The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1868, Page 6

NEW YOR HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1868:~TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, BELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BROADWAY TABERNACLE Pivatre. Evening. BLOOMINGDALE BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rrv. W. Porm YEamaN. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS.—Sacrep Con- OERT AT THE EvERETT Rooms, CHURCH.—Rev. Lzon CHURCH OF THE ANNUN( . W. 0. - oan HE ICIATION.—Rev. W. 0. Law. CHURCH OF THE RESURRE! Rev. PLAGG. Pn rp Pe CTION.—Rzv. Dr. Face. CHAPEL OF THE HOLY SAVIOUR.—MissionaRy S0- OIRTY FOR SEAMEN. Evening. CANAL STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—REv. Davin MITOUBLL, Morning and evening. * CHAPEL OF THE HOLY APOSTLES.—Rev. Dr. How- LAND. Morning and afternoon. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS—University.—REV. DR. Drems. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL.—DgDICATION BY AROR- BisHOP MCCLOSKEY. Morning. DODWORTH HALL—Srinituatists. Mr. CONKLIN, TRANOk MEDIyaM. Morning. Evening—Lectone By De, Haxocx. jabs EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Kgv. G. F. KROTRL. Morning and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SriniTUALIsTs, Mus, C. FANNIE ALLYN, Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Rev. Dk. PLUMMER. Morning and evening. FRENCH CHURCH DU ST. ESPRIT.—Morning. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East- BUBN BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. Tuomas D. ANDER- 60N, Morning and afternoon, MORAVIAN P. E, CONGREGATION.—Rzv. A. A. REINKE. Morning. SEVENTEENTH STREET P. Const, Morning and evening. LEXINGTON AVENUE Hewerr. Morning aod CHURCH.—REv. W. . E. CHURCH.—Rev. Mr. ing. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisuor SNow. Af- ternoon. UPPER CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Rev. Tuomas A. JAGGER. Afternoon. ZION CHURCH.—Rrv. Dr. MorGan. Evening. T RIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, May 17, 15868. In the High Court yesterday the gaileries were crowded to excess, Nearly all the members of the House were present, and all the Managers and coun- sel for the President. : On the opening of the court Mr. Williams moved to take up his order to read the eleventh article first, which was adopted. Mr. Fessenden then proposed an adjournment of half an hour to await the arrival of Mr. Grimes, but it was discovered that Mr. Grimes was present. The Secretary of the Senate then, by direction of the Chief Justice, read the eleventh article, and the Chief Justice, arising in his place, put the question toeach Senator. The vote in the end stood 35 for conviction and 19 for acquittal, one being wanted for a two-thirds vote for conviction. Anthony and Sprague, of Rhode Island, who were considered doubtful, voted for conviction, and Ross, Fowler and Van Winkle voted for acquittal. Senator Wade, the Vice President pro tem., voted guilty. On the result being stated a motion to adjourn to Tuesday, the 26th inst., was immediately made by a radical member. The Chief Justice ruied it out of order, but his decision was overruled by a vote of 34 to 20, Mr. McCreery moved as an amendment that the High Court adjourn without day, but it was lost by @ vote of 47to 6. Mr. Buckallew moved to make the day Monday next, but {t was lost, and the original motion was then put and carried by a vote of 32to0 22. So the High Court of Impeachment ad- journed until the 26th inst. The President's friends are highly elated over the result, which they argue will be the same on the other articles. The radicals although greatly depressed are not entirely without hope, as they say a two- third vote on any one article of the ten yet tobe voted upon will convict and remove as completely ason all of them. The excitement in this city and throughout the country was very great. On resuming legisiative business in the Senate the Judiciary Committee reported a bill for the admis- sion of Arkansas. Mr. Hendricks asked leave to make @ minority report. The question then recurred on concurring with the House on an ad- journment until the 25th inst. Mr. Hendricks favored it, and said the republicans need have no fear that the democrats will ask a similar adjourn- ment when the New York Convention meets. Mr. Sumner favored it for the reason that he did not wish the Senate to have any communication with the President while judgment was pending. Several Senators opposed a recess because they wanted to pass the Arkansas bill and receive another defiant vetofrom the President before the final vote on im- peachment ts taken, Mr. Henderson said as long as the President was not convicted it would not injure ‘them to send a bilito him, He then adverted to his cause on the trial, and some sharp words ensucd with his colleague, Mr. Drake. The concurrent reso- lution was finally rejected by @ vote of 24 to 25. In the House, after the return from the Senate chamber, a resolution was offered by Mr. Eldridge providing for an investigation into the alleged attempts of Missouri members to influence the vote of Senator Henderson. It was decided first by the Speaker and then by the House that it ‘was not a question of privilege. Mr. Benja- min, of Missouri, said that the delegation desired an investigation, Mr. Bingham, from the Impeachment Managers, reported a resolution di- recting them Yo investigate for the more efficient prosecution of the impeachment, the charges of corrupt means being used to influence the votes of Senators. Mr. Roas objected on the ground that the House had no right to try Senators, Mr. Robinson objected on the ground that the case had been submitted to the court and the Managers could not be further heard. Both potnts of order were overruled. The House resolved to consider the resolution by a strict party vote. Mr. Bingham then stated that the Managers at the close of their testimony had reserved the night to present | additional evidence and, if necessary, additional articles, Another “fence making” scene occurred and another resolution was adopted. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is lated yes- terday, May 16. The German Customs Parliament places a tax on home grown tobacco. ‘The steamship City of Paris furnishes mail de- | tails of our cable despatches to the 7th of May. The ministerial crisis in England, resulting from Mr. Disracii’s defeat on the Irish Church question and his tender of resignation of office, occupied unusual attention in Great Britain, but the main points of the history of the cabinet interregnum reached us in oar cable telegrams and have alrcady appeared in our columns. ‘The Camarade, an Austrian military organ, con- tains an article on the warlike preparations of the surrounding Powers, from which it draws the con- * clusion that a inorease’ in the army of Austria “(ea matter of Md d ‘MISCELLANEOUS. ‘Telegraphic advices from Mexico by way of Mata- moros state that Santa Anna is reported concealede somewhere in the country, and that three noted im- perial officers had arrived at Vera Cruz from Cuba. ‘A'soore of spies have been immediately set to work. The indians are still depredating slong the Rio Orande. ‘A somewhat caustic correspondence has taken piace between Mr. Henry Bergh, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr. Michael Connolly, Police Justice, on the subject of mercy to dumb brutes and justice to human beings. Mr. Bergh asserts that Mr. Connolly habitually dis- regards complaints made before him for cruelty to Animals, and requests him in future to send all such cases to Some other magistrate. Mr. Connolly some- what caustically makes answer that he will not do it, We have telegraphic advices from St. Thomas to the 9th inst. The people were very much dejected over the delay of the United States Senate in ratify- ing the ceasion treaty. The De Soto and Saco were in port and the Shawmut was at St, Croix. A boy fifteen years of age was arrested and com- mitted yesterday on a charge of stealmg $10,154 in bonds, mortgages and money, which he buried in the sand on East river. A dumb woman dressed in male attire was arrested on board the steamship Erin at her pier yesterday, She had a steerage ticket for Queenstown. She was committed by Alderman Coman, One Dr. Webber was arrested yesterday on suspi- cion of having been concerned in the recent abortion practised on Emma Konigsberger, which produced her death. The Callicott-Allen case was resumed in the United States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, yesterday. Nume- rous witnesses for the prosecution were examined, At the conclusion Callicott’s bondsman refused to furnish bonds for his turther appearance, and he was remanded to the custody of the United States Mar- shal. Mr, Allen was remanded to jail and the court adjourned till Monday. Application was made to the Supreme Court, Gen- eral Term, yesterday, for the confirmation of the report of the Commissioners on Estimate and Assess- ment in the matter of the opening of the new Boule vard, on the west side, from Fifty-ninth street to 156th street. Argument not yet concluded. ‘The jury in the case of Laura Waldron against Caro- line Richings, which wason trial in the Marine Court during Thursday and Friday of this week was dis- charged at eleven o’clock on Friday night, they having failed to agree after a deliberation of nine hours, In the case of the United States against Samuel R. Van Campen application was made in the United States District Court before Judge Blatchford ona writ of habeas corpus for the discharge of the ac- cused, charged with embezzling a considerable sum of money from the First National Bank of Elmira. Argrument of counsel was heard in the case, and the court reserved decision. Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, is reported to be in a dying condition at his home in Knoxville, ‘Two Spaniards were arrested in New Orleans on Friday night, having in their possession gold bars worth $150,000, General Buchanan has concluded to make no fur- therannouncement of the result of the late Louisiana election until Congress has acted upon the State con- stitution. The stock market was firm yesterday. Govern- ment securities were strong. Gold closed at 13714. The markets, with but few exceptions, were ex- tremely quiet yesterday, but values were generally unchanged. Cotton was moderately active and c. higher, closing at 32c, for middling uplands, Coffee was dull and unchanged. On ’Change flour was sparingly dealt in and heavy. Wheat was in fair demand, but the firmness of sellers restricted business. Corn was in fair de- mand and steady, while oats were dull and lower. Pork was in improved demand and about 12}c. per bbl. higher, while beef was more sought after and steady. Lard was only moderately active and rather heavy. Freights were dull. Naval stores were ex- ceedingly quiet and lower. Petroleum was dull and heavy. Whiskey was inactive and nominal. Impeachment=—Not Guilty. Cowardly, contemptible, mean to the last, impeachment has been beaten to death like a vile reptile in its chosen place of refuge. Driven distinctly from every point they had taken which could be called fair ground, the Managers of this great case and the radical Senators known to be for conviction, heart and soul, had remaining one opportunity to redeem themselves—one way by which they could in the last scene demonstrate to the country that they were moved by just motives and were wronged by the light in which much of their conduct had shown them: Had they, with some final grace of moral courage, faced the verdict fairly—taken, even defiantly, the re- sponsibility of their course—that spirit would have covered many of their sins. But if they could have acted with manly honor, and so put themselves before the court as either to win their case or openly acknowledge its de- feat, giving the accused the plain acquittal to which he has a right, they might have saved for their cause some popular respect and stood to the future only under the common odium of error, and not as men exhibiting in a whole career absolute disregard to and even defiance of common ideas of right. But an instinct carried them to a disgraceful attempt to cheat and swindle at the last in the very court. Already it has been seen, in the adjournment from Tuesday until Saturday, how effectively an unscrupulous majority might outrage justice. Under the plainest letter of the law not less than two-thirds of the Senate | could convict, but by this convention tactics of adjournment a majority had, as it counted, all power. It adjourned because it knew the verdict would be for acquittal, and thus kept the verdict in suspense, counting upon pres- sure and every possible contingency to give conviction some better chance another day. This, worthy of thimbleriggers and throwers of false dice, rather than the Senators of a great nation, was the course pursued in the High Court on Saturday. One of the many articles of impeachment had been framed purposely “to catch votes. It was one that alleged least against the President; it was one specifying next to nothing—so vague and general that | the simplest difference in political views with the President might, it was thought, justify | Senators in voting guilty on it. It was so vague that no court should ever have enter- | tained it, But on this, because of its very | nullity, there were likely to be more votes for guilty than on any other. , On this the im- peachers knew they had most strength.. They resolved, therefore, to force this, though it was the eleventh article in the bill, first on the attention of the court. If they should get & verdict in their favor on this one article it would be enough, and they might thus even demoralize, as they thought, the men who op- | posed them, and so carry the whole bill. If, on the other hand, they should fail on this they could not hope just now to win on any, and they could withdraw from the field to try the Pressure again. They might find on this that they could not convict, but they would not have the common honesty to acquit, They would hold over the President, over the constl- tution, over the country, the threat of the re- vival of this bill on some other day, when bul- lying, bribery or the corrupt bargaining of ® Presidential convention, should induce changes in their fav@r, and they might, through such outside means, get a verdict that their evidence and their arguments could not obtain. Such is the disgraceful, demoralizing, ruinous course the party of impeachment has taken; and this is in character with its history. But it te defeated even at this. Impeach- ment has failed, even with all this tortuous | scheming to ald it, and never will dare again to raise its head before the American people, | Even if these men who urge it should on some other occasion attempt to take another vote they will be hissed and hooted to silence, ifnot to shame, by the common voice of the whole lard. Let these political gamblers go to Chicago and make their candidate. Aside from one name they can present no man as their candi- date whom that very fact will not condemn to in- famous defeat, The nation has now no great confidence in those persons whom it is thought these men are likely to present as their stand- ard bearer. Fortunately, the country is not ready for Wade. There are some depths of degradation it has not yet sounded. It looks askance at Grant for supposed compli- city in this atrocious effort, and the voters will only need to know the name of the one the impeachers desire to have in power to know the name they must not fold up in their ballots next November. But if the impeach- ers shall not get possession of the convention— if they shall fail there as in the Senate, and the name of Chase shall be put up, the country will remember him as the man who maintained the dignity of the law so far as lay in his power, and opposed the final injustice of the Senate till voted down by men who could have done him no greater honor than was involved in that vote. Spiritualism—Some ef Its More Recent Manifestations, The case of Mr. Home, now before the Eng- lish courts, has lent an interest to Spiritual- ism to which otherwise it is not justly entitled. By the details of the trial which we have given from time to time in the pages of the HeraLp the American public have been placed in a fair position to judge for themgelves. We have no desire to prejudge the case. Whether Mr. Home did or did not play upon the weak and susceptible intellect.of the rich but childless widow Lyon to the extent of robbing her of her entire property may be left with safety in the hands of the English judges. The money is, perhaps, as safe in the hands of Mr. Home as in those of Mrs. Lyon, although it might be safer in other hands than either. This, how- ever, is a subordinate question. The fact with which we have to deal is that Spiritualism is one of the great questions of the day, and it is not possible for us to deny that this will case has given Spiritualism an importance to which intrinsically it is not entitled, and which certainly it has not formerly enjoyed. In the Heratp of yesterday we gave a large portion of the evidence both for and against Mr. Home. We gave also an account of a grand Spiritualist soirée held on May 1 in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The Glasgow meeting was certainly a peculiarity. Those who know Glasgow and who are familiar with the names of the different parties who figured on the occasion will not be much surprised either with the meeting or with its results, It is, however, we hesitate not to say, undeniable that the investigation of Mrs. Lyon's case will, taken in connection with the Glasgow meeting, prove Spiritualism, under the organized form in which alone we have a right to look at it, to be one of if not the grandest, swindle of the age. If Home is an apostle of a new religion he is certainly one of the meanest and most merce- nary apostles which the world has yet known in connection with any cause. The Jesuits have been blamed, and blamed not unjustly ; but the Jesuits in their worst and most unscrupulous days behaved like gentle- men in comparison with this mean, low- minded and hungry fellow, who professes to sustain mysterious relations to the spirit world, and who makes use of his pre- tended power to rob weak-minded and unsus- pecting widows of their property. Home may or may not be a favorite with the world un- seen, but Home has made it manifest that he and all men like him are dangergus enemies, against which the law should protect society. We say this all the more heartily of Home be- cause we are prepared to be equally severe if similar practices are indulged under any other more sacred or less sacred name. The re- ligious instincts implanted in man by the Great | Father of us all were given for high, holy and noble uses, and it-cannot be permitted that selfish scoundrels like Home should play upon these instincts for base and selfish ends. The Glasgow meeting could be repeated at-any moment by putting a drugged, a drunken or an | insane woman upon the’ platform, and allowing her to conduct herself in her own wild way. As it was, the audience was disgusted and the chairman was compelled to apologize for the in- decent exhibition. It is one of the remaining consolations of poor humanity that error sooner or later kills itself. Judging from these re- cent manifestations, the end of Spiritualism cannot be far off. It cannot perish too soon. “BLEEDING Kansas” 10 THE Resour.—The vote of Senator Ross, a republican from Kansas, turned the tide yesterday in the High Court of Impeachment in favor of President Johnson—nineteen not guilty, Ross among them ; thirty-five guilty, not two-thirds. But had Ross voted with the thirty-five, as they expected him to do, there would have been just the two-thirds vote required of the mem- bers present to convict on the eleventh article. “Bleeding Kansas,” which broke up the old democratic party under poor Pierce and Buchanan, and which brought ‘Old John Brown” into the foreground, has the honor of giving the decisive vote on this impeachment, which marks the beginning of the en@ of the present ruling radical faction at Washington. And what of Johnson? ‘‘Verily, the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.” Tuk Diexiry or Coxaress— MAKING Faces.—‘‘Maske and Faces” may be very good on the stage, but they are not exactly in place on the floor of Congress. The indecorous pro- ceedings which occurred in the House on Friday, between an honorable member from Pennsylvania and an honorable member from Missouri, in which the latter was charged by ‘the former with ‘‘making faces” at him, putting his thumb to hie nose, after the manner of a bootblack, and indulging in other grimaces, does not speak very emphatically for the dignity of Congress. If we add this scene to the recent wordy dispute between Donnelly and Washburne, in which the grossest lan- guage was used, we must conclude that the highest representative body in the country is the worst school of manners and morals from which the people can learn the valne of good breeding, The Black Crook Literature of the Day. The revival and unprecedented license of the ballet of the Black Crook school, with its nudities and shameless movements and the glare of its spectacular accessories, find their counterpart in what may not improperly be called the Black Crook literature of the day, and especially in those forms of it presented by almost all the reviews, magazines and other periodicals, A vast and discreditable change has been wrought in the character of periodical litera- ture. Fifty years ago, in France, Great Britain and the United States, many writers of strong, well disciplined, well stored heads, of warm, earnest hearts and of high, benevolent pur- poses—writers fully capable of what are sup- posed to be more enduring works than articles in reviews and magazines—availed themselves of periodical literature as one of the readiest means of reaching and affecting the greatest number of minds and of forming and guiding a progressive popular opinion, The moral as well as the literary tone of periodical literature was pure so long as its principal contributors remained true to their originally high standard of conscientiousness, culture and intelligence. Of late, however, even some of the great French, ‘English and American quarterlies have sadly deteriorated; and the legion of monthly, fortnightly and weekly publications which now compete with their bulkier rivals and with each other have, with rare excep- tions, become so demoralized by the conta- gious iufinences of the day as to deserve con- demnation as flagrant examples of Black Crook literature. The evil which we signalize has been aggra- vated within a comparatively short period by the adoption in France and in the United States of a custom which was first introduced not long ago in London. Almost every great London publisher now deems it necessary to have a magazine of his own. He finds that it pays, if only as a vehicle for advertising his other publications, provided that the articles which it contains pander to the corrupted tastes of the public. Made, like Peter Pindar’s razors, expressly to sell, they must be market- able articles. The publishers in London, Paris, New York, Philadelphia and Boston almost all agree in aiming to supply the in- creasing demand for what is popularly termed “the sensational.” ' This element is most con- spicuously introduced into the “‘serial stories” which are now universally deemed indispen- sable to the success of a magazine. f These stories are the direct offspring of the roman-feuilleton which invaded the French newspapers during the reign of Louis Philippe. The feutlleton, as the lower part of the French journal, separated by a line of demarcation from the politics and news, was called, used formerly to be devoted to literature and lite- rary criticism; but after its small, short col- umns were filled with fragments of novels, continued from day to day, each fragment sur- passing its predecessor in exaggeration of style and incident, it expanded into the roman- Seuilleton, in which all sorts of: literary mon- strosities were perpetrated. La Presse, the journal of Emile de Girardin, first brought the roman-feuilleton into vogue. It did more | than any other journal to excite a greedy spirit of gain in those writers whose talents it en- slaved and injured. Like other wholesale houses in the journal line, it used to order— from Alexandre Dumas, for instance—romances by the square yard or the square foot. Dumas, Eugéne Sue, De Balzac, Frederic Souli¢, Thé- ophile Gautier, and even George Sand were called upon—as Charles Dickens, and the Trol- lopes and Reades, and Ainsworths and Brad- dons, and the other innumerable writers of serial | stories in English and American periodicals are now called upon—not to portray life as itreally is, but to present it asa series of startling inci- dents and contrasts, intermingled with crimes of every hue. We have already had occasion to describe the productions of the French Seuilletonists as either a horrid nightmare of | disjointed masses of grossness and crime, or the very midsummer madness of affectation of false, vapory sentiment and of fantastic effemi- nacy. And the same description we must likewise apply to the greater part of the serial sensational stories of recent English and Ameri- can magazines. Black Crook literature is almost too good a name for this species of frivolous and corrupt- ing fiction, with its interminable plots and counterplots, its kaleidoscope representations of all possible varieties of sin and its awful disclosures of the vulgarity and wickedness of low life in crowded cities, Moreover, its au- thors are no longer required to make snch amends as are possible by cloaking their inde- cencies with a tasteful style. Their rhetoric is often as contemptibly wretched as their morality. The elegant diction of Théophile Gautier’s ‘Mlle. de Maupin,” and other immoral writings issued by the French press, might al- most seem to justify the parodox of Burke—that “vice loses half its guilt by losing all its de- formity ;” but this utterly fails of being appli- cable to many of the exaggerated and revolt- ing portraitures of social iniquity, the hideous developments of the evil propensities of man, paraded and advertised as the chief attractions of certain English and American periodicals, This Black Crook periodical literature has the essential elements of Paganism, without the consummate grace which ancient literature gave to its works of literature and art. It ap- peals and ministers, like old Pagan literature, to pride, cupidity and voluptuousness. ‘‘Two opposite powers have disputed the empire of humanity as well as the heart of each indi- vidual ever since the original fall—sensualism and spiritualism—or, to use the energetic lan- guage of Scripture, ‘the flesh and the spirit, the old man and the new man,’” says the Abbé Gaume; and the Abbé would certainly count this Black Crook literature as altogether an ally of the flesh, the world and the Devil. That it is positively unchristian is not sur- prising when we find infidelity, in its latest and subtlest forms, pervading alike the Weat- minster Review and the North American Review, to say nothing of the Atlantic Monthly and other rationalistic magazines which are published in Puritanical Boston, A single significant fact may be mentioned in this con- nection: —In the last number of the Christian Examiner « Boston clergyman, in a bighly eulogistic article on Emerson, Spencer and Martineau, declares of Emerson that ‘‘there never was a bolder champion of mental freedom for himself and for all men;” and cites among instances that ‘many a sentence of his makes the blood lean and tingle as at the blast of @ trumpet,” the following:— “Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.” “The police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God's delegating his divinity to every particle.”. “God builds bis temple in the heart, on the ruins of churches and re- ligions ;” but the infidelity of Black Crook literature is, of itself, a fertile theme for sepa- rate consideration. Wao Kitten Cook Rosin?—What or who was it that killed the impeachment? From the radical organs we learn that Chief Justice Chase killed it; that Fessenden’s jealousy and Old Ben Wade killed it; that “Old Ben’s” high tariff notions killed it; that the treachery of Fowler and Ross killed it; and, finally, that bribery and corruption and the whiskey rings killed it. But the simple truth is that the votes of eight republican Senators, with whom justice was stronger than party, killed this impeachment, Justice prevails. Queen Victoria and the Bishops. An ecclesiastical deputation representing the hierarchy and clergy of the Protestant Church Establishment in Ireland has had audi- ence of Queen Victoria, at Windsor, and sub- mitted to her Majesty the views of the episco- pacy of that part of the kingdom on the subject of the Parliamentary disendowment measure, as set forth in the Gladstone temporalities restraint bill endorsed by the House of Com- mons. We have not yet been informed of the precise nature of the _ inter- view, nor have we a report of the conversation which took place between the Queen and her right reverend and reverend visitors, We can learn from our cable tele- grams, however, that the oral communion of the head of the Church with the Irish missionary laborers, or missionaries from Ireland, was conducted in a manner very different from that which prevailed between the members of the Apostolic family in the earliest days of Chris- tianity. The bishops pleaded, no doubt, in be- half of the inviolability of the temporalities of the Church; the rights of their successors ; “that the laborer is worthy of his hire,” and so forth. Queen Victoria replied, but, as we are told by the cable, in a very cautious manner. It is said she was ‘‘non-com- mittal.” From which we infer that her Majesty has been pondering a little as a lay ruler on the “‘rights” of the people of Ireland, while in her anointed ecclesiasm she has, per- haps, remembered the fulness and excellence of clerical poverty as set forth in the all im- portant question put to the first disciples at the Last Supper, with their reply, ‘‘When I sent you, without purse and scrip and shoes, lacked you anything?” ‘‘And they said, nothing.” She may have even ordered the bishops to read this verse every day until the time of the next general election, or take it, each, as a text for a sermon. Queen Victoria has already exhibited such excellent judgment and good senee in her treat- ment of this Irish Church matter that we should not wonder if she narrowed it, during her interview with the bishops, to this very fine and elegant scriptural point. If she has, the future work of Parliament on the subject is rendered quite easy, and the Crown has been relieved of a very anxious consideration. Past Praying For.—It appears that the colored brethren of Washington on Friday night pretty generally joined in the prayer that the Lord might so enlighten the minds of Senators as to enable them to see the wicked- ness of Andrew Johnson and judge him accordingly; but the vote on Saturday morn- ing shows that the impeachment was past praying for. The conduct of the Washingtou negro radicals, however, in resorting to prayer for the impeachment was praise- worthy compared with the violent and outrageous expedients of intimidation and threatenings and accusations resorted to by their white brethren against the unbelieving Senators. Twaddle of the Peace Society. We hope every one has read the report of the radical Peace Society in the columns of the HERALp yesterday. If so they will compre- hend how far twaddle can go in the discussion of public questions. Universal peace is a very desirable thing, but, unfortunately, it is not a part of the programme of our generation, and we are afraid that the resolutions and reports of the Peace Society are not going to bring about a revolution in this particular. It is true that the Society, according to the report of its secretary, has remonstrated with Queen Victoria on the Luxemburg question; that the Constitutional State Convention has been appealed to—and, we presume, with some effect, for we do not remember that any breach of the peace was committed there—and that various kindly meetings have been held in favor of peace all over the world, and espe- cially peace with the savage Indian tribes who are harassing civilization on our Western fron- tier. But, for all that, we hear of French gene- rals informing their soldiers that ‘‘war is immi- nent” in Europe, and we find Spotted Tail and Man-afraid-of-his-horses and other begrimed aboriginals on the Plains with curious nomen- clatures insisting that there shall be no peace in those regions unless we abandon our mili- tary posts and shut up the Pacific Railroad, so that civilization shall not scare away the buf- faloes and starve the warriors. Even those chiefs who are pretending to make treaties while they are hungry will break them when their larder is full. This is ‘‘radical” Indian policy. The talk about universal peace, there- fore, is the merest twaddle. While men live there will be war, and no peace society can ar- rest it. How Is Ir Witn Stanton?—Stanton, as Secretary of War, we suppose, will remain at his post till the 26th inst.; and then, most likely, the vote upon the several impeachment articles in which he is concerned will be again postponed for his benefit. If the radicals cannot get rid of Johnaon they will continue ta punieb him with Stanton. A Goop Time Comine.—According to the Washington newsmongers, if Congress will bury the hatchet with the failure of the im- peachment, Johnson will war off his war paint and pass round the pip@-of peace. It all depends upon the hatchet. What says Old Thad Stevens * Grimes’ hatred and Trumbull’s wrath against. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS GERMANY. The Customs Parliament=Tax en Tobacco. BERLIN, May 16, 1868. The Zollverein Diet in session here has passed am act levying a tobacco tax which includes an excise of six thalers per acre on the land under cultivation and a duty of ix thalers per hundred weight on the production. ST. THOMAS. Disappointment About, the, Treaty—Haytien Officials Going to Europe—Geffrard’s Move- mente—Marine Intelligence. Havana, May 16, 1868. Our advices from St. Thomas are to the 9th inst, A general dejection was noticeable in the inhabi- tants of the place, It was due tothe delay of the United States Senate in ratifying the treaty of pur- chase. The officials find themselves in @ predica~ ment, and as a consequence much arbitrariness and vindictiveness is displayed. The Danish gunboat Dagmar was expected shortly. The American men-of-war De Soto and Saco were still at anchor in St. Thomas harbor. The Shawmut had gone to St. Croix, where there is: no quarantine.. The steamer Caraibe returned to St. Thomas on the 4th, owing to some faultiness in her machinery, The American schooner Albert Thomas, Captain Rogers, from Buenos Ayres and Montevidee, had arrived on the 4th inst. at St. Thomas, The British steamer Alpha, Captain Hunter, sailed for Bermuda and Halifax on the same day. The British steamer Tasmania, Captain Gillies, had also sailed forSouthampton. Among her passengers was L. J. Adam, late Minister of President Geffrard to England and France. He had just come from Ja- maica, and is supposed to be on a mission to those governments on behalf of Geffrard, seeing that Presi- dent Salnave appears to lose ground in Hayti. An- other passenger is Saint Aude, secretary of General Solomon, the actual Haytien Minister in Europe. Solomon had sent Saint Aude home to Port au Prince for.the arrears of the Minister’s salary. He was suc- cessful in- getting them and now returns to Europe. BRAZIL. Changes in the Brazilian Cabinet=Shelling of Fort Humaita—Two Paraguayan Gunboats Sunk. Lonpon, May 16, 1868. The British mail steamer from Rio Janeiro haa arrived to;day at Lisbon. She brings dates to the 24th of April. The following changes had taken place in the im- perlal Cabinet of Brazil:— Sefior Albuquerque had retired from the Depart- ment for Foreign Affairs, and was succeded by Sefior Souza,a member of the Chamber of Duputies. Sefior Aldine had been appointed Secretary of the Brazilian Legation at Washington. The only additional news of importance from the seat of war, on the Rio Paraguay, is that the allied batteries had shelled Fort Humaita, and that the Marques de Caxias was preparing to assault the stronghold with hisland forces, It was also reported that the allied batteries above Fort Humaita had sunk two Paraguayan gunboats. MEXICO. A Strange Rumor About Santa Anna—Depre- dations on the Rie Grande—Customs Re- turns at Brownsville. GALVESTON, May 16, 1868. News had reached Matamoras on the 12th tnstant to the effect that three noted ex-imperialist oficera had recently arrived in the republic from Cuba, and that Santa Anna was concealed somewhere in Mexico. Ascore of spies were reported to have gone from Matamoras and to be watching his movements. General McCook is announced as having gone to ‘New Orleans to obtain an additional frigate. The Mexican robbers and the Indians were com- mitting great depredations along the Rio Grande. ‘The farmers report that during the past five mdhths about twenty-two hundred head of cattle have been stolen. ‘The current year’s returns from the customs at Brownsville are reported as likely to yield from $50,000 to $200,000. Overland advices from Mazatlan confirm the news already published in the HERALD of the Sinaloa Tebels defeat. CUBA. The Weather—Weekly Market Report—Marine Intelligence. HAVANA, May 16, 1868, ‘The weather is very warm. ‘The following are the closing prices of merchan- dise for the week ending to-day:— Sugar market excited; sales at 834 a 9 reals for Nos. 10 to 12, and 944 @ 1034 reals for Nos. 15 to 20. Molasses sugar, 6; a 8 reals for Nos. 7 to 10. Musco- vados in demand and scarce; inferior to common refining, 74 a 7% reals; fair to good refining, 7% a8 reals; grocery es, 835 & 94 reals. Bees wax, $7 a $775 for brown, and $10 a $iz for white, per arrobe. Freights in demand; to Northern po per box, $2 12% a $2 26; r hha. sugar, $9 a $10; per hhd. molasses, $6. To per box, $2123, @ $2 25; per hha. sugar, $8 25 a $9; per hhd. molasges, $5 cry $5 75. Shooks scarce; box, 8% a 9 reals; empty casks, $225. Hoops, $48 a $54 per thousand for long shaved, and $42 @ $44 for short. Lumber, $244 $26 for white pine; $20 a $22 for pitch pine. Bacon, 15c, a 16c. per pound. Hams, 20c. for salt, and 22c. for sugar cured: per pound. Flour, $12 $12 75 per bbl. rd, 19. @ 193gc. in tlerces; 20c. @ 2i}¢c. in 25 pound tina, Potatoes, $4a $450 per bbl. Tallow, 114c. a 12c.. rT pound. The ee Columbia, Lord Lovell and Emily: B. Souder sailed to-day for New York, KANSAS. Movements of General Sheridan. Sr. Lovis, May 16, 1868, General Sheriden left Fort Leavenworth on Wednes~ day for the West. He will make short delays at Forts Hays, Cayote and other points and then pro- ceed to Denver. His object is to ascertain the: dis- ely of tne Indians. From Denver he will go ta te Fe, should the condition of affairs require it. uthern ports, LOUISIANA. The Election Retarne—Farther Announcement of the Result Postponed. New ORLEANS, March 16, 1868. It is stated that General Buchanan will make no. further announcement of election returns until Con~ gress acta upon the constitution. It is also stated that he gap oe contest of the seat of Mr. democratic Congressman elect from the district, is abandoned as hopeless of success, niards were arrested last night having tm their Pannen gold bars of the estimated value of iY apres be net ot Ge greenenes & lexican ry. TENNESSEE. Governor Brownlow Reported to be Dying. LovisviLue, Ky., May 16, 1868. A despatch to the Courier from Nashville states that Governor Brownlow was in a dying condition atone o'clock yesterday morning at bis home at Knoxville. ——— THE DEATH OF THE CONVICT JEFFERS. POUGHKEEPSIE, May 16, 1968, Lhave received further intelligence from Sing Sing tn relation to the killing of Jeffers. His brother says that Jeffers wasgeentenced to one year's imprison, ment and then to be hung, for the murder of his stap- father and a policeman named Matthews who taxied toarrest him. For some cause or other (money ft. ia ppoees jeffers was resentenced to im for ed) ead been consined about fever yeaa. On Thursday he was Complaining ing unwell and was allot ‘to go about the . srettgrable, goin Up into the hay or one of the ho takes care of th the convicts, w! es of the horses, n going tne iad Srila stable soon down from the loft. He ascended found Jeffers insenaible, with two tertible cute on ‘ards. Coro- te eit, of Sacingepencioh ay if Smith, of Hast = — jury, which at a vordict. bas been in geaion two atale mystery. To-day Ville far inter, 4