The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-01 00:00:00

A CABINET SECRET.
A correspondence of the. New. York- Times, dated Wash
i
ington, Mayl6th, says :—" Mrs. Grant has sent out abou
one hundred special invitations to a lunch and strawberrY
party at half-past one o'clock to-morrow. At three
o'clock she gives her regular reception. When the Pre...
dent was interrogated why he had a special Cabinet otee,',,
in., to-day instead of to-morrow, he said he wanted tut
Cabinetb to take strawberries and cream with Mrs. Gr,lll.
and himself to-morrow, and so he called their portfore
to-day instead. The curious reporters who trotted all ,tu,
afternoon to find out the occasion of the special meetl.l%
are not any wiser in consequence, and the subject relic
one of the numerous well-kept secrets of Grant and
Cabinet.

CARELESS CONDUCTORS.
The coroner's jury investigating the Missouri pad
Railroad slaughter have found that it was all " caused ,v
the disobedience and negligence of William Odor, eon
ductor of the extra freight train." Turning again tot 1,1
testimony of this William Odor before the jury, Wee
him confessing that, after the collision, he left the soil'
of disaster and death, and ran away to St. Paul, " to re;
port the accident." But, according to his own statement'
this was not his only motive for getting out of the waY —or
soon as possible. " I apprehended," he said, "
from the passengers ; they generally get excited and blailli;
some one.', What unreasonable passengers ! lilt
conductor like William Odor should, some time,
lynched by the survivors of " an accident," perhaps,
influence of an awful example might diminish the
obedience and negligence" of conductors in general
New York Tribune.

THE WEST AND THE CAPITAL.
The West is decidedly earnest in its effort to have the
national capital removed from Washington to some point
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nearer the geographical centre of the country. It is nob
proposed to hold a convention at Cincinnati on the loth
of October, to be composed of delegates from all the States
and Territories, in the proportion of three delegates t°
each Congressional District, together with six delegates at
large from each State, and three from each Territory-1'
to be appointed by the Governors thereof. So large a body
could not fail to possess considerable influence, although',
is questionable if it could be brought to any harmoniell',
expression, unless it should be packed in the interestt,
of a removal. It is hardly to be expected that a project„
involving so large an expenditure will be adopted in tt'''
Dr.sent financial condition of the country. It will e.
many years befur. vv. .1..11 in po;:itinn fr. try. the ex"
periment, and then it is probable we shall have made 6°,
many additional outlays that the capital will be regardec!
as a permanency at Washington. The mere question 91
convenience of access is a matter of minor importance lu
this age of railroads, and we doubt if the project will ever
be successful on that plea alone. Still, there can be 11°
objection to giving the subject a full and fair discussion,
if that be the wish of a large proportion of the peePle"
Such a discussion will probably strengthen the conviction
that the proposed undertaking is quite impracticable.--
"Veto York Times.

SEWARD ON MANIFEST DESTINY.
The distinguished sage of Auburn on Monday made
the first speech since his return from his Arctic an",
tropical tour that may be construed in any way to rode'
the views he now entertains on the possibilities of the
nation he was so long and so ably engaged in engineering
through its greatest crisis. He especially dwelt upon
the mission of the United States to harmonise all the
civilisations on this Continent and to advance steadily
to higher notions, carrying our neighbours with us, of the
social and political rights of man. It may be :
feather in the cap of the woman suffrage advocates e,
know that this speech was delivered on ,_tut:
occasion of the visit of a ladies' college ;
owing to the barberous and medimval notions
that prevail in our provinces these same ladies were,
all turned out of the •dining hall when the cloth wer
removed, and, therefore, before the speech was W.
A number of male visitors, by reason of being
physically better fitted to drink wine and smoke, alone
composed the audience to whom hp addressed his wor4s.
Mr. Seward has always had great, broad ideas of We
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future of the nation, and we are glad to see that his sixl
ninth birthday finds him fully as broad and grand in 1°
ideas as ever. He says that the Continent is.becogl
every day more American • that the practices and opini°,,
of the people of the United States are becoming t'd
common practices and opinions of the other States, 01,
that the Christian religion and the influence of republics
Government are destined ere long to blend all the Gov
meats of the American Continent into one. Mr. Seward
is the very best authority from whom these sentinien.
could emanate. He demonstrated years ago his -trust in
our manifest destiny, and much later has helped along thea
desirable consummation by the purchase of Alaska ant
the treaty for the purchase of St. Thomas. It is pleaen
to note that the present administration share in the grani,
old statesman's ideas of a united Continent.—New 17°1.'
Herald.

THE LADY BROKERS OF WALL STRE-.-
While the two hostile divisions of woman's righter
under the belligerent lead respectively of HenryNT3r
Beecher and Theodore Tilton, are passing all their tinle
in refusing to coalesce with each other and in flooding the
country with resolutions and chatter, there are, at least,
two 'advocates of the women movement that endeavour to
shew by example and precept that their sex with oral
nary fair play and industry, can take care of itself • Weir
refer to the lady brokers who recently created a s",
among the bulls and bears of Wall-street by setting t 1.1)!
so to speak, a china shop right in the midst of that P ,
ci
orderly locality, and who have more recently opeoei,
the eyes of the slow old fogies who thin,
woman not fit for much by starting an exec'
lent weekly newspaper, under the e business.like
title of Woodhull and Clajlin's T 6 eekly, right ,;
the midst of the periodicals of Park-row. TP,;
paper itself, of which the first number only has been
issued, already gives evidence of talent and aptness it
that most difficult of all arts, the art of journalism. 'in
is a neat sixteen page paper, about the size and shape
the usual literary hebdomadal ; but, in addition to th
stories, essays, and poetry, inseparable from these papeT,
it launches boldly into politics, finances, outdoor spe.l
and fashions, and even thus early rejoices in a cheerip,b,
amount of advertisements. The Weekly, bearing for
motto " Upward and onward," strongly advocate:
woman's rights, and even nominates and supports
woman for the next Presidency. There can, therefore l;
be no reasonable doubt of its devotion to the wolo
cause, and we would suggest to the female agitators,
waste their breath and their hearers' patience at convePo
tions and mass meetings, that, while the press is not
noisy an organ as the tongue, it is heard much further'
The example of Messrs. Woodhull and Clafiin, if we
prefix that title to the firm name is therefore a big' 0
commendable one, as they do more and talk less t 1 13k
the two divisions of females put together. —New Vl'
Herald.

PLEASANT TRAVELLING COMPANIONS.—"
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I yellers see strange things," says the adage, and it mg
added, oftentimes unpleasant ones. The correspondeo
of a Manchester paper relates that on returning fr°
Scotland by express train, he was put in a second-cl°o
carriage at Preston with a drunken man, and
Dolt
boy with a wire cage full of rats. He did Dol,
notice them at first, but on looking up from a 1)() he saw the drunken man, with the cage on hisknee'
counting them. His disgust did not entirely deprive 1!01°.
of conversational power, and his " elevated " CO
panion informed him with the pride of
profession, that there were twenty-five rats, all alive'
The boy said he purchased a large number every Sag,
day, and booked them. The correspondent indulges Iye
natural horror at the idea that the vermin might 115
escaped about the carriage, and denounces the railwg'
company for allowing such disgusting passengers.
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