The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX.

The statement that appeared on the 28th ult. that
a Mr. Tring, of Bedfont, Middlesex, had lost 11 out
of 14 cows, is, we are informed, unfounded. No
person of that name resides in the parish, nor has a
eingle case of the cattle disease occurred there.

NORFOLK.
At the weekly meeting of the Norfolk Cattle
Plague Association at Norwich, on Saturday, Mr.
C. S. Read, M.P., in the chair, the committee ex-
pressed the opinion that it was expedient to reopen
markets. The claims for compensation allowed dur-
ing the past week, after deducting salvage, &c.,
amounted to £1,163, the largest sum ever paid in
one week since the formation of the association in
August. Further claims are now pending to the
amount of £2,000. The balance at the bankers at
the close of November was £9,099, but the chairman
intimated on Saturday that a further rate wouldsoon
be necessary. The magistrates of the Shropham and
Guiltcross Hundreds have issued an order suspend-
ing the entire movement of cattle into and from that
district until February 1, 1866. The committee of
the association has voted £5O to assist in the further
prosecution of the homoeopathic treatment of the
disease, which may be said to be at present stalking
through the county unchecked.

AMERICA.

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QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 2.

The Inman steamer Etna, from New York on
the 18th ult., arrived here at 11.15 a.m. to-day
with 219 passengers and $94,499 in specie. She
landed 66 passengers and proceeded at 11.25 a.m.
The South Carolina Legislature has adopted the
constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, thus securing
the adhesion of the necessary number of States to make
the amendment form part of the Federal Constitution.

Letters from Nashville to papers in Central
Georgia express surprise at the fact that there is a general
movement among the negroes in Kentucky toward the
Northern States. These correspondents state that thou-
sands have already found employment among the thrifty
farmers of the Middle States and New England. The
people want to stop the hegira, but—don't know how to
do it. _ _

—A
gentleman, writing from North Alabama, draws
the following picture of affairs : —" Our negro population
is in a fix, and a pretty considerable one that is, the men,
for the most part, roaming about in the exercise of their
new-found liberty, doing but little, and that little bad.
They have no supplies, and how they are to live until
green corn and blackberry time next year God only knows.
Thousands unquestionably will and must die of starvation.
Their old masters' cribs and smoke-houses are either empty
or closed against them."
There is some uneasiness in Richmond about
alleged preparations for an insurrection nicking by the
25,000 or 30,000 negroes huddled in tents on the York
River Peninsula, between the towns of Hampton and
Williamsburgh. These negroes have been notified that on
January 1 the lands they now occupy will be turned over
to their former owners, and if the reports are true the dis-
satisfaction caused by a knowledge of this fact has been
increased by the presence among them of free negroes
from the North, who incite also a spirit of insurrection
and revenge.

The Richmond Times insists upon legislation that
shall compel the negro to perform his contracts where his
master has not failed to execute his part of the bargain.
It says :—"From the Rio Grande to the Susquehanna,
from the planters of Texas, and from the farmers of Mary-
land, there is not the slightest difference of opinion as to
'freedmen' treating their contracts as nullities. No treat-
ment, however kind, no rational indulgence, however

liberal, make the slightest impression upon these most
inconsistent and fickle human beings. They have no
moral principle where a contract is concerned, and their
instability " exceedeth that of water and sand." _ .

The Macon (Ga.) Journal of the 2nd inst. is in-
dignant at the thought of repudiating the rebel war debt.
It says :—" This so-called Confederate war debt is but
little more than double the actual and necessary expendi-

tures for carrying on the civil government of the State ;
and the whole debt now owing by Georgia, reduced to a
specie standard, will not exceed three or four millions of
dollars. That the good name of a great State should be
bartered for this paltry sum and an unenviable notoriety,
is too preposterous to be entertained for one moment by
any man having one particle of State pride."
A Washington despatch says:—" It is a singular
fact that so great is the demand for school books in the
South that the Northern publishers are compelled to send
a large amount of their press-work to this city to be done.
In all, over twenty-five presses hero are engaged in print-
ing these books. The prices charged for press-work in
Washington are 20 per cent. more than in Northern cities.
One retail dealer in school-books here sold $15,000 worth
last month to Southern booksellers. Three-fourths of all
that go South are sold to the negroes."
Mr. Worth has been elected Governor of North
Carolina by a majority of from 5,000 to 10,000 over Mr.

Holden.
It is officially reported that the mortality among
the negroes during the war against the South averaged
from 30 to 50 per cent. This excessive mortality continues
in many parts of the South.
The States of Wisconsin and Minnesota have
voted against negro suffrage.
The new Legislature of the State of lowa is poli-
tically divided as follows: Senate, Republican 43 ; Oppo-
sition 5. House, Republican, 83 ; Opposition 15. Repub-
lican majority on joint ballot 106—large enough for all
practicable purposes.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad have coin-

menced a suit against the Indianapolis and Cincinnati
Railroad for damages, amounting to over one million five
hundred thousand dollars, for breaking tho contract

existing between the two roads, whereby the latter used
the track of the former from Cincinnati to Lawrance-

burgh

The following petition has been sent to Secre-
tary Seward by the merchants of Boston :
To the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
The undersigned—merchants, mechanics, and other
citizens,—haying read the diplomatic correspondence re-
cently published, beg leave respectfully to protest against
further action by our Government in their demands upon
the British Government for compensation for the depre-
dations committed upon our commerce by the Alabama
and other British cruisers.
They respectfully represent that it would be a great in-