The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1869, Page 6

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The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Heratp at the same price it is furnished in the city. THEE NEws. Europe. The cabie telegrams are dated February 14. ‘The Spanish Cortes organized yesterday by the election of Rivero as president. Many arrests of members of the Carhist party have been made. ’ Mexico, Telegraphic advices from the west coast of Mexico t highway robberies w merous. Gov- o ius brother, r poison, and a bitter quarre! bad en quence. A sect favorable to the ig the property of of the rich ar Was becoming popular in the district c acu nnd great trouble was apprehended from Fears were entertained among 2 commugtty that the government would be comp:lied to resort to forced loans, and of $3,000,000 iu specie just about to leave the country it waa believed that one-half of it was being exported to avoid tuat contingency. General Quiroga and other gencrais have pronounced in favor of Santa Anaa, ani at last accouats the wmovemeut was pro- gressing. Cuba. From sore of the cipher teiegram® y pass ing between Captain General Lersun nd Ceneral Mesa, commar at Puerto Principe, woich we publigh to-day wr ated, it wili eeu that the Captain Genera) was not onder much apprehensions from tie filibustering expeditions tn this city, as he was officially informed that the Unw government “wae all right with Spain.” South America, Our Buenos Ayres lettor ts dated December is, The forces of Lopez were reported to be In the nelguborhood of Luque. Angostura bad -nowgyet boon attacked by the allies, and it was believed that the Paraguayans would niake but litte resistance at that point. The capture of Vileta was hailed with great rejoicings by the[gpeopic, who believed the war to be over. Our Valparaiso, Chile, letter is dated January 10, Don Melchior Concha de Toro had veen appointed Mintater of Finance. The state of the pubiic troa- sury was very unsatisfactory. Operations against the Indians are still progressing. Our Cait, New Granada, letter ts dated January 15. Mr, Bader, the United States Vice Consul in that town, had been arrested for killing a muleteer, who had defranded him and with whom he atthe time had an altercation. The Circuit Judge tried Eder and dismissed the case, but he had been again arraigned for the same offence by another tribunal. After. wards some individnal broke the flagstaff at the ‘Vice Conau!'’s office, pulled down the American flag and dragged it in the streets. Miscellaneous, « Arrangements aro being made for the grandest and most imposing display at the inauguration that this coantry has ever witnessed. 1 States | of the I sie New United States from January, 1863, to January, 1869, ‘Was $238,500,00%, The taxes, commissions and pre- miums on the same amounted to $168,633,000. Speaker Roberta, of the Tennessee House of Rep- Tesentatives, has been acquitted of the charge of bribery in the ‘school fund matter by the vote of a large majority of that body. A collision occurred between 8 bark and schooner im Boston Bay yesterday by which two lives were lost. A well known lawyer of Phitadelphia, named James Doyle, was found mortally injured by wounds in the head yesterday morning, lying in the streets, He has since died, Slight shocks of earthquake were again felt in Cal- ifornia on Saturday. : All is reported quiet in Alaska. t Cattrell & Dickey, a firm in Cleveland, failed on Saturday to the amount of about $200,000, The par- es, it is said, have been arrested. A destructive fire occurred at Norwich, Conn., on Saturday night, invoiving a loss of $100,000, The City. The first Sunday in Lent was commemorated with appropriate services tn all the Oatholic and Episco- pal churches yesterday. At St. Patrick’s cathedral the customary forty hours’ devotion was inaugu- rated, and Rev. Dr. Anderson, in referring to the exercise, preached upon the greatness imparted to he Church by the Son of God, At Grace church iscopal) Rev. Henry C, Potter, the pastor, offici- ated. In churches of other denominations the usual exercises touk place. Dr. Chapin preached at his Fifth avenue Universalist church on the “Forgive- ness of Sins.” Rey. Day K. Lee preached at the Bleecker street Universalist church on the “Evils -of Intemperance.’’ While services were being held in the Jewish synagogue on Chrystie street yesterday, on the occasion ‘of consecrating one of tbe holy books of the law, two heavy stones were thrown in ata window, one of them striking a gentleman on the arm, and the other—quite @ heavy one—nar- Towly missing the head of a little girl tn the chancel. The important offices in this city to be filled by General Grant’s appointments are those of the Col- lector of the Port, Surveyor of the Port, United States District Attorney, Postmaster and Naval OMicer. ‘There are, of course, the usual number of applicants for each position. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge G. F. Comstock, of Syracuse; General J. R. Anderson, of Richmond, Va.; E. Creighton, of Ne- braska, and Paymaster J. F. Ferguson, of the United States Army, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Judge Ambler, of Galveston, Texas; Paymaster Girand, of the United States Navy; Captain H. P. Connor, of steamer Henry Phauncey; Colone! H. W. Friediey, of the United States Army, and A. A. Sar- gent, of California, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. W. H. Wilson, of Virginia; Gero Tuxbury and Joseph M. Hartt, of Boeton, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Commander McCann, of the United States Navy; Dr. Grosvenor, of Rhode Island, and Horace Fair banks, of Vermont, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Victor Buwakawsky, of Russia, and D. W. Davidson, of Liverpool, are at the Hoffman House. The Development of the Metropolis—The Demands of the Country, + — If any one will take the trouble to examine the geographical features of our Northeastern caused two separate developments of trade— one of these lying to the east the other to the west of the Hudson river, New York, although somewhat isolated, still belongs to the Eastern system, for the reason thatits connections with the East are more natural and complete, taking into consideration the cost and facilities of transportation, which, after all, are the great principles that affect the value of any locality with reference to the trade drainage ®f acountry. Northeast of our city’ lie six powerful States, more densely populated, more compact and financially powerful than any equal area—aside from this emporium, which is common property—in the United States. For these States we are the clearing house in their trade with the West and South. We have, however, never done our duty towards them; for we have failed to give them their goods at the lowest price possible, owing to our lack of proper communication with the western bank of the Hudson. The same rule applies to the great West, which has suffered in common with the East. » Thus the Eastern consumer of agricultural and mineral products has, with the Western producer, been paying an enormous amount of money annually on account of the imperfect means of crossing the Hudson, while the same rule has applied to Western consumers of Eastern manufactures. To develop New York properly we want more room. Wecannotdo agreat business if we are so jammed into the apex of a triangle as we are here by the freight which now crowds upon us from all directions, We must ship and tran- ship on the eastern and western sides of the island higher up, where nature has indicated that we may branch out indefinitely. Lack of foresight has already, in part, driven from us some of that great Westera trade which we might have centralized readily and commodi- ously here had-we made use of engineeriag science and properly connected ourselves with the Opposite to us, on the west bank son, are seen flourishing evidences flow in trade, owing to our failure ate itin the northern part of the we offered this a¢commodation, ng large cities absorbing trade te western shore, the business on the oppo would have been entirely ceatred on Manhat- tan island, and its entire area would have pre- sented one vast business locality, as is its southern extremity at present. The opposite shpres would then have been devoted to resi- dences, much like the oklyn of to-day. It is a question with those who look to the future of the country and the day when from five to ton millions of people shall. cluster aronnd this great natloagh clearing house if it is not better to commence at once the necessary engineering works to make our communications with East, West, North and South as complete as scienco and wealth willpermit. No narrow views with reference to our metropolitan development will answer, Great European cities bave been governed with reference to the demands of the whoie na- tion where they may be situated. The growth of New York, on the contrary, has been wild and untrained. Efforts should be made to make Manhattan island the commis- sion house of the United States and of the world. That it can bedone there is no doubt ; for everything poiats in this direction, The first groat move, however, is to make a more perfect communication with the West. In this view the project of a suspension bridge over the Hudson at Fort Washington comos into bold relief as a grand idea, It is soarcely possivle to compute the vast trade that must flow across this bridge into the northern part of Now York city. It will be the connection of the Kast with the West, and will break down ata blow that great barrier, the Hudson, which has hitherto so hampered our trade. [tis reliably computed that the greater The gold atid-silver colu soid on account of tue | part of the eeal consumod in New Engiand— States he will find that their peculiarities have ‘ } term. transit, from the fact that it can be fur- nished by this route far cheaper than By any other. It is by such connections as these that we shall keep pace with the demands made upon us by the’ commerce of the world. As it is our destiny to be the great banking and trade centre, we must not fail to have the most rapid, the surest and cheapest communi- cation with the West, Until we epan the Hud- son we are not so near the Pacific Ocean and China as we can be; and while there isa chance to cut off a single mile between us and any great commerce our business men will be narrow in their energies and efforta if they fail to make use of the engineering talent which atands ready to break down all barriers. Room ror Hopz.—There are at least ten thousand men who expect to be in Grant's Cabinet and must necessarily be disappointed. It will be bitter to them when they read the list and do not find their names there. They need not despair, however, for the first Cabi- net may fail, and then he will have a second, or even a third. Every one can build a hope on this, Did Grant build this as a golden bridge for his enemies, fearful to make the disappointed ten thousand too desperate ? Telegraph Cablés—The Policy of the Gove é ernment. There has been a great deal of lobbying and logrolling and speechmaking at Washington about the laying and landing of ocean tele- graph cables on our coast, and we have never seen before more narrow-minded, contracted ideas and twaddle exhibited. Really, our Congressmen seem to have no ideas of their own and to be the mere shuttlecocks and tools of monopolists and combinations of lobbymen. As to ‘this question of landing telegraph cables nothing can be more simple. Let ten, fifty or a hundred be landed if anybody or company wish to lay them, without hindrance or without regard to where the capital may come from. The more the better for the pub- lic; the more there are the more will tele- graphing be cheapened, business promoted and civilization advanced. The bills and mo- tions in Congress to impose restrictions or conditions, except such as to prevent combina- tions to crgate monopolies or exorbitant rates of charges, are unwise, illiberal, contrary to the spirit of the age and in favor of existing monopolies. The bill of Mr. Sumner and similar propositions requiring treaties with foreign Powers for reciprocal advantages are unnecessary, and can only serve the purpose of monopolists to defeat or delay projects for extending ocean telegraph enterprises. No foreign government would be so stupid or illib- eral as to refuse to an American company the same privileges extended to its own sub- jects by this country. There can be no ob- jection to such treaties being made, and the government can make them hereafter; but let this not delay or defeat any enter- prise ready to be carried out. Congress should make a declaration in broad and liberal terms, so far as its power over the matter of landing cables goes, in favor of all such enterprises. This need not prevent assistance that can fairly and legitimately be given by the gov- ernment to our own people or capitalists to uadertake any great work of this character where American interests are specially in- volved—such, for example, as the Pacific and Asiatic telegraph project, which would give us control of the vast trade of China and other countries of Asig, and would tend rapidly to make the United States the centre of com- merce and ideas for the whole world. Special legislation in such a case would be right; for the interests involved to our country and the future are beyond all calculation. Let every- thing with regard to ocean telegraphs, which are to unite nations and continents together and which are destined to make America the centre of communication for all the families of mankind, be done oa the broadest and most liberal scale. ACTING FROM THE Ngcessities OF THE Cass.—If the party papers had not made such a terrible row about the Cabinet they might have known its whole composition by this time; bat Grant, having seen, from the row they made in the absence of tu knowledge what arow would be made if they really knew something, holds his tongue for the sake of the peace of the country, Bortvia.—The slight outbreak in Bolivia of those who were opposed to the boundary treaty lately made with Brazil has been suc- cessfully quieted, and the strong government which for four years past bas been preparing the country for an era of prosperity appears firmly seated for the coming Presidential Our news from this country, which generally comes through Peruvian channels, is constantly tinged with the old feads which have long existed between Peru and Bolivia, and which are now taking a more marked form, owing to the fact that the day is ap- proaching when Brazil and Bolivia will both move in the same commercial direction, and Peru will no longer tax three-fourths of the inha»itants of the Amazon valley, which have been forced over the Andes to the Pacific coast to communicate with the world. Caninet MAktsG.—We publish to-day a political retrospect of considerable interest at this time, inasmuch as it seems to be a careful review of the modus operandi of Cabinet making since General Jackson's time, forty years ago. Itis a Yankee notion, emanating from the wooden nutmeg State, and is proba- bly the exposé of a modest gentleman general, who has filled the office of Governor of the State, declined a nomination for Congress, but probably would not long hesitate to accept a place in Grant's Cabinet if it were,offered him. The article shows the bent of the gentleman general's mind at this juncture, ADVANCE oF Civitization In PANAMA.— In view of the great importance of Panama to the world and its promising future, now that Caleb Cushing has obtained a ship canal grant, it is stated that the great majority of the inhabitants have left off their tropical habits, Is No Hurry.—Grant has heard a great deal of noise in his time, but he ts in no hurry to hear the how! the disappointed million will make over his choice of a Cabinet—afraid, perhaps, they might drive him from his good fesolutioas. The Appreaching struggic iu Eurepe. Europe is just now under conditions which have had no parallel since the time when the States system began to struggle into that pecu- liar kind of existence which, with certain mod- ifications, has lasted for some centuries. The first Napoleon disturbed it for a brief period. But the first Napoleon roge and fell, and Europe was not so different after his fall as Napoleon believed it would be. Time has rolled on, Europe has undergone changes. A new Na- poleon has appeared, with new thoughts, new plans, new purposes. The new Napoleon has been compelled to admit the existence of forces which are not in perfect harmony with his own. For the last twenty-five years the arma- ments of Europe have been growing. They have now reached a point which has no pa- rallel in the history of the past. Over five millions of men are now under arms on that. Continent. France, it is said, has an army of one million three hundred and fifty thousand. North and South Germany com- bined have an army of one million two hun- dred and thirty thousand. Austria has an army of one million and fifty-three thousand. Russia has an army of one million four hun- dred and sixty-seven thousand, Italy has an army of nearly five hundred thousand. We have not spoken of Spain or Portugal, or of Denmark, or of Sweden, or of Holland, or of Belgium, or of Greece, or of Turkey. But from what we have sald it will naturally enough be inferred that Europe has seldom in her whole history bristled with arms as she does now. What does it all mean? It can only mean that Europe is in no settled condition, and that an appeal to arms at no distant day is regarded as inevitable. The truth is Europe has come under entirely new conditions. The railroad and the telegraph have made the people impatient of the old- fashioned boundary lines. Why should the nationalities remain what they are? Why shonld the great future be stayed simply in the interests of nationalities? No one can answer these questions in favor of the present order of things, The peoples are gradually emancipating themselves. They are no longer entirely at the mercy of the dynasties. The press generally, but particularly the newspaper, has given a voice and an energy to public opinion which public opinion never had before. This growth of a common senti- ment, limited not by nationality, by language or by religion, but world wide in its range, is one of the most prominent and also one of the most hopeful characteristics of the age. But the power is yet in the hands of the dy- nasties. These immense standing armies are unmistakable proof of this. The thrones are propped by bayonets, and the prestige of an- cient and parvenu houses alike can only be maintained by the pomp and circumstance of war. The European nations are already at war with each other; for this armed peace, although it may breed fewer bitter enmi- ties, is scarcely less grindingly oppressive and even destructive than actual war. * This state of things, however, cannot last. Achange is necessary and imminent. Europe is on thé eve of a great struggle. The stryg- gle will be for the mastery of the Continent. Not immediately, but at an early day, Europe will be arranged in two hostile divisions. It will be the Latin races against the German races. Which will win cannot for a moment be‘ doubted. The Latins have had their triumph once. I[t was a great and noble triumph. But there can be no second Roman empire. The empire of Charlemagne, great as in some senses it was, has not been called a success by history. Held together by one strong will, it perished when that cohesive force ceased to exist. Napoleon the First tried to build up the old edifice, but it would not do. In spite of all his skill the attempt proved an egregious failure. The new empire perisyed and its architect perished with,it, The empire which shall grow out of the approaching struggle shall find its headquarters in the North, and shall be controlled by forces born in a northern cline. The great German race is to rule Europe, and through Europe the Old World, just as the Anglo-Saxon race, an offshoot of the same great stock, is to rule the New. We shall have in Europe terrific conflicts, Nation will war against nation; race will war against race. But nations will become less numerousand races will amalgamate. Europe is doomed to become a great federal associa- tion; but the centre of the new association will be found in the North, and the controlling power will be in the hands of the Germans. We have nothing to do with fate. We.speak only of force, and the history of the ages and the aspect of the times justify our judgment. Exp or THE Sports Ptan.—Our ancestors of not the most honorable memory held that “to the victor belongs the spoil.” This wasa figure drawn {from the experiences of war, but of war in an age that did not understand the true spirit that gives power to armies. Grant belongs to an age that knows something better, and he of all men is well aware that nothing is so powerful in the ruin of an army as spoil. The army that plunders can- not be kept together. Grant, therefore, will not demoralize hia party by any scramble for fat places. He will not remove those who op- posed him or appoint those who favored him. He will act from no party reason, but from “the necessities of the service.” Tue Aim Ling Raimroav.—The House of Representatives has done well in passing the bill to authorize the building of a military and postal railroad from Washington to New York. The majority in favor of it was nearly two to one—the vote being yeas ninety-nine, nays fifty-four. Itisto be hoped the Senate will act promptly and as favorably in this measure, But ft would be better still were an amend- ment made to establish a government postal telegraph along the line of the railroad. This will have to be done some time, and no better opportunity could bo afforded. In fact, the whole telegraph system of the country must fall under government control, It ought to be there, for it is becoming more important to the public in general than the Post Office service. ! To aatisfy us of the necessity of a government telegraph system and of the vast beneficial results to flow from it to business, to the press and to the people at large no experiment is required; but, to satisfy the doubters, let us bave the experiment tried along thé air line tailroad between the capital and the metropo- YORE HRRALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEED. lis of the country, An amendment should be made to the Air Line Railroad bill for this pur- pose and the bill put through before the ses- sion closes. ‘The United States and Hybrid Annexation. A few weeks since a number of zealous patriots in and out of Congress discovered & nice job in St. Domingo wild fands, mining grants, Samané bay speculations and @ trifle of a few millions in a public debt worth one or two cents on the dollar, and straightway a protectorate echeme was rushed into Congress in the hope that the American eagle would spread its wings and carry it into a state of hopeful existence. To the infinite disgust of the jobbers the House could not see it in that light, and the protec- torate scheme failed almost as suddenly as it was born. The failure was ascribed to the want of skilful management on the part of the nurses, and so the bantling was dressed up in @ new suit to try again if Congress would not adoptit. A Haytien red bandanas kerchief was wound round its crispy locks, a Cuba ‘liberty cap was placed upon its head, a bogus. Mexican rattle was put in its little fist, and it was then wrapped. in the striped mantle of American progress and presented gingerly to the conscript fathers in the shape of a joint resolution that anybody who wanted to come into the Union had only to knock at the door, and it should be opened unto him. But the trick did not succeed. The con- script fathers were in no mood to adopt new bantlings, particularly of the hybrid breed. They had recently been trying to bring in a large black family as members of the body politic, to which the Northern mind exhi¥ited unmistakable signs of reluctance. The big dose of Southern niggers was yet to be swallowed in the shape ‘of a consti- tutional amendment, and it was thought best to see how that would affect the public stomach, if it could be digested before proceeding to other measures of hybridation. So the joint resolution was laid under the table to await the effect of our own colored experiment and to see if the body politic could assimilate the large influx of black blood. This is at it should be. We have no time now, with so large a debt to provide for and an immense mass of corruption to purge from the government, to foster petty jobs in hybrid annexation schemes for -the benefit of a few sharp speculators. St. Domingo, Hayti, Cuba, Mexico and Central America are all going through a natural process of ripening and rot- ting, and in due time will come legitimately within the pale of our control. The blood- thirsty blacks who have converted Hayti into a second Daliomey ; the sparse, mixed popula- tion that exists in the Dominican republic and claim the right to sell the malarious and unin- habitable shores of Saman4, and all the other mixed and mutinous agglomerations south of us dignified with the name of nationalities, are eating out rapidly the remnants of the old Latin civilization in their midst and pre- paring the way for the new era of steam and electricity in the lands they now convert into deserts. The only point worthy the present attention of the government is Panama and the Isthmus of Darien, where our rapidly increasing commerce demands immediate and, permanent safety. If we can save Cuba from the fate of St. Domingo, Hayti and Mexico it should be done; but the country at large is in no mood now for further hybrid annexation. Grant's Casinet—Is to be composed of “men who will carry out the principles the country desires to have succeed.” Itis “‘the country,” mind you, and not this or that party, and lest there should be any doubt on this ‘point Grant specifies the principles so thet we may emphatically know that they are not party, but national requirements. They are “economy, retrenchment, faithful collection of the revenue and payment of the public debt.” Grant belongs to the party that has these things at heart, and this is neither the republican party nor the democratic party. The Churches Yesterday. The reports in our columns this morning of the doings of the churches yesterday are on a scale of magnitude which is without parallel in the history of journalism, The echoes of sacred song seem to hauat us this morning as the eye wanders from colamn to column and the preacher's living voice seems to resound afresh from the page. In_ spite of the unde- niable wickedaess whichQexists in the coun- try, the attention which f paid to the duties of religion by o large majority of our people shows that thero is a vast amount of vital god- liness in the midst of us; that the righteous, as a class, are not extinct, and that on their account we may reasonably hope, as a people, for a little longer lease of life. If the churches and their teachers will only do well we mean to give them, from time to time, in the spirit of true catholicity, honest and impartial en- couragement. It will not be our blame if their lights remain hid under a bushel. Grant's Opinion or THE Panty Prrss,— “After observation and reflection I have come to the conclusion that there is not a man in the country whom I could invite to my Cabl- net who would not, immediately after ‘the an- nouncement, be the object of all kinds of ad- verse criticisms, in the hope to prevent his selection and confirmation.” These are the words of the President elect, which indicate that there is no man in the country—not one— whose name wowd be treated with decent respect by the whole mass of his own party when placed before the country as @ inember of the Cabinet. The Bondholders’ Bui. Mr. Morton, the Senator from Indiana, in discussing Mr. Sherman's bill in relation to the public debt and currency, said the committee seemed to have been at a loss for an appro- priate title for the bill, and that he thonght they might have better called it a bill to im- prove the valuo of the bonds of the country. Mr. Morton hit the nail fairly on the head that tim’; for the principal object, if not the only one, of the Sherman bill is to raise the value of United States bonds and to increase the pro- perty of the bondholders. Indeed, to have named it right, it should have been called the bondholders’ bill, From the extraordinary efforts made by the financial quacks in Con- gross to benefit the bondholders it might be supposed by the ignorant that these bond- holdera are « auffering and an oppressed class of people—that they have been and are treated very badly by the government.’ These poor, hard pressed people gave three or four years ago from sixty to ninety dollars for bonds worth now a hundred and ten, are exempt from taxation and draw regularly six per cent interest in gold, or more than eight per cent in currency, The greater part of the bonds have nearly doubled in value over the price paid for them originally, The interest on the capi- tal actually invested at first amounts to some- thing like fifteen or sixteen per cent, to say nothing of the exemption from taxation, which is two or three per cent more. Yet this is the only class of the community in whom many of our leading Congressmen appear to be in- terested or for whom they care to legislate, They all begin at the wrong end, and are be- fogged by the old bullionist theories of cur- rency and finance. The first thing should be to reduce the interest on the debt and to buy up and cancel as many of the bonds as possi- ble while the currency is ample and the revenue large. In all other respects or for any other purpose the currenoy and bonds should be let alone. The bondholders are well taken care of and not likely tosuffer. It is the overtaxed people that Congress should relieve by suitable legislation instead of tinker- ing with the finances for the benefit of bond- holders, a few capitalists and stockjobbers. The Potition of the Ladies of Spain—A Sad Story. It is a sad story of revolution that, pre- sented in the petition of fifteen thousand ladies of Spain praying General Serrano, head of the provisional government, to protect the Catholic religion and its institutions. The petitioners say:—‘‘We see the ministers of our holy re- ligion going out of Spain persecuted as crimi- nals, We hear the sad voices of the virgins of God thrust out of their holy aisles of piety and purity. Fallen with outcry and noise are the temples of Jesus Christ;” and ‘the enemies of the faith offend our ears by crying that with the stones of their ruins they will build altars to false gods. The streets and squares over- flow with impiety, blasphemy and doubt, and in papers and pamphlets,” say these distressed petitioners, ‘‘our most holy religion is in- sulted.” This isa gloomy picture. The philosopher and the historian may say that these things are the inevitable consequences of the natural reaction against the Inquisition and the long and intolerable despotism of the now suffering Church in Spain; that we have here only another chapter of those terrible popular re- tributions against an oppressive Church of which human history is so full. But still, throwing all religion out of the question, the common instincts of justice and humanity ought to prevail with the Spanish Cortes, especially in behalf of the hundreds and thou- sands of helpless women driven into convents, to a very great extent, by “‘the storms of State” which, during the present century, have given to the people of Spain anything but a feeling of security for twelve months to come, Those poor women of the convents ought not to be turned remorselessly ott upon the world to perish. The lady petitioners in behalf of these religious institutions do not ask for grace or clemency. They demand justice; that they shall not, for their religion, be treated as out- laws ; that their rights to protection shall be respected ; and we would admonish the con- stituent Cortes at Madrid to beware of all things in the matter of religious liberty of the Jacobin persecutions of the first French revolu- tion. Let us not in Spain at this advanced age of enlightment have anything of Jacobin liberty, equality or fraternity. No Jacobinism. Anything but that. A Warsrxa ix Trwz.—Let no man ap- pointed by Grant feel, when, once he ‘is in office, that he is safe for four years, be he as corrupt as he may. Grant assures us that office will be a slippery place, and that he will remove one of his own men caught in delin- quency as remorselessly as if this man were only one of Andy Johnson's fellows. A NIGHT HORROR IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM, Shocking Murder on Blackwell's Islands The “Lodge’’—by which appellation the sinall three story building set apart for the worst or amost rabid of the lunatics, on the west end of this island, ts knowno—was the scene of a most shocking afatr some time during Friday night last, by which the life of a poor demented creature was taken by an- other ina moment of frenzy, and the deed was main- ly owing to the apparent mismanagement of the au- thorities in not properly ype a the danger to which the inmates of the institution are at present 80 much exposed. The facts in the case are as follows:—There are about 1,800 inmates in the four structures set apart for lunatics on the fsland in tion, all of which are cupted, the “Lod: accommodations here be pon necessary Jor several months past, in order. to meet the demands of the increase tn the number of unfortunates, to cause their sleeping two tn a cel, instead of one, as heretofore, when the patients are dangerous and itable to do bodily harm to one her. Each of these apartments is farnished with an iron bedstead and a wooden tub, or “‘k'd," of heavy oak, such utensils beiug essential, The pa- tients are locked up in thelr rooms at ¢ix o'clock each evening and are not released again until five o'clock the next morning. On Friday night one of the female lunatics contined in tits department arose from her couch and in a paroxysm of mad- ness seized the heavy tub at the side of the cot and raising it above her head brought it dowa with terrrifle force upon the skull of her sleeping com- rade, crushing ttin and Killing her Instantly. The shrieks aud howhngs in the lunatic asylum are so familiar to the ears of thelr keepers ag to attract little or no atcention at any time during the night; hence if any noive Was made by the victim in her sirag@leyiywas not noticed. At five o'clock, when the female keeper of the ward In which the horrivle affair transpired threw open the door of the cell, great was her horror in beholding the maniac mur- deress and her murdered Sm mapa lying nase, ly . hich side in ther ford, cot, a ghastly spectacie ind ‘The bed clothing Was saturated With blood, w dripped slowly from the pendant covering and streamed over the floorof the room, while the brains of the dead woman, which had been literally scooped out with the Angers of the murderess, lay seatiered about and bespatiered the walis. The de- mented woman was removed immediately from the cell, and the circumstances attending the agar were kept so strictly private aa to allude the obser- vation eveu of nearly every one about the place. ‘The remains of the whove name has aot transpired, were coffined quietly and expeditiousty, and were interred without delay. She was about twenty-six years of age and had nelther friend nor relative living in this vicinity. The murderess is of course irresponsible for the act. The narrated above have been obtained from anemployé of the asylum, but the names of the area enneraen im the tragedy were not dis- THE ARION CARNIVALS. ‘The third ond last of the carnivals of the Arion season was held last night at the Gerinania Assembly Rooms, and with the fact that it was very largely attended was remarked as being the most animated ‘and brilitant of the trio of carnival trysta. The mot- ley assemblage, arrayed in their carnival caps and aa decorations, made the scene exceedingly attractive and interesting, while the “Nuséknaker'? and tho orator’s stand were esp objects of re- mark and notice. A number of highly amusing, witty and burlesque valentines were received and & variety of songs were (a by the members. The culminating part of the les Waa the repitition of the burlesque on opera boufe. The chi comprising all of Offenvach's creations, were well represented. After the parfermance had been dis- ed of the tak he jonrned to enpper and then ® dance, whi Tastod uot ao hour this