The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-10 00:00:00

MISCELLANE

JOAN NEWS.

During the war which began with the fall of
Sumter and ended with the collapse of the Confe-
deracy the State of Illinois furnished 258,217 men.
Only the great States of New York, Pennsylvania,
and Ohio exceeded this amount. These men were
furnished under the following calls :
April 15, 1861, for 75,000 mon 4,820
April 22, 1861, for 500,000 men 81,952
May and June, 1862, for threo months' men 4,696
July 2, 1802, for 300,000 men
October 17, 1863, for 500,000 men
March 14, 1864, for 200,000 mon 21,351
April 23, 1864, for 100 days' men 11,368
July 18, 1864, for 500,000 men 15,412
December 19, 1864, for 300,000 men

Total 238,217
Of the coloured men enlisted in the war, Illinois
raised 1,811. Of sailors, 1,171. Of the 250,000
men this State furnished for the war, 72,291 suf-
fered some casualty, or left the service before the
expiration of their term of service.
Killed 8,908
Died of disease 19,934
Deserted .. 13,040
Honourably discharged 2,443
Dishonourably discharged 493

Discharged for disability
Officers resigned 3,334
Loss on gunboat General Lyon
Executed

Total
To her credit, be it said, the citizens of Illinois paid
a smaller sum of commutation money into the Trea-
sury than any other State. Of the $26,366,616 paid
for commutation, Illinois furnished only $15,900.
lowa comes next, with $22,500. The district of
Columbia alone paid $96,900 for commutation
money, and Pennsylvania raised over eight and a
half millions of dollars for this purpose. To obtain
the two and a half millions of soldiers that en-
listed the National Government paid a little over
three hundred millions of dollars. In addition to
her share of this amount, Illinois, in her state capa-
city and through her county and other organisa-
sations, paid seventeen millions more, as follows :
First District
Second District
Third District
Fourth District 971,223
Fifth District.. 2,313,674
Sixth District
Seventh District
Eighth District
Ninth District
Tenth District
Eleventh District
Twelfth District
Thirteenth District

$17,296,205

It is proposed that a Convention of coloured
soldiers and sailors shall be held in Philadelphia on
the Bth of January, 1867. It is to be composed
of those men of colour who fought for the country
during the war, and the object is to lay the claims
of the race in a proper memorial before Congress.
The Convention of the coloured voters of New
York, now in session, has appointed a set of
delegates to attend this Convention.

One of the largest fires with which Ballston,
Saratoga county, has ever been visited, occurred in
that village on October 18, resulting in the almost
total destruction of the manufacturing establish-
ment known as Chapman's Glen Woollen Mills,
owned by Messrs. E. 11. and G. Chapman, but
leased and occupied by Mr. A. J. White for the
manufacture of broadcloth. The fire originated at
6 p.m. from the friction of a shaft in the wheel-
room and burned until midnight. The total loss
will not fall short of pox), principally covered
by insurance. About forty operatives were em-
ployed at the time of the fire, though the capacity
of the mill was much greater.
From Havanna we hear that on the 10th October,
the Queen's birthday, the Captain-General held a
court, and the next day a grand review of 10,000
men took place. A terrible hurricane commenced
in the Bahamas on the 30th Sept., and lasted two
days. Half the town of Nassau, N. P., was de-
stroyed by the storm. Houses were blown down,
roofs carried away, trees uprooted. Trinity church
was demolished. A portion of the roof of the
Government House was carried away, and the roof
of the Marine Hospital was entirely blown off.
Vessels were driven ashore and knocked to pieces,
and wharves demolished. The neighbouring islands
suffered in the same manner. A large number of
vessels have been lost or damaged. This hurricane
is the severest which has been experienced since
1813.

Tickets-holders in the Vincent and Butterfield
gift concert are unable to obtain any information
of the result of the drawing, which took place
several weeks since. A large amount of money was
invested in the enterprise. The members of the
firm have left the city, and their office is closed.
No one supposes there will be any distribution of
prizes whatever.
The accident on the Atlantic and Great Western
Railroad, near Union, Oct. 17, resulted in the death
of one passenger—M. E. C. Mathews, of Elmira.
The accident was caused by some murderously dis-
posed persons removing a rail from the track. The
company has offered a reward of $2,000 for the
apprehension of the guilty parties.
Another death has occurred from the late terrible
fire at Quebec. Bread and provisions are being regu-
larly distributed among the sufferers by the Catholic
priests and Sisters of Charity, who are working
night and day. A theatrical performance has been
given in aid of those who have lost everything they
possessed by the fire. The insurances on the burned
districts are very small in comparison to the losses,
and are stated as follow :—Quebec, $200,000 ;
Liverpool and London and Globe, $45,000 ; Lanca-
shire, $24,000 ; London and Lancashire, $15,000 ;
Phoenix, $2,000 ; North British, $lO,OOO ; Queen,
$5,000; Western of Upper Canada, $800; Western
of England, $3,000 ; British America, $40,000 ;
Royal, $6,100 ; Imperial, slo,ooo—total insurance,
$376,900. The Toronto Leader says the calamity
occurred at a time when the city was not in a con-
dition to bear even a much less loss without the
most serious consequence. Quebec, like most manu-
facturing towns, is subject to great fluctuations
in prosperity. A large number of mechanics
are dependent for a livelihood on ship-build-
ing; a branch of industry which flourishes
one year and declines another. This sum-
mer employment has been scarce in the ancient
capital ; and a very large number of work-
men have been compelled to leave and seek employ-
ment elsewhere. As there is no other place in the
province where there is any considerable shipbuild-
ing, ship carpenters, if they cannot get employment
there, are obliged to go to the States. Many have
gone during thq last few months. These facts show
how ill-prepared the working population, who
form the principal sufferers, were for this calamity.
Ottawa Lake, in Whitford, Monroe county,
Michigan, is about two miles long, half a mile wide,
and about 40 feet deep at the deepest part, when
full. It discharges in the spring a large amount
of water through its outlet, which forms the north
branch of the Ottawa creek at Sylvania. This lake
has been dry three or four times, during the last
thirty years, when a whirlpool is seen in the centre,
into which cakes of ice andother articles are drawn
in and disappear. In the winter of 1862-3 the ice
over the whirlpool was broken and cakes of it
thrown on the ice around by air escaping from be-
low, and the lake settled about 5 inches in 12 hours.
Samuel Stacy and others were on the lake at the
time the ice broke. There is abundance of fish in
the lake, and some pike have recently been caught
weighing 141bs.
The Commissioner of Patents has decided that
the Yale patent upon cast, chilled, and wrought
iron, burglar and fire-proof safes and vaults, dated
October 19, 1852, ought not to be extended
or renewed for a new term, or a term of
seven years, on the ground that the inven-
tion and improvements contained and covered
that patent were the invention and improve-
ments made by Lewis Lillie, of Troy, New York,
as the original and first inventor, and embraced in
and covered by the re-issue of his (Lillie's) patent,
dated November 1, 1865, it being a re-issue of a
patent granted on his application, July 15, 1851.
Considerable improvements are taking place in
Philadelphia, in the vicinity of liaddington, in the

Twenty-seventh Ward. Mr. Robert J. Mercer has
purchased Bull's Head Hotel, a substantial building
of 80 rooms, with the grounds, at Sixty-fifth and
Sixty-sixth and Vine streets. The property is to
be at once converted into a first-class hotel. Mr.

Powers, of the firm of Powers and Weightman, has
bought 150 acres adjoining the Burd Asylum, to
build several mansions upon it in the spring. Mr.
Thomas has also secured a lot on Blockley avenue,
at Sixty-fourth and Vine streets, to build a residence
for his family. The neighbourhood is beautiful and
rapidly improving.

During the flag presentation to the Zouave Vo-
lunteer Company of Freedmen at Charleston, Oct.
18, General Scott arrested those wearing shoulder-
straps and side-arms, in violation of the general
orders of the department, which prohibit military
organisations of any kind in South Carolina.

A series of free lectures are to be delivered in
Philadelphia during the winter. This laudable pro-
ject to provide agreeable entertainment for the com-
munity is conducted by the Young Men's Christian
Association, with the view of extending the benefits
of their organisation to thousands of young men
who have not yet joined that body. The first lec-
ture was most successful, the Musical Fund Hall
being crowded with attentive listeners. We hope so
good an example will be imitated.
In answer to a serenade given to ex-Attorney
General Speed at Louisville, October 11, he ex-
pressed his joy over the late triumph of the party of
universal truth and justice in the States, and ex-
horted his hearers to speedily organise in Kentucky
for co-operation with the great Union party every-
where.

The number of passengers who have arrived at
Quebec since the opening of navigation is 27,000,
an increase of 9,000 over the same period of last
year.

The earnings of the Atlantic and Great Western
railway during the first eight months of the present
year were, in round numbers, three millions six
hundred thousand dollars, an increase over the cor-
responding months in 1865 of about 10 per cent.
The coloured convention at Albany, N.Y., would
not admit Miss Susan B. Anthony as an honorary
member, and some amusing speeches were made
against associating with 4, white trash." They,
however, allowed the good lady to make a speech in
behalf of equal suffrage. Mr. Andrew J. Colvin,
formerly a Democratic politician, also spoke for
equal suffrage for men and women of all races, and ,
told the negroes they could not expect to get their
own rights unless they would go for the same rights
for women. The only important action of the con-
vention was the adoption of an address demanding
equal suffrage in New York.
During September the -number of immigrants
that arrived at Castle Garden, New York, from
abroad, was 15,482, brought by 44 vessel•, two of
which were American vessels, the others foreign.
Of the immigrants arriving during the month, 7,117
came from Liverpool, 3,182 from Bremen, 2,405
from Hamburg, 1,171 from London, 489 from
Glasgow, 396 from Copenhagen, 161 from Antwerp,
127 from Londonderry, and 45 from Madeira.
From January 1 to October 3, 1866, 186,642 im-
migrants arrived at New York, as compared with
140,218 during the same period of 1865.

There are now over five hundred large manufac-
turing establishments in the suburbs of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, among which are fifty glass factories,
fifty-eight oil refineries, thirty-one rolling mills,
forty-six iron foundries, thirty-three machine
shops, twelve boiler works, six large steel works,
ten brass foundries, sixteen potteries, five cotton
mills, four woollen mills, nine plough factories, ten
establishments for heavy forging ; also a number of
whits lead factories, chemical works, saw, axe, cop-
per, and other manufactories of only the great
staples of trade, turning out nearly $100,000,000
of her own manufactures—making it the largest
manufacturing city of the West.
The banking-house of E. IL Gruber and Co.,
Leavenworth, Kansas, has failed with liabilities of
about $250,000 and assets of $75,000. It owes
depositors $95,000. There is much excitement, as
the loss falls on the poorer class.
The Democratic Convention for the Eighth Dis-
trict of Massachusetts met at Worcester on the

12th October. Hon. George Hodges declined a
nomination, and on. the first ballot Alexander De
Witt was nominated. He dist) declined ~ pleading
ill health and advanced years, and moved that TT.
A. Williams, of Worcester, be nominated by accla-
mation, which was carried, and Mr. Williams ac-
cepted the nomination. _ .

Mr. George Peabody's generosity appears exhaust-
less. We are constantly hearing of fresh acts of
munificence. He has just presented to Harvard
University 150,000 dollars for a museum and pro-
fessorship of American archaeology and ethnology.
Mrs. Stanton, the female candidate in N'ew York,
belongs to a family of good position. She is the
daughter of Judge Cady, of New York, and the
wife of Henry B. Stanton, an eminent barrister of
the same State.

The following is the letter published by the New
York Times from its Washington correspondent, on
the subject of an American protectorate of Mexico,
referred to in the telegrams :—" The Mexican ques-
tion at last draws to a complete and positive solu-
tion. I shall be disappointed if, before this letter is
printed, there is not at least a semi-officialannounce-
ment that the immediate withdrawal of the French
and Maximilian from Mexico is a fixed fact. The
basis of this solution has already been foreshadowed.
It is briefly the assumption of a protectorate by this
Government over Mexico, which shall guarantee
the French claims, and in compensation there for the
Mexican Government cedes the peninsula of Lower
California and other territory to the United States.
The French influence in Mexico is thus uprooted,
Maximilian's crown of cactus will be hung up to dry
and wither in the conservatory of the House of
Hapsburg, and the United States become wet-nurse
for the enfeebled Mexican Republic. lam not yet
fully posted as to the details of this important piece
of diplomacy, but it will be well known within a
short time. It has been subject of frequent consi-
deration in the Cabinet of late, and to-day it is
receiving its finishing touches in the matter of mili-
tary details, in a lengthy consultation between the
President and General Grant. The announcement
will, of course, produce considerable surprise and
varied comment. The momentous question whether
Congress will ratify this action will be next in order
for consideration and comment."

The Vermont Legislature has unanimously re-
elected the present Board of Justices of the Supreme
Court for the year ensuing. Their names are as
follows :—Chief Justice, Hon. John Pierpont, of
Vergennes; Assistant Justices, Hon. James Barrett,
of Woodstock; Hon. L. C. Kellogg, of Rutland; Hon.
Ashael Peck, of Montpelier ; Hon. W. C. Wilson,
of Bakersfield, and Hon. B. H. Steele, of Derby.
Col. W. G. Veazy, of Rutland, was chosen reporter
of the Supreme Court decisions.
A terrible hurricane began in the Bahamas on the
30th September, and lasted two days. Nearly one
half of the town of Nassau was destroyed by the
storm. Houses were blown down, roofs carried
away, and trees uprooted. Trinity Church was
demolished, the Government House lost part of its
roof, and the roof of the Marine Hospital was blown
off. Vessels were driven ashore and knocked to
pieces, and wharves were demolished. The neigh-
bouring island suffered in the same degree, and a
large number of vessels have been lost or damaged.
The hurricane was the most severe experienced since
1813.

In conformity with the limitation for the presen-
tation of claims against the fund now under the
charge of the Commissary-General of Prisoners,
principally money that had been taken from Union
prisoners of war and recovered, fixed by direction of
the Secretary of War to be on or before October Ist,
1866, of which due public notice was given by the
Commissary-General of Prisoners, no claims pre-
sented after that date will be considered by the
Board of Officers now in session in Washington,
convened by special orders, No. 486, War Depart-
ment, Adjutant-General's office, of the date of
October 1, 1866. Such evidence, to complete the
claims presented before that date, as has been re-
quested by letters addressed to claimants of their
agents, must be forwarded to the Commissary-
General of Prisoners, at Washington, D.C., so as
to reach that office on or before November 15th,

1866, to enable the Board to make their report, and
complete their pro rata awards.
The following circular has teen addressed to
Southern Governors :

" Department of State, Washington, Oct. 18,
1866.—T0 his Excellency the Governor of the State
of Sir,—On the 4th inst. I had the honour
to address a letter to you informing you that schemes
were on foot to induce freedmen to emigrate to
foreign countries, and particularly to Peru, and
suggesting that all legal and moral means at your
command should be used to prevent what was be-
lieved to be an attempt, under specious pro-
mises of advantages, to practise imposition upon
the ignorant freedmen of our country.
_ _

" Referring to that communication I have now
the honour to transmit for your information extracts
of the despatch addressed to this department by a
Consul of the United States in Peru, under date of
the 15th ult., which prompted the suggestions upon
the subject referred to which had already been made.
—I have the honour to be your Excellency's obe-
dient servant, 'YM. H. SEWARD.

" ' EXTRACTS.

" ' I consider it my duty to advise the Government
that a person named Mullan, a native of Chili, re-
sident in Lima . . . . has departed for the United
States with the object of contracting for 2,000 familia
of negroes for this country. The intention of the
parties interested is to give the speculation the
colouring of free colonisation in that country, but
that the negroes are to be sold in the same manner
as the Chinese coolies, for the term of eight years
for the sum of $375 cash, under the pretext of re-
munerating the speculator for passage and advance
money.

The negroes to receive during the eight years
twenty-five cents in Bolivia currency, equal to
33 1-3 d per cent. less in hard money. There is no
necessity for me to enumerate or depict the horrid
cruelties, suffering, and ill-treatment inflicted upon
the Chinese labourers, and which would be the fate
of the deluded people brought here under this con-
tract, if permitted to be carried out by our Govern-
ment I will also add that the greater part
of the negroes are already contracted to planters on
the terms above mentioned. I leave the matter to
your better judgment and discretion, and remain,
&c.,,,

The Atlantic Telegraph leaves us in the dark as
to whether the excitement at Baltimore culminated
into a riot. The last report was " Tranquillity
had been restored," which might either mean that
the public mind had been tranquillised, or that rioters
had been suppressed. It could be no ordinary elc-
citement, as it seems to have affected the price of
gold between 2 and 3 per cent. in the face of the
payment of the half-yearly dividend on the Five"
twenties, which must have caused the disbursement
from the Treasury of some four or five millions
sterling.
Late news of the terrible hurricane reports that
in Nassau there were 617 dwelling houses destroyed
and 609 damaged, five places of worship destroyed
and three damaged, seventeen warehouses destroyed/
one theatre destroyed, and one thousand and thirty'
four persons rendered houseless. In the out islands,
from Abaco to Mayaguana, the destruction of Pre:
perty was severe in proportion, and a number of
were lost by shipwreck and otherwise. At,
Victoria Hill the crews of the Ely and Thames, and
two men of the Georgiana, were drowned. At Long
Cay (Fortune Island) fourteen lives were lost by
shipwreck. Mr. Finlay, a sailmaker of the Eastern
district of New Providence, was blown away in his
schooner at Alligator Bay, Long Island, during the
hurricane, and has not since been heard of.
A despatch from Lawrence, Kansas, states that
one Senator, and perhaps a majority of;the members
of the House from the county, will support e2c-
Governor Curry for United States Senator.
Later advices from the Sixth Congressional Pis'
trict of lowa place the re-election of Hon. A. AV;
Hubbard beyond doubt, notwithstanding the forged
document purporting to come from the Republican
Committee, and falsely reporting Mr. Hubbard °
death.

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