The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-11 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

Mr. Johnson has introduced a bill into Congress
for the relief of the sufferers by the Portland fire.
It authorises the President to cause to be purchased
such provisions and clothing, and such other articles
as he shall deem advisable, and to tender the sane
in the name of the Government of the United
States to the State of Maine for the relief of the
citizens who have suffered by the late fire in the
city of Portland. It appropriates a sum not ex-

ceeding $50,000.
Congress has decreed an equestrian statue to
Lieut.-General Winfield Scott to be placed over his
grave at West Point. The monument is to be the
bronze of the guns captured in Mexico. Twenty
thousand dollars have been voted, and Henry K.
Brown, of Newburgh, New York, has been selected
to carry out the work.
The Judiciary Committee of the House of Re-
presentatives have reported that there is probable
cause to believe that Mr. Davis was privy to the
assassination of President Lincoln. The commit-
tee recommend a further investigation and speedy
trial.

The Niagara ship canal is among the bills passed
over for the action of the ensuing session, the Senate
decreeing the postponement by a majority of 11.
The Chicago Tribune states this to be the penalty
which the North-West has to suffer for their oppo-
sition to the prohibitory tariff which would have
cost them enough money to build ten such canals.
Illinois alone has saved 20 millions of dollars imme-
diately by the defeat of the Tariff Bill, and an
annual 10 millions of dollars hereafter. The Go-
vernment, too, will save enough in revenue to build
several such canals, so the Tribune considers that
the North-West may be satisfied with the result
and can afford to wait for the passage of an Act
which will facilitate so immensely the transport of
the North-West to the sea.

An American correspondent of the Times attri-
butes the revision of the Neutrality Laws to the
desire of the Republican party to gain Fenian sup-
port. " The South and the Conservatives generally
have long since given up that once-popular pastime
of abusing Great Britain, and now have a common
wish for the closest and most friendly relations with

the mother country ; but the Radicals cling to the
old custom of which they have now a monopoly
with a tenacity worthy a better cause. In the eyes
of the people the plain object to attract Irish votes
to the lost cause of Radicalism at once strips it of
every disguise, and such sympathies as they may
have with Ireland can never be used by it to attach
them to a failing party. In short, the report can
have no effect here except to serve as an additional
proof that the Radical party are the real fomentors
of the ill-feeling often expressed in America towards
England." We demur to this statement. In the
first place, the Republican party show very little
signs of failing ; and, in the second place, we believe
that party not to have been the fomentors of the
ill-feeling towards England. We regret the act,
and hold it to be, as the correspondent says, a mere
party move ; but the one great fact that will never
cease to weigh with the nation is that the Union
owes its integrity to that party who were the back-
bone of the country in its tremendous struggle.
However distant spectators may condemn political
shifts, broad principles remain, and that section of
the people must command over the world the highest
respect who gave the vigour and dogged persistence
which carried the North to a triumphant victory.
Nor will it ever be forgotten that to this party is
due the death-blow to Slavery.
General Blocum has been elected President of a
New York Coal Company
A marble statue of Washington Irving is to be
erected in the vestibule of the church erected as a memo-
rial to him in Sleepy follow.
Alex. W. Randall, the new Postmaster-General,
was born in Montgomery county, New York, in 1819, and
is therefore now 47 years of age.
A salute of 100 guns was fired in honour of the
restoration of Tennessee and the admission of her repre-
sentatives to Congress, at the instance of the friends of the
Administration.
Vice-Admiral Farragut is made an admiral in the
navy under a recent law.
Among the incomes of a decidedly acceptable
character may be noted those of John Hecker, the flour
merchant, of New York, who reports an income of $233,419,
and William Wheatley, the actor, proprietor of Niblo's
Garden, in New York, and ono or two places of amuse-
ment in other cities, who figures up his income for last
year at $320,800.
S. N. Pike, of Cincinnati, has commenced work
upon his New York Opera House, which will be located in
the fashionable quarter of the city. lie is assisted by an
incorporated association, which is pledged to aid him to
the extent of $250,000.
Miss Henrietta W. Davenport, of Helena, Ark.,
has just been notified that she has fallen heir to an estate
worth $2,000,000 in Scotland, through her uncle, Robert
Bruce Blackburn, recently deceased, who was one of the
greatest manufacturers in Europe.
Herr Louis Staab, formerly teacher of music in
St. Louis, took out protection papers during the war to
escape the service. A little whilo ago he went to Europe.
Thore he applied to the American Consul far protection
papers as an American citizen, but the latter being posted
Staab could not get the protection of the Stars and
Stripes, so ho had to enter the Prussian army and fight
'or fatherland.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW Yonx, July 26, 1866.
There is little doing in our market, the speculative ten-
dency being checked by London advices. The English
credit panic, from which there seems to be so little re-
covery, has caused disappointment, as we thought the
large exports of gold from this side would have had a more
considerable effect. Gold may be quoted 1491 to 150 ;
5-20's of 1862,
1061 to 1864 1041 to ; New York Cen-
tral, 1041 ; Erie, 61i ; Reading, 1101; Illinois Central, 119 ;
Fort Wayne, 1001. The Railway Market is steady. The
i; ,
returns from thirty-seven of the principal lines of the
Eastern, Western, and Middle States and the dividends
paid will surprise your readers. Two paid 35 per cent. last
year; one, 30 per cent. ; one, 15 per cent. ; two, 12 per
cent. ; thirteen, 10 per cent. ; three, 9 per cent. ; one,
81 per cent. ; two, 8 per cent. ; two, 6 per cent. ; one, 5
per cont. ; and two, 31 per cent. Only seven omitted
dividends, though even these spent large sums on per-
manent repairs and improvements out of profits which
ought to have gone to capital account.
As the Atlantic telegraph will give you quotations of
our principal stocks and shares, I will in future omit these
quotations, which must when you receive them bo old
news in England, and confine myself to notices on the
causes which influence the markets.

(From L. P. Morton and Co's. Circular.)
NEW Yonx, July 28.

Per steamer "Herman."—The extreme ease in monetary
affairs has encouraged the speculative activity in Stocks
noted in our last, and nearly all securities have further
advanced. Erie Shares, however, have been an excep-
tion ; the price having been steady under the absence of
speculative dealings. The decision of the Directors of the
road not to make any dividend.for the current half year
upon either the common or preferred stock has had no
apparent effect upon the value of the shares. The price
has fluctuated between 631 and 65-1, and closes at 64k.
Illinois Central has been in speculative demand, and closes

firm at 120 ; having ranged during the week at 1171 to
1191 ex div.
Five Twenties of 1882 have been comparatively quiet,
the late active demand for export to Europe having sub-
sided. The continued firmness of the Bonds in Europe
has sustained the advance of last week, and they close
active and firm at 1071 ; the lowest figures touched during
the week being 1061.

The liquidation of about $35,000,000 of the Public Debt,
in the form of One Year Certificates, during the present
month, has contributed to produce an extreme ease in
money. Call loans are made at 4 to 5 per cent. ; on
discounts of prime paper the rate is 5 to 7 per cent.
Gold has ruled steady, under the absence of speculative
transactions, the price having ranged at 1491 to 1511.
Yesterday the market closed at 1501.
Cotton has been rather firmer under the Liverpool ad-
vices, and an improved demand for shipment. The pur-
chases of domestic manufactures are still nominal. The
market closes firm at 36 cents for Midland Uplands. The
receipts of cotton at all the ports reported during the week
ending July 24 amounted to 7,000 bales, and the exports
to 6.000 bales.
State stocks have been neglected amid the activity of
the more speculative securities ; but without any change
in prices. Tennessee 6s, 1890, close at 921 ; North Caro-
lina 6s, 84; Virginia Os, 66; Missouri Os, 80.
The transactions in foreign bills have been very light,
owing to a disposition among importers to defer remit-
tances until the gold premium declines. Bankers' 60 days
Sterling closes at 1081 ; sight do., at 110 ; Francs, long,
5.15 to 5.121; do., short, 5.111 to 5.10.

COTTON QUOTATIONS.
Uplands. Mobile. N.O. ez Ts.
Good Ordinary 3ll 33 34
Low Middling
Middling 36 38 39
Good Middling

MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE AT NEW YORK.
IMPORTS.—From California, July 21, $2,051,416; re-
ceived previously, 19,719,983. Since January 1, 1866,
$21,771,399.
ExPouTs.—For week ending July 21, $436,013 ; pre-
viously, $49,512,778. Since January 1, 49,978,790.

(From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular,

August 8.)

Our advises from New York by the "Persia " are to
the 24th ult.; the Stock Market has not shown so much
activity, but Government securities were well supported.
United States 5-20 Bonds maintained their price well,
notwithstanding the additional issue in lieu of tho 7-30
Currency Notes being called in by the Government.
In reference to this operation, the New York World, of
tho 18th July, has the following :
"The Assistant Treasurer is ready to accept seven-
thirties from any holders, in exchange for five-twenty
bonds of 1865, upon equal terms as respects principal, the
interest being adjusted according to the amount due on
each security. During the current week about $10,000,000
of certificates of indebtedness have been redeemed ; last
week about $5,000,000 ; and previously about $15,000,000
—making a total of $30,000 redeemed since June 26th. Up
till to-day about 250,000 of seven-thirty coupons, due July
15th, had been cancelled."

Railroad Stocks were inactive, but quotations generally
were steady on the week; Illinois Central showed a de-
cline of $6, and Erie $2 ; but New York Central had im-
proved $2.
State Stocks were neglected, and a large amount of
Railroad Mortgages were offering, but without affecting
prices. Money was very abundant, and could be had on
security of good stocks at five per cent., and on commer-
cial bills at from five to seven per cent.