The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homvry DUMPTY. wira NEw FRATURRS, Matinee at 1d. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Ingianp As Ir Was—ConnzctiouT Couxtsuir. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— ‘Tus Lancasner Lass. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Arrex Dark, OR LON- won BY NIGHT, by BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—RED Scanr—Lonriy ‘Man oF THE OcEAN. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.-Mns Soorr-St- PONS AB JULIET. PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth av 33d cizcet.—Bague BLEUR—LISCHEN AND Fis and PRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- we.—GENEVIKVE DE BEABANT. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowers.— Magia Srvuaer. MBS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — ‘Tre LANCAsdIne Labs. BRYANTS’ OPERA HOU: street.—Ern1orian MINbTRe:. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTR PIAN MINSTREL6Y, Bor Tammany Building, 14th ke. 0 Broadway.—ETRio- Tam, CATS. RELS, 585 Broadway.—-Eraio- ero, NGING, DANOLNG, &e. PIAN ENTESTAINMES TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOC Vooariss, NEGkO MINSTRELS 14 Broadway.--THe Grear Ort com Fea NG AnD AND VAUDEVILLE COMPANY. Matinee. GINAL Lin’ WOOD'S MUSEUM AND T ) street and Broadway.—Atiernoon and eventy; NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth sireet.—Equmsrrian AND GYMNABTIO ENTERTAINMENT. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street. exnepy's SONGS OF SCOTLAND. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Bronklyn.-Hoorey'’s MINSYRELS—THE GRAND DucnEss, &c. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg. — HOoLEY’s MINSTRELS—OM! Husu, se. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOUNCE AND ART. New York, Wednesday, December 2, 1865S. THE NEWS. e Europe. Queen Victoria will leave for Osborne after the meeting of Parliament. Mr. Disraeli will not submit any more names for the peerage. A testimonial banqaet is being prepared for the members of the expiring Cabinet. » Lord Monck was complimented on his administra- “ton in Canada by the Queen, > The Parisian printers are on a strike. Count Von Lippe, in the Prussian House of Depu- ties, recommends legislation for a uuiform legal system. A monarclists demonstration was yesterday broken up in Madrid by the republicans. General Prim declares the Spanish government ‘will have nothing to do with the Bourbons. He also ays he does not contemplate a coup d'état, ‘The Sublime Porte threatens to reeall the Turkish Ambassador from Athens, Arumor was prevalent yesterday in Madrid that the United States has recognized the Cuban insur- gents as belligerents. Another disturbance by the republicans occurred yesterday in Oronse. ‘The seull race on the Thames, in England, yester- day, for £200 a side, was won by Heury Kelly, of Putney. The Indians. A decisive battie occurred last Saturday at the Cheyenne village one the north fork of the Wachita river between General Custar’s command, the Seventh cavalry, and the Cheyenne Indians under Black Kettle. One hundred and three Indians were kulled, fifty-three taken prisoners, the village de- stroyed and a large number of horsea and 1onles, with arms, ammunition, &c., captured. On our side Captain Lewis Hamilton was killed, Lieutenant Colonel Barnitz wounded, perhaps mortally, and Major Elliott is missing. Mexico. Our Mazatian letter is dated November 5. Palacio, formerly Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Sinaloa, and a prominent ex- revolutionist under Martinez, was seized in the pub- Hic plaza on the 28th of October and hurried away to Mexico City. Various reasons are assigned for hw errest, the most plausible being that he had at- tempt to bribe the gaard in charge of his brother, Colonel Adolfo Palacio, who i# in prison for revolu- tionary proceedings. if Selor Caba, Advices from the Eastern Departiwwent of the isiand state that at a meeting of the revolunonary Junta, the majority, after a short argument, refused to accept any reforms offered as an inducement to surrender, and declared their determination to fight for independence. The Junta represents the talent and weaith of the department. Count Balmaseda, on hearing of their determinatfon, notifies then that a bloody struggle would commence soon, Miscellaneous, ‘The Flectoral College of this State met at Albany yesterday, and General Siocum was chosen Presi- dent, The College then adjourned until to-morrow, The Electoral Colleges of the other States also a® sembied at their respective camtals. The Supreme Judicial Court at East Cambridge, Mass., yesterday decided thats territoria! «eleyate | to Congress enjoys the same iramiuity from arrest extended to a representative. ‘The statement of the public debt for November, Which t forthcoming soon, will, it is said, show an Sncrease of $9,000,000, Acan of blasting powder of the “latent Safety Compound” kind exploded at the Dean Ore Mine Company, near Fort Montgomery on the thudson, on Monday, instantly killing three men, one of whom— @homas Husted—who held the can the time o! explosion, was literally blown to pieces, his be fnd flesh being scattered around within au arca of 300 yards in particles none of which were over an fuch tong. Three other miners were seriousiy in- ured. A lawauit for the possession of the property of Wiliam Taylor, of Rye, Westchester county, was commenced in Justice Gilbert's court at White Plains on Monday. The principal contestant is Mrs. Catha rine Pauline Taylor, formerly Kate Edward, who claims to be the widow o' ‘Taylor, by whom she has two children. In her tesiimony given yesterday Mrs. Taylor states that no marriage ceremony was ever performed between her and Mr. Taylor, but he Yecognized her as his wife aud ed of his own Will to #0 recognize her when they commenced jiv- ng together, She wae a seamstress tn his house at the time, and he dreaded the objections of his grown daughters to the match. Mrs. Van Tay), one of his Aaughters, is the other claimant. The property of Geceased now in litigation amounts to over $500,000, ‘The municipal government of Augasta, , have Mude one move towards depriving the negro of ihe ballot. They ciaim that he cannot vote legally until the Georgia Lewisiature strikes out the wOrd “white” from the State constiiution, ‘The City. ‘The charter election passed off quieliy yesterday. A small vote was polled, A. Oakey JLal) being chosen Mayor and Richard O'Gorman Corporation Counsel. A list of the Aldermen aad Sehovl officers elected Will be found cisewhere. Au affray occurred at @ polling place on Second Bvenue yesterdays, in which Patrick Kelly, who bad excited the wrath of some political opponents py challenging a doubtful voter, was shot and injured ‘80 seriously that his recovery is considered hopeless. Dan Noble was arrested by the police on the charge of tring the shot, Officer Breakall, who took the wounded man to the hospital, states that on his way to the disturbance he met Sheriff O’Brien, who was accompanied by a crowd, and who told him, re ferring to the disturbance, that “it was all right.” In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, be- fore Judge Nelson, counsel engaged in the Gould. Davies branch of the Erie litigation closed tneir argument and submitted their points to the Court, who resefved decision, Judge Balcom, of the Supreme Court at Binghamton, has issued an order enjoining all persons from delivering any property of the Erie Company to any receiver ex- cept the one appointed by his court. Mr. James Fisk, Jr., in a card this morning denies the report of his ight with money belonging to the company. He went to Port Jervis on business and did not carry any money or securities not his own. The railway ofice in West street was closed and the en- trance guarded, but business was conducted at the transfer office in Pine street by @ polite clerk, who was not aware of any litigations pending. On application of counsel yesterday Judge Nelson postponed for one week the time for Mr, William Fullerton to plead to the indictment against him. District Attorney Courtney made no objection to the application. ‘The jury in the case of Garner ©. Baker, charged with embezzlement from the Tradesmen’s Bank, came into court yesterday after being locked up all night with a verdict of guilty on three counts in the indictment, which involve the gravamen of the offence charged. James McLaughiin, alias Fuller, who is charged with perjury in the whiskey conspiracy against Collector Bailey, eseaped some time ago and was re- arrested yesterday in Chambers streei. He made a cesperate resistance, according to the statement of the officers, and several shots were fired at him be- fore he was captured, A fire broke out in the interior of Fort Lafayette shortly before one o'clock yesterday afternoon, caused by the carelessness of a workman in lighting a fire to warm his dinner ia an old and unused chim- ney, from whenee the flames set fire to the roof and ‘spread with great rapidity. The fire raged until past gimidnight, devouring 100,000 feet of lumber stored “there preparatory to being. used in repairing the fortification, and completely gutting the entire work of everything of an in- flamable nature, Great fears were entertained that an explosion would occur from the fact that there 000 pounds of gunpowder in the magazine. tely, though sorely tried, the bombproof proved eflicient tn staying the progress of the fire in that dangerous quarter, and a fearful explosion was averted. . A meeting was held at Cooper Institute last night to devise means for securing the pardon of Hester Vaughn, who is sentenced to death in Philadelphia for infanticide, Horace Greeley occupied the chair, and speeches were made by Susan B, Anthony, Parker Pillsbury, Mrs. Dr. Lozier, who said that Hester was temporarily insane when she destroyed her child, and by others. All urged that women should be tried by a jury of women. A large sub- scription was taken up, one gentleman from Police Headquarters giving $100, and Miss Anna Dickinson subscribing for the same amount. An afiray occurred between rival families living on the same floor in No, 9 Weehawken street on Monday night, in which John Wing was knocked down by a man named Lynch, who was immedi- ately assanited by the wile of Wing with a hatchet. The wife of Lynch meanwhile continued the assault on the prostrate Wing with such effect that his skull was fractured and he is now at Bellevue Hospital with n@hopes of his recovery. Lynch and his wife were arrested. The Cunard steamship Russia, Captain Cook, wiil fail this morning for Liverpool, ‘The mails will close at the Post Ofice at seven A. M. The steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, of the Biack Star line, will leave pier 13 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. The stock market yesterday was dull, weak and dechned. Gold was steady between 135 and 155.4. Prominent Arrivals iu the City. Major Van Viiet, of the United States Army, and Judge H. N. Henricks, of New Loudon, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel 8. Jones, of the United States Army, is at the New York Hotel. B. Buftum, of Providence; Hugh Allen, of Mon- treal, and Dr. ©. A. Walker, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotei. J. B. Ross, of Macon, Ga., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain J. R. Ramsay, of ti British Army, and Captain E. D. Holbrook, of the United States Army, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Mr. Walter M. Gibson arrived in this city yester- day, overiand from San Francisco. He comes as the accredited agent of the Hawatian Islands, for the business of inducing the emigration of colored and other labor to the islands, He will visit Washiagton io urge the ratification of the reciprocity treaty be- tween the United States and the Sandwich Islands. ‘The Character and Dev Spanish Revolui The Spanish revolution has evidently upset all the preconceived ideas of the rest of the world with regard tothe Spaniards. There isa great deal of speculation and comparatively little known about the movement outside of Spain. The British and French press—and, indeed, the press generally throughout the world—is floundering in uncertainty as to the character and development of the revolution. Nearly all the newspapers in Europe, and particularly those of Haugland, underrate the republican character of the movement. Looking at it from a monarchical point of view, they are blind to many important facts, and do not wish lopment of the to eee anything else than a mere change of dynasty. The reigning powers and monarch- ists of the Old World are afraid of a republic, or even a republican experiment in the penin- sola, and reason against it. Hence it is diffi- eult to get at the truth through European sources. Whether « republic be inaugurated or mon- archy be resvored on such « liberal basis as only would be possible now, the revolution is democratic and republican in its character and tendency. If it were the movement of a dynastie or political faction, or of some ambi- tious chief, it might he only ephemeral and shorilived. Spain might fall back under chronic despotism in one form or another. And thie is the view generally taken of the revolution. It is said the Spanish people are not intelligent or ripe enough for a republic or broadly liberal institutions, We think the manner in which the revolution was brought about and is being carried through shows a great deal of intelligence, elevation of charac- ter and a well matured purpose. It was not the movement of a party or faction, but of thre whole people. It was a grand political earth quake which upheaved the whole peninsula, The fires have been smouldering for ages, though seemingly: extinct. Their action reaches back to the time of Ferdinand and Teabella. Through all the long period of darkness, monarchical and priestly despotiam and national decline the Spaniards have never forgotten their former greatness and glory, nor was the love of liberty ever extinct. The liberal and progressive ideas of the age have penetrated the peninsula and quickened the latent love of freedom and ambition of the people. The corruptions of the Spanish gov- ernment and enormous weight of taxation were the immediate causes of the revolution; but it isevident there was waother one more NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. deep-seated and powerful at the bottom. Freedom, political equality and republicanism are the natural offsprings of the progress of this enlightened age, and the Spanish people could not but realize this fact. Perhaps nothing has contributed more towards the revolution in Spain and political enlightenment of the people than the history, growth and influence of this country. The Spanish people study and admire the great American republic. Everything American is popular and fashionable. Even the manufac- tured articles of the United States are bought up with avidity, whey they can be obtained, and used because they are American, Our late clvil war has made a wonderful impres- sion upon the Spaniards, as, in fact, upon all Europe. The magnitude of it, the results, the way in which we raised armies of millions and the easy dispersion of all these to their homes and ordinary pursuits when the war was over have astonished the world. Spaniards gnd Enropeans generally cannot but be deeply {m- pressed with the excellence of our institutions, strength of the government and greatness of the republic. The incidents of that revolu- tionary period are known all over Europe. Where has the fact that four millions of slaves were emancipated not penetrated? The assas- sination of President Lincoln has become a3 well known as that of Julius Cesar, and will be scarcely less famous in history. In illus- tration of this we will notice what occurred to an Aincrican gentleman who was lately travel- ling in a remote part of Spain. In an out of the way village, removed from the lines of communication and intelligence, where « foreigner is rarely seen, this gentleman was asked by a villager if he were an Englishman. He replied, ‘‘No.” ‘‘A Frenchman?” ‘‘No; I aman American,” he said. ‘‘Ah, Ameri- cano!” responded his questioner with agree- able surprise. ‘Did you know Lincon?” Little as this humble villager knew about the world, the name of Lincoln was familiar. The United States are exercising a silent but pow- erful influence over Spain and Europe gene- rally, and the effect may be seen in the Span- ish revolution, There is undoubtedly a strong monarchical party in Spain, though some of this party are so not because they dislike republican institu- tions, but because they are in doubt as to the practicability of establishing firmly a republic, The republican sentiment is gaining strength every day. It is said by those well acquainted with Spanish affairs that both General Prim and Espartero at heart favor a republic. It is doubtful if the Emperor Napoleon has much influence in Spain, for the Spaniards have no love for the French, Whenever those monarch- ists supposed to. be under Napoleon's influence talk about a king the republicans head them off by pointing to Montpensier as the man. This, of course, is a clincher. When the opposite party speak of a chief Espartero is pointed to, as he is believed to be a republican at heart. So we sec there is @ good deal of dry humor combined with the earnestness of these Span- iards in their revolutionary movement. It will be found as difficult for the monarchists to get.a suitable monarch as for the republicans to succeed in establishing a republic, and from the lights before us we are inclined to think it will be more difficult. However, the Cortes are soon to be el@cted and to assemble, and then we shall know whether Spain is to be a republic or a monarchy. At present the current of popular sentiment runs favorably towards a republic, though some of the chiefs are for a monarchy. The City Elecgion. The election yesterday passed off so peace- ably and with so little excitement that, except in the immediate vicinity of a few polling places in districts where there happened to bea struggle over the minor offices, such as Alder- men, Asssistant Aldermen or School Trustees, it would have been dificult to induce a stranger to believe that a contest was going on for the Chief Magistracy of the great city of New York, with its twenty-four million dol- lars of annual taxation. A very light vote was polled, not much more than one-half the registration, and the republican vote fell off nearly or quite one-half from that cast for *Grant and Griswold. A. Oskey Hall was chosen Mayor and Richard O'Gorman Corpo- ration Counsel by # majority larger than the number of votes cast for the republican can- didetes. There appears to be a question, from the wording of the charter, whether the election of Mayor was for two years or only for the unexpired balance of the term of the retiring official. If the former construction should prove to be correct Mayor Hall will not take possession of the office until the Ist of January next; if the latter he will enter upon its duties as soon as the result of the selection is officially announced. Mayor Hall will make a popular and efficient Chief Magistrate of the metropolis. He has broad, progressive views on the subject of local improvements, and will take as much pride in the embellishment ofthe city and the development of ita resources as the Park Commissioners have manifested in the perfection of their magnificent work. We predict that the people will have no cause to regret that they have chosen him their Mayor by such « decisive and flattering majority. ‘The Health of the Emperor Napoleon, It is a curions fact that whenever any trouble arises in France, when there fs a difficulty with the Chambers or with@he press, or when the elections threaten to be unfavorable, di rectly an attempt is made to awaken the sym- pathies of the French people by getting up the ery that the health of the Emperor is bad and that his life is in danger. So frequent have been those cries of late and s6 generally have they been found to be false that we have ceased to have any faith in them. The rumor this time has been somewhat persistent. Jt may be true or it may be as false as the others; we know not. It is well, however, to bear in mind that the Emperor is over sixty years of age, and that in the nature of things there is no reason why the present rumor in regard to his health should not be true. The failing of the health of the Emperor will give life to the fac- tions. Who is to rule France after Napoleon iL. is @ question quite as difficult to answer now as it has been any time these last seven- teen years. France submits to the Emperor. It does not at all follow that she must submit to his son orto any regency that may rile in his son's name. Gener! Grant’s Administration —Recon- mruction and the Money Question. General Grant's election as President turned upon the Southern reconstruction question ; but the main business of his administration will be the money question. Having made their ight for Seymour upon the Tammany pronunciamiento that the reconstruction laws of Congress ‘‘are unconstitutional, revolu- tionary, null and void,” we may fairly conclude that Seymour's election would have given us nothing better than four years more of the Southern anarchy-breeding opposition policy of Johnson. On the other hand, as the elec- tion of General Grant involves another popu- lar ratification of the reconstruction policy of Congress, we may consider it fixed. It was broadly disclosed in the famous Cabinet im- broglio correspondence of last February that Grant has no respect for Johnson's reconstruc- tion policy, while his letter of acceptance of the Chicago nomination commits him to the policy of Congress. He will, therefore, take up the laws as he finds them, and in good faith will execute them. So much for reconstruction. With the retire- ment of Johnson an enemy is displaced, and with the incoming of Grant the Executive becomes an ally of Congress. But to simplify: under a comprehensive and uniform rule, the question of suffrage involved in this reconstruction business, General Grant, it appears, is in favor of another constitutional amendment, which shall establish universal suffrage, or suffrage to all male citizens (excepting lunatics, idiots, crimi- nals, &c.) above the age of twenty-one years, of all races and colors. It further appears that to put anend to all apprehensions, in- trigues and plans in reference to his being a "candidate for another term or two, General Grant is in favor of another “constitutional amendment limiting the President's eligibility to one term. Nor does it need any very labored arguments to show that with these two amendments added to the constitution all the existing difficulties on suffrage would be set- tled, and. the President would be relieved from a world of embarrassments and factious'oppo- sition in the conduct of his administration. We think, too, that if passed over to the States from the coming session of Congress these proposed amendments may be duly ratified before the end of the ensuing year. In any event, however, the money question, embracing bonds, banks, currency, taxes, wastages, revenue frauds and national debt, will be the main business of General Grant's administration. Some time ago a radical con- temporary made the important discovery that | under Grant the two most important officials will be the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Yester- day a half-and-half republican organ made the same discovery, and enlarged upon it to the éffect that if these two officials come up to the mark Grant's administration will be a great success, but that if they fall short even Grant will be a failure. Now, we have some confi- dence in General Grant's keen perception of the right man for this or that piece of work, and we look for‘a good and capable Cabinet at his hands, But he will need something more. We see that under our present revenue Taws, in the matter of these atrocious whiskey frauds, there is something like a deadlock be- tween Johnson, McCulloch and Rollins, the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Commissioner. The Vresident complains that he is tied up by the Tenure of Office law, under which the Trea- sury rogues and swindlers snap their fingers and flourish their ill-gotten greenbacks in his face. McCulloch is embarrassed with the independent authority of Rollins as an attaché of the Treasury Department, and between the pair of them the whiskey rings grow fat on their unchecked spoliations. Let General Grant be relieved of the Tenure of Office law, and let the Commissioner of Internal Revenue be made a subordinate, responsible to the Secretary of the Treasury, and General Grant, we reckon, will soon get at the bottom of all these rings of Treasury thieves and put an end to their villanies. Congress, in a word, must provide the ways and means to the President to extricate us from our Treasury plunderers, our Treasury extravagances, our excessive taxations and the burden of our national debt; and if the two houses wish General Grant to take the responsibility they must give him the power to meet it, The Larkin Homicide—Coroncr’s inquest. The Coroner's inquest in the Larkin case has been concluded with a verdict by the jury that “the deceased came to his death from stab wounds at the hands of the three prisoners— Campbell, Berrigan and Ann Hines”—who have been committed to await the action of the Grand Jury, while the witnesses have all been put under bonds to appear and testify. At this stage in the proceedings it is right to call the attention of the public, and espe- cially of the Grand Jury, to the fact that pre- vious to the Coroner's inquest the witnesses were allowed to go at large, with every oppor- tunity to meet and concoct the same story; to the utter discrepancy between the evidence of Larkin’s companions and that of the police and the doctors, particularly in regard to the knife used in the bloody and fatal affray; to the improbability that six rowdies would per- mit Campbell to assault them with no other aid than that of a young man anda woman; to the inconsistency of the whole one-sided story upon by the witnesses, means and last, least, to the ex- traordinary conduct of the Coroner in dictating to the jury. The Ooroner asserted that ‘‘in his jadgment the woman was equally guilty with the other prisoners,” and he told the jury that this ‘‘was one of the most horrible murders he had ever had to investi- gaie, and it was their duty to find a verdict of murder against all the prisoners; they could find no other, in his opinion, if they performed their duty conscientiously.” Notwithstanding this over-haaty anticipation by the Coroner of the final decision of the case, Robert Campbell, whether guilty or innocent of the terrible crime with which he is charged, is entirely justifiable in asking fora suspension of public opinion, The crime, if proved against him, should of course be punished. Bat he and his alleged accomplices are entitled to fair play. Neither political sympathies nor money should prevent their having a chance to estab- lish, if they can, their justification and inno- cence, Any citizen whoge house is brokea into agreed but by no at night by a gang of drunken rowdies is liable to kill one or more of them in self-defence, and has a right to be presumed innocent of mur- der until convicted of it by an impartial jury after a full and fair trial. In the Larkin case it now rests with the Grand Jury to see that the truth be discovered and that justice be done. Intereceanic Communication at Panama. There is considerable dispute between the State of Panama and the general government of New Granada as to which has the right to make the concession for the ship canal across the isthmus. For some time the State govern- ment has claimed that even the Panama Rail- way has illegally received the franchises under which it was built and the term of its charter extended. These disputes betweon a province and the nation to which it belongs threaten se- rious difficulties in the prosecution of the Pa- nama ship canal enterprise and lead capitalists to gsk what guarantee will be afforded in the investment of an enormoussum in the connect- ing of the two’ great oceans between which we float. To wait for the dispute to be settled we are, in common with all commercial Powers, very little disposed, and it therefore becomes a matter of earnest consideration for New Granada whether she will at once arrange this question so detrimental to progress or force the civilized world to take possession of Panama and guarantee its independence as a point neutral for the common good. Our news from Panama yesterday is sicken- ing in its accounts of the brutality which characterized the transplanted African bar- barians who invaded Chiriqui and massacred one hundred of its people, ‘dragging the opposing leader to the tail of a horse until life was extinct”’—an act worthy of their an- cestors. Panama governed by niggers! Who can believe that in this half of the nineteenth cen- tury the very key to the commerce of the world is held by two or three hundred half clad semi-savages, who are steeped to the dregs in a worse misery than that which characterizes the Mataco Indians of the Gran Chaco? New Granada should be invited to declare this a common world’s highway, or else be forced to cede it to the com- mercial nations who are willing to guar- antee its neutrality. There is half a world to the west of it; half a world to the east of it; and it is the double standard which is the foundation of both North and South America. Why the traffic of the earth should pay tribute to a single State or nation we cannot understand. The fortuitous occupa- tion of the Isthmus of Darien by a handful of degraded savages gives no right to them to dictate to all nations or by any form of reason- ing to obstruct their advancement in the civili- zation which proceeds from the common inter- change of products. Solong as New Granada existed and her own track interfered with none other the world could afford to let her alone— let her develop her resources by the free exer- cise of those two mighty forces which, united in Spanish hands, first made her accursed—re- ligion and avarice. Now, however, the great despots—steam and electricity—have become so dictatorial that no nation which has felt their tread can resist their commands. They sweep every old theory aside like chaff and bid every people mark their tread and listen to their teachings. Nations like New Granada, the Central American States and Mexico, steeped in glorious dreams of what they are going to do manana instead of to-day, must join in the march, be swept aside or be crushed out of existence. They are stumbling-blocks to the civilized world, and we cannot afford to drag them along with us. These are practical mat- ters, forced upon us by the age and its de- mands. We cannot resist them any more than New Granada and other retrograde States can resist them through us. If there be a wise statesman in Bogota let him at once boldly ad- vocate that Panama be declared by the gene- ral government the common property of na- tions for all purposes of interoceanic commu- nication, and that commissioners from all the great Powers be appointed to shape a code of laws suited to its government for the benefit of the world. Such a statesman will make a greater mark in the history of his country than he can by fifty years of petty quarrels over the national revenues. The Critics on Mrs. Scott-siddons, No one who witnessed the début of Mrs, Scott-Siddons on the dramatic stage at the New York theatre on Monday night can deny to her the possession of the highest character of talent required for the profession which she has chosen, or rather, we might say, has accepted as an inheritance. The prestige of a great name cannot always carry its owner triumphantly to success, and especially in an intelligent community like ours, and with an audience such as welcomed Mrs. Scott-Sid- dons as Rosalind. There must be something more than a name and an ancestry, identi- fied though they are with all that is grand and glorious in dramatic art, to satisfy a truly critical audience. The genius of the actress must sustain the reputation which adheres to the antecedents of her family or her success must become donbtful. Mrs. Scott-Siddons has established her independence in this re- spect to the extent that she has established by her native talent a claim to a high position among the representatives of dramatic art. Some of the critics have endeavored, in a com- promising fashton, to deteriorate from her general excellence by allusions to her com- parative ignorance of ‘‘«tage business,” her “amateurship” in certain poses and points. But with a remarkable accord they all give her credit for freshness, sympathetic talent, a delicate conception of the character, an ex- quisitely modulated voice, ‘‘a sunny, breezy clearness of intellect” and all the other quali- ties embraced in beauty of person and grace of action which combine to make the essence of a perfect actress. How absurd, then, to cavil at the small apparent defects for which inex- perience on the stage is admitted to be alone responsible, in view of the manifest genius of & woman whose advent among us must be hailed as a blessing in this epoch of the decay- ing legitimate drama, the almost extinguished light of Shaksperian genins, and the construc - tion upon their ruins of silly sensational pieces, without purpose, moral or talent, which now usurp the place of the trae metal upon the boards of so many of our theatres, I Indias Fighting Commenced in Earnest.’ By our despatches from the Plains thid morning it will be seen that General Custer, in command of the Seventh cavalry, had achieved a decisive victory over a powerful band of Cheyénnes. The affair occurred oa the morning of the 28th of November, (Satur- day last), at the north fork of the Wachita river. One hundred and fifty Indians were killed and the band essentially crippled, if no§ entirely dispersed. We have to mourn fatal casualties to two or three gallant officers. Thus has the winter's campaiga against our Savage foe been successfully commenced, auguring well for the policy recommended by the intrepid General Sheridan, under whose immediate direction the warfare will be carried on, Itis time now that the morbid philan- thropy which has hitherto shielded these bar- barous tribes from just retribution should cease and the red demons be made to realize the power of the government. General Sheridan will probably continue the campaign in ‘the same vigorous manner, and when peace ia again concluded with the fighting tribes it will be no brief winter day affair, but one that will endure through all seasons. The Cuban Revolution. There has been a fight at Villa del Cobre, and the government accounts still come in with the number of insurgents killed and wounded increasing. There will, doubtless, be more trouble for a month hence in getting at the real facts of this petty fight than there was in having an accurate history of tho gigantic battles during our late civil war. So much for the contrast between a country, where steam, electricity and live newa« papers hold sway and the lands of turn- pikes, postboys and blanket sheets. We have, however, some definite news this morning from Puerto Principe. Count Bal- maseda has reached that capital; he has tried to compromise with the insurgents; some leaders favored an amicable arrangement; the major-, ity want to fight it out on the independence line. Thereupon Count Balmaseda notified: them all that a bloody struggle would soon com~ mence. There is a strong force of Spani: ' troops almost due in some Cuban port; the insurgents have thrown ‘down the gauntlet tq Spain and Spaniards. Can the insurgents rely. solely of themselves? If not, whose igs the folly? American Enterprise and the British Press. The British press begins to be astonished af American enterprise. It used to be a com- mon saying on the other side that we talked much but did little. Our late war made an end of this nonsense. All Europe learned that we could do all we said and a little mored And now that our gigantic war is ended, andl they find us already hastening to completion the Pacific Railroad, one of the grandest, if not the grandest, enterprise in the interests of civilization which this or any age had witnessed, they are naturally enough filled! with amazement and wonder. Great Britain sees that this railroad, which is but one of many which will at no distant day sweep from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is going to revolu-, tionize the commerce of the world. Its inevitable, tendency will be to make us the great central nation of trade and commerce. Nothing can prevent this but a grand European enterprise ona scale of similar grandeur. There is nd reason why British skill and wealth should not construct and why the enterprise of Europe should not encourage a grand central railroad which should cross Europe and plunge into the hearts of Hindostan and China. There is no natural obstacle which engineering skill backed by wealth could not overcome. Com-| petition is the soul of trhde. We shall not lose but gain by such an enterprise. We have set them an example, and the time is not far distant when similar examples will be multi- plied. The railroad, more than the sea, must do the carrying trade of the future. Mexican Ovrracgs oN AMERICANS.—In this morning’s Heracp will be found an inte- resting batch of correspondence from North- western Mexico. The burden of the corre- spondence consists of tales of outrage perpe+ trated chiefly on American citizens. But Mexicans of wealth and influence also have come in for their share of injury and wrong. As if to show her displeasure with the libe- ralism of Mexico, nature has swept the west coast with torrents and tornadoes. In this she has shown a lesson to statesmen and poli- ticians. Mexico must be swept clehn and everything begun anew. Z GENERAL NOTES. A game city —Chicago. After the “coming man”—The Hartford poll- claps. ef Thurlow Weed has taken quarters at the Fifth Av- enue Hotel. Piain enjoyment—Sheridan's manner of passiag the Indian summer. A golden sunset last evoning, shedding a glorioas hall-o upon the City Hall. . Richie's milis, at Newtonia, Mo., were burned on the 22d ult, Loss $35,000, A new Court of St. James—Grant’s at the St. James, Boston, to-day or to-morrow. They have @ ‘corn ring” in Chicago. It is nothing new for some rings to get cornered here. A Western paper states that the lowa Agricultural College has two “iazy” students, It probably means indy. ‘The crowd visiting General Grant to-day in Boston must remember titat bis quarters are On new made land. “Emancipation Day,” January 1, is to be celebrated in Newbern, N. C., and probably other places, North and South. When the peep O'Day boys go a-Larkin they shoula prepare for music when they hear “The Campbells are Coming.” ‘The diMicuities among the Westfield (Maas.) cigar makers have broken outafresh. Trouble was appre- hended Saturday night. Municipal election in Augusta, Ga., to-day. ral Sweeny has gone there with two com United States troopa to preserve order. Somerville has been reannexed to Chariestown, Mass, She brings back much wealth and a largaly increased population, particularly gallinippers. A man bamed Cups mortally wounded a notorioas desperado named Martin Cook, in Bloomfield, Mo., lately. The deed is aniversally applauded. & ia rarely that good comes out of one's cups. One set of radicals in Michigan desire to have Chandler re-elected to the United States Senate. An- other set don't want Vallow Chandier to be re- elected, Agolden wedding tn Whitneyville, Conn., a fow days since and a “tin” robbery in another town. one @ deacon was surprised; in the other a acamp ped. RBx-Governor Buckingham, it is expected, will pre- side at the Temperance Convention in Boston to-day. and to-morrow. ‘the topers will probably take just: about “so much (three fingers) for Buckingham |" John Moore shot Bill Num dead in Prestonoure, Ky,, lately. Moore was a sherif and bad a bili to collect against Huff, avout which he bad trouble, hence the homicide, The Sheriff took a promplavay of scvlling (uat DYL cervainiy, Gene- nies of