The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

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(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The trial of Mr. Davis has been postponed until
March.

General Swayne has issued an order giving freed-
men in Alabama a lien on crops for wages.
The citizens of Bottecourt County, Virginia, have
petitioned General Schofield to suppress the armed negro
leagues.

It is reported that General M'Clellan had been
offered the Secretaryship of War. •
Mr. Arthur E. Kennedy, C. 8., has been ap-
pointtid Governor of the West African settlement.
Sir Hew C. Pollock, Bart., of Pollock, in Ren-
frowshir,, lately arrived at Glasgow from New York. He
had been the subject of much. conjecture, though ho has
quietly resided for many years iu the States.
General Sheridan was, at the date of the last
advices, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, with Colo-
nels Crosby, Forsyth, and other members of his personal
staff. He was to proceed to Washington on the 20th inst.,
there to complete his reports and to appear before the seve-
ral committees of Congress, by whom he has beer. sub-
poenaed, which will delay his return to his command in the
South-west till the Ist January.
The Hon. Andrew H. Green has declined all in-
vitations to become a candidate for the position of Mayor
of New York.

Mrs. Sumner has returned to America, after her
brief absence in Europe. Great men often find it more
difficult to rule their wives than to rule a nation, and one
of the bores of being a great man is, that when a little
domestic difficulty arises it is very apt to find its way into
the papers. It is a happy thing for society at Washington
that this reconciliation has been effected before the
meeting of Congress, as it re-opens one of the most hos-
pitable houses in that city.
Israel Washburne, jun., formerly a Representa-
tive, and also a Governor of Maine, but now Collector of
Portland, has been writing in favour of the establishment
of equal suffrage throughout the Union.
A fund is being raised for the family of the late
Governor Andrew, in Boston, which is sure to be $50,000,
and may reach $lOO,OOO. Governor Andrew was a heavy
loser in his public capacity, as the time was taken from his
professional avocations, and his family have in consequence
been left though not destitute, still not well off. It is a
noble gift, which will reflect honour on the modern Athens.
Prince Salm-Salm, with the other Austrian pri-
soners of war in Mexico, have been liberated.
The Legislature of Vermont, in joint assembly,
has elected Asahel Peck, of Montpelier, William C. Wilson,
and Benjamin H. Steele, of St. Albans, and John Prout, of
Rutland, Justices of the Supreme Court. The latter suc-
ceeds Judge Loyal C. Kellogg, resigned.
Mr. M‘Gee has urged in the Canadian Parlia-
ment the continued suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,
as he considers that another Fenian invasion might soon
be attempted.
General Grant informed a Southern editor, who
desired to know whether he intended to stand for Presi-
dent, and what ho was to say on his return home, that "he
should say nothing ; I want nothing said."
The President has informed the friends of Fitz
John Porter that he was not disposed to do anything, un-
less it was recommended by General Grant.
Chief Justice Bigelow has determined to resign
his post and retire into private life. He ha; accepted in his
retirement the management of the Massachusetts Hospital
Life Insurance Company of Boston, said to be the.most
splendid sinecure in the Republic. This determination
is greatly regretted. It is thought Justice Hoar will re-
ceive the nomination, but some think that Judge Curtis
may get it.
A white married woman of respectable family in
Charleston has eloped with a negro.
Three hundred blacks have arrived at Savannah
on their way to Liberia.
Lieutenant-Governor Cox of Maryland addressed
by invitation the Tenessee Legislature, on the 11th inst.,
on the resources of the State.
Miss Nellie Marshall has contradicted the report
that she is about to marry an English lord.
Chief Justice Chase, it is reported, has repri-
manded Hunnicutt for the incendiary course he is pur-
suing. At the opening of the quarterly term of the
Hustings Court the Commonwealth's attorney of Rich-
mond called the attention of the grand jury to this subject,
as palpable violations of the laws of the State. On th)
15th inst., Lewis Lindsay, a coloured member of the Con-
vention, who had made a violent- harangue to a crowd of
negroes, was arrested by the military authorities, and is to
be tried by a military commission.
The trial of General Cole, for the murder of
Hiscock, has been postponed in the absence of witnesses.
T. C. Callicott, removed from the Internal Re-
venue, at Brooklyn, New Yolk, on a charge of fraud, has
sued the New York Tines for libel. Edward T. Woods is
now collector in his place.
General Ilancock has gone to New Orleans to
command his department.

William A. Darling has been nominated by the
Republicans for Mayor of New York city, but some ac-
cuse the Tune of supporting him, with a view to draw-
ing votes from Hoffman in Fernando Wood's favour.

Dr. W. J. Knox, of San Jose, California, has, by
his death, left a vacancy in the State Senate. if the Demo-
crats can return one of their party this will give them an
opportunity of increasing their strength in the State Legis-
lature.

Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, has given
instructions to stop all liquor seizures, under the prohibit-
ing liquor laws of the State, which will be repealed as soon
as the Legislature meets.

The Italia of Naples announces that the Marquis
Filiase has committed suicide by cutting his throat.

General Schofield is acting vigorously. Besides
arresting the black incendiaries he suppressed two prize
fights, arranged to come off at Fort Albany, Virginia,
early on the 12th inst. A body of troops marched to the
spot, surrounded the crowd, arrested and locked up eighty,
who were discharged, with the assurance that it would be
a drum-head affair if again caught. It is thus that the
United States authorities deal with law-breakers.

The following is from the Springfield Republican,
and as we bolieve there is some cause for dissatisfaction
we will send the paragraph marked to the person chiefly
concerned ; and if we receive, no answer, comment more
fully upon it in our next issue :—" The total value of the
property of the late Artemus Ward will fall inside of
$16,000. It was generally supposed that it would amount
to some $40,000 or $50,000, and many friends of the
deceased are not satisfied with the way in which his affairs
were managed after his death."

General Santa Anna, on his arrival at Havannab,
was immediately involved in a suit for debt.

General Ord has imprisoned the editor of the
Vicksburg Times for indulging in a little abuse of that
military dictator in its columns.

The third annual meeting of the " Army of the
Tennessee" was held in St. Louis on the 13th inst. This
society is made up of men who served as officers in the
Western army. It is the strongest club of its kind in the
United States. Among its prominent members are Gene-
rals Grant, Sherman, Howard, Mower, Rawlings, Thomas,
and Rosecrans.

Mr. Ashley intends to revenge his defeat in Ohio
by introducing a bill into Congress to re-district the State.

Colonel James Belger has been reinstated in the
United States army by proclamation of the President.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
in his conversation with Senator Wade, alludes to a re-
mark that "there was no coolness between him and Chief
Justice Chase." The story of the alleged coolness is given
by the New York Nation. Mr. Wade was requested by Mr.
Chase, in 1860, to sound the House and Senate to see what
his (Mr. Chase's) chances of the nomination at Chicago
were. Mr. Wade kindly did do, and found that there was
only ono man in the Senate and only a few in the House
who wanted Mr. Chase for President, and he accordingly
sent word to the latter, in his own simple language,
" that the thing looked a little blue." The accuracy of
this report was shortly afterwards tested by "Dick Par-
sons," who arrived, and in his turn "did a little prospect-
ing." Mr. Chase, then, when the convention was abcut
to meet, asked Mr. Wade to resign in his favour, but Mr.
Wade very properly declined to resign before anybody
had nominated him. The result of this was that Mr.
Chase got it into his head that Mr. Wade wanted to de-
feat him and prevent his nomination, but nothing can be
more unfounded. Consequently, if any enemies of free
Government have been building any hopes on the prospect
of arraying these two eminent men against each other in
a Presidential canvass they are doomed to bitter dis-
appointment

Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, has signified
his intention of wintering at Repulse Bay, whence he will
start next April on a search for Sir John Franklin to
King William's Land, accompanied by eight men.

M. de Bille, the Danish Minister, who has lately
arrived at Washington, is authorised, it is reported, to sell
the island of St. Thomas. There is a difference about the
price, the holder keeping back for higher terms and Secre-
tary Seward for lower.
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The example of San Francisco has lately been
followed in Trenton Now Jersey. One of the defeated
had to play a hand organ in the public hall, and pick up
pence for a charity, which were given by the bushel. Mr.
Mills, ox-Mayor of the city, had to wheel a successful

opponent through the principal streets in a common

barrow.

Bishop Walsh was consecrated, ou the 10th inst.,
Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Toronto, among

a gathering both of Canadian and United States prelates,
and with impressive ceremonies.

The Naples and Florence Observer remarks—" The
American Consul at Rome has established a celebrity for
himself very much to the chagrin of his fellow citizens
He accompanied the Zouaves in one of their attacks as au