The New York Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hera. {ters and packages should be properly sealed. i Rejected communications will not be *re- turned. No, 141 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Connim S00Gau. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and I%:b street.— ue Wurter Cockapr, ’ PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 28d street, corner of Eighth preaue,—Lost, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Outvun Twist—AUNT CuaBLortE’s Mat, id Ghee, FRENCH THEATRE,—English Opera—Bour1an Gra. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel. |. PARIS AND HELEN. : NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue Waite Fawn. IRVING HALL.—Biinp T STEINWAY HALL.—MustoaL Festival—ELivan. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALLRT, Fancr, 45. Matinee at ~3¢. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Soncs, HOORNTRICITIED, &¢.—GRAND DUTCH “8.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Erm1o- PIAN ENTERTAUNMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, Ac. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comic VouaLism, NEGRO MINSTREL c. Matinee at 234, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn..— Hensy Dunsax—JENNY Linp. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS Brooklyn.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY—Tur IMPEAOHERS. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.-PaANORAMA oF CaLivorsia. HALL, 954 and 956 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF Tite WAR. Matinee at 2 ® NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOR AND ART. TRIPLE New York, Wednesday, EUROPE. ‘The news reported by the Atlantic cw w dee. f yesterday evening, May 19. | The American impeachment verdict engaged the atvention of the Paris press. Hungary seeks to par- ticlpate in a general European naturalization treaty with the United States. Consdls 94% a 04%, moncy. Five-twenties 714 a 71% in London and 76% in Frankfort. Paris Bourse dull, Cotton irregular at a decline. BreadstuiTs heavy. Provisions unchanged and produce dull. By steamship we have mail details of our cable espatches to the 9th af May, embracing a report of aad sigan pened which took place in the British mt at the close of the first act of the Church drama debate. The most eminent speakers and esmen of the English Legislature used language on this occasion such as has seldom been heard ‘within the walls of Parliament, Mr. Bright charging Mr. Disraeli as a traitor to the Queen and country. The London journals of the sth inst. concur in de- scribing the occasion as one of extraordinary excite- ment, The Telegraph says “the most prolonged and flercest personal debate witnessed in the present generation” took place. The London Times describes the language used as of “unusual violence.” The London Post believes the Queen will be advised to give her assent to the Church Suspensory bill, Minis- ters feeling confident that it will be defeated in the Loras, The London News observes that the rela- tions between the House of Commons and the ad- ministration, and “through the administration with the Crown, are of a very uneasy kind.” CONGRESS. ‘The Senate was not in session yesterday, having adjourned until Thursday, e In the House, after the transaction of some private business, @ motion to adjourn till Friday was made and lost.. Mr. Morgan then read the copy of a tele- gram sent by Mr. Wooley, the impeactiment witness, to Mr. Bingham at eleven o' k on Monday morn- ing from Willard’s Hotel, asking to be informed at what time he would be examined, Mr, Schenck said that he had yesterday expressed to the Managers his belief that Mr. Wooley would attend and testify. No quorum being present the House acon adjourned. THE CITY. ‘The Board of Health, at its meeting yesterday, ordered back to Quarantine the brig Dirigo, which arrived at this port on the 16th inst., on the ground that there had been previous to her departare from Matanzas a contagious disease on board, of which two persons died. According to the mortality report of the Board of Health for the week ending Satur- day, the 16th inst., there were 440 deaths im New York and 149 in Brooklyn; the death rate im this city velng 28.06 In 1,000 yearly, and in Brooklyn 20,14 tn 1,000 estimated on the census of 1865. ° The Spauish iron-clai war steamer Tetuan and tne French ‘traisport Européen arrived at this port re- cently and are now lying off the Battery, the Tetuan intending, however, to procee:| io the Navy Yard at ‘an early period. A meeting of the citizens who hold claims againet the Mexican government was held af the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel a few days ago, at which some indignation Was expressed at the realy setiiement Mah and Spanish Convention ty ignoring of American devise i \ ment. Steps are being ‘aken | co-operative measure. A novel engine, driven by e\ ity, Was exhitited | before a large and intelligent wuelien eat the College of the City of New York yowteriay afiernoon. if the ‘ire thetr righta by “electro-magnetic” engine cnn | ht to do all its inventor claims for it the days of scean, ae a me tive power, are numbered. | ‘The institation for deafinules loceed of Woshong | ton Heights celebrated its fifty-rccond anniversary yesterday afternoom. The election of wilicers. dietr bution of reports and the usual chest ekcrctees wore the features of the day. A meeting of coal cartmen was Weld last evening at the corner of Piret avenue amd Twenty-seoond street, to make arrangements for ‘he organtration ot @ protective union. Owing to ihe limited notice of the meeting and the sinaii number present, it was de cided to postpone the organization to a subsequent meeting, which was arranged ‘or next week. In the Supreme Court, Chambers yesterday, Une Case of ey i — ‘Against Mary Anne Smith cawe ap on am Set amide the decre of divorce granted to plaintiff in Decerater, 1866. ‘The piaintitf haw since married and has one child by his eerond wife, while his rat wife is left to take of five of his hil dren. Fraud t# alleged in ning the divorce, ‘The case yesterday Was poripones wn'i) June 16, at the request of the defendant. Morgan 1 Smith, the plaintiff, was a general in Whe army during toe war @nd more recently Consul of the Vuited states ar Honolulu, The trial of Callicott, ex-Cullector uf \nverna: Reve hue in the Third collection district, and Aver Deputy Collector, charged witb freade aganer government, was yerterday resumed in the 19 States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, before Judge. \. and Benedict. The examination of the wir consamed the session the court Moon to-day. In the United States Disirict Court ye Biatchford gave a decision in the co bark Bumilie and ©. ii. Watjen agains x urned t ray Judge case of the ue pie oat Abraham Leggett, Decree was granted against the bark aa being im defwult, with reference to a commissioner to ascertain the amount of damages to be awarded, Tn the Court of General Sessions yesterday Edward Latton pleaded guilty to stealing a trunk containiag 3159 worth of clothing. Sentenced to two years in the Penitentiary, ‘The steamship Herman Livingston, Captain Eaton, will leave pier 36 North river at three P, M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. ‘ 4 The stock market was dull, but firm, yesterday, Government securities were very strong and eX- cited. Gold closed at 1294. MISCELLANEOUS. Am thp delegates at Chicago yesterday consid. ens was evinced at the rumor that Grant intended to decline a nomination. Very few of the delegates believed it, however, and General Grant's father denied it ina speech. The fight for the Vice Presidency between Fenton aud his opponents is very bitter, The Wade men claim eighty-four votes on the first ballot, while Fenton’s adherents claim one hundred. An effort is being made t@ have the recreant Senators rid out of the party, but it is be- lieved a more moderate course will preavil. Carl Schurz is to be temporary chairman of the Conven- tion to-day, and the permanent chairman is as yet undecided. Mr, Dent denies having stated that General Grant had written a letter declining the nomination for the Presidency at the hands of the Chicago Convention. The report, however, remains still undenied, although its originator may possibly have been some other person. The members of Gencral Grant’s staf pro- fess to know nothing about it and the General him self is considerably harassed by anxious inquiries after the truth. ‘The Soldiers and Sailors’ National Convention met in @hicago yesterday. Governor Fairchfid, of Wis- consin, was chosen temporary chairman and John A. Logan permanent President. The latter declined, however, and Governor Fairchild was continued in omice. Resolutions were enthusiastically adopted recommending General Grant as their choice for President and denouncing the recusant Senators. The Convention then adjourned sine die. A Hancock club has been organized by the demo- cracy in Portland, Me. Governor Fenton has declined to reprieve Joseph Brown, convicted of the murder of his little daugh- ter, Angie Brown, at Canaan, and he will be hanged at Hudson on Saturday week. In the Methodist General Conference at Chicago, yesterday, memorials and petitions were presented favoring the union of the Protestant Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal churches. They were referred to acommittee of five. A resolution was offered for the organization of additional conferences in the South. The two delegates from the Evangelical As- sociation were formally introduced and addressed the Conference, expressing the desire of the Assocl- ciation for a closer union. The Canadian militia are ordered to be ready for active service. It is supposed that General O'Neil contemplates a raid. The Massachusetts Senate yesterday failed to pass the bill abolishing the State constabulary ovef the Governor's veto. The graves in a cemetery at Danvers, Mass., were Lhey were dug up, the silver plates on the coffins were stolen, and the bones of the skeletons were sold for manure, the Ohio river, at Saline landing, on Sunday. persons were killed and onc was fatally injured. Oatside the Constitution—The Shadows of Coming Events. “Old Thad Stevens,” ‘the Old Man,” or the Four call him, the bold and outspoken radical leader of Congress, through the war and since the declared that the legislation of Congress in the work of subjugating the rebel States and in behalf of their restoration has been of neces- sity to a great extent ‘outside the constitu- tion.” This is true, and jt is true that the necessity pleaded was satisfactory to the people of the loyal States during the war, for of the rebellion. Nay, after the rebel States had laid down their arms it was generally held by the great Union party of the war that the terms of their restoration to Congress were at the discretion of Congress, under the great | idea that the very groundwork of the consti- | tution is the integrity and sovereignty of the | Union. That the two houses of Congress, in their measures of reconstruction, have pushed this idea so far “outside the constitution” as to } alarm the “loyal North,” we have seen in the | elections of 1867 and 1868; but we have not | yet seen any indications of a retreat by Mr. | Stevens and his radical followers from their extreme and revolutionary designs. This is a significant fact. There is no pur- pose among the radicals to fall back. They | have gone too fur to recede. They will carry | out their programme at all hazards, inside or | “outside the constitution.” Andrew Jobnson | blocks the way. Their impeachment has | shamefully desecrated by parties unknown, recently. | ‘The steamtug Belle Porter exploded her boiler on | “Old Commoner,” as his admirers delight to | war of the late rebellion, has repeatedly | the boldest measures looking to the suppression | | tint law at the discretion of the Gene Chief of the armies of the United States ! this process the elections, if necessary, may be controlled as completely as Marshal Bazaine managed the election in Mexico, whereby Maxi- milian the First, and the last, was made Em- peror “‘by the will of the people.” The Parliament has not the least {dea of giving up its conflict with the King, and in the reliable but reticent General, who is the main | stay of the Parliament, we may yet have an American Cromwell, ‘‘with all the modern improvements.” In the very beginning of this conflict at Washington the prophetic ‘old commoner” warned ‘the man at the other end of the avenue,” of the usurpations and the fate of Charles the First. The parallel so far is wonderfully suggestive. The more violent and extreme revulsions and reactions of the terrific French Revolution we may still escape, as we have to this point avcided; but still the transitions from the King to the Convention, from the Convention to the Directory, and from the Directory to the Con- sulate and the empire, were but French modifi- cations of the English conflict, beginning with the first Charles and culminating in Cromwell. So we may say that with Wade as President, under some American variations of the pro- gramme, we shall have both the Long Parlia- ment and the French Directory in Congress, and the three Consuls—Wade, Stevens and Grant—operating together, with Grant pa- tiently awaiting the occasion which will compel | him to re-enact the 7éle of Cromwell and Na- | | poleon. To ‘‘quiet and honest people,” as the amiable Lincoln would express it, such things in this country may seem past all belief; but so with | t@ny philosophers were considered the warn- | ings of our late gigantic efvil war, until the echoes from Fort Sumter startled us “like a | | fire bell in the night.” From our subsequent experience, embracing the revolutionary ad- vances of a hundred years of peace, we ought to be prepared for anything. We have heard | that the unfortunate Buchanan, shortly before | vacating the While House, remarked, with | a downcast face, “We are going to have two | republics or an empire, broken and we are gone.” dreamed of saving the Union “outside the con- | stitution,” and so he had determined to “‘let it | slide.” “Old Thad” and the radicals, ‘‘outside | the constitution,” on the other hand, having | realized a power equal to all emergencies, are resolved to hold on, republic or empire. The constitution is | “Old Buck” never , i The Coming Revolution in England. The Disraeli Cabinet, according to our latest news, has sustained another and damaging | defeat. To those who have been paying any | | attention to the current of events in Great | Britain it has been abundantly manifest that | Mr. Disraeli, notwithstanding his unquestioned | talent and genius, has been found sadly wanting | | in the circumstances. No doubt his hands have been tied, The oligarchy to which he is | bound hand and foot is heavy and hard to move, He knows what is wanted now, as he has known any time these last twenty years ; but a proud and privileged class is never willing, even after a timely warning, to give up | its rights. Mr. Disraeli has served the party | not wisely, but too well, and even now, no | | doubt, with many pleasant reminiscences of the | | past, he shrinks from finally breaking with | those who have made and permitted him to be what he is. In this Mr, Disraeli has unques- | tionably made a mistake. He has more brains than any half dozen of those who recognize | his lead; he is not without warm friends among | | the more thoughtful and dashing men of the | liberal ranks, A bold stroke at this particular | juncture was expected by those who have | watched and who have reached that point of belief at which they felt justified in trusting their man. The bold stroke is yet wanting, and the result is that while his enemies grow stronger and become more compact his friends and followers sickon and dic away. We were not so much surprised at his failure in the matter of the Irish Church, It was | a strangely mixed question, The move of , Gladstone was so bold and doshing, and was, besides, so thoroughly unexpected, and so thoroughly unjustified by the antecedents of | the liberal chief, that Mr. Disraeli could not but be bewildered, and for the simple reason that he knew not what to ask his followers to | | | | | | | all the Jefferson Bricks together united to give NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2), 1868.—TRIPLE.. SHEET.. | which at so mutch cost of blood and” treasure had been Swept away, the destruction of the monarchy agala and the establishment of a system of government which cunningly but somewhat inconsistently attempted to recon- | cile all the existing orders and interests of the three kingdoms. That system has lasted, with some little tinkering in the interval, for well nigh two hundred years, The world, however, has been marching on during all these years. A new world has sprung up on the American Continent—a new world guided and controlled by the will of the peeple—the success of which year by year echoes loudly over Great Britain and over Europe. France has passed through a great revolution—a revolution which, in spite of its many faults, has resulted in the permanent establishment of the power of the people. In recent years Germany has fol- lowed France, Russia is preparing to follow Germany, Austria is making liberal strides, and even Turkey is striving to become con- stitutional, All old things are passing away. All things are becoming, as they must become, new. Great Britain feels this, and is already yielding to the force of the current. How things are in the three kingdoms we know. Whither they are tending is a secret which is as yet concealed in the womb of the future. Journalism—A Disgrace Country. Our quarterlies, monthlies and weeklies are had enough now, and we have recently had occasion to show that, as our whole periodical literature is degraded from the moral charac- Party to the | ter, simplicity and purity that distinguished | it in the past, so it has a downward tendency, and is launching on those slippery ways of vice in which the impulse already gained forces it to go inevitably to the end of the bad career and smash as it may. But what are the vices of our periodical literature compared with those of party journals? What is the degra- | dation of the periodicals that is not forgotten when we contemplate the depths to which the party press can go? There is in all vice, says Donne, one phase ‘‘so excellently best, that | hate toward that breeds pity toward the rest.” | Contemplating the course of our city party journals, which are the typos of all our party | journalism, one can but sneer at the poor little efforts of the monthlies and weeklies to be broadly disgusting or piquantly indecent. For what is the feeble dream of some driveller in a quarterly against all religion unless an | evidence of the eccentricity of the writer? , What is the exuberant yarmth of style in 9 magazine article but a sign that, some writer or publisher counts too much on the false taste of the public? However we may decry these things as taken by themselves, they seem venial—seem mere nothings of impropriety— when considered by comparison with the coarse and frightful manifestations of the political dailies; the outbursts of raffianly temper in which a party Writet uses epithets in the same spirit in which the midnight murderer uses a bludgeon or a slungshot; the working of flerce malice that insinuates infamous utter- ances against a man’s good name by the same impulse that In other times puts poison into his up. But a short time since we had all the Jeffer- son Bricks of our city press on theirigood be- havior. Martin Chuzzlewit was here, and they wanted to show him what improvement | they had made in their manners since his | former visit. They wanted to impress him with a sense of their respectability, good morals and fine language. During his read- ings they acted with some success the part of civil and cleanly members of society, indulg- ing, perhaps, now and then in something striking, juat by way of showing their strength in style, Thus one of the leading party organs improved the occasion by denouncing as ‘‘a liar” one of the most distinguished men in public life in this State. Another made a pillory of its unclean columns on which to set up as “‘a drunkard” the foremost soldier of the age and the hero who led our armies to | victory in the great struggle that saved the nation. These samples of vigor and depravity did very well fur the time. When, however, a complimentary dinner to Martin on the occa- sion of his departure for home, then, inspired with Delmonico’s ‘“‘ale_ or viler liquors,” with his lager beer or his very cheap sherry, Jef- | ferson was suddenly found to be more on his | | Presidential election moval. The Board of Managers of the House, | reserving to themselves in behalf of the House | the right at any time before the final vote to { alter or amend their indictment, are at work again. The Chicago Convention, it is ap- | parent, will make the removal of Johnson the | failed; but they are still resolved upon his re- | do. It was a surprise, and Mr. Gladstone had the full advantage of it, as was expected both by him and his friends, It was different, how- ever, with this Scottish Reform bill. All the particulars of the bill are of the Ministry's own making. The feeling which hos existed in | | Scotland in regard to the various provisions | test of party fidelity. We may safely predict, | has been known to Mr. Disraeli since the therefore, that, with the meeting of the High Court on the 26th inst., on a presentation from the House Managers, the vote on the ten remaining articles will be farther postponed, | subject to the pleasure of the House; and that the case will be deferred until suflicient additions of radical Senators from the South shall have been made to secure a conviction | against all contingencies. Johnson will then | he removed, and Wade, who in this event has | an important rile to play, will very soon make | it known, With Wade in the place of John- | ron the coast will be clear, and the ruling sal faction of Congress may do just what they please The rei al of Johason is held by the lead- ing radicals to be necessary to make sure of ‘he Presidential election; aud with Johnson out of the way the result, “hy hook or by | | crook,” will be a sure thing. For in- tener, the spoils of the whiskey rings alone are set down at a hundred } mit tloneering fand of which the | redical lobby drummers have made some start- ling insinuations iar ve to this impeach- ment. This is @ to fight for; but reat ae are the temptations of the thirty thou- sand offices snbjcct to the President's dispenca tig, and the larger spoils of these whiskey rhage, with Wade ia the Wille House, an in- fiultely greater power m ay be wielded nn } | | | ! | over the We will suppoce that the campaign is in full blast and at white heat: that there Is an evident popals mm whieh threetens the downfall of radi amd that | citements of th re into election Hew eney upon the fof law and order and be for President Wade, the absence to proclaim the auspension of the | * corpus, and the substitution of war- | heh ke will * pretences, in public safety, ‘ bab moment it wa: read in the House of Commons, Which is now many weeks ago. The Scottish members have been open mouthed on the sub- ject. Public meetings have been held in varl- ous parts of the country and in almost all the cities and towns of the kingdom, protesting against its provisions, My, Gladstone, in his Reforin bili, had provided that Scotland should receive seven additional members, not through the enlargement of the present House of Com- mons, but at the expense, or, rather, enforced sacrifice of certain over-indulged English con- stituencies, The little kingdom is not without ite grievances; but it has a quiet and deter- ; ined way of its own of demanding justice. It knows tle value of waiting, and it seldom Waits to no purpose. Mr. Disraeli ought to have known all this and fashioned his poliey accordingly, On the contrary, he has ignored all the demonstrations which have taken place in the interval since the bill was introduces and persisted in his original policy. The result has been a failure which a little move skill and determination on his part might have ay i. The worst part of the whole affair is that he has very unnecessarily contributed to Mr. Gladatone’s surecess, After all, however, We has not done so, these party gains and party defeats are trifling in comparison with the great fact that England is now in a process of change which is completely to alter her character as well as her constitation, The strugule which ix now in progrese has had no | parallel since the revolution which began even | before 1628 and wh Vdid not end til 1688— a revolution which involved the death of the | King and the desiraction of the monarehy, | the establishment and destruction of the Commonwealth, the — restoration of monarchy almost as absolute and some- what more foolish and vicious than that | mettle thon his good hehavior—to be, in fact, ! just the fellow that Martin had first known | him, with no other change than that all his bad | points were confirmed and aggravated by | inereasing years. Immediately it was seen that the old vocabulary had been fermenting only to hecome flereer, and it burst the bung | one day with dreadful clamor, Quite con- | siatently the more intense spirit was found to flow from the quill of that Senior Jefferson who presided at the dinner and sat with Martin on his right hand and Jefferson Junior on his left. His common style being simple scurrility—it betng his habit to express difference of opinion in no other way than by disparagement, vili- fication and detraction; his mildest dissent being vituperation, stigma and calumny— | what words, what style, what means were left to such a writer by which to vent a fresh fury? None but to outrage propriety in a less reckless form than usual, even, and to transfer his malignant audacity of speech from his usual ‘subjects to men whose | names while in his senses he dared never men- | tion save with decorum and respect. Hence he assailed the seven Senators of the repub- | licen party who stand peculiarly distinguished for purity of purpose and incorruptible honesty, as “reereants,” ‘‘outcasts,” ‘“‘dastards;” as men with whom none could associate without contamination ; as men of ‘‘infumous notoricty,” Judases; nay, a¢ assassins whose acts might | bear comparieon with the deed of Wilkes Booth. And these are the rentors of a moral age; these are the instructors of the time, the censors, the self-appointed castigatora of vice andevil, the moderators! There have been great eruptions lately at Vesuvius and in the Sandwich Islands, but none with such a | stlphureous and abominable odor, none with | such @ glimpse of the infernal regions, as this eruption of the bad temper of Jefferson Brick, All this is the reaction from bie temporary | good heha the result of @ fostive dinner | and Delmonico’s wine, The next Legislature should pasg a law to prevent Delmonico far- ; worth ten times over the purchase money | | because he imagines, not unreasonably, it can vishing dinners to the editors of the party | | burne’s bill is only an experiment, but there ‘Our Adyssinian Correspondence. We published on Monday # graphic'and enter- taining description, by our Abyssinian corres- pol ; of the meeting between the King of Tigré and Sir Robert Napier, at Mai Debar, with the leading events which preceded the fall of Magdala. The British com- mander-in-Chief set out for this meeting with a column of six hundred infantry, three hundred cavalry, a small party of engineers and four twelve-pounder pieces of artillery. King Cassa came to it escorted by at rather mules, ponies and foot—mingled in strange confusion. Most of the natives were armed with firearms, muskets and fowling- pleces of every make and fashion. They also carried sword and shield. The rest were armed with spears. The coarse, whitey-brown cotton cloth worn by the footmen; the red ends to the cloth and collar with long ends of some fur distinguishing the chiefs; the lions’ manes worn around the neck of every great warrior; the richly colored, long brocaded silk costumes of men of more importance; the red, green or violet velvet mantles of a few very great men; the light colored silk hand- kerchiefs and the white metal tiaras of the generals, as well as the variety of British uni- formis and the scarlet trappings of Sir Robert Napier's elephants, must have heightened the picturesque effect of the display, of which the large scarlet tent of the King was the central point. The formal nothings to which the con- versation in public between the King of Tigré and the British Commander-in-Chief was con- fined were followed by a more serious discus- sion of matters of interest at a private inter- view. The King desired the assistance of Sir Robert against his rivals for the throne of Abyssinia, Menilek, King of Shoa, and Gobazzi, King of Lasta. Shoa and Lasta were independ- ent kingdoms until conquered by the late Theo- dorus. Assoonas Menilek and Gobazzi dis- covered that the star of Theodorus was on the wane, each aspired to the imperial mantle which was fast slipping off his shoulders. Our correspondent anticipated a very pretty little triangular duel between Cassa and his two rivals when the British army evacuated the country. Now that the Abyssinian war is ended, the Emperor committed suicide, and the British actually leaving the country, we find that, notwithstanding Sir Robert’s diplo- matic refusal at the military council to inter- fere in any way with the internal affairs of Abyssinia, the choice of Theodorus’ successor has been determined by British quthority, that the dyhasty of the defunct monarch is declared extinct, un@ that Gobazzi, of Lasta, has been named and is to be crowned king, and that Abyssinia will become virtually a British pro- vince. The precedents of the history of British Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in Favor of the Alaskan Purchase. General Banks, as Chairman of the House Comnittee on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill on Monday providing for the payment of seven million twohundred thousand dollars to Rus- sia for the Alaska purchase. There was a minority report of the committee against the appropriation of money for this purchase. The minority make a weak argument against the acquisition of this Territory, and reiterate the stale twaddle about icebergs, savages and climate there; but they lose sight of the fact | that the country, and especially the group of | islands stretching across the Pacific, will be within a short time, for telegraphic purposes with China, Japan, East India, Russia and other Asiatic countries. Telegraph cables can be laid | from one continent to the other by the Aleutian Islands much more easily than the Atlantic cable waslaid. In fact, no cable over a few | hundred miles in length would be required by that route to bring us in instant communi- cation with all parts of Asia. The Russian purchase is valuable in many other respects, but for this object alone it is, as we have said, worth ten times the amount to be given. We hope Congress will pay no attention to these | small, narrow-minded men who cannot see beyond their noses, and appropriate the money forthwith, as recommended by the majority of | the committee. Mr. Washburne’s Telegraph Bill. Mr. Washburne has taken the first atep | | in an important movement in this country by introducing a bill in Congress te con- | struct a telegraph line from Wash- | ington to New York for public use and | under the direction of the Post Office Depart- ment, W@urge Mr, Washburne not to let his | bill be smothered or unnecessarily delayed ; for there has been no measure brought before Con- | gress which is likely to be of so much value to | the country as this, By the provisions of the | bill, which we published yesterday, it will be seen that telegraphing hetween Washington and New York and the intermediate stations will be under the management of the Post Office De- partment, and that messages will he sent for the public just the same as letters are now by that department. It is proposed to greatly redace the cost of telegraphing—that is to say, at a | cost only of one cent a word, provided, how- | ever, that no message shall be less than ten cents, and that there shall be charged two cents | for delivery and a three cent stamp put on each message. This is to be for all distances, The Postmaster General may reduce these rates if any other telegraph line should charge less. News telegrams for publication may be transmitted at fifty per cent reduction of these rates. Accompanying the bill is an able and elaborate report, showing that although the world is indebted to the genius of an American citizen, Professor Morse, for the practical development of the electric telegraph ag a means of communication, and although the first line on his plan and under his direc- tion was built with money farnished by Con- gress, the telegraph system has made leas pro- gress toward perfection and has been practi- cally of lesa value ta the makses of the people in our country than in any civilized country on the globe. The report shows this by reference to what has been done in other countries, and then calls attention to what is about to be done in Great Britain through the bill lately intro- duced in Parliament to place the whole tele- gvaph eyetem of the kingdom under the gov- ernment. ‘The line proposed by Mr. Wash- | can be no doubt of its auocess if Congress has press, especially just before a Presitential | the good sense’ to pass the bill, Indeed, we regard it as the beginning of a complete revo- election, lution in the nse and operation of telegraphs. Nor can this change be delayed long should Congress even be stupid enough to reject Mr. Washburne’s admirable bill. The time has come whén' this mighty agent of civilisation and progress must be made more generally useful and cheap for all the people, and when government must control it for the public good, as it now does the postal system. Mr. Wash- burne has begun a great work and he should follow it up with untiring zeal, The Gettysburg Springs in Congress. It is refreshing to find that after all the ex- citement and fatigue, the dust and turmoil of impeachment, the attention of Congress has been diverted to the newly famous Gett: springs. We have seen a list including the names of almost all the leading radicals in Con- gress attached to a strong recommendation of an enterprise recently set on foot for the pur- chase of the Theological Seminary and its ad- jacent grounds in the vicinity of the medicinal springs discovered on the battle field of Gettys- burg. A large number of Congressmen unite in soliciting ‘the co-operation of public- spirited citizens everywhere,” as well as of Wall street capitalists, with a view to the enlarge- ment of the Seminary buildings for the accom- modation of the thousands who desire to visit these springs and the now historic surrounding scenes, If the Gettysburg waters shall prove to pos- sess but half the wonderful healing virtues at- tributed to them by chemical analysis, we shall not be surprised if the public respond readily to this appeal ofthe Congressmen, and we shall expect to find the Congressmen them- selves among the first to set the example of resorting to Gettysburg. Not a few of these Senators and Representatives sorely need all the ‘healthful cleansing and purifying infu- ences which can possibly be attained. Sena- tor Nye may have water enough on the brain, but a little water on his stomach also will not hurt him, Senator Wilson may hope that the Gettysburg water may operate favorably for his ambition as candidate for the Vice Presidency. Ex-Governor Yates and ex-Governor Sprague may find that these springs will beneficially aid them in adhering to the cold water resolutions which one at least of these, ex-Governors con- fesses it to be so difficult to keep. That Frelinghuysen should join in recommend- ing the Gettysburg water is quite natural, for he has never been addicted to the use of anything but water, sometimes qualified by a little Jersey milk, Hulburd eqn sweeten hig. draughts of the water with forty cents’ worth of candy. Van Wyck needs this new medicinal fluid to clear his brain. Garfield needs it also to clarify his muddled notions of finance. We are happy to see that Washburne feels his need of a bath after having rolled in the mire of his dirty equabble with Donnelly, We can only account for the omission of the name of Donnelly in this list in favor of the Gettysburg springs by supposing that he probably thinks nothing would avail for him but the stronger waters of the Arkansas sulphur springs. Ben Wade signs the recom- mendation, although he must be conscious that all the mineral springs in America may be ineffectual to cure him of the damning disgrace of his recent vote in favor of impeach- ment. Logan also signs the recommendation, and, perhaps, if he uses the water freely the gas which it is said to generate will be a desirable substitute for the gas of his Western stump speech eloquence. Speaker Colfax recommends the Gettysburg water probably restore and keep order better than he ever could. Morgan and Conkling recommend it, and it may cure them of the mental blindness which prevented them from seeing that the majority of voters in the Empire State were heartily opposed to impeachment. Finally, Schenck recommends it, in the hope, no doubt, that it may wash away the blood whioh he saw, or thought ho saw, would flow from the President's acquittal. Poor Prerce.—Retirement and quiet agree very well with Buchanan and Fillmore. Why does not poor Pierce take a hint from their example and keep himself out of sight altogether? He ought to go to Gettysburg } and clear up his muddled pate with the | wonderful wate THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following is a record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours as indicated by the ther- lmometer at Hadnut’s pharmacy, Herald Building :— » i ot MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. Forty-Eighth Annual Election of Oficers—The “Regular” Ticket Victorious.” ‘The Mercantile Library Association held its forty- eighth annual election for a full board of officers yes- terday, at its rooms, Clinton Hall. The polls were opened at elght o'clock A.M. and closed at nine o'clock P. M., and though there was every indication of a heavy vote if the “line” could be taken aso criterion throughout the day, the vote was exceed- ingly light in comparison with some former years. ‘There were but two tickets in nomination, the “reg- ular” and “opposition,” the former being the ticket made by the outgoing oMcers, the latter the workers for the projected new régtme. ‘The rival factions have held their caucuses during the past two weeks with @ regularity and enthusi- usm that would Nave been commendable in a national campaign club, the “regulars” meeting at Curet’s, 764 Broadway, and the opposition at No. 770. The poner are the two tickets voted on yesierday and last night:— Regular nomination—For President, Charles F. Allen; for Vice President, M. ©. D. Borden; Oorre- sponding Secretary, J. J. McCanlis; Recording Secre- tary, William L. Bailey; rer, William Arm- scrong; Direetors, Harvey H. Woods, B. W. South- wick, A. B. Carpenter, John Rodgers, Samuel Put- nam, A. 8. Burniston and John R. Lawrence. Opposition nominatlon—For President George C. Lee; Vice President, Seymour A. Bunce; eaetene. ing Secretary, Wiliam G, Davies; Recordis e- tary, William Lanrent Batley; Treasurer, W.J. Har- ris; Directors, Thomas J. Townsend, Jr.; Wilhelne Jung, Wiliam 8. Dow, FB. BR. Satterlee, George G. Mackenzie, W. H. Cary, Willtam E. Webb. Last night the vestibule of Clinton Hail was liter- ally crammed with voters and “workers,” all of whom were as earnest and diligent as though endea- voring to awe the Chi Convention with a display of power, Captain McCaffrey, of the Fifteenth pre- cinet police, with a squad of twenty men, and detect. tves Barker and Inman, were on duty, and in the course of the day and evening necessitated a chat of base of about twenty pickpockets, One gen’ man was relieved during the afternoon of a watch. For two hours previous to the closing of the polis intense excitement prevailod, but the friends of the “regular” ticket were most Gemonstrative and san- guine, ‘The vote canvassed for President was as follows:-— Allen, 458; Lee, 980; Allen’s majority, 78; seattering, 29. Total vate polled, 867. At twelve-o’einck last night the vote fox the other oMicers hat not been cauvassed, thongh so fat as it had progressed the appearances were that the Allen ticket Mwd been elected straight through, A litte doubt won eniereina as to one or twoot the de recta, as there were quite a number of “epiits’? om born tickets, =) ‘Last year the vote polled exceeded two thousand, and on that occasion the arr. Clected Recordt- ing Secretary and One member of the Board of Di-