The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1868, Page 6

6 PROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ‘ JAMES GORDON SENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yori Herar. Volume XXXUML AMOSEMENTS TIS EVENING, ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Den Fariscugtz— Prev O'Day FRENCH THEATRE.—Mamie ANTOINETTE. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broatway.—Howery Dowrry. NEW YORK TITEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Panis anp HELEN, NIBLO'S GARDEN, ~Tas Wore Fawn. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Camitce. + WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1th street.— ‘MASKS AND Packs, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broatway.—Ermio- TIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SiNGING, DAXOLNG, de. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Sonas, Eoornrniciriss, &c.—GRaxp Duro “8. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th Sireet.—ETHIOPIAN MINSTRPLSY, EOORNTRICITIRG, LO, Final COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Batcer, Faucr, Oe TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Couro VoOALION, NEGKO MINSTRELSY, &e CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PorocaR GaRpENn Concert. TERRACE GARDES—Porvutan GaRpEn Concent, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK TI Ti Brooklyn.— SiREETS OF NEW Youx. — en sani HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—Ermortax MINSTRELSY—TUR IMPRACUERS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SorENGR AND ART, New York, Tuesday, June 2, 1868. THE NEWS. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, presented resolutions of the Ohio Legislature (demo- cratic) protesting against the influences trought to bear on Senators for the conviction of the President, As it probably referred to himself and Mr. Wade, he * asked that it be referred to a committee for investl- gation, M munds cailed up his resolution of thanks ¢ Stanton, It was thoroughly discussed, Mr. Fessenden strongly favored Its passage, and Mr. Henderson and Mr. Fowler approved of all. of it but the clause which implied that his remaining in the Cabinet against the wish of the President was right find proper. Mr. Henderson moved an amend- ment thanking Chief Justice Chase for his conduct during the trial, which was promptly reject; e:l by a vote of 11 to 30, seven Senators not voting. ‘The original resolution was then passed by a vote of 11 to 37, The Arkansas Admission bill was then tixen up. Mr. Drake’s amendment was agreed to, fad the bill was passed by a vote of 34 to 8, In the House, under the Monday call of States, 3 were introduced and referred Instructing cretary of War to secure the services of Messrs, Vingham and Butler to conduct the prosecution against Jef Davis and for the establishment of © cncies in European countries to promote emigra- tion, Under the same call Mr. Morgan offered a resolution suspending the execution of the order for the vacating of her studio by Miss Vinnie Ream. In urging its passage he offered a letter from Miss Ream sowing that the statue of Mr, Lincoln would be destroyed by removing it. The resolution was laid on the table by a vote of 61 to 47, A resolu- tion that the guardrooms be locked with the key of the French Bastile, now in possession of the Mount Vernon Association, was oitered but not received. Mr. Holman offered a resolution directing the Ways and Means Committee to report a Gill for the taxa- tion of United States bonds. Mr. Stevens proposed o modify it by instructing the committee to inquire into the propriety of such a bill, but Mr, Holman de- clined so to modify it, The previous question was not seconded. Mr. Eldridge’s resolution to protect citizens from unreasonable search and seizure of private papers was not received. Evening sessions in futy 3 then agreed to, The new Tax bill from the Committee on Ways and Means was then taken up in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Schenck explain- ing its provisions. It proposes, among other things, t) make the Commissioner of Internal Revenue inde- pendent of cither the President or Secretary of the ‘Treasury and to hold him personally responsible for the management of the r ue; to abolish the system of tobacco and whiskey inspectors, and to substitute therefor a responsible Supervisor in every a and to tax manufactories mainly with reference tothe capital. Regular brokers are to be whte irregular foreign brokers, who have no office and have therefore paid no tax, shall pay $>.000 for license, and in default of payment suffer sonment. The direct tax on whiskey of $2 a nis retained, but Mr. Schenck expressed the on that it should and probably would be re- ull Nquor dealers are to pay for licences 1 to their business, and wholesale deal- ftwo and a half per cent on the amount of saies over $5,000. The Income tax is to be re- toned at five per cent, and railroad companies are d ‘barred from exacting their tax from passengers, Mr Schenck read his Mnanctal statement, and the House atjourned, EUROFE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes- torday evening, June 1, Messrs. got and Sullivan, the “seditious or Fe rsimprisoned in Dublin, were set free by issue of a writ of error heard in London. ‘The Whilstn’ holiday was strictly observed on *Change im London and Liverpool, Oatside quota- tions of the Liverpool markets are given. THE CITY. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday several resoln- tions relative to the paving of streets were acted upon, A resolution directing that the city be re- modelled into convenient election districts was adopted. After adopting a few unimportant papera the Board of Councilmen adjourned till this (tuesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. rhe Chinese Embassy left the city yesterday morn- od last evening in Washington, where ‘ed at the Metropolitan Hotel, Jeigch submitted his annual message or budget for 1860 at the meeting of the joint Board of Aldermen and Supervisors of the city of Brooklyn yesterday rnoon, The whole amount necessary to be rat y taxation for (he maintenance of the City government is $3,199,254, Yesterday the June clause in the Bankruptcy law, by which dedtors are prevented from taking the benefit of the act voluntarily unless by paying into court fifty cents on every dollar of the indebtedness, came into operation. Notwithstanding this several petitions were filed yesterday in the usual way, the parties running the risk of the costs and the opinion of the court as to the legality of the proceedings. Tho case of the United States va. S.C. Frazee and five other defendants 1 with fraudulently removing whiskey, which has been under examina- tion before Commissioner Osborn was again up yes. terday and farther adjourned to Thursday next, ‘There were no jurors in attendance in the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, and the court was in con- sequence adjourned till Wednesday. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- sip Hammonia, Captain Meter, will leave at two P. M, to-day (Tuesday) for Hamburg via South- ampton. The mails for Europe will civ#e at the Post Ofive at twelve M. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of Learv’s line, will leave pier 14 Bast River, foot of NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1868,—TRIPLE SARE OME RENNES strong yesterday. ‘Government securities were very strong and excited, Gold closed at 13924. ‘The beef cattle market exhibited a fair degree of | activity and more firmness, and prices were about ‘gc, per ib, higher, About 1,675 head comprised the offerings, Prime and extra steers com- manded 18, a 183¢.; fair to good, 17¢. & 1T!sc. and infertor to ordinary 15%c. a 17¢, Milch cows were quiet, though good were in fair demand, We quote prime and extra $90 a $110 each; common to 00d $60 a $85, and inferior $40 a $55. Veal calves were in fair request, but at lower prices, extras sell- ing at 113¢c.; prime 104. a 11c.; ordinary to good 9. a 10¢., and inferior 6c, a 8c. Sheep were in demand, but with liberal offerings prices were do- cidedly lower. We quote extra sheared 7%c. a 8c.; prime 7c. a 7se.; common to good 54¢¢, a 6ie., id inferior 41,c, a 5c, Lambs 9c. @15c, Swine were slow of sale and lower, selling at 914c. a 93¢c. for heavy prime, 87%c. @ 93¢c. for fair to good, and 84<c. a 8c. for common, The total receipts for the week were 4,348 beeves, 163 milch cows, 2,384 veal calves, 19,681 sheep and lambs and 23,601 swine, MISCELLANEOUS. General Grant and Speaker Colfax have both writ- ten formal letters of acceptance of the nomination for President and Vice President tendered them by the Chieago Convention. The General expresses a high opinion of the way in which the proceedings of the Convention were conducted and endorses the resolu- tions, but says it would be improper at the present time to lay down any fixed policy to be adhered to, right or wrong, during a four years’ administration, as new issues are continually arising and public opinion is continually changing. Mr. Colfax in his letter commits himself to the platform without any implied reservation. General Schofleid was formally inducted into the War OfMice yesterday. Chief Justice Chase adminis- tered the oath to him and President Johnson and ad interim Thomas accompanied him to the War Office, General Stoneman takes command of Virginia, suc- ceeding General Schofield. By special correspondence from Abyssinia of the 30th of April, forwarded to London and thence through the Atlantic cable to New York, we learn that civil war and anarchy reigned all over the terri- tory lately ruled by Theodorus. The royal nominee of England was repudiated by the chiefs, who were armed against him, and severe fighting ensued. A queen was in power at Magdala, The Egyptians were to enter the territory when Napier’s troops had fully evacuatea, ‘Yhe Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston celebratea its two hundred and thirtieth anniversary yesterlay. Speeches were made by General Banks, its commander, Governor Bullock and others, ‘The merchants of St. Louls are moving vigorously for a reopening of Bayou Mauchac in Louisiana, by which a direct water route to Mobile will be opened, diverging from the Mississippi! two hundred miles above New Orleans, and thus leaving the latter city out of the way. The case of Rev. Alexander Cowan, of Kentucky, who appeals from an adverse decision of the Ohio Presbytery rendered against him for alleged actions and declarations in regard to the Southern rebellion, is being heard before the Presbyterian General As- sembly at Albany. Heavy schocks of earthquake were experienced in Sacramento and Virginia City on Friday night. A report that Father McMahon, the Fenian prisoner at Kingston, Canada, had been fogged for reading conduct of the Impeachment Managers in their present investigation but a foretaste of what would follow with such men in power? Here we have all the personal rights of the citizen invaded at once. Withous any process of law whatever a man is deprived of his liberty and thrust into a cell at the mere bidding of a poli- tical bully, The secrecy of the telegraph and Post Office is violated as no man would dare to violate it in despotic France. Men who do such things merely because they have the power will know no limit but that of their power in enforcing their will.’ With the gov- ernment in their hands and administered by their tool we would see a law passed in Con- gress to give the government the same author- ity over the Northern that it has over the Southern States, and Grant, with the Habeas Corpus act suspended, executing that law. In the success of the radicals the people may foresee the supremacy of such principles ; and in supporting the opposing party they give their voices for the supremacy of the constitu- tion and a return to the old established order of our government. This is assuming that the democrats will nominate Chase. We believe they will do this for the simple reason that Chase is the only man with whom they can win. They can elect no other; and it is only a question with them whether they will elect the Chief Justice or be beaten. Chase's name indicates the principles of the party that sustains him. He is the only man of great intellect in our politics who has conspicuously stood for the conservation of a government of law and opposed the fury of the radicals. He made his first point against these extremists in the eourts of North Carolina in determining against @ military order of General Sickles, and he has consistertly pursued the same idea through this great effort to remove the Execu- tive by political inquest. His conduct on this trial stamps him a man of exalted character, uncompromising honesty and resolute to do what is right. In the history of one party and in the possi- ble candidate of the other men may see what each aims at, and may determine calmly whether they will go with the radicals in a revolutionary change toward despotism or with the conservatives for am assertion of the supremacy of the law and for securing the rights and liberties of the people. The Death of Ex-President Buchanan. We publish to-day a full biography of James Buchanan, ex-President of the United States, together with an announcement of his death. The vacillating policy of President Buchanan during the months previous to the out- Fenian newspapers is denied by the authorities of | break of our late war—a policy so different the penitentiary. from that which President Jackson might have A Montreal despatch says that a Fenian attack on | been expected to adopt in a similar emer- the Dominion is menaced at Prescott and Cornwall’ h i hi i and is certain to take place this month. The govern- os BASE hast oie ayaa a agtleele va sat ee a cea ment has called for more troops and the pay of vol- | #ble distinction. But now that he is dead and he war is over the most violent political oppo- unteers has been doubled. Advices from Hayti report that Sainave had been | nents of the ‘‘Old Public Functionary” may beaten and had forced his way out of Port au Prince. The commander of the American man of war is re- ported to have withdrawn his vessel because he un- derstood that the complaints of foreigners were ex- aggerated. Great excitement existed in Honduras and Nica- ragua, according to despatches dated May 28, on ac- count of the renewal of British pretensions to the ownership of the Mosquito territory. The United States were expected to interfere to prevent such claims. ‘The railroad companies owning lines between New York and Washington have arranged for a consolida- tion of their through tramMc under the control of one onicer, The Presidential Principles Involved? What are the principles involved in the con- test for the Presidency upon which the country is entering ? On what facts or what opinions are the people at issue, purposes furthered, if Grant is elected on the contest mean anything more than a choice be- tween Grant and a man not yet named or the question which of two sets of politicians shall possess the spoils? These are the queries for which every man who desires to vote intelligently in the present grave state of the country must first find answers. All the promises that the republican organi- zation means formally and officially to make it has already made, and all the insight it will offer into the peculiarities of its policy is given in its platform and in the name of its candidate. In its platform this party declares no principles. It only puts forth a series of negatives, and even these are indistinct generalisations, that bind no one and commit the party to nothing. What they say any man can say, no matter what may be his politics or his views of the national necessities. In order to ascertain what the principles of this party are it is neces- sary to examine its history in the past three years of peace and to consider the very complete declaration of his position made by their candidate. Since the end of the war this republican party has acted persistently on one idea—revolution; revolu- tionary reconstruction of our government so as to give all power to an oligarchy in Con- gress. This is the one object they have sought, the one purpose they have persistently pur- sued and kept in sight in every measure. All things that were likely to aid in the aceom- plishment of this they have favored; all that stood in the way they have endeavored to trample down. Their original establishment of a military despotism in the South; their desperate attempt to abolish and stamp out the Executive; their assault on the Supreme Court of the United States—all were inspired by the same idea of securing the absolute domination of an oligarchy through revolution and the overthrow of that fabrie of govern- | ment set up by the constitution. Military despotism, then, supported by im- mense taxation and ruling at the will of an oli- garchy of arrogant politicians in Congress, is what the republicans have labored for in the past. Within this simple and compre- hensive programme lie all their principles, all their political ideas; and for this programme they will labor more energetically and with more resolute persistency in the future, | They will extend the sphere of its opera- | tion also. Grant accepts their programme | fully, unreservedly, slavishly, and delibe- rately promises beforehand that he will oppose no obstruction to it, that no “policy” of admit that his conscientious and consistent resistance to the anti-slavery agitation, from which he early anticipated disastrous conse- quences, and his adherence to the now ex- ploded theory of State rights, influenced his and what will it | of Pennsylvania every measure of national de- signify, what objects will be gained, what fence, there can be not the slightest doubt of his patriotism. That it was a patriotism as one hand or defeated on the other? Does the | @Mlarged as it was sincere is manifest from his conduct in the premises quite as much as his constitutional timidity and his misapprehen- sion of the real nature and ultimate results of the conflict which he at once dreaded and deplored. That he was unequal to the emergency is painfully patent from his utter failure to avert the impending war. But when it is.remem- bered with what alacrity in the war of 1812 young Buchanan, though himself a federalist, volunteered as a private soldier, and with what energy in 1814 he supported in the Legislature memorable declaration in Congress in the course of a debate on the tariff in 1822. ‘If I know myself,” said Mr. Buchanan, “I am a politician neither of the East nor of the West, of the North nor of the South.” As United States Minister to St. Petersburg, and subsequently to London, his diplomatic duties were per- formed with a single eye to the interests of the government whieh he represented. And the record of his prolonged career in public life, from his election to the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture, at the age of twenty-three, to his inau- guration as President of the United States. in 1857, bears honorable testimony to his patriotic motives, to his activity and industry and to his far more than ordinary intellectual ability. His amiable disposition and the elegant hos- pitality, of which he so well preserved the traditions, doubtless facilitated the political as well as social success which he so early won and so long retained. If the unprecedentedly difficult and trying circumstances of the last year of his Presidential term proved too much for one who was nat gifted with the highest genius for statesmanship and who lacked many of the requisite elements of the heroic character, his weakness proved also politically fatal to him. It is altogether unlikely that history will reverse the verdict which con- signed him for the remnant of his declining years to obscurity. Nevertheless, it would be unjust to hold any one individual responsible, however exalted his position, for a catastrophe whieh was, perhaps, inevitable, for a war whieh was the accumulated results of complex and manifold.causes in operation during a long series of years, The American people, slowly recovering from the severest shock to which our government has ever been exposed, and looking forward already to a glorious future, ean afford to apply to the late ex-President the charitable motto—-De mortuis nil nist bonum Tur Kansas Laxp Jon axp Orner Bra Jons.—-Our Washington correspondence yes- terday expoeed a big and atrocious job in the former Cherokee lands in Kansas, in which the Department of the Interior had o hand. We had at the same time accounts of a tre- mendous job under way for another Pacific railroad, with all the land grants avd money which have been lavished on the other routes, But what is the use of talking about these johg ? They cannot be stopped; they will go on. Some good may come out of the Pacific rail- roads by opening communication across the Contivent, however much the public may be his shall atand in the way of the prearranged policy of the men who pull the wires of bis ‘Wall street, tommorrow (Wednesday) at three P. M. for Obarieston, 8, 0. « The stock market was active and on the whole political existence. If such @ party succeeds in electing such a-President the country can judge what must be the result, What ip the eee fleeced or have to pay. And as to the rest, the best way, perbaps, is to let them go on i connected with The Chineve Embassy at Washington, The Chinese Embassy after a short stay in this city have gone to Washington to attend to the real business of the mission. They were precluded upon a point of etiquette and pro- priety from receiving apy public ovation while here, because they had not been through the offi- cial form of presentation at Washington, though they received many cordial and flattering at- tentions in a private way. Both at San Fran- cisco and New York they were cordially re- ceived, and these marked attentions from our citizens were only preliminary to the hearty welcome they will receive both officially and unofficially at the seat of government, Offi- cially they will bg received at Washington with all honor and dignity becoming such an important and unprecedented mission, and Mr. Seward will put on bis most approving smile. The government in all its branches will mark the extraordinary event as becomes a great and friendly Power. There can be no doubt of its success in this country, for it means progress and more intimate relations between the oldest and most populous empire and the greatest republic of the world. It will leave the shores of America with the most favorable impressions and with a prestige that will have the happiest effect in the other nations of the Western World to which it is going. The Embassy, after having finished its official business with the government at Wash- ington, will return to this metropolis, and then will be received in a becoming public manner. The Chamber of Commerce has already taken steps to this end. The city authorities, we sippose, will also act in the matter. But while we hope to see every department and all our citizens do what they can to give éclat to the occasion, we recommend the Chamber of Commerce to take the lead. The Aldermen and Council of the city would probably want to make a job and a drinking spree out of it, while the Chamber of Commerce would give the reception and entertainment a more re- spectable character. The entertainment should be on the largest and most impressive seale. It should be a grand féte champétre in the Park, at the old monastery on Monastery hill. At that sacred and beautiful spot there could be imbibed with the champagne the pious feelings pertaining to that holy locality. But by all means let the Aldermen and Councilmen be kept in the background, for fear they might get drunk and desecrate the spot and the occa- sion. We want to show these distinguished and learned Chinese when they return to the metropolis that we are a people of taste as well as of hospitality; and we recommend them not to go to an obscure small hotel again, in the vicinity of Mackerelville, but to the Fifth Avenue or some other good and large hotel, where persons of their station and dignity should go, and where our respectable citizens could see them. . The Japanese Embassy, about which so much noise was made, was a small affair in every way, compared with this from China, and we have no doubt the great metropolis of America will give due honor to it. The Outrages of the Jucobin Cabal at Washington. Hon. Robespierre Butler met with an unex- pected rebuff on Saturday last in the House of Representatives. A telegram that had been received by the prisoner Wooley was laid be- fore the House, when Butler moved that no further telegrams or letters should be sentto the contumacious witness until they had been opened and inspected by the Speaker. To this Mr. Colfax objected, giving as his reason that he possessed no right to open a closed envelope directed to another person, either with or with- out the order of the House. This was simply a statement of fact; but taken in connection with the recent meddlesome, prying, outrageous conduct of the Impeachment Managers it ad- ministered a severe and merited rebuke to Butler and his associatés, who have violated decency and law by seizing upon the private telegraphic messages of individuals and subject- ing them to the noses of the smelling com- mitiee, The atrocious and tyranical conduct of the Jacobin cabal affords us a foretaste of what the government would become in the hands of such men under the Presidency of General Grant, who has avowed himself a mere too! of Con- gress; a figurehead without brains or ideas; a machine whose only province, if elected, would be to swing the sword and with closed eyes cut and slash according to the will of the radical majority. The sacred right of every, citizen to-his private correspondence has bee n disregarded ; witnesses have been badgere a, bullied and threatened, and one of them ‘jas been thrust into a damp dungeon under the national.Capitol and kept in solitary cor ifine- ment for refusing to divulge: his per-sonal affairs before Butler's committee. Ver g little more is needed to restore the days of ‘she In- quisition, with their thumbscrows, racks and redhot: irons, and their masked torturers to apply the test to unwilling witnesses. It is no wonder that Colfax finds it necesse ry to dis- connect himself from such men on the eve of the Presidential canvass. But whi Je the Jaco- bin. conspirators are thus rebuked and snubbed in-their own household their lav less violence remains unpunished. When thesy seized upon private telegraphic messages they became law breakers, and their character as Representa- tives affords them neither exc nse nor protec- tion. For these acts they should be punished by civil and criminal proceed ings. Their guilt was shared by the telegraysh company whose officers betrayed the confidence of those who had entrusted private messages to their keep- ing. By voluntarily exyosing the telegrams in their possession to Butler and his associates the Western Union Telegraph Company for- feited their charter, which expressly prohibits such a gross breach of confidence under the penalty of forfeiture. The parties whose mes- sages were thus ontraged should proceed at once against the Impeachment Managers and the telegraph company, and should prosecute them to the extent of the law, both criminally and for personal damages. his is a matter in which the whole community is interested. Colfax has put upon record the fact that the House has no business to order any of its members to pry into private correspondence. Butler and his committee have done this on their own responsibility, The Western Union Telegraph Company's managers have volun- teered to aid them in the consummation of the outrage. Let them all be punished to the ut- SHEET. The Denxocracy and the PresidencyChief Justine Chase Their Ouly Chance. Reader, Inve you ever seen a crevasse—a regular Louisiana crevasse? You know that for hundreds of niles the mighty stream of the lower Mississippi ia confined between artificial embankments or leye,’s, Which protect the rich lowlands on both sides’ from inundation. But there are times when the spring floods from twenty States and Terr} ‘ories fill these em- bankments to the very bricu, and then the steamboat passenger fron’ a ee)nsiderable ele- vation looks down on the coin fields and planters’ houses on each side of bin’. At such a time, when the wate begins’ to fricile over a depression in the soft alluvion of the levee, if not immediately attended toa great gap will soon be formed, throngh which a resistless torrent will deluge the plains below. This is a crevasse; ‘Its tremendous: volume and, force may be imagined from the fact that not only does this escape valve serve’to inundate thou- sands of square miles of fields and forest lands, but sometimes changes the course of the river itself, Hence the numerous crescent and horseshoe lakes on both sides of it below Memphis. They were formerly bends in the channel of the shifting stream. The radicals are now threatenad with a cre- vasse of this description in the’ democratic movement for Chief Justice Chase as their Presidential candidate. The result. may be at change in the course of the governient, which will cast the ultra radical policy off to one side like one of thore Missis- sippi river side lakes, no more resorted to except for their catfish, The big In- dians of the Albany Regency, near thechead of navigation on the Hudson, had a little-council of war the other day on the Presidential pros- pect, when, as it appears, “the Oneida Chief,” Horatio Seymour, boldly and earnestly pleaded the policy of nominaii Chief Justice Chase as the last chance for the perplexed democracy against the hero of “tue Appomattox apple tree.” The hint is immediately taken up at the lower end of the river by Captain Rynders, who, in a few pointed historical and logical remarks, proves that Mr. Chase is a first rate democrat and the man of: all men for Tam- many Hall in this crisis. Last fall he was the anointed head radical of’ Tilton and the’ | at this’ juncture. model statesman of Greeley;.on the presump-- tion that he stood side by side with Wendell Phillips on the platform of manhood suffrage, universal negro suffrage, radical negro recon- struction and Southern negro supremacy. But the whirligig of politics brings: about great changes upon a short notice. Now it is known that Chase is no radical, but a sound con- servative; that his political ideas are much nearer the policy of Johnson than that of Ben Wade, and that, next to Johnson, Chase has fallen under the wrath of Butler; Boutwell, Stevens and all the impeachers. Here, then, is the champion for the demo- eracy and all the conservative forces—the great statesman who furnished the sinews of the war, without which even General Grant would have been a failure. The Chicago republican platform throws Pendleton out of the fight, in leaving him nothing to fight against on his greenback policy; while on the other tack it hedges off Seymour on his shib- boleth of gold to the bondholders. Then, on the question of universal negro suffrage, as the republicans limit it to the unrestored rebel States, they practically give up their case, inasmuch as, with the restoration of those States, they will have the same reserved rights as New York and Jersey to regulate the suf- frage each for themselves, universal or qualified. Knock out the impeachment reso- lution, and the Chicago platform may be adopted by the July Tammany Hall Conven- tion; and so, as in 1852, the two parties may occupy substantially the same ground, and the result, frova similar causes of distrust against their part;y leaders and managers and their real designs, ‘may be the same to the first soldier of the age. Chas and Dix will make a splendid oppo- sition ticket, and some such combination is the only chance for the democracy. They will go down. again with Pendleton, or Seymour, or Hendricks, or Hoffman, or Wood, or poor Pierce, or Willmore, or Black, or Brown, or any other decayed politician identified with the peace party of the war. The fastidious Western copperhead democracy turn up their dainty noses at Hancock. They don't like his epau- lets, and they won't have him. The aristo- eratic managers of the Eastern democracy have always given the cold shoulder to Johnson, perhaps because they have no faith in goose or lapboard, thimble or scissors. We have tried them with brave old Admiral Farragut, but they evidently were afraid that, as he was not dyed in the wool at Charleston or Chicago, he knows nothing of democracy. Mr. Johnson himself has done all that he could towards finding a democratic candidate, but all to no purpose, till at last the party leaders discover that Chase is their only chance of salvation. Seymour and Rynders pronounce him a good democrat; Greeley still pronoung@® hi great statesman, his recent record proves him a good conservative, and all men acknowledge him thoroughly loyal and trusty. There is no fear that if elected he will take the copperhead democratic back track to ‘‘the constitution as it was,” including the Dred Scott decision and the revival of slavery, and no fear that he will diverge to the excesses of radicalism. What if the demo- cratic party as it was and as it is shall cease to be with the nomination of Chase? Is it not the very thing we want. Has it not for all national purposes been for these seven long years defeated, disbanded and defunct? Let Mr. Seymour push forward the good work, let Captain Rynders second his efforts, let Hoffinan keep cool, let Wood keep quiet and let all the democracy prepare for a meeting at the new Tammany Hall on ‘‘the glorious Fourth” in behalf of Chief Justice Chase, and they Tay open the ball of a glorious revo- lution. Sonortery’s First Dectaration as Secern- vary or War.—The first word we hear from the new Secretary has # pleasant sound. {t informs us that General Stoneman will succeed to the post made vacant by Schofield’s appoint- ment. This honors with an important and re- sponsible position a man in every way worthy of it—a gallant soldier and one who, as Mili- tary Governor, will only act from his nature in administering his office in an impartial cornest aAgmy. The Fenians at Work Again, The Fenian alarm is again sounded. The Canadians are once more in a state of pertur- bation at rumors about another invasion by the terrible Fenians, and the New Dominion bayo- nets are being brightened up in anticipation of afight. It is a curious fact that just about the eve of an election campaign these Fenians, who number say four hundred thousand strong in the United States, make a great stir and halla- baloo about pitching into the British govern- ment through the Canadian border. They have some enterprising leaders among them, who always keep a sharp eye to windward, and they may unite and get up some sort of pro~ gramme for a Canadian invasion about this time; but it is doubtful if it will be ever carried out, the real purpose being a foray apon the purses. of patriots and politicians, and possibly to frighten the poor Canadians, as they did at Ridgeway and Slabtown two years ago. The Presidential election comes in very happily ‘Che political managers: have a large amount of cash on hand, and it will not do to let these four bundred thousand boki Fenians lay around loose. Bothk the giveat parties will be after them with ‘lashings of cash.” The “Fenians generatly are opposed to the radicals; but the loftiness of their purpose will not suffer them to decline money in aid of it, come from what quarter it may. Now let us see what may be expected to foNow. The Fenians ,will make'a feint at some pohrt on the Cana- dian border—St. Albans is a cool and con- venient one. The United Sta tes troops) will he ordered’to knock this matter on the head, as tliey were two years since, Ga neral Grant— as the head of the army’and the 1 ‘adical cattdi- date for the Presidency~will be required to see that this work is promptly exia cuted. Thon stand aside while the grand’ expla ion occurs. It will be found ‘that this Fenian na ovement is not only for an invasion into Caimu& » but also into the repose of General Grant. ‘Pl 12 military organization of the body wid bece.a 2 demor~ alized and the lexders placed tempo rarily in limbo. But the political organization will still remain, and then woe to General:Graa t and to all who interrupted the execution of th ¢ plans of the Fenians with their nearly half a. million of votes. They cannot, of course, ) e runted upon for General Grant. Thus ma)7 the Fenians settle the Presidential elsctiom, 4 ‘efeat Grant and elect the democratic ¢andidate. ‘RHE CHINESE EMBASSY. Succeeding aweek of unusual physiceé activity:and mental excitement, the gentlemen com posing the Chinese Legation on Sunday caused their wardrobes to be repacked, and yesterday morning, preparatory to going on board the railway train (spects! ceaches being provided), en route for Washingtom; vacated, at fifteen minutes to eight o'clock, the: thirty-six rooms which had been occupied by them ay the West- minster !otel. May the shadows of these diplomats fr6m the far East never grow less, and may their cues elongate forever. They are worthy gentlemen. Accustomed to the best circles of Pekin, and having the entrée to the court of his Majesty, the Imperial Tajen of the Flowery Land, who ts sanguineously related: to the sun, moon and the Pleiades, they know what is what, Boasting a geneological tree with ten thousand branches (more or legs) thereon they cannot be ex- ected to fraternize freely with people of yesterday. John Smith, retired sh merchant, and Mr. Gunng- bags, of the Chamber of Commerce, who cannot for the life of him say who his grandfather was, are per- mitted to address them: but they are not to presume on the chance introduction, and, happening in Pekin over night, en route to the Amoor river or Siberia, leave cards at their palaces. Only the HERALD Zajen: is permitted to do that. is Excellency Chih, of the first rank, is a sensible personage and satisfied with three native wives (although by imperial rescript he is entitled to the distribution of his name among twenty demoiselies), while in this country proposes to be exceedingly condescending, and may even propose, at the expense of a few hundred thou- sand dollars, the purchase of one or two fashionable residents of the femaie persuasion on the Fifth ave- nue, It was his original intention to have married half a dozen American ladies, but when indacted into the mysteries of jewels—diamond and coral bracelets, necklaces, finger rings, &c., &c.—he came to the conclusion that the revenues derived. from his grand principality of Hoaw-klang-swee-zto-Chiaah- - mung-jee would be insufficient to keep in state-more than two beiles, aristocratic descendants of ex- cheese mongers. His Excellency Sun—who persists in being ad- dressed as Tajen Soon—thought of buying from the manager of Niblo’s Garden the female portion of the “White Fawn,” and even offered half a million for the lot; bat for some reason the pro) ion was de- clined, Sun thought he had made a offer, stating that for a fifth of the sum he could purchase thrice ag many women in China. ‘The Embassy are by this time at Willard's, Wash- ington, and to-day will probably be introduced to the President, and afterwards, at a state dinner given by Mr, Seward, show what adepts they are at ee the Widow Cliquot and chopsticks. A despatch from Boston, published in last even- ing’s papers, informs us that “Mr. Burlingame, the Chinese Minister, spent Sunday with his father-in- law, Mr. Livermore, in Cambridge.”’ If the state- ment be true, his Excellency, with his father-in-law, must move over great distances in beer oh short periods of time. Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Livermore ‘were at the Traveller's Club in this city on Saturday evening, remaining with other member's of the lega- tion until nearly one o'clock on Sunday bre On retiring he went directly to his hotel and to l. We can only account for the telegraphic statements in the journals of last night by henge | that the good genii which have waited upon his Excellency allalong spirited him to Cambridge, Masa., while in his first sleep, and when awakened it was by the chimes of the morning bells calling the faithful to worship. PFINGTS-MONTAG. ‘There is not a day in the year which will call out the German population of our city in such numbers: as the Monday after Pentecost. And if the weather is anything like fair, itis safe to reckon on at least fifty or perhaps a hundred thousand people visiting the parks and suburbs. Yesterday being the finest day we have yet had, of course @ larger number of people avatled themselves of the opportunity and all the up town parks, where picnics were announced, were crowded to excess, The New York Saenger- bund, at Jones’ Wood, had more than ten thousand visitors, and so it was at all the other parks in proportion, At the Saengerbund picnic we found this fault—that their concert was entirely unappre- ciated. The vocal and instrumental performers stuod on a level with the crowd, and amid the hum of the surging multitude no clear perception could be had of the forinance of the several [ eseen) announced, nor even the Battle Hymn, from “Kenzi” of Wagner, in which force of sound is one of the most necessary attributes. Had their concert been as handsome as their turnout in the morning, when they marched in procession with Mr. John Koch, Jr., as Grand Mar- shal, down the Bowery to the boat, they woald have carried off the palm, At Robenstein’s Bellevue Park the Saengerlust, assisted by a number of other societies, had a picnic. It was well attended, and to all those who participated it dwemed satistactory. At Sulzer’s East River Park the Social Reformers and seven other societies held their May or rather “Ptingst” festival, The Uhited Liedertafel of tae Reformers, under the control of John Humbert as president, did everything to make their gry: comfortable, but in poimt of art and in regard to the elevation of the standard of vocal music very little could be observed. They sung well the old lyric, “Auf den freien, lichten Hohen” (“on the Mountains, Free and Clearer”) and also the “Vateriand, a German patriotic song by Arx; but that either was sung well we will fot say. At the Untoa Park on Sixty-second street about twenty other societies joined the Beethoven Maennerchor in the celebration, and both the performance and the entertainment were in everyway cregitable. The Liow, Park on Tenth avenue, as well as Elin Park not far off, had their picnics, und the Terrace Garden har bored the Social Keformers proper. ‘If we may be allowed a rough guess, we would say that yesterday at least ope hundred thousand persons lett New York city, or rather, as it is commonly called, “down town”—and enjoyed a happy day wit happy friends, Another hundred thousand found she! in the “gardens” in the city. Those who came out of Jones’ Wood KOS in at the Schuetzen Park, as the one being on their way, and go «did tie others, as soon as they found as proper a place. In nee two men hed a fight ina eR —y 'y attacked each other Rt oe tae person assailed drew & revolver and sho