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London, England, 1869-05-08 00:00:00

.NG, MAY 8, 1869

die,_ after a night of it, during which the excitement
sustained, the'personal qualifications and
characters of gentlemen being discussed, while all
said being " privileged," friends and enemies had a
fine time. On the 23d Senators Bayard, Brownlow,
Conkling, Edmunds, Ferry, Grimes, Hamilton,
Hamlin, Howe, M'Creery, Morrill,—Norton, Prett,
Scott, Vickers, Willey, and Fenton:left Washing-
ton for their homes. It was reportdd. that Senator
Morton had been stricken with paralysis on the floor
of the Chamber, but this proved to be a gross ex-
aggeration, as he had merely fainted from over-
work and heat. Secretary Boutwell has also left
Washington on a short visit to Boston.
The closing scene which excited most interest was
Senator Nye's response to Mr. Sprague, which cul-
minated in the evening in something very like a
" row." The Senator from Nevada made a long
speech in defence of Burnside, the Rhode Island
troops, and himself, showing that he was not " the
harlequin of the Senate," as he had been termed, but
although hewas followed in the same strain by Sena-
tors Chandler, Abbott, and Morton, Senator Sprague
still boldly confronted his foes. la the President's
chair was Senator Anthony, his colleague, with
whom he is at war. While in the fling of his remarks,
he fell foul of Commodore Vanderbilt and the in-
famous Fisk (junior), as he termed that gentle-
man. In answer to Mr. Abbott, be was reminded
of a little illustration the Senate might apply,
which occurred in his travels into the rural districts,
through the woods and farms of the surrounding
neighbourhood. Chance brought him to a place,
where he discovered, on looking up, a large mas-
tiff and a mongrel puppy dog. The little dog
moved on him with rapidity, barking at his heels ;
but a kick sent, him away howling to take shelter
by his larger companion, and the overgrown mas-
tiff followed. We give these remarks, for on this
little story hung the fight. Mr. Abbott, satisfied that
be was the puppy, wanted to know in the evening
session whether the application was correct, and if
an apology was refused he intended to have satis-
faction outside the Chamber. As he observed the
Senator " had skulked out," he now gave notice
that he would exact such retribution. Then Sena-
tor Sumner, springing forward in :an excited tone,
raised a point of order. The Senator had avowed
his determination to violate a law of the lard, but
Mr. Anthony ruled that he did not consider the de-
claration an intention to infringe any law. Mr.
Abbott explained that he was not a duellist, and
did not mean that sort of thing; nevertheless, satis-
faction he would have outside, and to this he ad-
hered, while theSanate went into Executive Session.
Senator Anthony's ruling is generally condemned.
Senator Sprague filled 12 columns of the Globe
with the letters the Senate had given him permission
toprint, he had received from all parts commending
his recent speeches. They come from Henry Brooks
Adams, son of Charles Francis Adams, 0. S.
Halsted of New Jersey, William Barney of New
York, Nahum Cassum of Boston, George M. Wes-
ton of Bangor, Maine, Charles Stanford, a Re-
publican member of the New York State Legisla-
ture, John Mullally, editor of an Irish Detno•
cratic paper in New York City, and over 100 others.
We are bound to say that Mr. Sprague has spoken
with much precision and openness, and although he
has raised a hornet's nest, he is not without merit.
During the day following Senator Abbott's terrible
threats, he remained quietly at home while the latter
wo advised
says
went about transacting his business and breathing
vengeance, sternly resisting the friends
Spragueds h
him to let the matter drop. Senator
he will defend himself, but not accept a challenge,
and this was the stage the Rhode Island Senator's
proceedings had reached when the mail left.

General Grant has taken the extraordinary course
of endeavouring to avert future Indian wars, by
nominating as Indian agents eighteen Quakers.
The following are the names of the "Friends :"
Howard White, at Omaha; Laurie Tathem, for
Kiowas, Apaches, and Comanches ; Briuton Dar-
lington, Upper Arkansas; Albert E. Green, Upper
Missouri; Edward Painter, Upper Platte; Reuben
L.. Roberts, Shawnees; Kansas; Thomas 11. Stan-
ley, for Pottawatomie Indians, Kansas; Jacob M.
Truch, for Pawnees, Nebraska ; Thomas Lightfoot,
for Great Nehemas ; I. M'Neal, for the Sac and
Fox Indians; A. M. Jansey, for the Sante Sioux ;
Edward Prayne, for the Pawnees ; J. G. Tyson,
for the Winnebagns; James Stanley, for the Usages;
Richards, for the Delaware Indians in Kansas; J.
Newsen, for the Kansas Agency ; Enoch loge,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Central
Superintendency; and Samuel M. Januery, Super-
intendent for the Northern Superintendency. Two
of them were rejected by the Senate, and others
substituted. Colonel Parker, the Commissioner,
was about to enter on his duties. Major Charles E.
Mix, who has been Chief Clerk, and has acted from
time to time as Commissioner for Indian Affairs,
for 33 years, has been removed, and is succeeded by
Mr. B. Waugh of MArylAnd. The former retired
on the Ist of May.

Mr. Sumner's speech is producing its natural re-
sults. Bills for damages can be made out by other
nations, as well as by the great Republic, and
the Dominion is about to try her hand. The
Spaniards no doubt can bounce a little too, and if
they suppress the insurrection in Cuba, a Spanish
Sumner may draw out in the Cortes a bill against
the United States. The Hon. Galt, in order to
give the Canadian Parliament a means of express-
ing an opinion on the proceedings in the United
States' Senate, and the proposal to surrender
the British American possessions as the basis of
negotiations for the settlement of the Alabama
claims, moved for a return of the expenses incurred
in preparing for the defence of the frontier during
the threatened Fenian raid. Ile desired that the
papers should be laid on the table relating to the
cost in 18G3-64, and subsequently, as constituting a
claim for indemnity against the United States.
The Spanish Minister, at Washington, urged the
President to forbid by Proclamation, the citizens of
the United States from aiding the Cuban insur-
gents, but Secretary Fish had resisted the pressure,
drawing a broad distinction between the fillibus-
tering expeditions of 1851 and the generous assist-
ance now tendered to the Cubans struggling for their
independence. Although Admiral Hoff, who com-
mands the squadron off the island, reports that no
munitions of war, in any material quantity, had
been landed, so far as lie could ascertain, letters
had been received at 'Washington showing that a
cargo of rifles and three heavy guns had been re-
ceived by the insurgents. They contradict the
report of Spanish successes, but acknowledge that
they await the arrival of more war material from
America before inaugurating a regular campaign.
Whether Admiral Hoff shut his eyes, and, like
Nelson at Copenhagen, did not see what he did
not want to see, we cannot tell, but it appears to be
a fact that from New York City alone the equip-
ment for 20,000 men had been safely dispatched.
Not only are Cuban volunteers drilling, but the
men are being conveyed to the scene of action as
soon as ready ; GO having embarked on the 22d of
April, trained and officered. The next party were
to sail from Boston, and several officers employed
in the late war had already arrived in that city.
From Philadelphia a supply of men and ammuni-
tion, sufficient to fill a big steamer, had been shipped
at a point near Cape May. Several Southern cities
were also supplying their quota.

The usual monthly statement published by the
Secretary of the Treasury shows the Debt of the
United States on the Ist of May to have been
$2,691,900,000, including accrued interest and
Pacific Railway Bonds. This represents a de-
crease during the last month of $1,200,000. Dur-
ing the past month the Government receipts were
in excess of the expenditure $6,-100,000. Reuter's
telegram announces the decrease of the debt dur-
ing April to have been $6,250,000. The Secre-
tary has given public notice that he will receive
sealed tenders for the purchase of gold until
noon on every Thursday in sums of not less than
$5,000, payment to be made in greenbacks or Three
per Cent Certificates, the successful bidder deposit-
ing 5 per cent. of the purchase money on the day
of sale. By pre-paying the coupons, the Treasury
has so far saved something under $2,000.
Senator Sumner's speech is said to have opened a
lively time to the New York speculators in gold,
but if what the Loudon Times says be true it must
have an effect in hastening the financial crash it there
predicts. What the Ci6y Article states is, that there

is great inflation in America, fostered by the sale of
United States Bonds in Europe. One hundred and
fifty millions sterling of these Securities have been
transferred to Europe, yet this is but half the sup-
ply available, and the other moiety, so long as
Europe will purchase, can be used as gas for the
New York balloon. These Securities not only pay
for the excess in the value of the imports into New
York from Great Britain over the exports to that
country, but are causing a drain of gold from the
Bank of -England, which has so far been felt as to
cause a -further rise in the rate of discount from
4to 4} last Thursday. If Mr. Sumner's speech has
shaken the growing confidence in United States
Securities, it will, of course, render them less sale-
able. From Frankfort the report is that there is a
flatness produced by genuine alarm on the part of
small holders, and if this feeling spreads the Bonds
would go back to New York at a rate which would
apply a most effective test to the state of trade
there. Senator Sumner may have helped gold spe-
culators, but he certainly did not help the investors
in, or the speculative holders of, American Securi-
ties, and we fear that the ground lost through his
action is not likely to be soon recovered.
A terrible accident occurred on the Long Island
Railroad on the 23d April, just beyond Jamaica.
Three cars left Hunter's Point at 10.30, and when
there the driver was startled by a sudden jar and
crash, when he instantly stopped. The third car
had been thrown from the track by a broken " Eng-
lish" rail lately hid. In some unaccountable way
its foremost truck was tipped up so as to be per-
pendicular instead of horizontal ; the wheel being
dashed into the car, tore through the floor, rip-
ping the seats from their fastenings, and ended by
knocking off the hind truck, when the car dropped
on the track. Unfortunately the coupling held tena-
ciously, and the carriage was thus jerked along
behind the train for 50 yards, grinding the pas-
sengers beneath it, and strewing the road with
the killed and wounded. T. C. Shanahan, a rail-
way contractor, and much esteemed citizen of
Rhode Island, was killed ; as were William C.
Rushmore, of Hampstead, Long Island, president
of the Atlantic National Bank, at Brooklyn ; his
nephew, Dr. Orestes, M. Pray, who a year ago
had returned from Europe, where he had been
studying in Germany, and had been married but a
few months; his mother, Matilda R. Pray; Geo.
Van Nostrand and Jennie Adams. About fifteen
others were more or less injured. A girl about 14
years of age escaped uninjured, as did an infant in
its mother's arms. A passenger described his sen-
sation as hearing a jar and a crash, but before ho
could understand what had happened, felt things
hitting him on the head as if he was in a tremen-
dous hailstorm.

Disastrous intelligence was being received in
New York when the mail left of the damage caused
by the recent heavy freshets and severe storms. It
was alike bad in all the Northern States and in Ca-
nada. At Albany the water reached within two feet
of the great freshet of 1857, and was still rapidly
rising. The lower section was inundated, Broadway
being navigable for a quarter of a mile ; the rail-
roads were under water and trains stopped. The
Merrimac was similarly flooded, a locomotive was
lost at Utica, and the Black River carried away a
number of houses, as well as the Connecticut river,
which at Springfield reached 21 feet above the low-
water mark. At Saratoga and at Utica the dams
were carried away ; at Hartford the Connecticut
was more: than 36 feet above low-water mark, and
the canals of the Windsor Locks were so damaged
as to suspend operations for a month, throwing 300
hands out of employment. At Granby, Canada,
the principal bridge was carried away, precipitating
11 persons into the water who were watching the
flood, when all were drowned. Two -men were
drowned at St. Andrews, two at Upton, two at
Longueill, and all these towns were greatly damaged.
The Grand Trunk Embankment between Water-
ville and Lennoxville has been washed away.

A bill has been introduced for the suppression of
Mr. O'Sullivan, the Mayor of Cork, which will not
improbably transfer him from the mayoralty of that
interesting and loyal town to the floor of the House.
Of course he becomes a martyr, and being a man
with a grievance his proper place is in the Com-
mons. It is evident the people of Youghal think
so, for they have tendered, and he has accepted, an
invitation to stand for the vacancy there. If he
only occupies as much of the time of Parliament as
Mr. Chisholm Anstey, who was once the mem-
ber from that place, he will do something to venti-
late his grievance and to vindicate the Fenian cause.
Iu the North American Review there is an article
from the pen of Mr. Henry B. Adams, a son of
the late Minister to London, wherein the Alabama
Convention is discussed, and many interesting facts
connected therewith given. His opinion, although
it agrees with that of his father, is opposed to the
view taken by nearly all Americans. He considers
the treaty so contemptuously rejected bythe Senate
to have been a great triumph of American diplo-
macy; that it conceded the principle demanded by
the Republic, and a surrender on the part of the
English of the points formerly in dispute. He
rightly predioted that it was-all that could be ob-
tained, and in rejection opened the risk of a refusal
on the part of Great Britain again to coneede so
mach. An extraordinary delusion appears to exist
in the united States that delay and a hostile atti-
tude injures Great Britain, but does not injure the
Republic. Calculating the loss from a money point
of view, for £1 lost by Great Britain there will be
£3 lost in its credit to the United States, and it
not, impossible that a serious fall in the value of
the bonds, which must inevitably follow any real
alarm, and a rise in the price of gold, would pro-
duce a commercial panic.
Attorney-General Hoar, in reply to Secretary
Bone's letter asking the meaning and effect of the
Eight Hours' Act, observes that he saw no reason
to differ from Mr. Evarts. He thinks the statute
has nothing to do with the wages in navy yards,
and in no degree interferes with the rate which,
according to the statute of 1862, ought to conform
with those of private establishments in the imme-
diate vicinity, modified and arranged by the Com-
mandants of the yards. Mr. Hoar says :
"If private establishments in the neighbourhood em-
ployed their hands five hours a day only, there obviously
would be no justice in reducing the wages of those em-
ployed in navy yards for eight hours to the amount paid
by day in private establishments, and the law intended no
such result. On the other hand, I find nothing in the
statute which requires you to pay the same price for eight
hours' labour which private establishments pay for ten or
twelve hours. The amount of service rendered or quality
of the work make the fewer hours in navy yards equiva-
lent in value to the longer time hired in private establish-
ments, or for some other reason make it consistent with
the public interest."

Senator Wilson dissented from this interpretation,
as the law was framed in response to numerous
petitions of mechanics and working men, the inten-
tion being to meet their views, which, he contended,
the wording of the Act plainly did. Secretary Borie
issued a circular allowing Commandants to employ
the men on extra hours, and thus the law is defeated,
the movement only ending in the men getting per-
mission as a boon to go on for two hours beyond
the legal day's work for the same wages as before.

A deputation of Virginians, with Gen. Robert E.
Leo acting as chairman, is on a visit to Baltimore: to lay
before the citizens the importance of extending the Vir-
ginia Valley Railroad, and to urge the assistance and co-
operation of the city in the work.
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