The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humpry DomPrr, with NeW FEATURES, BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—SOLON SHINGLE— Live Lypian. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Mwenty-third st., between 6th and {th avs.—ROMEO AND JULIET. NEW YORK THEATRE, Brosdway.—-MoKzan Bvu- CHANAN AS OTHELLO, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Ta® BuRLEsqus Ex- VEAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIRVES. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—SHAKSPEAEB’S TRAGEDY oF MaozETU—JOCKO. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 98d atreet.—OkPURE AUX ENVERS. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- Bue.—FLEUE DE THE. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strvet.—Irauian OPERs—NoRMA. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Mucu Ado AvovuT NOTHING. BROUGHAM'S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth o.—AN InisH STeW—DEAMATIO REVIEW FOR 1568, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. 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All complaints of ‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the Heratp establish- ment. -Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the Hzraxp office, are requested to re- turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the HERALD. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Dairy Heraup will be seut to subscribers for one dollar a month. The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Hekatp at the same price it is furnished in the city. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated February 11. &he Spanish Constituent Cortes met yesterday. A dumber of tle members are strongly in favor of Fer- dinand, father of the reigning King of Portugal. If he refuses Montpensier will probably be chosen. The Carlists are active in the Basque provinces. A despatcn from Portugal mentions the revival of the Iberian Union project. Twenty cight Carlists were arrested by the French Corps of Observation on the 10th inst., while attempt- ing to cross the French frontter. The English House of Lords met yesterday and adjourned until the 16th inst, Reverdy Johnson was entertained by the Corpora- tion of Gixsgow on the 10th inst. by a public dimuer. Cuba. The leaders of the revolution in Cienfuegos, Villa Olara and Trinidad are said to be two brothers, named Cavada, both of whom were, until very re- cently, American Vice Consuls at Cienfuegos and Trinidad. Adolfe was coiouel of a Philadelphia regiment of Zouaves during our war, Telegraphic communication between Hayana and Villa Clara has been restored. Congress. In the Sonate yesterday Mr. Morgan reported the House bill making the East river bridge a post road, with amendments that it shall not obstruct naviga- tion and the plans for it shall be approved by the Secretary of War. Mr. Davis offered a resoiution censuring Mr. Butler, of the House, for bis action of Wednesday during the counting of the electoral ‘votes, out objection being made it went over under the rule. Mr. Sherman's currency taken up, and it was generally d a. In the evening session the River and liarver Appropriation Dill was discussed. In tue House Mr. Colfax stated the first butiness m order to be the discussion the question of privilege raisea by Mr. Butler re ye to the vote of Georgia, and tuen Vacated his chatr in favor of Mr. Dawes, who acted as Speaker pro fem, Mr. Shella- barger opened the debate in opposition to Mr. But- ler's question of privilege. He was followed by others, and Mr. Butier, after some time, managed to get in 4 scathing reply. Quite an acrimonions debate ensued between him and Mr. Bing- ham. . Couax ako had the door and some Ciscussion of a lively character ensued between him and Mr. Schenck relative to hig decisive calming of the elements on Wednes- day by calling in the services of the Sergennt-at- No bustoess whatever was transacted and tion of privilege went over uutii to-day at yarn nt. The Legisintare. p Senate bills were introduced to amend the Code of Procedure; to authorize the Board of Education to establish @ nautical school in New York and to incorporate @ passenger transit com- pany between New York and Brooklyn. In the Assembly bills were passed to incorporate the andrew Johnson Club of New York, and for nu- Merous other purposes of a private or local nature, Bills were introduced to protect the civil and relig- ious rights of minors; t% promote the safety of tray- ellers on ratiroads; to reorganize the Fire Depart. ment in Brooklyn, and to establish an industrial school on Har'ts Island. A resolution requiring the Erie Railroad Company to report tue amount of the funded and floating debt of the company was ta- bled. Miscellaneous. The Reconstruction Committee seems inclined to favor a recail of the Mississippt Convention for the purpose of forming a new State constitution, and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary are sald to Rave determined to report tn favor of a modification Of the Virginia constitution as suggested by the committee of prominent Virginians. The House Oommittee on Elections have determined to report against the claims both of Colonel Hunt and Mr. Menard, the colwred member, fo mente from =the = Second alatrict of Louistana. The Congressional Committee on Ways and Means have decided (o recommend the opening of negotiation with Canada ip reference to @ com- mercial treaty, and the exemption of the old Rus- sian telegraph cable from import duty. Mr. I,N. Morris, of Quincy, Ml, heretofore alluded to a8 @ probable recipient of a Cabinet office, is in Washington and said to be with General Grant every day. The two are warm frienas, and Mr, Morris is said to be unsparing in his denunciation of the radical party. General Grant and Speaker Colfax are to be oml- clally notified of their election on Saturday, Acrazy woman was discovered in one of the cor- ridors.of the White House, yesterday, with an old fashioned pistol in her possession. She said that she had been sent by Almighty God to defend the Presi- dent im the impending war. She was handed over to the police. A nolle prosequt was formally entered in the United States Circuit Court at Richmond yesterday, in the cases of Jeff Davis, Breckenridge, Lee, Early, Wise and thirty other prominent rebels, and the batl-bond sureties were discharged. Dr. Mudd’s pardon has been signed by the Prest- «ent and will probably reach the doctor about the middie of next week. It was recommended by thirty-nine Senators and Representatives, and 300 oMicers and soldiers serving in the Dry Tortugas. Whalen, charged with the murder of Darcy MoGee, was executed at Ottawa, Canada, yesterday. The trial of George W. Thorne, and others his syre- tes, for alleged internal revenue frauds, was com- menced in the United States District Court, at Tren- ton, N. J., yesterday, Thorne was revenue collector for New Jersey, and the charge on which he is now arraigned, with his sureties, mvdlves over $100,000, ‘Thomas Lafon, Jr., who has been on trial for some time for the Hebring homicide in Newark, N. J., was yesterday found guilty and recommended to mercy. Sentence was deferred. ‘The suburban citizens of Cincinnati have held a meeting to appoint a vigilance committee. A block of marble weighing ten tons fell on two persons from a height of fifty feet, in a quarry near Rutland, Vt., on Wednesday, killing them instantly and injuring two others, John Mitchell, of Sutton, N. H., has been arrested on @ charge of attempting to kill his wife by setting fire to her with kerosene oil. The City. At about half-past four o’clock yesterday morning young German named Bamberger shot his be- throthed at her door, at No. 361 West Sixteenth street, and then shot himself. The two, in company with another party living in the same house, had just returned from a ball. A letter in the pocket.of Bamberger shows that the attempted suicide at least was premeditated. Bamberger died in the afternoon, but the girl is still living. One Bord, the stepfather of the girl, was arrested, but the Coroner’s jury charged the murderous attempt at Bamber- ger’s hands, and Bord was released. The body of Mrs. Gamble, who was supposed to have been poisoned some time in last August and whose husband was examined at the time on a charge of committing the deed, has been in the Morgue im this city since the close of judicial pro- ceedings awaiting a certificate of burial. Coroner Schirmer yesterday held an investigation, wherein the remains were fally ideatified. and directed the jarv to render a verdict of death from unknown causes. The body was given to her relatives. ‘The funeral services of James T. Brady took place yesterday, with impressive ceremonies. The services were performed at the Cathedral, on Mott street, and. the remains were deposited in the faniily vault, in the yard adjoming. The friends of John ©. Braine, the alleged Chesa- peake pirate, are using their utmost endeavors to have him released. He is confined in the county jail in Brooklyn and has become a mere wreck of his former self, being afflicted by disease and compelled to go about on a crutch. The steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Dela- motte, of the Inman line, will sail from pier No. 45 North river, at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), for Queenstown and Liverpool. The European mails wiii close at the Post Office at twelve M., 13th inst. The National line steamship The Queen, Captain Grogan, will leave pier No, 47 North river at three P. M. to-morrow for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The Anchor line stermship Europa, Captain Craig, will gail on Saturday, 15th inst., at twelve o’ciock M., from pier No. 20 North river, for Glasgow, touching at Londonderry te land passengers, The steamship Crescent City, Captain Holmes, of the Merchants’ lime, for New Orleans direct, will ieave pier No. 12 North river, at three o'clock on Sat- urday afternoon, 13th inst. The Black Star line steamship Montgomery, Cap- tain Lyon, will leave pier No. 13 North river, at three o'clock to-morrow afternoon, for Savannah, Ga, Prominent Arrivals in this City. General Sutton, of Saiem, Mass.; General G. T. Bachelder, of Albany, and Congressman Joho Lynch, of Maine, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. S. M. Clark, of Washington; Thomas L. Scott, of Albany, and Lafayette Wilson, of St, Louis, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. M. Batazzi, of the Turkish Legation at Washington; Hi. Mickling, of China; Colonel KR. C. Banks, of Al- bany, and Jose Gaivez, of New Haven, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Count de Wiertzbick,i and Count Henri Conrad Irzciniki, of Paris, France; Colonel George D, Hill, of the United States Army; General D. K. Jackman, of Philadelphia, and General P., Adams Ames, of Bos ton, are at the Hoffman House. The Senate and the President Waat Does It Want? There remains less than three weeks longer for the Senate to decide what position it will assume with reference to the new executive power it has been ‘trumental in calling into existence. In e decision it may make we shall be enabled to judge if it urged the election of General Grant with the idea of making hima mere tool, or with the desire to again restore the government toa healthful condition. Much of the action of the Seuate upoa this question doubtless rests upon that of Grant in the selection of his Cabinet. If the Cabinet is formed of men who may be to the Senatorial liking, then General Grant will be well supported by the “Conscript Fathers,” who will imagine that they can control the situation and carry their influence ia what- ever direction they may deom necessary, It is pertinent to ask what does the Senate desire? It is difficult to answer this question withont blushing for legislation in the United States. The facts are patent that the Senate is to-day the great ring which controls the fortunes of many thousands of leeches upon the public purse. Whiskey, railroad, revenue, frontier and other contractors swarm and buz, about Senatorial ears, with a cry like a pack of wounded wolves, because they fear that the incoming adminvistration will let loose the hounds of justice upon them. They fear that they will be driven from their prey; that the magnificent wealth of the United States Treasury will no longer remain in their hands to manipulate to the national discredit; that the government will not descend to the low level of Wall street and try to make its “corner” like a petty speculator; that the laws will cease to administer to the wealth of those who choose to defraud; that brainless and ignorant men will not be permitted to bur- lesque republicanism by holding offices to the public disgrace; that foreign ministers shall no longer be sent abroad on account of their gastronomic, bacchanalian, jobbing, filibuster- ing, revolutionary or bleating powers; that appointments for all offices will cease to be given to those who wade through the largost Elect amount of political filth for the benefit of the’ “Conscript Fathers.” All this they fear, and the Senate is but the echo of these fears if it dare not place itself right before the people by restoring the three branches of the govern- ment to their full functions. On the other hand, what are the wants of the President elect? He is the choice of the people of the United States to fill the positior of executive officer of our government, and we, the people, did not elect him for any other or smaller purpose. We did not elect him to be principal page to the Senate, and will not sup- port him as such. He is one of the threo branches of the government, and is responsible to us for the proper management of that branch. The people expect him to assume all its duties and to the full measure of his abil- ity administer the executive power, free from the control of the Senate or Judiciary, which ‘are distinctly marked, and, like his own branch, not subjact to the dictation of either of the other two. The people have full faith that General Grant can truly represent them, and therefore when we state the wants of Grant we state the wants of the people. Therefore we, the people, through our Presi- dent elect, ask that the Senate repeal the obnoxious Tenure of Office bill. Let it follow the lead of the Hoase of Representa- tives, which has, quicker than the Senate— because nearer to the people—had the good sense to see our will upon this vital govern- mental question and bend to it in true republi- can form. We ask that this and all else be done that may tend to make our government worthy of our civilization. The whole coun- try, the House of Representatives, the Presi- dent whom we have elected—all look to-day at the Senate as the power which can cut us aloof from the evils which we see around us— as the power which can restore our finances to @ healthful condition, destroy the rings that absorb our revenues, and make us respect our- selves, that we may be also respected abroad. Let the Senators think of what we here present to them. Let them remember that this is a representative government—purely representa- tive—and that we elected them to do our bid- ding, not to shape legislation to the interests of rings which have been bequeathed to us by the natural misfortunes of war, but which we have now determined have had their day. Let Taere Bz No Deray.—Judge Bar- nard has made public declaration of what ap- pears to be the opinion of the authorities— that the murderer of Mr. Rogers is now in custody. If the authorities really have the man and such testimony as can show this, what are they waiting for? Do they not know that they cannot by any other means do so much to awe the ruffians among us as would be done if the murderer of Rogers were hanged before this month of February is out ? “MoraL Svuaston.”—An excellent remedy against murderers was applied yesterday to Whalen, the murderer of McGee. The phi lanthropists say that hanging leads to murder, and we shall now havea chance to see this tried in Canada. But we do not believe there will be any more murders of that class in Canada for one year. Mexico and the Foreign Powers. Late European telegraphic news informs us that the ‘‘opposition” in the French Corps Législatif demand a restoration of diplomatic relations with Mexico. They ask this under the plea that French interests will suffer it there is a longer interruption. Thus the “opposition” never fail to make a hit at the disasters of the Mexican expedition whenever opportunity offers. The fact is, moreover, that the reopening of diplomatic relations with Mexico is really necessary. French dreams in that direction were rudely broken; but French interests are not so easily trodden upon. There are very many French subjects who were resident in Mexico at the date of the intervention and who were obliged to fly from the country. The Mexican government has made a most sweeping confiscation of all their property without regard to their political sentiments, and doubtless these are disposed to make an effort to have it returned to them. Moreover, France had a large debi agains Mexico at the date of the intervention, not including the infamous Jecker fraud or the unfortunate acknowledged investment of over two hundred and fifty-two millions of dollars in the royal filibustering expedition of Maxi- milian. The entire European debts of Mexico at the date of the intervention were about ninety-five millions of dollars, of which sixty- six millions are claimed by England. England as well as France appears anxious to resume diplomatic relations with the Mexi- cans, and the British Premier lately stated that England was ready to do this “when Mexico asked for it’—a very foolish thing to state, considering the fact that Mexico is so disgusted with her- self and the whole of humanity that she feels more exclusive than Ciina and would by far prefer never to seo another foreign diplomat upon her soil. When she asks Eng- land to send a minister to her capital it will be when she is under an American protectorate. We advise France to wait for this same mo- ment before she undertakes to accredit any Frenchman to Mexico. There is no settling of this vexed Mexican question in-any way but the natural one. If Europe will wait a little while, say from six months to a year, for us to get our new administration at work, we will give them a final and satisfactory solution of the whdle problem. A Rovon Jox# rrom Garrett Davis— His resolution in the Senate yesterday against Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, as being “noisy and disorderly.” Davis is the noisy man of the Senate. Goop Srevicz.—Much summary and satis- factory justice has been done against the teem- ing crime of our city within a few days past, and that was not the least satisfactory that was done in the Conrt of Oyer and Terminer on Wednesday, when a murderer was broug! into court to the commencement of his trial and went out sentenced to death, There was only one defect. The execution should have been appointed for next Friday instead of next April. Speedy punishment is the greatest element of terror to wrongdoers in @ com- munity whose jails are organized as ours are. Fintixo Ur.—There are over furteen hun- dred convicts now in the Sing Sing State Prison, and “‘still they come.” Let them come, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBi: Cougrese—Ben Butler Continued. In the Senate yesterday nothing deserving of special notice occurred, excepting the resolution of Mr, Davis, of Kentucky, which lies over, denouncing Representative B. F. Butler, of Massachusetts, and others, as “noisy and disorderly” and guilty of “‘a wrong and an insult to the people of the United States” in impeding the counting of the votes for President and Vice President on Wednes- day last. The resolution will probably not come up again in the Senate, but we guess that Butler, in the House, will be very apt to give Davis a piece of his mind this morning. In the House yesterday, it will be seen from our Congressional reports, that the debate on Georgia, or rather on the conduct of ‘Old Ben Wade,” in admitting the electoral vote of Georgia against the protest of the House, was the exciting topic of the day’s profound but preposterous debate. Butler, at all events, was in his element. He rejoices in a parlia- mentary muddle of legal technicalities, and is equal to any emergency, except the patriarchal stupidity of ‘Old Ben Wade.’’ How We Do Justice. Three burglars, convicted and sentenced to nearly five years each, in the presence no doubt of a court‘room full of their friends, were sent from the court to the Tombs in the charge of one man, and that man a deputy sheriff. The designation deputy sheriff means, in this city, as most men know, a half-way rough and second rate politician. Here, then, was what looks very much like a deliberately put up “job” to cheat the jail of its due. The deputy sheriff conducting his three convicts through one of the worst wards of the city finds that he is suddenly sur- rounded by men brandishing knives. More than this, the handcuffs suddenly seem con- verted to piecrust. One convict freed from the cuff starts on a run; the deputy sheriff leaving the other two in charge of ‘‘citizens” (some of those with the knives, we fancy), starts after the fugitive and overtakes him, to find on his return that the others are gone. Now, in view of the antecedents of the Sheriff himself, and in view of the class of men from whom persons about the Sheriff's office are habitually taken, all this is fishy, and the case will stand an investigation on* several points—first, as to whether the handcuffs were arranged with a view to easy opening; next, as to the propriety of tempting fortune by sending convicts through the streets: with such highly culpable negligence, and further, as to whether the chances for escape are among the favors that city officials are expected to extend to the ‘dangerous classes” in ex- change for support at the polls. Att THe Enemies of Oxper Move To- GETHER.—It is almost necessary that popular indignation should ring what the firemen call a “general alarm” when such events as the rescue in Centro street can occur. If all the ruffians have turned out in general league against law it is clear that the guardians of public peace are inadequate to exercise such repression as the case demands, Amend the Game Lawa, Year after year the sporismen of our State apply to the Legislature at Albany to obtain a proper statute for the protection of game; year after year they study and prepare the appro- priate enactments; year after year the stu- pidity or inexperience of our legislative Solons proves too much for them, and they come back no happier than they went. A new game law has become a regular thing at Albany. Its arrival is expected as certainly as that of the tax levy or the Broadway railroad charter, or a wharf and pier bill; but as “‘there is nothing in it” the members are offered ‘‘no reasons” why it should pass, and, the sportsmen having little political influence, it is cast aside, neglected or mutilated. There are annual changes made in the time for killing wood- cock or catching trout or bagging quail; there is such a swapping round of dates and limita- tions that experienced sportsmen should also be experienced lawyers to understand whether they are enjoying their sport in season or out of seagon; and other men would have to carry with them a half-dozen quarto volumes, bound in calf, of the New York ‘Statutes at Large,” and carefully study each section before they dare pull trigger on a bevy of quail or cast fly over a speckled trout. In olden times woodcock shooting commenced on the 4th of July, the national birthday; then it was postponed till August 1, when there are no woodcock to shoot; next it was delayed till September. Last year a glorious muddle was made by a division of the State into a dis- trict that was washed by the tide and one that was not, and now some wiseacre has hit upon what he considers a happy mean—mean enough in the view of those who und¢rstand the sub- ject—and proposes to allow poachers to kill woodcock until the third week in July, when honest sportsmen are to commence, provided the game is not allused up. So with trout. In ancient times they could not be angled for after the Ist of September nor before the Ist of February; then the month of February was lopped off, which was right, but last year the month of September was added. As for partridges, the periods of their protection were continually altered and confused, until at last it was provided that they might be killed on the third day of July, ata season when the young are hardly fledged, in all counties of the State, where, unfortunately for them, the tide happeged to ebb and flowg-a curious distinc- tion, which would never have entered the brain of any one but an Albany legislator, who alone can explain what effect the ebb and flow of the tide have on partridges, their habits or their times of incubation, What sportsmen want is very simple; what they can get may be another question, They want fixed times, no particular matter what, provided they are not to be regulated by the ebb and flow of the tide during which game can be killed. They want a special provision that after a certain period game must neither be killed nor sold in the markets, nor, as the law expresses it, had in possession, by any one. They want to stop the sale, knowing that by so doing they will stop the killing. If poachers cannot dispose of their birds or fish they will no longer kill them. The vulnerable point in game protection is the market, and the supporters of poaching are the marketmen, even when (a8 they often are) they are innocent of the intention of so doing. Under an absarl provision of the statute game killed before “ARY 12, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. the changes of the law this has bééh retained. Everything else might fail, but this damaging provision remained. By the aid of this exception, which seems 80 innocent on its face, there has never been the least restraint on selling most species of game, especially quail and partridges, which are killed in cold weather. Neither of these birds can be legally shot after the 1st day of January, and yet they are-openly sold at the poulterers’ and hawked round the streets by the hundred and thousand under the specious plea that they were killed before the law wasup. And they will continue to be sold, and bought, and eaten, and, as every reasonable man knows, killed, too, under the sheltering shield of this ridiculous enactment, through February, March and April, and even perhapsin May and June. The impropriety of this has become so fla- grant that even the marketmen have consented on fixing a final and peremptory closing time. The sportsmen wanted the 1st of February as the final day. They contended that one month was time enough in which to dispose of surplus stock, and insisted that game lost its flavor by being kept in a refrigerated condition for any great length of time. They wanted to clear our markets of all sorts and kinds of game for the one month of February; but the marketmen, who first claimed until April, finally compromised on the 1st of Merch, agree- ing that quail and partridges should go out as trout came in. Now it only remains for the Legislature to carry into effect this arrange- ment by the proper laws, and the first step towards the protection of game will at last have been taken. Then it will not only be discreditable, as it is at present, for vulgar dinner givers to supply their tables with the prohibited food after the 1st of March, but it will be a punishable offence; and public restaurants ,and private club houses will no longer dare to offer it as an especial delicacy to their ignorant patrons. Comine Up is ANoTHER PLAog.—Popular indignation has awakened our courts, and criminals cannot get through them without heavy sentences. Popular attention has been turned to the readiness with which men escape from Sing Sing, and that is likely to prove a tight place for some time to come. So the heavily sentenced convict must take some other chance, and he turns his attention to that point in his career when he is between the court and the prison and in the hands of the Sheriff. Another place for popular attention to be turned to, therefore, is the Sheriff's office. The Spanish Cortes and Its Labors. The constituent Cortes of Spain met yeséer- day for organization, and the eyes of every European Cabinet are anxiously watching the result of their deliberations. The two im- portant questions to be decided are—first, what shall be the form of government to replace the banished rule of the Bourbons; and second, to whom shall be confided the executive power of that government. The elections which have recently taken place in the Spanish péninsula have resulted largely infavor of the candidates put forward by the existing pro- visional. government, and its members will hold seats in virtue of their election by the capital. The choice of the presiding officer will indicate in some degree the temper of the body, but not the final result, as very active diplomatic intrigues are on foot in every circle in Madrid to influence the question of the dynasty. Seiior Rivero is named in our cable despatches as almost certain to be the Presi- dent of the Cortes. This body comprises in reality three political elements, neither of which holds a majority of thé Cabinet. General Serrano represents the old liberal union party which so long en- deavored to modify by peaceful means the policy of the ex-Queen, and carries great weight for his announced preference for a monarchy. General Prim is the leader of the progresista party, and as commandey of the army, as well as from his strong personal character, enjoys a wide influence. Seiior Ayola, Minister of Grace and Justice, repre- sents in the Cabinet the democratic progres- istas. Tie admitted organ of the provisional government has announced that the Cabinet has settled upon its choice for the throne, but the name has not been given to the public. Rumor has stated the government candidate to be the Duke of Aosta, second son of the King of Italy, and supposed to be the prefer- ence of the French Emperor; but from yes- terday’s complexion of things at Madrid, it appears that a majority of the Cortes are in favor of Ferdinand, the father of the present King of Portugal; and next to him stands the Duke de Montpensier. Meantime the project has been revived in Portogal of an Iberian union, which may be the secret of the strength ‘of the Portuguese Royal House in Madrid, The wishes of Louis Napoleon will undoubtedly have great influence in the discussions in Madrid; but it does not follow that they will control the choice of the nation, The Spaniards are a proud and warlitte people, and very sensitive to any ap- pearance of foreign influence in their domestic affairs, The Firat Napoleop found nothing but disaster to his designs in Spain, His suc- cessor may be more successful, At this «mo- ment the movements in Madrid constitute the most important event in European politics, and will be contemplated with interest every- where. Dr. Mopp Parvoxev.—The President has pardoned Dr, Mudd, convicted as one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, and sen- tenced by the Military Commission of 1865 to imprisonment for life at the Dry Tortugas. Dr. Mudd, at the time of President Lincoln's assassination, lived away down in Maryland, on Booth’s route of escape, and he was charged with being a confederate of Booth in this—that the doctor, knowing the crime of Booth, gave him shelter, doctored his broken log, and then helped pim to resume his flight. The evidence, however, admits of reasonable doubts in Mudd’s behalf, and as he has suffered over three years at tue Dry Tortugas we dare say that public opinion wiil not demur against his release. Tur Vors or Grorata.—The vote of Georgia was to be counted if it was not wanted, and not to be counted if it was worth while to countit, Old Ben Wade got this idea into his bead and it filled him up, so that the size of the idea shows exactly the capacity of the President of the Senate. Butler exhausted even tilt-hammer tactics in his effort to drive the law is up may be sold atterwards. Amidall , in another ides, but it was of no use. Real the Murderer=A Word te the Goveruer. There were some very remarkable circum- stances connected with the trial the other day of Real, the murderer of the police officer John Smedick, It was a most deliberate, re- morseless and shocking murder, and the evi- dence against the assassin was overwhelming, The life of one of those city guardians upon whom all peaceable citizens directly depend for the protection of their lives and property had been taken away to satisfy the revenge of a worthless vagabond. Here, then, was a case calling for justice, without unnecessary delay, and against all efforts of mock philan- thropy, evasion, postponement or intimida- tion, The case came on in the morning, and before midnight it was closed with the sentence of death upon the murderer. This was quick and effective work, From the remarks of Judge Barnard on the occasion our readers have been informed of the fearful gathering of roughs—birds of a feather with the prisoner, square-headed savages—in tho court room for purposes of intimidation Against witnesses, judge and jury. We appre- hend that the inclination of the jury to mercy was from fear of those terrible roughs and their mysterious warnings, We understand, however, that in addition to these elements of terrorism a strong political influence behind the scenes was brought to bear upon the Court in behalf of the prisoner. The officiat- ing Judge, therefore, in his decisive course in this remarkable case, cannot be too much commended by our law-abiding citizens. He has fearlessly and faithfully discharged a grave public duty, and we can tell all other officials concerned that the universal feeling of tis community is that the condemned mur- derer in this case must be punished. We cannot suppose that there is any other court here that will undertake to provide, through the loopholes and meshes of the law, a chance of escape to this daring and remorse- less murderer, Real. We infer that his only possible chance is the chance of an Executive pardon or commutation. We have, then, a word of advice for Governor Hoffman, and it is this—that mercy to this merciless criminal will be cruelty to our guardians of life and property and to all our peaceable citizens. And we say the same of various other felons sent up from the Myer and Terminer, the City Judge and the Recorder. We have had, Governor, too much Executive clemency in behalf of murderers and robbers, and incendiaries and swindlers, of late years, and we want, now, a few éxamples of the terrors of the law. Humanity now calls first for safety to the lives of our unarmed citizens against gangs of prowling outlaws, bristling with weapons of death. Smuggling—Seizare of the Steamer Cubase The seizure of the steamer Cuba, of the Baltimore and New Orleans line via Havana, by order of the Commissioner of the Customs, on account of a large lot of smuggled cigars— concealed in boxes, manifested as coming from New Orleans to Baltimore, but which left that port empty and were filled with cigars at Havana—affords a glimpse into a vast and mys- terious system of smuggling by which millions of United States revenue are ‘‘confiscated” to the benefit of illegal speculators. Frauds on so immense a scale will gradually necessitate a corresponding increase of burdensome taxes. No doubt the high duties oa foreign importa- tions virtually offer a direct premium on smug- gling. But as the tariff laws cannot at once be changed the next best remedies against this growing evil must be adopted. Honest men must be substituted for those high officials whose collusion with these frauds is more than suspected. It is to be hoped that, with or without the repeal of the Tenure of Office law, President Grant will not hesitate to take the responsibility of turning out of office all those who are guilty of conniving or of winking at frauds which inflict damning disgrace, as well as serious injury, upon the United States gov- ernment. Vury Foxny—The spectacle of old, stupid, blunder-headed Ben Wade getting the better of the shrewd and capable Butler and throw- ing him into a fary of ill-temper by mere stolid, stupid persistency in ignorant ruling. The Southern Press Convention. We notice that the Southern Press Associae tion is called to meet on the 17th instant in convention at Mobile. During the rebellion the Southern press had an effective organiza- tion, which did good. service to its members, but since the surrender they seem to have lost all vitality. If the coming convention at Mobile can restore some of the old rebellious vigor to its Association it will do the journals good service and lay the foundation of better reaults in the future. To do this they must beware-of the too close embrace of other Associations, which was the pit the Southern Association fell into at Atlanta two yearsago. Since then it has never thrived, If they wish to prosper they must have their business done by their own officers, and insist upon dealing as a body, and not as individual journals, with the New York association. By adopting this course, and electing a president and a superintendent who understand their business and will attend to it, the Southern Press Association can become a respectable body, Without these it is simply a gathbring of wordy gentlemen, who pass a set of resolu- tions and expect these to become self-execu- tive, which is a fallacy that will not work. THE GERMANS ON THE ai OF THE WATURALIZATION LAWS. Tho sub-commitees of conference of the German Republican Central and Democratic General com mit- tees of this city and county for the purpose of taking common measures in regard to the revision of the naturalization laws, as proposed m Congress, heid @ joint meeting at Mr, sehimenger’s Germania Hall, No. 186 Third avenue, on Monday last, the sub-committees were composed of the fol lowing ntiemen :—Democrats—Magnus Gross, Henry Schiel, Coroner, Dr. Willam Scuirmer, ler. man Schroeter, Join Tenry Seip, Adam Stock; re- Pig <o Dr, Hartwig Gercke, Dr, Herman Muir, ir. Marcus Otterburg, Arnold Reuson, General Francis Siegel, Andrew Willmann, It was resolved to appoint @ special committee, consisting of the following members of the two sub-committees:— Mr. Gross, Mr. Otterbarg, Dr. Schirmer and General Seigel, to draw @ memorial to Gongreas about the abbreviation of the naturalization term, the selec. Hon of the courts before which naturalization ought to take piace, and the avotding of the election frauda, as lar as oatoralization is concerned, and to submi the memorial to the sub-committees. Yesterday evening another joint meeting was had on the part of both sub-committees, in which a Memorial was spread before them and discussed at some length, The resolutions contained in the memorial will be laid before the German Republican Central Committee and the German Democratic General Committee for discussion and adoption. When the resolutions are somes by the latter committees It ts proposed to hold @ German masa meeting, in order to have the memorial signe = ar Ld y pig pod sone ae 60,000 Germans yy sense of the German of this country, wigan