The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-14 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(Prom. the Anglo:Anterkan 7'intes.)
The removal of State officers by order of the mili-
tary commander, continues in Louisiana. The Council of
the city of Jefferson has been suspended for violating
orders in electing city officers, and the Sheriff and Clerk
of the Fourth Judicial District Court, in the parish of St.
Landry, for obstructing Reconstruction.
James Spencer, of Salterville, New York, only
17 years old, fired a shot-gun, on the 12th October, at three
boys who were riding by him, two of whom were fatally
wounded. His object appears to have been pure mischief
A riot occurred at Westfield, Massachusetts, on
Oct. 12, in which a citizen was killed. Deputy Samuel
Chapin, of Springfield, in breaking up a gambling den
was attacked by a mob, on whom he fired four shots, re-
sulting in the death of John T. Brooks.
The races at Jerome Park were attended with a
fatal result, as on Wednesday, Oct. 16, a jockey fell atone
of the hurdles, and was killed.
Dr. Ide, when preaching lately at Springfield,
Massachusetts, said that, notwithstanding the hindrances,
the spread of Christianity during the 67 years of this cen-
tury was as 600 per cent., while the increase of population
has been but 25 per cent.

The Rev. - Green, now in Litchfield gaol,
Connecticut, on a charge of poisoning his wife, appears to
be a ruffian of no ordinary determination. He concocted
a conspiracy which, if successful, would have liberated
himself and other prisoners, but being discovered he was
confined in a cell, in which he was only prevented from
boating out his brains against the door by the narrowness
of his quarters.
The Governor and Town Council of New Hamp-
shire have appointed Jeremiah Smith, of Dover, to the
vacant judgeship of the Supreme Court.
Rev. E. M. Wherry and wife, Rev. Charles B.
Newton, and Rev. Francis Heye, jun., of Pennsylvania,
sailed from Boston, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in the ship
Zephyr, for Calcutta, to engage in the missionary work.
The farm near Norfolk, Virginia, from which the
negroes who had squatted refused to move, belonged to
Mr. Taylor, who has been pardoned, and wants to resume
occupation. The Lureau offered thema place on Governor
Wise's farm, still in its hands, which they refused, and
Government will be compelled to eject the blacks by a civil

pro ess.
Governor Orr, of South Carolina, has requested
President Johnson to revoke General Canby's order relat-
ing to juries. le urges that in many districts of South
Carolina if the order be not suspended the negroes will be
in a majority, of whom not 5 per cent. can read or write, yet
will have to decide on all classes of cases.
Captain Schaff, in command of the Mount Ver-
non arsenal, Alabama, has been arrested by orderof General
Pope, and will be tried by court-martial for the following
cowardly murder : —Mr. F. B. Shepherd wrote to ask for
an explanation of certain language Captain Schaff had used
in allusion to him. To this the Captain replied by terming

Mr. Shepherd "an infamous liar," a style of correspond-
ence that had a very disastrous end. On Mr. Shepherd
demanding satisfaction, Schaff detailed a party of soldiers
to proceed to Mr. Shepherd's residence, who handcuffed
and brought him to the arsenal. When there Schaff shot
him through the neck, inflicting a mortal wound. Schaff
was tried for this wicked murder, by court-martial, on the
simple charge of "conduct unbecoming an officer." But
these proceedings have been annulled, and the capital
charge substituted.
General Sheridan has accepted an invitation from
the Vermont Legislature to be present at the reunion of
the Vermont officers at Montpelier, together with Generals
W. 11. Smith and W. T. P. Brooks, who commanded the
Vermont brigade during the war.
The Spring field Republican says :—" A party of
drunken Irishmen at Colchester, Connecticut, enjoyed a
_fight on Saturday night, Oct. 12, which resulted in John
Killday being pounded to death with stones by Daniel
Sullivan, who has escaped. The selectmen of Colchester
offer Stoo reward fur his capture." Fancy the enjoyment of
the man who was stoned to death.
The Vermont Legislature has elected the follow-
ing officers:—Secretary of State, Dr. George Nichols, of
Montpelier; Adjutant-General, William Wells, of Water-
bury ; Quartermaster-General, P. P. Pitkin, of Montpelier;
Judge-Advocate, General S. F. Atwood, of Monkton ;
Author of Accounts, Dugald Stewart, of Middlebury;
Commissioner of the Insane, Homer Goodhue, of West-
minster ; Sergeant-at-Arms, Z. C. Camp, of Montpelier.
Henry Ives, of Lee, formerly cashier of the Ware
National Bank, succeeds John J. Conklin, the defaulter, as
cashier of the First National Bank of New Milford, Con-

necticut.
Governor Chamberlain of Maine has obtained the
aid he sought from the general Government for the return
of Elder Adams's Jaffa colonists.
Thomas S. Lang of North Vassalboro, owner of
the famous horse General Knox, has returned from a
year's residence in Europe in greatly improved health.
0. J. Rose, of Chicago, has been appointed
United States Consul at Mecklenburg, and has arrived at
Hamburg.
Franklin Olcott, lately United States Consular
Clerk at Montreal, has been transferred to the United
States Consulate General at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.
Bishop Potter, one of the American Bishops at
the-Anglican Convention, has returned home.
Bishop Potter was welcomed on his return to
New York from the Pan-Anglican Synod by the clergy of
the diocese, when the synodical letter was read and ad-
dresses made.
Judge Lawrence, a member of the Impeachment
Committee, is said to have stated that the majority of the
committee were now in favour of Impeachment.
General Pope has ordered the military to assist
the civil authorities in the collection of State taxes in
Alabama.
Admiral Farragut, on surveying the results of
the trial of the Rodman gun at Shoeburyness, said, " Well,
you may fill the gun with 1001bs. of powder, we don't."
Governor Brownlow has been elected United
States Senator by the Tennessee Legislature.
The Governor-General of Canada has received
petitions bearing 6,000 signatures for the release of Father
M'Mahon, imprisoned for his part in the Fenian raid last

yoar.
General Marmaduke has been pardoned by the
President.
Charles R. Flandram is the Democratic and Wil-
liam R. Marshall the Republican candidate for Governor
in Minnesota. In Maryland Ogden Bowie is the Demo-
cratic and Hugh L. Bond the Republican candidate for
Governor.

Hunnicutt, addressing a negro mob on the 21st
October in Richmond, denounced Northern mon as d—d
Yankees. Some ono in the crowd retorted, calling the
speaker a d—d liar, whey the mob assailed him, and he
was only saved by the interference of the police.
Assistant Justice Swayne has pronounced the
Civil Rights Act coestitutional in Kentucky, on appeal
before the Unitod States Circuit Court, and foul men have
been sentenced under it to ten years' imprisonment and
hard labour for outrages on coloured people more than a
year ago.
Ea-President Buchanan has stated, according to
one of the numerous persons who pick up the conversa-
tion of prominent men for penny-a-lining purposes, that
"the policies and actions of parties have got beyond his
comprehension," and ho can't imagine " what the result
will be." (!)
Mr. G. R. Cathcart has retired from The Charles-
ton (South Carolina) News, on account of political diffe-
rences with his partners, Messrs. M‘Millan and Morton.
The retiring editor favoured reconstruction under the
Military Bill; Messrs. M`Millan and Morton do not.
Professor E. \V. Blake, jun., has been invited to
fill the chair of Physic iu Columbia College to supply the
place of Professor Rood, who is prevented by illness from
discharging his duties.
The poet Longfellow has sold his real estate in
Stockbridge to C. F. Southmayd, of Now York, for
$12,500. There are some 80 acres on one of the most
sightly and picturesque places in Berkshire County.
The Mexican Minister Romero has been detained
at Charleston, awaiting the arrival of the revenue cutter
from Now Orleans, which, though telegraphed to arrive
on the 14th, is now so long overdue that an accident is
feared. Minister Romero may have to return to New York
to take a private passage.
Robert T. Lincoln has been admitted to the bar
in Chicago,
Gen. Lee writes that there are 600 students at
his college, against 400 last year.
Hayain has applied to Vice-Chancellor Malins
for an injunction to restrain Rushton from making chig-
nons according to his patent, which the unenlightened world
would consider a ridiculous application to be made in
Chancery.
The death of the Hon. Thomas E. Noel, of Mis-
souri, has left a vacancy in the Third District, for which