The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

D üBLEN, Saturday.

There is an end to the disgraceful conflicts in St.
Bride's Church. The incumbent, after stating in a
published letter a few days ago that he would never
submit to " foreign coercion" by changing the forms
of worship he had adopted, has thought better of
it, and yielded every point in dispute. In a letter
which appears to-day in the morning papers the
churchwardens state that they have received an
intimation from the medical attendant of the Rev.
Mr. Carroll, informing them of his serious indispo-
sition (at which they say they are " not at all sur-
prised"), rendering him quite unable to officiate ;
and, at his request, they inform the parishioners
that the church will be closed to-morrow. !They add,
" with extreme pleasure," that Mr. Carroll has
" most cordially and affectionately acceded to their
wishes in every respect, thereby restoring perfect
peace and harmony hi their ancient parish." _
The estates of The O'Donoghue in the counties of
Cork and Kerry were put up for sale yesterday in
the Landed Estates Court. He was himself the
petitioner, and his object was to discharge his debts,
which are said to amount to about £12,000. Five
lots were sold, producing £7,315. The sale of the
sixth lot was postponed on the application of Mr.
V. B. Dillon, in order that it might be purchased
for the owner. Saunders's Newsletter, a Conserva-

tive journal, makes the following remarks uponthis

sale :
" We regret to see the small remnant of the large posses-
sions once o wned by The O'Donoghues of the Glens passing
out of the hands of their descendant. Whatever may be
thought of the politics of the O'Donoghue, it cannot be
denied that he is a gentleman and a man of ability, and
latterly he has shown a disposition to abandon those ex-
treme opinions with which he entered on public life, which
justifies the hope that he may have a useful Parliamentary
careerbefore him. The generous effort of The O'Donoghue's
tenantry to raise a fund sufficient to purchase his estates for
him appears to have proved a failure."
A great novelty has just been introduced by one
of our leading Dublin hospitals. The managers of
St. Vincent Hospital, Stephen's-green, have pur-
chased the splendid residence known as Lyndon
Castle, Blackrock, for the purpose of converting it
into a sanatorium to which they will send the conva-
lescent patients to enjoy the benefit of country air,
seabathing, &c., previous to returning to their
homes. This is the first sanatorium ever established
in Ireland. The example is well worthy of imita-
tion, for there are other hospitals in Dublin which,
from there less favourable situation as to pure air,
require such an appendage much more than St.
Vincent de Paul's.
An important will case was commenced in the
Probate Court to-day. It is a suit to establish the
will of the late Miss Margaret Ellen Murphy,
daughter of the celebrated Smithfield salesmaster,
Billy" Murphy, who died in 1849, and left £102,700
in legacies. The will of Miss Murphy is disputed on
the alleged ground of undue influence used by the
plaintiffs and the Rev. Eustace Murphy, a Domini-
can, who was her spiritual rector, and had been the
intimate friend of her father. Mr. Brewster, Q.C.,
stated the case at considerable length. It will be re-
sumed on Monday, and will probably last all the
week..

Sunday Evening,

A man named Dowling and a soldier named Mar
were fired at in. a publichouse in Bonham-street last
night and severely wounded. Four men were
arrested. It is supposed to be connected with

'Fenian ism.
A disturbance tookplace in Grangegorman Church
at noon service to-day. Seven persons were ar-

rested.

Miscellaneous American News.

TEXAS.—The State of Texas is omitted from the
benefits of President Johnson's proclamation, for
the reason, we suppose, that its new State Govern-
ment is not yet organised. Its constitutional con-
vention has but just completed its work ; the
election of State officers, the assembling of the
Legislature, and the passage of the laws necessary
to restore the State to harmonious relations with
the Federal Government., are yet to take place. As
soon as this work is completed, and the President
has due official notice thereof, a separate procla-
mation will be issued declaring the rebellion ended
in that State.—New York World.
NEGRO KILLED BY GEN. FORREST IN SELF-DE-
FENCE.—A letter from Sunflower county, Miss.,
says :—A negro employed on General Forrest's
plantation, while assaulting his (negro's) sick wife
yesterday, was remonstrated with by Forrest, when
the negro drew a knife and attempted to kill For-
rest, who, after receiving a wound in the hand,
seized an ax and killed the negro. Forrest gave
himself up to the sheriff. The negroes on the plan-
tation justify the killing.
Imperialist accounts give highly-coloured details
of the efforts making to open the roads from Mata-
moros into the interior of Mexico—a campaign
forced on Maximilian by the clamours of the Mata- '
moras merchants. The several columns, which
moved simultaneously, as previously announced,
had reached their destinations. General Jeaninegros
had reached Monterey, and General Donny held
Saltillo, while Dupin was in possession of Victoria.
Only General Jeaninegros had encountered any
forces of the Liberals. These he had driven from
his route, and reached Monterey without loss. But
practically these marches had done no good, the
Liberals returning to them in force as soon as the
Imperial columns had passed, and so obstructing
the roads as to render transit into the interior im-
possible; they had made their reappearance near
Matamoras. The Matamoras merchants had given
up all hope of re-opening trade with the interior.
THE UNITED STATES LIPORTATIONS.—The report
of the revenue commissioner on the subject of im-
portations is published. It gives statistics showing
that five times as many packages of goods were
imported into New York in the first six weeks of
1866 as in the same period of 1865. The imports
of January and February were over thirty-two and
a half millions. To prevent a panic the commis-
sioner recommends the passage by Congress of a
resolution increasing the duties on imports fifty
per cent. for ninety days, with the single exception
of printing paper, unsized, used for books and news-
- papers exclusively.
THE lARIS EXHIBITION.—The United States
Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs have in-
structed their chairman to report the house bill
providing for an appropriation of money to defray
the expenses of proper representation of this Go-
vernment at the Paris Exposition. The committee
have made several important changes in the bill.
They have increased the appropriation from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty-five thousand
dollars. They have added to the ten commissioners
twenty more, who are to be appointed by the
President, and who are to be allowed no com-
pensation.
MERCANTILE MOVE IN LOUISVILLE.—The mer-
chants of LiTIL •
of thelvii• le are looking to the improve-
mentcotton market. They propose to sell
cotton " after the
the privilege giving the seller manner of tobacco, by auction,
.0 of accepting .
ing the bid at his or reject-
means, to secure a
Louislarg
° They think, by this
e sahnadr eo f the trade that fol-
lows cotton to SF,.
Cincinnati,staple
a s
any by
that as good a market for the other in
the country.
The North Carolina papers are full of statements
going to show that plantations in that
being rapidly bought up by Northerners.
sectionjrseY-
are
an recently purchased 1,200 acres in W adeseb wor
N. C., at $ll per acre. A New York companyao:,e
on the point of taking 10,000 acres in the same I
which they will settle English
State, on
LATEST FEO)f COLORADO.—The Central City
Register m kes the following allusion to mining
1
rtir e second piece of bullion taken off
operations : JL
at the smelting works of James E. Lyon, weighs
1,860 ounces, twenty- seven per cent. gold, worth
$12,000 ; and that the average production of the
Mammoth Mill—per week—for the last four weeks
has been 300 ounces, something over $5,000. We
might add that the Ophir Company is-getting out
since the Ist of January about 500 ounces a month,
the Narragansett Company is averaging about 600
ounces a month ; that the Gunnell Company is
averaging about 600 ounces a month; that the
Black hawk Company will do as well and better

than that, it now having sixty stamps ; that the
Philadelphia and Colorado Company will floon add
another to this list ; that the Boston Company's
Mill is again started ; that the Smith and Parmelee
Company is mining with great energy, and only
stopped its mill for something mDre perfect in the
way of treating ores ; that the Briggs Company is
running sixty stamps, and it never did run without
payinglargely, &c. Our production will average,
during the season, perhaps 3,000 ounces a week—
at the rate of $3,000,000 a year. Added to this
will be hundreds of tons of concentrated ore from
the tailing's, at every mill, which ought to be worth
an average of $l5O a ton. This can be treated by
the Keith process or smelted. 1866 will be the
most prosperous year in the mines since 1863. That
much seems now assured.
General Houston's widow is to be paid the full
salary of her husband's term as Governor, of which
she was despoiled by his death in 1861 by the Se-
cession Convention.
The mines on the Colorado river are reported as
very rich, and the ore is accumulating faster than
the trains could remove it.
The rush to the Vermillion gold-fields of Min-
nesota is unabated. The latest news from Superior
City states that by stage, sled, and dog-trains the
gold-seekers arrive daily. Private trains come in
by twos and threes, and a party of about a dozen
arrived by the Lake Shore route, from the copper
mining district of Ontonagon, their mode of con-
veyance being dos-trains and snow-shoes.
The New Orleans Bee says that, " as to the pre-
sent disposition of freedmen to live up to their con-
tracts by reasonable good faith and persistency, in-
formation from the interior of the State and from
some other States is of a highly gratifying nature.
Not less than one-half of the former number of agri-
cultural labourers in the South has been extin-
guished in five years or has been withdrawn from
agriculture."
Another destructive fire has visited the oil re-
gions. The Hyde and Egbert farm wells at Petro-
leum Centre took fire, and thirty-five wells were
burned. The loss is estimated at twenty-five thou-
sand barrels of oil, and one hundred and twenty-
five thousand dollars in property of various kinds.
A very stringent quarantine has been established
by the Government at New Orleans as a preventive
measure against the introduction of the Asiatic
scourge. The New Orleans press is indignant at
it, and declares this precautionary policy as alto-
gether un-called for, and seriously injurious to the
people of that city.
The numbers of gypsies arriving as steerage
passengers by the European steamers at American
ports has for some time past been attracting obser-
vation. Already they are beginning to reunite
themselves in their usual nomadic organisations,
under their kings and queens, and to prowl about
the country. In Massachusetts, between East
Cambridge and Somerville, a band of about a
hundred of them have temporarily located them-
selves, stealing and dealing in horseflesh and telling
fortunes. Their queen travels about in a handsome
vehicle, which, like Napoleon the First's travelling
equipage, is provided with eating and sleeping
accommodations.
Ex-Senator Yulee, late a prisoner at Fort Pulaski,
has been parDled by order of the War Department,
with instructions to report monthly to the Adju-
tant-General.
The working men of New York, Brooklyn, and
Jersey City recently assembled, to the number of
about 75,000, in Union-square, in mass meeting,
and 'were addressed by Horace Greeley and others,
on the eight-hours' labour question. The resolutions
declare that the interests of labour and capital are
identical; that the working men should have eight
hours for sleep, eight hours for labour, and eight
hours for recreation and mental culture ; that a fair
trial of eight hours as a day's work has always been
a triumph for the measure, and that the working
men of New York hail with lively satisfaction the
co-operative movement of the iron-moulders of
Troy.
CELEBRATION OF THE CAPTURE OF RICHMOND.—
The freedmen of Richmond celebrated the first an-
niversary of their deliverance from bondage on
April 3d. A procession embracing several thousand
men marched from the western suburbs through
the principal streets with banners and music to
Capitol-square, where an address was delivered
Good order prevailed during the day.
Pierre Soule's mansion on Esplanade-street,
New Orleans, for about'two years occupied as a
Freedmen's Orphan Asylum, has been restored to
him by order of General Howard.
The receipts of the Post-office Department during
the quarter ending September 30 were $3,516,551.39.
The disbursements were $3,537,084.48. Loss,
$20,427.59.
Governor Lowe, of California, has vetoed the
bill giving State aid to the Western Pacific Rail-
road. The Assembly sustaiiaed the veto by a vote
of 60 to 6.
Travel has lately increased on the Michigan
Central Railroad to such an extent that four pas-
senger trains now daily run between Chicago and
Detroit.

Galverston papers say that real estate has greatly
advanced in that city. Tenements and lots are
selling for more than three times what they cost ten
years ago. Meanwhile trade is good, and the grain
market is rapidly filling up by importations
of corn by thousands of bushels from New
Orleans. _ _ .

Seventy-five members of the Society of Friends
from Randolph ccunty, North Carolina, have
arrived at Washington, en route to Indiana, and
assert that they were forced to leave their homes
from the persecution of ex-soldiers of the Rebel
army. They state that at least 150 more of their
persuasion, bound for the West, will arrive in a few
days.
In the case of Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland,
late in the rebel army, and who participated with
Police Marshal Kane, at the commencement of the
war, in the effort to repel the Northern troops, and
who was recently held to bail in the United States
District Court in this city to answer an indictment
for treason, President Johnson has interposed,
ordering his bail to be discharged, and the abandon-
' ment of the case. Johnson (the rebel) claims ex-
emption under the terms of his parole.
A Fort Kearney paper declares, on the highest
authority, that Brigham Young proposes to pur-
chase two of the Sandwich Islands and emigrate
thither with his flock.
The Chicago Evening Journal, a Republican
paper, which supported the President's first veto,
condemns the second, and expresses a wish that
Congress will re-enact the Civil Rights Bill.
A Tennesseean, formerly a wealthy slave and
landowner, now a resident of Arkansas, has noti-
fied General Fiske of his intention to build school-
houses on his large plantations for the coloured
people, and requests to be supplied with teachers
by the Freedmen's Bureau.
A proposition has been made by agents of Maxi-
milian to prominent politicians to give them a con-
tractni thatiex Mexico for
nAry otuhled
to collect the reeovnedniutteo tpermre_
behalf
voefnfityteheyeGarso;ernment from doing anything in
of Juarez or the Republic during that period. The
percentage which they offer to give on the amount
collected furnishes a wide margin for a lobby fund,
•
to use upon Congress to prevent action.
stop pounding that mule," said General Sher-
man to a soldier, who was unmercifully beating the
beast. The soldier, unacquainted with the General,
told him to mind his own business. " I tell you
again to stop. lam General Sherman." "That's
played out," said the soldier. " Every man that
comes along here with an old brown coat and stove-
pipe hat claims to be General Sherman." For
once the General considered himself outflanked.
INDIVIDUALITY IN' WRITING— AUTOGRAPHS.—
To those who are interested in the subject of
autographs a collection lying before us as we write
would afford a pleasant study. At the head of the
list are the signatures of Horace Greeley and
tleVripairatm
oC By
f.
the appearance
pearihe former
a,oee
of
tt
its writer.
perfectco
Every
y-
letter is misshapen and in defiance of every known
rule of penmanship, and the general effect is that
each is trying to run away from its fellows, re-
minding one of an army demoralised. Mr. Bryant,
on. the contrary, writes a singularly neat and reom-