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WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 20. 1868
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PRESSURE ON THE BRAIN-
From what we can gather, the acquittal
of the President would have been a matter
of certainty had the vote been taken on the
appointed day. Just in the nick of time, to
prevent a fiasco and give the impeachers a
chance to “ put on the screws,” Senator
Howard has a determination of blood to
the head, and so, saves the day for his party
or presents it with a chance to repeat the
inquisition for a final effort. It was the
fashion of the great Cardinal Richelieu to
feign illness, even unto death, when matters
ran adversely with his state-craft. We
were disposed, at first, to attribute How
ard's sudden attack to similar provocation;
but, if the telegraph’s mysterious outgiving
is worth}' of credit, there is more brandy
than affectation at the bottom of the unex
pected postponement. We read, fur in
stance, that Senator Drake moved an ad
journment “ because Senators were not in a
condition to attend to business." Now, that
is the usual way of putting a fine point
upon inebriate assemblages, and Drake
was properly exercised when Conkling
foolishly inquired ; “ What’s the matter ?”
To satisfy Conkling and others, he rejoins,
putting the point a trifle less delicately,
that, “ Senators could not see what was the
matter, it was useless for him to tell them."
Whereupon, we hear nothing more from the
aforesaid Conkling, and adjournment was
carried instanter. ,
Still farther, we learn that a majority of
one was claimed for impeachment, in spite
of Howard’s absence. We are told, also,
that Ben Wade, with all his honors blush
ing over him and his Silenus nose in fiery
splendor and prospective glory, was that
solitary man—that “ one majority.” We
feel assured that error is impossible in this
particular, and even the live Drake had
some regard for propriety, just as the Dead
Duck showed himself not altogether lost to
shame by resigning the Secretaryship of
the Senate, with such composure as the
hope' of a seat in the new Cabinet or a
foreign.mission could command. We will,
for the sake of common humanity, be glad
to learn that Howard’s delirium was not
tremens nor tremendous. As the case
stands, he is put in an awkward fix ; but as
precedents are never wanting to shield
greatness from the infirmities of a willing
flesh and unwilling spirit, he can ease in a
plea somewhat after the fashion of a much
superior person, Benjamin Disraeli, about
whom we find a dextrous paragraph in the
London correspondence of the New’ York
Times. Says the correspondent:
“I have already told you that when Mr.
Disraeli made his concluding speech on the
Irish Church debate he was excited. The real
facts may uow be mentioned, for the Premier
seems resolved to make the occasion historical
instead of suffering it to be forgotten. When
he begin his speech he was very much exhaust
ed, and after a time he turned to a friend who
sat beside him on the Treasury Bench, and ask
ed for a glass of weak brandy and water.
Finding, it is to be presumed, the benefit of
this mild potation, he had it repeated, and be
fore he had finished he drank three glasses of
the mixture. His speech, at the beginning,
promised to be one of the finest ever delivered
in the House of-Commons, and members of all
parties were warmed to enthusiasm, in spite of
themselves, by it. It soon, however, began to
be almost incoherent, and moved by compas
sion for the Minister, the House cried, * Divide,
divide.’ Mr. Disraeli took the hint, but before
he sat down, he, in the most confused and ex
cited manner, made his now celebrated charge
that his rival opposite, Mr. Gladstone, had
made a formal alliance with the Ritualists and
the Papal party for the overthrow of the Eng
lish institutions. The House was somewhat
disturbed by the scene, but as Mr. Disraeli’s
drinking had ail been done under their own
eyes, and the circumstance of his being in ill
health was by this time generally known, there
was no disposition to treat what was really a
misfortune as an offense.
It will not escape observation that there
arc points of difference in the dizzy atti
tudes of the English Premier and the Ameri
can Senator. Let us hope, too, that the
«cli rium of the latter was from a different
source. Sometime since, the World news
paper charged, and very flippantly We
think, that the great Democrat Vallandig
iiam was “drunk with the alcohol of
egotism.” The wildest partisanship can
not accuse us of venom, if we rest upon the
belief that the great Radical Howard is
delirious at the bare vision of Ben Wade
and the Whisky Ring holding high carnival
in the White House, while the Potomac
glides inurmuringly past the grave of
Washington and the death knell of the
Republic begins to toll, more like a tocsin
than a requiem—more like the frenzied
music of the can-can than a solemn dirge of
cathedral chimes.
Poor Fellows !—The “ Southern Loyal
ists” have just held a meeting in Washing
ton, and sent In a fervent prayer to the
Senate “ to save them from the cruel and
remorseless revenge of Andrew Johnson
and nisirebel hordes.”
The Richmond IWujy says : “ Poor, per
secuted patriots that they are, who does
not feel compassion for them ! What boots
it that they have all the spoils of the South
—all the offices and honors? They are
miserable, notwithstanding.”
“ALL THE DEOENOY-”
Horace Greeley admits that he cannot
say great things of the Republican party
of the South, but he sets up an unceasing
claim for all the decency of the North.
The frenzy of the extremists has recently
developed a Washburne and a Donnelly,
and Greeley will be put to his trumps to
defend the incomparable disgrace which at
taches to the Minnesota apostle of progress
and the Billingsgate keeper of General
Grant.
But it is not alone in the Congressional
bear-garden proper that the indecency of
Radicalism is manifested. It crops out in
the blasphemous appeals to Deity from
John W. Forney and the horrent impreca
tions of the bloodhounds of Zion who ad
minister strong theological meat to the
preservers of the National Life. We have,
on a former occasion, alluded sufficiently to
the hero of the Forrest-Jamison letter;
here are some revelations concerning the
chaplains of the best government the world
ever saw. The Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Gazette writes:
“It will have been observed that daily the
chaplains of both Houses have sacrilegiously
called upon the Almighty to Interfere directly
in their contemptible party squabbles—to en
lighten Grimes; to bend the stubborn will of
Fessenden ; to soften the stony heart of Hen
derson ; to make more pliable the perverse dis
position of Trumbull; to reconvert the back
slider Fowler, and so on.”
This “ forty parson power ” of the rever
end pap-suckers seems to have been una
vailing, and, as a dernier resort, the irrepress
ible negro is called upon to save the coun
try from Andrew Johnson. The Gazette
correspondent continues:
“The ‘ General Conference of the African M.
E. Zion (Colored) Church,’ now sitting in this
city, have taken the thing in hand. At their
conclave yesterday, Mr. Butler (darkey)—l
quote from the official report— 1 moved that
Friday next be set apart as a day of fasting and
prayer in all the churches to petition Jehovah
for direction of the Senate in the passage of a
vote of conviction and removal of President
Andrew Johnson from the Chief Magistracy of
the United States.’ Mr. Butler prefaced his
motion with remarks that he had just learned
that the Senate of the United States lacked a
sufficient number of votes to convict the Presi
dent, aud had agreed to postpone a vote till
Saturday. It had also been stated that millions
of money had been sent here to buy up Repub
lican Senators, and nothing but the power of
Almighty God could direct the party to success.
‘ Our only hope is in the Saviour.’ Let us de
vote one day on this important subject, and en
deavor to bring about a verdict which will
carry peace and prosperity to all the land. Mr.
Butler reduced his resolution to writing, as fol
lows, and it then passed :
“ Whereas, we have learned with deep regret
that the final vote on the impeachment of the
President has been postponed until Saturday,
May 16th, therefore,
Resolved, That we set apart Friday, the 15th
day of May, as a day of fasting and prayer to
Almighty God to throw around the Senate of
the United States the ‘Girdlings of the Holy
Spirit,’ that they may pass a verdict in the in
terest of suffering humanity, and thereby bring
peace and prosperity to our country.”
‘►This formidable demonstration was reinforc
ed by a proposition of a Rev. Mr. Logan. Many
of these revernd gentlemen (by the way,) it
will be observed, bear the sur-names of promi
nent Radicals—by what right lam not appris
ed. There is one who styles himself * the Rev.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Sumner.’ M-.
Logan hails from Syracuse, N. Y. He stated
(I still quote from the official document) ‘ that
he had bad a consultation with the Bishop of
the M. E. Church General Conference, now in
session in this city, and they had decided, as a
means of furthering the move of conviction, to
have a grand demonstration of the colored peo
ple some night this week. He, therefore, mov
ed that Friday night be set apart for that pur
pose, which was agreed to.
“Wejare, therefore, to have a grand turn out
with drums and fifes and gongs at the time
stated, a la the Chinese, to aid in overawing
the Senate. I hope I have not entrenched upon
more valuable matter in giving this ‘ last inven
tion of the enemy.’ It clearly is a significant
sign of the times in which wc live.
In view of these nauseous exhibitions, is
it to be marvelled at that gentlemen like
Fessenden and Trumbull pause in their
party career and endeavor to rescue what is
left of decency in the Republican paofey, so
nearly swamped by spoon thieves and con
spirators? Nay, it will be a wonder, in
deed, if such men do not, even at the
eleventh hour, abandon the ultras and wage
a war of extermination upon them, if only
to save the credit of their record and pro
priety of their motives. We do not alto
gether despair of seeing them follow in the
wake of a prominent Virginia politician,
named Hodgekin, who was a delegate to
the late Virginia Convention. Disgusted
with the platform and nominations of the
party, he suddenly recollects that he had a
conscience, and prints a card to this effect:
“ I this day sever my connection with all po.
litical organizations, and shall hereafter endeav
or to pay more attention to my future salva
tion.”
This is one of the most refreshing emana
tions of the day. We hail it as the harbin
ger of something brighter in the time to
come. We triut the regular nominees, if
elected, will not tempt him with a fat of
fice, and add another to the long list so
quaintly described in the okl couplet:
“ The devil sick, the devil a saint would be,
The devil well, the devil a saint was he !”
ANOTHER VICTIM.
It will be seen, by reference to our tele
graphic column, that a Missouri Congress
man, named Pile, has been piling on the
agony and exhibiting symptoms of the
Howard delirium. Would it not be a good
idea for the Radicals to confiscate all the
green peas in the Washington market?
South Carolina Statesmen.—The Co
lumbia correspondent of tie New York
Tribune confesses, with much innocent can
dor, that the “ candidates brought out by
the Republicans, the only friends of recon
struction down here, are not of such weight
and character as to inspire confidence or
command rcsnect.”
THE FUTURE.
Col. John Forsyth’s latest communica
tion to the Mobile Register Is a most Inter
esting document. We copy such portions
as must prove entertaining and instructive,
in view of the tremendous future toward
which we are driving at such headlong
speed. Col. Forsyth says:
“If Stanton could bar out of the War, De
partment an appointee, ad interim, of his law
ful chief, it would seem that the President could
hold the White House against a Bergeant-at-
Arms or a Federal marshal, who should be sent
to execute the judgment of the Senate. The
next step would be force, and the lover of
peace, to the ‘ last extremity,’ will object that
this is the beginning of revolution. No: the
revolution is already inaugurated, and is in
rapid progress. What it does is only to make
two parties to the revolution, and not leave it
as heretofore, to be lun exclusively by and in
Radical interest. If a party can afford to push
the nation to the verge of civil war to main
tain its ill-gotten power, the people can cer
tainly afford to risk it for the purpose of de
fending their cherished institutions of govern
ment aud preserving their liberties. These
thoughts are busy in men’s minds—far more
so than five weeks ago when I first cane here.
If you add to these elements of conflict be
tween governmental forces, the intense bitter
ness of personal feeling between the parties,
you will find as pretty au assortment of com
bustible materials out of which to kindle a civil
war as you might desire.
“At a public dinner table a few days ago,
where I was almost a total stranger, when the
President’s trial was mentioned, a man (I can
not call him a gentleman) broke out in profane
aud furious denunciation of Mr. Johnson, and
swore if he had his way he would not only de
pose, but hang him. I learned afterwards that
this just person was very close to a Radical
Senator, and thought this a good sign for A.
J.’s acquittal. Forney has been giving out
some similar signs in his papers lately, very
desperate and very mad. Take another in
stance of party hate :
“ A few days ago the carriage of General C.
(who commanded a division in Hancock’s
corps) was standing at a private door. An
army officer in uniform came along, and asked
the driver whose carriage it was.
“ Driver—Gen.'fi.’s, and he is in the house vfith
Gen. Hancock.
“O^cer—And do you drive Gen. Hancock
about ?
“Driver—Yes, sir.
“O^Ecer—Well, instead of doing that, you
ought to take the first opportunity to make
your horses run away, upset the carriage, and
break his d—d copperhead neck.
“ Driver—L am hired to drive safely, and not
to break people’s necks. Gen. C. will bedown
presently, and may be you had better wait and
tell him this.
“The officer passed on. This is an actual oc
currence. Grant has become very bitter him
self, and, as he is the fountain of military favor,
the army officers on his side are catching the
fever, aud the timid and time-serving are af®id
to go about Gen. Hancock’s headquarters. The
latter general has no personal relations with
Grant—disdaining all intercourse with him, •on
the declared ground that General Grant had
grossly insulted him in those New Orleans or
ders upon which he asked to be relieved of his
command. If old Ben Wade gets into the
White House, I fancy the first order will be to
send Hancock and the plucky and fiery offi
cers who surround him far away from Wash
ington.
“ To illustrate how every clement of calcula
tion is drawn in to forecast the result of the
impeachment, I may state that the latest dis
covery here is that there are sixteen Masons in
the Senate, of whom fourteen are Republicans.
It is argued that, under the sacred obligations
of a Maton to do justice to a brother and stand
by him In his rights, it is quite impossible for
these Senators to vote guilty, where the evi
dence has swept away all suspicion of guilt.—
While I do not pin my faith much to the theory,
I may state that I adhere to my first judgment,
and that is, that the President will not be de
posed.’
“In uttering the results of my own labor, I
am able to speak cheering words to our people
of the future. I have not a doubt of the verity
of a deep and widespread popular reaction
against Radicalism, and, if nothing untoward
happens to check its progress, I am prepared
to witness a revolution of the masses next
November, the like of which has not been
known in the annals of American politics.
The white stomach is sick unto nausea of the
party deification of the negro. It revolts at
sharing the powers of government with him.
In Michigan, I learn from a Federal General
distinguished in the late war, there is a perfect
and compact organization of 54,000 ex-so]diers,
who will vote in soli do against even Grant him
self, if be is weighted with the abhorrent dog
ma of negro suffrage. Michigan, remember, is
the Massachusetts of the West, and you may
infer the reality of what I am told from the
vote she cast last month—changing from a
Radical majority of 29,000 to 35,000 against a
State constitution, because it bad the Radical
black idol in it. The Radicals here feel the
shadow of defeat which Is thickening upon
them, and, worse than all, they are losing faith
in the prestige of Gen. Grant. With him as
their trusted and fated best bower, they find
their bark dragging its anchor and drifting
rapidly to leeward. Instead of Grant’s popu
larity carrying them, they are beginning to find
him a weightgo be carried. The feeling broke
out in the late speech of so uncompromising a
Radical as Donnelly, of Minnesota, who the
other day distinguished himself by the fiercest
and coarsest piece of invective uttered in the
House for many a day. After representing
Graat as the hand-organ of Washburne,*and
the whole Washburne family mounted on its
top, holding out their hats for pennies, he but
thinly concealed his satire under the after culo
gium which he felt called on to pronounce on
the great Ulysses. The grand collapse is com
ings and, when Radicalism * goes up,’ General
Grant will go down to occupy a very humble
niche in the Pantheon of greatness.
“ The lesson from all this to our people is,
to summon up a new stock of patience and
forbearance, and although 1 know how hard it
is, when I read of our fellow-citizens filling
Southern prisons by military order, with de
nial of bail and civil trial, and feel from my
own heart how the blood must swell and boil
in their veins under provocations and wrongs
so great, yet 1 draw the argument of forbear
ance from the very enormity of the provoca
tion. We cannot afford, in an outburst of un
restrained indignation, to throw away the
chances’ of a full atonement in the near future.
There'are wrongs that can wait. Let it alwa}g
be borne in mind that these indignities may be
put upon our people for the express purpose
of forcing them to outbreaks of 1 law and or
der, ’ (so-called) in order to justify the contin
uance of the Radical war upon them. So far,
our compatriots have behaved admirably, and,
as I have taken frequent occasion to remark
here, they have shown more heroism in the
fortitude of endurance than they even exhibit
ed in the front of battle, when they carried
their cause on the points of their swords and
bayonets. Let me implore them to endure yet
a little longer. The hours fly fast, and events
are sweeping us ‘ swift to our revenge ’
through the Radical-damning votes of the Amer
ican people—and not only our revenge, but
the revenge of that great popular tribunal
which Mr. Evarts told the Senate was sitting
on its trial, and which did not mean to sur
render its constitution to any living power.
God speed the hour when Americans can again
breathe the air of liberty ! J. F.”
THE RELIEF SWINDLE.
By a vote of 78 to 51, the amendment of
Mr. Thaddeus •Stevens relative to the sev
enteenth section of the Georgia constitu
tion, has passed the House of Representa
tives. That amendment reads as follows :
“ That the provisions of the seventeenth sec
tion of the constitution of the State of Georgia
shall not apply to a debt due to any person
who, during the whole time of the late rebel
lion, was loyal to the United States and op
posed to
If we do not greatly err, this amendment
takes away much of the vitality of Relief and
leaves the people who voted for Bullock
and his bribe somewhat in the condition
of men who win elephants at a raffle. If a
disloyal creditor finds it impossible to col
lect his dues from a Southern debtor, what
is to prevent a general or individual trans
fer of such bad debts to loyal men who are
empowered to levy and collect ? Such
transfers will undoubtedly be made, and,
unless a miracle has taken place, Mr.
Stevens’ amendment ■will send a host
of truly loyal speculators upon the
South, whose demands for liquidation
will make quick work of Bullock’s new
way to pay old debts. As the case stands,
the people of North Georgia have voted for
bread and got the hardest kind of stone.
They were warned in due season, but they
refused to hear. It is highly probable that
this Stevens amendment will remove the
wool from their eyes and ears, teaching
that the Radical Greeks are never more to
be feared than when they come with temp
tations and gifts.
BEWARE !
We see it stated that a number of Legis
lators elect are pushing, or being pushed,
forward to declare that, though elected on
Radical tickets, Radicalism is no faith of
theirs. For instance, Judge Hudson, of
Harris, though classed with the Radicals,
is no Radical at all, and his friends are
eager to let the world know it. Again,
Mr. Scroggin, of Coweta, also enumerated
with the Radicals, authorizes the Newnan
Herald to deny this statement of position.
There are others similarly situated, we be
lieve, and immense pains have been taken
to describe their peculiar status. Wc ad
mire the bravery of these gentlemen, but
this imprudence must afford their enemies,
and especially Gen. Meade's board of in
vestigation, an unfailing supply of amuse
ment. The chances of their being returned
to the Legislature were, up to a certain pe
riod, quite flattering; but, since these
charming confessions, we have sad fears of
their success. A military court is organ
ized to convict, you know, and a military
investigating committee will hardly man
age things so as to cause a frown to mantle
the classic brow of “my dear Mr. For
ney,” late Secretary of the U. S. Senate,
and now a gentleman in anxious waiting
upon Benjamin F. Wade and Gen. Geo.
G. Meade. _ ___
A DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
Our Macon contemporaries, when asked
for-thiir advice and opinion on the proprie
ty of calling a State Democratic Conven
tion, indulge in untimely and vindictive
flings at the position of this part of Geor
gia during’the late election. As. has been
very clearly shown by the Chronicle & Sen
tinel, we did creditably enough considering
the tremendous pressure brought upon this
Congressional district—a pressure which,
to the same extent, did not prevail else
where. But whether wc did our full duty
or not, it ill-becoines our brethren of the
press at Macon to taunt us so bitterly when
we earnestly seek for the best means of do
ing thorough work hereafter. If the Macon
journals were opposed to calling a conven
tion, they could have very easily preter
mitted all bile and phlegm; they could
have, without the sacrifice of dignity, stated
their objections in tones of moderation.
Meanwhile, it aft'ords us much pleasure to
know that the Central Committee are incu
bating. Wc wish the members thereof
great success, and trust that Mr. Belmont
will be luminously enlightened of their pro
gress by telegraph and otherwise.
IMPEACHMENT,
It seems that the impeachers brought out
their full strength on the eleventh article
and failed to sustain themselves. This ar
ticle charges the President with saying in
1866, in Washington, that Congress was
illegal and could only act so far as he
chose to recognize it, and the violation of
two or three bills in his efforts to keep Stan
ton out after the Senate had overruled his
reasons for suspension.
The Radicals, having recoiled from the
abyss of impeachment, will now take a new
tack. Wc are prepared to hear that the
term Radical is a misnomer, and, never be
fore in the history of the world were such
magnanimity and moderation exhibited.
It will be curious to note the effect of the
acquittal on the Chicago Convention and
Wendell Phillips. Look out for
squalls.
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, May 9.
The city is filled with rumors of the prob
able acquittal of President Johnson, but
after the most searching inquiry I can
make nothing of them but an effort on the
part of Mr. Seward and his friends to force
a recognition from Mr. Wade. I therefore
turn to other themes.
a phase oe our social life.
Throughout the length and breadth ol
New York city there goes on a warfare
which is never ceasing, yet ever changing
interchange of hostilities. In this combat
no summer campaign is known, nor do the
frosts and sleets and snows of a Northern
winter bring au intermission thereto. In
this contest of which I speak are ranged
on one side the keepers of boarding houses,
and those who board upon the other. The
few who keep house “ rari nautes in gurgite
vasto," carry on small battles and unim
portant and occasional skirmishes with
cooks, chambermaids and waitresses of the
Irish persuasion; but in these cases some
days or even weeks of tranquility intervene.
The method of warfare pursued by the keep
ers of boarding houses is, firstly, that of
entrapping, which is done by courteous
smiles, great apparent affability, etc. Onee
fairly caught, the new comer, to his dismay,
generally finds himself surrounded by a
crew of grumblers and breathing an atmos
phere of discontent. One says the steak is
tough, another that the tea is weak, etc.;
and in addition, probably, the servants are
dirty, and, worse than all, the landlady gos
sipping. The natural course would be to
leave, but that, in nine cases out of ten,
would be only to rush from evils which are
known to those which are unknown, and
so the household stay on, their only conso
lation being to hold daily and secret indig
nation meetings, in which everything is
confidential and half whispered between the
ladies who collect together with their sew
ing. Perhaps if one finds a place where
things are comfortable, where the coffee is
coffee, not chicory, where the meats are
good, the vegetables fresh, the butter pala
table; where cleanliness prevails, and where
the parlor is pretty, then, probably, Mr. So
and-so is on terms of too great sociability
with the landlady, who is a widow, and
propriety and self-respect demand a depart
ure. That is, one goes—i he has not been
very long in New York—but gradually one’s
ideas become metropolitanized ; he does not
look very closely into matters, and says
that at any rate ’tis none of his business.
Nevertheless, there is an incessant and
constant changing and . fluctuating. I
think it is Alison who calls the Americans
a “ nomad agricultural people.” I should
call the New Yorkers “ a nomad boarding
people ;” and the only classes benefitted by
this going from house to house, that I can
think of, are the cartmen and the Express
companies, who greatly enjoy and reap a
profit from the moving of the baggage.
To the dismal picture 1 have drawn, how
ever, there arc some honorable exceptions,
and exceptions they most truly are—where
the landlady deals fairly, and where her
inmates are considerate and contented., and.
are entitled to an exordium of praise which
I heard delivered upon one of these estab
lishments. It was to this effect—that “ the
boarders staid there till they died.” But
even in the case of these fortunate abodes,
there sometimes comes a first of May, and
with some first of May, some direful change.
And even if that fated day goes by, and all
remains tranquil and stationary, yet fashion,
with relentless stride, sooner or later over
takes them all, both landlady and boarders,
aiid sends them all up town. Here is Bond
street, for instance, from which I write,
tilled with relics of the ’olden time—the
street where years ago the wealth and
beauty of the city most did congregate.
Now milliners, dentists, and quack doctors
tread the spacious halls, and even they, ere
many years are flown, consider street
as too far down town.
CARRIAGES IN CENTRAL PARK.
Central Park, a wilderness when Bond
street was the fashion, is now the fashion
able part of New York city;. and just at
this season it is very fashionable indeed.
For the fashionables have not as yet taken
their departure, which in a month later
they will have done (or pretending to have
done so, hide themselves away in the dark
back rooms), and the park is crowded with
their equipages. Springing from its cold
bondage of months gone by, the park looks
fresh and cheerful, enlivened as it is by a
concourse of gayety and beauty. For a
drive over its attractive roads, the fashion
able dress carriage is the Landau; but the
most popular is the Clarence. Goat skins,
in brown shades, and silk perry or reps, in
blue and brown, are the'favorite linings for
Landaus. Brown, blue and red are favor
ite colors for painting .these carriages,
though green is coming into use. Clarences
are painted in the same colors, but the lin
ings are frequently in satins; reps are also
much used. The Coupe is gradually attain
ing the popularity it has so long held in
London and Paris—the small ones, for one
horse, are extensively used by bachelors—
goat skin being the favorite lining. The
Cabriolet, or Victoria, is emphatically the
ladies’ carriage for the park, with the beau
tify pony phsetons for ladies who drive
themselves. Many of these are made with,
“rumble” seats behind for the footman.
The “drag’’ is the “four-in-hand” vehicle;
some of them are made to carry a dozen
persons. The newest thing in the way of a
tandem rig is the “ White Chapel cart,” in
troduced by a Fifth Avenue manufacturer,
from drawings received from London, where
these carts are very much used. For young
men who desire an elegant vehicle for one
horse, the “ tea cart,” a sort of phteton on
four wheels, is decidedly the handsomest
vehicle of this kind yet introduced. This
is another importation from London, and
it has already achieved popularity among
the leading young men oi the town—at
least one-half being ordered by prominent
members of the Jockey Club. Among
other vehicles are, dog carts, phmtons, ba
rouches, etc.
SOR TERESA.
Ristori has returned among us, and
Grau, astute and watchful of his own in
terests, brings as a novelty a new tragedy—
Sor Teresa —which, as we all know, caused
a disturbance in Havana, by attracting
popular attention. The story of the drama
is this: During the Spanish campaign a
French officer marries a Spanish lady. Af
terwards, supposing his wife to be dead, he
marries again. Having a daughter by his
first wife, and another by his second, he
places the elder in a convent, while the
younger he makes his heiress. By a con
venient coincidence, the elder daughter en r
ters a convent of which her mother, sup
posed to be dead, is the Abbess—her con
ventual name being Sor Teresa. The hus
band visits his daughter at the convent,
and is thus recognized by his first wife.—
She also discovers that her daughter is at
tached to the same person tor whom her
half-sister was betrothed against her will,
and she resolves to visit her husband in or
der to secure the happiness oi the tw r o girls.
Her absence from the convent is discover
ed ; the ecclesiastical authorities remove
her from her position, and she dies in the
agony of parting from her daughter. In
this play, Ristori, by the force of her
genius, concentrates upon herself the entire
interest of a play which is somewhat
tedio is, aud commands the attention of
her audience as fully as in any other of her
tragedies. She is unsupported by other in
teresting characters, with, perhaps, a sin
gle exception. During the ceremony of
taking the veil, which, by the way, forms a
fine tableau upon the stage, the countenance
of the great tragediennelexhibits, to a de
gree which is startling, the agony which a
mother feels upon witnessing a daughter’s
sacrifice. The contrast, also, between the
toilet of the Marchioness and that of the
Abbess is striking, and in the last and final
death scene, her acting is invested with a
character of fearful reality.
BUSINESS MATTERS.
Cotton continues to droop under a series*
of adverse influence, the most conspicuous
of which are increased shipments from Bom
bay to Liverpool and a slow trade in cotton
o-oods. We have a great week in bread
stuffs. The receipts of wheat alone have
been the enormous aggregate of 980,000
bushels, and this large quantity has been
quickly cleared of the market, mainly for
export, at nearly full prices; and such is
the deficiency in the supply at the close that
prices are again tending upward. The sup
ply of corn from the West is likely to be de
ficient. Her crop was of superior quality,
but deficient in quantity, owing to the pro
longed drouth. Pork and other hog pro
ducts are dull, with a decline probable.—
Groceries are quiet, except sugars, which
have advanced to 11%@13 cents for grocery
grades. Tobacco has also taken an upward
turn, with some speculation. Money has
become easier, but there is no life to the
stock speculation. Gold is supported in
view of possible contingencies attending
the impeachment proceedings.
Willoughby.
[From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Three Days' Saturnalia of the House.
The three days entertainment given by
the leading statesmen at the Capitol on
Friday, Saturday, and Monday last, had at
least one capital* merit—the scale of amuse
ment was well adjusted, and each day’s ex
hibition was a decided improvement upon
its predecessor. The capability of the rep
resentatives at Washington to astonish the
country received each day a new’ and start
ling illustration. A gentleman who had
heard the low, rowdy debate of Friday
would not have hesitated to commit him
self to the opinion that it could not be sur
passed ; but he could have learned a thing
or two had he attended the evening session
of Saturday ; and if he had not then sup
posed there could be nothing more, and so
stayed away on Monday, he would have had
his eyes opened then, and have experienced
a sensation positively fresh and original, as
he heard the legislators of a nation engage
in a strain of talk that would disgrace Mer
cer street upon a summer night. .
It would take a highly accomplished
critic to characterize with anything like
just discrimination the several stages of
this shameful affair. On Friday, Mr.
Brooks, of New York, spoke rather more
like a gentleman than those with whom he
was engaged, but his style was borrowed
from the New York Common Council room,
and to speak without exaggeration, would
have subjected him to arrest upon the streets
of any well ordered city. [Mr. Brooks was
on the defensive, and characterized attacks
upon him as they deserved—as Billingsgate,
—Ed. Int.J Mr. Butler held his owiP hand
somely, as may be supposed; himself isever
his own parallel. Mr. Logan proved him
self a vulgar, brutaj fellow, of the very
worst social and moral type.
One peculiarity of this so-called debate
deserves memtion. From beginning to end
there was no sprightliness, no pith, no sting
to any part of the monstrous abuse which
was exchanged among honorable members.
It was the talk of fishwomen, which usual
ly is piquant enough; but of fishwomen
who had been out over night, and didn’t
feel well enough to do justice to the sub
ject, or themselves. The jokes were stale,
the personalities its low as they were infa
mous, and the whole affair had a jaded,
sour, offensive look, taste, and smell. Had
any one of the members most prominent
said a tithe as much in the English Parlia
ment, he would instantly have been put in
custody and brought to the bar to make an
acknowledgment upon his knees. Nay, no
apology would have been accepted for lan
guage so derogatory to the character of a
legislative body. And this is the House of
Representatives which impeached Mr.
Johnson for indecorous and foolish speech!
On Saturdry came the great Donnelly-
Washburne quarrel, in which the whole
matter was out of order, the whole manner •
unparliamentary and ungentlemanly; and
a crowded house listened and applauded
utterances for which Joseph Coburn, vic
tualer and pugalist, would have cleared his
saloon in a minute.
But the third act was yet to be performed
in this spectacle of national humiliation.—
At the conclusion of the court on Monday,
those grave judges, those reverend seignors
of the Senate—will it be believed?—pro
ceeded, almost in a body, to attend the
shameful exhibition expected in the House.
A great deal might be pardoned to men of
violent disposition and early disadvantages
for what should happen in the heat of con
troversy, (though for that matter, real wrath
never exhibits itself in ribaldry;) but that
men could, when cool, think it funny to
have applied and received the most insult
ing ami obscene epithets, what does this
speak for their character and training ? No
man with the ordinary human instincts, to
whom the epithets so freely bandied on Sat
urday had been once applied, would in de
cency submit again to exchange a word or
look with the person who had so grossly
affronted him. Yet we find members of
Congress making a great joke of the matter,
and all the remonstrances and protestations
of the more seriously inclined drowned in
floods of laughter ! It was a scene through
out to make every honest American blush
for his country.
Perhaps we could give no more forcible
impression of the manner in which the
Congress of the United State-, deported
itself at the close of the satum ilia of vul
garity than by transcribing tiie following
delicious morceau, which tells how the
Federal House of Representatives adjourns
at the close of an attempt to be solemn an.l
sorrowful over previous indecencies:
Several motions were repeatedly made,
amid much confusion, to adjourn,
Mr. Donnelly ironically asked: Is it
proper for me, in the present temper of the
House, to propose that the House imitate
flhe illustrious example in the case of the
Secretary of War and General Thomas, and
go out and take a drink? [General laugh
ter—some saying “ Agreed”—■“ My whistle’s
dry”—“ I siy amen to that”— “■ Ha! Good 1
Ha! ha!”]
Mr. Washburne. I belong to the Tem
perance Society. [Laughter.]
Mr. Donnelly, [in au undertone.] So do 1. •
The Speaker, in reply to Mr. Donnelly,
said that was not a question to be determin
ed by the Chair, although he always felt
gratified if gentlemen could so settle their
difficulties.
The Radical Slate.— We understand that
the Radical slate is being made up. Governor
Brown is to be CMet Justice; Parrott and
Blodgett United States Senators, and Col. •
Hulbert, Superintendent of the State Road,
with Mr. Levi Pond for Master of Transporta
tion. We will announce the other positions as
fast a Madam Rumor lets us hear them.
\ Atlanta Opinion.