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‘ iia 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HeERatp, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, ‘THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual: subscription price $12. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Five CENTS per copy. Anntal subscription price:— Three Copies. Five Copies. Ten Copies. Any larger number addressed to names of sub- seribers $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty copies to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at same price, An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WEEKLY HERALD (he cheapest pub- lication in the country. Postage five cents per copy for three months. 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F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— MunntE's Luck, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comto Vooat- 1bM, NEGRO ACTS, &o. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, Mth BL—ALLEN & PETTINGILL’S MINBTRELS. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Comio Vocaligm, NEGRO MINSTRELBY, &C. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Broadway.— Gay YOUNG SwWELL—Bav D1OKkY—PRESTIDIGITATION. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE. Brooklyn.—HoOLEY’s MIN- G7RELS—THE FAT MEN'S BALL, &C. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th ay., between 58th and ‘sts,—THEODORE THOMAS’ POPULAR CoNcERTS. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SHEET. TRIPLE New York, Monday, June 6, 1870. CONTENIS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. PAGE. 1—Advertisements. ‘Q—Advertisements. 3—Religious: Celebration of the Feast of the Pentecost; The Workings and Teachings of the Holy Spirit as Manifested in the Churches Here and Elsewhere: Pastoral! Praises for the Victorious Volunteers and Episcopal Excorta- tion of the Fenian Filibusters; The Birthday of Judaism Commemorated by the Jews; Charity and Charlatanism as Practised in the Pulpit; Infallibility Admitted by the Ritualists; The Centenary of Universalism in America. 4—Religious (continued from Third Page). 5—Lurope: Napoleon's Reception of the Result of the Plebiscitum; Grand Scene at the Tulleries and Speech of the Emperor; The English Protestant Conference in America; The Wo- man’s Rights Question in Great Britain; Revo- lutionary Agitation in Naples and lreland— Congress and Cuba: General Banks Needing a Spur; Dangers of Further Delay in Recogniz- ing Cuba; Why Secretary Fish Need Not Resign. G—Editorials: Leading Article on The Financial Legislation and Jobs of vongress—Amusement Announcements, ‘"y—Editoria! (continued)—Telerapic News from all Part of the World: Tne Reported Massacre of sin Roumania Demied: Release of the Violent Scenes Captives m_ Spain; Council; the German- zation Question—Washing- tened wita Another Ke- construction; Letter from on the Deciine of A Reorganization a. M n Prominent Poll- ~e of Homicide—Old ningo Question— Whereabouts of ‘Vhe"Trumphal presting Sta- er Tr: Poiitical and ton of the Passenger Act. from th pan —King Coal De- al Estate Transfers—Court Calen- ay—Remarkable Fi md Commercial Repor 8. City News—Ilow the Ex: rsey Fiend Incarnate— ipping Intelligence—Ad- throned—F dars for nancial surope— veitisements, Exeuish Crannen Yaout Race The vessels ran from the Nore to Dover. The American yachts declined to enter for the occasion. Fif- teen started. The Cambria reached Dover third among the first arrivals. Tae Maron terminated on the 4th inst. A Tist to THE Dominton.—The General Court of Massachusetts proposes to resolve “that it will cordially sympathize with all those who favor the union of the British North American provinces with the government and people of the United States.” This is perhaps too late to comfort the Fenians, who no doubt would have adopted such a purpose for the sake of sympathy, but it may be taken in Canada as indicating a tenden Tar Frenon Postar Trovsie.—-The want of proper postal facilities between the United States and France is much complained of in Paris—and that is where the complaint ought to be, as all the difficulty is due to the mulish- ness of certain of the French authorities. Pro- per efforts from this side were made in time for the establishment of postal regulations by treaty; but the French ministry would not accept our propositions in regard to rates, be- lieving that the government income would be greater without a treaty, and having little re- gard to the convenience of the veovle, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. a iolsermacoices $$$ Tho’ Financial Legislation and Jobs of Congress. The curse of this country is the incapacity and indisposition of Congress to legislate on great national principles and interests. Little thought is given to the general welfare of the people or of the republic in its entirety, and we see no statesmanlike grasp of questions bearing upon the mighty destiny of the nation, That body is composed for the most part of local politicians, whose vision does not reach beyond the narrow limits of their districts or States, who look only to what affects them personally and who have no idea of the grow- ing wants and grand future of the country. Statemen look to the future and lay the founda- tions for it in their policy, but these men can see only the present and that merely in small It is true there are gigantic jobs brought before Congress and members under- stand these well enough. They are sharp things. business men, so far as their own interests go, though not statesmen. idea that while they are taking care of them- selves the country can take care of itself. Fortunately this is so to some extent; for the wonderful resources of the republic and industry of the people overcome, in a great measure, bad legislation or the want of good legislation, Still, the corruption, incapacity and contracted views of our national legisla- tors are demoralizing and must in the end lead to serious consequences, We look over the proceedings of Congress from day to day, and find that nearly every question that comes up has a job in it—some political and party job, some sectional or local job in favor of a particular locality or class, or some job to put money into the pockets of the members themselves and of their friends. Hardly any question, as was said before, is considered with regard to the country at large or the general welfare. Take, for example, the subjects of internal taxation and the tariff, which have been discussed long enough to wear them threadbare, and there are no large views expressed—none of a broad national character, Each member advocates or opposes propositions made the effect they may have upon some particu- lar interest with which he is identified or sup- poses he'represents, There is no party policy, even, on these subjects or any others—none, except on the dead issues of the war and the everlasting negro, But these last are about played out. The people are tired with the continual harping upon the war, for the issues of it have been settled. As to the negro, nothing more can be made out of him politi- cally, unless the ultra negrophobists can propose a method to scrub the black man into a white one, and to change his cranium, heels and all his conformation, so as to give him equality, physically, with the Caucasian race. On the subjects of the tariff, taxation, funding the debt, currency, national banks, foreign policy, and many others, there is no party platform nor unity of action. There is even no concert of views nor action between the so- called administration party in Congress and the administration itself. The proceedings in Congress and of the ad- ministration for some time past, but particu- larly within the last few days, show this want of concert and unity and the selfish, narrow- minded conduct of members. The Sandwich Islands treaty was rejected in the Senate on Wednesday by radical Senators because it opened reciprocity of trade and was against the high tariff notions of these men, though it was eloquently advocated by another leading radical Senator, Mr. Sumner, who, as chair- man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, is supposed to have most to say and the most They seem to have an according to their movements. cans in Paris will far outnumber the English and other foreigners, the head of this enterprise. experience in connection with the press, has undoubted ability as a journalist, and his travels and experience in many parts of the gave the banks six hundred millions and upwards of capital; for they draw interest from their, bonds deposited, which is capital, and at*the same time the government issues over six hundred millions of circulating money tothem. In a word, the government gratui- tously doubles their capital without any consideration in return, Such measures as these have little difficulty in passing Con- gress; for half the members, or more, probably, are interested, direvtly or indirectly, in the national banks. We might go on to show how in other things the legislation of Congress is controlled by private and local interests, and to demonstrate, what was said before, that members have no large national or patriotic views; but these examples are sufficient for the present. Whether there is any remedy for this deplorable state of things or not time alone will show. It remains with the people to decide. Nothing but the power of enlightened public opinion can cure the evil. The Massacre of the Jews Denied. Our cable telegrams from Europe, dated in London yesterday evening, convey the highly important and very consoling intelligence that the report of the massacre of the Jews in Roumania was without foundation, Inquiries from New York as to the truth or falsity of the detail had reached London. The cable replies to-day that no such advices had been received there, and that the continental news agencies deny that there have been any outrages per- petrated recently upon the Jews in Roumania. Telegrams from Bucharest state that an election riot occurred in one of the villages of the principality lately, but the disturbance was quelled almost immediately. The ‘Jews’ massacre” telegram, as it was published by parties in New York, was dated in Constanti- nople on the Ist of June. The frightful events which it purported to narrate would certainly have been heard of in London, Paris, Vienna, Brussels and St. Petersburg, some time before yesterday evening, the 5th inst., had they occurred; the latter a very impor- tant consideration in all that concerns news despatches. A New Americau Newspaper in Paris. We understand that an American newspaper, to be called “‘7’he Paris American,” will soon be published in the gay capital of Europe. Looking at the vast number of Americans in Paris—not less than forty thousand, probably, and continually increasing—there is, no doubt, an inviting prospect for such an enterprise. Indeed, it is surprising that an American news- paper has not been established there before. The English have had a paper in Paris many years. It has become a permanent institution and is very profitable to the proprietors. Why should it not be so with an American paper? Considering the rapidly increasing wealth of this country, the facilities for crossing the ocean and travelling, and the taste of our peo- ple for luxury and sight-seeing, the time is not distant when hundreds of thousands will go over to Europe yearly, and, of course, Paris will be the great attraction and centre of all In a short time the Ameri- A thorough American newspaper there is a necessity, and there never was amore opportune time to establish such anone. If properly conducted it may do great good, too, in reflecting and diffusing American ideas. Mr. Oscar G. Sawyer originated and is He has had great sible sermon. city, Brooklyn, Washington-and Jersey City, there were the usual services and the usual sermons, Religious Services Yesterday. Yesterday was one of those rare Sundays when Jews as well as Christians meet to pray. The feast of Pentecost assembled the Israel- ites in their synagogues, and the same feast was celebrated in many of the Christian churches. At the Catholic houses of worship the attendance was large, as is always the case on Whitsunday, and the sermons, which were all devoted to the subject of the feast, were listened to with all the attention they deserved, It was announced from the pulpit that next Sunday there would be a collection in aid of the Papal treasury, which was at a very low ebb. In advance we must express the hope that the subscriptions will be liberal. In spite of hia infallibility Pope Pius cannot get along without funds. Fallible mortals, who deal in dry goods and groceries, some- how expect his Holiness to pay the cash after a moderate period has elapsed from the time of the purchase. Following close upon the Catholic religious rites were those at St. Albans, where Rev. Mr. Noyes preached a sermon in which he claimed infalli- bility for the successors of the Apostles and maintained the doctrine of the presence of Christ in the eucharist. On the other hand, at Lyric Hall, Mr. Frothingham condemned the discussion of questions relating to rites and ceremonies. The same clergyman also declared that in all his life he had seen but two or three persons whom he believed “to have been Christians through and through.” This unfortunate experience of Mr. Frothingham has not been without effect, if we may judge by his peculiar religious views. On the whole, however, Mr. Frothingham was unusually dull. There was a little sensation at Berean Baptist church, caused by some rascally infidels exploding a package of Chinese firecrackers under one of the win- dows, much to the horror of a part of the con- gregation not yet prepared to go to heaven. As soon as order was restored the pastor dis- coursed on ‘Christ and Public Opinion,” a topic well treated. At the Church of the Mes- siah Rev. Mr. Hepworth preached on the Tite of the Communion, explaining its origin and sig- nificance in eloquent and convincing language. At the American Free Church Rev. Mr. Smyth discoursed on the afllictions of life, which are undoubtedly many and hard to bear. In connection with life afflictions was the treat- ment of Fenianism from a religious point of view by an Episcopal bishop in Montreal. The reverend gentleman actually returned thanks to God for aiding and protecting the Canadian forces during the recent excitement along the border. It is possible that the Lord smote the Fenians, but we do not believe it. We have no idea that the Lord was troubling himself about the Canada frontier while the Fenians were in the vicinity. Whether it was the warm weather or some- thing else we are unable to determine, but it is certain that Brother Beecher was unusually sedate and sober yesterday. He appeared in church for the first time this season in sum- mer costume, opened the proceedings by ad- vertising and giving a quiet puff to a “floral concert,” and then delivering a discourse on the infirmities of mankind, dealing charitably with them and imparting hope to those whose idiosyncrasies often lead them astray, At the Central Presbyterian church, in Brooklyn, Rev. Mr. Talmadge vigorously sttacked the villanies of the day, exposing many of them in plain English and, altogether, delivering a very sen- At the other churches, in this The day was a successful one. Everywhere the attendance was good, and as world and in all the capitals of Europe, give him that comprehensive view of things and that cosmopolitan character of mind which make him just the man for such an undertak- ing. The project, we understand, is favored by the bankers, capitalists and leading Ameri- there was more praying than usual, because of the Jewish feast, we have reason to hope that the amount of forgiveness and charity showered down upon us was proportionably increased, influence on all such questions. No regard was paid to the action or wish of the adminis- tration in the matter. The development of our commerce on the Pacific side of the conti- nent and the great interests that are opening to us there had no weight with these high tariff Senators and local politicians. The debate on the Tax bill in the House on Satur- day and the fight over Mr. Schenck’s attempt to tack on a tariff amendment to that bill brought out in a strong light the narrow sec- tional views of members and the difficulty of legislating on anything in a broad national manner. In former times there was a defined party policy as well as party action on public questions; but now there is none, except, as was said, on the dead issues of the war and the negro. Look at the conduct of the Senate, which is overwhelmingly republican, on the St. Domingo question. The administration, which was the choice of and belongs to that dominant party, pleads earnestly for the ratification of the St. Dom- ingo treaty, but has pleaded in vain. Then again, on the other hand, the majority in Con- gress are no doubt favorable to some sympa- thetic and decided action in favor of the Cubans, but this has been doggedly resisted by the administration. Take also, for exam- ple, the Funding bill, a very important mea- sure, and there is a perfect chaos of opinions, On that neither parties nor sections unite, and the policy of the administration, or rather of the Secretary of the Treasury, is utterly disre- garded. It is only where there is some grand scheme to plunder the Treasury or the people, and where a combination of interests are made, that measures slip through Congress easily. When some gigantic railroad job, calling for enormous grants of land or subsidies, under a powerful combination of railroad interests, and direct interests of Congressmen them- selves, is presented there is little diffi- culty in passing a bill, It is much the same with the stupendous national bank jobs. Two bills to increase the bonus to or profits of the national bank associations have passed the Senate this session. One was to increase the circulation of these institutions forty-five millions. The other was in the Senate Funding bill, and that proposes to give the banks the whole currency of the country. That is, they are to receive, in addition to the three hundred millions they now have, about three hundred and fifty millions more in place’ of the legal tender greenbacks, and as fast as these can be withdrawn. A clear gift of eighteen millions a year in gold is now made to the banks, and when the green- backs are pushed out of existence and the banks absorb all the currency of the country this gratuity will be increased to near forty millions. This is the profit on circulation, and comes out of the Treasury and pockets of the people, It is the same as if the government cans in Paris aad connected with business there. employ the best talents in every department of journalism, and to make an able, a lively, comprehensive and a truly American newspa- per. there can be no doubt Zhe Paris American will be successful. It is the intention of Mr. Sawyer to With such views and with proper means Caprain Eyre, by whose reckless iishu- manity or stupidity, it matters not which, the whole crew of the Oneida was sent to the bot- tom, thought it cruel that he was punished by six months’ ‘‘ leave of absence ”—for that, after all, was about the amount of his sentence. has been appealing against it, therefore, ever since, and finally induced the directors of the company to which his steamer belonged to say a good word for him, in an address to the Lords of the Admiralty, through the Board of Trade. Eyre that his sentence, ‘‘so far from being too severe, is more lenient than the gravity of the offence required.” therefore, by this time, that he did not perform an altogether praiseworthy act in ‘“‘ cutting down a damned Yankee frigate.” He The Board of Trade replied to Mr. Eyre will understand, Tue Fourrs Warp TraGEpy.—The pro- motion of Burke, the policeman, who shot a man in a fracas in the Fourth ward the other night, is a pretty clear expression on the part of the Commissioners of their opinion that the act was one of praiseworthy readiness, and not of precipitate brutality. The whole cha- racter of the act depends upon what sort of man it was that was killed. He is repre- sented on one hand as a peaceful, if not a sober citizen, and an the other as a ruffian of the worst sort. On a point of this kind the word of the police may safely be taken, and this fully justifies the shooting. ImsiGRration.—The cry of ‘‘Still they come” does not adequately express the overflow of the people of Europe on our shores ; for they come more freely than ever. Two thousand a day was the average of last week, making for six days a fair figure over twelve thousand. Two incoming ships brought upward of fif- teen hundred each. Art IN THE OLD Wortp.—Our special cor- respondence from Paris embraces an able analysis of the chief works of art which were presented at the Exhibition in the French capital. The writer takes a very ennobling view of the subject, treating the Fine Arts generally as a means of international enlight- enment: particularly so at the present mo- ment, when the peoples are approaching to the perfection of a cosmopolitan intercommunion game with.” wows with the Indians, talks civilly until he wants ammunition ‘‘to kill game with ;” but itis pretty well known that he seldom wastes bullets on a buffalo. The Hobnobbing With the Indians. Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, the two antago- nistic chiefs of the Sioux tribes, have had a long talk and smoked a good many pipes with the authorities at Washington. Of course, as in most Indian councils, the talk was all of peace, Cox gave the red men some good advice; but Mr. Cox spoke to them as if he were address- Commissioner Parker and Secretary ing so many babies in the nursery, whereas there was not a blanketed chieftain present who could not buy and sell the Secretary of the Interior in cunning and sagacity, It was amus- ing to notice how curtly all this fummery was responded to by Red Cloud. firmly upon the table and said:—‘‘When I heard the words of the Great Father permit- ting me to come I came right away, and left my women and children. He laid his hand I want you to give them rations, and a load of ammunition to kill That is the ultimatum of all pow- The red man never arrow answers that purpose. The ammunition is kept for the benefit of our soldiers and white settlers. Not much good can come out of all this interviewing at Washington. It has been going on now these fifty years, and, with the exception of afew tribes on our proximate border, the Indian is as savage as ever. Itis evident that white civilization on the distant frontier must depend for protection on a well organized military system, and plenty of troops to carry itout. We are disposed to think, however, that the system is far from perfect, when we read such news as that from Dacotah a day or two ago, to the effect that a band of some three or five hundred Indians were pre- paring to make an attack on Fort Mumford, and the commanding,officer reports that he had only fifty available soldiers to protect it. If our garrison | ure left so thinly guarded how can thea ted farmers escape? We opine that loud and Spotted Tail and their acco braves will have a good laugh with tl squaws when they get back to their lodges at. their Washington experi- ence, especially if they find the rations and ammunition there—provided they do not come across Sheridan ‘‘on a ride.” Servant Fisxps.—Another case has oc- curred in Brooklyn where a servant woman is. charged, on pretty good evidence, with setting fire to the house to avenge herself for being dismissed from her place. Shall we have an example which will teach that sort of servants that setting fire to houses ia a crime ? Chaat el The European Mail. The Buropean mail of the 24th of May was delivered yesterday evening. By special cor- respondence from Paris, Naples, Rome, London and Ireland, and newspaper reports from the various cities of the Old World, we are enabled to present to our readers to-day a very ample résumé illustrative of the trans- Atlantic situation as it presented at that period. Napoleon's reception of the French legislative deputations, which announced to him the result of the plediscitum, constituted avery grand and imposing occasion at the Tuileries. His Majesty's speech in reply, which we publish in extenso and verbatim, was able and patriotic and but slightly—con- sidering the excitement of the movement— laudatory of his dynasty and personal rule, Our special letter from Paris treats of the position of his Majesty after the plediscitum. The writer expresses the opinion that the radical “Reds” and quasi would-be revolu- tionists have been effectually extinguished by the unanimous voice of the nation in support of law and order and the constitution as itis, Preparations had been commenced in London for the organization and arrangement of the great Protestant Conference mission to New York. The programme was outlined by the speakers, and Mr. Disraeli’s book, “Lothair,” endorsed at the meeting as ‘“‘the ablest anti-Romanist publication of the age.” Our special writers in Italy and Ireland report the progress of the revolutionary agitation in Naples and the Green Isle. The recent at- tempt at insurrection in Filadelfla, Italy, which was briefly noticed in the cable telegrams, is detailed as it occurred; while from Ireland comes the rather extraordinary and very strange announcement that the Fenians and Orangemen of that country are being rapidly allied in a political union looking to the resto- ration of the nationality, The Latin peo- ples are evidently deeply agitated near the fountain head centres of their race. The Russian assertion of toleration—encourage- ment it may be called—of Protestantism, as it appears in our columns, is very significant just now, in view of the general aspect of the religious question. Naples forwards to us a special statement of the position which is sus- tained by some of the American prelates in Rome against infallibility. The woman’s rights question agitation in England is noted in our special letter from London. Our European mail despatches are thus not only of great importance, but quite interesting at all points of the budget contents. The Israclite Massacre in Roumania--A Rabbi’s Opinion. It was natural to suppose that the Israelites of this city would have made the late rumored massacre of their co-religionists by the Christians in Roumania the subject of their religious discourses in the synagogues. The remarks of Senator Sprague in the Senate have greatly exasperated them. On the Jewish Sabbath the Rabbi Gutheim took occasion to condemn the Senator’s language with great severity in the synagogue of Emanu-El. He was unusually severe, too, upon the Christian priesthood, whom he credited with very little charity, designating their mission as an “‘odious, hypocritical priestcraft, which even in our day infests the high roads and sneaks through the byways of mankind.” Perhaps the preacher had some particular class of men in his mind when he spoke thus ; for, even under the _irri- tation of this sad news from Roumania of the wholesale butchery of his people, he could not have meant to involve the whole Christian Charch in such a sweeping condemnation. With regard to the remarks of Senator Sprague that the Jews in Roumania had ac- quired all the wealth, business and property, by their trade-monopolizing and grasping pro- pensities, while the Christian population was ‘in poverty, the Rabbi inferred that the Senator justified the massacre and would not be unwil- ling to see wealthy Israelites similarly treated elsewhere. This was, perhaps, straining an inference, though many people interpret the Rhode Island Senator’s languege somewhat in the same direction. The Rabbi Gutheim’s words were:— He takes occasion to hold out a warning to the Sen- ate and the country, from which every true American will shrink with horror, What! does he think that free American citizens, imbued with the true principles of liberty, will ever be tempted to imitate those flendish proceedings, which are contrary to the law of God and man? But the words of the Senator do contain & warning most solemn and ominous. It is Unis, that even in our free and enlightened country there are yet m ‘o be found who are actuated by bigotry and fanaticism, who do not blush to extena- ate the most horrid crimes inspired by religious per- secution, They suggest the warning that the air in which the Senator has been reared, that the principles which he has imbibed, require to be purified and revised. They contain the lesson for the American people to be careful in the selection of their representatives in order to preserve the biess- ing of civil and religious liberty tn ail its purity and grandeur. This latter is not an untimely rebuke to New England puritanism. However, the Christian world must not be held responsible either for the massacre in Roumania or for Mr. Sprague’s sentiments thereupon. TENNESEE THREATENED.—An effort is being made by Representatives Stokes and Maynard, of Tennessee, to have Congress pass a law declaring the Legislature of that State an ille- gal body because a majority of its members were disqualified on account of their participa- tion in the rebellion, Happily, the days of the present session of Congress are drawing to a close, and too little time is left in which to manipulate a job of such magnitude as legis- lating a State out of the Union. As the re- election of Messrs. Stokes and Maynard is more than doubtful their desire to reconstruct Tennessee is easily accounted for. Rewievine THE Borper.—It will be a nice point for discussion in Canada, and even in Lonfon, that a person so potent in our city governme! good as the law, is the friend and patron of the Fenians—in so far that he spent upward of five thousand dollars paying their home- ward fares. Perhaps this, however, was also an act of prime friendship for the sadly afflicted border people on either side the lines, RAtwRoAD CARELESSNESS,—The other day a coal train on a down grade of the Morris and Essex road was permitted to get such head- way that it could not be stopped, and there was only a narrow escape from the demolition by it of a train loaded with passengers. This was gross carelessness. Would not the management do well to devote to the preven- tion of such events the time it gives to fighting the commuters? ‘as Mr. Tweed, whose word is as’ Caban Prospects Brightening: Dawn appears to be breaking upon Cuda at last, and that noble struggle of the people of that beautiful island against injustice and tyranny is drawing to a happy close. History records no revolution more just, nor one which called forth greater sacrifices, loftier patriot- ism or sterner courage than has been evinced by the Cuban patriots, and it would seem almost questioning the justice of Providence to doubt the ultimate success of such a people. Our own government, instead of extending to them the active sympathy, if not practical aid, which a people struggling for independence have a right to expect, has pursued a su- pinely indifferent course, rather assisting Spain to perpetuate her tyrannical rule upon the Western Continent than extending a helping hand to establish another republic upon our borders, It is safe to say that had the United States extended to the Cubans the same privileges as were awarded to Spain, Cuba to-day would be an independ- ent sovereign Power acknowledged by most of the nations of the civilized world. But those privileges were withheld, and the struggle was prolonged until the hearts of the patriots well nigh failed them. The American people, how- ever, becoming tired of the timorous policy pursued by our government, are moving in this matter, and their influence is seen in the re- newed interest evinced in Cuban affairs by both the President and Congress, General Banks’ report, published exclusively in the HerRALp, .was the first full official in- sight into the Cuban revolution which has been laid before the public. Its disclosures have aroused all classes, and Congress itself has been forced to abandon its indifference and to take some ac- tion upon the subject. The President has always sympathized with the Cuban patriots, but prudential motives heretofore prevented his moving in the matter. Now, however, he feels at liberty to pursue a different course, and we are assured that both he and his Cahi- net will warmly support any policy that Con- gress may initiate. Upon Congress, there- fore, rests the responsibility of Cuban nde- pendence, General Banks has plucked up courage enough to offer his long-withheld re- port to the House to-day, and he will be ably seconded by leading members whose active sympathy for the Cuban cause has been many times expressed. The House will doubtless take favorable action upon the report at once, and send the matter to the Senate, where it must not be suffered to ‘‘sleep the sleep that knows no waking.” Mr. Sumner has doubtless ere this modified his views upon the Cuban war, and has learned that the patriots were in earnest when they emancipated their slaves and that Spain is equally in earnest in her efforts to perpetuate slavery. The Senate is to be the battle ground of Cuba; that body will determine the fate of the Queen of the Antilles—whether she is to be made a desert and a waste or take her place among the inde- pendent republics of the westera world. Austrian Reconstraction. Amid the recent profound excitement in France, which has engrossed nearly the whole attention of Europe and America, followed, as it was, immediately, by the crown movement in Spain and the Saldanha revolution in Por- tugal, the great political change progressing in Austria has been comparatively unobserved. It now looms up, however, into very distinct relief and importance. As we foreshadowed inour article commenting, a few weeks since, upon the formation of the Potocki Ministry at Vienna, the Emperor has been compelled to dissolve the Reichsrath or General Assembly of the empire and also the provincial Diets. New elections for the latter have been ordered, and in case these reconstructed provincial councils should refuse to send fresh deputies for another Reichsrath more in unison wi th the sympathies and views of his Majesty he will appeal to a popular vote. In other words, there will be an Austrian plebisci/wm to decide whether the monarch’s views, as represented by his Cabinet, shall be sustained. The Potocki Ministry has very recently been modified and reinforced by the admission of popular members. Herr Tschabuschnigz, who is regarded as a very ‘‘strong” man in his place, retains the control of the Departments of Justice, Public Worship and Public Instruc- tion. Herr Holzgethan, formerly a councillor of State, has the administration of finance, Herr Distler being compelled by ill health to decline it. Baron Widmann, a heavy Mora- vian land owner and a Deputy, takes the direction of the Ministry of National Defence. The most important selection is that of Baron Petrino for the Ministry of Agriculture. The Baron is President of the Federalist Club and head of the semi-autonomist party of the Slowenes, the Istrians, the Buko- vinians and the people of Trieste, and it was he who in the last session of the Reichsrath asked, on behalf of those populations, the same rights that are claimed by the Poles and Galli- cians—viz., a sort of separate sovereignty within the empire. In fine, he is a State rights man, in the Austrian point of view. This fact, of course, gives the appointment of Baron Petrino peculiar and agreeable signifi- cance in the eyes of the Gallicians and Bo- hemians, but for the same reason he will be distasteful to the Germans. Herr Depretis will remain Minister of Commerce, and Count Taafe retains the Ministry of the Interior. Meanwhile, the rumors of a serious quarrel between the Grand Chancellor Von Beust and Count Potocki are emphatically denied, al- though, at the same moment, the Austrian journals hint that the former will take the special mission to the Court of St. James and be succeeded in office by Count Andrassy. This gentleman had, certainly, at our latest mail dates, been visiting Vienna, and had held close conferences with Von Beust, A Minis- try composed of the elements thus set forth must in its very nature be ephemeral. The Emperor Francis Joseph suddenly finds himself confronted, in the midst of his reforms, by ‘§arring and discordant” States subordinate to his crown, yet claiming separate local govern- ments, in default of which they may become “belligerent.” He therefore does the best he can with his horses while swimming the torrent. But our latest telegrams induce us to believe that, cheered by the result of the plebiscitum in France, he has taken heart of grace to appeal directly, if needs be, to his people. Our wishes, and those of all considerate men who loak at the situa-