The New York Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, b PROPRIETOR Volume XXXUII......::cesseseeeesese Oe 348, RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY, ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Rav. Tuomas A, Ja@aun. Morning and evening. BLERCKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHUROH.. Bav. Day K. Leg. Morning and evening. ps CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST.—Rrv, ‘Rev. DE Durviz, Morning and CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Rev. Dr. Face. Morning and afternoon. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR, Thirty-fifth street.—REv. J, M. PULLMAN. Morning elena i COOPER INSTITUTE.—Dz. J. F. Borwron. Evening. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Kev. G. F. KROTEL, Morning and evening. ELM PLACE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Brook- tyn.—Rev. WM, ALVIN BARTLETT. Evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SPinituaListTs. Mzs. A. WIL- HELM. Morning and afternoon. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rry. East- BUEN BENJAMIN. Morning snd evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Ruy. W. A. Scort, D.D. Morning and evening. LEXINGTON AVENUE M. E. CHURCH.—REv. W. H. Evans. Morning, afternoon and evening. PIKE’S OPERA HOUSE.—Sunvay ScHooL. Afternoon, ST. ANN’S FREE CHURCH.—Ray. Wm. A. MoVICKAR Evening. . ST. ANN’S CHURCH, Eighth street, —Lxoturz—RRv. tT. 8. ParsTon. Evening. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—“Tax Proraer” will preach at J o'clock. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, December 13, 1868. ‘ TH NaWws. Europe. ‘The cable telegrams are dated December 12. The political excitement throughout Spain is in- tense, Numbers are reported as willing to assist in putting down the rebellion. The insurgents in Cadiz occupy a strong position. ’ Later despatches say that the attack on the Cadiz insurgents has been postponed. Fears of rising in Lower Arragon and Barcelona were prevalent in ‘Madrid last night. 1 ADumber of new Ministers were yesterday ap- pointed by Mr, Gladstone’s Cabinet. » George Francis Train has regained his freedom. He signifies his intention of suing for false im- prisonment. Affairs are complicating between Turkey and Greece, and the Turkish Ambassador is preparing to leave Athens. Caba. ‘The news from Cuba 1s disastrous for the insur- gents. Count Balmaseda has already caused them {the logs of 571 men killed and wounded. Prominent {liberals and Cubans in Spain have sent telegrams to influential: citizens of Havana stating that General 'putce goes to Cuba fully empowered to modify the ‘duties and to govern the island on a liberal basis, and is authorized to issue a general amnesty to all insurgents upon their laying down their arms. Hayti. Salnave left Port au Prince on the 25th of Novem- ber with his two war: steamers, but returned most unexpectedly on the 28th. It is said that he hoisted the American flag on one of his vessels, but was ‘recognized by a French war steamer, which started in pursuit. Salnave was’ in no mood to fight the ‘Frenchman, and accordingly made his way back ‘into port. A crisis is expected at Port au Prince. ‘The people and the merchants alike denounce Sal- ‘nave, and the English and French Consuls demand of him reparation for insults offered their flags and for property unlawfully seized. Cape Haytien and Gonaives are both besieged, and this last city is suffering for the want of water. Miscellaneous. General Grant, Secretary Schofield and a large number of oficers and civilians left Washington last evening to attend the reunion of the Armies of the Ohio and the Tennessee, to be heid at Chicago on _ the 75th inst. A serious misunderstanding exists aboard the Peruvian transports lying in the Mississippi river, ‘between New Orleans and the Balize, The crews are Americans and assert that when they were shipped atthis port to convoy the Peruvian iron-clads from New Orieans to Peru they were to receive two months’ wages in advance and the transperts were to sail under the American flag. A few days ago the Peruvian flag was hoisted and the men refused to work and yesterday thfeatened to throw the officers overboard if they attempted to coerce them. The authorities at New Orleans were appealed to tocom- pel the men to return to duty, but the application ‘was refused on the ground of want of jurisdiction. The Seymour, Ind., vigilance committee arrived ‘at New Albany about cleven o’clock Friday night, @nd at taree o’clock yesterday morning proceeded to county jail, overpowered the keeper, seized the sons of the express robbers, John, Frank and Si- ‘Tieon Reno and Charles Anderson, and hanged them. Frank Reno tought desperately for his life. Frank and Charles Reno had but recently arrived from Canada, where they had been arrested and delivered up under the extradition treaty. Before the vigil- ance committee left Seymour they destroyed the telegraph communication between that place and the Ohio river, in order to prevent the authorities at New Albany being apprised of their coming. The committee having completed their bloody work took the morning train and returned home. Colonel Wynkoop, the agent for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, has sent in his resignation. He says he was ordered to congregate his Indians upon the Washita river, and that, in obedience to his invita- ‘on, they had assembled there and quietly estab- lushed their winter quarters, He believes General Custer's late pattie with the Cheyennes was simply @ massacre and asserts that Black Kettle and his band were friendly Indians and on their way to their reservation when attacked. Five chiefs of the Sac and Fox Indians have re- cently given a striking instance of high civilization. ‘Being at Chicago a short time since, on their way to ‘Washington, they were arrested by an indian agent and imprisoned under orders from Washington not to permit any delegation of Indians to visit Wash- ington, except by permission of the department. ‘They were released upon a writ of habeas corpus, ‘and upon their return to Leavenworth, Kansas, they brought a suit for false imprisonment against the parties who arrested them. Judge Underwood, of the United States Circuit Court, at Richmond, Va., has decided that having beid any civil oMce under the so-called Confederate government disqualifies a person from holding the Office of judge or clerk of any court in the State, and that the proceedings of ali courts where such officers have been in the civil service of the confederacy are null and void. There are 169 convicts in the Virginia Penitentiary who, under this decision, may now be Teleased by writ of habeas carpus and turned loose ‘Upon the community. The committee of the New York Union League Club, to secure Congressional investigation of the alleged naturalization frauds in this city, have pre- pared their memorial and will present it to Congress to-morrow. At Covington, Ky., a tobacco inspector and eleven tobacco firms have been indicted by the United States Grand Jury on 4 charge of conspiring to defraud the revenue by making incorrect returns of sales to the aasessor. ‘The steamship Crescent, of the New Oricans and Galveston line, took fire at her wharf in New Orleans on Friday night and was entirely destroyed. ‘Loas $200,000; no insurance. The fire atone time ‘was partially subdued, but 95 explosion occurred in the hold, injuring ten Bremen, one of toem mor- asily. In the tiasiseippi Vailey the weather on friday was W. Dawson, of Toronto, Canada; of Jackson, Miss., and Paymaster Green, of the United States Navy, are at the St. Charles Hotel. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. colder than it has been at ‘any time previous in Decem- ber for thirty-two years, At Kansas City, Mo., the ther- mometer stood at fifveen degrees below zero. At St. Louis it was at fqurteen @egrees, and at Cairo one degree below zero. The Ilnois river is frozen over ite entire length, The Mississippi is algo frozen over from its sourceto Cairo, and the navigation of the ‘Missouri! 1s wigo closed for the season. The City. We give in another column a résumé of the opera- tions during the past year of our diferent city dis- Pensaries, of which there are now thirteen in the city. The reports show decreasing sickness during the past year as compared with the previous year, as gathered from the diminution in the number of patients treated and prescriptions dispensed. An inquest was held at the Merchants’ Hotel yes- terday over the body of Mrs. Emily Lake, a native of Connecticut, who died suddenly Friday night. A post mortem examination showed that the cause of her death was perforation of the stomach, but how received it was impossible to determine, as no marks of violence were perceptible. A special board of inquiry in the case of the al- leged embezzlement of government money by Rob- ert D. Bogert, clerk of the receiving ship Vermont, it is rumored, have discovered that the discrep- ancies extend over a period of several months, thus swelling the losses of the government far beyond $12,000, the amount originally reported. The exact sum has not, however, been ascertained. Ellen Moore, a native of Ireland, was found dead at No. 383 Mott street yesterday morning. She had had not been seen for several days, and upon forcing open the door of her room she was discovered in a standing position, near her bed, cold and lifeless. The examination of James W. Jennette, charged with having three wives living, was commenced be- fore Justice Dodge yesterday. Wives Nos. 1and3 were present. Wife No. 2could not be found. The accused was a blockade runner during the war; was caught and imprisoned and his vessel confiscated. Since the war he pretends to have discovered ten guano islands in the Caribbean Sea, the right to which has not yet been recognized by the govern- ment. There were 256 persons arrested by the Brooklyn Police during the last week. Instructions have been given to the police to arrest the street beggars and young pediers of matches, ballads, &c., and hand them over to the Commis- sioner of Charities and Correction. Anumber of workmen yesterday, acting under instructions of Mr. Knox, commenced operations in the removal of the Broadway bridge at Fulton strect. The work wil be resumed to-morrow and pushed forward until the unsightly structure is en- tirely demolished. x and In the Supreme Court, Chambers, before Jndge Cardozo, argument of counsel was heard ona mo- tion for the relieving of the order appointing Judge Davies ‘receiver in the case of August Belmont against the Erie Railway Company. Argument will be resumed to-morrow (Monday), at half-past one P.M. . In the United States Circuit Court, before Judge Benedict, the hearing of a motion’ to quash the in- dictment against ex-Judge Fullertsn and others was set down for Saturday next. ‘The stock market was dull and heavy: yesterday. Gold was steady at 135% a 135% most of the duy, but weakened at the close and fell off to 135%. The weekly bank statement is generally regarded as un- favorable. The amount of business consnmmated in commer- cial circles yesterday was light, almost all of the markets being dull. Coffee was quiet but steady. were firm, closing at 26c. a 25%c. for mid- ding upland. and 3c. higher. sought after and firmly held. Wheat was irregular, spring being dull and heavy while winter was firm. Corn was slow of sale, and prices were 1c. lower. Oats were quiet and heavy. Pork and beef were dull and unchanged, while lard was a shade firmer, with a fair demand. Naval stores and petroleum were quict, but steady. Whiskey was dulland un changed. Cotton was in fair request and prices Raw sugar was in demand On 'Change flour was moderately . Prominent Arrivals in the City. Congressman T. M. Pomeroy, of New York; M. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, aid John W. Liftwick, of Memphis, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator A. H, Cragin, of New Hampshire; William Sloan, of Salt Lake City, and General E. W. Whit- taker, of the United States Army, are at the Metro- politan Hotel. Rev. Ed. B, Hodge, of Burlington, and S. D. McMil- Jan, of Cleveland, Ohio, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel Patterson, of the United States Army; Dr. Dr. E. Snodgrass, Senator C. Cole, of California; B. R. Robinson, of Santiago, Chile, and Bradlow Barlow, of Vermont, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Major Generals Butterfield and Ingalls left this city yesterday afternoon in a special car for the army reunion at Chicago. They were accompanied by quite a party of officers. Generals Grant, Schofleld, Thomas, Terry and others left Washington at the same hour. The parties were to meet at Harris- burg and proceed together to Chicago. General and Mrs. John A. Hazard, of Newport, R.1L; Rev. Mr. Dubreil, of Baltimore, Md.; Wm. Beach Lawrence and Silas C. Herring, of New York; Dr. D. T. Fiske, of Boston; Mr. A. La Rocque, of Mon- treal; land, of Chicago, left tnis city yesterday on the French steamer Perleire for Havre. Dr. J. Elliott, of Savannah and ©, C, Cope- Religion and Avarice. Tt is a notable fact that many of the religious denominations in the United States are taking the same avaricious track which has been the fruitful source of corruption to the different established churches in the Old World. We maintain that it is impossible to have a set of morals purely taught if they are hedged in, or, asin some cases, completely covered by the other and baser elements of man’s nature which are brought into play. rope as an example we find that the States which have been most backward in the pro- gtess and civilization of the past century have been those where religious societies have absorbed nearly all the wealth and turned it to the support ofa narrow propagation of some particular faith. In Austria this has been very notable, and not until the close of the late war with Prussia did she awaken from the lethargy imposed upon her by her religious institutions.’ Then she stepped into a new and healthier life by cutting off from the Church some of those prerogatives which had been accumulated through avarice. more notable example of what religious fanati- cism oan accomplish. Church and State, ap- parently all absorbed in a moral aim, bas been in reality so buried in gold, in lands and ava- ricious accumulations that it would take more than a Christ to discover the original basis of this vast to the praise of the Lord. Italy have been thus held back by abuses which have gathered around the spiritual effort of an ambitious organization, what shall wo say of Spain—of that peninsula which, of all If we take Eu- Ttaly is a still corporation dedicated moneyed If Austria and the European countries, occupies the finest geographical position, has the most fertile lands, the greatest mineral wealth and the healthiest climate? Here we have a full ex- hibit of the degradation to which a people may be brought by prostituting a code of morals into by-laws for a national banking system ; abusing the highest aspirations of the soul for the gathering of a despotic earthly power and hurling this power onward with a relentleas energy for the propagation of the faith, If we see Spain in her present unfor- tunate condition to-day it is because of this linking of religion and avarice in a single given direction ; and before we see her emerge from her present troubles and launch into the re- publican orbit for which she aims we shall see @ desperate warfare waged ‘under plea of re- ligion, but really in support of avarice. Nor have we to look entirely to Europe to witness the effect of the union of the two most powerful elements of our nature. In Spanish America we have seen it unfolded in its most prodigal form. There it has flourished without contact with the growing civilization of the nineteenth century, which, in Europe, now threatens it with complete destruction by fore- ing morality to rest upon its heaven-born merits and avarice to sink to its proper level. Perhaps the most prominent example of mis- fortune which has befallen a code of morals is to be found in Mexico. There the precepts of Holy Writ were made the focus of every imagin- able crime. One-third of the wealth of the country and nearly one-half of its territory accumulated in the hands of the clergy swamped completely all religious purity and made Christ and his teachings a mockery. Here we have quoted a few examples of the effects resulting from a union of the best with the worst, the highest with the lowest attribute of man’s mental force. It is a strange truth that at the inception of religious doctrines their originators and supporters, in looking about them for the best means of propagating morals, have called in the very worst feature of man’s organization to their assistance, and while they have pretended to kindle a lofty spiritual feeling in the human family have, at the same moment, through avarice, created an immoral counterbalance against which true religious inspiration has found it difficult to struggle. In fact, in this view of the matter we perhaps owe more of present human purity to the march of modern invention, tending to national wad international development, than we do to the religious systems which, up to the present time, have planted themselves in the van, assuming to lead in all that is benefi- cial to our race. While Europe, which we call retrograde, is cutting off these abuses from her religious orders it is curious that in the United States we are allowing the different sects to absorb vast estates and accumulate property to such an extent that the spiritual system, even though not at present linked with the State, will finally become a national curse. The estates gen- erally absorbed by the different religious socie- ties are almost as completely held in mortmain as ever they were in Spain, Italy or Mexico; and even to-day we might point to societies where men seek high position more for the purpose of directing the Church revenues than for the salvation of their souls or the benefit of the Lord. Church property is generally favored in the United States, its taxes are most always remitted and concessions granted, so that private worldly corporations can have little hope of competing financially with spirit- ual ones in any given direction. We venture to say that it would- surprise any man were we to give a statement of the vast estates and wealth held by the different religious corpora- tions in the United States, showing thereby the accumulations which are the most potent element for the corruption of these societies and their consequent future destruction. It is a strange fact that Mexico is in advance of us in respect to the laws upon this subject. Her constitution of 1857 prohibits any religious denomination from holding, directly or indi- rectly, any more real estate than is absolutely necessary for purposes of worship. It would be a wise measure for those churches among us which really prize morals and true religion more than avarice to petition Congress to in- corporate a similar law into our own consti- tution. The Post Office and the Telegraph. What is the cause of the deficiency in the Post Office Department? Why is it that carry- ing the mails no longer pays, and that the government is an actual loser by undertakihg to provide for this means of communication between the people? It is, shortly and simply, because the whole business of mail carrying is behind the time; because post offices alto- gether are obsolete and part of the machinery of another age. Nothing is or can be remu- nerative that stands in the same category. Suppose a farmer in this day endeavored to carry his produce to market by teaming on the turnpike in the. good old-fashioned style. He would find that it did not pay, for his neigh- bors who kept up with the progress of the age and used all the improved modes of trans- portation would undersell his ; so that his crop would not reimburse him for the wear and tear of horseflesh. Post Office departments stand practically in the position of that farmer, because the age is in possession |, of a means of communication as much more rapid than that the Post Office uses as the railroad is more rapid than the old farmer's team. It is, therefore, because of the existence of the telegraph and its free use by the people, in spite of the many abuses to which it is sub- ject, that the Post Office is financially a failure. For some years the relation between receipts and expenditures in the Post Office has been changing to the wrong side, and in the same years there has’ been a correlative develop- ment in the business of telegraphing, and the growth of the one explains the decay of the other. It is as absolute, therefore, as the result of any law of trade can be that the Post Office will forever be a burden on the national taxes from this time forth, unless it comes up to the age and takes charge of the communica- tions between the people prepared to make them by the most approved means known to science. In an establishment like the Post Office it requires the same amount of machinery to carry a small mail as a large one. It costs, for instance, to send a mail to a distant city a specific sum, and this cost would not vary though there might be a hundred letters, more or less, in that mail; but this hundred letters and the postage would make all the difference between paying and not paying. While the expenses, then, continue the samo the receipts are less ; for there is always a deficiency of the hundred letters in every mail, and this defi- ciency is explained by the use of the telegraph. That number of messages, or perhaps even a greater number, that formerly went by mail now go by the wire. As the people grow more and more in the habit of using the telegraph—av baste demands its use and the means of the person justify it— the tendency indicated must be constantly greater until the Post Office must go down altogether. And what then? If then the telegraph stands as it does now the people will be at the mercy of a private monopoly for this necessity ‘of life, the transportation of messages. The charge for messages, now abusively exorbitant, would be made even greater; and while the delivery of a message given to the telegraph is now a proverbial uncertainty, it would then be a chance case when a message went straight. No message would ever be sacred and a few capitalists would govern in all those vast concerns in which the knowledge of prices affects men's fortunes. This would never do; and the same reasons that have always made it a necessity of public welfare that the government should control the Post Office now make it equally necessary that it should control the telegraph. The New Phase of the Cuba Question. Events are pointing conclusively to an ap- proaching termination of Spanish dominion on the western shores of the Atlantic, and with the new order of things new questions of pub- lic interest are cropping out. Whether Presi- dent Johnson has or has not sent Mr. Cushing to Madrid to talk about a purchase of Cuba, and, if such be the case, whether he succeed or fail in his mission, are both matters of little importance. Long before the talking Powers shall have settled upon anything new compli- cations will have changed the entire aspect of the case. It is not the unexpected revolution in Cuba nor the sudden overturn of the Bour- bon dynasty in Spain which have alone pro- duced the results we to-day witness, though their concomitant appearance has, no doubt, assisted in producing the present situation. . But we must go farther back to find the germ of the events of to-day, and in so doing wo shall find that there are new complications and new ideas attending the old and much vexed Cuba question. It will be recollected that a few years since, under the auspices of General Baez, actual President of the Dominicah republic, a Spanish expedition from Cuba endeavored to bring St. Domingo again under the yoke of Spain. The result was a revolutionary movement there, under the leadership of General Cabral, which triumphed for a time, and Baez and his Spanish contingent were driven from the island. Gen- eral Baez subsequently continued his machina- tiéns and about a year since overthrew the administration of President Cabral. The latter, before succumbing to the new revolution, sent his Minister of Finance to Washington to endeavor to raise money by a lease or sale of the Bay of Samané to the United States. Fail- ing in this the envoy sounded the Cabinet as to the reception the Dominican republic might meet with if it made application for admission asa State of the Union. It is this step which is covertly referred to by President Johnson in his Message. Cabral and his friends, failing in their mission at Washington, were obliged to give way before Baez and flee the island. Not long after this event disturbances began to take place in Porto Rico, and a number of Dominican officers were found mixed up in them.’ With the help of several thousand soldiers from Cuba the Spanish government was enabled to quell the troubles in Porto Rico, and its prisons are still filled with political prisoners. Suddenly, and with hardly a note of warning, disturb- ances follow in that portion of Cuba nearest to St. Domingo, and General Marcano, with several other prominent Dominican officers, is found leading the Cubans in the conflicts. It is not the least curious of the recent and apparently unimportant events in these islands that Santa Anna, banished from Havana, ostensibly for intriguing against Mexico, de- parts thence for St. Domingo, instead of going to either of his luxurious homes at St. Thomas and Turbaco, There Cabral is plotting and Baez is ruling with precarious sway. The spontaneous revolution which has so suddenly acquired possession of one-half of the island of Cuba is but one of the echoes of the question the Dominican envoy put to Mr. Seward a few months ago, and other echoes will come in due course. Spain is too deeply concerned with her own internal troubles and a domestic revolution which is only now assuming its true character to be able to afford effective assistance to its colonial governors, who are sending their signals of distress to the mother country to an extent which promises soon to give large dividends to the Cuban Cable Telegraph Company. The revolutionary movements of Cuba, Porto Rico and St. Domingo must burn out, unimpeded by foreign intervention, to their natural results, whether these be simply the purging of a foul chimney or the reduction of the social and political edifices to a mass of cinders. Among these results will be the complete extinction of slavery in the West India islands. The parties to the conflict in Cuba are as yet only coquetting with the question, which is rapidly forcing itself to the first place. A few of the insurgent planters have liberated and armed their slaves. Othersewill take this course; for if they do not it is evident the Spanish authorities will adopt it in their own behalf. When this course is adopted in the large sugar- producing district of Cuba it will place one hundred thousand men in the field and reduce the Spanish authorities to the verge of ruin. Instead, therefore, of sending envoys to Madrid to make an offer to the Spanish gov- ernment—which has been so often rejected as to make it indecorous for us to refer to it again—the best thing the President can do will be simply to remind the Spanish Minis- ter at Washington of the time-honored policy of the United States in recognising govern- ments de facto, and which has so recéntly given such eminent satisfaction to the present rulers of Spain,. As soon as Spain proves incompetent to hold and govern its colonies on our shores peacefully we must recognize what- ever actual government we find in possession. The history of 1820 to 1830 cannot be repeated. Then pirates and privateers swarmed in Ameri- can waters, and United States ships were forced to pursue them into the undefended harbors of Cuba to rid the commerce of the world of its pests. Now the conflict must be short and confined to its legitimate field. When it is over the question which a year ago was asked timidly and in whispering tones in the oar of a Cabinet officer will resound at the door of Congress, and tho application of St, Do- mingo, Porto Rico and free Cuba for admission to the Union will demand asolution. We must prepare for it. The Greater Antilles must be brought into line with the new order of things inaugurated by the mighty struggle through which this country has so recently and suc- cessfully passed, and we must be prepared to lend them a helping and a guiding hand in their new mission. Spain and the Great Revolutions of Med- ern Times. The revolutionary period in modern times is generally dated from 1625, or immediately sub- sequent years, the time when began in England that great struggle between the people and the executive, the commons and the Crown—a struggle which cost one king his head and another his crown, and which was not ended until 1688, when the powers of the Crown were effectually and permanently curtailed. The date is no doubt somewhat arbitrary; for godd reasons might be given for going back well nigh one hundred years to that remark- able struggle in the Netherlands which, in spite of its comparative failure, was really the first revolution in modern times which gave the people faith in themselves. As, how- ever, the English revolution is generally ac- cepted as the first great model, it is not neces- sary, so far as our present purpose is con- cerned, to disturb popular sentiment on the subject. In one important particular the Eng- lish revolution is entitled to the first place. It was the first great movement since the fall of the Roman empire and the birth of the States system in Europe which revealed on a grand scale the majesty of the people. The execution of Charles was an effective death- blow to the divine right of ‘monarchs. It is this which gives the revolution its prominence, It is this which makes it a chief land- mark in history, An example was given to the nations which some’ of them at least were not slow to imitate. Eighty-seven years after the accession of William and Mary the principles of the English revolution were put in practice in this country, and after a struggle of some etght years’ duration the British Crowa lost its brightest jewel, and liberty, so long a wanderer, at last founda home. The impulse whi¢h the gusceséful revolution in this country gave to the cause of freedom all over the world—an impulse which has since grown mightier with every savages year-as powerful and immediate. InSeptember, 1783, the independence of the colonies was ac- knowledged by the British government and a treaty signed. In 1789 the Paris Bastile fell and began that revolution which, for violence, for much that was truly grand and for much that was indescribably horrible, stands alone. The world has not yet had anything to com- pare with this great political and social up- heaving. It was not France alone that felt the shock. It reverberated in savage tones over the length and breadth of Europe. The peoples were jubilant. Tyrants trembled. It is impossible for the American people ever to be indifferent to the first French revolution, for it was a direct offshoot of our war of inde- pendence. Louis the Sixteenth was to usa generous ally and did us good and effective service; but, unfortunately for him, his kind- ness to us was ruin to himself. The revolu- tionary movements of 1830 and 1848, with their peculiar characteristics, are fresh in the memories of most of our readers. The revolution which has burst forth in Spain naturally enough revives the memory of the great revolutions which have gone before. The’interests at stake are more or less the same. Points of similarity or of dissimilarity are perpetually presenting themselves. It is, like all the others, a popular movement, aud our sympathies go with the people. Besides, the present movement in Spain cannot be understood unless it is borne in mind that it has a connection more or less intimate with those previous uprisings of the people against oppression and wrong. Born of the same spirit with them, it benefits by their example. Its results are yet doubtful ; but its experience is not wholly unlike the experience of other nations which have passed through a similar ordeal. Impatience is very generally felt because the revolution is not already brought to a successful conclusion. It is not to be denied that the movement, in its present stage; is not worthy of its early promise. The leaders are manifestly incompetent. It is absurd, however, to expect Spain to accum- pljsh in a couple of months what England but imperfectly accomplished in sixty-three years and what France has been vainly struggling to accomplish ‘since 1789. The Cromwell or the Napoleon of Spain, or, better than either, a Washington may yet appear and lead the nation to its destiny, What Spain wants above all things is to be left alone. In this respect England, during her revolutionary career, was more highly favored than France. No foreign foe set foot on her soil. Her ener- gies, therefore, were directed to domestic questions, and not wasted, like those of France, in foreign wars. It is this more than anything else which explains the different results of the two revolutions. England secured consti- tutional freedom. France has successively got rid of one despot only to find herself in the hands of another. Let us hope that the spirit of interference has died out and that Spain will neither be helped, as Italy was, nor crushed, as were Hungary and Poland. The hopes of Spain are not blasted because the factions are in arms and because the blood of citizens is being shed. A little bloodletting may prove the life of the nation. Women’s Riants.—The women’s rights wo- men, without distinction of sex or color, had a glorious time at the State Woman's Suffrage Convention, at Providence, R. 1, on Friday last. All the shining female lights of the Church were present, and Fred Douglass (black man) was among them to lend them the light of his countenance in behalf of the great cause of negro suffragé and woman suffrage, or wo- man suffrage anyhow. A series of “sharp, short and decisive” resolutions were adopted, the Kohinoor of which was ‘‘that the constitu- tional amendment just proposed by Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, extending suffrage to all men and women, meets with our hearty ap- proval, as the only thorough and consistent basis of national reconstruction.” Vary Fonny—Tho comments of the British and French press on President Johnson's Mes- sage; but neither Punch nor Judy can get off! anything half so funny as the Messago itself on ‘“‘a new way to pay old debts.” ‘The Cabinet Makers Busy. The Cabinet makers are busily at work con- structing a Cabinet for General Grant, and from the amount of well seasoned timber on hand it would seem that the President elect will have material enough to choose from in select- ing his advisers, provided he is not over particu- lar in regard tothe quality. There is, how- ever, so much uncertainty as to the direction in which his policy will lead him that the sug- gestions of his dear friends take a remarkably wide range. Thus we see some of his original advocates tendering him the name of Doolittle as one of his advisers, while others of his ar- dent admirers press Zack Chandler upon his acceptance. On one hand he is assured that Morgan is the best choice he can make for Secretary of the Treasury, and on the other he is urged to accept no one but Fenton for that position. Trumbull and Fessenden have their advocates for Cabinet positions on this side, while Wade and Butler have their adherenta on that side. Horace Greeley goes to Wash- ington as his own champion for the Postmaster General’s portfolio at the same moment that Thurlow Weed hastens back from Europe to offer himself as special organist and counsellor of the new administration. The latest attempt at Cabinet construction comes from a curious source. The politicians were thrown into a fever of anxiety a day or two since by a very positive rumor that the important position of Secretary of the Treasury, with its enormous patronage, its rich Custom Houses and its valuable revenue appointments, was virtually filled, and that E. B. Wash- burne, of the enterprising Washburn family, was the fortunate individual who -had se- cured the great prize. It was confidently stated that henceforth the famous brand upon the broadest part of the Washburne per- son would stand for Member of the Cabinet instead of Member of Congress. It seems that this information came from the head waiter at the Union League Club dinner, who tele- graphed it to another waiter at Washington. The latter, no doubt, availed himself of the information to make early application to Waghburne for a position in the White House kitchen, and thus the important intelligence got spread abroad. The waiters were probably both negroes, and hence the cregit awarded to the report by the expectant radicals at the national capital and by the Bohemian corre- spondents of their anxious organs. This is the commencement of the kitchen cabinet in earnest, and it will materially raise the value of cooks, valets and colored waiters in the political market. The man who can put one ear to a convenient keyhole, or who can keep both ears open as he changes a plate or fills a! wine glass at a dinner table will be hencefortly, regarded as a most valuable friend by the army of patriotic place hunters under Grant's administration. The best thing the hungry? politicians can do in future is to nose around: the domestic offices of Grant’s residence and: make friends with his servants. If the Gen+ eral ever lets his secrets leak out it is likely to be when he is having his boots cleaned in! the morning or while he is sipping his claret’ at the dinner table. The Bohemians had,' therefere, better confine their inquiries here- after to the kitchen, and then, in addition to picking up a little information, they may occasionally manage to get a plateful of broken victuals out of the urbane cook and a glass or two of stale beer out of the obliging butler. The Church of Rome Gone. One after the other the props and bulwarks of the Roman Church temporal are being knocked away. The Church spiritual, of course, rests upona foundation that political changes cannot shake, because there are no politicians in heaven, that class of individuals having no status there, and the spiritual authority of the Church, as we know, is of heavenly origin. But it is evident that the temporal and political power of the Church of Rome is waning very fast, and as time advances in this century all the props and pillars which it leaned upon are being knocked from under it in rather quick succes- sion, France, Austria, Italy have in turn aban- doned it. They have not abandoned the faith of the Apostles, it is true; but they have deserted and even arrayed themselves against the whole political system of the Church of Rome. France has assumed that attitude of indifference under the influence of liberal ideas, and strengthened greatly since the king- dom of Italy, under the régime of Victor Emanuel, pronounced against the temporal dictatorship of Rome, and France to-day is not to be relied upon, either in the person of Napoleon or the will of the French people, as an ally of the Pope. Austria, which a few years ago was claimed to be the defender of the faith and the right arm of the Papacy, has come to disregard its orders, while not devi- ating from its religious dogmas. Austria hag rejected the Concordat—a most heretical piece of business, no doubt. She has refused to be governed by the dictation and discipline of Rome in the matter of civil marriages, and the Emperor has actually imprisoned a Catholic bishop for contemning the imperial law and asserting the superiority of the dicta issued by the Papal authority. The kingdom of Italy, we know, has long since thrown off all temporal allegiance to the Papal See and stands in direct antagonism to the Pope's tem- poral authority. The last prop in Catholic Europe, therefore, remaining to support the Papacy was Spain— monarchical Spain, the Spain of the Bourbon Isabella, the victim of all the weakness which Bourbonism, corruption and superstition could league together for the destruction of a once grand old State, Spain is now lost to the Papacy, because the same liberal and pro- gressive ideas which moved Austria, which stirred the heart of the French people, which inspired the solidarity of the Italians. under Victor Emanuel—an inspiration that created a country for themselves, leaving the Papal States outside the pale of Italian unity for tho present—have taken hold of the popular mind in Spain, But events are rapidly tending towards the absorption of the States of the Church into the boundaries of united Italy. The fall of the Spanish monarchy knocks the last prop on the European Continent from under the temporal supremacy of the Church of Rome, and, in all probability, thus aban- doned by its -friends, it will have to succump before long to the tide of liberal opinion, to tolegraphs, the press and tie railroads, The