The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1868, Page 6

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Mr. Sumner submitted an order providing that the Senate shall vote on the several articles the day after the close of the argument, which was objected to, He then proposed two new rules, that each Senator shall vote at the call of his name upon each article, and on conviction the presiding officer shall pro- nounce the removal from office of the convicted per- son. Objections were also made to these, and they went over. Mr. Groesbeck, of counsel for the President, then delivered his argument for the defence, and at the conclusion the court adjourned, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills for the better protec- tion of emigrants in New York and to widen por- tions of Douglass and Sackett streets, Brooklyn, were passed. Bills relative to the State militia; to afford passengers certain facilities for transportation on steamboats; incorporating the New York and Brooklyn Tubular Tunnel Company; appropriating $200,000 for deficiences in the Constitutional Con- vention Appropriation, and the West Shore Hudson River Railroad bill were ordered to a third reading. In the Assembly bills to protect passengers on rail- roads, to provide for the maintenance of public parks in Brooklyn and several others of minor interest were passed. A bill was introduced providing for a new market on the present site of Washington Market. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated Wednesday evening, April 25. Prince Alfred was shot on the 12th of March by a man named Farrell,a member of the Fenian organiza- tion in Australia, The ball was extracted with dif- fleulty, and the Prince sailed for England. The Prince being very popular in Great Britain, the king dom is vastly excited in denunciation of the crime, ‘The Fentan murder trials are closed for the defence in London. The new Spanish Cabinet ts complete. ‘The rejection of the Federal Debt bill by the North German Parliament stops all naval and fortification preparations in Prussia, and the work of reducing the army to a peace footing will commence on the lst of May. Consols, 83° 8.9594. Five-twentigs, 704 a 70% in London and 753; a 7534 in Frankfort. Paris Bourse steady. Cotton firm and active in Liverpool, with middling uplands at 13 nd quiet in Havre. Breadstuiis quiet and steady, Provisions dull, MISCELLANEOUS. ‘The election in North Carolina is now known to have resulted in a success for the radicals and the ratification of the new constitution. In Georgia the result is still in extreme doubt, figures being plenti- ful on both sides and indicating a very close and ex- cited contest. Colored members of the Legislature are known to have been elected. We have special telegrams from Mexico to the 224 inst. by the Cuba cable. Negrete’s rebellion was assuming formidable dimensions and General Velez was to be sent to quell it. Magistrates have been prohibitea from making any farther arbitrary arrests, Jiminez had submitted to the federal authority. Ristori and her troupe galled from Havana for New York yesterday. Dr. Ehrhardt, or Edenhardt was blown up by anew fulminator of his own invention in Montreal yester- day. One man was killed and five dangerously wounded, the inventor himself losing an arm and his eyesight. Two detectives in Ottawa swear to having obtained & confeasion from Whalen of the murder of McGee by the questionable stratagem of placing one of his alleged accomplices in communication with him, and then overhearing the conversation. Whiskey frauds, involving prominent merchants and high revenue officials, are reported in St, Louis by the Grand Jury, By the late boiler explosion in Mainstee, Mich., nine persons were killed and six wounded. ‘The coroner's jury in the Erie Raliroad disaster at Carr's Rock yesterday rendered a verdict, declaring that the speed of the train at the time of the accident was thirty miles an hour, which, considering the condition of the rails on that section, was too fast jor safety. In the Cole-Hiscock murder trial at Albany yester. terday further testimony for the defence was taken relative to General Cole's tendency to madness, and the court adjourned till Monday. Senator Yates, of Hiinols, has written a letter to the people of that State acknowledging the error of his ways and promising to reform again, but refusing to resign. The stock market was strong yesterday, Govern. ment securilies were very frm, Gold closed at 100% LiPo NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1868-TRIPLE SHEET. In almost ail departments of trade in commercial circles yeaterday business was light, being restricted materially by the inclement weather. Cotton opened 3ge. higher, but closed with the improvement lost. Coffee was moderately active and firm. On ’Change flour was in light demand, but firm. Wheat was firm- ly held. Corn was quiet, but steady. Oats were in better demand, but rather easier. Pork was in fair Yequest and 7c. a $1 per bbl. higher. Beef and lard were steady. Naval stores were without activity, but firmly held, Petroleum was moderately active and held with increased firmness. Freights were almost inactive, but firm. Assassination a Growing Evil. Periodically the world has peculiar and un- expected outbursts. Sometimes it is a dis- ease ; sometimes it is a political, sometimes a literary, sometimes a religious tendency. In every such case the tendency is marked and commands the attention of the hour. At the present moment, if we were to speak of the world as a whole, we should feel justified in saying that the tendencies are many, and that many of them are marked and peculiar. Of all these tendencies that which is at once the most general and the most pronounced is the tendency to despise law and order. Indi- viduals and organized parties seem to have reached that point at which, impatient ‘‘of the law's delay,” they would be their own law- makers and the executioners of their own laws without any of the law’s delay. We seem to have completed a cycle and got back to that point which antedates law and order—a point anterior to civilization, and at which every man was his own lawmaker and his own avenger. Law, which was meant to be a pro- tection to the weak and a resistance to the strong, has ceased to energize its functions, the order of nature has been reversed, and chaos begins to emerge from cosmos. The gratification of personal or party revenge is one of the dominant characteristics of the day. Assassination has become epidemic, and the range of its influence is commensurate with the bounds of so-called Christian civilization. The attempted assassination of a young man} a prince of the blood royal, in a remote dependency of the British Crown, has given a point and a significance to these thoughts to which, perhaps, they would not otherwise be entitled. Prince Alfred of England has had hitherto, rightly or wrongly, the reputation of being an amiable and a popular prince. His visit to Australia has not belied the character which he had previously acquired. Rumors certainly have been in circulation not altogether to his credit, How far these rumors have been based on fact we cannot tell; but, supposing them to have been true, the worst that they imply is not more than can be said of most young men similarly privileged and similarly watched. The rea- sons which may have led to the attempi on his life we do not pretend to know. The fact that he has been shot is briefly stated; but, brief as it is, it connects the attempted assassination with an organization which, to say no more, has done but little to entitle it to the approba- tion of mankind. The would-be assassin may not have been a Fenian or a Fenian hireling; but the fact that in the brief telegram Fenian- ism and the assassination are connected is one which cannot be disregarded. The authorities on the spot are in a better position to judge than we, and they, not we, have made the con- nection. The attack on the Prince would have been startling in any circumstances, but fol- lowing as it does so closely on other events of a similar kind, it makes the world pause for breath and compels the question ‘‘Whither are we drifting?” It is onlya few days since a prominent Canadian statesman, known to be the object of bitter hatred to awell known organization, was shot at his own door. In our own country, in South America and in Europe, within the last few weeks, similar deeds of violence have been committed. In some cases the crime has been chargeable to the individual; in other cases the crime has been chargeable to a party of which the individual was the hireling; but every one of those cases, Mother the crime rested with the individual or with the party, has fostered a growing conviction that, all Christendom over, we are entering upon a state of lawlessness and insecurity. Everywhere within the limits of Christian civilization men are beginning to feel that an evil spirit is at work—a spirit which thirsts for blood, which is impatient of delay, which spurns the sacred barriers of civilization and religion, which remorselessly seeks out its object and accomplishes its fiendish purpose. We have actually come to this. If a man be- lieves himself to have been wronged he does not seek satisfaction at the hands of the law. He knows no law. He knows and feels noth- ing but revenge, and the dagger or the pistol is sufficient for his purpose. If a man stands in the way of a party, obstructs its measures or defeats its purposes, the hired assassin is not difficult to find, and the hired assassin is all that is required. It is thus that difficulties are being solved, that obstructions are being removed, that bad passions seek their object. Law is becoming too slow for this go-ahead age. Men have actually discovered a shorter, a sharper and a surer way. Such is the state of things to which we have been brought; but the end is not yet. We have no desire to look at this tendency of the age from an exclusively party or from an exclusively individual point of view. We are perfectly satisfied that some of the assas- sinations of recent times are capable of being traced to party organizations, and that the miserable hirelings who have done the bloody work have been more sinned against than sinning. We are perfectly satisfied that some of these deeds of blood have been the fruit of individual malice or revenge. The point, however, which we wish to raise, and towards which we wish to direct public atten- tion, is aside from either of these. How it is or what is the cause we do not now discuss ; we merely call attention to the fact that assassi- nation is one of the dominant characterlstics of the day. Since the death of Lincoln the pas- sion has grown, not only on this Continent, but in Europe. Since that time attempts have been made on the lives of the Em- peror of Austria, of the Emperor of Russia, of Count Bismarck and others, and recent attempts are too fresh in our memories to need repetition. No virtuous man will deny that the evil has grown and is growing, and that it is an evil which cannot be too deeply or too generally deplored. We are unwilling to believe that associations are as bad as they are called, or that individuals are as bad as they seem; but we have to deal with facts, and 40 long as life ia previous to us and deemed sacred gifts from the Father of ua all, the assas- sin and the aiders and abetters of the assassin must be denounced as the enemies of mankind. A little more indifference or a little more en- couragement, and no man of independent mind who thinks and gives expression to his thoughts will be safe. The time has come when a loud and indignant protest should be made against @ species of villany which is as cowardly as it is brutal, as fruitless of good as it is base in motive. It is a fountain all whose waters are impure, a tree all whose fruit is bittor. Impeachment and the Republican Candidate for the Presidency. Impeachment means the defeat of Grant in the contest for the nomination of the republican party. So sure as Johnson is impeached and removed and Wade secures his place, Grant will not and cannot become the candidate. His nomination will not be within the possi- bilities of the game. Wade, becoming Presi- dent, if at all, in the beginning of May, will pursue the line of policy he stands on now—that of ‘masterly inactivity.” He will not hustle out of office ‘every man now in. He will not break up the fountains of the great deep in the matter of party patronage. He will hold in reserve the vast wealth of the patronage of his position—that tremendous power tomakea hundred thousand men rich ‘“‘by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.” He will hold that power with the definite under- standing everywhere, however, that the offices are to be redistributed shortly and the John- son men turned out. He will go into the con- vention with this power in his hands. He will go with an almost illimitable power of appoint- ment in his pocket—that is to say, he will go prepared to buy up every shape and stripe of adverse opinion. What soldier ever had or ever will have a record that can outweigh in the minds of members of conventions the im- mediate certainty of a fat office? None. Wade, therefore, will be omnipotent, and will so use his power as to secure what he so earnestly desires—time enough in the Presidential chair to make friends—that is, five years. Let every Grant man in the Senate who votes for conviction clearly understand that in so voting he does his utmost to destroy Grant’s chances for the Presidency. Imperial Plans of Public Works in France. The Paris Moniteur announced on Tuesday last that the government would bring a bill be- fore the next Corps Législatif to provide for the completion of the extensive public works on the interior and connecting roads of France. These works have been prosecuted with greater or less energy ever since the restoration of the empire. of Cesar,” remembers well how convenient— nay, how indispensable—were the facilities for travel and transport provided by the Cessars in order to make every military station a centre of protection and of industry in keeping up communication with the capital of the Roman empire. tended their ramifications out of Rome through the length and breadth of her domain, were the best and most durable of all such struc- tures. how the administration of roads of gravel or Napoleon III., the author of the ‘‘Life The Roman military roads, which ex- The Emperor of the French knows well of iron may make them -serve as means in the hands of modern rulers of causing the central power to be felt to the last league of their ter- ritory. The fine broad boulevards which have been constructed within Paris during the last few years have not only let light and air into the dark, unhealthy labyrinthine quarters where revolution used to lurk, but they have also proved to be, as they were in- tended, military roads available for repressing insurrection, system of French roads promised by the bill which has been mentioned will increase the responsibilities of the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works, whose depart- ment is already so extensive and important, embracing the operations of twenty-eight bureaus in thirteen divisions. double motive has impelled the Emperor of the French to propose the bill in question—a benevolent wish to provide labor and food for the rapidly multiplying numbers whom ‘“‘out of work” and “‘tamine” are threatening to add to the ‘‘dangerous classes” in France, and that The new development of the No doubt a instinct of self-preservation which must be particularly strong at the present moment when so many ominous signs of the times fore- bode the perilous accidents that may overthrow him and his dynasty. It is not impossible that Napoleon III. may yet find one of the fine new roads which he has planned as convenient for precipitate flight as the late Louis Philippe found the road to Havre on his way to Eng- land. South Carolina Votes the New Constitution. A late despatch from General Canby, com- mander of the Second Southern Military District, embracing the States of North and South Carolina, says that on the ratification of the new constitution the total vote of South Caro- lina, so far as reported, is 85,843—majority for the constitution 36,101. Three districts not heard from, six incomplete. The majority on the full vote will, therefore, in all probability largely exceed 40,000. This is not surprising when we take into the account these facts: that there are 400,000 blacks in South Carolina against 300,000 whites, and that universal negro suffrage operated in this election in favor of the blacks, while the disfranchisement of the leading whites, on account of their connection with the rebellion, materially reduced what otherwise would be the white vote. The registered voters of the State are 46,646 whites and 80,714 blacks; so that, from the results of the election as reported, there was not a full turnout on either side, and the election went by default. In North Carolina and Georgia, where the registered whites have the majority, we look for different results, especially as the blacks are evidently beginning to bolt from the radical camps, As for poor, unfortunate South Carolina, itis to be feared that her troubles under negro supremacy are just beginning, although if the conservative policy towards the blacks proposed by General Wade Hampton were generally adopted, we have no doubt that the blacks and their late masters would soon be working harmoniously together. Turk Kerrie Carine Por Brack.—The moral philosopher who, after discoursing of Governor Seymour as a “liar,” of Thurlow Weed as “the old villain” and H. J. Ray- mond as “the little villain,” &¢., &c., turns round to read a moral lecture to the ‘obscene democragin” The Impeachment Poetry. The dry details of law, precedents and legal authorities in the tedious and wearisome argu- ments on the impeachment have been some~- what enlivened with poetical quotations, in which Messrs, Butler, Curtis and Boutwell in- dulged a little, but in which Mr. Nelson, of Tennessee, and Logan, of Illinois, especially in the elements overhead, including thunder and lightning, bear off the palm, Thus quotes Mr. Nelson:— From peak to peak the ieling crege among Leaps the live thunder: not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud Baok to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud. And again :— Like some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, ‘Swells to the vale and midway meets the storm, ‘Though round ite breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head, And yet again :— ‘Thongh in that cloud were thunder’s worst, And charged with lightnings, let them burst. And yet again quotes the poetical Nelson :— Forever and anon of grief subdued, There comes a token like a soon, Sing. ning tal may tite teugata ag e Back to the heart the might which it would fling Aside forever. It may be a sound Alone of music, summer eve or spring, The wind, the wave of ocean, which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly ound, And yet once more he gives his favorite Byron :— The how or why we know not, nor can trace Home to its cloud this lightning of the mind. All this completely demolishes Messrs. Sum- ner and Dawes, of Massachusetts, in their re- cent simultaneous quotation in each house of this choice extract :— I hear a lion in the lobby roar, Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door? But the fiery Logan, ‘‘half horse and half alligator,” in a single verse applied to Andrew Johnson demolishes Nelson as follows:— 1am the rider of the wind, The stirrer of the storm; The hurricane I left behind Is yet with lightning warm. We think, however, that the conversation of Mother Goose with the witch flying in the air on a broom would have been better, viz:— “Old woman, old woman, old woman,”’ said I, «where are roe going, you soar so high?’” “To sweep the cobwebs from the sky, But I shall be back again by and by.” And we are rather surprised that Mr. Nelson forgot that famous inscription in the register of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky (not far from Tennessee), which reads as follows: — Mammoth Cave, oh! what a spot! In summer cold, in winter hot, Let the eagle scream, “Oh! what a wonder! Andrew Jackson, fire and thunder !" In conclusion, Mr. Chief Justice, we expect that the winding up radical negro chorus of this impeachment will be:— Old Andy’s gone, ha! ha! And Old Ben’s come, ho! ho! It must be now de kingdom am a coming, And de year of jubilo! “Bull Run” Russell Bewildered. Mr. ‘Bull Run” Russell is not completely re- covered from the effect of the panic excitement which he endured during his memorable re- treat from the battle field which furnishes the now world known prefix to his cognomen. The healthy sedative which the late President Lincoln administered to him when he excluded him from the United States armies by special letter failed to steady his nerves sufficiently ; so the learned English pundit is afflicted with a sort of mental retroversion on all matters relat- ing to America ever since 1862. As onthe route from Bull Run he sees no progress, nothing in advance, and is ever casting a hasty glance behind and thinking of a situation and times which were. He declared a few weeks since at a public dinner in London that the electric telegraph was no great aid to the newspaper press, and that he preferred a written corres- pondence forwarded by mail as a means of en- lightening the public on matters of news affect- ing either national or individual interests, In this spirit, and with the Bull Run malady fatally upon him, the British Jefferson Brick just now refuses to see the value of the Herap's special war telegrams from Abys- sinia, and openly declares, in contradiction to the gentlemanly acknowledgments of the London Times and other city papers, and the compliments paid us by the commercial organs of Liverpool and the manufacturing centres, as well as by the War Office officials, that they are untrue in point of fact. ‘Bull Run” Russell cannot comprehend the Hgratp’s enterprise, consequently there is no such thing as American newspaper enterprise enlightening John Bull on his own proper affairs. The important in- telligence forwarded by our special correspond- ent marching with General Napier was not known to the ‘Bull Run” London Weekly, and that “looks bad in our club, you know,” as well as in the eyes of all those who have army tents and naval slop to advertise down in Wapping; 80 hine ila lachryme, i Our special news telegrams from Abyssinia are collated and transmitted to London at great expense and much trouble. We have endeav- ored, by a gratuitious communication of the main points of their contents when in transit, to post Mr. John Bull as to the progress of the war. The English people feel obliged to us for our courtesy, but “Bull Run” Russell, like the Irishman’s pig, cannot be brought forward unless it is accomplished after the fashion of the man driving the pig, by assuring him that he is going backward, or in the contrary direction. In this we cannot afford to gratify his anti-American monomania ; so we fear he must be left behind, or in the advance by retreat, as at Bull Run. “Bull Run” Russell commenced his pro- fessional career for the press in a very amusing but faulty school, writing up Irish election “ructions,” rows, riots and shillelahs for a Lon- don journal. He thus failed to obtain a proper estimate of the value of historical accuracy and correct assertion at the beginning, and as “anything would do,” so as it was un-Irish at the moment, he ‘drew the long bow” very considerably. This became a failing with him which the bewilderment of the Bull Run retreat has rendered incurable. He is also gullible. When employed in describing the social condition of Ireland in 1846-47 as ® special commissioner, his countrymen humbugged him unmercifully with most extra- ordinary statements respecting their own situ- ation, and these were all duly published in London, An Irish car driver assured him that there was not a pane of glass to be found on the estate of a prominent Southern proprietor and member of Parliament, and this was printed as a solemn truth in the London 7imes. The Irish landlord replied that he hoped the “Gutter Commissioner would soon have as | many pains in his stomach,” and as the ‘Gut- | ter Comntissioner” Mr. Ruasell was laughed from the island, and his misstatements subse- | rh quently denounced at a general meeting of the landlords of Munster and Leinster. Ireland has thus a first claim on the name and fame of the learned doctor ; but we think the world will dispute it and embalm him as “Bull Run,” even although he may never be able to estimate the value of the HzRatp's special telegrams from Abyssinia. .... Russian Diplomacy on the Candian Ques- tion. Lord Stanley, in reply to a Parliamentary question, has informed the British House of Commons that the Czar of Russia lately con- veyed to the English Cabinet certain secret diplomatic proposals on the subject of a solu- tion of the Cretan war difficulty, the exact nature of which could not be made public without the consent of his Majesty the Em- peror. stance of the remarks of the Foreign Secretary correctly, the St. Petersburg secret advance contemplated nothing less than a sudden joint Tf the Atlantic cable reports the sub- recognition of the independence of Candia by England and Russia—a step which the Queen’s government refused to take, being assured that Turkey would not acknowledge its efficiency unless by ‘‘compulsion,” meaning thereby that the newly arranged alliance would have to enforce its act of liberation by war. The cable telegram conveys also the appearance as if Lord Stanley referred to the subject with reluctance, for it says he “admitted” the fact. This looks as if the acknowledgment and ex- planation were wrung from his lordship by a successful manceuvre of the opposition in the Commons. Taking this view of the subject we are not surprised at Lord Stanley’s hesitation in deal- ing openly with sucha subject. Secret cor- respondence with Russia on the Eastern ques- tion, in face of the vast armaments of France and the decided leaning of Napoleon, with the aid of Austria and the probable support of North Germany to maintain the status in quo in Turkey for some time longer, is a very tick- lish matter for Great Britain. In a Christian point of view the diplomacy of Candian libera- tion and independence is very tempting; but the ‘‘balance of power” adjustment of Europe still steps in, and must take precedence of the light of the Gospel for some time longer. The Czar Alexander is no doubt extremely anxious to detach England from the entente cordiale with France; but he will scarcely effect such a serious rupture by pleading the cause of a new Christian nation- ality, even although Greece should be ren- dered more powerful, in preference to con- venience at St. James’. The proposition of the Czar to which Lord Stanley refers can scarcely be that lately sub- mitted by Russia to the great Powers simul- taneously; for if so the Secretary would not speak of it as a ‘‘secret proposal” to England, and Parliament would not inquire as to a mat- ter already within the knowledge of its mem- bers. Is it possible that this secret diplomacy of Russia in London was an immediate cause of the maintenance of the huge standing armies on the Continent? Did Napoleon fear a sud- den rupture of the English alliance and a war with Russia and Great Britain in the East, and hence keep armed? It may be so, indeed; for we are informed from Berlin that France, Aus- tria and Prussia agreed to reduce their armies by extensive furloughs almost simultaneously with the declaration of Lord Stanley. Chief Justice Chase and the Radicals. The radical organs are already intimating that the Senate will object to the Chief Justice's right to charge the jury (of Senators) in the impeachment trial. Are they afraid that the statement of the law of the case coming from a legal and—it is to be presumed—an impartial mind, will stand upon the record in testimony of their foregone verdict of guilty? The Chief Justice has, up to this point, proved himself anunprejudiced judge. Hisrulings so far have been equitable as between the accused and his prosecutors. Wherever, throughout the pro- gress of the trial, the rule of fair play and equal justice has been set aside, it was when the vote of the Senate overrode the decision of the Chief Justice. If testimony wearing a favorable com- plexion to the President and materialin answer to the charges was ruled out of court, it was the Senators, by their votes, and not the Chief Jus- tice, who so ruled it out. Therefore it is quite likely that the process which the radical organs threaten with regard to the charge from the bench will be carried out, and that Chief Justice Chase will not be permitted to explain the law of the case. Ignoring all law and setting aside the constitution as they do, it would be placing the Senators ina very embarrassing position if they should be compelled either to take the interpretation of the law from the Chief Justice, or, boldly disregarding his in- structions, pronounce their verdict against the President. So we think that the privilege of the Chief Justice to charge the jury will very probably be denied by a very emphatic vote. Geverat Scuortgy’s APPOINTMENT AS Secretary of War.—The appointment of General Schofield as Secretary of War in place of Mr. Stanton, ‘to be removed,” which the President bas just sent in to the Senate, has led to the inquiry whether this is not a com- promise preliminary to some settlement of the impeachment question—say, for instance, a verdict of acquittal. Schofield and Grant are firm friends. The radicals are courting Grant, and Grant has absolute reliance upon Schofield, as well he might, because he is a thoroughly honest, consistent and incorruptible soldier, wise, cautious and reliable. If Grant and his radical friends are willing to see General Schofield placed in the War Department, to which the President has appointed him, much of the difficulty in getting rid of Stanton may be removed, and the acerbity which charac- terizes the conduct of the trial on the part of the Managers and some of the Senators may be softened down, The appointment of Gen- eral Schofield at this juncture is significant. Does it mean a compromise, or what does it mean? i Too Hion.—‘‘ Every man has his price,” they say, and according to Mr. Nelson, of the President's counsel, the Hon. Jerry Black’s price for assisting in the President's defence was a ship-of-war to be sent down to take pos- session of the little guano island of Alta Vela, in behalf of Mr. Black's clients, ejected by the government of Dominica, with the consent of Mr, Seward, So it appears that Mr. Black's services were lost to the defence on this im- peachiment because his price was “tog high.” POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘The Seuthern Elections. The latest returns of the elections in Louisana, Georgia and North Carolina will be found under our telegraphic head, We annex official returns as re- ceived by mat;— NORTH CAROLINA. The following is the oMicial yote in Wilmington om the constitution:— Against. 345 1,194 301 16h 216 564 810 696 Grand total 033 Majority for constitation’.. et esse or The vote for candidates will not difer materially from that on the constitution, ' On the question of a convention during the election in November last the vote stood as follows:—For convention, 1,500; against, 658; total, 2,058. The Raleigh Standard (radical), April 24, thinks it probable that 150,000 of the 184,000 votes registerea have been polled. Thousands of white persons, not republicans, did not vote. The colored voters have no doubt turned out well. Of the 76,000 registered it is almost certain that not less than 66,000 have voted. This, added to the white republican vote, would foot Up 96,000, We do not think the conservative vote has gone beyond 65,000. It is probably nearer 60,000. The Raleigh Sentinel (conservative), April 24, says:—‘No information has yet reached us which changes our previously formed conviction that the new constitution is defeated. This conviction was based entirely upon the repeated assurances we have had from allquarters that the white conservatives of the State were fully aroused and would go to the polls.’” SOUTH CAROLINA. The Charleston Courter, April 23, says:—The total vote polled, as far as reported yesterday, with four districts to hear from, was 75,001, of which 50,019 were cast for the constitution and 17,308 against. ‘The number of votes reported but not yet canvassed is 66,884, Complete returns have been made from eight districts, incomplete returns from nineteen, and four districts from which no returns have been. received. In Horry the democrats have carried the district by 500 majority, in Anderson by 76 majorityg in Union the democrats have 215 majority, with one registration precinct to hear from; Pickens, in- cluding Oconee, gives 120 democratic majority. No returns have yet been received from Beaufort and Lancaster, and only partial returns from Spartan- burg, Union, Anderson, Pickens and Oconee. Im Marion the majority for the constitution was only 18, in York 66, in Greenville 600, The following official returns have been received of the vote on the constitution, which has probably been carried by about thirty thousand majority :— ; For Constitution. Against. Charleston, city... Charleston, countr, 27 EA 1,508, The election in Marion is to be contested as fraud- lent and void, by reason of the corrupt conduct of the managers at the polls. Sk LOUISIANA, raicicasiniiins | The following important order was issued by Gene- eral Buchanan under date of the 20th inst. It will probably have no little eifect in deciding the result of the late election in Louisiana:— Boards of Registrars in the parish of Orleans will at once make inquiry as to whether the commissioners of election have made returns of ballots as they were cast, or have added initials on their returns to surnames borne on ballots without initials or given names. For instance, have ballots cast simply for “Warmoth” or “Taliaferro” been returned as for “H. C. Warmoth” and “J. G. Taliaferro?’ They will trans. mit the result of their inquiry to this office without unnecessary delay. * MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Madame Ristori and suit sailed yesterday, April 25, from Havana for New York in the steamor Columbia. The farewell on the part of the Habaa- eros was very brilliant and enthusiastic. ' Maggie Mitchell played Lorle at MoVicker’s, Chicago, on the 2ist. Chanfrau succeeds her thia week, | The French opéra bvouge company commence to- morfow tight tpeir third week at Crosby's Opera House. ‘La Beile Héléne” has been given in full, with appropriate ballet, &c. Morlacchi is the Terpsi- chorean star of the troupe. Mrs. Jenny Van Zandt has made her débnt at Covent Garden as Oscar, the page, in “Un Ballo in Maschera.”” She made a decided success. One of the London papers say3:—‘Mile. Vanzani, in the last performance of ‘Un Ballo in Maschera,’ achieved: considerable success by her graceful and expressive rendering of the two charming airs sung b; ar in the third and fourth acts. In the air of the ball scene, ‘Sapor Vorreste,’ Mile. Vanzini’s clear, bright voice was particularly effective. She sang with great taste throughout the work, and the general impression produced by the déoutante was strikingly favorabie. Madame Parepa-Rosa, assisted by Carl Rosa, G. W. Colby and two other artists, gave five concerts during the past week at New Haven, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Troy and Utica. Each concert was attended by an immense audience. ‘Tagliont, the agent of the star danseuse, Mile. De Rosa, arrived in this city by the Scotia to arrange for the rae of Mile. De Rosa at Niblo’s. ‘The “White Fawn” ballet from the Boston theatre will be in Hartford on May 4. aor Parepa-Rosa gave a concert in Troy on the 22d. A brief season _of German opera will commence this week at the National theatre, Washington. Mr. Grover has grouped together in his operatic organi- zation Frederici, Natalie Selig, Rotter, Johannsen, Fleury la Roche and Bertha ger for the femaie singers, and Himmer Habelmann, Hermanns, Wil- ° helm, Formes, Wetnlich, Steinecke, Lehman, Vinecke, Urchs and Hubner for the male parts. MUSICAL REVIEW. Ditson & Co, publish the following:— “71 Balen” and “Si la Stanchezza;” “Il Trovatore,"” for organ and piano, Bellat. A simple, harmless little arrangement of both those well known operatic airs. “over the Bright Waves,” barcarole, F. Schubert. A most beautifal and uncommon theme, with aa appropriate accompaniment. Why are not this great composer's works put forward more prominently by our publishers? Pond & Co, publish a “Cradle Song,” by Zaidee McKay Warner which bears satisfactory evidence of the musictanly abilities of the composer. There is much tenderness and delicacy in both music and words, and the change of key before the last verse is very cleverly managed. It is a work of superior merit to many better known songs of this class. “Nothing but Leaves,’? soprano solo and quartet for church and parlor, Mrs. J. F. Knapp. A pleasing, unpretentious piece; the accompaniment, however, might be improved. ‘T. Gordon publishes the following:—“My Heart's Desire,” song; ‘The Shades of Night,” trio for female voices; ‘‘ How Beautiful upon the Mountain,” ordi- nation anthem—J. E. Perring. One of the charac. tertatics of this composer is that, no matter what materials he may take up, his practical knowledge of all the resources of harmony enables him to make the most commonplace theme interesting. Either the introduction or accompaniment is $0 well con- structed and varied that from the first measure the layer or singer is forced to acknowl the hand or H su) TiO musician in the piece. the three pieces above mentioned, we think that the two first are rather unnecessarily spun out, although no fault can be found with their construction in delail. Hall & Son, in view of the promised production of «“Lnriine” at’ Pike’s next season, are bringing for- ward some fine piano transcriptions of Waliac great work. Ascher, Favarger, Rummel and Kul are the best of those fantasiaa. Ascher’s, in par- ticular, {8 a work that appeals to the commendation of every musician as an Unsurpassed musical re ing of the best air in the opera, “Le Chant des “Guide Me, Oh Thou Great Jehovah,” solo and quartet, Ll od A good melody does not suffer from being appl tounworthy purp 8s, and although this solo and quartet has been heard in the transformation goene of the “Black Crook,” yet the church need not be ashamed of it. Mr. Munger might, however, have arranged the entire transformation music instead of changes on the first theme, Seen jd Mazurka,” Fowler, Nothing In it. rr Lurline Quadrilie’ has aiso been re- published, “Chime of the Bells," batiad and chorus, Donnt- ker. This has been quite a favorite song at the San Francisco Minstrels when sung by Mr. Walmbold Sawyer, of Brooklyn, pubilshes “Songs Without Words,” Loreta, to which we slall refer at lengtl u® our next reviow.