The New York Herald Newspaper, May 22, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MEE'S OPERA HOUSE, 28d street, corner of Eighth ‘avenue. —Lost, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—OLIveR Twist—AUNT CaaBLoTtTs’s Map. FRENCH THEATRE.—English Opera—Lity oF Kit- LASNBY. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humprr Dumerr. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite Mew York Hotel.— Panis and HELEN. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway._Tas Waits Fawn. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Connrm Soogan. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street.— mis Witt Cockaue eamnanaame TRYING HALL.—Buinp Tom's Concert. itnnewar HALL.—MustoaL Frstivat—Tus CneEa- BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth atreet.—ETHIOPIAN MINeTBELSY, EOUENTRICITIES, £0. gTHBATRE COMIQUE, 51¢ Brosdway.—Baturt, Fancy, Oe KELLY &°LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, Eoognraioitixs, 4c.—GRanp Dutow “Ss. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHIO- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowery.—Comio VOOALIen, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— UNDER THE GasLicut. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eraiorian MINBTRELSY—TAE IMPEACHERS. DODWORTH HALL, 806 Broadway.—PANORAMA OF CALIFORNIA, 5 a PpNODAwa OF tHE WAR, TIO) ‘AL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 23d 4th av, —EXWIUIMION OF PIOTURES, &6. again NEW YORK SOIENOR AND } ogame OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, May 22, 1868. THE CHICAGO CONVENTION. On reassembling yesterday the Committee on Resolutions reported a series as the plat- form of the party in the coming campaign. ‘They gongratulate the country on the success of reconstruction under the laws of Con- gress; cali for equal and impartial suffrage in the South; denounce all form of repudiation as a national crime; call for the equalization of taxation, for economy in the administration of the govern- ‘ment and for abatement of corruption in office; denounce Andrew Johnson and favor the protection of foreign born citizens abroad. The resolutions ‘were adopted, On motion of General Logan General Grant was nominated for the Presidency, the call of delegates showing six hundred and forty votes for him. Bal- loting for Vice President then commenced, Wade being highest on the first ballot and Hamlin lowest. Several other ballots were then taken, Colfax gain- ing ground on every one, and on the fifth ballot he ‘was formally announced as the candidate of the party for Vice President. The Convention then adjourned sine die. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Davis, as a question of privilege, introduced a resolution for the appoint- ment of a committee to investigate certain attempts to intimidate Senators in regard to voting on im- ut. Mr. Henderson aiso, a8 a question of pri réferred to the fact of his being summoned asa ] before the Impeachment Managers, He sald pal lly he had no objection to appearing, but as the intent of the Managers was to investigate alleged corruption on the part of Senators he thought the Action was insulting to the Senate and danger- ous as a precedent. Mr. Pomeroy said he had attended as a witness without, as he thought, com- ‘promising the dignity of the Senate, and Mr. Sumner said & new article would possibly be framed and no obstacle should be thrown in its way. Mr. Davis’ resolution was then taken up and Mr. Ross offered an amendment, which was accepted, calling on the Managers for the testinony already taken. Discus- sioh ensued, pending which the Senate adjourned until Monday. EUROPE. By special telegram through the Atlantic cable, dated in London yesterday, we are assured that the American impeachment verdict has been received with universal joy in Europe, and generally regarded as an acquittal of the Presideut. The news report of the cable is dated yesterday, May 21. Queen Victoria left London for Balmoral. Her Majesty's retirement from public life just now is loudly censured by the London press. The Scotch Reform bill was under debate. Ex-Governor Eyre, of Jamaica, has been held for trial. Specie is flow- ing into the Bank of England. The United States fleet remained in the Tagus. The session of the Spanish Cortes was prorogued. . MISCELLANEOUS. Late intelligence from Brazil and the seat of war in Paraguay states that the American Minister, General Webb, had offered the mediation of the Vaited States to the Brazilian Emperor, and had ‘sald to him that uniess the war was soon ended the American government would ipter- fere, The gunboat Wasp had carried important de- spatches trom General Webb to General Washburne, the Ambrican Minister in Paraguay. Lopez ia re- ported to be at the mouth of the Rio Tibicuari, which be ts heavily fortifying. Port au Prince, (Hayti,) telegraphic dates to May 18 report that Salnave had declared himself dictator and was being gradually encompassed in the city by the revolutionists. fie threatened to burn the city. Two English war vessels were there to protect foreign but the American man-of-war De Soto had galled away because she had only four days’ pro- visiohs on board. Advices from Kingston, Jamaica, dated the 16th instant, are to the effect that the soundings for a cable to Cuba had - been completed and that the bill granting aid to the company had passed a first reading in the Legislature. A congress of the Episcopal Church had been called to take steps for the renewal of the Church act, which expires next year, The Bishop denounces ritualism and forbids ite practice, The Canadians are again feverish over a raid ‘Which is to take place next month, and which they say will certainly be a more serious affair than the others, Great preparations for resistance are being made. The old Board of Directors of the New York and New Haven Ratiroad was re-elected by the stock- holders yesterday in New Haven, and a resolution favoring the increase of the capitel stock by $8,000,000 was adopted, OMoclal despatches received at the Navy Depart- Ment state that the Monongahe oa tasty been gotten off from the beach at St. Croix, where she ‘was stranded by the tidal wave accompanying one of the earthquakes last fall. ‘The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church met at Albany yesterday. Delegates were present from Africa, China, Mndia and Brazil. After the elec. tion of officers it was agreed to receive the report of the Committee on the Union of the New aud Old school Ohurohes to-day, to which time the Assembly aa. journed, The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, New School, met in Harrisburg yesterday, nd appointed the consideration of the proposed ‘union of the two schools for to-day. The General Assombly of the Southern Presbyterian Church as- sembied in Baltimore yesterday. Setenteen year locusts are appearing in Maryland. In the Chicago Methodist General Conference, yes- terday, a strong resolution condemning the use of NEW -YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1863.—TRIPLE. SHEET. tobacco and providing for the non-admission of can- Gidates for the ministry who use it, was introduced and referred. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday a communi- cation suggesting a public reception to Minister Bur- ingame and his Chinese embassy was referred to & special committee. ‘The passengers and crew of the British sloop Superior, supposed to have foundered twelve months $63): 618 PRR s0 Hp Alize cn the Spanien Wale in avery. The Chicage Conyention—The Republican Ticket and Platform. The republican party, through its grand Sanhedrim or council of war at Chicago, having chosen its standard bearers and agreed upon fits plan of operations, is now fairly in the field for the Presidential campaign. With a gene- ral enthusiasm and confidence in his popular strength never surpassed in any party conven- tion over any other name, General Grant stands proclaimed the unanimous nomination of the republicans for President. Compared with the roll of his grand military achieve- ments, from Fort Donelson to Appomattox Court House, Old Hickory’s battle of New Orleans, Harrison’s Indian fights at Tippe- canoe and on the Canadian river Thames, where fell the great. Tecumseh, and Tayfor's Mexican victories, from Palo Alto to Buena Vista, and Scott's from Vera Cruz to Molino del Rey and Chapultepec, and Fromont’s suc- cesses as “‘the Pathfinder,” from the Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada, to the San Joaquin and the Sacramento—all dwindle into bagatelles. If, therefore, the military glory of these men, each in his day, rendered them more available for the Presidency than our most distinguished contemporary statesmen, what shall we say of Grant, woe yan campaizn against the late rebelliof éévered an area of five hundred thousand square miles and compassed the surrender of three hun- dred and fifty thousand armed men? Wecan only say that this candidate is stronger than his party, and that the party, seriously weak- ened in consequence of its radical excesses, still confidently relies upon his strength. For Vice President Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, Speaker of the House of Representa- tives, has carried off the prize. The failure of the eleventh article of the impeachment was the failure of “Old Ben Wade.” With Andrew Johnson's removal, and with ‘Old Ben” in the White House, he would have been master of the situation at Chicago for the second place on the ticket. His only hope of compensation now for his great disappointment lies in Johnson's re- moval, or in the prospective Cabinet of General Grant. Mr. Wade's present term in the Sen- ate expires on the 4th of March next, when a democrat takes his place, elected in consequence of the startling overthrow of Wade and his party in Ohio last fall on their platform of universal negro suffrage. Wade, as a bigoted fanatical radical, is an unpopular man outside the ultra radical faction. Colfax, a man of larger abili- ties and broader and more liberal ideas, is one of the most promising and popular men of his party. Fenton is a failure and was wisely overslaughed. Curtin, a very respectable man, seems to have labored under a similar difficulty in his own State to that of Fenton. Had the New England States united upon Hamlin or Wilson they might have secured him. It was against all these disaffections upon these other candidates that the general popularity of Colfax prevailed, notwithstand- ing the fact that he makes the ticket, “like the handle of a jug, allon one side”’—Grant from Illinois, and Colfax from Indiana—leaving the East and the South both out in the cold. The platform upon which this ticket is pre- sented to the people is a work of some in- genuity. Like an old campaigner, the Con- ‘vention moves with a bold step where the ground is firm, but treads cautiously and gin- gerly over the boggy places. The country is first congratulated on the success of Southern reconstruction under the policy of Congress— a proposition which could not be avoided, good or bad, Next, however, equal and impartial suffrage is demanded in the South, regardless of race or color, which looks very much like the abandonment, as far as convenient, of the universal negro suffrage policy of reconstruc- tion. Next, every form of repudiation of the financial obligations of the government is de- nounced as a crime—a declaration which is broad enough to meet all questioners, but still so dubious as to signify nothing. Next, an equalization of taxes, economy in the ad- ministration, and an abatement of corruptions in office are promised ; and as these things are sorely needed to save us from wreck and ruin, these promises have a pleasant sound. Pro- mises, however, are one thing and perform- ances are another, as we see in the inequalities of the taxations, the lavish expenditures and the shocking corruptions in office, for which this party in power is responsible. So far, at all events, this new republican platform is broad enough to admit all the various shades of opinion in the party camp on this thing, that thing and the other, without any promises of a definite or satisfactory character on thg great issues of the day. On the main question (Andrew Johnson) the Convention speaks with a bolder manifestation of earnestness and emphasis. He is de- nounced as worthy of impeachment for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” which, being inter- | preted, means that while the Convention could not undertake to pass an ex post facto party law against the republican Senators—Fessenden, Trumbull, Grimes, Henderson, Fowler, Van Winkle and Ross—for voting ‘‘not guilty” on | the eleventh article of impeachment against the aforesaid Johnson, he is to be hauled up again, and then every republican Senator voting ‘not guilty” will know where be belongs. This is the most significant feature of this Chicago platform, and we dare say that it covers a deliberate understanding between Washington and Chicago that Andrew Johnson must be removed, so that the immense patronage, which at best is frittered away in his hands and lost to the radical cause, may, in being turned over to a distribution by “Old Ben Wade,” be turned to a good account. The platform in question closes with a sop to our naturalized citizens in flouting the old European dogma that ‘‘once a citizen always a citizen,” and in pronouncing in favor of the protection of the adopted citizen against all pre-emption claimants. But it strikes us that if the administration (under Mr. Seward's advice) has fallen short of its duty on this subject, Congress has also failed to meet the just demands of our adopted citizens touching their security in the event of @ peaceable visit to their native land. In truth, by the professions of this Chicago Convention the people will not judge this radicalized republican party, but by the acts of ite official representatives in the two houses of Congress. From what they have done we may reasonably conjecture what they propose to do in order to finish their appointed work, The republican ticket, headed by General Grant, seconded by Colfax, is a strong ticket ; the platform upon which they are placed is conveniently evasive and withal as elastic as India rubber. It means, on the great financial issue, greenbacks or gold, as Congress may hereafter determine; and it means a qualified or @ universal negro suffrage, according to the market to be supplied. How the democracy are to fight this ticket and platform it is for their wise heads to determine between this and the Fourth of July. The Firo Marshalship—Another Bone to the Dogs of Office. By recent act of the Legislature the business of the Fire Marshal's office, now transacted with- out expense to the city by Fire Marshal Baker, has been erected into a regular bureau, which is to cost this tax-ridden community twenty-five thousand dollars per year. The appointing ot a head for this bureau has also been vested in the Police Commissioners, a political vehicle having been created out of that which was originally a prudential office with a pruden- tial officer salaried by the several insurance companies. The office and title were origi- nated some fourteen years since by the pre- sent incumbent de facto, and through it and the very efficient nd efiergetic action of Fire Marshal Baker it is estimated that at least o j MUUOA doffars have been saved to the different insurance companies. _ Besides this, which is an item of importance, it is conceded that Mr. Baker has proved @ most efficient aid in se- ouring convictions for arson, two of which were effected last winter. In this connection it is only necessary to mention the cases of Castig- neto, convicted of arson in the first degree in the Court of General Sessions last winter, and of Lambert, convicted about the same date in the Court of Oyer and Terminer. In both these cases the practical experience, shrewdness and ingenuity of Fire Marshal Baker were the means of securing a conviction, and to him the District Attorney was indebted for the models, drawings and fitting together of those delicate points of evidence without which prose- cution in these cases cannot but prove boot- less. It must be remembered that in cases of arson conviction generally depends upon a minute adjustment of circumstances which would be likely to escape the attention of any except the most experienced mind, and that these circumstances must be noted at the time and in the midst of the hurly-burly of conflagration. The value of Fire Marshal Baker's shrewd- ness, ingenuity and practical experience cannot be overestimated, and ought to secure for him, regardless of all political considerations, the recognition of the Police Commission. Our South American News. The letters from our special correspondents at Rio Janeiro, at Pernambuco and at Buenos Ayres, published in the Heratp of yesterday, gave full and valuable information as to the situation in Brazil, in Paraguay and in the Argentine Confederation. Humaita was still holding bravely out against the allies. The allies were, however, slowly encroaching upon the city. The circuit has been reduced from twenty-five to twelve miles, and cannon have actually been planted within one-half mile of the fortress. The Marquis de Caxias, accord- ing to our correspondent, rode much (some twenty miles a day), but it was generally felt that he would give greater satisfaction if he rode less and advanced his cannon.more. The firing from Humaita was reported to be quite as heavy as that which it was receiving. A shipload of Irishmen had arrived at Rio and had been graciously welcomed, the Em- peror himself condescending to honor them with a visit. Throughout the Argentine Con- federation considerable excitement prevailed as to the Presidential election, and the in- fluence of Brazil was steadily growing in La Plata. Anysstnta.—The detailed news which we gave inthe Heratp of yesterday gives us a clearer idea of the difficulties with which the British had to contend in reducing Magdala. We cannot say that the character of Theodorus as set forth by our correspondent is one alto- gether to our mind. It is impossible, how- ever, to deny him the quality of bravery. With a better following and a little more science it is not difficult to see that he might have been a match, and more than a match, even for Napier, Jerome Park. The next race meeting of the American Jockey Club at the Jerome Park will begin on the 9th of June. More than a hundred of the flaest horses in the country will be there by the first of the month, and it is dificult to find stabling for those which have already arrived. Knee deep as the mud is at present, in conse- quence of the deluging rains of ‘this lovely month of May,” a few days of sunshine—for which we may hope even against hope—will put the course in excellent order. In justice to these very rains it must be said that they will have given to the verdure and foliage of this charming and favorite resort, not only of turfmen, but of the élite of our metropolitan society, additional depth and luxuriance. The hearty and persistent encr ment which the Heratp has from the begin- ning bestowed upon the successful efforts to make our Park unrivalled in its at- tractions led to the establishment of the Jerome Park as a delightful adjunct and succursal, The result is evinced by the almost magical transformations offered by these two parks, both of which have enlisted the interest not only of the fashionable world but of the great public. The change which has been wrought by the direct influence of the Park and the Jerome Park is marvellous. Not many years ago a well-appointed team and an elegant turnout were so rare as to expose the few who indulged in such displays to the charge of eccentricity at least, if not of ridiculous aping of foreign aristocratic ostentation. Philo- sophical European travellers, like De Tocque- ville, were inclined to comment on the tyranny of public opinion which forced wealth to con- ceal itself within doors. But now all take an honest pride in such signs of the wonderful increase of American wealth as are afforded in the Park and in Jerome Park when- evora fine day fills and animates these parks with equipages and costumes more splendid than any to be seen in Hyde Park, Rotten row or in the drives of the Bois de Boulogne. - If the American, Jockey Club, while satisfy- ing turfmen by the employment of all legitimate means to exalt the rising reputation of Ameri- can horses and attracting to the races in Jerome Park the beauty, the fashién and the wealth of our great city, shall at the same time secure for these races the: widest popular favor by avoiding all danger of the formation of any such “ring” of exclusiveness as that which was the rock whereon the Academy of Music, with its ill-starred managers, or rather mis- managers, and its one hundred and ninety- nine and a half stockholders, made shipwreck, it will win and deserve to win even more bril- Mant success than its most sanguine friends already predict for it. Asin the palmier days of the ItaHan Opera in New York thousands were attracted by it who cared leas for music than for the pleasure of seeing and being seen, #0 thousands who care little for the special object of the races in Jerome Park will be attracted to them for a similar reason, And gradually the races will lead, as the Italian Opera promised to lead, and notwithstanding all the drawbacks of mismanagement actually did lead, toa higher appreciation and enjoy- ment of the amenities of refined social life. A Wortuy Trid—Mr. Craven, who lately resigned the office of Chief Engineer of the Croton Aauedet Deparment; Mr. Green, thé éffictent President of the Park Commis- sion, and Fire Marshal Baker. Are the public willing that the last named gentleman shall be supplanted by a politician at an expense of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum to the taxpayers of the city ? The Managers’ Inquisition. Public reprobation cannot be cast too strongly upon the present conduct of the Im- peachment Managers. These men, abusing the authority of the House to the purpose of personal oppression, impudently pretend a right to go behind the verdict of the Senate to find if it was honest. With- out a shadow of probability, without any common impression even of public opinion to support them, with nothing but oe own ridi- culous suspicions to proceed upon, they assume that every republican vote cast against them must have been corrupt. The very starting point of,their present investigation is the as- sumption that Senators Fessenden, Henderson, Ross, Grimes and the rest are rogues, and that their votes were bought for so much ready cash. We know that the republican party is rotten through and through with this very evil ; but we did not expect to have it so gratuitously testified by republican leaders that the highest and purest men in that party were not above suspicion of the common motive. Yet we have men brought up to swear what money they have drawn in Waghington, what they have done with it, and what, during the time this money was in their hands, have been their ro- lations with the Senators who voted not guilty. It is true that it is no new spectacle in the history of our country to see Butler inquiring into men’s bank accounts. He has never missed any convenient op- portunity to obtain information as to the amount of money a man has at command or as to the whereabouts of the money; and if all that has been testified in our courts re- garding the financial part of this man’s history in New Orleans is entitled to credit, he manages to make the © in- formation pay. We know not, therefore, the exact point of this inquiry into Wooley’s money affairs—whether the great impeachment process has been switched off to minister to Butler's peculiar ‘‘curiosity,” and such money as the witness has left is to be, like the New Orleans gold, ‘‘paid into the United States Treasury” through Butler, or whether this in- vestigation is only intended as a gigantic insult to the honest members of the Senate, to show the opinion held of them by their party associates. One of the men brought before this out- rageous ‘committee of public safety” is Sena- tor Henderson. Here is a man called upon to answer ‘‘in another place” for his ‘conduct in the Senate. What, then, becomes of the priv- ilege of a Senator—that sacred right guaran- teed by the constitution to act as one may deem best for the country above all possibility of having the motive called in qifestion? Was the arrest of the five members a whit worse in tyrannical tendency than this pretence of two or three fanatics to review the course of Sena- tors in the performance of the highest function they possess? Where shall we stop in revolu- tionary progress if these men, without au- thority, without color of law, can call before them any man and inquire into his most pri- vate acts—can in time of profound peace make greater encroachments upon personal liberty than were made even under pressure of all the great emergencies of the war ? Firg Marsaat Baker.—Are the insurance companies willing to submit quietly to the supersedure of this officer, who has served them faithfully for the past fourteen years ? Tas Bia INDIAN IN THE Cit1cAGo CoNvEN- tTion.—An “electrifying effect” was produced in the Chicago Convention, we are told, when General Sickles entered on his crutches, head- ing the New York delegation. The Crosby Opera House was crowded, and the delegations were waiting in breathless silence and anticipa- tion for some grand denouement and theatrical effect—as an audience waits for the rising of the curtain when a star actor is expected—when the Big Indian with all the other chiefs en- tered. The American flig was carried proudly and, waved over the head of the mighty chief amidst hurrahs that shook the building to ite foundations, We are not informed whether this was the identical flag which Genefal Sickles, Gesler-like, made the people of Charleston bow down before when he was in command of that military district, but, judging from the enthu- siasm awakened, it probably was. Altogether this was a well prepared and most dramatic scene. The loyal radicals should have a grand picture of it executed by a competent artist and place it in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Wash- ington. Incenptantes Resotor—At the prospect of their enemy, Fire Marshei Baker, being placed on the retired list. TRLBGRAPHIG NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. ENGLAND. European Opialon of the Impeachment Ver- dict. QUEEN’s Horan, LONDON, May 21, 1968. ‘Telegrams have been addressed to this city from all parts of Europe announcing the receipt of the news of the American Impeachment verdict at the different points, and the effect produced by its an- nouncement. . The vote of the United States Senate has been received with joy everywhere, and is universally regarded as tantamount to an acquittal of President Johnson. Queen Victoria Out of Town. Lonpon, May 21—P. M. According to Court arrangement her Majesty Queen Victoria left the palace to-day on her summer trip to Scotland. The Queen willremain at Balmoral for some time, ‘The withdrawal of the Court and retirement of the Queen from public life at this moment, in the midst of a Parliamentary and Cabinet crisis of the great- eat importance, 18 widely commented on and cen- sured by the city press this morning. The Scotch Reform Bill. The House of Commons met in session Yoniene hab the “uousewu of whe Scotch Reform bill was renewod. Mr. Baxter, member for Montrose, offered a new clause to the bill excusing the poor from the pay- ment of rates, on the condition of thelr not exercis- ing the franchise. ‘This amendment was accepted by Mr. Disraeli, and the further consideration of the bill was postponed. The West India Negro RebellionEx-Governor Eyre Held for Trial. LONDON, May 21, 1868. Mr. Edward John Eyre, late Governor of Jamaica, has been held for trial for acts done on the island. He is charged with a high crime and misdemeanor, on motion made in the Court of Queen's Bench,” under the Colonial Governors act, eleventh and twelfth of ,William III. and the forty-second of George III. The former act provided that if any English Colonial Governor should be guilty of oppressing any of his Majesty's subjects or be guilty of any other crime or offence beyond seas, such oppression, crime or offence should be inquired into, heard and determined in the Court of King’s Bench and punished as if committed in England; and the statute of George III. enacted that if any person employedin the service of the crown in actvil or military capacity abroad should be guilty of any crime, misdemeanor or offence in the execution or exercise or under color of his office, every such crime or offence should be prosecuted, heard and determined in the Court of King’s Bench, either upon information exhibited by the Attorney General or upon indictment found in Middlesex, upon which the offender should be punished as if the offence had been committed in England. In Mr, Eyre’s case the affidavits set forth that on the 13th of October, 1865, Edward John Eyre, who was then Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica, caused to be issued a proclamation of martial law (which was set out in terms, and pur- ported to declare that martial law should prevail, and that the military forces should have the power of exercising all rights of belligerents against those of the inhabitants whom they might consider op] to the government), and that immediately after issu- ing the proclamation he violently, oppressively and illegally put a stop to the nena A course of justice, and suspended and superseded the ordinary courts of law at Morant Bay and other places within the island, ana handed over the district to the military forces then under his command, to be dealt with as an enemy’s country; and that a large number of her Majesty’s subjects residing in the island were tried by certain illegal tribunals, composed of naval and military officers, for various alleged offences against the laws of the country, and were punished by such tribunals in a cruel, unusual and ompreasive manner, Then the affidavits charge him with having issued an illegal and oppressive proclamation; for divers arbitrary and oppressive acta done under tt with his concurrence sanction; for arresting one Sidney Levens at Mortego Bay, 150 miles from the district over which th? proclamation of martial law ex- tended; for keeping him imprisoned many weeks after the proclamation had ceased to be in force until he was liberate by hébeas c 3, nO charge having been preferred against him: tor illegally arresting out of he district over which the proclamation extended one Benjamin Norris ana causing him to be impri- soned and fogged without any charge having been preferred against him; for. cg arrest and imprison- ment of one Brice; for illegal arrest and imprison- ment of one Viten, and for arrest ana imprisonment of one George Villiam Gordon and divers other per- oa and so orth, ending with the execution of jordon. The Bank Return. be: Lonpon, May 21—Evening. Specie is agin flowing to the Bank of England. The regular veekly statement is published to-day over the sigmtures of its oMcers. The amount of bullion in vaul is £493,000 greater than at last re- port, made las Thursday. Amlo-American Aquatics. LONDON, May 21, 1868, The Oxford srew have received the challenge of the Harvard cew for a boat race to take place some time next yea. The Oxfords have made reply de- clining, as ther crew may be changed by that time. They are redy and willing, however, to row a match with tle Americans if one can be made for this year. PORTUGAL. The Umed States Fleet in the Tagus. Lisson, May 21, 1868. The United ‘tates squadron, under the command of Admiral Farngut, stili lies at anchor in the Tagus, No day has ‘een yet announced for the sailing of the fleet; meanwilile the admiral is paid every attention by the authorties and the citizens of Lisbon. AUSTRIA. ‘Thy Revenue and Taxation. ViENNA, May 21, 1863, The Reichrath has imposed heavy taxes on the coupons of fe general debt and on lottery prizes. Jariiamentary Prorogation. Mapaip, May 21, 1863. By comand of the Queen the session of the Na- tional Corts has been prorogued. BARBADOS. Populariy of the Cable to Brazil vin’ Barbas dos—Sousidy asked=Arecrican Horses—Ar- rivals fom the United States. Havana, May 21, 1868, Our adwes from Barbados are to the 10th inst. An influntial meeting had been lield tn favor of the cable provt of Mr. Hippell, agent of the Interna tional Ocan Telegraph Company. The latter had asked a bli granting a fourteen years’ concession and An annualsubsidy of £2,500 for the cable that shall connect Fivana vith Brazil, via the Barbados. Reso- lutions tn savor thireof were unanimously approved, and shares in th\ company were in extensive de- mand. American horsegold readily. Governor Walkewas to leave on the 10th inst. There had beer eight arrivals from the United States since last avices. iT. CROIX. Ice Monopoly \bolighod-—Anxiety of the, Santa Cruzans to & Annoxed to the United States. HAVANA, May 21, 1968, Our advices fim St, Croix are to the Hoth inst. ‘Tne toe m had been abolishes, Aresolution 14 passed the Cou%scit urging the King not to St. Oroix froa St. Thomas and St. John’s, but finclade it, Ubeiqise, in the sale to the United Stath ene Laxs Crry, Fia., May 21, 1968, The following is the very latest direct from Port au Prince via Key West. The date of the despatch is Port au Prince, Hayti, May 18:— President Salnave having declared himself Dicta- tor of the repubtic, @.serious revolution commenced against him. The revolutionists within three miles of the city gradually drove in the forces of the Dictator. Salnave threatened that if he were driven out he would burn the city of Port au Prince. He to be desperate, but it is doubtful if he wilt carry out his threats, as the English frigate Phobe and sloop-of-war Royalist are there to protect foreign interests, The American man-of-war De Soto coula not remain, having had only four days’ provisions on board. Sainave ordered the lighthouse to be destroyed by bombardment, as it ‘waa in possession of the rebeta. JAMAICA. Troubles of the Episcopalians—Coolle Immi- gration to be Increased—The Cable Sound- aya Comeniatee Havana, May 21, 1868, § From Kingston, Jamaica, our advices are to the 16th instant. Py A call had been issued for § congresa of the Episcopal Church, because the Church act will ex- pire next year if not renewed. The Bishop is severe in his denunciation of ritualism and in his orders against its practice. The ministers, it may be noted, are without friends to supnort hia appeals. a Preparations were being madg by gorerngPe se inerease the coolte immigration. The Bat Pros tested against the project, and the niggers grumbled threateningly about the matter. i, The United States steamer Gettysburg had com- pleted the soundings for the projected cable from Santiago de Cuba. The committee of the Legislature nad reported favorably on the cable to the Legisla- ture and the Council, and the bill granting ald to the company had passed the first reading. i The British steam sloop-of-war Royalist, Coms mander Pollard, had gone to Hayti to protect the American and British residents. \ The American whaling schooner Hannah Grant had gone on a whaling crulse. ST. THOMAS. Wrecks to be Ratsed—Prayers for Prosident Johnson—Danish Claims on Venezuela. Havana, May 21, 1868. By the British mai! steamer Mersey from St. Thomas we have advices to the 16th inst. The British Royal Mail Steamship Company had ab- solved Captain Moir, of the steamship Plata, for hav- ing let his vessel get aground March 31. Active preparations were being made to float the sunkem steamer Columbian, and powerful pumps were daily expected from England. The Company’s dock, sunk in the great hurricane last fall, is imbedded two feet in the mud, but the stockholders are sanguine that it can be raised. 2 The Bishop of London had ordered the President of the United States to be included in the prayers of the Episcopal Church for the Queen. So it was announced at St. Thomas on the arrival of the last English mail. " The Danish man-of-war Dagmar had returned from Venezuela without having obtained redress or satisfaction for the Danish claims on that republic. The vomito had broken out among her crew and some of the cases proved fatal. The American ship Alice Ball had sailed for New York on the 15th. THE PARAGUAYAN WAR. The American Minister to Brazil Offers to the Allies the Alternative of Mediation or Intervention on the Part of His Governe ment=President Lopez Fortifying the Tible cuarl—Position of the Allies Around Hue maita. Lonpon, May 21, 1868. Advices have been received here from Rio Ja nerio to the effect that the American Minister neat the Court of San Cristobal, General James W. Webb, urges upon the governments of the allied enemies of Paraguay to accept the mediation of the United States to settle amicably the dispute. He ts reported to have told the Emperor Dom Pedro II. that, unless’ the war be brought to @ speedy close, the American government will Interfere to prevent further blood- ‘shed. * The United States steam gunboat Wasp, Lieutenan® Commander Kirkland, had conveyed important dea patches from Minister Webb to Hon. Charles AJ Washburne, the United States Envoy to Paraguay. Paris, May 21, 1868. \ The exact whereabouts of President Lopez, of Pars aguay, is variously stated in the despatches recet here from the seat of war. Some fix him in Foi Humaité, others at Villa Rica, and still others at th mouth of the Rio Tibicuarf, The Montteur yesterday evening, in its latest news from th seat of war announces that he holds the mouth line of the Rio Tibicuarf, which he is roriet ani making a very strong line of defence. He had an. nounced his intention and readiness to dispute ever} inch of the road to Asuncion. The lates rt any renewal of the attack upon Fort Humait that the threatened three days’ bombardment ha: begun, and that the semi-circular line of attac! drawn by Marques de Caxias was drawn closer the fortress, and communication with the alle fleet made easier. The heavy rifled guns brought u to Curupaity and Passo Pucu are planted withi eleven hundred yards of Fort Humaita. CUBA. Highly Umportant Royal Order Relating to Imported Works In the Spanish Language—- Pr ition to the Press. HAVANA, May 21, 1868, Royal orders are published prohibiting the int: duction of books in the Spanish language, printed foreign countries, excepting the works of Spanis} authors printed in foreign countries by permisstogl of the government; also excepting the works eign authors who reserve the right of tr who are permitted to introduce five hundred eee they obtain the consent of the jewspapers are prohibited by royal order from producing leaders and original articles which hat appeared in another paper, unless they obtain consent of said paper. ‘ Business was suspended to-day, it being the feasy of the Ascension. The fair for the benefit of the orphans of Havans was opened to-day. CANADA. Another Fenian Scare—Ineufficiency of thoy Military. MONTREAL, May 21, 1868, 4 ‘The Fenians are preparing at St. Albans, Vt., another raid on the frontier, which ts expected take place soinewhere between the 1st and 10th June. The preparations indicate more serious than any of the previous raids, The Canadian ernment has ordered arms and ammunition for act. 79, service to be served to the volunteers, ‘ Adjutant General Macdougal has resigned fn, account of the insuffictency of the militia bill, WR) cty has just been passed by Parliament. ‘The volunteer force is in a very bad conditfo: The government has ordered the volunteers to brigaded with the regular troops and reviewed o Monday, the are birthday. not turn out, but are being sent all over Canada o mop excursions. The reason is weakne IneMiclency of force, which will not allow fa display. Efforts Being Made .for a Renewal of th@ Reciprocity Treaty, j OTTAWA, May 21, 18° fm, It is understood that negotiations are now goin on with a view of securing the renewal of th @ Recte! procity treaty. Mr, Bre; ls here again in fetatio to this question. The sul the Committee of Ways and Means this weg Fallare of the Patent Bill-The Aavigation, Company and the Insurance Big Passed. OTTAWA, May 21, 1868, ‘The Patent btli passed the House,S¢ Commons night; but as there was a majort’ f against it ia Senate it falls to the ground neasio! The bill Teapecting the Nort y@uae Nevieation Cony pany passed @ Senate last it. {nsurance bUl pase cf the House of Common