The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

high ,office in America or anywhere else.

'lt was

not a tailor that got into the chair of the President
in the person of Andrew Johnson. It was the
clever lawyer, the active politician, the governor of

a Sovereign State, the loud voice in the land, heard
above the roar of cannon. It is always so. No
tncre mechanic or worker, however good and
worthy, need try for the Presidency unless he
first win distinction in the court-room, the
caucus, or the camp." Commenting on this

the Pa writes : No American would
think of contradicting the statement of our contem-
porary, but we understand American affairs here
better than they do across the Atlantic, and conse•
quently we may hope to see the misrepresenta-
tions of the New York Times scattered to the winds."
Of course a man rises step by step. The printers
did not mean that they were to draw lots for the
Presidency, but that their position in life was no
bar, and that most of the leading men in Wash-
ington were instances that working. men might
aspire to any post, though, the men being many
and the pasts few, the great prizes arc rarely gained.
Whoever states that no working man reaches high
office in America talks nonsense. The complaint
is of English ignorance of America, as well as of
English indifference, not of the pretension to know-
ledge, and the sneer is therefore quite out of place.
What does the Pall Mall say to this argument—no
private soldier can become an officer--but here is
the Commander-in-Chief who was a private ? Yes;
but he became a corporal, a sergeant, a colour-ser-
geant, &c., so we maintain that no private can be-
come au officer. It would have been rich in Mr.
Johnson, the successor of Mr. Lincoln, and who
himself will be succeeded by General Grant, all
once poor unaided boys, who had to carve their
own way in the world, to deny that " the working
man never reaches high office in America."

The Cana liars authorities have taken active mea-
sures to repel the threatened Fenian invasion.
Camps are to be formed at the expose.' points, and

a guard has been stationed on the Victoria Bridge
tt Montreal. In Toronto the corporation has been
instructed to prepare billets to be used, if necessary,
for 15,000 men. The Toronto Globe announces
the invasion to have 'commenced-, and urges the
Government to call out all the troops, both regular
tnd volunteer. From Montreal, however, the re-
port was that the Government of the United
Sates had reiz3d the Fenian arms at St. Al-
bans. Strangers have undoubtedly been collect-
ing there, and also at Rowse's Point and Malone.
'rile &mate has chasm this as the most appropriate
time to pass a resolution for the intercession of the
Presidnt with the Sovereign of England for the

release of the Fenian priest, Father M'Jlahon•
General .11:1'llaugall, having settled his difference
with the Minister of Militia, has withdrawn the
resignation he had iu consequence tendered. In
Ogiensburgh it was said that a contract had been
taken for 30,000 lbs. of biscuit for the Fenian, and
that a large manufactory had undertaken to supply
improved breach-loading rifles, revolvers, and artil-
lery. There is to be a public parade of Fenians
in the district of Columbia on the lth July. O'Neil
was lecturing at Nashville, Meany in Massachusetts,
and Nagle in New York.
The following nominations were sent to 00
Senate ou Thurslay, 11th June:—C. K. Hall, to be Col-
lector of Customs for the district of Texas; Edward C.
Darlington, Collector of Customs at Yorktown, Virginia ;
James Forsyth, Collector of Internal Revenue of the
fifteenth district of Now York ; William Raymond, Assessor
of Internal Revenue of the third district of Massachusetts ;
and Charles J. Barbour, Appraiser of Merchandise at P,,rt-
land, Maine.
love which has thus been declared be strong as these.
evergreens (throwing at their feet some evergreens
and flowers) to endure the storms and winter of life,
and as fragrant and tender as the flowers of summer.
May God bless you !" The friends then, stepping for-
ward, threw down before the married pair many little
handfuls of similar dow-besprinkled offerings. And this•
(together with Multitudinous kisses, hand shakings, and
congratulations) concluded a ceremony which, to all who
beheld it, appeared unusually simple, graceful, and beauti-
ful. —lndependent.
The beautiful church recently built by the Epis-
copalians at Montpelier, Vermont, was dedicated by the
Bishop of Connecticut, on Juno 9. The exterior is 108
feet by 55, and the tower and spire 100 high, and stone to
the top. It is one of the finest buildings in the State.
Thirty-two ships are at present on the stocks at
Quebac, giving employment to 1,970 men:
The Manchester Exanziner state. 3 that in the first
week of July Mr. Bright will visit Mr. Peabody, of Nair
York, at Castleconnell, to enjoy salmon fishing on the
Shannon.
The Grant and Colfax Club at Pittsfield, 'Wes-
tern Massachusetts, already numbers over 100 members,
with the following officers, chosen Wednesday evening,
Juno 10:—President, E. H. Kellogg ; vice-presidents, 8•
W. Bowerman, H. H. Richardson ; secretary, J. L. Greene ;
treasure E. S. Francis.
The RepUblicans of Maine will nominate their
Governor and the rest of the State ticket at Portland,
July 8.
The Republican State Convention to nominatd
State officers, including Governor, will be held at Burling-
ton, Vermont, July 1. •
The Nouveau Monde brought the news that the
election of Colonel Balta as President of Peru was certain,'
and that M. Lesseps, the French consul at Lima, had died
of yellow fever.
The Reform Club have elected Mr. Longfellow a
member, and intend to invite him to a complimentary
dinner.

King Cole, the Australian aboriginal cricketer, is
dead. He died on Thursday night of bronchitis.
A petition to the Queen from the women of Ire-
land has been received at the Home Office against the dig'
establishment and disendo tvment of the Irish Church. The
petition has been signed by 143,235 persons.
Colonel D. Buel has left London for New York,
to be present at the National Democratic Convention to
b 3 held on the 4th July, as delegate from Nevada.
Mr. Dill, a negro elected State Senator, was
killed on the sth inst., near Columbia. In addressing his
colured friends just before the murder he seems to have
anticipated this fate, for lie desired if ho was kale] that
they would avenge his death upon the whites from the
cradle up—a truly Christian legacy to leave his fellow-

citizens !
" Colonel" Nagle addressed a large audience of
Irishmen In the Cooper Institute, at New York, June 9.
Major Hoffman presided, and made a speech introducing*
Nagle, who denounced Minister Adams and Consul
West, and declared George Francis Train to be the mall
for the occasion. Letters from W. E. Robinson, and 51r.
Montgomery Blair, expressing sympathy with the object
of the meeting were read.
Chief Justice Chase was expected to return to
Washington on the night of the 13th inst. It is said tlat
mmy Democrats have joined some disappointed Repub-
licans, and aro freely using money to push his nominf--
tion at New York.
The New York Citizen says—The mother of
Charles F. Crown() (Artemus Ward) has finally heard from
the English executors, but in such vague and unsatisfac-
tory terms that she might as well not have heard from
them at all. There is something very strange about the
disposition of her son's property. lie certainly left a con-
siderable sum, but what has become of it nobody can tell
on this side of the Atlantic at least.
William Raymond was nominated on June 11th
as assessor for the third congressional district of Massa-
chusetts.
The Philudelphia Public Ledger says :—" In Pitts-
burg a few nights sines two thieves meta gentleman
walking in the street with a box under his arm. They
itnmediately undertook to show him to a hotel, and, seizing
the box, in spite of his protestation, ran off with it. The
gentleman was a naturalist, and the box contained four
rattlesnakes."

It is curious to real Mr. Sumner's letter acc3pt-
ing the office of United Stites Senator from Massachu-
setts, as given in the Alexandria Gazette, May 15, 1851. It
forcibly brings back to the mind the extraordinary changes
wrought in the Union. "I accept office as the servant of
the Union, bound to study and to maintain the interests
of every section of the country, and to discountenance
every effort on the part of the North to interfere with
slavos in the slave States, and all efforts on the part of the
South to extend it to free States, or influence the National
Government in its behalf."
The trustees of William and Mary College,
recoivel from England a few weeks since a re-
mittance of 8,000 dollars, the accumulated proceeds of
legacy left for the college in 1742 by an English lady
named Margaret Whaley. The original legacy was X. 50
sterling, to be applied by the executors of the Whaley
estate to William and Mary College, and has been hitherto
unknown or forgotten until accidentally discovered 131
lawyer in searching over some old papers.
The new President of Liberia is the Rev. J. S•
Payne, a coloured clergyman, well knOwn to many per'
sons in England from his repeated visits to this country
Mr. Payne was elected, not as a party candidate, but oe
the ground of his acknowledged personal merits. The
President, in his inaugural address, spoke strongly is
favour of the establishment of a system of national educa-
tion.
The exodus of Mormons from Liverpool, en route
for the Salt Lake, continues. Several vessels have been
chartered by the Mormon agents in this country for the
conveyance of emigiants to America.
The Queen of Madagascar died on April 1.
The postal regulation requiring pre-paid letter,
postage on newspapers and magazines in the overland
mail, going west of Kansas, was rescinded by the Senate/
Wednesday, June 10. The House will probably concur'
as the rapid progress of the Pacific Railroad makes rea'
transportation more feasible.
There are indications of an immense apple crop
throughout the State of New Hampshire.
The widening of Hanover-street, Boston, t 6
whole length, will cost about a million of dollars, a large
part of which will be assessed on the abutters in the way
of " improvement." Js

Births.
SEDGWICK—On the 25th inst., at Elmcote, Watford, lierit4
Mrs. A. a Sedgwick, of a daughter.
SIMOND—On the 26th inst., at 6, Porchester-square, the

wife of Francois F. Simou'd, Esii., of a son.
TAYLOR—On the 26th inst., at 21, Gloucester-crescent'
Fogent'e-park, NAV., Mrs. Seth Taylor, of a son.

Marriages.
CLARK E —HOWLEY—On the 25th inst., at the Churc.•t, of
St. Andrew's, Westland-row, Dublin, Henry D. Clarice'
Esq., of Atcombe-Court, Gloucestershire, to Henrietta;
youngest daughter of the late Sir John Howley, lie
Majesty's First Serjeant iu Ireland. .
CAMPBELL—KIRWAN—On the 25th inst., at Gelston Casty;
Lt.-Col. Archibald 11. Campbell, Retired List 101.
Indian Forces, third surviving son of the late C. tja11113:
bell, E-1., of Colgrain, Dumbartonshire, to Mary Agueng
(-blest daughter of the late C. L. M. Kirwan, Estl.;
Dalgin Park, county Mayo, and Gelston Castle, li-if'''.
cudbrightshiio.

Deaths.
AIIIIIT—On the 16Lh inst., at AAhley House, St. S:►vi°ur'S+
JersTy„Lieut.-Uoleliel L. J. A. Armit, Royal Eugineer*

aged
CRANE -On the 23d inst., at Camberwell Chas. royuct.'

sou of Commander P. ()rape, R.N., aged 58.
PELLOWE —Oa the 23,1 inst., at Walmer, Major IV•

Pellowe, late of ILM.'s Indian Army, ag,;(l 62:
WlLLcocKs—On the 23d inst., Joseph W. Willeoeks, oft ile
Windsor Castle, 338, Vauxhall-bridge-road, Pirolic°l
aged 41.

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