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5 SECRET SOCIETIES. From the Eleusinian Mysteries to the Mysteries of Tammany Hall. ——— A GLANCE AT THE JESUITS. Secret Political Clubs During the French Revolution. TUB CARBONART AND YOUNG ITALY. Our Know Nothings and Our Granger: im speaking of the mysteries which surround secret societies De Quincey, who was generally sentimental when he sought to be philosophical, said, ‘To, be hid- den amidst crowds is sublime—to come down hidden amidst crowds from distant generations is sublimely subjime.” Small fraternities of men forming them- selves into secret associations for some moral or politi- cal purpose, and working silently to gain their ends, have been, from the times of the Eleusinian mysteries to the days which mark the power of Tammany Hall, the sources of wonderment, of fear and of danger. Men stand in awe of secret forces even when’ it is certain | there is mo real power bebind them, De Quincey | was unquestiondbly right, in pronouncing the | mysteries of Eleusis 8 only great hoax, | and his characterization of Freemasonry as being to | modern times what the Eleusinian secrets were to the ancient Greeks is in the main true also. These societies | were the ouly ones in history not formed with an avowed or ulterior political purpose, and yet both were some- times brought into political collision either by the de- signs of ambitious men or the awe and fear of the mul- titude, Aleibiades, the bandsomest and most accom- plished as well as the most dissolute man of his time, andthe favorite of the Athenian populace, was practi- cally driven into exile upon the accusation of muti. lating the statue of Hermes during a nocturnal de- batich, As A consequence was bis remarkable military career, in which he fought one day with the Spartans and Chians agaist Athens, on the next seduced Tissa- phernes, che Persian satrap, mto fighting against the Lacedwmonians, and finally over- came all his former friends, —Tissaphernes included, only to celebrate his victories in be- half of tne Athenians by the observance with excep- tional pomp and grandeur of those very Eleusinian mysteries which he had started by profaning. Iu the | same way no episode in American history was so bitter as the political movement which grew out of the at- | pt of Morgan to expose the secrets of the Masonic | Order, Here was a society without any political pur- poses whatever suddenly made the centre of every po- litical movement of the time. Fora number of years Masonry was in everybody’s thoughts. People feared it because its mummertes were shrouded by a veil of secrecy, and to the flerce opposition to it we owe some of the most gifted and brilliant public men of the last generation—Wiliam H. Seward, Thaddeus Stevene, | Horace Greeley and Thurlow Weed. BAKLY SKCRET SOCIETIES—THE ELEUSINIANS AND THE ESSENES. The history of secret orders has never been well or | imyartially told. The Abbé Barnel wrote a book, which | was soon afterward followed by a similar work by Pro- fessor Robinson, the purposes of both being to demon. trate that the secret societies of Europe were a dark and damnable conspiracy for the extirpation of Chris- tianity. But, after all, there is no real history of either the ancient or the modern orders, It is the fashion, however, to regard the old time mysteries as good in intention, and the modern secret societies as only evil m purpose, Of the Eleusinian mysteries we are told that they were intended to propagate belief in the immortality of the soul, and yet purpose or phi- sosophy, aswell as secret, there was virtually none, and we can not help agreeing with De Quincey that all the visitors of Eleusis must have abominated the hoax | ut upon them— Nor have I one espied That did not slackly walk away as if dissatished. ‘The Essenes, who come next in order, were probably Christians in disguise—at least they held to the received doctrines of the Christian religion—but they must have deen as ridiculous as the followers of Ann Lee or the Yelievers in the teachings of Father Noyes. De Quincey’s proposition that they were in fact the early Christian Zhurch seems preposterous, since the traces of the sect sould not so utterly have disappeared after the fall of terusalem. In those early times, and down past the Middle Ages, secret societies were mostly religious, put afterward they became more political in character. Che religious element still largely predominated, how- wer, and the Reformation brought into existence one of the most remarkable secret socicties ever formed— he Society of Jesus. This-Order was intended by its ‘ounder, Ignatius Loyola, as a sort of religious militia, | and its purpose was the propagation of Christianity among the heathen, 4 GLANCE AT JESUIT HISTORY. Very different was the work in which the society really engaged. It was the purpose of Loyola to take | his little company to Palestine, bat the Order found a | congenial field in resisting the spread of Protestantism | in Burope and counteracting the measures of Protes- tant sovereigns, The society was formed in 1538, and within two years some of the members of tbe Order were in different parts ofthe world. The first impor- tant political undertaking committed to the Jesuits was a well directed opposition to the measures of Henry Vill. in Ireland. The society spread with unparalleled | Fapulity, but from the beginning it met with ferce op- position i every country of Europe. The Spanish Dishops were opposed to it, In France it was resisted not only by many of the bishops but by the Parliament. Quéen Elizabeth expelled the Jesuit nuncios from Ireland who bad been sent there auring the reign of her father, In Transylvania they were expelled as carly a8 1588, Prince Sigismund, in wEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1875.-wirH SUPPLEMENT. looked to”other sources pesiaes tne Jesuits for its prin- ciples of action, if not its pohtical principles. It was impossible that the jolly band of whom Halleck sung, There's a barrel of beer at Tamm: ‘And the Bucktails are sw: In the time of my boyhood "tw ‘For a seat und cigar ‘mid the jovial throng, should long refrain from active participation in the polities of the time, especially as the organization of the Jacobins was just then a potent il and ex- ample among republicans in every part of the world. ‘This was the most celebrated of the clubs of the first French Revolution. It was organized in the same year with Tammany Hall, and soon sequired such promi- nence that all who aspired to political influence sought admission to it, and every political question of moment Was debuted by its members before it was offered in the Assembly. It became not only the controlling power of the Revolution in Paris, but throughout France, the aiiihated societies implicitly obeying the orders issued from headquarters In spite of its discussions and debates it was im fact a secret society of the closest and deadliest character, and a compara- tively small number of persons assumed its direction. Robespierre Was at once its creature and its master, and his fall was its overthrow, It is not to be doubted that the Jacobins accomplished great good. They dis- seminated in every part of the kingdom the revolution- ary principles which overturned the throne and the Revolution itself But the good they accomplished was more than overbalanced by the evils which spi from their organization, They upheld the Reign of ‘Terror as well agp red the revolutionary ardor of the French people, and all the horrors of that era of injus- tice and bis are directly traceable to the manipu- tion of the Jacobin machinery by the conspirators of whom Robespierre was the ablest, the most subtle aud the most implacable. LATER POLITICAL SOCTETIRS—THE CARDONARI After the Jacobins aud the kindred societies of the French Revolution one of the most noted secret politi- eal organizations in Europe was the Carbonari of Italy and nce, So stringent was this society in the preservation of its secrets that any revelations touch- 1B 168 OF ization or purposes were punished with death. e members of the society were all supposed to be charcoal burners, and the place of meeting was called the baracca, or collier’s hut. Each hut was represented in the republic or the society as a whole, Its existence first became known in 1810, when the Neapolitan republicans were opposing the usurpation of Murat and the rule of Ferdinand. eir numbers and their political influence raprily imereased in both countries, and all the insurrectionary movements from 1819 to’ 1822 were attributed’ to them. The purposes of the society seem plain enough oven in its motto, “Revenge upon the wolves who de- your the lambs.’ Carbonarism had no fixed political purpose. It called upon men to overthrow, but did not teach them how to build up. Its numerical strength was very great, but among its members were many malcontents who Were only happy in the work of destruction. But the Carbonar: did not know how to turn their strength to account. Their leaders were not of the people and had little real. sympathy with the people, When the preservation of secrecy becaine impossible and the necessity of action, which was the consequence, became apparent, not baving a principle upon which to concentrate their purposes, they sought unity in aman—a prince—and this was their ruin, Charles Albert used them to aid him in his intended usurpation of bis brother’s throne, but when be no further use for them he threw them off and the Carbonari expired. The whole strength of the society was in its Secrecy, but absolute secrecy and effective action are incompatible, and so when it was stripped of its strength it fell to pieces. YOUNG ITALY AND YOUNG RUROPE. Among the members of the Carbonari was Joseph Maxzini, who subsequently became the most noted con- spirator of his time, Mazzini had. little faith in Car- bonarism, because it did not fight for unity as well as liberty, ahd he subsequently formed his association of Young Italy upon broader princtpies’ than any found in the symbolism of the Carbopari. This organization was begun in 1831, while Mazzini was a refugee at Mar- seilles, Ite leading spirits were young men, most of them unknown to the world or to each other. Their principles of action were education toward insurrection and insurrection to revolution. In less than a year after its foundation it was the do.ninant association throughout the whole of Italy. From 1632 unul 1834 Young Italy was actively at work disseminating repub- lican principles and fomenting insurrection. The secrets of the society were well kept and everything was iu read- ness for a rising, when an accident betrayed in partits or- ganization and destroyed its usefulness. 1ts ramifications extended throughout Italy, and it had many members in the Sardinian Army. Two artillerymen had a quar- rel about 4 woman aud one of them made threats which Jed to the arrest of the other aud the ruin of the asso- ciation, AS in the case of the Carbonari, secrecy was the weakness as well asthe strength of the society, and the preaching of massacre deprived 1t of the sym: pathies of many of the irienas of liberty. Even Maz zini tells us that in the councils of the association Farini used to turn up his coat sleeves to the elbows, saying, “‘My lads, we must bathe our arms in blood.’ After the failure of bw revolutionary designs Mazzini organized a society similar in design and purpose to his Young Italy, which he called Young Europe, but its effect was only to” agitate and educate, and it never promoted any insurrectionary movements anywhere on the Continent. AMERICAN SOCIETIES—THE KNOW NOTHINGS. In the Unitea States secret political societies are un- necessary, and outside of this city, with the exception of a single instance, they have scarcely existed at all. The exception was the famous Know Nothing move- ment from 1853 to 1855. The organization was of spon- taneous growth, and the existence of the society was not known until its influence was felt in the elections, Ite principles, so far as it bad any principles, were bos- tility to the Roman Catholic Church and to the natural- ization of citizens, Its first successes were came the glameur of aetgy | which surrounded it; but when its existence became known to men of all parties and all creeds it rapidly fell into disrepute, and to-day few mee men are willing © acknowledge that they ever be- jonged toit. Its effects were baleful in every respect and the only men who profited by it were the political ad- venturers who directed its councils and dictated its can- didates for office. The society known as the Grangers is modelled alter it to some extent, but is scarcely a se- cret political organization, and its influence is unimpor- tant. Tammauy Hall is not so elaborate in its forms or organizauon, aad a few men wield all the political wer of the organization. There was a ume when ‘illiam M. Tweed, now a fugitive from justice, wielded all the powers of the democratic party in this city and State, and at the time of hus downtall he seemed able to dictate the policy of the party for the whole country. John Keily assumed all the authority of the fallen *‘Boss,’’ but with less success, and at the last election the people admonished him that secret political socie- Lies were hateful to them, AN ENGLISH M P. IN TAMMANY. | WHAT MR. FORSTER THINES OF DEMOCRACY AFTER HIS VISIT TO THE SACHEMS, [From the London Standard, Nov. 25.] Mr. Forster's trip to the United States last year has not been without its influence upon his political opin- jons, and he is candid enough to admit the fact. Universal suffrage, which seemed so beautiful while viewed at the distance of thousands of miles across an intervening ocean, did not look quite so pleasant a thing on close inspection, Mr. Forster was received by the chiefs of Tammany Hall, and, as European governments are accustomed to show honor to dis- tinguished visitors by throwing open to them arsenals and dockyards, so the Sachems laid bare to Mr. For- | eter’s scrutiny the devices by which they manage the turbulent democracy. He came away dis- jilusionized, and by no means charmed. Neither caucus nor nominating convention, nor ward priming nor repeater, nor striker | was quite to his taste; and it is very much to his | credit that the first time he addressed bis constituents since his retarn he had the courage and honesty to tell them as much. Mr. Forster was one of those who, some years ago, professed an exaggerated admiration for American institutions, That was Jn his green youth, no doubt, beiore he learned to thitk for himself, notwithstanding he was friendly to them, being com- pelled by the Assembly of the tates to vign the decree ‘of banishment. They were banished from Venice in 1606, and were not allowed to return until more than fitty yearsafverward. During the latter half of the eighteenth century the Order met with ferce opposition | in every part of Europe, especially in Catholic coun- | tries. In./ortugal, in 175%, @ royal edict deciared them | to be traitors, and the Order was suppressed. In France they were very unpopular among the people, and in | 1764 they were expelled by Louis XV., at the instance of Mme. de Pompadour. In 1767 all the Jesuits in Spain | and the Spanish colonies were arrested at the sare hour hipped to the Papal territory. The same plan | uppression was followed in Naples, Parma and | . Buch was the opposition to the Order in every | part of Christendom that m 1773 Pope Clement XIV. ‘Was compelled to suppress the society altogether, and St wag not restored until the initial year of the present century. Since their reorganization the Jesuits bave not exerted a tithe o the inflaence they once pos- tessed, but opposition to them has not disappeared. They tave been repeatedly suppressed in France dur ing the last three quarters of @ century, and every will recail the fact that they were expelled in 1873, The ferce opposition to the r was only equalled by the determined propagand- ‘em of the society. In name only, especially during the first century of its existe was the Society of Jesus a religions Order. Every species of me and cupping was jaid to their doo! nd the ‘Thugs and assassins of India were not more bloodthiraty and unrelenting than the Jesuits are represented. They are charged with participating in the atrocities of the Duke of Alva in the Low Countries. The massacre of St Bartholomew Is attributed to them as much as to Catherine de Medici. Queen Elizabeth repeatedly charged them with fomenting plote against her person and seeking to overthrow her throne. The murder of William, Prince of Orange, iu 1584, the assassination of Henry 11. of France m an attempt upon the life ‘of Louts XV. for imposing silence on the polemics of their Order, repeated attempts upon the life of James 1, and even « conspiracy against George |. are among the crimes imputed to the Jesuits. Zeal in re siting the progress of Protestantism is not in itself asdMcient explanation of these phenomena, ‘The teuication of attachment to the Order, blind obedience to the commands of superior authority and the secrecy of ite measures and methods were the con troll lorces of the society, just as they are to-day the controlling forces of Tammany Hall and of every other association dangerous \o political and religious Diberty, oRCRET. CLERS—THE JACOBINS, A political society like that which rules the city of New York finds ite iwepiration and jtx model in the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits begun we a religious Order, but soon winto a dark and dangerous political engine. Tammany Hall, in the days when \t was known ag the Columbian (Order, was ® patriove society, instituied to commemorare the glories and virtues of the Revolution; but it soon for st ite ardor for the past and undertook to direct the and stil! Jeaned upon the masters at whose feet he had been brought up. Still it was by no means an easy thing to admit that the last lesson he had learned was the discovery that hig former worship of universal suffrage was Unreasonable and ill-founded, Mr. Forster | adds that the devices of which he divapproves are un suited to England. In that we cordially agree. But when he goes on to say that they are impossible here we an: swer that we hope #0, but that depends largely upon the policy we adopt. If we were to borrow American inatitutions we should probably reproduce abuses anal ogous vo those existing in America, One other lesson Mr. Forster has brought away trem his American tour. He bas changed his mind in regard to minority repre- sentation. That he opposed the three-cornered constit- uencies, as they have been called, he frankly admits. But though he still condemns the actual plan choset he now acknowledzes that he has been converted to th principle, He has seen universal suffrage at work, met the men it delights to honor, has wit nessed the fruits of its legisintion and once more has been disillusionized. ‘The great beart of the people,” he has discovered, docs not always beat in unison with justice, right and truth—does not always prefer the good to the bad, the noble to the ignoble. the wise to the foolish. On the contrary, the multitude is very easily led astray, and always stands in need of counsellors. But the worst fruit of universal enf. frage, as it exists in the United States and in France, is that the poor and ignorant immensely outnumber well-to-do and instrueted. The latter, therefore, have no chance of giving expression to thelr views and pref. erences, and in consequence they abstain altogether from politics. By their withdrawal the professional politicians—the men, that 1s, who make of politica a trade out of which they derive a livelibood, and not sel dom wealth and position—obtain this advantage:—They organize parties, get the machinery of elections into their bands and “run tbe government” for their own profit. Mr, Forster is acute enough to discern and candid enough to admit that if caucus rule and political corraption are to be brought to an end in the United States, and prevented from growing up elsewhere in large Constituencies, it can only be by giving minoritics representation. In this way property, intelligence and culture will obtain a voice in the conduct of affairs which, if not quite proportionate to their imporiance, will at least be influential, and the majorities, to hold their own, will be compelled to select respectable can- didater, while an agcess to public life will be opened to Pag who disdain or are not fitted to ask favors from the mob. CORONER'S CASES. Officer Kelly, of the Nineteenth precinct, found the body of a male infant ina grocery wagon at the corner of Fiitieth street and Lexington avenue yesterday morn- ing. An unknown man, apparently about sixty years of age, fell overboard at the foot of Delancey street, at , bebe ‘and control the future. The Jesuite had a Several—Tammany has “bow” = =Bet Tammany two o'clock yesterday morning, and was drowned, Hie budy was recovered and sent lo the Morgue, STANLEY’S MISSION WORK. HIS APPEAL FOR THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF AFRICA—WHO WILL AID THE GOOD KING MTESA OF UGANDA? (From the London Telegraph, Nov. 19.) We are happy to make it known that the appeal addressed by King Mtesa of Uganda to the people of this nation, and conveyed to them in Mr, Stanley’s letter, bas already met with @ worthy response, It will be remembered that this African ruler, who gov- erps with absolute authority one of the fairest and largest realms of Equatorial Africa, begged the Com- missioner of the New Yor&k Hwnavv and Daily Tele- graph to invite from England, in the royal name, those who would come to tnstruct him and his people in re- ligious and moral truth, and help them to develop and civilize their country. The King pledged himself to receive any such visitors with the warmest welcome, and to support their efforts in every way. Mr. Stanley estimated at $25,000 the cost of a mission, the right programme and purposes of which he took great pains to define, We ourselves, in commenting upon this remarkable appeal, challenged the attention of the missionary societies to an opportunity which all African authorities would agree ip regarding as unex- ampled, We have now the satsfaction of announcing that a generous donor—whose name for the present least must not be told—has placed the sum of $50,000 ul the disposal of the Church Missionary Society, in order to answer the invitation of King Mtesa and to carry out this great and promising experiment of establishing a Christian centre of civilization in the heart of the Dark Continent, The society in question bas always shown an enlightened appreciation of the best way to spread the Gospel, namely—by uniting evangelical labors with the arts of in- dustry and commerce, and thus wisely blend. ing moral and social regeneration, No_ re- ligiows body could be better trusted, therefore, to make a good use of the munificent fund now offered— a fund which, large as it be will no doubt be soon aug- mented through the great interest which a movement so important as this cannot fail to excite. The Com- mittee of the Chureh Missionary Society is summoned toa special meeting on Tuesday next for the purpose of discussing the preliminaries of the undertaking; and as no doubt heed be extertained that the society will cordially accept this high task, so we are quite sure | that its plans and proceedings, if judiciously framed, will be watched with universal sympathy and aided on al! sides by a public support which will be'strong enough to set asideevery miuor obstacle. This step, wisely taken, may prove the beginning of Africa’s reul eman- cipation. A GENEROUS RESPONSR TO MTESA’S APPEAL THROUGH THR AMERICAN RXPLORER, We have already (London Telegraph) received letters from Christians of almost every denomination, urging instant and unanimous action on the summons which has reached the heart of Christendom from the remote African kingdom of Uganda ‘No appeal,”’ says one | of our correspondents, the Rey. Thomas Locke, of Til- | stone, Tarporley, ‘canbe more worthy the sympathy and assistance of all true Englishmen, It is an appeal to the love of the truth, to the pumanity and to the pubhe spirit of all who have read Mr. Stani and have learned the anxious desire of Mtess subjects. Through him Africa hascalled upon us to send her the Gospel, with civilization, and science.”’ Mr. Locke suggests that any expedition which may be formed and dispatched to King Mtesa’s territory shall consist of—First, Ministers of the Gospel; second, Physicians and men of science; third, Persons quali- fied to instruct the inhabitants of Uganda in the manufacture of implements of husbandry, clothes, furniwure, and other useful artich fourth, Schoolmasters, Tt is a most encou- raging fact that our correspondents generally—whether clergymen of the Church of England, ministers of dif- ferent sects or philanthropists stirred by the hope of | conferring all spiritual and temporal blessings on Africa | —speak of this projected mission as a national and universal, not a mere proselytizing work, limited to the purpose of making converts from heathenism, ye first the kingdom of God, and aj other things shall be added unto you.”’ It is in the full spirit of this pre- | cept that King Mtesa’s invitation Is readily accepted, as we fed, by the thoughtful and practical body of | Christian Englishmen. Such, they point out, was the fuel that fed the burning zeal or Livingstone. "With the | light of religion he would fain have kindled in the ‘kness of that vast African land knowledge of every beneticent kind, the arts of humanity and peace, the nobility of labor, the civilizing influences of | commerce. Faithful to his imberitance of duty, the dauniless pioneer of freedom and enhghten- ment in Africa, Henry Stanley, gives tmpetus to the wortby desire and ambition of the Islam monarch, in whom Islamism has been already undermined v4 the | young white traveller's strength of influence and per- suasion. In his conversations with King Mtesa the joint commissioner of the New York Hkkatp and | ‘Daily Telegraph has made such impression as only | needs @ quick following up by the arrival of a Christian mission. In response to this healthily inspiriting appeal many suggestions, offers of personal aid and approving com- ments bad been sent to us before the munificent offer alluded to above was known. One correepondent aptly recalls the circumstances of a mission undertaken some fifteen years past by Mr. Duncan, a layman, who went out to Metila Katla, one of the darkest regions of British Columbia and taught the natives, who were sunk in the lowest depths of neathenism, the truths of Christianity. “At the same time he taught them the rudiments of agriculture, and gave them instructions in housebuilding, in-sbipbuilding, carpentering, tailor-" oring, shoemakitig and many other useful trades. For the girls he established excellent schools and trained them as servants—this he did almost single handed— and at the present moment there is not in the whole of | the Continent of North America a more successful mis- gion station than that of Metla Katla.”” The Rev. Charles Phillips, vicar of St. Matthew's, Oakley square, writes thus:—'Many of your readers must have been deeply moved by the invitation which | the King of Uganda has sent through Mr. Stanley, your commissioner, to England for missionaries. The | Temarks of your leading article on the same subject have, doubtless, deepened that feeling, and, since every | movement must begin in some quarter, I have taken upon myself to write this letter with a view of setting | in motion, if possible, a plan that may issue in sending | teers to Cuba, He does not go so far as to ask that “Seek | P | play of eheap heroism for the commander of a few DON CARLOS AND CUBA. THE PRETENDER'S DEFIANCE OF AMERICAN IDEAS OF ANNEXATION—HIS PROFRESION TO ALFYONSO—NAVAL THREAT AGAINST THE MAR- ITIME COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES, {From the London Times, Nov. 19.) * * * Don Carlos bas heard in bis mountains the sad pews of Spain’s latest difficulty. The American Republic threatens the common country of himself and Don Alfonso, Audacious communications have been made to the government of Madrid—communications to which a Spaniard should have but one answer. How- ever unworthily the present government may represent the country, it is impossible to suppose that it will yield to American dictation, A great struggle is then before it, Whatis the duty of the legitimate King? An exaited patriotism inspires bim to postpone the assertion of his rights, however sacred and inde- feasible, to the good of bis country, He there fore addresses, in the approved royal fashion, a letter to ‘‘My Cousin Alfonso,’ and proposesa truce, And, indeed, not only @ truce, but an alliance of the most complete and zealous co-operation. Of course, it is necessary to his dignity to begin with the assertion of bis right, and to point out that all these troubles arise from the perversity which causes Spain to reject her king. ‘The revolution which you represent is respon- sible for the depth of ignominy at which Spain has ar- rived, But for the revolution this parricidal rebellion would never have been born. Had | been reigning, it would never have gathered strength.’” ‘Legitimate right alone can reform without constraint, yield with- out weakness, repress without anger, govern without passion.” It is bardly worth while . to criticize these commonplaces seriously but it ma be remarked that —‘“‘parricidal rebelliot were born and gathered Lig he 10 Span- ish colonies before the male line of the Bourbons was superseded, and that the legitimate ht of King Ferdinand was quite incapable of those healing influ- ences which Don Carlos enumerates. As to the insur- rection in Cuba itself a Spanish journal reminds the agro that, at an early period of the outbreak, Don arlos came to an understanding with the insurgents, and appointed Sefior Aldana Captain General of the island. But, whatever may have been done in the path Don Carlos now thinks only of the national honor, is cousin has to choose between war and the inde- pendence of Cuba The integrity of the coun- ty is im danger; parties disappear, and there remain only Spaniards. “If war’ breaks out I offer you a truce as long as the | struggle with the United States lasts, it quite understood, however, that a foreign war is the only motive of the truce! propose, and that I firmly main- tain my rights to the Crown, as I retain the certainty of one day grasping it.’ Thus, until the United States shall have been thoroughly defeated and Cuba rendered loyal and happy, Spaniards at home are to refrain from slaughtering cach other, but immediately afterward they are to begin again. The two rival Princes are to act with a common object by land and sea’ Don Carlos admits that he hag at present no territory but that which he occupies. He cannotsend his loyal. volun- his Basques and Navarresse shall be transported in Alfonsist vessels, with the understanding that they are to be duly brought back and restored to their old positions when the civil fight re- commences. But he will do all he cau. ‘When the American enemy threatens the Carlst portion of Spain the government of King Alfonso need be under no un- | easiness. Don Carlos will undertake the defence, and the Alfonsist army will only have to provide for the safety of Alfonsist territory. The Pyrenca Provinces and the Cantabrian coast will thus be secure; but Don Carlos will co-operate still more actively. *4 willarm | as privateers the indomitable sons of those shores which gave El Cano, Legarpi and | Churruca. 1 will pursue the maritime commerce of our enemies by going to seek them, perhaps in their own orta, The absurdity of this letter is so conspicuous that we cannot gee in it the design of any able adviser to place the government of Madrid in a difficulty. The Ministers of King Alfonso will be able to reply to the overtures of President Grant, undeterred by the fear that their moderation will appear timid and ignoble beside the flaming patriotism of the Pretender. If even his letter had been couched in different terms it would be a dis- thousand peasants, perched among the mountains, to talk of sharing the dangers and burdens of the nation, when it should commit itself to a transmarine war with a Power so formidable he United States. But as it 1s the communicat on is simply ridiculous, and suggests the notion of some sudden impulse of pio f and pom- ity rather than the scheme of an artful politician. it will rather serve the Alfonsist cause and detract from the effect of those successes of tho Carlist arms which are still reported. PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE PA- PACY, {From the Manchester (Eng.) Guardian, Noy. 24.} “Vaticanism in the United States” is the theme of a Temarkable letter published by the Daily News from its ‘New York correspondent, The Des Moines speech, in which President Grant appeared as the defender of the common school system againt the real or supposed danger of a combined ultramontane attack, has been widely treated in America, as well as this country, as a mere electioneering manifesto, and entitled, therefore, to no serious weight. The Daily News correspondent, however, assures us that it was something more than a party device. Tho subject of “Roman aggression” is, he says, one on which the President feels deeply. He has tong looked upon the progress of the Catholic Church in the United States with ‘‘alarm,” and al- | though, if wo remember rightly, he went through | the form of congratulating Cardinal McCloskey | on his elevation to the purple, ‘it is | hardly a secret” that he was ‘‘specially chagrined’’ at out persons qualified to blish the Church of Christ in the kingdom of King Mtesa After what has been | said im your paper itis not necessary for me to dwell | on the :mportance of carrying out this work. The to meet with fit persons willing to andertake foreign missions, and 1 am happy to say | am acquainted with | a gentleman who, by his experieuce and qualifications, is eminently suited and willing to take in hand this | great enterprise, The other requirement is money. Should any society or committee be disposed to engage in carrying out this work 1 should be happy to put them in communication with the geutleman to whom I refer.’” THE POLAR REGION. PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE ARCTIC, [From the London News, Nov. 20.] The following has been forwarded tw us from the Ad- Her Masesty’s Snrp Aterr, miralty :— Urwnsivix, July 22, 1875, } Sm —I have the honor to imform you that Her Maj- esty’s ships Alert and Discovery arrived here this morning. 2 Leaving Rittenbank at six o'clock A. M. on the 17th inst., we experiencea light southerly winds and calms in the Waigat Strait. The Valorous was seen at anchor off the Rittenback coal mine, but a thick fog prevented my communicating with her. 3. 1 arrived at Proven on the eve of the 19th, and having entered hands as Esquimuax dog driver and in- terpreter for the Discovery, I left for this port yester- day morning. 4. 1 have still sufficient coal on the upper deck of the Alert to enable the two ships to reach the edge of the ice in Melville Bay without having touched their regu- jar supply. 5. The winter here has been a very mild one, but the spring is backward; by all accounts the season is, on the whole, very favorable for us. The whaling ships passed this portearly in June, and, not having since been seen, must have made a successful passage through Melville Bay, 6. In conseqnence of the energetic help of Mr. Smith. Inspector of North Greenland, | have been successful in obtaining sixty dogs, two-thirds of which are full |" grown powerful animals. 7. Allon board are in good health and epirits, and | we look forward to aquick passage tw Cape York, the | barometer baving risen during the last three days with @ southwest wind to an unusual beight, wiy with a northerly one, six o'clock. 1 have, &c., 8. ‘The Secretary of the Admiralty. nd now going I ghail leave this evening NARES, Captain, A CHILD'S SAD DEATH. Coroner Croker held an inquest yesterday afternoon in the ease of the little girl, Katie Jordan, who shot herself last Saturday evening while playing with a pistol, at the residence of ber parents, No, 243 West | Forty-second street. The jury rendered @ verdict of dental shooting. The ‘victim of this accident was daughter of General Thomas Jordan, who served 5 eral Beauregard during the rebellion, been known in connection with the Ouban insurrection, The General bad been to Staten Island to look alter a vacant house he bas there, and, while returning, stopped at » confectioner’s and bought some sweetmeats and knicknacks for the little girl After supper he told her to his overcoat pocket and «he would get the things fe bad brought her, She complied, ana while ransackiny the pocket found a very email pistol which the General had been in the habit of carrying, This ehe took and began playing with, enying, while holding it to her PP heed, “Maar I should shoot myself.” The words had scarcely escaped her lps when the pistol snapped and the ball entered her forehead and pene- trated her brain, She died almost instantly, ACCIDENTS. Kate Shaughnessy, aged seventy cight years, fell erday morning, at the corner of Twentieth street and Third avenue, und broke her leg. She was sont to Bellevue Hospital. Conductor George Sprague, who was some time ago injared on the Southern Railroad at Richmond Hill, 16 understood to be sinking rapidly, uo hoves being euter- tained of his recovery, missionary societies seem to find it the chief difficulty | is the compliment thus paid to America by the Pope, And, what is of far greater importance, the Presi- dent in assuming this attitude toward the Papal system simply reflects, we are told, the convictions and fee ing f large numbers of his countrymen. The Cen | Republican Committee has issued a pamphiet which is | practically a declaration of war against the Papacy. It reviews the conflict between the Vatican and the Ger- man Empire, and expresses unbounded admiration of Prince Bismarck’s ecclesiastical policy. It then passes on to notice the close alliance between the ultramontaines: | and the democratic party in the States, and declares that this alliance is directed to objects which are ‘‘suf- ficiently defined to excite in the minds of our citizens apprehension, ifnotalarm,”” Had this pamphlet reached us untouched by the commentator’s hand, the robability is that most European observers would ive regarded it very much as they are in tho | habit of regarding the general mass of American party manifestoes. In the United States every- | thing is considered fair im electioncering as in war. Party managers do not pause to discuss the grave consequences that may possibly result from their words or deeds, The boilot box .is the one object upon which their gaze is fixed, and to secure a triumph there they are, as a rule, ready to act without troubling | themseives about anything else, It is well known that the Irish vote is always cast on the democratic side, and if the republican leaders thought they could gain | anything by raising a ‘No Popery” cry they would | not hesitate to raise it, nowever much bad blood might be the consequence. According to the Daily News correspondent, however, it would be doing the Central’ Committee a grievous injustice to attribute their present movement | | to a mere desire to snatch a temporary triumph. They | represent a deep and resolute popular conviction that now “the most important matter for the consideration | of the American people is the relation of the Roman Catholic Church to the civil power.” A decisive check | must be given to the ambitious designs of the altra- montanes, and “all the mdications now point to an open ant)-Catholic campaign in preparation for the eleo- | tions of 1876.” If this merely means that the main- | tenance of the common school system and the exclu- | sion of the Church from any share of the public funds are henceforth to occupy a position of prominence tn the republican programme the republicans have our | entire sympathy. To go heyond this would be bhazard- ous—more hazardous, perhaps, in the United States than almost anywhere else. “CHRIS” O'CONNOR, A number of the prominent professional oilliard players met last night at tho Spingler House and adopted resolutions of regret for the death of the late Christopher O'Connor. ALMOST A CENTENARLAN. Mra. Young, widow of Oliver Young, who died at Babylon on Saturday, lacked only foar months and fifteen days of being a centenarian. Her membership of the Presbyterian church at Babylon extended over forty-seven years, A YOUTHFUL MOTHER. Mrs. Newton, whose death at Holbrook from the effects of an explosion of kerosene bas been noted, was only sixteen years and six months old, and yet leaves a babe fifteen months old. FIRES, About five o'clock yesterday morning fire was discov. ered in the cellar of the four story brown stone building No. 887 Lexington avenue, owned and occupied by City Chamberlain J. Nelson Tappan. Building and furniture ‘were damaged to the amount of $1,000, which 1s fally covered by insurance, The origin of the fire is un- known. At two o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out on board the tugboat J, N. Varker, at the foot of Twenty- sixth etreet, North River, destfoying the cabin, pilot house and galley, causing a damage of $2,000. The boat wowned by J. J. Austin, of Albany, and was insured. igation of the caure of the fire which con- ‘ble with @ valuable horse, Hoboken ay nue, Jersey City, on Saturday evening, shows that a barrel of kerosene had been stored in the stable and a RAPID TRANSIT. Interviews with the New Commissioners. Why Another Inquiry Must Be Made and _ How It Will be Carried On. Extraordinary Powers of the Commission. FACTS FOR THE PUBLIC, Following the publication m the Henan of the in- telhgence that Mr. John T. Agnew, formerly Commis- sioner in the Department of Docks; Mr. Oliver BH. Palmer, the legal mind in the commission, and Mr. E. Z. Lawrence, had been named by the Supreme Court to determine whether the New York Elevated Railroad shall be constructed on the route authorized by the First Rapid Transit Commission, notwithstanding the opposition of property owners along the proposed line, @ reporter was sent to interview the gentlemen named on the subject of their appointment, what the nature of their duties are and how they propose to perform them. As usual in such cases the gentlemen inquired of had received their first intimation of their ap- pointment on such commission through the columns of the Heraty, Mr, Oliver H. Palmer, however, as the representative of the law on the commission, was prepared to speak for them, in so far as the expression of the necessity for a correct understanding of the facts in the rapid transit case and the duties of the new commission in regard to them are concerned. ‘As to the reason why they had not been informed of their appointment when called upon, it is sufficient to say that the officers In connection with it had not haa time to perform that duty before the HrRaup reporter was with them, It is the duty of the attorney of the petitioners to inform the Commissioners concerning the requirements of such portions of the act of the’ Legislature as bear directly upon the case as it stands at present, and to serve upon them the notice of their appointment in the form of a certified copy of the order appointing them. When this shall have been done the Commissioners will meet and organize for the purpose of hearing what remains to be aid in regard to rapid transit, pro and con, and decide upon the order of proceedings. In the meantime, however, it is felt to be of first im- portance that the public, and the property owners on the proposed line for rapid transit should be tpformed exactly as to the law in the case, what ia proposed and what is opposed, as far as the plan laid down comes into the case, That there are very grave errors con- cerning the improvement is apparent from the unneces- sary fears of many prominent gentlemen in regard to it, and for the purpose of correcting them the following statement is made :— The railway commissioners, unable to get the consent of one-half of the property owners along the proposed line, a8 required: by the act, there is a further provis- jon that in case of such failure commissioners shall be appointed by the Court, who shall give a due hearing to the parties interested and then make their report to the Court as to whether such railway ought to be con- structed. If they report that such railway ought to be laid their decision is to be taken in lieu of the consent of the property owners. ‘The act which provides for the appointment of this second commission provides that whenever it shall ap- pear that there is need of a steam railway for the trans- portation of passengers the Board of Sapervisors may appoint five commissioners, who shall be residents of the county, who shall have full power to provide for it, as directed by the act, When appointed such com. missioners shall give a bond t the peogle of the State of New York, in the penal sum of $25,000, for the faithfal performance of their duties. The said commissioners shall, within thirty ys after their organization, determine apon the necessity for such railway, and if they find it to be necessary they shall within sixty days fix the route, and they shall have the exclusive power to locate the route ove: under or through or across the streets, avenues, pla or lands, except Broadway and Fifth avenue, below Fifty-ninth street and Fourth avenue, above Forty. second street, in this city, excepting such streets and as are already legally designated for the main ‘of or occupied by an elevated or underground rail- pt tained in public parks or occupied by buildings belon, ing to the county, provided that the consent of t owners of one-haji of the property bounded on and the consent also of the local authorities having the control of that portion of a street upon which it is proposed to construct such railway be first obtained, or in case the consent of such property owners cannot be obtained, that the determination of THESE COMMISSIONERS, appointed by the General Term of the Court, given after a due hearing of all parties interested, and -confirmed by the Court, that such railway ought to be construct: ed, be taken ‘in liew of the consent of such property owners. The Commissioners are required to give such public notice as they may deem proper unde: ditions, and with such inducements as ma\ ‘them to be most expedient, invite the subi lang for the construction and operation of such road. The Commissioners shall meet at a place and time named, not more than ninety days after their organ- ization and decide upon a pian tor the construction of the railway, with the necessary supports, turn outs, idings, connections, landing places, stations, , platforms, stairways, elevations ‘telegraph and signal services, or other juisite appliances upon the route and in the locations determined by them. They are also to determine the time within which the railway shall be constructed and ready for opera- tion, together with the maximum rates to be paid for transportation over the road, and tho hours during which cars shall be run at reduced rates of fare. They are also to determine the amount of the capital stocl of the company, the number of shares into which such capital stock shall be divided, and the percentage to be paid in cash on subscribing for shares. They are to prepare articles of organization for the company, in which the several conditions, requirements and partic- ulars, in accordance with the act, and provide for the release and forfeiture to the Supervisors of the county of all rights and franchises acquired by such company, in case such railway shall not be completed within the time and upon the conditions provided. They are also to cause a book of subscription to the capital stock of the company to be opened, pursuant to notice, at a banking office in the city. Whenever a sufficient sum shall bave been subscribed by not less tban twenty-five persons, and the fixed per- centage of such subscription shall have been paid in cash, the Commissioners shall call a meeting of such subscribers for organization, and shal) then select per- sons who sball be directors tor one year, The directors are afterward to be chosen anpually by the stockholders, each casting avote for each and every share held. These directors giall have the power to require the subseribers to the stock to pay such amount as they have subscribed in such manner and in such mstal- ments as they may deem proper. ‘THE STOCKHOLDERS ARK TO RE HELD LIABLE, the same as stockholders in other roads. In the case of this road the contractors for its construction are to be held responsible for any indebtedness to any laborer for thirty or any less number of days’ labor performed in constructing the road, to the company, and the com- pany to the laborers. But no action can be maintained Teainst the company, unless the same is commenced within thirty days : aioe to the company by such laborer, as above provid ‘The Commissioners are to subseribe the oath pre- scribed by the constitution, and any 7° of them may issue subpeenag and administer vaths to witness They are to view the preinises and hear proofs and al- Jegations of the parties and reduce the testimony to writing, They are to ascertain and determine the compensation which ought to be made by the company to parties interested in real estate appraised by them, Dut are not to make allowance or deduction on account of any real or supposed benefits which parties in inter- ost may derive from the construction of the road. When these Commissioners shall have made their ro- port the company must give notice to the parties inter- ested, in aceordance with the usual rule in such cases, As soon as @ certified copy of the order shall have been made known, and payment or deposit shall h: been made by the company of the sums to be paid as compensation for the land and for coats and expenses, they shall be entitled to take possession of and use the lands for the purposes declared. If there shall be ADVERSE AND CONFLICTING CLAIMANTS to the money to be paid as compensation for the real estate taken, the Court will settle the question. This corporation is to have the power to hold voluntary ts of real estate and other property as shall be inade to it, to aid in the construction, maintenance and accommodation of the road, but it must be used for the purpose designated only. power to enter eer nd underneath the several streets, avenues and public places and lands designated by the Commissioners, and enter into and upon the soil of the same, and to construct in accordance with the Railroad law. They are to have the power to make such excava- tions and openings along the route as shall be necessary time to time, but in all cases the surface of the ound such foundations, piers, columns, &c., be found necessary shall be restored wo, or as nearly as may be, their former condition, When the road is en alk = conductors are to have the power to eject all such passengers as decline to pay their fares, and either condactors or engineers found intoxicated are to be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. In all cases where the track of the road shall inter- sect, cross oF coincide with any horse track occupying the surface of the street, the company is authorized to remove such track for the purpose of constructing their work, butonly at their own cost, and they mast restore the track as nearly as may be, as it was before they re- moved it, The Commissio: fix the route by which any steam rail be in operation may connect with other elevated stearm railways now in existence, careless boy lett lighted candle there. It is sup Doped that the horse kicked over the barrel, THE PROVISIONS OF THR RAPID TRANSIT ACT are mot. 11 must be understood, w appiy to ang railway com) zea under any general or special law of this Btave, fer the purpose of constructing or operatiog @ steam railroad upon the surface of the ground, nor to the operation or management of any such railroad here- tofore cot ted. struc Mr. Palmer's belief was that the Commissioners would meet and organize as soon as the notices of their appointment should have been received; and that very soon thereafter they will proceed to hold meetings and hear such declarations in regard to the road as persons interested may choose to make. in the meantime, however, it is of great importance to the inquiry that the public and those who design taking part in it shall be informed of the peculiarities of the law and the fact in regard to it as noted above, in order that the inquiry may be pertinent to the case, and the desired result reached without unnecessary delay, AMUSEMENTS. THOMAS’ SECOND SYMPHONY CONCERT, Steinway Hall presented a very brilliant appearance on Saturday night, on the occasion of the second sym- phony concert of Theodore Thomas. The new sym- phony, “Hakon Jarl,” by Reinecke, becomes more at- tractive on, acquaintance, We have already noted its, salient features, and need only add here that the per- formance of it by the orchestra at the concert was even more impressive than on Thursday last, Mme, Sebiller Played the Introduction and “Allegro Appassionata,"’ opus 92, for piano and orchestra, by Schumann, in the most charming manner, and Was recalled several times. We have deseribed this work and the performance of it at the rehearsal, The introduction and finale from “Tristan and Isolde,” a work which is perhaps the most characteristic of all Wagner's operas, has been frequently presented to the New York public, so that it 48 now a Standard favorite, How the orchestra played it, and also the ever-youthful symphony in A major of Beethoven, may be inferred from its former triumphs: in those works The performance of the symphony was, indeed, 60 delightful that the audience seemvd to linger in the ball, a8 If desirous to bave the work ro- peated, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Wachtel appears in Brooklyn to-night as Maurico ip “1 Trovatore."” Mass Carlotta Church sings at the Union League The- atre on Tuesday evening. ‘A complimentary benefit concert to Mle. Leonora Rita will take place at Chickering Hall on December 22, Mile, Titiens received an offer from the manager of the Louisiana State lottery of $4,000 to sing four songs at the golden drawing, which takes place at New Orleans on December 27, She was compelled to decline it, owing to her Boston engagement. A series of six concerts by the well known artiste, Mme. Carreno-Sauret, pianist; Mr. Joseph’ White and Mr. Emile Sauret, violinists; Mr. Ignacio Cervantes, pianist, and Mr. Charles Werner, ‘cellist, will be com- menced at Chickering Hall, on Friday, December 17, After “Macbeth,” “Coriolanus” and the ‘‘Merchant of Venice’’ Rossi meditates no less a surprise than the “Sardanapalus”’ of Lord Byron, which is quite unknown on the French stage, and intends concluding this ex- ceptional season of high art drama with the ‘‘Orestes’’ of Alfieri, The London Atheneum says:—‘‘We were premature in our etatement last week that Mr. Hawkins has been selected for the post of dramatic critic of the Times, Mr. Hawkins bas been for some time acting as Mr. Oxenford’s deputy, but no definite appointment hae been made’? @An extra German opera season of eight nights and one matingée will be given at the New York Academy of Music, commencing on Wednesday evening, December 15, when will be presented, with new scenery, new cos- tumes, increased chorus and orchestra, Wagner’s grand romantic opera, “Lohengrin—Theodore Wachtel (first time in America) as Lohengrin, The sale of seats for “Lohengrin” will commence on Thursday next, Mlle, Pappenheim will appear as Elsa and Miss Clara Perl re- sumes her original rdle of Ortrud. a Hans Von Bilow broaght bis New York engagement to a close on Saturday, with a matinée recital, the pro- gramme of which mainly consisted of selections from ° Chopin. The success of Von Bilow in this country has. ‘been commensurate with his great abilities, and with the stamp of approval from such musical centres as New York and Boston his career in other cities cannot be aught than a triumphant one. He appears to-night in Baltimore and on Friday im Philadelphia, and will return to New York after Christmas. We presume that this piece of information from the London Atheneum will be quite interesting to the enter- prising manager named:—“Herr Max Strakosch has. appealed to the American press to support the subscrip- tion he ts raising to enable him to present in New York Italian operaM#with Mlle, Titiens and other artists o¢ Her Majesty’s Opera Company, during this winter. Herr Strakosch states that without such subscription it will be impossible to establish a regular Italian opera, and he points to the successive failures of himself and his brother, of Herr Maretzek, Herr Ullmann and other speculators,” A CARD FROM MISS HEILBRON. To tae Eprtor ov tHe Herap:— ” Having noticed in to-day’s HERALD ander the head- ing of “Paris Intelligence” a statement which might lead many of your readers to form an erroneous im- pression—to wit, “that Capoul denies his marriage to Sopnie Heilbron’’—I beg leave to state that some mistake in the name of the lady mentioned must have been made by your correspondent, So far as I am con- cerned, I beg to say that I have not oven the pleasure of M. Capoul’s acquaintance and have no knowledge of M. Capoul, except by reputation, This mistake should have been self-evident long ere this, and by kindly correcting the same you will oblige, yours truly, SOPHIE FLORA HEILBRON. No, 357 West Foartr-rovurta staext, Dec, 6, 1875, A CARD FROM MAURICE GRAV. To Tue Eiror ov tae Herat. There is not the slightest foundation for the state- ment published {n this morning’s Heraxp cable letter declaring that Zulma Bouffur has cancelled her New York engagement. Ihavein my possession the con- tract signed by Zulma Bouflar for her appearance at this theatre. Respecttully, MAURICE GRAU. Lyceum Tazatne, New York, Dec, 5, 1875, MR. TUPPER'S NEW PLAY. IS IT A PLAGIARISM FROM AN AMERICAN! AUTHOR ?—STARTLING CHARGES AGAINST THE GREAT POET. To ras Evrror or THE Herann:— A short time ago I saw in the Hxraup a letter, giving an account of Mr. Martin Farquhar Tuppper’s new play, entitled “Washington,” together with some of the principal scenes. 1 was struck instantly with the re- semblance they bore to an American play of the same title, written by an American author, Mr. David Sin- clair, The title page of this draina reads in this way:— “¢Washington; or, American Independence.’ (First campni Grama in four acts, by David Sinclair, author ‘Serving Tullius,’ ‘Magdalene,’ ‘Mother Sincerity,’ &c,’’ It was published by Calkins & Co, Boston, In 1874, and accompanying this I have the pleasure of sending you a copy. The question is, whether Mr. Tupper has not plagiar- ized from Mr, Sinclair. To me it seerhs very clear that. he bas, unless we suppose a remarkable coincidence be- tween the two authors. Another question is whether we need to have Englishmen to write American dramas, But I submit tho whole subject to your consideration, and am yours, respectfully, AMERICUS, Haxtionn, Conx., Deo, 3, 1875, RIVER THIEVES IN HARLEM. Captain Church, of the schooner Marcus Edwards, now lying in the Harlem River, off 106th street, pre- sented himself at the Twenty-third precinct station house last evening, about half-past six o’clock, and in- formed Sergeant Huff, who was at the desk, that he had heard the following story :—About balf-past two o'clock in the morning five masked men boarded the schooner Silas Brainard, which was then lying off the end of the dock at the foot of 100th street, but had since hauled away. The captain of the Brainard, whose name ts not known, saw them come aboard his‘schooner, and, apprebending that tney came with no good intention, rushed down into his eabin, to procure a gun which he kept on band in case of need, Two of the masked individuals followed the captain down the gangway, before the gun could be put into use the thieves had seized # suit of clothes andapair of boots, the aggregate value of which was $75, and made their way back to the deck. The cap- tain, however, was in hot yl of the plunderers, and before they reached the rail preparatory to climbing over it, and jumping into their boat the gun had been dis- char, apd ono of the robbers was seen to fall to the deck. His companions quickly lifted him, and man- aged to successfully lower him into ‘the boat, and the bu rowed to the shore und escaped ander cover of the darkness, in Church said, in conclusion, that, although his vossel was distant only about fifty foot from the Brainard, he heard no shot during the night; that the above story was told to him, and he thought it his daty to notify the police. WHALES OFF LONG ISLAND. A school of whales made their appearance off South. ampton on Saturday, A number of people put off in boats to attempt a capture, but they ware -aot success Bak UNO Was HMC tat tb encaared