reconstruction have created, or the party must fall into inanity and the people wll begin to canvass, with a calm and criticising judgment, its past infamous policy and conduct.. This would never do. not disastrous, to the whole radical fabric. Contemptible as this impeachment business is, it has served for the time to keep the public mind diverted from schemes at the bottom more dangerous to the future of the country, and when it is over it must become necessary to adopt a new policy and raise up a whirl- wind of dust to blind the eyes of the people, while the ruin of our republican form of gov- ernment is being more surely effected by the plotting Jacobins in Congress. They will represent that in the removal of Johnson the prosperity of the country is secured; that the laws of the United States have been vindicated—the constitution having been legis- lated out of existence long ago; and they will endeavor to make their party popular by using the national banks and the railroad interests without limit for that purpose. By inflating the currency and flooding the land with paper at the rate of about two hundred millions a year they expect to create an unreal prosperity as flimsy and as treacherous as the crust over a volcano. In the elation thus brought about it is expected that the revolutionary plans of the radicals will be covered up, and that the coun- try will be allowed to drift into the Cwxsarian despotism which they are preparing for it. Such is the policy of the future which the radical managers of Congress—with Old Thad Stevens wagging his finger in the front rank—have laid down. But what of the consequences? A terrible day of reckoning will surely come, not only to this revolutionary faction, but to the people who are beguiled into the notion that an inflated currency and a monstrous national bank system and a temporary plethora of paper money mean national prosperity. The delu- sion may last fora time, but the people will wake up to find themselves in the midst of a fearful financial revulsion, and perchance with- out a national credit, without a government and without liberty, for the Fature. Trouble About the Herald. Our contemporaries yesterday were seriously concerned in regard to the HeraLp, There seemed to be a spontaneous ebullition of in- terest in regard to us in the columns of the morning journals, This does not surprise us. We have observed that it always happens when the number of our columns filled with advertisements is above fifty. When the Herarp is compelled to issue a quadruple sheet to accommodate its advertising patrons, when it has fifty-two solid columns of adver- tisements every day, the small fry naturally cannot possess their souls in peace and pa- tience. Poor Jitile fellows, how they snarl! They are troubled about the crowd at the Henan office, which they say runs off into a cue that goes over the Broadway bridge and around St, Paul’s church. Very well, if they want to understand that thronging, eager assemblage, let them look at our fifty and more columns of advertisements, and they will readily see what it all means. Advertisers do not rush to their offices in such numbers, and so we inile at their innocent wonder. City Polltics. THE RADICAL REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN CLUB. The Repadiican Presidential Campaign Club called a meeting of ita Executive Committee for yesterday, four P. M. At that hour a few aspirants for politica honors put in an appearance at the office of Charles S. Spencer, 84 Franklin street. The proceedings were muinly devoted to the selection of a committee of twenty to proceed to Washington and dedicate the radical headquarters there. This committee, in the language of the radical rabbi, will proceed to Washington at the close of the tmpeachment trial and remain there until the onage—as far aa this city is concerned—ts disteipated to the needy and deserving, the conservative and democratic vul- tures driven to other pastures, and O14 Ben Wade tn- It would be dangerous, if AMUSEMENTS. ee DIOKRNS' Reapinas.—The bill last evening Steinway Hall was “David Copperfield” and “Bob Sawyer's Party,” with which our readers have at ready been made familiar from our notices of the janineieary of these pieces by Mr. Dickens whem ere some weeks ago. There was nothing new in the reading of them last night, although they were as good as new from the vivid presentation of the several characters concerned by the father of the family. Of course, as thé’ departing lion of the fashionable world, the tickets to these farewell read- ings of Mr, Dickens flnd customers, although the en- thusiasm which marked his first course has beer softened down; and, Of course, parties who have secured tickets “are not going to lose thelr value on account of April rain.” So Mr. Dickens had a good house last night, without being incon- veniently crowded, and if his audience appeared te be rather sleepy at times, It was doubtless due as much to that feverish and drowsy atmosphere, the result of bad ventilation, as to any other cause, Some of Mr, Dickens’ visitors last evening appeared, to be more interested in the sort of book intends to write when he gets home than they were in Musta Davey or Bob Sawyer, or the trate landlady; but the observation that “a full pocket makes @ light heart” seemed to be satisfactory. His ad- mirers say that he will surely give us somet more complimentary after his return to “# Hingland” than that trampery “Martin Chuzzlewtt,"* or those loose and slipsod ‘American Notes;” “but what's the hodds, so long as you’re 'appy?”” Dopwokrta HALL.—Mr. George Vandenhof, at the last of his series of readings in Dodworth Mall, yeg- terday evening, illustrated the tragedy and comedy, the pathos and humor of Charles Dickens by reading “The Old Man's Tale of the Queer Client,” “Old Weller on Widows aud Other Matters” and “The Great Trial of Bardell vs. Pickwick” in a style and with effectiveness that Dickens himself would admire and mightenvy. The trial scene, particularly, af- forded Mr. Vandenhoff a fine opportunity for showing that an author cannot always read his own produc- tions any better than another person who fully enters into their spirit aud is, moreover, an accomplished elocutionist, Musical and Dramatic Notes. Lotta is doing better in Cleveland than she did at Pike’s, Her benefit at the Academy in the former place on Friday last was a jam as far as the audieace was concerned, Lucille Western plays this weck at the Holliday, Baltimore. 2 The Troy people are now enjoying the “Black Crook,” with the ballet. Forrest is at the Pittsburg Opera House, The “Grand Duchess’? is holding her brilliant court at the Opera House in Chicago. William C. Forbes, a well known theatrical mana- ger, died in Brooklyn on Tuesday, April 14, aged Sixty-two years. Dan Bryant is playing a round of Irish characters at the Metropolitan Theatre, Buitalo, Blind ‘Tom’s concerts in Baltimore are successful. IMENT CONCERT. THE SEVENTH Scenes ond Incidents of the Occasion—A Brile lant Congregation of Beauty and Fashions The preparations of several months culminated among our city belles last evening, as did also the festive season of balls, in the grand reception of the Seventh regiment—an entertainment gotten up for the benefit of the able and accomplished band mas- ter of this favorite military organization, The an- nual reunions of this favorite coimmand have been noted for rich display of costume and the assemblage of the most beautiful women of the metropolis, and for these aud oiher reasons , wh are equally weighty with the jeun dorée of Gotham tickels for these festivals Have always been in greatdemand, On arranging the last of these enjoyable balls, how- ever, the managers very wisely souglt means to re- lieve the o many of the inconveniences which have heretofore been thought inevitable in such grand gatherings. In the first place the num- ber of tickets was limited to the capacity of the house, but even then, lest the dancing floor mighé be crowded by the curious or by partics of prome- naders in bonnets, the order was issued that full dress alone Was to be the feature of the bright par- i} ule be de- terre, and that parted from, comfort and enjoyment where other have prevailed a grand c and v tiapossibie ‘Terpsic! reise would have wrung: the hearts of Jair devotes ¢ light fantastic. The preliminary and outward signs of the ap- proaching festival were fully worthy of its grandeur and gave due note of the brilliancy and enjoyment. likely to result from the aggregation of so’ much beauty and richness under such favorable auspices. ‘The Academy was aglow at an jy hour in the evening, the glare of gastight gushing out into the gioomy night, and the rolling of long lines of car- riages giving Hote of an unusually bi The concert portion of the j in at eight o'clock, so that, during the excite- of the arrivals, the sounds of music poured forth from windows and doorw and added to the life of the outdoor scenes on the occasion, The ¢: wes were ably directed, — te - impetuous Jehus restrained within the bounds of decorum by the able police force on duty under the dipection of Captains Bracket and Caineron and the process of de- positing the fair visitors at the grand entrance passed oi with even un smoottiness. About uiain entrance, whe ross a brilliantly ighted: mdidly at aulies and their atttend- in squad n admiring: hanging on the very space, but repressed in their alr spectacle by the stern com- ‘There ‘were svores thas es at fair faces and bril- im panoramic shape the upon the sight ina grand ery clement of beauty and ppeared mn rich mass, ‘The seats in the house were all taken at an early hour, and the lobbies were well ited with clusters of ladies and gentienicn ia full dress, coquetting, flirt ing and chattering merrily, while the concert wiled avay the timewith those who had secured seats within tie house. No contusion was apparent, the arrange- ment of the hat rooms being very good, and the at- tendance in every respe ddequate to the necessities: of the granc casion; 8@ tat, although the visitors continued to arrive in great numbers, undeterred bi the rude breezes, rude ‘ollowers of the storm whi had prevatied out of doors, there was not the stight- est inconvenience within, The music was selecte! with rare taste miliar poreeaus were troup 4 clung in solid of the ligh jety to view L mands of tie content to catch liant toilets, scene Which within bi in wh ents by Gra- erformed better dancing, however, Was the popular feature of the evening, as it always ia on such occasions when fair ladies have fine toilets to display and the social spirit to enjoy the mazy convolutions of terpsichorean fig- ures. So it is not wonderful that on the first sig- ua! the broad parterre was speedily overspread by the gay tapestry of powdered chevelures and rare combinations of colors in satin, gloss or silken sheen, and that the spark-like diamonds fared in the kalop or fluttered ike stars in the midst of evoluting squad that essayed the stately manomivres: of the lancers. The rules adopted by the commitice at the outset were rigidly observed, and the bene- ull Was apparent in the unvaried beauty of ene ant the evident comfort of the dancers. There was no crowding, no crashing of head dresses, ho ing of costly skirts. Although the assemblage was a8 grand in numbers as in magnificence of toilet, Fashion had abundant room to display herself to fult advantage and without the fear of soiling her most delicate feathers, Among the distinguished persons present were a number of the Governor's stall, Major General Shaler, with Colonels Oakley, MeMitlan and Fowier, of his statf; General Varian, commanding Hird brigade, and stait; the Mayor and his lady; Lieutenant Colonel Rockafeller, of the Seventy-first; Colonel Verin' Colonel H. ©, Sehumway, and quite a number of captains and lieutenants of the Bighth, Twenty-secoud and Fourth artillery and other regt-_ ments of the National Guard. The gay assemblage, the most brilliant of its kind this seasou, did not break up until one o'clock in the morning. THE UNION LEAGUE CLUB RECEPTION, The Union League Clab, a somewhat notorious political organization, which has come into extst- ence since 1860, gave a grand reception last evening to their friends and friends’ friends, the ladies, at their club house, on the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Madison avenue. The apartments, large and small, private and public, including the theatre, billiard rooms, picture gallery, tenpin alley, cerri- dors, reception halls and bedrooms, were occupied by the bachelors and grass widowers, who, having paid their greenbacks, Were placed on the club's books ag members, Beyond a major general in full military costume, whose name we could not learn, the very gentlemanly “stewards” or “committee men,’ or whatever else they were pleased to be called, being excessively reticent on the subject of nomen a om 4 sent was seen Whose deeds will be remembered be- yond the decades they may lilustrate on earth. But then there might have been very great men there— erfect Brobdinghagians—only they were not seen. he club, perhaps, <lesired to keep their prize guests to themselves, to secretly worship them as the authors of their good fortune, and so matters moved smoothly, in full dress costume, and exceedingly stiff at that, through the appointed hours of evening, from nine until midnight, listening to sweet strains—to such music as Theodore Thomas’ musi clans can discourse. The ladies were in fal! evening costume. Those styles which fashion has declared en régle were faith fully reproduced. Here and there in the crush of women, most of whom wore trails of magnificent proportions, an eccentricity In costume might be observed, and we were of the opinion that the in- novation was an improvement on the ace style. Very many of the dresses, although what are called “imagnificent’ and “costly,” were offensive to the critical eye for the reason that the colors were too high, too glaring, too bizarre. Powdered hair was also very much affected by several ladies, Who appeared to forget years will bring to the youngpes head the inevitable change, and that there is I He necesasity or pleasure in anticipating it. The reception closed at twelve o'clock to the satia- faction of all the laaies particularly, who, having their curiosity satisded, were tired of roatnilg, Without ournoge or object, from room tO TOOL. -