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tee weekly constitutionalist WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 20. 1868 Clubltetealor *He Weekly Constitution alist. That every one may be enabled to sub scribe, and receive the benefits of a live jour nal, we offer the following liberal terms to Clubs ; 1 Copy per year - - * 2° 3 Copies per year - - - - 750 5 Copies per year - - - - 12 00 10 Copies per year - - - - 20 00 We trust that every subscriber to the paper will aid us in adding to our list. 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.