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VA? .TMtt VTIT.-NTTMftW 1183. - CHARLESTON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1869. SIX DOLLARS A YEAR. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The Government %nd the Hornet-The San Domingo Basinets-The Tennessee Senatorial Election-Spa 1 n Respect, fully Declines to he Bullied. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NEWS.] WASHINGTON, October G. The Spanish Minister flied to-Gay a protest*] against the.release j>f tbe Cuban cruiser Hor? net. The President and Cabinet decide that the Hornet most be permanently detained, by vir? tue ofr Aticle 14 of the treaty with Sr ain, which prohibits American citizens from om mantling privateers of other countries intend? ed to depredate on Spanish commerce. The special envoy sent by President Grant to examine the leland of San Domingo re? turned to-day. The pending negotiations for the purchase of the island, entered into by President Johnson, expire on the 15th instant Secretary Bout well lias consented 'to speak in Philadelphia on Saturday. * Dispatches from Nashville say that the sena? torial election comes off on Friday, and that _ * Andrew Johnson is ahead. Minister Sickles telegraphed to Secretary Fish to-day that Spain declines to reopen ne? gotiations for mediation in the purchase or for the sale of-Cuba. - WASHINGTON, October 6. In the Supreme Court all the judges were present but Field. The court is Hearing a . gaslight case. In the matter of Benjamin Brown, Eli Wood, John Halligan, Granville Rose, Wm. Andrews and Philip 8tonemetz, the Hon. W. W. Boyce, formerly of South Carolina, asked leave to file a motion for writs of habeas corpus, and the motion was ordered to be argued on Friday next. The prisoners are charged with murder in Texas In Jone last, and lt is alleged that they are now being tried by military commis? sion. Nothing whatever is yet received here re? garding the Tennessee Legislature. The New York Times says it has advices that Johnson men have been elected presiding officers in both houses. The revenue to-day is over $500,000. The proceedings'at Wilmington against the Caban cruiser Hornet were ordered by the Cabinet yesterday. A report in circulation that Secretary Fish hacT&een notified that the English and French Governments had ordered the fleet to pursue the Hornet and hang the crew is untrue. The Attorney-General has rendered an opin? ion to the effect that the Secretary of War cannot prevent claim agents or attorneys from prosecuting business in his department in all proper cases, but that where there is reason to suspect fraud, the right and duty exist to suspend such business Intercourse, it being proper and obligatory to protect the government from fraud. The agents or at? torneys should be lurnlshed with the reasons of such suspension in order to vindication. The opinion was given in cases alleged to affect the payment of bounties to colored troops-cases which were tainted with fraud. J. H. Van Alston, in behalf of the New Or? leans tobacco merchants, called on Commis? sioned Delano to-day, and asked that purchas? ers of tobacco In Virginia and North Carolina may be allowed to make shipments in bond. The course of Mr. Delano promises relief to the New Orleans and Mobile merchants, as well as to Southern manufacturers. THE VIROINIA LEGISLATURE. RICHMOND, October 6. In the House, to-day, two resolutions that the iron-clad oath be now administered to members and temporary officers of the House, were referred to the proper committee when it shall be appointed. A protest adopted by the Republican caucus last night was presented. It is framed with a view to answering Attorney-General Hoar's argumentv and protests against any acts of the Legislature at this session, on the ground that the members have not taken the iron-clad. It was referred. The following nominations were made : For speaker, Zephaniah Turner, of Rappahannock; S. r Maddox, of Chesterfield; John B. Cren shaw, of Richmond. Turner, who was nomi? nated by a Conservative, obtained 87 votes; Maddox, nominated by a Wells Republican, 41 votes, and Crenshaw, 5. Turner was declared elected. In the discussion the point was pressed that Turner now has an application before Con? gress for the removal of his political disabili? ties. It was explained that, though not able to toko the test oath, he was not disqualified by the Fourteenth amendment, J. B. Bigger was elected clerk. In the Senate, the same protest of the Re? publican caucus was presented, and a resolu? tion was adopted laying it on the table, on the ground that it was obviously an effort to ob? struct reconstruction-was in plain opposition ta the intention of Congress, expressed in the Reconstruction acts, and in direct violation of the interpretation of said acts by the adminis. t ration. A resolution was adopted informing the commanding general of the organization of the Senate. The body then adjourned. Mr. Z. Turner who was elected speaker, ls a lawyer about sixty years old, and one of the L first advocates of ethe reconstruction acts in the State. In 1860 he was defeated as a Union indidate for the Legislature. THE CUBA MERRY-MAKING. WILMINGTON, October 6. The entertainment aboard the Cuban sloop of-war this evening was attended by large numbers of ladies and gentlemen. There are no new developments concerning the status of the Cuba, but the public opinion ls that she will be released as soon as an investigation is made. Her release by the United States authorities at Phila? delphia and the British authorities at Halifax, and the fact that she is regularly commissioned as a vessel of war by the Cuban Government and not fitted out in any United 8tates port, seem to prove that there is no jus? tification for her detention. The Hon. George Davie, ex-Attorney-General of the Confederate States, is one of the counsel for the Cubans. SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. The first Cuban cable is unserviceable; the second cable, which lands five miles east of Havana, commenced working to-day. A Chinaman named Cong killed Charles Arch oe, his own wife and himself. Cause jealousy. A negro butcher also killed a white ni. D. THE STATE O F S PA IV. PAKIS. October 5. Reports received concerning the progress of the Republican movement rn Spain have beetl confirmed. Ferdinand. ex-King of Por? tugal, is said to have accepted the throne, but lt is asserted that if this combination does not succeed within eight days, Spain will be a Re? public. The Cortes, meantime, have passed stringent laws, including a suspension of the rights of individuals, looking to the speedy and effectual suppression of the insurrection. THE CATERPILLAR. v. . . ? ? t . The Means of ita Preservation and Pre? vention. TO THE EDITOR OF THE XE WS. ? Again we have been invaded by the enemy. The caterpillars have spoiled us. and are about going into winter quarters. And yet, no one that I know of has attempted to discover their habits, their origin, or how they are preserved for another campaign. It may be presumptuous for one so entirely unacquainted as myself with the science of en? tomology, to attempt to write on the subject; but I can honestly sny that I do it in order to stimulate and elicit the views of others, who have greater opportunities to investigate and arrive at the facts by personal observation. This investigation should commence now. I have never believed that the moth is preserved in crysalls In the earth. I think that nature provides what common sense dic? tates-a dry exposure. I do not credit the theory that they are of more Southern origin; the fact that they appear first in more souther? ly latitudes, may be accounted for by the cir? cumstance that, the seasons there are earlier. With great deference to those who have given their opinions, I ask that my theory may be considered; although no great novelty is claim ad for lt. It Is, that the caterpillars are pre? served here. Of the myriads in the different stages through which they pass, those in chry? salis only are preserved, when a temperature not congenial to life suddenly overtakes them. Only a fraction of the myriads is pre-?erved. Birds of various kinds, particularly the mock? ing-bird and thrush, do make havoc with them in early spring, to feed their young; but I think that some other reason than that they were destroyed by the negroes must be found to account for their scarcity, which is an admit? ted fact. Cuffee would hardly open his ammu? nition on such small game. I believe that the caterpillars appear earlier than they are usually observed, and assume that about the 15th June one may appear In a field of five hundred acres. There are 7000 stalks to the acre, rather thick planting; but with wider planting, the growth of plants will be in proportion. Having assumed that only one moth appears in that area about the middle of June, I assume that it deposits on one or more plants one thousand eggs, say In the space of a square Inch; that on or about the 6th July that thousand is multiplied a thou? sand fold more, or one million; that on or about the 28th July another brood is produced and multiplied as the first; and it will require no great skill in arithmetic to discover how many of the last brood should share one stalk ofthat five hundred acres. It may be said all will not procreate, and for that reason I have allowed a very large diminution of what is said to be the actual Increase. I have been told by an observing planter that all did not go Into chrysalis. I was ready to believe that those were the males, and that impregnation was made before they went into chrysalis. Another old practical experienced cotton planter told me that he had observed that the first brood were more apt to settle on the centre than the edges of the field; and that may account for their not being seen sooner. I am quite willing to believe that the re? markable disappearance of the birds is one great cause of having thc caterpillar, but I am not prepared to assent to the cause of .their absence-that the negroes kill them. That hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mocking birds are carried North I know to be a fact, and, as was some months since communicated In your useful NEWS by an observer, the de? struction to Insects and worms was immense by one having a nest of young. That bird I believe to be more destructive than any other. But how are we to keep them at home when Yankee greenbacks are the inducement? I am quite willing that they should have a share, if, parrot-like, the bir ls could be taught, and I the teacher, to war.-le in their ears, "robbers, murderers, are ye all;" but such truths would not be acceptable to the guilty conscience. If any shot?d agree with me In the theory, lt may be said, well, what is the remedy ? I have one, but hesitate to offer lt until the wiseacre to whom I communicated it lately, and by whom I was ridiculed, fails to suggest a better. [We hope that our correspondent will ac? quaint the public, through our columns, with tlie remedy of which he speaks. We cannot have too much information from thinking men upon this Important subject.-Ea NEWS.] THE KU-KLUX-KLAN. A Ghastly Apparition and what Came of it-A Warning to Dealers in Stolen Cotton. A letter from Mayesville, Sumter County^ dated October 4, says : Last Tuesday morning it was announced that the .mysterous association of Ku-Klux Klan had paid us a visit the preceding night. About 3 o'clock A. M., twenty-five or more horsemen, dressed in a unique costume of long, fiowing black gowns, surmounted by white hoods, with long capes, came riding into the peaceiul little village of Mayesville and stopped at the store of R. P. Mayes. One c>f the band dismounting, walked to the door and demanded an interview with the clerk. Seeing through the window the assemblage as they stood grim and ghastly In the hazy moonlight; he refused to see them in spite of the assurance that no harm was meant Leaving a note; dated "Bloody moon and awful hour," to the. purport that If the trade In 6eed cotton wasn't soon stopped by the merchants, that they, the "Grand Association of K, K. K.'s," would, by ! certain means in their power, stop it them? selves, took their departure. Next, the band stopped at Dr. Maye's store and called out Lis clerks, who openly declare themselves badly scared boys when the strange apparitions greeted their eyes. The same mes? sage was given them for the proprietor, and whilst giving it their bodies bowed in regular time, increasing the solemnity of the scene. Then wheeling round and falling into ranks iu perfect order, these horsemen, with their steeds with muffled T'eet, soon disappeared in the distance. Thc negroes herc plant cotton on their little fai ms, and also steal it, and bring both here for trade, and it being impossible to fina* out whether or not it ls stolen, the merchants buy it all. The trade in seed cotton has been re? sumed with double vigor, and will go on, as the merchants' notice says, so long as seed cot? ton is an article of trade, and the threats of the cowardly crew of Ku-Klux-Klan are to bc treated with supreme contempt, until they come in open daylight aud prove their own seed cotton, and that lt is stolen. We are still on the lookout for more invasions of the same party, and Cuffee is frightened almost out of his seven senses. THE L OTTOS PROSPECT. The Prohajtfe Crop in Abbeville-Condi? tion of the Planters-The fallacy of Estimates. COKESBURY, October 6. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS. I have recently had an opportunity of inter? rogating many ol' the most intelligent planters o? Abbeville concerning their cotton crops, and herewith give you the result of <ny Inqui? ries.* Two plantera thought their immediate sections would make two-thirds of the crop planted for; an occasional planter hoiked his sec? tion would make a half crop, but a vast majori? ty of them felt sure they would not reach one half of what they hoped for at planting time. Without the privilege of consulting official United States reports, (Which, if Commissioner Sparnlck quotes correctly must be utterly worthless.) I suppose an ante-bellum crop for this county must have been 20.000 bales. This year, with smaller area and deficient labor, a good crop would have been probably 15,000 bales. My own Judgment ls, not more than two-fifths of that amount can possibly be made, or 0000 bales. If these 6000 bales are rustled upon the market they will not command a half million of dollars; whereas, if withheld till next spring they will most certainly sell for half as much more. But unfortunately most of the planters are compelled to sell. The accep? tances alone for commercial fertilizers, now due, will doubtless reach $100,000 ; as much more will be expended before next spring for bread and meat, and perhaps another $100,000 for other necessaries of life. Viewing this subject practically, Mr. Editor. I receive no reply but echo to my inquiry, where is our evidence of prosperity ? If the balance of the South were like this count}', lt appears to me wc would bc verging upon a vast bankruptcy, rather than beginning an era of prosperity. Last spring you gave your read? ers an Interesting account of thc cotton crop of South Carolina in prospecta, an epitome of which wotdd now even be read with interest. Can you not Induce similar reports from the same correspondents as to the results of their year's labors ? We all know that the cotton crop of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama cannot be much more than a half crop. If thc correspondents of Northern papers are to be credited, West Tennessee, North Mississippi and Arkansas have within the past two months, by drought first and then by boll worm, lose half of their anticipated crops. If these be facts, where are the 2.750.000 bales to be grown, tliat are so authoritatively pronounced to be the cotton crop of 1869 ? The larger half of the cofton crop of this State is to-day ont of the field, and the fall opens beautifully for harvesting the com crop. If our planters are as provident as they should be, they will Immediately 6et to work seeding down a largely Increased area of all the small grains. An acre of land to each work animal, highly manure<l and sown in barley In October, will tarnish more than half feed by 1st April; and oats sown now may be harvested in May. By these means thousands of dollars can be saved the State, which will otherwise be expended for imported corn. Will not our planters take heed to the signs of the times? Very respectfully. D. WYATT AIKEN. [The cotton crop of ?rbbevillc District In I860, according to the United .States census, wa? 21,977 bales.-El) NFWS.] PERSONAL GOSSIP. -John Morrissey admits that he has lost money in the last Wall street crash. -Tennyson has written a letter to Edwin Booth, congratulating liim on the production ol w Enocli Arden.-' -Mr. James M. Woodruff, of Covington, Ga., committed suicide, last week, by blowing his bruins out with a pistol. -The name of General R. E. Lee is urged in several of the Virginia papers for the presi? dency of the Virginia Valley Railroad. -Mr. W. F. Mason, a most estimable young citizen of Macon, (Ja., was shot and instantly killed near that city, last week, by Mr. Samuel Colson. -Mr. Wheeler, of the firm of Wheeler & Wilson, is to be brought forward as a candi? date for thc Democratic nomination for Gover? nor of Connecticut. -Archbishop McCloskey, according to a letr ter from Rome to a London journal, has hired a carriage and span at 1200 (Vanes a month, to facilitate his movements in the Eternal City. -Koopmansohaap has appointed John Ainsbey of Memphis, late president of t he Ger? man National Bank, awl business manager cf the Appeal, his agent for the Southern State?. -Brigiiam Young calls the roll of lils chil? dren every morning at breakfast. When they are all able to put In an appearance, there are sixty-eight of them there to respond to the call. -Rev. Baruas Sears, D. D.. lias declared, in a letter to North Carolina, that no aid what? ever will be given from Hie Peabody Southern Educational Fund to sectarian or denomina? tional schools. -Ill health is assigned as the reason for the retirement of Hon'. John Bigelow tVom the edi? torship of the New York Times. While he re? mained in that position he received the com? fortable salary of two hundred and fifty dollars per week. -Alexander T. Stewart, the dry goods prince, recently said to an acquaintance: ~I do business to establish a principle. It is thc principle of truth. I ara in a state of continued warfare io prevent what are called white lies being told in my establishment,'' -A monument, which cost $25,000, has been erected in Laurel Grove Cemetery, nev? Sa? vannah, over the remains of the late Right Rev. Bishop Stephen Elliott, cf lhc Diocese of Georgia. On the front is cut the Bishop's mitre, and in the rear thc cross keys, symboli? cal uf the Bishop's office. -When General Chamberlain, Governor of Maine, alter one of the tembl? battles of the war, lay upon a hospital couch, shot through lue body, and, as all supposed, very near his end, the attendants began preparations for em? balming Iiis body, that it might be sent home. This was a little earlier than the General de? sired, and moving himself, he said : ..Gentle? men, I have made different arrangements. I invite you all to dine with me one week from to-day." -There are men, here and there, who are a little too smart, even for themselves. There ls a will now under settlement in New York, in which a rich old gentleman very effectually revenges himself upon a son-in-law. It hap? pened that the son-in-law got some hold upon the old man whereby he conii>elicd him to settle $100,000 upon his wife (the old man's daughter) before thc affair was arranged. As in duty bound, the old gentleman ultimately paid the debt of nature, and of course the hCjirs were wide awake for the will. There were three daughters and one son. and the old man left to the son $1.000,000, to each of the two daughters $1,000,000; but to the daughter whose husband had played the trick upon him nothing more than a receipt for the $100,000 paid to her smart husband. -The following "ca?d," from F. H. Sterns, appears in the editorial columns of thc New bern Times : " Having been intruded upon while attending to my duties at the Times office. I take this occasion to say that I am tlr ?d of having every person who happens to be In alighting mood step to the door and ask me ont. and this is to inform all who have already done this thing, and such as expect to do so hereafter, tlntt I do not advertise to be a prize? fighter, and have never carried, nor intend to carry, concealed weapons, but that I shall con? tinue to defend this paper and its friends against all attacks, without fear or favor; shall not consult the tastes of any pugilist, but rather be governed by ?sense of justice toward myself and those whose principles I advocate. I shall continue tc* walk the streets of this city at my leisure when I have occasion to do so, and no threats of chastisement will, prevent me from going where Y have occasion to lh the discharge of my business." THE ILZ-EATED PRIVATEER. Tho Hornet Under a New Nanrt and Master -How She waa Pnrcliaacd, Transferred and Started - Stirring Scenes at Sea-High Hopes before She was Nabbed. . A correspondent of the New York Herald, who was on board the steamer Hornet during her short and unlucky cruise under the Cuban flag, writes to that paper an interesting ac? count of the manner in which that vessel pass? ed into the Cuban service. After noticing the seizure and subsequent release of the Hornet by the British authorities at Halifax, he con? tinues : Shortly after her arrival at Halifax, Mr. Leon Lafitte, now one of the officers of the Cuba, was appointed by Mr. R., who found that his attention was required in another place, as the supercargo of the ship. Power of attorney was given him to proceed to Queenstown or any other port and to sell the steamer to the best advantage. Her machinery having been repaired, a full crew shipped, and plenty of coal being put on board, the Hornet sailed, with a fair wind and under a full head of steam, from Halifax, at 8 o'clock on Sunday night, the 12th September, with ker supercargo-the nominal owner-anti two passengers on board. No time was lost In weighing anchor after all the necessary prepa? rations had been made, and we stood out of the harbor at a slashing rate. The next morning, alter the decks were washed and everything made taut, the land berng dimly seen in the - distance and far in our wake, one of the passengers, after first swallowing a cup of coffee, handed him by ft ghostly-looking steward, to steady his nerves, approached the supercargo, who * was nervously pacing the deck before the wh?el, and spoke something in a quiet tone. Some conversation followed, and then everybody understood that negotiations were on foot for the purchase of the vessel. The passenger proved to be a duly accredited agent of the Cuban Government, who was prepared to offer such terms to the supercargo as could not be refused short of madness. The supercargo, having the Interests of the owners in view, closed with the offer, and the money being paid down, a formal transfer was made. 1 did not ascertain the amount, nor have I since; but judging from the size of the roll of bank bills placed In the hands of the smiling sroer cargo,.lt must have been large. The bid of sale was signed and delivered "at sea, Sei> tember 31, 18C9, in the presence of two or more witnesses." The Hornet was then de? clared the property of the Republic of Cuba ami her course was immediately altered to suit, circumstances. The next day,"being fur out at sea, we sighted a schooner right ahead, and standing toward her, we were surprised to find that she was a vessel that left before us with u number ol'men from Halifax, who were dttlv transferred to our decks and received with three times three and a tiger. Hardly had these men finished fraternizing with our hitherto limited crew when on the disc of the horizon a white speck, which grew into the form of a full-rigged ship, disclosed itself to our view, and alter an hour more, aided by the sharp sou'easter which sprung up In the meantime, we ran alongside lier, and found, to our unspeakable satisfaction, that she had on board a number of Parrot guns and a large quantity of ammunition. Although the sea was rolling heavily, and the white waves Jumped against the sides of our craft in impo? tent fury, the officers set about the task of transferring the precious cargo, and before the sun began to blink and wink over the disturb? ed sea, behind which he was apparently sink? ing to rest, everything was on board and prop? erly secured. Some difficulty had evidently been anticipated by the officers of the Hornet at this critical Juncture, anxious glances being cast from the quarter deck on the curious, gaping crowd that filled the waist and forward part of the vessel: but the result proved that there was no occa* sion for anxiety. To a man the crew were in full sympathy and accord with the officers. They had not been consulted regarding the change ol'destination, but when open mouthed guns oegan to creep slowly on the deck from the creaking davits, and they were called upon to assist in stowing them away, they did so wil? lingly and with hearty cheers. It was mid? night. A few stars blinked from under dark masses of clouds, the waves dashed madly past, as In sympathy with the excitement which every officer and man experienced, and the wild wind loose among the taut shrouds whis? tled merrily. The pale beams of the moon fell athwart the deck, and In the shadows under thc bulwarks forms of men hauling and labor? ing at the heavy metal were dimly seen mov? ing about. Cheerily the voices of the men rang out, and cheerily were they answered by the officers, encouraging them, but working like the rest. As each gun came on board it was christened by the sailors. " Here comes Gin'ral Grant, bejabers!" cried a lusty Hibernian, haming on a rope for the bare life ; "jump along, old Farragut," cried another, jumping himself to clear his toes of the impending muzzle; "Viva C?s? pedes !" yelled a Cuban in ecstacy, as the bur? nished back of n splendid piece was seen over the bulwarks. And so the guns were christened by the men who will use them for Cuban inde? pendence. The guns having been secured and the am? munition properly placed, the men congre? gated round the officers, the officers under the Hag of thc Cuban republic, flying from the peak, and the Hornet was rebaptized the "Cuba," while her sharp prow was being turned in the direction of the enemies of the infant republic, manifest destiny and the Mon? roe doctrine. Tho first man-of-war in the service of Cuba, she yielded lo thc breeze, and with sails and steam plunged madly forward at the rate of eighteen knots an hour. Her officers say she can make twenty-two knots on a wind with a full head of steam, but except in ctsc of great emergency, I don't wish to see any such speed myself; the vibration is enough now to shake the teeth out of any one ?ess determined to hold on to his mastica? tes than your correspondent. As we may all be tuuiged one of these days, I wish to state here for the inform?t ion of thc Spanish au? thorises that Mr. Leon Lafitte is entitled to be strangled more than anybody else, he having first rtsii up the flag with the single star on the good ship Cuba, f do not think it safe in this letter to be too particular in my description of the ship, for obvious reasons, and have pur? posely omitted to mention ninny matters of in? terest, le? our cruising ground should be dis? covered. When, however, our track becomes illuminated with the flames ol'burning Spanish vhlps, further concealment will be unneces? sary, and I will then, if opportunity is afforded rae* send yon A long and minute account. I may perhaps obtain permission before I close- to send von the roster of the Cuba, with Short biographical notices of each of the prin? cipal officers, but at the present moment everything is so much In confusion it would be impossible to approach the proper officer. I will content myself now by stating that the Cuba is well armed and equipped and com? manded by a distinguished officer, who won Iii? epaulets in the United States Navy, and who also held a high position in the service of the defunct Confederacy. We are now steaming southward, and be? fore many hours our trusty guns will belch fort ?i o .tr* mission In thc gulf in thunder tones. T ,e Cnb.i is n-H liable to purs lit by United States cruisers because she left a United States port in a perfectly legal manner, entered a foreign pert, and was subsequently armed and manned on the high seas by a foreign govern? ment. Nor is she liable to pursuit hy British men-of-war. because she lett Halifax legally and wirb full permission of thc British authori? ties. Thafshe was armed, manned and equip? ped at sea And duly transferred from one owner to another, is admitted. All this was perfectly within thc law of nations. Then again tlie Cuba is a regular man-of-war, be? longing to a government recognized In fact, if not in law; the officers each and every one have received their commissions f?pro the Exccutiveof the Cuban Republic, and wear 4 the national uniform. Therefore she cannot be considered a pirate by any nation. It is really one of those cases where there ls no? body to blame and nobody ls responsible. The Cuba will go Into commission In a Cuban port and afterwards commence operating. In concluding this hasty letter I will add as the result of my observations and Inqnires, that the officers are gentlemen, and are not only skilled and tried veterans, but men of charac? ter and education, and that the most perfect discipline prevaHs on board. - THE (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. Text of the Pope's Answer to the Appli? cation of the Rev. Dr. Cumming to be Heard In the Council. The English papers pnbliBh the following translation of the reply ot the Pope to the let? ter of the Rev. Dr. Cumming, already briefly noticed In otu- cable-telegrams : POPE PIUS IX TO OUR VENERABLE BROTHER HENRY EDWARD ARCHBISHOP OP WESTMTN ' BTER. . ' ' Venerable ; Brother, Health and tine Apos~ .tolic, Blessing-We have seen frpm the news? papers that Dr. Cumming, of Scotland, has in? quired of you whether leave will be given at the approaching Council to those who dissent from thc Catholic Church, to put forward the arguments which they think can be advanced in support qf their own opinions; and that, on your replying that this ls a matter to be deter? mined by the Holy See, he has written to tis upon the subject. Now, if the inquirer knows what is thc be? lief of Catholics with respect to the teaching authority which has been given by our Divine Saviour to His Church, and therefore with re? spect to its infallibility in deciding questions which belong to dogma or to morals, he must know that the Church cannot permit errors which lt has carefully considered, Judged and condemned, to be again brought under discus? sion. This, too, is what has already been made known by our letters. (Viz : The Let? ters Apostolic of September 13, 1868, addressed "To all Protestants and other non-Catholics.") For, when we said, "It cannot be denied or doubted that Jesus Christ Himself, in order that he might apply to all generations of men the fruits of His redemption, built here on earth upon Peter His only Church, that ls, the one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, and gave to him all power that was necessary for preserving whole and inviolate the deposit of faith and for delivering the same faith to all' peoples, and tribes and nations," we thereby signified that the primacy both of honor and of Ju? risdiction, which was conferred upon Pe? ter and his successors by the Founder of the Church, is placed beyond the hazard of dispu? tation. This, indeed, is the hinge upon which the whole question between Catholics and all who dissent from them turns, and from this dissent, as from a fountain, all the errors of non-Catholics flow. "For inasmuch as such bodies of men arc destitute of that living and divinely-established authority which teaches mankind especially the things of faith and the rule of morals, and which also directs and gov? erns them In whatever relates to eternal salva? tion, so these samo bodies of men have ever varied in their teaching, and their change and instability never cease." If, therefore, your In? quirer will consider either the opinion which is held by the church as to the Infallibility of Its ludpmcnt in defining whatever belongs to faltli or morals, or what we ourselves nave written respecting the primacy and teaching authority of Peter, he will at once perceive that no room can be given ut the Council for the de? fence ol errors which have already been con? demned; and that we could not nave Invited non-Catholics to a discussion, hut have only urged them "to avail themselves of the oppor? tunity afforded by this Council, in which the Catholic Church, to which their forefathers be? longed, gives a new proof of its close unity andlnvinciblc vitality, and to satisfy the wants of their souls by withdrawing from a-State in which tliey cannot bc sure of their salvation." If, by the inspiration of Divine grace, they shall seek God with their whole heart, they will easily cast away all preconceived and ad? verse opiplons; and, laying aside all desire of disputation, they will return to thc Father from whom they have long unhappily gone as? tray. We, on our part, will Joyfully run to meet them; and embracing them with a father's charity, we shall rejoice, and the Church will rejoice witli us, that our children who were dead have come to life again, and that they who were lost have been found. This, Indeed, we earnestly ask of (Jod; and do you, venera? ble brother, join your prayers to ours. In the meanwhile, as a token of the Divine favor and of our own especial benevolence, we most lovingly give to you and to your diocese our Apostolic blessing. Given at St. Peter's, in Rome, this 4th day of September, 18G9, in the twenty-fourth year of our Pontificate. POPE PIUS IX. EATHER HYACINTHE'S PROTEST. His Letter in Fall. The following is the text of the letter which, as we were advised by cable, Father Hyacinthe has addressed to thc g?nerai of hip order in Rome. It will be seen that the attack of the distinguished preacher ls directed exclusively against what he considers evils of the admin? istration, and not, as has been stated, against any of the doctrines of his church: Hy Very Reverend Father- During the five years of my ministry at Notre Dame de Paris, despite the open attacks and secret accusa? tions of which I have been the object, your es? teem and confidence have never failed me for a moment. I preserve numerous tettlmonies of Hiern, written by your own hand, and which were addressed as much to my preaching as to myself. Whatever may happen, I shall hold them in grateful remembrance. To-day, how? ever, by a sudden change, the cause of which I do not seek in your heart, bul in thc intrigues of a party all powerful at Rome, you arraign what you encourage, you censure what you approved, and you require that I should speak a language or preserve a silence whicli would no longer be the entire and loyal expression of my conscience. I do not hesitate an instant. With language perverted by a command, or mutilated by reticence,'I shall not ascend the pulpit of No? tre Dame. I express my regret for this to the in? telligent and courageous Archbishop who has given his pulpit to me, and sustained me there against the bad will ot men or women ol whom I shall speak at the proper lime. I express my re? grets to Hie imposing auditory who surrounded me there with its attention, its sympathies, I I was nearly going to say, its friendship. I would not be worthy of the auditory ot the Archbishop, of my conscience, nor of God, if I would consent to act before them in such a role ! I separate myself at the same time from the convent in which I have resided, and which under the new circumstances that have happen? ed lo me renders it for me a prison of the soul. In acting thus I am not unfaithful to my vows. I have promised monastic obedience, but lim? ited by the honesty of conscience, the dignity of-my person and my ministry, I have prom? ised under Hie benefit of that superior law of justice and of royal liberty, which is, according to the Apostle St. James, the proper law ol the Christian. Histor the more perfect practice of this holy liberty tiru I came lo ask at the cloister, now more than ten years ago, in the elan of an enthusiasm free ol all human calculation, I shall not venture to add free of all the illu? sion of youth. If, in exchange for my sacrifi? ces, I am today offered chains, I have not only the right but Hie duty to reject them. The present hour is solemn. The church pames through one of the most *vloleut, dark, and decisive crises of its existence hero below. For the first time in three hundred years an (Ecumenical Council is not only convoked but declared necessary: such is the expression of the Holy Father. It Ls not in such a mo? ment that a preacher of the gospel, were he the last of all. can consent to remain as thc mute dng< of Israel, unfaithful guardians. whom thc prophet reproaches at unable bark. Cimes mutt, non valentes latrare. r. saints were never silent. I am not one them, but, nevertheless, I belong to their ra ?l? sanctorum sumus, and I "have always b< ambitious to place my steps, my tear*, and necessary, my blood, in the tracks which tl have left, I raise, therefore, before the H Father and the Council, ray protestation Christian and preacher against these d trines and practices, calling themselves 1 man, but which are not Christian, and wh in their encroachments, always most audacii aijd most baneful, fend to change the consti tlon of the Church, the basis as well as i term of her teaching, and even the spirit ncr piety. I protest against the divorce, as i pious as it is insane, which lt ls -sought Co ; complish between the ,Ch\if%B,V?,w?o 'ts- < mother according to eternity, andlthe, sod) of the nineteenth century, of .whom we a the sons according to the times, ?nd ,towa whom we have also some duties and attax ments. I protest against this more Radii and dreadtul opposition to human natu which ls attacked and nrnde to revolt by th? false doctrines in its most indestructible a holiest aspirations. I protest above all agah tho sacrefigious perversion of the Word of t Sonflof God himself, the spirit and the letter which are equally trodden under foot by t pharisaism of the new law. It is my mi profound conviction that if France in parti* lar, and the Latin races in general, are deliv ed over to social, moral and religious anaret the principal canse is without doubt not Catholicism itself, but in the manner whi Catholicism has during a long time been i derstood and practiced. I appeal to the Coe ell about to meet, to seek for remedies for t excess of our evils, and to apply them wi as much force as gentleness: .?But If fears which I do not wish to share, come to be i alized, if the august assembly has not mo liberty, in its. deliberations than it has airea in its preparation, if, In a word, it Is deprive of the essential characters of an (Ecumenic Council, I will cry, to God and men to..ci another truly united In the Holy spirit, not the spirit of party, and representing really t' Universal Church, not the silence of soi men, the oppression of others. "For the hea of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I a black; astonishment hath taken hold-on m Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no pb siclan there ? Why, then, is not the health the daughter of my people recovered T'-^-Jei miali, viii. In fine, I appeal to your tritium O Lord Jesus ! Are timm Domine Jesu tribun appeBo. It is in your presence that I wri these lines; it ls at your feet, after having pra ed much, reflected, suffered, and waited muc that I sign them. I have confidence that men condemn them on earth yon approx them in heaven. That is sufficient for me ll lng and dying. FR. HYACINTHE. Superior of the Barefooted Carmelites Paris, second preacher of the order in the pr vince of Avignon. Paris-Passy, September 20, 1869. Special Notices. ?&~C ONSIGNEES NOTICE.-DI SPATCH LINE.-The Brig Adelaide will dlschar cargo THIS DAY at Union Wharf. Goods not ca ed for before sunset, will be stored at risk and e pense of consignees. No claims allowed aft goods leave the wharf. oct7 1_WILLIAM ROACH A CO. ?53- NOTICE.-ALL CLAIMS AGAIN? British Schooner PETREL, Shanks Master, mn be presented at our office THIS DAY, before o'clock, or they will be debarred payment. J. A. ENSLOW 4 CO., Consignees, oct7 1_No. 141 East Bay. ?&~ CONSIGNEES PER STT&M?H? 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The vitality that has been oozing throuf the pores In the form of perspiration, for the la three months, requires to be replaced, as a prep rative to the cold season which makes such disa trous havoc with relaxed and untoned system The reserve of vigor with which the stoutest mi commences the summer campaign ls drained o of him at Its close, and unless by some means 1 acquires a new stock of vital energy wherewi to encounter the shock of a colder season, he mi droop and wither like the falling leaves who life-Juices are exhausted. If it is thus with tl strong, how much more perillous Ls thc conditio of the week and ailing. 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