The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-08 00:00:00

might have made much shorter, Several moni-.
tors are for sale ; only two bids were received
for them ; the one offering 160,000 dollars
each for two, and the other, small sums for
about half a dozen of the smaller, but all were re-
jected as under the appraised value. Eighty tons
of powder were sold to a New York firm when forts
Greble and Corcoran were dismantled, and the
firm is loading a schooner with 100,0001bs. of the
power purchased from the Government. Our new
City Government was installed on Monday, but
Mayor Bowen is absent at the Peace Jubilee. The
Hon. Ben. Wade is among the Mormons, but be
goes on when he can tear himself away from
Brigham Young's harem, and Senators Kellogg and
Harris passed through this city on their road to the
Pacific coast.* Mrs. Spinner, wife of the Treasurer,
was seized with an attack of apoplexy shortly after
leaving Washington for her home in Herkimer,

New York. General William F. llarney has re-
tired from the army, and hands over the several
Indian agencies at Grand River, Fort Lily, and
Whetstone Creek to the lately appointed agents
after a long, arduous, and useful career. Colonel
0. A. Mack acts instead of General Pelouse as aide
to the Secretary of War, and has assumed his
duties. 'William Emory has declined the Governor-
ship of the Soldiers' Home. Secretary Rawlins is
absent on about ten days' leave. Secretary Fish con-
tinues hard at work, although he had a severe but
short attack of illness ; and was " interviewed" on
Tuesday by Mr. Ruiz, the representative of the
Cuban insurgents, who strongly but vainly appealed
for recognition, Mr. Fish merely assuring him of his
personal sympathy for the cause. He alone has got
up him cotaLlidu-nont in this city, and makes it really
his home, having taken Senator Morgan's large fur-
nished house at an annual rental of $6,000. Parson
Brownlow favours universal suffrage in Tennessee,
and publishes a characteristic card. The Tennessee
Senator's language is always something of the
strongest, savouring of brimstone and fire, and even
in his extreme feebleness of health the strong habit
remains unconquerable. Like Thaddeus Stevens
he is a man of indomitable will, though not with
the firm and patriotic convictions which marked
the career of that singular character. A story is
current that the Parson will coalesce with Andrew
Johnson to elect D. W. C. Senter for Governor.
The ex-President wants to secure Mr. Fowler's
scat in the Senate, which becomes vacant in '7l,
and we all know with what obstinacy Andrew
Johnson can play to the end his little game. It was
also rumoured that he was about to pay Washing-
ton a visit, I suppose on this business. Secre-
tary Cox left on Wednesday for Cincinnati to spend
a week in Ohio, and Judge Otto takes charge of his
department in his absence. Chief Justice Chase
has upset some of the calculations of the Treasury
Department, for he has ruled that our statute of
limitation (which I believe to be similar to yours,
making six years the period) acts against the Go-
vernment as well as against individuals, which is
contrary to the custom of the Treasury, and would
have saved them, had they known it, the trouble of
looking up the little debts left by the Government
officers who afterwards joined in the rebellion. The
Chief Justice is much impressed with the improved
prospects of the South, and he always advocates a
genuine re-union ; none of your Congressional re-
constructions, but a raising of our starry banner
over the land, and a rallying around it as the sym-
bol of the Union. Addressing the coloured men,
among whom he is recognzied as one of their truest
friends, he told them they had need of caution and
patience, and had more responsibility in action than
whites, for the conduct of one reflected on the whole
race ; thus signifying much more than an individual
act. " If," he said, " a white man embraced the
wrong lie was adjudged by society simply as a
citizen ; by his own merits or demerits he stood
or fell, with no thought given to his race ; but if a
coloured man departed from the paths of rectitude
or of wisdom, society charged the fault upon his
people." Texas is a big State, a fertile State, and
one in which people might live satisfactorily, if
some of the " cusses" there, would only let them.
The experiment of hanging has not yet been tried in
the case of white men murdering negroes, or shoot-
ing in a quarrel, or for political opinions, but is
likely to be tested on the 24th Sept. next, on the per-
son of James Weaver, who, unless something inter-
venes, will on that day be hanged for the murder
of Authony litiowl.s, the coloured man he delibe-
rately and wantonly shot. As it would have been
impossible to get a white jury to convict him, he was
tried by a military court and sentenced to death, a
decision which has been approved by the Pre-
sident, after being submitted to the Attorney-
General, who has ruled that it is in accordance
with law. In his company is to be hanged Reuben
Smith, of the United States Cavalry, for the mur-
der of an infantry soldier. Texas will soon have a
coloured officer of Customs, as a negro named
Nicholls has been appointed night surveyor at Gal-
veston. They have an unpleasant way of disposing
of Inspectors of Customs in those civilized regions.
Mr. Frank Dupont is the third murdered within six
months, and his body has just been found, the out-
rage being attributed to those unscrupulous scoun-
drels, smugglers on the Mexican border. The Case
of young Douglass still progresses. There was a
meeting of compositors and pressmen at the Go-
vernment printing office to uphold his appointment
to a place in their room, and to denounce the action
of the National Typographical Convention ; and a
meeting is to be held to vindicate themselves from
the charge of working with a " rat." Mr. Coffin
spoke to the point pretty plainly, declared the
question to be that of admitting coloured men into
unions, which must be met rightly, and Mr. Doug-
lass quietly resumed work. There was an imposing
funeral here on Wednesday, that of Mrs John F.
Coyle, which was attended by all the Catholic
societies and friends from the surrounding country.
Among the pall-bearers were Senator Stockton of
New Jersey, Mr. Cochran, General Ricketts, Com-
modore Dickman, and Senator Morton of Minne-
sota. Among the retirements is that of General S.
S. Carroll, who was placed on the retired list at his
own request, in the class of disability, resulting
from long and faithful service, or injury incident
thereto, with the full rank of Major-General. His
substantive grade was that of Lieutenant-Colonel in
the United States Army, but he has frequently com-
manded in action brigades of great strength, and he
is incapacitated from service by the wounds he re-
ceived. An active canvas is progressing in Vir-
ginia, to which State it is likely that there will be
a considerable emigration after the election. Both
sides are confident, the Conservatives backing
Walker, and the Republicans -Wells. There
was another meeting at Stanton last Tues-
day, no other than the superintendents of the
State Lunatic Asylums, an important object, for
they compare notes and arrive at results to guide
them in the treatment of the insane throughout the
Union. On such points the United States takes
the lead of all nations ; when our country fills up
with people and wealth, I do not boast in saying
that we shall be able to carry into fuller effect and
make more conspicuous, the superiority with which
such institutions are here worked out. The crops
in Virginia are very fine ; the wheat is said to be
magnificent, and all ready to harvest. Our African
fellow-citizens are pushing ahead too fast. Dr.
Purves and Dr. Augusta, though duly licensed as
practitioners by the Medical Society of the district
of Columbia, desired membership in the society as
well, but on application were snubbed, as it was re-
jected by 5 to, 1. Annie Surratt has, poor girl,
changed her name, and amalgamated herself into
her husband, who, by the way, is a chemist, belong-
ing to the Surgeon-General's Office. The Rev.
Father Walter performed the ceremony in St.
Patrick's Church yesterday; the publication of
banns were dispensed with by Archbishop Spauld-
ing, the marriage being strictly private. Mr. W.
P. Taney and his bride immediately after started
on a tour. The attache of the British Legation,
who gave Senator Grimes the matter for comment
in his letter to the London Times, by an observa-
tion to Senator Sumner that " England's bill of
damages against the United States, growing out of
other claims of British subjects, would be sufficient
to offset the Alabama claims" has been removed to

* Mrs. Spinner died on the 14th June at Mohawk, New
York, greatly respected and regeetted by all «ho knew
her, and Mr. Spinner will in consequence be detained kr
a longer period than anticipated.