The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-30 00:00:00

PUTTING A PASSENGER IN IRONS.

A strange case came before the magistrates at
Bombay lately, Francis Graves, a cornet in the 20th
Hussars, made a charge of false imprisonment against
the commander of the ship Thomas Bell, which recent'y
arrived at Bombay from Gravesend. The prosecutor and
some other officers embarked on board the ship to join
their regiments in Bombay, and the captain did not treat
them with proper respect. Some disputes arose in conse-
quence of a vulgar practical joke which was played
on the prosecutor, in which the captain took
part. The next day the captain ordered Mr. Graves
to be put in irons and confined in the hold for twenty
hours with only bread and water to subsist on. On the
arrival of the ship at Bombay, the Brigadier-General only
ordered proceedings to be taken against the captain of the
ship. The chairman of the bench, in giving his decision,
said that the charge had been fully made out against the
captain, and that if the law gave great power to a shipmaster
at sea, it also entailed great responsibility. Ho considered
that no fine they could inflict would be an adequate
punishment for the offence of which the captain had been
guilty, and therefore he sentenced him to fourteen days'
imprisonment with hard labour.

(From the Anglo American Times.)

Messrs. William Fisher and Sons, the Baltimore
bankers and brokers, have written a valuable letter
to the London 7 imes explaining the true position of
Secretary Boutwell in selling gold to break down
the clique on the 24th September last. Our readers
know these circumstances, as they were fully ex,
plained in our article last week, " The Great Gold
Gamble," but the Baltimore bankers, learning that
the now had censured the Secretary in ignorance
of the subject, have taken the trouble to explain
it. There is, however, in this letter a bit of infor-
mation, which we desire to extract. When the mer-
chant borrows the gold, as he does from day to day
till the transaction is completed, say—if an export
cargo—till the goods are shipped and the captain has
signed the bills of landing, upon which he draws
on the house to which it is consigned, gets the
money from the banker, and refunds the coin to
the person who has loaned to him the gold—
till then currency to the value of the gold is de-
posited with the loaner as security, as in our article
we explained. But it was not added, as it ought to
have been, though implied, that this currency is
increased if the gold rises and substracted from if it
falls ; hence the merchants during the operations of
the clique were daily compelled to supply more and
more currency, the operators having carrie,l up the
price of gold till it reached 160 when the violent fluc-
tuations commenced. The difficulty then was to ad-
just the price, and this became a source of conten-
tion and confusion. 140, 145, 150, up to 155, was
given until the Treasury came forward as a seller
and precipitated the price to 130. Our readers then
understand the position occupied by the merchants.
They had covered the loans of gold with green-
backs at these high figures, and it became
necessary for the operators to refund to them
the difference between 130 and say 150. This, it
appears, they refused to do, and the merchants were
left virtually as buyers of gold from 145 up to 155,
although the market price was but 130. The long
and short of it is that the merchants of America wore
contending against a ring of swindlers, whom Se-
cretary Boutwell crushed as far as he could by his
opportune action.
Our readers can readily imagine the indignation
of the swindlers on finding the cup dashed from
their lips in the very moment of their triumph by
the Government action, and, as usual, it took the
shape of traducing and vilifying those who had
been instrumental in defeating the bold and nefa-
rious scheme. None but daring men could have
made such an attempt, and their audacity in their
failure was only equalled by the audacity of the
attempt. They actually strove to fasten on the Presi-
dent, and the very Treasury which had designedly
burst their bubble, complicity with the design; and
so :openly, boldly, and circumstantially was this
done, that some people were for a moment stag-
gered by the attack on the Executive. Mr. Robert
Bonner then wrote to the President, asking him to
make a " brief denial over his own signature of all
fore-knowledge of the gold combination, in order to
relieve himself entirely from all responsibility for
the acts of others ;" adding, those who know you
personally need no disclaimer, but it is advisable to
sweep away from the mind of the public these
calumnies. In reply, Mr. Bonner received and
published in the Ledger the following letter :

" Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 1869.

"Robert Bonner, Esq.—Dear Sir,—Your favour of
the 11th inst. is received. I have never thought of con-
tradicting statements or insinuations made against me by
irresponsible parties, such as those alluded to in your letter;
but as you have written to me on the subject in so kind a
spirit, I will say that I had no mere to do with the late
gold excitement in New York City than yourself, or any
other innocent party, except that I ordered the sale of gold
to break the ring engaged, as I thought, in a most disreput-
able transaction. If the speculators had been successful
you would never have heard of any one connected with the
Administration as being connected with the transaction.
—Yours, truly, U. S. GRANT.

P.S.-1 have written this iu great haste, and without
exercising judgment as to the propriety of writing it, but
I submit it to your judgment. U. S. ei."

Secretary Fish is beginning to receive the credit he
deserves for his course in the Cuban difficulty. He
has had to withstand a great pressure and no small
amount of misrepresentation. It is now known that
General Sickles merely tendered the good offices of
the United States, and although the leading State
officers, with whom he dealt, were inclined to favour
proposals leading to the eventual independence of
Cuba, in the then state of the Spanish mind, they could
not act, as they considered, advisable for the good of
the country. Both the note of Gen. Sickles and the
reply of the Spanish Government were courteous.
Time suggestion that the Cubans must lay down
their arms before negociatious could be commenced
was fatal, tlie Cubans positively refusing; and for the
good reason that they would then be at the mercy
of the Spaniards. The tender having been declined,
the American Minister's note was withdrawn in
conformity with diplomatic usage, and the subject
fell back to the place it had before occupied. The
Cubans have chosen General Butler as counsel,
and it is believed that he has to some extent under-
taken to manage their cause in the United States.
He finds them pig-headed, being wedded to their
own stupid opinions, and they may be the means of
defeating what the skill of that consummate intri-
guer might effect for them. The Euterpe sailed
from New York on the 9th inst. for Havannah with
her cargo of warlike stores for the Spanish Govern-

ment, under convoy of the Spanish frigate Fernando

Cortez.

It is not surprising that Europeans are puzzled by
American elections when they read accounts directly
contradicting each other. The correspondent of the
Times, whom some term " Copperhead," remarks—

"In Ohio the battle was for and against the repudiation
question, and the near approach Pendleton and the Re-
pudiationists made to a victory has had a gloomy effect in
the bond market, and drooping prices are the result."

T. Nation, from which he is so fond of "cribbing,"
says, the election

"Removes Pendleton and Packer from the field of pos-
sible candidates for the Presidency, and is good for Hoff-
man—a politician worse and more dangerous, as we be-
hove, than either. Also, it finally disposes of repudiation,
and, doubtless, ensures Ohio's renewed ratification of the
Fit teenth Amendment."

The Nation, however, must not be allowed to stand
in the way of the twist he can give to any circum-
stance to make American bonds droop and lower
American credit. The truth is that Pendleton in
Ohio has been politically mortally wounded. He was
the favourite leader of his party, and a man calcu-
lated by his ability and upright character to do it
honour notwithstanding his repudiation theories.
He is now a played-out politician, and, in the em-
phatic language of politicians, " a dead duck." If
any one could have made repudiation popular in
Ohio it was Pendleton, and he having failed no
one else need try. The effect is, as the Nation says,
to give Governor Hoffman, of New York, the first
place on the Democratic ticket. Asa Packer was
of no real account, his weight being derived from
mere wealth.

The same man in Philadelphia used tbese elec-
tions to demonstrate the widespread dissatisfaction
both of the dominant party and of Grant's adminis-
tration. What is there to cause this dissatisfaction?
Is it the honest discharge of their duty by the execu-
tive,—the retrenchment which permits no obstacle
to stand in the way of economy,—the rigorous col-
lection of the revenue, and punishment of frauds ?
Are these the weaknesses to which the correspondent
alludes? That the wholesale ejection of the late Presi-
dent's employisshould have given such dissatisfaction,
coupled as it was with the discharge of all super-
numeraries, and the abolition of posts not urgently
required, that this should cause a loudly-expressed
dissatisfaction is natural, to be increased by the 20
disappointed applicants for each post, but we deny
that it is the discontent of the people or that these
acts are signs of weakness. We have had some ex-
perience of the result of the Philadelphian's " careful
surveys" and " dismal prospects." About this time
last year that gentleman seemed to have donned the
mantle of a prophet of old, till at laA he had
worked himself into such a state that he spoke of
his anticipations as events of the past. There never
was a prophet more dishonoured in his predictions,
for many of them were published with the Cable
news telling the result, and it would have been wise
in the Times to have thrown them into the waste-
paper basket, for they did much to add to the dis-
repute into which that journal has fallen with regard
to American news. Such is not the prophet who
should undertake to predict what is going to happen
at the close of next year.
Luck is against Andrew Johnson, who has been
defeated in the Tennessee Legislature, Mr. Henry
Cooper being selected as United States Senator by
one vote. It was close, yet a miss is as good as a
mile, and the bitter part of it is that the gentleman
chosen was also a Democrat, which means that it is
not party, but personal motives which influenced
the Tennessee Assembly. A Nashville paper had
already put a rod into strong pickle for Andy, which
ought to teach him the danger of stretching the law
in the day of his own power. The Hon. Jesse D.
Bright, of Indiana, was denied admission into the
Senate after being elected ,the resolution being offered
by Mr. Johnson, then Senator from Tennessee, on
the plea that Mr. Bright, though not charged with
any overt act of treason, was believed to be a dan-
gerous man, and the Senate had the right to protect
itself by expelling him. Mr. Johnson on that occa-
sion spoke powerfully, arguing that the assembly
held supreme power over its own organization, and
that the safety of the people was its highest law.
The paper then asks the Legislature of Tennessee
to reflect seriously before it selects a man for Wash-
ington who may be sent back by an insulted Senate,
mindful of his indecorous attacks on Congress, and
the contempt which he has tried to cast upon its
laws. It is said that Parson Brownlow will resign the
Senatorship, and that Mr. Johnson will be elected
to fill the vacancy.
Mr. G. W. Curtis having positively declined the
Republican nomination, General Sigel has been
compelled to accept the place on that ticket for Sec-
retary of State, Mr. Horace Greeley having man-
fully come forward to take the next as Comptroller.
His letter, published as a leader in the Tribune, we
allude to elsewhere, but it is generally regarded that
these gentlemen have the command of a forlorn hope.
Tammany knows too well how to win an election
in New York to permit any doubt whatever to
exist as to the result. The correspondent of the
Times writes indignantly regarding the way in
which the Republicans secured a majority in the
recent election in Pennsylvania, but if they acted
in Philadelphia as he says, in which case they
deserve his censure, they only took a leaf out of
the Tammany book. Those who control the great
cities of New York and Philadelphia now virtually
control the States of New York and Pennsylvania.
IVhat they do is to get their agents in the provinces
to send them early information as to the majorities
necessary for them to make up, and they will sup-
ply any amount of wooden men to over-ride the
flesh and blood voters of the country. This is what.
Tammany has reduced to a science, and this is what
roused the ire expressed in the limes by a Phila-
delphian Democrat when practised by Republicans
in his own city.
The steamship Pereire, which carried Father
Hyacinthe, made the run in 8 days 16 hours. The
news by the papers to the 19th inst. is that a se-
rious strike had occurred on the Erie Railroad,
the directors, who claimed to have made money by
the gold gamble, having neglected not only to pay
the stockholders and debenture- holders,but the wages
of the labourers and servants of the line. The car-
shops at Buffalo of the Lake Shore Railway had
been burnt, involving a loss of $300,000. Suit has
been entered in the United States Supreme Court
against George Peabody and Co., for the recovery
of $300,000 in Texan Bonds, received from the
Rebel authorities during the rebellion. lowa ad-
vices indicate the probable election of Governor
Merrill to the United States Senate, to succeed Sena-
tor Grimes. Mr. Seward had arrived at Mazanillo,
and was warmly received by the Governor. The Go-
vernment clerks at Washington are going to peti-
tion Congress for an increase of pay. President
Juarez has proceeded to Tamulipas, after making
his usual speech to Congress. The latest accounts
of Admiral Farragut state that he had so greatly
improved that it was now hoped he might recover.
The ironclad Dictator sailed for Cuba on the 16th.
A decision in the contested election cases of 1868
in Philadelphia declares the Republican candidates
elected, and removes the Democratic incumbents,
with exception of the Mayor. Mr. A. A. Low, Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce, has been exa-
mined by the Congressional Committee about the
Decay of American Commerce. Admiral Porter
had removed to Washington, and had settled there
with his family. Professor Hall had returned to
that city from Alaska, with all his notes on the
total eclipse in August last. Bets were being
offered in Washington that Andrew Johnson would
not be elected Senator from Tennessee.

Father Hyacinthe, we learn by the papers just
received, arrived at New York on the 18th in3t.,
and was immediately " interviewed" by a reporter.
The reverend gentleman must have known he wa
going into the lion's den, and he must not be sur-
prised at being lionized. The interviewer, out of a
consideration to a foreigner he would not have
shown to one of his ow❑ countrymen, refrained, as he
says, from bothering him, but this much he ex-
tracted :

" The steward kindly pointed out the object of our
search, who was then walking fore and aft, reading, as al;
Catholic priests daily do, from his breviary the office' set
apart for each day. Pausing to survey the man whose
name has been borne on the wings of fame to the
remotest bounds of Christendom, we could not help
being amazed at the calm simplicity of his exterior.
He is below the middle height ; stout, stoops a lit tle, has
grey hair, dark eyes, and a round face. At a distance
there is nothing in his appearance, but the moment you

come in contact with him you feel an indescribabls charm
coming over you, and, when he speaks, his soft, es.rnest
voice completes the fascination, and you are completely.
won. Immediately you realise that this is no ordinal
man, but one whose mental powers are marvellously deve-
loped. He is gentlemanly and affable withal—the beau
ideal of refinement. Approaching him, we took advantage'
of a pause in his reading to introduce oursolf, and to olak°,
known the object of our visit. Ho very politely accorded
us a brief review, during which ho told ua that ho Wag 13
excellent health, and, apart from a little fatigue, felt not 5
whit the worse for his journey. He came to America for
the purpose of learning more of the people and studying
their institutions. He informed us that he purposed so-
journing among us for two months at least."
In the evening the reporter went to Fifth-avenue
Hotel, where he was informed that Father HP'
cinthe desired to be alone and in peace until nel.
morning. " Despite a peremptory order to thls/
effect, large bodies of the nomadic literati were
gathered in knots in the large hallway of the betel
:
and around the clerk's desk, using up hundreds e'
the address slips in scribbling requests for an ieterci
view in elaborately bad French. These they would
send up to the Father's room by the porters, n
dozen of whom were kept going up and down
stairs the whole afternoon and late into the even
ing. The irrevocable decision of the unfortunate
object of so much attention not to grant an ieter•
view to any one did not seem to affect his ~wool'"
be visitors. They would not leave, and, in fact, 0,
peared determined, at one period of the evening'
to proceed en masse to his room, and interview him
willy nilly. But fortunately the bye-laws of
the
hotel forbade any such summary manner of visiting
a guest therein."
Mr. Peabody has been lying all the week very ill
at 80, Eaton Square, where he had stopped, on
ll
way to the south of France, to consult Dr. Guri
There has been no improvement,and the latest reP°
was that, though easier on Thursday night, his enfe
dition remained the same. Every one, from t't
Queen downwards, has been making inquiries allnu
this eminent American philanthropist. It is feared
t,
that another American of distinction is also as dallge,its
ously ill. Admiral Farragut is sick at Chicago, in
own country, and not having received intelligence
,
by cable, we hope and believe he must be recoverieg,
The collection of silk cocoons in the Scientific. Pet
partment from California at the late Internaloncitj
Exhibition at Hamburg received the silver
of the Society. At the Royal Linnean Socletlt,
Show at Brussels (Belgium) the California DeP.nrs,
went received the great gold medal of the See°
The specimens of cocoons and coniferswere takeoff:tie
the private collection of Mr. J. Q. A. Warren, at ,
request of the Society, who had the honour 0f.be,30
ing off its first prizes. At Belgium, the partace.`,.,
attention of King Leopold was drawn to this cells;
Goa, who greatly admired the contributions fr°

California. 0a
The news from Mexico is via San Francisee, $lO,
that from Mazatlan is up to the 4th inst. A retell
tion in Sinalo was imminent. Troops had -00
stationed along the frontier of the State. jog
Government was buying up and manufactutroo
ammunition in large quantities. Desertions
the army were numerous. On the night of
tember 24th several soldiers deserted from thctbere
racks. During the confusion which en:-.llal vuot
were cries of ,t Viva Placid() Vega !" throug'o,
the city. A detachment of several hundred tfr.
valry belonging to Lozada appeared on the B°ll,oo
ern frontier causing, considerable alarm. 00
fifty-ninth anniversary of Mexican indepeu'we ere
was celebrated enthusiastically. Four
accidentally killed while firing a salute. i-beeti
niversary of the independence of Chili bad
also celebrated. high

Miss Louisa Starr is evidently rising int°,,a::ll sea
walk of art. That lady is said to have reached the s'Aooli
point two years ago, the first of her sax, of the 46-cs` the
Gold Medal, and a critic, writing in the Tine Cud el)
Dudley Gallery, speaks of her as still moving 00
in her art. The critic discovers real genius in the Ic°01"
lady, notwithstanding an immaturitvof technicalk 0
ing out frcm a palpably rough touch, is life and 01310 ore
largeness of intention, and a fire of execution even Os
uncommon in the paintings of a woman than of a Mall:gig.
says -"Gold medallist for gold medallist, we nale;o tha
the palm both in respect of progress and promise, fore
lady. Mr. Calthrop, who won the same honour e
it
Miss Starr, has not only not improved on the Gir°„rit
his first Academy picture, but has not nearly corns hr
iVerg
The system on which American newspePers,
is fairly shown by a notice recently published to Pc°;iag
advantages of the New York Tribune as an to-lrer•jter
medium. That paper is published as a daily, the P.'l3-te
being then gathered into a semi-weekly, and iinsill„100
weekly edition. To advertise so that the notice sr' te4
in each of the three editions costs $25, or say $4 fop
lines; or, a hundred guineas for a column, upwards° 0011
times the price of advertising in the most expessise,,ne
journal. The way the Tribune puts it is this----"lritafr
Lions reach a million of people, while the cost of dist,
id 0
ing 300,000 circulars of the smallest dimensions Weoloce
over £l,OOO. Between the value of circulars and slf wide
ments in the advertising columns of a nowsnsPer, 4sfroulsr'
difference for a man seldom involuntarily reads tab(' eltVegth
while he often does the advertisement, sn- ire 1-
the advertisement pages are as a rule skipped, te•
lar nearly always goes into the waste-paper neon the
the Tribune says, the circular is beyond coraParl -baul4'
more expensive as well as laborious. Whe/2„gia tbe
ing-house informs its constituency of a ehshbe- rof 1
firm or of the premises it addresses a defined nitre cfrcel3;
dividuals whom it can best reach by means of „ie, 0'
But when a man offers an article to the public for Fe-abiet'
invites their attendance, the circular is a clunisle:(l7o,o the
The plan which originated in America is to ci'e.usso psi;
journal for next to nothing and make the adVertilo to OS
as there are no means of advertising conatliar3b
d4eo
of newspaper publicity.
Governor Senter's Message to the stroa
Legislature is now published in full. lie t'lloopti°f3;
ground on the Fifteenth Amendment, urging ese9°Ll
as well as the ending of all inequality for Pnlitiorralf
among the people of the State. Mr. Senter d the of
eloquently advocates the Elective Franchise ,4611;tti 10 a,
teenth Amendment. The following is the n'',,G; 06%
the States which have ratified and rejected the yet D's,
ment, although the official notification has nem f)eg,llo
received from Virginia. It would appear that or of
latures of twenty have cast their votes in fav,o4
Amendment, while the three below have reject' ,
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The latest news of Admiral Farragut i:tr11ola
lows, dated " Chicago, Oct. 14.—Admiral FarrsTill
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a dangerous relapse, and is now lying in 00°1:P4
condition. His physicians express the opin'°ls.,,,Ao-00(
not survive the night." "Chicago, C)ct'th re sre,teiS!
Farragut is much easier this evening, and • e wills s-ferl
renewed hopes of his recovery. His strong
yob is. to
him in his severe sickness, but his bodily' etsevifeitna,he At,
slight." His health ia a subject a deep .seod
Washington, where infoation has been re ~‘„o
little nvr
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