The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-24 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN MINISTER.

The appointment of REVERDY JOHNSON to suc-
ceed CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS as Minister to St.
James's is the best proof that the United States de-
sire to cultivate friendly relations with Great
Britain. America treats Euglani in the nomina-
tion of Ambassadors better than England treats
America, for she sends her most influential and
eminent citizens as her representatives. Mr. ADAMS,
the inheritor of a name renowned in American
story, an able and accomplished diplomatist and
statesman, influential among New Englanders,
after a long residence as Minister in London, is
succeeded by Mr. JOHNSON, an able and accom-
plished lawyer and statesman, and a represen-
tive man, as Americans say, of another section
of American citizens. For many years REVERDY
JOHNSON has much influenced the Senate, though
a member of the party in a minority so great as in it-
self to be almost powerless. The weight of his per-
sonal character is best shown by this fact, and he
is recognized as an authority, indeed as the greatest
authority, on constitutional questions, alike by po-
litical friend and foe. Personally, Mr. JOHNSON
has few enemies, although he can be, and often is,
bitter and satirical enough in his denunciation of
what he thinks wrong. For instance, the other day
he came down with a very heavy lash on Colonel
FORNEY, Secretary to the Senate, for the part taken
by his newspapers against the Republican members
who had voted the PRESIDENT'S acquittal. Judging
from the extract we gave last week of what Mr.
WILKEs wrote of him in the Spirit, we imagine he
must have been equally severe in that quarter. The
way in which he suppressed General BUTLER at the
crisis of the Impeachment Trial, and succeeded in
having evidence recorded injurious to the Managers'
cause, proves what a strong and vigorous stand ho
can take when the occasion demands it. General
BUTLER was at the time brow-beating everybody,
and by the sheer force of his individual qualities had
gained his point, when REVERDY JOHNSON threw
himself into the breach. Had the General attacked
Fort Fisher as vigorously as he then attacked RE-
VERDY JOIINSON, it is not probable that he would
have met at the battered fortress so decisive a
defeat as he did from the Senator. To REVERDY
JOHNSON, more than to any Democrat, is due the
acquittal of the PRESIDENT, for his opinions on the
constitutional questions involved had great weight
with his brother Senators, and they were freely and
forcibly given. He was born in Annapolis, on the
shores of the Chesapeake, in the State of Maryland,
May 21, 179 G. His father was the Chief Justice
of the State, and REVERDY JOHNSON pursued his
profession iu the great capital of Maryland, the city
of Baltimore. After being admitted to the bar he
continuel to practise to the present time. One of
the latest cases of importance, in which his opinion
was considered almost conclusive, had reference to
a constitutional question affecting his native State.
Governor SWANN, in November, 1866, determined
to remove the Police Commissioners of Baltimore,
and to appoint others in their places. The Com-
missioners acknowledged his right of removing
them and appointing others, provided that they bad
been found guilty of misconduct by a competent
tribunal. The question, therefore, hinged on the
Governor's right to try them, which he claimed
and insisted on, being fortified by the legal opinion
of REVERDY JOHNSON. So great was the excitement
that followed, as our readers may recollect, that
General GRANT at the head of some troops was de •
spatched to Baltimore, and Governor SWANN issued
a proclamation threatening in case of a disturbance
to use the entire power of the State for its suppression,
and he tried the case, deposed the Commissioners, and
appointed a new board. But though REVERDY
JOHNSON never dropped the practice of his pro-
fession, he has for many years sat in the Legisla-
ture of the State as well as in Congress, and taken
an earnest part in the government of the country,
remaining pure and without even a breath of sus-
picion in the midst of corruption. In 1845
he was first elected from the Legislature of
Maryland to the United States Senate. On
General TAYLOR'S succeeding to the Presidency, in
1849, Mr. JOHNSON was chosen for the post of
Attorney -.General, but on the death of the
PRESIDENT, which followed shortly after, he
returned to Baltimore. He had filled the office
of Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Debtors, as
well as that of Attorney-General, and he had
been repeatedly elected to the United States
Senate; but, as the country was approaching the
period of strong political excitement, which culmi-
nated in the Civil War, and as Mr. JOHNSON was a
man of moderation, he was not employed by his
fellow-citizens till Secession was impending, when
he was sent to the Peace Conference which assem-
bled in Washington in 1861, where he earnestly
worked to avert the darkly-impending storm.
During the War he remained firmly loyal to the
Union, but the time had not arrived for the
counsels of men of sense and moderation to have
weight. He again took his seat in the United States
Senate in 1863, and his term, therefore, ends next
year, W. F. HAMILTON being already selected to fill
the vacancy. If his party be not weakened by his
absence so far as a vote is concerned—a Demo-
crat:succeeding him, and, in accepting the appoint-
ment to England, only a few months of his Sena-
torial term is sacrificed—yet it will sadly miss his
guid;aice, his influence, and his logical power. RE-
VERDY JOIINSON is frank, genial, and merry, and
he looks like one who grew stout on a happy
combination of good temper and good cheer.
Although seventy-two years of age he has worn
well, and his intellect is as bright and vigorous as
ever. Being by birth and training a gentleman,
Conservative in politics, and alike eminent as a
lawyer and statesman, he cannot fail to be accept-
able to the British aristocrats with whom he will
associate. He has always regarded England in
the main as a great, and friendly Power, and
the natural ally of the United States, and
has frequently shown this by his conduct in
the Senate, as well as on the Committee for Foreign
Affairs, where his influence has been most bene-
ficially exercised. Ja Leaden be will receiye a

hearty welcome, as England cannot fail to see in
the appointment a desire on the part of the Wash-
ington Government, not only to make an agreeable
selection, but one to be relied on for strenuous
exertion to maintain and to increase, as far as pas-
sible, the friendly relations now existing.—Anglo-
American Times.

PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS
OF THE UNITED STA TES.

The following list comprises those also who were
candidates for each office since the organization of
the Government :

1789—George Washington and John Adams; two terms
without opposition.

1797—John Adams, opposed by Thomas Jefferson, Nvio
having 'the next highest electoral vote, became Vi""
President.

1801—Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, beating Jolla
Adams and Charles C. Pickney.
1805—Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton, beating
Charles C. Pickney and Rufus King.
1809—James Madison and Goo. Clinton, beating Charles
C. Pickney.

1813—James Madison and Eldridge Gerry, beating Da
Witt Clinton.

1817—James Monroe and Daniel E. Thompliins, beat-
ing Rufus King.

1821—James Monroe and Daniel E. Thompkins no 0P"
position, and only one dissenting vote.
1825—John Q. Adams and John C. Calhoun, beating
Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and Mr. Crawford, there
being four caudidxtes for President, and Albert Gallatin
for Vice-President.

1829—Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun beating
John Q Adams and Richard Rush.
1833—Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, beating
Henry Clay, John Floyd, and William Wirt for President,
William Wilking, John Sargent and Henry Lee for Vine-
President.

1837—Martin Van Buren and Richard M.Johnson beat-
ing W. H. Harrison, Hugh L. White and Daniel Webster for
President, and John Tyler for Vice-President.
1841— William H. Harrison and John Tyler, beating
Martin Van Buren and I. W. Tazewell. Harrison died
one month after his inauguration, and John Tyler became
President for the remainder of the term.

1845—James K. Polk and George M. Dallas, beating
Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen.
_ _

1819—Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore beating
Lewis Cass and Martin Van Buren for President, and
William 0. Butler and Charles F. Adams for Vice-Pre-
sident.

1853—Franklin Pierce and William IL King beating
Winfield Scott and W. A. Graham.

1837—James Buchanan and John U. Breckinridge, beat-
ing John G. Fremont and Millard Fillmore for President,
and William L. Dayton and A. J. Donelson for Vice-Pre-
sident.

1861—Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, beating
Stephen A. Douglas, John Bell, and John C. Breckin-
ridge for President, and Edward Everett, Herschel .v
Johnson, and Jos. Lane for Vice-President.

1865—Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, beating
George B. 314C1cl1an and George H. Pendleton.

Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore, since the
death of Buchanan, are now the only surviving Presidents
of the United States.

The following is the list of the Maryland delegates
to the New York National Democratic Conservative Con-
vention :—Delegates at Large—from the Eastern Shore--
Hon. Richard B. Carmichael and Dr. George R. Dennis.
From the Western Shore—Charles J. M. Gwinn, Esq.,
and Hon. Montgomery Blair. First District—Col. Edward
Lloyd, of Talbot county, and Hon. Hiram McCullough, of
Cecil. Second District—Eon Stevenson Archer, of Harfora
county, and William Byrne, of Baltimore city. Third
District—William P. Whyte and Dr. George W. Benson,
of Baltimore city. Fourth District—Hon. A. K. Syester,
of Washington county, and Outerbridge Horsey, of Frede-
rick county. Fifth District—George E. Bowling, of F•
George's, and G. F. Maddox, of St. Mary's. The nomina-
tions were unanimously confirmed by the Convention.

A few days before assuming the War-office,
General Schofield, as military governor of Virginia, asked
General Grant to request Congress to take some action to
remedy a very serious evil existing in States which baps
not been " reconstructed." It appears that the operation
of tho pending " constitutional amendment" will diEquiv
lify in Virginia all persons capable of filling civil ofllcee•
There are several thousand civil offices in Virginia for the
supply of which General Schofield has been able to find
but 500 persons qualified by intelligence and by ability to
take the test• oath.

The scientific expedition that started iron'
William'g College some seven or eight months ago to ex-
plore South America has returned. The party travelled
in two divisions; one started from Guayaquil upon th°
western coast, crossed the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes,
penetrated to the river Napo, and thence by canal to steam
navigation on the Ainazun. The other started from Cara-
has upon the coast of Venezuela, struck inland to th°
Orinoco, and down the Rio Negro to the A mazon, travel-
ling a distance of 2,500 miles by canoe.
The new artesian well drilled in solid rock 11
Thomas Colt, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for the uso °f,
his paper mill, has reac bed the depth of four hundred and
seventy-five feet, and discharges water of perfect purity
to the amount• of two hundred and ninety-six gallons Per
minute, or 426,000 gallons every twenty-four hours, wilieh!
is equal to thirty-three gallons a day to every inhabitant °f
that town.
The total annual receipts reported at the recent
anniversary meetings in Boston were $1,132,685, of whieb
the $400,000 of the American Missionary Association sill/
the largest, and the $506 of the Now Free Religion As-
sociation the least.

The exact net proceeds of the recent musical fes-
tival of the Handel and Hayden Society at Boston Well
$3,336, which increases their fund to $7,576.
During last year over half a million of money,
£510,884, was transmitted to Ireland from America by
emigrants to their friends, £202,914 of the sum being
iu
the form of prepaid passage orders. _

On the 20th April a leading firm in San Fran'
cisco, engaged in the China trade, received an important
message from Shanghai, which was dated April Ist. Thi°
message was sent by way of Pekin and St. Petersburg by
courier, thence ria London by telegraph, thence to Self
York by cable and San Francisco, by three thousand miles
of overland telegraph, in nineteen days from the time it
left Shanghai. We believe this to be an unprecedented
feat, and it seems to show the facilities that have been
afforded to business transactions within the two or three
years last past.
The beet sugar manufactory, at Chatsworth,
Illinois, is now shipping a car load of sugar every week'
The American war steamer Shamrock sailed 0
the 12th inst from Lisbon for Now York, and the Ameri-
can transport ship Guard has sailed for Civita Vecchia.
LADVERTISEXIENT.]— Consumption, and all nervous, bilious
stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravattli
and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfee
curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Fo°
as proved by thousands of cases which had been considero_
hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, Co":,
sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric deraili;,
ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervoustieS
biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds,
fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, iln%
rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessue'
acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, drop tit
cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or
ekes
sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the ekes
pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, .0
We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du lio,rrY,i
Food. Cure No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health ~°ll
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning %
other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Bite al
Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Plar,te,ial
at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly benew:',44
effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise
.1,1:,
excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Ail
July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber
chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lun
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafneo•4
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieuten,aAft'y
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. 're&
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervous],
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness
vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Cando n.—Be ware of then.us
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, Ni'itP
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached' _ .
In tins, at Is. 1 id.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d ' ; 2 lbs., 45. 6d. • 5 lbs ,
12 lbs., 225. ; 21 bs , 40s —BARRY DU BARRY and Co., N°:evy
Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, r 1
dilly, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4. Cheapside ; 63, 150,, ,0d
,„.
298, oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and chenUP"

Births.
BRUCE—On tho 22d inst., at Dover, the wife of captsl'
Bruce, R.N., Superintendent of Packets, of a son.
COTTON—On the 22d inst., at 10, Sussex-square, 119'f
park, the wife of H. Cotton, Esq., Q.C., of a daughter.,
GoscHEN—Ou the 21st inst., at 66, Mount-street, the
of the Right Hon. George J. Goschen, of a daughter.
Marriages.
fel),
CALROW—HELFRICH—On the 20th inst., at Christ Col' i3O
Forest-hill, Richard Calrow, Royal Engineers, 0n19,6,,,ib
of the late Rich. Calrow, of Bury, Lancashire, to -r.'"`"
Amelia, second daughter of Francis Helfrich, Esq. io
FORBES—CARRICK—On the 18th inst., at the EnVi,
Church, St. Petersburg, Francis A. orbes of Bic1(1°,1
Kent, to Jessie Mary, only daughter of the late Andy°
Carrick, of St. Petersburg.

Deaths.
Vag,
K ACERMANN—On the 22d inst., et 13, Park-village
Regent's-park, Rudolph Ackermaun, aged 75. 1V•
GOULD—On the 221 inst., at The Brook, Feckenharo,

Warner Gould, Esq., aged 59. oc/A
LAmoNT—On the 20th inst., at 50, Eldon-street, Grail

Colin Lamont, jun., Esq., banker, aged 79.
OAKE—On the 19th inst., at Ring wood, Henry Oake, -.-
aged 78. •
O'CONNELL —On the 2 lst inst., at Longfield, Cashel, ~;o
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both Mary Agues, infant daughter of M. J. ucoelle
Esq.
SMITII—On the 22d inst., at The Manor House, Credit°l3'
F. E. Smith, Esq., solicitor, aged 56.

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