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city have forwarded a letter to Governor Fenton, 6 NEW YORK HERALD | t,t, cress «ser to Governor reatn BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, —ee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AD business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York ‘Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. 4 Rejected communications will not be re- turned. ‘Volume XXXIL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hompry Dumrry. Matinee at Uy. , FRENCH THEATRE.—Mawnee at 1-La B@uue HELEeNne " NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tae Wnirr Fawx. Matinee at 1. ondway and 1th street.— 1-ROSEDALR. “ WALLACK’S THEATRE Heney Doncas, Matinee BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ciacpre Duvar—La ‘Touw DE NELSE. a 4 * BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Boun 70 Goon Luvox —Connrericer Couw: —Harry MAN. Matinee, * NEW YORS THRAT Yast xp HELEN, Mati ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.-Matinee at 1— Diagy Sruarr, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atrect.—GrMNastios, EQuESTRIANIAM, &e, Matinee at Bi. 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Advertisers should bear in mind that, in order to insure the proper classification of their business announcements, all advertisements for insertion in the. HERALD should be lefi at the counting room by ‘half-past eight o'clock P. M. THES NEWS. IMPEACHMENT. Tn the High Court yesterday Mr. Grimes’ order changing the hour of assembling to twelve o'clock ‘was agreed to, Mr. Edmunds offered a resolution to allow official reporters to take down the debate in Becret session, but Mr. Sumner objected and it went ver. { Mr. Nelson, of counsel for the President, then te- Bumed and concluded his closing argument for the defence, speaking, however, to very slim audiences in the spectator’s galleries. Mr. Groesbeck of counsel will continue the argument for the President to-day. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills were passed providing for floating baths in New York, making appropria- tions for the canals and for other purposes relative to the canals. Numerous other bills of minor im- portance, or not of general interest, were also passed. Bills incorporating the East River Tubular Company, for the better protection of emigrants, amending the Croton Aqueduct act and for the ap- ointment of four tax commissioners for New York Dy the City Comptroller were advanced to a third reading. , In the Assembly a bill providing for the appoint- ament of superintendents of canal repairs by the Canal Board was reported, and the report was agreed to. Bills for a museum in Central Park, relative to the storage of combustible materials in ‘New York, and to widen Broadway, between ‘Thirty-fourth and Fifty-ninth streets, were passed, AUSTRALIA. By way of England we have late news from Australia conveying the startling intelligence that his Vioyal Highness Prince Alfred of England was shot and dangerously wounded in Sydney, The assassin, who was promptly arrested, is, it is alleged, a Fenian, EUROPE. ‘The news report by the cable is dated to midnight esterday, April 24. Lord Stanley informed the House of Commons that the Czar of Russia had made secret proposal 40 England, looking to aid in’ effecting the Andependense of Crete, but left it to be inferred that such a course could not be adopted, The Prince of Wales took his departure from Ireland. ‘The London Times and others of the leading English journals express doubts of the aecuracy of the esti- mates of the Disracli budget, and think the economy shown on its face has not a solid basis, The Fentan murder trials were again adjourned after the hearing of able arguments for the defence. Spain is report- aa Consola, 9335 a 93%%. dend) in London auc Bourse steady. Cotton firm in Liverpool, with middling uplands at 12%d., and strong in Havre. Breadsiutts quiet and provisions steady. Fi -twentic #75)5 I O85 (@X-divis Havre. Paris ‘Tue Tycoon of Japan has retired from the govern. ment, The Mikado offered “indemnity” for the Preach sailors murdered at Osaca. . MISCELLANEOUE. The President sent @ message to the Senate yester- day withdrawing the name of Mr. Ewing, and nom. inating General Schofield for Secretary of War, vice Kdwin M, Stanton, “to be removed." ‘The trial of General Cole was continued at Albany yesterday, The testimony for the defence went to prove that the prisoner hal rece'ved injuries from a full of his horse while in the army which had unset- tied his mind and made him irrational, Several witnesses were examined and the court adjourned until this morning. ‘The results of the elections In North Carolina and Georgia are being slowly footed up. Figures are given in the North Carolina election which, however, show nothing except that the election has been warmly contested, and that either party may be the successful one. In Georgia {he result is also doubtfal, reports conflicting somewhat. A despatch from Macon says the democratic ticket ha on suecesstul in the Southwestern counties. in Louisiana the re- suit is certain, the radicals claiming twenty thousand majority, Numerous frauds on the part of the radi- cals, however, are reported, General Schofield has postponed the Virginta elec- tion, which was to have taken place June 2, until Congreas makes an appropriation to bear the ex- ponses, Governor Rrownlow, of Tennessee, at the r-auest of candidates for Congress, has also post. poned the election in that State until November, the Det ‘onvention met in Dover yest y and adopted resolutions supporting | Congre favoring General Grant for the Presi- aoney. tions were given to the delegates | relative t Vic Presidency, but the opinion of the The members of the Union L vorabie to Wade. ue Club of Unis the New York Tax Levy at his leisure before tue Legisiature adjourns, and assuring him that his veto will be fully sustained if he disapproves of any of the bills. ‘The president of the Erie Railway Company pub- lishes a special report to the board of directors rela- tive to the complicated litigation that has been golng on in the courts of this city over the sfairs of the company. He appends a report of the superintend- ent of the road relative to the late disaster at Carr's Rock, A prize fight took place in Warwick, R. L, yester- day. The police captured the two contestants, and although they were both terribly bruised in the fight, having become completely blinded from the blows inflicted, they were locked up in jail in East Green- wich, A boiler explosion in Mainstee, Mich., on Wednes- day night, killed eight workmen and wounded four others, The Anchor line steamship Europa, Captain Craig, will leave pier 20 North river at noon to-day for Liver- pool and Glasgow, calling at Londonderry to land passengers, &c. ‘The fine steamship General Grant, Captain Hil- dreth, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P. M. to-day for New Orleans direct, The popular steamship San Jacinto, Captain At- kins, of the Empire line, will sail from pier 13 North river at three P, M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. ‘The stock market was variable yesterday. Govern- ment securities were firm. Gold closed at 13944. ‘The Democracy and the Presidency—The ‘Time fer Action and the Man for the Time. “How was it,” we have been asked, ‘that Mr. Belmont and his National Committee were influenced to put off the National Democratic Convention till the 4th of July?” We pre- sume that among the ideas thus influencing the committee were these:—That the party was too much broken up, East and West, on candidates and principles to act harmoniously if called earlier together than July; that in the meantime some breaks, defections and weak places might be developed in the radical lines on Southern reconstruction, negro suf- frage and Andy Johnson which would enable the democracy to flank them or divide them. Similar considerations, however, caused the postponement of the Democratic Convention of 1864 to the last of August; but the waiting on that occasion ‘for something to turn up” only contributed to swell the vote of Abraham Lincoln. With Sherman apparently checked at Atlanta, with Grant apparently baffled in front of Petersburg, and with the authorities at Washington still shaking.in their shoes over the July visit of the rebel General Karly to the very gates of the city, the Democratic Convention on the Ist of September came to the damaging conclusion that the war was ‘‘a failure.” All that they gained, then, by waiting in 1864 for some developments of the war upon which they might clearly define their position was a disastrous democratic defeat—a defeat to which we may trace the more than two- thirds vote of the radicals in each house of Congress to-day. It is a remarkable fact, too, that Mr. Belmont and his committee, sitting in Washington, did on the 22d day of February last appoint the 4th of July for their National Convention, when, on the 21st of February, President Johnson had committed the overt act of Stanton’s removal—an act which, from the instant it became publicly known, foreshadowed a complete change in the political situation within a very short time. On the 22d Wash- ington in all its political circles was so deeply agitated by this Executive coup d'état that it is surprising it made no visible impression upon Mr. Belmont or his committee. They evidently considered this second flare-up with Stanton a bagatelle, and Mr. Johnson himself as no longer worthy a moment's attention in their estimates of democratic chances. Had Mr. Belmont been as shrewd in detecting a coming change in the political bourse as in the money market, he would never, under the facts de- tailed, have thought of putting off his National Convention till the 4th of July. He was too cautions in his game of avoiding an entangling alliance with Johnson, and so he missed his opportunity for taking time by the forelock, But the mistake thus committed may yet be repaired. Mr. Belmont, to repair, it has only to call his committee together and appoint an earlier day for his National Convention than the 4th of July. On the day of or the day after Johnson's removal let hira (Mr. B.) issue his rescript for an immediate council of his com- mittee, and let them call to all the con- servative elements of the country to hurry up their National Convention close upon the heels of the republicans, and there will be such a shaking among the dry bones of radicalism ns will be felt in the office seckers’ festival at Washington. It will be an attack upon the flank of the enemy while changing ‘his base, and if properly followed up it may 80 fur demoral- ize him as to scatter his broken columns into a Bull Run stampede, As in army movements and financial operations, the right time is often so clearly pointed out for a decisive stroke in politics that only the most stypid leaders can fail to discern tt. Nor can anything be clearer to the discerning politician than that the time is at hand for a combined aggressive movement of all the opposition forces against the party in power. Why they should remain inactive until the enemy’s lines are fully reorganized and in battle array we cannot tell, unless the object of Mr. Belmont is to let the battle go by default and retreat in good order. The time for action is an important thing, but the right man for the time is the paramount necessity. The man who overshadows all of the Union war party for their leader, and | Opera fu New York=—Tie French Theatre | a young girl which occ’ i Admiral Farragut is their man, His platform, up in the rigging of his good ship HMartford, will be a fair equivalent for General Grant's Appomattox apple tree. The last taste of the copperhead being thus washed out of the rauk and file of the democracy, they, in a coalition with all the other opposition forces, will have a fair field before them upon which to fight the revolutionary schemes of radicalism. With this immense advantage in such a fight the issue may be as astounding as was that of 1852, when a militia subordinate routed, North and South, the greatest soldier of that day—our conqueror of Mexico. What says Mr. Belmont to all this? We call upon him because he holds the destiny of the democratic and of all the other anti-radical elements of the country in his hands, He can lift them up or put them down. We dare say, too, that in following our advice in 1868, as Horatio Seymour did in 1862, the results will be equally satisfactory. The cool, experienced observer, standing aloof from either party, knows more of the weak points of both than their wisest leaders, Impeachment=The Argument of Mr. Nelson. Mr. Nelson, speaking for the defence before the Impeachment Court on Thursday, went over the merits of the case in a somewhat general sense. He argued closely, cogently, earnestly many important points in the case; but the main feature of his address was that he went aside from a strictly technical argument on the evidence and the law to state his client's position broadly, politically, morally. This was rendered necessary by the course the prosecution had previously taken. No one, surely, can have failed to notice the gratuitous fluency of allusion to the President's career, outside the record of this trial, that has marked the speeches of the Managers. One man speaking of another, whatever contempt and dislike he may feel, controls the extrava- gance of his speech and keeps it within certain limits, if not out of respect toward the man of whom he speaks, yet in respect and deference to those who hear. It might have been supposed that such a regard to good manners and a feeling of re- spect toward the Senate would have restrained the Managers from referring to the President in terms of coarse abuse and from reciting to his prejudice their own accounts of events not fairly within the cognizance of the court; but it did not, and thus Mr. Nelson has been drawn to the vindication of the President from all the loose, vague and altogether improper aspersions that the Senate had permitted the Managers to make. His defence was well conceived and will stand as a fair example of earnest, honest eloquence. It evidently came from the heart and carries the sympathies of the reader, It will do much to show by con- trast the whole spirit in which the effort against the President is carried.on, One of Mr. Nelson’s strongest points is the production of the resolution introduced into the Senate by. Mr. Johnson in the first year of the war and then adopted by Congress as the expression of the country in regard to the object of the war. That resolution declared that the war was for the Union, and not for the de- struction of slavery, nor for conquest - nor the subjugation of the Southern people. The spectacle now is that Mr. Johnson is the only man in the government who adheres to that declaration and stands up in opposition to those who are trying to secure the results of the war as though it had been one for con- quest. He is the man who holds to the main idea, and all the rest have been swept on by the revolutionary current. He is tried on party questions, and yet not because he de- serted: his party, but because he did not go with it when it deserted its principles. ‘The Situation England. The telegraphic news which we published yesterday was varied and full of interest. The tory budget was produced in the House of Com- mons, and although it is not quite equal to expec- tation it is not far from the mark. Seventy mil- lion pounds sterling were expected, Sixty-nine million six hundred thousand pounds sterling have been realized, The surplus of receipts over expenditures for the coming fiscal year is esti- mated by the Minister at nine hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling. The cost of the Abyssinian expedition is estimated at five million pounds sterling. By a process which is not painfully complex Mr. Hunt, the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, does not only see his way to meet this burden, but to have a surplus of some seven or eight hundred thousand pounds, The budget debate does not seem to threaten a serious difficulty to the ministry. The Church Rates Abolition bill was brought upin the Lords, and after a debate of some toughness, in which the anti-State Church ten- dencies of the day were fully recognized, was read a second time. At the same time we learned that one of those meetings which have already been held in most of the large towns of Scotland and England had been held in Mr. Spurgeon’s New Tabernacle, at London. The house, which is capable of holding five thousand people, was well filled on the occasion. John Bright oceupied the chair and made a speech of unusual eloquence. The speeches were all in one vein, and resolutions in favor of the general disendowment of religion were unani- other men among the democratic probabilities is Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, His programme, they tell us, of greenbacks for the bondholders, and a new and large infusion of greenbacks into the general circulation of the country, is carrying everything before it in the West. But does any one suppose that if such is the fact this radical Congress will not meet this popular demand with a shower of greenbacks and national bank paper sufficient to silence thie Western clamor? Of course this thing will be done. Where, then, will be this hobby of Mr. Pendleton? It will be upset and de- molished, and his stock in trade will be con- fiscated. In view of this emergency who can | take the place of Pendleton? Canvassing the leading politicians of the democratic camps, | there is not @ man among them equal to the crisis, They are all like bad butter, tainted more or leas with garlic or copper, or | something of the Chicago peace platform and the peace party of the war, lt | | | | will be the height of absurdity to set np any | such man against General Grant.. The opposi tion forces, to make anything like a promising battle against him, must come within the lines mously adopted, The Clerkenwell trial was progressing, and damaging evidence was being produced against the prisoners. The Prince and Princess of Wales in Ireland still formed the centre of admiration and enthusiasm. It will @® an interesting study to watch how Eng- land Will get out of all her numerous present troubles. Tax Baxxrerr Law.—The Senate should spare time enough from the labors of impeach- ment to enable them to pass at once the House supplementary bankrupt bill, which further postpones until January 1, 1869, the operation of the provision of tho original law, that no discharge shall be granted to a debtor whose assets shall not equal fifty per cent of his liabilities, unless the assent in writing of o majority of his creditors be filed in the case. At present the lawyers and courts are seriously embarrassed about this provision, It should be stricken out of the law altogether, as it will render it a farce, so far as relief to the honest | but unfortunate debtor is concerned, as soon | aw it becomes operative ; but at present its post- | ponement is sufficient, and this should be made | « law as gpeedily as possibie, and Its Managers. Opera of all kinds seems to have this Don- nybrook [air character, that it is always in some trouble or other and its managers are constantly in hot water. Italian opera in this city is a striking example of this fact. Either one hundred and ninety-nine and a half man- agers amuse themselves with baiting an un- fortunate dmpresario, or a wilful prima'donna upsets the calculations of her employer. Some- times the macaroni chorus threaten a strike ; again the Teutoni¢ fiddlers and hornblowers demand more lager than is nominated in their bond. But the stormy career of Italian opera in thfs city is over for the present. It died some time ago of one hundred and ninety-nine and a half different complaints at the Academy, and of forty per cent consumption at Pike's. The deceased has left a large family to lament its loss, and it is a significant fact that since its death the number of organ grinders, triangle players, ‘Santa Lucia” and ‘Viva Garibaldi” street vocalists has visibly increased. While these enfants perdus wander disconsolately around the streets both opera houses are closed against them, and Verdi and Meyerbeer no longer supply them with macaroni, or the manager with kid glovea, bouquets and equip- age, The General Boums of the Academy can no longer flourish their panaches and say to the poor impresario, “Bah! mauvais soldat!” and the operatic Fritz on the west side has to resort to his Bour- bon again to. conquer the public. Dating with the decline of Italian opera commenced the prosperous reign of opéra bouffe at the handsome little French theatre. Attempts were made year after year to establish a French theatre in the metropolis, but all were fruitless until a shrewd Yankee came along, stick in hand, and declared that henceforth there should be gpéra bouffe. In reply to the incredulous shrugs and dissentient opinions of opera goers and advisers, he introduced ‘‘La Grande Duchesse” and her respected parent, Offenbach, to the public. It was an enterprise of considerable risk, but the result verified the judgment of the manager and the appreciation of the public when anything really good and complete in the operatic line is presented to them, ‘‘La Belle Héltne,” an elder daughter of the humorous Franco-German composer, next made her bow at the French theatre and was received with as much favor as her predeces- sor. People were tired of hearing the same old fossils in Italian opera every season, and gladly turned to the delightful novelties which this bold Yankee brought. over in his valise from Paris. But after a long and peaceful reign suddenly this operatic sovereign found himself in a revolutionary muddle which threat- ened to shake the foundations of his power and wrest the sceptre (in this case a formida- ble looking stick) from his grasp. There are stockholders connected with the French thea- tre, not quite one hundred and ninety-nine and a half, however, but they are the mildest and most unobtrusive people in the world, and are quite content with their little per centage without troubling their heads about manager or artists. But they have a representative clothed with terrible power and majesty, in whose hands they confide the destinies of the French theatre. The time came when this representative should seek # proper guardian to take care of his precious charge for the next five years. Bateman presented his cre- dentials as the operatic Columbus who first discovered the French theatre and colonized it. A rival claimant suddenly appeared from Havana in the person of Grau, who declared that long before Offenbach left Les Bouffes Parisiennes he planted the flag of Ristori on the battlements and hung out his poster ban- ners on the outer walls of the building in ques- tion. have been more perplexed in their decisions than was the umpire in this case. As the con- tending goddesses told Paris on Mount Ida :— Veuillez donner la pomme A la pius beile de nous, so the expectant managers urged their claims on the great dignitary. The decision was made, and one of the managers, “‘Le deurieme, qui ne dit rien, it eutle prix tout de méme.” The theatre, with all its appurtenances, was consigned to the care of Grau, ten thousand dollars being at once paid down by him as the first instalment. The question now arises, what will Bateman do and where shall Tostée or Fleury Longchamps warble for the future? The best course for both of those managers is to imitate the example of Drew and Vanderbilt. When the railroad managers got at loggerheads the Albany lobby got into ecstasies, for they scented afar off the rich spoils which might accrue to them from such a war. But the railroad managers met one day and quietly arranged everything to their mu- tual satisfaction and the intense disgust of the expectant politicians. Let Grau and Bateman NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1868-TRIPLY SHEET. ‘ Paris or Solomon himself could not | follow their example and thus outflank trustee, stockholders and curbstone men. At all events the news of Grau’s accession to the throne of the Théitre Francais and the advent of Ristori in her réle of Sor Teresa, which the Bishop of Havana said was very naughty, will send stocks up in that market, so that all the stockholders will be in good spirits. The union of both managers and the clearing up of the terrible muddle which things seem to be in at the Theatre Francais at present will cause stocks to rise almost to fever heat, Let them bury the hatchet and smoke the pipe of peace, like the Sioux Indians in winter time when they have nothing to eat, and they can concentrate around this favorite temple of opera and drama such a bonquet of genias and brilliancy as never before regaled the intellect- ual nostrils of the amusement public of the metropolis, mds Be Cruelty to Children, The Legislature at Albany has a bill before it for the prevention of cruelty to children. We do not know what motive instigated the: member who introduced this bill, unless it was a desire to extend the powers of Mr, Bergh, who has especial charge of the quad- | rupeds, to take charge also of the children and see that they are not inbumanly treated; but it is certain that facts which have recently come to light would seem to warrant the enactment of such a law. Let us take the re- volting case, now before the court in Brooklyn, of the poor orphan boy at the Protestant Or- phan Institute, who was 80 cruelly and indeli- cately mutilated by a woman, one of the off- cials of the establishment, and as a second in stance of brutality the shocking outrage upon near Fort Lee on Tuesday lust, as reported fa our columns yes~ terday. It is not necessary to detail the facts of the violation and attempted murder of the girl by a couple of ruffians, It is to be hoped that the police authorities will bring the per- petrators to justice, though no human power can compensate the victim for the evil done. The law will probably deal with the matron of the Brooklyn Protestant Orphan Institute and her misguided advisers and accomplices as they deserve. Meantime, it is some consolation to see that while the result of the elections in the Southern States is likely to elevate the white man to the level of the negro, the Legis- lature at Albany is disposed to put children under the same beneficent protection which is extended to turtles and the other animals in the charge of Mr. Bergh. ——— ~ oe Charges Agninst General Schofield—More The thing above all others the radicals cannot endure is an honest man. Honesty in the exe- cution of the Reconstruction laws must not be permitted, because it would surely be fatal to that reconstruction policy upon which the poli- ticians count for their ability to control the future of the South and the country. Hence the clamor that is sure sooner or later to be raised against any officer in command of a military district. Before a man can rise to the position of brigadier general in the United States service he must have shown himself possessed of qualities that are alwaya found associated with personal honor. Such men cannot become the pliant tools of political jobbers; for they will not turn aside from duty and abuse their positions to secure the ends of this or that man in a party contest. Some- times they may err in an_ interpreta- tion of law, and, from the influences and accidents of education, lean a little to one side or the other. But this they do not con- sciously do, It follows, therefore, that they never can pursue the shameless course a politician would point out, and never can meet all the requirements of the tricksters in party games. Politicians are sure, sooner or later, therefore, to find such men in their way and to urge their removal. This is the whole phi- losophy of the charges preferred by Governor Pierpoint against General Schofield. Schofield has administered the law in Virginia wisely, moderately and with rare and admirable fidelity to the highest sense of honor. Who does not know that this must necessarily be disagreeable to the radicals? Pierpoint, therefore, only acts consistently with the known character of his party in taking the preliminary step to secure Schofield’s removal. The charges are that he has appointed to office men who could not take the oath, The fact is that he could not find decent and honest men to act under the regis- tration law who could take the oath. He had, ,therefore, the option to knowingly put rascals into office or to take the responsibility he did. He may be removed ; but if he should succeed in holding his place, and not doing it in defiance of the party in power, it would, per- haps, be the one fact in his history that would not be to his honor. The Japanese Civil War. ‘The London despatches by way of Shanghae which we published yesterday from Japan, represented the country in a state of anarchy. The struggle between the party of the Tycoon and the party of the Mikado had assumed the proportions of a civil war. The natives of Oxaca had cruelly butchered a boat's crew of the French corvette Dupleix and had compelled all the foreigners, with the exception of the Eng- lish, to haul down their flags. Now, this occur- rence is not unlikely to give to France particu- larly, and to the other foreign Powers which are jealously watching the growing predomi- nance of American influence in the East, a pretext such as they are usually glad to seize upon or to fabricate, if necessary, to make a quarrel that may enure to their ultimate advantage. Later news, indeed, which we publish this morning, shows that, although the ‘Tycoon has apparently been worsted in his con- test with the Mikado and had retired from the government, the counsellors of the Mikado had advised him to offer indemnity for the murder of the French sailors at Osaca. It is nevertheless manifest that the present opportunity should not be lost of asserting the legitimate supremacy of American interests in Japan. An American fleet under the command of as able and sagacious a commander as the American navy can furnish ought immediately to be sent to the Japanese waters. If the foreign Powers represented there at present get into a serious quarrel we should then be on hand to settle it on terms satisfactory to ourselves at least. Why should Farragut be subjected to all the trifling and tedious cere- monies of a Mediterranean voyage when he might so much more advantageously represent the dignity and advance the interests of the United States in Japan or in China? The in- calculable wealth which is to be received at San Francisco and distributed at New York for the benefit of the world lies in Japan and in China, Mediterranean squadrons and West Indian squadrons are comparatively useless; and yet we learn that ships are being ordered home from the very ports to which they should be sent at this critical juncture of cireum- stances on which the future of American in- fluence in Japan and in China so largely depends. Found the Man. The anthorities at Ottawa, as we are in- formed by telegraph, have found the man who saw the shot fired which killed Mr. D'Arcy McGee. The reward of twelve thou- sand dollars, it appears, has brought a poor, hungry, dilapidated French Canadian from his lair, who swears that he saw the accused prisoner Whelan do the deed. It is remark- able that this witness was not forthcoming ‘at an earlier period of the investigation, and it is perhaps not less remarkable that the vigilant search almost instantly made in the vicinity of the assassination did not unearth this witness— who states that he was standing in a doorway close by—nor that any traces of his footsteps were found in the snow which the police care- fully examined—only one track being discov- ered, and that being assumed to be the foot- prints of the prisoner, as carefully measured by the aid of bis boots. Hitherto the evidence against the alleged murderer has been purely circumstantial, The testimony of the twelve thousand doline witness —this “ignorant French- man,” a& the telegraph deseribes him--it it Asi Sa Oa stands the tost of crogs-examination, may solve the mystery; but evidence of this kind is gen- erally accepted, and very properly, with a good pe gesys The case, + riopalbat being in skilful lawyers on both sides, there is little doubt that the matter will be sift- ed thoroughly and that justice will be done, whoever may be guilty of this cowardly act of assassination. The Indian War Again, Spring having returned, the gras has grown again on the prairies of the West, and as ® consequence the Indians have resumed hostilities with the white settlers, While living upon the bounty of the government during the past autumn and winter, the red- skinned savages were profuse in promises of peace with the pale faces; but no sooner were they able to subsist themselves and their horses unaided than they returned to the chivalrous work of mussacring defenceless people and adorning the dirty belts around their dirtier’ waists with long-haired scalps. While the numerous couneils were being held last year, and while Generai Sherman and the other Commissioners were smoking pipes of peace with these Indians, we predicted that they would remain quiet no longer than they could help themselves, and that they would never respect the treaties made; and our prediction has been verified. The fact is that we have been pursuing a false’ and stupid policy with these Indians, If our cavalry had hunted them down during the winter and com- pelled them by force of arms to respect our power there would have been no hostilities commenced this spring. It may seem un- charitable to advocate a policy of aggres- sion; but mercy to these savages is positive injury to the settlers, as it retards the prosperity of a most valuable segtion of the country. Had we fought the Indians during the past winter, instead of feeding and petting them, neither Spotted Tail, Un- spotted Tail nor any other kind of Tail would have been on the warpath to-day. We cannot hesitate a moment in choosing between permit- ting these savages to exterminate the pioneers of civilization in the West and permitting our army, to exterminate them. We have become tired of the cant about “humanity” an@ the “noble redskins,” It does not replace a single scalp upon a white man’s head. If the Indians were disposed to look at things in the same civilized light that our philanthropists do there would be some justice in the plea for mercy; but as the yearly massacres plainly demonstrate that they delight most in slaying their white brethren,’ we begin to consider the policy of sending them to their “happy hunting grounds” in as short a time as practicable. At any rate, we trust that the government will cease feeding, clothing and coaxing these savages. Flour, bacon an@ breeches are scarcely so effective as gunpowder and bullets are likely to prove. ° Revelations About the Treusury, Treasury Ring and National Banke. We call attention to our special Washington correspondence, published in another part ofthe paper, on the operations of the Treasury Depart- ment, the Treasury ring and the national banks.' It is shown, as we have frequently said,’ that there is an intimate connection between’ the Treasury Department, certain prominent members of Congress and the national banks, and that the finances and financial policy of the government are worked in the interest of what our correspondent properly calls “this Treasury ring.” There is no telling what the amount is which these banks make out of the people and government through the assistance and favor of Mr. McCulloch and the members of Congress interested. Besides the twenty- five millions a year which the banks make out of the privilege of their circulation, which is a direct robbery of the people, their property— that is, their bonds—is exempt from taxation,' and some of them, as our correspondent shows,, have the use of twenty-seven millions and more of government deposits without paying interest for them. Then there are the sales of Treasury gold, the purchase, sale and manipu- lation of hundreds of millions of national securities, and other profitable jobs which are given to some of these banks, and all which could be done by the department itself at a great saving of public money. But there is no hope of any reform as long as Mr. McCulloch, the national banks and the Treasury ring, ia and ont of Congress, have power over the finances of the country. Tue Prea or Iysaniry.—It has become quite a standing rule in criminal practice of late years to bring in evidence of insanity for the defence whenever any great crime has been committed. In the Cole-Hiscock case now om trial at Albany the prisoner's counsel have not neglected this chance for their client. Wit- nesses have been put upon the stand to prove that Cole was once injured in the body by the falling of his horse, and has at times subse- quently to the accident evinced symptoms of an unsettled mind. If the justification of the homicide depended upon this testimony there would be but slight prospect of acquittal. Better trust to the bold avowal of natural right. made in the opening argument for the defence than to any such flimsy and nonsensical plea. NEWS ITEMS. General Sherman arrived in St. Louis yesterday. ‘The new hotel in Brookfield, Mass,, just completed, and owned by George Twitchell and others, was de~ stroyed by fire on Thursday night, The loss ti estimated at $20,000, The property was insured for $8,000 in Worcester, Springfield and Fitchburg offices. Harbach’s furniture factory, at Des Moines, towa, was destroyed by fire on Thursday, The loss ia estimated at $30,000, On Thursday night, in Chicago, while 4. Fontan meeting was being held in Healy's Hall the foorimg gave way, precipitating the audience to, the door beneath. Several ~ ype were sertously injured, and one has since died, The Ohio Wool Buyers ant Dealers’ Association will meet In convention in Cleveland on Wednesday next, the 29th inst. Rey. Francis Waters, a venerable minister of the Methodiat Protestant Church, died at fis residence in Baltimore on Thursday, aged seventy-seven years. A fire occurred on Thursday at St. Martin’s, Can, ada, Orstyoy ing twelve houses aad Other property. ‘The lesa is estimated at $30,000. ' The Massachusetts Legislature en mess visited the! Roosac tunnel yesterday and inspected the progteas of the work. The meuibers returned to Boston lady Hight, and will resume business on Monday. A collision between a mail and a freight train oe curred yeererday afternoon near Bethel, on the Ver- mont Central Railroad, kiding Mr. 1 1, She tag gage master, wud injuring Mr. We ine engi- neer, Axe! Mayford has been chosen President of the Relfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad. A grand Masonie procession took piace at New Orleans yos! y, the ocoaslOn botrek the Connocre. tion of the All the grand ofteers of the Sta reyaniza¥ons OF tie