The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-02 00:00:00

mythe in seeking the mission to St. Petersburg
was to meet his family in Paris, and he desired
to go to Europe in an official capacity. Captain R.
J. Hinton, a Spy correspondent, who set the Alaska
corruption rumours afloat, has been examined be-
fore Mr. Hurlburd's committee, when he admitted
that he wrote the letter on untrustworthy informa-
tion, the basis being a conversation he had heard in
a newspaper office. Mr. Martin, it is alleged, ori-
ginated the scandal, showing a list of those bribed.
The committee had notified to the Russian Chargé
d'Affaires that they would sit on the 19th Decem-
ber for further investigation if he would like to at-
tend. The Hon. Robert J. Walker did receive
$25,000 in gold, not a bad fee for advising the
Russian Minister, and for one of " my two papers,
both daily," $3,000 were given to Colonel Forney
in payment of the space allotted to Mr. Walker
wherein to write up the purchase.
The Presilent has, as we know by cable, granted
the petition praying him to proclaim amnesty to
all persons who were iu rebellion against the United
States. For party reasons it was withheld from
presentation during the late Presidential canvass.
It was signed as follows :—C. R. Buckalew,
William Pinkney White, George Vickers, J. R.
Doolittle, J. A. Rayard, J. R. M'Cormick, W. H
Barnum, S. J. Randall, George W. Woodward,
Fernando Wood, R. M. Boyer, A. G. Burr,
Thomas L. Jones,' J. S. Golloday, J. Proctor
Smith, Garret Davis, T. C. 111'Creery, Asa P.
Grover, George M. Adams, Charles A. Eldridge,
W. E. Niblack, D. M. Van Auken, J. V. L. Pruyn,
H. M'Cullough, L. W. Ross, J. Brooks, W. E.
Robinson, R. D. Hubbard, Julius Hotchkiss,
Stevenson Archer, J. Lawrence Getz, A. J. Gloss-
brenner, John A. Nicholson, J. B. Beck, W.
Mungen, L. S. Trimble, Charles Sitgreaves, G. E.
Phelps, F. Stone, S. F. Cary, Demas Barnes, Jas.
A. Johnson, Stephen Foster, S. S. Marshall. We
believe the proclamation has met the approval of
nearly all. Of course the Democrats rejoice, and
the Republicans, having carried the elections, are
only too happy to see the end of this question.
The Postmaster-General at Washington will re-
quire $24,500,000 to keil his department going
during the next fiscal year, and as he anticipates
that no sum approaching to this, will be derived
from the postal revenue Congress must be prepared '
to make up the difference. One main reason is the
abuse of the Congressional franking privilege, to
which the Senate pertinaciously adhere, angrily
resisting an effort for its abolition. It is mar-
vellous to see the United States keeping up such
pernicious absurdities long after they have ex-
ploded in Europe. Senator Ramsay, Chairman of
the Senate Postal Committee, will report a resolu-
tion directing the Postmaster-General to make a
contract with the New York Steamship Company,
in accordance with the Bill of last session.
The Fenian cause seems to progress favourably
in the United States, while many English journals
allude to the movement as dead. A great meeting
has lately been held in New York, in which the
Mayor-elect, Okey Hall, presided. They had assem-
bled, he said, to feel the pulse of Irish freedom,
and he introduced P. M'Corry, as well acquainted
with that pulse, who proceeded to deliver a glowing
oration on the patriot martyrs of Ireland for the
last 70 years. A Mr. Hinds, an active Democratic
agent in the late election in New York, claims to
represent the Fenians of that city, and is now in
Washington to induce the Committee of Ways and
Means to allow goods from Ireland to be imported
free of duty by Fenians, for disposal at Fenian fairs
to be held throughout the States. This is a new
dodge to raise the wind, presenting the cause under
another aspect before the servant girls. An effort
was being made by the Brotherhood in New York
to give G. F. Train a welcome worthy of -his ex-
ploits and sufferings in Ireland in the cause.
The roughs and speculators who make a-pande-
monium of the town at the head of the Union
Pacific Railroad have been sold. They took it for
granted that headquarters would be established for
the winter at Bear River, and there they estab-
lished the city, but the road passed on without even
laying down a switch, leaving that blood-stained
locality to its own resources, and instantly the
town vanished, springing up at Echo at the entrance
to the Canyon of that name. There was some
hard fighting at Bear River between the gamblers
and murderers, and the better class of inhabitants,
but the rowdies cannot, in a town of such a cha-
racter be controlled. Promontory City, at the
head of Salt Lake, where the roads are to meet, is
the ground now most speculated in. Speculators
who hit off the spot will secure sections in a town

which will speedily rival the Mormon City, for not
only will the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific
there meet, but branches will connect with Idaho,
Oregon, Puget's Sound, and Salt Lake City.
The road is now open, trains carrying the mails to
Evanstone, 957 miles west of the Missouri river;
the bridge at Omaha which had been injured has
been repaired and the communication is complete.
Our readers may judge of the necessity in waste
regions for the most just and energetic of the
citizens to be banded in a Vigilance Committee, by
the experience of one Wednesday evening at Bryan
River. At this little town on the Pacific Railway
the paymaster arrived that day and settled with
the employes ; in a few hours afterwards three men
were robbed with violence, in one case amounting
to murder, and another was drugged and robbed.
On the same night J. A. Whitehead, clerk in the
Union Pacific Railroad office at Omaha, was robbed
of $9,000 at Cheyenne, by three highwaymen, who
walked him out half a mile on the prairie, with
pistols to his head, where they left him gagged and
bound, after they had robbed him.

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Births.
DOYNE —On the 30th ult., at 19, Grosvenor-square, Lad)?
Frances Doyne, of a son and heir.
FERRYMAN—On the 28th ult., the wife of Major-General
Ferryman, C. 8., of a daughter.
HARRISON—On the Ist inst., at Bushey, Herts, the wifo Of
Frederick Harrison, of a son.

Marriages.
HODGES —WATERS —0 n the 31st ult., at the Sardinian
Chapel, Frederick Hodges, Esq., of No. 16, Cavendish-
square, to Eliza Rose Manisty, eldest daughter of Jelln.
Waters Esq., M.D., of 15, Bedford-square.
WALTER BURT-0 n the 31st ult., at Stoke Damerol,
Walter, Esq., 11.M.C.5., to Amelia Elizabeth, the eldest
daughter of J. Burt, Esq, Paradise-place, Stoke Devon'
port.

Deaths.
ADDINGTON—On the 29th ult., at his seat, Langford Court,
Bristol, IL J. Addington, Esq., aged 82.
ADKINS - On the 31st ult., at Wimbledon, Thomas Andy(•
Adkins, aged 61.
ANDREWS—On the 29th ult., at Epsom, Surrey, Mr. Heal
A ndrews.
BUTCHER—On the 30th ult., at Bristol, Lieut.-Colonel Jag.
E. Butcher, Madras Army, aged 67.

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