The New York Herald Newspaper, November 13, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET GORDON BENNETT, JAMES 5 PROPRIETOR ..No. 317 Volame XXXVI. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— Riousuinv, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaniery Entertainment. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae Giant's Cause War—Danist Boone. MRS. _F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Norns Dawe. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall— Hain at Law—Harriest Day or My Lire. HARLEM THEATRE, 8d ay., between 129th and 130th ets.—Winning Han. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Varierr ENTERTAINKENT, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Rir Van Winkie, GERMANIA THEATRE, 14th street and 3d avenue.— Eux Scunitr Vom Wece. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Tux New Macpaten GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay, and Twenty-third | 6t—A Fiasu or Licityine, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts—Tux Brack Cxoox. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Mth street and Irving place.— Guanp Dramatic ExtERTainments. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth etreet.—Ours. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Genzva Cxoss, Union square, near WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st— Jacw Harkaway, Atternoon and evening. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vantery EXTERTALNIANT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Nwcro Minsrreisy, dc. P. T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FATR, 27th street and 4th avenue. Afternoon and evenin: AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, %d ay., between 63d aud 64th sis. Afternoon and evening. COOPER INSTITUTE.—Lavauina Gas axp Maaicat ENTERTAINMENT. NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No, 618 Broad- way.—Sciunce amp ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, Nov. 13, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Merald. “THE SPANISH BUTCHERS IN CUBA! WHAT 1S THE DUTY UF THE AMERICAN GOVERN- MENT ¢""—LEADING ARTICLE—Sixta PaGs. WANTON SAVAGERY OF THE SPANIARDS AT ‘SANTIAGO DE CUBA! FORTY-NINE MORE OF THE DEFENCELESS VICTIMS FROM -THE VIRGINIUS BUTUHERED BY GENERAL BURRIEL! $1,000,000 RANSOM REFUSED FOR ONE LIFE! NEW YORK PASSENGERS ARRESTED AT HAVANA! FURTHER DE- TAILS OF THE CAPTURE—TuirD Pace. ANOTHER OF THOSE CARLIST “VICTORI A “GREAT” ROUT OF THE GOVERNM FORCES, WITH A LOSS OF 1,200 M CARLISTS LOSE 200! INSURGENT NAVAL RETREAT FROM CARTAGENA—SBVENTH Page. FRANCE AND THE ASSEMBLY! MacMAHON URGES HASTE UPON THE COMMITTEE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL TERM! POSTPONE- MENT OF THE ELECTORAL INTERPELLA- TION—SEVENTH Pace. GENERAL VON ROON REPLACED IN THE PRUSSIAN MINISTRY OF WAR BY LIEU- TENANT GENERAL VON KAMEKE! OPEN- ING OF THE DIET—SEVENTH PAGE. DISASTERS 10 AND MOVEMENTS OF THE AMERICAN TRADE MARINE IN EUROPEAN WATERS—SEVENTH PAGE. JAPANESE RONORS TO A RETIRING AMERICAN DIPLOMAT! ROYAL INTEREST IN THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL! STATE VISITS— SEVENTH Pace. THE BOILER HORROR IN HARLEM! ING SCENES! THE ENG SER IN PRISON! OFFICIAL) TION AND OPINIONS— TENTH PAGE. JOHN BULL’S LAST MOVE ON THE FINANCIAL CHESSBOARD! FOUR BRITISH SHILLINGS FOR ONE AMERICAN DOLLAR—SEVENTH Page. AMERICAN FINANCES RISING FROM THE ASHES OF THE CRISIS! PAST AFFAIRS OF THE KIND REVIEWED! OUR BANKING SYSTEM! COTTON VALUES—ErcuTH Pace. MONEY EASY AND STOCK RATES ADVANCING, WITH A LIVELY BUS! ‘SS IN THE MONE- TARY CENTRE! OVER $26,000,000 IN LEGAL TENDERS HELD BY THE BANKS—EiGuTa PAGE. LABOR'S HUNDRED HANDS PARALYZED! SITUATION IN AND } HARROW- THE NEAR THE METROPO- LIS—EXCELLENT PIGEON SHOOIING—THE | SANITARIANS AND CONTAGIOUS DIS- EASES—SEVENTH PAGE. TRADE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS AT THE LEADING MANUFACTURING CITIES AND TOWNS IN FIVE STATES! A BEITER DEMAND PROMISING BREAD FOR THOSE WHO WILL SUPPLY IT—FourtH Pace. THE BIG BILLIARD MATCH BETWEEN SLOSSON AND DALY IN CHICAGO! A FINE, CLOSE GAME—FirTH Pac. . THE OUTRAGE UPON PERSONAL LIBERTY IN TERSEY CITY EXCITING INTENSE INDIG- NATION! THE ROUGHS GO SCOT-FREE AND THE CITIZEN HELD—FirTa PaGE. ‘Tax Spantsu Stavenotpers of Cuba, who, through their cutthroat volunteers, really govern the island, are fighting a desperate battle for the maintenance of their barbarous systems of negro and coolie slavery. Their sickening atrocities of the last five years have at length reached a series of butcheries which cannot be blinked at Washington. The crisis has come when, if Mr. Secretary Fish is unequal to meet it, the President will do well to relieve him of the task, Tux Goup Com my tHe Treasvny, indepen- dent of certificates, is only forty-two millions, Not a very promising prospect for the imme- diate resumptionists, Dortarns Acarnst Honor.—Fifty-six per- sons have been torn from the protection of the American flag and butchered at Santiago de Cuba. Some of the murdered men were citizens of the United States. One might sup- pose that this ought to be cause for complaint on our part, but we are told fiom Washing- ton that we must do nothing to provoke a war with Spain, because we owe o great deal of money to the foreign holders of our bonds, anda war would put up the price of gold! Are we a nation of fools or poltroons? Do the authorities at Washington believe that the American people will allow this great crime of the Spanish butchers and this insult to the American Republic to be tamely submitted to on such sordid considerations? If they do thoy are ignorant of public sentiment, wne Spann Butchers in Cuba—What Is the Duty of the American Gov- ernment? There are crimes which outrage humanity and exhaust the patience of the civilized world—crimes which, by their enormity, prompt the uprising of vigilance committees and the swift punishment of the offenders without the tardy process of the machinery of the law. Of such a character is the hurried butchery at Santiago de Cuba of fifty-six of the persons captured on the Virginius and carried into that port by ao Spanish man-of-war. The atrocity of the act is so great as to render it difficult to write of it dispassionately and with that calmness of judgment necessary in the consideration of questions involving great national interests. The first impulse of the American people will be to avenge the murders that have been com- mitted and the insult that has been offered to us as a nation by retribution as swift and terrible as the crime by which it has been pro- yoked. The popular voice would applaud the action of the President if he shonld send a fleet of iron-clads to Santiago de Cuba to de- mand the surrender of the Spanish butcher Burriel and of the commander of the Tornado, to be dealt with according to their desserts, under the penalty of the destruction of the town and the sinking of every Spanish war in the harbor in of refusal. The long list of outrages by which this last crime had been preceded has deprived the Spanish rule in Cuba of the sympathy of all Christian people, and the world would rejoice if its career of ruffianism and blood should be suddenly brought to a close by the just vengeance of an indignant nation. But we have duties and responsibil- ities which we cannot disregard, and which no passion, however natural and however violent, should tempt us to forget. Our great strength as a nation and the feebleness of the tottering government which has offered us the insult render it the more incumbent upon us to vessel case exercise some degree of patience and to be calm as well as firm in our demand for repara- tion. Fifty-six of the people found on board the Virginius have been murdered by the Spanish butchers in Cuba. We use the term ‘‘murdered’’ advisedly; for they had no trial and were under the lawful protection of the American flag, of which they could not be legally de- prived until the Virginius had been proved before a competent court to have been other than an American vessel entitled to the pro- tection of the United States. The evidence that the murder was a wilful one, committed with the full knowledge of the character of the crime, is proved by the words of the Governor of Santiago de Cuba, who declared that the prisoners should be slaughtered before any outside interference could be offered; by the interception of the telegram of the acting American Consul at Santiago de Cuba to our Consul at Jamaica, and by the cutting of the tele- graph wires to prevent the reception of any orders $o stay the executions from the Captain General at Havana or the home government at Madrid. There was not a pre- tence of law, therefore, to warrant the killing of the men, and the words and acts of the murderers prove that they were sensible that | the crime would be prevented if time should be allowed for legal interference. Nothing that may hereafter be proved against the Vir- ginius can alter these facts. But we now have more reason than ever to belicve that the capture of the vessel was in violation of treaty obligations and international law, provided she was of American ownership. From all the ac- counts ot the time consumed in the chase and the position of the Virginius when captured, it is certain that she was not in Spanish waters, but on the high seas when sighted by the Tornado, Such being the fact she was not liable to capture in time of peace, and her case is precisely similar to that of the Deerhound. Spain has persistently denied the existence of a stato of belligerency in Cuba, and a nation must accept all the consequences of the po- sition she chooses to assume, There can be no articles contraband of war if war does not exist; and unless the Virginius had been caught by the Spanish authorities violating any of the municipal laws or regulations of their ports she was not, according to the argu- ment of Secretary Fish, liable to search and seizure on the high seas, although she might have landed arms and men on Cuban soil a hundred times, We have, then, the facts that the capture of the Virginius, if an American vessel, was in violation of international law and treaty obli- gations, and that the wholesale butchery of fifty-six of her passengers and crew was, un- der any circumstances, a brutal murder. We have, furthermore the knowledge that the swift slaughter of the victims was designedly an insult to the United States as well as an act of bloodthirsty vengeance against the Cus bans. What is to be our action as a nation? Secretary Fish has long been doing his utmost to exhaust the patience of the Amer- ican people and to bring the foreign policy of the administration into contempt. We have no hope from him, for if his in- fluence is to prevail we might well expect to be called upon to apologize to Spain for the trouble we have occasioned, than to expect a firm demand for reparation for the out- rago hor authorities in Cuba bave committed. We look to General Grant for the vindfeation of the national honor. His words have been welcomed with joy by the American people. Ho recognizes the duty of the United States government in the interests of civilization and humanity to stop the savage barbarities of the Cuban war. He cannot, as the head of an enlightened nation, overlook the butchery of these defenceless prisoners without a trial, or wish prosperity to a government that owes its success to such a barbarous policy. He maintains the principle that this nation is its own judge when to accord the rights of belligerency to the struggling Cubans, Under his influence the sluggishness of the spiritless State Department passes away and activity is manifested by our naval authorities. This is President Grant’s oppor- tunity; may we hope that his ringing words will only be the prelude to prompt and bold action, and that from this moment his new departure will take its date? The instant rec- ognition of Cuban belligerency is an impera- tive necessity. It is demanded, not for Cuba, not for Spain, but for the vindication of our own rights and for the protection of our own citizens. The terrible occurrences of the past week prove that such a policy should long ago have been adopted by our govern- ment and that our interests should have been protected by the presence of armed vessels at Santiago de Cuba as wellas at Havana. But the past is gone by forever. Let us guard against outrage and insult for the futuro. When we recognize the belligerency of the Cubans we define the duties and the rights of our citizens, and are no longer groping in the dark, subject to the caprice and brutal violence of a government of cutthroats. A fleet of iron-clads must be sent at once to Havana and Santiago de Cuba to protect the lives and guard the interests of American citizens. We can no longer trust to diplomatic protest and Madrid orders. Our safety must be in the weight of our metal and the bravery of our sailors, For the outrage of the murders at Santiago de Ouba, probably for the illegal capture of the Virginius, we must demand prompt and ample reparation, and the punishment of the commander of the Tor- nado and of the bloodthirsty Governdr of Santiago de Cuba. For the future we must insist upon a cessation of the savage barbar- ity that has marked the prosecution of the Cuban war and upon a civil- ized rule on the island. We have aright to make this demand, in the interests of civilization and humanity as well as for our own protection, This is the least our govern- ment can do, consistently with its own honor, and this must be done promptly and firmly to satisfy a justly incensed people, Our Unemployed Laborers. The tinge of cheerfulness which has come upon the financial prospect may be fleeting, although we sincerely hope that it may not be so. In any case, our city authorities must not lose sight of the fact which our columns abundantly testify, that the dearth of employ- ment among immense numbers of the laboring class is very great, and far more likely to increase than otherwise. We have steadily set our face against creating needless alarm, but it is the weakest policy in the world to refuse acknowledgment of an un- satisfactory state of affairs when such really exists. We have noticed in our columns with great pleasure the efforts which private associa- tions of the charitable are making to help feed the poor. There is a large space for such blessed work, where the recipients cannot take advantage of the broader measures of relief which it is the bounden duty of our city gov- ernment to provide, This relief must come in the shape of work. Shall our muni- cipal rulers, then, exhibit a tardiness in meeting the crying want which is at our doors? We have pointed out a few of the public works upon which this surplus labor can be brought to bear with the best effect to the city. It may be put down as the determinatton of all Americans who love their country that no man within its bounds willing to work shall want for bread. In Europe it has been common for the despotic governments, which disgnise them- selyes under the name of ‘paternal,’’ to keep thousands of workmen em- ployed, year in and year out, lest they should turn their energies to revolution. Here, under most circumstances, a man can expect no such help from the State. There is no despotism which necessitates giving men work to keep them out of politics. When extra- ordinary want calls for extraordinary relief it is accorded as cheerful recognition of the fact that the poor as well as the rich go to form the nation. The duty of our city government, then, is to act promptly and effectively. There is work enough, sadly needed, to give the poor employment, and we hope to see action taken without delay. A War Taar Is Nor Wan,—Spain in her efforts for the last five years to exterminate the Cuban insurgents has lost in Cuba, from the casualties of battle and from the climate, perhaps, not less than seventy-five thousand men, The Cubans have lost over forty thou- sand, and yet Spain insists upon it that there is no war on the island. Rosenzweie’s Escarr.—The eccentricities of the law have suffered Rosenzweig to escape from the State Prison. It is to be hoped that the District Attorney may yet find means to hold him in custody, and that his punishment may come in some more certain and more adequate form. Can not Recorder Hackett’s suggestions be carried out by the Grand Jury? Actrve Preparations are on foot in our navy yards, apparently for some great enter- prise. These preparations may be bond fide; but they may be intended as a tub to the whale, If merely designed as a diversion to the public excitement, they are not enough. It will be dangerous to the administration to trifle with the public seutiment upon these Cuban horrors any longer “Manifest Destiny’—Free Cuba: Not Annexation, A leading Western journal—the Cincin- nati Enquirer—upon the heel of the first news of the capture of the Virginius, and in view of the discouraging facts that the elections are over for this year, that times are exceedingly hard, and that there is not apparently very much to live for, says: —‘‘It occurs to us that we might as well proceed to carry out a scheme very dear to the American heart. Wo allude to the acquisition of the island of Cuba."" The reasons, next, for this opinion are given, and they are very widely entertained among our politicians of the old ‘manifest destiny” school, and here they are: —‘‘We are not troubled about Cuba because we lack elbow room, but because we think the island should be made a part of the United States, and because it would certainly be an act of humanity to put a stop to the slaughter which has been needlessly going on there for the past four or five years;'’ and because the Spanish Republic ig a myth, a failure and little better than a despotism; and because the Cuben patriots do not want Spanish dominion continued over them in any shape, but want free Cuba. Finally, says our warlike West- ern contemporary, ‘‘we want a little shindy with some third rate Power;"’ and he insists that although o war with Spain would gratify General Grant we must nevertheless have it. Now, with due respect for the time-honored opinions of ‘manifest destiny’ here again advanced, we do not think that the scheme of the acquisition of Cuba is still ‘dear to the American heart.”” It was so; but is so no longer. Some three years ago, strong in the impression that the public sentiment of the country was still in favor of the indefinite expansion of our national boundaries, Presi- dent Grant entered heartily into the movement for the annexation of the Republic of Do- minica, which covers two-thirds of the large, fertile and splendid tropical island of St. Domingo. Dominica was offered us at the ridiculously low figure of a million of dollars, yet so signally did the President fail in all his efforts to carry through the scheme, so con- vincing were the evidences of a public senti- ment brought to bear against it (in the New Hampshire election of 1871, for example), that he was glad to announce as a settlement his abandonment of tho enterprise. We believe that the adverse public senti- ment which baffled and defeated all the efforts of the President for the acquisition of the pro- lific sugar and coffee fields of Dominica was not limited to the island of St. Domingo, On the contrary, we believe that this change in the public mind touching the ‘manifest des- tiny’ of the United States began with the annexation of Texas; that it was strengthened with our subsequent territorial acquisitions from Mexico, notwithstanding their incalcu- lable treasures in silver and gold, and that this adverse opinion assumed a commanding shape upon the annexation of that stupendous Arctic Empire of Alaska, and was made mani- fest in the Senate in the rejection of the vol- canic island of St. Thomas. Mr. Seward’s grand idea of ‘manifest destiny’? was the ultimate extension of our national flag over the whole continent of North America and its islands, In the rejection of his St. Thomas treaty we believe that the Senate acted from a conviction that the people of the United States had hada surfeit of annexations, and that with Alaska we had secured scope and verge enough to last us fora thousand years. We do not want Cuba. In acquiring it we shall find it necessary for the security of this island and the Gulf to annex all the main West India group and all their outlying sup- ports. Mexico will then be in our way and the Central American republics, and so the never ending but still beginning work of ab- sorption will go on till arrested in the confu- sion and dissolution of the whole incoherent and incongruous fabric. We do not want Cuba because of the future dangers threat- ened from its acquisition; we do not want it because of the immediate debts, embarrass- ments, political eomplications, corruptions and demoralizations that will come with the , island. This annexation would be made a job among scheming and unscrupulous politicians, compared with which our Pacific Railway jobs, with their Crédit Mobilier swindles, would appear con- temptible. Wedo not want Cuba asa State or Territory of the United States, Its ‘‘mani- fest destiny’ is that of an independent repub- lic, and our true policy is embraced in the gradual building up ofa cordon of indepen- dent, self-sustaining, but allied republics, south and north of us, with the United States as the head and guardian of the confederation. Acting upon this idea, nothing can be easier to President Grant than the solution of the Cuban question. It is to strike while the iron is hot for the emancipation and independence of Cuba, Tae Porsce Justice Question.—The argu- ment on the constitutionality of the new Police Justice appvintments was concluded yesterday, and the decision of the Court is reserved. Meantime the question comes up before the Oyer and Terminer in a new form, and one which which proves the importance of its early and final decision, A person convicted of a crime by the Court of Special Sessions, presided over by the newly appointed Judges, moves for release from imprisonment on the ground that he has been tried before a Court that has no legal standing. This case is only one of many yet to come, and hence the sooner we know whether the law is constitutional or not the better will it be for the community, Tue Cooney Men to THE Froxt.—We are glad to report that a deputation of colored men in behalf of their enslaved brethren in the island of Cuba go from this city to Wash- ington to-day to lay before the President a petition, signed by five thousand of our colored fellow citizens, in behalf of active intervention for the dependence of Cuba, As Cuban in- dependence means, among other good things, the emancipation of the four hundred thou- sand slaves of the island, our freo colored citi- zens have the right, and it is their duty, to speak for Cuba, and we hope they will speak to some purpose. They can if they will, Tue Frencn Assempty yesterday decided to postpone debate upon the interpellation of M. Leon Say, relative to the government's neglect in not ordering elections for the places vacant in the Assembly, M. Snay’s inquiry, so uncomfortable for the disappointed monarchists, was fought off because it would NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. lay bare the royalist conspiracy too soon— that is, before matters wero shaped in favor of the conservative forces a much as present circumstances well permit. The Committee on Prolongation of the Presi- dent's Powers had an interview with Mac- Mahon yesterday. He committed himself to very little. Holding the winning hand, no matter how the game goes just now, he may indeed hold his peace with great benefit to France. The next great ‘field day” in the Assembly will be when the committee's report is presented for adoption. The Shocking Disaster at Harlem. It is announced elsewhere that the police will descend to-day upon the remaining mov- able engines engaged on the excavation upon Fourth avenue, where the engine exploded on Tuesday with such fatal results. These engines are described as old, weak, rusty and insecure, and even at this late hour it will be something to prevent such disasters from recurring, so far as they are concerned. ‘The inadequacy of the law to reach the owner of such engines and compel the service of competent engineers is deplorable. Hence, contractors with engines manifestly insecure will risk the lives and limbs of others that they may be saved some present expense. The chance of evading the law and the knowledge that pun- ishments for its infringement are light assist the greedy capitalist in endangering the pub- lic. The late explosion is attributed to the lowness of water in the boiler. The engineer, at present in custody at the Tombs, attributes it to the defective arrangements for moving the engine. The intelligent Coroner's jury now having the matter in hand will, it is to be hoped, spare no trouble in finding where the blame belongs, and should then fearlessly affix thereto its proper grade of criminality, no matter whom it reaches, A catastrophe costing so many lives and horribly wounding so many must be accounted for. Anoruer Excurx Junor is in trouble. The number is an unfortunate one in the jury box. The eighth juror in the Tweed trial, after being accepted, has been charged with the offence of opening his mouth, and relieved of duty. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is staying at the Wind- sor Hotel. Professor Weir, of Yale College, is at the Albe- marie Hotel. Ex-Senator James Harlan, of Iowa, is at the Windsor Hotel, Bishop McFarland, of Hartford, is staying at the Windsor Hotel. Solicitor of the Treasury Banfield arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. Charles Bradlaugh returned from Boston yester- day to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor James E. English, of Connecticut, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. R. B, Angus, manager of tne Bank of Montreal, has arrived at the Brevoort House. The Rey. Father Beckx, General of the Jesuits» will take up his residence in Belgium. Hon, John Crawford was yesterday sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada, Ex-Governor Henry D. Cooke, of the District of Columbia, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judges C. R. Ingalls, of Troy, and W. L. Learned, of Albany, are among the recent arrivals at the Gilisey House. Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith and ex-Congress- man W, ©. Smith, of Vermont, have apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Judge A. G, Miller, of the United States District Court of Wisconsin, who was appointed by Presi- dent Van Buren in 1838, has resigned. Commander P. F, Kane, of the United States Navy, is at the Gilsey House. Will he aid to lay the cane upon the Spanish murderers? Colonel Shepard, United States Consul at Yoko- hama, has arrived in San Franciscoon the steamer Japan. He has a leave of absence for six months, Professor Goldwin Smith arrived at the Brevoort House on Tuesday evening from Toronto and sailed for Europe yesterday in the steamship Russia. Admiral David D. Porter, United States Navy, has arrived at the Giisey House. He came on to consult with Admiral Rowan about the coming rowin’ in Cuba. 5 Major General Hancock and family have taken apartments at the St. Cloud Hotel. Is the General ready for the extension of the Department of the Atlantic to Cuba? United States Senators Dorsey, of Arkansas, and Hitchcock, of Nebraska, arrived from Europe in the steamship Spain yesterday, and are staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Major Deschamps, the most implacable of the Parisian Communists, is reported to be in our Marine corps. He headed the rabble that destroyed the Column Vendome. The Pope said recently to a diplomatist :—“1 am very well, indeed. Ieat, drink and digest my food as well as when I was forty years of age; I walk as well, and, above all, do not you think my mind is in the same condition as when I was forty years of age?” His Holiness is reported toconfide in a prophecy that he will live for ninety and more years and witness the retreat of the invaders from his estates, JAY COOKE & CO. An Attempt to Have the Firm Declared Bankrupt. PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 12, 1873, The return of the order granted by Judge Cad- walader on Jay Cooke & Co. to show cause why they should not be adjudicated bankrupts was heard in Court to-day. The proceedings took the form of @ conversation between the Judge and counsel representing the petitioning creditors, which was also participated in by counsel for de- fendants. The Judge said that, in times of unusual financial distress, the conduct of creditors towards debtors should be marked with forbearance and a spirit of toleration. The order to show cause has not legally been served on defendants, and, under the circumstances, he could not at present make adjudication against them; but he wonld order an adjourned meeting two weeks hence, and direct the publication of the order, Counsel said that the order to show cause had been served upon four of the defendants—viz., Jay Cooke, Jay Cooke, Jr., William G, Morehead and George C. Thomas, and as they had made no answer he would ask that they be adjudicated bankrupts. The Judge doupted whether this could be done as to individuals where Vidal | have been joined against the firm and means of serving all the members of the firm were within the power of the petitioner, Counsel said he would come in next kites Ne With aMdavits and apply for an injunction, sucl a8 was previously mentioned, and the appoint+ ment of a receiver. S The Judge said that if he were required to do so, and there was no objection made, he might ap- | point J, Gillingham Fill or some such prominent citizen a8 receiver of the defendants, and allow him to administer their affairs for the benefit of all the creditors, The following is the order of pubil- cation made by the Judge :— Novewnrn, 12, 1873. And now, on petition of the Logan Square Building Association and subsequent petitioners and intervening creditors, an adjourned hearing is appointed for Wednes, 26th inst., and itis ordered that the service of everal orders to show canse why said Jay Cooke & Co, should not be adjudicated bankrupts be made so tar as lt cannot be otherwise effected. This order will not be understood excusing the want of Ls ¢ personal or other service may be proper or as precluding appli- cations by any party interested at any Gime. ART MATTERS, The Reitlinger Sale Last Evening. ‘The first half of the Reitiinger collection of pic- tures was disposed of at auction last evening, at Clinton Hall, The number of times we have re- ferred to the features of the collection renders it unnecessary for us to say more at present than that the last half will go olf this evening at the same place, and that some of the most popular Kuropean artists are represented therein, ‘The art season has begun much more auspictously than & fortaight agg it Would have becom prudgat ty predict. ea, WASHINGTON. The News of the Santiago Butchery of. the State Department. MONITORS FITTING OUT: WASHINGTON, Nov, 12, 1878, The News of the Massacre Received at the State Department, Secretary Fish received to-day a telegram fron’ the Consul General at Havana stating that tho Day vana papers publish a statement, apparently fromm an oficial source, thatthe captain of the Virgin- ius, thirty-six of the crew and sixteen other® were shoton the 7th and 8th inst, at Santiago de Cuba. the Secretary immediately proceeded te to the Executive Mansion and showed the tele- gram to President Grant. A short time thereafter the Secretary tele- graphed the Consul Geueral to verify the States. ment from oMolal sources. The late excitement against the Cuban authori-’ ties, which had somewhat lessened, is revived by; to-day’s startling announcement. The news: Spread rapidly throughout the city and formed a subject of earnest comment in official and diplo« matic circles. It hag heretofore been stated that tha Castelar government peremptorily demanded @ stay of proceedings, but it seems the order nas been disregarded, thus strengthening; the remark of the Minister for Forelgn Affairs con~ cerning the impractibility of dealing with thet Cuban authorities. Monitors Fitting Out to Crutse in Caban{ Waters. The Mahopac and the Manhattan, ordered to bey put in commission and to which oficers ara already assigned, are fourth class screw vesse! iron clad, of 500 tons burden and carrying each two guns. Thess vessels will join the North Atlantic; squadron. The vessels of the navy have been sa much reduced in number that it has been foun Somewhat diMcult to promptly reinforce oui squadrons in cases of emergence, but in the cours of a few days all that can be made available will ba sent to Cuban waters, in accordance with th determination of the Cabinet meetin; yesterday. The Secretary of the pa was to-day in consu!tatiom with differen bureau officers on the subject of preparing, the vessels for sea, The government seems to be more earnest than heretofore protecting bs waters between the United States and Cuba, th great highway of all nations from Spanish molese! tation, i The Manhattan is to be ready for sea by Fridayd It ig understood that other monitors at Leaguq Island are to be made ready for sea at once, Officers Ordered to the Iron-Clads Fitting Out tor the Cuban Waters, : Commander Arthur P. Gales is ordered to th command of the iron-clad steamer Manhattan, a Philadelphia, Lieutenant Commander Richard Py Leary as executive officer of the Manhattan. Th following are also ordered to the Manbattan:—~ Licutenant Thomas Terry, Masters Nathan E. Mile! and Newton EK, Mason, Assistant Surgeon E. 7% Dorr and First Assistant Engineer Henry Snyde: Assistant Surgeon Andrew Moore is ordered t the New York Navy Yard. Commander E. R. Owe! from the Norfolk Navy Yard, is ordered to th command of the fron-clad Mahopac, at the Norfol Navy Yare. Lieutenant Isaac Hazlett is detache from the Naval Observatory and ordered to th Manhattan, Master A. B. Speyers, from the Ver. mont, to the Kansas; Assistant Paymaster Geor, A. Deering, from the Sabine, to the Manhattan First Assistant Engineer Edwin Wells, fro duty at New London, Conn., to Washington, connection with the examination of officers foi promotion. First Assistant Engineer A. T. Gree’ from the Examining Board at Washiugton, ant ordered to special duty connected with expert. ments on steam boilers. First Assistant Enginee! John Lowe and Second Assistant John T. Smit! from the Washington Navy Yard, and Second Aas sistant H.E. Rhoades from the Juniata and ord dered to the Manhattan, : The Government Hampered by Its rq nancial Necessitics=A Wretched Stata of Affairs. fi Up to midnight the State Department had no! received anything more than a confirmatio! of the execution of the Captain of tne Vil ginius and nearly fifty of the and crew. Though there is great indignation on the part of membe of the Cabinet respecting the summary executio. tt does not amount in effect to anything mor than the explosive patriotism of street loungersg The United States has a financial credit in Euro; to-day that discounts wars and rumors of war The United States is obliged to pay over $120,000, annually in gold to the foreign holders of o1 bonds, which can only be realized by 8 peaceful condition of affairs in the United States. Let the: be trouble between Spain on the one part and thi United States on the other, of a seriou: character, and the price of gold would mount upward very high. Where would the government! getita coin to pay the regular indebtedness, ¢: cept through importers? It might be said ‘o until the question of responsibility {s settled, th government is seriously agitated how to dispose ot the financial result. Otherwise diplomatic cord respondence will eventually end all there of an alarming character in recent despatches. THE WEATHER REPORT. Wark DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THR CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. O., Noy. 13—1 A. M, Probabilities, , FoR THE MIDDLE STATES, NORTHWESTERLY WINDS ‘| LOW TEMPERATURE, PARTLY CLOUDY AND pene | WEATHER, ; For New England northwesterly winds, colds: cloudy weather, clearing in the afternoon, ) For the lakes and thence to the Onio Valle northwesterly and northerly winds, low temperae, ture and clearing or clear weather. For the Ohio and lower Missourt Valleys and! thence to Arkansas and Tennessee, northwesterly winds and partly cloudy weather. For the Southern States northwesterly and north- easterly winds, Jow temperature and frequen frosts, with generally clear weather. } Reports are missing from the Southwest andi extreme Northwest. , The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im/ the temperature for the past twenty-four hours tm comparison with the corresponding day Of inst year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut'g Pharmacy, Heratp Building :— ET BT2, 1873. 1972. 178, 50 «6 42)—«8:30 P. M. [50 443. 6PM. i rt . of +e | oP. 4 ‘ 66 44412 P. o™ Average te averane temperature ior correspon: last year, 615g! BREAD AND BEEF FOR THE POOR, Just now, when so many thousand families are in danger of wanting for the necessaries of Itfe,, owing to the slackening of business and the dull) times in various industrial pursuits, it is well to: know that our citizens are making every effort to, stay the progress of hunger and distress, Among the projects of relief is one to be known as thet! “Bread and Beef House,” which will be located up! town, and will minister to the wants of the needy somewhat alter the manner of the tnstitutions under the auspices ot the St. John’s Guild in thar lower part of the city, More than this it tay scarcely hecessary to It is in the hands of fe Anthon Memorial church, which ts now occupte: io a the plans for the work 0 certain to be painfully demanded this winter, ‘To further the, project tn a financial sense Mr. De Cordova wilt give a lecture on “Mra, Grundy,” at the Plity-thirdy Street Baptist church this evening, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the sustenance of this de~ serving new charity. THE PLANTER'3 BALE OF COTTON, The bale of cotton sold recently to E. Wattafel. der & Co, for the benefit of the Memphis sufferers, at $300 was forwarded, free of expense, by steamer, ussia to Liverpool, consigned to A. Hodmany, who in turn will sell the cotton ta Liverpoot (or taq same benevolent purpos