The New York herald., 1868-04-20
Abyssiniau Correspondence aud q
English Press.


English Press.
The special reports from the NEW YORK
HERALD correspondent in Abyssinia, giving, in
advance of the official dispatches OF Sir R.
Napier, the news of the movements of the
British army in that distant and difficult
country of rugged mountains and terrific
chasms and defes, have been making little
sensation in the English press. The London
Post, not being able to comprehend how this
thing has been done, undertakes, in labored
argument, to justify the conclusion that the
HERALD Abyssinian kilograms are based upon
conjectures The result Of this attempt, how
ever, to impeach the authenticity of our corre-
spondent's information substantially establishes
it. although his news travelled FIVE days
faster than the latest official news from Sir r.
Napier" Indeed, the theory by which the
London Post undertakes to reject the testimony
by Professor Loomis, Of Yale College, to prove
that our special cable dispatches touching a
certain meteoric shower at Greenwich Observa-
tory could not be true, because according to
the Professors calculations, there could not
have been meteoric shower at the time and
place named in our dispatches Our facts,
however, proved too much for the Professors
assumptions, as they have already proved too
much for the idle theory Of our perplexed
London contemporary.
The Liverpool Post, April 3, solves the mys-
terry at once, in the simple statement that '' the
London correspondent Of the New YORK
HERALD, again in advance Of all other corres-
pondents has favored us with the particulars
Of his dispatches from the most advanced post
ofthe Abyssinian expedition up to the 10th ult. "
March) and the same honest jourpal further
says I've may remark upon the humiliation
Of the English press involved in the fact of the
New YORK HERALD furnishing us with news
relating to q purely English affair" This Is
really the difficulty with the London Post, and it
will not be removed by bringing foolish theo-
ries and calculations against fixed facts J"
Our Abyssinian correspondent understood his
mission from the outset, and he is faithfully
fulfilling il in giving us the earliest news Of the
movements of the British army and Of the gen
era situation of things in that wild, strange
and most remarkable country.
The Loaisiapa Election--Chsrae- of Fraud.
A telegram from New Or)eans, published In
our issue of yesterday, gives MS some singular
information regarding the election in Louisi-
ana. A despatch from the town of Monroe,
signed by an army officer and an internal reve-
nue. collector, charges ''tbat the election as
conducted in that town is unfair, Illegal and
unjust" By whom these wrongs are CON-
! mitted we are not informed but as We know
that the radicals have full control Of the ballot
box. II is only fair to conclude that the radicals
! are the guilty parties. That there should be
| any fraud in the election in Louisiana is some
thing rather astonishing. With immense negro
maiorities in all hut three or four parishes o
the State. il does seem 10 us as II the party o
great moral ideas could very well have afforded
10 play an honest part for once. The intelli.
gence virtue and wealth being so hopelessly
in the power Of the ignorance, vice and poverty
of Louisiana. any unfair polling Of the vote,
was, to say the least, wholly unnecessary. i
is true that the whites may have used thei
influence with the negroes and kept them away
from the polls, thus jeopardizing the success
Of tho radical ticket aud rendering ballot bo,