The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-06 00:00:00

SPIED: OF THE FIIBWO JOIIRNALA, The Saturday Reviewis of opinion that the platform, or series of resolutions, adopted by the Chicago Convention betrays a suspicion that the Republicans are not united on the question of negro suffrage in the South. In direct opposition to the reconstruction proposed by Congress, the Convention recommends that each State should regulate its own suffrage, under the condition that the franchise shall be impartially extended to negroes as well as to. whites. Impartial suffrage, as it is called, would be intrinsically just, and politically expedient, if only the susperstitious belief in universal suffrage for the white race had not rendered a sounder system impossible. Declarations in favour of equal taxation, of the encourage- ment of immigration, and even against official corruption, have no definite meaning or importance. The proposal that political disabilities shall be removed from the so-called rebels, as soon as the public safety allows of the change, is at least ostensibly liberal. The declaration that the debt ought to be paid according to the letter and spirit of the contract might point to payment in gold, or to evasion by greenbacks; but an express protest against repudiation supports the more creditable interpretation. The Convention carefully abstains from the vexed ques tion of PrOtection or Free Trade ; and, as might have been expected, it denounces the policy of President Johnson. The concluding resolutions are melancholy specimens of venal malignity. A declaration of - .sympathy for peoples struggling for their rights is virtually addressed to Ireland, unless Crete is included for the purpose of placing Turkey in the same category with England. ,The display of mean ness is the more lamentable because it will be useless, for the Fenians will vote for :the Democratic candidate. The Chicago platform ought not to be forgotten when blind fanatics and partisans in England again endeavour to per suade their countrymen that the Republicans are less wan tonly hostile than their opponents to a nation which has never wilfully wronged America. . The Spectator has a few words to say as to the temper which has been evinced by the English middle class in the matter of the matter of the prosecution of Mr. Eyre. It has not (it says) been amongst those who blamed Mr. Eyre for sternly putting down the first outbreak. It has not blamed him for any act prior to his own declaration that the outbreak was virtually suppressed. It has never denied the great difficulty of his position. It was amongst the first to call attention to the honourable, and even heroic, courage which had marked his previous career as an ex plorer, and it never for an instant questioned the sincerity of his own belief that in the matter of the Jamaica rebel lion he had acted in the way best calculated to preserve the colony to the Crown. It admits, and even contends, that under these circumstances the nation ought to adopt the most lenient construction of which his actual conduct was capable, consistently with the due assertion of the right of all classes of her Majesty's subjects to equal and just government, and of the strict responsibility of ill-judging governors for blunders of judgment so grave as to issue in all the consequences of deliberate oppression. But what it cannot help seeing is that the upper and middle class of the English nation—especially the latter—do not care to assert these principles at all ! that they are positively enraged at the demand of negroes for equal con sideration with Irishmen, Scotchmen, and English men ; that proceedings which would have cost the most well-meaning of weak-judging men his head if they had taken place in the United Kingdom—which would have been received with shouts of execration if they had taken place in France or Austria—are heartily ad mired as examples of strong government when they take place in the British West Indies. It seems to the Specta tor to be simple insincerity to maintain for a moment that Mr. Eyre's conduct would find a single palliator except on the implicit ass imption that British subjects, being negroes or mulattoes, with rebellion amongst them, cannot expect for a moment the same treatment as British subjects of Anglo- Saxon or even Ceb is descent with rebellion amongst them. That is the true axiom at the bottom of Mr. Justice Blackburn's mind, and at the bottom of the mind of the great majority of both the grand juries which have ignored the bills against Colonel Nelson, Lieutenant Brand, and Mr. Eyre, and at the bottom also of the minds of nine-tenths of ourown class—if not of nine-tenths of the British nation. The London Review declares that any man who will put his band to the task of elevating the agricultural labourer is entitled to ourgratitude. Labourin towns can take care of itself. Masters have to knock under as often as their men. But agricultural labourers can be beaten in detail. They work hard and live wretchedly; they must take what wages they can get, and have no means of standing out against employers for an advance. A farm labourer lives in a miserable cabin, whose accommodation, not more than decently sufficient for a family of three or four, is made to give shelter to eight or ten, or perhaps a dozen members, and in thousands of cases his whole weekly earnings do not exceed as many shillings. In Devon, where Canon Girdlestone has been busying himself to improve their con dition, wages are from eight to ten shillings per week. Some one is needed who will show them how to combine for the promotion of their interests. But a man who can and will do that must not only possess capacity, but He must be someone who is known to them, and who, from his position, can command their confidence. Just such a man is Canon Girdlestone. It is some time now since he undertook, as far as his personal exertions could do it, to transfer the surplus labour of one locality where wages were low to another where there was a scarcity of labour, and where wages, consequently, were high. This drew upon him the wrath of all the farmers in his parish, who regarded him as their common enemy. They did not stop to consider that while the labourers would gain by his efforts they themselves would not be altogether losers. A half-fed population—and how can families be more than half-fed upon eight or even ten shillings a week?—involves heavy rating to the parish. Somehow or other even farm labourers must live, and if their employers will not pay in meal, they must pay in malt. But this consideration was lost upon the Devon farmers, and Canon Girdlestone had to face the alternative either of abandoning a good work and allowing himself to be beaten out of the field by selfish and brutal opponents, or of bearing as well as he could the insults by which they endeavoured to revenge themselves: Of these two courses he chose the latter ; and in his address to the farm labourers of Ifalberton, on Monday, he placed himself heart and soul at their service in whatever efforts they might make to obtain fair wages from their employers. The London Review sincerely trusts' that be will succeed in his Christian efforts to raise the farm labourers of Devon above the level of the brutes they drive or feed. Both in Devon and elsewhere men of this class have been degraded to a still lower level ; and it is high time they should be taught how to place themselves andtheir employers at the bar of , public opinion, and enable that equitable judge to redress the balance between them. Occasional articles in newspapers upon this or that case of hardship will do little good. Unless the farm-hands can unite for their mutual protection we doubt whether even so generous and zealous a friend as Canon Girdlestone will be able 'to do much for them. But this is the object he is labouring to bring about ; and we leave the matter in his hands, equally con fident that it is in good keeping, and whenever be thinks the time has come to invite help from the public at large the appeal will not be made in vain: The Imperial Rez.ew observes that it is evident that the recommendations of the Neutrality Commission are aimed at particular events which have re cently occurred. If the Confederate strUggle was to be fought over again, the grievances complained of by- the Washington Government could not again arise. It is another question whether British subjects might riot suffer inconveniences of a different character. Mr. Vernon Harcourt, who under 'his well-known awn. de-guerre has taken so large a part in the literature of this question, decidedly considers that the mischief to private persona will exceed any public benefit to be derived from the proposed legislation. In this view the Imperial Review entirely Concurs. It cannot see the great difference between the arming of a ship of war and the constructing and adaptation to destructive purposes of any warlike weapons. It is hard that a Liverpool shipbuilder should not derive, from the quarrels of foreign princes and re publics, as ranch profit as may fall to the share of a gun maker or sword-maker of Birmingham or Sheffield. The fitting out of an armament with its full complement of men, its officers appointed, and its pomp and circumstance complete, is of course a very different matter. Such was the case of the expedition against the Iliguelite authori ties in the Azores, to whose departure the British Govern ment justly raised objections. But the general rule of neutrality, as laid down by the highest authorities, is simply to grant or refuse nothing to one party, on account of the war, which is rot granted or refused to another equally. Vattel, indeed, states that a neutral is required " not to give assistance equally, but to give no assistance, for it would be absurd to assist at the same time tiro enemies." This, of course, applies to the action of the State as such. For there is no absurdity or violation of neutrality in allowing private individuals to furnish the courage. ni of carrying on war to each of the belligerents. Nor, iLd-penlent of positive law, could it be a want of wutrality to allow subjects to take service in the forces of either Power. MURDER BY A STUDENT.-At Pont-a-Mousson, France, a pupil in the training college for young men in tended for the priesthood, attacked apparently by lunacy, got out of bed at two o'clock the other morning, went down to the ground floor, S.nd, heaping up papers and copy books, set fire to them. Returning to the dormitory, he awoke his comrades, and with a razor he inflicted a mortal wound on the throat of one of them, a young man of 17, named Fernand Jocatte, of Nomeny. The unfortunate y,:uth survived oily a quarter of an hour. The murderer, ho is 19 years old, made no attempt to escape. LAW AND POLICE. WHAT ABE CHARITIES ?—A case in which this pOint arose was heard in the Lord Chancellor's Court, and was an appeal from the Master of the Rolls. A Mr. M`Dermot, at his death, devised the residue of his per sonal estate, after the death of his wife and her sisters, to trustees to bestow it' " in such charities and other public purposes as lawfully might be in • the parish of Tadmardon in the county of Oxford" as his trustees might think fit. The Master of the Rolls held that it was a charitable bequest for the benefit of the parish of Tadmardon, and the children of the testator appealed. On their behalf it was contended that m account of its vagueness the gift was void, and further, that as the testator had mentioned charities, "public pur poses" must mean something more than charities. The Lord Chancellor dismissed the appeal, believing that the testator used the word " charity " in its popular sense. ImPonmiurr TO ASSIGNEM.—Another appeal from the Master of the Rolls was decided by the Lord Chancellor, in which some important facts were stated with reference to the powers and duties of assignees. Mr. T. Lloyd, under his marriage settlement, was entitled to an annuity. In 1859 he took the benefit of the Debtors' Act, and Mr. Banks, the trustee of the settlement, saw in a newspaper the usual advertisement of the petition in insolvency. In 1860 Mr. T. Lloyd executed an assignment of the annuity to Mr. Shephard, who gave the usual notice to the trustee, and the Master of the Rolls held that as Mr. Shephard had given actual notice he was entitled to priority over the assignees in insolvency. The assignee appealed. The Lord Chancellor said that no doubt the usual and safe course was for an assignee to give formal notice ; if not he was under a difficulty with other claimants. But this was not abso lutely necessary to give him priority, and it would be sufficient if the trustee was perfectly well aware of the assignment. His lordship in this case reversed the judg ment of the court below. PROHIBITING A CHANCELLOR'S VISITATION.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, Mr. Archibald, on behalf of the Archdeacon of Carlisle and also on behalf of the Archdeacon of Westmoreland, moved for a rule for a pro hibition to the chancellor of the diocese of Carlisle restrain ing him from exercising archidiaconal jurisdiction within their respective archdeaconries. The question !arose thus. Carlisle is an ancient archdeaconry ; Westmoreland was created by the 6th and 7th William IV., chap. 77, the Ecclesiastical Commission Act, which contained a proviso that " all archdeacons should have equal jurisdiction, any usage to the contrary notwithstanding." The chancellor in the diocese of Carlisle had been accustomed to hold archidiaconal visitations and synods, or chapters, as dele gate of the bishop. The question was now raised whether he had a right to do so, notwithstanding the statute. The court granted the rule nisi. DAMAGES FOR KNOCKING A MAN DOWN. —ln the Court of Common Pleas the case of Munro v. Ellis was heard. The plaintiff claimed damages for injuries sustained through the negligence of the defendant allowing his horse to run away, whereby the complainant was knocked down. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages £lO. CHARGE OF ASSAULTING A LADY.—At the Enfield Petty Sessions, Dr. it. Cobbett, of Southgate, was charged with assaulting Mrs. Newington, of Burlington-row. In a cross summons the position of the parties was reversed. A similar charge was heard a short time ago by the same justices, but dismissed on Mrs. Newington promising not to annoy the doctor any more. The leading circumstances are, that the gentleman made the acquaintance of the lady and her daughter at one of the fashionable watering-places which the latter were in the habit of frequenting, and, con tinuing that intimacy on their return to London, the com plainant alleges that he seduced her daughter, and by the exercise of his influence has since kept her away from home. These charges the defendant denied, and at the sitting of the court on Friday Miss Newington herself, an attractive young lady, attempted to give evidence in his favour. The present assault is alleged to have taken place since the last case was disposed of, and to have arisen in consequence of the renewed attempts by the complainant to annoy the defendant, for the reasons and on the grounds just stated. When the case was called on, it was stated that Mrs. Newington was too ill to appear. This was denied by the other side. After a good deal of parley, the bench agreed to adjourn the case for three weeks. ATTEMPTED WIPE Muunmt. —At the Clerkenwell Police-court Thomas Clarke, a horsekeeper, was charged with attempting to murder his wife. The prisoner had behaved in a most outrageous manner to his wife. She was frightened one night, when he seized hold of her by the hair of the head, and struck her with a knife, the blade of which was broken by the force of the blow. When the complainant appeared in the witness box her face was covered with scratches. The prisoner was committed to prison for six months, and at the expi ration of that term he will have to find sureties for his future good conduct. A PUNISHMENT RICHLY DESERVED.-At the Dundee Police-court, Alexander Ramsay, a flesher, NVW3 charged with having unwholesome meat expOsed for sale. It was proved that the carcases of two beasts were found on the premises of the prisoner, and the animals, according to the testi mony of a veterinary surgeon, had suffered from pleuro pneumonia. The court sentenced him to thirty days' im prisonment. Dr. Michel Levy, a verylearned French physician, Who has made the question, "Is the average life of the Jews in Europe longer than the rest of the populations ?" his special study, tells us in the " Annals of Public Hygienics for 1866," that the average duration of life among the Christian population is 26 years, and among the Jews 37. —Scattered Nation. HARVESTING OF CORN IN WET 'WEATHER.-- The council of the Society of Arts having offered the gold medal of the society and a prize of fifty guineas for the best essay on the harvesting of corn in wet seasons, re• ceived 20 essays, and the gentlemen acting as judges have unanimously recommended the council to award the prize to Mr. W. A. Gibbs, of Gillwell Park, Essex. This award has accordingly been made. In accordance with annual custom, the children and teachers of the various Roman Catholic schools of Salford formed a procession through the principal streets on Friday, and walked to Pendleton, and were subsequently provided with tea at the schools at which they attend. The procession started in the afternoon, preceded by an instrumental band from the Catholic Cathedral. Accompanying the children, who numbered upwards of 1,500, were Canon Benoit, Rev. Dc Clerc, Rev. C. G. Gadd, Rev. W. S. Berry, Rev. Desplantes, Father Conway, and others. MIDNIGHT ELOPEMENT FROM A RECTORY. —The inhabitants of an unusually quiet village near Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire, were thrown into intense excite ment on Wednesday morning by learning that in the course of the night Miss B—, who was under the care of the venerable rector of the parish, had eloped with a stocking-maker or framework-knitter. It was discovered that they had taken a conveyance to Leicester, where a licence was obtained, and by eight o'clock they were mar ried at the office of the registrar. They were pursued and captured, and by the mail train taken to the village from whence they had flown, the young lady being again safely lodged under the roof of her venerable guardian. It is expected that the youth will be prosecuted for having made false statements before the registrar.—Leeds Evening Express. A MILL-STONE DRESSING MACHINE. —A trial of a new patent mill-stone dressing machine has been made at Stowmarket. Mr. Jacobsen, a Leith merchant, intro- duced the invention into this country. The invention is simple. It consists of a " black diamond," similar to a glazier's diamond, fixed in a spindle, or small wheel, about one inch in diameter, connected with a frame. The mill stone to be operated on is laid on its side, and by means of a small belt or cord, adjusted to a shaft of the rnillmachinery, a rapid revolving motion is given to the diamond-set spindle, which, with its frame, is placed on the stone. A man attends the sharpening machine, and by the hand directs the longitudinal and lateral movements of the diamond in its operations. The fine lines it cuts are, it is said, far more expeditiously and better executed than could be accomplished by the ordinary sharpening by picks. IGNORANT DIVINITY STIJDRNTS.—III a debate which took place recently in the General Assembly of the Scotch Church on improving the divinity examinations, Professor Douglas ArLagan gave some specimens of the answers given by the students at the examinations. He said .that at a late examination in literature and mathe matics there were fifty-five candidates, and in English twenty-seven passed and twenty-eight were rejected. If the Assembly were to hear all the details of the examination they would be astonished. One of the questions—not a very profound one—Was as to the meaning of the word "hypothesis." One of the candidates said that it meant " a machine for raising water. Another candidate said that it meant "something that happened to a man after his death." One of the historical questions put was as follows: " Give some account of Galileo and Copernicus," to which one of the students replied that Galileo was a man that I.had • committed five murders ; another that Galileo and Copernicus were two gentlemen who had fallen together in some battle ; and a third student said Copernicus was " a compound of two metals." THE SUN, LONDON, §ATUIIbAY EVEXING, JUNE 6, 1868. HERE? IC AL ESTABLISHMENTS. Nothing is more mischievous or more dan gerous in its way than a perverted application of Catholic principles in regard to questions vitally affecting Catholic interests, for men are but too apt to be misled, even in grave matters, by superficial views, persistently put forward under colour of principles which they reverence. The Encyclical and Syllabus of Pope Pius IX., regarded by Catholics as a rule of conduct in political as in other matters, have of late been put to such a perverted use. Catholics have been gravely warned that to upset an heretical establishment is a violation of the teaching of the Syllabus.. Anything more absurd than such an assertion can scarcely be conceived ; it is contrary not only to the express directions of the Syllabus, but to the nature of the relations subsisting be tween the supernatural and the civil order of society. But since such a view of the obliga tion imposed upon Catholics by the Syllabus has been persistently urged, and in apparent good faith, it is worth while, in order to coun teract such a mischievous advocacy, in the name of the Syllabus, of the cause of hereti cal establishments in England and Ireland, briefly to examine the true nature of the rela tions between the spiritual and political powers. - The civil order of society, mediately ordained of God indeed, but under the guidance simply of the will and of the wisdom of man, has often set itself in direct opposition to the will of God. It has in various times and circum stances condemned what God has approved of, rejected what He has revealed, forbidden what he has ordered. But when the super natural society, immediately ordained of God, supervened, and political society was moulded and formed by the presence and co-opera tion of divinely-guided power, then a union, widespreading in its effects, penetrating into every relation of civil life, and mutually beneficial, was effected between supernatural and civil society. As long as this union be tween supernatural truth and political society lasted, every one who valued the great end for which man exists, was bound by duty to God and to his country, to preserve this union intact. But the moment political society apos tatized from supernatural truth and enthroned a hateful and persecuting heresy in its place, then it became the duty of every man, who preferred truth to error, to labour without rest for the sake of both supernatural and civil society, to overthrow the iniquitous compact between heresy and the State. At the Re formation, political society revolted against the supernatural society instituted by God, struck it down with the iron hand of perse cution, and put in its place a malignant heresy, which for three centuries has corrupted the minds of men, blasphemed against the most sacred truths of religion, and as long as its influence was paramount, proscribed and pur sued with unrelenting persecution, the scat tered members of the supernatural society instituted by God. In favour of this estab lished heresy, we are now bidden, even by Catholic writers, to abstain from taking our part in the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Such an act might injure forsooth the Establishment in England. Nay, more, W 3 are bidden in the name of the Syllabus to forbear. Can perverse political partizanship carry men further? Political enthusiasm is not to be despised, but surely there are limits im posed, even by Catholic instincts, upon the absurd identification of the establishment of heresy with the establishment of truth in a State. To our mind nothing is more offen fsive than the lip-service offered to Papal authority by the perpetual thrusting forward of the Syllabus, in defence of the Irish or Eng lish Establishment. What does it mean? This bandying about of Papal authority, of the Encyclical and Syllabus, is either mockery or the most transparent ignorance, which even a newspaper writer can be guilty of, concern ing the meaning of those condemned propo sitions. The most superficial acquaintance with the Syllabus on the part of those who ' make use of it for political purposes, would ' show that the Pope in condemning the propo sition that the Ch urc h m i g ht be separated from the State and the State from the Church in no way affirmed the maintenance of an heretical establishment ; on the contrary, the Syllabus in direct terms condemns " the estab lishment of national churches withdrawn and completely separated from the authority of the Roman Pontiff." We recommend to the atten tion of such Catholic writers amongst us who are fond of lecturing the Catholic public, bishops and priests, as well as Catholic mem bers and electors, on the obligations imposed upon them by th e Syllabus of not separating an heretical establishment from the State the study of the 37th proposition of the Syllabus. The Catholic public in England, although they have the widest tolerance for individual politi cal opinions, have already had more than enough of such paltering with the plain and express teaching of Rome. The time, it seems to us, has now happily arrived in England for the State to withdraw from exclusive association with an heretical body, and, in the midst of so many conflicting religions opinions, take up neutral ground. There is no need that this withdrawal should be effected in a spirit hostile to the religious principle of government ; on the contrary, the State is bound to promote, as far as lies within its power, and according to its lights, Christian civilization. It is bound now as heretofore to act in accordance with the laws of Christian morality, and in obedience to the general pre cepts of Christian Faith. The only change is that the State would cease to be identified with one special heresy, which, however esti mable, harmless, and even innocent its indivi dual members may now be, is in itself a direct negation of the will of God. The beneficial importance of such a change cannot be over rated. It is, as it were, as if the State were to be exorcised of the evil which it has been so long possessed of. An enemy has entered into possession, and for more than three hun dred years has held the State in bondage to its evil will, blaspheming in set terms our holy religion, proscribing and persecuting the Catho lics of the three kingdoms, and propagating by means of • the influence and power of the State its false doctrines among the people. The cessation of this active agency and propagan dism of the State in favour of the too long established heresy cannot fail to introduce a fairer and more equitable spirit into our legis lation—a more kindly and considerate treat ment of the ancient faith. The ban, as it were, under which we have so long lain would be re moved. So complete a change, as the disestab lishment of the Anglican Church involves, may well be looked upon as the inauguration of a new and happier epoch for Catholicism in England. It may be that we are already standing on the threshold of that " silver age" which Arch bishop Manning has predicted. The "golden age" of perfect union between Church and State has passed away, bat, as the Arch bishop of Westminster points out to us, so has also the " iron age" of persecution, but he sees the approach of the " silver age" of perfect toleration, in which the Church will be free to pursue at will her divine mission of once more rebuilding, in the nineteenth century, Christendom, shivered to pieces in the religi ous revolution of the sixteenth.—Westminster Gazette. William Lloyd Garrison has received $31,000 as the national testimonial to his faithful services to free dom. 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(From the Anglo-American Times) The United States know how to protect the citizens from gross spoliation, and it would be well for the English creditors of Mexico to act if pos sible with those of that country. The American capitalists interested in theMexiaan loan,representing a sum of about $10,000,000, lately held a meeting at New York, and took measures to bring the matter before the United States and Mexican Govern ments in such a way as to lead to a prompt adjudi cation of their claims. What course the President will take regarding the Bills for the admission of the Southern States has excited some curiosity, but no fear in the minds of those who wish to see them reconstructed. It will be taken as an indication, if he signs the Bills, that he does not intend further to oppose the Re construction laws, and that he desires, however late in the day, to work in harmony with Congress. If he Vetoes them, the Bills will be at once re-passed by the necessary majority, but it will be considered an indication that " When the devil was sick, the dovil a saint would b 3 ; But when the devil got well, the devil a saint was he." Some question may arise respecting Alabama, as the voting took place under the provisions of the law requiring a majority of registered electors, while there was a majority only cf actual voters. We elsewhere discuss the Constitution framed, and we hope the Senate will waive the technical in view of the advantage likely to accrue to the State. Sir Robert Napier telegraphs from Abyssinia a proposal to take the son of Theodore to Bombay to be educated by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, as his life would be unsafe in his own country. On the 15th May Theodore's wife died in the English camp of a long-standing disease of the lungs, and she was buried next day in the Church of Chelicat. All the troops were to have embarked by the Ist inst., and at the date of the message (May 21) they were quickly leaving. Great floods bad occurred, and six natives and some mules had been drowned. The Queen's message of congratulation had been re ceived with enthusiasm, and Colonel Milward, who appears to have got ashore on a reef in the Red Sea, had left on the 22d inst. with Theodore's robe, crown, and state seal, to be presented as a tribute of respectful duty and affectionate loyalty to her Majesty from her army in Abyssinia. On the evening of the 2d inst., at Rome, Mr. T. B. Read, the artist, gave a grand banquet to the Hon. Charles Francis Adams, to which all the American artists in the Eternal City were invited to meet him. This community grows in strength and re nown, and their studios are the rendezvous of con noisseurs, more especially from their own country. Their works are beginning to spread over the United States, and to adorn the cities of their native 'land, where they exercise the refining in fluence that art, highly cultivated, always gives. In our issue of May 16 we gave an account from the Leavenworth Conzmercial of a wonderful discovery in the unexplored country around the Yellowstone, Montana, of an Indian catacomb. It is now asserted that the ruins of a town with a country which had evidently been worked into a high state of culture has been discovered in Utah, a few miles above the mouth of the Salt River. The report describes the canals as being from 35 to 50 feet in width, and the walls, which are from five to eight feet high, have been traced 10 or 15 miles from the river. The ruins are at intervals the length of the valley. Cot ton, tobacco, and castor beans are still found grow ing luxuriantly upon the old farms around. These may be travellers' tales, but it is an ascertained fact that the Indians who inhabited the country of the head waters of the Gila had attained to some degree of civilisation. The first Mastadon discovered on the Atlantic coast has just been unearthed by Capt. C. 0. Bontelle from a bed of marl. The bones, of enormous size, are fixed in the position in which the creature had lain down to die before the flood. Although the skeleton is perfect, a portion is soft, while the other is petrified. Tha animal was discovered in the neighbourhood of St. Helena Islands, South Carolina, and although it has been met with in the West, this is the first found on the Eastern shores of the United States. President Johnson, on Friday, May 22, approved the Appropriation Bill for the expenses of the Im peachment trial. The outlay has already been suf ficiently heavy to gratify Messrs. Butler and Ste vens, but it has not yet ended. The cost is esti mated at $400,000, and it will probably exceed half a million, The Albany Argus says, "The pay of General Rousseau, summoned from Oregon, netted some nine thousand dollars. Other witnesses cost five thousand dollars each. It is reported that the bill for printing the tickets of admission- amounts to six thousand dollars." It is probable that Free Trade versus Protection bad more to do with the President's acquittal than most people imagine. Senator Grimes is the Repre sentative in the Senate of a small but highly influ ential class. He is devoted to Free Trade, and, though Republican in his principles, he so tho roughly dislikes the scheme of Protection that he is brought into sympathy with the Democrats, who, purely in opposition, raise their voices against monopoly, extravagance, and high taxation. In the coming struggle the voice of this section will be loudly heard, as will be that of the extreme Protec tionists, and we daresay they will be found so strong on both sides as to force from the Presidential can didates some expression of opinion on the subject. The majority of the House CommittJe on Foreign Affairs has reported in favour of an ap propriation of $7,200,000 to carry out the treaty for the purchase of Alaska. The minority report, signed by Representatives Washburne and Morgan against the purchase, concludes as follows : They are forced to the conclusion that the possession of the country is of no value to the Government of the United States; that it will be a source of weakness insteal of power, and a constant annual expanse for which there I will be no adequate return ; that it has no capacity as an agricultural country; . that so far as known it has no value as a mineral country ; that its timber is mostly confined to the narrow strip of country, only 30 miles wide, south of Mount St. Elias, and is generally of a poor quality and growing upon inaccessible mountains ; that its fur trade is of insignificant value to us as a nation, and will speedily come to an end; that the fisheries are of doubtful value, and that whatever the value of its fisheries, its fur trade, its timber, and its minerals, they ware all open to citizens of the United States, under the existing treaties ; that the right to govern a nation or nations of savages in a climate unfit for the habitation of civilized men was not worthy of the purchase ; that the constitutional right of the House to refuse to appropriate the money was known to Russia at the time this treaty was negotiated, and there can be no charge of bad faith if that right is asserted. We mentioned in a late number that A. D. Fes senden, of Maine, brother of Senator Fessenden, had been elected one of the delegates from the State to the Chicago Convention. When the list of Vice-Presidents was called his name brought a. delegate to his feet, who desired to know whether he held the same opinion on Impeachment a s Sena , for Fessenden. The proceedings were stopped until the explanation given to the Convention had been delivered—one easily made by the Chairman of the Maine delegation, as A. D. Fessenden had dis tinctly condemned his brother's course at the meeting which elected him. The Parliament of the Dominion was prorogued, May 22, until July 1. Although the rumours of Fenian raids upon Canada are not universally cre dited, the military authorities there are making the best disposition of the troops to repel an invasion. The New York World gives O'Neill's plans, which it states are to invade in three bodies, across the Niagara and the St. Lawrence, for a simultaneous attack upon Montreal and Toronto. According to this journal large quantities of aims and uniforms have been sent north from the Fenian head-quar ters in New York, and the Fenians are said to be actively employed at Albans, Vermont. The force is estimated at 30,0)0 armed men. Colonel Green, of the Boston Post, presided over the Convention of the Massalhusetts Democrats at Worcester, May 20, for the nomination of delegates to the National Convention. The attendance was large and the nominations harmoniously made, but all attempts to designate a candidate or to declare for any principles were stopped, as the party awaits events. It is believed that Chief Justice Chase desires ,the Democratic nomination, but it is asserted that he has made more enemies than friends by his course during the Impeachment trial. The mode- ration of the Chicago Convention has perhaps pre vented a split in the Republican party which might greatly have aided the Chief Justice. General Hancock is more than ever spoken of, and M'Clellan's chances are not as yet wholly ex tinct, nor are those of Mr. Pendleton. The diffi culty before the party is to name a man with whom a Republican Congress would be able to work. The House of Representatives and the Senate remain Radical, whatever may be the Con servative success in the Presidential election, and as the moderate people in the United States, whose name is legion, do not desire a repetition of the dead-lock which ended in Impeachment, they are not likely to favour any ticket which will reproduce the same result. The Democrats have a hard game, and their wisest plan is to do what they are doing ; that is, to keep dark, and to shape their course by the light of coming events. The principle to which Mr. Chase is committed, and which the Democrats cannot swallow, is negro suffrage. if the news fro:n New York is correct Salnave had been driven by the Caco rebels into Port-au- Prince, where, with 150 adherents, he seems to have aided in the plunder of the stores of several Americans. The Consul appealing to him for pro tection and meeting with a rebuff, sent. to Havannah for American or British protection, and H. M.'s gunboat Phcebe had left Jamaica to afford it. Salnave had declared himself dictator, certainly a strange moment for him to select, when he had fled into the town before the Caco rebels ; and on the sea two British men-of-war threatened to bombard the city, if the persecution of which the American Consul complained was not stopped. By the last news we learn that the Cacos rebels had surrounded the town, defeating General Chevalier. Salnave had issued a proclamation, stating that the Consulates would be attacked if the refugees were sheltered, and extreme penalties inflicted, The Consulates were crowded, and the American Minister had demanded assistance from Washington. The Mississippi Constitutional Convention finally adjourned on Monday, May 18, after adopting its constitution as a whole, and providing that a com mittee of five can call the Convention together again if necessary. The Legislature of Ohio has adjourned till November 23, after a session of 160 days, at an expense of $115,000. The last act was the passage of a bill prohibiting the Supreme Court from considering out of the regular order any case under the new law which denies the ballot to those having visibly a mixture of African blood. This is a sample of Democratic legislation in tampering with the Supreme Court, for doing which the Re publican Congress was so violently denounced. As the Court is two years behind on its docket, it will, if this bill stands, be impossible to bring before the Judge a case to test the constitutionality of these restrictions on suffrage for at least two years. Our last news of Secretary Stanton was that he took the unexpected result of Impeachment with the same stolidity which he had maintained through out. When the mail left it was not certain what his action would be, but it was known that he would await the verdict on the remaining Articles of Im peachment and then decide. The difficulty of the Government would have been great had Stanton persisted in retaining office, for the Tenure-of-Office Act is not affected by the verdict, which does not confer upon the President the right to make ad in terim appointments. We know by telegram what his course has been : that he resigned on Andrew Johnson's acquittal on the second.ancl third Articles —that Lorenzo Thomas took possession of the War Office ad interim—tbat General Schofield's appoint ment was confirmed by the Senate on the 30th May, removing that difficulty, and allowing the wheels of Government once more to run smoothly. The Soldiers and Sailors' National Convention met at Chicago, May 19, to transact its business prior to the meeting of the National Convention. It was composed of 400 men who had actually served in the field or in the fleet during the war, and they mustered from every part. They met at Turner's Hall, marching in procession on their way to the building. As most were active Republican poli ticians, the " recreant" Senators caught it. Scarcely had the assembly met before they burst into thesong " Old Grimes is Dead," in which all joined to the music of a band. General Fairchild, Governor of Wisconsin, was made temporary chairman, and General John A. Logan, Congressman, from Illinois, was elected. permanent President of the Convention. Among those who spoke was General Grant's father; and General John Cochrane, of New York, came out conspicuously in denunciation of the " recreants," calling upon the lowa soldiers to dig a deep grave in which to bury the " dead Grimes," and, to the infinite satisfaction of all, he desired the musicians to play the " Rogue's March." the business of the Convention was then transacted, which was mainly to nominate Grant for President, as the choice of the Soldiers and Sailors of the Union, to pledge their support to the Republican party, to declare in favour of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and to denounce the Senators who voted his acquittal. It was also resolved that naturalized citizens should be protected abroad alike with the native born. Generals Gregg, Sickles, Logan, Pleasanton, Hartrauft, and Hawley were elected as a committee to tender to Geu. Grant the nomi nation, and to present him with a copy of the reso lutions. No candidate for the Vice-Presidency was named, as a wide difference of opinion existed in this as in the National Convention, which was left untrammelled to work out the result. A curious piece of inconsistency may probably have been observed at Chicago during the meeting of the Convention. The Sherman House was the headquarters of the Radical delegates, but the rules of the Sherman House forbid the admission of coloured persons. The Radical delegates, therefore, from the South, amongst whom are some negroes, must, if the rules were observed, have been excluded. There is something supremely ridiculous in men sent by the citizens of their States, being accepted as good enough to cast a vote for the nomination of candi dates to govern the United States, but who are not considered good enough in a social way to sit at the same table as their colleagues. It is said that over £6,000,000 in specie has been already shipped from the commencement of the year from New York for England, and although the price of gold is stiffening the exports still con tinue on an extensive scale. The City of London, which left New York, May 30, for Liverpool, had on board $1,000,000, the steamers leaving for Europe, June 2, took $600,000 in specie, and those which started next day had on board $1,300,000 in specie, and on Thursday $350,000. The accounts from the West are not favourable to emigration. Omaha, it is said, is overflowing with Eastern men in search of employment, many in great want. The. Pacific Railroad Company, although it has reduced the wages of the labourer to $1 25c. a-day, is overrun with applications for work. Yet the disposition to get West is still so strong that the rush continues, and could the stream be carried into the mining districts, instead of being brought to a stand at Omaha, much good would result, both to the country and to the emigrants. The weather up to this point has been all that could be desired . for the harvest. The price of wheat has ant is falling considerably, while the value of stocks, shares, and other property is on the rise. Gold is accumulating in the Bank vaults, and France bids fair to see a pile in the Bank at Paris such as was never before seen ; for if the harvest of France turns out as expected, it is not impossible that it will reach, fhe pile not exceed, the vast sum of fifty millions sterling. Mr. James Saun dersoa, a well-known writer upon agriculture, in an estimate of thl wheat crop iu England, states that, if the existing favourable appearances are maintained, the enormous yield of wheat in the harvest of 1833 will be reproduced in 1868, and that by the first week of July new wheat will be in the market. One hundred copies of Mr. Horace Greeley's "History of the Anrirican Conflict" have been placed in the hands of Messrs. Stovans Brothers, of Covent Garden, by the author, for distribution amongst the most frequented public libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Greeley's intention in making this gift is best expressed in his letter of instruc tion : "to proffer to the British people, through their most popular libraries, the moans of making themselves acquainted with the causes, nature, and incidents of our great struggle." The intrinsic value of the gift may be estimated from the fact that the work is in two large volumes, containing 1,430 pages and 222 illustrations. "An old turtle, in his little tour to Florida," speaks of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton being on board. " She read one evening for us in the ladies' cabin. She is col lecting material for a book on America s which, she says, she intends writing with pelican quills." It is clear from this that she has totally discarded " the goose," and in tends to come out in a new character. Wilkes' Spirit gives us the following items: —" Lester Wallack has been advised by his physicians to dismiss the cares of business, pack up his cravats and pomatum, and go to Europe for an indefinite length of time. 'We shall be sorry to lose Don John from the stage, of which he is a glittering centre-piece ; but the priost and the physician should be obeyed, and for the sake if Mr. Wal lack's health, which is not good, we hope he will take a season of vacation abroad. Ada Webb is about to marry a rich young Californian. A great hall packed with people and blazing with countless gaslights marked the first night of the Second Annual Musical Festival at Steinway Hall on Monday night, May 18. The performance con sisted of Handers oratorio of The Messiah.' Parepa. Rosa, Mrs. Jenny Kempton, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Thomas, and the Harmonic Society of New York composed the singers. Parepa was in magnificent voice, and was warmly ap plauded. Laura Keene has returned to America from England, and is at the Metropolitan Hdtel. Edwin Booth will play Richard' in his new theatre, with a golden crown worth one thousand dollars. Hampty Dumpty ' will be brought out at the Chestnut-street Theatre in Philadelphia. Betty Rigl and sister and Petit Schlager,' the child dancer, now at Niblo's, have been en gaged. Manager Wheatley returns an income of thirt3 - five thousand dollars. Henry Willard, one of the oldest managers in the country, has leased the Continental in Boston, and opens in the fall. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wil liams are still at the Broadway, and still successful. After an absence of three years from the realms of Cork, the Bryants have roturned to the minstrel stage. 'La Belle Helene' at the New York, still attracts full houses to this neat, comfortable, and pleasant little theatre. Ihe San Francisco troupe, at 585, Broadway, are running in a groove of success which seems endless. Miss Lillie Eldridge takes the place of Lucy Egerton as the Prince in the White Fawn,' instead of Mrs. Mark Smith, who does not sing. Mary Wells, we learn, is about to leave. Benjamin Holliday, ex-Senater Latham, Ralston the banker, Sam Butterworth, Charles McLane, John Par rott, Oliver Eldridge, and ex-Governor Low are among the incorporators of a company which has for its object the erection of a first-class theatre in San Francisco. No location has yet been agreed upon, but Market-street will probably be selected. It is to have ample room for egress, and no bar will be allowed. The building will be plain and substantial. The gentlemen named are certain to do the thing creditably to themselves and their beautiful city." Mrs. Scott Siddons, it is said, has engaged, for a sum of upwards of £13,000, to travel a year in America, perform ing four times a week. Admiral Farragut, in his frigate the Franklin, -accompanied by her tender the Frolic, left Lisbon on Friday, May 29, for Antwerp. The following was the reply of Mr. Colfax to the despatches announcing his nomination to the Vice-Pre sidency by the Chicago Convention :—" Washington, D. C., May 21. To Mr. Orton, president of the Western Union Telegraph, Chicago :—Accept my sincere thanks for your desptches to-day. The evidence of confidence in me by the Convention of the party I love is more gra tifying than any feeble words of mine can express.— SCHUYLER COLFAX." Senator Morrill, of Vermont, and William M. Everts, the President's counsel, were at Springfield, Mas sachusetts, on the 22d May, in the same hotel. It is announced that Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt will in the autumn pay a professional visit to the United States. As Governor Hamilton, of Texas, was walking in the vicinity of the Whitney House, near the Capitol, at Washington, D. C., accompanied by Sonatcr Cameron, on the afternoon of the 14th May, he was accosted by the Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia, who inquired if be was Jack Hamilton, of Texas, and, on receiving an affirmative answer, denounced Mr. Hamilton as a scoun drel. Mr. Hamilten felt called upon to resent the ins*, and forthwith inflicted a spirited castigation with a hickory cane upon his opponent, cutting his head and face in a frightful manner, and breaking the cane into splinters. Two men, who accompanied Randall, immediately pounced upon Mr. Hamilton, and held him while the Representative struck him a powerful blow in the face. Senator Cameron used his cane upon Randall's friends, who at once released Hamilton, and conveyed their companion to his rooms to have his wounds dressed. Hamilton asserts that Randall is a perfect stranger to him; that he never saw him be fore, and that the insult was perfectly unaccountable. Ex-President Buchanan is confined to his bed, too ill to see visitors, and grave apprehensions are enter tained for his safety. Lewis W. Ross (Democratic), Representative from Illinois, addressing Thaddeus Stevens in the House, said, "I ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania whether, in his opinion, Senators would be justified in perjuring themselves for the purpose of procuring a conviction of the President?" towhich Mr. Stevens replied, " Well, sir, I do not think it would hurt them." The Chinese Embassy, of which the lion. Anson Burlingame is the chief Envoy, arrived in New York on May 22, and proceeded to the Washington Hotel. The Secretary o; State at Washington was advised of the ar rival. The suite consists of about thirty persons, includ ing six interpreters and seventeen servants. Ex-Governor Buckingham has been elected by the Connecticut Legislature United States Senator for six years from 4th of next March, to replace Senator James Dixon, and on the 20th May it met in Convention, under the new law, and ratified the result. The vote of the House was 124 to 109. The Democrats, in compliment, bestowed their votes on Senator Dixon, which they would have given to William W. Eaton, of Hartford, had there been any chance of succes-. The negro Bradley has been elected to the State Senate of Georgia, but will be refused admission for the same reasons that caused his expulsion from the Consti tutional Convention—conviction of felony and a term in the State prison. _ _ General Gordon, United States Attorney Fitch and Foster Blodgett, ex-Postmaster at Augusta, Georgia, are the prominent candidates before the Legislature for election to the United States Senate. The New Jersey Democrats will probably unite on General Theodore W. Runyon as their candidate for Governor, while tho Republicans generally are talking again of General Kilpatrick. -It is proposed to call the triangular parks in Washington after the names of authors. Prescott, Irving, Hawthorne, Motley, Bryant, Bancroft, Halleck, Hildredth, and Sigourney are the names mentioned. The account of an Abyssinian sportsman, not long since sent to the Field, amused the initiated in Eng land and elsewhere, but that was not to be compared with the delight with which it was greeted by the Field Force in Abyssinia. The Pall Mall says that "We now learn from a correspondent at Zulla that the account in ques tion was read, when our paper arrived there, with shouts of laughter, the hero of the adventure being by no means a sporting prophet amongst his own comrades, and being notoriously afflicted with . a dis ease not uncommon amongst African explorers, known as "elephantiasis of the imagination." The letter from Zulla declares that the only elephant the sportsman had to deal with was a commissariat animal, and that the ges ticulations and shouts of the natives, uttered in a tongue which he did not understand, were merely earnest remon strances against firing at that inoffensive and useful ani mal, which, however, escaped all injury." The uhicago Republican gives Major Chapman's experience as a singular fact, in which wo fully concur if it be a fact. After the great tornado had passed, that gentleman residing in Township Seventy-six, about six miles from Chicago, found several stalks of ground cherries in his orchard, the leaves green, the pods yellow, and fruit perfectly ripe. This stage of the plant is at least four montit.i ahead of this latitude, nor has it attained to that stage even in our most Southern States, so that it is sup posed that these berries must have been brought by the tornado from some of the West India islands, where the storm probably originated. According to a telegram from Bombay, there has been "a great battle" between the Russians and the Bo kharians. Tho Ameer of Bokhara was slain in the engage ment, and the victorious Russians are said to have taken possession of the city of Bokhara. The Times says that arrangements are in progress between Mr. James M‘lieniy, the contractor for the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company, and his creditors, to the effect that they will accept 20s. in the pound by instal ments, of which Gs. Bd. is to be paid within two years, and that creditors to the extent of £2,400,000 out of the aggregate of £3,600,000 have already agreed to the offer. One of the creditors for about £3,000, who objects to the deed, has taken out a summons in bankruptcy, but there is said to be no doubt that the deed will be legally com pleted by the assent of nearly all the large creditors, so as to prevent any proceedings in bankruptcy taking effect. General Sheridan has left Fort Leavenworth for the West, to ascertain the disposition of tho India ns , and will go as far as Santa Fe, if necessary. Col. Hazard, of Enfield, Connecticut, left at his death en estate of about $2,000,000. In his family are owned fully 1,000 shares of Hartford and Hew Haven rail road stock, which is now quoted at 220. Senator Ross called on Mr. Wade to explain the reasons which influenced him to give the vote so fatal to that gentleman's prospects—a subject he had better have loft untouched. For some time Mr. Wade listened pa tiently, then told him the explanation was unnecessary, that the subject was disagreeable, one which he requested the Senator might never again bring up, and finally bowed him out, showing him clearly by his manner that he de clined any further visits. Mr. Wm. Sumption, glove manufacturer, Otter ford, has been fined £5 by the Taunton magistrates for paying his workpeoPle otherwise than in the current coin of the realm. Mr. Sumption keeps a general shop, and expects all his workpeople to take ont a portion of their wages in goods. The Swereign Prince of Lichstenstein has de ,,ided on disbanding his army. In the old Germanic Con federation he was bound to keep together a body of 90 men as a contingent, which was a heavy charge on his Treasury. At present he is determined to bo freed from it and so ho disarms. In Boston an effort is being made by he leading merchants to secure the construction of what they call a " marginal street," which is a plan to connect the various railroads with the harbour, so that goods can be at once transferred for the cars to shipboard or vice versa. The total expense is estimated at $1,000,000, but by the filling up of shallow places in the harbour the city will acquire new land valued at $8,000,000. At the session of the Methodist Episcopal Con ference just held in Chicago, a resolution condemning the use of tobacco by the ministry was referred to a special commit tee. The resolution requests the general confer ence to enact a law prohibiting the admission to the mini stry of any person using the weed. The Senates of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck have agreed to abolish from the let of July next their diplomatic representation in London and Paris. A stamp has just been issued by the Canadian authorities which will prove an acquisition to stamp col lectors. It consists of a beautifully executed portrait of the Queen in widow's attire, and wearing the familiar Mary Stuart cap. The song " Tramp, tramp, tramp," is said to have been composed by a prisoner confined in the lowa Penitentiary, and was first written on the walls of his cell with charcoal. It has netted thopublishers thousands of dollars, but not a cent to the writer. . The Annuli Raport of the Board of Commis sioners of Emigration, New York, for 1867, has been pre pared and forwarded to the Legis:ature. The report opens by showing the increase in the arrival of passengers during the past year over that of the preceding, stating that the whole number landed in 1867 was 301,326, of which 242,731 were aliens, an increase over 1867 of 46,379, and a steadily swelling increase over the numbers landedin several years past, while the proportion to the average of former years, since 1817, is 63,602 more. Of the emigrants who arrived in 1867, 117,591 were from Germany, 65,134 from Ireland, 33,712 from England, and 26,294 from other countries:— Total receipts for the year 1867 $607,227 Total expenditures for the year 1867 Leaving the financial condition of the Board on Decem ber 31, 1867, as follows : Balance in bank December 31, 1867 __ 568,650 Amount invested in 11. S. and N. Y. State Securities Total 5378,650 Amount of bond and mortgage Balance 5171,130 Being more than in December, 1866, by the sum of $44,577, subject, howe7er, to amounts due on contracts for buildings and repairs. The report also shows that cut of 222,632 passengers in 464 steamers, 235 died, while from among 49,038 in 282 sailing vessels the deaths were 494. Nothing better shows the growing intimacy of our commercial relations with China and Japan than the fol lowing statistics of the San Francisco trade to those countries, as published in that city a few months since : Year. Merchandise. Treasure. Total. 1856 5259,912 $1,308,852 $1,548,791 1857 313,896 2,993;264 3,307,169 1858 . 224,568 1,916,007 2,140,575 1859. 252 , 575 3,134,756 3;387;331 V,V 1860 647,905 3,563,880 4 216 , 783 1861 757,418 3,601,499 058,917 1862 743,827 2,678.670 3,422,49 7 1863 ... 1,290,155 6,240,934 5,531,089 1861 1;623;443 7;874,651 9;298,027 1865 1,483,974 7,078,145 8 562 119 1866 , 1 641.984 ' 6,632,688 8;274;672 186: 2, 101,7 U G 9,673;340 12;774,046 Totals $11,120,393 $54,701,689 $65,822,08 2 —lron Age. Pope and Roe's General Telegram Office 11, Throgmor ton-street, E.C., publishes the following cable messages : Thiele, Seiler, and Co.'s Weekly Cotton Report :—Receipts, 6,000 bales; export to Great Britain and the Continent, 16,000 bales ; stock at all United States p0rt5,142,000 bales ; New York price of middling upland, cost and freight, by sail to Liverpool, 11 7-16 d. ;:price of middling New Orleans, cost and freight by sail to Liverpool, 11d. ; New York Ex change on London, 1100. ; New Orleans Exchange on London, 1531 ; Steam Freight to Liverpool, id.; Stearn Freight to Liverpool, from New Orleans, fd. The American (Negro) Colonisation Society-- which was formed in 1817 in Washington--still retains its activity. During the past twelve months it reports having sent out to Liberia 1,300 negroes. Sixty thousand dollars were expended for education, and 10,000 dollars added to the fluids of the society. FISH CULTURE IN .AMERICA. Seth Green is likely to prove one of the greatest benefactors to his native land. His success is an instance of what one man can accomplish who de votes his mind earnestly and with his whole heart to a single idea. Fish culture, more especially shad, is the object that engrosses Seth Green. Although not officially appointed, he is working South, and has got as far as the James River, accompanied by another Commissioner, Robert B. Roosevelt (leaving two behind in New York State), where they have been endeavouriug to instruct the in habitants, and to induce them to carry out the system so successful in Connecticut. When the Commissioners reached the James River the waters happened to be muddy, and all that could be done was to leave a small hatching box, with full iustructions, in the hands of the fishermen who showed the moat interest and intelligence. On the Potomac the Commissioners were more success ful, although the heavy rains interfered with the work. A box of impregnated spawn was put into the river at Mr. Evans' fishery, near the Long Bridge, at three o'clock in the afternoon, 13th May, a few days after the young fish were visible in the spawn, when examined with a magnifying glass. The water is so cold that the hatching will require probably from four to six days. With the tempera ture of water at .75 degrees, the average period of hatching on the Continent last year was about sixty hours. When last heard from Mr. Green was at Gibson's fishery, forty miles below Wash ington. He had with him a large coil of prepared wire netting, and expected to do something in the line of fish culture which would produce an effect. The fishermen are watching his operations with interest, and find the process so simple and inex pensive, that if they see the young fish hatch out successfully, they propose to save the spawns at their fisheries hereafter, and reinforce the river with shad of their own hatching. Some 30,000 spawn are taken from each fish. His experiments on the Connecticut have shown that out of 10,000 spawn all but seven may be saved. The Southern fishermen earnestly deplore the diminution of the catch, but fear that in artificial cultivation, unless protected by the laws, their neighbours might capture what they rear. Seth Green intends to proceed North in concert of action with the shad ; he must have ripe fish to operate on, and the saason is later in the colder latitudes. From the Potomac he will proceed to the Susquehanna, thence to the Delaware, so that he will reach the Hudson in June, whence he will proceed farther east in July and August. By these means thousands of millions of shad may be added to the supply, and some must reap the benefit. The effects may require two years for development, but they are inevitable. Mr. Myers introduced a joint resolution into the Legislature of Pennsylvania, appropriating $2,00 to defray the necessary expenses for experiments by Seth Green in the artificial propagation of shad and other fish in the rivers of the United States, the, money to be expended under the supervision 01 F. E. Spinner, Treasurer of the United States, which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations . A movement is about to be made to induce Congres s to take up the subject with an appropriation t° enable Seth Green to devote his exclusive attention to fish culture in the United States, and he has just hatched a few in the basin in front of the Capitol to show the Congressmen how easy artificial propagtv Lion is, and at what slight cost and trouble the rivers of the Union may be again re-stocked. Births. --- BENIGNANT —On the 4th inst., at 28, Langham-street, Port' land-place, the wife of Signor Bevignani, of a sou an d heir. 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