The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-23 00:00:00

1V G, MAY 23, 1868.

George W. Booker, of Henry county, for Attorney-
General ; A. M. Crane, of Winchester, for Con-
gressman at large ; and George Yeaman, coloured,
J. H. Platt, John Hawxhurst, and Charles Whitt-
lesey (one black and two whites), were appointed
delegates at large to the Chicago Convention. A
preamble and resolutions were adopted, the former
of which pledges the State to pay her honest debts,
asserts that the Government owes it to Virginia
promptly to admit her when the Reconstruction Acts
are complied with. One pledges the party to use its
best efforts for the removal of political disabilities from
those who participated in the rebellion ; another main-
tains the universal equality of mankind supports free
schools, regardless of colour, demands reimburse-
ment for the losses of the loyal during the war, sup-
ports Impeachment, Grant for President, and &ma-
tor Wilson for Vice-President. The Democrats
named R. E. Withers for Governor, and selected
delegates to the New York Convention. General
Buchanan has hastened the time for the meeting
of the Texas Constitutional Couvention from the
15th to the Ist of June. General Canby has
written to General Grant, directing Congressional
attention to the test oath by civil officers of the
military districts, Which he considers to be a serious
impediment to the progress of Reconstruction. By
an order the General has announced the result of
the South Carolina election, directing the Legisla-
ture to meet on.the 12th instant. He provides for
the labourers discharged for voting against the
wishes of employers by a levy on the door-rates,
maintaining them as objects of public 'charity.
Louisiana returns show a majority of 18,000 in
favour of the Constitution, and even more for War-
mouth as Governor, and a Republican majority in
both branches of the Legislature.
The advocates of an International Copyright
have been successful in placing the association
formed at New York on a permanent foundation.
Besides its president, the poet Bryant, Longfellow,
Horace Greeley, W. Gilmore Simms, have with
others been elected vice-presidents. Among the
committee-men are—S. Irenatus Prime, Hon. S. S.
Cox, George P. Putnam, Charles Scribner, E. G.
Squier, E. C. Stedman, and Richard Grant White ;
and a delegation has been named to proceed to
Washington to forward by all means the enactment
of an international copyright law. New York is
at present filled with delegates to conventions, an-
niversaries, bible societies, and missionary societies.
The American Medical Convention is sitting, after
having visited, through its leading members, the
President and other high officers. Indeed, the
habit in New York is somewhat similar to that
which prevails in London at this season in the "May
Meetings."
Well might the Sandwich Islanders tremble
when 4.‘ earthquake Bill" fixed on them a covetous
eye. Hawaii has suffered more during the month
of April even than St. Thomas in undergoing its pro-
posed ordeal of annexation. On the 27th March the
volcano of Mauna Loa broke out afresh, and for
nearly three weeks a series of earthquakes followed.
Fire, rocks, ashes, were hurled from the crater, and
molten lava rushed down the hill at the rate of 10
miles an hour till arrested by the sea, where it formed
an island, everything in the way, of course, being
destroyed on its path. An island three miles from
shore rose and emitted columns of smoke and steam,
while from Manna Loa came a great red earth
stream which flowed down the mountain side with
fearful speed, spreading over the country. The
earth opened and swallowed a village containing
35 people, while a tidal wave sixty feet high swept
in from the sea and drowned a hundred more.
These convulsions of nature have lately been most
remarkable and appalling.
The Canadian House of Commons has made the
ridiculous appropriation of £1,080,000 for fortifica-
tions. Who does the Dominion propose to fortify
itself against? Surely not the United States, nor
can we suppose that the House would elevate the
Fenians into the dignity of erecting fortifications to
resist them. In the first case they would be use-
less; in the second case needless; and the money
would be much better expended in opening out
communication and bringing in population.
According to-Messrs. Neill's report, May 16, the
week's receipts of cotton have been 11,003 bales,
and since the Ist of September 2,088,000 bales.
Week's exports to Great Britain, 30,000 bales ; since
the Ist of September, 1,170,000 bales. Week's
exports to the Continent, 7,000 bales ; since the Ist
of September, 423,000 bales. Total experts for
the week, 37,000 bales; since the Ist of September,
1,598,000 bales. Stock at all ports, 180,003 bales.
The steamers leaving New York on the 16th took
for Europe $1,800,000 in specie ; on the 19th,
$100,000; on the 20th, $1,100,000; on the 21st,
poo,ooo.
M. Emile de Girardin imagines that the President
was acquitted by 35 votes to 19 on the eleventh
Article of the Impeachment charges. A correspon-
dent of one of the dailies comments on this, stat-
ing that the editor could hardly believe it ; while
the Times, if there is any meaning in words, made
the same mistake in its leading article on
precisely
Monday. " The Senate began with the last, and
having dismissed that Article by a majority of 35
to 19, adjourned till the 26th without voting upon
any other."
Thad. Stevens was so annoyed at being called to
order for speaking of Judge Nelson's " greasy
career," that he withdrew the explanation he was
then giving of his connection with the Alta Vela
claim. Yet this touchy-tempered individual strives
for the nomination to the Secretaryship of State.
Speaker Colfax did protest against the speeches of
Messrs. Donnelly and Washburne, but he has been ,
much blamed for confining his action to this, and
not insisting on putting a stop to the disgraceful
scene. He excuses himself by stating that it was
the will of the House that it should proceed. Mr.
Brooks, of New York, took the opportunity of the
Alta Vela affair, to raise a new scandal against Gen.
Butler. He asserted that in Richmond the lawyer-
general was attacked and soundly thrashed by a
common bricklayer for insulting his wife.
In Great Britain the last public execution took
place at Dumfries, May 12, and those who read the
account of the hanging of Samuel Mills will con-
gratulate this country that such spectacles should
cease, at least al public shows. Sam. Mills mur-
dered in an inhuman manner an old man named
G. Maxwell on December 8, 1866. He expiated his
crime at Haverhill, New Hampshire, on the 6th inst.,
in the presence of a vast assemblage. On being told
that he had only fifteen minutes to live, and cou'd
say what he pleased, he addressed the crowd.
"Samuel Mills," he said, "has acted like a man,
and he will die like a man. Gentlemen, tell all of
the folks that Samuel Mills says he is guilty of this
crime, and that he died like a man. Good bye, and
good luck to you." He once nearly effected his
escape, after several desperate attempts. He heard
without concern the sound of the workmen's tools
on the scaffold, eating his Supper and smoking his
pipe with his usual relish. He had covered the walls
of his cells with various inscriptions, accounts of his
efforts at escape, queer drawings, and, among other
things, this characteristic message to the world from
which he has thus violently been cast for ever :
" Samma Mills murder, going to be 'ung to-day of
May—good fellow, but no man dont no it." Surely
a scene of this sort is not calculated to benefit the
public. We perceive that, in the debate last Wed-
nesday, the Prussian Upper House rejected the
Bill for the Abolition of Capital Punishment by 22
against 15 votes. The three clerical members of
the House voted for 'the retention .of the death
penalty, and the Crown Prince in favour of its abo-
lition. The clause doing away with corporal punish-
ment was unanimously agreed to.
The Springfield Republican announces George
Francis Train's nomination in Dublin for the next
Presidency of the United States. At first it con-

sidered Um intelligence a gigantic Irish " bull,"
magnified indefinitely by the humorous rollicking
Irish people, but on second thought it saw that in
Ireland they had as good a right not merely to
nominate but to elect and inaugurate American
Presidents, as in America for years past to make
Presidents of the Irish Republic. Indeed, what the
Republican says is too good and too true not to be
given in its own words :
" Once rise above the conventionalities of place and

national boundaries, and. it. Woollies just as easy to ttko

Ireland fur the United S tat. 3.3 as the United State's for Ire-
land. Then, as a further logical consequence of the now

principles of international law which have been promul-
gated of late in this country, we shall have our army
reorganized—in Ireland—our Senate superseded, as soon
as the patriots can determine between Sweeney and
Roberts, our treasury made over—in fancy—to the eminent
financiers who have collected and disturbed the lucrative
'tax on domestic servants' for the last three years, and our
laws given us by the cable, which, fortunately, has its
eastern terminus in the green isle of the north. It is im-
possible to see how we are logically to escape such a con-
summation. Practically, the evil will ba less oppressive
than would at first appear. The se m° difficulties will
probably attend the mandates of the Irish presidents of
tho American Republic as have embarrassed the authority
of American presidents of the Irish Republic. The same
substantial anarchy that has in sogreat part neutralized
the laws given by the Senate in New York, may, in turn,
limit the operation of the s atutes of the new ' Congress
on Dublin Green.' But, in pure theory, the idea of each
is equally good, equally deserving the patronage of states-
men, equally commanding the respect of loyal citizens."
Mr. Train, after his lecture in Manchester, returned
to the more genial atmosphere of Barney, but we
fear the Blarney Convention for nominating a Pre-
sidential candidate will not be recognizA in the
United States.

Some time ago we gave an account of a bill in-
traduced into the British Parliament to correct the
criminal neglect whereby an enterprising Americ
gentleman had lost the privilege of registering a
patent which cost Lim a large sum, and was likely to
prove as beneficial to himself as to the public. We
are happy to say an act has been passed to continue
and confirm this patent of A.D. 1863 (No. 3,007),
granted to Perry Green Gardiner, of New York,
United States, for improvements in railway bar
springs, and also to enable the said Perry Green
Gardiner to p ty the stamp duty of £5O on the said
letters patent, and upon such payment to enable
the Commissioners of Patents or their clerk to
stamp the said letters patent or a duplicate thereof.
We congratulate the enterprising owner, who has
through such discouragement and unexpected
difficulties carried this matter to so successful
a result. The spring promises to remove for
ever joltings and jerks in railway travel. It
consists of a spiral helix of steel, packed with wool
in cylinder, and compressed by a piston. Wool is
now known to be the most elastic of materials, and
the strength • of the spring is multiplied by this
means five-fold. It is said that with this spring
carriages at the greatest speed will move on ordi-
nary railroads, with perfect steadiness, and it is
equally available for buffers.
An American newspaper, which is far from being
a bitter opponent of Anlrew Johnson, says
" The President means to have a few friends when
he leaves Washington, and continues to pardon the
worst kind of criminals, especially counterfeiters
and revenue defrauders. Oae counterfeiter, who
had served only one of a ten years' sentence, has
been pardoned this week, also one illicit distiller of
whisky." It is singular to note the number of cri-
minals lately pardoned by the President.
Passengers from Vera Cruz to Havannah report
a revolution in the city of Mexico, and that Juarez
having seized all the money in the Treasury—
amounting to $7,000,000 —had fled for*Texas. This
may be mere rumour, but it is known that the
country is in a fearful state of anarchy ; rebellions
are breaking out in all directions. General Corona's
first act at Mazatlan was to squeeze from the mer-
chants $lOO,OOO. At Monterey six American mer-
chants were imprisoned and beaten, and a complaint
through the Consul has been made to Mr. Seward.
The Mexican Congress has condemned the conces-
sion to the English company, for building the Vera
Cruz and Mexico City Railway, although the ablest
men of the Republic are ardently in favour of the
improvement. If the Mexican Government would
but give back to the English shareholders the money
these deluded individuals have risked in this affair
there would be rejoicings in many English homes.
At periods the United States are remarkable for
strong religious movements and revivals—a subject
with which the press deals as if it were Impeach-
ment, Protection, or Naturalization. The gather-
ings are announced, as though prize-fights or race
meetings. The numbers converted are given, as
for instance, " the Methodists at Saratoga Springs
report 300 conversions ; 30 students in Lawrence-
ville, New Jersey, have expressed a hope in
Christ ;" "at the last communion season in the
Presbyterian Church, Kensington, Pennsylvania, 101
were admitted." Congregational, Baptist, and every
sect seem simultaneously inspired. One paper says,
" Even a Roman Catholic revival, or mission, as they
call it, has occurred in Norwich, Connecticut. The
church was thronged for three weeks, the confes-
sional was crowded day and evening, and the re-
sults were ' 3,500 communions, hundreds of strayed
sheep brought back to the fold, the establishment
of the confraternities of the holy rosary and of the
angelic warfare, and many other heavenly graces."
Another states, " All the churches in every part of
Christendom are moving towards a simpler plan of
faith, a plainer path to heaven."

We are sorry to report Indian outrages. A train
was attacked near Tularosso, New Mexico, on the
18th of April. The wagons and contents were
burned, and all the mules captured. Of thirty-
seven men who went from Tularosso for the re-
lief of this train seven are reported killed. A
short time before thirteen persons were killed
by the Indians near this place. From Omaha
accounts come of Indian troubles along the line of
the Pacific Railroad. General Sherman passed
Plum Creek on the 30th April, and saw from the
train the bodies of four men just killed. Notwith-
standing, the intelligence is encouraging from Fort
Laramie, where three great chiefs of the Cheyennes
have arrived to treat with the Peace Commis-
sioners, and a full delegation of the Mountain
Crows and Araphoes are daily expected.
As it has been erroneously stated in one or two
leading London papers that Colonel Forney, Secre-
tary of the Senate, had misappropriated funds
placed in his care, we desire to publish that the
committee appointed to investigate the accounts
distinctly confirm what we lately announced, that
Colonel Forney was the victim of his financial
clerk, Samuel Wagner, who now confesses to the
theft of $20,000, while $12,000 he refuses to ac-
count for. Colonel Forney may have been careless
in not exercising a stricter supervision, but he has
done what any gentleman ought to do under the
circumstances ; that is, he has paid up the money
himself, losing everything except the small sum
which may be recovered from Wagner's estate.
One of those deluded individuals who, having
invested in Confederate Bonds, adheres to the belief
that somebody will at some time refund the money,
writes from the Junior Carlton Club to state that
he is encouraged in this belief, as the opinion of the
present Lord Chancellor was taken before the loan
was subscribed, and he considered that it was quite
in accordance with international law. Also, that
Lord Stanley gave an assurance that if the Alabama
claims were submitted to arbitration, the same
Court would be open to the bondholders. It is
extraordinary to see the pertinacity with which
people cling to a pleasant delusion. While a con-
siderable number in the North are agitating to
repudiate their own debt—how can Mr. Philips
suppose that they are likely to refund a
loan used against themselves for an illegal
object? Neither by law nor equity are they
bound, and the mass of the people of the United
States would consider that honour forbad them
under any circumstances to recognize this debt. It
was contracted by a pseudo Confederacy in rebel-
lion against the lawful Government. All the States
which formed that Confederacy have solemnly re-
nounced the War Debt, and the Bonds bear on their
face that payment is due after a ratification of a
treaty of peace—that is, that the lender risked his
money with a clear understanding that repayment
hinged on the success of the rebellion—for sovereign
powers do not make treaties with their citizens, and
the very word signified the gain of the object striven
for—separation. Lord Stanley will make a serious
diplomatic blunder if he attempts to introduce such
claims into the Alabama question, and if he does
Mr. Seward will throw a pile of Fenian bonds at
his head.
The St. George's Society of Baltimore celebrated
their second anniversary by a dinner at Guy's
Monument House, May 1. They appear to ha,.re
had a very gay gathering, and the room was taste-
fully decorated with the flags of England, America,
and France. This society was organized by Eng-
, lishmen resident in Baltimore, in December, 1866,

for charitable and benevolent purposes, and has al-
ready accomplished much good. It is under the
control of the following board of officers :—Presi-
dent, Stewart Darrell; Vice-President, W. H.
Perot ; Treasurer, George Hawkins Williams ;
Secretary, James Belden ; Relief Committee—Rich.
Coupland, John Holstead, William Holmes, Joseph
Smith, Edwin Hampson ; Committee of Accounts
—James Francis, Henry C. Brown ; Chaplains—
Revs. Dr. M. Mahan and Horatio H. Hewitt ;
Physicians—Dr. Claude Baxley and Dr. R.
Murdoch.

We mentioned in our last issue that ten or twelve
gentlemen owned a lstge portion of the real estate
in the city of New York. The taxable value of
New York property in 1867 was $555,442,012. The
real estate on Manhattan island is officially returned
at $475,000,000. Mr. Astor, it is estimated, owns
more than $32,000,000 of this ; his municipal taxes
alone for 1867 were $358,140. The other nine
gentlemen who hold so large a stake are William
C. Rhinelander, whose property is valued at
$7,745,000; Alexander T. Stewart, $6,091,500;
Peter Goelet, $1,417,000; James Lenox, $4,260,000;
Peter Lorillart (since dead), $4,245,000; John D.
Wolfe, $3,997,000; M. M. Hendricks, $1,690,000;
Rufus L. Lord, $1,500,000, and C. V. C. Rossevelt,
$1,346,000. Together these ten paid municipal
taxes during 1867 to the amount of $1,182,326.
The sales and transfers ofyeal estate during the month
of April were $24,000,000.
Gen. Lawrence, American Minister to Costa Rica
and Baron Kusserow, Secretary of the Prussian Legation
to Washington, fought a duel near Bladensburg, on the 4th
May. The General challenged the Baron for an insult to
his wife, and the fire was in the first instance to be der -
yore(' at fifteen paces, then at ten, and finally at five. But
the fifteen seemed to satisfy the combatants, who ex-
changed shots harmlessly, and came to an amicable ad-
justment.

The body of Anthony Freynogle, a well-known
merchant, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, wbo mysteriously
disappeared last January, was found, Saturday, May 2, in
the Ohio river, with a bullet hole in the temple, which
leaves little doubt that he was murdered.

The new woman's club had a meeting and lunch
at Delmonico's, May 4, Monday—washing day. President
Alice Cary made a speech, and the World, which of all the
New York papers seems to enjoy somebody's special coc-
fidenco in the ladies' affairs, says that "many of the ladies
present were young and distingui, and some of the toilets
were superb."

Senator Henderson of Missouri is soon to marry
Miss Mary Foot, one of the most admired Washington
belles, and whose home was formerly at Saratoga, New
York. The Senator is forty-two, and his affianced eighteen
years younger.

'the committee to investigate the charge of Mr.
Washburne were appointed Wednesday, May 6, as fol-
lows : —Messrs. Banks, of Massachusetts ; Thomas, of
Maryland ; Poland, of Vermont ; Griswold, of Now York ;
Blair, of Michigan ; Woodward, of Pennsylvania ; and
Beck, of Kentucky; and on the motion of Mr. Dawes the
duty was also imposed upon the committee of investi-
gating the charges made in debate by Brooks against
Butler, that the latter stole spoons, seized gold, and paid in
paper.

The delegates from the New England to the
General Conference of the Methodist Church, now holding
its quadrennial session of four weeks at Chicago, are :--
Revs. James Porter, E. R. Thayer, Jefferson HascaP,
David Sherman, W. R. Clark, Gilbert Haven, Daniel Dor-
chester, and Joseph Cummings.
Captain Edward Field, 4th United States Artil-
'

le-.y, stationed at Fort M'Henry, Baltimore, has just mar-
ried Alias Minnie Young, daughter of Dr. Noble Young,
of Baltimore. The following acted as bridesmaids
:
Misses Fannie Lawrence, Addie Lawrence, Kate Field
(sister to the bridegroom), Nellie Young (sister to the
bride), and Miss Kate Addison and sister, there being no
groomsmen. There were also present General N. P.
Chipman, Colonel A. A. Hosmer, and a numtar of military
Officers.

American papers state that Queen Victoria tele-
graphed her sympathies by the Atlantic cable to Mrr-
D'Arey Gee, of Canada.

Mr. Chadeayne, of Titusville, Pennsylvania,
whose wife and daughter were very seriously injured by
the accident at Angola, has effected a settlement by which
he has received $lO,OOO.

An ambitious fellow in Connecticut appeals,
over his own signature: "Too thee michannicks and la-
b uring men of my native town. I will reprizent you is

the Staitassetublee irrispectif of pollytics, relijion or eddi-
ca.shun."

A Carlisle paper says that the poet Longfellow
will spend a.m,:nth this summer at the English lakes.

Mr. Train's stay in England was short. He bag
returned to Ireland, and is now reported as staying at SL
Anne's-hill, Blarney, a water-cure establishment where he
formerly recruited after a tour of " lecturing." _ _

Mr. Rose (Finance Minister of Canada) and Mr.
Macdougall are expected to arrive in England in Juno on
business connected with the Intercolonial Railway, and it
is understood that they will endeavour to settle with the
Colonial-office the terms upon which the Hudson's Bay
Company's territory shall be incorporated wi.h the Don:a-
nion.

The Aboriginal black Eleven lately arrived in
England will be ready to play their first match on Monday'
and Tuesday in the Epsom week at the Oval. Three of
them—MuHugh, Cuzens, and Bullocky—will bear favour-
able comparison, a good judge declares, with the best bats-
men in England. The match will excite great interest.
An individual has been swindling the citinns of
Provence, Rhode Island, by representing himself as 0,
general agent for the principal newspapers in that and
other cities. He induced Colonels Sprague and Smith
to be vary polite to him as th 9 special reporter of

Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, and so worked upon
the feelings of those gentlemen as to obtain an ad-
vance of two hundred and fifty dollars upon his (the re-
porter's) note, drawn curiously enough on a St. Louis
bank. The non-payment of the note led to the detection
of the swindler, and, much to his disgust, he was arrested,
ani is now in a station-house at Providence, with every
prospect of speedily terminating his quasi-reportorial
career, and assuming the new dieguise of the penitential p
This interesting person's name is H. E. Clark.
The Baltimore Commercial states that on May 5,
a party of the Ku-Klux-Klan visited the houses of Levi
Thomson and W. Fleming, at Williamson, Tennessee, and
attacked them. They endeavoured to burn the houseo
down, but were resisted and repulsed by the occupants,
The facts of the attempted outrage have been repo:ted to
General Carlen, and an investigation will no doubt b 0
ordered.

It is becoming very fashionable for young ladies
of the New York ton to take an early horse-back ride
around Central Park, accompanied by a groom in valve-
teen tights and high top boots. The ride is also fashion-
able in London, but certainly not the velveteen tights.
After Frederick Douglass's lecture at Ann Har-
bour, a short time ago, the son of a United States Senator
attending college there stepped upon the platform, advanced
to Mr. Douglass, extended his hand and remarked, " liy
name is ---, I am the son of a United States Senator.
"Are you ?" said Mr. Douglass, "I have reason to believe
that I am, too."
The Tyngs, Rev. John Cotton Smith, Rev. Ale:4:-
ander Vinton, Rev. Dr. Dyer, and other eminent clergy'
men of that school, aro preparing to " fraternize with the
sects" during anniversary week, to an extent, it is 0,901,
never before witnessed. If the High Churchmen are ben
on on drawing nearer and nearer to Rome, they say, it 16
their duty more and more to draw near to Geneva. Belt'
Dr. Dix, has commenced a series of discourses in favour
of the multiplication of Sisterhoods in the Episcopal
Church. There is ono such Sisterhood —the Sisterhood
of Saint Mary—already in existence, but the necessitieS
of the Church and of the times we live iu, he says, de'
mand more.