The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-30 00:00:00

within a stone's throw of his shop is a rebel naval officer,
who led the memorable assault on the Harriett Lane at
Galveston. In the newspaper offices, likewise, may be
found sundry persons who this time last year were. firing
the Southern heart, to the best of their abilities, in the
journals published off in the interior of Georgia, Alabama,
and Louisiana."
Senator Doolittle, in a speech recently delivered at
Milwaukie, made the following interesting statement :
"Mr. Johnson the President of the United States, in-
formed me as early as 1857, after the Fremont campaign
which ocurred in 1856—he informed me that in the state
of Tennessee there arose an insurrection. If you remem-
ber, several of the slaves were taken, tried, and executed—
among others, the slaves of John Bell, then a senator
from that State. Mr. Johnson was then governor there.
There was then such an alarm in that State that a great
many persons and companies called upon him for arms.
He inquired for what purpose. They said to defend them-
selves against insurrection. Large quantities of arms
were distributed ; but when he came to examine into the
facts, he found the whites were organising in large num-
bers, with the purpose of exterminating the whole negro
race in that portion of Tennessee. He was compelled to
call out the militia, and use every exertion to prevent it.
" In conversation with him not long since, he said to me
that while he would desire that those States, in the for-
mation of their constitution, should do as they did in
Louisiana—strike out all constitutional restrictions IVon
colored' suffrage, and that the Legislature should be em-
powered to extend, from time to time, the rights of suff-
rage to certain superior classes of the colored people,
such as those who have performed military (service, WWI
had for a long time been heads of families, and supported
them by their own industry, and who had demonstrated
clearly their intellectual fitness to exercise the rightom of
suffrage—while he would be glad to see that coming from
the States themselves, as it was a right which the State
alone should grant, he was decidedly of opinion that if be,
as President, in the present condition of the people there;
in the present condition of the old prejudices, almost hatrea
existing between the two races, were to insist that suffrage
should be granted to the mass of the colored people in
those States a condition precedent to their being recog-
nised as States in the Union, it would produce actual war
between the blacks and the whites. Mr. Johnson, all his
life, had lived there, and has been Governor of Tennesee,:
before the rebellion, and Military Governor during
rebellion, and he knows what he says."
A new club has just ;gone into operation in this dtYl
including, among its members, Judge Hoffmann, August
Belmont, Gulian C. Vernplanck, Augustus Schell, Marie°
O'Connor, John Van Buren, and other magnates of
the
Democratic party. They are now in treaty for the men-
sion formerly occupied by Dr. Moffatt, in Union-Kul
next door to the Everett-house, and within a few feet °
the hall occupied by the Loyal League. Club. Tho concern
is to be called the Manhattan Club.
and
The Washington branches both of the Christian
Sanitary Commissions closed their business on Filch—ol
sot
at surplus stock of the Sanitary Commission will be
at auction, that of the Christian Commission has been
turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau. The Similar/
Commission will continue its agency for soldiers' claims*