The New York Herald Newspaper, November 11, 1869, Page 6

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We are again constrained to ask advertisers to Ancrensing Circulation hand in their advertisements at as early an hour aspossible, Onr immense and constantly increasing editions compel us, are capable of printing seventy thousand copfes an notwithstanding our presses hour, to put our forms to press much usual, and to facilitate the work we « stop the classifications of advertisements at nine o'clock P. M. Europe. Cable telegrams are dated November 10. Paris remained tranquil, notwithstanding the pro- gress of an active election canvass. The political amnesty agitation continues in Ireland, and Dublin ‘Was the scene of a severe party riot. In the Spanish Cortes President Rivero complimented General Sickles by a personal visit in the gallery set apart for foreign Mintsters, Tue Spanish Cabinet appears determined to maintain the sovereignty of Spain in Cuba and at all other points of the colonial territory. General Prim takes charge of the Ministry of Marine in Madrid, in addition to his other cabinet les. Spanish merchants offer to despatch 10,000 troops to Cuba mext month, The throne question, with poiltical division, still prevaiied im Madrid, The London Times acknowledges the Irish iand question to be @ serious national “dilticuity,” but encourages the Gladstone ministry to grapple with “reds” in England advise Irishmen in Great britain to abstain irom the use of tobacco pending the release of tne political pris- Oners, 80 28 10 embarrass the British Treasury and add the money s0 saved to a fund for continued agitation, Egypt. An English writer asserts that the works of the Suez Canal are dan parucularily the granite pillars of the viaduct, but thinks that the trafic will not be impeded, India. The Ceylon Observer of the 2 of September, to hand by mail, states that goods from ‘ope nad reached Cevion via the Suez Canal, and that accord. ing to the bill of lading “the freight comes to thirty shillings ster ling per hundreaweighit.” Cuba. Spanish accounts say General Mendegueren at- tacked the insuigents between Coatram Ramon, killing 120 and tak Among the Cubans killed we: Harry Ciavering, chief of sta: ud W stand, r jain Cron- eneral Jordan’s quartermaster, The Spanish troops now occupy the position heli by the imsur- gents, 1aciuding the Lospital at Ramon. Miscellaneous, . Mr. Washburne, the iate Minister to Paraguay, denies that his wite sald at his table that a pian was on foot to overthrow Lopez, notwithstanding Com- mauder Kirkland and Admiral Davis testified that gle did make such a remark. Mrs. Washburn testi- fled betore the committee recently that she could have made no sugh remark, for it would not bave been the truth, Mr, Worthington, late Mimster to te Argentine Republic testifed that Brazil was @ecidedty unfriendly towards the United States, and Antenied by her war with Paraguay to absorb all the neighboring republics. Commissioner Delano’s report of the Internal Revenue Bureaa bas been completed and sent to the Secretary of the Treasury. Elsewhere this morning we give extracis relative to the crisis in the Mormon Church, which threatens to become sertous enough to revolutionize the social system among the Saints, The burning of the sugar crop in Cuba, as proposed by Ceapedes, in order to keep the Spaniards from using it, will cost the United States, according to Cuban estimates, from Mfty to sixty iiilion doilars in customs revenue and income from commercial transactions, Major General John E. Woo! died at bis residence in Troy yesterday, aged eighty-six years. ‘There were present at his beaside his family, ex-Con- gressman, John A. Griswold and the General's colored servant James, who had been with tim over forty years, ‘Spotted Tall, the chtef of the Brule Indians, whiie drunk at the Wheatstone Agency, at Dacotah Terri- tory, abont two weeks ago, shot and Killed Big Mouth, chief of the Ogailaliahs. The Indians and half breeds of the Rea River country are so strongly opposed to the Canadian | Confederation that, learning of the approach of the Governor of the new colony of Winnepeg, they met in Jargo numbers at Pembina to prevent him from crossing the line. On his arrival, however, they changed their notion, and conducted him in triumph to his capital. Four indians were convictea of murder yesterday before the United states Court in Omaua. Two of the murderers, Blue Jacket and forse Driver, maL- aged to escape after the verdict was reneged. A party of sixty emigrants from North Carolina passed through Baltimore on Tuesday, en route tor | the Western States. In the Baltimore City Court, yesterday, Margaret Rack recovered @ verdict of $17,000 damages Broadway, cor- | H against the Pennsylvania Northern Central Railroad Company for causing the death of uer husband, in September, 1868, William H. Jones, a noted Canantan burglar, was captured tn Buffalo yesterday, after a desperate re- sistance, during which he shot and suightly wounded two policemen. Swathmore College, near Pailadelpta, under the auspices of the Hicksite Quakers, and desigmed for the educauon of both sexes, was formally opened yesterday. Rockwell & Mosely's powder mills, in Westfield, Mass., blew up yesterday morning, severely, if not fatally, wounding two of the workmen. The City. The bronze statue of Commodore Vanderbilt at the Hudson River Railroad depot was unveiled yes- terday with imposing ceremonies, The reported appointment of Charles J. Folger to he Assistant Treasurer at New York in place of But- terfield 1s confirmed by despatches yesterday. The largest market house in the world 18 to be erected at the foot of Thirty-fourth street, North river, by a company already organized. A man named McGuinness was brought before Justice Hogan yesterday, on a requisition signed by Mr. Frederick Kapp, Emigration Commissioner, charging him with bastardy, on the complaint of Bridget Gerdy, an emigrant. Mr. Kapp, in testify- ing, said ne kaew nothing of the case or the requist- tica, @s he signed blank requisitions tn large num- bers, “hich were afterwards filled up by Mr. Casserly without consulting him, and this was probably one of them. Mr. Howe, counsel for McGuinness, at the close of the testimony made & speech, im which he condemned the Emigration Commissioners, and said it was to be hoped the Legisiature would sweep them from existence. The case Was continued until Saturday. ‘The stock market yesterday was dull, but prices were active and higher. Gold was very steady 2 ari prominent Arrivals in the City. John M. Douglass, of Chicago; W. A. Bangs and O. W, Peabody, of Boston, are at the Brevoort House. Colonel C. C, Huntley, of Montana; Dr. D. B. Conover, of New Jersey; Dr, N. Jenkins, of Georgia; Judge J. Hardenburg, of Kingston, N, Y.; Judge . Chew, of Geneva; Colonel 0. A. Bliss, Colonel S. F. Morris and Dr. R. ©. Perinne, of Yonkers; Colonel J. C, Bryan, of Washington; Captain J. P. Dukehardt, of Baltimore; Dr. J. P. Herbert, of Quebec, and Judge J. Hammond, of Crown Point, are at tne Metropolitan Hotel. Comptrolier W. F, Allen, of Albany; ex-Governor Buckingham, bf Connecticut, and Secretary of State H. A. Nelson, of Albany, are at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Cn. Béranger, of the French Legation, and M. Scheppers, of Philadelphia, are at the Albemarie Hotel. Judge J. 8. Hager, of California, and Paymaster Skelding, of the United States Navy, are at the Hoa: man House. W. H. Thomas, of Lexington; L, Maltby, of North- ampton; Samuel L. Downing, of Philadelpiia, and Thomas C. Buck and wife, of Chicago, are at the Coleman House, Prominent Departures, General Schenck and R. Crowiey, for Washington: Mile. Carlotta Patt, Max Strakosch and Henry Squire, for Boston; R. Catlin, for West Point; Henry Wells, for Aurora; Captain Clark, for Montreal: Colonel Lake, for Saratoga; Colonel ©. F. Fargo, for San Francisco; Captain Crossman, Commander W. A. Kirkland and A, G. Lathrop, sailed yesterday on the steamer Cuba for Europe. Extraordinary Naval Movements—Have They Reference to Cuba? The unusual activity of the Navy Depart- ment and extraordinary movements of war vessels are not without cause, or they indicate precautionary steps, at least, to meet some particular or possible contingency. The ques- tion naturally arises whether all this has not reference to Cuba and the policy the govern- ment is about to pursue with regard to that island. It is certain there can be no other reason for these movements; for there is not the least probability of trouble, either at home or with foreign nations, except that which might possibly arise with Spain relative to the Cuban question. Not that we believe or that the government thinks there would be reason to apprehend war with Spain should the United States recognize the belligerent rights or independence of Cuba, but if such a step be contemplated by the administration precau- tionary measures to meet even a contingency so unlikely are proper. Besides, a powerful naval force in the neighborhood of Cuba, in the event of our government resolving on such a policy, would impress the Spanish govern- ment with a sense of the determination of the United States and the futility of using force to restrain the action of this country. Indeed, instead of leading to war, the display of such power and preparation for war is the way to prevent it. We conclude, then, that the activ- ity in naval matters—the order for the Mianto- nomoh to be ready for sea, the ordering into com- mission and fitting out rapidly of the Swatara and two other vessels, the sudden transfer of stores and army supplies to the Albany, with orders for that vessel to sail immediately for Cuba, and other important movements—indi- cate that the government is about to take a decisive course on the Cuban question and in favor of Cuban independence, Months ago General Sickles, our Minister at Madrid, told the Spanish regency officially, in that famous note which created such a stir in Spain, that public opinion in the United States would soon compel his government to recog- nize the Cubans, He wrote what he was instructed to write, and what, as an experienced and astute public man, he knew to be true, The Spanish government has been forewarned and must expect such action on the part of the United States. It knows the irresistible power of public opinion in this republic, and it has really more reason to thank the administration for great modera- tion in delaying to recognize the Cubans so long, and that against the popular will, than to be surprised or offended at recognition now. There is no cause of war in such an act, nor | do we imagine Spain would be foolish enough | to make it so. She cannot even subjugate the Cubans. Indeed, they have been gaining strength all along and are stronger to-day than ever, in spite of the armies and fleets of Spain. What, then, could Spain do in a war with this mighty republic? She could not land an army, and if she could it would be | instantly annibilated, Mer navy would be swept from the ocean, and as to any damage she might do us by letters of marque to pri- vateers—which would be very little—we could do far more to her in the same way. We could extinguish Spanish commerce and deprive Spain of her remaining colonies. Such a conflict would be child’s play, comparatively, to the United States. But it is folly to talk of war; the Spanish government has not the money or other me for such a Quixotic undertaking, Should Prim and the other leading men of Spain be insane enongh to suppose they could reunite the peo- ple and consolidate their power by war, they THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Ul, 1869.-TRIPLE SHEET. a RET ERT eee EEE) war with the United States would only bring | New York and the Fifteenth Amondment— | The London Banquet—Premier Gindstone’ overwhelming disaster to them. The factions which are now rending that unhappy country would become more active and stronger, and the horrors of civil war would be increased and continued. Nor could Spain hope for any assistance from the European Powers. None, no, not even France or England, would lift a finger. They know too well the power of this country, and the interests they have at stake would prevent their interference. None of these Powers will ever again meddle with American affairs unless driven to do so on their own account and to protect their own honor and interests—a contin- gency which is not likely to occur till the future reveul$ far greater complications than can be foreseen at present. All the talk of European sympathy and aid for Spain on this Cuban question is balderdash. There need not be and will not be any war about Cuba, though the United States shouid not hesitate to recognize the Cubans and to take any other action to secure their independence, even at the risk of war. If we be right in our conjecture that the naval movements referred to indicate the speedy recognition of Cuba by the government, the views we have expressed frequently as to the President's sympathy for and purpose regarding the Cubans will be confirmed, In spite of the weakness and timidity of the Sec- retary of State on this question, and the Span- ish influence operating upon him indirectly through those near him and related ‘to him, as well as through certain newspapers and Wash- ington correspondence under the same Span- ish influence, we have never doubted that Gen- eral Grant would in due time take this matter in his own hands and show a vigorous and determined policy. Any other course would be in direct opposition to the broad and national views of the President, to the republican and generous impulses of his nature, to his love of liberty, to his ardent patriotism and desire for American progress and the aggrandizement of his country, and, in fact, to his whole character and history. He has been waiting, probably, for the assembling of Congress or till he could confer with the representatives of the people before taking decided action in favor of Cuba, and in the meantime has faithfully executed the neutrality laws, though acting against his own gympathies, so that there should be no stain upon the national honor. Now, however, as the members of Congress begin to reach the capital, he learns what their sentiments are, and, if we mistake not, is preparing to recom- mend and take a bold course worthy of this great republic. The unanimous expression of the House of Representatives at the close of the last Congress in favor of Cuban recogni- tion will be reiterated, no doubt, with much more force by both houses as soon as Con- gress meets. The President will then have the full support of that body, and the adminis- tration will find itself acting in harmony both with the representatives of the people and public opinion. From all the signs of the times we think the belligerent rights of the Cubans will soon be recognized and the inde- pendence of Cuba secured. The New Assistant United States Treasurer at New York. A despatch from Washington states that the place of Assistant United States Treasurer in New York, to fill the vacancy created by General Butterfield’s resignation, has been tendered by the President to Mr. Charles J. Folger, State Senator from’ the Twenty-sixth district in the last Legislature and re-elected for the coming session, and that he will accept the place. Asa partisan leader in the State Senate Mr. Folger did very well for the party of which he was the acknowledged head in the Senate Chamber. Pertinacious in debate, but violent in temper to a degree that made his orations an amusing features to the listeners, he has shown none of those solid qualities of char- acter which are not only desirable, but abso- lutely requisite, in a financial officer. His honesty may be unimpeachable ; indeed, in his Senatorial career no breath of suspicion rested upon him. Among the few incorruptibles of his republican colleagues in the last Senate Mr. Folger was always counted. A ttle Job in Booka. The Brooklyn Board of Education are very busy about the contracts for furnishing books to the public scHools, A number of proposals were presented on Tuesday evening by book publishers and others, which were referred to an appropriate committee, The furnishing of books to the common schools of Kings county has always been a fat job for somebody. Under the old system, which has been only recently abolished, the pupils had to pay for their own books, while the scholars in the schools of New York were supplied with books gratis. But lately the pupils in Brooklyn have been supplied with books without pay on condi- tion that they return them to the school when they are done with them. While this arrange- ment insures tho pupil the use of the books used in the different classes, it does not deprive the committee of a chance to make good thing out of the job. There is a fat and juicy nut in this shell which the committee and the pub- lishers and the outside contractors will no doubt pick between them. Meantime the citizens of Brooklyn are very discontented with the way the public schools are managed. They com- plain that all the teaching has to be done at home by the parents, while the principals and teachers simply give out the lessons to be studied by tho children. The duty which, under the school law, properly belongs to the paid teachers, is thus transferred to the homes and firesides of the parents, who are taxed for the maintenance of the public schools, Brook- lyn is in rebellion against this state of things ; but what does that matter as long as the Board of Education can make its little jobs? Rerorten Recovery or Kina Victor EMANvEL.—By cable we are informed that the reports respecting the health of King Victor Emanuel were rather premature. The Emperor Napoleon, foresecing the events that would in all probability follow his death, took counsel with his Cabinet in order to provide for such a contingency, Even here the report produced an effect upon our ‘Change which, although but small, proved the goneral interest that such an event involved, In the existing unsatisfactory state of government affairs in Italy it ia to be hoped that the agitation cansed would be much mistaken. Ignorant os the Spanish people may be, they must know that by the mere apprehension of the King’s death will prove a salutary lesson, A-Vory Nice Question for Geuoral Grant. From a Heratp editorial of the 15th of October last it appears that the number of States which have ratified the fifteenth amend- ment proposed to the constitution of the United States, providing for universal negro (male) suffrage,-is twenty—viz., Arkansas, Connec- ticut, Florida, Mlinois, Indiana, Kansas, Lou- isiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mis- souri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. It further appears that the States which have rejected the amendment are three—Delaware, Georgia and Ohio—and that the States which have not yet acted upon it are Alabama, Cali- fornia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas and Ver- mont—fourteen. The whole number of States is thirty-seven, and the nearest that we can get to three-fourths of them is twenty-eight as the number required to make this amend- ment part of the constitution. We have twenty; and Vermont, Iowa, Min- nesota, Nebraska and Rhode Island are good for it, which will make twenty-five. Missis- sippi and Texas, as a condition of restoration, are required to ratify, and they will increase the ratifications to twenty-seven. One more State will yet be wanted, however, and it must come from this list—Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and Tennessee; for California, Oregon, Delaware, Kentucky, New Jersey and Mary- land are dead set against this amendment. The late Ohio election having secured a repub- lican Legislature, however, that State may be counted in, and it will give us the required number of twenty-eight, provided always that all the ratifications still necessary and regarded as certain are secured before the meeting of the new Legislature (democratic) of New York. But here comes the pinch. Assuming that a State in the interval to a complete ratifica- tion of a. constitutional amendment may recall its endorsement, we may find the endorsement of this State withdrawn, if by the Ist of January this fifteenth amendment be not proclaimed duly ratified by three-fourths of the States. In the interval, then, to the Ist of January, in addition to Vermont, General Grant must see to it that Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Rhodo Island come up to the mark, or the new democratic Legislature of New York may make some mischief in this business. Tennessee is shaky, and Georgia and Alabama are watching the course of events. The democratic party South have adopted negro suffrage; but if they can see an opening through which they may get rid of it after a while they will be apt to move towards it. If, then, this fifteenth amendment be not hurriéd up and proclaimed before the 1st of January, we may look for the rescind- ing of the New York ratification, and then for a flat refusal from Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, whereby another battle, in the fall elections of 1870, will have to be fought on the question all over the United States. Now, as General Grant has made this fif- teenth amendment one of the landmarks of his inaugural and his administration, we re- spectfully submit to him the danger of trusting to luck upon this matter, unless he may think it best to carry this issue of universal negro suffrage over to the next fall elections. He can settle the question before the Ist of Jan- uary if he wishes, or by masterly inactivity he can revive the agitation again in all the States. Our opinion is that the sooner we have this thing settled the better it will be for all con- cerned, BELKNAP 18 SkORETARY OF WAR.—In the choice of Mr. Belknap for the office he holds we have another instance of the sa- gacity of General Grant in choosing men of positive qualities to perform positive duties, and we are not sure but the country will finally have to acknowledge, in regard to many improper appointments and some noto- riously bad ones, that they were all made by the President in a spirit of complaisance to advice and always to the detriment of some better man upon whom the President had fixed his thoughts, Mr. Belknap is, we believe, Grant’s own choice, and he promises to be a Secretary who will render no feeble assistance to the Executive in the adminis- tration of his office. It is an excellent thing to have harmony between the Secretary of War and the General of the Armies; but it is a better thing for the country to know exactly who is Secretary and that no places of such importance are held by dummies. This is a government in which it is necessary to fix the responsibility. Jack oF Att Trapes—and the proverb tells the rest, Fisk now proposes to go into the express business, we hear, and to that end is about to rule the regular express lines off the Erie road ‘by discriminating charges. As there is no end to the versatility and universal readiness of this gentleman to try everything, so there will be no limit to his success—when he achieves it, THis present manceuvre appa- rently has relation to express stock. He is “short” in that commodity, and wishes to frighten feeble holders into easy sales, that he may not lose on his deliveries, A Lone Sxsston.—The Chevalier Webb has gone to Washington, just as Malbrook, the prince of commanders, once went to the war in Flanders; for nobody knows when he will come home, He has gone to testify before a committee. If Congress will not adjourn till that committee reports look out for a long session. Ross Browyg’s Ipgas,—Mr. J. Ross Browne has returned from China. He has accom- plished his mission, He has not done much to put on a better basis the great commercial relations of two great nations, but he did not go for that. His mission was to pick up the points for a little lecture and to secure tho sketches for some little wood cuts. He is now delivering the lecture in San Francisco. We shall have the cuts by and by in the funny papers. This gentleman's sketches are quite laughable, So are his ideas of the relations of the United States and China, A Tine to tHe Boarp of Hrairn.—The Board of Health has referred the fat-boiling nuisance to a committee for future action, and we may warn the committee that if it expects to do anything it had better do it soon, for the time of the commission is pro- bably short, -leon’s speech. Speech, The inaugural banquet of the Lord Mayor of London took place on Tuesday night. As is customary on such occasions the Premier's speech was the evont of the evening. Mr. Gladstone made a speech, the most important Portion of which appeared in the HeRrap of yesterday; and no one who has read the -8peech will refuse to admit that it was worthy of ‘the occasion and worthy of the right honor- able gentleman himself. Mr. Gladstone is one of the finest scholars of the day; he is, by general consent, one of the greatest of living, statesmen; he is unquestionably one of the men of the period; and it must on all hands be admitted that his words on Tuesday night were words of wisdom. Mr. Gladstone touched upon the main ques- tions of the old themes—home and foreign policy. With the home policy of England foreigners have but little sympathy. It is not their affair. Mr. Gladstone is not ignorant of the fact. With great discretion, therefore, he rested his case on Ireland. He knew his speech would be telegraphed to all lands, but particularly to New York, and he knew that the New York Herarp had its eyes upon him; and it must be admitted that he made a good speech from our American standpoint. It is Mr. Glddstone’s mission to take away from Ireland every cause of complaint against England. He has gone into his work heartily. He has largely, by individual force of character, abolished the grievance which such men as the late Count Cavour and the late Chevalier Bunsen pronounced the only grievance of Ireland, This great work done, he finds that disaffection remains and brings forth deadly fruit. With true bravery he seeks out another reason for this disaffection, and he finds it in the land tenure system of Ireland. As he devoted the last session of Parliament to Ireland, so does he intend to devote this one. We have no doubt that as he was successful last year in abolishing the ecclesiastical grievance, so will he be suc- cessful this year in abolishing the land tenure grievance. When Mr. Gladstone is done with Ireland it will be bad for Tammany. Tam- many ought to know that he means to play her out. It is our belief that Gladstone is Peter Bismarck Sweeny’s greatest rival. It is for Tammany and Peter B, to make up their minds as to what they will do in the premises, Ireland, however, was not the only theme on which Gladstone dwelt. The foreign depart- ment had to be touched upon, and the foreign department had but one cloud on its horizon, and that cloud wa’ not wholly separated from the Stars and Stripes. Mr. Gladstone has some faith in races and some faith in facts. He does not mention the Alabama claims, but he mentions George Peabody; and somehow he sees fit to set George Peabody and West- minster Abbey against the Alabama claims. War between England and the United States he deprecates above all things, and such war he thinks .is next to impossible. Mr. Glad- stone would be nearer the point if he proposed to pay down at once. Altogether, however, we are disposed to regard Mr. Gladstone's speech at Guildhall as one of the sensations of the day. We are not likely to have anything like it until the 29th of November, when we expect the Emperor Napo- Gladstone means well, and unless the tories, who have shown a disposi- tion, if we are to judge from the London Quarterly, to adopt new tactics, dethrone Disraeli, it is reasonable to conclude that he will once more come off victorious. The Schoolship Mercury. , We published yesterday an interesting ac- count of the festivities aboard the schoolship Mercury, which is lying off the Battery. The exhibition of naval manceuvres performed by the boys, including the drill, the manning of the yards, the piping to quarters, and the rest, was highly satisfactory. These boys, it should be remarked, represent the truant, but not the vicious element of young New York, Some of them bear old Knickerbocker names, although the majority are of Celtic extraction. Nearly all promise to prove that a superfluity of animal life and spirit may be ren- dered available by proper training for the most substantially useful purposes. Of such stuff are the best sailors made. The Commissioners of Charities and Correction merit great praise for having successfully overcome all obstacles to the execution of a scheme that has already been practically real- ized in England and at Boston in New Eng- land. It is gratifying to record the inaugura- tion at New York of a system which cannot fail to supply both our navy and our mercan- tile marine with what there is a crying need of at present, namely, recruits thoroughly well educated for the duties of one of the most difficult, most fascinating and most noble pro- fessions to which the citizen of a free republic and great maritime nation like our own can devote his life. A Coolie CasemA Guy on the High Seas. The annals of maritime horror have not many incidents to match the story that comes to us from San Francisco of what happened on the bark Margaret Cander. Often enough we have heard of the mutiny of coolies and the subsequent murder of captain and crew; but never before have we had presented a close to the story so complete and dramatic as that involved by the action of this very Guy Fawkes of a mate. We are informed that, escaping to the hold after the murder of the captain, the mate prepared a small mine under the main hatch with a keg of gunpowder and lighted it by a slow match, and then called the coolies to the place just in time to give them the full benefit of the blow-up. Upon examination there does not seem in this any- thing inconsistent with what is called ‘‘general truth” by those who treat on the poetic art. Every part of it might happen. We may picture in our mind’s eye the enraged fellows in search of the mate, rushing to the hatch and tumbling down it as they hear his voice, and again picture the flight of their limbs through the air and the flight of the mate to a safe distance. While we thus employ the fancy on the telegraphic hints we may also wait for a fuller account before we determine whether this story of the high seas is not rather highly seasoned. A Rovan Triok on THE Buraiars.—Some burglars broke into a national bank in Con- necticut the other night aud obtained only a few postage stamps. Now, when a party of men have taken all the trouble to break into a bank a few postage stamps area very inade- quate, unfair, mean and even contemptible reward. We suggest that the Secretary inves- tigate the concerns of that institution. The Legture Senson, The modern newspaper has not so much diminished as it has intensified and widened the influence of the speaker. 1t has infinitely multiplied the audience addressed by the orator, whether he speaks in the pulpit, in Parliament, in Congress, at the dinner table, on “‘the stump” or in the lecture room; The HxRatp on Monday morning repeats to hun- dreds of thousands the Sunday sermons which only a few thousands could personally hear. On any day it may send to the uttermost parts of the earth the echoes of the eloquence which secular orators anywhere utter. But the winged words of the modern newspaper, swiftly and far as they fly, will never 1 the power which, according to high authority, “the foolishness of preaching” exerts, or the magnetism of the ringing voice, the flashing eye, the impressive gesture—in fine, the living Presence of the speaker. The ago of elo- quence has not passed. This is one reason why “lectures” are still popular. During the lecture season which has just opened they promise to be more numerous than ever. No less than seven delivered in this city and in Brooklyn on Tuesday night were reported yes- terday by the Hzatp. The variety oftopica of which they treated is particularly noteworthy. Miss Kate Field, at Steinway Hall, recounted ja her peculiarly forcible and sprightly style che adventures of the “Black Fly Club,” ard told how ladies rough it in the Adirondacks. Pro- fessor Frederic L, Ritter, at Weber's Hall, on the Fifth avenue, delivered the first of a series of lectures on the “History of Music.” Mr. George William Curtis, at Tremor Lyric Hall, made a scholarly and eloquent discourse on “‘American Literature.” Mr. John B. Gough, the well known apostle of total abstinence, gave a lecture on ‘‘Temperance” at the’Cooper Institute. Rev. Dr. Aikman, at the Spring street Presbyterian church, leetured on ‘Developing Manliness,” sensibly indicating as one of the most effectual means for that purpose the useful education to be derived from regularly reading ‘‘some ably edited newspaper.” Rev. Charles H. Payson, at the Fortieth street Presbyterian church, near Lex- ington avenue, gave an interesting description of “A Walk and Talk About the Tyrolese Alps;” and at the Episcopal Church of the Reformation, in Brooklyn, Rev. T. D. Talmage lectured on the vayious obstructions to material success in life, or, “‘The Rocks on which Peo- ple Split.” The clergymen who have thus entered the lecturing field show a commendable disposition to enlarge the sphere of their influ- ence by imparting practical as well as doc- trinal instruction to their congregations, If lecturing committees in our cities and rural districts be careful to secure the services of the best talent, and if lecturers be more studi- ous to instruct as well as to entertain, we shall anticipate fruitful results from the lecturing season which has so auspiciously opened. A Cnanae or Basz.—The Irish radical agi- tators in England advise their countrymen to abstain from the use of tobacco all over Great Britain, go as to embarrass the imperial trea- sury and thus perhaps effect a certain political object. In the time of Charles the First the ‘insolent pipemen” of the Cromwellian party puffed their tobacco smoke in the face of the King, with the view of humiliating the unfor- tunate monarch. The same agency and the same object, but a difference in the modus operandi. Curious historical coincidences or repetitions come up almost daily. THE NEW UNITED STATES ASSISTANT TREASURER. The public were taken somewhat by surprise at the announcement that Mr. Charles Folger had been appointed Assistant Treasurer of the United States, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of General Butteriield, Mr, Folger is native of this State, we believe, ana has been for many years a prominent and active politician of Western New York. He first appeared conspicuously before the people. in 1862, when he _ entered the State Senate, to which he had been elected the year previous, beating Mr. Hadley, his democratic competitor in the district by 4,314 majority. Upon the close of nis term he was re- elected by 2,251 majority; in 1365 he wa’ elected a third time by 2110 majority; in 1867 he was again returned by 1,247 majority, and at the recent election was chosen Senator for the fifth time, and by a still smaller majority than at the last previous election. Inthe-Senate Mr. Folger served on the Judiciary Commitice, and was always quite popular With bis party. He is alawyer by profession, has a large practice and {s said to be rather conservative in his views. As @ debater, however, he is very sharp tn his language towards political opponents, NEW YORK SPORTSMEN’S CLUB. The following resolution was passed at the last meeting of tnis association, it being determined to stop the sale of unseasonable game in this city: — Resolved, That the sum of $1,000, out of the runds of the club, be piaced at the disposal of the execu- tive committee, with power to disburse the same as its discretion, for the services of informers and de- tectives and for the expense incurred in the prose- cution of parties who may purchase gume or offer 16 for sale in contravention of the game laws of the State, - ‘The following is the substance of the most impor- tant clauses of the game law:— Woodcock shooting Commences on the 4th of July, partridge shooting on the 1st of September and quail shooting on the 20th of October, and none of these birds cdn be killed after January 1; but in case they have been ktiled before the 1st of January, or out of the State in some place where tho Game law allows it, they may be sold throughout January and February here. But if any pergon offers for sale or has in his possession after the lst of March any rouse or prairie chickens, any partridges, quail or resh venison, he is liable to a penaity of ten dollars fur each bird and fifty dollars for the venison, no matter where or when the same wore killed. No rson shali Kill or sell anwtrout after the Ist day of September, nor any lake trout or salmon trout day of November, nor any muscallonge between the ist day of January and the Ist day of May, under a penalty of tive dollars for every fish, The use of foating batteries, sailing for wild fowl and shooting ducks and geese at night, is pro- hibited on the South Bays of Long Island, and no ducks can be killed on Long Island before Uctover 20. The penalty for the infraction of either of tiese rovisions is fifty doliars. Shooting on Sunday ta forbidden under @ penalty of fine and imprisonment. ‘The provisions of the law enforcing these penaitica are very stringent, authorizing search warrants to break open doors or packages and the arrest of per- sons Whose names are not known. One-half oi the penalty goes to the informer, and in case of non- payment the guilty party is sent to jail fora tine equal to one day for every dollar of the amount of the judgment. The Sportsmen’s Club will assume the labor and expense of all progecutions in this city on receiving information of a breach of the law, and will hand over the proceeds to the mformer, wio than after the 1st black bass or need have no trouble or respunsiviiiiy tur proving the case. THE HERALD IN WISGONSI {From the Fort Atkinson (Wis.) Chief, Nov. 6.) For nows from all parts of our own cduntry and from foreign lands, the Ngw YORK HERALD excela by paves Vublished.