The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1866

cheat. The engravers and printers of these coun-
terfeit bonds are said to have been employed by
men of large resources—and it is, moreover, alleged
that the backers of the counterfeiters have employed
a gang of adventurers to distribute their bonds,
and that already many thousands of the false
tokens have been sold to hundreds of incredulous
Irishmen and hard-working servant girls, and that
the interior of the State, and New England and the
West, have been flooded with the counterfeits, or
are to be flooded within a fortnight.
CONFESSION OF ONE 9F THE WASHINGTON CON-
SPIRATORS.—A man named King, arrested at Louis-
ville, Kentucky, a few days since for a theft re-
cently committed in Ohio, and who *As in gaol await-
ing a requisition from the Governor of Ohio, has
confessed to Harris, a recently-confined Govern-
ment detective, that he (King), and not Payne, was
the man who attempted to assassinate Secretary
Seward in Washington, in April last. This confes-
sion being repeated to Major-General Jeff. C.
Davis, temporarily commanding the department,
he telegraphed to Washington for parties who were
acquainted with the facts of the assassination con-
spiracy to come and investigate the affair. King
is identified as a rebel spy during the rebellion.
When the American war began, or a little later,
many Americans converted their property into gold,
and sent it to England. The amount of money
thus thrown into English business is variously esti-
' mated, the highest figures being $500,000,000, and
the lowest $300,000,000.
The burning oil or gas well, twelve miles below
Franklin, on the banks of the Alleghany River, has
not yet been extinguished, but apparently burns as
fiercely as ever.
THE GREAT MINERAL SPRINGS.—The Lelands,
of the New York Metropolitan and Saratoga hotels,
have addressed Robert G. M'Creary, Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, a letter, soliciting the lease of the
summer hotel, which they learn is about to be
erected in the vicinity of the mineral springs found
on the battle-field, of which they understand he is
the proprietor, providing the hotel will be large
enough to accommodate the summer visitors to the
battle-field, the National Cemetery, and the
springs. To this Mr. M'Creary replied that the
springs have been visited by thousands, that the
water is daily carried away in large quantities, but
no definite arrangements have yet been made to
erect the hotel and put the water in the market,
though there is an increasing public demand for
both.

THE GOLD AND SILVER-BEARING ORES OF
LAKE SUPERIOR.—The Houghton Gazette has a
long article on the gold and silver-bearing ores in
the " Silver Lead" region. It says :—" During
the past six months repeated assays of the rock ob-
tained from the Silver Lead vein shows a value of
f7OO per fathom in gold and silver. Supposing
three-fourths of this amount can be obtained by
the present methods of extraction the yield 'would
still be over poo per fathom. It is a good copper
lode or vein which yields 400 pounds of refined
copper per fathom, which, at present prices, would
only be worth $1.60 ; at the average price for the
past two years, say 25 cents, it would be worth
$l.OO per fathom, or only one-fifth of the silver and
gold rock.
A VOICE FROJI THE SOUTII.—A numerous and
influential meeting of the citizens of Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, was held a few days since, the Mayor in the
chair, at which resolutions were adopted strongly,
endorsing the restoration policy of President John-
son. In respect of reconciliation it was, among other
things, resolved That, having in good faith ac-
cepted the result of the late contest between the
North and the South, we desire that all traces of
alienation shall be obliterated, and we cordially
invite enterprising men from every State of the
American Union to settle among us, assuring them
that they will be received as fellow-citizens of.our
common country, and co-labourers in building up
that commercial greatness which we believe our city
is destined to attain." This is the proper spirit, and
we hope similar meetings will be held in other por-
tions of the Southern country. A large number of
enterprising people in the North are deterred from
going South and pncrafzim7 in tho Inhnsir of rlovolnp_
ing the vast resources of that part of the country, in
consequence of apprehending that their presence
will be unwelcome, and that they will be subjected
to irritating taunts and insults from the native re-
sidents. We do not believe that this feeling pre-
vails to any extent among intelligent communities
in .the South ; and if expression be given to the
Southern voice in the manner it has been in 'Nor-
folk, much good will accrue to the people
_of both
sections.—New York Times.
non. Solomon Foot, a member of the United
States Senate from Vermont, died on the 28th
March, in Washington, after an illness of several
weeks. Mr. Foot was a native of Cornwall, Addi-
son county, Vermont, and was born November 19,
1802. On his graduating at Middlebury College

he adopted the profession of law, and soon rose to I
eminence at the bar of his native State. In 1833,
'36, '37, '3B, and '39 he was a member of the Ver-
mont House of Representatives, and was Speaker
daring the last three years. He was also chosen
a member of the State Constitutional Con-
vention, and held the office of State's Attorney
for Rutland for six or seven years in succession.
In 1843 he was elected a member of Congress,
and on the expiration of his term was re-elected.
In 1850 he was appointed a United States Senator,
and in 1856 and 1862 he was again chosen by the
Legislature to fill the responsible position of Se:-
nator, and during the latter part of the Thirty-
sixth and through the entire sessions of the Thirty-
seventh Congress he presided as President pro teen
over the: deliberations of the Senate. In early
political life Mr. Foot was a Whig, and an ardent
ad►nirer of Webster and Clay. Slavery in its grasp
of power found in him one ready to meet and
sturdily oppose its advance, and when the rebellion
was inaugurated he stood forth earnestly battling in
defence of right, truth, and the unity of the States.
Mr. Foot was a man of rare integrity and worth.
No one possessed more the confidence of his com-
peers than did he, while those opposed to him held
him in the highest esteem. In his decease Vermont
and the nation experience a great loss ; for where a
good citizen and an honest statesman dies the coun-
try at large will appreciate his death as a public
calamity.