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
beuppermost. 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.
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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
Australasian arrived out Feb. 10, and the Malta
Feb. 11.

By the Inman steamship, City of Boston, we learn
that the Louisiana Legislasure 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
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 $43,700 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 savans 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. He 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 c 4, 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 Ainend-
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 foridoing 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 knoviledge of