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PROGRESS OF IMPEACHMEN7.

"A very interesting story. It displays much ability, and con
tains some clever delineations of character."—Star.

The opening scene of the Impeachment trial,
March 13, 1868, has now been more fully painted.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia inquirer has
devoted a page to the presence of the ladies. "As
a general statement, it may be sai I that the wife
of almost every Congressman who is either tran-
siently or permanently in Washington, came to-
day to the trial. Several ladies of the President's
household were present, and the mother of Speaker
Colfax, Mrs. Matthews, was in a prominent seat.
Mrs. Ben Butler had a good place, and also Mrs.
Kate Chase Sprague, wearing a fawn-coloured silk,
dark velvet basque and bonnet, with etruscan ear-
drops and bugles of frosted gold, who sat beside her
sister, Miss Nettie Chase, a stouter young lady.
Mrs. Sprague has the look of a French lady, being
slight and dashing ; her sister has a staider look,
like a Holland maiden. Mrs. Ben Wade wore a
black cloth sacque, two short side locks of brown
hair, and a brown rose in her braid. She was pro-
vided with a corner place immediately opposite
her husband, and next to the diplomats. Vinnie
Ream, the little sculptress, wore a wave of flat ring-
lets down her back, reaching below her waist. She is
a dark-eyed, nervous, spirituelle little girl, and had
admirers in numbers buzzing around her, of course.
The ladies of the household of Mr. Thornton, the
British Minister, attracted attention ; one of them,
a stout English girl, with fine shoulders and colour,
and the step of the winner of the Derby, the other
smaller, with the motion and figure of a gazelle.
Mrs. George Vickers, wife of the new Maryland
Senator, had a good seat." But the correspondent,
although like a true American gives to women the
most conspicuous place, does not confine his atten-
tion, as Mrs. Stanton declares a third of the re-
presentatives do, to the ladies gallery, as the follow-
ing extract shows :—" Two seats of the diplomatic
gallery were filled with Englishmen in mutton-chop
whiskers, glasses screwed into their eyes, and a pro-
digious quantity of jewelery." It does Englishmen
good to hear how others describe them, with their
mutton-chop whiskers and mass of jewelery ! Most
Englishmen would warmly repudiate the jewelery
charge, unconscious that they had slung their
watch to their button-hole with a gold chain of
dimensions sufficient to anchor a yacht, and a ring
on the little finger large enough to engrave the
seal of a Mandarin. A Yankee with a handsome
diamonl pin stuck in his shirt front would be ac-
cused by the unconscious Englishman of being loud
in jewelery. But to return to our subject. " Mr.
Thornton, the British Minister, is a fine-looking
gentleman, not unlike Mr. Stanbery, late At-
torney-General. The Greek Minister, Mr. Ron-
gabe, a small, grey haired, pleasant man, had a seat
near the dark, olive-faced Spanish Minister, who sat
near the old Washington resident and father of all
the legations, Baron Gerolt. Judge Thomas Nel-
son, of Tennessee, an old friend of the President,
and now one of his counsel, is a farmer-looking,
grey-haired man, with a beardless faces ; his ears are
standing out sharply, a good deal of height and
breadth of rock-like and dented forehead over his
very quietly relentless grey eyes. Benjamin R. Curtis
is a thick-set man, neatly, even 2tifly, dressed in
black, and sits with his hands crossed at his waist.
Stanbery is a tall, straight, slim man, with grey
side whiskers, a high, square head, of the sort called
' long,' and a nervous, earnest manner of speech.
He got mad at the beginning of the trial when
Judge Bingham brought him to a stand on the
Senate rules. The professional statement of Mr.
Johnson's counsel, as read by Mr. Stanbery, con-
tained in the earliest lines the words, at which we
have arrived to,' whereupon somebody cried, That
sounds like the President's own composition.' The
voice of Mr. Stanbery was clear, musical, and con-
versational. He stood with his right hand behind
his back, and glasses on his nose. He behaved very
well until Biugbatn brought him to his feet, when
he showed decidedly that he had lost his temper.
Thaddeus Stevens, among the impeachers, came in
by a rear door, after the rest of the committee had
entered. A member of the President's household,
who had a seat in the gallery, exclaimed aloud
here, He wants to attract attention.' Fhe old
man leaned on his heavy cane; and, taking his chair,
extended his long hand and gave a silent order.
Everybody looked at him. The battle opened
warmly, with Stanbery leaping up and speaking
nervously, crisply, with his hands stretched out. He
demanded if himself and his learned brothers were
to be trapped in a net ? It was very certain indeed
that the President's counsel had paid little atten-
tion to the Senate rules for the guidance of the
trial. They had all reached out instinctively for
the printed copies thereof, and conferred to-
gether in a few syllables before Stanbery arose."
Stanbery surprised all hearers by his bitterness ;
Butler was bitter as a matter of course, and Bing-
ham was earnest and calm. Adjutant-General
Thomas has been cross-examined by the Impeach-
ment Committee relative to a conversation said to
have occurred at a reception at the White house on
the 16th March. General Butler bullied this wit-
ness for two hours, yet all he extracted was, that an
old acquaintance from Newcastle, Delaware, spoke
about the present political troubles, and advised
him to " stand firm." Thomas replied, "Am I not
standing firm ?" " Yes," said the old acquaintance,
"but you must kick that fellow Stanton out ;" to
which the Adjutant-General answered, " We will
do that." He also informed the old acquaintance
that he recognized Mr. Stanton only as a private
citizen, and would obey no orders emanating from
him, he (Thomas) being the Secretary of War.
The Adjutant-General repeated this to the commit-
tee, distinctly stating that he would obey no orders
from Stanton.

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On the 16th March Mr. Butler managed to get
the rules of the House suspended to bring in his
motion that during the Impeachment it shall
be in order any day to move a suspension of the
rules on motion connected with or growing out of
the question. The motion was adopted, with the
exception of the morning hour of Monday. With
a view further to facilitate the progress of the Im-
peachment trial, a Bill has passed the House which
provides that the senior associate Judge of the
Supreme Court shall, in case of any inability of the
Chief Justice, be eligible to perform his duties.

A telegraphic despatch from Cincinnat to the New
York papers, dated March 18, says:—" The steamer
Magnolia, of the Cincinnati and Maysville regular packets,
which left here at noon to-day with cabin passengers and
a large amount of freight, exploded her boiler 12 miles
above this city, at half-past ono this afternoon. The
greater portion of the cabin was carried away, and the
boat afterwards took fire. About 40 persons were killed,
several of them being burnt to death. Tho Magnolia had
120 passengers and 40 members of the crew. Fifty-seven
are known to have been saved. Tha boat took fire im-
mediately after the boilers exploded, and . after the
remaining upper works were destroyed some powder in
the magazine exploded, destroying all but the hull, which
sank. Many of the passengers jumped overboard, and
were drowned, and others were burnt, among them the
captain. The boat was valued at $30,000, on which there
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Some recent remarks by the Bishop of Oxford on Sunday
Schools pi oduced such a " profound sensation," and raised
such an outcry from certain quarters, that one turns with
some interest to an article by his lordship, headed, " Our
Sunday S ehools —How to Use Them," in the current number
of Good Words. Dr. Wilberforce in, that paper ably
defends the position he has taken up with regard to the
religious education of the young, viz., that the teaching at
present given in our Sunday Schools is irksome, and
therefore to some extent repulsive, while it ghould be
pleasant, and consequently winning. Sunday Schools, he
declares, in commencing, are in a state of crisis. Men are
beginning to lose the implicit confidence they have hitherto
pl:tced in this important part of our religious system. The
question, therefore, is, how to restore the schools to a proper
state of efficiency, and make them useful by teaching the
young to love religion and religious services. There has, his
lordship points out, been a stay in the increase, if not an
actual falling off, of the number of Sunday scholars. The
educational census of 1851 gave a return of ?,407,642
Sunday scholars. Notwithstanding the vast increase of
the population shewn by the census of 1861 (an increase
of more than two millions), the number of scholars only
shelved an advance of 3,900. Further, while the Church
of England is teaching a proportion of 7(P2 per cent.
of week-day scholars, only 45'S—less than ludf—of the
Sunday scholars attend the schools of the Establishment.
All other denominations get a larger proportion of Sunday
than day scholaro. This leads the right rev. writer to
the conclusion that as day scholars increase there is a
tendency to diminish the number of Sunday scholars.
The better children are being gradually eliminated,
and the schools are now thronged with a lower
class than heretofore. How, then, shall we make our
schools more attractive to the young ? First, answers his
lordship, by banishing from them anything like the
character of work. Let work alone for the day school.
Make the Sunday class partake of the nature of rest and
refresment. Banish from it as much as possible all trace
of the day school. Such, for instance, as providing a table
around which the Selialara:might sit, would be beneficial.
Let the teacher be bright,- playful, and sympathising. MS
object should be to form in his pupils the basis of a religious
character. With regard to the very young, they should
be dealt with most gently. They are naturally prone to
be restless ;do not rebuke them for it. So arrange that
they may obtain continual change of posture. Children's
hymns, sung to children's tunes, easy Bible stories, simple
Bible prints, are the means of employing profitably the
time. If there is a garden near, they might be taken into
it and interested with lessons from the lily of the valley and
the flower of the field. More difficult is the problem,
How shall the elder, or semi-adult scholars, be dealt
with ? One of the most important items is that they
should be completely separated from the school
itself. Let there be nothing of what may be termed
".Sunday slavery" in the senior class. The young men
have arrived at a time of life of all others the most impor-
tant. They should be carefully dealt with. Such matters,
so often overlooked, as the Sunday afternoon " walk out"
should be studied. Young men and young women will
" keep company." No time is better fora stroll than the
Sunday afternoon. If the class is fixed to interfere with
this, the twilight is chosen, a time the most objectionable.
The best time for the class, perhaps, is, for the males just
before the evening, and for the females just before the
afternoon service. Teachers should be more carefully
trained, and more carefully selected. Scholars would then
easily be found. The Sunday School is par excellence
the place where the employer may show that he cares for
the working man. With attention to the matters here
mentioned, Dr. Wilberforce thinks our schools might regain
the position they are fast losing.

The Irish towns which have determined to for-
ward expressions of welcome to the Prince and Princess of
Wales on their landing are—Dublin, Carlow, Belfast,
Newry, Wicklow, Coleraine, Kinsale, Bandon, Clones,
Ballymena, Kingstown, Wexford, Waterford, Mullingar,
Naas, Athy, and Newtownlimivady. Most of the
addresses presented will refer to the hope dat there may
soon be a " royal residence established in Ireland."

The following officers have been selected to
command divisions at the forthcoming Volunteer Re-
view:—Major-General Sir Alfred Horsford, K.C.8.,
Majors General H. Benny, and Major-General G. I.
Carey, C.B. Several other staff and regimental officers
are being selected to act as assistant adjutant-generals,
assistant quartermaster-generals, brigade majors, and
aides-decamp.

MAJORLTY OF TILE EARL OF ELLESMERE.-TllO
Earl of Ellesmere attained his majority on Sunday. His
lordship is at in esent on a tour in the East, and no festivi-
ties will take place until his return. In honour of the
event, however, the men and boys employed on the estate,
to the number of about 5,000, received during last week a
gratuity equal to a day's wages.

Emma Davy, aged 15, a spinner at the Atlas Mills,
Longside -lane, Bradford, with her sister and some othergirls,
lately got into the hoist, to ascend to the third storey of the
mill. Arrived there, the hoist was stopped, the other girls
stepped out, and the deceased was following, when the hoist
began to descend. She was caught between the stone steps
and the framework of the hoist, and crushed about the chest.
Immediately on being taken home she expired. The girls
were using the hoist contrary to express orders, and to save
themselves the trouble of ascending the staircase, the proper
road for them to take in order to reach their work.

IRISH CHURCH DEBATE.—Mr. Thomas Hughes
M.P., has presided at a lecture in Surrey Chapel by the
Rev. Newman Hall. The building was crowded by work-
ing men, who listened with great attention to a summary
of the late debate. The lecturer said that, as a Protestant,
he repudiated the injustice done in the name of Protes-
tantism to the Roman Catholics of Ireland. Because he
hoped to see Scriptural Christianity triumph, he desired
;hat such an obstacle to the reception of the truth might
be removed. Mr. Hughes expressed his pleasure at wit-
iessing the intelligent and fixed attention of the audience,
us hope that speedily the Irish Church might cease to be
ast 'lished, and that the English Church might be more
comprehensive, so as to allow the clergy of other commu-
nions to take part occasionally hiller services.

COURAGEOUS RESCUE.—The children of the
Rev. T. E. Buckworth, of Ivybridge, met with a serious ac-
cident whilst walking by the banks of the Erne, above the
viaduct, on Friday afternoon. Two of the children, girls,
aged fourteen and eight years, remained a short distance
behind, and the youngest, in stepping from one rock to
another to reach a flower, slipped and fell into a deep
pool. Her sister immediately jumped in to her rescue,
and pushed her on to a rock, where she gained her
footing, but in doing so the latter was herself carried under
water out of her depth. She came to the surface twice,
when her screams were heard by the governess, a young
lady of 21 years, who immediately ran to the spot, saw
her again sink, and jumping in head foremost, caught
hold of her, and succeeded in holding her head above
water for fifteen minutes, while the elder sister ran for
assistance. Both were in the water for a quarter of an
hour before assistance arrived, and they were safely drawn
to land.—Western Morning News.

49

A BRAVE YOUNG LADY.—For some time past
the gentlemen residing in one of the districts near Liver-
pool have had their premises frequently visited by thieves,
whose sole object seems to have been to steal the fowls
which the gentlemen keep. Between nine and ten o'clock,
a night or two ago, the niece of a Mr. Eastwood was in
her uncle's house alone, the servant having left on some
errand. She was startled by hearing the cackling of
fowls in the hen-pen in the garden, and on looking
through the window saw two men in thr " run," which
is enclosed by wirework. There were two pistols on the
chimney-piece, one of which was loaded with small shot,
and was already capped. The loaded one she took down,
and, armed with this formidable weapon, went into the
garden to attack the two thieves. They were both in the
" run," and one of them had a duck under each arm. She
immediately placed the barrel of the pistol through the
wirework, aimed at the lower part of the man's body, and
discharged the weapon. The man uttered a cry of pain,
dropped the birds, and, with the assistance of his com-
panion, climed over the garden wall into a field, and
escaped.
been
held SUFFRAG E.—A public meeting
has
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the
conditions of property or occupation required of men.
held in Stamford-street Chapel, Stamford-street, Black-
friars, in furtherance of the movement for
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Professor Fawcett, M.P., occupied the chair, and there
also present James Hey
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opened:l. l
3.1:ti1: the Conway,gcl lsta; oPtl.l>ye, 'Tr
contrasting
the condition of women in the various civilised coun-
tries of the earth. He combated the argument that
women were intellectually inferior to men, and contended
that, with equal advantages, they had generally proved
themselves on an equality with men. He entirely con-
curred in the object of the meeting. Mr. T. Hughes,
M.P., spoke at some length respecting the present state
of the laws affecting married women and the rights of
property, which, he contended, were in a most unfair and
unsatisfactory state. He thought there was no likeli-
hood of the law in this respect being improved until
women had a direct influence in the representation. A
petition to Parliament was unanimously adopted in favour
sg name,

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