The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-26 00:00:00

AMERICA AND CUBA.

The official statement of the outrages perpetrated in
Cuba more than confirm what has already been stated here
of the inhumanity of the Spaniards on that island. Against
this inhumanity the United States Government has,
it appears, frequently and strongly protested. More it
could not well have done, but the protests have been
in vain. It is not certain, however, that all which
might have been done has been performed in protecting
American citizens in Cuba. The report contains a list of
murdered and illegally executed persons, " said to be citi-
zens of the United States." It was enough that they
claimed to be citizens to have entitled them to protection
until it was proved that their claims were false. We
have never been as prompt nor as positive as we ought to
protect our citizens abroad, It is clear that our into
conduct in regard to the unfortunate Americans in
Cuba has not been any improv,ement on our past policy.—
Tribune.

THE INDIANS.
WASHINGTON, July 9.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs received a telegram
from Colonel Chambers, commanding Fort Fetterman, re.
porting that Red Cloud and the Ogallala Sioux had gone
up to the Powder River country to hold a general council
with the other Sioux. The Powder River is within the
hunting country reserved for the Sioux, and it is under-
stood that Red Cloud will exert his influence for peace.
Colonel Chambers further reports that the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes, not 'members of Red Cloud's band, are com-
mitting some depredations.
CHEYENNE,m. WYOMING, July 9.

,
The Laramie Sentinel publishes the following in regard
to the Big Horn Expedition :—" Judge Jones informed
us that but little was known of the party since they left
Camp Brown and struck out into the wilderness, further
than that they were beyond the reach of hearing of
friends, among intensely hostile Indians, and the Judge
expressed the belief that not one of them would ever get
out alive. Judge Jones would not express such an
opinion if there were not the best grounds for apprehen-
sions of the worst."

THE "THIRD PARTY" IN PENNSYLVANIA.
The Third Party movement in Allegheny County seems
to have resulted in a most signal failure. In only seven-
teen districts were meetings held and the form of electing
delegates gone hrough with. The Hon. R. B. Carnahan
presided at their Convention on Wednesday. Less than
fifty delegates appearing, it was, on motion, determined
that persons present favouring the movement be admitted
as delegates to represent districts unrepresented. In this
way about 76 delegates were secured, when in a full con-
vention there would be about 244. This is a most miser-
able showing for the new party. The convention must
have been very friendly to Mr. Mackey, as most of the
candidates for the Legislature are his warm friends. This
is as it should be, and we are glad to note this evidence of
good feeling on the part of our friends of the Commercial.
The convention was far from harmonious, many delegates
advocating the policy of making no nominations. The
best evidence of the weakness of the movement is that
Moorhead and Carnahan both refused to permit the use of
their names. Many of the nominations are very weak,
owing doubtless to the tact that good men refused to
permit the use of their names. The defeat of Anderson
for Senate is a surprise, in view of the earnest manner in
which the Commercial urged his claims last year. We
hope that ere long our friends in that county will settle
their difficulties, and that Moorhead, Carnahan, and
Brigham with his Commercial will fall into the support of
the regular nominees. The Etening Chronicle seems to
have backed out of the movement, and the Commercial
stands alone in the advocacy of the third party.—Beaver
Radical. _ _

The attempt to disorganise the Republican party in
Allegheny county has proven the sorriest failure we re-
member in politics. On July 5 the bolters were called on
to elect delegates to a convention, and in Pittsburg and
Allegheny city only ten wards out of the thirty-one wards
into which these two great cities are divided held any
election at all, and these ten wards only cast 161 votes !
The relative strength of these bolters and the Republican
organisation may be seen at a glance by comparing the
vote cast for Geary last year, and the vote cast on Tues-
day last. Geary, whose majority was more than 5,000
below the regular Republican majority in Allegheny—
polled 9,404 votes in the two cities, which now give to the
"bolters less than one-fifty eighth of the actual vote on a
reduced poll last October. The highest vote cast for de-
legates on Tuesday in any one ward was thirty-seven, the
next eighteen, the next seventeen, two wards cast fifteen
votes each, one ward cast three votes and one seven, while
in twenty-three wards not one vote was polled. The con-
vention was filled up with self-elected delegates. These
assume to speak for 15,000 voters who ignore them. The
" reform" is thus completed.—Harrisburg Patriot.

ALLEGED SEIZURE OF PROPERTY BY
AMERICAN OFFICERS IN CANADIAN
TERRITORY.

A case is reported from the St. Clair frontier which will
doubtless engage the attention of both the Canadian and
United States Governments, and if the fact turn
out as stated by our correspondents, there can be
little doubt that the person who has suffered by
what appears to have been a very uncalled-for act
of interference, to use no stronger term, on
the part of some over-zealous American customs
officers, will obtain full and early reparation. The facts
stated are follows :—Mr. John Brown, a contractor, has
been for some years engaged in dredging a new channel
through the St. Clair Flats to the eastward of the old
ship canal. That this gentleman's works are within
Canadian jurisdiction will not be disputed. In the ordi-
nary course of his operations Mr. Brown purchased wood,
which was shipped in the Sydenham River on two vessels,
a steam barge and a wood scow, the property of Mr.
Hiram Little of Wallaceburg. On its arrival at the scene
of operation the wood was discharged on the western side
of the works. The men had not unloaded the freight,
however, when they were pounced down upon by a party
of revenue officers from Detroit, who seized the vessel and
wood (fifty-eight cords), and Mr. Little, happening next
day to follow his cargo, they arrested him also, and car-
ried him off along with his property to Detroit on a
charge of smuggling. He was ultimately released with
his effects on giving bonds for the property in $2,500 and
$5OO for costs. If Mr. Little had, without notice, landed
dutiable materials on American soil, however openly, we
may assume that it would constitute a contraband pro-
ceeding, however mitigated by the absence of any attempt
at concealment. The question which arises is, therefore,
the very simple one, whether the boundary dividing
Canada from the United States is to the west of
the point at which the seizure took place, or more to
the eastward, in which case the American officers might
be technically in the right. But in the face of the
settlement under the treaty of Ghent in 1822, it
appears hardly possible to doubt that the act com-
plained of is altogether unwarrantable. After tracing
the boundary line up the Detroit River to Lake St. Clair,
the boundary is defined to run through the middle of
said lake in a direction to enter that mouth or channel of
the River St. Clair which is usually den )urinated the Old.
Ship Channel • thence along the middle of the said chan-
nel, between Squirrel Island on the south-east and Her-
son's Island on the north west, in a direction to enter the
strait or passage between Drummon's Island on the west
and the little manitou on the east, thence through the
middle of the passage which divides the two last men-
tioned islands, &c. Mr. Brown's works are said to be on
the east of the channel thus indicated, and consequently.
within Canadian territory. Two points, therefore, if
there really is any question at all about the matter, have
to be decided. First, whether there exists a doubt as to
the boundary, and secondly—that settled—was the pro-
perty seized in United States territory or no not ? Read-
ing the definition above given, we are not able to discover
any ground for dispute as to the respective limits of the
two countries. That conceded, a demand for due com-
pensation to Mr. Little and an apology for the mistake
would follow, and we should suppose not be disputed or
refused. It is for the interest of the natives to avoid any
difficulties of this nature. The officers who made the
arrest probably acted on their own responsibility, and al-
though that does not relieve the Government of its lia-
bility to Mr. Little, it woidd render it the more easy to
settle the difficulty. It is a case that should be dealt
with promptly and energetically, and if as described, is
one that should be very easy of solution.--Toronto Globe.

VIRGINIA.—Some of the Virginians are labouring
in a field that will ultimately prove to be far more profit-
able and vastly more promotive of the good of the people
of that great State than giving so much time to politics.
The State Agricultural Society is earnestly striving to
make its next fair and cattle shew the largest and most
attractive ever held in Virginia, embracing not , only
specimens of the various minerals and other rich deposits
of the State, but also to exhibit the most extensive
vai iety of the industrial productions of the people in every
form, combining the whole in one grand exhibition.
Virginia is opulent in natural resources, and ought to be
the seat not only of a great agricultural community, but
of vast manufactures and commerce. Philadelphia
Ledger.
CHINESE NATURALIZATION AND LABOUR.
There is great misapprehension of the points involved in
the debate on the Chinese naturalization question in the
Senate on the fourth of July. The point (and as we have
already remarked, it touches the labour question) which
turned the vote of the Senate was, that under the Coolie
contract system these Chinese immigrants are owned by
the contractors, and are not free agents, as other immi-
grants are—that they are in point of fact slaves for a term
of years. There is another misapprehension. Many
writers for the newspapers seem to be of the opinion that
the refusal of the privilege of naturalization to the Chinese
is an infringement of the recent (Burlingame) treaty.
This is not so. To guard against just such complications
as the present that treaty was amended by the insertion
of these words :—" But nothing herein contained shall be
be held-to confer naturalization upon citizens of the United
States in China, or upon the subjects of China in the
United States." This was a notice that the question of
naturalization was not to be effected in any way by the
treaty. Such is the statement of Senator Williams, of
Oregon. upon whose motion the treaty was so amended.—
Philcalelphia Ledger.