The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-22 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

On the 19th ult. the Peace Commissioners met
the representatives of the Brule, Cheyenne, and
Ogaltalia Indians. The scene was dramatic,
the Indians being painted, each commissioner
being placed between two chiefs, the whole
meeting smoking in silence the Calamut
of Peace. " Swift-Bear," a Brule chief,
opened tha conference. Commissioner Taylor next
spoke, then Big-Mouth, Cold-Face, Cut-Nose,
Crazy-Lodge, Pawnee-Killer, Whistler, Standing-
Elk, Spotted-Tail, Turkey-Foot, Man-that-Walks-
Under - the - Ground, and Man - Afraid -of - his-
Horses. The great speech was delivered by the
gigantic savage Big - Mouth. The conference
ended in no definite result, except the presents
carried off by the Red Indians. The Peace Com-
missioners then proceeded to Fort Lamed,
where 1,400 of the tribes await them. In
the meantime the war proceeds, and an affair has
occurred between a troop of cavalry and a band
of Snake Indians in Oregon, in which the savages
were defeated, twenty-six being killed and fifteen
captured. Black-Hawks, chief of the Utes in Utah,
acting on the express wish of his tribe, has pledged
himself to stop hostilities. General Shetman re-
fused to abandon the Smoky Hill and Powder
River roads, the principal demand of the Indians,
and he offered to convey a party to the Eastern
States to enable them to judge of and to report to
their brethren what they were fighting against.
At the same time he threatened, if hostilities were
not abandoned; to let loose the soldiers as thick
as buffaloes to sweep the whole country.
Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, at a Republican
meeting at Cincinnati, on the 21st ult., made a sen-
sational statement, which has excited general atten-
tion throughout the Union. He said :—" I declare
upon my responsibility as a Senator of the United
States that to-day Andrew Johnson meditates and
designs forcible resistance to the authority of Con-
gress. I make this statement deliberately, having
received it from unquestioned and unquestionable
authority." This statement was supplemented by
Senator Howard, of Michigan, who, in a letter to
the Detroit Tribune, expressed his belief in the
President's intention to use the militia of Mary-
land and other border States to carry out his
nefarious designs. The militia of Maryland
consists of about 10,000 men, of whom 4,600 are
in Baltimore. The State authorities reduced their
demand on the Government to artillery alone,
making no call for muskets, converting all into the
one supply of field-pieces. At the same time they
ordered new Springfield muskets for the infantry
soldiers, which, with equipment, cost $23 per man.
It is estimated that the force will require an ex-
penditure in this way of $500,000. General
Grant has, however, refused the artillery. Both
officers and men are said to be returned Confede-
rate soldiers, and to be clad in the grey uni-
form. The activity of Maryland, in thus
(with its dilapidated finances) expending so large
a sum has excited general suspicion, and gives rise
to these rumours. The Democrats not only deny
their truth, but declare that the coming rebellion
was to be found in the opposite direction. The
grand army of the Republic since the Pitts-
burgh Convention has assumed large proportions,
and not only have the negroes been steadily
and rapidly enrolling, but the militia of the
Northern States have been so officered that it might
be employed by the Radicals. These reports
neutralise each other, and probably contain an
equal amount of truth.
A second report is about to be issued on the
Pacific Mines, which will contain copious descrip-
tions of the agricultural and mineral resources of
Utah, Montana, Idaho, Washington Territory,
Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona. For
many months a body of scientific men have been
engaged in compiling it, and it will embrace the
information obtained by the following gentlemen :
Dr. A. Blatchley, on Utah, Montana, and Idaho ;
Mr. W. S. Keyes, on the Argento and adjacent dis-
tricts of Montana ; Mr. W. Lair Hill, on Oregon ;
Mr. Ainsworth, President of the Oregon Steam Na-
vigation Company, on the river Columbia and its
tributaries ; Mr. Edward Evans on Washington
territory ; Mr. John S. Hittell, on the Mining
Districts of California ; Mr. R. 11. Stretch, Dr.
Henry de Groot, and Myron Angel, on the State
of Nevada ; Governor M'Cormick, on Arizona ;
Mr. Henry C. Bennett, on the Miscellaneous &-
sources of the Pacific Coast. The Commissioner,
J. Ross Browne has himself visited Sinaloa and
Lower California, the principal districts of Upper
California, Oregon, Washington Territory, and
British Columbia, collecting valuable information.
An interesting Report on the Geology and Mine-
ralogy of Lower California, by Professor W. M.
Gabb, will be embodied, as well as a paper, by Pro-
fessor Whitney, on South-Western Nevada and the
Pahranagat Region, where he is now engaged.
Mr. J. Ross Browne left San Francisco for Wash-
ington early this month to present his report in
person.

Europe will soon be fully informed on the closing
events of Maximilian's career. His counsel, the
American advocate, Mr. Frederick Hall, is writing
a history of Maximilian in Mexico and Prince Salm
Salm an account of the siege of Queretaro. We
are promised, besides, the correspondence ;with
Napoleon 111. and Marshal Bazaine. Lopez has
published a defence, asserting that his enemies
have endeavoured to divert attention from their
delinquencies by fastening treachery on him. He
says that the Emperor was captured at some distance
from the town at the head of his troops, among whom
were 430 cavalry men, drawn up in line of battle.
Diaz is becoming the popular candidate for the
Presidency of Mexico, nearly all the newspapers
denouncing Juarez. The Constitzccional expresses
itself with a freedom that at least speaks well for
the liberty of the press :—" The apostle of
progress, the administrator of law, the crea-
ture of the Constitution—this Juarez—pro-
poses to set up his will, to rend the flag he has
clutched," &c.; "he has seized the axe of revolution,"
&c. Juarez has turned to the Church party for
support. The Northern States were still in insur-
rection, and a telegram has announced the capture
of Monterey by the insurgents. Senor Romero,
the Mexican Minister at Washington, had been
entertained at a public banquet by the citizens of
New York previous to his return, when letters
were read from Seward, Grant, and Thaddeus
Stevens, expressing to him their sympathy with the
Mexican Republic. Mr. Otterburgh, the American
Minister at Mexico, had left, and the charge of the
Legation had devolved on Consul Cripps.

Frank Leslie says:—" In Salt Lake City they
have a theatre which is said to bo conducted upon new
principles, and to have attained a success no less surprising
Man the growth of that city itself. It is a part of the
Mormon faith to make use of the theatre as an educational
instrument as well as a simple means of enjoyment. Who
knows but that from the remote West wo may yet, by a
sort of reflex influence, obtain the theatrical school, which
will be As distinctly American as the Opera Bouffe is
French."

Wilkes tells us :—" George Sands realised about
580,000 on her plays.—Sardou, the author Famille
Benoiton,' has received from it nearly s3o,ooo.—Paul
Pavel, the author of 'La Bossu,' known hero as the
Duke's Motto,' made by it s24,ooo.—Ponsard $12,000 in
advance for his last piece. But the above are the prophets
of dramatic literature.

" The Worrell Sisters have played in Brooklyn
to fulliand fashionable houses at the Academy. These young
ladies are now in Boston rehearsing for their advent before
the 130 stonians on Monday evening next.

" Major-General Tecumseh Sherman visited the
circug ;at Omaha, and boing recognised the clown,
who
was on e of the celebrated Sherman Bummers,' was
enthusiactically seized and introduced to the infant pro-
digy, La b'olle Equestrienne and the pig-faced lady. Such
are the pl6aFores of fame."
'l.4ero hpi Peen in the Boston Advertiser a very

neat tilt between a correspondent, signing himself " G. 11.
G.," and Mr. Boutwoll, the former assailing and the latter
defending the claim of Congress to take from the Presi-
dent the duty of directly executing the laws. Mr. Bout-
well's reply is very telling, except on ono point, which be
altogether overlooks, and in which " G. 11. G." makes the
most effective hit; and that if the President may not
(as Mr. Boutwoll shows) decide on the constitutionality of
an act of Congress, and the making of a caso for the
Supreme Court be forbidden, military government being
substituted for civil, how is the constitutionality of a law
to bo tested ? If it cannot bo tested at all, what is the
value of the Constitution except as advice to Congress ?
There is probably no difficulty in the reconstruction pro-
cess which troubles so many people as this one, and there
is only one way of meeting it, as wo have moro than once
pointed out in these columns—but it is one to which the
Radical leaders, for reasons of policy, aro reluctant to re-
sort—and that is by frankly avowing that the crisis is so
tremendous that the majority has taken upon itself to %le
whatever the occasion plainly calls for, constitutional or
unconstitutional.— The Nation.