The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-10 00:00:00

EMIGRATION.

General Sir
Emigration societies are still very hard at work,
endeavouring to obtain emigrants to send across the
Atlantic, and money wherewith to send them. Major-
those associations in their labour, declares that
William Denison, in a letter cheering on
emigration is necessary because of the present
state of the wages market. He rather seems to think
that the country has become too rich, that there is
too much capital seeking employment. The result of
the great abundance is small profit, and consequently
a low rate of wages, a condition of things much
aggravated by foreign competition. The colonies,
on the other hand, suffer from a want of capital, and
Sir William appears to regard the sending out of so
many labourers—labour only—as an evil which it
should be the duty of the Home Government to
arrange. Whether the remedy he believes in is
money given to the emigrant or the emigration of
capitalists does not appear ; but he lays down that
"if we export a man and his family we must
give him the means of working out a fresh
future for himself." "If (lie continues) this is to be
done, we must cease to consider the colonies as aliens,
to compel them to defend themselves, to talk of them
as ineumbrances instead of helpers. Such language
is not likely to enlist their sympathy with us, or to
induce them to help us to work out a better future
for our surplus population."
A meeting was held on Tuesday evening, at
Kennington, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor
of London. Its object was to aid the emigration
of working men. Mr. George Potter, notable for his
connection with trades unions, seems to be the
leader of this movement. The society formed under
his auspices seeks, besides assisting emigration, to
obtain constant and trustworthy information as to the
several fields of labour in the colonies and elsewhere.
Resolutions were passed by the meeting to the effect
that emigration was necessary to relieve the depressed
labour-market, and that the attempt to obtain
statistics and other news in connection with the
subject was most praiseworthy.
CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS.

Those who risserted some time since that Indepen-
dent ministers Were much dissatisfied with the
judgment of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, giving the
power of removing a Congregational minister to his
flock, hit very wide of the mark indeed. The state-
ment has called forth explicit denials from all parts,
and from the organs of the body. Another Inde-
pendent minister, writing to the Star on the subject,
says:—

" For a Church to be incapable of removing only those
ministers who are immoral or heretical, that they must
endure the misery of being saddled with any incompetent
person who by the chapter of accidents may once have
obtained the office of their minister, is to set at defiance
the first principles of a free, self-governing commu-
nity; is to suppose that the Church lives for the good
of .the ministry, instead of the ministry living for the
goodr s t o f e
v theils ; and is to attribute to us one of thew
Established Church."
afflict our brethren of the
othat Church
at

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Washington, May 21.

Mr. Corcoran, the banker of this city, known
during the war for his Southern proclivities, has
come out finely in a new character. He has made
over his house at the corner of Pennsylvania-avenue
and Seventeenth-street to trustees, with an endow-
ment as an Art Depository and Free Picture Gallery,
also a valuable collection of pictures and works of
art, which has been supplemented by the gift of
another strong Democrat, Mr. August Belmont, of
New York, with twelve pictures from his splendid
collection, to be chosen by the trustees, and called
the Belmont collection. Mr. Corcoran is building
a grand hotel, to be called The Arlington, and you
may imagine that it is a fine structure when I add
that it is believed to be already rented at $40,000
a year. He seems to think well of real estate
in this city, for he is buying up all the best
houses in the market, among others those of Senator
Sumner and Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the former for
$65,000, the latter for $45,000. Mr. Sumner will
not lose by the transaction, as he only paids3o,ooo,
and that but two years ago. IV hen he bought the hou=:e
a good time in it was anticipated, which our citizens
regret has not been realized, but it is no business of
mine to pry into his domestic arrangements. A
report of the New York Herald amused us, as the
Senator was represented as having called at the
Executive Mansion, where he was told the Presi-
dent could not see him unless he waited a quarter
of an hour, which he contemptuously declined, say •
ing he would not thus wait for Victoria or Napoleon.
On going home the writer adds, boiling over
with rage, he met a friend, to whom he said
the White House was no better than a big camp.
General Grant has to earn every penny of his
salary ; he has to look after others ; others have
to look after more; but that many-headed monster,
the people, has to look after him. No less than
two hundred Lutheran ministers were received last
Saturday. The proposition made by the Rev. Dr.
Pohlman ought to be established, and a shake-
hand proxy appointed—an office I doubt not would
be eagerly sought. The President on entering
was greeted with applause, and the reverend gentle-
man, who spoke for his brethren, said " that long
speeches were a bore, more honoured in the breach
than in the observance. Let us have Peace ; these
are my reverend brethren, representatives of the
General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
I wish I could relieve you from the labour of shak-
ing hands by doing it by proxy. If you would give
me a hearty shake I will shake the hands of all my
brethren." But to this there was a cry of " No,
no ;" and the President shook hands with each.
The right arm of the General, from the con-
stant pump-handle practice, must be develop-
ing its muscles; but, however gratifying to our
citizens, I doubt the wisdom of occupying the
time of the Chief Magistrate in such a cere-
mony as this, nor have our Presidents ever
claimed the virtue i❑ the touch once attributed
to kings. It is not known where the President
will go during the summer, nor is it certain that he
will not take a trip over the Pacific Railroad. He
will, however, attend the annual cadet examination
at West Point next month. Our late Secretary of
the Navy had a crotchet which has taxes many a
poor fellow's spelling ; perhaps even in Europe.
I may instance this by the Miantononiah, oue of
our war monitors which visited Europe. Such
names as the Pompanoosuc, Quinsigamund are from

Indian history, which Mr. Wells insisted on giving
our ships, in spite of a law which provides that war
ships of the first-class are to be named after the
States; of the second class after the cities and rivers;

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while the Secretaryand the President are only autho-
rized to select names for the third and fourth class.*
Were it not for the services with which the names

of the ships have become identified, the whole bundle
of his Indian names would be sent after the

Secretary to Hartford to be attached to his furni-
ture. Secretary Boric being desirous of remaining
undisturbed in the more pleasant city of Philadel-
phia, where he is much more at home. delegated to
Vice-Admiral D. D. Porter the duties of his office

with the power of signing for him, so that the or-
ders thus issued might have the same weight as his
own. The accounting officers of the Treasury, how-
ever, refused to honour the requisitions (as illegal)
for money, signed by the Vice-Admiral, and the
President talks of making Porter ad interim
Secretary, which is believed to be equally illegal.
The ram Atlanta has been sold to Mr. Samuel
Ward, of New York, and she is leisurely being re-
paired. No one knows for what she is intended,

though Mr. SYard is believed to have a pretty
shrewd idea ; but it now transpires that she has been
bought for Salnave for the San Domin go Govern ment.
Mr. Borie has returned to Washingtcn, and was pre-
sentat some Cabinet meetings.AdmiralGoldsborough
has been offered the post of Commander of the
Boston Navy-yard ; and Rear-Admiral Montgo-
mery has been placed on waiting orders from his

command of the naval station at Sackett's Harbour,

being succeeded by Commodore J. R. I‘.l‘Kinstry.
Commodore William Roger Taylor goes to San
Francisco, June 1, to assume command of the North
Pacific squadron, and will hois`, his flag on board
the Ossipee (another of Welles' pet names), with
Mr. Charles J. Pettit, formerly of the Navy De-
partment, as his Secretary. Colonel Parker has re-
sumed his duties here, having returned from New
York ; General John Cochrane and James B. Tay-
lor are also here from New York. Commissioner

Delano has returned from Columbus, and Genera
Wager Swayne has also arrived. Messrs. Farwell

of Chicago, Stuart of Philadelphia, Campbell of St.
Louis, Dodge and Bishop of New York, Tobey of
Boston, Brandt of Pittsburgh, and Lane of Indiana,

the special Indian Commission appointed by the Pre-
sident, will hold a preliminary meeting on Wednesday.

Mr. Simon Stevens had an interview with the Pres'

dent touching some affairs of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, which were referred to the Attorney-
General. Mr. W. R. Smith will soon be in E tirope, sent
by direction of the Congressional Library Committee
to exchange ornamental and useful plants. He is the
superintendent of the Botanical Gardens, and he goes
to inaugurate a regular system of exchange in plants
with England, France, and Russia. The Columbia
Typographical Union have got into a fix about
Lewis H. Douglass, the son of the celebrated negro
orator. It appears that from the Government office
when comrositors were being discharged he was
given a place, theo'nject being to establish practically
there race equality. When fairly at work he applied
for admission to the Printers"rrade Union at Wash-
ington. This was referred to the Committe on
nominations, when a member of the union objected
ou the ground that a similar application had for-
merly been made to a subordinate union and re-
jected on the plea that he was ineligible. The
Committee reported against him, when it became
necessary either that he should quit the Government
employment or that the union hands should strike,
as they are bound to do by their rules. The Trade
Union scarcely knowing how to act under the cir-
cumstances, for if they struck, public opinion would
be against them, postponed action for a week.
Douglass, however, wrote to Mr Wolf, the Regis-
trar of Deeds, asking for an appointment as clerk
in the office, to which he received a favourable
reply. His own letter, and the reply of the gentle-
man to whom it was addressed, were singularly ap-
propriate. Mr. Douglass said he had fought in the
war under the colours of his native State, Massa-
chusetts ; he is by trade a printer, but in conse-
quence of the combination against him in the
Printers' Union he is unable to obtain employment,
and he applies as one of that despised race hitherto
unknown as office-seekers. Mr. Wolf, who is a
Jew, says he sees no reason why Douglass and his
race should not have the opportunities open to
others; adding, "I am particularly happy in being
the means of encouraging you, for, as a descendant
of a race equally maligned and preju lioed, I have a
feeling of common cause." The President has
ordered the Departments to be closed on the 29th
inst., the day set apart for Memorial Services and
decorating the soldiers' graves. General Grant, his
Cabinet, the Commander-in-Chief and Staff, ac-
companied by numerous army and navy officers, the
Heads of Departments, the Diplomatic Missions,
will be present at Arlington in honour of the oc-
casion. The Marine band and a hundred vocalists
will furnish music, and the oration will be de-
livered by Colonel Fisher, and our churches
will have services on the 30th. Professor Hall
has left for New York, having made arrange-
ments to have a Government vessel awaiting
him at San Francisco to convey himself, his in-
struments, and party to Norton Sound, Alaska,
to make his grand observations of the total eclipse
of the sun next August, the best opportunity,
I am informed, that will occur in America for a
century. Various rumours are in circulation of
the resignation of Secretaries. One is advanced
on good authority, that General Rawlins will re-
sign the War Department on account of ill health,
to be succeeded by Judge Holt. In New York
the report was current that Secretary Boutwell
intended to retire in favour of A. T. Stewart, and
Secretary Fish was said to be at variance with the
President with regard to the Alabama and Cuba,
and that he would retire; this, however, was known
to be untrue, but Secretary Borie might throw up a
place for which he never had any particular fancy.
Chief Justice Chase has lately ruled at Richmond
on a question involving the liability of towns to pay
the scrip and notes they issued during the war. As
they emanated from a de facto Government, the
towns would be liable for their redemption ; but as
they were issued in aid of an unlawful object (the
Rebe'lion), that liability cannot be enforced. Secre-
tary Boutwell often receives letters on the subject
of lost bonds, and the public are informed that the
Treasury does not issue new bonds to replace those
lost or destroyed. The only two cases in which the
Government issued duplicates the bonds alleged to
be destroyed turned up, and the Treasury was com-
pelled to redeem them. Those who have thus suf-
fered must appeal to Congress, and there are many
cases now before the Claims Committees of both
Houses, for which, on account of inadequate evi-
dence, the Committee refuses to report bills. Twenty
clerks have been discharged from the Navy Depart-
ment, so of late, instead of getting offices, our people
have been losing them. The most persistent of-
fice-seeker we have' is Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, of
whom, by the way, I think this story worth telling.
(We have used our Correspondent's story in our
leading article.) Her last effort was to get a post as
detective in the Secret Service of the Treasury.
The statistics furnished byoffice-seekerswhich the de-
partments are now enabled to give, are as interest-
ing as they are curious. The applications to the
following six footed up nearly 33,000 :--Treasury
Department, 8,510 ; Department of the Interior,
3,170 ; Post-office Department, 17,490 ; Depart-
ment of State, 1,278 ; Navy Department, 2,130 ;
Department of Agriculture, 320. Counting the
correspondence each individual had with " his"
Congressman, applications for certificates to the
prominent men of his State, and the letter writing
generally on the subject., I should think that sta-
tionery must be on the rise, and waste paper at a
discount. A correspondent of a daily told me that
he had been very busy working out the figures to
show how unprofitable a pursuit was office-seeking.
It is hard to get an erroneous impression out of

* Our correspondent will be glad to learn that a General
Order was issued at Washington, May 21, from the Navy
Department, changing the names of the following vessels,
in accordance with law :—Algoma to Benicia, Ammo-
noosuc to lowa, Canandaiga to Detroit, Contoocook to
Albany, Kenosha to Plymouth, Kewaydin to Pennsylvania,
Madawaska to Tennessee, Maniton to Worcester, Minne-
tonka to California, Mosholu to Severn, Neshaminy to
Arizona, Omaha to Astoria, Ont Ario to New Yoik, Pis-
cataqua to Delaware, Pompanoosuc to Cincinnati, Push-
mataha to Cambridge, WanTanon to Florida.—ED. A.A.T .

the minds of the public who have seen con-
tractors and hangers-on of the Government rea-

lizing fortunes during the war, but, who forgetting
that the circumstances are now reversed, economy
being the order of the day, and that instead of being
in creased,thenumberofemp/oyes continueto be rapidly
diminished, come scrambling to Washington for
pickings long since appropriated, and lose, enormous
sums in the aggregate in seeking what is little better
than the " philosopheris stone." The election in
Texas is not to take place till November, according

to the President himself. The citizens of Jefferson,
near New Orleans, fired on the police, 300 of whom
attempted to establish themselves in the municipal
building, wounding 14, two of them dangerously.
Jefferson belongs to the New Orleans district, but it
refused to accept the metropolitan police ; they suc-
ceeded, however, the next day in getting possession
of the building with the assistance of soldiers. The
steamer Florida, lying at Chester, on the Delaware,
suspected of being a Cuban vessel, is ordered to be
detained.