The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-19 00:00:00

NG, MAY 19, 1869.

is designed to ply between San Francisco and Hong
Kong, and she sails for her destination about the
Ist June. Horace Greeley has been asked to be-
come Government Commissioner to iwsi,eet the
Pacific P.ailroAd ; but he has followed Mr. Dana's
example,and declined on account of literary engage-
ments, and General Hiram Walbridge, of this city
has been nominated in his stead. Mr. Greeley is
one of our new Postmaster's sureties, who is to
get bondsmen for the tidy sum of $1,000,000.
Horace Greeley of this takes $lOO,OOO for his
friend General Jones, who is said to owe the ap-
pointment to his influence. Samuel Sinclair goes
in for another $lOO,OOO, and the third share is
taken by James B. Taylor, who shoulders the huge
balance of $BOO,OOO. On the subject of Mr. Greeley,
although you will doubtless desire fuller reports
than the cursory notices of a correspondent of the
Young-Dana affair, I may here mention that Mr.
Greeley, like a good employer, upholds his man,
and against the wish of some of his associates, it is
believed, sustains Russell Young in his post until the
charges preferred against, him can be substantiated.
I think in this Mr. Greeley not only shows his kind-
ness of heart, but sound common sense. The work
towards removing the obstruction at Hell Gate
entrance to New York harbour has been abandoned
for the present. There is some talk of Sheriff
O'Brien's fees, as the Sheriff boasts that Governor
Hoffman has promised to sign the Bill now before
the Albany Legislature to increase the " miserable"
stipend of that post, which the New York, Times
estimates at $300,000 a year. The poor incumbent
would, if it passed (I believe its defeat is certain),
receive the moderate income of $1,000,000 yearly.
O'Brien's Ludlow-street Gaol is let at $15,000, and
the prisoners are squeezed. to enable the tenant to
pay up his rent promptly.

WAsHINGTO4, April 30.

Senator Wilson has been the hero of the hour,
for his letter on the Eight-Hour Law and his
vigorous effort to upset the ruling of Attorney-
General Hoar. Telegrams, letters, thanks, arrive
from all parts of the country. He has been sere-
naded, meetings got up in his honour, grand recep-
tions tendered as he travelled. The effort now is
to get the President to suspend the order until
Congress meets in December, but the President
declines to interfere. Reports have been busily
circulated at the end of last and early this week of
Cabinet contentions and changes. It was said that
not only Secretary Boric, but Fish and Hoar Were
about to tender their resignations. There. is cer-
tainly no truth about the two latter, but there may
be about the former, who never desired to be trans-
formed into a Cabinet Minister, and finds himself out
of his element. The President will not make further
foreign appointments until the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs returns, Mr. Kelly's nomination for Post-
master of New York City was among those left over
by the Senate on adjournment. It had been urged
against him that he was not a Republican, that he
was in sympathy with Andrew Johnson, that he
opposed Impeachment, and that the representa-
tives of his own State did not recommend him ; so
General Patrick Henry Jones got the place, sup-
po: ted as he was by Mr. Horace Greeley and Senator
Fenton. Mr. Wadsworth has left for Kentucky.
His commission to adjust the claims with Meeico
were to meet in July, and then adjourn till the
fall. Judge Fisher, Commissioner of Patents, and
General Parker, Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
have qualified and assumed charge of their re-
spective Bureaus. Choctaws, Cherokees, Chicka-
saws, find Creeks in swarms have waited on the
new Commissioner, the first of their race. Attorney-
Gen. Hoar has just started on a short visit to, Mas-
sachusetts, and Senator Sherman has gone to Ohio.
Secretaties.Boutwell and Fish are to be back to-day.
Secretary Creswell returns from Baltimore soon.
After our exciting Session, commencing with the in-
auguration of the new President, and the frantic
rush through the city of office-seekers, we are having
a dull time at present. The halls, lately resounding
with the hum of excited crowds, are now silent ;
the bars, whence so many derived their inspiration,
are deserted. Still we are not altogether desolate
and alone. The weekly receptions of Mrs.
Grant continue to be well attended; Mrs. Sherman,
Mrs. Boric, end many other ladies, whose husbands
hold high positions, are still here to support her.
General Sherman himself is at Fortress Monroe to
present the officers, who have gained them, with
their diplomas. He visited the Portsmouth Navy-
yards, and will return via Richmond. Speaker
Blaine, in preparation for next winter, has bought
a handsome house here. The President notifies
that he will receive general visitors on Mondays and
Thursdays, between 10 a.m. and noon ; but on
other de) s only by cards, appointment, or special
cases. lie went down the river on a cruise in the
steamer Tullapoosa with Secretary Boric and other
gentlemen, and inspected the improvements going
ou under the recent appropriation in the mansion
and grounds. Cornelius Vanderbilt has declined Mr.
Boris's nomination as a member of the Board of
Visitors to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, and
S. B. Chittenden is named instead. The following
naval officers and civilians will constitute the Board
of Visitors to the Naval Academy, to report on the
20th of May next :—Rear-Admiral Paulding, the
President; Commodore J. R. Goldsborough, Cap-
tain ; .E. G. Parrott, Surgeon ; William Maxwell
Wood, the Hon. J. R. Hawley, the Hon.
Wadsworth, Dr. E. D. Kittoe, George
11. Stuart,
Esq., and Judge Humphrey. General Howard is
about to make a tour to raise funds for continuing
the work of education at the South. He has ia3
t
left for Hartford, and will shortly go to Albany,
and he has my sincere wishes for his success.io
Howard
is a really noble enterprise, and he is a war
It is education that can alone elevate
worthy as a philanthropist, of his great namesatkbee.
African race. The franchise may be a weapon
of defence, but no men can be fitted to exer-
cise it who have not been tbrealinn, o strongeds. ex'a
resists every effort, the
prejudice
I have great confidence that the energy and per-
ll overcome all
that sixty school-houses have lately been closed.
severance of General Howard will
difficulties. The .unfortunate
been clerks, ekr
kept
ps
t,
in morebut
water espe-
cially of the Treasury, have
up—their thing less than dismissed" orn‘u‘trieletratbnaetde.i'l. First one
batch are discharged, then a
are continually looking them
and the Post-office
qualifica-
tions—who appointed theirs—their
bpeoelintidciaslebparorcgleid-
vities. Five hundred have
from the Treasury-office alone,
unfortunates before
Bad
as has been the case for
aunlfiokrte
adjourned,
department is retrenchingthine
Congress the rumour is that the Secre-
waited till their Senators and Repre-
sentativestariesonly h
had
gone, in order to complete the busi-
aucr dud arc trepidation and
specially to
the Post-office, is consi-
derable. The Postmaster-General has been look-
ing up the contractors too, who in distant places
receive enormous sums for carrying mail matter,
and shamefully neglect ' their work ; indeed refuse
to carry anything bulky. I have no doubt his at-
tention has also been given to the innumerable
thefts perpetrated almost with impunity along these
Tree-
lines. The 'present Aesistant Secretary of th,sbhiars, beenw bielffeirfedb thee avacanteepts,
e'
r Trea-
sury, ,
Massachusettsl‘lr R ich a rj du sdo;
Thomas L. Tulloch, will succeed, but it is
rumoured that he has declined the judgeship.
Senator Fowler has been the centre of a free
fight, and that he maintained the contest with
vigour and was successful may be supposed
from the fact that the attempt was to replace his
father-in-laws, t h as
e Te
n npeosssteme
da setl eerg a at
ito
nNbaaslh.i vn igl
seuebeye
eAdlerd.
f7opkin
in getting that gentleman nominated to the place.
Mr. Fowler, however, took such strenuous measures
that he got the President to withdraw the name be-
fore the Senate acted, and a sharp fight followed.
General Schenck and many others pushed Judge
Mills for the place, the founder of Antioch College,
who once held it for five years. I extract the fol-
lowing from the General Despatch News:--" llohert
B. Raudolph, who, in 1832, was dismissed fr&tn the
navy by President Jackson, and who pulled the
General's nose in retaliation, recently died in Wash-
ington, aged 78 years." Commodore Daniel Am-
men assumes charge at once of the bureau of yards
and docks in the Navy Department from Admiral

Joseph Smith ; the Commodore has recently re-
turned from the Asiatic squadron. Minister Motley !
is here, waiting the return of Secretary Fish, to
receive Lis final instructions previous to his depar-
ture for the Court of St. James on the 19th May.
The Diplomatic row in Madrid continues, Mr. Hale
having sent the following cable message to his friend
Senator Sumner :—" The attack on me by Perry in
his letter, March 2, is false. I have the documents
to prove it, and in a few days will send them to you."
If Mr. Hale succeeds in clearing himself of the
charges made against him by Mr. Perry and others,
it will give intense satisfaction here, for, although
we are accustomed to queer transactions at home,
we prefer to keep our dirty linen there, instead
of exhibiting it in Europe being washed. Colo-
nel Charles C. Crowe has puzzled the Execu-
tive, as it was discovered after his appointment as
Governor to New Mexico had been confirmed that he
was ineligible ; having been a Colonel in the Con-
federate army he cannot take the oath until Con-
gress relieves him of his disabilities by passing a
measure expressly for that object. The President
will leave General Mitchell undisturbed until Con-
gress meets in December, when the necessary mea-
sures can be taken. Senator Sprague goes home on
Monday, and perhaps little " Rhody" may there be
able to keep up the excitement. He has had a
lively time of it lately, and people consider it for-
tunate that he has escaped being shot or " wal-
loped ;" perhaps little " Rhody" may get walluped
when he gets home ; but if he has many enemies,
he has also a strong party in his State. Stories are
leaking out about the Boanerges. On the eve of his
marriage it seems that he desired Bishop Clark to
follow him to Washington, there to await his plea-
sure in performing the ceremony. Having fixed
his Royal Highness the Bishop returned empty
handed, with pockets lightened by his-travel}-
ing and hotel expenses, much to his own asto-
nishment. The story, however, reached the
ears of Mr. Sprague's agent, who hastened to
the Bishop with a cheque for $1.,000. In answer
to the Bishop's objection that it was too much, the
agent observed that it was the sum Mr. Sprague
would have given had he thought of the matter
at all, and would thank him on learning his action.
Mr. Frank Moore, previous to his departure for
Paris (and he is expected to accompany Mr. Elihu
Washburne) has been prosecuting a suit against the
Corporation of this city for an an undue assess-
ment of his property. Commissioner Parker is off
to New York to make Spring purchases for the
Indians. The Quaker Agents will be commissioned
next week. Frauds have now come to light
perpetrated by a Claim Agent against Indian
soldiers who served west of Arkansas. Two thou-
sand two hundred of these men were discharged
from the Indian Brigade, their back pay and
bounty of 100 being pail by the Government. It
has now transpired that only $60,000 had been paid
to the Red Men, while 1,800 claims passed into the
hands of one agent connected with a Washington
law firm, of which one member held a post under
the la 4 Administration. A store was established
at Fort Gibson, and half the pay was there given in
goods, against which the chiefs protest, aleging
that the agent in question is the owner. The Ca-
binet meeting held to-day was assembled by order
of the President, who telegraphed to request the
attendance of the Secretaries, as the matters to be
discussed were important. The large reduction in
the number of employes in the Public Departments,
more especially the Treasury, has induced bitter
complaints, which Congressmen have taken up.
In the Conservative Convebtion of Virginia, as-
sembled in Richmond, April 29, it was decided to
Tun no party candidate, and to withdraw the old
ticket. The Democrats will, therefore, support
Walker, the Conservative Republican, against
Wells, the Radical. A delegation was appointed
to wait on General Grant to urge an early day for
the election. A Congressional Committee is to
visit San Domingo, St. Thomas's, and Cuba during
the recess. The reason of the order reopening re-
cruiting stations was the discovery of a consider-
able deficiency in the number of men in the amll-
gainated regiments, while this was decreased every
month by the term of those enlisted, expiring.
The order has given rise to sensational reports re-
lating to preparations for invasions of Cuba and
Canada, but without a shadow of foundation.

BALTIMORE, April 29.

Events occasionally occur here of sufficient inte-
rest to your readers, among whom I have lately had
a place while travelling in France and Italy. To
those unable to get the papers of their own town I
found in Europe the Anglo-American Times the best
substitute, although a shade too Radical, to suit my
taste. We are a Conservative people here iu Balti-
more, and do not assimilate ; in fact, there is rather
a repulsion between our ideas and your New Eng-
land proclivities. However, it is not au easy thing
for an editor to hold the balance between us, and I
must do your paper the justice to say that it is
as moderate as on the whole could be expected.
General Robert E. Lee has been here, and met
with a warm reception ; for rebel or no rebel,
the great majority of my townsmen regard him
as the most eminent of living soldiers. There
is a deep respect entertained for that man
which no other American can command, and all the
heartier, because his military career closed in mis-
fortune, and that he bore the reverse as became
him. His business here was to raise funds for a
branch line from the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road to Lexington, where the college over which he
presides is situated. The distance, tholigh oidrlB
miles, is such a barrier as the English, with their
good turnpike roads and cross roads intersecting
the country in every direction, little know of. The
Washington College would derive a great benefit as
well as Lexington in his success. It is rumoured
that the President sent for him to confer on the
feeling of his State, for the reconstruction of which
the President is very anxious. 'There is no State
more rapidly a,dvaliciug than Virginia, although I
am happy to say we are doing pretty well in Mary-
land. Numbers of a good class are seeking homes
in the Old Dominion, and the completion of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad will greatly help
the State. The climate answers for European set-
tlement, and taking the situation and ,the fertile
land open it is the State to which I would direct
attention if asked my opinion about emigration.
Political feeling certainly runs high, but it is dying
out with the returning prosperity, and there is an
evident desire t 3 turn their energies to more profit-
able account. Mr. James L. Ridgeley, Grand Mas-
ter of the Order of Odd Fellows in the United
States, visited Philadelphia, in company with se-
veral other members, to celebrate the fiftieth an-
niversary of the establishment of the first Lodge in
the United States, which was founded by Mr. Thomas
Wildey On the 26th April, 1819. Ile was an Eng-
lishman, and the Lodge, which was named Wash-
ington, worked under a charter from the Unity
Lodge, Manchester, England. It was decided to
celebrate the half century anniversary at Phila-
delphia, and a glorious day the Odd Fellows had in
the city of Brotherly Love. Philadelphia was
beautifully decorated, and the procession was per-
haps the greatest ever seen in that city. Mr.
Ridgeley, the orator of the day, after referring in
appropriate terms to the occasion, gives this history
of the Order in America :—Four 'lodges had existed
in the .city of Baltimore anterior to 1830., One room
was occupied by all of them, and at a public-house;
but after the erection of the Odd Fellows' Hall the
Order progressed with rapidity. In 1834 it was
introduced to Missouri ; in 1836 to Mississippi and
Illinois; in 1837 to Alabama and Texas, then an
independent Republic; in 1839 to Arkansas and
_Connecticut ; 1840 to Tennessee and South Caro-
lina ; in 1842 to Georgia ; in 1843 to Maine, New.
Hampshire, and British North America ; in 1844 to
Vermont, South Wales, Great Britain, Michigan
and lowa ; in 1846 to the Sandwich Is.lan Is ; in
1849 to Minnesota and California; in 1851 it was
established in Mexico ; in 1852 in Oregon ; iu 1855
in Nebra,,ka and Washington Territory ; in 1857
iu Kansas and. Nemia ; in 1864 i t Coka,itio ; in
1865 in Utah ; in 1867 in Montana ; in 1868 in the
Continent of Australia. Referring to the revision
of the works of the order in 1835 and 1845, he said
that its career was thenceforth onward and upward.
Twenty Grand Sires have occupied the chair of the
I R. W. Grand Lodge of the United States. In half

a century the Order has increased the number of
its lodges from 1 to 3,200, and of its members from
sto 600,000. In Pennsylvania, the Order has in-
ere.as;;J to 6,000 lolgez and 70,000 members ;,,and
in this State, since 1842, 17,000 widowed families
and 143,000 sick brethren have been relieved at
an expenditure of over $3,000,000. The aggre-
gate accumulations since 1837 exceed $9,000,000.
What an offering upon the altar of humanity !