Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-12-14

New YORK, l4th.

AeuueI acV Is lOOkeQ forward to with
great anxiety. 1t is said the court will
decide the law to be unconstitutional
and that Judge Chase will be alone in his
dissent the effect of such a decision
would be universal.
Gold would be the medium of contracts
and business and greenbacks would be
quoted at their value. The name IF CO.
lector II. A. Smythe Of the port Of Ne
York will probably be sent to the U.k
Senate to-day minister to Russia vi
cassius M. Clay resigned. The report
current in Washington that the presau.
ent and secretary McCulloch have had
rupture about the appointment by Mr..
McCulloch of one of General Schenck'a
friends to apprenticeship within two
days after General Schenck's abuse in
Congress of the president's message, ad-
vices from Maine indicate very general
desire that vice-president Itamlin should
be returned to the Senate for six years
from March 4th next An eminent
Cuban arrived here (New York; by the
last Havana steamer and il stated to
have already enlisted the sympathy and
material aid of many Of our capitalists.
He is very sanguine of the success of the
republican revolutionists in the Island
and predicts that they have ere this
struck terrible blow against the mon
archical system sustained by Capt. Gen.
Leisundi, at the time his leaving large
expeditionary force was momentarily
expected what to land on the south side
of the Island and the arrangements
were SUCH that upon their arrival and
joining with revolutionary armies the
republican in Matanzas and the city
of Havana would rise and proclaim .
republic.
Letters from Sydney dated Nov. End
and Melbourne, Oct. 31st, state that 10
men ahi women hab been kidnapped
from Savage Islanders by Queensland
SLAYER. The British steamer Blanche
had shelled village at Bondora Bay in
the South Sea Islands.
The natives have killed and eaten
the master and crew Of the Barque Mar
tin Kenny. SO skulls were found in the
remains Of hut. The captain and crew
of the schooner Harmon, men in all,
have also been murdered and eaten by
the natives of Hudson's Island.
Cable news-MApRID, Dec. Ia. Gen.
Roda issued the following proclamation
yesterday, to the inhabitants Of Cadis
a resolution melted and fomented by
the enemies of the country, has already
deluged with blood the streets of this
beautiful city. 1t has found no echo In
any other part of the Peninsula. I have
come to suppress this rebellion with the
forces placed at my disposal by your
government. Lay down your arms and
your lives shall be saved. This guar
antee in the name of the government
upon whose clemency you may rely.
Such are the only measures by which
Insurgents escape being treated with in
flexible risor. u.. t.iI.a.4
will grant you till tomorrow at
noon, in order that the old men and the
women and children, and and all citi-
zens peaceably disposed may withdraw
from the town of Cadiz. It will not be
my fault if with the means Of attack
! which the imperious law Of necessity
compels me to employ, there SHOULD
come for Cadiz a day Of mourning and
ruin, shall regret such result from the
bottom of my heart, but shall do my
duty. This proclamation produced q
marked impression on the insurgents.
who sent a delegation accompanied by
= the U. s. Consul, to Gen. Cabellero,
and offered to PLACID their aarms in the
building which he should designate.
Gen. Roda expected to enter Cadiz to-
day, Another Madrid telegram of yes
terday, says civil war is iCaugurated,
q no one can tell wheee it will end.
b 1t is not simply the war of one party
with another. 1t is the war of classes.
i Important news dispatches prepared
at Havana via N. Y. associated presl
have been suppressed by the Cuban au
i thorities. From this 1t 10 inferred thai
! the insurgents ON the Island have now
!. some important success which the au-
+ thorities do not find it expedient to have
published in the U. 8.
= Navigation of the Hudson has closed
as far down as Barrytown some 40 miles
from Albany. yls shI
It is now stated that Commoder,
Meade vas incarcerated in the Insane
Asylum by his own son.
fIH l BOSTON Mass, 14th.
Il The Mayoralty election in this cit,
takes place to-day at IL o'clock. Mosel
Kimball the republican candidate we
=. 99l ahead Of DIR. Shurtleff, Democrati