The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK H&KALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, ‘1871.—TKIPLE SHEET. N ow “YOR BROADWAY vAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON |) BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic Boat- wells Management. We called attention yesterday, in comment- ing on Mr. Boutwell’s report, to the fact that the financial policy of the Secretary is just the same as it has been all along, and that the modifications he recommends really amount to very little, This policy is to raise an enor- despatches must be addressed New YORK | mous revenue and to have in his hands all the H AMUSEMENTS THIS ABTERNOQN AND EVENING LINA EDWIN'S THGATRIG Ro, 220 Broadway.—0: Bourre LE vont pes Sourens. ee ia GARDEN, | Broadway, between OUR AMBRMEGAN COUSIN. Prince and ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuk Hagyrep Coam BREA THRRLLE TENPTATION -ITALIAN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourtesuth treet. OPrma~LA TRAVIATA. WALLACKS THEATR RosEDALK. y ond 1h street OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. -Tur BALLET Pane TOMINE oF HUMPTY DowPry. Matinee wt z. 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Matinee ut ns. pe Y Li Wednesday, Tieneuer! 6, 187 le ts OF To-Dav’s: HERALD, CONTE: Pade {aver te anil 2—Ativertisements. S—Wasnington: Important Debate on the Postal Telegraph Project nthe House: Beaten His Attack on Ule Ladeas Corpus Suspension; Kevival of the Southern Outrage Committee in the Louse: the Retirement of | General Sierman’s Report on the ou ol the Army. bond Kother: Arrament at Albany to r es OL ‘Tweed and Gonpolly; Charles O'Couor and Samuel le Chilis 0. 3 the County of sew York @ Lecal Goveruni Withowt Author! Municipal ~Government—Judge Giraud Jury—im Love with Nilsson—T & Kund-—Special Ses-tous—a ree | rago—Leciure by Professor ational Rife Assoctatiou— Views ux the Past. S—The Cit zens’ Association: Is the Association to Mi Break Up anc Dissoive bite thi aud (he Drama—art Matter: Mobic Bay” —ihe Broken Bal the Historical Soctety—The Roose Murter—ibe Murders in Wick Way Outrages in New Jer: M y muidie—A New vings Buk for \ Leading Articte, “Our National | Inder Mr. YoUulWweil’s Manage: | ent Announcements, les? lilness-— ti time a vast surplus for paying off the public debt, It is bis all-absorbing idea. He makes ;No. 840 | everything bear upon and depend upon it, Even the credit of the goverament, in his opinion, cannot be sustained without that. It is the Alpha and Omega of all his financial knowledge and policy. Truly, it may be said, he is a man of one idea, No miser ever clung to bis money-baga more tenaciously. than Mr, Boutwell clings to the revenuc system/which keeps the Treasury chest gorged and a hundred mil- lions or more of dollars always unemployed in his possession. The reduction of taxes he reluctantly suggests hardly amounta to as much as the prospective increase of income from the natural growth of the country, If Congress should go no farther in reducing taxation than he recommends, there will:be at the end of the current fiscal year as large a surplus as there was at the end of the last and as there is at present. He is so wedded to his notions that he lags far behind the Presi- dent on the question of reducing taxation. The language of the President's Message evinces a desire for more sweeping measures in relieving the people of burdensome taxes than Mr. Boutwell’s report. The Secretary, it is evident, is notin accord with the Presi- dent on this question. Taxes to the amount of a buudred millions a year conld be taken off, and then there would be left an ample revenue for all the demands upon the government as well as a suf- ficient sum for paying off as much of the principal of the debt as-is necessary. According to .Mr. Boutwell’s own estimates the revenue for the curreat fiscal yoar will amount to over three hundred and sixty-five millions. The first quarter bas yielded more than one hundred and seven millions. Every one knows the Svorotary always greatly under- estimates the income. He did so last year. Does any one suppose the revenue will fall off froma hundred and seven millions the first quarter of the year to eighty-six millions for each of the remaining three quarters? Yet that is what the Secretary has estimated. We have no doubt the revenue will be four bun- dred millions, or little short of that. Now, admitting that the expendi‘ures will reach the sum Mr, Boutwell has set dowa, two hundred and ninety-three millions of dollara, a bun- j dred millions of taxes might be swept away and still, as wo believe, there would be a sar- plus to apply to the liquidation of the debt, But there ought not to be any such expendi- tures. The Interest on the debt will be | less than a hundred and twenty-four mil- lions. There would be left then about a hundred and seventy millions for current expenses s.oxclagivg of int interest $y the debt. The whole cost of te government twelve years ago was little more than a third of this ambunt. | To spend a huadred and seventy millions a ‘year exclusive of the interest onthe debt is gross ex- shea | ailort | y—'The Druxgists’ itil | wensing Dispensers of autions Against Avetdeuutl Pol Re} culties Denyrs een The Kniel ison: Uisease the Dilapidated «Tomb: Demise of Tx Overcro’ at Jefferson Market Promise Case Rall- r¢ wiere | by and the Breach of i on the Hudson fiver horton in Atinapolls, Md.— elegrams--Loeal News—The | me Races—Shipping Luteiligeuce-Ad- vertiseinonts. JI—Advertisements. V2— Advertisements. Tae Veinoe or Watus passed a comfort- abl» night from Monday evening, and his case appeared more hopeful for an early co:va- lescence at the date of our telegram ia London yesterday. Priwwok Aiexis returned from Philadelphia gesterdyy, baving passed a very agreeable time in that city. He will leave for Boston to-morrow, and will not return to New York until just previous to his final departure for home. His Hotwess tHe Pore is about to pro- malgate an encyclical letter against the estab- lishment of the Italian Parliament in Rome. Even the extraordinary refulgence of the planet Veous at midday, in bestowing her sinile on the completion of the unity of the Lialian nation, cannot wean the Pontiff from encyclicals. A comet was equally powerless in former times; so Kiog Victor Emmanuel must not complain. Tor Trat or Mrs. Wuarton, the alleged polsoner of General Ketchum and others at Baltimore, was commenced at Aanapolis yes- travagance and leads to corruption and demor- alization. Then the reduction of a hundred mi!- | lions or so of taxation would necessarily lessen coasiderably the cost of government in col- | lecting the revenue. In fact, the revenno ev seane? might be so simplified as to save many | millions a year and send off a host. of govern- ment employés to productive industry. Mr. Bouiwell is mistaken in the vicws he «i | €Xpresses about a large revenue and an enor- mous surplus to pay off the debt being neces- sary to sustain the credit of the government and to facilitate funding the debt at lower in- terest. The consolidated and interminable debt of Great Britain would not siand higher if changed into time securities and put under a process of rapid liquidation. The very permanent character of it gives it addi- tional value for investment. If there were any question of the ability of the United States to pay the interest on the debt the credit of the government would suffer. But no one can doubt that ability. Nobody plan of operation. The only really good feature in his propositions for disposing of a portion of the new reduced per cents of the debt is that to force the national banks to take these securities, That is just, for the banks have most valuable privileges and make a vast sum anoually out of the govern- ment and people. Another ridlonlous idea ad- vanced by Mr. Boutwell is that of compelling the people and banks of the Pacific coast to make paper money their circulating medium. While. he pretends to be anxious to bring about specie payments he actually contem- Plates forcing the Californians, who have a specie circulation, to abandon that and to take ®@ paper curroncy. How long are we to have such an incapable and narrow-minded Secre- tary of the Treasury? With an able mao, 4 statesman, in that position, what great finan- cial measures and reforms might be carried out! No country was ever in such a favorable and prosperous condition for attaiaing great results, Nothing but the right manis wanted. There is no trouble about the revenue, re- sources or credit of the country. It remains only to know how to use these and to tax the industry of the people as little as possible. President Thiers and the French Assembly. Our cable despatches this morning regard- Ing the state of affairsin France are more than usually interesting. President Thiers, it seems, has not yet handed in his message. It is not denied that the outlines of the message which came across the cable on Saturday last are substantially correct. But for some cause or other the handing in of the message is still delayed. It would seem that the main cause of the delay is the determination of the Princes of the House of Orleans, particularly the Duc d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinville, to make use of what they call their rights and take their seats in the Assembly. The status of the Orleans Princes is said to be the leading question in the Assembly. The President, who has been for some hours closeted with the Princes, is said to be opposed to their taking their seats in present circumstances. Ac- cording to our latest accounts they are deter- mined, in spite of M. Thiers, to make full use of their lawful rights and take their seats. The Left, it seems, is quite as determined as the Princes of the House of Orleans. If the Princes are allowed to take their seats the Left says there must first of all be a general amnesty. The simple fact that the President bas not yet formally handed in bis message justifies all that we have said regarding the gravity of the situation in France. The situa- tion is really critical, but it is not yet time to comment upon it at any length. As things now are France promises to give us a fresh sensation, A General Amnesty. The President, in bis Message, on ‘the sub- | ject of a general amnesty, says :—‘‘More than six years baving elapsed since the last hostile gun was fired between the armies then arrayed against each other—one for the per- petuation and (he other for the destruction of ; the Union—it may be well considered whether | it is not now time that the disabilities: (against cerlain classes of rebels holding office, national or State), imposed by the fourteenth amendment é«hould be removed.” Then he says:—‘‘I do not see the advantage or pro- priety of excluding men from office merely because they were, before the rebellion, of standing and character sufficient to be elected to positions requiring them to take oaths to support the constitution,” &c. But .then, after suggesting a general amnesty, saya our Chief Magistrate, “If there are any great criminals, distinguished above all others for the part they took in opposition to the govern- ment, they might, in the judgment of Con- gress, be excluded from such an amnesty.” No, Mr. President ; let there be no exclu- sion. Let the amnesty be universal and con- clusive—let it embrace Jeff Davis, Breckin- ridge, Stephens, Toombs, and all the’ men of that.class, and the men of all the intermediate grades down to the poorest Sandhillers pressed into the. rebel: service—and let us have the boaks closed on the rebellion. That is the ‘amnesty which now should be passed by Con- gress, and we bope that when the question is tried the required two-thirds vote will be imagines this great and rich country will not pay promptly. the interest or even the priaci- palin due time. The credit of the government would be improved and our securities rise higher, in fact, by a good and economical revenue system and by a more gradual liqui- dation of the debt. The truth is, we fear, that the Secretary is more intent on keeping up a large revenue for the purpose of afford- ing protection to the New England manufac- turers and of aidingsa host of Treasury cor- morants than of promoting the interests of the mass of the people. In everything we see the same principle of protection and lavish spending of public money. ‘The Secretary's absurd recommenda- tion to give subsidies for shipbuilding accords with his policy in other respects. We regret to see that the President has fallen into this dangerous protection trap. If one kind of industry is to be subsidized why not another? terday, the jury list having been completed during the day. This trial is one of the most remarkable cases of the day. The bigh respectability of the prisoner and of the wurdered man, the whoiesale extent of the alleged poisoning, the touching devotion of the prisoner's young daughter and the general commotion which it bas produced among the best society of Baltimore, all go to render it one of the most interesting and, at the same time, one of the saddest cases that has ever been chrouicled iu the records of our courts. RevoLerionists Tur is Mexwo bave achieved a zreat victory over the troops of | the Juarez government, According to our | special despatch from Matamoros, Saltillo bas | been taken by the former after terrible losses | on both sides, The federal troops have been | driven from tbe tows, and the last position | they held at the time the Heraiv courier left Saltillo was cowmanded by the artillery" of the revolutionists and hourly expected to survender. While the forces of the revolu- tionists under Generals Trevilo and Quirogo are in full activity, General Cortina, the commander of the federals, is, Micawber-like, waiting ‘for something to taro up" and main- faloing # ‘‘mueterly inactivity.” The pros. peots of the Juarez goverment appear to be Why not all? Apply the principle generally, and no one will fail to see the injustice aud absurdity. To grant such a subsidy would be simply to rob the mass of the people for the benefit of a few. Let the government do what it can to promote shipbuilding by taking off duties on the ma- terials, by reducing taxes generally 80 as to make living and the cost of labor less, and by any other reasonable means, but uot by taking money directly out of the Treasury and pockets of the people. Tue proper way to increase our mercantile marine is to abolish or suspend the registry law, and permit our merchante and capitalists to buy sbips, particularly iron ocean steamers, in the best markef. Then we should soon have a splendid fleet of ocean steamships, and the profits of freight and pae- sage to the amount of tens of millions a year to foreigners. Mr. Boutwell's syndicate business, in placing a small portion of the new loan, so-called, at tion to increase this cost, or the percentage to favored bankers, for disposing of the rest, are in keeping with the reckless extravagance which characterizes his management of the national finances. Incapable as be is be ap. pears to be conscious of this extravagance, very gloomy, and the revolutionisis scem to have it ali theig owa way. for a large portion of his report to Congress is nothing but a labored defeagg of his axadigate would come to this country instead of going | a great cost to the Treasury, and bis proposi- | secured in each House in favor of the bill. Extensive Fire im Parle and Serious Cf Louses to the People. Paris has been again visited by fire, An extensive conflagration occurred. yesterday in the business arcades of the Hotel du Louvre. The storekeepers who trade in the place suf- fered immense losses, but the firemen obtained control of the flames before the Louvre Palace sustained injury. The advent of fire in a great city is an unfortunate event at any time. It is particularly unfortunate in Paris just pow, and still more truly uofortu- nate that it should have visited the Louvre arcades. It will alarm the people. Still worse, it will bring them heavy pecuniary losses at a time when they are very badly prepared to sustain the burden. It will interrupt their trade at the very moment when it hada chance to recuperate—the season of Christmas and that of the holiday trade to and after New Year. All this is bad for Thiers, The unfortunate tradesmen of the Louvre will growl against their “ill luck.” They will hug their sorrow almost to superstition, and most likely exclaim, “When the Emperor and young Prince came to purchase of us at their latest Christmas in Paris we were happy in our families and free from the fire fiend.” Tus Sonoors aND tHE Crown or EN@- LaND.~Ex-Chanceller of the Exchequer Lowe delivered a lecture on the subject of primary education in Halifax, England, on Monday night. Halifax hus thirteen fine churches and a great number of echools. It has besides two bundred and twenty-one “mills” of manufactare, and, consequently, A vast amount of ignorance within its munici- pal limite, Mr. Lowe was, therefore, just in place on the school subject. But he took occasion to defend the Crown and monarch of Great Britain against the charges recently made by Sir Charles Dilke and others, Here | Mr. Lowe was out of place, as we think, and | revealed a good deal of the politician “laying | pipe”. for Parliameot. The British throne does not require a defender in England just at present, Gotp 110. Gold is down to the even quo- tation of 110—the lowest figure since the close of gus giv wate Congress Yesterday—A Repulse ef the Ad- ministration Ferces—The Postal Tclegraph Project. There was a lively skirmish in the House yesterday, which resulted ina defeat of the administration forces. It arose out of the re- commendation by the President, in his annual Message, that the telegraph system should be united with the postal service of the country, after the plan that bas been found to work so successfully in Great Britain, Belgium and other European nations. In the general dis- tribution of the Message the portion relating to this subject was to be referred to a select committee, At least such was the disposition of it contemplated by Mr. Dawes, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and leader of the House; but the resolution of reference was attacked by Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, one of the guerilla leaders on the democratic side, wro was immediately supported by Mr. Farnsworth, ‘of Illinois, a free lance in all. party conflicts, but who is generally to be found battling against his own party majority. These skirmishers were re- inforced by some of the big guns of the oppo- sition—Messra. Niblack, Eldridge and Beck— and even General Banks, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, turned his artillery against his colleague and his party. On the administration side the fight was con- ducted by Mr. Dawes single-handed, till at the close and when the day was irrevocably lost Mr. Garfield, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, came to the rescue, but all to no purpose. The blows aimed at the project were too powerful and well directed to be either borne harmlessly or evaded, and when the skirmish was ended and the result reached it was found that the administration party was defeated by a vote of one hundred and five to ninety-eight. The proposition for a select committee was rejected, and the whole subject was referred to the standing Committee on Appropriations, which is re- garded as decidedly unfavorable to the pro- ject of letting the government take charge of the telegraphic business of the country, It may well be imagined that the democracy, which voted as a unit on the question, is elated at its triumph. In the other wing of the Capitol, however, it had no such cause for jubilation; but, on the contrary, it sustained a crushing, disbeart- ening and merciless defeat. Senator Blair, of Misgouri—Frank Blair, as he is more familiarly knowo—mado an effort to get taken up for discussion and action the resolution which he had introduced ou Monday reflecting on the President's action in establishing martial law in some of the Southern States, and in bringing the pious Ku Klux to a realizing sense of the power of the federal government. . Bul Frank was stopped in his wild career of arraigning the President, the Senate refusing, by a vote of forty-five to eleven, totake up or consider his:resolution. So that the repulse which the Presidential policy ‘sustained ‘in'the one House was more than counterbalanced. by the endorsement which it received in the other. The Congres- sional campaign opens spiritedly ‘and prom- ises to be full of stirring events. The Insurrection tv Cuba. The latest news from Cuba is of a more peaceful character. than could have been ex- pected after the late scenes of blood and vio- lence. The bratal rage of the volunteers has apparently spent itself, and the city of Havana is resuming her former aspect. The report from Madrid of the removal of’ Captain General Valmaseda seems to be unfounded, for, according to our Havana’ despatch, he is to remain the ruler of Cuba, Whatever charges of cruelty might be. brought against Count Valmaseda, the responsibility for the late massacre of the unfortunate’ students more properly belongs to his. deputy, General Crespo, who allowed himself to be intimidated by the tbreats of a ‘ruffianly mob, which might have been resisted by 9 man of firmness and decision. The advices from ‘the seat of the insurrec- tion are largely in favor of the Spanish authorities. Some allowance being made for Spanish exaggeration, {t cannot be doubted that, with the arrival of the large reinforce- ments sent from Spain, the chances) of the Cuban patriots are. becoming very slim indeed. The’ telegraph lines are beIng and have already in part been restored in the districts which were but lately the principal seat of the strug- gle, and the fact that these telegraph lines re- main undisturbed is considered a proof of the decline of the insurrection. The wholesale surrender of prominent Cubans, whose names are given in the despatch, adds confirmation to this report. The news on the whole is of a bopeful nature, and, whether independent or under Spanish role, there may yet be better times in store for the unfortunate island. Toe Brivisn ANNEXATION oF THE SovTH ArrioaN DiaMonp Figips.—The South Afri- can diamond fields cover an extensive and beautiful country on the great Orange River and ite tributaries, hundreds of miles north of the British colonial settlements of the Cape of Good Hope. But those diamond diggings have drawn to that region an immense emi- gration which will evidently crystallize into a powerful civilize! community—d Ja Call- fornia~and so England, taking time by the forelock, has annexed those diamond ‘dig- gings to her South African colonies. Very good. Those diamond regions, occupied by a powerful Anglo-Saxon community, will con- tribute so much more to the general trade of the civilized world, of which we shall have our share, Let Eogland and France go ahead with their African colonies. The field is large, open and inviting on all sides, and in the heart of Africa, and, in a thousand forms, the profits of these enterprises of building up ite waste places are diffused over the whole face of the globe. Tug Lrxonpura Republican (democratic) has yet to see the firat democratic jouraal which has advanced any hope of success under the leadership of one who can in any way be Identified with what is known as the Bourbon democracy. The same paper thinks that Grant is apparently on the ‘‘plain road to another four years’ lease of power and opp sion.” Is {t not strange that an American journal should feel obliged to say that any one in this. country is on the way for any leave of power to oppress the people? Waere is all the talk and fume about the ‘majesty of the people,” the “tremendous foree of public opia- ign.” and all that? See uma Sudge Bedford en the City Feaude—Inse- curity of the City Records. On Monday last the new Grand Jury, sum- moned to serve for the December term of the Court of General Sessions, appeared in Court, and were discharged by Judge Bedford until the 19th inst., the old jury having been held over until the 18th inst. by the extension of the November term till that date. It will be remembered that this course was decided upon by Judge Bedford in order to give the Grand Jurors who have been’ engaged in investigat- ing the city frauds an ample opportunity to complete their work and bring the offenders to justice. In osder to prove his earnest determination to accomplish this desirable end, Judge Bedford yesterday stated that, should longer time be needed by the present jury, he should. most assuredly order a still longer extension of the November term, “being fully convinced that now is the time to probe all these matters to the very core, irrespective of whomsoever the blow may fall upon.” From. this. it will be seen that District Attorney Garvin and the Grand Jury will have all the opportunity they can wish or require to thoronglly complete the important investigation to which they are urged by the fearless’ and impartial Judge, and it is for them to second the efforts of Judge Bedford to redeem the scandal that now rests upon the city, and to briog to criminal, punishment the men who have so shamefully plundered the people. It has become quite evident that an effort is to be made by the politicians to defeat the ends of justice and to screen the guilty parties from the consequences of their crimes, Already hints begin to be thrown out of the difficulty of bringing such offences as breaches of trust criminally home to those who have committed them; but if the men who, through, fraud and forgery, have stripped the City Treasury are to escape unpunished, or to be subjected only to civil suits for the recovery of a tithe of their plunder, then law and justice are mere mockeries, Judge Bedtord’s determined action bids fair to upset the schemes of the politi- cians, and to give us at last what we have not yet had—an earnest effort to prosecute an investigation into the frauds in good faith, without regard to political expediency, and to bring the guilty to the bar of justice, irre- spective of persons or parties. Yesterday the acting Grand Jury appeared in Court and made a presentment in regard to the Hall of Records in the City Park, where are deposited the title deeds to most of tho real estate in the city, with the maps and other evidences pertaining thereto, The building is pronounced to be an unfit place for the deposit of such important documents— dilapidated, not fireproof, and without any sufficient security against robbery. The Jury consider that a fireproof ‘building, properly protected in every respect; should be at onco secured, and they call the attention of the Jadge to the facts in order that he may take sach action as may bs proper to insure a speedy remedy. In the course, of their pre- sentment the Grand Jury state that the recent repairs’ and additions to the building aro found to have cost.one bundred and sixty thousand dollars, while a liberal estimate fixes’ the value of the work done at. twenty-five thousand dollars. Tais is go petty a swindle, however, ia comparison with the grand frauds committed in other directions, as to be scarcely worthy of notice: The want of a perfectly secure depository for all the records of the Reyister's office, and for all the documentary evidence of the irans- actions of the important city departments, especially that of finance, is certainly a ‘eit evil. If the vouchers and warrants in the keeping of the Comptroller had been thus deposited when, the city frauds. were first developed the people would lave known more than they do*know about these disgrace- ful transactions. All vouchers for claims against the'city government should be made in duplicate, and one copy should be deposited in euch a building as the Grand Jury suggest. This should be provided for in the new charter, and the erection of a Hall of Records, fire- proof apd burglar-proof, should bs anthorized at once by the authorities having power in the matter. A State ror Our Rep BreraRen.—The Indian Territory—for many years occupied by the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Semi- noles, &c., in their several reservations—lies west of Arkansas, and has Kansas on the north and Texas on the south. It is a magnifi- cent, rich and beautifully watered country of seventy-one thousand square miles in extent, or over one-half larger than the State of New York. The Indians occupying this delightful and productive region have become completely civilized. They cultivate the soil, they tive in comfortable houses, -they dress like white men, they have schools and churches and a federal council, and they give less trouble to the general government than any other Territory of the United States. General Grant, in his Message, suggests that these people might be advantageously admitted to the dignities of a State government. And why not? They have room enough in their ample territory for all the Indian tribes east of the Rocky Mountains, Bundle them all in and give them a lift, and give them achance as a State, and we dare say that a6 Indians they will finally disappear only in being whitened to the prevailing American type. Progress or THe Press. —The HeraLp was yesterday a marvel of a newspaper. It con- tained, beside the full text of the President's Message and the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, ample and comprehensive abstracts of the reports of all the Cabinet Ministers, as well as those of the subordinate departments of the government. Matter which in former years would occupy the col- umns of newspapers for days and weeks was here cleared off in a single issue, and that, too, without trespassing too greatly upon the space usually allotted for general news. The HeERALp of yesterday was a volume in itself— ® compendious history of the official doings of the great republic for the past year. Verily, this is the age of newspaper progress. Tar Bi. repealing the Women Suffrage act in Wyoming has been vetoed by the Governor, so that the women, who were about to see their hardly earned and highly Cherished rights ruthlessly tora from them, have yet gagther aud a giroug hove, is Cube for’ ‘Galo t—stermy Goons in che Spanish Cortes. The HgRAtp correspondent in Madrid fur} nishes» @ letter, which we print ia another page, descriptive of a scene which took place recently in the Spanish Cortes. The scene was stormy in the extreme—a regular tempest, in fact. The cause of all the confusion arose from somebody saying that something was said at some Cabinet meeting regarding the sale of Cuba. ‘This was deemed sufficient ground fora grand display of oratorical turbu- lence, in which unionists, progressists, Cur. lists and republicans took a part. Personali- ties were indulged in to a disgraceful extent, Sefiors Navarro and Zorrilla were’ ‘the firat to lead off in 9 duel of words; then old Admiral Topete was drawu. into the qnarrel;, Figueras could not remain silent, but had to make speech, which did not serve to quiet matters; then Topete again had to make explanations, after which Canovas del Cas- tello entered into the fray and reopened an old sore by referring to the abandonment of St. Domingo, On this the Cuban quegtion was dropped, and the members, now fired up toa patriotic pitch of excitement, ‘‘demanded the reading of the list of those who voted against the abandonment of St, Domingo.” The re- publican leader Figueras urged, on this de- mand until finally the most. uproarious sceae ensued, ending with the demand being com- plied witb, and the list was read. The Cuban question was again taken up. ‘‘Who offered to sell the Ever Faithful Isle?”...No one. Zorrilla spurned such a thought’ Topete would even go out to Cuba to hold it for Spain; but he would not go under the orders of Seiior Malcampo or Caballero de Rodas. Other members spoke in equally patriotic strains, and the unanimous opinion seemed to be that the only price at which Cuba could be bought was seas of Spanish blood, The whole discussion was intended to draw from the Ministers and ex-Ministers ‘of present and past Cabinets what course, if any, was pursued in regard to the sale of Cuba. Topete said that propositions had been made for the parchase of the island, but by whom he did not mention. The proposition, he said, was never discussed in Cabinet council; but even this explanation was ‘not’ sufficient. There appeared to be a degree of reticence on the part of the friends of Zorrilla which helped to irritate his opponents and render the dis- cussion bitter in the extreme. This was ob- servable throughout the whole session, and the explanations, although full, did’ not tend to allay the bitterness of the discussion. There were many respectable pergons, it was stated, who bad no faith in the’ salvation of Cuba—an announcement not at all calculated to please the Cortes. The scene which our cor- respondent describes is not by afiy means an exceptional one in the Spanish Cortes. We have on past occasions had to ebroniclo like displays, and we feel moreover that this will not be the last. Guba, if we are to.,judge from this latest manifestation, is not, for, sale, and Spain will still continue to send troops to the tropics to endeavor to bring the» Cubans to subjection, The Income Tax—Let the Present Con- gress Abolish Ir. Congress bas already taken the subject of the income tax in hand, and two or three bills looking to ite. abolishment were introduced in each House on Monday. A more important movement towards. its abolishment, however, is contained in the suggestion of the President in his Message, that all taxes from interoal aduitces be at ioltshed, xcept th thogé oa spiritu- ous, vinous abd malt “liquors, tobacco and stamps, and in the conelusive statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, that itis practica- ble to dispense with all internal taxes, except those mentioned, and still secure a revenue of a hundred and ten. million, dollars from inter- nal taxation alone. We have, therefore, not only a cheerful sentiment in Congress in favor ~ of the abolition of the income tax, but also the recommendation of the President,.and what may be remarked asa clear conversion from direct opposition to it, the free acquiescence of Secretary Boutwell. The sentiment of the last Congress was strongly in favor of its abolition, and such a measure was only defeated by the dilly dally- ing’ devices of the in apposition. The “ | House, through the influence of one or two dissatisfied members, failed to pass a Senate Measure on the subject on the flimsy pretext that its constitutional privileges’ were imposed upon by the action of the Senate-in first pro- posing a measure wuich in the view of those wiseacres should have first originated in the House because it provided, tor the raising of money. Similar filibustering movements suc- ceeded in delaying the passage of the measure in the Senate, and, indeed, the bill,.after being kicked ‘about like a football all ‘thtough the session, was finally prevented from passing mainly by the adroit flnessing of a minority. Now, however, something less. like burlesque legislation is demanded ‘on this subject. The people complain gricvously of the burden of the tax, as well as of its inquisitorial and. odious character, They demand that straight- forward legislation shall be had upon the sub- ject by the present Conzress, and that the tax shall be abolished. A Prisoner at Jgererson Market died yesterday from the effects of a freeaing which he got in the prisoners’ box in the court room. There is no fire In the room, the windows are all broken io, and from a tank in one corner of the room water is continually dropping and forming ice on the floor, That a court room in this city should be in such an ou rageous condition as this is almost incredible; but the blame is to be laid, doubtless, to that far- reaching and thorough-searching reform - movement which not only stops the sale of city bonds abroad and the completion of neceasary public works at home, but even estops the pay of daily laborers on the streets and refuses to furnish coal for the use of the police court rooms, ‘ AMERIOAN CttizeNs ag CUBAN SLAVE noLpEers.—In his Message the President throws out some very curious hints on this subject, and also on the general subject of Spanish slavery in the islands of Cuba aod Porto Rico. Here we have a splendid thems for Mr. Sumner in applying. the constitution + and human rights to our citizens ag slave- holders in foreign ports, and we hope the learned Senator will ventilate this matter betoro long in gue of bia ponderous specohes.