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'* bl NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. : 3 a ee Fe aa sonvistion of tb’, president, the facilities it would give alm for ~, ipating in the Presidential contest and Pane fe yo oA and other proofs as he hots in great abundance, would be an advantage to them in the coming contest. Among republicans it is argued that the anxiety for impeachment is confined to a few partisan jour- nals which are operating in the interests of expect- ants of oficial favors or government patronage in some form, while the leading and more influential papers are counselling moderation and advising the WASHINGTON. Review of the Impeachment Trial, . tnt to £2 tof five ae anand was dressed BS waite, with 9 Bw saree. al Y ica are those of @ | priests wear irbans; people go AB SSINIA. grand and it to Bareheaded, "Kidiculous aa was. the of troops ere A. Ride with Napfer’s Elephant and | fhe gre madalone rorkn itave spoken of bu here theming and afer oaking tas they agua a the | ted on ind_by the plain, so that the within @ circle of ten | The conversation was, of course, Camel Train. Tnileg would be considerable. ‘The peopic ate Gouvis | a meant eras interpreters. Sir Robert Ni cattle, rs of | assured them of the friendship of the these animals wander over the plain and feed upon } towards their kin; } and that we intended no harm the long, coarse grass. They c however, very | to the people on the country. We only wished to = Eg 8cl }, and will go into effect at once:— In_ accordance with General Orders No, 19, D. Gy April ay the following qGarautine regulations Mey lo" set are Published: a tute of grain, and this y the scarcity rescue our countrymen who were held in Movements of the Politi- | Senate that it will be more hazardous to impeach un- | for ‘Hampton Climateand Productions of the | mcr seater than usual, for immense flocks of | by Theodorus. The ambassadors, on the ctser hs 4 Giana justly than to acquit, that there is no party necessity | 1. ‘The senior medical officer at Fortress Monroe Highlands eoumenere ros ye aad nea legge et herd paaured Sir Robert that the King of Was most, requiring conviction, and that there is no existing will be ex-oficio the quarantine officer for Hampton ij ands. i Ur the dition a ‘of @ dollar for fifteen | himsel ro nee an x, ie Wot ave come . ~ laxity of moral sentiment that would sanction a ver- | Roads, and will be agsieted in this duty by other 8 Fie enormous price: ma able, but that he had jnst pounds of grain they are unable to procure anything | been crowned, and it was contrary to etiquette to like the necessary quantity for their horses, to say | leave his capital for a month ‘after that wae Be- ) ‘rom Seni ; » ould spread over the country and pre! Christianity, the Churches, Church } ,,F'w Senate to att “Ae a Poa toad caer | YOUR tha” pense,” es ho antry iat mere track beaten by the ives, but hat he never intent Ornamentation and Ceremonies. | firthediticuit pong been made tnto a practicable | of coming “at ait SQveh,yad any, intention road by the sappers and miners and a regiment of | as all these peopies are, he was assured that if we ‘i rst a a © conduct o} 5 is A Ride with Napler—The Highlands and the | Vilaces and scattered over with large hens of eatte, | he Wishes, no doubt, to reserve te? himself the mest Fertile Valleys of the “Mexico” in Africa= | 1t then descends into a valley, at the extremity of | perfect freedom of actton, — If all goes well, and we Vegetation and Animal Life—Road Making— | which water is found at a piace called Goun-Gouna, | thrash Theodorus, he intends to be perfectly friendly > Churches and Church ©: tation=Se. | Where the commissariat station is established. The | ff, on the contrary, the expedition fuiis to get through anagin perma * | next moruing we clitabed by a very rough and dim- | the extraordinary dimculties of ita journey, or meets George and the Dragon—An African Travels | euit road on to the Plateau. Once there an immense | With any mishap whatever, he equally intends to fall ler in Camp—Review of the British Army— | plain stretched away in all directions bounded every- | upon us upon our retreat, and tw capture as much Cost of Living. where in the distance by mountains, As this plateau | baggage and do us as much harm as possible; and 1 rt March 1, 1868. formation is the great peculiarity of Abyssinia it is | then not only for the sake of the booty, but to pro- erecnay, Mayen: 2, ag well to describe it particularly. In appearance it | pillate Theodorus, and to prove to him that he waa « Since I last wrote yon I have exchanged a burning | is a succession of great plains six or seven thou- | never friendly to us, sun, clouds of blinding ants and an extreme paucity | Sand feet above the sea, These plains are, however, The next morning we had a review of the troops f water for one of th in | Penetrated by valleys from one to two thousand feet | here, and curiously enough our barbaric visitors of water for one of the most delightful climates deep, which run up into them, and are quite unseen | Were not in the slightest degree impressed either by the world. Weare now nearly seven thousand fect | until we stand upon their very brink and see a great | the steady movements of the British infantry or by above the level of the sea, Atufght the thermometer our opened cA our ote Some of these valle # are se Daneny of on ieee pig ees Wee aa ree ery wide contain within them detact nis is expec J goes down to 28 or 29 Fahrenheit; in the day it 18 | which rise up like great islands, as no douit they | and aid nos make: enounte noise, while of the mn- 120 in the un, a difference of ninety degrees. This poe = A ie exact ieee oe the plateau bak the; paper remer ed Bias ench oltee salman extreme variation of temperature would have been The view down some of these valleys, with | would make excellent marks to fire ai ry “i their stra island hills with rpendicular | alone elicited their admiration. They have them- thought to be most prejudicial to the health; but | sides, ‘another platean beyond, an Tnountains | selves nothing but small rough ponies, and the ‘fine we feel it much less than might have been ex- | risi above all in the distance, is very grand | animals of the ea rien were to them some- breeze im the daytime which tempers the heat, ing very much to avold their valleys, the road pro- | feotly irresistible, and added that they would be of while at night there is always a dead calm, oenas “9 as second say's pores mI ronnie, when “_— Lrg le oa pen - 80 that the cold is little felt. The native troops, | Water is again met with. The lay’s journey is e prices we are paying for everything here are haif upon the plateau and then descends into the | something enormous, especiaily when it is remem- indeed, suffer somewhat from dysentery, but the | yajey a this town 1s situated, The descent is | bered that the or! P prices for provisions were health of the European troops is excellent. I must now describe my journey up here, I started on the 26th ult., as I was desirous of keeping ahead of the Commander-in-Chief, who was to start upon the fol- lowing day. Our first day’s Journey was to Kor- medical officers at Fort Monroe and its vicinity. 2, All vessels having contagious or infectious dis- eases on board, and vessels from ports infected with yellow fever, cholera, or any contagious or in- fectious diseasea, will, before entering Hampton Roads when from infected ports, but having no sick- neas on board, heave to near the Rip Raps in the day time and anchor there in the night; and when from infected ports, with sickness on board, anchor atthe yellow buoy near the Willoughby Spit light ship, hoist a yellow flag from the mainmast head await inspection and orders from the quarantine omicer. 3,.All vessels from porta infected with the yellow fever, or other epidemic diseases, but having had po cases during the passage, will be quarantined for fif- teen days and thoroughly fumigated. 4. All such vesseis which have had yellow fever, cholera or other epidemic diseases on board during the passage and arrival at quarantine, shall be quaautues for fifteen days after the termination of the last case and mnie fumigated. 6. The quarantine officers shall assign vessels to the positions they are to Ll while in quarantine, and may change their positions whenever stormy weather or other circumstances render such changes necessary. 7. No communication with the shore from in- fected vessels, nor from the shore with infected ves- sels, will be allowed, save by permission and under the supervision of the quarantine officer; nor will communication from the shore be allowed with ves- sels from infected ports until they shall have been eee by the quarantine officer and pronounced clean, 7. Masters of vessels and pilots in charge will be held responsible for any violation of the foregoing a rmoniars lonel George E. Cooper, the senior ‘medical officer of the it, has had an experience of sixteen years upon the frontier of and in Mexico, ts tho- roughly conversant with all the malignant diseases in their various stages; and the quarantine regula- ae this post could not be placed in abler hit dict of guilty in violation of the Senatorial obligations. It is foreseen that benefit could accrue by convic- tion to but two members of the radical party (Ben Wade and E, M. Stanton), and it 13 begin. ning to be appreciated that these two are the most anxious of all concerned as to the result, They are watchful and distrustfal of Senators, and suffer daily and nightly the tortures of uncertainty and suspense, There are not in the whole republican party two men whose gratification would be more dearly purchased by impeachmeat than Stanton and Wade, and it is becoming a ques- tion of fearful moment, as the time approaches for its solution, whether @ partisan impeachment for the benefit of these men, or for any partisan purpose, would not tend to certain disaster, With the pressure of considerations which have been briefly noticed, the prevalence of temperate counsels and the unanswerable arguments of the President’s lawyers, it is not singuiar that to the majority here a conviction seems impossible. The issue, however, rests with the Senate. It isnot doubted here by those who have the best means of judging tmpartially that fully one-third of the radi- cal members are convinced of the injustice of the charges, of the fatal consequences to their party of sustaining them by a vote, and that a verdict of ac- quittal would be amply justified by the popular voice. These men are now suffering the severest test of their integrity they have ever experienced. Whether they will resist importunitics and bravely vindicate their integrity is the great question of mo- ment to them and the country. Betting on the Result of The Impeachment THE VICE PRESIDENCY QUESTION. WasHIncTon, May 3, 1868. Impeachment Reviewed—Wade and Colfax Grant and His Vice Candidate=The Demo- crate and Impeachment—Counselling Mode- ration—Conviction Coveted by Wade and Stanton. While the protracted and masterly speech of Mr. Evarte has absorbed the attention of the High Court of Impeachment, it has been no less convincing in ita effect upon the public mind, which, under its influence, has committed itself with extraordinary unanimity to the belief that it will be impossible to convict. But aside from learned discussions and legal considerations as bearing upon the court in making up its verdict, we are now experiencing the pressure of confitcting interests and contradictory counsels, AS we are promised but one more week of suspense, & brief review of some matters connected with the origin and progress of the investigation may possibly afford something like a foreshadowing of the end. If allowance is made for the indirect assistance ‘fforded by President Johnson's possible successor, the impeachment project was the peculiar and ex- clusive enterprize of the House; and it may be nar- Towed down even to the Managers and a few of their assistant manipulators. The first scheme was so flat ‘@ failure that there was little encouragement to per- 6evere with the second, which was only done in obedience to caucus dictation, and time has devel- oped that the consequences were not well considered. diicult, and even now that a comparatively good | absurdly cheap. Formerly fowls were forty for a road has been cut is even dangerous for heavily | dollar. Now they are two. Two pumpkins can be laden animals. The road is cut along the face of an | bought fora dollar, and Ihave seen that even given almost precipitous hill, and is frequently not more | for a quart of milk, Altogether we are being = than four feet wide. It descends so steeply in some | inably feeced. Butina country like this, with its places that the mules can hardly keep their feet | mountain passes and deep ravines, tt is better to put upon the smooth r id their loads siip for- | up with being cheated than to make the people hos- ‘This fact is established by @ number of signs, one of Trial. AUSTRALIA. maglo, astation which lies at the entrance of the | Ward ‘over thelr ae cis altogether | tile, for the diniculties of collecting forage, Drgnarding which is the subsidence in the outside radical de- | 41) statements purporting to tell what the votes of whe valley or pass we were to ascend to gain the plain. | most awkward spot for the train of an army our long trains of provisions and foraye, and of Keep. ee eee Senators will be on the impeachment artcles are | Explorations im the Northern Portion of the | This first day’s ride was most disagreeable. It led ieee Crate ats rea Ak Pa to put down the whole country ‘The first and great result of convictton would be | incorrect, Since the trial began all the Senators Continent. almost entirely over the flat plain, in the fine dust of | arrests the D ss of the Whole line of perhaps | before we advan‘ another foot. The Thirty-third to place Mr. Wade in the Executive chair—a result ‘Which it is very clear to the politicians assembled at the capital would be far from popular with the mass of republicans, would be unsatisfactory to the different factions of the party and utterly vold of compensating returns, save to the ambitious gentleman who covets the office of Chief Magistrate of the nation for have refrained from making any reference to it and avoided all expressions of opinion. There have been two or three exceptions to this general rule, it is true, but the great body of the members have preserved a ignified silence, not even referring to the trial among their most intimate friends, As the day for which our horses sank to their fetlocks, raising dense clouds which almost blinded us, Kormaglo may-be termed the headquarters of the transport train, and the valley, which is about a quarter of a mile wide, at its mouth was completely covered with the lines of these animals, The elephants and camels were four or five handred animals, This valley is almost | regiment have gone on towards Antalo, and othe: every where cultivated, but there will be no crops un- | troops march on the 18th, with the General himseif. til r the wet season in July. Attegrat, although | Fresh troops are upon their way -, from Senafe to marked large upon the maps, can hardly be con- | take their places here. Antalo is nine days’ march- sidered a large town. It consists of about twenty | ing; but owing to the extreme say of the way hats, @ ruined palace, which at its best must have | it will probably take us over that period to get there. resembied a barn, andachureh. ‘The most striking My next letter to you will be from Antalo, edifice is situated at a distance of half a mile from — [From the Melbourne Argus, Feb. 4.) In April, 1867, Captain Cadell, who had already distinguished himself by opening up the navigation of the Murray river, was despatched by the South Australian government to explore territory belonging to that province in the northern part of the conti- the renderring of the verdict draws near, however, | nent. here. These animals both go down to Zoula one day | the town. the sake of the cage it would give him in making the } considerable speculation 18 indulged in as to the | On the oth of January, 1863, he arrived at Bowen, | Ud come back with thelr Joads the next. The ele- als 18a, square bullding, something Iike an old THE SPIRITUALISTS. descent to the Vice Presidency. The men who under- | | otog of individual Senators and as to the general | in Queensland, on his return voyage, and the fallow. | Phants have to get water at both ends; orman keep, and two stories in height; also a round ~~ aw took this business did not comprehend its tmport- ‘ance, and they are now beginning to discover that they, and they only, have shouldered Ben Wade and attempted to hoist him to a place of eminence against the popular will and in contravention of Plans devised with a very different end in view. From the beginning of the trial to the present time no trath has been more clearly developed than that there is a growing hostility to the name of Mr. Wade as associated with the Presidential ticket, and It has latterly been urged upon leading radicals here by correspondence from different States and by indl- vidual remonstrances that in the present complicated condition of political affairs the republican party cannot jeopardize its prospects by consenting to the nomination of Mr. Wade for the Vice Presidency. ‘This opposition is partly attributable to his peculiar characteristics, which have latterly been somewhat vividly portrayed in radical journals, and it is a kind of opposition that fs setting in at the capital as the ‘waves of the sea roll and swell when driven by the storm, At first the benefits that might accure to the repub- lican party by transferring the Executive patronage from Andrew Johnson to Senator Wade were the tempting line which gave impeachment its impetus gm the House, and brought out expressions of ap- proval from local organs whose office it was to give backbone to the men who had undertaken the busi- nees. Senators,with the exception of the few who covet power and patronage at any price, took no inte- rest in it, or if they did it was of the kind that did not favor the aspirations of their presiding officer. The ultimate results were not weighed, and now they are exacting the attention that possibly it would have been wise to have given them before. Inasmuch as elther wing of the Capitol has fur- nished its candidate for the Vice Presidency, there is a conflict of interests, the satisfactory disposal of which is well nigh as huge an elephant as impeachment itself. Mr. Colfax is the favorite of the House. He is popular with the radi- cals as Speaker, and with the majority he is Popular as @ candidate for the Vice Presi- dency. His ambition does not interfere with the plans of any of his associate members, whose efforts tm his behalf meet the approval in various forms of the constituents of a very considerable portion of them. In his wing of the Capitol Mr. Wade is not so favored. His qualities as a presiding officer have been tested, and while it is well known that he is not dis- tinguished outside of the Senate, itis equally appa- rent that his habit of rudeness and his lack of polish requisite to the discharge of dignified duties are re- garded with great distate and as disqualifying him for the distinguished position in which it is his ambi- tion to continue. In view of the popularity of Col- fax and the indifference of the Senate to his fature promotion, Mr. Wade's only hope is in the removal of Mr. Johnson and the manipulation of the Presidential patronage, The secret, therefore, of the subsidence of radical anxiety for conviction is revealed, and now the question is being weighed very seriously, what is to.be gained by it? It ts conceded that if Mr. Wade should succeed to the Presidency three days before the convening of the Chicago Convention he could, by his power of patronage—that is, supposing he can wield it under the constitution and that Mr. Johnson’s Cabi- net does not refuse to resign—and facility for making promises, command a nomina- tion. It cannot be doubted that such a result Would produce dissensiona and disaffections. The friends of Mr. Colfax would yield to aimost any other man sooner than Wade. They do not suppress their conviction that his nomination would jeopard- ize the success of the ticket. Grant, however exten- sive his knowledge, however profound upon the tn- tricate questions of national policy, however saga- clous as a politician, is exceedingly reserved, and the ticket mast have @ spokesman. With Wade for his mouthpiece itis affirmed there would be constant danger of a bold committal to woman suffrage, the announcement of some novelty in the financial ays- tem and & general thrashing round outside the limits prescribed by the platforma, With Mr. Colfax it ‘would be otherwise. Besides being cautious himself, he would act under safe control, and at this juncture of affairs there is no intention of allowing him to be pushed aside for a competitor who has been declared unfit for the position and who would act asa dead weight upon the ticket. Under the circumstances It ts therefore apparent that the impeachers are acting exclusively in the in- ‘terest of Mr. Wade. The House, which has presented articles of impeachment, and the Managers who are abating no pffort to insure convictjon, are playing into the hands of Wade. Butler, Of course, cares nothing for this. He is operating with a view to ulterior results affecting himself, and with the design of gratifying his personal resentment towards the President, who fatied to respond to the demands of his ambition for a place in his Cabinet; but in prose- outing the charges and laboring to procure a verdict of guilty the House has latd, the foundation for dis- building with a high thatched roof, and some small | % sheds, axe wicks surrounded by a high Mr. Conklin Turns « Penny with Reminis- wall, with @ gateway under a__ tower. cences. The Paudings we uot Fone ine, Risers d Mr. J. B. Conklin related last evening his experi- oe es present the residence of the | ences as a spiritual medium with the “Queen of wife of the local prince, who is a captive of one of Pi the neighboring wings.” His spouse, With adevotion | England, President Lincoln and others,” though be- eyeresge but von ie s’aens Cope les fore the mediumistic individual had fairly arrived at a8 en @ VOW not stir out ol joors uni er “ 9 ot i husband is released. She, like him, has now been | e ‘others’ the audience, having listened long, had for seven years a prisoner. The ruined palace of | mostly effected a retreat from the hall. It was the which = ete ACY ane ad 4 hers Ma traditional gathering, at Dodworth Hall, the tradi- upon rising ground. The principal hall, whic es ee nearly fifty fect long by twenty | “onal gathering place, though there were some wide. Beyond this is a little room, which, when first | rather untraditional features about the assemblage, ai must bere noes eae aaa ae eres even for so promiscuous a place as Dodworth Hall wi an arch roof, made of clear! iat Wicker work, stained in various patterns ‘The | Of @Sunday evening. The Spiritualists who were room had three r each lighted by | present and who, it may be taken for granted, were double Coy windows. 9 seal har oe present—to be edifledzafter their peculiar manner of own apartment ie bul altho in ruins, is bon fifty or sixty years ol ” The picts at the | Cdification—were few; while the unregenerate—poor other end of the village, and also upon rising ground, | fellows !—who have no more respect for a real me- was built at the same time, the wood work of the | gium of the first water than they have for doors and windows and the ornamentation and tt, ere mai It was an ex- carving, such as it is, being evidently by the same | 8 Symunast, wi mys Le ipa that of some ptian carpenter | ceedingly unappreciative assemblage, on the brought here for the purpose. This church differs | whoje—an assemblage with an odor of rather rank entirely from the others that I have been in. These bacco clinging to its skirts, which coolly turned have all been exactly similar in design. One enters | tobacco clinging q through a gate in a high wall into a very badly kept | up its great hydra face at Mr. Conklin, and coolly Tequorted to take off ‘our ‘hats, as weare upon holy | Surve7ed that individual as he crept down the aisle pny Near the door is generally a sort of with all the noiselessness of a thing that crawis on rough frame, from which are hung by straw | all fours and took his place at the desk—a thin, pie ytd oF Lied ees fut Vere churehus | Wiry, emaciated gentleman, who looked as if the stones, ese are e church cS ie churches are ull divided into three chambers, one beyond the | Vitailty had all been pumped out of him, leaving noth- other, the ae ons only being, ree by eo few | ing but a sort of mummy in the place of what had Fe fino ~ wi ugh the closed doors | once been aman. A cadaverous face, as if by some hecond chambers ate ‘always: low" and suppneted ne | accident the individual's blood had been all turned rade columns of stone or wood. The walls are bare, | to water, or as if by long subsistence upon vegetable but sometimes have one or two ois oy daubs of | diet the yermilion had all been washed out of it; a the Virgin and saints, and the whole agpect is | shock of frowsy hair that stood up all over the that of @ dark cowhouse. The inner room is a‘} head which it enveloped and stood up of sort of holy of holies, There none but the priests | it+ own strength, with a sort of ——— capillary are allowed to enter, and in some of the churches | obstinacy that refused to be subdued; a pair of they refused to allow me to penetrate on any | weird, wonderful eyes, that absolute! glittered, and c@msideration, but @ silver key generally un- | were the only things in the whole face that indl- locked the door. When 1 obtained ~ entry | cated that it was not a dead face; a so! ingular, I neverin any case found anything to reward mé, | half-demented, metallic sort of voice that never The chamber was always more lofty than the pre- | seemed to issue from the individual's mouth at all, ceding one, but it was just as rough and unfurnished. | but rather froin the individuai’s pocket or from any A screen of about six feet high hung across the | other point just in his vicinity—these were among chamber at @ short distance from the door to prevent | the constituent parts of one of the oddest impersona- worshippers in the outer apartments secing | tions of absurdity that ever opened its mouth, even into the sacred place when the door happens to be | at a meeting of Spiritualists or, for that matter, of open. Behind this screen the only article in the | real and well authenticated spirits, every one’ of apartment was a sort of shrine formed of three poles | them just from the other world and having the cre- supporting @ rough picture, and in some places a | dentials in his pocket to prove it. tray with some flowers. In these inner apartments Having crawied stealthily upon the platform and there was generally a strong odor of incense, which | taken his seat, it was one naturally of the odd indi- is used during the service. The church, however, at | viduality at the desk; and the absolute surprise of Attegrat is a far more pretentious affair than those I | everybody when the individual arose, opened those have just described. Itis much more lofty and is } weird eyes with black rings around them and spoke, thatched with ahigh straw roof, with very project- | could hardly have been equalled by that of Mr. kilery ing eaves, supported by poles, and at a distance | Anderson had one of his pet muiminies taken into his it exactly resembles a Swias chilet. Its form | embaimed head to get up, make an Egyptian tolletin ig square, and the holy chamber occupies its centre, | the fashion of Thebes and breakfast with his present the public belng only admitted to the passage which | proprietor, The individual's eyes were the only surrounds the sacred place. On entering a sort of | things about him that did not seem to be dead—abso- porch [found that the walls were painted in fresco | lutely dead—and they rolled about in lis head and with the exploits of the builder of the church. Here | winked after the most ordinary fashion; and when he is spearing an elephant, there he is shooting a | the thing at the desk stirred or was stirred lion, and there are also several battle scenes, in | it was just possible that one nig fancy which he is represented as defeating his enemies | he detected a cadaverous sort of effluvia with great slaughter. The frescoes are rough, and | in tie atmosphere, To have met lim ‘on are evidently imitations of ancient ones, being in the | the streets (with his A lo shut) one would have been style of the old Assyrian bas reliefs. They are pro- ler how he got out of his coffla or out bably, like the wood work, executed by some Egyptian travelling artist. The wails of the passage round the inuer chamber are covered with paintings in similar style, but entirely of Seriptural subjects from the Old and New Testaments, and the lives of the saints. Here is St. George killing the Dragon, and the Princess of Egypt looking on with clasped hands. Here are various saints be martyred in most unpleasant ways. ‘The Old ment scenes and those in the strictly follow the Scriptural text, ‘The faces of the personages are all wiilte—that of tie devil Invariably lack. The existence of this Christian nation upon the plateau of Abyssinia, surrounded by Mus- sulman tribes and natives (for the ” people beyond Senafe are Mahomedans), 1s one of the most singular events of which history gives us any record. ‘They use Bibles exactly the same aa ours. Their wor- ship is, I believe (for I have as yet seen no service he- ing performed), very simple. They administer the hoiy sacrament and baptize their children. There is no question at all about their being Christians. It is altogether an extraordinary phenomenon. They all wear a piece of bine cord round their neck as the oot- ward and visible sign of their Christianity, and they are #0 ——_ convinced that no one can be a Christlan unless he wears this thas most of the oMicers of the army » procured biue ribbons (a cord) which they pund their necks to convince the people of their orthodoxy. The country is aged bare of trees; but in some of the small dells where water is to be found there are some charming groves, with delicious shade, and with shrubs and flowers of every kind, including dogrose, honeysuckle, ferns of various kinds, among them the lovely maiden hatr, and the whole air is heavy with the perfume of the white jasemine, which grows in the atest laxu- riance., After the burnt up aspect of the plain it ia indeed @ treat to spend an hour or two in one of these charming groves. The British camp here when 1 arrived contained the same regiinents which were in Senafe when I first got there and which had moved on a day or two before myself. The day the Commander-in- Chief arrived Major Grant rode into camp. This gentleman is the great African traveller who dia- covered le sources of the Nile, and who had been on 8 mission to Cassa, the King of Tigre, through whose dominions we are now travelling. When the ad- vanced force first came up here two months since Colonel Merewether wrote to the King to say that he should be glad to see his Majesty to explain to him that we desired to be friendly with him, and no wish in any res 10,09, ,the a jury to his people. The "Kt replied that e could not meet @ subordinate, but that when the leader of the expedition himself arrived he would come and him. In conse- result. Last week the supporters of Congress and of Mr. Johnson were elated and depressed by the pros- pect of conviction or acquittal, and quite a large sum of money was staked on the verdict. To-day those in favor of conviction are freely offering bets that Mr. Johnson will leave the White House within a month. Manager Bingham’s Closing Argument. The closing argumetit of Mr. Bingham in the im- peachment case will commence to-morrow, and will probably not be concluded until Wednesday next. The Day for Holding the Democratic National Convention Not to be Changed. The resolution unanimously adopted last Monday by the Congressional Democratic Executive Commit- tee, requesting the Democratic National Committce to reconsider their action designating the 4th of July as the date for holding their Nation- al Convention, is not likely to effect the pur- pose designed. This action having been addressed to the chairman of the National Committee, Mr. Bel- mont, the latter has replied that it would now be impossible to get the committee together in order to effect this arrangement, and therefore insists that the day originally designated will have to continue. Itis now understood that no caucus of the demo- cratic members willbe held on the subject of the change of time proposea. Representatives Washburne and Windom. After Messrs. Donnelly and Washburne had con- cluded their personalities yesterday, it will be re- membered that Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, gave no- Tice of his purpose to introduce a resolution censur- ing Mr. Washburne. After the House adjourned Mr. Windom, while leaving the Capitol, was met in one of the passage ways by Mr. Washburne, who asked him to explain why he desired to have him cen- sured. Mr. Windom replied that it “was for writing the letter to Mr. Folsom in relation to my colleague.” This letter, it will be recollected, was the immediate cause of the personalities indulged in by Mr. Don- nelly in the House of Representatives, Correction—How the Impeachment Managers Voted. Some of the newspapers make it appear as if Messrs. Butler, Wilson and Moorhead,of the Impeach- ment Managers, voted with the majority on the tabling of Mr. Brook’s resolution about the Alta Vela business. This is a mistake. They voted in favor of the resolution, with the democratic minority. Meeting of the Soldiers’ National Executive Committee. On Saturday evening last a meeting of the Soldiers’ National Executive Committee was held in this city, representatives from thirteen States being present. By the resolutions adopted the different State dele- gates to the Chicago Convention are instructed and authorized to Mil all vacancies from soldiers of their respective States who may be in Chicago at the time, After the 15th of the present month the headquarters of the committee will be in the city named, The Committee are confident, from the reports which have been received, that the Soldiers’ Convention wit be'the largest ever held in ,his country. Report on Minerals East of the Rocky Moun- tains, The Secretary of the Treasury transmitted to the House of Representatives yesterday a report by James W. Taylor, special commissioner for the collec- tion of statistics of gold and silver mines and mining east of the Rocky Mountains, which was referred to the Mining Committee and ordered to be printed. Besides # general revieW\ of the operations of the year 1867 iu New Mexico, Colorado, Eastern Mon- tana, Dacotah, Minnesota and the gold districts of the Alleghany range, this report refers to the mining in- terests of the British territories, especially tothe new discoveries on Lake Superior and at Madoc, A full account of tne Nova Scotia gold fields is added. Among other topics prominence is given to the probabilities of increasing the water supply of the Western plains by means of artesian wells, the recent discoveries of coal along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, and the most practicabie means of reducing the oppressive rates of transporta- tlon west of the Rocky Mountains. This last dis- cussion, he says, brings forward the necessity of a national railroad system through the Northern and Southern as well as the central tier of Western States and Territories. It is understood that the Secretary of the Treasury has continued the mining commiasion of the department directing a special inquiry into the best methods for the economical reduction of the obstinate sulphurets which have hitherto obstracted the economical reduction of the gold bearing rock, NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE, Sinking of tho Schooner R. R. Townsend= Statement of the Captain—Order from Gene- ral Schofleld Regarding Quarantine, Fortress MONROR, May 1, 1868, ‘The achooner T. W. H. White, Captain Smith, from Jacksonville, Fla., with a cargo of lumber for Phila- delphia, put in this morning with Captain Townsend the camels are only watered at Kormaglo, There are also five divisions of mule trams, each, when complete, two thousand strong, and one division of bullocks, all of which work up and aown between Kormaglo and Senafe four days’ journey. The transport sick trains are also here, and these contain two thousand sick or disabled animals, The wells are sunk in the dry bed of the torrent, and the water, which used to be brought to the surface in buckets, is now pumped up by some adinirable little American pumps. These, in ordinary ground, can be driven in without any well being Previously sunk; but the bed of the torrent 1s com- posed of gravel and stones, mixed with immense boulders, which the hollow iron pipe of the pump was unable to penetrate, and it was,.consequently, found preferable to sink a well down to the water works, and then to drive the pump pipe down another four or five feet. There are @ number of these pumps now at work. There are long troughs before each, and the various species of animals have each their allotted watering places, so that the large number of animals are watered without the slightest confusion or delay. Seven or eight hundred troops were encamped at Kormaglio as I passed through, From Kormaglo we rode for eight miles along a perfectly level valley. On each side the hills rose to a great height, gra- dually on the left hand, but more precipitously to the right. They are completely destitute of trees, but were scattered with low bushes and shrubs. The bottom of the valley was strewn with stone and boulders, and was traversed by the dry bed of the torrent which serpentined backward and forward in It. The whole bottom of the valley was covered with a thick growth of a terribly thorny shrub, through which it would have been impossible to have ridden had not @ road been cleared through ft. This Toad has now been made the whole distance to Senafe. It has been cleared of the boulders, stone and boshes in the level portion of the valley by strong fatigne parties of the regiment which have gone up. In the passes it has been admirably constructed by the sappers and miners, and is indeed a triumph of engineering skill; and eight miles beyond Sooro we came upon running water, and the vailey nar- rows toa gorge, the sides of which ia some places rose perpendicularly for many hundreds of feet. The bottom of this gorge is sometimes not more than thirty feet wide, and is everywhere encumbered with vast blocks of stone, between which a loaded mule could not pass before the road was constructed. Sometimes these blocks have formed a dam and stand like a wall thirty or forty feet high across the pass, Over and through these the road has been constructed for four miles, by blasting the rocks here and forming zigzag roads there, until it reaches Soore, Afteen hundred feet =bigher = than the point at which it had entered the gorge. It is now perfectty passable for artillery. Froin Sooro to Rayray Guady is a distance of thirty- three miles, ascending @ flat valley exactly sumt- lar to that Ihave described aa above Kormaglo. A dead flat varying for three to eight or nine hundred ards across, with the torrent bed winding itana spur after spur of the mountain range ing particulars have been published of his Vp ea tion. He reached Arnheim’s Land on the 2d May, 1867, and made a running survey of the coast as far ag the Liverpool river, but made no new discoveries of importance. He then examined the northwest coast of Arnheim’s Land in the direction of the oid settlement at Port Essington. On this coast line he found a river which had not been previously de- scribed, with a bar at the entrance. He ascended the river for fifteen miles and found a depth of five fath- oms inside the bar, on which there were three fath. oms of water; the least depth found in th river as far as"he explored was two fath. oms. The mouth of the river les between Cape Guion and AS Turner, and is remarkably easy of access, as far as Captain Cadell’s examination ex- tended. The water was salt, and subjected to the influence of the tide. The country on elther bank of the river consisted of moderate ranges, clothed with coarse grasses and eucalyptl. He then returned to Port Essington; but in the country to the westward of the old settlement found a great number of buf- faloes, the my of the stock which had been brought from the Malayan isles by the old settlers. Having’ returned to the Liverpool river he examined the country for twenty or thirty miles on either side, and found it tobe of an undulating character, the vegetation of the prevailing Aesesiien tes consist- ing of various species of eucalypti, tris, banksi- bas and grevilleas, and with coarse grasses, To the eastward of the riverin many places were patches of high reedy — 80 tall that a man on horseback ert not see over it. [wee bod atetoye ae kangaroo, ema and wallaby, and the rivers Pomtatned abundance of fish. m the Liver- pool the expedition proceeded towards the eastern boundary of the South Australian ter- ritory, and examined the reputed mouth of the “Roper river. This was examined for full thirty miles, where @ sandy bar was foun to exten it across the river and formed a de- markation between the tide and upper portion of the river. Above this bar were fine deep reaches of water as faras the river could be seen. The true mouth of the Roper was found in 15 deg. 45 min. south, and this river was explored up to the point where Leichardt struck it. It fully bore out the char- acter which Leichardt has given it and is superior to any river yet discovered in Australia, The range de- scribed by Leichardt was ized as the point where he left the river, and uated about thirty miles from the mouth of the river, and there the rivers from five hundred to eight hundred yards across. At that place the water was bracki al- though the river was low. It being the end of the Pag enenasant peer a Mg ete a cent pastoral country, resem! 1e Platns of Promise, was found’ on both sides of the river. The South Australian territory, in the Gulf of Carpent was then visited and was found to be singularly rich in rivers and harbors. Many rivers and streams, some of them of considerable ‘itude, were observed flow! into these bays. To the southward of Cape Arnheim, in latitude 15 deg. 23 min., a large land-locked harbor, about fifty square miles in area, was discovered, which received the waters of several rivers and streams. In the northeast part of Arnheim's Land, on a portion of the coast which Flinders was prevented from exam- ining by thick weather, @ strait about thirty miles long was discovered dividing what is marked on the charts as Probable Island from the mainland, thus roving that Flinder’s surmise was correct. The land a to be deeply indented, and on further examination will most likely ore to be a group of islets separated by narrow straite, To the south ward of this strait ls a og Mage opening towards the northwest into Arnheim's Bay, which is twenty miles long by ten broad. This hay is only separated from the strait above mentioned by a narrow peninsula, which runs from southeast to northwest. No less than three rivers flow into this bay, in one of which there are five fathoms of water, “On one oceasion, while on the Liverpool, the blacks gave Captain Ca- dell to understand that there was a white man living a them who had a iong white beard, but that he was thep away catching turtle, Not being able to see him Captain Cadell gave the blacks tomahawks and shirts on which were marked, “Make to the southeast; plenty of stations.” Captain Cadell reports in favor of the Liverpool as the site for the capital of the terrivory. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. might have insisted perhaps apon 1p aS Vagrant bit of defunct mortality unately bad not been buried so deep but that it had gotten up again, About Mr. Conklin’s experiences with the Queen—for Mr. Conklin had made the most of his oye having hawked himeelf about considerably for exhibition—there was nothing expecially salient, though about his reminis- cences of Mr. Lincoln there was a somewhat more humorous interest. He had had, he related, nine- teen siitings with Mr, Lincoln, having first visited the President about the time of the Ball's Bluff disas- ter. His Mrst call was made at the White Honse, when he sent in by a friend, whose name was 8. P. Case, a letier fnforming Mr. Lineoin that the spirite had iinpelied hina (Mr. Conklin) to seek him (Mr. Lin- coin) for sone purpose, of the purport of which he (Mr. C.) was not aware. Mr. Lincoln saw him a couple of days after, but after a fill half hour's sitting not a thing came of it, and the President invited fun to come to his house the next Sunday. He went, but after @ sitting of an hour and a quarter, not a thing came of tt. ce third time was after the battle at Bint, and then some lines were scribbled by esponding spirtt which seemed to make a deep ion on the President. The few lines consti ing its dt jon every quarter, of a mile. he Veze- tation within had changed, and the thorny bushes were gratualiy giving place to brighter and more interesting vegetation, We had now great trees of ivy, with gnarled and twisted stems and iong roots creeping over the surrounding rocks for many yards, had the evergreen oak and occasionally a gigantic tree with fe like a tulip tree. Climbing everywhere over the trees and sometimes almost hiding them were creepers of various kinds, and on the gre were vast qaantities of alocs and several vai of cactus. Strangest of all, upon the hill side on immense plant, or rather tree, of the cactus tribe, of from thirty to forty feet inheight. It started witit a straight stem as thick asa man’s body, and fifteen ov twenty fect from the ground an tromense number of arms branched ont, all growing as close together and as nearly as possible upwards, #0 that tt exactly resembled # gigantic canlifower. ‘Its scientific name is Julien Euphorbia candalabriensis. Some of the mountain slopes are completely covered with this strange pl: From the maim valley ap which we were proceeding a great number of smaller valleys branched off, the view ap some of was fine in the extreme, ‘This thirty. miles of vailey ia broken into two days’ march at Undel Wells, where originally there was only one very scanty well, containing water the color of pea soup. The pumps now afford an abun- dant supply of excellent water. The last three miles to Ragray Guddy the valley again narrows to a gorge, and we have ® pass similar in character, but resenting fewer dificuities than that at Sorro. fere running water is again met with, The ten miles between pager Guddy and Senafe are very lov The valley is here so narrow that there is ly room for the torrent bed, which now forme the road between the slopes of the hills, The lower siopes are here covered with brilliant foliage, Ail the trees and plants I have mentioned, with hundreds of others, from a wall of verdare on both sides of the road. Here, too, ve the acacia, laburnum and the wild fig. ‘The air is aweet with the blossom of the arbutus, and hum- ming birds and butterflies Mit here and there and vie with each other in the brilliancy of thetr hues, After win for seven miles along this lovely ravine the suddenly leaves the torrent bed and commences to club the hae. 3 moantain aide to gain the plateau land of Abyssinia, Formerly this waa an almost in ible climb for laden animals, and nothing but the little cattle of the country, which are as sure footed as goats, could have carried their loads up and down, Now, however, an Trade AdvicesNative War—iritish ‘inter. ference. By way of England we | news from the Cape of Good Hope dated Natal, able Bay, 4th, and Ascension, 17th of March. At the Cape basiness was stil) dull. In defiance of Governor Wodelouse’s notice that the Basutos were taken under British protection, President Brand had continued the war, and met with marked success. The Basuto strongholds, Tand- ess, and Treine, were captured. At the former Bushuli, Moshesh's own brother, was killed. ri. mor had also just arrived aa the Norseman left that Thaba Bossigo was taken. A conference was to come off in April at Allwal North between Governor Wodehouse, President Brand, Moshesh and Governor Keates. It waa con- sidered not improbable that meanwhile the whole of the Basuto land would be captured by the Boers and the negotiations seriously embarrassed, The meeting of the Cape Parliament would be ad- journed until the Governor returned. It was stated that at the approaching session of the Free State Voiksraad, either debts away out of the free State would be entirely repudiated, or civil courts would be closed for a further ten years, and more bluebacks tssued, At Natal the coffee crops were looking well and the sugar prospects were good. Two defaications for large amounts had occurred there among the goveru- ‘ment officials. Neono Desravcrionists iN THe SouTH.—An agent of the Macon (Ga.) Journal and Messenger, who has just returned from a tour through the southwestern portion of the State, says:—The freedmen baye uni- Versaily clandestinely killed off the stock of hogs, leaving in many neighborhoods not even one, saw one planter with sixty head left out of a stock of 150, He had a guard over them night and day, and impre tuted @ communication from Colonel Baker, and warned Mr. Lincoln that his life was in danger. The President, however, pever paid hin (Mr. Conk lin) anything, and as he could not afford to board himself at $15 a week and dance attendance upon Mr. Lincotn without some compeusation, be left use Mr, Lin- Washington. He did not mean to r not probably cotn of dishonesty or littleness: It di ocour to the President that he (Mr. Conklin) neede t money—though that the President should have failed to notice it reflects no great credit on his acumen, Mr. Conklin continued with other experiences, re- lated in the singularly mumMed voice that seemed all the tine to be calling from the other world, “Come, Conklin, it is tne you were one of us,’ and con- cluded+ with an audience somewhat sparser than when he began. The inevitable contribution went round and begged its pennies, being better aware of Conklin’s pecun sry condition than Was the President on a former occasion; and Mr. Conklin went home better satisfied with the contribution box than he had formeriy been with the President, Dernacvixad «AN LwsuRANCR §Comrany.—The schoouer James Saywood, Captain William McKay, sailed frou Giouces ter on @ Oshing voyage tn the summer of 1566. In the month of November she went into the Gut of Canso, The captain here wrote a letter to the owners that he had taken 150 barrels of mackerel, and wished to have them insured. At this place he sold what mackerel he had (which was and ti hooner R. R. in spite of this precaution the number was diminish- jlent road haa been out in e uence of this Sir Rob 4 | only six barrels), with spare anchor and 4 sention and strife, it has not furnished th entering J far, tne cfew of the schooner phe he Ing. Owing to this state of affairs the landlords have | yigrags up the face of tha mountain | Major Grant ten days previous ty atentieg kanal Polonging, to the vessel. “after golug lito ® te wedge to a serious breach. * night of | abandoned all efforts to raise meat, telling the | {iq which 4 80 Well constructed that a carriage and inviting the King to meet him at Atl Major bay, he filed sixty barrels with sand, put the 27th of April. Captain Townsend reports that he cleared trom Savannah, Ga., with a cargo of ratiroad iron for Richmond, Va., and sailed on the ith uit, On the ‘22d a heavy northeast gale set in, which continued wntil the vessel went down. The vessel sprun; aleak on the night of the 26th, and ai hands were called the pumps, and the vessel colored people that they can stand it as long as they can. Stringent legislation and a rigorous enforce- — the laws in regard to this matter are de- uanded, to the hold of hia vessel, and went out and ran his vessel ander the land, setting ashore all his crew with the exception of _ five or six, atood off ti night, and when four miles from land made all sail on his vessel, lashed the booms, went into the hold and out a hole’ through the vessel. The captain and the balance of the crew than went ashore; the vessel sank imme- ted lost. Two of the crew air could drive down it without feur or danger. Certainly the work which has been executed alon this sixty miles of road in thé course of a couple o months by the pioneer force of the ex jon reflects extreme credit upon its makers, and will in @ monument of British plack and enterprise n the memory of King Theodorus will have be- come a mere legend among the inhabitants of the country. As we ascend the Ghaut we are conscious Grant how arrived with the that the K could not, from a variety of ceteen, come himeelf, but, thtt’ne had went his Primer baister aud. Bis Archbishop as two ambassadors, The train was (0 arrive in ao hour. Of course there was considerable excitement tn camp when, a abort time afterwards, strange music was beard and a procession moved Into sight. The nusi¢ turned out be the sound of It ts not surprising that a very strong feeling has developed itself within the past few days tn favor of canvassing the advantages and disadvantages of impeachment. If consummated, it is not likely to operate as a source of annoyance or discomfiture to the democrats, Aaa party they feel no interest in ARRIVALS YESTERDAY. BreMex—Steamsbip Union.—G MW Kunoth and family, Frau Splese David V Zeller and wile, Sixmund Bendit, F Pre’ . Mu id faintly, Gi peck, Col M three cow horns. and @ tomtom. The processiou | diately, aud she was repor! the President. If he is deposed they lose very little headed for jand, in the Led of making Wilmington. Moser, Henry Witeus aca feria ‘Booey Rich! and wire, | that we are foot by foot exchanging a tropical vezo- | was composed of about a hundred savages (for they Fa and igi Clare have been arrested of the patronage of the government, because they | N.C, The water continued to gain on them, and on | Rudolph Fcbroder, Adolf Koller, Joba Rive, Louis Warker, tation for an Alpine one, All the brilliant foliage ws and | by Deputy Marshal Bicknell, at Cape And, and Wull have participated in it toa much more limited extent | the morning of the 27th the schooner T. W, if the crew, was arrested tn Dighton are nothing else), w t head Fr Gerhard, Elizabeth Block, Amalie halicki, Leopoliline ich lined our path a quarter of an hour aince h if Da) Mag Ae arma, an Cartis, anoth hite Wrapped ap in dirty w v1 was signalled, and asked to follow her in, 80 that ‘ing Herm Kuenzel, Leo Wogener, Joseph Craemer a disappeared, and between the huge boulders and rocks | cloth, Some we syed with Portnguese Matel- | on Thursday last by Deputy Marshal Cobb, of this than ts Imagined, They have the sagactty to see case the vessel foundered the crew could be oh ve gr which covered the hillside stunted pine trees fore locks two or thre hundred years some others | city, and they are now lodged iu jail awatt the that the possession of the government patronage, | of, The pumps were worked diligently untt dark | fenmilt, fy Pohismumy tevin: Hann, Th 3 their way, aud with their gnarled arms and sombre | old Aint guna, A fewshad comme xe fowling | action of the Grand Jury, | The matter was bamght and the responsibility of distributing it, will produce | on the 27th, when the captain, finding he could not wer, Foliann Sallway, Maria Fischer, Philipp Gerethy | foliage gave the scene the exact appearance of a | pleces, but the majority nad nothing sword, | to light in consequence of Mr. Daniel Parktiurat, the @issatisfaction, jealousy and strife, that wil | Make port nor keep her afloat till morning, reiuc- et Rook, Nicol Ro/ite, Oscar Fischer, Anton Prelsinger | qigniand view. At last we gained the plain, and Spear and shield. The ambassadors rod? On mules. | owner of Ub sso), bringing a sult against the tn- a aetna A the ened a il pener tantly abandoned her, There waa a very heavy ser lly, pebrader stood feot above the sea. The table land | The Prime Minister himsclf wae dressed a8 all the } surance company to Fecover the insurance Om tio Fotard rather than ald the success of the repnbdiican | panning, and the water liad gained over wo fe>t on : , oo +} Stretched away before us, brokon indeed with bills | chiefs area—in dirty cotton cloth with red ends, ait | vessel, 1 ied at Salem some two Weeks candida‘c snd they are fuily persyaded that the | thew besore she Was avaudoned he captain tea | F fand great masses o mndstone, which perpen J With # collar of fur with longends, The + angi d Meroury, May . . erm sengtenet itediemeaen]