The New York Herald Newspaper, September 23, 1869, Page 8

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. - = Vou —— KXXMIV. cer eeeeeee o AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Formosa; on, Toe RawK0av TO RUIN. WALLAOK'S THEATRE. Br. THE SCuOOL FOR ScanDAL. way and 1th street. JOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tuinty YEARS OF A asunorsus Lirk—Tak MitLE® AND His MEN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, coruer of Eiguih avenue and Rd street.—Parniz. WAVERLEY THEATRE, WauietTy ENTRRTAINMEN OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Tur Dawa oF DNOLE To's Canin, THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tus QUERN OF Sizaete. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14th strect,—HERRMaNy, TOE PaxarivicrratzvR. ‘0, 780 Broadway.—A GRAND BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23dat., between Sth and 6th ava— Laan FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Tweaty- fourth sirect.—DREAMS, GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Noo. 45 and 47 Bowery— QxgMan Orrga—Rovenr Le Diavis. ‘ FRENCH THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- Bue.—ENGLISH OPRRA~MARIT. MRB. F. B. CONWAY'S P. THEATRE, Rrooklyn,— ONE HuNDuED THODSAND POUNDS—FAMILY Jars. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—ENGLIsH OPERs—THE BOHEMIAN GInt. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN (Oth ate. —PorULAR GARDEN CON th ay., between 68th and TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO Vocariem, NEGRO MINSTRELS SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broalway.--ETa10- PIAN MiNsTRELSY, Neato Acts. £0. ‘ fOOLEY’S OPERA HO Mineruris—Tur Coat Hea NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 013 Broadway.~ SOIENOE AND Aur. LADIES’ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Brondway.—FRMALES ONLY IN ATTRNDANOR. TRIPLE SHEET. "New works ‘Thursday, Lgetreresiat 28, 1560. THE NEWS. Europe. By special cable telegrams from Paris and London, Gated yesterday, we learn that England, at least as far as 1s indicated by one of her leading newspapers, 4s likely to support Spain against the Cuban revolu- tion. Father Hyacinthe, of Paris, denounced the fPoumenical Council, ite intent and tendency, His xepudiation of the Papal authority proauced a@ pro- found sensation. The London Times asserts that Spain bas found advantage tn her “bold display!’ in defence of Cuba by a detiance of her adversaries and the rejection of the Sickles note. General Sickles, it is alleged, with- drew the note, and the hope is again expressed that ‘Dis action will be repudiated in Washington. England ‘will soon complete a treaty of commerce with Spain. The Cortes will, it is said, choose a king. An English tory journal advises the United States not to dght Spain. Parts celebrated the anniversary of the revo- lution of 1792 by a fete. One hundred thousand dol- Jars in gold were taken from the Bank of Engiand or New York. General Prim was in Madrid from France, anda Spanish Cabinet council resolved to use every effort to retain Cuba. Prince Napoleon is spoken of asa candidate for the throne of Spain. France anticipates much division in the Roman Council. A Peace Congress was in session tn Switzer- land. The Orown Prince of Prussia will attend the opening of the Suez Canal. The King of Italy Anterests himself actively for a@ settiement of the Turco-Egyptian dimeulty. By steamship we have a very interesting special }. Correspondence from Europe, in detail of our cabie telegrams to the 1ith of September. India. English advices by mail report favorably of the Cotton crop in India, Turkey. Tho Sultan persists in maintaining the points and principle of his late offieia! note to ihe Viceroy of Egypt. Cuba. A skirmish ts reported near Encrucijado, in which sixteen insurgents were killed. Paragury. Our Rio Janeiro letter is dated Auguat 25. The provisional government in Paraguay is in full Dlast, and has commenced partitioning out the coun- try to the allies, Count d’Eu, with his forces, is Bull In sight of Lopez, and a battle was imminent. Panama, The Legislative Assembly of the State of Panama has passed resolations urging the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents. Peru. Our Lima letter is dated August 28. Great alarm ‘was prevalent owing to the prognostications of Pro- fessor Falb of another earthquake in the latter part of September, and many of the people are making preparations to live in the valleys during the fated eriod. o Miscellaneous, The report that the government js dissatisfed with the course of Minister Sickles in Spain is denied. ‘The Uuban question, however, will receive the im- mediate attention of the government. ‘The Democratic State Convention met in Syracuse yesterday and nominated the following ticket:— Seeretary of State. Comptroller. ttorney Gei tate Treasure! Engineer and Surveyor Canal Commissioner + W, Wright, State Prison Inspector.....F. L. Latin. Judges of the Court of) John A. Lott. Appeals. Robert Earl. General Grant and his family returned to Washing: ton yesterday and took up tueir residence at the ‘White House. J. Ross Browne has been informed by the State Department that he is no longer an oficial of the government, The Massachusetts State Republican Convention at Worcester yesterday renominated the entire State ticket, with the exception of the State Auditor, for which position Charles Endicott was named. Charles Sumner presided, Willlam Moedy, ® respectable old fammer, near Madison, Ind., killed his wife, set flre to his house, stood guard over it that nothing might be saved until it was completely destroyed, and then killed him- welt. The expedition sent from the Navai Observatory at Washington to Siberia to observe the ecitpse hag returned to Sau Francisco, The expedition was a fatlure, as clouds entirely hid the sun during the obscuration, ‘The skeletons of a woman and child have been dis covered near Loch Lomond, in New Brunswick, and man named Kane, whose wife and child they are supposed to be, has been arrested on susp! of Daving murdered them. During a thunder storm in Yarmouth, N. B., on Tuesday. a house was struck by lightning and set on fire, a man and his wife occupying tt being instantly Kilied and a bedridden daughter being burned to death. Pottras, # Canadian murderer, was executed at Quebeo yesterday. Itis said that the executioner Was intoxicated while he was performing tue duties Of his office, and the rope being too long Poitras fell to the ground on his knees and was only banged gnocessfally on a second trial. Mrs. Halpine, the wite of a mecbanic‘hving at No. fit Bast Warren street, Brooklyn, while in a fit of ‘tnaanity yesterday afternoon, killed her son, a boy of eight years, by cutting him over the head witha batohst, Her daughter Alice, attracted by ihe boy's cries, broke in the door and was also attacked, but Managed to secure the hatchet and bring to the qolice, who took Mra. Halpine into cusway, i ae NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. William Carpenter, a who killed Peter Banta, a white man, at White Plains in July last, while the latter was assauiting him, was tried in Judge Gilbert’s court in that village yesterday and acquitted, ‘The stock market yesterday underwent @ panto in the Vanderbilt stocks and a heavy doodne in the general list. New York Central fell from 198 to 176, closing at 186. Gold declined to’ 13734, and then took a sharp ipward turn to 141%, closing at 141). Prominent Arrivals tu the City. A. W. Randall, ex-Postmaster General; General Moseley, of Boston, and Lieutenant Commander J. O’Kane and Captain Colyocoressis, of the United States Navy, ave at the Astor House. Count Colobiano, of the Italian Legation, and Mr. Estrada, attaché of the Spanish Legation, are at the Albemarie Hotel. Lieutenant Commander F. Smith, T. W. Crocker, A. L. Sprague, F. #, Didier and J. M. Bryant, of the U States vy; Captain H. P. Connor, of the steamship Henry Chauncey; H. M. Talman, of the United States Army; Dr. M. Vidder, of Japan; Colonel E. Hale, of Florida; Judge M. Grover, Judge Charles Dantels and Judge Ward Hunt, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Judge T. Randall, of Florida; Captain Judkins, of the steamship Scotia, and Mrs. Senator Sprague, of Rnode Island, are at the New York Hotel. W. E. Price, M. P.; George W. Cage, Oswald Younghusband and Fred. Lohman, of England, and H, Squires, of Australia, are at the Brevoort House. Mrs. Scott-Siddons arrived yesterday by the steam- ship Scotia, from Queenstown. Senator Sumner on the Political Issues of the Day—Tho Prospect. Senator Sumner’s carefully considered speech delivered before the Massachusetts Republican State Convention yesterday we submit to our readers in full this morning. Wé do so because “this speech, we think, may be considered not only as the voice of the republican party of Massachusetts, but as the programme of this par- ty for 1869 throughout the country, and because, since his great exhaustive and unanswerable speech in the Senate on the Alabama claims, the opinions and pleadings of Mr. Sumner on public affairs attract a larger degree of public attention than ever before. In the speech before us we have the views of the Senator on the negro question, in con- nection with Southern reconstruction and the fifteenth amendment; on the money question, in connection with the redemption and repudi- ation; on the Alabama claims, in connection with Canadian annexation, and on the Cuban question, touching the policy of Spain and the policy of the United States. The burden of the speech, however, is upon ‘‘the national freedman and the national creditor,” or the negro and the national debt. The Senator takes a gloomy view of the present condition of things in the South; the mischief resulting from Andrew Johnson's defection is not yet over; the faithful Southern Unionists are suffering terribly under the growing reaction ; there is no peace in the ex-rebel States; there we still tread on smothered fires; our information from all that section is most pain- ful; old rebels are crawling forth from their hiding places; the lawless Ku-Klux clan still maintain their reign of terror, and ‘‘there is only one thing that these disturbers can feel— power, and they must be made to feel it—the power of an awakened people, directed by a republican administration!”’ From all this we may calculate upon a terri- ble overhauling of the recent Southern elec- tions after the reassembling of Congress; for the hint is broadly suggested, not only to the South but to the administration itself, in Sum- ner’s declaration that we must, in the matter of equal rights, have security for the future before we can admit the late Southern rebels into copartnership in the government. We are pointedly told that the battle on the negro is not yet finished between the republicans on the one side and the ex-rebols of the South and their allies of the Northern democracy on the other, We fear, indeed, that in Sumner's estimation Greeley has been too fast in his recognition of the Walker liberal republican party of Virginia. In considering the democratic party upon “that standing menace of repudiation, by which the national credit at home and abroad suffers so much,” Mr. Sumner enlarges upon the diferent branches of the money question. He says that repudiation is confiscation; that the propositions to redeem the debt in green- backs and to tax the national bonds mean repudiation; that the extra interest we have to pay on the debt results from these schemes of repudiation; but still he contends that in view of the overwhelming disasters of repu- diation this thing is impossible. All this is plain sailing under the wing of General Grant; but we are not very sanguine of a speedy return to specie payments, through the mere conversion of greenbacks into national bank notes. On the Cuban question the cautious Senator thinks that Spain ought to and will have to relinquish the island; but that as yet the Cubans do not present a case for the conces- sion of belligerent rights. Worst of all, the administration of Cespedes, according to the Senator, remains in doubt upon the question of the abolition of slavery. But what, we may ask, does this signify, in view of the annexa- tion of Cuba? for the moment the island is ours slavery therein ceases tobe. We appre- hend that Massachusetts would rather have the tariff and the custom house receipts on Cuban tobacco, sugar and coffee than the island free of cost, At all events Mr. Sum- ner appears to%be perfectly indifferent as to the settlement of the Cuban question. Not so is he in reference to the Alabama claims. He adberes to his speech in the Senate; but he leaves it to England to deter- mine what reparation to offer, and to the American people to determine what repara- tion to require, He pronounces the project of taking Canada for indemnity as imprac- ticable, but is satished that the laws of gravitation will bring about annexation, In short, Mr. Sumner proposes to fight this State campaign in Massachusetts on the “almighty nigger” and the national debt in all its bearings, leaving Cuba, the Alabama claims, Canada and Mexico to take their chances in the drift of events, We see, too, that in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, as in Massachusetts, the republicans will push their fight on the negro and the debt, upon which they are in full accord with the admin- istration; that they will leave Cuba and the Alabama claims to take their chances, and as far a8 possible will avoid, ag in Maine, all divi- sions and all entangling alliances on whiskey and lager beer, Let the reader turn from this programme to that of the democracy at Syra- ouse and draw his own conclusions, We think that, backed at last by the administration 7 3 oes on the nigger and the debt, the game Is still in the hands of the republican party, and that even in New York it will moat likely do better this fall than it did last fall, when it had to pull against all the strength and all tho spoils of Andy Johnson, The Democratic State Convention. Tho delegates representing the State of Now York within the democratic party met yester- day in convention at Syracuse for tho double purpose of nominating candidates for she offices to be filled at the fall election and of laying down a platform for the government of the party. Of course no one supposed that there would be any material change in ‘‘the ticket,” nor was there. The present incum- bents in the State offices have been almost to a man renominated—the Secretary of State, the Comptroller, Attorney General, State Treasurer and State Engineer, For State Prison Inspector in place of Mr, Ham- mond, whose term is about to expire, there was a contest between three or four candidates, but they were all from the country, and the Tammany delegates very judiciously left the battle to be fought between the coun- trymen, so that by dividing thelr vote their force told neither way, and Mr. Laflin, of Ulster, was nominated. This sagacious action on the part of Tammany will give them con- siderable strength in the western part of the State; and if Tammany expects to control the State and secure a majority in the next Legis- lature the western counties must be con- ciliated. Sweeny and Tweed knew that, and they acted accordingly, The platform was foreshadowed in the speech of the chairman, Mr. Tilden, at the opening of the Convention. Negro suffrage was declared unconstitutional and Chinese immigration something not to be tolerated, and the fifteenth amendment an abomination. We were prepared to find this plattorm just what itis, There is nothing new in it. A con- demnation of Grant's government was to be expected, and that is put in pretty strong terms. The claim for protection of American citizens ‘4a Great Britain and Cuba” is all right. The comments upon our heavy and somewhat unequal taxation cannot be com- plained of, for a reform is needed in this regard, For the rest it is the old story over again. There is nothing fresh in the platform, and there is no change in the slate, That was made up before tho Convention met, and could have been as well arranged had there been no Convention at all. No doubt the democratic leaders calculate upon carrying the State, including both houses of the Legislature. Upon this point they are hopeful and full of bright anticipations ; but, however pleasant things look now, there may be many changes between this and November, though the pipes may be laid with never so much care, and the wires may be pulled by the most skilful hands, Dr, John Cumming and the Pope. Dr. Cumming, of Crown Court, Covent Gar- den, London, has now for many years been known to the world as one of the greatest and wisest of the Presbyterians out of Scotland, He is an eloquent preacher, an able contro- versialist and a voluminous author. He is, besides, a man of first class social standing. The Doctor, however, has one great weak- ness—s weakness not uncommon to great preachers—he is a little, or rather not 4 little vain. He is fond of show, of personal display, of notoriety. If the world is ever to come to anend, Dr. Cumming would like to see the end and figure prominently on the occasion. The Ecumenical Council seemed to offer tho Doctor a grand opportunity, The invitation of the Holy Father embraced all ‘Protestants and other non-Catholics.” Why should not the Doctor accept the invitation? Was it not his opportunity? Why should not he, a metro- politan divine, @gure in a grander than a mere Presbyterian General Assembly. Why should not his name be perpetually associated with a great council of the Church? One Christian creed is named after Athanasius ; why should not auother and a better be named after Cumming? So, no doubt, the Doctor reasoned, and in the spirit of this reasoning he said he was willing to accept the invitation, But the Doctor's hopes are all blasted. The Pope says he will not have him. The Doctor wishes to have a discussion and to measure his controversial sword with some of the Car- dinals. But there is to be no discussion at the Council, so there is to be no room for the Doctor. We are sorry for the Scotch divine, but we are sorry also for the Pope. The Holy Father is, we fear, a little too slow for this go-ahead age. Toe Loxpon Times oN SIOKLES,—The London Jimes’ Paris correspondent, who is very anxious that General Sickles should be recalled from the Spanish mission, may per- haps permit people this side the water to settle some little matters of that sort according to their own taste and judgment. Should we want advice on such a point we will scarcely apply to the Times for it, and even less to the Paris correspondent of that journal, while we are ignorant under what influence he writes, Another London paper puta this clamor on its true footing in blaming the Spanish Ministry for the reticence it observes in regard to the note of General Sickles, when, by its publica- tion, the innocence of the note would calm all excitement, But that ia what the Spanish Ministry does not want to calm, It wants to develop the excitement, even ona false alarm, to have some support in its opposition to us in this case, But while it thus manipulates the situation to secure a fictitious support, there {s ® much stronger support on the other side; for the American people would sustain the strongest note that could be framed on the subject, and Sickles has (oo much tact to have sent such @ one, Hongsty Tuz Best Pottoy.—The distiilors of whiskey have discovered that they can make more money by paying the legal duty on the manufactured article and dealing honestly with the government than by paying. govern- ment officials to help them in evading the revenuelawa. In other words, the tax imposed by law is lighter than the tax imposed by inspectors, and so forth, This is evidently what they mean when they propose to the Revenue Department to form an organization “49 ald revenue officers in detecting dishonest distillers.” People never discover how unpro- fitable it is to be @ rogue until they find out that honesty pays botter than ragcality, The Sickles Note dad Cuba—How to fr? Our special telegram from Washington published to-day conveys the intelligence, pleasing in the highest degree to the national honor, that the government has not repudiated the action of Minister Sickles with respect to Cuba, and that his attitude in Madrid, even If quasi belligerent, will be sustained by the Executive, From Europe by the Atlantic cable come English reports to the effect that General Sickles was positively alarmed at the furor which the presentation of his note pro- duced, and that he had withdrawn the diplo- matic missive in face of the agitation. The London Times says that Spain has found @ great advantage by her exhibition of national courage and bold display of patriotism. The Spaniards, it is said {n London, have declared they will fight for Cuba, and ‘‘no doubt they will.” Other London journals canvass the Cuban question in the light of » war-making difficulty, How is it? How will it terminate ? Father Hyactnthe and the Catholic Chureh. In some quarters the Herarp, which makes ita point always to be well informed and to give {ts announcements always ahead of its contemporaries, has been blamed for its plain speaking in the matter of the approaching general Catholic Council at Rome, Our latest news from Paris more than justifies the strongest things the Herat has said. Father Hyacinthe has long been one of the most popular and powerful preachers in France. He is a fine scholar, and, more than any French preacher of the day, he combines the graces of poetry with the ennobling and all- embracing thoughts of philosophy. In the long list of celebrated pulpit orators in Franoe—a list which comprises such names as Bossuet, Massillon, Lacordaire, amen- nais—the French Catholice Church has been able to boast of no more bril- liant name than that of Le Ptre Hya- cinthe. For some years he hag preached regularly at Nétre Dame and his name has invariably brought together large crowds long before the hour of meeting. Like many of ourselves the good Father was of opinion that some good might come out of the approach- ing Council, At all events he was willing to hope. He did not see any good reason why the Church should remain in perpetual antag- onism to the spirit of progress. Like many others ho has hoped against all disappoint- ment, Common sense he thought must in the end prevail. It has become no longer doubtful what is to be the character of the Council. It is to endorse the Syllabus, It is to denounce all modern progress. It is to be purely and undisguisedly reactionary. The Father can no longer remain in the fold and retain a good conscience, Like a true man, as he is, he goes out into the wilderness, preferring the portion of an outcast to any place inside the Church of Rome, whiob, as he contends, is now in open opposition to the principles of Christianity, There are many who will make light of this defection; but it really is a heavy blow to the Church of Rome. Father Hyacinthe is not alone. He has a large following. Whither he goes they will go. Where he tarries they will tarry. Out of this small thing another Reformation may grow. But the Council is not yet. Will the Council learn, or will it not? We must wait to see. The situation of the Church is critical. Tue ExorreMent IN WALL Strert.—The greatest excitement prevailed in Wall street yesterday, and the stock market was on the verge of a panic of the most disastrous cha- racter, In fact, there was a panic in what are known as the Vanderbilt stocks—viz., New York Central, Hudson River and Harlem, which declined respectively to 176, 166 and 140. The most curious feature of the ‘‘break” was the accompaniment of a meeting of the directors at Albany to fix a plan of consolida- tion—an event which was to have acted in an entirely different manner upon the prices of New York Central and Hudson River, and had tempted the whole street into buying on the day previous, The record of the day adds another interesting chapter to the already very eventful history of Wall street, In the gene- ral excitement and consternation gold was run up to 141 Tue ANNEXATION OF BADEN To Prussta,— A late cable despatch Informs us that Baden is about to be annexed to Prussia. The Grand Duke of Baden, we know, desires such annexa- tion, The Protestant part of the population are all in favor of it, Bismarck is of opinion that when Baden seeks admission, as Baden may do, into the Confederation of the North, Wurtemberg and Bavaria will soon follow. But Baden has a large Oatholic population which is not much: in sympathy with Prussia, The Catholics are opposed to annexation, and France {s looked to as a natural protector. The annexation of Baden to the Confederation of the North is no longer an impossibility, but such an event might involve Europe in war. France will not permit it without a loud and very emphatic protest. Mr. Wetts, the President of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, is evidently not a man of the present age, His effort to keep from the pub- lic a true account of the recent datal accident on his road indicates & digposition to carry affairs In ‘the Council of Ten” style rather than in the style of to-day. Perhaps the accident was a great deal worse than we have yet heard. Would it be Impertinent to inquire the origin of this man’s power to suppress the coroner's verdict? Does he own the coroner, or Is he the coroner himself? While it would seem to be peculfarly tn the fitness of things that a railroad president should also be a coroner, we cannot but think it would be bad, for the coroner should be on hand, and a railroad president never is, Mr. Varigy, the publican, is certainly in trouble, and in the consequences of a bad name Is paying the penalty of many misdeeds ; but there appears some reason to doubt if he is so black as he hag been painted in the interest of sensation journalism, and especially much reason to doubt his culpability in the offence now laid at bis door, At the samo time Graham's disappearance, with the hint that he thinks his ‘life to deare to live near N. ¥. any more,” is significant of villanous doings, and the detention of Varley till this point is cleared up certainly does not overstep proper action, Bven in the VaticdnsThe Herald and Progross. His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth has defined, with and promptitude, the relation in which the English controversialist Doctor Cumming stands towards the Ecume- nical Council, besides deciding on the question raised by the proposition of the reverend gen- tleman to ventilate his peculiar opinions on doctrinal subjects in presence of the assembled prelates, The Pope is terse and explicit. He directs the Archbishop of Westminster to say, in other words, to the Doctor that the door is wide open to him to qualify himself for attend- ance, but that in his present condition there is “no room for him” in the great Council, In this the Head of the Church avoids any imita- tion of the advice given by the Marshal Commander to the French troops before Sebas- topol just previous to the assault on the Mala- koff in the sentence, “If we cannot get in at the door, boys, we must go in by the window.” Doctor Cumming cannot take St, Peter's by storm; he must “go in by the door.” That is a matter which remains, however, entirely between the Pope and himself. What we wish to notice particulatly in the correspondence is the grand fact that the Pope reads the great daily newspapers attentively, that he had learned all about Doctor Cumming and his theology from the columns of the press, and had actually forwarded his apostolic reply to London before he received the letter of application, If this is not getting ‘‘ahead of time” we do not know what is, and all from the fact that Pius the Ninth reads the newspapers. There was no flurry or excitement in the Sacred College over the Anglo-Scotch missive, for the Pope had disposed of it without waiting to open it, ‘Thid will savé the Cardinals an {infinity of trouble in future. We doubt not that the Pope had just been reading the Heratp, for our files are delivered in the Eternal City regularly. He had, we doubt not, glanced at the editorial page and then turned to the one headed ‘‘Tel- egraphic News from all Parts of the World.” Here he found all the information he required, and learned exactly by our use of the electric telegraph and steam how the outside coun- tries revolved at all points, Thus he could not be taken by surprise. We have great hopes for the Popedom after this. With a quick mau like Pius the Ninth at the head of affairs the Cardinals will scarcely be necessary and may proceed at once to the work of the grand mission of saving souls. The Pope will learn just where their labor Is most needed from our columns—particularly in the religious and sermons ones—and we shall thus have revolu- tionized the present plan of Christian mission- ary propagandism, just as we have already changed the existing system of secular diplo- macy by offacing the routine of ‘‘red tape- ism” through our special correspondence. See what we have already accomplished. From New York we informed Queen Victoria and the British people of the final triumph of her Majesty’s troops in Abyssinia before her Cabinet Ministers had heard of it. From New York we have talked with Count Bismarck in Berlin on the prospects of the German Confed- eration and the state of the Continent of Europe generally. From New York we have spoken with Premier Menabrea in Florence on the state of free Italy, its hopes and probable future, From New York we have examined the people of Ireland on the subjects of the land question and their political grievances, From New York have we sketched the actual condition of affairs in Asia and at the anti- podes; and, finally, from New York have we disseminated the information so gained over the length and breadth of the American Conti- nent for the information of this great and ces- mopolitan nation, Pius the Ninth feels the effects and consequently reads the newspapers, Divorces with Movers ImMprovements,— If the story of the abduction of Mrs. Mead shall prove to be true as related, its worst feature is its Illustration of the atrocious steps that may be taken to secure testimony for a divorce suit. If the charge made against the mother-in-law by the man who declares him- self to have been her agent is not repelled that woman must secure a most unenviable eminence for her heartlessness toward one of her sex. Clearly, however, the whole story is not told yet. Tae Cusan Mass Mertinc.—Whether the stories from Washington concerning the action of the government with regard to Cuba and the Sickles letter and so forth be strictly true or not, the projected mass meeting in behalf of Cuba in this city should be hurried up, Indeed, the rumors in regard to the probable course of the administration onght to stimulate the par- ties who propose this meeting to hasten their arrangements, 80 that the voice of the people may be heard upon the Ouban question just at this critical period. oe Harp Sweanrinc.—It is startling to observe what a Governor has to swear to in Virginia. No less than five oaths are put to him—an oath of fidelity to the State constitution, another to the United States constitution, another against duelling, another that he was not concerned in the rebellion, and a fifth that he will properly perform the duties of his office, Here is a patent remedy against all the evils of government and troubles that States are heirs to. Only pile up the oaths, Keep the Governor swearing, and, you are sure to be safe, Where can we find a more supremely ridiculous fact ? A DETERMINED SUICIDE, At seven o'clock last evening an inquest was held by Coroner Rollins at No. 150 Weat Twelfth street upon the body of Edmund Russell, aged fifty-eight, occupant of the above prem- ises, The evidence showed that at haif-past nine o'clock yesterday @ depnty coroner was called to the honse and on arriving there found that Russell had taken a jarge quantity of laudanum for the purpose of seif-destruction, The doctor endeavored to administer an antidote, but Russell refused to swallow it, stating that he had for some time intended to take this course to end his exist- ence and he was determined to die, The physician secured x and for nearly an Hour room, About fifteen minutes after ten o'clock he sank down in A comatose state, and died at haif- past ten. The evidence further showed that sell, who some time ago lost a considerable money which he had loaned, has been tem inpane; that was empioyed in & down town wholesale grocery, where drugs are Ved up for country merchanw; that about seven O'clock yes- terday morning he left:his residence, ana before re- turing, at nine o'clock, swallowed an ounce of laudanum. After he returned, and before the arri- val of the family pie rk he swallowed two ounces more, The verdict rendered was ‘Suicide by taking laudanam.’ Deceased leaves @ and two adult children, ~ WASHINGTON. RETURN OF THE PRESIDENT. Denia! of the Rumored Subserviensy to Spain. The Cuban Question to he Discussed in the Cabinet. WASHINGTON, Sept, 22, 1860. Attitude of the Administration toward Spain Minister Sickles’ Note to the Regency Suse tained—No Backing Down on the Cubsas Queation, The despatches published in two of the New Yort papers to-day representing our government as being Aisgatisfed with the action of Mintater Sickles ta regard to Cubs, seem tohave no foundation what ever in fact. So faras known the administration w satisfied with the course pursued oy General Sickles, and therefore the statement that his quast belll- gerent attitude would be repudiated by the Pres dent 1s purety sensational, The fact Hs ahah 3 4 despaten sent from here last Sunday con! to condensed form a true statement of the status of the Sickles Cuban negottatton, and nothing has since transpired that changes materially the conattion of affatra, Inquiries to-night in the highest quarters Justify mein making this announcement, Minister Sickles was some time ago tustructed to offer the United States government as a mediator between Spain and Cuba, representations having been made to it by respectable parties who had visited Spain and obtained interviews with prominent personages that tté friendly offices would meet with favor, such offers not being uncommon in our own history aad that of other nations, Minister Sickles approached. the Spanish government upon the subject and had the desired interview. Contrary to European tele- grams there ig no reason for supposing that the Spanish government took offence or haa sought ( involve other governments in its action. 453! Be Cuban Affutrs to Receive the Personal Attone pion of the President, One of tho frst abjects which x Tecetve the at tention of the governmént will be thé Cuban ques tion, This matter having been taken up by inters meddling governments is not likely to add much to the case in favor of Spain. The President will per- sonally examine the question throughout, and will doubtless be much governed by the spiritof the communications. No extra Cabinet meeting will be held on the subject, though tt is probable the ques tion will come up on Friday next. The War Department, No regular dppointment will be made as successor to the late General Rawlins as Secretary of War unt, after the annual report of the Department has been made up. General Sherman’s familiarity with the intricate details of the administration of that branon of the executive is the reason for this delay in the selection of a successor, Tho Late Minister to China Snubbed. Itis understood that Ross Browne, late Minister to China, telegraphed a few days since that he would visit Washington and make some explanations. He ‘was politely informed that he could visit Washing. ton if he pleased, but not officially. At the same time he was advised that he was no longer recog: nized as an ofMfictal of the government. Return of the President. The President and family, accompanted by Gone- ral Porter, arrived here at ten minutes past ten o'clock this morning, The President was accompa: nied s short distance on his journey by Mayor McClellan, of Wheeling; A. W. Campbell, and several other gentlemen of prominence, At Grafton the President and family took tea, after which they re mained some time seated in the open space in the rear of the special car, admiring by moonlight the sublime mountatn sceuery along that portion of the Toad. At the Relay House the Presidential car was attached to the Washington train from Baltimore. A large number of persons were at the depot in this city, and as the President, with Mrs. Grant on bis arm, walked along the platform, each person re spectfully raised his hat. The President, with his family, took his carriage and drove immediately to the Executive mansion, Secretary Oox and Attor ney General Hoar called upon him soon after his return, He subsequently visited the Department of State. Checks against Fraud in the Printing Bureau. Secretary Boutwell is now adding another cheo® to those already suggested by him and in use, which makes the system perfect in guarding against fraud and dishonesty in printing governmont socuritics, &c., in his department. This last and very important check 1s a register attached to the roller of the print- ing press, which indicates the exact number of impressions printed. It 1 also arranged so that if an attempt should be made to get # Jead impression, by using @ small pleoe) of lead, It would at once be detected, and the printer would have to account for it, With this arrangement no impression can be taken without being accounted for, This seems to make perfect the admirable system inaugurated by Secretary Boutwell in regard to the business of printing. By this arrangement the Superintendent of Printing makes a requisition on the custodian for what plates he shall want the next aay, atating the number of the diferent kinds that he shall want, Mr, P, Hammond, the custodian, who has a perfecs system of keeping the account of plates delivered and received, enters them upon his book, giving the description, number of subjects on each plate, number of each plate and the whole number of plates called for by the requisition. This book is also a receipt for the cus todian, the Superintendent of Printing being re quired to sign it on receiving the plates, At the close of business each day the plates are returned to the custodian, who gives the Superintendent a re- celpt for the same, These plates are, immediately after being counted and examined by the custodian, placed ina vault upon which are three locks, The custodian takes the key to ye of them, the Superin- tendent of Engraving and Pri inting takes one and @ representative of the Treasurer's office takes the other, The vault is openea and locked in the pres ence of all three of these parties, so that it Is impose sible for any plate to be taken by any evil disposed person, With the additional check of the Register and other safeguards thrown sround the printing, it would seem almost impossible for anything wrong to grow out of that business, The paper, which i manufactured expressly for the government, to be used for legal tender notes, fractional currenoy, &0,, has in tt water marks, &c., which will be preven® ative againat counterfeiting. Internal Revenue Decision. Commissioner Delano decides that the serial aum- ders of packages must not change with the change of proprietors of distilleries. Payment of November Coupons Anticipated, The Secretary of the Treasury'has authorized the payment of coupons falling due on the lat of No» vember upon a rebate of interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, A Sensation Story Refuted. An article recently appeared in a Northern papar entitied “Prospective Description of the Cabinet; Another House Wanted." No snoh letter addressed, to Secretary Fish, as alleged, has been received by him, or by any member of the Cabinet; nor is there: the least justification for connecting the name of Secretary Cox with any such {dle proposal, The Demand for Small Notes, In order to supply the pressing demand for small notes for circuiation the Comptroller of the Our. rency {s willing to receive notes of large denomina- tons from national banks (thetr own issue) and give them in (xchange notes of smaller denominations, ‘with ag little delay as possible, Every facility will be afforded to the banks in making such exchanges that the public may be accommodated with small notes, Interesting Billiard Mntch. Messrs, Phelan ana Deery played an interesting game of billiards this evening at Miller's saloon, 600° points, push shot barred. Mr. Phelan won in twenty- one innings, Mr. Deery scoring 46