The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-31 00:00:00

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
Kate Maean has written a letter to the Mead-
ville Republican, Pennsylvania, addressed to Woman's
Rights Women, to set them right on this much-vexed
question. The lady writes well; indeed so well that her
ridiculous conclusion takes one quite by surprise, from
which the impulse is to burst into a fit of laughter. After
showing that the mental structure of women scarcely ever
attains to the grandest development to which it dons in
the other sex; after showing that women are not physi-
cally intended, as a rule, against men, to earn their bread ;
after asking why, if they be the equals of men, they do not
take their rights instead of merely agitating for them, Kate
M'Kean tells her sister the true remedy for her ills. And
reader, what do you suppose it is?--Protection to home
industry ! This is what the sox need, being "a question
of life or death." We wore not aware that womankind
was confined to lucky America. We thought that the
protection that might benefit Kate's sisters would be con-
fined to but a small number of Eve's daughters, but Kate,
in the bre;dth of her capacity, seems to have overlooked
this little fact. She addresses the larger half of the in-.
habitants of the world, and arrives at the remedy for all
the social evils, in the protection of the ironmasters of
Pennsylvania and the cotton spinners of New England.
After some bickering the reunion of the officers
of both armies at Gettysburg was arranged to take place
during this week, beginning August 23. Officers of all
grades and of both sides will be present, and the positions
of the various corps, divisions, and brigades during the
battle will be accurately fixed and noted. It will be a very
interesting meeting, and wo only hope that nothing will
occur to mar the intentions with which these gentlemen
assemble on their great battlefield. An inspection of the
ground has already disclosed the fact that it was not the first
battle fought there, all manner of Indian implements of
war having been found over its surface in:such quantities as
to indicate that it was the scene of several successive ac-
tions or of some great and decisive fight. It is curious to
observe how contending armies find themselves mar-
shalled in successive ages on the same spot, even savages
drifting there under circumstances which control their
movements, though they may not be able to explain them.
Major-General J. M. Schofield, Brevet Brigadier
General J. H. Potter, Brevet Major-General Wesley Mer-
ritt, Major James Van Vorst, and Brevet Col. John Ha-
milton have been appointed a Board to assemble at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, on or about the 15th of September
and continue its sessions from time to time at such places
as the Board may determine, to practically test the system
of tactics heretofore adopted for the artillery, cavalry, and
infantry arms of the service; to reconcile all differences;
to select the best forms of command, and of drum and
bugle signals, the same to be printed in a uniform and con-
venient edition, and published for the government of the
Army and Militia of the United States. We may hero
mention that Lieut. Ardagh, R.E., now Secretary of the
Royal Commission to inquire into and report on the Forts
and Defences of Great Britain, is about to publish through
Mr. Sanford, of Charing-cross, a pocket edition for the
British Army, epitomizing all recent improvements.
It is amusing to observe how similar circum-
stances produce results exactly similar in the United
States as in England. It hat been a puzzle which Punch,
in a very clever cartoon a good many years ago laughably
illustrated—Who are the people that send the conscience-
money, which forms no small item in the Treasury receipts,
and which may be calculated on with certainty? Punch made
them out to be lunatics ; and it is indeed a strange but com-
mon freak of mind first to defraud and then to makerestitu-
-tion, while thousands regard the fraud as no fraud, and
congratulate themselves on their ability to " do " the col-
lectors of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Washing.
ton Treasury ought to preserve the letters he receives as
a quaint moral indicator of the national mind, and they
will hereafter, when the United States has no debt, be
amusing and instructive reading. Here are the latest :
The Secretary of the Treasury received, Aug. 9, $75 from
a resident of Boston, who says that he cannot live without
doing justice to the Government. He begs the Depart
ment, for his wife's sake, not to publish his act of restora-
tion, but forgot to sign his name to the letter. Ton dole.
have been received from Mound City, Kansas, to be cre-
dited to the Conscience Fund.
The Saturday Review says that Mr. Simmons, of
the Harvard crew, most resembles an Englishman, and the
Telegraph some time ago asserted that not one in the
Oxford boat can compare with him as a specimen of man-
hood. He is a third cousin of Mr. Emerson, and took his
• first lessons in rowing under the eye of Thoreau and Can-
ning. His ancestors on the mother's side lived for three
generations in the Old Manse, and it was during a tem-
porary absence of the family that Hawthorne, whose book
has made it celebrated, became the tenant of Simmon s
grandfather, the Rev. Samuel Ripley, half-brother of Mr.
Emerson's father.

NAVAL ITEMS.—The American navy will soon be
in a state of muddle as regards the names of the ships
Secretary Borio made a very extensive change, many of
the new names selected being objected to. Nov Secre-
tary Robeson has tried his hand, and this is the result:—
Arizona to Nevada, Heels to Nebraska, Hercules to Ore-
Thandercr to Massachusetts, Astoria to Omaha
Cambridge to Congress, Detroit to Canandaigua, Achilles
to Madoc, Jana to Nausett, Argils to Koka, Atlas to
Nahant, Castor to Mahopac, Spitfire to Suncook, Strom-
Loll to Wassuc, Tartar to Yazoo, Tempest to Yuma,
Nemesis to Wyandotte, Nixen to Osceola, and Tornado to
Winnebago, and many more such changes.—The Naples
and Florence Observer informs us " the American steam
frigate Dale is expected in Naples direct from New York.
The European squadron, under the command of Rem-
Adruilal Radford, is at present at Trieste, where it is
staying for tho purpose of witnesoing some experiments
with torpedoes. It will be present at the opening of the
Suez Canal, after which it will return to Naples, where
a portion of the vessels will remain for the winter.—
Itear-Admiral Charles 11. Davis, recently returned to the
United States in the steamship Guerriere, from the com-
mand of the South Atlantic Fleet, has been ordered to
make arrangements for a survey across the Isthmus of
Darien, to ascertain the feasibility of cutting a canal across
said Isthmus.

BUDGET OF MiscELLANEous.—The steamer Sacra-
mento sailed from San Francisco for Panama with $680,000
in treasure, of which $48,000 is for New York, $150,000
for England, $147,000 for Guatemala, $20,000 for Panama,
and $lO,OOO for La Union. She also carried 500,000 pounds
of wool for New York.—A 100 Chinamen are going io start
a laundry in Chicago. They have the monopoly of the busi-
ness in San Francisco.—At Mattoon, Illinois, during the
eclipse on Saturday, Aug. 7, the mercury fell forty-two
degrees in one hour.

OBITUARY.—Justice Garret Sandford, a well-
known citizen and Justice of the Peace for 15 years of
Newark, died on the Bth inst.—Charles G. Little, founder
and head of the well-known law publishing firm of Little,
Brown, awl Co., of Boston, died at Cambridge, Massachu-
setts, Aug. 9, aged 71 years.— Thomas A. Stayner, Collec-
tor of Customs at St. Marks, Florida, was drowned at
that place on August 4. Henry B. Haswell, Secretary
of the Board of Public Education, died at Albany on the
101 h August.—Mr. Joseph G. Hanley, well known in
dramatic circles, and lately stage manager of the Winter
Garden, died in Williamsburgh on Monday afterncon,
Aug. 9, in the 40th year of his age.—The Hon. Charles
Chapman died at his residence in Hartford, Connecticut,
Aug. 7, in his 71st year.
OCCURRENCES.—PhiIip Gilmartin killed his son
Thomas, in Cleveland, Ohio, August 9. Thomas was try-
ing to enter the house, and his father, mistaking him for a
burglar, shot him dead.—Four prisoners escaped from the
Baltimore City Gaol on Sunday evening, August 8, Hoff-
man and Dennis, the Harnden Express robbers, being
among the number.—A freight train of 17 cars was
smashed on the North Missouri Railroad on Sunday,
August B.—The loss is estimated at s3o,ooo.—An iron
cage, containing eight men, fell a distance forty feet to th e
bottom of a coal shaft, near Massillon, Ohio, August
10, and all the men were severely injured.—A riot
occurred, August 23, at Macon, Tennessee, between
the whites and negroes. Two persons were killed, and a
large number wounded, among whom were several offi-
cers of the sheriff. The negroes threatened to destroy
the town.—There is no clue to the Express robbers on the
Now York Central Railroad. It is known that their haul
included $20,000 in gold.

A convention was concluded on the 16th day of
Unitedan d p rsotecltaeieme d
and
the onthteheEm6tpheroorf Julyef
the
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to
April,
secure in their respective territories a guarantee of
property in trade marks. Every reproduction in one
of the two countries, of trade marks affixed in the other
to merchandise to prove its origi • • n and quality is for-
bidden, and gives ground for an action of damages
in favour of the injured party, to be prosecuted in the
courts of the country in which the counterfeit shall be
proven, just as if the plaintiff were a subject or a citizen
of that country. The owners of trade marks residing
in either of the two countries who wish to alter their
marks must deposit duplicate copies of those marks in
the Patent Office at Washington, and in the Clerk's
office of the Tribunal of Commerce of the Seine at Paris.
An additional article to the treaty of navigation and
commerce between the United States of America and the
Emperor of Russia of the 18th of I)e3ember, 1832, con-
cluded on the 27th of January, 1868, and proclaimed on
the 13th of October last, contains substantially the same
provisious, exceptin.. that the trade mark of citizens of
the United States must be lodged in the Department of
11ttnufactures and Inland Commerce at St. Petersburg,
and the trade marks of Russian subj-cts at the Patent-
office in Washington. All applications for the benefit of
the provisions • of the said convention or of tho said ar-
ticle, and all correspondence relative to such application,
must be addressed to the Commissioner of Patents, Wash-
ington, D. C.
The Tribune remarks :—" Many will remember Count
Francis Pulszky, who came to America as secretary to
Kossuth, and who, after his return to Europe, was for
years a correspondent of the Tribune—the best iufcrmed
with regard to events transpiring in Eastern Europe that
we ever had. The whirligig of Time' has wrought a
change in his fortunes. He is now reconciled to the Go-

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