The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1869, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD STREET, BROADWAY AND AN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letter and telegraphic despaiches must be addressed New York HERALp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. WAVE Vaniery oLYMrr Daimav FIFTH Muon Ar NIBLC MARoUi ACADE. Criseino OWERY 17 u WALULACK’S THEATRES, Broatway ant ikb street. — NY, Fourteenth stroct.—Tun GRAND OPER QBa sirect.—Cua MRS. Tux Czar Brooklya,— TONY Y Vovatioy, 1 Bowery.—Cowto THEAT! Vouat ass, NEG! BRYANIS' sL-BEYAst -—-COMTO BAN FRAY PIAN Mi NEW Yous AND Gus Sroa lay.--ETMtO- EQursTRIAN axp Vooan iway.— HOUSE, Rronttya.-Hooury's , THe Hewes, e and 14th NEW YORK BorENOR A 3uUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— LADIES’ Broadway. TRIP New York, y, 618%g HEET How i . ained in a very critical terday morning. ie was imrormed hat his life was 2 danger, where- his confessor, w 1 and ‘ament. In the upon he sc received Majesty impr condition in t operations a Sharp, activ cessful. Th maintatn! tion of tne pears to say, division tion prey the m mm nomiz By ma pondence t tail of our The - brilliant nd DIOS journats contin of the Emypre leges the great “expe: reason for his not at escorted by four Steamers, having on board membors of the italtan cotony, 1 a3 cordially rec He stays at the n the Valley of the Sweet Waters, on the 4 mmander of th: to put t privateer imingcon in ye Cuba was a logitir 1 by the Cuban ge at, u comm ruise was to Vest indies and possession of oue of comm: tention prey v togassist t the ports « attribut runnit lose leavily try it again ou Oar now nose hands rrival in tits package ¢ without hav spirits aad ng the # pation rec syembling of nally 8¢ before the & report is ef Unless so: Cuban 10 in its present 2 questio mectlug the of Congress in > letter delivery will go into effect 1cse9 on the 15t A portion of the carvers wil On Satur eral ratiroad employés in Al- arrested ou churge of commit. press robbxry on the Contral Rall- road, b: Fonda end Albany, some months since. A portion of tt money has been re- covered. One of the pri Charles B, Conklin, baggagemas, was once before arrested in this city, but released upon a writ of nab orpus. In Sonora, Mexico, rich surface gold diggings have becu discovered, and pariies are preparing to leave Arizona for the new mines, having been pro- mised protection by the Mexican governmont. Rich gold discoveries are also reported on the Vinlay branch of Viace river, io British Columbia, Four incic yesterday at Covington, Va,, and Greenb .U, The snow storm seems to have followed the mountain range. The Governor of Art lias issued a call for vol- unteers to carry on @ War ag unst Tudians, the ex,.ense of arming aud cquipplog the troops to be he Tertitory. gor Perry and others av 4 the Free Trade Longue ot Springfiei’, })!.. on Saturday last. ‘The cali for the meeting was signcd by Governor Palmer ond other prominent republicans. During the past week seven murders and snicides ‘wore committed in San Francisco, Prominent Arrivals in the City. Captain Cr: of Royal Ungineers, Eng- joni A. Deat, of MoKay, of Montreal; NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. “— Colonel J. GC. Leo, of the United States Army; G. A. Thompson, of Racine, and Francis Avery, of San Fraacisco, are at the Breyoort House. Colonel W. H. Esling, !“sjor H. R. Gibson, D. D. Morrison and John Lynch, late of the steamship Cuba; Major James Foote, United States Marshal, aad Colonel J. Hyer, of North Carolina; F, W. Vosdurg and Charles Folger, of Albany; R. Crowley, of Lockport; Dr. Welker Weldon, of Rochester; Judge D, Pelton, of Sandusky, and Dr, Kingsley, of Kome, N. Y, t the Metropolitan Hotel. Colon vdner and General Ludiow, of the United States Army, are at the Coleman House. Allen Tanney, of Norwich, Conn.; James Ritchie, of Boston, and Charles S, Kingsley, of Schenectady, are at the Grand Hotel, Senator J. S. Morrill, of Vermont; Moses Emer- son, of Bosion; A. T. Lawton, of Taunton; H, Haut ing, of Arizona, and General H. B. Titus, of Wash- ington, are at the Astor House. liarrington, of ashington, and Lewis m, of San Francisco, are at the Claren- seneral Bird, of the United States Army; i. W. Philips, of Syracuse: C. Baulard, of . D, Harshman, of Ohi neral J. T. sville; General J. B. F , of Cale ard WH. Lamon, of Washington, are at Aveane Hotel, if the United States Navy; R. eorge H. Proctor, of Cin . Morton, of Plattsburg, arolna; George W. of Baltimore er, of the United nd GC, E. Hargous, of the United States verett Ilouse, Prominent Departure Colonel 8, Adams, for Boston; Now Orlcans; Colone Fergu: for V Vanghan, n, for Baltt- ygton, and Madame do American Polley Required. ems to be some reserve with the ‘ation, and consequently an unusual with the Washington newspaper cor- respondents, on the policy of the government with regard to Cuba, This leaves rcom for a good deal of speculation. Consequently that portion of the press which evidently is under 5 influence pretends to believe the sident will ignore Cuba in his message to vess next month, Of course such an on has not been formed from any infor- Pre Con this hemisphere, aud, perhaps, on the globe. If free or annexed to the United States the trade with it would be exceedingly val- uable—that is, if our government be wise enough to prevent the island becoming a second St. Domingo. If the action of the United States should avert the fate of destruction and desolation which now threatens Cuba, and the Cubans acquire their independence, the trade would become ina short time incalculably valuable, Look- ing at te matter, too, in a political point of view, the presentis the most opportune time for (he acquisition of Cuba, for settling a ques- tion which has long occupied the public mind, for extending and strengthening republican institutions on this side the Atlantic, for ful- filling our national destiny in the absorption of contiguous American territory, for- prac- tically carrying out the Monroe doctrine, and for increasing the grandeur, power and com- merece of the republic. With such objects in view and such motives for action there is not € great nation in the world that would not have made the independence of Cuba o fact long before this. England, France, Russia, Pru , Austria and even Spain herself would have studied only their own interests, progress and aggrandizement in such a case. We need not xamples in history—in what is occur- ring constantly with the great nations of the world—to show the policy all pursue. Every one is familiar with the facts, Will our gov- ernment and statesmen comprehend the broad American policy that is required of them, the destiny of the republic, and the aspirations of the people? That is the question, Cuba is pre-eminently a easo involying these great national considerations, and we must soon know whether the government can compre- hend its opportunity and duty or not. The Attantle and Great Western Railroad and the Erie Gold Cornerers. In view of the fact that the parties who owned the Atlantic and Great Western Rail- road and negotiated the lease or sale of it to the Erie Railroad Company can get nothing ¢ mation obtained from Goneral Grant or from the State Department, and no doubt has been manufactured either by the American agents of the Spanish government or by the news- papers themselves under Spanish influence. Ve cannot expect the President will reveal at present precisely what he infends to say or recommend to Congress about Cuba, and per- haps he has not yet made up his mind fully on the {. In the month between the present time and the assembling of Congress events may occur to modify existing impressions. As he will act in accordance with public senti- ment, probably he may deem it important to ascertain what the views of the representatives of the people are before he decides upon the course he will take in his message on tho Cuban question. from that company, and that the interest on the bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western, which, by the terms of the contract, was to be paid by the Erie Railroad Company, remains unpaid, it would seem that the great gold cornerers The Verdict In the Douglas Murder Case. We must again condemn to public reproba- tion the unrighteous verdict of an imbecile or corrupt jury shamelessly justifying the mur- | der on the 20th ult, of Archibald Douglas, by Spocial Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jackson, Tho jury considered that Jackson used the pistol with which the fatal wound was inflicted “‘par- tially in self-defence.” But Mr, Spencer truly averred in behalf of the prosecution that there was nothing whatever in the evidence adduced during the inquest to justify such a verdict, and there is no excuse for it whatever. He even was constrained to add, ‘In all my prac- tice for yoars in criminal courts I never saw or heard of a clearer case of murder in the first degree than is this one in which Jackson is the defendant, His victim was endeavoring th escape when he was shot, and Jackson was in no danger whatever.” Mr, Spencer might well ask, ‘‘What ave we coming to in this city when such verdicts are to be tolerated?” While it will be seen by the full report which wo published yosterday of this extraordinary inquest that Mr. Spencer disclaimed accusing Coroner Flynn of having ‘packed the jury,” the insolence and hot haste with which officer Haley repelled beforehand any charge of being guilly of such a crime looks suspicious, to say the least of it, Things have come to a pretty pass, indeed, when to Haley’s threat that if this should be insinuated he ‘will trounce” Mr. Spencer, the latter felt obliged to reply, “f know very well you might kill me and nothing could be done to you for it.” Surely, itis high time for the public to protest indig- nantly against the verdicts of juries selected for political partisanship and seeking to cover up the most atrocious crimes when committed in the midst of political agitation. ‘he Lager Beer Rald fn Boston. On Friday night the State constables who are set over Boston “‘to reign and govern” astounded all citizens of Teutonic origin and affiliations by a sudden and general raid upon the lager beer saloons. These saloons have been left open and unmolested for more than six weeks—in fact, ever since it was decided in an important seizure case that each kog in a large haul at one of the most extensive breweries in Boston should be honestly returned, in consequence of tho affidavit have been all along ina tight place. Efforts have been made to put the Erie in banicruptcy ia consequence of not paying up in accordance with the contract, and it is said Mr, McHenry, who made the lease or sale of the Atlantic and Great Western, has gone, or is about going, to England in disgust to confer with the other parties interested as to what course they can pursue to squeeze something out of the Erie Company. Was the gold corner operation sworn to by the brewer that the beer was expressly manufactured for sale and consump- tion outside the limits of the State. The majesty of Massachusetts law has winked at the sale of beer as it used to wink at the sale of all potables dispensed at bars mysteriously hidden in the rear of fruit stores. In holy Massachusetts almost anything is winked at if it be done on the sly. But the beer, it seems, has been sold and swallowed openly; and the made as a desperate and last effort to save the two great Erie Moguls from ruin? Had their But we are not left in the dark entirely as to General Grant's views and sympathies relative wba, and, therefore, can form a beiter opinion of what policy he may develop in his se than that offered by the Bohemian press or Spanish agents. Tho views of the President were given at different times during the last summer and fall through the corres- pondenoce of the Herarp, and, indeed, so weré those of the Secretary of State. We know, then, that General Grant warmly and heartily favored Cuban independence, and that Mr. Fish expressed himself in a similar manner on his subject. Weknow that he cordially sim- with the Cubans in their struggle for and looked forward to the time could recognize liberty, when the United States them, Even the excessively conservative Secretary of State admitted, months ago, that recognition and Cuban inde- pendence wero only a question of time. The action of the government, too, through our Minister at Madrid, in proposing to nego- tiate with Spain for the independence of Cuba, shows that as far back as last spring the admin- istration was earnestly at work to bring about the freedom of Cuba, To suppose that the ent would now, after the Cubans have 'y maintained the struggle, and that with better prospecta of success, abandon the object he had fa view and the Cuban cause, is unreasonable, and would imply a degree of imbecility and vacillation on the part of the administration Which is not consistent with the character of General Grant and which the American people canaot believe. Throughout his history and public career Goneral Grant has shown that he entertains broad national jews on all questions pertaining to the progress and perpetuation of republican free- dom on American soil and to progress and grandeur of his own country, This was seen in his bold proposition to march an army across the Rio Grande and drive the foreign imperial intruders from our sister republic of Mexico, In fact, he has shown the same broadly national ess on every occasion rf stitutions on American soil and the progress and grandeur of our country were in question, How, then, can we believe that the Presi- dent will ignore Cuba in his message to Con- gress, or that he will abandon the cause of the Cubans, after all that he has said and the effort Le has made to secure their indepen- ? To be silent about Cuba when the nind is full of the subject and In ex- on of a definite policy being declarcd be acting like the foolish and timid 2 hides its head under the sand without ¢: ring that its whole body is ex- posed to view. The Cuban question is too prominent and too popular a one to be ignored, and we do not think there is Spanish influence enough at Washington to blind the President to this fact. At all events, it is certain neither the people nor their representatives in Congress will ignore it. As tothe sympathy of the American people with the Cubans there can be no doubt. It exists in every section and among all classes, except, perhaps, with Mr. Sumner, who thinks of nothing but his | speech on the Alabama claims, and who would sacrifice the liberties of any people for the fancied glory connected with that, or with the | exception, possibly, of a few copperhead poli- | ticians and weak old fogies, who would fence in the United States to prevent any further expansion or progress. But the question of ya is not one of sympathy only, despotic and cruel as the Spanish government of the | island is, and much as the Amerlean people | may desire to see the Cubans free, but impor- vi tant American interests, principles and progress are involved. Cuba is the richest island in affairs got into such a condition that their only hope was in some such desperate expedient? ‘They are hanging on now evidently by the skin of their teeth, The anxious struggle they are making through the courts to stave off pay- ments to others and to make others pay them indicates « critical situation. To all appear- ances the end has not been reached yet, and we shall probably see a crash before long. A Sensible Idea. Notwithstanding the bushels of nonsense which women’s rights conventions and ‘‘par- liaments” send out from time to time, an occasional sensible idea emanates from them. The latest was that expressed by one of the ladies at the Parliament meeting on Saturday, suggesting that young women should he edu- cated to some useful business, whereby they could earn an independent living, instead of devoting their whole time to what are called domestic duties and accomplishments. This would be the true remedy for the wrongs of woman, and, if adopted, would render unne- cessary the advocacy of women’s rights agitators—fomale and male, There are plenty of respectable and remunerative occu- pations by which young ladies, and adult ladies, too, can make a good livelihood; but the trouble is that very few women have fitted themselves to fill them by a proper course of education, The limit of woman's usefulness in business is not confined to the public school room or the sewing machine; and yet it is to these occupations that they mostly look for a livelihood, Both are laborious and are poorly paid, The recommendation of the lady referred to points to a great many more branches of employment where women could be as useful and as well paid as men, if they would only give their attention in early life to loarning some of these branches to proficiency, Tus Kixe or Irary Dyinc.—The King of Italy remained in a very critical condition of health in Florence yesterday morning. Having been duly informed that his life was in danger his Majesty sent for his confessor, was ab- solved and received the holy sacrament. In the afternoon he was tranquil and slightly im- proved, but relapsed to a dying condition, as reported in our cable telegrams, during the evening. The King, like his father, Charles never do. pious prohibitionists, provoked at the fact that the late election went adversely to the prohi- bition law, have spitefully wreaked their peity vengeance on lager bibbers and lager dealers, coming down on them, in Homeric phrase, “like night.” The result may, however, jus- tify President Grant's theory that the best way to get rid of a bad law is strictly to enforce it, CanapIANn Ruorproorry.—Congress, acting on the judgment of the whole people, author- ized the preparation of a new treaty for a reciprocal trade between the United States and the Dominion of Canada; and this treaty heaving been drawn up, Pennsylvania has taken tho alarm. Pennsylvania says it will It matters not how it may suit New York, Ohio or any other State to have such atreaty, it does not please Pennsylvania, therefore we must not have it. We have col- lected from the Canadians, says one of the Kelley family, in the interest of Pennsylvania, threo million dollara since the abrogation of the last treaty. This Kelley does not state that the three million dollars thus paid into the Treasury represents nine million dollars unnecessarily taken from our people by the increased prices the duty made. One side of a picture is not only all that a tariff man cares to show, but all he ever sees. AwoTHer ATTACHMENT.—The property of the astonishing Fisk is likely to be pretty well attached before we get completely to the bottom of the gold pool. Another man has fastened to it his claim for a quarter of o mil- lion, It would seem as if Fisk must owe some- body a great deal of money, and it would also seem as if he would find loose places enough in the law to slip through. Perhaps the fellows on the other side have sharp eyes for law, too. We hope so, as that will make the spectacle the more entertaining and tho trial of the law the more complete, Tur Lanor Bureav.—One of the best of recent municipal ideas is the intelligence office organized by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction. Our common system for hiring house servants on the old intelligence plan was as bad as it could be. With some few ex- ceptions the keepers of the places were sharp- ers, and thero was never any satisfactory security for the servant's character. The new Labor Bureau is a great improvement on these points. No person is likely to be imposed on Alb&t, after the battle of Novara, is again strictly within the bosom of the Church, Should he die, he enjoys, it is to be hoped, a much more hopeful chance of a happy eter- nity, and, should he recover, his reconcilia- tion with the Sovereign Pontiff and the Catholic world may have a very important and direct bearing and influence on the de- liberations and decisions of the Ecumenical Council in Rome, Tue Stace.—There is a theatrical difficulty fn London. Boucicanlt has given out in his literary treadmill—is compelled to take some rest—and the theatres are likely to stand still for want of plays. The managers sneer at the idea of amateur playwrights, by which they apparently mean every one who has not written as many plays as Boucicault, so that there is no probability of any other person ever be- coming a professional in that line. London, therefore, which has lived on Paris for plays, is likely to starve for want of an adapter, and New York, that lived on London, must starve, too, we suppose. Tiina Tuinas.—One of the goverament officials in the Dominion of Canada started a | document for the capital of the United States, Counting by the way thiogs move in Canada he came to the conclusion that the document could not possibly reach its destination before the capital was moved to tho Mississippi valley, 60 he addrogsed it at once to St. Louis, by a servant obtained there, nor is the servant likely to become the victim of improper persons, Toe Woman's Prosrem.—Women will not go astray of their mission for want of sensible advice, One of the best scraps of this recently put afloat is in an address to the Woman’s Par- liament by Mrs. Demorest, herself a pretty successful woman, She says that ‘‘useful, compensated labor affords the only means of independence and of growth” that will prove satisfactory, Suffrage and sentiment will make the women no better off than they are, but honest work, well done, will achieve wonders, “The world has need of every resolute worker.” Square yoursoif for use; the stone that may Fit in the wall is jeft not in the way. Tue Far Bowers AGain,—It appears that the fat boiling nuisances are more rank than ever, and atill ‘‘smell to heaven” like tho offence of King Clandins, despite the resolu- tion of the Board of Health that these abomin- able concerns should bo removed by the Ist of October to some point above 110th street, That resolution has beon rescinded for somo reason, and the fat boilers are now bolder than ever in their outrage upon the public health. It turns out, although the licenses of several of these houses were revoked, that they siill continue the offensive business in defiance of authority, whilo at the same time a hundred more applications for ligonses are agw under consideration. How is this? Can it be that | Captain Higgins and the Hornct—That the Board of Health is getting careless of its duties in consequence of the result of the late election, because it looks as though their dsys may not be ‘long in the land?” The Churches. Our special exhibit of tho actual condition and progress of religion in our midst, as reflected in the metropolitan and more immediately con- tiguous suburban churches yesterday, from the pulpit, the altar and the reading desk,“ia of a really consoling character. The churches were crowded, notwithstanding a very unfavorable state of the weather, the clergy fervent and eloquent, and the different congregations de- vout and well dressed, and to all appearance well pleased with the actual situation here and hopeful of tho hereafter. Their recent election triumph has not, evidently, demoralized the democracy from prayer, while it is equally plain that the aristo-gentility of republicanism has not been guilty of the mortal sin of despair after defeat. Faith, hope, hymn and thanks- giving and jubilee abounded, and ‘forms of ereed” are being left more and more to the daily narrowing circles of the “angry zealots” who loveto fight for them, The Jesuit Fathers dedi- cated a magnificent new altar in the church of St. Francis Xavier, in Sixteenth street, and Rev. Mr. Beecher stvod forth in simple sacrifice in Plymouth church, Brooklyn, The ‘Future Hell” was duly photographed by a tongue tipped, it is to be presumed, with the Apostolic gift of “fire” from on High, while the Scripture parable of the wheat, the cockles and tares and their after treatment was duly analyzed and applied in the sense of Catholic Interpreta- tion in St. Patrick's cathedral. Rev. Drs. Cheever and Armitage, Rev. Mr. Hepworth, and, indeed, the entire cohort of faithful sen- tinels were on the “tower,” active, watchful and alert, and as our military friends have it, “in full possession of their orders.” It is good. So be it. Tho Charter ElectionMovements of Poli- ticians. From one political contest we enter upon another, but now it is from the greater to the less. The State and county elections of the 2d of November involved some issues of import- ance to the State, to its future government— whether for good or evil according as the democracy may have light and wisdom to use their victory—and to the extinguishment of a vast amount of corruption in the Legislature and in a great many other places, if Governor Hofiman’s promises are to be realized, which we hope they may be. But the Charter Elec- tion, to come off in December, will decide nothing except who is to have spolls of office, whether it is the democratic Tom, or Dick, or Harry is to have the honors and emoluments (especially the latter) of Police Justice and Civil Justice, or Alderman, for the State election has virtually settled the ques- tion that democrats, and Tammany demo- crats at that, must be the recipients of those favors. As the skilful manage- ment and political genius of Peter B. Sweeney secured success for the Tammany candidates in November, so also will his voice prove po- tent in December. The aspirants therefore who obtain the Tammany nomination may be considered the lucky ones, Tho tickets con- taining the names of nine police justices and nine civil justices, as well as the aldermen, will be made out probably some time this week, or at farthest next week. There will bo a good many independent democratic candi- dates in the flcld, and some republicans, The people will therefore have an opportunity of selecting the best men to vote for out of the number presented for their choice. The machinery for running the charter elec- tion is now fairly at work. The wheels are well greased. Chief Engincer Sweeny looks complacently on the work of which he is mas- ter, and about whose smooth running he hesi- tates not a moment in doubt. We have only to hope that when the nominations are an- nounced the names of candidates for the dif. ferent city offices will be such as to afford the people a chance of voting for a few honest and competent men on the first Tuesday in Decem- ber. ee A Case of Spanish Insolence In Cuba. In Saturday’s Heratp we published tho details of the arrest and subsequent expulsion from Cuba of an ex-correspondent of the Heratp. The communication detailing the treatment to which the gentleman was subjected plainly shows the high-handed measures adopted by the Spanish officials to bolater up their waning cause in the Ever Faithful Isle. Without sufficient reason, and acting under the belief that Mr. Koppers was tho author of some letters which appeared in the Hrratn, he was arrested on the eve of a public holiday and kept in solitary confinement for two days, and denied even the priviloge of making known his situation to either the American or English consuls, Here we have an evidence of the beauties of Spanish rule in Cuba. No sense of justice, right or decency seems to be pos- sessed by these insolont Spaniards. Tho slightost independence, if that independence is contrary to their views, is considered a crime in its possessor and is punished as such, This overbearing epirit is the most prominent characteristic of the race for centu- ries. In the case of Mr. Koppers we think they have overshot the mark. Mr. Koppers is a British subject. He has entered a protest against the treatment he has been subjected to and placed his complaint in the hands of the British Consul in Havana, who has for- warded it to Earl Clarondon, the British Min- ister of Foreign ‘Affairs in London, strongly endorsed. As the English government has always evinced a lively intorest in its sub- jects, no matter in what part of the world they may reside, thore is little reason to doubt that Spain will be compelled to pay for the insolence of her Cuban officials in this matter the £3,000 sterling at which Mr. Koppera sets his dam- ages. Tur Revonviion,—The democratic deluge ia to come goon, ff Hoffman knows anything about it, and the winter will see such a modi- fication of our whole city government as no ono winter ever saw before, Recent legista- tion for the city has all been done by the State, and has been based upon the assumption that popular government here was a failuro— that the people of this city could not be trusted to govern themselves, Now the democracy will try just the other plan, and my shall seo who |s right, Pious Presbyterian. q We have the secret at last of the seizure of the Cuban steamer Hornet at Wilmington, The story {s from the Captain's own Ups as told to our Washington correspondent, and may, therefore, be relied upon. Itdomolishes the suspicions that the Hornet was taken into Wilmington with any view to treachery, and shows that the reason why she did not got safely to sea was owing to the religious scruples of @ pious Presbyterian whose conscience would not allow him to sell coal on Sunday. Captain Higgins states that upon reaching Montauk Point from Halifax his coal was nearly exhausted, only six days’ stock being left, but having found means to communicate with the shore he obtained a schooner load of one hundred and sixty tons of a miserable article, half of which was slate, It seems that the parties who furnished it did not examine the quality of the article, but took it at a venture. — The chiof engincer reported that it would be impossible to pursue the voyage under these circumstances, whereupon Captain Higgins, expecting to meet a Spanish man-of-war, and: knowing that he could neither fight nor make a good run away, hailed a pilot off Cape Fear, who took the ship into Wilmington, where, he said, there was plenty of coal to be had, And so there was; but as it happened to be Sun- day morning when the ofileers sent to negotiate for the coal reached Wilmington, the pious Presbyterian who owned it refused to sell or deliver until Monday. Meantime the United States authorities got wind of the fact that the suspicious Cuban privateer was lying at Smith- ville, thirty miles below the city, and pro- ceeding there at once, they seized her, as is known, The grief of the Hornet was that she did not run into some British port. She would have found no coal venders there too pious to sell a few hundred tons on Sunday. The crust of Puritan conscience would have. been broken by the certainty of a good profit. So it may turn out after all that it is not so much to the delay of President Grant or the timidity of Secretary Fish the faiiure of the Cuban cause may. be attributed—if it should fail for want of a naval vessel on the high seas—as to the unelastic conscience of an old, pious North Carolina Presbyterian coal dealer. Thus is the romance of the Hornet's cruise reduced to a very prosy fact, from all which we infer that “pious Presbyterians” are sometimes in the way. Captain Higgins indignantly denies any intent of abandoning tho enterpriso when he put in to Wilmington; for, he says, ‘I would have been made admiral of the Cuban navy, and my officers wonld have had many pickings in the way of prize money had they succeeded.” The Commodore declares that he will try it again, provided he is furnished with a better steamer than the Hornet; for she is only ‘fit for a blockade runner.” We hope the next time the Commodore runs out of coal it will not be on Sunday, or that he will sail into Boston to buy his stock. And this is the story of the Cuban man-of-war Hornet and the pious Presbyterian. Views of the Republican Press on’ the State Election, The country republican papers are moaning heavily over the result of the State election, as will be seen by the extracts which we pub- lish to-day. They all harp upon the one string—the certain abolition of all the commis- sions and the loss of the fat offices appended thereto. It is taken for granted that the com- missions must go by the board and among them the present canal system. The Albany Journal bewails the misfortune which it pre- dicts for the canal interest as soon as it passes out of the hands of its party; while in the abolition of the vexatious Registry law it sees the destruction of order and all the safeguards of the people. The Rochester Chronicle, on the other hand, does not defend the commis- sions, because they are of no party value to the republicans, but all its solicitude is for the poor citizens of New York under the rule of the democracy. All the republican journals claim that the election was lost by the criml- nal indifference of their own party in the iuterior in not going to the polls. They do not perceive that a deoper cause lay in the corrup- tion of the party which has governed this State for the last dozen years or more, aud in the almost universal disgust of people of both parties. The partisan journals, however, con- sole themselves with the idea that ‘it is good to be afflicted,” and that the party has learned a wholesome lesson which may lead to im- provement and entitle It some day to a restora- tion of power. Mr. Stewart's Hempsteap HomEsTRADs,—+ As soon as Mr. Stewart came into possession of the Hempstead Plains property which he recently bought at enormous cost, with a view of constructing a large number of home- steads for the surplus population of this city, the whole tract was laid out and the sites for parks and squares and building lots wore designated, Several avenues have already boon graded, and tho remainder have been surveyed. The work of building this city of refuge from overcrowded tenements and extor- tionate landlords is under the personal super- vision and direction of the eminent architect, Mr. John Kellum. On Friday morning the foundation excavation for the first residence was begun. The work will be carried on throughout the winter. It is to be hoped that era long the projector of this benevolent scheme may enjoy the pleasure of looking with his own eyes upon the monument which he will himself have thus orected to his memory. pbreenisatiresbetart bee Poe Orrtcens or tne Covrrs.—What kind of person to fill an office in the Court of Sessions is the man Jackson, who murdered Archibald Douglas™the other day? Ife is sald to have been somewhat of a desperado even before he fell upon this bloody business of murder. If it is such men who aro selected to porform the duties of our courts what kind of characters may we expect to find in the dock? Yet we fear that Jackson is not the only one of his class 80 employed. Tan Fat Nursanoe.—The likelihood that our democratic Logislature will this winter abolish the Board of Health will not alarm us much, in view of the impunity with which the fat boiling nuisance is kept up under the nose of that commission. But we doubt if that will help us, os the fat bollers are probably all. good domocrata,