The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-16 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE TARIFFA.
QUEENSTOWN, July 15.

'The Cunard extra steamship Tariffa, frorn New
York on the 4th inst., arrived here at 5.25 a.m. to-
day with 119 passengers and $643,051 in specie for
England. She landed 13 of the former, and pro-
ceeded at 6 a.m. all well.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
The St. Louis Democrat gives the particulars of
what it calls " a tragic affair." It appears that
two citizens were returning from a visit to friends
at Columbia, Illinois. One of them, John Augus-
tine, carried a gun to pick up any game on the road.
They stopped at a saloon, -where two drunken ruf-
fians were breaking the furniture and tumblers. Not
liking the state of things, they left without a word,
when one of the two ruffians, named John Lane,
pursued and overtook Augustine, wrenched the
from his hands, knocked him down with the
butt end, and when on the ground struck him a
second blow, which broke his neck and killed him.
Dr. Payne passed shortly after, and found Augustine
lying dead ! Others came up, Lane was pursued,
shot in the arm, and finally captured and taken to
Columbia. A justice of the peace ordered him to
be committed to the gaol at Waterloo, and he was
plaaced in charge of a strong guard. By this time
the populace began to assemble. It was stated
that Lane had murdered a woman and her child in
the Bottoms about two years before, and was known
to be a desperate character. Details of these
murders were given, and excitement grew apace.
Finally the mob became furious, and charged the
waggon where the prisoner was confined. The
guard was scattered like chaff, and the trembling
murderer and abject ruffian dragged through the
streets of Columbia to a spot half a mile west of
the town, where a rope was tied round his neck,
and he was suspended to a limb of a tree till he ex-
pired. A hole two feet deep was dug and the body
was cut down and thrown in, with a pile of stones
to mark the spot of his burial.
General Chamberlain has been nominated by
the Republican party for the Governorship of
Maine, and his election is sure. This will be the
third government bestowed on soldiers in the New
England States, General Hawley ',in Connecticut,
and General Burnside in Rhode Island being the
other two. The question between the military and
the civilians was fairly met in the Maine Conven-
tion, and resulted in 599 votes for the general, and
438 votes for Mr. Spring, the civilian. The number
of the military to obtain such appointments will in
all probability be increased, as blue since the war
has come into fashion, and the drab of peace must
yield.
The number of men voted for the regular army
of the United States has been fixed at 50,000 of all
arms. The Bill passed the House of Representa-
tives by a majority of 72 to 41. No one who served
in the Southern army or navy wilt be allowed to
hold a commission, nor will any commission be be-
stowed under the rank of colonel before the candi-
date has been subjected to the test of an examina-
tion by a Board.
Mr. Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee, who during late
years has attained considerable political influ-
ence in Canada, was applied to by a Roman
Catholic clergyman of Connecticut to use his
influence in behalf of one of the captured Fenians.
Mr. 31‘Gee's reply was characteristic, and strongly
illustrates the change wrought in men by placing
them in positions of influence and responsibility.
The priest remembered how thoroughly Mr. M'Gee
in former years had identified hiniself with the Irish
party in New York, and he was not prepared for
the decisive reply that Mr. M'Gee would decline
to interfere to save one of the Fenians, if that
Fenian was his own brother. This statement has
given rise to much vituperation, but it should be re-
membered that for a long period Mr. M'Gee's con-
duct has been quite in keeping with his answer,
and it would ill become a member of the Canadian
Government to attempt to shield such desperadoes,
the more so if his own early antecedents in any way
identified him with such a party.
The manufacturers of Pennsylvania are eager
enough in the cause of protection, but not suffi-
ciently so to satisfy some of their journals. The
Iron Age urges on them the necessity of proceeding
at once to Ws-shington, to use all their influence on
Congress for the speedy enactment of a strong tariff
law. Some of the manufacturers replied that " the
Committee of Ways and Means was all right, and
the fears expressed on the subject groundless.
Others declared that there was treachery in the
camp and a deliberate purpose to evade action on
the Bill, or so to emasculate it as to make it worth-
less. The Iron Age believes that Congress dare not
go to the country without enacting some tariff law.
It declares this to be the most favourable moment
for the erection of a mighty system of national pro-
duction, to establish for ever theindustrial and
commercial enterprise of the country.
The Committee of Ways and Means presented to
the House on the 25th June last the Tariff Bill
proposed by them. The bill was introduced by
representative Morrill, and is calculated to
gladden the hearts of all home producers and manu-
facturers. The Philadelphia Enquirer announces
the new Act under the various headings : " Ame-
rican Manufacturers Encouraged ; " " Stimulation
of Home Industry ; " "Heavy duties on Foreign
Fabrics ; " " Tax on Foreign Dry Goods and Iron
Ware ; " " Glad Tidings for Pennsylvanian Iron-
mills ; " and finally the curious announcement of
" Premiums withdrawn from Foreign Competitors."
If Mr. Morrill has ever sinned by establishing pre-
miums on foreign to the detriment of home pro-
ducers he will be forgiven for the bill he now in-
troduces, which we hope to publish entire in a
supplement, on account of the great interest the
new tariff will excite in this country.
A question, relative to the re-issue of lost bonds
and coupons, has been brought to the attention of
Congress by a report from the Committee on
Claims to the House of Representatives. It appears
that a gentleman in Maine lost a five hundred dollar
bond, but subsequently recovered it in a mutilated
and damaged condition, together with thirteen of
the coupons. He asked Congress to authorise the
Secretary to re-issue the bonds and coupons. The
Committee recommended that on the surrender of
the mutilated bond a new" one be issued without
coupons, that the thirteen coupons be held valid,
that they cannot authorise the re-issue of the
coupons supposed to be lost, for there is no evidence
but that they may still be in existence. The last
point settles the question of re-issue when no satis-
factory evidence is given of the total destruction of
lost coupon bonds. The house agreed to the above
Report. It is, however, necessary for the passage
of a law ou the subject of bonds lost, stolen, or
destroyed, to protect the people from unfair loss of
property, and the Government from imposition.
A National Dress Reform and Equal
Association Meeting Rights'
was held in Syracuse, New
York, three weeks ago. Mrs. Dr. Walker, Presi-
dent of the Convention, addressed the meeting.
She told of her
York Police suilerings
and trials in the New
daring to walk the Court,
streets
the wrongs endured for
eets
Bof New York clothed in
a physiological manner,
passed to the subject of thye franchise, easytransition she
predicting
that the women of America would in a few years
walk to the ballot-box by the side
of the men, and
that many of the offices would be
women. Then as if to prove how
wellab laydafipilteedd theby
Bloomer costume was for quick shifts of position,
and rapid changes, she came down on Jefferson
Davis with startling vehemence. She would put
him into hoops and long skirts, and compel him to
do the woman's work of a four-storey, house, which
punishment she believes to exceed any other. so
that Bloomer would turn " the stern statesman "
into a Biddy, to do the work of a maid-of-all-
work in a London lodging-house. Mrs. Dr.
Walker has arrived at the conclusion that when
women dress as men they may vote as men, the
one privilege being dependent on the other. It ap-
pears, however, that grave doubts existed among
the fair sisters as to the advisability of the change,
and the subject has been referred to the women of
America. Lecturers are to be employed at the ex-
pense of the Association, so long as they wear the
Association's garb, and they are to paint in vivid
colortrathe fact that freedom goes with masculine