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

ration of the Chicago Convention has perhaps pre-
vented a split in the Republican party which might
greatly have aided the Chief Justice. General
Hancock is more than ever spoken of, and
M'Clellan's chances are not as yet wholly ex-
tinct, nor are those of Mr. Pendleton. The diffi-
culty before the party is to name a man with
whom a Republican Congress would be able to
work. The House of Representatives and the
Senate remain Radical, whatever may be the Con-
servative success in the Presidential election, and
as the moderate people in the United States, whose
name is legion, do not desire a repetition of the
dead-lock which ended in Impeachment, they are
not likely to favour any ticket which will reproduce
the same result. The Democrats have a hard game,
and their wisest plan is to do what they are doing ;
that is, to keep dark, and to shape their course by
the light of coming events. The principle to which
Mr. Chase is committed, and which the Democrats
cannot swallow, is negro suffrage.

if the news fro:n New York is correct Salnave
had been driven by the Caco rebels into Port-au-
Prince, where, with 150 adherents, he seems to
have aided in the plunder of the stores of several
Americans. The Consul appealing to him for pro-
tection and meeting with a rebuff, sent. to Havannah
for American or British protection, and H. M.'s
gunboat Phcebe had left Jamaica to afford it.
Salnave had declared himself dictator, certainly a
strange moment for him to select, when he had fled
into the town before the Caco rebels ; and on
the sea two British men-of-war threatened
to bombard the city, if the persecution of
which the American Consul complained was not
stopped. By the last news we learn that the Cacos
rebels had surrounded the town, defeating General
Chevalier. Salnave had issued a proclamation,
stating that the Consulates would be attacked if
the refugees were sheltered, and extreme penalties
inflicted, The Consulates were crowded, and the
American Minister had demanded assistance from
Washington.
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention finally
adjourned on Monday, May 18, after adopting its
constitution as a whole, and providing that a com-
mittee of five can call the Convention together
again if necessary. The Legislature of Ohio has
adjourned till November 23, after a session of 160
days, at an expense of $115,000. The last act was
the passage of a bill prohibiting the Supreme Court
from considering out of the regular order any case
under the new law which denies the ballot to those
having visibly a mixture of African blood. This is
a sample of Democratic legislation in tampering
with the Supreme Court, for doing which the Re-
publican Congress was so violently denounced. As
the Court is two years behind on its docket, it will,
if this bill stands, be impossible to bring before the
Judge a case to test the constitutionality of these
restrictions on suffrage for at least two years.
Our last news of Secretary Stanton was that he
took the unexpected result of Impeachment with
the same stolidity which he had maintained through-
out. When the mail left it was not certain what
his action would be, but it was known that he would
await the verdict on the remaining Articles of Im-
peachment and then decide. The difficulty of the
Government would have been great had Stanton
persisted in retaining office, for the Tenure-of-Office
Act is not affected by the verdict, which does not
confer upon the President the right to make ad in-
terim appointments. We know by telegram what
his course has been : that he resigned on Andrew
Johnson's acquittal on the second.ancl third Articles
—that Lorenzo Thomas took possession of the War
Office ad interim—tbat General Schofield's appoint-
ment was confirmed by the Senate on the 30th May,
removing that difficulty, and allowing the wheels of
Government once more to run smoothly.
The Soldiers and Sailors' National Convention
met at Chicago, May 19, to transact its business
prior to the meeting of the National Convention.
It was composed of 400 men who had actually
served in the field or in the fleet during the war,
and they mustered from every part. They met at
Turner's Hall, marching in procession on their way
to the building. As most were active Republican poli-
ticians, the " recreant" Senators caught it. Scarcely
had the assembly met before they burst into thesong
" Old Grimes is Dead," in which all joined to the
music of a band. General Fairchild, Governor of
Wisconsin, was made temporary chairman, and
General John A. Logan, Congressman, from
Illinois, was elected. permanent President of the
Convention. Among those who spoke was General
Grant's father; and General John Cochrane, of
New York, came out conspicuously in denunciation
of the " recreants," calling upon the lowa soldiers
to dig a deep grave in which to bury the " dead
Grimes," and, to the infinite satisfaction of all, he
desired the musicians to play the " Rogue's March."
the business of the Convention was then transacted,
which was mainly to nominate Grant for President,
as the choice of the Soldiers and Sailors of the Union,
to pledge their support to the Republican party, to
declare in favour of the Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson, and to denounce the Senators who voted
his acquittal. It was also resolved that naturalized
citizens should be protected abroad alike with the
native born. Generals Gregg, Sickles, Logan,
Pleasanton, Hartrauft, and Hawley were elected
as a committee to tender to Geu. Grant the nomi-
nation, and to present him with a copy of the reso-
lutions. No candidate for the Vice-Presidency was
named, as a wide difference of opinion existed in
this as in the National Convention, which was left
untrammelled to work out the result.

A curious piece of inconsistency may probably
have been observed at Chicago during the meeting
of the Convention. The Sherman House was the
headquarters of the Radical delegates, but the rules
of the Sherman House forbid the admission of
coloured persons. The Radical delegates, therefore,
from the South, amongst whom are some negroes,
must, if the rules were observed, have been excluded.
There is something supremely ridiculous in men sent
by the citizens of their States, being accepted as good
enough to cast a vote for the nomination of candi-
dates to govern the United States, but who are not
considered good enough in a social way to sit at the
same table as their colleagues.
It is said that over £6,000,000 in specie has been
already shipped from the commencement of the
year from New York for England, and although
the price of gold is stiffening the exports still con-
tinue on an extensive scale. The City of London,
which left New York, May 30, for Liverpool, had
on board $1,000,000, the steamers leaving for
Europe, June 2, took $600,000 in specie, and those
which started next day had on board $1,300,000
in specie, and on Thursday $350,000.
The accounts from the West are not favourable
to emigration. Omaha, it is said, is overflowing
with Eastern men in search of employment, many
in great want. The. Pacific Railroad Company,
although it has reduced the wages of the labourer to
$1 25c. a-day, is overrun with applications for
work. Yet the disposition to get West is still so
strong that the rush continues, and could the
stream be carried into the mining districts, instead
of being brought to a stand at Omaha, much good
would result, both to the country and to the
emigrants.

The weather up to this point has been all that
could be desired . for the harvest. The price of
wheat has ant is falling considerably, while the
value of stocks, shares, and other property is on
the rise. Gold is accumulating in the Bank vaults,
and France bids fair to see a pile in the Bank at
Paris such as was never before seen ; for if the
harvest of France turns out as expected, it is not
impossible that it will reach, fhe pile not exceed, the
vast sum of fifty millions sterling. Mr. James Saun-
dersoa, a well-known writer upon agriculture, in
an estimate of thl wheat crop iu England, states
that, if the existing favourable appearances are
maintained, the enormous yield of wheat in the
harvest of 1833 will be reproduced in 1868, and
that by the first week of July new wheat will be
in the market.

One hundred copies of Mr. Horace Greeley's
"History of the Anrirican Conflict" have been placed
in the hands of Messrs. Stovans Brothers, of Covent
Garden, by the author, for distribution amongst
the most frequented public libraries of Great Britain
and Ireland. Mr. Greeley's intention in making
this gift is best expressed in his letter of instruc-
tion : "to proffer to the British people, through their
most popular libraries, the moans of making themselves
acquainted with the causes, nature, and incidents of our