The New York Herald Newspaper, June 28, 1872, Page 6

aaa ee: Eee a” 6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. a es All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hraap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing ana Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the Lowest rates. .. No, 180 Volume XXXVI... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Scuneipan: on, Tax Oxp House on tax Raine. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Too Muon ror Goop Natuxe—Uncie Tox’s Cacti, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Esoarep rnom Sino Sina. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth evenue.—Enocu ARDEN. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway. -Cmicaco Brronu ue Finx, Dowixg 708 Fing axp Arran Tox Fine. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Lith st. and Broadway.— Tus Far Ong wit tue Buonpe Wisc. a ag Or NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET, Settlement of the Indirect Claims Question by the Geneva Conference— ‘Who Triumphs and Who is Humili- ated? The Heratp announces this morning the final settlement of the vexed question of indi- rect claims and their withdrawal from the con- sideration of the Geneva Tribunal. The fact is stated in our special cable correspond- ence from Geneva, and confirmed by our special Washington despatches and by the report of the proceedings in the British Par- liament yesterday. Taken together the ac- counts show pretty clearly the manner in which this result has been reached. The arbi- trators, without having the question of the American claims for indirect damages brought directly before them, were yet so far officially made aware of their existence through their introduction into the American case and argu- ment, and through the protest filed by the English agent, as to regard it as not inconsistent with their duty to ex- press an opinion as to their admissibility. They agreed that such claims must be rejected, as not being contemplated by the Treaty of Washington, and this fact was made known to the agents of England and America. There- upon the American agent was instructed to withdraw the indirect claims, with the under- standing, however, that each of the arbitrators shall file a written opinion on the question of their admissibility. This opinion, we pre- sume, will be in reality extra-judicial, no actual verdict in relation to the claims hav- ing been reached and recorded in the Court. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—On, tax Jour. SAM SHARPLEY'S MINSTREL HALL, 885 Broadway.— Bam Suanrier’s MinsTRELs. LINA EDWIN’S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—Gzonaia ‘MInsTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Neoro Eccexrniciris, Bunuasgve, dc. Matinee at 2! CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganpen Insraumentan Concert. TERRACE GARDEN, S8th st., between 34 and Lexing- ton avs.—Summzr Eveninc Concerts. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Somnce anv Arr. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUN, No. 745 Broadway.—Art axp Scimnon. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, wun as, 1872. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Page. 1—Advertisements. R—Advertisements. 3—The Jubilee: Gala Day at the Coliseum After the Fete to Terpsichore—News from Wash- ington—The Corrupt Judges—Yachting—Ca- ble Telegrams from France, Spain, England ‘and Geneva—Peabody Education Fund. 4—8tokes: pee Testimony for the Prosecu- tion and Cross-Examination for the Defence; The Scene and Circumstances of the Shootin; Graphically Described; The Wife and Sister o! Fisk in Court; Scenes and Incidents in the Court—The McCarty Homicide—A Fresh Batch of Physicians. Se-Prospect Park Fair Grounds: Ten Thonsand Persons Witness the Great Trot; Goldsmith Maid the Winner; The Score tne Best Time Ever Made on Long Island—Political Intelll- | peed Colleges—The Second Avenue lomicide—Frightful Runaway Accident at Newburg—The Fourth of July—Robbed in a Concert Saloon—A Hoboken Den Demolished, 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “Settlement of the Indirect Claims Question by the Geneva Conference—Who Triumphs and Who is Humiliated?”—Amusement Announcements. G—Editorial (Continued from Sixth Page)—The Alabama Claims: Highly Important Proceed- ings and Momentous Decision of the Arbitra- tion Tribunal Yesterday; The Question in the English Parliament and in Washington—The ‘War in Mexico—Business Notices. 8—They Still Strike: The Movement Drags Its Slow Length Along—Colonel Roberts’ Cadet- ship: Spirited Contest fora Trip to the An- napolis Naval Academy; A ’Longshoreman’s Honest Son Carries Of the Prize—Street Cleaning—An nee | Lawyer—A Child Stolen—New York City News—Brooklyn Af- faira—Dreadful Doings of the Domestic Demon in Newark—The State Dental Association— Marriages and Deaths, 9—Financial and Commercial: The New Campaign in Erie; The Atlantic and Great Western Company's Ambition; A Firmer Speculation in Gold; Advance in the Rates for Bills on Europe—James McHenry: The Expedition After a Golden Fleece Which Landed From the Russia; The Erie Railway To Be Rescued from the Spoilers—The Cresskill (N. J.) Mur- der—A Woman's Encounter With a Ruiman. W0—The Virginia Democrats—Miscellaneous Politi- cal Matters—Cuba: Resignation of Captain General Valmaseda—Love and Murder—ship- ping Intelligence—Advertisements, M-—Intcresting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Municipal Affairs—Board of Audit—Military Noves—Ireland: The Duke of Edinburg’s Visit—The London Gun Club— More Young Burglars—Advertisements. W—Advertisements. Tuer Sranisn Govennsent, speaking in tho King’s namo by the ministerial pen of Sefior Zorrilla, President of the Council, outlines the project of a revised charter of liberty for the Spaniards on the peninsula and in the colonies. The Crown is to be defended, transmarine rebellion to oe crushed and ® broad, comprehensive system of popular reform inaugurated. In fact, Spain is prom- ised the benefits of a modern Magna Charta, of which wo sincerely hope her people may partake to the most complete extent and at an early day. Greetzy Barr ror Democratic GupGe xons.—The Philosopher of Chappaqua has written a letter to a friend in Connecticut in which he says he “has no possible claim to democratic support, and never ] hadany,”” but, If elected, he ‘would treat all who supported him alike, not asking whether they had been, in the past, republicans or democrats.” This will be good news for those democrats who think more of the loaves and fishes than they do of political consistency or principle. It will also serve the purpose of weakening the integrity of those men who are now holding office under the administration, but are only waiting to see which way the Baltimore cat | jumps and act accordingly. This Connecticut letter of Honest Horace may be used with effect during the campaign. Tae Great Jusuze Snow.—That grand advertising Boston humbug, the so-called Peace Jubilee, is like a man in a rapid de- cline—in danger of giving up the ghost at any hour. Itcan hardly be kept on its legs the allotted period even by the most skilful doctoring. We have kept our readers well informed of the progress and incidents of the great show from the beginning, and shall have @ faithfal record of its decline and fall. Among other articles from our regular and special correspondents we publish to-day in another part of the paper a scathing and critical analysis of the Jubilee, Our correspondent, “‘Musicus,’’ is one of the most distinguished musicians in the country, and knows well ‘what he writes about. We recommend Mr. Gilmore, the Bostonians and the “Boston press gang, who have been furiously puffing the big show, to read the communication of “Musi- cus.”’ It may not be gratifying to them, and may not help their digestion, but they can get some useful ideas from it, Our special Geneva despatch says, on this point, it becomes certain that with the written opinion of the five arbitrators on record there would bea formal and positive verdict against the United States, ruling out by adjudication that part of the American case to the very pres- entation of which England objected. But it is evident that the English representatives do not regard the opinions of the arbitrators in the light of on official act, far leas of a judgment of the Geneva Tribunal, but only as a part of those arguments by which the American government has become con- vinced of the untenable nature of the indirect claims and has been induced to withdraw them from the consideration of the tribunal. Our special despatch, indeed, says that the Court has only stated ‘in effect.’ that claims of the exact nature of those presented by the United States could not be admitted to competition as subject for damages between two nations, but intimates that both sides claim a victory. While the United States assert that they have brought the question of indirect claims before the Court and received a judgment upon them, England insists that she has gained the point of having them ruled out or withdrawn from before the tribunal. The debate in the British Parliament yes- terday leaves no doubt of the interpretation put upon this settlement of the controversy by the English government and the English peo- ple. The announcement of the Ministers, both in the Lords and Commons, took the character of an announcement of a victory for the British arms. Lord Granville gave a his- tory of the proceedings before the Geneva Court since its assembling on the 16th of June, concise, pointed and altogether creditable to the English side. The American agent had on that day presented the argument on which his govern- ment relied. The English agent had pre- sented no argument, but asked for an adjourn- ment of eight months. At the meeting on the 19th inst. the arbitrators had made a state- ment in relation to the issue between the two governments, ‘‘carefully guard- ing themselves,’’ the purport of which statement was that after a careful perusal of all that had been said touching in- direct claims ‘by the representatives of the United States’’"—we may presume that the English representatives refrained from men- tioning indirect claims at all—the arbitrators had individually and collectively concluded that such claims do not constitute, upon prin- ciples of international law, a good foundation for awards of damages between nations, but should be wholly excluded from consideration, and would have been even if no disagreement had arisen as to the competency of the tribunal to decide thereon. The American agent had asked for an adjournment for the purpose of communicating these facts to his govern- ment, and upon the reassembling of the Court had informed the arbitra- tors that “the United States would not further insist on the indirect claims before the tribunal, and that they might be excluded from all consideration.’’ On the ratification of this withdrawal of the American case, so far as the indirect claims are concerned, the English agent withdrew his demand for a protracted adjourn- ment and filed his argument. In the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone further declared, in answer to a question by Mr. Disraeli, that it was agreed by both governments that the Treaty of Washington was an effectual bar wanteat the Teyival of the Ameriogy indirect claims at any time or under any circumstances. The several statements were received with demonstrations of satisfaction, and the manner in which Peers and Commoners shouted them- selves hoarse evinced that the English regard the result as a national triumph. What is the true position of the case so far as our own nation is concerned? If the sub- ject of indirect claims—that is, the question of the liability of a neutral to be called upon to pay indirect damages, such as were set forth | in the American case in the event of a failure to properly observe neutral obligations— could have been brought directly to issue before the Geneva Oourt and settled by o formal judgment adversely to our present claims, the result would have been satisfactory to us in every point of view. We did not desire an exorbitant money award against England, but we did desire a verdict that would have settled for the future, as be- tween ourselves and England, the limit of our responsibility as a neutral Power. But although we learn from Lord Granville that the arbitrators, ‘individually and collectively concluded that such claims do not constitute, upon principles of international law, 9 good foundation for awards of damages between nations,” and are told that they fur. ther declared that they should have so held “even if no disagreement had arisen as to the confpetency of the tribunal to decide thereon,” we are yet left in doubt whether this is not a mere extra- | judicial opinion, and of no more weight or | authority than would be the sentiments of the same number of respectable and intelligent gentlemen having no connection whatever with the Geneva Court of Arbitration. All the intelligence we receive indicates that this is the true interpretation of this settlement. It would seem that the arbitra- tors, as so many private individuals, have in- formed both sides to the controversy that they did not regard indirect damages as admissible in such cases as that before them, and that, should they have come up for adjudication in the Court, they should have so judicially de- cided. The American government has there- upon abandoned the claims instead of insisting upon their submission and adjudication, and the proviso that each arbitrator shall write out his opinion on the point amounts to noth- ing, and does fot in the slightest degree change the character of the settlement. In plain language, it appears to be a backdown on the part of our government. The indirect claims have not been officially before the Court; they have not been judicially acted upon; they have been withdrawn from our case before the Eng- lish argument was presented, and hence before issue was fairly joined. From the best judgment we can form from our present information this backdown has been voluntary, and not rendered necessary by a judgment of the Court. When the arbi- trators volunteered their opinion as to the inadmissibility of the class of claims known as indirect claims we might have replied, ‘Very well, gentlemen, they are in our case; when they come up for adjudication you can so decide.’’ Our action would then have been consistent with our words, and we should have secured such a judicial decision as we thave pretended to desire. As it is, Englond’s triumph is unques- tionable. Indirect claims are withdrawn; they have been abandoned before England would consent to plead in the case; notan allusion to them will appear on the records of the trial under the Washington Treaty. All that Lord Granville has from the first contended for has been conceded, and all that Secretary Fish has 8o persistently declared should be maintained has been abandoned. We are in a worse position to-day than we should have been in if the original supplemental article dictated by Lord Granville had been unconditionally ac- cepted. From that, in return for our national humiliation we should have secured a substan- tial advantage by the definition of the limit of a neutral’s liability in the treaty. We have now yielded everything and received nothing in return. It is unfortunate that for several days past we have been persistently assured from official sources in Washington that in- direct damages were still in our case and would never be withdrawn; that the govern- ment was resolved to stand as firm as a rock against the English demands, and that imperative instructions had been sent to our agent at Geneva to insist upon a full con- sideration and a judicial decision upon our full claims. The people will be disposed to ask whether these boastful announcements have been designed ‘to head off the general indignation likely to be felt when it should be known that we had finally yielded to the arrogant demands of England and humiliated ourselves before the world. For this, we fear, will prove to be the position into which we have been drawn by this unfortunate con- troversy and its more unfortunate ending. At the same time we have no doubt that a general feeling of satisfaction will prevail at the termination of a difficulty that had got to be a scandal and a re- proach upon both nations. The settle- ment of the direct claims will now proceed without further obstruction, provided the arbitrators should find that England is responsible at all under the strict rules regulating a neutral’s obligations by which the two countries are now respec- tively bound. The fishery question and the San Juan boundary will also be disposed of, and as the American people never cared for indirect damages, and never, indeed, wholly approved of their advancement in our case, we may conclude that the obligations of the treaty will be henceforth cheer- fully and hopefully observed, so far as America is concerned. However much we may condemn the blunders of the administration in the conduct of the negotia- tions, there will probably be a universal thank- fulness that the matter is settled, and this may do much to reconcile us to our national de- feat. The Fisk Murder Trial. Public excitement ran high and wild on the days following the bloody event which ended for one human being ina quiet grave among the Vermont hills—a quiet so unlike the phantasmagoria hurry of his life. Now, however, as another human being stands face to face with a Court and jury to answer, mayhap with his life, for what part he took in the deed, a strained, nervous feeling, more subdued, but very deep, is ob- servable among the people. A crowded court through the hot, sultry day was one evidence, and the unusual solemnity which actors and audience wore when Edward 8. Stokes was placed at the bar told how out of the ordinary run of homicide trials was the case thenon. It may be wondered why this was so. Men are slain with jealousy, despair, revenge and hatred as concomitants of the crime often enough, and the trials of the accused pass off with scarcely a ripple of comment. But society chooses its excitements, and, no matter what the object, will have its ghastly meal of curiosity. In the death of Fisk it lost one of its mainstays of sensation, and it pays the tribute to his memory of making a sensation morsel of his murder and its belongings. Yesterday the taking of evidence commenced, and from the story of Mr. Hill, who saw the man ‘wave his hand” to that of the hall boy Hart, who saw the wretched deed done, it formed a narrative that will require equally strong evidence to rebut. The evi- dence of the man who saw Stokes pass the Erie office in his coupé does not bear as yet with particular force on the deed, and unless it finds connection with other pointe of evidence hereafter cannot be of any great weight. From the demeanor of counsel it is evident that long battle of as- tute legalities is in prospect, and the eight days already consumed in tho trial will add many more to their number, The widow of James Fisk, Jr., was in Court yesterday, ac- companied by his sister, and formed one of the may not be considered indelicate to say that even heartfelt sobs and sorrow are not evi- dence, although they may adventitiously ap- Pealtoa jury, The November Contest—The Charter Election and the Candidates gor Mayor. The failure of the Reform Legislature, as the Senate and Assembly of 1872 are funnily enough denominated, to make any change in our much-abused Tammany city charter, brings the municipal election upon us in No- vember next under the existing laws, simul- taneously with the Presidential and State eleo- tions. As the national canvass promises to be spirited and exciting, especially in this city, where one of the nominees for the Presidency resides, and where the most valuable patronage of the other is located, we are likely to have an unprecedentedly large vote, reaching prob- ably nearly one hundred and forty thousand. If there should be any great popular concen- tration on either of the principal candidates it would be likely to carry with it the whole ticket on the same side—State, Congressional, legislative and municipal; but if the people should be indifferent or pretty equally divided on the Presidential question, then the impor- tance of our municipal offices will attract the attention of our citizens, and the general in- terest will be transferred to the local nomina- tions. A year ago the political champions of reform pledged themselves to give us a charter election in the spring, so that our municipal affairs might be separated from the turmoil of & general election; but this promise shared the fate of a majority of political promises, and at the close of our legislative session we were left in precisely the same position we occupied when we listened to the voice of the charmer. The principal charter officer to be elected this year is the Mayor of the city. As the Mayor has the appointment of the several heads of departments as their terms fall in or as vacancies occur, it is important that the person selected for that position should be honest and competent. That is to say, that he should not be identified with any of the late municipal schemes of plunder and should thoroughly understand the interests of the city. Four candidates have been prominently men- tioned—Colonel Henry G. Stebbins, and John O. Kane, one of the Commissioners of Docks, and Senator James O'Brien and Charles E. Loew. We classify them thus, Stebbins and Kane on one side and O’Brien and Loew on the other, not because they represent different Political interests, byt because they are candi- dates of separate and distinct types. Colonel Stebbins is well known as a citizen of position and high personal character. In his former and his present association with the Central Park Commission he has displayed a proper appre- ciation of the importance of a liberal encourage- ment of those great works of public improve- ment so essential to the proper development of the wealth and prosperity of the city. His refined taste and courteous manners would do honor to the position of the chief officer of the metropolis, and the commercial and financial circles would feel that their interests would be safe in his hands. Mr. John C. Kane is also a representative of the wealth, intelligence and commerce of the city, possessing easy fortune and unexceptionable personal character. As a Commissioner of Docks under the city government he shares the high reputa- tion won by that department for enter- prise, integrity and liberal appreciation of the fpture, destiny of the metropolis. Senator James O’Brien is an _ active, energetic and untiring worker and a natural executive ‘éfticer. Probably no man jn New York is more intimately acquainted with thé machinery of the city government or so com- petent to detect any faults or misconduct in its management. He was the pioneer and general-in-chief of the reform movement of last year; he originated the exposure of the municipal plunderers and won the victory by which they were finally overthrown. For three years prior to the elec- tion preceding the political whirlwind he held the important and responsible office of Sheriff of New York, and it is significant that during the whole of the Tammany fight, when his ene- mies held in their hands the records of his official term, nota charge was made against his integrity or competency. In the State Senate he stood almost alone in his fidelity to the reform movement. On the first working day of the session he opened the war against the old Erie Ring, and although abandoned by many of those who were, like himself, pledged to its overthrow, and only lukewarmly sup- ported by others, he fought it through to a suc- cessful issue. On all other reform ques- tions he was faithful among the faithless, and left behind him at the close of the session the best record of the Senatorial circle. Charles E. Loew is at present the County Clerk of New York. He has been an active, energetic worker as a Tammany politician, and, like Senator O’Brien, is well known among the Senator O'Brien's nomination would be pop- ular among the masses as well as among the reformers. He understands the political man- agement of the wards, and as a friend and as- sociate of the workingmen would rally them generally to his standard. He is a lion among the Irish, and is also, singularly enough, ex- ceedingly popular with the Germans, to whom he has always acted fairly as a politician. Last year he nominated General Sigel for Register, and told his Irish friends that he wanted no man’s vote who would not cast a ballot for the German as well, so that he would be supported by Irish and Germans alike. Charles E, Loew, or “Oharley Loew,” as he is familiarly called among the people, boasts a large Germai? influence, and bases his claims to the nomi- nation mainly upon this fact. He is the favorite of the Tammany leaders at the present time, and his qualifications for the position are ‘well spoken of by his friends. Colonel Stebbins would enlist the earnest friendship and the best efforts of the wealthy, intelligent and re- spectable classes, and would also be accept- able to the reformers. Mr. John ©. Kane is probably less known among the poli- ticians than any of the candidates, but may be the more available on that account. He has in him the sterling qualities that are certain to win respect and support, and would enter upon the contest with the positive strength derived from recognized po- sition in society and an unimpeachable public record. Either name would add strength to the party on whose ticket it might be placed. The other less im- touching side pictures in the aad history. It | portant offices to be filled are those of Su- Preme Court Judge, in place of Judge Car- dozo, resigned; District Attorney, Congress- men, members of Assembly, &c. So there is much local interest in the November election, as well as the excitement of a Presidential con- test, and no donbt an unusually large vote will be polled at this end of the State. _—_ The Trial of the Judges at Albany— Is It a Farce or What Is It? On the morning after our last November election the reform party of this “tight little island," looking towards Albany, lifted up their heads and hands in thanksgiving, and then proceeded to “‘splice the main brace,” for they were sure they saw in the northern horizon the dawn of the millennium. The people, rising in the majesty of their streryth, had spoken, corruption had been rebuked, the Tammany Ring had been dethroned, the spoilers and robbers of our city treasury would be delivered over to justice, the den of the forty thieves had been captured, and as for these criminals, the iron doors of Sing Sing, screeching for joy, would soon be tnrned upon them. Yes, the good time was coming when there would be an end of corruption, an end of high taxes, high rents, high prices and high crimes and misdemeanors, and the city of New York, glorious in her beauty and in her white robes and orange blossoms of reform, would shine like a bride at the altar. ‘Allah! mashallah!" God be praised. But this golden vision was an illusion, s mirage, a lake of the desert, a lake without water, a ghostly mockery from the burning sands. Our reform party have hung up their harps on the willows and are weeping by the waters of Babylon; our reform Legislature has come and gone and we are as we were. We have had a strange dream, in which we were carried safely by the castle of Giant Despair and through the valley and the shadow of Death and up the Delectable Mountains, to a view of the golden city; but it is all over. 'Twas bright, 'twas beautiful; but ’tis past. And so, the curtain having descended upon the dissolving scenes of the appointed spec- tacular drama, we look upon the trial of these judges by the Senate at Albany as a super- fluousfarce. We have had already ‘something too much of this,’’ and yet it still goes on, and we are pained to think that the Senate intends to ‘fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.’’ King David, in ono of his lamentations, says, ‘I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan.’’ And so we are for our brother Jonathan at Albany. It is dis- tressing to think of the Senate and the ac- cused, and the prosecution, and the counsel for the defence, and the witnesses, sitting from “Gay to” day, in these sweltering summer heats, upon the receivers, and the Gratzes, and the various orders in council, given from time to time, fished up and brought to the bar against these accused judges. The reflected and collected heat from the surrounding hills, factories and lum- ber yards of Albany makes it a fearfully. hot place in summer, and in this awful heat we don’t see how justice can be done. To those Senators from the rural districts, who are ac- customed to the fresh air of the green fields in June, it is cruelty to coop them up from day to day in the sweating drudgery and mummery of these judicial inquisitions. Our humane Mr. Bergh (may he live to grow fat, God bless him!) ought to look after these unfortunate men. Judge McCunn has thrown up his hand on the plea of no jurisdiction, and if this plea will not hold with the mercury among the nineties when will it hold? we should like to know. We are sorry that the State constitution PAvs_ no attention to the thermometer, It |-papAp gf provide that no | torted bi saying it was Baldwin Garry, and the ae tn should be Stended ao legislative, judicial or any other work taxing the overheated brain shall be done when the thermometer is above ninety in the shade. Here isa great oversight, which began with the fathers of the constitution of the United States, the supreme law of the land; but the country was then nearly all woods, and the fathers did not feel the heat as we do now. They did not think of providing for the climatic changes that would come with the clearing away of the forests. They were inthe woods and did the best they could with the lights before them; but if they had known all then that we know now, on negro slavery, for in- stance, they would have done a great deal better. We know that it was in July when they considered, drew up, perfected and adopted our great Declaration of Independ- ence; but the hot season was appropriate to this undertaking, for hot work was before them, and that glorious old sun of July warmed them up to it, yon understand. We want no warming up, however, in such engagements as the trial of these judges; but here we want cool heads to secure cool justice. This is an important view of the subject, and it cannot be too deeply considered. For fear, however, that it may be called a side issue, we dismiss it, and return to the main question, the Senatorial investigations into the alleged misdoings of the accused judges, in view of their removal. Is this business bona fide or a farce? It may be bona fide, but it impresses us as a long drawn out and tedious farce. The Bar Association have made their charges against these judges and have laid them before the Governor ; the Governor, on reading them, has recommended a Senatorial inquiry, and the removal of the accused parties if found guilty; and so these trials are dragging their slow length along. But we have ceased to be interested in such cases ever since the great commotion, the terrible excitement and impo- tent conclusion of the famous impeachment trial of Andy Johnson. Tae Revouvtionists 1% Mexico have achieved another important victory, if the re- port communicated by our special despatch of the capture of Saltillo by the government troops be founded on fact. It is evident that ever since the victory of Monterey the, revolu- tionists have béen in the ascendancy in the Northwest. That.battle was the most decisive of the whole war, nob excepting the battle of La Bufa (neat Zacatecas), although the Juar- istas attempt to underrate the importance of the former. The capture of Saltillo, with the whole government garrison, J © disastrous blow to the Jnaristas. If gives the revolutionists the advantage of a for- tified town in the rear. General Cevallos, the commander of the Juarez troops, is already preparing to retreat from Camargo to Matamoros, where, according to our despatch, he intends to give battle to the combined revolutionists under Trevifio and affairs, even for Mexico. ‘The Fame of the Herald’s Explorere Homeric Struggles for His Birth- Place. In the interval which must elapse before the arrival of Stanley, the Hzratp explorer, with his full details gf the Livingstone expedition, the press of England and America are interest- ing themselves about his birthplace and other interesting information to help out a biogra- phy. As the gallant gentleman who has done such good service to civilization in the Heratp’s mame hopes to appear im the flesh among us once more, the resolving of these stupendous doubts might safely be deferred awhile. Ni a the first presumption was that he was Ameri~ can. He was born within bowshot of Bunker Hill. His grandfather and granduncles “fit right through the Revolution,”’ and one of his relatives, disguised as an Indian, was con- cerned in the affair which turned Boston harbor into a good-sized teacup. Hence, it has been alleged, the success with which he gets on with colored people. His ancestry was traced back to Margaret Stanley, the Queen of Man. He was also born in Ohio, and his ancestors were linked with Cooper's Leatherstocking, and were the boon com- panions of Daniel Boone, he himself having studied wild craft under Kit Carson and Buffalo Bil. He also first saw the light of day in the Old North State, where they have called a county after his forefathers, and the credulous natives, like the Vandals that they are, have already carried off an entire log hut as relics of the Henratp explorer’s first explorations in life. The Kanucks put ina claim that one of his ancestors was under the leadership of Jacques Cartier in his second voyage up thé St. Law- rence over three hundred years ago, and, in proof of the family having remained in the miserable country, the name of -Stanley has been frequently noticed, they say, in the police records of the period for too successful trading with the habitants and their neighbors, the Indians. They could not afford to claim the glory of his nativity among them, but they should attempt to slur his fame with the national characteristics. Taking up this hint, the French papers boldly assert that the Canadians are in error; that Stanley is a cor- ruption of Stanislaus; that the last King of Poland of that name had several descendants who settled in France; that they were present at the demolition of the Bastile, and one of them held the plank on which Maillard was passed out to receive the surrender of De Launay. He wanted to be passed out himself on a pole, to show his racial extraction. This was denied him, and to show his adventurous spirit he ransacked every cabaret on the way to his home at Montmartre, until he became fearfully drunk on his booty; hence the term—soul comme un polonais. This was the grandfather of the Heratp’s hero. Ire- land puts in its claim, of course, as it did to « Garibaldi, though it detested him. It could not resist the temptation. When a Scotch j name was Garret Baldwin, itee- eS Tthief o' the world” was bord hear w° 700k of Cashel. This time they locate their “son OP the sod’’ in that part of the island known ag “the black North,” significant to begin with. He was a sheepstealer’s son near the Gianta’ Causeway, and his youthful hours, in the intervals of eating the neighbors’ mutton, were spent wondering where that marvellous causeway could lead to, and where were the giants that built it? «This early training of mind and liberal forti- fication of body fitted him to follow the giant Livingstone over the African causeway to the heathen: which the great explorer was build- ing.’’ Wales next puts in its claim, and although the Welshmen are self-respecting enough to omit any reference to the traditional Taffy, they take bolder ground than any of the rival claimants. The Carnarvon Herald, with com- placent effrontery (for a steady old paper), thus puts the case of Wales: — Mr. Stanley, the special representative of the New York HERALD, is a young Welshman, who was born thirty-two years ago in the town of. Denbigh. His mother is alive and well at the present time, and bea the penne house known as the “Cross Foxes,” St. Asaph. “Stanley” is not the real name of the eminent explorer, but John Thomas. He adopted the name of Stanley before embarkin upon this daring expedition, and, doubtless, he h: some mpacis reasons for doing 80. This youth was brought up in poverty and under the frown of unfa- vorable worldly circumstances, like the majority of the children of enterprise and genius, He emi- grated to America, where he became one of the re- porters of the NEW YORK HERALD, &c, He is, no doubt, also related to William Williams, Evan Evans, Jones ap Jones, Thomas Thomas and the rest of that branch of the Celtic family. We refrain from going any further with thia knotty question, but it shows how history re peats itself. Homer's ashes were scattered on the winds. The blind old Mmonides had been forgotten a while in the immortal glory of his song, as the gorgeous gold and blue and crim- son of,a sunset on the Aigean Sea might make a raptured dreamer forget the Sun himself in the brilliance of his afterglow. Yet a time came when the cities of Greece and Asia Minor and the Isles contended for the palm of his birthplace. But they spoke too late, and the name and fame of the deep- toned lyrist of the eternal Iliad and the Odys- sey surround like a nimbus to-day every inch of ground where the tongue of the Hellenes was spoken. ‘To-day we have the press to solve the present nativity problem, and from present appearances it will not remain sealed as hopelessly as Homer's. When the Odyssey of Stanley is written in the columns of the Henatp, its immor- ‘tality will be secured. He sung the Heraty’s Tliad long ago under the walls of with Theodorus of Abyssinia in the character of Hector. Thus the Henan con- fers its orders of genius as surely a8 any monarch ever did on belted knight for feats of arms, and more enduring than these, for they are embosomed in chronicles which dre the living reflect of the world as it moves, to be consulted in after ages 4