The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

the troops which are being sent out, and so they '
are moving southward to open the war in that less
protected region, but that if the troops are sent,
after them they will give them the slip and dash
north again, and spread murder and devastation
upon the region thus uncovered. A special despatch
from Leavenworth, Kansas, says that accounts from
the plains state there are about 10,000 well-armed
warriors upon the war path, and it is feared that
they will pounce upon some exposed point. A
telegram from Idaho says that General Crook has
returned to Fort Lyon with 100 prisoners and 36
horses that he had captured. A great many In-
dians were killed, though the number is not stated.
A big fight is expected soon.
The German citizens of Franklin county are cir-
culating a petition asking the Legislature to remove
the restrictions upon the sale and use of lager beer
and the lighter wines, declaring that the present
laws tend to the subversion of their sociality.

The new National Steamship Company at Boston
has secured mail contracts on both sides of the
Atlantic, and promise of sufficient business at the
start to yield, it is expected, $25,000 clear profit for
every trip, which will pay 7 per cent. interest on
the bonds, dividends on the capital, and in five years
the entire cost of the vessels.

A Boarding-house, for working girls, is to be
established in New York. It is not designed to
make it a charity, but a place where women who
labour may find the comforts and influences of a
good home at a reasonable price. The object is
one which should enlist the support of Christian
philanthropists.
Mr. Morrill's bill, obliging the Secretary of the
Treasury to give six days' notice of his intention to
sell gold, and to dispose of it to persons bidding for
it in sealed proposals addressed to the Assistant-
Treasurer, and to be opened by him in public, has
passed the House.
As the scene which occurred in the House of
Representatives, on the debate on Mr. Ashley's
amendment, has gone the rounds of the English
papers, we here insert the immediate and dignified
rebuke administered by the Speaker on behalf of
the House :—" Mr. Hunter, no deliberative body
can preserve its own self-respect, or command the
respect of its constituents, that tolerates the use of
offensive language condemned by gentlemen every-
where, as well as by Parliamentary law. For having
transgressed the rules of the House it has re-
solved that you shall be censured by the Speaker.
Having thus declared the censure of the House, you
will resume your seat." Mr. Hunter said that in
using the language in a moment of irritation he
meant no disrespect to the House. Mr. Ashley
said in the heat of debate men often utter words
without weighing them well. I have been a mem-
ber of the House eight years, and never before
uttered a word for which I was called to order, or
which was regarded as improper. I intended to
apply no unparliamentary or personally offensive
language. I intended my remarks to apply to gen-
tlemen who here or elsewhere, during the war and
since, were in secret alliance with the opposition,
who had voted against supplying a man or a dollar
for the war, who discouraged enlistments and
encouraged desertion, and who organised conspi-
racies to overthrow the Government. I intended
my remarks to apply to no other persons. The
House then adjourned.
By the Royal Mail steamship Asia we hear that
the President vetoed the admission of Colorado as a
State on the grounds that the territory has not the
requisite population, and that the inhabitants,
through their representatives, had protested against
a State Government being forced upon them. The
Radicals were reported to be preparing a bill to
provide for the temporary installation of General
Grant as President during the impeachment of Mr.
Johnson. The Maryland Legislature had elected
Governor Swann as Senator. Governor Parsons, of
Alabama, had addressed the Legislature, strongly
opposing the Constitutional Amendment. It had
been reported at Ottawa that the Home Govern-
ment had sanctioned the Quebec scheme of confe-
deration, and that a bill would be introduced into
Parliament making Prince Alfred the Governor when
the confederation was accomplished. Head Centre
Stephens was stated to have left for Havre
in the Ville de Paris. On January 31 the Presi-
dent vetoed the Nebraska Bill on the grounds that
negro suffrage was exacted as a condition of admis-
sion, while the regulation of the suffrage was a right
fully optional with the people of Nebraska. Mr.
Seward had written to Mr. Motley, the Federal
Minister at Vienna, asking an explanation of the
report that he had denounced President Johnson
and Mr. Seward, and disparaged Democratic insti-
tutions. Mr. Motley, in reply, denied the truth of
the report, but has resigned his post. The Missis-
sippi Legislature had unanimously rejected the Con-
stitutional Amendment. Mr. Garrett Davis, Demo-
crat, had been elected as Senator by the Kentucky
Legislature. Ten additional death sentences had
been denounced against Fenian prisoners at To-
ronto.

The oldest book in New England is owned by
the Rev. J. J. Power, of Worcester, and was
printed in 1470. It is a theological work, written
by Rainer, a Catholic priest of Pisa, Italy, who
died in 1249.
Messrs. Hurd and Houghton will soon publish
Dr. Hayes' " Open Polar Sea," a narrative
of the perilous expedition under Dr. Hayes'
command, in 1860-61, to the polar regions, which
not only reached lat. 82 deg. 45 min., the most
northern point of land known, but proved the
existence, then doubted, of an open Polar Sea.
Mr. C. C. Haven, a venerable resident of Tren-
ton, New Jersey, has just published a small volume
entitled " Thirty Days in New Jersey Ninety Years
Ago." His object is to prove that what is known
in history as the Battle of Trenton was really of
minor importance to an almost unheard-of fight,
termed by Mr. Haven, the Battle of Assunpink, a
creek which skirts Trenton, and on one of whose
bridges the conflict took place Jan. 2, 1777, the
evening preceding the Battle of Princeton.
Mr. Joseph Sabin, after 15 years of research and
four more of verification and arrangement, has
ready the first part of his " Bibliographical Dic-
tionary of Books relating to America, from its
Discovery to the Present Time."
It is stated that General Grant and his family
will visit Europe during the spring, and will sail
from America in time to be present at the opening
of the Paris Exhibition, provided the general's
official duties permit him to spare the time necessary
for the journey.
Mr. John Converse, of Woburn, completed his
hundredth year on Sunday last, the 20th January.
He was born a subject. of George 111., and was in
his tenth year when the Declaration of Independ-
ence was issued. He has seen wonderful changes in
his century of life. He is in possession of his facul-
ties, and recollects events that took place long before
America had a national existence.
Mr. Stewart's new house in New York will cost
131,800,000. it is reported that Mr. Stewart will
soon retire from business.
Henry M. Greene, a graduate of Amherst Col-
lege in 1865, died at Andover, Saturday, Jan. 20,
at the residence of his father, Rev. 11. S. Greene.
George R. Reed, a prominent citizen of Rutland,
Vermont, died suddenly at the Fitchburg depot,
recently, of disease of the heart. He had been for
several years general agent of the Chicago, Burling-
ton, and Quincy Railroad.
Dr. Sewall ch ar dson of Leominster, 82 years
old, fell down stairs Sunday evening, Jan. 20, and
was injured so that he died the day following,
Solomon Brown, 94 years old and the oldest man
in Palmer, died on New Year's day.
PROPERTY SECURING ITSELF.—We have heard
of the witty reply of a slave who had stolen and
eaten one of his master's turkeys, when he was
accused of the crime. He repelled all idea of wrong,
saying that " Massa's property only changed form ;
he has less turkey, but more nigger." The follow-
ing, told by General Rains, is equally good :—An
officer, when going into battle, charged his servant
to stay at his tent and take care of his property. In
the fluctuations of the battle some of the enemy's
shot fell in the vicinity of the tent, and the negro,
with great white eyes, fled away with all his might.
After the fight, and when the officer returned to his
tent, he was vexed to learn that his slave had run
away ; but the boy soon returned, confronting