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NEW Y( RK IIERALD
BROADWAY AN1> ANN STREET#
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
Tdim XXXLO No. 97
amlsements this eveninj.
BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.? Em alb Dntectiy*?
Blacksmith or Antwkhc.
BROADWAY THEATRE, Rro?dw?y?On American
Cousin at Uomb?Thk Victim.
french theatre?la rm.i.* hh.im
OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway Homptt Dcmpty.
NIBLO'8 GARDEN, Broadway Till Wuitx Fawn.
t WALLACE'S THEATRE, Broadway and ISth street?
OUTER TWIBT.
' GERMAN 8TADT THEATRE, 45 Broadway.-Dn
Wbombostz.
f MEW YORK CTRCl'S, Fourtci nth street.?Gtmnabtiob,
(BBUESTRIANIBII, Ac. Mat) nets at j
' THEATRE COMIQl'E, 514 Broadway.-bali.xt. Fabob,
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' KELLY A LEON'8 MINSTRELS. 720 Broadway.-SONGS,
EooXwtbioitixb, Ac oiami Dltoh "S."
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8AM FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 686 Hroadway.-ETHIOPIAK
EnTCBTAINMENTH, dancing, ac.
TOHY PASTOR'S OPERA IM "E, JJl Bowery.-COMIO
YOOALIBM, NEOBO MlNbTBLI. Ac.
BITTLER'S AMERTCAN T ii THE, 4T? Broadway.Ballxt,
Fabce, Fantoaii'h ,
HALL, 064 and 966 Broad wa> I'avnRAMA 0?thf.wab.
' MRS. F. B. CONWA 'S I" !.i '.1 WRR. Brooklyn.?
A Gentleman Fbom Im.i.tvi mjintab.
hoolev'S OPERA 11 o Br oklyn Ethiopian
MlNBTRELsnV?BUHl.thwi I c
COLLEGE HALL, BOO 1$ >:. v ; -TUB Pilgrim.
NEW YORK MVSEl M Ol ANATUM-., K13 Broadway
Suixnok and Art.
New York, Mom'.av, April (>, 3SOS.
NOTICE TO ADVSilTISEES.
Advertisers should bca: i ' inlnd that, In order
to insure the proper cla ' "ii of their business
announcements, all advert I :ents tor tusertlon In
the Herald should be leii ,.t tue counting room by
half-past eight o'clock I'. M.
THE 3ttf S3 W 3.
The news report by the Atlanta cable is dated joS
terd&y, April 6.
Mr. Disraeli held a meeting of Cabinet Ministers to
consider his future course in ia-o of the adverse vote
of the British House of Coin in him. It was thought
the Premier will resign If the (ilunstone party retains
its large majority after Easter,
i The steamship Hansa, nt this port, furnishes mail
advices from Europe to the 34. h of March. Thereupon
includes the complete text of Mr. Gladstone's
-resolutions on the Irish Church question, which we
Teprint, the cable report being imperfect. The London
Times of the 24th of March, speaking of the
'.Parliamentary consideration of the resolutions,
?ays:?"it may, perhaps, be safely said, after making
very allowance for the exaggeration we are all1
aprono to apply to the circumstances of our own
time, that no greater task Lou bt-en undertaken by
Parliament since the Bevola.< m of less, it is lm
mease."
MISCELLAlfE ) Ji
Our special telegrams o er i ,ie Cuba cable state
that great activity Is displayed in Die dockyards and
fortifications of Jamaica, and tit it the British
Admiralty, in anticipation of tro ibie arising out of
the Alabama claims, have been calling Untuc seamen
from the colonies to serve in iroti-olada. The vomlto
*s represented as being very severe iu same parts of
Porto Rico.
By tUb British steamer Danube netvs from Mexico
was received In Havana to April 1. Tito late smuggling
by this steamer creut d considerable excitement,
and a bill had been brought u fore Congress
preventing all British sub; :cts from exporting
specie till England makes art apo ogy. A fresh conspiracy
had been discovered. The attempts to
pacl/jr the troubles In Yucatan a I Slnaioa had met
with but Utile success. Ne.r to was about to levy a
forced loan of fco.oooon Tulaiirmgn.
Advices have been receive i in Paris from the Rio
de la Plata to the 8th alt., w,: .1 . that General
Xopea, the I resident of Pariruv, >s not in such a
desperate situation as the lira/Ulan accounts represent.
Only six witnesses have ns jot. been summoned by
the President's counsel in the Imp* ai iiinent case.
A despatch from Richmond sia es that a squad of
cavalry arrived at the Midlothian coal p ts yesterday,
and tbat the trouble among the lai>oi\rs had quieted
iii)n ii. nil "lie was iii.ii.
General Monde has defined the status of the guhernatorlal
candidates in Georgia by declaring Judge
Jrwin ineligible aud General Gordon edible to the
office.
Halm Sunday was celebrated yesterday In the
various Catholic and Episcopal churches in the presence
ot crowded a-so ibi ces. In St. larick's
Cathedra, the services were u n sually so'emn aad
Impressive. The Methodist church iu liarliin was
crowded in the afteruooii io lv.cii to a sermon by
Rev. Stephen II. Tyng, Jr. His r marks were confined
to an explanation of the sole unity of the present
season aud to the dut.ef incumbent upon a!',
good Christians during then k no v coalmen ed.
itcv. IH*. Cltapin preached n r.it resting discourse
at the Fourth Cniver adsl cm .1 on the subject
of Christ's definition of tr.ir /, s, and the illustration
of taalgreatuoas. la ue purest form, to Christ
hlmsolf. Tfev. Henry Ward needier preached In the
morning and evening In Plymouth church, lirooklyn.
The first of u course of lecture i on "T.ie. eicutnlc Redjrton
original)? promulgated by \ncustc Cointe" na*
delivered by Mr. Henry Edgar, who styles himself
one of the apostles designated by Oomte," in Music
Hall, before a large and attentive congregation. A
new rrvnyuTiiui cuurcii ? a* ucuicamju iu Kost'Vlllc,
N. J., yesterday.
A Are In Franklin, Tenn., on Saturday nti/ht destroyed
twelve buildups, Involving a loss of f;?o.ono.
tin which there was no In-iiiar.i e. A lire in Detroit
on the aatne night destroyed property to the amount
Of $70,000.
A Waiinino to tiik State Citrnrn in
Enoi.and?Gladstone's tremendous resolutions
dismantling the Church in Ireland. There has
been nothing done in England of a broader
revolutionary meaning since the time when
"Bluff King Hal" said, in reference to the monasteries
of his day which disputed his right of
possession, "We will uncage those birds,"
and forthwith proceeded to unroof them and
turn them out of doors. That was the
etormy and bloody beginning of religious
liberty in England, and after three hundred
jear" of revolutionary advance" and drawfbaoka
the work now resumed must go on to its
'6oosnmmation.
Tobkbt Lbo and Dull Knits UnoonTINOBD.?Turkey
Leg and Dull Knife, with a
force " numbering one hundred and sevcntyflve
lodges," refuse to meet the peace commis"ioners,
and may be considered, we suppose,
as on the warpath. These distinguished and
amiable persons do not yet perceive the necessity
of the Pacific Railroad, and insist tliat the
work must be " suspended " on the Smoky Hill
route. It must, we suppose, till Turkey Leg
and his friend shall have the light lot into their
queer brains; and it is a queer thing, but true,
that light cannot get into such brains except
.throats km note lim uat? oetu iu?i? <> - |
The laprirhmcnt end the Ceanectieut
Election?The Hopes and Fears of the
Radicals.
The Connecticut election for Governor, State
ticket end Legislature comes off to-day; and
never before has either party concerned, in the
State and throughout the United States, manifested
so deep an interest in any Connecticut
election. Last year, with Barnum and his
travelling caravan at the head of the radical
procession, there was more fun, more fuss and
more noise and confusion; but this year there
is more system, more earnestness and more
hard work on both sides. The impeachment
flpfa nnwApfnllv nn ttila oWh'nn. and the result, I
I one way or the other, will react upon the impeachment.
The issue is regarded as a matter
of life or death to the radicals, and they hare
left no stone unturned to recover the State.
Men with whom honesty is the best policy,
and men with whom policy is the best honesty,
are equally perplexed to account for the late
dishonest and impolitic announcement in the
New York Tribune, that General Grant had
expressed the opinion that the safety of the
country can be secured only with the removal
of Andrew Johnson, and that, therefore, the
only course left for the Senate is to hurry through
this impeachment trial and get this obnoxious
man out of the way as speedily as possible. Some
imagine that this scandalous pronunciamento
waB intended to whip in certain Senators supposed
to be weak in the knees; some suppose
that this thing was intended to damage General
Grant; some conjecture that the object was
merely a bit of buncombe for the Connecticut
election; some imagine that Greeley, aspiring to
a place in the Cabinet under " Old Ben Wade,"
iB getting impatient of the law's delays, and
there are some who are inclined to think that
this unseasonable and startling announcement
of General Grant's opinion of this impeachment
was, after all, stupidly paraded only as a newspaper
sensational item, without stopping to
consider the possible consequences.
The truth probably is that this disreputable
publication was designed partly as a warning
to the Senate and partly as an electioneering |
item for Connecticut; for there are some snug
little offices in Connecticut and some large
ones at Washington and elsewhere dependent
upon the issue of this impeachment; and
"great expectations" among the rank and file
of the Connecticut working republicans in this
canvass are at the bottom of their zealous and
industrious efforts to carry this election. They
seem to think, too, that the result, one way or
the other, will be apt to operate upon the
Senate pretty much as the charge of a respected
judge operates upon a confiding and
weak-kneed jury, and that with the popular
voice of Connecticut added to that of New
Hampshire every shaky republican Senator
will be brought to a proper appreciation of the
indictment against Andrew Johnson. It is
thus apparent that, next to the popularity of
General Grant as the universally accepted republican
candidate, this impeachment, in view
of the spoils and plunder involved in the final
result, has operated and is operating in Con- I
necticut to bring into camp the republican
stragglers from all sides.
On this question the election of the new
Legislature, upon which will devolve the election
of a United StatcB Senator in the place
of Dixon (Johnson conservative), will mainly
turn. Should the result bo a democratic
Legislature it will be equivalent not only to
an endorsement of Dixon and a vindication of
Johnson, but tantamount to instructions to
Senator Ferry (republican) to vote with bis
colleague for Johnson's acquittal. Nay, more;
if the popularity of Grant cannot carry Connecticut
in connection with the radical sine quH
non of Johnson's removal, the result in the
Senate may be a failure to remove him. In this
event we may look for an immediute disruption
of the republican party into two hostile camps,
and for the nomination of Chief Justice Chase
as the conservative republican candidate
against General Grunt. Here, then, will be a
chance for a democratic fusion upon Chase, or
for a concentration upon Farragut, which will
carry the Presidential election ; and with such
an opportunity the democrats win surety aci
upon the good old rule that even half a loaf is
hotter than no bread at all. How far the disappointments
and aspirations of party leaders
have contributed heretofore to defeat and break
down in their turn both the great political
parties of the country most of our readers
will remember with the mere mention of the
names of Calhoun, Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore,
Breckinridge, Douglas and Jeir l)avi3 and his
leading Southern confederacy colleagues. We
know, too, that like causes produce like effects,
and especially among rival politicians of the
same church.
In the present republican Senute at Washington
we know that Fessenden was an aspirant
for the place now held by Wade; that Trumbull
will not be ruled over by Sumner; that
Van Winkle and Willey, of West Virginia, are
no ultra radicals; that Sherman is a cautious
conservative, and that Crimen, a free trader,
has no admiration for the high tariff notions
of Wade. Here are disaffections which the
chapter of accidents may yet aggravate to an
extensive revolt. With Chase as an aspirant
for the position secured by Grant as the radical
favorite, we shall only need, perhaps, the
entering wedge of a radical defeat in Connecticut
to bring about an independent republican
party and ticket for the Presidency with
the accpiittal of Andrew Johnson.
The fears of the radicals run to this extent,
and hence their unparalleled efforts to reclaim
Connecticut. But their hopes are apparently
sanguine that they will recover the State, the
Issues Wing the same that carried New Hampshire.
They have an abiding faith in Grant's
popularity, they believe that Johnson will be
removed and they are encouraged with the
prospect of an early division of the spoils to
the faithful under President Wade. The demo
cratft, without a rccognicwl Presidential chainpion,
are fighting at a disadvantage, and the
loss of Darnum is a republican gain. More- ,
over, the conservative federal officeholders in
Connecticnt are disarmed in view of Johnson's
removal, and there is no enthusiasm in his
defence; fbr even his acquittal will afford no
margin of profit to democratic or anti-radicul
ofllcescekers this side of 1 SCO. The issue in
Connecticut, then, I>eing dependent upon the
small balance of a few hundred votes, we shall
not be surprised if the result is n republican
success. Bnt with all their show of confidence
| OH bUU'w. Ji.ilill .1
' deflated it will be a defeat perhaps m disa*
NEW YORK HERALD, J
trous to the radicals in its train of consequences
as will Burely bo the late defeat of
Disraeli in the House of Commons to the tory
party of England. Our readers to-morrow
morning, over their chops and coffee, will find
the solution of the problem in the aotual results
of this Connecticut election.
The Arcadians of Albany.
The philosophers and raiders of our State
Legislature bare now resolved themselves into
a company of miners and mineralogists.
Arrayed as Arcadian shepherds in order the
better to disguise themselves, they have prospected
our chief thoroughfare from end to end;
and their information is positive, both from
personal observation and the reports of engineers,
that deposits of gold, at the rate of two
millions and ninety-seven thousand dollars per
mile, exist under the surface of Broadway
through its entire extent, and may be brought
not only to light, but into their own pockets, by
a little scratching. The Arcadian miners of
Albany, therefore, have resolved to "go in
and win," being further induced to this conclusion
by the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars, cash in hand, paid to each approach
able Assemblyman for his yote, and the promise
of a further sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars per voter on the final passage of said
bill by the Senate and its being made a law
by the Governor's signature. Other inducements,
it is said, have likewise been held out;
for it is not a little remarkable that there are
one hundred and twenty-five corporators
named in the bill as it passed the Assembly,
and that exactly the same number of
Assemblymen are recorded as having
voted in its favor. This certainly is
better than anything that Coloradian or Montanese
gold, copper or silver mining can offer.
Even the famous Miles O'Reilly Mine in Nevada,
on the line of the Pacific Railroad, cannot begin
to exhibit such inducements. Here we have
three hundred dollars in greenbacks for each
vote, together with a certain stipulated part in
a mining operation which must yield over two
million dollars per mile all the way along from
Castle Garden to Spuyten Duyvil creek! It is
decidedly the biggest thing we have heard of?
outside the walls of Sing Sing?for many
years; and the old Latin phrase arcades ambo,
or "both rascals," must hereafter be made to
read arcades omnes, or " they were all Arcadians
together," in regard to every member, excepting
two or three, of our present Assembly.
It is proposed by these Arcadians to scoop
out Broadway between wall and wall, making of
the present street surface an ornamental frescoed
ceiling, supported on pillars of gilded iron,
and turning the present cellar fronts and foundation
walls into a gorgeous line of subterranean
store windows, radiant with dry goods,
ablaze with jewelry, luminous with gems of
art, and patronized by myriads of eager purchasers,
who are to descend from the
upper regions into this new locomotive
catacomb by means of several thousand
spiral staircases and other hoisting and
lowering inventions too numerous to be
mentioned. The sidewalks overhead?the
present sidewalks?are all to be changed from
flagstones to plate glass, so that light may
thus be furnished to those who would otherwise
walk in darkness below Btairs?an arrangement,
we rather fancy, which may compel boido
changes in the present style of underclothing
worn by such ladies as will persist in preferring
to walk in the free light and air of heaven on
the plane of the present Broadway. There
will bo "high life below stairs," however, and
no mistake about it. There will be no less
than six separate railroad tracks, with six
separate sets of locomotives and trains plunging
and whirling about in all directions, their
enormous reflector lamps gleaming, their flues
belching out soot flakes and black smoke, their
oil canB exuding a rare perfume and their furnaces
scattering red hot coals for the delectation
of such promenadors and storekeepers as
Bhall prefer the sidewalks and show windows
of Hub-Broadway to the old fashioned, upper
air Broadway as it now exists.
Of conrse here, as in all other great proposed
improvements, there are certain difficulties
to be overcome ; but of what account are
"difficulties" to the Arcadian miners of our
Legislature ? In the first place, all the gas and
Croton water mains and pipes and all main
sewers and private sewer pipes along
the backt>ono of our extended city
must bo interrupted and rendered utterly
useless for some ten or a dozen years?tho
j least time it could possibly take to build such
a road as 1b proposed. In the second place, all
the front vaults and cellars now in use by present
. property holders along Broadway must be conflated
injierpetuity to the use of these Albany
miners. In the third place, except the Hkrai.D
Building, whose roots are struck down thirtysix
feet into the earth, there is scarce another
edifice along Broadway that must not be undermined
and brought down in crashing ruins by
such an excavation as our Arcadian legislators
have proposed. Their line, for example, would
go six feet lower than the foundation atones of
Mr. A. T. Stewart's building at the corner of
Chambers street and Broadway; and the
amount of machinery and tackle it would
require to underpin and prop up that gigantic
marble front is a problem which we gladly
leave for professional engineers to solve. Of
the older and smaller buildings along Broadway,
the foundations of whic?l, as a general
rule, vary from twelve to eighteen feet in
depth, scarcely one would be left standing.
Every fine building in the more elevated portions
of our main thoroughfaro would be undermined
and bronght to grief; in addition to
which let us just consider, as the chief portion
of the proposed catacomb will have to run
tbroutrh rock, what an amount of subterranean
blasting and gunpowder earthquakes will be
dailj and hourly required before a passage can
be forced from the Battery to Spuytcn Dnyvil.
We are thus promised ten or twelve year* of
artificial earthquake in gunpowder shocks as a
preliminary, to be succeeded by the permanent
earthquake and roar of six locomotives, with
six trains of baggAge and freight cars, tearing
along under Broadway through all ftiture
time. We are to have nearlr all the present
buildings along onr main thoroughfare demolished.
We are to have plate glass sidewalks
in the present street, compelling our
lady promenaders either to adopt Bloomer costume
or walk In the carriage-way. We are to
have all our vaults, subterranean storerooms
I ?ad c.iui u<iuiti4 aioug the propum-a "iij? w."
Improvement" confiscated; and In sxohangs
IONDAY, APRIL 6, 1868.
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for all this we are offered a brace of sub terrene
sidewalks, illuminated by locomotive reflector
lamps and red hot oinders, warmed by explosive
boilers, perfumed by a thousand oil cans,
and to be rendered salubrious for consumptive
invalids by the belching black smoke and
flying soot flakes of half a dozen locomotives In
perpetual motion. It is one of the most
pleasing prospects of "high life below stairs"
that the mind of mere humanity has yet conceived.
It recalls the wildest Imagery of the
Italian poet's "Inferno," and promises to
give us at home and under our very feet that
succession of earthquakes in pursuit of which,
as a necessary ornament or appanage of a
great nation, Mr. Secretary Seward Is now
preparing to purchase on our account nearly
half iha Wnaf Tmlln anil nttlOF VaIaOnlo IfllanHfl
UUU tiUU M OOV lUUid auu uvuv* ? V?VW?MV .?????/.
We hear it boasted by the Albany Arcadians
and their fellow conspirators of the copperhead
and radical press in this city that "three
hundred millions of capital" are already embarked
in this metallurgical and explosive
enterprise, but an examination of the soventysix
corporators named in the original bill reveals
a beggarly account of empty purses in
the ragged pockets of desperate political and
politico-journalistic adventurers. Of the seventy-six
names thirty-six cannot be found in
the City Directory, nor ca% any one we have
yet met assign them a local habitation; these
aro the "dummies," pure and simple, for more
important conspiratorial miners who stand behind.
Twelve are " gentlemen from the country,"
who drop their carpet bags, containing
each an extra Bhirt and half a dozen paper
collars, at some hotel in Chatham or Canal
street when visiting our city. Twelve more
are reporters or editors attached to such of our
city papers as support the Arcadian project.
Four are lawyers representing prominent politicians.
Seven are presidents of existing city
railroad companies, or banks with city railroad
affiliations; while the tagrag is completed by
five political merchants and speculators, who
buy and sell in dry goods, or legislative votes,
or political principles, on the strictly commercial
basis of invariably purchasing in the
cheapest market and always selling in the dearest.
At Albany, as we all know, votes can be
purchased for a more song ; and these votes,
when transformed into a charter for the ruin of
our main thoroughfare, may then be black-mailingly
converted?at least so these speculators
would seem to think?into quite a handsome
profit for each miner by applying the proper
thumbscrews of fear to the alarmed property
holders of Broadway. It is but justice to our
five city Senators to say that they are opposed
to this measure; but Tammany Hall cannot
escape responsibility for the votes of her twenty
Assemblymen who " went solid," as the phrase
runs, for this gigantic swindle. The bill comes
up this evening for consideration in the Senate
and will then be consigned, we rather imagine?
unless its originators spend money very lavishly?to
the limbo already seven times heated
for the purgatorial expiation of such attempted
outrages.
Luiit Katnrduy Night's Snow Hqnall?Importance
of a System of Weather Reports.
The little snow squall which passed over this
city last Saturday night appears by our telegraphic
reports of the same date to havo been
the tail end of a great stoi , coming in from
the great plains of Kansas. It may have
started from the Rocky Mountains, the vapor,
nevertheless, being supplied from the Atlantic
Ocean. We have heretofore, on various occasions,
adverted to those heavy nor'east storms
which strike in from the Gulf Stream and come
up from the capes of Virginia or Cape Hatterns,
and have shown how infallibly the telegraph
at Fortress Monroe warns us some
twenty-four hours, more or loss, of their approach
to New York. In view of the general
law of these storms which we consider thus
established, we have suggested the importance
of a regular system of telegraphic reports of
the weather, from day to day, along the whole
line of the Atlantic coast for the information
of our seafaring people and shipping interests,
especially those engaged in the coasting trade.
We shall probably, in default of any movement
on the part of our commercial and shipping
interests in the direction suggested, nn
dertake before long, Tor their information, a
system of regular daily telegraphic notices or
signals of the weather from Halifax to Havana
and New Orleans; for we are sure that thereby
many a vessel outward bound or running the
coast within hailing distance may, by a timely
warning, be saved from shipwreck. In the
cause of science, too, we are satisfied that such
a system would soon become exceedingly interesting
and invaluable in more clearly revealing
than wj now understand them those
sublime laws which govern the movements of
the currents of the air and the currents of the
ocean with the vibrations of the earth on Its
axis in its orbit around the sun.
The Impeachment Shew and the Tickets.
Impeachment is in a most unexpected
dilemma. It cannot get an audience. People
actually will not go to hear the eloquence of
Butler, and deliberately refuse to be curious as
to the testimony that is given from day to day,
seeming to impugn its freshness or to doubt
that it is of any great consequence. To the
impeachers there are two classes only of the
American people?one made up of those the
i in poachers can trust, one of those thej cannot.
Among the first class they have distributed
their tickets to the show, and these men are
apathetic; these, their chosen friends in the
hour of the great necessity, absolutely stay
away. But it seems there are plenty who
would like to gp; hundreds outside would like
to push in and fill the untaken seats, so the
play might not be done to empty boxes. But
this will not do. There is danger in the very
thought And what is the danger f Why, if
this man were admitted the whole thing might
end in a row. Impeachment might come to a
sudden close, visited by the wrath, impatience
and diBgust of a delegation of the people. So
argued a Senator on Saturday. " Thus conscience
does make cowards of us all." Conscious
of the true character of their tribunal.
Senators fear the natural justice of the people. I
Goons Comtho lis.?'The receipts from customs
ut, this port for the last week of March
lust were $8,9011,487. No wonder Senator
Morgan is hot on the trail of Johnson's impeachment.
No wonder that Greeley and the
La.t i)>o tue giwut
? " granite building" of Wall street.
Tkt War la Pannar.
Our latest intelligence from the seat of
on the Paraoi is interesting, though quite unintelligible.
There appears to be no doubt regarding
the evacuation of Asuncion by the
Paraguayans, but the despatch does not state
clearly .whether Humaitt has been captured by
the allied forces. The telegram states that
tne allied army stormed the redoubt at uumaita,
and after a desperate struggle succeeded
in carrying the work." We are not informed
if the entire position occupied by the Paraguayans
was stormed, and we are inclined to
think that only an outwork of Humaita has
fallen into the handB of the victors. But, be
that as it may, it is quite evident that the allies
have gained a decided and substantial success,
liumaita, if not yet taken, must now be closely
invested, and as its defenders have no forces in
the interior with which to raise the siege its
downfall becomes merely a matter of time.
The Paraguayans could, it 1b true, by suddenly
massing their forces, cut a passage through the
besiegers; but in so doing they would be necessitated
to abandon the greater part of their
artillery, trains and other equipments for an
army. Their position would therefore be
scarcely improved. All things considered, we
are reluctantly compelled to admit that, if the
news be true, the prospects for a final overthrow
of the Paraguayans are very strong.
They have been contending against such great
odds for so long a time that we hoped to see
them triumph eventually over Brazil and her
allies; but it now looks very much as if they
must succumb to overwhelming numbers.
Believing, then, in the probability of the
war being nearly at an end, if it has not already
practically closed, and that the allies
will be the victors, it remains to be seen what
will be done with conquered Paraguay. Brazil
has been charged with a design of absorbing
the little republic, and it has been asserted
that she has designs upon her present allieB
also. Dom Pedro's government will probably
have soon to inform the world what its purposes
are. To elucidate this matter we pub
lish elsewhere a resume of the origin and
progress of the war to the present time.
With Paraguay crushed the Argentine Confederation
and the Oriental Republic can
offer but a feeble resistance to the Brazilians,
and if the latter design their conquest also
nothing but a coalition of all the South American
republics will prevent it. We very much
fear that Brazil is not satisfied with her present
gigantic extent of territory, but is ambitious of
reducing the entire South American Continent
under her imperial rule. Happily for the foiling
of such a scheme, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and
some other of the republics have for some
time looked jealously upon the encroachments
of the neighboring empire, and may come to
the rescue before the finishing blow is given.
Still, it would be a kind of retributive justice if
the Argentines and Orientals were to wake up
some fine morning and find themselves suddenly
transformed from citizens of free republics
into subjects of his Imperial Majesty Dom
rcuro. rney wouiu ricniy merit sucn a iate,
for they entered into the crusade against Paraguay
with scarcely a ground for so doing, and
if in destroying the liberties of their neighbor
they should lose their own we should feel no
sympathy for them.
We had written the foregoing under the
impression that the news telegraphed from
Lisbon and published in our issue of Saturday
was substantially correct and that the causo of
the Paraguayans was hopelessly lost. From
a telegram which we publish this morning, it
will be seen that a leading French journal has
received despatches from Rio Janeiro stating
that the position of the Paraguayans is not so
desperate as the Brazilian accounts represent.
We Bhall be glad if the intelligence prove to
have been an exaggeration of the facts. It is
not altogether impossible that the reported
triumph of the allies will prove a falsehood. It
may have been manufactured for the purpose
of favorably affecting the elections which are
being held in the two republics and in Brazil.
Should this be the case the Parguayans may
not yet be helplessly defeated. At any rate,
we trust that something may transpire that
will change the present unfavorable aspect of
affairs.
"ine iionaoo rinn on iiisrani'i dpirtu
The "wild cheers" with which the liberals
exulted over Disraeli's defeat last Saturday
morning proclaimed, as it were, the recognition
of public opinion as the new sovereign power
which is henceforth destined to rule Great
Britain. These cheers were at once loudly
echoed by the London press, with but one dissentient
voice, according to the cable telegram.
The London Timet is particularly jubilant.
It regards the rejection of Lord Stanley's
amendment to postpone consideration until the
next Parliament, and the adoption of Mr. Gladstone's
resolution to go into committee, as merely
the first steps of an operation resolved upon
by the Commons?the removal of "this cancer
of the empire," the Irish Church. The Timet
confidently predicts that the national will is
soon to be expressed and in no uncertain sound;
" it will insist that the work so happily begun
shall be thoroughly performed. This morning's
vote is the dawn of a reunited empire. * * *
The wrongs of ages are to be ended and right
? 11 i -#ii ii>. rrki.
done amid me acclamation 01 iae mnuu. im>
| must guarantee peace." The London Pott concludes
an editorial article on the same theme
by saying "This vote is the death warrant
of the Irish Church. No fairer trophy has
been won by the liberal party since the Emancipation
act of 182!)." The journals which we
have cited unquestionably indicate what the
Times calls "the vast balance of opinion in the
United Kingdom." But the London Standard,
the organ of the tory party, remains obstinately
steadfast in its incredulity as to the progress of
the latest revolution in Great Britain, and declares
" the effect of this vote will be to waste
the session without advancing the object proposed
a single step." None are so blind as
those who will not see, and, however closely the
tories may shut their eyes to the fact, this vote
is in itself "a single step" of vast importance
as the longest and most majestic stride which
Britannia has taken for many a year in the path
towards justice and liberty. Disraeli's defeat
involves consequences far more important than
any possible change of ministry. It shows that
the British people, by their Parliamentary representatives,
refuse to postpone any longer
the question of the Irish Church, and
that they are being rapidly edum*
ucstio uui uuui. 1 ^It^T-or reforms
which the logiq of events must render Ineviter
I We. The disendow?1011* of ttie Wsh Ohnroh
I will be en comx 88lon *? the ^olnntarj
J principle and will exercisO anlnoSlculable influence
on the Aiture of the British eC?lr?.
The Trade?A Tendency ta Concern*
We publish in soother column a reliable its dement
of the condition and prospects of trade iv*
the city, from which it will be seen that the'
croakers about bad times are out of tune.
The fact is that we must always have a good
trade here in this great business centre, and we
are not likely again to witness the disastrous
events of 1837 and 1857. It is true that the
wickedness of Congress, with its impeachment
farce and Africanization of the South, has laid
a heavy hand upon progression in all kinds of
business; for there is nothing which checks
activity in trade bo much as uncertainty. But
in New York, at all events, there is no reason
just now to complain of depression. Our advertising
columns furnish evidence enough that
business is as active as can be expected at this
season. There is a remarkable feature, however,
about trade in the metropolis, and that is
the tendency to concentration in a few hands.
Large capitalists are disposed to absorb almost
every branch of business and to govern it
to the exclusion of people of smaller means.
What with exorbitant rents and heavy taxes,
small dealers are gradually dropping out of
many kinds of trade and succumbing to the
force of capital. This is a phase which business
in New York is assuming more and more
every day, and which will probably increase
with time.
Our Peaoe Establishment.?The expenditures
for the War Department for the month of
March last are set down at $13,960,000?a
greater sum than the whole yearly expenses of
the government under John Quincy Adams. So
much for radical reconstruction. One hundred
and sixty millions a year for the War Office on
a peace footing may do for the present; but is
it to be greater or less next year ? That is
the question.
HUS1CAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES.
The twentv-Bcventh Sunday concert at Steinway
Hall last night drew an immense house, both In consideration
of the merit of the artists and the excellence
of the programme. Madame Gazzanlga sang
Dachauer's "Prlez Tour Mol," accompanied by the
qpmposer, and the llnale from "SaiTo." Each
brought an encore, the second a double one. The
"Prlez Pour Mol" impressed us more favorably than
at first hearing, for on this occusion all the delicate
shades of coloring and expression were brought out.
Leopold de -Meyer played his charming waltz, "Souvenir
d'itallc" and his "Grand Duchess" potpourri.
He appeured to much greater advantage than we
hare heard him before tills season. Signor Albano
harpist, and a large orchestra also assisted In the
concert. Mndame Parepa-Kosa, the great prima
donna, and Carl ltosa, one of the first violinists in
America, give a concert in this hall on Easter
Sunday.
There Is not much novelty promised at the theatres
for Holy Week. Many of the bills remain unchanged,
the public bolng perfectly satisfied with the feast
prepared by the managers.
Mr. Uateman keeps "La Bello Holrnc" still at the
French theatre as bright and flourishing as ever, and
fully as attractive. " La Grande Duchcssc" will be
presented to the Brooklyn people at a matinee on
Saturday.
At Wallack'a "Roaedale" crlves war for "Oliver
Twist" to-night, with a line cast, but Mr. Wallace's
play will be reproduced at a matinee on Saturday.
The "White Fawn," or course, Is still at NJWo's,
with her attendant ballet corps.
"lluropty Dumpty" perforins his funny tricks and
transformations, as usual, at the Olympic, and Is not
likely to depart for many weeks to OOOM.
At Harney Willlums' Broadway theatre Chanfrau
winds up the last week of his engagement In "Our
American Cousin at Home." Mr. and Mrs. Williams
will follow next week in their admlruble Irish and
Yankee specialties, and wl:I, no doubt, be warmly
welcomed after their long absence.
The New York theatre is closet I for repairs, preparatory
to the production of a grand burlesque by toe
Worrell sisters.
An engagement has been made with Miss Fanny
llerring at the Bowery theatre, wnere she will appear
to-night In Bix characters.
A new feature will be introduced this evening at
the Theatre Comlque, In the person of Mr. Williutn
Lingard, from the London theatres, who represents
a pnotographic gallery of celebrities, said to be a very
wonderful performance.
Oerinan opera resumes Its place to-night at the
Stadt 1 hca're with "Iter Kreischuet/." and Mine. Johauseii,
llableman and Formes in ilio cast.
The dog-headed baboon continues his equestrian
feats at the New York Circus, lie Is a curious creature
and provokes plenty of fun.
John Brougham, after a long provincial tour, will
present himself tlds evening at Mrs. Conway's tiiea
"King Powhatan," two of >iih best characters.
Brooklyn is aiso enlivened this week with a grand
circus and procession of camels in the streets.
fine time for the hoys.
The minstrels present an amusing variety for the
week's enjoyment. The San Francisco hoys have a
rare bill. Kelly A Leon, while they keep sti.l on the
stage the favorite burlesque of the "tirand Duchess,"
announce a nninherof new pieces In their lively style
of performance. Tony I'astor oners a new innsicalextrava/anza,
"Bine Heard In the bowery,'' and other
varieties, iududing the capital clog dancing of rain
Coilyer and his proteges, some of the best dancers in
America. Nr. and Mrs. Klancltard and their wonderful
dogs appear at Butler's American theatre In a
new play, "The Felon's Doom." A ballet divertissement,
with a large troupe, follows. Ilooicy announces
a novelty at tnw Brooklyn opera House tonight
in the person of Fernando Fleury, a "musical
wonder." Every tiling at this house is well done.
SUNDAY AT THE PAUL
Spring this year with ns seems to be a period of
strife between sun and rain, cold and heat, wind and
calm, frost and warmth?a protracted struggle, enlvencd
by verv frequent visitations of that most
disagreeable morning and evening caller, that "onbidden
guest," the chilling wind. A few days sine*
there was a feeling among us that winter was gone
and that spring was upon us, and in the genial'
sunbeams that greeted the residents of New
York there was heralded a season of delight.
In these few days the wanderings of their feet
almost unconsciously tended towards the great
lungs of our city?the Park?and there, amid the
budding trees and the velvety verdure that had ontllvod
the frosts of winter, they anticipated the future.
ready to sing, with Holomon. "Lo I the winter
Is pust; the rain Is over and gone; the flowers appear
on the earth; the time of the singing of birds
is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard In oar
land." But the storm of Haturday night and the
nipping wind of yesterday wrought a change, and It
appeared that nature had again. In this spot at least,
Rut on Its carnival attire. Every twig and tree
ent under the weight of a bouquet of snow fringed
with Icicles, and the dark einerAld of many of the
evergreens mingled with the orangt and green of
others, weaving as a wnoie a ncn mosaic <*<> *. .
wind walled through the rustic bowers; the lake had
no patrons but the .swans, and the boat* rode lazily
at anehor, undisturbed nv the chilled attendants.
Here and then? solitary pedestrians might have been
seen gazing at the contrast of winter and spring
every were apparent n round them, but their sojourn
was brief, as shrugging their shoulders, buttoning
closer their coats and looking at the fleecy clouds and
even at the rippling water, tuey turned their backs
upon the Park.
COURT CALEHDAR?TUB DAT.
Scrum Conrr?Cincvrr.?Part l?Noa. toe, sm,
665, 10S3, ITS, 766, 1073, 1003, 37, U61, 511, 403, 611,
060, 626, 410, 330, 776, 706, 7S1.
HrrRKion Court?Trial Trrm.?Part 1?No#. 3653,
3603, 3016, 3201, 3277, 3385, 3287, :t647, 3208, 2685, ;t6s6,
3737, 3367, 2111, 3071. Part 3?Noa. 3862, 3006, 3012,
3014, 3016, 3018, 3020, 3923, 3924, 3926, 3928, 3930, 3932,
30.30, 3762.
Marinb CorRT?1Trial Tr**.?Nos. 696, 348, 448,
686, 639, 660, 669. 661, 360, 200, 459, 724, 803, 636, 6S4,
678, 600, 677, 666, 703, 687, 607, 602, 642, 617, 610.
A Pottrth Ward Row.?A slight "scrimmage"
took place at 32 Cherry street yesterday afternoon. In
the course of which Bllen Maricy was badly cut hi
the arm by Michael Ijtwler, who was also badly cut
by falling on the atovo. The wounds were attended
I to by a neighboring phvslclan. The woman wa?
I setu home and Michael Lawlar was locked up.
Pkatii or a* Acrobat.?Thomas llanlon, the aortv
bv woo attempted suicide In llarrlshnrg. Pa., a low
| U-jm i-ays, ISSM4 M lub U raw.AwAA*
1 Bjs brother trill brtng hie remalna to Hits ?M*.