The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 28,. 1868

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Last week we noticed Derrick's invention the
Steam Man, which has since excited considerable
interest in England. Mr. Derrick, of Newark,
New Jersey, has succeeded in making au engine in
the form of a man move at the rate of 30 miles an
hour. He walks or runs, drawing a carriage with
the power of four horses. He is 7feet 9 inches high,
200 inches round the waist, 500 lbs. in weight, with
his hat a funnel, a knapsack concealing the cranks
and screws on his back, his breast a boiler, his
stomach a furnace. The carriage bolds the water
and the coal, of which 20 cents worth is all that is
required for a day, twenty pounds of steam being
enough to set him in motion. His stride is thirty
inches, and he steps over all obstructions not
higher than a foot. He can be manufactured for
poo, and would prove cheap as a labour-saving
engine if the machinery could be relied on. He is
to race down Broadway, and we imagine that there
will be a general scare among the horses who en-
counter Derrick's Steam Man.

the New York Shipping and Commercial List
reports the judgment of the United States Supreme
Court, delivered by Mr. Justice Nelson in the case
brought by Souchet Mauran against the New England
Marine Insurance Company, to recover marine in-
surance on Mauran's vessel, which was insured
against capture, seizure, or detention, and subse-
quently captured by Confederate privateers. The
defence was that piracy was not capture, seizure, or
detention by the law of insurance. The Court
holds, first, that the policies of insurance covered
seizures of any kind, and that the companies are
therefore liable ; second, that capture by Confede-
rate privateers was capture by the legalized forces
of a de facto Government, and was not, therefore,
piracy. The Confederate Government was a
Power which usurped all authority in those States,
and as such was supreme, and a seizure made
under and by virtue of such authority was a seizure
within the laws of insurance. The Chief Justice
and Mr. Justice Swayne dissented.
A bill has been debated, and will be passed, ex-
tending the Freedmen's Bureau until July 15, 1869.
General Banks' Bill for the protection of naturalized
American citizens abroad has again been brought
forward, but though greatly changed it is still
opposed by many members, and its passage is
doubtful. The Bill repealing taxes on manufac-
tures passed the House, March 10, all but unani-
mously, and will doubtless be adopted by the
Senate. It removes, after the Ist of April, all in-
land revenue taxes upon manufactures except
whisky, liquors, coal oils, illuminating gas, and
tobacco. This Bill is in the interests of the manu-
facturers, being equivalent to an increase of 5 per
cent. upon the import tariff on those articles with
which foreigners compete. It is calculated that the
Treasury will lose on the passage of the Act at the
rate of $60,000,000 annually, and at a time when it
can ill afford the deficit. The Bill to admit Ala-
bama, as a special Act, to the Union will also be
passed. General Meade's returns give 70,812 votes
as cast for the Alabama Constitution, and 1,005
against it. The measure will be taking a leaf out
of the Confederates' book, acting with more regard
to expediency than to law and consistency. The
Bill providing that a simple majority of the votes
cast shall be sufficient for the adoption of a consti-
tution in any Southern State has become law by
the lapse of ten days after passage allowed the Pre-
sident for signature. He has failed to sign it. Peti-
tions and remonstrances from publishers, book-
makers, and paper manufacturers are sent in scores
into Congress against the International Copyright
Bill, which it is feared will be tabled.
Through the House of Representatives we have
been made acquainted with the correspondence on
the subject of the arrest of American citizens in
Great Britain. A public document, consisting of
363 closely printed pages, was transmitted to the
House by the President as a partial report from the
Secretary of State. We have no space to discuss
this interesting little volume, which is admirably
calculated to bring home to John Bull a disagree-
able truth. English Secretaries of Foreign affairs
had from the lapse of time almost established the
right to lecture foreign Princes and Ministers on
the treatment of their subjects. If Mr. Seward had
been writing for Punch he could not more satirically
have shown up the insolent audacity of this Anglo-
Saxon habit. It is really charming to see the lec-
turer lectured, the putter of other people's houses
in order told how to clean up his own ; the pointer
out of dirty spots shown the unwashed places in
his own domicile, the highly civilized, enlightened,
and intellig, lit rectifier of abuses abroad, patroniz-
ingly informed of the correct way of rectifying
abuses at home. Charming, Mr. Seward ! If your
despatches savour of impudence, the English people
ought to forgive you that, and a great deal more, in
consideration for the admirable lesson you have
taught them. Mr. Adams, as usual, comes out as
a man of calm judgment and sound, good sense.
The admission of Mr. Vickers into the Chamber
as Senator from Maryland raises the Democratic
strength to 12, out of a total of 54 ; leaving 42
Republican Senators. An attempt was made by
Senator Sumner to refer the subject to the Judi-
ciary Committee, directing it to consider whether
the State of Maryland, with its existing constitu-
tion, has a Republican form of government. This
motion was withdrawn, and Mr. Vickers sworn
in. The New York Herald is confident that the
following twelve Radical Senators are opposed
to impeachment, and have already expressed an
opinion that the charges, even if proved, are insuf-
ficient to warrant impeachment and removal.
Anthony and Sprague, of Rhode Island ; Willey
and Van Winkle, of West Virginia; Fessenden, of
Maine ; Howe, of Wisconsin ; Norton, of Minne-
sota ; Ross, of Kansas ; Sherman ,of Ohio ; Tipton,
of Nebraska ; Trumbull, of Illinois ; and Williams,
of Oregon. It considers doubtful—Grimes, of
lowa, and Henderson, of Missouri, neither being
strictly amenable to party discipline. Doolittle, of
Wisconsin, and Dixon, of Connecticut, are Conser-
vative Republicans. Including Mr. Vickers, there
are nine Democratic Senators : James A. Bayard
and Saulisbury, of Delawarre; Buckalew, of Penn-
sylvania ; Davis and M'Creery, of Kentucky ; Pat-
terson, of Tennessee ; Hendricks, of Indiana ; John-
son and Vickers, of Maryland. The New York
Citizen has little confidence in the Republican Sena-
tors being able to bear up against the party whip.
It says the greatest prudence and self-control will
be required on the part of Democracy not
to furnish the Radicals with any excuse for
a resort to violence. " Give them rope enough
and they will hang themselves." " Let the political
pigs swim down the stream and they will cut their
own throats." Whereas, if they are checked, they will
" raise the cry that the country is in danger from a
vast armed conspiracy of Democrats in alliance with
the late Southern rebels, and make this the pretext
for a military coup d'etat, which we honestly believe
that many of them, and positively know that some
of them, contemplate." It is clear, from the tone
of the Democratic press, that they are far from
sharing Mr. Johnson's confidence in the break-down
of Impeachment.
The Republicans are loud in their rejoicing over
their New Hampshire victory, which they term a
splendid triumph, with the question of Impeach-
ment fairly before the voters. Mr. Sinclair, the
Democrat candidate, expected a majority of 10,000,
and no stone was left unturned in forwarding the
canvas, $150,000 being expended. Besides Gover-
nor Harriman the spoils of victory were the choice
of a Senate of nine Republicans to three Democrats,
and a Republican majority of 70 in the House of
Representatives. Governor Harriman's majority
is estimated at 3,000, the exact figures from 220
towns giving 2,923, the largest number ever polled
by them, the whole reaching 77,000, against G 8,608
last year, when tire Republican majority was 3,146.
Reuter, in his summary, gives the number' at 700
less than last year. Connecticut is placed among
the doubtful States, with the prospect of a Re-
publican victory in its election, and General
Grant is almost insured success for the Pre-
sidency. Mr. Johnson paid off General Sickles,
as we observed last week, in what the Spring-
field I?epublican calls a mean way. Mac-
kinaw, to which he is ordered, is entirely shut out
from the world from the Ist December till May.
The fortnightly mail is carried by royageurs and

dog-trains through 200 miles of unbroken wilder-
ness, and over an immense depth of snow. If the
General goes there he will have ample leisure for
reflection, and time to cool down from his exciting
canvas in New _Hampshire. The latest news from
Washington, however, informs us that the order
had arisen from a mistake, Lieut.-Colonel Sykes
having been ordered to report to the commander of
the Fifth Military District before joining the 20th
Regiment, recently commanded by General Steel,
deceased, and the similarity of the names deceived.
Mr. Peabody, the great philanthropist, who has
probably given away more money in his life than was
ever made and given away by any one man before
him has just received what we consider the greatest
honour of his life. His native town of Danvers, in
Massachusetts, has voted by a majority of 17 to
change its name to Peaboly. It was there that
George Peabody was born on the 18th February,
1795, and it was on it that he bestowed one of his
earliest and richest gifts. In 1852 he founded an
educational establishment for the benefit of his fel-
low townsmen at a cost of £30,000. Mr. Peabody
is believed to be at Rome, living with the sculptor
Story.
Of the rioters at Ward's Island in New York
harbour 24 have been sentenced to imprisonment,
and all others known to be engaged in the row were
banished from the island, and the Irish and Germans
have since been quartered separately. The Round
Table, taking the riot for its text, has an article on
Race Hatred and the Suffrage. It considers the
fight to be a speedy illustration of one of
the points suggested in its late article, " The
Elements of Danger." It shows how serious
is " the apprehension which ought to be en-
tersained when the two conditions of dense num-
bers and scarce work simultaneously present them-
selves among the masses of half-civilized emigrants
of different races. All has hitherto gone well, be-
cause land has been very abundant and wages very
high. But when these conditions are modified pro-
blems of great difficulty and delicacy will arise, and
such as may have a grave bearing upon future poli-
tical complications." This was undoubtedly the
opinion and the danger pointed out by Lord Ma-
caulay. The articles in the 'hound Table boldly
advance opinions that in America are simply revo-
lutionary. It says—" We are aware that to great
numbers of our countrymen it is intensely disagree-
able to have anything in the nature of dissent from
the generally received Democratic dogmas urged
upon their attention ;" but it appears to be not the
less determined on this account to keep pegging
away. The fact is that the Round Table believes
the United States to be drifting into a monarchy,
and gives strong reasons for its opinion.
In the Pennsylvania Legislature a vote was taken
to establish impartial suffrage in that state, which
means to give the ballot to negroes. Out of the
54 Republicans only 13 could be found to favour
the measure. These are the gentlemen who cry so
loud for Reconstruction ; that is, for Negro Suffrage
in the South, where the blacks have just been
emancipated from slavery, where the numbers are
so great as in places to swamp the Southern white,
where the prejudice between the races is founded
on a social institution which made one the property
of the other, and where the consequent ignorance
of the enslaved and uneducated is in glaring con-
trast with the mental superiority of the coloured
men of the North. Yet these consistent Republicans
do not like the negro to pass between the wind and
their nobility, and without one good reason to ad-
vance for the distinction against the many we have
touched on they propose suffrage for the South-
ern, but no suffrage for their own coloured fellow-
citizens.

It is doubtless true that there has been a good
deal of squabbling among the Republican leaders
over impeachment. Chief Justice Chase does not
approve of the movement. Apart from his legal
opinions, he is a candidate for the Presidency, and
might naturally have some repugnance to give his
competitor, Mr. Wade, the long start in the race to be
derived from even the temporary occupation of the
Presidential chair. He has been roundly abused for
his letter by some Republican journals, who have
gone so far as to accuse him of plotting trea-
son to his party, inter ling to swing round and get
a Democratic nomination. Many Senators are
said openly to have expressed :their dislike to Im-
peachment; and that the Chamber is inclined
to resist the dictation and hurry with which it has
been pressed forward by the House. One
of the managers declared he would drop Im-
peachment if an article proposed by himself was
not added to the charges. Another announced his
intention of withdrawing, if, after his faithful
service in the cause, he was not elected Chairman
of the Committee of Management. The danger to
the party, will, we presume, restrain unruly mem-
bers from causing an actual split.

The President has had more interviews with
newspaper correspondents. According to the Nets
York World, he spent a Sunday evening in discussing
politics and his own position with the correspondent
of that paper. Mr. Johnson thinks it probable that
the Supreme Court will shortly pronounce the Re-
construction Acts unconstitutional in deciding on
the M'Ardle case, when he would remove at once
the Southern Military Governments, hinting that
this would overthrow the Radical schemes. Mr.
Johnson has a sovereign contempt for Impeach-
ment, believing that if it succeeds in anything, that
thing will be the destruction of the Republican
party. The Tenure-of-Office Act, for violating
which he is Impeached, protects him, he declares.
" I did not appoint Mr. Stanton, therefore I have the
right under the Tenure-of-Office Act to dismiss him
peremptorily at any time." Ho spoke in scorn of
Butler's addition to the articles which charged him for
his speeches against Congress as if he was the only
man in the States barred the right of telling the
truth to a crowd of citizens, while himself open to
unmeasured abuse, and liable to be arraigned by the
very men who abused him for speaking with disgust
and contempt of them, adding--...“ Jefferson Davis,
the head and front of the rebellion, is not brought
to trial, yet Congress proposes to try the President
at once."

General Logan, of Illinois, made a sensational
statement in the House on the 9th inst., to the
effect that Mr. Clark, superintendent of the Trea-
sury printing bureau, had obtained the certificate
of three Treasury officials to the destruction of
$18,640,000 of cancelled bonds, they being present,
while in reality no such bonds had been destroyed,
mere blank paper being burnt, and the bonds put into
circulation anew. It was announced in the debate
that followed, that the matter was being investigated
by the Retrenchment Committee, and a resolution
was adopted directing an immediate and special
investigation, the report to be sent within the week
to the House. So anxious were some members that
they at once called upon Gen. Spinner, the United
States Treasurer, who explained that the report made
to General Logan had probably arisen from ig-
norance of the method of printing bonds by the
bureau. Blank sheets are issued to a responsible
officer, exactly tallying with the specified amount
of bonds directed to be printed, an accurate return
being given by him ; these sheets either when spoiled
or not printed are destroyed in the manner de-
scribed by General Logan, and the fact certified on
the account-book. It is reported that Mr. Clark
had deliberately misrepresented the circumstances
to damage Mr. M'Culloch ; but people are far from
satisfied with this explanation, and demand a very
searching inquiry.

The Pennsylvanian Republican Convention to
select delegates to the Chicago Convention nomi-
nated Grant for President, and Governor Andrew
G. Curtin for Vice-President ; resolved in favour
of Congress against President Johnson, and that
the Debt is a sacred obligation, binding the people
to the full extent of its legal requirements—a piece
of Pennsylvanian shuffling, for the interpretation
of which the Keystone State has more than once
given the key. This was followed by a mass meet-
ing in ratification, held iu Philadelphia, March 12,
which pronounced Johnson a second negro, and
Grant a model citizen. The Massachusetts Repub-
lican Convention nominated Grant for President, and
Senator Wilson for Vice-President, and resolved in
support of Impeachment, but said nothing regarding
the Debt. The New York Democratic Convention,
though making no nominations for the Presidency,
nor resolutions regarding the Debt, denounced Im-

peachment, and supported Andrew Johnson. A
declaration of principles was adopted, accusing
the Republicans of political crimes and indicting
Congress. It was supported by an able speech
from Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, who predicted
a violent struggle between debtor and creditor
States. He advised his party to make no issue on
payment of the Bonds, leaving the question to the
coming generation, an excellent plan, all must heartily
desire to carry out—themselves to create debts, and
their children to debate hereafter with the creditors
whether they wilt pay them or not. This is the sim-
ple principle of European finance, which the United
States should at once adopt, instead of constantly
stirring up the mess. We are half inclined to believe
that it is more an innate principle of honesty than the
reverse which induces all this action, instead of with
sleek appearance and straight-combed hair making
asseverations that all will be repaid to the utter-
most farthing. The Rhode Island Democratic Con-
vention met on the 11th inst., for the first time in
many years, nominating Lyman Pierce as candi-
date for Governor. Under our Personal intelli-
gence we give a list of norninaticns of the Con-
ventions.

We learn by the Russia, which brings news to
noon on the 18th March, that the House had re-
committed to the Reconstruction Committee the
Bill to admit the Alabama representatives to
Congress. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens opposed the
bill. Messrs. Brooks and Becke, Democrats, sub-
mitted the minority Report of the Reconstruction
Committee, opposing the New Constitution in
Alabama as grossly unjust in enfranchising masses
of ignorant negroes, disfranchising intelligent
whites, giving non-tax-paying negroes the power of
imposing taxes, being generally framed in the
interest of Northern office-seekers.

Some time ago Congress conveyed to California
the Yo Semite, for the purpose of turning that
matchless valley into a public pleasure-ground in-
alienable for ever. There were two squatters on it,
each with a tavern, and the action of the State Legis-
lature was to apportion them double the quantity
of the 300 acres they petitioned to receive, and to
take no steps to carry out the object of Congress.
Governor Haight very properly vetoed this arrange-
ment, suggesting that the settlers could be paid for
the improvements made to the date of the Act, or
by a lease, at a nominal rent for a term of years, as
the bill permits portions to be thus held for periods
not exceeding 10 years. The Bill has been passed
over the Governor's veto by the Assembly, in direct
opposition to public opinion ; but the Californians
hope that Congress will refuse to ratify the action
of the Legislature. This dell. of unrivalled
grandeur runs for 15 miles between the most
stupendous precipices in the world, averaging
a breadth of half a mile. It is a chasm in
the Sierra Nevada, the rocky walls rising to
4,500 feet in height. . There are five Falls, of which
those the Indians call Cholook, are the highest of
any known. The stream, 80 feet wide, sweeps
over a precipice 2,063 deep in three successive
leaps, of which the first is 1,300 feet deep, the
second 250, and the third 450, the water being lost
in spray before reaching the bottom. The first fall
seen on entering the valley, is the Cascade of the
Rainbow, which tinges the landscape with every
colour as the sun's rays penetrate through the float-
ing mist, presenting a picture almost unearthly in
its beauty. The Vernal and the Nevada cascades
fall 350 and 700 feat ; the first issuing from a huge
forest of evergreen trees, and the latter lost in foam
and mist ,as the volume strikes over a projecting
ledge midway in its descent.
The North German Parliament was opened at
noon la-st Monday by the King of Prussia in person.
His Majesty in his speech from the Throne an-
nounced the further development of the domestic
institutions which had recently been founded, and
mentioned the modification of the postal arrange-
ments with several countries and the conclusion of
the postal treaty with the United States of Ame-
rica. He also expressed his satisfaction at the
manner in which the representatives of the North
German Confederation had been received at foreign
Courts, and, in conclusion, said he was convinced
that the blessings of peace would rest upon the
labours of the Parliament.

The report lately revived that the Washington
Government would be compelled by the United
States Courts to pay to the bondholders of the Con-
federate Loan the proceeds of the cotton captured
in the South, on which the bondholders had a lien.
may be useful to those who desire to get rid of
worthless paper, but will end in disappointment to
those who hold, or purchase in the expectation of
any portion of the debt being pai 1. Mr. Seward is
not a bad judge, and he has not changed his opi-
nion since he wrote to Mr. Adams on March 13th,
1865. He then said, " You inform me the delusion
prev4ils in European circles that the rebel debts
will be paid as a condition of peace. To correct
that delusion, you may safely say that in my belief
the principal of the. debt of Great Britain will be
liquidated and discharged before a single dollar
even of interest of the rebel debt will be discharged
by any body." It is au hallucination to suppose
that the nation would permit any Government
under any circumstances to repay the people who
furnished the sinews of war to the Confederates—
that is who presented them with arms 'to cut the
throats of those now expected to repay the lenders.
What would be said if the American Minister pro-
ceeded to the English Treasury with a great bundle
of Fenian Bonds, and demanded cash from the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer ? How difficult it i 3 to see
both sides of a question, when our interests inter-
vene. On the 19th of the following October, Mr.
Adams, in transmitting to the Secretary of State
the proceedings of a meeting of holders of cotton
bonds, said with a sneer, " It will here be seen
how a learned British expounder of the Constitu-
tion of the United States (Mr. I'. M. Chamberlain)
undertakes to set aside all the wisdom of Marshall,
and Kent, and Story, upheld by the verdict of the
people, and confirmed by the result of an appeal to
the sword.

The Louisiana Constitutional Convention has
agreed to adjourn sine die on its Constitution being
ratified ; General Hancock to decide when to sub-
mit it to the people. Seventy-six members signed
the Constitution, seven refused, and were expelled
with ignominy for presuming to have an opinion of
their own. To kick the member out on the gross
provocation of differing in opinion from the majo-
rity is becoming quite the fashion down South. Mr.
Leggatt, not badly named for the operation, was
expelled from the Virginia Convention for express-
ing his contempt for the whole proceedings. The
Georgia Convention, having settled its Constitution,
and named April 20 for its submission to the people,
and the election of State officers, is now fighting
over the spoils. A minority nominated Mr. Bul-
lock for Governor, against which the President of
the Union League, Mr. Farrow protests, having
nominated himself for the post. Eighteen dele-
gates were elected to the Chicago Convention,
Grant being nominated for the Presidency, and
Foster Blodgett for the Vice-Presidency of the
United States. The South Carolina Convention was
about to adjourn, having rejected the proposal of
the Committee on the franchise, by which all after
1875 shall be compelled to read and write—but no
person now disqualified shall be eligible to office, nor
can the Legislature remove the disabilities. Mr.
Cordosa, a negro, has been chosen as candidate for
Secretary of State, and among the delegates selected
to represent South Carolina in the Republican Pre-
sidential Convention at Chicago are several negroes.
The Educational Section has been adopted by the
North Carolina Convention, forbidding the esta-
blishment of separate schools for black and white,
and compelling parents to send children between
the ages of five and eight to school for 16 months.
Equal rights are thus provided in the State Univer-
sities and in the public schools.
Mr. Stanton, apprehending a guerilla raid upon
the War-office from Virginia, has ordered the gar-
rison of Washington to be held in readiness, and he
is prepared to maintain his stronghold against all
corners. Gen. Grant had authorized Major-Gen.
Thomas to protect the State authorities of Tennessee
against an armed organization threatening to take
forcible possession of the Central State Government.
General Hancock 'proceeds to Washington, leaving
General Reynolds in command, while he confers
with the President relative to resigning his com-

[nand of the fifth district. f ..i f .i,
Thaddeus Stevens was born near the town of

Peacham, in the northern portion of Vermont. His mother
was a hard-working woman, who took every means to for-
ward the education of her son. He was sickly, lame, and
sensitive, and then doubtless contracted some of the
crabbed temper for which he is so remarkable, under the
ridicule of his schoolfellows, to such a mind—gall and
wormwood. He never returned to the home of his child-
hood, and in this fact may be found a trait of his character,
bitter and unforgiving, and wanting, in that generous man-
liness which enab:es many great men to seek out the cot-
tage where they were born, and wander almost spell-bound
over the scenes of their boyish days.

Mr. Seward has written to Fuad Pasha to express
his regret for the publication given in the United States to
a certain despatch of Mr. Morris, Minister at Constanti-
nople, in which were embodied rumours relative to the
mental state of the Sultan. That publication was the re-
sult of a mistake. After that declaration Fuad Pasha has
resumed diplomatic relations with Mr. Morris.

Duke de Penthievre and Prince Philippe from
Vienul, grandsons of Louis Philippe, arrived at Spring-
field, Massachusetts, from Boston, Friday evening, Feb.
28, and spent the niglit at the Massasoit House. On Sa-
turday they visited the armoury and other places of in-
terest, in company with Hon. George Walker, and loft for
Pittsfield in the 6 p.m. train, and were the guests of Robert
Pomeroy over Sunday.
Samuel C. Eastman is the Democratic candidate
for the Concord, New Hampshire, mayoralty. The Re-
publicans talk of Colonel Isaac Clement, and some inde-
pendents went to nominate Charles H. Proctor, a coloured
man, who had a large vote last year.
Mrs. P. A. Hanaford was ordained and installed
pastor of the Universalist Society in Hingham, Massa-
chusetts, on the 19th February. Mrs. Hanaford is editor
of the Lady's Repository, a Universalist magazine, and of
the Myrtle, a Sunday school paper, as well as the author
of the "Life of Lincoln" and the " Soldier Boy." The
Rev. Olympia Brown and the Rev. Elma Hewett assisted
in the ceremony.

The following letter from Garibaldi, dated Ca-
prera, 16th instant, and addressed to the American Minis-
ter in Florence, was published last Saturday evening :
" I hear from my friends that Mr. Seward has done me the
honour to include my name among the agents of the Go-
vernment of the Great Republic. As I never had that
honour, I bog you to request him to cause my name to be
removed.—Gen. Garibaldi."

Gulatea, 26, Captain his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh, K.G.—Letters for this ship should
be sent to Honolulu via New York and San Francisco,
until April. 25, and afterwards to Valparaiso, by Pacific
mail, up to July 16 inclusive.

The English papers have confounded the iVew
York Citizen with The Irish Citizen. Sere is what the New
York Citizen says about Mi tcliel's letters, which lately at-
tracted so much attention in England : - The last sensation
in Irish circles is the denunciation of American Feaianism
by Mr. John Mitchel in his Irish Citizen—Mitchel, who all
his life has been a sort of combined Vesuvius, .tna, Co-
topaxi and Chimborazo of sensational explosions—contin-
ually pouring out eruptive lava tides, and hurling upward
volcanic meteors of excitement into the skies and down the
sides of politics and journalism.

The New York Citizen says :—" The seat now
occupied by Senator E. D. Morgan will be filled next
winter by the election of Horatio Seymour, if he will ac-
cept. But should he decline, for the same reasons which
have induced him to refuse any nomination either fur Pre-
sident or Governor, it is more than probable that Cham-
berlain Sweeny or this city will be the next choice of the
party in our State." The same paper has authority for
stating definitely that under no circumstances will ex-
Governor Horatio Seymour permit the use of his name as
a candidate for the Presidency. It has good reason to
believe that Lieutenant-General William T. Sherman will,
if solicited, accept the Democratic nomination. There is
no disposition to press the claims of Mayor Hoffman until
General Sherman has decided to run or not.

It is announced that Senator William M. Tweed,
of New York, will be presented by the. delegation of that
city to the next Democratic State Convention as their
choice for Governor.

Colonel William B. Coleman, editor of the
Richmond Examiner, was in New York when the last mail
left, and had assured the Democratic party that the Radi-
cals had no chance, by any manipulation, to cast the vote
of the old Dominion for the Presidential' nominee of their
party. lie thought that the State Convention would be
defeated by a majority of 30,000.
The Celestial Government have conferred on the
two mandarins who are to accompany Mr. Burlingame
as Secretaries the co-ordinate rank of Minister, the Ame
rican, however, still remaining chief. The arrangement is
considered beneficial for all parties, as it gives a better
guarantee for the good faith of the Chinese, witholit les-
sening the benefit they will derive from Mr. Burlingame's
ability and experience.

Colonel S. S. Goode, who raised the Illinois regi-
ment which General Grant originally commanded, was
killed recently in Western Missouri by a United States
official, whom ho had attacked in anger at being prosecuted
for violation of the revenue laws.

Massachusetts has had 139 of the graduates of
West Point, and only five of them discredited her fame
by treason in the recent rebellion, and they had long been
residents of the South. Seventy-two are still living.
Among them are Joseph Hooker, Rufus Saxton, George
H. Gordon, and James Barnes, all major-generals in the
war of the rebellion.

Colonel W. S. Kiog, assessor for the third dis-
trict of Massachusetts, is among the revenue officers whom
Commissioner Rollins recommends should be removed,
either for iucomptency or malfeasance in office.
Lieut.-Governor Bross, of Illinois, and his daughter
have returned from a six months' visit to Europe.

Lady Don sailed for England in the City of
Ant were.

Wilkes' Spirit says :—" A herald telegram from
Mexico contains tho mournful news that Mr. ' Anson
Bangs was injured by a fall from his horse.' Who the devil
is Bangs ?" And it also adds :—" It is hoped that Agnes
Robertson will return to the United States shortly on a
professional tour. A rumour prevailed that Kate Terry
was under engagement for this country ; but as that lady
was not long since united to a gentleman of large wealth,
we doubt the report. One of the Webb Sisters has been
lecturing in reply to Anna Dickinson, Sacramento, Cal.,
and Lawrence Barrett playing Hamlet in San Francisco to a
densely-packed house, which is there seldom attracted. in
that city the corner stone of the new Alhambra Theatre
was laid in great state, General 11. A. Cobb delivering the
oration. The American Theatre, lately burnt, was the
largest but not the oldest in the city. It was owned by
General Naglee and Dr. Toland, who purchased it for
$35,000, though the ground on which it stood is now
worth $75,000. Edwin Forrest has brought suit against
the Memphis-Louisville Railroad for a wardrobe destroyed
by fire on the cars of that road. Damages laid at two
thousand dollars. Martin Simonson and wife are in New
Zealand. John Collins, the Irish comedian, sailed from
Australia for California, via Panama. A Japanese troupe
is playing in Sydney, under the management of Mr. Cop-
pin. Mr. James Anderson, the tragedian, is playing in
'Adelaide."

Don Mariano Sanchez Fantecilla, presented his
credentials to the Secretary of State as Charge d'Affaires of
the republic of Chili, near the Government of the United
States, at Washington, March 12, and was recognized
accordingly.

We learn that Congressman Morrissey and John
Quincy Adams have gone to the Hot Springs of Arkansas.
Mr. norrissey's malady is inflammatory rheumatism.

Governor Baker has been brought before a United
States Commissioner, on the complaint of a negro, and held
in $2,000, to appear at some future day and answer to the
charge of perjury in taking his oath of office.

The Massachusetts Republican Convention was
presided over by ex-Congressmen Gooch, and the dele-
gates chosen are—Lieutenant-Governor Claflin, of New-
ton, F. W. Bird, of Walpole, .Dr. Loring, of Salem, and
Senator Alexander, of Springfield. The Pennsylvania
Republican Convention nominated Messrs. Hastrauft
and Campbell for re-election as Auditor-General
and Surveyor-General, and nominated as electors at large
to the Chicago Convention, Col. John W. Forney and
James IL Orues, of Philadelphia ; Gen. Harry White, of
Indiana; and E. Reed Myer, of Bradford; substitutes, J.
H. Blanchard, of Lawrence; Thomas E. Cochrane, of
York ; Linn Bartholomew., of Schuylkill ; and General
William Lilly, of Carter. The Maryland Repub-
lican Convention nominated Mr. Cresswell, of that
State, for Vice-President on the ticket with Grant,
and elected as delegates at large to the Chicago Conven-
tion, John A. J. Creswell, John L. Thomas, jun., C. C. Ful-
ler, and E. F. Anderson. The New York Democratic
State Convention met at Albany on Wednesday, and after
hearing speeches from Marshall B. Champlain, the Presi-
dent, Horatio Seymour, and Samuel J. Tilden, Mr. Sey-
mour, Mr. Tilden, Sanford E. Church, and Henry C.
Murphy, were elected delegates at large to the National
Convention.

Judge Underwood, on the 12th inst., postponed
the trial of Jefferson Davis until April 14. Davis's bail
was extended until that time, bat there is little expecta-
tion of the trial being hold even then.

•
Six women physicians in Philadelphia return
yearly incomes ranging from $2,000 to $lO,OOO. Mrs.
Elizabeth Darragh has been appointed inspector of
tobacco in the collection district of Indiana. The Brooklyn
Board of Education has refused, however, to appoint
women to the superintendence of public schools. lowa
has three female editors —Mrs. Money, of the Jefferson
Era; Mrs. llartshorno, of the Croydon Monitor; and Mrs.
Mary Read, of the Wright County Register.

Feeding Hills, the birthplace of the Hon. Ben.
Wade, is a healthy place, judging from the ages of six
persons now living there :—John. Granger is 94, Mrs. W.
Roberts 92, Gilbert Gaylord 90, Alfred Flower 83, Mrs.
Hannah Smith 81, and Heber Miller 81. The three oldest
men are members of the Congregational Church, and were
all present at a recent Sunday service.
The new St. James Hotel in Boston is six stories
high, extending 190 feet on Newton-street and 215,feet on

James-street. The Newton-street front is adorned with
towers 88 feet high at either end, and one in the centre
110 feet high, the roof being a Mansard. The interior is
equally well designed. The dining room is floored with
encaustic tile pavement from the celebrated Waterloo pot-
tories of Staffordshire, England.
St. Patrick's-day has been enthusiastically ob-
served by the Irish residents in the principal cities of the
Union, and passed off without disturbance.

Advices from Cuba state that General Lersundi
had ordered the Bishop of Cuba to leave the island for
insubordination. •

A number of hitherto unpublished writings of
Artemus Ward are soon to appear, edited by the owner of
the Biddeford, Maine, Democrat.

In a few weeks the period will expire which
Talleyrand stipulated should elapse after his death before
his memoirs were published. He died on the 17th of May
1838.

Mrs. " Stonewall" Jackson has received $15,000
from the sale of the life of her husband.

General It. K. Scott, Assistant Commissioner of
the Freedmen's Bureau, has been nominated by the Re-
publican Convention of South Carolina for Governor, and
Samuel Booser fcr Lieutenant-Governor.

Judge Henry Willes, of the New York Supreme
Court, who had a high reputation as a jurist, has just died
at his residence in Penn Yan. tie was elected to the
bench in 1847, and had been in the Supreme Court for
more than twenty years.

The venerable Dr. Isaac Lincoln, of Brunswick,
Maine, who was probably the oldest physician in the State,
died on the 6th of March. He was a graduate of Harvard
College in the class of 1800 with Washington, Allston, and
Chief Justice Shaw.

Julia Dean, the celebrated actress, died in New
York, on Friday, March 7, aged 37. Mrs. Cooper was born
in Pleasant Valley, New York State, July 30, 1830, and
made her first appearance on the stage in Cincinnati on
the 21st July, 1845. In 1856 she married Dr. Rayne, of
South Carolina, from whom she was divorced on grounds
attaching no suspicion of blame to herself, and married
Mr. James G. Cooper, a Western merchant, she made s
brilliant debut at the Broadway Theatre, where she con-
tinued to bo a great favourite. Her health compelled her
to retire from the stage, and though her early death
has taken the public by surprise, it was not unexpected
by her intimate friends.

Felix B. White, an actor of the olden time, has
died in San Francisco, after a lingering illness of five years.
He was 51 years of age, and a, man respected by those who
knew him.

Mrs. George Loder (Miss Emma Neville) died
in Adelaide, South Australia, of typhus fever, after a
short illness. She was a clever actress, and a teacher of
music and singing.

Mrs. Kate Warn, a celebrated female detective,
and head of tke female department of Mr. Pinkerton'e
agency for 13 years, has died lately. Many stories of her
skill are told by the Chicago papers.
William Queen, formerly an Eastern man, but
for nine years past a resident of Montana, is now on
,a visit
in the vicinity of Springfield, Massachusetts, and has pur-
chased of Whittemore, Belcher, and Co., of Chicopee Falls,
a lot of side-hill plows and other agricultural tools for the
slopes of that mountainous territory. Mr. Queen says
agriculture is fast assuming an important position there.

The name of Hoosac belongs to the Stockbridge
Indian dialect. " Hoo," translated, is "through," and
" sac "is "kettle." Thus Hoosac means "through the
kettle." The authority for the above has been for mall
years a resident among the remnant of theyStockbridSe
tribe and others at the West, and ho further says that
Housatonic means in the Stockbridge tongue " beyond the
mountains," and nothing else.

Preparations are being made in Baltimore for a
general holyday and a public celebration, on the occasion
of the arrival there, now daily expected, of the first
steamer of a new line that has been established between
Bremen and Baltimore.
The Washington correspondent of the Standard
writes :—We have further reports of the troubles in
Mexico. Insurrection is spreading in the various dis"
orderly States. It is alleged that a large amount °I
specie has been " smuggled" out of Vera Cruz, by the
British Consul, on board the British mail stearnshiP
Danube, and that the money is now on the way to Eng-
land. It is further asserted that the officers of the Dandle
treated with great contempt the Mexican command to
" stop," and that it was impossible to " get the guns of
San Juan d' Ulloa ready in time" to enforce the command!
In a letter to Romero, the Mexican Minister of Finance/
General Grant expresses a wish to visit Mexico.

We shouldn't be surprised at finding the Southern
negroes in a short time taking care of their white neigh"
bours —setting them up in business, lending them money
&c. ! —Boston Commonwealth.

Dr. Ball, a negro, edits a Democratic paper in
Lebanon, Illinois.

The Special Commissioner of the Revenue of the
United States received, through the State Department, from
the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, a documentary col-
lection which has probably no counterpart on either side of
the Atlantic. It is a complete exemplification, by means °
documents, of the whole revenue system of Great Britain,
and includes every bill, estimate, or paper prepared 0r
used in the British Treasury Department and in Parlia-
ment in the preparation of the financial budget for
1863 and 1866, with the progress of the enactment of
the same into law, and the blanks for obtaining the
money for the different departments in accordance Wit'
them. The documents, elegantly bound, were accora"
pani,ed by a note from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to
Special Commissioner Wells, stating that the papers 113 d
been collected, arranged, indexed, and bound with a 'ill
of affording to him a- complete insight into the detail 0
British financial legislation, and that an additional series
of papers, illustrating the course of British local taxatiosl
was in process of collection and preparation, and Wollld
soon be forwarded.—New York Times.
There has been unprecedented excitement in the
New York Stock Board and in Wall-street for the P3'l
few days owing to the quarrels of Vanderbilt and pre:'
about the control of the Erie Railway. Gigantic corab.r.
nations have been formed on both sides, and one day ths
Drew party, who are "bearing" the stock, sold 40°
shares, depressing the price from 83 to 71. The CO_
test is in all the New York courts, in the Leg
isi°::
tare, and in the municipal departments, all taki°:
sides one way or the other, and it has affected the ()stir"
American money-market. Vanderbilt and Drew declare
that they will fight it out until ohe or the other breal's ;
and both seem to have almost unlimited means at CO°1;
mand. One of the expedients resorted to by the Dreg
barty has been the withdrawal of several millions of green-
acks from circulation, so as to create an artificial stria'
gency in the money-market, and prevent their adTer°
saries from raising funds. For the moment the sPecti;
lation in Erie shares has entirely eclipsed the speculati°
in gold.

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and accelerated by drugs of every description, but Pe Food,
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We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du .13 of
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July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, tiniber,ooBl,
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nervous
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Births.
CALVERLEY-011 the 26th inst., at 17, Devonshire-terrtlec's
Hyde-park, the wife of C. S. Calverley, Esq, of 3' 6°.:fe
FLEMING—On the 27th inst., at 26, Queen's-gate, the "
of John Fleming, Esq., C. 5.1., of a son. Airo.
HAnuis—On the 26th inst., at Percy House, Eufielu'

F. J. Harris, of a daughter.
Marriages. ,iburcb,
ERCK—KINGSTON—On the 26th inst. at at Trinity i„ce,
Paddington, Wentworth Erck, Esq., of Herber lthitr"
Dublin, and Ballyrnoyle, county of Wicklow/ t° olotr
lotte Anne, daughter of John Kingston, Esq., °`c
tester-gardens, Hyde-park. ,rboTO
FERGTISSON—JOHNSTON— On the 26th inst., At 01. VSCII
Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, James. Fergussliter °'
Monkwood, Whitehouse-terrace, to Clara, dog ua of
the late Sir Wm. Bacon Johnston, of that ilk 't
Hilton, Baronet, Aberdeenshire.

Deaths.
.cnnsilir
BOYD—On the 2Gth inst., at 5, Vicarage-gardens, ""--„r tS•
too, James Boyd, of 91, New Bond-street, IV., ag- pro
DUFFY—On the 25tIt ipst., Thomas Connell DuITY' ,
aged 81. wo,
GULL—On [the 26th inst., at Rusthall, Tunbride"
GROVE—
the RevOn the 25th. George E.
inst , Gull,
at Chepstow House, 1",-c 8.A., aged 34. • oitiv,
U
ro Mr. John Gve, aged 78. scl'
MonnAs —On the 27th inst., Francis 3fordan,
Albion Ludge, Holloway, aged 51. stoUe'
WAYMOUTII —On the 26th inst., at Valletort-place,' JINX
Devonport, John Waymouth, Esq., late of 11.31.13
yard, Deptford, aged 72.
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Middlesex.—Saturday, March 28, 1868.