The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, ISGO.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

LISBON, MARCH 1.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Rhone has arrived here from Brazil, and will leave
for Southampton at 8 a.m. to-day with 52 passen-
gers, 2,039 bales of cotton, 130 packages of sun-
dries, and £50,000 in specie.
The Douro, with the out-mail of the 9th February,
was at St. Vincent on the 20th February.

AMERICA.
(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (Noon).

There is a great dearth of news, particularly from the
South. No political events of importance are reported
from that section. The people seemed to be anxiously
awaiting the action of Congress. - Southern journals show
that the proceedings of the Committee of Reconstruction
are watched with great interest.
The proceedings of Congress have not been specially
important for a few days past. In the House of Representa-
tives a petition was presented from some three hundred
communicants of an African Methodist Church at Atlanta,
Georgia, asking an appropriation to rebuild their church,
which was entirely demolished by Federal troops during
Sherman's campaign through Georgia.
In the Senate a petition for the immediate recognition
of Tennessee as a State was presented, and referred to the
Reconstruction Committee.

Mr. Sumner (of Mass.) presented a petition from tho
women of New England asking that there shall be no dis-
tinction on account of sex in the bestowal of the elective
franchise.

A bill was passed to punish kidnapping or enticing away,
with the view of selling them, negro or mulatto persons.
Any one convicted with the offence to be fined from $5OO
to $5,000, and imprisoned from ono to five years, at the
option of the Court. The bill also provides for the punish-
ment of the master of any vessel ti ansporting a kidnapped
person, and for the forfeiture of the vessel.
A bill was introduced, and laid over, to grant privilege to
the International Ocean Telegraph Company to establish a
line from this country to the West Indies, to be completed
within five years. The right of way to last for 25 years,
and the line to be under Government control in case of
foreign war.

A message was received from the President transmitting
correspondence between Secretary Seward and the Marquis
do Monthelon, French Minister at Washington, in rela-
tion to the adoption of measures to prevent the spread of
the cholera. It appears thereby that under suggestions
of M. Drouyn de L'Huys a conference of medical men of
all nations is to take place at Constantinople under the
auspices of the Sublime Porto for the purpose of adopting
some universal system of precautionary measures with
regard to the cholera. Two medical officers of the United
States army are to represent this country in the conference.

Exeoution of a Welshman in America.

Dr. John W. Hughes, who is described as a native of
Wales, was recently hung at Cleveland, Ohio, for having
murdered Tamsen Carsons, a woman with whom he had
been living for some mouths previous. The doctor's
grandfather, says a New York letter, was a native of the
parish of Ballaugh, in the Isle of Man, and his great-
grandfather accompanied Bishop Wilson to that place
early in the eighteenth century. At 21 the doctor came
into possession of property valued at £15,000 to £16,000,
and soon after he enlisted in tho British service, doing
duty in Ireland and in the Crimea. In a fit of despera-
tion, caused through the breaking off a marriage en -
gagement, he married a woman who had formerly been
connected with the family, but the association did not
break up his " fast" habits, and eventually he went to
America, after having squandered most of his property.
After remaining some months in Cleveland, Ohio, he re-
turned to his home in the Isle of Man to bring out his wife
and child, and did so after selling his property. After his
return he practised medicine with varying success in diffe-
rent places in Ohio, then •oluntered in the Union army,
and soon became an assistant-surgeon in the hospital at
Vicksburg. Suddenly returning to his home, he detected
his wife in a situation that nearly crazed him. Then ho
eloped with the woman Tamsen Parsons. The couple were
married. Dr. Hughes was arrested and tried on a charge of
bigamy. After conviction ho was sentenced and pardoned.
Subsequently his wife and child went to the Isle of Man to
visit their relatives, against his own wishes and that of
their friends, and during their absence the connection with
Tamsen Parsons was renewed; and, because she threatened
to leave him, ho murdered her in open day in the streets of
Bedford, Ohio. On the scaffold he made an extraordinary
statement. He said, " This death penalty is ridiculous, and
if you will consider over it you will find it is wrong: Ono
life is as good as another. What advantage is it to take
my life ? None. It is not an example to deter others from
tho crime. Did I remember pointing that pistol ? No ; I
don't romombor it to this hour. Yet it is the 'err, and wo
must abide by it—the law of man, but not of God. lam
convinced of it. For six months now I have had every
sect of religion to visit me, and they come in to tell me
which is the way to Heaven. Do I believe them ? No
What is man's way to Heaven ? Tho same as his way on
earth. Do unto others as wo wish to be done to. I have
thought it all over, fully and conscientiously, and have
come to the conclusion that my life in another world will
be the same as in this, with the difference that there all will
be pure. I have considered this over for six months, and in-
tended to give my own life up to my exit out of this world. I
intended to take my own life, but did not succeed. I took
enough to take me out of the world, but it is the Great Spirit's
will that I should not; and I have not done it. I don't be-
lieve to-day—God foigive me if I say anything wrong—that
Jesus Christ was the Son of God. My anatomical knowledge
and everything says that the Immaculate Conception was
not right. It is against nature and philosophy; it is
against human nature. I believe that no purer spirit, no
better man, over lived on earth than Jesus Christ, and that
in the spirit world ho is next to the Great Creator himself
—as far as wo know. At the same time, I will tell my
experience tells what I know in my own soul. I know
from my own experience that there is communication with
those who have departed from this life. I am to-day
about to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, but at the
same time am sure I shall be with you after the execution
as I am now."

H'; USE OF LORDS---This Day.

(Before the Lord Chancellor and Lords Chelmsford
and Kingsdown.)
DE WINDT (BY HIS NEXT OF KIN) V. DE WINDT.
The case came before their lordships on an ap-
peal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor
Wood, and had reference to the construction of the
will of the father of the appellant. The facts of the
case have been so frequently published as to render
even an outline of them unnecessary.
Their lordships dismissed the appeal.