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4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORQON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. { Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE.—Sor Teresa. OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Huarry Derry. NEW YORK Panis any HE NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bros BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—ALL HALLow Eve—Latest FROM New York. THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— LEN, Tne Waits FAWN. | WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street.— Tue Warre Cockans. | PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 23d sireet, corner of Eighth <evenue.—Lost. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Outven Twist—Ip1or ‘or THE HEATH. if SAN_FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ernro- ‘Pian ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &c. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, EooENTRICITIES, &c.—GRAND Duton “8.” BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 1th aireet.—ETHLOPiaN MINSTRELSY, ECUENTRIOITIRS, tO. g THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brontway.—-Batiur, Fance, ri TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio ‘VocaLism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—GRanp OPENING Conorrt. MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S Tux Ticker or LEAVE PARK THEATRE, Brooxlya.— AN HOOLEY'S OPFRA HOt MIN6TRELSY—THE IMPEACHER) HALL, 954 and 956 Broadw. Brooklya,—ErHiortan PANORAMA OF THE WAR. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 23d st. and 4h ay, EXHIBITION OF ProruRrs, £0, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOlENOE AND ART. New York, Monday, May 25, 1868. ate EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cavle ts cated yesterday, May 24. ;, Barrett, the Fenian, will be hanged in London, his ‘alibi after trial having failed. + The German mail steamship Bremen, Captain Neynaber, from Southampton May 12, arrived at this ort yesterday evening, having a mail report dated to her day of sailing. The points have been fully Anticipated by our cable telegrams. MISCELLANEOUS. * Our telegrams from Hayti give further details of }the doings of the revolutionary parties in that dis- faced country up to the date of the assumption of he dictatorship by Salnave. Nothing of much im- Wortance had occurred since. The Cacos were sur- rounding Port au Prince and had defeated General Whevaiter. + Venezuela is offering to purchase St. Croix from enmark. Telegrams from Japan to hand in London yester- ‘day, by way of China and India, contain news from ‘the seat of war which Is in tima of date about three woeks behind the intelligence from Yokohama and ‘Osaka received in New York by way of San Fran- jetsco and published in the HERALD last Tuesday. Our special correspondence from the Sandwich slands gives a detailed account of the great earth- ‘quakes and volcanic eruptions that took place on the isiand of Hawaii during the first days of April. a first fire was seen to issue from Mauna Loa at three different points. A stream of lava one mile wide ran Gown the mountain at a terrific rate for about three days, Fire and lava again appeared at another point, Kahuka, on the 7th of April. The stream rushed on ‘wards to the sea, on entering which its heat gene- ‘rated a dense column of steam which rose high toward the heavens. Previous to the eruption a cumulus of Smoke rose from the crater to a height of nearly eight miles, A strange circumstance 1s the forming of a oose red clayey soil out of the volcano. This covered an area one mile wide by two miles long, and was heaped up in some places to the height of thirty feet. ‘The scene as described in the letter of an eye-witness ‘was one of the grandest on record. A disastrous fire broke out yesterday afternoon in the freight oMce of the Neptune Steam Propeller Company, by which the steam propelier Oceanus, valued at $250,000, with a cargo valued at $50,000, ‘was totally destroyed. The pier (No. 27) and sheds adjoining were also burned, causing a loss of $60,000. ‘The propeller Metis was damaged to the extent of , 510,000, and the propellers Electra and Thetis $1,000 b ral dremen were injured during the fire, einen had @ narrow escape from death, iiment Managers are divided in their ‘©pinions in regard to Wb» result of their recent inves- ‘tigations. Should tiey not be prepared to make a Xeport to the Pouse to-day it is expected that the Senate wi", postpone the vote on the remaining ten ‘article’, to-morrow. ‘The Managers have made Per demand upon one of the telegraph compa- ies for despatches sent over its lines, but compil- ‘ance has been refused unless by due process of law. Intelligence received in Washington from Cretan ources represent that several battles took place in Wrete last month between the insurgents and the Turkish forces, in all of which the Cretans are said have gained advantages. The refugee Cretans in reece were suffering severely. The Greek govern- Yment had already spent three millions of dollars to keep them from starvation. , Rev. Dr. Chapin preached his temporary farewell ‘permon yesterday to 4 lal congregation prior to his departure on a tour to Europe. He took occasion {to return thanks to the members of his church Tor ‘heir kindness and sympathy to him during his min- Astration, referring particularly to the generosity and Sympathy extended to him as evinced in their mu- tual aid and their permission to him to absent him- ‘Belf for a time from them. He expressed a hope that Ahey would listen with faithful attention to the dif- Terent preachers who might occupy his pulpit during Aus absence. It is understood that Dr. Chapin will ©xtend his tour over Europe and be absent from this City for some three months, i. ‘Telegrams from Calcutta, India, report that @ the ‘Drat opium sale of th@new financial year the prices ‘Yealized were 153 rupees above the estimate of the now budget, The Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs has noti- fied the Russian Ambassador at Pekin that the ex- port duty upon sifted teas hus veen reduced one- half. From Egypt it i announced that the Viceroy aban- Goned the proposed foreign loan at the request of the Legislative Chambers, that a satisfactory budget will be presented and that arrangemcuts have been made to meet all money requirements, A national loan is under consideration, a large portion of which has been subscribed for by the principal Turkish ¢ ap. Atalista. Governor Fenton on Saturday sent to the State Ne partment, without his signature, the bills incorpo. rating the Rhinebeck and Rondout Ice and Passey, ger Company, to aid in the construction of the New York Northern and Buffalo and Washington tail roads and to provide for the completion of the Ai pany and Susquehanna Railroad. A despatch from Albany says that the rumor of a Wreak in the Erie Canal, published in some of tie | New York evening papers on Saturday, is without foundation. Orders have been issued in New Orleans for uy establishment of quarantine against all the ports of Dicaragua, Central America and Vera Cruz. times. The body of Captain A, De Peyater, late Governor of the Saitors’ Snug Harbor, Staten Island, who has been missing since the 234 of January last, waa found on Saturday at Port Johnson, Hudson county, N. J. ‘The funeral of the late Colonel Garrett W. Dyck- man took place yesterday from the City Hall, the First regiment National Guard forming the escort, and alarge number of citizens also participating. The remains were conYeyed to the Hudson River Railroad depot, enroute to Cortiandiown, where they will be interred to-day. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular relating to duplicate bounty checks, and regulating what course the loser must pursue to enable him to receive a duplicate and receive payment from the Paymaster General. ‘The Collector of the port of La Paz, Lower Califor- nia, recently seized the Custom House, with the aid of regular troops, and imprisoned the acting Gover- nor, who is believed to be favorable to the annexa- tion of the Northern States of Mexico to the United cure Pacifie Railroad has been opened to business six hundred miles beyond Omaha, Ne- braska. Sixty miles have been built this spring, and a larger force of laborers than ever is at work on the dl. ig the recent robbery of the train near Seymour, Ind., the Adams’ Express Company will lose about $56,000. No clue to the thieves has been obtained. The Irish laborers at the West Rutland, Vt., marble quarries have struck for higher wages. Their em- poyers sent to Canada for five hundred Frenchmen, and in consequence the strikers threaten to destroy the place. The authorities are on the alert. Government and the Telegraph. Mr. Washburne’s bill, for establishing a tele- graph line by and under the control of govern- ment between Washington and New York, has greatly disturbed a portion of the press and those interested in private telegraph companies. The proposition is denounced as impracticable, inconsistent with the proper functions of gov- ernment, a waste of money and an invasion of the sphere of legitimate private business. These hostile newspapers go so far even as to say the governmental postal system is a failure and would be better managed by private com- panies. Now, wé impugn the motives of no one, but must say the opposition to gov- ernment telegraphs from such a quarter is surprising. For the telegraph companies, which have become enormously wealthy and which derive vast incomes from their business, to oppose the scheme is reasonable enough, but we are astonished at the opposition of the press. It is not true that the postal business in the hands of government is an evil or has failed to meet the wants and expectations of the com- munityr Nor has the power and patronage arising from it, in this country or any other, been dangerous to the liberties of the people or a source of corruption. Does any one imagine we should ever have had a three cont postage if the business of carrying letters had been left to private companies? Would there have been the same despatch, regularity and safety? Or would mails be carried to every remote village and hamlet, as now? No; if carrying letters were a private monopoly, as it would become in the hands of individuals or companies, we should be charged three or four times over the present rates of postage, and the monopoly would be far more dangerous, The same argument applies to telegraphing. As with the postal system, government would have no other object than the convenience and welfare of the public. It would not want to make money out of the business; it would have no dividends to make upon stock enor- mously inflated; and it could afford to send messages at a third of the rates now charged. It could for ten millions of dollars establish more lines than those represented by forty millions of capital stock. The saving to the public for telegraphing in the course of a year would be immense. The number of messages sent would be vastly increased, and the greatest advan- tages in stimulating trade and intercourse would naturally follow. Nor need there be any fear of government prying into the secrets of messages for political purposes; the inviola- bility and secrecy of messages would be as well guarded by proper laws and regulations as they are now, and perhaps better. But there need be no monopoly at all. Government can estab- lish this line from Washington to New York, and lines all over the country for its own use and for the benefit of people who choose to use them, without monopolizing the business. If private companies can send messages as cheaply and wish to carry on the business, let them do so. All we claim is that the public at large shall not be deprived of cheap telegraphic communication for the sake of private monopo- lies. {i % The transmission of intelligence by the mag- netic telegraph has become so important to the whole community and is so connected wit all the affuirs of life that it should no longer be confined to private companies. Itis only about twenty-five years since this wonderful agent of our modern civilization was first applied to the transmission of intelligence, and now there is a network of telegraph wires covering the civil- ized countries of America and Europe. It is impossible that this new and mighty agent of civilization should. be long inseparable from government. The British government sees the necessity of controlling it, both for the use of government and the good of the commu- nity, and has taken steps to manage the tele- graphs in the United Kingdom. Other govern- ments in Europe have their own lines of telegraph and control more or less the whole | system over their separate territories. We hope Mr. Washburne's bill will be passed and that this will be followed by a general system of government telegraphs ; but should the pro- ject be defeated now it will not be long before government will be compelled to take the management of telegraphing, as it now has of carrying letters, But apart from the convenience to the people the telegraph should be in the hands of govern- ment, because it has become necessary and very important in the administration of public affairs. This was seen during the war, when the government was under the necessity of seizing and controlling the telegraphs, though they were private property. By its means the largest empire can be governed as easy as a small province could without it in former No matter where the seat of govern- ment may be, the governing power, having its hand on the telegraph wires, can command | of a vast continent just as easy as the affairs of the smallest State can be managed. The great empires of former times fell to pieces because | one part was isolated from another by distance, | and because it took a long time to communicate | from the centre to the extremities. The re publican empire of Rome would not have been broken up, probably, had the magnetic tele- | thousands of miles away and over every part | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1868. graph been known and used at that period, at least not when and in the manner it was broken up. And here it will be the great instrument of extending and preserving our republican em- pire over the whole North American Continent. Tt isa new and mighty phase of civilization, which must become one of the most powerful instruments of government. It is rapidly dis- seminating ideas, enlarging the minds and views of men, and bringing all nations together in closer and more friendly relations. The time is-not far off, perhaps, when the nations of Europe will be a confederation of republics and all governed by one congress through the influence and instrumentality of the telegraph. Governments hereafter will become continental, or bounded only by great natural divisions on the geography of the globe. It is impossible, therefore, that this mighty civilizing and gov- ernmental power should long remain solely ‘in the hands of private companies. Sooner or later the government will be compelled to take control of it both for administrative purposes and the convenience of the people. Congress will act wisely, then, to take the initiatory step by at once adopting the excellent bill intro- | duced by Mr, Washburne. | Mr. Burlingame’s Mission. The Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen- ipotentiary for China, who arrived at New York on Friday, with hig companions—two magnates of the Chinese empire—and with a large reti- nue of secretaries, interpreters and servants, | has already visited the Park, one of the greatest institutions of New York; the ‘‘White Fawn,” the successor of the ‘‘ Black Crook,” at Niblo’s Garden ; the galleries of one or two prin- cipal photographers and the Century Club, The Chamber of Commerce on Saturday appointed | a committee to wait upon the Chinese Embassy | and welcome its members to the city. Ina few days Mr. Burlingame will go with his Em- bassy to Washington and make known to the President and the Secretary of State the spe- cial objects of its mission, so far as the govern- ment of the United States is concerned. We | hope that the administration and Congress, and | allin authority at Washington, will not fail to seize this opportunity for establishing amicable | relations with China. Nothing should be neg- | logted tg open widely the goo to the immense i prospective advantagéé which such relations | promise and will secure. After visiting Washington it is probable that | Mr. Burlingame will go to Havana and ob- serve the nefarious workings of the coolie trade, which in many respects is no less horrible than the old African slave trade. Passing over to Jamaica, the Chinese Embassy may sail thence to England and initiate at the Court of St. James the delicate and Important negotia- tions which Mr. Burlingame has been instructed to make with the great European Powers. In two points our government has the advantage over the transatlantic nations :—First, in the fact that Mr. Burlingame has been the Minister of the United States to China; and second, in the fact that in this capacity he so fully won the confidence and good will of the Chinese Emperor as to be appointed Minister of China to, the United States and to the nations of Eu- rope. Such an appointment is unprecedented in the history of international intercourse. It certainly wih not be the fault of the Emperor of China if our own government is not placed first in the ranks of the most favored members of the great family of nations with which the Chinese empire seeks alliance. The immediate and the more remote benefits of intimate diplo- matic and commercial relations between China and the United States will prove incalculably great, . A Fixekr mw Every Pir.—Thurlow Weed | is emphatically a man with many irons in the fire and with a finger in every pie, and wher- ever corruption is the cry the investigators are pretty sure to pounce upon him. We are not surprised, therefore, that he has been called before Butler on this impeachment inquiry to furnish his statistics on whiskey and free wool. Women’s Rieurs at Citcaco.—It is a re- markable ‘fact that there was not a speech made in the Chicago Convention and that not a word is said in the republican national plat- form about women’s rights, Had some of our women’s rights women been on hand and demanded a voice of -the Convention they might perhaps have obtained a hearing, or secured at least the nomination of ‘Old Ben Wade,” who is pledged to women’s rights as well as niggers’ rights. Why was it that Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, or Mrs. Antoinette L. Brown, or their colored feminine colaborer, Mrs. Sojourner-in-the-Valley-of-Tribulation Truth, was not present in the Convention to demand equal rights to women? But they have still a chance with the democracy. Let the ladies’ pioneer corps on women’s rights, headed by the lion of Omaha and the prophet The National Bank and Treasury Ring. Our correspondence from Washington, pub- lished in another part of the paper, makes some interesting revelations concerning the opera- tions of the national bank and Treasury ring in Washington. It shows how the committees in Congress are made up or changed through certain political and business interests and combinations, and for selfish and ambitious ends. It is alleged that Speaker Colfax in making up the House committees favored pro- | tectionists and his own political aspirations. Mr. W. D. Kelley, an experienced member from Pennsylvania, was placed on the unimportant Committee on Weights and Measures, and Mr. J.D. Morrill was made Chairman of the Com- mittee on Manufactures, in order to remove a candidate for the Vice Presidency from Col- fax’s path, as well as to serve thé ring by | putting its most prominent official at the head of*the Committee on Manufactures, The poli- tleal object seems to have been secured in | the nomination of Mr. Colfax for Vice Presi- dent. Allseems to be done in a trading spirit, one committee being arranged to accommodate one interest and another a different interest, upon the principle of equivalents to each. The manufacturers, the protectionists of various interests, and, above all, the national banks, have all their separate rings; but they combine for mutual assistance. The Treasury ring, supported by the banks, is the strongest, and all the rest rally around that combination. A greatmany members of Congress are personally interested in the national banks, and a large majority, probably, in the various schemes of plunder, upon which the rings unite when necessary to carry their measures. There never was in any Legislature a more unscrupu- lous and corrupt body of men. Measures for the public welfare aro out-of the question. The whole scope of legislation is entirely for private and political objects. A great deal is said about the importance of the Presidential election, but the greatest evil to be remedied isin Congress. The people at the next Con- gressional elections should turn out the corrupt men now in power and choose new and better representatives. That is the only way to arrest the fearful demoralization and financial ruin with which the goyntry {a thr atened, The Impeachment Up Hill Work. The High Court of Impeachment will meet again to-morrow, and the idea prevails that there will be another postponement. First, ' because the impeachers are afraid that if the vote is taken on the ten remaining articles, as the Senate now stands, they will all go the way of the eleventh, and that will never do. Se- condly, because the smelling committee of the Hon. Ben Butler, directed by the House to in- quire into the suspicions of corruption affect- ing the seven independent republican Senators, has not yet finished its arduous labors, Thirdly, because the House Managers propose getting up a new article or two, which may require a reopening of the trial. Fourthly, because the impeachers may deem it expedient, in view ofthis reopening, to secure the presence of half a dozen reliable anti-Johnson Senators from the reconstructed Southern States. Fifthly and lastly, because it is the fixed pur- pose of the managing radicals to get Andrew Johnson out of the White House, and such being the case, they will not come to the vote tnt gure of their man. With these reasons for it, we may logk to-morrow for another post- ponement of the verdict, The Last Express Robbery. Last Friday night a gang of robbers seized upon the engine and express car of a railway train near Seymour, in Indiana, disengaged them from the train, and while in rapid mo- tion threw the expressman out of the window and robbed three safes in the charge of the Adams Express Company of fifty-six thou- sand dollars, part of which was consigned to New York. No arrests had been made at the date (24th inst.) of the last telegram received relating to this bold robbery. In audacity it surpasses any robbery of the kind which we have ever had occasion to record. But, after all, it only illustrates more forcibly than usual an alarming tendency, which we have fre- quently noticed of late, towards a more system- atic co-operation than ever on -the part of our modern railway Dick Turpins. This ten- dency calls for an immediate corresponding co-operation—in fact, for a complete reorgani- zation—on the part of the authorities whose business it is to detect these bold robbers and put them down. If the robbers are to act in organized bands the authorities must start or- ganized bands in opposition to them, Im- proved means of communication between con- ductors, brakemen and all the employés of a railway train and the agents of the express companies should be devised and ado pted. The passengers themselves should join sugh a of the Fenians, and the champion of unpro- tected females George Francis Train, be early on the ground at Tammany Hall on the 4th of July, and on women’s rights they may wield the balance of power. .—Not the jolly Irish soldier who without a shirt to his back was happy before the Rajah, but Thurlow Weed, over the defeat of poor Fenton at Chicago. A Sprrepy JupomMexr any Execution. — Telegrams from Sydney, received Saturday evening in London and published by us on Sunday morning, announce that Prince Alfred, having completely recovered from his wounds, had left for England in command of suip, the steam frigate Galatea, and also that the assassin O'Farrell, who fired upon the Prince, was executed on the 22d of April, As this attempt at assassination resulted in no actual murder, and, so far as we have learned, the evidence is not conclusive that the man O'Far- rell was in a condition of mind to be held re- sponsible for treason, the question inevitably suggests itself, in connection with his speedy judgment and execution, was this justice or an unwise and superfluous exhibition of loy- alty? From all the facts which we know in the case, the worst use to which they could put O'Farrell was the hanging of him. | Tue Fox aN THe Grarts.—It is reported | from Washington that Mr. Wade is delighted with the Chicago nomination of Colfax, as the general vigilance committee as shall make every railway a hard road to travel for the boldest robbers. A Ratyy Season.—Rains, hail storms and tornadoes seem to be the order of this lovely month of May, from Mexico to the New Do- minion. On Saturday last a heavy storm pre- vailed all day at Havana, and pieces of wreck and pipes of wine had been picked up along the shore and in the Gulf. San Antonio, Texas, on the 19th, was visited by a tremen- dous and destructive hail storm, involving a loss of half a million in houses, crops and gar- dens. Our Atlantic coast storm of Saturday, from the capes of Virginia northward, covered an immense extent of country. We fear that there has been too much rain for the lately planted Southern cotton and Northern Indian corn, and that this widely extending and un- precedented rainy season will be followed by a summer of droughts and fevers, North and South. But owr wheat and the hay crops of 1868, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, promise a glorfous yield. Tue Fire Marswar.—Have our fire insur- ance companies nothing to say in relation to the Fire Marshal's office, the duties of which have been so faithfully and efficiently per- formed by the present incumbent? Shall this responsible position be retained by him, or | turned over to the tender mercies of one of our corrupt corporation rings ? | very best choice that could have been made for the Vice Presidency. Stitt IN que Foa—Q@overnor Fenton and the tax levy. We is waiting to hear Chicags, from Just te Thne—The financial planks in | the Chicago platform. Butler is satisfied that | they moan greenback#; Greeley says that they have the jingle of the real stuff--the gold. They are both right, and they will both, per- haps, come out wrong. Wemae Suffrage. We must call again upon Mr. Donnelly, as a ladies’ man and a general civilizer, to advocate the cause of woman suffrage: He will find that one great cause of the rapid degeneracy of pagan Greece and Rome was the exclusion of woman from even the spheres of social influ- ence to which Christianity has elevated her. He can prove that in England the abstract right of woman to vote is no new thing under the sun; that it is, as the fifteen hundred women who, through John Stuart Mill, peti- tioned Parliament for the right of franchise de- clared it to be, ‘‘an evident anomaly” that, in a country where the possession of property is expressly laid down by high authorities as car- rying with it the right to vote in the election of representatives in Parliament, some holders of property are allowed to use this right, while others, forming no less a constituent part of the nation and equally qualified by law to hold property, are not able to exercise this privi- lege; and that, as the same petitioners as- serted, ‘‘the participation of women in the government is consistent with the principles of the British constitution, inasmuch as women in these islands have always been held capable of sovereignty, and women are eligible for various public offices.” Mr. Donnelly would find another -text for his argument in a curious petition which has lately been presented to the Hungarian Diet, signed by a number of widows and other women who are landed proprietors, and who ask for a restoration to the same equality of political rights with the male inhabitants of the country. These women were, for the first time, ex- cluded from the franchise in 1848, Mr. Donnelly might refer to the great changes in Swedish law, mainly due to the influence of the late Frederika Bremer, enlarging the electoral privileges enjoyed by the women of Sweden. He could show that even in Austria certain women have the same electoral rights as men, voting as nobles, in their corporate capacity as nuns and as taxpayers or mer- chants, although in a few cases they are com- pelled to vote by proxy. In this country, where the struggle of the American colonies against the mother country originated in a spirit of resistance to the tyranny of taxation without representation, Mr. Donnelly would discover a fine theme for his vigorous sarcasm in the inconsistency which condemns woman to this very same tyranny. Mrs. Dall’s recently published work on woman's Feytony education, labor and law, entitled “The College, the Market and the Court,” will supply Mr. Donnelly with a multitude of facts in support of the civil rights of woman. We especially commend to his perusal the plea for the rights of the American woman which Mrs. Dall bases on the famous clause in the Declaration of Independence asserting the claim to “‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Mrs. Dall points out the inconsistencies of our government in not according her share in this claim to the Ameri- can woman. ‘‘How can she be said to have a right to life who has never consented to the laws which may deprive her of it, who is steadily refused a trial by her peers, who has no voice in the election of her judges? How can she be said to have a right to liberty whose person, if not yet in custody, almost inevitably becomes so on her maturity; who does not own her earnings; who can make no valid contract and is taxed without representation? How can that woman be said to possess either the right or the reality of happiness, who is deprived of the custody of her own person, of the guardian- ship of her children, of the right to devise or share her property?” Mr. Donnelly might also profitably study the history of New Jersey, in which State from 1776 to 1807, a period of thirty-one years, the constitutional right of woman to vote was admitted and exercised. He might investigate the question as to how far the alleged hardening and corrupting influ- ences from which the opponents of woman suf- frage would fain protect women by keeping them away from the polls are directly due to the fact that they are thus kept away. If every fine young fellow marched up with his sweetheart to the polls and both voted at the same time, would not all the men voters be apt to improve in dress and manners? Would pot coarse and profane language less. frequently offend the ear? Would not low grogshops be banished from the vicinity of the polls? Would not the last of the “‘short boys” disappear? In fine, would not the acknowledged refining, moralizing, civilizing influence of woman at the fireside be extended to our public life? All these are questions for the consideration of Mr. Donnelly as the champion of woman's civil rights. There is no question at all but that both he and Mr. Washburne would have restrained the violence of the abusive speeches which they lately hurled against each other in Congress if any of their fellow members of Congress had been women. The Democratic Candidate. Who is to be the democratic candidate against Grant? That is the puzzling question. The West is clamorous for Pendleton and his green- back system ; but the democratic bondholders of the East will not have him, because they want their gold. General McClellan is coming back; but men are not apt to bet upon a beaten horse. The astrologists of the party at Wash- ington are trying to work out the horoscope of Chief Justice Chase for the Tammany Hall Convention, but thoy get on slowly with it, The war democrats are beginning to consider the proposition of President Johnson that General Hancock comes nearer to the stand- ard of George Washington than any other man in the democratic camp; but the Western peace men are forsworn against all epaulettes. They go for democratic principles and a good supply of greenbacks, Horatio Seymour is not publicly mentioned as among the prob- abilities, it being generally supposed that he has positively withdrawn from the contest ; but still It is whispered that Messrs. Belmont and Barlow are holding him in reserve as the ultimatum of the Empire State. And where- fore? Because, they say, Seymour can hold New York even against Grant, and that it is the belief of the New York democracy that their State must be saved, whatever may become this year of Ohio and the West. It would not, in this view, astonish us if Seymour, brought forward in the nick of time, were, after all, to carry off the prize. As to his positive declina- tion, that is “all my eye and Betty Martin.” A New Freepwen’s Bursav Proposkp.— They ora running one of our fellow citizens of African deacent for alderman in Washington, ee FUNERAL OF THE LATE COLONEL DYCKMAN. eee Obsequics ef @ Veteran of the Mexican War aud the Late Rebeliion—Interesing Miltary and Civic Display. Yesterday afternoon the funeral of the 1a‘ Colonel Garrett W. Dyckman, of this city, took place from the City Hall, and was witnessed by a large a.em- blage of citizens. Deceased was a veteran of the Mexican war, under Lieutenant General Winfi.cld Scott, and served also with distinction in the natior.\al forces during the late rebellion. Colonel Dyckmau* died at his residence in Broome street on Friday last. At ten o'clock yesterday morning his remains were conveyed thence to the City Hall, where they lay in state in the Governor's room until four o'clock P. M., at whfch hour the funeral took place, A large number of citizens availed themselves of the opportunity of looking for the last time upon the features of the honored dead, a force of Metropolitan Police being also present to preserve decorum and direct the course of the vis- itors, who made their exit at the eastern door. The remains were enclosed in a neat rosewood casket, mounted with silver, the breast plate bearing the inscription:— Qreeeecocenesete re renerereseeere se rest senese rerese nee GARRET? W. DYCKMAN, Diep May 22, 1863, AGED 53 YEARS, AOLOLO NOLO POLE IOEE REEDED IELELELEIELEDEIEDE EE DDE DE® ‘Tie coftin was placed upon pedestats in the centre of the room, the lid withdrawn, aud draped with the national colors. A guard of honor from Hawkin’s Forth stood beside the bier while the body lay in ‘st Shortly after three o'clock the First iment, National Guard, under command of Colonel Rush C. Hawkins, and accompanied by the staff band and drum co! in full uniform, arrived at the City Hall Park and formed line in front of the main entrance of the hail, The men wore bandeaus of crape on the left arm, and the Togimenta) colors and guide flags were also draped with the emblems of mourn- ing. The flags on’the City Hall were displayed at half mast. In accordance with resolutions adopted by the Common Council on Saturday, the members of the Board of Aldermen and Councilmen assembled in room No. 8, under the call of the Special Committees, together with Speier from the various civic departments and the judiciary to participate in the obsequies. At four o’clock the coffin was closed and conveyed from the Governor's Room to the open square, where. the hearse awaited it, On the lid were placed the’ sash and sword formeriy worn by dectased, the latter Doing a handsome weapon, richly mounted, presented to Colonel Dyckman by a number of citi- zens of New York subsequent to his return from Mexico. As the procession emerged from the portico of the City Hall and passed down the steps the regiment presented arms and the drum co! per- formed three “rafiles.””. The body was placed in the hearse and the funeral procession moved off in the following order:— First Kegiment National Guard (Hawkin’s Zouaves), with arms reversed, Stam Band, Drum Corps, with muMed drums, Veterans of we Mexican War, bearing battle fags captuted from the Mexican troops. Pallbearers, “Hearse. Pallbearers. Representatives of the Municipal Government and the Judictary. Citizens on foot. Osrriages. Tne cortege passed up Broadway and was followed by a large concourse of people, the band playing dirges. The Mexican flags attracted considerable Cae ont ciacens along thy ar of the procession, and forme appropri feature the display. Most of them ope bridenees 19 having - been tirotigh many sevefe triais Of sidf, storm ‘and sinshine, being rent into ribbons and tattersand much faded, though still bearing some evidence of their original beauty of design and richness of fabrié, e troops marched in five platoons, at open dis- tance, and comprised nearly 300 men. * Arrived at the Hudson River Railroad depot, Thir- seth § regt and Tenth avenue, the iment again formed ine ahd presented arms, while the coffin fees along the mnt and was conveyed into the lepot. The remains were then placed on board the train and at half-past six o’clock, accompanied by the immediate relatives of deceased and intimate friends, were conveyed to Peekskill. On arrival at the latter place they were to be transferred en route to Cortlandtown, where they will be interred to-day. In the forenoon of yesterday funeral services were solemnized in the Governor's Room at the City Hall, in accordance with the ritual of the Episcopal Church, Rev. Dr. Weston of St. John’s church deliv- ering an impressive funeral sermon on the occasion. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Senator Van Winkle and Impeachment. Senator Willey, of West Virginia, has written the following note in relation to the vote of his colleague, Senator Van Winkle, on impeachment to the editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer: — WASHINGTON City, May 19, 1868, Mr. G. D. HALL:— 2 DEAR Str—In yestorday's Intelligencer, in the edi- torial article in regard to Mr. Van Winkle, I am re- presented as having stated to a member of the House that Mr. Van Winkle had said to me that he had had an interview with Mr. Chase in reference to the eleventh article of impeachment, and that the views of the Chief Justice had caused him (Mr. Van Win- kle) to Sage his opinion of the eleventh article. This is @ mistake. Mr. Van Winkle never told me that he had an interview with Mr. Chase, nor do believe that he ever had. Iam certain he had not. The Senate requested the Chief Justice to prepare a form of Rating, the question on the eleventh arti- cle. The Chief Justice did so, and his statement in that behalf was made in open Senate and published in the proceedings. It was that statement which Mr. Van Winkle said modified his views on the eleventh article. It is true that, while that statement of the Chief Justice so induen Mr. Van Winokle’s mind, it had the contrary effect on mine, Allow me to say in conclusion that while I differed with my colleague on this grave matter, yet I must also say that I am as certain that he was conscien- tious in his opinion as Iam sure that I was in m: own, Inever knéW aman in whose integrity and (ss of character I had greater confidence than I ave in his, Very respectfully, W. T. WILLEY. Political Miscellany. General Gillem has ordered the election tn Missis- sippi to take place on the 22d of June. The Lynchburg Virginian, referring to the judg- ment expressed that the Chicago nominations have killed radicalism and spitt the party in twain, says:—“In this opinion we concur fully, and we believe that the democrats have only to act witha proper degree of wisdom to insure the overthrow - of the Chicago ticket, platform and all, Let them nominate Hancock and Adams, or place Pendleton second on the ticket—not first—and success is almost assured. Impeachment and negro suffrage will finish the work, now so well begun, and bury the radical party under a weight of popular odium.” The Albany Evening Journal says:—‘The New York delegation stood nobly by Fenton at Chicago. Tiey labored strenuously and with creditable sucecss.’” The Philadelphia Press pronounced Fenton the “ag- gressive candidate.” The St. Louis Times—prejudiced—says the “news of the nomination of Grant fell upon dull and indif- ferent ears. There was no excjement, no enthusi- asm and no appearance of any Mterest in the pro- ceedings.” The Richmond Whig states that John C. Breckin- ridge, the body servant of General Breckinridge dur- ing the war, has taken the stump in Campbell county, and is making effective speeches in behalf of the conservative cause. A Wisconsin editor remarked recently:—“If An- drew Johnson gets clear it will not-affect our politics, but it will give our religion an awful strain.” A witty democrat say8 the eleventh article waa taken up first on Scriptural grounds, as the impeach- ers hoped that a little ‘leven woald leaven the whole lump. A disgusted Virginia politician, named Join Hod- kin, pubiishes the following card:—“I this day sever my connection with all political organizations, and shall hereafter endeavor to pay more attention to my future salvation." It is said that Long John Wentworth sent the fol- lowing despatch to Senator Trumbull:—‘The radical republicans of Iilinois respectfully suggest that a few inches of Dick Yates’ whiskey might be good for your nerves.”? The Mobile Tribune says:—‘The more we learn of the New York Convention the more we are convinced that the South is invited by Belmont to send dele- gates only that he may attempt to buy them fora mess of pottage.”” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS. ‘ ‘The contest for the Western championship betweem the Cincinnati and Buckeye base ball clubs of Cincins nati took place on Saturday, and resulted in the des feat of the latter, the score standing:—Cincinnatl, 235 Buckeye 10. j Thomas Clark, alias Dublin Joe, charged with being athief and pickpocket, was arrested at Bostoa om Saturday night by State constables Mooney and! Maguire after asevere tuasel, during which he at~ cerapas, to wrest a revolver from Maguire, when (6 exploded, lodging a bullet in the officer's leg. TRE wound i# not serious, Clark was locked up. A burglar named Curlin, Who was under bonds fort cattle stealing, was shot and killed at Memplis yesterday. A negro constable at Memphis shot and mortally wounded another negra, who tried to escape fing. being arrested. ¥ jay eveniug. ©

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