The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-12 00:00:00

so she left to have an interview with the General
and to purchase a Spanish grammar. We may
here observe that Mr. Hale has written a long letter
in reply to his Secretary of Legation, Mr. Perry,
whose letter he calls "an atrocious libel." He asks
if it can be seriously believed that he, a stranger in
Spain, ignorant of the Spanish language and customs,
would commence relations with a commercial
establishment for the importation of merchan-
dise under his diplomatic franchise. Like Mary
the idea of a knowledge of Spanish being required
' from a Minister to Spain, does not suggest itself to
Mr. Hale, though in hie case the ignorance re-
sulted in disagreeable consequences to himself. His
account is that it being necessary to furnish a
house, be learned from Mr. Perry that by the
law of Spain he was entitled to import furni-
ture free of duty up to $7,000, and Perry un lertook
to carry this out for Mr. Hale. Mr. Perry made
every application in Spanish, all which, without
knowing their purport, were signed by Mr. hale.
That petition dated Oct. 1, 1866, to which Mr.
Perry particularly alluded, was written by him,
and signed, as were the others ; and on reading his
statement Nit.. Hale went to the Sate Department
with two witnesses, to whom all the petitions were
submitted, and found it to be in Mr. Perry's hand-
whiting. Ile then charges Mr. Perry with import-
ing, withinleix years, goods to the amount of $6,750,
in which list there are nine carriages, eight being
ordered within three years, while denying that
his own importations were even up to what
was allowed by law. Mr. Hale answers the
smuggling charge of La Politica by a letter from
Marshal Serrano, where we fail to catch the point
of exoneration. In the same paper is a letter in
reply to another from Mr. Smalley, in defence and
confirmation of his first comtnunicaton about the
Spanish Minister. He alludes to a curious printer's
error which crept into the letter, and gave point to
some abuse from Mr. Hale and Democratic jour-
e...., UMW' was
printed "that," and came out, "I was indebted to
him for a cordial reception, and for many more
offers of hospitality that I was able to accept."
President Grant left Washington June 9 on a
visit to New York and Boston. On the 10th the
train in which the Pre:A:lent was with his party
came into collision with a cattle train near Balti-
more and ran off the rails, when one passenger was
killed and twenty others more or less injured, Secre-
tary Boutwell having a narrow escape.
From Philadelphia last Monday came the news :
—" Constant Indian massacres are reported from
the Kansas frontier. Fifty settlers have been killed
in the past two weeks. A panic exists, and the set-
tlers are coming east." The valleys of the Solomon
and Republican Rivers have teen devastated, and
the settlers are fleeing from Western Kansas to the
more settled East. The Santee Sioux attacked the
settlement of Muscle Shell, Montana, May 8, when
a desperate fight ensued, ending in the death of 30
Indians. A strong reinforcement of Sioux was re-
ported to be coming up, but the whites were pre-
pared. It is evident therefore that the Indian war
is general, the outrages ranging from Montana to
Arizona, in which territory a fight is now reported
between the troops and an Indian band at Iveson,*
wherein 30 Indians were killed and eight captured.
News from Shirley, Cloud County, Kansas, says four
men out of a party of six buffalo hunters were killed
by the Indians on Monday, May 24, near White
Rock, 24 miles west of Shirley, and it is evident
that nothing but the most vigorous pacific efforts of
the new Indian Commission and the persuasions of
the civilized tribes in the conference proposed to
lecture on the advantages of civilization will save
the savages from extermination. An extraordinary
crime has been perpetrated at Santa F 6, New
Mexico. The national depository has been robbed
of a quarter of a million of dollars, and the person
in charge of the building murdered. A telegram
from Washington on Tuesday said President Grant
has appointed a commission of seven members to
investigate Indian affairs, with instructions to in-
spect the records of all Indian agencies, to superin-
tend the disbursement of annuities, and to report
on the best means of civilizing the savage tribes.
The Indians cause great difficulty to the officers
sent to protect the settlements and to carry out ope •
rations against them. The soldiers cannot attack an
encampment upon which they come without evi-
dence that its inhabitants are hostile, although per-
suaded that the pipe of peace is ready for them if
the stronger party, and the knife and bullet if the
weaker. General Sheridan asks how he is to treat
such Indians as the Cheyennes, who refuse to go to
their reservations, and have left Arkansas to join
their forces with those defeated by Captain Carr.
It is more than probable that it was these
Cheyennea who have again spread such desolation
in the valleys of the Solomon and Republican
Rivers; yet, although the General had the oppor-
tunity of destroying them, he could not avail himself
of it. General Sherman recommends that a procla-
mation be issued that all Indians will be treated as
hostile when absent from and not going to their re-
servations ; but that in their reservations officers
should be ordered to treat them liberally and kindly.
To this, he adds, it must come at last, and now is
the appropriate time.
The Volunteers forced Captain-General Dulce
to resign the Government of Cuba to Espinar, pend-
ing the arrival of General de Rodas, whose depar-
ture from Spain was hurried by the news. Dulce
left on Saturday, June 5. The reason the Volun-
teers give for this deposition is that his wife, being
a Creole, influenced him to be too lenient to the in-
surgents. From Washington, however, the Spanish
Minister, telegraphed to the Volunteers, warning
them to desist from further revolts. The 500 Ame-
rican fillibusters were reported to have landed under
General Jordan, and, after defeating some Spanish
troop's, they had joined the insurgents. From Spanish
accounts the filibusters who landed iu the Bay of
Nipe were routed the next day, losing their vessel,
artillery, and provisions. Large bodies of Cuban
insurgents, they also state, have surrendered to the
Spanish authorities, and as large numbers have
been continually surrendering there must have been
a considerable number to begin with. Chili has re-
cognized the insurgents as belligerents, and Peru is
said to have given bonds not to use the American
monitors purchased in the United States against
Cuba.

No. I. of Political Economy, by Horace Greeley,
appeared in the Tribune, on May 29. It begins by an
essay on labour and production, which is continued
through more than three columns of leading article
type. We do not intend to sip these sweets, but to
make a great feast of the 25 papers when com-
pleted, and then tell their celebrated author how we
feel. By the way, the Tribune published the list of
contributors to the Free Trade League, and has been
busily engaged since in analysing it, and its Secretary
must be amazed at the results. A correspondent
asserts that Gen. Grant had an interview with a strong
Protectionist, wherein be showed a marked leaning
towards Free Trade--" He was decidedly opposed
to any legislation which had for its object an in-
crease in the taxation of articles or merchandise
imported into the United States, as he did not be-
lieve that the revenues of the country required it.
He would not conceal the fact that a small tariff was
necessary, but he would like to see the revenues of
the country raised as far as possible from internal
taxes, and not from heavy duties upon imported

goods."
We learn by cable that the Nova Scotian House
of Assembly, by 27 against 7 votes, has rejected
the resolution in reference to the annexation of their
province to the dominion of Canada, but the ques-
tion will- probably be reconsidered. On May 26,
Mr. Murray, of Pictou, moved the following re-
solution :--
"'T'hat an humble address be presented to her Majesty
asking once more that our beloved institution be restored
to or that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to
absolve us from our allegiance to the British throne, acid
enable us, as a free and independent people, to adopt the
May deem
political institutions which we, in our judgment,,most conducive to our happiness and prosperity."
He approached this, with seven '° Whereas," show-
ing what a down-trodden people were the colonists,
and with what contemit they were treated by the
Imperial Government and Legislature. Mr. Murray
denied Mr. Vail's suggestion that it was an annexa-
tion resolution. Mr. Kidstoa having seconded it,
the resolution was to be considered on the Ist inst.

* This Iveson is pram*, a telegraphic misprint for
Tucson.