The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-20 00:00:00

paign under Grant and Meade—distinguished forthe vigour
of his movements, as well as for a gallantry which con-
tinually led him and his command into the hardest and
thickest of the fighting. Of General Ord, who is pro-
moted to the brigadier-generalship made vacant by Han-
cocks' elevation, we can say that there is not in the service
a more thorough or faithful officer. In the West he was a
favourite of General Grant, and in the Eastern army he
fully maintained his reputation and standing. The gene-
rals of the regular array now rank in the order of their
names in the following list :—General, Ulysses S. Grant ;
Lieutenant-General, William T. Sherman ; Major-Gene-
rals, Henry W. Halleck, George G. Meade, Philip H.
Sheridan, George 11. Thomas, Windfield S. Hancock ; Bri-
gadier-Generals, Irwin McDowell, William S. Rosecrans,
Philip St. George Cooke, John Pope, Joseph Hooker, John
M. Schofield, Oliver 0. Howard, Alfred H. Terry, E. 0. C.
Ord. Of all these, General Terry, the brilliant captor of
Fort Fisher, and faithful commander in Virginia, is the
only officer drawn from civil life. All the others were
educated at West Point ; but Grant, Sherman, Hooker,

Ifoward, and Ilaßeck were in civil life when the war broke
out, having resigned from tho army after the Mexican
war."

TIIE FIRST AMERICAN " GENERAL " AND
"ADMIRAL."—The United States have now, for the first

time in their history, a General upon the land and an
Admiral upon the seas. Heretofore we have had " Lieu-
tenant " Generals and " Vice " Admirals ; but both these

titles implied that there was a higher military and a higher
naval grade known to the law, while in truth there were
no higher grades in law or in fact. The President, though
constitutionally Commander-in-Chief of the army and
navy, has properly no military grade and no military title ;
and, in fact, the subordination implied in the prefix " Lieu-
tenant" and the prefix " Vice " has no reference, histori-
cally or actually, to any relations with the President. The
new titles have been conferred upon those to whom the
country would award them by universal acclaim. Grant
and Farragut are not only the two foremost names in our
warlike history, but their pre-eminence is undisputed by
any rival. All hail " General " Grant ! All hail "Admiral "
Farragut !—New York limes.

The Boston Journal, of the sth instant, says :
The United States practice ship Macedonian, Lieutenant-
Commander Luce, arrived here this forenoon from Port-
land, and anchored in the stream off Long Wharf. Soon
after reaching this city she fired the usual salute. She is
attached to the Naval Academy fleet, and has on board
136 midshipmen of the different classes—embracing 17 of

the Ist class, 22 of the 2d class, 48 of the 3d class, and 49
of the 4th class.

At Gazetteville, near Buffalo, a natural gas
spring was discovered a year ago. Since that time various
experiments have shown that it is of remarkable purity,
and flows over forty thousand feet per day. The well has
flowed in this manner over a year.
The income of Augustus llamenway, of Boston,
for 1865, was $220,000. He does not enjoy it, however,
being a lunatic. He made his first venture by chance.
He was supercargo of a vessel bound from Boston to
Buenos Ayres, many years ago. Nearing the latter port
they learned that it was blockaded. Changing their course,
.they wont into Valparaiso, sold their cargo of flour for
300 or 400 per cent. profit, and took in a full load of copper
ore, which cost not a single cent, and sold it for an im-
mense sum in Boston.

John Mitchell writes that $75,000 have passed
through his hands from the Fenians of America to
James Stephens, for all of which sums he holds Stephens'
receipts.
A man fell asleep in a theatre in Buffalo, the
other night, and only woke up when the rats began nib-
bling at his face, long after the close of the performance.
REJUVENATED TO DEATIL—The Milwaukie News

says :—" Mr. William Burton, an old citizen of ,North
Prairie, Waukesha county, killed himself on the Ist inst..
by experimenting a la Turkish bath. He had conceived
the idea that by subjecting himself to intense heat, ho
could regain the elasticity and buoyancy of youth, and
the beauty which usually appertains to that period of life.
He had been experimenting for some time previous, for
the purpose of attaining this object, and on the night of
his decease had got up a high temperature, and on the
following morning he was found lifeless, the flesh upon
his limbs being literally cooked. Ho was an excellent
mechanic, a bachelor, and about 45 years of age."
We are informed that Mr. Horatio Ames, the
patentee and manufacturer of the gun which bears his
name, and which has been repeatedly tried with extraor-
dinary results by the ordnance officers of the American
Government, has lately brought it under the notice of the
Emperor of Russia. The resources of the Russian gun
factories were at once placed at Mr. Amos' disposal, to-
gether with a liberal appropriation of money to establish
their manufacture in that country ; but, we believe, the
offer has been declined, and, indeed, no experienced iron-
master would think of commencing such an undertaking
in a country so lacking in skilled labour told in general
facilities for special manufacture of iron as Russia. •
General Sherman, in a recent address to the stu-
dents of Yale College, said :—" I tell you that before you
pass from the stage there will be fighting in comparison
with which mine will seem slight."