The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1868, Page 6

" were a * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. MISCELLANEOUS. i NINETY,” ‘| tuanse'vapeis tk cocksteee etnos ot tae eet report of one of JAMES GORDON BENNETT, nan aes Oocurrence jadiand PROPRIETOR, quakes, ever’ recorded. It took place in Meval, hie lubes of bans ‘and the. volcano is Volume XXXIIL........0+000+ Medel, ++;No. 180 | called Mauna Loa, fhe earthquakes at times were = ===: || #0 Violent that noone could stand up; immense AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. >} FRENCH THEATRE.—Riout D'AMOUR, Matinee at 1— Son TERESA. y Were lovelied to the earth and a tidal wave from the sea swept over the tops of the tall: cocoa- Rut'tress, Five villages suffered from the Visitation, eighty. persons being known 1 have been Killed, iboats ' : NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas Warrs’ ‘fawn | ‘Themoantain, while in eruption, vomited forth deep Matines at 1. Streams of lava, which pushed far out into the sea, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street— | driving the waters back, and agitating them ag by 9 MASKS AND FACES. BOWERY SKIN. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Conniz SooGau. Matinee at 1}s. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Panis aNp HELEN, Matinee at 2. OLYMPIC THE, _ ' ES ‘ATRE, Broadway.—Humpry Domrrr. ‘storm. .A huge island was thus thrown up and the THEATRE, Bowery.—Quasimopo—Buve- | huge stregins of smoke issuing’ from'the crater of the volcano enveloped the surrounding, country in par, tial darkness, We have telegraphic “advices! from! Haytt, Bt, ‘Thomas, Cubs, other West India Islands and Vene- zuela. Salnave’s adherents.are reported to be in’ pos- session of Fort Liberté and’ Gouaives, ih Hayti, where they were throwing up) entrenchments, Fi- IRVING HALL.—Buiwp Tom's Concmnr. Matineoiat 2, | ANCiAl matters were growing worse. ‘The Shaumut, STEINWAY HALL.—Mn. Cuanies EyrTIncE’s Rav. ING. THEATRE COMIQUB, 514 Broadway.—Bau.eEr, Fano: 4). Matinee at ae * me 7 KELLY & LEON'S REL. 720 Broadway.—SOnes, EooENTRIOITIES, &c.—| Matinee at 2. iBaND DoTos “8.” De Soto and Saco were in port at St. Thomas on the 2d inst. The Spaniah man-of-war which was watch- ing the All¢é Ball had orders to take her or'sink her, but the vessel had escaped, The case of the. Ameri- can steamers Liberty and Cube at, Havana; was Ukely to be 'made an international affair, One of the American sailors who have been imprisoned in Nenvitas)for: three years through the, neglect of the SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Bruto ’ E ria ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING AG. | t”” | SUthoFitles, had become’ crazy.’ In ‘Yeneauele the evolution was increasing. , The ministry had re- XY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowery.=COat f x TON HOUSE, Mae ee” aigned. }A- Danish man-of-war, at La \Guayra had Vooa.ism, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, &¢. ‘| Miade'a demand for redresy ‘for’ damages to Danish NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 24 st, and | citizens, D 4ih av.—EXHLMITION OF PLOTUUES, 40. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— UNDER THE GASLiGHT, EUROPEAN CIRCUS, Broadway ong Sith street 8 URS ‘TRIAN PEBrouMAancn, Livine NIMALS, &O, atince. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, | Brooklyn.EZHiOrian MINGTRELSEY—PANORAMA, 40. Matinee at 2/5. HALL, and 956 Broadway.—PaNoRaMa OF THE Win, Matinee at 2. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 (Broatiway.— SOIBNOE AND ART, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Mny 9, 1868. THE NEWS. IMPEACHMENT. During the present recess of the Impeachment Court the Senators composing it are busy gathering ideas and backbone from their political compeers, ‘The radicals rally en masse at, General Grant’s Head- quarters or the War Department, The votes in secret session on Thursday have given the conservatives courage and the radicals propor tionate depression, It was rumored in Washington last night that eight republican Senators are con- fidently counted on as favoring acquittal. CONGRESS. The Senate was not in session yesterday, having adjourned until Monday. In the House Mr. Stevens, from the Reconstruction Committee, reported back the bill to admit Atkansas and moved the previous question, against which Mr, Spalding, republican, and the democratic members strongly remonstrated. The question was seconded, however, and Mr. Stevens yielded a portion of his hour to Messrs, Beck, Woodward, Spalding and others for debate, closing the discussion himself. The bill was then passed by a vote of 110 to 82, four republicans voting no. A bill to admit South Carolina was reported and ordered to be printed. A motion was made to go into Committee of thie Whole in order that Mr. Cook, of llinois, might make a speech; but a motion to adjourn was made by the democrats. The yeas and nays showed no quorum Present, the democrats not voting, The Speaker , Said that by the rules ali members must vote; but on another telling the democrats again failed to’ vote, The Speaker then said he had no power to etiforce his ruling, and the motion to adjoura was with- drawn, and Mr. Cook made his speech. The House then adjourned until Monday. EUROPE. By spectal cable telegrams dated in London yester- day ye have most interesting reports of General Napier's operations in Abyssinia subsequent to the capture of Magdala, with a very exciting special re- port ofthe great battle which preceded that event. ‘The British were ou the retura'march to the coast. ‘The news report by the cable is dated yesterday evening, May 8. Ht Specie was again flowing to Paris. George Francis ‘Train appeared again in the Bankrupt Court of Ire- land. Mr. Train was visited by some cell Fenians. Consols, 94 for money and 92 @ 92%| ex dividend. Five-twenties, 705 a'70% in London and 75% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse steady, Cotton heavy at a decline, of 44d. Breadstais quict. Provisions dull. Our special correspondents {Europe ‘furnish im- Portant details of our cable despatches to the 26th of April. “ THE CITY. Joseph Krumitzki shot his wife, yesterday after. noon at his house, No. 121 Willett street, and then shot himgelf, His wife still lives, but he died almost instantly, and an imquest: was ;held upon bis body yesterday. It apf that Rie'wife had been too in- timate with a young man named Dwonock, and had thus incensed the deceased, and his: terribie cme ‘was the consequence. A man named Jonn Brennan fras atrested in Brooklyn yesterday for having shot his - wife, accl- dentally, as it Was at first supposed.’ The oecurrence. took place on Saturday night, aud.strange rumors Devan spreading among the neighbors,.on heating Which the officers ‘were ordered to’ attest Brennan, Mrs, Brennan 18 seriously injured and unable to make a statement of the affair, An alleged swindler named ‘Thomaa J. Harvey was arrested on Thursday night and brought ‘before Jus- tuce Dodge yesterday charzed with passing numerous Checks that are claimed 16 be worthtess. Invéstiga- tions yesterday resulted in the discovery of over $23,000 in circulation, $11,017 80 of Which had been deposited in the Buil’s Head Bank by the aceused. An examination takes place this afternoon at the Jefferson Market Police Court. ‘The General Term of the Supreme Court yeaterfay rendered decisions in four of the six appeal cases from orders miade at Special Term in the Erie Railway litigation, The appeals were (in three of the suite against the couipany) from or- ders requiring the defendants to show cause ‘way temporary infariotions should not be made per. petual, and the fourth was from the order requiring Dante! Drew to show cause why he should not be permanently removed from ils ‘directorship,, The Appeals were dismissed, The ‘argument on the mo- Gon to dissolve the injunetion ti the suit of Richard Schell vs. The Erie Ratiway Company was resumed Yesterday before Judge Sutherland, at Supreme Court, Special Term, Case not yet concluded. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday Judge Bar- rett rendered judgment in the case of Watson and ¢th- ers v8. Welchman and others, on ® motion to dissolve the injunction restraining defendants, from prevent. ing the holding of the usuai religious an the Churoh of the Redemption, The court led the motion with costa, t tg The cuse of Enright and Alten in the taiged District Court; Brooklyn, occupied the whole of ‘eerday, The testimony taken for the was of @ character showing that certain tohdld alleged to have been made and executed by the de- fondants were fraudulent. The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Car- naghan, will jeave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Liverpool and Glasgow, touching at Lon. donderry to land passengers, Ac. The steamship Crescent City, Captain Hoimes, of the Merchants’ line, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P, M. to-day for New Orleans direct, Our Mexico City correspondende contains some a interesting documents Which show the influences brought to bear in the United States to pro- Care & recognition of Maximilian and his‘empire by the Washington’ government, Among, the parties whom it appears the Mexican agents persuaded into thelr views were the philosopher Greéley‘and another editoriof the Tridine, Mr, Speed, the ex-Attorney General, and. several Washington indies.of apparent inffvence. Our correspondence from: Mazatlan gives ‘a full history, of the war in Sinaloa. ; sebaXs The Virginia State: Convention was:held in Rich- mond yesterday and nominated a State ticket'with Robert E, Withers at the head for Goyernor. Marma- dake Johnson was nominated for Congressman at large. Delegates tothe New York convention were appointed, but no platform was adopted. The steamer Morro Castle, from Havana May 2, arrived at this port yesterday. Her news has been’ anticipated by our special Cuba cable telegrams: The report, that & case of cholera had occurred on, board the, brig; Omoa at Manzanillo was ineorréct. There bad been.no cholera at that port, At Matanzas the sugar market, im: consequence of the favorable ‘London’ news, ‘closed very'firm ‘and ‘active’ at 7 a 173 reals’ for falt tO good’ refiningy ‘Muscovadoes, and 7% teats for Durch "standard No. 12. ‘The tendency is upward. Moldssed, 5 reals for clayed and §X reals Yor, Muscovado; very, scirce,. Freighta, $0 per hogshéad sugar, $2 8734 per box, and $5 15 per 110 gallons molasses. | At ‘Nassau large quantities.of cot- ton had :been received, from Long.Island, Bahamas. ‘Thecrop was good. L . ‘The Missionary Board of the Methodist! Episcopal Church, South, held ‘a meeting in Louisville on Thurs- day. 1h fetatton to the'tnterests of the colored breth- fen it was' reported by the Secretary that a confe- rence of colored people connected ‘with that church had been. formed, which, although operating on the basis of the accepted discipliné of the'chureh, would be entirely distinct from the whites in all its associa. tions. r ‘The Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland closed at, St, Johns on the 20th ult., after a session of thirteen weeks, The wife of the United States Con- Sul at that place died on the 2ist ult. The weather continued cold and stormy. Two hundred and fifty ‘thousand seals have arrived at St. Johns and Harbor Grace. The Canadian House of Commons passed a resolu- tom. yesterday appropriating £1,100,000 sterling for the purpose of building fortifications, I¢'ts anmounced in Ottawa, Canada, that’ the Eng- Ush government tias agreed to fix the tax on Amer- ican vessels ‘fishing in Canadian waters at $2 a ton and dispenge, with the three warnings heretofore given to sach vessels, A'miN in'Delaware county, Pa.,’ was struck by lightning on Thursday night and totally destroyed. ‘Heavy snow Storms prevailed in Boston, Masa., and Augista, Me, yesterday morning. terete Southern Reconstruction=The ‘Initial State of Arkansas, Arkansas has reconstructed herself, go far as the law leaves reconstruction in the hands of the States concerned, and is ready to come in, She has accepted all the terms. She has made & government “republican in form,” which means a government in which all the niggers can vote and many of the white men cannot. She has chosen a Legislature that’ is not only “republican inform,” but radicalin spirit. And thns, sure of the Legislature, sure of the nig- ger, sure of the constitation of the State, the radicals in Congress are solemnly satisfied that Arkansas is all right and that ‘she may come in and ‘participate in the wonderful lawmaking. thatis done at Washington. Being’ satisfied’) and having the majority, the rest, followed, of course. Thad Stevens said it, and who should ‘object?’ Some democrats said no, and Stevens graciously gave them two hours, coupling this with a warning to his radical kenuel to keep ‘out of the discussion altogether, and signiti- cantly intimating that any man who ventured to take up the time of the House on the dis- cussion would be regarded as not quite sound in the radical doctrine. This is a fearful threat just now, when Johnson isso nearly out and Wade is so nearly in, and everybody is so near to'a new ‘shuffle ‘and deal of the cards of Presidential patronage. Arkansas, therefore, is the first Siate-the initial point of the pro- gramme of reodnstruction that the radidale have finally takedup—the State that they be- lieve they have fully prepared atid that they are willing to try. How successfully they have Prepared it is to be seen. Mr. Stevens’ Arkangag bill involves the same Open absurdity in its‘ terms, the same ridicu- lous proposition, that was the main point in the Alabama bill presented and withdrawn some ‘Wecks since. It proposes to admit the State for a reason and on a “fundamental condition.” The reason is that the State has daly ratified the fourteenth amendment; the eondition is that the State shall never change the constita- tion under which it is admitted 80 as to deprive of the suffrage any man now entitled to it— Meaning the nigger, of course. There is, per- bape, no mon not in Congress who does not know how absolutely ridiculous such @ condl- Hon is and cannot sec the flat contradiction in the main pointe of the bill, Congress admits & |} State on a condition, and the moment the State fp admitted the condition ceases to be binding. Before it could possthly come into operation thé condition must become a nullity. How wise to make it! This condition that the superfluous savagery of Stevens insists on {m- ing is in regard to the suffrage. So soon as the State isin itis under the constitution of the United States ; that, fourteenth amend- The steamship San Jacinto, Oaptain Atkins, win | Ment is part of the, constitution, and that leave pier 18 North river at three P. M. for sa- | “mendment expressly leaves the whole busl- Yanuah, Ga. neaa of the regulation of the suffrage to the ‘ W) YORK) HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY soon be in the Union, and-we''hope that her advent will open the way, to the admission of all the unrepresented States''on ‘any terms or conditions whatever. But once in, eomething will, perhaps, be seen in those States that will astonish the radicals. We have no doubt that every Southern State that:votes on the Presi~ dency will go against the republican candidate. Every election shows that’only fraction of the registered vote is cast.. More men: are registered in every State than vote; and in Alabama there were seventy thonsand votes’ legally on the register that were not brought out in the contest for the constitution. This is) so much unused power of: the opposition; for all the votes not cast are against the radicals, Radicalism brings out its entire vote every- where, but the opposition does not use its strength against these constitutions, It waits to get in, sure that the constitutions can be taken care of in the future. Buta struggle that will certainly call out all the powers of the. opposition is that for the Presidency. . In the Presidential canvass it is certain that a’full vote will be thrown; all the opposition will be brought out, all that reserved power that ap+*} pears in the difference between the returns of registered voters and the returns of votes cast will be employed, and the result will be the defeat of the republican candidate in every Southern State. We shall yet see this party of fanatics put down by the combined action of 9 afiited ‘South and ‘# Northern minority. Terrible. Volcanic, Ernption on the Sande wich Islands. Our correspondent ,at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, in his letter of ‘April 8, published in our issue of yesterday, mentioned that the great crater of Kilaueayon) Mauna Loa was in action, and that a terrible volcanic eruption wag expected, By a special telegram from Hono- lulu via San Francisco, received last night, we are informed’ that the volcano was in full action; and that the scene was ‘one of unsurpassed grandeur, The eruption began on the 27th of. March and continued in full force when our despatch was sent (April 15). During twelve days not less than two thousand shocks of earthquake, had taken place; huge mountains and hills, bad been. rent asunder, \ steep precipices had been levelled, and the entire topography ‘of the island changed. ' Streams)of Tava had been thrown, from the crater to a height of one thousand feet, and after falling had descended the mountain, whence they flowed to the sea, driving the waters back and forming a point one mile in length. At the village of, Waischina a shock, of earthquake rent the earth assunder, and a tidal wave over sixty feet in height swept inwards, rising over the tops of the cocoanut trees and carrying death and destruction to persons, animals, and pro- perty.for a quarter of a mile, One hundred per- sons lost their lives, and the ‘destruction of property was large. A river of liquid fire had pushed ont Into the sea at Waischina for three miles, and # voleanio island, conical;in shape, had risen suddenly from the midstof the ocean. Such, in brief, is the substance of ‘the news. Tt is evident that the eruption, which was still actively at work when the despatch left, is the greatest and most tertible one,.of modern days, The rapidity with which the earthquake shocks followed other, the immense: streams of Java hutléd upwards €o s grodtér Helght than ‘was ever known before, the earth torfand rent asunder, and the summits of lofty mountains toppling over and falling to their base, must all have ‘formed a spectacle as magnificent as it must have been terrible. The eruption is un- precedented in the annals of modern history. Since the destruction of Pompeii and Hercula- neum thereyhas not been, as our reports would indicate, so gigantic a convulsion of nature, nor, indeed, anything approximating ‘to the event which has transpired and is perhaps still trans- piring in! ‘the Sandwich Islands.’ ' In 1859 the same volcano was the scene of a fearful erup- toh which Iastod for.dver nine months, but it appears ‘as if the present one exceeds it in magnitude in every respect. The Tax Levy and the Press. Some of the city papers are howling like the Dervishes of India about dur tax levy being so large, and ‘affect great indignation at what they call the “robberies” committed on the pockets of our citizens. The tax levies for the past two or three years, by thelr enormous in- crease, certainly furnish # striking commentary on Hoffman's famous speeches on economy and afford a singular illustration of the cheerfulness and good temper with which dur’ people sub- mit to being plundered. But it is somewhat strange to find the journals that are miking so much fass over the matter prominént among the.‘‘robbers” of whom they complain... The following bills against the city treaduty, | dis- allowed bythe Board of Audit, sre ineladed among the items in the tax bill: — To New York Tribune, for beh oom ‘To New York Worl@ for yi To New York ~ eerkie for, advert ‘To New York Citizen, for advertising. Here they are, the whole pack, /Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart,” radical, copperhead, lobby broker and patriot, all ni away at the city loaf, and all for claims that have been rejected hy the Board of Audit—a) edutt| of equity appointed for the purpose of paying honest Claims and rejecting dishonest ones—+a8 najast/ and without any foundation. hig eo among them who urge the Governor to veto thx levy do 80 because they know. that! &. veto ‘would oblige the departments to borrow foney on interest, would entail costs and expensed of sults against the Corporation, and incretée the plunder to be divided to some thirty’ million dollars. Pretty fellows, these, to howl about a heavy tax levy after adding as muoh a they could to its amount, and a pretty commentary this on their honesty and purity as municipal reformeares ry “Baundrea for the No hs The Uvélydebete.ef) Thuredsy inthe Howes of Representatives, onthe protection of resulted in the tlon as amended Mr. Spalding—“That the. President be'requested® to send a sufficient in the Gulf, of, St. Lawrence. adjacent to the ing Ame: ‘vessels in the exercise’ of their righta.as indicated..in the existing: treaties.” Mr. Pike, in “the course of his remarks, men- tioned the factthat the government of the Dominion of Canada is proposing to impose o tax of four dollars per ton on American fish- ing vessels and-to send vessels of war to enforce that tax.’ ‘He also’ contrasted the'sta- tistics of American, sbipping and commerce with its statistics at former periods, attributing the decay to the high’ tariff on all materials entering into shipbuilding and to high taxea generally. “It costs,” he said, ‘‘two dollars to,build a vessel in American ports, where! it costs but one doller in English ports.’ It oosts one hnAdred'thogsdnd doliars to set a thousand ton’ ship: afloat in: New York and but fifty ‘thotded ollaré, to set her aflost in Liverpool.” ‘And'this he ed ‘fs one reason why, as he expressed it, ‘that in the meridian of our power we were yielding the Control of the sea.” Mr, Chanler opposed the, ‘resolution on the ground that the fishing along the coast of New England Had ceased to, be in the ‘hands of fishermen \alone and’bad fallen into the hands of monopo- liste, who, by. organizing large -eteam vessels, ‘were absorbing the Rahing taterests, ‘That was ihextended. also fo the Gulf of St, Lawrence. /Phis resolution, therefore, ‘he’ regarded ‘as in~ tended to protectsueh fishing: monopolies. He added ‘that another object of fk appaated to be {0 Bive incréasied value to, those emiall fron-clad svessels which the government had ‘been selling ‘Bnd take “it: necesdary | to tepurchase them, ‘Notwhthetandiny thone and other! objeesiens to: the resolution, it passed in ite amended form by vote Of ninety-two\ ta thirty-nine, ; ‘The importance of the Amerivgn’ fisheries on the northeastern )eoast da), squestionable. Ever since the discovery’ of! Newfoundland, at the.end of the fifteenth century, the magnitude and value of the fisheries have been duly esti- di mated. .' Dhe!angry contéests# that began in 1577 | between the French.and the English, about the sovereignty of the:fishing grounds continued, ‘with greatér‘or leds' violence, for upwards 'of » Century, © ‘The ‘pretensions which the French aot up, after the treaty..of Ryawick, in,1697, to sthe}oexclusive ‘ownership! of: the American ‘fisheries,>were among’ thé’ ‘causcs of the war declared by England th 1702... The concedsion to France, by the treaty‘of peabe in 1718; to the very limited privilege of ‘fishing and drys fish in Newfoundland,” ‘occasioned one of the charges against the Earl of Oxford,'s of Queen Anne, impeched . for: bigh treagon in 1717, ‘The rise and growth of’ such. a‘ city as Louisbarg, 'the Dunkirk ofA: "one Tone, desolate isle, in the infancy of American colonization, can be accounted for only by ‘‘the fishing enthusiasm of the period.” Among the motives that led to the colonization of Massa- -chusetts was the hope of profit from the fish- eries on the coast. The controversy that arose in England in 1621, in consequence of a claim by the ‘Council of Plymouth,” company chartered by James I., to the monopoly of fish- ing in the American seus between the fortieth and forty-eighth degrees of north latitude,: was continued into the reign of Charles I, and was one of the causes of the quarrel between him and Parliament which brought on civil. war., The whole history of the fisheries on the’ coast of New England, in the neighborhood of Newfoundland, in’ the bays and inlets of the British maritime posses- slons and on the’ coast of Labrador, is replete with interest. The firmness of John Adams secured the right of the Americans to a share in the fisheries of the northeastern coast. This right was guaranteed by the treaty of peace negotiated at the end of the Revolu- tionary war. It was guaranteed anew by the convention of 1818. The serious troubles that broke out in the summer of 1852 on the fishing grounds of British America between the Ameri- ean fishermen and the British authorities were temporarily settled by mutual conces- sions, and in 1854 the Reciprocity treaty was agreed upon, which ended in 1865. Subse- quently the provinces imposed on American fishing vessels a duty of half a dollar a ton, and the Ottawa government has now proposed to raise this tax to four dollars a ton. A resolution to send a naval squadron for the protection of American fishermen on the northeastern coast certainly “‘involves,” as Mr. Farnsworth suggested in the debate on this subject, “‘the constitution of treaties’ and thight involve the country in war.” It must re- vive the entire question of the fishcries—a ques- tion which was full of difficulties previous to the adoption of the Reciprocity treaty. These difficulties would now be more complicated and aggravated than ever. The Fenians in: this country would eagerly seize the opportunity of manning a fleet of fishing vessels and of ex- pressly provoking collisions that might result in war, «Mr. Pike exclaims, “Wat! Who is afraid of war?” But were his resolution to lead to war it would prove “‘a pretty kettle of fish” for.us and the Fenians, for the New Dominion and for Old England. PRAYING FoR. TAR SENATE,—There is a time for all things; says Solomon ; and a prayer for the Senate would certainly be in order at the rigtt time. But the chaplain of Congress chose neither the right time nor the right place for the ridfcal speech which, under the guise of a prayer for the Senate, he ‘‘spoke” in the House of Representatives after the House had been disgraced for two days in succession by the tnparliamentaty ‘scenes of the Donnelly- Washburne squabble, After the members of the House had encouraged the two ‘‘parties” in that quarrel to bespatter each other with abuse 'fa'the vilest Billingsgate style, and had been duly rewarded by an invitation to go out and take a.drink all round, their reverend chap- lain might well have taken eccasion to offer in their behalf the special’ prayers which they manifestly so much needed. But he preferred to pray for the Senate, or rather, according to his usual practice, to lift up his voice in favor of the impeachment of President Johnson, The chaplain, indeed, is entitled to no vote in Con- can fisheries: in the Gulf of St. Lai = of Mr. Pike’s resolu-" number of vessels of war to the fishing grounds | eitide peawinens, fopithe parpose ob:peciogy | i Jlograph letters. from the: Hi ‘him, finished his work in a concise, clean and Iaasterly style. Once in possession of Magdala ‘he made ‘a complete raeeia, and thus swept the and mortars, numbering over thirty, were im- } gospel: mustard. seed which his’army chaplains ately heir apparent to the throne, was taken,under British protection and forwarded ‘ advance, ‘is to be crowned King, ‘and the de- there is to translate them into the forms of prayer. ° It Is bat just to sey that, in of this chance. Napler’s Work in Abyssinia—The British A series of special cable telegrams, dated in London yesterday, embracing the substance of ‘official despatches from Major, General Napier and the main points of three most in- correspondent attached ‘to his army, report the present conclusion of the British expeditionary work, in Abyssinia,.the complete manner in which it has been accomplished, the means by which'the triumph was ‘effected.and the ‘ad- vance of the lish troops on their return march to the oosst for India and home, The war chronicle includes a most exciting history of the events as they transpired from the 10th to the 21et:of April. ; General Napier, with all his experiences of battle in ‘India’ and its consequences upon ground and made the path easy for the advent of Christian civilization, Theodorus’ great guns defences of the stroughold ‘were’ mined’ and blown-up, the royal palace, ‘public’ buildings and, dwellings,..with the exception of the church, ‘were ‘fired’ and consumed, ‘and within two days there remained not'a single brier or, weed.on the elevated table land of Dalanta to choke’the growth of the grain of may, have,sown around the ruins, The widowed Queen, with her son, Theodorus the younger, to'the Pigre country, and their dynasty, dating: with Solomon, ; declared at an end. Gobazze, the ffienily chief who aided, Napler in his throned son of Theodorus. will be taken to England” to’ be educated. Theodorus’ body was dooently buried. an Abyssinian theology has named the Magdala Plateau Debra Talor, or the “Mount of Change,” and we'think'that the rapid opera~ tions of General -Napier’s troops sustain the, priestly tradition to absolute verification; for more completé local’ transformation or trans. figuration has been rarely witnessed than that produced by them on this historic spot. The special news telegrams to hand ip Lon- don for the Hzraxb prove that the Bri‘ had to fight, and did fight, bravely, for the... ment of their glory as African’ crus... When Napler’s first brigade sightéd Mag.” sl on'Good Friday three thousand five huna?” native warriors responded by exhibiting them- Selves in grand battle array, They cannon- aded the English for a short period, and then, uttering cries of defiance and singing songs of national triumph, dashed down the steep hill in gallant charge on the British batteries. They were received as all the ruder and less disci- plined enemies of an English army, from.Cul- loden and Vinegar Hill to Scinde, Cabool, the Sutlej and Lucknow, have been—coolly, defiantly ‘and with volleys of deadly aim. The Abyssinians, although commanded with judgment and bearing themselves courageously, were repulsed with great slaughter. ‘Acknow- ledging his defeat, Theodorus sought a parley under a flag of truce. He offered to release the captives, but firmly refused to surrender himself, and hence the fortress was ‘‘stormied.” In a fit of maniac desperation he courted death by suicide, and the star of his house was quenched in blood. Our special correspondent winds up his graphic description. by announcing ‘that Napier’s troops had already marv‘ed for An- mesley Bay, his wounded recovering rapidly and most of the sick convalescent. Our Account Current With England in Art and Other Things. We have a pretty heavy account against John Bull in the Alabama claims, which we have been pressing for some time, but which he has not yet settled. We have, too, some other unsettled matters which he has been slow about. In fact, he isa slow customer to deal with in any case where his pocket or pride is concerned. Still, he is not without generous impulses, and will pay up what he owes when convinced of the justness of a debt or cannot avoid payment. If a powerful nation like the United States presses its claims he is disposed to do justice. Hence we think the Alabama and other claims will be settled sooner or later; and now that he is in excellent humor over his Abyssinian victories he may be brought to a prompt settlement. There is reason to think favorably of such a Prospect from the very amicable disposition lately manifested toward whatever is American. There has sprang up recently an entente cor- diale quite remarkable between England and this country in the matter of art and artists. Charles Dickens, the quintessence of a Britisher and the highest type of cockney Bohemianism, came here strongly endorsed by all the Bohe- mians of England. Their recommendations and his admitted talents were respected, and we sent him back with his pockets fall of gteen- backs. After only a few months of reading Dickens, Dolby and Company were enabled to take away with them about four hundred thou- sand dollars. This is our side of the account current, or a part of ft, in the matter of art. On the other side we find that John Ball is in ablaze of glory over our American prime donne. Mile, Vanzini—or, in plain English, Mrs. Van Zandt—has created an extraordinary furor in London at the Royal Italian Opera. She is compared in a flattering manner with Lucca, Patti, Titiens and Nilsson, and, as the London newspapers say, she performed before “splendidly filled houses.” We publish in another column extracts from the London press showing the effect of her singing and act- ing and her extraordinary success. This well merited praise 1a not given grudgingly, which Proves that John Bull is disposed to. recipro- cate our liberal conduct and to balance the ac- count in the matter of native genius or talent. But this is notall, for Miss Kellogg, another American prima donna, has been well received and mach praised by the English newspapers. She was performing at her Majesty's Opera, Drury Lane, at the same time Mrs. Van Zandt was at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Gar- den. Thus America has fairly eclipsed Italy 3 : to Europe the favorite Patti, who is ] 3 84 Z i £ 5 [ that the result will be Johnson’s conviction, it will | carry ‘with it’ his deposition ‘from’ office, On Wednesday, ‘then, ‘Old Ben Wade,” Presi- dent ‘gro tem, of the Senate, daly sworn in, the White Honse or’ at his private ‘lodgings, temporarily awaiting the convenience of the President disposseased. What, then, is the prospect under ‘Old ‘Ben Wade” as President in place of Andrew John- son? Looking at the hard, unbending character of the man, as @ Puritanical, fanatical, rough, remorseless and bigoted old line Ohio’ abo- Utioniat, the republican party in this queer fish ‘will eatoh's "Tartar. They will have escaped Seylla only to be wrecked upon Charybdis. They will be ont’ of the frying pan into the fire. From the antecedents, the record and’ the general reputation of Mr. Wade his political creed embraces @ ‘belief in human equality, civil, political and social, and embracing all races and colors, “excepting Indians not taxed;” a ‘belief in the ‘policy ‘of ’South- ern | negro. supremacy. and» ‘‘a: mild measure of Southern confiscations” to ‘supply the landless loyal blacks with homesteads! and 8 fixed interest in the soil; a belief-in the Propriety ‘and expediency of Hanging Jeff ‘Davis and at least a few of ‘his most con- spicnous associate rebel leaders, in order that treason maybe properly rebuked and justice satisfied; a belief in’ the: radical doctrine that Northern copperheads, are. but Southern rebels in another shape, ‘and that Northern republican ‘ conservatives are only:-a shade or two better than copperheads; a bellef that the virus of Southern slavery stlll poisons the wholestrugture of Southern society and Northern anti-radical politics, and that sharp remedies are needed to expel it ; a 'belief in the beneficence of a gen- eral. division of the lands and wealth of the country on something like a seale of equality among the inhabitants thereof; and, finally, a belief in woman's rights, negroes and» all, as ex>ounded by Miss Lucy Stone and George Francis Train, including the right of suffrage and, the right to hold office and. the right to tu, s] primary elections. " Now, when these general principles form the political character of a man who ranks among the oldest of the old line abolitionists, wé'may say that he is not a man to be trifled with nor one who will stand upon ceremony. . ‘O14 Ben Wade” is, in fact, a sort of Wendell Phillips in the rough. His early training—that of a wood- chopper—was just the thing to make of a Puritan by nature in the backwoods of the'Ohio Western, Reserve—a man who would hew his way through ‘the ranks of his enemies in the remorseless style of Cromwell’s Round- heads. The Ohio woodchopper will, therefore, be apt to proves harder ‘customer to thé re- publican party than the Tennessee tailor. In the gentle and amiable Illinois railsplitter and fiatboatman the radicals were amused with the idea that they hada servant, while he was, in reality, their master. Abraham Lincoln, how- ever, with logical mind trained in the ‘pro- fession of the law, knew how to manage, and apparently without an effort, the adroitest politicians, as Mr. Seward and Mr. Chase can testify, and likewise the Blairs. In ‘‘Old Ben Wade” we will have the raw material of the Ohio woodchopper, whose political education, like that of Johnson, has. been fixed from his fierce encounters with hostile backwoods poli- ticians on the stump. We shall, therefore, be prepared for some extraordinary developments of policy under the administration of Mr. Wade. Of course all the conservative federal officeholders brought within his notice will have to walk the plank. ‘‘Pride’s purge” will be. adminis- tered to them. Doubtless, too, the colored Southern Loyal Leagues will be let loose upon the Ku Klux Klans. We shall also look for a powerful infusion of women and niggers among the office seekers at Washington and a liberal sharing of the spoils among them. But as Mr. Wade is a candidate for the Vice Presidency for the succession on the ticket with General Grant, we do not expect to witness any very startling manifestations of his policy in regard to measures or men till after the Republican Presidential Convention, which, on the 20th inst., will meet at Chicago, Geygrat Borie Rote mw New Or- Leans—Cortovs Reverations.—It will be seen from our Washington correspondence, published in another part of the paper, that some of the extraordinary doings of General Butler and the Butler ring in New Orleans are coming to light. This is not hear- say evidence, but testimony taken in a legal manner, and shows in the strongest light the kind of patriotism which animated the “Joyal” heroes of New Orleans. They fol- lowed in Farragut'’s wake for the goods of the people more than for the good or the glory of the flag. The evidence speaks for iteelf, and we need not enlarge upon it here; but we should like to know why Mr. Stanton ventured to suppress it or keep it concealed in the War Department after Congress had passed 8 resolution calling for the damaging report of James T. Brady and General Baldy Smith. Did Mr. Stanton take upon himself to shield Butler in defiance of the resolution of Congress, or did the radical friends of Butler in Congress privately authorize the Secretary to suppress the report after they had called for it? Time is a great revesler of truth, and we may have by and by all the facts about this matter, Tam AssociaTeD Press in Court.—In another column we publish the decision of Judge Quinn in the case of the World news- paper refusing to pay its share of s HaraLp special cable despatch. The decision is very able and clear in its argument, and takes the common sense view that one newspaper that avails itself of the enterprise of another fe bound at least to pay its proportion of tha gress. snd his only chance for making radical | in opera at the British metropolis, Besides, | exnense aytqudine qch anterncion,