The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-01 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEIVS.

(From the Anglo-Amf,rican, Times.)
The cable messages have this week been of un-
usual interest. The Chicago Republican Conven-
tion completed its ticket by naming the Spe3ker of
the House of Representatives, Mr. Schuyler Coif Ix,
for the Vice-Presidency, a nomination which will
strengthen the Grant ticket. It was, pretty well
known that Wade had lost his chance, the delay in
the Impeachment Trial having been fatal to his
prospects. The running lay between Senator
Wilson and Speaker Colfax, the former being
strongly supported by the New England States.
Every day's delay was injurious to Mr. Wade's
interests, as the reaction against the gross proceed-
ings of the politicians and office-seekers to coerce
the Republican Senators who had signified their in-
tention of voting against the Impeachment charges
was hourly increasing. The nomination shows the
intention of the Republican party to throw over its
more violent members, and had Mr. Wade been sel-
ected, we feel sure that the split now threatened
would have been inevitable.

Amongst the resolutions passed by the Nationa.
Republican Convention the most important is the
unanimous denunciation of repudiation. This
settles the question as far as that party can settle it.
The rise in Government bonds is marked, Five-
twenties on Thursday evening almost touching
112. This with the acquittal of the President has
strengthened the United States Securities both at
home and abroad, but as far as the bonds are con-
cerned the declaration of the Convention is of far
the greater importance.
Mr. Seward, impressed, we presume, with what
was the general belief till lately, that there would be
a thorough change in the Government at Washing-
ton, and desirous of leaving no great foreign ques-
tion unsettled, has been busily engaged with the
British Ambassador, Mr.- Thornton, and has nearly
completed treaties to settle the Alabama claims
and the rights of naturalized citizens. The latter is
supposed to be based on the terms of the treaty
negotiated between the United States and Prussia.
It was when the last mail left so nearly finished
that the President, it was thought, would be able
this month to submit it to the Senate. The delay
is owing to the British Ambassador, who could not
but regard the Government at Washington as in
the highest degree insecure, and had no fancy to
recommence his work with a Wade Cabinet. The
vote of the 16th, followed by that of the 26th on
Impeachment, will settle the question, and enable
Mr. Thornton to act with confidence.
The Pall-Mall Gazette undertakes to explain
what Mr. Bright meant by his somewhat testy
denial of the statement that he is an adherent of
American principles, but we would prefer to have
that gentleman's own explanation. We certainly
were surprised at the emphatic manner in which
he repudiated what Mr. Liddell said on Thursday
evening in the House of Commons. The Pall-Mall
at the same time undertakes to correct English igno-
rance of American affairs, and instances " the confu-
sion betrayed when the public are informed that the
nomination of Mr. Colfax as Vice-President by the
Chicago Convention is a sign of the declining
power of the Radical party, whereas there is no
Radical in all America more thorough than Mr.
Colfax." But the nomination, notwithstanding the
Pall Mall Gazette, is an indication that the extreme
section of the Republican party did not sway the
Convention, or Wade would have been th. 3 man
chosen. Colfax was selected not so much because
he was advanced in his ltepublican opinions, as be-
cause he combines honesty with intelligence in no
ordinary degree. The imes is certainly wrong, as
alleged by the Pall lllalt, in condemning President
Johnson for the re-appointment of Gen. Thomas. If
Stanton resigned, as he had so long threatened,
and from doing which he has been restrained with
difficulty, Lorenzo Thomas would naturally and
without further orders from the President take
possession of the War-office. But we do not know
whether the President may not, on learning the de-
cision of the Senate on the second and third Ar-
ticles have, directed Thomas to take possession, in
which case the Times would not be far out. Can
the Pall Mall tell us what the position would have
been if Stanton had continued " to stick ?"
Duels are in fashion, as another has come off near
Baltimore, in which both parties were wounded.
The affair was between Colonel P. H. Green, of
Missouri, and Daniel G. Wright, of Baltimore.
On the 13th May the Arkansas Admission Bill
was called up in the Senate. When debated in the
House Thaddeus Stevens stated that there were im-
portant reasons which he could not then mention
why the Representatives should at once pass it. Se-
nator Trumbull opposed any departure from the
ordinary practice, which required its reference to
the Judiciary Committee: Senator Johnson took
the same view, and said it would look to the coun-
try, although he did not believe such was the inten-
tion, as if the hasty admission of Arkansas was de-
signed to influence the vote on Impeachment. Se-
nator Dixon contended that nothing should be done
which would admit of such a question being raised.
Senator Edmunds favoured a reference to the Com-
mittee, and added that Republican Senators should
do nothing that would render them liable to sus-
picion. Senators Morton and Harlan declared that
there was no intention of taking such advantage of
the admission of the Arkansas Senators as was sug-
gested, and then the Bill was referred to the Judi-
ciary Committee, and its early consideration pro-
mised. In both Houses it was urged by the De-
mocrats against this Bill that the object was to
bring in the Senators of the Southern States to vote
on Impeachment.
On the 14th May a bill was introduced into the
House of Representatives which has been christened
the Omnibus Reconstruction Bill, containing as it
did so many States, and being as it was, forced
through under the operation of the previous ques-
tion—to admit North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Louisiana, and Alabama to representation
in Congress. These States are to be received after
the ratification of the proposed fourteenth amend-
ment to the Federal Constitution, and upon the
fundamental condition that their people shall never
disfranchise any recognised as citizens by the Con-
stitutions framed by the Convention, nor exact in-
voluntary labour except as a punishment for crime.
The provision was introduced that the debts due to
loyal persons of Georgia, before June, 1865, shall
stand good. The President is instructed to make
official proclamation within ten days after the rati-
fication by the several Southern Legislatures of the
fourteenth amendment. The House refused to
strike Alabama out, though that State had not
complied with the Reconstruction laws, and the
bill as passed goes to the Senate for concurrence.
The Nation discusses the five Governors elect of
the Reconstructed States, of whom four are North-
ern men, W. W. Holden only being a South-
erner, as he was born in North Carolina. Mr.
Bullock, of Georgia, is a Northerner ; Mr. War-
mouth, of Louisiana, was born in Illinois, and
served during the war. Ile is described as a ready
speaker, who had been an active politician among the
negroes ; Mr. Harrison Reed, of Florida, is also a
Western man, and was one of the Direct-tax Com-
missioners for that State. General Scott, of South
Carolina, is a Westerner of the Westerners, a clear-
headed, practical man, in the prime of life, a good
soldier, as sensible-in political ideas as he was in the
field, and the Nation will be disappointed if he
does 1.19 t prove an excellent Governor. At the same
time it records its repugnance to these elections of
Northern men for high places in the Southern
$t mob Ihe South ought to furnifikherownplors,