The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1869, Page 8

8 NEW YORK ITERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, rROPRIBTOR, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Rejected communications will not be re- inrned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK'S THEATRS, Browtway ant 1h streot— SoU. cans OLYMITC THEATRE, Broaaway.—luwrry Doxey, with NEW FRATURER, GRAND OPERA MOUSK, corner ot Eighth avenue and fhe sirect.—TUR TEMPEST. BOWERY THEATRE, Howery.—Tar Srvev Dwaxre; on, HAxicQuix AND 1H Wosip OF WONDERS. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tox Emexaup Rina. BOOTIU’S THEATRE, 23d et., botweea Sth and 6th avs.— OTHELLO. ied! NIBLO'S GARDSN, Broadwiy.—Tar Buaesqua Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF TUF Forty THIRVES. VIFTH AVENUE THBATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth srcol.—UBPLER AUX BFERS, WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtiets street and Broauway.—A.icravon aud eveuas Perlormanss WAVERLEY THPAT! Buaersqer Company- Broadway—Bs28 Ho.r's THEATRE COMIQU! 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Tan NEwe. ace The cable telegrams are dated April 14. The Newmarket races took place yestetday in Engiand. Amoug the races were those for the Column stakes and the Newmarket handicap, The former was wou by the filly Martinique and the latter by the My Skirmisher, It is reported that General Prim is to go out to Cuba as Captain General. Me will be accompauled vy @ large number of troops, Cuba. It ts reported in Mevana that the Spanish war Steamer Warrior 1s watching for the expeditions from the United States. Sefior Casanova has not yet been released. A severe baitie ls reported to nave taken place on the road between Santa Cruz and Puerto Princide. The Spanish troops cut their way through: iuto the latter city, in the neighborhood of which the insurgents are reported to be in strong force. Thirty of the most respectabie citizens of ‘Trinidad have been arrested by the auliorities there, Amoveme.t in opposition to Quesada among the insurgent leaders is reported. The Peruvian moai- ) tors are at St. Thomas. Commander FiNebrown, of the United States steamer Narragansett, reporis the tacis concerning the seizure of two Cubans on board tue American #@chooner Lizzie Major, oif Remedios, by the Spanish frigate Ferdinand Cawlica. The passengers are in prison in Remedios, one of them being a boy of ten years of age. Mr. Stone, the United States Consular Agent at Remedios has demanded their release of tye Commandant,,who has, so far, felt unauthorized to grant it. Consul General Hall has ordered ao in- vestigation. The South Pacific. Our Sydacy (New South Wales) letcer, dated Feb- ruary 4, tates that the natives of the South Sea Ilands had taken up arms against the slave traders, and five or six of the crew of the schooner Prima Donna, who touched at the wiand of Valna, had been ariven off with joss. A small white coiony in Tanna is reported to have becn massacred. Japan. Advices from Hong Kong received in London yes- terday say that civil war was ogam raging in Japan. The opponents of the Mikado’s government have a strong ficet and have taken up thelr beadquarters on the the island of Yesso, They have also captured another inportant mand on the Western coast An earthquake has recently been experienced in the Japanese Islands, China, Persecutions of native Christians continue at Foo- chow. The Sennte, ~— Notting was done outside of executive business in the Senate yesterday. The naturalization treaty with Great Britain was ratiged, and the San Juan and Darien Ship Canai treawes were discussed, ‘The indications are that the Darien Canal treaty will be rejected, as several of the leading Senators are op- posed to tt. Ashort batch of nominations were confirmed, in- cluding several army vromotions, None of them, however, were of more than personal interest. Among the nominations received from the Presi- } dent were Charles A. Dana, Appraiser of Merchandise the port of New York; William A. Darilog, Col- of Internal Reverme in the Ninth district of York; and Mrs. W. W. Nichols, FPostaistress worth, Kansas. The Legislature. wore passed in the State Senate yesterday ve to juries in the district courts of New York; the penalties for procuring abortions, to- ‘with afew others. A message was received the Governor vetoing the bill for the coustruc- Of aratiroad in 120th and other streets of this The Afteenth amendment to the constitution by a vote of seventeen to fiiteen—all voting In the affirmative and al! the tm the negative. Severai bills were or- tos third reading, and several (principally ro- to provincial railroads) reported. the Assembly bilis were passed relating to {ig from surrogates’ courts; retative to the Har- Aver and vort Chester railroads; establishing ‘1am for orphan, friendiess and tilegitimave on of German origin, avd some others, Bev. | vilis were revoried. Bills were ordered -| providing for the publication cf the Corporation to a third of Bro.klyn; to prevent the use of old bar- reis for packing, and relating to sewerage and drainage of Brooklyn, Mr, Jacobs offered a resolu- tion relating to the elevation and transfer of grain from lake to canal boats at Buffalo, which wag laid on the table; At the evening session several bil were introduced, .The bill to aid im the construc- tion of raiiroads in this State, giving $4,009 per mile, was ordered to @ third reading by @ vote of 65 to 22. ss Speech. Fifly-four to one! By such a negative vote in the Senate do we fling back the Alabama claims troaty to tho Power that insults us with it. Could the people vote upon this action of our Sonate they would barish to Eagland the ono man whose affirmative vote misrepresents the popular sentimeat, The firm and masterly speech of Mr. Sumner well echoes the temper of the United States, and ho has, ia this olear translation of tho public feeling and the seizing upon the proper momant to become the national mouthpiece, shown himselt to ba a true states- man, There may be others who oan say “I have the power to strike as heavy a blow.” This may be true, but only genius knows when and where to strike it. Heretofore Mr. _Sum- ner has confined his talents so entirely in a single direotion that he could be estimated only by the amount of light he ehowed.* In this he has done himself injustice. The slave problem settled, he has for the past three or four yqars devoted himself te minor questions. This has caused the people to lose sight of him. Now, however, he throws himself to the front, and, well backed by the Senate, showers suoh trenchant blows upon our hereditary rival as will create some commo- tion upon the other side of the water. In the toaring ap of this treaty Mr. Sumner Proposes no substitute. Herein we find states- manship. We can afford to wait. We have in numerous mothods stated our grievances to England, and there should be a point where national begging, as practised-by Mr. Seward, should give way to national dignity, as repre- sented by. Mr. Sumner. The whole country feels this very intensely, South as well as North, The efforts of England to destroy us were not alone aimed at the North. She, under the plea of assistance, also struck at the South—astruck at the United States as a nation—and in the face of all previous profes- sions of a high national morality ostensibly aided the slaveholder to destroy our republic. Good sonse comes with reaction, and now the hatred against England in the late rebel States is as groat as it is in the North. In his specch Mr. Sumner makes a strong argument in opposition to the British conces- sion of belligerent rights to the robels. He draws bold and well sustained differences between belligerency upon the land and belligerency upon the ocean. Ho shows that British ‘‘neutrality” was simply a humbug that did not have the power of existence until Eaglish Punio faith oalled rebel ocean rights into existence. Rebel cruisers were under all laws nothing but pirates until Bogland, virtually declaring war against us, made them legal mon-of-war, making British dockyards their ‘“‘base of operations” for the destruction of our oom- merce, Only in the ports of Spain and Great Britain could these Bngligh pirates find a breathing place. ‘The Alabama, whose build- ing was a defiance of law, international and municipal, whose escape was ‘a scandal and a reproach,’ and whose enlistment of her crew was a fit sequel to the rest, after being sup- plied with an armament and with a rebel com- mander entered upon her oareer of piracy. Mark now a new stage of cemplicity. Con- stantly the pirate ship was within reach of British cruisers and from time to time within the shelter of British ports. For six days unmolested she enjoyed the pleasant hospitality of Kingston, in Jamaica, obtaining freely the coal and other snpplies so necessary to her vocation. But no British oruiser, no British magistrate ever ar- rested the offending ship, whose voyage was a continuing ‘scandal and reproach’ to the British government.” No wonder this pet pirate was watched with tender solicitude by the English people; for she and her oonsorta, built under the royal eye, carried the bopes of England for the destruction of a commercial rival. No wonder that cheer after cheer went up in the House of Commons as the game swept on and the stakes were raked in by these packing the cards. Well does Mr. Sum- ner say that the treaty does not speak of na- tional but of nothing but individual honor, His argument against this insulting document is potent in the fact which he mentions that the iniquitous rebel cotton bondholders’ debt went up from zero to ten cents on the dollar when our great American turtle eater, Reverdy Johnson, signed.the treaty. It is to the pcint that “England was the base of our rebellion,” and itis time that the United States looked this fact boldly In the face, Machiavelli's “Il Principe” was published just five centuries ago, and the last advocate of its principles in the United States retired to Auburn on the 4th of March, 1869. It is now necessary for the republic to take a re- publican stand. It cannot live under the prac- tice of monarchical methods of diplomacy, We do nothing that we are afraid to have known; for if we attempt to hide our political motlyes wo shall hide our republicanism with them. What we require is a manly, outspoken and dignified foreign policy, something which has the ring to it that we flad in Mr. Sumner’s speech, If the administration is sufficiently broad-brained to understand the temper of the people, from whom all ideas and all directing forces come, it will announce an open policy — a national policy. Up to the present moment we have never had one. We have simply grown—run wild. Our war gave us a severe consolidation—taught us who were our enemies without und within, We have learned that it is necessary for future protection that we adopt as a principle that no European Power shall hold a foot of ground on this Continent which may serve as a base of future operations against us. Uuder this law we will, for the sake of peace, exchange the Alabama claims for Canada and that pestilential thorn which England thrust into our side, Nassau. For the injury that Spain did us we will take Cuba, The administration which is not clear- sighted enough to sve that the people mean this will make buta sorry figure in the history of the United States. The English and Spanish questions are the prominent ones in the Ameri- can mind, and with refurence to the former wo echo Mr. Sumner’s sentiment, that “the attempt to close this great international debate without a complote settlement is little short of puerile,” Miscellanceus. Mrs. Cami!la Twiichell has published a long state- ment, giving a new version of the pretended con- fession that her husband made for her just previous to the day of execution, She makes public nume- rous létters written to her by Twitchell, urging her to make vp a statement implicating herself and ac- quitting him, In order to gave hislife. She does not, however, disclose any facta concerning the murder beyond that she knew nothing of it, nor does her statement vend to prove that her husband was the actual murderer. 4. ©. Bancroft Davis, the Aasistant Secretary of State, 1s seriously tl at his rooms in Washington, unabie to attend to any public business, Leonard Huych, who was president of the Mer- chants’ National Bank of Washington when it ex- Ploded two or three years ago, was convicted in the Criwinal Conrt in that city yesterday of the larceny Of $13,000 In government bonds. A bumber of clerks are soon to be dismissed from the Treasury Department, including all the demo- ¢rats, members of the Johnson Ciub and of the Conservative Army and Navy Union. The new cotton crop in Alabama has been seri- ously damaged by @ frost and a replanting 1s ren- dered necessary. ‘The question of woman suffrage was advocated before the Legislative Committee of the Massachu- setts Legislature yesterday, by Rev. J. Freeman Clarke and Mr. George F. Hoar of Worcester, The City. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday, a proposition for lighting the street lamps by electricity was re- ceived and referred to aapecial commities In the Board of Assistant Atdermen donations were made to churches and charitable institutions amounting to $3,213. A resolution was adopted Manual. There wero 435 deaths in this city last week, and 141 In Brooklyn. A pistol shot was fired through a stage of the Madison avenue line last night, near Walker street and Broadway, by some person unknown. Although there were segeral passengers inside no one was hurt. The Madame Byron clairvoyant case came up before Justice Dodge yesterdny, and, after a general vetilation of the Madame’s way of telling fortunes, a conference took place for the purpose of eilecting a compromise, the complainant having evinced a willingness to accept a return of hor money and withdraw the prosecution, The Facifico Railroad litigation came up in a new form before Judge Barnard yesterday, on a@ suit of Receiver Tweed, to obtain possession of the $6,000,000 alieged to be in the Corn Exchange Bank, An order of reference was granted. In the Unitcd States Circuit Court, Brooklyn, yes- terday, the Grand Jury was empanelied and Jndge Benedict mstracted them as to their duties, Tho case of the ship James Foster, Jr., is to be brougnt before them at once. In the Brooklyn Supreme Court, yesterday, Mrs, Winnifred Ward, who was married to John Ward 1n 1834 and was not from that time till the time of his decease in 1864 recognized by him us his wife, recovered over $30,000 from his estate. The North German Lloyd's steamship, Hansa, Cap- tain Brickenstein, will leave foot of Third street‘ Hoboken, at two P, M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen, The mails will close at the Post office at twelve M. The steamship Magnelia, Captain Crowell, of Leary’s line, will leave pier No. 8 North river at turee P. M. to-day for Charleston, 8, C. The stock market yesterday was dull, but steady, and, for a few of the list, active at the boards. Late in the afternoon the feeling was unsettled apd prices declined. Gold was excited, onening at 1323;, ad- vanced to 1335,, and finally closing at 132%. Prominent Arrivate in tho City. General James H. Leddte, of Utica; J. A. Bright and M. C. Kerr, of Indiana; 8. 8. Marshall, of Uh- nois, and T. Markbrett, Minister tg Bolivia, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Congressman J. G. Blaine, of Maine; A. H. Rice, of Boston, and A. B, Cornell, of Ithaca, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Boris Dangos, of the Russian Legation; Lientenant A. J, Suuttleworth, of the Englivn Army, and Henry Stevens, of London, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Charies E. Alioth, of Switzerland; Captain C. P. De Boise, of the United Stazes Army, and General BR. ‘W. Whittaker, of Hartford, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. General T. B. Gates, of Kingston; P. Taylor, of Toronto, and George A. Drummond, of Montreal, are at the Hoifman House. tain Stockton, of St. John, N. B.; Ernest Schock, of Wellington, N. Z,, ani B.C. Whiting, of San Francisco, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. General Schofleld, Mr. de Lima and Congressman N. Pv, Banks, for Washington; Judge Carter, for Port Bridger; Mark Zellebaoh, for San Francisco; Senator 4. W. Grimes and family and John Kosagaiied ycs- terday in the steamship Samaria for Europe. Loup Atanms.—Clearly the feeling of the nation is that if our Alabama dispute goos to the war point the people are ready. What about the national debt? We may repudiate it, or, better still, we may pay it more easily atter such a war than ndéw; for the ocean is ours, Every soa will teem with our privateers, and English commerce will disap- pear. In that very fact will lay for us an in- calculable wealth. At the same time we would have some benefits at home, and these incline us to hope that the war feeling may run high. Our jobbers will be so eager ia their hunt for the game of contracts that the whiskey rings may be broken. ADVANCING Baokw Anps.— It was a great point in the world’s progress when it was clearly econ that the State had no necessary relation to the Church, and our constitution was not so excellent in scarcely any other point as in the faot that it confined government strictly to its province. It left out the Church; and if in doing this it seemed to leave out God this was because that is a subject on which there is no agreeing, and the disagreement and definition brings in the Church, Now, some pious ante- diluvians want to change that, and want to have God in the constitution, But what God? This is very easy to answer just now; but by and by we shall have on the Continent twenty million men of Chinese raco, and they will want to make it Buddh, Waat Trey Tonk on THE Nitx,—There are 60 many Americans in Egypt and they spend their money #0 freely that the natives, who suppose all the wealth of the world is concentrated in the capital of Great Britain, fanoy these Yankees are a new race that have captured London and propose to spond all the money in Egypt. The Egyptians may be prophets yet if John Ball doa’t pay up. Moran. —Moran, the deputy shoriff who let sentenced bond robber slip through his fingers, has been sent up for four years. The next deputy sheriff who tries that plan had better make common cause with his rogue and leave in tho samo train, Moran is gone up. When shall wo hear of a proposition to pardon | him? Reet vor Tim Stumr.—It is eaid that Sen- ators Sprague and Anthony will both take the adjourns, Thoy will make tho fur fly, stump in Rhode Island as soon as the Sonate | Progress of the Herald. Wo submit to our readers this morning our fourth quadruple Heap for the present week. With its fifty odd columns of advertisements, ® page of Washington news, musical items and velocipede motes (a new thing under the eun), & page of special correspondence from. diffor- ent sections of the four quarters of the globe and the isles of the sea, a page of metropoll- tan doings and general intelligence, an edi- torial page and two columns over, several columns of telegraphic despatches from both hemispheres, a page of miscellancous news (including suburban items and real estate mat- tera), four columns on the latest financial and commercial movements and commercial market reports, a page occupied with reports from the State Legislature, the Twitchell case, recent election results and other matters, including two columns of ship news, our quadruple issue of yesterday was a magnificent specimen of a metropolitan daily newspaper. Our quadruplicate of this morning is much the same in the variety, quantity and quality of its contents, with the special attraction of Senator Sumner’s splendid speech. It is a fair specimen of the amplest, freshest, most com- prehensive and cheapest newspaper in the world. The force of men contributing to pro- duce it would be strong enough not only to conquer and hold the island of Cuba, but to govern it wisoly and well, and the capital em- ployed to bring out the first copy of this quad- ruplicate would suffice to arm and equip this Cuban expedition. Our corps of contributors are conversant with many languages, many nations and tribes of men; they possess a practical knowledge, to a greater or lesser extent, of the professions, the arts and solenoes, politics, the churches, the drama, music and millinery, And then such is the efficiency and such the discipline of our me- chanioal forces that from the labors of thou- sands of busy heads and hands we are enabled to make the Heatp, for the small equivalgnt of four cents, a complote history and a sort of universal exposition of the world’s progress, moral and material, from day to day. The time, the place and the opportunity, without much of capital beyond that of expe- rience, energy and now ideas, brought out the first number—a little, bustling seven by nine—of the Hrratp. At that time the old Courier and Enquirer, with its substantial advantages, if properly managed, might have held its ground and defied all competition in this field. But that journal belonged to the order of the Bourbons, and even in its Holy Alliance against the Heraxp it was signally distanced and soon eclipsed. At that day party journalism prevailed, and a little re- gency at Albany, a little aristocratic party clique at Richmond and a kitchen Cabinet clique at Washington, each with its news- paper organ, and all working together, not only dictated the division of the spoils, but the order of the Presidential succession and ihe destinies of the United States. The advent of the Heracp was an invasion of this old party newspaper oligarchy; the success of the Herat has been the downfall of this perni- cious rule of hireling party organs. Tho sys- tem still exists, bat its power is gone. The independent press is master of the field, and the new Heratp establishment holds the key of the position. This imperial success, as we may call it, would have been impossible outsids of this imperial city. The Hgnatp has grown and extended its lines of communication with the growth of this city and its commanding influ- ence asthe great commercial and financial centre and settling house of the Continent. So it is that in our issue of this day we may fairly challenge a comparison with any other news- paper inthe world. Much has been said of the superior journalism of the British capital ; but on the daily newspaper, as in yachts, steamboats, iron-clads, telegraphs, railways, sewing machines, velocipedes, everything, in fact, Baglish slowness is distanced by Ameri- can enterprise in ‘all the modern improve- ments.” The Abyssinian expedition on jour- nalism has settled the question. The Hzeaxp, as a daily reflox and index of all the multitudinous business transactions, wants and openings of this great metropolis, has become a fixed institution, and, wo believe, a rocognized necessity in this busy commu- nity, to say nothing of its superiority as a general newspaper, But in this capacity it has the continental popularity and influence of the leading metropolitan journal. It is so thorofighly read by all classes of people, with its advertisements renewed every day, that in an issue of sixteen pages—say with fifty-two columns of advertisoments and forty-four columns of general news reports and edito- rials—the smallest advertisement in the obscurest place finds the very customors or special party sought for. In short, the Henratp, adapted to all creeds, all parties, all classes and all pursuits, is read by and sup- ported by all. Hence its commanding posi- tion and advantages as the leading journal of this Continent. We can promise, too, that if our constantly increasing daily circulation shall be enlarged from a hundred and odd thousand to halfa million copies of a quad- ruple paper wo shall find the means and the facilities for getting them off in our morn- ing mails and to our subscribers before break- fast within reach of the early morning trains, The Latest Developments in the Twitchell Case. We publish to-day a batch of confessions, semi-confessions, letters, notes, entreaties, ex- hortations, statements, and 80 on, purporting to be the production of the brain of the mur- derer and suicide Twitchell, and written to his wife, The budget is premised by a statement purporting to be written by Mra. Twitchell herself, but it bears tho marks of a masculine if not as shrewd attorney's hand. Mra, Twitcholl, of course, denies all knowledge of her husband’s crime, and declares that sho knew not her mother was dead until she saw her “Tying on the settee in the kitchen a dead woman.” This whole affair from beginning to end—from the murder itself on throuth the ordeal of the trial, the conviction of Twitchell, the efforts to obtain his reprieve from the Gov- ernor of the State, tho novel application to the United States Suprome Court to set aside the verdict, the declaration of Twitchell’s spiritual adviser that he believed him to be in- nocent of the crime, the incoherent statement of Twitchell accusing his wile of the murder of her mother, tho suicide of Twitchell, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1869.—-QUADRUPLE SHEET. ie ne down to the Munchausen-like exposures just made—is but a concatenation of bor- rors, inconsistencies and absurdities of legal quibbles, cowardly accusations, despicable efforts of the equally guilty to shift the bloody responsibility from tho shoulders of one to those of another which could hardly be con- ceived in or born from any other brains than those of Philadelphia lawyers. Thero are stupendous lies out somewhere; and where everything bears the taint of iniquity the judgmeat,of the community will not err if it condemn all concerned. The Union Pacifico Railroad War. Another rich placer has jnst been discovered in connection with the Union Pacific Railroad suits, which promises a further accession of wealth to the lawyers and agreeable pastime to the Supreme Court and the Judges thereof. Therecciver of the court in the case of Fisk, Jr., vs. The Company, Mr. Wm. M. Tweed, Jr., alleges that there are in the vaults of the Corn Exchange Bank of this city five millions of dollars to the credit of Henry C. Crane, but which rightfully belongs to the Union Pacific Railroad Company. The report of this discovery no sooner reaches the ears of the redoubtable raider Fisk than he lays sovereiga claim to the whole deposit, hurries into court, demands an injunction on the dollars, and moves that an examination of his claim be submitted to a referce to be appointed by the court. Mr, Crane and the Cora Exchange Bank resist this new assault of Prince Erie, but to no avail. Judze Barnard, after a spicy set-to botween counsel, ordered the case before a referee, and by and by, after @ little skirmishing, wo shall see a deadly hand to hand encounter in the Supreme Court over these newly discovered five millions, Beron at Tugz Ferry.—Mr. Bergh went to Roosevelt street ferry when the tide was down and caught two carmen, as we told him he might.- He brought them before a judge and the judge let them go. On what facts? It was shown that two horses were drawing six thousand pounds, and a man swore that it was not half a load for them. Tall swearing that! By the Corporation ordinances a man may re- fuse a load that weighs over a ton. Two thousand -pounds is, therefore, a maximum for one horse, and here two horses were compelled to draw six thousand pounds, If it were ona level this might not be so terrible ; but it is the steep ascent of the ferry bridge that is murder- ous. But little was said of that in court, Ruopg Istanp Harp Up.—The national banks of Providence ara in a sorry condition, No one but a Jewish Moses can get them out of their financial Egypt. Judging from the fact that their agents come over to the United States very often to bor- row a few greenback at a high premium, thoy must be waiting for the arrival of Moses. The day before yesterday they were so hard -up that one bank had not on hand a thousand dollars, and one of the principal banks, the Merchants’, could not scrape together a little over three thousand dollars without running great risks ff€m the bank inspectors. We advise the government to send an examiner there to see if the rival houses of Capulet and Montague have absorbed all the spare cash in their quarrel over the division of Provi- donos plantations. Lot him remember, how- ever, that “Providence” alone “helps him who helps himself” and takes his rations with him, for there is no hotel. Conversation oN Broapway.—First Pat (laying down the gable ends of the new stone street pavement )—‘‘Whoop! hooray! Misther Stewart, the bowld Irish merchant, gives two millions for the Broadway railroad. Phat’s that to this werrk, Mickey?” Second Pat— “Divil a ha'perth I know, Teddy. But it’s a big job. Let's go in and be wun of 'em.” Teddy and Mickey vote, Att Riagt at Last.—Dana has been ap- pointed Appraiser of Merchandise for the port of New York, vice McElrath. This, we sup- pose, will make tho administration all right with Dana ; for although the position is not so prominent as that of Collector it still has some good fat pickings, New York anv The Fisn Bostness.—The Harrisburg State Guard remarks that while Pennsylvania is doing nothing “such States as New York are perfecting plans and enter- ing Into the most stupendous operations to revive not only al the old fisheries of that State, but to create additional fishing ground wherever the least advantage for pisciculture is afforded.” The biggest Fish operation New York has lately entered into was in having Hamilton Fish made Swcretary of State. That was a bad piscatorial failure, A Motrey Qoestion.—What commiitee will get up a reception for Reverdy Johnson on his retarn from England? Let Kentucky, with her ponderous unit CoOreery); 8 speak, Carions.—The organ organ of p protection is alarmed at the activity of the freo traders in public agitation, and proposes that protection- ists shall come out strong before the people with antidotes to the poison of all those free trade speeches. The antidotes proposed are letters to Wells, by Henry C. Carey; social science, by Henry C. Carey; the way to outdo England, by Henry C. Carey, Avotier SMvcater.—The little sloop Four Brothers, belonging to the quarantine estab- lishmént, will be all ready in a fow days to re- enter the contraband business in the lower bay. The Four Brothers was seized last sum- mer by Custom House officers, who took from her a number of “dead bodies” in canvas sacks, which proved to be some forty thousand prime Havana cigars. Watch her, Faster AND Faster.—At one time slow people looked on amazod at the startling effects of the Black Orook costums as It ap- peared in the ballet and the enchantment scenes of the stage; now it is all right ona velocipede, No wondor that the virtues and moralities —— An Otp Bournon.—Senator MeCreery, who gave tho one vote in favor of Reverdy John- son's treaty, is a true representative of Ken- tucky. Kontucky stands just as she did through the war; and the fam who was In doubt whether Kentuoky was tho United States or the United States Kentucky can be | in doubt no longer. . ‘The Spyuloh Constitatien, The text of the yow constitution of drafted by a committee of the Cortes, dented by universal suffrage, which was preseates te the ingislative body in full session on thé seth ultimo, is published #7 extenso in our coltanns to-day. The document is lengthy, verbige and rathar pointless in detail, but affords, nob withstand’yz, abandant evidence of the straggle which is being maintained between the exclusiveyess and intolerance of the native Spaniards and the progressive march of the principle of civi. and religious liberty in the surrounding countries, and hence may be re- garded as an ungrageful attempt to accommo- date Spanish ideas and the old style system te the new order of governmental rule and p»pu- lar enlightenment which surround the ancient aristo-democracy on all sides. The constitu- tion provides tbat the monarchical form of government shall be maintained, the person of the king being inviolable, the royulty beredi- tary, the sovereign being either male or female in the order of primogeniture; the national religion to be Catholic, with toleration of othes forms and liberty to natives to change their religion. The personal liberty of the inhabitants is guaranteed, and no armed body is to be maintained without the sanction of the Cortes; the Cortes to consist of two houses, the duties and rights of members being defined by a new parliamentary franchise. The Cortes will debate the question of the adoption or rejoction of the paper. Should it be adopted it will mark, to say the least, a step in advance for Spain in the path of com stitutional liberty. Cuba, Purto Rico and the Philippine Islands are to share the provisions of the new charter and send representatives te the Cortes—that is, provided the new consti- tution has not been obliterated by revolution previous to their arrival in Madrid. Revervy Jomyson's treats havo been far more successful than his treaties, As Exog.ient Sentiment.—Judge Dowling, in inflicting on a milkman caught in the aot ot adulterating his ‘‘pure Orange county” the heaviest possible peralty, declared that he “‘would rather see one such man punished than fifty liquor dealers.” So would we ail, exoept, of course, the fanatical temperance fellows, These villanous milkmen are directly con- cerned in the starving and poisoning the chil- dren of the poor, and the liquor dealer is much less directly their enemy. How Woourp it Worx Here?—In London they once more find it necessary to revive an anoient police surveillance, and the authorities are to have the right to arrest at any moment formerly convicted criminals, requiring them to show their means of subsistence and give an account of themselves generally. The en- forcement of that law here would make a great many cerners along Broadway look rather bare of fancifully dressed young men. Waar Posrsrrry Has To Say.—In a Paris paper of Maroh 28 there is an obituary notipe of Andrew Johnson. It says he will be justly esteemed by posterity in the list that begins with the name of Washington, and that the “old tailor” was not ‘‘a member of any tem- perance society." Pay Up!—The Pittsburg Commercial says the Pennsylvania Legislature does not adjoura because certain rather extensive jobs have not been paid for. If it would consult ita constituents, who have to pay for these jobs, it would never adjourn. Oount tHe Cost.—Senator Sumner says the damage done by the Alabama exceeds a hundred millions, Eaglamd holds nearly @ thousand millions of our seourities, in the shape of government bonds and railway stocks, Let her, therefore, count the cost should her unjust denial of our claims force us to wat and repudiation. Setriep.—Old Reverdy told the English that he expected to stay with them till hig mission was settled, On Tuesday the Senate gave that mission a settler in the vote of lp four to one. So Reverdy can come home, Spanish Views of the Cuban Question. The letter of our Madrid correspondent pubs lished in yesterday's Hzzaup gives a very lucid exposition of the feeling in Spain in to the revolution in Cuba and the sympathies In this country for the republicag cause there, and shows how completely igno- rant are the people, and even the press, in Spain of the situation of affairs in the Gom of the Antilles. They are led to believe that the revolution is dying out ‘‘throngh powerful repressive measures and its own exhaustion,” and that the filibustering operations of this country are the only support of the present movements in the island. They moreover ostentatiously claim that Spain was strictly neutral in our recent war, giving the United States ships perhaps a little advantago over the rebel cruisers; in return for which thoy demand that we shall not be neutral in the present contest, but shall side entirely with Spain cgainst ber rebellious subjects, As evidence of their fairness it is asserted that “there are very fow Spaniards who do not see that Cuba must eventually fall into the hunds of the United States, but that they would like to seo this result attainod ina fair, natural and honorable way ;” and then the following extras ordinary proposition is set torth:—‘‘If the people of Cuba could vote ina fair, untram- melled way on the question of separation from Spain, and the majority of the votes should be in favor of that act, it is certain that no great number of Spaniards would favor their reten- tion under the Spanish dominion by force, They would regret the loss of the poarl of the Antilles, but they would not spend ao dollar or risk a life to prevent its consumma- tion if legitimately carried out; oaly they would demand o reimbursement for all the money spent by Spain in great public works in Cuba—a proposition fair and just.” The deter. mination of the Spanish people to spond their last dollar and send their ‘ast man to put down the revolution Is set forth In true Arte. mus Ward style, and the whole is capped by an intimation that “some questions will be asked, not only by Spnin, but by several great Powers, as to the intentions of the United States government.” We recognize in these points a very correct exposition of the views and arguments of the Spanish press and of the poople of Spain in the Present questions relating to Ouba; but | they are founded in the grossest ignorance,