The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-04 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

The President has laid before the Cabinet a veto
upon the bill passed by Congress for the military
government of the South. A resolution has been
introduced in the Elouse of Representatives asking
the President for information respecting the estab-
lishment of a Canadian kingdom, which it declares
would be hostile to the safety and peace of the
Republic of the United States, which resolution was
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The United States Mail Steamer Arago, Captain
Gadsden, arrived at Falmouth on Thursday night,
with 50 passengers and 371,653 dols. Among her
cargo were 200 packages for the Paris Exhibition,
consisting of 12 cases of sewing machines, 9 of
pianos, and 181 of various contents.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times
gives the receipts of the current cotton crop at the
Southern ports as 1,189,000 bales, up to Feb. 9.
He adds, not quite one-half of the cotton year has
yet passed by, and the receipts are almost as large
as those of the same period of 1865-6, and about
45 per cent. of the average crop, for five years be-
fore the war, for the corresponding period. It is
almost certain the crop will be largely in excess of
the estimates given early in the season, and will
show that Dr. Forbes, as alleged at the time by
Messrs. Neill Brothers, was completely taken in.
He also states, it is reported, that the nomination
of Senator Cowan as Minister to Austria, and
General Ewing as Minister to the Hague, have
been rejected by the Senate. The chances are said
to be against the confirmation of General Dix ; but
Mr. Sandford, Minister to Brussels, is to be con-
firmed. We are in hopes that the strong feeling
manifested by all Americans in Paris in favour of
General Dix will have an effect on the Senate, and
induce them to pause before cancelling so popular
an appointment.

The Springfield Republican says :--" The freed-
men of Tennessee have the right to complain that
the party in power " keep the word of promise to
the ear but break it to the hope." They are to be
allowed to vote, but neither to hold office nor to act
as jurors. The privilege of voting for white men
and committing their lives and property to the
protection of white men is not a very
radical advance on the old slave system. With
a law to compensate loyal men for losses during the
war, while the disloyal and the negroes are excluded
from juries; eight regiments of troops to protect
the ballot-boxes against disloyal voters ; and no-
body but themselveseligible to office, Brownlow and
his small party are likely to have their own way,
and not only keep the offices, but have a free chance
at all the property held by the disloyal.
Two Republican and one Democratic Congres-
sional Conventions were held in Connecticut onThurs-
dav, the 14th February. In the first district the
Republicans nominated Henry C. Deming, of Hart-
ford, for his third consecutive term, giving him on
the first ballot 71 of the 88 votes cast. In the
second district convention at Bridgeport the contest
was much closer, awl on the first ballot the vote
was divided between seven candidates ; J. H. Hub-
bard, of Middletown, receiving 44, and P. T.
Barnum 41. The " great showman" proved, how-
ever, as successful as ever, and secured the nomi-
nation unanimously at the last. The Democrats of
the same district nominated Julius Hotchkiss, of
Middletown, throwing overboar,3 the two aspirants,
Colin M. Ingersoll and James Gallagher, of New
Haven, who had worked the hardest and suffered
the most to secure the honour.

Twenty-two Republicans in the House of Repre-
sentatives, including Messrs. Dawes, Bingham, and
Raymond, voted against ordering the previous ques-
tion on Mr. Eliot's Louisiana Reconstruction Bill,
and the Tribune correspondent sneers at them as
" half-and-half Republicans." Opinions differ about
what constitutes Republicanism, but as to the pro-
priety of forcing a vote on a new proposition on the
very day it is made, and before the members have
seen it in print, there can be no difference of opinion
among men of sense. It is an act of folly and des-
potism. It has come to be looked upon as a matter
of course that the more extraordinary and important
any proposed measure is, the more determined shall