The New York Herald Newspaper, April 27, 1868, Page 6

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April 27, York, Monday, NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers should bear in mind that, in order to ingure the proper classification of their business announcements, all advertisements for insertion in the Heraxp should be left at the counting room by ualf-past eight o'clock P. M. THE NEWS. ABYSSINIA. By a series*of special cable telegrams, dated in London during yesterday, we have the reports of our special correspondent in Abyssinia, with the main points of the despatches of General Napier annonne- ing the captare of Magdala by the british after a gallant assault by storm, the death of King Theo- dorus in battle, heavy losses of his army, the release of the captives, the capture of the Kin; the taking of a most royal plunder by the English army and the termination of the war. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated last evening. ‘The French fleet in Japan isto be largely reinforced. Yrince Alfred was still recovering. The Russian Minister in Vienna is appointed to Paris. Ry steamship at this port we have a European mail report in detail of our cable despatches to the 14th of April, including a most important letter from Mr. Disraeli on the subject of an Anglo-Papal potitico- religious conspiracy for the overthrow of the English cuurch, MISCELLANEOUS. Our Japan correspondence ie dated United States steamer Oneida, of Hiogo, February 20, 1808, A party of French carbineers at Osa by @ mob of natives, fired into them killing five and wounding many. Nearly all the foreign war vessels had drawn up within shelling distence to protect their consulates and a party of men from English, French and American vessels had destroyed the am- munition in a fort near Hiego whieh had been de- serted by the troops. A body of three h rei Japanese troops had made a desultory atlack w he Amert- can Consulate as they passed through and in consequence our crews had t earthworks ashore and placed four howitzers in battery, Prince being stoned Satsuma, who arrived in front of the city, was | granted a right of passage through the place only on condition of apologizing and granting proteétion to foreigners, which he did, whereupon the foreigu troops with the exception of marine guarde at the Consulates, were withdrawn. In St, Patrick’s cathedral ye: lay, Rev. Mr. Way. rick, one of the Redemptionist Fathers, delivered « | discourse on the text, “I am the Good Shepherd.’ Dr. Chapin preached in his church on the corner of Forty-fifth street and Fifth avenue, on the dissemina tion of the Gospel, from the text in St. Mark, liken- | ing the kingdom to seed cast into the ground. Henry | Ward Beecher discoursed on the claims of the Sea | men’s Friends Association, In the First Baptist church on the corner of Broome and Elizabeth streets, the closing services of the Baptist | denomination in that edifice catied forth a | large congregation, and was the subject of the preacher's discourse. A Lutheran Evangelical de- nomination will occupy the church in future, Rev, Chauncey Giles concluded his lectures on Sweden borg at the church on Thirty-frth s'reet, Returns of the Georgia election show that Scriven, Chatham, Richmond and Burke counties have gone for the radicals by slight majorities, Savannah and Augasta are inciuded in these returns, Semi-official returns from thirty-four counties give the radicals from three to four thousand majority, It is thought probable that the Legisiature will we | democratic. In the performance of Ristori at Havana, the night before her departure for New York, she played Sor Teresa, the piece which caused the quarrel between | She was called the Bishop and the Captain Gene: before the curtain nine times by the enthusiaetic udience and afterwards serenaded at her hotel. The insurance ofices suffer a combined loss o $97,500 by the late fire in St. Louis. The fort the Unite ates was celebrated at Alexandria, Va. The cities of ninth anniversary of Odd Pellowship in yesterday. An address was delivered by Mr, P. A. i | Sweet, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the | district. There was a large atiendance of visiting brethven. 2 Radical Programme for the Fature=The Coming Tide of Indation, The leading radicals in Congress and the radical press maintain a discreet reticence at present as to their financial schemes to carry them over the Presidential clection and to fill their pockets by stimulating all sorts of specu- lations. But we have every reason to believe that an inflation of the currency to the amount .of one or two hundred millions, and perhaps more, is contemplated. We see in the atrocious impeachment business that this party will stick at nothing to maintain thetr power and to hold the patronage of the government. As it is evident that the current of popular sentiment is setting strongly against them they will see the necessity, therefore, of adopting temporary expedients, whatever may be the ultimate consequences, to carry out their objects. By inflating the currency money will become abundant, speculations and enterprises will be stimulated, labor will be employed at higher rates, the farmers will get high prices for their produce, and there will be a temporary ‘and general prosperity. Every one will be in good humor and look favorably, for the time, upon those who bring about such a state of things. The mass of people will not stop to think about the fictitious and evanescent character of such prosperity. They will swim along joy- ously with the tido, caring or thinking little of the inevitable reaction that must follow, bring- ing universal bankruptey and gloom. And what will the political leaders care so that they can keep the people in good temper and amused until they can consolidate their power and make money out of the inflation? The deluge may come afterwards, but they expect to be safe. All nations in the midst of revolution, as we are now, become reckless to a great extent, and the leading revolutionists are permitted to carry out the most extraordinary measures re- gardless of the future. That which under ordinary circumstances and in settled times would shock the public mind and invoke the stoutest resistance is submitted to with apathy or indifference. Factions rule and not the peo- ple, though all revolutionary measures are car ried out in the name of liberty and the people, however vile or outrageous such measures may be. It has been so in times of revolution in all countries, and it is so with us now. The Com- mittee of Public Safety in France was the type of the radical Congressional junta at Washing- NEW Y aft ORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1863~TRIPLE SHEET. bie rn | Imp artnnt from‘ Abyssisia—Storming an Capiure of the Enomy’s Stronghold—Killing of the King, Our special cable despatenes from London, dated yesterday end published in this morn- ing’s issue, give. important intelligence from Abyssinia. The British forces having come up with the enemy two severe engagements were fought, one on the 10th inst. (Good 'riday), resulting in the defeat of King Theodorus’ army with heavy loss, .the casualties on the side of the British amounting to one officer and fifteen men wounded... Evidently hopeless of maintaining his ‘poxftibd, the King sur- rendered up the Europeiiti;;daptives who were the cause of the war, but rofwead; to yield up himself and his army. Goner@& ‘Napier then gave him twenty-four hours tg’dtéide, but it would seem that the African motidrgh remained determined upon resistance. Phe °, British army was by this time in front of Shiasse, and was preparing to storm it when, nthe 15th, the chief: in command surrendered this formida- ble position, apparently without attempting to defend it, and many thousands of their soldiers threw down their arms and gave themselves up to the victors. General Napier's despatch intimates that the reverse of the 10th had so dishearten- ing an effect upon the Abyssinians that they became quite demoralized, The surrender of Shilasse and the defection of the great body of his army compelled the hing to retire inside the fortress of Magdala, accompanied by the rem- nant of his forces that had continued faithful to him, He was vigorously followed by the Brit- ish, who on the same day (the 13th) assaulted and carried the fortress by storm, with a loss to the Abyssinians, according to the first re- ports, of sixty-eight killed and two hundred wounded, The loss of the British was emall. Among the Abyssinians killed was King Theodorus, who was found dead, having re- ceived a shot through the head. Our special correspondent in Abyssinia states that some asserted he was killed in batile, while others affirmed that he committed suicide—in the latter event, we presume, to prevent his cap- ture by the British, General Napier, in his report to Sir Stafford Northcote, states that the King was killed defending his position to the last, The fortress of Magdala is described as having been of ‘barbaric splendor.” It was plundered by the troops, who obtained, among other booty, four gold crowns, twenty thousand dollars, thousands of silver plates and a large quantity of jewels. The object of the expedition having been accomplished the British army was to return immediately, the ton. Robespierre, Marat, Couthon and Danton were the prototypes of Boutwell, Butler, Thad Stevens, Logan and the rest. History is repeated in all such times. If the deeds of our Jacobins should not be as bloody as those of the French Jacobins it will be because the spirit of the age is differént; but as far as the government is concerned and the despotism of faction goes the revolution going on is as thorough and uncontrollable. In the course of four or five years a debt of three thousand millions has been accumu- lated and an amount of taxation imposed greater than that of any other country in the present or any former age. A people who have experienced such vast changes and have become familiar with financial operations and currency issues amounting to thousands of ; the amount of a few hundred millions more. Both the people and the faction in power, then, will look only to the present necessity the future take care of itself. released captives having already started for Europe. ‘ It must be admitted that the British have triumphed in a much briefer space of time than even themselves expected. The defection of the King's soldiers, added to the surrender of Shilasse, were no doubt the principal canses of this easy and slmost bloodless success, Hithorto the expedition has not been a very popular one in England, where a long and expensive war was apprehended. Indeed, but for the circumstances which attended the downfall of Theodorus, it is probable that the rainy season, now near at hand, would have arrived and found the Abyssinians still de- flant; and in such an event a cessation of hostilities, if nota retreat, would have been the result. The war being over and the British triumphant, however, the question arises as to are. The death of King Theodorus, who was and that, considering the bad condition of the track, a8 proven by the evidence, this rate of speed was altogether too fast. This is an opi: - ion which many unfortunate people took with | them into eternity, if any consciousness of worldly events passes the portals of the grave, and whith many poor, maimed and bereaved wretches will entertain to their dying day; but it is not a satisfactory verdict for a jury to lay before the country as @ palliative for heartless bloodshed. It is unfortunate that the jury in this case should have been selected from community living on the line of the railway, and thus, by implication, identified more or less with its interests, The verdict is, in fact, an apology for the Erie Railway Company, and perhaps nothing else could have been expected under the circumstances, CongressThe Impeachment—The Chicago Convention—ReconstructionThe Prospect. The impeachment trial will probably occupy the whole of this weok. Manager Stevens will deliver his argument against the accused to-day, and though it seems to be understood that he will occupy not more than an hour we pre- sume that Manager Williams, on the same side, will occupy the remainder of the day and the sitting of to-morrow. Next, it is expected that Manager Wilson will occupy a day; that Mr. Evarts for the defence, in closing up, will occupy a day, and that Manager Bingham, for the prosecution, will occupy another day, which will bring the Senate to Saturday as the day of judgment. Assuming that the verdict ternal pressure shall be brought to bear upon it. In due course of time, when all the ma- lignant conflicting influences at work in Mexico shall have mutually annihilated each other, a new generation of'Mexicans will gladly wel- come from the great neighboring republic the advent of fresh elements of civilization, power and prosperity. ‘After us the deluge” seems to be the present motto of the Mexican revo- lutionary leaders; and after a deluge that shall have drowned them all the rainbow of hope and promise will shine, The European Situation. The Freuch people have been reduced to the last point of endurance under the fearful pres- sure of the new Army bill. In some quarters the spirit of resistance had actually revealed itself, and the ominous strains of the ‘‘Marseil- laise” had been heard in the streets. Mean- while the press, official and semi-official, was busy allaying the excitement, and Ministers in official reports were contradicting well authen- ticated facts. All is declared to be well, for no other and no better reason than that all is known to be otherwise, At Rome, which has become a huge barrack, and where an admirable illustration is pre- sented of what is meant by the ‘‘Church mili- tant,” intrigue is busy. The ex-King of Naples,holda.court and looks forward to the not distant day when he will sit in pride and pomp and tyranny on his ancestral throne, and when his much attached people will once more enjoy the sweet sunshine of his gracious presence. The Holy Father has, will immediately follow, and that it will be the | removal of Andrew Johnson and the promo- tion of Mr. Wade, President pro tem. of the Senate, to the post of President of the United States ad interim, the whole of next week will, doubtless, be absorbed in the reconstruc- tion of the Cabinet and in conferences between the Capitol and the White House touching the new departure of the administration and the division of the spoils. By this time the needful preparations for the Chicago Convention (20th of May) will be- come the paramount business of the two houses, and very little in the Way of practical mea- sures of relief for the country may be looked Yor till after that Convention. There may be, in the interval, however, some decisive pro- ceedings touching the admission of Arkansas, and, perhaps, of Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, as reconstructed under the laws of Congress. The work of Arkansas is finished and the Senators elect are now in Washington. Within two or three weeks Georgia and North and South Carolina may be hurried into line, inasmuch as until recognized as States duly reinstated by Congress they cannot be recognized as entitled to represen- tation in the Chicago Convention. There may, however, in a deliberate consideration of this business by “Old Thad’s” Reconstruction Com- mittee, on account of hitches and drawbacks, be a new line of policy adopted, recommitting the outside States to a carefal overhauling by the President, in view of their restoration at an extra session of Congress, in August or Sep- tember, in order to secure their assistance in the November Presidential election. In any event, considering the necessity of some decisive action upon this difficult and very delicate matter of Southern restoration, and considering the inevitable embarrassments of “Old Ben Wade” in harmonizing the im- willions will not be startled by inflation to what the future plans and purposes of the victors pending scramble for the spoils, the prospect of any really wholesome legislation on our inter- the only modern negro monarch that succeeded nal and external taxes, bonds, banks and the in maintaining any semblance of government | C™TCMCy is very cloudy. We think it may be or apparent good and will be disposed to let | ;, Africa, sai gi Abyssinia naa state of safely assumed that upon these important sub- Everything anarchy—if the Africais were ever in any jects nothing will be done this side the Presi- points to inflation, particularly the necessity other state. Will the British retire from the | ‘ential election beyond a liberal issue of green- of the radical party to bridge over its infamous legislation and growing unpopularity. We have no doubt that this party will soon flood the country with paper money for the purpose of creating a temporary prosperity and to blind the people; but it will be an inflation of national bank currency and not of legal tenders. The banks are a mighty power and the radicals will find a powerful allyin them. The political oligarchy at Washington and the banks com- bined will be able to carry all before them and do whatever they please. We shall have re- publican government in name only, and the sufirages of the people will be as much under the control of the cabal of politicians at Wash- ington as the suffrages of the French are under the imperial government at Paris, With this inflation of the currency we may expect to see the wildest speculations and greatest excitement for a time. Stocks of every kind will go up; railroad, mining and other enterprises will be stimulated, and the whole country will feel the impulse. This may last for two or three years; but after that will come a tremendous reaction. | burst, like that of Law's South Sea scheme, the railroad mania in England a few yearsago, or the issue of assignats in France, leaving a | wast wreck behind, Still some good will¢ol- low, for many of the improvements made during the «peculative mania will remain and bea permanent addition to the national wealth. | There will be, of course, a tremendous smash and general bankruptey, and the very rich will | become richer, especially those who may know how to avail themselves of the distress of others; but the railroads which may be con- | structed, the bouses bailt, the mines opened or the farme improved will remain. Property | will change hands, but it will not be destroyed. There will be a general shuffle all around, to be followed by anew deal. There will be, doubt- The bubble will | country altogether, or will they wait until the rainy seasons afe over and then again advance and take permanent possession of the dec if they pursue the first course it will be an in- novation upon the past policy of Great Britain. We rather think that in a few months Abyssinia will be added to the dependencies of Queen Victoria in Africa. The natives are not able to offer any effectual resistance, and it remai to be seen whether France will object. At any rate the ulterior purpose of the British governinent will be developed before long and the fate of Abyssinia finally decided. The Fourteenth Article, The republicans of Congress hold that the constitutional amendment, upon which they swept the country in the State elections of 1866, known as article four- teen, has been duly ratified by the neces- sary three-fourths of the States represented in the general government. In each house, we believe, the subject is in the hands of the Judiciary Committee, with authority to report the ratification. The present Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, has not proclaimed the ratification, because he holds, with President Johnson, that the endorsement of three-fourths of all the States inside and outside of Congress is necessary. With Mr. Wade in Mr, Jobnson's place, however, we shall doubtless have a etary of State of Mr. Wade's way of thinking on this amendment, and conse- quently, under a Secretary of this sort, we shall have the right to look for his proclama- tion of the ratification of thie fourteenth article, making it, to all intents and purposes, part and parcel of the constitution of the United States, But here is the dificulty:—This amendment, among other things, provides that each State for itself shall regulate the law of the elective | lest, & great amount of individual suffering ; but after a few years all will he forgotten, and | the countey will be ready for another period of speculation and excitomeut. Such is the way of the world, and such are the phases which we are about to * through ginning soon to the amount of reveral hundred millions. Wuar Dors ty Mrax’—The radicale at Waehington, it appears, are purvled in their efforts to solve the mystery, at this late day, of of War, General Schofield being, at the tine of hie appointment, a guest of General Grant, Some fear that Grant is hedging to bead off | “Old Ben Wade,” under the suspicion that | terrible iMnatration of the old fible there will | be if, after all, “Old Ben,” in greeping should lose the aubstance in his posses ion. the , | marrow-bone of the Imocachment with an in@ation of the national bank currency | General Schofield’s appointment as Secretary | Wade is hedging, not for the Vice Prosiden- | tial nomination, but to cnt out Grant bimeelf | aster near Port Jervis conveys no censure of | merce of Vera Cruz and the other towne was | at Chicago. What an instructive and what a | franchise, subject to thie condition; that in pro- portion to the exclusion of apy portion of the people from the suffrage on account of race, color, &e,, the enumeration of the people for representation in Congress shall be correspond- } ingly reduced. This knocks universal negro suffrage on the bead, North and South; and so the question is, if turned over into bis hands, | what will ‘Old Ben Wade” do with thie duly | ratified amendment? He cannot shirk it with- | out sbirking a constitutional duty, and he can- not meet it without knocking the bottom out of | the reconstructed radical tub, | ‘The Port Jervis Jury on the | Disaster. The verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of one of the victims of the Erie Railway dis- the company or ite officials, though surely some | culpability must attach somewhere for this | fearful slaughter, The jury simply expresses | rate of thirty miles an hour ronnd those dan- | werons curves in the valley of the Delaware, Ralteond | to rob the maila. backs or national bank notes, or both, to quiet the prevailing clamor for more currency in the enned West and to spike the guns of Pendleton. monarch’s territory? It is quite certain that The radical policy will be to put off the settle- ment of the money question, to avoid any defi- nite position upon the subject, and to bridge over our financial difficulties to a safe point beyond the Presidential election ; for then, in the event of « new radical Congress out-and-out with ies which to open the administration of General Grant, the radical leaders dotibtless flatter themselves that they will be able to manage even a financial revulsion. Progress of Mexican Anarchy. According to the special telegrams and other telegraphic news which we published yester- day Mexican anarchy is rapidly progressing. A ministerial cirenlar, indeed, had been issued to all magistrates prohibiting any further ar- hitrary arrests, and all magistrates infringing any of the provisions of the constitution were to be prosecuted, ‘This seems to indicate, even in Mexico, a greater lingering ‘regard for con- stitutions! law than is manifested by our own radical revolutionists at Washington. But, on the other hand, the Mexican revolutionists are more than usually audacious and active. The supply of revolutionary leaders in Mexico is apparently inexhaustible. No sooner docs one of them succumb to superior power than others successively arise. The monstrous evil which ravages that ill-fated country is hydra- headed. If the ramored submission of General dJiminez to the supreme government of the State of Guerrero and the disbanding of bis | troops are officially verified, advices from | Guadalajara state that the commander of the forces who had been ordered to join Corona at Sinaloa bad refused to obey; the war in Sinaloa was raging flercely; the forces of Negrete were becoming more and more formidablegand were dreaded by the authorities, and Ortega’s party it making strong exertions in alliance with Negrete, Leon, Galvez, Vicario and other chiefs, tera and Velasco had collected a force of about thirteen hundred, and were levy- ing contributions on the inhabitants, thus compelling the general government to bold back its troops for a new campaign, Stages leaving the ¢apital were almost regularly robbed. Hitherto the bandiiti have contented themselves with robbing the parsengers, but now, as in the case of the stage coach between Tulancingo and the capital, they are beginning As an additional complica- tion to the distresses of the people the cotton crop has been destroyed by the worm. And as ® natural reeult of anarchy and war, the com- completely paralyzed. This gloomy but unexaggerated picture of the actual condition of Mexico confirms the j at the more tempting shedow in the water, | an opinion that the train was running at the | opinion which we ‘have so often had occasion to express—that order cannot be expected to come out of all this chavs unless direct ex- notwithstanding the infirmities and love of ease natural to old age, become some- what tired of acting on the defensive, and meditates, it is said, an aggressive war on the Italian kingdom for the recovery of his stolen territory. Impartial spectators of the scenes now witnessed in Rome are not unprepared for another crusade. .The Josuits, high in favor with the Holy Father, are more active than they have been for some _ generations. We -cannot wonder that it should be so; for while the Church is winning its triumphs in Great Britain and Ireland it is experiencing sad reverses in other quarters. Catholic Aus- iria is trampling with unholy foot on concor- dats, and in a variety of ways is shaking her- self free from priestly tyranny and control. Heretic Russia is stamping out the religion, literature and nationality of the Poles, The treaty of Prague is still an unfulfilled compact, and Prussia and Denmark still wran- gle over Duppel and Alsen. Russia, which was requested to interpose its good offices in the matter, has politely refused. In the Fast Russia Ren- | has ceased to be so troublesome to Turkey; but the Eastern question still remains unsolved. We hear less about the risings in Bulgaria and the hostile intentions of Servia. All, however, is not yet well. The Danubian Principalities, which have already given Europe and the world quite enough of trouble, are again in a state that borders on rebellion. Prince Charles, who is so full of sympathy for-the suffering Cretans, has discovered a strange and im- placable animosity towards both Poles and Jews. Charles is bent on being an inde- pendent prince, and be seems to think that his independence will be more effectually secured by having expelled from his kingdom whatever elements it may contain of either of those most unfortunate but most persistent nationalities. Insurrection has broken out afresh in Spain, and martial law has been proclaimed in several of the provinces. Whether Europe is to be convulsed at an early day we know not; but this we may say with confidence, that in spite of this tremendous impeachment agony we are fortunate as com- pared with any of the nations on the other side ofthe Atlantic, Mr. Groesbeck’s Speech on Impeachment, The argument of Mr. Groesbeck on behalf of the President on Saturday probably attracted more attention during its delivery than any which preceded it. It was listened to with great eagerness by the Senators, and absorbed the whole interest of the galleries, Indeed, so anxious were the Senators to hear the argu- ment to the best advantage that Mr. Fessenden moved that Mr. Groesbeck should be allowed time to recover from the evident indisposition under which he was laboring. There are two or three points in this speech Which put the case of President Johnson more forcibly before the court, pérhaps, than any of the predeces- sors of Mr. Groesbeck have done. We do not mean to go into those points here, but we can- not help remarking the final arguments, wherein the conduct of Andrew Johnson during the re- bellion was presented in contrast with that of meny of his impeachers. Mr. Groesbeck’s gentle admonition that the Senate should be more mindful of its own dignity and the con- stitution of the country than of the baseless charges against the President made a telling finale to his able speech. The Attempted Avanssination of Prince Alfred. The attempted assassination of the most popular member of the royal family of England, during hie visit to Australia, has naturally thrown the British nation into a state of great excitement, especially as the would-be assassin is said to be connected with the Fenian organi- zation. It appears that his Royal Highness was shot in the back on the 12th of March at Sydoey by an Irishman named Farrell, and that although the ball was not extracted from the wound nntil two days afterwards, yet there were well grounded hopes of his ultimate re- covery. The wounded prince was conveyed on | board of his frigate, and, in compliance with the advice of hie physician, sailed for England, Prince Alfred is about twenty-four years of age and hae always been considered the highest ornament of Queen Victoria's family, being ac- credited with far more intelligence, generous impulses and good sense than his elder brother, the heir apparent to the throne of England. His “‘eailor boy” spirit and off-hand manners— he being devoted to the navy from his boyhood — . Wall, whence they sailed in compan; also made him a general favorite. He was raised to the rank of captain in the royal navy and placed in command of the steam frigate Galatea, in which he started on his present cruise. The detaile of this cruise are very in- teresting. Hie visit to Rio Janeiro and grand reception hy the Emperor of Brazil are fresh in the recollections of our readers, At the Cape of Good Hope he made a short stay and went on an elephant hunt, during which he had the gratification of “bagging” some game of this description. His reception in Australia and New Zealand has been cordial and enthusiastic enema ed in the extreme, and thre is no doubt that the dastardly attempt upon \is life has excited as much indignation and gorragv in those provinces asin England, Prince Alfred has also trav- elled throughout Europe and tk'e British Prov- inces in North America, When Wwe attained his majority he was created Duke of Padinburg, and his father's title of Duke of Saxe-Coturg-Goths will also revert to him. This latest phase of the assassination mania, which, startiag from the date of President Lincoln's death, seas to have spread to every quarter of the world, will draw the attention of all nations toa closer investigation of the means available for its suppression. The Revival of Indian Troubles tm the West. We published on Thursday a special Omahe despatch to the St. Louis Demoorat asserting that the Indian agents ayd contractors for Indian goods are suppressing authentic reports of Indian troubles in the West. The same despatch details a number of atrocities com- mitted bythe Indians. Without repeating these shocking details, it will suffice to say that they presage a terrible revival of the intermittent Indian war which has already exhausted 80 much treasure and so many lives. On Wednes- day. the Secretary of the Interior sent to the House of Representatives a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs expressing his apprehensions that unless imme- diate action is taken by Congress upon the esti- mates referred to in the office reports of the 20th and 21st of February last, as requisite in order that the faith of the government and the promises of the Indian Peace Commissioners be kept good, a renewal of the troubles of last summer must be expected. The Commissioner adds that the result of a failure to redeem these promises will be an almost ‘‘endless war, which will cost millions of dollars to suppress, and to avoid which thousands only are asked.” He says, moreover:—‘“‘If we are to have another Indian war this gammer I do not wish the country at large to think it was caused or brought about by the management of affairs in this office; and after the urgent requests that have been made for funds and the state- ments that have been made in regard to the matter this bureau certainly cannot be held responsible for any acts of hostility or depre- dation that may be committed by the Indians.” The probability of such acts is evidently antici- pated by the bureau. i It surely behooves Congress to give immedi- ate heed to the appeal of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, Why should not the Commit- tee on Indian Affairs at once consult with General Sherman, who was one of the Peace Commissioners last year, as to the appropria- tions requisite and the measures to be adopted to prevent so horrible a calamity as a revival of the Indian troubles in the West? It is manifest that Kaufmann’s fine picture repre- senting the attempts of Indians to tear up the rails of the great Pacific Railroad is actually as well as artistically true. ‘Westward the course of empire takes its way,” but the Indian, ignorant as he is of the irresistible forces of manifest destiny against which he contends, is not so ignorant as to be unaware that the railroad, with its train of civilizing influences, will drive away the game on which he subsists and cover the Plains with a thriving white population which will overwhelm and annihilate him, Hence his fierce opposition to the onward march of civilization. But firm and prompt measures must at once be decided upon by Congress to put an end to the unavail- ing but annoying resistance of the savage Indians to the progress of civilization. Either a war of extermination must be vigorously waged against them or treaties must be made and enforced which will secure their removal to hunting grounds beyond the reach of white intruders, with the steam engine and other adjuncts of civilization. YACHTING. ‘The Coming Season in England and Scetian’é— Contests in Prospect—The Congress. {From Bell’s Life in London, April 11.) ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. In addition to the Royal Thames Yacht Club of sailing matches, Mr. G. Duppa, of the celebrated schooner yacht Alarm, has offered a cup, value £100, - to be sailed for during July, open to yachts of any rig or tonnage belonging to any royal yacht club; no time allowance; course, from the Nore to Cher- bourg; to he sailed for under Royal Thames Yacht Club rules; the Royal Thames Yacht Club to give prizes to the second and third vessels, value £25 an@ £10 respectively. The sailing committee have mot and ted that the match be started from the Nore on Saturday, July 4. NEW THAMES YACHT CLUB. The monthly meecing of this club was held on Monday evening, the assemblage of leading yachts- men being, as on former occasions, very numerous. The chair was taken by Mr. John Dunkin Lee, the Vice Commodore. ‘The sailing programme for the season, ag’ by the sailing committee, was submitted for the ap- proval of the club, and‘adopted. As an cruise was subsequently determined upon we it here in the general arrangements:— Opening Cruise, Saturday, May 23.—Yac hts to rene dezvous at Erith, at two P. M., and proceed in com- pany to Graveseud. irst Match, for Cutters of all classes, June 1.— First class—First prize value £100, second value £40, Second class—First prize value second value * £20, Course, from Erith, round the Nore and back to Erith, Time per tonnage thirty seconds per top sp to fifty, and twenty seconds above ba! tons, ind class—First hay) value £30, second value £10, Course, Erith to the Chapman Head and back to Erith, Time allowance, thirty second, per ton, Entries to close on May 25. Second Match, for Schoonera, June 15, open to vessels belonging to any royal yacht club.—First rize value £100, second value Course, from hravesend, round the Mouse aud back to Gravesend, Unless three vessels of each class start the second prize not to be given. Time allowance, fifteen seconds per ton. Entries between seven and nine P.M. on June 6 . The chairman, p-oducing the bank book, said he had much pleasure in informing them that there was £735 there to thelr account, with about £190 to be added, ‘Thanks having been voted to the Vice Commodore and honorable secretary the meeting adjourned until Monday, May 4. PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB. ‘The opening trip of this club was held on Thursday last, yachts aseembling at the Brunswick pter, Black- y to Purfeet, din- ner being served at the Royal Hotel, In consequence of the inclemency of the weather only two yachts were under way, Viz., Eva, Mr. Lowe, and Rose, Mr. A. Louch, Some thirty géntiemen sat down to din- ner, presided over by Mr. Lowe, the Vice Commodore in the absence of Mr. Cecil Long), faced by Mr. R. Sadlier, the Rear. The toast of the evening, “Success to the Prince of Wales Yacht Club,” was deputed to the care of Mr. Percival Turner, the treasurer, who spoke of the many friendships he had formed during his term of office, seventeen years, and of the kindly feeling which had ever existed among them. The sailing committee will subinit to the club Mon June 15, for the first match of the season, for “Whe ‘of twenty tons and under, belonging to men ra ofthiaciub. Course from Erith to the Nore and pack. Time for tonuage, one minute per ton. The galling committee also propose that July 1 be fixed for the second match, and that the match from Gravesend to Rat te, for prizes given by Me. Mas- singham and the Vice Commodore, take place om Saturday, June 11. ROYAL NORTHERN YACHT CLUB. The annual peaeres meeting of this club was helt in Maclean's Hotel, Glasgow, on Thursday, Aprit Archibald 8. Schaw in the chair, when the annaal wae Tse id ro oe | of the Hand year" were submitted an] approved of, ‘The opening craise of the season was fixed fo take place on rharsdar, May 21, yachts to rendezvous wt Sourock Bay. Tegatta was also fixed to be held on the Cyde om ‘Tuesday and Wednesday, July 7 and 4