The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1868, Page 6

6 NE Ww Y ORK HERALD | mere rt AY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON ‘BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. mak SEMENTS THIS EVENING. “Broadway. —A Fuase OF BROADWAY THEATRE, Ligatyine. BOWERY THEATR! AND ADVENTURES OF Bowery.—Hexny DUNBAR—LiFR jA0K SHEPPARD. ‘ouymerc THEATRE, Broadway.-Humpry Dumpty. NEW STADT THEATRE, 45. and @ Bowery.—Ros- evs—Hor oF THE RED Mouwsarne NEW YORK THEATRE, opposite New York Hotel.— Tus GRanp DUCHESS OF GEROLSTRIN. NISLO’S GARDEN, Broadway._Tae Waits Fawn. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Tax Lovrery oF Lire. SAN FRANCISCO bl tban mf ‘585, iway.—ETHIO- Pian ENTERTAINMENTS, BI “4 Broad Danotne, ac. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 729 Broadway.—Sones, Boomnraco:ries, &c.—La!—Beii--L. N. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany, Building, 14th street, ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, ECCENTRICITIEG, &C. THEATER COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Bauter, Fanon, 0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA Hi ‘VooaLIgm, NEGRO MINSTREL E, 201 Bowery. -Comia C. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Soventh avenue.—PoroLaR GARDEN ConozRy, TERRACE GARDEN—Porotar GARDEN Concept. NRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyu.— TRoppEN Down; on, THE Lost CAUSE. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Ovewa—CINDERELLA. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SciBNOR AND ART. TRI PLE SHEET. ‘atta: York, Friday, June bis 1868. Brooklyn.—BURLESQUE 2 38 NEWS. EUROPE. The news report hy the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday, June 18, at midnight George #raucis ‘Train attempted a speech in the Liverpoo! "Change, but was hissed down. ‘The specie in the Sank of England increased largely in the week. The Irish Church bill, Irish Reform bill, Telegraphs Consolidation bill and the Nova Scotia secession question engaged the attention of the two houses of the English Parliament, Advices from China of May 21 state that the rebels bad raise! the siege of Tientsen. Consols, 0475 a 95, money; five-twenties, 733; a 735, in London and 77% in Frankfort. Cotton active, with middling uplands at Id. Breadstut’s firm. Provisions unchanged. Produce quiet. Our special correspondence from Europe supplies intereatiug details of our cable despatches to the 6th of June. CONGRESS. tm the Senate yesterday the bill establishing an American line of steamers between New York and an European port was reported favorably. A bill relative to the sale of vesseis to belligerents was passed. It ‘was subsequently reconsidered. A bill for the relief of certain exporters of alcohol and rum was @efeated. A bill to give American register to the British bark Golden Fleece, which changed its colors during the war, occasioned considerable discussion, Mr. Sumner contending that there was no further peed for severity in sueh matters and Mr. Fessenden @ectaring that mercy should be shown sooner to Febela than to such loyal men as these shipowners. Whe bill was rejected by a vote of eleven to twenty. The conference committee on the bill for the removal of political disabilities reported, recommending that the names of George Houston, of Alabama, and George W. Jones, of Tennessee, be stricken out.’ After some debate the report was agreed to by a vote Of twenty-two to seven. In the House the resolution to reconsider the bill granting twenty per cent additional pay to govern- ment employés was agrced to, and the original bill ‘was laid on the table by a vote of sixty-eight to sixty- four. The Committee om Indian Affairs made a re- port on the treaty with the Osage Indians for the sale to a Kansas railway company of eight million acres of land, characterizing the treaty as unjust and its making an assumption of authority. They also Presented resolutions protesting against the ratifi- cation of the treaty by the Senate and declaring that the House will refuse any appropriation in fartherance ofit. These resolutions, somewhat modified, were adopted without a division. Reports on various subjects were made by the Judiciary Committee. The River and Harbor bill was postponed until Tues- day. The billto regulate the carrying of emigrant Passengers in seagoing vessels was taken up, but without a vote the House adjourned. THE CITY. The be of Aldermen adopted @ resolution yes- terday tv examine into the workings of the street cleaning, contractor, and Aldermen Norton, Cuddy and Ward were appointed to conduct the investiga- tion on behalf of the Board. Resolutions were adopted authorizing the Comptroller to tasue $300,000 worth of Central Park Indemnity Fund stock and appropriating $3,500 to the Clerk for com- Piling the Manual for 1868. An invitation to review the German societies on Monday morning next was accepted. ‘The Board of Audit reached claim No. 667 yester- day. ‘The establishment of a Labor Bureau by the Com- missioners of Charities and Correction was urged | yesterday at a meeting of that Board. A shocking catastrophe occurred in the Bowery last evening, owing to the explosion of,a fire engine, which resulted in the loss of five lives and the ‘wounding of nineteen other persons, which will Probably increase the deata roll. The full particu- Yars will be found elsewhere. ‘The twelve vessels to compete in the anmnal re- atta of the New York Yacht Ciub were punctually @t the starting point of Clifton, Staten Island, but id not get away until over haif an hour after the @ppointed time. The breeze was very slight and as fhe yachts reached Sandy Hook died out altogether. ‘The yachts then drifted, and after waiting some time the race was declared off, and the contest will be ‘Wenowed to-day. At the meeting of the Central Grant Club in this city last evening Judge Richard Busteed, of the WVuited States Court in Alabama, delivered a speech. A Woman named Osmanouski, the motherof five children, died at her residence, 335 First street, ‘Brooklyn, yesterday, from the effects, as alleged, of Medicines administered by herself for improper pur- ‘Poses. Coroner Smith held an inquest and a phy- Giclan who attended her was censured, ‘The Po. urd assauit and battery case was examined defore Jus:ive Cornwell in the Brookiyn Court yester- Gay. The piainti? in the case is Mrs, E. A. Pollard, ‘wife Of the author of the “Lost Cause,” and her hus. was in court as a witness for the defendant, Crotty, of No. #1 Cranberry street, who ts Charged with assauiting and beating Mrs. Pollard. The evidence Was contradictory and the case was Giamtssed, Mr. Pollard has in the meantime filed a complaint against his wife, charging that she haa p ory to take hie life, which will be heard on lay. Fe ‘ A motion waa made yesterday at Common Pleas Chambers to continue an fnjunction in the action of fet aghinst Ohaffee and others, enjoining ta from parting with about eight thousand of the Sensenderfer Silver Mining Company's whiod are held by them @8 agente of the uff. Decision reserved, + John Shoa obtained a verdict for $360 against the @hird Avenue Ratiroad Company yesterday in the @arine Court for damages sustained by being down while attempting to embark on one ‘Of the company’s cars in December, 1967, ‘The jury in the case of Laura Waldron va, Garoline NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNK 19, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. Richings, an action brought on contract to recover $100 as compensation for two weeks’ services as a vocalist in Miss Richings' English opera troupe, at Boston, in December, 1867, rendered a verdivt for Maintiff for the full amount claimed. A judgment was entered for the plaintin's yeater- day in the Supreme Court on the report of the referce, in the case of Ross, Steele an1 othera against the Unien Pacific Railway, Kansas branch. The suit was brought to recover Compensation for work performed by plaintiffs, who had the contract to build the de- fendant’s road, and for damages for breach of con- tract by the defendants. Judgment was entered for $4,640,021 23, Im the cage of Jennison vs. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company, an action to recover damages in the sum of $27,862 for breach of contract, &@ motion was made at the Supreme Court Chambers yesterday to compel the defendants to make their answer more definite and certain, to strike out por- tions as sham and irrelevant, and for judgment on the answer as frivolous. The court ordered parts of the answer to be mace more definite, and denied the remainder of the relief applied for. The Inman line steamship City of Antwerp, Oaptain Mirehouse, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow for Queenstown and Liverpool. The European tails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. on the 20th inst, The National line steamship Louisiana, Captain Forbes, will leave pier 47 North river at 3 P. M. to- morrow, 20th inst., tor Liverpool, caling at Queens- town to land passengers. ‘The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Car- noghan, will sail from pier 20 North riverg at 12 M. on Saturday, 20th inst., for Liverpool and Giasgow, call- ing at Londonderry. ‘The North American Steamship Company's steamer Guiding Star will sail on Saturday, 20th inst., at noon, from pier 46 North river, for California via Panama Railroad. ‘The steamship Bienville, r Havana on the 20th inst. at Captain Baker, will sail 3 P.M. from pier 36 ants’ line steamship General Grant, Cap- , will leave pier 12 North river, to-morrow jay) at 3 P.M. for New Orleans direct. romwell line steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, will leave pier No.9 North river on the 20th inst., at 3 P. M., for New Orleans. The Biack Star line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will sail for Savannah on Saturday, 20th inst leaving pfer 13 North river at 3 P.M. ral Barnes, Captain Morton, priver at3 P.M. on the 20th inst. for Savannah, The sidewheel steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will sail oa Saturday, 20th. inat., at 3 P. M., from pier No. 5 North river for Charleston, The stock market was strong yesterday, especially for Reading, whick advanced to 100% @ 100% undera Steady demand. Government securities were quiet. Gold fluctuated between 149 and 140% and closed at 140% @ 1407,. MISCELLANBOUS. Chief Justice Chase is said to have drawn up a statement of his views on the present political issues. He favors universal suffrage, universal amnesty, compiete abolition of military governmenis and the taxation of property rather than labor, no special privileges to be allowed in this regard to classes or corporations. The garrison in Washington was reviewed by Mr. Burlingame and the Chinese Embassy yesterday. General Hancock commanded, and the President, Secretary Schofield, Senators Cameron and Dooiittie, Generais Rousseau, Butler and other distinguished Persons were present. The sculling match between James Hamill and Henry Coulter for the championship and $2,000 took piace yesterday on the SchuyiktU river, at Philadel- phia. Coulter's boat was fouléd by Hamill and both men were thrown into the water. Coulter regaining his boat first continued on his way, crossed the line and claimed the victory. The referee decided, how- ever, that they must row again to-day. A match between Tyler and Walter Brown also came off, the former winning by two feet. A nf&n named Thomas Jones and his daughter were arrested in Delaware, Canada, yesterday, charged with the murder of a young girl named Fanny Jones, a niece of the man. An excited crowd gathered, threatening to lynch the prisoners, and while the examination was going on in the Town Hall, the floor gave way, precipitating a hundrod Ppeopie to the basement, seriously injuring thirty, seven it is feared fatally. The Saengerfest at Chicago opened formally last night with a gramfl concert. The delayed deiega- tions from New York and Europe arrived during the day. Governor Humphrey, of Mississippi, it is now re- ported, refuses to obey the order of General McDowell for his removal. Two deaths from suastroke ocourred in St. Louis yesterday. John H. Surratt has been indicted on a new charge of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Deacon Andrews in his full confession of the mur- dor of OorneHus Holmes, at Kingston, Mass., states that he committed the deed in self defence, Holmes having made an indecent assault upon him. The heaviest thunder storm known in Cincinnati for many years visited that city on Wednesday night. Eight tons of Fenian arms seized by the govern- ment passed through Burlington, Vt., yesterday, bound for New York. The Florida Legislature yesterday elected T. W. Osborn United States Senator for ‘he four years term. ‘The Progress of Anarchy in Mexico. Our Mexican news from day to day goes to show that the worst which has ever been writ- ten or spoken as to the incapacity of the Mexican people for self-government has not only not overshot but has not been up to the mark. Our telegraphic news and our letters from special correspondents reveal a state of anarchy in that country which is almost with- out a parallel even in its own previous history, bad as that history has been. Willing, as at times we have been, to hope for Mexico, we can now no longer conceal from ourselves the fact that the cause is hopeless. It is now some forty-four years ago since the Mexican people shot their first emperor, and in a vain attempt to imitate the people of the United States set up a republic. For forty years they continued in a state of anarchy, making and unmaking presidents, faction struggling with faction, tinkering old and making new constitutions, contracting debts and never paying them, quarrelling with their best friends and losing large slices of their best territory; and at the end of the forty years of magnificent promise and no fruit they found themselves demoralized and helpless, and compelled, at the will of the foreigner, to submit to another empire and another empe- ror. To get rid of imperial rule they deposed their first emperor, pensioned and then shot him. During forty yoars they manufactured some thirty-one constitutions—very nearly « constitution for every year—an unparalleled feat in constitution making; but in spite of all their constitutions we find them at the end of the forty years selling themselves to foreigners’ and bowing the knee to a foreign emperor. The history of the second Mexican empire is too recent to require repetition. True to themselves and to the character which they had established, no sooner was the second empire set up than the spirit of anarchy re- vealed itself, The sympathy of the United States was invoked, and, as was not unnatural in the circumstances, was ungrudgingly given. But for the shadow of the United States which foll on Mexican soil the French might have Béon there tothis day. Our shadow, however, fied. Napoleon heard the voice of a great, a free, a mighty and a conquering people, trembled and retired, with his tail between his legs. We had done the Mexicans a good ser- vice. We asked not, because we wanted not, any compensation. In the interests of hu- manity, however, we asked them to spare the life of Maximilian, who, If he had offended, had not been the principal offender, and who, with all his faults, had at least been more sinned against than sinning. We had special reasons for making such a request. We our- selves had just passed through a great revolu- tion and a bloody and devastating war, The authors of the revolution had fallen into our hands. We thirsted not for blood. We sought no revenge. With a magnanimity worthy of ourselves, worthy of the great cause in which we had triumphed, and worthy of the advanced civilization of the nineteenth century, we felt that when the war was ended the lives of even the principal offenders might well be spared. By the service we had done the Mexicans—for but for us they never could have driven the French from their soil—and by the ex- ample which we had set them we had a right to ask them to spare the life of Maximilian. With an ingratitude and a love of blood worthy of such a people they re- fused our request, committed a judicial murder which had absolutely nothing to justify it and ranked themselves with the barbarous nations of the time. From the commencement of the Mexican republic the love of blood has been quite as conspicuous as the want of common sense has been apparent. The brigands of Italy were gentlemen in comparison to these Mexican patriots, How do we find Mexico now? All was to be well when the French had loft them. The unity of the republic was to be sealed by the blood of Maximilian, The French trouble them no more and the life-blood of Maximilian has been heartlessly drawn, and how stands it with this promising republic now? It is a year since Maximilian was shot. Are they a happier, a more united, a more pros- perous people now than they were then? Have they in any true sense prospered in the interval? Mr. Romero, as will be seen from our Washington news of to-day, says they have prospered. We have only Mr. Romero’s word for that, and, considering the character of his present mission, that word is to be received with caution. Can any unprejudiced reader look at the news of to-day, comparing it with the news of any time during these forty-four or fifty years, and say that Mexico has progressed in anything but in anarchy? Worse and worse, wilder and wilder anarchy, deeper and deeper misery—hehold the history of Mexico! How can it be otherwise? The race is incom- petent. Strength and unity of purpose come only from the amalgamation of races that have “something in common, that have for each other some natural affinity. Nothing but weakness and disorder can come from a wild and unna- tural mixture of the most heterogeneous human elements. Europeans, oreoles, mestizoes, mulattoes, Zambos, Indians, negroes, all mixed up and crossed in the most endless and inconceivable fashion—such is the popu- lation of Mexico. Was ever such a hybrid mixture witnessed on the face of the earth? Hayti reveals a somewhat similar spectacle ; but so far as Hayti is concerned, or indeed: any of the old European settlements of South America whore the races have been unnatu- rally mixed, it only confirms the truth of our proposition that miscegenation under certain conditions begets and can only beget weakness and disorder. We have no choice but to pro- nounce the case of Mexico hopeless. Minister Romero, we observa, is again in this country. He wants money. What about the last loan? It is not yet two years since money was raised in this country on certain bonds to assist the Mexican republic. One half year's interest was paid when the bonds were sub- scribed. Not a cent, so far as we know, has been paid since. Yet Minister Romero has the audacity to try it on again. We have had enough of this. What Mexico wants is not money, but common sense. We have no ob- jection that the Mexican Minister be permitted to convey back to his countrymen as much American common sense as he can carry; but we have a decided objection to his being allowed to carry back any more of our gold. Our advice is, let Mexico go on in her mad career, In a very little while hor offences wil! arise to and provoke the vengeance of Heaven. As the minfster of Heaven's wrath it may be our duty to send Phil Sheridan across the Rio Grande—as was intended at the close of our late war—to unfurl the Star Spangled Banner over the Halls of the Montezumas and make Mexico our own. Then all will be well. Mexico will have peace, rest and prosperity. Let Romero go home and wait for ‘‘the good time coming.” Z Probable Failure of a Big Job. For some reason, as mysterious as it is re- markable, the House of Representatives ap- peared in a most astonishingly virtuous charac- ter yesterday. After patriotically deciding that the government clerks should not obtain the increase of salaries which had been pre- viously voted them, the subject of the noto- rious land job treaty of the Lawrence and Gal- veston Railroad Company with the Great and Little Osage Indians was taken up. By this treaty, ae will be remembered, the Indians agreed to cede eight millions of acres of land to the company for the very extraordinary price of nineteen cents per acre. Mr. Clarke, of Kansas, introduced a resolution setting forth the injustice of the treaty, declaring that ite terms “‘are not within treaty making power,” and ‘‘therefore this House does hereby solemnly condemn the same, and does also earnestly but respectfully express the hope and expectation that the Senate will not ratify the said pretended treaty.” After a brief debate, in which all of the speakers denounced the measure as a “‘gigantic swindle,” the reso~ lution was agreed to without a division, We do not suppose, after this action of the House, that the Senate will ratify the job; so it may be regarded as having failed. Hesry A. Wise on rae Srrvatioy.—Our | Richmond correspondent sends us 4 report of | a talk with Henry A, Wise. It appears that | Mr. Wise is in favor of neithor of the candidates named for the democratic nomination, includ- ing Judge Chase. Probably Mr. Wise is in favor of Henry A. Wise, the old Virginia bat- was too wuch for thom, They gaw ip and! te axe ' Terrible Catastrophe On the Bowery. We publish in another column a full account of the terrible catastrophe which took place oa the Bowery at about fifteen minutes before ten o'clock last night. Anything of a more dis- tressing nature has seldom happened in this city. Engine No. 9, of the Metropolitan Fire Department, while standing in front of the old Bowery theatre building, suddenly exploded, the fragments of iron, as they sped through the air, carrying death and wounds to persons and inflicting damage of a more or less serious character tothe adjacent buildings. As far as ascertained four men were killed outright and a fifth unfortunate died soon afterwards. In addi- tion twenty-one beings, moat of them boys, were wounded, several of them, it is feared, fatally. The cause or origin of this frightful accident is not fully known at the time of writing. It is stated, however, that the explosion resulted from a lack of water in the boiler. Whether this statement be true or not will .have to be decided by legal investigation. It is sufficient at the present to know that the accident was a most fatal‘one, At the hour in which it took place the Bowery is generally crowded with pedestrians, and around the theatre doors par- ticularly large groups of men and boys are accustomed to congregate until the close of the performance within. Under these circum- stances the only wonder is that the casualties were not greater, that no more unfortunate beings were ushered into the presence of their Maker without a moment's warning, and that no more bodies and limbs were torn and man- gled by the flying missiles of destruction. This is the first catastrophe of the kind that has occurred to the steam fire engines since their introduction into use in this city. Deeply as it is to be deplored, we trust that the inves- tigation will prove it to have been unavoidable, The immunity we have had from such distress- ing occurrences in the past, and the familiarity of men with danger of all kinds frequently induces a feeling of security not at all com- menayrate with the risks run; but, we repeat, itis to be hoped that all due precautions against an explosion were taken in this case. John Bright on North Mr. John Bright appeared on the extra-par- liamentary stage of English politics thirty years ago as a latitudinarian Quaker, his broadbrim covering a head filled with odds and ends of democracy, the footings up of State tax bills, ideas of leagues, agitating “tours,” free trade bazaars and second hand popular arguments about universal liberty, the equalization of commerce and a world-wide peace. He was accepted as a sort of political curiosity—a Quaker in the ‘‘ring’—at the beginning. Since that time he has managed, by a skilful combination of his material with opportune expositions of the result, to become a pretty prominent leader of the Manchester reform school, and hopes, evidently, to regis- ter his name on the roll of English statesmen. He is entirely unsuited for such, distinction, and consequently will not succeed, his plati- tudes and contradictions in Parliament being too patent to the English people, who remem- ber that in 1843, in his very maiden effort, he voted for the extension of the free trade prin- ciple, and in the very same month voted against the Slave Trade Suppression bill, on the ground that its enactment would ‘‘seri- ously injure” the commerce of the West Coast of Africa. The voters of England are, however, the best judges of the exact value of Mr. Bright's public record at home. When he comes to deal with politics or a policy of North Ameri- can application he is completely at fault, and flounders about as strangely as would a Quaker, who, when attending a New York May meeting, would take into his head to ‘‘show off” in the Bowery with a ballet girl of the “Black Crook” troupe, or to wager with Hon. John Morrissey that he could draw the “first claret” in the prize ring, or would ride the winning horse at the Jerome Park Derby. Mr. Bright does not com- prehend the principle of the Canadian confeder- ation, The union has been voted by the provin- cial representatives, sanctioned by the imperial Parliament and proclaimed by the Queen. Nova Scotia cannot secede from or repeal it. There is no commission of inquiry as to its working needed. The complaint of the thir- teen colonies was the imposition of government taxes without Parliamentary representation ; but that injustice does not apply in the case of Nova Scotia in the New Dominion. There may be financial inequalities in the appor- tionment of the public taxes, but they can be remedied by action of the Parliament in Ottawa. From that legislative assemblage the members from Nova Scotia have no more right to absent themselves than had the members from South Carolina from the Congress of the United States before the Jeff Davis rebellion. By doing so they are ina state of quasi rebel- lion, and Parliament cannot listen te them. Jobn Bright's milk and water Quakerism in the House of Commons will not serve the Nova Sco- tians. The people of the United States do not need to foster secession in British North America with a view of obtaining a fractional part of the territory when they know that at the proper moment they can have the whole, with all the ‘‘modern se SAvINe aT THR Tar, —By the very small majority of four the House of Representa- tives yesterday reconsidered the vote by which the joint resolution was passed giving twenty per cent additional compensa- tlon to the department employcs at the capital, and, on motion, laid the resolution on the table. As this saves to the government be- tween one and two millions per annum, and as this also is the first occasion that we can remember on which our present Congress has been attacked with a fit of economy, we must congratulate the country on the result of the vote, Considering with what sublime disre- gard of the taxpayers’ feelings leakages have been permitted at the bung, we trust that this latter day caution and saving at the tap will | | | American Secession, not materially injure the health or trouble the consciences of our Representatives. Suerman, Napizr, Napo.son.—Sherman advanced from Chattanooga to Savannah and put an end to the war. Napier advanced from Massowa to Magdala and liberated the cap- tives. Napoleon advanced from the sea to Mexico and then retired, very much like a cer- tain well known French general, who valiantly marched up the hill and then valiantly marched | down acajpe The Fenian Demonstration Against the New Dominion. An Irish Homer, from Cork, claims in a brief modern epic that the sons of the Green Isle are and have been, from a date in com- parison with which the first settlement of China appears as av occurrence of yesterday, famed for “‘fightin’, an’ whiskey, an’ murtber an’ love,” closing with the fine poetic moral that this heroic, elegant and unique combination in the national characteristic has borne the race triumphantly over the most disheartening diffi- culties and will sustain it to a worldwide glory. General O'Neil, Commander-in-Chief of the Fenian hosts on this side the Atlantic, when planning his campaign against the New Dominion of Canada paid great attention to the bardic idea—as have all the warriors of Treland, from the first soldiers who streamed from the sides of the Caucasus down to Brian Boroimhe and his successors— and seems to have elaborated it into a new and effective system of operation for the conquest of the confederated British pro- vinces. Attending carefully to heathen mytho- logy and Bible facts, the General sounded a grand Irish ‘‘croomaboo,” which collected Fenian worshippers of Mars, Bacchus,Cain and Venus from all quarters of the United States to the banks of Lake Erie and Niagara river, noar Buffalo, where he organized a monster picnic, including in the programme of amusements singing, dancing, drinking, the shillelah exercise and wilitary drill. The effect has been quite amazing. The astonished Canadians were at once seized with a univer- sal quake, and have been kept ever since in a shaky and excited condition. The Queen's troops have been mustered, the confederate volunteers have been called out, reinforcements of regulars have arrived from England, gunboats are steaming around the lake fringes, and we hear of squadrons ‘‘quickly forming in the ranks of war” at all points, yet their commanders seem completely nonplussed. Lord Monck, himself an Irishman, has been taken quite aback, and British officers bearing Crimean decorations are utterly ignorant in face of O'Neil’s strategy. Had it been anything like a Napoleonic centre-dash, a Russian sortie or the flanking tactic of Grant, they would comprehend it and know how to meet it with hope; but the Fenian picnic system has paralyzed them, and may eventually bring the territory of the Dominion under the flag of the United States without blood- shed. Indeed, this result is more than likely; for we learn that O'Neil is about to extend his lines and complete a chain of Fe- nian fairs and picnics along the border, operating aH the time on United States soil. If the Buffalo fair alarmed the Canadians so seriously it may be fairly pre- sumed that a connected series of Irish picnics, extending several hundreds of miles and con- ducted in the same style, will be decisive in favor of O'Neil and Ireland. The General can scarcely fail. His army material in the United States numbers five hundred thousand ‘Fenian men.” One-half of these are married and have five children each, while the unmarried half have each six sweet- hearts. This gives an aggregate of three mil- lions and a quarter of the Latin race, all inte- rested in the O'Neil picnic and war movement and anxious for the humiliation of England and the enlargement of our free American territory. The Fenians enjoy a splendid base of movement and supply. ‘‘By platoons on the left,” and they shake Canada to its centre. “By sections to the right,” and the vast line of citizen voters is met by leading men from the different political parties in the United States, each more generous than the other in the proffer to “do something for them.” O'Neil will thus maintain his troops in splendid condition to the time of the Presiden- tial election next November, at which time the Dominion people will be sufficiently exhausted, if not captured previously, to per- mit him to grant extensive furloughs to his force—the ladies availing themselves of the opportunity of going home to “‘settle up the house” a little. In the meantime, General O'Neil has no one to fear except General Grant. Should the Irish General do anything outside his picnic plan or seek to embroil the United States with Great Britain or Exeter Hall, Grant must come out against him; for the Robespierre- Butler radicals are not forgetful of England's sympathy with their early political struggle. General O'Neil is no doubt very prudent, and will not, therefore, seek to bring Grant to his Fenian picaic, unless it be as an invited guest. Railway Litigation—Heavy Verdict. Within the past yearan immense number of gigantic railway litigations have, by the ras- cality or mismanagement of directors, been brought before the courts in almost every sec- tion of the country, embarrassing the commer- cial interests of the nation and in many cases ruining honest stockholders. These suits are frequently brought by stockholders themselves, it is true, but they are generally commenced to prevent the executive officers from carrying out individual schemes and for the protection of the stockholders’ interests in opposition to the cliques of managers. Of course, if a sult is brought by a party against these ‘‘rings” the whole resources of the company are drawn upon to defeat the action and result ruinously to the non-stockjobbing and bona fide invest- menta. Yesterday one of the heaviest judg- ments ever recovered in this country, amount- ing to upwards of four million six hundred thousand dollars, was entered in the Supreme Court against the Union Pacific Railway Com- pany (Kansas branch). The judgment was recovered by Ross, Steele & Trowbridge, the construction contractors of the defendants’ line of road, as compensation for services performed and as damages for the subsequent breach of the contract, the officers of the road having driven the contractors off. Unfortunate stock- holders ! Tar Reoorp or Mr. Cuase.—In a letter in another column will be found an interesting résumé of Mr. Chase's political history. He was, as will be seen, a democrat from the time of his first activity until the opening of the issue from which the war grew—the issue that waa settled by the war—and thus the close of the war has removed the only thing that car- ried Mr. Chase and so many other earnest and eneraotio domgorata out of the ranks of the great party of the constitution. His action in the convention that nominated Martin Van Buren—of which he was chairman—indicates him as the leader who made national and gave its real power to the movement that, originat- ing in this State, initiated the revolution. Ia all his career he appears as a man whose rela- tion to party has always been held as secondary to his fidelity to great ideas. Pendleton and Vallandigham ‘Types of Western Politicians and Statesmen, Into the head of a man like Pendleton tho spirit of the age, the ideas, the progress, the vital movement, the things that give the time its peculiar character, cannot enter. He is a partisan ‘and adheres to the ideas that wore instilled by party association and were a party gospel; and though the party that lived on the ideas be dead and gone, though the issues from which the ideas received shape have passed away, he holds the ideas atill, and handles them and mumbles over them, and twaddles and twaddles with the iteration of fatuity—the very impersonation of the genius who brought a bit of broken stone from the Acropolis to witness for the greatness of Athens—the genius, power and poetry of Grecian life. Mr. Pendleton does not even understand that great agent of the social and political life of the time in which he lives, the press. In the letter we recently gave in regard to his opinions in view of his present promi- nence was well exhibited the timid awk- wardness of the man taken outside of his party rut. Our correspondent, acting on all the forms and amenities of intercourse, en- deavored to draw his opinions for publica- tion. He had no opinions. It was, more- over, revolting to him to speak through the press—that is to say, revolting to speak by the only means that can give him access to the whole mass of the American people, and the only means that can present his thoughts in circumstances in which the people can con- sider them with deliberate leisure. His opinion, however, came by dribbles through his friends, who were disposed to give them freely to the tenth cousin. And what were the opinions thus treasured? They are all summed up on one point—the five-twenties ; simply.a howl about the payment of the five- twenties. As to the great war and its prin- ciples and consequences, nothing; but much about the five-twenties. As to the national debt even, and its true character and the proper provisions, quite as little, save the part that stands in the five-twenties. He is simply the statesman of the five-twenties, who to any living issue on any point aside from his fossil democracy can return no answer but that financial howl. Vallandigham seems to be a man of more thought, a man more in sympathy with the time, and he discussed the situation freely and with acute suggestion. He is, perhaps, the true leader of the uncompromising school of peace politicians of whom Pendleton is ostea- sibly the representative, and if any of this school is to go in Chase's Cabinet it should be Vallandigham. Judge Chase and the Presideucy. We publish to-day a le‘tor from an Albany correspomlent, giving an account of a caucus of prominent democratic politicians convened for the purpose of considering the political sit- uation and interchanging opinions in regard to the Presidential nomination. Ex-Governor Seymour was the centre of the gathering, and freely gave his views. We give a verbatim report of his remarks so far as they concerned Chief Justice Chase. It seems that the Governor distinctly endorsed Chase as the democratis candidate, statingthat he and the party differed in no material point upon the living issues of the day. He said the Chief Justice stood right upon the record as to free trade and the tariff, and he agreed with the democrats on the gon- eral question of taxation; that he has always been in favor of universal amnesty and for rev storing to the South her constitutional righta, and that as to negro suffrage he ia willing to leave that question entirely to the States, where the democrats claim it belongs. This is Judge Chase's platform in a nutshell; but simple as it is the democratic organs dared not publish it in a report of the proceedings of the caucus when they had an opportunity todo so. The question is, therefore, definitely settled that ex-Governor Seymour is out flat-footed for Chase's nomination by the Democratic Conven- tion, and his suggestion that Pendleton give way for the prosent and await future honors is dictated in a manly and magnanimous apirit, It is folly for the partisan journals to attempt to. smother this great, necessary and patriotic Chase movement. It is bound to go on. It is fully time that something like states- manship should distinguish the Presidential office, and the people are beginning to realize that Judge Chase is just the man for tho time and the occasion. Reverpy JonNsoN oN Breeortes AND Breaonss.—Some radical journals are in great distress as to what Reverdy Johnson will wear in England, particularly what sort of breeches. he will don for a royal reception. They should not rack their brains in these conjectures, Johnson is sent to settle all our little difficulties with John Bull and will do it, whether the dix- cussion turn more sharply on the breeches to be worn at Buckingham Palace or the breaches to be closed up by the payment of the Alabama claims. “TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ‘TEMS. ‘The steamer Laura, seized at St. Louts some “time ago for carrying contraband spirits, has voong Ren demned and ordered to be soid by the Unwed District Court of Missouri. 4 The United States District Attorney of St. Lo uis has called the attention of the Attorney Genera. to the iicit distillation of whiskey tn Chicago ns oxten- sively carried on. Dr. Henry E. Peebles, & dentist of St. tLoute hes Pgh Dr. G. W. 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