The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-29 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN PRESS.

The San Francisco Bulletin of June 23, on the
Northern Pacific Railway, writes :
" That there is some earnestness in the recent revival
of the Northern Pacific Railway project is proved by the
ari ival in this city, on Friday last, of a party representing
the company which has it in hand, who are charged with

the duty of making a general examination of the country
to be traversed west of the great north bend of the Mis-
souri Paver. The party consists of Thomas H. Canfield,
general agent of the company, who was joined at Omaha,
on his way hither, by W. NI. Robertz, an able civil engi-
neer from Pennsylvania; Win. S. Johnson, an engineer
lately in the service of the Like Ontario Shore Railroad ;
Mr. Moorhead, of the firm of Jay Cooke and Co., which
has taken a largo interest in the company ; Samuel Wilke-
son, a literary gentleman, who will write up the general
results of the exploration for the press, and Dr. Clax•
ton. Mr. Canfield left Vermont for California on the
15th instant. He will start with his party for Port-
land, Oregon, and Olympia, Washington Territory,
overland, this evening. The party will take a steamer
at Olympia, examine the bays and harbour of Puget
Sound and the Fuca Straits, and afterward proceed
to Walla Walla, whence they will go north-easterly to the
Cour d'Alene and Pend d'Oreille Lakes, and up Clark's
Fork of the Columbia to Montana, passing by Deer Lodge
Valley to Gallaten City, Helena, and the Cadet and Mullen
Passes of the Rocky Mountains. After examining these
passes and exploring the upper portion of the Yellowstone,
they will go down that river on the Missouri to the North
Bend, near old Fort Clark, where they may be met by
another party which was started from Lake Superior. The
latter party consists of Governor J. G. Smith of Vermont,
President of the Western Pacific Railroad; Edwin F. John-
son, Chief Engineer of the Company, and a Lumber of
other gentlemen connected with the enterprise. We are
informed that this party, after fixing the terminus of the
road on Lake Superior, and making arrangements for the
location and construction of the initial se. tion, will pro-
ceed to Pied River of the North, near Fort Abercrombie,
and thence on to Missouri River by Furts Ransom and
Totten in Dakota, keeping close to the probable route of
the road. Both parties will be escorted by Government
troops wherever trouble with Indians is apprehended,
and their reconnaissance will be preliminary to a thorough
survey."

The Tribune, July 10, published seven..of its
large pages, with closely printed names, showing
the incomes on which taxes were levied iu Brooklyn
last year. Po Economy, No. 7, is on Mono-
poly—the' Lam of Prices—Effect of Duties on
Cost. In the same number appears the text of the
new Constitution of the State of New York, which
is to be presented to the people for acceptance
or rejection at the next General Election in No-
vember :
" The best features of the now Constitution are those
eesignml to prevent bribery in the Legislature and at the
p 0.14. They promise to be effective in destroying the
greatest danger of our political system. Any official WI 0
is convicted of accepting a valuable consideration for his
vote or for any official act is to be punished by a fine not
exceeding $5,000, mud imprisonment in the Penitentiary
for a term not exceeding five years; and what is more im-
portmit, conviction is facilitated by securing immun:ty to
the person who pays the bribe. The present law makes
the one who pays equally guilty with the one who receives
and as no one can be compelled to criminate himself, it
is of course impossible to obtain legal evidence of the
offence. District-Attorneys are obliged to pros 'cute when
ever an act of bribery is brought to theft knowledge, and
if they neglect to do so are to be removed from office. A
reasonably honest enforcement of this provision of the
Constitution would completely cleanse out tho lobby in a
few weeks."

Venality at the polls is met by disfranchisement,
and the Legislature is authorized to pass mea-
sures to suppress the evil. The judiciary is to
be reorganized, the number of judges increased,
and the bench raised higher than now above the
turmoil and corruption of party. The Tribune re-
grets that an elective judiciary is not altogether
abolished, but it accepts the compromise.
" The term of office of judges of the higher courts is in-
creased to 14 years ; arri at the general election of 1873
the people are to vote directly upon the question of filling
those judgeships by appointment. . . . The pay of
Senators and Assemblymen is raised from $3OO to $l,OOO
a year, that they may nn longer say they }lwo to sell
themselves in order to pay their Albany board bills."

It recognises the principle of impartial suffrage,
removing the invidious distinction which now im-
poses a property qualification on coloured voters.
On this subject the Philiadelphia Public Ledger
says : -- _ _ _

"The new Constitution is to be voted on by the Feople
at the general election is to be held on the first Thursday
of next November. The Constitution is not to be voted
on as an entire instrument, but each citizen may cast four
ballots—to wit, for or against the amended Constitution ;
the judiciary article; the uniform rule of assessment-and
taxation of real and personal property; and the property
qualification of coloured men."
The New York lVorld gives an account of the
island of St. Pierre, which, with its neighbour
the island of Miquelon, " moored like two little
flag-boats under the lee of British Newfoundland,
bear witness to the struggles not less gigantic (than
those between France and England in India) which
overthrew the once magnificent dominion of France
in America. When the wars of Queen Anne were
closed in victory by Marlborough, the Peace of
Utrecht, which gave Newfoundland to the con-
queror, reserved St. Pierre and Miquelon to the
Grand Monarque as stations of refuge for the
fishermen of Normandy and Brittany who yearly
thronged under the flag cf the lilies to these north-
ern waters. Half a century later, when the auda-
cious policy of Chatham had been crowned with
complete success, and France, at the Peace of Paris,
in 1763, signed away for ever ber supremacy on
this continent, poor little St. Pierre and Miquelon
were still magnanimously spared by the victors.
The reservation of these islands to France in the
Treaty of Utrecht was confirmed in the new treaty,
and they have ever since continued to afford a rally-
ing-point and harbour of safety for the cod-fleets
of St. Malo, of Nantes, and of Havre. . . . The
small foothold which Providence (being on the side
of the heaviest artillery) has permitted France, to
retain in the Northern hemisphere of the New
World, France, it must be confessed, is putting to
the very best, most practical, and most civilised use
possi' le." Of the Virginia election, it remarks :

"The thoroughness with which the situation in that
State has been recognised is indeed significant and pro-
mising. It shows a larger comprehension and more of real
statesmanship than have been evinced in that latitude
since the close of the war. Triumph Las been won by
the cheerful acceptance of the inevitable. The Virginians
have carried practical business sense info their politics.
They have ignored a past which is dead, and have not
lost by wooing an unattainable Utopia."

On the same subject the Philadelphia correspondent
of the London 7iines writes that the election vin-
dicated the wisdom of President Grant's Pacific
policy :--

" Virg:nia heretofore Las been under military negro
control, and disfranchisement and disabilities ruled there
to an extent that would please the severestßadical. People
who were competent could not be got to fill the ordinary
civil offices, and the courts, and county, and township
governments were almost abolished, owing to the want of
officials to carry them on. In many. places the most igno-
rant blacks were the only eligible candidates, while the

better classes of tho pcople, thoroughly disgusted with
affairs, kept themselves aloof from any attempt to influ-
ence the State affairs. Had not Generals Schofield and
Canby, both prudent men, been the military commanders,
and conducted their administrations as wisely as the con-
dition of things would permit, the result would have been
itiable in the extreme. For over four years, until thin
week's election, the best people in Virginia took no in-

terest, in its fate, and, until tho President's proclamation
gave them some hope, they appeared thoroughly indif-

ferent to what became of their Stato.

The President

wis(ly determined that, in constructing Virginia, the best
policy to pursue was to induce this valuable class to again
take control of affairs, and accordingly he issued his pro-
clamation ordering the election on July 6, and permit Ling
the people to vote against the obnoxious clauses of the
State Constitution, which if adopted would have kept them
in perpetual disfranchisement."

The majority in the Legislature are Conservatives,
which ensures two United States Senators; for the
Representatives, six are Conservatives, and three
Radicals, of whom one, Norton, ib a negro, the first
who will take his seat in Congress. Several Con-
servative negroes have been chosen for the State.
Legislature. The election has to be approved by
Congress, .which does not meet till Decemter.
Richmond, which from April, 1865, had continued
in gloom, broke into great rejoicings.
The Citizen, which now carries on its title-page
the heading of the well-known literary journal the
Round Table, does not consider that the New York
limes has

"Fallen cff in the least under the management of Mr.
Stillman S. Conant, who has assumed the editorial chair
1 ft vacant by the death of Mr. Raymond. It is as elegant,
careful, and philosophical as ever, and it• would seem that
Mr. Conant must have furnished more for its columns dur-
ing Mr. Raymond's life than was generally supposed. It
is naturally a Conservative paper, and addresses i ne think-
ing portion of the community; wild extravagance and fana-
ticism do not become or suit its readers, and it has thus
possessed a strong control over a public sentiment which
must be convinced before it can be moved. It has always
been eminently a gentlemanly newspaper, rather inclined
towards the elegancies of English journalism than to the
greater vigour, bitterness, and boisterous of American.
Ruffianly personalities and coarse remarks have never dis-
graced its columns, and even the lighter style of writing
has been avoided. Its existence is not only a benefit to
the people, but it has a good and resteaining influence
upon its contemporaries, who are sometimes carried away
by the twat of argument or the excitement of a political
contest."

Alluding to "Brick" Pomeroy, he is described to be
"As irrepressible' as his especial aggravation, the C -
loured gentleman, and has no intention of dying out or
being killed off just at present. Wo are not quite sure
whether he knows that the rebellion is over, but we think
he does. Hs has engaged C. P. Sykes, an experienced
publisher, to take charge of the business affairs of his
paper, while he gathers up all his strength for a grand
charge on those unhappy fellows the United States bond-
holders, and those lucky dogs, the corrupt New York
officials."

The New York Nation denies the existence of
any general sympathy with the insurrection in
Cuba. After much careful attention it says
We find ourselves that this supposed sympathy hardly
exists except in the imagination of our prominent' states-
men,' wire-pullers, and manufacturers of issues. Of
course we cannot say what feelings Grant may have, but
as for any general feeling on the part of the American
public, there is simply a feeling of indifference. We have
not yet had the pleasure of secinlr :any person of education
and influence in any part of the country who was not free
to admit that he knew little about the result of the Cuban
struggle, and that he thought he did not care very much.
We have heard the atrocaies of th 3 Spaniards deplored,
but we have heard it intimated at the same time that
the Cubans were probably 'just as bloodthirsty. We have
heard regret expressed that Spain left it to Cuba to abo-
lish slavery in the island, but we have heard douht ex-
pressed at the same time whether the island had done it
or would do it. We have heard the Cubans called tho
lazy Cubans' aul the ' dirty Cubans,' but never the
noble, or the brave, or the generous, or 'the chivalric
Cubans. And we cannot say that such specimens of the
population are..nownngagedimpouring forth fury And war
upon Spain from the lower part of this city appear to
have that ticalibre, intellectual, moral, or physical,
which would lead one to sympathize with them in
the present or any other undertakieg. We have, it
is true, read numerous fiery editorial articles denouncing
Spain and proclaiming a warm love for her colony, but we
never met any one who had read these editorials, or signi-
fied his intention of being about to do so. Most people
whom we met appear to have a horror of the whale sub-
-ct, as a bore, an unintelligible bore, too ; those who ex-
press any other feeling than weariness express disgust,
saying that Cuba is as totally devoid of interest as any
colony in America—without a history, without literature
or art, without great names in war, politics, or sc:ence,
sunk for generations in slavery and ignorance, her inha-
bitants divided sharply into two classes, the indolent rich
and the degra led poor—what is there in all this for us to
sympathize with ?"

The Springfield Republican writes as follows on
the French cable

" Now that the Great Eastern is about landing its shore
end of the French cable at St. Pierre, whence it will come,
next week to Duxbury, the course to be adopted by oui
authorities, State and national, with regard to its landing
in the Old Colony becomes a matter of great public inte-
rest. It has been surmised that Judge lloar's late visit to
Massachusetts had something to do with this matter; if
so, we incline to think it resulted in nothing decisive in the
way of preventing the Groat Eastern from landing her St.
Pierre cable. We believe the course of events will be some-
thing like this: -1. The authorities of this State will
do nothing to hinder the landing. The Charter granted
by Massachusetts expresses the consent of the State
that the cable may be landed. If the consent of Congress
is also necessary, Governor Claflin thinks that is a matter
for the United States authcrities to look to. Probably, in
a legal aspect, the concurrent consent of the State and of
Congress is necessary, and must eventually be obtained.
2. The law authorities of the United Status will do no-
thing. It may well be that the previous consent of Con-
gress is necessary to authorise the cable to land. But
Congress has not taken any action forbidding it to land,
and it is, at least, doubtful whether the courts of the
United States would interfere, even if asked, in
anticipation of some action by Congress. But it is
not at all likely that any legal steps will be taken
by the United States authorities of their own motion. 3.
The old cable company will feel badly about it, of course,
and will perhaps apply for an injunction. But meanwhile,
the public like it; it reduces rates of telegraphing, and it
pleases our State pride to have the terminus here. When
Congress meets some action will probably bo taken, espe-
cially with a view to reciprocity, as we have already
suggested. The cases of Malta and Jamaica furnish a
rood precedent; and though France is very skittish on
the subject of its mails and telegraph lines, subjecting
them rigidly to Government censorship, there is no
doubt we can make a satisfactory arrancetnent ultimately.
Mr. Washburne, with his hobby of Government tele-
graphs, will like to have the negotiation in hand, and his
relations with General Grant and with Congress are such
as to give any treaty he might make a batter chance of
ratification than poor Reverdy Johnson's ever had. The
old cable company deserves well of the country, and
means to continue to do so. It has responded promptly
to a demand for cheaper rates, and, as its business
increases, as it will do, these rates will be made still lower.
It made a mistake in not accepting generously the propo-
sition, offered by Mr. Hewitt, of New York, to make
friends of the French Cable Company; and it will con-
tinue this mistake if it persecutes its rival in our courts.
But it is entitled to all the privileges that any company
gets in this country, and, if it takes the best course, it
will get them without difficulty, and will always have the
preference.

Secretary Boutwell has appointed General F. E.
Spinner, United States Treasurer, Custodian of the Sink-
ing Fund and of such bonds as may be bought, subject to
the future action of Congress, with instructions that they
must be charged to the account of the registered bonds and
books opened, which at all times must show the true con-
dition of the fund. lie is also instructed t-) open an inte-
rest account with the sinking fund, and to credit that ac-
count with all interest due, or bonds bought, on account of
the sinking fund, or subject to the future action of Con-
gres3, and purchase now bonds with such interest, to be
added to the sinking fund.

, I ADYEIiTisEmExT.] Consumption, and all nervous,
Bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every sta .e are only
aggravated and accelerated by drugs of eve y description, but
perfe tly curable 'hy Du BAanY's health-restoring Revalenta
Arabic's Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had b. en
considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), coug'i,
asthma, consumption, h .bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric
derangements, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner-
vousness. biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs,
cola, influenza, noises in the bead and ears, rheumatism, goat,
impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless-
ness, acidity. palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps,
spasms, n :use." and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink-
ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti...htness of the chest, pains at the
pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, itc We quote a
few; -The Pope's health restored by Du Harry's Food. Curs No.
63,413 -"Borne, July 21, 18a6. The health of tha Iloly Father is
excellent, especially since; abandonin all other remedies, he has
confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Ilevaleuta A rabica Food,
of which he consumes a pliteful at every meal. It has produced
a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness
cannot praise this excell n, food too highly."—From the Gazette
du Midi, July 2'. Cure No. 46, Mr. James Roberts, thnbei•
meehant, of Fernley. Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs,
sn'tting of blood, liver derangement, and p..rtial deafness. Cure
'
IN o. 1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies, I ord-Lieutenant of Waterford,
of many years' dyspepsia.. - No. 4",83 . "Fifty years' indescrib-
able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, co,._
stipation, flatu'ency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria
Jolly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury
and more than sloppy imit.tions to which, without authority
Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached
In tins, at is 11d; 1 lb 2s 0d; Ms -Is &I; 5 lbs Ils; 12 lbs 22s ;
21 Ibs 40s. -Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA. AResteA CEOCOLATK
POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 95, for cups
at 18 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s
—being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 555 tins are sent
free of carriage in England on receiptof,sPtroese, Lolidon ; andt-Ot flice Order.—
EARhY Do BARRY and Co., 77, Regent
all Grown and Qbemista

-.lllParn,
THE " NATION" ON THE SICKLES TESTIMC;VIAb?

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The Nation has a severe article in its issue of the Sth'
inst. on the signers of the Sickles testimonial : "Vie
have no doubt that many of those who signed this shame-
ful testimonial did so out of sheer cowardice. The num-
ber of persons who have the courage or honesty to refuse
their names when asked to help a political adventurer into
office is daily declining. Large numbers now end 3avour to
reconcile their weakness with their sense of duty to the
public by writing privately to the dispensers of patronage;
asking them to disregard their signatures to testimonials:
It does not appear to have occurred to the Nation that
the signers showed greater "pluck" in hazarding such fill"
mivations being launched against them for signing than is
declining, as nothing like this could have happened had they
refused their signatures. The article is perhaps the most se-
vere everpublished iu the Nation, the writer having gone in
for remorseless execution. So also with the New York World
which epitomises the career of General Sickles in big sen-
sational headirgs. But after all, some of the signers rnly
have attached more weight to a brilliant military record ill
the cause of Union and.emancipation than these writers to-
wards obliterating the crimes of a vicious career. The rnalu
question is, What is General Sickles now? not what was Ile
once. There are many of us, if we all only met our deserts,
who would be, if not standing on a scaffold, at least working
with a chain round our legs. It has been asserted positive'l
that scarcely a man passes through life without committing
a crime for which he might have been condemned to penal
servitude, and few have grown to years of discretion who
have not "sat under" and, perhaps, profited by the reli-
gious teaching of one who openly announced that he W
a'nong the most wicked of mankind in the days of his youth.
There is an old proverb, too, "the greater the sinner the
greater the saint," the truth of which can be easily shown
from human nature, for the energy which prompts to
crime when turned in another direction, prompts to acti-
vity in good deeds. If General Sickles has become good
in proportion as the Nation and the World say ho w 95,
once bad, he must now be among the most excellent 0'
men. We desire to point out the omission on the part Of
the Nation, to state what is the present character n',
that distinguished officer, for, in case of a thorough
reform, ifs stricture's on the signers of the testiraollia,
are too severe. At the same time we believe the Sa"
Lion to be engaged in a very distasteful but necessari
work. As a general rule, a bad record should exclude
from high public appointments, and soundness on the main
question does not justify flattering testimonials from well-
known citizens. The habit of signing anything to get lit'
of a bore, and because men are too good-natured to dell
their help to a poor person in distress, is working a gray
injury, and adding no small force to demoralizing
influ-
ences. While admitting this, while alive to the fact that
good nature is baneful when thus exercised, we maintain
that no man should be altogether shut out from the fanged'
To do so is to make the once vicious always vicious, en
we have the very highest authority for believing the prise
ciple to be wrong. It is on this ground that we take eVer
Lion to the article referred to.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

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Ditto, by Irrench packet
Cape Verde, by Brazil pacact
....... ,
Cape of Good Li.ve. Ascension. anti St. Helena.— JulY `el:
China, Penang. and 3ingvore, via Southampton.. July ;:
blbrattaz via Southampton
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Ditto, Alarseillce July 21
' ewfoundla r c July 23

Atatritius, Cape of Good Elope, and Natal, via

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Ditto, by Inman packet Jab". '''S
treat Indies and ra.itio (except Mexico anit Baba-
mas)
July '
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Cuba and Mexico
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