The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1168.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

:11Eiv lune avicUerS are being taugnt teiegrapny, aim
will probably, when discharged, be able to obtain
work from the telegraph companies. These soldiers
are being taught, and are teaching themselves, in
other ways. In Sir William's general orders of Sep-
tember there appear the names of not less than forty-
seven men who have been selected from the artillery
and line regiments in this presidency for admission
as students at lioorkee in the second department of
the Thomason College. It happens to him, Sir
William says, nearly every month to observe the
names of soldiers who have passed in one or other of
the examinations in the native languages ; and men
are now rushing to obtain admission to the army.

BOYS AT PLAY.
Thomas Hood has described boys coming out of
school—

Turning to mirth all things of earth,
As only boyhood can.
He could hardly have included coffins among these
" things of earth." This, however, is the version of
the Cockney youth. It appears that the houses and
warehouses on the south side of Old Fish-street, St.
Paul's-churchyard, have been lately demolished
for the construction of a new street from
Blackfriars to the Poultry. Here assemble a
number of lads to play. The other day they ex-
humed. a coffin from the rubbish where the church on
Bread-street-hill formerly stood. They carried it
about, trying if it would fit in any of the adjoining
places, and at last the side of it fell out. We are
not particular about defiling the graves of our
ancestors, and our modern improvements show little
regard for the sanctity of " God's acre." This care-
lessness, however, is absolutely indecent. As usual,
we hear nothing of police interference.
WEAK BUILDINGS.
No sooner is the verdict of the Liverpool jury
given in the case of the warehouse catastrophe
than the Hull jury returns its verdict in
a similar case. The warehouses were old and unfit
for their burdens. The Liverpool jury thinks
such places ought to be inspected ; the Hull jury
goes further, and recommends legislative interfe-
rence. While the subject is yet new, part
of a house in course of erection at Morice
Town, Devonport, comes tumbling down burying
eleven people in its ruins, the master builder, who
was killed, being one of them. In former times they
erected buildings -which, at any rate, should fall with
dignity, and in a ripe old age; but the modern erec-
tions are so essentially feeble and bad, that they fall
even before they are finished. A little inspection
would prove that many of them were entirely unfit
for human habitation; built for sale or to raise a
mortgage, and for nothing more.
INEBRIATE ASYLUMS.
Our contemporary the Advertiser, with a fairness
beyond all praise, devotes a notice to the subject of
inebriate asylums in America. An extract is given
from the Atlantic Monthly, which describes the
treatment as follows :—" It occasionally happens
that a patient, conscious of the coming on
of a paroxysm of desire, asks to have the
key of his room turned upon him till it is over.
It is desired that this turning of the key, and
those few barred rooms in one of the wards, shall be
regarded as mere remedial appliances, as much so as
the bottles of medicine in the medicine chest. It is,
however, understood that no one is to be released
from confinement who does not manifest a renewed
purpose to refrain." Is it possible that the patients
in this asylum devote their time to theological
criticism, and return good for evil by favouring our
contemporary with their productions ?
MR. DICKENS.
A letter appeared the other day in a contemporary
purporting to be addressed by Mr. Charles Dickens
to Mr. Pope, the secretary of the Printers' Alms-
houses. It contained an offer to devote the pro-
ceeds of one of his entertainments to the funds of the
institution, accompanied by a compliment to the
printers, and an acknowledgment of what Mr.
Dickens owed to them. Now it turns out to be
a forgery. If meant for a joke it is an
extremely pointless one, and if for a hint it is
utterly undeserved. Mr. Dickens has never forgotten
those who have been the means of communicating
his thoughts to the world, and requires no such.
reminder. Mr. Dickens's hand is rather a remark-
able one, and it must have been a clever imitation
to deceive our contemporary, or else the letter did
not receive a sufficient scrutiny.

PROGRESS OF ELECTIONS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
Our intelligence under this head has lost nearly
all its interest excepting as a story which we are
bound to tell for the benefit of thosa who file this
paper and refer to it when events now progressing
are matters of history. If the cable has its uses, it
acts on mail news in something of the same manner
as if the alcohol were extracted from your mint julep.
Of course Andrew Johnson waited before he finally
" pronounced," till he felt confident he was running
counter to the general opinion of the country, when
he forwarded the following letter to Governor
Seymour :
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C.,
October 22, 1863.
IIN. o RA
oTrlnOig-1 see it announced in the
papers thisil m ill enter the Presidential
°
canvass in person. I trust this may be so, as the present
n S E
thatt ou y t u w
position of public affairs justifies and demands it. It is
hoped and believed by your friends that all the enemies
of Constitutional Government, whether secret or avowed,
will not be spared, and that their arbitrary and unjust
usurpations, together with their wasteful, profligate, and
corrupt uses of the people's treasures, will be signally ex-
posed and rebuked. The mass of the people should be
aroused and warned against the encroachments of the
despotic power now ready to enter the very gates of the
citadel of Liberty. I trust you may speak with an in-
spired tongue, and that your voice may penetrate every
just and patriotic heart throughout the land. Let the
living principles of a violated Constitution be proclaimed
and restored, that peace, prosperity, and fraternal feeling
may return to a divided and oppressed nation.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
it is believed that in West Virginia the Republi-
cans have carried at least two Congress districts,
and probably the third, and with a working majo-
jority in both Houses they will elect a United
States Senator in succession to the Hon. Peter J.
Van Winkle, whose term expires next March.
Duval, Republican, is elected for Congress for the
First District by a majority of 1,000. The Second
District gives M'Grew, Republican, over 2,000 ma-
jority ; the Third District was believed to have given
a majority of 500 to Witcher, also Republican. As
the Legislature is said to be three-fourths Republi-
can, the United States Senator to be elected for
March is secure to that party. The nominations were as
follows :—Governor J. M. Camden, Democrat ;
W. Stephenson, Republican. Secretary of State
S. V. Yantis, D. ;J. M. Pipes, R. Treasurer G.
J. Walker, D. ; J. A. McCauley, R. Auditor D.
Mayer, D. ;T. Bosgess, R. Attorney-General W.
P. Willey, D.; T. Melvin, R. Appeal Judge M.
Edminton, D. ; 11. L. Berkshire, R. Cong., Ist
District, H. S. Walker, D. ; J. H. Duval, R.
Cong., 2d District, W. G. Brown, D. ; J. C.
Macrew. Cong., 3d District, C. P. T. Moore, D.;
T. S. Whitcher, R. Governor Boreman (Rep.)
was elected two years ago by 6,644 majority. The
local elections last year showed no material change.
The States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
polled in the aggregate at the election, Oct. 13,
1,500,000 votes. As John Covode has been defeated

for the Twenty-first District of Pennsylvania by
Henry D. Foster, the Republican. aggregate loss is 9
Congressmen, that party return being 16, and
the Democratie 8. The new State Legislature will
consist of 18 Republicans and 15 Democrats in the
Senate, and 62 Republicans and 38 Democrats in
the House. Galusha A. Grow is likely to be the
new Republican Uuited States Senator they will
select.

The official returns of the Philadelphia election
give the following majorities :—Mayor, Daniel M.
Fox, Democrat, 1,838 ; District Attorney, Furman
Sheppard, Democrat, 1,275 ; City Comptroller,
Geo. Getz, Democrat, 724; Solicitor, Thomas J.
Barger, Democrat, 892 ; Receiver of Taxes, J. M.
Melloy, Democrat, 238 ; Commissioner, David P.
Weaver, Democrat, 953 ; Prothonotary of Com-
mon Pleas, Albert Fletcher, Democrat, 681 ; Pre-
sident Judge, J. I. C. Hare, Republican, 25 majo-
rity ; Associate Judge, Thos. Greenbank, Democrat,
125 majority. On the State ticket, Boyle, Democrat,
receives 175 majority ; and Ent, Democrat, 266.
Fifty Republican citizens have been appointed to
contest the election on the charge of fraud, it being
asserted that of the 120,000 votes in the city alone,
over 20,000 were fraudulent. The walls were pla-
carded with appeals to law-abiding citizens against
the triumph of villany. _ _ _

Baker's majority for Governor of Indiana, the
returns being nearly all official, is 1,020. John
G. Reid has filed a protest against issuing the cer-
tificate of election to the Hon. George W. Julian.
He desires the board of canvassers of Wayne
county to be compelled to return the vote of the
south poll of Richmond, thrown out for alleged
violation of the registry law ; and Mr. Hendricks
intends to contest Baker's election before the Legis-
lature, pending which the Sentinel advises the De-
mocrats not to pay their bets. The official vote of
85 countkls of Ohio gives Sherwood, the Ilapubli-
oguA Ondidate fvr the Secretaryship of State,

260,106, against Hubbard's 240,031, the Republican
majority being 20,075. The three counties not
officially returned give Democratic majorities, which
reduces the total of the State to 17,450. We
regret to learn that the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton has
been confined to his room by inflammation of the
lungs. He has- been compelled to give up appoint-
ments to speak in Missouri, Michigan, and New York.
Ohio returns 13 Republicans and 6 Democrats to
Congress; lndiana 7 Republicans and 4 Democrats,
while in the Legislature of that State, the Republi-
cans have a majority of 24 on joint ballot. The
State Senate of Nebraska is unanimously Republi-
can, while there are but 5 Democrats against 34
Republicans in the State House of Representatives.
The Democratic nominations in Kentucky for
Congress for the nine districts are as follows :
Lawrence S. Trimble, *William M. Sweeney, Jacob

S. Golladay, *J. F. Smith, J. Proctor Knott, *Boyd
Manchester, Thomas L. Jones, *James B. Beck,
George M. Adams, the asterisk showing those now
in Congress. We -,ive the Democrats only, be-
cause there is not a ghost of a chance of a Republi-
can being returned except for the Eighth District,
and even this is extremely improbable.
The most strenuo is offorts were being made by
both parties to carry New York. The Tribune
appeals to the citizens to do their duty and redeem
the Empire State, which has too long been go-
vet ned by her idle and criminal classes—her thieves,
bullies, pimps, and blacklegs." h contrasts Gris-
wold with Hoffman, much to the disadvantage of the
latter. " When the hour came in which the nation
needed to inaugurate a wholly new system of naval
warfare, and that too at once, as the rebels then
had their rams and ironclacls far advanced towards
completion, and when the Navy Department, with
its proverbial drowsines4, could not be aroused to
the necessity of incurring the pecuniary risk of
building a monitor, Mr. Griswold staked $275,000
on the success of the enterprise, every aollar of
which he would have lost had the Merrimac sunk
the Monitor, instead of the Monitor disabling the
Merrimac. Where are the acts of patriotism
and self-sacrifice by which Mr. John T. I toff-
man commended himself to the country during
our trying struggle? Do they consist in hav-
ing raised the city tax 's of New York from
$11,000,000 per annum under Mayor Opdyke in
1863, to $24,000,000 under Hoffman iu 1868 ? Do
they consist in levying on the population of New
York city $24 per capita, when under a Republican
Mayor, four years before, they were only $l2 per
capita." 'We know the result, which, according to
the Tribune, has thrown the Empire State into the
hands of the above enumerated classes. The can-
vass was, however, maintained with great spirit;
a tremendous mass meeting was held by the Re-
publicans at Albany on the 22d ; at Syracuse on
the same day ; and at Rochester Governor Bullock,
of Georgia, delivered an address.
On the 20th of October the Democratic address
was published in New York, signed by August
Belmont, chairman of the Democratic Committee,
and his signature is just under these words, and
of their truth we leave our readers to judge :
—" Our ranks are unbroken, our courage is un-
abated. Once more to the breach, and this time
victory." The document is long, considering how
little it says, and we are only able to extract the
objects of the party and the description of the men
opposed to it. " What the Democratic party in-
' tends to do, if placed in power by your suffrages,
is to restore peace and union to our country ; to heal
the wounds and sufferings caused by the rebel-
lion ; to give to the people of the South the rights
to which they are entitled under the Constitution,
and by which alone we can bring back prosperity
and quiet to that distracted section ; to reduce ma-
terially our military and naval establishments, kept
up now on an immense scale, and at an enormous
cost ; to introduce into every department of Go-
vernment the strictest economy, and, to develope
by an equitable system of imports and taxation
the growing resources of our country, and thus to
place the Federal finances on a solid and stable
footing, and to pave the way to a gradual and safe
return to specie payments We are charged by the
Radical party, the party of violence and usurpa-
tion, which for the last four years, to prolong its
own existence, has set at naught the constitution
and the fundamental principles of our government,
that we intend revolution and defiance of estab-
lished laws. The accusation is unfounded and ab-
surd ; it cannot be entertained for a moment by
any intelligent voter who has even the most super-
ficial knowledge of the history of his country. Op-
posed to you are the men who have subverted the
structure of their own system of representative self-
government, vindicated to the world by more than
half a century of prosperity and greatness ; the
men who have increased our enormous debt by pro-
fligacy and corruption unparalleled ; the men who in
two successive Congresses have demonstrated their
incompetency to diminish our burdens by economy
or apportion them with equity; the men who have an
distributed ourbur,lens as that they press with exces-
sive weight upon thelabour and industry of the coun-
try, making rich men richer by making poor men
poorer. Opposed to you are men who have denied for
three years of peace, and will continue to deny until
your votes arrest them, self-government. to the people
of ten States; the men who have taken away the
power of our Chief Magistrate to insure a faithful
execution of the laws or to command the army and
the navy of the United States; the men who did
their worst to expel the President from the White
House for obeying faithfully the behests of your
supreme law ; the men who, being conscious
of their crimes, dreaded to have the Supreme Court
declare their quality, and therefore abridged its
jurisdiction and silenced its voice; the men who
have usurped and are grasping and yielding powers
not possessed to-day by any monarch among civi-
lized nations. Against these men and all their des-
poticpurposes, which Gen. Grant would be as power-
less to hinder as he whom they elected four years
ago has been ; against these men, their crimes in the
past, their nefarious designs in the 'future, you are
soon to make'one final and determined onslaught."
Governor Seymour delivered at Buffalo his open-
ing campaign address on October 22, and though
but two days' notice had been given 20,000 people
assembled hoping to hear him, when a torch-
light procession of 4,000 or 5,000 in uniform
escorted him to the rink. The Hon. James Hum-
phreys called the assemblage to order as chairman,
and Mr. Seymour spoke to the following effect,
as condensed by the Springfield Republican :
" The first words uttered by the Republican Convention
in their resolutions congratulated the country upon the
scheme of reconstruction. The last words uttered by

their Speakers and presses declare that Reconstruction is
a failure; that the South is still in a condition of rebel-
lion; that its social disorder demands the presence of great
armies, and that the first duty of Congress, when it meets,
will be to turn reconstructed Georgia out of the Union.
Again, at the outset of this canvass, the Republican party
asked to be continued in power because it had governed
wisely and well. After three months' discussion of their
reconstruction and financial policy, it is found that order
has not been restored in the South, that the burden of debt
has not been lightened, nor the evils of oppressive taxa-
tion lifted off the labouring industry of the country.
Driven from their first ground, they now try to hold
power by making the people believe, not that they have
done well, but that the Democratic party would do
worse, if they came into power. To prove this,
they assert that the success of tha Democratic
ticket will involve the country again in civil war.
They declare.' the Democratic nominees ready to
overturn their legislation by force ; and to make
the charge still more dramatic, I am to be sent
to my final account by the hands of my political sup-
porters, and then General Blair is to trample beneath his
feet the reconstruction laws as ruthlessly as Gen. Meade
now stamps them out by his military orders, with concur-
rence of the Radical party. If General Blair should reach
the Presidential chair, how would the case stand ? He
would be confronted by a Republican Senate, by a House
of Representatives full of generals ; by the United States
army, and by tho Loyal League and the Grand Army of
the Republic, under command of their own candidate for
the Presidency, whom they declare to be the first captain
of the age • and yet we are gravely told that, standing
alone, shackled by Congressional restraints, he can crush
out all opposing power and plunge the country into civil
war. If this is true, then General Blair is the most vigo-
rous man that has lived in the history of the world, or
the Republican Senators, members of Congress, and com-
manders of armies are the most imbecile who ever dis-
graced public' positions. This absurd fear of civil war is
net the fear in the minds of the Republican leaders; they fear
that the public mind, now turned to the financial and poli-
tical policy of .the Republicans, is reaching conclusions
which will sweep them from power, therefore they seem
to change issues, but we are admonished that it is a dan-
gerous thing to change front on the eve of battle. Gover-
nor Seymour then proceeded in a lengthy argument to
show why the reconstruction policy had been a failure,
because it neglected alike to secure the material prosperity
of both the white man ald the negro. The first act in
the scheme of reconstruction was to put a monstrous ex-
port tax of six cents per pound upon cotton, raised by
the labour of the negro upon the plantation of the white
man. He showed conclusively that this policy was un-
unwise, selfish, and vindictive. This tax was simply im-
posed that the Eastern manufacturer might buy cotton
for a price six cents less than it was worth in thi3 mar-
kets of the world. Its imposition was urged upon the
Congressmen of the Western States, who voted against
the interest of their constituents on the ground that it was
a penalty upon the South. No fair-minded, thoughtful
Republican will look over this action and not confess that
the policy of his party has not been unwise and hurtful.
Ho then discussed at length the injustice of the unequal
distrilmtion of currency to the national banks, and showed
that the white State of Massachusetts, with a population of
1,100,000, had 65,700,000 ; the State of Illinois, with twice
that population, only 6900,000. The people of the north-
ern Atlantic States held about two-thirds of the currency,
while the great agricultural States of the West had pro-
portionally less than their duo share. There is a great
wrong done here," said Governor Seymour, "at the very
basis of business prosperity. When the western dealer
in produce goes to the banker at Chicago, or other com-
mercial centres of the West, and offers a draft on an east-
ern city to get the currency to buy the wheat, beef, pork,
or wool of western farmers, ho is charged a monstrous in-
terest, and when he objects he is told that the banker can
do no better, that he has no currency of his own, that the
whole volume of currency authorized by Congress has
been taken up in the Eastern States. He must go East to
borrow currency, must pay interest for its use, and must
charge that interest, and another interest for 1114 own coin-

pensation. The produce dealer takes his enormous inte-
rest of the farmers that raise produce. This unwise distri-
bution of currency lies at the foundation of much ill-
feeling against the bondholders. There are other great
wrongs to which I will briefly allude. We say that
taxation should be equal upon every species of pro-
perty according to its real value. The Republicans say
so too. They declare in their fourth resolution that it is
duo to the lab-our of the nation that taxation should be
equalized. With this declaration upon their lips, will
they tell us why they make it unequal ? Why, for four
years, they have allowed this conceded injustice to remain
upon their statute books? They charge upon us that we
are in favour of repudiation. Have those who make this
charge frankly said how they intend to deal with the
public creditor? We have said that when the agreement
was that he should be paid in gold he should have it, and
when the contract did not so define, he should be paid in
money as good as that which we use for the sacred pur-
poses of paying our pensions or rewarding the toil of the
labourer. We have sought to place the claim of the pub-
lic creditor among the sacred things of the nation's faith. li
We have tried to sustain the policy of economy, which
should make his debt sure, and a wisdom which should.
place the nation's credit so high in the annals of the world
that the public pensioner, and ho who tails for the public
good in the workshop or field, should all be paid in cur-
rency made good by a wise conduct of public affairs." cio-
vernor Seymour went on to say that if the Democratic
party succeeded in this election it could of itself not make
or amend the laws. It would only be able to hold the
v;o'ent leaders of the Republican party in check. It
could do no revolutionary acts. So far as actual
power is concerned, the DeMocratic President would
stand ie the same position held by Andrew Johnson
Ris vigorous nature, his bold and resolute defence of con-
stitutional rights, his able assertions of the true principles
of government, have not saved him even from the violence,
of those opposed to him; much less has he been able to
inaugurate any invasive measures or any acts calculated
to disturb the public peace. Our hope is in the election
to put into the executive offices those who could stay the
tide of corruption ; those who could save from further in-
juries the system of constitutional government ; those who
could protect our people from legislative wrong. We feel,
too, that our success would be a rebuke by the American
people of the measures that have been condemned as
strongly by many loading Republicans and Republican
presses as by ourselves. If the candidates on our ticket
should be elected, and if they should prove capable, honest,
and true to their trusts, at another election the people of
the United States could go further and make a Democratic
House of Representatives. In time the character of the
Senate could be changed, and 1 believe the day is at hand
when the judgments and votes of the American people
will restore again to power that time-honoured party under
whose influences our country was made great and pros-
perous. None of these changes could be made violently.
None could endanger the public peace, but they would all
tend to promote the welfare and prosperity of these United
States.

General Blair does his best to neutralize what
Seymour achieves. He has been traversing Illinois
and blundering along in his attempts to explain
away sayings and writings which will not admit of
explanation. His Brodhead letter sticks to him like
an arrow well planted in a buffalo, of which the
poor wounded brute endeavours in vain to rid itself.
He predicted at St. Louis that if Grant were elected
he would " never leave the White House alive."
He did not mean that he would be assassinated,
although it looked uncommonly like it. What he
intended to convey was that Grant, like still water,
was very deep, that he would grasp the power en-
trusted to him and never surrender it ; in other
words, he would erect himself into an Emperor, and
never leave his palace till he was carried in state to
the tomb. Every one screams at poor Frank, and
all he has got by his nomination is a great deal of
bullying and the credit of having wrecked the
party. Even at St. Louis, where he lives, they
have refused to register him as a voter on the
ground of disloyalty. Senator Henderson spoke at
St. Louis on the 21st October, advocating a modi-
fication of the tariff, the withdrawal of the military
from the South, and the payment of Bonds in
greenbacks. He defended his Impeachment vote,
and said he would vote for Grant—very inconsis-
tently, as we think, with his programme. Indeed,
if the Democrats should be successful in electing the
State Legislature of Missouri, some predict that
Henderson will be the rival of Frank Blair for
U.S. Senator.