The New York Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1869, Page 6

i Pos NEW YORK HERALD mxoADWaY AD ‘ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. mo Volume XXXIV AMUSEMENTS THIS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cozaar of Eighth avenue snd 28d sireot.—Enatisu Ore BOOTHS THEAT! Fist PAut o¥ King 1, between Sth anaGth avs.— ay iV, THEATRE. Broaoway.—Danius Durrox— LYM PLO s : Matinee at 2 A Bout in A Chins Su ENUE SHBATER, ‘Twenty-fourth st.—Dappy MAT NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Tux MILIvany DRAMA ov Piax Fry. SEBUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- Matinee daily, Performance every evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Faustus—Tur Ixisn Tur02, WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway and Ib atreet.— Homk-A REGULAR PIX, FRENCH THEATRE. 14th 08, Licht AND SHADOWS OF ani ¢th av.—Lonnox; pk Gneat City. THE TAMMANY, Buorurrs, 40. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street. ITALIAN UPERS— WieuiaM TELL. Fourteenth street.-Tur HANLON MR&. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn,— ‘THE ColLy BYEALER. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Com1o Vooalisu, NEQ@RO MINSTRELSY, 40, Matinee at 23. THEATRE COMIQUE, 814 Broadway.—Comto Vooat- ism, Nroxo Aots, &c. Matinee at 253, BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, ‘Tammany Building, Mtb st —HAYAN18" MINSTRELS, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broa iway.--Eru10- Pia MissTRELSY, NEGRO AoTs, £c. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 20 Broadway.—E@u:0- PIAN MINSIRELSY, NEGRO ACTS, 0. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.-EQURSTRIAN AND GYMNASTIC PEEFORMANCES, 4c, Matinee at 25. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn,—Hooury’s MiNvTBELS—NawRo Eocenraroirins, £0, DORE ART UNION, 587 Broadway.—Exuininion OF | PAatnTinas. SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and Mth Btreet.—Exminiti0Nn oF THE NINE Musza. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— BOKNOE AND Aut. LADIUS' NEW YORK MUSEM OF ANATOMY, 18%; Broadway.—-PEMALES ONLY LN TRIPLE SHEET. New Yori, Wednendayy eccuber on 1869. 22a wows. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated November 30. By special iclegram from London we learn that the Queen’s agents in ireland reported that a radical uprising, tending towards revolution, is Imminent in the Island. The subject was debated in a Cabinet Council; and it was believed that the suspension of the haveas curpus, with some “extreme measures" of repression, will soon be enforced by the government, The Emperor Napoleon's speech to the French Legislature was commented on rather favorably in London. The session ot the Corps Léyislatif, in Parts, was stormy, the opposition tactics provoking considerable debate. Prince Metiernich lett Paris Jor the purpose of special conterence with the Em- pergr of Austria, A London journal advises the ceasion of St. Domurtgo to the United States in the Interest of the commerce and trade of the world, and as particularly beneficial in such respect to Great Brita, Our special correspondence, by mail, fromm Europe embraces a variety of interesting and useful matter, im detail of our cabie telegrains to the 20th of No- vember, Cuba. Commercial circles in Havana were excited yes- terday by reports that the Spanish gunboats in New York harbor were disabled so as to prevent their wailing. Paraguay. Advices by the Atlantic cable state that only a portion of the allied army was conimuing the ad vance on Lopez. The main army is sttll waiting for provisions, and some of the men had been compelled to eat horse flesh. Miscellaneous, A delegation of Jews had an interview with the President yesterday, and presented an appeal asking him to use his influence with the Emperor of Rus- bia in having his ukase expelling Jewish familics from the Russian empire modified or revoked. The President promised cordially that he would do so. It seems to be firmly settied that President Grant will make no recommendation in regard to Cuba in bis forthcoming message, and that he will take no steps towards recognizing the insurgents until solemnly requested to do so by both houses of Congress. ‘The question has arisen as to when the new judt- ciary article adopted at the late election goes into effect, as the enforcement of the constitution is pro- vided for only as @ whole, and no provision is made for any separate part. The constitution, as a whole, was rejected and only the Judictary article ac- cepted. A private letter from rung Lavyeh, an attaché of Mr. Burlingame’s Chinese mission, to a friend in Washington states that Mr. Brown, the first Secre- tary of the Legation, had returned to Cnina, but would rejoin the Legation in two or three months. It had beea maliciously reported that Mr. Brown, who 18 @ British subject, had been recaiied from his duties with the mission by the British government. The steamships Erle and Ontario, of the Boston and Liverpool line, were sold at their wharves in Boston yesterday tor $256,217 each, the original cost of each being about $750,000. They have been lying idie for nearly two years, The Corporation Counsel of Washington city In regard to the case of an octoroon child who was admitted to the public schools in that city gives tt 88 his opmion that Congress will settle the matter. ‘The directors of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad nave adopted a@ rule that no oflicer or em- ploye of the road shall have any interest in any other road or corporation that contritmtes to the Chicago and Northwestern except by unanimous permission of the directors, A claim agent bas been arrested in Watertown, N. Y., charged with forging pension papers and draw- ing the pension of a soldier who has been dead for two years. The Niagara Frontier Police Commissioners of Buffalo are undergoing examination before a com- mission appointed by Governor Hoffman to inquire into charges against them of malfeasance in office, One of the charges i4,that they licensed houses of ill- fame and charged exorbitant rates. rhe managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital have decided to give separate clinical instruction to the female pupils. Arrangements are belmg made to receive the re- mains of George Peabody at Boston. A drover ia Newton (Mass.) has been arrested for stealing a drove of cattic. Anumber of whiskey dealers in Rondout and Kingston were arrested by Marshal Hariow a few ays ago and their atock seized and places of bust- ness closed, on charges of Cefrauding the revenue It appears that no stampa whatever have been used on their packages, and the revenue officer in charge of the district, itis sail, has not reported a stamp sold for two years. The frauds are said to amount to $150,000. The Council of the Wyoming Territorial Legisia- ture yesterday passed the Female Suffrage Dill almost unanimous'y. Professor O. 0. Marsh, of Yale College, aeclares the “Oardlif Giant” to be a decided humbug, rudely carved out of gypsum and buried very recently, The City. ‘Yho Erle Raflway suit against Commodors Van- rbilt was adjourned yesterday at the request of be Fieid until the first Monday iu Japuasy. Mr. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1], 1869—TRIPLE SHERT Fieid then immediately brought up the suit of the Erte Railway Company against Joseph H. Ramsey. Numerous aiidavits to the effect that the present management of Erie was not what it should be were read im Mr, Ramsay's defence and Judge Barnard took the papers, Arnold Meyer, a young man, was arrested recently in this city under the extradwion treaty with Swit- zerland on a charge of embezzling funds from the State Bank of Liestal, In the canton of Basiliand. He confessed that he was guilty, but said his crime Was commitied only to shield his friends in the bank, who had really embezziea the funds, and for Whose safety he had made false entries in the books. Mr. Hutz, the Swiss Consui General, finding him m poverty, sent him back to Liestal by the steamer furnishing him with clothes and money. He had agreed to return in order to ayold the heavy tigation in our courts, A Itekatp reporter yesterday lad a conversation with Owen Hand, who 1s condemned to death on December 17, in the Kings Uounty Prison, Brooklyn, The condemned man’s family were with him tn the cell, He saia that he killed Donnelly in self-defence. Thonad Kelly was before Justice Dowling yester- day on a charge of personating a policeman; but it tureed ont that he was one of a company of fantas- tics and had assumed the uniform for fun, The Judge released him and severely reprimanded the clotiner who had hired him the dress, saying that it Was property furnished by the authorities and must be returned by the policeman who had used it, and any one who accepts itis guilty of receiving stolen property. ‘The stock market yesterday was excited and fever- ish and underwent a heavy decline. Gold fell to 12134, recovered to 12334 and closed finally at 122%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge J, Austin McDowell, Judge F, H. Rockwell, Colouel G. E, Bent and ©. W. Perkins, of Pennsylva- nia; Colonel J. P. Chapin, of Ohio; Jadge Charles L. Veal, of Hudson; Colonel R. McMichael and Colonel M. Cram, of Saratoga; Dr. G. W. Best, of Utica; Col- onel S. 8. Brown, of New York; Judge ©, W. Sears and Colonel Samuel Coloy, of Massachusetts, and Major J. C. H. Mathews, of Albany, are at the Metro- politan Hotei. General J, R. Anderson, of Virginia; Otto Kah, of Baden Baden; General Frisbee, of California, and Capsain 5. B. Stone, of Stonington, are at the New York Hotel, L. ¥. S. Foster, of the United States steamship Connecticut; John H. Reed, of Boston, and J, D. Rodney, of Philadelphia, are at the Brevoort ilouse, Major Atwood, of the United States Army; A. Kline, of the United States Navy, and Edgar C. Wright, of Kelly's Island, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Colonel ©. S, Bushnell, of Connecticut; A. OC. Parsons, of Western Virginia; D. C. Mills, of Mata- moros; J. N. Goodwin, of Washington; W. S. King, of Indianapolis; J. Gilmore, of Cincinnati; Dr. Schumarker, of Austria, and E. Serremp, Belgian Consul’ to New Orleaus, are at the Fifth Avenue Rotel. Colonel J. D, Ferry, of Connecticut; C. Parish and G, W. Haldeman, of Pennsylvania; GC, M. Pond, of Martford, and Lewis N. Tappan, of Colorado, are at the Hodinan House, Prominent Departares. Governor William Bross, for Mlinois; E. P. Ross and Major £eardsley, for Auburn; J. Ttilinghast, for Albany; J, McG. Adams, for Washington; Colonel J M. Hornsby and Dr. Thomas Glenn, for Baltimore; Colonel 5. Derrick, for Philadeiphia, and Dr. A. Whit- taker, for Washington, only a few days since we published the manifesto of the opposition, or, as it is called, the “Left.” Our opinion of that docu- ment we gave at the time. It is but fair, however, now to’ say that much as we admire the speech of the Emperor, the manifesto of the opposition was not leas able, not less emphatic, The Emperor has so far disarmed the opposition by conceding some of their prin- cipal demands; but he has not yielded all, and much must still depend on the manner in which the promised reforms are carried out. The situation, however, js now clear. We know what the “Left” demands. We know what tho, Emperor has promised, We are, in a word, put in a fair position to watch the con- flict understandingly and with interest. We have already said that much will do- pend on the manner in which the Emperor fulfils his promises, We do not mean that we have any doubt as to the honesty of the Em- peror'’s intentions. Nothing of the sort. It is our honest belief that the Emperor means well, that he intends to do and that he will try to do all he has said, But Napoleon has one weakness—a weakness no doubt resulting largely from his own peculiar experience— he will be his own Prime Minister. The granting of reforms does not pain him; but to let responsible ministers he cannot make ‘p his mind. has been his darling policy. Is he not the go the reins and trust to We do not wonder at this, Cwsarism Important author of the life of Julius Cwsar? Docs he not prove in that laborious work that Cmsar- ism and Napoleonism are one and the same, the latter being only a little more intelligent than the former? Has he not built up himself and his house on this idea? By adhering to this idea has he not at the same time given France wealth and power and fame? Why should be now abandon it? Is it not possible for him still to hold the reins and yet extend the area of liberty? This is Napoleon's diffi- culty, If Napoleon cannot conquer himself and over- come his scruples on this point, we have no hesitation in saying that all his reforms will be worthless, that all his fine sayings will be but as the “sounding brass and the tinkling cym- bal.” thing; Csarism means another. cannot walk together and agree. will persist in being his own Prime Minister and the practical chief of all his bureaus he will find himself personally in perpetual conflict with the people; his sources of irritation. will be multiplied a thousand-fold ; be certain. speech throws no light, main point in the general question. news may give us the light we need; but the light is not yet. It is more—it is his stumbling block. Parliamentary government means one The two If Napoleon his ruin will This is a point on which his It is nevertheless the Further There is one other feature of the Emperor's speech which we are unwilling to pass by in silence, The Emperor in speaking to France did not forget that his audience was the world. In this he showed skill and cunning; but he did not the less reveal the philosopher. His eye is upon France; but his eye is also upon the world. His soul is occupied with the immediate difficulties around him ; but he sees and notes the great facts of modern progress. It is something to know that he, a Bonaparte, now rules France; but this does not prevent him from rejoicing that the chariot of progress rolls on with increasing speed, that reforms are being demanded and conceded elsewhere than in France, that the age can boast ot Pacific Railroads, of Suez Canals, of Mount Cenis tunnels and other victories of mind over matter, and that with one of the greatest of these victories the name of a French engineer and the name of a French Empress will forever be associated, The Emperor in getting up his address must have made liberal use of the columns of the New York Heratp. We mention this for the comfort of France; for it is a good and hopeful sign. Tug Gorp Exorrement.—Gold had another fall yesterday, touching 121}, and a panic seemed impending in Wall street, when Secre- tary Boutwell telegraphed Assistant Treasurer Folger to reject all bids for government gold under 122, which had the effect of keeping the government treasure out of the market, as the highest bid was 121.20. This change of policy produced startling results in the Gold Room, where the price suddenly jumped back to 1234—a rise of two per cent. Great indigna- tion was expressed at the rejection of the bids, and the “bears” felt very sore over the sus- pension of the gold sales, The feeling in the street was very excited and feverish, and spread to the Stock Exchange with the effect of a sharp decline in that branch of Wall street speculation. The Eutperor Napoleon’s Speech—The Politi« cal Situation. ‘The suspense which has lasted for so many months in France, and which has been so pain- ful and at times 80 alarming, has at last been brought toanend, It has been brought to an end not by the fierce uprising of the sans-cu- lottes, by barricades, by grapeshot and mid- night fusilades, but by a wise, temperate, prac- tical statesmanlike speech from the throne, by such a speech as Napoleon alone of all living monarchs can make, and which abundantly proves that whatever physical infirmities may have gathered upon the Emperor, his intellect is as clear, as penetrating, as vigorous, as all- embracing as ever. We do not wonder that the speech was well received hy the Chambers, for France had never more cause to be proud of its chosen chief. We do not say that the speech and the liberal, as well as manly sentiments which it breathed, were not largely the result of the very peculiar position in which the Emperor finds himself placed. But he is a wise man and a akilfnl ruler who fully understands his position and knows how to tum it to his own advantage. That the Emperor has yielded no one can deny; but he hag yielded in sucha manner as to benefit France, to disarm his opponents and to strengthen his throne. If he has stooped, he has stooped but to conquer ; and the promise now is that he will bs stronger than ever. Napoleon reads history, not back- ward, like some people, but with his eye scan- ning the great future; and in this he differs from two of his immediate predecessors; for it is only truth to say that had the same wis- dom guided the counsels of Charles the Tenth or of Louis Philippe the Bonapartes might still have been throneless and homeless. it is not our opinion, however, that the political strug- gle now raging in France, and of which his speech is the great master-stroke, is yet, or that it will soon be, brought to a close. Far from it, The French opposition is a great political power. Time was—and that time is not very remote—when the opposition con- sisted of but four or five men. It can now count on not fewer than one hundred and «ix- teen votes. These votes are important, not on their own account only, but on account of the property, the activity and the brains which they represent. They constitute a power which the Emperor cannot afford to despise, evenif he Anotnge BANK RospEery.—The early hour at which the Natioval Bank, at Port Jervis, N. Y., was yesterday morning entered by bur- glars and robbed of fifty thousand dollars in bonds and notes suggests the special necessity of vigilance on the part of night watchmen at the very time when they are apt to be drowsy and off their guard, and when, consequently, burglars are most active and successful. The robbery was not discovered until the porter opened the bank. A lad, described by tele- gram, was arrested on suspicion at Jersey City were willing. These men have clung to their cause, through good report and through bad. They have spoken out when to speak out was dangerous to purse and to life, as well as to fame. They have suffered as much from hot- headed and unreasoning friends as from un- principled and conscienceless enemies, But the leading spirits of the opposition have been true to each other, true to their common cause, and they have been patient, long-suffering and full of perseverance, The result is that num- bers have increased; and the marvellous thing is that the present French opposition is one of the least heterogeneous oppositions in parlia- mentary history, It is not by any means a loose and incoherent rabble. It may have in it men who have a sympathy for legitimatism, others who have o sympathy for Orleanism, and others who are republicans at heart; but these sympathies, if they exist, do not divide them. On two main points they are all agreed:—The one is their opposition to the one man power; the other is that the poople should be governed by the people. The points are not logically separate, but politically they work a distinction. The fierce radical party, represented by such men as Rochefort and Raspail, are really not of the opposition, as we have described it; but their numbers are small and thefr strength can only be revealed by acting with the gtronger varty, It is on the arrival of the half-past nine train and committed for further examination, Thanks to the telegraph wire escape is now rendered more difficult than ever for rogues. DisA¥FECTION has one way of making itself felt in European countries that may sometimes be delusive in its results. One of the Paris constituencies elected Rochefort, not because it believed him a genius or an able politician, but because, apparently, it wanted to make the government feel its enmity. So in Ireland, a constituency has just returned ‘‘a political convict.” Here is a way in which govern- ments may secure the election of the men they favor. Let them seem to persecute them; the people will take them up at once. Snootina Assxssors.—Somebody in the revenue department evidently had a great fancy for desporate fellows of the shooting temper. The blackguard who shot a stranger in mistake up Broadway some weeks since was an assistant assessor; 80 was McFarland, the assassin of Richardson, Are there any more? d Apparently Apsurp, —The effervescence among the outside cliques and factions, and their sche..es, plans and tickets to break the slate of Tammany Wall in our impending charter clection News from Great Britnin=The Radical Reform Movement Active in Ire< Jand. By special telegram from London, forwarded through the Atlantic cable yesterday, we have the important intelligence that the radical revo- lutionary political agitation which has been in such active progress in Ireland for some years past is rapidly culminating to a serious crisis— a crisis which will very likely be decisive in its results as between the views and force of its promovants and the voice of the law and the authority of the English crown, The secret agents employed in the Queen’s service in the island have just reported their belief that a general “‘rising” or demonstration of the people in favor of national rule is imminent. A Cabi- net council was called in London, The sitna- tion as it exists in the sister kingdom was reviewed, and the question of again suspending the act of habeas corpus debated. No decision was arrived at—a fact which may be regarded ag an executive acknowledgment of the gravity of the occasion. Outside the Ministerial offices it was looked-on as certain that extreme measures of repression and for the sustentation of British power in Ireland will be adopted almost immediately. This latter inference is most probably correct. By mail and from our European newspaper files we have within a few days published the fact that there were seventeen regiments of British troops serving in Ireland on the 19th of November, two others boing embarked from England for the same destination, with more to follow, making the actual force one-fifth or more of the whole army of her Majesty on duty for the purpose of cementing an in- ternational union which was declared perfoct sixty-nine years since. All this agitation may, however, eventnuate ina grand political manceuvre, calculated beforehand, for the pur- pose of keeping Premier Gladstone up to the mark on the Irish land and Church reform ques- tions, To the people of Ireland a well regu- lated system of land tenure, accompanied by an equitable adjustment of the rent averages, to be enforced by law, is an absolute, vital necessity, while a settloment of the State Church difficulty in accordance with tho spirit of the age is looked for. As Mr. Gladstone has just lately evinced a slight disposition to “go back” a little on his Irish friends in both respects, in face of the fierce opposition of the High Churchmen and feudal baronial interests, it may be that the democracy of the Green Isle have merely taken up a ‘‘sharp stick”—a good blackthorn, perhaps—for the purpose of just keeping his ‘‘toe tothe mark” and sus- taining the ‘‘as you were” liberal front of the last session of Parliament in the next. The Cabinet ray consequently have magnified the grand ‘‘fuss” into a revolution, This is the most pleasant view to take of the case as expressed in our cable telegram. We are aware, however, that two or three of the most daring of the Irish political convicts have just been returned as members of the British Par- liament. Their appearance at the bar of the House of Commons for admission will raise a new and exceedingly important question with reference to Irish allegiance and duty to the Queen. Should they be refused their seats they may, perhaps, return to Ireland—hbaving the Sheriff's certificate of election—and attempt to resuscitate the Parliament of that country, the most eminent jurists of the day having denied the right of the Irish members to transfer the Legislature from Dublin to London in the year 1800. If really mpported by the nation these Irish radical politicians may effect a very great change in the condition of the British empire—a change similar to that which has been experienced in Belgium, in Quba, in Mex- ico, and, to a great extent, in Canada, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and British Columbia. The world is evidently ‘‘ marching along.” The Cubans on the Offensive. We have heard all along and up to the last moment, throngh Spanish sources, that the Cuban insurrection was being rapidly crushed. To any reasonable person the reports to this effect appeared incredible, as Spain kept send- ing out more troops and was straining all her resources against the Cubans, while the latter not only held their own ground but were in- creasing their power and extending their con- questa, Has this looked like crushing the insurrection? Does it not show that Spanish power is on its last legs and that the Cubans are stronger than ever? . Indeed, the news comes to us, and that through Havana and Spanish hands, that the insurgents have as- sumed the offensive and have force enough to attack their enemies in their fortified strong- holds. They attacked, fifteen hundred strong, the fortified town of San Jos¢, on the Puerto, Principe and Neuvitas Railroad. The volun- teers who attempted an engagement with them were captured. It is said in this Spanish report that the insurgents failed to take the fort, but it is evident the Spaniards have had the worst of it. No doubt we shall hear of an important success when the truth reaches us. Thus we see that instead of the insurrection being crushed the Cubans are crushing the Spaniards, and their cause is becoming stronger every day. An Aprgar AGAINst Tar EXxPATRIATION or Jxwa From Russia.—A delegation of American Jews was yesterday introduced to President Grant by Secretary Boutwell. They asked the President to use his best offices with tbe Czar, through our Minister at St. Petersburg, to effect a revocation or modification of the recent ukase which expatriates two thousand Jewish families. The President promised to lay the appeal before the Cabinet, which was about to assemble, adding that it would give him great pleasure to promote the object of their visit, He also expressed the growing sentiment of all Ameri- can citizens, by saying that it is too late in the day to persecute any one on account of his religion, race or color. AN Unknown Passznagr.—Some oxplana- tion is needed of that forcible expulsion of a passenger from a train on the New Jersey Railroad, by which the passenger, as reported, came to his death. The story is that the train was stopped on th Hackensack bridge and the Ppassonger put off there, and that he fell into the river and was drowned. Unless this can be positively disproved, this seems to be a case in which the authority of the conductor, ar authority too often tyrannically used, has been exercised to an extent that calls for the attention of the orimipal authorities. The Problem of Reviving Awerican Com- merce. ‘The national Congress, which commences its session in Washington next Monday, will have many and great questions to deliberate on— quest{ons of foreign and home policy, questions of finange, questions of tariff and internal revenne; but we think we are not exaggerat- ing when we say that, so far as concerns the grandeur and prosperity of the metropolis, Congress will have before it no question of greater importance than that of restoring American commerce to the proud position which it occupied: fifteen years ago. Do our readers know that whereas in 1851 the tonnage of the United States had reached about five and a half millions—somewhat in excess of the tonnage of England—it has since fallen off to four million three hundred thousand tons, and that of England has increased to seven million three hundred thousand? The fact is a startling one, and particularly when the statement is added that of the tonnage which we still possess only about one-fourth is oecu- pied in the foreign trade, and even that chieily in the scavenger work ‘of supplying Europe with the guano of Poru. We do not to-day possess a single steamer plying between New York and any European port, but have sur- rendered the whole foreign commerce of our port to the English, the French and the Ger- mans, Many causes have operated in producing this disheartening state of things. As Mr. Low, one of our most enterprising ship- owners and merchants, stated before the select committee of Congress, which has been recently collecting information on the subject, “St is easier to explain the causes of our decline than to suggest a remedy.” The causes assigned before that committee were various, the principal ones being the gradual revolution that has been effected in ships, from the wooden sailing vessel and sidewheel steamer to the iron sailing vessel and screw steamer—a revolution in which we took no part, preferring to cling to the sailing vessel and the wooden sidewheel steamer; the pre- ference in freights and insurances given to the iron vessels over the wooden ones; the differ- ence in the cost to the English merchant of his vessel and that of his to the Amercan mer- chant; the high duties paid on materials entering into the construction of American ships, which materials are free of duty in England; the advantage which the English have over us in getting all their ships’ stores out of bond free of duty; the difference in the rates of wages; the disadvantage under which our depreciated currency placed us; the failure of our government to subsidize steam- ship lines in competition with the English and French, and, finally, the generally prejudicial effect of our high protective tariff. All these, with the exception of the first, are causes which it is in the power of Congress to remove or mitigate; and as to the first, we suppose it may be safely left to the intelligence and enterprise of our shipbuilders and ship- owners, But notwithstanding Mr. Low’s remark as to the cause being more easily discovered than the remedy, there has been no lack of sugges- tionsas tothe remedy, Those suggestions may be condensed into three principal groups. They are—first, the removal of all legislative restrictions on the purchase of foreign ships and on their admission to American registry ; second, the granting of liberal subsidies by our government to steamship lines, and, thirdly, the allowance of a drawback of duties on all materials entering into the construction and outfit and maintenance of ships. It will be readily understood that these propositions are not equally favored by the two great interests that are most closely involved in the question— the shipowning and the shipbuilding interests. The shipowners, asa class, may be set down as in favor of all three, The shipbuilders are and will be opposed, to the bitter end, to what is termed free trade inships. They say, and with much force and reason, that it would be the finishing blow to the now languid and tot- tering interest which they represent; and that it would not only be ruinous to that interest, but would be seriously detrimental to the nation at large, in closing up all the shipyards, sending the ship mechanics out of the country or to other occupations, and thus depriving the gov- ernment of its most useful and indispensable artisans in case of war witha naval power. On the other hand, the shipowners do not believe that, even with the allowance of a drawback, the shipbuilders of this country can compete with those of England. As Mr. Wes- tervolt, formerly one of our greatest shipbuild- ers, stated before the committee, “The days of wooden ships are ended; and to build wooden ships would be labor lost.” The shipowners say, “Let us buy our ships where we can buy them cheapest, and if American ships ean be produced as cheap as foreign ones of course we will give our own the preference,” Some of our principal shipbuilders, including Mr. Webb, of New York, and Mr. McKay, of Boston, have expressed the fullest confidence that if they are put, in regard to the cost of material, on an equal footing with the great iron shipbuilders on the Clyde and the Tyne, they can, notwithstanding the disparity of workmen's wages, produce as good and as cheap ships as their English rivals. All that thoy ask is a fair field and no favor. Thus stands the question to-day. Compli- cated with it, but presenting too wide a field to be discussed in this connection, is the ques- tion of the tariff, which, through some of its prohibitory features, is charged with being one ot the principal causes of the decay in our commerce and of the increased cost of living, which necessitates higher wages and puts our shipbuilders and shipowners at a disadvantage as against their foreign rivals. Complicated also with it is the question of currency. Labor combinations and the Elght Hour law have also their effect and are tobe taken into considera- tion in all efforts to resolve the problem, Most of the practical men who appeared bofore tho special committee which has chargo of the subject were inclined. to the opinion that the greater skill, intelligence and activity of the American mechanic more than compensated for the difference in the price of labor and in the hours of work, but Mr. Weetervelt and Mr. Low were not of that opinion, The former expressed his belief that the standard of American labor had become very much re« duced. The latter remarked that demoraliza- tion seemed to have extonded into the depart- ment ef labor to @ greater degree than verhans into any othes’ ont, and that any one who undertook to bulld house or « ship would soon find thant fact out to his cost, As to the qnestioh’ Of subsidies Mr. Low ex- pressed the opinion ttt the policy of England in subsidizing lines of sk*#mers to ‘he various parts of the world had given her 4 prestige that was almost insuperablé> All the English laws had been for the benefix Of conmérce, while there did not seem to be’ 4 law the American statute books that did not indict injury on our commercial interest’ And in that connection he instanced the very serious injury inflicted on the Pacific Mail Stean'ship Company by the immense government subsidy granted to the Pacific Railroad. From this presentation of the facts and con- siderations bearing on the question of how to revive our commerce it will be seen that the Special committee which has the subject in charge has no light or irresponsible duty to perform, Let us hope that {t will discover a means of reconciling all conflicting interests, of restoring business and animation to our shipyards, where now (as Mr. Webb ex- plessed it, sorrowfully) grass grows; of giv- ing us not one but many lines of flect mail steamers, and of making our flag oace more familiar on every sea and in every port. The Haytien Revolution, ‘We gave in yesterday’s Hurarp the latest news from Hayti, detailing the progress of the revolution against Salnave. From the information published it will be seen that the forces of Salnave are growing daily smaller and smaller. The insurrectionary forces are’ constantly adding to their strength and making stronger their positions, The only town of any importance now in the hands of Salnave is that of Port au Prince, and there is every reason to believe that before long this strong- hold of the Haytien President will succumb to the victorious march of the rebels. With the republic in the power of Chevalier, Brice, Saget and the other revolutionary leaders, may we expect an era of law, order and good government? Will the affairs of the country be conducted in such a manner as will lead outsiders to believe. that its industrial re- sources will be stimulated into healthy activity? Weare afraid not. For over half a century have intestinal wars disturbed the island. One leader has only been put down to give place and power to another, who in a brief term has been displaced for a more de- signing agitator. Any person who has watched the course of Hayti knows full well that this has been the history of her leading men for years past. What, then, is the remedy for these evils? Annexation to the United States, For years have the Haytiens plodded on, following a course which they dis- appointed themselves in believing was self- government. The result is evident. Hayti is going to decay, her commercial activity stilled, her industries paralyzed, her agricultural dis- tricts neglected, and the only energy observa- ble is the restless intrigues of military officers, whose actions hasten rather than retard her downfall. From these facts it will be seen that self-government by the Hoytiens is a failure, and aunexation the only cure for the evils which afllict the Haytien republic. Tor Sranisn Firet.—The Spanish fleet is evidently made up of half a dozen or more flying Dutchmen, so little seems to be posi- tively known by any one of its projected or present movements, The Captain General of Cuba assures the Associated Press corre- spondent that there was never any intention to send the fleet to this city, and the Spanish Minister says the intention to send the ficet here has been reconsidered. Why not let the fleet come if it wants to? How could the Cuban difficulty be more readily brought to a conclusion than by the attempt of the Spanish men-of-war to seize the gunboats in our harbor? Tne DeEMooRATS AND THE CoMMISSIONS.— We are likely to hear for a long time much of the discuasion of what the triumphant demo- cracy will do with the commissions that govern the city. We may safely conclude as to some of the commissions that they cannot possibly make them any worse than they are; while as_ to others itis equally certain that they cannot carry us back to the serious misgovernment the commissions displaced. If our police sya- tem, for instance, is greatly changed it cannot be restored to the Fernando Wood style with- out provoking a popular indignation that even Tammany must fear. Brierry, Too.—It appears from the charges made against Barton, a Custom House broker of this city, that in addition to the fraudulent returns,,forgeries and perjuries heretofore un- earthed in the Custom House, bribery has been actively employed in corrupting our revenue officers and in defrauding the Trea- sury. All these disclosures, however, only prove more and more forcibly the urgent necessity of a thorough scouring and washing of the Augean stables, It may be one of the labors of Hercules, but it must bo carried through. There can be no payment of the national debt, no return to specie payments, while bands of robbers are engaged in plun- dering the Troasury. A Proaeeusstve Cotorrp Man.—That adventurous and brilliant demagogue of African lineage, who, atrutting his. brief hour in the South Carolina Legislature, pro- poses to recognize Cuba and prepare for war with Spain, is an amusing parody; and as such he may be useful to some statesmen of a” paler hue, He may prevent them from doing this very act by putting its ridiculous aspect moet strongly forward. Thus Sambo and Dinah sometimes modify our more outré fashions of dress by showing white folks the possibilities of a fancy necktie and an aston ishing headdress. Tre Bisuz wm rat Pusr0 Scr00rs.—The controversy which has lately agitated the citi- zens of Cincimnat! as to the use of the Bible in the public schools is now under consideration in the Superior Cougt of that city, Itisa question of deep interest throughout this coun~ try, and although it is here and elsewhere complicated with peculiar local difficulties, it is easy to predict that its ultimate decision cannot contradict the primal fact that in the republic of the United States there is and there should bea total separation of Church and State,