The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1868, Page 6

6 EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —= Volume XXXIII........ or =— aeeneee sereeee No. 129 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE,—S: NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas WHITE Fawn. }, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— oVE's SACRIFICE. (. BOWERY THEATRE, Bo Fea DIAVOLO—Ralsing THE TERESA. ‘Wao Sreaks Finst~ iD, &O. + BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—ConniE SooGaa. 4 weW YORR THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. Paris anv Hexen, " OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.-Hourtr Doxrry ‘| GERMAN STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—FRa Piavoro. { IRVING HALL.—Biixp Tow’s Concent. STEINWAY HAULL,—Miss ANNA E. DicKINSON's LEC- WoRe—Ip107TS anv W Ne \ @HEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLRT, FAnoR, @. \ KELLY 4 LEON'S MINSTRE: Poornamicittes, ‘&¢.—GRAND DI 720 Broadway.—SOnGe, on 48." * SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 685 Broadway.—Eraro- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, dc. | TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vocoa.isM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. " NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 28d st. and 4: ay.—EXHISITION OF PicTURES, &¢. { MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— UNvER THE GasLicnt. BUROPEAN CIRCUS, Broadway and Sth street. —Equrs- WRIAN PERFORMANCE, LIVING ANIMALS, &C. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOU! Brooklyn.—ETH1or1an MINSTRELSEY—PANORAMA—PRI RESS OF AMERICA. HALL, 954 and 956 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF THLE WAR. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BoIrENOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, May 8 1868. THES NEWS. IMPEACHMENT. Court was opened as usual at noon yes- yasmall audience being present in the e Chief Justice after the formal opening The f terday, ou galleries. ‘@nnounced that the doors would be closed under the | fule. A disposition was shown by Senators Sher- | aman, Howe and Sumner to discuss the matter, but | Rhe Chief Justice summarily checked them by order- ing the galleries to be cleared, which was done, the ®Yeporters being included in the enforced exodus. { In the secret session the order of Mr. Sumner to wote on the articles the day .after the close of the fergument was the first business in order, but its Ponsideration was postponed. Mr. Morrill offered an order to adjourn until Monday, and that on Tuesday noon the vote be taken on the articles of im- Peachment without debate, each Senator to have ‘the privilege of filing a written opinion within two | aa after to go on the record, which was agreed to portant modification, mendment to the rules so that fifteen | for the whole deliberation uestion was adopted, sion then ensued on M imner's order rela- mode of taking the vote, and after numer- us amendments the whole subject was laid on the | table. The court and Senate then adjourned unttt on Monday. Sonator Fessenden’s defection from the scheme continues to flurry the persistent rs who are determined upon the removal of | ent, and efforts ave being made to throw it on the statement of our correspondent. | nches the matter, however, by giving as his no less a personage than ator Henry o made the statement tn the presence of CONGRESS. ein the Senate outside of the im- | ition was reported from 1 Affairs requesting the Presi to tle Gulf of St. Lawrence te n fishi A terse de. 1, which was, howe’ faint r » debates of presented to the ‘ ctded that it was n@ a The dill to prevent the further ing EUROPE. the Atlantic cable ts dated yes- one’s reso! Jhurch we: ling from a Parliamentary grant ch tn Ireland and the hy a supporter The Irish Refor Consols 94 a 94% fo count. Five-twent in Frankfort. p we haveay nt and mail report in de es to the 26th of April. THE CITY. Chamber of Commerce yesterday the ann Section of off iar H 1 President, A memorial to Cong ng against the erection of the new City Hall Park. can General Committee of New York ng at their headquarters jast even- ely discussion ensued as to the ap- niment of a special committee to conduct the Presidential campaign. the Campaign Ciub es, The motion was erred to the Executive Committee, tact of the principal points of Gencral e | vention w | all, and naming Grant and Hi NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. court especially directed their attention to the inter- nal revenue frauds in the whiskey traffic, the dishon- esty of public officials and the counterfeiting of United States currency. Henry Muller and Charles Hempstead were yester- day committed by United States Commissioner Betts, to await the action of the Grand Jury, on a charge of passing counterfeit currency of the denomnation of $2. In the case of Cwsarina Fraser vs. Lemuel N. Froe- man, Thomas Mullady and Michael Ryan, tried dur- ing the past three days in the Supreme Court Otr- cuit, before Judge Cardozo, the jury yesterday morn- ing gave a verdict for plaintiff in-the sum of $5,000, the full amount claimed. The action was brought to recover damages for the killing of plaintiff's hus- band, Colonel Fraser, of the Forty-seventh New York Volunteers, on the 6th of July, 1866, at his premises in Fulton street, while engaged in an altercation with the defendants. ‘The prosecution in the contempt proceedings be- fore Judge Barnard, in the Supreme Court, in the case of the Erie Railway. Directors, was closed yes- terday. Various affidavits were filed and the ex parte depositions for the defence are to be filed on ‘Tuesday next. In the case of Dietz vs. Jones, an action in the Superior Court, in which plaintiff sued for damages for being severely wounded by a pistol shot on New Year’s evening, the jury yesterday rendered a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $5,000. The case of the United States vs, R. C, Enright and John R. Allen, who were jointly indicted with T. U. Callicott for defrauding the United States govern- ment on the Internal Revenue tax on whiskey, was commenced yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, before Judge Benedict. The steamship City of Boston, Captain Roskell, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. on Saturday, 9th inst., for Queenstown and Liver- pool. The European malls will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. to-morrow. The National line steamship Louisiana, Captain Forbes, will leave plier 47 North river at nine A. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The Cromwell line steamship George Cromwell, Captain Vaill, will leave pier No, 9 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 9th tnst., for New Orleans direct. . The steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, of the Black Star Independent line, will leave pier 13 North river to-morrow (Saturday), at three P. M., for Sa- vannah, Ga, The fine steamship Vicksburg, Captain Burton, of Arthur Leary’s line, will sail from pier 14 East river, foot of Wall street, on Saturday, 9th inst., at three P. M., for Charleston, S. C., connecting with steamer for Florida ports. ‘The stock market was on the whole firm yesterday. Government securities were strong. Gold closed at 13995. MISCELLANEOUS. Later telegraphic advices from Mexico city state that a new conspiracy had been discovered at the capital, and Colonel Machado had been arrested, The defeat of Martinez at Mazatlan is attributed to the unexpected defection of a battalion. Thirty ban- ditshad been shot. A conspiracy at Orizaba was promptly suppressed, Our correspondence from Mexico is dated Mazat- lan, April15. The items of news have been antic! pated, although the details of Corona’s defeat of Mar- tinez and the occupation of Mazatlan will be found interesting. The M¥st act of Governor Rubi on resu- maing his office was to send for the American Consul and havea friendly chat with him on political sub- jects, 4 Our correspondence from Honolulu is dated April 5. A severe gale had been blowing for six weeks, aud considerable damage to property was reported, al- though no serious marine disasters. The volcano of Kilaura was active and several earthquake shocks had been distinctly felt. The steamship Lackawanna had been treated with marked discourtesy by order of the Minister of the Interior. Our news extracts from the Japanese papers up to the 7th of March will be found interesting. The om- cer of troops who ordered a volley to be fired upon foreigners in Kobe had been sentenced to commit hart-kari in the presence of witnesses of different na- tionalities, The notification of neutrality in the war of the Daimios issued by Minister Van Vatkenberg Is published. The news of Burlingame's® ministerial appointment had travelled round the world via Pekin, St. Petersburg, London, New York and San Fran- | cisco, back again to Pekin in eighty-one days. General Canby has issued an order postponing the meeting of the South Carolina Legislature until Con- gress shall have approved the new constitution. A large meeting of colored conservatives was held in Savannah, Ga., last evening, at which speeches were made by whites and negroes, and great enthu- siasm was manifested. ‘The radical convention at Augusta, Me., yesterday renominated James G. Blaine for Congress, and en- dorsed Grant and Hannibal Hamlin as their favorite ticket for the radical race in November. onal Convention of German Turners in sine die yesterday, after adopting nd resolutions on political mag gresa, the gradnal payment of the » the encouragement of immigration and the protection of foreign born citizens abroad. sal convention in Richmond, Va., yester- omination for Congressman at large and ‘a Delegates to the Chicago Con- ere appointed, one of them being a negro, utions were adopted demanding the early ion of the State; endorsing free schools for Wilson as the publican candidates in the P ential election, motion .to substitute Ben Wade for Wilson was de- feated, Hunnicutt made a speech in f of the nominees. The Democratic State Convention also assembled in Richmond yesterday. The constitutional election in Florida is progress- ing quietly. On Wednesday the vote in Key West stood, for the constitution, atnat, 309, A convention of Fenians assembled in Hartford, Conn., yesterday, Missourt has @ railroad litigation something like our late Erte war, and ft is considered of such im- portance that probably the State Legislature will in extra session to take cognizance of it. visited St. Louis yesterday, doing great adit Oneof the latter was turned keel upwards, al and six for murder in the first degree. In the Methodist General Conference at Chicago rday the subject of thie admission of the Southern es was again considered and made a special order for to-day. A cyclone, half a mile tn width, passed over por- tions of Davidson and Williamson counties, Tenn., on Wednesday afternoon, sweeping away houses, t and fences for a distance of some ten miles. ¢ house of a Mr. Chumbley was carried about three red yasds, killing Mr, Chumbley and one child | severely injuring Mrs. Chambley and three n. Prorosep MopiricaTion oF THE Test OATH IN THE Sovtn.—We learn from Washington that General Grant sent to the House of Repre- sentatives on Wednesday a letter enclosing a communication from General Canby on the subject of the test oath in the South, General Canby eays—what every unprejudiced person > vton‘s reporton the conditica of Mell Gate and method of improving the @hannei there will nd elsewhere this morning. The estimated cost a various projects submitted for the iunprove- am of Hell Gate foot up $2,604,088, Orphan Asylum Society commenced the cele- »: an of ite sixty-second anniversary at Steinway ii stevening. “The Sheltering Arms,” a private he lent tnstitution for the care of children. held sth anniversary at the Episcopal church in ninth street and Broadway. The Home, near 1 urch, Which shelters ninety-three children « ‘s arms, was visited by the audience, The i Sunday School Union also held an anniver. eting, at which reports were received and selected, The African Civilization Society at aniversary meeting in Brookiyn presented re- from the numerous school teachers in the ‘ Li ‘he Grand Jury of the United States District Court Gs Ghaszed yesterday by Juice Miatohford, The knows—that serious impediments are in the way of carrying out the Reconstruction laws of Congress in consequence of this test oath, We will say nothing here of the unconstitu- tional and dangerous precedent of these mili- tary men ignoring the Executive of the repub- lic and communicating officially and directly with Congress, but will remark, apart from this, that General Canby has made a sensible argument against the atrocious and proscrip- tive laws of Congress with regard to the test oath, We have no idea that the radical ma- jority in Congress will undo what they have done and act upon the recommendation of General Canby to repeal or change the law; - but his sensible communication will remain as & standing reproach against their impraocti cable aud infamous schemes of reconstruction. e trial ended yesterday by the disagreement | ury, Who were discharged, six being for ac- | The New Phase im the Impeachment and Its Presidential Complications. The impression that Andrew Johnson will by the Senate be acquitted of the “high crimes and misdemeanors” charged against him by the House 6f Representatives, ‘in the name of all the people of the United States,” has been rapidly gaining strength during the last few days. The ragical camp at Washington is evidently in a state of consternation; the President is reported to be confident of a great victory and “‘calm as a summer's morning” in anticipation of the crowning result. Conser- vative politicians, upon the expectation of a crushing radical failure to convict the sturdy delinquent, are beginning to make their Presi- dential calculations upon this result. Nor can any limit be fixed to the political complications, combinations and consequences of a failure to remove this stumbling-block to the radicals from the White House. But while it is apparent that the acquittal of Johnson will immediately effect a rupture in the republican party, and a movement for the organization of a new national conservative party, under an untried but well known and popular Presidential leader, a radical contem- porary is better pleased with the presumption that Andrew Johnson’s triumph over a radical House of Representatives, and in a radical Senate nearly three-fourths republican, will bring him into the foreground as the most available candidate for the democratic party. In support of this presumption it is contended that ‘throughout this contest Johnson has been fighting the battles of the democracy ;” that “the party has been in full accord with him on all the issues involved ;” that ‘‘he has been not only the exponent of their opinions, but the champion of their cause;” and that accord- ingly if he is declared the victor in this im- peachment, and if “thereupon his friends insist upon his nomination by the democratic con- vention, it is dificult to see how it can con- sistently refuse this testimonial of confidence and approval.” Admitting, however, all these reasons why the democracy should adopt him to be well put, there will, perhaps, be no diffi- culty in declining him, inasmuch as there have been no democratic foreshadowings from any quarter in this party camp of any inducements to adopt him under any circumstances. John Tyler, in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, and throughout the coun- try, in his conflict with Henry Clay on the Fiscal Bank and the Fiscal Corporation bills of 1842, was sustained as earnestly in his vetoes by the democrats as Johnson has been in this‘impeachment trial. He was doing their work and they strengthened his hands. The result was, in the triumph of Tyler, such a crippling of the whig party that, in 1844, with Henry Clay himself as its standard bearer, they were defeated by Polk, a democratic ob- security from Tennessee. Tyler, early in the field, was a candidate on the lookout for the democratic nomination. There was, in fact, simultaneously with the gathering of the demo- cratic nominating convention in Baltimore, a convention hard by of the independent Tyler party by way of a flank movement; but it was utterly ignored over the way, and it ended in the surrender of Tyler to the democratic nomi- nation of Polk. Tyler, in short, had so far identified himself, with the democratic cause that, next to his own nomination, he desired the defeat of the whig candidate; and this is now the attitude of Johnson towards the radi- calized republican party. The democratic managers thoroughly understand it, and so, without the remotest idea of nominating Mr. Johnson, they are in any event, as against General Grant, confident of his support. Leaving Mr. Johnson, then, in this attitude of a make-weight against the radicals, the question recurs, what man in the present and prospective aspect of things, in the event of Johnson's acquittal, is the man best qualified to lead the combined forces of the opposition— conservative republicans, democrats and anti- radical floating materials—against Grant as the radical candidate? Chief Justice Chase is the man, THis record as the head of the Treasury, in providing the ways and means for the prose- cution of the most gigantic war of modern times against the most formidable rebellion in the history of any people, identifies him as conspicuously and successfully in his sphere with the Union cause and party of the war as General Grant is recognized in his great réle. In the Chief Justice, then, the democracy may find a candidate whose war record will neutral- ize the present overshadowing popularity of General Grant as the victorious leader of the Union armies, and thus reduce the contest to the great political issues at stake between the radicals and the opposition elements. In the next place, as the Chief Justice, from | his fearless course of impartial justice in this impeachment trial, stands far exalted above all the petty party considerations of the hour, he places himself in direct rapport with the inde- | pendent masses of the people, who, in default of anything better,’ choose between this or that mere representative of party as ina choice of | eyjls. As the people's candidate Mr. Chase, | if gathering about him all the opposition ele- ments of the country, would soon bring to the front the legions of the people's party, and in a line sufficiently compact to break and put to rout, East and West, the loosely adhering. ranks of the demoralized radicals, Nor need we limit this view of the situation to the event of President Johnson's acquittal; for such is the present commanding attitude of the Chief Justice that he will serve equally well the op- position forces as their Presidential champion in the event, dow very doubtful, of Johnson's removal, : te Legislature, The Logislature which has just adjourned, although a good deal demoralized by the Erie Railroad war and the corruption that sprung out of it, as involved in Mr, Glen's charges, and his resignation because his thofesty was not appreciated, was,‘after all, not #0 bad as previous Legislatures have been, In other words, we have some reason to congratulate ourselves that we have not been so grossly swindled and abused as we have been at pre- vious sessions. Indeed, the Legislature has done some good things this time—a compliment which we cannot often pay it. For instance, the defeat of the bill to transter the duties of the Croton Board to the hands of political sharks was a good piece of work; for the Board as at present constituted is one of the few efficiently conducted institutions in the sity. Then it voted a million dollars for a new boulevard—a necessary aad elegant im- provement. The donations to religious educa- tional societies were cut down considerably — ® matter which, for many reasons, is to be commended, as it seta aside bickerings and jealousies, and is, in fact, a “question with which the State has nothing to do.. So that, upon the whole, we cannot but feel that we have escaped from a good deal of the rascality which usually characterizes an Albany Legis- lature. ¢ The Religious Anniversaries. The country parsons are coming to town— some in black broadcloth, some in white chokers and some in silken gowns. They come here annually in this season of May, like the spring blossoms, or like green peas and new potatoes from the South, or fresh salmon from the Penobscot, or fresh shad from ‘the North river. What a dish to set before sin- ners! Green peas, fresh salmon, new pota- toes and a good fat parson! But this year the royal dish isto be garnished with an entirely new delicacy—the now religion of Auguste Comte, which calls things by* their proper names, and mixes the material with the spiritual, as one of our bar princes would fashion a mint-julep by the infusion of some * prime old Jamaica. Some of our contemporaries contend that these anniversaries are useless, that they do more harm than good, and tend to retard rather than accelerate the spread of the Gospel among the heathen. We do not agree with them. The evidence, in fact, is otherwise. Look at the lively religious revivals going on the past year in rural as well as in metropolitan districts. Look at the unusual accessions to churches of all denominations, to the number of new churches erected, to the handsome do- nations to theological institutions, to the fact that even the flinty heart of Wall street has been struck with the steel of remorse and emit- ted a spark of divine charity in the shape of a generous donation toa well known religious establishment. Look at the magnificent fields opened to missionary labor in Africa by the explorations of Dr. Livingstone and the more recent expedition of the British General Napier in Abyssinia, where, by the aid of Arm- strong twelve-pounder tracts, the light of the gospel according to Queen Victoria has been dispensed among peoples who, strangely enough, were discovered to possess some tradi- tions of early Christianity, and that, too, in a land sacred to the memories of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba! But the valor of this race of sable Christians was found to be lamentably deteriorated when compared with that of their colored Christian brethren in this great land of freedom and religious toleration. Under General Grant the Ameri- can sable Christifns were reported to have “fought nobly ;” while under the British Gen- eral Napier the Abyssinian sable Christians are reported to have done nothing of the sort, but to have submitted, like primitive Chris- tians as they are, in a spirit of heavenly meek- ness, to the dissemination of Christian doc- trines from the ‘mouths of Christian British cannon, When smote upon the right cheek they not only turned the left, but, like the Prince of Tigre, when he, lamblike, threw his buttered locks into the lap of General Merewether, they gave cheeks, head, greasy chops and all. There's meekness, there’s humility, there's Christian charity for you!—truly an example worthy of imitation in lands more renowned for Christianity and civilization than those ruled over by the late lamented King Theodorus. Therefore the country parsons will come. There being much to be grateful for the past year they can prepare a programme and raise supplies for the coming one. If they want a purse of two millions it will be contri- buted. They can find out, too, what the Devil has been doing in this city during the interim of their twelve months’ absence. They will ascertain how Satan tempted a certain di- vine to preach contrary to the oanons of the Church, and how he was admonished therefor by the Bishop and what came of it. They will learn how Beelzebub has been raising the mischief among the Episcopalians, and tempted them, in the syren form of ritualism, to depart from the venerable usages of the past and to imitate the rites of the terrible Roman Catho- lic Church. Not to put too fine a point upon it, they will learn how many yards of black and white cambric and how many wax can- dies constitute the distinction between the Church of Rome and the Church of England, Our country parsons will, also, beyond doubt, open their ears with wonder when they hear what the Devil has been doing among our church choirs; how the sermons have been curtailed to give more time to the artistic ren: dering of sacred music, and how the heart has been led away from the solemn teachings of the pulpit by the sublime arias of bewitching prime donne. They will likewise look with fmazement upon what the Devil has been doing with the ladies’ church toilets ; how he has perched saucy little imps upon dainty fab- rications which an Irish fairy would scarcely call bonnets; how the same little imps play and dangle among the long tresses of the fair ones, and how they hover about and cling around and climb upon the brocades, the satins and silks, with trimmings of rich lace and brilliant ornamentations of diamonds and mother-of-pearl, which constitute the Sabbath costumes of fashionable lady de- votees at a grand fashionable religious matinée or soirée. -They will see, also, how, as Miss Clack would say, the Devil has got into the church sofa cushions; {nto the vel- vet carpeting, soft as the treacherous paw of acat; into the purple pulpit trimmings; into the gmblazoned choir surroundings; into the gorgeous upholstery trappings generally, and set his face, in the shape of a stained glass window, against the pure and benignant rays of light from heaven. They will finally see how old Beelzebub has crept noiselessly into the hearts of these fashionable church- goers and flown away with their souls, To change the subject slightly :—These country clergymen will also ascertain what the Devil has been doing among our theatres and places of amusement generally ‘‘since they've been gone.” They will find that the “Black Crook” performances of last year have been productive of a most bountiful harvest for Beelzebub. They will learn that they have brought forth a splendid crop of sensational and’ demoralizing literature, and that, not being interrupted by the authorities, their immoral effects have been felt in nearly every walk of society, They will find that the ‘Black Crook” has been succeeded by a ‘White Fawn.” aad that purity of character does not follow a change of title. They will discover that the immunity given to these lascivious per- formances has encouraged many of the vices which generate in a populous city; and that, inasmuch as they have heretofore haa to describe all these things to their home con- gregations, they will now have ample opportu- nity to renew the war against metropolitan sins after the present anniversary season is passed and gone, Here isa splendid field for their labors. Here is a chance to depict the vices of the city in the attractive style of “Black Crook” or infidel magazine articles. Living in clover at home, resting at ease upon their two million contributions, they can show their congregations how depraved is a city life, how vain and hollow its seductions, how treacherous its dazzling, fashionable glare, how its tendency is to precipitate the tender and virtuous down the abyss of perdition, and how their own peaceful homes are immea- surably more calm and happy and blessed. Having thus awakened the curiosity of the young of their flocks, and in glowing colors portrayed temptation to their plastic and eager minds, they will be enabled to recruit the sup- ply of victims to city life which their home sermons, after the anniversaries are over, are yearly calculated to produce. So, Beelzebub says, let the country parsons come. Mexican News—Reported Flight of Juarez. The telegraphic news from Mexico via Havana, which we published yesterday, in- cluded a rumor that a revolution had taken place at the capital, and that President Juarez was flying to the Texas frontier with seven million dollars in his possession. As the Vera Cruz Journal and private letters are silent upon this rumor it is not improbably a canard. But the enterprising newsmonger who invented it—if it be an invention—has but anticipated what must inevitably take place as a natural result of the ‘confusion worse confounded” into which Mexico is sinking. Juarez has held, or at least claimed, supreme power longer than almost any other Mexican ruler during the past forty years. He could not himself be surprised at being suddenly forced to play the part of fugitive assigned to him by the rumor of the 2d inst., which the English steamer Mersey brought from Vera Cruz to Havana, and he might well consider himself lucky to have seven million dollars in his pos- session while flying to the Texas frontier. But so much of the telegraphic news which comes from Mexico by way of Havana is made up of contradictory rumors that it is difficult to distinguish the true from the false. When it so happens that the news ts derived chiefly from the opposition journals in Mexico the prospects of the Juarez government look gloomy enough, .but they seem to brighten when the news is derived chiefly from the government journals. These very contradic- tions, indeed, indicate the chronic revolutionary excitement which afflicts Mexico. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy, as shown by our Mazatlan letter of April 15, published to- day, that there is a significant concert of ac- tion between _the government of _ President Juarez and the militaryscommanders of the five districts into which the republic was divided immediately after the re-establish ment of the liberal government at the capital. Moreover, the loyalty as well as disinterested- ness exhibited by General Alatorre in the Yucatan affair and by General Corona in the Sinaloa insurrection would seem to indicate that the civil and military authorities of the republic are in perfect harmony and accord. The submission of General Jiminez in Guer- rero ig another evidence that some of the ablest among the partisan chiefs believe at last that nothing can be gained by resistance to ‘‘the powers that be.” Still another, note- worthy fact is that in the Yucatan and Sinaloa revolts one of the greatest advantages gained by the national government consists in the promptitude with which the national com- manders have immediately set to work restor- ing to the national treasury the customs revenues of the ports in both States. A long standing grievance has hitherto been the smuggling on the Pacific and at Sisal and Campeche, invariably covered up by the re- volts fostered in both sections of the republic by foreign merchants. The loyalty, disin- terestedness and ability of Corona and Alatorre have at length restored to the nation these vast revenues. Favorable, however, as the circumstances which we have just mentioned may appear to the sanguine friends of the Juarez government, we cannot resist the gene- ral impression created by the predominant tone of our Mexican news—that the overthrow of that government in its turn at any moment would not be more surprising than was the overthrow of any previous government which hasrisen and fallen in Mexico, The of Mexico is a history of revolutions. Disraeli and the Churc On the forenoon of Wednesday last, as we have learned by a cable despatch, a largé and influential meeting was held in St. James’ Hall, London, the object of which was to protest against the proposed disestablishment of the Irish Church, The attendance, we are told, was immense, and the proceedings were *‘noisy and turbulent.” The chair was occupied on the occasion by his Grace the Archbishop of Canter- bury. Speeches were made bythe Archbishop of York, by the Lord Mayor of London and others. From the outlines of the speeches we can gather that Disraeli, in raising the ‘‘No Popery” cry, has done it with the consent and encouragement of the dignitaries of the Church of England. The meeting, if it have no other effect, has at least shown us that the Premier is certain to be backed up by the entire Church interest. Dodging is the order of the day. It has been manifest already in the conduct of both the great political leaders. It is now manifest in the conduct of the two ordained chiefs of the Church of England. Mr. Glad- stone is, perhaps, less anxious to destroy the Irish Church than to drive Disraeli from power. Disraeli’s love of office is a much stronger pas- sion than Disraeli’s feae or hatred of Popery. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are unquestionably more afraid of the coming tor- rent of voluntaryism than of Archbishop Man- ning or the College of Cardinals. The ‘No Popery" cry has always been powerful in Eng- land. It is not by any means impossible that, backed up as he is to be by the Church, Mr. Disracli, when the genera! election comes off, shall show better at the polls than the liberale imaging of England. St SRDS MAAC eae eS Our Abyssinian Correspondence. In the Heracp of yesterday we printed another of those graphic letters from the pea of our special correspondent at the headquar- ters of the British army in Abyssinia, I is not necessary for us to enlarge upon the merits of letters which have had no superior in the history of modern corsespondence, and which even now are exciting the envy of the great English journals. Itis not too much to say that to the letters of our correspondent we are more largely indebted for our knowledge of that wonderful country than to all other sources put together. Our Correspondent has led us from point to point with such clearness and fulness of intelligence that Annesley Bay and Zoulla and the pass to Senafe, Senffe itself and Attegerat and the beautiful lake Ashangi, have all become familiar to us almost as scenes we have visited. That far away and myste- rious country which the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Carthagenians, the Romans all sighed to know, but which they never knew, has all of a sudden been unfolded to our view. The Nile is no longer a mystery. It. ia no more a gift of the gods than the other rivers of the earth. It owes its exisfence to natural causes. Itself one of mature’s grandest objects, it takes its rise amid scenes of grandeur which have nowhere else a parallel on the surface of the globe, It will be strange, indeed, if that long unknown land should not now become tha centre of attraction for the adventurous spirita of the world. The Alps and the Andes will cease to be attractive until this new sensation isfully experienced. The grand tour must henceforth extend beyond Egypt. This, how- ever, is only a secondary consideration. Those lofty regions, while clothed with the verdure of the tropics, enjoy a climate which seems ag balmy and more bracing than that of Italy or Greece. What unknown wealth it may cou- tain we know aot as yet; but it is not unrea- sonable to conclude that, when the expedition is ended and when Dr. Livingstone, having com- pleted his investigation of that great water- shed, has returned to make known the result of his labors, it will be found that Central Africa is possessed of resources the develop- ment of which will work a new era im the hig- tory of mankind. That which has long been believed to be a desert may be found to bloom as avery paradise. Carpet-Baggers in the Senate Chamber. The prospect of the impeachment farce tura- ing out a failure, growing out of rumors cur- rent dn Washington that Mr. Fessenden and ther conservative Senators would vote t acquit the President, took a great crowd of radical carpet-baggers and radical commissas ries to the Senate gallery on Wednesday, where they behaved in such a disgraceful manner that the Chief Justice had to order the galle- ries to be cleared. There is no doubt tickets were issued freely to admit these violent parti» sans for the purpose of making a demonstration on the close of Manager Bingham’s speech. A radical organ in this city admits as much, though it puts the fact in as mild a form ag possible. ‘The loyal people” (meaning radical carpet-baggers), it says, “‘anxious th: a bad man should be removed and the laws vindicated, drooped with discouragement and secretly feared they were about to be betrayed. The names of republican Senators were freely mentioned as having committed themselves to a verdict of acquittal, and everywhere doubt and distrust prevailed. The people (meaning the radical carpet-baggers and violent radical partisans) instinctively drew near the Capitol.” That is to say, they entered the galleries of the Senate through permits given to them by radical Senators for the purpose of applauding Bingham’s remarks and of producing an intimi+ dating effect upon those Senators who were supposed to be favorable to acquittal. This ig just the meaning of the whole affair, and it shows the disgraceful plots of the Jacobin face tion to accomplish the deposition of the Prest« dent. The conduct of the Chief Justice ig insisting wpon the galleries being clegred iq highly commendable, and is another indication of his determination not to be coerced by parti< san clamor. He properly rebuked, in a frm and dignified manner, the insult to the High Court over which he presides by these Jacobian emissaries. Governor Fenton and the Tax Levy. Some of the radical papers are urging Gov- ernor Fenton to veto the city tax levy on the alleged plea of extravagance in the appro- priations. The expenses of the government, under the mixed system of elective depart- ments and legislative commissions, have in- creased enormously for the past five or six years; but the people, by their votes in the charter elections, have shown that they are not anxious for a change, and that they care noth- ing about economy. From the majorities of last November and December it is evident that they rather like being robbed on a magnificent scale. The city tax levy this year is, bow- ever, by no means so large as might have been anticipated, and exclusive of the increase of nearly two million dollars in the State tax apportioned to New York, and of the various appropriations for the legislative commissions, the city expenses proper will be less than last year. The whole amount of the tax will be about twenty-four million dollars; but a veto by the Governor would increase it to some thirty millions, The money needed to carry | on the municipal government would be bor- rowed on interest ; the city would be flooded © with suits and judgments, by which the Cor. poration Counsel and the Sheriff would bene- fit at the expense of the taxpayers, and there would be a general jubilee of plunder. The demand for a veto out of spite for the defeat of Fenton's nominations in the Senate proves how indifferent these pretended economists are to the real interests of the city. : Cession of the Hudson Bay Territory to the British Goverument. A telegram from London informs us that the entire domain belonging to the Hudson Bay} Company ie to be ceded to the crown, This is evidently intended as a checkmate to our lately acquired possessions north of this territory, 99 the establishment of American capital, enter- prise and pluck in the immediate neighborhood of the immense domain of the Hudson Bag” Company would be considered, mildly speak~ ing, inconvenient without a corresponding effort on the part of the British government ir their own possessions, This movement is on of particular interest to the people of thi; United States: for the develooment af the re Company's