The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-22 00:00:00

THE, ./.TN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 1868.

GENERAL GRANT'S LETTER.

" Washington, D.C., May 29, 18G8.
" To General Joseph R. Hawley, President of the
National Union Republican Convention :

" In formally accepting the nomination of the
National Union Republican Convention of the 21st
of May inst., it seems proper that some statement
of views, beyond the mere acceptance of the nomi-
nation, should be expressed. The proceedings of the
Convention were marked with wisdom, moderation,
and patriotism, and I believe express the feelings of
the great mass of those who sustained the country
through its recent trials. I indorse their resolutions.
If elected to the office of President of the United
States, it will be my endeavour to administer all
the laws in good faith, with economy, and with the
view of giving peace, quiet, and protection every-
where. In times like the present, it is impossible,
or at least eminently improper, to lay down a policy
to be adhered to, right or wrong, through an admi-
nistration of four years. New political issues, not
foreseen, are constantly arising ; the views of the
public on old ones are constantly changing, and a
purely administrative officer should always be left
free to execute the will of the people. I always
have respected that will, and always shall. Peace,
and universal prosperity, it sequence, with econo-
my of 411:niniitration, will lighten the burden of
taxation, while it constantly reduces the national
debt. Let us have peace.—With great respect,
yoar obedient servant, " U. S. GP.ANT."

THE LETTER. OF SPEAKER COLFAX.

" Washington, D.C., May 3), 18GS.

" The Hon. J. R. Hawley, President of the Na-
tional Union Republican Convention :—Dear
Sir,— -The platform adopted by the patriotic Con-
ventint over which you presided, and the resolu-
tions which so happily supplement it, so entirely
agree with my views as to a jest national policy
that my thanks are due to the delegates, as much
for this clear and auspicious declaration of princi-
ples, as for the nomination with which I have been
honoured and which I gratefully accept. When a
great rebellion, which imperilled the national exist-
ence, was at list overthrown, the duty of all others
devolving on those intrusted with the responsibili-
ties of legislation evidently was to require that the
revolted States should be re-admitted to participa-
tion in the Government against which they had
warred only on such a basis as to increase and
fortify, not to weaken or endanger, the strength
and power of the nation. Certainly no one
ought to have claimed that they should be read-
mitted under such a rule that their organization
as States could ever again be used, as at the open-
ing of the war, to defy the national authority, or
destroy the. national unity. This principle has
been the pole star of those who have inflexibly
insisted on the Congressional policy your Conven-
tion so cordially indorsed. Baffled by executive
opposition and by persistent refusals to accept any
plan of reconstruction proffered by Congress, jus-
tice and public safety at last combined to teach us
that only by an enlargement of suffrage in those
States could the desired end be attained, and that it
was even more safe to give the ballot to those who
loved the Union than to those who had sought, in-
effectually, to destroy it. The assured success of
this legislation is being written on the adam Int of
history, and will be our triumphant vindication.
" More clearly, toe, than ever before does the
nation now recognize that the greatest glory of a
republic is, that it throws the shield of its protec-
tion over the humblest and weakest of its people,
and vindicates the rights of the poor and the
powerless as faithfully as those of the rich and
powerful. I rejoice, too, in this connection, to find
in your platform the frank and fearless avowal that
naturalized citizens must be protected abroad, at
every hazard, as though they were native born. Our
whole people are foreigners, or descendants of
foreigners. Our fathers established by arms their
right to be called a nation ; it remains for us to
establish the right to welcome to our shores all
who are willing by oaths of allegiance to become
American citizens. Perpetual allegiance, as claimed
abroad, is only another name for perpetual bond-
age, and would make all slaves to the sod where
first they saw the light. Our national cemeteries
prove how faithfully these oaths of fidelity to their
adopted land have been sealed in the life-blood of
thousands upon thousands. Should we not, then,
be faithless to the dead if we did not protect their
livine, brethren in the full enjoyment of that na-
tionality for which, side by side with the native
born, our soldiers of foreign birth laid down their
I lives ? It was fitting, too, that the representatives of
a party which had proved true to national duty in time
of war should speak so clearly in time of peace for
the maintenance, untarnished, of the national hon-
our, national credit, and good faith as regards its debt,
the cost of our national existence. Ido not need to
extend this reply by further comment on a platform
which has elicited such hearty approval throughout
the land. The debt of gratitude it acknowledges
to the brave men who saved the Union from destruc-
tion, the frank approval of amnesty, based on re-
pentance and loyalty, the demand for the most
thorough economy and honesty in the government,
the sympathy of the party of liberty with all
throughout the world who long for the liberty we
here enjoy, and the recognition of the sublimeprin-
ciples of the Declaration of Independence, are
worthy of the organization on whose banners they
are to be written in the coming contest.
" its past record cannot be blotted out or forgot-
ten. If there had been no Republican party, sla-
very would to-day cast its hateful shadow over the
Republic. If there had been no Republican party,
a free press and free speech would be as unknown
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande as ten years
ago.. If the Republican party could have been
stricken from existence when the banner of rebel-
lion was unfurled, and when the response of " No
coercion" was heard at the North, we would have
had no nation to-day. But for the Republican
party daring to risk the odium of tax and draft laws
our flag could not have been kept flying in the field
until the long-hoped-for victory came. Without a
Rep rblican party the Civil Rights Bill, the guaran-
tee of equality under the law to the humble and the
defenceless as well as to the strong, would not be to-
day upon our national statute book. With such
inspiration from the past, and following the example
of the founders of the Republic, who called the vic-
torious General of the Revolution to preside over
the land his triumphs had saved from its enemies, I
cannot doubt that our labours will be crowned with
success, and it will be a success that shall bring re-
stored hope, confidence, prosperity, and progress,
South as well as North, West as well as East, and,
above all, the blessings, under Providence, of na-
tional concord and peace.—Very truly yours,

" SCIIUYLEP. COLFAX."

Senator Grime has replied to the scandals elm,-
lated in the West arising out of his vote for ac-
quittal, and his plain, straightforward statement is
worth recording :

" Washington, May 26, 1868.
" It is not true that I have now, or ever h td, any

hostility to Mr. Wade. I never hal the slightest
misunderstanding with li)n in my life. It is not
true that I have ever sought to be, or ever desired
to be, a candidate for Vice-President, or President
pro tempore of the Senate. It is not true that Chief
Justice Chase sought to influence my judgment in
the Impeachment trial. I never had a word of
conversation with the Chief Justice on that subject,
nor on the subject of a new party or of any
political party, nor did he ever mention the subject
of the Presidency to me. I have not been in the
house of the Chief Justice for more than two years.

"It is not true that I have ever been dissatisfied
with the It2,construction plan of Congress. So far
from it, I was one of the seven Senators who were
members of the joint Committee on reconstruction
and signed the report. was Chairman of the Sub-
Committee on the State of Tennessee, and it was
upon my recommendation that that state was so
early restored to the Union.
" It is not true that I am now, or ev,r was, either
directy or indirectly, interested in the Chicago
Tribune newspaper. Ido not know, nor ever have
known, how the Tribune corps is organized, what is
its capital, who are its stockholders, or the value of
its stock. Nor have I ever sought to influence the
course of that paper on any measure, public or
private. lam sorry to be compelled to add that
the story so circumstantially related and published
that the wife of the editor of that paper is my
daughter is not true.
"It is not true that I ever had the slightest
sympathy with the general policy of Mr. Johnson's
administration. I have had no personal intercourse
with Mr. Johnson for two years ; never asked him
for a favour, and never received one from him.

"It is true that when 1 took an oath that in all
things appertaining to the trial of the Impeach-
ment of tndrew Johnson I would render impartial
justice according to the Constitution and the laws,'
I ceased to act in a representative capacity. I be-
came a judge, acting on my own responsibility,
and accountable only to my own conscience and
my Maker; and no power could force me to decide
in such a case, contrary to my convictions, to suit
the requirements of a party, whether that party
were composed of my friends or my enemies.

" JAMES W. GRIMES."

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The Senate has passed a bill creating a new Ter-
ritory of Wyoming, which consists of portions of
Idaho, Colorado, and the Indian territory. The
attempt to name it Lincoln was frustrated by those
who desired to preserve the Indian name. On the
sth June the Chamber also passed and sent to the
[louse a bill providing that contracts for payment
in gold shall hereafter be valid ; an enactment of
great importance to commeree,.as traders may now
leg-Lily base such operations as they choose, on a
gold medium. Before this Act such c mtracts could
not be enforced, they were a mere matter of honour
between the parties ; and in C itS3 of dishonesty, of
bankruptcy, or of death, such agreements were
worthless in law, greenbacks being a legal tender
for the amount. Our readers may remember th it
Thad. Stevens quote 1 an instance in approval of the
action in his celebrated letter, recommending repu-
diation, wherein a person who- had expressly stipu-
lated to pay in gold paid in greenbacks, and in this
was supported by the court. It is thought that this
law will greatly lesson the practical inconvenience
of an inconvertible paper currency, but it may
thereby retard the rerurn to specie payment. This
is, however, a mere conjecture, for if a large por-
tion of the mercantile transactions of the country
be based on gold, it may facilitate the change. A
bill of great importance has co:ne up from the Re-
presentatives, which allows imports to pass direct
to the interior posts of the country, making St.
Louis and Cincinnati ports of entry fur collection
districts, &c.
We regret to see by the report that the Panama,
New Zealand, and Australian line of steamers does
not pay. The revenue for the year was £293,107,
and the disbursements £326,991, exclusive of
£24,423 for interest on debentures, leaving a total
deficiency of £55,315, which, with the former ad-
verse balance of £9,551, raises the sum at the debit
of profit and loss to £61,893. This unsatisfactory
result is at least in part attributable to the fear of
yellow fever in the West Indies last autumn, and
to the bad reputation for salaboity of the Isthmus,
people not being able to overcome the dread
that they may by some accident be detained
there. If the company can hold on for a year
or two more they will be all right, for their
port then, whether they like it or not, must be San
Francisco; and they will undoubtedly, when the
Union Pacific Railroad is completed, carry all the
more wealthy New Zealand and Australian passen-
gers. If they would amalgamate with the New
Zealand Steam Navigation Company, and make
their terminus San Francisco, they might have a
great future ; but whatever may be the fate of this
company, nothing can prevent :the eventual esta-
blishment of a line between the Australian and
California. Perhaps the American Government
might aid the company if they made this change in
their port of departure.

General Sanborn, President of the Indian Peace
Commission, concluded a treaty with the principal
chiefs of the Sioux on the 25th May, and ho was
about to conclude others with chiefs then waiting at
Laratnie. He thinks there will be no further diffi-
culties this summer along the Union Pacific Rail-
road, nor have there been any during the past four
weeks. The pending treaty with the Osage Indians
in Kansas had been completed, by which the re-
maining land is ceded to the Government, and the
tribe removes to the Indian territory on increased
annuities. Two of the tribe were arrested, and are
to be tried, for murdering two white men in Butler
county, Kansas. The Indians in New Mexico are
still very hostile, and several settlers have been
killed, and. others have petitioned General Grant
for the protection of an efficient mounted force. In
Paradise Valley, California, Captain Munson, with
fifty men of the 9th Infantry, defeated a party of
Indians, killing and wounding several.
In the sitting of the North German Parliament,
on the 13th instant, the bill for the institution of
the decimal system of weights and measures was
adopted. The metre is to be the basis of measure-
ment, and the mile, as a measure of distance, will
consist of 7,500 metres. The law is to come into
operation on the Ist January, 1872. The bill intro-
duced into Congress to bring the United States into
the system, as regards International Coinage, has been
amended, so far as to secure its adoption, and bring
it into harmony with that already so widely in
force over the European Continent. The two are
intimately associated, as there is no such measure
and no such weight as coin, and that adjusted all
others will quickly be made uniform. The diffi-
culty of assimilating the gold currency of the Union
to the system recommended by the Convention held
last year in Paris was in compensating creditors for
the depreciation of about three per cent. in the
value of the gold coinage. This has, we believe,
been overcome, and America is in a fair way to
enter the system.
There has lately been a strange Convention held in
Missouri. It consisted of editors of the Republican
party, who met to pledge themselves to express only
their own thoughts on political questions, and not to
accept the thoughts forwarded from Congressional
politicians, nor to advocate everything sent to them
by the caucases in Washington. However ridiculous
it may appear, if the principle spreads, and is really
acted on, it will work a great revolution. The
party power in America is so strong, because it is ad-
mirably organized, the leaders being narrowed down
to a few individuals, who give the ideas on which
nearly every one must work, with a despotism which
would be tolerated in but few other co.intriet.
Thenceforth, were the Missouri " platform " gene-
rally adopted by editors, the party would be hell
together by a few grand principles an 1 objects, and
individuals might differ freely on minor points. Then
it would not be easy to direct the whirlwind against
such men as the " recreant" Senators, for the editors,
when they thought out the subject for themselves,
would not be likely to condemn the course, while a
man who really behaved badly could look for but
little countenance from the Press. The number of
Republican newspapers who supported me.i like
Trumbull and Fessenden shows how many there

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are guided by. the independent opinions of their
Editors, but the miss seek in their letter-boxes fur
opinions, and act with fidelity on the irupresslol39
thus received.

A special committee to inquire into the charge,
brought against Mr. Donnelly, by Mr. Washbnrne, and
which led to the "slang-wanging" which we lately el;
:nented upon, reports that Mr. Washburno withdraws all
his charges, and everybody is whitewashed, and all thiails
Are lovely and very nice indeed.
Previous to the arrival of the Baltimore last
Tuesday off Cowes, ou her way to Bremen, the passouVr4
presented a complimentary address to Captain Voeel,h3ri
thanking him and his ofii,:ers for the care and attontie3
tevoted to them during the passage, and wishing success
,0 the new Baltimore line.

The New York Citizen is inconsolable Over the
!oss of a charming family who left New York b 9 the
,Scotia for a two years' visit to Europe. Mrs. Ricll3l.-
A
Lawrence, of Twenty-third-street, and her two daughtell
'orm the theme of an article, wherein the Citizen declare°
itself to be disconsolate and determined not to be con,-
i'orted by any event short of their return. The loss to
America will be a gain to Eurcpe, and while welcetniog
the ladies, whose safe arrival we announce, We desire t°
console the Citizen by the reflection that it is an ill Willa
that blows nobody good.
_ _

Colonels W. Archer Cocke and W. 0. Girarde3ll,
lately had a street encounter, at Monticello, Florida, and
Girardeau was shot through the body, the wound heleg
fatal. Colonel Cock() was formerly of Richmond, Vir-
ginia,, and has considerable fame as a lawyer and author.
Ex-Governor Thomas H. Seymour has gone t 4
Laurel Hill, North Carolina, to deliver the annual acidly"'
at the college there.
Chief Justice Chase is engaged in the trial °E,
causes on the Civil Docket in the United States Court s'
Richmond, and will remain about ten days. Many Pr°.
minent citizens have paid their respects to him.
Governor Burnside was elected President of the
Narragansett Steamship Company,—known better as the
Bristol line, at the stockholders' meeting in Providence'
The action of the directors in reducing fares was sustained'
Instead of losing, the company is making money rapid
Oa Monday, June 1, its boats convoyed 3,000 passenger°,
both ways, between Bristol and New York.
Woolley, the contumacious witness, is confined
in Miss Vinnie Ream's room in the Capitol, which she had
occupied as a studio, the Managers thus killing two De-
mocratic birds with one stone. He is allowed to see hi°
wife, his physician, and his lawyer, and rather enjoys
notoriety, intending, it is even said, to run for Congress I_ll
the autumn for his district in Ohio on the strength of tilt!
imprisonment. The Tribune says that Woolley's ituPri
sonment is all right, but protests against his being shut np
with Vinnie Ream's statue of Lincoln, because it coins
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under the head of the cruel and unusual punishment
the Constitution forbids.

The Republicans of West Virginia have neull..
tinted William E. Stevenson for Governor, General 1. t.,
Duvall for Congress from the first district, and J.
McGrew from the second.
The Impeachment trial of Canal Commissioner
Dorn, of New York, is progressing at Albany, whenever 5
quorum of the Senate can bo got together, but it is C 011:
ducted with very little spirit and is not likely to amount,'
much.
Mr. Collector Smythe, of New York, has net
resigned, notwithstanding the suggestions of in my int
ential papers. The San thinks, "had he been gifted
sight feeling, he would have retired at the time of ldre:,,,
Perry's scandal." The Nation says, We excused ball
f his share in that affair, however, on the ground that be
tild just taken his first plunge into politics'—as this d's;
;listing jobbery and intrigue is called—an I in ceuniving
,1H misappropriation of the public funds, simply di
what his predecessors had been doing, and what, undo
the preset system, any collector must do to keep
place. Bat the bribing of Senators in an Lupeachtlis°;
trial is something entirtly novel, and is not, under an/
existing theory or practice, a legitimate porti n of the
duties of a United States collector of customs. Iu `coo'
suiting' upon it—if consult' he did— Mr. Smythe dreg
from his own private fountain of wickedness, and elf,:
therefore again suggest that he either answer Mr. Wee `—t
charge, or pay his neighbours a small tribute of resPnc
by resigning."
Nathaniel Bagshaw.Ward, the inventor of Wr3l:
dian cases, by which many most interesting exotic plan"'
have been introduced into this country, and which bar:
enabled so ninny to cultivate ferns iu their own room
with delight and instruction, died, at the age of 77, at
Leonard's, on the 4th inst.
Horace Greeley is in Washington, consulting'
it is said, with the Republicans ou the coming Presidential
election campaign.
During the debate in the House of Commons last
week on the Married Women's Property Bill, Mr. 31e119
stated that there are 800,000 women in the reeeipt o.
weekly wages in factories. The husbands have an abse'a
lute right to the earnings of those women, and may seen
everything in drink to the detriment of wife and children'
As an illustration of what continually occurs, Mr. Jacob
Might mentioned the case of a man who had married
woman with a good business, and who sold off her steel'
and furniture and went to America, leaving her destitute'
He also mentioned another ease, in which an elderly lea
had been married to a man considerably her junior, wile
was deserted after her property had been wasted, and w4°
died in a workhouse.
Mrs. Mary Carpenter delivered an interesting
address in Islington on Thursday night on the importance
of "Female Education in India." She intends establishing
a normal school for female teachers at Bombay, employing
her own money and all the funds she can command for the
purpose. Her aim is a purely secular and moral traini°o
of the young women of India. A distinguished Parse
spoke at the meeting.
Major George A. Hickman, formerly Adjutant
of the Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, is prePari9v
a memoir of Major-General Hancock.
A petition has been presented in the House 0
Representatives for the removal of the United States Jn,n4dg
..
Busteed of Alabama, for alleged incompetency and
honesty in office.
George Francis Train was not fortunate in 13i0
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reception at the Liverpool Exchange, out of which ".0
was hissed on Wednesday, but he met an enthusias`ti
welcome from a large audience of Irishmen in the Concer
Hall. Ho told them he was to be the next President,
of the United States, that he had the promise of
million of Irish votes, and he enumerated at length
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not only what ho had done for America,'but for Ireland'
Ile regarded Mr. Gladstone as the Head-Centre of
Pianism, and he had no doubt that in ten years`:
Disraeli would bo the President of the English P,
public. Three groans were given on his call for tii a
assassination of King Theodore, and he rather surprinem
his hearers, who are not in the habit of reading the Iret:l2o
and the Revolution by describing the things ho had done, "10
style of man he was, the terror he had excited ill t;
British Government as the scathing denouncer of bigotry
and intolerance, and the post to which he aspired. he
The following nominations have been sent to to
Senate by the President:—H. G. Worthington toof
Minister Resident in the Argentine Republic, in PIS%-,401
Gen. Asboth, deceased ; Thaddeus P. Mott to be ALtilifit
Resident at Costa Rica, in place of Lawrence, removed •04
fighting a duel with an Attachd of the Prussian Le's:fit;
at Washington. who has been reported to his Goyertftn,-511
Rear-Admiral J. A. Dahlgren to be Chief of the Thwe'd;
of Ordnance, in place of Capt. Henry A. Wise, resign uti
Commodore Thomas Turner to be Rear-AdiniraVo.
Capts. A. M. Pennock and John L. Worden to be v°
modores. •hott
Mr. Union Adams, the well-known niere.— 00
has been jocosely nominated for the Presidency bY
New Fork Tribune. The Citizen says the joke is not vot
apparent. Mr. Adams, who is the President of the Eigas
National Bank, is one of the most successful business iii
Of this city, and has no political aspirations.
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[ADvEnnsEmENT.]—Holloway's Pills. --Safety eritdirt
Dangers.—Surrounded on all sides by the causes of
ease man must keep up a constant watch if he would il.O
servo or recover his health. These purifying pills fires' op'
the most certain and effectual means of removing fill
bey
noxious matters from the blood at the same time that thti#
regulate any disordered actions which their presence, of
induced. The harmless and strengthening balsa:new
which Holloway's pills are composed render thentl)
Early well adapted for the young and delicate, who sir'
with impunity bear only tender treatment. In thn,dAli
sery this mild aperient and universal purifier sholl,llo'
wad s be at hand. In rising families attention to t-''''veet
way's directions and their early application will pre
much future evil.

Births.
liter.llll
DAWSON—On the 19th'inst., at 3, Spa-place, Cholt
the wife of Major A. 11. Dawson, R.A., of a
LEE—On the 19th inst., at Pawk Farm, Romford, 865-
the wife of Mr. Joseph Lee, of a son and heir. „ri‘t
TINLEY— On the 19th iust., at Park-side, Princes's r„
.
Liverpool, the wife of Lt.-Col. R. J. Tinley, of a se'
Marriages. felif
GA MULL —BALDwiN7—On the 18th inst., at Cove Clo'6
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Kinsale, Gerald M. Gaskell, Esq., Lieut. I/.3151 147
Regiment, second son of J. M. Gaskoll, Esq., 31.,*:1;401
Anna Louisa, youngest daughter of Godfrey
Esq., of Brookfield, county Cork. e:1
Ito WE —A LLPRESS ---On the 18th just at -St. Ge°rto
Tufnell-park, John William, ellest son of the late -o,y,
Rowe, of Change-alley, and St. Paul's-road, CanoletoJ'
to Katherine Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the
Allpres3, of Islington and Tufnell-park.

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