The New York Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD government ts ‘constantly buying arms tn this city and that a large quantity of Spencer rifles went out by the Havana sveamer yesterday. At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce yesterday William B. Dodge was elected President, George Opdyke and R. Warren Weston Vice Presidents, F. 3. Lathrop ‘Treasurer and George ‘Wilson Secretary. ; Inthe Marine Court, before Judge Curtis, yester- day, the case of Read va. Wilson was tried, the jury returning a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff’ sued Wilson to recover $275 alleged to have been paid him for services in securing the appointment of plaintiff on the police force. After the rendition of the verdict the Court ordered Read and his wit- nesses into custody on charge of perjury. In the Common Pleas Court, before Judge Daly, yesterday, Frances Wayland recoverea a verdict of $6,890, with interest, againat John Livingston and his sureties. Livingston is a lawyer, and was ad- ministrator of the estate of the deceased husband of the plaintiff, in the settlement of which he was guilty of frauds of such flagrant character as to call for severe rebuke by the Court, who pronounced Livingston a disgrace to hia race, country and pro- fession. ‘The steamship Cella (London and New York line), Captain Gleadell, will ledGe pier No. 3 North river at two P. M. to-day, for London direct. The steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Roskell, and City of Boston, Captain Tibbitts, both of the In- man line, will leave pier No. 45 North river at one P. M. to-morrow (Saturday) for Queenstown and Liver- pool. The matls for Europe will close at the Post OMice at twelve M, 8th inst. The National line steamship Frin, Captain Web- ster, will leave pier No. 47 North river at three P. M. to-morrow (8th inst.) for Liverpool, calling at Queens- town to land passengers. The Anchor line steamship Columbia, Captain Car- naghan, for Glasgow, caiting at Londonderry to land passengers, will leave pier No. 20 North river at (welve M, to-morrow, Saturday. The Merchants’ line steamship Crescent City, Cap- tain Holmes, will sail from pier No, 12 North river at three P. M. on Saturday, 8th inat., for New Or- leans direct. The stock market yesterday was excited and ani- mated over a sudden rise of seven per cent in New York Central, which carried up the entire railway list, excepting Rock Island. Gold was higher in consequence of a decline in bonds at London, ensu- ing upon an advance tn the Bank of England dis- count rate to four and a half per cent, and touched 136%;, but closed finally at 13644 a 13644. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Lieutenant H. A. H. Hendrickson and Surgeon Bronicke, of the Danish Navy, arrived in this city yesterday from Copenhagen. Prominent Departures. E. L. Plumb, the new United States Consu! to Havana, sailed yesterday afternoon, in the steamer Columbia, for his new post of duty. Alexander McCue, of Brooklyn; Professor W. C. Cattell, Alexander D. Napier and W. C. Pell satled yesterday, in the steam: Palmyra, for Liverpool. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heravp. } Letters and packages should be properly 1 sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tak srinit or THF Fountat\—Soap Fat Man. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23dat., between 5th and 6th avs.— OruEL1LO. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur Busiesgoe Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE FoRTY THIEVES. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street.—LE MABIAGE AUX LANTERN #6. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street.— Caste. Das FRAULEIN VON SEL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homery Dowrry, with New FEATURES. Matinee at 19. 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All our recent intelligence from Europe shows that, though the war cloud has not yet burst, the sunshine of security does not rest upon the border lands of France and Prussia. There has been no lack of peace speeches in France; nor has there been any violent mani- festation of bellicose tendencies in Prussia. But while M. de Ia Valette accepts the situa- tion in Germany, and while King William congratulates M. dela Valette for his peace- fu) sentiments, both Napoleon and Bismarck reveal their distrust by providing, as best they can, for the contingencies of the future. It is impossible to mistake the meaning of cer- tain recent public acts of the French Emperor. To make war a prominent question of the hour would be dangerous. It would tell injuriously against the government at the elections now so close at hand. Hence the peace policy of the present. To carry with him triumphantly the votes of the French people—this is Na- poleon's immediate purpose. Mark how he paves the way to success. The Livret or Pass Book system was a perpetual nuisance Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. BrooKiyN CARRIERS aND NewsMen will in future receive their papers at the Brancu OrFice or tHe New York HERALD, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Scascrirtions and all Ietters for the New York Hexratp will be received as above. THE NEWS. Europe. The cabie telegrams are dated May 6. ‘The Spanish Cortes guarantees liberty of worship. A military consptracy has been discovered at Barce- Jona. Tu the Vice Chancellor's Court, London, @ suit of the United States versus a Southern Confederate Agent was decided against the Union government, ‘With costs. The debate on the Irish Church bill was continued in Parliament, Mr. Gladstone betng sus- tained by a large majority. Consols closed in London at 924% a 93%. Five- B twenties were at 79% in Loudon and 96% a 64 in | to the workingman. It was an ever-present Franktort. policeman watching all his movements. It Cotton closed easier in Liverpool. was a government spy which practically Cuba. robbed him of his individual liberty. The The British steamer Salvador salied ‘rom Key West, Fla, on Wednesday night for St. Thomas, crowded Cuban sympathizers. It 1s rumored that this expedition ts connected with a similar one workman hated the Zivret, but without it he could not live. Napoleon has abolished this system, has set the workman free and secured Gtting out in one of the Gulf ports. his vote. Napoleon has done many clever The Legislature. thingsin his day, but, in view of present ‘The bills to extend Bedford avenue and for widen. | exigencies, this is one of the cleverest things he has done. This, however, isnotall. Ifthe French have a weakness it is their passion for military glory. The new army law, it is true, has never been largely in favor; but while this may prove that the French people are settling down with increasing delight to the cultivation of the arts of peace, it certainly does not prove that they are forgetful of the glories of the past. Forty thousand veterans of the First Empire still survive. By way of marking the hundredth birthday of Napoleon the First, Napoleon the Third has resolved very considerably to increase the pensions of those forty thousand veterans. There has been some grumbling among the oppositionists, but the proposal is unmistakably popular all over France, and it cannot fail to have a pow- erful influence in favor of the government at the elections. We say again that the great object of Napoleon is to triumph at the elec- tions—to prove once more to Europe and the world that France is with him. It is scarcely to be doubted that his object will be accom- plished. He has made his moves with such ekifl that failure is next to impossible. The elections over, will this peace policy continue? That is the question which many minds are now seriously asking themselves, but which few find themselves competent to answer, We have said already that Count Bismarck is not deceived by peace manifestations, In the North German Parliament, the other day, he made a speech which furnishes us with a key to his thoughts. A resolution had been intro- duced by a prominent member in favor of a responsible ministry for the Northern Confed- eration. Count Bismarck opposed the resolu- tion and in the course of his speech clearly showed that he is not in favor of too much centralization. His fear was that such a step, while it would de-Prussianize Prussia, would alienate the sympathies of South Ger- many. It would deepen and widen the Main and would practically be shutting the door in the face of the Southern States, ‘The South German,” he says, ‘faces the danger and fights like a brave soldier when he stands on the spot where the law has placed him; but if he must risk his person on his own reaponsi- bility he ponders a long time before he does it.” It is perfectly manifest from these words, and, indeed, from the whole tenor of his apeech, that Bismarck has come to the conclu- sion that Prussia must not be sunk in Ger- many; that the unity of Germany must not be accomplished by and through Prussian ascend- ancy, but that the unity and common sympathy 20,000, His bondsmen were Mr. Charles Tuttie ang } Of the German people will be more effectually Mr. H. 0. Orane. secured by a loose and easy confederation ‘The Spanish Consul at this port staves that nie | than by a confederation too closely united, ing Perry avenue, Brooklyn; allowing criminals to testify in their own behalf; widening Broadway be- tween ‘hirty-fourth and Thirty-ninth streets; to cede lands for a t OMice site In New York, and for repairs of the state canals, were passed in the Sen- ate yesterday. The Committee on Municipal Affairs ‘was discharged from further consideration of the New York Gas bill, and the bill sent to the Commit- tee of the Whole. The Brown Underground Rail- road biliand the bill for a central elevated railroad tn Broadway were ordered to a third reading. In ex- ecutive session the nominations of sixty-two notaries for New York city were confirmed. In the Assembly the resolution to adjourn sine die ‘was called up and its consideration postponed until to-day. The Tax bill, the bills to regulate the sale of theatre tickets in New York and Brooklyn, for the more effectnal punishment of bribery, and the an- pual charity bill were passed, and the bill for the general regulation of assessments ana the City Tax Levy bill were ordered to a third reading. Miscellaneous. The Cuban question ts causing the administration considerable embarrassment. It is deemed advisa- bie to give the Spanish government no cause for offense, but at the same time nothing is to be done to retard operations in this country in favor of the Cuban revolutionists unless the notice of govern- ment officers is officially called to them. Senator Sumner thinks the mere fact of according beilige- rent rights to the Cubans would prove of uo benefit to. them, and that the contest will continue until the island becomes @ desert, unless other nations Anterfere. The Secretary of the Treasury has in contempia- Aion the propriety of putting in operation the law Jor the establishment of a sinking fund for the grad- mal extinguishment of the public debt. It is be- Veved that he will commence operations under this law at the close of the present fiscal year. The President yesterday appointed Robert (. Kirk Minister Resident to the republic of Uruguay. William Carey, of Galena, Ill., appointed assessor of internal revenue for Utah Territory, has declined the position. Fifty-one assistant assessors of internal revenue were appointed yesterday, the majority being for Pennsylvania. The President received an unusual number of visitors yesterday. Among the callers was Dr. Mary ¥. Walker, dressed in her usual “reform” costume of pants and frockcoat. Baron Gerolt, the Prussian Minister at Washing- ton, and Major Hancock, United States Consul at Malaga, sailed from Baltimore on Wednesday in the Bremen steamer. ‘The committee of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce invite proposals for deepening the water at the mouth of the Missisaippt. The strike of the Pennsylvania coal miners has been postponed until further notice. The Mount Vernon estate of General Washington {a advertised to besold at auction on the 1th of Sune next, The City, In the United States Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge Biatchford, Mr. U. 8, Bushueti, against whom an order Of arrest had been issued on the pre- ‘vious day, in an action instituted against him py day Gould and Frederitk A. Lane, entered into bat in South Germany, the Count seems to think, will be a better bulwark to the North if not too closely pressed into union. Any attempt to Prussianize Germany or to force % general union would produce discontent in the South, and discontent in the South would beckon France to the Rhine, This conclusion of the Count is no doubt largely the result of a conviction on his part that war with France is a probability. How best to unite Germany against France in the event of probable attack is Bismarck's present policy. This conclusion of the Prussian Prime Min- ister is already known in Paris, and M. de la Valette has alluded to it as a reason for be- lief in the continuance of peace. Much, how- ever, will depend on the result of the elections. France may become arrogant and aggressive, and she may not. It is certain that Prussia will not he the attacking party. The danger is that the belief may grow that Prussia has sustained a check in Germany, and that the idea of German unity has been abandoned. Such a belief becoming general in France might act as a spur to the aggressive tenden- cies of the French people. So long as ‘‘the flowery banks of the Rhine” tempt French cu- pidity, and so long as it is necessary for the Emperor to humor French vanity, so long, we fear, must peace or war be an open question. We cannot tell what a day or an hour may bring forth. Railroad—Bonds of ‘fron and Gold. The last rail of the Pacific Railroad, the greatest undertaking of modern days, will be laid to-morrow, Saturday, when the Atlantic and Pacific will be united for purposes of trade and travel not only by bonds of iron, but of iron laid most appropriately ona tie of polished laurel and spiked with gold. This is as it should be; the laurel worthily belongs to the people who by their persever- ing energy and spirited outlay of capital carried to successful completion such a vast undertak- ing, while the gold will gravitate toward our citizens at large by the commercial revolu- tion which will be effected through the agency of the line, when the great trade of the East will be diverted to our shores and San Francisco and New York be made the receiving and dis- tributing centres of the rich produce of the hoary lands of Asia. Celebrations of rejoic- ing in honor of the event have been already arranged in: some of the cities of the Union. Let all unite and join in the movement, and thus pay respect and tribute to native genius and the grand resources of our country. The Pacific Wendell Phillips on Cuba and the Aln- bama Claims. On the basis of emancipation and the equality of races Wendell Phillips goes for Cuban independence. The same rule, he argues, condemns England’s Southern con- federacy and belligerent rights, inasmuch as “she strained even the unjust and equivocal rules of international law to find means of helping a slaveholding conspiracy. Hating our government as a possible rival, she aided to establish piracy and slavery as corner stones of a new State. We will waste no time in discussing technicalities with her. Her offence is rank, The atonement is to be full pecuniary recompense, and, beside, a distinct, formal disavowal of any right in future” to play the same game. ‘‘No matter how long it takes,” continues Phillips, ‘‘we can wait.” Meanwhile, he contends, we must help out Cuba, ‘and if Great Britain interferes we have, at little cost, a perpetual Alabama an- chored off her coast, just as near to Liverpool as Dublin is to that port.” This is putting the case in plain English, and probing to the roots of the question. Phillips ought to proceed at once to Washington and have a talk with Mr. Fish. He-is no longer asleep, but he is still dozing, and he wants a thorough waking up. The shaping of the grandest events of the present century is in his hands, and he does not seem to know it. Tae Verpicr tn tug Lone Istaxp Ratnroap Murper.—At length we can chronicle an ex- ception to the usual verdict in cases of rail- road slaughter—‘‘Nobody to blame.” A con- scientious jury, after thorough investigation into the causes of the death of six victims of the recent Long Island Railroad horror, have deliberately come to the conclusion that this fatal result was in consequence of a car being thrown from the track by a defective rail, and that the Long Island Railroad Company is to be held responsible for the accident on account of neglecting their duty to keep their track in proper order. This verdict at once brings the case within the direct cognizance of the Grand Jury, and is the requisite preliminary to prosecutions on the part of the friends of the victims, with a view to exemplary damages. It morally convicts the company of complicity in this latest railroad murder, and renders it Hable to swinging damages in each individual Instance of injury and death. We cannot but regard this decision as a favorable indication of a growing resistance in favor of personal rights and safety against selfish, arrogant and soulless railroad tnonopolies. A TRIPARTITE PROTECTION Proposep, RUT Harp to Reacn.—We perceive that in some of the English journals a tripartite alliance, including England, France and Spain, is sug- gested for the protection of Cuba as an Euro- pean balance of power in the Gulf of Mexico against the United States. The scheme is an old one; but it isno longer practicable. What interest, as Spain now stands, has Napoleon in maintaining her possession of Cuba? None; and, besides, he has his hands full of more important European matters, and much nearer home. As for England, upon her good behavior will depend ber retention of the northern half of North America, which she holds subject to the will and pleasure of the great republic; and as for Spain, her only re- maining chance to replenish her empty coffers from Cuba is to sell out at once to Mr. Fish, on the score of policy and humanity, cheap for cash. Henceforward the balance of power on this Continent and in the Gulf of Mexico is with the United States, Let us take Cuba, and ‘‘let us have peace,” Even ww Tuat O1imate.—Let the Cana- dian barbarians no longer hoot at ns because life is somewhat insecure this side the line, inasmuch as we do not always hang those who shoot men. Young Chaloner, who shot ina publio place the seducer of his sister, has just been pronounced not guilty on his trial for murder. Religious Freedom and Progress in Spain. By telegram from Madrid, dated yester- day, we learn the important fact that the Cortes has voted the article of the new con- stitution guaranteeing liberty of worship and Consequent freedom of conscience, the most vital to the permanency of the national resus- citation, by a majority of one hundred and sixty-four to forty votes. It was also agreed to postpone the contemplated changes in the Cabinet. It is evident from the discussions in the Cortes that the revolution in Spain has lost little, and perhaps none, of its intellectual force, and that under its guidance the country is about to abandon the exceptional position she has so long ocoupied in modern Europe as a religio-proscriptive nation. This policy was consolidated by Ferdinand and Isabella imme- diately after their final triumph over the Moors. In violation of the terms of surrender and of their own royal promises Moors and Jews alike were made objects of the bitterest perse- cution. The result was that while those mon- archs secured the political union that consti- tutes the present kingdom they established the intellectual thraldom which engendered decay. The revolution of September drove out together the Bourbons, who had inherited the dynastic theories of the house of Austria, and the Jesuits and other monastic orders which inculcate intellectual proscription. To-day the Spanish nation demands, through its orators and its free press, a religious disen- thralment which shall recognize not only free- dom of worship, but also philosophic and scientific liberty, as the fountaina of progress in every branch of knowledge and practical improvement, It proclaims that the ancient legislation and. tradition are too severe in these matters, and that the penalties of the existing code must be removed. Recognizing the fact that the intellectual struggle of the present age is not a theological nor a dogmatic strug- gle, but a purely philosophic one, in which the Romanist is not pitted against the Protestant, or the Mohammedan against the Christian and the Jew, it asks for freedom of teaching and of the press. If the new government is estab- lished on these foundations a new era will begin for Spanish thought and Spanish nation- ality. The only danger lies in the tendency of the people, so evident in Spanish history, to convert everything into a political issue. Spaniards have ever been fanatics in politics, and espaiiolisms have ever been their test of truth. An abandonment of that fanaticism is neces- sary for the true disenthralment of Spain, politically and intellectually. The growth and product of thought in other countries must be recognized and admitted. As long asthe Spaniard measures every idea by his old standard and rejects all that has not the odor of eapafiolisms liberty will be a thing unknown and progress impossible. We are under the conviction that there is a revolu- tion going on in Spain which is not pro- claimed in the Cortes and yet has intimate connection with the advance of the people towards intellectual freedom. It is the revo- lution being effected by the construction of railroads and by the army of French cooks and tailors which is overrunning the Penin- sula. These are doing more to break up the old ruts of Spanish thought than any other thing. They create new wants, new fields of labor, new markets for existing products and new démands upon the Spanish mind. If the Cortes will remove the penalties against free schools and a free press which to-day disgrace Spanish legislation we shall hope for more permanent results in Spanish progress than we can ever expect to find in ostentatious discussions of abstract princi- ples and the proclamation of religious free- dom among a people whose test of patriotism is a sturdy belief in the old ruts. As an offset, however, to the pleasing aspect of our earlier reports of yesterday we have, by a second despatch, the news of the discovery of a Carlist conspiracy at Bar- celona, the arrest of military officers, and the seizure of important details of the plan and plot. In such respect Spain remains an un- happy land. Yettow Jack aNd Bivuk Jacker.—The Cubans say they intend to initiate their grand activity against the Spaniards when the sickly season begins, which they can stand and the foreigners cannot. How do the fillibusters like this notion? Tak Conygoriour RevoruTion.—They had a sort of political jubilee in Hartford on Wednesday last, in which both parties joined, over the inauguration of Governor Jewell, with a Legislature to back him on the fifteenth amendment, providing for equal suffrage to men of all colors, When « great revolution gets under full headway it must run its course, and then look outfor another revolution. The great law of the universe is revolution. Noth- ing is fixed in all creation. Horrman’s Vetors.—The Governor gives another veto. He has given us great many of these articles this winter, and has shown that this comparatively neglected power may be most efficiently used to guard the best interests of the public. In the venality, as well as recklessness and ignorance of our legislators, the veto is more than ever neces- sary to prevent the statute book becoming ridiculous as well as villanous. Ireland and the British Government, One of our latest cable despatches shows that all the benevolent schemes and plans which the British government can devise or execute are little likely ever to satisfy a people who ‘are resolved never to be satisfied. We have never refused to admit that Ireland had been wronged, that she had just cause of com- plaint, and that years of wise ‘and conciliatory treatment would be necessary before Ireland could be induced to forget the wrongs she has endured. It has, at the same time, always been our conviction that Ireland has nursed all real and imaginary wrongs until she learned to like them and to regard them as a kind of blessed prerogative. An Irishman—what would he be without a grievance? An Irishman who can entertain a kindly thought of the British government is discarded by his countrymen. This deep-rooted feeling of dislike has found a fresh illustration in the city of Cork. Two Fenian prisoners, whose heads might in all justice have been claimed, were pardoned and set at liberty on condition that they should forthwith leave the country. In place of their NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1869.—-TRIPLE SHEET. leaving the country quietly they courted and won notoriety. A large meeting was held in their honor in the city of Cork, the Mayor pre- siding. The proceedings at this meeting, if not outrageous, were at least unwise. Not only did the Mayor tolerate seditious speeches on the part of others, but he delivered an openly and unqualifiedly seditious speech him- self. Much as we complain of Great Britain, we are lovers of fair play and of common sense. The British government is making an honest effort to redress Irish wrongs. It is not wise, to say the least, for mayors of Irish cities to make seditious speeches while such an effort is being made. Fenians, too, are still locked up in British prisons. It is not kind—it it not considerate on the part of those who have been liberated, or on the part of the Irish people generally, to forget those who have been less fortunate. If Ireland desires to make martyrs it is well enough so to act. If, however, she wishes to enlist in her favor the good opinion and sympathy of mankind she makes a mistake. If the government removes the Mayor of Cork and disqualifies him henceforth from holding the magisterial office no lover of good order and common sense conduct will regret. And after all why should Ireland complain? If she is poor at home she is rich abroad. What is there in New York city which the Irishman cannot call his own? The War of the SpoilsSeekers Against the President. We publish to-day some interesting articles from our exchanges in regard to the hostility of disappointed office-seekers about appoint- ments by the administration and confirmations by the Senate. It will be observed that we should almost be entitled to the stigma of being a nation of office-seekers were it not for the fact that the present intestine political commo- tion exists and expands principally among the partisans and office-seekers who helped to ele- vate the present administration to power. It is, in fact, a bigger row than prevailed among the radicals when ex-President Johnson held the reins of government, with one bridle snapped, when impeachment, disfranchise- ment and utter annihilation of political ex- istence were threatened against the unfor- tunate Andy. Now, where would have been these malcontents and revolutionists had they not succeeded in entrapping General Grant into the meshes of some of their radical notions and carrying him upon the surge of his per- sonal military popularity to the Presidential chair? They would have been nowhere. The democrats either would have taken him up, or their own Horatio Seymour, been elevated to the po- sition Grant now occupies. Instead of scrambling and quarrelling about office and charging one of their chief leaders, an inti- mate and confidential friend of their candidate, with the grossest and most abominable prac- tices—after the commission of which no gen- tleman could with honor to himself recognize the alleged perpetrator as entitled to the cour- tesies of social intercourse—they would have been left out in the bitter cold and the anathe- matized copperheads been now tasting the sweets and gathering the crumbs of official position. Instead, therefore, the disappointed radicals treating President Grant as a ‘“‘charity boy,” as one of these Westerns organs does, he should treat them with contempt and by allowing to pass by, as he would the idle wind, their threats, their contumely, the evidences of their ingratitude, proceed to initiate the organization of an entirely new party upon a splendid national basis where the reasonable men of the North, as well as the South and West, can unite and restore harmony to our now almost distracted country. The office-seekers’ war against the Presi- dent will have one good effect if none other— it will clear the political atmosphere and enable the powers that be to look abroad and see what effect a war of another sort will have upon American liberal institutions. Quaker Guns for the Indians, The Kiowas, Arapahoes and Comanches are preparing their war paint again. Little Nose, Peaked Eyes and Stick-Your-Heel-in-the- Mud are gathering their ‘‘big Injuns” for a grand dash on the white settlers. This time they are determined to teach the government such a lesson as will convince the Indian phi- lanthropists that each ragged and filthy savage should be furnished one thousand dollars per year for keeping the peace, We have no doubt that the intention of the government in appointing Quakers to manage our Indiar affairs has proceeded from the best motives. These amiable, unsuspecting and kind hearted individuals, when appointed, will pro- ceed to the Indian country, expand their eyes with their hearts, take in the glorious propor- tions of the noble savage, treat with the Hiawathas, smile sweetly upon the Minne- hahas, and make a report to the government which will draw treasure even from the strong box of a missionary society. In the meantime these Quaker guns will be worked to great advantage by the present Indian rings who already scent the game and are preparing for it, We will wager all the Indian scalps our regular army has taken in the last ten years— not « very heavy bet, to be sure—that before the Quaker managers reach their desti- nations there will not be a single member of any Indian ring or a trader upon our frontier who will not have on a broad- brimmed hat and a snuff-colored coat. In fact those who are fattening off of Indian appropriations are already beginning to say “thee” aad “thou.” We suspect also that there will be a great demand for shadbellied coats and broad-brimmed hats among the principal Indian magnates, The Quaker commission will probably be greeted by Bloody Scalp, Greasy Back, Bottle Rye and Chaw-Your-En- trails, in full Quaker costume, with pipes of peace in their hatbands and scalping knives in their waistbands. We are informed that the Humanitarian Society of New York has despatched an agent to visit the various tribes and see what more the white man can do for them. We hope that he took the precaution to shave all the hair off of his head before he started. It is time we ended this Indian humbug. Congress shotld apply the existing criminal lows to the Indians and cease disgracing the United States by making treaties with people living upon our own territory. If the Indians disobey the laws, lot the punishment come man, even * quickly and surely, Properly the management of the Indians comes under the jurisdiction of the States or Territories where the tribes exist. The whole matter is simply kept in the hands of the general government because it offers a splendid field for the spoliation of the United States Treasury. The Last Quarantine Outrage. Every person compulsorily vaccinated by the Health Officer at Quarantine suffered an assault for which that swaggering bully could be made to respond in damages, if the travel- ling public could be stopped on its way to em- ploy such a remedy. But as it cannot, as men from foreign countries will go hastily on to their homes or pursue the business that brought them here, it is for the public to in- quire whether there is not power somewhere to limit the outrage, insult and interference with which people are met at the entrance of this city. Compulsory vaccination is a thing that wise men hesitate to recommend and that only the most imminent danger to the public can justify. Many believe that this contamination of the system by the introduc- tion of a disease from the animal kingdom is an evil not balanced by the immunity it gives from another disease. Shall, they, then be forced to accept it when the other disease does not menace them? The utmost nicety of care in the discrimination of vaccine matter is necessary, as the most loathsome of all human diseases are frequently communicated by this process. Shall people, then, be forced to submit to it at the hands of an official whose discrimination is seen in the fact that be goes through a shipload of passengers in the style in which markers go through a shipload of cattle? No greater outrage has been perpe- trated in a long while that at all equals in its disregard of the rights of persons this whole- sale slashing and daubing of vaccination, having no other reason than the greed of the four hundred dollars charged for it. Tug Cusan REvoLvrTion AND AID to THR Cusans.—We are informed by telegram from Key West that a British steamship sailed from that port on Wednesday night freighted with Cuban sympathizers, and, it is to be pre- sumed, material aid. She cleared for St. Thomas by way of Nassau—favorite routes for rebellious recruits—and is said to do duty in connection with an expedition of liberation from one of the Gulf ports. If this be true Spain cannot endure it much longer. She must relax her hold or call in some friendly aid. We wait the result, Presoriptions.—A physician regrets that the law does not prevent an apothecary from preparing tor a second or third time the med- icine directed in a prescription. We think his view erroneous. If the apothecary were authorized to refuse the customer could demand the written prescription, which is his property, in fact, and take it to another apoth- ecary. The case is cited of the prescription for chloroform that was prepared every other day by an apothecary till death was caused. How can the means to kill be kept from those determined to have them? With the simple penknife that is everywhere any man ‘‘nay his quietus make.” The Cuban Question Before the Govornment and the People. The administration will do well to observo the popular instinct.” That the public mind is in active and full sympathy with the Cubans, who are struggling to throw off the yoke of Spain, and to annex that fertile island to our political Union, no man who can read the signs of the times will doubt. The thronged public meetings which have been witnessed in many of our larger cities to express sympathy with the cause, the avidity with which intel- ligence from the island is sought for, and the prominent discussion which the leading jour- nals in all parts of the country give to the question and its affiliating issues, all indicate that there is something more than a passing sentiment at work among the people. It is the unfailing indication that for Cuba the ful- ness of time is approaching when she must follow her destiny, no matter what courts or cabinets may think or wish. In all questions of national development the people are always in advance of their rulers, and these are ever compelled to follow, not to guide, the national will. The little germ which less than one hundred years ago bourgeoned and blossomed in Inde- pendence Hall at Philadelphia has now grown to a stalwart nationality, abundantly capable to defend the principles of its life, as well as to provide for its own safety. In one shape or another, by violent or by peaceful means, the colonial system which marked the early age of American growth has given way before its de- velopment until at the present day but a small remnant of colonial rule is left in the New World. A few islands in the American Medi- terranean and two or three insignificant com- munities around the delta of the Orinoco com- prise the extent of European government in America, These stand more as picket posts than as valuable possessions along the coast of North America, from which American growth may be watched, and if need be may be checked or resisted in its advance. It is this fact which the popular instinct ts keen to appreciate and to destroy. However much the government may be bound by diplo- macy or by treaties and their consequent legis- _ lation to respect the existing status of colonial rule, the public mind of America can never forget that our nationality was born in war against that system, and that our growth has ever been in opposition to it. Hence the feet- ing which our fathers exhibited in behalf of the Spanish-American republics, and that which is now found animating our people in favor of Cuba. When we were younger as a nation, and before our strength had fairly har- dened into the bone and sinew, it was well for government to be prudent in its proclamation of principles and cautious in its defence of rights, Therefore we have no fault to find with Presi- dent Adams because when the Ouban question first came up in 1826 he hesitated to proclaim the true principle of American growth, The Holy Alliance had but recently suppreased the liberties of Naples, Piedmont and Spain, and the time was not propitious. It was our for- bearance, then, which gave to Spanish gov- ernment in Cuba ® now lease of life, That lease she has cancelled by her own acts. Obstinately refusing to recognize the Growing spirit of the ago, she has consolidated