The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-28 00:00:00

don Fire Brigade, arrived in New York, Sept. 9, from a
tour in the West, where he has been inspecting the Firo
Departments of the principal cities. He went to the Bre-
voort House, and was to leave for Europe on Sept. 15.
Mr. C. Catacazy, the now Russian Minister to the United
States, arrived at New York in the St. Laurent, the late
Minister, was recalled some months ago, and Mr. Catacazy
appointed in his place. During the interim, Mr. Waldemar
Bodisco, formerly Secretary of Legation, has acted as
Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Catacazy will remain in the
city several weeks.—Koopmanschap, the Chinese im-
migration agent, has left San Francisco for New
York. Ho will make a tour of the Southern States,
and will then go to China for labourers.—Fourtoon
of the United States Senators have visited Cali-
fornia since the completion of the Pacific Railway.—
The Hon. Judge Day has left Ottawa for Washington to
examine into the boundary claims of the Hud3ou's Bay
Company.—General M'Clellan and Edwin M. Stanton,
with his family, are at Boston.—Thomas Ewing having
appeared in Ohio politics, the New York braid calls him
ono of "the surviving but dormant politicians of the epoch
before the flood."—An Englishman has started in a canoe,
to paddle himself from New Jersey to Texas. He has made
extended journeys of this kind in Europe.
BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.--The United States
suffers an annual loss of $300,000,000 from insect depreda-
tions.—Nashville, Tennessee, is putting up a $300,000
cotton Council Bluffs, lowa, with 3,000 inhabitants,
has several square miles devoted to a park.—The San
Diego Union states that out of 55,000 head of cattle that
started from Texas during the past year for California
not over 5,000 reached the State.—The revenue of the
New Dominion for August was 5389,279, and the ex-
penditure $757,387.—A coach of Wells, Fargo, and Co.
was robbed in Montana by highwaymen of $30,000 in
gold.—By the explosion of a bomb-shell in a machine shop
at Buffalo a workman was horribly mangled.— One of the
largest Sunday schools in San Francisco is composed of
Chinese children. —The old banking-house of L. A. Benoist
and Co. of St. Louis suspended, September B.—The stock-
holders of the Richmond and York River Railroad have
resolved to extend the road to the Chesapeake Bay, thus
shortening by seven hours the time between Richmond,
Baltimore, and Philadelphia.—On the Bth instant the
down freight train on the Jackson Railroad, from New
Orleans, fell through a trestle-bridge near Kennersville.
Four cars took fire, which, with contents,were consumed.—
Professor Davidson's scientific party has returnee to San
Francisco from Alaska. Tho result of the expedition-is
satisfactory. The party visited a region of country never
before penetrated by white men.—The Imperial Insurance
Company of London paid $lOO,OOO in Philadelphia on the
Ist inst., on losses by the destruction of whisky at the
late fire on Front-street, and would in a few days pay
$200,000 more.—Since September 1 it is unlawful for first
cousins to marry in New Hampshire. Before the Ist,
that is up to 12 o'clock midnight of August 31, it was legal
for persons so related to marry.—An $l,BOO pup is the last
present to Grant.—The Agricultural College at Amherst,
Massachusetts, opened its autumn term on Thursday, the
9th September, with additions to its corps of instructors,
of Capt. H. A. Alvord, of the United States Army, as Pro-
fessor of Military Science ; E. H. Barlow, of Amherst
College, Instructor of Rhetoric and Elocution, and Dr. A.
S. Packard, jun., Lecturer on Entomology.—The old
church at Hingham, Massachusetts, built in 1681, and the
oldest in New England, having been thoroughly repaired
and refitted, was re-dedicated ou Wednesday, the Bth of
September. The church has had only seven pastors in
the 234 years of its existence.—The Boston journeymen
tailors have decided to demand an advance in their
wages, equivalent to about $3.50 per week. For mak-
ing dress and frock coats they will hereafter charge $ll,
and lower prices to $7, according to the style of coat. -
The workmen engaged in excavating for the new Yale
College dormitory, on the ground formerly occupied by
the President's house, unearthed four bottles of very old
mulberry wine in an excellent state of preservation.— The
Canadian Medical Association met in convention at
Toronto on the Bth inst. A large number of delegates
from all parts of the Dominion, also from American medi-
cal associations, were present. C. Tupper delivered the
address, after which the new medical act for Ontario was
discussed at great length. The following, not residing in
the Dominion, were elected honorary members: —Dr. W.
,Davis, of Chicago, Illinois; Joseph K. Barnes, M.D., Sur-
geon, United States Army; Samuel D. Gross, M.D., of
Philadelphia; Charles A. Leo, M.D., of Buffalo Univer-
sity.—On the evening of the Bth inst. the thirty-eighth
annual exhibition of the American Institute was for-
mally opened to the public at the Empire Rink, on Third
Avenue, corner of Sixty-third-street, New York, by an
address by the President, the Hon. Horace Greeley.—
The American papers say that the extravagance of Jenny
Lind's husband has so reduced her circumstances that it is
thought that she will open a school for opera singers in
Paris.— Montreal has an important case involving the
legality of the marriage of a white man and an Indian
woman in the Hudson Bay Territory, and having 8300,000
dependent on the verdict.—The Richmond Enquirier is glad
Harvard lost, because " the Northern people have enough
to be proud of," and it desires that " some check should be
administered to American conceit." The same paper is
delighted with the present political situation in Virginia,
and "thanks General Grant and Horace Greeley for it."
The Boston Journal says that drunkenness is just as com-
mon in the streets of that city as ever, and that intoxicat-
ing liquors flow just as freely as when there was no law
to restrain their sale.—Kansas claims to be the champion
corn grower this year, and that its crop will lead every
other State.—Chicago, upon orders from London, is ex-
porting butter to China by way of California.—Lowell,
Massachusetts, since New Year's Dry, has had sixteen
suicide cases, chiefly of young girls.
ELECTION NEWS.—On the 7th of September the
annual State election held in Vermont resulted in a Repub-
lican triumph, their majority being 20,000. Tho vote was
light, little interest being taken in Cie cause, as the result
was known to be sure. The State officers elected are—Go-
vernor, General Peter T. Washburn of Woodstock; Lieu-
tenant-Governor, George W. Hendee of Morristown;
Treasurer, John A. Page of Montpelier. The State Senate
is unanimously Republican, while the House contains less
than a dozen Democrats. The Republican ticket for Wis-
consin is as follows :—Governor, General Lucius Fairchild
of Dane ; Lieut.• Governor, Thaddeus 0. Pound, of Chip-
pewa ; Secretary of State, Elia A. Spencer, of Dane
State Treasurer, Henry Baetz, of Manitowoc; Attorney-
General, S. S. Barlow, of Sank; Prison Commissioner, G
F. Wheeler, of Fond du Lac ; Supt. Pub, Instruction, A
J. Craig, of Jefferson ; and this is the Democratic :
Governor, Charles D. Robinson ; Lieutenant-Governor,
Gilbert E. Park of Portage; Secretary of State, A. G,
Coble of Columbia;_ Treasuror, John Black of Milwaukie;

Attorney-General, S. W. Pinney of Dane; Prison Com-
missioner, Carl Birdoe of Waukesha ; Sup. Public Instruc-
tion, I. K. Cannon of Ozaukee. The chances favour the
Republicans, nor do wo think the platform of the Demo-
crats, which advocates the taxation of the National Bonds,
at all calculated to strengthen their chances in November.
The Minnesota Republican Convention at St. Paul, on
Thursday, Sept, 9, nominated Judge Austin of St. Peter
for Governor. The returns from California are still in-
definite.• A majority of members elected to the Legisla-
ture are doubtless Democrats, securing the rejection of
the Fifteenth Amendment, and the Democratic local tickets
were generally chosen. In San Francisco, the indepen-
dents at first claimed that they had elected Mr. Selby as
mayor, together with a proportion of the other officials,
but M'Coppin, the Democratic candidate for mayor, has
insisted on another count of the votes, and it is now in
progress. The Democrats carried everything in Sacra-
mento and Nevada counties, which have hitherto been
Republican, and William M. Gwin, jun., is elected State
Senator from Calaveras county. Nuckolls, the Demo-
cratic delegate to Congress from Wyoming, was elected
by a majority of JO. In New Mexico the returns in-

dicato that tho Republican candidate Chavez I;as au;

cessful. The Santa Fe county returned the whole
Republican ticket by an average majority of 200. Senator
Sumner had been invited to preside at the meeting of the
Massachusetts Republican Convention, to be held on the

23d inst. Of that Convention we have news by cable, and
Mr. Sumner's speech, whatever it was that gave offence,
has been repudiated. We are curious to know how so
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experienced a politician could on such au occasion have so
spoken as to induce the Convention to repudiate what he
said. The Convention renominated Governor Claffin, and
all the present State officers, and has adopted resolutions
endorsing President Grant's course and denouncing the
taxation of bonds under any form. While repudiating
Sumner's speech they approved the Republican Finan-
cial policy, which leads us to suppose that the great
Massachusetts Senator may have taken ground un-
palatable to his party on that subject. More-
over, . they favour non-intervention in Cuban affairs,
excepting by way of mediation, and declare that
the insurgents are not yet entitled to Will.
gerent rights. The resolutions affirm that the United
States suffered incalculable injury during the rebellion by
the aid and encouragement given by Great Britain to the
rebels. For the present, however, it would be enough
to expose British accountability ; the question of the

reparation to be offered as accepted was a matter for
further consideration ; the settlement of the American

claims by the transfer of Canada to tho United States
was impracticable ; Canada was already gradually ap-

preaching union with the United States. The New
York Democratic Convention met last Wednesday. Reso-
lutions were adopted opposing Grant's Administration,
demanding a general amnesty, the reduction of the army,

the subordination of military to civil rower, the payment
of debt according to contract, the equalization of taxes,
the reduction of tariff to a revenue basis, protection of

American citizens in Great Britain and Cuba, and oppos_
lug negro suffrage and amendment to the Constitution.
The Mississippi Conservative Convention, which nomi-
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nated Judge Louis Dent, held on the Bth inst. at Jackson,
was composed of 3CO delegates, 75 of them coloured.
Judge Jeffards was nominated for Lteut-Governor, and a
complete ticket for Congressmen selected. The resolutions
adopted reaffirm the principles enunciated in the constitution
of June 23, declare in favour of a liberal system of free
schools, and of an equitable distribution of the public school
funds, cordially invite immigration of capitalists and mann-
facturers into the State, and pledge such legislation as
shall most effectually aid and•foster all industrial pursuits,
and dovelope the resources of the State. 'rho ticket yas