The New York Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1872, Page 6

6 EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Youre Hmpay. Rejected communications will not be re- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. JAMES THEATRE, Twenty-cighth sirect and \way.—MacEvoy's New Hiseusicon. BOWERY THEATRE, BOWERY.—Seagcuinc THE Durras—Soron Suixax. Matinee at 2. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Bauter Pan q@ourme or Homrry Dumrry. BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-thitd streot, corner Sixth av.—Browanp III, : | WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— “Lonvon AssuRaxce. ‘ THEATRE Semges, 514 Broadway’ —Comie Vocat- “seus, Nuceo Acts, & ST. Broad t ——_ UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- ‘way.—Tux Vorxs Famtty. LINA BDWINS THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Tue Power :or Love. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. and 23d st.— Latta Rooxa, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Between Prince and Houston ste.—Brace Faipay, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 30th st.—Per- formances atternoon and evening.—Lx10n. ' FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-Fourth street— Arricie 47. MRS. F. B. CONWAYS' BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Twixt Axx axp Cxown. 1,,PARK THEATRE, opposite Clty Hall, Brooklyn.— ‘Pour. ® TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— oxo Eocenraicirizs, Burumsqvrs, &c. SAN FRANCISCO HALL, 585 Broad way.—Vanterr Prr- ‘wonmanoxs. Matinee at %4. PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway; near Fourth st.—Granp Coxcent. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bounce AND Aur. ET. “ew York, Thursday, May 2, 1872, CONTENTS OF T0-DAY’S HERALD. | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1872.—TRIP The Administration and the New De- parture—Shall We. ‘Threaten Spain to Cover Oar Surrender to Bug- landi—The Alabame Olaims. This is by no moana weloome news from Washington and London! We see more and more every day the misfortune of our foreign diplomacy. These misfortanes are deepened by the fact that at a time when tho friends of President Grant wish everything to go woll we are burdened by the manifest incapacity of the administration to deal with gravo and vital questions of international interest. Instead of going before the peoy4e with pride and rsolu- tion, confident that the country would approve the measures of the President to their fullest extent, we see a tendency to intrigue and menace; for the situation shows nothing but intrigue and menace. Driven into an un- fortunate position by the incapacity of the Secretary of State, the President, by a series of expedient, seeks to esoape from his misfor- tunes by conceding to England, under a men- ace, what should either have been withheld at the outset, or, if presented at all, urged upon the British Ministry with all the zeal and resolution of our government. ‘The fact that the administration has in somo way drifted into this position is shown by the metaphysical despatches communicated to our correspondents in Washington. No position is more annoying to a government than a posi- tion which its Ministers are caHed upon to de- fend. We are in the position of the British government under the Ministry of Lord Aberdeen, before the war with Russia in 1854. Instead of resolutely grasping the cir- cumstances of the case, and holding England to an exact accountability for her course towards the country during the rebellion, we have “drifted.’’ This was what was said, and properly said, of Lord Aberdeen. His Ministry was one of peace. He shrank from war with a | sensitiveness which Sir Henry Holland in | his recently published book partly explains when he says that the bodily condition of his Lordship was such that he could take nothing but the gloomiest condition of affairs. And so meaning peace, and straining the re- sources of diplomacy and statesmanship to | maintain peace, he ‘‘drifted’”’ into war. And as if to add to the parallel, and give force to the criticism that we are com- pelled to make upon President Grant, the Page. 1—Advertisements. | 2—Advertisements. 3—Cincinnatl: Yesterday's Conventions; The Siam. | ese Twins; What the -‘Brains and Convictions” | People Did; Brief Speeches and Not Much Business; Schurz Mildly on the Rampage; Re- | view of the Candidates; Organization to be | Completed To-day. 4—Chickasaw Jockey Club: Third Day of the | Spring Meeting; ‘The Favorites Again | Beaten—Louisiana State Fair—Trotting in | California—The National Game—The Trial of | Libbie Garrabrant—Methodist General Con- | ference—The Colored Methodists—The Vount | and Heiress: The Amherst Scandalmongers | Lose Their “Sensatio! Municipal Affairs—- | i ew York City Newa— | he Perth Amboy Wat— Overcrowded Street Cars—The Ciergyman Blackmailing Case. | 5—Financial and Commercial: Gold Quiet; Stocks | Weak and Low; Money Less Easy; Pacific | Mail Down; Government Securities Weak— Domestic Markets—The New Domlnion: The Correspondence with Great Britain on the Abduetion of the Schooner Horton—Alleged False Representations—Our Fi treets— Moving Day—Brooklyn Moviality—Marriages and Deaths. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Administra- | tion and -the New Departure—Shall we | Threaten Spain to Cover Our Surrender to | England ?—The Alabama Claims''—Amusement Announcements. | T—Livingstone Safe—Racing in England—The | Atalantas—Cable Telegrams from England, France, Germany and Rome—The War in | Mexico—The Revolntion in Spain. from Washington—Miscellaneous Telegrapi—Busi- ness Notices, | &=Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn | Courts—The Alleged Van Saun Forgery— Melancholy Su *#—Alleged Homiclie—The | Importers and ¢ r8—Proceedings in the | Boards of Aldermen and Assistant Aidermen— | Advertisements. G—Advertisemonts. i} | drifting in these Alabama discussions. prominent member of the Aberdeen Cabinet, | which “drifted” into the war with Russia, was the same Mr. Gladstone, who is now Prime Minister. But the Minister has changed his policy. Noone can accuse Mr. Gladstone of Ac- cepting one condition of affairs from our gov- ernment, agreeing to a treaty which was thor- oughly comprehended by him, and to an ob- servance of which the Queen herself pledged her “royal word,”’ and welcoming the solution of the question asa desirable contribution to the peace of the two great English-speaking nations, Mr. Gladstone, as soon as he saw that his course was displeasing to the people of England, and fraught with danger to the con- tinuance of his power, repudiated the treaty, charged the United States with bad faith in the presentation of its case, and invoked the public opinion of England to sustain him and force us to consent to a modification of the treaty or a complete surrender. As we indicated in our despatches some days since, the purpose of the government is to settle the Alabama case by asking Eng- land to consent to the establishment of a rule of international law by which no neutral maritime nation can be held responsible for consequential damages arising from the unau- thorized depredations of escaped vessels upon 20—Cincinnati (Continued from Third Page)—Ver- } the commerce of the opposing Powers. We mont Republican State C ion—The State ' 4 Capital: Resignation of Judge Cardozo; Report , have seen nothing to change that information. of the Judiciary Committee—Stipping Intel- | gyoh a settlement will be made. And in mak- ligence—Advertisements. @1—Advertisements. | ing it we see nothing but a surrender to Eng- A2—Advertisements. | land. If the rulers of England, inspired by bit- Fare Ta axp Correr.—The bill abolish. | te? 824 openly avowed hostility to America and ing the duty on tea and coffee has passed both | » wish to see an end to the power of the great Houses of Congress, the amendment of the nation which threatened to become a greater ite making the act to take effect the Ist of | Britain, consorted with the Tebels and gave guly having been concurred in by the House | them encouragement, there is some way they ‘yesterday by alarge majority and without a | should atone for their action. The principle division. The President, we presume, will | is advanced that, having recorded an expression eign it. Though the reduction in the cost of | Of Tegret at the escape of the Alabama, the fea and coffee which must follow taking off | English, as a sovereign Power, could not be the duty will be acceptable to the whole com- | OTe Sheath BM eel Sus be aa ang time nation like England can with impunity, munity, for every family uses these articles, it ee ae igh oP will not go far to cheapen living. This is but | in contempt of municipal law and in violation ‘short step in the way of necessary revenue | of the laws of nations, make its peace with zeform. There are many duties and taxes that a . , con more heavily upon the people and the | phrase to the treaty, then she is in the pirates ndustry of the country that ought ¢o be | attitude of making war and pillaging when removed. As tea and coffee are foreign pro- | that can be done, — ve sy! Tas a tig ductions entirely, there was no protectionist end op the ‘same sat ae gusuce bya opposition to abolishing the duty. Indeed, | meaningless and easily expressed petition for the protectionists favored the bill, because a | 3 reduction in the revenue from these articles | We *ssent to the compromise advanced by the ‘would give them an argument for maintaining | American government. England wants this hhigh duties on others in order to raise a sufi. | munity. She cannot afford to permit the cient income for the government. Acceptable | Alabama case to become a precedent. So as the abolishment of these duties may be, | Jong as it 60 remains America, France, Spain, Congress inust not suppose the people will be | Of @ny nation with commerce and , coasts, Satisfied with such a modicum of revenue Vittually keeps England under bonds to keep geform. There ought to be a clean sweep of a | the peace. We had this position before the hundred millions of taxation at least. treaty was made; we retain it if the treaty dies. Weare no worse off than in the begin- ning ; for the Alabama Treaty is of no material advantage tous. In fact, it has been demon- Hionway Rovrery ox me Sinzrr Cans.— (The rowdies and thieves who make their Hppearance during the picnic season have Gairly inaugurated their summer campaign of | England holds to the position she assumed evil doing. On Monday night last a car on | during our rebellion we have her at an the Third avenue line was entered by a gang | immense advantage. of thieves shortly after its leaving the depot, All of this is lost. We surrendered our hold feel relieved that the Alabama cloud no longer darkens the two nations; but is there anything to welcome in it? Do we stand any botter for it? Have we earned from England anything but contempt? Does Eng- land not feel that what we concede now we concede ungraciously from some motive of fear or interest, and does she think any better of America for this surrender than she did a month since, when every journal and every public man was emphatic in bis denunciations of our bad faith? In brief, Mr. Gladstone has sacrificed the best fruits of the troaty and all the moral advantages of the alliance upon the altar of his ambition. And we consent to the sacrifice. And what do we do to escape from the igno- miny of the position? Beaten, humiliated, outgeneralled by England, we turn to Spain. The resolution which would have been noble and would have thrilled the country » month ago when applied to England, now appears weak and vindictive when applied to Spain. Spain isto be bullied beeatse we were afraid of England. General Sickles goes to Madrid with the most ferocious instructions in his pocket. Ho is to domand the immediate release of Dr. Hovard, and if he is not released he is to ask for his passports. ‘Well, considering that Dr. Houard will be réleased, thatan announcement to that effect was made some time since, that there need not be the slightest difficulty about it, all of this is pitiful. It is nothing more than an intrigue, a subterfuge, upon the part of the administration. We for one do not mean to see it except in this, its true, light. We regard the whole busi- ness as a blur upon the administration. General Grant may say with Macbeth, that without this he might have been as ‘‘broad and general as the casing air.’’ As it is, he goes to the country with a burden, a blot, a suspicion of intrigue, where there should have been frankness; subterfuge in the stead of courage. We do not mean to carry this burden, certainly without protest. We do not diminish our regard for General Grant, our conviction that in this as in other things ho has meant well. But we see in it nothing but matter for the severest criticism, for grief and pain and humiliation, and, all things considered, notwithstanding our contempt for the movement, a_ better reason for looking with hope and favor towards Cincinnati than any that has as yet been seen. Nor is there any way out but to simply ask Mr. Fish to relieve the President from the embarrasments his diplomacy has forced upon him, and to admit that he has lost the confidence of the country, by tendering his resignation. Then let us have some brave, accomplished, independent statesman in his place—a man like Elihu B. Washburne—who will have the sympathy and respect of the peopla, and who will be true to the President and the party and the country. Let us have this new departure speedily. There is more danger ahead than may be apparent to the President. Let him imitate his old-fashioned flank movements towards victory by sending Mr. Fish to England and pardon. We consent to this interpretation when | | strated that so long as it does not exist and | recalling Mr. Washburne from Paris. The Spanish Insurrection—Progress and Prospects of the Conflicting Causes. The news despatches from Europe under date of yesterday evening indicate that the Spanish insurrectionary movement against Amadeus has not been subdued. It appears, indeed, as if the cause of the invader, or of the rebellion, as we may call it, is maintained with considerable stubbornness of purpose at some points of the country. Marshal Serrano, generalissimo of the | royalist army in the field, hesitates in the exe- | cution of his plan of operations against the | Carlists in Navarre. He asks for rein- forcements, and requires that his corps shall be augmented to twenty-five thousand soldiers of the line before he undertakes the effacement of the cause of the pre- tender in that province. Judging at this distance from the scene of trouble, and making all due allowance for conflicting statements in the despatches, we are inclined to think that when a soldier of such known ability and of | such vast experience in his profession as the ex-Regent of Spain, Francisco Serrano, pauses in the execution of the application of the strict penalty of martial lew for the pun- ishment of an impudent ‘rising’ in arms against constituted governmental authority, he ae a ‘i | does so in the face of some rather potent | the nation injured by adding a commonplace | obstacle of opposition. | that a Carlist stronghold is to be stormed by | | the King's forces. A resort to regimental action by storm betokens firm resistance from | Then, again, we hear within. We also hear of revolutionist concentration, and of the appearance and disappearance of | guerilla bands of Carlists, and of Serrano in bivouack, and of imperial victory. English pressr eports speak of the occurrence of “minor engagements in which the Carlists have been successful."’ Native aristocratic aid is | evidently being afforded to Don Carlos’ party, and it is said that the ‘‘notabilites’’ of a cer- tain town have established a provisional gov- ernment in opposition to that of the executive in Madrid. Spainis being moved by many and diverse agencies—dynastic, industrial, religious and of class. These are of nativist origin and from foreign impulse. It will be difficult to allay the progress of their tendency towards governmental and national change. King Amadeus has an excellent army at his and when it reached Thirty-fourth street the | upon England in the belief that the Ministry | command. He enjoys good administrative ruffians conimenced an indiscriminate attack | would accept our case as presented in our own | @*Périence, with the aid of useful monarchical upon passengers and conductor. According to way. But this has not been done. The fhe report of the affair the passengers were | English Ministers acted with consummate skill. counsel from Rome, and will be able, most likely, to conduct the country of his adoption felieved of their watches and pocket books and , In the first place they escaped from the conse- | through its present political crisis—that is, the conductor was robbed of his small change. | quences of any retaliation upon the part of | always provided, if his foster brethren in ‘As usual there were no policemen within hail- America by passing a treaty which made Sing distance and the conductor had to go to | retaliation impossible. This was a great fhe nearest police station house and apply for | Victory. Having achieved it they next resolved Bn escort before the car could proceed. It , to break the force of any case that America Speaks volumes for the management of affairs | might present to the Geneva Convention. in the city when our street cars have | And we drift through the whole negoti- fo be guarded by an armed escort of police- | ation. We give England the imesti- Men to prevent their being stopped and those | mable advantage of Rravelling on them plundered. We were under ¥he impression that highway robbery in these Pays was only enjoyed in Spain, Italy and cess Bol a Hates is now dispelled by | streets of New York, 4 fact of the matter is that tinkering legisla- ion, so-called reform and political intrigue re carried on in this city to such an extent ceived when we captured Mason and Slidell. When indemnity is asked we surrender that. In other words, England has indemnity and immunity besides. She gains everything, we gain nothing, for our situation is no better ag than it was before we thought of a treaty. Well, fis dorian is fast beginning to make | we may consent to this, and admit that Mr. { t, and thieves and rowdies, taking | Gindstone, to save his Ministry, has treated Rdvantage of this state of things, prove what | America with contumely, and that the Eng- Uhey are capable of by this midnight attack and | lish have forced ua to tacitly admit that all Bobbery on one of our street cars, their imputations of chicanery are (rue, and | a treaty which is | of no value to us, without any indemnity, and | under a menace as decided as what we re- | Spain permit him to do so. Tae Crop or May Day Conventions.—Yes- terday was a remarkable day for conventions. They cropped out all over the country, the most extensive field, however, being that at Cincinnati. Among the number of State con- ventions we may enumerate the Vermont Re- publican Convention, the Tennessee Reunion and Reform Convention, the North Carolina Democratic State Convention and the Missis- sippi Republican State Convention. Properly conducted these conventions are very good things, and express the will of great bodies of the people in an eminent degree. But in the | hands of political wire-pullers and ‘unserupu- lous political tricksters they express but the views of such classes and do more harm than good. We hope the people, however, will reap the benefit of all of yesterday's gather- ings, and that the tares that may be garuerod will he foy. . The Triampn of Herald Enterprise— Dr. Livingstone with Mr. Stanicy at Zansiber. The glorious intelligence conveyed in our special despatch, which tells that the great African explorer, David Livingstone, has been rescued from African wilds by the Hznaup expedition, is something which places the civilized world under vast obligations to the en- terprise of the Naw Yorn Hzraup. Never in the history of journalism has so stupendous an undertaking been brought to #0 successful an issue. As an effort, even had it failed of ita object, it would have stood alone in the exploits of the independent press; but the triumphant note which oomes to us from Bombay, asserting positively that Dr. Living- stone had arrived at Zanzibar in charge of Mr. Stanley, commander of the Hxgaup expedi- tion, assures us that all this effort made on behalf of one of the heroes of the century was successful. It is a matter of especial pride to usalso that the enterprise of the HuratD awoke the English government and people to a sense of their neglect of Dr. Livingstone. When the Hzratp expedition started in. quest of the heroic old man, plunging into the wilds of Unyanyembe, the English uation, which had appropriated and devoured all the credit which this assiduous toiler in the cause of sci- entific knowledge had reaped under tho burning sun of Central Africa, stood by in apathy, leaving him to his fate. The first news of the Heratp expedition awoke them from this lethargyt, ond, after consider- able delay, an expedition was sent out under the auspices of the Royal Geographical So- ciety, receiving but stinted support from the English government. This expedition, too, was obliged to start without the certainty that it would have funds to proceed after reaching Zanzibar. On this point we have only to say that the Heratp did not give any further orders than to find Livingstone, at whatever cost. In September, 1871, we published the first letter from Mr. Stanley, in command of the Heratp forces, arrived at Zanzibar, detailing his progress thus far and giving certain indica- tions of the whereabouts of the great traveller, whom he had determined, under his instruc- tions, to bring back alive or dead. Along period of doubt and expectancy followed, broken only by the sad rumor of our correspondent’s death at his post. Knowing the fearful dangers of the climate under which he had to progress, we dared, at the time, only hope it would prove untrue. When the savagery of the native tribes among whom he was travelling and whose territories he traversed was taken into account, the fatal chances so outweighed the slim hopes that we could only calculate on the questionable sources through which the information came. We knew, however, that if the brave-hearted man in the service of the Hexnaxp had fallen in the wild, it was a part of the duty which the journalist owes to the civ- ilization he would lead. His remains should not have been left to whiten amid the African jungle while a second expedition could be formed to bring them home. We know, too, that with the spirit of dash and enterprise which everywhere characterizes the Hrratp staff, he would have died without other wish than that the search for the hero should not be abandoned. The despatch which informs us of the safety of Dr. Livingstone brings us | no more welcome news than the safety of our brave correspondent and his corps. It is now nearly seven years since Dr. Liv- | | ingstone left England, and six years since he | was heard from thirty miles up the Ru- | vuma River, on the East African const. Since that date he has been heard from at various intervals; now at Cazembe’s, then at Tanganyika, back again at Cazembe's, and off again by Tanganyika, on his way to Ujiji. In 1868 he was heard of at Lake Bangweolo, and then again at Ujiji. Letter after letter he had written never reached the coast at Zanzibar. Gradually his tracks, as those of a man in a snow storm, became effaced, and the native accounts which came to civilization were confused, vague and contradictory. It seemed as if a sad ending was about to mark the life of Livingstone. A patient, bold and persevering man with a large, active brain had spent the best years of a busy life among savages ina lost land, laying bare the myste- | ries locked in the dumb heart of barbarism, | and filling up by wearing toil and sac- rifice huge blanks on the map of a} continent. Yet when this great life scemed | | about to be quenched amid savage gloom not | a heart leaped in England, his country. It was as though a man who had lavished his years to amass a golden prize saw it melt away in a hideous dream. But the prize of knowledge which he had wrung from the | | wastes was above all stores of earthly wealth, | and we can picture the bold man with his faith wavering as he found him- self in the heart of a barbarous | continent, ‘helpless, without means and with | few followers.’ If he had known the full | measure of base forgetfulness which England | had poured out for him who knows but the | brave heart would have wholly failed? But the | | Heratp knew that such a man as Livingstone emancipates himself from race and country by | his efforts, as the result of his endeavors | | becomes the property of the whole civilized | world. The marvellous harvest which Living- | stone had garnered in his brain could not be left to rot among the wildernesses of Africa, with nothing but the death song of the dusky savage to tell of the man that had gone, It was a glorious opportunity to improve man- kind that was slipping from the world’s grasp, and in this juncture the Heratp came to the | rescue. Early in 1671 the Henatp corps started from Zanzibar, and in April of that year left | Bagamoyo. After reaching the basin of Thara its commander communicated with the Heratp | from Kivihiva. From this point he gave us the | gladdening information that the ‘old man with ; the long beard almost white’’ was still living. The danger to the Henatp explorer may | be gleaned from the fact that four of his men had been killed by the natives and he himself prostrated with fever. Yet with all these dangers and difficulties, sufficient to break the courage of a less determined man, we learn that the search was prosecuted to a success and the Hzraup rewarded in the fact that it has rescued a noble soul from a silence which would be worse than death. From the bare facts which have already reached us we can do no more than annnounce the safety of the two explorers. Doubtless the world, enriched by the wonderful adven- tures which bavo befallen Liyingstone in the | | flimsy, even if put forward by him in good | leave the matter worse than they found i | we learn that a courier had arrived from the | had reappeared and occupied Guadalajara | length along. ‘LE SHEET. past seven years, and benefited by his acquired knowledge. of the geography, peoples and climate of the. mysterious continent, will sufficiently thank the Hxnaxp for ita enter- prise, butwe take our own satisfaction in the great good achieved. The work of Bruce, Burton, Grant, Speke and Baker will now be supplemented by a more perfect knowledge of the heart of Africa. The story of the great inland lakes will be told, and the old secret of the Nile robbed of tho last swathing of fable and romance. These are great things for a newspaper to point to; but while there is work for humanity of this or bolder nature to be done the Hznaxp will ever be found ready to undertake it, and, we can assert confidently, find men of brain, nerve and courage to ac- complish it. The Impeachment of the Judges—Car- doto’s Resignation. For months past the public has been aware that an effort was on foot to arraign certain officers in the highest branch of the State Ju- diciary for alleged irregularities in the admin- istration of their offices. The Judiciary Com- mittee has held an investigation in this city, examined numerous witnesses and in their re- port. advise that the impeachment of these accused judges be proceeded with. Now, when a public official is. charged on grave grounds with dishonesty, it is a duty which society owes to itself to have the matter in- vestigated ; and, if a man is guiltless, the least he can do is to demand, challenge and further any and all scrutiny into his con- duct. When this remark is applied to the Bench it becomes intensified in all its aspects. The administration of justice has been in all ages of civilization looked on as something requiring not only learning, keenness, grasp and ability, but a severe honesty, without which all other qualifications were void. Without it the impartiality which decides without false bias and on the weight of evi- dence slone could never be relied on. The majesty of the law becomes a shrunken, shrivelled lie where 8 man approaches the law courts with a single shade of doubt on his mind that any interest, personal or private or other than that of strict justice, may help a decision on his case. History has execrated the name of George, Lord Jeffreys as an unjust judge ; and although his apologists have said that he “could be honest in judgment where he had no interest to be otherwise,” the very ability for which they praise him on such occasions makes the degradations of the ermine he brought about in the State trials only the more heinous. With a keen sense of shame would we be compelled to admit that judges in our courts have been guilty of the gross irregularities charged ; but since the accusations have been made on the responsibility of so respectable a body as the Bar Association it is a matter of necessity that the fullest inquiry be made. The form of trial laid down by the constitution is before the State Senate asa High Court of Impeachment. The Legislature cannot, in the premises, recede from its duty of taking up the cases on the Judiciary Committee's report, and nothing should be allowed to interfere with this right- ful course. The effort made by Judge Cardozo to resign his seat on the Supreme Court Bench we look on as singularly undignified. The reasons put forward in his letter of resignation aro faith, and will undoubtedly be regarded as an attempt to evade impeachment. We cannot, for instance, credit him with ignorance of the fact that the inquiry by the Judiciary Com- mittee was only preliminary to the impeachment which he refers to in the latter part of his letter. His statement, therefore, that the investigation has been closed, is a petitio principii unworthy of a man in his position. The various attempts made to introduce this resignation into the Assem- bly will give further color to a desire on the | part of his friends to shield him from inquiry. These efforts were properly frustrated, and we call upon the Secretary of State not to accept | it, but to allow the impeachment to proceed. The Judge himself would, indeed, do some- | thing to correct the feeling to which this ill- considered letter will give rise by withdrawing it and facing his accusers boldly in the Court | provided for the purpose. . It is believed that the impeachment of Judges Barnard and McCunn will follow, and we only say, if this be the case, that the entire State is | interested in seeing that they have a fair trial. | The assertion that impeachments are merely party malice is one to be expected under the circumstances, and should have no weight with men determined to do their duty fully and | friends they AMUSEMENTS. th ‘The Stadt Pheatre. The repetition tast night of Haldvy's opera, “La Juive,” at this house by the Fabbri company was well attended by the German part pf the com- munity. It 18 somewhat difficult for a now< Teutonic ear to fully uBderstand the cause of the enthusiasm which the audience from time to time displayed. With the remembrance of the Nilagon and Parepa-Rosa companies fresh in our minds, we can hardly be expected to feel en- thuslastic about the performance at the 3! There are two artists, however, who are gifted with good voices, Richard is a tenor of consid- erable power and Wiegand a respectable basso, but neither of them possess much hiatriontc ability. The chorus and the orchestra are almost as bad as they can be, so that the interest centers altogether in the efforts of the prin singers. The audience gave constant e' of very enthusiastic appreciation, but their verdict would scarcely be approved outside the reglon of the Bowery. ‘The revival of Richard Iil. at Booth’s Theatre tast evening was the occasion of a fine house and the assembling of a well-pleased audience. The mag- nificent scenery and appointments of the play were in accordance with the well known taste and ability of this theatre, and the performance was highiy satisfactory to all who love to sée the great bard well interpreted. ‘The Tower scene'in the first sot andthe street geone where Anne and the Duchesa meet the in the fourth, were hear plauted. The bat tle, Hoon, Was "serown wie, ple. ured corses, The strict. r C Magners and dress of che tine ‘whlch pong notable in the recent revival of Sutton Cesar, was not 80 TOU preserve awever. eo scene of thee Eresedon amber act fourth, where Richard quarrels with Bucking- ham, was most elaborately set, but k rather of the architecture of the Alhambra than of White- hall, and in the last act Richard, instead of wearii the traditional coat of mall, was dressed in @ sui somewhat partaking of the grotesque, while Rich- mond, dressed in a similar suit, wore also a patr of eavy high-legged boots. Mr. th’s rendition of chard is almost a new thing to the New Yor ublic. It is now about seven years since he 4 formed the part in this city, It was then at the Winter Garden, where the stage appointments were meagre and onal a3 compared with his present theatre. His rendition is evidently the result of liberal thought and study. He makes Richard @ highly enjoyable villain, a defiant mis- creant who, with a shape to frighten the dogs and a “ tongue ‘9 «6wheedle the devil,” has withal a h ice of humor in him. His swaggering imp becomes ‘a ae carriage, and is faithfully kept up through all he changes of his plottings, his love-making and his bat: Mr. Booth was called before the curtain three times. Mr. Waller — King Henry and Mr. Bangs Richmond, and of those igen tioraey showed marked improvement in their lelivery. The robustiousness that has heretofore characterized their performances was Capea toned down, and they observed, doubtless, the increased applause with which the audience rewarded this a Oren Miss Bella Pateman rendered the part of the Queen very pee tied Oh The rest of the jupport was unworthy so magnificent a revival, the best piece of acting in it being that of the young Duke of York, by Master Luke Foster, @ young gentleman of some seven summers. ‘The 4 was divided into six acts, and lasted until past eleven o'clock. 8 SONG BIRDS. THE FLIGHT OF Yesterday was a remarkable, if not an unpre eedented, day in the history of music in this country. Two steamers, the Schults and the Fletcher, the one charged to its utmost capacity with the friends of Parepa-Rosa and the other crowded with the admtrers of Nilsson, accompanted the Cunard steamship Cuba down the bay; and the Schultz parted company with the ocean steamship at Sandy Hook. On the Cuba were the becpoat bln artists and ingens i—Mme. rong are Csi Rosa, Lyall, Mile. Nilsson, Mr. and Aromey Cook, Charles Santiey, Lindsay Sloper, Henry 0. Jarrett, Max Maretzek and lady, Tim Karl, Mr. and Mrs. Castle and M. Taylor. The scene before the atart- ing of the steamer was very impressive and exhila- rating. The Schultz, commanded by Mr. Wm. had Grafulla’s band on board, with Herr as conduetor, and all the prominent artists im the city who were not on the paeacnaer, list of the Cuba congregated together to bid the stars of the opera an affectionate farewell. There were numerous handshakings and heartfelt adieux on the Cunarder, and when the noble steamship moved out in the bay the band of the Schultz Lat all the prominent national airs of America, ‘hen the Cuba, with full steam on, rushed by the waiting boat at Sand: Hook a cheer broke forth from the lips of the frien of the departing artists, and the last of these seen were Mme. Parepa-Rosa and Carl Rosa on the “bridge” and Jarrett and Martzek on the quarter- deck, Ls a last and lusty cheer back to the left behind. THE WEATHER. War DEPARTMENT, OFFIcR OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL oratean | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 2—1 A, M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The lowest barometer has moved northwardly from Lake Superior into Canada. Cloudy weather and rain are now prevailing over the South Atlan- tic, Middle and New England States; thence west- ward clear weather prevails very generally. Probabilities, Rising barometer, westerly to northerly winds and clear weather will prevail very generally by Thursday morning from the lakes to the Gulf coast and South and Middle Atlantic States and extend over the latter during the morning and over New England by or on Thursday evening. Dangerous winds are not anticipated, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, incom- arison with the corresponding day of last year, as Pidlcated by the arate at’ Mudnut's Phar- macy, HERALD Building :— 1871, 1872, 1871. 1872, 60 8P.M. 69 58 60 oP. M. 54 55 9PM 66 . 60 =12P. M. 66 Average temperature yesterday. Of Average temperature for corresponding ‘date last year.. The Senate Constitute a High Court of Impeachment to Try Governor Reed for High Crimes. fairly. It is part of their duty to see that the | Bench is pure, and they must remember that | giving weight to any political feeling in the | matter would only stultify the inquiry and | The Mexican Revolution. We print this morning important news from Mexico. By special telegram from Matamoros interior with despatches to the effect that Diaz vith a large force. The States of Guanajuato | and Morelia were in open insurrection. Rocha had abandoned Durango and was marching on Jalisco, Donato Guerra following in hot pur- suit. Durango had been reoccupied by Borego, | and immense supplies, with ammunition trains, | had been brought forward. The progress of | the army was slow. Still the siege guns had | been mounted on wagons, and the general ex- pectation was that the fire would be opened without further delay. When Trevifio was told of the black flag, he laughed and ex- claimed, ‘‘It is the flag of cowards!'’ Accord- ing to the latest report Tabasca had arrived at | Bagdad with three hundred men and two guns. | The revolutionists had not yet made an appear- ance, although it was known there was some | slight skirmishing with Cortina, Thus it is | that the Mexican revolution drags its weary | Mexico, like Cuba, seems doomed to self-destruction unless it is taken in hand by the United States. | Borcweny wv Francx.—Another Communist | has been executed in the camp at Satory. Genton, the unfortunate victim, had taken | part in the slaughter of the hostages. It was a bad crime; but surely we have heard enough | of the horrid plain of Satory. The executions | have been so numerous, so slowly and s0 | deliberately ropeated that the name of Satory has become an offence. M. Thiers would do woll to bring to a conclusion those executions, which are now defonting theix yuroogy | with « - FALLAMASSER, FLA., May 1, 1872. The Senate to-day resolved to proceed as a High Court of Impeachment for the tiral of Harrison Reed, on Thursday, 2d instant. Goyernor Day sent in a message, in which he stated thé amount of unpald tuxes for 1871 to be $271,724, and there was necc"*4t¥ Jor the current, expenses of the State, including t&tea * for 1872, about $360,000. To pay this there is outstandin, Tene yah gi5000, in State scrip. He therefore recommends the adop- tion of measures which will enable the people to pay Ad and also recommends the passage of a law declaring Comptroller's warr: 4 ble for taxes. x4 4 neues In the Assembly the resolution that the Board of Managers be urged to take immediate steps to | make preparation to proceed with the trial of Harrison Basd was defeated by 16 yeas to 17 nays. The case of W. D, Bloxhall, who Was elected Licu- tenant Governor in 1870 over Day, but was counted ph “hon be tried at the present term of the Supreme ourt, Bishop Pearce, convicted of bribery, and whose | seat was declared vacant, has been pardoned, "THE KU- KLUX Foarteen Prisoners Sentenced for Cone spiracy—The Effect of the Klan on the Cultivation of the Sol}. CHARLESTON, S. C., May 1, 1872, In the United States Court to-day the jury found Robert Riggins, of York county, “guilty of conspi- racy,” and not guilty of murder, Fourteen pris- oners who had pleaded guilty of conspiracy were sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from id 7 $y0dee tp and to pay Rates from theta , ze "Morrow Will be the last day of ‘The News, this morni the recent Ku Klux areata: Baye tnt te thee ro, county of Laurens alone five hundred ploughs by actual count lie Idle, and the cultivi thousand acres is lost, en ae SENATOR HARDENBURGH, Arrangements for the Faneral To-Day. Ronpovt, May 1, 1872. The funeral of Hon. Jacob Hardenburgh takes place in this city at two o'clock to-morrow Masonic honors, Gov loftm: Lieutenant Governor Beaon, sudges craven Church and Allen, and a’ large delegation froin the Senate and Assembly whit be nt. A meeting of the Kingston Bar was held iy, at which speeches were made by prominent law- hefe of this city, ewlogizing the deceased, and reso- lutions were adopted to the same effect ; ‘alvo to at- tend the funoral services in a body, There 18 general sorrow at the demise of the tat- a cE ey, excellent Cie? hav- fo him many dry Clonda among RR QO