The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-25 00:00:00

It Is authoritatively announced that the Federal
Government, in order to preserve neutrality in the
Mexican war, will allow no armed parties to pass
the Federal frontier, nor permit munitions of
war to be sent to either belligerent.
General Kilpatrick has been appointed Minister
to Chili, and he will previously visit Spain on azi
official mission.

Preston King, the collector of the New York
Customs, has committed suicide.

The Georgia Convention have repudiated the
rebol debt.

Outlawry conflicts between the whites and the
negroes continue in Mississippi.
Provisional Governor Sharkey has received orders
from Washington to continue his functions as Governor
until further orders.

The Georgia Convention and the Mississippi Le-
gislature have petitioned the President to pardon Mr.
Davis.

The Provisional Governor of Georgia has sub-
mitted 'o the State Convention documents advising the
State to claim the cotton seized by Sherman, and subse-
quently confiscated by the Federal Government.
Orders have been forwarded from New Orleans to
muster out all the colored regiments that can be spared.

Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi, had issued
a proclamation calling upou citizens to maintain law and
order, and to avoid oppressing the negroes in any manner.
Texas advices state that the freedmen in that State
generally refuse to work, and that the agricultural inte-
rests there are suffering greatly in consequence.

Col. Thomas, assistant commissioner of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Mississippi, announces that the Le-
gislature of the State manifests through the action of the
Committee on Freedmen a disposition to deal fairly and
generously with the negroes, several bills for their protec-
tion having already been framed.

The negroes in Louisiana are said to be regarded
by the white population with increasing aversion.
Large numbers of Germans, Swedes, and Danes
are pouring into Virginia. But the supply is not equal to
the demand. The prices fixed for their services as farm
hands or labourers is $l5O a year, with food and lodging,
for men between twenty and fifty years old, and for women
$lOO.

Bolling Hall, James H. Clanton, and other pro-
minent citizens of Alabama, have issued an appeal to
the planters of the State to meet in convention at Mont-
gomery, October 18, to devise means to reorganise labour
and to provide for the "ignorant black man."

A despatch from New Orleans says that General
Canby has received orders from Washington to muster out
of the service as many negro troops as can be spared.
Several negro regiments are soon to be discharged, and,
in order to prevent insubordination among them, General
Canby has ordered that they be not allowed to purchase
their weapons.

The Mississippi Legislature proposes to set apart
25 per cent. of the public debt to pay the State debt tax to
be levied for the support of disabled Confederate soldiers
and the widows and children of soldiers killed in the war.

Where colonies of freedmen exist in the Southern
States at such points as the relief system of the Freedmen's
Bureau has not reached the mortality among the freed
people, as shown by the official returns to the bureau, has
reached nearly 30 per cent. Where the operations of the
bureau have been so extended as to take in a number of these
colonies the mortality has been speedily reduced to 4 per
cent. by the medical assistance of the bureau official.

The population of Atlanta, Georgia, is estimated
at 22,000. Owing to the scarcity of houseroom, small frame
tenements, with only four apartments, bring 100 dollars
per month.

A great deal of attention has been given of late
to the cultivation of tea in the Southern States, especially
Georgia and South Carolina. A correspondent' of the
Savannah Herald, who has been experimenting in the
matter for the last five years, says that his plants grow
finely, and the flavour of the leaves is excellent. The
plants require no care after the third year, and do not need
renewing for a long time.

The Houston (Texas) Telegraph says that more
than half the spelling-books now sold in Houston go into
the hands of negroes. Several schools for colored persons
are now in operation in Houston and Galveston. Many
planters buy a stock of school books for schools already,
not unfrequently upon plantations.
The recent elections have resulted in a decided
Republican victory. In New York, Slocum (Democrat),
was defeated for State Secretary by Barlow, by about
27,000 majority. In New Jersey, Marcus L. Ward (Re-
publican) was elected governor by a majority of 2,000;
while in Massachusetts, Bullock (Republican) was elected
governor by 76,000 majority, General Crouch, his oppo-
nent, receiving but 25,000 votes. The elections in the
Western States also show large Re publican gains.

It is semi-officially stated that the United States
army now numbers 189,000 men of all arms.

A severe gale had been experienced on Lake On-
tario, and much damage had been done thereby to the ship-
ping.

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.—Isaac Newton, Com-
missioner of Agriculture of the United States, in his report
for October, says :—The threshing of the wheat has shown
that the injuries from wet weather were over estimated.
In the report for August the returns for the wheat crop
showed in quantity and quality that there was a deficit of
26,241,698 bushels, but the estimates now made, which are
final, exhibit the decrease under last year's crop in quan-
tity to be 12,172,994 bushels. The increase in the oat
crop in 1865 is nearly 50,000,000 of bushels, and of the hay
crop of 5,000,000 of tons. The tables exhibit the Fall
crops as most abundant. That of corn is all that could be
desired. It will be the largest ever grown in the United
States, so that plenty of cereal food will bless the country
and the labors of the farmer. The corn crop is equally
good in the Southern States, and as planting there is much
greater than ordinary that section can consume only a
portion of the amount grown. It can, therefore, the Com-
missioner says, devote the next crop season to a greater
production of cotton.
A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK.—On the
morning of the sth inst. the residents of the lower part of
New York were startled by what seemed to be the report of
a cannon. Some vague rumours went flying from mouth
to mouth that an infernal machine had blown up the Wyom-
ing Hotel, No. 325, Greenwich-street, and it was soon ap-
parent that something of the sort bad taken place. It was
found that not a pane of glass was left in the windows,
every door was burst open, some taken off their hinges, and
others split from top to bottom. The mirrors in the par-
lours, two very fine and costly ones, were shivered to atoms.
The furniture in the parlours and other apartments was
broken and displaced. Beds were thrown across rooms ;
chairs, stands, and tables were not only thrown down, but
in many instances hurled against the walls with force enough
to break them. The buildings on the block between Duane
and Jay-streets, on which the hotel is situated, were also
much injured. The hotel is near the corner of Duane-street,
but every house on the block was more or less injured.
Every window was shattered, and the doors of the stores
and dwellings broken open, and the chimneys thrown down.
Eighteen persons have been more or less injured by this
explosion, some of them very severely. The cause of the
accident is mysterious ; for the explosion is attributed to
the presence of a square box, containing some chemical
fluid, which a man named Leers, a boarder at the hotel, had
left there. The following is the statement of this man,
who was at once apprehended :—I am a German, born in
Hanover, but residing until a few months ago in Hamburg,
when I resolved to come to America. Mentioning my in-
tention to Wilhelm Roe, a large commission merchant of
that city and a brother Mason, ho said he would help me.
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to New York. When I received it it was boxed up, and
I never opened the box or tried to sell it. I slept with it
under my bunk on board the Donau. I arrived in this city
on the 28th of August, and went to the Wyoming Hotel
on the 31st. I left there on the 11th of October. I forgot
the box, but afterwards told Mr. Schoonmaker, Messrs.
Yolk's clerk, to get it for me, which he neglected to do. 1
am innocent of any crime. I did not know what was in
the box." Leers was detained.—Neto York, Tribune.

NEW YORK city has a population of 722,560. In
1860, before the war, the population was 813,669. The
population has therefore diminished nearly 100,000. In
1860 the female exceeded the malo population 10,741. The
excess is now 44,587.