The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1873, Page 6

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THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE PARTIES IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY! WHAT WILL THEY DO?’—LEADING EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—StxTH Pace. MEETING OF THE CORPS LEGISLATIF OF FREED FRANCE! THE P! IDENTIAL REVIEW OF AFFAIRS! PEACE AND PAR- LIAMENTARY POWER ASSURED! THE DEBATE UPON THE MESSAGE! A DIVI- SION—SEVENTH Pace. GERMAN MERCHANTMEN CAPTURED BY A SPANISH WAR STEAMER! CONTRABAND CARGOES FOR MALAY PIRATES—SgVENTH PAGE. ELECTION TRIUMPH OF THE LIBERALS OF GERMANY—A CARLIST VICTORY IN SPAIN REPORTED FROM FRANCE—SEv- ENTH PAGE. MOVEMENTS OF THE AMERICAN TRADE MA- RINE IN EUROPEAN WATERS—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. THE CUBAN BLOCKADE RUNNER VIRGINIUS CAPTURED BY A SPANISH GUNBOAT NEAR JAMAICA! A HOT CHASE! THE IMPOR- TANT RESULTS OF THE CAPTURE—Sev- ENTH PAGE. 3ENERAL RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS IN THE VARIOUS STATES! THE ELECT OF THE PEOPLE! THE NOVEMBER REFLEX OF THE DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPHS IN OCTO- BER—THIRD PaGE, THE EMPIRE STATE AND ITS CITIES RIDING | UPON THE TAMMANY FLOOD! THE FULL FIGURES OF THE BALLOT, BY TELE- GRAPH, AND THE OFFICIAL COUNT IN TRE METROPOLIS AND BROOKLYN—Tarnp Page, NAST TO BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHALK OUT A HOGARTHIAN WAY TO FAME! THE PEOPLE GENEROUSLY OPENING THEIR HEARTS AND THEIR ASYLUMS—TENTH PAGE. FALLING OF THE BUCAU TEMPLE OF FINANCE! IS TOM SCOTT BURIED IN THE RUINS? A CRITICAL MONETARY INLOUK! FOR- EIGN EXCHANGE—THE SITUATION IN PHILADELPHIA—FovrtH Pace. GOLD AT THE REMARKABLY LOW FIGURE OF 106%! THE VALUES OF THE VARIOUS SECURITIES! VITAL QUERIES FOR THE BANKS AND OTHER GREAT CORPORA- TIONS TU ANSWER—FIFTH PaGE. THE BUILDING, IRON, COTTON AND WOOL TRADES AND THE WORKINGMEN! A GENERAL SUSPENSION OF WORK! CONTRACTORS’ AND MANUFACTURERS’ PRO! THE REDUCTION OF WAGES— Fourrn Pace. “LITTLE RHODY” ANXIOUS! AND THEIR CREDITORS! A MODERATE, LIBERAL COURSE URGED FOR THE MEET- ING TO-DAY—Szventu Pace. A “MOST EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT” PRE- SENTED AT THE OPENING UF THE TWEED TRIAL! THAT EIGHTH STOKES JUROR DENIES THE DAMAGING STATEMENTS AGAINST HIM IN TOTO—E1cuTu Pace. THE SPRAGUES Tae InTEncotontaL Rarnoap Scanpan has forced the resignation of the Macdonald Min- istry in Canada. They sought in every way to cover up their trucks, but the indignant voice of the Dominion people, through their representatives in Parliament, re- sented all evasion. When we had our Crédit Mobilier scandal before Congress there was a shameful combination to shield the Wilsons, Colfaxes, Daweses, Kelleys and Garfields, and this combination was success- ful. The lesson of the Canadian crushing rebuke to its Ministers should be remembered by our people when the Crédit Mobilier offenders come before them, Tor Execrox Foxy ayy tan Rewer or Sovtuern Svrrenrns.—A large amount of money was deposited in the ‘repeating boxes”’ at tho late election in aid of the sufferers in Memphis and Shreveport and other places in the South. Who has control of this fund? How is it to be distributed? Who are to distribute it? Let us have licht. The Parliamentary contest began yesterday at Versailles which in all likelihood will de- termine the form of government under which Frenchmen are to live for some years to come, revolutions permitting. It has been the com- mon understanding of the Deputies. and of the country that the Assembly, upon conven- ing for the present session, should act with the least possible delay upon the great, vital subject and clear the ground for an early determination of the form of govern- ment, or even determine the form without further ceremony. At Bordeaux it was uni- versally agreed not to determine anything, and that truce has been well kept; but the main cause for making it passed away when the Germans marched out of Verdun; and this long postponement of the conflict of parties— this patriotic consent to defer the struggle for supremacy until the time when the enemy should be gone, while it has greatly chafed the patience of party leaders has given them time to form their plans and mature their various projects, and has also thoroughly con- vinced the whole country that a state of uni- versal suspense is but little better than war itself, and has thus in advance assured the general assent to any form of government that the Assembly may declare, With such general anticipation of the result, and such readiness for the occasion in the several par- ties, it is next to a certainty that withina few days the Republic will be confirmed, or the way prepared for another monarchy. MacMahon utters the watchword of his party, and states what they believe to be the need of the hour in calling on the Assembly to “create a strong, durable executive, which can energetically defend society,’’ and with very slight modification this formula will answer for all the parties, only they have different notions as to what ‘defending society’? means, and equally different notions as to what constitutes a “strong executive." The main proposition is to make MacMahon dictator for ten years, unless the report on the constitutional bills decides differently; and this seems to have the support of the Right Centre and some votes from the Left Centre. The Left and the Left Centre demand a definitive recognition of the Republic and its immediate organization, and the Bonapartists call for a pléiscitum, that the people may vote directly on the form of government. This demand for a plébiscitum has become a shibboleth with the Bonapartists and is their only political capital They are too few in number to be a power by themselves in this Assembly, but they have, nevertheless, made themselves felt by adroitly acting with one or another party on close votes whenever there was a proposition before the House that it was their interest either to carry or defeat. They thus gave to the Right some very necessary votes on the memorable occasion when President Thiers was overthrown, and their votes will now be cast in the same spirit against whatever proposition is most obnoxious to their views. It has been thought the Bona- partists made a mistake in thus helping to re- move Thiers, inasmuch as they thereby seemed to make easier the labor of the monarchical party in putting a king on the throne who might permanently shut out the Prince Im- perial; but they may have thought the mon- archy less formidable in that sense than a republic that appeared to be establishing itself by mere continuance. There is little doubt, however, that as they then acted with the Right against the republicans they will now act with the republicans against the Right, and they may thus become the con- trolling power in one more critical occasion. Itis significant of the possibility of the Left | and the Bonapartists acting together that Thiers yesterday spoke in support of the motion for a plébiscitum. Perhaps it is one of the possibilities of the situation, though a | remote one, carried; but this would, of course, be because the republicans are absolutely confident that the whole mass of the people is in their favor. But the great interest of the situation is centred in the conduct of the Right and Right Centre, or the monarchical party. They claim to have, with the seceders from the Left Centre, 361 votes against 311; and if this count be true the immediate future for France is, of course, whatever they may decide to make it. Until within a very few days their programme was definite and known to all the world. They were re- solved to put Henry V. upon the throne by any means that might be necessary. They had prepared the country for this, and a most effective part of their machinery was the pilgrimage propaganda that had excited every village in the land. They had, moreover, accomplished more than exciting the people, for they had charmed away the dissensions between the rival royalist families. But at the very moment when success seemed most cer- tain, when people saw all the difficulties put aside, and scarcely waited for more than to hear men name the day for the coronation, a difficulty more insuperable than all the | others arose, for the candidate once more be- came obstreperous about his wonderful white flag and the other points of his royal mono- mania. From that time, it is reported, his greatest friends have given up the Count de Chambord as impossible; but it must not therefore be concluded that they have given up the monarchy. The proposition to keep MacMahon in office for ten years and to con- tinue the present form of government unless a committee of thirty on the constitutional bills decides otherwise can scarcely commit the | Party to anything inconsistent with their pur- pose. The committee on the constitutional bills, in organizing the executive office, may not call MacMahon either President or Dic- tator, but simply Lieutenant General of the Kingdom, and treat him as only holding the government and preserving order while ‘the country’’ determines who shall be King, and that seems to be the direction of the present endeavor of the Right. One More Reform, It is now proposed to reverse the ordinary course of proceedings in courts of justice, and the proposition for this refreshing peform comes from Tweed and his counsel. Hitherto it has not been the custom for the culprits to | open proceedings in criminal trials by sitting in judgment on their judges; but the culprits of the past have evi- dently been ‘muddy mettled rascals,’’ unequal to any broad or brilliant self-assertion, and incavable of imagining the nossiblo results of that a plébiscitum might be | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, bullying the poor old woman with the ban- daged eyes and tipsy scales. But Boss Tweed is a culprit of another sort, and begins his defence apparently by arraigning the Judge before whom he comes—on what precise grounds will be known only when the paper is given to the public that was yesterday presented in court; but the general ground clearly is that the Judge is not satisfactory to him—is not a judge before whom he can appear without loss of dignity— in short, is not the man before whom he wants to be tried. This ground can be com- prehended, and the principle thus presented to the public mind must not be passed without due reflection merely because it involves something unusual. Perhaps it has been a great evil on the part of society that it has not hitherto accorded to persons charged with crime the right to name their judges. There is good reason to believe that it has often permitted them to name their juries— especially their eighth juror. That is a usage which has resulted in saving society the guilt of hanging many a poor creature who had been indiscreet enough to kill some person he disliked, and, likely, we shall be much nearer the millennium if we give all the rogues full authority to conduct their own trials to please themselves, The Elections and Their Lessons—A Warning to the Party in Power. ‘The latest returns from the elections in the several States indicate a significant and decisive loss to the republican party. The example set by Ohio has been followed by Wisconsin, which elects a democratic Governor for the first time in some years; the verdict in Virginia is very decisive; the republican loss in Massachusetts, in its moral effect, is almost equal to a defeat; and in every direc- tion the steady report of democratic gains is confirmed as details are received. In this State the entire democratic ticket is successful by a good majority, calculated at ten thousand, putting the canals and all the State offices, except the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, under democratic control; the city of New York goes back to its old Tammany majorities; and, what is more remarkable still, the Legis- lature is closely divided, and the Senate, which is to take part in the election of a United States Senator as a successor to Senator Fenton, is so nearly balanced as to render it uncertain yet which side will have a majority, The republicans could not have been indiffer- ent as to the result in the Senate, especially when the bitter animosity that exists within the administration circles against Mr. Fenton is remembered, and hence it is fair to conclude that their most vigorous efforts were made to carry the several Senatorial districts. Their failure is the more significant on this account. The rival political parties, naturally enough, take conflicting views of the interpretation to be placed upon these results. The confirmed democracy is disposed to be jubilant over what it regards as a revival of the old organization which in former days stood up so stoutly for the constitutional rights of slavery, opposed an appeal to arms against the rebellious States, and for some time after the triumph of the Union cause refused to accept the conse- quences of the war, looking hopefully to their ultimate reversal. Republicanism, on the other hand, inclines to ignore the disasters which have overtaken it, and professes to believe that its defeat in some States and its reduced strength in all are solely attributable to an indifference observable in ‘‘off” years, but remedied when the more important con- tests recur. The one explanation is as insufii- cient as the other. There is no more inten- tion on the part of the people to restore to life the old Bouron democracy than to re-establish the institution of negro slavery, and the rebuke administered to the republican party, North and South, East and West, bas a far wider significance than the mere carelessness of voters in an “off’’ year. The result in Ohio was, in fact, arevyolution. The results in Wisconsin and in this State, the fearful falling off of the re- publican vote in Massachusetts and the general tone of all the returns are of a similar char- acter. The people are dissatisfied with the party that has been in power for thirteen years and has yet three years of an unexpired Pres- idential term to fill. They distrust the present objects of republicanism ; they con- demn its present action. No matter whether their displeasure takes the shape of absenting themselves from the polls or of voting with the opponents of the party, it is nevertheless evident, and if not removed will assuredly make itself still more distinctly felt in future elections. The democrats are successful be- cause they happen at present to be the only opponents of republicanism with candidates in the field; but the sentiment of dis- trust of one organization is not to be construed into confidence in the other. The people evidently desire a political change from their present rulers; but time, and probably the action of those who now return to power, will determine in what form the change will be made—whether by democratic restoration, by republican purification and renovation or by the creation of a new party. Republicanism has accomplished much good for the nation, and it will be no doubt painful to many to strike down the organization that carried the war for the Union to a successful termination and swept away from the Republic the curse of human servitude. But a past rec- ord, however brilliant it may Le, cannot justify or excuse grievous faults in the present. The people have again and again honored the republican party and expressed their confi- dence in its integrity in the face of serious suspicions. They were disposed to believe it when it avowed itself the cham- pion of reform and of purified official life ; but when they found it ignoring or justifying the corrugtions of its own friends they began to distrust its sincerity. Republicanism denounced Tammany rascality, because it was democratic raseality ; but con- cealed or excused the Crédit Mobilier infamy and the mean pilfering of back pay, because they were republican offences. It condemned democratic ring thieves, but was driven by party discipline to sing the virtues of de- bauched ring Senators and Assemblymen and to make the futile effort to foist them on another Legislature. For these acts the honest men of the republican party have re- mained at home and refused to vote or have cast their ballots for the opponents of the organization. This is the trac meaning of the sudden check to republican triumphs, and the party in power will commit a fatal error if it neglects to profit by the lesson. There NUVEMBER 6, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. may be time yet to redeem the mistakes of the past and to effect politica? reformation inside the old organization ; but, if so, the effort must be made promptly and at a serious sacrifice of individual interests. The pruning knife must be unsparingly used if the life of the tree is to be saved. Tho disease has eaten deep, and it will be useless to endeavor to prop up the decaying branches. If republicanism is to continue to exist it must be by returning to the carnestness and honesty by which it was distinguished in its earlier days, by scourging the thieves and charlatans out of the temple. Otherwise it will pass away as other corrupt organizations have passed away, and its leaders will discover when it is too late the full significance of the “Gndifference’’ of the people in the late elections, The Financial Situation — The look Still Unpromising. The news we publish this morning from various parts of the country continues to be of a discouraging character, so far as the pres- ent condition of affairs is concerned, although it brings no cause for more serious alarm. Its worst feature is embraced in the suggestions of suffering and want that are conveyed in the intelligence of the general reduction of hands and curtailment of time and wages. The Sprague matters come up for consideration to-day before a meeting of the creditors of the house, and the local papers are earnest in their appeals for moderation and patience. It is to be most sincerely hoped, for the sake of the operatives, that some arrangement will be reached by which the works can be con- tinued through the winter. Massachusetts sends word of the reduction of employés and wages bya large dry goods firm of Boston; Out- of the cutting down of hands and pay, with a reduction in the hours of labor, on the Eastern Railroad andin the company’s shops, and of the deter- mination of the Lowell mill owners to begin at once to run on three-fourths time. Some Connecticut factories reduce their forces one half; eighteen hat factories at Reading, Pa., close their doors; a cotton and wool mill in Philadelphia suspends and turns adrift eight hundred men, women and children ; two large mills of the Pensylvania Iron Works, at Danville, announce that they can work only each alternate week; while Cohoes, in this State, reports ten thousand persons out of employment. From St. Louis comes news of the winding up of the affairs of a heavy com- mission house, and minor failures are re- ported in other parts of the country. The one fact which stands prominently out from this dark background is that the poor must undergo great privations and suf- erings in the approaching winter. Laborers and mechanics will be thrown out of employment, and we fear that ao number of them may be tempted to seek the large cities, and espe- cially to come to New York, in the hope of securing temporary relief. This will be a great misfortune, for we have already many thousands of unemployed persons in our midst, and all the cities are in a similar con- dition. The poor who cannot obtain work should be supported by charity in the locali- ties in which they are accustomed to labor until the present stagnation shall have passed away. The more scattered the inevitable want may be the more easy it will be to provide for it. There is no need of alarm for the future; for the country is unusually prosperous, as we have repeatedly said, and the present discon- tinuance and curtailments of our factories will create an extra demand for labor as soon as the money stringency shall have passed away. All that we require to bridge over the time successfully is self-reliance. Those who have means to bestow must be open handed in their charity. Where wealth is enjoyed there must be large liberality, for at a time like that before us relief is the only safety of capital. Wherever public works can be carried on employment should be given to as large a number of persons as possible, and it would probably be wise for those business houses and factories that are compelled to cut down their hands to employ the full number on short time instead of dismissing some from employment altogether. If we must have want let it take the shape of privation rather than of absolute starvation. We need prudence, forethought, moderation and patience at this time if we woutd avert great evils, and with these and our splendid re- sources we shall be safe. In one respect we aro better off than in many former panics or times of financial dis- tress, Our money is all good. There is not the fear before the eyes of the poor man that the dollar he does handle may tum to worthless paper in his pocket. Provisions are plentiful, and ono result of our troubles will be to put down the prices of the necessaries of life and thus to make living cheaper. All these are encouraging facts, and when we remember that the present crisis has been brought on by over-trading and by rash speculation, evils which are only temporary in their consequences, we can seo no reason for serious alarm. The future is safe and promising; all we have to do is to take care of the present and to do the best in our power to relieve the distress which some failures and ao general reduction of business must necessarily bring upon the laboring classes. tine nd tecnica ‘Tar Tweep Tr1ar— Waar Dors Ir Mran? — The revival of the Tweed trial before election is natural enough. The people are accus- tomed to hear the noisy elamor for the ‘speedy trial and punishment of the Tam- many thieves’’ just about the time the canvass opens. But when the polls are closed this cause célébre drops out of sight. How are we to understand this new spectacle of Tweed on trial after election, and a Judge, testy and gruff, determined to bring onthe case. Is Tweed really to be tried? If so, who is to be his eighth juror? Tre Detay or Exection Rervunns.—The tardiness with which the returns of the elec- tion have been made, especially in some of the Assembly districts, has been exceedingly annoying, and has given rise to suspicions of foul play, which, if unfounded, are, at least, natural. We are living under a reform gov- ernment, and it will be a singular scandal if it shall be found that cheating at the polls, and in the count of an election, one of the worst crimes ever attributed to Tammany, should be the practice of our reform rulers, Let us have the figures, and let those interested in them look well and fearlessly after the partics who have so suspiciously kept them back. The Capture of the Virginius. The gallant little craft, the Virginius, which has been of such service to the Cuban insur gents, was captured on the 3ist ult. off tho coast of Jamaica by the Spanish gunboat Tornado, after a ten hours’ chase. The captured craft and crew were taken to Santiago de Cuba, where the latter are being tried as pirates, They will no doubt meet with the usual mercy which the Spanish gov- erament accords to Ouban insurgents— namely, death without respite. It is the only compensation which the Spaniards in Cuba have received for the long series of de- feats which have for months past overtaken their soldiery in the field. Consequently the festivities over the ultimate butchery of the crew of the Virginius will be carried out with fine Spanish enthusiasm. Many leading Cuban insurgents were among those on the vessel, The most prominent were a brother of Cespedes and a son of Quesada, the famous rebel chief ‘‘Bembetta’’ and Sefior Jesus del Sol. It cannot, of course, be said how far the capture will affect the revolution- ists in the field. The probability is that it will make little actual difference tothem. The Virginius could no more carry sufficient stores to the fighting Cubans than the Deerhound to the Carlists. The insurrection, however, has a vitality peculiar to itself. It is as elastic as Mr. Spinner could desire our currency to be. After five years of campaigning it is still where it was when it started. The brave men who haunt the dense forests and steep mountains of the interior are as dangerous as ever to Spanish contin- gents, and, unfortunately for Cuba, as power- less to extend the domain of Cuba libre beyond the wild. It is a strange spectacle for the nineteenth century. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain Cook, of the steamship Russta, is at the Brevoort House. Governor Julius Converse, of Vermont, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ‘The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, is regis- tered at the Hoffman House. Mr. George H. Pendleton, arrived at the New York Hotel. Ex-Governor Saunders, of Nebraska, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Judge Philander Perrin, of Vermont, is stop- ping with his friends in this city. Colonel George W. Patten, United States Army, has arrived at the Astor House. Professor E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass., is Tegistered at the St. James Hotel. Judge Josiah G. Abbott, of Boston, is among the late arrivals at the Albemarle Hotel. Congressman Milton Sayler, of Cincinnati, yester- day arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Edward Jenkins, of London, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from Philade!phia, Major GeneralJ. L. Donaldson, United States Army, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor Willtam B. Washburn, of Massachusetts arrived at the Windsor Hotel yesterday aiternoon from Boston. Orlow W. Chapman, Superintendent of the In- surance Department of New York, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. Commodore Murray, Paymaster Stephen Rand, Jr., and Lieutenant Ingersoll, United States Navy, are quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judges E. H. Durell and E. C. Billings, of New Orleans, are staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, The former should have been here for the election. Baitazzi Effendi, First Secretary of the Turkish Legation at Washington, arrived from Europe in the steamship Russia yesterday, and is staying at the Albemarle Hotel. Joseph Arch, the representative of the interests of the English farm laborers, on a visit ot inspec- tion to this Continent, was received in Faneuil Hall, Boston, last evening, by an immense gather- ing, under the auspices ofa committee of the sev- eral organizations promotive of labor reform. OUR CABLE MARINE NEWS. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The enterprise shown by you in conducting the journal under your charge 1s known, appreciated and applauded the wide world over; but never before has the spirit of liberality been more strik- ingly manifested to us here than in giving your readers, from a daily cable despatch for the pur- pose, the arrivals and departures of ships at and from ports in Europe from and to ports in the United States; and, as ship owners of this port, we cannot refrain from making an acknowledgment of the advantages you are of Cincinnati, has conterring and a tender of our best wishes for the. Jong continued success of the HERALD, which has the lead in every commendable enterprise for public good. Respectfully yours, TROOP & SON. St. JonN, N. By Nov. 3, 1873, OBLTUABY. Major General Richard Delafield, U. S. A. Richard Delafield, Major General, by brevet, in the United States Army, died at his residence, in Washington, at two o’clock yesterday morning, to the great regret of his professional associates ana the loss of the public at large, by whom he was universally honored for his high toned demeanor and valuable services. During many years he was chtef of the United States Engineer Corps at the West Point Academy, the chief in service in Washington as the successor of General Totten Superintendent of the government fortifications on Stated Island, one of three distinguished officers commissioned with General McClellan to visit the ublic works 1n Russia and elsewhere in Kurope. He was master Of his proieasion, and especially so of the particular department of which he was so long the chief. General Delatield’s commission bore the rank of Brigadier General of the United States Army. His first commission therein is dated on the 22d of April, 1864, and that of Major General, by brevet, on the 13th of March, 1865. He retired from the service on the 8th of Aagust, 1866, General Delafield was born in the city of New York, and entered the West Point Military Academy in the year 1818, In 1824 he was appointed captain and in 1838 a major. In this lat- ter year he became Superintendent of the West Point Academy, hoiding the position tll 1845, re- suming it again in 1856 and holding it till 1861. Henry R. Tracey. Henry R. Tracey, one of the oldest journalists identified with the Bostm press, died at his resi- dence in Cambridge, Masa, about nine o’clock last evening. He was associaied with the early dailies of Boston, and was for nearly @ dozen years connected with the edityrial department of the Boston Herald during ita early career, Previous to that he was acontritmtor to various literary weeklies, and in poetry and romance he excelled in those times as well as it bis jater days. He lett the Boston Herald in 18¢, and was subsequently connected with the Washngton and army bureaus of the New York HewaLp, afterwards be- coming associate and then managing editor of the National kepilican in ‘ashington. Six or seven pen ago je retarned to Boston to fill a responsible positionin the editorial manage- ment o! various publicstions, but alter three or lour years’ service therehe returned again to the editorial staf of the Boson Herald. He remained there until about @ year and a half since, when ill health compelled him to re- sign. Consumption hi taken a firm grip upon his powerful constitutidn, and to resist its ravages was in vain; slowly bit surely it undermined his Strength Hut tneough. all bis tines he was patient and unconplaining until he was gathered in last ening “like @ shock of corn fully ripe.” ie was @ man of rare literary ‘abilities, ad the social qualitie which he esged pndeared him toa circle of friends wlan it is Impossible to enumerate, Of his immediate surviving relatives there are only his own #idow and « widowed daughter, but of eneral mourners thre are thousands scattered ‘rough all sections o| the country. Right Rev. John Early, D. D. Right Rev, John Karly, D. D., Bishop of the Methodist Church, Suth—a very eminent divine and much eateemed ty the congregations—died at Lynchburg, Va, yeserday, He was cighty-eight yeury of age WASHINGTON. Wasuinoton, Nov. 6, 1873. A Spanish New Departure on the Cuban! Question—The New Ambassador. Figueras, the Spanish Ambassador to the United’ States, is expected here about the 15th of this month, Unusual interest centres in the mové-' ments of the Spanish government at this time, and various are the conjectures as to the motive which led to this change in the diplomatic charao- ter of the representative of Spain near the seat of government at Washington. It is said im omMcial circles that the President wilt hereafter let the matter of Cuban in- dependence severely alone, for, the island of Cuba being a part of the Spanish Republic, it would be @ breach of international etiquette for the Unived States to regret even that a sister republio Was afflicted with internecine troubles, whether at home or in her colonies, except coupled withthe usual expression of the duty of non-interference by the American government and its citizens, The same doctrine laid down as applicable to this country during the late civil war is considered a3 a binding jorce in respect to any other repubiic and tts dependen- cles. At the State Department itis known that important consequences are likely to follow the appointment of Jovellar to be Captain General of Cuba, and the oficial visit to that island to be made by the Spanish Minister for the Colonies, Mr. Soler, ‘The release of American em- bargoed property, concerning which reciamations have hitherto been made in vain, and the sincere co-operation of Spanish ofictais in Cuba in assist- ing American claimants before the Spamish-Amert- can Claims Commission to obtain evidence, are among the important promises made, and to which: the faith of the Spanish Republic is pledged. To the extent that the home government can spare its torces, they will be sont to Cuba, while the re- bellion now existing in the island will be regarded as the outgrowth of monarchical Tule, The new policy to be inaugurated will be ta proclaim amnesty to all now in arms, if they cease hostilities within a certain time, otherwise to ba regarded as insurgents, against whom the forced of the Republic will be directed with renewed vigor. The part Figueras 1s expected to perfornr in Washington is anticipated by our government. It is usually supposed that ambassadors can only be sent to and from monarchical governments, That, the State department says, 1s an error. The States General of the Netherlands in time of their pros- perity a8 @ republican government not seldonr sent Ambassadors to represent them at monarcni- cal courts in Europe. It is perfectly proper and conformable to precedent for the Kepublic of Spalm to send an Ambassador to the American Republic, and it is thought that it would be greatly for tha advantage of the United States if we were to send Ambassadors to European powers, especially Germany, France and Great Britain. Im theory the use of an Ambassador, is supposed to be to give him access to the chief of the government to wnich he is accredited, it being assumed that diplomatic agents of inferior rank have no such right of access, But that is really a trifiing consideration in the opinion of the Depart- ment of State. The real advantage of holding tha Tank of Ambassador is the preference and prece< dence which he enjoys, which is really @ great advantage in the transaction of business, as in the influence it gives to hig own country. The prevailing error on this subject’ is connected with another error. The idea seems to be current that the salary of an American Minister denotes his rank. Thus, when an addi-{ tion was made to the salary of our Envoy to Ger- many, the common expression was that the rank ofthe mission had been raised. That is a mistake. Mr. Bancroft, with a higher salary at Bertin, is of no higher rank than our Minister at Madrid with a lower salary. Notwithstanding the difference in the salary the two missions are of exactly the same rank. The only objection to sending an Ambassudor from the United States to France, Great Britain or Germany is the danger that 1t would lead to pretensions of augmented salary. As to Mr. Figueras, our government will rejoice to see an European Republic represented at Washington by the highest diplomatic rank recognized in Europe, except that of the Nancio of the Pope. Minister Low and Our Relations with China. Hon. F. F. Low, Minister to China, who has been: here for several days, leaves for New York to-mor- Tow, and will proceed to San Francisco in afew weeks on his way back to China. He has had ex- tended interviews with the President and Secre- tary of State recently, and it is learned from relia-~ ble authority that they expressed themselves as entirely satisfied with his whole oficial record during the four years he has been Minister to Pekin. Particular satisfaction is expressed at the settlement effected by Mr. Low, alded by the British, French, Russian, Dutch and Japanese Ministers’ of the audience question in 8 manner which foreign nations can construe asa Chinese recognition of their absolute equality with thaq nation, Efforts for such an acknowledg- ment had been made for 150 years, but prior to last June no foreigner ha@ ever been admitted to the presence of the Em peror without kneeling or prostration in token of vassalage. This degrading requirement was sub- mitted to in the last century by an English Ambas-, sador, who knelt, and by a Russian, who performed the “kotow,’ which consists of three kneelings and | Saue nine prostrations of the head on the ground. Om the 29th day of June Mr, Low and other foreigm ministers were received in the imperial presence standing, mm the same manner as at Europeam courts, The abolition of this ceremony is reparded by our government as a great diplomatic success, and accomplishing, by peaceful means, a material improvement in our relations with China, Mr. Low is strongly impressed with the im- portance of a plan which has been formed! by the Chinese government for educating, 160 Chinese youths in this country, Sixty have already arrived, and are pursuing their studies in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and thet remainder will be sent over at the rate of thirty” annually, They are picked youths, between tho ages of eleven and fourteen years, and coming here -accompanied by English-speaking Chinese guar~ dians and tutors, are to be given a thorougtm education, which the government calculates will occupy filteen years. The first year they are to be: laced in pairs in families, and afterwards; in American schools and families, — Jus before Mr. Low’s departure irom Pekin,’ Prince Kung, the Prime Minister, especially; commended this project to his notice, and at the same time expressed the earnest desire felt by thei imperial government to suppress the coolle trade. ‘This tramc 1s carried on with Cuba and Peru irony, the Portuguese port of Macao, and although the) Chinese authorities are powerless to stop it by: direct measures they are yg | every effort toy break it up by indirect means, an by surrounding: Macao withacordon of boats they bope to suc ceed in cutting of the supply of coolies, who are entrapped there trom the interior. ART MATTERS, Private View of Paintings To-Vight. This evening the gallery at No, 817 Broadway’ will be thrown open in order to admit of a private “view being enjoyed of a collection of oil paintings and aquarelies, brought together by Mr. Frederick) Reitlinger, of No. 1 Rue de Navarin, Paris, A glimpse at the gallery yesterday showed the floor; literally paved with pictures awaiting transferrali to the walls. Those that were prone on the ground: could not, of course, be judged under the happiest auspices, but a certain ‘proportion decorated. athe oem wails, and among these wero “The maker,” by Meissonier; “The Morning Alter} the. Bail,” by. Siinomi; “The Rivals,” by" Victor Tortez; “The Conspirators,” by Escosura 5 “The Visit to the Ruined Abbey,” by Saunier; “Che vi an,” by Munkaesy; “The Slesta,’? oeth Recitation,” by Casanova 5, and “The Qld Beau,” by Jiminez ; in,” by Fortany, and “ St, Malo,” by e a ese pictures are to be seen tor the first time in public to-morrow, and will remain on view unul the succeeding Wednesday and Thursday, when they are to be sold at auction at Clinton Hall. ‘They are about 160 in number, and include works by some of the most celebrated artists of Enrope. Among the pictures which we have spectfied we ought alsoto have. mentioned contributions by Kivotre, Perelt and Bacalowies. YAOATING NOTE. Passed Whitestone yesterday, yacht Prosyery +Ugigord, New York for Port Jetersou,