The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1869, Page 6

—— NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic Geapatches must be addreasod New York Heras. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume X AMUSEMENTS THiS EVEHING. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and Ih sirest.— ‘Tue SouoL, FOX SCANDAL, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tut SuORMAKER OF ToULoUsE—HANDY ANDY. GRAND OF A MOUSE, cornar ot #izhi avenue and rE wa THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Tuk QUEEN OF BRants, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, 14 BAKES DE TL REL street.—LES MousquE ROOTH'S THEATRE, 234s Leau. betwoen Si and th ava.— ifth avenue and Twenty- GERMAN STANT THEATRE, Nos. 45 aud 47 Bowery= GaRMAN OPRUA—F DEL THEATRE, Fourteenth street 1 OPRSS—MARITANA. and Sixth ave- FORMOSA; Tas on, Barzan woo! M CURIOSITIES, Stroad Thiriiorh at Performance every © PARK THEATRE, Brooklya,— ACADEMY CENTRAL PARK GAR! G6th gis, —PoPULAR GARDEN CoNos! BROOKLYN WINkLa. OF MUSIC,—Rip Vax between 68h and AMERICAN INSTITU Bkating Kiwk, 3d av. and RAND EXHIBITION, E t. Open day and eve SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fith avenue and Mth Street. —EXuiurrt0s OF PAINTINGS. STOR'S OPERA HO E, 201 Bowery.—Comto Na@RO MINSTRELBY, Xo. TO) Vooariss, ammany Buildinw, 14th GRO ECORNTRIOITIES, £0. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, % 585 Broatway.--Exuto- PIAN MINSZELSY, NEGRO C. Aors, & HOOLEY’S OPERA _HOUS! Mingraz.s—Tur COAL HEAvE! —Hooey's 8 eC. NEW Y BOiENOL AND MUSUUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Nw YORK M MALES ONLY (8 OF ANATOMY, 620 DANCE. TR New York, iday, September 24, 1869, tHE NEWS. Europe. - Engiand is su‘fering from acotton famine. Lan- cashire acknowledges a dire distreas tor want of a reasonable supply of the raw material, the London Times, remarking that the current of the trade of the world, w.th its profits, are being revolutionized rapidiy acaimst Great Britain. The religious journals of France regard the defection of Father Byacinthe from the Papacy as @ serious event. fhe Foreign Minister of France has @rrange) Mr. Barlingame a plan of improve- ment tn the conduct of the relations of the French empire with Chiua, and Napoicon’s representatives in that coustry lave been instracted to observe its spirit. The Emperor of France remains, both as a Tuler and statesman, a puzzle to the British press. ‘The buillon in the Bank of France increased 6,700,000 frances, and thatin the vaults of the # of Bogland from Madrid y of General command the position and dip Sickles on the Cuban question attention of the public, Miscellaneous. Prince Ai yesterday moratng i ed the olt wells at F In ihe rnoon the Prince, wi or General of the New Dominion, formally opeacd Heimouth Col- lege, at London. The nan of the Conservati Commit- tee of ../ Published a card m1 in the Ri statement (iat hhe (Canby) sho the teat oavti w Of the Virginia Legisiature. The opinion of Attorney General loar has yeen Fequestod as to tne iegality of ei iitgd States Senators for Virginia wien ure of that State nivets to rauly (he “rig rdment. It is belleved tho #'orney General will ise the elec: Ml | tion of Senators prior to the readmission of the | Brie. Mra, Lucy Morehead Porter hes been appointed postmiatress at Louisville, Ky., Jesse Boyle's com- mussion having been withield. ‘The proposttion tor a Navonal international Ex- position at Washington in 1671 is beiug put into whape. Acommittec of fifteen citizens of Washing- ton vas appointed yesterday to report upon tue best arrangements. Schureman, charged with abstrac dauk notes from the Treasury Dep: found guilty yesterday, bat juigme pended. The Cuban agents in Washington deny Senator Sumner’s intimation that a decree has been issued by the insurgent government maintainiay slavery. ‘The constitution guarantees absoliite personal free- dow to all, Ata celebration of the emancipation anniversary at Dayton, Ohio, yesterday, F H. Ciark, a colored speaker, said that he fouud himself in full accord with the good old democratic party, and had been gdmitted in full standing to the democratic church on demsnding equal education, equal employment and equal ballot for the negro. Despatches haye been received in Ottawa from Lord Granville urging the admission of British Columbta into the Confederation, Governor McDou- gairia to depart for his new datics in the northwest territory in two weeks, and h aged with an American company to run a po lime to Fort Gauy. Numerous outbreaks among the Sndions are re portee. A party of Sioux recently Kilicd a number of Pawneos on the Pawnee reacrvation.. A large force of hostile Indians ts reported in the neighbor- hood of Fort Buiord and outrages are reported ip Montana at che Blackfeet agency and elsewhere, The City. ig wnsigned ment, Was Charles M. Simonson, paymaster of the Uariem | Ratiroad Company, was knocked down and rovved, tn Twenty-sixth street, near Lexington avenue, yes- terday morning about six o'clock, of $10,009, which he had just drawn from the bank to pay off the em- ployés of the road. The robbers were three in num- ber, and on securing thelr booty jumped into a butcher's cart and escaped. A man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of being one of them, but it ~~ was impossible to identity hum. Im the case of the unknown man found dead at pier No. 1 North river, a post mortem examination ‘was made yesterday, which resulted in a verdict that death’ was not produced by wounds, but by drowning. The deceased, it is now known, is not Michael Neibl, the private watchman, as was frat supposed, Neilil being still alive. Timothy Mohide, @ laborer working tn a sand bank in Carrol street, Brooklyn, on Thursday, struck John Fogarty, a cartman, working at the Game place, over the head with a shovel for some | Elizabeth and all through the succeeding his- | amount of money will be required to adjust | the differenees between one part and another, NEW YORK HEKALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. fancied wrong, and death easued yeaterday. Mohide Was arrested. The steamship Olty of Boston, Oaptsin Halcrow, of the Iuman line, will loave pler 45 North river at one P. M., to-morrow, for Queenstown and Liver+ pool, The European mails will close at the Poat Office at twelve M., 25th inat. ‘Tho Nationa! Imo steamsnip Erin, Captain Web- ster, will sau from pler 47 North river at half-past three P. M., on the 25th inat., for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers. The Steamship Hermann, Captain Wenke, will leave Liovoken at two P, M. to-morrow for Bremen via Southampton, The mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M,, 25th inst. ‘The Merchanta’ hue steamship Crescent City, Cap- tain fildreth, will sail from pier 12 North river at three P. M,, to-morrow (Saturday), for New Orieans direct. ‘The stock market yesterday was again greatly excited, the Vanderbilt shares again goimg down at the close of busines’ on the street. Gold rose to 1d4'4, closing finally at 14344. Prominent Arrivals in tho City. Governor Reed, of Florida, and Captain Delano, Of Massachusetts, are at the Astor House, Baron H. A. de Reviere,jof France; Captain Le Roy, of the United States Army, and Thomas E, #loyd, of Savannah, Ga., are at the New York Hotel, General L. B. Frieze, of Providence; Captain Wat son, of steamship China; Cnarlos K. Alioth, of Switzerland, and Dr. A, K. Smith, of the United States Army, are at the Hoifman House, Colonel J, J. Sproull, of Chicago; Colonel J. 4. Loane, of Baltimore, and Samuel Coleman, of Sa- vannah, are at the Coleman House. Colonel W. D, Colt, of Washington; General A. A, Bullitt, Jr., of New Orleans; Colonel A. McKinley, of Kentucky, and ©. C. Alger, of New York, are at the Glenham Hotel. Judge E. Starbuckle, of North Carolina; Judge Charies Mason and Judge W. Murray, of New York; Generai Byron Lafin, of North Carolina; P. Kelley, of the West Indies, and Major D, E. Wiley, of Boston, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major Frank Taylor, of the United States Army, and Captain A. 8. Garfield, of Ohio, are at the St. Charles Hote 4. P, Purnana, of Boston; S, H. Lefevre, of Green- wich, ana |. Green, of the United States Navy, are at the Westminister Hotel. J. Edgar Thomson, and J. 8, Thomas, of Philadel- phia; G. K. Jewett, of Bangor, and T. S. Faxton, of Utica, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prominent Departures. Count Colobiano for West Point; Coionél C. EB. cables will operate in the samo way upon inter- national financial matters, as the telegraph wires upon those of each country. Still another movement has been suggested for extending the use of the telegraph in the {nterest of commerce—that is, to keep the shipping agents and masters in all the ports of the world advised of tho rise and course of storms and of the electrical and atmospherical condition of different parts of the globe. It will be seen at once that if a universal system of this character be established there must follow a great saving of life and wealth, as well ag of time in the voyages of vessels. These are some of the changes being effected through the magactic telegraph ; but far greater are to come. The most important will be, probably, the revolution in ourrency and financial matters. Is it not necessary, then, that this mighty agent of modera civilization and progress should be in the hands and under the control of government? It must come to that, and tho sooner tho better. The Ecumenical, Council—Trouble tu Shurch, Vhe attitude assumed by Father Hyacinthe towards Rome has startled not Paris only but Evrope and the world. It was well known that in France, in Italy, in Germany and in the United States there were many good Catholics who looked forward with alarm to the Council which is to meet in Rome in December of this year. All those who, in the Catholic Church, believe that progress in science, in art, in literatura, in life is or ought to be in harmony with religion—and there are many such in the United States and all over Enurope—feel disgusted with the spirit which is now dominant near the person of his Holiness the Pope. By all such the announcement of the Holy Father to the offect that he intended to convene a general council of the Church was received with suspicion and fear. It was well known that the Pope was completely under the control of the ultramontanists, The the Smith, for Memphis; Robert Raimen, and Oolonei 8. Spence, for Baltimore, and Professor Thorpe, for St. Louis. The Telograph—A Finaucial Revolution. While financial writers and political econo- mists are puzzling their brains and debating about what is the best form of currency, and the proper volume of it, to suit the demands of trade, the magnetic telograph is beginning to work out a great revolution both in the inter- nal financial operations of different countries and in those which may be termed interna- tional. Indeed, we are on the eve of the great- est revolution ever seenin the history of the world in monetary affairs. Theories based upon the state of things before the telegraph came inio operation will have to be abandoned, and statesmen, financiers and writers on cur- rency must construct others adapted to the changes which this mighty agent is producing. In former times specie was shipped at con- siderable cost for freight and insurance, and at some risk, to settle the balance of trade between countries or sections of a country, or bills of exchange have been used at a groat loss to those who needed them and a great profit to bankers, exchange brokers and the countries having the balance of trade in their favor. In times before the telegraph, rail- roads and steamship communication were known (the loss on one hand and the profit on the other of exchange, even between countries comparatively near each other, were large. Five to ien per ceat was not unfrequently the rate, and sometimes even higher. And so, as we have seen not long ago, currency had a different value of two, three or more per ceat at diiferent parts of the country, according to the scarcity or abundance of it and the demand for it. Financiers, great trading communities, and even goy- ernments, have made this subject of exchange a study for the profits to be gained, This has beed so especially with the Bank of England, the financiers of London and the rhineat. From the time of Queen tory of and the great object of the British has been to control the exchanges of the world to their own advantage. It is this which more than anything else has made Lon- don tie moneyed centre of the world, given | the Bank of England its enormous wealth and power and makes all countries tributary to the vast riches of England and her imetropolis, But, as was said, a mighty revolution has commenced, By the rapidity of communica- | tion exchange has been tending more and | more toward equalization between different countries aud sections of the same country. Where five or more per cent was formerly the rate, one or two is now deemed high enough. This, however, is only the beginning, The time is near at hand when almost all the balances of (rade will be settled through the telegraph, when the great financial centres, such as New York and London, will be the clearing houses for the transactions of the | world, and when a comparatively small The operation will be similar to that of the Clearing House of this city, where the balance of the business of the banks is truck every day, and where transactions to the amount of a hundred to a bundred and fifty millions a week are adjusted by a few millions of cur- rency or specie. With such a system applied to the whole country, as it willbe in time, with the constantly extending use of the tele- graph, much’ less currency will be needed. All the large commercial or financial opera- tions will be made through the telegraph with- | out the movement of money, and by simply depositing balances at moneyed centres, which | can be used through the rapid agency of tele- | graphic communication as readily as if in the hands of parties, We have referred to some of the effects already produced on the exchanges, Here wo may notice, too, the proposal of the Bank of England to pay the dividends on British con- sols through the use of the telegraph, thus avoiding the old, cumbrous and inconvenient mode of making payments at one spot and requiring the personal appearance of the bond- holders or their attorneys at that. place. Another proposition is to transmit money orders ata cheap rate through the postal telegraph system, as organized under tho control of government, This will be carried out, undoubt- edly, not only throughout the different parts of England and other countries, but between dif- ferent commercial nations a8 well, The ocean Encyclical and Syllabus of 1864 were well remembered. Nothing had happened since that time to indicate that liberal principles had grown in favor. Much had happened to prove the contrary. Later encyolicals, called forth by the reform movements in Austria, Italy and Spain, gave abundant evidence that the senti- ments of the Pope and his College of Cardi- nals were more of the fifteenth than of the nineteenth century. It was not necessary, however, that a general council should submit to any narrow-minded dictation. The Church in general council might be stronger than the Pope and hia immediate advisers. The broad and apparently generous terms of the Pope's invitation to the Council led many to hope that the real object of the Council was, if possible, to set the Church in harmony with the age, and thus give it a new start under happier and more hopeful auspices. Time has not encourazed these later hopes, while it has increased and intensified the early fears. Murmurs of discontent have been loud and general. South Germany has been brought to the verge of secession, The advance party in all lands, the party which in the last fifty years has worked wonders for the Church, is chilled and disappointed, Love of order and of unity has alone kept them silent, The loud and emphatic protest and the decided action of Father Hyacinthe have, therefore, acted like a bombshell. The silence has been broken, and tho probability of another great schism in the Church of Rome has become the great world-question of the moment. A monk of Wittemberg shook the world and divided the Church in the sixteenth century. It will not be wonderful if a monk of Notre Dame shakes the world and divides the Church in the ninetoonth century, Hyacinthe may yet be as great a name as that of Luther. A little more wisdom at the Vatican might have pre- vented the first great Reformation. It will be well for the Catholie Church if the wisdom then wanting be found now. Is it rash to suppose that the Council may yet save the Church? Let the liberals, the men of advanced ideas, present themselves in full force. Let them speak out. Let our Ameri- can bi specially give expression to that. liberalism which has its true home on this Continent. Let them teil the Pope and the assembled bishops how Catholicism and liberty go hand in hand in the freest and greatest nation the world has yet known, Let the United States be fairly and fully repre- sented, aud it will not be wonderful if the Pope and his medieval advisers be compictely discomfied. Father Hyacinthe in that case will be a blessing to the Ciurch. hops Cuingsx.—In his opening speech at the late Syracuse Convention Mr. Samuel J. Tilden took pretty strong ground against the intro- duction of the Chinese into this country as coolies and as voluntary immigrants. We believe, too, that an anti-Mongolian resolution was in the platform as prepared for the Con- vention, bat it does not appear in the platform adopted. The reason, we understand, is that it was thought best to have a clean fight on “Unele Tom,” aud that in mixing him up with the Chinaman it was ‘‘getting too near the white man for a fair fight on the almighty nigger.” Let the rank and file bear this in mind—they are to settle with Sambo now and with John Chivaman hereafter. No Danogr. nglish journals express, with great interest in our affairs, the embar- rassment that a war wiih Spain would be to us, while it would be no additional burden or disaster to Spain, and the Spanish press con- siders such a war as if it might be merely a repetition of the bombardment of Valparaiso, From the opposite side of the question this rontter appears to us ia quite another shape, We could occupy Cuba in thirty days with fifty thousand men if necessary. As for the sea, they will cite the case of the Alabama to show what would happen to our commerce, Thanks to radical legislation, there is but little commerce to protect; but our navy would not be engaged in blockading two thousand miles of coost line, and might attend to the privateers. Tae Teerm@ie CaNapians.—The unconquer- able braves across the line, animated the other day with the sublime fury of a patriotic rage, rushed out and tore an American flag to tat- ters. No account of the number of killed and wounded has yot come to hand, but it is admit- ted that thia balances the achievemonts of Lundy's Lave and Chippewa, “ee”. ec ee enennedl Tho Cuban Quostion at Homo and Abroad. An English Treaty of Commerce with Ronpretes on tHE Orry RawRoap Cars.— The Cuban question is likely to be for a time a very lively one. Spain, according to the latest accounts and the tone of a portion of the Spanish press, is excited and threaten- ing. All at once the government and people of Spain appear to be indignant at the friendly interposition or offered mediation of the United States. Some of the newspapers talk of war, even, and dwell with pride upon the sur- prising prowess of the ‘Iberian race.” All this Boabadil extravagance would only cause a smile of ridicule if it- were not for the pos- sible sad consequences to the Cubans and to Spain herself. The attitude of a portion of tho Spanish press may embarrass the govern- ment of Spain and cause more useless bloodshed in Cuba; but it will have no effect upon this country or the ultimate destiny of Cuba. Tho Spanish journalists imagine they can frighten the United States government from its pur- pose or policy, and a part of the British and European press, with the so-called Thunderer ‘atthe head, has turned tail and deigned to give this country advice as to the terrible dan- gers which threaten us from the indignation and power of Spain, The old jealousy of and hatred to the American republio crops out here again, as it always does whenever there is a prospective difficulty between this country and any European nation. Weare cousins and people of the same blood and all that sort of blarney when the English want anything of us or want to avoid any difficulty with us; but whenever there isa chance of fomenting war either among ourselves or with any foreign Power the British press vever fajils to stir up the strife and to give the United States an underhand blow. This is just the case now with regard to Cuba, as it was in the case of the Southern rebellion. But all the small thunder of the Spanish, British and French press is un- derstood on this side of the Atlantic, and will not terrify us in the least. If it wore real thunder we should not be terrified, but we know it is only the sort of stuff theatrical managers manu- facture to give effect to their spectacles. Nor do the bogus reports from Washington about the administration backing down in its Cuban policy, or about General Sickles being alarmed and taking back his notes to the Spanish governmeat, amount to anything. They are simply canards invented in the inte- rest of Spain or to damage the administration, Our despatch from Washington published yesterday gives the facts in the matter. The President and his Cabinet hold the same ground with regard to Cuba, and ap- prove of the action of General Sickles. Nor is there any reason to believe that the Spanish government contemplates taking any step likely to involve itself in difficulties with the United States. The fuss about Cuba and this country in some of the newspapers of Madrid is sensa- tional and made for political effect. This will all subside. If Spain will not accept the offer of the United States the recognition of the Cubans as belligerents and the independence of the island are inevitable. Our government has not taken steps to stop the war and to secure the independence of Cuba without mature consideration, and it would be absurd to suppose that this great country would back down irom its policy. The Vanderbilt Bronze. One of our morning contemporaries, fhe Times, objects to our proposition of the trans- fer of the Vanderbilt bronze to our beautiful Park, and contends that this splendid monu- ment is just where it ought to be—over the central section of the main front of the rail- road depot of St. John’s square. We think not. With the growth of the city and the ever- increasing mercantile pressure down town for more room, we apprehend that a few years hence the railroad depot at St. John’s square will have to be sold and converted into stores; that the Hudson River Railroad Company will be offered a bargain to leave which cannot be resisted; that the depot building will then be torn down and remodelled .or raised several stories higher for the business of jobbing houses, and then what will become of the “Vanderbilt bronze?” If not given or sold to the city for the Park it will be sold as old metal, so remorseless are the domands of trade. Hence, while Commodore Vanderbilt is still among us, hale and hearty, and while Captain Degroot, a rare genius in the fine arts, is still on hand to superintend the work, we repeat our proposition for the removal of the ‘‘Van- derbilt bronze” to an appropriate site over some entrance to or over an approach to some conspicuous bridge within our great Park. The objection that this ‘‘bronze” is only a monument to tho achievements of a private citizen is of no force; for in trath the “bronze” is a monument of the greatest ma- terial inventions and enterprises of the nine- teenth century. In other words, this beautiful work is a monument of the genius and pro- gresa of the age, and in this light it will bea valuable legacy to posterity. The Park is the place for it, because this monument should not be lost, and we know of no other place on the island where there is any security for its pre- servation, A Comprimentr to THR Usirep Srares.— At the Universal Peace Congress, now in ses- sion at Lausanne, Victor Hugo toasied the republic of the United States. ‘He felt sure that, imitating the example of America, Lurope would eventually become a federative republic.” Victor Hugo is not alwaya right. He is, we know, a better novelist than poli- tician. In this case, however, he shows that he is both a good historian and a good philosopher. Crowned heads must become fewer and fewer, the peoples will be drawn closer to each other and a European republic will come as a necessity and a blessing. Our example hag already produced fruit. Tat TRar,—Some weeks since we referred to the excellent arrangement made in Park row for crushing an unwary pedestrian between the horse cars and the Post Office fence, Yosterday we gave the Coroner’s verdict on an old gentloman of seventy, crushed and killed atthat very place. How many are to fall into the trap before something is done to prevent the possibility of mishap? Whiskey aNd Laoer,—All that the late Syracuse Convontion had to say on theao im- portant subjects was that if we must have registration and excise laws they ought to be uniform throughout the State. “Qall you this backing your friends?” Nay, it looks like hedging for the tempera nce pexty vote, Gpale—Minoing Lane Against Mujor Gen- eral Sicklos. We learn by oable telegram from London that the British government is engaged in the negotiation of a new treaty of commerce with Spain, and that the instrament will soon be completed. Tho republican- constitution of Spain recognizes the principle of free trade, and the British diplomatic movement now undertaken may be regarded pretty generally, particularly on the other side of the water, as an expression of the present desire of tho Cabinet of St, James to keep the people in free accord with the international trade spirit of the age, as evolved and elaborated by their parliamentary reformers and sanctioned a few years since by the conclusion of the Cobdon- Bonaparte paper in Paris. It may be inferred, however, and with much probability of accu- racy in the deduotion, that the English idea is not quite so brond and comprehensive. The Cabinet In Madrid has plenty of trouble on hand without entering on the work of intricate calculations as to port duties, freights, money averages, the rates of exchange, with the dif- ferences betweon granulated and raw sugar, and syrup and molasses, or about canes and coolies, and white labor and the rest. Modern Spain has not been much at figures, any how, of late, inclining more and more to return to the simple rule of profit and loss observed by her early explorers, from Cortez down, of take all you can carry away and count the sum total when you get home. On the other hand, John Bull is a most accu- rate arlthmetician, John takes care of the farthings, resting assured that by his so doing the pounds sterling will take care of them- selves, and has always endeavored to impress the value of this maxim upon the peoples of the world—in Europe, Asia, Africa and America—charging them at the highest rates for his tuition, even when he found thom inapt or unwilling to learn of him. The truth is Mincing lane wants sugar—a steady supply and cheap—and as Mincing lane is an exceedingly powerful interest in Britain Minc- ing lane has advised old John, ‘‘per circular of this date,” that Spain is about to lose Cuba, and that tho loss of Cuba to Spain will terribly derange all the system of bookkeeping now practised in ‘the Lane,” set up the prices of sugar, make the great quotations “irregular” and thus interfere with wages, family jointures, the rate of interest in Threadneedle street, and dear knows what besides. Sugar, too, will be made very dear, and who can say but that the men of Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool and the other centres of manufac- ture will demand an increase of wages so as to secure a little sweetening for their tea with plenty of sugar for the Sunday’s plum pudding ? Such are the moving causes in Mincing lane, and hence, toa very great extent, the British outcry relative to the Sickles note, with the British desire to stand behind Spain and against the Cubans, if she can. England has another object in view. Her con- cern for Cuba is prompted by a desire to—if she may—hedge round the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, and also to “‘head off” the coming interests of the American people in that quarter. The acquisition of Cuba is with Britain a ter- ritorial prompting old as the time of Elizabeth. When Drake buccaneered in the Spanish Main ho ascertained the value of the “gem,” as it was at that day, and after his return home his advice to the ‘‘maiden” Queen to send out and take it, with the present of a few small boxes of Spanish specie, brought him a royal condona- tion for his piracies, with the commission of admiral royal navy, England did send out to Cuba, but failed to take ft then. In 1762 Earl Albemarle, with thirty-two men-of-war and twenty thousand troops, took Havana, held it for a short time and restored it to Spain after carrying away from the city three miliion pounds in gold. England has had an eye in the same direction, more or less, since, and, very naturally, does not wish that the notes of Mincing lane shall be depreciated in value by the notes of Major General Daniel E. Sickles, John Bull does not care either for the Cubans or Spaniards, but be is deeply conc red in belalf of Mincing lane and the sugar averages. A ‘Core Yanxex Triok—That of the Massachusetts republicans in dodging the rum question, They “y they are a national party and fight upon national issues, and can’t be diverted from them to such local questions as prohibitory liquor laws on rum, whiskey, | lager beer and hard cider. As in Maine, the | nigger in Massachusetts is stronger than rum. At It Aoaty.—Spain, says the London Times, has ‘met an imagined affront with immediate deflance.” Of course she has. But | is that anything new? What else has she been | doing since she has been Spain? Is not this her | most natural impulse, to imagine affronts and | defy them—the very thing that has made her contemptible and ridiculous in every emergency of national affairs that required some sense of the plain and practical? ‘Pray, look better, sir,” quoth Sancho; ‘those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.” But the knight was resolved to see something else, just as hi countrymen of to-day are resolved to see what they please in the plain windmills of a diplomatic | note ; for should they see only windmills they must perforce forego the desperate resolve to “engage ina dreadful unequal combat against them all.” Exptosive Ous—Kerosent ano Napn- | THA.—From the report of the chemist | employed by the Board of Health to examine | the quality of kerosene oil sold by the various | dealers in that article, the dangerous quality | of the compound appears to be pretty exten- | sively in the market in this city and Brooklyn, There is hardly a day that we do not hear of | some women and children being burned fatally | by the careless use of this article, [¢ would | seem from the report referred to, which we | published yesterday, that it may not be sim- ply carelessness which leads to these disasters as much as to the explosive properties of the material itself. For example, it turns out that it is not kerosene which is sold under that name, but naphtha, a most destructive article, liable to explode, like gunpowder, at any moment, By looking over the list of par- ties who sell this dangerous article, aq} reported hy the chomist of the Board of Health, people will be advised where not to "pny keragone, and this is something for w>’,ch the public is indebted to the Bourd of Health, | provided that the public are wivy enough to | tako advantage of the informayya, | dissolved. It is really alarming to notice the boldness of thieves nowadays. Their operations aro ex* tending and their practice becoming more daring day by day. So prevalent have been robberies of lato on our city railroad care that timid citizens are becoming alarmed, and with some reason, too. That many of the conductors are in league with the thieves ie the opinion of many of our citizens, A couple of nights since, on the Bleecker street line, while one of the cars was passing through Crosby street, one of those rascals attempted to make away with a gentloman’s watoh, but was disappointed, and instead of obtaining the coveted property he was tumbled over the back end of the car, and is perhaps now suffering from a broken head, or even worse. The same night a gentleman from the Astor House bad his pocket relieved of a check for two hundred dollars while travelling in an Eighth avenue car. The instances we have olted ara of daily ocourronce, and it is time that something should be done to stop them. The oar deteo- tives of the Metropolitan Police should hestir themselves in this matter and exercise more vigilanoe than they at present exhibit. Tux DiergreNog.—There were conventions in Massachusetts and in New York on the same day, and though we are far from assent- ing to all that Sumner said, we must admit that for his speech in the Massachusetts Conven- tion there is no equivalent in the proceedings of our convention of the democracy. So far as concerns the exhibition of the nobler intel- lectual activities, even fanaticism outs a finer figure than mere cunning trained from ita cra- dle in the games of the wirepullers, Tok Gunrowper Man ror Sratz Prisow Insprotor.—It seems the Democratic State Convention finally decided to nominate the gunpowder than for State Prison Inspector. His election by perhaps seventy thousand majority will surprise nobody. Thorefore, with that expression of popular opinion fa his favor, let us have a thorough overhauling of the State Prison system as it exists in this State—a grand explosion of all the corrup- tions, extra judicial exercise of power, cruelty to prisoners, negligence of duty on the part of officials, malfeasance in office, and in regard to all other abuses that have been allowed to creep intd* the management of our State prisons, This will prove a gunpowder plot in which all people who take an interest in wholesome prison discipline will cheerfully assist. Anorugr Exrenston.—The Board of Health has granted another respite to the intolerable “rendering” nuisance. The fault, perhaps, is ta the scientific nose. The Board does not know what a nuisance is. It suffers itself to listen too much to the arguments of those who are ready to show that everything disgusting and horrible is in the highest degree healthy. We need some direct legislation on the subject of carrying on, within the limits of thickly popn- lated cities, trades that are nuisances in the very nature of things. All the class of trades that make commodities from the refuse of animal matter should bo banished to a distance of at least twenty miles from the City Hall, Commissioner Manierre deserves especial praise for the one vote cast against this extension. Tus Op Fsttows Ur Again.—Jefferson and Jackson make their usual appearance ia the democratic platform. Their astonishing genius was never more strongly shown than ia the fact that their mere names do so much for a party in the absence of any pretence to fol- low their teachings or imitate their patriotie examples, TAMMANY SvOOESSFUL ON THE MAIN PoInt— The endorsemont of Governor Hoffman at Syracuse. Thia looks to 1872. All the rest ia mere leather and prunella, in May.—Ross Browne has full peraia- sion from the government to come to Washington if be chooses, only he must not come there all the way from San Fran- cisco in an official capacity. As a private citizen he is perfectly welcome at the national capital, and may probably even get the run of the White House, except the kitchen, which, according to traditionary usage, is reserved for favorite politicians. The State Depart- ment has intimated to Mr. Browne that he may come to Washington if he pleases, but that his official connection with the government is Ross Browne has probably dis- covered what a fatal thing it is for a diplomat to make a mistake. AN Important Disoovery.—The republicaa factions of this city appear to be coming together, It is said they have made the important discovery that while they may be able to do something on our local tickots, though not much, if united, they will be of no earthly account in the election if they remain divided. The arithmetic man has beem among them. Tax Wau. Sireer Excrremmnr continued yesterday, the ‘‘bears” being very elate with their recent victory in the stock market, They have not fared as well in the gold market, where the ‘‘bulls” put the price to 144}, Ia some quarters it is conjectured that the “‘bears”* in the one are the ‘‘bulls” of the other, so that adouble triumph has been achieved in the receut counter movements of stocks and gold. | Tux astronomical expedition that went ay the Pacific coast to see the eclipse has returag d with the report that Alaska ia a cloutig conntry. Indge Kamonda, Rev. Dr, Wines, Dr. Orised' a, Dr. Francia Leiber, R. L. Dugdaje, Sinclair Tour ey and Francia Cutter, members of the BxocuV've Com- mittee of this association, held they: reguiur monthly necting at the Bible House W.st evening. Dr. Briscom presided and Mr. Dugdale acted as s00- retary. The groater part of the evening was devoted to discussions, which amounted to nothing fn the end, concerning the present condition of the State pri- — the whole, in fact, being & rehash of the pros ceedings bei", ‘py the conierence commiitees tm Albany 4¢¢"aple of weeks ago, and which proooe tugs have, already been published, A lev” of from General Hammond, stating that the Cons rence Committee of Inspectors would meet at SI. Sing on the 9th of October, was read. Judge Ramonds rehearsed the part he and his col- | leagues took at Albany, at the conference, wherae upon & reat deal of talk eusued about the SaRoine, u ing ment of tho inspection committees, the au finaily left over for fatare consideration, A series of resoluuions advocating the propriety of &@ national congress, to assemble in London in Juno, 1871, the congress to decide upon 6 uni r ap A saa of ortminals ia prison, Wore over, ‘too wcoting they adjqusmed