The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1873, Page 7

NE MERCANTILE MARINE, Herald Special Report from London. ‘A Norwegian Bark Springs a Leak and is Abandoned at Sea. Arrivals and Departures of Vessels at and from European Ports. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO, Tho following special despatch to the ‘Herarp has been received from our corre- spondent in the English metropolis: — Lonnon, Nov. 7, 1873. A NORWEGIAN VESSEL ABANDONED, The Norwegian bark Hirnndo, Captain Has- lund, from New York, October 8, for Queens- town or Falmouth for orders, wes struck by a heavy sea, which caused her to leak badly and shift cargo, and was subsequently abandoned. ‘The captain and crew were taken off by a possing vessel and landed at Falmouth to-day. (The Hirundo registered 508 tons, classed Al} and was built at Grimstad, Norway, in 1865, from which place she hailed. Her eargo consisted of 26,739 bushels of wheat.] VESSELS ARRIVED. Arrived at Liverpool November 6, bark James Kenway (British), McDonald, from New York; 7ih, steamships San Jacinto (British), Burrows, from Galveston; Arbitrator (British), Wallace, from Savannah. Arrived at Gravesend November 7, bark Zuleima (Norwegian), from New York for London. Arrived at Falmouth November 7, barks Anna (Austrian), Vidulich, from New York; Henoch (Austrian), (italian), Balestra, from do.; Fearnot (Ger- man), Berding, from do. for Elsinore; brig Ave (Aus Tiansen, Heggie, and Camogi rian), Radaslovich, from New York. VESSELS SAILED. Sailed from Liverpool November 6, ships Rochester, Oliver, and Albania (British), Seely, for New Orleans; barks T. C. Berg (German), Bablrus, for New York; Mertola (British), Turner, for Baltimore; also the Im- pulse, for Tybee. Sailed from Queenstown November 7, steam- ship City of Paris (British), Tibbitts (from Liverpool), for New York. Sailed ivom Kingstown (Ireland), November 7, the Matilda, for New York. FRANC. The Question of MacMahon’s Term of Office— \ Parliamentary Tactics of the ?.embers of the ‘-, Lett—The President's Domestic Peace. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Paris, Nov. 7, 1873. The bureaus of the Assembly met to-day to nominate tue commitiee on the prolongation of President MacMahon’s powers. Three of the bu- reaus in which the Leit ve the majority post- poned action until Saturday. In the twelve remaining bureans seven members of the Right and five of the Leit were elected. The republicans are consequently certain of a majority in the committer Tactics of the Party of the Left. PARIS, Nov, 7, 1873, Despatches from Paris state that the Left ab- -gtained trom voting yesterday for President of the Assembly. The President’s Domestic Peace. Panis, Nov 7, 1873. Five of the men arrested at Autun, on the charge of being engaged in a conspiracy to abduct the piece of President MacMaiion and hold her a¢ a hostage, have been convicted and sentenced to ~wartous terms of imprigonment. "ENGLAND. A Money Panic in Prospect—Stocks Greatly Depressed—Discount Nine Per Cent. TELECRAMS TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. Loxpoy, Nov, 7, 1873. There are (six o'clock P.M.) decided symptoms of @ panic in the stock market here. 1CHANGE UNIVERSALLY DEPRESSED. There is (four o’clock P. M.) great depression in all stocks on the list and the market Is flav. DISCOUNT. The Directors of the Ban: England at a meet- ing to-day fixed the minimum rate of discount at the bank at nine per cent. The rate for money at the Stock Exchange on government securities ia cight per cent, The tate of discount in the open market tor ithvee months’ bills is nine 5 cent, which is the same 95 tue 0 irate, b ANK ‘The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of Eugiand on balance to-day is £34,900, THE WEA ‘The weather throughout Er Canse or the Advance ty the Bank Rate, Lonpos, Nov. 66 A. M. gland to-day ts wet, Tue withdrawal of $750,000 in specte from the Liverpool Branch of the hank of Engtand, for ship- ment to New York by today's steamers, ls under- Stood to have been the deteraiaing cause of the “rise tn the Bank rate. Bullion For the Unitcd States and Canuda. Loynos, Nov. 85 A. M. The amount of specie w swan from the bank yesterday (or the United States and Canada was $870,000, most of which goes to Canada, THE ENGLISH TURF. Autumn Meeting Sport at. Liverpool. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Livervoot, Nov, 7, 187%. At the cutumn meeting to-day the Liverpool up ‘was won by Mr. F. Gretton’s bay horse Sterling, beating Mr. Cartwright’s chestnut My, Louise Vic- eorta, secoud, and Lora Zevjand'a bay colt King Lad, third. Fifteen ran, The betting at the start was 16 to Lagainst Sterling aud Louise Victoria, ond 4 to Lagainst King Lud. GERMANY. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO, Brn, Nov. 7, 1875, The German Minister of Finance has decided to Sell 20,000,000 thalere of disusea silver to the United States government, which te the bighest bidder, nuW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, THE VIRGINIUS. ooo The Santiago Tribunal Summarily Shoots Four of the Prisoners. Varona, Cespedes, Jesus del Sol and General Ryan. RN cy 2 THE NEWS IN WASHINGTO ee ike es General Sickles’ Intervention at Madrid Too Late. SKETCHES OF THE DEAD CAPTIVES. Havana, Nov. 7, 1873. The tribunal at Santiago de Cuba, before which the prisoners capturea on the Virginius were brought, condemned Bernabe Varona, Pedro Ces- pedes, Jesus del Sol and General Ryan to death, and they were shot on the morning of the 4th instant, The greater portion of the cargo of the steamer Virginias was thrown overboard or consumed in the turnaces before her capture, THE NEWS iN WASHINGTON. —+—__—_ The State Department Informed of the Exccutions=The Subject Discussed in the Cabinet Council, on, D. C., Nov. 7, 1 The oMe{al despatches received by tae Depart- ment of State show that the Virginius was cap- tured six miles from the coast of Jamaica. At the instance of Minister Sickles instructions were sent from the government at Madrid to await orders from the home government betore inficting pen- WASHING’ alties on the passengers or crew of the Virginius. This order was probably received on the evening of the 5th or morning of the 6th inst., too late, as it appears from the despatches received from Cuba to-day, to be respecied, Registers granted to vessela continue they are sold or change their names. until No in- telligence relating to either of these pointa as to the Virginius has reached the department. The books of the Treasury Department show that the register originally granted to the Virginius re- mains unchanged. The news received to-day of the execution of prominent persons captured on board the Virginius occasions much surprise in ali circles, It not being supposed that the trial would be so summary as it was. The subject was discussed at the Cabinet council, NAMES OF THE VICTIMS, me Genera! W. A. C. Ryan, General W. A. C. Ryan, at the commencement of the Cuban struggle, was fairly idolized by the refugees in this city, who admired his bravery. General Ryan’s experiences as cavalry commender in the Camaguey district of Cuba, fighting against long odds, nad gained him the reputation of being, like the fabled Bayard, “sang peur et sans re- proche.’ He was a native of this State, and has a brother living in this city, named John C. Ryan. Ryan, who has just fallen a victim to Spanish tyranny, was, at the time of his death, avout thirty-four years of age. He was tall and well bulit, of sleuder but wiry (rame, with a soldieriy bearing, aud was considered to possess a handsome and striking countenance. In the year 1853, being of an adventurous turn of mind, he went ont asa miner to Montana, where he worked some claims with success, they being partially situated upon what is now the site of the flourishing city of Mon- tana. When the war broke out Ryan entered a New York regiment, and during the progress of the strife attained the grade of first lieutenant. In 1869 he made his appearance in New York as a free lance for free Cuba. In company with Ignacio Alfaro and the late Domingo Goiqouria, a large ex- pedition, known as the “Catharine Whiting Expedition,” was organized. The project was that 600 men should meet up the Sound, near Bridgeport. Accordingly, sev- eral tugs were chartered, which took the passengers on board, and, to balk the authorities, went up the Hudson a long distance, while others went down to Staten Island, after which the vari- ous vessels steamed up the Sound. Ryan finally landed at Gardiner’s Island, where he kept up an encampment there lor six weeks, Provisiuns cou- sisting oi four, sheep, &c., were obtained from the main land and duly paid tor. Subsequently all the men were captured anc placed on board the United States receiving ship Vermont at the Navy Yard. Ryao was constituted a prisoner, and, alter in- dictment, was detained at Ludlow Street Jail, with Goigouria and others, for alleged breach of the neutrality laws, On one occasion, while returning (rom the United States Court in Cham- bers street to his jail, he persuaded his keeper to accompany him up Broadway to transact some basiness. The party turned into Houston street, near Mott and Elizabeth streets, when, by a con- Tted plan by Ryan’s conicderates, the keeper as knocked down and carried bodily into cine casino and there gagged and detained. Ryso niade his escape, and subsequently, in company with Colonel Curry, proceeded to Canada, HIS ARRIVAL IN CUBA. On the 3ist December, 1869, Ryan left this city on boucd the steam yacht Auna, belonging formeriy to Captain George W. Brown, on a second expedi- tion, uuder the command of Javier Cisneros, which safely landed its men and arms. Here Ryan dis- tinguished himself as a commander of cavairy. Aiter stopping in the Camaguey district tor upwards o1 a year and enh! the grade of Brigadier General conferred upon him by act of the Cuban Congress, he returned to this country on a special mission for President Cespedes to organize another expedition irom this country. Alter his arrival here he co-operated with the old Cuban Junta, at No, 71 Broadway, in raising men and money. At this time his popularity among (ue Cubans was atits zenith. On vhe 8th of January he went out in the steamer Hornet. to Cuba once more. ere Ryan showed the white feather for the frat time b subsequently returned — from au Prince to this country, But the Cubans still had faith tn him, and Ryan went out on the steamer Fannie in the summer of 1872, On the voyage be swore there was a con- spiracy to assassinate him, and showed various cuts in bis clothes which had been done by some one on board, but for this he was laughed at. The men and arms were successfully landed, and to prevent the vessel becoming a prize to the Spaniards, on account of her having grounded, ine was destroyed by fire. Ryan, however, used to remain on shore, alleging lame- ness, eta ently the crew made their escape in the boats to Jai oaica, Ryan accompanying them. The following ts m the oMictal report of the commander of the Fannie concerning Ryan :— “On the 22d of June, 1872, W. A. O, Ryan landed in one of the first boats, bat when the ~— was all ashore he obtained leave from General Peratta to return on board to write @ letter, and retused to land again, though arged by me repeatedly, in the presence of the officers and crew, to do so, ‘This and other circumstances, notably his reimsing tosend bis baggage ashore, proved conclusively that be had no intention of landing.” Subsequently he returned with the crew of the Fannie to Nassau, where Mr. Manion Chance, the United States Consul, received the party with great kimdness and treated all as shipwrecked Atuerican seamen, On the 4th of. October he left this city on the Atlas, bound for Jamaica, in com- pany with General Varona, Jesus del Sol and sixty- six other Cuban patriots, He was a devoted friend and warm admirer of General Varona, bet- ter known as ‘“Bembetta.” Ryan came down to the steamer half an hour after the time appointed for the vossel’s departure, ih the hands of a Sherifs otficer, who held him tor @ debt for $400, The mouey was raised in 4 trice among the entiu- siastic Cubans on the wharf, and Ryan was de- livered from custody, amid great cheering. Many grasped tia cordially by the hand for the saxe of the old love, and # short time afterwards te and iis Companions started on their fatal andertaking, General Jesds del Sol. deaua Sol, another victim, was: thirty-four years of age and greatly (eared by the Spaniards, He was bora at Sautingo, iu the disirigt of reiusing t0 ‘land at Punta | NOVEMBER 8, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. Cienfuegos, in Cuda, hia parents being well-to-do farmers and cattle raisers. When the revolution broke out Del Sol burned the famtly plantation, “Los Melones," and enrolled himself in the liberat- ing ranks. He raised 200 men, and fougit as cap- tain under the general command of General Cavada. The first confict he engaged in was at Palmantos, near Uarthagena, where a Spanish force of 600 men was defeated. He subsequently took part tn the fights at La Rapadura, Los Melones, Los Guaros, Las Caybitas, Los Minniciones, Las Gringos, Valadores, Boquerones, La Tibarita, Solidad, &c. He was wounded by a bayonet at Los Caybitas, and at Solidad he received a cut on his hand with 4 machete. In 1871, while near Santi- ago, in a hut, ina state of terrible sickness, lying unguarded, a negro brought him acup of coffee, stating that he was a friend of Cuba Libre and Del Sol, and subsequently attempted to kill him to get the reward offered for Del Sol’s head by the Spaniards. Sol Killed the man by shooting him witharevolver. He was subsequently captured ay the Spaniards im the same hut and sent to entuezos. Knowing his wondrous bravery the Spaniards osered hiin $6,000 in gold to enter their ranks, and the title of Colonel; but he of course refused, nod ultimately he was sent to Cadiz, in Spain, on the condition that he would never re- turn to Cuba. He returned from the Penin- sula to this country, and has been waiting here for some time to go out on an expedition. For a year his devoted wife and chil- dren accompanied hin in the mountain /astnesses of Cuba during the war, but subsequently he sent ther ‘or protection to Santiago de Cuba, where his Wile oon died ofa broken heart. Afterwards tue children (now orphans) were taken to Cardenas, and trom thence came to this country last Janu- ary. General 50! was a spare built man, of singu- lariy ha ome iace. fe was noted for his modesty and bravery and perfect sel-abnegation in the caus¢ of his country. While here he lived meagerly and dressed poorly, so that none of Cuba's money should be devoted unnecessarily from patriotic employment. He was fairly idolized by the Cubans Of this caly. Pero Cespedes. e The death of this Cuban patriot was announced yesterday by telegraph from Havana, Tho de-, ceased gentiemen was a younger brother to Carlos Manuel Ceapedes, President of the Cuban Republic. He was born in the town of Bayamo, in the district of that name, Eastern Department of Cuba, in the year 1423, and was thereiore fifty years old at the time of tus decease, being four years the junior of his more famous brother, The Cespedes are amongst the most influential and respected families of Bayamo and Manzanillo, and are inter- married or connected with the test people of that part of the island, Pedro Cespedes was educated in Bayamo, under the care of his family, who are also native Cubans. From the first years of his life the deceased conceived a great natred towards the Spanish oppressors of his country, and resolved to lend every possible effort in an en- deavor to set his veloved Ouba tree, To this end he abandoned the luxuries and pleasures of a wealthy home, the endearments of is family and every material coméort of life, to follow the tor- tunes of the Cuban cause and his elder brother's leadership, when the shout of independence was given in Yara, on the 10th of Octover, 1868. For tiiree years he was in the very focus of ‘the revoiu- tion in the Kastern Department, Oiten distiaguisa- ing hunself above others by his patience in reverse aud moderation in the hour of triumph. He did not adopt the military career, but was nearly always constantly employed in the civil department of the Cuban government, frequently as the governor of a district. fis venderly raised children and affectionate wife abandoned, it appears, the family estates and all their Dumerous pecuniary interests in Bayamo, and lollowed the footsteps of their patriotic hus- band and farber into the savage wilds of the manti- gua. About a year and a half ago he left free Cuba in @ cance with his family, and was fortunate enough to make the island of Jamaica after much hardship and suffering, without uae un ee any of the Spanish vessels always on the wate! along the coast, His family, censisting of wife, five boys and three girls, are now in Kingston, Jamaica, in circumstances of great poverty and misfortune, After a stay of some considerable duration in the United States, he was geturning to free Cuba as a non-combatant, and Was on board the ill-fated Virginius at the time of her capture, on the dist ult., by the Spanish war steamer Tornado, after a chase of seven and a half hours, It is neediess to say that the deceased patriot, who has given not only all bis worldly wealth, but life itself, to his country, has left, be- side his afflicted family, a widespread circle of sym- thetic and admiring friends, wio deeply mourn is loss, cut down, as he has been, by the iron hand of tyranny in the ripe years of his use:uiness and manhood. Que le se@leve la tierra, Brigadier Generai Barnabe de Varona. This youthiu! soldier and ripe patriot, whose death on a Spanish scaffold was announced yester- day by telegraph from Havana, was born in the city of Puerto Principe, in the Central Department of Cuba, in the year 1845, and was therefore twenty- eight years of age. Both his parents are natives of Cuba. The family is one of the most respectable in all senses of the word in that most aristocratic town of an aristocratic island. His father died while the future general was but young, His amiable and patriotic mother, Maria, née Bonera, sent the young Varona to the United States, where he was liberally educated at one of our best known colleges. Alter finisning his education he returned to his native Puerto Principe, and be- came aconirmed opponent to Spanish rule. In 1866 Varona—or as he was sometimes called— Bembetta, came to the United States to pat him- self in communication with Generai Quesada, who was then endeavoring to eflect an insurrectionary movement in Cuba by means of an expedition from these shores. In 1867 he went to Nassau, N, P., on a dangerous and delicate mission for the Cubans, accomplishing it with credit and de- spatch, In 1863, apout the time of the rising in Yara, young Varona was imprisoned in Puerto Principe, and sent on to Havana; where he was reported to the Oaptain General as one of the most terrible of men and dangerous to the government. Captain General Duice was surprised when he saw the extremely handsome, quiet youth, who brought such a reputation from his native city, and remarked, “I! was prepared to mete out to you the extreme penalty o! the law for the offences of which you stand charged; bat your youth, courteous bearing and sympathetic disposition lave disarmed ef vengeance. Go in peace,” After the young patriot’s release from his dungeon mm Havana be made his way to the United States once more, and remained here unti! about four months before the rising of Yura, when he | again sought his native city to prepare tue way lor the anticipated revolutionary movement, He was mainly instrumental in raising the Cuban flag in | the Central Department, and gallantly held it aloft over the turmoil and smoke of battle for years. It was General Varona who received General Quesada when the latter disembarked bis well-remembered expedition near Guanaja. The rank which the deceased soldier held he earned honorably and well on many a hard fonght field against his coun- try’s foes. During @ short period 0! time General | Varona discharged with marked ability the onerous | duties of chief of staff to the liberating army. Two fons ago he escaped the vigilance of the Spavish iockading squadron, and atter much suffering | reached Jamaica, whence New York, whither he the Cuban government, The object of his mission was to collect the means neces- sary to equip a formidable expedition to Cuba. He had worked zealously and at last was abie, under the direction of General Quesada, to sail with men and arms in aid of his suffering compa triots in Cuba. At the moment of having ois dearest hopes realized the cup was dashed from his ips and bis brightest antictpations shattered | to atoms, Varona was unmarried but leaves a | mother and sister to mourn the loss of their brave young soldier who has died im the primest years of is early manhood, a victim to the unrelenting cru- elty of the turbulent nation that rules his un- happy country. Well, indeed, may the vivid outburst of the patriot poet be applied to the case of the unfortunate Varona. Whether on the scaffold high or in the battle’s van, The fittest place for man to die is where he dies for man. The mother of Varona, ajter haying been mm- prisoned and expelled from Cuba by the Spaniards, took up her residence in New York, where the news other son’s death reached her. Excepting, per- haps, Ignacio Agramonte, there is no man who has fallen during the war, whose loss will be more elt by the Cubans than thatof Barnabe de Varona. En paz descance. he came on had been sent by | to Additional Details of the Vessel, ‘The Virginius, since leaving Martinique, where she was last docked, entered the Magdateaa river in the first week of last February. *She remained in fresh water three months, during which time her bottom must have been thoroughly cleansed of the salt water parasites that so rapidly accumulate on ships. In addition to this circumstance, a short time before her last depar- ture from Kingston, @ nunber of divers were em- ployed to clean any foulness that might lately have accumnuiated on her bottom. General Qnesada, in correction of what appeared in the press yester- day, gives the foregoing explanations, and thinks that the bottom of the Virginius was in good sail- ing condition at the time she is supposed to have left Kingston, The General wishes to correct | Va., in April, 1869. Vollrath was employed by a another error of the press, and states that Pedro Alfaro was but a passenger on the Virginius at tie <tuine of her capture, Tu couversatioa yesterday with & HBRALD re- rter, General Quesada sald in audstance chat the joas of the Virginiua and subsequent barbarous ¢x- ecutions, whtle doubtless a great calamity, would, out of evil, werk good to the cause of Cuba. The capture of that ship would be felt in American diplomatic es well asin Cuban patriotic circles. Here was 4 vessel, fying the American flag, cap- tured a8 &@ war prize by Spain, who, while she in- sists Upon the world believing thar there 13 no war in Cuba, blockades the coast of that sland with all the navy she can spare from Cartagena, and then turns round to tell the nations that they have no right to take cognizance of auch block- ade. For them it does not exist. It is a private affair of Spain only. All must shat their eyes to the fact of the blockade, as it only concerns Cuba. Meanwhile humanity suffers. The capture of the Virginius, instead of having: anything like a demoralizing ef- fect, will, on thé contrary, strengthen and solidify the Cuban cause, Her capture must be regarded a8 the loss of a battie; nothing more. One, two or ten expeditions may fall into the hands of the enemy, but the war shall go on for all that. “Have we not,” said the General, “poured out our best blood like water; have we not sacrificed every- thing, save our honor, that is dear tous? #xiles, bereft of our homes and country, our kinsinen slaughtered and our women dishonored, icit nothing on earth but the sword, whose scabbard is thrown away—shail we now, after pass- ing through more than five years of bloodshed and butchery stay, our hand at the mo- ment when the prize of victory is all but within our grasp? No, The die is cast as between us and Spain. Liberty or extermination are our un- compromising conditions to the foes of our race. Should the nations continue to see us slaughtered with indifference, then woe to the civilization of our century! But, no; this cannot be, id, who sees the justice of our cause, will rat us upa friend in the great American people, whose in- suincts and aspirations are ever on the side of human liberty. From now henceforth away with discord, unharmony and division from among the Cubans in the United States and everywhere! Let them rally round the government which they them- selves have chose (et us contribute our money, | our blood—our lives, tf need be—fn our just cause, that must and shail succeed." It ts expected that the steamer now due from Jamaica wil bring unportant particulars about the late movements of the Virginius, and iso @ complete list of the names of the Roreons on board when she was captured, ‘he followtng list comprises the uames of some persons who are already kuown to have saued in her, which is now published, pending the arrival of fuller particuiars:—Leandro Calvo, Ramon Calvo, Juan Alvarado, Gil Montero, Villa, Padron, Otazo, Truxillo, Canales, Lamar, Marin, Gonzales, Boitel, Sergio Saldo, Bello, Salarzar, Ignacio Valdes Herrera, Francisco Parras iita, Barrias, Casanova, Penedo, Rubicra, Pacheco, Lopez, Socorras, Sariol, Bacunilla, Aguero, Sant Rosa, Otero, Mola, Agramonte, Vals, Villaverde, ‘Tapia. The Register of the Virginias. Yesterday a HeRatp reporter called at the ro- tunda in the Custom House to see the register of the Virginius and obtained the following informa- tion from the official records :—She was originally purchased by Mr. Miles ‘I, Steele, of New Orleans, from the “Bureau of Refugees, Freeamen and Abandoned Lands" at the port of Mobile, on Feb- Tuary 14, 1866. On the 25d of June of the same year she obtained a register at the port of New Urieaus, the oficial number of which was 106, her tonnage being given as 441 tons 84-100. Mr. Johu F, Patierson, of this city, purchased her from the federal government jor $9,600, aud on the 26th September, 1370, took the oatu of ownership at the New York Custom Liouse, the bill of sale having been made on the 27th of August, at Wasn- ington. A new register was issued on the 260k September, 1570 (No, 14), to Mr, Patterson, with the name ‘of F. E. Suepherd, of Forsyth county, New York State, iuserted as being her captain. DIGNATION MEETING AT COOPER INSTI- TUTE. Captain G. W. Brown, of No, 62 Beaver street, stated last evening that an indignation meeting of Cubans and Americans will be held, in all proba- bility, in the first days o/ the coming week at Cooper Institute, A NEW EXPEDITION PREPARING. Over 300 Cuvans, it 1s reported, have declared their intention to proceed to Cuba as soon as pos- sible, to avenge the deaths of Varona, Del Sol and others. Over 600 Cubans are now out of work in New York, and many are desirous of proceeding without a moment's delay. THE CUBANS WANT AN EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS, perce ie anges Zulucta and the Spanish Casino Decline the Overtures—Six Hundred Spanish Prisoners Set Free—The Casino Would Have Sacrificed Them, The following information relative to the late overtures by the Cubans for an exchange of pris- oners will be found iuteresting at this particular juncture :— According to reliable accounts, published in the HERALD within the lust three weeks, the Cubans in the field have capturea some 600 Spanish officers aud soldiers and left the latter free to choose as to returning into the Spanish lines or remaining with the Cuban liberating army, Such as chose to return into their lines did so,and others got astray in their efforts to reach the same lines, but were picked up by some of the gunboats THE WEATHER REPORT. ——-—__ — War DaranrMent, Orrick or THe CHiEY SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 81 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty.four Hours. The barometer has fallen rapidly in the- Middle and Eastern States, with northeasterly winds, cloudy weather and rain, Southeasterly winds, cloudy weather and rain prevail in the lower Jakes, anda northwesterly winds, clearing, cold weather on the upper lakes. Westerly winds and partly cloudy weather in the Onio Valley and Tennessee. Clearing weather, north- westerly winds and rising barometer in the Southern States, Probabilities. For the northwest and upper lakes and thence to Missouri and Kentucky northwesterly winds and clearing, colder weather. For the lower lakes and thence to West Virginia, | southerly winds, veering to weaterly, cloudy weather and rain, clearing in the evening. For New England, southeasterly and northeast- erly winds, cloudy weather and rain. Fou THE MIDDLE (STATES, CLOUDY WEATHER AND RAIN, NORTHEASTERLY WINDS, VEERING TO WEST ERLY THIS AFTERNOON, WITH FALLING TEMPERA- TURE AND PARTLY CLOUDY WEATHER, For the ORio Valley and thence over Tennessee northwesterly winds, clear and colder weather, For the Southern States, northwesterly winds, falling temperature and generally clear weather. Reports are partly missing from the Northwest, the Southwest, and generally (rom west of the Mississippt. The Weather in Th ty Yesterday, The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last Bie as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, HkRaLp Building :— 1872. 3:30 P. M, 86 6 P.M, 46 OP. M. 61 19P.M...... Average temperature yesterday. + 4525 Average temperature for corresponding date last year... . vee FON AN INCENDIARY IN VIOLENT HANDS, OneEwDA, N, Y., Nov.-7, 1873. Aman was caught at Canastota to-night in the act of setting fire to a house. He 1s supposed to be the man who fired the village before. There is great excitement among the people, and {tis feared he cannot be protected from their indignation. A CABLE ROUTE TO JAPAN. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7, 1873. The United States steamer Tuscarora has ar- rived from her cruise souncing jor a cable line to the Orient. She cruised 1,100 miles towards tho Aleutian Islands. One hundred miles west of Cape Mendocino she found a subinarine mountain over 1,000 feet high. The deepest sounding was 2,443 fathoms, while 140 miles west of Farailonea Isiand. She was ordered back on account of tue lateness of the season, PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY IN NEW YORK. | BINGHAMTON, Nov. 7, 1873. A State Grange oi the Patrons of Husbandry was fully organized yesterday at Syracuse by C. P. Bieman, of Iowa, General Deputy at Large. Rep- resentatives were present from ail parts of the State. The following officers among others were elected and duly installed :— George C. 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Ricumonp, Va., Nov. 7, t ‘The German Consul in this city has received from | Strasburg, Germany, the confession of Hermann Rudolph Wilbelm Vollrath, wno accuses himself of haying murdered a man tn King George county, fishing company on the Potomac, He says he was walking in the woods when h® met a stranger, apparently Irish, whom he asked for a lignt ior his pipe. A conversation ensued, during which Vollrath saw the stranger's | pocketbook, containing & large sum of money. He, on the impuise of the moment, attempted to rob him. Being resisted, and dreading the result of the escape of bis victim, ne drew a knife and | stabbed fim through the heart. He buried his victim, returned to work and, conscience-stricken, threw the money into the river. He went to Ger- many, Was conscripted into the army, and is now in a tmilitary prison for a petty offence, The con- fession was voluntary. FELONIOUS ASSAULT, James Williamson, alias Jobn Sheppard, was arrested last night by the police of the Twenty- seventh precinct, charged with committing a feio- nious assanit upon John Cope. From statements by parties who saw the affair it appears they quarrelied on the corner of Hoboken and West streets, but after a stight skirmish were separated. Williamson followed Cope to No. 19 Morris street and attacked him @ second time. Cope endeavored to defend himself, and Williamson pulled out a razor and cut him on the breast. We then ran , but was BuUbsequently arres'ed in front of Ss Washington street. The razor was found Was at No. 3 on his person aod he was looked up. me! a tended to by one of the surgeons attached to the Ambulance Corps and removed to the Park Hos- pital. The prisoner will be arraigned before a police magistrate this mornin; A SHIP SCUTTLED AT SEA. } HAutrax, N. S., Nov, 7, 1873. 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