The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-27 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News

The Reconstruction Amendment Act had occu-
pied both branches of Congress during the week end-
ing Saturday, the 13th July. The bills did not agree
in detail, though both were limited in scope to the
acts and intentions of last spring. The Represen-
tatives passed their bill on Tuesday, but the Senate,
who were in a more talkative mood, did not get
through theirs till Thursday. On Friday the bills
were discussed in a conference of the two branches,
to harmonise conflicting points, and on Saturday it
was thought they would be forwarded to the Pre-
sident. Mr. Johnson did receive them, and did---
as every one expected—veto them. Congress re-
ceived them back, and immediately passed them
over the President's veto by an overflowing majo-
rity of both Representatives and Senators, so the
whole programme has come off as laid down.
The following are the provisions of the House Bill.
The bill declares that Congress intended to have it
understood that the provisional Governments are
illegal or void; that last spring's Reconstruction bills
authorised the military commanders to remove
civil officers whenever they think necessary, and to
appoint others to fill their places ; explains more
fully the duties of registering officers ; provides that
no civil court shall have jurisdiction of any pro-
ceeding, civil or criminal, against any district com-
mander for any official act done under these acts ;
and declares that no district commander shall be
removed from the command assigned to him with-
out the advice and consent of the Senate, or unless
cashiered or dismissed, or unless he consents thereto.
Before the bill was passed it was amended by_a
section declaring that any person who shall obstruct
the execution of this act, or the acts to which it is
supplementary, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and on conviction shall be subject to a fine not ex-
ceeding $5,000, or imprisonment for a year, or both;
and another providing that the right of any person
to be registered as a legal voter shall not be in any
way changed or affected by virtue of any pardon
granted by the President for participation in the
rebellion.

Governor Crawford, of Kansas, has written fully
to Senator Ross on the subject of protection to
citizens, and more especially to railways and rail-
way parties in Kansas, against the Indians. He says
that if Congress will not act he will take the matter
into ,his own hands. Several attacks have been re-
ported on the labourers_ employed on the Pacific
Railroad (Eastern
Division), and it is mainly on
their behalf the Governor writes. The Indians,
being now about to receive their annuities, the
outrages may cease for a week or two till the goods
are secured, when they will recommence robbing
and murdering. Lieutenant Kidder, of the 2d
Cavalry, left Fort Sedgewick on the 29th ult. with
ten men and a guide, carrying despatches for General
Custer. As nothing has since been heard of the
party, it is feared they have been captured. Gene-
ral Sherman proceeded to Fort Harker from St.
Louis to meet General Hancock, and mature their
plans for effectively clearing the Indians from the
Pacific Railroad, and removing the obstructions
from the Smoky Hill route.
Reports prevail that the Government at Wash-
ington is about to purchase the Sandwich Islands,
but, although premature, they have some founda-
tion, and it is a fact that a commercial treaty has
been negotiated between the two Governments.
Mr. Harris, the Chief Minister of the Government
of the Islands, arrived at Washington on a special
mission. The Springfield Republican states that it
suspects the United States naval authorities of the
Pacific Ocean were for some months under secret
instructions in case of the King's death ; in the
absence of a legitimate successor to seize the
islands for the United States. At the pre-
sent rate of decrease the native race will
have died out by the end of this century,
and the white population, chiefly American, has
all the business and property in its hands. The sugar
consumed in the Pacific States is chiefly raised there;
the position is half-way across the Pacific Ocean
between China and Japan and the Eastern States,
and it is a rendezvous for American whalers. The
new treaty grants to the Republic important advan-
tages ; all produce of these islands is to be admitted
into the United States free of duty. The old treaty
was adopted in December, 1849, to last ten years,
and to continue thereafter till either party ter-
minated it by notice.
The correspondence between Mr. Seward and
Colonel Naphegzi, Santa Anna's agent, has been
published. Naphegzi, on the Bth inst., asked
Mr. Seward to demand the release of Santa Anna,
and rebuke Commander Roe for interfering with
his movements. Mr. Seward replied, justifying
Commander Roe, on the grounds that Santa
Anna had attempted, under the protection of the
flag, and in the presence, and with the co-opera-
tion, of the United States, to foment civil war in
Mexico, and that only great national injury would
justify the United States in assuming a hostile
attitude towards the Republic of Mexico.
The Union League Club of New York has estab-
lished 120 subordinate clubs in the Southern States
to support the Liberal policy. The negroes register
in large numbers, but the whites slowly, and in some
States scarcely at all ; in Louisiana there are double
the number of negro voters registered. Senator
Sumner said it would be the duty of the Senate in
a few months to welcome negro Senators upon the
floor. Wendell Phillips calls for a black Vice-Pre-
sident, that the negroes of the South demand such
a recognition. The right to vote includes the right
to stand as Representative, and there can be little
doubtti
vef
rtohma t
thera anynegroes will be sent as
Southernrepresenta-
tives
States. General Sickles has
recorded his conviction of the necessity for a general
amnesty, as nearly all the best men in the South are
ineligible for office under the recent laws passed by
Congress. He says, in a letter to Senator Trum-
bull---" Now more than ever men of ability and
experience in public affairs are disfranchised, and
especially those who could fill judicial stations. This
exposes the experiment of general suffrage to need-
less hazards. If the experiment fails, it is more
likely to fail from the inability of the people to put
in office those who could and would insure its suc-
cess. . . I find myself prevented, as will the
people by-and-bye, from securing for the public
service men of aptitude and character."
The North German Lloyd's steamer Union,
Captain Von Santen, from New York, 11th inst.,
arrived at Southampton last Sunday, with 143
passengers and $122,193. The same day the
Cunard extra steamship Tripoli arrived at Queens-
town passengers. The Ville de Paris
arrived
atwith 154
Brest valued
at from New York with specie
at £127,400. On Wednesday the Hamburg and
American steamship Saxonia arrived at Southamp-
ton, having left New
York on the 13th instant,
with 130 passengers and $480,512 for London, and
$159,335 for France, and $47,105 for Hamburgh.
On Thursday the Inman steamer City of London
arrived at Queenstown at 2.30 a.m., having left
New York on the 13th instant with 53 passengers
and $1,383,066. On the same day the Guion
steamship Manhattan arrived at the same place with
53 cabin and 69 steerage passengers- The Cunard
steamer Jay I, from Boston and Halifax, passed the
Brow Head signal
station on Thursday at 8.15
p.m. The letters will be delivered this morning.
The Java brought news to the 16th inst. (evening),
153 cabin passengers, and $195,082 and £4Bl.
The National Steam Naviffation Company's steam—
ship Erin, from New York, arrived at Queenstown
at 2 a.m. yesterday, with $250,000 in specie.
On the 19th July the steamers Allentania and
Deutschland arrived at New York. On the 20th
the Inman steamship City of Antwerp and Edin-
burgh arrived out. A telegram dated New York,
July 20, states that the City
of Paris arrived out
with over $1,000,000 in specie, but this is evidently
a mistake, as that vessel arrived at New York on
the 13th instant, and she is more likely to have
sailed with that specie on board for Liverpool, than
to have carried it from Liverpool to New York.
The Minnesota arrived out on the 20th, and the
Moravian and Belgian on the 22d. On the 23d
the U.S. mail steamer Arago and the Helvetia
arrived out, and on the 24th the Persia and the
Bellona.
The tribunal of police of the Canton of Vaud,
Switzerland, has lately been engaged in trying a young
man named Piquilloud, charged with having for some
time past practised medicine and surgery in female attire.
It appeared that he had
eucoeeded La completely disguising

himself as a woman, and had obtained, under the name of
Miss Abbots, and in the quality of an American, admis-
sion into several families, offering his services chiefly to
ladies. The fraud was detected by a hairdresser, to whose
shop he went to purchase a chignon. It was found that
he could only be convicted of the illegal exercise of his
pebfession, and on that count the Court condemned him to
one month's imprisonment.
It is said that the late Emperor Maximilian and
the Empress Charlotte each made a will some years ago,
leaving the whole of the property of the first that should
die to the survivor. Tho value of the property left by
Maximilian, including the estates of Miramar and Lacrome,
is estimated at from ten to twelve millions of florins
about (£1,000,000), and would, in virtue of the above will,
descend to his wife. The Empress has no children, and,
if she continues incapable of managing her own affairs,
is consequently unable to make a new will, the property
will pass on her death to the Royal Family of Belgium.

" A Virginian" writes to the Times to make the
following statements with resp3ct to the Virginia Five
per Cent. Stock, upon which Messrs. Baring resumed pay-
ment of interest in full on the Ist of July. Ho says that
the original issue was but £373,000, upon which interest
was punctually paid up to July, 1862 ; that the waste of
war at last rendered the State unable to meet its obliga-
tions ; that since peace has boon restored Virginia has been
exerting herself in every possible manner to do so, and
that the dividends in arrear between 1862 and 1867 have
all been funded. As the means of Virginia arise from
taxation, its financial condition must necessarily improve
as its people recover from the effects of the war ; and there
can be no doubt that this early effort to redeem its cha-
racter for solvency is highly creditable to it.
CANADA.—The new Confederation began its
course on the Ist instant, constituted of four provinces—
Quebec (late Lower Canada, or Canada East), extending
over 210,020 square miles ; Ontario (late Upper Canada, or
Canada West), 121,260 square miles ; New Brunswick,
27,105 square miles ; Nova Scotia, 18,660 square miles ;
making an area of 377,045 square miles. The population
was 3,090,561 in 1861, and may now have- reached about
3,800,000. At the census of 1861 the number of men cap-
able of bearing arms (between the ages of 20 and 60) was
653,567. The mercantile marine comprised in 1865 6,575
vessels of 943,533 tons, of the value of $32,844,069 ; a
marine exceeded only by three States—the United King-
dom, the United States, and France. The imports amounted
last year to $75,270,566 ; the exports to $71,951,699. The
public debt of the Confederation amounts to $77,500,000.
The ordinary revenue in 1865 was $13,023,169 ; the ordi-
nary expenditure $14,173,071. If the Confederation should
eventually include Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island,
the Hudson's Bay and North-West territories and British
Columbia, the total area will amount to 3,369,300 square
miles, and will exceed the whole territory of the United
States.

Thirty-seven whites, and seventy-four thousand
blacks, have been. registered in Louisiana as voters.
A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD.— It is stated that an
American has discovered a beautiful alloy, which has been
most successfully applied as a substitute for gold; it is
composed of pure copper, 100 parts; pure tin, 17 parts ;
magnesia, 6 parts ; tartar of commerce, 9 parts ; sal
ammoniac, 3.6 parts; and quicklime, 1.6 parts. The copper
is first melted, then the lime, magnesia, sal ammoniac, and
tartar are added, little at a time, and the whole is briskly
stirred for about half an hour, so as to -nix thoroughly,
after which tin is thrown on the surface in small grains, stir-
ring until entirely fused. The crucible is now covered, and
the fusion kept up for about 35 minutes, when the dross is
skimmed off, and the alloy found ready for use. It is quite
malleable and ductile, and may be drawn, stamped, chased,
beaten into power or into leaves, like gold leaf. In all of
which conditions it is not distinguishable from gold, even
by good judges, except by its inferior weight. The alloy
has already been largely applied in the United States, and
requires only to be known in Great Britain to become a
general favourite.—The Engineer.
TROUBLES AMONG THE MORMONS.—The Salt Lake
fidette of June 15 says :—" On Sunday afternoon Brigkam
Young preached a lengthy sermon, boldly and openly an-
nouncing that Amar a Lyman, Orson Hyde, and Orson Pratt
had apostatised, and were cut off from the Church. Orson
Hyde had been chosen President of the Trrelve Apostles last
April. Pratt is one of the twelve, and Lyman had been one
of the apostles also. Young was severe on Hyde, but parti-
cularly so on Pratt. He denounced the letter as an unbe-
liever, and as now in possession of the devil." A corre-
spondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Salt Lake
City on June 18, says:—" There are palpable signs of dis-
solution in the Mormon Church. The Josephites (the fol-
lowers of Sniith) pronounce polygamy a sin, and they claim
to bo the true Mormon Church and entitled to the Church
Property. When Brigham was south this spring he had
to cut off several hundred members for heresy because
they adhered to Smith, and over 100 waggons of emigrants
aro now in the mountains on their way east to escape
his fearful vengeance. The Morristes are another class
of Dissenters, and have no fellowship with the Salt Lake
Church. They denounce polygamy, and are constantly
receiving acquisitions to their numbers. They have a
strong settlement in Utah, at Sod:!§prings, under the very
shadow of tLe Prophet. Every sermeintheard from the
Mormons betrayed nervous fears as to divisions ; somo
appealed, some unfolded the duty of submission, and
Bright= thundered his fierce anathemas against the faith-
less. Gentile dealings and associations are forbidden, be-
cause Mormonism cannot bear contact with virtue and
truth, nor can its crowning crime of polygamy bear contact
even with vice. Virtue and vice aro alike its foes, and
equally fatal to its perpetuity. Thus is the Mormonism
of Young beset by schisms, perilled by growing intercourse
with gentiles, and soon the Pacific Railroad will pour
thousands of population into all the fruitful valleys of the
West, and ha but a few years the distinctiveness of this
people must fade away."
CURIOSITIES FROM THE "BRINY DEEP."—Mr. G.
W. Fuller, of S axon ville, Massachussetts, a submarine diver,
has sent for our inspection some "greenbacks" taken from a
wallet found in a coal-laden vessel which bad been sunk
in Long Island Sound, near the Beaver Tail light, in 96
feet of water. The notes had been in the water fourteen
months. One ten-dollar and a one-dollar Treasury-
note are reduced almost to the condition of tinder;
but the paper of one five-dollar Treasury-note and ono
fire-dollar national bank-note is not perceptibly injured,
showing in the former case that there must have been
some chemical difference in the paper; but what is even
more remarkable is that the green ink shows so many
different changes. In one note the green on the face is as
bright as ever, while that on the back is a bluish grey. In
another the green on the face has been darkened almost to
a black, showing that different kinds of green ink have
been used for the printing.—The American Artizan.
The movements of the precious metals during
last week were on an extensive scale as regards the im-
ports, which amounted to about £995,640, including
£73,000 from Now York by the Palmyra, £40,000 by the
Teutonic, £288,350 by the Russia, £105,800 by the Fulton,
£150,000 by the City of Baltimore, and £22,000 by the New
York. The Christiana Thompson, from Sydney, brought
£11,844; the IVellesley, from Port Philip, £90,000; the
Tasmanian, from the West Indies• and Pacific, £194,96i ;
the Athenian, from the West Coast.of Africa, £1,830 ; and
about £14,850 in silver received from the Continent. The
exports comprised £2OO to the West Indies by the
Rhone, and remittances to the Continent through private
sources, estimated at £188,733 ; the total amounting to
£188,933.
The Paris correspondent of the Stnndard re-
marks :--" We are promised a startling novelty in the way
of restaurants at the Exhibition. The Situation says that
a new refreshment-room is about to be opened there by an
American, who has trained largo apes to act as waiters.
The writer says he was present at a rehearsal, and that
the quadrumane garcons went through their work with a
steadiness and gravity worthy of their biped colleagues at
the " Trois Freres" or the "Cafe Anglais."
Russia has signed the International Sanitary.
Convention for the care of the wounded in time of war.
We learn from China, dated May 30th, -that
"the feeling of the Japanese towards foreign intercourse is
very favourable. An American vessel, in endeavouring to
anticipate the opening of the ports by trading, has been
seized while flying the Japanese flag. We have no news
from the Corea, but it is thought that the Freneh fleet will
renew their expedition to obtain satisfaction for the murder
of their missionaries. There is not the slightest indication
of feeling on the part of the Americans on account of the
seizure and burning of the General Sherman and .murder
of the passengers and crew. The building of two spacious
premises on the old Factory site at Canton has been con-
tracted for by leading American firms."
Wilkes's Spirit says—" The Confederate's Daugh-
ter; or, the Tyrrant of Now Orleans," is produced in effec-
tive style at the Colosseum, in Liverpool. It draws tears
of generous sorrow from that high-minded, consistent
nation which is just now feting Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the
Liberator. It also adds, on Liverpool theatricals :—Henr y
J. 133 ron, who is ono of the most prolific burleslue writers
of the day, is out with a single-act piece, entitled,
" Orpheus ; or, the Young Gentleman who Charmed the
Rocks." It was produced at the Priece of Wales' Theatre.
Rosa Celeste proposes, in August, to rival Blon-

din, by attempting the crossing of Niagara Falls on a rope.
Helen Western is playing " Green Bushes" in
Sacramento, with a stock company of " stars."
Miss Louisa Myers, who has achieved deserved
popularity in the Now England States, played recently at
Milford, Massachusetts.

At Minneapolis, in Minnesota, an opera-house
has been inaugurated with all the honours. It cost
fifty thousand dollars, and will seat fourtoon hundred
people.

Harry Pearson, whose John M'Clish is one of
the standard representations of the day, was the recipient
of a benefit lately in Now Orleans, at which the profession
assisted largely. Harry served for a short time during the
war as aide-de-camp and chief commissary to the provost-
marshal-general of Hampton, Virginia.

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, Saturday, July 13,

The National Banking law fixes 7 per cent. as the
legal rate of interest banks can charge. This was to

operate in States where there was no rate fixed by law,
where there was the banks were bound by the State law.
The late Massachusetts enactment declares it to be lawful
to contract for any rate of interest. This has been inter-
preted by the Comptroller of the Currency as fixing the
rate of interest, therefore the national banks in Massa-
chusetts are at liberty to get what they can. Some were
foolish enough to suppose that this would work a revolu-
tfon, and that people who wanted money would be
fleeced by the banks in that State. They are, therefore,
surprised that no change has followed on the new law
coming into operation. Money is as plentiful as ever, and
the supplies ample throughout that State at 7 per cent.
In New York it ranges between 4 and 6 per cent., with a
large business done at the former rate on first-class securi-
ties. It was doubtful in Boston whether they would be
able to maintain the figure at 7. There has been consider-
able excitement during the week in Wall and Broad-
streets, and the rise was considerable in railway securities,
with heavy purchases. But there was a reaction towards
the and of the week. Erie, however, continued buoyant.
Michigan Southern Steck has also risen, and-although
New York Central has not advanced in an equal degree
many speculators have predicted a strong rise for the
stock of that line. It is said that the rise is mainly
due to incautious speculators, who look for large receipts
from the transport of the excellent harvest in the coming
fall. During this summer the receipts of 1867 have been
less than those of 1866. On every side the crop prospects
are encouraging, and although the effect is as yet little felt,
a heavy fall in the flour and grain market is looked for.
From California we learn that the yield is likely to be so

large that a difficulty in transport is anticipated. Gold
has not fluctuated, although it was slightly higher yester-
day, and as the demand is large for export speculators
count upon a rise. Last week the export amounted to
$1,908,701, and on Wednesday the sum taken out was
$1,441,748, with a considerable addition yesterday
as well as to-day. The New York Sub-Treasury paid out
last week $5,669,000 gold as interest on the public debt,
due in July. American silver is in moderate request at
6to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are
quoted at 103 to 1034 in gold. Mining stocks remain dull,
though there has been some inquiry for a few of the cheap
stocks. Smith and Parmlee advanced $l4. The bulk of
the business continues to be transacted in Consolidated

Gregory, Corydon, and Quartz Hill, which have slightly
improved. Foreign exchange is firm and active, and there
is a good demand. The junction of the London banking
houses, Finley, Hodgson, and Co., and Basing Brothers
and Co., has been noticed with interest by the American
press, and it is understood that the correspondence of Messrs.
Duncan Sherman and Co., which has lasted for some years,
with Messrs. Finley, Hodgson, and Co., will be continued
with Messrs. Baring Brothers, and Co., while the accession
of the Messrs. Hodgson will be acceptable to the numerous
correspondents in America of tho Borings. The failure of

Wickes and Co., dry goods merchants, is announced, with
liabilities in the United States of $1,773,287 against assets

of $1,403,7 Ll. The capital cf the house has melted under
the heavy losses on its stock in common with many other
large firms. Prices closed as follows :—Gold 138 k, United
States Five-Twenties (1862) 112 f, (1864) 109 f, (1865)
lot (1865, New Issue) 1091 United States Ten-Forties
104, United States 7-30 Loan 108, Missouri Sixes
98f, Tennessee Sixes 66, New York Central Rail-
road 106, Erie 711, Hudson River 109 k, Reading
1051, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 891.
Illinois Central 1231, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 93,
Cleveland and Toledo 1201, Chicago and North-
western 46, Chicago and North-western preferred
681, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, -and Chicago IC2f, Chicago
Rock Island, T
and Pacific 98, Ohio and Mississippi Certifi-
cates 24, Western Union elef,raph Company 49i, Pacific
Mail Steamship Company 143 i, Atlantic Mail Steamship
Company 1081.

(From Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.)

Paris, July 26, 1867.

In our report upon our market we can do tkut little more
than repeat the substance of late circulars. 'l'h3 general
feeling of depression continues unabated ; prices are all
lower, and transactions very limited.
Americans are unchanged at-
-821 for the issue of 1862.
80i ), 71 1865.
and the variations during the week have been trifling.
Purchases for permanent investment are steadily increas-
ing in number and amount, and the slight degree in which
these securities have shared the universal decline, is a
strong proof of their growing popularity. Any reaction
in the general market could hardly fail to produce a
marked advance in value.

Our latest quotations from New York are of the 23d
instant. Gold, 139 k ; United States Bonds (1862), 1111.

The Rente closes at 6B
65
The Italian closes at
Exchange on London 5
25 171

(Front E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, July 21.)
London, July 24th, 1867.
The advices from New York by the Russia aro to the 9th
inst. ; they report a continued abundance of money at four
per cent. ; all borrowers on Government securities were
readily supplied, while five to six per cent, only was asked
on Railroad Stocks. The public funds were steady and in
good demand by investors, the 10.40's showing a marked
improvement. The speculation in railroad stocks con-
tinued, Erie and Michigan Southern being most in favour ;
quotations continued to advance notwithstanding the
general falling off in traffic receipts. State Stocks were
well supported, Tennessee and Missouri being most in-
quired for.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR JUNE.
Miles 1867. 1866. Inc. Dcrse.
open. $
Atlantic and Gt.
Western
Chic. & Alton 2Bl 343,671 371,543 25,530
Chic. &N.Westn. 676 898,357 922,891. 24,534
Chic. & Rock Is. 182 261,480 850,920 89,440
Illinois Central .. 706 496,616 560,025 63,409
Michigan Central 329
-284,077 235,022 50,105
• --

MICHIGAN CENTRAL.
On a careful analysis of the annual report of this com-
pany (which has just come to hand, and which we give
below), we see much reason to be satisfied with the pre-
sent prosperous condition of the undertaking, a state of
affairs duo to able and honest management.

It will be observed that, in the report of the vice-presi-
dent, the amount of bonded debt and capital stock differs
from that stated by the treasurer ; this apparent discre-
pancy arises from the fact that the treasurer has to pro-
vide interest for the entire bonded debt, while the vice-
president takes credit for the amount of the sinking funds,
which now amount to over $1,000,000.
Taking the treasurer's report as a basis of calculation,
we find that, during the fiscal year, the gross earnings of
the road were 28.25 per cent. on the entire capital. This,
to holders of English stock, must appear a large receipt,
when it is remembered that our own London and North-
Western earns less than 10 per cent. on its entire outlay.
There is a slight falling-off in traffic, as compared with
the previous year. This is due entirely to a diminution in
receipts from passengers, as under the head of freight we
find a small increase. The income of the road has been
appropriated as follows: -
65.23 per cent. for operating, including $902,265 expended
in repairs of road and buildings.
3.97 do. for sinking funds and Government tax.
1449 do. for interest and exchange.
16.31 do. available for stockhol 'ors.