The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-27 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The Reconstruction Amendment Act had occu-
pied both branches of Congress during the week end-
ing Saturday, the 13th July. The bills did not agree
in detail, though both were limited in scope to the

acts and intentions of last spring. The Represen-
tatives passed their bill on Tuesday, but the Senate,
who were in a more talkative mood, did not get
through theirs till Thursday. On Friday the bills

were discussed in a conference of the two branches,
to harmonise conflicting points, and on Saturday it

was thought they would be forwarded to the Pre-

sident. Mr. Johnson did receive them, and did--

as every one expected—veto them. Congress re-
ceived them back, and immediately passed them

over the President's veto by an overflowing majo-
rity of both Representatives and Senators, so the
whole programme has come off laid down.

The following are the provisions of the House Bill.
The bill declares that Congress intended to have it
understood that the provisional Governments are
illegal or void; that last spring's Reconstruction bills

authorised the military commanders to remove
civil officers whenever they think necessary, and to

appoint others to fill their places ; explains more
fully the duties of registering officers ; provides that
no civil court shall have jurisdiction of any pro-
ceeding, civil or criminal, against any district coin-

mander for any official act done under these acts ;

and declares that no district commander shall be
removed from the command assigned to him with-
out the advice and consent of the Senate, or unless
cashiered or dismissed, or unless he consents thereto.
Before the bill was passed it was amended by a

section declaring that any person who shall obstruct
the execution of this act, or the acts to which it is

supplementary, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and on conviction shall be subject to a fine not ex-

ceeding $5,000, or imprisonment for a year, or both;
and another providing that the right of any person
to hA rpoißtered as a legal voter shall not be in any
way changed or affected by virtue of any pardon
granted by the President for participation in the
rebellion.

Governor Crawford, of Kansas, has written fully
to Senator Ross on the subject of protection to
citizens, and more especially to railways and rail-
way parties in Kansas, against the Indians. He says

that if Congress will not act he will take the matter
into his own hands. Several attacks have been re-

ported on the labourers employed on the Pacific
Railroad (Eastern Division), and it is mainly on
their behalf the Governor writes. The Indians,
being now about to receive their annuities, the
outrages may cease for a week or two till the goods

are secured, when they will recommence robbing
and murdering. Lieutenant Kidder, of the 2d

Cavalry, left Fort Sedgewick on the 29th ult. with
ten men and a guide, carrying despatches for General
Custer. As nothing has since been heard of the

party, it is feared they have been captured. Gene-
ral Sherman proceeded to Fort Harker from St.
Louis to meet General Hancock, and mature their

plans for effectively clearing the Indians from the
Pacific Railroad, and removing the obstructions

from the Smoky Hill route.
Reports prevail that the Government at Wash-
ington is about to purchase the Sandwich Islands,
but, although premature, they have some founda-
tion, and it is a fact that a commercial treaty has

been negotiated between the two Governments
Mr. Harris, the Chief Minister of the Governmen

of the Islands, arrived at Washington on a special

mission. The Spring field Republican states that it
suspects the United States naval authorities of the
Pacific Ocean were for some months under secret

instructions in case of the King's death ; in the
absence of a legitimate successor to seize the
islands for the United States. At the pre-
sent rate of decrease the native race will
have died out by the end of this century,
and the white population,
chiefly American, has
all the business and property in its bands. The sugar
consumed in the Pacific States is chiefly raised there ;
the position is half-way across the Pacific Ocean
between China and Japan and the Eastern States,
and it is a rendezvous for American whalers. The
new treaty grants to the Republic important advan-
tages ; all produce of these islands is to be admitted
into the United States free of duty. The old treaty
was adopted in December, 18.19, to last ten years,
and to continue thereafter till either party ter-
minated it by notice.
The correspondence between Mr. Sewaid and
Colonel Naphegzi, Santa Anna's agent, has been
published. Naphegzi, on the Bth inst., asked
Mr. Seward to demand the release cf Santa Anna,
and rebuke Commander Roe for interfering with
his movements. Mr. Seward replied, justifying
Commander Roe, on the grounds that Santa
Anna had attempted, under the protection of the
flag, and in the presence, and with the co-opera-
tion, of the United States, to foment civil war in
Mexico, and that only great national injury would
justify the Unite 4 States in assuming a hostile
attitude towards the Republic of Mexico.
The Union League Club of New York has estab-
lished 120 subordinate clubs in the Southern States
to support the Liberal policy. The negroes register
in large numbers, but the whites slowly, and in some
States scarcely at all ; in Louisiana there aro double
the number of negro voters registered. Senator
Sumner said it would be the duty of the Senate in
a few months to welcome negro Senators upon the
floor. Wendell Phillips calls for a black Vice-Pre-
sident, that the negroes of the South demand such
a recognition. The right to vote includes the right
to stand as Representative, and there can be little
doubt that many negroes will be sent as representa-
tives from the Southern States. General Sickles has
recorded his conviction of the necessity for a general
amnesty, as nearly all the best men in the South are
ineligible for office under the recent laws passed by
Congress. He says, in a letter to Senator Trum-
bull—" Now more than ever men of ability and
experience in public affairs are disfranchised, and
especially those who could fill judicial stations. This
exposes the experiment of general suffrage to need-
less hazards. If the experiment fails, it is more
likely to fail from the inability of the people to put
in office those who could and would insure its suc-
cess. . . I find myself prevented, as will the
people 1,37-and-bye, from securing for the public
service men of aptitude and character."
The North German Lloyd's steamer Union,
Captain Von Sauten, from New York, 11th inst.,
arrived at Southampton last Sunday, with 143
passengers and $122,193. The same day the
Cunard extra steamship Tripoli arrived at Queens-
town with 154 passengers. The Ville de Paris
arrived at Brest from New York with specie valued
at £127,400. On
Wednesday the Hamburg and
American steamship Saxonia arrived at Southamp-
ton, having left New
York on the 13th instant,
with 130 passengers and $180,512 for London, and
$159,335 for France, and $47,105 for Hamburgh.
On Thursday the Inman steamer City of London
arrived at Queenstown at 2.30 a.m., having left
New York on the 13th instant with 53 passengers
and $1,383,066. On the same day the Guion
steamship Manhattan arrived at the same place with
53 cabin and 69 steerage passengers.
The Cunard
steamer Jav 1, from Boston and Halifax, passed the
Brow Head signal station on Thursday at 8.15
p.m. The letters will be delivered this morning.
The Java brought news to the 16th inst. (evening),
153 cabin passengers, and $195,082 and £4Bl.
The National Steam Navigation Company's steam—
ship Erin, from New York, arrived at Queenstown
at 2 a.m. yesterday, with $250,000 in specie.
On the 19th July the steamers Allensania and
Deutschland arrived at New York. On the 20th
tho Inman steamships City
July 20, states that the City
uryh arrived out. A telegram dated New York,
of Antwerp and Edin.
of Paris arrived out
with over $1,000,000 in specie, but this is evidently
a mistake, as that vessel arrived at New York on
the 13th instant, and she is more likely to have
sailed with that specie on board for Liverpool, than
to have carried it from Liverpool to New York.
The Minnesota arrived out on the 20th, and the
Moravian and Belgian on the 22d. On the 23d
the U.S. mail steamer Arago and the Helvetia
arrived out, and on the 24th the Persia and the
Bellona.
The tribunal of police of the Canton of Vaud,
Switzerland, has lately been engaged in trying a young
man named Piquilloud, charged with having for some
time past practised medicine and surgery in female attire.
It appeared that he had succeeded in completely disguising

his fearful vengeance. The Morristes aro another class
of Dissenters, and have no fellowship with the Salt Lake
Church. They denounce polygamy, and are constantly
receiving acquisitions to their numbers. They have a
strong settlement in Utah, at Soda Springs, under the very
shadow of the Prophet. Every sermon 1 heard from the
Mormons betrayed nervous fears as to divisions ; some
appealed, some unfolded the duty of submission, and
Brigham thundered his fierce anathemas against the faith-
less. Gentile dealings and associations are forbidden, be-
cause Mormonism cannot bear contact with virtue and
truth, nor can its crowning crime of polygamy bear contact
even with vice. Virtue and vice are alike its foes, and
equally fatal to its perpetuity. Thus is the Mormonism
of Young beset by schisms, perilled by growing intercourse
with gentiles, and soon the Pacific Railroad will pour
thousands of population into all the fruitful valleys of the
West, and in but a few years the distinctiveness of this
people must fade away."
CURIOSITIES FROM THE " BRINY DEEP."—Mr. G.
W. Fuller, of Saxonville, Massachussetts, a submarine diver,
has sent for our inspection some "greenbacks" taken from a
wallet found in a coal-laden vessel which had been sunk
in Long Island Sound, near the Beaver Tail light, in 96
feet of water. The notes had been in.tho water fourteen
months. One ten-dollar and a one-dollar Treasury-
note are reduced almost to the condition of tinder;
but the paper of one five-dollar Treasury-note and one
five-dollar national bank-note is not perceptibly injured,
showing in the former case that there must have been
some chemical difference in the paper; but what is even
more remarkable is that the green ink shows so many
different changes. In ono note the green on the face is as
bright as ever, while that on the back is a bluish grey. In
another the green on the face has been darkened almost to
a black, showing that different kinds of green ink have
been used for the printing.— The American Artizan.
The movements of the precious metals during
last week were on an extensive scale as regards the im-
ports, which amounted to about £995,640, including
£73,000 from New York by the Palmyra, £lO,OOO by the
Teutonia, £288,350 by the Russia, £105,800 by the Fulton,
£150,000 by the City of Baltimore, and £22,000 by the New
York. The Christiana Thompson, from Sydney, brought
.£11,844 ; the Wellesley, from Port Philip, £90,000 ; the
Tasmanian, from the West Indies and Pacific, £194,966 ;
the Athenian, from the West Coast of Africa, £1,830 ; and
about £14,850 in silver received from the Continent. Tho
exports comprised £2OO to the West Indies by the
Rhone, and remittances to the Continent through private
sources, estimated at £188,733 ; the total amounting to
£188,933.
The Paris correspondent of the Stnndard re-
marks :--" Wo are promised a startling novelty in the way
of restaurants at the Exhibition. The Situation says that
a new refreshment-room is about to be opened there by an
American, who has trained largo apes to act as waiters.
Tho writer says he was present at a rehearsal, and that
the quadrumane garcons went through their work with a
steadiness and gravity worthy of their biped colleagues at
the " Trois Freres" or the "Cafe Anglais."
Russia has signed the International Sanitary
Convention for the care of the wounded in time of war.
We learn from China, dated May 30th, that
"the feeling of the Japanese towards foreign intercourse is
very favourable. An American vessel, in endeavouring to
anticipate the opening of the ports by trading, has been
seized while flying the Japanese flag. We have no news
from the Corea, but it is thought that the Freneh fleet will
renew their expedition to obtain satisfaction for the murder
of their missionaries. There is not the slightest indication
of feeling on the part of the Americans on account of the
seizure and burning of the General Sherman and
.murder
of the passengers and crow. The building of two spacious
premises on the old Factory site at Canton has been con-
tracted for by leading American firms."
4 ilk-es's Spirit says—" The Confederate's Daugh-
tor ; or, the Tyrrant of New Orleans," is produced in effec-
tive style at the Colosseum, in Liverpool. It draws tears
of generous sorrow from that high-minded, consistent
nation which is just now feting Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the
Liberator. It also adds, on Liverpool theatricals :—Henr y
J. Bj ron, who is ono of the most prolific burles4ue writers
of the day, is out with a single-act piece, entitled,
" Orpheus ; or, the Young Gentleman who Charmed the
Rocks." It was produced at the Prince of Wales' Theatre.
Rosa Celeste proposes, in August, to rival Bion-
di!), by attempting the crossing of Niagara Falls on a rope.
Helen Western is playing " Green Bushes " in
Sacramento, with a stock company of " stars."
Miss Louisa Myers, who has achieved deserved
popularity in the New England States, played recently at
Milford, Massachusetts.
At Minneapolis, in Minnesota, an opera-house
has been inaugurated N ith all the honours. It cost
fifty thousand dollars, and will seat fourteen hundred
people.

Harry Pearson, whose John. M'Clish is one of
the standard representations of the day, was the recipient
of a benefit lately in New Orleans, at which the profession
assisted largely. Harry served for a short time during the
war as aide-de-camp And chief commissary to the provost-
marshal-general of Hampton, Virginia.

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORE, Saturday, July 13,

Tho National Banking law fixes 7. per cent. as the
legal rate of interest banks can charge. This was •to

himself as a woman, and had obtained, under the name of operate in States where there was no rate fixed by law,
Miss Abbots, and in the quality of an American, admis- whore there was the banks were bound by the State law.
sion into several families, offering his services chiefly to The late Massachusetts enactment declares it to be lawful
ladies. The fraud was detected by a hairdresser, to whose to contract for any rate of interest. This has been inter- ,
shop he went to purchase a chignon. It was found that preted by the Comptroller of the Currency as fixing the
he could only bo convicted of the illegal exercise of his rate of interest, therefore the national banks in Massa-
profession, and on that count the Court condemned him to chusetts are at liberty to get what they can. Some wore
one month's imprisonment. foolish enough to suppose that this would work a revolu-
It is said that the late Emperor Maximilian and tfon, and that people who wanted money would bo
the Empress Charlotte each made a will some years ago, fleeced by the banks in that State. They aro, therefore,
leaving the whole of the property of the first that should surprised that no change has followed on the new law
die to the survivor. The value of the property left by coming into operation. Money is as plentiful as ever, and
Maximilian, including the estates of Miramar and Lacrome, the supplies ample throughout that State at 7 per cent.
is estimated at from ten to twelve millions of florins In Now York it ranges between 4 and 6 per cent., with a
about (.£1,000,000), and would, in virtue of the above will, large business done at the former rate on first-class securi-
descend to his wife. The Empress has no children, and, ties. It was doubtful in Boston whether they would be
if she continues incapable of managing her own affairs, able to maintain the figure at 7. There has been consider-
is consequently unable to make a new will, the property able excitement during the week in Wall and Broad-
will pass ou her death to the Royal Family of Belgium. streets, and the rise was considerable in railway securities,
" A Virginian" writes to the Times to make the with heavy purchases. But there was a reaction towards
following statements with respect to the Virginia Five the end of the week. Erie, however, continued buoyant.
per Cent. Stock, upon which Messrs. Baring resumed pay- Michigan Southern Stock has also risen, and although
ment of interest in full on the Ist of July. He says that Now York Central has not advanced in an equal degree
the original issue was but £373,000, upon which interest many speculators have predicted a strong rise for the
was punctually paid up to July, 1862 ; that the waste of stock of that line. It is said that the rise is mainly
war at last rendered the State unable to meet its oblige- due to incautious speculators, who look for large receipts
tions ; that since peace has been restored Virginia has been from the transport of the excellent harvest in the coming
exerting herself in every possible manner to do so, and fall. During this summer the receipts of 1867 have been
that the dividends in arrear between 1862 and 1867 have less than those of 1866. On every side the crop prospects
all been funded. As the means of Virginia arise from are encouraging, and although the effect is as yet little felt,
taxation, its financial condition must necessarily improve a heavy fall in the flour and grain market is looked for.
as its people recover from the effects of the war ; and there From California we learn that the yield is likely to be so
can be no doubt that this early effort to redeem its cha- large that a difficulty in transport is anticipated. Gold
racter for solvency is highly creditable to it. • has not fluctuated, although it was slightly higher yestor-
CANADA.—The new Confederation began its day, and as the demand is largo for export speculators
course on the Ist instant, constituted of four provinces— count upon a rise. Last week the export amounted to
Quebec (late Lower Canada, or Canada East), extending $1,908,701, and on Wednesday the sum taken out was
over 210,020 square miles; Ontario (late Upper Canada, or $1,441,748, with a considerable addition yesterday
Canada West), 121,260 square miles ; Now Brunswick, as well as to-day. The New York Sub-Treasury paid out
27,105 square miles ; Nova Scotia, 18,660 square miles ; last week $5,669,000 gold as interest on the public debt,
making an area of 377,045 square miles. The population due in July. American silver is in moderato request at
was 3,090,561 in 1861, and may now have reached about 6to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are
3,800,000. At the census of 1861 the number of men cap- quoted at 103 to 1034 in gold. Mining stocks remain dull,
able of bearing arms (between the ages of 20 and 60) was though there has been some inquiry for a few of the cheap
653,567. The mercantile marine comprised in 1865 6,575 stocks. Smith and Burnie° advanced $l4. The bulk of
vessels of 943,533 tons, of the value of $39,844,069 ; a the business continues to be transacted in Consolidated
marine exceeded only by three States—the United King- Gregory, Corydon, and Quartz Hill, which have slightly
dom, the United States, and France. The imports amounted improved. Foreign exchange is firm and active, and there
last year to 673,20,566 ; the exports to $71,951,699. The is a good demand. The junction of the London banking
public debt of the Confederation amounts to $77,500,000. houses, Finley, Hodgson, and Co., and Baring Brothers
The ordinary revenue in 1865 was $13,023,169 ; the ordi- and Co., has been noticed with interest by the American
nary expenditure $14,173,071. If the Confederation should Press, and it is understood that the correspondence of Messrs.
eventually include Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Duncan Sherman and Co., which has lasted for some years,
the Hudson's Bay and North-West territories and British with Messrs. Finley, Hodgson, and Co., will be continued
Columbia, the total area will amount to 3,369,300 square with Messrs. Baring Brothers, and Co., while the accession
miles, and will exceed the whole territory of the United of the Messrs. Hodgson will be acceptable to the numerous
States. correspondents in America of the Barings. The failure of
Wickes and Co., dry goods merchants, is announced, with
Thirty-seven whites, and seventy-four thousand
liabilities in the United States of $1,773,287 against assets
blacks, have been registered in Louisiana as voters. 'of $1,403,711. The capital of the house has melted under
A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD.— It is stated that an the heavy losses on its stock in common with many other
American has discovered a beautiful alloy, which has been large firms. Prices closed as follows :—Gold 1384, United
most successfully applied as a substitute for gold; it is States Five-Twenties (1862) 1124, (1864) 1094, (1865)
composed of pure copper, 100 parts; pure tin, 17 parts ; 1094, (1865, New Issue) 1094,United States Ten-Forties
magnesia, 6 parts ; tartar of commerce, 9 parts ; sal 1024, United States 7-30 Loan 108, Missouri Sixes
ammoniac, 3.6 parts ; and quicklime, 1.6 parts. The copper 984, Tennessee Sixes 66, New York Central Rail-
is first melted, then the limo, magnesia, sal ammoniac, and road 106, Erio 714, Hudson River 1094, Reading
tartar are added, little at a time, and the whole is briskly 1054,
Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 894.
stirred for about half an hour, so as to 'nix thoroughly, Illinois Central 1234, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 93,
after which tin is thrown on the surface in small grains, stir- Cleveland and Toledo 1204, Chicago and North-
ring until entirely fused. The crucible is now covered, and western 46, Chicago and North-western preferred
the fusion kept up for about 35 minutes, when the dross is 684, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago IC2I, Chicago
skimmed off, and the alloy found ready for use. It is quite Rock Island, and Pacific 98, Ohio and Mississippi Certifi-
malleable and ductile, and may be drawn, stamped, chased, cates 274, Western Union Telegraph Company 494, Pacific
beaten into power or into leaves, like gold leaf. In all of Mail Steamship Company En, Atlantic Mail Steamship
which conditions it is not distinguishable from gold, even Company 1084.
by good judges, except by its inferior weight. The alloy
has already been largely applied in the United States, and
requires only to be known in Great Britain to become a
general favourite.—The Engineer.
TROUBLES AMONG THE MORMONS.--The Salt Lake
riddle of June 15 says :—" On Sunday afternoon Brigham
Young preached a lengthy sermon, boldly and openly an-
nouncing that Amer a Lyman, Orson Hyde, and Orson Pratt
had apostatised, and were cut off from the Church. Orson
Hyde had been chosen President of the T welve Apostleslast
April. Pratt is one of the twelve, and Lyman had boon one
of the apostles also. Young was severe on Hyde, but parti-
cularly so on Pratt. He denounced the letter as an unbe-
liever, and as now in possession of the devil." A corre-
spondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Salt Lake
City on Juno 18, says:—" There are palpable signs of dis-
solution in the Mormon Church. The Josephites (the fol-
lowers of Smith) pronounce polygamy a sin, and they claim
to be the true Mormon Church and entitled to the Church
property. When Brigham was south this spring ho had
to cut off several hundred members for heresy because
they adhered to Smith, and over 100 waggons of emigrants
are now in the mountains on their way east to escape

(From Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.)
Paris, July 26, 1867.
In our report upon our market we can do but little more
than repeat the substance of late circulars., Th 3 general
feeling of depression continues unabated ; prices are all
lower, and transactions very limited.
Americans are unchanged at-
-821. for the issue of 1862.
80-1 71 1865.
and the variations during the week have been trifling.
Purchases for permanent investment are steadily increas-
ing in number and amount, and the slight degree in which
these securities have shared the universal decline, is a
strong proof of their growing popularity. Any reaction
in the general market could hardly fail to produce a
marked advance in value.

Our latest quotations from New York are of the 23d
Instant. Gold, 1391 ; United States Bonds (1862), 111 g.

The Route closes at 6B 65
The Italian closes at
Exchange on London 25 171

(From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, July 24.)
London, July 24th, 1867.
The advices from New York by the Russia are to the 9th
inst. ; they report a continued abundance of money at four
per cent. ; all borrowers on Government securities were
readily supplied, while five to six per cent. only was asked
on Railroad Stocks. The public funds were steady and in
good demand by investors, the 10.40's showing a marked
improvement. The speculation in railroad stocks con-
tinued, Erie and Michigan Southern being most in favour ;
quotations continued to advance notwithstanding the
general falling off in traffic receipts. State Stocks were
well supported, Tennessee and Missouri being most in-
quired for.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR JUNE.
Miles 1867. 1866. Inc. Dcrse
open. $
Atlantic and Gt.
Western
Chic. & Alton 2Bl 343,671 371,543
Chic. erN.Westn. 676 898,357 922,891

Chic. & Rock Is. 182 261,480 850,920
Illinois Central.. 706 496,616 560,025

Michigan Central 329 284;077 235;022