The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD day, Measures have been taken by the military authorities to prevent disturbance, as the excitement runs somewhat high, both parties being well organ- ized and out in force, Frauds in the registration at Columbus have been discovered, and charges have been preferred against one Hurlburt, Chief Registrar. The funeral of Mra. John Decker, one of the vic- tims of the Erie Railway, took place, attended by a large concourse of people, in Elmira yesterday. The remains had been burned to charred bones and were only identified by the presence on them of a trunk key, breastpin and earrings. The funeral of Mr. C. K. Loomis, another of the victims, was also held yesterday in Buffalo, BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hepa. Letters and packages should be properly also close and comprehensive tional treaties for its management. be found impossible to leave this mighty power and agent of civilization in the interna- lies. The action of the British government is but the initiatory step to the governmental control of telegraphs over the whole world. America is destined, from its position on the globe, to be the centre of telegraphic opera- tions and the diffusion of ideas, Should our The United States steamer Saginaw sailed from San Francisco on Saturday for Alaska. The Mississippi river, in its ceaseless encroach- Ment upon the low banks which border it, washed away on Saturday a portionof Arsenal Island, below St. Louis, where the pauper cholera victims were buried last summer. Fifty bodies in their coffins were thus unearthed and floated down the stream. Twenty-four of them have been recovered, The schooner Arcturus was run down and sunk by another vessel, name unknown, in Lake Erle, on Friday night. The crew were saved. sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. i} THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. ° THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE CENTS per copy. Annual subscription price:. One Copy... nth - Hamil and Coulter have agreed to row for the ‘Three Copies. sculling championship and $1,000 aside, on the Five Copies.. Schuyikill river, in June. “Ten Copies... The Inman line steamship Etna, Captain Bridg- man, will leave pier 45 North river, this&(Monday) evening, for Liverpool, via Queenstown, calling at Halifax, N. 8., to land mails and passengers. The mails for Nova Scotia, &c., will close at the Post Office at twelve M. to-day. H Any larger number addressed to names of snb- scribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies to one address, ‘one year, $25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WEBKLY HERALD the cheapest pub- Wecatton tn the country. Postage five cents per copy for three months. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo wring and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. Government and the Telegraphs. The British government is taking steps to buy up and control the magnetic telegraphs for the public convénience and profit. A bill for this purpose has been introduced in the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This is to enable the Postmaster General to acquire, work and maintain the telegraphs in the United Kingdom just as he now manages the Post Offices and postal com- munication. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, with regard to this matter, ‘that tele- graphic communication and postal communica- tion might be considered as coming within the same category, as both provided for corre- spondence between persons at a distance, and the only difference was in the mode of com- munication.” He remarked, too, that the postal system having succeeded so well in the hands of government, might not this other mode of couveying intelligence? He was not aware of any objection to government mo- nopoly in one case which would not hald geod in the other. The same reasoning will apply to the United States asto England. The government here has a monopoly in the conveyance of letters. No one objects to that. Indeed, after having experienced the public benefit of an universal governmental postal system, we should think any proposition to place it in the hands of in- dividuals or companies absurd. This mono- poly in the hands of the government gives us cheap postage with uniformity and expedition. Why, then, should not telegraphs be operated in the same way, so as to cheapen communica- tion and make the operations uniform and im- partial over the whole country? This is one of the strong arguments the Chancellor of the Excheqner uses. He says ‘‘we have been suf- fering here from a high rate for telegraphic communication ;” and ‘‘our present system did not give satisfaction to the commercial world.” How much more forcibly these re- marks apply to telegraphs in the United States ! The rates here are enormous and out of all pro- portion to a fair return for the actual capital invested. After the stock of the companies has been watered and doubled and trebled to fill the pockets of the monopolists, without any additional investment, the profits in most cases are still stupendous, Of course these profits are a tax upon the people generally. They are a hoary tax both upon general business and the communication of intelligence. But that is not the only evil. The gigantic telegraph monopolies in this country assume to dictate to and to control in a measure the press, that great lever of modern civilization, Tiey are beginning to usurp the domain of intellect and thought. This cannot be tolerated in a free country, and it will not be long before the government will have to exercise some control over these vast monopolies. Would it not be much better, therefore, for government to take entire control of the telegraphs and regulate their operations on a broad and liberal principle of equality to all and for the benefit of the whole people ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer says truly that the government would be able to work the telegraphs at less cost and at much lower rates than the companies, for all would be under one direction and the machinery of operation greatly simplified. He proposes that the Post- master General shall control them. The same might be done here. .A separate bureau of the Post Office Department could perform this duty. Let Professor Morse, Cyrus W. Field or E. 8. Sanford be placed in charge of the Telegraph bureau, and we venture to say little trouble would be given to the Postmaster Gene- ral. All would move as smoothly as any one of the present divisions of the Post Office De- partment. It could be made self-sustaining and no charge upon the Treasury, while at the tame time the cost of messages to the public would not be half the present rates, or, per- haps, not a third. We call upon Congress to take this matter up. The British government hae taken the initiative in this great and much needed reform. Let us follow the example and adopt a comprehensive system adapted to our own institutions and territory. The magnetic telegraph is the most important agent of our times, or of any time, in carrying the human family up to the highest point of civili- zation. Great ae have been the results so far, we are only in the infancy of telegraphic pro- gress. Ittakes but a few days to get news from those remote parts of the world from which a few years ago it took months and which No. 111 Volume XXXII1... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Henry DuNDAR. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—JAcK CADE—IRISHMAN'S liomE. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Fatny CrrcLe— Ls AND OUT OF PLACE. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. — PaRis AND HELEN. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaiway.—Humrry DrMpry. FRENCH THEATRE.—La B LE HELENE. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw: NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—Granasti0s, BQuESTRANISM, &c. a THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Brontway.—Batten, Fano, —Tax Wintt Fawn. 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EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atiantio cabic is dated yer terday, April 19. ‘The North German Parliament has instructed Count Bismarck to negotiate a treaty with foreign powers to effect the security of private properiy at sea during war. By special correspondence from Europe we have very interesting details of our cable despatches to the 4th of April. General Napier requests that a heavy remittance of treasure be forwarded to him from England for the support of his army during the rainy season in Abyssinia, when communication with the coast will be suspended, if not entirely cut off. MISCELLANEOUS. In regard to the impeachment trial, it is now ar- gued that the removal of the President is not the inevitable penalty to be imposed on conviction, and rumors were abroad in Washington, yesterday, that the Senate would not remove him, even if it should ‘Qnd him guilty. General Butler, it appears from a letter addressed by one of his staff to Lewis D. Campbell, on the 19th of April, 1865, was anxious at that time for a place ‘tn President Johnson's cabinet, and urged the re- moval of Secretary Seward or Stanton to make room for himself, even while Mr. Seward’s life was yot in danger from the assassin's knife. The letter referred to is published in our Washington corres- pondence this morning, and in its t¢ndr is a request that Mr. Campbell, who had for twenty years been an intimate associate of Mr. Johnson, should use his influence to further Butler's proposition. We have special telegraphic news from Mexico city to the 13th inst. Attempts had been recently made to assassinate certain Americans in the capi- tal. There was great animosity exhibited towards all foreigners. General Negrete had been defeated. Governor Rubi # troops in Sinkloa had deserted him. Rebels in the State of Puebla had pronounced for Ortega. The merchants at Vera Cruz were resisting ‘he payment of the export duty on silver. The churches were generally well attended yester- day. At St. Patrick's cathedral, Kev. F, Wayrich, one of the Redemptionist Fathers, preached on “Peace, the mission of Christ.” Henry Ward Beecher preached tn Plymouth church, Brooklyn, in the morning. General Grant was present in the con- gregation. Mr. Beecher announced previous to his sermon that there would be a temperance meeting in the church on Monday evening, when among the speakers would be the gifted young Christian minister, Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr, In Plymouth church where all men were free to preach the Gospel no bishop could handle him. In the evening Mr. Gallagher occupied Mr. Beecher’s puipit, At the English Church of the Holy Trinity on Twenty-first street, near Sixth avenue, Rev. Dr. Krotel oMciated, the occasion being the opening of the church for the government defer taking charge of this vast system the time will goon come when imperative necessity will force it to do so. Is it not better, then, to assume the con- trol at once, before greater difficulties and greater evils than we have noticed arise? If there beany statesmen in Congress who can raise themselves above party politics and nar- row local ideas, here is a subject on which they can benefit the whole people, promote civilization and acquire enduring fame. Impeachment on Saturday=The Defence Gag- ged on the Most Important Point in the Case. Impeachment becomes every day more and more an insult to the commonest sense of fair play. Managers and radical Senators alike either suppose the people so ignorant of the proprieties of a trial or so indifferent to its justice that they no longer endeavor to disguise their outrageous violations of right and decency. If they even discuss points at issue they do it with a careless irrelevancy that always indicates their trust to be, not in the force of their argu- ment, but in the vote thatis to follow. Indeed, we see in the Senate now the same discourag- ing spectacle that the nation has had before it all winter in the House of Representatives, where the partisan power was so overwhelm- ingly on one side, so blindly given up toa fixed lead, that it was only necessary for it to be known that a bill was a party measure—not what wasin it—to insure its passage. Leaders were under no necessity to explain the laws they proposed, as they had a sufficient vote already paid for. So now in the Senate it is ‘only necessary for it to be known what the Managers wish, and they are pretty sure to have it. Some one of the counsel for the respondent proffers testimony that he regards as vital to his case, and Mr, Manager Butler “objects” quite at random, and, as a matter of course, argument is given from the defence, generally earnest and clear, to show the fitness and relevancy of the testimony, and the Managers, out of some small lingering regard to formalities, put in an adverse argument and hurry the ques- tion to a vote; and the vote, strictly radical, rules the testimony out. Such is the bewitch- ing simplicity of justice in our Senate. More flagrant than all the previous instances of this was that given on Saturday, when the Senate ruled out the testimony of members of the Cabinet as to the advice that the Presrdent had received from them in regard to the Tenure of Office law. Mr. Johnson is charged with intentional violation of the law. His intention is so much the essence of his offence that if he did not do the acts alleged with intent to vio- late law they are not criminal. This is the position taken by the accusers in the impeach- qnent articles. They accuse not only the Presi- dent's acts, which might have been mistakenly done—they accuse nothing whose criminality the common frailty of error might palliate—but they go into his mind and charge the very ori- gin of the evil in a wicked intent to knowingly violate the constitution and the laws. He must, then, before he could have conceived this intent, have known that the law in question was one he was bound to obey; and this car- ries the evidence to the formation of his opin- ions—what would be reasonable proof of his deliberately evil intent? If it could be shown Tt will | hands of private companies or local monopo- | new State constitution commences in Georgia to- | of the telegraph, but there will have to be | General Schofield on Reconstruction in Virgiuin, | On Friday General Schofield addressed to | the Virginia Reconstruction Convention, sitting | in Richmond, some words of broad, simple, sensible advice—words without passion and withont prejudice—giving the result of his experience in the government of the State, reasoned dows to the intellectual level of the members, He spoke in fair terms of the new constitution, and pointed out that its success or failure would depend entirely upon whether the governments organized u' nder it were composed of good or badmen. He said “‘whether the government organized under this constitution will be a good or bad one is to be determined by the qualifications of the men elected to carry iton. In this view of the case you should have left open the widest field from which to choose these men, and I have no doubt that both parties will exert their utmost strength and put forth their best and ablest men to inaugurate the new government.” But he reasons that the convention has not left open this field, and the clauses in regard to qualifications for office are so stringent, #0 much more sweeping than those of the Con- gressional reconstruction laws themselves, that they rule out all men fit for office. His words were positive. “I refer to that portion which prescribes the qualifications for office, and which, I believe, will be, if allowed to remain in its present form, detrimental in its effect upon the adoption of the constitu- that he had been advised on every hand of the binding force of the law; if those who habitu- ally advise the Executive had told him that the makers of the law had not transcended their authority, and he, stubbornly following his own will, had yet acted in defiance of the law, that would have been fair evidence of his evil intent. Now, the defence must assunfe that the prosecution pro- poses to argue this, perhaps deduce it from evidence already given. Thus they come for- ward to set up plain evidence'to the contrary. They propose to show that it was the uniform opinion of all who advised the President that the law was not one he was bound to respect. And the opinions of Cabinet officers are in this competent evidence, not to show the Senate that the law was unconstitutional, but to show the Senate that the President came honestly by the opinion that the law he is charged with | violating was not a law, but an enactment without force, and one that he was restrained from obeying by his duty to the paramount fundamental law—the constitution. Such was the testimony proffered by the de- fence on Saturday, Regarded in any just re- lation to the charges made, it was so evidently and clearly relevant on the one important point in this case that no man honestly using his own eyes could fail to seeits relevancy. Coun- sel for the prosecution, interested in the euc- cess of their case—not in justice —ohjected of course. Mr. Wilson, one of the Managers, sup- ported the objection by an hour's argument that never touched the point. Mr. Curtis urged the admission of the testimony in a strikingly lucid atatement of its purpose, and the Chief Justice of the United States ruled that the testimony proffered was competent and admissible, Radi- caliem, seeing its danger, appealed from the de- cision of the Chief Justice, and the vote raled the testimony out. denying the defence the right to prove the respondent's innocence by the mostcompetent and proper evidence. Such a decision shows that extreme men in the first time under the auspices of the Lutherans, Mr. Edger, an advocate of Comtism spoke in De Garmo's Hall, in defence of the positive philosophy practised and preached by Auguste Comte. The members of the Episcopal Church of the Re- demption found themselves debarred from entrance on their way to worship ander its roo! yesterday, the doors being closed and ® squad of Metropolitan police being stationed in the neighborhood. Noex- planation was made, and the action of stopping the service in this way is attributed to Bishop Potter. Rey. Mr. Scott, the pastor, secured the use of a hall in Cooper Institute and conducted the regular ser- vices there, ‘The Cole-Hiscock murder trial in Atbany is set down for to-day. The prosecution is ready, and, a6 no intimation has been received that the defence js not, the trial will probably proceed, It is thought there will be some diMeuity in obtaining @ jury, a8 the facts of the case have been siready made so ‘were scarcely known to the world outside, Wit- ness the telegrams in the Heraip every morn- ing from the different quarters of the globe, and our special despatches from Abyssinia, in the interior of Africa. Events that are occur- ring and ideas that are fermenting everywhere are made known to us as regularly as the pro- ceedings of Congress or the occurrences in New York. But it will not be very long before the whole earth will be girdled by this mys- | terious agent and all nations will be brought | in instant communication with each other. | The barriers of local and national prejudices will be broken down, and there must be, in | time, frem the universal communication of ideas, a brotherhood of nations. When that time comes—and it is not far off—not only will the separate governments have to take control The lection on the ratification or rejection of the Senate have determined to convict; and every thinking man will sympathize with the Presi- dent's counsel in the feeling that it is uselesa to carry the case further—that it might ae well be stayed at this point as to proceed before a court that will hear only one side, Orricitat, =Dgorxcy.—Mr. Colfax, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, gives another opportunity for judging of his idea of the proprictics of his position, He has written a letter to the *‘stupid blockheads” of the Union Leagne on impeachment, intended to influence the judgment of the | Senate by assuring it that Mr. Colfax is “ not willing to doubt the result.” He cannot see any reason for acquittal, Can the Senate have the impudenoe to see more thao the Speaker of the House oes? tion. It is practically impossible to carry on @ government in Virginia predicated upon that basis.” Government is absolutely impossible upon the only conditions upon which radicalism will have it. Such is the opinion of @ man of excellent judgment, not swayed by improper sympathy with the purpose of any party. General Schofield’s advice was, of course, lost upon his radical and nigger auditors, and the party for which it might be a warning will only remember it as an offence. Nowhere is the demand of the nigger for extravagant con- cessions 8o boisterous, so impudent, so beyond all the decencies of life, as in Virginia; and nowhere is white radicalism more humbly sub- missive. At the requirement of the nigger voter, therefore, the radicals agree to legislate the white man under the foot of the slave. But even the concessions to the nigger vote must have a limit. Radicalism will have to modify its nigger programme, or presently to choose between the loss of the whole of its power in the North and the loss of the nigger. It will then have to rein in the madness of Cuffee; but he will by that time have gotten beyond all restraints. He will demand more than the maddest partisan will dare to even promise, and, his demand being refused, he will revenge himself by casting his vote on the other side and acting in concert with the people of his State against radical rule. Such is the inevi- table future, and the conservative element has only to keep cool and bide its time. Our Abyssinian Correspondence aud the English Press. The special reports from the New York HERALD correspondent in Abyssinia, giving, in advance of the official despatches of Sir R. Napier, the news of the movements of the British army in that distant and difficult country of rugged mountains and terrific chasms and defiles, have been making a little sensation in the English press. The London Post, not. being able to comprehend how this thing has been done, undertakes, in a labored argument, to justify the conclusion that the Herarp Abyssinian telegrams are based upon conjectures. The result of this attempt, how- ever, to impeach the authenticity of our corre- spondent’s information substantially establishes it, although his news “‘travelled five days faster than the latest official news from Sir R. Napier.” Indeed, the theory by which the London Post undertakes to reject the testimony of our witness is about the same as that adopted by Professor Loomis, of Yale College, to prove that our special cable despatches touching a certain meteoric shower at Greenwich Observa- tory could not be true, because, according to the Professor's calculations, there could not have been a meteoric shower at the time and place named in our despatches. Our facts, however, proved too much for the Professor's assumptions, as they have already proved too much for the idle theory of our perplexed London contemporary. The Liverpool Post, April 3, solves the mys- tery at once, in the simple statement that ‘‘ the London correspondent of the New York Heratp, again in advance of all other corres- pondents, has favored us with the particulars of his despatches from the most advanced post ofthe Abyssinian expedition up to the 16th ult.” (March); and the saine honest jourgal farther says :—‘‘We may remark upon the humiliation of the English press involved in the fact of the New York Hrracp farnishing us with news relating to a purely English affair.” This is really the difficulty with the London Post, and it will not be removed by bringing foolish theo- ries and calculations against ‘‘fixed facte.” Our Abyssinian correspondent understood his mission from the outset, and he is faithfully fulfilling it in giving us the earliest news of the movements of the British army and of the gen- eral situation of things in that wild, strange and most remarkable country. isinna ElectionCharges of Fraad. A telegram from New Ogeans, published in our issne of yesterday, gives us some singular information regarding the election in Louisi- ana. A despatch from the town of Monroe, signed by an army officer and an internal reve- nue collector, charges “‘that the election as conducted in that town is unfair, MNegal and unjust.” By whom these wrongs are com- mitted we are not informed; but as we know that the sadicals have full control of the ballog box, it is only fair to conclude that the radicals ure the guilty parties. That there should be any fraud in the election in Louisiane is some- thing rather astonishing. With immense negro majorities in all wat three or four parishes of the State, it does seem to us as if the party of great moral ideas could very well have afforded to play an honest part for once. The intelli- gence, virtne and wealth being so hopelessly in the power of the ignorance, vice and poverty of Louisiana, any unfair polling of the votes was, to say the least, wholly unnecessary. It is true that the whites may have used their influence with the negroes and kept them away from the polla, thus jeopardizing the success of tho radjoal ticket aud rendering ballot box 6 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1368-TRIPLE SHEET. stuffing s political necessity. Should this prove to be the case, we trust that General Buchanan, who seems disposed to act fairly and impartially, will reject the illegal votes. The same despatch alluded to also reports that the conservatives are sanguine that they have carried New Orleans by a decided major- ity. The white vote was known to be con- siderably ahead, and as many negroes openly voted against the radical ticket this may prove to be true. At any rate we trust that itis. As one of the largest and most important commer- cial centres in the Union, it would be a great misfortune if the government of the Crescent City should fall into the hands of a mob of half savage negroes and carpet bag adventurers. The Cretan Struggle. In the Heratp of Saturday we published a special cable despatch from Athens, re- ceived via Trieste and London, to the effect that the insurrection in the island of Candia had again broken out, that the fighting had been severe, and that the revolutionary forces had been successful. It was also stated that assistance was being given to the insurgents by the Greeks and other Christians. We are slow to believe that the insurrection has broken out afresh, The Athenian origin of the report makes it doubtful. It is notorious that for some time past all reports regarding Turkish affairs which have reached us through that channel have been highly colored and some- times positively untrue. The publication of the Turkish Red Book, of which we have al- ready given extracts in the Herap, has done much to set this Cretan difficulty in its true and proper light. It is now undeniable that the evils of Turkish rule have been greatly ex- aggerated; that if there were evils these evils have been remedied, and that the government of the Sultan is now actuated by the most kind- ly and benevolent motives towards the Cretans and the Christians generally throughout the empire. It has also been made plain that the insurrection would never have taken shape but for the officious meddling and selfish policy of Prussia on the one hand and Greece on the other. The most mistaken notions have all along prevailed both in Europe and America in regard to the actual condition of Turkey. Our sympathies have naturally enough been with the Christian as against the Turk. But our sympathies have often been blind and unreason- able. We have insisted that the Turk should leave Crete and the other so-called Christian provinces of the empire, forgetting that the principle of nationality cannot be applied in Turkey but to beget general disorder. ‘‘In Crete,” as is shown by the Red Book, ‘‘one- third of the population is Turkish, in Thessaly one-fourth, and in Epirus one-half.” In an empire so composed it is manifest that govern- ment cannot be conducted purely in the inte- rest of any one class or party or religion. More we have no right to ask than that the balance be held with an even hand, and that impartial justice be done to all. Russia has ceased actively to interfere in the affairs of Turkey. We cannot say so much for Greece. It is still her object to keep alive the spirit of insurrec- tion. Her eye rests hungrily on Crete. We have no cause of quarrel with Greece; but neither have we any cause of quarrel with Turkey. If the Christians of Crete havea claim on our sympathy so have the Mohammedans. Men and women are not necessarily bad because they are Moslems, just as men and women are not necessarily good because they are Chris- tians. So long as the government of the Sul- tan goes on in the spirit of modern progress, doing that which is just and right by all its subjects, so long it will be our duty to cheer it forward. We shall have words of equal kind- ness for the Greeks when the Greeks shall show that they deserve them. Meanwhile the Greek government has enough to do within its own proper and legitimate sphere of ac- tion, and it would consult the interests of the kingdom best by leaving the Sultan and his subjects to settle their own affairs. Greece is not just yet a model kingdom. Behind the Scenes—Mrs, Lincoln. Mrs. Lincoln has been represented asa dull woman, and her enemies, particularly those of the radical press, have tried to ridicule her in every possible way. But it is evident from the book ‘Behind the Scenes,” just issued, that she is much shrewder, more sagacious, and has a better knowledge of the character of men than the world has given her credit for. Mrs. Keckley, the colored dressmaker and con- fidante at the White House, and the author, or reputed author, of ‘‘Behind the Scenes,” shows that Mrs. Lincoln saw pretty clearly into the characters and motives of the promi- nent men that surrounded her husband. Though the lamented President Lincoln did not lack penetration, he was sometimes led astray in his estimation of those about him by his confiding and generous nature. His wife appears not to have been so easily deceived. Mrs. Keckley’s book shows this, with many ,other curious things which cannot fail to make @ sensation among all connected with the “republican court” during Mr. Lincoln's Presi- dency. Mrs. Lincoln's opinion of Mr. Chase, Mr. Seward, Andrew Johnson, General McClellan, General Grant and others may be regarded as being a little extreme, but it is quite graphic. Of Mr. Chase she remarked to her husband :— “Yes, one of your best friends, because It is his interest to be so. He is anything for Chase. If he thonght he could make anything by it he would betray you to-morrow.” Of Mr. Seward she said to the President:—‘‘I wish you had nothing to do with that man. He cannot be trusted.” And, again, ‘‘ Seward is worse than Chase; he has no principle.” When Andrew Johnson was about to be made military Governor of Tennessee she remarked, fiercely, ‘‘He is a demagogue, and if you place him in power, Mr. Lincoln, mark my words, you will rue it some day.” She re- marked of General McClellan, ‘ He is a hum- bug.” When asked why she said so she re- plied, ‘Because he talks #0 much and does so little. I tell you he is a humbug, and you will have to find some man to take his place—that is, if you wish to conquer the South.” Speak- ing of General Grant she observed le is & butcher, and Ys not fit to be at the head of anarmy.” And when the President said, by way of defending the General, ‘But he has heen very successful,” she replied, ‘yes, he generally manages to claim » victory, but such a victory! He loses two men for the enemy's one, If the war should remain four yeara longer, and he’ in power, he would de- populate the North, According to his tection a nm there is nothing under the heavens to do but to march & new line of men up in front of the rebel to be shot down as fast as they take their position. Grant, I repeat, is an obstinate fool and a butcher.” Such is the estimate Mrs. Lincoln had of these prominent individuals. @The public can judge as to the correctness of the sketches. We are not eur- prised at the bitter antnosity of the radicals to Mrs. Lincoln, and their persecution of her, nor at the hostility of those whose characters and conduct ehe has graphically depicted. They have not spared her, and we think this is only paying them off justly. Mrs. Keckley, or Mrs. Lincoln herself, might make a great many other revelations that would be interesting and useful. Dr. Livingstone Still Alive. In the Hzratp recently we published a tele- gram from London, based on unquestionable authority, to the effect that Dr. Livingstone, the great African traveller, was still alive. It is confidently stated that all doubts of the safety of Livingstone are now dispelled. The announcement has gladdened millions of hearts in all lands where the intelligence has beea received. It is a triumph of civilization—a triumph which is destined to produce most abundant fruit. It is now proved toa demon- stration that the cowardly Africans who de- serted him basely lied to save their own mis- erable lives. The Doctor is not only alive, but his journey of exploration has been successful, and his presence in England may soon he ex- pected. We have said that the assurance that Liv- ingstone still lives is a success to civilization. What with the discoveries he has already made and made known to the world, with the dis- coveries of Burton, of Beke, of Speke and Grant, of Baker and his wife, it is now safe to conclude that the secrets of the unknowm regions of Africa will be revealed. with com- parative fulness, We have been startled with the discoveries of Livingstone already. We have since been startled with the discoveries of Speke and Grant and with the discoveries of Baker. Much, however, as they have done, it is not too much to say that if Livingstone is spared to reach home we shall receive from him an addition to our knowledge which will leave all previous information completely inthe shade. To Livingstone himself his home-coming wilt be strange and curiously suggestive. He will be welcomed as if from the grave. His obitu- aries have been written in almost all languages and his character has been carefully and lov- ingly estimated. It is recorded of the great Emperor Charles the Fifth that, to know what it was to be dead, he caused himself to be coffined and gave instructions that the entire service for the dead should be faithfully gone through. His wishes, of course, were fully com- plied with, and the’still living monarch, though “retired from business,” had the satisfaction of enjoying in the monastery at Juste, as far as was possible, all the honors accorded by the Church to the illustrious dead. Livingstone, however, has a far higher honor in store for him. It will be his privilege to know not only that he has died and been buried, but that he has passed out of life loaded with the honors and eulogies of all civilized nations; that he bas died universally regretted, and that not a single stain-drop has fallen upon his fair and well earned fame. Such an honor falls to few of the sons of men. In Livingstone's case, however, it is an honor which no honorable man will grudge. He isatrue hero and is justly entitled to a hero's praise. Proarrss my ALaska.—Our new Territory of Alaska seems to have caught the spirit of American progress immediately after we have taken possession. A few months ago and while it belonged to Russia it was re- garded as almost a ¢erra incognita, a country somewhere bordering the North Pole. That portion of our press which has opposed the purchase has, even up to this time, repre- sented Alaska as a hyperborean region of mo value. But we hear every day or two of some progress or new developments there. By the latest news we learn extensive seal fisheries are to be put under way, and that an opposition line of steamships for passengers and freight between that country, California and Vancouver's Island is to be started. An opposition line of steamships to Alaska! Only think of that! What enterprise and progress among our people on the Pacifict It will not be long before American settle- ments will reach Asia, and the people of these two qnarters of the globe will meet and shake hands with each other. Tue Dickens Dinner.—Pleasant, cheering and apparently satisfactory to all parties con- cerned, was the Dickens dinner at Delmonico’s on Saturday evening. The bill of fare was, of course, toned to the palates of both ma- tive and foreign participants, and in no manner of way resembled the bill of Dotheboys Hall. The gentleman entertained said a great many pleasant things of the entertainers and the profession generally, which were received with unctuous good grace. Mutual admire- tion had full sway, and when such is the case at public festivities everything goes as merry as a marriage bell. Tue Ocean Steam Race.—Ocean racing assumed a new phase when the match was made between the two vessels Cuba and City of Paris, of the Cunard and Inman lines, to test their speed across the Atlantic. Both steamships started on Saturday for Queens- town, not exactly in racing trim, but in the regular commercial way, with cargo and pas- sengers aboard. They are vessels of good reputation for speed, the average runs of the Inman ship being a little better than the Cunarder, Althongh the race is not of an fn~ ternational character, both lines being British, | still there will be a good deal of interest felt at both sides of the Atlantic as to the result, If ever. we are fortunate enough to have an American line of steamers on the ocean this race may be followed by another, in -which national rivalry will give additional rest to the contest. OBITUARY. Mrs, Sarah Moore. The Department of State has received information of the death, at Trieste, on the 13th of March, of Mrs. Sarah Moore, aged seventy-seven years. Mrs. Moore was by birth a Nicholson of Baltimore Into walen albert Gallacia tnatriod, ina hed itself in the the last’ aor