The New York Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1868, Page 6

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TRIPLE t ; New Yorks, Monday, ea 18, enh : According to despatches from Washingtor it is generally known there that some, if not au, the members of President Johnson's Cabinet have signi- fied their willingness io retire from office, and that the President has intimated a desire to reform his Cabinet by placing therein men of eminent abilities and in fuli accord with the expressed wishes of the people. It is believed also by both parties that he will offer no further objections to a ready admis- sion of the Southern States, The statement, how- ever, that he made promises of a similar character before the vote of Saturday is untrue, and also that he was congratulated by Chief Justice Chase on the | result of the vote, A reporc was current that Grant had declined to run on a negro suffrage plat- form, but it could’ not be verified. The Im- peachment Managers to-day will commence in- vestigating the charges of the use of corrupt means to influence Senators. The result of the impeachment trial, according to our telegraphic despatches this morning, has been hailed with ap- propriate demonstrations of joy in all parts of the country. ‘The opinion of Senator Trumbull in support of his vote on Saturday will be found in full elsewhere in our columns this morning. We have important telegraphic news from Hayti tothe 12th inst. President Sainave had escaped from Cape Haytien and arrived in Port au Prince. Here he used violent threats to the American and other foreign consuls, and many Americans were shot at and robbed, being finally compétied to seek shelter at the American Consulate. were arrested and ordered to be shot. The American Consul sent to Havana for an American man-of-war and to Jamaica fora British war vessel. The steam gunboat Phoebe, belonging to the British govern- ment, immediately sailed from Jamaica to lis assist- ance. The revolution had spread al! over the coun- nearly the whole of which is now in arms against Salnave. Telegraphic advices from Venezuela to tly April are received. Congress assembled on ( ty but there was no Governor present and no jon has been held since, owing to the disruption between the two houses, The trace with the rebels expired on the 20th. The result was still unknown, but pri- vate property was being seized on every hand and stored in the Custom Houses to pay the debt of the | government. We have correspondence from Cuba dated May % The news has been very generally anticipated by our cable despatches. The Lieutenant Governor of Colon had arrested a widow lady of that place on some vague charge, a file of Spanish soldiers being detailed for the purpose. She was a lady of high rank and family, and although soon released the indignation among the native horn Cuban population at this summary process was very great. Our special correspondence, with the mail details of our cable despatches to the 71h of May, published to-day, Dontain matter of much interest, particularly the letters of our special correspondent in London, hich are of the highest importance in view of the exhibit which the writer affords of the political and executive situation in Great Britain. Our special correspondent in Abyssinia, dating at Doutla on the 4th of March, supplies a highly inte. resting descriptive narrative of the interview which took place between the King of Tigre and General Napier during the march of the Briti#h troops in Magdala. Royal and military etiquette were ob- served to the letter on the occasion, General Napier enduring a good deal of trouble from a balky ele- phant and imperial delay in the divide et impera cause of the Queen. The native turnout made a fine display and the scene was not only novel but ex- citing. Our mail files from New Zealand supply an impor- tant article from a journal published in Welllington, which shows with what anxious interest the colo- nists watch the progress of the great revolution in the route of trade and travel whieh will pring them in closer and less interrupted connection with the American Continent. A finance journal, publisted in si, Poversvurg, sete forth the merits and provable results of the present Russian military movement in Centra! Asia ae likely to anticipate the English advance as @ trade monopdly in that quarter of Europe. and eventually neutralize British induence in India. Notwithatanding the dreary rain which prevaiiea all day and during the earlier hours of last night the | Some of the citizens | NEW YOR HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 18, 18638.—TRIPLE SHEET. tion of a high mass and the administering of the communion to the children, about six hundred in number, The twenty-fourth anniversary of the Protestant Episcopal Church Missionary Society for Seamen was held last evening at the Chapel of the Holy Saviour, in East Twenty-ffth street. The annual report of the board of managers was read and an address de- livered by the Rev. Dr, Tyng. The anniversary meet- ing of the American Board of Foreign Missions was held at the Adams church, in Madison avenue, last evening, Mr, Wm, E. Dodge presiding. According to the secretary the expenditures of the board during the year ending August, 1867, had been $448,524. During the past eight months the board has received $261,160, ‘The ninth annual convention of the Board of Dele- gates of American Israelites was held yesterday afternoon in the Thirty-fourth street synagogue, Resolutions were adopted favoring the furtherance of Jewish education and theology, directing the Board to take action with a view ofj ameliorating the condition of Israelites in the Danubian principalities and the Holy Land, and recommending measures for the organization of the Hebrew Publication Society, together with other interesting matters; also looking to the opening of intercourse with Abyssinia, in reference to the tribe of Falashas. ‘The investigation into the alleged malpractice case in Norfolk street was concluded yesterday, the jury finding a verdict which implicates Madame Weiss and one Dr. Weber in producing the death of the young girl, Emma Konigsberger. They were both required to give baif. An investigation into the facts connected with the mysterious murder of Jefferds, the convict at Sing Sing, was commenced yesterday. No clue to the perpetrator has yet been found, although Burns and Whittington, two other convicts, are known to have entertained a feeling of deadly hate, towards him. The conservative republicans in the Georgia Leg- islature, it is said, hold the balance of power between the democratic and radical members, with a decided proclivity for the democrats, Messrs, Gordon and Fitch will probably be the democratic candidates for the United States Senate. Advices from Alaska to the 20th ult, report pleasant weather, good health and brisk business in Sitka. A strong party is organizing in Vancouver's Island in favor of joining the Canadian Confederatioy. A verdict was rendered in the Albro-Hill breach of promise case in Prowidence, R. I., on Saturday. The damages claimed by Miss Albro were $100,000, and the jury granted her $1,500, Despatches from Knoxville deny the report of the | illness of Governor Brownlow. A letter from Paris states that John C. Breckinridge has returned to that city from the Holy Land, and will soon leave for Quebec, Impeachment as a Party Test The Revolution Impeachment has failed in the Senate on one point. It has ten points left and will carry these to Chicago, and will thence, without doubt, put its case before the country in the republi- can party platform, The convention that meets on Wednesday will be an impeaching | convention. So say the party hucksters, and they are, perhaps, right; for when we see that every republican in Congress—save only those few of the high minded men in the Senate who regard duty as above all other influences—is savagely eager for impeachment, we cannot but suppose it will find equal favor in an assem- plage of the low morality and narrow intellect that are the distinctive characteristics of nomi- nating Conventions. It will be an impeaching | convention, and one, conseqnently, in which ! Butler, Stevens and Sumner will be the master spirits; and it is not to be supposed that these | men, having all Congress and this convention | at command, should relinquish a case that they could have carried if they could have changed | asingle vote. Can they not change a single | vote by the whole pressure of party power? €an it be that the virtue and firmness of the Senate are such as to stand above all the pressure that party can apply, when all that is | needed is only to change one vote? These | men cannot believe it, and so they will essay | this power to the utmost, and use the conven- | tion and its platform only as one grand ma- | chine to force Senators up to the mark. Impeachment will be put in the party platform and made the test of party fidelity, and all who | | then refuse to come up on the call of some | | other of the ten articles will understand that | Question— Goes On. | Chase, like another Cato, adhering to the con- | stitution, standing stanchly and grandly for | the purity and supremacy of the law and the | institutions of the republic against the adven- turers who endeavor by revolution to secure for themselves that high place and considera- tion that under the old order would only be , conceded to distinguished ability or exalted worth, With him stand Fessenden, Hen- deraon, Ross, Trumbull, Grimes, Van Winkle and Fowler; for Chase and these men, tg | radicals of the least doubtful type when the | struggle was one against slavery, are, now that the struggle is against the constitution, conservatives of the most resolute will. Grant is with the revolutionary powers—a sort of cast iron Cesar, who relies only upon blind impulse, has faith simply in mere force, and in this character serves a purpose. Already he rules ten States, as a military dictator by the will of these men, and can easily step from that to ruling the rest in the same way. For what impediment is there? Only a moral power; only an idea; only that historically sacred piece of paper— the writ of habeas corpus. Suspend that writ | on any pretext, and Grant rules the whole country as he now does the South. Removing | the President, putting in his place a creature of | its own, Congress will have the power to sus- pend that writ, and if it needs a pretext can | easily make one in a disturbance of any sort. | Such is the abyss the nation stands by, and | even a decision against these men of the popu- lar voice may not save us; for if Grant | should be the candidate on one hand and Chase on the other, and Chase should be | chosen President, it is stilLthe purpose of these | men to rule by any means. Their very defeat { would make the occasion for suspending the | habeas corpus by their dummy President, ruling through Grant as dictator, and keeping the rightful President from his place. Does all this seem a chimera? Let the people remem- ber that we have had four years of the blood- iest warfare ever known, and that it all began in a party attempt to repudiate the result of a Presidential election. Military Government in the ¢ uth. One result of the experiment of a military government in the South, which has now been in operation for three years, is a grand total | of fifteen hundred million dollars of taxes. Congress has virtually constituted General Grant military dictator over all the unrecon- stracted rebel States. The laws which dt has | passed preventing his removal from office or | from Washington by the constitutional Com- | mander-in-Chief, and declaring that aii orders to the army must be issued through him, so that not a single regiment is at the command of the President unless the General-in-Chief | consents, have invested General Grant with | ample power not only ¢o maintain military | despotism in the South, but to extend it over the entire country in case the revolu- : tionary schemes of the dominant radical party shall be successfully carried out. The essen- tial condition on which the States bordering on the South will be entitled to retain their nominal freedom from military control will be: voting in favor of the radical candidates. And if, as will be quite notural, the disaffec- tion which exists among the white population in the South shall in time spread to Maryland and Kentucky, and.even to Pennsylvania and | Ohio, and a radical vote can be secured in those States only by similar pressure to that employed in the Southern States, the radical leaders will not hesitate to apply it and subject them also to military control. Once firmly established in one section of the country, mili- tary despotism will tend almost inevitably to widen its limits until they shall embrace all sections of the country. Within a very few years it is not impossible that the government, | failure to vote as party demands will rule them | outside of party lines. Such is the undoubted | | resolve and programme of the impeachers in | now adjourning their case from the court to the convention. j | It will then remain to be seen who shall | | suffer most—the men so ruled out or the party | | so ruling; for this is a case that grows as it | | moves, and will not have the limit of a party. | The whole country comes into it. In all this struggle what is the real issne ? ' Whatis it that men are for or against ? What | is it that the radicals desire to secure ? What is it that they who oppose them hope to prevent ? | Slavery is dead and gone—swept away in the | rapids of our intellectual activity, till it seems to be only the remembered evil of another age. It isnot that. It is another issue altogether. It is the constitution. It is the political system embodied in that instrument, and by which the nation lives, around which the battle | now gathers up and concentrates its | | fury. Because the constitution and slavery | | stood together they who have seen the death | | of slavery believe that the constitution may go | next; and seeing a field for mad ambition in | the destruction of that great charter of the na- | | tion's existence they endeavor to confuse the | | popular thought—to force on the people the | | notion that the destruction of the one is not | | complete until they have destroyed the other. | Hence what we now see in progress is neither | | more nor less than a war against the constitu- | tion of the United States—a war whose sole object is the abrogation of that fundamental | Jaw. Naturally this war takes the form of a | | contlict between the lawmaking power and the | Pxecutive, as similar ware have done always; | for the Executive ia the appointed guardian of | the government, the power whose sworn duty it is to enforce the laws and “defend the con- | #titation,” and the popular assembly is the convenient medium of revolutionary inflnences. They, therefore, in this struggle who on the surface seem only to esponse the cause of a President on his trial, do in reality a thing of grander and deeper significance. They espouse the cause of the country: they stand by the | law; they struggle to retain in ite purity {and power that grandly conceived sys- tem of government whose foundations | were cemented by the blood shed at Saratoga, at Monmouth and at Yorktown. | that it will involve the doubling or trebling of | securities will go for notbing. which the founders of our republic based upon | constitutional freedom, may be replaced by a | military dictatorship with the great powers centred in a Senatorial oligarchy, according to the projects attributed to certain radical con- spirators in a recent letter from our Washing- ton correspondent. Whatever may be the compensating advantages of such a radical change in our form of government, it is certain our grand total of fifteen hundred million dol- | lars of taxes. The apathy of the American people in view of the bare possibility that the achemes of radical conspirators may yet be realized is amazing. But the only comment which can be made if they ultimately submit to | 4 military despotism is expressed in the pro- | ' { | found remark of De Maistre—‘‘A people has always the government which it deserves.” The New Tax Bill, As soon as the Chicago Convention is over and the corpse of impeachment decently buried, Congress will no doubt turn its atten- tion to the new tax bill reported to the House of Representatives last week by Mr. Schenck, of Ohio. That a thorough reform is needéd in our tax system is generally conceded, and it is to be hoped that the bill will be carefully considered before it is suffered to become a law. Up to this time tht Internal Revenue De- | partment has been more profitable to the gov- ernment officials than to the government itself, and the whole business of taxation appears to have been managed with a view to affording facilities for plunder. Millions of dollars have been stolen by public officers, and willions more have been diverted from the Treasury by frauds committed by outsiders with the cor nivance of revenue officials ; and yet it is very rarely indeed that any of the plunderere are brought to justice, The new law proposes some additional safeguards in respect to the | collection of the whiskey duty, but retains the tax of two dollars a gallon on distilled spirits, | which lies at the foundation of the enormous | frauds that bave been committed and of the serious decrease of the revenue from this | source, If the tax should be suffered to re- | main as it is all the pretended restrictions and | The unconsti- | tutional, prying and offensive income tax is | left untouched, and the‘immunities and privi- | leges of bankers, brokers and wealthy manu- | various churches were well Oiled both at morning On the other. hand, they who follow the wild | facturers are confirmed, The bill ae reported | end evening sérvice; At St. Patrick's cathedra Rev. Mr. Kearney preached on the effectiveness of prayer. At Zion's church, on Madison avenue and ‘Thirty-eighth street, the Rev. Dr. Morgan preached in clamor against the President are, by the cry for the purification of the law, deceived to lend is, in short, bill for the benefit of a few | favored classes at the expense of the masses of | themselves to an attempt to destroy the law, the people, and will require a complete re- powers on this issue stands Chief Justice © . crease of paper money.” | field evidently thinks 80 too. | people arises from a false financial system, | richest country in the world—that is, there is | more accumulated capital than in any other | country. | is not probably over five hundred millions in | active circulation. | not worth speaking about. | successive forward steps of Austria, in her Mr. Garfield on National Finance and Other ‘Things. Mr.. Garfield, of Ohio, made one of those gen- eral stump sort of speeches on Friday, in the House of Representatives, in which members are in the habit of indulging whenever the ' House goes into Committee of the Whole. His theme was trade, finance, currency and re- sumption of specie payments. We notice the speech, not because of any remarkable | merit. in it, but because Mr. Garfield is an authority with and represents a large party of financial theorists in Congress. But the whole argument was in favor of resumption and in support of the bill he introduced last February for bringing that about. To accomplish this he proposes, of course, to contract the currency. He con- fesses, however, that there has been a great “change of opinion in the House in the last year on the subject of the currency,” and that “4t was his conviction that the most formidable danger which now threatens us is a large in- If an increase of paper money be dangerous—and there is dan- ger of it being increased—who will be respon- sible? ‘ Evidently Mr. Garfield’s own party, the radicals; for they have an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress. Mr. Garfield ought to know what the views of his colleagues are on this subject, and his fears may be well founded. We have expressed the opinion more than once that inflation would probably come sooner or later, and Mr. Gar- Mr. Garfield is unfortunate in using an argu- ment in favor of contraction and a very limited circulation which undermines his whole theory. He opens his speech with a reference to the great distress and pauperism that prevails in | England and other countries of Europe, Without considering or knowing that this dreadful state of things has been brought about chiefly by the very policy he advocates. In England espe- cially the extreme poverty of the mass of the which tends continually to make the poor poorer and the rich richer, England-is the country; but nowhere is there as much pov- erty, starvation and degradation of the mass of people. This deplorable state of things commenced with the contraction of the cur- rency and forced specie payments, a few years after the long wars with Napoleon closed in 1815, and with the consolidation and perpetua- tion of an enormous national debt. The evil has been increasing ever since, till we see the remarkable anomaly of the most general and heart-rending pauperism in the richest country of the world. It is just the same policy which the British resumptionists carried out, and which has produced the state of things referred | to, that Mr. Garfield and the other on-to-specie payment theorists in Congress urge upon this | Mr. Garfield says the total currency before the war, gold and paper included, amounted to four hundred millions. It was much more than that, including the issues of private bankers; but this was all in active cir- culation. He admits there is not more than seven hundred millions now, excluding cash in the Treasury and bank reserves. But there The amount of specie is Then there is three hundred millions of national bank notes, forty or fifty millions of fractional currency, and not over a hundred and fifty millions to two hundred millions of greenbacks circulated, the rest being held as reserve by the banks or locked up in the Treasury, amounting in all to five hundred millions, or little more. We do not suppose there is over a hundred millions more in active circulation than be- | fore the war. Considering the vast sum capi- talized during the war and through our enor- mous national debt, this amount of active cur- rency would hardly seem too much to repre- sent the capital and trade of the country. At all events, it would be most unwise and dan- gerous to meddle with the currency. Let us go on as we are going, neither contracting nor inflating, and we shall grow up to specie pay- ments through the growth and demands of the country and under the natural laws of trade. Peace, restoration of the States, harmony and the development of our wonderful resources will bring specie payments as soon as may | be desirable, while the financial schemes of Mr. Garfield and the other resumptionists would only bring universal bankruptcy and disaster to the whole community. Austria Still Going Ahead. The battle of Sadowa, or Kéniggritz, has | already advanced Austria a hundred years in her governmental reforms, from her thorough- going recognition that down to that fight she wasa hundred years behind the Prussian pro- gressive spirit of the age. Accordingly, the satisfactory concessions to Hungary, in her concessions of religious liberty and liberty of education and equal civil rights to all classes and nationalities of her people, have been among the most remarkable of European events since her instructive defeat at Koniggriitz. Von Beust was prompt to recognize the great and momentous fact that the strength of Prus-. sia was not in her needle gun, but in her intel- lectual and political progress from the effete feudal system of the last century. Our last report from Vienna is that the bill guarantee- ing the right of trial by jury had passed the lower houre of the Reicherath. Thus, step by step, Austria is repairing the damages of her late war in the most effective manner, The old Austria, for #0 many generations the mere football of France, has almost disappeared, and a new Aurtria, compact and strong, is taking her'place. The Wonderful Products ef California, Not only is California rich in gold, but in cereal products its wealth appears to be almost unlimited. The latest returne from San Fran- cisco by telegraph show that the grain crop for the preeent year will be enormous and will probably tax to the utmost the transportation facilities of the State to send it abroad. For example, the wheat crop alone is set down at twenty millions of bushels; harley represents ten millions of bushels and oats two and a half millions. The average consumption of all kinds behalf of the Midnight Mission, St. Michael's church | and to set up in its place the wild imaginings | modelling if it is to be made a measure of equal | of cereals each year for all purposes is admitted on West Thirty-second street, near Ninth avenue, | ‘was dedicated in the morning hy the Most Rev, Archbishop MeOloskey. The four days’ annual re- treat of the children of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Brooklyn, was concluded by a celebra- scoundrels who see an aniimited field for plun- dering in their victory over the law. In the head and front of the conservative | to the wholesale frauds that at present render the Internal Revenue Department a sink of rottenness agd iniquity. of fanotic madmen, to further the purpose of | justice and to be the means of putting » stop | to be about cleven bushels for each individual | on the face of the globe. The wheat crop of this year, taking the population of California at half a million, would, therefore, feed four times the population on wheat alone, without counting barley or oats. What 9 productive country it must be that can make euch an ex- hibit as this, and what a thriving, industrious people that can make so splendid a return from the soil! With the increasing facilities for obtaining Iabor from Asia and the rich soil from which labor can draw such resources, California is bound to maintain her ascendancy as the Golden State, the foremost producer of gold in the mineral and golden grain, such as Egypt, the granary of ancient days, and Sicily, the granary of Europe, never rivalled. The Democratic National Convention—Can- didates and Prospects of the Party. The democrats have selected a day for holding their national convention long enough after the Chicago radical convention for a de- liberate and comprehensive survey of their enemy’s ground and plan of battle. They will have six weeks after the radicals throw their banner to the breeze to study the position and character of the candidates opposed to them and to decide who their own candidates shall be. Will they profit by the delayand cometo New York on the Fourth of July prepared to nominate men who can win? Or will they, like the Bourbons of France, shut their eyes against the teachings of the past and the great changes that have taken place and still adhere to obnoxious dogmas and weak leaders? They are greatly bewildered and divided at present, undoubtedly, from the want of candidates com- pining the necessary elements for success. The future only will show whether they comprehend public sentiment and their opportunity or not and how they will come out of the contest. General Grant will probably be tlie radical nominee for President, and perhaps Ben Wade for Vice President, though the nomination of Wade is more doubtful. There may be, how- ever, a terrible flare up at Chicago in conse- quence of the result of impeachment so far, with a split in the party and a complete change of programme. Still, the chances are that General Grant will be the chosen candi- date of the ultra faction, should even the conservative anti-impeachers, Fessenden, Trumbull, Grimes and the rest, be read out of the party or be led to form a separate organiza- tion, with Chief Justice Chase as their leader. Under such circumstances who can the democrats run with a fair chance of winning against General Grant? Although Grant has lost some of his vast popularity, and the halo of the war which surrounded his name may be fading, he is still popular with the soldiers and with those who were earnest for the war. The war sentiment is by no means dead yet, and the mass of people aré not statesmen who might be governed by great principles rather than by enthusiasm or impulse, Who, then, can the democrats nominate against this popular general? There is a large party, particularly in the West, in favor of Pendleton, and per- haps he will be stronger than any other candidate in the New York convention. But his war record would operate against him , with the miass of the people, and his financial views would frighten even many of the leading democrats of the Northern and Middle States. Many of ‘those who furnish the sinews of war for the campaign, such as the magnates of the Man- hattan Club, would be alarmed and become lukewarm in the cause. With all his acknow- ledged ability Pendleton would not be a safe candidate. The Manhattan Club will probably want General McClellan. They have in- vested largely in him already, and will want to get their money back again. But McClellan as a military hero is entirely eclipsed by Grant, and he has no other great elements of popu- larity, Besides, he has been tried and defeated once, and that defeat would be a heavy dead- weight for the party to carry. Ex-Governor Seymour, of this State, is the anointed of the Tammany ring, and he will be urged, doubt- less, with all the clamor and power which the old campaigners of that society know how to use. But he has no vitality, and is as dry as the dead leaves of autumn. He is a fossil poli- | tician of a bygone, age, and would not inspire the least enthusiasm or interest in the people. Then, he also has not such a clean war record as would make it prudent to run him against the great hero of the war. General Hancock is spoken of, and has the powerful State of Pennsylvania to back him. He is, perhaps, the most available military man _ the democrats could get. Tre, there would be this drawback—that the democrats would be taking the lieutenant to run against the captain, giving the radicals the advantage of the greater hero in point of military prestige. Still, as we said, Hancock would be, probably, the best military candi- date the democrats could get. There area number of other aspirants for Presidential honors we-might name, but not so prominent as those mentioned, and none who could arouse the enthusiasm of the people. The democrats, we see,. therefore, labor under many difficul- ties. We made an effort some time ago to help them out of their dilemma, and trotted out the gregiaval hero of the war, Admiral Farragut, but they did not take to him. They appear neither to like the smell of salt water nor gun- powder. They prefer the heroes of Tammany, Manhattan or the Western prairies. Well, what can be done for people in such a helpless state, or who have not sense enough to help themeelves ? Possibly the best chance for’ them is to take up Chief Justice Chase. The slavery qnestion, on which he differed widely with the democrats formerly, is settled, There is no longer any issue on that. It can never come up again. The question of negro suffrage also is settled, as far as the action of the general government goes. On other issues he is nearer the democrate than the radicals. He has always favored the _ political school which holds to preserving tle State governments from federal encroach- mente, and is to-day the stanch sup- porter of civil authority over the military. This was shown in his dignified resistance to military despotism in the South, when it attempted to ride rough shod over the courte. Then his conduct during the impeachment | trial shows that in the discharge of duty he is above faction or party influence. His former friende—the radicals—bitterly denounce him because he has had the independence and honesty to act justly. He is a man of great ability, and, evidently, is now on the conserva- tive side of the great issue of the day—the conflict between the power of the national legislature and the constitutional prerogatives of the Exeoutive and Judiciary. Ifthe sensible men of the democratic party and the conserva4 tive republicans would unite on Mr. Chase as their candidate for the Presidency he might be elected by a large vote over the radical candi- date. This, it may be said, would be a great change im the position of party leaders and party action; but what of that if the end be good? And have we not been going for several years past through the most extra- ordinary political revolution? Are we not still in the midst of it? Let us leave the dead issues of the past and rally all the conserva- tive elements of the country together to save the constitution and government from the violent hands of the Jacobin radicals. Napeleon and His Generale—Peace or War— Which? For some time past the Emperor Louis Na- poleon ‘has been particularly anxious ta cgn- vin@& the world in general, and France in par- ticular, that the empire means peace. Of this doctrine he has in words and for a protracted period been a most diligent apostle. It is only a few days since, at Orleans—that city of hal- lowed memories—he repeated the wornout saying, “‘ Z’Empire c'est la paix.” It has beea curious to notice how completely acts have been af variance with words. France, in spite of peace protestations on the part of the Em- peror, is being armed to the teeth. This, how- ever, is not all, Marshal Niel, the Commander- in-Chief of the forces, is overwhelmed with work in reorganizing the army. In the enthu- siasm which is, perhaps, inseparable from his work he forgets the language of his master. And now, as we reported in the Hzratp of Saturday, General Failly, in command of the encampment at Chalons, lets fall the words, in the course of an address to the soldiers, ‘‘ War is to be regarded as possible.” . The empire, according to Napoleon, is peace. The empire, according to the generals, isa sword. Which speaks the truth? Which is correct? Ovr News From Brazit.—By a cable despatch of yesterday we have news from Rio Janeiro up to date, April 24. The imperial Cabinet had undergone some modification.: Sousa had succeeded Albuquerque at the Foreign Office, and Senhor Aldine had beea appointed Secretary of the-Brazilian Legatipa .at Washington, According to the latest accounts Fort Humaitdé was still in the hands of the brave Paraguayans. The fort had been shelled by the allies, and preparations were being made to assault the stronghold with, land forces. Pity it is that Paraguay should have been left alone and unaided to fight against such powerful odds, Sr. Toomas.—Our latest advices from St. Thomas are to the 9th inst. The whole island looked dejected. The population knows not what to do. The island is in that peculiar condition in which it has no proper owner. It can scarcely now, after the popular vote, be called Danish; but it is not yet American. The officials are in a bad fix, and complainta are general that the treaty of purchase has not been concluded with the United States. BOOK NOTICE. HIsToRY OF CHARLES THE BOLD, DUKE oF Bun. Rinne. By John Foster Kirk. Vol. 3. Lippincott 10. Mr. Kirk has concluded in this volume his pro- jected task. Three bulky volumes devoted to Charles the Bold in this late age of the world is perhaps a little more than Charies the Bold had any right to expect. It is certainly more than he is entitled to. Charles was a right good fellow and played a not un- important part in his day and generation, but he never occupied any position which entitled him to be treated as a great historical centre, nor did he ever reveal qualities either as @ man or as & ruler which marked him out as a represen tative character, ‘We do not say that a new reading of the hfe and times of Charles the Bold was not desirable, but we do say that one of Mr. Kirke volumes ought to have been large enough for the subject. It is only a by- way of history, and Mr. Kirk ought so to have treated it. Mr. Kirk has, however, given us three interesting volumes, and to those who will take time to read them they will be found not devoid of instruc- tion, Mr. Kirk's style is not wholly free from fault. It lacks #& once independence and dignity. Effort all through is too painfully visible. We should have expected less of this from a man who was for a time the literary assistant of the lamented Prescott. Here is a specimen of fine writing whose only justification is that Charles had resolved to make war in the Jura:— When the spectators on the Rigi have watched successive groups of giant Alps rise out of the night, and receive on their ey brows warm kisses from tie radiant dawn, the eye turns in quest of further mar- vels to the opposite quarter of the panorama, across table lands and plains dotted with towns and lakes and bounded by the distant chain of the Jura, But there the horizon offers none of the grand and en- trancing aspects of & mountain range. That long, straight, dusky line, with no varie or form or play of color, Seon not to the picture, but to the frame. if we transfer our point of view to the Lake of Geneva, and choose for our comparison the evening instead of the morn- ing light, the contrast is still more striking. For then the mountains of the Valais and of Savoy unveil themselves to the declining sun, and, as the mist rolls off, each snowy summit and gray pyramid flushes into soft crimson before his parting giance. The lake, like a conscious witness, trembles and burns. poses to cut stort the glowing scene, ‘The lingering cut shor 10" orb is snatched away. "The mratentess mirror tenses to reflect. Pallid, yet serene, the majestic Alps re- cede into the gloom. This is good enough in its way, but it savors too much of the style of the novelist, and one feels tempted to ask what all this has to do with Charles the Bold or with his campaign in 1474. Here is a bit in the spasmodic vein:— He (Charies) had his wish; he was alone, Who more alone than he, in all the camp, in all the world? O misery! |, betrayed, by foes—severed by a gulf from Within—the swellings of , the hisst bo world against him, fiance, the goadings of fate God not with him—0 mi! misery ! * Lorraine, the Burgun- es, wore lost beyond redemption. ‘The aspirations forever. But might he to the storm, still save himself from total shipwreck? Might he not, by acting: she contest, weary down or outlive his ani ? Might he not—ah, no! Another might—another who never soared £0 high to fall so low; who had never taken between his teeth the hit of destiny and felt its inexorable lash; whose heart, in either for- tune, had beat with the steady pulsations of ® ma- chine; such a one—not he! These, however, are, after ali, but blemishes in & work which has many merits, and which will, in all likelihood, for many years to come, remain tho standard book on the subject. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘the following is a record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours as indicated by the thermometer at Mudnut's Pharmacy, HERALD Build ing:— OAM... 2 A.M 12 M,.... ‘Phe United States acrew frigate PRanklin, the sioop Ticonderoga and the sidewheel sioop Frolic, from Malta, bound to Lisbon, passed through the Straits of Gibraltar on April 25. ——$——— VALUABLE Ra@ BaG.—On Friday last ary tl ni purel of a widow Med in the town of Mendon a quantity of rags which she had stored in a » Shortly afterwards the woman remembered the fact that the bag was that she had sold with the and rage her pocketbook, containing $40, Sea! for the pedier, and he wunireced to tips cite bat cy to last advices he had not been founda by his pursucr. He is doubtless nt of the bargain he made tn buying bag of Unton,