The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-05-02

| Arson Bcrlingolne, tnc CnineSc AIabHSSa0Of, WIN
his entire SUITE sailed nom San Francisco yesterday
for Panama. en route for Washington The saiutes
usually extended from one nation to the representa-
tive OF another were fired by the forts the harbor
as the vessel departed.
Jen Davis bond Is TO be renewed to-day. The trial
is fixed for the last OF May the middle OF June
! terms OF the United States Circuit Court at Rich
mOnd.
Lancaster, Pa. has gone republican In her charter
election, even giving a republican gain
Ryland Randolph, editor OF an Alabama paper,
was ordered before military commission some ''"e
| ago by the authorities In that State for killing
negro Recently his counsel obtained from Judge
| Busted a writ OF habeas corpus, which. however
| the authorities refused to obey. Thereupon the
| counsel teegraphed to General Meade. asking his
! interference to stop the trial, and General Meade
| has refused TO interfere The military court then
assembled and the trial probably Is in progress.
| Three members OF the Baltimore Board OF Alder
men were expelled yesterday for alleged corruption.
Thomas Dula was hanged in Statesvile, N. G.,
yesterday for the murder OF Laura Foster his para
mour III May, 1866 On the scaYold he discussed
politics with the crowd and only casually referred to
the murder, refusing to admit his guilt The execu-
ton effected by the cart In which he was stand
/ ing being moved from under him. His sister rode
| with him to the scene OF execution.
| The entire business portion OF East Berkshire,
Vermont, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night
| The Sherwood House and the Episcopal church. the
latter being the only place Of worship in the town,
| were among the buildings destroyed.
The General Transatlantic C0mpany's steamship
Pereire Captain Surmont, will leave pier So North
river at one p. M. to-day for Brest and Havre The
mails for France will close at the Post office at
| twelve M.
The Merchants Line steamship United States,
Captain Norton, viii leave pier IL, North river. ut
three p NJ. to-day for New Orleans direct.
The steamship Montgomery, Captain Lyon, OF the
Black Star line will sail at three P. M to-day from
pier 10 North river for Savannah, Ga.
The stock market was strong, but extremely duh
yesterday. Government securities were strong and
active. Gold was also strong, and closed at 1907.
Impoa chment-The Attempt to Gag the Chief
Justice.
Reckless audacity is the essence of the revo-
lutionary spirit Not to respect anything that
stands in the way, to be equally ready to
trample under foot law, justice, propriety and
right-this is and must be the essential char
acteristic of revolutionary leaders Danton, o
cowardly savage; Marat, vindictive and AFRO
giant; and Robespierre, mean, cruel and SEN
tinental humanitarian, were the types of the
character in another time as Butler, Stevens
and Sumner are now and never did the former
three tread toward their object with more un-
swerving and infamous fidelity to bad pur-
pose than has hitherto marked the career of
the chosen men of the radical faction in Con-
gress Hitherto the boldness, the dictatorial
assumption of superiority, the domineering
tactics in virtue of which these men have led
or driven their feebler associates, have been
sufficient to give them unquestioned rule (; but
there seems likely to come change. There is
a wavering an unsteadiness disposition to
cringe and hedge and save themselves
on the part of the politicians, who, till
within few days past, have only required to
know what Sumner said and Butler wanted in
order to understand what must be the platform
of the republican party and the will
of the American people. This faltering and
fear, this doubt of the might and permanent
/ power of such leaders as Sumner, Butler and
Stevens, is one of the signs of the times, as 1t
indicates that even when the peoples repre-
sentatives are so degraded that we cannot
count upon their probity or devotion to right,
we can at least count upon the fact that they
wish to be always on the stronger side, and
may thus hope to extort from their cupidity
and fears that which we would expect in vain
from their honor.
| But what is the cause that the wind sits in
this new quarter? They who have kept the run
of the impeachment trial will hardly need to
he told. Siited to the bottom by Curtis,
Groesbeck and Evarts, the charges against the
| President that seemed trivial enough from the
first have dwindled day by day until people
begin to wonder how any body of men could
have had the folly, the insane impertinence,
to present them as reasons for the removal OF
the national Executive In view of this, the
general sentiment of the country, the common
mass of radicals discover that they have still
some sense of shame, and dare not avOw their
adhesion to the purpose Of removing the
President on those charges. There is not
radical in Congress- nor is there even a radi-
cal newspaper that any longer has any faith
in the bill of impeachment; and though they
urge the removal of the President on general
principles, yet they have given up the charges
on which he must be removed If at all. Feel
ing that the impeachment articles are too
ridiculous and pitiful, that their case on those
! articles is untenabe and that they dare not
face their constituents with the record OF
having voted for such articles, the courage
oozes from the fingers of the brave associates
of Sumner and Butler, their audacty melts to
thin air and they desire to save themselves,
though at the expense Of their leaders-to
abandon the attempt at any safe point, much
prcferring to see the ruin Of the Impeachment
t leaders rather than experience their own. But
Sumner and the rest, grown desperate with
their extremity. are resolved not to be easily