The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-19 00:00:00

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
Mrs. Arabella Mansfield, aged 24, was admitted
with her husband to practise in the Courts of lowa.
They are recommended not to set up separate
offices, as they may be engaged on opposite sides,
and take to " bally-ragging" each other. Such a
contest might descend into domestic abuse, whereby
the Court would become the scene even of a greater
scandal than that of Marlborough-street in the
Carrington-Murray affair. If they work together
as Mansfield and wife, the former attending Court,
and the latter presiding in the office, they will form
an efficient firm; but if the lady insists on taking
the more prominent part, Mansfield will see his
better-half engaged in bullying witnesses, practis-
ing her wiles on a stupil jury, pathetically describ-
ing the sufferings of an illused prisoner, or hurry-
ing to gaol to have an interview with a murderer or
a burglar; or, more attractive still, at least to the
spectators, taking an active part in a seduction,
breach of promise, or divorce case.
The Washington Government is admitted in
Europe to be acting with great loyalty towards
Spain in the suppression of filibustering enterprises
against Cuba. The Philadelphia correspondent of
the Times telegrapheds'on Thursday evening :
" The United States District Attorney, Pierrepont, of
New York, to-day has issued an order by the President,
placing the entire army and navy force there at his dis-
posal to stop the Cuban filibusters. The cause is that
they are suspected of fitting out another expedition."
General Caballero de Rodas* has proclaimed that
vessels transporting insurgents will be treated as
pirates ; and the Prussian Censul-General at Ha-
vannah has issued a eircular through the German
Consuls in the United States, cautioning Germans
against joining the filibustering expeditions to
Cuba, and stating that the insurrection in the island
is rapidly subsiding since the enforcement of the
neutrality laws by the United States.
As regards foreign affairs Secretary Fish has ar-
rived at an agreement with the Government at Mexico
for a joint committee to meet at Washington to
settle the claims of American citizens against Mexico.
Colonel "Warren has had an interview with the Pre-
sident, wherein Gen. Grant's attention was drawn
towards cases specified by him of the imprisonment
of Irish Americans by the British authorities, and
an investigation has been ordered. These investi-
gations are a standing institution forPaddy'samuse-
inept; • and we venture to assert that every Ameri-
can Minister at the Court of St. James's has sAcks
of them, made up in neat bundles, ready for publi-
cation on the shortest notice. The Irish Republic
laments the little influense exercised by the seven
millions of Irish in America. The reason is that
they waste their opportunities in declamation, in
the pursuit of phantoms, and in supporting worth-
less agitators who use them for their own private
gain. How can they expect to leave their mark on
American institutions if they keep organizing, not
for things American, but for foreign matters. Had
they expended half the time, talent, labour, and
money on founding States or carrying out anything
else but turmoil and rebellion the Irish Republic

would not now have to whine after this fashion :
"Here is our enemy's gamo. How have we met her ?
It is useless to answer. Our very miserable position here
answers that question. With an Irish population of at
least seven millions, counting the immediate descendants
of our people, we are of no consequence whatever. We
do not count a feather in the scale where public opinion
is weighed. A few English missionaries, novelists, phi-
losophers, professors, and poets, can take hold of the
mind of America and mould it like putty into an Anglo-
Saxon cast, while millions of Irishmen live, work, think,
and die here, without leaving a Celtic line in the linea-
ments of the Republic."

The Hon. John Rose has personally opened negotia-
tions at 'Washington for the renewal of the Reci-
procity Treaty with the United States. We may
here add that he and Mr. Galt have been created
Knights of the New Colonial Order of St. Michael
and St. George.
Relating to accidents and offences, a riot took
place on the night of the 12th in New York, a pro-
cession of Orangemen being attacked by a party of
Catholics. Thirty persons were injured, but the
police succeeded in quelling the disturbance. The
other item is very serious, and was reported on Thurs-
day night by the Times correspondent. It is a re-
petition of the old tale, and we fear we may add on
the old railroad—

"There was an accident on Wednesday night on the
Erie Railway to tho New York express train, which was
thrunn from the track. The cars caught fire, and seven
persons wero burned to death."

Secretary Boutwell ordered that every officer and
applicant for posts be examined by experts in the
branch of the Revenue Department for which they
apply, and he directs that the examination be bona
fide and strict, the selection among several applicants,
being made by competitive examination. This is
an important move in the direction of Civil Service
reform. Among other retrenchments Secretary
Boutwell has abolished double salaries for doing the
work of two; be has consolidated the revenue cut-
ter, the marine hospital, and the steamboat inspec-
tion division into one bureau, to be superintended
by Mr. Devereux, of the Revenue Cutter Service ;
added to the reduction of $20,000,000 by diminish-
ingthe army to 20,000 men; $6,000,000 will be saved
by bringing down the number of camp-followers
from ten to four thousand; by revising the allow-
ances to assessors over $40,000 will be saved ; and
the advertising bill has been materially lowered.
Mr. Asa Packer has been nominated by the Penn-
sylvania Democratic Convention, for Governor.
General Hancock has refused his nomination ; the
Democratic platform denounces negro suffrage and
the Congressional reconstruction policy, and con-
demns the present tendency to a centralisation of
power. We hear a great deal of what they con-
demn in Pennsylvania, but we would like to know
what they advocate. Ite Conservative victory in
Virginia is much discussed, the result is considered
to be an endorsement of the President's course in
ordering a separate vote upon the sections of ale
new constitution on disfranchisement p.a. the test
oath. The Democratic journal..eribe it to a coali-
tion between the Conservative Republicans and the
Democrats against the Radicals, .and they predict a
like result throughout the South. The Tribune,
however, remarks that the vote upholds impartial
suffrage and those general principles which the De-
mocracy has most persistently rejected. The long
and short of it is that common sense prevails—
"' .goutiaern. gentlemen
nod that they must accept the results or the war or
allow power to be grasped by carpet-baggers. The
President fairly gives them the opportunity of doing
so, and they have been wise enough to seize it ; thus
the return is to the very policy which would have
been pursued by Abraham Lincoln, and was so dis-
astrously interpreted by the mulishness of Andrew
Johnson. A year of Grant's Administration will
teach men practically the measure of harm one man
can effect, for the contrast will be then before them.
General Canby testifies that the elections were
fairly conducted.

Finding that his policy answered Gen. Grant has
issued two proclamations, the one ordering the elec-
tions in the State of Mississippi to be held ou the
30th November ; a separate vote, as in Virginia, is
to be taken upon the sections of the new State Con-
stitution, which provides for the enforcement of the
test oath and disfranchisement. A similar procla-
mation was issued by the President shortly after
ordering the Texas reconstruction election to be
held on the same day, and the votes to be similarly
taken.

The Mariposa bubble, of which we last week
.gave an account,'has excited a very general attention
in New York. The 10 percent. certificates into which
the bonded debt bad been converted, as well as
the Preferred Stock, had been worked up by stories.
fabricated either in New York or in California at
the estate of large earnings reported by Mr. P. W.
Holmes, president of the company. From the
company's office it was asserted that they were
making between fifteen hundred and two thousand
dollars in gold per day, and these flattering re-
ports found their way into the columns of the
newspapers,which,of course, had the effect of inducing
the trusting public to buy. It was then that those who
invented the stories sold, and if the mysterious re-
ports circulating in Iv all-street about this com-
pany be true, it is but mildly described in one of
its nick-names, the " Done Brown fiasco," Brown
and Company being one of the houses which dealt
largely ih the Stock, Mr. Maik Brummagen, one

of the trustees, and formerly president of the com-
pany, with others, had asserted that the income
from the estate was on such a scale that before the
end of the yearthe stock would beat par, and thatit
could not have any material reaction. On appli-
cation at the company's office it is maintained that
the prospects continue highly favourable, that the
fall was owing to a panic with which the company
had nothing to do. A public investigation is ad-
visable in the hope of eliciting the truth and fixing
aright the criminality, for these things are fearfully
injurious to trade, which in all civilized lands must
be based on confidence. One of the main objects
of the expose is to prevent the confederates from
repeating the little game, whereby the preferred
stock was made to jump from 8 to 52, and from 52
down to 13.
On the Ist instant the monument erected in the
cemetery of Gettysburg, where lie those who fell
in the great battle fought there, was dedicated in the
presence of 15,000 people, of whom Gen. Meade,
the victor, was the most prominent. Beside him
were Generals Robinson and Parker, Governors
Geary, Padelford, Baldwin, and others, Secretary
Rawlins, and two of the main actors in the cerc-

molly, the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and the poet
Bayard Taylor. The oration was delivered by
Senator Merton, the opening prayer was offered by
Henry Ward Beecher ; General Meade also spoke,
Bayard Taylor recited his Dedication Ode, written
for the occasion, a beautiful poem whose length,
we regret, precludes us from publishing. Abra-
ham Lincoln dedicated the ground six years ago,
and it has been beautified and the monument con-
structed by 18 Commissioners deputed by the States
whose dead are there buried. On that day they
resigned their trust, delivering up the beautiful
cemetery which is situated on the hill where the
battle most raged, to the National Government. The
monument is a granite obelisk, 50 feet high, sur-
mounted by the figure of Fame in white marble.
On each of the four projections at the base stands
a commemorative figure. A belt surrounds the
column with 86 stars; the National bird is em-
blazoned in front, and an entablature bears the date
of the battle-Ist, 2d, and 3d, July, 1863. Thi
sin-
teresting occasion requires a fuller report than we
have space to give this week.

The advices from Arizona give some account of
Colonel Sanford's raid, who had returned with his
command on the Bth June to Camp Al‘Dowell.
They had killed 22 Indians and captured four dur-
ing the expedition. Colonel Prue's command killed
three Indians, and destroyed a great amount of
property during the late raid through the Wallapel
country. The latest intelligence by Cable is that a
detachment of cavalry, under Colonel Carr, bad
surprised a band of hostile Cheyennes in the Indian
territory- last Sunday, killing 52 and capturing 17.
From Kansas the mail news is that the Indians were
moving to their reservations and submitting to the
new policy of the Government, which comes by waY
of Ellsworth, Kansas, not dated July 1. Colonel
Carr will beluckyif hebe accused of slayingthe un-
fortunate savages on their way to these reservations.
It was reported from New York on the 10th that
disastrous floods had occurred in Colorado Valley,
Texas, several towns having been inundated. This
flood was probably the same as that which wrought
such havoc in Kansas, the effects of which are thus
described :

" Advices from Kansas, in regard to the late storms and
freshets in that State, say that in the neighbourhood of
Junction City and west of there the flood was greater than
any other since the. settlement of the State. Bridges have
been carried away, houses destroyed, and many lives lost
The greatest disaster occurred at Chapman Creek, 13
miles west of Junction City, where several houses wore
washed away and Jl3 persons are known to have been
drowned. It is supposed that a number of others have
perished. The rising of the streams was so sudden and
unexpected that before the residents in the valleys were
aware of the danger, their dwellings were surrounded
with water and all chance of escape cut off. It was re-
ported that numbers had escaped by climbing trees, and!
in that situation, some aro awaiting the decline of the
flood. At Manhattan 14 dead bodies had been seen fioat-
i
ng down Blue River. No mails or trains from the 11
have arrived at Ellsworth since Friday last. There has
been a great destruction of bridges and the tract of the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, from Solomon River to Manhat-
tan, and 30 lives are reported lost."
In New York it appears there are only 17,919
persons who pay a tax on their incomes. Some seventy
of them return upwards of $lOO,OOO. Among the rest A.
T. Stewart, $3,019,218; Wm. B. Astor, $1,079,212 ; Janles
Gordon Bennett, $186,500; Robert Bonner (Ledger)/
$183,841 ; James Brown (banker), $243,357; We'
Dodge, $221,375 ; llarvey Fiske, $286,129 ; Rufus Hate",
$130,000; A.S. Batch, $278,261 ; E. T. lliggius, $131,128
E. S. Jaffray, $227,598 ; Paran Stevens, $244,335 ; 31.°3e8
Taylor, $279,433.
A National Methodist Camp-tneeting was to V
held at the Round Lake (New York) July 6, and to
tinue ten days. Carpenters wore busy in putting up
porary accommodation, pulpits fronted by immense aniPbl
theatres, and apartments for communities and societies
Upwards of 40,000 Wesleyans were expected; the
tance from New York is 104 miles, from ibetbe
231, and from Buffalo 230, in view of Round Lake °ll_,
Rensselaer and Saratoga Railway, midway between '.l-P/
and Saratoga Springs.

Telegraphic advices from Melbourne anneuce
4ze ,
the 'sailing of the following gold ships •.—Thr —l3
with £19,000, and the Lady Jocelyn witb ilt
broug
The Russia, from New York, b.' _ 410"
£12,800; and the Delhi has arrive 7 -from alle'
andrie, with £491,667. We ber
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ment has been made by the Au:, a the
the Peninsular and Orient'. Company f ,e
educed freight bY tuA
transmission of gold at a rrive'''
consignment just a
Overland route, and th-
is under the new sca inoullw
,44,000,
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BIRTHS. t• 11
BRAY—On the 24th inst., at Brighton, tho wife of 10
Colonel George Bray, 96th Begt., of a daughter.
TROLLoPE—On the 17th inst., at Lincoln House, Ph of
more-gardens, Kensington, Mrs. Charles B. Trollop°,
a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
DONKIN —ThazoN- -On the 15th inst., nt Little PoriVrcrc
street Chapel, Bryan Dunkin, jun, Esq., pf

Villas, Catiiptlen:hill to Cleol"giana”ltiarY, 01(101"
ter of Frank Dillon, of 13, Upper Phillimor"
dons, Kensington. r'
HANBITRY—TOTTENHAM—On the 15th inst., at St. Geerit, to
Hanover-square, Chas. Hauhury, Esq., bth Laurc,:totteiv
Ida C. Crichton, only daughter of Abraham L.
ham, Esq., of Glenade, co. Leitrim.

DEATHS.
HUTCIIINSUN— On the 17th inst, at 12, Onslocl W-go.rciell*
S.W., William Barclay Hutchinson, E'., aged 6 ~,
MOFFATT— On the 17th inst., at 11,Yonge-park,ouow"..
John Walter Moffatt, aged 61. riil3 01119 ti
WALKER—On the 17th inst., at llomerton, Mr. --
Walker, of 1, Little Tower-street, aged 81

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