The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA.
(Via Crookhaven.)
NEW YORK, July 11 (Morning).
The House of Representatives has passed the
Tariff Bill by 94 against 53 votes. The bill now
goes to the Senate.
Mr. Wade has introduced in the Senate a bill
similar to the one recently introduced in the house,
guaranteeing a Mexican republican loan of
$50,000,000.
The Washington correspondent of the New Fork
Herald asserts that a plot has been discovered among
the Radicals to implicate Mr. Davis in the assassina-
tion conspiracy: by the bribery of perjured witnesses.
The Saxonia, City of Manchester, and City of
London have arrived out.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
The American papers record the death of Dr.
Mussey at the ago of 86. The Cincinnati Gazette says :
" In 1830 he proved, what Sir Astley Cooper had said was
impossible, that intra-capsular fractures could be united.
He was the first person to tie both carotid arteries, and
gained success on more than one occasion. He operated,
with equally happy result, in a case of that rare and fright-
ful disease, hypertrophiad tongue. In 1837 he removed
the entire shoulder-blade and collar-bone of a patient who
was suffering from osteo sarcoma, the first operation of the
kind on record. The patient is still living. Out of 49
operations in lithotomy, only four were followed by the
death of the subjects. He relieved strangulated hernia in
32 out of 40 cases."
NEW CONCERT HALL FOR NEW YORK.—Mr.
Bateman has come to England to make engagements for
the opening of the new concert hall in New York, now
being built by the eminent pianoforte manufacturers,
Steinway and Sons, the Erards of America. The new
hall is of very large dimensions, capable of containing
between two and three thousands persons, and the enter-
tainments are to be on a high scale of excellence. The
brilliant success, both in an artistic and pecuniary sense,
of the last concert speculation of Mr. Bateman, who was
lucky enough to introduce our eminent countrywoman,
Madame Parepa, to his admiring compatriots, was noto-
rious ; and as the occasion of his new venture, owing to
tho destruction by fire of the New York Academy of
Music, which for a period makes operatic performances
impossible, is singularly opportune, there is every reason
to believe that its success will be at least as brilliant as his
first. Madame Parepa, whose popularity on this side of
the Atlantic is continent-wide, will again be Mr. Bateman's
prima donna assolute.—Musical World.
THE NIAGARA CANAL.—The Senate has dis-
cussed for some time the Niagara Falls Canal Scheme. It
has developed considerably more opposition than was an-
ticipated, and its passage is very doubtful. Many who
favour, and some who want such a canal, aro not in favour
of giving this grant to any private corporation.
GENERAL SICKLES' name is being pressed for the
post of Naval Officer of Now York City. The President
has again delayed the nomination. There is no probabi-
lity of Colonel Hillyer being appointed.
CONFIRMATIONS BY THE SENATE.—The Senate,
in Executive session to-day, June 28, confirmed the nomi-
nation of John Spear, as Collector of Internal Revenue for
the District of Kansas, and Duff Green to be Marshal for
the Southern District of Mississippi. The latter is not the
Duff Green of former political notoriety. The Senate rati-
fied several Indian treaties.
PARDONS GRANTED.—The President has directed
pardons to be granted to eight persons from Alabama and
Texas, a few of them under the first exception or fealty
officer clause, but the most of them under the thirteenth
or $20,000 clause.
WASHINGTON, JUNE 28. The consideration
of the Tariff Bill in the House, this afternoon, gave
rise to a lively discussion on the item of coal, J. K. Moor-
head, of the Pittsburg District, consenting to the admis-
sion of bituminous coal at 50 cents when mined at Nova
Scotia, on the ground that New England ought not to
have to pay for transportation from Pennsylvania. Judge
Kelley took up the question, and pronounced the whole
action of the Committee on coal as a piece of satire. He
said Pennsylvania wanted no protection on anthracite coal,
which was to be found in no other country in the world,
and so the committee had fixed it at one dollar and a-half
per ton. He showed where the immense soft coal fields
lay down from Pennsylvania, through Virginia and North
Carolina, and urged that while American miners were
struggling for existence, they should not be forced to com-
pete with the coal beds lying on tho shores of Nova
Scotia, whose companies were paying dividends varying
from fifty to two hundred per cent, yearly. The entire
cost of our coal at our wharves is labour and freight.
Thad. Stevens pronounces the Tariff act a free-trade bill,
hardly equal to our internal taxation. The Democrats
take no part in the discussion of the bill, which will pro-
bably last until the middle of next week.
THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU IN VIRGINIA.--
Brevet Brigadier-General F. D. Sewell, Inspector-General
of the Freedmen's Bureau for the State of Virginia, has
just completed a tour of inspection of tho State, and in his
report to the Bureau speaks highly of the conduct of
Colonel Brown, formerly Assistant Commissioner of the
Bureau for the State. He recommends a consolidation of
the sub-districts and a reduction of the agents of
the Bureau, to one-third of the present number.
He states that the issue of rations is steadily decreasing,
and will be loss after the crops come in. The largest issues
are made at Richmond, Petersburg, Hampton, and Norfolk,
where there are a great number of contrabands. He re-
commends that they be sent into the back country, where
the demand for labourers is much beyond the supply.
RICH MINERAL DISCOVERIES IN KENTUCKY.—
The Mount Sterling Kentucky Sentinel says :—We have
lately seen some iron and lead ore and lithograph stone,
discovered by Mr. D. de Mortimer in Woolfe and Owsley
counties about twenty-five or thirty miles from this
place. The iron and lead ores aro the richest specimens
we have ever seen, and exist in large quantities. The
lithographic stone the doctor pronounces superior to that
imported from the Old World, and to be the only
quarry yet found in the United States. He exhibited
to us several pieces which he had polished, and in smooth-
ness they exceeded the finest razor bones. Th© quarry,
he says, is inexhaustible—extends for ten miles, and can
be easily worked. The various purposes to which the
rock can be applied render it of untold value. He also

showed us samples of cannel coal found in the same
counties, which is the best we have ever seen. The Doctor

is a man of fine scientific attainments, and has spent more
than a year in exploring the mineral wealth of the tier of
counties above us. He decides that he has seen no region
that is so exhaustless in minerals, and that furnish such
profitable fields for investment. Nothing is needed but a
road to these districts. A railroad can be made with a
grade of loss than 30 feet to the mile, which will pass
right through these coal, iron, and lead regions, and which
will make this part of Kentucky rich and prosperous.
The Doctor assures us that the one item of lithograph
rock will pay for the construction of the road. If the
citizens of Kentucky have not the money and enterprise
to build a road through this country, we trust that the
people of Cincinnati will take the matter in hand.

CURIOSITIES OF CONGRESS.—The total number
of Senators and Representatives who have had seats in
Congress since the adoption of the Constitution is 4,012,
the twenty-one free States having sent 2,610 members,
and the fifteen slave States 1,402 members. The mem-
bers, according to States, are put down as follows :
Alabama, 52 ; Arkansas, 15 ; California, 24 ; Connecticut,
121; Delaware, 38 ; Florida, 12 ; Georgia, 119 ; Illinois,
74 ; Indiana, 100 ; lowa, 23 ; Kansas, 5 ; Kentucky, 180 ;
Louisiana, 58 ; Maine, 103 ; Maryland, 151; Massachu-
setts, 237 ; Michigan, 44 ; Minnesota, 10; Mississippi, 55 ;
Missouri, 65 ; Nevada, 6 ; New Hampshire, 108 ; New
Jersey, 130 ; New York, 744 ; North Carolina, 154 ; Ohio,
239 ; Oregon, 11; Pennsylvania, 443 ; Rhode island, 60 ;
South Carolina, 119 ; Tennessee, 124 ; Texas, 17 ; Ver-
mont, 77 ; Virginia, 242 ; West Virginia, 7 ; and Wiscon-
sin, 28. The number of Delegates who have served in
Congress from the nine existing territories is 30. With
regard to the more proper common names, it has been
ascertained that the Smith family have had 49 members in
Congress, while the Johusons number 29 ; the Browns, 26 ;
the Whites, 22 ; the Thompsons, 21; the Joneses, 20 ; the
Wilsons, 20; the Millers, 18 ; the Moores, 18; and the Taylors,
15. To specify the places of nativity and the professions of
the whole 4,012 Congressmen would be more curious than
profitable ; but by way of approximating a full statement.,
we may glance at the present Thirty-ninth Congress. Of
the 239 members of both Houses, 70 were born in New
England, 49 hi ;cow York, while the remainder are equally