The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-09 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(Fronz the Anglo-American Times.)
We have not received our New York letters, and
we are unable to give the latest changes in the
Money Market. The course, however, is indicated
by the steady fall in gold, which is now quoted

under 139. This proves not only that the payment
of the 5-20 gold coupons has had an effect, but also
that the political prospects were improving. The
payment of the 5-20's also accounts for the large
shipments of gold lately announced by the steamers

from New York for Liverpool.
The Secret Society, calling itself " The Sons of
Jackson," is actively recruiting throughout the
United States, and hopes to balance the grand
army of the Republic iu the Democratic interest in
the coming Presidential election. General M'Clel-
lan has been recalled to place himself at the head
of his party, and in response to the invitation has
announced that he has taken his passage in the
Persia, to sail on the 16th inst. The Democratic
ticket is finally fixed according to this account, the
nominee for Vice-President being also .a military

man.
The news from New York last Wednesday even-
ing, that the Democrats had carried the New York
and New Jersey elections, will create no surprise.
Although the New } ork Tribune exclaimed, " We
can carry the State if we will ; we must do it, let
us resolve altogether that WE WILL," it was
well known that there was little chance of
any other result. The Tribune has made a
good fight and has been vanquished dying
game. As it was generally held by the
Republicans that the Democrats would be victorious,
the Tribune endeavoured to combat the feeling—
" We.tell these seers of evil," it said, addressing
itself to those of its party who predicted defeat,"
whose wish is father to their thought, that a change
which seems to be unexpected by them, not only
will occur, but is already occurring." If this change
was occurring it is clear it had not time to work
out its legitimate results, as the cable news proves.
The Republicans have, however, carried Massa-
chusetts, though by a reduced majority.
A man named Cooper has been captured and
confined in a New York gaol on a charge of passing
$lO and $2O counterfeit hank-notes. It is not,
however, this charge that excites a very general in-
terest in Mr. Cooper. He is one of a gang strongly
suspected by Col. Wood, chief of the Secret Service
Division of the Treasury Department, to have
forged the counterfeit 7-30 Notes. That officer,
with all his force, has been at work to trace the
crime to its source. It has been ascertained that
the plates were not made in Europe, but iu the
United States, and that Philadelphia had been the
head-quarters for printing the bands. It is known
that over 1,000 of them have been issued, and it is
said that the secret service officers have the clue to
the whole proceeding. The prisoner Cooper has
been identified by a Brooklyn banker as having
passed a number of 7-30's.
A telegram has been received by the Royal Mail
Company from their agent in Havaunah announc-
ing a furious hurricane that laid waste the Island of
St. Thomas on the 29th October. The particulars
of the extent of the storm have not been received,
but enough is known to prove the destructive nature
of its progress. The finest and fastest of the Royal
Mail Company's steamers, the _Rhone, was lost on
Peter Island, with £BOO,OOO in treasure on
board. She was 2,500 tons and 500 horse-power,
Captain T. Woolley in command. The Wye,
of 752 tons and 180 horse-power, was also totally
lost. The Conway and Derwent were both driven
ashore, the former of 890 tons, the latter 794.
The Tyne and Solent were dismasted, but the ex-
tent of the damage is not yet known ; they were
two large steamers, the one being 1,916 tons, and
the other 1,689 tons. It is feared that the loss of
life has been immense. The crew of the .Rhone was
over a hundred, that of the Wye was fifty, and a
report states that all the former and part of the
latter were lost, and only twelve passengers by
the steamer for Southampton saved. The Douro
left Southampton on the 17th ult., and must
have been close to St. Thomas at the time of
the hurricane. She is a sister vessel of the
Rhone. Fifty other vessels have been driven on
shore, and the town of St. Thomas was in ruins.
The Royal Mail Company are their own insurers'
and a heavy fall has taken place in the value of
their. sliares. For some time they have been de-
creasing in price from various causes.
The cost of Reconstruction has been heavier than
Congress anticipated, and already the appropria‘
tions made at the extra session last July have bee°
exceeded by several thousand dollars. Thus far tb°
sums actually expended are stated to be about 05
follows :—First District,,Gen. Schofield command'
ing, $199,000 ; Second District, Gen. Sickles cow'
manding, $249,000 ; Third District, General Poll
commanding, $175,000 ; Fourth District, Genera'
Ord commanding, $400,000; Fifth District, Geo'
Sheridan commanding, $350,000.
A correspondent writing from Naples, dated 30th
October, says :—" We had last evening a demou-
stration, namely, a couple of hundred ragamufl
ran along the Toledo uttering seditious cries, it„o.,,
broke the windows of the Café de l'Europe.
the appearance of a patrol they dispersed in triturr Oh
We have in the bay H.M.S. Caledonia, flag of Lor"
Clarence Paget."