The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. == Volume XXXVI. ANGUSERIENTS THIS EVENING, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— ABTIOLE 47. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broad POMIME oy HuNPiy Dumpry, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twonty-thirdat., corasr Sixth av. — Tue HuNcapaok. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broad ad Ut ee ‘Tar Veteran, wdway ant Lik strest, LINA EDWIN'S TUEATRE, 20 Broad way.—TUE PALACE or TrotH. n GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 3th ar. and 23d sh ALLA ROokit, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broa: Houston sts.~POLL AND PA —Tuk BALLET Pan- betweon Prince and in JOR. WOOD'S MUSKUM, Broadway, ooraer 1): st, —Porform- gnces afternoon and evening—HUNTED Dow x. 8T, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-eight) streat and Broad way.—Tax New HiuERx10on, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowel jp SALLY SuaRt—O' sux Fine, Ms onesie ‘DMRS. F. B., CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THSATRE,— Frou-F nov. ‘ , THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadwar.—Co'to Yooar- 38MB8, NEGRO AC15, €C.—JULIUS THE SRiZER. 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TRIPLE SHEET. aT st a New York, Thursday, April 4 1872, ——___—— SS CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S BUSALD. ‘Paes, (ee Advertisements, Advertisements. ‘The Three Jobs: Graphic Sketch of the Great Battles of the Lobby; Bayfiel! and St. Croix, Goat Isiand and Pacific Mati; Elect of tig Hecavy’s Revelations—The Late Professor Morse—Honors to ine Dead: ‘the Funeral Cortége of General Koberé Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter—Five ‘ihousand Dollar Burglary in Newark—Ovituary--Navai Order. 4#—Financial and Commercial: Money Siringent but irregular, Closing ne Rate “on Jal’? Deciines from 62 to ont; A Duller peculation in Stocks; ‘ong, but the Others Weak an Very Latest “Pot” About “C. + ; Gold Steady and Duil; Governments Higher and Strong; Secretary Boutweil, the New Loan and the Nafional Banks—inuteruational Pigeon Match— Amusements—The Wuiil Street Shooung AlYair—Procession of Colored of the Fiteenth Amendnu der—Another Mystery and ©Oustom House Siatisucs-—The Comptroller's Payments—The Will of the Late John Kclium— _ _Westera Union Teiegrapa Company. G—Proceedings in the New York Courts—More Mandamusing—Important Devision—Disease and Health : One iltndred Thousand Loads of Manure Piled Up in One Spot on the Island; Important Meeting of tne Roard of Healtu— mMalipox Epidemic to Br —An Ungodly Government—The Alleged ‘actiog Case— Real Estate 3 nt- ful Session—Marriages and Deatus—Aavertise- ments, @—Editorials: Leading Article, “The ‘TI d the Forty-Second Congress—Giving Everybody Everything ? — Personal Intelligence — Bon Voyage—The Weather Report—Amusement Announcements. yoEngland: National Interests in North America and the Prospects of Democracy tn the Dominion; Disraeli’s Defeuce of tae Monarehy aud the Charch—Tue Alabauia Cluims—vable Telegrams from France, Span and Bel+ tum—'The Rnode Island Eleciion--News from ashington—Ine Freuch Arms Muddle— The Robeson Investigation—lialian Opera— Art Sate -Miscellancous Teiegrams—Busiuess Notices, S—Advertisements, B—Advertisements, 20—The Staie Capital: Inevitable Defeat of the Seventy’s Charter; A New Vinduct Ratlroad Ul; Interesting to Gentiemen of the Turf; Arguments on the Supply Bill; Appotutments of Slate Prison inspectors—shipping Luteill- gence—Advertisenents, 41—Advertisements, U—Ad veriisewents, Tae ALABAMA CLAIMS §Bitt—Enorisn Estimate or Tux AMERICAN CuaAncEs anp THe ToTAL.—A London evening news- paper, which enjoys the reputation of being pretty correctly informed as to Yhe current and purport of the Minis- ferialist ideas of the members of the Queen’s government, aunounced in its issue esterday that it is alleged generally in Lon- oa that the American bill of damages for Josses sustained by the operations of the Ala- bama and other privateers built or filted out Jn British waters amounts to three hundred ind forty millions of dollars, the aggregates of the items of charge being classed under two weparate heads thus:—$140,000,000 for losses wustained from the destruction of American hips and cargoes by privateer vessels 9 or fitted out in English waters, and $200,000,000 for expenses incurred by the Washington goverament in purauing the privateers. It is stated, further, (hat these figures form part of the American case before the Geneva Arbilration Court. The writer, evidently, professes to be astounded at the mount of tie grand but he does not Intimate that Eogland ie inclined to make any offer of setilement or for the discharge of the fall bill, In this may be found the laches of the English position all throngh from the be- ginning. John Bull is kept in a state of con- tinual irritation relative to bis liability to pay a terribly heavy bill; but we bave not peon at any time where he has been advised Yo go manfully forward and inquire of the breditor what abatement he will make in the original demand and how much he will take in & round sum for a receipt in full. Here is where the British press has neglected Its plain duty towards its venerable client, even during the penitential season of the past Lent, and thus permitted Mr, Bull to sit down to his Easter Day dinner unshriven of his many and weighty slns against the American democracy. Our Rerora Leoistarve was born to trouble. Mrs, Wilbour, un irreclaimable ad- yooate of petticoat government, invaded the Judiciary Committee of the Assembly yester- day and utterly demoralized that august body. Furbelowed and {rilled, she cocked her cap at the unfortunate chairman and demanded a yote, Few legislators can resist a violent female under these cireimatanees, and we kre not surprised, therefort, to learn that Wo nervous members of the committee sur tendered at discretio A woman's rights wo- man, with her chignoa up, is ordinarily a ter fible Hion, But Mra, Wilbour is dee serving of @ pationt bearing, Sha repndiates the peatilent female advoc ates of evil who afflict this city, and ent ® holy and wholesome respect for the im rriuge state. Any woman who is fond of babies ouzbt to be allowed to vote if sie has time to do 50, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APKIL 4, 1872.—rRIPLE SHEET, The Three Jobs of the Forty-Second Congress—Giving Rvorybody Everything. It will be remembered that Mr. Tittlebat Titmouse was elected to Parliament partly on account of his spirited advocacy of the famous “Bill for Giving Everybody Everything.” A bill of @ similar kind would hardly satisfy our land-grabbers and steamship subsidy rings, but the grotesqueness of Titmouse’s arguments is one of the best weapons which can be used against the thieves and corruptionists at Washington. In looking over the debates on the Bayfleld and St. Croix bill we find the point very tersely put by Mr. Cox, who said, “T would he in favor of all subsidies provided everybody got a subsidy.” Mr. Cox is woll known as an experienced legislator. He is a close student, and as an exponent of political economy according to the free trade school he has no equal in Congress. Accident aa weil as fitness makes him the representative and the champion of the shipping interests of New York, His district is the home of the merchants and sbippers who believe in a free registry law and free ships. In one of his jocose moods he must have studied Mr. Tit- mouse’s astonishing economic principles, and we should not be surprised if he introduced a measure into Congress for giving everybody a subsidy. If he does we shall support it. There is no principle so fair, so wide in its influence or so universal in its application as the great principle of giving everybody everything. When everybody gets a subsidy everybody will be satisfied, and there will be no work left for the lobby. In another part of to-day’s HeRaALp we print @ letter from our Washington correspondent on the three great jobs of the session—tho Bayfield and St. Croix bill, the Goat Island scheme and the Pacific Mail subsidy. It is a faithful transcript from « record from which there is no appeal—a leaf from history which cannot be blotted out. The great battles of the lobby on the floor of the House are vividly portrayed without favor and without fear, and it is shown how desperate was the contest of dishonesty with honesty. It isa story full of instruction and full of warning. The meas- ures by which powerful corporations sought to grow rich at the expense of the people were defeated one after the other ; but if one of them had succeeded there can be little doubi that the success of one would have been the triumph of all. The result would have been the public domain squandered without regard to the rights of settlers and the T'reas- ury depleted, that a few persons might sail ships at tho expense of every man, woman and child in the country. Nor would this have been the only result. Other corpora- tions were waiting to see the success of these batiles to come forward with other demands. If the Bayfield and St. Croix job had been pushed through the House the Forty-second Congress would bave become the most cor- ruption history. Not only would other rail- roads have sought and obtained other lands and other steamship companies have come claiming subsidies which their hired attornoys on the floora of Congress could easily have gained for them by showing that to give them was for the benefit of commerce, but jobs of every kind would have claimed recognition and the lobby revelled in delight. There would have been no end to the corruption and fraud and wrong-doing of the national legis- lature, Even now two, and perhaps all, of the three great jobs which our correspondent details may succeed. Tho Senate has set its face like flint in favor of tho evils which were crushed in the House, It may still perpeirate the crimes which the Honse refused to commit. It is a body full of weuk but wicked men. Its former dignity in some degree anda semblanoe of its former glory still cling to it, but its virtue and worth have departed. We tremble to name the men who sit in the chairs once filled by American statesmen, or who come from the newly organ- ized and the reorganized States, The years of revolution have been years of revolution even here, and, strange to say, the House of Representatives, once filled with turbulent and reckless spirits, has become our conservative legislative body, caring for the interests of the whole country and guarding the public domain and the public treasure. But the men of the Senate cannot betray the interests of the peo- ple with impunity, and, sooner or later, un- faithful Senators will learn that the country may overlook weakness, but that it will not forgive wickedness. The warning ery of the hour Is, ‘‘Look to the Senate!” It is filled with men of doubtful character and without reputation, These must be watched and their conduct held up to public scrutiny, and, wherein it is wrong, to public scorn, In two of the jobs the legislative history of which our correspondent gives the Senato differs with the House and differs in favor of giving away the public lands and the public treasure. If everybody got a subsidy the case mizht be different. Then everybody would be benefited, and not merely a favored few. But everybody does not get a subsidy, and the “Bill for Giving Everybody Every- thing” has not yet been discussed in its broader aspects. Now a few people want everything at the expense of everybody, Mr. Cox has not yet framed his measure for giving all a subsidy. Ip the jobs of which wo are speak- ing, and those which are sure to follow the success of these, the many would be compelled to pay for the benefit of the few. It is to this that we object. While we are in favor of giv- ing all a subsidy, we are not willing to tax everybody to give everything to the rich and powerful corporations which are crushing liberty and overriding tho people, In that wonderful history of the wretched little Titmouse from which Mr, Cox must have derived his idea of giving everybody a subsidy there are some excellent portraits of Wasb- Ington “‘statesmen,.” Mr, O'Gibbet is one and poor old Lord Dredlington another, The effoie Lord, it will be remembered, was the father-in-law of Titmouse ‘‘for the benefit of his family ;" buat if Titmouse was the states- man we take him for—though it is possible we may be mistaken—ho and Dredlington could not have been entirely in accord on the ‘‘bill for giving everybody everything.” Dredling- ton thought the man who discovered how the vessels of the Royal Navy might gather gun- powder and fresh water from the sea they were sailing over ought to have had a subsidy for his discovery, Titmouse boing in favor of giving everybody everything could only have favored the subsidy provided all men gota subsidy, Just here ia tho dificulty, Lt is not right to rob everybody that everybody may be rich any more than it is right to rob everybody that somebody may prosper. The only true policy is to let each man pursue his own basi- ness in his own way and not to tax the many in behalf of the few. This will be in effect giving everybody everything, and this is what we understood Mr. Cox to mean when he said ho would be in favor of all subsidies provided everybody got a subsidy. All this has a moral deeper and more im- portant than at first appears. It is easy to talk of liberality with (he public treasure for the benefit of commerce, but it is not 80 easy | to give everybody everything. We are wait- ing for somebody to introduce a measure for all subsidies provided everybody gets a snb- sidy; but in the meantime Congress must not give away any more lands or any more money. Let Senators learn this or take the conse- quences of squandering the public domaia and the public treasure, Disracti®s Speects in Mancheaster=Tho Mons archy, tho Church, (tho Aristocraoy and the Cont. Mr. Disraeli delivered his speech to the conservatives of Manchester yesterday even- ing at a meeting assembled in Free Trade Hali, The room was crowded to its very utmost capacity of accommodation, The vet- eran poiitician and parliamentist was fully equal to the occasion. It may be said, indeed, that he appeared in a right. royal mood and with all the imperialisms of his name and family full upon him. He proclaimed his party the defenders of the constitulion, of the faith as it is expounded in the Oburch of the State, of the perpetuity of property by hereditary transmission and of the aristocratic brauch of the Legislature. ‘‘We have assembled here,” said the leader of the oppo- sition, ‘to proclaim our resolution to uphold the constitution of the kingdom, to talk of a programme for future aciion which will not despoil churches nor plunder land- lords, but for the interests of the great body of the people.” The ex-Premier and ex-Chan- cellor of the Exchequer went on from this point to speak in defence of the British monarchy. He alleged that the “blessings” which Englishmen now enjoy have come to them from the throne aystem of government, but pointed out, as a fact, that the sovereign does not exerciso a real influence on the course. of the administration of tie ‘government. The monareby is, however, a standpoint for popu- lar rally in times of difficulty and danger. ‘Tho British Crown system costs less than that of any other nation. The expense of the sov- ereignty of the United States, which embraces Congress and the State Legislatures, as well as the Executive, is, in pounds sterling, double in amount the total of the English civil list. Mr, Disraeli closed with o vindication of the British aristocracy and a defence of the House of Lords as an essential element of the goverament. ‘The great orator is a man of vast experience. He is also a bold one. Here wo find him in Manches- ter, tho very fountainhead and cea- tro of the democratic movement ia England, hotding forth to his political sup- porters in advocacy of the Crown and its aris- tocratic coatingenta as contrasted with the republicanism of reform as it has been ‘eliminated from the measure of the year 1832 by the Russell-Palmerston-Gladstone pariy, Mr. Disraeli bas, no doubt, calculated his forces and power, and per- ceives, as he has acknowledged, that the “wave is rising” against Gladstone, who will, no doubt, retort on him in reply that the instincts of a royal race are inextinguishable, and the fervor and faith and tithings and splendors of a grand and ancient Church never to be forgotten, Tho Dificulty Betweon the Senate and House on the Tariff and Tax Question, Tho House of Representatives scems to be indignant at the Senate for encroaching upon ita prerogative in the matter of Initiating legislation with regard to revenue measures and taxation. The adoption of the resolution offered by Mr. Dawes on Monday, with only nine votes against it, declaring that the bill lately passed by the Senate reducing taxation and tariff duties, as a substitute for a House bill, is in conflict with the true intent and meaning of that clause of the constitution which requires that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representa- tives, shows that the House is determined to maintain its assumed privilege. The Senate bill, or amended bill, to reduce taxation and tariff duties, over which the country was rejoicing, has therefore been laid on the table and the Senate notified of the fact. Now, while it may be proper for the House to jealously guard its constitutional prerogatives, the Senate has certainly the power of amend- ing revenue measures, aud though the Senate may in this case have substiluted a sweeping measure of revenue reform, there appears to be more quibbling in the objection raised than a desire to promote the public welfare, As, however, the House has lafd the Senate bill on the table, we hope that body will not fail to givo the country one as good, or better, without delay, A game of shuttle- cock on this important question between the two houses, so that nothing would be done this session, would be disgraceful and a great disappointment to the people, Was the Sen. ate in earnest when it passed the bill remov- ing fifty to sixty millions of taxation? Will the House go as far, or further, in removing the burdens of the people? If it be so, this constitutional quibble or objection need not stand in the way of harmonious action. Let the House take the initiativo and pass a meas- ure at onca embracing the reforms already acted upon by the Senate, or greater ones, even, and this will test the sincerity of tue Senate. The people care little how relief from taxation may come so that it fails not to come, There should be neither logislative pride nor assumption on this important matter, The interests of the people and welfare of the nation should overrule all other vonsidera- tions, Tuk PRorie o¥ 11% Dominion OF CANADA will look upon the last Governor General of the territory in the person of Lord Dufferin, the successor of Lord Lisgar. So says London newspaper. Good for the mon of the Dominion. The republic of the United States can take care of all the citizens of the Ameri- can Continent The Grent Earth Shock» in CaliforainmA New Theory of Earthquakes and Thoir Meteorologic Origin. The great earthquake in California is one of the most remarkable of its kind on record. Tho telegraphic intelligence of its persistent and protracted shocks—more than a thousand in number—reveal no ordinary disturbance in the rocks on which nature has built one of the fairest sections of oyr couvtry, Without re- peating the details of the force and magnitude of the great terrestrial convulsion, which have been given in our numerous telegrams, itis of the highest interest and momeat to point out some of the instrnctive and signifi- cant facts and inferences they suggest. The whole subject of earthquakes has long baffled philosophic inquiry, and as yet we are but groping our way into the obscure mysteries of their phenomena. Difficult and occult as the subject may be, it is of profound impor- tance; for, as Darwin has well said, and as our California experience should teach us, ‘“‘the time.will come when geologists will consider the quiescence of the terrestrial crust through a long period of its history as improbable as an absolute calm in the atmosphere during a whole seasoa of the year.” The great physi- cist might have added that the human family is almost as much concerned in divining the great earthquake phenomena as in foresceing those of the weather. It is clearly proven by the statistics bearing on this subject that at least forty earthquakes per annum, or one in every nine days, are felt on the Continent of Europe and the islands immediately adjacent, California, with its splendid climatic advan- tages, is peculiarly exposed to the more gentle and moderate convulsions, It lies in the northeastern quadrant of that great “‘circle of fire” which girdles the entire Pacific with its volcanic lights and furnaces. Coming up from Chile, along the western coast of South America, in the Andes, these lofty natural lighthouses serve the purposes of the mariner by night. They ran through Central America and reappear in Mexico, all along the axial lines of the Cascades, the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains; their evidences appear also in the Aleutian Islands and in Japan, and extend southward into the East Indies, Aus- tralia, and thence to the South Shetland Islands and Patagonia, completing the circuit. If many of these great laboratories of nature seem extinct we must remember they may only resemble Vesuvius, which, when it woke up to engulf Pompeii and Herculaneum, had been resting for many years and was regarded by the Romans. as a lifeless pyramid. But the most important problem of earth- quakes recently propoupded is the cause and origin of the disastrous convulsions, The old theory that they were due to Plutonic forces solely, or to agitation of the sva of liquid fire supposed to be rolling its incandescent billows beneath our feet, seema to have completely broken down, and this is not to be regretted, since we can never afford to pierce the bowels of the earth and gauge or weigh these subterranean powers, The more probable and plausible solution of the mystery is that the earthquake is intimately associated with atmospheric and cyclonic disturbances, In the great hurricane at Bar- bados, in 1780, an earthquake raged in con- junction with the tempest and obtained its greatest deverity after the gale had partially passed away. In the Tobago hurricane of 1847 the earthquake preceded the storm; but so common is the coincidence between cy- clones and earthquakes in tropical countries that the almost universal belief exists that they are causally connected. It is certainly evidence that no philosophic mind can ignore that from time immemorial the natives of earthquake-ravaged countries assert that the commotions are simultancous with certain meteorological conditions, such as the rainy seasons, numerous storms, and warm, damp winds. In 1834 Professor Merian, of France, having classified, according to their sea- sonal occurrences, one hundred and eighteen earthquakes which took place at Basle and in the surrounding country, ascer- tained, to the surprise of the whole solentific world, that these phenomeng are much more frequent in winter than in summer. This fact, which was at first rejected by many sa- vans, has since been indubitably confirmed by the researches of other distinguis!.ed physicists, such as Alexis Perrey and Otto Volger. By comparing the four months of May, June, July and August with December, January, February and March, it is shown that tho shocks are three times as numerous fn the second or winter period ag in the first, We have also apother link of causality in the additional fact that the shocks are felt moro frequently at night than in the day, and this holds good in all parts of the year, and in all the centres and regions of earthquakes, In Switzerland, out of five hundred and two earth shocks, the date and hour of which were recorded, only one hundred and eighty-two occurred between six o'clock A. M. and six P, M., while between sunset and sunrise three hundred and twenty disturbances convulsed the earth—a result not to bo wondered at when we reflect that every day or period of diurnal rotation of the globe, in. its rains, storms and other meteorolozical features, is to be regarded as a condensed history or epitome of the whole year. The inference to be drawn in favor of the view here asserted (viz., that earthquakes are really connected with the great meteorologic changes induced by the sun), is powerfully corroborated by the view expressed by tho Heratp in its article of the 25th ult., on “Cosmical Meteorology,” in which {t was proved that our planet passes under periodical waves of heat and cold, of ten or eleven years’ duration, giving us sometimes phenome- nal cold winters, like the present, or phenom- enal warm winters. In that article, we quoted the authority of the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, and many otber physicists, to show that this winter was one of the ab- normally cold winters, because our planet is now absolutely and everywhere colder than it has been for ton years—the time of the cycle, It is very plain that if earthquakes are more frequent in night than in daytime, and also in the winter than in the summer season, we should expect and predict that, during this year, as during last year—which may be called the earth's cosmical, or cold winter— the frightful upheavals and quiverings of its solid crust would be most frequent and most dangerous. What wo have said of this, as the coldest winter, waa predicted a vear aco by the Astronomer Royal of Scotland, Profes- sor C. Piazzi Smith, The investigation is one of intense practi- cal and popular interest, and we throw out these facts as “thoughts for the thoughtful,” and as matters for scientific research, What if, after all the floundering mistakes of scien- tifle men for centuries in trying to account for the most dreadful of all nature's freaks and violences, It should be found that the reason- ing of the Herarp is correct? In this view our national weather observations and me- teorological researches assume new and pro- founder importance. It is not impossible nor improbable that when our weather science is pushed forward and partially perfected in some of its deductions, the devastating earth- quake, no less than the ravaging tornado and cyclone, may soon become a matter of scien- tifle prevision and preannouncement, The Spanish Elections. Our news despaiches from Spain this morn- ing are more than ordivarily interesting. The elections, from the government standpoint, are making satisfactory progress. Tho prospects of the opposition do not look so bright as at one time they did. The members of the Electoral College have been chosen, and so far as the figures reported warrant us to come to any conclusion, the result must be regarded as a gain to the government. It is believed that flve hundred and fifiy Presidents and two thousand one hundred and sixty-two Secretaries of Electoral Colleges have been elected In the government interest. The opposition, or what is called the coalition, claims two hundred and seventy-two Presi- dents and one thousand two hundred and six!y-one Secretaries, The city of Madrid was carried by the coalitionists; but the miaisterialisis foel emboldened to conclude that in the lower branch of the ‘Cortes they must have at least two hundred and seventy Deputies, So far aa the elections have progressed they justify the conclusion which we ex- pressed some days ago—that there was a fair prospect of a government victory. The Elec- toral College by an enormous majority is on the government side. Five hundred and filty Presidents, as against two hundred and seventy-two, and two thousand one hundred and sixty-two Secretaries, as against one thousand two hundred and sixty-one, make the matter so plain that even doubters must begin to believe. If the elections turn out as these figures indicate it will not be difficult for Amadeus to maintain his position and to put some vigor into the government machine, He can count with safety on Serrano and the unionists. He can count also with safety on Sagasta and his section of the progressists. These tw» parties represent the pith and mar- row of Spain. Against them are arrayed the Zorilla section of the progressists, the republi- cans, the Carlists, the Alphonsists and those who adhere to the banner of the Duke of Montpensicr, an apparently formidable band. The opposition band, however, when carefully examined, will be found more formidable in seeming than in reality. Itis notorious that although Zorilla ts opposed to Sagasta he is not unfriendly towards the K Ing, and he is pledged to thé constitution of 1869. It is be- Meved by some that he and his party heve so broken with the Sagastinos that an alliance with them and the republicans Is all but certain, Against thls opiulgn we must put the words of Zorilla himself, who only a few days ago de- clared that he and his party stood by the King and the constitution of 1869, It is difficult to see how a united, vigorous opposition could be composed of such heterogeneous materials as Oarlists, Alphonsists, Montpensierists and republicans, The anti-government party in the next Cortes will no doubt be numerous, but as it will be a party not united, it will and must be weak. As we have said before, if the returns give the government two hundred and seventy Deputies in the lower house there will be no revolution in Spain—at least not for the present, At the same time we would not have it thought that Spain has yet found an end to her political troubles. The disaffected parties are numerous and powerful. Each party is more bent on pushing its own interests than in advancing the interests of their common coun- try. Party fighting will continue; Igcal in- surrections may take place; but as the strong- est combination must rule the presumption is that Amadeus will yet have a chance to give proof of what metal he is made. He went to Spain at Spain’s request. He is not unwilling to retire jf Spain wills it, But until Spain does so will it his hand, as the hand of a brave man, must remain on the plough and there must not be any looking back, In the long run the republicans must win; but Spain does not yet seem sufficiently trained to claim republican rights and enjoy republican privi- legea. Avothor Atlantic Cable=The Projected Line from Lisbon to Brazil. A convention has been signed between the Maintenance and Construction Company of Great Britain and the government of Portugal for the laying of a telegraphic cable from Lisbon, by way of the Madeira and Cape Verde Islands, to Brazil, This is a great under- taking; but the company indicated is a strong one, and will doubtless carry the enterprise expeditiously through. Between Lisbon and the nearest polot on the coast of Brazil, Cape St. Roque, by the route designated, the dis- tance is some three thousand five hundred miles, in a southwesterly direction, For the first two thousand miles, by the Madeira, Canary and Cape Verde islands, the line, a few hundred miles distant, will rao parallel with the west coast of Africa, The Cape Verde Islands are within two days by steam from the British settlement of Sierra Leone and our neighboring African republic of Liberia, From Sierra Leone, across the Atlantic to Cape St. Roque, in Brazil, the distance is nearly the same as from the most southerly of the Qape Verde {slands, about fifteen hundred miles, But on the route between these islands and Cape St. Roque are first, the little island of St, Paul, and then, within two hundred miles of said cape, is the little island of Fernando Noronha; so that, from these conyenlent stations, en route, no single stretch of the cable between Lisbon and Brazil exceeding eight hundred miles will be required, Tho advantages offered to the company and to Great Britain and its nation of shop- Kkeopors. from the laying of thie cable, are Sree broadly suggested in the immense and con- stantly increasing trade between Brazil, the Argentine and other South American States, on the one hand, and England on the other; The facilities which the cable will afford in the timing of exchanges and shipments of goods need not be mentioned, This cable will unquestionably operate to systematize and ex- tend in every direction the commercial ex- changes of England with the South American , States, And again, this line from the Cape Verde Islands will contribute its advantages to the British establishment at Sierra Leone, and to its railway intended to captare the great interior trade of Timbuctoo, and to the vari- ous other English commercial enterprises afoot in equatorial Africa. Nay, the conveniences of this cable will be felt at the Cape of Good Hope and will thence extend to the new and prosperous British colony of the African dia- mond fields, Tho advantages suggested to the United States from this cable are of a secondary character; but still we shall not be losers by it unless our commercial people choose to lag behind hereafter as they have done heretofore in the competition for the illimitable traffic of South America. Some two or three years ago a charter was secured in which we believe the conipany named at the head of thls article are interested, for the laying a cable between Lisbon, by way of the Azores Islands, to New York or some other point on our seacoast, and the company concerned have the authority from Congresa to land on our seaboard where they may please, If we get this cable laid we shall, in connection with this line between Lisbon and Brazil, not only cease to be dependent upon England for all our cable communications with the Old World, but we shall have a cable con- nection with Brazil almost as handy as a line by way of Cuba and the chain of the Weat Indies direct to the mouih of the Amagzom At all events, we hope that this Lisbon and Brazilian line will speedily bo laid, becaus when laid, it musi inevitably operate to the establishment of a system of cable connections on our part with South America which-will be needed to give us anything like a foothold against England in the contest for the rich traffic and boundless commercial resources of the South American States. A Bia “Was,” Bur A SmaLt “HANG@ Oor.”—The labor reform exhibit in therlate Conneciicut election reminds one of the cone versation belween two neighborly gossips, Mrs. Smith and Mrs, Jones. Mra, Smith wad complaining of her heavy work ou wash days 5 there were such a great number ofarticles to be washed, rinsed, wrung out and hung up. Mrs, Jones, who had ample opportunities of examining the clotheslines of her neighbor, quiotly remarked:—‘‘Mrs. Smith, don't you think that with your very heavy wash you have a very small ‘hang out?’” So with the Connecticut, as well as with the New Hamp- shire labor reformers, with all their boasting they make a poor exhibit when the time comes to show their strength. Porsonal Intelligence. + RGEC Dy ee oe State Senator Thomas Kimes, of Connecticut, ts Fag at the Albemarle Hotel. C.J. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, has arrived at tho New York Hotel. General Abercrombie, of the United States Army, haa taken quarters at the Astor House. Governor Samuel Merritt, of Lowa, ts at the St Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor L. Fairchila and Ceneral George 0. Glaty, 0, ‘Viaconsin, have quarters at the Hofman House, Judge Charles 8. Lester, of Saratoga, ta stopping at the Gllsey House, id James Crowley 1s registered as from the Amoor River, Siberia, at the Astor House. Mr. James Price, Treasurer of the Great Western Ratiroad of Canada, is sojourning at the Brevoort House, Georgo W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, and A, J. Drexel, the banker, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. They came on yesterday morning to be pres- ent at the departure of ex-Secretary Borie for Europe. Prolessor Pierco, Chief of the United States Coast Survey, is at the Brevoort House. The Professor ts one of the Commissioaers lately appointed to com sider the results of the surveys of the different ox. peditions to the Isthmus of Darien and report which route they belive to be best for the projected inter- oceanic canal. Buttalo Btil, the dashing chevaller of tho Plains, set out from Fort McPherson on tho 29th ult., hav= ing in charge a large quantity of rations and forty ponies as a present from the government to sustain the band of Spotted Tall and enable it to retura ta Its ageney, Colonel Gowan, who 13 registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel as from Washington, ts among the most successful engineers of the age. Some yeara ago he undertook to, and did, raise entire, the Russlan war vessels that had been sunk during the Orimean war to obstruct the harbor of Sebastopol. To do this had been pronounced impossibie by many skilful engineers, and Colonel Gowan’s success therefore gained for htm much renown, Prosident Grant and Genoral Aorace Porter ar- rived at the Fifta Avenue Hotel yesterday morning. ‘They returned to Washington tn tne evoning, after having witnessed the departure or ex-Secretary Bore and wife and Miss Nellie Grant for Europe, BON VOYAGE, Departure of Mr. and Mrs. Borfe asd Miss Nellie Grant for FKurope. Punctually at two P. M, yesterday the Cunard steamer Algeria got under weigh and proceeded down the bay en route for Liverpool. Aboard of her were President and Mra, Grant and a large party of friends, who had assembied for the purpose of bidding bon voyage to ex-Secretary Borte and lady, who, in company with Miss Nellie Grant, the President's eldest daughter, are goimg to make an extensive tour through Europe, The Algeria pre. sented a very gay appearance, having veen dressed with flags tor the occasion. The steamer Androw Fletcher accompanied her down the bay and ree landed the party of visitors after the “Gunarder’? had passed through the Narrows. THE WEAIHER, WAR DBSPARTMENT, { ree oc OFFIOR OF THn CIDP SIGNAL O¥rtor WasHinatoy, D, 0., April 4—1 A. Me Synopsis sor the Past Twenty-four Hours, Rising barometer has extended from the upper lakes southward over the Missourt and Ohio vale leys and Middle and New England States, .with nortuerly winds, failing temperature, with clear and clearing weather, Uloudy Weather continues over the Southern States very generaliy, with rain over North Carolina, Eastern Teuneasee and Florida, Probabitittes, Rising barometer will continue extending south. ward over the Southern States, and souticast- ward over the Middle and New England States on Thursday, Olear weather wili pre vail very generally by Thuraday morning fromm Kentucky and = Missouri horthwara and eastward, with northerly winds over tho Miadlé and New Engiand States to easterly over and weat of the Upper Mississipp!, Clearing weather 1s probable for the Southern States on Thursday, wit - northerly winds over the South Atlantic states ta easterly over tho Weatern Quill Staves Spanoroua Winds are pot anwoLDA\od