The New York Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1873, Page 6

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BRYANTS OPERA HOt th av.—NerGno MInsTRELS: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanrety ENTERTAINMENT. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Eroadway.—Liniorian Minstnxeisy, &c. Twenty-third st. corner ccentTRICITY, &¢. ontieth st., between Eighth ERTAINMENT. ST. PETER'S HAL end Ninth ave.—Magicat NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCNENCE AND Art. I New York, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE CRISIS IN SPAIN! THE RESIGNATION OF KING AMADEUS AND THE PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC” —EDITORIAL LEADER— Suxta Pace. “DAMNABLE ITERATION!” GENERAL MORALES’ SPY-SHOOTING THREAT! MR. O'KELLY HAS A SECOND CO. RSATION WITH THE BLOOD-INCITED SPANISH CHIEF! HE WILL PROCEED ON HIS MISSION—SEVENTH PAGE. AMADEUS! ABDICATION! THE KING ANNOUNCES HIS FIRM DETERMINATION TO THE CABI- NET! GREAT EXCITEMENT AND AT- TEMPTED RIOT IN MADRID! THE EF- FORTS TO ESTABLISH A REPUBLIC— SEVENTU PAGE. A SPANISH EDITOR SENDS AN INSULTING LET- TER TO SECRETARY FISH! THE “RE- SPECTABLE VERNMENT OF SPAIN TO KICK OUR MINISTER OUT OF COUKT! A DEADLY FERVOR—Fourrs PaGR. CUBAN SENTIMENT ON THE SPANISH ABDICA- TION! THE NEWS CONSIDERED FAVOR- ABLE FOR FREE CUBA! THE SPANISH FACTIONS—FourRTH PAGE. A CUBAN APPEAL TO WESTERN FREEMEN— THE DORIS-DONNELLAN MURDER TRIAL IN JERSEY CITY! SOME IMPORTANT TESTIMONY—Fourtn PaGE. INSURRECTIONARY WAR IN AFRICA! THE NATIVES ATTACKING THE PORTUGUESE—SEVENTH PAGE. DETAILS OF THE LATEST RAILROAD HORROR! A RIVER OF FLAME FOR THE SURVIVORS OF A WRECKED TRAIN—SEVENTH Pace. LONDON SWALLOWS THE ERIE BONDS! CON- FIDENCE IN THE NEW DIRECTION! THE ENTIRE $10,060,000 SUBSCRIBED FOR—SEy- ENTH PAGE. AMES’ SURPRISING MEMORANDUMS! ADDI- TIONAL DISCOVERIES OF COLFAX-DIVI- DEND ENTRIES! THE INTOLERABLE ITCHING OF THE VICE PRESIDENT’S MO- BILIER TUNIC ! A SMILING BUT UNSATIS- FACTORY EXPLANATION—Tarrp Pace, WASHINGTON’S CORRUPT BOARD OF WORKS! AN IMPORTANT TREASURY ORDER! EX- TENDING THE MAIL FACILITIES OF THE METROVOLIS! OUR NEW DISTRICT AT- TORNEY—TuHIRD PAGE. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT AND THE JUAN BOUN- DARY QUESTION — LA NEWS DE- SPATCHES—SEVENTH PAGE. ALBANY NEWS! A LIVELY SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY! 7HE LAWS SHIELDING MUR- DERERS FROM PUNISHMENT! CITY RAIL- ROADS, THE CHARTER AND DOWER BILLS! TWEED’S TROUBLES—TENTH Pace. MAYOR HAVEMEYER AND THE SEVENTY DE- FINE THEIR PARTY STATUS—Tuirp PaGe. AMERICAN INSTITUTE REFORM—THE BOSTON BARREL HORROR—THIRD Pace. THE MEMBER FOR GALWAY! THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT CHARGES THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY WITH “SPIRITUAL INTIMIDATION” IN THE RECENT PARLIA- MENTARY ELECTION! HISTORY OF THE AFFAIR—FovurTH PaGE. 4 WIFE BEATEN TO DEATH BY HER DRUNKEN HUSBAND! THE CORONER COMMITS HIM TO THE TOMBS—ART AND LITERARY GLINTINGS—FourTH PAGE. A DESPERATE MIDNIGHT FIGHT! A STABLE- MAN DEFENDS HIMSELF AGAINST DRUNK- EN ROUGHS WITH A WHIFFLETREE—THE BEACH BREACH OF TRUST CASE~Firtra Pags. LITTLE NECK'S MURDERED SHOEMAKER! AD- DITIONAL FACTS DISCOVERED TOWARD THE SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY—Firta PaGE. LEGAL BUSINESS! THE TRIAL OF JONN SCAN- NELL! THE CAMDEN AND AMBOY SUIT DECIDED AGAINST THE COMPANY—Firru AN PAGE. BUSINESS, QUOTATIONS AND GOSSIP AT THE FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL EX- CHANGES—THE AFFAIRS OF THE ERIE ROAD—EIGHTH Pace. AMERICAN PISCIUULTURE! CURIOUS FACTS CONCERNING THE SCIENCE! HOW THE FINNY SPECIES ARE PROPAGATED! MEETING OF THE FISH CULTURISTS—THE BROOKLYN WOMAN-BURNING HORROR— Ninti Pas. We Have Avrotwren Mussns, Kremer & Co., publishers of the American Register, Paris, to be agents for the New Youk Heratp. jo of our friends on the Continent who esire special copies of the Henanp ma. address the office of the Ke, Aw Arnican Natrvist [svanrcnoy against the authority of the Portuguese on the south- west coast, has necessitated the despatch of troops and vessels of war from off Lisbon for Loanda. This occurrence will, to a very great extent, prevent the government of Portugal from diplomatizing in the question of Iberian Peninsula political projects which may bo formulated from Madrid. SOUTH | IRISH | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Crisis in Spain—The Resigna- tion of King Amadeus and the Proclamation of the Republic. Our latest news from Spain is to the effect that Amadeus adheres to his purposo. In spite of the advice and earnest entreaty of his Ministers, he persists in his dotermination to abdicate. It is not stated at tho time we write that his abdication has been formally proclaimed ; but we are no longer left in doubt as to the actual condition of affairs. Late Inst night a despatch was received by Secretary Fish that at nine o'clock the Cortes had adopted a republican form of government by a vote of 259 in the affirmative to 32 in the negative. According to another despatch the greatest excitement prevailed in Madrid. ‘The Senate had appointed a permanent Com- mittee of Thirty to attend to tho affairs of government. Malcampo and Topete had both magnanimously offered their services to Prime Minister Zorrilla to assist him in the main- tenance of order throughout the kingdom. It was doubted, however, whether Zorrilla would remain in the capital after to-morrow. All this is in confirmation of news received earlier in the day. As late as midnight on Sunday the King refused all advico and persisted in his purpose to resign, and early in the day yesterday a despatch was received by ® prominent republican at Versailles—M. Quinct—and signed by Castelar and Figuerns, two pronounced republicans, stating that within a few hours the Republic would be formally proclaimed. It is not difficult to understand why in some circles this intelli- gence should give pain. Itis impossible for us, however, who are identified with the popu- lar cause the wide world over, to do other than rejoice because of this fresh republican pros- pect in Spain. It has long been manifest that it would have to come to this at last, and. it is well that the inevitable has not been longer delayed. The abdication of the Sayoyard King will prove an event in history of more than ordi- nary significance. Abdication of a throne is no new thing; history furnishes numerous examples; but the abdication of a throne in the circumstances in which Amadeus abdicates is somewhat of a novelty. We all remember the circumstances in which that thrpne was offered and accepted. Queen Isabella was dethroned and driven from her realm in the Fall of 1868. How. tho fall of Isabella resounded throughout the world and gladdened the hearts of the lovers of liberty no reader of the Henanp requires to be told. It was felt that a powerful blow had been dealt at the heart of despotism, and that from the success of the blow the lovers of liberty would take fresh courage, and by ono bold effort make an end of despotism and oligarchy in Europe. From some cause or other, however, Europe did not respond. ‘To the rest of Europe Spain became an object of study and of curious interest; but’ the revolu- tion read the nations no lesson—it gave them no impulse. It is undeniable that after the revolution Prim was master of the situation. | He more than any other man made the revo- lution a success; and he more than any other man, after the revolution, was master of Spain. How far Prim was earnest in his efforts to establish the Republic it is difficult to say; but | that he gave the Republic a chance, that he consulted by constitutional means the wishes of the Spanish people, and that the idea of a republic was abandoned, it is impossible to refuse toadmit. It is not forgotten how the Spanish throne was offered to and how it was refused by the father of the King of Portugal. It is not forgotten—it never can be forgotten— how the same throne was offered to and how it was refused by Leopold of Hohenzollern. In all time to come the Franco-German war will remain a memorial of the quest which Spain, the once proud king- dom of Ferdinand and Isabella, of Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second, made for a king. It is not forgotten how the Hohen- zollern candidate was abandoned and how an appeal was made to the young Duke of Aosta. Ifthe records of the period are of any value it is not unfair to say that to the Italian Prince the Spanish crown was destitate of all special attractions. He cared little for it, his father was opposed to his accepting it, and it was not until the popular voice loudly ex- pressed itself and the representatives of the greatest houses and of the best blood in Spain joined in the call that the scruples of father and son gave way and Amadeus ac- cepted the offered crown, His arrival in Spain was marked by an event which, while it | stained the Spanish character and gave an ugly hue to Spanish politics, was fitted to daunt the bravest spirit. Through the life- blood of his patron, General Prim, he had to mount the Spanish throne, but, nothing un- | daunted, he marched to his place and resolved to test his destiny. That he began well, and that from the moment of his advent in Spain he has honestly endeavored to do his best, no enemy has ever denied. After a most das- tardly attempt on his own life, and in spite, it is said, of the earniest entreaties of his family and his young Queen that he should resign, he has stuck to his post; and now it must be admitted that, if he does abdicate, he abdicates because he has done his best and be- cause his best has failed. He abdicates in favor of no son, of no friend, but because he is sick of his thankless task and because in reality he cares nothing for the worthless bauble which men call a crown. His conduct stands out in striking contrast to that of Maximilian, of Mexico. He abandons a position of which he is weary, and leaves to their fate, without fighting for his rights, a people who have not shown themselves worthy of his love. The abdication of Amadeus is, as we have said, an immense triumph to the popular cause throughout Europe. It shows that the experiment in France is already producing its proper fruit, and the vote of the Spanish Cortes places Spain alongside of France, and gives the latter a powerful ally in fighting the battle of the people as against the despotisms and oligarchies of the Old World. The ex- ample of the United States has done much to teach the nations that they have all the rights they believe they have, and that they are more able than they think they are to govern them- selves. In spite of itself Europe is rapidly be- coming republican. We do not properly under- stand the fall of Napoleon—we do not begin to comprehend the present situation in France unless wo recognize the growing republican sentiment among the populations of Europe. Napoleon fell, not 6o much because France 1 Was not equal to the foe as because France was not in sympathy with Napoleon or with the form of government with which he was ideutified. President Thiers found it impossiblo to restore the monarchy, but it has been to him no difficult task to foster the growing strength of the Republic. If it must be admitted that one of the secrets of tho failure of Amadeus to reconcile the Spaniards to his authority was the fact of his being a foreign prince, it must also be admit- ted that during his rule Alphonsisls and Carl- ists alike havo failed to lay any firm hold on the national heart; and it is a fact, the sig- nificance of which ought not to be overlooked, that immediately on his abdication the Repub- lic should be so emphatically proclaimed. In Italy, since the unification of the kingdom, it is the peoplo rather than the great families who rule, and the character and tendency of recent legislation in that country tend to en- courage the belief that no violent revolution would be necessary to convert the Italian peninsula into a healthful and vigorous re- public, Great Britain already, in spite of the throne and the House of Lords, is practically a republic. Recent military successes have done much to strengthen the cause of mon- archy in Germany ; but just as Germany's success on tho battle field was largely due to German intelligence, so German intelligence will make it in all time to come a hard task for any government to disregard the just claims of the great body of the people. Intelligence is rapidly spreading among the people, and with the spread of intelligence comes the knowledge of citizens’ rights’ and the detesta- tion of irresponsible rule, The situation in Spain to-day proves that thrones are at a dis- count, and it encourages the belief that the day is not far distant when republican banners will float over all the old nations of Europe. An attempt may be made, and the attempt for a time may be successful, to re-establish mon- archy in Spain; but if the Spanish republi- cans are only true to thomselves their final victory cannot be long delayed. Whatever may be tho effect produced in Spain by the resignation of Amadeus, it is un- deniable that it ought to make an end of Spanish tyranny in Cuba. To the struggling Cubans a fresh opportunity is offered, and they will no doubt do their utmost to turn it to good account. But what is to be the attitude of the government of the United States? If republican Spain acts nobly she will give Cuba her liberty. If republican Spain should not act nobly republican America will not be held guiltless before the world if she does not step in and put a stop to the barbarity which pre- vyails upon the island. The Irish Clerical Prosecations. We publish in another portion of the Henacp an interesting history of the causes leading to the prosecution in Ireland of a Jatholic bishop and twenty-one priests for the misdemeanor of intimidation and unduo influ- ence at elections. It appears that the Parlia- mentary election contest between a Captain ‘Trench and a Captain Nolan resulted in the return of the latter for the county of Galway. On an appeal to the courts Judge Keogh, well known as a ready tool of the English govern- ment in Ireland, reversed this and gave the seat to Captain Trench. The prosecutions of the clergymen announced in yesterday's Heraup by cable have arisen out of this de- cision by the pliant Judge. It is well understood that in this Irish county the clergy have for years controlled the elections. In thi$ case the priests’ candidate was what is known as a popular candidate, as opposed to the candidate of the landlords. Altar denunciations ‘and other denunciations from clerical lips were hurled against any atholic who would vote against Captain Nolan. On the bare face of the thing it seems just to say that priests should mind their priestly business and let elections alone; that ifthere is any dignity in religion it should not be dragged through the mire of politics. The priests who head a popular movement can also at times be the bitterest foes of pro- gress, as Ireland's troubled story for some years past can tell. The movement to confine them to their duties proper is one which the Irish Fenians would heartily approve; but these prosecutions have no such liberal aim. They are only intended to silence such priests as oppose government candidates. Captain Trench desired and bid for the aid of the priests as strongly as Captain Nolan. ff it had been given to him there would have been no prosecution. This is the way the untutored peasant of Galway will reason, and he will be right. The result is an inflaming of pas- sions among an inflammable-minded people, and probably more influence than ever for the priests over their flocks, The government prosecutes the priests, not forthe intimidation, but because they intimidated in the wrong direction. It enters, too, on dangerous ground when it interferes with ecclesiastical privi- lege, and gives the martyr-loving nation their political and religious martyrs under the one priest's gown. ‘The case illustrates Mr. Froude's theory of brute force admirably, and isan instance of what good will flow from it. This good is increased disloyalty, if that be possible, partisan and religious rancor, and a man in Parliament who represents Judge Keogh. What a splendid country to be gov- erned in! The American Institute. A row in a dove-cot would be hardly a stranger thing than a quarrel in the American Institute—a body of men professedly devoted to the arts of peace. Yet such a contrariety is presented for the edification of the com- munity, and its capacity for surprising us is only modified because of the many recent social and political developments in Congress and elsewhere, which leave the mind of the observer in a mood to accept almost anything remarkable as a mere matter of course. In the case of the Institute there is a division of its members into two bitterly hostile fac- tions. The one of these, claiming to be a party of reformers, are seeking to wrest the control of the Institute from its former and long-time managers, who are charged with favoritism in the award of premiums, and with having made the interests of the Institute subservient to those of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, first in a lease of the building and grounds known as the Rink, where the Fair was recently held, and second in a proposition to pledge the In- stitute for further real estate obligations, also calculated to benefit the same corporation. At & recent formal meeting of the Lnstitute the su- | cations for official position. | called “cliqua’’ succeeded tn so amending the lawa of the [ustitute as to make the power of these managers still more arbitrary and central. At a second meeting the proceed- ings of the previous meeting were endorsed, in face of a vigorous protest from the ‘‘re- formers." The whole question at issue goes over, there- fore, to be decided at the ballot-box on Thurs- day, when the annual election is to be held and when both factions will muster all their respective strength to carry their respective tickets. The occasion will doubtless be the most exciting and the vote the largest ever polled in the annals of the American Institute. The City Charter and the Fraudu- lent Pretences of the Potiticians— What the Legislature is Expected To Do. The citizens of New York are supposed to have some interest in the municipal charter now under discussion at the State capital. For six or eight years past they have been made the sport or the prey of politicians, who have gambled with the interests of the metrop- olis as men gamble with stacks of counters on a faro. table. Prior to the now famous charter election of 1871 we were governed by. a “ring’’ of unscrupulous adventurers, who, while they did a great deal to improve and beautify the city, robbed the treasury in so disgracoful a manner as to overshadow and in @ great measure nullify their enterprise. Since the overthrow of these plunderers there has been such an indecent scramble for the spoils among those who have hoped to be their successors that the municipal govern- ment has been paralyzed and the wheels of progress have been effectually blocked. Some of those who succeeded to office on the down- fall of Tammany, under the cry of reform, have pulled one way and some another, and what with bickering and fighting between the public departments, and bar- gaining, intrigue and squabbling among the office-seckers, the real interests of the city have suffered but little less under the new rule of honesty than under the old rule of cor- ruption. The men who so shamelessly robbed the taxpayers up to a year and a half since made the Central Park what it now is; gave us the magnificent system of Boulevards in the upper part of the city ; conceived the improve- ments stretching into Westchester county, and beautified our once unseemly parks and places from the Battery to Harlem River. If they had been honest they might have made New York in ten years the finest capital in the world, The men who have locked up the treasury and protected the taxpayers from plunder have checked all progress, suffered our great public improvements to remain stagnant and set their faces with iron deter- mination against enterprise of every descrip- tion involving a dollar’s outlay. If they should remain in authority for ten years the city would save up money as a miser hordes his gold, and die, as a miser dies, in rags and filth. Hence the citizens of New York, as we have said, are supposed to have some interest in the charter work of the State Legislature, and are entitled to demand that it shall be so framed as to give the metropolis a government at once honest and énterprising—a govern- ment that shall neither be in the hands of thieves nor under the control of crotchety ob- structionists. From the tone of the partisan press one might well believe that the only question in- volved in the future laws by which our municipal affairs are to be regulated is as to which set of politicians, democratic or repub- lican, shall be permitted to secure the city oflices under the new dispensation. On one side we find the purified democracy, under Messrs. Green, Tilden, John Kelly and John Foley, backed up by their temporarily over- shadowed allies of the liberal faith, Messrs. John Cochrane, Rufus K. Andrews and Ethan Allen, rushing gallantly forward to the de- fence of Mayor Havemeyer, who desires the power to distribute the city patronage among his own particular friends without let or hindrance. The Committee of Seventy, rein- forced from regenerated Tammany since its original ranks became thinned by office-hold- ing, throws its great weight into the same scale and demands that the Mayor shall have his rights and the committee its offices. On the other side we have the republicans, who were so disinterested and non-partisan before election, making all sorts of excuses for seiz- ing upon the spoils for their own political as- sociates and shouting out lusty justifications for doing the acts which, despite their fraudu- lent pretences, they all the time contemplated doing if they only got the opportunity. Here is one orgen, which during the campaiga abused and ridiculed the venerable Mr. Have- meyer, declaring now that the Mayor is the only official fit to be entrusted with the ap- pointing power or capable of selecting proper persons to fill the public departments. Here is another organ, which was blatant about reform and honesty and non-partisanship be- fore election, and which never, no, never, would sanction any attempt of its own party to take political advantage of its success in the city, now raking its wits to find some plausible excuse for doing the bidding of its leaders and working as gently in the party traces as a parson’s cob. Democrats, liberals and republicans are laboring for the same end— the possession of the city spoils; those of the former two followings through the influence of Mayor Havemeyer and the non-partisan hum- bug; those of the latter through the powor of the Albany Legislature. The Committee of Seventy—tor never may those patriots be for- gotten while public pap has to be distrib- uted! —are also working zealously in the cause of reform and the committee, and are in despair lest the venerable Mayor should be deprived of the opportunity to recognize their many virtues and their qualifi- They have done well up tothe present time, it is true, or at least some of them have done well. Their members fill majority of the most valuable offices in the city. But the virtuous Foley has not yet been properly rewarded, partly because of the obstinacy of the Courts in preferring the law to the wishes of Comptroller Green, and partly because the great injunctionist has hitherto suffered his associates on the com- mittee to put him to the use to which the monkey put the eat in the fable—to draw their chestnuts out of the fire with his inno- cent paw. The legislative Wheeler is not in | the Department of Public Works, nor the legal Solomon in the Corporation Counsel's office. Hence the necessity of insisting that thero shall be no partisanship in the city govern- ment, but that Mayor Havemeyer shall be suffered to distribute the offices among those who are able to persuade him that they are the most faithful partisans ot his command. Out upon all this political fraud and hum- bug! ‘The republicans have tue power in the State Legislature ; they intend to seize upon all the power, patronage and emoluments of the New York city government for their own party, and let them take it without further false pretences. The people are willing that they should do so; they have the responsi- bility for the good government of. the city and State for the next two years, and they would be foolish if they did not work with their own tools. All our citizens ask is that the city shall be rescued from its present inharmonious muddle and sent forward once more on the path of progress and prosperity. Non-parti- sanship in the city government is a myth ; it served vory well as an electioneering cry, but it could not be secured if there was really any honest desire to try the experiment. A single election would sweep it away, no matter by what laws it might be apparently secured. Certainly to give the sole, uncontrolled power of appointment into the hands of a single offi- cial would be the most certain method of in- suring strict partisanship in two years’ time, if not at the present moment. Tho Board of Aldermen, appointing subject to the confir- mation of the Mayor, and electing in the event of non-agreement, would come far nearer to non-partisanship than the arbitrary one-man power advocated by Mayor Havemeyer and his friends. The only plausible plea for asking the appointing power for the Mayor is that by concentrating responsibility the citi- zens can sooner bring an unfaithful officer to a reckoning; but this falls to the ground when it is remembered that the Aldermen are elected on a single ticket, and can thus be reached as readily as the Mayor. Besides, the great need of the city now is harmony in all the public departments. The course of Mayor Havemeyer and his advisers does not hold out much promise that this can be secured by leaving the absolute patronage in the hands of that gentleman, unless the republicans, who certainly are responsible for the charter and the government under it, are satisfied to hand over every city department to their politi- cal opponents. As this would be an act of folly as well as an unusual piece of politi- cal disinterestedness, it is not very likely to be done by a Legislature three-fourths repub- lican, All the people of New York demand, therefore, is that a fair, well-considered char- ter be passed at Albany, and that the republi- can Board of Aldermen, or whoever may have the appointing authority, shall fill the city de- partments with men of vigor, enterprise, lib- erality, honesty and capacity. If the city secure such officers no one will inquire either into their religion or their politics. More of Morales’ Bombast. Mr. O'Kelly has returned to Santiago de Cuba, for the purpose of learning from the lips of General Morales whether he intended to carry out his brutal threat in case the Heratp Commissioner attempted to accom- plish the object of his mission. The reply of Morales was to the effect that he would shoot the Hegatp correspondent if, after leaving the Spanish lines, he was found among the in- surgents or afterwards returned to the Spanish lines. Our Commissioner has taken a good point against this stupid order which upsets it completely. It is not the best, for that is found in the definition of the word spy itself. If our correspondent is a spy at all it is while within the Spanish lines. If he had any in- tention of acting the spy it would be in carry- ing aid and comfort to the rebels on leaving the Spanish camp. This the infamous order of Morales clearly puts out of the question, for it gives our Commissioner permission to leave. Once having reached the insur- gents he could only be a spy in at- tempting to carry information regarding them to the Spaniards. He would then be a spy upon the Cubans, and to carry out the order of Morales would be to execute a man who could only be a spy by giving informa- tion about the Cubans. This is the reductio ad absurdam of bombastic Morales and his order. The point made by our correspondent takes firm ground also. The Spaniards do not recognize a state of war in Cuba. He, therefore, insists on his right as an inde- pendent neutral to visit any place in = island he lists without let or hindrance. This point and its non-recognition form a reductio ad absurdam’ of the Spanish claim to uncon- trolled supremacy. It develops the extraor- dinary state of affairs that the insurgents have lines which are no lines, and which, although according to the Spanish mind do not exist, yet must not be passed. It tells, how- ever, in spite of its contradictions, that Morales and his masters will unite in defend- ing any absurdity provided it stands in the way of any light being thrown upon the Cuban insurrection. To this end is the effort to frighten our Commissioner out of the mission he has undertaken. It will need, however, much more, we are convinced, to accomplish this than the words inviting assassination which the representative of the tumbling monarchy of Spain has uttered. We believe our correspondent when he announces to this General Morales that he will proceed, and we do not believe General Morales when he vapors about shooting the representative of an inde- pendent American journal as a spy. There will be no necessity for an appeal to govern- ment if our Commissioner understands fully the immeasurable bombast which surrounds the heart of the utterance that would com- mand his immolation on the pretext of a barbarian. There is but one appeal in this matter and under one condition which is not likely to be filled. That appeal will be to free America itself should some Spanish assassin in uniform or out of it take the life of our Commissioner. The blood which should then be shed would rouse every man on the Con- tinent who loves freedom and hates the bru- tality of oppression until the Gem of the Antilles would be baptized to liberty in the blood of its Spanish tyrants. The Spaniards in Cuba, with republicanism looming up in Spain, know this, and our Commissioner will not be shot by them as a spy. A Drviwenp tv Enm.—Yesterday the Board of Directors of the Erie Railway declared a dividend of three and a half per cent on the preferred and one and three-quarters per cent on the common stock out of the earnings of the past year in the latter. The dividend on Erie common is the first made since the year 1865. Tho only dividends ever paid on Erie common have been as follows:—-For tho six months ending June 30, 1863, one of three and a half per cent; for the two years follow- ing, eight per cent per annum, and now, for the year 1872, one of one and three-quarters per cent, ERASE NI seca ey The Colfax Alibi. The Vice President has at last brought forward his alibi on the twelve hundred dollar matter, which Hoax Ames has charged him withal. It is a curious alibi. A Mr. George F. Nesbitt, who is conveniently dead, is a thousand dollars’ worth thereof, and a Mr. Matthews, the stepfather of Mr. Colfax, who is alive, is only two hundred dollars’ worth. Indeed, in a certain way, Mr. Matthews is part of the whole amount, for he saw the thousand dollar bill come out of the letter the bright morning he paid Mr. Colfax for a piano to the amount of two hundred dollars, Wonderful coincidence! Handy old chap, this Matthews, to havo in the house, The alibi was to come from three persons in different States a week ago, and now it comes to a thousand dollar bill laid on coffin and two hundred dollars on a piano. Old Hoax has not produced any receipt, but his clerk is industriously searching and Hoax will not swear that he does not possess it. Is old Iago meditating another great surprise? It would be some consolation to hypocrisy that only the check to Ames could be fixed and not the payment to Colfax. Ames, it may bere- marked, brought new evidence from his memo- randum book. This accuses Colfax of receiving some sixty dollars for interest on Union Pacific bonds. Ames, so far as Colfax is. con- cerned, has shown the twelve hundred dollar memorandum duly down among the others. The Srgeant-at-Arms’ book shows a twelve hundred dollar check to S. ©. The First Na- tional Bank shows a twelve hundred dollar cash lodgment on the same 22d February. This is a strong chain, and to make it unbreakable only needs the receipt from Colfax. Colfax, on the contrary, has a dead man and his stepfather. We could wish it were stronger for Mr. Colfax. An alibi in such a case is a difficult thing to rake up after four or five years; but this is, we fear, @ very weak one. If Hoax Ames holda the receipt let him produce it and end the misery. A Dwasrnovs Srogm ar AsprnwALt.—We are sorry to learn that from a disastrous norther the wharves and the shipping at Aspin- wall have suffered heavily—the damages to the Pacific Mail wharf, with its stores of whale oil and other produce on it, being estimated at three hundred thousand dollars, and one-half the French wharf was carried away with two car loads of indigo. Several schooners were sunk and a number of other vessels were more or less damaged, The steamship Henry Chauncey, by being kept outside escaped the fury of the storm, which, it appears, burst upon the harbor. The misfortune is that from the configuration of the harbor it is subject to the full sweep of these northers which, from Texas to Aspinwall and below, are the special terror of those seas and coasts. Of course, a strong breakwater at Aspinwall harbor is the one thing needed for its security, and in view of their own interests the parties directly con- cerned should proceed to build this breakwater without waiting for losses from another norther equal to the whole cost of the work. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Abd-el-Kader 1s lying seriously ill in Damascus. General Burnside is at the Fifth Avenue Hotet. Major E. W. Lambert, of St. Louis, ls at the New York Hotel. Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Buffaio, is stopping at. the Astor House. Ex-Congressman John V. L. Pruyn, of Albany, is at the Brevoort Heuse, The Shah of Persia will reside at Buckingham Palace while in England. Ex-Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont, has arrtved at the St. Nichelas Hotel. Ex-Congressman Thomas H. Candeld, of Vermont, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge John K. Ewing, of Uniontown, Pa., is stay- ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. King Oscar of Norway and Sweden is to be crowned at Stockholm on the 21st of May. The Sultan’s third son, aged seven years, haa been made a lieutenant in the Turkish army. Mr, W, Oswald Chariton, of the British Legation at Washington, is in town at the Brevoort House. ‘The Maharajah of Bulrampole is, according to latest advices from India, catching wiid elephants. George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, was presented to President Thiers by Minister Washburne on the ‘wth ult. Amadeus won’t go to the Vienna Exhibition—is an anouncement from Europe—as King of Spain may be safely provisoed. The ex-Priace Imperial ef France 1s known a8 Gentieman Cadet Count de Pierrefonds at the Woolwich Military Academy. Two descendants of Genghis Khan, the Mongol sovereign and conqueror of the twelfth century, are high eMcers the Russian army. “Aleck” Stephens will have a clear run for Con+ gress from the Eighth Georgia district on the 26th instant, there being no opposition to him. Egbert B. Kieley, editor of the Dutchess Farmer, published in Peughkeepsic, died sudaenly at his residence in Poughkeepsie yesterday. Miss King, an Englishwoman, was married to the Mahometan Sheriff of Guazan, at Tangier, Mo- rocco, on the 17th ult. The Sherif had already four wives. ‘Tae Earl de Grey, son and only child of the Mar- quis and Marchioness of Ripon, became of age om the 20th ult., and the event was duly celebrated. He ts a true ripe-un. ‘The letter addressed by the Emperor of Germany to Prince Bismarck, with the crachat in brillianta of the Black Eagle, terminates with these words, “Your faithful, devoted and graceful King.” President Thiers refuses to accept the Emperor's hospitalities for his stay in Vienna while attending the Exhibition. He has hired the Palace Leiten- buger, and will there abide with the French Com- mission. Mr. Joseph Howe is to succeed Sir Hastings Doyle as Licutenant Gevernor of Nova Scotia. Mr. Howe strongly opposed the anion of the British North American colonies, and since its accomplishment he has been tn private life. ‘The Philadeiphia Age things there will be no difficulty in Mayor Havemeyer naming those repub- lican leaders who ‘gamble ail night and cheat each other and intrigue all day to rob the public,” it His Honor should name the whole batch of these worthies, hoa MORE CATHOLIC BISHOPS. Acable despatch, special to the New York Pree- man's Journal, announces that the Pope on the 2a of February approved the nominations ef the Very Rev. M. A. Corrigan, V. G., as the new Bishop of Newark, N.J., and the Rev. William H. Gross aa Bishop of Savannah, in place of Bishop Persica, re- signed on account of bad health, Dr. Corrigan is at prescnt Presideat of Scton Hall College, New Jersey. Father Gross is a Redemptoriat Missionary, at present Superior of the Redemptortst/Hoyse and the past six months in the former oage and < Church at Roxbury, megr Bogtgn,