The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-06 00:00:00

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, April 16.
We have had Generals passing to and fro in
shoals ; Grant, Sherman, Meade, Burnside, and
last, though not least, Sheiidan, on their way, first
to attend the funeral of General Thomas, and then
the reunion of the Army of the Potomac. General
Sheridan left on Thursday, en route for Utah, I hear,
and his last evening was spent at the Union
League Club. Mr. Henry Clews, the well-known
banker, gave him a splendid dinner, and some thirty
other of our leading citizens were invited to meet
him. The Italian Opera is to open next week,
with " The Magic Flute," at the Academy, with
Carlotta Patti, and Edwin Booth's engagement, at
his own theatre, ends to-day, when he wilt take a
respite till next summer. Sir John M. Young,
Governor-General of the Canadian Dominion, is in
Chicago, I suppose, to look after the Fenian invasion
of Canada and the Red River insurrection, that city
being a good central point. There is little news
stirring, attention being mainly attracted to the
trial of M'Farland. Our new Post Office is to
be put into the hands of Mr. Mullett, as archi-
tect, 1,000,000 dollirs having been appropriated
for the building, of which only a half is to be
expended before the approval of his plan. The City
Tax Levy is being pushed through our State Amena-
bly without letting the newspaper men or any-
body else know what is intended, the press being
refused copies. Doubts are now expressed as to the
legality of the new charter, for it has not been sub-
mitted to the people, and Messrs. Tweed, Sweeny,
Fisk and Gould; may find that they have bribed in
vain. The Hon. Jeremiah W. Wilson has, I hear,
been nominated for the Fourth Congressional Dis-
trict of Indiana in place of G. W. Julian.

W ASHINGTON, April 15.
Mr. Cyrus Field has been here some weeks look-
ing after a Bill to incorporate the Pacific Sub-
marine Telegraph Company, with a capital of
$10,000,000 in gold, all to be paid up within a year
torm organization, the company to have power to lay
an ocean cable between California, Japan, and
China, either direct or by way of the Sandwich
Islands; $lOO,OOO to be depositA with the Secre-
tary of the Treasury,.to be returned on the comple-
tion of the cable ; to be finished in five years, the
United States to have priority in transmitting mes-
sages, and the right to forward on Government busi-
ness free of charge, at the regular rates up to $500,000.
The memorial also shows that there are sixty-four
marine cables iu operatiun, aggregating 22,000
miles in length, and that this cable will complete the
circuit of the world. The Bill was introduced into
the Senate by Mr. Sumner, and into the House by
Mr. Dawes. Dr. Hall is also here looking after his
appropriation of $lOO,OOO towards the exploration
of the Arctic regions, which is opposed by Dr.
Hayes ; the latter gave evidence before a committee,
in the course of which he said no one without the
requisite knowledge could successfully do the work,
and he did not believe Dr. Hall had that knowledge;
pleasant intelligence for that gentleman, who was
present, and who asked many questions. Dr. Hayes
appears with a strong certificate from the New
York Geographical Society, who, without dictating
to whom the command should be entrusted, say,
" We would call attention to the fact that Dr. Hayes
has received gold medals of the Royal Geographical
Society of London, and the Imperial Geographical
Societies of St. Petersburg, the Geographical So-
ciety of Berlin, the Royal Academy of Sciences of
Brussels, and the Geographical Society of Italy;
and having in his last expedition, though provided
with very insufficient means, reached nearer to the
Pole than any previous explorer, except Parry, he is,
in the opinion of this Society, to be regarded as the
most able, eminent, and experienced of living Ame-
rican Arctic explorers." The President and Secre-
tary of War returned on Monday; Secretary Bout-
well on Tuesday. General Sherman came back on
Monday morning; he objects strenuously to placing
troops under Governor Senter's orders or that of any
civilian, as calculated to impair their efficiency,
and his reports from officers in Tennessee re-
present all quiet there. Ex-Senator Morgan, J. A.
Griswold, and Collector Grinnell are here ; the
latter will shortly resign. The investigation of the
charges brought against Gen. Howard by F. Wood
awaits the passage of a bill appropriating funds, as
there is no money with which to make the inquiry.
The bill has passed the House, and now goes to the
Senate. Mr. Wood has engaged counsel, and means
mischief, but Gen. Howard's friends are confident
of the result. The investigation commenced yes
terday before the House Committee on Education
and Labour, and several witnesses have already
been examined. General Bullock has been sum-
moned as disbursing agent of the Freedman's Bureau.
The investigation of the charges against Mr. Gor-
ham, Secretary of the Senate, is finished, and the
belief is that he will be exonerated. The House
Territorial Committee will report a bill for the ad-
mission of New Mexico as a State. All coloured
persons employed in the Departments have received
leave of absence to-day by order of the President
as the celebration of the Fifteenth Amendment is
going on. There is to be a torchlight procession,
serenades, and drinks. Many houses will be illumi-
nated, cannon fired, and President Grant will doubt-
less be called upon for a little speech.* The National
Academy of Sciences met on l'uesday for its thir-
teenth annual session, about sixty persons being
present, and was opened by Professor Henry, when
many interesting papers were read. There is a rapid
sale of land going on in Colorado, and that Territory
is filling up so fast that it must soon be brought iu
as a State. Mr. Macdonald, of Arkansas, spoke
strongly in the Senate in favour of his Bill to aid
the Mediterranean and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company of New York, urging the claims of the
South to some assistance to help it under the de-
pressing effects of the war, towards which there
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* And so he was, and this is it :—" I cannot say any-
thing to those who are assembled here this evening to
convince them any further than I have done of my earnest
desire to see the Fifteenth Amendment become a part of
the Constitution. I will only add, I hope those enfran-
chised by it will prove themselves worthy of its benefits
to them and to those whc have the franchise without it ;
that all may be mutually benefited by it. I feel confident
that this will be the result. If I had not thought so I
should not have been so anxious for its ratification."

A session of the Conference of Ocean Steamship
Agents was held in New York, March 28. John G. Dale
of the Inman Line is the president. Prominent in the
discussions of the session was the question of the reduc-
tion of the commutation tax now imposed upon alien pas-
sengers landed at Castle Garden. It was stated that the
Commissioners would be willing to receive 50 cents less
per head than the rate now paid, but the agents are not
satisfied with this reduction, believing that the work now
performed by the Commissioners can be done at far less
cost, and equally well by some other method.