The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

has refused to occupy his old post because an attempt
has been made to deprive him of the independent
control he has so long exercised in the selection and
direction of the orchestra and chorus.

PALESTINE F.XPLORATION.

Mr. Conybeare, writing to the Times respecting
Lieutenant Warren's interesting discovery of an
underground cistern in the garden of the llaram
Area, Jerusalem, observes that there is little reason to
doubt that the structure was originally intended for a
tank, as its design exactly corresponds with that of many
subterranean vaulted reservoirs constructed as tanks
in Roman times. ThePiscena of the Villa Cardito, near
Naples, and the Piscena Mirabile, near Bake, are speci-
mens of this kind ; but more splendid examples are
found at Constantinople. One of these, called the
" Cistern of Bin-birderell, or the Thousand and One
Columns," is now dry, and used as a silk factory.
It occupies an area of 20,000 square feet, and can
hold 1,237,000 cubic feet of water. The other, which
still remains a cistern of water, has a vaulted
roof supported by 336 marble columns having exqui-
sitely sculptured Corinthian capitals. Both these
cisterns have the roof constructed in the same way
as Lieutenant Warren's tank.

but it is doubtful whether he would accept the post.
The President, notwithstanding the Senate's rejec-
tion, continues his nominations. lie has sent to
the Chamber the name of Thomas S. Wilson, of Cali-
fornia, to be Consul at Copenhagen. The officers
he selected for promotion to the two vacant briga-
dierships have been disappointed, as these appoint-
ments are not to be filled, and it has been decided
that on vacancies occurring in the offices of Adju-
tant-General, Chief of Staff to the General of the
Armies, Inspector-General, Commissary General of
Subsistence, Paymaster-General, Chief of Engi-
neers, or Chief of Ordnance, the officers to fill such
vacancies shall rank only as colonels.
The telegrams from America announce that the
trial of Jefferson Davis has ended, a nolle prosegni
having been entered on the indictment at Rich-
mond.—President Johnson has pardoned Dr. Mudd,
who was convicted of complicity in the assassina-
tion of President Lincoln.—Whalen, the assassin
of Mr. D'Arcy M‘Ghee, was executed on the 11th
inst. at noon. No disturbance occurred.—The
steamer Nellie Stevens was burnt on Thursday
night, the 11th inst., on the Red River, Arkansas ;
63 lives were lost, and 43 persons were saved.
It is now certain that Angostura has capitulated,
and Ascuncion is occupied by the Brazilians. The war
is said to be over, as Lopez had, according to the
Lisbon telegram, "either fled to Bolivia or is con-
cealed at Corrientes. The execution of his brothers,
Berges the bishop, and prisoners is confirmed. The
Brazilian fleet was ascending the river to Matto
Grosso. The Paraguayan population was returning
to Assumption ;" but by the news from Rio de
Janeiro he had only gone into the interior, accom-
panied by the American Minister. Lopez may yet
prove dangerous to Brazil, for it is clear that he
has carried with him the sympathy and respect of
the Paraguayan people. These telegrams, corning
from Brazilian sources, do not tell the whole truth,
and it need not surprise any one to hear that the
war has broken out afresh. " The United States
flagship has arrived at Rio, with Messrs. Bliss and
Masterman, who have been detained in Paraguay as
prisoners. At Montevideo Ministerial changes are
about to be made." In our miscellaneous column
some further news is published, of the truth of
which people must judge for themselves.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.

Instead of the " strikes " coining to an end they
have been growing into handsome dimensions and
spreading to other trades. The clothiers are now
agitating, and they hope soon to enlist all the
journeyman,b3 which their strike will be made general
and continuous. The printers and the " bosses" still
pull different ways, and neither side as yet shows
who is the stronger. The journeymen hold daily
meetings under the Union, and confidently predict.
that their employers will have to give way. Married
men receive from the union $l2 a week, single men
$7. The publishers think of bringing compositors
froth the British cities, where they say many are out
of employment. The work of some houses has been
sent to Hartford and New Haven, where it can be
transacted by the New York firms without much
increased inconvenience and expense. The event,
however, is likely to prove that the compositors are
too much for their employers, some prominent houses
yielding to the pressure, the New York Printing
Company among them. It is from May-day that
leases run in our city, and notices of increase are
given up to the Ist February. Tenants are there-
fore now made aware what their landlords propose,
and it is said that the increase is very small on, the
whole ; indeed, on an average, nothing. In Pearl,
Front, and Water streets there is a decline, but in
the upper parts of the city there is a tendency to
rise. Along Broadway there is an advance and in
favourite situations, but it is not so with cheaper
tenements, and it is generally conceded that transit
only is required to make a large portion of the po-
pulation flit into Westchester county and other
suburban localities. Property is, of course, rising
in New Jersey as we overflow our boundaries here.
The State Controller gives the total valuation of the
property in that commonwealth as $502,645,949,
being au increase of $27,120,937 over the valuation
of 1867. The valuation in Camden county is placed
at $16,500,000, in Burlington county at 525,984,951,
and in Cape May county at $3,200,000. The annual
report of the Commissioners of the Central Park
s-tys the expenditures for construction for that
period amounted to $247,822. The number of
visitors at the park is estimated at over seven mil-
lion persons. Twenty-one musical entertainments
weregiven, which, it is asserted, could not be equalled
anywhere in excellence of performance and general
acceptability. Upwards of 20,000 children of the pub-
lic schools used the playgrounds of the park, and large
numbers of adults availed themselves of the winter
amusements. The best material for the roads most
occupies their attention, and they incline to the
bituminous composition used in Paris, the surface
being smooth and noiseless, easy to move on, and
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ceipts have been $4,047,608 ; for licenses, penalties,
and interest during 1868, $1,447,157, which was
distributed to the various charities and sinking
funds within the jurisdiction of the board. The
sale of intoxicating liquors having been prohibited
on Sunday, and reduced to 18 of the 24 hours per
week day, the result is as follows :—" A record kept
for a period of eight months in 1865, before the re-
gulation mentioned above went into effect, showed
3,516 arrests for intoxication on Sundays, and 3,380
for the same cause on the following Tuesdays of
each week. From January 1, 1867, to Nov. 1, 1868
(the whole period including 95 Sundays and 96
Tuesdays), the entire number of Sunday arrests
for intoxication was 5,263, and the whole number
of Tuesday arrests for the same cause was 11,034.
This gives on an average 55 arrests of persons for
intoxication on each Sunday, and 114 such arrests
on each Tuesday, being a daily excess of cases of
intoxication on Tuesday over those of Sunday of 59,
and an aggregate excess for the period of Tuesday
over Sunday intoxication of 5,771 cases." The
Rogers' murder has assumed a new phase, each sec
cessive flurry turning out to be moonshine. Logan
the large and Logan the little prove to be ilmocent,
but a new excitement has sprung up. Two lodgers
in the Spring-street station were arrested last Mon-
day at the instance of Mr. Everett B. de la Noy,
who was formerly in the police, but dismissed for
some misdemeanour last February. He became
mate of the steamboat Connecticut, plying between
Troy and this city. A hat came into his possession
among others lost by passengers, from which he
picked the size 7k, putting it inside the band, and
throwing the loose lining overboard. In June, 1866,
James Mahar came on board at Troy, desirous of
working his passage to New York, and the mate
gave him this hat with a coat he had soiled, as he
was badly clothed. As Mr. de la Noy became
street-car conductor and afterwards a pedlar of patent
chair-springs, he sometimes met I\ilahar, and he did
so so December 24 or 26, and again January 22,
when he touched his shoulder and said " Jun," ou
which he started and slipped away. This surprised
the right detective, arousing suspicion, and he
asked the police he niet to see the coat and hat
in their possession, and it was proved that the coat
was that he had given the man in the Connecticut.
The bat was also the same, for Mr. do la Noy
stated that the number would be found inside the
band, which, on examination, was there found.
Mr. de la Noy being guaranteed the place he for-
merly occupied in the police in the detective force
is engaged in unravelling the mystery, but hitherto
has not succeeded beyond the identification of the
coat and hat. The coroner's investigation was
concluded on Monday, the jury finding that Rogers
came to his death from a stab in the abdomen by
some person or persons unknown , adding—" th e•jr are
led to the conclusion, for the reason that the testi-
mony is certainly insufficient to indicate with any
degree of certainty the perpetrators of this horrible
crime, although they are satisfied that in a part of
the evidence produced there is deliberate perjury."

The Manufacturer and Builder is the title of a
new monthly periodical devoted to the subject of indus-
trial progress, published by Western and Co, New York.
It contains a variety of practical articles on different
branches of industry, and is illustrated with several appro-
priate engravings. The name of Henry Ward Beecher is
on the list of contributors, who furaishos a good article
ou, "seal gstate for Working Alen."

MODERATION AND GOOD GOVERNMENT

The assertion may appear strange to Americans,
but we believe in its truth;that Great Britain has been
at times useful to them as a foil, though detrimental
in the end. If in the future England were destined
to sink into the third-rate power they so often pre-
dict, this would probably be injurious, not bene-
ficial, to the Republic. North America is a great
continent, and has not only now, but will hereafter
have many and varied adverse interests, A conti-
nent that extends from tropical jungles, wherein
are buried cities of unknown origin up to regions
lost in eternal snows, must generate different
types, though the race throughout be the same. That
this has been so even on the more limited theatre
embraced by the United States is an ascertained
fact, which strangers who traverse the coun-
try cannot fail to see. There is no human being
a Georgian white more cordially detests than
a Green Hill boy or a Massachusetts man; there is
no person with whom a genuine New Englander
has less sympathy than with the Georgian. Our
minds must be enlarged when we call a continent
our country, and give to it all the affection others
reserve for narrower region. We may grow to it,
but no nation as yet has attained to so Catholic a
patriotism. Interests on the Pacific slope will
diverge from the interests of the States east of the
Alleghany Mountains. The manufacturers will have
objects to attain or to hold adverse to the interests
of agricultural communities. The men of the far North
will accord tolabour a social position opposed to the
feeling generated by the climate in the men of the
South. Nor can pursuits, which differ as much as
the temperature of the air the inhabitants breathe,
fail to add its influence in severing sympathy. The
Texan riding wildly over prairies, in pursuit of his
cattle, will have little in common with the Maine
lumber. man hewing logs in his forest. The Nevada
miner will not think in the same groove as the New
Bedford fisherman, nor will the Illinois farmer and
the puddlers of Pennsylvania agree on many points.
It is as certain as that the sun will rise on the eastern
shores of the Republic, and set on it western coast,
that the civil war has been but the forerunner, not
the exterminator, of national differences, which will
require moderation, wise legislation, and delicate
handling in statesmen safely to get over, and one
of the most essential of the qualities necessary to a
nation so placed is to be taught the habit of mode-
ration. It was the absence of this which led the
South into its fatal conflict. So accustomed had
Southern men grown to buncombe, and to carry
their demands with a high hand, that they were be-
trayed into the position from which they could not
escape, and suffered as much in a few years as
most nations endure in a century. This was, per-
haps, the first terrible lesson taught the Republic of
the necessity of compromise and moderation. After
the staggering blow the different sections of the
United States are again springing up intovigour, and
new elements, more especially
,the one on the Pacific
slope, has entered the arena. Although Britain
furnishes an admirable foil against which to
take off the sharp edge of a home difficulty, and
has been, and will continue to be we hope, of much
use in this way, yet she ought not to be too freely
used, for the habit not; only generates an intense
dislike in the subject which has to bear the blows
while the two factions in America are contending,
but it has a demoralizing effect on the Republic.
Men who there aspire to enter on public life or to
conduct journals should more than all be moderate,
not merely averting a difficulty by directing into
another quarter the superfluous abuse, which, if not
so turned, would flow against themselves, but in
moderating the passionate expression of public feel-
ing. Instead of restraining, this encourages license,
and it is known that none so indulged in vitupera-
tion against England as the Southerner prior to
the war. Not only did he use this weapon in
its full force, but he was mainly instrumental in
bringing it into fashion, and the habit in
no small degree betrayed him into the over-
bearing attitude he assumed towards his coup.
trymen of the North. It is a marvellous, almost a
laughable, ignorance which led the English into
sympathy with the men who had spent their lives,
not so much in generating hate—for it was not hate
on their part—but in fierce invective, and in hurling
defiance against them. What is to be feared is the
too rapid growth in power of the nation i—that
without the varied and sad experience which so re-
strains the greatest of countries, she may have at-
tained to a higher power than any of them. It
would not do for a child suddenly to grow into the
force, the energy, the wealth, and appetite of a
strong man, for it is reasonable to suppose, if
such a thing could be, that these gifts might
not be used with the moderation and concilia-
tion of which experience alone can teach the value.
The first necessity for a great country is to be mo-
derate in her external demands ; to be courteous in
the tone of her address, and conciliatory in inter-
course. The great power behind will be always
feared, while such an attitude will command re-
spect and esteem ; but it will have another effect,
beneficial to the country itself. The people being
taught to see both sides of a question, and to treat
that opposed to their prejudices with attention and
respect, will be prepared for the task which must
henceforth prove so difficult for America,to forward
the genuine union of the States. In this the Re-
public has a difficulty of which history can furnish
no example ; one wholly her own, to be met and
overcome by herself. In success she will have
achieved the most magnificent position of which a
nation ever drz.amt ; in failure she will split into
warring communities worse than those of Europe,
for hatred glows most hotly between a people speak-
ing the same language who are thoroughly alienated,
and have interests wholly opposed. There is no
splendid achievement without an unusual display
of some kind of virtue, and Providence will not per-
mit any single nation to occupy a rich continent
without that people showing their fitness for so
great a trust.--Anglo-American limes.

An American paper says :—" The great Euro-
pean-American Emigration Land Company recently in-
corporated under the laws of the State of New York,
has commenced its operations under the most favour-
able auspices. The Now York office is at 20, State-street,
directly opposite Castle Garden. The officers aro :
The Hon. Caleb Cushing, President; the Hon. Isaac
Tallmadge, Vice-President; J. A. Bartlett, Treasurer;
Count Henning A. Taub9, General Superintendent ; the
Hon. J. D. Reymert, Secretary and Councillor at Law ; J.
Jay Watson, Manager. The company have also established
branch offices in Stockholm, Sweden, Hamburg, and Liver-
pool. One of the main objects of the co.npany is to protect
emigrants as far as possible, have them properly cared for
during their voyage to America, and, upon the arrival, trans-
port them to their place of destination. Besides the prin-
cipal office inNewYork,and the branch offices in Stockholm,
Hamburg,and Liverpool, the company has agents through-
out the greater part of Europe and America. ()aunt H. A.
Taube, of Stockholm, and brother to Count Arvid Taube,
General Superintendent of Railroads in Sweden, has been
on a visit to America during the last five months, and has
become thoroughly conversant with the location and qua-
lity of lands now in the possession of the company and in
the market. Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish emigrants
who contemplate settling in America will emigrate under his
immediate supervision. The company already possess land
in Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Georgia, Virginia, Ten-
nessee, and Texas, and are negotiating for land in other
States. Several A merican prominent citizens have pur-
chased interests in the stock of the company, which is
fixed at one million dollars in gold. A prospectus of the
enterprise may be obtained at the office of the secretary,
No. 136, Nassau-street. Count Taube returns to Europe
immediately."
The Athentrum, in a very severe critique on Ad-
miral Semmes' " Adventures Afloat and Ashore in the
Sumter and Alabama," calls attention to what appears to
be the case, that the publisher under whose name it has
been brought before the British public did not publish it
in the trade meaning of the term. Mr. Bentley has,
if the surmise of the Athenreum turns out to be
true, merely printed Richard Bentley, New Burlington-
street on the title-page of a book sent over from America;
an unusual circumstance in the trade. There is no prin-
ter's name except on the illustrations, and it is evident
that they are American. "Mr." "Captain," "Admiral"
Semmes, as the Athenzeam calls him, has taken care to
trust no English penny-a- liners again with the full, true,
and particular account of his exploits, after the mess he
says Messrs. Saunders an'l Ottley made of his log. Those
who read the Athenmum review will consider our re-
marks absolute praise.
General Forrest says he has given up politics and
intends to devote himself to railroading. Gen. Imboden
has written a letter, urging emigration to Virginia, and
denying hostility to Northerners

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