The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ae te — All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hirravp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. No. 275 Volume XXXIV... = AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. T00D'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Broadway, corner ‘Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily, Performance every evening. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— PROGRESS. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Tue Sou- DIER’s RETURN, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, cor: Mid street.—Tuk TEMPEST. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broaaway.—Tue STREETS OF New Youn. WAVERLEY THEATRE, No. 120 Brondway.—A GRAMD ‘Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street.—Ix1on—ToT; on, THE RENDEZVOUS. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 28dat., between Sth and 6th avs.— Lrau. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Fifth avenue and Twenty- fourth street.—TweLeta Nigur. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Rarixoav To Ruin. MRS. F, B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklya.— Poumosa; ox, THE RatLRoan To RUIN. ot Eighth avenue and Broadway.—ForMosa; ox, Tum BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.—Fancuon, THR CxioKst. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, %1 Bowery.—Comto Vocarism, Ne@Ro MINSTRELSY, £0. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Comio Vocar- 54, NRGxO Acts, &c. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETa1o- Plan MINSTRELSY, Ne@Ro Acts, £0. HOOLEY'’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Fan Mone Ce NEW YORK SorzNOR AND LADIES' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, @0 W.—FEMALES ONLY (N ATTENDANCE. New York, Sunday, October 3, 1869. MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Ant. THE NEWS. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated October 2. The marine losses by fire at Bordeaux are estl- Mated at 10,000,000 francs. The Ausiro-Chinese (meaty has been duly ratified in China. The potato erop of England will be short. Colonel Hil is @ppointed Governor of Newfoundland. The French Cabinet will, it 4s said, be reconstructed by the infusion of more radical members. The Empress of France reached Venice. A London journal says thet the terms of the Sickles- Cuba note are not intelligible, and expresses the Opinion that faction will be extinguisbea in Spain. Senator Sumner’s opinion relative to the coming dissolution of the British empire is not relished in London. Prussia has despatched war vessels to Cuba. By steamship at this port we have mail details of our cable telegrams from Europe to the 2ist of Sep- temoer. The Madrid correspondent of the London Neirs, writing on the 15th of September, savs the papers @till Keep up excitement and agitation respecting the note of General Sickles, and they do this while completely in the dark as to lis actual contents. The government is to blame for all this. It was a com- munication which should either have been buried in the depths fof official reserve or given to the press im its entirety. All that has been told the press is that the American Minister had sent a note, aud that in it he threatened the recognition of the Cuban rebels as belligerents, ‘his has been suflicient to get the journals wild. The London Times of the 21st ultimo refers to the Bickles-Cuba note in its financial article thus:—The freedom with which categorical denials are given in Political matters to conceal the failure of negotia- tions that have been found in the course of their progress likely to prove unpopular or inexpedient has too often been experienced to provoke surprise atthe chorus of demial raised with regard to the entertainment temporarily given to the proposals of the United States on the Cuban question. As the nature and extent of these proposals can now be of little consequence it would be useless to occupy further space in relation to them.’ Paraguay. Advices by the cable from Buenos Ayres state that Lopez removed everything of value from Ascurra When he evacuated that place. Subsequently a force of 3,000 Paraguayans were attacked by 30,000 allies and all but 600 of them killed or captured. Miscellaneous. ‘The government, it is stated in our Washington despatches, does not consider the Hornet a priva- teer in the usual sense of the word, and does not feel bound by imternational law to send out Grulsers for her capture. The number of killed by the explosion at the Indiana State Fair is now reported at twenty-seven, while several of the wounded will probably die. The Cause of the explosion is supposed to have been a lack of water in the boller. A coroner's jury is already investigating the circumstances, A Raleigh, N. C., paper claims that the Gov- ernor and Treasurer of that State, assisted by New York operators, have been making a fortune by depressing State stocks, buying them in at a low Price, and then through their official influence appre- Ciating them and selling out. Governor Pease, of Texas, has resigned on account of General Reynolds’ action in reference to politica and will take the stump for Hamilton. The defec- thon of other prominent radicals will probably fol- low. Such is the tenor of despatches from Galves- wn. A heavy shock of earthquake was felt in San Lorenzo, Cal., on Friday. Burns, a convict, who disappeared from Sing Sing Prison @ week ago, was discovered yesterday hid away in a closet in the building, wnere he had been vVictualled for five days by his fellow convicts. Professor Hall, who was in charge of the expedi- tion sent to Behring Straits to observe the eclipse, has written to the Superintendent of tne Naval Observatory at Washington to say that tue observa- tion was not a failure, as reported, though its suc- cess Was only partial. Ex-President Pierce is very ill atgConcord, N. H., and his recovery is extremely dountful. A temporary inmate of the Saugus (Mass.) Alms- house killed his wife yesterday with @ pair of shoe clamps. d Governor Claflin has ordered an ejection for Con- ress in the Seventh Massachusets district. Two editors in Concord, N. H., have wagered $10,000 against one another on the result of an inves- tigation as to the facts of a report that one of the editors, Mr. Fogg, offered to lend the influence of his paper, the Independent Democrat, to secure Chief Justice Chase’s election to the Presidency in case he had been nominated by the democracy. The money When the bet is decided is to be distrivuted among Feligious societies in Concord A new and dangerous counterfeit ten dollar green- Dack has just appeared in Cincinnat, ‘Three negroes, who were so nearly white that they Dought their tickets and passed the doorkeeper Without being noticed, entered the dress circie of the Nationa: theatre in Washington last evening. They were detected, however, when seated in the warm Atmosphere of the room, and were put out. Now yy intend to bring the oase before the courts and the Social Equality ordinance recently passed y the Washington Council. ; The Coroner's jury in the case of the murdered NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. woman and child near St. John, N. B., have returned @ verdict of guilty against the prisoner, Monroe. The Navy Department announces that no new vessels ar) being built, but eiforts are being made to sell some of the old ones. ‘The steel importers had an interview with Secre- tary Boutwell yesterday and represented that their business was suffering on account of the action of the American Consul at SheMeld in refusing to cer- tify their invoices, and they asked an investigation into the charges preferred by the manufacturers in this country. Secretary Boutwell said the matter should be investigated and in the meantime they might pay the increased duties under protest, until a decision could be made. Charles McNeill, a wealthy storekeeper of Pater- son, N. J., was fined $150 and coats by Judge Bedle, of that town, on Friday, for alleged inhuman cruelty to a negro girl, whom he took as a servant from the Colored Orphan Asylam of New York. A telegram from Havana states that a storm pre- vailed to the eastward on Friday, but did not reach that city. The City. An insane woman named Bridget Werbeck leaped from the firth story window of a tenement house on Oliver street at an early hour yesterday afternoon, and was instantly killed, Wall street was more feverish yesterday, owing to the announcement of two new failures, The stock market was in the main strong, but irregular. Gold fell to 129%, closing finally at 129%. The markets yesterday were generally quiet. Coffee was dull, but held for full prices. Cotton was in good demand and advanced %c. per lb, closing at 27%c. for muddling upland. On ‘Change flour was fairly active, but at lower prices. Wheat was in fair request at steady prices, while corn and oats were also steady. Pork was dull and 25c. a 50c. per bbl. lower, while beef and lard were quiet at former figures. Naval stores were generally quiet, but firm. WPetroleam was active and firm for crude, but dull for refined, Freights were more active and rates were higher in some cases. Whiskey was moderately dealt in and higher. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Governor G. B, Page, of Vermont; Captain S. C. Williamson, of the Unitea States Army; Il. C. Lord, of Ohio, and H. W. Guinner, of Philadelphia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Colonel J. F. Berrett, of Albany: R. L. Horton, of Nevada; Colonel D. W. Hayward, of North Carolina; G. H. Weeks, of the United States Army; Paul Mor- rill, of Sacramento; J. W. Lees, of San Francisco; E. W. Coleman, of Philadelphia, and A. E. Helmer, of New York, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. E. G. Loring, of Boston; Warren 8. Walker, of New Orleans, and E, T. Taylor, of Alabama, are at the New York Hotel. Colonel Rowland, of Maaison, Wis.; H. W. Mills, of Long Island, and Colonel Farmer, of the United States Army, are at the Glenham Hotel. W. C. Wiison, of California, and E. B. Glasgow, of Massachusetts, are at the St. Julien Hotel. Thomas ©. Durant, of New York; —— Crosby, of Chicago; D. R, Dunlop, of Mobile; T. W. French, of West Point; E. S. Tobey, of Boston, and L. 8. Felt, of Galena, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. Garrett, of St. John, N. B., and T. Johnson, of Cincinnati, are at the Hoffman Hoase. H. Harrison, of Boston; J. G. Q. Childs, of Man- chester, England, and D. D. T. Moore, of New York, are at the Coleman House. P. G. Nicholls, of Galveston; William Paxson, of Philadelphia, and P. E. Dalton, of San Francisco, are at the Grand Hotel. General H. Walbridge, of New York; Judge Mer- Tick, of New Orleans; 8. J. Bowen, of Washington; A. 8. Roosevelt and A. ©. McMechan, of the United States Army, are at the Astor House, Prominent Departures. Governor Holden and Major Carrow, for North Carolina; Major Beach, for Troy; Robert Duncan, for Columbus, Ohio, and Marquis de Canissy, per steamer city of Paris, for Europe. The General Council—The Syllabus. In another place in this day’s Heratp will be found a translation of the celebrated Sylla- bus which appeared in connection with the Pope’s Encyclical in 1864. The Syllabus has been so forced into importance of late and has been mentioned so frequently in conjunction with the name of the approaching General Council that we have had it translated from the Latin for the benefit of our readers. The Syllabus has value not from any intrinsic merits. It is a good enough document in itself consid- ered; but as a document got up by the highest authorities in the Catholic'Church, and reflect- ing its scholarship as well as the prevailing tone of its thought, we cannot call it a miracle of ability, For two reasons, however, it is important. It was a full and faithful expres- sion of the sentiments of the Papal mind in 1864. Nothing has occurred to indicate that the Papal mind has changed since that date. It is onthe very best authority said to be the basis on which the Council has been convened for December of this year. This last constitutes its main value. If it be true, as is said and generally believed, even inside the Catholic Church itself, that the Council will be asked to sanction the Syllabus by a formal public act, then the world will no longer be in doubt as to the true character of the Popedom in the last half of the nineteenth century. The document, as will be seen, is purely negative. It leaves a large margin for positive action. As it is we give it to our readers. Of its merits and demerits they must judge for themselves. It is, we think, safe to say that if the Council gives its formal approval to all the sections and) clauses of the Syllabus the Catholic Church, as an institution, is not in harmony with the intellectual, moral and material progress of | this age. That which we most highly prize in| our nineteenth century—civilization—is, if not \ openly condemned, at least not approved. The sanction and approval of the Syllabus by the Council will create such a breach—or, if you will, gulf—between the Church and the world as has not existed in any former age. If all reports prove true, the approval of the Sylla- bus is not to be the only or the greatest sin of the Council. It has been stated on high authority that the Council is to be asked to make all future councils unnecessary by pro- claiming the personal infallibility of the Pope. Infallibility, hitherto, has been claimed only for the acts of the whole Church in council. Infallibility henceforward, if the Council so wills it, will be the special attribute of the reigning pontiff. It has also been stated on high authority that the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin, which was proclaimed a doc- trine of the Church by a special council in 1854, is to be confirmed by the General Coun- cil to be held in December of this year. This, | however, is not all. The gullibility of the people is supposed to be illimitable. Hence itis intended to go a step farther and proclaim the bodily assumption of the Virgin—thus fully qualifying her for the high post of Queen of Heaven. Poor Mary! We fear that all this nonsense will not give her much joy; for this excessive adulation will have its drawbacks. It is almost certain to cut off many of her perquisites. But she will not be the first who has suffered in the house of her friends. The endorsement of the Syllabus, the proclamation of the personal infallibility of the Pope, the elevation of the Immaculate Conception and the Bodily Assump- tion of the Virgin into dogmas—this, it is said, is the work presoribed for the forth- coming Council. On the ground that such is to be work of the Council, Prince Hohenlohe, of Bavaria, has taken fright; a large section of the bishops of Germany have protested ; the Catholic governments of Europe have refused to send representatives; Father Hya- cinthe, of Notre Dame, has revolted, and the Gallican bishops have so rallied round him that it would not be a miracle if, as one of the results of the Council, France should be lost to Rome. It is quite possible that much of what is said regard- ing the Council is not true. It is note- worthy, however, that those who have spoken out have a good right to be well informed, and that Rome has rather justified than denied the reports. Itis absurd to suppose that all this excitement could have been got up in Ger- many, or that Father Hyacinthe could have been driven into revolt by an idle and ill- founded tale. The Council may yet change its programme; but the programme, so far as it is known, cannot be said to be generally acceptable. Is it not true, after all, that we are making too much of this Council? What is a council | of the Church but a gathering of fallible and sometimes very irritable men? Old Gregory | Naziunzen was not far wrong when he said, “I never yet saw a council of bishops come to a good end.” “I salute them afar off, since I know how troublesome they are.” “Tf never more will sit in those assem- blies of cranes and geese.” ‘A general council,” says Dean Milman, ‘‘is a field of battle in whicha long train of animosities and hostilities is to come to an issue. Men, there- fore, meet with all the excitement, the estrange- ment, the jealousy, the antipathy, engendered by fierce and obstinate controversy. They meet to triumph over their adversaries rather than dispassionately to investigate truth. Each is committed to his opinions, each exas- perated by opposition, each supported by a host of intractable followers, each probably with exaggerated notions of the importance of the question, and that importance seems to increase, since it has demanded the decision of a general assembly of Christendom.” No reader of ecclesiastical history can ever forget the scenes in the Council of Constance which culminated in the murder of John Huss, And, if any of our readers would find an ecclesias- tical counterpart to the scenes witnessed in the New York Guld Room on Friday a week ago let him read in any respectable history the account of the Council of Chalcedon—a council which in numbers and in dignity was by far the most distinguished of the first seven. Let the Council meet, and let it do what it will. If it does the world no good it will do it little harm, That good has come out of councils we will not deny; but, as has been well said by another, ‘‘the fact that the whole Christian world has altered the Creed of Nicwa and broken the decree of Ephesus, without ceasing to be Catholic or Christian, is a decisive proof that common sense, after all, is the supreme arbiter and corrective even of ecumenical councils.” The Case ot Doctor Green. Doctor Green, of the Nipsic, has just been “found guilty” of an honorable act, and it is not altogether to the credit of our navy that it punishes such things. There was a collision between the Doctor and the commander of the ship, and the commander required the Doctor to remove the name of a certain man from the sick list. It was not a question of sending the man to duty. Had his presence at any post been imperatively necessary, and of more con- sequence than his life, the commander could have sent him there despite the Doctor's report that he was unfit. It was merely a question of power. ‘The commander simply demanded that the Doctor should certify that the man was not sick when he was. The Doctor refused, was found guilty of disobedience of orders and sentenced to be suspended from his rank. ll this is part of the plan of operations on the part of the navy officers to drive all decent, self-respecting, high-spirited medical men out of the navy ; and the result is certain. It is laughable to observe the mingled terror and temerity of the Secretary of the Navy in his dealing with this sentence. He approves it, of course; but then it seems evento him outrageously unjust that a man should be punished for doing right. So he revokes the punishment, But there is a tribunal even beyond Robeson, and we hope the victim of this outrage will lay his case before Congress ; for that will right him. Largest CONCERNING ANDY Jounson—That the old Union elements of Tennessee are ral- lying around him, and that he will probably be elected to the United States Senate on the first ballot. The old, intractable rebel ele- ments are dead against him; but their opposi- tion, itis said, is working in hisfavor. Let the impeachers of the Senate look out for him; for should he come among them he will be sure to call them to a settlement of his Ala- bama claims. Wuat Dogs 1r Mgan?—A cable despatch from London, dated yesterday, says that the Prussian government’ has despatched war vessels to the Antilles in ‘‘view of the compli- cations existing between the United States and Spain.” What does it mean? Are we to have a foreign naval muster off Cuba? Will England follow suit in her anxiety for her West India dependencies ? IMPUDENCE IN Courr.—Detectives turn up now and then, especially if no crime has been commitied. The other day in a street car @ gentleman was arrested on a charge of attempting to pick a lady's pocket, Kept locked up over night, the gentleman was able next day to completely satisfy the Court of his honesty and respectability, and even of the ridiculous character of the charge. When, lo! on the other side is produced testimony to show the difficulty of the officer's duties, A Goop Supseor vor Ovr Preacners To-Day—The dreadful scenes and doings in Wall street during the last ten days among the worshippers of the Golden Calf. A fine opportunity this for recalling the lightnings and thunders of Mount Sinai and the wrath of Moses against the original Golden Calf set up in his absence by Aaron. A fine opening, too, for a regular overhauling of Qbristian bulls and bears, Effect of tho Wall Street Rumpus—Is th Trouble Over? Fifty millions are gone. They were not millions in coin nor millions in ordinarily tan- gible property; but* they were nevertheless just as certainly the recognized millions in virtue of which men were rich that without them would have been poor, and on the assumed existence of which bankers and* brokers borrowed and lent and bought and sold, that without ,them could have done none of these. Although no money has been melted down or burned up or blown away, though all tangible property is quite intact, yet this large value has been destroyed and is an actual loss from the wealth of this community and the active force of Wall street. Any man who owned one hundred thousand dollars in railroad shares had his for- tune reduced at least twenty-five per cent. Carry this simple statement through the number of those whose wealth is so invested and it will be seen to rise to a very great figure. On railroad shares and similar values the “shrinkage” in this city due to the late rumpus is not leas than fifty millions, It is true that this loss is in one way nominal only. The holder has just as many shares, the road is not injured; its earnings are equally sure. But it must be remem- bered that for Wall street the nomi- nal is the real. How large a part the nominal plays is seen in the fact that with only twenty millions in gold present sixty millions were owned. The owners of the gold owned it three times over, and perhaps never saw a half eagle of it. It is also quite true that shares will mostly recover the value they had before; but the question for Wall street is as to where men stand to-day; for he whose transactions were based on his capital as it stood at the price of his shares, with one-quar- ter less, finds himself in a very tight place and cannot hold on. He must sell, and the return- ing value goes to another; he most likely does not save himself even by selling; then another who leaned on him falls also, and so it goes. Although the community, taking the long run, loses nothing, yet in the meantime, between the fall in prices and the gradual recovery, this large sum is abstracted from the trading capital of the street, to its great embarrassment, and the problem of the hour is how the street will get over the many diffi- culties this must inevitably cause. This reduc- tion in the amount of capital is the fact that the rumpus of the gold market has left behind it. Hitherto we have not seen its full effect, because the ordinary struggle of the street has been interrupted by different devices. The injunction—that well-worn piece of legal machinery—has been brought to bear on the case, An injunction is a writ that courts must grant wherever a man is willing to swear that his property will receive irrepa- rable damage unless certain persons are pre- vented committing an act they contemplate ; and nothing can be easier for a house that wishes to stand still for a few days, and, above all. that, wishes to hae. left alone. than to heva one take an oath on which shall issue a writ forbidding it to carry on its legitimate business. Here the bankers present themselves to the world in @ position that saves their credit handsomely and gives time. They do not refuse answers to questions, nor decline pay- ments due, nor withhold themselves from the market. Nothing of the sort; but a legal order closes their mouths and arrests their willing hands. He who has been enjoined in this crisis can hardly be above suspicion in the future. Besides the cloud that the injunction has conveniently spread over many transac- tions, there has also been a general uncer- tainty as to the results of the melée due toa disposition on all sides not to ‘‘ push things,” But the uncertainty, due to whatever cause, must have a limit. Injunctions even will not hold forever, and the good will of creditors becomes less and less by the hour as they be- come more and more sure that they can receive no damage from any disclosure. As the light begins to fall pretty clearly on Wall street now, people see less to be pleased with than their sanguine fancies pictured several days ago. It begins to be apparent that the stream of disaster has not spent its force. The tumbling débris had formed an accidental dam, and as no man knew how he stood himself no one stirred a timber of the fabric, while some built it stronger with injunctions, In the quiet pools below it others congratulated themselves that they had not been swept away, and the people thought ‘‘the worst was over.” Nay, in this lull, this holiday of ruin, some abso- lutely rotten firms have been actively dealing to make what they might before the barrier gave way. There are more failures, and when all statements are forced out there will be more still; for the abstraction of fifty millions by shrinkage is not consistent with the financial equilibrium. The Fashions. Our sprightly Paris fashions correspondent, in the letter which we publish to-day, dwells chiefly upon the various and splendid toilets which the Empress Eugénie has had prepared for her Eastern trip, and upon the Oriental shape and hue which that trip bas communicated in advance to the fall fashions in Europe. Although but few of our New York belles contemplate being present at the opening of the Isthmus of Suez, and therefore none of them have emu- lated the Empress and the ladies of her suite in studying hieroglyphics and Egyptian antiqui- ties, there is something decidedly Oriental in some of the styles which Madame Demorest, Madame Bublmeyer and the rest of our fash- ionable modistes have brought back to New York from their annual summer visit to Paris, The ‘‘opening days” of the different agents of the goddess of fashion have been scattered apart by the recent equinoctial storm, so that we could no: do full justice to all of them, even in the copious accounts which we have already given of their vast assortments of dress goods, cloaks, rich laces, embroideries, ladies’ and children’s furnishing goods, hosiery, woollens, silks, gloves and millinery novelties, including Marion de Lorme round hats, ligueurs, seraphines, Gabrielles, directoires, Masaniello turbans, Pifferano toquets, Charles 1X, caps, and we know not what else in the line of head gear. It would be advisable to postpone these “opening days” until the equinoctial storm is fairly ended, and then to confine them within a single week. As it ia, almost every day is an ‘opening day,” from the immense estab- lishment of A. T. Stewart & Co. to their humblest ‘competitors, The most bewil- dering variety of fall and winter fashions tempts all those purchasers whose pockets have not been emptied by the shock of the recent finan- cial earthquake in Wall street. So prodigious and irrepressible is the recuperative power which the people of this ‘great country” have evinced after disastrous money panics in former years, that it is not likely that even the Gold Friday of 1869 will have seriously checked the rushing stream of wealth, luxury and fashion on which American society is gayly sailing, with “youth at the helm and pleasure at the prow.” Cuban Naval Expeditions—Prospects Ahead. Those who console themselves with the idea thatthe Cuban rebellion is on its last legs and is just now on the point of falling through, will find but a small measure of consolation in the news which was published in yesterday's HERALD relative to the sailing of armed expe- ditions for the ‘‘Ever Faithful Isle.” According to the report alluded to, which was received from a reliable source, over two thousand men, ten thousand rifles, five hundred sabres, twenty pieces of artillery, and alarge quantity of small arms and ammunition have by this time, if nothing unforeseen occurred, been landed on the Cuban coast. And not alone on land are the Cubans now prepared to fight for that independence which has been denied them by Spain, but on the high seas, through their privateers, the Lillian, the Teaser, and the Cuba (formerly the Hornet), we may shortly expect to hear of Spanish commerce being crippled and transports intercepted in the same ‘manner in which Semmes, of Alabama notoriety, swept the seas and rendered his name a terror to American merchantmen dur- ing the existence of the late Southern rebel- lion. That the late expeditions for Cuba have been well planned and ably carried out is evi- dent. It is also a strange fact that the Cuban privateer Hornet should have put to sea from an English port; and it is not a little re- markable that the astuteness of Marshal Bar- low was somewhat at fault when he seized the Euterpe at her dock, laden with arms, believing her to be intended to aid the Cubans, whereas she was employed to carry munitions of war to be used against them. In reality he seized a Spanish vessel, thinking she was intended for the Cubans, and that he is extremely sorry for 80 doing there is not the alfghtest reason to doubt, Let the friends of the Spanish cause, however, take comfort inthe reflection that, all things considered, it was the best thing that could have happened ; for had the Euterpe put to sea with her cargo of war materiel she would in all probability have been ‘‘gob- bled up” by the privateer Hornet, which was off Sandy Hook awaiting her. It should also be remembered that the men and arms that have been recently sent to the seat of war are not the only auxiliaries which the Cubans will have to aid them within the next few months. Now that the sickly season Io VYCE Qua Mere are prospects OF an active campaign near, volunteering from this coun- try will receive additional stimulus. Men of adventure will not be found lacking in America to join the standard of the patriots. If Spain can send over reinforcements she had better hurry them on if they are intended for opera- tions in the field. No one knows this better than Captain General De Rodas, and hence his anxiety for immediate further aid. The news of the expeditions, which no doubt by this time has reached him, will cause him no little surprise. Volunteering, we are told, is very brisk all along the Gulf coast, and that already five thousand men are awaiting transportation. The number may be exaggerated, but even half the number of men enumerated, together with those already forwarded, properly armed, equipped and thrown into the Eastern Depart- ment, would give Valmaseda’s command all it could attend to. In view of coming events it is unaccountable that Spain does not see the hopelessness of her struggle in trying to retain Cuba. For almost ayear has the rebellion continued, and the rebels held their own. Almost without arms, and undisciplined and untried as they were in the art of war, they have successfully in many instances combated the well drilled, admirably disciplined and thoroughly armed soldiers of Spain. Spanish soldiers, too, are brave and good fighters; still, the Cubans have manfully stood up against great odds, and to-day are hopeful and believe in the ultimate success of their cause. Let Spain, therefore, sell out—dispose of the island at the best terms. She wants money. It is not yet too late to obtain a supply by making advanta- geous terms with the Cubans. Every day that passes is so much off the price. To-day she might obtain millions; to-morrow, perhaps, nothing. The Theatres—Mrs. Scott-Siddonw Return. At Paris during periods of revolutionary excitement the theatres have been more fully thronged than usual. In New York the finan- cial revolutions of Wall street have not inter- rupted the prosperous fall season on which our theatres have entered. The management of the grand historical and romantic French opera has indeed been compelled to suspend performances at the Academy of Music; but this is owing to ‘‘ unavoidable circumstances ” altogether independent of the disastrous con- flict between bulls and bearson ‘Change. Mr. Drynne is not the only manager who has suffered from the mysterious fatality that seems to cling like a curse to ‘‘the Cata- combs.” We are glad to learn that in the course of the week two benefits will be extended to this unlucky opera company, who find themselves in a strange country without employment, One of these benefits has been generously proposed by Mr. Gran, at the French theatre in Fourteenth street, and the other will be given at the Academy of Music. Mme. Parepa-Rosa and her English Opera troupe concluded last evening a brief but bril- liant engagement at the French theatre. At Booth’s Miss Bateman’s unrivalled impersona- tion of Leah will continue to attract theatre- goers of every class. At Wallack’s “Progress” will still be the watchword, At Niblo’s “Formosa” will be, as it has been, ‘‘the play of the period.” At the Olympic “The Streets of New York” will be revived to-mor- row evening. To-morrow evening also ‘‘The Tempest” will be revived with extraordinary splendor at Fisk's grand and gorgeous Opera House, Miss Annie Deland, a favorite ex- member of Laura Keene's old company, appearing as Miranda, and Miss Lisa Weber, of blonde memory, as Ariel. But the principal event of the coming theat- rical week will be the appearance of Mra. Scott-Siddons as Viola, in Shakspeare’s “Twelfth Night,” which is to be produced at the Fifth avenue theatre to-morrow evening. We have already taken pleasure in recording the impressions made by the beauty and talent of the grand-niece of Mrs. Siddons, at her first appearance on the American stage, not- withstanding all the disadvantages of a mise- rable theatre and inadequate support. After a tour through the West and the South and a visit to England Mrs, Scott-Siddons returns to New York, She will be heartily welcomed at Mr. Daly’s elegant little theatre, where she will be sustained by an excellent company, and where no pains will be spared to bring out in the very best style the pieces in which she is to appear. The experience of Mr. Daly as & journalist, a dramatic critic and a play- wright, has qualified him to know precisely the wants of the public and successfully to supply them. At Daly’s and at Wallack’s the inestimable value of a good stock company is as well understood as the attraction of “a bright particular star,” and the healthy rivalry between these two popular establishments ia most encouraging. Lind City PoliticsOpening of the Campaign. The two great political parties of the State have held their nominating conventions and presented their State tickets with their ‘“plat- form of principles” to the people. From the holding of these conventions dates the opening of the campaign, and upon the policy adopted or recommended on party, State and national questions, as set forth in said platforms, each party must stand or fall. It isa point gained by that party whose convention does not come off till after that of its opponents, when the latter will have declared its policy and recorded its pledge to stand by it at all hazards. The republicans have had this advantage, and, it must be admitted, profited by it. They saw the weak points in the democratic platform and they strengthened their own accordingly. On the principal questions, on which the democracy of the Empire State and of the country at large has heretofore plumed itself as being ahead of all other parties and leading the way, the democratic convention lagged behind and the republicans immediately took the foremost place. This was with regard to the resolutions on the policy of the government with foreign Powers, touching the protection to be extended by the United States to all citizens of the Union, whether native born or , naturalized, and whether, once naturalized, living under the Stars and Stripes or under a foreign flag for the time being. On this question the resolution of the republican con- vention was emphatic and decided, while that of the democrats was maundering and weak. On the Cuban question, the granting of bel- ligerent rights and annexation, the republican focling and sentiment was outspoken and hada ring about it that found an echo in the hearts of the people everywhere, The democratic reso- lution on the same point lacked the old spirit of the purty and was read with disappoint- ment by its most devoted adherents, There were other questions of vital impor- tance, with regard to which the democratic party has been so long at sea that it was not surprising it could not or would not act judi- ciously or patriotically. These referred more particularly to the payment of the national debt, the ratification of the fifteenth amend- ment and negro suffrage. There was the usual beating about the bush, an attempt to gal- vanize exploded doctrines and revive defunct issues manifested in the wording of the demo- cratic resolutions, while those of the republi- can convention came squarely to the point and placed the party in its policy on the side of the government and of the country. On these diverse ‘platforms of principles” both parties enter on the November campaign and invoke the verdict of the people of the State. The issues in controversy are not, of course, very vital, but, in view of the cam- paign which is to follow, and from the fact that a great deal of interest is attached to the result of the coming elections in Ohio, Penn- sylvania and other States, there is little doubt but a very large vote will be polled in thia State. In the city the whole political hive is in a tumult. The offices are numerous and the candidates more so. The harvest is nearly ripe and there is no dearth of reapers; but of all who are in the field how few will be per- mitted to gather of the harvest! We give in another column a review of the state of politi- cal feeling, the combinations, present and pros- pective, the strategy of the leaders, the offices to be filled, the candidates seeking nomination and a general and comprehensive statement of the present attitude of the contending parties, ‘Tire NEUTRALITY OF ENGLAND in the case of the Alabama has shown the Cubans exactly how to manage affairs with the Hornet, and they have bettered the instruction. ANoTHER TERRIBLE WaRNtING—That of the late disastrous boiler explosion at the India- napolis State Fair, The cause, no doubt, was negligence—an offence which neglected steam is sure to punish, When will all parties responsible for the safety of steam boilers be brought to understand the awful crime of neg- ligence? Sunpay AMvsEMENTs IN BostoN.—Among the latest dog fighting has been introduced. The Puritans are progressing down hill. We may next expect to hear that they have inau- gurated a bear garden and a bull ring. Experpirions to assist the Cuban struggle for freedom are very plentiful in these days. This is the popular response to Spain's deter- mination to send ‘‘more troops.” Goop ror ANpY.—His only opposition in Tennessee is the old, bitter rebel element. There are some who can seo in the ex-Presi- dent only a stanch Union man. YACHT:NG. As anticipared Mr. Jacob Voorhis, Jr., owner of the yacht Madeline, in reply to the challenge issued in the H#RALD Of yesterday, to the effect that the Gracie would sail the Madeline from Sands Point to Stratford Point buoy and back, jib and mainsall only, for form $1,000 to $5,000, answers it in the 1ol- lowing terms:— T will accept the challenge of the sloop yacht Gracie to sail the sloop yacht Madeline, each yacht to carry the amount of canvass allowed by the At- lantic yacht club rules, according to size, JA0OB VOORHIS. Ja.