The New York herald., 1868-05-06

tion men Of the railroad were recently killed OF
Plumb creek The trains pay attention to schedule
time laying up wherever night overtakes them.
The grand musical festival Of the Handel and
Hadyn Society commenced in Boston yesterday
Among the singers are Parepa-Rosa and Adelaide
Phlips The busts Of Beethoven and Mozart were
unveiled yesterday.
In the Cole trial at Albany yesterday the summing
up OF counsel on both sides was concluded, and the
Judge made his charge to the jury, which retired.
Some time afterwards the court was informed that the
jury could not possibly come to decision for some
time and accordingly adjourned until this morning.
The Republican Rupture-Thc Golden On.
portunity Of the Conservatives.
Our special advices from Washington and
the general tenor Of the news from all sources
unmistakably indicate that the republican party
is on the eve of a serious rupture, that threat
ems, on the one hand, to overthrow the radical
programme for the conviction and removal of
johnson, or, failing that to enter into the ap-
preaching Presidential election as q disturb
ing element. We are told, with unusual posi-
tiveness, that Fessenden, of Maine, one of the
most respectable members of the United States
Senate and cabinet officer under President
Lincoln, has prepared an elaborate legal opinion
on the first three articles Of impeachment, in
which he holds that the Managers have failed
to establish the charge made against President
Johnson, and that he is entitled to acquittal.
1t is further rumored that Senators Grimes,
Trumbull and Henderson will also present
written arguments on the same side, and that
a oio mn has nc
with them to shape the verdict ofthe Senate in
accordance with the evidence and the law.
Even Senator Wilson has been mentioned as in
the doubtful category within the past two days,
while 1t becomes more and more evident every
hour that Chief Justice Chase, who is placed
in position in which it devolves upon him,
under his oath of Office, to maintain
the constitutional rights of the judicial
branch of the government, will insist upon
closing the impeachment trial, according to
established usage, with charge from the
bench or withdraw from the mockery of a
court. The evidences of Generalization are
not confined to the Senate. In the House the
recent violent debates, the groupings out of
jealousy and suspicion, the manifest sympathy
OF the majority with an assault upon the con-
fdential friend and adviser of General Grant,
are the clouds in the radical sky that portend
the coming storm.
What has caused this notable change in the
prospects of the republican party, which
seemed only few days ago to be steadily
moving on down the radical stream to the
removal of Johnson, the installation of Old Ben
Wade in the White House, the distribution of
the federal spoils among the faithful, and the
initiation of general jubilee of expansion,
imitation, speculation and negro rcconstruc-
tion9 1t is, first the returning reason of
those men in the republican ranks who have
policy Of the extreme radicals, but who have
been temporarily silenced and overborne by
the violence of the Jacobn leaders and, next,
the mistrust Of Wade and his radical friends
that has suddenly sprung up In the breasts of
those who aspire to positions on the republican
Presidential ticket. The republican p arty has
never been solidly united upon well defined
political principles. Its sole bond Of con-.
solidation, in the first place, was opposition
to the further extension of slavery, which
time and circumstances developed into
the advocacy Of Its total abolition. But
the organization was made up of incon-
gruous elements, and on all questions save
this one-on finance, taxation, currency,
tne treatment Of the negro after his liberation,
and almost every subject that must arise in
civil government-itsm members were essentially
divided. The war Of the rebellion held the
party together, increased its power and over
shadowed all minor issues upon which differ
ences OF opinion might have arisen. With the
return OF peace and the fnal and total wipine
out Of slavery the occupation of the republi-
can party was gone, and men were already
preparing for new departure, when the
breaking out Of the bitter feud between the
President and Congress forced them once
again into united action.
All this time, however, through rbe war and
during the subsequent fight with the Executive.
the conservative element has still lived in tho
republican organization. 1t has manifested
itself in the action Of Congress on several occa-
sions, and has constantly been the saving
clause in the republican platforms before
the people. Yet IL has been held In subiection
ny the superior force and boldness of radical
ism and has suffered from the folly Of those
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