The New York Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIII RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.—REv. Day K. Ler. Morning and evening. CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH.—Evening. ~""* CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APOSTLES.—Rxv. 8. 8. How: LAND. Morning and afternoon, CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.-Rrv. Apnorr Brown, Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS.—Rev. Dx. Dees. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Rev. Dx. Fuage. Morning and afternoon, DOPWORTH HALL,—Srimrruatists. Morning and evening. EY! ALLY ‘T ROOMS.—SrimiTUALISTs. Mus. C. FANNIE Yorning and evening. FIRST B son. Morn ternoon and evening, FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rey. East- nun BeNgasiN. Morning and evening. 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In the High Court yesterday Mr. Stanbery resumed his remarks, but he showed such evident signs of fatigue after speaking for about an hour that Senator Anthony moved to adjourn until Monday, but objec- tion was made, and Mr. Stanbery himself said he did not ask it. Mr, W. F. Peddrick, formerly of the Attorney General's office, then read the remaining portions of the speech, with the exception of the peroration, which was delivered by Mr. Stanbery “himself, CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, after the adjournment of the High Court, the House amendinents to the Appropriation bill were non-concurred in and a com- mittee of conference was appointed. In the House a resolution was adopted calling on General Grant for an oficial report of the election in Arkansas. On returning from the Senate Chamber Mr. Donnelly, of Minnesota, obtained permission to make @ personal explanation relative to a letter published by Mr, Wastburne, of Llinois, accusing Mr. Don- nelly of *eeing in the night from Philadelpma and being an office beggar. The personal explanation | proved to be a round of hearty abuse. In reference to the ofMice begging insinuation, Mr. Donnelly said the Washburne family were ofMce beggars from their birth, and he believed that the male members all came into the world franked M. ©, Mr. Washburne answered him with similar abuse, and the House, «after this enlivening episode, adjcurned, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday bills abolishing the Board of Councilmen of New York city and providing for the election of one Assistant Alderman from each Assembly district in the city; creating a new ward in ‘Mrooklyn and the General Appropriation bill were passed, The Arcade Railroad bill was defeated by a ‘vote of 14 to 15. The Tax Commissioner's bill was ordered to a new reading and the Croton Aqueduct ‘Dill was recommitted. The Senate then adjourned until Wednesday. In the Assembly the bill extending the act for tlie construction of an experimental railway in New ‘York city was passed. ‘The State Charity Bill was reported amended, by the reduction of the appropria- ion to $250,000, and thus passed by a vote of 86 to 16, EUROPE. The news report of the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, May 2. The London journals indicate that Mr. Disraeli may hold office by a Parliamentary compromise, and no | dissoiution occur until the first appeal is made to, ‘the people by election under the new Reform bill. | Consols, 9374. Five-twenties 70°, « 0); in London ond 75% @ 75% in Frankfort, Paris Bourse dull. Cotton slightly lower in London, middling uplands closing at 125d. Breadstuits dull. Provisions active end upward. Produce heavy. ‘ MISCELLANEOUS. Later telegraphic advices from the west coast of | Mexico, dated at Mazatlan on the 224 ult., state that Governor Rubi had called for a loan of $30,000 from the merchants, and Corona had asked for a ‘Joan of $100,000. Most of Rubi's loan was imme. diately forthcoming and the payment of the other was agreed to by the merchants, who socn after paid down $50,000 of it. Qne Calvillo was executed ‘on the 18th inst. fora murder which he committed ‘wo days before. Our correspondence from Mazatlan gives a comprehensive report of the late imbroglio votween General Vega and Martinez, and the pro- Posed scheme for annexing the Northern States to the United States. . We have telegraphic advices from the West Indies. ‘The town of Naparinas, in Trinidad, has been reduced to ashes. Annapola, Honduras, has been decreed a free port. Captain Bax, of the British mail steamer Elder, has been sentenced to death in St. Thomas, ‘Dut is still at large. Governor Austin had arrived at Barbados, Advices from Venezuela state that General Colinas had whipped Rafor and entered the heart of Aragua, the rebel country. General Aristeguicta had defeated ‘the rebels at Culebra, Rojas had opened negotiations ‘Tor peace, and Escobar and Quintaro were fleeing to Guarico, In the Cole trial at Albany yesterday Mr Parker closed his argument and was followed by Mr. Sedgewick, The court then adjourned until Mon- day, when Mr, Brady will deliver his argument, A stock company is being organized in Cienfuegos, Cuba, for the importation of coolies. Jet Davis’ bail was renewed yesterday. Judge Visterwood stated that Otlef Justice Chase would be 1 wiy to try “President? Davis ten days after the 1. al of Pre Jolunsor feild has made some more city ap- Rehman ‘Unoficial returns place the radical majority in the Louisiana election at 17,868, Warmouth is elected governor, and the Legislature ia radicai on joint ballot by twenty-seven majority. The Methodist Conference now in session in Chi- cago continued its business yesterday. The question of admitting colored delegates came up again, and after a general ventilation was laid on the table until after the report of the bishops is received. The California Democratic State Convention, in session in San Francisco, have adopted resolutions denouncing Congress and the impeachment. They say nothing relative to the national debt or thé pro- posed nominees at the coming New York Convention, Sitka ts becoming @ lively business port. During the last month ten or twelve vessels of various rigs arrived and departed, several of them being steam- ships, and passengers are continually arriving. A row occurred at a negro picnic near Memphis yesterday, in which several persons, all colored, were shot, one of them mortally. * ‘The number of deaths in this city during the past week was 453, The stock market, including government securi- ties, was dull yesterday. Gold closed at 13914. In most departments of trade in commercial cir- cles yesterday there was but little animation. Cot- ton was in improved demand anda shade higher, closing at 32%¢¢. for middling uplands, Coffee was dull and rather heavy. On ’change flour was in limited demand and heavy white wheat was quiet and generally lower. Corn was in fair demand and firmer. Oats were more sought after and higher. For pork the demand was moderate, but prices were 1234 @ 2c. per bbl. higher. Beef was steady and lard tm fair demand and firm. Petroleam—crade was quiet, but 3c. higher, while bonded was in brisk demand and 1c. higher. Naval stores—spirits turpentine was dull and declined 5c.; other kinds without change of moment. Freights were dull and heavy. Whiskey was dull and nominal, The Position of Chief Justice Chase in the Impeachment Trial. The several attempts made by the Managers and radical Senators to abridge the functions of the Chief Justice in the impeachment trial show their determination not only to ignore all sense of justice, but to set aside the constitu- tional prerogative and duty of the judiciary jn this important case. From the independent, dignified and impartial conduct of Mr. Chase, they are afraid he will perform his duty as Judge over the High Court of Impeachment in summing up the case and stating the facts and the law upon which the Senate should render a verdict. They have endeavored to prevent this by all the means in their power. In their pleadings all through they have uniformly ad- dressed the Chief Justice as a presiding officer, and not as a judge, and have ignored the Sen- ate as a court in the proper sense of the term. The Senate, they say, is a law to itself, and is not to be governed by the rules of practice in the trial of other cases and before other tribunals. They and their organs have endeavored to intimidate the Chief Justice by base insinuations and by threatening him with party ostracism. In fact, they have mere figurehead, without life or authority— simply to carry out their will and record their decrees. We shall see in the course of a few days what stuff Mr. Chase is made of. We shall see if he will permit himself to be unrobed and the judi- ciary struck down by these violent and unscru- pulous partisans, The judiciary is an inde- pendent branch of the government, and the Chief Justice represents it on this trial. There was a profound object with the framers of the constitution in making the Chief Justice the presiding judge over the High Court of Im- peachment for the trial of the President of the United States. It was undoubtedly to bring all the three divisions of the government to bear in such an important case. The legisla- tive department becomes the prosecutor of the executive, and the judicial, in the person of the Chief Justice, becomes the expounder of the law as applied to the evidence. This was certainly the intention of the framers of our constitution, That instrument cannot fairly be interpreted in any other way. The trial would be partial, one-sided and entirely in the hands of the prosecution if the Chief Justice has no voice or authority in the de- cision, Indeed, it would be sheer mockery. The judicial department of the government would have really nothing to do in the trial of the Executive, and any Senator, or even the Secretary of the Senate, for that matter, might just as well preside. No, the intention was to bring the Supreme Court—the judicial depart- ment of the government—in the person of the Chief Justice, into action in the trial of the Executive. The constitution wisely provides for these checks and balances in the govern- ment against usurpation or injustice, and the Supreme Court in this conflict stands between the Legislature and the President to explain the law and evidence, so that justice may be done and the constitutional powers and rights of each may be preserved. The Senate has already decided in the course of the trial that the Chief Justice had the right to decide in controverted points of law or evidence. How, then, can it refuse to hear him sum up and judicially decide the law and evidence in the whole case? This, beyond all question, is his | duty, though the verdict must be left to Sena- tors as the jury in the case. In view of these facts, therefore, Mr. Chase holds a most important and delicate position— a position that no Chief Justice ever held be- fore him. He is not there to decide only upon the mere technicalities of law, upon which the case of the Managers solely rests, but upon the broad issue of the conflict between the legis- lative and executive branches of the govern- ment, the motives of the President in his conduct, the question of constitutional prero- gative and the establishod precedents of execu- tive action. He is there to prevent Congres- sional tyranny and usurpation, as much as to prevent executive delinquency. He occupies, as we said, in this great and unprecedented case a position that no Chief Justice ever held before—a position which, according to his con- duct, will bring eternal fame or infamy upon his name. Let him insist, then, upon his right and duty to sum up the case and to explain the law and evidence in it. Let him expose the flimsy charges of the impeachment Man- agers and the insufficiency of the evi- dence. Let him defend the government from the assaults of faction and Congres- sional usurpation, The responsibility will | then be upon the Senate; he will have | done his duty to the country, If the Senate should render a verdict in opposition to his arge he will not be blamed, and the people will honor bim for his independence and sense If the radical majority refuse to hear his summing up of the case and should be | determined to make him a mere automaton, he should gather up his judicial robes and leave \ the Senate chamber. The court would be left of justice. resolved to make him a mere automaton—a | without its constitutional head and its action would become illegal or purely despotic. It would throw the Jacobin impeachers into the greatest consternation and embarrassment. They might talk of impeaching Mr. Chase him- self, wore he to take such a course, and possibly might try it; but the people would be with him, and he would earn everlasting gratitude and fame for his defence of constitutional right and the preservation of the government. A few days will decide whether the Chief Justice comprehends his position and the crisis or will yield to intimidation from the faction in power. A Model Guano Debate im the Houso of Representatives, On the motion of Mr. Brooks, of New York, that a select committee be appointed to inves- tigate all the facts in reference to the signing of certain opinions on the Alta Vela guano case by Messrs. Bingham, Butler, Logan and Stevens, Managers of the impeachment prose- cution against Andrew Johnson, there was & model debate in the national House of Repre- sentatives on Friday last. Mr. Brooks desired to know all about this legal opinion of these Impeachment Managers on this guano contro- versy, laid before the President on the 9th of March, after he had been summoned to appear before the bar of the Senate. Under the cir- cumstances were not such papers calculated to operate on the President’s mind, ‘either by intimidation or persuasion; or perhaps some stronger word might be used,” said Mr. Brooks, “calculated to influence or control, or threaten to control, his action in reference to the Alta Vela claim? The claim is large, involving a million of dollars ; some say two or three mil- lions.”, The papers in question, it appears, ad- dressed to Colonel Shaffer, of counsel for the Baltimore claimants against the New ork claimants to said guano island, were 1: i be- fore the President by Mr. Chauncey F. Black, who, with Judge Jere. Black, is associated with Shaffer in this case. After some general discussion of the subject and the facts and circumstances, Mr. Brooks desired to know, for instance, ‘‘how came the name of Thad Stevens to be signed to that paper—the ruler of this body (the House), the autocrat, the dictator, the Jupiter Tonans, not only of this body but of the republican party, who sought to overawe not only the Supreme Court, but the Senate of the United States ?” Mr. Stevens being absent, or having nothing to say, the floor was taken by Mr. Logan, of Illinois, who had no apology to make. ‘‘If the gentleman from New York (Mr. Brooks) was serious, if he was honest, if he wasa gentleman, then he (Mr. Logan) would say to him he would not have offered this reso- lution if he understood the facts as he pro- fesses.” What offence had the Managers com- mitted that they should be arraigned before the bar of the House? ‘The only defence that had been made for the greatest criminal this country has ever known was just such as was pretended to be made this evening by vil- lanously attacking men as honest ” Here the “gentleman” was called to order, and re- tracted his villanous charge; but in the fur- ther prosecution of his remarks he branched off again:—‘‘The President treated this letter as he was in the habit of treating every letter that fell into his hands. He (Mr. Logan) had signed that letter, giving a mere opinion as to the duty of the government. The gentleman (Mr. Brooks) had said that this claim is worth amillion. This was not true, and the gentle- man knew it.” This was, in a milder form, equivalent to a certain moral philosopher's method of putting it—‘‘ You lie, villain, and you know it.” The Illinois. member was again called to order and ruled to be using unpar- liamentary language, whereupon he qualified it by saying ‘‘The gentleman from New York said they would have to vote on it (this Alta Vela case). When he made that statement he knew it was not true and false, or he ought to have known it.” Mr. Chanler, of New York, here put in:— “Does the gentleman allude to me?” Mi Logan answered, ‘‘ When you say I signed a document relating toa subject upon which Iam to vote, I say itis not true.” Mr. Chanler said he had made no such statement. ‘‘ Then,” asked Mr. Logan, ‘‘where was the wrong to give or sign an opinion as a lawyer?” The paper, he said, was signed by some of the Managers without knowing it was to be used in this way, and as a pretence that the Managers had sought to influence him; and there is a trick in your President, or you are the catspaw of the President.” Here Mr. Ross, of Mlinois (democrat), proceeded to call his colleague to account as a prosecutor of the President, when the forgetful Logan retorted:—“Such a re- mark could only emanate from a base heart.” Called to order again, he again retracted, but concluded his speech by saying that ‘‘ this in- vestigation was sought for base party pur- poses.” Here Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, vouch- safed an explanation of his signature to this aforesaid guano letter. It was given to assist Colonel Shaffer in disposing of his interest in this guano island. When he (Butler) signed it he -had no expectation that the President would be then impeached, though sure he would be ultimately. Until he (Mr. Butler) had seen the letter in the New York HeRaLD no- body had spoken to him about it, In the course of his remarks he turned his guns upon the Brooks brothers, as follows :—‘‘ Some time ago there was a case where one Clarke sued a fellow by the name of Brooks for part owner- ship in the New York Hrpress, and there was & difficulty between Erastus Brooks and the other partner about a division of the spoils. They brought him (Butler) the case, and showed him that the two Brookses had robbed this Clarke. He (Butler) said he did not love the firm. He would have nothing to do with it. It was a nasty affair, and not so fertile as guano. He saw the case in court and saw the Brookses beaten.” Now, a charge of robbery may be inside of the parliamentary law, but outside it is gene- rally regarded as most offensively personal. But according to Butler it further appears that the members of the House signing said guano lotter did it at the request of Judge Black, to “stiffen up the backbone” of the President against Secretary Seward; and finally But- ler declared that he would rather be with Black on this impeachment than any man, a pseudo republican (Evarts, for instance), “who had stolen the livery of heaven to serve the devil in.” The wrathful Butler having thus unbottied himself, Mr. Eldridge, of Wis- conain (democrat), debated the question, and NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1868—TRIPLE SHERT. as he warmed up with his subject he refused to yield the floor to the fiery Logan, ‘‘because the member can’t be a gentleman and treat his political opponent with politeness and civility.” This was too much for Logan, who instantly responded, ‘You can’t expect anything else from a blackguard, and I don’t take that back.” But where, all this time, was the Speaker? and where the rules of the House? Why was not this man, for this presumptuous violation of the rules, compelled at once to retract or subjected to the proper penalty for his offence? We should like to know. But the beauties of this debate did not end here. Mr. Brooks had his settlement with the ter- rible Butler, whom he accused of being proved a gold robber, of using vituperative language, “fitter for Billingsgate and Newgate than for Massachusetis,” of looking after ‘‘the beauty and booty at New Orleans—especially the booty,” of coming away ‘“‘with the key of Rich- mond in his pocket,” and of being ‘‘attacked by @ common bricklayer for insulting his wife and soundly thrashed.” After which the re- solution was laid upon the table—yeas seventy, nays twenty-six; glory enough in the way of guano for one day. Such are our lawmakers in Washington. Such, with the effluvia of guano, is the House of Representatives of the Fortieth Congress of the United States under the discipline of Mr. Speaker Colfax. Brawling in the Churches—The Christian Spirit. Public attention is again forcibly called to the fact that societies professedly Christian may set the worst examples in regard to mild man- ners and gentleness of demeanor that can be found in a peaceable community. Vestrymen, wardens and pastor of a Protestant Episcopal church in this city have recently fallen by the ears in a dispute that is supposed to have begun on points of formality in worship. Some are ritualists and some are not, and so arises a difference in regard to the mere acces- sories of the service, which comes to a brawl in the streets. Forgetting the essentials of all service, casting from them the contrite heart and self-denying spirit, they dispute on this immaterial point as if no command to ‘‘love one another” had ever been heard in the world. Policemen are summoned to put one party out of the church edifice and keep the other in, and the locust club is held up as a terror to compel the silence of a parson who desires to preach the Gospel from the church steps. From the street the case goes to the courts, and there is the usual farrago of argument on injunctions and motions to dis- solve and what not, and the acute wits of the lawyers must settle the quarrel of the disciples of the “Peacemaker.” There was a not dis- similar dispute ina church in a neighboring city lately. Wardens and pastor quarrelled there also. On Sunday the pastor began to read from the pulpit the statement of his side of the case. One of the wardens called upon the organist for music in the midst of the par- son’s statement; and the organist played, with all the more gusto as he, perhaps, looked to that warden for his pay. So it was a duel—the organ on one hand, the parson on the other; and the latter was fairly piped into silence by “the deep, majestic, solemn organ’s blow.” Such is the mood in which our religious societies frequently appear ; yet if there is one distinction of the Christian teachings that may be called the pre-eminent one it is that the disciples of Christ should control especially those very instincts and tendencies of our common human nature that lead to the bitter- ness and fury of quarrel and dispute. Tempta- tion there is in abundance; human weakness, too; and between these what occurs? All that strife and envy and ill-will that governs in the world, and to find the remedy for which was the special mission of Christ. Christ appeared and lived and died for nothing if not to put a better relationship than that between men—if not to regulate the intercourse of man with his fellows by a spirit of charitable for- bearance for all weaknesses, all errors and differences. How is it, then, that men who are governed only by hate, who construe every act in wn ill sense, who go to violence with the readiness of pothouse brawlers, who are ruled by a spirit the very opposite to that of Christ—how is it that such men dare call themselves Christians? Is it not a profanity, a blaspheny, that men should invoke the sacredness of such a name to com- mend them before the world, while they are proving by every possible act that they have no right to it. The truth as seen in all these unseemly exhi- bitions of religious societies is simply that the spirit of Christianity is not to be found in the churches. Splendid architecture you may have there. Music you may have there also—some- times good, sometimes indifferent, sometimes as horrible as saw-filing. Popular parsons are there, too, with polished discourses on topics of more or less interest. Fashionable society ‘you may have there, but Christianity, pure and imple, not once in ten thousand times. Suppose you told the deacons of the church to sell all they had and give it to the poor. With what Olympian laughter the aisles would reverberate. Try the parson—the sis- ters, any part of the establishment by any similar requirement of the Christian precepts, and the test would infallibly tell you that they were not the persons you thought. Either, then, those divine precepts have no reality, no force, no proper application in our life, or all this_splendor and pride are inconsistent with Christianity. Surely, when men have spent millions on an edifice to be proud of it is hard for them to be humble in it. Christianity is the mfme with which all these worshippers of their own pride and wealth and taste cover their acts; but the spirit of Christianity is to be sought in other places than among those who go into court to find who really owns and shall control the valuable piece of property on which they all want to worship God. Jerr Davis on Tos Riout Sipg oF tHE Ling.—We learn from Richmond that the bail bond of Jeff Davis would be renewed yester- day; that Daws will not appear in person; that his trial will probably be fixed for the last day of May or the’ Ist of June, when it will certainly take place. The important point of this intelligence is this—that ‘Davis will not appear in person.” He is in Canada, He is safe over there from the wrath of Ben Wade, and there we wotld advise him to stay; for if brought in person to trial after the removal of President Johnson his chances for escave from the extreme penalty of treason will be slim indeed, His conviction and execution will be The debate in the House of Commons on Mr. Gladstone's resolutions came to » close on Saturday morning at half-past two o'clock. The vote was unmistakable. In a house full almost beyond precedent the government was defeated by a majority of sixty-five. The good sense of the Prime Minister came to his aid when he declared, amid the profoundest silence, that the relations of the Ministry and the House of Commons had been 80 altered by the vote that time was necessary to consider what action should be taken in the circumstances. At the date of our latest news Mr. Disraeli had set out for Osborne to consult with the Queen. Disraeli has had a hard battle to fight. It has been his misfortune that he has had to fight against great odds, Gladstone has proved himself to be too many for him on this occa- sion, The game, however, is not completely up. Disraeli is unquestionably at his wits’ end. The ground has gone from his feet sooner than he expected. The circumstances, however, in which he now finds himself are precisely those which give genius such as his its oppor- tunity. What will he do? Dissolution would be folly; for a general election now would not prevent a general election either at the close of this or the commencement of next year. To bow to the vote of the House and yet remain in office would bring on the Ministry the contempt of the entire British people. We see nothing for Mr. Disraeli but resignation. His simplest and safest course is to give place to Mr. Gladstone, who is now, with Earl Rus- sell’s consent, the acknowledged chief of the liberal party. Disraeli’s chance is in opposi- tion. Mr. Gladstone has raised a difficulty which he will find it by no means easy to remove out of the way.’ The Irish Church is a much larger question than Mr. Gladstone has as yet encouraged the public to believe. It is really a vital question. It touches the founda- tions of the British constitution. Reconstruc- tion has more than once in the world’s history been found to be more difficult even than destructive war. Mr. Gladstone will find this out. Mr. Disraeli, if he can only calm himself in the circumstances, will not be slow to dis- cover that even this defeat paves the way to another and a grander success. The situation is full of interest. The game is keen, the players are skilful and the spectators are numerous. Rumored Hiness of Ismail Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt. Our mail advices have brought us the intel- ligence that Ismail Pacha, the present Viceroy of Egypt, was seriously ill. The death of the Viceroy at the present moment could not fail to be attended with very serious consequences. Ismail Pacha was born in 1830, not in 1816, as the London Zimes incorrectly puts it. He is, therefore, only in his thirty-eighth year. Ismail is a son of the celebrated Ibrahim Pacha, and grandson of the still more celebrated Mo- hammed Ali, who founded the present line of Egyptian rulers, Ismail ascended the Vice- regal throne in 1863, on the death of his brother, Said Pacha. His reign, therefore, has as yet been brief; but it has been vigorous and successful beyond that of any of the rulers of his house since the days of Mohammed Ali. Under his rule Egypt has acquired a more than nominal independence of the Sultan. Within the last two years he has made an ex- periment never before made in a Mohammedan country—he has given his people a constitu- tion and has established a species of Parlia- mentary government, modelled somewhat on the imperial system of France. It is onlya few weeks since he opened the second session of the Chambers by a speech which would not have suffered by comparison with any of the speeches commonly pronounced on such occa- sions by the royal or imperial chiefs of Europe. His mind on all essential points (religion ex- cepted) is in perfect harmony with modern progress. Since his accession to power and by the influence he has brought to bear on the authorities at Constantinople Ismail Pacha, much to the annoyance of many of the mem- bers of his family, has succeeded in changing the order of succession. Formerly the patri- archal system which has always prevailed in the East, and which still rules at Constantinople, ruled in Egypt. The eldest male head of the family of Mohammed Ali was chief of the State. In virtue of this law he himself succeeded to power; but he has, with the Sultan's consent, made the succession he- reditary in his own family. His son, still a boy, is heir apparent. If Ismail Pacha were cut off suddenly it is not unsafe to predict that Egypt would be plunged into revolution. Mustapha Pacha, now an exile from Egypt, and known all over Europe as the chief of the party of progress in Turkey, and younger—if younger at all—than the Viceroy by minutes only, would have been but for the change of law his brother's natural successor. Mustapha has many friends in Egypt, and as he has never consented to the new arrangement there can be little doubt that in the event of the death of the Viceroy he would return to Egypt and make a vigorous effort to regain what he con- siders his rights. A revolution in Egypt would be certain to bring about a joint French and British occupation of the country. Such an occupation would be fraught with dangerous consequences to Europe. A Crean Swesp.—aA radical contemporary says that if, as President of the United States ad interim, ‘Mr. Wade should, in co-opera- tion with the Senate, remove every federal officehoider from the Cabinet down to the tide waiters, thé people, so far from revolting, would feel rather relieved by the consciousness that no change could let loose upon them a’ more hungry swarm of vampires.” From simi- lar hints from other quarters, and from the gathering of the spoijsmen at Washington, we feel bound to say to’ the federal officeholders, great and small—prepare for a clean sweep under Mr. Wade. Lucky, Arrer Att—The people of . this State, in having this year a Legislature with one house of one party and one of the other and a Governor not exactly in favor with oither house. From these hitches between the As- sembly, the Senate and the Govornor a heavy atalogue of big jobs has been switched off ‘The Latest News from Mexico. The principal items in the Intest telegraphie news from Mexico attest the prolonged dis- turbance which torments that beautiful but unhappy country. The rebellion of Gen- eral Negrete is still unsuppressed. Ca- nales is reported as being about to make. common cause with Negrete and also as having been successful in a recent fight, The name of Aureliano Rivera is con- nected with wild rumors of fresh pronuncoia- mientos, The insurrection at .Perote had a horrible end, maiming having been resorted to in the execution of the insurgents, This incident suffices to show how very far behind the spirit of the age the semi-barbarous Mexi- cans are. The rumors of Minister Romero's resignation are renewed. The course of Con- gress indicates » loss of prestige on the part of President Juarez, who will find it difficult, says our correspondent, to surmount the elements of the opposition without exerting authoritative pressure. A communication from General J. G. Ortega, dated at his prisom in Monterey and signed as President ad in- terim, has been published. Our readers are aware of his claims to the title, which he assumes as being a successor to the Presidency, according to the Mexican constitution, by virtue of his former office as Chief Justice. The utter social digorganization of Mexico is illustrated by the facts that Sefior Calixto, the younger, had been kidnapped and held to ransom for’ ten thousand dollars; that Mr. Branff, one of the conductors on the Vera Cruz Railway, had his skull fractured in a fight with some bandits who attacked the building party, and that Mr Saulnier, the American Consul at Vera Cruz, while on a mission to the interior recently, waa attacked by banditti, But Mr. Saulnier drew his revolver and asserted that he was an Ameri+ can Consul, whereupon the highwaymen de~ sisted and saw the Consul safe on his ways Our telegram does not mention that he may also have invoked in his behalf the ‘ e influence” of the Hzra.p, of which he wad formerly a correspondent. But we are glad toi learn that even the Mexican banditti are begin~ ning to respect the authority of the Americam ‘flag. Minister Romero is accused of being af the head of a “‘short corner” in Mexican securi~ ties, attempted by sending agents to the United! States by the Mexican Treasury Department for the purpose of depreciating the bonds of that republic so as to buy them at a reduced rate, The troubles in Sinaloa were to be put down with vigor. General Corona was levy~ ing forced loans on the foreign merchants td pay his troops, and General Martinez had virtually abandoned his own cause, 80 that what Alatorre did in Yucatan wilt be repeated by Corona in Sinaloa, In fine, the same financial, political and social chaos seems to exist in Mexico which! we have lately had so frequent occasion to! notice, and out of which order, wealth and! prosperity will probably not emerge until the “great republic” shall haye absorbed the “go-called” republic of Mexico. The Fashions. From the pen of our lively and witty cor- respondent in Paris we are favored with another glimpse of fashionable life and follies’ in that capital. All Paris, imitating the ex- ample of the imperial family, became de- yout and donned penitential garments during. Holy Week, and the churches were throngedd The Emperor and Empress on Easter Sunday attended an aristocratic christening in the capacity of sponsors. The chubby-faced prin cipals on the occasion were a marshal and duke (in embryo). The rage for Marie An- : toinette toilets is still on the increase, althou; we doubt very much if the poor Queen or thel ill-fated Princess Lamballe, were they living, would be able to recognize any of the or costumes that now bear their names. Suits! are now exclusively worn on the streets— bonnet, dress, gloves and parasol being alll on suite, The new striped petticoats looki very pretty under a light gray dress, 1 up in a graceful manner. When a loose jacket or fichu and a fancy straw fanchon enveloped in a mist of tulle are added, the effect is charming. At the races in France the ex- the track. “When rogues fall out,” says the proverb. “honest men are the gainers thereby.” travagant toilets of the ‘‘out-and-outer” lady, patrons were a subject of considerable com- ment. There is little new in the world of fashion on this side of the Atlantic, but there are indications of another revolution ere long,’ and the modistes will endeavor to get the control of bonnets once more. At present the majority of their customers make their owe bonnets. ey Mr. Gren Rutep Ovt or Court.—The Legis- lature has, as we expected it would do, pro- nounced the charges of corruption against ita members made by Mr. Glen without foundation in fact, and therefore has ruled Mr. Glen an@ his case out of court. While giving Mr. Glem credit for sincerity in presenting the charges,| the special committee report that he has not sustained his case. Poor Mr. Glen was no match for his adversaries. He should. have known that honesty is not the best policy im the Albany Legislature, and should therefore have held his peace. But who believes that the venerable Mr. Glen was wrong and that the special committee is right? Not one wha knows anything about the Legislature and the lobby from Buffalo to the Battery. Tue Dientry or Orrioiat Lire.—Whoever wishes to form correct ides of the amenities and courtesies of official intercourse at the national capital should particularly note the language used by Judge Black in one of hig letters to the President published in Fri~ day’s Heratp. Mr. Black writes of “Mr.! Seward and the thieves whose interests he has 80 faithfully protected,” and writes thus to » President of whose Cabinet Mr. Seward is ~* distinguished member. ACCIDENTAL POISONING—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. {From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.| Cincrnnatt, M 5 1088. ‘The wife of George Smith, of this clty, fee ing noe very well on Tuesday, consulted an old lady uf the neighborhood and on her recommendation ut ® quantity of tartar emetic. She took # wy dose of the poison and died ina few houra. Yesterday afternoon a well dressed man by the name of William Moelman, with the design of de- sth himself, cut s deep gash in his left wri severing one of the ra arteries, and then down in a qulet spot on the canal bank, near Plum street, to walt for death. Fortunately he waa dla en mi merci Y and mediggi treatment, The cut was bandaged by the attending surgeon, and in a short timo he was in ‘& fair way to escape bleeding to death, as li¢ Nad ner voaed to da.