The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-20 00:00:00

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.
Mr. Butler, a nephew of the General and the the-
atrical critic of the Spirit of the Times, has got into
another fisticuff difficulty. If anybody is to be shot
I hope it may not be one who affords so much
amusement, although it may be at the expense of
the eyes and the nose, and the feelings generally, of
particular individuals. Surely these persons will
not be so selfish as to regret their sufferings, know-
ing how much merriment they cause. This time
the fight was with Samuel Wilson, whom Butler
struck in a car on a railroad, by way of a clencher,
in a dispute. He has very knock-down arguments
has this Butler, and he freely uses them, as one on
the staff of a sporting journal should. Wilson tried
law, but got little satisfaction, for the judge dis
charged Mr. Butler for want, as he alleged, of juris-
diction ; but the affair is not to be permitted to end
thus, for the principals exchanged cards before
leaving the court, and I tremble to think that the
life of my brother correspondent is in danger, and
one who in dull times gives us a topic to write on.
Messrs. Burnham, Rice, Fisher, and Lyman arrived
in the City of Paris, and would have been publicly
received by the Boat Clubs could they have waited
two days, but they had to go on at once to Harvard,
and the Boat excitement has subsided in view of the
terrific storm raging in Wall-street, but some of the
newspapers still continue to discuss the great match.
Mr. Simmons, I hear, is in Dresden, where he is to
learn the German language before proceeding to
Vienna to study medicine. Mr. Loring is to become
a lawyer, and has entered the office of Chandler,
Shattuck, and Thayer, in Boston. Mr. Blaikie, the
Secretary, has entered on the duties of his office of
Pardon-Clerk in the Attorney-General's office at
"Washington. the same crew cannot, therefore,
be again got together, still Yale might try its
strength. Nothing bas been talked of all this
week but the great gold fight, until people are
growing quite weary of the subject, and I rejoice
that it is so, for it never had any great interest for
me, and is injurious to the credit of our country.
Senator Wilson visited the Gold Room yesterday
with Mr. Henry Clews, who then took him on to the
Long Room and the Board of Stockbrokers. This
being his first visit to the locality he was naturally
surprised at finding important business transacted
in a scene of such hurry and excitement. He in-
tends to try and do what the late Thaddeus Stevens
failed in, that is, to restrict by law gold sales to the
actual delivery of the metal, making any transac-
tion beyond this a misdemeanour. Viscount Adare,
of the Ist Life Guards, is here preparing for a shoot-
ing expedition in the west. He proceeds to Fort
Leavenworth, and will direct his steps according to
the information there given. I suppose he will fol-
, low a good deal in the footsteps of Capt. Tow nshend,
of the same regiment, was he not ?* General Sher-
man and his daughter have passed through this city
for Washington, and Postmaster-General Creswell
has arrived from Washington. Senator Patterson
and the Hon. Jacob Benton, M.C., of New Hamp-
shire, were also here for a night on their way home
from a tour ou the Pacific Railroad. I may here
mention that the road to California averages 100 mi-
-1 grants a day, carried to San Francisco from Omaha
fors42. The trip is made from this in ten days in goods
cars of the express freight train. The Union Pacific is
earning in the gross about $750,000 a month ; its
working expenses being $300,000, to which profit added land sales averaging $200,000 a month. A
suit has been brought hero by Luther C. Challis,
against the Central Branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad for $500,000, for services in negotiating a
treaty midi the Kiekapoo Indians, and in procur-
ing a grant of $1,600,000 in United States Bonds,
to aid in constructing the road. Horace Greeley
has given the result of his trip to Vermont, whore
lie found temperance to prevail and liquor scarce.
Mr. Grceley is said to grow cabbages at $1 a piece
an his little place near the city, and being a farmer
on so costly a scale he is qualified to deliver opi-
nions. He finds fault with the scarcity of timber in
Vermont, attributing much of the sterility and poor
pasturage to this cause, but he praises the immense

* Viscount Adaro belongs to the Ist and Capt. Towns-
bend to the 2d Life Guards. We believe the former is the
son and heir of the Earl of Duuraven.—ED. 4.4. T.

quantities of butter, cheese, and maple sugar,
" white as loaf and fine as powdered Havanna," and
is much pleased with the " bread that is bread and not
spoiled dough." There has been a grand affair in
presenting a $5,000 silver service to the late Presi-
dent of the Great Western Insurance Company at
New Rochelle. Mr. Evarts delivered the speech,
and there were several leading men prereut. At
the same place, which is in Long Island, Thomas
H. Fields caught himself in his own grapery with his
spring-gun, and was killed. Admiral Poor sailed
on Sunday from this port for Key West to assume
command of the squadron in Cuban waters. The
delegation of New York steel importers, on their
way to interview Secretary Boutwell, have left this
for Washington. Their object is not to pump the
Secretary, like ordinary interviewers, but to im-
plant in the mind of that important functionary
some alleged facts which may increase the price of steel.
In my last letter I mentioned suicides were likely to
be caused by the flurry in the Gold Room, and one
at least has resulted, that of a broker named Solomon
Mahler. John D. Culcrr, a broker of St. Cathe-
rine's, Canada, has absconded with $20,000 belong-
ing to that and other banks. The papers give an
account of the wreck of the steamship Trade Wind,
from New Orleans to Belize, which was lost at sea
on Sept. 24th. The crew and passengers,the latter
numbering only three, embarked in the boats. One
of the boats has reached New Orleans, and steamers
have been sent in search of the other. In the Gulf
of St. Lawrence the schooner Crown Point was run
down, and the captain and two seamen were after-
wards drowned by the boat upsetting in which they
were.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Jose Morena died in
Brazil recently, aged 135. His birth and age aro said to
be well authenticated. John C. Breckinridgo, having been
recently addressed as " General " by the Judge in a Ken-
tucky Court, Breckinridge suggested that hereafter all
military titles be disregarded in the court room. The
Judge said he acquiesced with pleasure.— Jem
Mace is exhibiting his prize pitcher and cups in
New York, including his own " mug."—Boston Post.—
At A. T. Stewart's store in New York twenty $2,000
shawls have been sold this season, and one worth $5,700,
We wonder what they would have cost at Messrs. Ever-
ington and Graham's, who have the finest collection in the
world.—ProfessorWaters, Principal of Paterson (N J) Semi-
nary, was dangerously injured recently by being struck
with a stone by a boy who threw it at some pears on a tree
in a churchyard. It is feared ho will not recover.—
Infinite trouble is in the future in settling Brigham
Young's estate. He is very rich, but then when he dies
each of his twenty-five widows will expect her third. He
is said never to travel from Utah, fearing a prosecution for
bigamy.—Ex-Governor Seymour is to deliver the annual
address at the Wisconsin State Fair next month.—
General Rosecrans on one occasion asked his staff offi-
cers for a pencil. Not one had any. The General sadly
remarked, "Had I asked for a corkscrew every one of you
would have had one."—Gen. J. E. Johnston is in the insur-
ance business in Goorgia.—A farewell dinner was given to
Hon. J. Rose at St Lawrence-hall, S ept. 28, and was attended
by gentlemen of all political shades. Mr. Dart, the Ameri-
can Consul, was present and made a speech.—Governor
Campbell, Governor Bross, Lord Paget, and a number of
army officers, have just made an excursion to Cheyenne
over the completed portion of the Denver Pacific Rail-
road. The work is considered satisfactory, and is pro-
gressing at the rate of a mile per day.—The Hon.
G. H. Hollister, ex-Minister to Hayti, arrived at New
York in the steamship City of Port -au - Prince, from
Port-au-Prince.—Governor Haight is a candidate for
United States Senator, to succeed Mr. Colo, the present
Republican Senator from California. -General Sherman,
Secretary of War, and daughter, arrived in Now York,
Sept. 28, and returned to Washington in the evening.—
Mr. George W. Wishback, ono of the proprietors and the
leading oditor of the St. Louis Democrat, left Now York
on the Ville de Paris for Europe, whore he hopes to spend
the ensuing year travelling with his invalid wife.—The
Rev. Shapharzi, Edalzi, a converted fire worshipper of the
celebrated sect of the Parsees of Bombay, is now acting as
assistant curate of Holy Trinity, St. Ebb's, Oxford (Eng-
land). The rev. gentleman was ordained by the Bishop
of Oxford. —Chief Justice Chase, who has heretofore
resided with his son-in-law, Senator Sprague, in the
latter's mansion in Washington, will shortly remove to
a separate residence and keep house, his daughter Nettie
to bo the "lady of the house." Mr. Chase has purchased,
it is stated, " Metropolis View," a part of Berry's
Woods, near Glenwood Cemetery, for 22,000 dollars.—
Ex-Governor Bullock's eldest son is engaged to a daughter
of the late Commodore E. A. Stevens, the Hoboken, N.J.,
millionaire, a lady who is worth over a million in her own
right. 'The lovers first met in Europe, and are still abroad.
—Gen. Thomas and Admiral Farragut left San Francisco
for the East on Wednesday, Sept. 29.—The President has
had his photograph taken on horseback to aid the artist
who is modeling an equestrian statue of the General for the
Lincoln monument.—John W. Moore, who killed Mrs.
NPAdams at Greenville, Illinois, in July, has been sen-
tenced to be hanged on Oct. 22.—The return of Bradford,
the artist, is announced at St. John's, New Brunswick,
from the Arctic voyage in search of sketches.—The year
1869 is remarkable as the centenary of the Emperor Napo-
leon 1., the late Duke of Wellington, the younger Pitt
Schiller, Robert Burns, Robespierre, Sir Walter Scott,
Humboldt, Baron Cuvier, and Mehemet Ali, who were
all born in 1769.—The United States Government pro-
perty at Harper's Ferry is to be sold on the 30th of
November.—A large meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati
was held Sept. 28 at Pike's, to take action against the
exclusion of the Bible from the public schools. Three
thousand persons were present. Resolutions favouring
the Bible in the schools, and asking the Board not to act
in the matter till after the spring elections, were passed
nnaaimously.—Henry T. Eddy of North Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, has accepted a Professorship of Mathematics
in Cornell University.—Chief Justice John Appleton of
Bangor, and Assistant Justice J. G. Dickerson of Belfast,
have been reappointed to their positions on the Supreme
Court bench (Maine.)—The Rev. Mr. Jones, lately of
Trinity Church, New York, has been called to the as-
sistant ministership of Epiphany Church in Washington,
vice the Rev. Reeve Hobble, resigned, to accept a senior
position in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn.—
Professor Schaff, of the New York Evangelical Alliance,
has visited Bremen for the purpose of inviting the well-
wishers of that Association in the old Hanse town to the
general meeting of Evangelical Protestants which is to
bo held in Now York in September, 1870.—Ex-President
Fillmore has been elected President of the National Com-
mercial Convention now sitting at Nashville.

ELECTION NEWS.— The New York Republican
State Convention met at Syracuse on the 29th Sept., and
nominated State officers as follows:--Secretary of State,
George W. Curtis ; Comptroller, Gan. John G. Robinson ;
Treasurer, Thos. S. Chatfield; Attorney-General, Martin
I. Townsend; State Prison Inspector, Daniel D. Connor;
Judges for the short term of the Court of Appeal, Messrs.
Woodruff and Mason. The Convention made no recom-
mendation in regard to the adoption of the pending State
Constitution. The feeling was in favour of Gen. Sigel for
the first place on the ticket. Mr. Curtis, writing from
Ashfield on the next day, declined the nomination with
hearty thanks for the honour, agreeing in the declaration
of principles, but stating his private affairs were a bar to
his performance of the duties. By telegram we learn that
Gen. Sigel was then nominated, but whether he will accept
in his delicate state of health remains to be seen. Mr.
Horace Greeley was placed on the ticket for State Comp-
troller, but it is very doubtful whether ho can accept
Ho has been suggested as a Senator from Virginia, and
as it now appears to be uncertain whether men oven like
General C. Wickham can take the test oath, the choice
is so narrowed that it is probable the Virginians will
have to look outside their State for at least ono Senator.
Mr. Greeley can be made a citizen in a few weeks, ho
already has pecuniary interests in the State, and his in-
fluence went far towards securing the election of Go-
vernor Walker.—The Minnesota Democratic Convention
has nominated George L. Otis, for Governor, J. A. West-
cott for Lieut.-Governor, and F. G. T. Conrad for Secre-
tary of State. Col. Charles H. Joyce of Rutland declines to
be a candidate for Speaker of the Vermont House of Re-
presentatives, and recommends Mr. Grandey of Vergennes.
The editors of the Democratic newspapers in Texas have
met in convention, and nominated Hamilton Stuart for
Governor. Stuart has accepted, and a full straight De-
mocratic ticket is to be nominated. Forty newspapers
support the movement. Major-General Reynolds, com-
manding in Texas, has written a letter to President Grant,
emphatically confirming what had before been suspected
as to the condition of political parties in that State. He
says if the A. J. Hamilton party is successful, though
Hamilton professes to be a Republican, it will be through
Democratic votes, and will bo tho defeat of Republicanism
iu Texas, and will put the State in the hands of the very
men who, during the rebellion, exerted every nerve to
destroy the Union, and who have uniformly opposed the
reconstruction laws with a persistency worthy of a better
cause. Last Tuesday the elections were held in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, and lowa, and all the Republicans triumphed.
General John W. Geary was ro-elected Governor in Penn-
sylvania, defeating Asa Packer, the wealthy Democratic
candidate. In Ohio, General Rutherford B. Hayes was
re-elected Governor, defeating the great democratic leader
and the well-known advocate for greenback redemption,
George 11. Pendleton. In lowa, as every ono know would
be the case, the vote was altogether Republican, Samuel
Merrill being re-elected Governor by some 30,000 majority.
In none of the States dots there appear to have been
much excitement, and the votes were very light. What-
ever doubts were expressed on Republican success centred
in Pennsylvania, but Geary was re-elected by a majority
of some five thousand, and a preponderating influence Las
been secured in the Legislature. The Times states that the
Republican majority in Ohio for General Hayes was but
3,000 according to the estimate of both parties. Returns
had not been received for Indiana or Nebraska. Ex-Pro.
sident Fillmore has been elected President of the National
Commercial Convention now sitting at Nashville. Harmony
has been restored in Georgia, the Atlanta New Era, from
being the opponent, having become the official organ of
the executive. The Democratic State Committee lately
assembled at Atlanta favoured immediate obedience to the
Stato Supreme Court on the question of resenting the

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coloured members. Judge Hoar's opinion as regards tb6
power of the Virginia Legislature is accepted in Georg"?
and it is thought that the expelled members will be re-
seated and the Fifteenth Amendment passed. In Burke'
Columbia, and Hancock Counties, murders were frequent'
but the ill treatment of the negroes appeared to bring its
own punishment, for the labourers being driven away, tbe;
crops could not be gathered. The time for the Mississig;
election has been extended to two days, November 30 asnci
December 1, and Judge Dent appears to have gn°
grounds for anticipating success against General Aker!'
nominated by the Radical party on the 28th Sept. at that
State Convention. Both candidates will stump the St/
in person, assisted by good speakers of each party,
both conventions have nominated negroes for Secrets'i
of State to catch the African vote. The Minnesota lie-
publicans nominated a Swede for Secretary of State.
candidate, Hans Mattson, was put forth by the Sean;
navian Convention, which met a few weeks ago, as tb`
representative man.