The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1868, Page 8

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Mr. Gladstone submitted to Parliament a bill for ‘the restraining of the Crown in ecclesiastical tempo- ral matters in Ireland. The operations of the Church Inquiry Commission, under Earl Stanhope, in Ire- land are to be suspended under the bill. Queen Vic- toria laid the first stone of the new St. Thomas’ Hospital, in London, in the presence of a “muiti- tude” of people. The corporation of London pre- sented an address of sympathy with the Queen in the Prince Alfred assassination case. Lord Brougham was buried at Cannes, The Austrian Parliament passed, in one branch, a bill for trial by jury. The ‘weather reports are favorable for harvest prospecte. Consols, 94%, money; 92% @ 93, account. Five- twenties, 70% a 70%) in London, and 75% in Frank- fort, Paris Bourse quiet. Cotton quict, with middling uplands at 117%d. a 12d. Breadstuffs lower. Provisions and produce ‘without marked change. By steamship we have a mail report, in detail of our cable despatches, to Yhe 2d of May, one day later. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Davis gave notice of intention to present a bill at an early day for the ad- mission of Arizona and Montana. The resignation of Secretary Forney was presented and laid on the table. Mr. Hendricks moved that it be accepted; Dut objection was made and the resolution went over. Mr. Wilson offered a joint resolution for the readmission of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana to representation, which was ordered to be printed. The House bill for the admission of Arkansas was called up. Some debate ensued, and the bill was finally referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate then adjourned ‘until Saturday at half-past eleven o'clock. In the House Mr. Schenck made @ statement in reference to the reported arrest of Collector Bailey, of the Fourth Revenue district of New York city, siating that the Committee on Ways and Means Anew nothing as to the merits of the complaint against Mr. Bailey, and certainly had no detectives in dis employ. The dill authorizing the White- hall and Plattsburg Railroad of New York to construct its road over United States lands at Plattsburg was passed. The bill to admit North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, was then taken up, Mr. Stevens offer- Ang an additional section in reference to debts due loyal citizens of Georgia, providing for a modifica- tion of one section of the constitution of that State. Some discussion ensued on the right of Congress to amend the constitution of a State, and pending de- bate the House adjourned. THE CITY. ‘The American Anti-Slavery Society yesterday cele- Drated its thirty-fifth anniversary at Steinway Hall. A small audience assembied to witness the exer ises, interest being manifested principally in the allusions made to the impeachment of the President. Wendell Phillips delivered two ad- dresses in the morning, im which he refer- red to Fessenden, Trambull and Andrew John- fon in terms of sarcastic irony, which vigorously ex- pressed his view of the case. Speeches were sito made by William Wells Brown, Mary Grew, Charles G. Burleigh and others. An evening session was also held. The National Temperance Society cele- brated ita second anniversary last might at Cooper Institute, in the presence of a small audience. Ad- Gresses were made by Neal Dow, Rev. J. B. Duno and others. ‘he forty-thira iversary of the American Tract Society was held in the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church yesterday. The annual reports ‘were presented. Among the anniversaries to-day, ‘the Congregational Union wiil be heid at the Brookiyn Academy at haif-past seven this evening, when Sen- ator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, will preside, and addresses will be made by Rev. 8. H. Tyng, Jr., and others. ‘The American Equal Rights Associa tion will hold their anniversary at Cooper Institute in the morning, When, probably, Wenden phitiips and numerous strong minded female celevrities will ‘ventilate their political opinions, * The Columbia College Law School heid ite ninth annual commencement at the Academy of Musi last night, when the degree of Bachelor of Law was conferred upon about sixty gentlemen. One of the ablest scientific lectures of the season | ‘was delivered last night before the American Ethno- logical Society by John Russell Bartlett, of Rhode Jaland, in the hall of New York Historical Society. Police Commissioner Brennan in a trial at head- Quarters yesterday informed @ voliceman that under NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 14,. 1868.—TRIPLE no circumstances must he cluba prisoner on the head. If necessary to use the club at all, it should be on other parts of the body. In the Allen-Enright alleged whiskey fraud cases in Brooklyn yesterday evidence for the defence was closed and counsel for Enright commenced summing up, the counsel for Allen announcing himself willing to submit his client's case to the jury without argu- ment, Messrs. Deforest and Manning, batikers on Wall street, who were on trial for alleged receiving of stolen property, in having in their possession some bonds stolen from A. C. Kingsland & Son, were honorably discharged yesterday, it being evident that they purchased the bonds in good faith. Term of the Supreme Court, on the motions to dissolve the injunctions granted in the suits of Richard Schell vs. The Erie Railrway Company and others, Frank Work against the same and the People of the State of New York against tue same defendants, was con- cluded yesterday. Counsel will hand in their points to-day and the case will then be submitted to the court for decision. The stock market was dull but steady yesterday, Government securities were duit but steady. Gold closed at 139%. MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondence from Rio Janeiro is dated April 8, The Minister of Agriculture had objected to cer- tain terms on which three hundred and thirty-six Irish emigrants had been shipped for Brazil, but the British government had intimated that the terms were correct and he must abide by them. The scheme for emigration from New York had proven an atrocious swindle, and the contract with the Navigation Company which shortly expires will not be renewed. The impression prevailed that the movement of Lopez in abandoning Curupaity was a feint, and that he was drawing the allied army into a trap. The Brazilians were suffering greatly for | supplies, Exchange had falien to 1834, and gold was at 145, We have correspondence from Mexico city dated April 29 and Vera Cruz April 30, which are mainly details of our news items by the Gulf cable. | pares charged with the attempted assassination of President Juareg are still in prison, but when Mr. States on the escape of the President, it was virtually | admitted by the government authorities that the charges against them could not be sustained, Our Correspondence from Buenos Ayres 1s dated | March 28, It is stated that the allied fleet passed Mumaité on account of the commanding officer of the fort being bribed, and that he was immediately shot by Lopez. There was great excitement in the Argentine Confederation over the approaching presi- dential election. On the removal of the national troops from Rosario another revolution broke out, and the Governor was imprisoned. In the case of John H. Surratt counsel for the de- fence argued yesterday in favor of his motion to admit the prisoner to bail. He urged that Surratt was in ill health and pecuniarily embarrassed, having barely money enough, with the aid of his friends, to pay the board of his witnesses, The court declined to admit him to bail, on the ground that the defence had readily consented to continue the trial to the next term, although the prosecution was ready to proceed. Preparations are busily making for the laying of another telegraph cable between Havana and Key West. The United States steamer Gettysburg is now engaged in sounding for a cable to conacct Panama with the United States, Thomas Brown, who with his wife was brutally as- saulted by @ burglar at Hampton Falls, N. H., some time ago, died yesterday, his wife having died several days before. Their hired man, who was arrested, has confessed to the assault and burglary. Joe Coburn, who arrived in Cincinnati yesterday, was immediately arrested and required to give bail in $10,000 that he would not fight in Ohio. He gave the bail and was released. Under the head of ‘@he Work of the Legislature,” we publish this morning a partial ligt of the acts pas- sed at the late session. The British schooner Canadienne has gone to the Gult of St. Lawrence to protect Canadian fighermen. A boiler near Anderson, Ind., exploled on Tuescay night, killing two men and mortally injuring three, ‘The soldiers and sailors of Wisconsin met in conven- ton at Milwaukee yesterday and adopted resolutions requesting that members of the United States Sen- ate who cannot conscientiously vote for the convic- tion of the President should resign, “in order that the republic may suffer no detriment.” Delegates to the Chicago Convention were elected, with in- structions to vote for Grant. A radical meeting was held in Lancaster, Pa., yes. terday, which roundly abused the “recreant” Senators. Three more men have been arrested in Montreal for alleged complicity in the McGee assassination, A witness was examined at their arraignment who testifies to being present when Whalen, under the name of Sm‘th, was appointed to kill McGee, The Impeachment and Its Presidential ComplicationsGeneral Grant’s Opportu- nity. The impeachment hangs fire. On Tuesday last, recoiling from the attack, in consequence of the illness of one of their number, the party for conviction postponed the decisive vote till Saturday. Without the vote of this absent Senator it was feared the result would be Andrew Johnson's acquittal. It was at least apparent when this postponement was ordered that the issue depended upon a doubtful vote or two, and that the impeachers were afraid to risk it. Hence they retired within their in- far as possible, to strengthen their broken lines and repair damages. Will they be ready to risk the vote on Saturday? Doubtful. We are rather inclined to the opinion that the sitting of the High Court on Saturday will end in another postponement. The Presidential complications involved in his impeachment require a great of consideration. Among the republican members of conservative inclinations Mr. Wade, the President pro tem., is, doubt- leas, the most obnoxious man of their party in the Senate. His extremely fanatical notions on human rights and negro equality, and his obstinate and domineering character as a party leader contributed not a little to the defeat of himself as a candidate for re-election to the Senate and his platform of universal | Regro suffrage last fall in the hitherto over- whelmingly republican State of Ohio. The radical ultras, sharing in the chagrin of Wade's defeat, have apparently resolved that his wrongs shall be righted, not only in his promotion to the White Houee, to serve out as President of the United States the remnant of Andrew Johnson's term, but that he shall be nominated at Chi- cago as Vice President for the succession on the ticket with General Grant. Here the shoe pinches. Here is 9 difficulty upon which before Saturday there must be some under- standing with Wade or another postponement of the final vote on the impeachment, There are other aspirants besides Mr. Wade for the position of Vice President on the ticket with General Grant, and most prominent among them are Speaker Colfax, Senator Wilson, ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and Governor Fenton, of New York. Now, | with the removal of President Jobnson and the transfer of Mr. Wade to the White House in advance of the Chicago Convention, from the very fact that he has the Executive patron | age in his hands, Mr. Wade, it is believed, will | be able to command the nomination indicated, | Nay, it is feared that be may possibly over- ‘The argument before Judge Sutherland, at Special | The | Plumb presented the congratulations of the United | trenchments to count up their losses, and, as | deal | slaugh Grant himself and secure the Presi- dential nomination, upon the good old axiom in regard to the fat offices that ‘a bird in the hand is worth twoin the bush.” Party policy, then, suggests the propriety and expediency of postponing the verdict upon Johnson until after the verdict of the Chicago Convention upon the merits of Wade detached from the dispensation of the spoils and plunder. Greeley says that “Grimes is dead,” on ac- | count of his deadly hostility to Wade. If this be so, have not the radicals from Grimes a significant warning concerning Wade? He | is a deadweight upof the party at best, and if saddled upon Grant the result will proba- bly be that which followed the saddling of | McClellan with Pendleton and his record and platform. But even with the ultra radicals there is a reason for the postponement of this impeach- ment verdict till after the Chicago Convention, and it is this: that the final vote of “guilty” or “not guilty” in this case of Johnson shall be made the test by the Convention of allegiance to the republican faith or excommunication from the church. But here it may be asked, | will not this outrageous party procedure be overruled in the Convention by a decent re- spect for appearances in the way of justice aud the law and the testimony in this impeach ment? Gammon. Political parties are ‘held together by the cohesive power of the public plunder,” and ‘where the carcass is there will the vultures he gathered together,” Unless, therefore, Ue radical majority of the Se feel perfectly sure on Saturday that they have the two-thirds vote in hand for Johnson's cou- viction and removal we, may look for the post- ponement of: the verdict to some day after the | Chicago Convention, in order that a sati t disposition may first be made of Wade ¢ then of Johnson with a reinforcement of cal Senators from the reconstructed Southern States. Viewed in any light this is a shameful and shocking state of things, There is one man, however, who, in a few decisive words, may put an end to all this scandalous business, and that man is General Grant. His proverbial reticence has served him well so far. It has saved him from all those rocks and shoals upon which Calhoun | and Clay and Van Buren and Cass and Scott and Douglas and a host of other Presidential | aspirants were shipwrecked. His quarrel with President Johnson was, perhaps, necessary to bring the General to the front as the radical champion for the succession; but that quarrel ale | need not prevent him speaking _ his mind freely on the present position of things connected with this impeachment. As an honest soldier he cannot sustain the removal of Johnson upon the frivolous charges of “high crimes and misdemeanors” for which he stands accused. As a true patriot General Grant cannot approve the base uses in which his great mame has been employed by partisan journals pending this trial. Asa fair dealing political opponent of Andrew Johnson he surely is not an endorser of the demoralizing party trickery and devices in this trial, in all of which the radicals depend for their vindica- tion on his popularity as their Presidential standard bearer. We would, therefore, submit to General Grant, in behalf of justice, law and order, that the time has come for him to speak out frankly and decisively his views and his posi- tion on this crisis in our political affairs. Let him warn these radical leaders that if their partisan bigotry and fanaticism are to rule in this impeachment and at Chicago he cannot serve them. Let him distinctly declare that the extreme radical principles of universal negro suffrage and Southern negro supremacy are not his principles, and he will at once bring this radical cabal at Washington to terms or scatter it to the winds; and he will, too, be Ymmensely strengthened thereby in the public confidence from this great and crowning ser- | goes, to public approval asa good bill. The Pacife Railroad—A Good Bill. The substitute reported on Tuesday by Mr. Price, of Iowa, from the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, in place of the joint resolu- tion introduced some time ago by Mr. Wash- burn, of Wisconsin, to regulate the tariff for freight and passengers on the Union and Cen- tral Pacific Railroads and their branches, was essentially modified in the course of debate by several reasonable amendments and finally passed in a shape which entitles it, so far as it As | originally reported, this substitute provided for « board of commissioners, to consist of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States, to establish annually a tariff of prices for freight and passengers, with an additional | proviso thal it shall not take effect till there shall be a continuous line of railroad completed and in running order from Omaha to Sacrg- mento. ‘This latter proviso was ultimately stricken out, on account of the manifest and valid objection that it was calculated rather to retard than accelerate the completion of the road. Jt might for several years, or even in- definitely, delay the joint resolution in taking effect, although, according to Mr. Price, the present expectation is that it would probably take effect in two years. Manifest and valid objections were also well and successfully | urged against entrusting three members of the Cabinet or any other three men with the power, so vast and so liable to abuse, of regulating | the tariff of prices for freight and passengers. | Mr. Van Wyck, of New York, alluded to the immense value of the grants made to the Pacific railroad companies, commented on the fact that the advantages were being gradually monopolized, until, at the last report, there were but fifty-three shareholders in the Central | Pacific Railroad Company, and protested with energy against the injustice of letting these companies impose exorbitantly high tariffs on freight and passengers. Mr, Clark, of Kansas, offered an amendment that the tariff shall not | exceed double the average rates charged on the different lines of railroad between the Mississippi river and the Atlantic Ocean in latitudes north | of St. Louis. This amendment was very pro~ perly agreed to without division, and the joint resolution a3 amended was passed by a vote of seventy-six to thirty-seven. In due time, when the grand national enterprise of a Pacific railway shall be consummated, and a vast movement, now inconceivable, of freight and of | passengers across the Continent shall be in full | activity, the tariff as fixed at present will | doubtless be safely and advantageously sub- jected to still further reductions. Meanwhile, as it stands, it will serve effectually to protect the interests of the people against the exac- | tions which railroad monopolies are almost fatally tempted to impose. ” Lyman Trumbull, of Llinois. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois, enjoys a na- | tional reputation as a sound, conservative statesman, an able lawyer and an upright citi- zen. He has filled several offices of high trust, and his record as a public man is unim- peachable. Among other positions to which Mr. Trumbull ‘has been called is that of Justice of the Supreme Court of his State. He sat upon the bench for,six years, and his integrity of character as well as his legal at- tainments rendered him an ornament to the judiciary. Such a man is peculiarly fitted to see through the injustice and absurdity of the | charges of high crimes and misdemeanors made by the radicals against President John- son, and he cannot afford to destroy his well won reputation and toleave a legacy of shame | to his son by recording a false and unjust ver- dict against an innocent man for mere party purposes. He has broad sense enough to see that the fierce denunciations of the radical | conspirators are powerless for evil against a good and conscientious man, and that when all the present excitement has passed away, and vice to the cause of justice, the constitution and the Union. The Resignation of Engincer Craven. Mr. Craven, who for twenty years has been the engineer of the Croton Board, has tendered his resignation. During his long term of ser- vice Mr. Craven has proved himself a most efficient officer. The Croton Department has been conducted with more honesty than any other department of the city government, if we except the Park Commission, which shares with the Croton Board a fair repu- tation, and hence the retirement of Mr. Craven might be regarded asa loss to the de- partment if his successor, General Greene, did not happen to be a man of good qualifications. He is 4 graduate of West Point, where he took a prominent position as an engineer in the highest class. During the war he made his mark on several battle fields, led a brilliant movement at Peach Orchard, was riddled and maimed in many other actions, and altogether presents a fair soldier's record. General Greene has been duly installed in office by the Mayor, but Mayor Hoffman took occasion to say that the “‘installation” was unconstiiutional, while meekly submitting to the decision of the Board. No doubt Mr. Hoffman was sensitive about the constitutionality of the proceeding; but, nevertheless, we suppose that the public will be satisfied that the place occupied by Mr. Craven is filled by so competent a person and #0 good an engineer as General Greene. Mr. Beran on Horseriesn as Foop.— ‘The tenderness of Mr. Bergh for animals, or at least for horses, seems to have ripened into a longing to eat them. His affection for them is not unlike that of the cannibal chief for mis- sionaries; King Weno-Wanko-Wunko-Fum loved missionaries with a ‘devouring love.” The President of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals lectured in favor of horseflesh as food before the Farmers’ Club on Tuesday. On his retirement, however, a reso- lution recommending the use of horse flesh for that purpose, in accordance with the sugges- tions of Mr. Bergh and several French end English savans, was by almost an unanimous vote laid on the table. The members of the Farmers’ Club preferred that this resolution rather than the most exquisitely cooked horse- flesh should be ‘‘laid on the table.” | Ovr Gronpists.—What will our Girondists do now? The critical moment has at last arrived, They hesitate. Let them beware. | Indecision was the ruin of their illustrious but | unfortunate prototypes. Will they be true to | | their nobler instincts, and so save themselves and save the State? Or will they vote for the | death of the king, and ag perish in disgrace? — | the malignant passions of the hour no longer | prevail the just Senator who has refused to prostitute the character of the highest court in the nation to partisan hate and political ava- | rice will receive the praise and respect of all | whose good opinions are of any real value. Southern Religlous Recoustruction—In Part. The Methodist Episcopal Conference, sitting in Chicago, and composed of a large and in- fluential class of clergymen, has adopted reso- lutions admitting to the body provisional dele- gates from the unreconstructed States of Vir- ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Texas, also from the States of Delaware and Tennessee, and recognizing as legal the. annual conferences held in those States. It must be understood that these Southern delegates do not represent the old original hard shell Methodist Episcopal Church South, which remains almost as obstinate as before the war, but a new growth of Methodists, of different culture and complexion altogether. John C. Calhoun declared many years ago that among the most powerful elements oper- ating to break up the Union was the division of sentiment in the great Methodist Episcopal Church on the subject of slavery—one branch representing anti-slavery as the voice of the North and the other pro-slavery as the voice of the South. Upon this rock the Church finally split, and the Methodist Church North and the Methodist Church South became the distinctive appellations of the separate branches of this the most powerful of the Protestant religious organizations in the coun- try. True to the prediction of Calhoun seces- sion and rebellion soon followed this Church disruption, and civil war was waged until the federal arms settled the physical question of the indissolubility of the Union. The war over and the question of slavery decided forever, there has been an earnest desire on the part of certain Methodist divines both North and South to restore the harmonious relations once existing in the Church and to bring the scat- tered brotherhood together again in a common fold. This effort, unfortunately, has not been successful; but the proceedings of the Chicago Conference are noteworthy at this time as evincing a tesire on the part of the Church North to reunite with the Church South— on its own terms. To show, however, how far the Church North have advanced in their ideas on the moral aspect of the slavery question, they have, it seems, decided to take in all the delegates from the South that present themselves—niggers included. This sinacks a little of amalgamation, with a strong squint toward the radical political convention which shortly follows in the wake of the present religious Conference in Chicago. SHEET. ‘The Crisis in England—The Good Sense of the Queen. In the House of Commons on Tuesday even- | ing, as we learned from a cable despatch of yesterday, the reply of the Queen to the ad- | dress voted to the Crown as the result of the adoption of Mr. Gladstone's resolutions, was | read to the members in session. The reply, which was worthy of the good sense and kindly | feeling which have all along characterized the public and private conduct of her Majesty, was as follows :—‘‘Relying on the wisdom of the House, her Majesty desires that her interest in the temporalities of the Irish Church will not in any way hinder parliamentary legislation on that subject.”" In harmony with this decision steps will be immediately taken to suspend for the present the making of additional or new appointments in the Irish Church by the Crown, Considering the embarrassing situation of affairs, the prompt and straightforward course adopted by her Majesty is an immense relief to the nation. Mr. Gladstone's resolutions and Mr. Disraeli’s resistance, backed up as the latter was by the foolish, unjustifiable and dangerous ‘‘no Popery” cry, had placed the Crown in the most awkward and perilous position imaginable. The stu- pidity of a Charles the First, the vacilla- tion of a Louis the Sixteenth, or even the con- scientious stubbornness of a George the Third, | might have involved the Crown in misery and ruin, Left as she is, without the adviser of | her younger years, it says much for the good sense and sound judgment of her Majesty that she so thoroughly appreciates the situation. The government of England has already fallen so completely into the hands of the popular branch of the legislature—at an early day it will be more and more so—that resistance to the House of Commons would be simply folly. The Queen knows this, and it is only just praise to say that by this one act she has extri- cated Great Britain from a dangerous difficulty and shown herself mistress of the situation. If it was Mr. Disraeli’s intention, as many be- lieve it was, to create a complication of cir- cumstances in which he might have the chance of playing the part either of a Richelieu ora Mirabeau, he has in this other instance mis- calculated. His opportunity has not yet come. Agassiz on Musenms—Suggestions Useful to New York, Professor Agassiz, in an address delivered a few days ago before the Legislature of Massa- chusetts, for the purpose of obtaining State aid to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, threw out some remarks worthy of consideration by our city and State authorities as well as by our citizens. He spoke of the value of such an institution in promoting science, education and popular intelligence. ‘‘There is not,” he said, ‘‘a single scientific establishment in Europe where there are such facilities for building up an instructive and comprehensive museum as we have now in our hands. If we avail ourselves of the chance I believe it will place science in America fifty years in advance of the Old World.” We suppose by this Mr. | Agassiz means that on this Continent we have far greater advantages and more materials for such a museum, and he is right. We have also the most favorable geographical position as well asthe enterprise and the means for accomplishing this. But while we should be pleased to see a great museum at Cambridge, and, in fact, museums in every part of the country, we insist that New York, the metro- polis of America, is the proper place for a great national museum. We ought to have imthe Park or near it a structure and a collection of everything pertaining to a museum which would rival or eclipse the famous museums of London or Paris. New York has many attrac- tions already, and the people from every part flock to this great centre of commerce, art, science and fashion ; but such a museum as we contemplate and such as we ought to have would add vastly to its attractiveness. Where one person would be instructed by a museum at Cambridge, Boston or at any other place, hundreds would see and learn from one in New York. The city and State authorities, the Park Commissioners and our wealthy citizens, should set about this most useful and important work atonce. There is nothing upon which the city or State could appropriate money that would do so much good or be as popular, and nothing in which our millionnaires could spend a small portion of their enormous wealth so satisfac- torily to themselves in the end or so beneficially for the community. By all means let us have a grand national museum in this mighty metropolis of America. William Pitt Fessenden, of Maine. William Pitt Fessenden has the reputation of sterling honesty, good sense and a clear, legal mind. It is no wonder that such a man should refuse to be controlled by the insolent dictation of party when under oath to try a cause fairly, and to render a true verdict ac- cording to the evidence and the law. It would be a matter of surprise and shame to find him yielding up his convictions to parti- san violence and pronouncing the word “guilty” against any living man when he knew him to be “not guilty.” Fessenden has been many years in political life, and his sympa- thies have been with such patriots as Clay, Taylor and Lincoln, all of whom he helped to nominate for the Presidency. Can he now submit to be the mere tool of a party ruled over by Ben Butler, Thad Stevens, Jem Nye, Zach Chandler, and men of that stamp? Can he become a party to all the violent, brutal, revolutionary policy of the Jacobins of Con- gress and give the lie to his whole past life ? There is a future for Fessenden, and his long career has won him the confidence and respect of good men. Will he now suffer himself to be bullied and badgered into the destruction of his well won reputation? We shall see. Tue Sgoretary or THE SENATE.—The Sec- retary of the Senate resigns his lucrative place. It is intimated that he does this for the sake of independence, in order that he may be free to express his opinions in regard to the position of Senators. Astonishing piece of self-denial and delicacy on the part of the Secretary and owner of “two papers—both daily!” He resigns the place he holds as an officer of the Senate that he may the more energetically hound on the bunt against the Senators of high and honorable character. Woulf it not have looked better if the Secre- tary had resigned earlier and before it became so evident that he was to be hustled out ? Sete | Seusitor Henderson and the DIivsourt Radi- cals. The sublime impudence of those Missouri Congresstien who waited upon Mr. Henderson and presumed to .call him to atcount for his course on impeachment will by and by be thought one of the curiosities of the trial. | Since, when were Congressmen made the keep- ers of Senators, and by what principle of our political system is a Senator, who represents a State collectively, responsible to Congressmen, who represent quite another thing? Perhaps they know more about this in Missouri than they do anywhere else. The demand made upon Mr. Henderson was that if he could not vote for conviction he should not vote at all, and the members generously and magnificently re- frained from pushing the Senator so far as to require hisresignation. Mr. Henderson had the weakness to take this action quite as a matter science and the courage to declare that he could not go with his party on the charges we should have expected to hear of a positive per- ception of duty one way or the other. We should have expected that the man who be- Heved the articles unjust and evil would have held that his duty was not neutral only, but that things in the Senate which did not meet his approval must encounter his opposition, Commercial Reciprocities in Germany. The activity of Count Bismarck has already not only enlarged the boundaries of the Prus- sian kingdom, but made Germany a practical unit. Baden, Wiirtemburg and Bavaria have, since Sadowa, been bound to Prussia by a mili- tary treaty—a treaty which in the event of an invasion of the Fatherland gives Prussia entire control of their united armics, This, however, is not the only or even the most important result, Commercially, Germany has been made one by the Zollverein. The Zoll Parlia- ment, of which King William is chief, and which is composed of representatives not only from all parts of the Prussian kingdom, but from Baden, Bavaria and Wiirtemburg, is now sitting in Berlin under the immediate eye of Count Bismarck and his sovereign. Count Bismarck does not force unity, but Count Bis- marck well knows that the cause he represents must languish and die if it ceases to be active. Austria, we are therefore told, has been in- duced to enter into commercial relations with the Zollverein. In a commercial point of view this is all well and fair enough. It will be strange, however, if out of this does not arise some trouble for Austria. Representation on the part at least of the German provinces of Austria will be the next question. Germany is bound to become a unit, and this means is as likely to contribute to the desired end as any other. A Repvsiican Crus Rampant.—Some slimy politicians ‘‘resolved” in this city the other day that the Senate ought not to vote on impeachment till conviction was sure. Their advice will certainly be taken. They also pointed out to the Senate how it ought to secure the vote that will convict. This is by rushing in the Arkansas Senators. It points the people to the real character of the republi- can party, when even the reptiles that wriggle in its lower depths dare venture to propose such a measure. It is a proposition to put into the jury at the last moment men who have not had seats there during the trial, who have not taken official note of the testimony, and whose only qualification for sitting is that it is known beforehand they will convict; nay, who will purchase their places by perjury. It is not certain that the impeaching majority will not do this thing. RerForM In TURKEY.—From a cable despatch which we gave in yesterday's Heratp it ap- pears that the Sultan has taken a bold and decided step in the onward march of modern progress. Ina speech pregnant with liberal sentiment he opened on Monday his new Coun- cil of State. The time had come, he said, when Turkish manners and customs must yield and conform to European civilization. This is the most hopeful sign which Turkey has yet given, and it is unquestionably the grandest triumph which Christianity has won for the last three hundred years. It is not, however, the work of the preachers. It is the work of the steam engine, of the electric telegraph, of the railroad and of the printing press. These are the great preachers of these latter days; but Christianity speaks through them. We hail this news from Constantinople as another of the hopeful signs of the times. Critica, State oF THE Park CommIs- stonERs.—We understand our article yes- terday on ‘Children’s Amusements in the Park” has created a great sensation in all the nurseries and among the mammas and nurses throughout the city. There is a terrible storm of indignation rising against the Park Com- missioners for their opposition to the Marion- ettes, Punches and Judies and other amuse- ments in the Park. The mass meeting of three or four hundred thousand of young New York which we proposed to call will certainly be held, aided by the mammas and presided over by Mr. Henry Bergh, if the Commission- ers do not abandon their cruel opposition to the wishes of the dear little folks. Pike's OPERA Hovse.—We sincerely wish that the costly and elegant building at the corner of Twenty- third street and Eighth avenue may enjoy all possible success whatever kind of attraction it may from time to time offer to the town. But we are constrained to re- gret as sincerely that the “grand inaugural dramatic season” should have opened last evening under such unfavorable auspices, so far as the weather was con- cerned. And we are also constrained to regret that Mr. Frederick ©. Maeder’s sensational drama, “Lost; « Dramatic Picture of @ Heart's Shadows,” should have been submerged by @ flood of words, words, words, as the Island of Grapes in the second act was submerged by 4 freshet. What- ever plot there may have been in the orginal French piece from which this drama was taken was en- gulfed and “lost,” at least during a great part of the performance, The “hurricane, inundation and ruin” that almost drowned Nifla and Emile would have seemed more effectively ‘‘sensational” if it had not been for the “sure enough” dei whicn New York had been subject all day. The “new rain effect” in the second act, however, was very fine. The ‘notary scene” in the third act was ularly well put upon the stage. The “red chamber scene” and the final transformation to the terrace of the chateau, arranged and inted by Seavey, were deservedly applauded. The “combination cast’ we found unex: way strong, including the names of Rankin, Dyote | i face, Hale, Atkins (of “Black Crook” memory) and Parker, a8 Well as those of Misses Kate Newton, Celia 1 and Emma Skerrett, Mile. Héléne led off the “Festival Dance’ in the first act, Judiciously and largely trimmed, Mr. Maeder’s new drama may yet prove, despite its ominous title, not doomed to be “Jost.” Otherwise we shall not be surprised if every- body here becomes as much diagust as even Miss Braddon herself, in “Belgravia,” now proposes to be with everything “sensational.” There may then arise hopes of & revival of the legitimate drama. *nd per- haps even 0° italian opera. outdoors to of course. From a man who had the con- .