The New York Herald Newspaper, November 20, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR eneennne nnn ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERaLp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14. Volume XXXITI.. -:No. 323 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWFRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Arren Dask—YOus Lirr's in DANGER. PIKI’S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 23d strvet.—BARLE BLEUR. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth strect and Sixth ave- nue.—GENEVIEVE DE BRABANT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—HumPre DUuMPrY, ‘with NEw FEaTURES. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, OPRRA—SICILIAN VESPERS. Fourteenth streot,—ITALIAN BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Mus, F. W. Lan- DEB AS ELIZAvETH. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Toe Lancasutnk Lass. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—A¥TgE DaRk, 08 Lon- DON BY Nout, GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.— Haucer. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Lavy or Lyons, BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth atreet.—ETHIOPIAN Stinoraear. &0. iy KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETH10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE.—ORPHER AUX ENTERS. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Ernt0- IAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANGING, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comio VOOALIsN, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c, THEATRE ae Broadway.—Ta® Great ORI- GINAL LINGARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. , ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. APOLLO HALL, Shy rs street and Broadway.— JAMES TAYLOR AND ALF BURNETT. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQUuESTBIAN AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT, GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCOS, corner Broadway and 84th st.—EQUESTRIAN AND GYNNASTIO PERFORBMANOES, MAGIC TEMPLE, 616 Broadway.—Psormsson Robert NICKLE, THE MAGICIAN, BROOKLYN ATHENZUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin- ton sta.—SiGNOoR BLitz, MAGICIAN AND VENTRILOQUIST. Brooklyn.—HOO.Er'’s VE IN ALL CORNERS, 40. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, MinsTeELs—Lo HOOLEY’S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HOOLEY's MINSTERLS—FEMININE WIGWAM, £0, ART GALLERY, 845 Broadway.—EXaisiTiow OF On, PAINTING#—EsMERALDA. WEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— SOIENOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, November 20, 1868. Europe. ‘The cable reports are dated November 19. Mr. Disraeli addressed a speech to his constituents at Aylesbury, and after thanking them for his return he defended the government Mancial system, fa- vored a Ministerial Department for Public Ingtruc- ton free of tax, and asserted that the disestablish- ment of the Irish Church would not remove the troubles in Ireland, whicn he believed were greatly exaggerated. The London Times of yesterday published that 376 members of Parliament were elected, with a liberal majority of 118. A subsequent despatch gives 437 members elected and a liberal majority of 137. The Workingmen’s Society has invited Minister Johnson to a dinner on the 28th inst. The Bank of England raised the discount yester- day from two to two and a half per cent. General Prim is reported to have proposed the Prince of Asturias for the throne of Spain and him- self as regent, Letters from Rome mention that Napoleon has ar- ranged the questions between that government and Italy. The eruption of Vesuvius has increased in violence. Parnguny. It is stated in Washington that Minister McMahon, ‘who succeeds Washburn in Paraguay, has received decisive instructions to proceed to Asuncion with Rear Admiral Davis and a naval squadron and re- dress the wrongs committed by Lopez on American citizens. McMahon at latest dates was at Rio Janeiro awaiting instructions. Caba. Colonel Céspedes, according to the revolutionary accounts, is acting as provisional President of Cuba in the absence of Aguilera, and has ordered the en- rolment of all citizens into the army. The govern- ment troops, who were besciged with the Governor of Puerto Principe in a convent, are reported to have gurrendered. Miscellancous. Our Washington correspondent this morning ex- poses a few of the operations of the powerful Trea- sury ring. It appears that the ring has relentlessly pursued any member of Congress, no matter what his politics may have been, who has ventured to op- pose its schemes of plunder, and in only a few in- tances has it failed in defeating the member for re- election. Butler, Thad Stevens and Kelley alone proved too powerful for the ring, and Cobb, it is said, secured his piace only by “recanting.”” President Johnson appeared in a private box at the National theatre in Washington last evening and was greeted by immense cheering from the audience. Spencer M. Clarke has left the printing division of the Treasury and Senator Edmunds, who is one of the Congressional Retrenchment Committee, ts tak- ing evidence as to the genuineness of certain notes and bonds received at the Treasury some time ago nd afterwards pronounced counterfeit. A large vessel on fire was seen on Tuesday even- ing about ten miles from Bridgehampton, Long Island. Signals of distress were frequently sent up from her, but the night was so stormy that no help could be rendered. The Lunatic Asylum of Columbus, Ohio, was burned on Wednesday night and six women were smothered to death. The prosecution ‘nm the case of General Cole closed Yesterday with about the same testimony as was given on the previous trial. Mr. J. adiey made the opening speech for the prisoner. Grant's majority in Alabama 1s 4,200. The demo- crats have three out of the six Congressmen. Snow to a depth of nearly twe feet fell in Quebec yesterday, and there is some ice in the river. Seovill, the St. John, N. B., banker, who fatled on ‘Tuesday, was arrested on Wednesday and placed in jail. A perfect panic prevatis in St. John, and heavy runs are making upon the People’s Bank, The St. Stephen's Bank was closed. We publish elsewhere this morning the annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Commissioner of Pensions and the Superintendent of Public Buildings. ‘We publish also General Halleck's report of his Gepartinent on the Pacific coast, The City. ‘The Repubdlicae Convention to nominate candi- dates for the offices of Mayor aad Corporation Coun- sel mot last evening at the room corner of Broadway NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER. 20, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. and Twenty-second street. After a considerable and rather excited discussion over the question of the advisability of making such nominations an informal ballot was taken, at which Mr. Marshall 0. Roberts got 26 votes; Mr. Charles 8, Spencer, 19; General John Cochrane, 13; General Sickles, 12, Horace Greeley, 10, and Peter Cooper, Robert Bonner and a score of others, leach. The party of action, led by | Mr. Spencer, then endeavored to get a vote pledging the Convention to make nominations, but, after the Previous question had been ordered on the Tesolution, motion to postpone the vote upon it was entertained and carried, and the Convention adjourned till Monday night. The party of compromise 1s understood to be trying to make an arrangement by which the republicans are to endorse the nomination of John Kelly for Mayor, and get the democrats to throw their candidate for Corporation Counsel—Mr. Abram Lawrence—over- board and substitute Mr, Shaw as the candidate for that oMce. The compromisers intimate that the course pursued by the party of action in trying to force through nominations was sithply in the interest of Tammany Hall, which does not want to have the republican vote cast for Mr, Kelly. The Board of Aldermen met yesterday, but no bust- ness of importance was transacted. In the Board of Councilmen the ordinance authorizing tne sale of City Cemetery stock to the amount of $75,000 was passed. The erection of two new piers at Twenty- fourth and Twenty-sixth streets, was authorized ; resolutions directing the paving of numerous uptown streets with Belgian pavement were passed, and $30,000 was appropriated for the expenses of the celebration of the last Fourth of July. General Grant, with his wife and guite, quietly left this city for Philadelphia yesterday. Two large brick bulidings—Nos. 199 and 201 Water street, Brooklyn—were destroyed by fire yesterday morning about daybreak. One of the walls fell during the progress of the fire and buried two fire- men, named Boyhart and Yerks, They were taken out alive, but shockingly injured. Boyhart died be- fore he reached home, and Yerks sustained internal injuries that are very dangerous. The loss on the Property is about $100,000. Eleven stables in different parts of the city were fired almost simultaneously yesterday afternoon. Captain Cameron and Fire Marshal Bracket heid to the theory that they were fired by wandering young rufans who were but recently ejected by the owners from these stable lofts, which they have usually made their lodging places, The stallion George Wilkes trotted against the bay mare American Girl at the Union Course yesterday and beat her in three straight heats, after a very closely contested race, his best time being 2:271¢. The National Christian Convention closed last evening. In the forenoon Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Gelivered 8 discourse in his characteristic style on “prayer meetings.” Resolutions eulogistic of Gene- ral Grant and promising him the prayers of the Convention were passed, an address adopted to the evangelical churches of England and several other interesting topics discussed. A boy who was playing truant from his mother slept in a limekiln in Brooklyn, E. D., on Wednesday night, and was suffocated. The steamship City of London, Captain Brooks, of the Inman line, will leave pier No. 46 North river at twelve o’clock M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Liver- Pool, via Queenstown. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMice at twelve M., 2ist inst. The: National. line steamship Helvetia, Captain Cutting, will sail at ten o'clock on Saturday morn- ing, /2lst inst., from pier No. 47 North river, for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land pas- sengers. ‘The Anchor line steamship Europa, Captain Craig, will leave pier No. 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry, Ireland. The steamship Crescent City, Captain Weir, of the Merchants’ Line, will sail for New Orleans direct, leaving pier No. 12 North river, at three I. M. on Saturday, 2ist inst. The Black Star line steamship Montgomery, Captain Lyon, will sail from pier No. 13 North river at three P. M. to-moirow (Saturday), for Savan- nah, Ga. ‘The stock market yesterday was dail for all shares except Erie and New York Central. The former rose to 62 and declined to 42, rising again to 44. The lat ter Was quite active. Gold closed at 134). Prominent Arrivals in the City. Lora Parker, of England, and Generai C. G. Saw- telle, of the United States Army, are at the Claren- don Hotel. Rev. Dr. Hodge and Rev. W. H. Green, of Prince- ton, N. Y., and J. G. Walker, of the United States Navy, are at the Brevoort House. Judge J. P. Sullivan, of New Orleans, and W. Woodbridge, of Savannab, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. B. W. Wood, of Baltimore; G. S. Gideon and W. D. Colt, of Washington, are at the Astor House. The Women’s Rights Convention in Boston yes- terday adopted a constitution and elected otficers, Mrs, Julia Ward Howe being chosen President. Among the Yice Presidents are William Lloyd Gar- rison, John G. Whittier, and others. Senator Wilson being called on made a speech, in which he said that aiter the negro suffrage question was settled he should advocate the cause of woman. William Henry Carswell was found guilty in the Utica courts yesterday of the murder of Abby San- ders, @ little girl of eight years, whom he had first outraged. He will be sentenced to-day. Governmonut Frauds and Corruptions—A Clearing Out the First Duty of Presi- dent Grant. The republican journals, with some demo- cratic volunteers to help them, are industri- ously laboring to make up a Cabinet for Gene- ral Grant. There are two radical Z'ribunes which assume to speak as men having authori- ty—an Eastern 7'ribune and a Western Tri- bune—and they have both some fatherly ad- vice to give to the President elect on various things, including his Cabinet. The Eastern Tribune has many things to suggest in the way of retrenchments and reforms ; but is too modest by half in withholding its Cabinet favorites. The Western Tribune, with no pretensions of mock modesty, speaks with- out reservation on the Cabinet, in favor of Stanton for the State Department, as the right man to settle the Alabama claims, and in favor of the Galena Washburne first for the Treasury and next for the Interior Depart- ment. It seems to be generally conceded, meantime, that the Washburne family will supersede the Blair family in the kitchen Cabi- net, and the prevailing idea is that of anything for a change—on the principle of rotation. We are not much troubled, meantime, about General Grant’s Cabinet. In the selection of his principal generals for his great task of putting down the rebellion he exhibited a de- gree of good sense and sagacity equal to the genius of Napoleon, while in the brief term of his occupation of the War Department he proved himself a practical retrencher and reformer. We expect, too, that his Cabinet will bo se- lected with his usual sagacity in reference to the work before him, which is that of rebuild- ing the Union and the government on a sub- stantial basis from the wrecks of our destruc~ tive civil war. The first duty thus devolving upon him will be the herculean labor of clearing ont the Augean stables of their forty years’ accumulations of filth and corrup- tion, We say forty years, because the corruptions in the government which under the party now in power have risen into such » huge mountain as to attract the eyes of the world had their beginnings under the rigid party spoils policy inaugurated by General Jackson. Tho trouble began with Jackson, who was elected partly on the ory of “rotrenchmont and reform,” against the ad- ministration of John Quincy Adams, the annual expenditures of which were about thirteen millions a year. Now, with a peace establishment and a civil war debt absorbing four hundred millions a year, we say that General Grant has a her- culean task of genuine retrenchment and reform before him, inasmuch as in the col- lection of this sum of four hundred millions at least a hundred millions by frauds are lost to the Treasury, while many millions are wasted in its disbursement. But how is the new Presi- dent to begin this work of reform, when they tell us that the laws are so defective as to encourage frauds, and that no amendments can be expected from Congress? We say, for instance, that as the whiskey rings have grown fat, powerful and insolent under the present batch of revenue officials, the first duty of Prosi- dent Grant will be to clear them all out, from the Secretary of the Treasury down, and to put new men in their places, and to watch them all as he watched every movement of his various armies and army detachments during the war. This, from his comprehensive experience as the master of vast bodies of men actively em- ployed and widely diffused, will be no difficult task for Grant, though vastly too much for Johnson. In truth, the whiskey rings seem 60 far to have perplexed and befogged Johnson with their manifold tricks and complications that he hardly knows whether Fullerton or McCulloch, or Rollins or Binckley, or Court- ney, Fitch or Mrs. Stephens is to be trusted. He is all in a muddle upon this contraband whiskey, though we are assured that with him it is “touch not, taste not, handle not the un- clean thing.” It is enough, however, that the whiskey rings have so confused him that he knows not where to begin or what to do, and so does nothing. Some of his apologists still plead his want of power to remove even con- fessed rogues, and that so the Tenure of Office law ties him up. But he has still the power of suspension, and if desirous of a thorough exposure of these whiskey frauds he would surely suspend these corrupt whis- key officials by the score, on the evidence at hand, and challenge an investigation by tho Senate. But as there appears to be no hope of any decisive action of this sort from Mr. Johnson, we may assume that the work of ferreting out and putting a stop to these whiskey frauda, tobacco frauds, and all the other frauds upon the Treasury and honest taxpayers, will be trans- ferred in the bulk to General Grant. But still this legacy from Johnson will be but a bagatelle compared with the legacy from Buchanan to Lincoln. We know, too, that Grant is the man for the work, and that where he has a task before him he does not hesitate in count- ing up the dangers of pitching in, bat pitches in and fights his way through. The opportunity will be before him, even with the laws as they stand, of saving at least a hundred millions to the Treasury, now divided among gangs and rings of thieves and robbers, officials and outside confederates, and all in conse- quence of the imbecility of the present admin-. istration. We look to General Grant to pounce upon this opportunity 2 la Fort Donelson, and to give the confederate Treasury robbers, great and small, no other ~ alternative than an “unconditional surrender.” The Mayoralty “Question. In charter nominations rotation in office ought to be a cardinal principle with the demo- cratic party, because experience shows that when an individual holds office too long he becomes a persistent beggar for place and it is found a difficult matter to get rid of him and give other patriotic aspirants a chance. A charter election occurs next month; and we already find John Kelly—a veteran office- holder in the democratic ranks—making his appearance in a side show as candidate for Mayor, with the expectation of a nomination by the regular Republican Convention. Well, John Kelly is a good citizen and a respectable man; but he has already been elected by the Tammany democracy, to whom he owes all his past political favors, to the offices of Council- man, Alderman, member of Congress and twice to the valuable position of Sheriff of New York—being the only man, we believe, who has held that lucrative office a second term. John Kelly was brought up as a lad in the Heratp office when he first came to New York, and was well brought up; but he went into politics in despite of his early training. We supported him for office while he was poor and lived in the locality of the Fourteenth ward. Now that he has mado himself a mil- lionnaire out of the public purse and lives like @ nabob in the high locality of one of the most fashionable avenues of uppertondom, we think he should be satisfled and give place to others who have not enjoyed such good fortune. Besides, his good sense ought to tell him that, as the candidate of the Metropolitan Excise law radicals, he will find his strength very different to what it was as the candidate of the free lager and free whiskey Tammany democracy. If the democrats nominate A. Oakey Hall, as it is said they will, as their candidate for Mayor, he will no doubt be elected by a large majority. He will suit those who take a pride in the dignity of the city, because he is a man of superior ability, a profound thinker, an elo- quent talker, and understands thoroughly the details of the municipal government. He will suit the taxpayers, because while he has filled the poorly paid and hard working office of District Attorney he has never made a claim of a dollar against the city outside his regular salary. He will satisfy the unterrified democ- racy, because he has been the foremost and most effective advocate of their principles. He will command the support of the Irish and German elements, whiskey and lager, because a8 prosecuting officer of the city he has stood between the people and those who would have made the objectionable Excise law yet more oppressive and tyrannical than it‘is. After Oakey Hall has filled as many offices as John ‘Kelly has held and has made as large a fortune out of them, we shall request him to step aside, as we now advise John Kelly to step aside, and give others a chance. We have no ddtbt he will then be prepared to do so with as muoh readiness and as good grace as we understand the gallant, eloquent and open-handed Richard O'Gorman is about to display in his declina- ture of the lucrative office of Corporation Counoil, which he now fills, im favor of A. R. Lawrence, The Crisig in the Island of Cuba. The important news from Cuba published in the Hzzaup of these last few days leaves little room to doubt that the insurrection will triumph and that speedily. Its progress thus far has been remarkably rapid and extensive ; the whole of the eastern department is in the hands of the revolution, except a few coast towns where the government troops are closely cooped up. The railroad between Nuevitas and Puerto Principe has been cut and a train captured, but all pillage and brigandage is promptly and severely repressed. The negroes are still working’ on the plantations and are neither hindered nor injured. Taeir masters and the wealthy classes freely launch into the cause and risk their all. We know that fifteen thousand improved rifles have been shipped from an Eastern port of this country to the insurgents, and more are to follow. The authorities of Puerto Principe arrested many wealthy Cuban residents; but, in retaliation, the insurgents captured several Spaniards and effected an exchange. Thus it would seem that the power of Spain—not merely the sway of Isabella Il.—is about to vanish; and the Goddess of Liberty is to set the Pearl of the Antilles on her more noble brow. There are, however, some facts and sta- tistics that it will be well to bear in mind. The total area of Cuba is, in round numbers, forty-five thousand square miles; but, as to the population of the two departments—white, free colored and slave population—the fol- lowing figures are suggestive :— Free Popala- Whites. Colorel. Slaves, tlon. : 100,000 78,000 66,000 244,000 28,000 879,000 95,000 805,000 779,000 In Cuba, as in all tropical countries, the planter and his household seek the commer- cial and manufacturing centres for an abode. There is more comfort, more society, more news, more intercourse with the developed world and its civilization, such as the latter is. Hence the Western Department of Cuba must be looked to as the seat of power, wealth and intelligence. Until that part of the island declares itself we shall remain ignorant of Cuban policy. No statesman will look to the weaker portion of a community to learn its policy; nor will he look upon a calm and quiet attitude as evi- dence of weakness. This calm and quiet attitude is that of the Western Department of Cuba, and it is strengthened by the support of European power. All praise and credit is due to the insurgents for themanner in which they have put down pillage and brigandage, as well as for their strict adherence to the laws of war in the present struggle. But is not the threat to burn the plantations and property of such as aid the government plain enough to warn all who have anything to lose that their wisest policy is to enter into the independence scheme—the annexation scheme, if we will— and abide the event? If the American gov- ernment check filibustering, or European naval squadrons show more vigilance and spirit than our own did against the Confederate pri- vateers, what certainty is there that the leaders in this Cuban revolt will not be led or forced into a dangerous strait? We know that all the wealthy, influential and statesmanlike residents of Cuba are anxious to have their islahd * ganexed to _ ni _ States, Some ard hero to Sie df possible, such an end. Most of their wealth consists of property that rests its value on slave labor. They have fears that annexation means speedy ruination to them. One of these men asserts that a leading abolition organ here is compromised in favor of gradual emancipa- tion in Cuba; in other words, that Cuba shall not share the fate of our late Southern States. The treatment of the latter is set down as due to their wilful treason and effort to break up our republic. she wishes to add a pearl to Columbia's crown. Cubans with such views have been appealed to for aid in the cause of the insurgents. It has been offered on the above grounds, but refused, as universal freedom is the insurgent motto. The threat to burn or destroy the property of those who aid the government has had its desired effect, and the insurgents de- serve all praise for the respect they have shown to the lives and property of neutrals.” But, should General Dulce make his appear- ance in Havana with a powerful force, the revolution might be marched into an ambus- cade by some of its very leaders. There may be those who are riding the storm to break its fary. The news from Spain, how- ever, does not warrant the departure of any large force for Cuba, even though Dulce’s interest in Cuba prompt him to urge such a policy, simply because Spain cannot afford to part with any troops just now. But these observations are made from a Cuban stand- point. Here we need to look at the matter in another light. We have several times sought to purchase Cuba. The island has always been anxious to annex itself. This anxiety is probably the cause of the enormous and iniquitous taxation levied on Cuba and the persistence with which Spain has refused administrative reforms plain- ly needed. This continual fretting and abra- sion has only tended to make the gem brighter, so bright, in fact, that the most skilful and delicate statesmanship is required to sot the jewel in freedom’s diadem. Has our State Department yet got out of its apprenticeship? Does it know how to handle this delicate affair? Is it aware that jealous Powers are ready to smash the jewel and tho workman's tools ? Fortunately for Cuba and for freedom’s cause, Grant will soon take up the map of this Continent with more than the will—with the power—to so settle the foundations of peace and liberty that the empire of peace, deluding- ly promised by the nephew of a great soldier in the Old World, must be realized in this, the New World, by a great soldier himself. The Democracy Breaking Up. All over the land there are signs that the democracy is breaking up. ‘‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.” What must be the result when the Pendleton democracy hurls bombshells and grapeshot into the Seymour de- mooracy and the latter furiously returns the fire? Somebody must be hurt. The battle of the Kil- kenny cats was fatal to both combatants, and it is not rash to predict that the present quar- rel between the two wings of the democratic army may bave @ similar termination, Ono Cuba has not been disloyal; , by one the organs of the Pendleton, or South- ern rights democracy, are silenced. The Charleston Mercury, without s premonitory sign, has suddenly given up the ghost. It has caved in and fallen to pieces, like Wendell Holmes’ famous ‘‘one horse shay.” The Louisville Jowrnat had already caved in. The demise of the Jowrnal may have been has- tened by the high tax on Bourbon; but as the editor of the Merewry drinks nothing but water no such conjecture is admissible as to the fate of that newspaper. Numerous other democratic journals are daily meeting with the same fate. They suecumb to the inexorable logic of events. Not only the Pendleton organs, but some of the Seymour organs are foredoomed. They, too, must cave in, here and elsewhere. The democracy is manifestly breaking up all over the land. Trouble Beginning. The spirit of rivalry and jealousy is begin- ning to show itself in the republican organs. This is particularly evident in the course of those journals in this city and the temper they exhibit toward each other in discussing prominent topics. For instance, one favors an increase in the President’s salary, with a sly wink at the great Elect and a mouth watering for the rare viands and the generous wines at the expectant table in the Executive kitchen. This organ is familiar with high living and desires General Grant to have a salary that will enable him to maintain a luxurious table for the benefit of his friends. On the other hand, another organ opposes an increase of salary in view of the twenty-four hun- dred million indebtedness under which the nation groans, as if the proposed increase would prove more than a drop in a wine cooler as compared with our magnificent national obligations. This is the cheap-living, tenement-house, bran-bread branch of the republican organs—a very noisy, persistent, hungry, grasping set of political sans culottes. Then there is a row about the Tenure of Office bill. One set of republican organs declare that the bill must be modified or Grant will be a mere mummy President, like Andy John- son, without power to do good or evil—a mere nonentity, neither useful nor ornamental. Another batch aver thats modification in the Tenure of Office bill would be an admission that the party had been acting wrong ; and, moreover, they are not precisely so sure about General Grant’s fidelity to radicalism as to allow him the reins without—to use an equine figure—first testing *his soundness and endur- ance. But, with or without a Tenure of Office bill, General Grant can suspend all govern- ment officers tainted with corruption, and, pending investigation, submit their cases to the Senate, which will be bound to sustain him. Still another set of republicans are crazy after a universal suffrage amendment to the constitution, forcing, willy nilly, negro suffrage alike upon all the States. And yet another faction are “positively opposed to such an ex- trome measure and are rather violent in their opposition. Finally, prominent republican organs are highly exercised in regard to the composition of General Grant’s Cabinet, there being already formed or in process of formation Cabinet rings in the East, in the West, in the North and even in the South, The Eastern, or Now England, ring has Summer as its favorite, with an old régime, but rather enterprising, Boston ae an organ, The Western, or Chicago, rig has Elihu B. Washburne as its favorite, with a Chicago guid nunc as an organ. The Southern, or carpet bag, ring has a representative man as its favorite, with a colored organ to groom him for the contest. But the grandest ring of all—the great concen- tric ring, the ring within rings, the ring that is prepared to dish up Cabinet ministers, foreign ambassadorships, fat collectorships, and to serve out according to order all the superb plums and delicious drippings from the larder of a fresh administration—is the New York ring, with its impatient, quarrelsome and troublesome organs. Happily for the peace of General Grant either of these organs can fur- nish a candidate for a place in his Cabinet or an ambassadorship abroad without going out of the purlicus of their own sanctums. In the meantime, while all these political wire-pullers are in a ferment about appoint- ments and plunder under General Grant's administration that hero visits New York, smokes his cigar, dines and chats plea- santly with personal friends, rides out with the noblest specimens of horseflesh in the world, and quietly and significantly remarks to some who approach him on political topics, “When others have ceased talking it will be time for me to begin to act.” It is clear, therefore, that the signs of trouble which begin to show themselves among the republican leaders and organs do not disturb the equa- nimity of General Grant in the least, but that, having made up his mind to go into the Presi- dential office with a determination to reform abuses, reduce expenditures, and place capa- ble, honest and trustworthy men in office, he will do so at the hazard of the opinions of all political hacks who may think they have him securely in their greedy clutches, Trouble is beginning in the republican camp. Dustin 1 New Yorx.—The following is a list of the public offices in New York at present filled by the worthy, spirited and patriotic sons of Old Erin, God bless them :— Sheriff, Register, Comptroller, City Chamberlain, Corporation Counsel, Police Commissioner, President of the Croton Board, Acting Mayor and Prosident of the Board of Al- dermen, President of the Board of Counciimen, Clerk of the Common Council, Clerk of the Board of Councitmen, President of the Board of Supervisors, Five Justices of the Courts of Record, All the Civil Justices, All but two of the Police Justices, All the police court Clerks, Three out of four Coroners, ‘Two Members of Vongress, ‘Three out of five State Senators, Eighteen out of twenty-one Members of Assembly, Fourteen-nineteenths of the Common Council, and Eight-tentas of the Supervisors. Tar Riva Governors oF Fiortpa.—The controveray between Governor Reed and Lieu- tenant Governor Gleason is about to take @ legal shape which, it is to be hoped, will bring the disreputablo contest to an end. In the Supreme Court at Tallahassee yesterday in- formations were filed agsinst Lieutenant Gov- ernor Gleason, and a rule was ordered by the judges, returnable on Monday next, calling on Mr. Gleason to show cause why a writ of que warranto should not be issued in his case. The merits of this controversy will thus come for adjudication before the Supreme Court, and meantime we trust the excitement will be allowed to subside and that we shall have no more such undignified scenes between officials as have occurred in Florida for some time past, ‘The Situation in Spain. The movement in Spain up to the date of our latest news hangs fire. Yesterday we published a letter from the pon of our special correspondent in Madrid, in which the situation in Spain is admirably de- scribed. It confirms the views which we have put forth from time to time—that the revolution- ary leaders were playing a deep and dangerous game or they were in every respect unequal to the occasion. It was an easy task for Prim and his colleagues to overturn the government of Queen Isabella, simply because on this par- ticular question the Spanish people were of one mind. » Queen Isabella and her Ministers had become hateful, and the entire nation welcomed the opportunity of ridding them- selves of the nuisance. It was not unnatural for the liberated people to place a certain amount of confidence in men who, ostensibly at least, stood to them in the relation of liberators. The confidence, however, was given in the hope that the revolutionary move- ment should be guided to the advantage of the people. It now appears that the interests of the people are to be judged only from the standpoint of Prim, Serrano & Co. The Juntas, central and provincial, were dissolved on the understanding that the elections for the constituent Cortes were to take place forth- with. Several wecks have since elapsed, and, so far as we know, the date of election is as yet undetermined. Rumors from Madrid by cable last night say that Prim is negotiating with the Prince of the Asturias with a view to making him King of Spain, with Prim him- self as Regent. In these circumstances it is not unnatural thatthe people should begin to reveal impa- tience and that something like reactionary tendencies should already be manifest. They are facta of great significance that the provi- sional government has beon compelled to undo some of the work of the provincial Juntas, and that it has found it necessary to retrace ita steps in regard to the Church. These things show that we have little reason to hope and much to fear in regard to the final success of the revolution. The truth is the men now in power ere fall- ing into the same mistake into which Neckar fell in France in 1789, and to which Mirabeau attributed all the subsequent horrors and excesses of the revolution—that, namely, of having no policy and allowing the National Assembly to meet without trying or being able to guide it. Either that or they are art- fully playing into Napoleon’s hands. Which- © ever be the fact it is undeniable that they are creating Napoleon’s opportunity. Napoleon knows this, and it is daily becoming less and less difficult to believe that he is now to become master of Spain, a3 he is already master of Iisiy. Ocean Steamers nud Subsidies—Our Conie \ merce in the Hear, We publish to-day a very sensible commune nication upon the subject of steam connection with other countries. It may be truly said that it is painful to American pride, to Ameri- can advancement, to our interests and to the respect which we desire to retain or build up for ourselves throughout the world, tosee such a sad decadence in our commerce. Before our late war broke out we competed throughout the world with the best freighting ships that Europe could produce, Now shipbuilding has fled from our coasts to Canada, and the impulse given by our bad management to Eng- lish and French shipyards has been a great source of national advancement to those nations. é It is undeniable that narrow ideas have shaped bad laws, which are still worse admin- istered, and that ten years more in the samo direction will put us as far out of reach of the world, through any effort of our own, as is Independent Tartary to-day. Our’ wharves are rotting down, our shipyards deserted, our shipwrights losing their skill, our seacoast population cease to be sailors, our boys cease to learn shipbuilding, our magnificent forests are uscless, our neighbors are laughing at our ignorance and pray- ing that our stupidity will continue forever. They need notfear. If we are to look for change in the dull brains, the muddled Congressional intellect that has caused all this, we have but faint hope. The absolute inability shown to grasp our commercial ina- terests ina clear and wide sense is patent. Congress would havo done it long since had they possessed the capacity. In the recon- struction of the nigger they have forgotten everything that is truly statesmanlike. Great Britain gives maay millions annually to support steam lines, and has the sagacity te see that they are not simply an individual but & national blessing—enlarging commerce, dis- tributing manufactures, making the nation known, offering quick and valuable opportunity for the transport of passengers, treasure and letters, and, in general, forcing the highest grade of prosperity. Without steam lines we grow ignorant of the world. . There is half a continent lying to the south of us, and three- fourths of our best commercial men and our Congressional representatives cannot name the countries that compose it Il its governing languages. We boast of our civilization, and in this we boast of a humbug while we are so deeply steeped in ignorance for lack of steam- ship communication. We once absorbed a pittance—one-sixth—of the South American trade lying at our very doors, England and France have cut us out of it almost entirely by subsidizing steam lines. On an average one-half of one per cent on the increase of com- merce with other countries pays for the sub- sidies granted by England. Tho article which we publish aptly says, “Wo want naval architects and iron ships.” Wood is becoming obsolete in the hulis of ves- sels which require the maximum of lightnoss j With the maximum of strength. Iron built | sailing and steam ships are now recognized as | tho best by overy commercial nation of Eee