The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

hliscellaneous Foreign News.

The Passport Bill submitted to the North German
Parliament proposes to abolish the necessity for
passports in North Germany.
The elections in Vermont commenced on Tuesday,
the 3d, John B. Page, of Rutland, being chosen
Governor-General ; Stephen Thomas, of West
Fairlee, Lieutenant-Governor; and John A. Page,
of Montpellier, Treasurer. The Republican majority
was this year 20,000, against last year's 22,000,
showing a decrease in this Republican State. The
Senate is unanimously Republican, and the Re..
presentatives all but Republicans, there being
only 15 Democrats in that house. John W. Stewart,
of Middlebury, will be Speaker for the third time.
General Pope has suppressed a paper called the
News, at Albany, Georgia, on the general charge of
disloyalty. Every general appears to work out his
own hobby. Sheridan put his military heel down
on State officials, General Sickles " ran a-muck "
against the Supreme Court and the lawyers, and Gen.
Pope is butting at the press. The latter officer has
appointed the Ist October for the Reconstruction
election in Alabama, when a convention appears
certain to be returned, which will frame a constitu-
tion acceptable to Congress.
The American papers discuss the prospect of
impeaching the President. It is generally consi-
dered that if Congress were now in session the
House would find articles of impeachment, though
it is doubtful whether two-thirds of the Senate
would bring in a verdict of guilty. The country
would rejoice in the removal of the President, but
the Senators being the supreme jury of the nation,
acting under oath and presided over by Chief
Justice Chase, would have to keep well within the
limits of the Constitution and laws, acting only on
the fullest evidence that they had been infringed
by Mr. Johnson. Mr. Wendell Phillips, writing
to the New York journals, says that President
Johnson will be impeached after the reassembling
of Congress. lle considers the amnesty treason-
able and rebellious.

The New York Committee who had in charge the
collections made last spring for the benefit of the
starving Southern people report that $3,000,000
were contributed for this purpose, and that 170,316
bushels of corn were sent to the South.

General Sheridan was escorted to the railway
station, on leaving New Orleans, by the Mayor and
city officers. lie was expected at St. Louis on the
7th instant, and on the 9th he was to receive a pub-
lic demonstration of welcome prepared for him by
the Republican clubs and the grand army. Several
Radical Senators have joined in advising General
Grant to re-instate Ex-Governor Wells, at least for
a time sufficient to enable him to legalise by his
signature, the Bonds of the Louisiana Levee Loan,
which his sudden removal has left in an unsatisfac-
tory state. In this the lion. Reverdy Johnson joins,
and other prominent gentlemen. The Hon. E. H.
Amgamar, Special Levee Commissioner, has by
his judicious labours and his indefatigable industry
greatly forwarded the interest of this important
matter to Louisiana. That gentleman has persis-
tently maintained his duties free from political
entanglements, earning the support alike of Demo-
crats and Radicals, so far as the Levee is concerned,
which is in truth the great interest of Louisiana at
this moment. Advices by the Cuba inform us
General Sheridan received an enthusiastic reception
from the Democrats at St. Louis, but declined
speaking.

Yellow fever continues to rage at New Orleans ;
45 deaths having occurred on the sth inst. On that
day General Griffin had assumed conimaud, endors-
ing all the orders of his predecessor.
On Thursday, the sth instant, General Canby
relieved General Sickles, who left Charleston on
Saturday, the 7th. Sickles's last act was to appoint
a prominent negro, named Beverley Nash, of Co-
lumbia, South Carolina, a police magistrate. The
staff and other officers entertained their old com-
mander at a splendid dinner, served at Mill's house,
General Canby and staff being the invited guests.
The following sentiment was proposed :—" Our
departing guest, the retiring commander, carrying
with him our affectionate attachment, thoroughly
earned. May a prosperous voyage bear him where
welcomes await him as cordial as our adieux are
regretful." To this General Sickles responded in a
short speech. It is stated that General Sickles's
interference with the process of the Federal Courts
was contrary to Grant's orders. On giving up his
command Sickles addressed a long letter to the
Commander in-Chief, declaring that the laws in his

district had been administered with the least possible
military interference, and that his course was justi-
fied by the Reconstruction Act. lie returns to his
old home in New York, and it is said will demand
an investigation by a Court of Inquiry.
It will be seen by our New York commercial
letter that a clerical error, now corrected by Mr.
M'Culloch, reduces the total debt of the United
States from $2,505,456,095 05c., as given in the
statement of Ist September, to $2,492,783,365 05c.,
which was the correct sum as the debt stood on the
Ist inst. The policy of hoarding in the Treasury
gold and greenbacks had given dissatisfaction ; there-
fore the Secretary acted on the power granted him
by Congress to redeem in August 4,010,000 of green-
backs, and while selling in that period a large amount
of gold. lle has now brought down the balance
in the vaults from $175,579,470 38c. to $148,336,094
59c. It thus appears that there remains in Uncle
Sam's coffers a balance reduced by the sum of
$27,243,376, against which the reduction of the
debt amounts to $32,893,706. Therefore the surplus
of revenue over expenditure for the month of August
was $5,650,330. These are the answers to give to
Mr. Pendleton's dishonest schemes of repudiation.
The Democrats only talk ; the nation acts, and with
such vigour and success as to counteract proposi-
tions which might otherwise have a damaging
effect on the credit of the United States. The debt
was highest on the 31st August, 1865, since which
date it had been reduced by $246,497,260, averaging
nearly ten and a half millions a month. Could this
rate be continued the whole debt would be annihi-
lated in 1889, just twenty years hence.
M. M. Dano, the French Minister in Mexizo, ar-
rived at Brest last Tuesday.

General Sherman's Indian Commission passed
Sioux City, lowa, on ➢ionday, 19th August. All well.
Story's statue of Edward Everett has been re-
ceived at Boston for the public garden. The cost was
about $30,000.

Messrs. M'Ghee and Carter, the Conservative
candidates, wore elected at Montreal in the midst of riots,
which were quelled by the military after causing numerous
casualties.

General Sheridan has handed over the command
of his district to General Griffin, and left New Orleans for
Leavenworth. Tho citizens of St. Louis are preparing a
public reception for h'm.
General Sickles has addressed a long letter to
General Grant, asserting that the laws in his district
have been administered with the least possible military in-
terference, and that his course was fully justified by the
Reconstruction Act. It is reported that he will demand
an investigation by a court of inquiry.
I)r. Lieber ba, actiresetl a memorial to the Con-
stitutional Government of New York, proposing that a
majority of two-thirds of a jury, shall be competent to give
a verdict, and recommending the abolition of the rule re-
quiring unanimity, adopted in no other country than Eng-
land and the United States.

Last Sunday the Dutch police at the Hague ar-
rested a man named Gardensier, in whoso possession they
found 500 forged American bank notes for $l,OOO each.
The notes wore forged at the Hague, but it is thought pro-
bable that the forgers have accomplices both in other
countries in Europe and America. Several false notes
have already been put in circulation. They have been since
proved to ha Confederate Bonds.

General Canby, on the sth inst., assumed the corn-
maw.' of the sth military district, and endorsed all the
existing orders.

The barque Moneynic/e will soon be despatched
for Borneo froiu California, with flour and other stores.
She will be the first vessel that has ever been gent hence

to that island, which is now largely under the control of
American capitalists. The idea of an American establish-
ment in that island meets with much favour in San
Francisco.

Tom King, the great English pugilist, was
among the victims carried off by the yellow fever at New
Orleans.

Colonel Parker, an Indian of the Oneida tribe,
now on General Grant's staff, will bo appointed, it is re-
ported, to the management of the Indian bureau.

Senator Norton and Mr. Shellabarger have de-
livered powerful speeches in Ohio, in tho Republican in-
terest.

The Honourable Reverdy Johnson and wife of
Maryland, and General R. C. Schenck, of Ohio, are at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel. F. W. Rice, United States Consul
at Aspinwall, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. William Bar-
rington, Esq., of the British Legation, is at the Albemarle
Hotel. The Hon. John A. Griswold, M.C., Troy, is at the
New York Hotel.

All the officers of the United States squadron
were entertained on Thursday by tho Minister of War.
The squadron will probably sail on Thursday next for Eng-
land, proceeding afterwards to Antwerp, awl thence to the
Mediterranean.

Governor Helm, of Kentucky, was inaugurated
at Elizabeth's Town on Tuesday, the 3rd inst. His health
prevented his proceeding to Frankfort, and necessitated
the ceremony taking place at his residence.

Mr. Throckmorton, of Texas, has addressed the
people of that State excusing himself, and accusing mili-
tary agents and officers of the Freedmen's Bureau of unjust
and arbitrary acts.

Dr. Krapf, a distinguished linguist, who has tra-
velled in Abyssinia and knows the person of King Theo-
dore, has accepted an appointment to accompany the ex-
pedition to Abyssinia in the capacity of interpreter.

The President has given way to General Grant,
retaining General Howard for the present at the head of
the Freedmen's Bureau, and General Popo in command of
the 4th Military District.

ihe San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press, of
August 3, gives a sketch of the new Merchants' Exchange
building opened on the 15th July last, in San Francisco.
This handsomo structure was completed in a year, at a cost
of $170,000, and furnishes a proof of the rapid advance of
San Francisco.

The American frigate Minnesota arrived at Lisbon
on Sept. 15, 11.38 p.m., from Corunna.