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

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1868.

TREASURE TROVE.

A return has been issued to-day of all objects corning
under the denomination of treasure trove, which have been
claimed by the solicitor of the Treasury on behalf of the
Crown, between the 10th May, 1867, and the 10th May,
1868, as follows :—On 16th January, 6,905 small gold and
silver coins, found at Highbury, Middlesex, together 'with
two ivy leaves, and a piece of silver, value £44 ; now at
the British Museum for inspection and report. January
17, 80 guineas found in the wall of an old house on
the manor of East Parley, near Christchurch, Hants,
value £B2 10s. sd. Eight of these guineas have been sold
for £8 8s ; amount paid to Paymaster-General, to be carried
to "Treasure Trove account." The whole are claimed by the
alleged descendants of the original owner, and the remaining
72 are retained at the Treasury awaiting proof of title. On
March 28, 261 old silver coins, found in a house in the city
of Lichfield, value £7 Os. 100., now at the British Museum
for inspection and report.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

FOREIGN NOTES,)

OUR FOOD SUPPLY.

Metter from-Buenos Ayres discusses the prospect of
the River Plate territory becoming a British granary.
The writer urges that some new sources are imperatively
required, for the United States has declined as a food
supply, and Russia, now our largest contributor, cannot
always be depended upon. Of the most promising corn-
growing countries—Australia, California, and the River
Plate country— the latter seems the best. Its geographical
position is a great advantage ; it is some thousand miles
nearer England than Australia or California ; its soil is
second to none in fertility, and it possesses the speciality
of being absolutely free from the impediments to the
employment of steam-power tillage. The land is cheap and
stock numerous and of small money value. The writer
believes that England has only to stretch to the River
Plate the powerful arm of a joint-stock association to open
a source of practically limitless subsistence. This is
undoubtedly true ; but the States of the River Plate must
terminate a senseless war before they can expect the aid
of British capital. Australia and California are thou-
sands of miles off, but they are at peace, propertyis secure,
and they have made a start in corn-growing.

en ed incoming President, to know that his outgoing
predecessor is also in danger. The Washington
Evening Express came out thus in a large heading :

" Highly Important, Startling, and True ! A Plot to
Assassinate President Johnson ! ! Fifty negroes and three
white men sworn to kill the President." The Express
says that an employe in the Treasury Department has ex-
posed the plot, which has reen arranged since the Im-
peachment Trial."

Of course Gen. Butler is associated in the plot, as
no conspiracy scene could be perfect unless", that
gentleman acted a character in the play. This is,
however, of a more bogus nature than even those of
his manufacture, and has excited little interest.

A telegram from America, dated last Sunday,
reports a serious accident as having occurred in New
York upon the railway crossing the Hudson River.
The accident was caused by a broken rail. The
train ran off the track, and the carriages were
greatly damaged. Three persons have been killed
and 30 wounded.

We hail one move of the South towards pushing
their material interests, which will be found to be
much wiser than spouting politics or shooting
niggers. The Southern Convention in Norfolk on
Thursday, the 15th October, opened a subscription
for $300,000 for a line of steamships between Nor-
folk and Europe. Norfolk subscribed $50,000,
Nashville $25,000, and Petersburgh $20,000. The
tobacco planters met the next night to consider the
propriety of subscribing $lOO,OOO. The delegates
went on an excursion to Fortress Monroe on the
16th of October.

The meeting of the Washington Cabinet on the
16th inst. was unusually long, when questions re-
lating to Spain, to the Canadian treaty, and to the
despatches received from his Excellency Reverdy
Johnson, were supposed to have been discussed.
General Male's first telegram announcing the Spa-
nish revolution is dated San Sebastian, Sept. 30th,
1868, after the flight of the Queen for France. To
this Seward replied, " Keep me well advised." The
Minister's next was from Madrid, and in reply he
was directed to recognize the new Government, so
as to carry on the business of the Embassy. Gen.
Hale then announced that he had recognized the
Provisional Government, and at the same time
a communication from that Government came
through the Minister of Spain, at Washington,
thanking the United States for its prompt recogni-
tion. 1 his was reciprocated in the President's
name, with the best wishes of the United States,
for the peace, prosperity, and happiness of Spain.
Speaker Colfax and Senator Wade met Congress
on the 16th October. From the dome over each of the
Chambers, as usual on the opening of the Session, the
Stars and Stripes floated. Less than a dozen mem-
bers were in the House ; among them Messrs.
O'Neill, Lincoln, Beck, Kitchen, Cavanagh, and
French were noticed. The hall was completely
furnished for the winter session, but the desks,
chairs, and carpets had been taken out of the Senate
Chamber, which looked dreary enough with its
three Senators, Cameron, Cole, and Patterson of
Tennessee. The President called the Senate to order,
and after a blessing had been asked for the Senators
at work there and among the people, an adjourn-
ment was declared till the 10th November. The
proceedings were similar in the House, the chap-
lain thanking God for the evidence of right-
minedness prevailing over the land. Both Col-
fax and Wads were warmly greeted. The
former looked as brown as a nut after his
expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Ile said
that he had been informed by a despatch
rom Indians that not less than 5,000 voters had
been imported by the Democrats from Kentucky,
and 10,000 more naturalized, the knowledge of
which, and the doubtful character in consequence
given to the State, had forced him to take to the
stump. He had a pleasant conversation with Beck,
of Kentucky, to whom he said, "I hear you are
about changing your candidates." " Oh, I don't
know," answered Beck. "I am inclined to think
with Lincoln that it is bad policy swapping horses
when you are crossing the stream." "But," said
the Speaker, " what will you do with all your Sey-
mour and Blair banners, &c., if you change candi-
dates?" "Oh," said Beck, laughingly, but with a
meaning shake of the head, " I'm afraid we shall
have to get rid of a good many other things as well
as our banners.'' Senator Wade seemed in excel-
lent spirits, and pooh-poohed the idea of the new
Democratic programme in his usual emphatic way.
"The Democratic party," he said, "must change
their principles as well as their candidates before
they can win." Colfax took the train on the even-
ing of the 16th for Indiana, via New York.

The Fenians do not seem to. be iu the ascendant,
as their candidate, Mr. William E. Robinson, whom
the New York Tribune terms " the most devoted and
faithful Fenian in Congress," was on the 16th inst.
refused a re-nomination. Indeed the name of this
"faithful Fenian" was not even mentioned, while
General S!ocum was nominated with acclamation
by the Democrats. It is rich to hear the leading
organ of the ruling party discuss the " devoted and
faithful Fenian" as a member of the United States
Legislature, when we shall probably have that con-
sistent journal boiling over with rage at Mr. Laird's
audacity in dining at the same table with the Ame-
rican Minister. -What is sauce for the goose is by
no means sauce for the gander with this impartial
authority. The representative of a secret organi-
zation formed in the United States for waging war
against a friendly nation is " devoted and faithful"
—but what is the builder of the Alabama? It is a
pity that the New York Tribune cannot write in a
more dignified tone, and express something higher
than pothouse politics.

General Sherman and the Indian Peace Com-
mission met at Chicago, when resolutions were
passed recommending immediate arrangements fur
furnishing food, clothing, and protection to all
friendly Indians located on reservations ; this
granted, then that the policy of. Government to-
wards the others should be changed. Henceforth
the Commissioners advise that the Indians shall

not be recognized as independent nations, but that
each should be held to an individual responsibility
to the Government ; that force be employed if neces-
sary to compel their location upon reservations,
there to be fed and protected ; and further that
the Indian Bureau to be transferred to the War

Department. Colonel Tappan of the Commission
wanted a resolution passed that the depredations
committed by several members of the various
tribes do not justify the declaration of war against
those tribes, or the abrogation of their treaties ;
but no one but Col. Tappan himself voted for it.

If the wise recommendations of the Commissioners
are followed the best thing will be done for the
country as well as for the Indians themselves.

General Alfred Sully, General L. P. Bradley, Gene-
ral William H. Penrose, Colonel Baukhead, and
Lieutenant Colonel Royal, at the head of five
columns, are preparing to move against the Indians
in different directions, covering in thdir operations
the territory between the Smoky Hi►l and Republi-
can Forks on the north, and the Cimarro and

Canadian rivers on the south. General Custer,
some time since suspended, has been restored to
command, and accompanies Sully. The columns will
co-operate, those of Sully and Penrose, composed
wholly of cavalry, being directed against the Indian
families who rest in a deceptive security, while those
of Royal and Bankhead, of the same branch of the
service, will attack the warriors on the war-path. It
is a terrible necessity which impels the United States
to such a warfare, but they have no other course,
and the chances are that the Indians have by this
time bitter reason to rue, having commenced a
game which, however dreadful to their enemy, is
simply annihilation to themselves.
The American Minister has accepted an invita-

tion to a public dinner from the Birmingham
Chamber of Commerce, to be given on Wednes-
day, the 2d of December, and he has accepted an
invitation to dine with the Sheriffs of London at
the:r inauguration banquet on Wednesday next
at Haberdashers' Hall, Gresham-street. On the
23d instant his host, Mr A. H. Brown, asked
a number of gentlemen to meet him ; the
evening of the 24th, and Sunday, the 25th, was
spent at Knowsley with the Earl of Derby and
Lord Stanley-, On Monday he was entertained by
the Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. Whitley, when Mr.
Johnson said that the differences between his coun-
try and this were trifling in comparison with what
they had paned through in America, yet the North

and South were now intimate:friends. Tie had not
come to England to foster animosities, nor did he
fear censure for being friendly to those before re-
garded as enemies. lie believed all pending ques-
tions would be adjusted ere the retirement of Lord
Stanley, the most indefatigably industrious man
he knew ; he pictured the benefits of free labour,
and predicted that the South would yet double its
greatest growth hitherto of cotton. The world
would learn from the conduct of the two nation-4,
that friendly relations could be substituted for war
by honest diplomacy. What his country would
think of his manner of executing his mission he
could not tell; though he sanguinely believed
his policy would be approved, ho would ac-
cept censure with Christian resignation. We are
just as much puzzled on this subject as his Excel-
lency, and though we see several points in his favour,
still the current is now against him. The first
point is the admiration Americans always feel for
" pluck" and decision ; the second, that the ruling
party will be in too good a humour to quarrel over
so small a matter ; the third is, that they have al-
ready abused his Excellency to their hearts' cln-
tent ; but our strongest reason is our belief that
Mr. Johnson is essentially in the right.

A difficulty has occurred in the contract for
carrying the mails between the furthest point
reached by the cars of the Union Pacific Railroa4
and the furthest point reached by the cars of the
Central Pacific Railroad. It appears that two
contractors offered ; the one at $350,000 was
accepted, and the other at $1,055,000 was declined.
The man who furnished the lower tender soon com-
pletely broke down, when it was handed over to the
higher bidder, Wells, Fargo, and Co. The Post-
office agent at Salt Lake City telegraphs that
that company only can perform the service, but
they insist on a definite and immediate accept-
ance of their own terms. The arrangement is
temporary, while they desire that it should ex-
tend over the period until the completion of the
railroad. As they are in working order along the
line they are prepared, while a new contractor
would about have his arrangements completed by
the time the railroad was opened. Ana mg the
many candidates Brigham Young holds a promi-
nent place. The break down is owing to the legis-
lation of Congress, which after the contract had
been issued, and Mr. Spaid's bid accepted, altered
the postage regulations, which confined stamped
matter to letters. By this the expense was enor-
mously increased, though no appropriation had
been made to meet it, the tender being calculated
on Spaid's terms, without considering the changed
conditions. •

General [looker has been placed on the retired
list in consequence of wounds received in action, of
which one was in leading his corps at the battle of
Antietam, where the desperate struggle occurred
between his divisions and those commanded by
Stonewall Jackson ; he will retain his full pay and
rank. General Sibley has forwarded to General
Howard additional affidavits respecting the Camilla
riot, which confirm the first report. General Han-
cock returned to Washington, Oct. 15. His health
is much improved, though he still suffers from his
wounds received during the civil conflict. He called
on the President and the Secretary of War. The
monument to Gen.Sedg wick at Wrest Point was about
to be dedicated; Mr. George W. Curtis delivering
the address. This renowned officer commanded
the Sixth Corps, which attained under his lead a
celebrity which will make it known to distant ages.
He fell among the myriads of brave men who died
on the countless battle-fields between Washington
and Richmond. In compliance with the request of
Governor Boreman, the President has instructed
General Hancock to furnish such troops from the
Department of Washington as can be spared for
duty in West Virginia. Company 11, Twelfth U.S.
Infantry, has already been sent to Philippa, West

The President has recognised George W. Gibbs
as Consul of Turkey at San Francisco, and John
0. Nixon Consul of Turkey at New Orleans ;
William Grange as Consul of Turkey at Baltimore,
and Adalbert Celestin Doisy as Consular Agent of
Italy at Cincinnati. Secretary M'Culloch has ap-
pointed Thomas It. Laird to be Supervisor of Vir-
ginia and West Virginia, upon the nomination of
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. As we
anticipated, Solicitor Binckley has got himself into
trouble by his attack on Commissioner R)llins, as
well as those who aided, him. lie has violated in-
advertently a provision of the Internal Revenue
law, which renders him liable to fine and imprison-
ment, and proceedings have been taken against him.
M‘Flenry, the principal witness in the case, has
been indicted for perjury ; Fitch, who worked it
up is confined in New York jail, and Moore has also
been imprisoned, charged with embezzling Govern-
ment funds. The end of this attempt to show up
fraud is not encouraging, and the " ring" must
have heartily rejoiced that Binckley, to use a vulgar
saying, had " got the wrong sow by the ear," and
has come to grief. Under a decision of Attorney
General livarts, brandy distilled from grapes, apples
and peaches, has been exempted from the payment
of the $4OO special revenue tax.
Mr. Van Dykt, the Sub-Treasurer at New York,
notwithstanding his assertion that the means used
by the Treasury for the disposal of gold are the best
yet devised has so far given way to the clamour
lately raised against the Treasury as to offer for
sale certain quantities of gold during specified
periods to the highest bidder. On the 13th Octo-
ber a Treasury notice appeared that the Assistant
Secretary would for each of the ten ensuing busi-
ness days receive tenders for the purchase of
$300,000 gold coin, each bid to be accompanied by
three per cent. of its amount in currency, to be de-
posited at the office between 11 and 12 o'clock, at
which latter hour the gold would be delivered to the
highest bidders, but no tender was to be received
for less than $5,000. On the 14th many firms sent
n offers, which aggregated $3,330,000, at prices
varying from 136 to 137 ; whether this system will
answer remains to be seen, but it is to say the least
advisable to try it.
We overlooked a letter which we ought to have
published last week, which the Secretary of the
Treasury addressed to a house of business in New
York, and which appeared in the TVall-Street Jour
nal, Oct. 10 :

"Treasury Department, Oct. G, 1868.
" Sir,—l a-n in receipt of your favour of the sth inst.,
inquiring 'if there is any doubt about the United States
Bonds, Sixes of 1881, being paid in gold, principal and
interest ?' In reply T would nay that it has been the in-
variable practice of the Government to pay, both the
principal and interest of the bonds of the United States, in
coin, as they respectively matured, and I know of no rea-
son why a different course should be pursued in regard to
the bonds of 1881. "11. M'CuLLocnr, Secretary."
The conditions of the bonds mentioned in the letter
are the same as those of the Five-twenties.

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