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

Miscellaneous American News.

Governor Brownlow, 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 thal
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 Admiralty 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 vessels so ls
sold and pur-
chased are not thereby entitled to registry.
The French troops in the northern andwesternto
Mexican States have been driven ignominiously
to the coast, and are hemmed in in a few port towns.
Mazatlan is besieged, its streets barricaded ; the
Liberals under Corona prgssing 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 Airs. Johnston, in Madison county,
has been sold to J. B. Richardson, of Boston, Mass.,
'9OllO intends to make it his family residence. The
176' paid was fifty thousand dollars in greenbacks.
Before the War this plantation was considered worth
three hundred thousand dollars.
Extottwrinv
-- FROII TIIE SOUTH.—It is said that
as many as
Southern States
hal,nousand y
oung men from the
York city to seek their
settled themselves in New
to Baltimore, and weei fortunes. Many have gone
a northern city of any that there is scarcely
number such ulaguitude that does not
representatives
its population. The univ of the South among
the
and para-
lysis of business that succeeded
all
conspired
employ-
city of money, the impossibility oef war—the scar-
ment, and the gloomy future,
plentifult and
many of our active and energeticsted,,,t° induce
remove to places where money was-men to
employment attainable. There also arose
and still threaten,
for-
midable schemes that threatened,
to drain the South of her population—not :lilt:11;f
active and enterprising young men, but of ~,,j;;14
families—almost of communities. We refer to thee
Brazilian and Mexican Emigration schemes.
Richmond TlThig.
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.
THE Pnorostp TAX ON ALIENS. The bill re-
ported to the United States Senate by the Finance
Committee, provides among other things, for the
taxation of income from all United States property
held by foreigners. With reference to its necessity,
CommirgioAer Rollins, in a note to senator