The New York Herald Newspaper, November 5, 1869, Page 6

BROADWAY Y AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and éelegraphio despatches must be addressed New York | Heracp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. | Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLAOK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 1:k atreet.—~ Tau Heir ar Law. THE TAMMANY, Fourteoush street.—Tur HANLON Buorarns, 40. é ‘S RAND OPERA HOUSE, corase of Kighth aveane and street. —CHARLES O'MALLEY. WAVERLEY THEATRE. Vaniery ENTRRTAINMEN 420 Broadway.—A Guanp dat, belwoen Sth and Sth ave— BOOTH'S THEATRE, Mary WauNEn. -_ | OLYMPIO THEATRE, Broadway.—Tum Srnznss oF New You! FIFTH AVENUE THEATR Sux WOULD AxD Sux Wou NIBLO'S GARDEN, MAROULON ESS. way. —Litt it NEL AND THE | Jdth street. ACADEMY OF M Trauian Orgna— | Linpa pi Cuamor six. | WOOD'S MUSEUM CURIOSITIES, Brosdway, coruer ‘Thirtieth st.—Matines daily. mance evary eve: BOWERY THEATRE, a; OR, Tor BusrECrED OnE—Bosy Bb: MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brookiya,— East Lynne. TONY PASTOR'S OP! 201 Bowery.—Comto Vooarism, NzvKo M THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broedway.—Comto Vooat- sm, NEGKO Acts, &c. | BRYANTS' OPERA HO #.—BRvan18' MINSTRELS. BAN FRANCISCO PLAN MINSTRELSY, N 585 Broa way. -Erato- NEW YORK CIRCUS, F Eqursratax AND GYMNASTIO PERFORMAN¢ th street. 0. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteen'h street—Lecrour. A BLIND MAN SAW IN P4 “Woat HOOLEY'S OPERA HO Brooklyn, MINSTRELS—HIGH TIMRs IN B KLIN, AC. Hoots SOMERVILLE ART GALLERY, Fifth avenue and 14th Grest.—ExumiTI0N OF Tux Nink MUSES. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broniway.- | GOCLENOE AND Axr. TOMY, 618'¢ TRIPLE SHEET. ales York, Friday, November 5, 18% TO ADVERTISERS. Increasing Circulation of the Herald. We are again constrained to ask advertisers to hand in their advertisements at os early an hour as possible, Our immense and constantly increasing editions compel us, notwithstanding our presses are capable of printing seventy thousand copies an hour, to put our forms to press much earlier than usual, and to facilitate the work we are forced to stop the classifications of advertisements at nine e’clock P. M. THS NEwWs. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated November George Peabody died in London at eleven o'clock last night. Cabinet division still prevailed in Madrid, and Ad- miral Topete insisted on resigning bis portfolio, The King of Italy and Emperor of Austria wili, it ts sald, soon meet at Brindisi. The London Post analyses, in anticipation, the probable action of the Ecument eal Council in Rome, leaving the inference that ite Members will be pretty nearly unanimous in opinion as to the different subjects woich will be presented. Ten men were killed and quite a number wounded by a steam boiler explosion on board a British gun- doat, The Emperor of Austria is im Athens. The Daima- tian insurgents were defeated. The Spanish Cortes adjourned. A Catholic priest was murdered In Ire- land, Eavpt. A telegram from Alexandria to Paris yer ‘announces the arrival of the Empress of Fri the terminus of the Suez Canal. Venezuela. Despatches from Caracas report the capture of Maracaibo by General Monagas, commanding the national forces. Hayti. General Buce, a revolutionist, bas captared the town of Miragoane. General Chevalier, command- ing Salnave'’s troops in front of Jacmel, bad with- drawn from that place to stop Buce’s advance on Port au Prince, St. Domingo. Rumors of the sale of St. Domingo to the United States are gaining corroborative strength among the inbabitants, , Jamaica, Ant accident happened on the Jamaica Railway on the 4th of October, by which Mr. Aikman, the Crown Solicitor, aud several other persons were injured. Miscellaneous. President Grant has been compelled by press of ‘pusiness to decline the tnvitation to be present at the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Ten- nessee, in Louisville, on the 17th and 18th inst, It {a stated that in tne letter written by President Grant to Jndge Dent, the consetvative candidate for Governor of Mississippi, he sustained the course of | General Ames, commander of the district, in relation to office-holders opposed to the administration. General McMahon was beforethe House Sub-Com. | mittee on Foreign Affairs yesterday, and gave a | bistory of the causes war, He eaid it was instituted by Bra- gil to extend monarchy and slavery, He himself was well treatea by Lopez, who is favorably disposed towards the United States, The Biss and Masterman diMculty had been settled before he ar- rived in Paraguay. Masterman, said, wae an English subject and he would not have felt at liberty to interfere in his case. Ais conduct as Minister has ‘Deon endorsed by the State Department, Ex-Minis- tera Worthington and J, Watson Webb are soon to be examined, It 1s considered certain that Congress early in the coming session will order an inquiry into the causos Of the recent gold corner in Wall street, The Reform Convention of Jewish Rabbis in Phila- Gelphia yesterday adopted resolutions favoring a change in the marital laws, acknowledging the wo- man as the equal of the man and providing for an exchange of rings aga part of the ceremony, and also abolishing divorces by the Church and leaving the power of divorce entirely to the judiciary of the Btates, The instructions to Mintster Low, of China, have ‘een decided upon by the State Department, and, It fa understood, favor the policy of conciliation. The fund for the traveling committees of Congress has bean exhausted, and the Sub-Committee of the House on Elections has boen detained in Washington in consequence, The Sergeant: rma, it is said, has succeeded recently in raising enough money on of the Paraguayan NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. the collection of the manufacturers’ tax om pork packers until January 1, but declines to repeal his previous decision in the matter, His postponement of the tax is to give the interested parties time to appeal to Congress. Several postmasters of the prominent cities have been summoned to Washington by Mr, Creawell to confer with him on postal tmprovemeats. Ho pro- poses to reduce the charge on rogisterod letters from twelve to six cents, and to substitute free de- lveries in all the cities for the present system of private boxes, F Numerous suspicions dimMoulttes surround the ex- pocted ight between McCoole and Alien. The two princtpals are at present disagreeing about the choice ofa stakeholder. Governor Warmoth, of Loutsiana, denies tho state- ment that he had issued ten and a haif million of bonas that were not oMctally recorded. Two lictio children were burned to death in Har- wich, Mas#., on Wednesday evening while their parents were visiting a neighbor. One thousand Chinese passengers sailed from San Franctaco yesterday for Hong Kong, Tho City. Colone! Whitely, of the secret service, has suc- ceeded in arresting, besides Colonel Clarke, whose arrest was mentioned yesterday, Hart Pierce, of 39 Nassau street, Volney Wright, John Rippon and William S. Kempton, The two last and ® woman, three children and @ colored girl were found ina remote house on Staten Island, where numerous iunplements for the manufacture of counterfeit coin and stamps were seized. They were all placed tn custody of the United States Marshal, Atthe Reformed church, on Twenty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, last evening, @ brilliant congrega- tion assembled to hear the report of Dr. Schaff, who has returned from the mission to Europe, which he | made in the interest of the Evangelical Council to be held here next year. The reverend doctor's re- port was highly satisfactory. A letter from Father Hyacinthe to Rey, Dr. Bacon, in relation to @ trans- lation of his sermons, was read, in which the Pére says that he continues faithful to his Church, James Moore, alias Jonnny Miller, who, twenty years ago, was & desperado that the police did not dare to trouble, was before Judge Dowling yesterday, charged with stealing four yards of flannel from a store on Broadway. Judge Dowling remembered the prisoner and elicited from him the fact that his lungs were nearly gone, through long prison life; that he was unable to work, and that he was in want and had had @ hard time generally. He pleaded for mercy; and the Judge, in pity, sent him to the Penitentiary Hospital for three months, no hard work to be assigned him. The steamship City of Paris, Captain Mirehouse, | of the Inman line, will leave pler No. 45 North river atone P, M. to-morrow, 6th inst., for Queenstown and Liverpool, The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. to-morrow, The National line steamship Virginia, Captain Thomas, will sail from pler No, 47 North river at half-past seven o’clock to-morrow (Saturday) morn- ing for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to iaod passengers. The steamship India, Captain Munro, of the Anchor line, will leave pier No, 20 North river at twelve M. to-morrow (Saturday) tor Glasgow, touch- ing at Londonderry to land passengers. The Merchants’ line steamship Mississippi, Cap- tain Henry, will sail from pler No. 12 North river, at threa P, M. to-morrow, oth inst., for New Orleans direct, ‘The steamship Rapidan, Captain Whitehurst, of Livingston, Fox & Co.'s line, will sail from plier No. | 83 North river, at three P., M. to-morrow, for Havana. The stock market yesterday was strong and active, Gold declined to 126%, closing finally at 126%. Prominent Arrivals in tho City, Senator J. P. Stockton, of New Jersey; Colonel Cathwood, of San Francisco; Hy. Ashurst, of Phila- delphia; W. H. Beards, of Yonkers; T, B, Loomis, of Connecticut; W. C. De Forrest, of New Haven, and Wm. M. Woodward, of Richmond, Va., are at the Grand flotel. General H. A. Barnum, of Syracuse; Surgeon J. F, Randolph, Surgeon J. Cooper McKee, and Captain ©. C, Wheeler, of the United States Army, and C. F. Harris, of Providence, are at the Hoffman House. Judge G. A. Latham, of North Carolina; Colonel T. B. Porteous, of Ofl City; Colonel .W. 8. Lincoln and Colone! William EH. Spaulding, of Washington; Jadge H. L, Pendleton, of Rhode Island; Coionel W. W. Hill, of Aibany; Rev. E. A. Brown, of Port Jarvis; Dr. H. Fitler and Dr. T. B, Pugh, of Philadelphia; Colonel W. D. Richardson, of Springfield, IL; Col- onel William Trego and Major A. Kirkland, of Baltt- more; Parson F. D. Curtis, of Chariton, N. Y.; Robert F. Bates, of the United States Army and Cap- tain Simmons, of England, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Major J. J. Knox, of Washington; W. H. 1. Cook, of Baltimore, ana George S, Minott, of Boston, are at the Coleman Houses. Captain T. A. Kertland, of the United States Army; Professor J, 8. Case, of Saratoga, and Major William Maginiey, oi Pennsylvania, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania; Dr. Stillwell, of Sag Harbor, L, I.; R. G. Hazard, of Rhode Island; Thomas ©. Folger, of Washington, and ©, P. Crosby, of Brooklyn, are at the St. Dennis Hotel. J. Stebbins and EF. P, Tonney, of Boston, and A Mason, of Philadelphia, are et the Westminster Hotel. Colonel Stevenson, of New Rochelle; L. W. Frost, of Fordham; Sherman Patterson, of New Hamp- shire; W. 8. De Zang, of Geneva; L. E. Jobnston, of Charleaton, S. C.; R. W. Peckham, of Albany, ana A. J, Coguiil, of San Francisco, are at the Everett House. Right Rey. Bishop Bacon, of Portiand, Me.; John Storra, of Cambridge University, England, and L. 8. Huntington, of Montreal, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander W. A. Kirkland, Lieutenant Com- manderG, A. Perkins, Lieutenant Commander W. Kk. Wheeler and Lieutenant Commander A. G. Lathrop, of the United States Navy, are at the Albermarie Hotel. Judge H. Peck, of Washington; Colonel Kaward Wright, of the United States Army; Ex-Governor Cummings, of Georgia; Springer Harbaugh, of Pitis- burg; H. A. Tliden, of New Lebanon; J. Langdon, of Elmira; Dr. D. J. eggs, of Ohio; Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut; General Brayman, of Iilinoia, and J. K. Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, are at | the St. Nicholas Hotel, Prominent Departures, Viscount D. Thary and Baltazzi Efendi, Secretary of the Turkish Legation, for Washington; Surgeon 8. C, Nelson, for Boston; 8. Douliand, for Bustalo; Colonel 8. Hance, for Springfleid, 111; Rev, 8. Rea- mond, for Boston, and Major 3. D. Merrick, for Washington, zee taney * Too Mvcn.—It is charged that the falling off in the vote for Greeley in the rural dis- tricts is due to his peculiar crotchets of too much protection, too much Jeff Davis, too much amnesty, too much nigger and too much cold water with his lager beer, He was too much of « puzzle for the simple and practical yeomanry, any how, and so they shelved him. Warton Tazm,—Jack Cunningham was de- feated for the office of sheriff over in Kings county by abot twelve hundred votes, but it is said that some of the political ringleaders around the City Hall in Brooklyn will attempt to count Jack in. Watch them, Tag Pork Packers think it unjust that they are taxed as manufacturers, because they merely manfpulate & necessary animal, They do not recognize the nice distinction between hog and pork. It was swine with the Saxon and pork with the Norman, and the Saxon knew it on four feet, as he fed it in the woods, while the Norman knéw it as dressed for the table, Hence the distinction between pork the street to send them on to South Carolina. Commissioner Delano, in reply to @ request of fovoral delegates from boards of tredp ay, Vision dealera’ assoolgtions, has coggonteg bi and the animal from which pork is mado, Pork {#@ manufactured article, whatever hog, pid) ahote or swine may ve. The Byron Mystory—Mre, Stowoe’s “True Story” and the Lendon Quarterly Re- view. Through the kindness of the Leonard Scott Publishing Company we are enabled this morning to publish in advance and In full from their forthcoming reprint of the London Quarterly the celebrated article on the Byron mystery. The article must be read by every one who would come toa proper conclusion as to the exact merits of the case, It is the latest examination of the question gratul- tously, and if not maliciously at least for mean and selfish purposes, ralsed by Mrs. Stowe In her “True Story of Lady Byron's Life;” and as it is the latest, it is also the fullest, most exhaustive and most satisfactory discussion of the subject. If it does not white- wash Lord Byron it forbids us to believe that he was the monster Mrs. Stowe has attempted to make him; and if it does not absolutely disprove all that Mrs. Stowe has written re- garding him it leaves the author of the ‘True Story” in a position, morally, not much better than that in which she sought to place Lord Byron and his sister, the Lady Augusta, It was most moet that such an article should appear in the London Quarterly, The Quar- terly is the property of the Murrays, and John Murray was the publisher of Byron's works and the friend and sometimes the confiden- tial adviser of the poet. The article written by Mrs. Stowe and published in a worthless, though sensational, journal in Boston, and simultaneously in a diteltantte journal in England, was not, from its intrinsic merits, entitled to the attention which it has received both here and in Europe; but false- hood, misstatement, treachery, cruel selfish- ness and defamation of the dead always demand rebuke, and rebuke and refutation have wisely been deemed necessary. It is gratifying to be able to say that rebuke has been skilfully and effectivelly administered, and that refutation has been made so complete that the vile charge is shown to rest on no stronger foundation than that of a woman of diseased imagination—a woman whose words at different times contradict each other, and whose conduct at the crisis of her life was strangely inconsistent with her alleged state- ments. The Quarterly reviower puts the case in a new light and strips the controversy of a great deal of unnecessary verbiage, Hitherto some have been willing to believe that Mrs. Stowe invented the ‘True Story,” or that she gave it on some hearsay evidence. Selfish and un- principled as we believed Mra, Stowe to be, we cannot say that this was ever our opinion, This was the view taken by Lord Lindsay, who rested his case onthe discrepancy be- tween the Lady Byron writing to Lady Ann Barnard and the Lady Byron dictating the “True Story” in years long subsequent to Mrs, Beecher Stowe. This ground the Quarterly reviewer abandons at once. He tells us that the story had been frequently told by Lady Byron, and, quoting letters from a Mr. Trench and a Mr. Robertson, proves that she “‘made no scruple of repeat- ing the charge”—of incest—‘right and left to almost anybody who chose to listen to it.” It is also admitted that certain facts withheld from her fathor and mother were communi- cated to Dr. Lushington, that the same facts were communicated to @ young military man, that these facts amounted to a definite charge; and it is added that the family of this ‘‘con- temporary confidant, a man of the highest honor, have uniformly stated that to the best of their belief the charge was the specified one” — that of incest. This simplifies the case con- siderably, The story, though very incorrectly told, {s not an invention of Mrs. Stowe’s. It is as little « delusion or illusion of Lady Byron in the later years of her life. Lady Byron did make this charge ia 1816, and did continue to make it in the later years of her life. At this stage we are presented with Lady Byron's letters to the Lady Augusta—letters expressive of the warmest friendship and written at the very time she was charging her with one of the most horri- ble crimes, and regarding her as the real cause of her separation from her husband. We refer the reader to the letters themselves, They speak volumes. More affectionate letters were never penned, If they are genuine—and we cannot for a moment imagine that such a journal as the Quarterly would give them place if they were not—they turn the tables against Lady Byrdn her- self, By them, in fact, the story of Mrs. Stowe is converted into an indictment against Lady Byron's soundness of mind. How a sane woman would believe that the Lady Augusta was guilty of so great a crime, a crime so seriously affecting herself, and yet write these letters, is cortainly a puzzle without parallel, Inthe whole history of psychology we do not believe that any similar case can be found. It is certainly more easy to beliove that Lady Byron was laboring under somo hallucination than that the charge she pre- ferred was well founded. It will be observed by the reader that all who know the Lady Augusta regarded her as a woman inca- pable of such wickedness. With the exception of Lady Byron herself, and her advocate, Mrs, Stowe, not a single voice has been raised against her, By all her friends she was highly esteemed. Certainly, if Lady Byron's friends do not bring forth some strong rebutting testi- mony, Mrs, Stowe’s story must fall to the ground, Dr. Lushington still lives, He says he has never told and that he never will tell what Lady Byron revealed to him. Surely the time has come when the seal of secrecy should be removed. If he owes a duty to the dead, he owes 8 duty also to the living, and the descen- dants of Lady Augusta have a perfect right to demand that he should make public what he knows, As the case now stands the conduct of Mra, Stowe and her publishers is more reprehen- sible than ever. The story, though known to many, had wisely and with a praiseworthy re- gard to the interests of public morality been kept a secret. Mrs, Stowe and her publishers, with Puritanical selfishness and with a shameless disregard of public decency and of private feeling, not to speak of the sacred memory of the dead, saw that the “Trae Story” would pay. For them this was motive sufficient. On Mrs, Stowe, however, even more than upon her publishers, the iniquity reste; for she has, according to her own confession, betrayed confdence—a crime than which there is none more heinous. If it be true that the whole thing has been done for the purpose of advertising a forthcoming volume from her pen, more unprinoipled con- duct can scarcely be imagined. Our Late Election—A Sweeping Rovolu- tion fm Our City and State Govern mont—Look Out. A democratic Legislature, both branches, with a democratic Governor in this State, simply means a sweeping revolution in the laws regulating our city and State govern- ments. The democrats, since the great political revolution of 1852, which swept out of existence the old whig party, have not secured a full possession of this State. They gained {n the general whig party collapse of 1852 the Governor (Horatio Seymour) and the Legislature, and so they took full possession at Albany in January, 1853, Sinoe that time they have secured the Governor twice—Sey- mour in 1862 and Hoffman in 1868; but through all the long interval from 1858 the Senate, or the Assembly and the Senate, have boen against them, Consequently they have never been able to upset the special legislative measures of the republican party, passed from time to time, under a republican Legislature and Governor since 1856, and adopted mainly to reduce the demooratio majorities of this corner of the State. After seventeen years of exclusion from the control of the State government we may accordingly expect, with the meeting of the democratio Legislaturo next January, backed by @ democratic Governor, a general over- hauling and repealing of the republican party measures aforesaid, which will amount to a general reconstruction of the government of this city, and a reconstruction, to a great extent, of the laws regulating the affairs of the State, It has been broadly hinted from various quarters that the democratic pro- gramme in the new Legislature (which will be engineered by Tammany Hall and supported by the Governor) will embrace, first, on national affairs, the repeal of New York's ratification of the fifteenth ameodment; and, on local affairs— 1, A repeal of the Exciso tates 2. A repeal of the Registry 1a) 8 Arepeal of the Jay entablishing the existing Metropolitan police ay: 4. A repeal of the aw creating the present Fire Department, 6. ‘The abolition of the present Croton Board. 6, The abolition of the present Health Board, 1. & new immigration system, These things are to be done away with, and, under a new city charter, it is said, we are to have all these and all other departments of the city government made subordinate to the Mayor anda Municipal Cabinet and the two Boards of the City Council. The Mayor's Cabinet will probably embrace the chief of each of the new departments to be created— on the licensing of liquor dealers, &.; on the police, the streets, the plers and wharves, quarantine affairs, fremen, Croton water, Central and other parks, gas, health, &&., &o. This general reconstraction of our city gov- ernment will oreate hundreds of fat offices, and can be made to cover five hundred mil- lions of dollars in good fat jobs, including a new system of piers and wharves, new city railroads (overhead and underground), new streets, now markets and other new public institutions, Atall events, this great positive gain of the Legislature gives to the democrats so firm a foothold in the possession of the State, and such abundant means for strengthening their position, that it is only by the most stupid blundering that they can lose it. The repeal, however, of -t¢e ratification of the fifteenth amendment would be a blunder to begin with, and it would not avail anything ; but it is probable that the proclama- tion of the complete ratification will be made from Washington before the 1st of January, which will settle the question and reduce the Northern democracy to the wiso alternative of joining the Southern democracy in cultivating the negro vote. On our local affaira the schedule of changes suggested will require a great deal of mighty nice consideration, especially as the democrats have, with tho full power, the whole respon- sibility in legislative matters. Nevortheless, wo think great changes may be confidently expected in the laws regulatlag our city affairs ; but whether these changes will bo good or bad—whether they will operate to lighten or increase our taxes, to render more safe or more in peril the lives and property of our citizens, to strengthen the party or to destroy it—will depend very much upon the engineering of Tammany Hall. She may play her cards so as to control the National Democratic Con- vention of 1872, or so as to lose her prestige and ber power in 1870, PAP RESER ES OSE ORO | GeNERAL GRANT AND THE Svocession,— Grant says that he feels in the Presidency “very much as he did at West Point, in his cadet days, when he counted every month with eagerness to get out of his position.” One more President, therefore, is like his predeces- sors, ‘not a candidate for re-election.” We have hitherto seen, however, that the resolu- tions of Presidents made early in their term are reconsidered toward the end of that term; but as Grant has found his Presidential difficulties greater than those he met in the war he may hold his purpose to theend. His doing so will be of the less consequence if the democrats run some such man as Thomas, Gotp 1263.—Yesterday gold declined to 126%, the lowest point attained since 1866, when in the reaction following the end of the war it sold as low as 125. It will be remembered that six weeks ago it was advanced to 165 by the great gold combination. The contrast is quite a curious one. Tho difference is nearly forty per cent—a fall on an average of about one per cent a day. The reduction of the national debt and the steady prosperity of tho country are the secret of the decline, Bismanox.—In England they are writing that Bismarck is not a statesman, and in Paris they write that Bismarck’s powor in Germany {fs on the decline, Bismarck, perhaps, can stand this very well, and will be found a tough customer by those who propose to write him down, If he Is not 9 statesman there {4 no such thing in Europe; and the influence of the man who has brought the Gefman people to realize their unity and the political supremacy in Europe that this unity gives may be depended upon to outlive some little dynastion, George Peabody's Death, George Peabody, the American banker and friend of humanity, died at his residence, Eaton square, London, 2 half-past eleven o'clock last night, in the seve.ty-first year of his age. The great heart of the ohilanthropist was stilled near to the ecene of ite earliest direct aspirations upward In a foreign Isnd, and in the immediate neighborhood of the svt where he first labored in his earthly work of cosmo- politan utillty and @ world-wide benevolence. His mission here is accomplished—his endur- ing reward commenced. Amid the distrac- tions of diplomacy and in tho very furnace of political strife the news of Mr. Peabody’s death, although looked for at any moment during some months, will cause the peoples to pause, both in regret for the man and a wholesome recollection of the brief duration of even the most extended term of an earthly career, Queen Victoria, who hon- ored him and herself by special mossages of inquiry as to his condition dally, will regret him in Windsor Castle, and the Empress of France will grieve for him by the banks of the Suez Canal, The negro freedmen and whito men, university students and poor of the Ameri- can Continent will sorrow equally for the loss of a real benefactor, while the democracy of Europe loses, as it wore, a pillar inthe desert, in the shape of a self-made, perfect man, whose aristocracy was from nature and whose radicalism and opon sesame to wealth and honor were expressed in the words industry and honesty. In an ample biographical sketch wo present to-day a history of Mr. Peabody's life from his infancy and boyhood to its close. The very means of the announcemont of his death with the moment of its occurrence in the HeEravp are remarkable and worthy of note as evidence of the progress of the world by the subornation of science and its most subtle results and agencies to the use of man, Mr. Peabody, as will be seen, expired in London— three thousand miles distant—at haif-past eleven o’clook last night. The news of his decease reached the Herarp Building, through the Atlantic cable, at fifty-eight minutes past eight o'clock the same evening—the matter, with our obituary report, being in the hands of our compositors for preparation for our steam presses and tho public eye some time before. the hour of eleven o'clock in New York. It is the modern de profundis and worthy of the ‘mighty dead.” Can the antici- pations of Puck be more completely realized ? What In the Cause of the Failure of the Cuban Expeditions? The Cuban privateers Lillian and Cuba have certainly been unfortunate in their career, Without accomplishing anything the vessels havo been seized and members of the crews of each vessel have been arrested and held by American and English authorities respectively. From the manner of the seizure of both ves- sels and the circumstances under which tho arrest of the crews were made it would seem that there is a screw loose somewhere in the management of these expeditions, Possibly treachery may form a large share of the cause of the disappointments which have thus far attended the efforts of the Cubans at sea. That there is some room for: these repeated failures there is no reason to doubt.’ So far as regards Captain Harris, of the Lillian, we believe he has his heart in the work and is true to the cause in which he has embarked, but whether others can present as clean a record it is impossible to say. In relation to matters on the island it is im- possible, however, not to recognize the fact that while we have glowing reports of the landing of Spanish troops and the increased activity of De Rodas, Valmasoda and the re- mainder of the high Spanish officials, the insurgents are able to hold their own, not- withstanding their embarrassments on the sea. This state of affairs cannot possibly be lost aight of by Prosident Grant, whose sympathies are with the Cubans, and whose policy—the result of serious reflection— will in the end, no doubt, shapa itself so as to represent the wishes of the American people, The present troubles in Spain also hasten « solution of the Cuban problem, There is reglly too much to think of at home to watch Cuba very closely, Affaire have arrived at that stage which requires something more than the shipment of troops from Cadiz to crush a revolution aver four thousand miles distant. With a fierce domestic struggle agitat- ing Spain, destroying tho confidence of the people in her leading’men and spreading universal discontent throughout the country, it is not difficult to foresee the future of Cuba, Between the blunders of Spanish politicians at home and military leaders abroad the island will yet secure its independence even though disappointment on the sea may at the presont time temporarily embarrass her leaders. Tot Mux IN THE CocoANUT—Tho defeat of Morgan last yoar for the United States Senate, The Morgan men of the interior, it appears, in retaliation gave some of the obnoxious Fenton men directly con- cerned a quiet stab under the fifth rib, with the remark of the slayer of Abner, one of King David's fighting favorites, ‘‘Art thou in health, my brother?” And so the republicans have lost the Legislature as the price exacted by the Morgan faction for the election of Fenton to and the ousting of Morgan from the national Senate, Goon Use ror O1p Castieg.—The increase of crime in Prussia is such that there is no more room in the prisons, and the government has been obliged to seoure some old castles in which to accommodate the surplus prisoners, Although the fact does not prove much in favor of the home policy of Count Bis- marck, still it is turning the old establishments to good account, The spirits of the old barons of the middle ages will doubtless be indignant at the idea of being thrown into the company of culprita who have passed the ordeal of a modern police court, Tus Tax Reortver announces that tax~ payers who cannot run the chance of tho throng at the tax office may send in checks for the amount, with the bill, and enclosed in envelopes, and properly addressed, &o, In viow of the way oficial business 1s done in this motropolis, and of the uncertainties of tho oity delivery, itis doubtful if many would like to put thelr money out of their sight on guoh # venture, 7 g F Progress Aneig tho We published yesterday the deveh resolu tions adopted by eleven rabbis from the prin- cipal cities of the United States, who have met in conference at Philadelphia. These reso- lutions embody tho principles which, accord- ing to the advocates of reform and pica should be confessed by Judaiam in its prosent phase of development. Without entering into details as to the doctrinal views thus set forth by the representatives of a great and powerful party among the American Jews—a party ta whioh Fifth avenue in New York owes the erection of one of its tinest architectural orna- ments, tho synagogue Emanuel, which, signifl- cantly enough, is built in the shape of a cross, and which was recently visited by Father Hyas cinthe—we must call attention to the Jewish Reform Conference in Philadelphia as a most noteworthy sign of the times. It is a fresh illustration of a wonderful progresssive move- ment among the Jews, both in the Old World and in the New. Ever since the destruction of the Temple, which in the lifetime of Jesus Christ stood, with its gates, courts and towers, and resplendent with gold and marble, where the Mosque of Omar now rises at Jerusalem, the chief characteristic of ‘‘the peculiar peo- ple” has been the tenacity with which thoy have adhered to their ancient religious rites. These have continued unchanged and un- changeable throughout the vicissitudes and the perseoutions of seventeen centuries. Im respect to many. otter things the Jews havo, at different periods and in different countries, conformed to the customs and costumes of the communities around them. We all remem- ber how ‘‘a conquered nation changed thoir military leaders into rabbis and their hosts into armies of students ;” how, in the Middle Ages as well as in more modern times, thoy became the money changers of Europe; how, notwithstanding all the abuse of Wagner, their great musical composers are entitled to the foremost rank; how Rachel is not the only conspicuous artist who has exhibited their extraordinary histrionio genius; how tho revolutions of 1848 were chiefly initiated and directed by them through the medium of the newspaper press; and how, in fine, they have in a thousand different ways shown their adaptability to the age in which we live, And now the Philadelphia Conference attests, like the recent conference of Israclites in Ger« many, the singular fact that the Jews are in fuller sympathy with modern ideas of reform and progress than the ultramontanists of Europe, who, it would seem, have induced the Bishop of Rome and head of the Christian Church to hold an Ecumenical Coufcil for the express purpose of opposing all such ideas, In Germany the Jews are slowly amalgamating with their fellow countrymen, and in the United States—which they begin to see Is their true land of promise, and where they are absolutely free—they are more rapidly yielding to the spirit of progress. All this will seem the less surprising if if be recollected that Jesus Christ himself, the greatest of lnno+ vators, was a Jew. Our Trade with the East. ‘Twenty-eight thousand ounces of Japanese silver were received at the San Francisco Mint for recoinage in October. Here is a aub- stantial result of the trade with the East, which, though small, is an indioation in its way. Apparently our trade with our Oriental neighbors is already so great that the goods wesend them areso much in excess of the goods they send us that there is a balance to be made upincoin, Yet the demand in all parts of this country for the products of the East is always very great. Hitherto the ex- changes for this demand have been made through England, and we have lost much of the benefit of the trade by the number of transfers involved, paying correspondingly greater prices for the articles we bought and getting correspondingly smaller prices for the articles we sold, But the Paciflo Railroad andour Pacifla steamers promise to change all that, and already show us in this “‘straw” from the Japanese Mint what may be done in our direct trado with the East. As the full effect of all out recent great advances toward readior commu- nication with the East, as well as the effects of our liberal policy toward Eastern nations, comes to be felt we shall supply ourselves, if not the world, with Oriental products and supply Ori- ental nations with the varied manufactures that are the outgrowth of Western civilization. The great futuro of our commerce is in that direction, and the time will come when we may leave the Atlantic to others, A Cass or Disaust.—Greeley was sucoosse falin one thing—he succeeded in exciting the disgust of the people against the corrupt doings of the late republican Legislature, and ao there ig a change, Let the democracy be thankful. Tor Horse Lexon’s Davourae has certainly taken up her home in the hearts of tho tarlf men, who are not satisfied with the present scale of duties, and are in a fearful state of alarm lest the President in his message shall declare himself in favor of some reductions, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. Proceods of the ir=Thankes or Ne thanks t ie Superintendent. The American Institute held its stated monthly meeting last evening at their room in the Cooper Institute, with the President, Horace Greeley, in the chair. The report of the Board of Managers wag presented, from which it appears the total receipts from the Fair were $69,216; total expenses, $37,212; balance, $22,004; cash on hand,§$115,000; ostimate of expenses not yet audited, $7,000; property bought and paid for, $6,000; total profits of the Fair, $21,000 m round numbers, The same report pro sented the names of 204 new membors, for whom is Bata Pees to Dello i a lama ts tion nally names pare free, i and finall; Butlsted’ Sor and clect report was made unanimous, bay vote oot ot thanks Was paased to tho Board of Mana gers. motion of Dr. J. C. SMITH, ¢x-Mayor of Boston, a committees ‘was appointed to get up a popular course of iectures, to be delivered by members of the stitute. ‘debate of some length and warmth byte one resolution offered b; ber tl Super+ intendent, ) Emory, for his oatoveney ‘and do- otion, i Mr. Wrarp, Ug tia at the fair, objected to his exhibition on the part fe compl ed that the jary organi: team boiler experiments treated hin ther exhibitors with indiffe: odathe which a to-paae upon per time Qj upon mn Bi eth domed bein ve in what he di ent of the Institute, iscussion of &® some jure followed, and ney Won | tavied an out of ova uae and port in sd, iat hed iavenaee. Mr, acta improper mot nd that he's mply netod as A good deal of iantagonintc ‘what personal a1 finally the motion ® Vote Of 80 to 28, tell through the who was in, diate adj rovokit Thank ue