The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1868, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT,” PROPRIETOR, Pery) sessed NG. 180 SSS AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ’ FRENCH THEATRE.—Rious D'AMOUR. Matinee at 1— Son TeneEss. tos Pham cid Broadway.—Tas Wars Pawy- WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th sireet.— MASKS AND Faces. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Quasimop0—BivUE- exIN. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Conmiz Soocau. Matinee at 1}5. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Panis AND HELEN. Matinee at. Peta THEATRE, Broad —Homrry Domrrr. ™ ae E, Broadway. IRVING HALL.—Biinp Tom’s Concert. Matineoat 2. an WAT, HALL.—Mz. CHARLES EyTINGE’s READ. SW hermes HERALD, SATURDAY, Pear h 9, 1868, oS ee UR. SHEET. eee cat Wiaen one Steady yesterday. Government securities were 19%, Islands. report the occurrence of one of the most makes, Howall, in the district of Kona, and the volcano 18 | called Mauna Loa, ‘The earthquakes at times were | 80 Violent that noone could stand up; immense preciplces were levelled to the earth and a dal wave from the sea swept over the tops of the tall. cocoa. hut tress, Five villages suffered from the visitation, eighty persops being known 10 have been killed. ‘The mountain, while in eruption, vomited forth deep ‘Streams of lava, which pushed far out into the ‘sea, @riving the waters back, and agitating them as by § storm. A huge island was thus thrown up and the huge streams of smoke issuing fromthe crater of the volcano enveloped the surrounding, sountry in par. tlal darkness. We have telegraphic ‘advices’ from Hayti, Bt. ‘Thomas, Cubs, other West India Islands and Vene- guela, Salnave’s adherents are reported to be im’ pos- session of Fort Liberté and Gouaives, in Haytl, where they were throwing up) entrenchments, Fi- nanclal matters were growing worse, The Shaumut, De Soto and Saco were in port at St. Thomas on the 2d inst. The Spanish man-of-war which was watch- ing the Ali¢é Ball hadorders to take her or'sink her, THEATRE COMFQUE, 514 Broadwar. —Bauurr, Fanon, 20. Matinee at KELLY 4 LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SO"Gs, Eooxnrarorrirs, de.—GRaND DOTOH “8." Matinee at 2. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! LS, 585 Broadway.—Eruto PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, 4G |. | PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Mt Bowery. Couto. Voostisu, NEGHO MINSTRELSY, Ao. Matinee wt 934. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 284 st, and 4th av.—EXHLUITION OF PLOTURRS, 40. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— UNDER THE GasuicHt, EUROPEAN CIRCUS, Broadway and 34th atreet,-FQur- ‘TRAN PERFORMANCE, " Living ANIMALS, &C, Matinee. mooears OPERA HOUSE. | Brooklyn.EtHlOPiAx MINGTEELSEY—PANOBAMA, AO. Matinee at 2)4. HALL, nC and 956 Broadway.—PaNoRaMa OF THE Wan. Matinee ‘at 2. NEW SOR uv ‘sain OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRI PLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, May 9, 1868. THR 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 sessiou 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, Adently counted on as favoring acquittal. CONGRESS. ‘The Senate was not in session yesterday, having |’ adjourned antil Monday. Inthe House Mr. Stevens, from the Reconstruction Committee, reported back the bill to admit Arkansas 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 the Whole in order that Mr. Cook, of Illinois, might make a Speech; but @ motion to adjourn was made by the democrats. The yeas and nays showed ho quorum Present, the democrats not voting, The Speaker sald that by the rules all members must vote; but on another telling the democrats’ again failed to’ vote, The Speaker then said he had no power to efiforce his ruling, and the motion to adjourn was with- drawn, and Mr. Cook made his speech. The House then adjourned until Monday. EUROPE. By #pectal cable telegrams dated in London yester- day we have most inte: reports of General Napier's operations. in Abyt subsequent to the capture of Magdala, with @ very exciting special re- port of the great battle which preceded that event. ‘The British were ou the retura:march to the coast. ‘The news report by the cable isdated yesterday evening, May 8. ‘Spec. was again flowing to Paris. George Francis ‘Train appeared again in the Bankrupt’ Court of Ire- land. Mr, Train was visited by some celebrated Fenians, Consols, % for money and 92.0 92%) ex dividend. Five-twenties, 705; «70% in London and 75% in Frankfort. ‘ Paris Bourse steady. Cotton heavy at a decline of x. Breadstums quiet. Provisions dull. : Our spetial correspdnaents in’ Europe ‘furnish im. | portant details of our cable despatches to the 2th of | A Joseph Krumitzki shot his wife, yesterday after. noon at his house, No./121" Willett street, and then shot himself, His wite stir ives, a hee instantly, and an inquest wad; held upon bis body yesterday, It yhie'wife:-had been too Ih timate with a young man, Divonock, ahd had thus incensed the deceased aad ‘his, terpibie.crtine ‘was the conseqnence. A man named Jon Seid, yas. at | in Brooklyn yesterday for having shot his ;wite,, dentally, as it was at first supposed.': The Gecu took place on Saturday night, agd,strange rimors Devan spreading among the neighbors,omhenting Which the officers ‘were ordered ‘to’ attest Brehnah, Mrs. Brennan 1s seriously injured and ‘upable to | make & statement of the affair, An alleged swindler named Thomas J. Hatvey was arrested on Thursday night and brought ‘before Jus- tuce Dodge yesterday charged with passing numerous checks that are claimed 16 be worthless. Invéstiga- tions yesterday resulted in the discovery of over $23,000 in circulation, $11,017 80.6f which had been deposited in the Bull's Head Bank by the acougea. An examination takes place this afternoon at the Jefferson Market Police Court. ‘The General Term of the Supreme Court yesterday rendered decigions in four of the six appeal cases from orders made at Special Term in the Eric Ratlway litigation, The appeals were (in three of the suite against the conipany) from or- ders requiring the defendants to show cause way temporary tnfadotfons should not be made per- Petual, and the fourth was from the order requiring Danie! Drew to show cause why he should not be permanently removed from tls‘ directorship., The appeals Were dismissed. ‘The argument on the mo- tion to dissolve the injunetion tm ¢he suit of Richard Schell vs, The Erte Ratiway Cotmpany was resumed Yesterday before Judge Sutherland, at Supreme Court, Special Term. Case not yet concluded. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday Judge Bar- Tett rendered judgment in the casé of Wataon and ¢th- ers vs. Welchman and others, on # motion to dissdlve the injunction restraining defendants, froma prevent ing the holding of the usual religious An the Churoh of the Redemption, The court ~ fhe motion with costs. The case of Enright apd Alien in the Unspods District Court, Brooklyn, occupied the whole of ‘terday, The testimony taken for the was of 9 character showing that certain bohddl alleged. to have been made and executed by the de! fondants were fraudulent. ‘The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Car- nagtan, will jeave pier 20 North river at twelve M. to-day for Liverpool and Glasgow, touching at Lon- donderry to land passengers, &c. The steamship Crescent City, Captain Hoimes, of the Merchanfs’ line, will leave pier No. 12 North river at three P, M. to-<lay for New Orleans direct, The steamship San Jacinto, Oaptain Atkins, will leave pier 19 North river at three P, M. to-day for Sa- vanuah, Ga. | thatis done at Washington. but the vessel had escaped, The cise of the Amert- 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 Nenvitasifor three years through the, neglect of the ‘authorities, had’ become’ crazy.’ In ‘Venezuela the evolution was increasing. The ministry had re- aligned. A Danish man+of-war at La \Guayra had ‘mades demand for redress for damages to Danish cltizens, Our Mextco City correspondence ' contains some rather interesting documents, which show the influences brought to bear in the United States to pro- Cure @ recognition of Maximilian and his'empire by the’ Washington government, Among, the parties whom it appears the Mexican agents persuaded into their views were the philosopher Greeley and another editorjof the Tribune, Mr, Speed, the ex-Attarney General, and several Washington indies of apparent influence. Our correspondence from: Mazatlan gives ‘a full history, of the war in Sihaloa., ~~ ‘The Virginia State. Convention was:heldin Rich. mond yesterday and nominated a State tip, swith Robert E, Withers at the head for Goyernor. ‘a= duke 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 a case of cholera had occurred ‘on board the, brig Omoa at Manzanillo was incorrect. There had been no cholera at that port, At Matanzas the sugar market, in, consequence of. the favorable London’ hews, closed very firm and active’ at’? a 7% reals’ for fair to good Tefining “Muscovadoes, and ‘7% reals for Dutch ‘standard No. 12, ‘The tehdency, is upward. Molasses, 6 reals for Glayed and 5X reals Yor Muscovado; very scarce... Freights, $0 per hogshead sugar, $2 8134 per box, and $5 75 per 110 gallons molasses. At ‘Nassau large quantities\of cot- ton had been received, from Longiisiand, Bahamas. ‘Thecrop was good. The Missionary Board of the Methodist’ Episcopal Church, South, held'a méeting in Lonisvilie on Thurs- day. 1D relation to the interests of the colored breth- ren it was' reported ‘by the Secre! that a confe- rence of colored people connected | 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 Sesoplty tions. ‘The Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland obs 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, It'ts announced in Ottawa, Canada, that the Eng- Msh government tias agreed to fix the tax on Amer- ican vessels ‘fishing in Canadlan waters at $2 a ton and dispense, with the three warnings heretofore given to.sach vessels, A’milt in'Delaware county, Pa., was struck by lightning on Thursday night and totally destroyed. ‘Heavy snow storms prevailéd in Boston, Mass., and Augusta, Me, yesterday morning, homer Southern Reconstruction=The | Initial State c of Arkansas, Arkensas has reconstructed herself, so far a8 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 in form,” but radicalin spirit. And thus, sure of the Legislature, sure of the nig- ger, sure of the constitution 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 Being. satisfied and haying 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 watning to his radical kenuel to keep ‘otit 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 radital doctrine. This is s fearful threat just now, ‘when, Johnson fa 80 nearly out and Wade is.4o nearly in, and everybody is so near to's, ‘shuffle‘and desl of the cards of Presi patronage. . Arkansas, therefore, is the first Stgte-the inftial point of the pro- gramme of: reodnstriction’ that | the’ radidals have finally takedup—the State that they be- lieve they Wave'fully prepared atid ‘that they are willing to try, How duccessfully 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 ‘weeks since, It proposes to admit the State for a reason and on “fundamental comlition.” The reason is that the State has daly. ratified the fourteenth amendment; the gonditidn be that the State shall never change ‘the oo: tion under which it is admitted so as to of the suffrage any man’ now) entitled 'to it— Meaning the nigger, of coursé. There fs, oe haps, no man not fn Congress who does not know how absolutely ridiculous such @ condi- Hon is and cannot seo the flat contradiction in the main points of the bill, Congress admits & State on a condition, and the moment the 8 fe admitted the condition ceases to be binding. Before it could posstbly come into operation the condition must become a nullity, How wise to make it! This condition that the superfluous savagery of Stevens insists on ini- posing isin regard to the suffrage. So soon as the State isin it is under the constitation of the United States; that, fourteenth amend- ment is part of the, constitution, and that Smendment expressly ‘leaves the whole bual- “ness of the requlation of the suffrage to the ‘ that they shall not avail themselves of its terms and shall leave the suffrage absolutely as it 1s. Could visionary nonsense touch a wilder extreme? In the case of, the reasons that prevented the admission of Alal:ama do not exist. Arkansas hasa radical Legislature and is in radical hands altogether, and though the general in command out theré'will not admit that the election is valid, that matiers but little to the party in, power,‘ Arkansas will 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, something 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 ofthe opposition; for all the votes not cast are agninst 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. . But a struggle that will certainly callout 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 hefween the returns of registered voters and the retarns 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 a uffited ‘South ‘andy Northern minority. Terrible. Volcanic,,Exnption on the Sands wich Islands. Our correspondent at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, in his letter df “Aprit 8, published in our issue of yesterday, mentioned that the great crater of Kilayeayon; Mauna Loa was in action, and that a tertible 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, had been. rent asunder, steep precipices had been levelled, and the entire topography ‘of the island changed. ' Streams of lava 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 trées and carrying death and, destruction to persons, animals and pro- perty.for a quarter of a mile, Ono 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, It is evident that the eruption, which was still actively at work when the despatch left, is the greatest and most terrible one. of modern days, The rapidity with which the earthquake shocks followed each other, the immense: streams of Java hurled upwards to greater height 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 Herculs- neum there.bas 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- tion which lasted for over nine months, but it appears as if the present one exceeds it in magnitude in every Teapect. The Tax Levy and ‘the Presa. 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 a striking commentary on Hoffman's famous speeches on economy and afford » singular illustration of the cheerfulness and good temper with which our’ people sub- mit to being plundered. But it is somewhat strange to find the journals that are, mking so much fass over the matter prominéit’ among the;‘‘robbers” of whom they complain. The following bills against the city treagury,, dis- allowed by'the Board of Audit, sre ineladed among the items in the tax bill: — To New York Tribune, for adverttst pS New poo World, for inverting New York Oontmercial Aavert Vertisimg. .. 66... cece ‘To New York for To New York teh, for advert To New York Citizen, for advertising,” 407,120 Here they ate the whole " paoky ‘Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart,” radical, copperhead, lobby broker and patriot, all nibbling ‘away at the city loaf, and nll for claims that have been rejected by the Board of Audit—a cddtt of equity appointed for the purpose of. honest claims and rejecting dishonest ones—+ae najast) and without any foundation. |) Those among them who urge the Governor to woto thie thx levy do so because they know. that) @ veto would oblige the departments to borrow ftoney on interest, would entail costs and expense? of sults against the Corporation, and incretige the plunder to be divided to some thirty’ million dollars, Pretty fellows, these, to howl about a heavy tax levy after adding as much aé they could to its amount, and a pretty commentary this on their honesty and purity os municipal refarmere i ean The lively 'debete;ef) Thursday in'the House of Representatives, on the protection of can fisheries: in the Gulf of St. Lar resulted in the passage of Mr. Pike's resolu- tlon as amended ‘by Mr. Spalding—“That the. President be’ requested’ to send a sufficient number of vessels of war to the fishing grounds in the Gulf. of St, Lawrence. adjacent, to the British provinces, :for the purpose of protect- ing Ameri¢an vessels in the exercise of their rights 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 6 tax of four dollarg per top 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 ita 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 costs one hnfidréd thousand dollars to set a thousand ton’ ship afloat) in New York and but fifty ‘thougeda, dottard to set her afloat in Liverpool.” ‘And this he assigned as one reason why, as he expreased it, ‘‘thatin 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 ‘Bad’ ceased tb, be In the ‘bands of fishermen ‘alone and@’had fallen’into the hands of monopo- lista, who, by organiging | Jarge .etoam vessels, Were absorbing the fishing interests, “That was ‘the oase, he: declared, araund ‘Cspe Cod, and itextended. also to the Guif of St, Lawrence, Ym Sky iy therefore, ‘he’ regarded ‘as in- to:protectisueh fishing monopolies. He added that another objéct.of f appeated to be togive incréased value to those emall iron-clad svessels which the government had. heen selling Abd lake “It hecesiaty | to Fepiitchase, them, Notwithstandi these: and other! objections to the resolution, a-yOte Of ninety-two. to thirty-nige, ’| The importance of the American fisheries on’ the northeastern coast is, unquestionable, Ever since the discovery of Newfoundland, at the end of the fifteenth century, the magnitude and value of the fisheries have been duly esti- mated. | The'angry contésts that began in 1577 | between the French.and the, English, about the sovereignty of the fishing grounds continued, ‘with greatér‘or less'violence, for upwards of » century. ‘The pretensions which the French Gok up,, after the treaty..of Ryawick, in, 1697, to sthe},exclusive ‘:ownership!\of «the American fisheries,’were among’ the ‘causes of the war declared by England th 1702. The comcedsion to France, by the treaty'of penbe in 1718, to the very limited privilege of ‘fishing and dey ing fish in Newfoundland,” occasioned, one of the charges against the Earl of Oxford, «minister of Queen Anne, impeached . for.-bigh treason in 1717. ‘The rise and'growth, of such a’ city as Louisburg, ‘the Dunkirk of Amrerion,” ona lone, desolate isle, in the infaney 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,”'a company chartered by James I., to the monopoly of fish- ing in the American seas between the fortieth and forty-eighth degrees of north latitude, was continued into the reign of Charles 1., 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 Reyolu- 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- can 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 SENATR,—There is a time for all thing#; says Solomon ;‘ and a prayer for the Senate would certainly be in order at the right timé. ' But the chaplain of Congress chose neither the right time nor the right place for the riidfcal 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 tinparlinmentaty ‘scenes of the Donnelly- Washburne squabble. After the members of ithe House had encouraged the two ‘‘parties” in that quarrel to bespatter each other with abuse 'fn'the vilest Billingsgate style, arid had been @uly rewarded by ap Invitation to go out and take a.drink all round, their reverend chap- Jain might well have taken eecasion to offer in their behalf the special’ prayers which they thanifestly 80 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- gress. snd his only chance for making radical passed in ite amended form by’ er there is to translate them into the forms of prayer. It is but just to say that, in ‘seated and ont of season, he makes the most of this chance. Napler’s Work im Abyssinia—The British » Aemyon the Retare March. 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- teresting telegraph letters from the: HeraLp correspondent attached to his army, report the present conclusion of the British expeditionary work in Abyssinig,.the complete manner in which it hae been:accomplished, the means by which the triumph was ‘effected.and the ad- vance of the English troops on their return march to the ooast for India and home, The war chronicle includes a most exciting history of the events as they transpired from the 10th to the 21st-of April. General Napier, with all bis experiences of battle in ‘India and its consequences upon ‘him, finished his work in a concise, clean and tTasterly style. Once in possession of Magdala he made a complete razzia, and thus swept the ground and made the path easy for the advent of Christian ‘civilization. Theodorns’ great guns and mortars, numbering over thirty, were im- mediately destroyed, the | gates, “walls end outer defences of the stronghold 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's single brier or weed.on the elevated table land of Dalanta to choke the growth of the grain of (gospel mustard seed which his ‘army chaplains may baye,sown around the ruins, The widowed Queen, with her son, Theodorus the younger, ‘lately -heir apparent to the throne, was ‘taken,under British protection and forwarded to'the Tigre country, and their dynasty, dating ‘with Solomon, ; declared at an end. Gobazze, Mie “fienAly chfef who aided, Napler in his ' advance, ‘is to be crowned King,’ and the de+ throned son of ‘Theodorus. will be taken to England” to’ be educated. muenAaE DS, body was decently’ buried, Abyssinian theology has namod 3 Magdala plateau Debra \Talor, (or the ‘Mount of Ohange,” 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 HeraxD prove that the Bri’ “had to fight, and. did fight, bravely, for the.» I. - ment of their glory as African crus. When Napler’s firat brigade sightéd Magdals | on'Good Friday three thousand ‘five hund: 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 ‘‘stormed.” In a fit of maniac desperation he courted death by siicide, 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 marc’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 sprung 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 full 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. Me, 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 colamn extracts from the London Press showing the effect of her singing and act- ing and her extraordinary success. This well merited praise 1énot 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 telent. But this is:notall, for Miss. Kellogg, another American prima donna, has been well received and much praised by the English newspapers. She was performing at her Majesty's Opera, Drury Lane, at the same time Mre. Van Zandt was at the Royal Itallan Opera, Covemt Gar- den. Thus America has fairly eclipsed Italy in opera at the British metropolis, Besides. we sent to Europe the favorite Patti, who is greatly admired everywhere. We shall be ablé, t00, to send over, other artists ‘of bigh order from time to time to supply the Euro- ere orien de English in good umor. “Old Ben Wade” as President. Bets are freely’ offered in Wall street, and not very freely taken, that the Senate will yote the expulsion of Andrew. Johnson from the White House. The Hon. Ben Butler's prodic- tion is upon record that “Old Ben Wade” will, be in full flower with the apple blossoms. On Tuesday next the Senate will vote on the articles of impeachment, and, that the result will be Johnson’s conviction, it wilt carry with it his deposition from’ office. On Wednesday, then, ‘Old Ben Wade,” Presi- dent pro tem. of the Senate, daly sworn in, will formally assume the functions of President ad snierim of the United States, whether in the White House or at his private ‘lodgings, temporarily awaiting the convenience of the President dispossessed. 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 8 Puritanical, fanatical, rough, remorseless and bigoted old line Ohio abo- Uitionist, the republican party in this queer fish will eatch'a "Tartar. They will have escaped Seylla only to be wrecked upon Charybdis. They will be out of the frying pan into the fire. From the antecedents,’ the record and the general reputation of Mr. Wade his political creed embraces a ‘belief in human equality, civil, political and social, and embracing all races and colors, “excepting Indians not taxed;” ‘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 ® fixed interest in the soil; a belief in the propriety ‘and expediency of hanging Jeff Davis and at least a few of hig’ most con- spicnous associate rebel Jeaders, in order that treason may be properly rebuked and justice satisfied; @ 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 belief that the virus of Southern slavery sttil polsons the whole strugture of Southern society and Northern enti-radical politics, and that sharp remedies are needed to expelit ; ‘a belief in the beneficence of a gen- eral. division of the lands and wealth of the country on something like a scale 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 to.., 4d 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 trified with nor one who will stand upon ceremony. . “Old 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 prove'a harder customer to thé re- publican party than the Tennessee tailor, In the gentle and amiable Illinois railsplitter and flatboatman the radicals were amused with the idea that they hada servant, while he was, in reality, their master. Abraham Lincoln, how- ever, with a logical mind trained in the ‘pro- fession of the law, knew how to manage, and spparently 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 Klang, We shall also look for o 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 Repablican Presidential Convention, which, on the 20th inst., will meet at Chicago, Generac Borizr's Rute in New Or- igans—Cortovs Reveratioxs.—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 “loyal” 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 itself, 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 @ great revealer of truth, and we may have by and by all the facts about this matter, Tam Assootate> Press ix Covrt.—In another colamn we publish the decision of Judge Quinn in the case of the World news- paper refusing to pay its share of a Heratp 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 te bound at least to pay its proportion of tha expense aYgudine woh enternrian,