The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1868.

MISCELLANEOUS IVE IT'S.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

His Excellency REVERDY JOHNSON has been
among the speakers at other banquets than Shef-
field. The last was given by the Mayor ar.d Cor-
poration of Worcester, when he paid a very grace-
ful compliment to Lord NAPIER OF MAGDALA. His
Excellency and Lord STANLEY have accepted an in-
vitation from the American Chamber of Commerce
at Liverpool to a banquet on the 22d inst. To
read some of the comments on the Sheffield affair
by the American papers it might be supposed
that it was Mr. JOHNSON'S business to demand
a list of the guests before he accepted the in-
vitation, and to refuse unless certain names were
struck out. Ile had no right, say they, to be
found at the same table with two such bitter ene-
mies of the United States as Lord WHAP.NCLIFFE
and Mr. ROEBUCK. How could Mr. JOIINSON know
who he was to meet, and how could such a party
have been formed at Sheffield without asking these
objectionable gentlemen? The one was the repre-
sentative in Parliament, the other was a magnate
of the county. If both took strong partisan sides
with the South, still Mr. Jonxsox represents
the South as much as ho does the North,
and, like a true Representative, prefers to meet
friend or foe really interested in his country to
people wholly indifferent. If the British Minister
at Washington was only permitted to meet at dinner
those who had never spoken ill of England his
society would be in the highest degree " select ;"
but he would not then be a very useful Minister.
Why, it is to the lost sheep that a Minister is sent,
anu it is especially his business to influence the
leaders of public opinion and those who control the
Government in favour of the views taken in his own
country. Our friend the Spirit, who shows an
unaccountable spirit of animosity against Mr.
JOHNSON, says " That he must have landed
at the docks at Liverpool with his hat in his
hand as if looking eagerly around for some live
lord before whom he might go down on his
marrow-bones and ask forgiveness for being an
American." As it happens, Mr. JOHNSON did not
land at Liverpool at all, but if his object had been
to get hold of a "live" lord he woull there have
gone to the wrong shop. Perhaps the Spirit means
a " cotton" lord, which we venture to say is a more
interesting animal to the American Minister. It
Mr. JOHNSON cannot control the invitations, he is
even less able to put a gag on the mouths of the
guests. Any one sitting next to Mr. ROEBUCK
might have pushed a roll down his throat, and
thereby have brought his oratory to an ignominious
close, exhibiting him in the guise of a " dumb-
founded" Spaniard ; but Mr. JOHNSON could not
thus act. The question is, What was a gentle-
man to do under such circumstances ? and we
believe that few gentlemen have the slightest
doubt about how they ought to act. The essence
of the subject is in the intention not of the
speaker but of the host, and generally of the
party. The Speaker may be an ill-bred fool, per-
haps unconscious of the import of his wirls ; he
may be—drunk; or he may be a vicious, ill-con-
ditioned whelp, glad of the opportunity of pur-
chasing a little cheap notoriety. In the two first
cases it is the host and not the gust who is to be
pitied ; and the guest endeavours, by his manner,
to set his entertainer at ease by showing, even
though it be a feint, how lightly he regards the
contretemps ; in the last, if the Minister retires
with ruffled feathers, he does what the other wants.
Unfortunately, the desire of effacing Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S speech induced the English papers to give it
a prominence of which it was wholly undeserving,
and thereby to call American attention to what
otherwise would have passed with scarcely any no-
tice. Mr. JOHNSON has been a leading party man,
and the organs of the other side are always ready
to pick up everything which tells against him.
Although there are few men in America more
generally respected, and against whom less ani-
mosity is directed, still the price of the posi-
tion is a certain measure of detraction, and Mr.
ROEBUCK furnished them with the opportunity for
an attack. We do not know whether Mr. ROE-
BUCK got what he wanted, but if he did his tastes
are so peculiar that he is not likely soon to find an
imitator. Wehope that Mr. JOHNSON will continue to
use every opportunity given by his high position
to strengthen the bonds of union between the na-
tions, undeterred either by attacks in England or
attacks from home. At present, in L)nlon, there
aretwo Americans representing great natio ialities
—the one received with lavish cordiality, the other
with buckets of cold water. But we are thankful
to say that they are fully up to the positiou—thy
one neither elated nor carried away by flattery,
nor the enthusiasm of the other damped by neglect ;
because both are men of sense and good breeding,
as well as men of the world.

The reason given for the attack of the whites on
the negroes at Camilla, Georgia, is not bad in its
way. It is that the blacks were infringing the law,
as they were carrying arms. To preserve the law
the whites not only carried arms themselves, but
shot all the negroes they could, covering the ground
with their bodies as in a hardly-contested action.
This is what they call preserving the law in Geor-
gia. The President has, however, ordered an in-
vestigation, and what the Sheriff says will be
tested, that he was merely attempting to disperse
negroes, who provoked the fate they met by
firing upon the whites and wounding six, simply
because a drunken bystander discharged a shot at
them. Although a Republican procession marched
unmolested through New Orleang lately, it is evident
that the Clubs are making up for this forbearance.
A fight took place on the night of the 22d Sept.
between the Republican and Democratic Clubs,
and though no casualties are rep3rted a renewal of
the disturbance is feared.

The other items of intelligence brought by the
Russia are the following :—The Georgia Legisla-
ture has rejected the suggestion of Governor Bul-
ock to ask for the aid of national troops to pre-
serve the peace of the State. The prosecution in
the Surratt trial has filed a demurrer to the appli-
cation of the counsel for the defence for the dis-
missal of the conspiracy charge under the provisions
of the annuity proclamation. A large and enthu-
siastic Republican meeting was held at the Cooper
Institute in New York last evening. General Fre-
mont was among the speakers. The cotton reports
from Tennessee continue unfavourable. Wright's
report states that in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida
the cotton is much damaged by worms and rains.
The action which was to decide the fate of Queen
Isabella was fought at the bridge of Alcolea, near
Cordova, between Marshal Serrano, commanding
the insurgents, and the Marquis de Novaliches,
commanding the Royalists, who was defeated, mor-
tally wounded, and sent back to Madrid, where he
died. The news caused a rising in the capital, when
the troops and people fraternised. Marshal Concha
resigned, and the revolution established a new
Government. The Junta declared for the downfall
of the dynasty, universal suffrage, and a Cortes. The
Royal arms were removed, and the Queen's busts and
statues descended into the gutter. The Official Gazette
contained a proclamation of the Provisional Govern-
ment pronouncing the deposition of Queen Isabella,
asserting the sovereignty of the people, and conclud-
ing with the words, " Down with theßourbons." Prim
and Serrano are united in opinion. Elections were
about to be held, the National Guard was being
organized, and already a loan had been tendered to
the Government of 160,000,000 reals. The Queen
finding her cause hopeless slid down the Pyrenees,
and " sloped " into France, while the nation
took up the Yankee cry of " Let her slide."
We are sorry for a lady in miifortune, though
we cannot but rejoice at the success of the re-
volution. It has been ahno.A bloodless, while
had t!:e Royal cause prevailed we have a sample of
what would have h tppcned in the action of General
Calonge, who, on the capture of Santander, imme-
diately shot 21 of the inhabitants. Ile was ar-
rested at Duenas, as the people did not wish to
"let him slide" after the Queen into France, as he
had to answer for that little affair at Santander.
It is a pity that he could not earlier realize and
sympathize with the feelings of people ordered to
be shot, as he might then have escaped the opera-
tion himself. We fear the Spaniards will find it

easier to get rid of the Queen than to establish a
firm and satisfactory Government.
The Louisiana Legislature has passed a bill
which has become law without the signature of
Governor Warmouth, and we give its main provi-
sions here, instead of under the heading of the
" Southern States," as it is proposed to adopt its
provisions throughout the Reconstituted States. It
is directed to the revision of all existing laws, both
class and general. The Lon.,:ana Legislature joins
a House committee of thi ;ith a Senate com-
mittee of two, appointed by . officer presiding in
each assembly, who shall sit —Mg the recess, and
select those who are to simpri the language, cor-
rect the incongruities, supply deficiencies, and re-
duce to order the statutes of the States under the
supervision of the committee. Five thousand dol.
lars have been appropriated for the purpose.
Some curious statistics have been published by
the Freedman's Bureau. Lieutenant Brown re-
ports that in Tennessee, during the year ending
Ist July last, action had been taken by the civil
authorities on 162 murders, which, up to 25th
August, had been increased to the number of 179. In
76 of these cases the civil authorities did not attempt
to bring the perpetrators to punishment. Eleven out.
of the 179 murders are shown to have been com-
mitted by blacks, leaving 168 that were committed
by whites, upon whites and blacks. Seventy-three
of the persons murdered are shown to have been
whites, and 106 to have been blacks. But, bad as
Tennessee is, Texas, according to a former statement,
is worse, and we can but hope that a change will
occur after the elections, when the country will be
settled for a few years, at least as regards the
President. A letter from Little Rock, Arkansas,
states that in Columbia County 19 Republicans
were assassinated within ten days, one of whom,
for shouting Grant, was riddled with eleven bullets.
Commander Jeffers, of the. U.S.S. Swatara, has
reported to Secretary Wells an interview with the
Liberian Government. The Liberians heard with
astonishment that the negroes of the Southern States
had been admitted to the franchise. " We," said
they, " do not allow the natives to vote unless they
have been educated in our schools." This has been
used as a campaign document, which the Democrats
profess to consider will be difficult to answer,
though few unprejudiced and thinking men will
find any difficulty in the matter. All object to
the voting of ignorant negroes, but many consi-
der that of two verygreat evils the renewal of slavery
is the more dangerous. They set the injury which
may be accomplished by the former against what
Might happen, supposing the negroes to be deprived
of their vote, and select the most promising horn of
the dilemma. The position of Liberia is wholly diffe-
rent, fur there are no white men there against whom
it is necessary to arm thenegroes with political power.
It is a pity that this, the essence of the subject, is
habitually avoided by the Democrats, for though
the English might be imposed upon by dropping
the necessity, and discussing the objectionable
remedy, yet the citizens of the United States can•
not be thus deluded, thereto-7e it would be better
boldly to meet the difficult aid in working
out a remedy.
Senator Morgan and Re. entative Shenck met,
and drew up the following ',Ater regarding the re-
assembling of Congress on the 21st September :
Washington, D. C., Sept. 15.—The President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
were, by resolution of Congress, directed to adjourn their
respective Houses until the third Monday of September,
1868, and on that day, unless then otherwise ordered by
the two Houses, they were directed to further adjourn
their respective Houses until the first Monday of Decem-
ber. In accordance with the request of the Republican
members of the XLth Congress, the undersigned decide
and respectfully recommend that there bo a full attend-
ance of both Houses of Congress on Monday, the 21st day
of September instant, promptly at 12 o'clock noon. It is
not expected that general legislative business will bo
entered into at that time, or that the session need be
longer than necessary to provide for another adjournment.
It is important that there should be such general attend-
ance of members as will secure the presence of a quorum
in each House. _ _ _

E. D. MORGAN,
Chairman Union Republican Committee.
ROBERT C. SCHENCK,
Cbairman Republican Congressional Committee.
The _moment the call was made public a general
rush of office-seekers set in towards Washington,
but it was soon known that Congress would do no
business, merely meeting to adjourn. Senator Mor-
gan immediately after left Washington for New
York, but he was to return for the 21st September.
General Schenck was likely to be detained for a
short time after the adjournment on business can-
nected with the Republican Congressional Com-
mittee. Speaker Colfax was to b?, back by the 19th
September, and also Mr. Wade, President of the
Senate, and the latest reports announced the arrival
at Washington of both.
Professor Agassiz has been travelling in the
Rocky Mountains, and is only, as we write, on his
way bank to Boston. He has been charmed and
amazed by what he has seen, both the plains and
the mountains furnishing him with numberless ob-
jects of intense interest. Brazil was as nothing,
he says, to what he had already seen in crossing
the plains, though not yet brought face to face with
the Mountains. He finds abund int material to
sustain his glacial theories, and in his opinion
the vast elevated plains from the foot of the Rocky
Mountains to the Missouri river, and from Montana
to Mexico, are deposits of great fields of ice resting
upon the hills, and washing down their heigh s. If
so, it is curious to know what the appearance of the
Rocky Mountains at one time was considering their
present grandeur after centuries of such waste. The
Professor's route is through Colorado to the end of
the Pacific Railroad trae:- `rich will bring him
within 300 miles of the M. n city, and he may
therefore
iseftohrecmalolnoth.n Brigham _ Ang ere h!s return
early
A very curious circumstance has occurred at
Hartford, Connecticut. It appears that a bill passed
the Legislature amending the law of neutralization.
The clerk in the Secretary of State's office en-
grossed it accurately after its passage when it was
examined by the engrossing Committee, who found
it to be correct. While the Committee were in the
office, by some skilful manipulation another was
substituted with the vital part omitted, and taken
to the Speaker's table. The document was
either mutilated or changed, for there was a
whole section expunged. Governor English vetoed
the Bill, and two-thirds of his message was
made up of a laboured argument against the clause
which had no place in the law as it now stands. As
sent to the newspapers from the Secretary of State's
office and published, it is correct, and people won-
der who was at the bottom of the fraud. It appears
that the new Election law was before similarly tam-
pered with, though detected and corrected in time.
The Republicans say that the Secretary is a Con-
servative, and that the object is to secure the State
for the Democrats.

The Ward brothers, who are probably the best
rowers in the world, challenged the world for a
four-oared race for $5,000. This was taken up by the
New Brunswick crew, who were victorious at Paris
in the International Regatta. They proposed that
the race should be rowed on the Connecticut River
at Springfield for $l,OOO. To this the Wards ob-
jected after discussing the subject at a meeting held
in New,York. The disputed point was the amount
of the stakes,
than $2,500 a side.
as the Wards declined to row for less

Speaker Colfax again met Frank Blair at
Denver, and on the eve of the Colorado election.
Mr. Blair, at considerable personal inconvenience
and exertion, reached Denver to speak for the can-
didate of his party, Mr. Belden. The Democrats
aro running a man, the Republicans are running
their principles. Mr. Belden is thought very highly
of throughout the Territory, but Mr. Bradford, we
believe, is not. The result, then, of the election
has shown Republican strength, as in spite of the
repeated error of the party they carried the election
of the inferior against the superior candidate. The
account from Denver showed how doubtful the re-
sult was considered, and it was said that if Brad-
ford carried the election it would indicate more
than appeared on the surface. He was elected, as
we elsewhere state, by a majority of 112, being 25
increase on the vote of 18GE3

The fright in Ireland at cattle disease, which,
acting on the Privy Couac:., led to the exclusion
of American hay,. has. checked a most promising„
export. In the United States the Order in Council

is considered to ,be wholly unnecessary, as there is
no chance whatever of the disease being communi-
cated through such a medium. Ireland prefers the
import of Fenian notions, revolvers, green uniformS,
and secret instructions; for, though the Emerald
Isle screams at the shadow of an injury, it has al-
ways eagerly bolted the substance.
John Quincy Adams has accepted the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts.
Elia letter, published at Boston, September 18, de-
clares two matters of the greatest interest to be in-
volved —" one important, the other vital. The former,
he says, which I take to be the financial question,
was not treated by the National Convention in New
York in a manner which satisfied my judgment.
By providing for a payment of the bonds known as
Five-Twenties by surplus revenue alone (thus
ignoring what seems to me the valuable part
of Mr. Pendleton's plan, withdrawal of the
issues of the National Banks), the Democratic
party appeared to commit themselves to an in-
definite extension of the intolerable nuisance of
an irredeemable paper currency. lam too much
of a Democrat to regard any such prospect
with patience. I believe in hard money, and
therein hold myself to be a true Jacksonian a...,mo-
crat." The vital question is &construction. The
late Mr. Stevens said—" Only two fools in the
party believed the Reconstruction Acts to be Con-
stitutional." Mr. Adams neither believes they are,
nor in the permanent domination of the African
race in any State :—" But the Republican party is
irrevocably pledged to this idea. They have staked
their existence as a party on its triumph; to this
idol they have sacrificed their constitutional obliga-
tions in the past, and for it they must find fresh offer-
ings in the future." Mr. Adams makes this curious
admission about his party :—" It is true that the
Democratic party in success may violate the pledges
of adversity, and again subvert the organic law."
(!) The reply is, that he need not be uneasy, for
the party has little more chance of power, than he
has of being elected Governor of Massachusetts. It
is not surprising that he thus deplores the decay of
ancestral reverence, considering whose son, grand-
son, and great-grandson he is. " The teachings
and the practice of Radicalism have destroyed much
of the old reverence for the precious legacy of our
ancestors. We may dread lest they should do
this thing, but we do certainly know that the Re-
publican party has already done it; at least it is a
chance, a last chance, of salvation. If that fails
us—if we must submit to the whims of a majority
without appeal—it matters but little to me whether
it rejoices in the name of Republican or delights in
the title of Democrat."

Who is it that makes up the matter for Reuter's
taegrams on the arrival of the mail steamers at
Queenstown? When the City of Baltimore brought
the news up to the 19th Sept., it was telegraphed
that the Republican majority in Maine was a gain
of 8,000 over that of last year, making a total ma-
jority of eighteen thousand. Of course, all the Eng-
lish papers accepted this statement, and every-
where circulated it, although 8,000 added to 11,614,
the Republican majority of last year, makes
more than 18,C00. Nor was. the 8,000 even,
correct, as the majority had been increased by the
districts then heard from up to 21,448, and it was
estimated to exceed 23,000. Z his bears out our
analysis, as our readers will see by a reference to
the article on the Vermont . and Maine elections in
our issue of Sept. 19. It is curious, too, that the
Republican triumph in Colorado should have been
disputed, as Bradford was elected delegate by a
majority of. 142, being an increase of 25 over the
majority of 1866. " Granny" never loses an oppor-
tunity of going wrong like the Irishman's pig, and
she made her error so conspicuous that all might
see it, calling attention to it in a leader.
On the 18th Sept. scarcely a dozen members of
Congress had arrived at Washington, although
the Legislature was to open on the 21st Sept. But
though the members came slowly to the Capi-
tol, the " lobby " posted there fast enough,
the more so as it was rumoured that the President
would send in nominations for a large number of
vacant offices, among them one for the post of In-
ternal Revenue Commissioner. If a quorum could
not be got together on Monday, the 21st, there was
to be a call of the House, and it was fully expected
that by Tuesday, Senators and Representatives
enough would have gathered, when an extension of
the recess would be agreed to. Attorney-General

warts returned to Washington, Sept. 18. Except
Secretary Browning all the members of the Cabinat
were at the meeting that day. Marshal Parsons, of
the Supreme Court, also arrived on the 18th Sept.

The news from San Francisco is dated 17th
September. It tells us that a fire, covering an esti-
mated area of 200 square miles, was devastating both
sides of the Columbia River, between the mouth of
the Chowlitz River and the junction of the Willa-
metta with the Columbia. St. Helen's and Astoria

were in danger. The destruction of timber and other
property was enormous. The steamer Idaho, with a
cargo of sugar, had been seized by the Custom
House. authorities. One of the San Francisco re-
fineries has been importing large quantities of sugar,
from the Sandwich Islands and adulterating it with
powdered charcoal, and passing it through the
Custom House as "low grade sugar." The United
States Consul at Honolulu ascertained the facts,
secured the necessary testimony, went there in the
Idaho, and complained to, the revenue authorities.
The result was the seizure of the steamer and the
sugar. The China steamship Great Republic, then
three days over due, had not arrived at San Fran-
cisco at 8 p.m. on the 17th.
Mr. Colfax bad returned to Washington to be
present at the opening of Congress on the 21st
September. • His party arrived at Chicago more
than a week before, where they separated, Mr.
Bowles going to Springfield, Massachusetts, after
furnishing the Republican with some very interest-
ing letters descriptive of his tour. The Republican
now announces the Speaker's engagement to Miss
Nellie Wade, a niece of Senator Wade of Ohio.
She is described as a sweet, sensible, attractive lady
of thirty, well educated, and worthy of the posi-
tion. Her father died several years ago, and her
acquaintance with Mr. Colfax began two years
since in the house of her uncle the President of the
Senate at Washington, where she spent a winter.
She accompanied the Speaker, as we before an-
nounced, on his trip to the Rocky Mountains. We
congratulate Mr. Colfax, although we should be
sorry ourselves to go through two such campaigns
at the same time as the struggle for the Vice-Pre-
sidency and marriage. Yet the one may neutralize
the other, but when both are over life can scarcely
fail to appear hum-drum after such tremendous
excitement.
Ex Secretary Stanton expects to start west im-
mediately to take part in the campaign. He will speak at
Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Cin-
cinnati. and Dayton, and possibly at a few other points.
He then intends to visit New York in time to enter the
field there. He will visit Philadelphia before going west.
Senator Wilson will stump the South after the October
elections. He has just proceeded from New York to Phil-
adelphia. Mr. Alexander H. Stephens arrived at Wash-
ington from the Nolth on the 18th September, in excel-
lent spirits and health.
The death of Major Joseph M. Bell is announced.
He was 44 years of age, and formerly on General Butler's
staff.

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