The Sun (New York) Newspaper, December 1, 1870, Page 2

5 It Whines for ATL The Sb Sun, THURSDAY, DECEMLER 1, 1670. Amaschents T Apollo Mall Us. Corry's Loramie of Ireland, Heath's Theatre-tip Van W nile Glebe Theatre vv Kelly & Te n'anta Rove de § ‘ Theatre Thre Sploid Pieces, a As Yor New Vork Chrous. 14:0 ot, opp. Avstemy of Marte, tre Wee Wills Wink re Beran Opens OA) Prondorny, Gest Holalay BIL, Lyity Thompson Trowne, Matinee ‘uban Question—Serioas Considers ations for Congre: Noarly ayear and @ half ago President PRant’s Secretary of Stato wrote to our Minister at Madrid, raying : “ The conditio of the island of Cuba excites the most seri ous concern. For more than nine months a ivil conflict has been raging thore that gives 43 yot no promise of a speody termination ; ® conflict marked with a degree of fiercencss and excoss on either side rarely witnessed in later ages, and threatening, if continual, to work the desolation and destruction of the wealth and resources of tho island.” This ervil war, so the Sceretary of State went on to say, “appeals with unusual power to the aympathy which Americans fool for all poo ples striving to secure for themselves more Uberal institutions, and that inestimable right of selfgoveriment which we prizo as the foandation of all progress and achievement.” ‘The Secretary, having laid down these premises, next informed the Minister that the Government of the United Statos “has Srrived at tho conclusion that it is its duty to exert ita friendly influence to bring th's auhappy strife to a close,” For this purpose ho directed that Spain should bo invited to recoguize the independence of Cuba ia eon: sideration of a suitable pecuniary indemnity, and to send a representative to Washington to meet there a representative of Cuba for the tire destruction of a large part of the produc- tive capacity of the island, as well tw of an immense amount of property and of human life.” ho sitnation which Mr. Fist antictpated in this sentence is now about to be realized, Thus far the patriots have confined their de- tern and cen ‘These are now structive operations to the tral port ous of the island, thorongily raveged. Of the beautiful and productive coffve plantations in the Eastern Dopartient, wo do not think there 1a one te. maining ; while the herds of cattle which constituted the wealth of Camaguey aro also no longer in existence. There remain, how- ever, ns yet comparatively untouched, the great sugar country and the Vuelta Aly the region which produces the famous C ban tobacco, ‘The sugar region constitutes the main source of wealth in the fcland, The value of its plantations is something prmous, The patriota have made occa sional inroads among them, and now aud then have barned op @ standing crop; bat they have desired to preserve the estates. That desire they have at lust resolved to lay aside. They intend that the campaign now commencing shall be a final one ; and seeing no other way of making it conclusive, they will carry tho war into the West. This is fully and authoritatively sct forth in the proclamatioa of President Crsrepes which we print in another column, Unless some power shall intervene, the next six months will witness sach a dostruction of property there as the world has never beheld We appeal to Congress to speak the voic of the American people, to exert their power to putan end to this derolating v and to prevent such havoc. After two years and three months of resistance, which all the power of Spain has not been able to sup: press, it not timo for the United States to arrest a contest which on the side of Spain is as hopeless as it is barbarous? Shall we not declare that Cuba shall be recognized, and that her unequalled sugar ficlds shall bo rved for their owners and for the world?) As Mr, Frsit said in June, 1860, the “cry of Cuba is in favor of liberty, emancipation, and self- government; and ail the claims of neighbor hood and of political sympathics tend in the direction of material aid to the inaurre purpose of settling the terms of the proposed transfer of sovercignty, and the amount of th: indemunit The reasons which the Minister was directed to urge in behalf of this pro. posal were founded alike upon the pecuniary and political welfare of Spain and upon mo- tives of humanity, And so great was the interest which the President then felt in the bubject, that the Minister was authorized to say that, if necessary, he would ask Congress to guarantee the bonda which Cuba would give to Spain in payment of the proposed in: demnity. ‘The despatch whose substance we have now stated was to be submitted entire to the Span. {ah Government ; but another despatch of th: fame date contained views which the Minis ter was to submit or not at his discretion. In this second despatch Gen. SIcKLEs is in. formed that while the proposal for a confer ance was forthe express “ purpose of bring ing to a close the civil war now ravaging the island, this expression is not designed to gravt any public recognition of bellige to the insurgents, It 's, never- visedly and in recognition of theless, used ert content in Cabin a state and conditid on aah dese ee i which may not justify at?#Uch longer wit yevolutionary halding of the coucession tothe? Vallicr party of the recognized rights of uf''S° rents.” The Minister was also instructed tu’ inform the Spanish Government that in case Spain should refuse tho offer of the United Rtates, “an early recognition of igerent rights is te logical deduction from the present proposal, and will probably be deeined a n ceasity on the part of the United States, un lesa the conditions of the parties to the con- tost shall have changed very materially.” With the history of the negotiations thus initiated, and of their speedy and discredita ble termination by the pusillanimity of our Government, the public are already familiar. "They also understand how Gen. GRANT aod Mr, Fisr were suddenly changed from being friends of the people of Cuba into their ene- mies, and into friends cf Spain, ‘Themotivee and influences which led to this dishonorable transformation are also well known, and will not soon forgotten, The fact that Mr. Hamiiron Fist, aftor having seized, in the emnmmer of 1969, thirty gunboats, which were constructing here on account of tl: Spanish Government, to be used in putting down the revolution in Cuba, released those gunboats a few months later and allowed them to depart upon their mission—Lis sou inlaw, Sipsey Wensren, having in the mean time becn paid a large sum of money by the Spanish Government—is also well un derstood and thoroughly appreciated. Since then everything that has been done by the Administration in relation to this matter has been of a similar bad character; while not one word has Leen uttered by any of its mem bers, or any public step taken, that has not Deen {n flagrant contradiction of the princi ples and id down in the despatches of the State Department to which poliey two we have referred awhile state of the pressed ? what has! cen and what is the revolution? Has it been su Have the conditions of the p. ties to the contest changed very materially % Not ut all, In syite of the antagonism of Gen, Gi Aduinistration, the revolu tion is y more determined and more Vigorous than cver, Its supply of arms gad of a!) other materials of war is still excoedingly defective, Probably there are hot now in of the Cuban pa triota ten thovsand good muskets, or te tseft MAG pcos, OF proper ammunition towerve thom, The Calarg are also wit out clothing without ) ure not without courage; and 1 the ultimate tr 1 of their cause hae only j Hi bad Bat after they ure at with a necesit ned by their unpreecdented two years’ constant fighting, last brought face to which thoy have from the first desir to avoid, and which is plainly coutemplated in Mr, Fisu’s first despateh to Gon, Bickies, “The strife,” he said on Juve 29, 1869, “stil ccuiinucs in Cuba, It has alrendy marked its track by devastation and ruin—towns sacked, houses burned, antations destroyed, and lives lost. On ‘wither side the war hae been one of desola Wan, and, if continued, it must resuld in the on face ‘That was true then, and it is trae now, The utter impotence of Spain is proved, and it i time for us to interpose in earnest. It ts the duty of our Government not to allow Cuba to be utterly ruined in her heroic efforts to free herself from Span'sh despotisin. Tl he Administration has become worse than deaf to the promptings of this duty. So muel the more necessary is it that Congrese should act before it is too late. Eilon She. Mae The Organization of the Next House. By virtue of an act passed during the Administration of Jomnson, the next Con. gress will assemble on the 4th of March, unless the act shall in the mean time be re. pealed, Should thie act remain in force, the organ ization of the new House becomes an inter- esting matter of speculation, According to tho most trustworthy returns, the Republi caus have a majority of thirty of the mem. bers thus far chosen, though it is possible that when the members present their certifi cates of election at the Clerk's table the m jority may vary one or two, and perbaps three, from thirty. Georgia will soon clect members of the House; but the result will not materially affect this majority. Nor would elections in Missiseippi and Texus affect it, should they occur before March gh some of the Democratic seats will ‘een pc Subsequently contested, aud doubtless bo possibly some of 28 Republican seats, the Vitals wall, unl persons Lolding the certifica.: hoes preccdents are departed from, be allowed i participate in the choice of a Speake With the nominal Republican majority standing at thirty, it will Le in the power of sixteen members of that party, through a combination with the Democrats, to control the election of the Speaker, It is claimed Ly the Democrats that from twenty-five to thirty of the Republicans are so-called Reve- nue Reformers, and that at least twenty of these are ready to make that question a test in the organization of the House. We have yet scen no sufficient evidence to sustain this assertion, but we are nevertheless of opinion that there are at least twenty members elected to the next Congress as Republicans who are very deeply disgusted with Gen Grant's Administration, and are willing to do all they can to cripple it, or even break down, ‘The disruption of the apparent majority of an Administration in the House of Repre- sentatives, in the middle of a Presidential term, been not an uncommon mode of overthrowing it at the subsequent national election. An instructive illustration of this ulo occurred during the Administration of Van Bonex, A majority of the House elected in 1888-9 was nominally Democrati Tho, 288 sat when Congress assembled in December, 1929, a few Southern Democrats, callings themselves Conservativer, would not support ular Democratic nominee, and cast Ronert M. T. Lionten of Virginia. After balloting for a week, the Whigs, under the lead of Henry A, Wise, ly went over to HuntEn, and he was Hlunren was so taken aback by ult that, though he nded to the chair, he was too much embar 1 to respond by the usual speoch of vise the House The following: morning Huyten read from a manuseript lying before him a he re their votes for chosen mmediately ,and ont n of adjourned. very handsome address, t so turned out that in the Presiden. al clection of 1840, the contest exeetly re ected the tewper of the Tloxuse whieh el Hunter as their gular Whig, was nominated for President, nd ‘Tyen, Who represented the Nusten type of politicians, was nominated for Vice President; and Van Bunun, the Democratic defeated he keynote of the memorable campaign of 1840 was etruck in the disruption of the Democratic majority inthe preceding House of Representatives, and the elevation of Hunter to the Speaker's chair. History is wont to repeat itaclf, If, then, in the next House, eighteen or twenty mom- bers elected ae Republicans should refuse to go Ipto the caueus of their party, and should concentrate their votes upon some dissatisfied Republican, such, for example, as Fanns- WourrH of Dlinois, from whomalarge body 80 Speaker, Hannisoy, a andidate, was overwhelmingly THE of Republicanm bolted at thi® recent election, | and came near defeating him, or Pinker BURG of Miseotri, who i¢tfiumphantly chosen as 4 follower of B. Gratz Brown, and there- by prevent a cholee during @ dozen trials; and if, thereupon, the Democratic mem hers should go over in a body to support of this independent can- the didate, and place him in the chair of the House, it might be followed by the defeat of the Republicans at the Presidental election in 1832. All that would be necessary for tory to repeat iteelf with emphasis, and make agsurance doubly sure, would be for the Republicans to nominate GRant, and for the coalition to overthrow him in 1872, as the coalition of 1840 overthrew VAN Buur: who in that famous contest obtained only sixty clectoral votes out of two hundred and ninety four. Maké your game, geutlemen! Trades Untons. ‘The object sought in the organization of trades unions is one which must commend itself to every reflecting mind; for it is an unquestionable trath that labor is the foun- dation of all our wealth. Every measuro that tends to the elevation of labor in any of its relations is Geserving of commendation, as the more honorable Inbor is made to ap- pear and the more remunerative its results, tho greater will be the number of intelli- gent men who will devote themselves to tho occupations of productive industry, and the grenter will be the prosperity of the country Iu regard to a matter of 80 much impor tance, not only to the industrial classes but to the nation at larje, it is important that the counsels of those who combine for the ad- vanccment of labor interests should be con- ducted with prudence and foresight as well as zeal, aud that the course to be pursued should be fully examined from all points of view. There are many ablo men in the organization and management of sockotivs Whose object is the advancement and protection of their interests; and it would be well for them to consider tho question whether, in some respects, their method of proceeding in this country has not been modelled too closely upon that of similar ganizations in England, where tie con ditions and aims of the laboring community are very difforent frem those obtaining here In Evgland the majority of workingmen expect to labor for woges all the'r Lives, end naturally look for a perpetual stragyle with their employers in their endeavors to secure 4 just distribution of the profite of their in dustry. In this country an entirely different state of afluire prevails, for here every work man looks forward to the time when he shall be a capitalist and an employer him: self; or he may do 80, a8 there is no reason why such should not be the result of his efforts. A large proportion of our wealth! citizens have sisen to affluence enti through their own industry and persever. ance ; and a noted characteristic of our peo- ple is the energy and determination wit) which they push their way to fortune from small beginnings. This national trait ap pears to be contagious, for our adopted citi zeus soon fall into our go-nhead ways; and throughout the country may be found great numbers of wealthy Germans avd Trishinen who landed upon our shores in poverty, but who, coming under American influences and falling into American habits, have rendered themselves pecuniarily independent, This is a subject worthy of the attention of those who devote themselves to the wel fare of the laboring claeses ; for while any policy calculated to eramp and hamper the exercise of an honcst and legitimate ambi- tion is un-American nnd injudicious, and cannot fail to result disadvantageous! gaged pen ; y to every one conceme?: ail action which tends to the encovrscment of enterprise and preZZe8 ow the part of workingmen, whe ther by codperative industry or individual exertion, is sure to improve the condition of those who labor, and to enhance the mate- rial wealth of the nation, If the people of Iinois wish to send their ablest statesman to fill the place in the United Stutes Senate which will be vacated on the 4th of March next by Mr. Yares, they will cause their Legislature to elect Gov. Patarn to that office, He is in every way worthy to take bis seat beside Mr, Trompvxt, the present distinguished Senator from that State, In ability and character, Gov. Pasqer is the peer of the most respected mem- bers of the Senate, and Illinois would do herself honor and the country service by putting him in a place for which he is in every respect so re- markably qualified. nglaud is always #0 fa- overmber, reigns there this season with more than its usual power, Atthe recent u veiling of a memorial window to Prince ALvent in the London Guildhall, the had to be lighted ‘at one o'clock in the afternoon, 80 completely did the fog and the drapery of the window combined shutout the daylight, Since then, the fog has been so dense in the streets that the drivers of the uuld not see their horses! legs, An r speculates on the probable stop hh will be put upon the movements of the German and French armies if this impedi- ment to vision should prevail in France to # sis. lor extent, and cites Texwyson’s lines + A deatlewhite mist elopt over and wad seas hereof tre cull. to iin wo Meathed iarew Down with bis blood, Uil mis his heart was con With formless fear; and een on Arthur tell Coutusion, since he saw not whom he foucht, For friend and foe tao mist 1 (viend Flew fend, bot knowin Whow he stow." Our November has been bright and to a remarkable degre At last the State of Mlinois has a woman attorney: at-law, refused to admit Mrs, Brapwett to the bar, al- though her acquirements in legal science were Fog, for which E ompibuses ¢ page sunny The Supreme Court at Chicago admitted to be superior both in kind and degree Bat at Efinghem on the 16th inst., With noble disregard of mero technicalities, Judge Deax li- censed to practise in his court Mra, Ava Il Keriey, who graduated at the Chieago Law School last winter, but who has not hitherto been allowed to employ her talents and learning In making the order in Kertey, the learned Judge swid that he did it because “he thought it was proper and in accord with the spirit of the age.”” We hope that the new attorney and counsellor will get @ great many cases, and be well paid for her services, notwithstanding the barbarous statute of Illinois which renders her liuble to a fine of three dollars for every dollar that she ceives as fees, in a proper manner, favor of Mra ren If American ladies had in the era of our Revolution assisted at any social gathering in a foreign capital, at which Britons were chiefly lauded, it is not likely that they or their memory would have been eulogized by their countrymen, Several Cubans were present on Monday night at the noptials of Sefior Kouenrs and Miss Aworts ‘Teuny. Ono very prominent Cubss, however, Don TQMAeTeKKT, wo axe-LapLyto ery, did not die SUN, THUR! honor hithiself by attendance #t the ceremony, arr he is the ancld of the bride. Tt insaid ttiat con- siderabié outside presture was brought to bedr upon him ; but a millionaire may do as he chooses, and he chose not to contribute to do honor to his country’s bitter enem: — A method of making bread from whole wheat, without previously grinding it ito flour, has been devived by « Frenchman named Sears The grain is first soaked in water for half an hour; then put into @ revolving eylinder with « rough inside rurface, and shaken up, 80 as to remove tho coarser part of the skin; and then soaked twenty or twenty-four hours more in water of the temperatare of 75 deg. Fahrenheit, with which a little yeast and glucose has beca mingled. By these means the grain acquires a pasty, doughy consistence, and can be mixed up by machinery and made into bread in the asual way. The invention 14 an important one, both from its saving the expense of grinding, and from the greater ecouomy of keeping and transporting the whole grain instend of flour. — The Observer says that “ some congrega- tions regard it as an affliction to be compelled to listen to @ sermon an hour long.” One would like to know bow many congregations do not re+ gard a sermon of that length an an afftiction, A safo rule on this subject was once laid down by @ distinguished English jurist, though not @ oa thedra, Teing asked by « young clergyman how long a serinon should be, ue replied, “ Twenty minutes, with o leaning to the side of mercy.’ Cowren in bis Task’’ states it rather differently, Speaking of the sermon of a first-class fashion. able ministe ™ Jomt twes ‘And wit he #aye ty minutes huddle up the work, & Well-bred Whisper close the seene —— Ever since Gen. Grant despatched his uide-de-camp Banroce to St. Domingo he has caused it to be intimated in various quarters that in the event of the Senate's declining to ratify the treaty for the sequisition of th European powers would proceed to take posse nd territory, sion of the Bay of Samana and Dominica, thus gain a new foothold in this he But the Senate declined to swallow this story, At one time it was England, at another ti Spain, and at present it 1s Prussia, whose ¢ vpon St. Dorin Sevate Com signs are Leld és ferrorem over the itee of Foreisa 4 The most ig of these f hat lately cireu airs, 1 stories i lated about Biswance’s flirtations with Barz, If theae are circulated by authority, they forcibly ilustrace Gen, Gaanr’s desperate position in the St. Domingo busines Moyor O'HAtE yestontay appol Mt navi, Nontox, Tuomas Comay, Janus IL, Exo sot, and J Wat Court House. The latter three gentleinen a It is thought that these handle $8,000,000, The a nero and Cowan is easily understood ; but what hay Ixcenson. and Wansu done to deserve this fat plum? The termer is said to have drawn near, 1,500,000 for furnishing public buildings this year. That ought to satisfy any reasonable ran Tarnmany politician. - —— Mr. Mussunes, the Turkish Minister in London, who could not resist the present epi demic temptation of being interviewed by a re. porter, Is highly accomplished @ and Rostem Buy, the Otioman Eavoy at St. Peters- burg, is an equally accomplished Italian, France is the only country to which the Sultan used to send » bona fide Ottoman, and he proved a great success, Only a turbaned Turk, with a flowing beard and picturesque Oriental costume, accom- panied by bis harem, would prove a fit represen- tative of Anpur Aziz; and an interview with such @ personage would beyw edifying as one with Buona Youxa himself, while the conversation of reporters with Grecks of distinguished intel- tuaieulture and high parentage like Mr. Mus: suave must be a rather commonplace alluir, —— The friends of the Hon. Jomn C. Jacous have resolved to go for Jawes M. Nev Rockland for Speaker, This tke very strong candidate, fusal to intericre in the fight, Hircuman’s su porters have beecme The Democrats appear to be going for Nuusow in body. Itis understood that Mr. Hrrcuaax will appeal to Mr. Swexxr for aid, — The Spaniards aro unceasing in their de termination to misrepresent vecurreuces in Cuba, They discovered, by their spies doubt. Jess im this city, that a letter had beeu received by some Cubans here from Col, Apouro Vanoya, in whieh he added a postscript, 1 write this from Cubs Libre ; and forthwith they publish in the Herald, the World, and the Times of yesterday an absurd account of his capture and execution, It is absurd because it says that he had travelled four days on the island. Now Col, Vanona knows the tor pography of Cuba thoroughly, and, from the point at which it is known that he did land, could easily have got within the lines of the liberating army in twenty-four hours, Again, it ig said that he had obtained a fisherman's pass. port; and if ol. Vanowa persovated any such man, he i far too smart to have donned any other than a fisherman's dress, This, in Cuba, consists sololy of a coarse linen shirt and a pair of pantaloons ; and yet ‘the despatches which he carried were found secreted in the lining of his coat,” The trath probably is, that the Spaniards knew that Col, Vanons bad landed, and of course on paper. The telegraphic despatches which were re ceived yeatert ard as the letter above referred to, “Gol, Bannios, Gen, Cavana’s chief of stall, has been shot by Cuban forces.” Gen. had a chief of staff of the name of is there any officer of that name in the patriot army ; but there w commanding a reg the Villas district, and the report is possibly truo with this correction, The Cuban ex-Secretary for Foreign Affuirs, who, a telegram, has been captured and condemned to the garrote, is probably Carsrouat Mrxnoza, not Mexpio1., ; but, of course, no sensible p give credit to the through oh ind a Commissioners of the ne neillary qualities of the fine in ns will polntment of 3 raid to be ver polit ~even NeLSON a © , ince Boss wis alarme t. coun ry y from Havana are just as « One asserts Cavapa never Baraios, nor $a Spanish Colonel Bannios went of Spanish infautry in ording to the samo story without confirmation i ees = In Canada all women, whether maide, wives, or widows, who pay taxes in their own right, are entitled by law to vote for school in- speetors, The Detroit Western Gutholic asserts that they exercise their right on election days without hindrance, and are treated wilh the greatest respect. er v Rev. ‘ather = McGnLynx, of St ents Church, pronounced an eloquent dis course on the occasion of the recent merrioge of the Spanish Minister in the United tates to a Cuban lady, He saw in this union a hoppy omen for an analogous alliane between Cuba and Spain, and the argo. ciation of the occasion secined to lend a pe- culiar significance to the metaphor, But the reverend father would certainly have protested against tho union be extole if it had not pro- viously obtained the consent of both parties, Now, it is @ matter of history that Cubs, far from consenting to # union with Spain, has sued for » divorce; and though it is not yet granted, she has actually separated from her consort, and un- loss the bond is speedily severed by the |... she is ready to cut it with the sword, Under those circumstances the union which was celebrated at Bt, Stophen’s can hardly be regarded aso pledge of unian between, Spain aud'Cuba, DECEMBER 1, 1870. THE HIGHLANDS MYSTERY, ae BIARP PRACTICE ON TH BANS OF THE WUDSON BIV BR. potato hasta A Grent Swindle near West Point—The Spirits Scandalized-No Treasares of Capt. Kidd's Found—Simpletons Duped. West Port, Nov. 50,—Last week it was an- nounced in the New York papers that a party of four adventurors, acting onder the revelation of dreams and the orders of a cleirvosant, had, after months of persistent digglag in various places wlong the Hudson River Highland ehores, discovered aa fron choet containing $7,000 fu Spanish doubtoons, English rover id jeweiry—the secreted treas ures of Capt Kidd. Tho story seemed too incredible for the moat sen- fational minds to believe, but was vouched for by feveral eye-wilnesses, who corroborated each ott» er's testimeny, Several stories about mysterious Mghts and strange sounds in the localities before named were published last summer, all of which were In a measure explained by the discovery of these trensure hunters at work, bat the main pointe were highly embelliehed, and read far and wide as Munchausen tales, But it now appears that the treascre diggers unconsctous!s furnished the facts, ‘The entire drama—for such it is—came to a focus to-cay, At about nine o'clock A. M., Detectives Baker and Clinton, accompanted by three of the treasure- hooters, named John Mearns, James Vredenburz, and Horry Tuttle, arrived at this place by the Mud+ ron River train, and procering the services of a boatman and guide, rowed dows to the scene of the late explosion, WHERR TI IRON CHEST WAS FOUND, Grappling drags were thrown overboard, and the place where the rusty iron chest had been thrown overboard, on the Sunday night of its alleged diss covery, was thoroughly raked. In lees than an hour the looked for article was caught, raised to the surface, and taken on board, Next, the shore was reoched, and the rotting, gree:-slimed picco of the wreck—suppores to be that of Kidd's suaken ¥ vel—was examined. ‘The Intter proved to Le por tlons of an ebhandoned sloop, now balt-eud perged ta the mut Just below Newbares, on th or The party at_once returned to M ainst David H Br for obt RY TRICK, DEVICE, will be applied or to-ni Toe afidavit made by J by his two fellow duper, freta: Beige ie a ilveremith, and lived. o ir ixtieth #trect. We ald he iden Inne, but f con't fnd any o by that name, skit, and tool warrant of arrest ning money AND FRAUD, forked in that knows T betiove Le lived by humhax in this or over way, Janet him atic koenee i Grand street, W t Inst winter, W ail epiritualints, ame’ to mo inst deat zing peopl had Yad a dream three. th vor the way en and taked with apirite ; and they here a ship's sted wes Ip the river rear the shore, just othe Hudson River, not gaité up ¥ suid a risty trou chest full of money and jewelry was ia that needed to do Was to ti ihen Chere was another place ap amon the rocks wonntain side, In a eave were pots and Gumondy jJewery, spoons, tuition, and slows Wine, He went | iveneh allay near the Ya near the Military” park. and there 3 1 anusty piice, She hi aod On & t wer A MUMAN SKOLL AND DoxEs, Sho burned some dru and then told u «then proposed that we suould all put ia and ® up $900 wud go 10 work, livine on that usa general tnd, We chartered a boat, aud went and dag; twice he police came uvon us, thinking we were river tneves; we worked good part of the wawmer; s Would go Cown and see the wench now aud he sald, to eet directions—aud he would ask for money to pay for the ilragy tat he burned in the lamp to make the “charm;” we kept on giving him mouey; I cave €c00, Vredenburg cave Siw $990, and Tate gave nearly $90; altor aw wo gave ap the other plices and tried to dnd THK WRECK THAT WAS FULL OF TREASORR, We worked about th1ee weeks dragvine the river. We dare not do anything by day, for the * charm’* would not work in daylight, and vowides, if i¢ did, other fe,iows would fiad out our and get the prize peraaps, Briggs was in New York much of the ime. We bad & but, and boarded ourselves, Tding ovr beat Ly day, only coir g over ty Garriacms or kekill for groveries. Once we went to New burgh, and read in the paper about" Hudson River Virates,” and &uew it was Ail on oUF account, #o we kept more careiul piece of loae rock (at had fallen (rom abaya Con cealed the wreck. So we drillnd 4", jt im four places. Five we irded smal ©issu, but finaly we patina great bie One.M, the’ centre, with twelve pounds Oo” coarse Powder. Sunday nigit a week ag We fired {2, at twelve it was all «plit apart i down in tae water to his waist loliered, "Now we've got it; here it is!” ae ull Look ‘hold and putied out the wreck, and it war this irow chest, We broke it open, and FOUND IT FULL OF COIN. nal we Brizee was al gold ons, aad gave ue foue DF es; the eal! bhiex and covered W Jus bo aid tr 4 We beard some one coming, and burrie coin in bags; then Briggs took the Sunk tin the rivers op and put ali tue from chest and tis the last We have seen of him, When we cot to New York we bad the coins examined, and found that except the few pivees he had pu! in our hanes, tue le collection waa a lot of old copper Awerican aud Eo, Hh pennies, mixed with mad. We believe te has swindled us out of $2.40. our hard earned saviags.” (UB CUBST PisuED UF proves to bea condemned iron box such as ts nosed be express companies, Even the rast oa it seems cial, Probably made by acids, Une div Brizgs planned and executed « most eoin- swindle, Some of the drugs used in the *cliarm” were foand to be cagcariila bark and alco- hol with calorate of potash and nitric acid, He uiast have towed the rotten old prow of the wreek from sits muddy bed just beiow Newbnrgh, nud then sunk the chest and mock treasure on it just be- side the ledge that was blasted, Previous to his last appearance on the spot ue asked for more mol » Which was refneed, as the diegers were get- ting discouraged, ‘They are all mechanics, ang de- clare if they cateh Brigus they will send him off to the world of spirits in a jify, The probability ts that he as sailed for England, which js hative place, Very few traces of the explosion are vieible Where the chest was found ae ATOK BLOOD, The Death of a Genaine Democrat—The Man whe Miuht have been Govern The Hon, Isiah Blood, Democratic Senator from the Fifteeath District, died at his residence in Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, on Tuesday nicht, of typhoid fever, after an jilness of nearly two moutas He was 68 years of age. * SE: Mr, Blood began publie life in 1831, represeming Th 1869 he was clectod nding into one of the his district im the Asvem’ to the Senate, his term ex most evential periods in our Mate and natio tory, the war of the rebellion, Hy three million bill ovject t hts supported the and every measure having for its p maixitenance of the integrity of tae coun try and the #npression of the rebellion, His term was also mado romarkable by the passage of * gridiron railroad Dilla,” wil of whieh he support He next appe a candidate for Congros: against Jumes M, Marvin, but was defeate 1, In 1860 he again became a candidate for the State Senate, is district usually gave from 1,500 to 2,00) Republican majority; butowing to a dtsaf fection in the ranks of tis opponents, Mr, Mood was elected, recelving a majority in each of the Ave countics, He took a promisent position in the r the first Lime Democratic sti.ce 1888—and Was at once regerded as the leader of the rural members of the Renate, In tho meuiorable Contest between the Young Democtaey and Tammany, Mr, Blood was at first inclined to support the fortuer, For # tke he ras regarded us the comingaan, Indeed, he was pro b owed ay the next cand for the But the Tammunyit and gave the Blood cheer{ul In business mineutly succes: overnorsiiip. ‘ recovered. their ascendancy, renomination to Goy, Hofman, Mr. aquiescod, sud went with his party well as fn politics, Mr, Blood was 1. Ho was cnuazed in inanyfac turing for many years, and at (he time of his death was the propricior of exteunive Works atl ys for the manufacture of axos and seyihes, In Unis business be had amused a large fortune ‘On the reception of the news of his death in this city yester lay, tho flags on tho Citw fall and other Public buildinks Were displayed at half mus! The Booksellers’ Day of Mourning, The remains of tue Inte Wm, Gowans borne from his lute residence in Second street yes. terday to the Presbyterian Church in Thirty-fourth street, where the Rey, Mr, ‘Thompson delivered the eulogy. Among the pall-bearera were Rwbdt. Carter, Jobo Hutton, Dr, Purple, and Mr, Baugs, All the Dooksellors of the city closed their storca, And attended th» obseguies In a body. ‘The romaing were deposited ina vault im tho «{d burial ground in Second street, and are to be interred in Wood lawn Cemetery to-day, In commenting upon the character of Mr, Gowans, Dr, Thompson suld that during the late war so un: compromising was he that he would not allow a known Copperhead to enter bis store, He was not a member of any religious denomination, but at tended church regularly, and (or many years kept a Sunday diary,” in which he recorded the text chosen by the ‘preacher, and in his own terse style OULLNOd the wermien uud COmMmenIed UpYE it, were lly, Arise said Uhab'a great , W FOR FREEDOM, ANOTHER BLO nteCabans of the Western Department—Everything to be Destroyed whict A swists the Spau- fatde to Carry on the War. The following proclamation from the President ot Caba has been liberally distributed on the estates and villages of the Western Department of the island. This ict commences at Sierra Mo and Alvareg on the cast, and in the limited thence to Havana contains mor: slaves than all the rest of the Island. To the Prope of the West : ‘The revolution in 118 onward march Is abont to carry its flaming torch to those rich districts #0 highly coveted by the Spanish Government, It is time that the mists which obscure the truth should be scattered; it {8 time that you ehonid awoken from your lethargic sleep to the call of your coun try; {tis time that you should go to the field of glory as yet antrodden by you, possibly from the want of that powerful help which I now proffer to you, ‘The small force of the brave Arredordo was but the advance goard of car iiberating army; but the Dappy resatte obtined by him, and the excelient information which the Government has received of your patriotism, have induced it to devote a con- siderable amount of arma to the emancipation of this territory. A heavy column, composed of picked officess and men, Will shortly free this precious part of the island ; the despots who oppress it will be driven Out; your propertion which they have seized will be restored to you; and peace will retarn to your homes, ‘The commander-in-chiof of this expedition har, by his heroic valur y inont patriot. ism, gained the aymoathy of his fellow-citizens justly eurned the honors of tho imvortant mission confided to bi. His past career, lis bravery, and the reputation of his troops, are eaarantees to you for your lives, your honor. and your prestice, and to she country for a success!ui iksue to the under- taking. While operating, ne will devastate on his path evorything which, either with or without tie con font of 18 owners, serves to Oll tho treasury of the tyrant, his sole element for carrying on this dis. asirous wir; bat le will respect and protect the harmloss wealth of our brothers, and he wil! Rerapt- lously carry peice and protection to. the thatched roof of the humble cotter, while on the manacled flave he will bestow (ar inore than ali this, for to him he boars liberty t ‘This devastation and incendiarism will doudtles impress vou deeply; bat reflect that by It you par ele your independence, Remember that your oppressors have sworn to reduce your homes to asies; and trust that when the Caban banner waves over a's the towns of the island, grand. brildings erected by the hends of free men ‘will arise from their asies, and (rom our flel's, phlaced ina holy Warfare, cane tar aWweeter and aromatic cofea of a for brivhter hoe will apeont, ferttiized with the blood of the tyrant and ripeied. by the evershing rays of the sun of liberty. edo untry.” Every one who Joins our.t her, Sous of the West! the hand of the Republican uverniment is about to be fell in yoar termtory, » the loyal it Will bo benevolent aud wenorous; to we traitor it will be an inflexible hand of troa, Linvile you to take your seats mnong free men nd to cut down the Mret who attempts to violate onr )cered right of independence your W W yours Of 8 otal sia aufiieed for ot the fre#a rivets whig atly acistod toy fetters, does ret the loss of your propertios, the fyour brothers, tae 1 on of you impocent chiliran and of your Lbs sudic What! hav fons of your wives ou not yet ene the vi your « ‘Tne lion of Castile, 1 tell you, his become a cow ardly one, He fics ‘like 4 coward, blinded by t bright rays of one Ifyoudiabsit, wk you brotuors in the Bart: osk those who twenty-lour months ago withessod the rising of tals sua of Or on the horizon of hberty; ask Vauuuse: a Lime What else his soldiors lave Wone there uut rob. murder to fll our land with t ©, rpaes. n Camazuey and Las Viilns, Who fight every day, aud every aug this Spanish pride. less than they? No! Your tour tow arrived, and your brothers await you to give you rasp of feilowsiio, when Cuba is free, wien she steps among the community Of nations, Neruac and victorious, thc word shall say, “Tid mea of the West worked also at this cornerstone of a country of free men.” CARLOS MANUEL DE CESPEDES. peseinabsntieessonse THE SUOOLING AT KEY WHSE, poenche oan A Woman Inthe Cane, of course—Dr, Kinu's Wife's Sister’ Beating with a Stick, and a Defence with a Derringer. Corresvondence of The bun, Wasmxarox, Nov. 20—Further particulars have been received at the avy Department of the fatal affray on the 16th inet, in Key West, be'ween o Wiliam MM. King and viet uginecr M. joge, United States Navy, in which the later killed, As is usual fa cases of this kind, » woman was at the bottom of it. For several months Kellorg Lad noticed an intimacy springing up be tween Dr. King and his (Kellorg’s) wife's sister, a Mire Exma Carey, danchter of a prominent citizen in Ke, Weert, whies, knowing the doctor's ebarac. acter. Kelloge thought boded no good to the young Inay, He accordingly expostulated with the docto At tis King flared up and a quarrel ensued, whiew, howe UMA. ‘On the atternoon of t neg, whi Daprened to be walking Duval street," near the Russell Honge, in Key Wes doctor with bis sister-in Liw, Mies Ox: a tempied to pumivh tito, Keli ke the oct twire op the toad With @ stout waiking-etick, out seriously injuring hin M screaming into her father's store, neor by, and called for assistance, but too ‘The doctor, as soon as he could recover from the suddenness of the atiack, whipyed out his derrin ger, und fred twice, the fre: time without effect, ‘The hext ball entered his as sailant’s abdomen, and he diet in a few minutes, King was louged in jail, and the Coroner's jury Devin, a verdict of maneslau-hier in the Dr. King was helt to bail in $10,000, ty nave been no ground whatever incer Keliogs’s suspicions of Dr. Kin to his sistersn-law, Miss Carey, belongs to a good jamaly, and ber iather ts one of the most influential citizen> of Key West, Her riser, Mrs, Kellogu, has been peculiarly unfortunate in l. Some yours ago, during the war, she married Assistant Paymaster W. ©, Liluckwell, who taroed out a dofeuiter to the Government, aud for « long time was a tuauve from Justice, While aicont from ber hedied, In July she married Chics Is cincer Kellogg, and is gain a widow. Ming Carey has bee jiued to her bed ever since the killing with ne: you prostration, B is OF Toole’s Co tat Steinway's, When, on arriving at a friend's house to supper, one bas the door siammed in one's faee, or his regress down stairs accelerated by the unkindly propulsion of an inhospitable toe, the irritable man will undoubtedly swear, wh phiegmatic philosopher may conclude treat it as a phiyfat e ullition of practical bumor, The unlucky ticket holders had this choice presented to them wher, on arriving at Steinway's last night, they fund the Mt packed with an immense and motley audience, the majority of whom, in dress and man: faiutly the glided s@ nue, and th ie the allied but of Murray Hill or the Ave feats hoo ir reserve jexsly and usher fesaly gone. Many loft the hall in disgust; others took it plilosophically and, ax above hinted, Jocorely, and remained—a standing reproach to tle mismanazement of thoso in charge { the hail ) treat the mutter as a J might not have been, except for thobbing e.lv« and ing backs, ry diMeutt; indeed. the e¢ affair fe Dest treated a F guntic pleasantry from — begine to end. The andience, drawn in great part from tha unperverted class of our fellow citizens as vet guilt ons of the refinements of upperstendon, wore enild like and oatspoxen in their delight. Momor qnestato * Sitdown in front were blended with comic expressions of dismay from somo one in the pallery ; fever pitel: wher ity of the audtence rose to of Nappy bat en a etrin harris oxpectants filed off to the hitherto unoceup on the platform, and a pantomimic man with great sealth of ge helow toe ie up and do broad baito singing and tho pleasant alliteration which so irecly spices the fun of Figuro's open ¢ air, and the Baron's Dreaw tu" Coner hearty. response from the son the and: # did alxo the clever viol Mins Fervande ‘ledeac As (or the claims of the dZbutante, Miss O'Toole we beg her pardon, Miss Rosa W'istina~to position a first-class concert-singer, this part of Finance must be considered as the newtos fun ofthe evening, would he unkind, n View Of the Jocose and pleasantly 4 of Lue Who! ae (hat UMINess, LO 8 lady, or her more judicious triends for her, put forth any Fuch protenslons in rad eurvest. Agiveable as hor sineing my be tu the conddential freedom of the boudoir, ihe parlor, or the picnic, her sppearanee in opera music on the clusele plattoria of SLou vay’ 18 beet treated as @ retresbiag bit of national hu mor, equal in its way to the besteffurts of Mi ouglian or Barney Williams, ——— Mind Bxusperated abe wet From yesterday's Tribune, ‘To our mind, those stays always li #till continue to be speratiog mystery, ven if they conduged to a symmetrical fe be excessively uncomfortable, whereas they sim Dy produce decided deformity at tae expense of discuss. Mr, Greete: t Core ‘© been and Dacewmen THe Miner.—Money received thin day drawe inierest from Dec, 1, Mutual Beneft Bavings Look, Suv Buriding, opposite City Mall. 4de. GEN. SHERMAN IN CALIFORNIA, Intercating Reminiscences of the Ploncers—The Gen, W. T. Sherman, on his return to Wash ington, wrote to Chiaries D. Carter, B44, Prositons of tho California Pioneers, thanking that body for the handsomo courtesies which wers extended to lim while he was in Gelifornta, The Generar saya: 1 remember well when gold wit diseoreint it Sutter's old enwmill, and the thfters went forth by fach sailing craft ns voutured so fur, that persone Leean to arrive from the 6. ¥ Telands, from Mexicn, Pero, Chill, and inst trom the United Stawes and Europe. No one from, or why they eto. Yonder, on the ticrta Nevata, go and mather ity gold freely, wituont tox, and tiey went, without question vr hindranes, By suol rood moins oe tie country then atforved! In 1913-49 and ia 155) cama the atreain of emigrant wagons froin home from che Btaten. Who inquired ifthey came foi New York, or Ohio, or Alabama, or Texas? ody, All were welcome. All were freomen, Some even brousit slaves; but who talked of siavery in Caltiori inqaived Ww they came The word Was nevor breathed weat of the It od Mountains, My black boy Jim di ecnuse | only got $78.4 month fron a8 pay, when lie Could carn $990 1 to go fi nd cook my own rations at fu old tanyard, where the city of Sacrament stands, . * . T was intimately connected with 1 He events whieh bronght Cail of governmont, and 1 somotitnos fool that Tong bear witness of the transition from a eon Mexican provinee toa State int If, therefore, in atter years you have occasion, and Tam still all . Twill come a years, whieh have country. Alter we parted on the wharf we had vovaze up to Portland, Oregon, tn the stew flanme, thence by good boats an! rail to Umatiiia, by stages to Boise City and Kelton, on the Union Pacific Railroad, waence by easy Stacos we cane home by Salt Lake, Denver, Leavenworth, aud st, Louis. Wien Trecall ome pioneer experience of a even months’ voyage around Cape Horn, or the long dasty toad overiand, or the shorter but not low vertions voynes by Chagres and Panama, I feol unter deep 4 heartfelt obligations to the mon who conceived nd executed the prosent Pacifie Rulroad, It any of the pnb. rHia into one ayster in to ren: n ry of th been so fruitiul to our whole pleasant or Ort kimoly magnificent, and realizes fully our dream 1849-10. It may tur a short time distur) caleulations of the mereaants and ban! Francixoo; but they are no common m soon turn It to their prot and adventa San Francisco what it really y—tie seaport of the Pacific, even more than New York has become ie city of the Atlantic Ihough Teannnt expect to stinrs in sour month. Jvand annual meetings, [hove you will koe me ad vired, for L will feo! a life-long interest in the aMairs Of thé Society of Califoruia Pioneers, and #0 far as in my power lies I will eadeavor to Contribute my 1. SHERMAN, Genera, —$$——— Mr. MeKittrick’s $260, and Mr Knowler’s forses-A Sm tre. From the Alba’ in dune last, Horace Knowles of 0: er hada pale of cream-colored Lor from him, The next day he issued a handnii ing $10) ior the recovery of tli some of (ue handbiils to Polie Detective Khas Halo puto in hits hat, expecting that soinetiing would turn wp, Lining tas turned up, A few days since Mo k oF Columbia conity, aud one of the wi nesses i the late stealing casos, tried In Chip city, cans to A'bany, He called on Leddings, woe koe gs tho well-known livory stable ui Howard si row Hale saw MeKittrick Cuking ag aforesaid, Wacg MeKittricl: jet, Hale eilied on Leddines and said * Woat dtd MeKittrick want?" “Wants (0 find & pair of orev 1 hopwem Wilchdypniays Were 0 frvne “Did le describe lorses * Yes “Do vou k Tun Dia “hdt % Wit did the ay to th Sil he would give mio re they were “Did you nw “Laid, pro Did he pay {gu tell bin so” + hw to do this?" ided he wou. | pay in advance.” advaneo !" whole $230." suit OF lores, exll at pe wilquarters sud read a handbiti that | havegob Laxidines did a desired read handDill sent on by Koowles, read description of horses, and thea ealdt “These are t y ones which MoKictriek ie after.“ All rigiit,’? + go with Mei triek and get uorses, and crive them to potter headquarters. Leddings sai A Ie telezrabh Knowles arrived this: morning, with MoKi trick, aiming thom as nis Mekit sand left, 1 to Knowles to come Lode olen proporty, Lad Hite imme ti to Albany, ding drov ke ant borses to police lead they dod Hale and quarters this us now les, ag. Moro looked at horses, « from mo tn Ju cle wito. Krowles (ook hoses, and started for home, Me Kittrick took @ big swear, al @tarted fur home also, Leddin: for bis hom Crow rives (hres ers for Mate for hia genoralelit», and then tho mee to have vig laugh at MeKirtrick, path ata ‘The Migh-toncd Naval Murder i to ihe Bir of ihe Sun. Sim: One of your Washington correspondente ing made a statement in regard to tiie character of Chief Engineer Kelloze, U.S..N., wiich hae beew read by the mauy friends of that oficer with greet sogret, Instead of his being ‘a most quarrelome man, and a very irritable and divagreeabio mesamate,” ae Your correspondent saw fit to describe bin, hie messmates all concur in atiling Chat trey never eat any buch traits in his character, Oa the coutrary, he Was au agreeable companioy, (ull of generous Ame pulses, and eminent, 1 libs disposition, Hie Had recently been marriod Lo a monk ostunable lady in Key West, apd bas ieft liosta of warus sunal friends to mourn Ms untimely desth, Verp respectfully, &., AMIGO, U's, Navy Yaup, Boston, Nov. 25, 187. ——— The Alabama Deadloc Monroomeny, Nov, 80,—Last night Capt, Drum, commanding the post here, bad the troops at the Capitol removed by anforder from Geo. Terry, com manding the department, Smithand Bingham haw a Sherif’s posse of negroes quar the Exeoutw nd ‘freasur, rooms. Nothing was doue tu tr Legis iuiure to-day. (that $280 in another pocket, and left I nine more Ajoorned: Koy Went, ieauaaanee How a Sleepy Man Recovered $1,400, Coutant, of Rosendale, N. ¥., whe bed of $1.40) about fourteen youre ag wile asleep, Was notified by an anonywous ietiel that he would find the amount in @ package at (Mt Kingston Exvress office, Ho went there on the fob low y and received it, tw 1 nach Away that it would be Impossible to trace out tht talef througla it, —a— Recognition of Honorable Service: ‘The venerable Judge Nelson, te Nestor of the ench, arrived in tut yusterday, a upon his soneiniaw, the How, Ken “ Vhe Judge, x ftv y« yi ain | nit learty. A namoer A Correction. A 1 pa Webs 17 ina 1 4 nl tof ‘ eck Ol Which Was lo ea, ‘ Tulse prophet Wi Making Good Use of a Winsion Koos Sia i at 4 that : 1 \ cad, Wridn Milk Ques To the Balitor of The 8 Poe Bin: Why pay war prices fox silk when Hat and (eed is one tall sess) Consume i of Fofune to pay more than 10 cents Per WEE sig The roof of the Pavillion Hotel avd the val of the south wing of the West End Howl Branch, were blown off by (ue burricane ob day wight,