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JSliW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR.
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Volume XXXIII
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New York, Wednesday, May 0, 1868.
IBS MBWI.
IMPEACHMENT.
In the High Court yesterday Mr. Bingham continued
his closing addroaa for the prosocution. He
finally yielded to a motion to adjourn, saying that he
would require about an hour to-day la which to conclude.
WJJ uauo,
In the Sennte yesterday nothing was done outside
or the impeachment business.
In the House Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, presented
a resolution directing the Donnelly Investigating
Committee to Inquire Into the charges of gold
robbing presented by Mr. Brooks against Mr. Butler;
Mr. Brooks desired also to Investigate the charges
made by Mr. Butler relative to the lawsuit with Mr.
Clarke in New York, and exhibited a letter purporting
to come from Mr. Clarke denying Mr. Butler's
statement in toto. Mr. Broofcs also asked
that the report of General Baldy Smith and James '
T. Brady on the management of affairs In New Orleans
by General Butler be laid before the committee
of investigation; but Mr. Dawes said it was unnecessary
to Instruct the commlttce, and the resolution as
originally Introduced was agreed to. Mr. Cary, of
Ohio, offered as a question of privilege a resolution
that, In view of the debates which took place on Friday,
Saturday and Monday, the Impeachment managers
be requested to withdraw the article charging
the President with Indecent harangues. A motion to
adjourn was immediately made and acceded to.
THE LEGISLATURE.
In the Senate yesterday the General Charity bill
appropriating $23,000 was passed. The Charity bill
paused last year appropriated $200,000. Several
other bills not of general interest were also passed.
The reports of the conference commltte* on
the Canal Appropriation and Supply bill was
concurred In. Conference committees ware
appointed on the two tax levies. The
bill for tho construction of oertaln piers on North
river was passed. A concurrent resolution to adjourn
sine die at ten o'clock last night was adopted,
but the Assembly having failed to concur the Senate
adjourned until this morning.
In tho Assembly the report of the conference committee
on the Supply bill waftadopted. Committees
of conference were appointed on the county
tax levy and the State Charity bill. Bills
were passed relative to buildings in New York ctt#,
and authorizing the Attorney General to Institute
suits for annulling ccrtaln canal repair contracts. A
bill to abolish the canal repairs contract system was
Introduced and referred. The complimentary resolutions
which usually are the forerunners of an early
adjournment tine <Xit were then tendered the Speaker j
and ('Ifi k. und the Assembly adjourned until this
morning.
EUROPE.
The news reports by the Atlantic cable Is dated
May 6, at midnight.
Mr. Gladstone called the attention of Parliament to |
tne uauinei explanations 01 me crisis yesrcruay ana
tlie power of dissolution at discretion said to have
been accorded by the Queen to Mr. Disraeli. Mr.
Disraeli attain explained, bnt appeared to still
liold the threat of dissolution in terrorem
over members pending the Church debate.
Sir 8. Nortiicote said there vai no
"menace'' to the Parliament. South Germany
threaten? secession from the Cnstoms Parliament.
Napoleon Is said to have proposed a Russo-French*
mediation between Turkey and Crete. Baron Bud- i
berg gave a grand banquet to the foreign Minister* |
in Parts. ,
The steamship City of Boston, from Qneenstown
April 23, reached tlrts port at about two o'clock this '
morning. Her mall report has been anticipated In '
oil Its main points by the details by the I'nion pub- ]
lished In the LIkhald.
THE CITY
The nsual May anniversaries are fairly upon us.
The New York aud Hudson River Unitarian conference
held their preliminary exercises at the Church
of the Messiah, in Thirty-fourth street, last evening,
and the aunlversary exercises will commence this
morn'ng. The Five Points House of Industry will
also hold their anniversary to-day at the chapel or
that Institution.
A large temperance meeting was held In Plymouth
church, Brooklyn, last evening. Henry Ward
Bcecher was not present, but Stephen H. Tyng, Jr.,
was Introduced and addressed the assemblage.
The Krle Railroad dock In Jersey City gave way
under a freight train yesterday morning, precipitating
the engine, tender and one car Into the water
beneath. The engineer and fireman were Instantly j
ftUIVUi
A trot too* place on the Fashion Coarse yesterday
between Bradley, Dreete, Pense and Amber. The
race wm not decided, although six heats were trotted,
Tcose and Breeze each leading in two of them, and
rcnse making the best mile, 2:31. The race was
then postponed to the first falr-day.
Ad Important decision was yesterday rendered by
Jndge Blatchford, in the mited States District Court,
bankruptcy branch, on the bankruptcy of Hubert 0.
lathbone. Judge Blatchford, after severely animadverting
on the bankrupt's conduct in scheming
to defraud his creditors by false representations and
returns, refused the bankrupt a discharge. The decision,
which ts given In onr law.columns, is one or
?rent importance nnd interest to ths business comid
unity.
The Anchor Line steamship United Kingdom. rap.
tti a Donaldson, will leave pier 20 North river at
"MTe M. to day (Wednesday) for Liverpool ami
' gow, calling at Londonderry to land passen*
Ac.
'ie steamship ITerman Livingston, Captain Eaton.
I leave pier M North river at three P. M. to day
t >' dnes'lay) for Havannah, (Ja.
e stock market wa^ dull bat on the whole steady
3i' erday. Government securities were firm. Oold
cl.aed at 139*.
MISCELLANEOUS.
MM biTC correspondent* from OL Domingo. HajU
INJfiW Y<
and Cuba, bat tbe m&ln Items of newe have been
anticipated by oar telegrams over tbe gulf cable. It
was Hot known In 8t. Domingo whether Baea
would accept the dictatorship, although It had
been tendered him with great unanimity,
and he had already been proclaimed as such
by the national Congress. In Haytl It had been very
generally believed that American niibusters were at
the bottom of the Cacos rebellion, but the Idea was
now exploded. The British auU French residents are
somewhat eager to hear more of the policy of Mr.
Reward towards Haytl. The American Minister waa
expected daliv. Mr. Be La Keintue, the acting American
Consul at Havana, waa attacked by one Garcia.
an ex-shipping master, whom the Consul had
refused to recognize ottlclally. Be La Reintue waa
not seriously injured, and Garcia waa arrested. The
acting Consul now demands the usual reparation
from the authorities, and has laid his case before
Secretary Seward.
The New York delegates to the Chicago Convention
met in Albany yesterday and adopted resolutions
expressive of their determination to vote lor Fenton
for Vice President.
The Radical State Convention In Concord, N. H.,
yesterday chose Mason W. Tappan as President.
Letters were read from radical Congressmen expresssing
the belief that the Impeachment trial would close
and Wade be In the White House "wben tffe apple
blossoms came.** Resolutions were adopted favoring
Grant for President and endorsing the impeachment
action.
The statement of the public debt for May, which has
Just been Issued, shows the total debt, less cash in the
Treasury, to be $2,500,523,827, a decrease since April
1st Of 118,680,860.
-In the General Methodist Episcopal Conference at
Chicago yesterday BlBhop Simpson delivered the
Episcopal address. Eight thousand copies of It were
ordered to be printed. Among the petitions presented
and referred to committees was one favoring the
election of bishops for a term of years and their In- |
ductlon Into office without consecration.
Advices from the Indian country state that the
Indians some time ago killed thirteen persons near
Tulerozo, New Mexico, and more recently oaptured a
train In the same place. A force Btarted from Tulerozo
to attack them, and It was reported that a
fight had occurred in which seven of them were
| Kiuea. .numerous outrages are reported along tne
lino of the Paclflo Railroad in Nebraska. Four section
men of the railroad were recently killed at
Plumb creek. The trains pay no attention to schedule
time, laying up wherever night overtakes them.
The grand musical festival of the Handel and
nadyn Society commenced In Boston yesterday.
Among the singers are Parepa-Rosa and Adelaide
Phillips. The busts of Beethoven and Mozart were
unveiled yesterday.
In the Cole trial at Albany yesterday the (ramming
up of counsel on both sides was concluded, and the
Judge made his charge to the jury, which retired.
Some time afterwards the court was informed that the
Jury could not possibly come to a decision for Somo
time, and accordingly adjourned until this morning.
auo nrpnuurun itupinre?i'nc U olden Opportunity
of the Conservatives.
Our special advices from Washington and
the general tenor of the news from all sources
unmistakably indicate that the republican party
is on the eve of a serious rupture, that threatens,
on the one hand, to overthrow the. radical
programme for the conviction and removal of
Johnson, or, failing that, to enter into the approaching
Presidential election as a disturbing
element. We are told, with unusual positiveness,
that Fessenden, of Maine, one of the
mo9t respectable members of the United States
Senate and a cabinet officer under President
Lincoln, has prepared an elaborate legal opinion
on the first three articles of impeachment, in
which he holds that the Managers have failed
to establish the charge made against President
Johnson, and that he is entitled to acquittal.
It is further rumored that Senators Grimes,
Trumbull and Henderson will also present
written arguments on the same side, and that
a sufficient number of republican votes will go
with them to shape the verdict of the Senate in
accordance with the evidence and the law.
Even Senator Wilson has been mentioned as in
the doubtful category within the past two dayB,
while it becomes more and more evident every
hour that Chief Justice Chase, who is placed
in a position in which it devolves upon him,
nmlpr hi a ivith nf
V> W.UVV | IV UiiHUiBiU
the constitutional rights of the judicial
branch of the government, will insist upon
closing the impeachment trial, according to
established usage, with a charge from the
bench or withdraw from the mockery of a
Jourt. The evidences of demoralization are
not confined to the Senate. In the Ilouse the
rccent violent debates, the cropping? out of
jealousy and suspicion, the manifest sympathy
of the majority with an assault upon the confidential
friend and adviser of General Grant,
are the clouds in the rudical sky that portend
tho coming storm.
What has caused this notable change in the
prospects of the republican party, which
seemed only a few days ago to be steadily
moving on down the radjeal stream to the
rcmuvm ui juiinson, me insiauauon 01 UIU lien
Wade in the White House, the distribution of
the federal spoils among the faithful, and the
initiation of a general jubilee of expansion,
Inflation, speculation and negro reconstruction?
It is, first, the returning reason of
those men in the republican ranks who hare
liitherto deplored and opposed the revolutionary
policy of the extreme radicals, but who have
been temporarily silence'd and overborne bj
ihe violence of the Jacobin leaders ; and, next,
the mistrust of Wade and his radical friends
that has suddenly sprung up In the breasts of
those who aspire to positions on the republican
Presidential ticket. The republican party has
never been solidly united upon well defined
political principles. It* sole bond of consolidation,
in the first place, was opposition
to the further extension of slavery, which
time and circumstances developed into
the advocacy of its total abolition. But
the organization was made up of incongruous
elements, and on all questions save
this one?on finance, taxation, currency,
the treatment of the negro after his liberation,
and almost every subject that must arise in
civil government?its members were essentially
divided. The war of the rebellion held the
party together, increaneil >* now At* AMI1- I
shadowed all minor issues npon which differences
of opinion might have arisen. With the
return of peace and the final and total wiping
out of slavery the occupation of the republican
party was gone, and men were already
preparing for a new departure, when the
breaking out of the bitter feud between the {
President and Congress forced them once i
again into united aotion. 1
All this time, however, through fhe war and 1
during the subsequent fight with the E*ecutivo, 1
the conservative element ha? still lived in the I
republican organisation. It has manifested i I
itself in the action of Congress on several occa- I
sions, and has constantly been the laving
clause in the republican platforms before I
th<" people. Yet it has been held in subjection i
by the superior force and boldness of radical- ]
ism and has suffered from the folly of those i
who have atUmoUd to olaoe themselves to I
JKK UKttALD, WEDNESDA
its head. President Johnson might hare made
the republican party the party of broad, liberal
views and statesmanlike policy, and have
utterly crushed out the Jaoobins who were
already preparing to /uray themselves against
Lincoln at the time of his death, had
he called Congress together upon his
accession to power and united with
the legislative department in carrying out
his policy of Southern reconstruction. He
neglected the opportunity, and thus arrayed
his partv against him. A numhar of noedv
politicians attempted to raise op the conservative
republican banner from the diut at the
famous Philadelphia Convention, but they only
Buccceded in running themselves into copperheadiem,
and were laughed at for their pains.
Grant was looked up to as the coming leader
of the conservative forces, and he was a champion
dreaded by the radicals. But they set to
work to undermine the citadel they despaired
of oarrying by assault, and Grant fell before
them. It is a singular faot that only a few
months ago Grant was feared as the great opponent
of radicalism, while Ohief Justice Chase
was regarded as its coming man. When the
present Congress met the influence of the previous
elections made itself felt, and again conservative
republicanism asserted its power.
The radicals found themselves in a minority,
Butler and Stevens were beaten at every turn,
and impeachment went by the board. But by
perseveranoe and tact, joined with unsurpassed
boldness of action, the Jacobins again socured
the upper hand. Johnson fell into the trap
prepared for him by his vindictive enemies,
and, bated with Grant, impeachment at last prevailed,
and once more conservative republicanism
seemed forever crushed out of existence.
| 'roe apparei^p anniniiation or conservatism
may, however, prove, after all, its salvation.
Now is its golden opportunity. The impeachment,
to which the radicals have pinned their
fortunes, is a miserable failure before the
people. If it should be suffered to succeed it
will be to the disgrace of the nation and the
disgust of all honest men. Yet its success is
the only thing that can give the radicals permanent
and assured control of the republican
party. Such men as Stevens, Butler, Boutwell,
Wade and Logan, who have heretofore
been regarded as mischievous factionists by
their associates, aspire to lead the organization
and guide the administration. Their ambition
is to strip the executive and judicial branches
of the government of all power, to build up a
legislative autocracy and to mould Congress to
their will. The removal'of Johnson and the
advancement of Wade to the Presidency can
alone secure to them the objects at which they
aim. But their revolutionary programme is
unpopular with the people, and, as the recent
elections have shown, konnlaaalv dnatrnva (Ita
strength of Grant as a Presidential
candidate. Let the conservative republicans
of the Senate, then, ' unite with
Chief Justice Chase in demanding the
acquittal of the President on the clear point
of law that there is no case to go to the
jury; let them, in fact, non-suit the Managers,
and with impeachment will fall forever the
Jacobin leaders who would bring ruin upon the
country. The path of the conservatives will
then be clear. Let them nominate Chase for
the Presidency, with such a man as Thomas or
Schofifld, or ?nm? other sterling soldier, as
Vice President, and they will rally the masses 1
of the country to their support and will crush 1
out the radicals and the copperheads together.
If they pnrsue this policy their success is '
assured. The democrats, with the bitterest :
fight before them that has ever been expe- '
rienced in a political convention, can make no 1
nominations against such a ticket. A few con- '
firmed copperheads might Blough off on to Pen- 1
dleton, Seymour, Vallandigham, Fernando
Wood or some other notorious rebel sympathizer,
as the handful of Jacobins would adhere
to Grant, Wade, Ben Butler or whoever might
be their nominee; but the great bcyly of the '
people will go with the party that had proved 1
itself true to the constitution and sunDort the 1
man who had proved himself the firm and fearless
upholder of the law.
Conirreaftional Dignity and Drrornn.
The Donnelly-Washburne flare-up In the
lIouBe of Representatives on Saturday last
was to Donnelly and Washburne, to the
Speaker and to the Ilouse, a disgraceful
afTuir. With the addition of a little pothouse
swearing and a knock down or two the spectacle
would have been a complete representation
of the worst of our city whiskey shop primary
election conclaves in the "good old
times" of such fighting factions as the "Short
Boys" and the "Dead Rabbits." According
to Donnelly, Washburne was a degraded creature,
utterly unfit to associate with honest
men; while according to Washburne, Donnelly
was an escaped criminal, whose proper place
was y^e St?te Prison. The Speaker, on the
privileged question of a personal explanation,
allowed these men the privilege of unstinted
abuse of each other, and the House was so far
from being shocked with their scandalous scurrility
that it really seemed to consider the
entertainment as good as a play and enjoyed
it hugely.
The intervention of Sunday, however, with
its better influences, it appears, brought about
something like the " sober second thought," I
and some ideas of dignity and decorum among
the members, with the meeting of the Ilouse
again on Monday, and so for the stirring melodrama
of "Jack Shoppard" was substituted
the amnsing farce of "High Life Below Stairs."
Donnelly retracted the particularly offensive
portions of his Saturday's rigmarole;
Washburne retracted his offensive
reply; and with the entente corditle thus
established between the parties the enthusiastic
and generous Donnelly proposed that be and
Washburne imitate the illustrious example in
the case of the Secretary of War and General
Thomas, and go out and take a drink"?a proposition
which, it appears, was received with
unbounded applause from all sides of the chamber.
Still, it appears that there is to be an investigation
of the Washburne letter against Donnelly,
in which the latter Is charged as
having played the rble of a fugitive from justice,
under an alias and between two days, In
liis removal from Philadelphia to Minnesota.
This brings this Donnelly-Washburne case up
to the standard of Andrew Johnson's impeachment
; for as there are seven managers of the
House In the prosecution of Johnson, so titer*
tre seven members upon this Donnelly-Washtmrau
commit!? of investigation. Mr. lMHilH '
Y, MAY 6, 1868.?TRIPLE
of Wisconsin, submitted the question If the
matters in issue In the investigation "are not
on all fours with the eleventh article of the
impeachment," which relates to Andrew Johnson's
stump speeches while "swinging round
the circle;" but we must say that we have had
nothing for a long time "hanging on the verge
of the government" equal in its way to this
Donnelly-Washburne flare-up, or to the explanations
and apologies of these offenders before
the House. A few days hence, we dare say,
the House will be called to the consideration
of more serious matters with Johnson's remove)!
or with the inglorious oollapse of
Johnson's impeachment, but especially in the
event of a collapse.
Thf Financial Prospect?Impeachment tn
Wall Street.
The aspect of financial and commercial affairs
is brightening, and money is returning rapidly
from the interior to this citj, where it wiil
Boon have the effect of lowering the rate of interest
and stimulating trade as well as speculation
in Wall street. For the time being, however,
the country is held in a state of suspense,
owing to the impeachment trial, and with this
concluded, whether it involve the conviction or
the acquittal of the President, a sense of relief
will be experienced which cannot fail to improve
business prospects generally. At present
the uncertainty attending the result of the
trial and its effect is productive of stagnation,
and any change from this condition of
things muBt be for the better. It is
generally believed in Wall street that
the President's conviction will cause an immediate
riBe in the price of stocks and commodities,
including gold, because the publio will
jump to the conclusion that under Ben Wade
we shall have currency inflation. This last is
not improbable; but we are as likely to have
a fresh issue of a hundred millions pf currency
if Mr. Johnson remains in office as we are if
he is deposed; for, in either event, many of
both political parties will make desperate
efforts to pave the way to the next Presidential
election with new greenbacks. If the President
is acquitted the effcct upon the public
mind will be reassuring, and an impetus will
thereby bo given to trade and speculation,
while its beneficial effect upon the public
credit will probably be reflected in improvement
in the market for government securities.
Impeachment alone beclouds the prospect,
and as soon as thii all-absorbing question is
disposed of the currency and the finances generally
will engage the attention of Congress.
The great WeBt will clamor for greenbacks
enough to pay off the national debt, while (he
hard money men of the Eastern States will
oppose any further inflation, and a compromise
will probably be the result on the basis of the
hundred millions referred to, the result of
which will be that we shall enjoy a period ot
almost unexampled temporary prosperity, and
mat everything m wall street and elsewhere
will, . as the phrase is, "go kiting,"
after which wo shall suffer a correspondingly
violent reaction ; but as the hope
of every man will be to take in sail before the
storm comes, this will'have no .terrors for speculators,
whether in trade or stocks. The financial
question win, from its importance, be debated
with spirit and a variety of projects will
be launched; but it Is doubtful whether, after all,
anything important beyond the ciirrency measure
will be accomplished. Nor is it desirable
that any act of a disturbing charaoter should
be passed, for there is more danger than safety
In financial tinkering. The season of the year
Is favorable to improvement in both monetary
and mercantile affairs, and those who predict
lhat the acquittal of the President will do
otherwise than stimulate this tendency will find
themselves false prophets.
TIm Ministerial Crisis la England?Disraeli
Still la Oflce.
With a tenacity of purpose characteristic of
his race Mr. Disraeli still cling* to the honors,
responsibilities and emoluments of office. Why
should it be otherwise ? The summit of the
steep ascent has been but recently reached.
The atmosphere is pleasant and bracing. The
previous toil had boon hard and loog continued.
Why shonld the prise be abandoned just when
the prize had been won ? Is it not something
Tor a Jew, a descendant of Jacob, the son of a
homeless race, a man who claims no higher
title than that of being a son of Israel?is it not
lomething for such a man to sit as virtual king,
?A?Ua4l?? 4Ka -I ? J--A- At. -
AVIUIUa?IU5 ?uu UBU^UI^ UVOVOUUAUW Ul IUO
jroud Norman barons ? Such is Mr. Disraeli's
position. Why should he abandon it ?
Mr. Bright, with his usual shrewdness, has
>aid that an adverse rote was no disgrace, that
he disgrace lay in holding office after such a
rote. The correctness of snch an assertion,
especially when we bear in mind the principles
rhich by common consent and ancient usage *
fovern the parliamentary system of England,
not to be disputed. When a minister, by a
mccession of adverse rotes, finds himself
topelessly in the minority, It is unquestionably
lis duty to resign and to advise the
nonarch to call to her aid the recognised chief
>f the opposition. Mr. Disraeli, tenacious as
ie is of place and power, was gentleman
tnotigh to do this. He bowed to his fate like
i true and even brave man. lie told the
louse of Oommons that the vote of Saturday
norning was of such a character as to change
he relations of the ministry and the Ilouse,
ind asked time to decide on the course to be
oMowed in the circumstances. He saw her
llajesty and tendered his resignation. The
2ucen, appreciating the difficulty of the situaion,
refused to accept it. What more could a
loble and gifted descendant of an illustrious
ace do but consent to remain in office and
lerve his sovereign to the extent of his ability?
lis colleagues, foellng the force of parliamenary
etiquette and ancient usage, were unwilling
ht first to remain at the heads of their several
lepartments. Their scruples, however, have
frvil WTri| ?uu, ?v iuo uuiiujr?utD Ul Ultl
iberals, this obnoxious but gifted and indls>ensable
man remains the virtual head of the
iritinb empire. Mr. Disraeli in hit able speech
?n Monday evening justified the claims of
he tories to the confidence of the House
tnd of the country. Their promises
tad not ended in words. They bad
[iren the country real and substantial reforms,
rheir record was a record of facts, not of empty
ind unfulfilled promises. Mr. Gladstone, of
:ourse, was ftirious. Mr. Lowe, the Adulimite
chief, was Indignant. Mr. Bright, the
i obi net, the bravest and the most honest of
hem alL wm deeoir 4i|iatirttod. Bat when a
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SHEET.
Jew has the grip what signifies fury, Indignation
or dissatisfaction f 1if. Disraeli for the present
remains Prime Minister of England.
There la only one thing which the Ilouse of
Commons can now do, and it remains to be
seen if thej will do It. They can, as Mr.
Disraeli fearlessly Informed them, pass a vote
of want of Annfldonft* Tf tli? An fhla which
they may, they will drive him from place and
power. If they do his chances of ultimate
success will be greater than ever. He will
have a chance of retrieving the one false step
of his life?that of joining a party with which
he hat never been in sympathy. Let him
abandon that ungrateful party?a party whioh
he has served not wisely but too well. Let him
play the part for whloh by nature and by training
he is admirably fitted. His true rdle now
is tHat in which Richelieu waa successful, but
in which Mirabeau failed. He has an opportunity
of making his name greater than either.
Spanish Restriction* Upon American Trade*
A Hint to the State Department.
We print elsewhere a minute and authentic
statement of the restrictions and impositions
imposed upon American commerce by the
Spanish authorities in Cuban and other West
Indian ports. From the facts of the several
cases, gleaned from correct sources and sifted
nf all lAarn.1 nhnMnlnn It ttnnaan Uiti tha
authorities of the several Cuban ports especially
hare contracted a regular habi? of
imposing Ones, varying from twenty-five dollar?
to thirty thousand, upon American vessels
and for the most trivial preteAs. A blot or an
erasure, or even a misspelled word in the
manifest, has on frequent occasions been
made the pretext for the imposition of an
annoying and often ruinous fine, and that, too,
when the error was so obviously a slip of the
pen as to vitiate any possible pretenoe of intention
to defraud ; and but recently an American
vessel was fined twenty-seven thousand
dollars for the offence of having
left six hundred packages of freight upon
the dock in this city, which packages appeared
upon the manifest. The captain ot the vessel
was refused the customary civility of altering
the manifest, though it was made clearly to
appear that the packages had never been on
board.
By this case and by cases similar?as, for
instance, that of the Ocean. Home?considerable
sensation has been created in commercial
circles, and an effort ia now being made to
bring the matter before the Department of
State with a view to the recovery of a just
indemnification for these illegal and annoying
fines and seizures.
The facts as developed exhibit a thinly disguised
intention on the part of Cuban Custom
House officials for the plunder of American
shipowners by a sort of legal?though shabby?system
of buccaneering, which can only
be abated by the interference of the United
States government or a new volume of Mr,
Seward's diplomatio correspondence. In
several of these cases?in fact, in the only
important ones?it will be observed that the
Spanish authorities have remitted the fines
imposed, thus virtually admitting the illegality
of their imposition and the consequent seizure,
though in two cases they had proceeded as far
as eo&fiscation and bad threatened sale of the
property. Let Mr. Seward, therefore, foot up
a bill of indemnities due for illegal detainder
and the like, and in default of payment hold
Cuba to bail tor the exact amount Indicated by
the figures.
Chief Juatlre Chaac and the Impeach*
tent.
Mr. Bingham yesterday continued the closing
argument of the prosecution in the impeach
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thing most apparent was the radical fear of
Chief Justice Chase. Apprehension of the
Judge was the unconscious import of the gentleman's
harangue. Ostensibly the Manager
discussed nearly every other subject, and while
complaining of the length and diffuseness of
the dofence sinned more palpably in that way
than any man on the other side; but wander as
be might he could not get away from the main
thought?the thought that now concentrates
the whole activity of the radical Intellect?
that something must be said, done or endeavored
to prevent the head of the Supreme
Court from being heard in the Senate. Butler
knows and feels that the case of his faction is
tho worst ever put in court. Stevens knows
this; Sumner knows it; Bingham acknowledges
it by his failure to urge conviction on
the points properly up for trial; but they all
believe that they can bully the Senate into
conviction. They believe that party discipline
will secure a sufficient rote, In spite of right
and reason, If the Senate be left to Itself.
There's the rub, however; for if the Senate be
not left to itsolf nothing is certain. If one
bold, strong voice shall be raised in the chamber
for justice and law; if one conscientious,
honest man shall declare that there U no case-*shall
point out to the Senate th$ utter failure of
the House of Representatives to prdve what it
promised to prove and remind Senators that
their oath requires acquittal where guilt U
not shown?the awakened pride and strengthened
courage of Senators will inevitably declare
against impeachment and lift that body
above the control of the pitiful motives through
which the Managers expeot to secure a verdict
in their favor.
All this anxiety on the part of the Managers
fixes attention on the point in their case that
shows it in its most charasteristio aspect as
fearing most of all the plain ruling of the law.
Already ten gentlemen lave delivered discourses
not notable for brevity on the
points in this case; something like fifty more
will discuss it, if it is still the purpose of every
Senator to be heard. If, then, the case will
stand discussion at the bands of sixty gentlemen
mora or less learned In the law, how Is
it that the opinion of one more is likely to be
such an irreparable barm that the Managers
will smother It at anv cost; and whv should Mr.
Chase, of all others, be the one the/ can least
endure to hear? He is a republican, too, and
they cannot fear that he will soil the ermine
with any of those peculiarly democratic views
of the constitution that are an offence to the
nostrils of the dominant power. Time was
that he was even counted the head and front of
the radicals. How is it, then, that these men
are afraid to hear from the bench the voice of
the really dominant intellect of their owp party
pronouncing on the case whose sue ess 1s to
them a necessity?a matter of life fend death.
They fear it becauM in giving themselves to
till* Uao?acb?ent madnt? |h?w hare troaa
away from all the proper and legitimate purposes
of the republican party?because tbis impeachment
project Is the scheme of no party
and no respectable portion of a party, but
only of half a dozen political desperadoes who
have hitherto bullied half oCCongress into going
with them, and who fear to have the exact
limit of their power shown by Chase's putting
his foot upon their plans. They rear to have
Mr. ChaBe pronounce on Impeachment, because
they know it to be as muoh In defiance of law
as of all decency, and because his whole record
shows him to be a man whom no viewa ?i
party expediency can bend to abuse his position
to deliberately sustain what is wrong and
false. They know that he will declare the
truth?they fear nothing so much as the truth?
and hence their eagerness to keep him silent.
But Chief Justice Chase knows the duties
and powers of his office. He will be heard om
this case from that most responsible position
that the head of the national judiciary oan
hold. He will be heard, or there will be no
court competent to render a judgment deposing
the President of the United States;
for from the moment it becomes obvious thai
the factious few can control the Senate so far
as to silence the Judge it will be equally
obvious that the Senate is subject to influences
that incapacitate it for a pure discharge of its
duties, and it will be necessary for the Chief
Justice to retire. Matters Will, perhaps, not
be pushed to that extremity. The desperadoes
will, perhaps, carry their fury only so fat
as to write their own sentences for the future,
and will fail in their effort; while the Chief
Justice will so distinctly expound the constitu?
tional significance and purpose of impeachmnnt
m in It Imnnnlhlii fnr (Ka QanaU
to apply its penalties to Mr. Johnson. One
great effect of this will be to purge the political
atmosphere of the wretches who have engineered
all this process for corrupt objects,
and to initiate a new departure in party organization
with the one distinctly grand,
honest, national figure in all this turmoil most
prominent in men's thoughts.
RIm and Fall of Amaiement* In New York*
One striking peculiarity of the American
people must be confessed to be their passion
for novelty. Like the Athenians, they are
forever on the outlook for "something new."
Even the French, with all their proverbial
fickleness, are more constant in their attachment
to . certain amusements than the Americans
have proved to be. Thus, for instanoe,
the pretty ceremony of crowning the roiitrt
at Nanterre has survived centuries and revolutions;
and Innumerable other Instances might
be adduced. The opera and the ballet have
always been steadily popular at Paris ever
since their first introduction. In England
roast beef and horse racing have long been permanent
institutions. But in America, and
especially in New York, there has been a perpetually
kaleidoscopic variety of attractions^
each of which has caUght the popular eye only,
as it were, for an instant. Many years ago,
when horse racing became so popular that a
once prominent journalist, now an old gentleman
exiled to South America in some diplomatic
capacity, used to rig himself up as a
jockey and gallop up and down Broadway*
everybody In New York (talked horse," as
General Grant has been reported to de at
present. But the rage for horse racing in the
days of Eclipse lasted for comparatively a
short period. The fury of speculations in Wail
street suoceetded It, and those who had accumulated
thousands and hundred of thousands of
dollars in the regular lines of commerce and
trade rushed to risk their wealth in the gambling
operations of "the street." Recently the fondness
for horseflesh has revived, and some ol
the most conspicuous bulls and bears betray a
decided propensity for such equine sports as
are offered by Bloomlngdale road, the Central
Park and Jerome Park.
When Palmo built the first opera house the
town was opera-amitten until Palmo's failure
dashed cold water on the temporary enthusiasm
of the publio. At length, after a prolonged
eclipse, opera shone forth again, and there was
a time when nothing was talked of by pleasure
seekers but "Norma" and "ErnanT'and the
reat of the operatio attractions. The vast, cool
and well ventilated Academy of Music has been
sometimes so crowded as to encourage the Wild
hope that Italian opera had found to abiding
home in New York. But the selfishness and
short-sightedness of the one hundred and
ninety-nine and a half stockholders and the
bad management of the "so-called" manager*
Infused a subtle poison, like the fatal poisons of
the East an<J of Italy, into the reins of ope ratio
prosperity, and a slow death was Its destiny.
The "Black Crook" gave tg the ballet snob
an Impulse as it had never before received la
this country. Its unparalleled success lent a
prestige to the "White Fawn," which, in its
turn, has caused Niblo's Garden to be nightly
througed foj months. But g*en the ballet
seems to be op its last legs, and the nj altitude
is growing weary of the spectacular shows and
the indecent nudities which hitherto they have
eagerlj crowded to see.
Bateman's Introduction of the opfrra bonffe
has been the most permanently attractive
novelty of the past season. The "Grande
Duchesne" bequeathed her fascinations to the
"Belle Hdlt:ne." But even the sparkling muslo
of Offenbach will begin to pall upon the ear of a
New Tork audience unless it be married to additional
novelties. Happily the repertory of
Offenbach operas Is still far from being ethausted.
The managers of our theatres should take
special warning by the lessons suggested by
the history of the sudden rise and sudden Ml
of amusement* In New York. Even WalUok'l
theatre, with &Q its legitimate claims on publlo
interest, must expeot in due time to be deserted
if the only novelties which it Intersperses occasional
among fossilised old plays are constructed
after the style of Bowery bloodand-thunder-and-lightning
sensationalisms. Ik
should aim at presenting novelties not altogether
unworthy of the sterling comedies of
English literature which it has sometimes to
admirably reproduced. The New York publio
craves something good as well as something^
new. What Is good will be heartily appr*.
dated ; but whether good, bad or indiffe/fcnt,
it is indispensable that the attraction new.
If likewise It be good, all the better: bat however
good it may prove it must be ^placed by
something else as soon as the ^pular Interest
in it begins to ebb accor^jfig to the regular
tide lavs of jDblio la Nov York*
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