The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1868, Page 6

a ey 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR = Volume XXXIII.......+:+++++ ceeeesseee N@s 327 pcan RoR RRRRR RARE acts RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. ANTHON MEMORIAL CHURCH.—Ray. Taomas A. Jaeaen. Morning and evening. KER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.— ar oat ‘K. Luz. Morning and evening, HURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR, Thirty-Gfth street.—Rev. J. aw CPutiman. Morning and evening. Hs CHRIST CHURCH.—Rrv. De. F.C. Ewes, Morning and evening. CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Rav. Dz. Praca, ‘Morning and afternoon, CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—Ray. Axsorr Browm. Morning and afternoon. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY.—Ruv. Dz. G. F. KuOBEL, Morning and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SPiRiTUALISTS. Mus. NELLIB BRIG- Mam. Morning and evening. FORTIETH STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rev. @. BE. ANNAN, Morning and evening. FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Rv. Da. BOTT. Morning and evening. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—Rev. East- BURN BENJAMIN. Morning and evening. FOURTH AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—SUN- Dax SOHOOL ADDRESSES. Evening. 8T. JOHN’S CHAPEL.—Morning and afternoon, ST. ANN'S FREE CHURCH.—Ruv. De. FoRpeEs. Morning. SEVENTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Morning—REv. 7. M. Dawson. Evening—Rev. THOS. STREET. TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. Dr. J. STAMFORD HOLME. Morning and evening. TEMPLE HALL, 229 Bowery.—SPrRITUALIsmM. Morning and evening. UNIVERSITY—Wasbington square.—BisuoP SNow. Af- ternoon. he did not wish to have the Church brought into con- nection with any political party. A fire occurred in Lowell, Mass., yesterday morn- ing, which destroyed two buildings. Three men, lodging in the upper rooms of one of the buildings, lost their lives by suffocation. William H. Varswell, of Oneida county, convicted of murdering the little chiid, Abbey Elizabeth San- ders, has been sentenced to be hung on the 6th of January next, Before the sentence was pronounced Carswell repeatedly protested his innocence, end accused the witnesses against him of perjury. The Fenian prisoners in the Ottawa, Canada, jail ‘are to be liberated on ball at once. Whalen, con- victed of the assassination of D'Arcy McGee, has been removed from Ottawa to Toronto under 8 writ Of habeas corpus. On the journey he was very vio- lent, indulging in the most profane and reckless re- marks. ‘The financial panic in the Province of New Bruns- wick continues unabated. The notes of the Yar- mouth Bank of Nova Scotia and the Prince Edward Island Bank were both refused yesterday in business circles in St. Jonn. The chances of the St. Stephen Bank and Commercial Bank resuming payment are considered remote. The City. Mayor Hoffman has issued a proclamation earnestly recommending the people of this city to observe Thursday next as a day of thanksgiving and praise. At a meeting of a very large number of clergymen and laymen, held at the house of Mr. William E. Dodge, it was resolved that the next meeting of the World’s Alliance of Evangelical Protestantism be held in this city in the autumn of 1869. Commissioner Osborn yesterday discharged Alder- man Repper, who was held ona complaint of deal- ing in false naturalization certificates. He was ar- rested on the affidavits of three persons who had attempted to vote on their certificates. They sald they obtained them from Repper, but the investiga- tion disclosed that they had obtained them from a Person who told them that Repper was engaged in the business. The Superintendent of Public Buildings has made ® raid on some theatrical managers for permitting the aisles and passageways of their houses to be blocked up with camp stools. The case of Faustine Berthillot against H L. Bate- man, in which defendant was sued for $500 cam- ages for assault and battery and false imprisonment, was decided yesterday. It will be remembered that the case was tried before the Marine Court, without TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, November 22, 1868. Europe. ‘The cable reports are dated November 21. ‘The Chinese Embassy was most courteously re- ceived by the Queen at Windsor on Friday. During the lunch Lord Stanley apologized for the opposition evinced towards the mission on its arrival in Eng- land. Lord Stanley has agreed that the commission for the arrangement of the Alabama claims shall sit in ‘Washington. The London 7imes mentions the liberal majority 4m the Parliamentary elections to be 142, to which the Daily News adds three more. Several fresh riots ere reported in Ireland and England. Mr. Gladstone has been nominated for Lancashire by a show of hands. Lord Justice Inglis is chosen Chancellor of the Ed- inburg University. The eruption of Vesuvius is still increasing and threatens the town of San Giorgio. ' Rossini’s funeral was celebrated yesterday in Paris a jury, and Judge Gross reserved his decision. He yesterday gave judgment for Faustine in the sum of $150 and twenty-five dollars allowance. At an adjourned meeting of the Grand Society of United Coopers a strike was ordered to commence to-morrow for a return to the prices formerly paid for “liquor work.” Several employers have already expressed their willingness to comply with the de- mands of the workmen. A mass meeting of journeymen cigar makers was held in City Hall Park yesterday afternoon, to take Measures to secure an increase of wages, the em- ployers having refused to accede to all the demands of the journeymen. An adjourned meeting will be held at Turner Hall, Orchard street, to-morrow night. David Pollock, chief engineer of the steamship Gulf City, lying at pier No. 20 East river, was caught in the machinery of the vessel yesterday afternoon and instantly killed. During the week ending yesterday the following named persons filed voluntary petitions in bank- ruptcy in the United States Court:—Benjamin Frank- Un Fuller, Zachariah ©. Deas, George W. Scollay, Robert S. Schuyler, James M. Wellin, Anthony M. See, George K. Chase, Henry Clay Bucher, Raymond ‘with great pomp. The Navy Department is in receipt of voluminous despatches from Admiral Davis giving full particu- lars of the expedition of the United States steamer ‘Wasp to Paraguay after Minister Washburn. The commander of the Wasp had an interview with President Lopez, in which he expressed his desire to be on friendly terms with the United States, but deplored what he termed the unprincipled conduct of Mr. Washburn. No apprehensions need be enter- tained with regard to the safety of Mr. Bliss and the other member of the American Legation arrested @nd detained by Lopez. Colombia. Colombia 1s as unsettled as ever. No constitu- tionally appointed government has existed there since July last; but the natives have been blessed with two provisional governments, each claiming the right legally to exercise power. The right of doubling the commercial taxes continues to excite the foreign population, and the United States gov- ernment has sent such instructions to its Consul at Panama as wiil enable him to take decided action tn the matter. Cuba. The news from the seat of insurrection, though of @ vague and unsatisfactory character, still shows its growing importance. The insurgents have 12,000 men under arms and hold several important places, They have been supplied with arms from the Bahamas, and claim to be daily re- ceiving reinforcements. Their commanding gen- and principal leaders are said to be Domini- cans, and many Mexicans have cast their fortunes with the revolutionists. The government is evidently alarmed aj the proportions the insurrection has as- sumed, although it professes to have information that all manner of misfortune has already befallen the insurgents, that they are sadly in need of pro- visions, that a disagreement has already broken out mong the leaders in regard to the Presidency, and that as soon as reinforcements arrive from Spain the insurgents wiil be awed into submission. One hun- dred famjies recently left Santiago de Cuba for Jamatoa, dreading an attack from the insurgents, wad wore within four miles of the city. ‘The Revo- lutionary Commiites have Issued a stirring address to the friends of free institutions in all countries, set- ting forth the evils which Cuba has ever labored under as a dependency upon Spain, and showing that the happiness and prosperity of the island re- quire a separation. Hayti. President Salnave returned to Port au Prince on Friday with his two men-of-war, He put in at Gon- aives, which place, as well as Cape Hayt‘en, is pro- visionless and the people suftering much. The reb- els are concentrating around Gonaives and expect to attack the place in a few days. The crew of the man- of-war Saluave are all Americans and protested against that vessel being transferred to the Haytien government before they were discharged, more so because she opened fre on the town of Jeremie while they were on board. Miscellaneous. | General Grant and family returned to Washington | last night by the regular passenger train. At every station along the road he was received by the people | with the wildest enthusiasm. General Grant ex- | presses himself highly gratified with his trip to West | Pot, not @ single circumstance having occurred to | mar the pleasure of the excursion. President Johnson has appointed J. Whitehead | Byron, of Buffalo, late colonel of the Bighty-eighth | regiment, New York State Volunteers, in the late civil war, Brigadier General in the United States Army. General Byron is a prominent member of the Edgerton, William R. Hodges, David Minserheimer, John Simmons, Jr., and Charles 0. West, all of this ity. te wills of the following named persons, de- ceased, were admitted to probate during the past week by Surrogate Tucker:—Olivia G. Hooker, Robert H. Maclay, Mary J. Carroll, Richard F. Ryer, Catharine Leech, John B. Ferdon, Jacob Steinbach, Frederic Bronsqp, Catharine A. Duncan, Margaret Carlin, Patrick Donnello, Christian G. Gunther, John McVickar, Charles H. Leonard, Mary Keller, Matthias Alster. The stock market yesterday was steady in the main, but dull, Erie declined to 404%. Gold was quiet and weak, selling after the board at 13444. Almost all of the markets yesterday were charac- terized by extreme dulness. Coffee was in im- proved demand, and the better grades were a shade higher. Cotton was in passably active demand, and 4c. @ 3c. per Ib. higher, middling upland closing at 4%. On ’Change flour was dull and irregular, though full prices were demanded. Wheat was less active, but without decided change in value. Corn was slow of sale and easier, closing at $1 12 $1 13 for mixed Western in store. Oats were in fair request, but a shade lower. Pork was dull and nominal, while beef and lard were quiet, but un- changed in Value. Petroleum—Refined continued in active speculative demand, and prices were de- cidedly higher, closing very firm at about 36c. here and 82c. in Philadelphia. Crude in bulk was firm at lic. on the spot, and 163/c. a 164¢c. for December de- livery. Naval stores, though quiet, were frm. Whiskey was in moderate demand and firm, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor J, B. Page, of Vermont, and R. R. Sloane, of Ohio, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General G, 8, Dodge, United States Consul to Bre- men; Captain W. H. Smith, of New Haven; Charles S. Lester, of Saratoga, and L. H. Herschfleld, of Montana, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel W. H. Gaige, of the United States army; Cc. F. Sise, United States Consul to the Sandwich Islands, and D. C. Hall, of Boston, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Major L. 8. Webb, of Cleveland, Ohio, is St. Julien Hotel. Dr. Carey, of Buffalo, and John S. Worden, of the United States Army, are at the New York Hotel, Dr. J. Higgins, of Maryland; C. W. Preston, of the United States Army, and A.D. Peck, of Cincinnati, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. at the The Erle Ratirond Frauds. Within the past few days we have seen the most gigantic swindling operations carried on in Wall street that have as yet disgraced our finan- cial centre. A great railway—one of the two that connect the West with the Atlantic sea- board—has been tossed about like a football, its real stockholders have seen their property abused by men to whom they have entrusted its interests, and who, in the betrayal of that trust, have committed crimes which in paral- lel cases on ao smaller scale would have deservedly sent them to Sing Sing. If these parties go unwhipped of justice, then are we doing injustice in confining criminals in our State prisons for smaller crimes. To such a disgusting degree of depravity do we see these stock operations carried that members of the Church of high standing offer, when “cornered,” to betray their brother “pals,” and, in their forgetfulness of the morality to which they sanctimoniously listen Fenian Brotherhood. Secretary Browning administers a rebuke to the oMicers tn bis department that they should have so far forgotten the respect due to the President and to Congress as to permit their reports to go to the pub- lic even before the report of the Secretary has been | completed. The amount of fractional currency received at the United States Treasury from the Printing Bureau during the last week was $561,982, Fractional cur- rency redeemed and destroyed during the week, $600,300. ‘The abstract of the quarterly report of the National Banking Association shows that on the first Monday of October last the aggregate amount of their liabili- ties was $1,688,967,507, @ud resources of @ like amount. ‘The offictal vote of the State of Ohio stands 290,222 for Grant and 230,082 for Seymour, Grant's majority fs 41,190, Bishop Duggan, of Tilinois, has refused to permit requiem mass to be celebrated in the Chicago churches for the repose of parties executed in Man- chester, England, for participation in Fenian riot. [ne Bishop grounds bis refusal on the Principle thay every Sunday, state that “all they care about is to look out for number one.” A manager of a great corporation is requested t6 issue bonds of his company without authority, offer- | ing “to buy the bonds if you are caught, or | buy the bonds with the understanding not to pay for them unless you are caught.” This | attempted fiscal operation, however, did not work, and resulted in a good proof of the old adage that it requires “a rogue to catch a rogue.” Arrailroad treasurer boldly states that he has without authority over issued stock of the company to a large amount, He offers it toa broker for sale, with the understanding that all received overa fixed value is to go into his (the treasurer's) pocket. From the fact that this man is not arrested for malad- ministration of the company’s property we judgo this to be @ legitimate operation, and that this may hereafter serve as a model or standard of morals to all presi- dents, directors, treasurers and managers of railway and other grat corporations. It is evident that the world has made a great mistake on the question of morals, and that as we progress in civilization with our modern Wall street system of ethics we shall be able to have a new and more exact translation of the Bible—Wall street edition—for the benefit of stock gamblers and stock thieves of all de- scriptions. Upon the’ great. banking house facing Wall street we will have in letters of gold upon green-back-ground the following commandments :— donations to the Church shall enter the Bivqgorn of his ings to shall be opened the doors of heaven, while to him who confines modest pecuiations ae t ily | for in ir FO) ion to the magni- tude of Bi shalt jou prosper regpectala fre oe gery wane on for as ye steal 80 8] re show your fitneas for the high places in the land: o shall ye be invited to exercise your talents in the nume- ay | pegs oe frase and profit thereby; so shall ye glory to the government of your fathers, and your days shall be long in the 4. Steal largely! for by thy stealings shalt thou create a new morality; and so shalt thou build up a great people who prosper beyond all other nations. This is the new code we offer—a code taught to us by the times and by the facts that assail us. When we see an “honest” Judge “Iago” rise from his bed at midnight to pander to the con- temptible rascality of stock thieves we have but little hope for even what we dignify by the name of law. When we see our churches allowing a host of gamblers to gather for false worship at their shrines and. pander to them, that they may share their plunder for the “benefit of the Lord,” we have still less hope in our future. When we see great criminals respected and lesser criminals imprisoned we believe that the American mind is sadly out of @ proper moral pathway. The operations now carried on in Wall street, be they of Erie Railway or any other stock, or of gold, call for the interference of some power sufficient tocrush them. If the city or the State is powerless let the general government take the matter in hand for the general good. Take gold, for example. There are not over two millions of the solid coin used as a basis for the operations which in a single month representa sum twice the amount of our national debt. The harpies who gather around the Gold Room in their mad shoutings are at the same time shouting ‘‘Death to the republic!” They unsettle all values, and are, asa mass, a public calamity, and should be dealt with as such. As with gold, so with stocks, and no nation can long afford to let its future hang upon the will of a mass of unprincipled men who daily bleed its prusper- ity beyond all calculation. The Burlingame Embassy Before the Queen of England. A special despatch by cable last night puts us in possession of the important fact that Mr. Burlingame and his colleagues who com- prise the Embassy from China were officially presented to the Queen at Windsor Castle, by Lord Stanley, on Friday afternoon. The reception was, of course, most cordial on the part of her Majesty, and the courtesies so well befitting the occasion were doubtless appre- ciated by the children of the sun and cousins of the moon as well as by our polished fellow countryman, Anson Burlingame. Probably the contrast between their reception at the first court in Europe to which they have pre- sented themselves and their unostentatious welcome to the White House at Washington may have suggested itself to the celestial mind of the Chinese officials, but being men possessing some force of character and no little quickness of observation our American simplicity may not have suffered in their esti- mation by the comparison. Mr. Burlingame, in presenting his letters from the Emperor of China, took occasion very gracefully to unite his identity as citizen of the United States with that of his Celestial Majesty’s Ambassador by thanking the Queen for her ‘‘well known friendship” to this coun- try. The Queen in her remarks said that she believed the Burlingame mission to be ‘“‘a step in the right direction,” If these words meant that the Embassy could be controlled in the interest of the designs of England upon the empires of China and Japan on the same prin- ciple that Hindostan was subjugated, perhaps her Majesty's prompter was right. In asubse- quent speech, while the party was enjoying the hospitalities of Windsor Castle, Lord Stan- ley undertook to apologize to Mr. Burlingame for the naughty things which the British press had said about his mission before his arrival, which he attributed entirely to ignorance, (very complimentary to the intelligence of the Times and other leading papers). Continuing his impromptu address, Lord Stanley abso- lutely overwhelmed Mr. Burlingame with com- pliments. He styled him the true type of a representative of America, endorsed his dig- nified course, and cordially patronized him for his good conduct since he became a Chinese Ambassador. Mr. Burlingame will have to take care that he is not led into the tracks of Reverdy Johnson. Soft words sometimes do “butter parsnips.” land, A Gracefal Concession. According to our cable despatches of last night Lord Stanley has consented that the commission for the settlement of the Alabama claims shall meet in Washington, and not in London, as originally suggested. It makes very little difference where the commission sit if they settle the question in th y way | in which the decision can bo ace table to us—namely, to award us our bill ot damages | right off. It is not of much consequence, after all, how the commission may decide, because | we have the remedy in our own hands, It lies on our northern frontier. We can remu- noerate ourselves for all the losses imposed on us by the British pirate vessels in twenty-four hours’ time by ing the whole British prov- inces, which we can make so profitable that ve Alabama claims will sink into insignificance on the balance sheet. However, we are not disposed to quarrel with the condescension of the British Minister in permitting the proposed commission to meet in Washington, provided any commission meets at all, which we cousider wholly unnecessary. The Alabama question is a very clear one, and its set- tlement is the simplest thing in the world, We present our bill, England pays it, or if she does not then we pay ourselves in our own way. That is the whole of it, and the matter is ended, Mr. Johnson and apparently Mr. Seward have run their heads into the meshes of a commission and a royal umpire, but we do not see any necessity tor either one or the other. We are as competent judges of international law as the King of Prussia, and we can foot up our little bill better than any board of commissioners that may be ap- pointed, The Woman’s Rights Convention at Bosten. The Woman's Rights Convention, which was held last week at Boston, was largely composed of the same long-haired, eccentric, fanatical persons of both sexes who used to figure conspicuously in the anti-slavery con- ventions before the war. Among those pre- sent were several of the most noted agitators of the abolition movement, including William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. L. Maria Child, Lucy Stone (whose husband’s name is Blackwell), Mrs. Dr. Hunt, Rev. Mr. May, Rev. Mrs. Olympia Brown and other female divines, Mrs. Abby Kelly Foster and her husband, the irrepressible and eloquent Fred Douglass, Hon. Mr. Sewall, Hon, Henry Wilson and “a lunatic named Barnes, who believed that he had the Holy Ghost within him.” But with increasing years and experience some of the maddest of these early agitators have acquired not only a certain method in their madness, but also more practical common sense and more modesty than they formerly manifested. At least two speakers admitted the very patent fact that it is folly to expect every act in the present movement to be done with absolute wisdom or only by saints. ‘‘We must not expect,” said Senator Wilson, ‘‘that everything said or done in this or any other cause should be wisely said or done.” Notwithstanding all the nonsense and exaggeration, the confusion of ideas and the Utopian dreams which char- acterized some of the speeches made at this Woman's Rights Convention, a number of solid facts and forcible arguments were adduced in tavor of woman’s right and duty to vote. Several sensible practical suggestions were offered. Thus some of the more thoughtful and cool-headed speakers deprecated the bitter, antagonistic spirit in which not a few advo- cates of woman’s rights attack and abuse the men, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe declared, ‘‘One of the things that I have always regretted most in the advocacy of the political rights of women has been the unkind things that were said of the other sex. I do not like to hear those things. I do not like to take part in the abuse of my father, grandfather, great-grandfather or uncles. I donot even wish my husband to be “hinted at as a Satan behind the scenes. If we look around in this assembly we shall be con- vinced that the friends of man are the friends of woman.” Rev. Colonel Higginson insisted upon the advantage and propriety of “being charitable to each other,” adding, ‘“‘We must expoot up friends te make gplssakes,” and (perhaps with asly allusion to the lady ol. tors of The Revolution) ‘‘we must expect them sometimes to train in strange company.” Mode- ration in the demands of those now enlisted in the cause was likewise recommended as likely to insure greater ultimate success than ex- orbitant demands. The justice of increasing the wages of work- ing women, and even of graduating payment according to the quality and quantity of work done, irrespective of sex ; the necessity for mul- tiplying the means of procuring an honest live- lihood now open to women; the propriety of placing women on school committees, ‘for which they are admirably adapted ;” the mani- fold evils of which the imperfect education of women is the source ; the hardships to which the legal dependence of married women sub- jects them, particularly in the State of Massa- chusetts ;. the ‘‘self-evident truth that the con- sent of the governed is necessary to good gov- ernment’—a truth which “men don’t recog- -nize,” said Lucy Stone’—the denial of the ballot to women who have come to the age of discretion, who pay taxes, who have not been convicted of crime and who are sane and in- telligent, while it is conferred upon the igno- rant emigrant, and in certain States upon the negro just emancipated from what Mr. Sum- ner styles ‘the barbarism of slavery”—all these points were brought before the Conven- tion and urged with no little eloquence and power. The immediate result of the discussions and deliberations of the Convention was the organ- ization of ‘‘a permanent association for the wise, systematic and efficient advocacy of woman suffrage and its kindred civil and politi- cal rights.” The name bestowed upon it is “The New England Woman Suffrage Associa- tion.” The majority of the audience at the Convention were women, which may partly account for the adoption of the constitution of _the new association, in spite of the arguments of Fred Douglass and Senator Wilson in favor of ‘the more vital importance of negro suf- frage first, for a certainty, and then female suf- frage afterwards, if possible.” One of the resolutions introduced by Rev. Mr. May is a hint to the politicians that although the advo- cates of woman suffrage propose the formation of no new political party, they still confi- dently expect ere long to hold the balance of power, and ‘‘so to use it as to make the en- franchisement of women the most direct path to political preterment.” Young and aspiring American politicians of all parties must now, therefore, study the question of ‘‘woman’s rights,” which in England has secured the advocacy of so profound a philosopher as Mr. Mill and so experienced a statesman as Mr. Gladstone. Tuk Mayorauty Exsorion.—The Mayor- alty contest bids fair to be full of spirit, fun and interest. The fight is to be made against the democratic organization, with the object of breaking down Tammany and thus giving the deathblow to the regular democracy in its stronghold. The Tribune, Times and World are colaborers in this work—the two former openly, and the latter in an underhanded but not less vindictive manner. They are pre- paring to unite upon John Kelly, who has de- serted the democratic organization for the purpose of leading the republican forces in the battle. District Attorney A. Oakey Hall will be the democratic nominee, and will no doubt be elected; but it will be one of the greatest fights we have ever bad over charter elec- tion, a8 the breaking down of the democratic organization at this end of the State would be the deathblow of the party, and is, therefore, stake worth playing for by the republicans, who fecl the loss of power in Now York very | severely. EW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. S$ $$ ee Very Interesting News from Ouba—Pro- reas of the Revolution. By a private letter, dated ‘Havana, Novem- ber 14,” we learn that ‘‘the political situation of the ‘Gem of the Antilles’ has grown wagrse and worse for those who defend antiquities. Six cities besides Bayamo, the seat of the revolutionary government, are in the hands of the revolutionists. The revolt, which has heretofore been limited to the eastern part of the island, has now broken out at Vuelta Abajo, the very place where General Lopez landed with four hundred men in 1851. I think that I am fully authorized to predict one thing—that before many days this revolt of the Vuelta Abajo will be followed by another one, and if this happens the government has not the means to suppress them. The last regiment of regular troops left yesterday for the interior. The government cannot after this send one hundred men more, and they will have to apply to the volunteers in cage reinforcements are needed. Will the volunteers fight for their tyrants? I doubt it. The rebellion is thirty-five days old. The rebels have their own government. In case a commission has been already sent to Washing- ton to ask the recognition of belligerent rights by the United States government will they be granted?” We publish also this morning extracts from El Oubano Libre, the first free and indepen- dent newspaper ever printed in Cuba. It is dated Bayamo, October 27, 1868, at the head- quarters of the revolutionists. By this it is seen that the movement for the liberation of Cuba from the Spanish yoke has taken won- derful proportions for so short a period. It only shows that the island has for years been prepared for the movement which has only been held in abeyance by the bayonets of Spain. Now that the Penin- sula is so involved in its own revolutionary troubles, Spain cannot retain the force in Cuba necessary to its domination. We doubt if another Spanish soldier is ever again sent to the island. The Spanish leaders have too much sense to suppose that they can crush a liberal revolution so general and which rises from grievances so numerous as to challenge the sympathies of every generous nation. Some of the ablest military men of the sur- rounding Spanish American countries are rush- ing to Cuba to offer their services to the liberal cause. We hear of the arrival at Bayamo of General Quesada, a very able soldier, whose wide experience in Mexico fully fits him for the command which he has assumed of the twenty thousand Cuban liberal troops now in the field. The moment has arrived for us to recognize belligerent rights on behalf of the liberal party. They have all the forms of a regularly organized government, publish & government organ, are successful in the field dnd already hold more than one-half the island. No nation in the world can object to such a recognition as we demand. If our government hesitates to do justice to the Cuban patriots and heroes who are boldly struggling for their indepen- dence then do we pander to the interests of monarchy and not of republicanism on our Continent. A Narrew Escape of the Radicale—Wen- dell Philips Looking Ahead. We publish to-day the latest pronuncia- miento of Wendell Phillips on the political situation, and there are some hints in it worthy a careful consideration by the leaders and managers of the republican party. Some of them, Phillips says, ‘‘imagine that the great battle has-been fought;” but he holds that “there has only been a skirmish for position ;” that ‘to-morrow comes the fight;” that “whether to-morrow means the next two years or 1872 no one can tell ;” that ‘in numbers the armies are about equal;” that ‘‘it is most alarming to see that with a mobocrat rebel like Seymour for candidate and a platform dictated by Forrest and Wade Hampton the democratic vote was not three hundred thou- sand less than the republican in a mass of more than four million votes, the republican majority being about six per cent of the whole vote.” In reference to the future the demo- crats, in the opinion of Phillips, being clear of all responsibility in the conduct of affairs, have a great advantage, and if “‘skilfully used it will almost insure a democratic triumph in 1872, as it came near doing this fall.” In these facts and conclusions Phillips is very near the mark of the actual political sit- uation of things. Notwithstanding the great popularity of General Grant on the one side and the obnoxious antecedents, surroundings and platform of Seymour on the other side, the radicals have had a narrow escape. They saved themselves in Pennsylvania by ten thousand in a vote of over half a million, and in Indiana by less than a thousand in those October State elections. Those elections were the’ real fight, and it was very close. The November elections afford no true index of the real strength of the democratic party ; for we doubt not that if the whole vote of this party, North and South, had been polled out in November, and for Seymour, the popular majority of the Union would have been against Grant—small, perhaps, but still against him. In the reconstructed Southern States, in spite of the anti-negro policy generally pur- sued by the Southern democratic leaders, in some cases to downright terrorism, we per- ceive that the democrats have been gaining heavily from the negro vote. In accepting the established condition of things on the basis of the constitutional amendment fourteen we are satisfied that the Southern democracy within the next two years will be able with their gains from the negro vote to carry by decisive majorities every State and nearly every Con- gressman from Virginia to Texas, Thus upon the nucleus of negro suffrage we may expect to see the South a democratic unit in 1872, needing only New York and another Northern State or two to carry the next Presidency. The only remedy against this danger, in the estimation of Phillips, and the only safety for the republicans is in ideas; and the new idea which he urges is a new amendment of the constitution establishing impartial suffrage and equal political rights in all the States alike, re- gardless of race, color or previous condition, He says, indeed, that ‘the constitution will not be perfect till sex also is included in this last enumeration,” which means another amendment, giving to women of all races and colors the right of suffrage. We appre- | hend, however, that the suffrage as now fixed, s | in the constitution will most probably hold for the next four years, and that the greag questions of the national debt, national taxa- tions and government corruptions will be meantime the controlling issues between the Party in and the party out of power. We Predict, too, that unless within the next four, or even within the next two years, Congress shall provide some substantial ways and means of relief to the country, the year 1870 will be marked by the election as an op- position House of Representatives, as the be- ginning of the downfall of the republican party. pee aaa General Grant as a Despot. Some of the newspapers are still discussing the topic of ‘‘General Grant as a despot,” the changes on which were so violently rung during the late Presidential contest, Surely it is time to stop the flood of twaddle that deluged and disgraced the coun- try for months. But if the partisan journals are determined to keep up the fire let them take up sensible subjects of public interest, and by treating them in a statesmanlike and dignified manner heal some of the asperities created during the heat of a spirited campaign. “General Grant asa despot!” Well, if Gen- eral Grant be a despot he has a curious way of showing it. He is the most amiable despot the world ever saw. He exhibited a peculiar degree of despotism on the field as a con- queror and in the magnanimity of his terms to his fallen foe. He displayed it all the way from Fort Donelson to the apple tree of the Appomattox. And after “‘war’s alarums” ceased and he became the nation’s choice for President he presented himself in his charac- ter of a despot by declining all public ovations and ceremonies, closing his ears against the appeals of intriguing, vicious and corrupt poli- ticians—the real tyrants of our country—and, quietly coming to New York, became the autocrat of complimentary breakfast tables, and despotically slashed away at tenderloin steaks and mushrooms, with truffles attached. All the despotism in General Grant’s charac- ter, we believe, may be, summed up in a few words: He has a despotic fondness for hia cigar*and his fast horse. When he enters the White House he may exercise a despotic reso- lution in ferreting out and punishing corrup- tion and in infusing a spirit of integrity and official purity in all the departments of the government. That is the sort of despotism the people have no dread of, and their only regret will be that they were not obliged to bear the infliction at an earlier period. The Telegraph and the Press—A British Precedent for Us. When the question of placing the magnetic telegraph in England under the government came up and was placed in the hands of a par- liamentary committee the public rejoiced at the prospect of the prompt adoption of such a valuable measure. The government seemed at first intent on carrying it out. But the people soon found that it hung in the commit- tee, with a probability of being smothered there. The telegraph monopolies of the king- dom became alarmed for their privileges and brought all their vast influence to bear against the measure, and in this was seen the secret of the inaction of Parliament. Seeing the power of this telegraph monopoly, which could even influence the Parliament of England, the lead- ing newspapers of the country became aroused. They were deeply interested in breaking up the monopoly and having the telegraph under government control, because they and the public generally would get messages cheaper, prompter and more reliable. By bringing their batteries to bear upon Parliament and its com- mittee and by arousing public attention they soon forced the committee to report and Par- liament to adopt the measure. It was the press really that defeated the powerful tele- graph monopoly in England, which will result in giving the people a cheap and reliable sys- tem of telegraphing under the control of gov- ernment. We have here the same difficulty to contend against—a similar unscrupulous and powerful monopoly to overcome. The Western Union Telegraph Company holds much the same position here that the Electric Telegraph held in England, and will use all its influence to prevent a governmental and general system of telegraphs. Two bills have been introduced in Congress on the subject. One is to authorize the Postmaster General to establish a postal telegraph system generally through- out the country. The press and the public should urge upon Congress the prompt adop- tion of a comprehensive plan that will reach every town and considerable village in the republic. The telegraph has become as neces- sary and would be as generally used as the Post Office. It isthe greatest agent of pro- gress and civilization. It should be no longer left in the hands of private individuals or com- panies, but should be controlled by the govern- ment, as the Post Office is, for the good of the public. The Brooklyn Ferry Disaster. The recent terrible Brooklyn ferry disaster is no exception to the invariable rule which seems to decide all similar calamities. Every jury finds—especially after a sufficient post- ponement has been secured to allow time for making up a case—that “nobody is to blame.” In this present case, indeed, the testimony of Mr. Luther Siith, the Superintendent of Pilots—a loud sounding name, because it might seem official, if it was not known that Smith is only superintendent of the ferry pilots, and an employ¢ of the Ferry Company— fixed the responsibillity of the disaster upon “the tides.” But ‘‘the tides” are amenable to no human court. Neither fines nor imprison- ment can be inflicted upon them. The verdict of the jury was that “the death of George Brewer was caused by the collision between the ferryboats Hamilton and Union, said col- lision being the result of the excess of passen- gers on the Hamilton, thereby rendering her ina great measure unmanageable in such & state of tide.” It is true that the ferryboats, like our city omnibuses, aré dangerously aa well as inconveniently overcrowded, and ‘‘the state of tide” at the time of the disaster under consideration was by no means reassuring to the inexperienced and unauthorized substitute for the regular pilot. It appears from the testimony of Mr. Luther Smith, the ‘‘Superin- tendent of Pilots,” that the men who act in the capacity of pilots are not licensed at all, but are omployed by the company upon their own judgment, Here there is a case for the