The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK TE RALD BROADWAY AND ANN | STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herat. © Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Volume XXXIV. sseeeenee or AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tur Bouiesgve Ex- TRAVAGANZA OF THE Forty Tuleves. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenuo and Twenty- fourth street.—Lé DRAGONS DE VILLAKS. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th stroet.— CasrTe. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery— Nanciss! OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Hosery Domrry, with NEw Fratures. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eiguth avenuo and ‘28d street.—Tuk TEMPES’ BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wno's To WIN; TuE Munver ar rue Foun WiLLows. on, WAVERLEY THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—MrRian's Crime—Mippy Asnorp, &c. WOOD's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Allernoon and evening Performance. 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Brooktyn Carriers anp Newsmen will in future receive their papers at the Branca Orrice or toe New York Henatp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Svpscriptions and all letters for the New York Heraup will be received as above. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated May 9 On Friday last General Prim declared in favor of “honor and liberty” in the Spanish Cortes, whatever that may mean. General Cabrera, the notorious Carlist leader, has made his appearance tn Catalo- nia, The finances are causing much anxiety. The expenditures, it is said, will exceed the revenue by 12,000,000 reals. The Belgium Senate has refused to ratify the bill for the abolishment of imprisonment for debt. M. Bara, the Minister of Justice, has tendered his resignation to the King. The object of the German Protestant Congress, Which will meet in Worms on the ‘ist inst, is to consider a proper reply to the recent appeal of the Pope. A new Cabinet has been formed in Italy. South America. Our Panama letttris dated May 1, Political affairs are very quiet. A destructive fire had occurred in a vuwon warehouse at Baranquill The steamer America had been totally wrecked at Nare on the Magdalena river, Tue smallpox was still prevalent in Panama. General Veintimillia, the leader of the late revo- Jutionary movement in Ecuador, had been released on giving bonds that he would remain away from the republic for fourteen months, Heavy shocks of earthquake were felt at Quito on the 10th of April. Our Lima , Peru, letter is dated April 22. Some excitement was caused by a rumor that Melgaryo, ‘the Dictator of Bolivia, was marching on Peru with @ large army, but the foundation for the story con- sisted probably in the fact that a Bolivian bishop had been recently appointed, and as his consecration re- quired the presence of five bishops, he had to repair to Puno, in Peru, to find the requisite number, and Melgaryo wished to honor him with a large escort, The Peruvian administration, however, take the matter seriously and propose to increase the army in consequence of it, United States Consul James H. McColley, of Callao, died of yellow fever on the 17th of April, and Edmund W. Sartori has been appointea Acting Consul by Minister Hovey. The donations received for the benefit of the sutferers by the earth- quakes of last August amount to $120,000, of which England gave $60,000, and the United States £30,000. Galvez, the Minister of the Interior, tad had a dis- agreement with the President and had resigned, Our Valparaiso, Chile, letter is dated April 10, Congress has convened but is still without a working quorum, owing to the machinations of the govern. ment party. This oppsition 1s owing to the clergy, whose strong financial support is endangered by the reforms proposed. The Araucanian Indians are carrying on the war op the frontier more vigor- ously thau ever. Central America. The revolution in Guatemala has not yet been suppressed. Several engagements have taken place without definite result, Several shocks of earth- quake were felt in Salvador about the middie of April, The Honduran Congress has been called in extra session for the 16th inst. The new Con- stitution of Costa Rica is published and seems to be quite liberal. Miscellimeous. The English Legation in Washington, it is sata, exception of Mr, Thornton, who is very re |, express a good deal of surp and mystifi- se cation over the action of the Senate in rejecting the Alabama claims treaty, They do not understand What we want. They claim that Minister Johnson and Mr. Seward both represented the party in power, for one had been Secretary of State through- out the war and the other was the unanimous choice of the Senate for the English mission, Besides the 6an Juan, Alabama and citizenship treaty ali hinged upon one another and we accepted one and rejected the others. They think we want more than we ald @ year ago. The Secretary of State has frequently assured Befor hi ta, the Spanish Minister, that he win enforce the neutrality laws. The latter has notined Dim that several filibustering expeditions have left NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. for Cuba lately, ut ho can produce no facts Lo prove his assertions, ‘The Pacific Ratiroad celebration in San Francisco on Saturday was a grand affair, Military and civic societies paraded, salutes were fired, congratulatory Messages were receiced and sent, and everybody Was out of doors. At night the whole city was illuminated. ‘The workmen attached to the Washington Navy Yard held a meeting on Saturday and resolved to work eight hours and demand the usual ten hours’ pay, when, if the pay was refused, they would carry the matter to the courts. The City. Right Rev. Dr. Gill, of Richmond, preached in St. Patrick’s cathedral yesterday, In the First Presby- terian church, on Fifth avenue and Twelfth street, the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions held a meeting and the reports of the past year’s operations were read. Rey. Dr, Thayer, of Newport, RK. 1, then preacied a sermon, Rev. Dr. Chapin, having re- covered from his illness, was enabled to preach yesterday at ts Chureh of the Divive Paternity, where he delivered ® most eloquent ser: mon on the “Quiet Workings of Nature,” in which he aliuded to the completion of the Pacific Railroad, The anniversary of the New York Bible Society was commemorated at the Methodist church on Seventh avenue. The American Female Guardian Society celebrated its thirty-fitth anniversary at the Fourth Presbyterian church, in Thirty-fourth street, An abstract of the annual report of the lady man- agers was read, which showed that 670 women and children have been sheltered in the Home for the Friendless during the past year, and aout 1,000 women have been furnished with respectable em- ployment. The United States steamer Memphis was sold at auction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday for $55,000. The counsel for the Haytien government having become satisfied of the innocence of the three par- ties, John Rust, Aifonzo Brett and William H. M1. Jones, arrested on a charge of being implicated in the extensive forgery of Haytien bank notes, made an application yesterday before Justice Hogan at the Tombs for their release. The Judge promptly ordered the discharge of the prisoners, Subse- quently statements were taken giving the full de- lails of the negottations for printing the forged notes which tmplicate an admiral and two subordt- nate officers in the Haytien navy. Statements were also made regarding other alleged forgeries of notes of higher denominations, which, in order to serve the ends of justice, cannot be published at present. All these statements are to be forwarded to the Hay- tien authorities and criminal action taken against tue aleged guilty parties. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel John ©. Warren and Augustus E. Costello, the Fenians released recently from British prisons, arrived yesterday, and are stopping at Sweeney’s Hotel. J, A. Garcia y Garcia, Peruvian Minister, is at the Clarendon Hotel. Colonel W. D. Farrand, of Washington, and Dr. Frazer, of St. Louis, are at the Westmoreland Hotel, Captain H. Roundy, of San Francisco, and E. Ad- ams, of London, are at the Brevoort House. B. Jewell, of Hartford; N. Page, of Washington; Captain P. I. Pilloth and Colonel W. Earl, of the English Army; General J. S. Fullerton, of St. Louis; Judge Comstock, of Syracuse; Ben. Field, of Albion, and Samuel I’, Dana, of Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. B. Middletown, of the United States Army; Nat. McKay, of Boston; Judge McCorkle, of Nevada, and Colonel Clarence King, of Washiagton, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel W. H. Wiegel and Captain H. B, Hender- son, of Rochester, and Dr. H. Faukenburg, of Baden Baden, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Prominent Departures. Horace Leland, for Springfield, Ill.; Major Drake, for New Haven; Senator Sprague, for Rhode Island; Colonel Coleman, for Lancaster; Ross Campbell, for Baltimore; Senator Dickson, for Hartford; Captain Dickinson, for Boston; R. H. Pruyn, for Albany. The Reduction of the National Debt and emecmes ho By order of the Secretary of the Mtroseary Mr. Van Dyck, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, advertises that proposals for the sale to the government of one million dol- lars of six per cent five-twenty bonds will be received until May 12, when the bids will be opened and the awards declared. It is pro- posed to keep up this exchange of gold for bonds to the extent of a million dollars. a week for an indefinite period to come. Assum- ing it to be a fixed system of operations, let us see how it will work through a period of twenty years; first, in its application solely to the reduction of the principal of the national debt: — Annual Reduc- annual Reduc- tions of the tions of the Nat ed Debt, National Debt. lth year. 12th year 1th yea 14th year. 16th Year. 16th year. 133,000, 141,000,000 + 150,000,000 Total reduction in twenty years......$1,343,000,000 Putting the debt in round numbers at twen- ty-six hundred millions, the reduction by this process at the end of twenty years will be as follows :— Present national debt...............66 Total reduction hy twenty years by ‘$2,600,000, 000 purchaseof bon 1,843,000,000 Balance unpaid.. $1,767,000, 000 This is something, not begin to do. Our present national taxation is the crying evil of the country, and here lies the most urgent and pressing demand for relief. Suppose, then, we apply the interest upon these annual purchases of bonds to the reduc- tion of the interest on the general debt. By the process of applying only the principal of these purchases to the reduction of the princi- pal of the debt, and the interest of these annual recoveries of bonds to the reduction of the interest on the debt, the results through twenty years will be as follows :— Reductions of —_Rednettions 0 ‘Debt. i y $52,000,000 : 104,000,000 ar 156,000,000 ata year oth year ith year 12th Year... 53,040,000 56,160,000 59,280, 000 goth year. l 62,400,000 Here we find that, although, as compared with our first plan, we fall eight hundred millions behind at the end of twenty years in the reduction of the debt itself, we gain at the end of ten years say thirty-one millions, and in the twentieth year over sixty-two millions in the reduction of the interest. In other words, these sums are go much gained in the reduc- tion of our annual taxes, But this is too slow, much too slow, for the age we live in. If Mr. Boutwell could afford to invest two millions of gold weekly for the purchase of the bonds he could wipe out the whole debt, principal and interest, inside of twenty years; but as it ap- pears he cannot do this, what else oan he do in the lessening of our burden of taxes and in bringing us within view by the naked cye of a complete extinguishment of this English- looking mountain of debt ? The Secretary of the Treasury estimates the national expenditures for the fiscal year begin- ning July 1 of the present year and ending June 30, 1870, as follows :— For interest on public debt. For civil service... For Navy Department },000,000 For Interior Department « 30,000,000 Total... $303,000,000 His estimated receipts $ (MeCullooh’ 's last De- ‘cember report) for the same period are 327,000,000. We think they will be much more; that with a reformation of the whiskey rings and reasonably honest returns from col- lections made from all sources, the receipts for the next fiscal year will, and ought to be, at least four hundred mil- lions. This is what may be easily done in the way of reform in the collection ofthe public revenues, In retrenchment much more may be done. Tae interest on the debt may be reduced five millions instead of three ; McCulloch’s estimates of expenses may be cut down heavily. The civil service, which he estimates at fifty millions, can be reduced to forty at once, and fifty instead of seventy-five millions should do for the War Department. Next, leaving the navy fifteen millions, as cut down, we believe, by Congress, the Interior Department is too costly for Grant by ten millions at McCulloch’s estimates on the John- sonian plan of operations. These savings, then, ought to be made on McCulloch’s esti- mates :— Interest on the debt On civil service. On War Dep: On the navy... On Interior Dep: TOtal........ceececececee Adding this sum of savings to what ought to be the gains upon McCulloch's estimates of receipts, we should have at the end of the next fiscal year this exhibit in our favor over McCul- loch’s calculations :— Treasury receipts... Savings in expenditure: $97,000,000 55,000,0C0 oe 152,000,000 This surplus would at once enable Congress to cut down our taxations to the extent of a hundred millions, or twenty-five per cent, still leaving the necessary margin for the purchase of a million of bonds weekly. General Grant, then, is right. Economy, retrenchment and reform are the remedies for our national debt and taxations, and nothing else will save us from wreck and ruin. The Irigh Church Question in the House of Lords, By cable we learn that the ministerial mea- sure disestablishing and disendowing the Irish Church hae been fully discussed in committee of the whole House of Commons, The bill may thus be considered as reada third time and passed. It is a noteworthy circumstance, as indicating the strength of the present gov- ernment, that, though slightly modified in one or two particulars, the bill in its present shape—the shape in which it will be carried to the Lords—is substantially the bill which Mr. Gladstone framed. The question which now deman ngs attention in connection with this matter Is, iow will the bill be received and treated by the Lords? That a large proportion of the members of the upper house are opposed to the principle of the billis already weil known. But will this opposition be allowed to lead them so far as to reject the bill? We hardly think this likely. It is pos- sible, however, that they may seriously modify it and send it back to the Commons. If this is done there can be no doubt that Mr. Glad- stone will carry the House of Commons with him and that the bill will be returned to the Lords in its original shape. If the Lords again refuse to pass it, it is certain that Mr. Glad- stone will make use of his prerogative by creating as many new peers as shall force the billinto law. The presumption is that the Lords will not reveal their weakness by any stubborn resistance. Resistance they know is unavailing; and it may, we think, be taken for granted that the billin its present shape, or substantially in its present shape, will be- fore the autumnal recess receive the Queen’s signature, and that forthwith the initial steps will be taken to sweep out of existence an old, irritating Irish grievance. The Fine Arts. The press and the public seem to be unani- mous in the opinion that the present exhibition of the National Academy of Design, although confessedly an improvement upon the last ex- hibition, indicates by no means a flourishing condition of American art. The galleries of the Academy are less crowded with visitors than several picture galleries on Broadway and Fifth avenue. Many of the older and most distinguished academicians have failed to exhibit any of their own works this year. A large number of them are abroad and may be charitably supposed to be busy upon works which will sustain if not advance their reputa~ tion. Moreover, not a few of our best and most popular artists are not academicians. Whatever may be the cause of the apparent decline of American art, so far as it is repre- sented by the National Academy, let us hope that this decline is apparent rather than real. The American eye is yearly becoming better educated to see and appreciate what is excel- lent in art. Let our painters and sculptors and architects be stimulated and not discour- aged by the higher standard of public taste. The growing demand for art must eventually meet with a corresponding satisfactory supply. The summer tours for which our New York artists are now preparing will doubtless enable them to bring back portfolios full of studies on which they may base works supe- rior to any which they have hitherto pro- duced, eee Tuk New Dowixion.—The New Dominion goes on prospering. So it appears from Minister Rose’s statement. It is always good when receipts exceed expenditures. A balance on hand is always better than debt. If, however, the New Dominion prospers 80 much in its isolated condition, how much more would it prosper under the blessed sun- shine of the Union? Forming part of the United States, it would not only be inundated with American capital, but the gold of Europe would develop the wealth of the magnificent valleys. What the Dominion wants is security. This she can only have by incorporating her self with the United States, The International University Races. The Harvard University oarsmen have again thrown down the gauntlet to their English cousins, and this time the latter have taken it up. It will be remembered that the original “cartel” was for an cight-oared race, without coxswains; but now Harvard has agreed to carry such anornament. Thisis,on the whole, well; for, leaving out the indefinite period we should have had to wait before the English would have been ready to row without one, we understand that this little man in both the Oxford and Cambridge boats is about as new to the Putney course, on which the race is to be rowed, as the American one will be; so that, particularly as the latter is already a man of some experience, we shall not be so badly off in this respect. In fact, a London correspondent practically yields this ; for he says :—‘‘A cox- swain who is familiar with the shifting and violent currents of the Charles will have no difficulty in mastering the peculiarity of the Thames between Putney and Mortlake.” This same gentleman—whom, by the way, a contem- porary keenly describes as ‘‘a sort of journalistic McCracken”—has, to be sure, endeavored to throw a wet blanket on the whole plan of an inter-university race. He says :—‘‘None know better than the Harvard men themselves that it is easier to get together and get into good form four good men than eight good men. A good eight is the culmination of all the science and art there is in rowing.” But why isa “good eight the culmination of all the science and art there is in rowing,” any more than a good four? - Each man in either boat has exactly the same sort of work to do, and we fail to see why four men cannot represent a community as well as eight. The London Rowing Club have a racing twelve- oar, which, other things being equal, can always beat an eight. Why not say a good twelve is the culmination above mentioned ? The real reason why the challenge was made for a four-oared race was undoubtedly because Harvard has only some six hundred men from whom she could choose her four, and hardly a hundred of these row any, while Oxford has over two thousand and Cambridge twenty-five hundred, and each of the latter a large pro- portion of rowers. Why, then, Harvard must be prepared to find the proposed contest con- sidered as an incomplete trial of strength is not so plain. Would the two nations have been any more fairly represented in the Kelly and Hamill sculling match had there been two or two dozen ona side instead of one? That race can be no omen of defeat here, because, leaving out of consideration whatever may justify the opinion that it was thrown, it is well known that Hamill’s style of rowing was wretchedly short and snatchy, and calculated touse a man up much faster than the long, clean sweep now common to both Oxford and Harvard. The ill luck of Mr. Smalley and some of his friends in an ‘‘eight” from Yale, which had a fine opportunity for inspecting the stern of a Harvard “four,” up on Lake Win- nipiseogee, so far back as 1853, to say nothing of the fact that he has not seen one of the later Harvard and Yale races where the “time” has so visibly improved, may have had some- thing to do with souring his views on the wis- dom of rowing in four-oared boats, _ Bome fears have been expressed lest the dis- position to interfere with Heenan in his Farn- borough fight might show itself in this river struggle. But, with the London press gene- rally, we think not. That was a contest where no respectable man hada right to be seen, fought in an out-of-the-way place, with a mortal fear of the police, in defiance of all laws except those of the P. R. Here is a struggle where there is absolutely no cheating, where honor alone is at stake, where four gen- tlemen, chosen with great care from each of the best known universities of two mighty nations, meet on a field right at the metropolis of the world, have every aid from the police, have for their referee perhaps an M. P., and are eagerly watched by a million of people, including the very élite of Great Britain. The proposed American party, it is said, con- tains the two best men of the fastest amateur crew yet turned out on this Continent—the Harvard of '68; for the St. John crew, which absolutely ran away from these same doughty Oxford men at the Paris Exposition in 1867, having previously rowed a match race for money, were not amateurs. They have to meet, not professionals, like the Wards, whom they pushed so closely at Worcester last July, nor even the champion amateurs of England— for the London Rowing Club have frequently defeated them, and the Kingston men can show some ‘‘time” over the Henley course that we do not hear of their beating—but simply four students like themselves, a trifle only, if any, heavier, no older, and no more experi- enced in shell racing. We must say that we have seen no good reason as yet why the trial should not go on, and we wish the four young gentlemen who are to represent us complete success. The Pacific Railroad. To-day one of the grandest of human under- takings will be completed. Upwards of three thousand miles of rail, carried across and through every conceivable kind of obstacle, will connect San Francisco with the great cities of the Atlantic coast. Rejoicings have already taken place in several centres in pros- pect of its completion. To-day, however, will be a day of general rejoicing in every city of the Union. Since the successful laying of the Atlantic cable no such event has happened. Two such events are sufficient to give undying fame to the later years of the nineteenth cen- tury. Looking to what has been accomplished by the steamboat, by the railroad, by the elec- tric telegraph, we are certainly warranted in saying we live inanage of progress. What is, however, is but an earnest of what is to be. Greater things than these are in store for us, The Suez Canal will soon add another to the many triumphs which mind has won over mat- ter, The Darien Canal will follow. Sea will no longer be divided from sea, The great pathways of commerce will be multiplied and made easy. Commercial interests will .bind the nations together, will hurry forward the work of civilization, and, by identifying the interest of the one with the interest of the many, will beget a feeling of universal brother- hood. The age of knights, kings, emperors and petty republics is rapidly passing away, and the finger of progress points to one grand federation, which will embrace all mankind. Wik not this be the wmillenaium? Henn ee ee ee eee a Le Ren EEE ESE SER ES ee See ar oS ae r= mh Oa. eee Penta Pek a on ee oars all events, as this Pacific Railroad is altogether our own, our own work and on our own soil, it is meet, now that the undertaking is completed, that we should rejoice and be ex- ceeding glad. We are the youngest of the peoples, but we are teaching the world how to march forward, Egypt built her pyramids, Greece built her temples, Rome constructed her roads; but the bulk of the pyramids, the beauty of the temples,the utility of the Roman roads, are all lost sight of in view of this last great work of the young giant of the West. Cuba and the Filibusters. Several weeks have elapsed since our spe- cial correspondents in Cuba announced that it was slack tide with the revolutionists, and this fact has recently been communicated to the government by Admiral Hoff, who states, in his official report from Havana, that neither party seems to be doing much just now. Coinci- dent with this state of affairs the Cuban Junta in this city made public a few days since an urgent appeal to that body from the insur- gent Generals Marmol and Figueredo to send them arms and ammunition; and the tenor of all our advices from Cuba is uniform in the statement that the revolutionists are sadly deficient in these essentials. At the present moment the partisans of Cuba are making great exertions in this country to send to their friends in Cuba these necessary sup- plies, and the agents of the Spanish govern- ment in this city are equally active in its be- half in forwarding similar material. The only difference between the two consists in the fact that one side does its work silently, but efficiently, while the other endeavors to do its labor with a great show of results and a pa- rade of movement, after the style of the old filibuster days of Lopez and Quitman. But there is no similarity whatever be- tween the two movements or between the aims and results of the respective agitators and leaders. The position of the Cuban question of to-day and the means available for its triumph are widely distinct from those that attended the same question in1850, Even the attitude and prin- ciples of the combatants are changed, as will be seen by a very cursory but exact review of the history of the Cuban question. The aspi- ration for a free government among the people of Cuba is coincident in its inception with the revolutionary struggles of the Spanish colonies of the Continent. It first took form soon after the restoration of absolute govern- ment in Spain by the Duke d’Angouleme, with a French army of one hundred thousand men, in 1823, At that period a conspiracy, which ramified from Mexico under the name of the “Black Eagle,” gave the Spanish authorities much uneasiness, This was followed by an- other, called the ‘‘Sons of Bolivar,” connected with the projected invasion of Cuba by Gen- eral Bolivar. The invasion scheme was de- feated by the attitude President Adams took against it, and the secret societies were effect- ively suppressed by the judicious policy, com- bining firmness with moderation, pursued by Captain General Vives. From this time the Cuban question slept until 1848, when it was resuscitated by Lopez. At this period an abglition party had been de- veloped in Srais, which gave life to the desire for separation among the great slaveholding and agricultural interests. Lopez was exe- cuted in 1851, and the Cuban agitators sought Quitman as a leader. The advent of Pezuela as Captain General of the island, with direc- tions to prepare the country for the abolition of slavery, so alarmed the wealthy and plant- ing interests that they embraced the cause of independence with great fervor, and the coffers of the Cuban Junta of 1852-3 received abun- dant supplies of,money. The Spanish govern- ment, alarmed at the portentons growth of the Quitman movement, changed its policy, and the filibuster attempt subsided. All through these agitations peace reigned in the island, excepting two short periods of a few days each, when Lopez made his descents, and the plan of revolution rested entirely upon a pro- posed invasion by an organized body of armed men, the leaders of which looked for assist- ance from the people when it should be seen that protection could be afforded to those who joined the movement. The revolution which now rages in Cuba is of an entirely different character. It has been the people who have moved first, and the wealthy class, particularly in the western or sugar-producing district, has not sided with them. In the eastern and central portion of the island, where the slaveholding interest is comparatively small, all classes have embraced the revolution. Freedom has been proclaimed tor the slave, and hatred to the Spaniard is the burning motive in every Cuban breast. But the people are poor, and as the wealthy classes of the west took no part in prepara- tion and have not since made remittances as they did in 1852-3 to the junta in this country; the resources of the revolutionary agents here are small. Nor ure their needs the same as were those of 1853. Then a strong force was needed as a nucleus for the revolutionary movement, and the army of Quitman pre- sented many of the brightest names of our army of that day, with thousands of organized followers. To-day the revolution has its thousands of men in the field, but is sadly wanting in arms, munitions and leaders skilled in the art of war. These causes have made the change which is seen in the Cuban movements of the present day. There is no opening for the thousands of armed filibusters of the past, To send men to Cuba would be waste; for it consumes the available means which should be expended in arms, and thus diminishes the supply of these. Such numbers only as are suflicient for easy and successful landing of munitions are all that the case requires and the means of the present junta will warrant. It is for this reason that we see no prominent military names now connected with Cuban affairs and with such small ven- tures as those that leave our shores, But these very facts make the movement more worthy of our sympathy and support. Tho revolution is truly a popular movement in Cuba, and not a filibuster movement outside of it. The call for arms and not for men is ® proof of the strength and righteousness of the cause; and the fact that a mass of unarmed country people have driven the Spanish troops in more than one-half the island to take refuge in barricaded towns is “At | o significant evidence of the popular senti- ment. Their affairs may be at elack water for the present, but all revolutions have their defeats as well as their victories, and there is strong promise of success in the fact that the men who are making the pre- sent revolution in Cuba call for arms, and not for filibusters. Religion in the Pulpit and on the Altar. The annual assault which the religious com- munities direct against the arch enemy of the souls of men, his agencies, devices and allure- ments, by the aggregation of their anointed representatives in New York—a city regarded by many as his special stronghold—was opened in a worthy manner, and with a commendable show of confidence in the power of the ‘‘sword of the Lord and Gideon,” in our midst yester- day. The plan of Christian campaign appears to be, so far as we can judge from our special reports published to-day, similar to that observed during the past twenty years—the disabling of the unscrupulously active opposing force by the seizing of his most formidable materiel of war—money, either in gold or greenbacks—and the subsequent carrying oft of the ‘‘spoils” to the more rural districts, so that his immediate power for evil may be weakened by dilution and re-distribution, and nothing be left him in re-enforcement except our every day city temptations; novel in enticement to the country crusaders and infi- nitely more dangerous in consequence, from the effects of which it is to be hoped they will be preserved by divine grace and a constant recourse to prayer during their present muni- cipal sojourn. The spiritual reawakening was very general during the entire day yesterday, pervading New York and Brooklyn deeply, its sympathetic vibration extending into the “Jerseys,” running along the line of the Hudson, touching the heart of Con- necticut and Massachusetts, with other primary centres of the ‘‘Word,” and moving the residents of Washington to a general at- tendance ata church dedication, and a devout attention to excellent sermons, delivered both in the German and English languages, the Catholic, Congregationalist, Baptist, Method- ist and churches of other denominations be- ing thronged and the discourses appropriate and energetic. An agreeable feature seen in the Washington temples was the ministration of several pastors from churches located in the Southern States, one of whom assured his hearers that the social wounds produced by secession were almost healed. New York assisted in the good work of fraternal reunion. In St. Patrick’s cathedral Archbishop McCloskey officiated at high mass, the vast congregation being afterwards ad- dressed by Rev. Dr. Gill, of Richmond, Va., who spoke of the universality and ultimate tri- umph of the Church. The altar scene was bril- liant ahd the worshippers radiant with health, beauty and new summer clothes. Rev. Dr. Chapin employed his first Sabbath of conva- lescence in the Church of the Divine Paternity, keeping in view both the prophetic and sub- stantial in discussing an elegant allegorical parallel between the silent and unobtrusive manner in which Solomon's temple was aa and the degorous order observed du vast work of the Pacific Railroad, pointing oat in conclusion how the great iron artery may hecome useful for the more general diffysion of God’s Word, or the very re andes Bishop Snow was terrific, as usual, against sinners and false prophets, telling his followers that the safety of their souls depended in some measure on the disagreements ot such persons. The Bishop wound up by chal- lenging ‘‘any other man” to an oral discussion on Biblical truths—a rather antiquated mode of clerical arbitration. Exercises prefatory to the anniversaries took place in many of the metropolitan churches, plans of soul-saving applicable to California, China, Liberia, Africa, Siam, Japan and Rome being sketched out and presented for complete fruition, pro- vided the “‘money changing”’ of the week goes on satisfactorily. The American Bible Society, of this city, made a very interesting report of progress and the distribution of the Word. Brooklyn dedicated a free Methodist church, and Rev. Mr. Beecher was eloquent, impres- sive and witty as ever in the Plymouth pulpit, the other churches being well attended. Orson Pratt and Joseph A. Young, Brigham’s son, addressed quite anumber of imported Mor- mons in East Brooklyn. In Connecticut there were lectures by “trance” females, sermonizing on the state of religion in Spain, discourses on David's work, the necessity of a new public market—wanted also in New York—and prayers for the bene- factors who had helped Bridgeport to a publio park and other means of citizen recreation. Children were confirmed, the hall of the Good Templars was filled and the Catholics and Universalists were out in large numbers. Poughkeepsie, Newark, Newburg, Jersey City, Trenton and other suburban cities furs nished ardent worshippers, grace, free expres- sion, hope, faith, charity and zeal in abun- dance, just as they will afford cash when re- quired to erect the House and servants of the Lord. We observe in all these exercises a tendency towards the delivery of excellent lessons to the poor, but notice very few, we regret to say, for the correction of the rich—a fact which recalls forcibly the truth of the appro- priate inquiry addressed by a noble English poet to Mrs. Fry, the Quakeress reformer of prison convicts, in the words: — To mend the people ts an absurdity Uniess you make their betters better. The Tax Levy and Our City Improvements. We published yesterday a sensible letter of Mayor Hall to the legislators at Albany, on the garbled and inflammatory representationa respecting the tax levy of this city, and the disposition of the country members to ‘‘com- pound for sins they are inclined to, by damn ing those they have no mind to.” He showa that the tax levy as prepared for the present year is really smaller in rate than the one noxt preceding, and will be less in the aggregate by ut least two millions and a half of dollars. When we take into consideration the fact that Mayor Hall proposes to expend a large amount of the revenue of the coming year on works of public improvement, which will ma- terially increase the taxable property in the city, it will be seen that his position ia a right and just one, and that it entitles him to the support of our citizens. The improvements he contemplates are nu- | merous and important, and we know very well