The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1869, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published cies day tn the year, Four cents per copy, Annual subscription price @12- AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—AN@g. or MID- Nia. ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third at,, between 6th and tu ava, KONTO AND JULIE. Jand county and relative to the Emigrants’ Indus- trial Savings Bank. The Senate then adjourned, In the Assembly the committee to investigate the affairs of the Merchants’ Union Express Company was increased to five. A resolution relating to gas compa- nies inthis city and Brooklyn was passed, On motion the rulea were amended. Bills were reported author- izing the construction of certain raiiroads tn New York and across Haviem river, and aso authorizing certain roads in Kings and Queens counties to oper- ate by steam. A number of unimportant bills were passed. Bills were introduced relative to opening and closing certain streets in Brooklyn, wmeorpora- ting the Sportsmen's Association of New York and several others of unimportance. An evening session was held, at which several bills were ordered toa third reading. The Assembly then adjourned, Miscellaneous. General Grant, im conversation yesterday with Senator Pool, of North Carolina, expressed himself as particularly anxious for substantial reconstruc- tion in the South, North Carolina aud Alabama, he said, were among the best reconstructed States of all, and when the rest were as safely and pleasantly back inthe Union, he thought, ours would be the happiest country on the glove. It f deduced from a conversation that General Grant held with Gentral Terry and another gentle- man yesterday that all the Southern military com- manders removed by President Johnson will be replaced, Amertean fishing vessels, tt is said, are encroach- img on Canadian waters, a8 many as fifty or sixty of them being engaged in herring fishing in the Bay of Fundy, The Deer Istand harbors are crowded 80 full of American ships and nets that there is hardly room for the Canadtan vessels, although it is their own ground, ‘The Osage Indians, who are on their reservations, it is stated, were saved from starvation by the ra- tions issned to them by General Sheridan. Specu- lators claim to have bought their land at nineteen cents an acre, 1% will be necessary for the govern- ment to feed them until spring. A fatal case of hydrophobia occurred in Rockland county, N, Y., on Tuesday, Mr. John Eckerson about a month ago was terrmbly bitten by a mad dog, hav- ing botn his hands mangled, A physician immedi- ately tied up the artery and cut off the loose flesh, and the dog Was killed, But on Sunday last Mr, ickerson gave symptoms of nydrophobia and died of the terrible disev.se on Tuesday. Tom Allen, who was whipped in two rounds on ‘Tuesday by Chariey Gallagher, has challenged him to renew the combat within one week for $1,000 a side. NEW YORE THEATRE, | ‘Broadway. ~Tur Lavy oF Lyons. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.-—Tum Bunursouk EX- TEAVAG or THE Forty THtEvKs. FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue. —GENEVIRVE DE BRABANT. RE, Twenty-fourth st. —A GRN- yl Got AHON-T AS. OLYMPIC THEAT! Dewey with NEW FEATURES. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIU, BeLisAKLO. 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The Daity Henan 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 Hegatp at the ea furnished in the city. ¢ price it is Tas NEws. Europe, The cable telegrams are dated February 24. ‘The bill to abolish University tests was introduced Yesterday in the English Parliament. The saie of the Danish West India I#ianas ts urged by General Reasioet, the Danis Minister of War. The Persian Ambassador is on lis way to Constan- tinople, and in the meantime hostilities between the Persian sad Turkish armies are suspendet, Cuba. La Guanaga. the fortified port recently capturea by the insuryeni-, has been retaken by the spantards after ® Yombardinent from the Meet and a land attack from the troops. A battalion of tle troops bad immediately marched out to the relief of Puerto Principe. Captun General Dulce had urged the Doo-comissioued officers of the volunteers tu wain- tain good order. ‘rhe resignation of the United states Consul General at Huvana has been accepted. A Coban wlio com- Manded # volumteer regiment had been superceded. Congrens. In the Seaste yesterday Mr. Trumbull, from &ne Jvaictary Committee, reported the bills estavlishing # provisional government in Missiasippi and to fur- ther the administration of pubhe justice. The Com- mittee on Private Land Claims made two reports, one for and one agauet McGarra- han's cixim ta certgin lands ta California, two members signing each report. The Copper Tarif bill was passed over the President's veto by thirty-eight to twelve. Tue resolntion providing for reporiing aud priuting the devates of tue Forty-tires Congress was passed after some de- bate, The Army Appropriation bili was then taken up and ah amendinent proposed by Mr. Wilsoa Jor the reductiog of the number of ints to tnirey-five by the muster out of ents WHE Agteed fo, in the evens mIneroue bis were reported frow the stinerp 0 um mittee and passed, and olse geveral private vilis, aficr whlch the Seuate adjourned. In the House Mr. Farnsworth, from tye Pogt Offer Coromiliee, reported back the various Vosial Tete. graph villa referred to te They were then ordered printed and laid ou the tatia Mr. Sehenek’s ‘Dill to strengthen the public credit auc legauze gold contracts wae taken up a® untinisked business aud passed by @ vote of 119 to 6h A resolution to discharge the tWo recnsant witness, Bell and Reeves, the ‘ latter oh payment of the expenses of bis arrest, Ws adopted. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the ative Appropriation bill, and discussed that Measare through the evening sesaigu until adjourg- Ment without disposing of is. ‘Te legidatare, To tte State Senate Vietentay ® number of wills were reported, meinding ope tnoorporitting the La- dies Uniow Aid Society of the Methodist Church of thie city. The time required for ratiroads to report as to the issue of stocks and bonds was extended twenty dayé A resolution was adopted to adjourn froma the 26th inst, until Marob 6. Several bills of minor importance were introduced and two of the Game ‘eainio rs passed. Bills were otdered to a relating to the Rochester and Brighton ane the draimaue of swaup lauds ia Luck: li yesterday. peared, and the indications are that she died from pure neglect and destitution. ‘The body of Wirz, the commandant of the Ander- sonville prison, was yesterday giveu up to his triends. The dead body of a woman was discovered locked upinaroom in South Kighth street, Jersey City, ‘ne husband of the deceased has disap- A convention to institute measures for the im- provement of navigation in the ‘Tennessee river is in session Keo in Chattanooga. Governor Bullock, of ta, 18 President. A woman shot and Killed a*man named Devine at Alton, Il!., on Monday night, while he was altempt- mg to outrage Ler person. The City. Mr. J. D. Maxwell, of the firmo! Ciarke, Dodge & Co., app ot before Assessor Webster yesterday in answer to a summons to muke a statement in regard to the capital of the firm aud to answer Way tie re- quirements of the Internal Revenue law had not been complied with, Mr. Maxwell did not have hus books, however, and the examination was post- poued te a inture day to allow him to look them over. The city stage lines, in their revenue returns for January, show aggregate receipts of $72,761, the city ratiroads $873,837 and the places of amusement 4,92 Tammany makes the largest return amoug the theatres, A young man named Krepps entered the store No. 275 Fuitof street, Brooklyn, Yesterday afternoon and attempted to shoot one of the young ladies employed there, @ Miss Cassie King. He had formerly been engaged to her, but she had lately discarded him on account of bis bad habits, The shot merety grazed Miss King’s hand, and the young man was arrested, A writing on bis person jeads to thé beiict that he intended also to Kill himself after killiag the young lady. He was committed, The North German Lioyd’s steamship Bremen, Captain Leist, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to- day for Southampton aud Bremeo. The matls will close at the Post Omice at twelve Me “ ‘The steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Caarlestou, 8. C. The stock market yesterday was active and ani- mated. Pacific Mail, Fort Wayne and Micuizan Southern were the leading features of the general list. ‘Tne express stocks “dropped” ve to six per cent, Goid declined to 1524. Prominent Arrivals in the City. General J. B. Page, of Vermont; Geaera’ Carey, of Washingtou; Mayor 5. MeUlelian, of Wheeling: W. D, Walcott, of New York Milis; J. jangJon, of Eliaira, and General W. J. Oulien, of Moniaua, are at the st, Nicholas Hiovel. rai Miles, of the United States Army ‘nolds, of Providence; John Orr, of and H. A. Moss, of st. Paul, are at the Metropoiiian Hotel. Captain W. A. Simmons, of steamship Henry Chauncey, and Benj. Bark, of Tennessee, are at tue St. Charles Hotel. W. H. Tucker, of North Carolina; W. F. Crow, of St. Louls, and Lorenzo Fisher, of Providence, R. L, are at the Maltby House, Major General Keokuk, of lowa; Colonel 8, T. Bar- ney, of the United states Army, and Raward Reilly, of Lancaster, Pa., are at the Westminster Hotel. Colonel Van Hora, of Buffalo; De. i. Thomas, of Baliimore, and surgeon Reed, of the United States Navy. are at the St. Julien Hotel, Colonel McComb, of Delaware, and General W. W. Wright, of Leavenworth, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. E. Wendeti and Caleb Cushing, of Washington; Senator Shafer, of Albany; William G. Fargo, of Butfalo; Judge a. 4. Jobnson, of Utica, and Dr. L. Jones, of Texas, are at the Astor House, Progress of Our Revolution in Wasbington, The Senate to-day stands hefore the people as the holder of usurped power. This power was acquired, liltle by little, as our revolution progressed, and as our war forced, aa all wars force, a firmer centralization upon the govern- ment. Had the war continned four years longer it would have ended in a military afe- tatorship. ‘The process world have been sim- ple: First, an overthrow of all the minor elements upon which our government is sup- posed to work in peaceable times and the con- centration of the power in the most forcible existing body—the Senate; then the control of the Senate by a few of its most daring and ambitions leaders; then the discovery of these leaders that they require to be backed up by a strong military power, and, finally, the over. turning of everything by the military element created, and the instalment of a dictator. This was the road we were on when the war ended and the political and militery columns halted. The good sense of the people, the progress of the country, the press, as the ex- ponent of everything valuable in our national construction, very naturally demanded @ return fo our normal condition. fn the history of every other country the restoration of usurped powers has cost blood. When the Roman republic hung apon the sword of the boldest soldier her citizens could look back and trace the same track of lost republi- canism which has been threatening us. Venice, fo her oligarchical despotism, travelled the same road. France, in the French revolution, went through the eame formula, despite the “Cabinet curtain. rigid title of ‘‘citizen,” which marked her stern effort at pure republicanism, We have for the past three years been settling the war-stirred elements and finding where we stand as the result of our great revolution. So soon as the good sense of the nation measured political swords with the usurpers of power it spoke through that body—the House of Representatives—which is in closest sympathy with the people, and took the first step—the repeal of the Tenure of Office law—towards a restoration of the three branches of government to their proper positions, The Senate, hdwever, has failed to recognize this action of the sovereign ele- ment, and consequently stands as an oli- garchical body, defiant and disposed to cling to the power which has very naturally centred in it, but which it only clings to from the natural love of power. There are, be- sides, certain auxiliary causes which induce the Senate to cling to its position, and these are the influence of rings of harpies who, pushed like scum to the sur- face in: time of commotion, have naturally clustered around the body which possesses the strength to prevent them from again sinking. These make the United States Treasury their objective point, and prosecute their siege with an obstinacy which, if it has no other merit, is a compliment to American tenacity even as displayed in the worst element among us. In the Senate we find men who are most tho- roughly under the influence of these rings ; nay, who are believed to participate in the schemes of wholesale plunder aimed at the public revenue. The operations which have lately taken place in Wall street in gold and United States bonds are the best proof of this, and the railway schemes which were lately thrust before Congress like an avalanche only swept by without great damage owing to the public disgust at the system of plunder which they represented. There now stand before the nation two rival systems struggling for the mastery—the people, as represented by the newly elected President, and the Senate, with its absorption of power and its corruptions. Which will win be- comes a very important question with the people. If the former is successful we shall return to the quiet and prosperity which so boldly marked the period just previous to our civil war; if the laiter triumph, then ‘shall we enter the condition which precedes further political over- turnings. The Senate, clinging to its power, will indicate that the people are discontented with the form of goverament as inaugurated through the old constitution, and are prepared to adopt new and different principles, adapted radically to the times and demands of the nation in the broader scope which opens as we survey the field of America and what it promises, If the coming battle between Grant and the Senate be not won by the former it will be a good proof that the constitation of the United States was only suited to our de- velopment as a people while we were in the erude process of national formation by par- ticles, and that these pariicies, uniliog for general action, must have a different funda- mental law for their government. We there- fore look with great interest to the first moath of the coming administration, for it will be pregnant with great results to the people of the United States. It Grant exhibits his solid character here as he has elsewhere, lie, as the representative man, backed by the people who elected him, and their representatives in Congress who support him, wil! overturn the great ring, the Senate, and start upon the road to our future with a government less inclined to wreck us by radical action. Adverse Report of a Cougressional Com. mittee on the Postal Telegrapl System. We publish in another part of the paper the report of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads upon the postal telegraph system. The committee had before it the several plans and proposed bills of Mr. Washburne, of Mr. Hubbard and of Mr. Hall, and reports ad- versely to all and to any goveramental control of the telegraph. The argument of this saga- cious committee, if argument it can be called, is spread at length bofore our readers, and it is unnecessary, therefore, to repeat ithere. It is the weakest and silliest document ever laid before a public body. From beginning to end it is a tissne of special pleading in fivorof the existing telegraph monopoly and against any progreas or change for the benefit of the pub- lic. [t is precisely the same garbled and one- sided view of the subject that was submitted to the committee by the telegraph monopolists and has all the appearance of having been concocted by them, We shall take another op- portunity to expose the misstatements, absurd assumptions and false conclusions of this report. Ganerat Guasr’ 3 Canneer.—General Grant the other day, it appears, gratified a number of visitors with the lifting of a corner of his He will retain General Schofield for a little while in the War Office to make some contemplated army changes; but he will finally have a Cabinet made up entirely of civilians, And he gave notice that he had resolved to give Pennsylvania a member, and had hit upon an old friend, 2 competent man and @ good republican, who would be as much surprised as anybody at his appointment. The General furthermore intimated that he did not think mach more would be known of his Cabi- net until he sent in the names on the 5th of March. As for the Johnson establishment, excepting Sghofield, it will have to go. A week and a day and then the long agony will be over. There are seven prizes in the Cabi- tet wheel and at least seventy-seven blanks, and the public drawing will come off on the 5th. Quire Ricnt.—That was a correct remark of a Western paper, while commenting upon @ proposed new line of railway between New York and Chicago, estimated to coat thirty-six millions, when it stited that “the heaviest part of the expense would be the cost ia money to carry the enterprise through the Legislatures of New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania, Ohio and Indiana, in opposition to the powerful railroad interests of those States.” When shall we have honest men in high official places? Riss ash Ab “Torture oF “AMERIOAN Citizens” —The infliction the public is undergoing in being eompelled to read the long-winded accounts of alleged personal sufferings at the hands of the barbarous Lopes of Paraguay. Progress of the Revolution in © and Change in the Spanish Policy. General Caballero de Roda is to succeed General Dulce as Governor General in the Island of Cuba, This is the tenor of a short despatch yesterday from Madrid—short but fall of meaning. Dulce was the man for coneilia- tion, the map of the amnesty, free press, free speech and Mpresentation in the Cortes. Roda is the man who put down insurrection in Cadiz with the cannon and deluged the streets of dis- satisfied Malaga with grape shot. The two men represent great principles and give a fair picture of the change which has come over the dream of Spain in relation to Cuba. The pro- gress of the revolution there has been so rapid and so great that a new policy has succeeded the old one in the Spanish government as well as in the Spanish population in Cuba, The latter at first scouted the idea that the Cubans could or would do anything towards over- throwing the colonial government. Now they have done go much that the Spanish popula- tion in Cuba think that every Cuban should be at once tried by 9 military comiaission and executed to save the hofor of Spain. Caballero de Roda comes to Cubs to fail more signally than Dulce has done, and Dalce has failed from the want of common sense on the part of the home government and: the Spaniards residing in the island. Had he been authorized to act In the spirit of the nineteenth century instead of the six- teenth, and to establish a Colonial Assem- bly he would have preserved the island to the Spanish monarchy. There were not wanting Cubans in Madrid who urged these views upon General Dulce before his departure for Cuba, but he either could not or would not listen to them. He now goes back with the simple satisfaction that he can say to Azca- rate and Bernal, “You were right.” The Caballer? de Roda comes to a different banquet—a banquet of blood. From Cape Maysi to the river Damaji, two-thirds of the territorial extent of the Island of Cuba, the Spanish government holds only the ground ils troops stand upon or the guns of iis ships cover. Instead of being able to reconquer the Central and Eastern Departments the struggle will now be to hold the Western, for there the fires of revolution have caught at several points. This will require more troops than Spain ean under any contingency send to Cuba,.and more money did malerial resouroes than Roda can possibly gather. He may shed much blood, he may rival Murillo, of Vene- auela, in intamy, but the result will be the same—the Spanish element must leave Cuba or perish by the sword they have drawn. In the early future a sore difficulty will press upon our government. When your neighbor's house is on fire the principle of intervention is an admitted righi. Not only may we intervene to save ourselves from danger, but tue voice of humanity calls us as weil to save life and property, if the tenant, possessed with the fury of a madman, insists flames, he This upon consigning everything to the may be controlled or even dispossessed. madman’s policy would seem to be that inspires the Spanish element in Cuba, and “our government, as the next and strongest neigh- bor, will be called upoa to intervene. We must intervene there. Tae day has gone by when the madman of Europe can be permitted to repeat the atrocities which the early part of the present century witnessed in every Spanish American-country on this Continent, , The es- tablishment of a free government in Cuba and iis admission to the Union would be the best solution for all parties there, and one which would save us infinite trouble in the future. The Jacksonian policy in Florida is the only one which will save General Grant from a host of Spanish, Atte s, and he should be prepared to adopt it ia is own behalf and that of the country. i Is GengraL Suz & Wanrep?—At a Washington's birthday celebration in Winches- ter, Va., some commotion was created by the retirement of a company of firemen from the procession because a United States flag was carried by one of the pioneers, it was at Winchester General Sheridan made his famous ride and won a splendid victory for the Union arms; but it is a piece of childishness and folly for the people of that region to cherish the recollections of that period in these days of tardy reconstruction for Virginia, We hope there will never be occasion for General Sheri- dan again to visii Winchester in an unfriendly spirit. Tas New Srock Excuance.—A lot of lame ducks and sidewalk operators, with the osten- sible object of reforming certain abuses of the present stock boards, have started a new organization styled the National Stock Ex- change. The reformation shuuld go the other way and reduce instead of increase the num- ber of stock boards, One stock exchange is sufficient to transact all the legitimate business of the city. The new affair will never amount to anything. The Cusreh Miltant—Fighting Parsons. So long as the Church triumphant is a thing of the future the Church militant, wo suppose, must remain a thing of the present. If this is the age of ritualistic it ia also the age of mus- cular Christianity. From Charles Kingsley and the author of ‘‘Tom Brown's School Daya” it is a big leap to Parson Sharman, but the space includes a singularly homogeneous class, Parson Sharman likes a row, but so do Kingsley and Hughes; #0, too, does Parson Brownlow. Force inthe pulpit is required in Washington if anywhere. Sharman en the stage is the very man that is needed. On the hoards of the National theatre bo inizht be- come a power. Fighting the Devil snd Andy Johnson on Sunday and stationer Dempsey on Monday, and ready for any other foe on any other day, Mr. Sharman would have tard work, But the hard work might be wseful and even beneficial. To purify Washington would be a hard task, but if thin soldier of the Church militant can do it let bim. His labors will prove a national blessing. Let him go on. With uplifted atm and voice let him fight the good fight. Althongh an ex-oaptain of a foreign army, thore is evidently pluck io him. We mean to watch this modern Hercules, Feuace Proonuss Oct West, ~A. laity in Towa county, lowa, advertises herself as au “‘attorneyess at law.” We suppose we shall next have the farmeress petitioning the Presi+ dentess for a commission fora daughter a an officeress in the army. \ a NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1869.—TRIPLH SHEET. rc rn Dining the Rebel Chiefo—-A Maghattas Movement for 1872. The volunteer Cabinet-maker and general dispenser of the spoils for the incoming ad- ministration, ‘finding his occupation gone in that line of business, has undertaken the réle of the late Miles O'Reilly in getting up fancy dinners. The imitator, in this as in almost every other special field of enterprise, falls be- hind the origina! explorer; but still in this case he will pass. His latest effort is pretty fair. It is a fancy sketch of a dinner by the Manhat- tan Club to the late rebel chief, John C, Breckin- ridge, at which it appears numerous other rebel chiefs were present, sandwiched between the leading members of the club, Genuine or fletitious, the grouping of these characters is consistent with their democratic affinities, and we know, too, that since the war the Manhat- tan Club, in view of the reconstruction of the democratic party, has lost no opportunity to dine and wine, in a quiet way, every rebel chief dropping into the metropolis; and we know that tiearly all of them, from Jeff Davis down to Mosby, have dropped in, from time to time, under the benign Mr ete of Andy Johtein. “> a aioe A great haul of these rebel big fish was made ut the National Tammany Convention of July last, and « great outlay in soft crabs and champagne was cheerfully adopted by the Manhattan Club in doing the honors to these distinguished guests. Cui bono? It was for the same reason that a man plants a field of cotton or buys a bit of ground or dab- bles in Erie, It is all a matter of specula- tion. For instance, the New York engineers of the Manhattan Club laid and managed the wires of the Tammany National Convention. They found in that Convention a Southern balance of power represented hy, the rebel chiefs present, and by cultivating General Wade Hampton and his associate paladins of the Southern chivalry ‘‘the bloated bond- holders” of the club were enabled to wind “the Pendleton escort” round their fingers, Here, then, the mystery of these Manhattan dinners or suppers to these leaders of the ‘dost cause” ia explained. It is simply the George Sanders method of elecitoneering re- duced to a regular system on a good cellar of wine and a liberal fund for the Washington Market. The Manhattan Club have lively hopes of a democratic President in 1872. They have been, aince the fiasco of Tammany Hall, preparing for their next great opportunity. They anticipate the restoration, with the nig- ger vote, of their oid Sonthern balance of power in the next national election, and they are laying their pipe and wires among the magnates of the Sonth for the Convention, because the Convention will settle everything. Thus the inves'ment, in, the kindly offices of fraternal hospitality, of a good feed dcca- sionally, involving a dozen or two baskets of wine anda few barrels of Saddle Rocks and Shrewsburys, in honor of some auch returning democratic prodigal son as Wade Hampton, Beauregard, Forrest, Magruder, Dick Taylor, Breckinridge, Captain Semmes or Juke Thompson, may yield in 1872 the splendtd dividends to the Manhattan Ciab of the first pickings of the spoils of the succession, And why not? Is there a more beantiful lesson in the Holy Scriptures than that of the prodigal son and the killing of the fatted calf in honor of his ropentance d return home again? Is there an example of* forgiveness that can be more worthily followed, especially if it can be made to pay better than a petroleum well or a gold mine? Ia this way and in this view the Manhattan Club, like charity, has covered a multitude of sins, and still its wine is not exhausted nor are its oysters all consumed. - must Tur Comp aNp Soar Qvestion.—Tonch- ing on the matter of Congress using fourteen hundred dollars’ worth of combs and soap, the New Orleans Crescent remarks :—‘‘There is no danger that the Royal street concert (Louis- iana Legislature) will incur any such expense. Combs and soap would be superfitious articles among our legislators, a large proportion of whom couldn’t use a comb if they would and wouldn’t use soap if they could.” [t will not require much acuteness to discover the kink in that suggestion. Don’t Aut. Seezak at Once.—Who is the Pennsy!vania man that is going into General Grant's Cabinet ? ANTEDILUVIAN RESEARCHES IN PENNSYI- vaNiA.—Ever since the announcement that Pennsylvania was to be represented in Grant's Cabinet, and that the happy man was even himself ignorant of the bliss in store for him, the antediluvian researches have been going on by the newspapers in that State to discover who the individual is. The tertiary period has already been reached and the strata found to be of a calcareous formation. The Dictatorship in Spwin. The provisional government in Spain has resigned its functions and Marshal Serrano has been entrusted by the Cortes with fall execu- tive power for the time being. This is a dictatorship and is one of the strides in the present march of Spain from a hated despot- ism to—whatever the future shall bring, a republic, a monarchy or anarchy. The latter is just as probable as either of the others; for amid the mass of intrigue end corruption whichis now festering at Madrid no map even of those most actively engaged in it can tell what an hoor may being forth, Every jonrnal there publisued is the acknowledged paid organ of some party chief, and no one believes that the annonnced purposes of the leaders are any- thing more thau puppets to amnge the public and deceive their opponents, Two days sinca it was avgounced that the large nwmber of bine members composing the provisional gov-~ ernment was fonnd to be unwieldy and that a trian virate would be appointed, whieh, in the process af cooking, has beon boiled down to the dictatorship of Marshal Serrano. There wre two little polnts in the curt tele- graphic account of the proceedings in the Cortes whloh, In view of some of the ante- It in very widely asserted, and to some degree believed, that the late provisional government, under the presidency of Marsbal Serrano, was favorably Inclined to the olsim of the Montpensier branch of the Bourbons to the throne. Genoral Prim, bowever, agsures the Cortes that the late dynasty will never roascend the throne, His friend, Ad- mitral Topote, who opened the reyplution which cedents, are a little stinmlative to our curiosity. drove the Bourbons from Spain with bis ship in the harbor of Cadiz, also asks the Cortes to pass an act of indemnity for the navy in its acts in the recent revolution, And what of the army? And does Prim’s speech convey @ threat? To our view these small straws would seem to indicate a rupture of the provisional government, and that affairs in Spain are not really 80 serene as they seem to be, We must judge the men by the popular elements they represent, Let us look at these. Serrano is the incarnation of the old union~ liberal, the generals who succeeded at Vical- varo in seizing power in 1854, and have since controlled the government and the army, Prim representa the anti-Bourbon progresiata element, with a’ strong dash of Prim. For two years he schemed to overthrow Isabella, but could do nothing until the Vicalvariate joined hands with him under stipulations which gave them the control of the new government. He received the command of the army, but.with enemies above him in the government and beneath him in the ranks. The present movement would seem like a dethronement from his revolutionary position as master of the situation, and leaves Spatn in possession OF Scivatis, with fhe pertinent inquiry, And what of Prim? Mile. Nilsson Coming to Amorica. After all we are to have the grog Swedish prima donna, Mile. Cristine Nilsson, in America. It will be seen by a telegram from Paris, in to-day’s Heratp, that the grand Mogul of opera managers, opera owners and railroads, James Fisk, Jr., has made a con- tract, through Mr. Tayleure, his agent, with the world-renowned cantatrice. She is to appear next winter at Mr. Fisk’s Grand Opera House, New York, and is to perform a hundred and forty nights altogether in the United States, and will receive a thou- sand dollars in gold for each performance, be- sides expenses paid for herself and her retinue of thirteen persons, These are the same terms for which she agreed to appear in England and which she had rejected three times before for an engagement to come to the United States. There will be an extraordinary furore un- doubtediy when this great prima donna makes her appearance here. Mr. Fisk will immor- talize himself and overtop all the railroad and opera managers of the day. From this time for- ward the small fry managers of opera and ¢m= presarii must hide their diminished heads. Their oldecompanies and one-horse establish- ments cannot stand before the magnificent four-in-hand style of doing business of she great railroad king, backed by forty millions, more or leas, of Erie stock. We have entered upon ‘& Rew era of opera, and henceforth the grandest Wail street operations are to be in- timately connected with the highest order of music and the cowlisses. Swedish, Italian and h nightingAles, the grandest theatrical spectacles, and all the attractions of superb legs and beautiful forms are to be associated with stocks, bonds, railroad enterprises, and : the bulls and bears of Wall strect. Mr. Fisk has got the inside track in this new develop- ment of the age, and will leave Vanderbilt, Drew, Gould and all the other railroad kings far behind unless they wake up to a realizidg sense of their fading honors. Drew was a sort of religious Mogul, but since his patent brick church which, at Morrisania, crumbled and fell, he has lost ground. Indeed that ca- tastrophe may be regarded as a sign that the fates protest against a union of Wall street stock operations with religion. Now, there is a fine chance to recover his fame and power and to rival the magnificent Fisk by bringing out the famous Patti and inaugurating opposi- tion opera to Nilsson and her troupe. Or, if he has lost his ambition, we recommend Com- modore Vanderbilt or Gould to engage the Diva at once and at any cost. Nothing can yun opera in this country on a grand scale here- after but railroads and Wall street. Who will rival Fisk? Who will be the greatest man of the times? Severe on THR Orricrats.—A New Or- leans paper thinks there is no necessity for making a fuss about a New York deputy sheriff being discovered a great malefactor, for, under Congress, almost all the offices in the South have been filled with maletactors, and it would not make much difference whether the sessions of the Legislatures were held in the State capitols or the penitea- tiaries. Deunxenngss at a Discount.—A man in Milwaukee was imprisoned for cruelly beating his wife. Poking his nose through the cell bars he ejaculated, “I thank God ['m not locked up for any mean, dirty crime like get- ting drunk.” That man would do to join Dick Yates’ Congressional temperance society, é which would then constitute precisely two members, “Nor ror Jox.”—The Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph says if Pennsylvania is to have a member in Grant's Cabinet Joha W. Forney is the proper man. Forney may be ® very good man for a *‘small party in a lobby,” but as for a place in the Cabinet of Genoral Grant, such an honor probably is ‘‘not for Joe,” or John. Tux Weone AnvicLe.—A sample’of Minne- sota wheat has been sent to Washington to be analyzed by a committee. Metter have sent the article distilled, with which moat members of Congress are better acquainted than with the original grain. Mr. Sonexox’s Bit, to turrove THe Pop 110 Crevit Passen. The bill reported by Mr. Schenck to improve the public credit passed the House of Representatives yesterday, as it came from the Commlttce of Ways and Means, hy 8 vote of 119 yeas to G1 nays, The Senate has yet to act upon it and has but little time for that purpose. However, a. the bill in some of ity features is a good one, and calcu lnied to give stability and to strongthen the credit of the government, the Senate may pass it, The Johnstown (N. Y.) Democrat is pro- digiously exercised at the Infroduction of a couple of bills before the Legislature, one of which compela newspaper pablishers to pub- lish tm theit respective papers the amount of their circulation, and the other raises tho price of legal advartising twenty-five per cent, Que country contemporary avers thnt these mos- sures como from the city of New York and that the dhject is to supersede the country preva, We confess we cannot see where, by