The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-23 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Admiral Farragut arrived at Trieste, Sept. 16,
with the Franklin and the Frolic. He will remain there
about ten days.

Lieutenant Ephraim Williams, sth United States
Infantry, of Deerfield, Massachusetts, has received the
brevet of captain in the United States army, for coolness,
gallantry, and good conduct in action with Cheyenne
Indians. near Pawnee Ports, Kansas, Sept. 23, 1867.

The Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, preached
iu Fanueil Hall, Bostop, on Sunday, Aug. 30, from the
words, " God created man in his own image, male and
female," Genesis, chap. 1, v. 27.; and quoting the ether
passage descriptive of woman's creation out of man, al-
duced it as proof that Genesis was probably made up of
records or fragments of records now lost. It seemed
strange that this contradiction had never occurred to the
vast majority of men, but that they accepted the most im-
probable theory of the two, and considered the female
inferior. Then he went on to give a woman s rights

sermon,

Dr. Leonard Woods, ex-president of Bawdoin
College, has just returned to Maine from a fifteen months'
sojourn in Europe. While abroad he was led into some
very extended historical researches, which are likely o be
of much importance to students of history. He has seen
and noted some seventy-seven maps of America, issued
during the early part of the sixteenth century ; and Mr.
Kohl of Berlin is about to publish copies of several of them
under the auspices of the Maine Historical Society. Dr.
Woods also discovered among the unarranged manuscripts
of Sir Thomas Phillips of Cheltenham a long-lost manu-
script of Hackluyt's, in 20 chapters, concerning the "greate
necossitie and manifold commodytien that are like to grows
to this Realme of Englande by the Westerns discoveries.'
He was very generously allowed to take copies of it by
Sir Thomas, and has brought home with him an accurate
version of this rare document.
The President has recognized Stephen Higgin-
son, a Boston merchant, and brother of Pol. T. W. Hig-
ginson, as Vice-Consul of Brazil at Boston.
Our last reference to the domestic affairs of the
Mormon apostle, Mr. Brigham Young, some months since,
was on the occasion of his becoming " slightly a widower,"
the prophet having lost " a quantity" of wives from the ma-
lady known to cattle herdsmen as pleuro-pneumonia. A New
York correspondent, writing on 25th ult., informs us that
Mr. Young has just "annexed" five ladies newly arrived
from England. The writer says :—" Among the marriage
notices in a newspaper which reached me the other day,
I found the following, which perhaps may interest some
of your readers in Berks county, England :—' Brigham
Young—Several others. At Salt Lake City, 16th instant,
Brigham Young and Mrs. J. R. Martin, Miss Emily P.
Martin, Miss L. M. Pandergrast, Mrs. R. M. Jenckinson,
and Miss Susie P. Cleveland, all of Berke county, Eng-
land.' "—Birmingham Gazette.
The Hon. James 0. Putnam, of Buffalo, New
York, late United States Consul at Havre, has been one
of the most earnest and effective speakers during the re-
cent political campaign in Maine, which has resulted in a
large increase over any former Republican vote.
The liveries of the present Sheriff of London and
Middlesex, C. H. C. Hutton, Esq., exceed in richness of
colour and elegance of design those of any previous
Sheriff. The State liveries are of gules cloth, manufactured
expressly for the purpose. The facings are white, and
the whole elaborately laced and embroidered in silver
with convolvolus major and vetch major intertwined ; the
cultivated, and the wild flower being emblematical of The
city and county over which the jurisdiction of ;he
Sheriff extends. The dress liveries contain the heraldic
colours of the coat-of-arms of the Sheriff, namely, brown
with white facings and gules edgings, and are also richly
laced. These specimens of elaborate and finished work-
manship will be on view at the well-known house of T. S .
Freeman and Sons, 48, Fenchurch-street, City, on the
24th and 25th inst., who have announced their readiness
to show them to visitors. Mr. Alderman Cotton, who, on
the 28th inst., with Mr. C. H. Hutton, will be sworn in as
Sheriff of London and Middlesex, has appointed as his
chaplain for the year of his shrievalty the Rev. Frederick
George Blcenfield, M.A., Rector of St. Andrew Under-
shaft, and Prebendary of St. Paul's, a son of the late
B ishop of London. Mr. Hutton has appointed as his chap-
lain for the same period the Rev. W. Foster Elliott, of
St. Bees College, vicar of East Dulwich.
Ex-Governor Thomas H. Seymour died of typhoid
fever at his residence in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 3d
September, aged sixty-one years. He studied law, prac-
tised the profession, and was a Representative in Congress
from Connecticut, from 1813 to 1815. In 1846 he went to
Mexico as Major of a New England regiment, and was
promoted to be a colonel after the battle of Chepultepec.
He was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1850, and re-
elected three times in succession, was Minister to Russia
during President Pierce's Administration, and had held
other offices of honour and trust.
Monticello, the homestead of Thomas Jefferson,
is the subject of a complicated law suit at Richmond, Vir-
ginia, the heirs of a recent owner testing his will.
Sun Tdjen has bestowed $5O and the promise of
a $5OO annuity on the man, George Boyce, who saved him
front drowning. Big in promise, bet little in the ready.
Bayard Taylor and family have arrived in New
York from Europe. Mr. Raymond, of the New York, Times,
has also returned to America.
General Roger A. Pryor has eschewed politics
and devoted himself to the practice of law in New York,
backed by considerable oratorical powers and legal know-
ledge.
The Commissioner of Patents extended the Hay-
wood India rubber patent, after a severe contest.
The Spring field Republican says—" Cyrus W.Field
will return to New York in October, buy a farm on the
Hudson, and retire from active business life ;" but we have
good reason to doubt it.
The funeral sermon of two widows of revolutionary
soldiers was preached on August 30, in Hunting Creek
church, Bedford county, Virginia. The sermon was deli-
vered to a large audience by the Rev. Alex. G. Brown,
presiding elder of the Lynchburg district of the M. E.
Church South. The deceased were Mrs. Nancy King and
Mrs. Nancy Crews, both of Bedford county, Virginia,
where they had resided from their youth. Mrs. King died
on the 17th day of May, 1868, in the one hundred and
fourth year of her ago. Mrs. Crews died on the Bth day
of March, 1868, nearly 90 years of age.
We regret to see that Mr. Donnelly, of Minne-
sota, in addressing his constituents, has resumed his at-
tack upon Mr. Washbourne. In reviewing his Congres-
sional labours he made the same onslaught which had
been interrupted in the House upon a man who, whatever
may be his shortcomings, has mainly directed animosity
against himself by his efforts to guard the Treasury
of his country. If Mr. Donnelly's constituents send him
back to Congress we can only conclude that one who uses
this language fairly represents them : " I believe that
tiod never made a baser man (than Mr. Washburne). And
indeed I sometimes think that God never made him, but
let him out to the lowest bidder, like the Custom-house,
and that the devil was the lowest bidder."
The expenses of Air. M'Gee's funeral, upwards
of $2,000, have been paid by the Montreal City Council.
Fung, one of the Chinese ambassadors with Mr.
Burlingame, being asked what the Chinese think of Jesus
Christ, replied that Christ was recognized by them as the
Western Confucius.
The cadets at West Point were reviewed on Fri-
day, Aug. 2, by Duke William of Wurtemburg, who ex-
pressed his pleasure at their high state of discipline.
The Court Journal knows how to improve on
Cable messages. The news sent by the Philadelphia cor-
respondent of the Times of the destruction of a train in
New Mexico has thus been rendered by that speculative
journal Railway travelling is a little exciting in Ame-
rica. The Indians recently in New Mexico stopped a
train, burnt it, and scalped the engine driver, stoker, six
guards, and all the passengers." Rich this, considering
that there is no railway within one hundred miles of New
Mexico.
A new postal treaty between Great Britain and
the United States with reference to the East India mails
has been promulgated. It regulates the exchange of mails
between the United States and the East, by means of the
new American steam line plying between San Francisco
and Hongkong, and takes effect on November 1. The
rates of postage is 10c. currency per half onnce on letters,
2c. each on newspapers, and Bc. per four ounces on book
packets, patterns, and samples, and the treaty includes all
the British possessions in the East.
The negotiations for a postal treaty between
Switzerland an 1 England will commence at Berne next
Monday, the 21st instant. England will be represented by
Mr. Frank Ives Scudamore, assistant secretary, and Mr.
William Page, of her Majesty's Post-office.
The Brazilian Government has complied with the
demands of the American Minister by permitting the
American gunboat Wasp to ascend the Parana.
A NOVEL USE OF STEAM.—In Louisiana it is
proposed to use steam directly through the share of a
steam plough, to loosen the soil.
The Swiss Federal Council at Berne has ap-
pointed as representatives to the International Sanitary
Congress General Dufour, Dr. Lehmann, head of the
Army Medical Department, and M. Gustavus Moynior, of
Geneva.

One of the wealthy American banking firms is
about to open a new banking b.ousa in Paris. The firm
in Now York is W. J. Selegman and Co. They have
branch houses in London, Paris, Frankfoi t, and San Fraa-
ciseo.— Court Journal.
The remains of Charles Loring Elliott, the artist
whose decease has lately been announced, arrived in New
York on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 3, from Albany,
in charge of the sculptors Palmer and Calverly, also
Messrs. Louis Lang, Sanford Thayer, S. P. Avery,
Frederick S. Cozzons, and the deceased artist's sou and
his two brothers. The body was conveyed to the National
Academy of Designs, on the corner of Fourth Avenue and
Twenty-sixth street, where it lay in state until two o'clock
on Friday afternoon, when', the funeral obsequies were
performed. The remains preserved a life-like appearance,