The Sun (New York) Newspaper, January 3, 1870, Page 2

Sun. MONDAY, JANUARY 38, 1870. nye Tt Bhines for AIL, Gio, The Armorer of Tyra, ‘Shoo Fly. Fifth Avenue Theatre The Grand Opera Mouse —Liogsrt. Jithe Eau'lys jew York Clrens Troapa, Olymple Theatre The Writlog on the Wall. Francisco Minatrets, S95 Drowway. Dickey, de ayboly. Wood's Munem The Montes, Stone hunt, Another Great Statesman ogainst Cuba. Mr. Mank Twarn favors the public with his views concerving the Cuban revolution. They seem to be of about the same tenor and value as those which Mr, Secretary Fret hes occasionally avowed. We quote the sum- ming up of Mr. Twatn’s opinions: “ In his self-aacrificing etraggies for his country’s freedom the Cuban patriot wakes valorous use of every method and every o ance that can aid the good cause, Murder, thet ary, arson, aasnsst- pation, r: ‘tendietty, fratricide, iid’, and all’'eides but suicide are instruments in his hands for the salvation of bis native Lind; and the same are iastraments in innds of the ‘oppressor’ for the dumnation of ries, patriols and government dreidy at any moment, soul, and boots, polit y anybody that will buy ; to give the same away for nothing ‘etund in peril, Both sides mMaveacre thelr prisoncrs; both sides are as proud Of burning a deserted ‘plantation, or conquering, capturing, scalping, and skinuing h, erippied. Mind Adfot, as dny civilized army would be of taking a fortified city ; both sides make a grand Kehool-coy oW-Wow OVEE itevery time they tightall day long ana iil a couple of sick Women, and di able a Jackass and brag, and betray, and ‘Tob, and happy majority of both sides are fantastic In costuine, grotesque in mauner, halt-ctvilized, un- Washed, ignorant, bigoted si, base, cruel, Dratal, swageering, Pp and itis devoutly dence will vermit up until thore isn'te orth ‘0 hold an luqnest on The spirit of these observations is identical with that of the Pharisee who “stood and prayed thus with bh f d, I thank thee that I am not os other men.” Mr. TWALY’s selfconceit and self-glorification— to say nothing of his indifference to right and wrong—are something mirneulous. Nothing exceeds them but his falsehood. It is false that the Cubans have conducted their war with barbarity. They are not a base, a cruel, nor a treacherous race of peo- ple; and ro instance can be demonstrated in which they have gone beyond the bounds of legitimate civilized warfare. It is false that they have committed mur- der, assassination, rape, matricido, or the other crimes which this literary mountebank alleges. It is false that they have been ready to sell their principles or their cause, or are now ready to do so. If they could have been bribed, the revolution would have been ewled long ago. If they could be bought up now, it would not last a week longer. It is false that they massacre their prison- ers. It is false that they mutilate the Llind and helpless Spaniards who fall into their hauds. It is false that the Cubans aro half-civil ized, ignorant, brutal, swaggering semi-devils, We have known them long and well; and gentlemen of betier principles, higher honor, more genuine cultivation, more civilized and refined mauners, cannot be found in any country, We have never had the pleasure of beh Twatn, either in his ordi. nary costume or when dressed to appear ns a clown in the ring; but must be much more of & man than he has ever shown any sign of being, to bear comparison with those he 60 recklessly belies. We are happy, however, to say that in one respect Mr. TWArN does not depart from the fact. He says that the Cubans are “ fantas. tic in costume,” and this is true. Without organization, military education, experience, or resources, they have been waging war for fifteen months against an organized enc my possessing all these things, able to sup- ply arms, ammunition, and clothing in abun dance to all his soldiers, and wiih a unme: rous fleet, which the United States have just trebled, to guard the Cuban coasts aud keep the patriots from receiving supplies. Under these circumsiances the Cubans have neces: sarily fullen off very much in the complete ness of their wardrobes, For instance, most of them have no shoes; most of them have very poor hats, if they lave any at all; most of them are in rags; most of them are with- out medicines when sick or wounded ; and this interferes with their personal appear- ance, short, they are in as bad 2 condi- tion as was WasittscTon’s army at Valley Forge. But they do not complain of these inconveniences, for they possess what is of more yalue than fine cloihing, an honest hatred of the intolerable oppression of Spain, and a firm resolution to take their country free and independent. If their costume is fantastic, their hearts are right, their purpose deserves the sympath and applause of all good men, and their cause is sure to triumph in the end We say their cause is sure to triumph, and our confidence is based not merely on its justice, bat on one of the reasons for which both Mr. Fisu and Mr, Manx 'T'warn honor it with their disappro- bation. We refer to the fact thet the Cubans havo not fought nor attempted to fight a great and decisive battle. Such battles are no doubt more showy than the guerilla war- fare which they have adopted ; but with their small forers—they have only 40,000 men armed with guns to cover all their vast ter. ritory—aud with their limited and precarious resources—they are not sure of being able to get any more guns or ammunition—it would be criminal folly, insanity, for their leaders to peril all upon the issue of any single con. flict. Their only safe policy is to wear out their enemy by constant alerts and harass- ments, and not attempt to crush him by any grand operations, They cannot afford to run any risks, and we are glad to be able to re- port now, as we reported a ycar ago, that their wisdom is equal to the exigency of their situation, Spain sends a new army of 20,000 men to make good the losses of the last campaign, and there is but one proper way to deal with them, If the Cubans could obtain an unlimited supply of arms and other material of war, if they could am ® hundred thousand men for active cam- paigning, they could"make shorter work of it; but that is out of the question, They must proceed cautiously, taking no chances that they can avoid, and keeping always in view as their object, to use up their oppo- nents without ever giving them a chance to Doth sides Me, destroy; ding Mr, use up the revolution, This is a tedious method, and not satisfactory to soldiers’ on the grand ecale like Mr, TwArn and Mr, Fient; but it is eminently satisfactory to all who wish for the emancipation of Cuba, be- cause it isthe only way that is sure to win. ——— The Impudence of the French Cable Company. If the Administration at Washington had one particle of reapect tor the national honor, it would have long ago ordered the taking up of #0 much of the French telegraph cable as is laid under water within three marine leagues of our shores. Beyond this distance, the ocean and its bed are by the laws of na- tions common property ; but this side of it, up to low-water mark, the United States has jurisdiction, not only to the exclusion of all other countries, but to that of the individual States. At first, the Cable Company pretend- ed that the authorization of Massachusetts, which they had secured, was sufficient to protect them in landing their cable at Duxbury; but this fallacy was quickly ex- ploded by the indignant denunciations of the American press, which roused the Prest- dent and Secretary Fist to giving a formal notifiertion that the whole naval force of the United States would, if necessary, be em- ployed to prevent the consummation of the project. Resorting then to diplomacy and intrigue, the Company secured from the Gov- ernment Inst summer a qualified consent to going on with the landing, based upon their distinct promise that a similar privilege of landing American cables on the French shore should be accorded to our citizens, and in general that any other terms which might be imposed by Congreas should be complied with. The cable has been now in fall operation for over six months, and, as we predicted from the start, the promise that American citizens should be treated in France as the French Company has been treated here has not been kept. On the contrary, a recent ap- plication by American citizens to the French Government for permission to land an Ameri- can cable on the French coast has been rejected, for the express reason that the monopoly of the privilege was already the property of the Company to which the Preai- dent and Mr. Fisu so weakly yielded last summer. That the threatened policy which drove the French Company to making terms is not carried out, is another uf the evidences of incompetency in the Administration which have lost it the confidence of the people. ‘The action taken was, in any event, an illegal at- tempt to usurp the powers of Congress; and its failure to secure the object aimed at ought, one would think, to at least provoke its recall Fortunately, Congress has the power yet in reserve to remedy the blunders which have been committed in this matter, and the managers of the Cable Company know it, A fact which will be used against them in the debate on their case will naturally be the inquisitoricl supervision which the French police maintain over messages sent through the cable, and which it is stipu- lated they shall always be allowed to main- tain. To avert as far as possible, in advance, the prejudice which this fact is calculated to create against them,as well as to counteract the injury which it will do their business, they have obtained from the French Director- neral of Telegraph Lines what they in- tend shall be taken fora disclaimer of the exercise of the inquisitorial privilege referred to, This official, however, is compelled to admit that every message sent by the cable passes under the inspection of e Government clerk, who counts the words and ciphers! He only insists that this ie done “without political intention.” This may be so just now; but euppose an emer- geney should arise in which political ends would be served by knowibg tho coutents of despatches, does any one believe that the clerk in charge would fail to note them for the use of his superiors? ‘To try to make the American public believe the contrary is a piece of impudence which will fail of its purpose. The French Gov. ernment required, before granting permission to lay the cable on tho French coast, that it should terminate in an office under aheir control ; and this condition will be retained us long as France is governed on the principles that always have prevailed there, aud which have become most probably too deeply rooted to be overthrown even by a revolution, Congress should insist politely, but firmly, either upon the French cable being taken up altogether, or upon a con- cession to American citizens, without distinc- tion, of landing cables on the shores of France free from all Government supervision aud control whatever. a A writer in a Boston paper’ says that the reason why the press of this city have recently criticised with severity some of the sayings and doings of Mr. Beecugn and Mr, that both of those gentlemen “have rendere themselves obnoxious by their words and the acts to the vicious rings which make New York a disgrace .o the country.” ‘This is news indeed, We had not known befure that either the many ring, or {the Supervisors’ ring, or the Custom House ring, or the Samana Bay ring, or the Brooklyn Water Commissioners’ ring, or any other of these organizations for public plunder, had ony particular dislike cither to Messrs. Beecuen and Frorawonam, or to the Free-Love doctrines which they have been charged with favoring. It is evident that there are some per- sons in Boston who don't know what they are talking about, a Some of the Washington telegrams report that there is less probability that the Government will recognize the Cuban revolutionists now tha at the opening of Congress, because * it is under. stood that they are not as favorably situated as they were at that time, aecording to the reports.” According to what reports? Those of Mr, Fisu’s agents in Cuba? What their reports are worth we know. He has sent them into Con- gress; anda shabby lot they are, There is not @ respectable business man in the world who would act in any commercial undertaking upon such meagre, vague, and worthless information, All these reports amount to is a genera! confes- sion of ignorance, Not ove of Mr. Fisu’s consuls was ever in @ revolutionary camp; not one pre- tends to know anything that be has not learned from some Spanish source. No doubt, the new re- ports which Lave reached Mr, Fisu since Congre: opened are of the same precious kind with their predecessors. But if they suffice to keep the United (States on the side of Spain, they will answer their purpose, a We learn that Mr. ANDREW WiLson has bought thirty estates and sixty buildings near Mamaroneck, with the intention of laying out lots and building houses for workinswen. The $ purchase com) about 2,000acres. Seven hun- dred aeres of {ie land im the centre will be laid ott ina fine park. The nastiest production which Mrs. Srowr’s calumny upon Mrs, Laon has called forth, isa romance, just published in London by the notorious Caantes Mackay. This writer has not, before this, been heard of since he abandoned the attempt to write down the Amer- ican Republic, and to write up Jerrensox Davis, during the rebellion in the South, He has now taken the suggestion of Mrs, Stowr’s disgust- ing story to frame one still more disgusting, and, if possible, more destitute of evidence, He pretends to narrate the history of that mythical child, alleged by Mrs. Stowe to have been born of the incestuous relation between Lord Brnow and his sister; but it does not appear that the new facts in his volume are supported by any serious testimony whatever. It is, so far as wo can judge from the specimens that have reached us, simply the work of an unserupalous book manufacturer, whose only purpose is to make money out of the excitemout which Mrs, Stow: narrative has caused. ep How does the Hon. CHan.es Suxxrn feel in view of the universal condemnation of his con- duct toward the cause of equal rights and self. government in Cuba? Does he answer that he is familiar with such condemnation, having endured it for years because he was an abolitionist? But then he suffered obloquy for being faithful to the cause of the lowly and the weak ; w! now he is the friend and advocate of slavery and op- pression. The difference is enormous. Inthe one ease he had an hovest conscience to support him ; in the other the sting of self-reproach must be felt even through the dense panoply of vanity and conceit in which he has arrayed himself. Has Mr. Scuxen pondered the words which Mrs, Howe—a friend and admirer of his in his better days—uttered at Concord on Thursday last? Let us invite his attention to them once more : “When CHanurs Susnen, the enemy of caste, the strenuous sdvocate of aman freedom, In his Specel at Worcester, strnck down the pleading hands of Cuba, and sald, * There was not the tech- nical symbol of belligerency ; let her perish,’ te was untrue to the flag whose virtue ennobled his Orat triumph. That flag is dishonored wien it salatos despotiem, instead of returning a friendly greeting to the challenge of freedom. Free America leacied With despotic Spain against the Cuban struggle fo: independence wis a union most unholy. Tho pro: of the country ras teemed with strictures upon a marriage complicated with death and divorce; but what was that marriage in comparison with the ah. horred union, whose dowry was blood and fire, with thirty Spanish gunboats f* That Hawittow Fism should be led by the in- fluence of bis son-in-law to become the advocate of the basest and cruelest despotism in the mod- ern world, is unfortunate for him, but not very surprising; but that Mr, Suvee should be so- duced into taking such @ position is indeed la. mentable. Worse than this, too, is the fact that in serving Spain he has become iusensible to the requirements of personal honor. Ne slanders the Cubans, and when the fact is proved he has not the decency to retract his calumny and npolo- gize for its publication! Alas, that a man of such principles ashe once possessed should fall thus low! ————— The Hon. Henny W. Geyer has sounded his slogan and is apparently fighting Tammany with dash and vigor. He has threatened to take Mr. Tween’s scalp within the next two years. He openly asserts that he goes into this fight be- cause the Board of Supervisors, through the in- fluence of Mr. Tween, hay appointed a nephew of Mr, Tween toa clerkship in the Civil Court in Mr. Geyer’s district, and all this with out Mr. Gzxer’s consent, This is poor ground on which to give battle to Tammany. Has Mr. Gener forgotten that after thé caucus in Mr. Sweewr’s room, the Board of Sugér+isors deliber- ately appointed Republican clerks (o a majority of the Civil Courts, despite the protests of the Democrats who did the work andthe most of the voting at the Inte election? Why not go for Mr Sweenr’s scalp? Mr. Tween has only given to one of his Democratic relatives patronage worth $10,000 @ year, while Mr. Swaexr has openly thrown $50,000 into the laps of the cor: publicans, Were Mr. Gexet really in earnest io this war- fare, he might win fame and name at Albany this year, The State Senate is composed of eighteen Democrats and fourteen Republicans, If Mr. Gener will steadfastly set his fuce against every corrupt job nursed by Tammany, and lay bare the designs of the conspirators—and he is fully able to do this—enough honest country Demo- crats will follow Lis lead to defeat Taromany, and insure an honest State admivistrution, But if Mr, Geer has daubed himself with war paint, and, tomahawk in hand, is stealtbily pursuing Mr. Tween for personal reasons only, Whe people will have no sympathy for him shquld he be ambush- ed by Tween’s warriors and eaptured. It is possi- ble that, if Mr. Tweep should offer Mr. Genet a £10,000 office in the place of the one he has lost, we might hear no more war whoops from the Twelfth Ward chieftain, 1 Some of th grocers up town make it a pructice to send presents of wine. aud whiskey on New Year's day tu the domesties of the fumi- lies whom they are accustomed to supply with groceries, No doubt in so doing they are actuated by the kindest motives; but do they consider the mischief they may possibly occasion? In many families there ore both men and women employed who have no fault save the one of be- Re P ing overcome with liquor when they ouce get # taste of it, Their masters and mistresses know their weakness, and carefully guard ‘them against it by keeping the cause of temptation from them. If now the family grocer comes along ond supplies them with the means of tntoxicati it is not to be expected that they should decline it, and the result is most unhappy, In one family we know of all the female domestics became so intoxicated in this way last Saturday as to be ontirely unable to do their work, and may probably lose their places without that kindof a reoommendati which would be most likely to secure them new ones. ‘The practice is a bad oue and should be forbidden by every grocer’s customer, under a peualty of losing their custom. oo The Boston Commercial Chreriele tells on interesting story of a British noblema Lord Burs—who came over to Loston ined in love with one of the young women who serve es assistant librarians in the Public Library of that town, proposed for her to her parents, who are farming people in New Hampshire, to whom he revealed the fact that he was o lord, and was finally accepted and affianeed to the young lady who truly loves Lim, He has now gone to Bug. and to make preparations for the marriage, which is to be solomnized as soon as he gets back. Tnis is a very pretty tale; but a reference to the British Peerage shows that there is no such person as Lord Bure, Thore is a Marquis of Bore, @ young fellow of 22, who is enormously rich, and aimost pious Catholic; but he has not been in this country, and could not have come here incognito, nor is there any other member of the aristocracy who bears the name or title of Bors in any manner, We fear the fuir librarian has been deceived, and has given her young affvc- tious to a mere adventurer, ——- The report from Havana that the Cuban Junta in this city has ordered a cessation of the revolution, isthe most absurd devieo which the Spaniards have yet produced. be Junta here has no control over the revolution, It is simply an agency to atiend to its business in this coun- try, and it docs not attempt to exercise any au: thority in Cuba, Besides, the cause of Cuban in dependence has never been 96 strong as now) not that of thewpantards #0 weak and hopslets. —————— A learned Yale College Professor lectured in the half of the Cooper Union Inst ing before tho Americatt Institute, was the “Corretation of Physical and Forces,” and in the course of his remarks he ventured upon this statement; “Tho heat which is produced by the living body is obviously of the same mature aa heat from any other source; itis recognized by the sane \ostes it may Le applied for tie same purposes. As to origin, it Is evident that sinco potential energy exists’ in the food which enters the body, and 1s there converted into force, a portion of it may be- come the actual cnergy of heat, And since, too, the heat, produced in the body is precisely’ such os would be set free by the combustion of this food Outside of it, it is fair to assume that it thus oril- nates, To thi may be added tho chemfeal argument tint while food capablo of yielding heat by combus- tion is taken juto the body, Its constitnents’are eom- Yeaving i! an sinee oxpdntion atwaga cvotven heat, the Heat, of tho body, must have tts origin tn thd oxydation of the food." * ‘This assertion he supports by another, namely, that the carbon and hydrogen contained im the food daily consumed by a human being wonld, if burned out of the body, produce the samo or a greater quantity of heat as that given out by the body which consumes them, This is a specimen of that kind of reasoning which deservedly brings scientific men into contempt with the public, Undoubtedly, food taken into the sys- tem is oxydized; but to say that vital beat originates in this oxydation iss absurd os to say that love does, When aman gets angry or excited, and his blood boils, Lis face flushes, and his whole frame is on fire, as we say, is that phenomenon the result of the oxydation of car- bon? Is it wot rather the result of spiritual forces acting in and through the body, and only incidentally consuming the earbon aud by drogen contained in it? _____——— WHAT 18 GOING ON 1N WASHINGTON, Contracts for the + Hoar—The State Department ces for the Cabinet. Correspondence of The Sun. Wastinaton, Jan. 1—The speculators in Samana Bay are quite anxious to hurry their Job through the Senate before the subject can be thoroughly discussed or fairly submitted to a vote of the people directly interested. Why this violent haste if the thing be right in itself, aud why this large expenditure of movey without any urgent necessity? By waiting paticntly, all those islands will fall andet our influence or into our possession by asort of natural law, aud without the expenditure of a dollar of the national trea- sure. Certainly there is no immediate urgency for an acquisition so costly, and there ia no im- pending danger that ronders it presently de. rable. It looks very much as if the whole scheme was “put up,” for the last news tells us that the opposition to the sale or surrender of the bay is the only issue between Baez, who made the bargain for his own selfish interest, and Cabral, who heads the bulk of the population against it. The secret of all these hasty and concealed negotiations is that there is a good deal of money in the transfer, which is expected to line somebody's pockets. Mr, Robeson has taken great pains in his re- port to elaborate the economy to be made here after in using sails instead of steam for the navy on foreign stations, He says there will be a vast saving of coal,&o, But he bas also taken very good care to keep silent about the enormous frouds in the contracts for coal for foreign service, made right here under his eyes, with- out advertisement, without inviting bids, and v‘thout competition of any kind whatever, at enormous prices and profits, to corrapt and characterless knaves, who found means to pro- pitiate the necessary influences. These rascali- ties have been brought to his notice repeatedly, and lately, as is stated by Ohio members of Con- gress, by Consul Neal, who has exposed them in most palpable manner, and thus lod to an inquiry by Congross, which is dotormined to correct these abuses by an exposure of all con- cerned, If ever the whole truth gets out, thero will be some shaking of dry bones. Mr. Hoar admires the axiom of Jedurson in regard to office-holders, that ‘‘few die and no resign.” He will hold on to the Attorne eralship in spite of the Senate's virtual reje of his nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court, Believing that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and being a practical philosopher besides, he decliaed to retire from one place until assured of the other. He kuow that trouble was in store for him, and he was not disappointed, According to the testimony of the ornamental Sumner, no such sceue as that wit. nessed on the occasion of Hoar’s rejection “ever disgraced the Senate in the worst days of slavery rale It was so bad, indeed, that he refused to ride home in the street cars with those who had perpetrated the outrage of not heeding his pre- pared speech, which recited the griefs in South Carolina of Mr, Hoar’s father, and repeated much stale rhetoric about “ freedom"? that the Senate could not digest. It was a hard blow for the maguificent Sumner and for poor Massachusetts to be treated so cavalierly in the house of their friends; but it was necessary to make both eat a little humble pie, in order toreduce the swagger of exorbitant pretension. If Mr. Hoar persists in “defying” the Senate, as it is now called, perhaps he may be left out in the cold without any pay, for the benefit of the plerdid Sumner, who initiated that statesmanlike precedent for punishing freedom of speech and difference of opinion, It would be amusing to see the engi- neer hoist with his own petard, The comprehensive intellect of the sagacious Mr. Fish bas lately been exorcised in regulating the State Department upon the b ofa Yankee cotton factory, where the old employees are now treated like so many operatives, The number of clerks in that modest little Department, as Mr, Seward was wont to call it, is quite limited, and they are, generally speaking, men of standing and merit, who ha 1 to the These gen- the hours of © not been subject vice of change for political reasons. n are now required to note ir coming and going, are forbidden to go from room to another except ou special busin obliged to report every absence from what- ever cause, and to suffer deduction for it, whether sick or well, Printed notices are posted on the doors, excluding all visitors, “without excep- tion," so that the common courtesy heretofore extended under every other administration is arbitrarily and meanly denied to men who fu nish most of whatever brains inay be found in the Department, and who are relied upon as au- thority in every case of need, when Mr. Caleb Cushing and other distinguished men are not em- ployed, with large fees, under the name of coun sel, to write important despatches in the shape of “opinions,” for a Secretary who is not equal to any such task hinself, This shabby treatment of the oflieers of the State Department, which no prodecessor of Mr. Fish would ever have even en- tertained, is consistent with his small dealings in other respects; for the public messengers are often used as household servants, while a carriage is kept up at the public expense for the convenience of the Secretary who thus augments his salary by that charge to the National Treasury, And this is not only true of him, but of all his colleagues in the Cabinet, and of varions heads of Bureaus, who, under specious pretexts, have contrived to maintain equipages for which the Government has to pay. These dignitaries will not consent to walk, or to ride at their own cost, as others have done before, They insist that Uncle Sai shall foot the bills for their display of republican vanity, An investigation will be proposed into the au thority for this extravagance, Sreorsroy, | THE REVOLUTION IN CUBA. @RH CATALAN rane WANT BETTER TREATME: ——— ‘The General Situnti Arrests—A Festival when Arrive-A Fire in Havane—Why the Catalan, Volunteers Deserted. Correspondericé of Tre Sun. Matawnas, Dee, 26.—Nothing ix more diffioult than to arrive at a just estimate of news received In this city from the eastern half of the island, not on account of the great distance that separates us from the seat of war—for it may be sald fighting is going on at our very doors—but truth seems to be contra- band of war, and the embargo plac&d on It by the contending parties is more complete than any block: ade of the ports of Kastern Cuba can be with tho canoneras yot to arrive. Cubans appear more san- guine than ever, Yesterday news reached here of the arrest of several (forty-nine in all) noted men in that elty, some of them rolatives of the Aldema family, Another, Sefior Pacheco, the right hand man for a long time of Don Juan A, Colome, manager of the Alianza Bank in Havana, was until rocentiy looked upon with suspicion even by the Cuban ‘When the offvhoote are so closely trimmed, the pa- rent tronk may suffer therefrom, Among the ar- Tested are those who have made loudest provesta- tions of leattad to Spain. All are to bo sent to the Peninsula to-day by an extra mall steamer to sail from Havana. Tt is eatd the Governor has @ list of 1,000 who lave to follow suit. ‘TAR CATALAN VOLUNTRERS, the Yankees of Spain, as they pride themselves on ‘veing called, are not so tractable a set as the regular troops. Ramor has it they mutinied openly on their Passage hither. At Havana, doy before yesterds: on going aboard coast steamer bound to some ‘point to the eastward, they thought the accommoda- tions were too cramped, and redelied. ‘The result ‘was the officers charged with the transportation pr: men of war in the harbor where rt of the Catalans were roecived, and both vessels left the port forthwith in order to Keep the disorder. ly ones from circulating among the volunteers and y. Reports have reached even to y were ready to shont * Cuba Hbre?* but this must be a libel on the brave natives sariat of the Spanish army fs shock- and the certain want of food on a mer capable of carrsing coméortably 100 to 200 soldiers, and aboard of whieh were crowd ed_ at first 1,20) was probably the true cause of the troubles narrated above, At some pointe in the country garrisoned by Spanish forces, con Rolls for a few cents per pound on account of its ove abundance; in others can be had at 50 cents r ponnd, und so with every staple article of food. Vegetables, that are of eich vaine in preserving the health of an’ army, are never to be had save ue the soldiers buy them. ‘The medical staf i badly organized, the sick and wounded rec little or no attention, THR GUNDOATS are tho theme of conversation here as well as in the capital. The Habaneros are making great prepara. tions for a festival upon their reaching Cuban water Spanish accounts from Cluco Villas report daily sur- renders of partisans with their followers to the au- thoritles, bat hile of whieh is believed by any one, A PInE—ITS RESULT, ‘On Thureday night of this week a fire occurred in ‘ana, and meanwhile the patriots seatiered procla- jons throaghout the eity, of which the following translation: “He always conquers who knows how to die.’ FABANEROS.—The despotic and sanguinary Spanish Governor organizes Spain's hosts to hurl thew against our herolo brothers in the Eastern Department—forty pi is thousand mercenaries of the despots march to over- whelm them. Shall we remaiaquiet? No: let us fy to thi ms rush to arms, to the con nd With cry of ‘liberty or death’ we will prove ¢o the ws wretching our actions what au entire peo- lo who f wr their Independence. eros, ere long we, with our own arms, will ald Dubs from the tyrant’s clutches. "We will 1 ers. Justice and right are on onr side, and the God of victories will iavor our Titanic: ‘The same night in Havana and other éities of the Island over sixty persons were notified to leave for Spain, Only two were allowed to remain, Tum ARRESTED. Mr. Gonzales Alfonzo, an old and highly respectn, die resident of Havana, infirm, and on the brink of the grave, and Mr. Mariano Gobel of that city, for many yeers Superintendent of the water works there, “tn whom none stood higher in the estima tion of hia fellow citizens, ‘ve shoek was too great fOr fm, ub js NOW sick, perdaps on his death bed. ‘he following are the names af the most of those who were sent by yesterday's steam- er Nincente Lonex Menendez, Rafael Ainozara, Ignacio Gonaaicz, Mariano ‘Bard, Francisco Menendez Perez, Gaspar Morales, Diouisio Flerro, Miguel Ferrer. Man: el Garcia Moréno, Nicicanor Urduin, Joaquin Mano, 9 Regueira, Jusio Mazorra, Vedro Consuezen, tmnt: yorberncans, Cat fra, Adolto , Silvio ® Maximo da Bouchet, Luis de la Ca’le, Lorenzo Jimenes de Cito edia, Marcos Brant Mamirez, Camilo Kamire: As the steamer on her way out of the barbor passed the wharf, a party of Loe Leeras danced shouted @ derisive farewell to th Auother lo ‘be sent on the steamer of the 27th, aud stili on the d0th, and yet the end Ie not. day Morning a Cuban, Don Telio Lamar, euon, rt martial, for ‘having as assisted Lis having a deposit of arms, powder, and other war material at a farm not distant irom the eity. Spanish officers returned at of war do k eno! lost, owing—if ¢ y vay the troops are bad); worse clothed, have poor medical attendance such a want of cleanliness © various furms—vomito, emall-pox, dysente in their cawps, The mortality ts’ estimate daily. —— ABDUCTING A WILLING CAPTIVE. —o—— Col, Ryan avd Col, Cisneros off for Cuba Arme and Muiitions in Abundan ters to Cespedes and Gen. Jordan, On Wednesday morning, Col. sure prised by a Cuban commander, captured, and ear ried to sea, Long before daybreak tiat morning, Col. Xavier Cleveros, the euccessful hero of tho Cuban blockade runners Perit and Sstvador, siarted from the pier on the East River where the steam yacht Anna was moored, and ina clsely-shut coach rolled up Fulton street and Broadway to Amity. Turning down Amity, the closely-mumed co; ny Drought bis horses to a short stop hefore one of the Amity street boarding how Col. Cisneros alighted, and hastily ascending the few steps from the strect to the front door, gave the bell a series of rings, which brought the proprietor en déehadilté to the door, To the astonishment of the host, Col. Cisneros, merely mentioning the name ot Col, Ryan, sprang to the frst floor above and knocked heavily at the door of the Colonel's room, Col, Ryan flony- dere? out of his hed to open his door, and on seeing his visitor, reated himself on the bedside, Col Cisneros, who i¢ noted for his Isconte Ianguage and expeditions way of doing business, spoke first, Con, Crewenos—Col, Ryan, you have bad a d T believe, and a strong one, to go to Cuba a my countrymen, Cox, Rraw—Yes str, and Colonel, Lam determined to €o, sooner or later. Con, Crexenos—How long would you wish notice given you to be ready to sail for Cuba ? » R¥AN-Just five minutes, There are my va- lise, my pair of rifles, and my revolvers, all reaay to be tuken up, and I'm ready whenever the opportuui- Cisxenos—I shall soon be able to ta to Cuba, Colonel, but think that I cannot give you more than fifteen uinutes notice when Tam r y. Con, Ryax—That is Just ten minutes more than I rant nL, CIsNRROs—Then get revdy, for my couch is bere waiting for you, e you With this Col. “Ryan dropped himself into his clothes, He took dawn two Cuba flags which bad long hunt in his ro hastily ro them up, and pickiig up v lise, rifles, revolvers, and u'smail bundlo of mi! Looks, opened the door for Col, Cisneros to lead the way out and down the stairs into the street, As they passed the astounded proprietor of the boarding house, Col, Ryan hurriedly pald his board, and has toned down the steps into the coach, Col ‘Cisneros id * Back again’ to the driver, and away they Hed back into Broadway, down the’ qreat tho he fare to the Anna, They ‘were soon on boara and into the cozy eabin of the captain. Bi fore Col, Ryan had time to comprehend the situation, Cul, Ciste- ros addressed him t “Colonel, we Neve you are Kk that lth in your heart, and be- t friend of Cuba, Yet we uam bas led you to make ictons disclosures which u cause. We sail tn four there are four men, armed is und they will stand guard over Jon to pre feating with the shore, If you otly. wilting to subiolt to this you can go to Cuba. If you refuse to submit, you can ‘k and ashore,” . Ryan said | on uny terms, and) ho fel sure that, he was so p nished ut his vo1 luck, if he shouldgo asuore, he would tell the “tin he met whom Le knew that he Was wil for Cuba, nard, for ros lett him, He took bi: 0 Sk Bust coach again, wollth sHeaty non fine he it ye cab Mey UbUrhoods, revolvers are thus placed on board ind with them 6,000 muskets which had during the night. Col. Cisneros thon oP, East Thirteenth street, to visit the mem- ot ay Junta and receive their despatches in lea, nailed ati) A. M. That she will reach of destination all who know Col. Cisneros’ will believe, Col. Ryan is to have a Briga- file cuban friends nthe secret had prepared letters is Cuban friends in the secret had prepa for him to give to Preside ‘and Gen, Jor- don. They were given him after the Anna was out at sea, The Wheeling Girl who shot her Lover. ‘vom "heeling (W. Va.) pater, BI. wiihlam’ ReSaab,'a neil feeder th the. Kivor- fide Mil!, has for a long time kept company with Miss Matte Batham, and it has becn thought they ‘were (0 be married. During the past eommer they Were formal); engaged. Believing in him, and jm- ng is iyord, she trusted Min too fxr. when iikely to become a {PM Hl Gh wittnan ftenoeeer hk manfed thi ent a 1¢ her, it would seom, last Tharaday her {hat ‘if she intended to do a thing sho must do it quick, for he would be marriod to another gitl in « few days.” Maddened by her condition and his threatened desertion, she doter- tined to compel him to keep his faith with her or to take such revenge as she was capable of, On Mon- ight, a8 wo have anid, she went to his boarding house about st time, and demanded that he should tell her whether he would mar: ls refused to,gtve her the teast ea ised to Fy. er an answer after supper. went near her. Yestervay morning she went to the wartrobe in her uncle's room, and took from it # Coit's revolver. ‘Tuna armed, she wont to McNush's boarding-houso and called for him, He was enting his dinner. Sha was inthe back yard, ana when he came outshe demanded an explanation of his conduct. He re. Med tauntingly, when, she drew the revolver and red, the ball passing Into his Nn shout two inches to the right of the navel. ones the pistol and attempted to tarn it on her, but eh successfully resisted him, and the boarders rusting out took the weapon from them. So soon as sho got away from the scene of the encounter, she went to Squire Cloban's office snd surrendered hersell, A thorough Investigation into tho facts led the Jus- tice to holt her tn 3 ‘Miss Batham i an orphan snd ‘s rather loox- ‘and was Iaboring under ing, about 19 years of Front mental exettoment at the time of the cxamina- t een acquainted with n. She told us thal hor seducer since chil that ever rince he had told her he was engaged to be married to an- other, she had made up ter mind that he must keep his word with her or take the consequences. When the Justice determined to hold her to bail, #0 erent was the feeling in her behalf that she could have €iven security in the sum of a milion dotiars hud it eon necersary. $$ low n Wife Mn From th irtford (Conn.) Times, Dec. M. Martin McGuire, who cut his wife's throat on the 22d of last August, committed suicide last night bj hanging himsctt in bie cell in the county Jail.” Hte ha obtained some hemp, which some of the prisoners are employed upon, also a piece of rope, some waxed twine anda bit of ‘a broom handle, With the hemp he made a three-strand rope, twisting It very firmly together and splicing one énd of it a0 as to form m Joop ; in this loop he fixed the bit of rope, which he formed into : this allowed the hemp rope to slide easily. er end of the rope was also spliced with a smaller loop, by which it was at tached to the broom handle. ‘To make the rope stronger, he bound it with waxed twine; the Bd and noose thus made were also firmly bound to the broom handle with the same waxed threads, Then with bits of wood he fixed the broom handle with the rope attached {ito @ small ventilator in the back of the cell. This opening is only the size of the end ofa brick, and the broom handle was firmly wedi into it, MeGuire then, standing on his water must have fasteved the noose around his neck, kicking away the bucket, hung suspended, wit! day aij ‘her or not. jon, but pro- jo never feet about six inches from the cell floor. On the floor by the side of the body was hirt sleeve, twisted and tied into knots, which oanly bound round the fect, and had slipped off. He was partially undressed, ‘his shoes and stockings and pee belng of, He apparentiy died without a strug: gle. et Mr. Pomeroy's Pony Express Wagons. Prom the Concord (N. H) Patriot. Abbot & Downing are finishing some carriages Which are well worthy of mention, both as of being of substant make and elegant adornment. Among them is a pair of covered pony express Wagons for Brick Pomeroy, which will cost, deliveres out $350 each. Tho running work is red and the bodies white and bine, with ornamental panels, gold «1 ing and lettering, the latter shaded with red. the panel bene: the seat is a shield bearin, national colors, in front of which lie. a ewor in the and fon loked tozether with a wreath. On seroll be; low js the motto, “Either for my couuir, Tn the bi und is the sun bearing the word * De- moeracy.” “The upper panel on each side has a pic- ture of ten figures, representing a workshop sceno, One man is sitting’on a bench reading a Democrat and others are looking over his shoulder aud listen- ing. A newshoy Is coing on through the snop and men are seen laying aside work, bunting for money and reaching for papers. A post rider is dashing by at fall speed. ‘The scenes, especially tho faces, are finely executed, and it is well worth the trouble of the walk to see such fine apecimens of our erafs- ‘n's handiwork. On thelower panel are the words ew York Democrat,” and {a the rear '* Pomerou's Democrat." _ pat cist ‘The Runaway New York Gils, From the St, Louts Democrat, Dec. 2 The three young girls who cane here from } York, and were rescued by the Police from dens of have found atemporary home more suitable . in which they had been domiciled Officer Digas, who oMici: t the aving learned t no of the girls had a sister at one of the Catholic institutions of charity, made it his business to hunt up the lady, and yesterd; found her in the St. Joseph Orptian ‘Asylum. The lady, accompanied by the Superior of the asylum, at once visited the calaboose, and finding that the girl was her sister, whom she had not seen for many years, it was agreed thet the three girls should be taken to the asylum, and there properly taken care of until the arrival of their friends from New York. They were glad to get away from the calaboose, wNere they bad been compelled to listen, right and day, tothe obscene blasphemies of the drunken wretches of both sexes who occupied the wo of these cirls will retygm to New York, the third says she will rematn bere. a AMUSEMENTS. bier analy At the Cireus “Cindrella”” has proved suffictent- ly attraciive to be continued daring the present week. At Wood's, the blondes hold their own. The programme is varied by the production te tev of the hew fairy extravaynuza, “ Without a Name, The Lingards, by reason of their little matri- monial difficulty, now, we trust, bappily healed, ecome more than ever attractive, and with istance of Mr, and M Howard Paul, draw ge numbers to the Grand ‘Opera House. Miss Dunning failed to appear at the Saturd but Is announced for this evening, Mr. Wallack has in preparation Roberison’s Be ty mosaic of sentiment and war, * Ours,” and hind that in remoter prospect Boucicault's latest sousation, "Lost at Sea.” ‘This evemng © Wild Oats” will be given, and during the remainder of the ek the other plays that have recently had so. success at this hons esting," * Central Park,” and “lhe School for Scandal,” In spite of @ rainy week and the counter at- traction of the thoatre, the magical Hermann has hud vory large houses at the Academy, His lecerdemain is #o skillful as to reverse the old proverb th * gee- ing is believing,” for ifit were, certainly we might conclude that the age of miracles was wot past, In addition to Mr. Hermann's own performances, the gotertainment will be varied by the singing of Madame Hermann, ao accomplished vocalist, This week being the anniversary week of Tam- many, an extraordinary bill is presented. “ Bad Dickey" will still bold the boards, and the Allen, Petiengill, Delehanty, ond Mengler vl Fah no ang Ung a8 « Den d'a J fhe Saratoga B sing the The only ‘urdif Giant will also tution, and the #ix miluor theatres will h Avenue, that conscientious and anager, Mr. Daly, ever on the ulet the best thing in’ bis power and to brings ont to-i) "a pity by Mrs. Centlivre, that I adhere in many years, Miss L al comed, Bul, rennniscence of Long Branch, as fresh, we trost, as Ms breezes, and wa sparkling aa ite waves, will be the eve for the vening of the 12th mst, After that comes * Fron Fron," a new play trom Mr. Daly's own pen, At the Olympic, the public will t opportunit; ) 'o greet Mr whom it his few favorites upon ¥ so kindly an interest. The play in which his reappearance t# ent “The Writiog Wal,” which has certainly a very solomn t sound, and reminds on: of th 1, but erguso the pre that f ne al order need be apres hend ed. Mr, Fox, itis said, has a wew pantomime ip hand, ise of many new the wa, On sis tobe Booth is support Mr. Hamilton ay the een, and Miss De Bar as Ophelia, Meautine to: , 1 also on Saturday ev ned, vieasant musical drama, All be performed, . preparations are being made for Mr. chter's appearance, which takes place heat Monday, In Ruy Blas.’*’ This gentleman isa dramatic polvglot, “He eau play with equal facility in eneh, English, or German, Indeed, bis first suc- conses Were wade upon the French stage in the charucter of Armand Duval. in “La Dame aux melhor, Known here as * Camill ater, in ngland, he achieved even greater’ renown’ tn “ Hurlev? and Ruy Blas.” His talent is versatile, anc he ts equally excellent im the fiercely passionate * Corsican Hrothers,” ag in the singother and more sentimental aud polished hero of the * Lady of Lyons. Feentor will be supported by Miss Char- Jotte Leclerq—a lady said to possess much abitity as an etress, and with whom he was aceustomed te ply te butidon. During the present wee, * Little jan'ly."” which has proved @ most attractive aud admirable play, will be given, SUNBERAMS. +. ‘ = Queen Victoria has sixteen grandchildren, \ —Five thousand consumptive patients resort to: Minnesota every year. ’ —Sir Henry Bulwer has nearly completed his life of Lord Palmerston. 1 —The Daniel Webster farm and homestead in Franklin, N. H., has been 8014 for $15,000. ‘ — The Hidden Hand ” is n popular play with ‘Western gamoters. Tt gontams the throe misting Jacks. —They call the girls in the Treasury Depart- ‘or theets of postal currency “Revenue —The cotton crop of Texas this year will bo not much leas than 900,000 bates. Iminigration is pour Ang into the State, —The Ruasian Government is talking of build- ing @ railroad through Siberia to China, Ite length 10 Asta will bes thousand miles. —It is estimated that 6,611 new buildings were erected in Phitadetphia last yeur, of which ali but «pout two hundred were dwettngs. Some of the Pennsylvania of! wells, like somo of the unhappy " interviewed," have been pumped til they aro nearly exhansted, —Barham's ‘ Ingoldsby Legends” has proved onefof the mort paying books ever published. Withfn tho last quarter of a centary one or more editions have: been printed annually, and the demand 1s still unsop- Died. —Aps a result of the tournament held in Petors- dure, Va. on Priaay last, two valuatite horses were #0 badly injured that they bad to be killed, one negro girl had @ leg broken, and anuther was nearly killed by be- ing ran over, , --A suit has been brought in the United States ireult Court in California by Jobn Kiely, Mary Kiely, Ann Wilson, and Ellen Lynch, children of Catharine Broderick, sister of the late Senator Broderick, to re- cover porsession of his estate. They contend that tie will ander which his property passed away from his hetrs was forced. —A New Haven paper enys: ‘Not a ponnd of {ce has yet been gathered by the Hartford Ice Company, thongh, usnally, considerable has been housed in De- cember, fame here. The oldest inhabitants eannot re- call euch Unreasonable weather. There is no frovt in the ground, in this section. We saw a man yesterday (0b) digaing post boles for a feuce. 5 —It transpires that the recent virtnous iit of Bonth Carolina directing ayment of the Interest on ite bonds in gold, was prompted by the fact that they ‘were held by half a dozen persons, who bought them up ata low rate, and then lobbied the Legisiatare into # return to specie payments. Prominent State officia’ Including the Governor, are accusea of constituting tha Uttle Ring. —A fow nights since the Clerk of the Court at Madison, Il, discoverod that a vagrant had taken np+ bis quarters in the building, and finding the tempera: ture rather cold, the Aisrespectfnl vagabond had mato. O great fire in the stove, his Mol being the recoris of the tribunal! Ho had already conenmed a large num. ber of volumes, and was, when arrested in his mad career, consianing to the devouring element te records of the term. i —A correspondent of Calcutta paper makes a! curious ruegestion to tobacco amokers, Alludiug to (+ alleged discovery, by & Parisian chemist, th: to nicotine, he ly entered into my head to try how come of it drtoa4 wouldsmoke. To my great satisfaction [ found that, when pnt into my pipe, after a couple of days’ drying in the sun, it had all the flavor of the best Cavendiu without the treacle, and tt was even stronger than Cay. endish.” ‘ —Mrs, Abraham Lincoln is living in Frankfort: on-the-Main, and the story of her intended marriage is denied by ® correspondent of the New York Times. wha adds; “She oeeupics a emal! apartment in the imum inte netzhborhood of the boarding school attendod her youngest son, Tad. She Ives in the humblest styie, does not mingle in society, wears mourning up to tha Present day, receives no gentle nen visitors, hy ever resided in Grand Duchy of Baden, nor been at ot bear the Baden Court, and {* entirely unacquainted ‘with the Connt with whom her name bas been coupled." —Crosssing the Boulevards of Paris is rep sented as dangeroue business. Carriages, butchers’ yan and laundry carts rattle wlong in such profusion, and at such a pace, that knook-downs of foot passengers aro of frequent occurrence. Incase of a collision, or of runover, the vehicle never stops to ascertain damares, Dut goes abend pursned by the police. Their ai +e being obtained, the Injured putgin his claim for dan: Ages, and an Accidental Assur Company pays tho bill. The Company guarantess drivers immunity frou the consequences of reckless driving, and furnishes 8 value for the sufferers (rom it. AMG ite” marriage rotation tn the Weat widow married a few months ago. Upon elght or ten weeks’ trial she informed her husband he didi suit, and he left unconcernedly, as u hired band not longes wanted, More lately another left upon a like Fis: tion from his better half, only he snivei @ situation, And stil more recently, another said ta would leave ff his wife would rates him seven dotiars 4 And thereupon she mortgaged her cook-stove for the money. He had tos sign the mortgege with her ta make it valid. She then handed Lim the money aud lett." —The young ladies of Tipton, Ind., rece met in council and passed the following resol.cons; * Whereas, we mean business ; therefore, be it rese dy that we wil! not accompany any youn or other place of amusement who uses tobacco in wiyt manner; and resolved, that we discard al! younz men who play billiards, euchre, or poker ; and resolved, that young men who indulge tn profane language nee net apply; and resolved, that we wit! not, by "hook, ‘ook, or crook,’ notice any young man who indulges in Jaxer beer or whiskey; and resolved, that we will not hai bor young men known to keep late hour man to ehirty —A French paper gives the following account of the origin of the expression “to make a evr o flasco.@ A German one day, seeing a glassblower ut | 4 cecupation, thought nothing conid be eur 4 al blowing id that he could soon do it 6 weil other, He accordingly commenced operations by } ing vigorously, but could only produce a sort of shaped balloon or little flask (Hasco). The eec tempt hed o similar result, ad £0 until farce e flaseo bad been made. Hence arose the expir a which we not uofrequently have occasion to nse whoo deserting the result of our private and public cy very pre‘ty girl of eighteen,” says the Journal de Rone md to the Central Commissar Fy of Folice at Lille, a few days back, for leave te Traupmaua in his prison. ‘What have you got to him?" asked the functionary, ‘Sir, the matic: very simple,’ she replied ; ‘he ts alone and requires cua musement, If I went and stayed with thn forte time he still has to live, he could leave me ns ‘The astounded ma, ene deavored to make the young woman under’ ho impropriety and immorality of her suggestion. 2 did not see tho case in that light, and simply rox ‘Dut. six, bis money will be los, anu he alone!" —Pamela, daughter of the unfortunate Lor ward Fitzgerald, the Ir fot of Trelandatan advanced age. Hor 1 moue “Pamela,” was the rep ghter of de Gentts and the Duke of Orleans (ra ite). Mi denial of the story Is not credited. Va companton of the 8 olilren: an with Lord Fé f int though, after lis tragic death, #he marr rican Covent at Hamburg, bet ‘ were soon divorced, Her dan hier the widow of Sir Guy Campyel!, avd aloy cowplished woman, —A now method of rondering we ’ Waterproof consists In tmunicrsing them ray , Dath of suly 1 Of About 1.4) Lo Lasepec ty, atat Fhe » exposed f ' passed humed very cold w . wards thoron, The weld prodn When regularly distributed by subsequent ho und calendering, greatly uereases the etreagtl fabric and renders it waterproof —In Paris there resides an clderly lad Passos for a ¢ Sne ma ery ha living by giving charactors to servants reqr ployment. When Indies visit her to inquire ’ antecedents of @ domestic, wey tod wa ¢ ‘ Aressed lady, who has the happy facalty off fg the person inquired about, and she : Aught but good of them. ‘This nove! m . living by supplying reputations to girls wlio hay . has been discovered, and th ( . Jured. The girls employed count of hor testhniony ns to thels capacity a perc f Hele Wages, —French journalists at last have a ¢ $ thelr own tn the static; but they ha 0 fight fort over since Napoleow bauisted then 0% coup de pied When he Wad Dnished jis coup a od 1859 they have indeed boon admitted to the Hl ‘ under disagrevable restrictions, Co es #0 good a8 to set aside every day sixte . mission for Jourua ud M, Schneider gave x four, At last Lue press has elbowed it6 way tout 0% which, however, fs by no meaus the best tn” th ‘ althongh no sensihie man con ¢ ° the best. Ont of the tirtystx Jouruali . find seats, only twelve ean see What Ie g& 4 @pb streichiug thelr necks till they look ce geo 4 twisting their spines Ul they alm m. Treaineab Of the pros is uot one of those thiugs which are Mi ‘axed Letier In Franca” } r d v ay