The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXIII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. FRENCH THEATRE.—-MABIE ANTOINETTE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-Humprr Domptr. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Pamis ax HELEN, NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas WHITE Fawn. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—ALL HaLlow Evg—Latest FROM NEW YORK, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street.— ‘Tux WHiTR CockapE, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 28d street, corner of Eighth avenue.—Lost, BOWERY THEAT! Bowery.—Oiver Twist—ID10T oF THE HEATH. ee i GERMAN STADT THEATRE.—Diz ScHOENE BRLENA. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving place.—SINGING FES- TIVAL. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETa10- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, &0. —Bi KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 730 Broadway.—80nGs, RoonNTuLSIHiES, he. GRAND DUTOR “5.” -ANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth Pi re MINSTRELSY, EOORNTRIOITIES, 40. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BatLEt, FARoR, a0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowery.—Comio VooaLism, NEGRO MINBTRELSY, &c. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—SECOND GRanD Concert. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Tax TickRT OF LEAVE MAN. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Erniorian MINSTRELSY—TAE IMPEACHERS. HALL, 984 and 956 Broadway.—PANOBAMA OF THE WAR. coh : NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, corner 23d st. and 4th av.—EXHIUITION OF PICTURES, &6. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOLENOE 4XD ART. + New York, Tuesday, May 26, 1868. TRIPLE SHEET. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the. Atlantic cable is dated { yesterday evening, May 25. ‘The Emperor of Austria ratified the Public Schools and Civil Marriages bills. ‘The German exploring expedition (already reported in the HERALD) sailed for the North Pole. England and Austria officially urge a general disarmament. ‘The condemned Fenian, Barrett, has been refused @ new trial in London. , The colt Souzerain won the Grand Prize of Paris, |” the French Derby. The rainy season had commenced in Abyssinia, but Napier’s army was in rapid embarkation for India. The English had no losses in killed at Mag- dala. Consols, 94% @ 95, money. Five-twenties, 71 a 71% in London. Cotton dull and easier. visions steady and quiet. By mail we have interesting detalls of our cable despatches to the 13th of May. CONGRESS. Jn the Senate yesterday the question of bridging navigable rivers came up on the discussion of memo- rials and bills setting forth that bridges less than five hundred feet span over the channel are obstruc- tions to navigation. A motion to refer all such bills to the Committee on Post Roads was agreed to. ‘The Army Appropriation bill, with amendments, was and passed. Resolutions appropriating captured and damaged ordnance to the Lincoln Monument Association and for the Sedgwick monu- ment were adopted. Mr. Drake offered an amend- ment to the Arkansas Admission bill and the Senate adjourned. In the House a bill to reorganize the colored troops was introduced and referred. A resolution for the appointment of a joint committee to investigate the causes of the arrests of citizens during the war was offered, but went over under the rule. A resolution calling for a statement of the dividends declared by the National Bankiug Associations was adopted. Mr. Cary offered a resolution declaring that the letter and spirit of the law does not require the payment of the principal of the five-twenty bonds in coin and that it will be good faith to pay in currency. This was referred to the Committe on Ways and Means by a vote of 74 to 27. Mr. Chanler introduced a resolution setting forth that, as the country belongs to the white people of the States by the rights of dis- covery, long established usage and the customs of liberal civilization, therefore the right is reserved to the people of the respective States at any time to Breadstuffs quiet. Pro- revoke the privilege of voting granted to the black race. The Deficiency bill, which appropriates $2,000,000, was taken up and passed. Mr. Schenck gave notice that he would report back the Internal Tax bill on Wednesday, and on motion the first reading was dispensed with. The Impeachment Managers made a lengthy report and asked that Charles W. Wooley, one of the witnesses, be forced by the House to give evidence. The report includes ‘Thurlow Weed’s and Wooley’s testimony, in which the former says he was urged to make an attempt to induce Senators to vote for acquit- tal, but did not think the plan feasible. Collector Smythe first told him that a plan was on foot to se- cure acquittal by this means. The resolution requir- ing the presence of Mr. Wooley at the bar of the House was agreed to. Mr. Eldridge offered @ resolu- Uon reciting that the seizure of private telegrams, documents, &c., by a committee is incompatible with republican institutions, which was laid over until Monday next. The House then adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS. The radical Senators last night had a caucus to consider the policy of postponing the vote on the impeachment articles to-day. They were pretty equally divided, some for postponement and some for taking the vote, Ben Wade professing himself in- different as to the course to be pursued, but favor- ing postponement if the Managers should desire to enter any new axticies. By the arrival of the Spanish steamer Marsella at ‘Havana from Sisal and Vera Cruz, we have advices from the capital of Mexico to the 17th inst, The pronunciamiento of General Aureliano Rivera was giving the general government @ good deal of trouble. Rivera, however, was officially disowned by Mendez and some others of the malcontents, ‘The President's family had to leave Chapultepec hurriedly. Around Puebia the insurgents had posses- sion of the mountains and prociainred General Mar- quez as head of aregency. The States of San Luis Potosi, Tabasco, Querétaro and Mexico were at the ‘Mercy of the insurgents. Railway and telegraphic Projects were, however, favorably considered by the general government. An Englishman had been murdered near Vera Cruz. The American Consul at Havana has telegraphed te Washington for help for Minister Hollister, at Port au Prince, Hayti. In the Presbyterian General Assembly at Albany yesterday @ report on freedmen was submitted, which shows that of one hundred and sixty-five missionaries one hundred and ten are negroes. Joseph Williams, colored man, who was been a preacher fm slavery and freedom for thirty years, addressed the Assembly by request. Mr. A. H, H. Stuart, in @ letter to John T. stewart, Of Wiinols, says the democracy in Virginia would readily accept Pendleton as the candidate for the Presidency, but will stand by the choice of the Con. vention, leaving the matter mainly im the hands of the Northern democracy. ‘The skeletons of eleven men and two women were found on thy 2st of April, on Gull Island, of the Newfoundiauu yuast, which proved to be the remains NEW, YORK, HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY .26, 1868.—TRIP. of a portion of the crew of the Brigantine Queen, lost near there in December last, ‘The Board of Aldermen met yesterday in the Alder- manic chamber, which has been recently refitted, A message from the Mayor vetoing the Asphalt pave- ment for a portion of Fifth avenue was received and laid over. The annual meeting last evening of the Young Men’s Christian Association was largely attended. ‘The annual report was submitted and was followed with various speeches, including a characteristic one from Sergeant Corbett, of J. Wilkes Booth memory. In the United States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, yes- terday, the Callicott-Allen case was continued, it be- ing the ninth day of the proceedings. On the part of defence counsel summed up, occupying the entire afternoon. To-day the arguments will be concluded and the case probably submitted to the jury. The court room was crowded and much interest was manifested in the proceedings, At Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday an appll- cation was made by defendant in the case of Bolles vs. Duff, the old Olympic theatre litigation, for per- mission toextend the lease of the establishment to James E. Hayes, the present lessee, at $15,000 per annum, The motion was opposed on the ground that that rental is insufficient, and atidavits of seve- Tal theatrical managers were read in which they ex- press themselves willing to pay upwards of $20,000 per year. Decision reserved. The case of the Mercantile Bank vs, Bodine and others was put on trial yesterday in the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs sue to recover on a bond given as surety in the sum of $10,000 on behalf of Charles Windsor, paying teller of that institution. Windsor absconded in 1864 with about $239,000 of funds be- longing to the bank. The defence claims that a recovery is barred by the proceedings commenced by plaintiffs against Windsor in London, where he was subsequently apprehended. Case not, yet con- cluded, In the Supreme Court, Circuit, yesterday the sult of Caldwell against the New Jersey Steamboat Com- pany, in which plaintiff sues to recover $50,000 for injuries sustained by the explosion of the steamer St. John in October, 1864, was resumed. Counsel for the defence occupied nearly the whole day in summing up, and had not concluded when the court ad- journed. The Hamburg-American Packet Company’s steam- ship Saxonia, Captain Kier, will sail from Hoboken ‘at two o'clock P. M. to-day (Tuesday) for Southamp- ton and Hamburg. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve o’clock M. The steamship Manhattan, Captain Williams, of the Liverpool and Great Western line, will leave pier 46 North river to-morrow (Wednesday), at nine o'clock A. M. for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern- ment securities were buoyant and excited. Gold closed at 140 a 14034. The beef cattle market yesterday was passably active and prices were rather steady, though a trifle lower in some instances than last Monday, The offerings comprised about 1,600 head, selling at 163c. @ 18c. for fair to extra, and 160. a 16%¢. for in- ferior to ordinary. Common milch cows were quiet nd heavy, while good were in demand and steady. We quote:—Extras, $100 a $110; fair to prime, $75 a $95 and inferior and common, $45 a $70. Veal calves remained steady and in fair demand at llc. a 12c, for prime and extra, 8c. a10%c. for ordinary and good, and 7c. a 8c. for inferior. Sheep were moderately active and quite steady at 10c. a 103¢c. for extra gheared, and 7c. a 930. for common to prime do. Lambs, $5a $8 50. For swine the inquiry was light and the market was heavy at 934c. a 9%c. for prime, 9c. a 9%c. for fair to good, and 8}c. a 9c. for common, The Chinese Embassy to the United States and Its Importance. The Chinese Embassy to the United States which arrived here last Friday direct from China by the way of California and the Isthmus of Panama is one of the,most impor- tant and significant events of modern times or in the history of the world. In whatever way we look at this mission—in the motive that prompted it, in the results to flow from it, in the intellectual and exalted character of the native officials associated with it, and, above all, in the selection of an American citizen as the chief ambassador—it is a most remarkable event in international affairs and in the pro- gress of civilization. It was thought the arrival of the Japanese Embassy a few years ago was an extraordinary event, and so it was; but what was that compared with this of the Chinese? That, it is true, was a mis- sion from a proud and exclusive empire, numbering forty or fifty millions of peo- ple, but this is from the oldest, proudest and most populous empire on the globe, which for the first time in history voluntarily seeks closer and more intimate re- lations with the rest of the world. And, more surprising still, this is sought through the medium chiefly of an ambassador not a native of the country, and who represents in himself the civilization of the Western hemisphere. We may well be proud of the fact that Mr. Burlingame, our fellow citizen and late Ameri- can Minister to China, has been chosen by the imperial government for this exalted and im- portant position. It shows not only the wis- dom of the Chinese government in selecting for this mission statesman so admirably suited and full of political experience, but it is also a compliment to the United States and gives evidence of the growing influence of this country in China. But this mission, which is the most extraor- dinary one that ever left China, is sent not only to the United States, but to all the other important Powers of the Western World as well. We have the honor of receiving it first, but it will go to England, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Italy and the other treaty Powers. We see in it a profound object and the commencement of a new epoch in the history of civilization and in the intercourse between the Eastern and West- ern Worlds. It proclaims to mankind that the barriers of exclusiveness which for thousands of years have separated the races of men are about to be destroyed. The civilizing influence of commercial and friendly inter- course which this mission inaugurates will soon produce the happiest results. Though our country is the first to which the Embassy is accredited the Chinese government has been wise enough to give it a wider sphere of action by sending it to all the treaty Powers. The old order of things, when one nation endeavored to force exclusive privi- leges upon or to wrest territory from Chins at the cannon’s mouth, is at an end. Through the admirable policy now adopted by the Chinese government all the Western nations will be interested in maintaining the integrity of the empire. One will be a check upon the ambition of another, and the race will be for that commerce which will be open equally to all, and beneficial both to China and the rest of the world. In carrying out this policy the gov- ernment at Pekin saw the advantage and pro- priety, undoubtedly, of selecting for its Minis- ter a citizen from a great and now a neighbor- ing Power, which had never made war upon it and which has no ambition inimical to the integrity and prosperity of China. The able men at the head of that government saw, no doubt, that the United States is not an aggressive Power, that it is and must always be - peacefully disposed towards China, and that its friendship is most desirable. Our geographical position on the globe, lying inthe centre between Asia and Europe, our vast republican empire, our insti- tutions, our enterprise, our peaceful policy as regards other nations, our grand future and our comparative proximity to China, all of which the statesmen of that country understand well, have had great influence in developing the present policy of the Chinese government and in making the United States the pivot of its action, And in connection with this view of our relations to and with China we may men- tion the significant fact that by the first article of the treaty negotiated with that country by ‘Tue Impeachers and the Telegraph. The conduct of the impeachers in seizing and examining private telegrams is no less illegal than it is atrocious, The law is exceedingly strict which protects the rights of all who inter- change communications by the telegraph. If’ it be impossible to reach directly the insolent inquisitors—Butler and his compeers, who have betrayed by this glaring instance what they would venture upon in the violation of private rights, if their party only possessed full despotic power—and to inflict due punish- ment on them, it is both possible and desirable for those individuals whose telegrams have thus been seized and examined to indict and prosecute the telegraph companies which had the weakness to yield to the preposterous de- Mr. Reed, China claims the good offices of the United States in any future case of collision with other Powers, When we look at this vast empire, larger than the area of the United States and cover- ing nearly a tenth of the habitable globe, with nearly four hundred millions of population, which is fully a third of the human family, we may form some idea of the future commerce that must follow the removal of those barriers to intercourse that existed heretofore. The Chinese have a peculiar civilization of their own, and they were comparatively a civilized and great people when the nations of Europe were barbarians. ‘ Their civilization, power and national unity date back thousands of years before the Christian era. China was a great empire before that of Rome, Greece, Babylon or Assyria, and perhaps before the early Egyptian dynasties. The Chinese invented the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing and other things before they were known in Europe. They have a system of government based upon education—a sort of bureaucracy of the learned or educated classes—though nominally under an Emperor, who is reverenced almost as a sacred person. We see that it has proved both a strong and fraternal government from the length of time it has existed and from the im- mense population that covers its territory. The trade with foreign nations has wonderfully in- creased during the last few years and since some of the ports were opened. But under a more enlarged intercourse this will continue to increase. made to an American company—the East India Telegraph Company—to lay telegraph cables and wires to connect all the great com- mercial cities along the coast, and there is reason to believe it will not be many years before a network of telegraphs will cover that extensive empire. Steamers are already navi- gating the great rivers, and by and by the loco- motive will fly over the plains in every direc- tion. There is a great future opening for China and for the nations trading with her; and in this future we shall have, for many reasons, the best opportunities to enlarge our commerce and to develop the most friendly intercourse with the Chinese. soon what specific objects the Embassy has in view; but we know now, to use the language of Mr. Burlingame, that it means progress. A concession has already been We shall learn ‘The Progress of the Union Pacific Railway. The telegraph has informed us of the com- pletion of the Union Pacific Railway to a point six hundred miles from Omaha, its eastern terminus on the Missouri, and sixty miles of track now run over the Rocky Mountains, where only two months ago not a rail was laid. The summit of the mountains, not far from eight thousand feet above the sea level, has been crossed and left sixty miles in the rear of the outposts of the working party. Ten thousand laborers are said to be employed on the road, and the contractors expect to complete three : hundred and fifty miles more of track before the end of the year. The six hundred miles already accomplished is about one-third of the whole distance from Omaha to Sacramento; and as the Central Pacific Company is pushing rapidly forward from the California side, it is calculated that at the beginning of 1869 the space between the two lines will not exceed six hundred miles, so that the passage from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific may be made inten days. The rapidity with which this work has progressed is a marvel when we consider the difficulties encountered, and that nearly all the supplies necessary to its prosecution have had to be trans- ported over long distances beyond the starting point, and constantly carried forward with the extension of the line itself. Some idea may be formed of the speed of construction when we say that at the same rate a road might be built from this city to New Haven in a month. The presence of the Chinese Embassy in our midst is in this connection suggestive of the trade with the Orient which a railway spanning the Continent from east to west will open up to us. Much of the more valuable part of the traffic between Europe and China and Japan and the adjacent islands will doubtless be di- verted from the beaten track and find its way, via San Francisco and New York, to the Old World, while California and our Pacific Terri- tories will be literally joined to the Atlantic States by bands of iron. The progress of the two railways which are being hurried forward from ocean to ocean to meet each other and accomplish the great end in view has, therefore, a national as well as a commercial importance entirely apart from the interests of those im- mediately concerned in the work. Spirit oF THz Cuurcn AND THE PowER OF Wuiskry.—A number of religious assemblies and conferences were going on in various parts of the country at the time of the sittings of the Chicago Convention. One of them, in Michigan, we perceive, suspended its regular proceedings on hearing of Grant's nomination, and, full of the spirit, sang the standard Dox- ology amid great enthusiasm. Another, & Southern Baptist conference, more on the cold water principle, as Baptists usually are, re- frained from expressing its sentiments; while the Old School and New School Presbyterian Assemblies held up on the fight about reunion, and after rolling the nomination like a deli- cious morsel under their tongues, braced up their muscles and went at it again, endeavor- ing To prove each doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks. Grant will, no doubt, receive some opposi- tion from strictly pious men on account of his reputed occasional happy moods; but on the whole it is ® question whether the spirit of the Church will evercome the power of whiskey, and between the two Grant will stand about an even chance, with all the heavy weights in his favor. -shown that on the national debt this double mands of Butler & Co., and which are re- sponsible to their patrons for the inviolability of the private messages entrusted to them. The Western Union Telegraph Company now protests, but too late, against the conduct of the impeachers, and refuses to deliver telegrams to them unless legally constrained. When at the time of the Orsini attempted assassination of the Emperor of the French Sir James Graham violated the secrecy of private letters all England was full of excitement and indig- nation, But the apathy with which the American people submit to an equally flagrant outrage on the part of Butler—who evidently imagines that he is strutting over again his brief hour of. authority as a military governor of a Southern town during the war—this apathy indicates less delicate sensibility and less vigi- lance for individual liberty and rights in our republic than are to be found in monarchical Great Britain. The rumored seizure by the Impeachment Managers of Minister Thornton's despatches to the British government among the indiscriminate bundles which they recently carried away may lead to serious international difficulty. The British government is fairly entitled to demand explanation and satisfaction for so high-handed an act. The Excitement in Government Securities. The sensation of the day in Wall street is the rush to buy United States bonds and the consequent rapid advance in prices. The home investment demand is unusually heavy, while, the purchases on foreign account since the Senate vote on impeachment have taken the dealers by surprise, and their great diffi- culty is in supplying the demand. The Eng- lish, the German and the French bankers are buying five-twenties and ten-forties; but the call for the latter just now is particularly ac- tive, owing to the last of these bonds—if we except three hundred thousand dollars—having been sold by the Treasury, as wellas to the still more important fact that they are the only bonds the principal—alike with the interest— of which is payable in gold under the authorizing act. Moreover, they run for forty years from their date, whereas five-twen- ties only run for twenty, with the privi- lege to the government of redeeming the former after ten years and the others after five years from the date of their issue. Yester- day there was a further general advance of a half per cent in prices, and the excitement in the dealings surpassed anything that has been seen in Wall street since war times. As yet there are no signs that the culminating point in this movement is approaching; and as our national securities are still the cheapest in the country and money is superabundant, prices bid fair to rise considerably higher. Railway shares, although a little more active than usual of late, are comparatively neglected, and even the heavy operations going forward in Pacific Mail fail to divert attention from United States bonds. This is a good sign of the times. The Radical Double Faced Platform. The Chicago republican platform on the two leading questions of the day—the money ques- tion and the negro suffrage question—is a thing of two faces, yea, we may say, of four. On the money question it has a face looking East and a face looking West; and on the negro suffrage question it has a face looking North and a face looking South. We have faced platform may be claimed by Butler as calling for greenbacks, and by Greeley as demanding gold for the five-twenties. On negro suffrage thus reads this two faced platform:—“That the guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men in the South was demanded by every consideration of public safety, of gratitude and of justice, and must be maintained ; while the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States.” This is a shabby back down from the grand radical ideas of “universal suffrage,” ‘impartial suffrage” and “equal rights.” Congress, having forced universal negro suffrage upon the late rebel Southern States, is bound to maintain it over them; but Ohio and New York last fall, and Michigan this spring, having each by a heavy popular majority repudiated universal negro suffrage, Congress will not touch them nor do anything for their colored populations. Mr. Senator Sumner’s bill providing by act of Con- gress for universal negro suffrage over all the States must be held back for a more con- venient season, and Wendell Phillips and his radical pioneers are left to mourn over or revolt against the treachery of the Chicago Convention. The genuine equal rights radi- cals North and South, if not double dealers themselves with Sambo, will show their scorn and contempt of the double dealing republicans by putting an independent Presidential ticket in the field without loss of time. Sovrnsipe Criticism or Grant.—If Bar- low and Belmont and the other wise men of the Manhattan Club do not turn their city organ from its present course it will ruin all the chances of any democratic candidate for the Presidency. It will elect Grant by simply making the people believe that all opposition to him flows only from sympathy with the foe he whipped in battle. It is now engaged in writing him down on his failure to destroy Lee without absolutely overpowering him, and cites as an instance against him the different numbers with which Taylor beat Santa Anna at Buena Vista. Taylor had Mexicans to fight, while Grant had to fight soldiers that have no superiors for fighting qualities on earth, and he had to drive them from splendidly con- structed works. All this the people under- stand; but not so the Manhattan organ. Belmont and Barlow ought to open its eyes or shut it up; otherwise people will suppose it-is in the pay of the radicals. a scale of any magnitude has had about it so much of the air of ancient romance as the Abyssinian expedition. seemed paltry, ridieulous, Quixotic. adventurous people—some of them English, some of them German, not a few of them East- ern by birth and direct descent, but all of them for the sake of personal convenience claiming English protection—got intotrouble with Theo- dorus, a man who claimed to be a descendant of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and who was the acknowledged Emperor of Abyssinia, the far away and little known Ethiopia of the ancients, Was it worth while, many asked, to waste millions of money and to imperil, if not to sacrifice, the lives of many thousands of men in what might prove the vain attempt to deliver a few adventurers who were imprisoned in a strong fortress on the summit ofan inaccessible height somewhere in the neighborhood of the mountains of the moon? It was pronounced by many a perilous, by most a hopeless’ under- taking. ried on, and in an incredibly short space of time, and at asmall cost of life which has no parallel in the history of war, brought to a triumphant conclusion. Now that the thing is over, and that the wonderful and romantic character of the expedition and the still more wonderful character of the results are made known to the world through the: enterprise of a New York journal, Europeans generally, even the British themselves, open their eyes in amazement. A fact of to-day, it begins slowly to be seen is grander, romantic than the grandest, wildest, most dar- ing, most romantic tales of all pasttimes. The siege of Troy was a protracted bungle and fail- ure in comparison. might compare the expedition with the crusades of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The crusaders went forth on an expedition quite as noble and quite as disinterested. the name of Christianity they went forth under the guidance of the Cross and the Holy Virgin to wrest the Sacred Places from the polluting grasp of the Infidel. these crusades which kept Europe in excite- ment for more than two hundred years, and which robbed the various nations of the bravest and the best of their sons, in comparison with this Abyssinian dash. Napier and his men have done more in a few months than the crusaders accomplished in a couple of cen- turies. It is one of the few finished pieces of work in that particular line which the world has seen in many generations. and Wellingtons and Grants are small men be- side this Napier, this hitherto unknown and disesteemed man of the people. up to this time had little to do with military commanders ; but science, thanks to Sir Robert Napier, must henceforth rule. tion and bewilderment which the success of the expedition has created in France. The French are a great, a brave, a dash- ing, done really smart things even in Africa. Algeria has been the scene of many daring and dashing exploits, but it is only truth to say that the most illustrious feats performed by the French in Algeria dwindle into insignificance and contempt when placed alongside of this British campaign in Abyssinia. the expedition are scarcely less marvellous than the expedition itself, scarcely less romantic than the manner in which it has been begun, carried on and concluded. We had certain opin- ions about the character of that myste- rious hill country. We had been taught that some magnificent in the extreme. imaginings, however, have fallen far short of the actual truth. Eden, with its fruits and flowers, its bowers and its glassy lakes, the Happy Valley which Johnson has made immortal in his ‘‘Ras- selas,” even Bulwer’s Lake of Como, which filled with rapture the mind and heart of the proud Pauline—all those have been left behind by the gorgeous, the unparalleled beauty and grandeur of the actual scenes on which the eyes of the British soldiers have feasted in those lofty tropical regions of Africa. Egypt has long been famous for her climate, but a climate surpassing that of Egypt, associated with scenery with which Egypt has nothing to compare, has been found in those glorious uplands, where the Nile, the king of rivers, feeds and nurses his mighty powers. , The most famous spots of earth which have hitherto attracted the health seeker and the professional tourist are likely to be deserted. for this newly discovered garden of the world. not have been complete: if America had not had to do with it. Cause for wonder and amaze- ment would have been less had it not been for the enterprise of the New York Heratp. What had America, what had the United States, what had the New York Hegratp to do with Abyssinia, with the British expedition, with Theodorus or with Napier? Why should a New York journal be at the expense and trouble of keeping the British govern- ment posted as to the condition and prospects of its army in Abyssinia? Why shouldit be so that what the world has learned of that country and of that expedition which is worth learning has been learned at the expense and by means of the enterprise of the New Yorr Herarp! All this puzzles sadly the peoples and governments of Europe, but puzzles most sadly of all some of our New York contem- poraries. They cannot understand it. The reason isobvious—they do not understand the proper province of modern journalism. Our enterprise is atrocious; we are another “‘great SHEEM. . ee ee = ” The Romance of the Abyssinian Expedition. | The Impeachers and the Republican Party. Nothing which has occurred of late years on | ‘ The United States Senate, as the High Court of Impeachment, in pursuance of the order at its last adjournment, reassembles to-day. The unfinished business before it is the vote on each of the remaining ten articles of the House indictment against Andrew Johnson, and the general belief is that if without further ceremony the vote is taken on them each of the remaining ten articles will go the way of the elaventh. But the House Man- agers are appareutly resolved upon a further postponement, in view of an amended indict- ment and of some additions from the South to the impeachers in the Senate. They have, too, with ‘Old Ben Wade” as their favorite for the dispensation of the spoils, a desperate faction of followers ready for any expedient to get Johnson out and “Old Ben” in the White House, for the reason that with Wade as Presi- dent ad interim they can have all the fat offices distributed to their liking, and, so dis- tributed, the Tenure of Office law will hold them even against Grant. This is the game of the impeachers, and it ‘is getting to be a: very dangerous game as it begins to be under- stood by the original Grant republicans of Congress. We have:no objection, however, to this squabble between the Wade and the genu- ine Grant members. of the two houses, be- ‘cause, if prosecuted as Stevens and Butler propose, we shall have a larger breach in the radical camp than that of seven Senators. And s0,'we say, let this radical prosecution and persecution of Andrew Johnson go on. For a time the thing A few It was undertaken, nevertheless, car- Mexico and Miscegenatiou. Our news from Mexico from day to day is anything but encouraging as. to the: prospects of continued order in that country. Mexico is in a condition quite as helpless as Hayti, where a raving nigger tries to rule. Mexico is one of the few countries in the world which have gained nothing by coming in contact with mo- dern civilization. When Cortez found it he found a civilization which entitles the original Mexicans to be placed on’ a level with the ancient Egyptians. It is not to be denied that the resources of that country were developed under Cortez and his successors to # point which had not previously been reached. It was a development, of course, entirely in the interest of Spain. Still, it was such a devel- opment as implied that a strong and vigorous power controlled the affairs of State. The Spaniards, however, as colonizers, made: one grand mistake in Mexico, as in other parts-of Central America ; they permitted and encour- aged a mixing of the races. It is not too much to say that to miscegenation most of the sorrows of Mexico and much of the sorrow of all the Central American States are to be traced. Some races mix naturally and well and even develop a grander stock than the origi- nals. Certain races, however, have for each other no natural affinity. The mixing of these latter, of' which we have an example in Spain, begets only anarchy and endless.mis- ery. It is for us asa great people, with a great destiny before us, to avoid repeating in the South the great and now incurable mistake which Spain committed in Mexico. wilder, more daring, more Were we inclined to search for parallels we In But what a bungle were Our Napoleons Science has We are not much surprised at the consterna- a@ romantic people, and they have Our News From Hayti.—Our telegrams from Havana yesterday relative to the situa- tion in Hayti show that matters are worse in that part of the island of St. Domingo than we were disposed to believe. The situation, in fact, is hopeless unless the government of the country falls into the hands of foreigners. We cannot denounce with sufficient sevority the conduct of Salnave. and his Minister, De- lorme, towards the foreign residents, The prompt assistance rendered by the British gunboat Phebe calls for our gratitude. Our own laggardness in the circumstances deserves reprobation. The entire situation of affairs in Hayti illustrates the utter incapacity of the African race for self-government. In Hayti they have had every opportunity, but they have miserably and hopelessly failed. The discoveries which have followed from of it grand and Our loftiest parts were PUBLIC EDUCATION. The Course of Studies in the Schools. The principals and teachers of the public schools have, at two sessions of a joint committee of the Board of. Education held during the past month, dis- Played, in. what appeared to be most impregnable arguments, the fact that the present system of public education is decidedly too onerous on both the pupils and teachers connected with the public schools. So apparently convincing were the arguments brought forward by the teach- ers of ali the grades, and so remarkabiy unanimous were they in thematter of complaint, that it would appear as if noconvincing opposing arguments could possibly be found, and that the course of studies prescribed by the Board of Educa- tion was by far too onerous; that the system laid down was so intensely “indefinite,” the examina- tions by the Superintendents such immense bugbears; the style of marking by percentages so immeasurably unjust, and all these together so wearitg and weary- ing that the health of teachers and pupils was undermined, and that the Board of Education should, if only in obedience to the dictates of humanity, institute an immediate and thorough reformation. A third session was held last evening, at which Superintendents S. S. Randall and Henry Riddle, taking the remarks made by the representa- tives of the teachers, completely upset the arguments of the latter. They admitted that abuses in the sys- tem did exist; that unless there were some reason for stating go the twenty-five hundred teacuers em- ployed by the Board of Education would not be so unanimous in their complaint. But they (the super- intendents) claimed that the abuses were not caused by the excesa of work required by the Board of Education, nor by the system prescrived, nor by the style of examining and marking the staal- of the classes, but that the teachers themselves Fer the principals chiefly were to blame for the ex- istence of these abuses. They showed that the laws of the Board, the course of studies and system pre- scribed, were so constructed as to obviate the very abuses which the teachers complained of. The teach~ ety to excel, the principal's anxiety to have Py cl repared for the ae and to have their schools attain a high grade, had caused them at ‘times to neglect or disobey the laws of the Board or the recommendations of the Superintendents, and had been the omly and the prolific source of the abuses referred to. The system of examinations and marking were chiefy alluded to as having re~ ceived the highest commendations from educational experts of ot ce iege of the country and of Bu- rope, and they claimed that to this system was owin; in great part the efficiency of the entire educational system of the metropolis. The discussion will be continued on Monday afternoon, June 4, at bali.past four o'clock. THE WEATHER YESTERBAY. The folowing is@ record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, as Indicated by the ther- mometer at Hadnut’s Pharmacy, Herald Building: The romance of this wonderful affair would criminal,” and for this terrible crime they are deliberating whether we ought not to be expelled from the Associated Press of New York. God help the mark! Have We a Cuinese Littts Tommy Awtoxa Us ?—We understand that Mr. Burlingame and his two Grand Quans, or Mandarins, permitted none of the inferior servants in their retinue to accompany them on their visit to the “White Fawn” the other evening. Is this bee: history of the Japanese Little Tommy ence in this country had warned them agsinet the possible danger that the same ladies who made such fools of themselves a few years ago, or at least that their youngen sisters, might discover among those’ menialg a Chinese Little Tommy? Have we aChingsa Little Tommy among wat RELIGIOUS ANNIVERSARIES IN BOSTON. (From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.) Boston, May 25, 2468. ‘Tne verious religious anniversaries will be held here this week, and already there is a large num-| ber of strangers in the city to al w Th Dusiness meeting of a fow societies were hel thie morning, and the remainder of the week w' bec hiefly devoted to public meetings. free y nt inaugurated here ® day ago on an