The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1868, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD STREET. BROADWAY AND ANN PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Tierarp. Volume XXXIIL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Der Fneisouutz—Prer o'Dax. FRENCH THEATRE,—MA\ ANTOINETTE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humery Dowrrr. NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Panis and HELEN, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Taeg Waits FawN BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—CaMILLr. ~ WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 15th street.— MASKS AND Faces, STEINWAY HALL.—Ovr Buit's Concent. 1, 585 Broadway.—ETH10- SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE |, DANOING, de. PUAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SiNGL KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Eoornrnicirtes, &c,—GRAND DUTOU Brondway.—Sonas, ‘Ss’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth ete AB raiontas Mins rERtsy, EOCENTRIGITIEG, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—BALuRT, FAnoR, ao. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Com1o VOoALIsM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, Ac. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruLaRr GanpENn ConceRr. TERRACE GARDEN—Porutan GARDEN Concert. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Sreeets or New York. HOOLEY’S OPERA HO: MINSTRELSY—TuF IMPRACHE! NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BoreNOR AND AR’ Brooklyn.—ETM10PIAN June 2, 1868. HEET. THS NEWS. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, presented resolutions of the Ohio Legislature (demo- cratic) protesting against the influences brought to bear on Senators for the conviction of the President. As it probably referred to himself and Mr. Wade, he r ed that it b ferred to a committee for investl- Mr. imunds called up his resolution of anton, It was thoroughly discussed, n 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 and proper. Mr. Henderson moved an amend- ment thanking Chief Justice Chase for his conduct during the trial, which was promptly reject; 1 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 tiken up. Mr. Drake’s amendment was agreed to, fad the iil was passed by a vote of 34 to 8 In the ilouse, under the Monday call of States, resolath ere introduced and referred Instructing tue Secretary of War to secure the services of Messrs, Viugham and Butler to conduct the prosecution Je® Davis and for the establishment of sin European countries to promote emigra- New York, Tuesday, TRIPLE NEW YORK MERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1868,—TRIPLE strong yesterday. ‘Government securities were very sirong and excited, Gold closed at 13024. ‘The beef cattle market exhibited a fair degree of | activity and more firmness, and prices were about ‘ge. per ib, higher. About 1,675 head comprised the offerings, Prime and extra steers com- manded 18c. a 183¢.; fair to good, 17c. a 1T!e. 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 $10 each; common to 00d $60.0 $85, and inferior $40 a $55. Veal calves were in fair request, but at lower prices, extras sell- ing at 113¢c.; prime 104¢c. @ 1e.; ordinary to good 9c. a 10¢., and inferior 6c, a Sc. Sheep were in good demand, but with liberal offerings prices were de- cidedly lower, We quote extra sheared 73{¢c. a 8¢.; prime 7c. a 7c.; common to good 53¢c. a 6ic., and inferior 41,c.a5¢, Lambs 9c. a 15e. Swine were siow of sale and lower, selling at 9340, a 93¢c, for heavy prime, 87%c. a 92¢c. for fair to good, and 83<c. ase. forcommon, The total receipts for the week were 4,348 beeves, 163 milch cows, 2,384 veal calves, 19,651 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 Chicago 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 Schofield was formally inducted into the War Office yesterday. Chief Justice Chase adminis- tered the oath to him and President Johnson and ad interim Thomas accompanied him to the War Oftice, 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 evacuated. ‘The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston celebratea its two hundred and thirtieth anniversary yesterilay. Speeches were made by General Banks, its commander, Governor Bullock and others, ‘The merchants of St. Louis are moving vigorously conduct of the Impeachment Managers in their present investigation but a foretaste of what would follow with such men in power? Tere we have all the personal rights of the citizen invaded at once, Without 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 aud 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 foresve 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 onlya 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 forthe 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 a military order of General Sickles, and he has consistently 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 gne party and in the possi- ble candidate of the other men may see what each aims at, and may determine calmly for a reopening of Bayou Mauchac in Louisiana, by which a direct water route to Mobile will be opened, diverging from the Mississipp! two hundred miles above New Orleans, and thas 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 flogged for reading Fenian newspapers is denied by the authorities of the penitentiary. A Montreal despatch says that a Fenian attack on the Dominion is menaced at Prescott and Cornwall” and is certain to take place this month. The govern- ment has called for more troops and the pay of vol- unteers has been doubled. Advices from Hayti report that Salnave had been 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- Under the same call Mr. Morgan offered a rcution of the order for ating of her studio by Miss Vinnie Ream. In urging its p sage 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 tle French Bastile, now in possession of the Mount Vernon Association, Was oifered but not received. lution directing the Ways © report a Gill for the taxa- sf United States bouds. Mr. Stevens proposed dify it by instructing the committee to inquire ) 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 pri ers was not received, Evening sessions in then agreed to, The new Tax bill from th tee 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. Mr. Holm pendent of cither the President or Secretary of the ‘Treasury and to hold him personally responsible for the management of the revenue; to abolish the system of tobacco and whiskey inspectors, and to itute therefor a responsible Supervisor in every ict; and to tax manufactories mainly with tothe capital, Regular brokers are to be 2, while irregular foreign brokers, who have \d have therefore paid no tax, shall pay $.000 for li and in default of payment suffer nprisonmne The direct tax on whiskey of $2 a gallon is retained, but Mr, Schenck expressed the opinion that it should and probably would be re- | Mquor dealers are to pay for licences to their business, and wholesale deal- aul no ofc in ers a tax of two and @ half per cent on the amount of sales over $5,000, The Income tax is to be re- ty'ned at five per cent, and railroad companies are 6 -barred from exacting their tax from passengers. Mr Schenck read lls Anancial statement, and the House a tjourned, EUROPE. lantic cable is dated yes- June 1. got and Sullivan, the seditious’ or imprisoned in Dublin, were set free ror heard in London, strictly observed on Verpool. Outside quota- are given. terday even Messrs. Fea by issue of “the A edtite In the Bonrd of Aldermer tions relative to the y upon. A resolution dire modelled into convenient adopted. sterday several resolu- ig of streets were acted gf that the city he re- election districts was After adopting a few unimportant papers the | Board of Councilmen adjourned til this (Tuesday) afternoon, at two o'clock. Chinese Embassy left the city yesterday morn- ved last evening in Washington, where 4 at the Metropolitan Hotel. cigeh submitted his annual Message for 1860 at the meeting of the joint Board and Supervisors of the city of Brooklyn of Alderm yesterday rnoon, The whole amount necessary to be raised by taxation for the maintenance of the city government is $3,199,25 Yesterday the June in the Bankruptcy law, by which debtors 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. ‘The case of the United States vs S.C. Frazee and five other defendants charged 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 wore 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 Meier, Will leave at two YP. M. to-day (Tuesday) for Hamburg via South. ampton, The mails for Europe will Close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. 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 ratlroad companies owning lines between New York and Washington have arranged for a consolida- tion of their through traMc under the control of one ofticer. Presidential Contest—What Are 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, and what will it signify, what objects will be gained, what purposes furthered, if Grant is elected on the one hand or defeated on the other? Does 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 the 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 accom- 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 fabric 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 cnergeticaily 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 his shall stand in the way of the prearranged whether they will go with the radicals in a revolutionary change toward despotism or with the conservatives for an assertion of the The Chinese 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 sach an important and unprecedented mission, and Mr. Seward will put on his most approving smile. The government in all its branches will mark the extraordinary event as becomes agreat 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 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- break of our late war—a policy so different from that which President Jackson might have been expected to adopt in a similar emer- gency—has conferred on his name an unenvi- able distinction. But now that he is dead and he war is over the most violent political oppo- nents of the ‘Old Public Functionary” may 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 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 of Pennsylvania every measure of national de- fence, there can be not the slightest doubt of his patriotism. That it was a patriotism as enlarged as it was sincere is manifest from his 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 interesta 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 which 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 aur 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 nisi bonum. Tur Kansas Laxp Jon axp Orner Bra Jons.--Our Washington correspondence yes- terday exposed a big and atrocious job in the former Cherokee lands in Kansas, in which the Department of the Interior had a hand. We had at the same time accounts of a tre- mendous job under way for another Pacific railroad, with all the land grants aud money which have been lavished on the other routes, But what is the use of talking about these johe ? They cannot be stopped; they will go on. Some good may come out of the Pacific rail- roads by opening communication across the Contiuent, however much the public may be ‘The steamship Saragossa, Captain Crowell, of | policy of the men who pull the wires of bis Leary’s line, will leave il ba ay wane? political existence. If such @ party succeeds ‘Wan street, tognorrow (Wednesday “| im electing such a:President the country can 8.0. ise stock masta was active and om the whole | judge what must be the result, What is the fleeced or have to pay. And as to the rest, the best way, perhaps, is to let them go on without interference till the villany and cor- ruption connected with them culminate and the people become utterly disgusted, 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 Jacobin 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 mon 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 everyr 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 fine- ment for refusing to divulge. his per -sonal affairs before Butler's committee, Ver y little more is needed to restore the days of ‘che 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 the,y seized upon private telegraphic messages th ey became law breakers, and their character as Representa- tives affords them neither exc nse nor protec- tion. For these acts they shonld be punished by civil and criminal proceedings. 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 exyposing 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 outraged 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- mont limit of the law. SHEET. The Densocracy and the PresidencyChief Justine Chase Their Ouly Chance. Reader, Inve you ever seen a crevasse—a regular Lovisia.na crevasse? You know that for hundreds of niles the mighty stream of the lower Mississippi ia confined between artificial embankments or leve’8, Which protect the rich lowlands on both sides’ from inundation. But there are times when the spring floods from twenty States and Terri ories fill these em- bankments to the very brica, and then the steamboat passenger frons a ev:nsiderable ele- vation looks down on the coon fields and planters’ houses on each side of hing. Atsuch a time, when the water begins to ftricile over a depression in the soft alluvion of the levee, if not immediately attended toa great gap will scon be formed, throngh which 2 kee torrent will deluge the plains below. This is a crevasse; Its tremendous: volume and, force may be imagined from the: fact thet 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 threatensd with a cre- vasse of this description in the democratic movement for Chief Justice Chase as their Presidential candidate. The result. may be a’ change in the course of the government, which will cast the ultra radical policy off to one side like one of those Missis- sippi river side lakes, no more resorted to except for theit catfish. The big In- dians of the Albany Regency, near thochead 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 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- cracy 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, fropa similar causes of distrust against their party; leaders and managers and their real designs, ‘may be the same to the first soldier of the age. Chase 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- cratic 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® him a 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 Hoffman 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 may open the ball of a glorious revo- lution. Sonortety’s First Dectaration as Srcrn- tary oF War.—The first word we hear from the new Secretary has a pleasant sound. It 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 ita gallant soldier and one who, as Mili- tary Governor, will only act from his nature in administering his office in an impartial apirit and with earnest integrity. 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 a fight. It isa 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 pitehing 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 Canadiar 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 at this juncture. ‘The political managers i have a large amomat of cash on hand, and it will mot doa to let these four hundred thousand bokt Fenians lay around loose. Both the gieat parties will be after them with “lashings of cash.” The “Fenians generatly are op}>osed 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 be 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 caudi- date for the Presidency—will bs 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. ‘fi 1¢ military organization of the body wid bece.a 2 demor- alized and the lesders 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, @ yunted upon for~ General Grant. Thus ma)7 the Fenians settle the Presidential elsctiom, 4 'efeat Grant and elect the democratic ¢andidate. ‘THE CHINESE EMBASSY. Succeeding aweek of unusual physice® activityand 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 (special coaches being provided), en route for Washington; vacated, at fifteen minutes to eight o'clock, the: thirty-six rooms which had been occupied by them at the West- minster !otel. May the shadows of these diplomats from 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 is sanguineously related: to the sun, moon and the Pleiades, they know what is what, Boasting a geneological tree with ten thousan® branches (imore or less) thereon they cannot be ex- pected to fraternize freely with people of yesterday. John Smith, retired dish merchant, and Mr. Gunny- 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 Zujer: 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 inducted 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-kiang-swee-zto-Chiaah- - mung-jee would be insufticient to keep in state-more than two belles, aristocratic descendants of ex- cheese mongers. His Excellency Sun—who persists in being ad- from the dressed as Tajen Soon—thought of thee manager of Niblo’s Garden the femal lon of the “White Fawn,” and even offered hi million for the lot; bat for some reason the proposition was de- clined, Sun thought he had made a fair 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 @ state dinner given by Mr. Seward, show what adepts they are at sherry, 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 exceedingly short periods of time, Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Livermore were at the Travelier’s Club in this city on Saturday evening, remaining with other member's of the lega- tion unull nearly one o’clock on Sunday erie 5 On retiring he went directly to his hotel and to We can only account for the telegraphic siatements in the journals of last night by ben grog, Bloom) the good genii which have waited upon his cellency all along spirited him to Cambridge, Masa., while in his frst sleep, and when awakened tt was by the Esha! of the morning bells calling the faithful to worship. ‘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 a 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 stood on a level with the crowd, and atid the hum of the surging multitude no clear perceptton could be had of the performance of the several pieces announced, nor even the Battle Hymn, from “Kenzi” of Wagner, in which force of sound ts 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., a8 Grand Mar- shai, 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 deemed satisfactory. At Sulzer's Bast River Park the Social Reformers and seven other societies held their May or rather “Ptlngst”’ festival, The United Liedertafel of tae Reformers, under the control of John Humbert as president, did everything to make the os comfortable, but in point 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 Not say, At the Untoa Park on Cae street about twenty other sovicties joined the Beethoven Maennerchor in the celebration, and both the performance and the entertainment were in everyway cresitable. The Lion, Park on Tenth avenue, as well as Elm Park not far off, had their plenics, and the Terrace Garden harbored the Social Keformers proper. ‘If we may be allowed a rough guess, we would say that yesterday at least one hundred thousand persons lott New York city, or rather, as it is commonly called, “down town?’—and oe bee a happy day wit happy friends. Another hundred thousand found shelter in the “gardens” in the city. Those who came out of Jones’ Wood gos in at the Schuetzen Park, as the one being on their way, and so did tie others, ag soon aa they found as proper @ place. lay two men hed a fight ina ey attacked each othier with knives, when tne person assailed drew a revolver and sho peace Pag @ negro Mullane bi ipataailys In Memphis barber's shop.