The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD; SUNDAY, MAY. 10; 1868,-TRIPLE, SHEET. ; NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. CALVARY CHURCH.—Prorgstant Episcoray City MISSION SOCIETY. Evening. CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN Davip MITCHELL, Morning and evening, CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APOSTLES.—Rey. Dr. How- LanD and Rey. T. K. CONRAD. Morning and afternoon. CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Rey. AnzotT Brown. Morning and afternoon, CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—REv. Da. FLaca. ‘Morning and afternoon, CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Evening service at four o'clock. CHURCH.—Rev. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS—University.—REV. DR. DEEMS. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE REDEMPTION.—Rrv. Untan Scott, Morning and evening. CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST.—Rev. R. G. QUENNELL. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH.—Rev. Dr. Oscoop. Mm and evening. DODWORTH HALL—Tur First Barrist CuvRcw. REv.T. D. ANDERSON. Morning and afternoon. DOPWORTH HALL—Srreitva.isTs. Mu. CONKLIN, TRaNce MEDIcM, Evening EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—kxy. 8. G.F. KRoreL. Morning and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SrrorrvaLists. Mus. ©. FANNIE ALLYN, Morning and event ig. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East- BURN BENJAMIN, Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Rev. Dk BuRcwaRp. Morning and evening. LEXINGTON AVENUE M. E. CHURCH.—GrneraL PRAYER MEETING. Morning, afternoon and evening. NEW JER'SALEM HOUSE OF WORSHIP.—LrorurE ON “THE RELATION OF SPIRIT TO MATTER.” Evening. STRONG PLACE BAPTIST CHURCH, Brooklyn.—Rrv. ‘WayLanp Hort. Morning and evening. TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rey. HOLMES. Morning and evening. J. SANDFORD TRINITY CHURCH,—Mx. Capy BEFORE THE COLUMBIA CoutecEe Law Scuoon. Evenin UNIVERSITY, Washington Af. ternoon. UPPFR CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—RRv. 8. H. TyN@, D. D. Afternoon, TRI SHEET. New York, Sunday, May 10, 1868. tro re.—BISHOP SNOW. Our Washington correspondent says that both par- ties are busy during the prevailing recess of the High Court in attempts to bolster up their friends on ‘the Impeachment question. Ben Wade is said to be firm in his intention to accept the Presidency ad interim in case of Mr. Johnson’s removal, and to present his claizns as a candidate to the Chicago Convention for a regular term thereafter. This firm- ness or obstinacy is the occasion of much dissension among the convicting Senators, who, for certain reasons, are better pleased with Johnson than they probably would be with Wade as an Executive. The movement in presenting Chief Justice Chase's name as an independent people's candidate in case of the conviction of the President gains ground daily. It is, however, stated confidently that the Chief Justice prefers his present high position to the uncert.inties o # @residential canvass. EUROPE. By special cable telegram from London we learn that Lord Brougham died in France yesterday, aged ninety years. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, May 9 George Francis Train was admitted to bail in the Court of Bankruptcy, Ireland. Fenian law trials and convictions occupied a large share of the public at- tention. John Bright's movement in favor of the Fenian Barrett, sentenced to death in London, was ‘unsuccessful. Consols closed at 94 for money, and 92% ex divi- dend, Five-twenties 70% a 70% in London, and and 75% a 757; in Frankfort. Paris Bourse quiet. Cotton easier and lower. Breadstuffs quiet and provisions dull. By steamship we have mail details of our cable despatches to the 28th of February. The report includes a full account of the great spiritualistic lawsuit in London, in which an aged widow named Lyon sues Professor Home for about sixty thousand pounds sterling, obtained from her ‘when under magnetic influences. The revelations ‘made in court are exceedingly curious, as denoting the progress of the new ritualistic dispensation of raps, table tips, leg touches, knotted handkerchiefs and the talk of dead persons. THE CITY. The alleged heavy confidénce operations of Thomas =. Harvey on the Bull’s Head National Bank were the subject of a judicial examination at the Jefferaon Market Police Court yesterday. Evidence for the Prosecution was taken which went to show that the prisoner had opened an account with the bank and deposited therein checks aggregating over $11,000; s00n after this he offered to draw out $6,020, but suspicion had already been aroused and he was arrested. The checks proved to be utterly worth- less, The case for the people was closed yesterday. Judge Blatchford, in the city District Court in Bankruptcy, yesterday rendered several decisions ‘which will be found in our law report. Judge Blatch- ford also disposed of several cases in which charges Of breaches of the Internal Revenue act were preferred against the goods seized, no parties appearing to elaim them. In the Supreme Court, Special Term, yesterday, Judge Sutherland presiding, the Schell injunction in the Erie case was resumed. Mr. O'Conor during the argument spoke eloquently in vindication of Judge Barnafd’s judicial action throughout the whole of the proceedings. The Allen-Enright trial occupied the attention of the United States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, yesterday, Several witnesses were examined as to the hand. ‘writing of Enright and on other points for the goy- ernment. The case was adjourned until Monday. The stock market was unsettled yesterday. Goy- ernment securities were very strong. Gold closed at 14046 a 140%, | by radical supremacy. American Legion, had been shot by outlaws because he was an American and had served in the liberal cause, One of the late Registers of Election in Louisiana | has filed an aMdavit charging that one of the radical | Recorders elected in New Orleans had not been nata- | ralized until after he was nominated for the office, and that Thomas W. Conway, the radical Superin- tendent of Election, is not a registered citizen of the State, although appearing as such on the ticket. The same aMdavit states that Commissioner Shannon at- tempted to intimidate the afflant from performing his duties as register. In the Methodist General Conference at Chicago yesterday a memorial was presented asking that a resolution of censure adopted in 1836 against two members of the Conference for making abolition speeches be rescinded. Resolutions were offered pro- posing that a strict scriptural rule be incorporated in the laws of the Church against divorces and regula- ting the appointment of choirs. The discussion on the admission of the Southern delegates was then resumed, General Schofield has changed the municipal om- cers of nearly every town in Virginia, filling the posi- tions with his own appointees. Another duel occurred near Baltimore yesterday. It appears to have been an earnest affair, as both principals were wounded at the first fire and were only prevented from having another shot by their seconds, who, however, were unable to adjust the dimeculty, The Indians made an attack near West Cayote, on the Pacific Railroad, Kansas branch, on Friday, burned three car loads of freight and destroyed the telegraph wires. Cavalry was immediately ordered in pursuit, A defalcation to the amount of $100,000 has been discovered from the funds of the Hide and Leather National Bank of Boston. James D. Martin, the cashier, is the accused party, and speculation is sup- posed to have been his besetting sin. General Sheridan is in St. Louis on his way to Washington. The Consequences of the Impeachment. A great deal of speculation is going on all over the country as to the final result of the impeachment trial, and in the pause that inter- venes between the arguments of counsel and the rendering of the verdict people everywhere are filling the time according to their particu- lar inclinations. Some are manufacturing ru- mors to indicate which way this or that Sen- ator has made up his mind to vote; some are joining the outside pressure for or against the President in the hope of influencing the action of the court, and many are making up books and betting on the result, just as they would bet on a horse race or a prize fight. This is natural enough, and certainly the verdict is a matter of importance to Andrew Johnson, Ben Wade and those who are immediately inte- rested in retaining or securing office. But, after all, except from this narrow and personal point of view, it will make little difference in the political future of parties or of the coun- try whether Andrew Johnson be declared “guilty” or “‘not guilty.” On Tuesday next, at noon, one or other of these judgments must be rendered by every Senator in his place, and when the words have once been spoken they cannot be recalled. If the requisite number shall pronounce the Pres- ident “‘guilty” he will be removed in conform- ity with the provision of the constitution, Ben Wade will be inaugurated in his place, Thad Stevens, Ben Butler and the violent radicals will have triumphed and will claim the spoils of victory, and the government will go on as usual for nine or ten months, only that the extreme radical measures hitherto held in abey- ance will become the policy of the administra- tion. If the verdict shall be “‘not guilty” the radical faction will sink back into insignificance, there will still remain in the executive depart- ment a check upon inconsiderate and unconsti- tutional legislation, and Johnson will quietly fill the few remaining months of his term of office and retire at its close to private life. It is of little consequence, then, on any broad and comprehensive grounds, what may become of Andrew Johnson; but, nev- ertheless, whichever way the result may be, the consequences of impeachment will be terrible to the men who have been instrumental in forcing it to anissue. The Jacobins of Congress commenced the war upon the executive department before the President had done an act to warrant the hostility of his party. Long after Thad Stevens, in the House of Representatives, had showered his malig- nant abuse on Andrew Johnson, and declared that he deserved to be brought to the block like Charles the First, the republicans in this and other States endorsed the President's conduct and pledged him their cordial and hearty support in his efforts ‘to relax the bonds of military authority in the Southern States and to restore to their people full and complete control over their local affairs.” In the commencement of assaults upon a co-ordinate branch of the government, in the aggressive steps by which they have gone on, increasing the bitterness of the contest until they have brought about the present crisis, and in the violence, folly and malignancy they have revealed during the trial, the radicals of Congress have put them- selves on record as dangerous revolutionists, have brought disgrace upon the nation and have proved their incapacity to give respecta- bility to a republican government. If they fail now, at the eleventh hour, to fully carry out their plans it will be because the conservative republicans in the Senate, who have stood up for the past three years against their inconsid- erate and reckless legislation and who have opposed their headstrong violence during the progress of the trial, will resolve not only to save the nation from this impeachment humili- ation, but from all the future evils threatened Tf, on the other hand, The amount of business consummated in commer. cial circles yesterday was light, though in some of the markets there was noticeabie considerable ac- tivity. Coffee was quiet. Cotton was dull and Closed 4c. lower. On Change flour was only mod- erately active, but previous prices were well maintained. Wheat opened about 1c. Jower, but subsequently raled firmer under @ brisk demand for export. Corn was sparingly dealt in and declined 2 a 3 cents. Oats were depressed by the heavy receipts and Prices were lower, but the demand was good. Pork ‘was dull and lower. Beef was unchanged, while lard was dull, unsettled and lower. Naval stores— Spirits turpentine was quiet and 2a cents lower, while rosin was dull and unchanged. petroleum ‘was dull and heavy. Freights, though quiet, were firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. Our letter from Mexico City contains interesting comments upon the anarchical condition of affairs in that country, caused by the restless spirit of revo. lution that appears to be its evil genius. The con. spiracy to kill Juarez and his ministers some time ago, although reported as a plan to gain access to the treasury vaults was in reality a political scheme, gotten up for the purpose of a political revolution. ‘Wealthy men in the cities are afraid to venture out Of town at any time, or even in the streets at night, ©n account of kidnappers, and on the highways rob- Detiee Caspr alajost daily, Captain H, Becker, of the | the strong will of radicalism compels the con- | viction and removal of Andrew Johnson, the result will only make the conduct of that faction appear the more atro- cious in the eyes of the people, and the policy of Ben Wade's administration will necessarily sooner or later drive all men of moderate and conservative views into the ranks of the opposition. We repeat, whichever way impeachment may go the result upon the political future of the country will be the same, By the acquit- tal of Johnson, however, the conservatives may make themselves masters of the situation and be enabled to control the nominations for the approaching election. The people are re- solved upon a change in the government, For three years the republican party has yielded little by little to the extreme violence of its radical members, until the country has been brought to the verge of ruin. Taxation has been increased and is every year mounting higher and higher. From fifteen to eighteen hundred millions of dollars have been taken out of the pockets of the people in three years of peace, and yet our debt is larger than ever and the cost of government is nearly as great as during the war. There is no prospect of bettering the condition of the country so long as the same men who have ruled since the suppression of the rebellion continue in power ; for they have shown their incapacity either to restore the rebel States or to properly govern the loyal States. Their laws have spread a military despotism and negro supremacy over one-third of the country. They have given a bonus of one hundred million dollars to the wealthy manufacturers and transferred the burden to the agricultural, commercial and laboring classes. The unconstitutional and abominable income tax is enforced more vindictively than ever, and the only means by which a general crash and ruin can be postponed is by flood- ing the country with another hundred millions of paper money. These are the facts that will present them- selves to the people in the next election and that will turn their votes against the radical republican nominee, whoever he may be. The verdict at the polls will be rendered against corruption, violence and misrule, and the mili- tary reputation of Grant or of any other Gen- eral will be powerless to change the result. It is for the conservative republicans to decide whether they will at once take their position against men whose policy they detest and whose honesty they mistrust, and by acquitting Johnson and nominating Chase for the Presi- dency secure to themselves the future admin- istration of the government, or whether they will lie down under the heels of the radicals and share in their defeat in the next election. Lei them decide at once; for whatever may be the result of impeachment its consequences will be fatal to radical republicanism, whose over- throw will only be the more complete if its three years of misrule should culminate in the deposition of the constitutional President, after a mock trial, and the revolutionary transfer of the government to the hands of a blasphemons and ignorant backwoods politician. The Sandwich Islands—Maunao Eruption. The special telegrams which we published in yesterday's HERALD from Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands, so many thousand miles away, show that the internal disturbances of the earth which recently revealed themselves in the West India islands and so far away in the other direction as at Mount Vesuvius have found another outlet, and that they are now in flame and fury, wasting their strength in those far Eastern seas. It is now becoming more and more apparent that the law of earthquakes, of storms, of volcanic eruptions, of meteors is one and the same. It has long been manifest that earthquakes were traceable to the same cause or causes as volcanoes. It is not so generally believed that storms were similar, if not identical, in their origin with the earth- quake and the volcano. That they are all identical in their origin the HERALD in a recent paper very satisfactorily proved. This fresh eruption calls attention afresh to the subject. Let it be supposed that this eruption which has taken place at Mauna Loa had taken place in mid-ocean, and who could doubt that we should have heard of some terrific storm at sea, attended with extensive loss of both life and property? We have no reason to believe that the surface under the sea differs in any essential particular from the surface above it. The only difference is the difference between water and air. The sub- marine volcanoes do not belch forth fire and smoke, but they may and they unquestionably do belch forth heat—or, if the term is prefer- able, electricity—and lava. In other words, the bottom of the sea is liable to the same dis- placements with that of the surface of the earth. On the surface of the earth volcanic eruptions make and unmake mountains. At the bottom of the sea volcanic eruptions make and unmake what is or is likely to become solid and visible land. It is unquestionably Loa in the internal heat of the earth which, seeking an outlet, blazes forth through some ancient chimney, as that of ‘Vesuvius, or Etna, or Hecla, or Sangay, or Mauna Loa, or the rest which occasions those sudden and fearful storms that baffle the calculations of the wisest. That there is some great internal heat in the body of the planet must be admitted. That this heat seeks an outlet from time to time with greater or less fury is as little to be denied. Where this outlet is to be found is simply a question of resistance. Wherever the resist- ance is weakest there that outlet is certain to be found. If it terminates under the water we shall have violent commotions at sea. If it terminates on the surface of the earth we shall have violent commotions on land. Whether it finds an outlet by sea or by land, whether we have blazing volcanoes, accompanied by earth- quakes, or whether we have violent and un- looked-for commotion of the waters, a serious disturbance of the atmosphere is the neces- sary consequence. Volcanoes, earthquakes, storms, seem at least to point to one source. From causes which it is more difficult to get at this seems to have been a year of unusual disturbance in the bowels of the earth. How this is to be explained we are willing to leave to the philosophers. It leads to an entirely new class of questions. It is true that the inter- nal heat of the earth began to burst forth at St. Thomas and St. John and at Alaska directly it became manifest that they must pass out of the hands of their ancient possessors. It might not be just to call this a protest of nature, although it looks something like it. This tre- mendous outburst of indignation and wrath in the Sandwich Isiands at a time when Mr. Seward had just begun to entertain serious no- tions of another purchase is, it must be admit- ted, ratherominous. It is bad enough to be the object of the envy of the nations; to be the object of the wrath of nature is more than we can endure. The Nicolson Pavemen: The progress of laying this pavement has thus far established its usefulness not only as producing a better road for horse travel, but as an agent in relieving many of our crowded highways and increasing the value of real estate in those localities where it is now in use inthe city. Take Mercer street, for ex- ample—hitherto a very insignificant street, as far as the value of real estate was concerned— and since the Nicolson pavement was adopted a very large percentage has been added to the value of property there, We have examples of this pavement in Nassau and William streets, nd they are entirely in ite favor. In some of the largest Western cities—Chicago, Cincinnati and Cleveland—it has proved a complete suc- cess. It would be to the benefit of real estate owners to favor the Nicolson pavement and consent readily to pay their proportion of the expense. Experience has shown this wherever it has been tried, and we are astonished that | property owners on Fifth avenue have not made arrangements to have it laid there. There was, we believe, some doubt that the | Nicolson pavement could not be successful | because of some apprehension about the oc- casional bursting of the Croton pipes; but this could be easily provided for by taking care in laying down the pavement that neither Croton pipes nor earthquakes could disturbit. Surely, Yankee ingenuity can guard against any dis- | | | | | | CA Singular Revival of the Hebrew Race. Nothing can be more curious than to observe | the periods of elevation and depréssion in dif- ferent races of the human family. These alter- nations are most conspicuous in the progress of the Hebrews, a race so segregated and set apart from the rest of mankind by distinctions of religion, physique and moral attributes that we can never fail to recognize them as a ‘‘pe- culiar people.” - And in regard to this race it is but quite recently they were considered little better than outlaws in all Christian lands. Their teeth were not drawn, indeed, nor were they subject to torture at the discretion of any bold baron in need of gold, as in the earlier days of England’s Norman kings. But the fact was strange to remember while we re- cently saw Benjamin Disraeli, a member of this race, at the head of the British government, that it has been but a very few years since the words ‘‘on the true faith of a Christian” were stricken out of the oath which every member of the English Parliament has to take previous to assuming his seat. Everywhere over the world there seems to be a great revival of the Hebrew nationality going forward ; and though the children of the tribes may not be restored, nor wish to be restored to the physical Jeru- salem in whose walls and beneath whose streets their faith has its roots, there would seem to be very reasonable indication that they will make the power of their new Jerusalem, their power as a distinctive people, an ac- knowledged reality in all civilized countries. Over the financial destinies of Austria, and radiating from Vienna over all Europe, the monetary genius and wonderful combinations | of the Rothschild family have built up a power to which both kings and kaisers have been compelled to pay respect, if not submission. Achille Fould, also of this race, was recently the official organizer of French finance, and in the brothers Pereire had coadjutors of decided ability and of similar faith. But it is here in the United States, and more especially in the city of New York, that the race claiming Abra- ham, Isaac and Jacob as the founders of their ancestral line are making most rapid progress. Here, under our free institutions, they have no prejudices to contend against, nothing to cramp the full development of their intense and peculiar genius. In the rapidly shifting fluctuations of American commerce and finance their singular foresight and prudence, mixed with boldness, give them a natural ascendancy. Their strong clan feeling or brotherhood of race, moreover, is in their favor, and to-day they may be set down not only as the shrewd- est of our daring speculators, but as the largest purchasers of real estate on Manhattan Island. They are thus striking their roots far down among our people and becoming an integral part of our permanent population. Their syna- gogues are becoming comparatively more numerous than our Christian churches, and | their grand synagogue or temple on Fifth avenue—cathedral, as we would call it—far | surpasses in beauty of architectural design any | religious edifice in this city with which we are acquainted. It is a little singular, too, to find that while Benjamin Disraeli has been placed at the head | of one great party in England—the conserva- tive, or tory, party of that country—another member of the same race, in the person of Au- gust Belmont, is at the head of the conservative, or democratic, party here, holding high position as chairman of the National Central Commit- tee. How Mr. Belmont has risen to this posi- tion in the councils of the national democracy we need not now discuss. It was a contest in which his wealth could do nothing for him— was, in fact, a drawback, inasmuch asit excited democratic jealousy; and he labored under the further disadvantage of not being ‘‘native and to the manner born.” Nevertheless, for more than seven years he has sustained himself as the official representative and chief of the reg- ular democratic organization throughout the Union, having first been elected to the National Central Committee at the Charleston-Baltimore Convention of 1860; and having remained at the head of that committee and in control of its operations during the stormy and costly can- vass which resulted nearly four years ago in General McClellan's defeat. Disraeli at the head of the conservatives in England, Belmont at the head of the conservatives in the United States—this, surely, was an odd coincidence, to say the least of it; and yet there are more coincidences of the same kind to be remarked. In the councils of the late Southern con- federacy we saw another member of the Hebrew race—Judah P. Benjamin by name—fight his way up steadily and against enormous combi- nations of opposition to the front rank of that talented but unfortunate government. He, too, became leader of the Southern conservatives, as they were called—the men who supported Jefferson Davis, and who stood opposed to the wilder schemes of such rebel radicals as de- sired to hoist the ‘‘black flag” at the commence- ment of the war, and neither to give nor ac- cept quarter in any battles with the forces of the Union. By sheer force of talent and against a mountain of social and other preju- dice we find Mr. Benjamin, of Louisiana, grasping place after place in the Confederate Cabinet, tintil finally he had made himself the acknowledged master of all other influences in the councils of Mr. Davis, Thus we find that in the persons of Disraeli, Belmont and Bep- jamin three great sub-divisions of the Anglo- Saxon race have seen fit at different times and in different countries to confide the repre- sentation of their conservative interest and opinions—all three being men of Hebrew lin- eage. What is to be the result of this Hebrew revival, who can tell? Disraeli, only recently placed in power, has already been hurled out of office and puffered g defeat so heavy that nothing but his genius and the persistent cour- age for which his race is remarkable can extri- cate his political fortunes. Mr. Benjamin, of Louisiana, was utterly routed in his plans for establishing the confederacy, and is now a fugitive from his native country, practising law in England. Belmont suffered a seri- ous reverse in the McClellan campaign and went heavily to the wall; but whether he is to win or again be beaten in the pending cam- paign against General Grant the future only can determine. This thing is at least certain— that against General Grant every influence of money and votes that can be controlled by the Hebrew race in the United States will be put forth with acrimonious activity; and their power is by no means to be despised. They are thoroughly drilled, number several hun- dred thousand voters, and have the “‘sinews of war” in profuse abundance. They have not forgotten and will never forgive General Grant's order directing all members of the Hebrew race to be forthwith turned outside of army lines during the war, and forbidding any Hebrews, under any circumstances, to enter any camp or post within his control, under penalty of for- feiting whatsoever goods they might bring with them. This was felt at the time by our Hebrew friends to be a direct and uncalled-for attack upon their religious faith; and they are not of the class who lightly forgive such offences. If it had been an order against all sutlers and camp followers they would have submitted without a murmur; but inasmuch as it was specially addressed against men of their faith, and of their faith only, by the offensive name of “Jews,” they claim to have a just cause of quarrel with the General of our armies, which they mean to “‘fight out on this line” until next November. Let Mr. Belmont, therefore, marshal his forces for the approach- ing grand political engagement as fast as he can, forming the general democratic and con- servative elements into ordinary line of battle, while holding in reserve the Hebrew vote, in compact mass and with all its monetary engines of destruction, to be hurled upon the enemy's line at whatever moment and in whatever place his experienced eye may pronounce most opportune. The days of a splendid Hebrew revival are coming rapidly upon us. The News of the .World—Modern provements. The news of the world as laid: before our readers every morning in the Hzrap, com- pared with the age just preceding the intro- duction of the electric telegraph, affords a striking illustration of the progress of ‘“‘modern improvements.” Take, for example, the Herarp of yesterday. In addition to its usual budget of local intelligence on all sorts of subjects, its news from Washington and from all sections of the United States and from her Britannic Majesty’s North American provinces, and from the West India Islands and South America, and in addition to a page of interesting European correspondence and a page on the very remarkable state of things existing in Mexico, we gave two columns of a graphic description of the tremendous volcanic eruption of that king of the earth’s volcanoes, Mauna Loa, of the Sandwich Islands, in. the Pacific Ocean, and a column of the opera- tions of the British army in Abyssinia, beyond the uttermost bounds of ancient Egypt. Thus it will be seen that New York and San Fran- cisco are becoming the focal points of the news of the wide world, as they are becoming the central points of the commercial exchanges of both hemispheres. Nor isthe day far distant when New York will overtop even the imperial cosmopolitan city of London in the traffic of the Atlantic ; and San Francisco, in the trade of the vast Pacific, to China, Japan, Australia and the surrounding islands, will be the popu- lous, magnificent and still expanding empire city of the West. Inapeachment in Wall Street. Wall street is greatly puzzled concerning the result of the impeachment trial and its effects upon stocks, gold and affairs in general. Opin- ions are about equally divided as to the con- viction or the acquittal of the President, and no one feels sure which it will be, although bets are offered and taken in support of the respeciive views of the parties concerned. More-bets are backed out of, however, than are actually made; for no sooner does an indi- vidual find his offer taken up than he imagines the taker has superior information on the subject, and he withdraws, gracefully ifhe can, but anyhow if he cannot, Wall street is full of Bunsbies on the impeachment, question, and it is amusing to hear what they say and con- template the mass of oracular contradictions in which they involve themsélves. Bunsbyism is, indeed, a great fact, to which the bulls and bears on the Stock Exchange and in the gold room can abundantly bear witness. The bears argue that a vote of acquittal will put down both stocks and gold and greatly disappoint their adversaries, the bulls, while the latter argue that an acquittal will not de- press the markets, and that a conviction will be construed as favorable to currency inflation, and therefore tend to impart an upward im- pulse to prices, The probability, however, is that in neither event will the result of the trial work any material change in the course of affairs in Wall street, but by terminating the prevailing suspense it will relieve the public mind and oil the wheels of trade and epecula- tion. It is barely possible that there may be @ temporary flurry in gold upon the announce- ment of the vote of the Senate on Tuesday, but this will soon subside and Wall street will resume its normal condition of unrest and un- certainty. Ime The Hell Gate Report to the War Office. General Newton's report to the War Depart- ment, which we have recently published, sets forth very plainly the practicability of clearing the passage at Hell Gate so as to render that dangerous channel navigable. In July, 1866, it appears, General Newton and his staff of engineers began the duty of examining Hell Gate, and they have come to the conclusion that many of the rocks ¢an be blasted and thus put out of the way, while on many others ships can be protected from danger by the construc- tion of sea walls and stone beacons. In reviewing the various projects suggested by previous engineers the report does not appear to suggest any new plan except the use of nitro-glycerine instead of gunpowder for blast- ing purposes, which is merely alluded to as a matter of economy. There is nothing very new in all these recapitulations of calculations and facte already known, The guestion is | mor whether Congress will grant the appropriation of three hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars asked for, for the purpose of opening Hell Gate, or, failing to do so, is there public spirit enough among our merchants and ship- owners to do it themselves? The general opinion is that it is the duty of the general government to open this water highway, under their authority to regulate highways and post- roads. It may be that the project has been retarded by the attending the several plans referred to in General Newton's report. There are evidently conflicting inte- rests at work upon the influence of Congress. It is a pity the report does not present some project other than merely ‘‘as a basis of calou- lation,” the cheapest being over two millions, which would be cheap enough if the work waa effectively done. The Operatic Excitement im London. The London journals are full of comments on the extraordinary successes of Mile. Van- zini (better known at home as Mrs. Van Zandt) at the Royal Italian Opera, and of Miss Kel- logg at her Majesty's Opera. We published yesterday some of the eulogies bestowed upon the appearance of Mlle. Vanzini in the char- acter of Margherita in M. Gounod’s ‘‘Faust.” The five journals from which our extracts were made seem to concur in the opinion expressed by the/London Star, that ‘‘perhaps, on the whole, Mlle. Vanzini gives us a Margaret which is more like that of Goethe’s drama than almost any of her predecessors. It is simple, sweet, tremulous, pathetic.” On the other hand, copious extracts might be given from London journals endorsing the opinion of the London Review, that in the character of Gilda, in ‘‘Rigoletto,” Miss Kellogg, by ‘“‘the genial and natural charm of manner which distin- guished her earlier scenes with her father and her gurreptitious and anonymous lover, the Duke, contrasted with the intense pathos and deep agony of the subsequent scenes of ruined hopes and blighted love,” proved herself ‘‘to be an artist whose versatility renders her equally efficient in the delineation of refined geniality and elegant grace as of genuine pathos and tragic emotion.” Indeed, the furor which both Miss Kellogg and Mile. Vanzini—formerly Mrs. Van Zandt— have created in London bids fair to occasion an operatic war that will minister as fierce delight to the Bohemian oyster house critics there as our own recent operatic war minis- tered to their brethren here. Americans can- not but exult in the fact that the two artists about whom the London press is so greatly excited are both American prime donne. The time seems to have arrived when America is beginning to repay with full inte- rest whatever debt it may owe to Europe for the Malibrans, the Grisis, the Jenny Linds and the other vocal celebrities whom we have heretofore welcomed and enriched. Our Pattis and Vanzinis and Kelloggs are now heartily appreciated abroad. Another encouraging fact is the extreme pleasure manifested by European audiences at hearing from American singers what the critics admiringly call “bright, clear voices”—‘‘voices clear, resonant and agreeable.” They vie with each other in praising ‘‘the quality and tone” of these fresh American voices. And there is, happily, no lack of such voices on’ this side of the Atlan- tic. Something electrical in our very atmos- phére is favorable to their production. Not a few of these voices, destined, we believe, to surpass even those which the English and the continental press have lately united in applaud- ing, are now in the course of thorough train- ing in the best European schools of music. And we hazard little in predicting that ere long the foreign triumphs of Miss Kellogg, Mile. Vanzini, and even Mlle. Patti, may be transcended. Europe will be amply justified in its newborn enthusiasm for American singers. But we must not forget that the success of operatic singers, and that of actors and actresses, depends not solely on their own gifts and accomplishments—on ‘bright, clear voices” or on superior dramatic talent. The unprecedented triumphs of Ristori in America are largely due not only to the unrivalled genius of that great tragédienne, but also to the rare tact and indomitable energy of Man- ager Grau. And none will deny that the in- imitable chic of la Grande Duchesse Tostée has been most efficiently seconded in bewitch- ing the public, not only by Offenbach’s music, but also by the irrepressibility of Manager Bateman, who bearded even Duncan in his den, An excellent manager can almost work miracles, provided always that he exercise such exceptional judgment in selecting his materials as has been evinced by the managers whom we have named. We trust that our American prime donne who are ambitious of winning renown in Europe may never suffer for lack of efficient managerial aid. YACHTING, Movements of the Clyde Fleet. [From Bei!’s Life in London, April 25.} Considerabie activity is at present going on at Gourock Bay, where a number of yachts have been already prepared for the season’s work. The yacht Pilgrim, lately sold to an Irish gentieman, is getting: rapidly ready, and will shortly leave for Lough Swilly. Mr. Kennedy's St. Kilda was out on a cruise on Saturday last, and Mr. King's Denburn and Mr. Coilin’s Coolin are expected to start to-day. Mr. Lockett’s Snake is in a forward state, and Mr. Powell's Aglaia {tying in Steei’s slip, Greenock) is ex- ected at Gourock in a few days to compicte her At Rosencath the Oimara, Persis, Fiery Cross and L a are all about ready for cruising. Mr. Thom's schooner Aurora, Mr. Reid's cutter Adeline and the yawl Red Deer have commenced to fit out for the season, THE ABYSSINIAN NEWS. {From the New York Ledger.) “Who reads an American book!’ was fygnieriy asked, in a sneering way, by the English “press. Now, not only do the Engtish demand immense editions of American books, but, on a recent occa- sion, the English government and the London apers were indebted t mericao journal—the Fideato—tfor their first ‘aphic inteliigence of very important movemen: their own army in Abyssinia, Such enterprise in an American paper does credit to America. iitting. ALLEGED FRLONIOCS ASSAULT.—James Thompson ‘was arrested last evening by an officer of the Twenty- seventh precinct, on complaint of Ann Hayne, who charges said Thompson asabore in having pointed ‘@ pistol at herand threatening to discharge the eame. Complainant’s husband {fs the owner of a canal boat now lying alongside the bulkhead at pier No. 4 North river, and complainant states that Thompson came on board such boat, where ae then w: yesterday evening, and made inqui ry in an exci and uncivil manner for his boat, wherenpon he was informed it Was not there and regroved by complain: it for his bearing, upon which he drew the pistot \d pointed the same at her, tated, Upon his as a it L dd in his ion Avi aga ee Wa