The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 168.

FOREIGN NOTES.

for the championship of the world commenced on
the morning of the 28th ultimo, at Lynnfield, Mas-
sachusetts,
sixteen miles from Boston. At 5 a.m.
the ring was pitched about the centre of the vil-
lage green, in front of the church. In the hotel, at
room No. 5, Wormald was being prepared for the
struggle, and his trainer soon got him ready.
O'Baldwin was first on the ground, and was
escorted by a large cortege of admirers, who were
betting $lOO to $5O on the giant, O'l3 ildwin. lie
shied his hat in the ring at 7 a.m., and the crowd
gathered all around. O'Baldwin took up his position
in the north-east corner, and the carriages formed a
large circle around the scene. Wormald, with Noble,
Allen, and Rooke, then entered the ring, taking his
position in the south-east corner. Wormald won
the toss for places, choosing it so as to throw the
sun in O'Bladwin's face. Before commencing
O'Baldwin offered Wormald to back himself for an
even hundred, which was declined. The first blood
was drawn by Wormald from O'Baldwin's mouth,
but the first fall was to O'BaNwin, who threw
Wormald, falling on him. As the referee called
time for the second round 62 policemen rushed on the
crowd, who all fled—carriages and carts—in a panic,
some persons leaving even their coats. Both gladiators
were arrested,and held over in heavybonds to answer
a charge of breach of the peace. The fight is said to
have been sufficiently long to show that Wormald
was the best man, as the betting changed from
being in O'Baldwin's favour to 2 to 1 against him.
We gather from the American papers some par-
ticulars with reference to the new steam line esta-
blished between New York and Italian ports. The
vessels belonging to the line are the Camilla,
Roxana, Miranda, Palmyra, Statira, and Sabrina.
The ships are first-class English screw steamers,
built expressly for the Mediterranean tr.tde, and it
is expected that the passage to a port in Italy will
be made in about twenty days. One of the steamers
of this line has left Naples for New York. A return
trip will be made about the 20th of November. If
sufficient freight offers the steamer will sail direct
for Italy, otherwise the steamer will touch at Eng-
land. At present the steamers will leave every
two weeks, but after the Ist of January it is in-
tended to make weekly trips.

The Democratic party, in anticipation of defeat,
have been harking angrily at each other. The
World says it is Frank Blair, while " Brick" Pome-
roy snarls at the World, predicting failure from the
way in which that paper has been conducted. Blair's
followers declare that they ought to have struck
boldly, placing Frank at the head, not at the tail, of
the ticket. Some maintain that Seymour's milk-and-
water Democracy was the cause, which attracted
none, and repelled thousands ; but most consider
that Blair's letter, backe.l by Wade Hampton, did
the business. The fact is that although enough of
the American people went in with the Democracy
to get up a respectable fight, they had no intention
of electing any other President, than Ulysses Grant.
Mr. Ashbury, who owns the Cambria, the yacht
which won the prize, beating the Sappho round the
Isle of Wight, has challenged the New York Club
to select a champion schooner to rua matches, so
arranged ,as to test every quality, and finally to
race from the isle of Wight to New York for £250.
He will then race the selected yacht round Long
Is!and for the Queen's Cup of 1851, won by the
America, Mr. Ashbury pitting against it a cup
valued at one hundred guineas. The Englishman
desires to test the qualities of his yacht in every
way, believing her to be unequalled; and as the
Sappho had not a fair trial it is to be hoped that his
challenge will be accepted.
His Excellency the British Minister at Washing-
ton took part in a game at cricket on the 24th ult.,
between a picked eleven from the Washington
Clubs and the entire British Legation, of whom it
is said Mr. Thornton was as goo' with his bat as
any. The Springfield Republican uses this for a
fling against Mr. Reverdy Johnson, sneering at the
idea of his being found playing Base Ball in Lon-
don, or going in to kick football with a mixed crowd
of students, clerks, and roughs—though it says
" perhaps he might even then be better ea ployel
than in making, bunc)mbe speeches, paying court
to English Tories, and fraternizing with the builder
of the Alabama."

A writ has been served from the Supreme Court
of the United States on the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, returnable the

first Monday in December, to show cause why the
name of Joseph 11. Beadley, stricken from the roll
of Attorneys of the District Supreme Court, should
not be restored to such roll. At the close of the
Surratt trial Judge Fisher ordered the name of Mr.

Bradley to be stricken from the roll, and subse-
quently the Cuurt in general term sustained Judge
Fisher. A suit has been instituted for libel by Mr.
Bradley against Judge Fisher in the Circuit Court,
the damages claimed being 2,000.
Postmaster-General Randall has issued an order

requiring all mail carriers in the service of the
United States to wear a uniform as prescribed by
law during the last Session of Congress. The Trea-
sury Department has directed that a duty of $2 50c
per pound, and 25 per ccut. ad valoremshall be
assessed on all cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots. A
hundred clerks were discharge." from the Second
Auditor's office on the Ist inst.
Some fighting has taken place with the Indians,
though General Sheridan reports that he has sent a
strong force after those of Kansas, but that they do
not venture to make aiy stand against it. Five
troops of the 10th Cavalry came into contact with
500 Indians on the 28th ult., 115 north-east of Fort
INi-tallacle'sis( oaf nnsaisn when the Red men were defeated
with a o e killed and many wounded.

TERRORISM IN THE SOO7II.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

It cannot be denied that the position of the
Southern States is such as to cause grave misgivings
among Northerners earnestly anxious to unite their
country in a genuine Union. The massacres of
negroes and the unrestrained and unpunished
murders of those stigmatized in the South as " car-
pet-baggers" and " scalawags," have had a further
effect beyon I that of so alarming the Northern
mind as to render hopeless the Democratic cause.
In several of these States, the Republicans, both
negroes and whites, have literally been frightened
into the enemy's ranks. Georgia has completely
swung round; Alabama is supposed to be going ;
and Louisiana, where the negroes muster strongest,
will soon be in the Democratic ranks, or in a sta'e
of civil war. Indeed, it may be said that civil war
has there already commenced. In St. Mary's p Irish,
on the IGth of October, the Sheriff was shot in his
hotel, and the patrol organized on the event, when
passing through the town, found the body of the
parish Judge, where he lay dead, in the street. The
New York World describes these murders as a
" bogus Judge and Sheriff killed in Louisiana," and
as a matter of course no arrests are made, though
it is known that many men were engaged in the
outrages. More than a hundred negroes are said to
have been killed in the St. Landry massacre, with
much the same impunity as if they had fallen in a
skirmish during the late war. Following on this
is the second outbreak in New Orleans, of which
the news by Cable only, has as yet arrived. The
office of a Republican newspaper called the Register,
published at Atakapas, in St. Mary's parish, was
sacked by the mob on Oct. 18, the press broken up,
and the type scattered, while the editor and printers
fled for their lives to New Orleans. Patrols go
about armed, and the State Government has created
a police force, which, at least New Orleans, where
there is a civic police, refuses to receive. The
rival bands an occupied in arresting each other,
and, pending the great excitement of the Presiden-
tial election, it was evident before the mail left
1 , that there would be bloodshed in the city. The
ridiculous atte:npt of the Louisiana Legislature to
place negroes on a social equality with the whites
by enactment, has added to the bad feeling existing,
though Governor WAMIOUTII vetoed the bill. It
requires time for the Southerner to get used to the
spectacle of negroes voting, and this cannot be has-
tened by placing his former slaves at the same table
with him at meals, and black and white children in
the same schools. Any such attempt—wicked even
in its absurdity, as things now stand—can lead only
t
to disaster. At Pine Bluff, in Arkansas, on the
I, 17th October, the Republican Deputy Sheriff of
I Drew County, was tied to a negro by the Ku-Klux,

and both killed at oae shot, which event the WOrld
thus reported, " A Carpet-bag deputy slain in Ar-
kansas." On the afternoon of the preceding day
a coloured Senator was standing on the platform of
a railroad car in Abbeville district, South Carolina,
when three men rode up and shot him dead. In
the same district, a native Southern member of the
House of Representatives, of Radical principles,
was killed in his carriage on his way home by a
disguised party ; and on the 11th October the Hon.
G. W. SMITH, a Republican delegate to the Texas
Convention, was leaving a meeting where he had
addressed his constituents, when he was fired upon.
He returned the fire while retreating to the quarters
of a small detachment of United States troops, but
this party was disarmed and SMITH killed, riddled
with bullets. We hope that such a state of things
will not out-last the Presidential election. Indeed,
there can hardly fail to he some change for the
better when a period of unusual excitement has
passed away. A question of the deepest interest will
then remain —Will the only scheme Congress has
been able to devise for securing to the negro the
freedom conferred upon him suffice for the pur-
pose—the Ballot? We think it will; provided,
and this is the very essence of the subject, the black
man acts with the greatest moderation and circum-
spection. At the present moment the whites are ex-
asperated by seeing negroes exercise political rights
of which many of their late owners are deprived, in-
deed sitting not only in the State Legislatures, but
in Congress. They are impulsive, unrestrained, and
reckless ; to shoot on sight, to arm, to band in
secret societies with quaint symbols, is in accord-
ance with their system, and they act up to their
instincts as might be expected. The provocation
is great, as must be acknowledged ; indeed so great
that it is difficult for those who do not understand
the South to appreciate it, and they are a race
little fitted quietly to endure. In consequence,
the position of the negro is such that no one with
ordinary sympathies, who recognizes in the black
man a family of the human kind can regard it
otherwise than with great concern and alarm,
and we feel confident that if SA 11130 will do what
the Southerner cannot do—restrain himself,—
patiently bearing the cruel situation in which he is
placed, that he will arouse in the North a feeling
of commiseration dangerous to trifle with. It must
be of more importance beyond comparison to the
Southerners than to the rest of the nation that
the two races should work together in har-
mony, which will be impossible so long as the
negroes and the whites who act with them
are shot like dogs. If this be continued, it will
lead to a war of races ; and already it is having the
effect of driving the negroes into the woods, where
some of them live like wild beasts, by which the
South is not only deprived of useful labour, but
upon society become fastened " chicken"-thieves
and cattle lifters. It is vain to suppose that the
negro race can be got rid of, for four millions can-
not be disposed of by emigration or by bullet, or.by
both combined, nor would it be for the benefit of
the Southerners thus to get quit of the field hands if
they could. States now in cultivation, where white
men cannot work, would revert to a wilderness, and
the great staples of cotton, sugar, and rice, would be
lost to the Union for ever. In the process of time the
whites will become used to what is now so strange—
the political and legal equality of the negro, and
feeling his weight in St ate affairs his vote will be
solicited. So long as the whites are not combined
against the blacks, which they will not be if the
latter are not thrust prominently against them, it is
in the nature of things that they split into parties or
factions, and this is the time when SAMBO'S aid will
be sought: Look at the effect of the Irish vote on
the Union—and knowing what the genuine feeling
about the Irish is, we see how the Ballot may force
men to court those they dislike, and in reality despise.
Although the difference is wide, it is still of the same
character, and perceiving in this instance how much
the Ballot may do for a nationality, hopes may rea-
sonably be entertained that if the Africans are pro-
perly directed, if they labour and economize
the fruits of their earnings, if they study and
educate their children, they will, after a period
of sharp trial, assume a position which will com-
mand respect and power in the Union. In
this they will be earnestly aided by the philan-
thropy of the Northern spirit, otherwise, such a
result might indeed be despaired of. But a result
so grand is worth the devotion of the lives of some
of the noblest-minded men in the Union, awl we
have not the shade of a doubt that hundreds exist
in the Northern States who would surrender all to
achieve such an object, and that hundreds more are
growing up who will be found equally ready to take
their place.

Our big " daily" brothers are snarling over Ame-
rican subjects, Texas furnishing one bone of con-
tention. A statement made by the correspondent of
the Daily News is denied by the American Minis-
ter, who asserts that there are not more acts of vio-
lence in Texas than occur in other States, or in any
other country. On this the Daily News republishes
what its correspondent said, not only maintaining
its truth, but that the correspondent who had lately
visited Texas knew more of the subject than Mr.
Johnson. The Standard, without perceiving that the
statement came from an American, not from the
" Radical paper," asks, satirically, "how should an
American know America so well as an English-
man ?" It is sufficient for a man to be born in New
York to be a guide to the Valley of the Yo Semite, a
pilot on the Hio Grande, or at home in the wig-
wams of the Red Indians ! For precisely the same
reason an American in New York must listen with
respect when Pat opens his mouth to tell of Crete,
and gives an opinion about the doings in Moscow, or
delivers judgment on the affairs of Spain. The
Standard overlooks the fact that America is a big
place, and that it does not follow, because a man
has lived a quarter of a century in Boston, that he
is familiar with the manners and customs of the
Texans. What Mr. Johnson said was, that, pre-
vious to leavingAmerica,he had for yearsbeen aUnited
States' Senator, and as such it was his business,
which he had not neglected, to acquaint himself with
every part of the country. His information regard-
ing Texas had come from the most reliable source,
and it was in contradiction to that of the correspon-
dent. Then the Daily News asserted that its man
had recently been there, and wrote of what he saw,
while all acknowledge, who have real his letters,
that few are more qualified to observe, as well
as record. On which the Standard, by way of a
sneer, puts the very strange question, How can
an American know America so well as an
Englishman ?" adding--" A journal which lately
placed Mr. Julian in the United States Senate, and
spoke of Senator Wade's seat being ' secure,' in
ignorance of the fact that he had been defeated
months before, has every claim to be considered an
authority." It is evident that the Standard picks
up the little mistakes of its contemporaries, and we
suppose keeps a black book against them ; but
whether Mr. Julian had a seat in the Senate, or
was only an Indiana Representative, has nothing
whatever to do with Texas. The question is,
whether Texas does or does not differ from Massa-
chusetts or other law-abiding States. The corre-
spondent of the Daily News has not, we believe,
exaggerated, and he can easily prove his statement.
On the other hand, Texas is one of the finest coun-
tries open for emigration, and his Excellency's
opinion was elicited in reference to it as such a field.
But though men are shot in the presence of United
States troops, as was the case with Mr. Smith on
the 11th October, for political opinions, though
brigandage is said to be rife over the country, yet,
peaceful, labouring emigrants may do well iu the
State, be hospitably welcomed, and left undisturbed
to pursue their avocations. 'That is another ques-
tion ; but it cannot be denied that men have been
shot literally iu hundreds in Texas without a single
punishment being inflicted by law, an .l when the
controversy reaches New York, the Daily News will
be supplied with ample proof of the correctness of
its correspondent's assertion. That gentleman
merely wrote of notorious facts, as we have often
done. The condition of, the Lone Star State has
been again and again touched on in this paper, and
often furnishes comment for some of the most re-
liable journals in America. At the same time the
splendi l field it offers for emigration formed the
subject of a series of articles which formerly ap-
peared iu these columns from the pen of a gentle-

man who had lived for many years in that State.
The following document bears on this subject :
Headquarters Fifth Military District., State of Texas,
Austin, Texas, Oct. 12, 1868.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 15.—0 n the night of Sunday,
the 4th inst., a body of about 120 armed men, wearing
masks and otherwise disguised, broke into the county
gaol at Jefferson, one of the most populous cities in Texas,
and murdered four prisoners there confined—one white
man and three freedmen. Similar outrages have been
perpetrated in various parts of the State, under circum-
stances which show a concert of organization and action
among bands of outlaws. Citizens, white and coloured,
have been warned by them to leave their homes, crops,
and property, within a specified time, on pain of being
murdered. Therefore it is hereby ordered that all civil
officers in this State, who aro empowered by law to make
arrests; also military commissioned officers of every
grade, on duty in this military district, arrest, on the spot,
any person wearing a mask or otherwise disguise]. Such
parties will be held in custody and the circumstances fully
reported to this Head-quarters for instructions. By com-
mand of

Brevet Major-General J. G. REYNOLDS.