The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 0, 1P69.
together while father and mother wero " out to

field;'

enci:ess loss of time and sacrifice ,of efficiency in communi-
cating with the central Government will be avoided, and
in addition it is likely that a great impetus will be given
to those public works and district improvements which
prosper only under local administration. In brief, it is
proposed to give India the most perfect form of govern-
ment known—local rule under the due control of the
central authority. This policy is quite in accordance with
the recommendations made some time ago by Mr. Bright,
hut which were thought to be so premature that he de-
clined to take the post of Secretary of State for India.
The Bombay University is becoming more widely known
and prosperous. The report of the past year shews that
600 candidates presented themselves for matriculation,
whilst during the preceding twelve months the number
was very little over 400. But either the examinations are
very severe or the candidates very ill prepared, for out of the
total of 600 only 250 passed. Of these 182 were Hindoes
and 47 Parsees.

LANDLOnDS.

There are landlords and landlords. Some are
tyrannical, and, like those in the South of Ireland,
have a discontented tenantry. But the kindly feel-
ing has not yet died out, and there are still men
owning land who have what is commonly called
" consideration." Witness Sir W. Capel Brooke,
Mr. W. P. Herrick, of Beau Manor Park, and Mr.
T. T. Paget, of Leicestershire. The two first named
have remitted 10 per cent., the last named 25 per
cent. of the tenants' rents throughout their various
estates, the drought of last summer having seriously
affected the crops.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.
The Inauguration Ball about which there has been
so much fuss, even occupying the time of the Legis-
lature, receives little encouragement from him in
whose honour it was mainly projected. The general
committee of management has received the follow-
ing letter from General Grant addressed to Mr.
Tullock :—" Understanding that the committee of
which you are secretary, met this evening for the
purpose of arranging for the Inauguration Ball, I
venture to drop you a line to say that
.if any choice
is left to me, I would be pleased to see it dispensed
with. Ido not wish to disarrange any plans made
by my friends in the matter of the ceremonies at-
tending the inauguration, but this matter will be
agreeable to me, if your committee would agree
that the ball is unnecessary." Bits of history are
constantly cropping up having reference to Grant,
some intended to detract, some to exemplify his
great qualities as a general, but all to satisfy the
craving of American curiosity regarding the idol
they have set up so high. The last is the produc-
ti )n of General Banks, and occurred in the year
1863, when that officer was investing Port Hudson
and Grant, Vicksburg. The ultimate success
of the operations at that time gave no sign.
Indeed the success was considered here so pro-
blematical that Grant stock fell, and for a time
he was anxiously discussed in the Cabinet, the re-
sult being that Banks was ordered to proceed to
Vicksburg and relieve Grant. This the volunteer
officer declined to do, answering that the investment
of Port Hudson was necessary to be carried to a
success, as in the hands of the enemy it would endan-
ger the Federal garrison in New Orleans. This did
not satisfy the authorities in Washington, who sent
a still more peremptory order for Banks to take over
Grant's command, which he treated as he did the
first, drawing on his head a severe censure. While
Banks and the Cabinet were thus squabbling, Grant
was vigorously pushing on the siege of Vicksburg,
which to the confusion of the Washington wise-
acres fell while they were in the midst of
this business. The correspondence was then an
ever awkward fact, but not a word of it had
been breathed to Grant. That portion of it, there-
fore, in .the department whence it issued myste-
riously disappeared, but there are two ends to a
correspondence, and one end was in the pocket of
Banks, who treasured it up, and is now using it as
a means to secure a political end. It is said that
Grant was quite surprised when informed of what
his dear friends at Washington intended for him.
The General is now at Baltimore, but he is ex-
pected here to morrow. He has been visiting the
Peabody Institute, where a concert was given him.
Mr.. Sears, the agent, in the Session held yester-
day, asserts that education is rapidly advancing
throughout the South, fostered by Mr. Peabody's
gifts. One-third to one-half the funds are sup-
plied by the inhabitants, the balance coming
from the endowment, and thus spurred the num-
ber of school houses will indefinitely increase,
for the most cheering part is that in most of the
larger towns the fund will only be required to set
the machinery in motion, when the schools will be
self-supporting, and thus the benefits may be mul-
tiplied and spread abroad over the country. There
is to be a great reception at Barnum's hotel, where
the majority of those who welcome the General will
be those who opposed him in arms, or at least sym-
pathized with the rebellion. A new War Office is
to be built here, and the plans and estimates are
now before Congress. A military board—General
Meigs being president—approved that of John
Crump, of Philadelphia, for which the cost would
be, if Congress sanctions it, $1,500,000. Wilcox and
Porter, of Buffalo, came in for the second prize, and
Schulz and Shoen of New York for the third. The
Secretary also submitted to Congress General Har-
ney's report on the Sioux Indians of the Upper
Missouri, showing that he had expended $485,784
in excess of the sum placed at his disposal, relying
on the deficiencies being passed by Congress.
Sherman approves his course, and advises that
the opportunity be given to Harney of person-
ally explaining m Washsngton his plans and
justifying his outlay, which it is asserted,
would greatly benefit the Sioux, and early
this year set them to work. The appropriations
for army expenditure are likely to be further cur-
tailed, and the committee are taking evidence about
consolidating the staff corps, examining for this
object Quartermaster-General Meigs, Commissary-
Gen. Eaton, and Paymaster-General Brice. Great
efforts are being made by Secretary Seward to get
the bill passed for completing the treaty with Denmark
for the purchase of St. Thomas. Gen. Raasloff argued
the justice of completing the purchase, but with
what result cannot be foretold, except that the
House is dead against such appropriations. Indeed
the Alaska affair has been fatal to schemes of this
nature, as people cannot fail to be disgusted when
men, bribed for the purpose, spout ultra-patriotism,
and stand convicted of having done so. The
charges made by Martin were inquired into by the
Alaska committee to-day, but he could give little
testimony, and completely failed to substantiate
any of his charges. He fixed, however, the clerk
in the State Department, from whom he received
them, who was immediately summoned, and will be
examined. To-day and to-morrow are given by the
Supreme Court to the ease involving the Legal-
Tender Act. The Court adjourned over from last
night until Monday to consult on this matter, and
commenced their consultation early to-day. Fears
are entertained that the decision will be against the
Act, and there is no small trepidation among the
financiers of Congress on the subject. John Scott,
the. Senator just elected from Pennsylvania, ap-
peared in the Chamber yesterday, and the mem-
bers of the new Congress are arriving in numbers
to secure quarters. The National Woman's Rights
Convention, assembled here, has adjourned, after
having appointed a committee to memorialize Con-
gress in behalf of female suffrage, &c., and to pre-
pare an address to the people of the United States.

Lincoln, is published.

meat shows he was intimate with Booth.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.
Scarlatina, I regret to say, is raging around Sta-
pleton, Staten Island, at New Brighton, and Edge-
water, where the schools have been closed ; and
typhus fever has been announced in East Thirteenth
Street, near First Avenue, four deaths having oc-
curred there within a few days. The danger of
peeple dosing themselves with chloroform has been
further illustrated by the death of Mrs. Oliver
Dyer, wife of the man who created the latest sen-
sation in the " Wickedest Man" papers. She died
in her house at Westchester, from the attempt to
assuage the pain of an attack of neuralgia by an
overdose of chloroform. This recalls the case of
poor llalpine, who fell a victim to a mistake in the
strength of the opiate sent to him. There has been
a heavy fall of snow, and some very severe wea-
ther, many vessels being detained, and the ferry
boats somewhat retarded by drift in the North
River. Still the weather continues mild, and ves-
sels have been able to get up the Hudson River,
as far as Wrest Point. The recent thaw has made
the ice unfit for cutting, just when ready, and a
short supply is predicted if a change does not
soon occur. The Rogers murder case continues
to be the sensation. All manner of rumours
are circulated. On the 20th a telegram from
Waterbury, Connecticut, announced the arrest of
an escaped convict from Sing Sing, Tom M'Gibney.
'loin is the name on the envelope found in the
pocket torn from the assassin, and it is this clue by
which eventually people hope to effect his arrest ; a
fac simile of the superscription of the mysterious

CUYP.

Gov. Claflin, of Massachusetts, has promoted
Judge Pitman to the Superior Court, vice Judge Vose, de-
ceased. Tie is now practising in New Bedford, and derives
his title from having formerly presided over the police
court of that city. Tie is a strong temperance man, in-
deed he leads the prohibiting party of the State.

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envelope was posted up on all the dead walls, and
excited much attention ; but, it is feared, for the
present at least, that the ruffian has escaped.
Stephen Downs must have been a nice boy, for he
committed suicide because his mother refuse:l to
mend his shirt, and Joseph Waggoner, a Ger-
man, blew his brains out because he had
a quarrel with his wife. Angeline Shrayer
shot a man dead, named Patrick Crotty, in
Wisconsin, and Margaret Bowen shot Upton
Murray, and has been sent to Sing Sing for
three years, both ladies committing the crime for
reasons best known to themselves ; but the fre-
quency of these acts on the part of women is at-
tracting attention. The Fenton-Morgan fight ever
the Senatorship has left behind it a very bad feel-
ing, and may lead to a split between the rural and
metropolitan Republicans of the Empire State. The
Commercial Advertiser continues its attack, and
there are some very bitter articles in the weekly
press, as you will see. Governor Fenton spent
Thursday and Friday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
where he was heartily congratulated by his nume-
rous friends. Governor Hoffman was also here
during
.the week with his staff. The Alabama
Convention is eagerly discussed in this city, and
naturally so, considering the interests involved.
To the nation at large feelings of indigna-•
tion at the conduct of England, a desire of
an opportunity for retaliation, and such consider-
ations may exert some influence, but those whose
ships were destroyed, and who really suffered, pre-
fer the British gold they have a chance of getting
to the gratification of any such feelings. When a
telegram from Washington announced that the
chances were the Senate would not approve it, im-
mediate action was taken in New York by the
shipping
,interests, and a deputation was to be de-
spatched to Washington to lobby the Convention
through the Senate. In South-street the in-
terest at stake being large the anxiety is in pro-
portion, and it will not be the fault of the mer-
cantile community if the treaty fails. The House
Committee on election frauds in New York
have before them fifteen hundred pages of
manuscript testimony for consideration. The Com-
mittee expect to report finally next week. The
general opinion of members is that the report w;'

recommend some material alterations in the natu-
ralization .laws. Emissaries from the insurgents at
Cuba have been endeavouring to obtain the recog-
nition of our Government. Colonels Augusten,
Castellanos, and Ricardo Pirnentel, and Captains
Lorenzo Jirviener, Abelardo Trico, and Jose An-
tonio Cuitra arrived by the steamer Star and Stripes
in Philadelphia, and proceeded to New York. Sym-
pathisers with their cause will be welcomed at
rooms Nos. 15 and 18, Metropolitan Hotel.
Some Polish ladies and gentlemen assembled at No.

7, Delancey-street, to celebrate in a fitting manner
the anniversary of the Polish insurrection of 1863.

Mr. W. Kryzanowski presided, and delivered an
eloquent address, during which he was frequently
interrupted by bursts of applause. We have a
Crete recognition society here, ant a newspaper
published in the Greek interest, besides hordes of
Fenians, so we have enough on oar hands in

;he " Distressed Nationality" line, if it is pos.

sible to satisfy our naturalized citizens. The jury
in the Blaisdell-Eckel case has found a verdict of

Guilty, which gives satisfaction to the public, who
feared a miscarriage of justice, and knew that such

a result would be but to strengthen the ring tha

sit on the shoulders of the nation like the Old Man

of the Mountains. The confession of Arnold, one
of the conspirators of the murder of President

It substantially says Um

the original design of the conspiracy was to

abduct the President, and exchange him for
all the rebel prisoners then in the hands of

the Government ; but that Booth changed this

plan on the eve of its execution, and that
Arnold had no share in the murder. It implicates

Surratt. Full details were given of the mad scheme
by which the President was to be seized, tied,

lowered to the stage, the lights being extinguished

and when there he was to be carried off by these
madtnen. If Dr. Mudd is not implicated, the state-

Hon. 'William M. Evarts will preside at the banque
of the Yale Alumni, to be given at Delmonico's nex
Friday.

ROME, Jan. 25, 1869.
Dear Sir,—The Roman season is nearing its
liveliest period; hotels and private lodgings are
full to overflowing. At this moment we are expe-
riencing the greatest degree of cold remembered for
half a century. My servant this morning told me
that a wine cart from Tivoli was found outside the
gate of St. John Lateran, where the horse had drawn
it without a guide, the driver having been frozen
to death on the box. Longfellow's presence is
another excitement. Tasso was crowned with
laurel on the Campidoglio ; Longfellow has been
receiving ovations from pilgrims to Rome from
every nation. I should prefer this to the leaves on
the mad Tasso's brow. The sculptors solicit sittings
to perpetuate the poet in bronze or marble ; the
painters entreat him to allow them to transfer his
I picturesque silvery locks and remarkably fine bead
to canvas ; the photographers also beset him for his
likeness. A few days since an aeronaut endeavoured
to persuade him to take a place by his side in his
balloon, an offer, I believe, he gently declined.
Much feasting has taken place this season in the
capital of the Cresars. A recent entertainment was
given, somewhat in imitation of Lucullus, but some
of the ungrateful guests (one, I think, a retired
courier) complained that the peacock was tough,
the American oysters not over fresh, and the
parrots' tongues crimped in quantity. No
pearls were dissolved, but all acknowledge that
a great amount of gold was melted away to
create some of the dishes on an original plan.
The host departed the following day, leaving
all the consequent negotiations to be looked
after by the professors of the medical art; this
art and that of the cook have benefited by the
rich travellers at present here. The American Club
is another novelty in Rome; it was born late in
autumn, but is already old in club life. It gives a
fancy ball next week, and a few days after the ladies
will hold in it a Fancy Fair for the benefit of the
poor in Rome. Apropos of this fair, this is a good
place to say a word in honour of the American and
English resident ladies here. The poverty of the
Roman poor could not be seen by our Saxon women
without evoking compassion. They have clubbed
their resources and accumulated a good supply of
articles for distribution. In the evening they meet
at each other's houses, and ply their needles, in-
spired with the hope that thereby there may soon
be fewer rags among the Roman mendicants. As to
critics, dear Mr. Editor, let me give friendly warn-
ing against a species of the race who are teazers
themselves of canvas and clay, and, above all
things, beware of them if they profess to be literary.
One of this genus once asked me if I had read
Horace in the original. I had not. " There," said
he, " you are done for." He wrote up Spikes as a
better landscape painter than I, because he under-
stood the classics in a feeble manner, and myself
he wrote down as Josiah Cuyp. I shall soon have
finished my large view of the volcanic glaciers of
the Himmalayab, taken from a balloon. I start
for Naples to-morrow to commence my grand pic-
ture of the interior of the crater of esuvius.
Science demands • it, art will achieve another
triumph, and enterprise be honoured in the success
of my work. The commission as agreed will bring
me $lO,OOO in gold.