The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-01 00:00:00

Grant, but it is asserted that his name was thus
used by Fuller without authority, and to convey
a false impression.
General Banks is the chairman of the Sub Com-
mittee now investigating the Paraguayan affairs,
which Messrs. Washburne, Bliss, Masterman,
and President Lopez were mixed up as well as the
United States naval officers. Admiral Davis had
not arrived, hut Secretary Fisk had submitted a
communication received from the Chargé d'Affaires
at Rio relating to these events. It contained docu-
ments concerning the fate and inhuman treatment
by Lopez of 720 prisoners, of whom many were
foreigners, giving details of the manner in which
the sentences of death were executed, the dates, and
number on each day, making a total of 521 lanced,
shot, and tortured. The Allies are said to be in
the neighbourhood of Lopez's stronghold in the
mountains; and if Count D'Eu, the newly-ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief, captures Lopez, we
hope he will send him before General B mks, who
will take means to extract his evidence, and the
opportunityof delivering to him a high-toned lecture
on liberty and morality.
The grand jury of the United States Circuit
Court, in session at St. Louis., found an indictment
against General Burbridge, of Kentucky, for
bribery as a Revenue officer, summoning him from
Washington to appear before the Court. This bri-
bery is a long whispered story, and appears to have
been in circulation when several United States Se-
nator recommended General Bumbridgefor the im-
portant post of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Next year the census of the United States will
be taken, and preparations have been and are
being made to render it as complete as possible.
The House Sub-Committee, consisting of five se-
lected members, will make a summer tour, taking
' New York, Pennsylvania, Boston, Cincinnati, and
Chicago, and wherever else the spirit moves them to
go, at Uncle Sam's expense. There they will invite
information, take evidenee, and gather every useful
fact bearing on their subject, which includes the
resources as well as the growth of the country.
They will thus come into communication with the
different statistical societies, nor will they confine
their researches wholly to the States. A commis-
sion is to be sent, but not at Uncle Sam's expense,
to the National Statistical Congress which meets this
summer a- the Hague; but though the two or three
gentlemen selected will have to pay their own ex-
penses, they will be recommended by the Committee,
appointed by the President, and represent the
United States.

Postmaster Creswell will have enough to do
before he gets his department into order. During
February the New York Observer received infor-
mation of 24 different letters being posted to its
address containing money, amounting in the aggre-
gate to $127, but not one reached the office. The
Boston Congregationalist took up this statement,
asserting that it knew of 66 letters which ought to
have reached it during the same month, containing
in all $239, but of that number not one had been re-
ceived. From so large a list the Congregationalist Nv as
enabled to trace and indicate the most unsafe mail
routes which it openly did. The impression is becom-
ing general that the mostinsecure means of transmis-
sioa in the United States is by post. Robbery so
wholesale as the instances recorded must compel
the attention of the Department, and a close in-
vestigation into the circumstances. Philip P. Hag-
gerty, for the past 15 years a clerk in the Post-
office at Lowell, Massachusetts, has been arrested
on the charge of robbing the mails, and other ar-
rests will doubtless soon be made.
Some time ago a person describing herself as Han-
nah Tyler, clerk in the Treasury Department, wrote to
the Independent, making serious charges against her
associates. The letter attracted attention, and on
investigation it was found that there was no such
person, and that her statements in the main were
untrue. When the subject came to be looked into
it was discovered that nearly all were the widows,
the daughters, or the near relations of officers and
others killed while serving in the Union Army.
Many of these ladies had themselves during that
period performed good service. On Miss Wright's
information Sheridan fought the battle of Win-
chester, and she wears at her desk the cavalry trin-
kets presented to her by the General in acknow-
ledgment for her services. Another was captured
with the Gettysburg hospital, where she was an
efficient nurse, just before the great battle. Gen.
Spinner speaks in the highest terms not only of the
character of these employees, but of their work.
They are the most rapid counters of money and
most expert in detecting counterfeits, and hardly a
day passes that they do not discover forgeries which
have escaped the keen scrutiny of the most accom-
plished of the bank officers. It is curious that opi-
nions should differ so widely as to the number of fe-
male clerks employed. In one account they are put
down at 600 in the Treasury out of 6,000 clerks ; in
a second 1,500, and in a third 2,000. As a rule they
are underpaid and overworked ; women of irre-
proachable character, who have secured their ap-
pointments by means rather creditable to them
than the reverse, and we believe the more closely
this was investigated the more clearly did it appear.
The Cambria is ready for her race, all the alte-
rations having been completed, though some nau-
tical men consider that Mr. Asbbury therein has
made a mistake at least in filling up the hollow of
her bows under water by which the owner hopes
she will gain buoyancy and speed in a heavy sea-
way. Her masts and bowsprit have been bored—
a difficult and delicate operation—which will re-
duce them almost three-quarters of a ton. Her
masts have been lengthened by " tongueing" them
at foot. Her rudder is being altered upon a new
and improved principle, which will add much to
her quickness in stays. Her windlass has been re-
moved, and a neat capstan substituted for it. This
gives her more deck room on the forecastle. lier
cabins have also undergone extensive alterations,
and are decorated with old paintings representing
incidents in her matches during 1868. The chal-
lenge of Harvard University included Cambridge
as well as Oxford, but if Harvard can beat the Ox-
ford men, they need not trouble themselves to
row against Cambridge. The latter have, however,
conditionally accepted the challenge.
The President has set his mind on the speedy Re-
construction of Texas, Virginia, and Mississippi.
He evidently intends to be Chief Magistrate of a
real Union, with no lost stars on its banner. Gen.
Reynolds, commanding at Texas, has been in-
structed immediately to begin the registration of
voters, and to hurry it through that the Constitu-
lion may be quickly submitted to the people.
Governor Welles, of Virginia, has been in consul-
tation with the President about that State, and
Gen. Grant has been gathering information every-
where on Mississippi. It is said that'almost imme-
diately the day will be decided on for the election
in each of these States.
The poor imperialist does not find the soil of
America congenial. People scarcely know what to
make of it ; some thinking it a Democratic dodge
to bring the President-into disrepute and to awaken
prejudices against him; others that it is a joke, but
there are those who believe it to be a serious rea-
lity. A report was circulated that it had died on
learning the inexorable decision of the News Com-
panies not to circulate it. The proprietors, how-
ever, announced that the paper had already ob-
tained a circulation of 10,000, and that it intended
vigorously to carry on the campaign of Monarchy
against Republicanism in America.
The indefatigable Bishop Gray of the Cape of
Good Hope has sent an official to the Bishop of the
Episcopal Church at New YorK announcing the
consecration of Dr. Macrorie as the Bishop of Na-
tal. I❑ his letter he says :—" I cannot mike this
announceinent without once more expressing my
hearty thanks to the American Chui ch for the sym-
pathy and support which it gave to the Church iu
South A frica when called to contend with great dif-
ficulties." What will be Colenso's end with three
continents stirred up nigainat him ?
Lieut.-Governor Dunn (coloured), of Louisiana,
complained to Gen. Beauregard that he was not per-
mitted to sit in the ordinary railway cars when on his
way from New Orleans to Washington. The General,
who was president of the Railway Company, an-
swered that he had no powers to alter the old re-
gulations of the Corporation which excluded co-
loured men, but teat-he-ivoukl44ubmit-the-matter to