The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-31 00:00:00

SPIRITS PROM BEETROOT.

The hidden riches of beetroot have not even yet
been disclosed. The Chamber of Agriculture Journal
is informed that where beet sugar-making *profit-
able' beetroot spirit-making is even more profitable;
and that on soils and in climates where the quantity
of saccharine matter yielded by the roots is too
small to .be worth extracting, distillation of
alcohol may, nevertheless, be a money-making
business. And in proof of this assertion, the fact
is pointed out that large numbers of beetroot-sugar
works in Prussia, Austria, and France, have been
lately converted into distilleries. "We are quite
aware ".says our contemporary, " that spirit-making
from beetroot has been tried in this country, and
has failed. But so has sugar-making ' • and the very
authorities who formerly satisfied themselves that
the business could not pay are now warmly congratu-
lating the British public upon the advent of this new
help to the fanner, and hope to the underpaid agri-
cultural labourer. This is because inventors will
keep on improving upon processes and apparatus.
And for just the same relson the failure of beet dis-
tillation years ago ceases to tell against the profit-
ableness of that branch of industry at the present
moment." Our contemporary does not seem to
understand that the increased consumption of spirits
means the increased impoverishment of the con-
sumers. These new distilleries will lie a sorry gift to
the British agricultural labourer.

(From the Anglo-A merican Tinzes)

Mr. James Fisk (junior) has put his oar into the
Gas inquiry business, which has been progressing
in this city for some time. No one seems to escape
the censure of that immaculate party, and the evi-
dence he gave the-Legislative Committee about the
gas the company supplied his opera house with was not
to their credit. Not only was the quality bad, but
in proportion as it grew worse the bills increased,
and so did the insolence of the employes. Fisk is a
fund of delight, for one has only to look out into
the street to see him of er some one with a big pole
or a sharp stick, and he never tears through Wall-
street without leaving behind him a flock of ducks
he has lamed. The Ilolsatia sailed last Tuesday
for Southampton with 250 passengers, and every
berth engaged for her next trip. There is to be a
tremendous exodus if present indications are to be
believed, as the North German Lloyd, the Cunard,
the Inman, the Guion, and the Anchor lines
are finding a heavily increasing demand, and anti-
cipate a great passenger transit season. I suppose
this is pleasant news to you, as your sales and ad-
vertisements will increase with the tide of our tra-
vel ; but we do not regard it on our side with the
same complacency, as it makes dull times here, and
scatters too much American money over Europe.
James Logan (No. 2) has been indicted by the grand
jury for the murder of James Rogers. The evi-
dence of Martha Elsworth is likely to be fatal to
him, although her mother, aided by a parson, have
persuaded her to make a clean breast of it, and to
live hereafter like a good woman. The attention of
the grand jury has been called to our " nude fe-
males." I see on your side the Lord Chamberlain
has been looking narrowly after the legs of the ballet
girls; here we require a jury to do it for us, a lot
of heavy respect ables with spectacles, something like
the batch who Fettled down to the entertainment
when " Griffith Gaunt" had to be read, and found
it entirely too moral for them. Harper Brothers
have come out with an illustrated edition at 25
cents, which they have extensively advertised. It
is an ill wind that blows no one good, and Charles
Reade has got a grand advertisement out of the
Round Table. But to return to the ballet girls. We
Americans always drive ahead of you Europeans in
vice as well as in virtue. If you bring out a saint
we bring out a greater, and you have never
equalled our wickedest man, although he was far
outdone on our stage. If you want a revival you.
should come here for it, and for an obscene ballet
you should turn to New York, and not to Paris.
We have this advantage, however, over you, that
we do more promptly and effectually suppress glar-
ing and offensive vice. Masquerade balls are the forms
our latest visitations have taken, and theylave been.
growing worse and worse until the State Legisla-
ture has been petitioned to interfere. Five murder
cases have come on for trial this week, and the pre-
sent mood, of judge and jury is such, that if I were
a case, I wou'd rather be held over to take my chance
in less excited times. The rascals are in a furious
ferment, and openly threaten vengeance against
judge and jury, while the whisper of a vigilance
committee cows the ruffians, for they know that if
they introduce assassination tointimidate the judges
that they may be marked and hung on mere sus-
picion. There is Real, who is to be hung on the
2d April for murdering a policeman. ' The idea of
being executed merely for shooting what the Eng-
lish call a " Bobby" is something horrible and inex-
plicable to the gang; but hanged he certainly
will be,, although the judge is in terror of his
life. Governor Hoffman resolutely adheres to
his determination to let the law take its course,
in spite of every effort made to move him. There
has been an accident of an extraordinary nature on
the Erie Railway. While the express train from
'Cincinnati was passing some freight cars laden
with old rails, so ill-packed that a few got deranged,
and projecting were driven into the smoking nsr,
severely injuring Mr. W. A. Smith, of Damascus,
Pennsylvania ; Mr. Walter Bickley, of Tremont
Centre, New York ; and another gentleman. Real
estate is still on the rise ; what it will eventually
reach. no one can predict, but if it does not soon
stop Manhattan earth will be as good as gold. Of
course there will be a tremendous smash some day,
as the sales are chiefly speculative ; the purchasers
merely looking for a rise in a month or two, while
they only pay the deposit of ten per cent. Our
Senate is going to submit the new Constitution to
a vote of the people next fall, divided into four,
and each section to be voted on. The Excise Law
is likely to be amended so as to keep open the
licensed houses till one o'clock, and re-open at four
instead of seven. The City of Brooklyn, the new
Inman steamer, has made a very favourable impres-
sion here, and has been presented with a suit of co-
lours by the city of Brooklyn in response to her

christening. Henry M. Steele, partner of a large
dry-goods firm, committed suicide at No. 1, Irving-
place. He had been drinking hard, and had been
divorced from his wife, which had caused much un-
happiness. The Legislature has appointed a com-
mittee of seven to investigate the affairs of the New
York. Central, Erie and Hudson River Railroad
Companies. The seven members are Bennis, SA-
kreg, Walker, Gleason, Ely, Safferin, and Jacobs.
General 0. E. Babcock, late of General Grant's
staff, left for Washington yesterday. Miss Susan
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton have drawn
into their uet some German ladies and gentlemen
who are going to back up the Revolution by a Ger-
man weekly paper, to be called the New Era, Die
Nene Zeit, with a subscribed capital of $5,000,
raised by the issue of 1,000 shares at $5 each. The
Germans are going in strongly for
_Woman Suf-
frage, and Chicago is likely to rival New York as a
centre of agitation on this subject. You may take
it for granted that before long the women of the
United S'ates will be as free to vote as the men.
Senator Tweed has introduced a bill into our State
Legislature to increase the construction of railroads
in this city. The one proposed is to commence at
Burlington-slip, through South-street, to Catherine,
Bowery, Spring, Greenwich, Christopher, Wash-
ington, West, Tenth-avenue, and Thirty-second.
street; returning along Tenth-avenue, West,
Christopher, Washington, Spring, Bowery, Chat-
ham-square, James, South, to the place of start-
ing. The corporators are Henry Smith, George
M'Mullen, John B. Greene, George W. Butt,
James M. Sweeney, and many others, while
Mr. Kennedy introduced another bill to permit
W. H. Williams, W. G. Milligan, D. D Cam-
bell, A. S. Foster, L. S. Lawrence, D. C.
Littlejohn, and others, to construct and operate an
elevated railroad along the following streets :
From South Ferry and Whitehall-street to Bowling-
green, Broadway, Union-square, Union-square-
park, Broadway, Sixth-avenue, Fifty-ninth-street,
to Fifth-avenue, and westerly to Eighth-avenue,
Fifth-avenue, and Eighth-avenue, to llarlem River.
Corporate stock to be, $25,000,000. The road bed
to be elevated 13 feet above the streets and avenues.
The weather has changed from the late bitter cold,
and some warm showers have fallen, which will help
to break up the ice and open the navigation to Al-
bany. It looks now more promising, though the
cold snap has greatly interfered with the river navi-
gation. Two steamers, as an addition to the Ame-
rican vessels on the China rivers, left on Thursday
for Shanghai. 'The Walrus is commanded byCapt.
Watson, and the Nautilus by Capt. Hodges. They
are not new vessels, having been built for the Phila-
delphia trade, but they are the finest steamers sent
by the United States to China. They are each 240
feet long, 46 feet in beam, and are owned by
Messrs. Russell and Co., the American merchants
of Shanghai.

WASHINGTON, March 12.

Ulysses S. Grant, who will only be 47 years of
age on the 22,1 of April, is the youngest man ever
i elected President of the United States. Silent as
I he may be, be has picked up with rare facility the
bcst mode of fending off the attacks of office-
seekers. His Success before inauguration was
marked, but it is even more surprising since. Yet,
after all, hi system is simple ; he admits none but
Cabinet Ministers and other high officials, and
members of Congress, between 'the hours of 9 and
11 a.m. ; after which, till noon, the doors are open
to the public, when all the office-seekers rush in
and, of course, baulk each other. So, by admit-
' ting the crowd, he uses one particle to sustain the
pressure of another, and thus personally escapes.
There is no denying that the President's appoint-
ments, both in and out of the Cabinet, have excited
the most undisguised hostility of the politicians.
Every hotel and boarding house is crowded with
office-seekers, and everywhere the appointments
are condemned, even by Congressmen. The Re-
publican press, as a whole, support Grant's norni-
nations, but not heartily. Longstreet's appoint-
ment was much commented upon, and generally
applauded. The following were the nominations
sent to the Senate yesterday :--- James Longstreet,
to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of New
Orleans ; James F. Casey, Collector of Customs at
New Orleans; Sidney A. Stockdale, to be Collector
of Inland Revenue for the First District of L-mi-
siana ; Edward V. Kingsley, of New York, to be
Secretary of the United States Legation at Madrid ;
Alexander Sharpe, to be Marshal of the United
States for the District of Columbia; Chief Engineer
James W. King, to be Chief of the Burean of Steam
Engineering—the last endorsed as follows : "In
place of Usherwood, whom I desire removed."
General Smith, of Bloomington, Illinois, takes the
place of Second Assistant Postmaster-General, vice
M'Clelland, whose removal excites surprise.
General Parker has been appointed Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs, in place of Taylor,
removed, and bis appointment is considered a
blow to the Indian "ring." Mr. John S. Ris•
ley has resigned the Deputy Commissionership of
Internal Revenue. Supervisor Creecy of the Lou-
isiana Revenue District proceeds there vigorously
to push the recent prosecutions. On Monday,
when the Senate reassembles, there will be an im-
mense number of nominations laid before it, and
there are all sorts of rumours regarding the ap-
pointments. Who shall bo Minister to England is
a much agitated question, and over 50 prominent
Americans are suggested for the post. Senator
Sumner is supposed to favour Mr. Motley, but the
politicians back Horace Greeley. The New York
Sun has been vigorously advocating Mr. Greeley's
claims, but the Tribune prefers its silence to its ad-
vocacy. If Horace Greeley goes and fails, what
Mr. Reverdy Johnson has got is a trifle compared to
what he will get ; for Mr. Reverdy Johnson is not a
successful editor, and has not excited the jealousy
of the men who write. Mr. Washburne will not
leave for Paris till the Ist May, and Mr. Frank
Moore is to be his Assistant Secretary of Lega-
tion. Mr. Hale was I heard to remain for the pre-
sent at Madrid, and Marsh in Italy; but now the
rumour is that Gen. Daniel Butterfield of New
York is to be his successor, that Gen. Palmer, of
the same State, goes to Stockholm, and our citizen
Colonel Ruble to Switzerland. Paymaster-General
Brice has.,been reappointed to the place of Pay-
master, of ,Aftieh he was deprived by Andrew Joh-
nson. .I\lr.:.:Murdock has also been reappointed.
Most people are under the impression that Mr.
Motley's destination is Austria. Gen. Dix is ex-
pected from France soon. He sent in a letter of
resignation. Mr. Binckley's successor as Solicitor of
Internal Revenue is announced to be Walter H.Stnith
of Mount Vernon. Mr. Hamilton Fish, the new Secre-
tary of State, is expected in Washington next week,
until which time Mr. Washburne will act. The
Diplomatic Corps called yesterday on the President,
and were introduced by Mr. Washburue. After a
neat address from Baron Gerolt, Grant replied as
briefly. His only remark was—" You may be as-
sured that it shall be my constant endeavour to
maintain those relations of peace and friendship
which now exist between the United States and the
countries which you respectively represent—a pur-
pose which I am happy to learn from you will be
fully reciprocated." The impression here is not
favourable to the strength with which the new Sec-
retary of State will conduct the foreign policy of
the nation ; but there are many who consider con-
ciliation and a tone of courtesy much more to the
point. You, Mr. Editor, who read so much of our
papers, must be struck with the neglect which our
screaming bird, the eagle, now meets. The soar-
ing, the spreading, the screaming, the striking, of
that feathered animal, have gone out of fashion,
and are beginning to be thought bad taste ; nor
that only, but poverty of argument, and the resort
of weak, ill-read speakers. Mr. Fish is a gentleman
who will uphold the interest and honour of the
country with dignity, as well as with good manners.
General Sherman issued an order on assuming
command of the armies of the United States. The
power of the General is increased, and that of the
Secretary of war decreased. Gen. Grant's staff has
in the main been transferred to Sherman. Schofield
has handed over the Department for War to Raw-
lins, and to- day the oath is to be administered to both
him and Boutwell by Justice Cartter. Secretary
Borie has had several interviews with Vice-Admiral
Porter and several Rear-Admirals, especially Dahl- I
gren, Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. The,
new

Secretary is said to be well acquainted with th
construction and rigging of ships, and his practical
knowledge will be of value. The Cabinet is now
in working order ; but they have to get through a
vast amount of business before the departments are
rid of many inefficient employ6s, and the places
well filled, and it is certain that for every
friend made there will be ten enemies in those
rejected and those discharged. General Howard
has sent in his resignation of the Freedman's
Bureau, asking that General Edward Hatch of the
9th Cavalry be assigned to that post. General
Howard will then proceed to the plains to serve
against the Indians under Hancock. It is said
that General Schofield will be assigned to the Divi-
sion of the Pacific, now under Ge
4neral Halleck.

With reference to Secretary Seward's retirement,
the Kew York Commercial Advertiser says: -" Among all
the great events of the day none is more remarkable than
the retirement of Mr, Seward from public life. The
man who gave slavery its death-wound, wbo wounded
the Republican party, who, above all others, sus-
tained Pzesident Lincoln in all his great measures,
who saved us from foreign complications fatal to
our success, who has enlarged our boundaries and
developed means of enlarging our commerce, is now
a private citizen. In the history of America, whose
name is to be brighter? The peer of Hamilton
arid the superior of Jefferson—what are we to think
of the apparent insensibility of the people to these
facts ? Are republics truly ungrateful ? Or has the moral
sense of the nation become dim ? It is not strange, as Mr.
Seward himself has said, that his political opponents
should hate him; but how are we to account for the lack
of devotion and applause he should receive from the party
he founded and built up, and to whose principles ho has
never for a moment been unfaithful ?"
" THE RECENTNESS OF CREATION."-;—A volume
on this subject is about to be issued by the Rev. Ch. C.
Adams, of Manhattanville, New York. He is said to have
been engaged on this work for ton years. It will divide
the physical history of our planet into four geological
epochs—the Creative, the Productive, the Destructive, and
the Regenerative. It will develope a new law of motion
in the sea, which is said to have formed the marine geolo-
gical strata from the Azoic rocks upwards, and that within
a period of six thousand years. It will exhibit the Bible
in two lights, both as a scientific and theological revelation
from God, forming a grand harmoniously arranged system
only to be understood as a whole.— Trubner's Record:

In the case of Reade versus Sweetser, Professor

Frobisher took the place of Mr. Vandenhoff in the reading
of " Griffith Gaunt" on the Ist March, and frequently
paused to repeat words in order to give greater emphasis.
Judge Clerke became weary of this entertainment, and on
resuming his place on the bench, after recess, ho an-
nounced that upon a consultation with his brother Jus-
ticei; it had been determined that the plaintiff was pur-
suing a wrong course in reading a book to the jury. After
much argument the Judge gained his point, and the read-
ing was stopped. Mr. House then testified at Mr. Read°
received either £3 or three guineas per page for "Griffith
Gaunt," from the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, and
five or six guineas from the Argosy; also a percentage on
the sales of the story after being published in book-'form
by Messrs. Ticknor and Fields. Mr. House saw the
article from the Round Table copied into the London
Review and the Globe. He knew the Review had
large circulation; and, on his cross-examination, stated
that 12,000 or 15,000 would be a largo circulation for
a paper of its character in London. His belief as
to its circulation was founded upon its general
reputation and the number and character of the
advertisements sent to it. The Globe he describes as a
daily evening newspaper and a sort of club organ, and its
circulation, he said, was about one-sixth of that of The
Daily Tribune. The daily edition of The Tribune had, he
believed, a circulation of about 600,000 copies. When Mr.
House went to live with Mr. Reade, about three instal-
ments of "Griffith Gaunt" had been finished. It was Mr.
Reado's custom to write one or two numbers of a serial
before publication, and then to continue it. Mr. Reade is a
subject of the Queen of Groat Britain, is 56 years old, and
has been an author for 15 or 20 years. Mr. House said he
was not Mr. Reade'e agent in this city, but on one occasion
he had submitted a play—" Never Too Late To Mend"—
to the managers of Wallack's Theatre, by whom it was ac-
cepted. He had never negotiated with any publisher in rela-
tion to "Griffith Gaunt." The witness said three American
edit ions of "Griffith Gaunt" hal been published to his know-
ledge, and gave it is his opinion that no publisher would
issue less than 25,000 copies of a work by an author of Mr.
Reade's reputation. Mr. Reath, has written 12 or 15 novels,
but, except in " Peg Woffington" and " Foul Play," had
not associated any ono with him in the authorship. Tom
Taylor assisted him in the former, and in the latter Mr.
Boucicault was associated with him. The writers' names
were mentioned with that of Mr. Reade on the title-page,
but in the case of " Foul Play" some chapters had been
returned to Mr. Reade by the publisher, on the ground
that he had not written them. The witness said no other
authors received such large compensation as Mr. Dickens
and Mr. Reade, but he could not say whether Mr. Reade
received a lesser rate of compensation since the publication
of the articles in The Round Table. Mr. Whitney summed
up on behalf of the defendant?. contending that the ques-
tion for the jury was not, Was this criticism just and
true? That was a matter of judgment, not of fact;
but was there in the story which called forth the
criticism occasion for such a criticism? Such things
as might to an honest mind suggest such con-
demnation as was here. The counsel reviewed
at some length the book, claiming that the book was not
really a story of jealousy, but of illicit love, checked be-
fore it reached its full development. He quoted largely
from the portion of the book giving the intercourse be-
tween the young priest Leonard and Kate Gaunt. The
book, he argued, painted a bigamy, and the bigamist was
shown to be a happy man, not suffering under the pangs
of conscience, but floating in happiness throughout,.
These things, ho argued, fully justified tho criticisms.
This book did paint vice in an enticing form, and an
honest critic, especially when asked by author or
publisher to criticise it, would condemn such demoraliz-
ing books. The third article made no charge what-
ever against Mr. Reade. It was simply an inquiry
whether Mr. Reade had written this book, and the doubt
expressed in it was honourable to him. The doubt was
justified by the custom of authors; the motive ascribed
to him for tlis quasi-deceit wan most honourable—to aid a
novice. The testimony was that the book was not in-
jured by these articles; its sale was enormous. Counsel
called attention to the Prurient Prude letters, and claimed
that its language fully justified the severe terms in which
The Round Table commented on it, and it was a false and
base attack on the defendants. The defendants were to-
day the representatives of the great principles on which
the liberty of the press rests. If the jury believed the
book to be an immoral book, then they would justify the
defendants; but if the criticisms were not just, still the
jury would have to look to the intent with which they
were written, and this, they would find, was true and
honest. As to the Prurient Prude letter, and its attacks,
the coincidence of its publication with the issuing of the
book, gave a probability to an entirely different motive--
that of advertising, and calling attention to the book. The
jury, after hearing Mr. Booth's summing up on behalf of
the plaintiff, awarded 6 cents damages to the plaintiff.
Badeau's " Military History of United States
Grant" is being translated into the French, German, and
Spanish languages. Senor Romero is making the Spanish
translation, two distinguished gentlemen, one a professor
at Heidelberg, and the other a professor at Berlin, are
preparing German translations of the work, and an emi-
nent French scholar is engaged in translating the History
into the French language.

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Births.
BIEBER-7On the 29th inst., at Champion-hill, Surrey, the
wife of Egmont Bieber, Esq., of a son and heir.
DE BKOKE —On the 29th inst., at 7, Rutland-gate, Lady
Willoughby De Broke, of a son.

Marriages.
LEIVIN—BAILLIE —On the 29th inst., at Edinburgh, Fred.
Albert Lewin of Lineo to Ella, eldest daugh-
ter of the late 'William Robert Baillie, Esq., W.S.,
. burgh.
Edin-
ROBERTSON—MELVILLE —On the 29th inst., at Roehan3P-
ton, Lieut.-General R. Robertson of Tulliebelten, Perth'
shire, to Lady Julia Leslie Melville, daughter of the
Earl of Leven and Melville.