The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-30 00:00:00

`IIIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1867.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

earlier than usual, and last, not least, brilliant tar-
tans and winter Cheviots are beginning to appear.

virtue.

',From the Anglo-American Times.)
PARIS, Nov. 28. Ex-Secretary Stanton is at Washington, en-
You may break, you may
deavouring to move Congress to restore him to his
ruin the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. old place, but it is now said that General M'Clel-
The roll of the artillery has been heard in Paris, lan is the man. It is a fact that General
affected Grant's
but it has been a peaceful roll, being no less than economic administration has injuriously
Mr. Stanton's interests, as the immense retrench-
the rolling away, en route for Cherbourg, of the
ments accomplished by the General are taken as
gigantic cannon founded at Ruelle, and weighing no I proof of Stanton's extravagance. It is not likely
less than 38,000 kilogrammes, or nearly 80,000 lbs. I that Congress will move in his favour. Although
By the way, all purchasers at the Exposition who General Sherman is expected at Washington, it is
have not yet done so are requested to remove their denied that he is about to take command of the
purchases with the least possible delay. I went military district, his business at the seat of
Government being solely connected with Indian
down the other day to look at what was the Expo-
affairs. Secretary SVelles is seriously ill, indeed so
sition, but I must leave the reader to imagine the
seriously that little hopes arc entertained of his reco-
change which had taken place. De mortuis nil nisi very. Secretary M‘Culloch had tendered but with-
bonton. I have as yet heard nothing as to whether drew his resignation at the request of the President.
or not our report has as yet been presented to Con- I Secretary Seward is busy with his territorial
gress ; but, as I have said before, I feel certain that I acquisitions, the cession of St. Thomas being now
it will be a satisfactory one, and afford sufficient in- the most important matter. It is rumoured at
ducement to Americans to enable them to eclipse Washington that Mr. Thornton was selected by
all the world on the occasion of the next Exhibi- the British Government as Minister, from his
tion, the more especially if such Exhibition is to knowledge of the West Indies, which will enable
take place in America. I have already expressed him to watch and counteract the tendencies of the
my opinion, not lightly formed, that America comes United States Government to establish itself
well out of a comparative examination in the pre- strongly there.
sent instance, but as every theorem requires demon- The Wall-street Journal, alluding to the Great
stration, and every hypothesis proof, I will just Republic Gold and Silver Mining Company, whose
venture to glance at Group No. 1 in my present mortgage bonds for £lOO,OOO sterling at 7 per cent.
letter, viz., the Fine Arts. It is, of course, well were offered in the London market at a discount of
understood that the contributions of American 40 per cent., observes, that the company do not
artists are not so numerous in proportion when com- state where their property is, or of what it consists.
pared with those of other nations, but much is not In this our contemporary is mistaken, as a map of
required as a test of quality. As regards paintings, the country accompanied the prospectus, and the
the subjects exhibited may be divided into land- locality was very distinctly marked. It is situated
scapes, portraits, general subjects, and a supple- in the Manhattan district, in the Smoky Valley,
rnentary class, which may be considered as a corn- about 70 miles south of Austin, Nevada. What the
pound of the two latter. I am of opinion that value is of these lodes is another question, but that
landscapes predominate ; but what landscapes, the district is one of the richest in the world is be-
paintings, which have created for America a special yond dispute. The mines offered in the London
school of art, possessing a glorious natural beauty market, situated in the Pacific States and territo-
nowhere else to be found, and offering in the soli- ries, should attract attention in those territories, as
tudes of nature an inspiration to an artist of genius the inhabitants are most deeply interested that no
that the teaching of no master could equal. It is spurious claims should be imposed on the British
a matter of doubt with many persons whether the public. One or two swindlers might benefit, but it
palm in this class of painting should be awarded would be at the indirect expense of the inhabitants
to Church or Bierstadt, though be it understood of those States. We hope soon to receive Commis-
that there are many other landscapes exhibited in sioner Ross Brown's report, which, if possible, we
noways me judice inferior to those exhibited by the will publish. These mines will prove a fund of
two former. The subject chosen by Bierstadt is a wealth for judicious investors on this side, and it is
scene in the Rocky Mountains, the groundwork for every one's interest that any attempt at impo-
being a rich meadow prairie, the mountains at the sition should be exposed and denounced.
back, a torrent pouring down through a cleft into The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens has arrived in Wash-
the lake. In the meadow is encamped a tribe of ington, having left Lancaster in a " special car" on
Indians engaged in their various occupations of the morning of the 13th inst. He appears to be in
bunting, cooking, &c., a gleam of sunlight being much better health and in good spirits, which is
reflected with especially beautiful effect upon a re- saying a great deal, considering the reception his
mote group posted near a glade of trees on the last letter has met with. A Chicago correspondent
borders of the meadow. It is difficult to believe writes :--" The last letter of Thad. Stevens—that
that for beauty of colouring, fidelity to nature, and upon the currency—has created much surprise. The
exquisite arrangement of light and shade, the opinion is quite prevalent that he had better make
picture exhibited by Mr. Bierstadt can possibly be haste and die, and thus save his reputation. No
surpassed. Almost the same thing, however, may man can stand and advocate repudiation. The
be said in behalf of Church, who exhibited two American people have too much honour to permit
pictures—" The Rainy Season in the Tropics" and their Government to violate its solemn obligations."
" Niagara." The former depicts a ravine in the A newspaper in Washington, it is stated, has an
heart of the mountains, a number of whose conical obituary notice of the hon. gentleman in type, suffi-
peaks form the right-hand side of the picture. cient to fill several columns. Thaddeus Stevens
Through the midst of the ravine flows a mountain might have played the same trick attributed, if our
torrent, on the left side of which, over a rug- memory serves us, to Lord Brougham, who, anxious
ged path cut in the scarped rock, bordered with to anticipate the post-mortem verdict of the Press,
stunted tree-boughs, are climbing a muleteer and allowed his death to be announced, and quietly read
his team. A thin gauze-like mist shows the coin- the obituary notices, which must, indeed, in the
mencement of the rainy season, in which a rainbow case of great old men, often be in type all ready,
is exquisitely reflected, the varied tints of the picture or they could not appear so promptly as they do
being clearly lit up beneath the veil of silver gauze, in the dailies.
which appears, as it were, to cover it. " The Niagara" I `I he tax on cotton is at present engrossing atten-
is a most elaborate representation of the Falls, with a tion in the United States. From all the Southern
portion of the shore showing at a reflex angle. It States come news that the planters, heartily sick of
is sufficient to remark, first, that it has been con- the heavy losses they have sustained by the staple,
sidered by connoisseurs as about the most perfect have turned their attention to wheat. The trial
and faithful delineation of water known. Among w has *:shown that corn has proved in the South a
the artists of the highest order in this class, I must 1 remunerative crop. A large area, hitherto devoted
not, however, forget to place Mr. H. Beard of almost exclusively to cotton, is now being prepared
New York, who exhibits what he denominates the for grain. The subject will be fully discussed in
" Bear's Dance." The subject is, of course, an the present Congress, and a large reduction advo-
American landscape, the bears being introduced cated on the tax not only on raw but on cotton
simply as pieces d'appui. In the arrangement of I and woollen fabrics. The Hon. David Wells
light and shade the scene chosen is fixed in a glade recommends the repeal of the Cotton Tax, if accom-
in the very heart of a forest, the natural openings parried by a corresponding reduction in the tariff
in which afford space for the very original fete ima- rates on the manufactured articles. Nothing can
gined by Mr. Beard. The scene, as I have said, is sup- have such effect on the price of cotton in Liverpool as
posed to be a Bear's Fete, and long strings of bears a reduced production. If that price, instead of
—black, white, brown, and particoloured--are danc- being rernumerative, leaves the producers losers, it
ing in long strings upon the green turf to the music will quickly correct itself. The facts now trans-
of two bands, whilst numberless others are lying, sit- i piring furnish a strange commentary on Thaddeus
ting, or rolling about in various attitudes and posi- : Stevens's theories.
tions, not forgetting those who are at the table of a A newspaper announced some time since, under
rustic restaurant, well furnished with wine, fruit, the title of the United States of Europe, has been
flowers, &c., or those who are under the aforesaid published at Berne, under the direction of M.
table. A small basket of flowers and fruit, lying Jolissaint, member of the Government Council of
as it were by accident upon the emerald turf, has that city. It is the organ of the Swiss " League of
been most carefully elaborated ; the whole picture, Peace and Liberty," under whose auspices the late
in fact, possessing a weird-like attraction, which Peace Congress met. The publication has for its
adds in no ordinary degree to its beauties of execu- object the pacific solution of all political, econo-
lien. L. R. Mignot, of New York, exhibits a land- ! mical, and religious questions by means of a free
ecape well qualified to bear competition with any in interchange of opinions, and the establishment of a
the Exhibition, in the Sources of the Susquehanna. Republican Federation in Europe. The rival league,
As may readily be imagined, the sources of the founded at Paris last summer with a similar object,
Susquehanna must present features of no ordinary i under the title of "the Parisian League of Peace,"
beauty. The quiet source or lake is encircled by a has also a representative in the press, called the
border of primeval-looking rocks covered with Peace of the rVorld. It is published at Geneva, and
brushwood, &c., all of which have been most edited by M. Pascal Robert.
elaborately depicted, whilst the rich gold and purple On the Pacific side of America, where it is diffi-
tints of our autumnal sunset are replaced in dif- cult to recognise anything English through the haze
ferent parts of the tranquil waters with surpassing
of a vast distance, the Irish have picked up an
Beauty and effect. I might cite several other land- enemy on whom to vent their spleen. They must
scapes, but will stop my criticism on Group No. 1 have something to kick at—whether it be the pricks
for the present, and until the next week, as I must of British power, or the shins of the Chinese. In
not allow them to monopolise the whole of my Europe they have selected the greatest nation of
letter. whom to make an example, and following the tra-
The evacuation of Rome by the French troops, ditions to which they are so attached, the moment
in accordance with the promise given by the they lave their feet in an ocean which does not
Emperor, has been commenced, and has given wash the shores of the tyrant country, they select
universal satisfaction. Garibaldi sailed from Spezzia the greatest of the countries it does lave, on which
for Caprera on the 26th, on board the Esploratore.l to wage war. In San Francisco they rob, beat,
The Presse of Vienna states that France ' aye, and even murder the Chinese, almost with
and Austria have succeeded in evercom- i impunity. Their avowed object is to drive these
ing the objections of Prussia and Russia useful labourers back to Asia. The alliance of the
in regard to joining the Conference ; the greatest Irish with the Democrats enabled that party to
existing drawback is supposed to be the difficulty of carry the State, and their allies demand, as the
inducing Italy and the Papal States to enter upon price of their assistance, the control of the police, by
the subject with a sufficiently good mutual under- whom they have hitherto been in a measure re-
standing. One meets with ingratitude under so strained. If they succeed in this they will either
many shapes and forms, that one can hardly fancy generate a servile war, to the frightful injury of
the possibility taking any novel appearance. The the State, or injure it in scarcely a lesser degree, by
absurdity, however, of such an hypothesis was very barring it to that industrious and intelligent race
clearly demonstrated last week at the French police whose labour guided by American skill would in the
court in the case of a farmer summoned by his do- natural course of things quickly elevate California
mestic for the illegal deduction of 3fr. from the into an unequalled material prosperity.
amount of wages due to him at the period of his dis- A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
charge. Some little time ago a quarrel had taken following a system daily growing into fashion, has
place between the farmer and his servant, which had published a conversation with the Hon. Ben Wade.
ended in the latter's discharge. On receiving the He describes old Ben "as large as life, and twice as
balance due for wages, he perceived a reduction of natural ; head and tail erect, as full of snorting
3fr. On inquiring, he was informed that it defiance as if he had won instead of lost." The
was in consequence of spoiling a new stirrup correspondent was informed by the " old horse" that
leather by cutting it. As the domestic did not feel he " would not back a d—d inch" from the position
the justice of this deduction, the case was on universal suffrage to which the Republican
brought before the police, when it appeared party was committed. "He had not made up his
that some time ago the farmer, labouring under a mind exactly whether he ought to vote for Mr.
fit of despondency, had attempted to destroy him- Sumner's Suffrage Bill or not ;" that "if it had
self by hanging in a hay loft. The servant hap- not been for that infernal thing of office-getting the
peeing to come in just in the nick of time, sue- Impeachment would have been settled last winter,
ceeded, at considerable personal risk, in cutting as it ought to have been, " that Mrs. Lincoln's story
him down. The reader will scarcely believe that that Mr. Lincoln left little or no property behind
the stirrup loather in question was the instrument him was a d--d lie, and that Thaddeus Stevens's
by which the farmer had attempted his life, and for Confiscation Bill was d—d foolery." It will be seen
the spoiling of which by cutting him down he had that these profound remarks were uttered in choice
deducte 1 three francs from his servant's account. language, and doubtless Ben Wade will owe an in-
It is needless to add that the firmer was ordered to crease of popularity to his friend the correspondent
refund the money, after which he was escorted to of the Cincinnati Commercial. We would suggest
his residence by an admiring crowd, who were to Senator Wade a supplement to the little project
curious to observe an instance of such affecting to which he alluded in his Kansas speech. After
gratitude. " Truly it was a pity I have spoiled that an equal redistribution of the property of the
stirrup leather." States, and when all are fairly started, that those
The receptions at the Tuileries will commence, it who most quickly reach the goal of ruin should be
appears, earlier than usual. The first Grand Wit:- nominated to office as they arrive in the race.
ter Ball will take place, it is said, on the 231 of If old Ben were there to receive them and pro-
December. I learn that W. J. E lwarde Hailer, claimed the winning candidates as they came in,the
the American pianist, whose playing at the Expo- nation would have no further trouble, the competi-
sition was so universally admired, will probably, in tors showing their qualifications in this expeditious
compliance with numerous solicitations, give a con- and natural manner. Although our readers may
cert in the course of the coming month. The wea- consider that we are jesting, we assert that such is
t her has set in steadily clear and cold, and signs of the proper corollary to Ben Wade's proposition, for
es ery description betoken the approaching advent of it would be a simple declaration by the State that
hoary old December. The wild birds are appearing vice, idleness, and improvidence were to be re-

warded at the expense of thrift, energy, and

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times says
—"The President evidently fears that he may have
some trouble with Congress, for he is reported to
be quietly increasing the military force in and near
Washington, and he continues, with Grant's ap-
proval, the disarming of the negro military organi-
sations there, that the Radicals can control. It is
quite probable that in his present mood he will not
send any Mew. age to Congress at its November
Session, but will delay his Message until the regular
Session begins, on the first Monday in December."
The coloured Militia companies in Washington
amount, we believe, to about 300 ill-armed men.
Their commanding officer has replied to an order
from Mr. Johnson by sending in a report on
the object of the organisation, and no further
steps have as yet been taken by the President
The 1 imes correspondent has exaggerated the
position. lie seems to consider that " Stevens,
Wade, Butler, Sumner, Chandler, Boutwell,
Ashley, Schenck, Colfax, and several others, in
late speeches, have been even more Radical in tone
than during the last session, and they are determined
to push extreme measures at all hazards. The elec-
tions have rendered them desperate, and they de-
mand impeachment, confiscation, and negro suffrage
with furious zeal." The whole question hinges on

reported in favour of impeachment. Stranger
things have happened than such a revulsion of
feeling as would re-seat ANDREW JOHNSON for
another term ; and, if it be possible to effect
such a change, the course indicated by this
proceeding of the Judiciary Committee would
be the best calculated to effect it. But the battle
will be fought on the main issue of Negro Equality
and Universal Negro Suffrage. It is in this fact
that the true strength of the Democratic party lies,
for it is more negative than affirmative in principle,
contesting those of the Republican but enunciating
none of its own. The Republicans are committed to
Negro Suffrage, while the tide of public feeling
runs daily stronger against it. Thus it is not likely
that any reflux can occur before the coming Presi-
dential election, but the ,reverse. It is now generally
conceded that the ballot must not be regarded as a
mere natural right, being a means of governing
others, and that no one has a personal right to this
until acquired by training and character, as well as by
the years the law supposes to give discretion. The ex-
traordinary spectacle of whole States of the South
being in the hands of blacks, whose loosened fetters are
as yet still lying at their feet, has sunk deeply into
the Northern mind, for not only do the votes of the
enfranchised slaves affect their former masters, but
they may affect and perhaps neutralise a Northern
majority. Thus it is brought home to them ; and
they see the value of MID. STEVENS'S exclamation,
" that the man who denies the right of suffrage to
any being to whom GOD has given immortality
must be an impudent citizen, and ought never to
profess to believe in the existence of a DEITY."
Carrying such a view to its legitimate conclusion,
he must enfranchise women, idiots, and criminals,
as well as emancipated slaves. The Northern people
have, however, taken up an opposite view, and it is
around the standard of suffrage that the unflinching
leaders of the Radical party will rally and die.
A liberal construction of the Reconstruction
Acts is recommended as the best policy for the
Southern Conventions, embodying universal am-
nesty and universal suffrage, so that nobody be
disfranchised. It is an outrage on Northern opinion
to deprive the Southern whites of the privilege to
which they were born of voting for their rulers, even
on the plea of rebellion, while conferring it on those
who now justly term themselves the freedmen. If
these Conventions do not take the hint it will be the
worse for them, and they will become the authors of
the ruin of the extreme party to whom they owe power.
The New York Evening Post, the Albany Evening
Journal, the Springfield Republican, the New York
Nation, and other leading Republican organs, unite
in urging on these Conventions the most liberal
ideas on which to base the new constitutions, and
should they neglect the warning of their best
friends, they will hereafter meet with as little mercy
as they would thus show the inclination to bestow.
It is clear that the split between the sections of the
Republican party is so widening that Radical and
Republican will soon signify opposing principles.
Whatever may be the result, the Republican party
will not endorse the Radical programme, and when
the debates in Congress reach this country it will
be seen that, however furious the zeal of extremists,
the tone of the Legislature is strongly in favour of
moderate measures.—Anglo-American Times.

the tone of the Legislature. These leaders derived
their strength when the war raged from the fact
that they were honest, earnest, and, above all,
courageous men. But they are extremists, and the
people have emphatically declared their intention
that the Government shall act with moderation, a
hint not likely to be lost on Congress. Thaddeus
Stevens is nobody without his tail, and where is
Thad's tail ?
The approaching struggle for the mayorship of
New York is between J. T. Hoffmann, the present
mayor, and Fernando Wood. The former is sup-
ported by the Tammany Democracy, the latter by
the Mozart Democracy. Fernando Wood has
issued an address, in which he says that the people
" must take him as he is." His previous record is
known, and "if the old charges are brought up
against his character, he will not attempt to refute
them, only telling his accusers they have not found
out half." It is thought he will be elected if the pre-
sent mayor does not receive the Republican support.
The news from China is to the 15th October.
The heavy typhoon which passed over Hong Kong
on the Ist Oct. did more damage on shore than in
harbour, the casualties among the shipping not being
numerous. The Great Republic, from San Fran-
cisco, arrived on Oct. 5 with 600 returned China-
men in the steerage. The United States squadron
sailed for Formosa to co-operate with Chine troops
under General Legendre, American Consul at Amoy,
to punish the savages who massacred the crew of
the Rover. Manilla seems to have been heavily
visited. Two earthquakes occurred on Oct. 4, and
fearful inundations are reported to have drowned
more than 10,000 Indians.
The mining interests of the Pacific States are now
attracting so much attention in Europe that we
transfer to our columns a very interesting summary
of their progress in commerce and finance from the
Commercial _Herald and Market Review.
News from Lisbon last Tuesday tells us that a
contract has been signed between the Portuguese
Government and Mr. Rose, civil engineer, for a
,elegraphic cable from Lisbon to Gibraltar.

the sanction of the United States, but in direct
opposition to its wishes. Had Maximilian really
understood the position he would have proceeded
from Miramar to Washington, and abandoned the
vain attempt, if he there found it impossible to re-
concile the United States to an Empire in Mexico.
W hat lent point to the resolve at Washington
that his government should cease to exist was the
fact that it had been established in defiance of the
United States at a period when the national
existence was in jeopardy. It was a terrible
blunder, for which Maximilian paid with his life;
and Americans have not only forgiven him, but per-
haps in few other countries has he found more
ardent admirers and more generous sympathisers.
As Admiral Tegethoff has telegraphed to Vienna
that he left Mexico on the 18th inst. with the body
of the Emperor, the last relic of Maximilian has
been removed from that soil, save the blood shed at
Queretaro, which centuries hence will be renowned
as the spot where the tragedy was enacted.—Anglo-
American Times.