The New York Herald Newspaper, February 1, 1876, Page 6

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P The Situation in Europe—A\ Letter from Ex-President Castelar.~ The election of the brilliant and illustri- ous Castelar to the Cortes from Barcelona gives him a new prominence in the politics of Spain. A little more than two years ago and he was the chief of the Spanish Repub- lic, the leader of the liberal party in Spain, the first orator of the nation and among the first orators of the world. A young man— orator, journalist, university professor, revo- lutionist—whose eloquence had contributed to the downfall of Amadeus and the emanci- pation of slavery in Porto Rico, his influ- ence, which seemed absolute, began to wane when he really attained power. Fora short time he was President of the Spanish Republic. There was everything in his Presidency but strength. The extreme re- publicans, who had followed him with affectionate adulation, rebelled because he would not overturn society in a day; be- cause he asked all Spaniards to return to Spain; because he was willing to deal with the army and the Church as estab- ished institutions, pillars of the State and necessary to its safety. Castelar's dream of a republic was too bright to last. His Pres- idency had the splendor and, we regret to say, the evanéscence of a Mediterranean sunset. The republican party quarrelled and dis- | solved. The Church, the army and the aris- | tocracy waited their timo, and one morning | amilitary detachment expelled the Cortes, took possession of the capital and called to | the throne the boy Alfonso, now King of | Spain. While all who believed in liberty and re- VABIETY, at 8 P. B FALSE SHAME, at SPM TONY PASTOF VARIETY, a5 ?.M. ine ARE THEATRE, UNION ROSE MICHEL, at 8 oLyM VARIETY, at 8 P.M FIFTH A PIQUE, at 8P.M. Fan Davenport, ET OPERA HOUSE. THIRTY-FOUR’ VARIETY, ats P.M now UNCLE TOMS CABIN Woo} THOROUGHBRED, at 8 P ee at 2 P.M. TRI W I YORK, TU SDAY, FEBRUARY From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cold, partly cloudy and with light rain or snow during the sight. Tue Henavp py Fasr Mar Tratys.— News- dealers and the prdlic will be supplied with the | Damy, Weexty and Sunpay Henatp, free of postage, by sending their orders direct'to this office. Wars. Sreezr Yesrerpay.—The stock | market was excited and irregular. An un- expected decline occurred, but was followed by a partial recovery, Gold was firm at 113 | 4 1131-80113. Money was freely supplied at four and six perc Wriuam McKer was last evening pro- aounced guilty of conspiracy to defraud the | government o1 rightful revenue by the jury which has sat at his trial in St. Louis. Tue Bartist Preacnens got into hot water yesterday at their pastoral conference, and | Brothers Fulton and Sarles called Dr. | Thomas a liar. Dr. Fulton wanted to fight it out on that line, but better counsels pre- vailed and order was restored. A Jury was sworn yesterday ir the trial of Rubenstein for the murder of the girl Sara Alexander at Jamaica. Counsel for the pris- oner made the usual endeavor to obtain twelve men who had no opinions. At a late hour in the afternoon this was accom- plished. Tur Commisstoners or Exmonation have | presented their annual report to the Legisla- tare, crease in the number of immigrants, and the Commissioners intimate that the day is not far distant when it will be found that their occupation will be gone. Tae War ww Torker continues with no great advantage, according to the cable report, to the soldiers of the Porte. The fact of a special British commissioner having been despatched to Constantinople indicates that the great Powers of Europe are still troubled concerning the difficulties of the Eastern question. Bora Hovsss of the State Legislature re- assembled last evening. Among the bills | introduced was a very useful one, limiting { the expenditures of the departments to the | amounts appropriated by the Board of Esti- mate and Apportionment. This was made specially applicable to the grading, regu- lating and improvemed{t of streets, Tue Srony of the extraordinary payments | from the funds of the Panama Railroad Com- pany to Mr. A. B. Stockwell was retold yes- | terday in the progress of the suit against | William S. King, brought by the Pacific | Mail Company, and a photograph of the | celebrated check for $130,581 was exhibited | in court. Tho result of the legal proceedings | will be watched with interest by Wall street. Inteanationat Ritz Snoortne.—The rifle- men of Scotland are moving toward tho | completion of the arrangements for a na- | tional competition with American sharp- | shooters, under the American challenge for | the championship of the world. The | competition for the selection of the | team of eight, with two reserves, will begin immediately in Scotland. The Scotch rifle- men are good shots, and the Americans say / the more the merrier. Tae Carrvns or 4 Notep Bunctan sus- of being concerned in the recent | rifling of the bank at Northampton, Mass., | leads to the hope that the true facts welative to that affair will be soon! ‘known, and that some of the plun- der will be recovered. This case may also farnish a remarkable instance of the prac- tical utility of o lasting conversion from the ways of sin to the straight and path of righteousness, as illustrated in edifying examovle of Elder Luts the truly It exhibits an almost alarming de- | publican institutions mourned over the fall of the Republic, and while stern radicals— irreconcilables of the school of Pi y Margal— looked with contempt upon the beautiful | and brief experiment, Castelar carried from his Presidency the respect of the world. He had sought to found a practical Republic ; | to adapt the new ideas to old conditions ; to make possible even to narrow, torpid, moss- covered Spain—with traditions that had be- come laws, with laws that represented the power of an absolute Church and an arro- gant, proud aristocracy—a law-abiding Re- public. How difficult this problem we cannot imagine in our free and fresh America, where we had but to throw the seed into the virgin soil and leave the fruit to time and the seasons, The repub- lican problem in Europe, and more espe- cially in Spain, is surrounded with the hard- est conditions. There are old and powerful | and respected institutions to be considered— the army, the Church, the peerage. Theso | institutions represent the valor, the patriot- ism, the religious faith, the pride of the people. To found a republic, which strips the army of its honors and the Church of its subyentions and political authority and makes no aristocracy possible, is the sorest task that has ever been imposed upon a leg- islator. We see how far France is from the end; and yet, for the better part of a cen- | tury, Frenchmen, from Mirabeau to Thiers, Frenchmen of eminent genius and patriot- \ ism, have tried again and again, only again | and again to fail. The fact that Castelar was an unsuccessful President only means that he failed where Mirabeau and Roland, Vergniaud and Lamartine had failed before ; that it was for him to plant the seed, for others to reap the harvest. Republican- ism is stronger in Europe, stronger in Spain, because of the brief poetical administration | of Castelar. Hoe shed no blood. He brought | no dishonor upon his native land, no scandal upon liberty. He might have been the Robespierre of Spain if he had led the ir- reconcilables, or its Bonaparte if he had given way tothe military spirit—a spirit al- | ways glad to make terms with whoever will i secure its pensions and its rank, He ruled with honor and withdrew with renown. He returns to the Cortes one of the three repub- lican delegates representing shrewd and pa- tient Catalonia, the New England of Spain. The return of Castelar to public life gives anew value to the eloquent letter to the Henatp which takes so much of our space this morning. This letter, written in Paris, is a review of the whole situation of Europe. We see what Europe presents to the mind of | Castelar at the outset of our new year, and | our readers will, we are gure, regard it ag q | remarkable and instructive contribution to the literature of the hour. The gorgeous rhetoric of Castelar suffers somewhat when translated from the luxuriant, ripe Castilian | into our colder and tamer Saxon ; but there | | are passages in this letter which more than justify its author's world-wide and enduring | | fame. He begins with a glance at Asia, the continent of monarchies; America, the | continent of republics, and Europe, between | them representing various phases of consti- | tutional systems. He shows the power of | the Slav and the Saxon in the polities of the | Continent, and apostrophizes the Latin spirit, which predominates in Italy and Spain, and which, with Greece, have contributed most to human culture. He shows that in Russia there is something else besides a | Czar on the throne and a people in the dust— the rise of a Communistic spirit, which has taken a deep hold on the Empire, and may in time menace the seemingly invinci- ble power of the Czars. The attitude of Russia and England in Asia, the conflicts of rival ambition in that vast and wonderful Continent, are sketched as boding events of paramount importance, The religion of | | | Russia, completely Oriental in its poetry and expression of the marvellous, is more calculated to win the East than the mer- cantile domination of England. The Eastern question now absorbs the minds of European | statesmen, as twenty years ago they were in- terested in the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Napoleonic Em- Allied with this is the ‘awful question of the Slavonic race, | than the unity of the German race.” This question, comparatively new as it is to us, | Castelar sketches with brilliant and daring In it is involved the fall of the rhetoric. ¢ ‘Turkish Empire. The insurrection in the principalities is only a phase. Unlike Lord Russell, who shows in his old age some of \ the fire which burned fifty years ago for Greece; unlike Garibaldi, who is apt tylook at polities from the heroic rather than’ the practical point of view, Castelar is not quite sure whether the insurrection in Herzego- vina does not represent the ambition of Rus- ' sia as much as any aspirations for freedom— | | less, more | fruitfal yet of wars and catastrophes | “an intrigue of diplomacy™ gather than a movement toward liberty.” . Castelar paints a glowing picture of the aspirations ofthe Servians for freedom,,and passes on in a second part of his letter, to be printed subsequently, to the present and the future of Turkey—the “loveliest region” on the globe, ‘stained with a shameless des- potism.” It is ruled by a man who claims attributes almost divine, his soul | deadened by the poisoned atmosphere of myrrh and frankincense, who governs his | subjects like cattle—a man “conceived in the seraglio, born of slavery, trained by eunuchs.” An Empire so ruled cannot live. Europe decrees its death. England, which formerly sustained it, is now resigned, and buys the Suez Canal to protect herself when the issue ripens, In this purchase Castelar sees the revival of the old Palmerston spirit. For a generation England has been despised in Europe, humiliated by America at Geneva as a mere Manchester cotton dealer. The purchase indicates a new policy. England isno longer Carthage, growing rich at the expense of her morals and her self-respect, but the England of the older days, which did not disdain to defend her Empire with the sword. A phase of this policy is seen in the visit of the Prince of Wales to India, and it is difficult not to feel that the crowning events of this century are involved in the East—in the fall of Turkey and the inevitable controversy be- tween England and the Czar. In shadowing | forth this tremendous question Castelar pays a glowing tributeto M. Lesseps, the projector of the Suez Canal, as one of the great men of theworld. From this he passes to the situa- | tion in France, where three monarchs make monarchy impossible. He believes that the Republic is secure from the conservative strength it has received. Altogether he feels that ancient traditions are vanishing ; that old castes are crumbling; that ‘divine | right” gives place to human rights; that “liberty, democracy and the Republic form the sublime trilogy which to-day inspires the Latin races and will to-morrow unite | them ina confederation possessing all the | brilliancy and splendor of ancient Greece.” | The Murder of Simmons, When a detestable crime has been per- petrated it is natural that reminiscences of similar offences against life and society should be conned over, and it is generally found that every form of criminality has in the world’s recollection several instances to show. Thomassen recalled Guy Fawkes; the Northampton Bank robbery had not to leave its own State for a congener in the Concord Bank burglary, and a host of murders followed by butchery have already been called up from their ghastly | graves to compare atrocities with the fearful | NEW YORK HikALDATUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1876%-TRIPLE, eecinneatt vr aide, that, beyond suspicions” fotnded on the |: ~ Whe French Republic. analyses of the political faith¥ Of Newey Senators it becomes clearer and clearest }hat enough constitutional republicans have beeti elected to secure the Republic against all its internal foes. M. Ganrbetta’s organ claims one hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred | and fifty-one being a majority of the entire Senate. Until the new Assembly has been elected it may not be prudent to rejoice with the friends of liberty over this decided intrenching of popular institutions in France. It has, however, so generally been conceded that the Assembly will have a republican majority, and recent events will so strikingly assist toward that end, that we may without much stretch of probability look forward to a moderate republican Cabi- net, with the monarchists of all shades where they should be—in opposition. The personal defeat of M. Buffet, the Prime Minister, and the almost unanimous elec- tion of M. Thiers, are two very suggestive facts for MacMahon to consider when he shall be looking around for a popular and able director of his parliamentary policy. It is pretty generally understood that the hero of Magenta has an incurable dislike to poli- tics, and hence has had to trust himself to the.guidance of the ablest or supplest man near him. His election, on the defeat of Thiers, threatening, as it did, the very existence of the Republic, threw him into the hands of the monarchists, who have since used him to crush republicans in the name of that badly disguised monarch- ism which M. Buffet has dubbed con- servatism, but which every man who under- stood it named reactionism. The monarchists who controlled Mac- Mahon could not, however, control the Assembly, for there they were confronted by the able and. wily Thiers and the more direct, if less able, Gambetta. These men had to make a giant fight. They knew that the pulse of France beat in unison with theirs, but it required a sleepless vigilance and, we are sorry to say, many a strange device, to keep their flag flying long enough for the relief to come up in the shape of a general election. In Eng- land, where there is also ‘‘a responsible Ministry,” Thiers or Gambetta, or both, would be called to power and Buffet’s fol- lowers would be sent into opposition, and herein exactly lies MacMahon’s great oppor- tunity to place himself abreast of the nation he has been appointed to govern. Up to the present he has lagged behind, advancing only when dragged a step. There is a cer- tain appearance of admirable prudence in this, particularly as MacMahon was not sure whether he wanted to go forward or back- ward and was only certain that he could not remain still, He need not be afraid of in- crime of last Thursday night at Green- point. It is too soon to speculate upon the | homicidal workings of the mind of the mur- | derer Fuchs before the commission of his | crime, because the evidence is blurred over | by a beastly cloud of drunkenness in the case of the man and the woman; and the | story of “the unfortunate child, clear as it seems, can only outline the action of the revolting scene, in which the murderer lay down red-handed to sleep beside the drunken wife and the horror-stupefied child, with the ensanguined | corpse lying still hard by. With what went before and’ what accompanied the actual killing justice has most to deal; but, in | what followed, humanity has a horrified in- terest. That night of sleep is something to | contemplate with a shudder. There were in it the sleep of innocence, sleep that could not comprehend the horror of life- taking, the sodden, ignorant sleep of drunkenness, the sleep of the murderer, whose callousness was proof against the sobering influence of such a crime, and then there was the calm sleep of the dead—per- haps the easiest out of all to let the mind rest upon, The sickening scenes of the three following days are but natural | sequences of that night of stillness in the abode of crime. The bun- gling brutality, stupid barbarity and | exterior coolness of the man, the silent drunkenness of the woman, and the stupefied-silence of the child are all pro- ducible from that first sleep with a mur- dered man for company. We may talk of the refining influences of our civilization and the diminution of the display of violent | passions; but such scenes come now and | again to remind us that the vilest | crimes are still as possible as when | men ate the captives that they took | in war. Heirs of the ages of progress as we may be, it is very cer-| tain that the raw material of crime trusting himself to Thiers, whose republi- canism is just of that conservative kind with | which France is in thorough ‘and healthy sympathy. Overcrowding on the Line. Already the Henatp’s campaign against | the street railways is producing beneficial | results. Yesterday the Third avenue line | added twenty-four extra cars to those pre- | viously in use, and to that extent over- | crowding was diminished. This concession will not suffice, however, and the companies must understand that a seat for every pas- senger will be required to satisfy the public. According to careful estimate of the travel | on the Third avenue line in 1873 that road | alone carried 73,835 passengers per day. We | may assume that at the present time the number is at least 75,440. To accommodate this immense travel the company runs only 255 cars. Of these 100 go throngh to Har- lem, making four round trips daily, and 125 run between Sixty-fifth street and the City Hall, and 30 go to the Grand Central depot, each making eight round trips. On this basis, which is below rather than above the mark, 3,280 cars pass over the line every day, and each would be compelled to carry 23 passengers to accommodate the travel. It will thus be seen that if the Gompaiiy waé able to distribute their passen- gers to make each car carry only its share of the aggregate one person would be required to stand every trip. As the travel is mostly confined to a few hours in the morning and evening the overcrowding is easily under- stood, Now it strikes us that with an in- come of $3,772 per day the company ought to be able to run more than 255 cars, and the managers of the road will find that the addi- tional 24 cars put on the line yesterday are insufficient in view of this showing. It also appears, from an article which we print else- where, that most of the companies have failed Third Avenue | is also furnished to every human being that comes into this world. The hor- ror of the mutilation of Simmons becomes no horror when it takes place in a dissecting | room. Killing that is done on the field of | battle differs certainly from killing for | money or for a fancied or real wrong in private | life; but the morbid impulses that separate the butcher of Greenpoint from the warrior and the anatomist have a place, smaller or greater, in the bosoms of all. Before such a stupendous horror we may well stand | aghast ; but it preaches a useful lesson if it | tells all men to curb the innate impulses to- ward evil that we see may lead, in happily rare instances, to such a climax of atrocity. | | Tux Rev. J. M. Bucxiry, who is a rest brother among the Methodasts, and has a keen scent for a sensa- tion, objected to some proposed changes in | Methodist polity at the preachers’ meeting yesterday. Eldership ought no longer, in his judgment, to be a retreat for the aged, | but should be held by active, earnest, young and busy men, like himself. “progressive” Tax Arrrrvpe or THE GovernmEeNT OF- | rictars in the case of Worms, the man cap- tured at Montreal, and who made such loud charges against President Grant, shows that the administration is ready to put the mat- ter to the test of law as soon as a chance otfers. The country will be glad of this. Mn. Mornison yesterday introduced the | Tariff bill into the House of Representatives and had it referred to the Committee of Ways | and Means, We shall now have an oppor- | tunity of seeing the strength of the free trade and tariff for revenue reformers in the damocratic Dart. to pay their license fees to the city, and that the charters of some of the roads may be for- feited in consequence. These are facts which must not be lost sight of in this con- test. In compelling the railways to provide a seat for each passenger no effective weapon must be left unused. The half million dol- lars now owing the city treasury may be- come the means of this great and necessary reform. These grasping corporations not only make money, as we have shown, by packing the patient public into their cars like sardines in a box, but they even fail to pay their takes. They must be taught that they have a duty in both directions, and be made to perform it. Tur Fine at Deen Park, Long Island, is likely to prove an unwelcome addition to the horrors now attracting the public attention. It seems, indeed, strange that the four inmates of a house built in a clear- | and from which have been diffi- cult, should all be burned to death when the house took fire, unless some means were taken to prevent their get- ting out. Hence the theory that one ow all were murdered and the house burned to con- ceal the crime has a certain plausibility. The character of Mr. Skixmore, the owner of the house and one of the victims, is said to have been unenviable, and the description our correspondent gives of the remaining in- mates leaves apparent room for any one of them being the object of a devilish malice. Mr. Skidmore seemed to have belonged to that litigious and grasping class which creates many enemies and seldom makes and still more rarely keeps o friend. It is right to sav the must woods, not ing in escape Probability of the old man’s harsh ways in- voking lawless vengeance and the strange fact that no ‘one escaped from the house, there is yet no real foundation for the belief that the burning veils a quadruple murder. _ Our Professional Oarsmen—Will They Be Beaten at the Centennial? While our ameteur oarsmen are unusually busy preparing for the great races of the oe er at Philadelphia there is no evidence of similar life among the profes- sionals. Indeed, it is nearly five pene aioe a first class professional crew has appeared on our wa@rs. Nor is this altogether owing to lack of inducement. When the four Wards, on September 11, 1871, on Saratoga Lake won the championship of the world, beating the fastest rowers Europe could pro- duce, the surprise was especially great be- cause of thie age of one or two of these re- nowned brothers. But the interval has not mended matters in this respect, and unless the best four this country can muster is to- gether very soon and working with ex- ceeding care and energy, if at least one English four does not beat them on the Schuylkill or at Saratoga as surely as Joseph Sadler, of Putney, or Robert Boyd, of Gateshead, will beat John Biglin if they have the chance, it will be because that four does not come. Josh Ward and John Biglin working together and dropping all side in- terests could, with Morris, of Pittsburg, and a fourth like Englehart or O'Neill, of this city, or Coulter, of Pittsburg, or any other good man they should select, make a very dangerous team. But they would need first to learn to row together, and this would cut out work for the best coach in the coun- try for at least one month. The simple fact is that the main difficulty in the way of a representative American professional four to-day is the lack of sufficient money to prop- erly boat them and pay them for the time they ought to and would gladly give toward keeping the world’s championship on this side of the water. Two thousand five hundred dollars would probably amply suffice. If some of our amateur clubs on the Harlem would find them a practice craft, so that their only outlay for a boat would be the three hundred dollars for their racing shell and oars, and would extend them such other courtesies as they easily could, they would not need nearly so much. But with- | out the direct pecuniary aid they cannot do their best if they combine at all, and it is far from certain that Robert Fulton, Samuel Hutton, Elijah Ross and George Price, of New Brunswick, or the Longshores, of Portland, or even the Faulkner-Reggu crew, of Boston, will not come on and beat them, without calling in the Englishmen at all. Nor are we better or even as well off in the matter of single scullers. John Biglin is good sometimes, not at others. He can gen- erally teach Ellis Ward a principle or two, as he did at Nyack orat Springfield. But so Robert Fulton showed him something at the St. John regatta in September, 1873, and it is not unlikely that Evan Morris or James Ten Eyck might on reasonable notice do the same, Since Walter Brown and James Ham- ill died no man has established a confidence in himself at the sculls which is at all general or likely to beget a feeling of ease and se- curity when we learn that the best men are coming from abroad to see if we can outscull | them. Nor will any until, as have the | fastest of the student crows, he rids himself ! of the notion that he can get ready in a few weeks, and devotes many months to severe if not distressing labor with the very parts brought into play in pulling an oar. A Proposition To Improve the Climate, In another column is presented the inge- nious theory of Mr. Woolfolk, of Kentucky, | who believes that it is possible for us to get | the better of our winter weather without moving to the tropics. His proposition is | based upon ao statement of the relations of two great currents that sweep the surface of our continent, one from the north, the other from the south or southwest, and of which the southerly or warm current moves | at the surface of the earth and the polar cur- | rent above the warm one. Cold storms are the results of the collision of these cur- rents and of the penetration of the warm by the cold current, which tears through and ravages with frightful temperature the re- gions which, but for this atmospheric event, would continue to enjoy the genial weather | that always comes with the southerly cur- rent. Evidently in this theory of ‘‘cold terms” the location and area of the storm depends upon the point at which the cold | current penetrates, and it is at this point | | that the meteorological revolutionist pro- | | poses operations. He suggests that by mak- ing a local storm at a given place with artillery we'can determine that the upper current shall penetrate at that point, and thus guarantee the immunity of all other parts of the continent. It is proposed to make this local storm on one of the islands | in the Upper Pacific, and send the cold storms streaming down on the width of that ocean and keeping us allover the northern temperate zone, from Atlantic to Pacific, in | air as mild as May. Sevenat Representatives of that foggy element in ideas, which Carlyle calls by the personifying title of Dryasdust, were yester- day present at the meeting of the | Rapid Transit Commission ready to oppose themselves to the project of the New York Elevated Railroad. It remains to be seen whether their enlightenment as to | the real plan of the company for the erection of the proposed roadway will dissipate any of the confused terrors of minds which blindly contend against the best interests of prop- erty. |. Tae Trtat or Laxvis for the murder of i Carruth, the Vineland editor, is nearing its | close. The District Attorney and Mr. Nixon, for the prisoner, both addressed the jury. The theory of the defence appears to be that Carruth was killed by the doctors, and not by Landis, More reliance seems to be placed upon this than upon the plea of the insanity of Landis. Tue Fance or 4 Durticate Boanp of Al- dermen and Assistant Aldermen was played yesterday evening at a Sixth avenue tavern, | A Spanish Promise, IfSpain has been foolish enough in ad. dressing the great Powers of Europe on the Cuban question to say that she will end the Carlist war in ten days we do not think that she has any belief in her own power to ac. complish in so short a space what has defied the various Spanish governments for years past, We do not deny the present activity of her generals, and we thimk it could be easily proved that if this activity had been manifested three years ago the Carlist was would long since have been ended. This promise is, however, too like Mr. Seward’s" “ninety days” to inspire us with any hope that it will be kept. The forces of Don Car- los have certainly been driven in upon their centre during the past year, and they do not appear to be offering a very spirited or successful opposition to the advanee of Moriones, Loma and Primo Rivera, but there is considerably more than a fortnight's work in finishing up what has been so well begun. The tenacity with which the brave Basque mountaineers have clung to the fortunes of their Divine Right leader will probably prove enough to keep the battalions of Don Al- fonso at work for many a day. Even grant- ing that the Alfonsist campaign is successfpl, as Madrid now hopes it will be, it is gravely to be questioned whether it will be safe to withdraw many of the troops for service in Cuba, as is now so confidently promised. A complete conquest would certainly allow some troops to be spared, but in a country where the rebel army, on defeat, melts into predatory bands, and the bands, when dis- persed, resolve themselves into groups or in- dividuals carrying on the war on a less for- midable but more widespread scale, the difficulty of detaching froops from service in the Pyrenedn ranges will be appreciated. On the bayonets thus to be spared from the north of Spain is to fall the task of “‘pacifying” Cuba, As our special despatch indicates, they do not believe at Berlin in the second clause of the Spanish promise, much as they may trust the power of Spain to vanquish Don Carlos. Captain Boabdil’s plan to extinguish a hostile army was to cut it up in detail, his champion swordsmen slicing the enemy down at so many scores a day. Much as this plan has been ridiculed we see that it is the only statesmafship Spain can apply to the Cuban question. She says:—‘‘I shall first slice me my score of Carlists and then slice me my score of Cubans, and that settles it.” But it will not settle it, for the Cuban question is not one for bayonets to settle, or the revolt would have been over long ago. Tue New Eprrion or Cuartey Ross, the prospectus of which comes from Tiffin, Ohio, does not strike us as more likely to be the genuine copy than did the spurious embodiment of fraud whose true title was Jimmy Blanchard. But the infantile char- acter now given to the public gaze has evidently a less subtle brain and a franker youthfulness as arguments against the as- sumption that he is an imposter. The fate of Jimmy Blanchard does not seem ta frighten new prodigies from notoriety any more than did the failure of Lambert Sim-* nel deter Perkin Warbeck from claiming a tinsel crown. re PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Gough is in Canada Froude will be a Sir. Fred Douglass is going West. Ann Eliza Young 18 in Illinois, Mrs, Beecher does not recognize Mrs. Tilton. Terrible rain storms in the Mississippi Valley, Shipments by way of Cape Horn are declining. In Holland the people agitate for popular rights. Australian rivers are to be stocked with salmon, ‘There are no abstract terms in the Turkish language: Mrs. Secretary Belknap appears at a German im creamy white silk. San Francisco's thermometer is iower than it has been before in ten years. The boisterous, rowdy, sclf-asserting child 1s abso« lutely unknown in the East. Flood, the California banker, made $300,000 re, cently in one day’s mining operations. A Roman once said, ‘Build me a house where I shall be seen by every one every hour of the day.” When a Milwaukee editor gets tight he sits down and writes about having a public park—‘‘something to roam in.’ : ‘ Anumber of the American heirs to the Jennings estate (England—$150,000,000) have been holaing » convention in Augusta, Ga, Speaking of Shakespeare, Hallam remarks that wa krow him personally only by “the reflex image of the objectivity in which he was manifested.” Eastward the star of empire takes its way. Two Chinamen in Elko, Nevada, have been convicted ot selling whiskey to Indians, and have been sent to jail. A Holtand immigrant in Iowa, caught while assault. ing a little girl, four years old, ‘said he thought this was a free country, and he guessed he could do ashe pleased. A society is in processs of formation in France which will have for its object the promotion of the study of dialects peculiar to part'culur provinces im the country. Professor. Henrichs, of Des Moines, says that seventy-five years hence Iowa summers will be like those of Louisiana, and the winters like those at Duluth, Minn. Conversation in Europe has been described as @ duetto in an opera, in which the two persons engaged in it are talking to an imaginary third person, each re- counting a tale of his own. The Bank of California, having @ mortgage on ’Fris- can sentiment, holds its own against the Flood & O'Brien bonanza bank, which is regarded as the insti-’ tution of mushroom success, Sir Jobn Hobhouse asserts that Byron yas no scoffer. Still, on one occasion Byron said:—'I have a great mind to believe in Christianity, for the mero pleasure of fancying I may be damned.” Speaking of the depression of trade the world over the Pall Mal Gazette says:—‘‘In Austria and Germany the recovery will be slower than in England or the United States, for the simple reason that their re- sources of all kinds are less."” ‘The Richmond Whig says that it is Virginia’s great misfortune that she has not some one man at least in her public councils who bas the brains and nerve to {ake the lead and rally around him those disposed to minister to her necessities, when satisfied what it is | that duty requires at their hands. ‘A hospital surgeon writes that the digestion is mainly governed by the nervous system, and the ner- yous system (s soon shattered by broken rest. To de- prive a man of & considerable portion of his sleep and then to expose him to cold is simply to exhaust nis re- serve of vital force, and to push him half way towaré the goal of a complete breakdown. The World objects to the confirmation of Mr. Gratiot ‘Washburne as Secretary of Logation at St. Petersburg because he has been the agent of a circus company, and came over from Paris to the United States a few months ago to hire bareback riders, male and female ‘The appointment of such a person to succeed a like Mr. Eugene Schuyler at the Russian court our com temporary condemns as contrary vo the principles civil service reform. But General Grant long age turned his back on that reform as something inconsisty ent with the success of his administration, and why and was as ridiculous asthe best nigger min- | strel troupe could wish for on an opening night, should aSenate which approved of Cramer and hat nothing to Say against Steinberger reject Gratiot Wash- burne for haying been a circus agout f—The Sun of wes terdav. /