The New York Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1870, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIFTOR, All business or nows letter and telegraphic @espatches must be addressed New Yorn Tisrato. letters and packages should bo properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. dneaeletites THE DAILY HERALD, pubitshes o every day in he wear. Four cents per copy. Annual subseriplon price $12, Volume XXXV AMUSEMENTS. TH THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Lirtce Ex'tr. Brosdway.-Tag Daawa or QERIR, Hroadway, cor- formance every evening. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MIs wer Thirtieth at,—Batines di BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.Brinar or Norre DamMe—CosnLk® AND TAILOR—NEW YoRs Fineman. 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APOLLO HALL, corner 28th street and Broadway.—Trr @aRviri GIANT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway, BOURNCE AND Ani, LAD{ES' NEW YORK M uM OF ANATOMY, 618)¢ oe FEMALES ON! LTZNDANOE. TRIPLE | SHE ET, “New Yorks dances Saonary 4, 1870. comresrs Or bleak ‘3 HERALD, Paar. A—Advertisemenis. 2—Advertisements. 3—Wasnington: the New York Post Ofice Investl- gation; New Phase of the Paraguayan War— Broadway Caving In: the Great Hore Under the Great Thoroughfare—Custom House Regu- jauons—Another ‘Telegraphers’ Suwike—De- tatled Accounts of the Late Gale—The Oakley Defalcation—Three Card Monte. 4@—Cuds: Manifesto of the Cuban Junta; Au Active Campaign All Over the Isiand—New York City : Organization of the New Common Council; Mayor Hail’s Address—City and Po- lice intetligence—Tho Attempted Police sassination—Meeting of Uptown Properiy Holders. G—Brookiyn City News: Organization of the New Vommon Counci; Message of the Mayor; In- Gictment of Edwin Perry for the Murder of ‘fhomas Hayes—Letter from Mr. E. H. Webster Relative to the Impeachment of President Johnaon—Turco-Russian Baths—Great Coun- terfeit Sensaiion; Conspiracy to Bring About Repudiastion—The Match for the Prize Ring Championship. G—Eiditorials : Leading Article on the New Regime at Albany; Mayor siai’s Expectations— Amusement Announcements, Y—Editorials—Telegraphio News from All Parts of the World: The New French Cabinet and Ministerial Policy of Napoleon—The State Capitol: Candidates for OMecers of the Legis. lature—Public Debt Statement—Personal In- telligence—Bal d’Opera Last Night—The Ball Season—Business Notices, 8—Tne Byron Scandal: Mrs. Stowe Vindicates Lady Byron in a New Book—The Mormons: Brigham Young and bis Troubles—Suburban Intelligence—The Pennsylvania Coal Trade— A Model Domestic. @—Important Proceedings in the Law Courts— Correspondence from Kingston, Jam.—Letter from the Late Edwin M. Stanton—Canada No Longer a Refuge for Thieves and Swindlers— Financial and Commerctai Reports—The Glou- cester Fishing and Freighting Fleet—The Pea- body Funeral Railway Traim—Marvriages, Births and Deaths. 20—The Elizabeth Street Tragedy: A Sad Tale of Domestic Guilt—The Sleepy Hollow Massacre— Amusements—Meeting of the Taxpayers of West Farms Opposed to Unjust Taxation— Obituary Notices—New York College of Physi- cians and Surgeons—Locai Intelligence—Ship- ping News—Advertisements, 41—Commerce Between States: Changes in the Currents of Trade—Foreign Miscellaneous Itema—Steambpat Disasters on Western Waters—A ormon Romancer—Advortise- ments, 12—Advertisemen Toxine or Her Cuaracrer.—The Span- ish Minister of Finance declares that Queen Isabella stole the crown jewels, and Isabella replies that if he were not a minister she would sue him for defamation of character. The loss of # throne has made her particular about trifles. Taz Rosser Po.rormEN.—Judge Cardozo yesterday, on an appeal in the case of Remsen and Hannigan, the two policemen who were convicted of robbery, allowed that there was an error in the previous trial, but refused them new one on the ground that their conviction was evidently right and just. CouNTERFEITING 48 A PoLiTICAL MaonrE.— A gentleman named Houston King, an ex-rebel colonel, who, it seems, has been trying for the last six months to obtain the ear of the gov- ernment, found his chence yesterday and made affidavit before Commissioner Shields of the following apparently Munchausenish facts:— There has long been a hvge conspiracy on hand to bring the country to repudiation and Insolvency by flooding it with counterfeit money, and the principal leaders of the con- spiracy are Frank Blair, Governor Hoffman, ex-Governor Morgan and ex-President John- son. The principal meeting of the conspira- tors was held in the Tammany wigwam. Com- missioner Shields'patiently heard King’s state- ment, and at his own request sent him to Ludlow Street Jail, privately directing the sur geon of that Institution to examine carefully futo bis mental condition, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1870.-TRIPLE SHERT. Tho Now Regime at Albany—Meeting of | The Telegraph Monopoly—A Blackmalling the Logislature—Mayor Halls Expecta- tons. Our State Legislature meets at Albany to- day. Itisa democratic Legislature: in both branches, It is backed by a democratic Gov- ernor and # democratic Court of Appeals. It is the first full swing that the democracy havo had for twenty odd years in the government of this State, and itis the result of the last November election, which went by default, two hundred thousand, or one-fourth of the voters of the State, not feeling sufficient interest in the election to go to the polla, Thus through popular indifference the most important politi- cat revolution in our local affairs of half a cen- tury has been achieved, We say revolution, for to the State, but especially to this city, we expect that the changes coming from this com- prehensive democratic control over our local affairs will be almost as thorogghgoing as the changes which, under the restoration of the Stuarts, in the person of “the Merry Monarch,” followed the rigid, repressive, remorseless and uncomfortable Puritanioal government, of Cromweil. What will this democratig Legislature do? Its first proceeding en national affairs will in all probability be the rescinding of the resolu- tion of the last Legislature (republican) ratify- ing the fifteenth amendment to the federal con- stitution, which provides for universal negro suffrage, with power to Congress to enforce it by appropriate legislation, Conceding the point (though not admitted by Mr. Seward, as Seeretary of State, that a State may recall its certified ratification of a constitutional amend- ment), the recall of New York's ratification will practically amount to nothing ; for the com- plete ratification of this fifteenth amendment can and doubtless will be secured before the adjourn- inent of this-session of Congress, without New York. ‘The democratic leaders say they have no objection to negro suffrage, but that this power to Congress of “appropriate legislation” may take away from ‘Tammany, for instance, the inspectors and canvassers of all our elec- tion districts, and that objection is sufficient to make this fifteenth amendment “‘stink in the nostrils” of the unterrified; and so the roscind- ing resolution indicated wi!l be among their first proceedings at Albany. Sut what of our local affairs? The schedule of reforms and transformations agreed upon will doubtless be communicated to the two Houses in the Governor's Message. Whaat his recommendations will be our readers may par- (tally guess from the address deliverod yester- day by Mayor Hall to our new Common Coun- cil. In this address he congratulates the two boards “that the results of the recent State election will probably terminate those incon- gruities of our municipal government which have been iucreasing year by year during a jong period,” and that “‘the experience of Gov- ernor Hoffman during his several years of Recordership and Mayoralty will now become a valuable guide to the Legislature in their expected task of reorganizing municipal gov- erament upon a sound constitutional basis.” In removing these incongrulties the Mayor does not care to anticipate the plan of muni- cipal consolidation that will probably be adopted; but he thinks that ‘any plan should provide that all officials (except judges) who are paid out of the city or county treasury should be grouped under appropriate depart- ments of the city or county government, and that they should hold their appointment from uniform source.” Then, he thinks, ‘the rights of local government will have béen restored.” The “incongruities” by name referred to by the Mayor are the Police, Health, Fire, Excise and Education Boards, embracing “substantially five extra county treasurers, each distinct from the other,” with financial vouchers filed in diverse offices. Under a uniform municipal system the Mayor says that there will be a distinct accountability, and that through this condensed accountability many abuses will be corrected. As we understand it, all this means that we are to have a new city government, democratic out and out; that ity varions departments aro to be made subordinate to the Mayor and the Common Council, and that the Mayor is to be the responsible head of the whole establishment, with a first rate salary. The trouble which was apprehended in the choice of Speaker for the Assembly did not appear. On the contrary the caucus arrange- ments, including Hitchman for Speaker, passed off harmoniously, and so the prospect for the complete success of the Tammany pro- gramme is all that the chiefs of the Wigwam could reasonably desire. Tho Goverument Gold SalesThe Treasury Programme for January. Secretary Boutwell has made an important modification of his programme of gold sales and bond purchases for the current month. The lavish features of October, November and December are suddenly curtailed. In place of ten millions he contemplates selling only four millions during the next twenty-eight days. Itwill be remembered that he became very prodigal of his gold just after the clique had curried the price beyond all reason. It is now evident that his zeal was excessive; for in con- tinuing to overwhelm the market he forced the price so low that the exporters of domestic produce have had an almost profitless season, Moreover, he has so reduced his gold balance that he enters upon the year 1870 with a trifling sum. The reduction of his gold sales comes not too soon. The balance of our cotton and produce will be shipped to better advan- tage, and thus revive confidence among the exporters. Secretary Boutwell has now the opportunity of so graduating his gold sales as to further the interests of all classes of the com- munity, Let him, in the first place, combat any undue rise ingold. With his present programme gold will find its true place before the Ist of February, Then he can begin to adjust his sales, so that in the summer, when foreign goods are arriving, the price shall not ad- vance, This will be fair to the importers and to the public at large. Then when autumn comes and our cotton, petroleum, wheat and cheese are going sbroad, let him gradually reduce his sales, so that it will be cheaper to pay for imports with our domestic products than with gald. Mr. Boutwell has an oppor- tunity in 1870 to make himself the most popu- lar man in the country. If he is aiming at the Presidency in 1872 we have pointed out to im one way of winning popular favor. Trick, The custom of people biting off their noses to spite their faces has gone somewhat out of fashion of late, and we do not believe the American people will care to revive it in the matter of ocean cables to accommodate the telograph monopolists of the Western Union Company and the London and Newfoundland line. These men are dosperately anxious just now about our national dignity, and want the government to assert it by sending several frigates and tearing up all that part of the French Atlantic cable that ig within three marine leagues of our coast. it why tear up this cable? Is it because its presence there is not a benefit to the people? No; for, on the contrary, its presence there is a benefit to the people. Is it because there are too many cables? No; for the opposition of cable against cable compels the companies to operate them at reasonable rates, The reason why, it is argued, that the government ought to tear up this cable is that some one says the French government will not permit Americans to lay a cable in France, This is like the account of the size of Mr, Dick's room in the story. Somebody told him it was not big enongh to swing a cat around in. ‘But I don’t want to swing a cat around in it,” said Mr. Dick. So it is with the cable, There are no Americans who want to lay a cable to France, and therefore, per- haps, till there are such men we need not be go terribly indignant as to the concessions they cannot get. The fact is, it is eminently to the interest of the public to have in existence two rival working cables between this Continent and Europe. But this arrangement is not altogether satisfactory to certain would-be monopolists. First, it is not satisfactory to the owners of the English cable, because it prevents exorbitant charges. Next, it is not satisfactory to the Western Union men to have this French cable in full operation here, because it may become a point of support for the establishment of rival land lines, And in the dissatisfaction of these allies originates all that the public hear of declamation and trash against the French cable, They wish to force the French cable into making an alliance with them, and into accepting their terms for peace—that is, they wish to force it intoa combination against the people, All their noise, therefore, is for blackmail, The Public Debt. Secretary Boutwell has promptly issued his statement of the debt of the United States on the lst of January, 1870. . His exhibit makes a decrease during the month of December amounting to $4,812,781, and since March 1, 1869, of $76,716,206. This is a very pleasing result; but why does the honorable Secretary ignore the honds issued to the Pacific Railroad Company? In every statement of his prede- cessor they were regularly incorporated as part of the debt. The government pays interest upon them as it does upon other classifications of indebtedness, and we see no reason for their omission. The fotal of these bonds so far issued is $64,185,320, Another variation Mr. Boutwell makes (for which he is to be commended, however, ) from the state- ments of Mr. McCulloch is t'@ adding of ac- crued interest from month to month. This amounted on January 1 to $50,463,490. This will account for the difference exhibited be- tween the regular monthly statements made up in this office for some years past and those made by Secretary Boutwell. We go on as usual and class the bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Company as part of the debt of the country. According to the Hzratp exhibit, which does not add accrued interest, the de- crease in the public debt last month was $10,818,379, and since January 1, 1869, $78,283,418 Tug Prospects FoR Brook.yN—MAyor Kaxpreison’s MessaGe.—Mayor Kalbfleisch, of Brooklyn, sent his annual message to the Common Council of that city yesterday. He gives a glowing account of the material improve- ment of our sister city, but expresses a gloomy apprebension that her indebtednéks is becoming aburden greater than she can bear. Eleven miles of streets have been paved, seventeen miles are under contract, and one hun- dred and twenty-live thousand feet of sidewalk have been flagged within the past year, Besides, Kent avenue basin and Gowanus Canal have been improved, and Washington avenue has been extended. But, on the other hand, the city debt and the current expenses have alike been increased, and although six million dollars were collected by taxation last year to meet current obligations, six mil- lion dollars more have been added to the out- standing debt, which now reaches $27, 227,425. He charges this extravagance in part to the Board of Assessors, the Paid Fire Department and the Prospect Park Commission, and hopes that the Legislature will reform the matter. In the meantime he urges retrenchment in order to avoid insolvency. A PontiricaL Snor at Russia.—The Papal power, the Jesuit wing of it at least, has delivered ared hotshot against the Czar of Rus- sia. The Jesuit newswaper organ in Rome com- pliments the great Powers of Europe on their attitude towards the Council, excepting, how- ever, ‘the Russia schismatic, which prevented the only bishop of Poland not killed or exiled to Siberia from being present to relate the misfortunes of that martyred country.” This is pretty severe, coming as it does from the fountain source of charity, but what follows is, if possible, still more so, thus:—‘‘Only one nation, France, has given proof of her solici- tude in keeping a garrison” in the Holy City. Napoleon is evidently being gradually reac- cepted to the fold, as this endorsement is almost equal to the vivas which saluted the tri-color on the Malakoff. Crus Law in Westonsster.—A lively scene occurred at Tremont, in Westchester county, last night. The opponents of a new street assessment held a meeting to protest against the tax levy, and the supporters of the assessment attempted to take full possession of the meeting and carry it in their favor. The result was @ most exhilarating time, clubs and epithets being bandied about in a manner that ought to have convinced the most hard headed. Finally order prevailed and the anti-assess- ment people accomplished their purpose, which, after all, was nothing more than a few apeeches and resolutions, Reconstruction in New York—The Democracy and Our City Commissions. Some twenty-three years have passed sinco the democracy were in absolute possession of this State. They have it now—legislative, executive and judicial departments; and after this long exclusion, total or partial, they are somewhat bewildered with the changes and the spoils at their command. They have fore- shadowed a programme for the new Legisla- ture, however, which amounts to a pretty thoroughgoing reconstruction of the State. The independent boards or commissions which have been established from time to time in this city have been especially offensive to the unterrifled of the metropolis, as usurpations of democratic and municipal rights. These com- missions embrace: — 1, The Metropolitan Police Commissioners, 2 The Board of Health and Excise, 8 The Fire Commissioners, 4, The Croton Aqueduct Department. 5, The Commissioaers of the Central Parx. 6. The Commisstoners of Charivies and Correction. 7. The Commussioners of Emigration, A There are four Police Commissioners, two of each party, and each of the four gets a compensation of five thousand five hundred dollars a year. The Board has control of nearly four millions of money, raised by tax in the city, and reports only to the Legislature. The general belief is that this Board will be legislated out of existence, The Board of Health and Excise is made up of nine, whose salaries, with a few exceptions, foot up three thousand five hundred dollars 9 year. This double board is composed mostly of republicans. In the health business it controls a tax levy of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and in excises it controls collections to the extent of one million five hundred thousand dollars. The pickings in the liquor revenues and on the water are understood to be very handsome, and the pressure for a general reconstruction and clearing out, in reference to these health and excisemen, will be simply irresistible. The Croton Board consists of three officers— two republicans and one democrat—whose sala- ries are fixed—one at five thousand seven hundred dollars, one at five thousand dollars, and one, Enginger-In-Chief, at seven thousand five andre dollars. The receipts of this Board amounted last year, in round numbers, to one million three hundred and twenty thou- sand dollars and its expenditures to two millions two hundred thousand dollars. The Central Park Commissioners—nine in number—work without salaries, and their work has given universal satisfaction. In addi- tion to the Park they have charge of the boule- vards and some other new improvements at the upper end of the island. The Commissioners of Charities and Correc- tion are appointed by the County Comptroller, and the Commissioners of Emigration are men of means, who, like the Park Commissioners, do a vast amount of good work without charge to the community. Besides these commissions there are our street officials—three different sets, who con- trive among them to draw a groat deal of money with very little work to show for it. And then there is the Board of Education, concerning which the Bible question may come up, and the question of the division of the school funds among Protestants, Catholics, Hebrews, &c. If the democracy, however, do not wish to raise a sectarian agitation which will blow them sky high, they will deal with these combustibles very gingerly. In all these bureaus, boards and commissions, and ina grand Parisian scheme of enlarging and beautifying this metropolis, in magnificent jobs, for new piers and wharves, new markets, new streets, avenues and boulevards, new rail- ways—underground, on the ground and in the air; new bridges and tunnels and new public buildings, it will be easy enough to make up a budget of five hundred millions of public plunder. Accordingly, we may look out for the biggest, most powerful and most andacions lobby this winter ever known in Albany, and even surpassing the grand national lobby at Washington. What, then, will be the character and the ex- tent of the changes that will be made by the new democratic Legislature 'in this list of city com- missions ? We cannot tell and it is difficult to conjecture, The regular leaders of the party do not wish to tear down faster than they can build upagain; but the mass of the rank and file, including the hungry ones of the rural districts, are clamorous for a clean sweep, and will work for an increase of officers all round, an enlargement of salaries, and for good pay where none exists. The Tammany pro- gramme, as we make out, comprehends the merging of all these commissions under the Mayor and Common Council, and the establishment of a sort of municipal cabinet, with the Mayor at the head, for the general regulation of all the various departments of our city affairs. Comparing things us they are with things as they were in this city, in refer- ence to these commissions, they have given general satisfaction to the people. The work of reconstructing them will be delicate, difficult and dangerous to the democratic party—deli- cate and difficult from the conflicting interests involved, and dangerous from the tremendous outside pressure that will be brought to bear, to make this work of reorganization a mere division of the spoils and plunder, according to the plan of of building tt the new Court House. Honors To THE Memory oF THE Late Dr, Cummines.—To-day is the anniversary of the death of that worthy and beloved minister, Dr. Cummings. In honor of his memory a re- quiem mass will be given in St. Stephen's Wuo Owxs Broapway?—The Pneumatic Railroad and Package Transportation Company or some other corporate power or authority have taken upon themselves the responsibility of burrowing Broadway for some private specula- tion or enterprise, Yesterday information was sent to the Mayor that the street was settling and was likely soon to become impassable. A. commissioner appointed by Mr. Hall promptly repaired to the ‘‘hole,” as it is called, and essayed to enter, for the pur- pose of examining the condition of the work, which has been clandestinely progressing for some weeks past, but he was summarily or- dered off and told not to interfere with matters over which the Mayor had no control. One of the first acts of the Legislature should be to re- peal the charter of this burrowing company, and thereby save Broadway from becoming a ‘ auisance, on Mrs, Stowe’s New Beok on the Byron Scandal, It is the peculiar province of a woman to assert conviction without adducing a scintilla of evidence in support thereof, ‘I don't believe it,” exclaims Mrs, Thingembob, and when asked why she does not, the answer most frequently is, ‘Because I don’t.” Asa matter of logic this is poor, but at the same time it is unanswerable. In like manner Mra. Stowe recently asserted that Lord Byron was guilty of a most horrible crime. The charge was all but unanimously assailed as false by the press of America and Great Britain. Its author was called upon to produce the proof, and she replica in five hundred pages, repeat- ing at greater length all that she had before sald, without offering any additional evidence whatever. ‘“‘Lord Byron was guilty of incest with his sister,” she exclaimed some months ago, and now, when summoned to state all she knows about it, she tells us “Because he was.” To this style of reasoning we have no answer; the most we can do is to reject it utterly, abso- lutely, unqualifiedly. Elsewhere we publish a fall summary of Mrs. Stowe's book defending the assertions made by her in the Adantic Monthly, which have given rise to the now famous By ron con- troversy. Unless pecunlary considerations prompted author and publishers, we caa hardly conceive what other motive influenced them to give the work to the public. Itis but a tire- some repetition of what was said before. As an argument it is weak and puorile; as a defence it only convicts Mrs. Stowe of having deliberately attempted to load the memory of Lord Byron with ® most unnatural crime, upon the ex parte statement of his wife. There is not in any one of the five hundred pages a single new fact advanced, It was very easy for Mrs. Stowe to repeat that Lord Byron was guilty of incegt; it was not difficult for her to build up atheory in support of her assertion, based upon his poems and letters, and the action of his friends, But empty assertion and transparent sophism were not what the public demanded. If Mrs. Stowe had nothing more to say than is contained in the new work her imperative duty was to preserve a prudent silence. It was bad enough at first to make the charge without proof; it is almost infamous to repeat without substantiating it, Mrs. Stowe was not called upon to vindicate the memory of Lady Byron; the world demanded that she vindicate her own character for probity, for honor and for morality. How she has done this let her book answer. She had endeavored to blast tae reputation of the dead and to cast an indelible stain upon the living with empty assertion. Men doubted what she had written. Her own fair fame depended upon her defence, With cool effrontery she now comes before the public and requests us to believe Lord Byron guilty of incest because Lady Byron assured her he was. She had told us that before. The only chapter of the slightest consequence in the book is that which we publish olse- where. Whether there was a conspiracy to injure Lady Byron or not we care but little about, nor are we more than incidentally con-,| cerned in the physiological training and moral culture of Lord Byron. That he was capable of the crime by no means proves him guilty of its commission. We think it quite suscepti- ble of proof that many men are capable of mur- dering their mothers-in-law, and that some have even meditated the crime; but capability and desire are quite different things from the act itself. If it was not that families of high standing in society are affected by this scandal its pub- lication might be a source of humorous con- tempt rather than of serious criticism. But that, knowing how much pain must be inflicted upon innocent and respectable persons, Mrs. Stowe and her publishers should persist in keeping before the public a slander disproved by an overwhelming mass of evidence is something which can be neither palliated nor excused. If the object is to make money it is immeasurably contemptible; and we can discern no higher motive, unless it may be to gratify a morbid and prurient taste for sub- jects of doubtful morality. If it is this last, we can rejoice at having learned at last to what extent the nastiness of New England materialism can be carried. Our News “FROM Cupa BY Mau. —We pub- lish in another part of the Hzratp two letters from our correspondents in Havana and Nue- vitas. By the former we learn that all, or nearly all, the Spanish reinforcements have arrived, and by the latter the ad- vance of General Puello into the in- terior of the Central Department is con- firmed. Puello’s army moved out of Nuevitas on the morning of the 24th ult., and from the announcement being made that no quarter will be given to rebels a bloody record might be expected, were it not for the fact that the Cubans, with their thorough knowledge of the country, have always so far successfully given the Spaniards the slip. Unless the present campaign, thefefore, differs very much from all preceding ones its glories as well as its results can be easily summed up. Throughout the whole isiand we learn that preparations are going on tor a general cam- paign. Now that Spain has all the men she deems necessary to quench the republican fires in Cuba we may shortly expect to learn of some startling accomplishments. For the present, however, we must wait to hear what these achiev ements will be. Ex-Quren OF Spain received a visit from thejEmperor of France in Paris a few days since. Cable telegrams say that Isabella remarked that she had refused the terms of adjustment with the Spaniards which were proposed by Montpensier solely ‘‘to please” Bonaparte. A vain regret, if the assertion be true. Is it the policy of Bonaparte the First or that of Louis Philippe revived ? Tax Emperor Napoleon enjoyed a tole- rably happy New Year. He was congratu- lated by the legislative body and assured of the devotion of the members—facts which drew forth ono of his very telling, appro- priate similes in reply. The clergy of Paris were friendly and complimentary, and thus earned a neat yet brief compliment for them- selves. The new Cabinet has been consti- tuted. The foreign Ministers were friendly. The Paris Bourse is active and firm. The prospect is thus really imperial and the start for 1870 excellent—and just on time. The Manifesto of the Cuban Justa. We publish on another page a bold, manly and candid refutation of the slander recently put in ciroulation to the effect that the Cuban Junta of New York had issued a circular call- ing on the Cubans to surrender and lay dowa their arms, a8 the cause was hopeless, Tho act, contemptible as it was, shows plainly that all means, honorable or otherwise, will be resorted to to crush the struggling patriots of Cuba and destroy the youthful island republic of the Antilles, The manifesto of the Junta is an honest, outspoken disavowal of the alloged treachery, and at the same time an intelligent and interesting document, containing: many new facts, sustained by figures. Spain within the past year has called to her aid to sup- press the Cuban revolution an immense army and a powerful navy, and yet the the results, thus far, have been poor indeod; on the other hand, the Cubans, fighting undor every disadvantage, have done better than their most sanguine friends imagined them capable of. Their tenacity has been most remarkable. It is plain that, in a fair fleld, without odds to either party, the Cubans are more than # match for their proud masters, whose yoka they desire to shake off. The Spaviards know this, but, considering all things fair in war, they resort to the publication of falsehoods, with a view to damage the revolution which their own tyranny brought about, The*mark was overshot, however, and the manifesto of the Junta only sustains the view eatertainod by all thinking persons, that the statement about Cuban treachery was only “a weaic aevice of the enemy.” Paraguay and the South American Re-~ Publics—Lopez Again Heard From, The long struggle which has been maintained between the Brazilian empire and its allies and the little republic of Paraguay has, seom- ingly at least, been lost sight of for some time past by the South American republics, At one period of the Paraguayan war Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile ynited Yy the declaration that the goM%on of Brazil and her alles towards Paraguay tended to the destruc- tion of a sister republic, These States then saw the inevitable result of a successful ter- mination of the war waged against Lopez, the acknowledged head of the Paraguayan repub- lic. His alleged cruelties served but as the pretext for an armed occupation of the country and the setting up of a provisional govern- ment at Asuncion, managed ostensibly by the allied Powers, but in reality controlled by Brazilian officials. {t is to be regretted that | the remonstrance then made by four of the South American republics aad assented to by the United States of Colombia was not more vigorously followed up and the cause of Para- guay considered more of a family affair. The Argentine Confederation, in entering into an alliance with the Brazilian empire against a sister State, committed an error which its gov- ernment is fast beginning to realize. When the territorial extent of Brazil and the power she has at her command to control the sinews of war are estimated, together with the strong European feeling in her favor, while it is opposed to the spread of republican institu- tioas—when these things are properly taken and considered, it is almost impossible to think why the republics of South America have lost sight of the struggle going on in a sister Stato without scarcely an effort to stay its progress, The cause of Paraguay should be the cause of all the neighboring republics. With the sub- jugation of Lopez, when that is achieved, if ever, republican rule in Paraguay is gone, The Brazilian allies will easily be shaken off. Recent events show that the Argentines have had to play second fiddle to the Brazilians. It will be seen, however, from a special telegram from our Washingion correspondent, that Lopezis not in so desperate a plight as his enemies would have us believe. Even now a diplomatic agent is on his way to this country, charged with important communications to the American government. Lopez complains of the suspension of diplomatic relations between the United States and Paraguay. So conflict- ing of late have been the accounts relative to the Paraguayan struggle that the presence of an agent here from the seat of war cannot fail in throwing sone fresh light on the contest waged in South America. It is the intention of the Paraguayan agent to urge the reappoint- ment of a new Minister to Paraguay. From the tenor of the despatch alluded to Lopez is as indomitable as ever, notwithstanding tbat he has been killed, abandoned and suffered all manners of defeats and disasters, vide reports throngh Brazilian s sources, French Finances. For the first time in the history of the French empire—we mean, of course, the present French empire—the budget for the year can make a fair claim to a surplus, French finances have, however, beon so curi- ously manipulated during the last nineteeu years that it is difficult to know what Fronch finance means. In 1868 a surplus was counted upon and actually claimed equal to about five million dollars. The rectified budget for 1868 made expenditure and reccipts equal. Tho actual fact, according to first class euthority, gave a deficit of ten million dollars. For 1869 a large surplus is also claimed. It is not yet time to give facts. The presumption is that there will be a deficit of not less bunt rather more than two million dollars, For 1870 big hopes have been expressed; but it will not surprise us if some skilful ana- lyst gives us good reason to believe that the surplus is more nominal than real. This at least is undeniable, that in the year 1870, when the empire makes a genuine attemptto reconcile itself with liberty, Frénch finance is promising, if uot absolutely good. At the same time it ought to be borne in mind that the consolidated debt of the coun- try now stands at nearly five hundred million pounds sterling, or at least five times that amount in dollars. Ofthis debt the @mpiro is chargeable with one hundred and thirty mil- lion pounds sterling, or some six hundred and fifty millions of dollars. Over and above the consolidated debt there is a floating debt of thirty-two million seven hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling, or five times that amount in dollars. Itis nota bad record aa things have been going for the empire; nor is ita bad start for parliamentary government; but it does not prevent the world fram believ- ing that pecuniarily France has trouble in store. Itwas not so difficult for imperialism to manufacture budgets. If the policy of the