The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. = t AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—JACK SHEPPARD—TUR BraGe STRUCK YANKER, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Rony O'Morr— YankER CooRTsHr, x 1. = Pee FORE ZERATER, opposite New York Hotel QLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Hourtr Doerr FRENCH THEATRE.—La Beiie HeLenz. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tos Waire Fawn. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving place.—Hauier. WALLACK'S THEAT! Broadway and 18th street.— Love's Sacuirice. sad " a ThBATRE, COMIQUE, 514 Brosdway.—BALLET, FARCE, KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SONG8, RIOITIES, &0,—GRAND Dutou “8. * BAN 00. MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ErH10- Plame BNTARYAINMENTO SINGING, DANCING, BE. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic Vooariam, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. STEINWAY HALL.—ALrexp H. Prase's ANNUAL Con- orn. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—EXutniT1Ion OF Parse PicTURES AND PORTRAITS. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— FaRNow SrY¥—PAREAiT8 AND GUARDIANS. EUROPEAN CIRCUS, Broadway and Sth street.—EQurs- TRIAN PREFORMANOR, LIVING ANIMALS, &C. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.--EL1zaABETa AND Tum EARL OF Exsex. HOOLEY'S OPERA Hy MOCVGTRELSEY—PANORAMA- TALL, 954 and 956 Bro: PANORAMA OF THE WAR. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOE AND ART. E. Brooklyn.—ETnioPran GRESS OF AMERICA. THhB IMPEACHMEN\ in the High Court yesterday A\fr. Sumner offered | an order that Mr. Nelson, of the Pjresident’s counsel, | for using language disrespectful \to the court and caloulated to provoke a duel, dew rved the censure ofthe court. Mr. Sherman objectea\, and Mr. Nelson im explanation was allowed to rejid the dates of a letter signed by Butler, Logan and (iarfield relative | to the Alta Vela affair, and a letter a\f Mr. Chauncey S, Black to the President. \ Mr. Cameron submitted an order jproviding for | night sessions of the court, which went) over. Mr. Evarts then resumed his arguma\at for the de- fence, contending that the President had the same | right a3 a private eltizen to test the cona\titutionaiity | of # law; aud the removal of Stanton, ¥\’ paper one, would have been beneficial 1\ather Man injurious to the workings of the governmei\tt if it had | been effectual, as it would have assured a ARS re- | lation between the War Office aud the aa | Before the conclusion of the argument the tourt ad- journed. THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the bill affording tm: same facilities on the Hudson River boats as on mailway trains was passed, besides numerous othet\3 of a special or personal character. The bill to prevent frauds in the sale of transportation tickets wias or- | dered to @ third reading. The Committee on the New York oity street cleaning contract reported that the contract had not been complied with, and cen- NEW YUKK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. Captain Wenke, witt leave Hoboken about two P.M. | The Democratic Party--Mr. Belmont and His to-day (Thursday) for Southampton and Bremen. Committee—A Movement at Last in tie ‘The Buropean mails will close ab the Post OfMice a | ight Mirection. | Vessels, twelve M. ‘The stock market was heavy and unsettiot yoster- day and closed weak, Government socuritics were firm. Gold closed at 1395;. MISCELLANEOUS. In the House of Reprosentatives yesterday & res0- lution to print five hundred copies of the constitutions of Arkansas and South Carolina was referred to the Committee on Printing. Petitions favoring the ex- tension of the Coast Survey were presented, and the House departed for the Senate Chamber to attend the Im ‘nment trial. os new slate of Ben Wade's Cabinet oMcers Horace Greeley is put down for Postmaster General. General Canby reports oMclally that the majority for the constitution in South Carolina is 43,470, and that further returns from North Carolina increase the majorities for the constitution in that State to 13,440, Gener&l Meade telegraphs to General Grant that the returns in Georgia indicate that the consti- tution has been ratified by a large majority and that Bullock is elected, Later returns from Georgia announce the election of two colored Sénators and twelve colored Representatives to the Legislature. Several radicals hold the opinion that they will not be allowed to take their seats, as the right to vote does not include the right to hold office. An official count is necessary to decide who is elected Governor, Mr. Anson Burlingame, the Chinese ambassador, was given a grand dinner at San Francisco on Tues- day evening. In his address he said that his mis- sion was accepted in the interest of civilization, and meant progress, the adoption of international law, peace, commerce, and the unification of the human race, The fraternal feeling of four millions of peo- ple had begun to dow towards the land of Washing- ton and would flow on forever. Our advices from Mexico aro by way of Galveston, Texas. Congress reassembled on the ist inst. Much time had been given to the consideration of railroad schemes, Twenty of Negrete’s followers had been captured and were to be tried under the law of Janu- ary 25, 1865, under which, Maximilian was executed. Foreigners who engage in an honorable calling are exempted from the decree of banishment. « Our correspondent in Hioga, Japan, dating March 29, reports the sad social effects and disturbance to commerce produced in the newly opened ports and the surrounding country by the sudden inauguration of the civil war between the nobles, the Mikado and the Tycoon, His letter is quite interesting, as afford- ing evidence that civilization will not recede in the empire, in face of the convulsions produced by oligarchism or barbarism. The refugee Tycoon sought shelter and was protected on board a United States war vessel after his abdication, before he reached his own ship. The United States Consul at Hioga has taken an important step in demanding that the native oficials should adhere to the scate of rates of money exchange value as regulated by the treaties. During the disturbances produced in the streets of the city by the sudden armed action of the Prince of Bezin it will be seen that United States marines, allied with the forces of the other Christian | Powers, performed important work in restoring order and protecting foreign property. . The steamer Columbia, Van Sice, from Havana April 25, arrived at this port last night. Among her passengers are Madame Ristori and suite. Accord- ing to a recent decree, “all foreign merchandise from, the bonded stores in Cuba and Porto’Rico may bé imported into Spain at the same rates of duties as if | coming from the place of production or an American port,” In another column witli be found accounts of the onorous exactions enforced onan American ship- master at Cardenas and another at Manzanilla, for clerigal mistakes in the manifesis of ssid captains’ In one case the fault was duc to a clerk of the Spanisé Consul. Some ume since the brig Omaha was subjected to a similar vexation. ‘The Brazilian Ambassador at Paris has received later advices confirming those published a day or | twoago relative to the situation in Paraguay. ‘The | Paraguayans, it is further stated, are shut up in | Humaita, which cannot bold out more than three | days, the positions at Curupaity and Pucu having | been captured and the Paruguayan gunboats sunk. | Other advices state that the Brazilian fleet had Mr. August Belmont is the chairman of the National Executive Democratic Committee, whose busines it ia to appoint the time and place, drum up the party and provide tho hall for the grand Sanhedrim of the Democratic Presidential Convention. At a meeting of his committee at Washington on the 22d of Feb- ruary last (the day after Secretary Stan- ton was ordered by President Johnson to turn Thomas) the Fourth of July was appointed as the time and New York as the place for said Presi- dential Convention ; and then, in the midat of a great excitement at the national capital, which unmistakably foreshadowed the impeachment and removal of President Johnson, said August Belmont and his committee, as if nothing had happened or was likely to happen on this Stan- ton affair beyond a nine days’ wonder, ad- journed and dispersed. Belmont to this appointment of the Fourth of July as a great mistake under the circum- stances, suggesting withal the urgent necessity of a change to an earlierday, We are gratified, therefore, to learn, in the absonce of any move- own responsibility, that the Congressional Democratic Executive Committee have unani. mously passed resolutions requesting Mr. Bel- mont and his committee to reconsider their action of the 22d of February, and to issue a call for their Prosidential Convention to meet in New York early in June, instead of on the Fourth of July, and that it is probable that a caucus of all the democratic members of Congress will shortly second this motion. The opinion seems to be unanimous among the democrats at Washing- ton that the political necessities and welfare of the party call for action close upon the heels of the republican Chicago Convention. This, we say, is @ movement in the right direction, and doubtless it will resuit in the change of time suggested. We have not yet over the War Office to General Lorenzo | We have already called the attention of Mr. . ment in this direction from Mr. Belmont on his | {to fight with the assurance of groat inroads into the republican lines, and with a fair pro- mise of a sweeping success, they will tear down their old democratic fence and open the field to all the conservative elements of the land opposed to the reign of radicalism, and they will nominate brave old Admiral Farragut as their standard bearer. We await their next ' move on the chessboard in the change of the | time appointed for their National Convention, | wa ca ri Excesses ef Radicalism. It is now manifest that the excesses of radi- calism tend to no less portentous 4 result than a change in the form of government which we | had inherited from the founders of our repub- | lic. The virtual abolition of the executive power vested in the President of the United | States, and the removal of Andrew Jobnson as an “obstruction” to radical despotism; the | conversion of even the Supreme Court into a ; mere court of record for the decrees of a direc- | tory pretending to represent the people; the | expulsion of members pf Congress who ven- | ture to oppose the dominant party; the total | exclusion from Congress of representatives of ' ten States of the Union ; the subjection of the white population of those ten States to the | control of military satraps, carpet-bag office seekers from other States, and an ignorant mass of nogro voters who have just emerged from centuries of bondage, with all its disquali- fying influences for the high duties of citizen- | ship, and who nevertheless vastly outnumber ! the few whites admitied to civic privileges, asin | the case of South Carolina, where the dispropor- | tion of registered voters has reached the figure of | eighty thousand blacks to forty thousand whites; | | the direct encouragement extended to negro | outrages on white men, women and children | by the inflammatory harangues of partisan | emissaries, the founding of Union Leagues and | ' other dangerous secret organizations through- out the South; the resolute determination of | the dominant radicaf party ‘‘to hold the South | as the Metropolitan Police hold New York”— | *to do its police in its own behalf and in be- half of its black population”—and the utter pre- been able to learn why or how it was that Mr. | Belmont and his committee, being there on the | spot, attached, apparently, so little importance to this second and decisive flare-up between Johnson and Stanton as to consider it un- sent forgetfulness of what wisdom there is in the following words of the radical writer from whom the above phrases are. quoted :— | ‘*We want regular soldiers for the cause of worthy a moment's attention. Mr. Belmont | order in theae anarchical countries, and we and his committee on the 21st of February, if | want men in command who, though they may | : § we are not mistaken, paid their respects to the | be valuable as temporary satraps or procon: President at the White House, but were not | suls to make liberty possible where it is now given the slightest hint of the executive bomb- }impossible, will never, under any circum- shell which had been or was to be that ‘day | stances, be disloyal to liberty, will always op- thrown at the head of Stanton iv the War | PO®? 807 scheme of any one to constitute a Office. They knew all about ft, howover, | military government, and will be ready, when that evening; and surely they had seen and i the time come, to: imitate “Washington 7 His heard enough ducing the night of tho tremen- inauguration under the forms of an impeach- dous effervescence in the republican Congres- | ene arene res Oe were yest sidnal camp ‘to be convinced, when the com- | the fundamental principle of which is thatevery mittee met next morning, that there was some- | aH, “ pti oo Seay elsgererd en thing like a revolution involved in this Stanton- | vay gu teat per en & 9 ‘Wane alle. it he is to be tried by interested parties, and Hi it, th that Mr. Belmont and his gilt Real Rae on the | all possible evidence in his favor. is to be sup- sured the street cleaning commissioners for not en- | P 4 Humaita under a heavy fire, losing fifteen ? if nothi 1 h ithin Pressed thqintroduction of sumptuary legis- oteng eale eee Se ly | lation, of an infamous tariff system and an ivi- | quitous and fraud-breeding income tax; the establishment, by means of odious and cor- | rupting national banks, of a financial system which has no precedent, except in the South Sea bubble schemes of Law; the compulsory the preceding twenty-four hours, and dis charged their business and Poided their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently stole away ? Our theory may be somewhat uncharitable, and yel we think it sufficiently plausible to forcing it, The annual Supply bill was considered until adjournment, In tie Assembly the vote on the’State Charity bill was reconsidered and the bill itwelf was recommit- ted. Bilis were passed to incorporate the Isthmus Canal Company, regulating the fees of justices, con- stables, jurors and witnesses, and relative to the sale | of native wines. The New York City Tax Levy was made a special order for this morning and a motion to adjourn sine @ie on Saturday was adopted. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, April 29. The London journals deprecate the acrimonious party discussions in the Hous: of Commons on the Irish Church question on the ground that members thus afford Mr. Disracll a destzed opportunity to gain time. The Fenian treason ftlony trials reveal the fact that very extensive arfaed preparations had been made for the assanit @n Chester Castle, The Prussian army will be reduced by twelve thousand men, Consols, 93% 094. Five-twenties, 7% in London | and 753g in Frankfort. Paria Pourse steady. | Cotton quict, with middifig uplands at 12d. | Breadatutfs dull. Provisions sfeady. Produce with- out material change. THE Mr. Peter Cooper, on behalf jof ihe Citizens’ Asso- ciation, tas written a letter to the Committee on Mu- picipal Atutrs in the State Semate thanking the mem- bers for courtesies to the Agsociation’s counsel, atid urging the exclusion of every dollar from the New York County Tax Levy nob imperatively demanded. ‘The Association aiso urged the transfer of the build- ing of the county Court House to other parties, Asitver medal, with @n appropriate inscription and a purse of $50, was presented by the Life Saving Benevolent Association yesterday to John O'Connor, who saved the life of a Mrs. Carrington, in Septem- ber last, when she ‘was in danger of drown- tng, near Factoryviile, 8. 1. The presentation took place on the Staten Ifand ferryboat Thomas Hunt, at & meeting of the passengers presided over*by Mr. | Erastus Brooks. A purse of $35 was also made up by the same society for Jefferson M. Bodine, a mere hundred men Killed and wounded. A reconnots- sance disclosed the fact that the Paraguayans had massed at the northern extremity of their line. Advices from St. Domingo state that General Baez's reasons for not assuming the Presidency were | the want of facilities to carry out his policy in refer- ence to Samana and the Jerusim loan. The dificul- ties in relation to the Samana aduir arise from the opposition of Salnave and the negro chiefs, Pimon- tel was already getting up another revolution, and Ogando, Hungria and Carlos Baez were reported to be disaffected, or in conspiracy against the Presi- dent. Telegraphic advicea from Nassan, N, P., state that the government was successful in the late elections by a majority of ten. The defeated party made some | riotous demonstrations and were fired upon by the soldiers. Petitions for the removal of Governor Rawson are in circulation. ‘The trial of General Cole was continued at Albany yesterday. Mr. Hadley, one of the counsel for the prisoner, was sworn a8 a witness relative to certain | documents of which he had possession, but objec- tions were made and sustained by the court. Mrs. Mary L. Cuyler testified relative to the frenzy of the prisoner on hearing of the intimacy between Hiscock and Mrs. Cole. The defence rested and the court adjourned. General Ord has been assigned to the command of the Department of California, relieving General MeDowell, who will in turn reiteve General Gillem, in command of the Fourth Military District. The financial estimates for the Dominion were submitted to the Canadian House of Commons on Tuesday night by Minister Rose. The duty on bread- stuffs is to be taken off, and that on all spirits manu- factured in the Dominion will be three cents per gallon. ‘i it 3 Our Abyssiniu Correspondence. Nothing in the way of description which has reached this country or England from the scene of the lately terminated war in Abyssinia can compete with the account furnished in these columns yesterday from our special corres- pondent with Sir Robert Napier’s army: lad of fifteen, who @seisted O'Connor in the rescue, ‘and resolutions highly eulogistic of the deed were | handsomely engrossed and are to be presented to | the brave young fellows. A large nomber of cotton growers and manufac- | turers of the United States asserabied in convention at | the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday for the purpose of consulting on the formation of a national association for the promotign of the cotton interests. Several delegates from the Southern States were present, | and the New England manufacturers were largely represented. A name, constitution and bylaws for the new association were adopted, and Amos A. Law- renoe, of Boston, was chosen permanent President, after which the convention adjourned sine die, Gabor Naphegyt, Santa Anna's former secretary and agent, was arrested in Edgewater, Staten Island, yesterday, on a charge of forgery to the amount of $50,000, and commiteed in default of $100,000 bail. Im the General Sessions yesterday, Recorder Hackei! presiding, the trial of Kdwin Kelly, charged ‘with the homicide of Thomas J. Sharpe, was re- sumed. ‘There was a large number of witnesses examined. A few will be called this morning, when the suming up will commence, and the case will probably be given to the jury before the court rises. Mm the United States Circuit Court yesterday, Judge Benedict presiding, the case of Christian Fieoky, John Flecky and —— Hilderbrand, whe were charged with running an illicit distillery in June lag, in the basement of the premises 169 Essex street, oodupied the court during the day. The de- fence was that they were merely laborers on the premises at the time. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. In the Supreme Court, before Judge Barnard; the Erie contempt case, which last week was adjourned pver till yesterday morning, was in consequence of the absence of counsel farthéF adjourned till eléven o'clock this morning. The case of the United Stptes against ‘Wm. Eng- Jand and others, which has been before Untied Statés Commissioner Osborn for examination, was again ‘Up yesterday and further adjourned. ‘The North German Lioyd’s steamship Hermann, | accompanied the warlike exPedition. This writer is the only American out of the eleven newspaper correspondents who In our letter the public are informed minutely how the army of ‘‘civilizers” crossed the desert sajl of Central Africa, dived into the | chasms and scaled the heights which surround | the stronghold of the defunct King Theodorus; how the motley crowd of Indians, Turks, Eng- | lish, Scotch, Irish, Parsees and Arabs wound | their tedious way along the arid tracks, looking gay in their fine haberdashery, and stepping to the familiar English music of “Cheer, boys, cheer ;” how the barbarian Prince of Tigre and his suite cut horsemanlike capers before the marquee of General Merewether, and how, afler making his salaams, he laid his curly head affectionately upon the lap of Brigadier Merewether, who, we are happy to know, looked very like an American—a fact which may account for the interest in the famous ocean yacht race which he shared in common with General Stavely. All this is told, and welltold, by our special correapondent at Antolo, to the dire confusion and remorse of ‘Bull Run Russell,” who did not believe 9 word of the Heratv’s Abyssinian news until the war was all over, any more than he believed that there was a battle at Bull Run until the hastily retir- ing fugitives nearly ran over him while he was enjoying his Londow brown stout some dozen miles away from the scene of action. This Abyssinian correspondence, however, ia but another example of newspaper enterprise with which the readers of the Heratp are familiar, and which the leading journals of England have rocently 99 handsomely recognized. be stated, We suspect that Mr. Belmont and | circulation of French assignats, attempted to be his committee snuffed the impeachment and | enforced by the guillotine, and, a still more ap- removal of President Johnson, and that, con- | propriate example, the financial system sidering him “gone up,” they, after the | adopted in Hayti—these are but a few items fashion of Wall street, concluded to cut bim } in the long catalogue of changes foretokened . and drop him. His day of usefulness to the | by the signs of the times, in the form and prac- democracy was gone—his term was short anyhow—and, even if not removed, he was, or would be, so tied up by Congress that he could no longer help himself or his friends. But worst of all, if this unfortunate but obati- nate and self-willed man >should get into any serious trouble on this Stanton imbroglio, the odds were so heavily against him that the safest course for the democracy would be to give him a wide margin and keep at a good | distance till the end of this foreshadowed im- peachment, which would probably be not before the last of June, They would help him all they could against this impeachment in every way, but they would give Mr. Johnson quietly to understand that he was not and could not be dreamed of as a democratic last resort or possibility in any event for the suc- cession. Accordingly, Mr. Belmont and his committee limited their visit to the White House to the polite formalities of a morning call, and left Mr. Johnson, in regard to any Presidential calculations, to the comfortable reflection that the ungrateful democracy hed cut him adrift, and that he would have to ‘paddle his own canoe.” But whatever may have been the reasons under the extraordinary circumstances calling for an earlier day, whatever may have been the objects of Mr. Belmont and his committee for appointing the Fourth of July for their | National Convention, we dare say that this pressure from Washington will result in an earlier call. We are strengthened in this con- clusion by the presence in this city of the Central Committee (General Gordow Granger, chair- man,) of the Cleveland Soldiers’ Convention of September, 1866, who are bringing all their forces to bear upon Mr. Bel- mont for the saving of a month of pre- tical working of our government. In one important respect, particularly, the dominant radical party has most flagrantly vio- lated the spirit of American republican izsti- tutions, The despotism which it has sought to establish in the South has no precedent in the history of conquest on the part of civilized nations. Imperial Rome largely owed its great duration to the fact tia: while a Roman pro- consul was set over ¢ conquered province, | a Verres was always liable to trial and punish- ment and local administration was uot inter- meddled with; so that the conquered people, | retaining no small share of their accustomed liberties and acquiring the additional advan- tages attached to the title of Roman citizen, were readily consolidated into the empire and contributed to the still further extension of its wealth and power.. An illustration of ‘the pervading weight and power of Roman citizen- | ship” is furnished by what we read of St. Paul inthe Acts. The Apostle had, asserted his claims to be a Roman citizen, although he was a native of the conquered province of Judea:— “When the centurion heard that he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest, for this man is a Roman.” But how many similar illustrations of the pervading | weight and power of American citizenship can be found among ‘‘the vanquished and par- doned rebels of the South” who happen to have the misfortune of inheriting a white com- | plexion? None of them are allowed to claim rights which radicals are bound to respect. | Neither Roman, Norman, Spanish nor any other | conquerors have exercised less magnanimity | and less moderation and less common sense | than certain. radical leaders who strut and | boast as if they had themselves accomplished | the suppression of the rebellion and the con- | cious time. Assuming, then, that the day for the democratic convention, including the inauguration of the new Tammany Hall, will be fixed early in June, the question recurs, will Messrs. Belmont and Barlow, and the Manhat- tan Club, and the Tammany Sachems, and the Albany Regency be prepared on a month’s no- tice to head off Pendleton? He is entered as the democratic greenback champion of the West against Seymour and the gold bearing five-twenties and ten-forties of the East. Can Pendiéton be upset with a heavy majority of the delegates in his favorto start upon? Han- cock is the favorite of Granger and his sol- diers’ committee, but there are no signs of any movement in his behalf of any consequence among the democratic managers East or West, nor outside of New York are there any indica- tions of any promise in behalf of Seymour or McClellan. Pendleton, in fact, appears to hold the demo- cratic nomination in his hands, especially since the late greenback vote of the democrats of our State Assembly ; for if this vote means anything it means Pendleton. Against Pen- dleton, however, with his peace policy during the war, Grant will walk over the course. If the democracy prefer to hold themselves 4 | close party corporation, hit or miss, they are | of course at liberty to do 90 ; but if they wish quest of the South. Perhaps it is not yet too late for the army | and the people, to whom the suppression of | the robellion, is really due, to interpose and prevent the cruelly destructive results towards which the excesses of radicalism tend. Srreet Opsrrvctions AND. NvisaNnous.— One of the most intolerable nuisances oxist- ing at present in the streets of the metropolis isthe method adopted by our gas companies and the Croton Water Department to repair their street pipes and “mains.” If a defect occurs in one of those pipes it is necessary to tear np the street and obstruct all traffic for the time being for the purpose of repairing this defect. The blocks of the pavement, as may be seen on Broadway at present, are then put | back in their places in a loose, careless man- ner, and the ceaseless tide of carriages, wagons and stages is allowed to pass over the spot | again. The natural consequence of tearing up | a thoroughfare in this manner is that some of our best business streets will not last any time, | but will be completely ruined and wnfitted for | business purposes. It might be very easily’ | avoided by having the gas and water pipeq | arranged with the sewers, as is the cage in Paris, and to some extent in London, so that they may be roaghed without jatenfering at all with the streets. It is an evil which calls for immediate legislation, which, it appears, is the only weapon we have to defend onrselves with against unscrupulous corporations. The French Theatre Muddle. After a long and prognerous reign the sceptre of the French theatre departs from Bateman, and the irrepressfble Grau again mounts the throne, The kings of Greece and ’homme a la pomme himself are indignant that the chartis of “La Belle Héléne” were not potent enough for the unimpressionable trustee who repre- sents the mild-mannered and inoffensive stock- holders. Le bouiljant Achille threatens to orush with his heel the bank whereon Sherman and Duncan flourish, and Calchas’ invokes the thunder of Olympus on the daring offenders’ heads. On Saturday next-the army of ‘‘La Grande Duchesse,” with Bateman and the kings of Greece at their head, and Birgfeld, like a second Marshal Ney, bringing up the rear, will retreat from Sixth avenue and eva- cuate the stronghold in which they so long maintained themselves, to the discomfiture of every other opera troupe. It is not definitely known whether they will make any attempt to spike the guns of the establispment in their re- treat. The first, halting place of the Offen- bachian army will be at the Academy, but, fortunately for them, their stay will be ‘‘for one night only.” Otherwise the Juggernaut of opera would soon add them to its long list of victims, The circumstances which led to this revolution atthe French theatre are amusing and interesting. King Duncan was elected chief of the establishmont. His eloquent de- scription of it is well known :— ‘This castle hath a pleasant seat: the air Nimbiy and sweetly recommenda tiself Unto our gentle senses, This gentle prince appointed a viceroy in the person of the gentle Grau, who again dele- gated his powers to the bouitant Bateman. The momentous period arrived when those powers were to be renewed for the space of five years, at the annual tribute of twenty-two thousand one hundred dollars. A council of war was held at Delmonico’s by King Duncan and his court, the resuls of which was ‘that the irrepressible Grau became once more “Thane of Cawdor” and manager of the dis- puted theatre. The wrath of the douillant Achille was terrible to behold; but the in- exorable decree had gone forth, and the days of Tostée and her merry attendants were num- bered. The question now is, where shall they go? Can it be thit they shall range them- selves under the banner of that fierce looking Academy drum major who has led so many gallant opera companica to ruin? Let them beware of the fate of the dozen impresarii, and especially the poor cynocephalus, whose remains are interred beneath the shadow of that Upas-like building. “The one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders, in- cluding the General Boum, who represents them by the fraction, would prove worse to those enfans perdus than King Duncan and his amiable constituency. fered them to depart in peace, with all their baggage and munitions of war; but once in the power of the Academy drum major, and there is no hope-for them. In the meantime Ristori succeeds Tostde at the French theatre, and the melancholy history of ‘Sor Teresa” replaces the rattling dialogue and music of ‘‘La Belle HéRne.” Saturday night will be a remark- able episode in the history of the Academy. It is whispered around that there will be several features introduced during the performance besides what the bill states. The cancan, it is expected, will be danced by the one hundred and ninety-nine and a half stockholders, and the drum major will sing, ‘‘Piff, paf, pouf! tara, para, poum!” An incantation scene, in which the ghosts of departed managers and voices will appear, the central figure being the eynocephalus, surrounded by red fire, will be the grand finale of the performance. Altogether it will be an interesting reunion of the past and present of opera in the Academy, and may be productive of happy results, The latter suf- Mr. Evarts on the Constitution, We are told by the radical organs that—in their classical language—we need no more “gab” about the impeachment trial. This means, of course, that nothing more must be said in behalf of the respondent in the case, the prosecution having had their say in the elegant effort of Ben Butler, the stupid drawl of Mr. Boutwell, and the hearty, vehement scold of Thad Stevens. But it strikes us that the country would not object to hear a little more of such “gab” as Mr. Evarts gave on Tuesday when defining what the President's oath to maintain the constitution means, as it is administered to each Chief Magistrate. That oath, said Mr. Evarts, binds the Presi- dent of the United States to defend the con- stitution against all attacks, whether they come from Congress or from any other enemy, domestic or foreign.- Let the Managers, who boasted that all their recent acts were done outside of the constitution and in direct viola- tion of that sacred instrument, make a note of this, and let the Senators remember that the alleged crimes of President Johnsgn are his attempts to “preserve, protect atid defend the constitution,” as he is sworn tb do, against all enemies, whether these enemies are found in the House of Representatives or anywhere else. Spanisnt InsoLence—Tar Case or tie Bria Omana.—The Spanish authorities in Cuba en- deavor to throw every obstacle in the path of commercial and business people who happen to come within their jurisdicton, by the most vexatious interference and unjust demands, The latest phase of their insolent course is the case of the American brig Omaha, which was seized at Manzanilla, Cuba, a short time since, on account of some slight informality or cleri- cal error in the manifest of the vessel. An enormous fine is imposed on the vessel for this trifling error. This has become a regular practice in the island of Cuba, and it is bigh time that our government should put a Prop to it. The owners of the vessel, in rep to their remonstrances against the unjue’, seizure of their property, received an ip“imation that it is necessary to pay the fin; or abandon the vessel. This attempt to revive the practices of the old Spanish freebooters iy those waters must bs promptly checked by our government; and if the Cuban authorities do not bebave themselves in tha progence of their republican master, why, ‘ve will be compelled to flog them sound*y and take thoir island under our sheltering wine, | Congress and tho Country. For extreme abuse of its powers, for sbue- lute atrocity in pandering to the worst passions of a brutal race, and for the impudent pretence hardly an equal in the history of bodies pre- tending to derive authority from the people. Assembled 9¢ @ time when the errors and evil courses of its predecessot bad well nigh dis- gusted the nation with its victory over tho South—when that preceding Congress hea. thrown away the results of the national viotory so far as related to the restoration of the Union—it had the opportunity, by fairly repre- senting the people and moderating all the extreme tendencies of faction, to establish peace and secure the harmony of the sections.on a basis that would have been acceptable to all. Its power was given for that end only, and it betrayed the trust. It is made up of honest men and of rogues. Its honest men are timid, feeble creatures—political imbeciles, with hard- ly an exception. Its rogues are the ordinary political adventurers, with no other purpose than securing the party plunder. Appropriate means were found among a few leaders to oon- trol both classes. Driven by domineering demagogues, the honest gave way in mere fatuity and want of will; lured by glimpses of the spoils to be won, the others gave way to tempta- tion, and so faction remained the supreme power, and this Congress has outdone the other in everything evil. It has made it impossible for the next to surpass it in evil character by the addition of an item to its offences against society. It has committed against the people of the States acts infinitely worse than those for which the Declaration of Independence arraigned the British tyrant; and its reconstruc- tion acts, its financial measures, dnd its pres- ent proceeding against the Executive, include in one mass the sum of all outrageous, infa- mous, scandalous legislation. Allthis is apparent to the people. From every part of tho country arises the protest, and the elections declare that the voters are awake tothe danger and determined to pro- vide for the national safety. Every State of importance in the nation pronounces lis detes- tation of this factious fury. Even. in isolated New Hampshire political bigotry could not hold its own; in Connecticut, that centre of the sounder life of New England, the declara- tion against radicalism is bold and clear ; while in the great Middle States and from that far State on the Pacific, inhabited by the most in- telligent and energetic community on the earth, the people have declared with overwhelm- ing power that they have no sympathy with the murderous, policy of the Congress that now pretends to act in their name. What effect will these unmistakable utterances of the people have upon the men in, Congress? They show to the violent leaders that their time is short, and thus stimulate them to hurry onward and accomplish the whole programme of their destructive policy while they may. Hence they lash their quon- dam adherents with whips of scorpions. Herco, after every utterance from the people, we see that the venomous fury of radicalism grows wilder, more and more regardless of every restraint and every limit. On the other haad, among the men who had all the dispositon, without the strength, to be honest—who fol- lowed the radical lead because they were bullied into accepting it as the will of the people--thore is some show of a tendency to act from better grounds. These men find in the popular verdicts something to hold fast by—a point to rally on against the extrava- gance that has swept them onward. This gives a faint hope that some moderation may yet atone in part for the past course of Con- gress. It is, however, a faint hope only. No fact is clear save that some division must result in the radical party; but which side will prevail is yet to be seen. The Prince of Walese—A Lost Opportunity. The Prince of Wales was making his visit te Ireland when the news of the attempted assas- sination of Prince Alfred in Sydney reached him, and he immediately returned to England, thereby losing a fine opportunity to show his pluck by remaining in that portion of bis mother’s dominions which is proverbially hoa- tile to the reigning family and traditionally re- bellious to British authority.in every shape and form. It was said that the criminal who at- tempted to take his brother’s life was one of the terrible Fenians, ‘and here was the heir apparent in the land where Fenianism is sup- posed to exist in its most formidable shape, girt around with Greck fire and phosphorus, marshalled by head centres and American emissaries. What a splendid chance for the display of heroism the Prince threw away whea he embarked for London instead of traversing the whole four provinces, as tourists usually do, from the Giant’s Causeway to the pic- turesque lakes of Killarney! In all probability not a hair of his head would have been touched on the route, for it appears that he conducted himself so well in Dublin and was received with so much loyal courtesy that no personal piques would have instigated personal vengeance. But how it would have elevated him in the esti- mation of the people both in Ireland and Eng- land if he had boldly trusted himself among the Trish people just at this juncture! He might ha¥e earned the reputation of that celebrated lady of whom the poet Moore sings:— And blessed forever was she who relied On Brin’s honor and Erin’s pride. We cannot but think that the Prince of Wales, upon this occasion, lost an opportunity of be- coming « hero as well asa prince. Suppose he became a martyr! What then? There are plenty more prinées of the royal line to take his place on the English throne. . Taz Nor’gasteR ANQ THE TeLrorara.— Our telegraphic despatches received yesterday worning, giving the state of the weather at va- rious points from Fortress Monroe northward at nine o'clock A. M., warned us 80 ac iirately of the approach of the nor’easter which opened upon us in the afternoon that our ship news man was enabled to calculate—not to pre- dict—the hour of its arrival in New York. [a this, s¢ in numerous other cases, the ‘qi~ portance of a regular system of telegrap'iic sig- nals from the south of the comlag of these storms is abundapity petablisbod. A t nor’easter layart:,bly comes up from the south, and tho which reach ws, we be- lieva from out observations, generally strike inland from the Quif Stream at or near Cave Hattorag,