The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-20 00:00:00

tilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY 'EtENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1869.

betiiiieThiastifionld Mfflfere with the range of her
guns, and the range of her guns is a paramount con-
sideration. The ship is constructed for nothing but
fighting, being fitted only with such means of locomo-
tion as would carry her to and from the scene of
probable action, and suffice for the manoeuvres of an
engagement. But though this change has been
adopted for the great ironclads, the Times inquires
whether we may not take a lesson from the
American example, and save coal by using more sail
for cruising vessels. Steam is not required for ordi-
nary voyages, and therefore need not be wasted.

Mexico, where he had been everywhere well
received. From San Francisco it is stated that
twenty full cargoes of wheat were shipped to
England during the month of October. The total
exports for the same period were 593,000 sacks of
wheat and 34,000 barrels of flour. The Pacific
Railroad Company has commenced extending the
Oakland wharf to Goat Island. The Young Ladies'
Seminary at Fair Oaks, in San Mateo County, was
destroyed by fire on the 7th inst. The inmates had
great difficulty in escaping. Professor Hayden,
United States Geologist, is engaged in examining the
coal deposits of Mount Diablo. The President is
said to have declared positively against removing
the tariff on the bituminous coal. Senator Grimes's
resignation will be presented to the Senate on the
Gth of December, the first day of the session. The
canvass between Judge Dent and General Alcorn in
Mississippi has for the moment closed, the Judge
having gone to Washington, and the General home.
General Ames has assigned 45 officers of the army
to duty as Inspectors of Registration in various
counties. The solvency of the New York Gold
Exchange Bank is proved by its paying iu full,
leaving a fair capital on which to resume: It lost
heavily by the panic, but it is said to have carried
.
many honest men through their difficulties.
Miss Kellogg reappeared at the Italian opera
in Linda di Chamounix, and her welcome has
been enthusiastic. In reply to some Boston
clergymen, Father Hyacinthe repeats that he is
and hopes to remain a Catholic ; adding " the true
Church, embracing all who hold Christ as their
head, is far wider than any earthly organization."
The papers express the satisfaction felt by the coun-
try at the honours paid to Mr. Peabody, especially
his burial in Westminster Abbey. Half the tribe
of Grosventres Indians in Montana have died of
smallpox ; the scene there is described as horrifying,
the Indians blowing their brains out with revolvers.
Two of the late Express robbers have been arrested,
and some of the money recovered. At Valparaiso
a movement is on foot to erect a monument to Lord
Cochrane.. The contest for the United States Sena-
torship from lowa is between Judge Wright and
William B. Allison. The Legislature, which meets
in January,wiil re-electinsuccession to Mr. Grimes,
and at the same, for the new term beginning March
4, 1871. A compromise was desired, but' could not
be effected, giving to him who received the highest
number of votes the long term, and the next the
short term, but it was hinted that the Governor
of the State may be taken up as a compromise can-
didate.
At Toronto Governor Howland opened the Par-
liament of Ontario on the 3d inst. He referred to
the abundant harvest, to the progress in railways
and manufactures ; the consequent demand for
labour, and the successful measures taken to supply
it by immigration. He desired to increase the efforts
as well as the expenditure on immigration into On-
tario, asserting the provincial revenue to be ade-
quate to meet such expenditure. He advocated
cautious advances from the Treasury to drain and
reclaim the swamp lands of the Province. A de-
spatch of Lord Granville to Governor Musgrave,
of Colombia, on the Confederation of British
Colombia with Canada, has been communicated to
Sir John Young. As New Rupert's Land and the
North West Territory are to be incorporated, Bri-
tish Colombia, the Administration thinks, should
also be added. He argues that British North
America being thus united, its whole wealth cre-
dit, and intelligence can better be brought to bear
on every part, than by leaving each to work for itself
possibly at the expense of its neighbour. A line
of communication between the Atlantic and the Pa-
cific Oceans would then become feasible. Victoria
would attain to a greater commercial and political
position, and although its distance from Ottowa
presents a real difficulty to immediate union, in
rendering communication indispensable it will
hasten the construction of a railroad. Obstacles,
if the present opportunity be lost, far more difficult I
are sure to spring up. Governor Musgrave is
authorised to communicate with Sir John Young,
and to take steps to promote the favourable conside-
ration of the question. This was followed by the
publication in the Montreal papers, on the 2d inst.,
of the plan FopOsed for the C.inadi in Pacific Rail-
road running over 2,500 miles, its capital being
twenty millions sterling. By a telegram from Ot-
towit,dated last\Ve Ines lay, welearu that the French
residents of the Red River Country had armed and
orginised to resist the cession of their territory to
Canada. The Governor, Mr. M'llougall, was
driven across the boundary, into llacotah, where
!ie awaits instructions from the Canadian Govern-
tnent. The insurgents demand separate territorial
government, and an Elective L-gislature. 'I his
shows the force of Lord Granville's despatch re-
commending quick action.

The Pacific Railroad Company have taken timely
precautions to keep the communication open during
the winter. Where the snow drifts fall heaviest
on the road sheds and fences have been erected, and
a provision car, with two weeks' rations for pas-
sengers, will always be attached to the train. Gangs
of men are to be stationed upon each section to work
the trains through at any cost, and the directors
promise that there will be no more delay than on
any of the Eastern lines. We bore the arrange-
ments may be equally complete to protect the pas-
sengers from accident, but the telegram of Mon-
day, reporting a serious accident near San Francisco

last Sunday, is not calculated to inspire confidence.
It appears that on the Western Pacific, which has
just been amalgamated with another California
road, two trains, running along the same track, came
into contact, and we presume they must have been
approaching each other, as they were completely
smashed, from 10 to 15 persons being killed, and
from 30 to 50 wounded.

The steamer America sailed from San Francisco
for Hongkong via Yokohama o❑ the 4th inst. with

of which $1,163,000 were
sfol;l6l6,loonogokin treasure,
ong,and,o47
passengers, including
1,000 Chinese. She also took out 1,700 barrels
of flour. Tom Thumb and troupe were among the
passengers. This steamer is the splendi 1 new boat,
which has lately reached her station via the Cape of
Good Hope. What she carried is worth special
notice in Europe, for one item accounts for a dimi-
nution of the specie import into Europe from New
York. The Times is incessantly calling attention
to the increasing export of bonds and the decreasing
export of the precious metals, while the truth is
that the treasure which used to be gathered in San
Francisco and forwarded by way of Panama through
New York and London now seeks its natural chan-
nel, and is directed by order both of New York and
London merchants straight to Shanghai and llong-
kong, and a great convenience as well as saving of
time the ability to do so must be. We may here
notice that New Zealand insists upon opening a
steam communication with San Francisco. For
years we have urged this, and long before the break
down of the Panama line we endeavoured to direct
the attention of the Board to the route which would
save the company. Failing this we now urge Cali-
fornia to put itself into communication with New
Zealand, int") whose Legislature measures have been
introduced for facilitating the opening of such a
steam line. This subject is of interest also to many
great companies;
such, for instance, as the Pacific
Railway and of all the steam fleets connecting Eng-
land with New York, as well as the railroads be-
tween Omaha and the Atlantic seaboard. Surely
America can pick up that broken link and meet the
wishes of the New Zealand colonists.

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It appears that the Iteeriprocity Treaty, arranged
by Mr Rose on the part of Canada, and by Mr. Fish
on the part of the United States, ii ready to he
submitted to Congrrss when it meets. Judge Kel-

ley, as representative frGm Pennsylvania, had an in-
terview lately with the Pre:iiilmt to oppose the Treat y.
cereals, lumber, and coal alone, be says, the
Union has collected a data, of $3,000,000 since the
discontinuance of the fornr2r Treaty. The Presi-
dent will discuss the subject in his forthcoming
Message, and he is likely to support the conclusions
embodied by B,2cretary Fish, in conjunction with
the late Canadian Finance Minister, as Mr. Fish
was delegated by the President himself to act for
the United States, and Mr. Fidi was in constant
communication with Mai dating the negotiation.
W a are happy to learn that in all probabi-
lity the postage to the United States on letters
under a half- ounce will on the Ist January.be reduced'

to threepence. Mr. Thornton, the British Minister
at Washington, has informed the Cabinet that her
Majesty's Government is prepared for the reduc-
tion, and the intentions of the American Govern
'tient have been fully explained by Postmaster-
General Creswell, who, as we lately announced,
had urged this reduction on the British Administra-
tion. Ile advised that one penny should be the
sea postage and one penny the inland postage, and
the English Postmaster-General appears to ap-
prove of the suggestion.
A telegram has been received in Glasgow from
Messrs.G.H.Stuartandother gentlemen, announcing
the union of the American and PresbyteriauChurches.
The two Assemblies of the American Presbyterians
in meeting at Philadelphia last summer decided by
an immense majority to unite in case the plan was
sanctioned by the Presbyteries in session this month.
The union appears to have been agreed to, and the
new and old now form one body. The message
urged union also on all the Presbyterian Churches
ef Great Britain and Ireland. The National Bap-
tist Sunday School Convention met at St. Louis
Nov. 2. Delegates from twenty-seven States were
present. The Convention was called to order by
Hon. 117 m. Phelps, of New York, after which the
business committees were appointed. In New York
preparations are being made for an Evangelical
Alliance Convention, embracing all Protestant
Churches, and vigorous are the efforts to gather
all clergymen of eminence there in the autumn of
next year.
Ex-President Fillmore appointed a committee to
wait on President Grant and thank Min on behalf of tire
Louisville Commercial Convention for his messago to it by
telegraph while in session. The committee, consisting of
Gen. Walbridge of New York, Blanton Duncan of Ken-
tucky, IL M. Corwin of Ohio, 'ex-Governor Herbert of
Louisiana, Holster Clymer of Pennsylvania, Col. William
Lamb of Virginia, and H. W. Hillard of Georgia, was in-
troduced on the 3d November, when General Walbridge
delivered the following address:—" Before its adjourn-
ment, the late Commercial Convention at Louisville de-
puted to the committee that I have the honour to present
the high and delicate responsibility of expressing to
your Excellency sentiments of gratitude and recipro-
cation of hearty good will for the wish communicated
in your despatch for the success of the great objects
for which the Convention was convened. Originally
called to discuss the exclusive interests of the Southern
States, the theatre of its usefulness was subsequently en-
larged until it embraced the material prosperity of
every section of our extended country. Delegates were
in attendance from Vermont and Texas, as also from
Georgia and Minnesota. Thus national in its character
it was pleasant beyond expression to receive encourage-
ment at the bands of the National Executive. Its delibe-
rations were confined mainly to the great questions of
finance, taxation,- immigration, internal improvements,
trasportation, and necessary measures by which the in-
dustries and great natural resources of the South could be
brought in harmony with the new era of prosperity upon
which the Republic has entered. One sentiment animated
the entire Convention, namely, to stand by the plighted
faith of the nation in the full payment of its public secu-
rities as stipulated when they were created ; and, forget-
ting all differences in the past, the desire was universal
that all sectional interests should be ignored, and that the
citizens of the United States should hereafter be a homo-
geneous nation, one, entire, united, and indivisible. In con-
clusion, we desire to congratulate your Excellency oM the
success which has thus far marked your administration
Enough has transpired to demonstrate that before the expi-
ration of your second term the public debt may be more than
half extinguished, and that American securities will coin-
mend a premium in every part of the inhabitable globe."
President Grant's reply wins about the longest speech he
ever made. " lie said he was very much gratified to re-
solve such a delegation, representing not only the great
commercial interests of the nation, but also the new con-
dition of affairs. The good-fellowship which ought to
unite a common brotherhood, and which was so happily
inaugurated and invigorated at Louisville, ho hoped would
extend and permeate throughout the entire Union
.until
every vestige of bitterness or unkindness should for ever
be eradicated. lie believed that within a year or two the
South would be far richer and far more prosperous than
over she was before, end the people have it within their
own power, by judicious policy and wise acts, to advance
their own interests and those of the entire country with
marvellous rapidity. As to.his second:term, he could assure
General Walbridge he f, It now very much as he did at
West Point in Lis cadet days, when he counted every
month with eagerness to get out of his position. He had
not sought his present position, as everybody knew."
Mrs. Stowe, who has gone to her winter quarters
in Florida, Las not been annihilated by the Quarterly
Review. In its grandiloquent way that great periodical
dismissed the authoress with words which ill became the
reviewer, for abuse is no argument, and it was directed
against all absent lady of high character, and whose mo-
tives were good, however ill-advised her action. But Mrs.
Stowe will neither be demolished nor dismissed, for she
now puLlishes a " curd," in which she requests the pullic
to suspend Unit-judgment on the letters of Lady Byron to
Mrs. Leigh, lately published in the London Quarterly
Reeicw, until they read them in their proper historical
connection in her forthcoming volume. On this subject
the Springfield Republican says :—" Mrs Stowe's final de-
claration aul summing up on the Byron case is au elabo-
rate affair, prepared with care and minuteness strongly' in
contrast with her original essay, and many times the
length of that production. It will appear here by itself, in
a volume or pamphlet, about the Ist of December, and ar-
rangemeets will probably be made to have it roach the
public of Great Britain at about the same time."
The House Committee have spent double the
amount in touring, "investigations" they call it, that Con

gross authorised, and the Sergeant•at-Arras has been con

pellet to advance the balance. A Washington writer says
that Congress only ventured on appropriating $25,000 for
these investigations after "Illinois" Washburn° had been
dispatched to Paris, and it is probable the Committees
kept up the spree in the absence of the Treasury " AVD; eh
dog" expending $50,000. It is now asserted that Generals

Butler, Banks, and Garfield, with other military Congress-
men, were about to proceed in a steamer to St. Domingo
to look alter au island which is to be a State of the Union
before New Year's Day. That the island is become a Slate
was one and a doubtful question, but the other was much
more likely that t ho Congressmen would extend their tour to
the West Indies at the Government expense. By the way,
the latest news received at New York from St. Domingo
was to October 25—" The revolutionists remain inactive,

near the town of Azua. The rumours prevalent of the
sale of St. Domingo to the United States aro gaining
strength."

The attack by the Indians on the mail at Apache
Pass, Arizor a, was made at night, and was therefore a

complete surprise. It was believed that the Indian super-
stition would have been an effectual safe-guard against an
attack in the dark, fur they suppose, if then killed, they
Will have to hunt in darkness throughout eternity. When
anything unusual happens the instigation is attributed to
white men, and it is officially asserted that on some occa-
sions the attack was led by white traitors to their race,
robbery being the principal otject. Colonel Stone and
the whole of the escort were killed, and then the Indians
attacked and stampeded 250 head of cattle belonging to the
herd of some Texas emigrants, besides killing a mau of
the party. Afterwards the savages twice attacked
a Government train en route for Camp Bowie. A
very interesting book has lately been published by
Messrs. llaapman and Hall, front the pen of Dr.
Bell, who describes what he saw whoa ono of the

Kansas Pacific Surveying party in exploring Arizona
for a route to the Pacific. Therein is given a vivid descrip-
tion of what these attacks are, of which we so lightly read
and so carelessly dismiss iu Europe. It is somewhat re-
markable that this author also asserts that the Indians
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were led by the son of a Colonel of tho United States Army
in a ferocious assault on United States troops ; but that
man was a half-ca,te, his mother being a Cheyenne
squaw. This nice young person openly declared that ho
wouldseek out and kill his father, and wear hie scalp in
his belt.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—The llon. Nathaniel
Niles, United States Minister to tipper Italy during Mr.
Polk's Administration, is very ill at his residonoa in Now
York.—Stephen M. Vail of New York has been appointed
Uuitod States .Consul for Bavaria.- -The Commissioner of
Indian Affairs has received official information of the death
of Satauta, late chief of the Kiowas, and leader of the
Indians in the desparato Wachita laver fight with the
forces under Gen. Ouster about a year ago. -Goo. Gienger,
manager on the farm of Ileverdy Johnson, jr., in Baltimore
County, committed suicide on Saturday, Oct. 3(1, by hanging.
—Senator Sprague has had a daughter born auto him.—
James T. Fields, the Br‘ston publisher, has returned home
from Europe.—Co i.modoro Vanderbilt has received a
barrel of apples. It took only 12') to till the barrel.—Mrs..
Gaines is still bothered by litigation about her propel ty in
New Orleans. - Mr.:. Catherine Goss is en old lady over SO,
who recently walked up Mount Washington, New Hamp-
shire; its height is G,-111,) feet above th, sea level.
Sanduskai, a Russian foroterly on Gen. Le,;','
staff, now works in a Mehil, Sa D;c!cen-
WHI'S library au:l correspoul,Lci aro said to be rotting iu
the loft of a Jersey imrn. -Mr. and Mrs. llow.trd Paul-
have returned to Amalie t from Europe.—An American
paper says, " John Stuart Mill is :-.ll»ken of as a c.tn-
did:tte for Parliament front Tipperary." Not so, indeed ;
fox Irish organs urge Mr. O'Donovan Roses the Fenian

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prisouer in a ” British Bastille," as the man for Tipperary.
—General Wade llaniptol and D. 11. Hill are gutting up a
"Military Institute" at Clu.rlotte, North Carolina. —Gee.
D. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, e•tlls George Francis
Train "a cipher !nulling a figure to plss for sonnet Mug."
Paul du CuaillU, the famous African explorer, is in Phila-
delphia.—General Butler, whilst travelling in a sleeping

car between Washington and New Yuri: rue, ntlybad

two overcoats and his pocket-book stolen from him. lie

is after those officials who leave their posts but continue