The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE -23, L 69.

franchisement would give a clear majority to me
Catholics. Though not intended to have a sectarian
effect; the bill would certainly be so regarded biiiith.ft.
Protestants just now exasperated beyond measure
by the disestablishment of tiheirChysch.AThingL
ate" quite hot enough" as it is in Ireland without
thus adding fuel to the flame.

trouble sometimes, and it is a pity that tne °ono/iv/um
Haggerty could not have found another job, and the
worthy Duff left in rreaeb. ' " j— .

LEGISLATION IN witat.....
"SOll3B 'of the Canitan legislators propose to try an
experiment which has never found favour with European
jurists. They h ave drawn up a bill to inflict the puuishm en t
of fine or imprisonment—two years being the maximum
of the latter penalty—for the offence of deceiving a woman
under promise of marriage. There must be corroborative
evidence, and subsequent marriage may be urged as a
valid defence.

the Cuban Junta interpret favourably to themselves,
and they laugh at the Spanish reports of captured
cannon as bearing absurdity on their face. The_
recognition-by-the Peruvian nceliiineiii-as—beilf::
gerents is also a matter of congratulation, as Chili,
Equador,and Bolivia are likely to follow suit. There
is a rumour that an East River shipbuilder has ac-
cepted a contract from Cuban agents for the bulls
of two small steamers capable of being turned
nto gunboats. The Russia sailed on Wednes-
day, with 150 passengers ; in the Allemania,
bound for Hamburgh, via Southampton, are Mr.
Thomson, our Consul to that port, John M. Francis,
of the Troy Times, and Signor Cerutti, the Italian
Minister. The Perit returned. from her filibuster-
ing tour last Saturday, though she reported herself
as coming from Jamaica. The Manhattan arrived
on Wednesday with 1,230 passengers ; she might
have had twice the number could she have accom-
modated them. Although the week has been singu-
larly bare of "sensational" rumours affecting Wall-
street, there was one on Thursday in the Evening
Post, by no means a sensational paper. Its Wash-
ington correspondent asserts that the Republican
party in that city intend to give a spur to the
autumn elections by raising a loud cry against Eng-
land on the Alabama question. They suppose
that this will give a zest to the campaign, and
drown any cry the Democrats can raise. The
'limes censures such a mad project, considering the
question of peace or war too serious to be played
with to forward the interests of politicians. They,
as a general rule, care nothing for results beyond
attaining the object they seek ; but others, who
have an interest in the honour and welfare of their
country, do, and are sufficiently powerful to put an
extinguisher over such men when they look like
making tracks in the wrong direction. A few have
not forgotten what they got by their repudiation
cry, and the quantity of their own words they had
to swallow in the vain effort to get them out of the
way. We have had a little sensational drama, or
farce, or whatever it may be called, in which Mr.
George Butler, nephew of General Butler, took the
most active part, and Mr. Alexander Henderson the
most pas,ive ; the former is the dramatic critic of
the .Spirit of the limes, and the other is the manager
of the Lydia Thompson burlesque troupe. Mr.
Butler has erected himself into the censor of
the stage, and has determined, in that charac-
ter, to pub down b/unde6 iu zonnt cooturno,
vicious fashion imported from England. He at-
tacked Mr. Henderson for what he calls his crimes
against society, as a public duty with his pen, and
as Mr. Henderson answered him in much the same
language in a speech at a theatrical dinner, wherein.
the theatrical editor of Wilkes' Spirit was termed
a "liar" and a_ " scoundrel," he attacked him in
his private behalf with a stick. This he did last
Saturday night at Niblo's after the curtain had
fallen, at the door connecting the stage with the
oratorium. He wanted the manager to go in front of
the theatre, but as Mr. Henderson decidedly obj ec ted
to go out to be beaten, he violently assaulted him
there. Two actions were brought by Henderson
againg Butler on Thursday at the Jefferson Market
Cotirt; the one for libel, the other for assault and
battery. In the first case Butler was bailed in $l,OOO
to answer at the General Sessions, and in $3OO on
the second charge. Mr. Butler declares he
means to fight it out at law squarely to the end.
Several editors left on a trip over the Pacific Rail-
road to San Francisco last Thursday, among whom
was the agent of the Associated Press. The WOman
movement is still active ; Susan B. Anthony, Mrs.
Cady Stanton, and others like it, and keep the ball
rolling. A meeting was held at the Woman's
Bureau, Twenty-third- street, on Tuesday, denounc-
ing the injustice of enfranchising negroes and igno-
rant foreignen, and leaving women as slaves, which
the adoption of the XVth Amendment would do.
The fair sex were congratulated on the Methodists
having recognized woman's right to preach, a reso-
lution was passed favouring the education of girls
as well as boys in the Free Academy, and next day
Miss Anthony waited on the Board of E lucation,
urging that New York College be thrown open to
girls assvell as 'boys, this fact entitling them that
women paid taxes equally with men. The value of
railroad freights in America in 1867 was
$10,174250,000 ; or four times the national debt
on 39,000 miles of railroad ; the average annual in-
crease for the ten years preceding was $737,000,000.
It is estimated that in 1880 there wi 1 be 70,000
miles, which will transport 140,000,000 tons of
freight, valued at $20,000,000,000 ; while the p
n will then be 50,000,000.

WASHINGTON, June 4

Dr. Mary Walker and Professor Willcox have
been lecturing here on the Rights of Women ; but
they do not seem to make much impression, for the
judges of election have, through Mr. "Wilcox, in-
formed the delegation of ladies who applied to
regi•iter as voters that the Board, as by law directed,
refuse their application, while refraining from ex-
pressing any opinion as to their rights ; Mr. Cross-
man was, however, an exception to this, for he prci=
nounced their claim just, and thought they ought
to be registered. Then tribe Professor with dignity
desired his name to be stricken from the list, as he
felt that many of the rejected ladies were more corn-
potent to vote than he, and it would be unfair in him
to exercise a power unjustly denied to them. A circu-
lar is going about inviting distinguished women to
organize a Parliament which would legislate on
subjects of vital interest to them and their children.
Among these objects are public education, prisons
and reform schools, hygienic and sanitary reforms,
female labour, domestic economy, and dishonesty
in public life. It will have nothing to do with
" Woman's Rights," directing its attention to wo-
men's duties and the best way to perform them ; any
woman can become a voter on the payment of $1
as a poll-tax to defray the expenses. Dr. Mary
Walker called on Mr. Tullock, appointment clerk
of the Treasury ; hence, I presume, she was not
successful in her late efforts with Gen. Sickles to be
appointed Secretary of Legation to Spain. It is a
pity she did not get the post Professor Willcox has
resigned in the Treasury Department, that his in-
dividual attention might be given to Woman Suf-
frage. On this occasion Mrs. Dr. Walker took the
precaution of being accompanied by Mrs. Dr. Lock-
wood, and she was therefore ready for battle
had another Mrs. Gaines appeared. Mr. Thrie
has issued an order prohibiting subjects of a politi-
cal nature to 1:e discussed by visitors to the navy
yards. He has sent instructions to Admiral Rowan;
commanding our Xsiatic squadron, to give all the aid
and protection he can in laying the cable of the East
Indian Telegraph Company, and Captain Alexander
Murray proceeds to China to help in taking sound-
ings, and making preliminary surveys. Despatches
from the Rear-Admiral have been received to 15th
April, wherein is announced the death of the Eng-
lish officer commanding in Canton, his funeral
being attended by- all our naval officers on the spot.
Henceforward, a captain. is to wear four half-inch
stripes of gold lace on his coat sleeve, commanders
three, and staff officers according to their relative
'rank.' An-English ex-M.P., an earnest friend of the
Union at all times and seasons, 'wrote some time ago
from Manchester to the Treasury Department on the
subject of the high rate ph4l for the Five-Twenty
Bonds. Considering Six per Cent, gold inte-
rest to be twice.as much as ought to be given, and
being willing to take half, he sent frornPennsylvania,
where he now is, a $l,OOO 5-20 Bond, and seven pc)
coupons as a rebate to Government, desiring that
the interest should be hereafter adjusted to what
he thought right, namely, Three per Cent. Sec-
retary Boutwell, in reply, thanked hina for his ge-
nerosity, and invited him to Washington to consi-
der the zubject but the New York fie ru id, with cha-
racteristic impudence, calls our English benefactor
a lunatic. The registration list of voters was com-
pleted on Tuesday, and it is evident that the Republi-
cans will be successful, although a close contest is ex•

petted. The officers to be elected are a register, a
collector, and a surveyor. The Republicans have
nominated a coloured citizen of considerable means,
for collector, and an Irishman named Donegan
for surveyor. The National Committee appointed
last winter by the Coloured Convention are at work,
and have prepared an address to the Rhode Island
Legislature on the ratification of the XVth Amend-
ment, and letters to Hayti and Liberia urging the re-
moval of the word " white" from their Constitutions
and.law, whereby white men are prohibited from

becoming citizens or holding real estate, no injury
to be mourned over by the descebdants of Japhet.
of sympathy with_the_Cnbgai Repub7
licans was also passed. The case of Douglass (Ju-
nior) and the Printers' Union has not yet been set-
tled, but it is likely soon to be decided in his favour,
for a reply has been received from the Denver Typo-
graphical Union (to which the objection to him raised
was that he had been refused admission), that he was
considered respectable, a good citizen, and a good prin-
ter, though working in an anti-Union office, and not
belonging to that Union. Fifteen more composi-
tors have been discharged from the Government
Printing-office, in consequence of the growing
scarcity of work ; all the correspondence and papers
relating to theAlahanza claims will soon be finished,
making up 16 books of 400 pages each, including three
British Blue-books, ar,d -containing also all about
other claims. Robert Penman (despairing. of a
printer's future), in view of this end of the Ala-
bama correspondence, jumped into the canal in
Sixth-street, and drowned himself ; he belonged to
the Printers' Union, and was a Knight Tetnplar.
Colonel R. M. Douglas, of the Presideat's S'aff,
left on Monday evening to attend the funeral of
his grandmother, Mrs. Granger, wh3 died at that
place on Saturd.'y, aged eighty years, The steamer
Tallapoosa has returned :ron Fortress Monroe, with
Gen. Sherman and par ty, and sailed again on Thursday
for Annapolis with the Presidential party. The Hon.
Ben Wade, who has been at Boston attending the
election of the Directors of the Union Pacific Rail-
road, remained here for two days, but left on Tues-
Ile accepted the Directorship of the
day evening.
Union Pacific Railroad offered to him by the Presi-
dent some time ago, and came here to look after some
Ohio appointments. The incumbents of the remain-
ing two places appointed by Andrew Johnson h f t in
New York City, are Supervisor Dutcher and Collec-
tor of Internal Revenue Fields. First, there is the
pressure to get them ousted, but not waiting till they
are out; there is a greater pressure from those
striving to get into their places. George Wilkes,
the editor of the Spirit of the Times, was once
thought to be the most prominent candidate for
the latter post. Touching the Spirit, I may remark
that young Butler, its dramatic critic, a nephew of
General Butler,' collided with Henderson, the entre-
preneur of the Lydia Thompson troupe. Mr. Butler
I used rather strong language in the columns of the
.spirit on Henderson, who gave back what.le got
in a speech aim a theatrical dinner, whereon Mr.
Butler beat Mr. Henderson at Niblo's theatre. The
Butlers come of a fighting stock, and naturally in-
cline towards hot water. One of the office-seeking
gang having failed in securing a place, called on
the President to frank him back to Chicago, not a
bad precedent to establish, that uncle Sam should
pay for the return of these failures, after entreating
them not to come ; it would be like his redeeming
the bad money put into circulation. 24 proposals
for furnishing envelopes to use in the Post-office De-
partment were opened last evening by the Postmas-
ter-General. The lowest bidder was Geo. F Nesbit
of New York. Samples will be examined, and the
contract shortly awarded. The settlement of Perry
Fuller's case has disappointed the scmdal-mongers,
as an expose of the lobby was anticipated. Gen. Ew-
ing, since the arrival of the ex-Collector from New
Orleans, desired to settle the matter out of Court,
to which Fuller at first strongly objected, though
he appears at last to have succeeded, for Judge
Olin dismissed the case, ordering the $82,000 to be
deposited with a trustee for distribution. That
-sum was.the amount of vouchers for Indian goods
sold to the First National Bank of Arkansas,
of which Gen. Thomrs Ewing, his brother Charles,
and other partners claimed $51,C00. The Ewings
agreed to take, it is said, $6,000, abandoning seven-
eighths of their claim. lam glad to inform you
of the success of Mrs. Wood, the lady who made
the journey across the Continent in her husband's
behalf, for Brevet-Major Charles 0. Wood, United
States Army, recently sentenced to six months'
suspension for striking a brother officer in Alaska,
has been reinstated in the service by order of the
President. There are rumours of a disagreement
between the President and Commissioner Delano ;
although doubtless untrue, it would not be asto-
nishing; consithring the pressure to which he has
been. subjected for the post of Commissioner for
Internal It-!venue for the Sixth Congressional Dis-
trict of New York, and that of Supervisor Butcher.
These last remnants of good things are being fought
over and struggled I,r by the hungry crowd who
daily arrive to push cia:ms. Mr. Spaul.li g, who
was appointed
:Consul at ilonclulu, as a reward
for his fa'.her's services to Andrew Johnson against
Impeachment, has been superseded by Mr. Adam
son, of Louisiana. The President long refused to
remove Mr. Spaulding, and when Senator Cole, of
California, but the other day urged the appoint-
ment of a San Francisco journalist, Mr. J. H.
Riley, the President, again asserted that as Mr.
Spaulding's record was good he would retain him.
This action is likely to give offence in California,
where they consider the appointment to be onebelong-
ing to the Padific slope. Five other Consuls were
appointed yesterday, as well as Oscar H. Lagrange,
SUperintendent of the Branch Mint at San Fran-
disco. Norman Wiard has eight cases before the
Court of Claims, amounting to $1,200,000, and has
employed Caleb Cushing and J. T. Drew as his attor-
neys, demanding that sum as damages for contracts
arbitrarily annulled by the Government during the
war. The model of Vinnie Ream's statue of Lin-
coln has been shipped in the New York steamer
from Georgetown. Its ultimate •destination is
Italy, where it is to be turned into marble; our
artists there will form a fine group around it, and
learn valuable lessons in alt. There is, a !report
that a bill for $60,000 was paid by our Government
through the Barings for telegraph messages,
$40,000 of it being on account of the Alaska pur-
chase. The company charged for each figure now
used as cyphers, the full sum for a word, a charge
the Government disputed. •

The Jubilee Coliseum in Boston is rapidly ap-
proaching completion, and will be in readiness some days
before the Jubilee. The large room at the north-east
corner is to be appropriated to the use of the Executive
Committee, and the Secretary of the Jubilee Association,
Mr. Henry G. Parker, is to have an office adjoining. The
apartment at the north -west corner will be a reception
room for distinguished guests. The press head-quarter-
tors comprise very spacious accorninodalion at the left of
the St. James-avenue entrance, on the east side. One end
of this room will be used as a telegraph office, and Colonel
Wood has men at work preparing for its early occu-
pancy. Four wires will be introduced, and Messages
may be sent during the Jubilee in any required direction.
The arrangements for the reporters will be of the most
ample character, and probably a larger number will be pre-
sent than ever before assembled in the country. Tables
will be provided with every convenience for writing, a
registry kept of the representatives of the press in attend-
ance, and liberal provision made to enhance their comfort.
The four large apartments in the south end of the building,
two of which are extremely spacious, will be used as retir-
ing-rooms, &c., for the chorus and orchestra, the two upon
the east side by the ladies, and those upon the west side
by the gentlemen. A largo room upon the Dartmouth-
street side, about midway of the building, has been fitted
up for the steam fire engine, and sleeping accommoda-
tions will be given the firemen (who will be in constant
attendance during the five days and nights of the
Jubilee), in an apartment connected therewith. Horses
will be kept in readiness in an adjacent building, not more
than 50 feet distant. A hose carriage, with 600 feet of
hose, already occupies a place under the rear balcony, at
the.right of the main entrance, in readiness for instant
use. Four gas meters, each of which is almost large
enough for a tenement., were placed in the building on
Tuesday, Juno 1. To afford additional light, two circular
windows, 18 feet in diameter, have been placed in the
pads of the building at the height of nearly 100 feet, which
gave a more finished appearance to the structure. The
lower range of windows are already in, and also some of
the upper range. Workmen have been engnsed in " dock-
ing" the glass where the sun's rays are likely
to strike
through to the interior, which has the effect of ground glass..
The chorus seats are being constructed, w
con-
sist of settees, made on the spot. Chairs will
which
providedwillin the parquet, and else in the balconies, as far as practic-
able. The painters are at work upon the outside of the
building, but have nearly completed their task. The up-
right walls aro painted a neutral tint, and the pilasters, win-
dew-cities, and sills. the brackets and the eaves, forming the
projection, aro a darker
' tint, which throws them into bold
relief. The only painting inside is upon the central lines
of pillars, which have been given a salmon tint to harmo-
nize with the decorations. The 15ft. promenade upon the
outside of the building is being constructed, and one side—
that upon the east of the Coliseum—is nearly completed.
An extensive village of temporary wooden structures of all
sizes gad of An forms of ughwon have sprung up around