The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Americ In NCW.3.

The amount of internal revenue of the United
States for the first quarter of the current fiscal year,
which quarter closed on the 30th September—prac-
tically on the 29th, as the 30th fell on the Sabbath
--was 4398,837,662.85. This is somewhat less than
was expected, because on some days the returns
were very great, but it is a fair amount.

Calculations are made that a year hence the great
Pacific Railroad west from Omaha will be com-
pleted within 150 miles of Idalia, Colorado ter-
ritory.

Canadians are agitated by the sudden 'removal
of the scat of Government from Ottawa to Quebec,
notwithstanding the choice of the former location
by authority of the Queen.
The New York Tribunesays :—" One of the most
painful tasks that could be given to Mr. Beecher
would be the careful reading of his own sermons.
How shocked he would be to find in the volume for
1864 such passages as these :—" Any party that
permits peace to come until they have set God's
signet of indignation on this infamous war and in-
famous treason will themselves be guilty of that
war and that treason. And when peace is made
we mean that all nations shall understand how
hateful, unjust rebellion is, and how despicable on
earth among men, and in hell among the damned,
are those who turmoil a nation with blood and re-
volution. Now you can do what once you could
not have done. Once you would have sacrificed
the constitution if you had meddled with the loyal
institutions of the States, but when by their own

act the States have put themselves beyond the
pale of the constitution and its privileges, and
broken it, and we are obliged to go in with the
hand of authority and penalty, then we can do and
must do, and it is a crime not to do what 10 years ago
it would have been a crime to have done." In com-
paring his recent letters with these bold words who
will not feel sad at heart to think how easily the
preacher had forgotten his own preaching?
The commission to codify the laws, Messrs. Cush-
ing, James, and Johnson, has taken an office on H
street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth-streets,
New York, for the transaction of their official busi-
ness. The Commissioners are closely engaged read-
ing up the statutes in order to determine where to
begin upon the codification of the laws.
Information has been received that General Alfred
Dockery, who had been selected without a dissent-
ing voice to represent the Union sentiment in the
meeting at Raleigh, has declined the nomination of
Governor of North Carolina. He advises the with-
drawal of all candidates for Congress who cannot
take the prescribed oath.
The following special order was issued Oct. 5 :
"Navy Department, Washington, Oct. 4, 1866.—
The Department announces to the navy and marine
corps the death of Rear-Admiral Francis 11. Gregory.
He died at the city of New York at one o'clock this
morning, after an illness of a few hours, at the age
of 77. Though more than 70 years of age at the
commencement of the rebellion, Rear-Admiral Gre-
gory immediately applied for active service, and in
July, 1861, was ordered upon arduous and respon-
sible duty, which throughout the war he discharged
with signal zeal and ability, and in the closing up
of which he was engaged at the time of his death,
after more than 57 years of honourable service in
the cause of his country. As a mark of respect to
his
memory it is ordered that at. the New York
Navy Yard, on the day of his funeral, the flags be
hoisted at half-mast, and that 13 minute guns be
fired at meridian.—(Signed) GIDEON WELLES,
Seperoesttamryasotferth-Ge
eNnaevral"Randall has received from
Special Post-office Agent Laureuse a box contain-
ing specimens of mountain salt from the Pah Rage-
gat mining regions. They are fine, pure, and almost
transparent. One of the pieces shows the face of
the mountain from which all were taken. The other
pieces were taken from the surface. This salt comes
from a mountain of pure salt, several leagues in ex-
tent and several thousand feet in height. The
whole mountain is pure, and is so situated in the
extreme Southern part of Nevada, between the
115th and 116th degrees of west longitude. Mr.
Laureuse says these pieces are not sent as fair
specimens, but in his next trip to that region he
will undertake to procure a block of a foot square
of such transparency that a newspaper can be read
through it.
Commissioner Wilson, of the General Land-office,
has just received a communication from the Sur-
veyor-General of Colorado, in which he says he had
just returned from the newly-discovered copper and
lead mines, but had found the veins not sufficiently
developed to enable him to judge accurately of their
value. The copper occurs in the shape of boulders
imbedded iu flur spar. These boulders are pure
carbonate of copper, of a fine quality. In some veins
the copper is bedded in a soft decomposed mass;
differing from the walls of the vein, and easily
worked with the pick. The crops on the plains had
been safely harvested, and were fully equal to an
'estimate contained in a previous report of the Sur-
veyor-General as to the immense productiveness of
the country. At least four million acres can be cul-
ttiiihveeas
etwed, t and
ria: tiosnof thusthe f ar the productiveness fully meets
people.
15 French tonfena-
In Wilkes's Spirit of the Times there is an animated
took part. The
sixteen ; the
belonging to the Fiandract
iblalorrnigs,inigunt„oofPtrhinecue
men-of-war'
race at Cherbourg, in which
American
boats and one American
was the smallest of the
lot, and pulled but
favourites
twelve oars ti,ao the Frenchmen's
United States
starting being a barge
(ironclad), and a cutter
y Lieut. J.acht.
navy, who steered
the winner, and writes the account of the race, does
not convey a very elevated impression of the French
code of honour as applied to boat-racing, Fist

and foremost, the Flandre's barge tried hard to foul
him, and then a couple of the beaten boats cut off
a corner and endeavoured to mislead him out of the
course, but in both these disloyal attempts they
failed, and the American boat came in an easy win-
ner—a short ship's length ahead of the leading
French boat, which belonged to the Magenta. The
boats of the Flandre and of Prince Napoleon's
yacht were " nowhere."
Bell's Life publishes an account of the murder of
a jockey named M'Keever, during a match at Chi-
cago between two celebrated trotting-horses named
Cooley and General Butler. Cooley, a Western
horse, was the favourite, and won the two first heats
easily. Then M'Keever, the owner of General
Butler, suspecting foul play, determined on dis-
placing the jockey by whom his horse had been
driven, and on driving the animal himself. The
result was that the General won the two next heats.
By the time the horses were ready to start for the
deciding heat it was almost dark ; the crowd of
roughs assembled was immense, and their excite-
ment indescribable ; for Cooley had been the fa-
vourite at the beginning and had been backed
heavily. The trotters started for the fifth heat.
Riley, the driver of Cooley, took the outside track
and was seen to bear hardly on General Butler, so
as to force his antagonist close to the inside railings
of. the course. M'Keever's voice was heard shout-
ing to Riley to give him room, then came a crush
and a cry, and General Butler emerged out of the
darkness, and went steaming past the Grand Stand
without a driver, followed by Cooley, steadily driven
by Riley, who claimed the stakes. But it was soon
discovered that a trap had been successfully laid for
the driver of General Butler, by so arranging a
beam taken from a neighbouring fence that it should
strike him across the face as he raced close along
the inside of the course. The judge therefore de-
clared the race to be void, and Riley and two ac-
complices named Hickey were arrested on a charge
of murder.

We take the following tabular statement of the
number of schools, teachers, and scholars in the
several Southern States, from the July " Report on
Schools and Finances of Freedmen," by the Rev.
J. W. Alvord, inspector, &c.

No. of No. of No. of
STATES. Schools. Teachers. Scholars.
Virginia ... ... 123 200 11,784
North Carolina ... 119 135 9,084
South Carolina ... 75 148 9,017
Georgia... ... .., 79 113 7,792
Florida... ... 38 51 2,663
~.
Alabama ...
... 8 3L 3,388
Mississippi ... ... 50 80 • 5,407
Louisiana ... ... 73 90 3,389
Texas ... ... ... 90 43 4,590
Arkansas ... ... 30 28 1.584
Kansas._ ... ... Li 24 1,500
Missouri ... .., 38 46 2,698

,
Kentucky. ... ... 35 38 4122
Tennessee ... ... 42 125 9,114
Maryland ... ... 86 101 8,141
District of Columbia... 74 132 6,552

975 1,405 90,768
* Studies reported in only five schools.

The Irish People, of the 22d of September, the
Fenian organ at New York, announces that a Mr.
David A. Sutton, a member of the committee ap-
pointed to inquire into and report upon the affairs
of Fcnianism, has bolted, carrying with him to
England the papers of the society, which he pro-
poses to sell to the British Government. The Irish
People assures us that the papers thus abstracted
by Sutton contain information calculated to convict
many of our friends and associates at present in
Ireland, against whom there is merely a suspicion
of complicity in the Fenian movement. They also
contain such information as may lead to the arrest
and conviction of many of our friends in Ireland
and Great Britain who have not been even suspected
up to this. The "Registry and Address Book" of
the Fenian circles of America is also among the
documents missing from headquarters, and is said
to have been taken off by the absconder Sutton.
The latter may be of great use to our enemy, in
enabling him to estimate our numbers and resources.
The whole pile is, no doubt, well worth a handsome
sum of blood-money.
The New York, herald has brought out a sensa-
tion paragraph, associating Santa Anna and Colonel
Roberts, the Fenian chief, in a movement on Mexico.
The herald says the most remark-11)1e circumstance
connected with the new movement is the fact that
the cunning old patriot has enlisted the powerful
aid of the Fenian Brotherhood. He had protracted
interviews with Roberts, Sweeny, and other Fcnians,
and had laid matters in such a favourable light be-
fore them that these gentlemen have shut their eyes
to the advantages of Canada, and are now teach-
ing the Irish that Mexico is the country designed
by Providence as that best fitted for the develop-
ment and nurture of the Milesian race. The Fe-
-1 nians are certainly directing their attention South
to the relief of Canada. Ridiculous as it appears
to us in this country that the road to Ireland lay
through Canada, the new route " via Mexico" ap-
pears still more absurd. The fact is, the necessity
for conciliating these filibusters will cease with the
elections when the American people will be in no
humour to tolerate these wicked designs against a
kindred people whom the tendency of events is to
draw into their own Union, and add to the stars on
their national flag.

The National Bank of Virginia has been de-
signated by the Secretary of the Treasury as a
depository for the Treasury, War, and Interior
Departments.

Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper is filled with
spirited sketches of the Races at Jerome Park, New
York. Pictures are given of Mr. Jerome, founder
and proprietor of the park, and of " Kentucky,"
winner of the grand inauguration stakes. It is
pleasant to see a sport that has so strong a hold on
the English people taken up with such real earnest-
ness and enthusiasm by their American cousins.
We little doubt that many who lose their money by
Wall-street speculations will find a more pleasant
and less hazardous excitement in betting on the
event, and making up books, than in the degrading
employment of " bulling" and " bearing" the Stock
and Shares quoted on the Exchange.
Thomas Gorsuch, Esq., Assessor of Internal
Revenue, Fourth District of Maryland, tendered
his resignation, to take effect from the Ist of Oc-
tober, or from the time that his successor may be
appointed. The Frederick Examiner says—" His
reasonslor resigning so lucrative a position is that
he cannot subscribe to the President's policy of
making treason respectable by handing the control
of the Government over to those who exerted their
utmost for four years to destroy it. All honour
to Mr. Gorsuch."

The Hon. Louis V. Bogy, of St. Louis, was ap-
pointed on the sth October Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, in place of Hon. S. N. Cooley, to take
effect on the Ist of next month. This appointment
is made in deference to the request of citizens of
St. Louis, who claim that the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs should be selected from among gen-
tlemen whose experience has enabled them to co.n-
prehend the interests of the Indian tribes ; and,
besides, it is urged that most of the business with
the Indian Territories is transacted or in some way
passes through St. Louis. It is stated, also, among
other things, that contracts for transportation, &c.,
have been made by the Indian Bureau with the
citizens of New York, to the exclusion of Western
men who perform the work ; that the contractors
afterwards sub-let their contracts at greatly re-
duced prices to Missouri men, thus pocketing a
large amount of money without risk or the labour of
performing the stipulation of the contract.
E. W. Ililgard, the State geologist of Mississippi,
calls the attention of cotton planters to the necessity
of preserving the fertility of the cotton lands, and
the danger threatening their pursuit from the illu-
sory advantages held out to them by the manufac-
turers of cotton seed oil as an inducement for the
sale of their capital stock of fertility in the shape
of cotton seed. Were this mode of disposing of the
cotton seed to become general, and the exportation
of the oil cake to be continued as heretofore, the
cotton culture must languish, and finally disap-
pear from the South, as that of hemp and tobacco is
gradually retiring from what once were the best
lands of Kentucky and Virginia, and as grain cul-
ture has almost vanished from IN ew England, only
much faster.

There are reports of great strikes of oil in West.
Virginia, in the valley of Kanawha. Some wells
are said to be yielding fifteen hundred to two thou-
sand barrels a day. White Oak, Burning Springs,
and Standing Stone are the localities most in repute.