The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-07 00:00:00

extending further inland than usual. At Baltimore
and Philadelphia the fall *as unusually heavy, and
the loss is in proportion great. Accounts come from
all parts of New England and the Middle States, of
inundations, of swollen streams, of bridges, embank-
ments, and dams swept away, and of damage to the
crops. It was late on Saturday before the storm
ceased, the last of a three days' deluge, and which
the advent believers had fixed as the last day of the
world. The newspapers have been theorising to ac-
count for the heavy rain. One paper attributes it
to the approach of the Gulf Stream towards the
coast. A writer suggests want of spots in the sun
A third, an effort of nature to make up two years of
deficiency. The potato crop has been damaged,
and so has cotton in the South, but the grain crops
had been secured before the fall commenced.
The Indians are in such numbers around Fort
Hays, Kansas, that work has been interrupted on
the Pacific Railroad (eastern division) beyond that
point. Tne citizens in the neighbourhood of Fort
Sedgwick have been armed, and Forts Reno, Kear-
ney, Hays, and Buford are in a state of siege. A
battle has been fought at Plum Creek between fifty
friendly Pawnees and Sioux and one hundred
Cheyennes, wherein the Pawnees were victorious,
securing fifteen scalps, forty head of cattle, and two
prisoners. The Sioux and Crows had a fight near
Port Stevenson, where many were killed on each
side, the Crows being victorious. Spotted Tail, the
author of the destruction of the train on the Union
Pacific Railroad at Plum Creek, has been furnished
with an outfit by the Peace Commissioners, and is
away on a buffalo hunt. The half-breeds from
British territory, it is said; have furnished arms and
ammunition to the Sioux. An expedition, com-
posed of 300 men of the Volunteer Kansas Cavalry
and 30 regular troops, under Captain Orme, had
left Fort Hays with the design of striking some of
the Indian villages on Salme River, ten days' march
from the fort. No waggons were taken, the troops
being prepared for rapid movements. We fear it
is to this party the statement by the Java alludes,
that the national troops had been repulsed by the
Indians near Fort Hayes, in Kansas, and rein-
forcements sent forward. An Indian missionary,
who accompanied General Sully and Colonel Parker,
to the Indian tribes on the Missouri River, reports
the Indians in the far North as friendly.

The Democratic State Committee of Massachu-
setts was to meet at Boston on Monday, 26th
August, to consider the matter of their State Con-
vention. The Republican State Convention is to
meet at Worcester on the 11th September to nomi-
nate the Governor and other State officers. Each
town and each ward of a city is entitled to one
delegate in the Convention, and one additional for
every 200 voters.

Now that the registration lists are complete in
Louisiana, an order for the election of delegates is
issued to a convention to form a new State Consti-
tution, under which, Louisiana will apply for re-
admission to the Union. The number of delegates
is fixed at 98, to be apportioned among the parishes
in accordance with the number of voters. The lists
of voters will be revised two weeks previous to the
election, which will take place on September 27 and
28. The perpetration of violence or fraud is guarded
against, and offenders are threatened with severe
punishment, while elections where such acts are
proved will be declared void, and held over again
under protection of United States troops.
The French Government have published a circu-
lar to its various diplomatic agents on the meeting
of the Emperors at Salzburg. The journey of the
Emperor Napoleon was solely dictated by the wish
to bear an affectionate testimony of sympathy to
the House of Hapsburg on the afflicting occasion of
the execution of Maximilian at Queretaro. The
Sovereigns on thus meeting communicated their
opinions and exchanged their ideas on questions of
general interest. But the document states that
neither the object nor the result of the interviews
which took place was the formation of combinations,
there being nothing in the present state of Europe
to justify such proceeding.
A semi-official communication from Copenhagen
to the hamburg News denies the correctness of the
report that Denmark is negociating the sale of her
West Indian possessions to America.

San Francisco, in proportion to its size, is the
busiest seaport in the world. Her annual exports aro
about $70,000;000, and her imports nearly as much; the
manufactures are worth nearly $20,000,000 ; the real estate
sales amount to about $12,000,000, and the cash value of
the land, buildings, ani movable property of the city is
about $200,000,000, although assessed for taxation at only
$80,000,000. It sends away about forty tons of silver
and six tons of gold every month, the former metal in bars
fifteen inches long and five inches square ; the latter in
small bars about six inches lodg, throe inches wide, and
two inches thick. Waggoss loaded with the precious
metals are seen in the streets nearly every day.—San Fran-
cisco Mining ani Sciengic Press.

The Times correspondent writes :—The harvest
in the United States this year has been most bountiful,
and the supply of broadstuffs will not only be ample for
all wants of the United States, but will give a largo sur-
plus for export. The estimated crops of leading articles
for 1867, the estimate being that of the Agricultural De-
partment, are the following:—Wheat, 232,500,030 bush. ;
Indian corn, 800 million bush.; rye, 27 million hush. ;
oats, 230 million bush. ; barley, 21 million bush. ; buck-
wheat, 23 million bush. ; potatoes, 155 million bush. ; but-
ter, 512 million lb. ; cheese, 142 million lb. ; rico, 50 mil-
lion lb. ; tobacco, 350 million lb. ; cane sugar, 60 million
lb.; hay, 31 million tone ; cotton, 2,500,000 bales.
Of cotton the crop of 1360 was 4,676,000
bales; while the estimate above given for 1867 is
2,500,000 bales. In making this estimate the Department
is safe, for every ono here believes the crop will produce
that much, while some sanguine observers go even far
beyond it ; the New York Economist, for instance, estimat-
ing it at 3,225,000 bales. It is unfortunate with regard to
cotton that the people who aro in the cotton section, and
best able to judge of it, aro always interested in represent-
ing the crop as a short one in order to keep up prices. For
that reason early in the season the accounts were gloomy
and the predictions bad, but those sad tales have in most
cases been dissipated. In some portions of the Soutb, how-
ever, the crop will no doubt be bad, but that is the case
every year. A few days ago I announced the receipt of the
first bale of now cotton at New York from Florida ;
this week two more bales, grown in Alabama, have ap-
peared, classed as "good middling," and were sold for
33c. currency. At New Orleans the first consignment of
now cotton came to hand on the 13th of August ; last year
the first bale was received on the 7th of August. With
regard to crop prospects the reports from all parts of the
South appear favourable excepting from the overflowed
districts in the Mississippi valley; from there the intelli-
gence is of continued misfortune. Louisiana will fall
short as compared with last year. Of the current cotton
yoar, ending the 81st of August, but two weeks' returns
are yet to be made. Thus far 1,855,676 bales have been
received, as compared with 2,020,773 bales to the same
date last year ; 1,875,000 bales will probably cover the re-
ported receipts of the current cotton year. Thus far during
the year the exports from the United States have been
1,541,155 bales as compared with 1,509,950 bales last year
to the same date, leaving a very small stock, only 137,380
bales, at present at the shipping ports.
Accounts from Paris state The Correctional
Tribunal has just condemned the proprietor of the Hotel
des hallow, named Lomoine, to a month's imprisonment
and 100 francs fine, for violence used towards an American
lady, who had taken apartments in his house. When her
bill was presented to her she found her apartments, which
bad been bargained for and charged 10 francs a day, were
for four days charged at 20 francs. She refused to pay
this, and said she should go elsewhere. When she
was preparing to go out for this purpose the portress
refused to allow her to pass the door, and seized her
by her dress, which she tore. The master (Lemoine) then
interfered, forced the lady up to her room, in which he
locked her for twelve hours. Two days after, the lady
having succeeded in passing into the street, this man ran
after her, seized her, and she having laid hold of the bars
of a window he deliberately forced open her hands,
bruising her. wrists, and throwing her on the ground
dragged her under the vestibule of his house, of which he
had the doors shut to k mp out the indignant witnesses of
this diegrac,:ful scone. The hotel has two entrances, one
on the Boulevard des Rations, the other in the Itue do
Choiseul, N. 29.

The Michigan constitutional convention, sitting
in committee of the whole, voted sO decidedly in favour of
extending the suffrage to women, that Mrs. Cady Stanton
and Theodore Tilton pulled off their bonnet and hat and
gave three cheers for Michigan. But, alas, the Michigan-
ders are but gay deceivers, like :he rest, and when it came
to serious voting on the amendment, woman suffrage re-
ceived but 22 vutes to 46 against it. But the friends of
the women do not give it up so, and will make a strenuous
effort to have the question submitted separately to the
people. The proper course would be to submit it first to
the women of the State ; then, if they say they want to
vote, put it to the men, and they will not be so ungallant
as to say no.—Springfield Republican.

The sixteenth meeting of the American associa-
tion for the advancement of science began at Burlington
QII Wednesday, Aug. 21, with about fifty members in