The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-10 00:00:00

in the National Administration, approving of the
State policy in developing its material resource;
declaring for the strictest personal accountability
in State expenditure ; emphatically renewing the
adhesion of the party to the doctrine of prohibition
of the sale of intoxicating drink, and finally com-
mending Governor Chamberlain to the suffrages of
the people, the platform adopted being but an en-
largement of these resolutions. The nomination of
Governor Chamberlain was receivedenthusiastical ly,
and Speaker Blaine, A. G. Jewett, and Gen. Hall,
ably addressed the meeting. The vote for Cham-
berlain was 694 to 375 for Sydney Perham, of ex-
treme temperance views. At the Ohio Democratic
Convention, which met last Wednesday and nomi-
nated General Rosecrans for Governor, resolutions
were passed advocating taxation of the debt and
payment in greenbacks, others denouncing a pro-
tective tariff, and the National Bank system, but
nothing was said about the Alabama question.
The unexpectedly large negro conservative vote in
Virginia will haveatellingeffectiu Mississippi, where
the election is to take place on the 15th September,
and in Texas a fortnight after. Southerners are
beginning to find that they have been on a wrong
tack in resisting negro enfranchisement. When the
census of next year is taken the redistribution of
representation in harmony with population wilt
strengthen the South, as it will throw numbers of
negroes hitherto uncounted into the scale ; so while
New England loses, the States on the other side of
Dixey's line gain. If leading Democratic Southern-
ers can carry the negroes with them they will soon
be able to strengthen the Democratic party in Con-
gress, and it is highly improbable that this will be
unacceptable to the Administration, for the more
nearly parties are balanced the more independent
becomes the President, and the more effective his
veto. It is a subject of dispute, but on the whole
the tcstitnony is in favour of the increased value
and economy of free negro labour. Very strong
evidence is given from nearly all the States to this
effect, some even asserting that many planters are
now satisfied that slavery was an economic blunder
to which they would not return were the option
given. In proof of that value the reviving pros-
perity which is reported—with one marked excep-
tion the State of Georgia—may be taken as the best
proof. Political feeling has iu Georgia assumed its
bitterest form, and the Supreme Court of the State
has decided that marriages between whites and
blacks are illegal ; that the clause in the Constitu-
tion denies to the Legislature even the power of
regulating the social status and intercourse between
the two races; the assertion being that as the
social relations of citizens are not a proper subject
on which to enact laws, the Constitution wisely
denies such power to the Legislature. Georgia
cannot continue to be an exception, and it is pro-
bable that it will gradually fall into the advancing
line of Southern prosperity.
Secretary Boutwell's sudden order to purchase
$3,000,000 of Government Bonds on the 3rd inst.
was in all probability intended to give ease to
the increasing stringency of the money market in
New York, as was his order to purchase another
$3,000,000 on the 9th instant. The policy which
compels the Secretary to reduce his balance in green-
backs to the lowest point is more necessary now than
ever it had been during Mr. M'Culloch's adminis-
tration, and the reason is that already given by us,
which increases instead of dminishes. The South
is a hungry reservoir in the process of being filled ;
the currency which amply sufficed for the Northern
States may prove insufficient when a considerable
demand for the circulating medium has arisen in the
South, as well as the power through increasing pro-
duction of attracting it into the country. Presently
the South will begin to buy as well as sell; but
now, as for some time to come, the money received
will be retained. Of course this must be felt in
New York, and is likely to cause even greater incon-
venience. Mr. Boutwell's action is probably in-
tended to do what he can to furnish relief by throw-
ing three million of dollars on one day into cir-
culation in exchange for Government Bonds, and
repeating the operation the next week. A Radical
journal expresses its annoyance at receiving a South-
ern exchange with a Confederate postage stamp at-
tached. If the Macon Telegraph had designed to
caricature the position, it could not more effectu-
ally have done so than by sending its bad Collie •
derate money North, while drawing the good Union
money South, to such an extent as considerably to
! embarrass commercial transactions iii the rnetropo-
IWan city.

Who pays for such a Cable telegram as this ?
"Mexico has failed to pay the interest of her nations,:
debt."

Were it announced that Mexico had paid, it would,
indeed, be worth the expenditure. The proceed-
ings of Mexican bondholders arc about as impor-
tant as those of Confederate bondholders, for it is
enough to know that anything is bogus to take all the
interest out_ of it, _and has much the same influence
on a journalist that " five-water grog" has on a tar.
A committee has waited on President Juarez to
confer on the sad condition of their State, but if this
State were not in a sad condition, it would be very
unlike the other States which form that charming
Republic. The experiments in colonization of the
Latin race are not such as to encourage their repe-
tition, and they may as well desist, leaving the in-
habitants of the States they have founded "to
improve each other out of creation," and make way
fur the Anglo-Saxon. Should Cuba hereafter, when
free, become different from Mexico, it will be be-
cause the inhabitants are wanting even in that
kind of energy which prompts the Mexicans to cut
each other's throats. If the ghost of Maximilian
hovered about Queretaro, it would find other gar-
risons with other besiegers, with new conspiracies;
and yet again new garrisons, with new besiegers,
accompanied by all the treachery, the lying, thiev-
ing, and shooting with which, in his brief experience
of Mexico, that Prince became so familiar. No one
cares who now holds Queretaro, or why it is le-
sieged. England is blamed by some of the Ame-
rican papers for not sending a representative, but
she might as well despatch an envoy to the King of
Dahomey. If the United States desire to learn what
America really owes to England, they should con-
trast Canada with Mexico, and appreciate what
has been done by Britain to smooth the path of the
eventual North American Republic north of the St.
Lawrence, and by the Laiin race to impede it south
of the Rio Grande.

The news from Rio up to the 10th June is that
General Mllahon had reached Buenos Ayres on
his way from the camp of Lopez, and was on board
the steamer A unis, bound to Rio en route home.
The State Department at Washington had at last
received despatches from him up to May 21st.
The American Envoy strongly favours Lopez, and
the cause for which he struggles, maintaining that
his Government ought to show its sympathy for Pa-
raguay and against Brazil. His relations with Lopez
he described as being cordial, and he asserts that it
was the Allies, and not Lopez, who attempted to
impede his free communication with Washington ;
declining to send on his despatches under a flag of
truce, and firing on that forwarded by the Para-
guayans. His position is endorsed by General
Webb, late Minister to Brazil, who gives it as his
opinion that the Allies will fail in their attempt to
overrun Paraguay, that the stories circulated
against Lopez are manufactured by the Brazilians,
and that Lopez accuses them of the very crimes they
attribute. to him. He thinks that Brazil ought to
get a good thrashing, to reduce the pretensions of
the slave power. As Ex-Minister Webb's action
has been endorsed, the new Minister, Mr. Blow,
who was to sail by the next steamer from New York,
was instructed to continue the negotiation for the
claim on the basis indicated by Mr. Seward. The
cable also tells us that the revolution in Uruguay
continues.

The Census Committee, which sat at Washington
up till the 19th June, adjourned on that day till
Congress meets. No schedule has yet been decided
on, but it is believed the Committee will recommend
that the forms to be sent in advance, to be filled in
prior to a named day whereon the census taker will
call. A decrease will be advised by it in the ratio of
representation throughout the whole country, with
a corresponding increase in the Representatives.
Congressmen even now complain of the magnitude
of their constituencies, alleging it to be impossible
fairly to do the work. If the number of Represeu.