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; e 6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1868.-TRIPLE SHEET. rowly escaped, but no one was hurt and the passen- gers were apparently not even glarme4, General N, 3, Fi has thalienged General Kil- patriok to bat, and refers him to General Basi! Duke %r the preliminary arrangements. Governor Seymour spoke last night at Pittsburg. ‘The Indians attacked a wagon train near Perry station, Kansas, on Sunday, and killed four men. Two men were crushed to death by the caving in of one side of a railroad excavation near Hart's Vil- lage, N. Y., om Tuesday, and another was severely injured. . ‘The City. ‘The qnesticn of ritualism occupied the entiré day in the Protestant Episcopal Convention yesterday and was finally disposed of by a resolution sending the question before the House of Bishops, with a Tequest to submit new rubrics to the next Conven- tion in 1871 Final action in the matter cannot be taken before 1874, and possibly not before 1877, To- day is their kst of the session, as they will adjourn this evening. A mass meeting of the democracy of Brooklyn was held at the Acatlemy of Music in that city last night. General Frank Blair, Montgomery Blair, Senator Buckalew and Mayor Hoffman made speeches, An arrest was made yesterday of one Michael Feeney, a cartman, for larceny of goods in his charge while conveying them to a vestel for shipment South. He made disclosures which lead to the belief that many thousands of dollare have been lost through a similar system of villany among certain cartmen. ‘The Hoboken murder trial was concluded yeater- day, Roche, the prisoner, being found gatity of man- Slaughter, Sentence was deferred. ‘The Grana Jury of the United States District Court was formally charged by Judge Benedict yesterday on the opening of the court. The Judge called the attention of the jury to counterfeiting, violations of the Revenue and Post Office laws, and especially to cases of frauds in issuing naturalization papers. A gentleman named Woolsey called at the real estate office of Mr. Edward Coffin, No. 77 Cedar street, yesterday, carrying a tin hox,which he laid on the counter and carefully concealed with his um- brella. He then turned to converse with one of the NEW YORK HERALD nny BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AD business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorke Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. i THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—Tus New DeaMa or L'Avine—THeice MARRIED, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broad d 13th street.— Tux Lancasutee Lass. a iain NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway—Mn. Epwix Forest AS MacpEra. BOWERY THEAT! Bowery.—Onimson SHI 401 wYurus Ov THE Risbows ibis PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenne and 23d stroet.—La GRANDE Buserees. - FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—GENEYIRVE DE BRazant. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hompry Dumpty, wits New FraTuRes. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—GovERNOR's ‘i¥e—Tuk Gueat LEOTARD. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. Nira; on, Woman's CONSTANCY. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Se) og Bulldt ith street.—Evittorian MinsTaBLsy, £0., LuoexTia BoReta. pest KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 qecntwey-—Brho,, Plas MINSTEELSY, BURLESQUE, &0.—Grawp Dutou “8."" SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE! 685 Broadway.—ETnio- PIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, 4c. TONY PASTOR'S OPPRA HOUSE 901 Bowery.—Comro Vooatiam, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, 2c. firm. A moment later he turned and the box was gone. It contained $113,000 in bonds, bank stock and currency, The coroner's jury in the case of Thomas Kane, who was shot at the Hunter's Point fire on Sunday, returned a verdict yesterday, charging David Burke with the deed. Burke was thereupon committed to the jail at North Hempstead. Butt Riley and Abe Hicken, two noted pugilists, were up in the Jefferson Market Police Court yester- day, having been arrested by the pclice while en- gaged in a prize fight in the rear yard of the drink- ing saloon 765 Broadway. They had locked the doors and when the police came at the call of the proprietor the door had to be broken in before they could gain admittance. Riley was badly punished and the entire party were released on $500 bail each, An opuwion upon certain points of the Registra- tion law has been furnished A. Oakey Hall by Henry E. Davies, ex-Judge of the Cour! of Appeals, and will be found elsewhere in our columns this morning. The case of Rosenberg, charged with naturaliza- tion frauds, came up again yesterday before Com- missioner Osborn. After the teking of some testi- mony for the defence the case was’ closed, the Com- missioner reserving his decision until next Satur- day. The North German Lloyd’s new steamship Rhein, Captain Meyer, will leave foot of Third street, Hobo- ken, about two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The mails for Europe wil close at the Post Office at twelve M. to-day. ‘The steamship Monterey, Captain Ryder, of Leary's line, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charleston, S. C. The steamship Columbia, Captain Van Sice, will sall from pler No. 4 North river at three P. M. to-day for Havana. The steamship Herman Livinggton, Captain Mal- lory, will sail from pier 36 North river at three P. M. THUATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—THe GBEat Ont GimaL LINGagD axD VAUDEVILLE CoMPayY, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Porformauce. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Mxs. Scorr Sip- DONS RRADINGS. PIKE'S MUSIC HALY, 284 street, corner of Eighth avenue —MoEVox's HiRRNICON. APOLLO HALL, Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.— Jams TAYLOS, THE GREAT LonpoN Comic. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth atreet.—Ei TRIAN AND GYMNASTIO Eovearaieners aitae GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, corner Broadway and 84th at.—EQUR6SRIAN AND GYMNABTIO PERFORMANCES. ‘ CONSERVATORY HALL, 89 Fifth avenue.—SOrmER oF aR New York Conservatory or Musto. ALHAMBRA, 616 —MUBIOAL w ww err Broadway. CAL MOMENTS WITH “HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Srooklyp.—H MInerRELS—FAucEs, AYFAIR OF Hoon he. ines HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Willismaburg.— Hoo.er's MinstauLs—BuRLEsQue Orgnas, &c. ALLEMANIA HALL, No. 18 East Sixteenth st.—Lro PURE—Eaktu anv May. WEW YORK MUSEUM GOIENOE AND A\ ANATOMY, 613 Brondway.— TRIPLE SHEET. to-day for Savannan, = gasazsl The stock market was weak and ansettled ycster- Europe. day. Government securities were dull. Gold was ‘The cable reports are dated October 28. ‘The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland and the Arch- bishop of Canterbury died yesterday. The reorganization of the National Guard in France ie progressing very favorably. The recognition of the provisional government of Spain 1s confirmed, as stated by the HERALD of last Monday. The Papal Nuncio communicated with the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Madrid. The pro- gressista clubs of Madrid have closed a union for Political purposes. Seflor Glozaga informed the united clubs that Queen Isabella would abdicate in favor of Don Carlos. . The Cortes elections take place on November 29. A circular from the Colonial Minister states that the colonies will enjoy the same electoral basis as Spain. Consols, 043; money. Five-twenties, 753;. Atlan- tic and Great Western consolidated shares, 39, Paris Bourse weaker; rentes, 70f. 0c, Frank- fort Fve-twenties, 1562, 7535 a 784. Cotton, in Liverpool, firm; middling uplands, 11d. Petroleum, ‘tm Liverpool, refined, 1s, €d; spirits 10),d. per gallon, India. Despatches from Bombay mention additional suc- cesses of the Hritish troops in northwestern Ludia. Central America. A famine was apprehended in Guatemala, and President Cerna had issued a aecree abolishing lin- port dutics ou certain vegetables until 1869, The forces organized in Olancho, Honduras, to quell the insurrection there had been disbanded, The Houduras CVonsul at Belize had committed sul clde. ‘The fever at San Salvador had abated. The crops promised well and rain had commenced. A severe earthquake was felt on the 23d of September. Dou Francisco Montealegre bad beeu nominated for the Presidency im Costa Rica. Panama. ‘The decree of Provisional President Correoso de- claring all the ports closed except Panaina, and 3 blockade to be tn force, has been taued. West Indies. Everything is reported quiet at Havana. Acycione sixty miles in diameter struck the island of St, Domingo on the 13th, A French brig was wrecked. steadg. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel Charles Adair, of the United States Army, and Major Frank W. Taylor, of the United States army, are at the St. Charies Hotel. Major General Hancock, of Washington, and Colonet W. H. Hunt, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. Charles Livingstone, brother of the celebrated African expiorer, arrived here yesterday in the steamship Caledonia from Glasgow. Prince Alfred of England and the Throne of Spain. What shape will Spanish reconstruction as- sume, that of a republic or a monarchy? The people seem to be ripe for a republic; but the revolutionary leaders appear to favor a limited monarchy. With the establishment of arepublic General Prim, ad interim, would most probably be proclaimed President by acclamation, as Lamartine was proclaimed Provisional President of the shortlived Bohe- mian French republic of 1848. But between the Spanish chiefs in the work of reconstruc- tion and the great Powers of Europe the pro- babilities are against the Bohemians and in favor of a new kingdom and a new dynasty, on tho basis of religious liberty and a Cortes elected by universal suffrage. Assuming that this will be the settlement, the question récurs, who will be the initial King of Spain, or Emperor, under this new order of things resting upon the will of the peoplo? Here is a fine field for the diplomacy of Napoleon, Bismarck, Beust, Antonelli ond Disraeli. Napoleon, from his geographical position, his splendid army, his ambitious de- signs, his diplomatic antecedents and all his surroundings, we may safely assume will either settle this question to suit himself, or, ina compromise, will see to it that the in- terests of France are respected and secured. In this view the English journals are discussing the pretensions and probabilities of the Prince Napoleon, the Prince Amadeus of the House of Savoy, the Italian Duke Aosta, and ex-King Ferdinand, a Coburg, of Portugal; and among all these the chances are conjectured to be largely in favor of Ferdinand. He, it is ar- gued, as the King of Spain, could easily bring about the union with Portugal, which is the de- sire of the people of both countries, while, as one of the Coburg family, he would be accepta- ble to England even as a protégé of Napoleon, But there is yet another candidate men- tioned for the vacant Spanish crown, who, though not generally considered among the probabilities, may possibly cut out all competi- tors and carry off the prize. We mean Prince Alfred of Bagland. Such an idea six months ago would have been deemed almost every- where the dream of a lunatic; for who but a lunatic six months ago could have dreamed of looking to the royal heretics of England for a king for the most intensely Catholic nation of the carth—to Prince Alfred, @ successor in the faith of Quoen Elizabeth, as the very man to take the throne vacated by Isabella, as thor- oughly a Roman Catholic as Phillip the See- ond? But what European monarch or mon- archist ever dreamed, even so late as 1864, that Jeff Davis in 1868 would be mer- chandising in Liverpool, or that the Min- ister of the United States in Kngland would be hobnobbing and cracking jokes with Laird. the builder of the pirate ship ‘Loulsiana. Quiet bas been fully restored tn New Orleans. General Rousseau yesterday issued a proclamation requesting the populace to refrain from any further political demonstrations, The police force has been reorganized, with General Stcedman as temporary chief, Superintendent Williams was dismissed by the Police Board, The First infantry, it is said, has pot @ single ex-Confederate in tt, Miscellaneous. No intimation has been received by the anthorities in Washington in reference to the reported arrange- ment of the Alabama claims by Minister Johnson, ‘and the cable telegram to that effect recently pub lished th the papers is regarded as mere specula- Mon. Authentic information has reached us of the in- tended discontinuance of the line of steamers of the North American Steamship Compaoy, which for some time have been running between New York and Aspinwail and Panama and Francisco, under the energotlc agency of Captain W. ©. Stout. ‘The interests of the company have merged into those of the Paciflo Mall Steamship Company, re- presented by Mr. D. M. Corwine. The vessels of the North American Company will at once be taken off the route and the coal and other property on the stations on the istamus will be traosferred wo the other company. General Kilpatrick opened his campatyn against Gonerai Batier in Salem, Mass., yesterday, but his speech was not atlended with much success, as the cheers for Butler frequently drowned his votce, and general hisses greeted every mention of Dana. The shooting of Congressman Hinds, of Arkansas, ‘was commited by one George A. Clark, secretary of the democratic committee of Monroe county, who ‘wae in a (tof delivium tremens at the time, He has been arresiod and lodged In jail. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has had tn course of mn for some time @ revised edition of the Oustoms Regulations. An express train on the Hudson liver Railroad yesterday morning ran into @ freiht train and four @ars were smashed. The engineer and Aroman nar. Alabama, and the Alabama claid™ etill unset- tled ? The truth is that nothing is impossible in these days, except the defeat of General Grant. We live in the genuine age of miracles, and we have ceased to be surprised at anything. The individual is now living who will make the first trip to Europe from this country in a bal- loon, We throw out this prophecy at a ven- ture, Meantime a London correspondent of this journal says that the following hints are flitting about there in favor of Prince Alfred for the Spanish throne :—His elevation would gratify the English people; it would provide handsomely for a prince who is a great favorite among them; it would open a new field to English trade; it would settle the question of Gibraltar to the satisfaction of both countries ; and our correspondent might have added it would enable Spain very easily to get rid of her heavy English debt. Secondly, Disraeli is reported as liking the project. He thinks, doubtless, that Prince Alfred as King of Spain would be a splendid coup d'état, better than Abyssinia, or the no Popery cry against Gladstone and John Bright; and it would be. The Queen, too, is said to be pleased with the idea, and carries with her the Prince and Princess of Wales. Alfred, on the other hand, it appears, looks upon the scheme as a sort of South Sea bubble or Mexican adventure, But what of that? Did not Maximilian at first look upon the crown of Mexico as a piece of moonshine? But did he not wear that crown, and die for it and fight for it to the last with the pluck of a regular Montezuma? He did. The modesty of Prince Alfred in this matter, then, need not be taken into the calculation. He will go at the call of England, for is he not a genuine English Jack Tar? But what of Napoleon? ‘‘There’s the rub,” it may be con- tended. But why should the rub be there? Has not Napoleon ever since the Crimean war regarded his entente cordiale with England as the very best of all his Napoleonic ideas? And are not Victoria and Eugénie on the best of terms, and will not Isabella herself be in “the ring” very soon if she settles in England, after the fashion of other royal and republican exiles, including Louis Philippe and Kossuth ? Let Isabella drop in at Windsor, let Eugénie be called in, and over a cup of tea among the ladies at the castle this thing in behalf of the sailor Prince can be all arranged, and so Dis- raeli, the Israelite, may supplant the Pope himself in the reconstruction of Spain. A glorious victory, too—yea, a glorious miracle— would this be over sect and creed and caste and the sanguinary prejudices of a thousand years. Here, however, we may be met again with the objection that Prince Alfred, a representa- tive of the royal head ofthe Protestant Church, will never do for the people of Spain—all Catholics of the deepest color and dyed in the wool. Why not? Is not religious liberty pro- claimed in Spain, and free speech, a free press and free suffrage? Yes. And by the voice of the Spanish people? Yes, yes. Are the Jesuits gone? They are. Do not these things, then, signify that the door is open to Prince Alfred in Spain if France and England say the word? They do. land say? That is the question. What, then, will France and Eng- Seymour is out West making half a dozen speeches a day, more or less, and on every- thing in the heavens and in the earth and in the waters under tho earth except Seymour and Blair as the democratic ticket and except- ing the main plank of the democratic platform. Blair comes to New York, and, regardless of his tabooing by the Manhattan Club and the warnings of the Bohemians who dance about that club, he stands and speaks bravely and squarely on the main plank of the democratic platform, the unconstitutionality of the recon- straction laws, and the democratic masses ap- plaud him to the echo. down or kept out of sight by the Manhattan ring, nor does he intend that the democratic platform shall be hid away in the dark, Blair, too, goes the whole ticket, Seymour and Blair, while Seymour ignores Blair and goes only for Seymour as the representative of the democratic faith. Hence, as the real embodiment of the Tammany creed, Blair is the man who ought to be at the head of the ticket ; for, sink or swim, he stands by his colors. He is not to be put Aut Quiet iv New Orieans.—The timely proclamation of General Rousseau announcing the instructions which he has received from Washington to take measures to preserve peace and good order and to protect life and pro- perty, and appealing to all law abiding citizens to aid bim in carrying out these instructions, mast have the happiest influence upon the excited public mind in New Orleans, In fact the telegrams confirm the General's intimation that all was quiet there yesterday. The acceptance by General Steedman of bis appointment as Chief of Police, together with General Rous- seau’s promise that he shall be supported by the military, and the prohibition of political pro- cessions and of patrolling the streets by armed men, and last, but by n0 means least, the an- nouncement that the police force has been thoroughly reorganized, will all tend to insura the tranquillity which the Crescent City seems so sadly to need. Tue Spann News.—-The reported recog- nition of the provisional government by Great Britain, France, Prussia, Italy and Portugal is confirmed. Rome has manifested friendly feelings. The progresista clubs have formed aunion, and at one of their meetings Sefor Olozaga has announced that Queen Isabella would abdicate In favor of Don Carlos. The election of members for the constituent Cortes will take place on the 29th of November, and Sefior Ayala, Colonial Minister, has issued a circular declaring that the colonies will be placed upon the seine electoral baste as the test of Spain. ReonGanizarioy or van Nattonat Gear The Paris Constitutionne! says that the reor- ganization of the National Guard is progress- ing and is favorably regarded by the people of the provinces, The Constitutidinad, as an imperialist organ, would not be likely ta oxag- gerate any disfavor which the reorganization of the National Guard might provoke. But it is probable that whatever opposition thera might be against it in Paris the people in the provinces would accept this or any other measures initiated and caforced by the gov- ernment of Nanoleon Hk. in Oregon—Government by tho Minority. By way of San Francisco and the telegraph we hear from Oregon that a party quarrel between members of the Logislature in that Btate has resulted in such harm as the sus- nsion of the functions of the Legislature for 0 time being may cause. The republican embers, refusing to accept the will of the people as the law of the land, caring more for party than for their oaths, have done exactly in their limited sphere what the Southern ‘@xembers of Congress did on a grander scalo in 1861. They have resigned and withdrawn in a body. Thisis the answer, we suppose, ef the republicans in Oregon to the verdict of the people at the polls in the last election in that State. Resigning their posts was the last neans left to these republican members to embarrass tha majority, and so, heedless of the harm that might result to public interests, they sdopted it. The result is, to leave the Legis- lature without a quorum ; to render It impossi- ale for it to do any official business ; to nullify it as a governing body. The exact bearing and breadth of the matter cannot yet be seen. If the Governor Is in collusion with the deserting members, as his ready acceptance of their resignations may imply, {t is probably under- stood that by his failure to appoint a day for new elections the retiring members will not be replaced. The consequence then will be that a legislative term has been effectively blotted out, and the popular majority that gave this Legislature its peculiar character is cheated of its turn and opportunity in the government of the State, Without regard to party or particular results, this is flagrant political dishonesty—an act whose tendency is to degrade lawmakers to the level of cock fighters by contemptible trick- ery. We see in the light of such facts that our ancient notion that the majority rules is not true, unless there is a minority that is honest, Or practically it comes to this in government, that the majority, to rule, must be a very large majority—a majority so large that the minority shall be deprived of power altogether—such a majority, for instance, as the radicals have lately had in Congress; and then we fall into another evil, for then the minority is no check upon the majority, andit 1s tyrannical. Majori- ties must be large enough to give them a quo- rum in lawmaking bodies. This is the new political formula, The democratic majority in Oregon was not large enough for this, so the republicans retire, and there is a deadlock, to wait till the next election, when different opin- ions may prevail. Oregon shows us how large a majority must be; Congress shows us when it istoo large. Popular will must hit between these two in its votes, or representative gov- ernment is not effective. It is to be regretted that a bad ingenuity in our governing bodies is thus active in finding vulnerable points ina system that, honestly acted upon, was suffi- cient to secure the freedom, safety and happi- ness of the people. This is but another of the consequences of sending rogues to the Legisla- ture instead of sending them to the State Prison. Secession The Bench and the Elections, During nearly six weeks past a number of the judges of the Supreme, Superior and Com- mon Pleas Courts have devoted nearly, and in some instances quite, all their time during the day to the business of naturalization—a very important branch of the public service and one which must be performed by some one, as it is also highly desirable that it should be done, The Supreme Court of this State com- prises eight judicial districts, seven of which are allotted four judges each, and the Eighth, called the Firat Judicial district, and embrac- ing the city and county of New York, has five judges. The other two courts—the Superior and Common Pleas—are organized solely for the city and county of New York, the former being provided with five judges and the latter with three, and all are courts of record, there- fore competent to naturalize. But these tri- bunals were not established for the express purpose of naturalization. The two last named courts were organized, and the fifth judge of the Supreme Court was created to ac; commodate the requirements of this populous district by the speedy adjustment of the nu- merous litigations that are continually arising, and which accumulate so rapidly that there is generally no prospect of a cause being reached for trial for two years after its commencement and the filing of the issue. It is a fact well known to the entire bar of this city, and to most of those who are so unfortunate as to be compelled to resort to litigation to secure their rights, that ‘‘the law's delays,” in this county at least, are not atall mythical, while they are invariably tedious in the last degroe, and fre- quently result disastrously to one or other of the parties to the action. The trial calendar of the Supreme Court of this city and county for the current year embraced in January last nearly five thousand cases, and it is a very fair estimate to say that not more than two thousand of these suits will have beon disposed of by trial by the closo of the year, thus throwing about three thousand cases over to the calendar for next year. The other courts are embarrassed proportionately to the amount of their business, The judges do not sit to attend to the trial calendars more than seven months in the year, making due allow- ances for the midsummer vacation of throe months and for subsequent holidays, adjourn- ments and delays. Of course, as naturalization must be attended to, there must be some one to discharge the duties which it entails, but the time it ocen- pies might be very much shortened if there was more system introduced in its accom- plishment, There is little question of the fact that as a general thing it is done by the judges very willingly a4 ® means of aiding or securing their own re-elections, as there is always somo influence attaching in an electioneering point of ylew to the fact that a man recelves the logal and tangible ovidonce of his cltizen- ship from a particular judge, who, it may happen, is shortly again to be a candi- date for the popular preferenca, But such considerations must not he allowed to govern the action of the courts tn grant~ ing too much time to the ‘labor of love” thus devolving upon them. There ero other and vory vital subjecta which demand for the peoplo a considerable share of atteution and all possible promptitude of despatch, and it is only proper that the paople should have that altention aad justion which are ominentiy thelr due, and for the dispensation of which the courta were established. In viow of these considerations, therefore, and of the fact that a considerable period has been already devoted to the naturalization of aliens, we would suggest to the judges that it is but reasonable to suppose that they will, io at most o day or two, have concluded this period- ical duty of creating citizens and once more -have resumed the functions of their more es- sentially judicial capacities by taking up and energetically disposing of the long calendars of untried causes which are now awaiting adjustment at their hands. The Fight Against Ben Batler. The contest for Congressional honors in the Fifth distrlet in Maasachusetts constitutes o curious eptsode in the present canvass. The district is now, as is well known, represented by the irrepressible General Butler, and the war is, curiously enough, waged by the radicals— of whom Butler has been an acknowledged leader—against the General to oust him from his seat in the House of Representatives. This is practically the war between Grant and Butler revived in a new shape, with what re- sult remains to be seen, Butler is not a saint. He does not profess to be a saint. His antecedents and proclivitles are alto- gether of a different character. He occu- pies the position of Satan visiting Eden, and if elected to Congress—the radical Eden—he will be as full of mischief and create as much of a row and a rioting among the faithful as his great prototype did in the early history of mankind. He is made of just the stuff to give the radicals in Congress a great deal of trouble. If ever a state of things ex- isted that invited the presence of the Devil, Congress next session will be the place and Ben Butler the representative man. He will rip up all the radical plots, corruptions, jobs and juggleries from top to bottom. He will expose the rottenness of radicalism from root to branch. The radicals know and feel this, and hence the opposition that besets him in his district. Hence is it that by a singular up- heaval of the political elements we find the party mummies of a remote age coming to the surface, and, joining hands with the long- haired radical nondescripte of the present pe- riod, the stiff-necked and Puritanical embodi- ments of the hour, the “bloated bondholders,” the bubbling Bohemians and the babbling blue stockings of Massachusetts, going into a fight against a flery-tongued, Satanic, unscrupulous and audacious publicist like Ben Butler, Cer- tain iniquities can only be fought with fire, and Butler is the fitting torch-bearer. Tho democrats should go en masse for him. There is no chance for electing their candidate, and Butler will answer all their purposes in shaking up the radical dry bones. If he should turn out to be a reformer, so much the better. It will be a new réle for him, and one in which, properly and vigorously carried out, he will win much applause and perhaps distinction. So, then, let the democrats of the Essex dis- trict unite with Butler's friends and secure his triumphant re-election to Congress. What Is to Become of Cuba? The news from Spain, Havana and Wash- ington relative to Cuba indicates that the time is approaching when the sale of the ‘‘ever faithful isle” to the United States may be accomplished. It is evident that the distur- bances in Cuba are of a different character to what has been represented by the authorities there, It appears that quite a battle has been fought between the regular troops and the in- surgents, and that though the latter were defeated, according to the account by telegram coming through the hands of the government, the latter were not so badly beaten as to pre- vent them from carrying away their killed and wounded, Our Washington despatches say, too, that facts have leaked out there showing that the movement is neither an uprising of thieves and plunderers, as represented by the Captain General, nor a demonstration conse- quent upon the revolution in Spain altogether, but is the result of a combination formed an- terior to the movement in the old country, having in view the independence of Cuba, Many of the leading men of the island were ia this conspiracy. Though the move- ment may have failed from precipitating it too early, the seeds of dissatisfaction and revolution remain. Then it is known that almost all the Cubans tn the United States—a numerous, intelligent and wealthy class of people—are in favor of shaking off the Spanish yoke and being annexed tothis country. This ardent desire for independence and annexation has not been suddenly inspired, but has been long cherished and is widespread. Should the revolutionary condition of Spain become com- plicated and continue, or the colonial govern- ment be oppressive, the Cubans may yet suc- oced in establishing their independence. The history of the former colonies of European Powers on this Continent shows that in revolu- tionary tines it becomes almost impossible to hold these distant posaessions. Revolution is contagious, and the love of liberty and inde- pendence is deep seated on this side the At- lantic. It is significant, too, in connection with the movements in Cuba, that Spaniards of ad- vanced liberal ideas in Spain advise the sale of Cuba to tho United States as the most direct amd speedy method of solving the question of slavery. This wo learn by our telographia despatches from Madrid. We think it likely the liberal minded and far-secing men of Spain may take this sensible view of the matter. To hold Cuba would require, probably, a large stand- ing army and the expenditure of vast sums of money. Spain is not in a condition to bear this. Besides, it would bo in conflict with the neworder of things in that country, The strongest motive for holdiog Cuba has been found in tho enormous income derived by the royal family from the island and the oppor- tunity it afforded for giving places and for- tunes to favorites of the government. Under 6 republic or liboral monarchy such s motive ought not to exist or have any woight. Then by selling Cuba to the Ualted States Spain would. be relieved from the responsibility and coat of abolishing slavery and would know that this would be accomplished through the Amert- ean government. It would bo an easy anda prompt solution of the slavery question. With regard to the value of Cuba for Its commerce, Spain would bea gainer by turning the island ovar to this country. Just as the United States have becomo more valuable to British oom- a merce than they ever would heye been had they remained colonies, Cuba would be more valuable to Spain, in a commercial point of view, than it is now. In every point of view, therefore, it would be better for Spain under existing circumstances to turn the island over to the United States, As to the Cubans, they would become more prosperous, their property would increase in value, and they would have the high privilege of being citizens of this mighty republic, which is destined to be the greatest and richest country on the globe. To the United States Cubs would be valu’ able in many respects. It would give us @ monopoly of the sugar production of the world, a8 we now have of the cotton; it would enlarge our commerce vastly and and add to our other varied resources a num- ber of tropical productions; it would give us the key, in a military and naval point of view, to the control of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. We should not only make the negro labor available under freedom and pro- per management, but, in the course of a year or two, when the Pacific Railroad shall be completed, we should pour millions of indus- trious Chinese upon the fertile soil of Cuba, The island is capable of almost unlimited pro- duction, and with American capital and enter- prise it would become the richest spot on the earth, Now is the time for Spain to part with Cuba and the United States to acquire it. We call upon our government not to neglect such a favorable opportunity, but to open a nego- tiation with Spain at once for the acquisition of the “Gem of the Antilles,” “Duconstitutional, Null and Void.” This is the cry of the democrats when they speak of the reconstruction acts of Congress. It is a feature in their platform, wherein itwas introduced, not by @ fire-eating Southerner, but by a tow-eating Connecticut Yankee. It has been adopted by the democratic speakers on the stump, up the stump and when stumped for better material for argument. Now, we will grant that these acts of Congress in the matter of reconstructing the South are illiberal, unjust and despotic—that they are unchristian, outrageous and atrocious, and could oply have been conceived in a sanhedrim where ‘the Devil officiated as chief. Yet we cannot re~ gard them as unconstitutional, and hence not - null and void, It must be remembered that they were passed against States that had in- voked the demoniac spirit of rebellion, and had! carried their infernal designs into execution at! the fruitless sacrifice of millions of precious lives and an untold amount of treasure. They were passed against States that had no rights under the constitution, because they had forfeited those rights when’ they took up arms to overthrow and destroy’ that constitution. They were a self-declared’ foreign nation, and warred against the govern-' ment of the United States as if they consti- tuted a government recognized by the civilized Powers of the world. Acting under that vain but no doubt conscientious and irradicable! impression, the leaders of the rebellion assumed) the hazard of throwing off their aflegiance and accepting the issue—the fate of leaders ia all unsuccessful rebellions—disfranchisement, alienation and confiscation. After they were overcome by the government the United States Congress instituted the power, if it,had it not constitutionally, or seized it with an iron hand if it did possess it, and imposed sucht penalties and penances, demanded such atonements and humiliations, as in its supreme wisdom it thought fif to im- pose upon and require from the re- fractory States before allowing them restora~ tion to full fellowship in the Union. Certainly; Congress did not violate the constitution ii its reconstruction acts, so far as the loyal States were concerned, for they did not affect those States at all, And when the decisions of the Supreme Court are produced in support of the democratic plea that the reconstruction acts are unconstitutional, it must be recollected that those decisions were made os affecting loyal persons and loyal States, and not those States which had forfeited all constitutional rights and protection by plunging into rebel- lion. We repeat that these acts of Congress aro illiberal, unjust and despotic, and the sooner they are repealed or modified the better; but they have to be met and over- come ina proper and constitutional oe | electing members to Congress who will the South in a just and magnanimous manner,, and by the continual agitation of the question of another amendment to the constitution which will reader the harsh and unjust recon- struction acts of Congress, in fact and in deed, practically and effectually ‘‘null and void.” The Armed Neutrality of Austria—Earopeas Complications. It appears from one of our recent telograms that Austria is reorganizing her army and otherwise setting her house in order in pros- pect of a collision between France and Prus- sia. Baron Beust has constrained the Reichs- rath to consent to his plans regarding the army and navy by satisfactory reasons given in se- cret session. The burden of the Baron's argu- ment seems to have been that, in the event of arupture taking place between Prussia and France, it was necessary that Austria shoulé be strong enough to guard her own neutrality. This piece of news, if it proves anything,’ proves this: that Austria, or rather Baron Beust, is not satisfied that this Spanish revo-: lution has diminished the chances of a Euro- pean war, It was thought by some that the trouble in the peninsula would be of such a character as to compel both France and Prus- sia to forget their rivalry. The Spanish revo lution, however, has been conducted hitherto with such skill and has already proved iteclf so much of a success that the European Pow- ers are little likely to have any chance of in- terfering. Spain promises to be equal to the management of her own affairs. The success of the Spanish revolution has revived the old difficulties. If Spain had fallon into anarchy interference would have been deemed a neceasity on the part of ber nelghbors, and a new point of departure would have been furnished to the reconstructors of the map of Europe. In this case, however, the reconstructors have counted without their host, Spain manages her own affairs, man- ages them well, is stronger without a mon- arch than she waa with one; and therefore it is that all the old questions—the Rhine boun- dary question, the Eastern questiva, the