The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1868, Page 8

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The Senate was not in session yesterday. In the House Mr. Robinson offered his resolution recalling the impeachment Managers aud rescinding the proceedings. The Houze refused to consider it by a vote of 18 to 91. A resolution to provide tora comm to investigate certain newspaper statemer ative to the Impeachment Managers and the nt on of General Sherman was of- fered, but objegted to. Numerous bjlis were x- ported under the call of comm! . The bill for the amendment of the Bankraptlaw was then considered and passed. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the Arcade Underground Railway bill was considered and reported complete, with amendments providing that vaults or openings shall not be appropriated without the consent of the owners of a majority of the lots fro: on the line of route, and ti $300,000 forfeit in case the road is not complete ail revert to the city instead of 90 to the New Yo! fety of ilfe on city enue; to secure @ 4 Springs; to supply tional Convention, and A communica- ler Connolly giving NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1868. ‘The commander of the feet calculates the Para- guayan loss in this attempt atfour hundred men. By special correspondence from Sianghae, China, dated February 28, we have @ very interesting ac- count of Minister Burlingame’s oficial leavestaking previous to embarking for San Francis¢o on his tm- perial mission, Considering the great honor done him by the Emperor, yiceroys, mandarins, and all the other officials insisted on prostrating themselves on the earth in Mr, Burlingame's pre- sence. The sudden death of Admiral Bell, Uni- ted States Navy, in the Japan waters was an- nounced in the China seas, and his memor guty Pr honored by the ditfereng navies, Our corrés sSndent recapitulates the number and names of the American naval officers who have died in service in Asta, and QUADRUPLE SHEET. what can prevent an indefinite reign of radi- calism? Meantime, an inflation of the national currency will serve to throw dust into the eyes of the people and lead them to the delusion that the removal of An@rew Johnson will have opened the doors to a new epoch of universal prosperity. . From December, 1865, when ‘Old Thad’s” Reconstruction Committee was formed, to this day, the conflict, between Gon ess and the eatdent has been upon these differendes be- tween the ideas of Jobnson and the ideas of Wade. Step by step “Old Thad” has advanced conveys a pointed remonstrance against “red tape- | from the bill establishing universal negro suf- ism’ in the department in Washington. Our special correspondent in Yokohama, Japan, dating on the 71h of March, furnishes a very impor- tant resumé of events which preceded the present frage in the District of Columbia to this im- peachment of Johnson. In the outset there was a section of the republican party in the civil war, its progréas and frightful excesses, re- | House which, combined with the democrats, capitulating the situation as regards foreign Interests | held the majority. Had these two opposing in the newly opened ports at date, ‘The election in North Caroiina commenced yester- day, and that in Georgia is fully under way. Every- thing is progressing quietly in the two States. Gor- don, the democratic candidate tn Georgia, is report- ed ahead; but the radicals so far are decidedly in the ascendant in North Carolina, Negroes in some tn- stances were voting the conservative ticket. A ma- jority for the constitution is indicated in South Caro- lina. In Lonutsiana the two most populous parishes, Orleans and Baton Rouge, give majorities against the constitution. In New Orleans city the democrats elect a Mayor and probably a Congressman. In the Cole-Hiscoock murder trial at Albany yes- terday, the day was consumed in empanneling a jury. The first panel only produced four, who were sworn as jurors, and twenty talesmen were sum- moned, Of these twenty only one was sworn, and an additional one hundred were ordered to be sum- moned from the body of the county. Counsel for the defence asked a postponement on account of the detention of an important witness by illness, but the court refused to grant it. Lord Monck, the Governor General of Canada, in recent correspondence laid before the Provincial House of Commons in relation to the abduction of one Allan McDonald by United States oMicers, takes occasion to rebuke the British Minister, Mr. Thorn- ton, for accepting Secretary Seward’s explanation without demanding the extradition of McDonald, The coroners’ juries im the late murder cases at Troy have rendered verdicts of death at the hands of some persons unknown, The Common Council of nts against the city, amount- recommending that pro a the City Tax Levy. wilvan between twe .an in portant 1a was thirty miles di ? Mr. Rassam, one of the most noted of the English captives, had had his chains icken off, The nows report the ca is dated In London at two o'clock this morning. Great alarm prevailed in consequence of men having been seized at Bucking ham Patace having comb mate ¢ is bre yleon contemplates a vast play pul roads in the interior of Fran n his home. lic wor Garibaldi ie The Mikado a losses sustained at th in the war, Consols, 9335 a 0555. hands of eit Five-twentles, 70 tn Lon don and 7634 in Frauksort. Paris Bourse dirmer. Cotton dull in Liverpool and Havre; middling conviction of the assaiiants of cither of the deceased parties. Two men, named Jones and MeCooly, are suspected of being the murderers of Crandell, the policeman, and have been committed to await an examination. ‘The examination of witnesses in the contempt pro- ceediags against a number of directors of the Erie Railway Company was resumed yesterday before Judge Barnard, A large amount of testimony was | use for him, taken and great interest manifested in the proceed- ings. The hearing will be resumed this morning. The stock market was steady yesterday. Govern- Ment securities were strong. Gold closed at 1393;. The Impeachment and the Republican Party— Johnson vs Wade. Within a week we may look for the opening of a new chapter in the history of the govern- ment of the United States. On or before this day week the eviction of Andrew Johnson from the White House and the promotion of Mr. Wade, President pro tem. of the Senate, to his place, will be the opening of a new administra- tion, The change from Van Buren to Harrison, the change from Fillmore to poor Pierce, the change from Buchanan to Lincoln, and the change from Lincoln to Johnson, were all ro- markable events; but this impending change from Johnson to Wade will, perhaps, in its consequences eclipse them all, except that which in Lipcoln’s election sounded the toscin of the iiidst’ momentous political revolu- tion of the nineteenth century. Who is Andrew Johnson? A self-willed politician from the backwoods of Tennessee. Who is Benjamin F. Wade? A self-willed politician from the backwoods of Ohio. How did Johnson become President? By the chapter of accidents. How will Wade become President? By the chapter of accidents, What, then, is it that is to make this great change between the administration under Johnson and the administration under Wade? ‘The al- mighty nigger;” that’s it, “the almighty nigger.” Johnson, trained under the institution of negro slavery a8 a ‘‘poor white,” had for forty-five years of his life two antagonistic forces to fight—the lordly slaveholder, who patronized or defied him, and the ignorant who despised him as “poor white Having vanquished the slaveholder Johnson has no further quarrel with him as a white man; but the social, political and civil inferiority of the negro and his subordination to the white race are ideas which are fixed in the marrow of Johnson's bones, and fire can- slave, trash.” factions possessed common sense enough to understand their true game they would have worked and voted together against the radical faction. But “Old Thad” used them—the conservatives against the dem- ocrats, or vice versa—until the dimin- ished and weak-kneed conservative clique were whipped in on Southern negro recon- struction, and finally cajoled to lead off in Johnson's impeachment. With his removal they will be transferred to back seats in the radical church and put upon a term of proba- tion in view of the good things of the kitchen. Van Buren and his democratic free soilers in their bold diversion of 1848 defeated General Cass; John Tyler and hig little band of office holders in 1844 assisted materially in swamp- ing Henry Clay; Fillmore and his ‘‘silver grays” in 1856, on being snubbed by the re- publicans, contrived by a third party ticket to defeat Fremont; but what hope is there for these republican conservatives in the way of revenge or retaliation? None. They have surrendered to the radicals and they must abide the consequences. Such men as Fes- senden and Sherman, for instance, must be content to stand back in the presence of Wade, the city has gifered $1,000 reward for the arrest aud | Stoveng and Butler, the masters of the field. And what of Johnson? What chance is there for him? Itis supposed that the Senate will be satisfied with his removal, and that he will not be disqualified from holding office hereafter. Will the democrats then take him up? No; for with his removal they will have no further Will the steadfast republican conservatives, such as Doolittle and Dixon, move in his behalf? No; for they, too, will have other fish to fry. Mr. Johnson's wisest coyrse will be to return to his quiet home in Tennessee, forswear politicians as a bad lot— the whole of them—lay in a good supply of corn and bacon, like Tyler; cultivate cabbages and philosophy, like Van Buren; get religious, like Old Hickory, when tired of the ‘world, the flesh and the devil,” and write a book, like Buchanan. As for the spoils politicians, with Johnson out and Wade installed in power, their cry will be that of the old Bourbon cour- tiers, ‘The king is dead—the king Ives—long live the king!” on the City Tax OR ae ‘The Citizens? Assoc! The earnest but probably unavailing protest of the Citizens’ Association against the mon- strous exaggerations of the City Tax Levy is worthy of perusal by all taxpayers. Despite the merry fiction which it contains relative to the one month’s, or sometimes two months’, careful examination by the Legislature of the State Supply bill—a bill almost always post- poned to the latest possible date, for the very purpose of rushing through appro riations to promote a variety of ‘‘jobs”—this pYotest righteously insists upon the propriety and necessity of more time and attention than the City Tax Levy ever secures, It also most clearly exposes the vast disproportion between the increase of the population of New York and the increase of its taxes. ‘In fifteen years the taxes of the city have increased from five millions to twenty-two millions. Their progression has been steady and gradual. What will they amount to fifteen years from Since 1830 the population of the city has increased four hundred per cent, but inthe same time the taxes have increased four thou- sand per cent.” Yet the Tax Levy bills of the city and county of New York, with comparatively few amendments, yearly pass both House and Senate, One million inhabit- now? not melt these notions out of him. Wade is a radical horse of another color. Trained in the school Northern roundhead abolitionism, human rights and negro equality, he looks upon all these Southern distinctions between the white and black races as the abomina- tions of negro slavery, which must be extir- pated. It is nothing to Wade that they are the growth of two hundred years of political cultivation under the constitution of the United States. They are abominations and must be ent out by the roots, Thus it is apparent that the “almighty nig- in our transfer from Johnson to Wade, expresses a change from one policy to another ew departure in our political revo- » first thing done in the way of struction by Johnson was to im the elevation of the poor whites, the of the twenty thonsand dollar whites of the blacks as that of ‘free »r the old slave system, with some The first thing that will be hy Wade in the way of Southern recon- ion will be to enforce the radical dogma ality and the programme of negro over the white ex-rebels and equal to a lution. T status rations uplands 124 012% pence. Breadstufs quiet and steady. Provisions dull. By the steamship City of London at this port we have special correspondence and a mail report in interesting detail of our cable despatches to the sth of April. MISCELLANEOUS. We have special telegrams from St. Thomas, Ja- maica, St. Vincent, Barbadoes, Antigua and Trinidad. ‘Another ineffectual attempt had been made to jaaneh the Monongahela at St. Thomas. The Legislature of Barbadoes proposes to exclude all contractors from legislative membership. Severe shocks of carthquake ‘were felt in Antigua on the 19th instant. Three hun- dred cooties have arrived at Trinidad from Calcutta, Our Buenos Ayres letter ts dated March 14. Affairs in Montevideo were becoming more tranquil and President Battle's administration was highly spokey, Of by the people. Po a a + OOF Rio Jgnetro tetter is dated March 26. The re- Port of the Brazilian naval commander in the war with Paraguay concerning his voyage up the river to Asuncion states that he did not take the town, but threw a few bombzhetls in it and returned to Tay}. He states, however, at tho city is slightly defended And Bland attack might taxe it, A deapérate attack ‘Was made on the itoa-clad feet by picked men of the Paragusy in army !f salt oats, aad it was only by OWE ee: traitors The reconstruction policy upon which Jobnson will go ont is that of universal ants of this island are subjected to heavier taxes than any ten million citizens elsewhere in the United States. In France the rise of taxation to the figure of thirteen dollars per head is not unlikely at any moment to precipi- tate revolution, although heavy taxation in France, as in other monarchical countries of Europe, is, ina measure, compensated for by magnificent outlays of public money in a way that ministers to national enjoyment and pride. In New York we submit to a taxation of twenty-five dollars per head, with scarcely any compensating advantages at all, save those reaped by officeholders and their dependents. And this great abuse seems destined to con- tinue and to increase, The present Legis- lature has shown how little it is disposed to in- augurate a reform which succeeding Legis- latures would be just as little disposed to prosecute. Immense as the evil is, we must, then, grin and bear it until the public shall have been educatéd to a due sense alike of its duties and its power. At present we must re- sign ourselves to abuses in the way of taxa- tion unsurpassed anywhere except in Mexico, where taxes are imposed ad libitum by the party which happens to be in power, Harry Inpirrerence to Facts Asp Forms.— suffrage to the Southern whited and a qualified |"There was a man before an Irish jury on his suffrage to the blacks; the policy upon which Wade will come in is that of universal suffrage trial for murder. It was a bull of a trial; for the defence produced in court, alive and well, to the blacks and a restricted suffrage to the | the man who was said to have been killed. Southern whites. The one plan looks to the But the trial went on, and the jury went out; Southern whites as the governing race; the | and, not to be dannted by any such little fact other looks to negro supren negro radical balance of Upon these broad dist son and Wade there w mar- gin for a new order of things, great and small, with Johygon out and Wale in the White Hi6nse, The field for radical revision in the acy and a Southern rwer, ns between John horde of ‘‘carpet bagggrs.” A new © of approved radicafs will bring from the ing elements of the country new office seeking recruits into the radical camps. A reorganizn tion of the Supreme Court, giving it a radical majority, will clinch the nail in the matter of a bill from Congress é 4 itd Ad hoa J lSi se st be Yuibed 3 as the presence alive of the man who should have been dead, they brought the prisoner in guilty, ‘How's this?” says the judge; ‘there has been no murder; the man is alive in court.” “Well, your Honor,” said the fore- man, “the jury is convinced that the prisoner } did not murder this man; but be isa danger- Southern States will give employment to a new | | ous person, Tam sure he killed my gray mare, ' and we believe (iat haagin ' to tho peace of the con: is sitting ia the chamber of the United States | Senate, It haa tried a man on certain charges. He is proved not guilty of the charges, but it is proposed to conde nn him ali the aame—“nob ys vat from a Ceeting thal it ie a tha: ck necessity of the political condition of the coun- try.” This last sentence is not from the fore- man of an Irish jury, but from a republican organ, The Erie aud Other Railroad Bills in the State Legislature. About three or four weeks ago, by the em- phatic vote of eighty-three to thirty-two, the New York State Assembly decided not to legalize the issue of ten million convertible bonds by the Erie Railway Company. The fact that the same Assembly on Monday last passed a Dill legalizing this game ten million issue shows what great changes may be wrought in a legislative body within a short space of time. The last action of the Howse, however, has in this case a peculiar significance, when taken in connection with the movements by which it was followed. __ It will be remembered that early this winter the great railroad king, Vanderbilt, when ex- tending his rule over the New York Central Railroad, after scattering the combined forces of Wall street jobbers, express companies and Western financiers who had a year previously seized upon the direction, went to work in a practical manner to cut down the extravagances and leakages that had been suffered to accumu- late in the management, and to make the road pay. To this end, among other things, he cut off a whole army of deadheads who had fas- tened themselves on the previous board under all manner of pretences. One-horse editors, newspaper Bohemians, lobbyists, poli- ticians, ex-Senators, ex-Assemblymen and ex- officeholders of every description, together with mayors, aldermen, councilmen, super- visors, town clerks, constables, contractors and loafers generally, all had Central Railroad passes in their pockets and rode free over the line, choking up the trains, to the annoyance and inconvenience of respectable passengers who paid their way. This raid of Vanderbilt upon the noble army of deadheads, united with his rejection of a number of disinterested offers to take a ‘little local bill” providing for an increase of way passenger fare on the Central road through the present Legislature, set the consolidated power of all three houses at Albany—the Senate, Assembly and lobby— dead against him; and as soon as the present session commenced a flood of anti-Central Railroad bills poured into the Legislature with the object of bringing the stubborn Vanderbilt ‘‘up to time.” Among others there was the old striker’s dodge and exploded humbug of a pro rata freight bill, a bill to authorize the construction of .a rival Hudson River Railroad on the west side of the river, and a bill to compel the New York Central Railroad to check through baggage and through freight by the Hudson river steamboat lines as well as by rail. All these measures were held én terrorem over the head of Vanderbilt; but the sturdy Commodore, with the experience of Nicaraguan fights and other mighty battles upon him, ‘is not made of yielding material, and so he told the yews e to go to—their prayers, and Taughed a Keir attempts to force open bjs plethoric wallet. The prospect for the hungry members and the famishing lobby looked ex- ccedingly dublous, but suddenly sprang up the great Erie controversy between Vanderbilt and Drew, War was declared—war bitter and unrelenting—war to the knife; and from the courts, where the bench be- came belligerent and the judges got at loggerheads among themselves, thé fight ex- tended to the State capital. Drew, driveil to versey, sought to make a flank movement by way of Albany to recover bts lost ground. Then came the glorious time of full board and unlimited whiskey for the members and the lobby. The pocketa of the great railroad king were reached at last, The committee of the House reported adversely to Drew and the Assembly drove him out of the field. He changed his tactics, assailed the Senate, and, despite an adverse report, got his measure of relief through that body. This was all the more glorious to the Assembly, who beheld the prospect of a second harvest when the Senate bill should come iuto their longing hands, It came at last, but with it came the startling and stunning announcement that Vanderbilt snapped his fingers at it, would not pay out a single dollar to defeat it, and cared no more about its passing the House than he did about Brother Drew inheriting the kingdom of heaven, The game being thus spoiled, there was noth- ing left to the House but to pass the Erie bill in sheer spite. This was soon accomplished ; but immediately afterwards all the anti- Vanderbilt bills that had been suffered to rest undisturbed while a nee of a profitable fight on Erie existed were instantly dragged for- ward and set in motion. The pro rata freight bill was ordered to a third reading, the rival Hudson River Railroad bill was pushed for- ward, and the bill to compel the Central Rail- road to check passengers’ baggage and freight through by way of the Hudson river steam- boat lines was passed. The object of this sud- den revival of the anti-Vanderbilt legislation is plain. It is intended as an act of revenge against Vanderbilt for not paying out two or three hundred thousand dollars to defeat the second Erie Railroad bill, and as such it is good presumptive evidence of the corruption of the Legislature and of the truth of the charges made by Assemblyman Glen in regard to the first Erie bill, which charges are now pending before the Grand Jury of Albany county. In this light, wo do not doubt, the action of the Assembly will be viewed by the Senate, The bill which requires the New York Central road to check baggage and freight through by the Hudson river boats, when required to do 60, is a good one, and should become a law; but the other measures are simply the measures. of the chagrin, wrath and disappointment of the baffled Assemblymon and their lobby friends, and as sitch will, no doubt, be discarded hy the Senate. The bill received the assent of the Governor yesterday. Tue Lincoun Boon.—We give some copious extracts to-day from the extraordinary book of Mra. Lincoln's confidante and seamstress, whieh we noted a few days ago. Mra Lia- cola ia shown to be a very observant, shrewd woman, who read the politicians well and did not seruple to expryss her opinions concerning them at times quite emphatically, and this may account fgr cho reason why T. W. and establishing universal aogro from a fooling of his techaical guilt oa this or other eadical leaders are so indignant with hor y tach wlvadow 6 the Widow ¢ Was Wands. 3 Ou 62 path oe Gear. dot cod ug? when her star was falling. It is ‘The Paraguayan War! she never loved the radicals overmuch, and} We call epecial attention to our voluminous expressed the utmost contempt for many of them. The extracts which we give from Mrs. Keckley’s volume to-day let some new light in upon the inner life of the White House during Mr. Lincoln's term. Dicken? Dinner Spceeh. When Mr. Dickens first visited America he was 60 young as tosee only the ridiculous features in the extraordinary attention paid to his claims as a reporter of the treasures in the mine of fiction newly opened if not originally discovered by him. He appeared incapable of appreciating the hearty if rude welcome ex- tended to him by an entire people. Or if he could appreciate thia he nevertheless allowed himself to be so much vexed at his failure to secure one main object of his visit, and it must be conceded a just and worthy object—the passage of an international copyright law— that he got fairly angry with us, and wilfully shut his eyes to everything but the faults and blemishes of the people. He therefore satirized the Americans mercilessly, but, on the whole, not more unjustly than he was in the habit of satirizing his own people. There was, in fact, so much truth in some of his criticisms that it seemed like a work of supererogation when, in his dinner speech the other evening, Mr. Dickens attempted a sort of apology for stric- tures which were held to be offensive, or at least in bad taste, at a time when Americans were more thin skinned and less indifferent to European criticism than they happily are at present, A second visit had opened his eyes to the mighty changes which a quarter of a century has wrought in this country and given him a glimpse of those which begin to loom up in a future not far distant, After a successful lec- turing tour which has put hundreds of thousands of dollars in his purse Mr. Dickens made an amende honorable much less suspicious than it might have seemed if he had proffered it at the commencement of his tour. After a din- ner at Delmonico’s—which even a London alder- man might have enjoyed, however much mys- tified by the fantastic names conferred on some of the dishes—it is not surprising that the ill humor which embittered the ‘American Notes” and ‘‘Martin Chuzzlewit” should have given way to more amiable emotions. Mr. Dickens very amiably, but also very patronizingly, admitted that not only his youthful views but the manners of the Americans had changed considerably. He intimated that although no earthly consideration could induce him to write another book about America, yet he would with great pleasure prepare an appendix tothe two unlucky books which he had already writ- ten. In this appendix he would cheerfully cer- tify to the gratifying fact that Americans have 80 greatly improved in their manners as not to have bored him so much as during his previous visit. He has been pestered with no invita- tions either to balls or to church. He has not been forced to shake hands until his fingers became as sore and swollen as those of a Presi- dent of the United States on an electioneering tour. Nobody has mistaken his hat for a splt- toon; nobody has invaded the privacy of hia bedchamber, ransacked his trunks, counted his rings and watch chains, upset his bottle of macassar or borrowed his tooth brush. With his preyious conceptions ql thig is 80 conflict- ing that he cannot conceal his amazement. He frankly acknowledges it and graciously pro- mises to have his apologies reprinted so long as his descendants shall retain any legal right in his books, Such extreme amlability dis- arms as well as overwhelms us, and we should be unamiable indeed to comment with severity on the patronizing air with which Mr. Dickens, like every genuine John Bull, seems bound to season his sweetest flatteries. But we cannot fail to recognize the extremely condescending manner which characterizes Mr. Dickens’ note of acceptance of the invitation to dine with certain members. of the press on Sat- urday, the only day which he found it con- venient to fix upon for the exhibition of this British lion at feeding hours. How very kind it was of him to submit to the exhibition at all! He had growled before at having been dined to excess, and yet with patient long-suffering he yiclds again to the infliction, gout to the con- trary notwithstanding. And if be came an hour and a half too late it may have been only out of deference to tho notorious lack of pune- tuality which he had himself satirized on the part of his American hosts, He could not have been aware how hungrily punctual his Bohe- mian friends would be on this extraordinary occasion, It may have chanced, however, that either he or they mistook the appointed hour. At all events, they must gratefully acknow- ledge that he has promised to find no more fault with their lack of punctuality or of any other trait of good manners. He pats them on the back and will eulogize them without reser- vation in his “‘appendix"—if he can secure the copyright of it for his descendants. We must not omit to thank Mr. Dickens for the imunificont donation of ome hundred and fifty dollars which he has made to the Dramatic Fund, in answer to the letter begging him to bestow upon it the proceeds of his last night's reading. A cool request, it fs trac; but the response of Mr. Dickens, through Mr. Dolby, is equally cool and characteristic. Dolby added a bundred dollars to the contribution, Well done, Dolby. We are glad that Mr, Dickens finds it so laughable an idea to look upon an American as a foreigner in England. Qur impression, then, must have been erroneous that Americans were regarded as “ovtside barbarians” by almost all Englishmen, including, particularly, those who invested largely in Confederate bonds. Perhaps the result of our Inte civil war was so unexpected ce to startle Englishraon into serious modisvations of their views of Amorica and Americans, Mr, Dickens may well con- gratulate bisaself on having not only advanced his private interesta, but also promoted a public advantago, if his second visit to this country shall incirectly serve to strengthen the entente cordiass botwoen the United States and Great Britain Goop ror Dotne.—Some one, on the part of the American Dramatic Fund, made an ap- peal to Dickens, for a donation. Dickens sent one hundred and fifty dollars, He sont tt through Dotby. Dolby evidently thonght the gif, eather small, and added another hundred hy The way to make a respecte sum, which South American correspondence, and paf'- culasly to the, accounts of the daring attack of the Paraguayans on the Brazilian iron-clads stationed between Curupaity and Humaité. We published yesterday the reports of the attack of the allies on Humaité, the capture and abandonment of Establecimiento, the as- cent past the batteries of Ourupaity and past Humaits by three small monitors, and the ro- ported arrival of the gunboats at Asuncion.’ The despatch of Admiral Ignacio described with true Spanish sonorousness the forcing of this famous pass of Humaité as ‘‘an action which will equalize our marine (the Brazilian marine) with the most important in the world.” Our later news, while it records the rejoicings of the Brazilians over the failure of the intrepid attempt of the Paraguayans on the 2d of March to capture the eight Brazilian iron-clads which had successfully crossed the sunken chains and were lying between Curupaity and Humaité, announces at the same time that two of these iron-clads had been stranded, and mentions a rumor that another had been captured by the Paraguayans, and, moreover, the fact that such was the scarcity of coal that two hundred dollars per ton were offered, thus suggesting the inference that it is by no means impossible all the remaining iron-clads may yet fall into the hands of the Paraguayans. ..- The attack made by the latter upon the iron- clads was manifestly far more serious than it was reported to be. It attested the pluck and obstinacy with which the Paraguayans ar@ maintaining what seems to be a most unequal struggle. Even if they should be forced to retire beyond the reach of gunboats, the rumored desertion of Asuncion and the river towns would scem to indicate, as our corre- spondent remarks in the letter which we pub- lished yesterday, that ‘‘the Paraguayans mean to fight it out in the interior of the country.” “If so,” he asks, ‘‘when may the war be finished—in one, two or three years? Quien sabe?” Whatever the event may be the Para- guayans will have demonstrated to the world,’ by their patient endurance of hardships and hunger, by their heroic bravery and their almost fanatical spirit of resistance to the en- croachments of the allies, how richly they have deserved success. In the correspondence which we publish to-day will be found full details of the assas- sination of General Flores, whose accession to supreme power in Uruguay, by means of Bra- zilian bayonets, is the alleged origin of the Paraguayan war. Old Mr. Glen on His Legs Agaia—Sorry Condition of the Legislature, It will be seen that the Albany Grand Jury have indicted Lewis, the lobbyist, on charges of attempted bribery preferred by old Mr. Glen, late the member from Wayne. This Grand Jury has, therefore, exhibited a higher sense of public virtue and justice than any of the same number of members of the Legislature that could be named. It virtually places old Mr. Glen on his legs again in the matter of his charges of corruption against the Legislature. Besides, the consternation among the members created by the healing of the troubles between Van- derbilt and Drew, and their ill-concealed ex- pressions of disappointment, rage and disgust at the closing up of the two splendid placers for enriching themselves, spread out before them by the quarrels of the two distinguished railroad potentates, furnish further evidence that old Mr. Glen's original charges of whole- sale corruption against the Legislature as a body were founded on fact, and that the indig- nant member from Wayne was justified in refusing to sit in the midst of such an ocean of corruption. The disappointed members of the House, who anticipated heavy bonuses from the railway contestants, must be in a bad way. How are they now to pay their board bills, their washing bills, their brandy and cigar bills, their amusement bills, their gambling debts? Three dollars a day for one hundred days, without roast beef, is their legal compen- sation. That will not settle the gigar bills alone of half of them. What shall be done, then, in this‘extremity for the preservation of the credit of the Solons at Albany? We suggest one or two plans which may be adopted with succoss:—Let a subscription be raised by those who have been benefited by their stay at Albany, and in case the amount raised by such means be too pififul, let the saloon keep~ ers and others who have realized ready cash from their presence put thelr hands in their pockets; let the washerwomen ‘brow in their bills until next year; or, in case these plans of relief do not succeed, let King Daniel give the members a free passage to Jersey City, or King Cornelius a free passage to Auburn, and then they will be sure of being taken.care of at one end of the line or the other. Tue Bill. to Protect Naturalized Citizens Abroad. The bill reported by Mr. Banks from the Committee oa. Foreign Affuirs relative to the rights of American naturalized citizens in for- eign countries passed the House of Kepresenta- tives. after a good deal of discussion on Mon- day. The object and general features of this bill are excellent, and there seemed to be little opposition to these; for when the vote was finally taken the bill was passed by 99 yeas to 5 oays, There was, however, a great differ- ence of opinion as to that feature of the bill which authorizes “the President to order the arrest and to detain im custody.any subject or sitizen of a foreign government who may he found within the jarisdiction of the United States,” by way-of reprisal for avy citizen of the United States that may be arrested and detained by any foreign gorornment in contra- ven‘ion of the intents and purposes of the act, and upon the allegation that naturalization, in the United States does not operate to dis~ solve his allegiance to his native savereign. It was thought by many members that thia extrome measure of reprisal might be danger~ ons and tend to lead the cou: into trouble, espectally when the exercise of it was proposed to be left to the discretion of the Exeoutive, Mr. Eliot, of Massachusetts, proposed to modify the bill by an amendment striking out the part referred tp and insertiug in teu thereof the following :—“‘Sueh delay and refusal (te give up American natoralized citizena on demand of the government) shall ba regarded as af offence to the United States incompatible with continuons friendly relations ‘with such fags g-venmmep'a” 20m thie