The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD sAMES GORDON “BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Allbusiness or news letter ee telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yor« Heal. Volune RESE NTS THIS EVENING. GARDEN, Broadwi A oF Tus Forty .—Tue Burcesque Ex- TMLEVES. NIBLO" TRAVAGA BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rag WoMAN AND HEB Doa—FivinG DUTOAMAN, GRAND O° SRA HOUSE, ae ot Eighth avenue and Sd street, —ORPARE AUX FRENCH THEATRE. nue.—GENEVIEVE DE BR urteenth street and Sixth ave. NT. ¢ WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and 1th street.— MUO ADO ALooT NoTH BROUGH. THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—AN IR1sH STEw—Dea 1563. rig REVIRW FOR OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homery DoMprr, with NEW Fratunes. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—NivTa; MAN'S CUNBTAN BOOTH'S THEATRE, Terenty-third at, ‘Th avs.—Rouro axp Jou NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—LoNpoN As- BURANCE. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and eveuiag Performance. on, Wo- between 6th and THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street,—Cousin SOHNEI- DER—KIM-KA, £0. MRS. F. B. 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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 HEratp 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 Hzrazp. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Daizy Hsraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month, 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. THE NEWS. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated February 17. ‘The address in reply to the Queen’s speech was unanimously agreed to in both Houses of the Eng- lish Parliament. Mr. Disracli expressed his regret that the ratification of the convention in reference to the Alabama treaty was not announced. The ist of March Is the period set down for the opening of the battle for the. disestablishment of the Irish Churen. An attempt was made yesterday in Madrid, Spain, to assassinate General Prim. A number of arrests of suspected persons have been made. The apnounce- ments previously made that Ferdinand, ex-King of Portugal, had consented to become a candidate ff the Spanish ghrone are premature. Montpensiet chances for The position are said to be growing smaller by degrees, Still another expedition for the ever fatthful isie is fitting out. Cuba. Captain General Dulce has forbidden the carrying of arms by private persons, and all such arms are to be deltvered up to the authorities within four days. The merican Consul had telegraphed to Washington to wend him ald or accept his resignation. The Captain General told bim that he did not recognize his nght to ask passports for Americans or any one éise. Cu- ‘bans were taking refuge on the United States steam- The American residents at Cien- fuegos have appited for @ man-of-war. The insur- rection has become general in the vicinity of Trinl- dad, and Havana itself is virtually in a state of siege. Dulce will propably declare it so after the er Contoocook. term of amnesty expires. Paraguay. By the Atlantic cabie we learn that Minister Mo- Mahon had accompamed Lopez im hia fight from Vulleta. Bliss and Masterman are at Rio Janeiro, on their way home to be tried, Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated January 8, and gives an account of the assault and defence of An- gostura. Lopez had been formally called upon to lay down his arms, but he indignantly refused. Minister McMahon, it is said, advines Lopeg to con- tinue the fight Congres. In the Senate the Judiciary Committee reported that tue President’s recent Amnesty proclamation was unauthorized by law. The constitational amend- ment was again taken upand generally debated, no final action being taken, however. In the House Mr. Hubbara’s bili supplementary to the National Banking act came up, the previous question having been seconded yesterday. Numerous amendments were acted upon, and an amendment offered by Mr. Coburn as a substitute for the fourth section, relative to the issue of circulation notes to banking associations was agreed to, The bill was finally laid on the tabie by a vote of 92 to 98, but a motion to reconsider was made, and it will come up to-day. In the evening the Army Appropriation bill was discussed, The Legislature. Tn the Senate yesterday bills were introduced re- Jating to coMecting ‘aassesstnents In New York city; in reference to the carrying of leiters and merchandise by pnetmatic tabes; for the protection of ice com- panies, and for the construction of railways on ‘Twenty-third abd other streets. Bills were passed to amend the laws relative to wrecks and also to in- herttance. A resolution was adopted calling on all the steam railroad companies in the State to report the tariff charged last year for the transportation of paesengors and frieght, Mr, Creamer offered @ re- solution, which went over ander the rule, directing great masses of civilization. in their products and their noedé, they will give rise toa commerce vaster than ever en- tered the wildest dreams of man. former ages poured wealth into the laps of Palmyra, Alexandria and Ven their merchants in purple. expect, then, from the moeting of tho two Pil ' £ VoLAt tes our Senators in Congress to oppose the ratification streams in their completeness? The one brings of the Alabama claims treaty, In the Assembly bills were reported exempting ex- Soldiers and sailors from the military tax, to prevent the payment of passage money to railway con- ductors, to authorize the establishment of an indus- trial school on Hart’s Islan and for the erection of a soldiers and sailors’ monument in New York. The Committee on Federal Relations made a report re- commending that the general government take the control of naturalization into its own hands and that all naturalization papers granted within the last ive years be surrendered and new ones made out. A veto message from Governor Hoffman rela- tive to the bridge at Fort Comigton was received and laid on the tabie, Miscellaneous. The trial of Collector Thorne and his sureties at Trenton, N. J., for alleged trauds on the revenue was concluded yesterday. A vi for $100,000 was rendered for the government ‘The upper house of the Kansas Legislature has re- Jected a proposttion to strike the word “white” from the constitation. , Reports from the Indfan country state that the Kiowa Indians had all come im and settled upon their reservation, and tne advance of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes was arriving. ‘The Common Council of Paterson, N, J., in view of the terrible death by hydrophobia recently of Timothy McCarthy in that city, have directed the Mayor to authorize the slaugiter of all dogs found on the streets, A severe shock of an earthquake occurred at Phil- lipsburg, St. Martin’s, about noon on the 28th ult., which caused the suspension of business during the entire afternoon. Armed parties of desperadoes are committing dep- redations in Harlan county, Ky. A bill has passed the lower house of the West Vir- gina Legislature to remove the capital from Wheel- ing to Parkersburg. The Hudson river is now open as far north as New Hamburg, eight miles of ice in that vicinity having broken up yesterday, The City. In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday Judge Barnard directed taat James Logan No. 1 be discharged from custody on giving his own recog- nizance in $1,000. This James Logan is the one who surrendered himself on seeing the advertisement of- fering a reward of $2,500 for his arrest. In the inquest on the alleged malpractice case in South William street yesterday the jury found a ver- dict implicating and censuring Dr. Walker, who was held to bail in the sum of $2,500. The North German Lioyd’s steamship America, Captain Hargesheimer, will Jeave Hoboken at two o’clock this afternoon for Southampton and Bremen. The mails will close at the Post Oftice at twelve o'clock noon. The steamship Eagle, Captain M. R. Greene, will leave pier No. 4 North river at three o’clock this afternoon for Havana. The sidewheel steamship Magnolia, Captain Crow- ell, of Leary’s line, will sail at three o'clock this afternoon from pier No. 8 North river for Charles- ton, 8. C. The si @ furchy at 154%. market was depressed in sympathy with lecline in Pacific Mail. Gold closed finally The Meeting of Western and Oriental Civilization—The Worid’s March Com. pleted. The activity exhibited by the promoters of the various schemes to facilitate transit across the North American Continent from Canada to the Isthmus of Darien is a remarkable indica- tion of the temper of the times. It isa pre- monition of the advent of an age of develop- ment far beyond anything the world has hitherto witnessed. A similar activity of en- terprise marked the period which followed the discovery of America by Columbus, and both are events in the march of the human race from its cradle onthe high plateau of Asia round the world. But the later is much greater than the former event. It is the cul- mination of the march of the human race—the meeting of Western and Oriental civilization. Dating back to an era beyond the reach of history, Western civilization has marked its’ westward journey with the rise and fall of empires along the shores of the Mediterranean and the Baltic seas until its gather- ing force on the shores of Europe sped Columbus and his followers @ross the Atlantic. Since that period it has ac- cumulated wonderful power and activity in the development of the printing press, steam, and electricity, and is now about to burst upon the populous East. The Oriental civilization, with a shorter march, has congregated im- mense numbers of the race on the shores of China, among which the great instruments of Western civilization have but recently become known. These new powers have enabled it to send out the forerunners of its new eastward march in the Burlfngame mission, and the whole civilized world feels the premonition of the coming blending of the two civilizations and the development of a far grander and a wider field of enterprise than has ever been known to man. It is the marriage of threé hundred millions from the West with four bun- dred millions from the East in one common scheme of buman development. Without any logical data which shall war- rant the undertaking of so many and great en- terprises as are now ploughing their way across the American Continent, the instinctive power of the age hastens to its labors. The Pacific Railroad only approaches comple- tion and already two or three other enterprises of the same character are received with favor and encouragement. Mr. Cushing returns from Bogota with the ink hardly dry upon the’ treaty for the construction of the Darien canal, and by the same mail we learn that Louis Napeleon has also negotiated for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Nicaragua. Coincident with these strides come the grants of the Mexican Congress for the opening of the Guaymas and Tehuantepec railroads, the intelligence of renewed activity on the part of the British holders of the Honduras route, and a new scheme for the construction of an interoceanic railway through the territory of Costa Rica. This coincidence of separate and distinct enterprises is one of the most remarka- ble signs of the times; and we may mention another fact in the same connection which shows that the spirit they indicate is not ex- clusive with the civilization of the West. When Mr. Burlingame was here we are in- formed that he stated incidentally, in connec- tion with the subject of the Darien canal, that the Emperor of China would take stock in the enterprise to the extent of eighty millions of dollars and contract to supply all the labor needed for the work. This single incident, rightfully viewed, will enable us to take the measure of the results which must flow from the meeting of the two Widely differing Its fills in aod clothed What may we not to the teeming shores and isles of the Pacific '@ multitudinous and wonderfully cheap labor, and the other crowns it with the vast power of the steam engine and the electric telegraph. America revolutionized the food, clothing and hygiene of man with its gifts of sugar, tobacco and cotton. When the science of the West shall come into intimate contact with the know- ledge of the East the field of commerce will experience a vast increase, and a wonderful development will follow throughout all its chagnels, which, borne on the wings of the printing press, steam and electricity, will re- quire but a short period of time to make itself felt in every centre of population. The Queen's Speech—England and the United States. Queen Victoria in her speech to Parliament expresses the hope that the negotiations with the United States will place on a firm and durable basis the friendship which should ever exist between England and America. These are friendly and gracious words, and, though prepared for her, probably, by her Cabinet, they are no doubt the sincere expression of her Majesty's fee! for personally she has always been kindly disposed towards this country, and even in the darkest jour of our late civil war. But the Queen is not the gov- ernment of England, though nominally at the head of it, and the settlement of difficulties rests with the Ministry. Atthe same time these hopeful words are telegraphed from Lon- don we have news from Washington indicating that the negotiations or treaty for the settle- ment of the Alabama claims, to which her Majesty refers, will be rejected by the Senate. In another place in this morning’s HERALD we publish the official correspondence which has taken place between the two govern- ments on the subjects under dispute—cor- respondence which is characteristically voluminous, but which speaks for itself. There is no doubt that the treaty is unsatisfac- tory to the American people as not covering all the ground of our claims in the matter and as being so complicated in operation as to lead to prolonged disputations and un- certain results, The Senate probably takes the same view and will act in accordance with the sentiment of the country. The people of the United States wish to see established, as well as. Queen Victoria, a firm and durable basis of friendship between the two countries ; but that is not likely to be obtained by the Johnson-Clarendon treaty. The only policy for England to pursue with regard to the United States, in order to cement and perpetuate close friendship between the two countries, is to abandon its jealousy and narrow views of us and to frankly recognize our destiny on this Continent and in the affairs of the world. Nothing has irritated the peo- ple of the United States or kept up bad feel- ing so much as the jealousy of England and her efforts to check our progress and power. This has been a great folly and has proved ul- terly futile. It has been the mistake of nearly all her public men and successive administra- tions, Yet England has more to gain by the growth of the United States in population, wealth dnd territorial expansion than by all her colonies or other movements of the age. The more we grow the greater will be her trade with us. And what is her trade even now with other countries compared with that she has with this country? Her policy, then, should be to rejoice in our progress and to re- move every possible cause of disagreement now or hereafter. She should help to make us what we are destined to be, a Continental Power, by giving up her possessions in North America and by favoring the an- nexation of territory which in our hands would be made to blossom as the rose and add immensely both to the productions of the world and to the trade of Great Britain. If her statesmen are capable of grasping the future and can divest themselves of the old British jealousy and narrow-minded rivalry they cannot do better than to settle the Ala- bama claims and all other difficulties, as well as to lay the foundation of lasting friendship hereafter by a comprehensive treaty em- bracing the cession of their North American possessions, They must come to us in time, and for the interests of both countries as well as of the colonies no better time or opportunity will arrive than the present. Let us have a final aud complete settlement on this liberal and comprehensive basis. A Paltry Panishment tor a Helnous Offence. The Cincinnati steamboat inspectors have, after a lengthy and laborious examination, just come to the conclusion that the collision on the Ohio between the steamers America and United States, by which a hundred or so passengers lost their lives, was owing to the negligence or incompetency of the pilot of each boat, and the licenses of both are accord- ingly revoked. This is the extent of the pun- ishment meted out to these culprits. If either of them had murdered a solitary man or woman he might have expiated his crime upon the gallows; but when he sends victims to heaven by the five score he is punished by simply relieving him of a license to commit further homicides of the same kind on the me waters. Leniency on the part of steam- boat inspectors in regard to the offences of owners and officers of steam vesselsy when by some gross negligence human life is sacrificed, has become almost as patent as the escape of murderers, burglars and other villains from the hands of justice. It is time more efficiency was exhibited in this branch of the public servica, and if the laws of Congress on the subject mean anything at all their provisions should be rigidly enforced. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF . GENERAL Prim.—A cable despatch which we publish this morning informs us that an attempt bas been made to assassinate General Prim, Under what circumstances the attempt was made we are not informed. Three persons have been arrested. We do not feel disposed to make too much of this affair, Considering the crisis through which Spain has been passing the wonder is that there has been so little of this kind of thing. That party feeling runs very high was proved by the brutal murder of the Governor of Burgos. The revolution, however, has been comparatively bloodless, and it is quite possible that this attempt on the life of Prim may havo beoa the work of some fanatic, and not the result of any organ- ized conspiracy. FA CTONTY Ty TTA THE f Hydrophobia. Within a few days past there have been two deaths from hydrophobia (it is said) in the im- mediate neighborhood of this city, and as there are dogs in half the houses here and cats in the other half—two or three hundred thousand, perhaps, of the animals that may communicate this disease—its occurrence naturally awakens more or less uneasiness in many families. This uneasiness is the more notable and natural wherever there is a parent or a child that has been bitten, or even where there is only* a beloved pet poodle whose owner may be suddenly compelled to regard him as a darling but little less terrible in char- acter than a cobra di capello, As is usual, this particular uneasiness is much the worse for the absolute ignorance of the public on the subject, and for fact that while the people have no knowledge they have and tenaciously hold some mischievous old scraps of prejudice and theory admirably calculated to stimulate the imagination and feed fear. Since our only purpose is to instruct and benefit the public we will be excused for ex- amining and discuasing without restraint the case of Mr. Ludlam. This gentleman died last Monday in Brooklyn, and the physicians, we suppose, have certified that the cause of death was hydrophobia. Four weeks before death the gentleman was bitten by his own dog, while whipping it. No one believed that the dog was mad—neither the man’s family nor the man himself, The dog had given no indi- cations of disease before the occurrence, and gave none afterward; but he was killed, ap- parently in obedience to the popular dictum on this point, which holds that the bite of a dog may prove fatal ifthe dog should live to become mad even after the bite is given. The wound healed readily, acting not at all as a poisoned wound does. In rather less than a month the man _ became ill, Medical advice was obtained, but we are not informed of the physician’s diag- nosis save negatively on one point. We are informed, however, as to the man’s judgment on his own case. He was sure he had hydro- phobia. He seems to have told the doctor 80; for the doctor ‘‘could see no indications of that terrible disease.” At this time we hear of one vague symptom ; nervousness.” On the next day the doctor had come into his patient’s intellectual atmos- phere, and saw the disease as he did. In the closing scene we see the man violently con- vulsed, “but all the time well aware of the cause of his agonies,” and, what is very char- acteristic, warning people not to come near lest he should bite them, and having the cus- tomary horror of fluids, He made ‘‘desperate efforts to master his involuntary repugnance”’ to fluids, and in virtue of these efforts swal- lowed his broth. Now, this is a very instructive case for the public to observe; for this man did not die from the malady that is charged with his death. It is o great many years since Chomel taught that radies canina was accused of more than it is responsible for, and, in hisclas- sifidation of four forms of hydrophobia, pointed out that in one—“‘rabiform hydrophobia”— the essential fact is that some other disease, fever, or spinal inflammation, coincides with the idea in the man’s mind that he has in his system the poison of rabies, As to the opinion of the Brooklyn doctors that the saliva from an angered dog is as poisonous as that from a rabid one, it is to be said that the dog is then avery dangerous animal, for we suppose he seldom bites save when he ia ‘“‘angered.” On that theory there are many men now alive in this city who ought to be dead; for the bite of a rabid dog is inevitably fatal unless the wound is very vigorously treated at the time it is received. From the bites of angered dogs recovery is common, and through long lives men experience no bad results from the injury. In France the average of deaths from the bites of rabid animals is one hundred and sixty-two per annum, and they have ac- ' cordingly given the subject much thought in that country. .They have inquired very closely also into this question of the bites of angered dogs, and they are satisfied that the deaths traced to such source are in fact due to the false or rabiform hydrophobia, in which the hydrophobia is mainly in the viciim’s imagina- tion. First, we believe that in Mr. Ludlam’s case the disease came too soon to be a real case of rabies; otherwise we must suppose that the -poison from this merely provoked dog was more virulent than is, as a rule, that from dogs confessedly rabid. This cannot be credited. in the greatest number of cases the constitu- tional effect appears in ftom thiriy to ninety days, but this is because the greatest number bitten are children, Eleven cases in a group | of two handed and twenty-four occurred in from six to twelve months. The younger the person the shorter. is the period required for the poison to act upon the system, this differ- eace being due probably to the difference in resistance from greater or lesser vital power. ‘The poison might have shown its effect any- where withia a year ina full grown man, but not within a month. In the hydrophobia of delusion the symptoms come in the order in whioh they stand in the popular faith ; in true rabies they come ‘in quite another order, and bave quite a different prominence respectively. It is strikingly thus with the horror of liquids that has supplied the name of the disease. There is no better preserved delusion than this favorite piece of popular ignorance in regard to madness and water, held from time immemorial, both with regard to men and dogs. People assume that if a dog will not take water he is mad; as long as he will take water he certainly has not that dis- ease. Blaine, in the many hundreds of cases of madness that he saw in dogs, declares that he never saw this repugnance to water in a single case, and Youatt only saw it once or twice, Mad wolves in their ‘“‘marcl”—~often observed in France—never stop at the rivers, but swim straight across the widest they may come to. In men having hydrophobia there is quite as little repugnance to water, but 9 thing happens that the physicians should interpret correctly. The irritability of the nervous centres is auch that the slightest touch can excite spasmodic ‘contraction of the muscles, more especially of the muscles that are efficient in the act of awal- lowing. When, thereforo, the man attempts to take water the contact of the water with the pharyngeal muscles provokes a spasmodic con- traction of these muscles that absolutely closos | the throat, Thin excessive contraction of these there was “‘extreme’ AHOY Win NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET.. namics aan, taeclan’ shopholion) anki dite Progress of the Revoluthon in Cuba—How to | tortures the victim. Suffering from excessive thirst the man tries to take water again and again, but he finds always that the effort gives | rise to the same agonizing want of air, and thus he comes to dash away from him the proffered refreshment. But he comes to this refusal by his experiences only and not through. any mysterious horror peculiar to the disease. Mr. Ludlam could swallow, only the fluid (and this not a glittering glass of water) was repugnant to him. Had the spasms from which this man seems to have suffered been due to hydrophobia they would have been in- his throat also. He emphatically could not have swallowed his broth, and; therefore, could not have ‘thanked God it was down.” All through the history we, see the idea of rabies working on this man’s mind. He was alarmed when he killed his dog that he knew was not mad; alarmed still more when, in his state of ‘‘extreme nervousness,” he called on his doctor to kuow if this could be ‘‘that terri- ble disease,” and in this intellectual ferment real disease began. Even to the last the same fact appears. He ‘‘knew the cause of his suf- ferings” with his mind all the time on hydro- phobia, and he warned people of the danger of approaching him lest he should bite them. He had this idea from popular knowledge too, In the rare instance in which men in hydrophobia feel the impulse or make the effort to bite, it is universally when they are delirious—it is an act of delirium strictly. Here the intellect was clear. The man is dead; but whatever the real cause of his death may have been, it was not rabies canina, ‘The President Elect and His Cabinet. We have had the satisfaction of seeiag some four or five thousand men occupy Cabinet posi- tions under General Grant. Their term of office is, however, very short, and no sooner are they named than off go their heads to give place to some other unfortunate. Despite the Tenure of Office bill they disappear. It makes but little difference who may fill the minor Cabinet positions, We know that their occu- pants will fill them well, or, as General Grant tells us, they will give way to the men who can. The office which will require the great- est amount of talent and the finest practical brain will be that of the Treasury, and too great care cannot be taken in the selection of a Secretary for this position. We do not wanta man whose life has been passed in studying up musty old volumes on ‘finances which applied to the condition of the world three centuries ago. Such a man may be able to give us fine dissertations on the subject, but be totally lack- ing in the practical executive talent required for the management of the finances of the United States at a period like the present, and at a moment when the peculiar progress of this century requires a brain that has been formed in contact with it. In looking about us for a Secretary of the Treasury we can think of no one better fitted to fill the post than Mr. A. T. Stewart. His fine education, broad brain and splendid ca- pecity for business, as evinced in the man- agement of his establishments, best proofs of his capacity; while the skill with which he handles his colos- sal fortune is a good guarantee that the national wealth would not suffer in his hands. We want to rid ourselves of these rings that now sap the public purse, We want no more private understandings between the United States Treasury and Wall street brokers; no more gold sales on private terms. These and other evils which almost hide the honor of the Treasury Department from view are to be removed by the new administration, and can only be properly dealt with by General Grant, assisted by some able man such as we have mentioned. The financial question is to-day the greatest one’ for the people of the United States, and only those men who are the best able to handle it in the future will make their mark as statesmen, With a debt of twenty-six hun- dred millions of dollars, the commerce of tho country decaying, taxes growing heavier in- stead of lighter, the public money inthe hands of disreputable rings, which are formed on purpose for plunder, we indeedgneed men who are of the best capacity practically and theo- retically to set the government again in the right track. We believe it can be quickly done, but it must be done by commencing at the head; that head—the Treasury—all right, the rest will be eas; Tuk Commotion ty Watt Srreer.—Affaire in Wall street are said to wear a threatening aspect. Now this is an old story. Panics are becomjng periodical in that place. There was a “first class” panic there last November and a number of stock firms went under. Another is now reported as at hand, It will’ do no harm outside of Wall street. The No- vember one was confined to the stock jobbers and stock gamblers, The outside world was not affected. It was « local affair entirely. A panic is a good thing once in a while. Like a thunder storm in summer, it clears and cools the sultry atmosphere of the Stock Exchange. A real, dangerous panic must come from causes outside of Wall street, where the explosion is the result of superior strategy on tho part of the “bulls” in locking away stocks to make them scarce and dear, or on the part of the “‘bears” in introducing some damaging report or story. The great business world jogs on contentedly despite their rivalries and quarrels. “CaLe Jounwatists."—This is the title st stowed by the Cincinnati Gazelte upon those radical journals that see something ominous in General Grant's non-reference to the republi- can party in his speech accepting the Presi- dency. Furthermore they are styled ‘“‘veally”— not venal—journals, for the reason, it is sup- posed, that they are looking after the com- mon weal when casting an eye to their own wallets, During Grant's administration, there- fore, we suppose we shall have Western jour- nalism done up, in bookbinders’ vernacular, in “full calf” and “half calf’—or, possibly, in sheep, gilt edged. Tux Ten Cuvrom Dasate.—-On Monday, March 1, will commence the debate on the disestablishment of the Irieh Church, Whether regard be had to the intellectual gladiators engaged, to the magnitude of the interest at stake or to the effect which it will have on Europe-and the world, it will be one of the greatest debates which have taken plaoe ia modern times in any national assembly, are the | Save the Spaniards. The full intelligence we publish to-day from Cuba in our telegraphic column shows that the revolution is spreading in the western portion of the ‘island with remarkable energy. The risings at San Antonio and near Matanzas,’ both within twenty leagues of Havana, taken in conjunction with those reported yesterday at San Cristobal and Guanajay, form thé Cuban response to the outburst of Spanish volunteer passion which so recently caused blood to flow in the streets of Havana. This fire will indoubt- edly extend through the entire Western Depart- ment, and we may sogn expect to see the whole island in one common movement. Indications: of this result gre’ evident in the fact that the American engineers at work taking off the crops of the sugar plantations are returning to Havana to avoid impressment. The sugar regions of Trinidad are also involved, and affairs there present a very bad aspect for the Spanish authorities, While these new fields are being overrun by the revalution the Span- ish troops, which have all been sent to the eastern and central portions of the island, are not reporting any active or favorable opera- tions. : Cut off from the resources of their trado with the interior of the country, the Spanish population in Cuba are now in a critical posi- tion. They are the object of passionate hatred on the part of the Cubans, and must fight or flee from the island. For the [fight they must depend mainly oa the resources of their own private fortunes, as the mother country is.in no condition to send them money, and will be able to send but few recruits, for want of funds in the home treasury. As was said of old, in the days of the South American war, it will be found that ‘succor from Spain comes tardy, ill and never.” Thus, while the Cubans will daily grow in strength and knowledge of war, the Spaniards will as continuously decrease in power. This result is already attained in the central and eastern portions of Cuba, where Spanish effort is confined to holding a narrow strip of land along the shore covered with the guns of their ships, while Count Valmaseda’s) column, the chief offensive reliance of the government, is dwindling among the wilds of the sierra maestra. The fight, therefore, presents little hope for the Spaniards. To flee is equally disastrous for them. The news of the massacre in the streets of Havana has pre- ceded them, and in everg Latin country of America they would encounter only hatred and disaster. They might come to this country, where they would be safe while they behaved themselves; but they would find few openings for trade in consequence of the ‘difference of language and manners, and they are not in- clined to agriculture. Tn this dilemma there is but one chance for them to save their fortunes and their future, They must immediately send & deputation to Washington with an official request from Gen- eral Dulce, backed by the General of Marine, the Intendent and the Judges of the. Supreme Court in Cuba, to General Grant to take imme- diate possession of Havana and to send a ship- of-war to each of the other principal seaports now held by Spanish garrisons. The United States would then organize a government in Cuba which could and would protect the Span- ish population andgave Cubans and Spaniards from the horrors of the revolution now impend- ing over them. The’ rights of Spain would thus be saved from destraction, and diplomacy after the event could easily settle the matter with the néw government about to be estab- lished in Spain, in a way that ‘would bring power to the new throne, and pave its way for the future peaceful development of the resources of the Iberian peninsula. We sug- gest to General Dulce and the Spanish Minister at Washington to act in this matter before it be too late. It is only a question whether they will accept manifest destiny or disappear before it. Cable Telegram Failures, We noticed in our financial article yesterday the excitement caused in Wall street by the failure of the cable telegrams to come through on time, bearing the news of the large advance in United States securities, coupled with the heavy transactions which took place in the in- terval of the delay beyond the usual hour of delivery. The regular report of the London money market was due about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and it was de- layed somewhere until half-past four in the afternoon. It is very singular that similar delays have been noticed in commercial circles on the occasion of large advances inthe price of cotton in Liverpool, and also when marked changes have taken place in prices of other staples; and, strange to say, our mer- chants always notice that large transactions in the market always occur in these intervals of delay. The facts have led to the existence in commercial circles of a suspicion that there is. something wrong on these occasions. The onus, lies between the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Cable Company. It is such, occurrences as this that lead our merchants to look with favor on the postal telegraph sys- tem or a French cable whose terminus here shall lie in other hands than those that controt the Western Union Telegraph. The subject matter is a good one for the examination of our Chambers of Commerce and our Boards of Trade. When similar bodies in England looked into the telegraph question the result was a unanimous movement on their part in favor of the government postal telegraph. A Goov Brtt.—The bill to prevent the locking up of the currency, which bas passed both houses of Congress and now awaits the signature of the President to become law, is a good one. It will help to check the tricks of the banks and stock-gamblers in controlling the money market. A little more legislation for a similar purpose would be very acceptable and would tend to emancipate the business of the country from the power of unscrupulous capitalists and stockjobbers, Comina Near Home.—Some time ago we gave the public all the particulars of what happens to & man anatomically and physiologi- cally whea he is hanged, ur little article on this subject was nsed freely by the papers of the country—as all Hera articles are—and, having cruised through the columns of our Western contomporaries for some weeks, it turned up in the columns of the Sun the other { day, credited to tho Louisville Demoorat.