The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-16 00:00:00

State of Mexico.

A correspondent of the Standard remarks :
" Our gratuitous and persistent advocacy of the
cause of Liberalism and disorder in Mexico meets
with a very poor reward. A despatch has just been
received, announcing that the Liberalists at Mazat-
lan have murdered Mr. Carman, the American
Vice-Consul in that city. Congress must take
action in this matter. Our dear friends, the
Mexicans, cannot be allowed to assassinate our
representatives in this way. By the way General
Sherman is said to have expressed his contempt for
his late " mission" in a very characteristic manner.
Somebody asked why he did not find Juarez. Said
he—' I believe in obeying orders, but I'm
I'm going a thousand miles to look for a myth.' "
The same authority states—" The President has
communicated to the Senate the correspondence be-
tween the Secretary of State and J. Lathrop Mot-
ley, our Minister to Austria, relative to the resig-
nation of the latter. It may be remembered that
the President recently appointed Mr. Cowan as Mr.
Motley's successor ; the Senate has not yet acted
upon the appointment. From this correspondence
it appears :that Secretary Seward had received a
letter from an American travelling in Europe, this
letter detailing the political hostility of several of
our representatives abroad to the administration of
Mr. Johnson. Mr. Motley was referred to as hav-
ing characterised Mr. Seward as " a degraded old
man," and as having a weak " preference for Eng-
lish customs and the English Government." Mr.
Motley was furnished with a copy of this letter. Ile
at once wrote to Secretary Seward, expressing his
surprise that such a communication should be sent
to him by the State Department. He does not
deny that he had spoken disrespectfully of the Sec-
retary, nor does he admit the truth of the assertion.
As for the charges of Anglomania, he refers to his
writings for a refutation. He tacity admits that he
has advocated what people here would not be at a
loss to characterise as Radicalism in American
politics."

The following is extracted from the letter of the
Times' Philadelphia correspondent : —The Bureau
of Statistics at' Washington has taken the trouble to
collect, lists of the wages paid in different parts of
the United States during December last to working
people of various kinds. The average wages paid in
four places in the North—Hartford, in Connecticut,
Tunkhannock, a town in the iron region of Penn-
sylvania, Tiffin, an agricultural town of Ohio, and
Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and Missis-
sippi rivers, the extreme Southern point of Illinois—
will bo found below. These wages are paid in paper
money, and the average rate is given :

Tunk-
Hartford. hannock. Tiffin. Cairo
Bricklayers, per day
Brickmakers, per day
Blacksmiths, per day
Butchers, per week ... . l3 50 14 00 750 21 00
Bakers, per week l3 50 _ 11 50 10 00
Bookkeepers, per year 9OO 00 GOO 00 800 00 2,000 00
Carpenters, per day 275 300 300 350
Cabinetmakers, per day
Coachmen, per day 225 150 150 200
Chambermaids, per month* 800 700 800 16 00
Farm labourers, per month* 26 00 27 50 27 50 18 00
Female cooks, per month* 10 00 13 50 700 22 00
Female waiters, permonth* 10 00 800 700 13 00
Femaleservants, per month* 10 00 700 700 12 00
Gardeners, per month
Factory hands, per week 750 14 00
Ironfouuders, per day
Machinists, per day
Moulders, per day
Plasterers, per day - 325 325 274 500
Painters, per day 275 300 250 325
Plumbers, per day
Compositors, per 1,000 ems 035 020 050
Railroad hands, por month 40 00 45 00. 30 00 GO 00
Stonecutters, per day 3OO 350 300 •4 75
Shoemakers, per day
Saddlers, per day — 225 225 225
Tailors, per day
Teamsters, per month*
Weavers, per day
(Those marked (*) have board included.

lie also gibes the following statistics. The style of
Tariff Bill the Senate is about to pass is shown by
comparing the duties on a few kinds of goods with
those at present collected—both reduced to a per
centage

Foreign Cost Present Duty. Proposed
Goods. in Gold. Duty.
sc. Per cent. Per cent.
Italian Cloths ... 0 16 ... 50 72
Ladies' Dress Goods... 0 20 ... 45 67
Woollen Coatings ... 1 8 ... 73 97
Woollen Doeskins ... 1 32 ... 63 80
Woollen Overcoatings 1 8 ... 85 120
Woollen Broadcloths 1 80 ... G 2 78
Bunting •.• .•• 0 91 ... 50 135
Worsted Damasks ... 068 ... 50 78
Worsted Plus ... 061 ... 50 90

The New York Evening Post, a Republican jour-
nal, says, " Let Congress men beware of this bill.
If it becomes a law it will kill every man who votes
for it. It is an enormous and cold-blooded swindle
upon the working men of America. . . and it will
make the whole nation poor." It need scarcely be
mentioned that were the Southern members in Con-
gress no such bill as this could be passed, and one
great reason of their exclusion is that their votes
would interfere with the " protective" system.