The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1869, Page 6

ee va 2 giv YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic espatches must be addressed New York Hera. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Letters and packages should be properly aealed. i oe Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Br ox, Tae RAILROAD TO RUIN, Matine WOOD'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Broadway, corner ‘Thirtieth #t.—Matines daily. Performance every evening. ‘AY. —FORMOSA; 2 WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ant 2W:h strect— PRooREsS. POWERY THEATRI ‘VEreRan OF WATER! PRooipaA—TuB ACABEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street.—HRRRMANN, THE PRESTIDIGICATRUE. FRENCH THEATRE, Mth st. and Sth ov.—Enovisn Orena—Matince-MAnTHa. Evening—Boaratan Gren. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth aveaus and Ee stroet.—PATRIE, NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowory.—MAs- ANIELLO, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Tuk DRaMa OF UNOLE Tom's Canrx. Matinee at 2. 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Y, Fifth avenue and Ith street.—EXMiuIT10N OF Tuk NINE MUSES. , Empire ig HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Wir Wan WINKLE, 4c, NEW YORK MUSGUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— BOUNCE AND ART LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 620 Broadway.—FEMALES ONLY LX ATTENDANOE. TRIPLE SHEET. Si ahew York, Saturday, Onaiec » Sanie: THE NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October 1. The Prussian Diet assombled tn session, King ‘William delivering a speech peaceful in words, yet firm for the sustention of German unity. Fifteen Spanish legislators are commissioned to report on the merits of the different candidates for the throne. ‘Two vessels bound for New Orleans were damaged during the petroleum fire at Bordeaux. The Spanish republican movement is likely to prove a failure. ‘The first shipment of the present season of new tea from China arrived in England. The race for the Newmarket, England, handicap ‘was weil contested and furnished good sport. Our special correspondenee by mail from Europe Published to-day supplies varied and very interest- ing details of our cable telegrams to the 181 of Sep- temper. Cuba. The expedition under General Chrysto, which Bailed from New York on Monday in the Ajabama, arrived off the Florida coast yesterday, and was Joined by the Lilian and Teazer, with 1,600 men aboard, under Gacouria. Ali three vessels put to sea during the day for the Cuban coast. Another expedition, under Steedman and Magruder, is embarking from a Gulf por.. Miscellaneous. ‘The October statement of the public debt shows the decrease since September 1, to have been $12,509,387. General Canby issued an order yesterday that the Legislature of Virginia, immediately upon its assembling, shall elect clerks for poth the Senate and Honse of Delegates, This indicates that the Legislature is to organize permanently by the elec- tion of officers, It is said that the test oath is to be exacted from the clerks of the Legislature, ‘The democracy of Texas repudiate the convention of democratic editors who recently nominated a full State ticket. A serious disturbance occurred in Philadelphia last evening between two rival political organiza- tions, Several persons were injured, but none fatally. A private letter from Greenville, Tenn., says Andy Johnson will certainly be eiected Sen- ator from that State. The main opposition to him is Gumong the bitter rebels, Who cannot forgive his energetic operations as Military Governor during the ‘war. General John ©. Robinson is proposed as the can- Gidate on the republican ticket for Secretary of State, in place of George William Curtis, who has Geclined the nomination. ‘The story of a compromise on the Massachusetts Benatorship having been effected between Senator ‘Wilson and Ben Butler fs said to be untrue, The boiler of the engine used for driving the machinery at the State Fair at Indianapolis, (nd., exploded yesterday afternoon, killing nineteen per- Bons and wounding about 100 others. Prince Arthur’s hunting excursion was highly @ucoessful, the party having bagged nearly 400 ducks in two days. On the arrival of the Prince at Brantford, Canada, yesterday, he was met by the chiefs of the Six Nations Indians, resplendent in war paint and feathers, who at once seized upon his Royal Highness and made bim a chief of their tribe, The work upon the coffer dam which the zovern- ment Is building on the rapids of the Mississippt at Moline, Ill, has been suspended by the carrying away of about one hundred feet of the dam. The Joss is about $150,000, and 800 men have been thrown @ut of employment by the disaster. The cali for a meeting of tha National Irish Re- Publican Association, to be beld in New York on the @0th inst., 1s oMcially denounced as afraud by the ehatrman’of the Execative Committee, , The government, it is stated, has taken measures 0 capture the steamer Telegrafo, which has been @epredating on American commerce recently. She ‘Was lying at Tortola some time ago ander the guns of a British war vessel. A letter from one of the crew of the United States ship Sabine states that there has been no mutiny on that vesse!, and the crew are perfectly g@atisfed with the treatment received from their ‘omcers. / The Committee of Fifteen appointod to outline a “Plan for the Washington Exposition held a meeting Bast night and took the first ateps towards carrying (Out the idea. Our navy las at cast one steamship which is able to make good time with falls alone. Commander Lace, of the Juniata, in a letter to the Navy Depart. ment, extols the seagoing qualities of his ship and Says that as a sailing vessel she has proved a decided puccess. Lady Thorn trotted at Narraganset Park yester- “against American Girl, Goldsmith Maid ana en NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, George Paimer, winning the race in turee straight heats, Yn Thucsday night tho National Bank of Nor- walk, Conn., was entered by burglars and $30,000 stolen. The City. Crofton river has been so much replenished by the late rains that there need no longer be any fear of a scarcity of water in tho city provided the people con- tinue to use it economically. Marshal Barlow notified the Collector yesterday that he would not require the detention of me steamer Enterprise any longer, as he had received no further Instructions from Washington. Clearance papers have been granted and she will probably sail this morning under American colors, which will protect her from the Hornet, lying off the coast in watch for her. ‘The decree of divorce in the Fisher divorce case was Vacated yesterday by order of Judge Gilbert, in the Brooklyn courts, on the ground that the defend- ant, James W. Fisher had induced his wife to apply for the decree by fraud and misrcpresentation. The parties who participated in obtaining the fraudulent divorce are to be indicted, Affairs in Wall street yesterday were much quieter, and the prospects were encouraging for a satisfac- tory adjustment of the diMcuittes. The only failure announced was that of Lockwood & Co., and tt was Toeported that the firms of Smitn, Gould, Martin & Co., and William Heath & Co., would effect a com- promise with their creditors in ashort time. It 1s expected that by Monday matters will have assumed their normal condition, ‘Tue stock market yesterday was active and strong. Gold was tn good demand between 130 and 1305; by importing merchants, The steamship Ville de Paris, Captain Sarmont, Will sal! from pler 50 North river at half-past one o'clock to-day for Brest and Havre. The mails for France will close at the Post Ofice at twelve M. The steamship Blenville, Captain Baker, at pier 36 North river, and the George Cromwell, Captain Vaill, at pier No. 9 North river, sail at three P, M. to-day for New Orleans; and the Circassia, Captain Ellis, at pler 11 East river, leaves at two P. M. for the same port, Prominent Arrivals In the City. Baltazzi Effendi, of the Turkish Legation, and Marquis and Marquise de Canlssy, of France, aro at the Albemarle Hotel. Baron Lederer and Dr. Bulkley, of Washington, are at the Clarendon Hotel. Judge Abbott, of Boston, is at the Brevoort House. Colonel J. Vail, of Baltimore; Judge T. Hyde, of Buffalo; Captain J. N. Abbey, of Cincinnati; Colonel G. Rupp, of Meadville, Pa.; Colonel Samuel 0. Harding, of Catifornia, and M. L. Tracey, of the United States Navy, are at the Metropolitan Hotel, Judge Kush R. Sloane, of Sandusky; General Spencer F. Baird, of Washington ; C, T. Hooker, of San Francisco, and 8, L. Bayard, of New Jersey, are at the Glenbam Hotel, General Ludlie, of Chicago; D. B. Carpenter, of Cincinnati ; C. Crosiey, and Albert Spear, of Eng- land, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. J. Fisher, of Baltimore; Dr. J, B. Mears, of Philadelphia ; Chas, Parrish, of Wilkesbarre, and Josiah Morris, of Alabama, are at the Hoffman House. Rey, R. E, Terry, of Wilmington, N. C., and James McEdwards, of St. Catharine's, are at the Coleman House. A.J, Creswell, Postmaster General, of Washing- ton; J. B. Upton, of Boston; State Senator Stan- ford, of New York; 't, Lyle Dickey, of Ottowa, IIL, and Dr. W, A. Bell, of London, are at the Astor House, Judge W. T. C. Otis, Amasa Stone, Jr, and J. H. Devereaux, of Cleveland; W. ¥. Allen, of Albany; J.P. Handy and R. C. Parson, of Cleveland; A. D. White, of Syracuse; ex-Senator J. B. Chaffee, of Colorado, and Rey. Charles L, Hutchins, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Casserley, of California, ts at the St. James Hotel. Prominent Departures, Senator Bayard, for New Hampshire; Colonel vu, 3. Tompkins and Col. W. H. Reynolds for Provi- dence, R. 1.; Colonel Gosloff, for Bridgeport; W. H. Hamson, for Philadelpbia; C, Morton Stewart, for #altimore; Colonel Larktn, for Boston; Judge Beales, for Utica; Judge Caldwell, for Pottaville; Colonel Hall, for Philadelphia; S. Cochrane, for Nevada, and J. M. Beach, of Albany, Oregon, for San Francisco. The Snarl in Wall Street—Tho Secretary of the Treasary. It would not be taking an adequate measure of the recent event in Wall street to regard it as merely a pitch and toss between the Wall street gamblers. Those gentlemen pitch and toss a great deal, and sometimes recklessly, but never for such stakes as were involved in this occurrence. They are not up to these figures. Whoare the Wall street gamblers? Commodore Vanderbilt can scarcely be put in the category, nor the firm of Baring Brothers & Co. ; but we find that the former was in the straggie deeper than was consistent with the preservation of his equanimity, while, as one of the wonders of the age, the London firm, through the telegraph, went in with ten mil- lions of that government gold that Mr. Bout- well would notsell. Here, then, are the greatest financial names of the time involved in a trans- action equal to the value of all the property in some of our great States; and the names and the magnitude of the operation equally lift it out of the atmosphere in which the ordinary financial gambler displays his little bubbles, This was one incident of a collision between the great financial interests of the country and the ideas of a Secretary of the Treasury who has a sort of cast-iron theory of finance. It is many days now since all financial possibilities waited upon the answer to the one question— What will the Secretary do? Ata time when all the crops of the country are to be moved money should be plentiful, and it is even quite recon- cilable with the stability of prices for a cur- rency such as ours to be cheaper then than at any other time, for where there is a greater demand of some article for a special purpose a greater supply does not derange the general market. With acoin currency these emer- gencies are provided for by the natural elas- ticity of that medium and the readiness with which it changes its field on demand ; but with @ currency such as ours this does not occur, and a duty consequently is imposed upon those charged with the national welfare in this respect, But the course of the Secretary of the Treasury was such as to increase the di fi- culty of the season, for he acted under the wullying of the people who are possessed with the one idea of a return to specie payment. By hig operations with bonds, so satisfactory in its superficial aspect, he made currency scarcer and déarer, and thus while he delu- sively seemed to be taking a burden off the popular shoulders he was terribly embar- rassing the great mavsrial interests of the nation, in the prosperity of wbich is the only real prosperity of the people, ad he been in a game to do this he could not have done it more effectually, but it is more like.’ that he did not perceive what he was doing, He thus drove men who had great necessi- ties for currency to the expedient of protecting themselves as best they could, even though they had to do it at the expense of other inter- ests than their own; and more than this, an- other of his stupidities afforded them the op- portunity, His second stupidity is worse than the first, One of his notions is that he must ‘take care of the interests of the govern- ment.” Another of hia nations is, apparently, that the government is sufficiently protected when he has put the price of gold as low and that of greeabacks as high as it is in his power todo. Yet with these small notions as his guid- ing stars ho actually put it within the power of a combination to run the price of greenbacks to any point they chose. He had it plainly bofore him that the demand for gold in this market and the supply bore such a relation to one another that at a given time in tho near future the available quantity would be reduced to less than five millions—perhaps to three millions. He knew, or ought to have kaown, that people who wanted to change tho relation in prices between gold and currency had only five mil- lions to buy in order to put the price at what- ever point suited their operations. He ignored this fact with a magnificence of stupidity unparalleled in the annals of finance ; and this one fact ought to send him forever to bung up that “hole in the heavens” that he made for the benefit of Andrew Johnson, His course resulted in the formation of a ring competent to buy fifteen to twenty millions, and in tho derangement of all financial transactions by a body of men whom he had furnished with a perfectly legitimate motive. A Secretary of the Treasury in whoas régime this occurs is not fit for the place. Mastering for Cuba—The Antilles Question at a Crisis—An American Volunteer Squad- ron at The American movement in sympathetic aid of the Cuban revolution is in active pro- gress. By special telegram from Fernandina, Sea. Fla., received last night, we learn that the expedition which left New York on the Alabama ran the forts § in safety and arrived off the Florida coast. The Alabama was joined by the Lilian and Teaser, having sixteen hundred men, ten thousand rifles, five hundred sabres and twenty pieces of artillery on board. General Goicouria was in command. Generals Stead- man and Magruder are embarking another expedition on a fourth vessel. The entire force will concentrate at a common rendezvous off the Cuban coast. The privateers Hornet and Cuba are also out, mounted with fifteen guns each, The military expedition will be accompanied by the naval force. The Hornet is to cruise off Cuba for Spanish mer- chantmen and troopships. Five thousand American volunteers for Cuba are atill in depot along the Gulf coast of tho United States. The Cuban question must conse- quently soon be brought to an issue so far as the government in Washington and the Ameri- can people are concerned. The Contest in Mississippi aud Texas. The elections in Mississippi and Texas occur on the 30th of November. Inthe case of the latter the time for keeping open the polls is “to be continued,” like a magazine story, for several days. Mississippi is in a queer whirl. The liberal republicans, conservatives and original demo- crata favor the election of Judge Dent for Gov- ernor. The radicals have nominated Mr. Alcorn, Tho atrugglo botwoon tho tro nar rows down to the simple point—Shall Missis- sippi be reconstructed upon a liberal basis or upon one that is narrow-minded, bigoted and intolerant? It seems that the chief opposition to Judge Dent is founded upon a notion that,, although he is a brother-in-law of the Presi- dent, the Executive is unfriendly to his success. The people of Mississippi are able to settle that question themselves, and to vote upon it intelli- gently. Judge Dent is by far the favorite among the people. In regard to Texas, the campaign is fairly opened. The government officials bave intruded themselves into the poll- tics of the State, just as the Secretary of the Treasury did in regard to the late election in Tennessee, when the conservative candidate for Governor was triumphantly elected, despite the manceuvrings of small politicians in Washington, with millions of money and powers of patronage at their back. Parties in Texas, if they can be called parties, are essentially mixed. Tho most prominent candidate for Governor is General Hamilton, a Union man when the Union wanted men in a perilous hour. He takes an enlightened view of the situation, and declares that the war having established a great national fact ho is ready to welcome all who endorse that view. There is no use for indignant Texans to attempt to make a hubbub in this matter, If they did not like Hamilton once—and there was a clear case of shooting him by a dead shot at one time because ho advocated Union sentiments—there is no rea- son why they should not like himnow. He is the man for the period, and both radicals and conservatives in Texas might go much further and find a worse man to represent them, The Congressional nominations in Missis- sippi and Texas, so far as heard from, are highly respectable. With proper men in Con- gress these two ontetanding States may be assured of a cordial welcome on their full restoration to the bosom of the American Union, Tae Punic Dest,—The statement of the public debt for October makes another gratify- ing exhibit of a heavy reduction of the sum total—this time by $7,467,429, During the first six months of the present administration, which have just closed, the monthly decrease of the debt has very nearly averaged that amount, Five Honprep Mitzions 1x Goin was the sum of the Wall street sales of that terrible Friday. This amount of gold, upon a rough estimate, allowing sixteen dollars to’ an ounce, and sixteen ounces to the pound, and two thousand pounds to the ton, and one ton to each cart, would require a thousand carta to move it; and allowing twenty feet to each horse and cart the string of carts would be about eight miles long. No wonder Wall street collapsed. { SioNirtcaANT PREPARATIONS AT THe BrooK- us Navy Yarv.—The iron-clad Dictator and ‘he steam frigate Severn have been eqnippet and coaled, and are lying at the Brooklyn Naty Yard, in expectation of orders from Washingtod At any moment to hoist anchors and proceed to the island of Cuba, The Cuban question, front this and other signs of the times, on both sides or the Atlan- tic, is evidently coming to a haad. OCTOBER 2, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Sucz Cannl. A despatch from Alexandria informs us that M. Lesseps has passed through the Suez Canal in a steamer from Port Said to Suez—that is, from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea—in fifieen hours, It is impossible to refuse to admit that M. Lesseps has accomplished one of the greatest wonders of this or, indeed, of any age. Tho world laughed at him when he commenced his undertaking. It waa an Impdsstbility; it never could bo acpom- plished. It waa an old thought, but it never was afact, Tho idea was asold as, nay, older than, the Pharoahs; but the sands of the desert had in every instance proved stronger than man. Such was the language common at the time the canal was commenced. Such kas been the language held by many in spite of visible progress and demonstrated success, Steadily M. Lesseps has kept at the work. He has found money and men in spite of all detractors to carry on the work. Hoe has exhausted the resourcea of art to find machinery suited to great emergencies. Ho has made nature herself his handmaid. Where no stone was to be had, he has taken lessons from the monuments of the past and con- verted the deep, heavy subsoil into material which may prove ag enduring as marble or granite. Tho two seas have actually met and kissed each other, and there has been no deluge. On the contrary, a little steamer, with the engineer on board, has sailed from sea to sea in fifteen hours, It is a triumph to M. Lesseps; it is a triumph to French engineer- ing; it isa triumph to modern science. We may now take it for granted that the opening of the canal towards the close of the year will be a complete success. In spite of the Sultan the dream of the Greek conqueror of the world will be realized. Alexandria will become one of the grandest centres of commerce. It will do more than recover all the splendor and prosperity which it lost by the discovery of Vasco de Gama. Trade will revert to its ancient channels, The cape will sink into decay. The coasts of the Mediterranean will bristle with large and flourishing cities, A voyage from New York, from Amsterdam, from Liverpool, from Marseilles to India and the far East will be accomplished in fewer weeks via the Suez Canal than months via the Cape of Good Hope, It will multiply largely the means of communication and it will enormously increase trade. Egypt, in fact, will recover more than her ancient importance ; she will again become the seat of empire. The canal will attract Europeans and even Ameri- cans to its banks, the world’s wealth will find a new outlet, and it will not be wonderful if the ruler of Egypt, whoever he may be, soon dictates terms to the Turk, The truth is the Suez Canal will reclaim Egypt from barbarism. Civilization by it laya claim to the land of the Pharaohs, one of the first and grandest cradles of the race, and through it rushes to develop the mighty resources of Asia. It is a grand success, and we must rejoice in it. But it is also a great counter stroke to our Pacific Railroad. We have our isthmus, We must cut it or lag behind. Weare nearer Asia than any of the commercial nations of Europe; but we lose our opportunity so long as the trade of the Atlantic States must seek Asia round Cape Horn. Lot us cut the isthmus at once, Let us have our Darien Canal. To us this is the lesson, Our City Improvoments—The Now Fifth Avenue Pavement. We published yesterday an account of recent city improvements, particularly of those which the Belgian, Nicolson and Fisk concrete pave- ments are intended to accomplish. It is but fair, however, to say that the complaints against the Fisk pavement—which seems to have been fitly enough named, after the amount of dust which it raises—are numerous and strong. Its advantages are unquestionable, Carriages roll over it almost silently, and if it be kept in order, like the somewhat similar pavements in Paris, it cannot fail to become popular, We have been assured that if we will wait patiently until the sandy material which has been thrown upon it shall have properly prepared it for permanent service, it will present a surface as smooth as a room floor, but not at allslippery, like the old Russ pavement on Broadway, and utterly free from dust. Meanwhile, however, it cannot be denied that it fills the air with an impalpable powder, arising from a ‘nasty mixture” of bitumen, tar, coal ashes, sand, crushed coke, gashouse refuse, petroleum and we know not what other elements—a powder which chokes our throats and lungs, penetrates every house on the avenue, defiling alike broadcloth and silks, furniture, curtains and carpets, whether it be dry, as in these days of drought, or reduced to a muddy pulp by rain or by sprinkling. We are told that we must endure this evil for a month or two longer, when good will be educed from it, Doubtless if our municipal authorities were to be relied upon to keep the new pavement in order wo could patiently submit to the infliction for a while. Jn Paris, after a rain, hundreds of laborers are employed to cleanse the filth accumulated on a similar kind of pavement, and, during a drought, to sweep and sprinkle it, But here, as we all know, a job Is a job, and we cannot always count upon street com- missioners for doing their duty. Indeed, if wo had to rely upon them we might well hesi- tate before recommending the adoption even of the crystal pavementa of the celeatial city. Already the new pavement of Fifth avenue, between Thirty-fourth and Thirty- sixth streets, has had to be repaired, and before it shall be completed still further repa- rations may be requisite, Let us hope that at least we shall soon bo relieved from the incon- veniences to which all who pass through Vifth avenue or who reside on it are now sub- jected, and that the direct personal appeal which these inconveniences make to the public in favor of requiring contractors for city improvements to fulfil thoroughly their con- tracts, and the municipal authorities to do their duty, may prove effectual. Supervisor Evy ANp Tae Boarp or Surrr- visons,--Mr, Ely’s colleagues in the Board of Supervisors, as appears by our law reports, have managed to exclude bim from their meet- ings. If the averments of the Supervisor are true, and the annnal tax levy has been passed at an illegal meeting of the Board, it may result in an entire disarrangement of the finances of the city, The Board of Super- visors may have carried thelr political animos- ities a little toa fae Cuba—Our Special Correspondence from Madrid. After all the assertions and contradictions about the Sickles’ note to the Spanish govern- ment on the subject of Cuba we come to the facts at last. In our special correspondence from Madrid, published yesterday, the sub- stance of that note is given. Our correspor- dent had furnished us with the main points previously, which we laid before our readers, but we have now the text substantially. The Madrid correspondent gf @ London journal, who had got some idea of the note, properly remarks that Spanish pride never received such a dressing before. General Sickles fully comprehended the sentiment and purpose of his government and the American people, and did not hesitate to express them in plain and terse language. He tore the veil of official misrepresentation from the Cuban question and from the condition of things in Cuba, and showed the real state of affairs, He showed the horrible atrocities of the war in Cuba on the part of the Spaniards—the ‘‘cool-blooded murders,” the “execution of innocent Americans,” the “executions of Cuban prisoners,” and all the “other enormities contrary to the spirit of modern civilization.” In the face of the mis- representations of Spanish officials, both in Cuba and at home, for the purpose of blinding the people of Spain and the world as to the nature and prospects of the struggle in Cuba, General Sickles boldly tells the truth. ‘The war,” he says “‘has already lasted a full year, during a large portion of which time the nations have been looking on, expecting that some progress would be made to bring it to an end. But how atands the case to-day? It is two evident that tho Spanish government is further off than ever from attaining its object. From a simple insurrection, as it has been wrongly denomi- nated, it has developed into a stern, deter- mined war.” The rebellion has not only not been suppressed, he argues, but the Cubans have made such advances that the time is very near when they must be called an independent and separate nation. “The recognition of their belligerency will therefore be but the recognition of an absolute and indisputable fact.” After stating fully the situation, and referring to precedents for the recognition of the belligerent rights or independence of Cuba, General Sickles tells the Spanish government that ‘the American people are so loud and united in their demands for this recognition that our government dare not much longer hesitate upon a course humanity declared should have been adopted long ago.” He then adverts to the condition of Spain and the necessities of her treasury, and informs the Spanish government that it has ‘‘yet time to dispose of the Cuban ques- tion honorably and satisfactorily to Spaniards, Cubans and the world.” Finally, he offers the mediation of the United States to that end, and states that if the Cubans wish to be annexed the American government is willing to pay or guarantee the purchase money for the island, the sum of which is hereafter to be agreed upon, It isa plain, energetic and correct statement ofthe case, both with regard to the war and state of affairs in Cuba and the position of the American government and people. ‘I have written frankly, as a soldier should write toa military government,” General Sickles con- cludes, ‘‘and I am a representative of the government of the United States and of the entire American people. I had failed in my duty had I written _ otherwise,” He is right there, and shows that he is the proper person for Minister to Spain at this particular time. American diplomacy does not consist in tortuous ways and equivocal language, but in straightforwardness, honesty and plaiuness, It might have been expected that such a note would fall like a bombshell in Madrid, and, therefore, the excitement about it does not surprise us. But it was necessary, and both our government and General Sickles had anticipated, no doubt, the effect it would produce at first, The truth is out now. There isno room for misapprehension or diplomatic palaver. Both the Spanish people and goy- ernment will look more calmly and wisely upon the matter as the excitement at first created subsides. The Madrid government may be embarrassed for a time on this Cuban question by the contending political factions, but it will have to come either to the solution which has been offered by the United States or sea Cuba wrested from Spain by the force of arms, It is certain that the United States will not and cannot back down from the position taken. This country will never suffer such bumiliation. If General Sickles has withdrawn his note, as has been reported, but which we doubt, he did so only temporarily and by request to relieve the Spanish government from momentary em- barrassment, He has enunciated the views and policy of the American government and people, and there will be no departure from the ground taken, Should Spain be foolish enough to continue the atrocious and hopeless war in Cuba the United States will soon have to recognize the belligerency or independence of the Cubans. Orr FoR Mrxico.—Onr latest advices from W. H. Seward and his travelling party are that on Thursday last they left San Francisco in the steamer Golden Gate ¢n route for Mex- ico, Their route will be via Manzanillo, Coli- ma (the region of volcanoes and earthquakes), Guadalajara and Querctaro (the city where the Emperor Maximilian, Miramon and Mojia were executed by the Juarez government), and thence to the Mexican capital. We expect that Mr, Seward, in view of his services as our Secretary of State, in sticking to Juarez and in negotiating the French out of Mexico, will be welcomed with general enthusiasm by the Mexican officials and people at every point of his journey, especially as we understand this trip is undertaken in answer to a special invi- tation from Juarez and others of the heads of the sister republic, At the capital he will find the Mexican Congress in session. Finally, as Mr. Seward is not averse to Mexican annexa- tion, who knows but that this pleasure excur- sion may plant a stepping stone or two in that direction? He Deotnes.—George William Curtis declines the Syracuse republican nomination for Secretary of State, He sees, no doubt, that it will not pay. Greeley demands a Ger- man in bis place. Instead of closing he wants to open the: ball with the German, and he “fights mit Sigel.” Greeley in waking up, Tho New British Colenial Policy. The Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, British Secretary of State for War, recently made a speech to his constituents on England's new colonial poliey—the policy (as in the New Dominion and Australia) of encouraging them to develop their own power and resources and to stimulate them to self-reliance. He pictured the great success of this policy in Canada. ‘She had now an army of her own, and such a merchant navy that if her people cheose to adopt the act passed for the purpose she may become one of the first maritime Powers of the world.” This, he contended, was the true policy, for it made the colonies sources of strength and honor to the imperial government. Under this policy, he thought, ‘when the times come, and England calls for | the support of her colonies, there will bo a confederation such as the world never saw under a single sovereign.” This is an immense stride forward from the British colonial policy of 1776 and thereabout, and that for the time being it will strongthen the colonies and the home government we can- not doubt. While Ireland, however, continues under the old repressive system there will be no harmony in this new liberal colonial policy. We think, too, that the day is not far off when Australia and the New Dominion will feet strong enough to take care of themselves; that then England will have to let them go, and that a fusion with “the great republic” is the manifest destiny of her Majesty's Blue Noses. But, for some time yet, the Cabinet and Parliament at London, under their new colonial policy, with the aid of the telegraph and the modern appliances of trade, may hold her colonies all round the globe in loyal attach- ment to the crown. We arein no hurry, not even with those Alabama claims. Tak NationAn Revenvug—A Srienpip Exnorr.—Mr. Wells, United States Special Commissioner of Internal Revenue, estimates that the surplus revenue for the current fiscal year, from the government savings in the reduction of expenses, tho gains in the collec- tion of the taxes, whiskey, &c., and other gains and savings, will be one hundred and twenty millions of dollars ($120,000,000), which is likely tobe at the disposal of the Secretary of the Treasury for the reduction of the public debt. This looks well for the finan- cial policy of General Grant, for at this rate within fifteen yeara the national debt may be wiped out to the last penny. A Royat Goop Jon.—Fifteon membors of the Spanish Cortes have been commissioned to report on the merits of the various candi- dates for the throne now vacant in Madrid. Asthere are almost as many candidates as commissioners, and as each individual com- missioner will be very likely to present a new one, the proceedings of the body will make a fine Spanish olla podrida. There is “money in it,” however, and that to an extent which would make the month of a “ring man” {o Washington or Albany to water. King makiag by committees is the newest, biggest and most profitable job yet out. A Frank Movement on Anpy JomNnsoy,— The ‘old line democrats” of Tennessee aro reported to be combining on A. O. P. Nichol- son, public printer at Washington under Polk, if we are not mistaken, the object being to head off Andy Johnson for the United States Senate, The misfortune of Johnson is that while he has recovered of late something of his old democratic popularity in Tennessee, he has made powerful enemies on both sides who are done with him; but still he holds the inside track as the representative of the domi- nant anti-radical eloments of the new Tennes- see Legislature, and he may squeeze in, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Commander 8. L, Breese hag been detached from the command of the Cyane and placed on watting orders. Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel Green has been detached from the Albany and granted a sick leave. Lieutenant Commander J. Crittenden Watson has been detached from special duty at Phil- adelphia and ordered to the Albany. ‘Tho following bave been detached from the Mace dgonlan and placed on waiting orders:—Lieutenant Commander J. Pierson, Master William Watts, Sur- geon H. C, Nelson, Assistant Surgeon M. 0. Dren- nan; detached from the Macedoutan and ordered to duty at the Naval Hospital Norfolk, Lieutenant 3. H. Baker, Lieutenant W. W. Mead and Assistant Surgeon F. K. Hartzell; detached from the Savannah and placed on waiting orders, Lieutenant Thomas P, Wilson; from the Savannah, and ordered to the Naval Academy, Paymaster Torbett; (rom the Savan- nah and ordered to settle accounts, Lieutenant Com- mander Willtain 0. Wise; from the Dale and directed to hold himself in readiness for duty on board the Miantonomoh, Master W. C. Gibson; ordered to duty at the New York Navy Yard, Master Washburue Maynard, Paased Assistant Surgeon Charles H. Green, who ‘was recently tried by a court marshal, and 1n whose case a general order was yesterday issued from the Navy Department; has been ordered to duty on board the United States steamer Gettysburg. The following was received yoaterday at the Navy Departmeat:— UNITED STATES STRAMBUIP JONLATTA,| 10, 1859, i, Se after a fair ran of twenty-one days from New York, jade the light on Cape Roca, the Rock of Lisbon, and next morning entered the Tagua, with light airs, an: chored off the elty at two P. M. I found her bine, Commander J. G. Walker, Richmond bay: three days previous to our artival, iment that, con- ‘succens, and that ual jon mado of her. lon’ boat, steers well, ly and ensy in her motion ; iays to well; would scud with safety, and atan weil up W ber caavas, Very respectful our ubedient 8, B. LUCE, Commanding. acrvank, 4 MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, ‘Board of Aldermen, This Board met yesterday pursuant to adjourti- ment with the president, Alderman Coman, tn the chair, A large amount of routine business was transacted, after which resolutions were adopted as follows:—Directing the Street Commissioner to pro- cure one division headquarters flag, and one brigade headquarters fag for each of the five brigades of the First division National Guard, 8, N. Y,, the expense of the same not to exceed $1,000 Lor We 81x Nags, and that upon completion of satd fags the Mayor bo requested (o present them on behalf of the corporate authorities of this city to the Major General commanding; that all the tranaverso roads crossing the Cen Park be lighted with gas; to pave with Bel; pavement Fifty-fftth street, from Tenth to enth avenue; also Six- teenth street, from Firat avenue avenue 0; to pave with Nicolson pers Stoyvesant strect, between Second and ihird avenues; also Ninth Street, between Second and Third avenues; to pave rift Si ave ona! Hence a ort f the Janes Methodist Episco- pat charch, cor f Tenth Lak and Forty-fourth cet, $91 09, to pay assessments, ai seroret resolutions from the Board of Assistant Aldermen were introduced, and jaid over; after Which the Board adjourned, THE GREENPOINT. HOMIODE. An inquest was held jast night before Coroner Jones touching the cause of the death of Nichoing Ranigan, who died at the City Hospital on Saturday last from the effect of a pistol shot wound, Several witnesses were examined, and the testimony elicited was corroboratory of the version previ bei given. Officer O'lirien heard the cries of & female for Leip on the 9 in ques tion (Friday night), and while proceediug to inves Ugato the cause was fired at by one of the aasail- ants of the woman, He returned the fire, and the shot took effect, aa was aubsequentiy ascertained, io the body of deceased. The mauest will ba reeumod Co-ni@het