The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-07 00:00:00

A KENTUCKY JOURNAL.

From the Lexington Observer and Reporter, a semi-
weekly paper now in its 60th volume, may be
gathered the doings and politics of Kentucky. Of
course in that most Democratic of States the newspaper

is Conservative—the SEYMOUR and BLAIR "ticket"

in large letters preceding the leading article. The
blooming majority" given by Kentucky for

STEVENSON is alluded to with thankfulness, pride,
and exultation. From 102 counties the majority as
officially reported was 88,122, and, as ten more re-
main to be heard from, 90,000 was anticipated.

The estimate for the electoral vote for President is

so made up as to open the eyes of the Radicals. No
only arc such doubtful States as Ohio and Pennsyl

vania calculated for SEYMOUR, but Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, New Hampshire among the Northern,
and Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and Virginia among
the Southern. Strange to say, too, Nevada, which

even Republicans hesitate to count upon, is by the
Lexington Observer awarded to the Radicals. The
result is highly gratifying to the Kentuckians, and
must be very encouraging indeed to SEYMOUR
and BLAIR, who are assured that they will
have a clear majority of 111 out of 315.
Mr. RANCK, the editor, is prepared either
by himself or through his friends to bet on
his list. A notice is conspicuously given that $750
had been deposited in the office to back the follow-
ing States to cast their votes for the Democratic
Presidential candidates ; " New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Connecticut, Oregon, New
Jersey, Nevada, Delaware, Nebraska, Minnesota,
Maine, and New Hampshire. From $5 to $5O
will be offered on each State, but the whole number
must be taken." The Observer is careful that
there should be no mistake about its opinions,

which iu'the utmost extreme are pronounced and one-
sided. Not content with its own, it everywhere culls
the most decidel it can elsewhere find. Who is
organizing our negro militia ? it asks. " They who
have done so have placed Tennessee on the eve of a
terrible and most desperate struggle, which, once
begun in earnest, will onlyeeni in the utter exter-
mination of the blacks, and the heartless wretches
who urge them to their doom." " These Radicals"
seem to be panting for the inauguration of a ser-
vile war lhey want a pretext to

flood Kentucky with troops," and the article closes
with these words--" If we let the arming go on, we
may find before the November election that
these few little grains of trouble have grown
into a broad purple harvest of death."
This has reference only to the negroes, but the fol-
lowing quotation from one of its exchanges has more
general application :—" Before we fight to regain
our liberties, let us have recourse once more to the
ballot. If we are not allowed a fair election in all
the States, GOD have mercy on our oppressors."
The National Intelligencer is quoted with evident
satisfaction, as giving "an excellent summing up
of the iniquities of Radicalism—the party of cant
and spoil, of frauds, treachery, and imposture."
To the death of THADDEUS STEVENS an article is
devoted ; " the great, bad man who has taken with
him (the editor does not say where) the brains and
hopes of the Radical party." He sighs as " he looks
back at the long black path of ruin and desolation
THADDEUS scorched and burnt into this land, and
mourns over what might have been if he had given
to patriotism what he gave to fanaticism ; if he had
thrown the heavy weight of his influence and talents
on the side of the Constitution, justice,and humanity."
There is a tone of respect for the consistency and
honesty of the deceased, which cannot be traced in
any allusion to General BUTLER. The Richmond
Examiner furnishes some enjoyable matter regard-
ing " the Beast," as it calls him, who, " though the
most callous and impenitent of thieves, has been
made to roar like a pricked bull-calf." " From all
sections of the country, from Maine to Alaska—
from the North, the South, the East, and the West
--worthless old spoons of wood, bone, horn, pew-
ter, tin, iron, and brass, pour in upon him at all
hours. The plague of spoons is becoming more un-
endurable to BUTLER than a plague of frogs. Bas-
kets of spoons are brought to him from the Post-
office, and the express carts are constantly deliver-
ing them at his door. And the donor of each spoon
accompanies his present with remarks by no meaus
flattering to BUTLER'S integrity. And as the spoons
are utterly worthless, they are said to drive " the
Beast" almost mad with rage. Let the people of
this country keep up this wholesome custom of
sending BUTLER spoons. Let him be reminded
every hour and day of his life that he is everywhere
remembered as a robber of plate chests. Let every
family make annually the votive offering of
a broken and battered old spoon to B. F.' "
The following gentleman then comes in for his
share :—"Ex-Governor BROWN, of Georgia, the pro-
jector and superintendent of the Andersonville pri-
son pens and overseer of Wirz, has been pardoned
by the Radical Congress, and is now president of a
GRANT club. And ail the loyal' whelps whine
Amen !' " Grant is made the subject of an histori-
cal parallel, and to get one of sufficient atrocity
the history of England is ransacked to the acces-
sion of Richard 1., when a furious persecution of
the Jews took place, ending in the s •If-destruction
of 500 of the Israelites. This furnishes a parallel
to GRANT'S edict, but the writer hopes an antithesis
also, as the Jews, instead of committing suicide, are
going to vote en masse against the tyrant.
'rho State news, as any one would expect in
Kentucky, begins with a free fight. A man is
found dead at the style block of his mother's resi-
dence, how, is evident by a shot hole through his
neck, and the cause of the s!iot hole is explained by
an attack made the previous night on the house
of Mr. MASON Lucas, a mile distant. The vic-
tim and two brothers of Mrs. Lucis intended to
chastise Mr. LUCAS for improper treatment of his
wife. When they arrived at the house they began
firing through the windows, and Mr. LUCAS, utterly
ignorant who were his assailants, threw himself
into the fight. Bullets were flying about in the
dark, and one of them went through JAMES POUN-
DEXTER'S neck. In large letters an article is headed
" Ku-Max in Paris." Here's ago ! we thought.
We have the Fenians in London, and no small scare,
but what has the French metropolis done to bring
the Ku-Klux there? A glance at the article re-
assures us, the Kentucky and not the French Paris
being meant; and we are further assured by
the declaration, that no such organization exists
even there. Inked, the Observer says that it
does not exist in the State, being a mere creation
of the Republican imagination to get arms for the
Southern Radicals, and to alarm the negroes into
using them. We draw the attention of subscribers
in arrears.to the following use to which the Ku-
Klux may be put. The Hartsville Vidette strikes
terror into delinquents after this fashion :
KU-KLUX ! KU-KLUX !
Head Qrs. Everywhere !! !
Dark Of The Moon ! !
Heavy Times ! ! !
Halt And. Listen ! Read and turn pale in the

face ! ! ! Delinquent Subscribers hear your doom ! !
Pay your Subscription. The Vidette is looking for
you ! Death to Traitors !! ! Send the $3 00 !! !
Pay for your Advertisements ! Look out ! Mule
in the Cellar ! Dead man in the Loft ! Guilty of
Sedition if you don't send the Money ! ! !
By Order of
Two Cyclop,ses,
(Big Ones.)

If this products any result, we shall have a pleasing
recollection of what the Ku-Klux have done for us.
But the Observer is not content with a hint
to subscribers only. Alluding to STEPHEN GIR-
RARD, it shows that he made his immense
wealth by a la,vish and judicious system of
advertising, which he considered to be the great
medium of success in business, and the prelude to
wealth. " And 1 have made it an invariable rule,
too, to advertise in the dullest times as well as the
busiest, long experience having taught me that
money thus spent is well laid out."

" Oar city," says the Editor, " has been the
Athens of the West'—just stop a moment and

listen how finely that sounds—' Lexington, the
Athens of the West.' Grand isn't it ? Makes
one feel proud, don't it? Well, thi3 same
Athens has a public library, that after an
existence of more than sixty years can actu-
ally boast of no less than eleven thousand volumes,
two hundred yearly readers, and a probable yearly
addition of a hundred books. Look at it again.
Only eleven thousand volumes accumulated in
sixty-seven years ! Only two hundred readers out
of a population of over twenty thousand souls, and
the insignificant number of one hundred volunies
added each year. Does that sound very Athenian ?
It strikes us that one puncture of that needle
ought to cause the expanding bubble pf our pride
to collapse at once. What liberal-minded citizen
will not blush to see this mortifying statement,
which shameful as it is is none the less true."
From this interesting subject the editor turns to
" chicken thieves, who are getting thick again, or
rather continue thick, for they have never decreased
in number. We are constantly hearing of numbers
of chickens being stolen, and the thieves don't seem
to hesitate to almost walk right into the house of ter
them. If some of our citizens could succeed in
peppering' some of these light-fingered gentry
pretty soundly it would be a good thing. In
the meanwhile we would advise chickens to roost
high and sleep with their legs drawn up and one
eye open." We like to pick up stray papers from
the Union, where they grow and disappear like
mushrooms, although the one we now discuss is old
beyond the average life of European journals. Ja
skimming their contents we get more actual infor-
mation of what is going on in the neighbourhood
than in any other way, and thus treated, then form
novel and amusing reading.—Anglo-American Times

Captain Joseph J. Comstock, best known in con-
nection with the steam coasting lines of America, and
chiefly while in command of a vessel 311 the Californian
route, has just died. He was the captain of the Baltic, and
afterwards of the Adriatic, belonging to the Collins' Com-
pany. In 1859 he delivered the General Admiral to the
Russian Government ; in 1863, the ironclad Re Italia to
the Italian Government ; and last year, the Dunderberg to
the Freneh, all three having been built in New York.
Professor Watson, of Detroit, Michigan, is fast
studding the heavens with new planets. He has dis-
covered his fourth for 1868, situated—Right Ascension,
358 deg. 24 min. ; Declension, 0 deg. 48 min. south. Its
apparent motion is now west and north 34 seconds of time
,in the Right Ascension, and four minutes of arc in De-
clension.

General Thomas, who commands the district in
which is Tennessee, is preparing for bad times. The state
of the country is something dreadful, the Governor having
called out 30,000 men to suppress insurrection. A series of
free fights seem to be progressing all over tho State. BY
the China wo learn that secret armed Democratic organi"
zations are being formed in Missouri, Kentucky, end
Tennessee.
• Mrs. E.- C. Stanton had a pleasant chat with the
Celestials during their visit to Mr. Seward at Aubere•
Chin-Tajen, who in Buffalo harbour was destined to be
nearly drowned, assured the lady that the women of the
United States are abler than the men, astonishing hie'
with their excessive composure and independence. Secre-
tary Seward's sister, Mrs. Warden, being bent on having
hvr vote—so Mrs. Stanton says—supplies a man with
lodgings and salary on the condition that he should vote
as she dictated.

Senator Thos. Hendricks, of Indiana, is Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of that State, and he is to
meet his opponent—Mr. Baker, the Republican candidate
—in a joint discussion.
It is said that Andrew Johnson will visit Eng'
land iiter the expiration of his Presidential term. Os
appearance will surprise many to whom General Butler's
photographs were sold as correct likenesses of Audr°W
Johnson.
It is said that the brain of General C. G. 11'1-
Cuvier's brain weighed 64i ounces, and this is the
pine weighed 56 ounces, being 6i above the average'
greatest
known. Daniel Webster's weighed 63i ounces, but it W 36
not in a healthy state, and his cranium was the largest on
record, being 122 cubic inches. Dr. Abercrombie's brain
weighed 63 ounces.
The will of the late Alfred Smith of Hartford,
disposes of $ ,
p
230 bequest
000. His üblic s were as fol"
lows:—Hartford Orphan Asylum, $36,000; Hartford Hos-
pital, $lB,OOO ; American Hin oe Missionary Seci;e„tir'
$18,000; American Bible Society, $18;000 • American
Tract Societe, $9,000 ; American Missionary
$9,000 ; A..F. and C. Union, $9,000 - AB. G'
$9,000. n in
California
Mr. Loinuis
connecPrevost, of
th San Jose
the cultu ,
re of silk in
well
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that
connection win
country, says that some of the best French and Italia
for
a,
silk-growers are about to proceed to Californi I"
the
the express purpose of establishing themselves in.
business. be
Robert Ould, Confederate Commissioner fort 0
exchange of prisoners, prints a long communication
in tb
Washington Intelligeneer of Aug. 20, intended for Ili;
paign purposes. It contains little that is new, but is ',6
old story that the military authorities refused to who°
men in health for Union prisoners.
An Indian princess received, when stepping -r
a train at La Crosse, so severe an injury that it bLeits-he
necessary to amputate the leg to save her life. Tbi at
resolutely refused, and mortification setting in she f d
,0
Tunnel City. Wau-ne-be-winka was the daughter otir,
head Winnebago chief Dandy ; her camp iledcoed
tree close to a village in the South was eros
our
with Indians, and in her last moments she ht,
menced ch an ting her dethong. During the 04.0
while she lay dresseda in-s state, the Indian Data
threw into her tent strings of beads and wamPlitel she
little sack of rice and tobacco was placed by her side.
_tor,
was buried a few feet from the great Winnebago (lour,
Wan-kon De-ko-ray, who was also killed by the 00°00
years ago. An old Indian, with folded hands and oyest
on heaven; traced the periods of the Princess's life, as..al of
trated by the sun's course, closing with an earnest roo
the brave and devoted act'which marked the end of he,;•effht
The evening train at ten o'clock from the East br!'Dies
the old chief, Dandy, and he heard then for the firstausea
after his daughter's burial of the injury that had c
her death.
The Savage Mining Company
dividend of $lO per share. Crown Point has decittroo
dividend of $5 per share, payable on August l?' wore
earnings of the Central Pacific Railway for Ju Yto 190
$260,000 in gold, the road being operatel from 151
miles during the period. GlaggOV
It is said that a wealthy banker in
claims to be a cousin of General Grant. %ist,
11
ebledV
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Births. m oda
BoHG Ee
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ansyodoe., the wife a Cow
CARGILL —On tha sth fast , Clapham:l, the wife 0111114.
Cargill, Esq., 0.E., 8.A., T.C.D., of a daughter.
~fe of
HEATH—On the 4th inst., tit 95, Gow-er-street, the v'tiof
Charles Heath, Esq., of 102, Gxeat Russell-etre° I
daughter.

Marriages. 1 TA/
NE SOu , s —MAccarEEN—On the 3d inst., at St. Giles' --,..,11.10001,
Camberwell, Edward Sonnet., Esq., of Richmon_cle,o'-', iyq.;
to Alice Maud, only daughter of John Alava'
of H.M.'s Customs, London.
TOWNSEND—M kuNsEL c i Jo" 7
Stor 'd - L---On the 3d inst., at 0-,;"wosend,
11 ge Cradley, Malvern, Richard 11. 1° be 31-'3t
Esq., of Gorrycloyne, county Cork, and late of. ts'iv,, If•
_ !anent, to Frances Maria, elder daughter of ''''
Al. Uusell, Esq., of Bray, county Wicklow.
Deaths.
BENN—On the 31 in tat R 1 - Mary, Christian
13enth
ins t., ug )3,
aged 83. .0. ih, Rlel'-
DUNDAS—On the 2d inst , at Queensberry , '., •
mond, Admiral Sir John.Dundas, Bait., aged '-voiler
OARRATT —On the 3d inst., at Craven Cottag•e, -'-'
r hew h, Herts, Geprge Garrett, Esq ,'aged 49. , eir.
RiEsTLEy—On the 4th inst., at 8, Albion Villas, DY
ham, John S. Priestley, Esq., aged 73. ' ~,, T.
PILLING—On the 3d inst ,at Upper Norwood, Sara.'
Pilling, of Longside, near Glasgow, aged 4.
London : Printed and Published by WiLLIAg 411,,,, il,
of No. No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tab StJN 0,0.0.1, '.,ti 01
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