The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-31 00:00:00

ANCIENT GREECE.

A letter from Athens announces that a Greek peasant
has discovered the remains of the cemetery belonging to
the city which formerly occupied the site of the village of
Idalion. Search has been made, and several tombs have
been found in perfect condition, containing quantities of
jewels, gold and silver coins, &c. A little deeper, more
tombs, bearing Ph nician inscriptions, were found, besides
statues, bas-reliefs, vases in glass and marble, weapons,
and ornaments.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The President, by proclamation, dated October
12, has named the 26th of November as Thanks-
giving-Day. The proclamation was published with
the great Republican victory in the elections on the
13th inst., an i the language of the President is
made not only to appear as if designed to com-
memorate that event, but is called prophetic.
These are the words :
" We are permitted to hope that long protracted politi-
oal and sectional dissensions are, at no distant day, to
give place to returning harmony and fraternal affection
throughout the Republic. Many foreign States have
entered into liberal arrangements with us, while nations,
which are far off, and which heretofore have been unsocial
and exclusive, have become oar friends."
An order of the President, signed by Gen. Grant,
has not, however, been so well received. lle therein
calls the attention of ar ny officers to the provisions
of the Constitution a ithorising the Presidential
election, an I the seed)]. prohibiting any interfer-
ence by officers of the army or navy. The Order cites
Acts of Congress passed before, but not after, 1865
relative to the ditty of soldiersin Presidential elections.
Mr. Johnson's ignoring the Reconstruction Acts has
furnished matter for comment, and General Grant
is advised to issue a like Order, continuing the ci-
tations of law from 1865 to the present, together
with the Resolutions and Acts of Congress de-
fining the duties in elections of the General-
in-Chief and the army. The President's in-
tention is said to have been to counteract
General Reynolds's Order in Texas prohibiting
under the Reconstruction Acts and Electoral Col-
lege Bill the holding of Presidential elections in
that State. This order is fortified by a Circular
from the Democratic State Committee, urging the
citizens to exercise their Constitutional voting right,
regardless of Governors and military commanders.
Nor can we see why they should be prevented, for
Congress can at least respect its own law and not
count votes it deems illegal, when received, though
journals in England write as if Radical brutality
was about to prevent the at present excluded States
from voting, even at the point of the bayonet.
But Congress had better look out for its Consti-
tutional rights--for there is a man in a newspaper
office in New York who may interpret those rights
to be wrongs; and then the legiil ttive body may in-
deed beware " If he" (Grant) says this newspaper
ogre, " Brick Pomeroy," " is elected by unfair
means, or by the use of illegal power—if he does not
receive a majority of the three hundred and seven-
teen votes of the Electoral College, fairly cast—
if he seeks to override a majority in America, he dies
before his terse of office shall one-fourth expire, and
the party that would thus unjustly elevate him to
power shall be strangled in the blood it cries for."
Still it may be satisfactory to Grant, as the threat