The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

and her sympathy with the Cretan insurgents. The

writer states that the public confidence in Ame-

rican influence never stood higher than since Mr.
Morris has been United States' resident at this

Court.

The Lake Shore railway disaster was on the
whole the most horrible recorded ; but as usual
4, nobody" is to blame. Even in a practical coun-

try like the United States the railway gauge is not
uniform ; so carriages have often to be constructed
adapted to the varying widths. The bridges are

generally without parapets ; the stoves without

The El Dorado (south) this week forwarded
6,600 pounds of ore to Austin for reduction, which
certainly will work up to a high figure. A few
days, however, have elapsed since the shipment
was made, and development has progressed in the
meantime. The body of ore in the incline has
increased so wonderfully in richness during the
past few days as to create astonishment in the
minds of those who behold it. Compared to that
which is at present taken from the mine, the lot sent
to Austin will rank only as medium or second-
class. The incline has now been driven 12 feet
below the point at which the good ore was first
struck; it is following the foot wall, and is about
5 feet is height. Four feet of the vein imme-
diately adjoining the foot wall is a mass of
mineral, probably the rieheit body of argenti-
ferous ore ever di,closed in any mine in the
State, while the remainder above will probably
mill upwards of $lOO a ton. The total length of
the incline is 112 feet, giving a vertical depth from
the surface to this body of ore of about 70 feet.
In fact, it is the most extraordinary strike ever
made here, and enhances the value of all mining
and other property in this section of country. It
will detract nothing from the merits of the other
magnificent veins if we assert our belief, and the
developments of the past week warrant it, that the
El Dorado is the great mother vein of Philadelphia
District, and to its superiority in many particulars
must all other yield the palm.—Silver Bend Re-
porter, Belmont, Nevada, U.S., Dec. 14, 1867.
From present appearances the product this month
of the famous Murphy mine of the Twin River
Company will exceed that of any month since the
mine was opened. Last evening eight bars, valued
at $9,000, arrived in the city, making twenty-nine
bars received so far this month. The value of these
bars is about $30,000. At the expiration of the
month we have not the least doubt that the mine
will have produced $BO,OOO worth of silver.

After the close of the French war all sorts of
financial quacks sprang up in England—and at
intervals, ever since—to show how the national
debt should be dealt with. They proved to their
own satisfaction that two and two were not four,
that £800,000,000 were not £800,000,000, and
that any amount of debt might 4p, wiped out alike
to the satisfaction of debtors and creditors, without
the levy of a tax, or the payment of a bond. Senator
Henderson, of Missouri, has come forward with a
scheme to consolidate the United States Debt in a
Three and a Half per Cent. Stock. He considers
that, sufficient interest for the wealthy people of the
East. The Secretary of the Treasury states that
people will not take the loan at a lower interest
than 5 per cent. They will take the loan at any
interest the United States choose to guarantee, at
a rate that can be worked out by the Rule of Three.
If Six per Cent. golf-bearing Bands now fetch
109, what is the value of Three and a Half per
Cent. ? We know no other mole of calculation,
and tinkering will have the effect of lowering, not
raising, the value. The question is one of con-
fidence, and there can-be no reason why the United
States' debt should be quoted lower than that of
Great Britain, except that England has been tried
in the same ordeal as that now testing the United
States, and has not been found wanting.
It is said that the President intends to forward
to Congress a Message calling the attention of the
Legislature to the poverty and destitution in the
South. A delegation has arrived in Washington
to urge the policy of lending to the planters of the
cotton States po,ocomo at 6 per cent. ou mort-
gage of crops, by which they will be enabled to
re-stock their wasted plantations. The President,
it is believed, favours the application ; but Gen.
Howard is opposed to it, ancLpg'gests instead, a
generous distribution of food by the Government,
the cost to be repaid by alien on the crops. The cor-
respondents of the New York Herald state that in
all the cotton districts of Louisiana, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Ca-
rolina, the mass of freedmen are not only starving,
but naked. In the corn-growing districts famine
is not so near. In many counties of these States the
forests are filled with armed negroes, who hunt game
by day, and at night steal the planter's stock. Nor
is the destitution confined to the blacks, for thou-
sands of the whites have not a month's provisions,
nor money to supply them. It is conceded by all
that something must be done.
the State of Virginia has announced the pay-
ment of the interest upon all bands issued before
the war, up to and including those of January,
1861. No provision has ;been made for the interest
on bonds issued after that date. The payment is to
be made at Richmond, and will consist of 2 per cent.
in stock and 1 per cent. in scrip. General Rogers,
the second auditor of the State, forwarded to
Messrs. Baring and C po,coo to pay the inte-
rest on the sterling 'ate eat of the debt due on the
Ist January last.
A telegram, dated New York Jan. 12, says that
Gen. Meade, who was Pope's successor, has removed
Mr. Jenkins from the Government of Georgia. We
wonder if the following, told by the New 1 ork Herald's
Washington correspondent, is the cause: " He is in-
formed that the refusal of the State Treasurer of
Georgia to honour the requisition of the Atlanta
Convention for pay and perquisites was but a pre-
liminary step. Had General Pope been permitted
to remove the Governor and Treasurer as was con-
templated, the Convention would have found but an
empty treasury—it being und :rstood that the funds
of the State had been removed, in anticipation of
this state of affairs, to the city of New York." Mr.
Jenkins has appealed to President Johnson for pro-
tection.
There is a case of much interest now before the
United States' Supreme Court. The sheriff of a
county in Oregon paid the amount collected by him
for taxes in currency, claiming such payment to be
valid under the Legal Tender Act. By the laws of
Oregon the payment of taxes is made compulsory in
coin. If the sheriff collected in coin, and settled in
currency, a round balance would remain in his hands.
But the question involved is whether any State can
enforce payment in other than what the Sumitie
Govern ment has decreed to be legal tender for all pay-
ments, which involves the further question whether
green-backs are a legal tender. This has been de-
cided differently by jurists, although the majority of
decisions favour the notes, as a legal tender for all
payments except such as are exempted by the Act of
Congress.
The Union Club of Boston has unanimously
elected Richard H. Dana, jun., its president.
Mr. A. T. Stewart has headed a commercial
movement for Grant as President. The great idea
is to take the nomination out of the hands of poli-
ticians, and to induce the different interests and
professions of the country to declare so strongly for
the General, that the Convention
.will be left no
other course than to nominate him as the national
candidate. At a late meeting in the Cooper's In-
stitute an organization was effected in New York,
composed entirely of leading merchants and lawyers.
An appeal is to be made by circular to the business
men of the country to support Grant in favour of
the commerical interest. No statement is embodied
of Grant's views, but rumour says that Mr. Stewart
is in receipt of a letter, in which Grant accepts the
nomination, approves the resolutions adopted, and
authorizes his friends to push his claims. At the
same time, Grant is attacked by leading Radical
journals for allowing himself to be made the cat's-
paw of the President in removing Generals Pope
and Swayne. They assert that had Grant any true
Republican feeling he would not permit himself to
be used as an instrument against Republican Gene-
rals. It is believed that Chief Justice Chase will
receive the nomination of the Republican Conven-

MISCELLANEOUS NE 117 S.

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IFrom the Anglo-American Times.)
The Cable news, not elsewhere noticed, is to the
effect that the House of Representatives had rejected
the bill passed by the Senate abolishing the tax
upon the cotton crop of 1868, and the Senate, ac-
cording to advices from Washington, dated Jan.
16, has passed the bill repealing Mr. M'Culloch's
authority to contract the currency. It would have
been much wiser had the Representatives passed the
Senate's bill, and the Senate rejected the bill of the
Representatives. An amendment attempted to be
introduced was defeated, prohibiting any further
issue of legal tender notes. It is possible that the
President, acting on Mr. M'Culloch's advice, may
veto the bill, and that Congress may not be able to
pass it over the veto by the constitutional majority.
The steamers .which left for Europe, Jan. 11, took
out $1,000,000 in specie.
Senor Pujol, the Secretary of State for St. Do-
mingo, is on his way to Washington to effect the
transfer of the Bay of Samana. The world has
got it into its head that Brother Jonathan is in a
mood to barter good gold for bad land, and all
sorts of people are hurrying to Washington with
titles to earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers. The
Commissioners who came to exchange treaties for
St. Thomas's have left in disgust, for Secretary
Seward, whom they thought all-powerful, was
never, at least to them, "at home," and as they
were but wasling time ; the one has gone to Europe,
the other returned to the West Indies. The Secre-
tary of State was, however, at holm! to Baron IVel-
. tu.stedt, the Swedish Minister, with whom he had
an interview on the 2d inst., touching the purchase
of St. Bartholomew. Mr. Seward informed the
Swede that he bad made no proposition for the
purchase of that island, and the Baron said that he
had received no instructions or suggestions from
his Government to sell it. In Boston a petition is
in circulation for the signature of the merchants
against further annexation of territory.
ardl
Letters from Mexico give a deplorable account
of the state of the country. The impunity of the
in which Mexicans sub-
mit the contempt of the robbers
for tito brigands,le be robbed,
s otlrle cow
di
iber
se
:l, a
nd
paralyzey the action of the Go-
vernmeut. The bands are well armed, and gene-
rally mounted, varying in size from a few members
up to 500. The revolt at Yucatan continues, the
rebels holding Merida. The port of Sisal was
closely blocitaded by gunboats, and General Diaz,
with 3,000 men, had been despatched to suppress
the outbreak. Juarez had ordered the Imperialists to
leave the country, and many were preparing to
do so.

Two American corvettes belonging to the squad-
ron of Admiral Farragut arrived at Toulon last
Thursday, and after a banquet given to the naval
authorities by the Admiral the vessels put to sea.
The United States Supreme Court at Washington
will soon have to decide some cases, about to be
argued before it, calling in question the constitu-
tionality of the Reconstruction Act 3. It is bruited
about that the President, if the decision be against
them, will take active measures against the further
enforcement of these Acts. By a telegram from
Washington, dated Jan.l4, we learn that the House
of Representatives, as if to meet the case, had
passed a bill declaring that the concurrence of two-
thirds of the Judges of the Supreme Court is neces-
sary to decide that any Act of Congress is uncon-
stitutional. The eases that will come before the
Supreme Court cannot well involve the whole of
the Acts, and an adverse decision could not pos-
sibly be in the nature of an injunction against their
general enforcement. The President is not there-
fore likely t) exert his influence in this matter
beyond his legitimate powers of appointing depart-
ment commanders, and encouraging the people, by
their votes, to reject the new Constitution.
General Meade has succeeded Pope in command
of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Gen. M'Dowell
has succeeded General Ord in Mississippi and Ar-
kansas. Pending APDowell's arrival from San
Francisco, Gen. Gillen will act. Gen. Wager Swayne
returns to the command of his infantry regiment
now at Nashville. General T. W. Sherman suc-
ceeds Meade in command of the department of the
East, with his headquarters at Washington ; and
General Ord will relieve Al'Dowell in the depart-
ment of California. General Alexander M'Cook
nas relieved General R. S. M mckenzie in the sub-
listrict of the Rio Grande, with headquarters at
Brownsville, Texas. General Pope is ordered to
report at headquarters, Washington.
The Levant Herald comments upon statements
made in American newspapers and correspondents'
letters representing the influence of America with
the rode as baying been lowered in comequenco of

the intimate intercourse of that Power with Russia, tion, and if the re-constructed Southern States are
there represented that they will give a solid vote
for the Chief Justice.
IVilkes's Spirit says: -" The J. F. Booth who is play-
ing in England as an American actor, is a half-brother of
our Booth," but Mr. Booth says that the name is assumed.
Among other items the sporting journal has the follow-
ing :-" During an alarm of fire at the Westminster Hotel,
Dickens caught up Dolby and four coats, and fled through
the corridors. A lady seeing the great novelist thus en-
veloped surmised that he was in character for old Peg-
gotty. General Sickles passed Christmas evening laugh-
ing at " La Grande Duchesse." Kate Lenin is in Australia.
So is John Collins. If Mrs. Yelverton, as asserted in London,
is attracting " large audiences to her entertainments in
Now York," the lady has very modestly kept the fact
very quiet. Don John Lester Wallack makes his reap-
pearance on Monday evening, the 6th of January. Ball's
statue of Edwin Forrest may now be seen at 812, Broad-
way. The last steamer carried a large quantity of prairie
game ordered by Miss Laura Keene. She intends to give the
London critics an American game supper-not such an one
as Artemus Ward once invited us to -crackers and chess at
the "Murphy R ,onts." A great sp-ctacular ballet, intended
to amuse the Philadelphians, is called "Sozo ;" perhaps it
is an abbreviation of rozodont. J. G. Burnett, the original
" Von Puffongruutz" of the Black Crook, is stage manager
of Da Bar's, St. Louis. Mark Smith plays "The
King of the Bells" in the new place at Nibio's, and our
faith in his success is strong enough to float an egg.
Dun Bryant has returned from California, his purse and
person " swelled wisibly" with gold and good cheer. A
drunken peon fired a pistol at Peralta's mother in the city
of Mexico, but fortunately missed the old lady. Lieu-
tenant Hill spends holiday week among the Quakers, and
intends to "live off the country," a la Gordon Granger.
Lawrence Barrett comes home from- England soon, and
then to California ; Harry Wall accompanies him. Ru-
benstein, the great pianist, refused three thousand rounds
to perform to the barbarous Americans. A five-act
comedy by Eugene Gadot, one of the editors of the Liberte,
has been accepted at the Odeon. The Davenport-lowans
are going wild over their new opera house, which is to
seat 1,400 people. The Pittsburg Museum advertises a
" genuine Havana gorilla." Miss Irene Worrell, in a card,
says she "is not married, and don't intend to do so." Mine.
de Felcourt (Wanda) is a niece of the famous Widow Cliquot.
Offenbach's " Lischea and Intzchen" will be produced at
the London Olympic. Carlotta Patti's first month in the
French Provinces realised 7,000 f. Big lnjun Proctor is
or was playing in Boston. Mrs. Lander played iu Pitts-
burg. Lady Don took a benefit iu Detroit. Mr. Joseph
Jefferson, the comedian, was married lately to Miss Mary
Warren, of Chicago. No country in the world possesses
a better actor, and no lady in the land has a cleverer
gentleman for a lord and master."
The following were the receipts of the principal places
of amusement in Philadelphia, with the internal revenue
tax paid on each, up to December 1: -
Receipts. Tax.
Walnut-street Theatre 5138,929 $2,770 96
Chestnut-stre t Theatre 105,200 2,1-21 94
Academy of Music 101,1,56 2,082 12
Arch-street Theatre
Carneross and Dixey's 63,144 1,302 94
American Theatre
Seventh-street Opera, House, two
and a half months ll,lll 223 22
A change has come over the New Yorkers, who last
year went mad over Ristori ; now she plays to poor houses.
Mr. Maretzek has lost $lO,OOO on a season of the Italian
Opera. The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein is about to en-
tertain the Puritan population. of Boston. What a scandal
to the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers !
The following is the order in which the original
thirteen States adopted the Constitution of the United
States. According to the provision in the Constitution it
became binding upon the States ratifying it when adopted
by nine States. New Hampshire was the important ninth
State:-1. Delaware, December 7, 1787. 2. Pennsylvania,
December, 12, 1787. 3. New Jersey, December, 18, 1787.
4. Georgia, January 2, 1788. 5. Connecticut, January 9,
1788. 6. Massachusetts, February 7, 1788. 7. Maryland,
April 28, 1788. 8. South Carolina, May 23, 1788.. 9. New
Hampshire, June 21, 1788. 10. Virginia, June 25, 1788.
11. New York, July 16, 1788. 12. North Carolina, Nov
21, 1789. 13. Rhode Island, May 27, 1790.
During 1867 243,141 immigrants arrived at New
York, as compared with 233,118 arrivals at that port dur-
ing 1866, an increase of 9,723. In 1867 there were 116,288
immigrants from Germany, 65,3-27 6om Ireland, and
34,288 from England, being, as compared with the pre-
ceding year, an increase of 9,572 Germans, but a de-
crease of 2,720 Irish and 1,898 English. The Germans in
1867 have mostly gone to the States in the Mississippi
valley, while the majority of the Irish have settled in New
York and Pennsylvania. Very few immigrants have
gone to the South, though many landed at New York
with the intention of going there ; but the unfortu-
nate condition of its politics, the slight encouragement
offered, and the difficulty of communicating with the
planters, have almost entirely checked emigration south-
ward.

WASHINGTON ON NEW-YEAR'S DAY.—The Pre-
sident's levee commenced at eleven o'clock, when the mem-
bers of the Cabinet and foreign Ministers, the Judges of
the Supreme Court of the United Siates, Senators and Re-
presentatives in Congress, the Judges of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia and of the Court of
Claims, were received, followed at half-past eleven by army,
navy, and marine officers. A quarter of an hour after-
wards the Soldiers of the War of 1812, and members of
the Oldest Inhabitants' Association of the District of
Columbia, paid their respects to the President, and at noon
tLe doors were opened for the reception of citizens, from
which time until two o'clock p.m. the rooms were thronged.
Secretaries Seward, Wells, M'Culloch, Browning, Grant,
Attorney-General Stanbery, and Postmaster General Ran-
dall were among the first to pay their respects to the
President. Secretaries Wells, M'Culloch, and Browning,
Postmaster-General Randall, and Attorney-General Stan-
bery were accompanied by their ladies; Assistant Secre-
tary of State F. W. Seward and lady followed. Then
came the Diplomatic Corps, who were presented by Secre-
tary Seward. Of the Senators and Representatives there
were present Senators Reverdy Johnson, Sherman, Mor-
gan, Doolittle, Morton, Corbett, Cole, Fessenden, Dixon,
Morrill of Vermont, and others ; Representatives Banks,
Pruyn, Eldridge, Marshall, Trimbel of Kentucky, Nichol-
son, Kerr, Ferris, and others. Of the Army there were
present Generals W. T. Sherman, Townsend, 0. 0.
Howard, Hardie, Balloch, Shires, Eaton, Ekin, Dent,
Ricketts, M'Ferran, Humphries, Williams, Pelouze, Vin-
, cent, Breck, Surgeon-General Barnes, Quartermaster-Gene-
ral Bucker, Assistant Quartermaster-General Miller, Pay-
'master• General Brice, Colonel Scott, Colonel M'Gowan,
Major Bradley, and many other officers of lesser rank.
Of the Navy there were Admirals Radford, Smith, Bailey ;
Commodores Jenkins, Sands, M. Smith; Commanders
Breese, Queen, Davis; Paymasters Bridge, Cushing, Boggs;
Surgeons Dearborn, Williams, Campbell, Horwitz, Tyron;
Captains Price, Patteson, Meads, Lieut. Dyer, and many
other officers of lower grade, all in full uniform. Of the
marine corps there were Gen. Zeilan, Major Cash, Major
Slack, and a number of captains and lieutenants. The
Judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Claims were
all present, and were presented by Chief Justice Chase and
Judge Casey ; several of the Judges were accompanied by
their ladies. Judge Olin of District Supreme Court, and lady.
I The officers of the navy were presented by Admiral tiad-
ford ; those of the marine corps by Gen. Zoilan ; the offi-
cers of General Grant's staff by Gen. Grant; those of the
Adjutant-General's office by Gen. Townsend; those of
the Freedmen's Bureau by Gen. Howard; those of the
Quartermaster-General's office by Gen. Rucker; those of
the Surgeon-General's office by General Barnes, and the
others by the senior officers of their department. The
association of the soldiers of the war of 1812, headed by
Col. J. S. Williams, were presented at a quarter be-
fore 12 o'clock, and were followed by the Associa-
tion of the Oldest Inhabitants of the city of Washington.
The President expressed his gratification to receive these
associations, and took the members of each by the hand.
The President received in the Blue Parlour, and stood
near the entrance leading from the Red Room, with Mar-
shal Gooding and Deputy Marshal Philipps on his left.
Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Stover stood near the centre of
the room, with General Michler on their left, who pre-
sents the guests to these ladies. Colonel R3bert John•
son, Private Secretary; Colonels Long and Rives, and
Mr. Cowan, of the President's staff, were also present, and
entertained many of the guests who lingered in the parlour.
Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather, the day wea
generally observed, and all the Cabinet officers, many
Senators and Representatives, and many of our firs
citizens, kept open houses and received their friends.—
Baltimore Commercial.

other ; who is to back and who is to go on, can
only be decided by the strength and persistency of
the combatants. The most curious part of the story,
though in keeping with its policy, is the passage of
the bill through the House of Representatives,
requiring a majority of two-thirds of the Supreme
Court to pronounce on appeal, an Act of Congress
to be unconstitutional. If it be in the power of the
Legislature to decree the requisite majority they
ought to have insisted on the Judges being unani-
mous, and as Judges are known to differ only in a
less degree than doctors, unless some glaring absur-
dity was enacted, Congress would be safe from the
verdict of the Court. The bald facts, as they come
by the cable, create alarm and surprise, as the ob-
ject is not gradually approached and seen more dis-
tinctly as it is neared, but is thrown on us with
the suddenness of a convulsion or a revolution.
The general impression was that Mr. STANTON
would be left out in the coll. There were many
telling points against him in the PRESIDENT'S
Message; and the fact that GR \NT managed to
effect enormous retrenchments within a few
weeks after succeeding the late incumbent, had da-
maged the prestige of Mr. STANTON'S valued service
during the war. Tne opinion, too, was widely en-
tertained that Congress was cowed by the condem-
nation implied in the late Northern elections. but
it is not improbable that the determination shown
by the PRESIDENT to exert his authority to the ut-
most in the dismissal from their commands of such
officers as POPE and SWAYNE may have again
roused in Congress the full spirit of opposition.
ANDREW JOHNSON appears bent upon goading the
Legislature into the most extreme measures; and
this impulsive body seems to be easily played on. The
bill passed through the House requiring a two-thirds

majority of theSuprerne Court to pron&uri'e an Act
of Congress unconstitutional,looks like an usurpation,
and following the reinstatement of Mr. STANTON
by the Senate, it has the appearance of a plot. The
object is to strip the PRESIDENT of his power, and
to saddle him with a Minister wholly opposed to
him in polities, and whom he pers3nAly detests. Mr.
SUMNER, who has just seperated from the wife of

is bosom on the plea of incompatibility of temper,

may have an idea of what poor ANDREW JOHNSON'S
feelings must be. The PRESIDENT is responsible for
the acts of the Cabinet ; and, to maintain that re-
sposibility intact, he should have the power of dis-
missing the heads of Departments. If it is necessary
for a President to remain in office for four years,

and he is accountable to the nation for the actions
of the Executive, those whose offices are less digni-
fied, and who have smaller trusts, should give way
when they come into collision with him. Somebody
must, and that man cannot be the PRESIDENT. It
is equally clear that the Cabinet must-pull together.

Therefore the practice of putting horses into the
team expressly to pull in the opposite direction
looks very like the sacrifice of the public interest, to
gratify spite. In this we fear Congress is following
Mr. JOHNSON'S lead, aud, if so, it will soon descend
to Mr. JOHNSON'S level: General GRANT has been

abused for signing the orders for the removal of

Generals POPE, ORD, and SWAYNE. It was said he
was lending himself to the nefarious designs of the
PRESIDENT, and any one who so acted was unfit to be
nominated acandidate for the Presidency. The colour
of Chief-Justice CHASE has too been coming out a
shade more distinctly among the jockeys on the
Presidential racecourse. GRANT is still in the
ascendant, and will probably remain the favourite
till he is beaten, if he be so, by some skilful poll-
_

tical riding. But there can be no doubt that cir-
cumstances have for the moment rendered him less
conspicuous, and he has drifted more out of sight.
This may have had something to do with his speedy
retirement from the War-office, and the quick ad-
vent, on the Senatorial decision, of Mr: STANTON..
But it does seem unaccountably quick—the vote,
the vacancy, and the restoration all in one day !

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