The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1868, Page 6

5 eter rn nyt NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. vi iume XXXII. i AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Pasis AND HELEN. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway.-Tas WaITR Fawn. WAY THEATRE, Broadway.—ALL HALLow WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— THe WHITE COCKADE, PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, 28d street, corger of Eighth avenue.—THE POOR Simo. BOWERY THEATRE, BEATER—TLIAL BY BATTLE. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Humery Dompry. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHI0- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANCING, Ac. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—SON@s, EooENTBICITIES, &¢c.—GRAND DuToH “S.’ Tammany Building, 14th EOORNTRICITIBG, &C. ry.—OBion, THR GOLD- BRYANTS' OPERA Hoi street.—Erniorian MineTm THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BaLLEr, FAaRcB, &o. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 901 Bowery.—Comio Vooariem, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &o. WORTH HALL, 806 Broadway,—COMPLIMENTARY onan 70 J. JAY WAT#ON. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue,—POPULAR GARDEN CONCERT. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— COLLEEN BAWN, HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTUELSY—THE IMPEACHERS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOE AND ART, ——— = TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, May 28, 1968. THA NEWS. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday @ concurrent resolution to adjourn on the 13th of June was introduced and laid onthe table. The bill to incorporate the National Life Insurance Company was then passed. A resolu- tion accepting the resignation of Mr. Forney as Sec- retary of the Senate was offered, but belng objected to, went over. The resolution of Mr. Davis calling for the appointment of a cammittee to investigate as to alleged threats or intimidations used towards Senators in regard to the impeachment trial was then taken up. Discussion ensued, Mr. Ross making @ lengthy personal explanation, and a substitute Similar to the original resolution was adopted. The bill for the admission of Arkansas was taken up, but pending its consideration 4 motion to adjourn was made. Mr. Buckalew offered a resolution that the enforced attendance of Senators on the House Im- peachment Comniittee was a flagrant breach of privi- lege, and that the voluntary attendance was highly | iniproper, which was laid over and the Senate | atheess. a . ha House a Committep of Conference on the Sehate amendments to the Army Appropriation bill was asked for. Mr. Schenck reported back the In- ternal Tax bill without amendments, but sald he Would have a namber to offer as the bill pro- greased. A resolution directing the Superintendent fon Grounds to furnish floral offerings to the ‘ational Union Soldiers’ Cemeteries, to be strewn the graves of soldiers, was adopted unani- mMously. Bills allowing the owners of the yachts W. W. Abell and L'Hirondelle to change the names of thetr vessels were passed after some slight discussion. A bill amendatory of acts for the punishment of frauds on the revenue and the prevention of smug- gling was pabsed. A substitute for the bill to pro- mote American commerce was reported back from the committee without, however, recommending its passage. M¥er some discussion the bill was made special order for June 10. The Indian Appropria- tion bill was then considered in Committee of the Whole, progress reported and the House adjourned. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- terday evening, May 27. ‘The race for the English Derby was won by Sir Joseph Hawley’s colt, Blue Gown, The frontier of Galicia is disturbed by riots, caused by Polish exiles. Consols 95%, money. Five-twenties 717 in London and 76% a 76% in Frankfort, Cotton quiet and weak, with middling uplands at 113d. Breadstufls and provisions without marked chi 5 roy THE CITY. The Commissioners of Quarantine report that there are two vessels detained in the lower bay with small- pox on board, the bark Frichandel and the steqm- sh'p City of Washington. The latter arrived: from Liverpoo} with 1,006 steerage passengers, The sur- geon of the vessel reported to the Quarantine officers that four deaths had occarred on the voyage from non-contagious diseases only, but on a personal in- vestigation the Quarantine officers discovered that there was smallpox on board. The vessel is con- sequently detained, the sick haviag been sent to the hospital and the well passengers vaccinated. The Board of Estimates has decided that $150,000 will be required to meet the expenses of the Board of Health for the ensuing year. A very large and enthusiastic republican ratifica- tiom meeting was held last evening at the Cooper Institute. The proceedings were of a most harmoni- ous and orderly character, and the ticket—Grant and Colfax for President and Vice President, and the platform of principles as put forth by the party at the late Convention at Chicago, were unanimously adopted and endorsed; The American Baptist Home Missionary Society continued iiganniversary proceedings in the Oliver street Baptist chureh yesterday. The report of the Committee on Southern Delegation, which expresses a hope that Baptiste would co-operate to secure to the negro in the South the rights and duties of citl- zenship and Christian fellowship, produced some discussion, in which Dr. Manley, of South Carolina, forolbly expressed himself agrinst the social equality of the negro and against granting him the suffrage. Amecting of owners of real estate on the west side, above Fifty-ninth street, was held last evening at the Everett rooms, under the auspices of the West Side Association. A board of officers was elected, a report of the Executive Committee approved, and resolutions favoring the widening of Broadway, from Union square to Fifty-ninth street, and opposing the proposed grading of Righth avenue, under the appro- | priatton for that purpose in the tax levy, were adopted, Mr. Anson Burlingame and his Chinese Embassy will review the Seventh regiment this afternoon, at five o'clock, in Union square. An inquest was held yesterday on the body of Pat- NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1868.—TRIPLE wan - Captain Oterendorp, wilt leave Hoboken about two P. M. to-day (Tharsday), for Southampton and Bremen. The European maits witi ctosc at the Post Oitice at twelve M. ‘The stock market was strong yesterday. Govern- ment securitieagvere very strong aud excited. Gold closed at 139%, ; MISCELLANEOUS. Telegraphic dates from Haytt to the 18th inst, re- Port no materiat change in the situation. Suinave’s troopa had beaten the rebels back of Port au Prince on the 14th, but were In turn beaten by the rebels on the 16th, The British man-of-war Royalist had got aground. The Uniied States man-of-war Desoto had sailed for Key West against the protestations of the American Minister, Salnave still threatened to burn the town if the rebels defeat him, but it ts supposed the American Minister, with the aid of British gun- boats, will prevent it, Advices from Venezuela to the 7th inst. state that Marshal Falcon bad disappeared, Four thousand rebels are besieging Caracas, Congress has dis- solved, Adjutant General Thomas on applying at the War Department yesterday learned that he could take possession on recelpting to Assistant Adjutant General Townsend for the property. He declined to do this as General Townsend is an inferior oficer, and on returning to the President was informed that the affair had better remain as it is. So General ‘Townsend has charge of the War Office, and General ‘Thomas is not yet @ de facto Secretary of War ad ‘interim, Mr. Wooley, the contumactous witness, is still confined in 9 committee room of the House of Repre- Sentatives. He offered to answer the questions of General Butler yesterday, but on being asked what he did with the $20,000 he again refused to answer and was remanded. Postmaster General Randall, it ts now stated, has offered his resignation and it has been accepted. The anniversary meeting of the New England Anti- Slavery Society was held in Boston yesterday. Wen- dell Phillips participated and presented a series of radical resolutions highly abusive of the republican party, President Johnson, Grant and Colfax, Chief Justice Chase and the recusant Senators. ‘The Canadians are making great preparations for the expected Fenian invasion. The Fenian fair at Buffalo 1s the prolific source of a succession of scares, which have finally culminated im these war prepara- tions, The Court of Impeachment in Albany yesterday resumed the trial of Canal Commissioner Dorn. The fourth charge was stricken out. A motion to strike out the sixth article was overruled, and Mr. Jacobs then opened the cqse for the prosecution in a speech of some length. The steamer Morro Castle, Captain Adams, from Havana May 23, arrivef at this port yesterday. Her news has been anticipated by our special despatches over the Cuba cable. Late accounts from Nassau, N, P., state that the election was progressing quietly. The Colonial As- sembly meets on the Ist of June. The pineapple crop is large. A wealthy citizen of Kingston, Mass., was found murdered yesterday morning in a byroad pear the cemetery. He had a large quantity of money about his person, and it is supposed robbery was the ob- ject of his murderer; but as the money was still on the body the impression prevatis that the murderer was frightened away before he could rob him. The second trial of Cole for the murder of Hiscock is set down for the apecial term in September at Albany. The question of a reunion was again discussed in tho Presbyterian General Assembly at Albany yester- day, Rev. T. P. Hunt answering the argument of Dr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, against reunion, A stay of proceedings has been applied for in the case of Joseph Brown, the Canaan child murderer, who is to be hanged on Saturday. The Nation) Manufacturers’ Association met in Cleveland yesterday. Resolutions were adopted favoring economy in public expenditures, and the Association then adjourned to meet again in Decem- ber next in New York, The President and the Cuabinet—What Next ¢ Mr. Johnson had .once an opportunity to serve himself politically and to avoid the thorny path he has been compelled to tread, but he let that opportunity slip. Though he is not lacking in political sagacity and experience, and though he may deserve credit for honesty of purpose and firmness, he has lost much by his slowness and excess of caution. The first thing he should have done after he entered upon the office of President was to remove the old Cabinet—every member of it—and to call a new set of men around him who would have been not only in perfect harmony with him and his policy, but who would have represented the strong conservative elements of the party that elected him and the country. Ifhe had made this change at first and called Congress together his Cabinet would have been ratified by the Senate, the South would have been re- stored and he would have avoided the pro- longed and desperate conflict with the Con- gressional majority he has had to endure. He made a great mistake, and both he and the country have suffered for it. Another opportunity occurs now to repair in a measure the damages already done, to spare himself from future danger, to make his administration strong for the remainder of his term and to give a great impulse to the con- servative movement which has set in. He should change his Cabinet. He shouldremove every member of it. Nosentiment of delicacy as regards the individuals, their past services or association with them should deter him from doing that which is best for the country. This Cabinet was selected under an entirely different state of things from the present ; the members of it have neither been in accord with the sentiment of the country nor among them- selves on great questions of public policy, though some of them may have agreed about smaller matters in general for the sake of hold- ing on to office. The Secretary of War, Stan- ton, was only fit for war times and as the leader of a despotic faction. He, however, has been forced out by the action of the conservative Senators in the impeachment case. Mr. Seward has no party behind him nor political influence—no friends, in fact, but a few cor- rupt and trading politicians from New York of the Thurlow Weed stamp. So far from bringing any strength to the ad- ministration, he is a positive weakness toit, He has served out his day and genora- tion forall nseful purposes. Mr. McCulloch rep- Tick Eagan, who was stabbed on Tuesday morning by John P, Bendon, The jury found that Bendon committed the deed, and he was remanded to await the action of the Grand Jury. The commemoration of the revelation of the Ten Commandments was celebrated by the Hebrew con- Sregations in this city yesterday. At the temple of Ansht Chesed a number of children were confirmed. The jury empaneiied in the trial of Theophilus ©. Calllcott, ex-Collector of the Third district, and Deputy Collector John 8. Auien, after an absence of twenty-six hours in their deliberations, returned into court about seven o'clock last evening and de- livered their verdict, Judge Benedict occupying the bench at the time. The Jury found Callicott guilty and Allen not gutity. The prisoners were remanded to the custody of the Marshal, Allen having veen con- victed on a previous indictment. The case of Caldweil against the New Jersey Steam. voat Company, in the Supreme Court, was closed Yesterday and given to the jury. The suit is brought to recover $50,000 damages for injuries sustained by the explosion of the boiler of the steamer St. John, in October, 1865. The jury was directed to return a sealed verdict this morning. The North German Liovd’s steamship Hansa, resents nothing but the Treasury ring and the national bank oligarchy. He has neither the smallest qualification for a statesman nor for the finance minister of a great nation. Had not the country been redundant in resources the Treasury would have been bankrupt long ago through his incapacity and mismanagement. If the Treasury Department had been managed by @ competent man the debt would have been Jess by hundreds of millions, Had the enor- mous income of.the government during the last three years of peace been properly ap- plied and the vast frauds in the revenue been prevented, the debt might have been brought down four or five hundred millions below what itis, As tothe rest of the Cabinet, they are small men, without a party to back them or strength to the adminiatration—more ciphers, whose offices give no more political support to the President than if administered by bureau clerks. Io @ word, the present Cabingt is « | dead weight, or worse than that, upon the ad- ministration. But there are other urgent reagons as re- gards both Mr, Johnson personally and the welfare of the country why the Cabinet should be changed now. The violent and revolu- tionary conduct of the radicals under the lead of the Hon. Robespierre Butler, Bingham, Boutwell, Thad Stevens and the rest of the Jacobins has made their party odious and sowed the seeds of disruption. The conserva- tive men of the once great republican party have been chafing sorely for some tine past under the dictation and lash of these bold and unscrupulous leaders. They submitted even when their souls revolted, for the sake of their party. But the atrocious revolutionary scheme to depose the President on such absurd charges as were made up in the impeachment trial went beyond the limit of forbearance, and the ‘ablest men of the party revolted. They would not see gross injustice done and the country disgraced to gratify the malignity of a few men or for assumed party purposes. Chief Justice Chase, who is the gblest and was the most prominent man of the republican party, would not soil the robes of his high office to Please these Jacobin leaders. Nor would those other able men, Senators Fessenden, Trumbull, Henderson, Grimes and the rest violate their oaths for party purposes. What is the consequence? These statesmen, in whom is compriséd the intellect of the party, have been virtually read out of the radical republican church. In numbers they are weak, it is true, but in intellect and influence they are powerful. They represent more than the democrats do the great mass of the conservative people. The radicals will never forgive them, and prominent as they are they will never get the support of that faction again.. Here, thon, is Mr. Johnson’s opportunity to break down radical power and torally round his qdminjstration, for theshort time it has to exist, all the conserva- tive elements of the country. Let him make a new Cabinet of such mon as those or their friends, irrespective of old party affiliations, in which the greatest talent would be concen- trated. Such a Cabinet -would have the re- spect of the country and coal soop get influ- ence enough in Congress to neutralize the power of the Jacobin faction. The old demo- crats are at sea and have neither the leaders they require nor a platform to suit the changed state of political affairs. It is the very point of time to form a mighty conservative party that would carry the next Presidential election and the elections for Congress, and Mr. John- son has it in his power to successfully initiate movement to that end by a proper construc- tion of a new Cabinet. We hope” he has be- come wise enough by experience not to let this opportunity escape, but will act promptly and with decision. The Situation in Europe—Peace or War. In the Heratp of yesterday we published a couple of telegrams—one from Paris and one from Berlin—which strangely contradict each other. The Berlin telegram informs us that Prussia has taken the initiative in the proposed general disarmament, and that by command of the King the tandwehr ig to be considerably reduced. The Paris telegram is of quite an opposite character. Marshal Niel officially re- ports on the Chassepot rifle. It is declared by him to be the best firearm in existence. The entire infantry of France have been supplied with the weapon, and the gratifying intelli- gence is communicated to the French people that the guns are being manufactured at the rate of one thousand six hundred a day. The question is thuy very naturally raised, is it to be peace or war? England, as we learned two days ago, has tendered her advice to the various Powers to the effect that the time had come when a general disarmament had become desirable. Prussia, with 9 magnanimity and a promptitude which are entitled to all praise, has set the example. France, we see, is still busy with her war preparations; but it will not surprise us if France in a day or two fol- lows the example of Prussia. These huge war preparations are crushing out the life of the people. Emigration in Germany and even in France is in consequence becoming a pas- sion. The people are sick of this incessant war cry, and it may be taken for granted that if we have not an immediate war we shall have ® general disarmament. If France does not discontinue this immense war preparation the peace speeches of the Emperor and his Minis- ters will cease to have any value. We must now have proof of peaceful intentions in some- thing more substantial than words, otherwise we shall continue to believe that war is a pro- bability. As, however, there is no existing complication which can reasonably be construed into a casus belli, we are willing to believe that war will not disturb Europe for the pres- ent year. The Impeachers Impeached. Although impeachment has gone by the board, the Congressional investigation into charges of bribery and corruption should not be allowed todrop. The Honorable Robes- Pierre Butler has laid hands upon one Wooley, and that unlucky individual should be re- quired to divulge afl he knows about this alleged bribery business. Congress should also call from all parts of the country wit- nesses who know anything about this matter. There is General Steedman ready to be called tothe stand and testify in regard to an offer a radical Senator made to him about that Senator's vote, Let us have more from Colonel Edmund Cooper in the direction his knowledge extends. Others in the secrets of these in- trignes are ready to make a clean breast of it, Let all these charges of corruption be opened up, and a sort of coroner's inquest held over the remains of the radicals, or what is left of them after tho defeat of im- peachment, No doubt the most astounding developments will follow a thorough raking up and overhauling of the jobs of the radicals in Congress fora few years past, The comedy of the President's impeachment might well be followed by the serious melodrama of the ‘Impeachers Impeached.” Let the Honor- able Robespierre Butler call in his witnesses. Courrasigs or Taz Press.—We notice that while many of the country papors avail them- selves of our special cable despatches without a word of credit, there are some, and among them we may mention the Detroit Post, that duly acknowledge the source from which they Obtain their naws. Our National Finaucee—What Will Congress ‘ Do with Them? Little -has been said in Congress about financial matters since the impeachment of the President began to occupy the attention of that body. Members had neither the time nor inclination to consider questions pertaining to the national finances while this trial has been pending; and perhaps it is best they had not ; for such important questions require calm deliberation and statesmanshbip, and cannot be properly treated in the heat of political and party excitement. Nor do we expect to see much accomplished till after the Presidential election. In leas than six weeks we shall be in midsummer, when members will want to leave Washington and go home to the country. The nominating national conveations, one of which will assemble next week, will interrupt the work of Congress. Then there will be an exciting political campaign for the Presidential. election and other elections all along through the summer and fall, and Congressmen will devote their time more to these than to legisla- tion, There is little prospect, consequently, of much being done with the national finances till the session next winter. Indeed, the less attempted under the circumstances till the elec- tions are over the better. Still, the national finances are in a deranged condition, and members are uneasy and restless under this state of things. They want to do something, but know not what to door how to go about it. Every one has his nostrum for curing the evils we suffer, and the dominant radical party is anxfous to adopt temporary expedients at least, so as to produce an effect upon the coming elections in its favor. But there is no concert of views nor unity of purpose in that party, or in either party really, upon financial measures. In fact, our national legislators are inexperienced in financial questions of such magnitude as those which how press upon us. They are all at sea, without any statesmen among them of a comprehensive grasp of mind to guide the ship of State through the breakers. Nor is it lkely that any* national party plat- form on financial questions can be made at present; for we see the widest difference of opinion among both the radical and democratic leaders, and among the adherents of each party in different sections of the country. The people of the West and East of the same political party differ as much on these qies- tions as the opposite parties do in politics. What we have to fear most is that the politicians in Congress may tamper with financial matters, regardless of the future welfare .of the country, for political effect and for temporary party purposes. This they did, as we saw, in the abolition of internal revenue taxes to the amount of sixty millions or more a year, to favor the manufac- tarers of New England, just as the elections were about to take place in New Hampshire and Connecticut. The extravagant sums of money given away by bounty and pension laws, from which, however, agents get the lion’s share, were for the purpose chiefly of se- curing the soldiers’ votes. And so we may say. the expensive military governments in the South, and that costly lazzaroni establishment, the Freedmen’s Bureau, are kept up to secure negto voters and to give the negroes political supremacy over the white people. The na- tional bank institutions, by which the people and government are fleeced out of forty or fifty millions of dollars a year, were organized and are maintained with a view of aiding the dominant party to hold its power. In fact, the amount of money squandered and the burdens imposed upon the Treasury and tax-paying people for party ends are frightful. With sucha record and experience in the past, and up even to the present time, what are we to expect in the future? Will the party in power, which is becoming more reckless every day from a sense of its desperate con- dition, be less extravagant and unscrufmulous ? Will it not go to any lengths or resort to the most desperate remodies to save itself if possi- ble? If an inflation of the currency by a hun- dred millions or more would help the radical party through the elections by creating an apparent anda temporary prosperity, and thus making the people believe for the time that the radicals are the direct cause of such pros- perity, we may expect a flood of paper cur- tency. It willnot be, However, an issue of legal tenders, through which some benefit might be derived in buying up and cancelling the interest bearing debt to that amount, but will be, pro- bably, an increase of national bank rags, so as to gain the support of that most powerful and monstrous monopoly, the national bank institu- tions. There is undoubtedly a powerful party in Congress, combined of men of the different parties, and particularly among the Western members, in favor of inflation; and perhaps it is safe to say that a third at least of both the Representatives and Senators are interested directly or indirectly in the national banks. These institutions have vast influence—an in- fluence that is constantly increasing, too, over Congress. Looking at this matter, then, in all these points of view—at the necessities of the dominant radical party, at the intense political struggle coming on in the elections, at the selfish individual interests of many of the mem- bers of Congress, and at the number of those who honestly believe in a bountiful currency— it is not improbable that there will be a hard struggle for inflation, but it is to be hoped that the inflationists will be defeated and the public predit preserved and strengthened through all the turmoil of party strife, Grant aNp THE Raproats.—General Grant does not want to be President. He has been forced into his present position asa candidate by the Honorable Robespierre Butler, Grab- all Forney, Representative Washburne and other radicals through their voracious greed for public plunder. Now is the time for Grant to rise to the moral dignity of Chief Justice Chase and decline the radical nomina- tion altogether. He now holds a splendid position, the head of the army, a position alike honorable, lucrative and permanent, That should be power and rank enough to satisfy the ambition of any man. If elected to the Presidency his power will depart in four years (if not shortened by the process of impeach- ment) and, perhaps, his well earned fame and glory be extinguished forever. Therofore, lot General Grant, like an honorable, unselfish man, cut himself adrift from the piratical radi- cal crew who are using him as a tool for their own plundering purposes and decline the nomi- nation for tha Prasidanav. ‘ From Europe to the interior of Asia, from the coast of Africa to the Antipodes, and from the shore of New Zealand to San Francisco and New York, is repeated and re-echoed the cry for extension of the telegraph and 4 more universal instantaneous communication. The vast triumphs which mind has already ob- tained over matter do not satisfy the yearning of humanity for @ more generous dnd compre- hensive civilisation. Mankind seems to re- quire a new communion, the identity of thought—and consequent fraternization of all the peoples—by electricity. We published an article from a New Zealand journal a few days since setting forth the anxiety with which the inhabitants of that colony watched for news of the progress of the Pacific Railroad towards completion, and evi- dencing how accurately they estimate the value of every new route, by land or water, which is proposed as likely to bring them nearer to America by telegraphic communication. Recently we gave, on English guthority, a statement of the Progress, with an outline of the plana, of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, which has undertaken to run a telegraph from the coast of ‘Great Britain, through Germany, to the Crimea, the Caucasus and the capital of Persia, and thence, with the aid of the govern- ment in Hindostan, by land wire and deep sea cable, to Kurrachee, on the Indian Ocean. Other ‘great trunk lines of telegraph are pro- posed, from which, in the course of a few years, will come an arterial radiation of news and general “intelligence so regularly and rapidly that not only will all the business of commerce and finance be transacted by the wires, but an American contemplating a grand foreign tour will order his dinner and suite of apartments in some city near the great wall of China before he leaves his home here, and Macaulay's New Zealander can have a de- scription of the ruins to be seen from London Bridge transmitted to him at Tongarero, should he feel indisposed to visit ‘revolutionized Britain. Great newspapers, like the HERALD and London Times, will present a telegraph resumé of the affairs of the globe to their readers every morning, and many causes of war and social convulsion will he removed.by explanation or redress of wrongs within the hour in which they originate. Science, aided judiciopsly by capital, will perfect all this and more, and it behooves the governments, or those who affect to understand the science of rendering the millions happy, to take instant measures, so that the peoples may enjoy the benefits of the grand result har- montously, without confusion and at the least possible cost. Should the telegraph, as an instrument of general enlightenment, speak to the world suddenly and without a well matured executive control, it will create a modern Babel at first and then degenerate into an extended licentiousness. If capitalists are per- mitted to monopolize its agency they will make it a mere matter of dollars and pounds sterling, and thus shut out the masses of the people from its light, and by so doing render them irritable and discontented with their lot in life. The movement now on foot in the United States and England for the obtainment of cheap telegrams, anda government management of the tele- graphs should, therefore, be encouraged and sustained by all who wish well to good order, morality and humanity. Thurlow Weed and the Impeachment Bribery Ring. Before Robespierre Butler's tnvestigating committee on the impeachment Thurlow Weed, as State’s evidence, has disclosed some very curious and momentous information touching the existence and operations of a gang of outsiders in the capacity of a lobby ring for the purchase of three or four Sena- tors’ votes for the acquittal of Andrew Johnson. From Weed’s testimony it appears that such aring was formed, and that he, as the very man for the job, was chosen to direct the movements of the holy alliance; that the alli- ance embraced such men, actively or passively, as Collector Smythe, Collector Shook, Hugh Hastings, Sunset Cox, General A. W. Adams, Charles W. Wooley and Thurlow Weed; that Weed was the general-in-chief and Wooley the man of capital of the league; that Wooley appeared on the fleld with some twenty thou- sand dollars cash, for the disbursement of which he has failed to render a satisfactory account to Butler; that he is consequently held as a prisoner by the “House as a refrac- tory witness, and that even Weed has failed to give any information touching the mystery in- volved in the disposition of this aforesaid sum of twenty thousand dollars. These are the facts so far developed. Butler and his committee are still at work digging for more; but whether they find or fail to find any more will depend very much upon Wooley. The presumption is that, standing upon his dignity and reserved rights, he will hold out to the end of this session of Congress. Weed, however, though pumped pretty thoroughly by Butler, was, we are inclined to think, not pumped dry. We suspect that he can still throw a flood of light upon the subject, and that if the truth were known it would appear that no Senator was bought by this immacu- late ring; but that if Wooley’s money was ad- vanced for the purchase of Senators it was pocketed at {some half-way house and is gone beyond redemption. The hint upon which this ring actedwas, doubtless, furnished by a copperhead journal of this city in its propo- sition to raise a fund of ten millions for the bribery of the Senate; but that the leading copperheads desired the acquittal of Johnson we do not believe. They were committed to his defence; but they desired his removal and the fuss and the confusion which ‘Old Ben Wade” in the dispensation of the spoila would most certainly have raised in the republican camp. At all events, Thurlow Weed is now ina position, we believe, to clear up all this mystery connected with the disappearance of Wooley’s twenty thousand, and he ought to come outwith his reserved facts and ‘‘sta- tistics” on the subject as the shortest method of clearing himself of his connection with the known or unknown Jeremy Diddlers of this alloged Weed and Wooley impeachment bribery ring. Tne Userviyess or tor Herarp News Yaouts.—It is not unfrequently the case that important packages are placed on board our nows yachts, somotimes inside and often out- alde of Sande Hook, to be forwarded to nartios in this city. On the occasion of the arrival of the Spanish war vessel Tetuan, a few days ago, important despatches from the Spanish govera- ment, regularly marked for the “‘HgraLD news yacht,” were delivered as directed and brought to this city by our ship news collectors, who sent them to their destinations, Letters are also daily sent to our news office by merchanta, marked ‘“‘per HgRALD news yacht,” to be delivered to captains of vessels on their arrival in the lower bay. Thus age our news yachts made serviceable not only in the-collee- tion of the marine news of the port for the HERALD, but to the commercial interests of the city generally. THE WEST SIDE ASSOCIATION, Public Meeting at the Everett Rooms—Report of the Executive Committee—The Widening of Broadway, &c. Apublic meeting of owners and representatives of real estate situate north of Fifty-ninth street, weat of Sixth avenue, was held, under the direction of the West Side Association, at the Everett Rooms, corner of Broadway and Thirty-fourth street, last evening, the President, William A. Whitbeck, in the chair. Upon the meeting being called to order the minutes of the previous meeting were read and ap- Proved, | The Secretary, James F. Ruaaves, then read the report of the Executive Committee, which, after al- luding to the applications made during the winter to the Supreme Court for the con- firmation of the reports of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment in the matters of the Broadway Boulevard and the widening of Sixth avenue, proceeded to say that the association con- siders the present rate of compensation of thé QOol- lector of Assessments, two and a half per cent, aa excessive, and that the rate should be reduced, or that a regular salary be attached to the office. On the subject Of drainage and sewerage the Association believes that there is a want of sewerage at the upper end of the city, and states that the president of tne Association has been authorized to co-operate with the citizens of Harlem in an application to the Legislature for power to construct further sews ‘The officers of the Bureau of Sewers, in the Aqueduct Department, had expressed the opin- ion that some modification of the existing laws would be necessary to enable the bureau to construct pumping machinery for the proposed deep sewel and that the expense of opening the sewers woul be about thirty cents per lot. mn further con- sideration the officers had decided that they possesse@ ee con, without farther legislation. A report from the Commissioners in the matter of the opening lay. A commi also been fer ‘with the Commissioners of tie. entral Park relative to the pier and bulkhead lines recently e8- tablished for the Harlem river, The proposed ey fixing these lines was, after consideration, modified so as to Dermaneniiy dx the pier and bulkhead Unes of the Hudson ana Hariem rivers, reece the big = to the Central Park Commissioners to change same at discretion. A suggestion was also made that, in view ofthe rapid growth of the ol and the probable consequent absorption of @ pat of Westchester county, a movement should be made to place such portions of that county as may become 80 absorbed within the city jurisdiction, so as, if de- sirable, to conform the laying out of pro) streets and avenues within that territory adopted within the city limits, thus materially en- hancing the beauty of the upper portions ol island. In conformity with this project it was also recommended that the lines of the Harlem river should be so regulated as ther the mutual in- terests of property owners on both sides of that river. The action of the Association with regard to the Eighth avenue le was adverted to, and it waa also added that the Legislature at its Int sea- sion had rendered its action a matter of deep con- cern in the appropriation of $100,000 for such grad- ing, and causil a be Lnoexved in ioe Se levy a pre- vision authorizing the Street Commissioner to per- form such grading under the law of 1866, It is the tres wil be mecessary to enjoin actin fom Doing ures enjoin actio: taken {n pursuance of this yon legislation. The repent also spoke in highly commendato1 of the action of the Central Park Commissioners out the west side area poe providing for the ly opening of the streets avenues therein. An election of officers was pene Lave at eed the resident and secretary were Theformer Executive Committee was also continued in office, with the i are of the following named gentie- A, Witthaus, succeeded by John J. men:—Rudol, Jones; David E. Wheeler, succeeded by James Mo; in; Paul U. Spofford, led by P. 8. Weaver; an, james Monteith, and A. V. Stout, succeeded by D. M. Anthony. . ‘The president then delivered an elaborate address, in which he mone. in eulogistic terms of the Com- missioners of the Central Park for th them in the improvement of the west side Coen] and alluded to their acts in connection with improvements, f resolution was adopted calling for and advocat. the widening of Broadway, from Union square to Fifty-ninth street, at its junction with the pro new boulevard, and that the work be und immediately, to avoid great loss to the the necessity which will inevitably arise widening of that thoroughfare afew yeara hence when the property is covered with new and costly cea, A resolution was also adopted appointing a com- mittee to represent the Association at the chamber of the Common Council to-day, at the meeting to be held in reference to this gong ‘The resol was a on the table ‘after A resolution was also ad denouncing the scheme for the of Eighth avenue, the le in the tax ov) wo ation for wi is id fe that menleret be taken to induce ng Governse to refuse his approval of it, and, if necessary, that the Association oj it by a resort to the courts. Ee A i er minor business the meeting adjourned, THE IMPEACHMENT OF R. C, DORN. Trial of the Canal Commissioner—Proceedings Yesterday. ALBANY, May 27, 1368, In the Court of Impeachment to-day for the trial of Canal Commissioner Dorn the fourth article, charging him with letting work without advertising the same, was stricken out. The counsel for the accused then moved to strike out the sixth article, which charges him with having used Fang property for petrace 2 purposes, Judge Hunt decided the motion out of order, on the ground that all motions to strike out should have been leek ng in the original motion to strike out the fourth oe ie was sustained, and a motion to recon. sider was lost by a vote of 12 to 14. Mr. Jacobs then proceeded to open the case for the Managers. TWE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following 1s a record of the temperature for the past twenty-four hours as indicated by the thers mometer dt Hudaut’s pharmacy, HeRaLp Building:— 67 12P.M. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITE! — The vote in tne city of Portland, Me., yesterday on the question of subscribing $750,000 for stock in the projected railroad to Ogdensburg, stood 2,432 yeas to 556 nays. General Buchanan, commanding the Fifth Military District, on Tuesday last appointed another of the lately elected assistant Aldermen of New Orleans to @ vacancy occasioned by resignation. Four of those elected now have seats, ‘The New Orleans Pi ne urges President Joln+ son to issue a proclamation of general amnesty, Judy Ingalls, of the Supreme Court of this State, has raraset an ‘Application to rant a Fo of pro: ceedings in the case of Joseph owe. the convi Caanan child murderer, who is to be executed om Saturday next. ae The new trial of General Cole for the killing of Harrie Hiscock will commence on the lane Sep- ember, A meeting of the stockholders of the Illinois Cen. tral Rallrosa was held in Chicago yesterday. Over two-thirds of the capital stock was sepeeoenes. Jonathan Sturges, A. S. Hewitt, Wm. Tracy, W. D. Osborn and George Bliss were elected directors. The contract with the Dubuque and Sioux oF Fo | ‘was agreed to and a stock dividend of elght per cet declared, fined in the Honse of je Pron Saturday mutinied two of the overseers in No. ‘They made the assault, but were rious on noon another at workshops at Wworg quppreter was yesterday elected superinton- M. dout of the House. MANAssas P-~ i RaILRroap. Toavchat om. Monday next trains will com oni warty. AY soe San ct June " 18 confident in good order A ey Jackson, i a4 pe under contract to reliable parties, finiehed rat of next Ootober.—Alexa