The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

The telegraph news by the Atlantic cable in-
forms us that the Senate passed a substitute for the
bill adopted by the House of Representatives esta-
blishing martial law in ten of the Southern States,
by which the military government is made provisional,
pending the formation of State governments. The
.principle of negro suffrage is adopted, prominent
rebels are disfranchised, and the Constitutional
Amendment incorporated. The House of Repre-
sentatives rejected this bill, which appears likely to
fall to the ground in the game of battledore and
shuttlecock the two Houses have been playing.
Mr. Nathan D. Urner has returned from South
America, where he has spent some six months.
Mr. George Ripley, the literary editor of The
Tribune, is collecting his miscellaneous writings for
publication.
Miss Louisa M. Alcott's health is such that her
physician forbids all literary labour.
Mr. N. P. Willis's • famous country seat on the
Hudson came about in this way :—" It was a por-
tion of the farm of Nathaniel Sands, a lovely,
kindly, gentle old man, whose sweet, persuasive
words from the high seat of the Quaker meeting
have won many hearts to the peaceful faith he had
espoused. He decided to sell the tract to Willis,
naming some very moderate sum of money as its
price, ' because, Nathaniel, it is only an idle wild.'
I will take it,' said Willis, ' and it shall be called
Idle Wild.' "

We are not surprised that the Christian Advocate
editor was displeased under the circumstances as
related by the Round 7able. In a late number of
this paper the Christian Advocate was concisely mad
accurately described as " a stupid and bigoted sheet
with a pervading snuffle." The editor of the
Christian Advocate is, not unnaturally, displeased
with this description, and, says the Round Table,
" empties the vials of , his wrath upon
us -in a manner which may be justifiable, but
is decidedly unchristian. We adhere, notwith-
standing, to our opinion that the Christian Advocate
is " a stupid and bigoted sheet with a pervading
snuffle." Its remedy is not to abuse ita critics, but
to strive to become a lively and liberal sheet without
a pervading snuffle. The editor of the Christian
Advocate uncharitably insinuates that the editors of
the Round Table are infidels ; the editor of the
Christian Advocate is a—well, an irregular rhom-
boid."

One of AlexanderWirt's paintings of White Mou-
ntain scenery, valued at $3,000, has been presented
to the Yale college school of fine arts, by Dr. R. W.
Forbes, a graduate in the class of 1842.
The American House of Representatives has
commissioned Bierstadt, the painter of " The Rocky
Mountains," to prepare two paintings, to be hung
in its ball.
Mr. W. J. Linton, the well-known wood engraver,
has been engaed by Frank Leslie to execute a num-
ber of engravings from time to time in the illus-
trated newspaper. Mr. Linton is now in New
York, where he proposes to remain some time.
The members of the Wood Engravers' Society in-
vited a select number of friends to welcome their
distinguished brother-in-the-craft at their rooms in
Chambers-street, on the evening of January 8th—
an occasion which may be recorded as a new start-
ing point for the art in America.
There are six paintings' by E. H. May, an Ame-
rican artist residing in Paris, at the exhibition of
the Wright collection of pictures, in the new Derby
Gallery. Several of these are copies from the old
masters, and, as faithful reproductions, they poasess
a good deal of merit.
Mr. J. B. Van Densan, of New York, the cele-
brated builder of the Fleetwing, arrived in England
by the steamship Deutschland.
Mr. Lampson has arrived in Constantinople from
the United States to arrange for a supply of new
breech-loading arms.
William S. Westcott, of Amherst, was the lucky
holder of ticket No. 131,526 in the Crosby Opera-
house distribution at Chicago, which drew a paint-
ing entitled " Chickens.'
Elder Joseph Higgins, 90 years old, is living on a
farm at Thorndike, where lie felled the first tree
over 70 years ago, and where he has lived with his
present wife 63 years." There has never beenc a
death in his house, and seven of the eight children in
the family have grown to adult years.
David F. Iv.PGilvray, formerly of Palmer, now
the well-known Boston auctioneer, who failed for
$500,000 eight or ten years since, paid up the last
cent of his indebtedness during the second week
in January, and will go South iu a short time, on a
health-seeking tour.
Colonel William G. Ely, of Norwich, and for-
merly commanding the 18th Connecticut regiment,
has been commissioned brevet brigadier-general.
Mr. Sumner gave a dinner to Professor Agassiz
on Wednesday evening,
January 30. General Grant
and Sir Frederick Bruce were of the party. Pro-
fessor Pierce, of Harvard, is talked of for chief of
the coast survey.
Rev. W. G. 'Tuttle, pastor of the First Church at
Ware, recently received a purse of $lll from some
of the members of the Congregational Church at
Ware village.
Warren Smith, of Chicope, has been reappointed
a justice of the peace for Hampden County.
Some Congressmen at General Grant's reception
were disgusted became the ex-rebel General Kirby
Smith was among the invited guests.
We hear by telegram, February 18, that Suratt
had arrived at New York,
G. V. Fox, Esq., late Assistant-Secretary of
the Navy, is staying with his family at Ports-
mouth, New Hampshire. He has retired from the
public service.

Mr. William E. Ingersoll, son of Major Edward
Ingersoll, paymaster at the armoury, sailed for Cali-
fornia in the Isthmus steamer from New York on
Feb. 8. He is on his way to Arizona,
to engage in
the management of a valuable copper mine there,
owned by his father and some other gentlemen of
this city and New York.
George Peabody has made a donation of one mil-
lion dollars in cash and another million in Missis-
sippi Bonds for educating the youth of the South
without distinction of colour.
Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, who offered to Prince-
ton College the " prize for first gentleman," was
robbed yesterday of $lOO,OOO in Federal Securities,
for the recovery of which he offers a reward of
$25,000.
The Legislature of Maryland has abolished the-
sale of negroes for gaol dues, thus placing them on
the same basis with the whites, and effectually stop-
ping the small hole which, despite the Emancipation
Proclamation, seemed to bid fair to restore slavery
to its old importance. It would be a matter of
great congratulation to see all other recent slave
States follow the same course.
The result of the investigation of Gen. Sewall,
North
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Bureau Inspector, and Hon. W. W. S. Mason, of
Raleigh, into the alleged illegal apprenticing of
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bound under unlawful indentures, without consulting
their parents or allowing them to protest in court.
The commissioners recommend the repeal of such
provisions of the law of apprenticeship as make dis-
criminations on account of colour. A bill to this
effect has been introduced into the Legislature, and
Governor Worth is said to favour its passage.
There is considerable mobility among the la-
bouring population of North Carolina. Scarcity
of work and abundance of destitution have induced
many of the freedmen to emigrate under contract
to Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. A
movement has also taken place between Roanoke
Island and the mainland, that colony having been
reduced one-half since last September. This is in
consequence of official orders, and is accomplished
gradually, that the colonists may not suffer. The
New Year dawned upon 118 schools, 122 teachers,
and 3,911 pupils in North Carolina.

Oa the 31st January the Alabama House of
Representatives passed a bill to establish a public-
school system, applicable to blacks and whites alike,
except that the schools are not to be in common.

The disturbance on the Cheves plantation, South
Carolina, culminated on the 30th ult. in a collision
in which a lieutenant of the Bureau was shot in the
arm and oue negro killed. The immediate causes
have not transpired.