The New York Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ANTS THIS EVENING. GRAND OPTRA HOUSE, corner ot Bight avenue and ‘Wd strect.—PaTRiz, FRENCH TIEATRE, Fourteenth street pue.—ENGLisit OPERA—PUrITAN's Davai WAVERLEY THEATRE, 24 Broadway.—A G8AND VARieryY ENURRTAINMENT. OLYMIIC THEATRE, UNoun Tom's Canty. WALLACK'S THBATRE TuX ScuooL YOR SCAND. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Ith strect.-HkBMANN, THE PREBTIDIGITATEUR. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 234 Bir Van WINKLE, anit Sixth ave- PR. Broadway.—Tut DRAMA OF Broadway and Itt stroet.— etweea Sth and 6th ava— WOOD'S MUSEUM AND TH’ \way.—Afternoon and eva: TRE, Tairtieth street and Performance, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street..-Tun QorkN OF Sxagts—Tut OLp Woman Tuar Liven in A Suor. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fitth avenues and Twenty. fourth street.—DReaus. NIBLO'S GARDEN, RAt.noad To RUIN. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuk WIZARD OF THE Wave-—Tue MAID WITH THR MILKING Patt. Broadway.—Foruosa; on, THe THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—JocRiscE, THR Juaaer, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Rrooklyn.— Home—A Breacu oF Pro: BRYANTS’ OPERA HOUSE, @.—Bayanis’ MINGTRRIS—NkGRO LooxNT CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 58th and Goth sts,—VOruULAR GaRpen Concent. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO'!SZ, 31 Bowery.—Coxto ‘Vocasism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, tc. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.-BTuro- PLAN MiNSTEELSY, NEGRO ACTS. £0. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn. MINGTRELS—THAT TROUBLESOME Boy, 40. Hoower's GREAT EUROPEAN CIRCUS, Fulton av., between Smith and Hoyt sts., Brooklyn. -GrMNAsTics, EQUESTRIANISM. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOIRNOE AND ABT. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, @0 iway.—FEMALES ONLY (N ATTENDANOZ. TRIPLE SHEET. ‘New York, Wednesday, September 15, 1800. —— THD NEWS. Europe. Our cable telegrams are dated September 14. By epecial telegram from Berlin we learn that the Humboldt centenary festival was celebrated with great pomp and enthusiasm by the people in the Prussian capital, the government and clergy not participating in the féte. General Sickles’ intimation of the probable recog- Mitton of the Cubans as belligerents by the United tates startled the Spaniards amazingly, aud Madrid was alarmed and excited. The funds declined rapidly, touching the lowest point reached during the past sixteen years. A London journal advices Bpain to put an end to the insurrection in Cuba or jell the isiand to the United States. Madrid advises speak of a flect of iron-clads being sent to Cuba in the event af an American recognition, and a Madrid newspaper asserts that Spain will maintain her “dignity” in the matter. Napoleon has given audi- pnce to General Prim. Prince Napoleon has reached Brussels. England, as well as the greater part of the Continent, experienced a very damaging storm Dn the 13th inst. Aid for the Avondale, Pa., suffer- tre is being subscribed in London. Ex-Minister Washburne, from Paraguay, writes to the London journals in condemnation of Lopez's treatment of prisoners. Ireland is excited bya new political agitation. Napoleon’s personal appearance is greatly altered since nis recent iliness. The dificuities of a Regency fre very perplexing to the Emperor, Prince Na- poleon not being in a cordia! understanding with Bugénie on the subject. Miscellancous. ‘The Presidential party was received at Pittsburg yesterday with a grand demonstration on the part Of the citizens. A public recepilon was given at the City Hall. ‘The new constitution of Virginia, just accepted by the people, abrogates all stay laws and pronibits the Legisiature from passing any in future to stay the collection of debts. It is probable that had this been made public during the canvass the debtor class would have succeedea in defeating the con- gtitation. As it is now the provision will fall with crushing weight on @ large portion of the people. ‘The debts in many instances are in favor of North- ern creditors. Mr. Seward returned to San Francisco from Alaska on the 13th, his health much iwproved by the trip. Yesterday he attended the opening of the exhibition of the Mechautcs' Institute, and also visited the public schools of San Francisco. Mr. Seward expects to leave California on the Panama steamer of the 30th for Manzanilio, Mex- foo, from which place he will proceed to the city Of Mexico, under an escort furnished by the gov- ernment. Funds sufMcient to build a railroad between San Diego, Cal., and the Gila river have been sub- goribed, and Generals Rosecrans and Sedgwick eave San Francisco for San Diego to-day to in- pugurate the work. A document is reported to have been found on the beach at San Buenaventura, Cal., on the 30th ult., which, if genuine, discloses the fate of Sir John Franklin and bis associates. It gives an account of the abandonment of the exploring ships Erebus and ‘Terra, and of the proceedings of the party up to the time the document was committed to the sea in latl- tude 69 87 42 and longitude 98 04 05. Sir John Frank- lin, according to this aocument, died on the 11th of June, 1847. A supposed Cuban filibustering expedition left New Bedford, Mass., on Monday night, but che steamer Helen Augusta, with a Collector and posse on board, pursued and overtook the schooner on ‘which the expedition sailed and brought her back. ‘The captain of the schooner says he was engaged to go on & fishing excursion. Am annexation meeting was held in Quebec on Bunday alternoon, at which resolutions were adopted Geploring the depressed condition of business in Canada in contrast with the flourishing state of affairs in the United Siaies, This contrast, it was contended, was owing to the difference in the sys- tems of government in the two countries, and the {imperial government was petitioned to consent to the annexation of Canada to the United states, ‘An application from citizens of Washington for the establishment of a public school for white and black children In the city was refused recently by the Board of Trustees, as the word white still exists in the city laws, A Hamilton man In Texas, holding the position of Special Post Ofice agent for Louisiana and Texas, has been removed to admit of the appointment of a man favoring Davis, the extreme radical candidate for Governor of Texas, This is sald to be the be- ginning of a series of removals in Texas to favor the political prospects of Davis over Hamilton. Colonel Arthur T. Lee has been appointed Gover- Mor of the Soldiers’ Home in Washington. ‘The acting secretary of the Pension Bureag has Gecided that the half blood heirs of Indian soldiers areas much entitled to pensions as tose of whole blood. Canter, a convict employed in the ‘clerk's office at Bing Sing, has been placed tn solitary confinement for alleged frauds in discharging prisoners for pecu- miary considerations long before their time. One prisoner, named Miller, was reported for discharge ‘by Canter and had on his citizen's clothes when it ‘was discovered that he stil! had nine months to @erve. He was recommitted and locked up ina dark cell. A despatch from Corinne, Utah, says $30,000 have been recovered from the robbers of Wels, Fargo & Co.'s Express coach, The trail of the frst robbers has been found, with a fair prospect of thetr capture, The City. ‘The centennial anniversary of the birth of Hum- boldt was celebrated in this city yesterday by the un- veiling of nis statue in Central Park, when orations were delivered and delightful music performed, and by a grand procession, torchiight parade and ban- quet. The day was also observed tm the principal cities throughout the United States. Messrs, Loring, Fay and Biatkie, of the Harvard crew, arrived in this city yesterday morning by the steamer City of Antwerp, and were cordially re- ceived by their friends and various committee men atthe Astor House. They were sumptuously ban- queted at Delmonico’s last night. Commissioner Sargent has written a letter to Col- lector Grinnell reafMrming his decision against the collection of Harbor Masters’ fees trom vessels ar- riving at or departing from this or any port. He says the right to collect such fees has been denied by the Supreme Court, and the right to collect health officers’ and State bospital fees remains to be similarly tested. A German named Broderson committed suicide on Monday at No. 363 East Forty-sixth street, where he was boarding, owlng to his unrequited love for his landlady. The body of Barbara Groussy, a french woman, aged twenty-four, was found in the Eaat river, off Randall’s Island, recently, and her brother stated at the inquest yesterday that she had been disap- pointed in love and committed sutcide in conse- quence, Thomas H. Barrett, who was stabbed by Ellen Utt while he and his brother were quarreling, died on Monday evening. Dennis Eagan, who was tried in (ho Kings Connty Court of Sessions for the murder of James Hag- gerty, by thrusting him from his Itquor saloon to the sidewalk while Haggerty was drunk, was found guilty of an assault and battery and sentenced to pay $100 and serve in the County Jail five days, The Cunard steamship Kusaia, Captain Lott, will sail to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The steamship Minnesota, Captain Price, will sail from pier 46 North mver at half-past one o’ciock to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The stock market yesterday was trregular.. The Western shares were strong and active. Pacific Mail underwent a further sharp decline. Gold rose to 13644, closing finally at 135%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Baron Dedel, of Holland; Captain Jonn Mirehouse, of steamship City of Antwerp; J. Hamilton Wilson, of England, and Adam Hunter, of New Orleans, are at the New York Hotel. A. E. Borie, ex-Secretary of the Navy; Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany; Captain E. N. Shaw, of London; and J. B. Steedman, of South Carolina, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel Robert Lennox Banks, of Albany, and Colonel W. F. Moiley, of Irvington, are at the Olar- endon Hotel. Commander Henry Wilson, of the United States Navy; J. P. Putnam, of Boston; Charles G, King, of Providence, and General Vickers, of Philadelphia, are at the Westminster Hotel. Colonel W. E. Kidder, of Bangor, Me.; Rev. W. H. Milburn, of England, and Rev. Dr. H. G. Batterson, of Philadelphia, are at the Coleman House. Colonel B, F. McNulty, of Boston, and Major D. P. Drake of Pennsylvania, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Judge T. A. Hajl, of Baltimore; Colone! J. D. Hodge, of Philadelphta; Colonel J. H. Cannon, of Louisville, Ky.; Judge F. Laflin, of Saugerties, N. Y.; Judge Hardenburg, of New York; Captain J. S. Lewis, of Geneva, and Colonel W. D. Mann, of Mobile, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mayor L. Blackstone, of Norwich, Conn.; E. B. Morgan, of Aurora; J. H. Ramsay, of Albany; Gov- ernor R. C. McCormick, of Arizona; Marshall P. Wilder and General Torbert, of Delaware, and J. W. Wallack and wife, are at the Astor House. General L. P. Parsons, of St, Louis; F. Dolhonde, of New Orleans. and R. Dryden, of Baltimore, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Gearge P. Baldwin, W.G. Harris, and Holus R. Gray and others of the Boston Common Council, rived im the city yesterday, for the purpose of tender- ing an invitation to the Harvard crew to visit Bos- ton. They have rooms at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Cuban Question—Spain, England. The press of France and England is very much occupied with the Cuban question and the conduct of the United States with regard to it. One day it admits that the only solution is in accepting the mediation and offer of the American government for the independence of Cuba; another day it calls upon Spain to de- nounce the officiousness of America and claims the right of French and British interference in any settlement that may be made of the Cuban difficulty. This hostile attitude to the action of the United states is the last phase of sentt- ment expressed by the European press. The question naturally arises here, what is the cause of this change of tone? Why this con- demnation of America ‘for intermeddling” with Cuba and call upon the Spanish govern- ment to “‘resist the interference?” We think General Prim’s presence in Paris accounts for it all. We published yesterday a cable tele- gram from Europe to the effect that the Gene- ral had a conference with the Spanish ambas- sadors to England and France on the subject of communications from Washington, and that the disposition of the United States to inter- fere in the affairs of Cuba was denounced at this conference and the hope expressed that “Spain would reply energetically to the officious manifestations of the Americans.” True, there is another telegram from Paris of the same date contradicting the statement of what took place at the conference, but this has all the marks of an afterthought and of a prudent political dodge. From the present tone of the French press it seems probable that General Prim has seen Napoleon, or, at least, that the Cuban question has been dis- cussed, directly or indirectly, between them. It has been urged, too, that France and England are deeply interested in the destiny of Cuba, and that in any settle- ment which may be made of the present diffi- culty the United States should not alone be consulted, and that these two Powers must have a voice in the matter. At the bottom of all this we see the old jealousy of the progress and power of the United States revived. It is the same mo- narchical, aristocratical and anti-republican spirit which during our civil war led to the invasion of Mexico and the attempt to estab- lish a monarchy on this Continent ; the same that has influenced England throughout the whole course of her inimical policy towards this country, Yet one would think the French might have learned the folly of hostility to American sentiment and progress in their fatal Mexiean experiment, and that the Eng- lish would have been taught the futilily of at- tempting to arrest our progress and destiny, But the jealousy and hostile feelings of gov- ernments, as well as of people, make them blind. They look at everything through a false me- dium, and see only what they wish. If the Emperor Napoleon desires to compli- cate the. qnestion of Cuba and to create dif- culties between Spain and the United States he can do so only at the cost of Spain, It France and might plunge that country into further trou- ble and an enormous expense, but it would not change the policy of this country or the destiny of Cuba. Indeed, the opposition or hostility of France or England would have the effect of arousing the American people and government to prompt and decisive measures for the independence of Cuba, And if Eng- land imagines that we should be deterred from recognizing the independence of Cuba or from participating in the expulsion of the Spaniards from the island for fear of damaging our case in the Alabama claims she is greatly mistaken. Cuba is a live question—the question of the day. It is no longer so with the Alabama claims. Not that we abandon them; they are simply laid aside for the present. We cau bring them up at some future time, when it suits us and when the best opportunity occurs. Mr. Sumner may want everything put aside for that question to gratify his vanity, because he made a flaming speech on the subject and be- cause that is his special hobby; but it is not so with the American people, Congress or the administration. With them the independence of Cuba is the question of the day. The solu- tion of that cannot be long deferred. The Alabama claims we can settle at our con- venience. Besides, Cuba will be worth far more to the United States than the amount of these claims, Should England, France, or even the Spanish Regency, suppose it can change the policy and course of the United States with regard to Cuba it is mistaken. Or should General Prim, who was once a liberal and the friend of Cuba, suppose he can intrigue successfully for the interposition of the European Powers in the Cuban difficulty he will find that his labor will be in vain. The American people have determined— and we have no doubt the government has re- solyed—that Cuba shall be free, and all the in- trigues or efforts to prevent that will prove unavailing. Telegraphic Extension. The movements at present going on with regard to the extension and consolidation of telegraph lines are very significant of the growing importance of this kind of communi- cation, As the telegraphs are perfected, and governments begin to learn that it is their duty to take control of them, just as they do of the postal system, the whole world will become as it were, by the agency of marine cables, one nation, not only in the free and immediate interchange of thought, but in a commercial interchange which will do away in a great measure with the present system of bills of exchange, and reduce dealings in cur- rency to the smallest basis. The time cannot be far distant when our government will see the wisdom of absorbing all the telegraph business under its own management, as the government of Great Britain has recently done, when it will regulate the tariff to suit the wants of the people and put an end to tele- graphic monopolies, with their extravagant prices, bad accommodation and occasional breaches of faith in the interest of jobbers and speculators. As our telegraphs are now conducted they are little better than electric agents for’ stockjobbers and speculators in grain and provisions, If the government had control of them on the same principle as the Post Office business is managed all this mischief would be cured, and the public would be supplied with means of telegraphic communication all over the Conti- nent and across the sea at a moderate rate. The latest scheme for the extension of the telegraph is the establishment of lines con- necting this city with Panama (via Aspinwall) and the West Indies, from Panama through South America to Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo and Rio Janeiro. This scheme, we say, is reported to be on the ¢wpis, but whether it will be realized or not we cannot say, but we can observe what a girt of the earth it would encircle. We notice also by a despatch from San Francisco that the Atlan- tic and Pacific States Telegraph Company have consolidated with the Western Union. All these junctions, consolidations and new plans for the extension of the telegraph sys- tem are only preparatory to the coming neces- sity for government control over the entire business. The administration should earnestly direct its attention to this subject and urge it upon Congress as an imperative duty to place the management of the telegraphs all over the country in the hands of the government, on the same terms and on the same system under which the Post Office works so admirably. Nationa Bank GAMBLERS.—The merchants down town were greatly disturbed Monday morning by the bank statement of Saturday showing a loss in reserve of about seven mil- lions of dollars. It was subsequently discov- ered that one of the banks had loaned a stock jobbing firm a large proportion of the amount which thus disappeared. Of course such a transaction is legal. But are not our national bank officers morally guilty of wrong-doing in aiding the cliques to make money stringent or at best irregular at this season, when the busi- ness of the fall depends so much on a healthy condition of the money market ? FireMeN.—It is stated that some Green- point firemen carried their apparatus to the last fire at Hunter's Point, and then refused to operate unless paid for it. Hunter's Point is beyond the Brooklyn limit, and their duty did not call them there, and they could not be compelled to play; but by what authority did they go beyond the city limit with their ap- paratus? We have only to suppose a fire at the same time in the district that pays a tax to support them to see the harm of this rambling round to sell their services, latest charges against vaccinetion are that the ravages of cholera and some other diseases are due to the influence of vaccination on the system, and that scarlatina aud measles are more common than formerly. Scarlatina and measles affect more because there are more to affect. Those that formerly died with smallpox are now kept alive to take their chance with other diseases ; and cholera has ite greatest mortality in coun- tries whore vaccination is not known, Nor ForgorreN.—In the great struggles of the late war the gallant skirmishes of other times are not quite lost to popular memory. Within a few days there have been local cele- brations of the battles of Lake Erie and of North Poiat, The Avondale Massacre—Responaibility of Miuing Companies. Our readers have no doubt read the reports concerning the late mining calamity at Avon- dale, Pa., with many pangs of sorrow. They have shuddered instinctively as the various telegraphic accounts flashed over the wires announcing the progress of the devouring flames down deep into the bowels of the earth ; have had their sensibilities shocked as the danger to the entombed victims became more and moreimminent, and have had their very souls shudder when the appalling reality was declared—when they realized that over a hun- dred human beings had perished miserably, shockingly, terribly, ay, hellishly, in that dark and sulphurous tomb, the confines, as it were, of the infernal regions themselves; the unspeakable terrors of which only the pen of a Dante could faithfully portray, And now, when scarcely the anguish created by the simple narration of the event has passed in part away, or the wails and moans of the suffering and starving widows and orphans have ceased to burden the air, the reading community are shocked by an in- sinuation, apparently emanating from the man- agers of the mine, that the whole tragedy was the result of a diabolical act of incen- diarism on the part of one or more jealous miners themselves, The testimony bearing upon this point, as given on the 11th inst., at Plymouth, Pa., is worthy of being briefly repeated here, It shows that in the belief of one witness “‘the general feeling about the mine was that the shaft might at any time take fire’—whether from above or below is not ma- terial to our present purpose—that ‘‘another place of egress was talked of being opened.” Ifso, why did not the company do it without awaiting the calamity now mourned and be- wailed by so many starving widows and or- phans? Another witness heard that ‘another tunne! was to have been driven throuzh ;” but the testimony showing that another mode of egress was necessary and that it was contemplated to construct one is forti- fied by too much testimony to be recapitulated in our limited space at this time. Another witness, ticket boss of the mine, ‘‘supposed, when he first saw the fire, that it came from the furnace,” as ‘‘there was a new fireman, who did not understand much about his bust- ness.” Who was responsible for his ignorance of the discharge of so important a duty? Another witness, engineer in the mine, testified that the ‘‘brettice”’ was on fire once before. In a cross-examination by the mining engineer of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Weatern Coal Company this witness was gsked if he had ever said that if he could flot work in the mine no other man should, and he replied “No.” This is all the testimony upon which the charge is hinged that the mine was maliciously fired. Another witness asserted that all mines should have two openings, and that ‘“‘there are other mines besides the one at Avondale having only one place for the men to get out.” And finally an old miner declared that “‘the miners intend at this inquest to let the public know the perils they are exposed to”—an announcement which, it seems, was received with much applause. Now, after all this testimony affecting the matter of accountability, it can scarcely be credited that a corporation would attempt to screen themselves from the responsibility of a massacre which can be so easily traced to their own unparalleled meanness and utter want of regard and sympathy for those who labored for them in those dismal depths. Had the company gone to the expense of constructing a second shaft to or from the mine the unfortu- nate victims might have escaped with their lives. Had they taken proper precautions, at ® comparatively trifling expense, the tinder- box woodwork surrounding and covering the mouth of the mine might have been secured from the accident of taking fire, Or had they had the thoughtfulness which a brute might expect to have for its young they would never have permitted a contingency to have occurred like that which has so murderously resulted in the immolation of fivescore human beings. And, finally, if the agents, managers or directors of the company had had a spark of genuine manliness in their compositions, if their consciences had not smote and abashed them by a sense of guilt, they could never have been brought to the cruel and cowardly point of charging hostility between Welsh and Irish miners as a leading cause of the direful occur- rence and of inculpating innocent parties in its dreadfal results—and all this as a means of defence and a shield for themselves. But they are arraigned before the bar of public opinion as responsible for this wanton destruc- tion of human life, and the Grand Jury, or whatever the competent authority may be, of the county in which the tragedy occurred should indict and have them all tried for man- slaughter. The truth is this whole question of coal mining in Pennaylvania has never been pro- perly understood by the community generally. The poor and frequently half-starved miners are invariably held accountable for strikes and other interruptions to the regular pro- gress of business, whereas the fact is that these strikes are instigated by the min- ing corporations and monopdlies them- selves, or through their agents, in order that an excuse may be given for sending up the price of coal to an exorbitant rate, and keeping it there until they choose to let it recede. In other words, these strikes, of which the coal consumers complain so bit- terly, ave in reality but nefarious conspiracies among the proprietors of mines to levy a grievous tax upon the public, and to wring from them an outrageous price for what has become a necessary of life and what should be acheap commodity in all large cities. The leaders of mining bodies are in many cases but the creatures of the corporations, and they obey the mandates of their employers as scru- pulously aa a slave would the will of bis mas- ter. The miners themselves, as @ general thing, are credulons and confiding. Their oc- cupation keeps them from the light of day as it does from the light of knowledge, which means, in their case particularly, the light shed by the reading of newspapers. And it is shameful and atrocious that the coal nabobs, who roll in wealth oarned by the swarthy arms and brows of these subterranean laborers, should take the measures the Avondale mon- opolists have to inculpate the innocent in a crime of which they are themselves alone morally guilty, Wohave taken pains to dosig- immediate steps to have it investigated as such in a thorough and legal manner. The Chinese Misslon—Ex-Senator Morgan and the Sun Clique. Among the latest. Washington rumors set afloat in reference to the Chinese mission is one that ex-Senator Morgan has been offered this important position, ond with the promise that the administration will apply to Congress to raise this mission to the first class. This rumor may be based only upon conjectures; but from the recent attentions of Mr. Morgan to General Grant at Newport it is possible that the ex-Senator may have his eye upon some foreign appointment, Considering the little political clique, however, to which Mr. Morgan, as we understand it, belongs, and considering its relations to the administration since the 5th of March, we do not think that Morgan or any other member of this clique has any claims upon the President which he is bound to respect. The clique to which we refer is the joint stock company of the New York Sun. If we are not mistaken, this company, formed to buy out the old Sun, embraced ex-Senator Morgan, Senator Conkling and Frederick Conkling, Moses Taylor, Marshall O. Roberts, George Opdyke, Senator Murphy and others, each in the sum of ten thousand dollars, more or less. The paper by this combination was purchased, and Mr. Dana was chosen to run the machine, and he has been running it asa sort of inde- pendent radical opéra boujfe concern, with just enough of democratic sugar coating to disguise the medicine. We have no doubt, however, that a primary object of the adven- ture was, through this newspaper, the recon- structed Sun, to regulate the appointments of General Grant's administration, beginning with the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps and the New York Custom House, Post Office and internal revenue establishment. In all those departments the programme of the company or clique in question has signally failed, so far, at least, as the recommendations, aspira- tions and expectations of Dana and the action of the administration thereon may be taken as our guides, What has followed? From the proclamation of General Grant's original Cabinet down to this day the course of the Sun in reference to General Grant has been simply scandalous. The editor of that paper has seized upon every appointment and every movement of General Grant and upon every event of his administration admissible of a misconstruction to his prejudice, and in everything and in every way, in bold denunciations, in spiteful sneera and slurs and inuendoes, and in ugly hints and quirks and quibbles, ithas studiously labored to belittle the President and to make him appear in his great office dishonest, selfish, incompetent and ridiculous. We have not had such exhibitions of paltry personal spite and spleen from any other journal in reference to General Grant as we have had during the last six months from the Sun. Assuming, then, that the financial copartners in that establish- ment, including the men whose names we have given, are consenting parties to the extraor- dinary newspaper tactics of Dana, the ques- tion recurs, what claims have this newspaper clique, or any of them, upon General Grant? Mr. Morgan, Mr. Senator Conkling, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Murphy and the rest, it is true, appear to be hand in glove with the President ; but if these gentlemen are backers and asso- ciates of Dana and his opéra bouffe manage- ment of the Sun, are they not playing a double game? In our judgment, if Mr. Morgan, for example, as a financial and political copartuer in the Sun, is a consenting party to the wrath of Dana and his spiteful flings and slurs upon General Grant, Mr. Morgan has lost all claims upon the confidence and respect of the adminis- tration, The Banquet to the Harvard Boys, “Honor to whom honor is due” is an in- junction unhappily more observed in the breach than in the performance, In the case of the brave Harvard boys, however, it had last evening its proper fulfilment. Acting on the suggestions presented in the Hzratp a number of our most influential citizens, under the auspices of the united rowing boat clubs of New York city and vicinity, invited the in- ternational crew to a banquet at Delmonico’s. It was intended that the invitation should em- brace the whole of the crew, and that all would be present to partake of the ban- quet gotten up in their honor, and to liaten to words of home welcome and of con- gratulation from the lips of chosen speakers for the manly devoir made by them in their contest with their scholastic and national opponents of Oxford on the other side of the water. It is a matter of regret that only two of the Harvard crew—Messrs. Loring and Fay—with Mr. Blaikie, their agent, arrived by the expected steamer to be present on the occasion. The intent, however, will be ac- cepted in its fullest extent, and will stand as testimony of the appreciation New Yorkers will always entertain of native pluck and courage, no matter from what State of the Union it hails, The banquet last evening was in every respect a complete success—in the representative character of the entertain- ers, inthe style in which the banquet itself was gotten up, in the sentiments uttered, and in the evident spirit in which the guests of the evening accepted and partook of the en- tertainment. Mr. Loring responded to the toast of the ‘Harvard boys,” and Mr. Parsons, in the absence of the British Consul, to the health of the ‘‘Oxford boys.” The latter toast was drunk with all the honors and an Ameri- can “‘tiger” that showed how readily all honor can be accorded to a noble foe. The inter- national contest, confidently and trustingly entered upon and nobly fought, had last even- ing its most fitting and worthy conclusion in the banquet at Delmonico’s, MurpeR AND Mongy.--Our most urgent necessity isa detective system. When shall we have it? By what means shall we get it? Here are the authorities brought to bay by an open murder in Philadelphia, and it is just a question who will pay the most. If the gov- vernment will pay it can have the murderer's name; but as yet the whiskey men pay best and the name is kept a secret, Would it not be a good plan to seize as accessories the de- tectives who take this attitude, What right have they to asalst a murderer’s escape? The celebration yesterday of the Humboldt the most ardent ad- mirers of the great cosmopolitan could have desired. It proved again—a noteworthy fact— that the citizens of New York, of whatever nationality, sympathize with and give thelr presence and support to every movement de- signed by any class thereof to honor any person or event celebrated in the annals of their native land. But the celebration yoster- day, while it was the special claim and right of our German population to have taken the principal part therein, yet had deserved recog- nition in the hearts of all our people, from the services rendered by Humboldt to knowledge and science, The event was celebrated with great enthusidam, The streets of the city selected for the march of the procession were densely crowded with spectators, The public buildings, the hotels and the shipping in the harbor were all decorated with flags and bunting in honor of the occasion, The ceremonies consisted of the unveiling of the monument in the Park on the alte selected for its erection, and which waa witnessed by an immense concourse of people ; by musical performances and by several ad- dresses by chosen orators, and by banquete held in different halls, the headquarters op all similar occasions of onr German fellow citizens, The ceremonies and the success, unmarred by any accident or contretemps whatever, attending the celebration thereol must be @ source of gratification to the thousands of our fellow citizens most deeply interested therein, Gevernor Hoffman and the Fitteentix Amendment, It was recently discovered that the vouchera of the ratification of the fifteenth amendment by the Legislature of New York had not been forwarded to the State Department at Wash- ington by Governor Hoffman. Upon this hint certain over-zealous democratic journals at once proposed what they considered a very pretty scheme for smothering this New York ratification. If Governor Hoffman retained the papers the Department of State, being un- officially advised of the action of our Legisla- ture, could take no notice of it, and it was aa- sumed that this smothering of the ratification was the purpose of the Governor, and that the New York democracy, upon this hitch, would have only to secure the next Legislature in order to kill off said amendment entirely. Governor Hoffman, however, has taken a dif- ferent view of the subject, and in forwarding to the Secretary of State his certificate of the New York ratification has settled this ques- tion. We presume that the Governor is of the opinion that it is useless to fight this fifteenth amendment any longer; that the Southera democracy and the democracy of Wisconsia have adopted the right course on the subject, and that the party in New York would do well to follow in the same direction. It will be a nice question for the approaching Democratio State Convention at Syracuse whether the party in New York shall still look to the dead things.of the past or right about face for the control of the future Anvy Not Tarrx.—Traly there is a differ- ence. Having a good series of cases against whiskey swindlers a collector found that he had to go to Washington ‘‘to see about it,” for the whiskey men had gone at once to head- quarters. Alas! the whiskey men found in power a generation that knew not Joseph, for the collector received full authority to ‘push things.” Norurne iF Not on Her Diantry.—Spain’s last attitude in regard to the United States ia altogether laughable. Hitherto she has only been pitiable in the excuses made for not sup- pressing this row she has started at our doora. Her resenting our interest as impertinent filla the measure of Spanish character, MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDEYT. Arrival of the President at Pittsburg—Enthas silastic Demonstrations at Johnstown and Greensburg—Visit to the Humboldt Centen- nial Celebration—Public Reception at the City’ Hall. PrrtsBuRG, Sept. 14, 1860. The Presidential party arrived here at one o’clook to-day, aud were received at the Union depot by Mayor Brush, of Pittsburg, aad Mayor Drum, of Allegheny City. A platoon of police headed the procession, which moved off to the Monongahela House, where the party aro now stopping. The Presi- dent, family and suite left Altoona by special train at half-past eight o'clock, in advance of the regular. ‘The party leaving Altoona, besides the Presidont and family, consisted of General Porter, Senator Scott, of Pennaylvania; J. D. Cameron, President of the Northern Central Railway; Samuol F. Barr, of Harrisburg; J. M. Creighton and John Rellley, representing the Pennsyl- vania Central Railroad, and W. 8. Purviance, chairman of the Alleghany County Republican Com- Mittee, At Johnstown Daniel J. Morrell( member of Congress) and daughter came on the train. Dur their stay at the town a vast assembl: of at lo 2 persons Were gathered at the depot with a band of music. The people cheered enthusiastica'ly, and during the ten minutes a number took an oppor- tunity co shake hands with the President. The people calling for a speech, the President said:— CITIZENS OF JonNBTOWN—I Dore throu; here three years ago to-day with the then Executive. I no cates trophe will befall you as at that time. I am glad to see you. The allusion in the speech was to the breaking down of the bedae on the occasion of Johnson's stopping here in his centripetal operation in 1866. At Pockport John Covode and lady joined the party eH) with them to this city. At Greenstvurs al er large ang poe igi crowd were gathered. Here General ©. B, Markle came on the train. The boy ee appeared at all the stations up to this city. At three o'clock this afternoon the President via- ited the great German picnic in honor of the Hum- boldt centennial. At least 20,000 persons were in at- tendance and were wild with enthusiasm, From the picnic the President and party passed a few min- utes witn Dr. Gross, a prominent physician of this city, and were entertained at a lunch. The party then rove back to the city, also visiting All iy city. at haif-past seven o'clock this evening the President received the oMcers of the regular army stationed here. At eight o'clock the President ap- peared on the baicony of the hotel to a vast con- course of people and ‘The Pioneer Grant Club of the United States,” who mustered seventy strong, with torches. ‘The Grant Club battery also firod Presidential salute and entertained the President with aserenade. The President sa! k you for t cordial and kind cant T tage: received from you wad by this city. All my visite to this city havo been aitended by tho samo spirit of Kindness, Its unneosssary for me to say more as many of you cannot hear what Lam saying. Shortiy after eight o'clock the President rode to the City Hall to receive the people, The President was introduced by W. 8. Purviance. The crowd be- cume #o great that the President was obliged to leave the Hall. Upon retiring he sald, “Gentlemen, I don’s know how to thank you for this kind rocep- tion. It ts much easier to come and see than to go through it. I bid you good night.” The hall was jammed and hundreds were unable to get in. Shortly ‘after ten o’clook the President received a large num- ber of ladies and gentlemen in the parior of the hotel. The President and family and General Porter will leave at ten o'clock in private conveyance for Washington, Pa., ‘ance of twenty-slx miles, FATAL ACCIDENT IN BROOKLYN, Bridget Branigan, an elderly woman, waa ran over last evening by a peddler’s wagon in Flushing avenue, near Franklin avenue, and was go severely injured that she died ducing the night at the Oity Hospital, whither ako bad boom conveyed. } |