The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-10 00:00:00

THE FIRST AMERICAN IRON SAILING 'VESSEL.

The j'reiv Fork Times gives an account of the first iron
sailing vessel built in America. It is a barque called the
Iron Age, intended for the carrying trade to Europe and
the East. She is 630 tons register, 156 ft. long, 31 9-12 ft. beam,
and 18 ft. hold, and is said by her owners to have cost no more
than a wooden vessel of the same capacity, to be far more
serviceable, being insured at lower rates. The hull is con-
structed wholly of Pennsylvania iron, which is said to be
the best in the world for the purpose, and the wood-
work of the interior is of American oak and
ash. The only imported material is that of the
rigging, pumps, chains, and anchors. The workmanship
is of a very high order. The cost of the vessel at the ship-
yard at Wilmington is $lOO per ton, while tho cost of
English vessels of corresponding size and quality, is about
$94 per ton. The chief item in this difference is the cost
of outfit, and the heavy duties on it. There is also a heavy
protective tariff on the Pennsylvania iron. The owners first
consulted several English and Scotch builders, but finding
the pressure of business delayed the executors of their
orders, they determined to try what could be done in their
own country. They are highly gratified at the result of
the experiment, and are confident that if the duty on
materials were removed, the Americans could defy all
competition in ship building. Their iron is they affirm
superior to the English for plating, being more serviceable,
and one-eighth of an inch less in thickness than the
Mnglish metal.

GLOBE THEATRE.--Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales and suite honoured the per-
formances at this theatre with their presence on Monday
During the evening his Royal Highness sent for Mr. Sefton
Parry, and was
pleased to express a wish to see Mr. Byron.
The Prince very cordially congratulated Mr. Byron on his
piece and his acting.
CRYSTAL PALACE. - ne Shilling Day, Tuesday,
Nov. 9.—Admissions by season tickets, 1,341; ditto on
payment, 862; total visitors-2,203,
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AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.

Ile sensation of the week has been Father Hya-
cinthe, who, since he landed, has been pursued by
reporters and the clergy, the sinners and the saints,
all alike curious. The Father, in his ill-advised
ignorance sought a peaceful asylum in our great
Republic; be might as well from a tepid bath he
thought too hot have plunged into boiling water.
He, avoid our interviewers ? No, sir ; he may
know something of the errors of Popery, but it
would take the best detective in Europe to escape
reporters, although in compassion for his weakness
they have not interviewed him to death. I dare
say there are not many of your English readers
who know what the Father looks like, but he has
come to America, and the world will soon know it.
He is short, being sft. Sin. ; thick, with close-cut
crisp black hair retreating from his forehead. Ile
has bright white teeth and rosy cheeks, with au
aquiline nose, which looks rather small on his well
rounded face. He appears to be about 40 years
old, with a meditative eye and aspect. His dress
is black, and the reporters express their suprise in
a man so renowned having so homely an appear-
ance. We always associate renown with some-
thing grand and striking. Sailors have a prejudice
against carrying the clergy as passengers, but the
Pereire, which took out Father Hyacinthe, has
made a wonderfully quick voyage, claiming, in-
deed, to have made the fastest on record. But this
will soon be like our evening papers, each of which
is said to have a circulation double that of all the
rest combined. If the dignitaries of the Roman
Catholic Church can accelerate the speed of a
steamer, there ought now to be some wonderful runs
to Europe, for Archbishops and Bishops are jostled
against in every second passenger, all on their way to
Rome, whither it is said even Father Hyacinthe
may go. I would be curious if he did to know what
sort of a dressing he would there get. A reporter
tried to " corner" him about his religious views. He
considers Protestants to be Christians holding
Christian doctrines and being baptized. He lent
towards liberality. The Catholic Church is divided
into two parties, the Ultramontane, or stand-still
party, and the party of progress in both religious
and political thought. In his sermons in Notre
Dame he attacked the spirit whence came the In-
quisition ; and at the Peace Congress in Paris he
delivered an address advocating peace. The Supe-
rior of his Convent kept constantly remonstrating,
and at last, wearied by this restraint, the monk
quitted the Convent, and the Superior gave him ten
days to return or be excommunicated, whereon he
embarked for America. He remains a priest, al-
though not in good odour at Rome, and intends to
remain in his Church. He has left the hotel, and
taken up his residence with a friend in Brooklyn, to
escape the interviewers, who to his intense annoy-
ance publish imaginary conversations, attributing
to him all sorts of opinions. The Episcopal Church
of St. Ann's, erected at Brooklyn at a cost of
$350,000, was opened on Wednesday, Bishop
Nl'llvaine, of Ohio, preaching. He believes that the
Second Advent draws near. lie alluded to the
Ritualistic practices as calculated by their gorgeous
ceremonies and obscure meanings to deceive hiding
man from himself, whereby he may be deluded into
the belief that he is alive unto God and growing
in grace. Freights are rising in consequence of
shipments of grain. The committee of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, appointed to consider the com-
munication regarding the drawback for tare on
cotton as recommended by Liverpool, have re-
ported adversely to the application. Next to
Father Hyacinthe the statements of the gold ring
regarding the President's connection have occupied
public attention. The regret is universally ex-
dressed that General Grant's good nature should
have permitted him to• tolerate acquaintances of
such a character. There was a rumour that another
combination is forming to lock up money and
" hear" railway shares and other stocks, especially
those of the Vanderbiltlines. It is probable that some
remedy may be discovered for punishing these con-
spirators against trade, and it is certain that Con-
gress will take up the subject. The effect is
damaging to the commerce of the country, and
tends to make gamblers of all trwlers. The
Pacific Mail Company are negotiating a new
rate of fares with the directors of the Panama
iiaieroad, but the result is not yet known, though
it will doubtless end in reducing passage rates. The
trade with California is depressed. The Hon.
Samuel B. Ruggles, now in Europe, is to proceed
to Suez for the opening of the Canal to represent
our Chamber of Commerce. Mr. F. Underhill has
been elected president of the Gold Room for next
year, vice Mr. Cox, who received thanks. The
suits are progressing in the Supreme Court Cham-
bers against Cox and others to compel the Gold
Exchange to settle the gold transactions of the 24th
September. Mr. Jordan, the receiver appointed
by the Court, has announced to the creditors that
he is prepared to pay 25 per cent. on the adjusted
claims. During the panic four per cent. per day
interest was charged in some cases in carrying over
contracts, but a pawnbroker has just been punished
for charging daily a quarter of a dollar interest on
a loan of two dollars ; this was twelve and a half
per cent a day. IV hat a conscience the man mus
have ! Marshal Barlow has both work and re
sponsibility falling heavily on his shoulders for
the operations of the Cuban patriots ; the Anna,
a steam yacht is now detained by him on suspicion.
We are holding a sort of (Ecumenical Council of
Evangelical Churches. The Rev. Dr. Matthews
was chosen president, and the evils of schism and
the importance of unity was one of the first sub-
jects discussed. Bishop M'llvaine and numerous
eloquent preachers spoke, among them Beecher, and
the Council made a declaration of principles,
which amounts to the Union of all orthodox churches.
The lawyers, too, have made a formal appeal in
behalf of the New York bar, in favour of the new
Constitution. The Woman's Parliament has had
a preliminary meeting, but they exclude reporters,
and see no fun in banter. While they are de-
nouncing the male tyrants, the latter are laughing
at the rebellious slaves in the newspapers, and the
slaves having excluded the reporters, furnish very
piano accounts of their own doings. Mr. Fisk,
jun., has been giving evidence about his residence,
and he has availed himself of his ancient peddling pro-
fession to disclaim any residence. He says he re-
sides at No. 313, West Twenty-third-street. He
had been separated from his wife and had no chil-
dren, his wife resides at Boston, and on the door-
plate is Fisk's name. He purchased and fitted up
a residence for Mrs. Mansfield, where a witness
swears Fisk frequently lodged and boarded. He was
assessed as a citizen of Boston, his horses and
carriages also were kept there. The object was to set
aside the attachments against theGrandOpera-house,
on the ground of Mr. Fisk's non-residence. There
has been a meeting of delegates from Buffalo,
Susquehanna, and Port Jervis, when a general
strike was resolved on along the Erie Road among
the labourers. The men had told the manager, Jim
Fisk, as they call him, that if they were not
paid by the 15th inst. they would strike the next
day. Fisk had said that if they aid not receive their
pay before the 16th they might quit work, and
failing to pay, he endeavoured to excuse the default
by asserting that the freshets had delayed the money.
A cooler shuffler never lived. On the one hand he
is at the bottom of a conspiracy to levy a toll on the
trade of New York, regardless of the ruin he in-
flicts and the derangement to the trade of the coun-
try. On the other hand, he leaves the workmen of
the hue unpaid till the defrauded labourers strike
and derange the traffic of the road. Ile then attempts
to puzzle a court as to whether he has a lee 1 habi•
tat:on and a name, while he is filling up the news-
papers with affidavits and statements to prove the
President's complicity with his scheine:% Eight
hundred men make their work felt on the new Post-
office. The area all, with a base of 25 feet below
the side walk, has reached the length of 400 feet.
The concrete foundation of the main vans are
nearly complete. 'I he granite pillars, coming from
_Maine, not having arrived had delayed the work,
but they are expected immediately.

WasmNaToN, Oct. 22.
Our citizens have got up a memorial to bring

their grievances before Congress. They com-
plain of impediments placed in the way of the
Distrizt of Columbia, to which no other part of
the Union is subjected, preventing various im-
provements, and not only neglecting the work,
but choking others off doing it, even to the
paving of the streets. "We asked of Congress,"
it says, " the privilege of paving Pennsylvania-
avenue at the expense of the property holders, al-
though the Government is holding jurisdiction
over all the avenues, and under solemn compact to
pave and keep in order the same. As yet we have
failed to obtain any law enabling us to act in any
of the above-mentioned cases. 'We hope that jus-
tice may yet be accorded to us by your honourable
body, and that such laws may be granted us as will
place us on equal footing with other cities in other
States, and that this mixed and uncertain power
be abolished. Should it be deemed inexpedient,
and we should still fail to obtain redress at your
hands, we respectfully ask your honourable bodies
to place the District of Columbia under the laws
and government of the State of Maryland, the State
of Massachusetts, or any other that may be deemed
proper." Even the power of substituting a hand-
some building for the discreditable sheds on Penn-
sylvania-avenue, known as the Market House, has
not been conceded, although the citizens have sub-
scribed the necessary funds. Naturally the minds of
property-holders turn in fear to the threatened remo-
val of the seat of Government. They consider it rea-
sonable that agreat nation like our's should take pride
in the permanent location of the capital, in the pos-
session of grand and stately buildings, taking twenty
years to erect, arguing that the constant agitation
retards improvement, and lessens the comforts of the
officials by checking the erection of houses and in-
creasing the expenses of living. This agitation is,
too, in the face of an Act of Congress, permanently
locating the Goverment here. Our real estate
holders are very tender as regards our comfort, but
in my own person I have not yet realised their
generosity. The National Intelligencer has again
changed hands, a new editor having been installed.
Mr. Moriarty, the president of the Irish Association
of Philadelphia, has been doing his best here in be-
half of the Fenian prisoners confined in " British
Bastilles," as the phrase goes. He has had inter-
views both with the President and with the Secretary
of State, who have rather abothering way of referring
such applicants to each other. The President does
not hesitate to say that his sympathies are with the
prisoners, but this can do the people in gaol little
good, while the Fenian leaders loudly assert it to be
the duty of our Government to insist upon their be-
ing set at liberty. The President replies that he
would be highly gratified at their release, and refers
the delegation, of which he has received many on the
same subject, to Secretary Fish. That gentlema❑
assures Mr. Moriarty that he has already exerted
his influence, and that he will continue to exert his
influence, and always uphold the rights of our citi-
zens abroad. They have had a scare in Canada
about these Fenians, and I suppose as long as they
continue to create these scares Mr. Gladstone will
be afraid to let out those he has captured, however
anxious he may be to be rid of them at any price.
There was a grand wedding at a Presbyterian
Church, Mr. Baston, assistant cashier of the Freed-
men's Savings Bank, being the coloured bridegroom,
and the daughter of the cashier of that bank, Annie
Wilson, a young lady of dark complexion, being
the bride. She contrasted sweetly with her white
satin, trimmed with blonde and lace. General
Howard of course took a conspicuous place in the
ceremonies, and there was a gentleman present about
whom you may have heard, ex-President Roberts of
Liberia. The bride and bridegroom started imme-

diately to New York on their wedding tour. The case
is being tried of Texas against George Peabody and

Co., and according to Judgeraschal the alleged facts

are that in 1862 the Military Board of Texas ap-
pointed Mr. John M. Swisher to sell 300 of the

Texas Endemnity bonds iu Europe ; that Droege
and Co. were employed by Swisher to effect the sale ;
that 149 of these bonds were offered to George
Peabody and Co., who detached the coupons and

sent them to New York for redemption, conceal-
ing the fact that the bonds were not indorsed by
the Governor of Texas ; that these coupons were
cashed by the Assistant-Treasurer at New York on
presentation by Dabney Morgan and Co., where-
upon George Peabody and Co. purchased the 149

hoods. but afterwards enjoined the money in th,
hands of Proege and Co., on the ground that the

circular of Mr. Chase had given notice that these
unindorsed bonds would not be paid; that in Oct.,
1866, the bonds were redeemed, and the money paid
to Dabney Morgan and Co. for George Peabody
and Co. ; that all the parties had notice of the
necessity of the indorsement, and of the Rebel
purposes for which the bonds were being used.

The remaining 151 bonds are still in the hands of
Droege and Co. The amount involved is $350,000
in gold. George Peabody and Co., Dabney Mor-
gan and Co., and Droege and Co. are made parties.
When the case has been heard I have no doubt it will
assume a very different appearance. The impres-
sion here is that the Hon. William Windom will
be elected United States Senator by Minnesota,
which will in that case transfer him from the House
of Representatives to the Senate. The tide appears
to be turning against Andrew Johnson, and many
here have some confidence that be will not be suc-
cessful. Governor Merrill will probably succeed Se-
nator Grimes, but Representative Allison is strongly
supported, and he may be the choice of lowa. The
Post-office Department receive many complaints on
the subject of the late deliveries of the mails.
There has been more trouble, as you may conjec-
ture, in this Department than perhaps in any other,
as our country is so vast that it really is much to
the credit of our organizing powers that the mails
can be worked so well. The chief complaints are
from New York City, where, it is said, that letters
dropped in the box in the afternoon remain there
all night. What detains the trains from that city I
know not, but they are sometimes hours behind, and
have lately been very irregular. It is said that the
Money-order Division progresses favourably, re-
turning a large revenue at a small outlay. It has
been in operation four years, and during the fiscal
year, ending June 30, the sums transmitted reached
$46,000,000; you may reckon the increase, as the
previous year yielded only over $16,000,000. That
ceaseless intrigue for place continues at work to oust

the incumbents, and to fill the offices of the Senate
with new men, who are pronounced to have better
claims. If an official does the work well for which
he is paid it may form a claim on his country, but
gives him none on his party. While he is doing
the drudgery of Government a politician may be
actively on the "stump" to aid an election, and
that man is rolling up claims which the party must
meet, while those of the office-holder are vanishing.
If rotation in office arrives at the point of turning
out old members of the party trained to the Govern-
ment work to make way for new members of the same
party with claims of a later date, then I foresee a
chance for the Bill of the Representative from
Rhode Island. Secretary Boutwell has taken high
ground in Texas, having issued an order for the
removal of every office-holder in the Treasury De-

partment in that State who favours Hamilton's
election as Governor. The empldgis of the Gal-
veston Custom-house and at Brownville feel this ;
but so does the ;Secretary, who will be made to
feel it more before long. It is, however, in keep-
ing with party tradition, and Mr. Boutwell is es-
sentially a party man, never having professed to be
anything else, awl it was known when he was no-
minated to the pest that he would act as he now
does. Mr. Thomas Clyde, of Philadelphia, has
purchased the ironclad Algonquin for $30,000 on
her 'ejection by the Ilaytien Government, which
duchnal the purchase on our naval officers re-
fusing to tal_•
.e her to sea on trial, as the cost would
have been a third of the sum to be paid for
the ship. Mr. Clyde -has also bought the
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paddle steamer the Shamokin for $25,000. A sin-
gular instance is reported from Tazewell County,
Llinois, showing the difference between the revenue as
formerly collected and now. Supervisor Bloomfield
reports to Commisioner Delano that the county
for the year ending September 20, 1868, paid a
revenue tax of $134,000 from all sources, and fur
the year ending September 20, 1869, paid a tax of
SHB,OOO. During the former year all of the dis-
tilleries in Pekin were run most of the time, and

the tax for the greater part of that period wag two
dollars per gallon. During the past year only one
distillery was run continuously, and it alone paid
tax of $135,000, being more than the whole county
paid the previous year. Supervisor Barbour has
resigned, in view of the increased work thrown oe
the post by enlarging his district to all the New
England States, and it is not easy to fie'
qualified candidates who will accept it. Berman
Grodt of St. Paul, Minnesota, being convicted
of aiding a distiller in robbing the revenue
was sentenced to pay a fine of 500 dollars'
;and to be imprisoned for 18 months. The distiller,
Wherman, has absconded. In the Supreme G°llre
Judge Ewing fell insensible when arguing a efs,,
in which he had been counsel for 20 years. D'u
was much excited by the argument of Mr.
and was speaking wLh unusual energy, when, feel-
ing ill, he was allowed to sit, but, as he was pro-
ceeding, fell from his chair in a state of unc°l';
seiousness. Physicians were summoned, but it `vas
two or three hours before he recovered, and be now r‘
lies at the Capitol in a precarious state. The Ccintts
immediately adjourned, Judges and counsell°
hurrying to the side of the old lawyer, who is AP'
proaching his 80th year.