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NEW YORK HERALDKOADWAY AND ANN STRUT*

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,PROPRIETOR.

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tripleTheet.New Vorki Thursday, Jut 4, 1868.

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EUROPE.Ity special telegram through Hie Atlantic cable,

iti London yesterday, we learn that OeneralNapier rt ports to the authorities in London that sixtmnrtreit Ativssinians had been drowned by the rainflood rtialiitig through a ravine or mountain gorge. 9The news report by the Atlautlc cable Is dated

yesterda.v evening, June 3.Napoleon Is paid to be sick. The Kngiish radicals

are agitating a reform bill for Wales. France remimedrelations with Tunis. The Hrltish shippinginterests exclaim against the proposed amonamentsto the neutrality laws. Spain encourages submarinetelegraphy iu the Gulf or Mexico. The "reorganized"Austrian army will consist of a million ofinea.

Ttaft mail Atcamsliin .l»vu ranlain Unnilio

which iell Liverpool at ten o'clock ou the morulngof the x:c(, and Queenatown ou the 24th or May, urrlvcdat this port at half-past one o'clock this morning-Her report hun been anticipated by the SaintLaurent.The liondon Htm 1/t, in explanation of the Queen's

departure from London, state* that her Majesty wasadvised Uy her physicians that it w ould be prejudicialto her health to remain in London during theliot season.

fc In the Houseof Commons on the 2*1 of May.asstated in our cable telegrams of tliat date.Mr. Hear*ilea gave notice that on Monday night he would a«kHie Premier whether it was true that her Majeatvhad gone to Scotland 011 account of ill-health andlid not micud to return to Kngtand for the remainderof (tie season, and, if so. whether it was the intentionor the government, out of consideration forher Majesty's health, comfort and tranquillity, toadvise her Majesty to abdicate. The latter portionof the motion elicited lond cries of "order," and theSpeaker ruled t hat it was no. couched in respectful«tr Parliamentary terms. Vir. Kearden apologizedto the Ijouse, and protested that he hud no intentionof littering aoythiuvr di"io.»al, and the matterdropped.The Marquis of Ilasimg'- lias imrchuseil the screw

steam Kolhen, and will shortly proceed to NorCONORESb.

In tlie Senate jeHterda> Mr. Sunnier offered a

s"rie< of rc.-oniiiouH declaring Unit senators are aeeininUii.e for their vote- 011 impeachment to theirconstituent- av upon an> other measure in whichtlie.v lake put as .Senators. Hie bill to regulate theoreigu cn.««tio^ trade on lie northwestern andnortheastern coast.- was taken up ami passed. Thebill to pro\ idi* a t«mpnrar> go\erniuent for the Territoryi'V " * niiiing was pas>ed. Pending a discussionas ,0 «iiellier the higlit Hour Labor bill or tinlulllor the admission of a number of SouthernSlates s uld tic taken up the senate adjourned.

In Lie lou-etlie Morgan-Delano contested electionca*e w.i derided lor the contestant, Mr. IH-lano, b.va vol" eighty to thirty-fl\e. lie thereupon tooktheoatli. Mr. Woodward offered a resolution eulogistieothe lute President Buchanan and aathorlzuigtlieanointment of a committee to attend hisfunerin. one >>-utrnce of the resolution lauding thepatrlo'v lutiiivPK of itic iltc(MWil proving obnoxiousto the majority a OMliflcatloii of the resolutionwas offered. but w.»« not acix-pted. The resoluUotiw:i<« thru tai'l upon the table by mvote of i'tenij-thrtf to fortr-acven. subae

liieutljr,however, Ihe vot" w.-ih rccon-ddi-red and asubstitute with the objectionable portion of tlie originalresolution stricken out wa* agreed to, by a voteof to in. The committee wax then appointed, fourof tin- «ix members named being democrats. TheSenate amendment* to the Arkanxa- Admission billwere reported back with a Mitatltnte, but the reportwa* not received. An eveuiug aewdon wa* hold. InWhich I be Tax bill waa diacussed.

THE C11YA dinner has been tendered Mr. Buritiigame and

hia associates by prominent merchants of tUW city.Mr. Huringamc hat" accepted and named the iJdluat. nil the dnj on winch be will moat probably beable to attend.

Rev. Mleplien H. Tjng, Jr., In a lengthy sermondelivered la«t evening in the Bapii't church corner

Fifth avenue anil 127th street, ventilated hla view*on the subject of Episcopalianism, and particularlya* connected with the restrict inns sought to laPlaied on Kpl-copa. clergy men preadiitiK m oilierProtectant churche*.The great Herman Ca'iiollc Celt ral In ion closed

Its third day'a proceedings, and with it the swwlonfor this j ear, la*t evening. Worn* of the resolutionspu-sed, especially those in regard to schools and to

immigration, are of general Importance. They meotnext rear at Chicago.The American Jocfcfj Club opened subscription

rooms at Win Broadway last evening for the purposeof iti iuguratlnK t!ic Enplisli system of letting. tynltea hi cure nuuilier of members were pre»ent aud a conto<.able numia>r of tain wvre made.

» miei Keenan jeM»rday afternoon held an In,jue-hi the l»ody of Richard Butler, the man whowas supposed to have been murdered at a house in

Bedford ahcel. A verdi/t of accidental deafh wairendered.The argument In the r«»e 0; risk Hcainut the Chicago,lifrci. inland an'/ I'hi »v luiiruad Company, and

four other coses aga/ust the mu0c defendants, wai

resumed resterday before the Supreme Court, tienerai Term. These Arc all appcam from the order appointing a receive* of the 4#,<KHi shares of capitaaiocl issued, H la alleged, in violation of the charteand In excess of the amount authorized by law, tibe the maximum of the capital aloe* of the con

pnnv. The argument wilt be concluded to-day.A motion tor a new trial In the case of Richard (

V.nrlght. charged with whisfcey frauds, was arguein the Wroofclyn (ircnlf Court yesterday, but JndgftenedMI reswd his decision.

tflftCXLLAKtOUS.ilovernor I'onton lias at last signed the New Yoi

tily and conniy lax levies and also the bill In reft"nee la me experimental railway.

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NBW YThe negroes la Washington, elated by the success

of the republican ticket, became very notoua on

Tuesday night, and two white men, one of them asoldier of the Twelfth infantry, were anaansinatril.the weapon used in both caaes being raioM. Two orthree other persons were attacked by negroes withrazors and severely Injured. The National int*MllgeiwerottLoewas threatened by a black mob, bat Itwas saved by the strategy of a policeman. Theentire night was t:iken up by the negroes in riotsand processions. Colonel Forney, of the Chronicle,made an incendiary address to them. It was theImpression that all of them were armed with rmsors.Two powder mills In the vicinity of Newbnrg, on

the Hudson, exploded yesterday, with a report thatwas heard thirty miles away. One man, an employein the mills, was torn to pieces, and portions of hisbody were hurled In various directions through theair. Both the mills were completely demolished.Trees In the vicinity were uprooted or stripped oftheir branches, numerous young birds fell dead tothe earth, horses In Newbnrg were thrown from theirfeet and window panes were shattered by the forceof the concussion. ,

The case of Jeff Davis was called la the CircuitCourt at Richmond yesterday, Chief Justice Chasepresiding. An agreement signed by counsel on bothsides was read, postponing the trial until October,and a motion being made to that effect, the ChiefJustice granted It.The twenty-Ant annual session of the American

Homceopathic Society met In St. Louis yesterday,Mid AfllMM fr\w tha ananinn CM* lUlnantM

are present from nearly every State Id the Union.The National Board of Trade la in session at Philadelphia.Seven persona.a man named Thomas Budget),

his wife and five children, of Newfoundland.werefrozen to death near Green Bay recently while tryingto reach that place in a boat to procure provisions,of which they were destitute. '

General Bachanan, commanding the Louisianadistrict, has Issued an order announcing the resultof the recent election In that State. The officers electare to assume their official duties on November 2.The Legislature will not assemble until Congress hasaccepted the new constitution.The General Synod of the Reformed Church of

America commenced its annual aessloa at Hudsonyesterday.The election in Oregon on Monday resulted in u

triumph for the democracy by two thousand majority.The Legislature is largely conservative anda democratic Congressman named Smith is elected.General J. P. C. Shunks was yesterday renominatedfor Congress in the Ninth Congressional districtof Indiana.The Alabama and Maryland Democratic State Conventionsmet yesterday.The Texas Reconstruction Convention met at Austinon the 1st Inst.Boston has sold the last of her Liverpool steamships,having come out of her venture iu establishing

an ocean line with a loss of about $1,000,000 within a

year.On the night of May IT a very heavy shock of

earthquake was felt on Swan Island, in the CaribbeanSea, continuing nearly one minute.

The Presidency.The Question Belort- Ihe

Country.

Only one point in national politics is openfor the decision of the people. They are to determinewhether they will have the constitutionrestored to full power and be ruled accordingto its principles and provisions, or whethertbey will see the whole fabric of our admirablesystem swept away as the rubbish of the war

and hold their property and their rights, notunder the guarantee of a supreme, recognizedand known law, bul by the sufferance and atthe will of a knot of oligarchs.intolerant, arro gant,rapacious and insatiable. There is no

other issue of principle. All the flourishes ofplatforms and all the noisy activity of partisansare in vain to cover up the fact that this at lastis the real dispute. Nor can the cautiouslywritten letter of Grant, with ita smooth palaverover the will of the people, and its studied reticenceas to the constitution, divert publicattention and lead the |»opular mind away fromthe thought that it is the constitution andthe supremacy of law which are at stake inthis Presidential contest. He who ignores theconstitution in the letter in which he acceptsthe nomination of a party for a contest such as

the present, indicates what he understands theprinciples of hi* party to l»e and declares hisreadiness to support them, so that the partyand its leader are agreed to have as little said'ot the constitution as possible, to get it out ofthe way as quietly as possible and to cover theirdelinquency with liouquets of pretty phrasesabout "the will of the people." All, therefore,who vote for Grant and *he radicals vote fordisorder, disorganization, anarchy.vote fortli»» abolition of the institutions of governmentby which the republic grew to its great(tower.vote for carrying to ultimate resultsthe revolutionary propaganda of Butler, Stevensand Sumner; and they who vote againstthis party do what men oupUt to arrest the destructivetendency and restore to full authoritythe laws of tin* nhtion and to guarantee therights of the people under those laws.

This is the naked truth : but faction dm's itsutmost to disguise it and to give the color of

t </. Ii. -n'fa hv «'I:iim"itvr to do all troll)1 "5"' .* .. "V r-

patriotic motives, an even the wolf trnil to

give the color of right to his devouring tlielamb l»y pretending It was clone only in hishonest rage because the lamb muddied thewater. It is the duty and within the power ot

the democracy just now to make this issueclear Wore the j»eople by the very name ofthe candidate whom they oppose to (irnnt.And what name will do this? Not rt»ndlet«m's.not Seyinom *, not even McClellan's, noi thename of any man who in known to the. people,an associated with that offensive port ofthe history of the deinocraey in which. itregarded arty necessary to save the uonntrva» party measures and opposed them :ta Aoch.To present as a candidate for the Presidencyat this time any Hitch man would be-a policyworse than suicidal; for it would not onlydestroy the party, but by throwing a way theone dance to defeat the radiua,!* wouldactually surrender the country into t'jeir hands.There could be no other result than defeat withsuch a candidate. Nothing is m<>re InelfdcPablywritten on the hearts of the great massesof the American people than the determinationnever to trust any man who was, not true in theterrible emergency that tried t Jio nation in theAre. They who conspicuously failed to aympaIthlxe with the (treat impulse, of the war, howeverrespectable may »*> their talents or

character, however they mAy he ardentlyadmired in circles in whi:!i they are per«oiiMlly

. known, are simply in tin?, list 0f "impossibles"before the people. 1'iAting up such names

1 would be forcing the people to go to the radUr cals for fear of faring, worse. It would awaken

suspicion and alarxr. It would stampede thepeople. It would make the choice only be*tween two evils; sod the people would rather

(l take Butler, would rather accept the worstman in the world who was right in the war

than th« best man *fho wps wrong in that greatcontest.

r Rut If the democrats shall name Chief Jnstice Chass ** their tttaud»rd bearer it will ^

OKK HEKALD, THUKSDA1quite another stor<r. With Chase in nominationon one side and Grant on the other theissue is so clearly defined, so stripped of alldeceptive accidents, that none can (ail to recognizethe constitution and the laws arrayedagainst revolutionary force. As we lire now

the constitution is practically in a state of suspendedvitality, and the revolutionists clamorthat it is dead. It might as well be. Such isthe spirit of terrorism »nd proscription withwhich they have acted on their auomption ofits death that the President bu had the narrowestpossible escape from removal, onlybecause he acted on the constitution ratherthan on the will of the revolutionists, and

h« made conformity to the constitu-tion the tost of the validity of ft law. For thereason that it was the duty of the SupremeCourt to determine against certain of theirlftwa they laid their desecrating hands even

on that institution. With these men in powerall this will go on apd gain impulse and extravaganceas it moves*. Hitherto nothing was

too sacred to stop it.it only wanted power.Now, with the glitter of great offloe, it hascaught the commander of the army, and whoshall tell what it will essay next? Destructivetendencies, danger to every institution, uncertaintyas to the future of the country, oligarchicalrule.these are what the success ofGrant entails; and the very nomination ofChase insures the defeat of Grant, y Witji a

great statesman and honest man like Chase,and the high spirited old hero Dix, the democracycan win. Without Chase the^ will certainlybe beaten, and this ought io be to themample reason for his nomination.

The Sanitary Condition of the City.The City Registrar of Vital Statistics, in

making his report for the week ending June 1,statesthat zymotic or malarial diseases are increasingin fatality in this city, and last weekcaused twenty-four and>a half per cent of thedeaths, which numbered in the aggregate fourhundred and eight, being an increase of fifteenorer the same week last year. This increaseof malarial diseases at this season should bringthe subject of the sanitary condition of the cityto the immediate attention of the authorities.Last year and the year beforeh and we knownot how many previous years,-our citizenswere startled by the anticipated approachof the cholera, and the most stringent sanitaryregulations were enforced. That the scourgedid not make its appearance as an epidemicwas no doubt owing to the timely precautionstaken to purify the city and cleanse the streets,rfewcrs, gutters, back yards, vaults and cesspoolsof the accumulation of filth, the naturalfood for, if not the creator of disease. How isit at the present time? We fear the subjectwill not bear the test of scrutiny. That ourlewers are choked or blocked up with filth or

le'bris is to tie seen with every heavy shower-hat fulls, the water lying in large pools in theitreets and gutters for hours in consequence ofusufficient outlets through the sewers anilIrains. Besides, the energy witnessed in thegeneral management of sanitary matter* in past^eurs in not observable at the present time;»nd although the city in now unusually healthyuare should be taken to- keep it so;. and by seasonablepreparations ward off distempers whenwe may have reason to expect the unhealthyseason to set in, wliicli usually con es with theadvent of unripe fruits and vegetables. TheHealth Commissioners should therefore go tonrork zealously to cleanse and purify everyivurd in the city, especial reference being paidAt those cramped and contiued localities whereKindreds of families are herded together underwe common roof.

Knrthrr Poolpant-mrill ol Jrlt' l)»«** Trinl.

On yesterday Chief Justice Chase jwesidedner the United States District Court at Richmond.Virginia. The ease of J«>fft>rson Daviswas called up for trial. when the counwel on

both sides announced that an agreement hadlieen entered into for a further postponementuntil the October term of the court. In replyto a question of tin* Chief Justice the c-ounselstated that they wen* not rer-dy to proceed withthe trial then, independent of the stipulation.The wife of the District Attorney iM-ing in a

dying condition, that official was not present;nor was Mr. Kvarts. of counsel for the prost'cntion; nor. indeed. was Mr. Jetfermn Davitin Kichrnonri. Sneh U-ing the condition <4affairs the trial vns post|«»n<*d to the fourthMonday in November ue\t on which duv thecounsel, defendant and w itnesses art exiieetudU» tte present. li> nnnoutninjr the time lix**«1upon Chief Justice Cliax remarked that ;*t.

any time ilurimi tli«* past Iwn veivr* it. wouldli ivc tH'en more convenient tu him to presideover ill* trial than at tbe present ««e. By the»minKnaent made it Mill W wen <iliat the cawwill n>*t cotnc up until alter th« Presidentialelection, when it in likely that Mr. Chafe willbe to remain in Richmond d*rinir th«» entiretrial.

I'iin mrilON.- Merriles* pntscription in tlveonler «»!" the da.y whenever radicals hold tbereins of (w>wet . <)ur Cirondfsfs can expect, no

quarter from tbe Jacobin* of the dominantpHTlv. although the latter are unable to u^e theguillotine like their prototype* of the FrenchRevolution. But our Jacobin* do all that theydure and are able to do in the way ot proscription.Thus a proposition for a Tote of thank*to Chief Justice Chase for his conduct duringthe impeai bincnt trial has. for obvious reason*,tie.-n promptly rejected l«y the. Senate, whichhan al«*4> rejected the nomination of Mr. Stanbcrya" VUontey (Jeneral ttecausc he acted on

that trinl as counsel for the President. It issafe to prediet th»' nomination of Mr.Rpvpnly Johnson «* Minister to Kneland, or

that of nny of th<' other eighteen Senators whovoted against tin* ooirviction of the Presidentto :»nv oftit f ol" similar dignity and re«ponaibility,will In* h* summarily rejected. The('ontrres«ional terrorists ran neither forget nor

forgive. Th»> opponents of their parti«anehetiiei are doomed to proscription.Tiik >"r. Thomas I'i licitabb..According to

a telegram which we published in yi-sterday'iHrhald, Ihe Danish Commissioner in on hisway to WanhinRton to hare the treaty of saleolPt. Tbom»* ratified. Considerable excitement,it WM at the «ame tim** reported, had beeicreated ia St. Thomas by a rnmor thai Conjfrcsi had refuaed to ratify the treaty, MrReward's land speculations hate not lwen allor Altogether to our inind ; but we *ee no honorabloway by which he can avoid conelndlnjthla purchaae. fn apite of the earthquakea St

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(, JUNK 4, 1868..TRIPLEThe AkrMlalH liy«4ltlH mmd lu KewhrTbeHerald Ctnrmpcadraer.The letters which we published yesterday

from our special correspondent, dated at theFortress of Magdala, the last refuge of KingTheodoras, April 14 and 15, give a graphicdescription of the storming and capture of thatremarkable stronghold and the incidents anddiscoveries attending it The details presentus the strangest military conflict and tableauxof modern times, and in a country which is thestrongest by nature for defensive operations ofany on the face of the globe. In these Abyssinianbelligerents we see the interminglingof Europeans, Asiatics and Africans, horses,camels and elephants, the civilisation of thenineteenth century and the African barbarismof three thousand years ago. We have nothingin the records of modern military adventuresto compare with this romantic African expedition.It takes us back beyond the Dark Ages,to Hannibal crossing the Alps, to the cam-

paigns of the anoient Romans among the barbarousnations by which they were surrounded.yea, to the retreat of Xenophon and his famousTen Thousand and the savage tribes throughwhich they passed. It reminds us of Disraeli's"Wonderftil Tale of Alroy," of Pisarro andCortez; it lifts up the veil and brings broadlyinto riew a country and people as much a

mystery to the outside world heretofore as theannual overflow and sources of the Nile.England, constantly sending abroad her

pioneers of trade, occupation and colonization,has settled, through those famous explorers,Speke and Grant and Baker, theproblem of the Nile sources and the problemof the annual overflow of Egypt. The mainstream of the sacred river of the Egyptianscomes from a system of broad and beautifullakes supplied by the lofty mountain systemand heavy rains of the equator. The annualoverflow of the lower river comes from thebountiful clouds drifted from the Indian Oceanand condensed upon the lofty tablelands andloftier mountain system of Abyssinia. Thatstrange country of lofty tablelands, cut upinto numberless Sections by deep basalticchasms and ravines, is now, we learn,under its annual deluging rainfall, and thatevery ravine is impassable by a surging torrent,and that in due time the combined volumeof all these torrents will pass mostlydown the Blue Nile into the main river andoverflow the waiting fields of Egypt. SirRobert Napier has doubtless adapted his Abyssiniancampaign, and especially bis departurewith his army, to the necessities suggested bythis rainy season. His time at Magdata was

so n«»arly up that the delay perhaps of a fortnightwould have detained him for severalmouth* and starved bin #rmy, by being absolutelyrut otf hy those swelling mountain torrent*from every source of supplies. Herewe have the great secret of Abyssinia's exemptionfrom foreign invasions io all ages, and tliesceret. too, of the slow advances of that people,naturally of great capabilities from theirprimitivemages, arts and customs. The causes

which have cut oft' thf foreign invader have cutoff those advances- in civilization which are

drawn from the Intercommunication of nationsand penplesThe civilization of Europe was drawn from

Asia, arid to some extent even from hercrusade*!. In her turn Europe bus been andis difl'usiug 1i»t civilization, even in her militaryadventures, East and West. In this proVtigaiidistnEngland and her overtopping daughtersof the United State* of America lead tl»eway. Of this Abyssinian expedition the reteaseof certain prisoner# held by King Theodortiswas the avowed object, and. that objectbeing fully attained, Sir Robert Napier, it maylie said, has fulfilled his missiotu We believe,however, that England had anotlror and greaterobject in this enterprise. Speke, I irant andliaker had shown that there is a vast fertilecounfry around tbe sources of the Nile. I>r.Livingstone had shown that there is a slillmore extensive and fertile region below theequator, adapted to cotton, siigrw. collee andall the products of the tropin*. The occupationof these countries and the developmentof their resources in the way of trade were thegrand objects involved in Napier's expedition.He line, perhaps, discovered that Abyssiniai« not worth holding.that the lofty altitude oftl>e country makes its productions worthlesslor commerce. Hut thi« does not settle tlit*question iii regard to the other African regionswe liave indicated. Nor does it settle theAbyssinian question.The removal of the terrible King Theodoras

a man of another race, and a higher type thanthe pennine African negro) Lis. with the departureof Napier, turned loose against eachother a dozen lighting Abyssinian chiefs. Itis feared, too. that the Viceroy of Kgypt. underFrench inlluenoe, may ava^l himself of the opportunity.after the annual overflow ol* the Nile,to seiite upon Abyssinia, regardless of the rulernamed by Napier and of the rights of the heirof Kin? Th«*odorns, brought. away to lie educatedin V'ngland. What then 'i New complication*involving France, Kgypt, tiie Suezcanal ami railway, and. finally, the whole Kantemquestion. may grow from the seeds plankt)by this Abyssinian adventure. England hasmade a point in that country which she cannotabandon without confessing a similar mistaketo that, which Napoleon confessed in abandoningMaximilian to his fate in Mexico. Abyssiniamay be worthless, but in faking charge ofthe lo trie inrone j.n^iaiiu i« m ;t mPHurr

bound to maintain bin claim* against nil comer*.In every point of view the subject in ««xeeedini»lyinteresting, and the mure «<» to us. and

we dan* say to our readers, from the fact thatour active and intelligent Abyssinian correspondent,through hi* prompt despatches andgraphic lettera, haw made the Hekai.i>, ac we

may expresa it, the *>p^^i»J orjriln of thin Abyssinianexpedition in reporting its movement*and result,«to both hemisphere*. This faithfulrepresentative of the IlKlUl.D, detailed for thisimportant ilutj in the heart of Africa, wan senlout under the controlling idea that in all tb«great progressive movements and in all th«marked eventa of the day it in our mission anc

j- our duty to be tbe herald first to proclaim thereto the world.

1 Off Wiiii Thbib Pobtkaith..H appear. that a petition ha* been received by the Baak. in* and Currency Committee of the Honse 0

[ Representative*, signed by nearly four hun» dred citizens of Montgomery county, l'ennsyl( vania. asking that, the likenesses of Chase »n<

Fessenden l>e removed from the face* of thi, u^Uoo^l cturrcncy. From this we infer that th

SHEET.one dollar national bills, bearing the likenessof the Chief Justice, and the twenty-live centnotes, or stamps as they are called, bearing thelikeness of Senator Fessenden, first pot on

when he was Secretary of the Treasury, are ata discount among the radicals. We have only,therefore, to Inform our radical friends thatboth these descriptions of bills are still receivedat their full value at this offloe for advertisementsand subsoriptiona. No discount on Chaseand Fessenden at this establishment.

The EiflUi Pr«M aal the Qaee«<What a grumbling set those English are!

There la no such nation of grumblers in theworld. If they have not one thing to grumbleover they are sure to find another. For sometime past they have been growling in successionat Earl Busaell, at Earl Derby, at Mr. Gladstone,at Mr. Disraeli, and now they have commencedin right earnest to growl at the Queen.As usual in all such matters the London Timeshaa taken the lead. In the HanaLD of yesterdaywe published an editorial from theTimet, in which there is much lamentationmade over the fact that the Queenhas removed herself far from the seatof government by taking her accustomedtrip at this season of the year to her Highlandhome at Balmoral. Balmoral, we are told, issome six hundred miles from London. Tremendousdistance, that! Tremendous inconvenience!Six hundred miles is a smallaffair on this side of the Atlantic. Railroadsand telegraphs have made six hundred miles ofbut little account, indeed. Balmoral, with theexception of a very few miles, is directlyconnected with London by telegraph and railroad.Poor Victoria! we pity her. She'takes pleasure in visiting the scenes madesacred by the memories of the loved partner ofher early years, and because Mr. DiBraeli didnot forcibly prevent her from going both heand the Queen are loudly and somewhatcoursely berated by the grumbling people andits grumbling press, the Times in a veryoffensive manner taking the lead. Surely thecrisis must be serious when the Queen ctyinotbe allowed quietly for a few weeks to visit thathome which to her is far dearer than Windsoror Osborne or any of the royal palaces. Trulymay the Queen say there is no pleasing thisnation of grumblers.

Tiik Tax Lkvv Bill Signed..GovernorFeaton has at last signed the City and CountyTax Levy bill. He has certainly taken histime about doing so, and placed the city employe'sto considerable inconvenience, if not reducedthem to actual suffering, by his unnecessarydelay. The bill ought to have beensigned weeks ago; but we suppose that theGovernor has been too busy attending to othermatters to pay any attention to the affairs ofthis city.The WAtmmiem lu('hon..in in- !«!»

Washington municipal election the radical candidatefor Mayor, .Sayles J. Bowen, was elected,by Bonie seventy-four majority tTpon a totalpoll of eighteen thousand votes. There are

over eight thousand colored voters in thecity, who voAed. with few exceptions. the radicalticket. Now, when it is considered thatCongress over the District of Columbia has"exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever,"and that for the last seven years this legislationhas been directed to the object of makingWashington a radical city, the result of thisel(>ttion shows that rtidicalism, even ir» its centru(stronghold, is nn uphill business, and thatwhen the break in the fall fairly begins.asnow appears probable.against the reign of theradical party, its overthrow will he us signaland decisive as was tlu* downfall and dissolutionof the old whig party in I H.VJ. TJie < >r<yonelection points that way.

Tin: DiUNo-MoKd.ix Comrstkd Kt.n nox

(Cask.The Democrat Deprived ok HisiSSAI. 1" "vv«D "(,«

would U> ilnni1. 1 lu* majority report of the Committeeon Contested Klrction*. nn tin* case ofColumbus Delano njrainxf. General Gtwftc W.Morgan, of Ohio, was adopted by tbe Hoiimof Representatives yesterday, tbe vote beingeighty yens to thirty-eight nays. By thindecision General .Morgan, the conservative,ban l»een deprived of his seat, ami Mr. Delano,radical, installed therein. Two or three republicansonly voted against thin most unjustmeasure. The district which Mr. Morganrepresented gave a democratic, majority ofnearly, if not over, two thousand Inst year atthe gubernatorial election, and is to-day one

of the strongest anti-radical districts in theState of Ohio. Ii is very doubtfid, therefore,if Mr. Delano will long enjoy his presenttriumph. At the election for Representativesnext fall Mr. Morgan will almost certainly besent to Congress again in rebuke of the radicall«urtisan decision of yesterday.An Impkrui. Lkttkr fkom ihk Hkoiiikk

mf thk Si x.- It is manifest lrom the extremelength of the letter of the Kmperor of ChiiiK tothe President of the United States that theChinese carefnlly graduate the size of theircorrespondence to the grandeur of its subjectand circumstances. The imperial letter L'rotnthe lirother ot the Sun which was formally presentedon Tuesday to the Secretary of Staleextended over twenty-five feet of parchment.No wonder that Mr. Seward could not restrainhi* delight at the prospect of being culicfl uponby the President to j»r«'purc a reply </f correspondinglength.

T»ik Ki r, tion ok Orrhos.St» ces- ok the

Oonskuvativiw.- In the far-oft' Slate of Ore'gon the Wrst election since the opening of thePresidential campaign took place on Mondaylast. and the telegram* from San Franciscoannounce that tlx* radicals have been defeated.Mr. .1. S. Smith, conservative candidate lor

(Congress, has Wen elected, boating Mr. Logan.his radical opponent, bv about two thousand

' majority. The State Legislature is also largely^ conservative, and, altogether, there appears' to have been unite a revolution in politics in' the Slat4\ For several years past Oregon has' been steadily republican, although since th*' cloi.e of th«* rebellion the opposition have

gained rapidly u|K»n their antagonists. The* State casts only three vote* in Hie Presidential

Electoral College. H»*r present, Senators andf Representative to Congress an* all radicals- of the most pronounced typo. The telegraph

reports that the intelligence of General (.{rant'sil nomination was received with much enthnesiusm, lint it don* not appear to have influouecrie ibe vote to any «»x|ent,

TELEGRAPH! NEWSFROM

ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.n

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Fatal Disaster by Flood inAbyssinia.

NAPOLEON BEPORTED SICK.

DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN OREGON,

ABYSSINIA.

Napier'* march of BtothIm lftilll* b»>«P« frn ike Rains mad Fl»iii 81k Rw4red NatlTM Drnratd.

qomn'b Hotbl, London, Jane *, UN. w

The W»r Offta* and India House authorities hwlofficial despatches from Major General MrMMNapier, commanding the army in Abyssinia.The General continued his march, in evaowtfs*

or the territory, towards the coast, the column kM>ing passed Senafe, one of the last posts on (Mronte.General Napier reports that the rainy season Im4

set in with the usual violence and disastrous ooosnquencesto the inhabitants of the lowlands.The flood running through the Sooroo defile, vast

mountain gorge, was already in such volume thaisix hundred natives have been drowned In thnwater.

ENGLAND.

Political Reform In Wale*.Livkrpoov, June 3, 18M.

Mr. John Bright made a speech here to-night atnmeeting held by the Welsh Reform Society. The hallwas crowded and the audience very enthuswsMc.

The Neutrality Lawn Revision.* London, June a, 1888.

The London i/eraia in its issue of to-day commentson the report of the Royal Commission on theNeutrality laws. The writer says the changes in tbaexisting laws recommended by the commission aroaltogether too harsh in character, and if carried out*will fall with great severity on the shipping interest*of England^

FRANCE*

Napoleon Reported Sick.Peace with Taate*London, June a, 18S8.

It is rumored ia Paris that the Emperor Napoleonis nick.

Paris, June 3, 1868.Prance hax resumed diplomatic relation* with Mis

Re? of Tunis.

SPAIN.

Tranoittlanth- Tele*raphr.Madrid, June % 1MB.

The Spanish government lias granted the necessaryauthorizations for the establishment of additlewisubmarine telegraph lines in the Uulf of Mexleo.

AUSTRIA.

Armr "ttenrxuiii'/.aiie*" with a lllilllw adMini.

Vienna, June :t. isarThe plan* for the reorganization of the military

force* of the empire are being gradually carried intn>effect. The standing urrny is to cousist of eight hundredthousand men and the- lattdwehr of two turnredthousand men.

OREGON ELECTION.

JUemoeratie t'ongrrnNman Elected Tir*

ly Cunnmnlivr.San Francisco, June 'A 18«.

Tlie election held in i lie State of Oregon jrentorim.v(June 1) resulted In a complete ami decisivetriumph lor tile democratic party. The opposingcandidate* for Congress were David Logan, radical,ami J. S. Smith, democrat. Mr. l<ogan was aa oldHue whig, who joined the republican part/ aooaalter its formation. He hw resided for a number ofyears in this State, and lias twice before r»een aa

unsuccessful candidate for Congress. Mr. Smith tou native of Pennsylvania, and lias lieen in thi* Slatafor uearijr twenty-three jrean< lie is a lawyer byprofession and is a very able spejker.

Mr. Smith is elected member of Congress by 2,im#majority on a very full vote. At tlie election held in1-slid Mr. Kufus Maiiory, the present radical representative,was elected over his democratic opponentby a majority of 5&:i in a total \ o'e of '20,171. Thinshows a democratic gain of over 2,500.Cortland city gives a democratic majority of twentj-one,but the county (Multnomah) is republican by

ftUtut three hundred majority un Congressman. Thelegislative candidates and county offleers elected,liowi y« r. are nearly all democrats.The is much rejoicing over tlie result.

Trlriraa lroot the ('nnareaHnaii (ilrrt.\VA.-iuv<iTON, June::, lHtK.

F,\-tiovemor Curry, of Oregon, to-day receivedr firm the democratic Congressman elect the follow*

Intr despatch of the result of tlie election in that-v »»«» ;.

Porti.ant, Oregon. Juae2. imh.Covt raor 0. I~ (Thhv:.The democracy have prevailed, Concrewman and

Legislature, I>j over two thousand matoritv.J. S. SMITH.

I>e*nnf<'fe from Mr. Menaiitk AnuwariM lk«Kraal l.

Washington, Juneimw.The following di^patoh ha* been received here:-*

Sai.km. oreiroi:, June 1, IWM.Oregon lias goue largelv democratic. The memiier

of Coiif/re«a it- e!e« M»<l and the Legl«lnture In neartrunanimous. J. \\. NKHMITH,

NEW YORK.

The Mew Vorli City mad Ta* U»lo«nil Oilier BIIIm sianed by the

Ari'Mrii on the Cealral Railroad.Albany, June;;, l«w.

The Oovernor Ijhji signed the New York City TaxLevy; the New York Count* Tax Levy, and the actonpniemcoury tu chapterof the ibwsof m«7, u»provide (<>r the collection ami application of revenueta the comity of Mew York in certain cawa. Tl*:latier refm fo the experimental railway.The Buffalo e.xprew train, due here at three Ofty

thio afternoon, collided with 4 frelghltraln shortlyafter leaving Schenectady. The locomotive and aoatmoxewere badly broken tip. :ind the conductor.Homer William*, who was ptandingon a platform,wan tiadly injured by Iwtitg jammed between twocar*. So one elge was injured.

*rm>iaa !' I he ».<m ri«: StbmI <H Ike \HM>rlrmtUrlnruirH Ckirrk nl IIr4<mm.

HliMffl, June 3L 1H0H.The tioneral ."ynod of the tutormeU Charch im

Amrrlca couimeue«<I us annua) »es*lun In thM rit*Ihw morning. This lathe higher jmlluatory of theChurch, and la compoMri of delegate# from all part*of Mio country aher* the Church has an organization.Fn!l delegat lu*i«> arc present, comprising nomnof the most eminent divine* In the Church. Tha fol

lowtugofficers wore elected for tt* ensuing mart..President, He*. V.. J*. Sorter, l». l».: Asneasor, Rot. A.

Vermlty% D. lk; Clcrfcn, Keys. A. P. Peeke ami H.W. Strong*

Tlit* afu<raoon addresses were made hy r»>v. Or*Well* an,a Rov. K. W. Bentley.

TEXAS.

Male HrroMmrilnnftALVMTOtt, Jnne 3. tsttrt

The Texaa Constitutional Convention met at Aurttnon the 1st of June. E. J. Davis w»» elected Prailkdent. No business of general Importance win 4nm.The delegates do not seem to tie In a hnrry t» commencebusiness, and outsider* anticipate a ion#session. The radical* arc poaltlvoly iual<I to t»o In tla*majority, Inii not enough to prevent th.f conic ' *

Mvc«i froui holding the balance of power-