The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ee JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume "AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- ATRE, ce Ce EVE DE BRABANT. nie. —GRNEVIEVE DE OLYMPIC THEATRE, Proadway.—Humpty DOMPTx. with NEW PRATURES. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—IRELanp A8 It Was-—CoNNEOTIOUT COURTSHIP. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street. — Tuk Laxcasutas Lass. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—R@p Scanv—O'NEAU wan Gee. OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and 2 BARE BLEUR—LISOHEN AND FRITZOMEN. MRS. ¥. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— TAY LANCASHIRE LAMB. 4 ’ OPERA MOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth VIAN MINBTRELBY, &C. 720 Broadway.—ETmo- TAME Cars. & LEON'S MINSTRE! TRELSY, BURLE! SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETMI0- VIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SL DANOING, Ac. US OPERA ‘SE 201 Bowery.—Couio 0 MINSTRELBY, &. TONY Vooatisa, QUE, 514 Broadway.—TH® GREAT ORI- GARD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY, Woon'’s MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon ing Performance. NEW YORK CIRCU! nth street.—EQuEsTRIAN av. and 84th et.—Mu. E. Gi- LY BER HALL, corner imanD Conor: HOOLEY'S OPERA HOSE, Brooklyn.—HOoLnr's MINSTRELS—THE GBaNp DucuEes, 40. HOOLEW’S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HOOLEY's MINSTRELS—Ou! Hosu, 40. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, December 1, 1868. THE NEWS. Europe. ‘The cable reports are dated November 30, ‘The London Times of yesterday comments on the extraordinary enterprise of the American people. It is credibly stated that the Emperor Napoleon 1s suffering from 11 health. It is also stated that the supposed influence of the American Fentans had some effect on the irish clec- tons, ‘The Duke of Brabant is recovering. A change bas taken place in the Roumantia Cabinet, United States five-twenty bonds yesterday closed in London at 74%; and in Frankfort 79%. Argentine Coniederation. By the Atlantic cable we learn that the insurrec- tiog in Corrientes has been suppressed. Mexico. Our Guaymas letter gives a graphic description of the storm in Sonora about the middle of October. The United States steamer Lackawanna, lying in the harbor, a very safe one, bad to get up steam to keep from going ashore. The town of Loreto, in Lower California, was destroyed. Tue mining works on the Yaqui river were swept off, and @ water spout burst over the city of Alamos, destroying the town com- pletely. Seventy dead bodies had been picked up. According to the Oservador, of Matamoros, No- vember 13, Generals Escobedo und Cor! had ar- Tived at Victoria, in Tamaulipas. One thousand troops had been sent out after Breullo Vargap, who is reported to have a force of 600 men at Croix. The Browngville story of General Escobedo’s defeat at Alamitos is not mentioned in Matamoros papers to November 20. Central America. President Castro, of Costa Rica, was quietly de- posed on the lat of November by Generals Salazar and Blanco, and Seftor Jimenez, the First Vice Presi- dent, was placed in the Presidential chair. No dis- turbance ensued, the revolution being accomplished 60 quietly that nota shot was fired. Castro ts ac- cused of having used undue influence to elect Sefor Volo, his kinsman, to the next Presidency. ‘The Nicaraguan Legation in the United States has been ordered suppressed. There was uo news of interest from Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras, Panama. President Correoso, on the 12th of November, met Obaidia with his insurrectionary forces near Santi- ago, and after a short engagement completely routed him. Obaldia himself was captured and some of Correoso’s men put him to death. Correoso returned to Panaina with his forces on the 16th and matters are comparatively quiet. No news of importance has been received from Bogota, Cuba. OMctal accounts tate that the rebels were driver church near Villa del Cobre, losing #ixty- two killed, among them General Marcano, a Domini- can, who commanded them, Colonel Perez was wounded. The government detachments have been ordered to join the main army. Count Balmaseda has commenced active operations in the fleld. Gov- ernment advices from Havana say that 500 rebels lave presented themselves to Balmaseda and re- ceived pardon. Only two prominent citizens of Puerto Principe have joined the insurgents. The town of Holquin had been capeured by the revolu- tonary forces, St. Dowinge. The rebel General Ogando is reported to have been wounded in a receut skirmish. His fuction has scattered and the government troops are in hot pursuit, The elections were progressing quietly and peace was hoped for. Santa Anna is about to goto the capital. Miscellaveous, It was rumored in Washington yesterday that Pre. sident Johnson had senta batch of proposed amend- ments to the Alabama claims protocol over the cable. Robert Ould, Jeff Davis’ counsel, moved to quash the indictnent against Davis in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, yesterday, on the ground that the fourteenth amendment prescribed only dis- franchisement as a punishment for rebellion. Chict Justice Chase, before whom the motion was made, decided to hear argument on ihe motion on Thurs- ay. We publish elsewhere this morning the report of Major General Meade, commanding the Department of the South. Senator Sumner recently, in conversation with a HERALD correspondent, expressed hitseif as deter- inined to take aatand in Congross for the tmmeiiate resumption of specie payments, Nothing more, he thinks, need be done with the Reconstruction laws, a4 General Grant will enforce their provisions, With Reyordy Johnson he was utterly disgusted, and Was sorry he had ever consented to lus confirmation 48 Minister to Engiand, It understood in Washington that Attorney General Evarts considers the practice of compro- mising Internal Revenue frauda ae entirely illegal nd that in consequence Mr. Rolling is to be notified that he must in favare suomit ati such cases to SoC retary McCulloch or the Attorney Gouer One of the jaw cases against Secretary Stanton has come toanend, John Nagies, of Prince Wile liam county, VYa,, sued him for the damage done by a party of soldiers, who encanped on his Place in 1865, On motion the case was discontinued, the plainuf to pay costs. A civiland @ criminal auit are pending in Wash. ington against BE. B, Olmstead, tie former diss pursing agent of the Post OMice Depa: iment. Bot NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1868—TRIPLE SHERBET. suits will be interesting, as there was a suspicious mystery attending the disappearance of Olmstead, and as he claimed when arrested that he had caused the deficiency only by obeying the orders of hissupe- riors in the department by paying out certain money from the wrong appropriation. A suspicious looking craft was discovered off Cape Verde Islands on the 22d of August by the French ship La Place. She hoisted the French flag on the appearance of the La Place, but answered her hail in English, saying she was bound for New York. She appeared to be of English construction, but no oMcers in uniform were seen among the men on deck. The La Place sailed away and was followed by her some distance. The reunion of the Armies of the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio and Georgia will take place in Chi- cago on the 15th and 16th of December. A-resolution praying for the removal of political disabilities from all citizens of North Carolina was debated in the Legislature at Raleigh yesterday and finally referred to a committee for report. Grant’s official majority in California is 606, but the Secretary of State will perhaps certify to the election of one of the democratic electors in conse- quence of @ mistake in the spelling of the name of Hoffman, one of the candidates on the republican electoral ticket, Two brothers named Himon were arrested at Oswego, N. Y., on Sunday, for an alleged indecent assault on a little girl, whose life is endangered in consequence. The citizens could hardly be pre- vented from lynching them. The defence in the Cole trial closed their case yes- terday and the prosecution commenced with rebut- testimony. bi ish The City. The hearing in that branch of the Erie case— Whelpley vs, The Erie Railroad Company—which has been brought into the United States Circuit Court ‘was resumed yesterday before Judge Nelson. There were a great number of aMdavits read, and the ar- gument of one of the counsel for the vacation of the order of Judge Blatchford appointing Jay Gould re- celver was heard. The case will be resumed this morning and concluded, the Court intimating to counsel that the session would be prolonged to ena- ble them to get through with their argument. A suit in the name of the people, on the complaint of the Attorney General, was commenced yesterday in the Albany courts against the Erie Railway Com- pany, asking that the directors be removed. An order was granted by Judge Peckham suspending the board pending the hearing of the motion for ab- solute removal next Monday. Information has been received in Washington of @ seizure in New York by a special Treasury agent of Lyons silks and French clocks, valued at $70,000, said to be the largest seizure ever made. ‘The Coroner’s inquest in the Larkin murder case was concluded yesterday, the jury rendering a ver- dict that the death of Larkin was caused by Robert Campbell, John Berrigan and Ann Hines. The three were then committed to await the action of the Grand Jury. Norman L. Johnston, living at 178 Forsyth street, was stabbed in the side by his wife, Eliza Johnston, yesterday at noon, while the two were quarrelling, Mrs. Johnston being intoxicated at the time. She immediately disappeared and a warrant ia now out for her arrest. Johnston is still Mving, but ts se- verely wounded. The Inman line steamship City of Washington, Captain Halcrow, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, call- ing at Halifax, N. S., to lard and receive mails and passengers. The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The Hamburg American Packet Company's steam- ship Germanta, Captain Schwensen, will leave Hobo- ken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Ham- burg. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The stock market yesterday was dull and steady in the main at the opening prices. Gold went up to 136% and relapsed to 13534. For beef cattle the market was moderately active yesterday at about former prices. Prime and extra steers were sold at 15Xc. a 16\¢c., fair to good at 14)pC. @ 16)¢c. and Inferior to ordinary at 10c. a 140. About 2,800 head comprised the offerings, Milch cows were in fair demand and prices were steady. We quote:—Extra, $100 & $125 each; prime, $90 a $95; fair to good, $75 a $85, and inferior to common, $40 a $70. Veal calves were in moderate request at 12}¢c. a 18340. for prime and extra, 1c. a 12. tor fair to good and 93¢c. a 1030. for inferior and common. For sheep the market was dull and heavy, extra selling at 64¢c. & 63,., prime at 534c. @ 6c., common to good at 43c. a 6c. and inferior at 4c.a4%c. Lambs were dull and lower, selling at 5c. a 7c. Swine were in fair demand, but with free arrivals! prices were a shade lower. We quote:—Prime, 7Xc. and inferior to good, 7c. 8 TC. Promicent Arrivals in the City. Judge K. H. Swayne, of Ohio; M. B. Cushing, of the United States Navy; Senator Hill, of Georgia, and Senator J. B. Chaffee, of Colorado, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Senator George H. Williams, of Oregon; J. F. Mathews, of Cardenas, Cuba; Judge Merriman, of Troy, N. Y.; Captain John Schuler, of Panama; Pay- master J. 3. Giraad, of the United States Navy, and Judge J. H. Embry, of Kentucky, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. Judge Joseph Miller, of Pennsylvania, and Dr. J. R. Dawson, of Cambridge, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Stephen J. Fiela, of San Francisco, is at the Bre- voort House. Congressman J. Covode, of Pennsylvania; W. P. Blake, of California, and M. and W. Vasquez, of Guatemala, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major Collier, of the United States Army; Judge Yooley, of Washington, and Captain 8, EB. Woodruff, of Sap Franctaco, are at the Hoffman House, Judge Hooper, of Massachusetts; Captain E. R. Peters, of ine United States Army, and Professor Eggleston, of Cé!ymbus, Oblo, are at the St. Charies Hotel. Sale: General Grant on the One Term Principle and the Suffrage Question. While the politicians are soré!y perplexed as to what will be the domestic policy of General Grant's administration in reference to the radicals, copperheads, niggers and rebels, there are two important questions upon which we feel authorized to say he has defined his position. These are the one term principle for the President of the United States and uni- versal suffrage. We learn from tlie best attain- able authority that General Grant is emphati- cally in favor of so amending the national con- stitution as to limit therein the President to one term, and to make universal suffrage, or suffrage to male citizens of all races and colors above the age of twenty-one years, the gu- preme law of the land. We think it will not be difficult to conjecture the reasons which have influenced General Grant in favor of the one term principle. Un- der ‘the constitution as itis’ the President may serve two or three, or even half a dozen terms, Two terms, however, appear to be the limit fixed by usage from the example ect by Washington in positively declining to hold the office any longer, But, to go no further back, we know that since the first election of Jackson this usage has been fruiiful of mischief, rapidly and continuously tending to the demoraliza- tion of the parly in power and the party out of power. For instance, during the first term of Jackson his policy was directed toa second term, and in this view he established that vicious system of partisan rewards and punish- ments in the matter of the public offices and patronage subsequently embodied in Marcy's pernicious maxim, ‘To the victors belong the spoils.” Hence the cutting commentary of Calhoun, that “the democratic party of the day {8 held together only by tho cohesive power of the public plunder.” Martin Van Buren, following “in ihe footsteps of bis illustrious predecessor,” considered a second | term his reserved right in the regular demo- cratic order of succession, and to his deadly struggle against the Southern oligarchy for this Tight we'are indebted for that rupture in the party camp which culminated in the late rebel- lion. Had the one term principle been the law this rupture might have been avoided, and we should have escaped all the fantastic tricks of Tyler and Fillmore and poor Pierce, and the foolish, profitless and costly policy of Andrew Johnson. We dare say that General Grant has been looking into these lessons of the past, and that in order to rid himself of all such entangling affiliations, and in order that his adminis- tration may be judged fairly upon its merits by the opposition, he is anxious to be limited by a constitutional amendment to a single term. He doubtless wishes to disabuse the democ- racy of that foolish idea, so broadly ventilated by General Blair, that once in the White House General Grant will stay there while he lives. The truth is he did not seek the office, did not want it, anddoes not wish to hold it longer than four years. We are satisfied, therefore, that Congress, in acting upon this one term proposition, will be heartily supported by Gon- eral Grant. Next with regard to universal suffrage. We suspect that the constitutional amendment, article fourteen, which provides that the seve- ral States may regulate the suffrage each for itself, but that in proportion asthe suffrage is restricted representation shall be restricted, is not considered a settlement by General Grant, but a rule apt to result in endless troubles and agitations from the conflicting plans likely to be adopted among the States. Hence, no doubt, General Grant has concluded that a constitutional amendment making universal manhood suffrage the supreme law of the land in all the States and Territories is the only decisive solution of this otherwise embarrassing question. Very good. Let Congress act accordingly in sub- mitting the proposed amendment to the seve- ral States; for, with the understanding that it is advocated by the President elect, we can- not doubt that it will be speedily ratified by the necessary three-fourths of all the States of the Union. The question will thus be settled on the broadest basis. But what of Southern negro supremacy? The late elec- tions haye shown that there can be no such thing. The Southern negro vote is subject to the controlling Southern white element, and hence, even under univorsal negro suffrage, we expect that by the year 1870 the whole South will be, in the hands of the democracy, recen- structed, and that thus we shallhave anew Southern balance of power which will con- trol and decide the Presidential election of 1872, General Grant, on the one term prin- ciple, being out of the field. With these two propositions of one Presi- dential term and universal suffrage fixed in the supreme law of the land, General Grant’s administration and Congress will have a clear fleld before them for the settlement of the great money question, and a clear field will also be presented for the agitation of women’s rights to all concerned in that great enterprise. In consideration, however, of the peculiar magnanimity end patriotism of General Grant in proposing to limit his public services in the White House to one term under a constitu- tional restriction, and as a simple matter of national dignity and decorum, the Congress which meets next Monday should, before the 4th of March next, pase an act raising the Presi- dent’s salary to ore hundred thousand dollars ayear, The Chief Magistrate of the United States ought to be able to hold’ up ig head even in the presence of out city Sheriff, O’Brien, or Richard O'Gorman. Nor could a more graceful act be passed or one more acceptable to the people than this increase of the President's compensation, incidentally as another recognition of the invaluable services of General Grant in saving the life of the nation. Demoralization of Seciety—Sympathy Marderers, Many of the city papers are indulging ina good deal of twaddle, prurient sentiment, phi- losophy, philanthropy and balderdash about the murders which have been committed of late. But it is curious that they dwell chiefly upon only two of these iniquities—the murder of Pollard, in Riehmond, and the murder of Larkin, in this city. Both of these assassina- tions sprang from the exhibition of violent personal passion. In Pollard’s case the parties concerned were @ genteel mob, and the instt- gation was of a personal and family charac- fer. In Larkin’s case the bloody result was brought dbout by the stimulating influence of bad liquor apon @ gang of our classic rowdies of the gladiatorial sthool. It is remarkable that while there were at least 4 huddred mur- ders committed within the month, all of more or less atrocity, it is only of these two the pe pers find opportunity to record columns or twaddle, Women are murdered by the road- side, as in Ulster county the other day. Other women are cast into the river by the hands of assassins. Qhildren ard butchered by vindic- tive domestica, as at Corning, N. Y. In Philadelphia a woman mtitders her illegitimate child and is condemned to de'ath ; but the flood- gates of philanthropy are at o.tce thrown open and widespread sympathy is exp."essed for the criminal, even to the extent of hola'ig public meetings to influence Exoctitive clems..°y. A man is buried alive by a band of rufa.’ * Spuyten Duyvil creek and only rescued by «"° promptness of a few citizens. These are but few of the terrible deeds of the day. We could enumerate many more shocking murders which have occurred all around us within the space of a few weeks, proving that crime in its worst features was never more prevalent than at present. What is the reason of this? Can any one doubt that it is traceableto the general demor- alization of society, and to the poison with which that condition of things has permeated both sexes and every class in the community ? It is the total want of social government, the disruption of all social ties, the rank corrup- tion that has eaten into political, financial and family life, to which the increase of crime is due, The successful robbers of the public treasury are responsible tor much of the vice of the age. From this filthy fountain flow the seeds of crime in every shape which are now infecting the whole atmosphere of society. Public crimes have become sv common and so for successful that sympathy with theft, and even with murder, has become common, The fraudu- lent official who steals by the million, the forger who steals his few thousands, the bank robber who makes a haul more or less in bulk of bonds and bills—all these have come to be looked upon with more sympathy than condemnation. We are indebted for this condition of things in agreat measure to the demon of irreligion which haunts all classes of life, and for this the preachers are responsible, because most of them are engaged in vindictive sectarian con- troversies and political bickerings instead of preaching the lessons of their Divine Master. It is altogether a deplorable state of affairs to which society has come, and yet we hardly see the chance of repairing it until public honesty be recognized as a virtue and the seeds of moral training shall fall upon more fruitful fields. The Erie Litigation—Thickening of the Plot. The great litigation in Erie stock between the Gould-Fisk-Lane ‘‘managing men” and the Belmont faction is becoming more involved and complicated every day, while the struggle is assuming vaster proportions, extending over the State, and is waged with greater vigor at each new assault, The fact is that all these men are playing for immense stakes, and any new trick in shuffling or dealing is eagerly plied by both parties, Application to the courts, after all the Wall street dodges are ex- hausted and the losing player staggers back baffled, is with these, as with all other gam- blers, the only method of recovering the lost wagers, But one result can at present be looked upon as certain, and that is that these men are playing with money that should be in the pockets of the honest stockholders, and when the game is over the stockholders will be “out” the amounts of what their dividends should have been and the heaviest counsel fees ever paid in any litigation. When these civil processes are exhausted it would be a grand idea to try ‘“‘a hand” or two on the bench of a criminal court. The new developments of yesterday were that James Fisk, Jr., and others of the direc- tors were reported by the police to have left the city clandestinely at midnight of Sunday, taking moneys of the company which rumor estimates at about eight million dollars; that a new suit inthe name of the Attorney Gen- eral has been commenced in Albany county, praying for the removal of the Board of Direc- tors, and an order granted by Judge Peckham suspending them until the hearing of the appli- cation. It is presumed that this suit was the cause of Fisk’s hasty departure, as one clause of the injunction granted restrained the re- moval of any of the funds beyond the jurisdic- tion of the court, and that order was served upon him while on the steamboat pier. In the United States Court the argument on the mo- flon to set aside Judge Blatchford’s order appointing Jay Gould receiver was heard before Judge Nelson, occupying the entire day, and will be resumed this morning. An Austrian Commercial Expedition. By the Atlantic cable we learn that the Austrian government has fitted out and de- spatched an expedition which will circumnayi- gate the globe. It is under the command of Carl Scherzer. The laudable object of the en- terprise is to introduce the products of Aus- trian industry into distant markets and to ex- tend the commerce of the empire. The expedition is under special instructions to visit the principal ports of China and Japan, and to proceed thence to California and cruise along the South American coast. We remember that a few years ejnce a somewhat similar effort was stréhuously made to develop the foreign commerce of Austria. The govern- ment endeavored to overcome the opposition of England to the construction of a ship canal through the Isthmus of Suez and encouraged the formation of a regular steamship line between Trieste and New York. Somewhat later an effort was made by Austria to obtain unrestricted commercial intercourse with the German Zollverein. These efforts to extend Austrian commerce are highly creditable. But we cannot help re- garding them as somewhat tardy when we recollect that Charles the Fifth, more than three hundred years ago, might have com- manded the results of the splendid discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. The Austrian expedition from Genoa has waited a long time to follow in the wake of the three little veasels—the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Nifia—commanded by the daring navigator who set sail from the Roads of Saltez on Friday morning, August 8, 1492, in search of 4 new route to the Indies. But ‘better late than never,” and we congratulate the Austrian government upon having waked up at last to the importance of discoveries made in the fifteenth century. It is but just to add that Austria could boast in December, 1866, of a mavy consiting of sixty-six steamers, with 18,580 horse power and 723 guns, and filty-one Bailing vessels, with 340 cannon, as well as of a merchant marine of 7,240 vessels. Capitulation of Reverdy Johnson to Enge fand. So far as at present appears the mission of Reverdy Johnson to England has resulted in a capitulation which, we feel confident, the peo- ple of the United States can never endorse, It seems that, according to the terms to which Mr. Johnson has agreed, there is to be no ex- pression of opinion as to the crucial question of the whole controversy—whether the British government was right or wrong in its recogni- tion of the claims of the Southern confederacy ax ® belligerent power. Mr. Johnson has weas.'¥ consented to reduce all to a simple, migerdd@ question of dollars and cents, At the «ame time the London journals are full of complaints from British shipowners, who profess to be utterly dissatisfied with the Alabama treaty. This, however, is but part of a bluff game, aitd it will not succeed in blinding the American public to its true inte- rests in the case.. Engla%d must, sooner or later, make up its mind as to whether it was right or wrong in its recognition pf the hellige- rent claims of thé (so-called) S¢athern con- federacy during our late civil war. Uf it insist upon having been in the right it must be pre- pared to learn, on the very next occasion we have to teach them the lesson, that we have the right to recognize the belligerent claims of Fenian invaders, either of Canada or of Ireland, and that we are ready and not. indis- posed to exercise it, A Crisis in Spatn. Our late news from Syain is not reassuring as to the final success of the revolution. It is daily becoming more manifest ‘hat popular sentiment and the plans of the provisional government are at variance. The fact that the subscriptions by the people to the national loan now amount to three hundred and nine- teen million reals is proof positive that the patriotic fervor of the people is at once genu- ine and unabated. Meanwhile it seems to be the fixed determination of Prim, Serrano and the others to ignore popular sentiment, and to consult only their own wishes in the establish- ment of a new form of government. Itisa significant fact that the young men of the country who are under twenty-five years of age are to be denied the right of voting at the approaching elections. The object of this re- striction is obvious ata glance. The rising hopes of Spain are in favor of a republic. The granting of the franchise to those only who are over twenty-five years of age is clearly intended to cut off a vote which, while it would represent at once numbers and pro- gressive energy, would be surely republican. To adopt such a course implies on the part of the provisional government something like the daring of despair; but it will not be wonderful if this daring and most iniquitous policy prove the ruin of its authors. In no other country in the world, so faras is known to us, are electors otherwise qualified denied the right of voting after the age of twenty-one. It does not surprise us to learn that the young men are indignant, that tho friends of popular lib- erty are on their side, and that at monster meetings which are being held all over the country the conduct of the provisional gov- ernment in this matter is being bitterly de- nounced. The success of the revolution -in its first stage inspired the nations with hope, and seemed to disprove the theory of Buckle that Spanish intellect was so impaired by ages of misrule that self-government in Spain was im- possible for many generations. The present aspect of things again encourages the belief that the conclusions of the great philosophical historian were too well founded. We cannot say we are yet prepared to abandon all hope in the final success of the revolution. It may yet be found that the historian was wrong, that Spain is not so desperate as he described her; but it cannot be denied that at the pre- sent moment facts are in his favor. The situation certainly is not hopeful. Itis now more than ever difficult to resist the conviction that the provisional government are bound over to Napoleon and that they are acting in obedience to his instructions. Should a collision take place between republicans and monarchists—and such a collision is now se- riously apprehended—the interference of Na- poleon by force of arms will presumably fol- low. It would not be a hard task for the Em- peror to make himself master of Spain; but a French occupation of that country might wake up the slumbering energies of the French people and involve the Emperor and his dy- nasty in irretrievable ruin. A Curious Attack the French Transat- lantic Telegraph. A contemporary who is more at home making jokes, cabinets for General Grant and appoint- ments to foreign missions than on telegraph matters, has made a flerce onslaught on the French Transatlantic Cable Company. What- ever may be the real or secret motive for this attack the declared one is because the pro- ject has been set on foot and is managed by rebel sympathizers—because Erlanger, Reuter and others aided or were friendly to the rebels. In the name of common sense what has the sympathy of these men for any particular party, rebel or loyal, to do with a purely busi- ness enterprise? A great many people both in England and France sympathized with the rebellion, but that is all ver séveral years ago; different ideas and feelings, prevail now, and, besides, no sensible person thinks of letting the political views of individuals inter- fere with or affect his business transactions with them. This assault on a great enterprise on such grounds is narrow-minded, bigoted and silly. What do the people of this country or of the world care about the political views or sympathies of the capitalists and managers of this Cable Company? All they care about is having as many cables and telegraphic facili- ties carried out as possible by whoever will undertake the work. We should like to know what the stockholders of the old Atlantic Telegraph Company or Newfoundland Tele- graph Company think of this attack upon a rival enterprise. Possibly they may feel gratified, but the public want competition and all the telegraphic facilities they can get. Molasece and Vinegar. There is an old saying that more flies can be caught with molasses than with vinegar, and its truth seems to be verified in the prac- tical experience of two radical politicians who publish weekly papers in this city. One is Twaddling Tilton, a smooth-tongued, poctical, woman-worshipping, wishy-washy sort of a person, who wears flowing locks and affects uiizaism in philanthropy, negro worship and womeit’s rights, The other is Wendell Phil- lips, who {s hard and wiry, assumes the character of a cynic and is severe and sarcas- tic with his pen. The one is the molasses, the other the vinegar of radical journalism. To show how much more profitable are good humor and harmless machine poetry than savage criticisms and personal assaults, it is now announced that the strong-minded females who believe in Wendell Phillips have been compelled to call a meeting to collect chickens, woollen socks, butter, tea, red flannel, sugar, paper collars, coal and pocket handkerchiefs for the support of their protégé’s organ, while Twaddling Tilton boasts that he is doing a more flourishing business than any other weekly paper on the Continent, and surpasses in a certain degree the success of the New York Hera tp and the London Timea, Mason GeNERAL Meape’s Ruaport.—We publish to-day General Meade's official report to General Grant's chief of staff. It will be seen that it is priucipally devoted to a re- capitulation of the prominent events that have occurred in the Department of the South since it has been under his command) He scarcely makes a recommendation about the future government of that part of the county’, merely transmiiling, without comment, the ,teports + of his subordinate officers, why, it seems, ‘uink ~~ that a military’ force is still necessary for the maintenance of tr2quillity and the protection of life and property ia eit several districts. This is a point upon whiei? General Meade’s Personal opinion would hav been especially interesting and important; but ' its absence our readers can form their own Yiews upon the basis of the facts presented. The Prosperity ef the City of Chicago and the Pacife Railroad. The city of Chicago may take the palm for being, next to New York, the most prosperous, go-ahead city on the Continent. It now con- tains a population of over a quarter of a mil+ lion and is increasing at the rate of twenty-five per cent every couple of years. The popula- tion is now sixty times larger than it was thirty-one years ago. The aggregate wealth of the city exceeds two hundred and thirty-twa millions, or two hundred and fifty times as large as it was twenty-eight years ago. In fact, everything in Chicago has increased enor- mously within the last quarter of a century—~+ especially divorce cases, She has whole blocks of magnificent dry goods palaces, ware- houses, bank And insurance buildings, is well supplied with handsome church edifices, private residences, opera houses, theatres, hotels, rail- way stations, printing houses, and prints some rather enterprising newspapers. She has a community of merchant princes who are im- bued with the true Western adventurous spirit, dashed with Eastern energy, endurance an@ ingenuity; she has divines as eloquent as you will find almost anywhere, and lawyers who are pronounced fair at common law and famoug in causes connected with the marital relations of frail humanity. Taken altogether, Chicage is a wonderful city already, but in a few yeard will become still more wonderful, populous and prosperous—the Titan of Western metropolises., Already are the eyes of her public-spirited citizens looking to the vast advantages to accrue from making Chicago a sort of central or distributing point for the Pacifid Railroad, taking, as it were, time by the fore+ lock, and stepping in by the side of New York to urge toa triumphant cempletion the great trans-continental undertaking. Meetings have been held and resolutions adopted showing the natural advantages of Chicago as a point for a direct trade with Eastern Asia, and for the concentration of Oriental goods—teas, silks, satins, the ‘‘spices of the Orient,” and the untold wealth that must cross the Conti- nent, upon the completion of the railway, em route to the markets of the Old World. By this means, and by enlarging the facilities for rail- way communications between the two cities, Chicago will become a veritable suburb of New York and help swell the magnitude and splen- dor of the great Commercial Emporium in com- mon with her own. Arrangements are also being made in Chicago to celebrate the open ing of the Pacific road—next Fourth of July, perhaps—with a degree of liberality and mag nificence unparalleled on the Continent. In short, Chicago seems actually to be a step in advance of New York in appreciation of the éoftimercial benefits that will flow from the construction of the road. And our merchanté and citizens generally, as well ag our publio authorities, should be Waking up to the impor- tance of celebrating the consummation of the iron-bound union between these two great cities—New York on the east and San Fran- cisco on the west—in @ manner commensurate with the importance of the event and the honor of the city. If they do not take care Chicago will be ahead of New York iu the matter of inaugurating the great occasion. They are an intrepid class of people, those Chicagoans. Mues O’Remty'’s Porms.—What has bes come of those beautifal verses of Miled O'Reilly that were promised us some months ago? ‘Phe public are getting impatient. Why does the printer not bring them forth ? Promisine Prosprots vor tax Soura—The death of Rhett’s Charleston Mercury and Hunnicutt’s Richmond ation. GENERAL NOTES. Mrs. General Grant is in Philadelphia. General Grant will be in this city next Saturday. General Grant's second son will commence doing Harvard next fall. General Graut will tarry a night this week with Governor Burnside, in Providence. : General Grant will attend the feunion of the Army of the Cumberland in Chicago, December 16, ty Both General Sherman and his brother, Senator Sherman, have bought lots in Washing:‘on city. General Grant will bein Boston to-morrow (Wod- nesday). He positively doclines a public reception. They have regularly a burglary one night and s golden wedding the next ip sowie of the Comneotict towns. : 2A: - Lynching down South is now described as “a math kicking at the United States from the end of a tights Tope, very dead.” ' 4 Baltimore paper arges the mate dry goods clerk@ in that city to throw down their yardsticks and suré render to the women. ‘ A young lady in Providence wants to know ff there ‘Won't be another Thanksgiving Day soon, there were #0 many marriages at the last ono. John S. Elliott died in Queen Anne’s county, Mi., lately, weighing 400, He has weighed 500, but ‘grow thin” durtng his brief put fatal iliness, i Senator Sumner has a throat dimcnity. It is no§ many years since certain Southerners thought have che should they happen to Bet Md ir ncro vot ‘The editor of the fze geting cparietnn Mercury sare hie paper is nof 4 Oaly sleepeth. It n not thene aaa to that red e hand ig. hand with the New Nutidn, ite red odes, A Jonng farmer in Pickens, 8, 6, {fis stated Tal 1,200 bushels of corn “with oné pjitid horse, | A blind horse might ta time consnme G jou phe but how he could raise it ts cal e. : General and Mra. Grant will attend the wedding OP ex-Governor Fish's daughter on Tuesday, ath inst., +. city, b4 Writer on bah yeaa td rahall O. Rober ve the same evening. b haya A emart fight is going on ami Western radtonk anes about the eemen of Mr Ohandter to th United States Senate from Michigan, According Sppesrances the coming, Legislature of Mjchiga will Dhan be likely to ship ler, because he gel fore he's fairly haif seas over, eet @ more reliable man. ’ ‘The moderate terms which General Sherman ‘anted to the revel General Johnston on the capi- lation of the latter are pronounced to be entire! and peremptorily those of the then President [i coin. Sherman, it appears, objected to their leuf. ency, but Lincoln's proverbial tenderness of hears prevatied over the protest of the soldier. a the A Connecticut farmer in giving am account of th meteoric display on the 14th ult. states:—On the morning of the Yarn ult, at five o'clock, as! wens out to mlk my cows, L observed numerous shoot stars, and I counted, while milking SIX stars, mor than one Landred and twenty cows—some sronil, with a short tall of Nant, aud some large and bril liant, in a stream of fire. ; A Buffalo radical sheet says, ““Weatern New Yor has never had the honor of furnishing the natto with a Untved States Senator,” and soos in fot James O'Putnam, of Batavia, The democrais hay their o'Kay, thelt O'Gorman, thelr O'Kourke, tel O'Veed, ant once had thelr Oki! hot the radionls of the West lave their O'Pucnam ae wall na tho-radioas of the Bast their O'kobertm &e? Och Hea! why showd