The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-09 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News.

Governor Brownlovr, of Tennessee, in his pro
clamation for a new election to supply the vacan

cies recently made by the resignations of factious
members of the Legislature, says that " a small

minority of twenty-one members of the House of
Representatives, by factious and revolutionary
proceedings, have succeeded in breaking up the
Legislature and paralysed the State Govern-
ment." He characterises the formal announce-
ment made by these members as a " document
that will not fail to remind its readers of the
Legislature of 1861, who transferred the State to
the Confederacy." The pretext for their ac-
tion was in opposition to the discharge of the
duty imposed on the Legislature by the clause of
the Constitution providing for the exclusion of
rebel voters by the Legislature. He urges strongly
the ill effects of the revolutionary action of the
minority. Emigration will shun a State in such

confusion and discredit. The securities of the State

will depreciate, and the prospects of the admission

of Tennessee will be imperilled.
The San Francisco Bulletin contends that that
city can compete on advantageous terms with St.
Louis for the vast trade of Idaho, Montana, Utah,
and Arizona. It speaks of a project to form a com-
pany for the shipment of goods to Collville, on
the Colorado River, some four hundred miles from
Salt Lake, where it is proposed to establish an
agency. It adds that during the previous week
there had been an arrival at Montana by way of
Los Angeles. Several other trains were expected
by the same route, and it is said that the amount
of goods to be despatched in that direction this
spring will not fall short of three hundred thou-
sand dollars. The teams are left at Los Angeles,
and the goods despatched to that point by steamer.
The time occupied in making the trip from Mon-
tana was less than 60 days forage was reported
plenty, and no hostile Indians were encountered.
Secretary M'Culloch has been asked the question
whether British vessels sold under a decree in Ad-
miralty, for seamen's wages and like causes, over
which Ndmiralty courts have jurisdiction, if pur-
chased by a citizen of the
United States, are entitled
to an American register.
The Secretary has replied
to the effect that foreign vesselssold and pur-
chased are not thereby entitled to so
toregist registry.
The French troops in the northernna d western
Mexican States have been driven ignominiously
to ionslyto
to the coast, and are hemmed in in a few
Mazatlan is besieged, its streets barricaded ; towns.
the
Liberals under Corona pressing close upon it in the
rear. Fighting has occurred, in which the Liberals,
aided by Americans recently enlisted, have been
victorious.
The Jackson (Miss.) News says :—" The beauti-
ful plantation of Mrs. Johnston, in Madison county,
has been sold to J. B. Richardson, of Boston, Mass.,
who intends to make it his family residence. The
price paid was fifty thousand dollars in greenbacks.
Before the
E MIGRATION
war this plantation was considered worth
three hundred thousand dollars.
FROM THE SOUTH.—It is said that
as many as fifty
thousand young men from the
Southern States have
settled themselves in New
York city to seek their fortunes. Many have gone
to Baltimore, and we presume that there is scarcely
a northern city of any
number such representatives:j stagnation de that does not
i
the South among
its population. The univ
para-
lysis of business that succeeded the and
city of money, the impossibility of gwartt
mg : the scar-
y-
ment, and the, gloomy future, all conspired to induce
emplo
many of our active and energetic :Gun
remove to places where money was g men to
plentiful and
employment attainable. There also arose two for-
midable schemes that threatened, and still threat
to drain the South of her population—not only oi
active and enterprising young men, but of whole
families—almost of communities. We refer to the
Brazilian and Mexican Emigration schemes.—
Richmond Whig.
The Cincinnati Times describes the stupendous
bridge, now nearly completed, between that city
and the Kentucky shore of the Ohio. It is two
thousand feet long, and has a span of nearly eleven
hundred feet, which is said to be the longest in the
world.
TIIE PROPOSED TAX ON ALIENS. The bill re-
ported to the United States Senate by the Finance
Committee, provides among other things, for the
taxationof income from all United States property
held
by foreigners.
With reference to its necessity,
C •
ommApsionex Rollins, in a note to Senator