The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-02 00:00:00

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News.

The news by the Russia is to the 21st inst., and
we learn that President Johnson has transferred
General Sheridan to the command of the Depart-
ment of Missouri. General Thomas is to command
the Fifth Military District, and General Hancock
the Department of Cumberland, vice General
Thomas. The news by the cable of the 29th inst.,
however, shows that Hancock is to relieve Sheri-
dan, as Thomas was ill. General Grant, who had
strongly objected to Sheridan's removal, has, it is
added, executed the order. The President appears
to have had au interview with Grant., when they
seem to have harmonised their differences. Sheri-
dan was directed to retort at Washington in person
previous to taking over his new command. We
suppose he is to go like a naughty boy to be
scolded. The other items by the Russia are, that
Geu. Pope has written to Gen. Grant complaining
that some prominent rebels in his district retard
Reconstruction, which, however, he believes will be
sustained by a large majority of voters at the ap-
proaching conventions. General Sheridan has or-
dered the election of delegates to the Louisiana
Convention to be held on the 27th and 28th of
September. The national troops are to protect the
elections where fraud and violence are perpetrated.
The Richmond City Council has protested to General
Scholefield against having to support negro paupers.
Meetings of the Radical soldiers and sailors have
been held at Washington and Philadelphia, at
which the conduct of Mr. Stanton was heartily en-
dorsed, and the removal denounced. The captain
of a steamer plying between Charleston and Beau-
fort has been fined for refusing a negro woman a
first-class passage.
General Sickles has been removed by the Presi-
dent. The last news by mail from America left his
subordinate, Lieut.-Colonel Frank, commanding
the troops at Wilmington, at war with the United
States' Marshal, whom he obstructed in carrying
into effect the decisions of the Supreme Court. We
presume that General Sickles has sustained the
action of his inferior. No explanation had been
given by him at the date of the last mail, and the
President, on the 13th, sent an order, through Gen.
Grant, stating that no order can be issued or signed
by any military commander which conflicts with the
functions of the Courts of the United States. On
the representation of Governor Worth, showing the
impossibility of revising jury lists, General Sickles
had, for the present term of the Courts at North
Carolina, suspended the paragraph from his recent
order requiring their revision before the trial of
cases. He has, however, declined to withdraw his
order suspending a forcible collection of debts,
which, with various others, he had been petitioned
to do by the Charleston Board of Trade. He argues
that the people of the State, being conquered, ought
quietly to submit to military rule till reorganised
under the offers of Congress. He has approved the
sentence of the court-martial in the case of Daly
and Radcliffe, who are each to suffer six months'
imprisonment for assaulting two Northern men in
a bar-room. Three prominent citizens three months
ago were arrested at Fayetteville, North Carolina,
charged with shooting a negro, and imprisoned in
Fort Macon. A military court has found them
innocent, and this instance of military justice has
had its effect in the North.
As we surmised, General Sickles has been removed
for disregarding the President's orders not to inter-
fere with the Federal Courts. The execution of the
processes is still obstructed we learn, by the
general's order. The action of the President in this
case will be sustained by public opinion.
We have now the complete registration returns
of Louisiana, which give a total of 127,637 voters, of
whom 44,732 are whites and 82,907 blacks. In
New Orleans there is a majority of 40 whites, and
in ten parishes the whites have small majorities ;
but the total gives nearly two blacks to one white,
which makes the negroes the future masters of
Louisiana, and, in the words of Mr. Lowe, " the
sooner they learn their letters the better." In
Virginia the registration has as yet resulted in a
white majority of 19,344 ; the numbers being—
whites, 31,575 ; blacks, 15,231. In Florida regis-
tration is sufficiently advanced to show that the
blacks will be in the majority. The accounts from
North Carolina show that in 47 of the 83 counties
60,000 have registered, giving a black majority of
6,673. It is thought, however, when all the returns
are complete that there will be a strong majority
the other way. Registration commenced at Charles-
ton (South Carolina) on the 13th instant.
The Surratt trial closed on Saturday, the 10th
instant, after a session of 73 hours, at the end of
which the jury were of the same mind as at the be-
ginning—eight being for acquittal and four for con-
viction. All the eight, except one New Yorker,
were Southerners. Of the four, two were Northern
men, one a Scotchman, and one a German. The
jury was discharged—Surratt being remanded to
gaol for another trial. It is stated that half the
next jury will be negroes, and the charge will be for
attempting the abduction of the President.
At the clos': of the Surratt trial, after the dis-
miss d of the jury, Judge Fisher announced he had
a painful duty to perforrri.
o Bradley,
from
htheenr loie proceeded to
fororder
Surratt,the tnameo be
ef Josephstruck f
roll
senior
attorneys counsel
practising in the Criminal Court. On hearing this
Mr. Bradley protested ; but the stopped
judge
the
protest by adjourning the Court. Our readers may
recollect that the hostility between these lawyers on
one occasion almost brought about a personal en-
counter. Mr. Bradley followed the judge into the
ball, and there handed to him a challenge to settle
the dispute by pistol or rapier, which
the judge very
properly declined. The matter has been taken up
by the bar, and a committee appointed to investi-
gate the facts, and, if possible, bring about a recon-
ciliation. The action of the Judge in this
matter
has been generally applauded.
Some painful disclosures have been made, in
which the actors are ministers of religion in the
United States. The crimes are of the most
disgraceful type, and neither public interest nor
morality can be advanced by discussing them in
newspapers. The Rev. H. Wenat, a regularly
ordained Lutheran clergyman and superinten-
dent of an orphan asylum at Philadelphia, has
been committed to gaol. Tereno Howe, a Congre-
gational preacher, a States school officer, and a
member of the Massachusetts Legislature, had
excited the intense disgust of the country, as well as
another preacher in Vermont.
The New York Tribune sent a correspondent to
Galena (Illinois), General Grant's old home, to pick
up information to be used against Grant in his,
canvas for the Presidency. The correspondent

writes :
"Before the war, Grant—Mr. Ulysses Grant—was a
young married man, living in an unpretending hired house
on a hill west of the town. His father was a p trtner in a
house—no ,v Perkins's—in the main street, devoted to the
trade in hides. Ulysses was what is called iu city firms a
light porter in this store, but still he did some pretty heavy
work, loading carts with hides, as well as casting up ac-
counts. lie wore a slouched hat, and used to go through
the town with his head lowered, and al Kays smoking a
cigar, and, as the salary was but small, those cigars, even
at the low prices which then ruled in the article, must have
been an important item in his annual expenditure."
He manifested no distinguishing traits, and was so
unpretending and reticent that many old residents
could not recall him when his name became famous.
Besides many other questions, the correspondent
asked if he would be supported for the Presidency
by the votes of the citizens, and was answered that
al: hough no one there was aware of his fitness for
the post every one would vote for hint out of local
pride. They had purchasea a handsome, plain brick
house, two storeys high, as a present for the Gene-
ral, which was kept by a man, so that Grant could
always have a bed ready when he visited the town.
Fifteen privates of Battery M Fourth United
Sates Artillery have been tried by court-martial at
Fort Porter, and sentenced to 18 months' imprison-
ment in the Albany Penitentiary, for parading with
the Fenians in a recent pic-nic. That held at
Haan's Park, at Harlem, about six miles from Chi-
cago, on the 15th inst., ended in a regular Donny-
brook row. In addition to the military organisa-
tions 5,000 civilians were on the ground. General
Spear addressed the Fenians, and other speeches
were to follow, but the programme was interrupted
by a fight, which was the signal for a general niVe.
While General Spear was speaking, a hollow square
was formed enclosing the platform, but all order was