The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1869, Page 5

ASIA. Travel, Scenes and Notes in British India. Delhi, the City of the Mognls, and Life on the Banks of the Jumua. British News from tho Persian Culf— Cholera, Famino and War. ‘The European mall at this port brought the follow- ing epecial correspondence from Asia in conunad tion of the detalicd narrative of the modern history of Brush India which is being supplied by the HeaaLp ‘Writer ta that part of the world. A Representative Mindoo— Our” Cicerone in Deihi~Geucral View of the City-The Chane din Chowk and the People One Meets in Ib—The “Swell Natives?=The Famine Brones Around the Grain Shops~Mermories ef the Mutiny—the Story of the Kotwate— Tho Kootuf Blinar=Tho Jumna Musjid. DELHI, Sept, 15, 1869. Ix days ago your correspondent, having rattled over the noble ison biidge whicb has been eonstructed across the cred river Jura, was whirled through the old tuvi of Selmgur and landed on the platform of the Delnt terminus of the East Indian Ratiway. Ho ostablished himself without delay tn the only hotel for Buropeans in the city (Kept by a native, ‘who rejoices in the name of Bishumburnath), and at once contided himself to tue care of a local elec: rone, generally known as Baboo Budree Das, a Hin- @oo of the Eshatriya caste, who subsists by fasten- ing a8 guide, interpreter and servant upon passing tourists. As the baboo may occastonally figure in the next column or two, and as he deserves sone special notice, 1t 18 as well to give at the outset some idea of what be is hke, ‘“4he Babou is the son of a native who was butler to the oflicers’ mess of one of the English regiments, and haa enjoyed t..c advantage of having associated from his very earliest years with the doininant race. le speaks English, therefore, with as much fluency a3 his native tongue, and 1s a fair rep- resentative specimen of the Hindoo, as he has been modified by the influence of his present rulers, Physically the Laboo approaches very nearly the gtandard type of the high caste Hindoo, Rather below the middie heigut among Europeans, he has a “weil shaped (gure, somewhat too slender perhaps, but otberwise tairily proportioned. His arms are thin and almost destitute of muscle, and his hands fgnd feet are feminincly smajl, His features are regular and clearly cut; he has an aquiline nose, a well formed mouth and large, bright, black eyes. His head {3 smal, but the forelead ts broad, though not very high With the exception of a thick, bristly mustache he is clean shaven. In color he is @ light brown, He is dressed in ao long white colton robe, not unlike a Roman toga, with a girdle of colored silk netting, 1m whose joids he keeps his money, A buge white turban serves him as a headdress, anda when he takes his walks abroad, and oaly then, he slips on bis tect » pair of low shoes, with green colored Uppers, and the toes turned up. To wear them ih any room oceupied by a European would bean act of Gross disrespect, such us would ensure htin a kick tu some tender part of the body from an oficial Eng- Mshman, who believes in keeping ‘the d—d nig- gers in their place,” Tis iurban, however, he must Keep on his bead; to take it oif would entail a sini- lar penaity. Such is the Baboo ashe appears in his outward and visible aspect, and in any street of Deili you ‘will find several thousand duplicate copies of him, ‘The figure thas drawn is, in fact, the staple human elemeut of the place, But itis only by careful ob- servation that you become acquainted with the Baboo’s inuer character, Intelleetually be ts ex- tremely clever. You cannot talk to him for teu Minutes wituout being struck with the extent of his imformation and the clearness and finency with Which he imparts it. Wateh brim closely, however, ‘and you will discover tuat he never ventures to give currency to an idea of his own manufacture upon any subject whatever. He has original ideas, certainly, but only by tac most skilful examination can you drag them from him. To an American, ho speaks with more freedom than he would to an £ag- Ushman, but it is only with fear and trembiing that he Giscioses his secret thoughts to any man with a white face. Living under a government which ig- pores altogether his wishes and aspirations, aud which punishes sevorely any expression of discon- tent at even its ruutino regulations, he has acquired tho servile virtue of talking @ great deal without betraying his opinions. But how does the govern- ment punish men ior these impalpable offences, it may be asked? Nothing ismore simple. The Bavoo bas a brotler who holds an oficial posittou, aud if he censures te anthoritics even in te mildest ine ner, {his brotiver loses liis post. In the firat place, thea, che Baboo ts by habit and mecossity a most ekil(ul adept in the useful art of dissimulativa, He belongs to an oppressed race, and the memory of thy horrible massacres perpe trated by the British autioritics during the inutiny Will never fade irom tis mind, But he is hope Of obiaining redyess (ox these injuries, and ts resolved to make the beat of his present position, intunately acquaiated with ovary suade of british character, be plays his part of Matterer with Infinite ski, 3 write J can bear him ia tho next room asking a gen tlewiau Whose one atai in lite ie, he says, the conver- sion of the pocr venighied Leatien, to read him @ chapter from the Govd Book of the Christians, = Thia’st3,, of = course, =the best means open to him under tho cireunsiances Of getting @ titile more than the customary pay ofa guide. It 1s certain, however, that he cares but Httle about the Good Book, tor only an hour ayo bo Was ju My roid, urgenily requesting me to Wiiuiesd & Mauteh, aud hed ove & ducement thatn shontd be of the rer lever, Well tuiormed, hypoc unscrupulous, & @sxiiful har, & priace among daticrers, ie Bavoo is @ fair typical spoclincn o: a larg’ fon ot the MAlive popuation. 1 refer to tial seviigi of the ople Whose interests depend on sianding wei with he powers that be, aud wo, thereiore, take pains Wo disguise teir uatied ot their rulers, ‘The rest of the natives—most of tue very rich aud nearly ail of nake no altectation of loyalty; they BOW! ab a White face With Uucomconied Chitty. But what ts the Bavoo’s character In its unper- Veried state? Well, its chici element ts unfailmg good temper, He might betray his best friend fora consideration; but be would never be guilty of a Giscoartesy tO bis greaiest foe. To is wile and chiidven he 18 #laguiarily geutie and affectionate, Where his taterests are hot involved he is tue most Pleasant and agreeadie of men, He is fond of living weil, and fonuer gtiil ot wearing fue raiment aud valuable jewelry, wuthe never geis drunk or eats Meat. If ve fees inciined ior a Gebauch he stupefies Diusnself with vang, ho hastieesh about which M. Duwas has written such wonderiul nonsense; and in all Ws acdons and thoughts aud wishes be is the aoject slave of tho “customs of his people.” His great ambition is to be exactly lke the rest of his race, to think ana aress and eat precisely as is father and every other member of 18 casis have done from the 10- Motest aviiquity. tle does not believe la the fables of Urahminism in the least; but he is a8 Acrupalous In His religious Obse! Vauces as Lf he gave the fark of Which they are the Symi is the most tinplhictt credit, He says that Christianity is @ very good religion, and itis, he thinks, m many ol its features very like Hindooisia; but wiy should he be a Obristian when he believes ia novbing and was born a tindvot ‘Such 15 the Banoo, aud such, allowing soiacthing for diverences of caste wud rauk, are the great m the 200,000,000 of Iiving Hindoos, There are very few among tiem, Whom an Ang o-Saxon can Tespect; but there are sll jewer Wroui he can help mking, if tio tares the trouLbie to understand them, 60 Walling 19 thelr Cheeriuiness alld BO quick and Clear their intelligence. ‘bue Name of Delui as an Tndtan city Ja very, vory oid, but the presone city 19 the ninth that has borne It | ‘Tihose Who beievo 1h (ho teudency of propilecy to fulfil itself may be pleased to lear that @ predic~ on Was Made hundreds of yoars ago by & Hindoo sage that there should be ten Delis; tio Jast of Which should be walt ander the rule of a foreign Face abd that iis prediction has exactly come lo ass. Tho present city is certainly ouly Wwe ninth, i Awiing tho gieat mutiny a tile suburb sprang UP OUlsiue the city Walls, Wuose Inhabitants sup- his te Gally News of the Haglish besieging army. tue very poor: \8 Suburb consists only of a lew rows Of bazaars, t itis looked upou by the natives aa the ‘last of the Deis.” ‘The ruis of the eight previous clties extoud for ten miles 10 Lie south Of the preseal Bile, yd & Varying breadth Of from thres to six miles, ere 18 AN Aved Of Jurty-live square miles to the Boul and weat covered with tne remains of forte ARG Mosanes and towpics, tue youiges of eignt cttles, each of which bas been in its time the centre of Indian power and civilization, it Delhi was iounded by the Emperor Shah J in the middie of the seventeenth cen- wry. I¢is enclosed by 8 high wall ot red granite, with battlements and occasional turrets, and 1s five and a half miles in circatt. Outside the wall @ deop moat rung very nearly ronad the cily. There are tieive gates, with Graworldges over the moat; and lately an ming has been made through the old fort of Sellmgurh or the passage of the railway inio the eart of the city, Viewed from the railroad bridge Delat has a very imposing appearance, with the tall minarets and graceiul while marble Gomes of its scores of mosques, with here a plie of noble stone buildings and there a patch of pieasant green foliage—the whole hemmed in by the great brown red wall—white the river Jumna Winds through the pian, Wish this general 1dea of the City of the Great Moguis I drive out, accompanied by my baboo, to form a more particular acquaintance with it, | After a iittic walle 1 find myself in the Chandin Chows, the principal thorougifare—a broad, straight street, wider than Broadway, and exactly mile in length. On each side there ere long terraces of low houses, partitioned oif mto little snops, Tu the centre of the Street there is a causeway, some dozen fect in Width, butt over @ canal leading from the Jumma, which supplies the peop.e with water. Until lately this canal was leit open, as ip the tine of the Moguls, but so inany accidents occurred tarough ranaway vehicles tumbling into It thatit has boen covered over, and serves NOW 48 & path for foot passengers. All along the street there are occasional suade trees, @ pleasant noveity in &n Indian city. Old Iniabitants say that the Chandin Chowk ts very diiferent from what it was before the great meeting, of which Delhi was the one grear centre. ‘The Great Mogul, only @ score short years age, shorn of all power, as ho was, kept up, as well as ho Was abie, the pomp and stace of his ancestors, and ths streets Were gay with the elephants and re- tinnes of the principal members of luis household, Now, #8 toe Baboo tella ine with a sigh, there are no men in Dellit rich enough to maintain elephants merely for the purpose of uaing. them; and, as we go alouy, We meet ouly a few horsemen, and now ana then a baggy oracharot, The bazaars on each side of the way, however, and the sidewalks and the causeway are ailve, as they have been ever since the city was founded, and as’ they will be so long as 16 endures, with the same motiey, dark-skinned crowd that has for jong centuries made up Hindoo society. ‘ae mass of the people, as I have already said, are modified Jorms or the Baboo, but there are. also many Mussulmans, in whoso upright carriage and manly bearing, the Arad blood trom wlich they spring betrays itself, ‘Toen there are coolies, whose clothing has been curtailed to a eoupie of handkerchiels, one round their loins and the other round their heads; aud companies of women coung up frem the sacred river, where they have been watning, and who are now attired in gayly colored ralment of blue and green and yellow, and aud yet more cominonly, perhaps, of the red clota, Which significs that they are botrothed; and bands of beggars, whose mendicancy 13 inherited and has all the respectabuity of a recognized caste. In the shops Lie workers in cloth, the shaemakera, the luuage carvers, Lhe goldsmiths and the tvory painters are plying their several cralts, and as they go on with thew work they seem to be holding « sort of durvar iu the ivont part of thew siops; for there are renerally half a dozen visitors seated on littie wats, who pass between each other the frequent but noisy hubbie-bubble, or hookah, and who now and then, bul only occasionally, open their lips and Jet tall a tow words, which are uttered and received With great gravity. Once in & wake, tog, prooably inw bookseller’s shop, you may sca these prot sional idiers engaged in readtug the Koren or saying their prayers. in uie balcony above these pious shops 1 is not nmacommon to notice a local Phryne or Lats, possibly, if ste be exceptionally beautiful, a Kashineree, displaying her charms for the fascina- tion of such memoers of the crowd below as may have afew annas (Wiree cent pieces) to throw im her lap; for the “strange woman” Is here a recog. nized iustitutioa, ud so loug as she complies with the “Contagious Diseases” act she can openly prac- useher caiing, A very large poop dricn of the upper floors of the houses ta the Chandin Chowk seein, from what the Baboo and my own eyes assure me im the occupation of very immoral persons indeed, Knowing the tenacity with whicn Oricntal peoples: hold to the custoins of their forefathers | can easily believe a resident genideman who has told me that 13 all essential respects tae Detht of to-day is preity much what the Deibl of 590 yeara ago was also, In 136%, had I been in tie Delui of that time, [ suonid have seen What see now. ‘The peope would have looked aad acted as they look aad act to-day, and the bazaars would have been of the sane form aud displayed tae same wares. If Lam only wise enougn to allow my MWaagination to work into the scene before me a fow elcphants and rajahs and courtiers and Sepoy guards, 1 can witness an exact copy of a street scene ia Deili any time within the last live centuries, Near one end of the Chandin Chowk there is a Weather-strained stone building, standing back from the street, with an archway in the cenire, through Which Oue@ catches & glimpse of two rows of forbidding looking buildtags, which arc now used as @ poilcd station. ‘ins is the Kotwale, a name which no iiindoo cau prooounce without a shudd The Baboo looks troubied and serious when I as! him about it, and lithe by litle he teds me that in front of it was that famous scatiold on whica the mulineers were hanged by the British whea they regained possession of the city. For three tong dreary months no mauve could sately walk the ‘strects of Delhi unless he had some passport of bis joyaity. At the outset the scafold on each of its four sides was adorned with three rows of bodies. Any man with a dark face Who could be secured Was sumimariy strung Up, and no less tian 2,509 poor wretches Were exé- ented on this huge gallows during the three months that followed the taking of Deiht. Innocent or guiity, actual mucineers or peaceful cltizens, thera Was batone end for such anfortuuate natives as feil into the ciuiches of the provost marshal. One hears put litle of these massacres 1m most so-called histories of the Great Mutiny, but they live and cle in the minds of the people most concerned in 1. Pass through the elty at any hour of the day and you wili sce here aud there a group of natives lin a circle In a shop or under a tree, ongared in ananigiated conversauon. If you couid under. stand them you would tind that they are telling over again that herribio story of the Kotwale, or eise they are narrating how the kivg’s two sons were shot down in coid blood by Major Hodgson, after they had surrendered, on the pretence of an at- tempted rescue; of perhaps & man from tha country ts telling how tne Wells of his district were choked up Wita the bodies of harmiess villagera, men, wo- wen and culidren, all alke sacrificed to the tury of tne victors, And then # Hindoo rises aud recalis (hat curious superstition of his race that we i are the jast lacarnauion of Shiva, the destr Lacy Ave #3 Ali-po wer vc as foud of causing Geath aud gaifering as that terri- bie deity. Aniwvnber of dark, marrow, crooked lanes lead from the Chandu CLowk Into the other seettons of tbe city. live houses in thea? are all appropriated as shops, but the traders wao ocauny them naturally appeal to a lower clase of the population than thos who pay the tgher rents, Of the Coandin Chowk there are tae ealing-houses and sweetmeat shops and barbers’ saloons and pgovision stor: Just at present, a3 I have sated in previous letters, there is in Deihi and the grain-sellers, fearfal of Tots probably, spend thetr profits In distribut~ wg each evening alias ot * a and maize amoug the emaciated crowds who gather around weir dvors, Tins is the explanation the Baboo gives moe when 1 ask bin about these masses of nolsy peop's, elalinrags, whose thia faces and sunken, giasgy eyes teil only :00 sadly of theray hunger that 1s consuming tiem by inches. provision stores, of course, endeavor to afford only to the poor wreiciies Who ard in the last stage 1 there are few deaths, owing to their bount starvation, p ‘simple, the suffering ail tho lower classes is very great. Tako apy munstrious low-easte Hindeo, for wnce, the Syée Who rans by the gharee and clears for us, and you will find taat he is now unabte to buy enongh food to satisfy his hunger, He iar pay of his employment, four rupees th, Bad bis wite, woo 18 in a old thre arns, he sars, very nearly as much more, al fncome upon which this coaple and their three childrea must be supported is about seven rupees ($3 50) per month, whieh will at prevent vr. uy abont seventy seers, or 140 pounds of corn al. Thatis leas than a pound a day por head. What wonder if a race, sufering in this way sometimes for two and three seasons to- gether, shou!t be unequal to cope with the weil fed Tegtons of the Brilisiiarmy, Aud all this happens ia tho moat fertie country tm the world! Some years the iarvest is very good, aad if the iand wore economically governed tae misery that now exists would be imposeioie, But every year the gov- ermmont tak n the cultivators a land tax equal to ty @ percent of a good crop, and whether it is a good or a bad Roason, tie same tax has to be pa’ in good yeara, therefore, the grain 1s largely exp ried fiom the connty to pay arrears of taxes, aud in bad years there {s no reserve in tue granaries, aud the prices go up to famine raies, and the poople are hali-starved, That is bow tt 1s that the gentiemen who come from Engiand to govern the people get such high aslaries, (1,000 reals or $500 a month, is but a iow stipend), while the people therseives are sunk in the pro/oundest depths of poverty andl are, i is fait, getting poor- er and poorer every yeat. The ofiicial re- y ibee that go to Burope speak, of course, very oOperuily of (he condition of whe country, and many Who seo Anglo-Indians returning home with largo joriunes thagine that India mast be one of the most Prosperous and woalthy countries in the world. But those who have witnessed tho terrible misery of its common people and wito remember that horrivie fainine of Orissa, in 1863, im Which no less than a million of hamau beings perished of sheer hunger, can scarcely hep asking, “What will be the ena of this miquitous oppression! Can it be possible tat this minense empire, with {ts 200,000,000 of sulbjects— the second great contro of human ilfe--13 torever to be merely @ vast theatre of baman suifertng ? It ig instructive to ask avout the better class of people Whor one meets in the streets of Delit. Who is Wiat ‘swell native” on a fine Arab horse, with o couple of uniformed Sepoys following after him? ‘That, Aays the Baboo, 18 a son of the ox-King by a concubine; his name is Prince Mirza All bux; ne has a pousion from the government of two thousand rupees ($1,000) & month and Is also permitted to live of distress, and thou (tw iu tho old building, known a3 the tomb of Nizam-oud-deen, But why has he got @ pension, Baboot” “Well, when the sol- dtcrs - entered Delht he came and told them Where the King was, and @.80 pointed ont to Major Hodgson the two princes’ whom he shot.’ Irmee Mirza, therefore, 18 & Buc. cersful villain, of either the parriecdal or fratracida genus, just a3 you may please to call him, Alotuer “swell native’ roils by im an open baroacl with an adgut guard of hail a dozen wi mounted men. That 1s his Highneas the Nawao ae nabob) Hamud Ali Khan, the gon of the to the late King. He 13 @ very rich map, a3 the government‘allow bim a Rows aud have also given him @ large estate. He lives in great styl, and maint @ numerous harem and three ¢le- phants. He has been thus rewarded because he showed the government where the book was in which Were inseribed the naings of the muliwecrs, and also produced in the nour of need some very 1n- other papers, which proved the guilt of the King eyond ali doubt. Probably yon may also Ineet a weil dressed, well mounted hai caste, That 1s the grandson by a@ native woman of oid Colonel Skinner, who was at ono time the political agent of the Nast India Company @) Dela Colonel Skinner, from the stories they tell of lua, must have beeu a wicked old man, of that type wilh which 'he Bengal ‘Tiger and oller farces and comedies have made the theatre-gomg public famil- jar. It 13 not quite certaim whether he married the vativo Woman by whom he had a son or nos; but it 18 quite possible he did so, for be left all his wealth to per child, and in nis later days he was pious aud bunt the Bpiscopal ciurch (in witch the white resi- dents of Deibi still worship) tn fulfilment, as a tablet in \he church deelares, of a vow made while be was lying wounded on the field of battle, The present “young Skinner” 18. very weallny, and though he — married a nave woman is 10 religion a Chris an. But itis time that something 1s said anout what most people come to Delhi to see—ita antiquities, First and greatest among these is that wonderful Kootub Minar, which 1s probably the loftiest column in the world. It 18 some eleven miles from Delhi, @ fair day’s journey to India, but the ride 18 by no means uniiteresung. On either hand, a8 you go alung, you pass oy the ruins of several of those ancient Delius referred to in a.previous part of this letter, aud perbaps ag your eyes glance olf tie decaylug cupola of some ancient tomb they fatt on a long string of camels, with Leavy toads of grain, or a luge elephant carrying a burden of Heaveu only knows how many bunared seers, or a native plough drawn by a couple of hump-backed Indiaucatiie, At the stopping piace, where yeu change horses, you are surrounded with two or three score of beggurs, who live in the holes in the mui his, whieh you occasionally pass, All the way out to the Kootub you can never jor one moment tmcgine that you are anywhere out of the Easi; and you arrive at the Great Minar in the best frame of mind possible to appreciate a work of art, purely Orieutai tn its con. ception, ihe guide books will teil you thatthe Kootub 13 acolumn Of red sandstone and marble, 250 feet in height. ‘there are five litle balconies on the outside of the Minar, the distance betweea wiich diminishes: Im a greater ratio than the decreased diameter jnatifies—an ingenions contrivance of the arclicect and which exaggerates the perspective and makes the column appear inuch higher than it really ts. From base to summit the Kootab is elaborately adorned with flutings aud carvings, Froin the base to tho first balcony the perpendicular fuanga are alternately angular and seml-circuiar, from tue first to the second balcony they are all semi-circaiar, and from the sevond to the third ail angular, Taese first three stories are of red sandsione; the tW9 upper oues are of white marble, maid with inscriptions m biacs marole. Most of the inscriptions are passages trom the Koren, But the guide books utterly tail, as all mere verbal descriptions must do, in giving an adequate descripuion of the effect upon tao mind Pees by tis wonderful pillar, It has now stood for more than six centuries, and with tag exception of a crack caused by lightning a few years ago 1 is as fresh and new a3 when ts last Bione was laid. It seems, in very fact, tue most suupendous building tuat mortal hands'can erect. One can Uaderstand tts arelitect conceiving the de sign of erecting a Lower of Babel whica siould penetrate the heaven above, Of course, St. Peber’s, at Kome, 18 a much larger building; but the slender- ness of ihe Kootubd adis immensely to the impres- sivn it creates upon the mind, Next to tue Kootab comes the Jumma Musjid, the great mosque of Deiht, said to be the most beautiful Mosieim teuiple in the Kast, It is built on a raised uadranguiar stone platform 459 feet square. On Ubree sides there are colonnades of red sandstone, ad On the foarth stands tie mosque itself, It is of white marble, surmounted with the usual three cupolas, Manked at each end by a tall minaret. Tae Jumimna Mas,id 1s, taerefore, except in size, but litue different to the general run of Moslem sanctuart Of the olwer siguts of Delii—the Emperor Huma- yoou’s tomb, Sutitur Jung’s tomo, the tomb or Nizam-ood-deen, the tomb of Jehanara—tnere can be Hittie said i a newspaper letter. They have been described over and over again in most of the de- scripuve works on indla, and thelr merits as a snow have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, none of the sights of Lidia—not even the wonderiul Tay, at Agra—repay the cost and discomfort of a journey from America, or even Hurope, to view them. A traveller in Inwa mast flnd his main compensation tor his expenditure of time and money ta the interest that all thoughtful men must see! in studying closely Oue Of tie ost Curious ByStes Of human society oa the face of the earta, Exciting News from tho Persian Guil=A Bri+ tisha Gnnboat Despatched to the Scene of Disturbances—Attack by Sheik Synd Upon Bunder Abbas—The Sultan of M t Supe posed to Have Instigated the Assnult—Ditl. culties of the English Political Agent—Cho- lera in Peshawur—Terrible Condition ot Rajpootann—Hundreds of People Dying from Starvation. Bombay, Oct. 2, 1909. The Persian Gulf ts again in a blaze, from one end to the other. This was formeriy ils chronic state, and so long as the most turbalent and lawiess races in tho world, the Bedouins, have only the fear of such a government as the Sublime Porte and Persia before their eyes to restrain them from mischief, liltie change for the better can be ex- pected. There has now been almost uninterrupted quiet since the last revolution in Muscat, almost a year ago, After so long a lull it ts but natural that there should be asevero storm, And the storm las come. Tho most tmportunt of these disturbances has been the sacking of the town and island of Bahroin, which practically enjoys the advantage of British protection, A little over a year ago the logal shelk of this place, a wild, untamavie Arab, named Mo- hamed bin Kuulesfa, was expelled from the tatand, ostensibly by the people whom ho ruled, but really in consequence ef a demand made by tho po litical agent of the Biitish government, Colonel Pelly, for reparation for some piratical outrages upon trading craft under the Briiish flag, perpo- trated at the instigation of the said Mohamed. At that time, In fact, Baareia was not.ing better than B nest of sca banditti, and Colonel Pelly, knowlag that tt would never be anything eise so long as Mohamed was its ruler, compelled the poople to banish him and set up his brother, the Sheik All, in lis place, Under Ali affairs have been compara- tively quiet, especially as au occasional viste trom Colonat Pelly and a gunboat has remindod the people of the necessity of being well behaved. But Mohamea has meanwhile gradually been gathering together a force of wild Bedouins in the interior—soldiers of fortune, whow the prospect of loot would tempt to any enterprise, however perlious. He did not of oourse hope to permanently hold Bahrein; he merely expected to revenge himself upoa his brother, and plunder the inabitants. Colonel Pelly, who is re- ported to be by no means the smartest of men, heard Rothing of these hostile preparations, and the early part of last month Mohamed, hearing that no Engi.sh steamer, e1thar of the naval or commercial marine, was in the harbor, transported himself and his desperadoes in a fieet of bungalows over to the island. ‘iho rest of the story can be g' 4. Sheik Alt made some show of resistance, but killed Jn the en over Unreseryelly to the tender mercies of thers desperate robbers. Severel minor sheiks were nlso ®aio. Most of tho merchants in the piace are Hin- doos or Parsees (their technical name is “Bantans’), and they have doubtiess lost their all. The latest Tumors are somewhat contradictory. One says Liat @ rally was made by tho inhabiiants under a local sheik, and that Nohamed was captured and put in trons pending the arrival of the British gunboat and Colonel Pelly, for Whom the luxury of hanging hin is reserved. This etory adds that Mobamed’s followers made ihe best of thelr way back to the majaland in their bungalows, after having suffered heavy loses in killed aud wounded. The other ramor simply says (hat the arrangements of the banditu for ship- Ping tie plunder to the mainland and traosporting it from the coast to the inaccessible terior were @xtremely perioct, and that the merchants’ stores had bea already emptied, Luckily there are two Eugiish gunbvats—the Sir Hugh Kose and tue Lord Ciyde—at present In the Gull, and these have already been despatehed to the scene of the trouble, together with an ageut of the British government, Mr. H. M, Dalhousie. ‘Tue next diMeulty ts at Bunder Abbas, where an attempt bas been made, the issue of whiot Was donbuul when the sleamanip which has brought down the news left (or Borhbay, to depose the pre- sent ruler, Hajoe Ahmeed, Ahmecd was Visiter to Synd Selim, the late Sultan of Muscat, and when the latter turned out the venerable Hajeo seized a coupis of vessels and a large sized pile of treasure, boc the public property of Muscat, and sailed for Bunder Abbas. This place had for many years be- longed to Muscat, but Ahimeed took possession of iin the hame of tue Shah of Persia, who recognized biar on condition of his paymg a0 Aannaltribute, The usurping Suitan of Muscat, Azan bin Ghees, as weil aa the late Suitan, Synd Selim, have each proferred aciaun to Buucer Abbas, and the ships and money taken away by Mumeed, but the former alone posscesos any power lo oxiorce his alleged rights, and Colonel Pelly bas, by a threat of British interference if he ventured to at Abmeed, kept him quiet. Of @u aitack by Azan bin Ghees upon Bander Abbas Wold now mean a way between Muscat and Persia, which Colonel Pelly haa propably felt justified tn Preventing, even though, in strict right, Bunder Abbas clearly belongs to Muscat, Azau bin Ghoos is certainty the woaxer of fhe two, and itis @ kind~ neaa tohim to bully him into keeping the peaco Azan, however, has as his vizior ® fanatic named Kuleyiee, who has an insauiable appetite for fighting, And 1s constautiy wdvising is master to throw | down a 0 Of defiance to Persia, and the British, and the whole world, if need be, ratuer tan yield up tatnely an tota of bis legal claims. ‘The peosent atrack upon Hajee Abmeed, though nominally nade eS is almost certatnly instigated by Azan bio Ghees, Who has probably accepted the counsel of Kulcylee. Now, whether tne attack is succesful or not, Colonel Peily has got a very pretty embroglio to adjust. First, the Shan of Persia—whom nothing would please more than a chance to absorb Muscat in the natural course 0: Warlare—will deinand reparation jrom Azan bin Ghees, and 1% will require skitul management to persuade or bully Persia into aecopt- ing 4 Verbal apoloxy tor the outrage upon her vas- sai. And then the British governmeat must in some way punish Azan bin Ghees and Kueylee for daring to inake a Stroke for their supposed nghta, whica, under the circumstances, 1s sulicienuly didieult, Worse than ail this, we bave news that the Arabs near Bagdad have revolted, and are vigorously fght- iny Weir Purkisa mas! The detaida of the dun- culty can only be guessed at, but tne disturbance has probably grown out of the attempts of the new Pacba to inivoduce various reiorms, Only a lite While ago some Luropean enzineers went up ab Lue invitation of the Pavia to survey @ ratiroad to & piace of pilgrunage uear Lacdad. Nothing, of course, could ve more ofensive to a Bedouin than an attempt Lo bridge any of the deserts, over which he alone can ab presen: roaim, with a railroad. So it is quite clear that, lor a time at least, there will be pleaty of lively news from tae Gulf, All tag Inc ian papers are deinanding taat Briush guaran- tees of peace and quiet all over tue Gulf should be given. ‘this would, of course, neceasiale the cou- stant Malutenauce of a large leet as a Naval po.ice force, and such ao arrangement woud no doubt Jail to meet the Views of tue British taxpaying pub- lic; but a8 Che trade with the various peoples of the Gull 13 chiefly with lodia it is proposed that the fleet uid be paid for out of the Jodian revenue, avd be kuown as the “indian Navy.” Bota Russia and Frauce, however, are jealous of Great Britain acquiring any further in: Tluence over Persia. and will probably protest ioudly against such a measure beiag carried out. But something must soon be done by suinevody ior the Pacilication of the Gulf, ‘There is but litle Indian news this week. Cholera has ceased in tie Punjab and the northwest pro- vinces, DUE has iwoved to the north, Pesbawur has already sutlered severely, no less than 160 Europeans and 1000 natives haying been carried off In a lew days, ‘The Ameer, Shere Ali, appreveusive of its becoming epidemic in Afgienistan, has issued ad- Vice to mi8 people 23 to the best mode of treatment— an act of humauity which probably no native Eastern polenta e not under Luropean protection has ever becu guiity of be. ore. ‘The famine in ajpootana continues to increasé in severity. The people are largely flying to the Pun- jab, but hundreds per week awong those who remain are perisuing of hunger or jamie fever, There is no rai road through (his part of tne country, and no means, therefore, of atfording relief, Most of the Rajpoot States ace suil Homily wader native government, but Ajimere and Malwa, where the mor- tality from starvauon has been greatest, is directly under the British flag. The native princes are beginning to falsify that well known picture of thein by Macaulay, in Wiiicl they were represented as kiillog tine culery by de- bauches of cuaug (!udian hep or hasheesh) and by the pleasures of the harem, Tne Mahavajah of Burd waa, tae richest landavder ia Bengal, nas just pub.isied a transiation into the wugue of Cue com- mon peopis of some of the more Imypoftant Sanscrit sacred writings. ‘This transiation will do mich for sument of te Lower classes of the coun- possib y also open tue exes of some of the missionaries, who do not seein to under- stand Sagserit, though they sometimes — pro- fess to give Wausailons from it. Noviiuz prejudiced the minds of educated Hinaoos against Christianity more than the persistent mis- representation by the isitan aussionaries of the tenets of Brahms Perieps we Maharajah’ book may suo 9 gentlemen vat bad as are many of the doetrives of tne old Lindeo superstition It ineuleaes a moral tile upon 13 followers, aud does not, us they haye Leen so fund of stating, openly applaud adultery, murder and violations of all tho Over commandments, ‘then, too, it may teach them that Hindoos believe 11 only one supreme God; the other vetties Waunt they Wworslue they wor- ship only as spec uilona of His power. his liighness vr poor. Last year he 40 sauie suid for the bene lit of the poor of Mysore; te present douauon Is for the benetit of the poor of Caicatta, About half the persons relieved are to be Mussuimaas, about a fourth Christians aud another tourta Uindvos, His &xcellenacy Sheik Synd Sooiman Effendi, Envoy Extraordinary King of box sara, pas on ius Way to Gokua of the subiime Porte to ie d through nexe the other day He goes via Cabul, THE MPCOOLE-ALLEN FIGHT. The Treubles of tie Ring. (U'rorm the Cine!nuati Enquirer, Nov. 6.) The public has learned within the last few days that the goutiemon who are engaged in getting up a “diversion ’ between Mike Mcvoole and Tom Allen have had a slight misunderstanding, And apoa this certain papers have assumed to declare that there would be no fight, As We intimated a few days ago, the trouble was In regard to tue final stakeholder for the match, The stakes are jor $2,500 aide, and before MeCoole leit St, Louis to come here and fintsi. his training @ man named Murray was selected Dy hw backera as tie stakeholder, but Allen's backers refused to allow (his honor to be Coalerred upon Mr, Murray. They asserted that it was te Intention of McUooie’s friends to have the money placed in the hands of @ man who would hand tie stakes over to Mike in the event that he won, aud in case he should be vanquisned would allow himsell to be sued and thus swindle Alien out of the substantial fruits of his victory. Alien haying boen twice cheated in St, Louis Was not willing that any such game shouid be played upon him in this match, Un the other hand, Jack Looney, who representa the backers of the bie giant, asserts that Movoole 1s neither afraid to mect Allen nor are his backers afraid of losing their money; but that Ale frieads have on o former Occasion, ater losing their stuke money, sued for tls recovery, and that they are urying to avoid such trouble tn tue present case, He asserts that the staketioider must be & resjousi- bie St, Lonis parcy, and he t3 not particular waetuer he is an adherent of MoCoole or not. Bil Carrol), who algo represents the allen wing, has been here all the week trying to arrange mat- ters, Dut has been unable todo auytning., Last night Mr. Thorwegon, of St. Louis, reachod here upon the sane errand. He has $1,100 interest im tue stake adyanced by Allon, Qud it ts understood that if he will agree to withdraw his interest both partics Wl agree upom him as stakeholder, There is every reason to believe that the complication will be satis- factorily adjusted im tuls way, and there will be no hindrance of tho fight. But even Mf the matier of the stakes is not adjusted there is no reason why the fight sueuld not come om. Allen says that he is ready and wiiling tofight forthe excursion money, or for nothing, im fact, in order Unat he may secélo the question of snperiority be- tween himself and McUovle, The latter says that he will Aghi for one cent rather thau that the maton shali be deciared off, and so the “spert’’ 13 certain to 0 On at all evenis, ‘The trouble 1s not with the principals, but the men who kave a noneycd interest tn Unts avvair, When there is big mousy ty be feught for cho interested parues naturally seek to take advantages, ‘ine fleht was located here for tie purpose of guarantocing the men fair play, but if these “stake sharpers”’ pro- pose to carry on things in this kind of style it will but add another stigma upon the ring, and, together with the disgraceful scenes which have occurred n the past year, will exerciso a good effect in the Way of bre up and eradicuiag the bar. barous eyil from the land. THE MASSACHUSETTS LAGE? WAR. Reali of the State Constables Among the Lag Beer Dealers. {From the Boston Herald, Nov. 6.) Ws tell which way tue wind blows, gih and d nto the “ell what men think and be- overloading tue rcnives of to add that m: nik and Act just as circumstances indicate, Heretofore mon In Massachusetts thougut that the law as it now stands recorded upon tue statute book in rela- tion to the sale and trafic of mtoxicsting Mquors 1a just agit should be, Tue numerals of the late elec tion show a disferent estimate, and say to us that the people of us commonwealth do not endorse tio policy of prohibition, but savor a more lveral enact- aves indicate the sire st, Going a little farthe pliiosophy, princip! lieve, and it is not thought or philosop meat, This is what tho election fairiy indicates. But wp im Pemberton square, where and his subordinates bave th another interpr mm ig pluced upon the vor the por Je that the people of tus com ng Mr. Cavin, have erefore Major vw to the very ¥ commenceit monw endorsed t Jones is war leer, He is aoing ia carnest upon the ‘in lager beer, Ata inie hour yesterday afierno nm ho sent outa squad of ofiicers under tho leadersitp of Deputy Dean, to m: izures in certain lager beer saloons at the Sout! his squi ies frst visit. ed Mr. Henry Meyer, who ke piace in the base. mont on the southwest corner of Washington and Bogiston streets. gallons of jagor beer: and about four galons of higut German wines. Taen they called upon Mr. Roessie, at No. 7 Boylston whore tuey took @ like quautity, Prosecuting thelr rald they vistted Ar. taher, on Wasuington street, opposite Boylston market; Messrs. Kechberck & P corner of temple placo and Tremont stree H. Wise, corner of Kessex and Wasiingion ats Mr. Charles Webber, ion poliey, in Mason strcet, and Mr. Kile & Brotuer, 10 Chickering piace, av all Of Which places toy made seizures of Like quantities of lager and wiae Ag our German Iriends taterpret the matter, there is something very remarkable about this sudden and most extraordivary feature of prolibition, They are at a loss Co understand rt, at the same time they have the assurance of the olllcers that the sale of lage beer in the city of Boston ts to be at once anc pei, and wpon this assurance they must act, Tt clegtion somebody has been badly euckered, ECLIPSES, Obdsceurations of tho Sun and Moon in 1870. From Paris we learn that during the year i874, #1x @clipses will take place, two of the moon aud four of the sun, Of the former the first will be on the ib January and the second on the 12th July, Oi the latter the first will ocvur on tne sist January, the second on the 28th June, the third on the .7th July and the fourth on the 2d Vecember. The only one chat will be total and visible at Paris 1s Chat of the moon on the tatu duly, The o:hers are more or loss paral, but Inyimible in te F by Sheik synd, former goveragr of Bander Abbas, | vapital, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. A WOMAN SCORNED. Another Shocking Scandal in Society— Sixteen Years of Domestic Life Ended With Abandonment and Threats to Kill—A Laconlc Obituary—A Wo- man Foreed to *Confess” at a Pisto!-muzzle—Arrest of a Speniard and His Impris- oument in Ludlow Street Jail. ‘The courts for the past month have been busy an- marrying couples who have been divorced by the “House patent,” a new improvement upon the “Chicago plan,” and now a case comes to ligut which may very properly be classed under the ‘‘mus- cular” or ‘forcible’ category of divorces, which system, should it succeed, will be much sought after by those divorcely inciined, as recommending itself by Its cheapness, despatch and lack of publicity, not requiring the intervention of those busy meiabera of the legal fraternity, who swell the costs and their own pockets siinultaneously, In the present case, which is not exactly a divorce suit, Counsellor E. D, McCarthy, on behalf of one Mary Durand, seeks the intervention of the courts to recover damages from Mr. Joseph Durand for bis wrongfal acts, aud at the same time desires the Court to pass upon Mary’s title to the right to call Joseph her husband. The parties are of the highest respectability, and for sixteen years bave lived in this city as husband and wife; but suddenly Joseph tived of Mary’s charms and by the “forcible pian” divorced nimself, The following aMdavit, which was presented to the Court on behalf of the complainant, tells the story, or at least one side of it, so far as developed:— THE NARRATIVE. Mary Durand, being duly sworn, saith—I am the plaintiil in Unis action and resided in the city of New York for the last sixteen years. | ama native of France, where wy parents now reside. I bave no relatives in this country except @ brother, who re- sides tn Connecticut, and another brother woo resides in New York, and my chilt—a boy of twelve years— Who is now in the custody of the defendaat, and whom i am not permtited by the deiendant to see. The defendant likewise resides in New York and has resided for nearly twenty years, 1 have lived with aefendant, #s his jawiul wife, for nearly sixieen years and until some turee months ago, when he abandoned me and refused to support me, and gave our to Ms acquaintances that ke Was not my husband and tiat Thad no claims upon bint as his wife. Doring the time last mentioned, as L before staved, the defenvant always gave ie to understand that 1 was his wile, and to all outward appearances treated me as such. We lived iu consiaat il 1 Know to the con trary, exclusive cohabitation; aud duriug that ume T hav borne hit five children, but one of waom is now living. WIFE OR NO WIFE? For four years we have lived in a hired house and mnmatuned a and but for che rest of the period have dweltin lured apartments, of late at } West sixteenth sireet aud No. 87 Cuntoa pla beiore stated, I have always and universally and been kuown as the deicadant’s wile, aud by Lt recognized a3 such and [do not now assert that L ain legaliy the wiie of the lefeudant, but leave the question to be decermined by tis honorabie court shoud it ever come to be pussed upon by a bridunal of justice, Lonly state now that unul very latef apd just before I was abandoned and my coild taken from me, I considered myself the wile of the dgiend- aut, and have always been faithful and obedient to him, and in no regard have I satd or done any- g that would have been uabdecomng in te of wedlock. ‘his action bas beea brought ivice of my counsel to recover damages of the defendant for wilful and atrocious miscontuct for a serles of yours past, during Watch we lived to- wetoer and covabiied, and tae circumstances a such as will be heremafter detailed. 1 orng this action for no purpose of revenge, but as the oniy means of redress that I can take. iy in July last Here they seized some tiurty-tour | fuily | past the defendaut exnibited to me indications of anger and jealousy. He insinuated to or charged me With having had improper intimacy with am in- dividual who was acquainted with both of as. The defendant had made these charges beiore, but never in 80 Violent a manner as they Were on Luts occasion, accompanied by treats of personal violence, He taen ior the lrst time serlously charged me with not being bis wife und with having mo legal cium ow hin. EXILED TO FRANCE. Our child was at this time in Switzerland, at Neuichatel. Early in August te defendant proposed to me, or rather he told me that I must gv to France, where my parents lived, and return to this connwy uo more. He openly told we that | was tn lus way, and thatT saould remain in the same country with him wo longer. At this tine he threatened me with death tn ease T refused compitance wiih his wishes. He said he would at Once cast me out into the street were tt not for the enud, I reinciantty promised him that | would go to my parents, tor I feared for my iife. Defendant at this time renewed to me a request wien he had frequent y made before—tuat | suould admit @ cryumal mtimacy oa my part with a@ man whose name he mentioned. He desired me to give lim proofs that he could use against me, Tdeulet to him then, and | now most emphaticaily assert and reiterate, ever~to have been guilty, On the evening of July 31 last, in presence of Miss vard, who resides im the city of New nm well Known to the devendant ment at No. not sign it, referring to a conicasion of my erimi- nality, he would take my Ile. WRITE OR DIF. On the morning next ensuing be, at about four o'clock, while the other inmates of tue house were still sleepimg. arose, aud, having furoed me from tue ped, dem to wign a certain paper. I be- heve it was the confes already tensioned, It had been wirilien before by tue deiendant. Upon my refusal nd proiestaken of imuocence tue defendaat = producod a pistol, a re- volver, Whicn be care with him constantiy, and which I[ belle was loaded, and, having produced the entowed thea and there that he if i did hot sign said paper of confession. | then, under such compuisionu and in fear of my life, coniessed to nots of crime whicu I had never committed. ‘Tis dd Still maces use of. confession the de: ‘ged me wi ag committed aduitery Al persons of lis and my acquainiauce, aod hassvown taem this confession as @ provl of I ean mention, among others who have been formed, the names of Mr: who ia at 49 West Sixteenth s Li, Higves, of of Mr, and e3, of Hovoxen; tly of S. H. “ New York; of my bre who reside at Neufchatel, aud of my chud, the defendant not oni from 1, bat Who.w, througa this confession and his con tions, the defendant made to unworthy of bia aifee THE LIVING WOMAN'S OBITUAR of Augu 1¢ OL aid tne defend. the r Ville de Paris for eut’s home. He told several persons t had for my Ni itto me le sard | was sent in | order to tual s Mtion; that he would supy'y me with the funds tor @ livelihood, but tae aration from tim eud the child mus: t i i France and had been there somo found cop K MERALD, vidune and in each of which cccarred t Died, nt Genova, Switzoriand, at ton A. M. Augnst 89, Mary, wife of J. Durand, This notice refer to me, pubiisned by the deiendant, w ourning o7 Mis hat vito asked him Ui few days afier L rej ers from the deien gtoatl was an aiterwards, and but paroats, they received let who was in New York, siait u doned woman, These letiers, which arc now in my sion, so me of shametul crimes They in charges so foul and judecont that L dave not sh tien, and they are Witul, malicious aad nsequence’ ol ielendant te ~ Lose letters ny paren ife, Which last i co I was, t became pected by my par ay favher especially, and f jelt it to be my duty to remain with them uo low, } bul to retura at once to New York, charging that 1 was not hb not deny, for 1 THR FORCED PROOF OF ARBMING Gutt. So persistant have been dotendant’s attacks apon | me, and by the use of the extorted Cousession & ore- | said, that L beileve 1 liave lost ® home with my | parents, ‘The dofenda ° will has boasted tuat ti Ji was aiter iy retur ive me to prostitution. New York, On the 7th of O | posure of the confession to which | took place, Letters similiar in character io tow vied to have been addressed and exa: | | persous Who reside ta Lite city. » tar as | my covabitation with defendant, [have to say satin | september, 1568, the defendant persuaded me tolive | wih him, ‘He then solemnly promised to marry 1e, 3, and And oa the Strongla Of that promise thus yf! which L Smpheitiy trusted, I lived aid cobabitod with iim, 1 was thea eighteen years of age, a rosi- Gent of this country but six montha. ‘Tis promise | he bas frequently renewed, saying redigious and | legal ceremony should be performed, He has renewed it within six years past, Never, 1 iiclieve, | for more than sixieén yoars did defendant over mention or intimate to any perwon Liat | was not his wife, It was done a few months ago—dove solely for the purpose to ve rid of ne. A WATE IN THE WORLD, : T am now without a home, and jost without friends, So cruel and releatiess have been the de Jendant’s hbellous persecutions that even roy eh has been turned from me. [now have a phtauce, given me by my father when I left tim to September, Whon it ts exhausted f shall be penailess, Lsolewnly bereve that tho defendants Wish and intention ts to drive me to a disgraceful Ile, All the pilegations o: thw afidavt 1 can sustain by tne aMdavits of the persons whose names herein before appeared and of many others, THE DEFENDANT'S PEDIGRER, The defendant isa 5paniard by birth, a native of New Granada, south America. He carries on @ jarge commission business with Havana and South American ports, He 1s reputed to be, and, I beiteve, is, worth at least $20,000, He owns no real pro- perty, neither doea_ he lease any, except a Smail oMce room ab No. 24 Broadway. I believ that he holds not a dollar in his own name. An further deponent saith not. MARIE DURAND. Sworn to before me this 4th day of November, be ae ENSIGN, Notary Public, New Yori THE ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT. Upon this statement Judge Jones, of the Superlor Court of this city, decided that the case came within the provisions of section 179 of the Code of Proced- Ure, and granted an order of arrest against Mr, Joseph Durand, bailabie in the sum of $10,000, and Jate on Saturday evening Deputy Sherim™ Lynch suce ceeded In finding Mr. Durand at his boarding house, in Waverley piace, and, ball not being forthcoming, as usual in such cases, he was committed to the care of Warden Tracey, of the Ludiow street Jail, until such tune as bis friends come forward with the required bonds or the courts take action for his release, Itis understood that his counsel, Messrs. Brown, Hall and Vanderpoel, will at once apply te Judge Jones to have the order vacated, claiming to have a good and valid defence to the actioa. THE CASE OF THE HORNZ!. Interview with Commodore HiggingeWhy He Ran into Wilmington—What He Ine tended to do With Spanish Merchant Veoe in-~K1is Future Movements. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 1869. Commodore Edwin Higgins, of the Cuban navy, late in command of the Hornet, with F, J. MoNulty, Surgeon of the same vessel, arrived here yese terday from Wilmington, N. ©. The Commodore isa fine looking man, of about fifty-five years of age, medium height, well bullt, with a large round head, thinly covered with gray hair, He has a mild, good natured expression of coun- tenance, an eye large, buat not particularly brie liant, and an aquiline nose, considerably bent to.one side, ag if it had received @ severe visitation from some antagonist in a prize fight. Setting of the whole is @ gray mustache, which, with hig hair, makes the Commodore look @ much olor man thas he reallyis. No person meeting him for the frst time would take him for the commander of a privae teer. Indeed, he dentes that the Horne: was In any sense a privateer. He insists that sic was a regue larly commissioned man-of-war belonging to the Cuban republic. The Commodore's whole bearing and general appearance impress you with the ide¢ that be is a man of coolness, daring and pluck, which he unquestionably is, or he would hardly have ventured, at his time of life,on sucha hazardous business as the command of the Hornet, While he naturally regrets the capture of his ship he ssems to take his bad luck with that kind of philosophy which says, “ll try agaia and hope te do better next time.”” Tho Commodore received your correspondent kindly and cordiaily, though he satd there had been some misrepresentation of lis motives and conduct in the HeRaLy, but he knew they were not inten- tonal. After the usnal salutations I said, “Commo- dore, Low does the matter stand now ?” ComMopoRE—Well, our ship Hes at Wilmington, and, after a trial, all the o.icers and crew, with the exception of seven, have been discharged. Why these seven officers are held I do not kno CoRRESPoONDENT-—Has your ship been dismantled as well as disarmed, Comsovors—Yes, partially disman‘led and wholly disarmed, They have robbed her of nearly every- thing, including stores, tobacco and clothing. CorresronneNT-—Do you consider the Hornet @ vessel in all respects adapted to the purposes you had in view? CommopoRE—No, notexactiy. steamer, and could not, therefore, be pat 1 yas. bhe Is a sidewheel Jer can- Besides, sho could not carry more than six ay’s coal, and being @ fast sailer, sue would do better fora blockade runner than a man-of-war thatexpected to encounter well armed veas@s on the occan. Cornnesronpenr—There have been various states ments publisued, Commodore, about your object In running Into Wilmington. Will you give me your own version of It? CouMopore—With great pleasure, sir. When I arrived of Moniauk Point, from Halifax, I found myself out of voal, and It was necessary to get some before proceeding further. Isucceeded in commu. nicating with our frieads and they sent outa schooner with about a hundred and sixty tons, whica we took oa board in a gale, and then pro+ ceeded on our way. My chief engineer soon inforwed me that coal was of & poor quality, indeed, it was holt siate, and he made a written repors to that erfe It pears that those who sent tne coal out dil 80 without examining its quality. They found the schoouer With @ ioad of coal aud sent her out to ine without delay, When we were off Hatteras the chief eagineer informe t ine thas it was uscless to proceed furtuer without gevttng coal. 18 woul be Impossivie, he eatd, to handis the vessel im an action wit the coal we rectivel oi Montauk Point. On my Way South [did not know but that [ might meet a aud f did not want to be takon ata disadvantage, ‘The cli 3 were [ couid neither get away from her por tight her. Under these circumstances I set about tc for & place where { cuuld geteoal, I thought at first of putting into Hatieras iniet, out I found tuero was no prospect of getung coal there, and the sea was ran- ning 80 high at the time that, wita a sidewheel steamer, the experiment might have resulted disase wously on a lee sho: Ww I reached Vape Fear found hat (could get coal informe: 1 (nat the fort there was unmauned and tuat there were no United states naval vessels in the neighborhood, By anchoring od Smithviile he thought [ could get the coal sent dowa to nie and be ef befora tne United Siates olliciais were well aryare of my prese y wefore they could send any fores to « concluded to do this, a yt Sintthville on a Sa miles below Wiml i the pay- master aad anosher ollicer to Wilmuigion alter tie coal. They did not reach there until one o'clock Sunday Moruing. Alter maktag Laquiry they ascer- ed that the only Mau Wio had coal to sell ta large quaulities was @ pions Presbyterian, Arousiag him, tvey found that ti ore Monday. Idtd nott aoritics Wauid do more eu after they iound { was there. It again Witiout coi, because but It was wearly used. iday, get my coal and rve i was © down re, and the t 1 took pos: uid put her under guns oF Lac viously towne some ° bextT—You may have seen a statement ct tiet your Wife met you at Wimington hich looked s s0un as you arrived tlere, W to Wiimiletou Was: precon- ything in that? ie; it is not trae, Winle we ‘0; i was strack kao ime e. weil since, and wien we got ed at Wilmington the surgeon here (pomling Nuily), aavised me to telegravh for Mrs. id 2 did Nol ariive thers Jor @ seized. RESVONDAx'—Where did you intend going hen you started? Comuopor learned that the Spanish matt steamer ieft (iavana on the-ist and 1th of exch Month, 1 was anxious to ru track the one leaving on the ist of ¢ 1 bei my ene! to do so, If th that t got from the schooner aud the sby teria oak dealer at Wilminglon tad not failed ime t would have encountered that steamer, ior 1 was weil aware the course she takes, Coxnnsr What would you have dove with her, had yc ? iid most probably have made @ Comnopors— fire out of h only trouble | would have iad Would have been la taking care of my prisoners, Conresroxpeni—l suppose you Would have burned most of the Spaniza werchantiaen you came a could not well afford to have rig open to tie Cubans and 5 ries, r—\vas it your intention to have © ports of Cuba? i intended to run in, destro: CORKES ONDE ot ever suipplag | found, aud, In conngetton with uban iand force, seize and hold one of the port J then et oul again-the best way I could, in my opinioa (he Cuban army ought to come to one of tae sexporis and get dot it, ‘ihis would be better than deiondsag the iniand towns, CORRESPOND — as apy part of your oMcora erew Cubair Commono! sho paymaster ond two or throe of the engineers were Cubans, butnono of the crew, Tf did not consider Cut it would do to inv tue seamen. CORRESPONDENT —Commodore, what about your fnture moven ComMMODORE ell, Lean hardly say. I stat! prow babiy uy it over again if Ican get another stlp. The loss of the Hornet fell more heavily on the omcers thanon anybody eise. We had some pros spect of making dashes here and tt al of prize money and attaming | Fwas vo be made admiral of the C. ban navy as soon as they ished one, lon will seo thal it Was to Our Interest to go anerd and not to gee seized. I wont go out again except | can get @ vetter ship than the Lornef, one more ntapted to Work on the high soas, Whether 1 can get Unis Te mains to be sven, O19? fe 4