The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The important vote in the House of Representatives
respecting the removal of all disqualifications of race,
colour, or previous condition of slavery was passed by a
majority consisting wholly of Republicans. This consti-
tutional amendment has yet to get through the Senate,
and it must be passed this session, which expires on the
4th March. In the next House the Republicans will not
possess a majority of two-thirds, which is necessary to
pass a constitutional amendment. Even then negro suffrage
will be far from being the law of the land. It must be
accepted by three-fourths of the States, whilst it is
notorious that in many of the leading local legislatures
the Republicans avoid this question, which has pre-
viously lost them votes. Ohio, New York, and
Connecticut have before declared against the amend-
ment.

Though the motion for making San Domingo a pro-
tectorate of the United States, and also the motion for
annexing the island, have both failed, the Times Phila-
delphia correspondent believes that the annexation party
is growing, and that San Domingo must ultimately become
American territory.

(From the Anglo -American Times.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.

The weather has been lovely, the gardens will soon
be in flower, and the grounds of the Capitol begin to
throw out their crocus's if it continues, though
there are growls about the short and bad supply of
ice. As the time is neared fur ex-Congressmen to
the scramble in the lobbies in-
go home for goof,
creases.
There is no good for going home with
empty pockets, more especially when the lobbyists
are showering the money about, and the last
chance is drifting away, for if they lose the present
the future is propitious neither to the briber nor
the bribed. Grant solemnly affirms that no lobbyist
need expect anything from him. A petition signed
by a number of Representatives has been sent to
that no more appointments may
the Senate begging
be made until the inauguration of the new Admin-
istration, and the Republican Senators in caucus re-
solved by 25 to 8 not to confirm any more of Pre-
sident Johnson's nominations except in special in-
stances. The Senate was a little indignant at the
undue interference of the House with its I" reroga-
tive. This decision is considered to dispose of
Collector Smythe's nomination to St. Petersburgh,
of Mr. Stewart's to Turkey, and others. Talking of
Seward has now won
foreign missions, Secretary
over Butler, with whom he held a consultation
at the Capitol together with Mr. Morrill, and
the Senate Appropriation Committee as the result
has restored all the South American missions,
which was agreed to by the 'louse Appropriation
Committee. Mr. Washourne is ill ; for days he
has been in delicate health, and his late hard work
has told severely against him. Vinnie Ream has
nearly completed the model of her statue of Lin-
pronounced to be an excellent likeness
coln, and it is
by good judges. The young lady for rebel proclivities
has had to withstand much hostile criticism. I have
heard that Mr. Blaine will prove the stronger, and
beat Dawes for Speaker of the next House ; and
Mr. M'Pherson will gain his re-election as Clerk.
So it is thought will Mr. Ordway as Sergeant-at-
Arms, though there is a strong canvas against him.
The professors of Princeton College, led by Presi-
dent M'Cosh, are early in the field for an appro-
priation to observe, from a point in the South, the
sun's total eclipse of the 7th August next. Efforts
are being made to introduce women into the pro-
posed Suffrage Amendment, and Senator Pomeroy
came out without reserve for female suffrage, mov-
ing an amendment to that effect. He was sup-
ported by three known to be favourable, and
strong men they are—Sumner, Wade, and Wil-
son. Mrs. Stanton has done some raving on
this subject, objecting to the extension of the
suffrage among men until women are enfran-
chised, for, if the tyrants be multiplied, the
condition of the subjects becomes more hope-
less and degraded. She describes the male
element as a destructive force, selfish, loving
war and violence, and breeding in the material and
moral world alike discord, disease, and death. She,
however, considers the recent Convention here a suc-
cess, which has much advanced the cause—perhaps
she thinks too fast, judging
from the objectionable
style adopted, which must check it. General Grant
is by no means reticent about public affairs, but
though he discusses measures, he is careful not to
introduce a name. The story relating to him at
Vicksburg is denied, though it has some foundation
in fact, for it is true that Banks was ordered to
join him at Vicksburg, the Government being aware
of Banks' seniority, which would place the army
under the control of that officer, and Halleck is -
believed to have suggested this course. Stanton
flatly denies the action attributed to him, and the
facts Grant knows, as they are recorded in
history, (teem ding to which Grant himself wished
for the junction. Mr. Dana, who was at Vicks-
burg, and was Auistant-Secretary at War, con-
firms this. Talking of that gentleman's paper,
the Sun, its correspondent claims positively
that this be Grant's Cabinet ;—Secretary
State, E. M. Stanton ; Secretary of the Treasury,
G. S. Boutwell ; Secretary of War, John A. Raw-
lins; Secretary of the Navy, John A. Griswold ;
Secretary of the Interior, J. A. J. Cress-
well ; Postmaster-General, J. R. Hawley ; At-
torney General, John F. Wilson. A monu-
ment is to be erected to Lincoln at
Spring-
field, Illinois, out of cannon. It is now shown that
Sue Murphy and her family were disloyal, and if
this proyes true her chances of compensation will