The New York Herald Newspaper, May 15, 1868, Page 6

:6 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXuiI.. ase sreeeNo, 136 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, FRENCH THEATRE.—English Opera—Crown D1a- MONDE, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humerr Durty. NEW YORK A aa rine opposite New York Hotel.— Pasi anp HEL! NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.-Tas Ware Fawn. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Conniz SooGan. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tar Waitk COCKADE, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 23d street, corner of Eighth avenue.—Losr. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—J JONATHAN BRADFORD— Nowopy's CHILD—JENNY LIND. GERMAN STADT THEATRE.. IRVING HALL,—Buo Tom's Concert. Pica a COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLE?. FAROE, ER WILDSCHUETY. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Froadway.—SONGs, EOoRNTRICITIE6, &c.—GRAND DUTCH “ SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, {85 Broadway. -ETHIO- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, Se. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO 201 Bowery.—Comio VoCaLisa, NEGRO MINSTRELS’ MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— UNDER THE GasLicHt. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. MINGTEELSY—BLACK CROOK, Brooklyn.—-ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL HALL, Hari RYANTS? MINSTRELS. HALL, 964 and 956 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF THE WAR. NEW YORK MUSEU’ M OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, he 3 15, 1868. NEW); YORK | HERAED, ‘FRIDAY, failure of plaintiff in the character of Arline in the “Bohemian Girl,” Qase not yet concluded. The steamship City of Antwerp, Captain Mire- house, of the Inman line, will leave pier 45 North | fence is a denial of an engagement by reason of the | of the are) ings toward the the Post Office at twelve M. to-morrow. ‘The National line steamship Erin, Captain Web- ster, will leave pier 47 North rivor at eleven A. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Liverpool, calling at Queens- town to land passengers. : ‘MISCELLANEOUS. Our Panama letter is dated May 6. The new Pres- ident of Colombia had formed his Cabinet with view to the conciliation of the different political Parties, Congress would probably adjourn about the end of the month. Affairs in the interior and throughout the lately disturbed States were now quiet. Later advices from Central America state that sharp shocks of earthquake had been felt in Guatemala, Malignant fevers were raging in Nica- ragua. Twenty per cent of the population were down with the disease. Our Lima (Peru) correspondence is dated April 28. Colonel Balta had been elected President by an almost unanimous vote. Congress is to meet on the 28th of July and proclaim the result of the clection. The government decree declaring Prado a traitor was received by the people with great indignation, and a meeting was, called, at which the cheers for Prado were so loud and long that the police was compelled to disperse the assemblage. By way of Panama and Aspinwall we have our special mail despatches from Australasia, dated at Sydney on the Ist and Wellington, New Zealand, on the 8th of April. The correspondence embraces full details of the circumstances and scene attend- ing the attempt of the Fenian O'Farrell to shoot Prince Alfred of England, the excla- mations and fall of the royal Duke and the capture, remarks and history of the assassin, and his trial and sentence. The writers furnish also a most valuable report of the commercial, financial and industrial situation in the colonies, with a sum- mary of the Parliamentary proceedings and political Prospects, The republican members of the Connecticut Legis- ature in joint caucus have nominated William A, Buckingham for United States Senator, The Peace Commissioners have returned to Fort Laramie, having made treaties with the Crows, Brules, Sioux, Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes. “Man Afraid of his Horses” is also about to accept terms, but “‘Red Blood” sends a heated message to the Commissioners that he will see them when the military posts are evacuated. . The influence brought to bear against Senator Henderson by the radical delegation from Missouri has proved of no avail. He answered their protesta- tions yesterday by a letter in which he says that he cannot shirk the responsibility of his oath either by resigning or voting for conviction, and he will, there- fore, stand honestly by his oath. A Tennessee dele- gation of radicals strongly assailed Senator Fowler, ‘who is doubtful, but it is said he rebuked them sternly for their impertinence, saying that he had thought the case for the prosecution had closed with Mr. Bing- | ham’s speech. ‘The sick Senators are all rapidly improving. Every | day of delay is considered favorable to the radicals, | and it is suspected that if their scheme is not certain of success on Saturday they will again postpone the verdict, leaving it to hang over the President's head perhaps for months. The House Managers of im- peachment have resoived to investigate the pre- tended reports of money being used to influence the votes of Senators, and perhaps enter a new article of bribery against the President. The arguinent of Senator Fessenden tn favor of acquittal, made in the secret session on Monday, and ulso that of Senator Williams on the other side, are given in our columns this morning. CONGRESS. The Senate was not in session yesterday, In the licuse a resolution authorizing the gale of | certain public lots in Baltimore was passed. The | bill to adult the States of North and South Carolin: Louisian: tion in © Georgia and Alabama to represen’ ess Was theu taken up and con- sidered. motion was made to amend the bill ky ing out the word “Alabama” wher- ever it occurs on the ground that a majority | had not voted for the constitution in that State. Mr. | Farnsworth denied that such was required by the | law, it being only necessary that Congress should be | satisfied thet a majority favored it whether they voted for it or not. ‘The motion was lost by a mixed if vote of 66 to 74. Mr. Stevens closed the debate and | the vote was taken on the passage of the bill, result- | ing, yeas, 108: nays, EUROPE. | | ‘The news report by the Atlantic cabie is dat 4 night, yesterd ‘ | | | | Mr, Giad Church temporalities bill passed the first ng inthe English Parhament. itis to remain in force till August M. Thiers supports | the French protectionist agitation, Minister Ban- croft is in Munich. The of the North German Confederation estimates the expenditure and income as almost equal, a large amount of expense being | for military and naval purposes of the Confederacy. THE City. Ata reguiar meeting of the Union League Club last | evening, Mr. Jay, the President, in a speech stated | that it had been suggested that the club bring its influence to bear upon the decision of the imprach- ent question by publicly expressing its well known v onthe matter; bat that having on a former occasion expressed their opinion by resolution that the trial would be conducted and the verdict ren- dered with impartial justice, he presumed the club Was ready to stand with equal tenacity by that decia- | ration should impeachment fail. ‘The fifveenti annual social reunion of the Amert- can Cougregational Union was celebrated last even- ing at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn. In the af- ternoon a business meeting was held, at which the ‘Treasurer's and Secretary's reports were read and ors and (rastees elected for the ensuing term, not rially difering froi the last year's list. Shortly before the cises were commenced Hon. Menry Wilson, @ member of the High Court of Impeach- ment at Washington, gave a reception to his many friends. The order of exereises comprised addyesses, prayer and singing. Senator Wilson, Rev. H. M. Storrs, D, D., Rev. ©. H. Malcolm and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher made addresses, Dodworth’s instru. mental band was in attendance. The American Bible Society yesterday morning celebrated tts fifty second anniversary exercises at Steinway Hall. Norman W. White presided, Addresses were delivered by Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., Rev. Dr. J. E. C. Doremus, of New Orleans; ex-Senator Lafayette Foster, of Conn., and others. By the aunual reports it appears that the society ts ina prosperous condition and has within the last two years nearly doubled its auxiliaries. The second anniversary of the Equal Rights Association was held yesterday at the Cooper Institute, when several Speeches in support of the enfranchisement of women were delivered. by many well known female champions of the cause. Both the morning and evening sessions were well attended. The City Chamberlain paid $6,300 Interest on public moneys for April to the Comptroller yester- day. Total so far paid in, $64,000, ‘The annual report of the directors of the New York and New Haven Railroad shows the income daring the past fiscal year to have been $2,218,500, against an outlay for expenses of $1,141,081. Embarrass- ments occasioned by the alleged Schuyler frauds have been cleared away, improvemeuts have been amade ig new engines, cars and depots and 2,600 tons of Bessemer stee! rail have been purchased. Iq the United States District Court, Brooklyn, Judge Benedict presiding, R. C. Enright and J. 8. Allen were yesterday found guilty of having do- frauded the government ont of a large amount of tax on whiskey by the execution of fraadulent bonds, A Of proceedings will probably be grantea, notions to that etoct having been rade bythe cous. sel for the defendants. A ee et los John ©. oa) ur Dap ere ime alas pon if ln a named Laura Wa!- ron, yesterday sued Mise Caroline Richings in the ‘Marine Coust for $100 as arreart.of salary for two Miteka! services im Boston in the fall | clally reported at 17,699, j the Dead, dying from the effects within four hours, | divines, describes the Saviour as being like one | cal history with the sublime event referred to, | States on the to felease on ban | "8M for this, purpose they canaot object the United | that is not the aa The whole obj the papers | of impeachment is political. Tae radicu'« of 1967, The de | and should speak for ‘The majority for the constitution im Georgia 1s of- The Massachusetts State Temperance Convention in Boston yesterday took measures for the nomina- mperance ticket for State oflicers at the ion. A German named Granz, who was a resident of ‘this city, attempted to shoot his son-in-law in Albany yesterday, but failing, deliberately shot himself in | The report that cavalry is necessary to enforce the revenue laws in the St. Louis, Mo., district is dented by the Marshal of that district, who says there is no diMicuity there in executing any procesa, A fire at Fall River, Mass., yesterday, destroyed the White cotton mill, including nine thousand spin- les, $15,000 worth of cotton and $20,000 worth of cloth, the total ioss amounting to $120,000, A darkey in the Mississippi Convention has been indicted for stealing warrants from another colored member. The rain storm on Wednesday occasioned a freshet in Dry brook, at Johnston, R. L, which swept away five buildings and three dams, involving a loss of $90,000. General Grant an the Stand=Will Open His Mouth? The prophet Isaiah, speaking of Christ, according to the interpretation of Christian He dumb who opened not his mouth while he was led like a lamb to the slaughter. If we may be permitted to compare anything in our politi- | we might say that General Grant is dumb and opens not his mouth while he is being led to political elaughter. Or rather, his, over-pru- dent reticence is bringing about his own politi- cal death, unless, indeed, he has spoken as some of the radical organs say, and in that case it would have been better if he had held | his tongue. Yesterday we called upon the General to come out boldly against the atro- cious conduct of the radical leaders in their | attempt to depose the President of the United | « most baseless | charges. We asked him to open his mouth this time, as becomes a patriot and a man with his glorious record, in behalf of justice, law | and order, and save the country from the dis- grace the radicals would bring upon it. We | assured him what his own good sense ov tell him is true, that such a course would bring the Jacobin cabal at Washington to reason and greatly increase his popularit: We see, however, by the ra extracts from several of which were published at the same time in yesterday's Herawp, that | these rabid partisans claim General Grant as | an ardent impeacher. A letter was read be- | fore the anti-slavery meeting here on Wednes- day from a certain Mr. Moss, purporting to give the views of General Grant on impeachment, in which it is said the General is ‘working hard with his friends to secure the conviction of the President.” The Washington corre- spondent of a radical journal in Chicago reports a conversation he says he had with General Grant, when the General ‘‘expressed, himself very strongly in support of Mr. John- son's removal.” Similar statements are made in other newspapers of the same stripe. Now, we receive all these pretended conversations and revelations of General Grant's views or wishes with a great deal of doubt. The radicals are in a perplexing dilemma about impeachment. They had laid their plans very nicely to remove Mr. Johnson, and had por- tioned out the spoils under the confident ex- pectation that Ben Wade was to go into the White House. But they are likely to be dis- appointed; at least a verdict of conviction is very doubtful. They find, after all, there are some diguified and conscientious Senators who have more regard for their oaths and the honor of the country than for party schemes or threats. THence all the misrepresentation and abuse we see, They will stick at no falsehood in their endeavors to influence the Senate and public opinion. There is some reason to be- lieve, therefore, that these reports about Gen- eral Grant being earnest for the conviction and removal of the President may be nothing more * than radical inventions. Upon the judicial question of the case, if indeed there be anything judicial init, any expressions of General Grant with a view to influence the public mind would be ont | of places; but as the radicals and radical | press are endeavoring to use the General's | | | frivolous and ical newspapers, to conservatives doing the same, But confess that. It fs for party purpose. only, and General Grant, as the Presilen‘iai candidate of the party, hig a tight to + v: jasted “and the honor | the | 1 feel- ey » he should not allow himself to be made an instrument in any way of the great national iniquity which a violent faction would bring upon the country. By taking a bold and independent course against the infamous attempt to depose the President on the frivolous and absurd charges trumped up he would save his own high character from reproach, would make himself more popular than ever and might even save the republican party from annihila- tion. Never had a popular public man a bet- ter opportunity to acquire lasting honor and fame. On the other hand, should he let this opportunity slip and go with the Jacobin fac- tion in their iniquitous course, he will be dis- honored and probably défeated at the polls next November. It will be a most inglorious end to a brilliant career, and the people, look- ing at him with pity, will ever after say, ‘How are the mighty fallen!” Bergh and Dowling—Philanthrepy and the Law. Some of the papers are making a great deal of fuss about an alleged squabble between that eminent philanthropist, President Bergh, and Justice Dowling, of the Police Court and Court of Sessions. They imply that Judge Dowling has not properly carried out the law in cases that have been brought before him by the Presi- dent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; that he has suffered men who own fighting dogs to go free; that he has not committed to jail certain monsters who cut the ears of black and tan terrier pups; and, above all, that he has attempted to throw ridi- cule upon the name and calling of the great champion of the brute creation. Our indig- nant contemporaries appear to forget that Jus- tice is not only blind, but exceedingly indif- ferent to the sensitive feelings of philanthropic philosophers and nervous ladies of a certain age, and that before a citizen can be deprived of his liberty, even though he may be guilty of owning an underhung bulldog or a crop-eared spaniel, he must be proved by competent wit- nesses to have been engaged in a violation of a law. Justice Dowling has the reputa- ‘tion of a fearless, upright and impartial Judge, and he has never yet been accused of favoring rowdyism or lawlessness of any kind. We have great respect for Mr. Bergh, whose humanity deserves the praise of every good Christian; but at the same time we are disposed to question the dogmas that turtles are tortured by being turned over on their backs, that turkeys suffer by having their legs tied with a cord and being carried to market head down, that it is more brutal to cut a puppy’s ears than to pierce those of a young lady, and that clams and oysters should not, in a Christian country, be opened alive. President Bergh has certainly done a good work in securing comfortable carts for sheep sud calves to ride in, instead of having their legs tied and their heads hung over the sides and back of a common truck, and his efforts in behalf of car horses are deserving of com- mendation, provided he does not insist upon substituting them in our markets for beef and mutton. But we nevertheless believe that our great philanthropist would do better to turn his attention to street cleaning instead of look- ing after isolated instances of cruelty to ani- mals. If he would devote his energies to securing us clean streets he would benefit not only the four-legged creatures, but those who go on two legs as well, and would deserve the gratitude of men, women and chi. nothing of the inferior ‘portion of er The Prospect. By appointment the Senite, as of Impeachment, meets on Sai ‘on the several charges and speeifications of ‘high and misdemeanors” against drew Johnson as President of the United States, The defendant and his’ friends are reported to be confident of an acquittal; the impeachers profess to be as confident of a conviction, The chances of securing the two three doubtful votes upon which the » will be determined seem to be in favor of President. One thing, at all events, we think, may be regarded as certai un- less the impeachers are well assured that they have the required two-thirds vote there will | be another postponement, even though all the members of the Senate be present. Nor is it certain that the radicals will run the hazards of Fowler and Frelinghuysen after they have been so terribly shocked with the desortions of Fessenden, Trumbull, Henderson and Grimes, Hence, as Johnson's acquittal will be the con- demnation of his accusers, they will most pro- bably defer their judgment until they can make upa better case. Lastly, as itis probable that at least one or more of the five Senators who were reported sick on Wednesday evening will still be sick on Saturday morning, the prospect of a decisive vote to-morrow is not very promising, assuming that the impeachers, in counting noses, are still satisfied that they have enough. The New Tax Bill. The Committee of Ways and Means of the House of Representatives have reported a new Internal Revenue Tax bill, which, so far as the taxes are concerned, is substantially the law in force. The tax on incomes is untouched; the tax on whiskey remains the same; the tax on cigars, cheroots, &c., all kinds, is ten dollars per thousand; the tax on gas is reduced from twenty-five cents to ten cents per thousand cubic feet. The manufacturers’ relief law, lately passed, is not disturbed. The general object of this new bill is indicated by its title, to wit, ‘‘An act to reduce into one act and to amend the laws relating to internal taxes,” Accordingly all the laws on internal taxes are merged into this one act, and an indopend- ent internal revenne department is established for the more efficient execntion of the law. The Secretary of the Treasury will have no more to do with it than with any other depart- ment, The Commiesioner of this Revenne De- partment is to organize it under six divisions of labor on a6 many different. classes of taxes. The provisions on distilled spirits cover fifty sections of the bill and embrace all sorts of precautions against whiskey frauds, including the tax at the distillery in the form of peculiar and very ingenious stamps on the barrel. The hill has gone back to the committee, and when raported again it will be for a two or three lays’ diseusston in view of its passage, The of tta becoming » law this soasion, now qysad ab Wasuiagtoa, ig rather a High Court crimes s thi slug G8 WAY 11, 1368URIPLE ’ SHH: The Eleventh Article. The radical impeachers, having entiroly and disastrously broken down in the attempt to conviet Andrew Johnson of high crimés and misdemeanors, are now striving to force a technical conviction on the eleventh article, for which they pretend some of those Senators can be secured who have made up their minds to a verdict of ‘‘not guilty” on the main charges. Drowning men clutch at straws, and this eleventh article is the impeachers’ straw; but it is the weakest in the entire bundle. When first proposed it was rejected as wholly immaterial and absurd, and it was only the pertinacity of Thad Stevens that at last pro- cured its adoption against the judgment of a majority of his associates. Since the close of the evidence on the trial the Managers them- selves, in their harangues before tife court, have virtually admitted that it is only on the main charges of the removal of Stanton, the appointment of Thomas, &c., the President can be convicted, and that the others must fall to the ground. Yet, now that they find the requisite number of Senators are not prepared to pronounce Andrew Johnson guilty of any of these high crimes and misdemeanors, they trust to the very vagueness and absurdity of the eleventh article to induce them on that to reverse their judgment. The charges in this forlorn hope of the radi- cals are that Andrew Johnson did, in the year 1866, make a political stump speech at Wash- ington, in which he declared ‘in substance” that the Thirty-ninth Congress was a Congress of only part of the States, and that its legisla- tion was only valid so far as he saw fit to approve the same; and that, in ‘pursuance of that declaration, he proceeded, nearly two years afterwards, in 1868, to attempt to pre- vent the execution, first, of the Tenure of Office law, by devising means to keep Stanton out of the War Office, and next, of the Army Appropriation act of 1868, by advising General Emory that a clause therein was, in his judgment, unconstitutional. There is not a particle of evidence to connect the foolish speech made by Andrew Johnson in 1866 with the official acts done by him in 1868, as charged in the article; nor would it be pos- sible for any just and honest juror who had declared Andrew Johnson not guilty of a high crime and misdemeanor in removing Stanton or in consulting with General Emory, to stul- tify himself by afterwards pronouncing both those acts criminal, when united with the absurd accusation that they were part and parcel of a deep laid plot to overthrow Con- gress, of which the stump speech of 1866 was the opening act. The Senator who should declare Johnson not guilty of the main offences charged against him and pronounce him guilty on this eleventh article would be doubly perjured and doubly disgraced. But there is another interesting point in- volved, in which Chief Justice Chase may have something to say. The constitution provides that “the President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States. shall be re- moved from office on impeachment for and con- viction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The articles of impeach- ment are in the form of a bill of indictment, and some of them charge “high crimes” and others “misdemeanors” against the accused, The eleventh article charges a ‘‘misdemeanor” only, If the President should be declared “not guilty” of the high crimes charged against him, and guilty of this misdemeanor only, would it be a verdict that would come within the scope of the constitution, which requires a conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors ? This would be a question for Chief Justice Chase to decide, and in the event of such a termination of impeachment,-if he should con- clude that it was not a constitutional conviction, he would, as presiding “judge, { be bound to pronounce Andrew quitted, Jolnson ac- Onr Austrainsian Mail Despatches — The Feninn Attempt on Prince Alfred’s Life. By way of Aspinwall we received yesterday the Australasian mails of the steamship Rakaia, which were landed at Panama on the 4th instant, furnishing our special written de- spatches from the antipodes, embracing letters from our correspondents in New South Wales and New Zealand, dated at Sydney on the Ist and Wellington on the 8th of April. This cor- respondence, which we publish to-day, enables us to present to the American public a com- plete pen and ink phatograph of the situation of affairs existing on the Australian Conti- nent, which is of surpassing interest, whether we regard it in a political, commercial, social or moral point of view; while the rapidity with which the intelligence has been transmitted to the Hgratp establishment renders its reception of world-wide impor- tance, as affording positive evidence of the suc- cessful progress towards full completion of the great revolution in trade and travel between Asia and Europe, which will so com- pletely turn the tide from the Peninsular and Oriental highway after the completion of the Pacific Railroad that San Francisco and New York will become at once the great entrepits and distributing reservoirs of the commerce and news of the East, from Hindostan to Hiogo, from Pekin to Manchooria, and thence to the countries lying south of the Asiatic Archipelago, including even the territory of our royal debtor in Fiji. Our correspondent in New South Wales de- tails, in fine narrative and with painful minute- ness, the circumstances attending the attempt made by the Fenian O'Farrell to murder Prince Alfred of England, by shooting him at a place named Clontarf, near Sydney, on the 12th of March; and the elaboration of this alarming event—first reported in our cable telegrams— will command universal attention, as indicative of the exact working of some one’ of those “dark confederacies” to which Mr. Disraeli has 80 pointedly referred in Parliament. The receipt of this batch of our mail de- spatches in New York brings this city within thirty-five days of Australia; and if the English passengers who accompanied it from New Zea- land had re-embarked in a European steamer just after landing yesterday they would have reached Ireland in forty-five days from Wel- The Herato’s special correspondence to-day will enable the British officials here, if so inclined, to forward to Queen Victoria through the Atlantic cable the first report of all the inci- dents connected with O'Farroll’s assault on the life of her son; so that our readers enjay a fore- taste of what will be sccomplished when the vast tlde of trade and travel, to which we have referred, is relled to and from San Frauciseo and New York and vice versa. ‘Thad Stevens to His Colored Friende—He Gives His Author. Old Thad Stevens made a speech the other day to the General Conference of the African Methodist Church, in Washington, doing more honor to his colored brethren than he did to the Senate of the United States, by remaining standing while he was speaking and being spoken to. In the course of his remarks he admitted it was ‘ina measure through the ‘agency of the infernal regions that his colored friends had become free and were at liberty to call themselves men.” It has been suspected for a long time that Old Thad was in league with the Old Harry, but there is no proof of his acknowledging the fact until the present moment. This is tangible evidence of his ap- proaching end; for it is notorious that the worst sinners hold back their important con- fessions until the hour of dissolution. There- fore, having acknowledged the real author and inspiration of his many infernal doings in this world, his hardest hearted adversary cannot help wishing him an easy transit to a blissful hereafter: He may, howéver, after all, cheat the Devil as Richelieu cheated the king, and obtain’a longer lease of power to do evil. But this deathbed confession is on the record against him, and whatever of the Satanic kind he may do in the future will be attributed to the fact that, like poor old Daddy Rice ‘in his well known character of the colored Fra Dia- volo, he has ‘‘sold himself to de debbil.” Our News from All the’ Ends of the ‘ Earth, In the Heraxp of yesterday we gave to the American public news not only from Washing- ton and from every American centre, but from all the ends and almost all the centres of the earth. Not to speak of telegrams, we gave letters from our special correspondents at the headquarters of the British army in Abyssinia, at Rio Janeiro, at Buenos Ayres, in Mexico, all full of the most particular details. What the British army did in .Abyssinia, what is taking place among the monarchical and repub- lican Spaniards of South America, and how miserably Mexico is justifyiug her right to a place among the nations—all this the HERALD brought before not only the American public but the world. We should not have mentioned these circum- stances but for the fact that the world seems slow to learn the real character and province of modern journalism. We have been trying to teach governments and journalists what it is they can and what it is they ought to do. They are slow to learn, and until they learn we feel it to be our duty to harp on the same chord, We have entered upon a grand ers, an era of popular liberty and power, and it remains to be seen whether the people will prove them- selves worthy of their great privileges. If they do not it will not be the fault of the HERALD. Extraordinary Sickness at Washington. Our telegraphic despatches from Washington of Wednesday night disclosed an extraordi- nary number of Senators on the sick list. Senator Howard, who was unable to leave his rooms on Tuesday, still continued very ill; but, in addition to his case, Senator Grimes, of Towa, was reported as suffering from an attack of paralysis; Senators Conkling, of New York, and Morton, of Indiana, as having been attacked with symptoms of gastric fever, and there was a rumor that Senator Nye, of Ne- vada, was also quite indisposef. The reaction from the tremendous Senatorial nervous excite- ment on this impeachment, culminating in the awful shock among the impeachers from the proclaimed opinions of Grimes, Fessenden, Trambull and Henderson, on Monday night, has doubtless had much to do with these remark- able cases of Senatorial sickness. In February, 1857, a strange epidemic broke out in the National Hotel at Washington, from which a number of persons died, and from which Mr. Buchanan, then as President elect a lodger in the house, had a narrow escape. That disor- der was traced to a poisonous sewer, the gases from which (the outlet of the sewer in the canal being frozen up) came back into the hotel and were diffused through the whole establishment, from the cellar to the attic. This impeachmeut has, perhaps, been ope- rating the same way in the Capitol, and, from present appearances, a very disastrous epi- demic among the rank and file of the radical party will be the result. Tae Horrtess Conprtion of Mexico.—In the Heraxp of yesterday we published a long letter from the pen of our special correspond- ent in Mexico city. If anything more were | GUATEMALA. TRERGRAPHIC NE FROM i] ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. ENGLAND. ‘The Church Temporalities Bil—Finance and ‘Weather, Lonpon, May 149 P. M. ' In the House of Commons to-night the bit! moved by Mr, Gladstone to suspend the making of appoiat- ments in the Irish Church passed to a first It is provided that the bill is to remain in effect until the lat of August, 1869. Bank and Weather Reports, Lonpon, May 14, 1868. ‘The official returns of the Bank of England show that the amount of bullion in its vaults has decreaged £112,000 during the past week. ‘The weather to-day is delightful and favorable fer the growing crops- GERMANY. Budget of the Northern Confederation—Ex- penditure and Income, BERLIN, May 14, 1868. The governmental budget of the North German Confederation has been made public. The total expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year are estimated at 73,000,000 thalers. Of this sum 72,000,000 will be required for the military aad marine administration of the Confederation. The total income from the customs and imposte levied by the Zollverein from the postal and tele- graphic services and from other federal sources ia estimated at 50,000,000 thalers, and the individual States of the Confederation, including Prussia, are to contribute the balance of 23,000,000 thalers, ac- cording to their respective financial quotas as appor- tioned by the federal constitution. BAVARIA. Mr, Bancroft’s Diplomatic Mis: Municn, Mey 1 Hon. George Bancroft, the American Mic or, is in this city, where he awaits the arrival Prince Hohenlohe, who is now attending the Zoiiverein Diet in Berlin. Mr. Bancroft will immediately enter into negotia- tions for a nationality treaty, of the same import aa that recently concluded between the United States and North Germany, with the Bavarian Prime Minister immediately on his return to this capital. FRANCE. M. Thiers on Commercial Protection. Panis, May 14, M. Thiers yesterday made a public speech tn which he took ground in favor of the protection of home industry, and thus endorses the agitation of the French manufacturers for the termination of the Napoleon-Cobden treaty at the time of its legal ex- piration, HONDURAS. Visit of President Medina to the, Departments— Import and Export Dues. Havana, May 14, 1868, Our advices from Trujillo are to May 3. President Medina had been visiting the depart. ments; and at last accounts was In Juticatpa, The duty on imports is hereafter to be assessed by weight. A drawback of four per cent is to be allowed on all exports, Burning of the Town ef Iznbaimincendiaries Arrested. HAVANA, May 14, 1868, Our advices from Guatemala are to May 1. A terrific fire had destroyed the town of Izabal. All the buildings were reduced to ashes exeept three, Two incendiaries had beon arrested and con- veyed to the capital. THE LATE STORM. Freshet in Rhode Island—Five Buildings and Three Dams Carried Away. PROVIDENCE, R. I., May 14, 1868. The heavy rain of last night caused a freshet in @ small stream in Johnston, three miles from this city, known as Dry Brook, and much damage waa done, About one o'clock this morning three dams were carried away, the food taking also a small cotton mill owned by Thomas Hughes and run by Thomas Pray, a cotton storehouse leased by James Walsh and three buildings known as the Glen Hill Chemical Works, owned by Mr. Raghes. The total loss is about $60,000. The Storm in Maine. Lewiston, May 14, 1868, ‘The storm last night was the severest known for years, The damage to bridges in this city and vicinity is quite large. CONNECTICUT. Buckingham Nominated in the Republican Legislative Cancus for Senntor. New Haven, May 14, 1868, Tn caucus to-night the republican members of the Legislature nomtnated William A. Buckingham for United States Senator on the third ballot. The vote stood:—Buckingham 81, Hawley 09. Platts was with- drawn on the last ballot. MISSISSIPPI. The Per Diem of the Conventionists to Be Disallowed—Petty Larcentes Among the Colored Members. JACKSON, May 14, 1868, | The State Convention to-day passed a resolution wanted to prove that Mexico was in a truly “hopeless condition, surely that proof was sup- plied by the letter referred tc. Mexico, in the interests of liberal institutions, killed off Maxi- milian. Liberal institutions we are sorry to be compelled to say, have net profited by the result. Matters have grown worse month by month. It is now no longer possible to resist the conviction that the real sslvation of Mexico depends upon the change of her flag. The Star Spangled Banner is her only safety. If she will not come under the flag we must spread the flag over her. The flag of the United States mae only guarantee of her sal- vation. A Curcren—The letter of Senator Hender- son on his constitutional dujy in the matter of the impeachment. ; OBITUARY. Charles 8. Walcot. (From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, May 14.) Last evening at six o'clock Clarles M. Walcot, Sr., died at the residence of his 3on, on Washington square. Mr. Walcot was.a vetersn actor of burlesque comedy and tragedy, and obtatsed marked celebrity almost upon his first entrance upon the dramatic stage. He was of English birth, studied: his pro- in, his but commenced its prestes te native ve. cones his eine an allowing members no per diem after to-morrow, the 16th inet. Combash, & colored delegate, has been tadicted by the Grand Jury, uow in session, for stealing conven- tion warrants from another colored delegate. OUR INDIAN TROUBLES. The Peace “Commiasioncre—Troattes Con- cluded with Various Tribes—“Red Cloud” Wants the Military Posts Evacuated. Sr. Lours, May 14, 1868. A despatch from Cheyenne, dated yesterday, says Generals Sherman, Augur and Terry and Colonet ‘Tappan, the Indian Peace Commissioners, returned from Fort Laramie to-day, and report they have cone cluded a Gok with the Crows, Brules, Sioux pa bees, and Arapahoes, all agree- ing to peace andi settle upon the tion. conerals Harvey and Sanborn Pape yh the secretary of the ee tne te Laramie om “Man-Afraid-of-His- itoraon whoy who, with a large band, passed Fort Reno on the Sng tS ‘ad tar 7 are re erals San! an jarne} ing for the removal ofa arge Dar J a mie to @ reservation on the About one handred Sioux, wh mitted the late go on tl Pacific Ratiroad, are still Glo fen image haba hn ie in are waiti or the military posts, and wen they ar are abandoned he will camera Agar goes Fo vo Fort B Snakes and pia to New Mexico to io meet tho Navajoes, to Forts Randall and Snily to arran, forth oy reception and location of the Indians on reservations. — MAR YLAND. The Division in the Republican ‘Party of the State, Battimore, May 14, 1968, At @ mass meeting of colored people held here night for the purpose of expressing their views the division of the republicans of Marytan