The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1868, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ‘All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERaLp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. sereeeeei NOs 350 Volume XXXII... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—A¥TER DARK ; On, LON: pon BY Niown, ~ BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—ALADDIN—VILLAGE BARBER. NEW YORK THEAT! Broadway.—Tar Bui Regus ov BaRbE BLEUE. nie ‘de PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘Qéd street.—LES BAVARDS—BABBE BLEUR. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway.—Humrty Dowpry. with NEw FEATURES. FRENCH THEAT! nue.—GENEVIEVE DE Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- RABANT. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tar Eugraup ING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, SPEED THE PLoveu. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Jack Cavk. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Mus. Soort-Sip- DONS AS RKOSALIND. adway and 13th street.— BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth street,—EYHIOPIAN MINSTRELBY, &0. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—Etm10- PIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE.—BAREEE BLU. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—Etato- FIAN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANOING, &. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comiu Voca.isM, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQUESTRIAN AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT, CENTRAL PARK GARDE: PROMENADE ConorRT. THRO. TUOMAS’ GRAND COOPER INSTITUTE, Astor place.-Da CoRpova's Lrcrune, “Courrsuir AND MARRIAGE.” STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Mrss OLIVE Logan's Lxorune, “Panis, Orry oF LUXugY.” HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklya.—Hoourr's MINSTREILS—A DUTOHMAN IN JAPAN, &0. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HOOLEY's MINSTRELS—THE LANKYSUIER Lass, 0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— New York, Tuesday, December 15, 1868. Europe. The cable reports are dated December 14. ‘The insurgents of Cadiz have been brought to terms. They surrendered on Sunday, as we re- Ported in the HERALD yesterday, and gave up their arms. The troops entered on Sunday afternoon, ‘The city was deserted by 30,000 of its inhabitants. Numbers were sheltered by the United States Con- sul, and distinguished honors were paid the Amert- can flag during the insurrection. About 500 people were killed and wounded during last week. A num berof men have been arrest in Madrid chargea with attempts to incite the workingmen to rebel- lion. Pesitions have been presented in the British House of Commons contesting the election of seventy-one metnbers for boroughs. Lord Clarendon received Reverdy Johnson and Anson Burlingame at a levee on Saturday last. Efforts will continue to be made by the great Powers to heal the dispute between Turkey and Greece; the Grecian government has refused the Suitan’s demands, and the Turkish ambassador was preparing to leave Athens, China. A despatch from Marseilles says that two Euro- pean missionaries who lately returned from an extended tour through the interior of China speak in the most flattering manner of their reception by the natives. They saw abundance of coal and many evidences of gold and silver mines, Caba. Despatches, dated the 12th, state that the troops suffered fearfully in the late encounters, and Count Batmaseda had demanded reinforcements. Risings are reported at Santi Espiritu and Mocagua and are expected to take place soon in Villa Clara and Trini- dad. The British Consul at Havana had notified all British subjects to register immediately. The fighting is within 150 miles of Havana. The Banco Espagnol has been authorized to Issue additional paper to the amount of $2,000,000, which ls required for immedi- ate uge, We have correspondence from Havana and Santi- ago of late dates, giving interesting details of our despatches up to the 9th inst, It is reported in Washington that the Peruvian iron-clads at New Orleans are intended for the Cuban lusurgents. Mexico. We have dates from Vera Craz to the 30th of No- vember, General Rosecrans, the American Minister, ‘was received with great honors at Vera Cruz. He started on the 28th forthe capital, in a special coacn, with a guard of fifty men. The State of Jalisco, of which Lozada, the independent chief, is Prdsident, has petitioned the national government for a sum of $20,000 to open a Wagon road across the Rio Grande de Santiago. Twelve hundred and fifty dollars have heen raised for the widow of General Patonl. Puerto Angel, in Oaxaca, promises a lively yield of coal oll. SIX or eight wells give from 150 to $00 barrels daily. Eighty members of Congress have subscribed $2,500 ov astatue of Guerrero. Ali salt taxes are abolished Congress. enate yesterday @ memorial was presented citizens of Mississippt alleging that the b vustitution had been legally adopted. Also a memorial from the Union League Club, of New York, in relation to naturalization frauds. Both were re- ferred. Mr. Morton introduced a bill for the re demption in coin of the national currency on and after the first day of July, 1871, A bill to fx the number of judges of the Supreme Court at one chief and fourteen associate justices was introduced by Mr. Wilson, and also an act to admit female suffrage mm the District of Columbia. A bil to establish a uniform rule of naturalization was introduced by Mr. Williams and referred. A bill to create a De- partment of Indian Affairs was introduced by Mr. Pomeroy and also referred. A resvlution askiug for information relative to the late battle with the In- dians on Washita river was adopted. The resolution to consider Indian treaties in open session was called up and referred, A resolution denour portion of the President's Message relative t ayment of the bonds was introduced and after a short denate was referred to the Finance Committee. The House resolution for @ holiday adjournment was adopted. A message from the President nominating Henry A. & » to be Minister to Russia and Alexander Cummings to be Commissioner of Internal Kevenue was received and the Senate adjourned. in the Howse, under the usial Monday call of ‘ jlls to legalize gold contracts, to repeai the oviding for a perpetual Congress, and one or ‘ing to female suffrage were introduced and A resolution granting tweaty per cent additional compensation to civil employés at Wash- ington was laid on the table, A resolution to sustain the pubile credit and denouncing all forms of repudiation was introduced under a suspension of the rues, and it was agreed to. Six votes were cast against that portion denouncing repudiation. ihe memorial of the Union League Club, of New York, relative to the alleged naturalization frauds s two referred, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET. adopted. A message trom the President de- clining to publish the Alabama claims corre- pondence was received. General Butler iviroduced @ bill to enforce tue reconstruction laws in Georgia, which was referred, A resojution calling for cor- Tespondence relative to tue Paraguayan dilticulty was agreed to, A resolution providing for an investigation into tne report of alleged bribery in the Alaska purchase was adopted. A bill Providing for a ship canal around Niagara Falls was made a special order for the first Wednesday in January. A resolution of tnquiry a8 to whether a special commissioner had been recently ‘sent to Spain aud as to the purpose in sending him Was agreed to. A resolution asking for information as to what has been done towards the removal of the Hell Gate obstructions was adopted, and the House soon after adjourned, Miscellaneous. General Grant and his party, which has deen aug- mented by the presence of General Sherman, have arrived at Chicago to attend the great reunion of the Western armies. Lieutenant Governor Bross gave them a grand reception at his residence last evening. The formal transfer of the Atlantic and Great West- ern Railway to the control of the Erie Railway Com- pany was made on Saturday evening. The road is to be known as the Atlantic and Great Western Divi- sion of the Erie Railway. ‘The State Treasurer of North Carolina has notified the agents of that State in this city that the January interest on the public debt would be promptly paid when due, In the Supreme Court at Washington yesterday the case of the New York national banks against the Supervisors of New York county was argued. The case involves the question whether certificates of in- debtedness are securities of the United States, and therefore exempt from taxation by the States. Two women and a little girl while walking on the Hudson River Railroad track near Poughkeepsie on Saturday were struck bya train in rapid motion. One of the women was tnstantly killed and the other and the little girl were severely injured. It is believed that the Jett Davis case will never be brought up in the Supreme Court. Charter elections took place in several Massachu- setts towns yesterday. In Boston and Newburyport the democrats were successful. The reported troubles in Arkansas are confirmed by the arrival at Memphis, Tenn., of families who fled from their homes at Augusta on account of out- rages committed by the militia. Owners of steam- boats refuse to take freight or passengers for Au- gusta, fearing to ascend the river to that place lest their vessels be captured by the militia. The Grand Jury of the United States Circut Court, at Raleigh, N. 0,, yesterday indicted Hon. John L, Dewsese, Member of Congress from that State; for violation of Poat Office laws and abuse of the frank- ing privilege. ‘The Supreme Court of Florida has renaered judg- ment of ouster against Lieutenant Governor Giea- son, forbidding him the exercise of the duties of the office of Lieutenant Governor. A train on the Oswego and Rome Railroad was blockaded by snow all Saturday night. John Freeley, who lived near Carbondale, Tl., was found dead in @ chair in his house with his head spilt open on Sunday morning. The murder is sup- posed to have been committed by negroes. ‘Tho City. In the Board of Councilmen yesterday a resolution directing the New Haven Railroad Company to re- move the raliroad tracks in Franklin and White streets was adopted. Resolutions increasing the salaries of the women who clean the offices and changing the name of Chatham street to New Broad- ‘way were lald over. Several of the usual Christmas donations were made and the Board adjourned, The Aldermanic committee appointed to hear objections of citizens to the opening of Park place to West street by widening Robinson street, met in the City Hall yesterday. Judge Vanderpoel repre- sented the property holders, and vehemently pro- tested against the work; and no one preseut ap- peared to favor it. The committee then adjourned till Monday next. James W. Jennette, the alleged bigamist, was held on both charges of abandonment and bigamy yester- day, his bail being fixed at $10,000. In the United States District Court yesterday, be- fore Judge Blatchford, the case of the United States against Watson & Crary’s rectifying establishment, Christopher street, was taken up. The evidence was sabstantially similar to tnat given in the case where Watson & Crary were claimants for the recovery of 8,800 gallons of distilled spirits, and which were for- feited by a verdict of the jury last week, on a charge of the claimants not having paid the internal reve- nue tax thereon. The case will be resumed this morning. In the Superior Court yesterday Matilda Lambke recovered a yerdict fer $750 against the Adams Ex- preas Company for injuries resulting from being crushed by a box of merchandise, which fell from one of the company’s wagons in 1866. Judge McCunn yesterday rendered a decision in the case of the Manhattan Gaslight Company against Barker, denying the plaintiffs motion for an injunc- tion to restrain the defendant from carrying on his business asa distilier on the ground that it was a nuisance. The Inman line steamship City of New York, Cap- tain Tibbets, will leave pier 45 North river at one P. M. to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool, calling at Halifax, N. S., to land and receive mails and pas- sengers. The mails by her will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The Hamburg American Packet Company's Steam- ship Holsatia, Captain Ehiers, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Hamburg. The European maiis will close at the Post Office at tweive M. Beef cattle were in fair request yesterday and prices were quite steady. The offerings were large, being about 2,700 head. Prime and extra steers sold at 16%¢. @ 17\c., fair to good at 15kc. a 16\¢. and inferior to ordinary at 10c. a like. Milch cows were but little sought after, but un- changea in vaiue. Veal calves were in good re- quest, but at a shade easier prices. We quote:— Prime and extra quality, 12c. a 13¢c.; com- mon to good, 10c. @ 1i\e., and inferior, 9%c. a exc. Sheep were in light supply and in active demand and prices were materially higher, extra selling at 84gc. a O)gc., prime at 7},c. a Sc., common to good at 56. a 7¢., aud inferior at 4c. a Se. For swine the market was quiet, but prices were un- changed, common to prime selling at 8c. a 8\c, Prominent Arrivals i e City. R. R. Bridges, of North Carolina, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. United States Senator Eugene Cassidy, of Callfor- nia, and Dr, E. R. Hutchins, of Philadelphia, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. 5 Captain J. Randall, of the United States Army, is at the St. Julien Hotel. Dr. B. B. Brewer, of Sacramento, Cal.; General George W. McCook, of Ohio; Dr. Parrish, of Philadel- phia, and Dr. BE. ©. Munday, of Ireland, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. . Professor Mahan, of West Point; Commander A. D. Drake and Lieutenant E. W. Watson, of the Uaited States Navy, are at the Hoffman House. Ben May, of Savannah, Ga.; 1. Wrightson, of Cincinnati, and H. B. Plant, of Georgia, are at ‘the Astor House. Colonel Hamilton, Major Payne 1nd Captain Den- nison, of the United States Army; Paymaster Davis, of the United States Navy, and Professor vans, of St. Louis, are at the St. Charles I tel. Prominent Departares. Captain Camillo N. Camillo, of the Peruvian Navy, with thirty-five other officers of various grades, left this city yesterday for New Orieans to take posses- sion of certain iron-clads recently bought by the Peruvian government from the United States gov- ernment. Gexerat Grant's Two Sort Sprrcrzs.— At the Union League Club meeting General Grant told the members never to say anything unless they had something to say. His best and most laconic speéch, however, was made in Mhode Island during his late visit there, and was probably intended to suit the size of the State. “A speech! speech! speech!” shouted the crowd. Grant shook his head. waa presented and @ resolution appointing a com- mimes of seven to investigate them was “Just two words, General.” ‘No, sir.” Butler ow the Tenure of Ofice Law- Butler's proposition to repeal the Tenure of Office law is the first step yet taken in Con- gress having particular relation to Grant. This is the third proposition for the repeal of the same act thet Congress has heard since the beginning of its present session, Tho first came from Mr. Cary, of Ohio, and the second was made by the President in his Message, and of these two Congress scarcely heard the one, while it derisively laughed at the other. But the same proposition, coming from Butler, seems naturally to claim a significance that would not be accorded to it as coming from almost any other man in the country. Butler's relations to the House are peculiar, and so are his relations to the incoming President. The representative from Massachusetts is a man who must be heard, as the House knows. He cannot be snubbed as any chance man in the crowd of Representatives may be, nor can he be laughed down, as has been sufficiently proved by the “‘bottle” experiment in that way. Moreover, his political sagacity has come to be recognized in a very palpable de- gree by the fact that his simply turning his attention to a subject gives it importance. People recognize that he has been among the first to discuss many things that subsequently grew to great proportions in our national agitations, and thence infer, perhaps rather too readily, that whatever he touches is likely todo the same. He has grown to be a leader of thought in the House, however others may nominally lead its action. Yet, with all this, the House is not sure of his fealty to party—not sure of his motives—and so hesi- tates what to do with his proposition. The merits of the case are clear, This law was made to tiethe hands of a President not in sympathy with Congress. It was made to cripple the Presidential office, because in the exercise of the powers given him by the consti- tution the President could be tolerably inde- pendent of the dictation of the radical majority. This tyrannical majority, jealous of every power that could oppose it, stopped at nothing in the effort to make itself supreme in the government, and framed this law as the most effective blow it could deal at what was always regarded as the proper constitutional authority of the Executive. Having made this law to control a President hostile to it, people would naturally suppose that Congress, now that a President is elected of its own views, would be ready to wipe out that law and return to the true basis of the constitution, But there are some rea- sons why it is not ready to do this, It has en- joyed the power of holding the Executive hand and foot for months, and it is not willing to lay that power aside. This was one of the dangers that the framers of the constitution endeavored sedulously to guard against in adjusting the nice balance of our system; but Congress cares less for the danger of the government as a whole than for its own power in that govern- ment. This isa piece of short-sightedness that is universal in the history of similar bodies. Another reason is that there is a large section of the republican party which remembers that Grant was elected without any pledges, and that he has never yet given any evidence of that kind of radical temper that would satisfy Massachusetts. They contemplate the possi- bility that they may by and by be as eager to hold Grant as ever they were to hold Johnson, and rightly judge that this law once gone they cannot re-enact it. . As must inevitably be the case with a crippling law, this statute operates in two ways. Made to prevent the Executive doing wrong, it equally prevents him doing right, and it is obvious how necessary it is that it should be repealed if Grant is to do what is universally expected of him. He is expected to make a wholesale slaughter of the corrupt officials that are in place under this very law ; but he cannot remove a single rascal who has credit with political caucuses, cliques and rings, and cannot appoint a man who does not come commended to all the Senators on simi- lar authority. Were Butler, therefore, in- terested in seeing the failure of Grant's ad- ministration he might reasonably stand still and look on at the operation of this mis- chievous law, and in the absence of any expo- sition of his motives he must therefore receive credit for a magnanimous disposition to let Grant start fair and for a patriotic wish to get back to the constitution. But with whatever purpose he has opened the most important political measure of the session, and one the vote upon which will be significant of the temper and attitude of Congress toward Grant, a determination not to repeal the law would be a vote of want of confidence in the new President. Tue Two Pervvian Lron-Craps.—It ap- pears that there is some question as to the destination ,of the two iron-clads which we sold to the Peruvian government, The Spanish government is very much exercised about it, and the Minister of that Power at Washing- ton feels as if it were to be another Alabama case, but this time, however, the capture of the magnificently freighted ship Cuba, which has been trying to make a harbor for some years past called the United States. There is nothing improbable in the idea that these iron-clads may attack Cuba ; for there is no peace or truce existing between the allied Pacific States and Spain. It would be a just retribution on Old Spain to lose her great island as a return for the inhuman and uncivil- ized bombardment of Valparaiso and other Pacific ports. What authority our Secretary of State possesses to guarantee that the ves- sels shall not proceed against Cuba we do not comprehend, All will explain itself in time, and our suppositions, like Talleyrand’s letters, be answered if we let them alone. Tux Mernopist Bistors ro Grnerat Grant.—The bishops of that powerful denomi- nation, the Methodist Episcopal Church, have written a congratulatory letter to General Grant on his election, with a promise that they will pray for bis success in his great office, for his ultimate salvation, and for the prosperity of the country. The letter isa very neat one, and as General Grant has rather a family leaning to the Methodist Church we have no doubt he ; will esteem this compliment from the bishops a | very high one. Wo are assured, too, that “the prayers of the righteous avail much,” and so we hope that if General Grant should get into any dificult snarl with the radicais | these worthy bishops will not forget their promise. General GranVs Adwinistrative System, What system will General Grant adopt in the administration of the government? The system established under Washington and continued in practice down to the time of John Quincy Adams—a system which left a broad margin of authority and responsibility with the heads of the several executive departments in the matter of appointments, &c. ?—or wilt it be the system introduced by General Jackson of taking upon himself the entire authority over and responsibility for every appointment in every department, great and small? We expect that General Grant will be governed more by the order and discipline of the army than by the petty calculations of the scheming politician, He did not seek the Presidency or desire it, even for one term, and he is not likely, therefore, to give himself much trouble to secure a second term. We expect, accord- ingly, that in order to attend to the broader duties of the Presidential office he will take care not to burden himself with the exhaust- ing business of settling the claims of forty or fifty thousand ravenous office seekers. The policy in the matter of the offices adopted by Washington, we dare say, then, will be Grant's policy. To each member of his Cabinet, under this policy, will be left the authority to remove and appoint his subordi- nates,*and the minister will be held respon- sible only for the faithful execution of the business of his department, subject to the gen- eral policy of the administration. If the Secretary of the Treasury, for example, with ample discretion in the choice of his subordinates, shall fail to come up to the President's mark of efficiency, with economy and retrenchment, no excuse of the incompetency, negligence or dishonesty of this or that subordinate will avail. The remedy will be a new Secretary of the Treasury. So with regard to each of the other departments. The bulk of the drudgery and the responsi- bility in the matter of removals and appoint- ments of clerks and messengers, &c., will fall upon the several secretaries. Having no ambition for a second term, General Grant can afford to adopt this system of relieving him- self of the office seekers, and it fs our impres- sion that he will enforce it to the fullest practi- cable extent. The Jacksonian system of reducing the President to a mere distributor of the spoils to the hungry office beggars of his party has been thoroughly tried and has been fruitful only of mischief. It was this pernicious system which kept Old Hickory himself in hot water from first to last, and broke down Van Buren, and carried Taylor and Harrison each prematurely to the grave, and made a mockery of the ad- ministrations of Tyler, Fillmore, poor Pierce, Buchanan and Johnson. We do not include Lincoln in this category, for, if we are not mis- taken, Mr, Chase, with the patronage of the Treasury Department and his greenback policy, as Secretary, assumed to be the power: behind the throne greater than the throne itself, and his amiable official master in- dulged him in the pleasing delusion. What Lincoln did Grant can afford to do in this matter. He can leave his Cabinet members, if they choose, to set themselves up for the suc- cession, and give them all as much rope as they want in distributing their offices, holding each member respon- sible only for fidelity in his trust and honest co-operation with the President in the general conduct of the government. Lincoln did this toa considerable extent, and though he was somewhat troubled with the Blair family his administration was a great success. Johnson tried the other policy till tied up with the Tenure of Office law, and his administration has been a failure. This Tenure of Office law ought now to be repealed; but, repeal or no repeal, General Grant, we expect, will attend to the great duties of his office and turn over the paltry squabbles of the office seekers to his secretaries. The Alaska Lobby Job. The old saying that where there is much smoke there is fire seems to be an apt simile in the Alaska purchase fund. After all, it appears that the odd two hundred thousand dollars over the seven millions stuck in the hands of lobby agents abont Washington. We have not yet»got at all the facts; but it seems that Robert J. Walker obtained the nice little sum of twenty-five ‘thousand dollars for help- ing, or pretending to help, the purchase appro- priation through Congress. It is positively stated, too, that he was employed by the Rus- sian Minister, at the recommendation of our Secretary of State. Mr. Seward has had an un- dying penchant for the lobby ever since the time he was Governor of New York, when Thurlow Weed was the State barber. This modern Oliver Le Dain found his Louis XI. in W. H. Seward. That the Secretary of State should recommend Walker as a lobby agent is a curious development. But what became of the balance of the two hundred thousand dol- lars? Into whose hands did that hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars go? Was Mr. Seward’s old State barber a participant? Did the correspondents of the chief radical organ or copperhead organ of this city get any of the money? Were any members of Congress interested? What Bohemians of the press touched it? Let us have a searching inquiry into the facts. Mr. Stoeckl should explain how he was induced to use money in this way, and Congress should put Mr. Seward, Thurlow Weed, R. J. Walker and the newspaper corre- spondents on the stand to reveal under oath the whole transaction. It will not do to allow the matter to be smothered up. Let us have the facts. Lorp CLARBNDON AND THE CHINest.— Lord Clarendon, the new British Minister for Foreign Affairs, according to a late telegram favorably regards Mr. Burlingame’s mission. Negotiations with the Chinese Embassy are to be opened immediately with a view to con- cluding a treaty of commerce. This bodes well, The new Ministry will not go back on the old. A treaty concluded with Great Britain will be an example which Europe will be certain to follow. Mr. Burlingame’s real difficulty is in London, Repvoetion 1x tie Prior or Gas.—The Harlem Company have given notice that they | wilt reduce the price of gas to their consumers | next to three dollars Will tue on the first of Ju and a half for a thoasand enbi city companies now come down? wary Pregress of the Spanish Revolution, Our news from Spain points unerringly towards a desperate civil struggle between the monarchical and the republican elements, which have, since the dethronement of Isabella, been facing each other in a diplomatic contest for power. This short period, during which the two parties have been measuring each other, is, in many respects, a strange phase in European political history, Heretofore great revolutions have been accomplished by quick, bold measures, where blood has flowed by wholesale from the very start. It is a good sign, however, upon the European horizon when the most backward of all the Old World Powers pauses for a time on the brink of civil war before the factions come to blows. It can only be accounted for through the effects of modern civilization—through not only the in- fluence of nations beyond the Spanish frontier, but internally the silent and effective govern- ment of principles which grow stronger in proportion to the extent they are written over the country by railroad, telegraph, the press and general education. The contest in Spain to-day is taking its natu- ral flow. Up to the present moment the people, unaccustomed to modern impulses, have been waiting and studying to ascertain why they upset the old order of things. They plunged into their struggle without knowing exactly why they did it. They only knew that it was necessary to make a change, that they could not exist longer without it, and that the first thing to do was to topple over the throne. They were surprised to see how rotten the old fabric was when they struck at it. The silent influences of this century had taken all vigor from it, and itfell at the moment that it felt the first exhalation of modern liberalism. The overthrow of the old calls for something new, and the Spanish people up to this moment have been trying to solve the problem. There is naturally in Spain an immense element of retrogradism; but the downfall of Isabella proves also that there is a wonderful vitality in the liberalism, which is, in reality, the cause of all the late changes. Now at length the two antagonistic elements have taken solid form and face each other. The struggle will, however, be shorter and more decisive than those which have preceded it in other countries for similar purposes, for the reason that it is now 1868. England fought out her civil strife by an immense period of desultory contests. Germany did thesame. France, more modern, was propor- tionately shorter. The United States, within @ recent period, decided the most gigantic re- volutionary contest of history—first by four years of war, and then by four years of argu- ment to see which side whipped. Spain will follow ih the same track so far as her institu- tions will permit. She will settle this question between modern and ancient principles ina quick and decisive struggle. This struggle is already showing itself in the different provinces, and although, according to our latest tele- graphic despatches from Cadiz, with its five hundred and thiry-seven barricades and the killing and wounding of five hundred persons on both sides during the fighting of last week, the insurrection ended in that city on Sunday with the insurgents’ surrender of their arms and their tri-colored flag to the American Consul, who has turned them over to the mili- tary authorities. Yet the arrest of thirty individuals in Madrid on the charge of incit- ing the workingmen of the capital to rebel against the government, as well as the jubilee of the Spanish residents in Fernando Po, on the west coast of Africa, over the downfall of the Spanish Bourbons, sufficiently indicate on the part of the Spanish people a revolutionary spirit which, if suppressed at one point, is liable at any moment to burst forth at more than one other point of the Spanish territory. How the revolution may result it is as yet hard to judge; for the retrograde party still hold the power, while the true liberalism of the country ison the.lowest step of the ladder. Several aspirants for the throne stand ready to offer their royal services in the interests of obsolete ideas. | Montpensier proffers his to the provisional government. Spain is thus for the moment given over to contention between old and new-ideas. The latter are very strong and are propped up by every modern appliance existing in the Penin- sula, The former are, perhaps, of equal, if not greater, strength, for they control the power and wealth of the clergy, as yet un- broken in Spain. Whatever the result, libe- ralism will gain an immense stride forward, and if this blow is not fully effective it will, at least, open the doors to the final regenera- tion of the country in the interests of freedom and civilization. The Proposed Underground City Railrond. Some months since there was considerable flurry over the proposed construction of an underground city railroad, extending from the Battery to the Park. Plans and specifications were made, calculations upon the cost of the work and the amount to which property hold- ers might claim indemnification were figured up, an act was passed by the Legislature in- corporating a company to carry out the under- taking, and, in short, all preliminary arrange- ments were apparently made to set the work fairly under way. But since then nothing has been done. Not a spadeful of dirt has been turned up. No surveys have been held. Even subscriptions have not been called for, which is probably the strangest thing of all. Why is this? What is the canse of this delay? Have the projectors come to the conclusion that the whole enterprise is impracticable ; that the rocky formation upon which the city rests is impenetrable; that the flow of water will continually preclude practical operations, and that there are other natural barriers and obstructions to be met with as the work is prosecuted which will make it a labor for eternity? If this be the opinion of those who have the business in hand and are disposed to abandon it, why not surrender the charter to those who believe in the practicability of the undertaking and are ready to push it through ? Many intelligent and responsible engineers have expressed their belief that the subterra- neanroadway can be built ; that the walls oan be made water-tight, and that the rocky formation can be successfully penetrated. Thatis all that is necessary. Therefore let the work be commenced at once, or, at any rate, let us have some certain way of relieving the thronged and almost impassable thorough- fares. If we cannot go under the houses let ug goon top of them, upon the principle of an elevated railway, such as is in operation ia London. Something must be done, and that quickly ; for it will soon be impossible at certain hours of the day to pass through the Principal streets without danger of suffo- cation, Progress of the Revolution in Cuba. Our intelligence from Havana this morning is intensely interesting. Arising has taken |. Dlace at Santi Espiritu, an inland city of thir- teen thousand inhabitants, a short distance east of Trinidad. The government at Havana has authorized an increased issue of paper money, and the British Congul notifies British subjects to register. Thése events indicate the alarm which is now prevailing there. On revolutionary authority a rising is reported to have occurred at Ma cagua, and others to be ready at Villa Clara and Trinidad, These need confirmation, and are probably merely indications of popular feeling. Macagua is situated in the heast of the great sugar dis- trict, the seat of the slave population of the western department, and when the fire once catches there it must burn until it burns itself out. It is the westward progress of the insurrec- tion, as indicated by these advices, that bodes evil to the colonial government. The rising in Cuba is only to be compared to a fire in a prairie covered with dry grass, In the vicinity of four hundred thousand negro slaves the insurgents have liberated and armed white and black alike. If this fire once reaches the densely populated sugar district all the troops that Spain possesses in the world, if thrown into Cuba, would not suffice to quench it. The colonial authorities are now in great stress, and General Dulce still delays his de- parture from Cadiz. The timing of his arrival in Cuba forms the real crisis of the revolution there, and he has three thousand miles of ocean to traverse. Can he reach the island in time to prevent the conflagration from extend- ing to the slave population west of Sagua la Grande? It is almost at their doors now, and a few days may bring us the intelligence that they are in arms. When ‘this occurs General Dulce can only repeat the disasters and miseries of La Clerc’s famous expedition to Hayti at the beginning of the present century. “Murders Most Foul.” Probably in the history of this country thero has never been such a series of cold-blooded murders recorded as there has been within the past few weeks, These terrible deeds, it will have been noticed, have not been confined to the South, where radical politicians take especial pains to drag before the world every deed of horror that is committed—and many, perhaps, that are not. In the North, and par- ticularly in New England, these murderous acts are characterized by frightful atrocities which might cause even a Southern Ku-Klux to re- coil shudderingly, Murder as one of the fine arts, as described by De Quincy, finds almost daily illustrations in moral and puritanical New England. It is evident that the lessons of the ancestors of the New England people, who hung Quakers and burnt witches for pas- time, are not forgotten. Seriously, cannot our New England philanthropists and philoso- phers pause @ moment in their missionary works among the far off Hindoos and fat and lazy Africans and set about improving the im- moral atmosphere with which they are sur- rounded, and in reclaiming from Satan’s grip the poor, shivering souls akin to their own flesh and blood? A truly shocking state of affairs prevails in New England, and something should be done to check the course of society there in its downward career to utter demorali- zation. y Natorauization Fravups.—The elaborate memorial of the Union League Club of New York city relative to alleged wholesale natural- ization frauds previous to the recent election for Presidential electors and State officers in this State was yesterday presented to both houses of Congress. This memorial was ordered by the Senate to be printed and refer- red to the Committee on the Judiciary. In the House of Representatives a resolution for the appointment of a committee of investigation was adopted. This committee will probably be announced to-day and will enter upon its duties during the holiday recess. It can only discover, after all, that naturalization frauds are not peculiarly characteristic of any one’ political party, Oaxty Hatt Growine Bra.—Since the recent charter election, when Oakey Hall was chosen Mayor of New York by fifty-five thou- sand majority, he has become quite famous as a public man, and has loomed up into such large proportions as a leading politician that it is evident he must have been favored by the abuse of some of the Bohemian journals of the city, At the rate in which he is progressing in popular favor it seems probable that the Mayoralty will in his case be the stepping stone to the office of Governor of the State; and there is no knowing where he will stop. When the Bohemians assail a public man this is gen- erally the result. “YACHTING. INTELLIGENCE. ‘The yacht Eva is still ploughing the sunny waves in southern latitudes, and from all accounts those on board of her are enjoying themseives in a right royal manner, When last heard from she had put into Elizabeth City, North Carolina, for water, from whence she was soon to sail for Charleston, 8. C., where provisions and mails are awaiting her arrival. Itis more than probable that American yachtmen will at no distant day follow the custom of the Eng- lish yachtmen, in taking pleasant cruises during the winter months in the waters of the Mediterranean— our Mediterranean, lying between the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean Sea. Ceriainly no more pictur- esque or pleasant cruising ground than the West Ind tes can be found anywhere in the world, THE NEWARK BOARD OF TRADE. Annual Election of Officers. The second annual election of officers of the New ark Board of Trade took place last evening at their Chamber, in Corego Building, on Broad street. The oMcera elected were:—Proaident, Wiliam HH. McClave; Vice Presidents, John Megregor, ae Campbell and A. A. Smalley; Secretary, fot . Abee!; ‘Treasurer, Isaac Gaston. ' Directoré—Wililain 1. Force, Orson Wilson, James Be mr Bi Ale 8 Mackin, Thomas Sealy, Jamos & ys, n it. Camp, Thomas T. Kinney and Rovert F. Ballentine, FIRE IN CHERRY STREET. A fire broke out in the wood yard of Ingraham & MoCherr, 229 and 291 Cherry Sireet, last evening, and damaged the stock to the extent of about $2,500. Insured in Pacific for $1,000; Willlamaturg City, $1,600, and Firemen’s Fond, $1,000. The fire was caused by some sparks (rom the chimney failing ‘on the wood in the yard,