The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

TFIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, IE6B.

MISCELLANEOUS NE !VS.

Wllry -me estnaters are nemg tang= tetegrapny, anct
will probably, when discharged, be able to obtain
work from the telegraph companies. These soldiers
are being taught, and are teaching themselves,- in
other ways. In Sir William's general orders of Sep-
tember there appear the names of not less than forty-
seven men who have been selected from the artillery
and line regiments in this presidency for admission
as students at itoorkee in the second department of
the Thomason College. It happens to him, Sir
William says, nearly every month to observe the
names of soldiers who have passed in one or other of
the examinations in the native languages ; and men
are now rushing to obtain admission to the army.

BOYS AT PLAY.
Thomas Hood has described boys coming out of
school—

Turning to mirth all things of earth,
As only boyhood can.
He could hardly have included coffins among these
" things of earth." This, however, is the version of
the Cockney youth. It appears that the houses and
warehouses on the south side of Old Fish-street, St.
Paul's-churchyard, have been lately demolished
for the construction of a new street from
Blackfriars to the Poultry. Here assemble a
number of lads to play. The other day they ex-
humed a coffin from the rubbish where the church on
Bread-street-hill formerly stood. They carried it
about, trying if it would fit in any of the adjoining
places, and at last the side of it fell out. We are
not particular about defiling the graves of our
ancestors, and our modem improvements spew little
regard for the sanctity of "God's acre." This care-
lessness, however, is absolutely indecent. As usual,
we hear nothing of police interference.

260,106, against Hubbard's24o,o3l, the Republican
majority being 20,075. The three counties not
officially returned give Democratic majorities, which
reduces the total of the State to 17,450. We
regret to learn that the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton has
been confined to his room by inflammation of the
lungs. He has been compelled to give up appoint-
ments to speak in Missouri, Michigan, and New York.
Ohio returns 13 Republicans and 6 Democrats to
Congress; Indiana 7 Republicans and 4 Democrats,
while in the Legislature of that State, the Republi-
cans have a majority of 24 on joint ballot. The
State Senate of Nebraska is unanimously Republi-
can, while there are but 5 Democrats against 34
Republicans in the State House of Representatives.
The Democratic nominations in Kentucky for
Congress for the nine districts are as follows :
Lawrence S. Trimble, *William M. Sweeney, Jacob
S. Golladay, *J. F. Smith, J. Proctor Knott, *Boyd
Manchester, Thomas L. Jones, *James B. Beck,
George M. Adams, the asterisk showing those now
in Congress. We give the Democrats only, be-
cause there is not a ghost of a chance of a Republi-
can being returned except for the Eighth District,
and even this is extremely improbable.
The most strenuo xs offorts were being made by
both parties to carry New York. The Tribune
appeals to the citizens to do their duty and redeem
the Empire State, which " has too long been go-
vet ned by her idle and criminal classes—her thisves,
bullies, pimps, and blacklegs." lt contrasts Gris-
wold with Hoffman, much to the disadvantage of the
latter. " W hen the hour came in which the nation
needed to inaugurate a wholly new system of naval
warfare, and that too at once, as the rebels then
had their rams and ironclads far advanced towards
completion, and when the Navy Department, with
its proverbial drowsiness, could not be aroused to
the necessity of. incurring the pecuniary risk of
building a monitor, Mr. Griswold staked $275,000
on the success of the enterprise, every collar of
which he would have lost had the Merrimac sunk
the Monitor, instead of the Monitor disabling the
Merrimac. Where are the acts of patriotism
and self-sacrifice by which Mr. John T. Hoff-
man commended himself to the country during
our trying struggle? Do they consist in hav-
ing raised the city taxes of New York from
$11,000,000 per annum under Mayor Opdyke in
1863, to $24,000,000 under Hoffman in 1868 ? Do
they consist in levying on the population of New
York city $24 per capita, when under a Republican
Mayor, four years before, they were only $l2 per
capita." We know the result, which, according to
the Tribune, has thrown the Empire State into the
hands of the above enumerated classes. The can-
vass was, however, maintained with great spirit;
a tremendous mass meeting was held by the Re-
publicans at Albany on the 22d ; at Syracuse on
the same day ; and at Rochester Governor Bullock,
of Georgia, delivered an address.
On the 20th of October the Democratic address
was published in New York, signed by August
Belmont, chairman of the Democratic Committee,
and his signature is just under these words, and
of their truth we leave our readers to judge :
—" Our ranks are unbroken, our courage is un-
abated. Once more to the breach, and this time
victory." The document is long, considering how
little it says, and we are only able to extract the
objects of .the party and the description of the men
opposed to it. " What the Democratic party
in-
tends to do, if placed in power by your suffrages,
is to restore peace and union to our country ; to heal
the wounds and sufferings caused by the rebel-
lion ; to give to the people of the South the rights
to which they are entitled under the Constitution,
and by which alone we can bring back prosperity
and quiet to that distracted section ; to reduce ma-
terially our military and naval establishments, kept
up now on an immense scale, and at an enormous
cost ; to introduce into every department of Go-
vernment the strictest economy, and to develope
by an equitable system of imports and taxation
the growing resources of our country, and thus to
place the Federal finances on a solid and stable
footing, and to pave the way to a gradual and safe
return to specie payments We are charged by the
Radical party, the party of violence and usurpa-
tion, which for the last four years, to prolong its
own existence, has set at naught the coustitutiou
and the fundamental principles of our government,
that we intend revolution and defiance of estab-
lished laws. The accusation is unfounded and ab-
surd ; it cannot be entertained for a moment by
any intelligent voter who has even the most super-
ficial knowledge of the history of his country. Op-
posed to you are the men who have subverted the
structure of their own system of representative self-
government, vindicated to the world by more than
half a century of prosperity and greatness ; the
men who have increased our enormous debt by pro-
fligacy and corruption unparalleled ; the men who in
two successive Congresses have demonstrated their
incompetency to diminish our burdens by economy
or apportion them with equity; the men who have so
distributed our but...lens as that they press with exces-
sive weight upon the labour awl industry of the coun-
try, making rich men richer by making poor men
poorer. Opposed to you are men who have denied for
three years of peace, and will continue to deny until
your votes arrest them, self-government to the people
of ten States; the men who have taken away the
power of our Chief Magistrate to insure a faithful
execution of the laws or to command the army and
the navy of the United States; the men who did
their worst to expel the President from the White
Housdfor obeying faithfully the behests of your
supreme law ; the men who, being conscious
of their crimes, dreaded to have the Supreme Court
declare their qualicy, and therefore abridged its
jurisdiction and silenced its voice ; the men who
have usurped and are grasping and yielding powers
not possessed to-day by any monarch among civi-
lized nations. Against-these men and all their des-
' poticpurposes, which Gen. Grant would ke as power-
less to hinder as he whom they elected four years
ago has been ; against these men, their crimes in the
past, their nefarious designs in the future, you are
soon to make one final and determined onslaught."
Governor Seymour delivered at Buffalo his open-
ing campaign address on October 22, and though
but two days' .notice had been given 20,000 people
assembled- hoping to hear him, when a torch-
light procession of 4,000 or 5,000 in uniform
escorted him to the rink. The Hon. James Hum-
phreys called the assemblage to order as chairman,
and Mr. Seymour spoke to the following effect,
las condensed by the Springfield Republican :

" The first words uttered by the Republican Convention
in their resolutions congratulated the country upon the
scheme of reconstruction. The last words uttered by
their speakers and presses declare that Reconstruction is
a failure; that the South is still in a condition of rebel-
lion; that its social disorder demands the presence of great
armies, and;that the first duty of Congress, when it meets,
will be to turn .reconstructed Georgia out of the Union.
Again, at the outset of this canvass, the Republican party
asked to be continued in power because it had governed
wisely and well. After three months' discussion of their
reconstruction and financial policy, it is found that order
has not been restored in the South, that the burden of debt
has not been lightened, nor the evils of oppressive taxa-
tion lifted off the labouring industry of the country.
Driven from their first ground, they now try to hold
power by making the people believe, not that they have
done well, but that the Democratic party would do
worse, if they came .into power. To prove this,
they . assert that the success of the Democratic
ticket will. involve the country again in civil war.
They declare • the ' Democratic nominees ready to
overturn their legislation by force ; and to make
the charge still more dramatic, I am to be sent
to my final account by the hands of my political sup-
porters, and then General Blair is to trample beneath his
feet the reconstruction laws as ruthlessly as Gen. Meade
now stamps them out by his military orders, with concur-
rence of the Radical party. If General Blair should reach
the Presidehtial chair, how would the case stand ? He
would be cOnfronted by a Republican Senate, by a House
of Representatives full of generals ; by the United States
army, and by the Loyal League and the Grand Army of
the Republic, under command of their own candidate for
the Presidency, whom they declare to be the first captain
-of the-age; and yet we are gravely told that, standing
alone, shackled by Congressional restraints, he can crush
out all opposing power and plunge the country into civil
war. If this is true, then General Blair is the most vigo-
rous man that has lived in the history of the world, or
the Republican Senators, members of Congress, and com-
manders of armies are the most imbecile who ever dis-
graced public positions.' This absurd fear of civil war is
not the fear in the minds of the Republican leaders; they fear
that the public mind, now turned to the financial and poli-
tical policy of the Republicans, is reaching conclusions
which will sweep them from power,. therefore they seem
to change issues, but we are admonished that it is a dan-
gerous thing to change front on the eve of battle. Gover-
nor Seymour then proceeded in a lengthy argument to
show why the reconstruction policy had been a failure,
because it neglected alike to secure the material prosperity
of both the. white man and the negro. The first act in
the scheme of reconstruction was to put a monstrous ex-
port tax of six cents per pound upon cotton, raised by
the labour of the negro upon the plantation of the white
man. He showed conclusively that this policy was un-
unwise, selfish, and vindictive. This tax was simply im-
posed that the Eastern manufacturer might buy cotton
for a price six cents less than it was worth in the mar-
kets of the world. Its imposition was urged upon the
Congressmen of the Western States, who voted against
the interest of their constituents on the ground that it was
a penalty upon the South. No fair-minded, thoughtful
Republican will look over this action and not confess that
fee policy of his party has not been unwise and hurtful.
Ho then discussed at length the injustice of the unequal
distribution of currency to the national banks, and showed
that the white State of Massachusetts, with a population of
1,100,000, had $5,700,000; the State of Illinois, with twice
that population, only $900,000. The people of the north-
ern Atlantic States held about two-thirds of the currency,
while the great agricultural States of the West had pro-
portionally less than their due share. .There is a great
wrong done here," said Governor Seymour, "at the very
basis of business prosperity. When the western dealer
in produce goes to the banker at Chicago, or other com-
mercial centres of the West, and offers a draft on an east-
ern city to get the currency to buy the wheat, beef, pork,
or wool of western farmers, ho is charged a monstrous in-
terest, and when he objects he is told that the banker can
do no better, that he has no currency of his own, that the
whole volume of currency authorized by Congress has
been taken up in, the Eastern States. He must go East to
borrow currency, must pay interest for its use, and must
charge that intoreet, and another interot for hie Oyu cal.