The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1869, Page 4

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Europe. “Cable telegrams are dated December 16, ‘The Duchess of Genoa protests against her son’s @cceptance of the Spanish crown, Napoleon, it is intimated, may consider the subject of the return of the Orleans princes to France favorably. ‘The Pontifical Zouaves were reviewed in Rome with great <clat by the Minister of War. The Pope* is most anxious for complete harmony in the Counctl, as also relative to the succession, in the event of his death during the session, The Empress of France, it is said, bas specially requested Father Hyacinthe not to preach in Paris. The ques- tion of compiete freedom of conscience in the unl- versities is agitated in England. The specte in the Bank of France increased largely during the week. ‘The case of the Orleans princes was debated in the French Legisiature. Tortuga! 1s still agitatea by insurrection. By steaiship at this port we have mail reports in very interesting detali of our cable telegrams dated tn Engiaud and Ireland on the 4th, and tm Paris on Sunday, the 5th of December. Egypt. The Suez Canai will, tt is said from London, be Closed ¢o commerce and deepened at an early day. Cuba, Despatches dated December 15, state that~ the Spanish troops bad retived irom Mogate and the insurgents had occupied their old positions. An expedition bad landed at the mouth of the Baconao river. Valmaseda lad demanded reinforcements. Congress. A resoiution was introduced in the Senate yester- day asking wie Attorney Genetal for miormation regarding the case of Yerger, of Mississippi. now under arrest by the military authorities. The bill Telative to the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court was taken up and advocated by Senator Trumbull, who offered an amendment restricting the powers of Justices of the Supreme Court In issu- ing writs of habeas corpus to cases and persons Within their respective districts, The bill to perfect the reconstruction of Georgia was called up and an amendment offered and discussed requiring the Legislature to ratify the fourteen:h and fifteenth amendments, but without taking # vole on the amendment the Senate adjourned, In the House the Census bill was taken up, all the proposed amendments considered and the bill passed. At tio o'clock the House went iaio Com- mittee of the Whole and was addressed by Mr. Mungen, of Onio, on the financial policy of the gov- erument, advocating repudiation of the national debt. Mr. Mungea was replied to by several demo. cratic members, who denied his right to speak for the democratic party, denounced repudiation as a political heresy, and declared the entire debt must be paid in strict accordance with the letter and spirit. of the obligation. At the close of the disenssion Mr. Garfleld, of Ohio, intro- duced a resolution that the proposition of repudiation is unworthy the honor of the nation, fnd that the House, without distinction of party, Sct ita seal of condemnation upon ali such propost fiona, This resolution was adopted, yeas 123, nays 1—Jones, of Kentucky. A micssage was received from the President, in rep'y to a resolution calling for a copy of the correspondence of the StateDepart- Ment with Minister Sicktes in regard to Cuban and Spanish atairs. ‘ihe President referred the House to a letter from Secretary Fish, who dectines to comply wish Lhe request of the Louse, on the ground that it was incompatinie with the public Laterest, Miscellaneous, Five persona were drowned in the (assaic river at Newark yesterday noon while going from the pivot of tie new bridge now beimg constructed to the Shore in adat-bottomed scow. Seven others cecaped by hard swimming. The water was rough and the boat commenced dipping, when the whole party be- came demoralized and jumped overboard, The five dead bodies w recovered, ‘The President has expressed his determination to olfer ex-Seeretary Stanton the vacant Judgeship in the Supreme Court caused by the resignation of Judge Grier. ty Boutwell nas informed the New York Serv eievatt 1 of on the ican Lupbuilders that he {spre necessity of encon slipping interests, Transmitted to Cou; ring a coi of the ich report will aress before the bolt a 1" A probaly bi days. Much exettement prevails thronghont North Caro. ina in regard to alleged frauds in the disposal of Siate va ad bonds issued by the Legislature last Winter, The matter has been made a subject of Icgislutive action aud repudiation t openly threat ened. A nitro-zlyccrine magazine, containing half a tun of the mate » exploded at the Koberts Torpedo Company's works, a mile {rom ‘Titusville, Pa., yes- terday. Two np Were hilicd and the town Waa damaged consilersit Mr, Ayres, an Englishman in Fauquier county, Va., yesterday shot and killed Dr. Oliver. another Engiisnman, in Charlottesyitie, for having seduced his daughter. Ayres gave himeeir up and @ coroner's jury rendered a format veratet. The shooting was done coolly, at the house of Oliver's brother-in-law, Mr. Ayres having come some dis tance from his home for the purpose, aud in the presence of Oliver's wile, Three 6hols Look enect. ‘Tae ram AUania las been discharged by tbe Via. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, "1869, the ground that @ man-of-war She is be- deiphia courts on cannot be held for wages due a saitor. tleved to be tn the service of Cuba. Governor J. W. stevenson, of Kentucky, was yes- terday elected United States Senator, to succeed Mr. McCreery, Ageneral outbreak among the Indians tn the Upper Missouri ts apprehended, Major Gilpin, & supermtendent, dica recently, and it 1s suspected that he was poisoned by Indians, Several incendi- ary tires in tae forts are also laid to their charge. The City. fhe Spanish gunboats did not sail yesterday, as was expected, iu consequence of the storia, and will probably be delayed until to-morrow. George I’, Dunning, Superintendent of the New York Assay office, was arrested yesterday charged with a defaication amounting to $16,000. He was held in $20,000 bail to answer. i Thirteen commercial houses in this city are re- ported to have failed in business within a few days. It is now stated that young Gray, the alleged bond forger, Was at one time tu the custody of the detec- tives, but was lec of by them in constderation of a check for $400, Boston men are said to be tmpiteated tn Gray's Wansactions. The Inman line steamship City of Brooklyn, Cap- tain Brooks, will leave pier 45 North riverat one Vv. M. to-morrow for Queenstown and Liverpool. The Enropean mails will cose at the Post Ofice at twelve M. on the 18th inst. The National line sivamship Virginia, Captain ‘Thomas, will icave pier 47 North river at one P’, M. to-morrow, 18th inst, for Liverpool, cailiag at Queenstown to land passengers, ec. The steamship India, Captain Munro, of the Anebor line, wil! sail from pier 20 Nortn river at twelve M. on saturday, 18th instant, for Glasgow, calling at Londonderry, The Merchants’ line steamship Sherman, Captatn Quick, will leave pter 12 North river at three P. M. to-morrow (Saturday), for New Orleans direct, The stock market yesterday was steady at the last board, but declined in later street dealings. Gold was feverish, closing finally at 121°, a 121%. Promivent Arrivals in the C J.B. Stenhouse, of Salt Lake, and Julius A. Skel- ton, United States Consul to Mexico, are atthe St. Nicholas Hotel, H, K, Atwood, of the United States Army; John G. Saxe, of Albany; Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsyivanta, and Alexander McDonald, of Hoiytown, Scotland, are at the Asior House. JA. en, of Utah; E. D. Weeks, of Texas; 8. N. Schoonmaker, of Albany, and W. Bruce, of Virginia, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Bartlett 15 at the Everett Ho: W. Pinkney Whyte, of Maryland, is at tie New York Hotel. Colonel W. S. Fish, of Canada, and J. P. Pomeroy, of Rhode Island, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. T. B. H. Stenhouse, editor of the Sal Lake Teie- graph, trom Salt Lake City, Utah, Te Prominent Departures. Generat W. T. Sherman, General &. Ewing, Gen- eral L. E. Webb, for Washington; Governor J. E. English, for Connocticut; General L. Flagg. for Rhode Island; Colonel i. H. Taylor, for Kentucky; G. F. Tyler, for Orange; R. D. Hubbard, for Connec- licut, and Judge E. G, Eldridge, for Poughkeepsie, Cuba Bofore Covgress—The Extraordinary Position of the Adwinistration. The first significant sounds of the popular voice through.Congress on the subject of Cuba were heard in the Senate on Wednesday. Ona that occasion Mr. Carpenter, the able Senator from Wisconsin, called up his resolution, of which notice had been given the day before, declariag ‘‘that, in the opinion of the Senate, the thirty gunboats contracted for in the United States by or in behalf of the govern- ment of Spain, to be employed against the revolted district of Cuba, skonid rot be allowed to depart from the United States during the continuance of that rebellion.” opposition of Mr. Summer the Senate agreed to take up the resolution, and thus the disenssion on the Cuban question was commenced. This was the mode adopted to bring the whole sub- ject before the Senate and to prevent it being buried or squelched in Mr. Sumner’s Committeo on Foreign Affairs, though the mover of the resolttion had no expectation, probably, of any Congressional action in time to prevent the departure of the first division of the Spanish gunboats from New York. The administration had: forestalled], so far, the action of Congress. It seemed to be im- patient to aid the Spaniards and to make war upon .the poor Cubans, and, therefore, would not wait a few days only to hear what Con- gress would say Pretending to defer the whole question of Cuba to the representativ of the people, the administration suddenly re- leased the gunboats before Congvess had time to act, and in this manner attempted to influ- ence Congress. ‘The government has really become an ally of Spain against the Cubana, and has made war upon that brave people just as much as if it had sent United States troops or ships-of-war to crush the patriots. The shallow pretence of neutraiity or enforcing the laws will deceive no one; for we all know that the administration, which detained the gun- boats up to a few days ago, could have held them, if it wished, for a week or two longer, till Congress could act in the matier, Tho American people will be astounded ai this assumption and treachery of the adminis. tration when they have time to reflect upon the matter. But when we speak ot the administration in connection with this subject we are disposed to except the President, though he ia the head of the government, and in a measure responsible for the conduct of the Secretary of State and other members of the Cabinet. General Grant, we have no doubt, is the iriend of Cuba, He has ex- pressed that on several occasions, and throughout his whole public career he has shown the most ardent patriotism, love of liberty, progressive American ideas, broad national views, and the warmest sympathy for the oppreased. We saw this in the case of Mexico, when he was ready to march an army lo drive out the European intruders, to liberate the Mexicans from a foreign imperial power, and to vindicate the Monroe doctrine of America for the Americans. Nor do we believe his heart or character has changed. But General Gram does not comprehend fally ons, and, trained in the school of i¢, he is disposed to leave the business of the various departments of gov- eroment to those who have charge of these departments and who are supposed to under- stand what is best to be done, Hence, in the case of Cuba, he has relied upon the repre- sentations of the Secretary of State, The Secretary, who is 2 weak, timid and incapable man for great affairs beyond the more routine of bis office, has been influenced, probably, by Spanish agents, and among these by bis owa son-in-law, who, it is reported, receives a fee, or bribe, or what- ever it may be called, of forty thousand dol- jars » year from Spain, He has been influ- enced, too, no doubt, by Senator Sumner, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Senate, who is the enemy of Cubs, because, forsooth, he imagines that any | government, kindness shown to the Cubans or the recogni- tion of their belligerent rights might destroy the effect of hisgrand sophomorical speech on the Alabama claims. There is the best reason tobelieve that the President has been influ- enced indirectly and the Secretary of State directly in this manner; for both of them last summer openly expressed their sympathy for the Cubans and the opinion that the time was approaching when tho United States must recognize the belligerent rights or indepen- dence of Cuba. There can be no other cause for the chango that has come over them, because it is well known, and the Spanish gov- ernment is obliged to confess the fact indirectly, that the insurrection in Cuba is stronger to-day than ithas ever been, Gene- ral Prim acknowledged that forty thousand troops, besides an immense fleet of war vessels, had been sent to Cuba, and yet there is the most urgent demand for more. Is this not a sufficient reply to the reiterated false- hoods that there is no war worthy of being so called, and that the insurrection is losing ground ? Tt has been remarked that tho greatest events in history sometimes hang, as it were, upon the turn of a straw. We see here that the action of the government of this mighty nation, ina matter that involves great princi- ples and interests, has depended upon the influence of a little lawyer, who happens to be the son-in-law of the Secretary of State, and upon the prejudice, selfishness and inflated vanity of a man who happens to be Chairman of the Committee on Forcign Affairs in the Senate. And this is what the proud American républie has been brought to, from such insignificant causes, on the Cuban question! Must not every American citizen blush with shame for his country? These facts may appear to soine incredible; but it must be borne in mind that systematic falsehood and misrepresentations from those in high places, or who have the ear of rulers, deceive such a weak man as the Sceretary of State is, and mislead one in the position of General Grant. Mr. Sumaer, for example, stated in bis re- marks, ia reply to Senator Carpenter, on Wed- nesday, that he understood the Cubans had not abolished slavery, Or that their decree to that effect was only a pretext for foreign consump- tion. Now, it is evident that this remark, like the whole tenor of what he said about the Cubans, was malicious and contrary to what he must know was the fact. He must know that in the constitution of the Cuban republic, article twenty-four, adopted April 10, 1869, it is declared, ‘‘All the inhabitants of the re- public of Cuba are absolutely free;” and he ought to know that the mass of the Cuban people have been for a long time past desirous of frecing the slaves; that neither the Cuban goveramont nor people wish to see slavery exist, and that it only exists now on the island where the Spanish power extends. So, too, of Mr. Sumner’s other garbled 2 studied misrepresentations to the sect ¢ the Cubans have no regular organ‘zed or estab- lished government, sud that they have not acquired the ecatus of belligerents. Ifa state of wa» does not exist in Cuba there never was a war inthe world, The very fact that Spain has been compelled to send out and to con- tinue sending ont such cnormous forces with a view to crnsh the rebellion shows ‘that war exisis on a large seale, though not, perhaps, with large organized armies at certain points, It may bo more of a guerilla warfare than that which exists sometimes between the great Powers of the world; but this is a sort of war which the American colonies waged, and that makes all people fighting for independ- ence The Cabans have, however, according to the best information, some sixty thousand men in tie field. Taey have besides, notwithstanding statements to the contrary, a regular organized civil a3 well as military to which all the peopie yield willing obedieace. wage, There is every reason for any government that might ba so disposed to recogniz> the Cubans as belligerents, even upon a strict interpretation of what is termed interaational law in such cases. But the United States gov- ernment has the sirongest reasons and motives for even siraining a point in favor of the Their cause is the cause of republi- can freedom and republican institutions on Americana soil; it is one which the whole of our citizens have at heart, and the commercial ag well as the political interests of this repub- lie are largely involved. broad and far-reaching policy of our own in the case of Cuba—a policy that becomes such a great nation, regardless of what Spain may think or do or what Europe may say. Cubans, Revvpiation has found a strenuous but rash advocate in Mr. Mungen, democratic represen- tative from Ohio, but the criticisms, however, ia which he yesterday indulged on the financial policy of the government were warmly opposed by the democratic members of the House, who, in the name of the democratic party, repudi- ated this repudiator of the whole national debt. Wuton 18 rH REAsoN ?—Several reasons are given for the fact that the United States has determined to assist Spain in the war on Cuba, One is that the Spanish have such able counsel near our government in the family of the Secre- tary of State. Another is that the United States Congress would rather see Cuba in the hands of Spain than to see her free, unless her freedom shall be aécepted asa step toward annexation. Presipenr Grant has sent a message to the House in reply to Mr. Wood's resolution calling for the correspondence with the American Minister at Madrid on the subject of Cuba, The message was accompanied by a report from the Secretary of State to the effect that it is not deemed desirable at this time to comply with the request. Ixptan Wans.—Our military authorities aro wisely endeavoring to strike at the true source of our Indian wars. They find that one fruit- ful source is murder committed by white men, To stop trouble they must stop these crimes; but there is no power to punish such murders, Wherever it is necessary to keep an armed force on foot in a frontier country the military should have power to punish a murderer, what- ever hia color; and Congress should give the power at once, Tux Winsirea Repeniion Exprawep.--It is said to be the beginning of another Fenian movement against the frightened Canadians, Let us, then, have a] ‘The Paraguayan War—Brazil and Hor Alles. Tho latest news received here from Rio de Janeiro, via Lisbon, of the progress of the war of the allies against Lopez, under the command of the Count D’Eu, is that one after another of the strongholds of the Para- guayans had been captured and that Lopez’s position. was almost hopeless, It should be remembered, however, that a similar tone for a long time past has characterized the reports received through the same channels, and should be received with some degree of caution, For almost five years has the allied army continued its operations in the little republic of Paraguay. For the same length of time has Lopez been hunted from cily to town, from the fruitful plains to the rugged mountains, fighting whon he considered himself a match for the allied army, retreating when he ascer- tained the numbers of his foes were too many for him. Even in Brazil we find that the war against Paraguay is not popular. For a long time have the prominent members of the liberal party cried out against it. Our latest advices from Rio Janeiro tell us that the Brazilian Ministry, having unsuccessfully op- posed the continuation of the Paraguayan war, had tendered their resignation. The persistency of Brazil and her allies, composed of the Argentine Confederation and Uruguay, has been only equalled by the courageous and stubborn resistance with which Lopez and his followers have con- tested overy inch of the march of the invaders. A most important crisis, however, in the struggle has now been reached, and we may well inquire what has been the cost of this war, in time, blood and treasure, to Brazil and her allies, and what have been the results accomplished, For nearly five years has the struggle gone on, and during that time it has cost the Brazilian empire 168,000 men and 281,400,000; the Argentine Confederation has contributed 18,720 men and $46,800,000 ; while Montevideo has furnished a quota of 3,120 men and an expenditure of $6, 240,000—swell- ing in the aggregate to the number of 190,000 men, and the cost of the war up to the present time reaching the huge sam of $334,400,000. And what, may be asked, has been accom- plished by all this startling expenditure? A country desolated—changed from a fruitful garden into a howling wilderness. This is Paraguay of to-day. Should the Brazilian empire be sueceagful in the war now raging, not only will the republic of Uru- guay become a Brazilian province, but possibly the Argentine Confederation may be absorbed by the same Power. Primarily the success of the allies means the destruction of many of the South American republics and the extension over the eastern portion of tae Con- tinent of an empire based og &uman slavery and illiboral exe Tt means also the closing of Plata and its confluents to fercign flags, for Brazil has always opposed the opening of those rivers. These are grave considerations and such as should not be ignored by American statesmen, Tho Para- guayan war, the alleged atrocities of Lopez, the unfitness of the Paraguayans for 321f-gov- evament, and hence the necess'ty of a provi- sional government at Asuacion, under the ostenaible control of the Brazilian empire and the Argentine Confederation, but really gov- erned by a Brazilian proconsul, may yet prove only mere show to attract notice, while diverting the attention from the real uader- taking of the absorption of the South Ameri- can republics by the great Brazilian empire. The time has come whea the United States should interpose her good offices in behalf of republican institutions in South America. The American people are not wholly indifferent to the struggle going on ia Paraguay. Nothing, however, has yet been dono, nor has any ex- hibition been made to convinces the republics of South America that we rejoice in theiv suc- cesses and regret when misfortune falls heavily upon them, Lei the United Siates take upon itself the initiative in a peacofal way of the settlement of the dispute belweea the allies and the Paragnayans, and then leave to the people of Paraguay the rejection or acceptance of Lopez as their President and the internal management of their own republican inatitu- tions. fh, Our War on Cosa.—Under cover of the technicalities of international law the United States crushes the republic of Cuba, her neigh- bor, It is pretended that international law makes us helpless in the case. International law is supposed to be the rule of international right. Here the right is all the other way, and we perpetrate a great political wrong rather than clear away these cobwebs of so- called law. We are ashamed to assert before the world our own view of national right, although it is our traditional policy that that view must prevail this side the Atlantic. Did ever a great Power act on a more pitiful policy ? Tar Census BiLt was yesterday taken up in the House of Representatives and passed by a vole of eighty-six yeas to forty-seven nays, under the amended title of ‘‘An act to provide for taking the ninth census of the United States.” The Judiciary Committee reported a bill annulling the existing basis of representa- tion and proposing that members of the next Congress shall be elected under the new census, A Goop Svaanstion.—President Neilson, of the Stock Exchange, calls on the business community, and particularly the bankers and brokers, to give immediate information at the Stock Exchange upon the discovery of any bogus securities or fraudulent bonds or stocks, so that the alarm may be instantly spread and the plans of the swindlers outwitted, A simple announcement on Friday that irregu- lar (7) bonds had been presented at the Man- hattan Bank might have blocked the game of Mesars, Gray & Co, A Lams Amoxa tHe Wotves—General Rush C, Hawkins among the benevolent finan- ciera of New York, Mors Counterrerrers.—In view of. the energy with which the secret service detec - tives acem to wage war against counterfeiters it is astonishing that the latter should be able to carry on their operations so boldly as appears in a paragraph of Western nows, In Cincinnati a man waa arrested for drunken- ness, and on his person were found sixty dol- lars in counterfeit money and a circular from the makers of this money advertising it, Important News from Qube. Tho special news from Cuba which we pub- lish in another column of the HxkaLp shows that great activity prevails among the insur- gents in the Eastern Department, and @ cor- responding despondency is observable among the Spaniards. Tho Cubans, it will be seen, have not only been able to hold their own in the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba, but have actually compelled the Spaniards to retire from Mogate and have reoccupied their old positions, well provided with provisions and ammunition, The landing of an expedition at the mouth of the Baconao river is also con- firmed, The most important portion of the news, however, is the reported action of Gen- eral Vilmaseda. This boastful soldier, who was to crush the insurgents with the force under his command, suddenly discovers that he has undertaken too big a job. He wants more men, and unless he obtains them he threatens to resign. Is it possible he is so hard pressed as this? Valmaseda is the great fighting man of the Spanish army in Cuba, yet his force consists of only three thousand men, one-third of whom are on tho sick list, Where are the forty thousand troops sent out from Spain? How are they distributed? It looks as if this Cuban revolution was far more for- midable than is considered by President Grant, Secretary Fish, Mr. Sumner and others. We cannot be blind to facts, If the government is disposed to be just to Spain it should also remember that justice is not one-sided, and Cuba has at least some little claim on its consideration. If there is anything more convincing than an- other that the Cubans are entitled to some show of decent consideration at the hands of the American government it is these facts :—The revolution in Cuba has been maintained suc- cessiully for over one year; to crush that revolu- tion Spain has forwarded to Cuba forty thousand of her best fighting troops, commanded by some of her most capable officers. Besides, the naval force in and around Cuba numbers thirty-nine war- vessels, carrying three hundred and seventeen guns. It should also be borne in mind that the Spaniards have also to aid them numerous volunteers in tho island. What now, it may be questioned, have this immense army and formidable navy done to crush the rebel- lion? Comparatively nothing. And yet here in the United States there are those who main- tain that the Cuban revolution is scarcely worth consideration, The fact is that every item of intelligence we receive from the isl2ud proves that the struggle is not only « formidable one, but that it will tax the resources of Spain to the utmost before the uprising of the people is quelled. So far the Cubans have showa them- solves bravo, determined and self-sacrificing patriots, and if they succeed in winning the independence for which they so gallantly fight it will not be through the aid of a government that sanctions the sailing of thirty vessels-of- war to assist in crushing the aspirations of a people desirous and deserving of independence, A Sorry Stant—The departure allowed to those Spanish gunboats. What can it mean? Positvery Suockinc—The streets of this city yosterday, with their coating of snow, mnd and filth of all descriptions, reduced to a black pulp by the rain. Is there no remedy for this abounding nastiness? Wedon't know. The officials who are paid to clean the strecta, aa it appears, clean them only as it may suit their convenience ; the Citizens’ Association of reformers have other fish to fry; and 60, should the nuisance continue lo be neglected, we suppose the only remedy will be a mass meeting of citizens to take the matter in hand. Tux Disapitrins AND THE ReMEDY.— Mr. Dox, of Alabama, has introduced into the House a bill lo remove the disabilities of the fourteenth amendment. This is in allusion to the words of the third section—‘‘No person shall be a Senator or Represontative in Con- gress, or elector of President and Vice Presi- dent, or hold any oflice, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State,” who had violated a former oath of office by going into the rebellion, ‘But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such dis- ability.” Here is the chance for practical application of amnesty notions by those who hold them. Tag Corser Stone Lat.—We mean the corner stone of woman suffrage. It has been laid in the new law of Wyoming Territory, passed by both houses of the Legislature and signed by the Governor, whereby the women over the ago of twenty-one years have the same right to vote in all elections of the Terri- tory as the men—whites and niggers. Here, then, ia a substantial foothold for this woman suffrage movement, from which other Territo- ries and some of the States will next be gained, and what then? “Why, thon the woman question, as the great bone or rib of agitation, will take the place of the used-up nigger question, and, as women’s rizhts are a thon- sand times more interesting and attractive than niggers’ rights, we say, let it come. Tor Latest Cunan News—More troops arrived from Spain and more taxes laid on the products of the island. What limit is there to Spain's power to make war on Cuba so long as she can make Cuba pay for it? Cespedes had better hurry up with his torches, Sr Tugy Come.—More Jersey suits— three hundred of them—against: Evie. If Fisk and Gould do not become first rate law- yers it will not be for want of practice. ~ Resstan Opara.—We have had Italian opera, English opera, Irish opera, French opera, German opera and the Chinese opera to a surfeit, from time to time, and the African opera all the time, and so the introduction of the Russian opera is a sort of novelty, if nothing more, To those who under- stand the Ruaslan langnage, however, the Russian opera is gaid to be delightful, while to those who don’t they say it is very amusing. Portor Crimes.—Two policemen have just been caught in passing counterfeit money, and from the circumstances of tho case it is not possible to doubt that they knew the character of the money. No doubt the money was the price paid them by the makers of it to secure their secrecy. A few days since two police- men committed a highway robbery. If the Commissioners do not make strict examples of such cases it will be hard for the public to have much confidence in the honesty of the force. ss anette eat cir ia Commercial Failures. There has been an unusually large crop of mercantile bankruptcies this winter; but such mishaps occur every year at this season, and are only intensified now because the gold market was subjected to so violent fluctuations last September. In two of the recent instances it is represented that the heads of the concerns were chronic believers in the valuclessness of our paper currency and that gold had to go up to higher prices. They were what the Wall street fraternity would call constitutional “bulls” on gold. Hence they were not afraid to lay in heavy stocks of the foreign merchan- dise which was the specialty of their business. The shrinkage in the value of foreign goods brought about by the fall in gold was fatal to them. In looking over the list of failures this fall and winter we find it composed almost exclusively of houses whose trade was in one or other of the leading lines of foreign goods. Every winter we have fears of a panic, but if that contingency, so often predicted, is ever to come it should bave succeeled the utter demoralization of the money market last fall. The very greenbacks which are so often de- nounced as an irredeemable paper currency are the secret of the failure so far to get up @ panic. Had the country been doing business on the old plan before the war we should have been utterly prostrate long since, People forget that we have just passed through a long war. Toe Parapisk or Jeremy Divpiers is among the financiers, bankers, brokers, buils, bears, epread eagles and lame ducks of Wall streot. They have been skinned by the defaulters and forgers, Pratt and Gray, ina series of confidence operations that would be very amusing if they were not so very demoral- izing. Still we have here only another illus- tration or two of the loose, rushing, push- ing, confused and harum-scarum style which governs the financial exchanges and specula- tions of Wall street. Itis a fine field for skil- ful rogues, with the requisite brass, to keep up appearances. A bold face, a diamond breast- pin, noisy pretensions and an office fitted up with rosewood furniture and rich carpets are capilal enough in Wall street for a fleecing business of «& quarter or a half a million. Nothing down there is so readily convertible into gold as brasa. Braziwian Orpostrion to the war in Para- guay has made itself felt pretty strongly near the government when it becomes the issue upon which a change of ministry takes place. With Brazil thus divided her war must be less effective than ever—and Lopez is not dead yet. MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. Tho Board met yesterday, pursuant to adjourn ment, with the President, Alderman Coman, tn the chair, There was barely @ quorum present ané therefore not enough to pass any general orders A number of ordinary resolutions were presented and laid over or appropriately roterred. A resoiu tion was adopted repealing the ordinance, pre- viously passed, providing for the paving of Forty- filth street, from Fourth to Lexington avenues, wil Belgian pavement, ‘rhe resigaation of James O'Brien as a member of the Board was, on motion of Alderman Muller, called from the table and accepted. A resolution was then adopted recognizing the va lidity of the election of Richard Crocker, in Decem- ber, 1468, a3 Alderman of the Fifteenth Aldermante aistriet, after which the Board adjourned tll Mon- day, al'two P. M. BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDEARIEN. Who Leases the Piers of the City ¢ ‘The Board met yesterday aficraoon, the president, Mr. Monahan, presiding. i In response toa resolution of inquiry requesting the Comptroller to report the nature and terms of all lenses of wharves and piers made py the Com- missioners of the Sinking Faud durng the year 1869, With the names of the lessees, the following statement was received :-~ North River. ased to the Bi Per anmen. ia Itailway Com- ier 37, y Pier 3%, leased to the Empire Tranaportation Company... Pier 89, leased to Henry smith. soe \d between pi <0 ers Band 3s, ieaset to Har: my rington Bulkhead at Hamm ring'or Pher ab T ringtoy soree Mt Pior at Thiriy-aoventh street, feuaod to Wililam Beadiey | 300 Pior at Fortieth street, leased to Willlam Wradiey ...... 180 North half of pier No, 25 and south half of pior No. 26, Teasod to the New Haven S'cainboat Company .... 220 feet south eide of plor at Twenty-ffth street, DeWitt ©. Ward .... leased 620 Pier at Thirty-elyhth sireet, ieased cael Kane at.. 06 Pier at 11ith’ street, leased to the Society for the Ket: ormation of Juvenile Delinquents ..... + 508 Vier at 186th street, loased to Hatrick Dimi Soo It 18 proyided in these leases that the lessees shal make all repairs during the coutinuance of them re- spective terms at their own expense. ‘The > paper was ordered to be printed. HARLEM TRAINS TO BE STOPTED AT 109TH sTRERT. ‘A resolution was adopted requesting the Harlem Ratiroad Company to stop their local or accommo- dation trains at 109th street, for (he purpose of tax- ing in and letting out passengers residing in that section of the city. BELGIAN PAVEMENT. Aresolution was adopted directing that Thirty- ninth street, between Broadway and Eighth avenue, be paved witn Belgian payemeat, under the direc- tion of the Croton Aqueduct Department. On motion the Board took a recess until balf-past three o'clock. At that nour there was not a saMcient number ot members in attendance to adopt general ordera, and on motion the Board adjourned to meet thus (iriday) alternoon, at two o'clock, A D&S:RVING CHARITY. Academy of the Visitati Mount de Chantal. A circular has been tssued by the Sisters of the Visitation of this tustitution, which 1s near Wheet- ing, West Va., with a very cordial endorsement from Bishop Whelan, asking subscriptions towards the estabushment of a fund for the free education of imooverished American young ladies whose talents are calculated to make tacm usoful as teachers; and tho object especially 13 to give this assistance to young ladies of the South, reduced to poverty by the late civil war, whereby they may be enabled as teachers, particularly of music, vocal and instrumental, to support themselves. The Ststers desire it to be known that they have excellent accommoda- tions for 200 such "pis, but that they are in need of ands to meet the applications made for the free education proposed; Wat no party or sectarian principles govern the school; that applicants of ail creeds are accepted and that their religion is not interfered with; that the majority coming in are daughters of non-Catho- lies, and that the smallest contribution wil! be grate. fully received, Bishop Wheian says that the very remarkable and highly cultivated taient of the musical department ol tia tstitulion—unrivaied, probably, by any Jomaie educational institution in the country—led him to encourage the erection of buildings to such ab extent as to present to parents every passilia tee ducement to avail themselves of {5 advantages. Contributions may be handed i% to the care of Mayor Halli or W. My Toes or yey may be sent by man igect to the Ac einy, fount do Chantai, near jeeling, West Va, a —— DEATH FROM FRACTUFE OF TLE SANE. Simon Fleig, a German, fifty-six yoara of aga, was found lying in Thirty-third street. Mr. Picia. was conveyed to the Twenty-ninwh precincs ang gubsequently to Bellevue Hospital, where death ensued. On the application of Mx, Fie, the widow of the decease!, the remains were taken to her residence, West ‘Thirty-frst street, by consent of ( where an inquest will be held, » Fle! there hav been intentional violence inflicted upon had caused his death, her busband, winch and to determine = that tact Dr. Josoph Cushman Was requested by Coroner Sctirmet to make a@ post-mortem examination of tho body. From the testimony taken the jury came to the wise conclusion that the deceased caine to his dean by lajuries received in & manner unknown, aod found ! = that ho physician waa sent for to cxamine whe leceased when no Was brought Lo the station = 8s