The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-26 00:00:00

SOUTHERN AFFAIRS.

Arkansas is in a nice state ; but what that state
is cannot be so easily told. On one side black militia-
men, without uniform orbadgesto show the nature of
their employment, drag their white fellow-citizens to
gaol, and shoot them without going through even
the form of a trial. They throw up entrenchments
and threaten to burn down the town if attacked.
On the other hand, the Hon. Thomas Boles, Con-
gressional Representative from the Third District
in Arkansas, has published a statement to show
why the Governor organized the militia. political
murder had for months been reduced to an art, 20
prominent leaders and over 200 negroes having been
assassinated in cold blood. Constables and Sheriffs
who interfered were themselves killed, and the men
who did these deeds publicly boasted of them while
threatening others. The Governor finding it im-
possible to arrest the murderers and to save the
loyal citizens in any other way called out the mi-
litia, arrested those accused of the crimes, while be
fortified and guarded the gaols against a rescue.
According to Mr. Boles, the cry on this is raised
of military persecution. We hope to have better
tidings from Arkansas after the inauguration of
Grant, although that event will not be a universal
panacea. But if the right and the wrong is doubt•
ful in Arkansas, there can be little question who
is in fault on the Ogeechee River, Georgia. The
Standard's correspondent who may be relied on for the
most Copperhead aspect, writing from New York on
New Year's-day, says " that country is alive with
gangs of negroes who murder the plantation watch-
men and carry off the crops. On Tuesday a sheriff
and two constables left Savannah furnished with
warrants for the arrest of 17 negroes accused Of
shooting watchmen. Five of the blacks were cap-
tured and placed on a railway train. The train
was stopped at an obscure station by about 100
negroes, who rescued the prisoners, robbed the
sheriff, taking from him his arms and warrants,
and promised that death should be his portion
should he ever attempt to execute another process
upon a negro in that vicinity. The blacks then
marched away, crying out, ' The war has com-
menced. We will have the heart's blood of every
white man on the Ogeechee River.' Hearing of
these threats the white citizens of the vicinity has-
tened to Savannah, not supposing that their wives
and children would be molested. But the negroes
drove the women and children into the woods,
and now hold them as prisoners. The greatest
indignation and excitement exist in Savannah.
The news from Savannah, up to Dec. 31, is as
follows :—" The Ogeechee troubles still continue.
Mr. Middleton's house was burned last night and
his crops ruined. All the whites came to the city
except one man, who has not been seen since the
trouble. The Sheriff, with a posse, went out this
morning, but returned without making any arrests.
The negroes are fully armed and in large force,
and are determined to resist the authorities. Scouts
sent out this afternoon were stopped six miles from
the city. All six of the roads leading to the city
are picketed by negroes. A public meeting was
held to-day at the Court House, and affairs were
discussed by General Jackson and others, and to-
morrow they will decide upon what course to
pursue." It is reported in Washington that a
coloured delegation from Georgia will submit a
memorial against the admission of the Senators
elect from their State, their argument being that
the admission of the Senators will be regarded by
coloured voters as an approval by Congress of the
action of the Democrats in expelling coloured mem-
bers from the Georgia Legislature. Ex-Governor
Joseph E. Brown is leading the movement against
any interference by Congress with the affairs of
Georgia. The Freedman's Bureau ceased to exist
on the Ist inst., and 711 clerks and others were
thrown out of employment. Their salaries alone,
since the inauguration of the Bureau in 1865,
amounted to $2,517,240.

THE STRAUSSINE DIAMOND.—For some time s
variety of experiments have been in operation to ascertain
the possibility of the productidli of a substance having 911
the hardness and lustre of the true brilliant, the capability
of being used in jewellry in place of the genuine
stone, and so reasonable in price as to make it, a°
the saying is, " almost common." After varioue
failures, the end has been accomplished by Mr'
Jeffery, of Tottenham-court-road, whose artistic work
has already secured medals in various national exhibitions.
Ile has produced a "diamond" of remarkable
highly refractive, and so purely white that it takes all the
talent even of a connisseur to discover that it is not at°
real stone. Whilst carrying on the experiments for the
production of the " Staussine" diamond, the clever opera;
tor achieved another success by discovering a method °'
producing a mock opal with the beautiful emerald green
colour clearly defined, thus solving another matter which
has for a long time puzzled the curious in such matters.
Mrs. Foot, wife of the Commissioner for Patents'
and a daughter of Senator Henderson, is a successful iv
ventor herself. She has contrived a skate without story
and several other things.—Thaddeus Hyatt is now ()Wr-
ing a large income for his patent for glass light in ps/a.
ments.

Among the eminent Americans who died during
1868 were the following :—Alexander Asboth, Jo"
Jacob Astor, jun., Col. Francis Markoe Bache, Gener3',
Lafayette C. Baker, Richard H. Bayard, Moses It'
Beach, Rear-Admiral H. H. Bell, James Buchanan, NO-
Liam Curtis, Peter Gagger, John H. Campbell, Kit Carson,
George Christy, Howell Cobb, Captain J. J. Co°l,-
stock, Julia Dean Hayne, Rear-Admiral Frederic*
Engle, Robert Ewing, Peter Force, J. Heron Foster,
Commodore Gansevoort, General William Gates:
General Alfred Gibbs, John A. Gilmer, Francis
Granger, C. F. Hargedorn, Fitz Greene Halleck, Charles
G. Halpine, Henry Hartstene, T. C. Hindman, Bish°9
Hopkins, Joseph R. Ingersoll, George W. Jame-
son, Rev. George Junkie, Heber C. Kimball, 11°-
bert P. King, Rev. Isaac Leeser, E. Leutze, Levi Lincoln,
Daniel Lerd, Providence Ludlam, David M. LYle'
General George A. M'Call, J. J. M'Rae, Abijah Menu'
James Mann, Adah Isaacs Menken, Matthew
kirk, George W. Nebinger, Samuel Nicolson, Frederic*
A. Packard, Alonzo C. Palm, Admiral James S. Painter'
Commodore George A. Prentiss, Morris J. Raphall,
Any
thony L Robertson, Commodore Daniel C. Ridgley,
C. Rives, Joseph W. Byerns, John Sefton, Thomas P'
Seymour, Conger Sherman, Gen. A. T. Slemmer, Admiral
John D. Sloat, General P. F. Smith, Casper Solder, JO"
General Frederick Steele, Edwin A. Stevens, Thaddeus
Stevens, Rev. Thomas A. Stockton, General Walter tt*
Stevens, David L. Swain, William M. Swain, Francis
Troubat, Patroon Stephen Van Hensselaer, Matthew 17.35"
ear, David Wilmot, William B. Wright.
The Right Hon. John Bright, who has been on
a visit to his mother-in-law, Mrs. Leatham, of Beeeb
lawn, Heath, on Sunday attended the Friends' Meeting-
house in Wakefield. It b3coming known that in all Pro'
bability he would be one of the congregation, the number
of attendants was somewhat larger than usual, and at the
hour of the service closing a crowd gathered outside'
This anxious curiosity to catch a glimpse of the pre-
sident of the Board of Trade appears to have rouse'
the righteous wrath of one of the staid Quakeressee
who, being fully imbued with the doctrine that even the
wearers of purple are but men, indignantly exclaimed 9'4
she beheld the peering throng, "One would think he weft:,
more than mortal to see the people gathered together e°,
and at once turned off on her homeward way. As the
right hon. gentleman walked through the streets acccita;
parried by his wife he received on all sides the most Waite'
tokens of respect.

Births.
ITE!IvEv—On the 23d inst., at Ickworth Park, Bury
Edmund's, the Lady Augustus Hervey, of a daughter.
TRACY—On the 25th inst., at 28, Chesham-place, the o°°;
Mrs. Charles Hanbury Tracy, prematurely, of Wille-
son and daughter, the former stillborn.
TREVOR—On the 23d inst., at 36, Belgrave-square, Lt/cif
Edwin Hill Trevor, of a son.
Marriages.
CHIDLEY—ROITTLEDGE —On the 21st inst., atChristchureb'
John George, eldest son of Richard Chidlo4;
E,q., of Wellington Chambers, London-bridge, to L of
Harriet Halsey, only daughter of Mrs. Routledget
Forest-hill.
ST. AUEYN—TIOLDSWORTR—On the 21st inst., at Stolc,els
ham, South Devon, the Rev. Edmund St. Aubye,
lies
youngest son of Sir Edward St. Aubyn, Bart., to •A
Mary, third daughter of Arthur B. E. Holdsworth,
of Widdicombe House.

BLAKE—On the 22d inst Deaths
~ Mr. Joseph Blake, of HarrOW'
on-the-hill, aged 78.
13nocK— Oa the 21st inst., William Brock, Esq., Arict°l43-
road, Guernsey, aged 80. of
GowAiw—On the 24th inst., Zachariah Goward, late
Woodford, Essex, aged 60. or
GREEN - On the 24th inst., at 5, Kensington-paltLe°.-
dens, Bevis E. Green, Esq., aged 75. ,snol
KNIGHT— On the 22d inst., at Sandgate, Kent, 03"
Knight, solicitor, aged 43.

London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM Allp_riT f
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sux 0810, tg 0
Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, the 0000"
Middlesex.—Tuesday, January 26, 1869.