The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-24 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE VIRGINIA.
((Via Roche's Point.)

NEW YORK, FEB. 11, Morning.

Eight members of the Virginia Legislature waited
yesterday upon President Johnson, and presented a
resolution from the Virginian Assembly, proclaim-
ing the loyalty of the State, and endorsing the
course pursued by Mr. Johnson.
The delegates addressed the President, saying
that Virginia will abide by the results of the war,
including the abolition of slavery and the recognition
of the necessity for the perpetuation of the Union.
Towards freedmen the people of Virginia felt only
kindness and sympathy. The President stood
between the South and danger by defending the
constitution from violation or innovation.

The President responded that mutual confidence
and forbearance must be exercised, and that the
people of the South are entitled to representation
whenever they send loyal representatives ; only
loyal men should exercise political power. He be-
lieved that the right of the South to representation
would soon be acknowledged. There were some
foreign difficulties which would be settled when the
Union was again complete and resumed its course
of prosperity. Then no power on earth would wish
to have a rupture with the United States.

In the House of Representatives, Mr. Williams,
the Radical member for Pennsylvania, alluded in
severe terms to President Johnson, and declared
that Congress should consider the question of re-
construction without reference to the President's
theory on the subject.

A man has been cultivating tea as an experiment
in Savannah. The yield to the acre is from three
to four hundred pounds, and the plants produce
good crops for eighteen or twenty years. The
growth of tea is not affected by dry or wet weather,
or by storms, and insects will not molest the plants.
The steamer Miami, which exploded on the
Arkansas River, had about 250 passengers on board,
among whom were 91 men of Company Thirteen
of the Thirteenth United States Cavalry. The ac-
cident occurred at seven o'clock in the evening, just
after supper, and while the passengers were assem-
bled in conversation around the stoves in the hall.
The explosion was of such force as to rend the cabin
floor asunder, and let every person down who was
in the fore part of the cabin. Great numbers lost
their lives by jumping overboard. The total loss
of life is supposed to be nearly one hundred and
fifty. Thirty of the soldiers were lost.
The steamer Missouri, which exploded in the
Ohio River, had one hundred and twenty persons
on board, twenty-five of whom were passengers.
The latest information from Evansville places the
loss of life at about one hundred. The Missouri
was one of the largest passenger steamers on the
river, and was valued at $lOO,OOO.
The New Albany Ledger says the steamer Dicta-
tor arrived from the wreck of the Missouri this
morning, bringing the survivors, numbering 30.
The total number lost was sixty, among them the
captain's wife. The captain and pilot were badly
injured.
The Judiciary Committee of the United States
Senate, in their report sustaining the legality of
Hon. John P. Stockton's election as Senator from
New Jersey, find no question to examine except
that furnished by the fact, that a plurality, instead
of a majority over all, voted for him at the joint
meeting. They find further, such fact to be no im- I
pediment, if accomplished by authority of law as in
the case of many, perhaps a majority, of the mem-
bers of the national House of Representatives. In
this case the constitution of New Jersey makes a
joint meeting, a Legislature in itself, and while the
laws of that State are silent upon the subject of a
plurality election, they do not authorise the election