The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

The Tenure of Office Bill gave rise to another
close contest when received in the House of Repre-

sentatives from the Senate. It provides that the
President shall not have the power of removing
public officers without the consent of the Upper
House. A resolution was proposed to include the
Cabinet among these officers. Hitherto the Presi-
dent has been free to choose his own advisers, and
the House held that it was necessary that he should
remain free, and not be wholly subjected, as this
resolution proposed, to the party which happened to
be uppermost. Though the vote was 78 to 76
against the resolution, yet a motion, which would
have prevented the subject from being revived, was
lost, so it may again be brought up.
The telegraphic news of the week comprises the
following items :—The Louisiana Legislature has
rejected the Constitutional Amendment. The
bill for the admission of Nebraska in Con-
gress as a State of the Union has been passed by
the Senate over the President's veto. Mr. Banks
and other Republicans urge the necessity of the
adoption of some measure to secure the President's
co-operation with Congress. The Cunard steamer
1 Australasian arrived out Feb. 10, and the Malta
IFeb. 11.

By the Inman steamship, City of Boston, we learn
that the Louisiana Legislature has passed a resolu-
tion to call a convention to revise the State Consti-
tution, so as to release the State from Radical rule.
Governor Wells has decided that if a new consti-
tution is adopted he will reassemble the Conven-
tion of 1864 to depose the present Legislature.
The Judiciary Committee continue their delibera-
tions on the impeachment of President Johnson with I
closed doors. It is reported that General Butler
and other Radicals advise the impeachment of
General Grant. President Johnson has issued a
proclamation ordering that the removal of the dis-
criminating tonnage on American vessels by the
King of the Sandwich Islands shall be reciprocated
by a similar Federal action towards vessels belong-
ing to those islands. The freedmen near Savannah
have refused to work or leave the plantations.
They forcibly resisted the troops sent by the Freed-
men's Bureau to remove them. The ringleader
was arrested, and tranquillity was finally restored.
The City of Boston left New York Feb. 2, and
arrived at Queenstown at 10.35 a.m. Feb. 12, with
31 cabin, 118 steerage passengers, and $13,700 in
specie. She landed 4 cabin, 20 steerage passengers,
and 14 sacks of mails, and proceeded for Liverpool
at 10.50 a.m.

We anticipate much interest and excitement
among sac•ans at the discovery of a tooth of an
animal which appears to belong to a species so ex-
tinct that it has .not yet been described. Albert
Koch, the naturalist, writes that, at the late agri-
cultural fair at St. Louis, " A relic called the jaw
of a shark, found in the coal-beds of Belleville,
Illinois, is not such, but that it is the larger por-
tion of the inferior maxillary, or lower jaw, of a
huge and exclusively carnivorous reptile. Ile con-
siders it as belonging to one of the extinct San-
rians,' and not yet described. This fossil is in a highly

remarkable state of preservation. It was taken
out of the solid coal, sixty feet beneath the surface
of the ground, and the coal-bed was overlaid by
twenty feet of solid limestone."
The Supreme Court at Boston has returned a
decision on the suit of Edmund Jackson, executor
of the late Francis Jackson, against Wendell
Phillips and others, who were appointed in the will
trustees of a fund of $12,000 to be expended in
putting an end to negro slavery in America, and for
aiding the fugitive slaves. The Court decided that
the abolition of slavery by the Constitutional Amend-
ment did not impair the intention or provisions of
the will, and directed the appointed trustees to carry
them out as fully as possible. Another section of
the will, however, bequeathing $5,000 to be ex-
pended in efforts to secure suffrage and other poli-

tical privileges for women, was decided to be inope-
rative and void, as it was not a legal charity, and in
consequence the property reverts to the family heirs
at law.

The correspondent of the Boston Journal at Flo-
rence writes :—" The American Consul at Milan,
the Rev. Mr. Clark, informs me that he has been
approached by some of the Milan merchants, who
desire more intimate commercial relations with the
United States. They wonder that the Americans,
who they say are the most ingenious people on the
earth, do not manufacture silk, instead of paying
the Swiss for,doing it, and then paying a heavy duty
upon the manufactured goods."
The Republican's (St. Joseph) special correspon-
dence says that " advices from the plains and
mountains report the great body of the Indians
moving southward." Old Indian fighters say this
means war, that the Indians have a knowledge of

the troops which are being sent out, and so they
are moving southward to open the war in that less
protected region, but that if the troops are sent
after them they will give them the slip and dash
north again, and spread murder and devastation
upon the region thus uncovered. A special despatch
from Leavenworth, Kansas, says that accounts from
the plains state there are about 10,000 well-armed

warriors upon the war path, and it is feared that
they will pounce upon -some exposed point. A
telegram from Idaho says that General Crook has
returned to Fort Lyon with 100 prisoners and 36
horses that he had captured. A great many In-

dians were killed, though the number is not stated.
A big fight is expected soon.
The German citizens of Franklin county are cir-
culating a petition asking the Legislature to remove
the restrictions upon the sale and use of lager beer

and the lighter wines, declaring that the present
laws tend to the subversion of their sociality.

The new National Steamship Company at Boston
has secured mail contracts on both sides of the

Atlantic, and promise of sufficient business at the

start to yield, it is expected, $25,000 clear profit for
every trip, which will pay 7 per cent. interest on
the bonds, dividends on the capital, and in five years

the entire cost of the vessels.

A Boarding-house, for working girls, is to be
established in New York. It is not designed to
make it a charity, but a place where women who
labour may find the comforts and influences of a

good home at a reasonable price. The object is
one which should enlist the support of Christian
philanthropists.
Mr. Morrill's bill, obliging the Secretary of the
Treasury to give six days' notice of his intention to
sell gold, and to dispose of it to persons bidding for
it in sealed proposals addressed to the Assistant-

Treasurer, and to be opened by him in public, has
passed the House.

As the scene which occurred in the House of
Representatives, on the debate on Mr. Ashley's
amendment, has gone the rounds of the English
papers, we here insert the immediate and dignified

rebuke administered by the Speaker on behalf of
the House :—" Mr. Hunter, no deliberative body

can preserve its own self-respect, or command the
respect of its constituents, that tolerates the use of
offensive language condemned by gentlemen every-

where, as well as by Parliamentary law. For having
transgressed the rules of the House it has re-
solved that you shall be censured by the Speaker.
Having thus declared the censure of the House, you
will resume your seat." Mr. Hunter said that in
using the language in a moment of irritation he
meant no disrespect to the House. Mr. Ashley
said in the heat of debate men often utter words
without weighing them well. I have been a mem-

ber of the House eight years, and never before
uttered a word for which I was called to order, or
which was regarded as improper. I intended to
apply no unparliamentary or personally offensive
language. I intended my remarks to apply to gen-
tlemen who here or elsewhere, during the war and
since, were in secret alliance with the opposition,
who had voted against supplying a man or a dollar
for the war, who discouraged enlistments and
encouraged desertion, and who organised conspi-

racies to overthrow the Government. I intended
my remarks to apply to no other persons. The
House then adjourned.
By the Royal Mail steamship Asia we hear that
the President vetoed the admission of Colorado as a
State on the grounds that the territory has not the
requisite population, and that the inhabitants,
through their representatives, had protested against
a State Government being forced upon them. The
Radicals were reported to be preparing a bill to
provide for the temporary installation of General
Grant as President during the impeachment of Mr.
Johnson. The Maryland Legislature had elected
Governor Swami as Senator. Governor Parsons, of
Alabama, had addressed the Legislature, strongly
opposing the Constitutional Amendment. It had
been reported at Ottawa that the Home Govern-
ment had sanctioned the Quebec scheme of confe-
deration, and that a bill would be introduced into
Parliament making Prince Alfred the Governor when
the confederation was accomplished. Head Centre
Stephens was stated to have left for Ilavre
in
the Ville de Paris. On January 31 the Presi-
dent vetoed the Nebraska Bill on the grounds that
negro suffrage was exacted as a condition of admis-
sion, while the regulation of the suffrage was a right
fully optional with the people of Nebraska. Mr.
Seward had written to Mr. Motley, the Federal
Minister at Vienna, asking an explanation of the
report that he had denounced President Johnson
and Mr. Seward, and disparaged Democratic insti-
tutions. Mr. Motley, in reply, denied the truth of
the report, but has resigned his post. The Missis-
sippi Legislature had unanimously rejected the Con-
stitutional Amendment. Mr. Garrett Davis, Demo-
crat, had been elected as Senator by the Kentucky
Legislature. Ten additional death sentences had
been denounced against Fenian prisoners at To-
ronto.

The oldest book in New England is owned by
the Rev. J. J. Power, of Worcester, and was
printed in 1470. It is a theological work, written
by Rainer, a Catholic priest of Pisa, Italy, who
died
l\ieisnsrsl2.4.
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Hurd and Houghton will soon publish
Dr. Hayes' " Open Polar Sea," a narrative
of the perilous expedition under Dr. Hayes'
command, in 1860-61, to the polar regions, which
not only reached lat. 82 deg. 45 min., h
northern point of land known, but prtoveedmtohset
existence, then doubted, of an open Polar Sea.
Mr.
JCe.rlsleyav, ehna,s ajuvsetnpeurabblilseherdesaidsemntalolfvoTlreumne-
t o eCw.
entitled " Thirty Days in New Jersey Ninety Years
Ago." His object is to prove that what is known
in history as the Battle of Trenton was really of
minor importance to an almost unheard-of fight,
termed by Mr. Haven, the Battle of Assunpink, a
creek which skirts Trenton, and on one of whose
bridges the conflict took place Jan. 2, 1777, the
evening preceding the Battle of Princeton.
Mr. Joseph Sabin, after 15 years of research and
four more of verification and arrangement, has
ready the first part of his " Bibliographical Dic-
tionary of Books relating to America, from its
DiscoTery to the Present Time."
It is stated that General Grant and his family
will visit Europe during the spring, and will sail
from America in time to be present at the opening
of the Paris Exhibition, provided the general's
official duties permit him to spare the time necessary
for the journey.
Mr. John Converse, of Woburn, completed his
hundredth year on Sunday last, the 20th January.
He was born a subject of George 111., and was in
his tenth year when the Declaration of Independ-
ence was issued. He has seen wonderful changes in
his century of life. He is in possession of his facul-
ties, and recollects events that took place long before
America had a national existence.
Mr. Stewart's new house in New York will cost
$1,800,000. It is reported that Mr. Stewart will
soon retire from business.
guate of Amherst Col-
lege
l in 18 ienrYA6ls, died.Gre atene a graduate
Andover, Saturday, Jan. 20,
at the residence of his father, Rev. H. S. Greene.
George R. Reed, a prominent citizen of Rutland,
Vermont, died suddenly at the Fitchburg depot,
recently, of disease of the heart. He had been for
several years general agent of the Chicago, Burling-
ton, and Quincy Railroad.
Dr. Sewall Richardson of Leominster, 82 years
old, fell down stairs Sunday evening, Jan. 20, and
was injured so that he died the day following,
Solomon Brown, 94 years old and the oldest man
in Palmer, died on New Year's day.
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had have
eaten one of his master's turkeys, when he was
accused of the crime. He repelled all idea of wrong,
saying that " Massa's property only changed form ;
he has less turkey, but more nigger." The follow-
ing, told by General Rains, is equally good :—An
officer, when going into battle, charged his servant
to stay at his tent and take care of his property. In
the fluctuations of the battle some of the enemy's
shot fell in the vicinity of the tent, and, the negro,
with great white eyes, fled away with all his might.
After the fight, and when the officer returned to his
tent, he was vexed to learn that his slave had run
away ; but the boy soon returned, confronting