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

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He finally yielded to a motion to adjourn, saying that he would require about an hour to-day in which to con- clude, CONGRESS. ‘In the Senate yesterday nothing was done outside of the impeachment business, In the House Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, pre- sented a resolution directing the Donnelly Investi- gating Committee to inquire into the charges of gold robbing presented by Mr. Brooks against Mr. Butler; Mr. Brooks desired also to investigate the charges made by Mr. Butler relative to the lawsuit with Mr, Clarke in New York, and. exhibited a letter purport- ing to come from Mr. Clarke denying Mr. Butler’s statement in toto, My. Brooks also asked that the report of General Baldy Smith and James ‘T. Brady on the management of affairs in New Or- leans by General Butler be laid before the committee of investigation; but Mr. Dawes sald it was unneces- Bary to instruct the committee, and the resolution as originally introduced was agreed to, Mr. Cary, of Ohio, offered as a question of privilege a resolution that, in view of the debates which took place on Fri- day, Saturday and Monday, the impeachment man- agers be requested to withdraw the article charging the President with indecent harangues. A motion to adjourn was immediately made and acceded to. THE LEGISLATURE. ANORAMA OF THE WAB, Im the Senate yesterday the General Charity bill appropriating $23,000 was passed, The Charity bill passed last year appropriated $200,000. Several other bills not of general interest were also passed. The reports of the conference committee on the Canal Appropriation and Supply bill was concurred in, Conference committees were appointed on the two tax levies. The bill for the construction of certain piera on North Tiver Was passed, A concurrent resolution to ad- dourn sine die at ten o'clock last night was adopted, ‘but the Assembly having failed to concur the Senate adjourned until this morning. In the Assembly the report of the conference com- ¢mittee on the Supply bill wa@adopted. Committees of conference were appointed on the county tax levy and the State Charity bill. Bills ‘were passed relative to buildings in New York city, and authorizing the Attorney General to institute sults for annuling certain canal repair contracts. A bill to abolish the canal repairs contract system was introduced and referred. The complimentary resolu- tions which usually are the forerunners of an early adjournment sine die were then tendered the Speaker and Clerk, and the Assembly adjourned until this duorping. EUROPE. The news reports by the Atlantic cable is dated May 5, at midaight. Mr, Gladstone called the attention of Parliament to the Cabinct explanations of the erisis yesterday and the power of dissolution at discretion said to have been accoried by the Queen to Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Disraeli again explained, but appeared to still hold the threat of dissolution in terrorem over members pending the Church de bate. Sir 8. Northcote said there was no “menace” to the Parliament, South Germany threatens secession from the Customs Parliament, Napoleon is said to have proposed a Russo-French’ mediation between Turkey and Crete. Baron Bud- ‘berg gave a graud banquet to the foreign Ministers in Paris. The steamship City of Boston, from Queenstown April 23, reached this port at about two o'clock this morning. Her mail report has been anticipated in all tte main points vy the detalis by the Union pub- | lished in the HeRaLp. | . THE CITY The usual May anniversaries are fairly upon us. The New York and Hudson River Unitarian Confer. ence held their preliminary exercises at the Church of the Messiah, in Thirty-fourth street, last evening, and the anniversary exercises will commence this morning. The Five Points House of Industry will also hold their anniversary to-day at the chapei of that institution, A large temperance meeting was held in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, last evening. Henry Ward Beecher was not present, but Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., ‘was introduced and addressed the assemblage. The Erle Railroad dock im Jersey City gave way ‘under a freight train yesterday morning, precipi- tating the engine, tender and one car into the water NEW YORK HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. and Cuba, but the main items of news have been agticlpated by our telegrams over the gulf cable. It was not known im St. Domingo whether Baez would accept the dictatorship, although it had been tendered him ‘with great unanimity, and he had already been proclaimed as such by the national Congress, In Hayti it had been very generally believed that American flibusters were at the bottom of the Cacos rebellion, but the idea was now exploded. The British and French residents are somewhat eager to hear more of the policy of Mr. Seward towards Hayti. The American Minister was expected daily, Mr. De La Reintue, the acting Amer- fean Consul at Havana, was attacked by one Gar- cla, an ex-shipping master, whom the Consul had refused to recognize officially. De La Reintue was not seriously injured, and Garcia was arrested. The ‘acting Consul now demands the usual reparation from the authorities, and has laid ‘his case before Secretary Seward. The New York delegates to the Chicago Convention met in Albany yesterday and adopted resolutions expressive of their determination to vote for Fenton for Vice President, a The Radical State Convention in Concord, N. H., yesterday chose Mason ‘W. Tappan ‘as President. Letters were read from radical Congressmen express- sing the bellef that the impeachment trial would close and Wade be in the White House “when tiie apple blossoms came." Resolutions were adopted favoring Grant for President and endorsing the impeachment action, - The statement of the public debt for May, which has Just been issued, shows the total debt, less cash in the Treasury, to be $2,600,528,827, a decrease since April ‘Ast of $18,680,860, ~In the General Methodist Episcopal Conference at Chicago yesterday Bishop Simpson delivered the Episcopal address. Eight thousand copies of it were ordered to be printed. Among the petitions present- ed and referred to committees was one favoring the election of bishops for a term of years and their in- duction into office without consecration, Advices from the Indian country state. that the Indians some time ago killed thirteen persons near Tulerozo, New Mexico, and more recently captured a trainin the same place. A force started from Tu- lerozo to attack them, and {it was reported that a fight had occurred in which seven of them were killed. Numerous outrages are reported along the line of the Paciflo Railroad in Nebraska. Four sec- tion men of the railroad were recently killed at Plumb creek. The trains pay no attention to schedule time, laying up wherever night overtakes them. The grand musical festival of the Handel and Hadyn Society commenced in Boston yesterday. Among the singers are Parepa-Rosa and Adelaide Phillips. The busts of Beethoven and Mozart were unvelled yesterday. In the Cole trial at Albany yesterday the summing up of counsel on both sides was concluded, and the Judge made his charge to the jury, which retired. Some time afterwards the court was informed that the jury could not possibly come to a decision for dome time, and accordingly adjourned until this morning. The Republican Rupture—The Golden Op. Portunity of the Conservatives. Our special advices from: Washington and the general tenor of the news from all sources unmistakably indicate that the republican party is on the eve of a serious rupture, that threat- ens, on the one hand, to overthrow the, radical programme for the conviction and removal of Johnson, or, failing that, to enter into the ap- proaching Presidential election as a disturb- ing element. We are told, with unusual posi- tiveness, that Fessenden, of Maine, one of the most respectable members of the United States Senate and a cabinet officer under President Lincoln, has prepared an elaborate legal opinion on the first three articles of impeachment, in which he holds that the Managers have failed to establish the charge made against President Johnson, and that he is entitled to acquittal. It is further rumored: that Senators Grimes, Trumbull and Henderson will also present written arguments on the same side, and that 4 sufficient number of republican votes will go with them to shape the verdict of the Senate in accordance with the evidence and the law. Even Senator Wilson has been mentioned as in the doubtful category within the past two days, while it becomes more and more evident every hour that Chief Justice Chase, who is placed in a position in which it devolves upon him, under his oath of office, to maintain the constitutional rights of the judicial branch of the government, will insist upon closing the impeachment trial, according to established usage, with charge from the bench or withdraw from the mockery of a Sourt, The evidences of demoralization are not confined to the Senate. In the House the recent violent debates, the croppings out of Jealousy and suspicion, the manifest sympathy of the majority with an assault upon the con- fidential friend and adviser of General Grant, are the clouds in the radical sky that portend the coming storm, What bas cansed this notable change in the prospects of the republican party, which seemed only a few days ago to be steadily moving on down the radical stream to the removal of Johnson, the installation of Old Ben Wade in the White House, the distribution of the federal spoils among the faithful, and the initiation of a general jubilee of expansion, inflation, speculation and ‘negro reconstruc- tion? It is, first, the returning reason of those men in the republican ranks who have hitherto deplored and opposed the revolutionary policy of the extreme radicals, but who have been temporarily silenced and overborne by the violence of the Jacobin leaders ; and, next, the mistrust of Wade and his radical friends that has suddenly sprung up in the breasts of those who aspire to positions on the republican Presidential ticket, The republican party has never been solidly united upon well defined political principles, Its sole bond of con-- solidation, in the first place, was opposition to the further extension of slavery, which time and circumstances developed into the advocacy of its total abolition, But the organization was made up of incon- Deneath. The engineer and fireman were instantly killed, A trot took place on the Fashion Course yesterday ‘between Bradiey, Breeze, Pense and Amber, The Tace was not decided, although six heats were trotted, Pense and Breeze each leading in two of them, and Pense making the best mile, 2:31, The race was ‘then postponed to the first fair.aay, An important decision was yesterday rendered by Jadge Blatchford, in the United States District Court, vankruptoy branch, on the bankruptcy of Robert 0. Rathbone. Judge Blatchford, after ‘Beverely ant- madverting on the bankrupt's conduct in scheming to defraud his creditors by faise representations ana returns, refused the bankrupt a discharge. The de- ciaton, which ts given in our law, columns, is one of «reat importance and interest to the business com. snnnity, ‘The Anchor Line steamship United Kingdom, Cap. ‘aa Donaldson, will leave pier 20 North river at velve M. today (Wednesday) for Liverpool and ‘ oygow, calling at Londonderry to land passen. 4, ho, he steamship Herman Livingston, Captain Eaton, | leave pier 36 North river at three P. M. to-day “dnesday) for Savannah, Ga. stock market was dull but on the whole steady J: erday. Government securities were frm. Gold el. aed at 199%. MISCELLANEOUS, We have corresvondence from #. Domingo, Haytt gruous elements, and on all questions save this one—on finance, taxation, currency, the treatment of the megro after his liberation, and almost every subject that must arise in civil government—its members were essentially divided. The war of the rebellion held the Party together, increased its power and over- shadowed all minor issues upon which differ- ences of opinion might have arisen, With the return of peace and the final and total wiping out of slavery the occupation of the republi- can party was gone, and men were already preparing for ® new departure, when the breaking out of the bitter feud between the President and Congress forced them once again into united action, All this time, however, through the war and during the subsequent fight with the Executive, the conservative element has still lived in the republican organization. It has manifested itself in the action of Congress on several occa- sions, and has constantly been the saving clause in the republican platforms before the people. Yet it has been held in subjection by the superior force and boldness of radical- ism and has suffered from the folly of those who have attemotad to nlace themselves at its head. President Johnson might have made the republican party the party of broad, liberal views. and stateamanlike policy, and have utterly crushed out the Jacobins who were already preparing to array themselves against Lincoln at the time of his death, had he called Congress together upon his accession to power and united with the legislative department:in carrying out his policy of Southern ‘reconstruction. He neglected the opportunity, and thus arrayed his party against him. A, number of seedy politicians attempted to raise up the conserva- tive republican banner from: the dust at the famous Philadelphia Convention, but they only succceded in running themselves into copper- headism, and were laughed at for their pains. Grant was looked up to as the coming leader of the conservative forces, and he was a cham- pion dreaded by the radicals, . But they set to work to undermine the citadel they despaired of carrying by assault, and Grant fell before them. It is a singular fact that only a few months ago Grant was feared. as the great oppo- nent of radicalism, while Chief Justice Chase was regarded as its coming man, When the present Congress met the influence of the pre- vious elections made itself felt, and again con- servative republicanism asserted its power. The radicals found themselves in a minority, Butler and Stevens were beaten at every turn, and impeachment went by the board. But by perseverance and tact, joined with unsurpassed boldness of action, the Jacobins again secured the upper hand, Johnson fell into the trap prepared for him by his vindictive enemies, and, bated with Grant, impeachment at last pre- vailed, and once more conservative republi- canism seemed forever crushed out of exist- ence, The appareannihilation of conservatism may, however, prove, after all, its salvation. Now is its golden opportunity. The impeach- ment, to which the radicals have pinned their fortunes, is a miserable failure before the people. If itshould be suffered to succeed it willbe tothe disgrace of the nation and the disgust of all honest men. Yet its success is the only thing that can give the radicals per- manent and assured control of the republican party. Such men as Stevens, Butler, Bout- well, Wade and Logan, who have heretofore been regarded as mischievous factionists by their associates, aspire to lead the organization and guide the administration, Their ambition is to strip the executive and judicial branches of the government of all power, to build up a legislative autocracy and to mould Congress to their will. The removal'of Johnson and the advancement of Wade to the Presidency can alone secure to them the objects at which they aim. But their revolutionary programme is unpopular with the people, and, as the recent elections have shown, hopelessly destroys the strength of Grant as a _ Presidential candidate. Let the conservative republi- cans of the Senate, then, ‘unite with Chief Justice Chase in demanding the Scquittal of the President on the clear point of law that there is no case to go to the jury; let them, in fact, non-suit the Managers, and with impeachment will fall forever the Jacobin leaders who would bring rain upon the country. The path of the conservatives will then be clear. Let them nominate Chase for the Presidency, with such a man as Thomas or Schofield, or soma other sterling soldier, as Vice President, and they will rally the masses of the country to their support and will crush out the radicals and the copperheads together. If they pursue this policy their success is assured. The democrats, with the bitterest fight before them that has ever been expe- riénced in a political- convention, can make no nominations against such a ticket. A few con- firmed copperheads might slough off on to Pen- dleton, Seymour, Vallandigham, Fernando Wood or some other notorious rebel sympa- ‘thizer, as the handful of Jacobins would adhere to Grant, Wade, Ben Butler or whoever might be their nominee; but the great bogy of the people will go with the party that had proved itself true to the constitution and support the man who had proved himself the firm and fear- less upholder of the law. Congressional Dignity and Decorum. The Donnelly-Washburne flare-up in the House of Representatives on Saturday last was to Donnelly and Washburne, to the Speaker and to the House, a disgraceful affair, With the addition of a little pothouse swearing and a knock down or two the spec- tacle would have been a complete representa- tion of the worst of our city whiskey shop pri- mary election conclaves in the ‘‘good old times” of such fighting factions as the ‘Short Boys” and the ‘Dead Rabbits.” According to Donnelly, Washburne was a degraded crea- ture, utterly unfit to associate with honest men; while according to Washburne, Donnelly was an escaped criminal, whose proper place was State Prison. The Speaker, on the privileged question of @ personal explanation, allowed these men the privilege of unstinted abuse of each other, and the House was so far from being shocked with their scandalous scur- tility that it really seemed to consider the entertainment as good as a play and enjoyed it hugely. The intervention of Sunday, however, with its better influences, it appears, brought about something like the ‘‘sober second thought,” and some ideas of dignity and decorum among the members, with the meeting of the House again on Monday, and so for the stirring melo- drama of ‘Jack Sheppard” was substituted the amusing farce of ‘High Life Below Stairs.” Donnelly retracted the particularly offen- sive portions of his Saturday’s rigma- role; Washburne retracted his ve reply; and with the entente cordiale thus established between the parties the enthusiastic and generous Donnelly proposed that he and Washburne imitate the illustrious example in the case of the Secretary of War and General Thomas, and go out and take a drink”—a pro- position which, it appears, was received with unbounded applause from all sides of the cham- ber. Still, it appears that there is to be an in- vestigation of the Washburne letter against Don- nelly, in which the latter is charged as having played the réle of « fugitive from jus- tice, under an alias and between two days, in his removal from Philadelphia to Minnesota. This brings this Donnelly-Washburne case up to the standard of Andrew Johnson's impeach- ment; for as there are seven managers of the House in the prosecution of Johnson, eo there are seven members upon this Donnelly-Wash- ‘buroe committee of investization, Mr. Eldridge of Wisconsin, ‘submitted the question if the matters in issue in the investigation ‘‘are not on all fours with the eleventh article of the impeachment,” which relates to Andrew John- son's stump speeches while ‘‘swinging round the circle;" but we must say that we have had nothing for a long time ‘hanging on the verge of the government” equal in its way to this Donnelly-Washburne flare-up, or to the expla- nations and apologies of these offenders before the House. A few days hence, we dare say, the House will be.called to the consideration of more serious matters with Johnson's re- movdl or with the inglorious collapse of Johnson's impeachment, but especially ia the event of a collapse. The Financial Prospect—Impeachment. in Wall Street. 4 The aspect of financial and commercial affairs is brightening, and money is returning rapidly from the interior to this city, where it will soon have the effect of lowering the rate of in- terest and stimulating trade as well as specula- tion in Wall street. For the time being, how- ever, the country is held in a state of suspense, owing to the impeachment trial, and with this concluded, whether it involve the conviction or the acquittal of the President, a sense of relief will be experienced which cannot fail to im- Prove business prospects generally. At pre- sent the uncertaifity attending the result of the trial and its effect is productive of stagnation, and any change from this condition of things must be for the better. It is generally believed in Wall street that the President’s conviction will cause an imme- diate rise in the price of stocks and commodi- ties, Including gold, because the publio will jump to the conclusion that under Ben Wade we shall have currency inflation. This last is not improbable; but we are as likely to havo a fresh issue of a hundred millions pf currency if Mr. Johnson remains in office as we are if he is deposed; for, in either event, many of both political parties will make desperate efforts to pave the way to the next Presidential election with new greenbacks, If the Presi- dent is acquitted the effect upon the public mind will be reassuring, and an impetus will thereby be given to trade and speculation, while its beneficial effect upon the public credit will probably be reflected in improve- ment in the market for government securities. Impeachment alone. beclouds the prospect, and as soon as all-absorbing question is disposed of the curréncy and the finances gen- erally will engage the attention of Congress, The great West will clamor for greenbacks enough to pay off the national debt, while the hard money men of the Eastern States will oppose any further inflation, and a compromise will probably be the result on the basis of the hundred millions referred to, the result of which will be that we shull enjoy a period of almost unexampled temporary prosperity, and that everything in Wall street and elsewhere will as the phrase is, “go kiting,” after which we shall suffer corre- spondingly violent reaction; but.as the hope of every man will be to take in sail before the storm comes, this will*have no terrors for spec- ulators, whether in trade orstocks. The finan- cial question wil, from its importance, be de- bated with spirit and a variety of projects will be launched ; but itis doubtfal whether, after all, anything important beyond the currency mea- bure will be accomplished. Nor is it desirable that any act of a disturbing character should be passed, for there is more danger than safety in financial tinkering. ‘The season of the year is favorable to improvement in both monetary and mercantile affairs, and those who predict that the acquittal of the President will do otherwise than stimulate this tendency will find themselves false prophets. The Ministerial Crisis in England—Disracli Still in Office. With a tenacity of purpose characteristic of his race Mr. Disraeli still clings to the honors, responsibilities and emoluments of office. Why should it be otherwise? The summit of the steep ascent has been but recently reached. The atmosphere is pleasant and bracing. The previous toil had been hard and long continued. Why should the prize be abandoned just when the prize had been won? Is it not something for a Jew, a descendant of Jacob, the son of a homeless race, a man who claims no higher title than that of being son of Israel—is it not something for such man to sit'as virtual king, dominating the haughty descendants of the proud Norman barons? Such is Mr. Disraeli’s position. Why should he abandon it? Mr. Bright, with his usual shrewdness, has said that an adverse vote was no disgrace, that the disgrace lay in holding office after such a vote. The correctness of such an assertion, especially when we bear in mind the principles which by common consent and ancient usage ‘ govern the parliamentary system of England, is not to be disputed. When a minister, by a succession of adverse votes, finds himself hopelessly in the minority, it is unquestionably his duty to resign and to advise the monarch to call to her aid the recognized chief of the opposition. Mr. Disraeli, tenacious as he is of place and power, was gentleman enough to do this, He bowed to his fate like ® true and even brave man. He told the House of Commons that the vote of Saturday morning was of such ® character as to change the relations of the ministry and the House, and asked time to decide on the conrse to be foHowed in the circumstances. He saw her Majesty and tendered his resignation. The Queen, appreciating the difficulty of the situa- tion, refused to accept it. What more could a noble and gifted descendant of an illustrious race do but consent to remain in office and serve his sovereign to the extent of his ability? His colleagues, feeling the force of parliamen- tary etiquette and ancient usage, wore unwilling at first to remain at the heads of their several departments. Their scruples, however, have been got over, and, to the annoyance of the liberals, this obnoxious but gifted and indis- pensable man remains the virtual head of the British empire. Mr. Disraeli in his able speech on Monday evening justified the claims of the tories to the confidence of the House and of the country. Their promises had not ended in words. They had given the country real and substantial reforms. Their record was a record of facts, not of empty and unfulfilled promises. Mr. Gladstone, of course, was furious. Mr. Lowe, the Adul- amite chief, was indignant. Mr. Bright, the noblest, the bravest and the most honest of them all. was deovly digsatisied. But whans Jew has the grip what signifies fury, indignation or-dissatisfaction? Mr. Disraeli for the present remains Prime Minister of England. There is only one thing which the House of Commons'can now do, and it remains to be seen if they will do it; They can, as Mr. Disraeli fearlessly informed them, pass a vote . of want of confidence. If they do this, which they may, they will drive him from place and power. If they do his chances of ultimate success will be greater than ever. He will have a chance of retrieving the one false step of his life—that of joining a party with which he has never been in: sympathy. Let him abandon that ungrateful party—a party which he has served not wisely but too well. Let him play the part for which by nature and by train- ing he is admirably fitted, His true réle, now ‘is tat in which Richelieu was successful, but in which Mirabeau failed. He has an oppor- tunity of making his name greater than either. Spanish Restrictions Upon American Trade— A Hint to the State Department. We-print elsewhere a minute and authentic statement of the restrictions and impositions imposed upon American commerce by the Spanish authorities in Cuban and other West Indian ports, From the facta of the severay cases, gleaned from correct sources and sifted of all legal phraseology, it appears that the authorities of the several Cuban ports espe- cially have contracted a regular. habit’ of imposing fines, varying from twenty-five dol- larg to thirty thousand, upon American vessels and for the most trivial pretezts, A blot or an erasure, or even a misspelled word in the manifest, has on frequent occasions been made the pretext for the imposition of an annoying and often ruinous fine, and that, too, when the error was 80 obviously a slip of the pen.as to vitiate any possible pretence of inten- tion to defraud; and but recently an Ameri- can vessel was fined twenty-seven thou- sand dollars for the offence of having left six hundred packages of freight upon the dock in this city, which packages appeared upon the manifest. The captain of the vessel was refused the customary civility of altering the manifest, though it was made clearly to appear that the packages had never been on 3 board. By this case and by cases similar—as, for instance, that of the Ocean Home—consider- able sensation has been created in commercial circles, and an effort is now being made to bring the matter before the Department of State with aview to the recovery of a just indemnification for these illegal and annoying fines and seizures. The facts as developed exhibit a thinly dis- guised intention on the part of Cuban Custom House officials for the plander of American shipowners by @ sort of legal—though shab- by—system of buccaneering, which can only be abated by the interference of the United States government or a new volume of Mr. Seward’s diplomatic correspondence. In several of these cases—in fact, in the only important ones—it will be observed that the Spanish authorities have remitted the fines imposed, thus virtually admitting the illegality of their imposition and the consequent seizure, though in two cases they had proceeded as far as confiscation and had. threatened sale of the property. Let Mr. Seward, therefore, foot up a bill of indemnities due for illegal detainder and the like, and in default of payment ‘hold Cuba to bail for the exact amount indicated by the figures, Chief Justice Chase and ment. Mr. Bingham yesterday continued the closing argument of the prosecution in the impeach- ment trial, and through all that argument the thing most apparent was the radical fear of Chief Justice Chase. Apprehension of the Judge was the unconscious import of the gen- tleman's harangue. Ostensibly the Manager discussed nearly every other subject, and while complaining of the length and diffuseness of the defence sinned more palpably in that way than any man on the other side ; but wander as he might he could not get away from the main thought—the thought that now concentrates the whole activity of the radical intellect— that something must be said, done or endeav- ored to prevent the head of the Supreme Court from being heard in the Senate. Butler knows and feels that the case of his faction is the worst ever put in court. Stevens knows this; Sumner knows it; Bingham acknow- ledges it by his failure to urge conviction on the points properly up for trial; but they all believe that they can bully the Senate into conviction, They believe that party discipline will secure a sufficient vote, in spite of right and reason, if the Senate be left to itself. There's the rub, however ; for if the Senate be not left to itself nothing is certain. If one bold, strong voice shall be raised in the cham- ber for justice and law; if one conscientious, honest man shall that there is no case> shall point out to the Senate thé utter failure of the House of Representatives {0 prove what it promised to prove and remind Senators that their oath requires acquittal where guilt is not shown—the awakened pride and strength- ened courage of Senators will inevitably de- clare against impeachment and lift that body above the control of the pitiful motives through which the Managers expect to secure a verdict in their favor. All this anxiety on the part of the Managers fixes attention on the point in their case that shows it in its most charasteristio aspect as fearing most of all the plain ruling of the law. Already ten gentlemen Mave delivered dis- courses not notable for brevity on the points in this case; something like fifty more will discuss it, if it is still the purpose of every Senator to be heard. If, then, the case will stand discussion at the hands of sixty gentle- men mora or less learned in the law, how is it that the opinion of one more is likely to be such an irreparable harm that the Managers will smother it at any cost; and why should Mr. Chase, of all others, be the one they can least endure to hear? He is a republican, too, and they cannot fear that he will soil the ermine with any of those peculiarly democratic views of the constitution that are an offence to the nostrils of the dominant power. Time was that he was even counted the head and front of the radicals, How is it, then, that these men the Impench- are afraid to hear from the bench the voice of the really dominant intellect of their own. party pronouncing on the case whose sugress is to them « necessity—a matter of life And death. They foar it because in giving Viemselves to thls imogechment madness Pray have cone away from all the proper and legitimate pur- poses of the republican party—because this im- Peachmient project is ‘the scheme of no party and 00 respectable portion of a party, but only of half, a dozen political desperadoes who have hitherto bullied half of Congress into going with them, and who fear to have the exact limit of their power shown’ by Chase's putting his foot upon their plans. They fear to have Mr, Chase pronounce on impeachment, because they know it to be a8. much in defiance of law as of all decency, and because his whole record shows him to be a man whom no views of party expediency can bend to abuse his posi- tion to deliberately sustain what is wrong and false. They know that be will declare, the truth—they fear nothing so much as the truth— and hence their eagerness to keep him silent, ~ But Chief Justice Chase knows the duties and powers of his office, He will be heard on this case from that most responsible position that the ‘head ‘of the national judiciary oan hold. He will be heard, or there will be no court competent to render a judgment de- posing the President of the United States; for from the moment it becomes obvious that |. the factious few can control the Senate so far asto allence the Judge it will be equally obvious that the Senate is subject to influences that incapacitate it fora pure discharge of its duties, and it willbe necessary for the Chief Justice to retire, Matters will, perhaps, not be pushed to that extremity. The despera- does will, perhaps, carry their fury only so far as\to write thetr own sentences for the future, and will fail in their effort; while the Chief Justice will so distingtly expound the constitu tional significance and purpose of impeach- ment as to. render it impossible for the Senate to apply its penalties to Mr. Johnson. Ona great effect of this will be to purge the politi- cal atmosphere of the wretches who have en- gineered all this process for corrupt objects, and to initiate a new departure in party or- ganization with the one distinctly grand, honest, national figure in all this turmoil most prominent in men’s thoughts. Rise and Fall of Amusements in New York, One striking peculiarity of the American people must be confessed to be their passion for novelty, Like the Athenians, they are forever on the outlook for ‘‘sometbing new.” Even the French, with all their proverbial fickleness, are more constant in their attach- ment to certain amusements than the Ameri- cans have proved to be. Thus, for instance, the pretty ceremony of crowning the rosizre at Nanterre has survived centuries and revolu- tions; and innumerable other instances might be adduced. The opera and the ballet have valways been steadily popular at Paris ever since their first. introduction. In England roast beef and horse racing have long been per- manent institutions. But in America, and especially in New York, there has been a per- petually kaleidoscopic variety of attractions, each of which has caught the popular eye only, as it were, for an instant. Many years ago, when horse racing became so popular that a once prominent journalist, now an old gentle- man exiled to South America in some diplo- matic capacity, used to rig himself up as @ jockey and gallop up and down Broadways everybody in New York “‘talked ‘horse,” as General Grant has been reported to de at present. But the rage for horse racing in the days of Eclipse lasted for comparatively a short period. The fury of speculations in Wall street succeeded it, and those who had acca. mulated thousands and hundred of thousands of dollars in the regular lines of commerce and trade rushed to risk their wealth in the operations of “the street.” Recently the ness for horgeflesh bas revived, and some of the most conspicuous bulls and bears betray a decided propensity for such equine sports as are offered by Bloomingdale road, the Central Park and Jerome Park. When Palmo built the first opera house the town was opera-gmitten until Palmo’s failure dashed cold water on the temporary enthusiasm of the public. At length, after a prolonged eclipse, opera shone forth again, and there was 4 time when gothing was talked of by pleasure seekers but ‘‘Norma” and “ Ernani” and the rest of the operatic attractions. The vast, cool and well ventilated Academy of Music has been sometimes so crowded as to encourage the wild hope that Italian opera had found ap abiding home in New York, But the selfishness and short-sightedness of the one hundred ‘and ninety-ning and @ half stockholders and the bad management of the “so-called” infused a subtle poison, like the fatal poisons of the East of Italy, into the of operatic prosperity, 4 & slow death was its destiny. The “Black Crook” gave tp the ballet euch an impulse as it had nevér before received in this country. Its unparalleled success lent prestige to the “White Fawn,” which, in its turn, has caused Niblo’s Gardén to be nightly thro fog months. But gvoen th coon w bo tn te et loga, and the 1 itis is growing weary of the épectaculat shows and the nudities which hitherto they have eagerly towed to se. Bateman’s introduction of the opéra bouffe has been the moét permanently attfictive novelty of the past season. The “Grande Duchesse” bequeathed her fascinations to the “Belle Helene.” But even the sparkling music of Offenbach will begin to pall upon the ear of a New York audience unless it be married to ad- ditional novelties, Happily the repertory of Offenbach operas is still far from being et- hausted. The managers of our theatres should take special warning by the lessons suggested by the history of the sudden rise and sudden fall of amusements in New York. Even Wallack’s theatre, with all its legitimate claims on public interest, must expect in due time to be deserted if the only novelties which it intersperses occa- sionaly among fossilized’ old plays are con- structed after the style of Bowery blood- and-thunder-and-lightning sensationalisms. It should aim at presenting novelties not alto- gether unworthy of the sterling comedies of English literature which it has sometimes so admirably reproduced. The New York publio craves something good as well as something , new. What is good will be heartily appte ciated ; but whether good, bad or indifferént, it is indispensable that the attraction y6 new. If likewise it be good, all the better; ‘hat how- evor good it may prove it must be feplaced by something else as soon as the gfpular interest in it begins to ebb accoramig to the regular tide laws of pyblic amygomepss ia New York,