The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-05 00:00:00

MISC s.

NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Timm.)
The Royal mail steamer China has arrived with
news from New York to August 26. From Canada
we learn that the Nova Scotian delegates who have
returned from London represent that the Home
Government regards its recognition of the Union
Act as paramount to the colonial objection, but that
that recognition was based on the apparent con-
sent of the people of Nova Scotia, to whom, never-
theless, the right of appeal remains. The other
items not noticed elsewhere are that Senator Sher-

man, ix a speech at Columbus, Ohio, declared his
belief that the bonds are payable in Legal-Tender.
Advices from Cuba state that the Captain-General
has ordered that no passenger should be allowed to
land on the island without a passport certified by a

Spanish consul.
Grave apprehensions exist that Mr. Bayard
Clarke, an American gentleman, was among those
killed in the accident to the Irish mail train at

Abergele. It appears that Lieutenant-Colonel
Wickham, of 11.111.'s 33,1Regiuyant, wrote to Colonel
Rich, stating his fear that his friend had, as he ic-
tended, travelled by that train, as he had not since
been heard of. He carried a revolver, a gold hunt-

ing chronometer watch, with hands of a peculiar
colour ; on his finger was a blood-stone ring en-
graved with his arms. This letter induced Colonel
Rich to have the debris again sifted, and a revised
list of the property made out, and we believe that
the remains of a revolver have been found.
The strike continues in New York, and the loss
during the five weeks is estimated at $300,000.
The strikers are sustained by the workmen of other

trades, whO recognize their own cause in the figh
between the bricklayers and their employers, ant

anxiously await the result. The heavy drain on the
funds accumulated in anticipation of the movement

is rapidly consuming the resources of the men
they are, however, encouraged by the partial sue
cess of the colliers in Pennsylvania, most of whom
have returned to their work under the old ten-hour
system, having split the difference with their em
ployers. Ten hours' pay for eight hours' work
really means an advance of 20 per cent. in wages,
and they have compromised for an advance of 10
per cent. In'Springfield Colonel Benton informed
the men working in the armoury and water shops
that he had orders to cut down their pay in propor-
tion to the two hours deducted from their labour.
The men continue at work, taking their chance of
getting full wages. The case has been submitted
to the Attorney-General for an opinion by the Go-
vernment workmen generall3—whether the law of
Congress reducing the hours of labour to eight
daily in the Government shops may, as affirmed by
Government agents, be interpreted to authorise
corresponding reduction in salaries.
Salnave, who is holding on to Hayti by his eye-
lids, is said to have ceded the Bay of St. Nicholas to
the United States. It matters little, we suppose, that
he does not control the territory, as the bay forms a
good harbour only 40 miles distant from Cuba, and
easy of defence. He is said to meditate an early flight
to the United States, and has sent off his effects
and some of his relatives, but they were captured
on shipboard by the insurgents. However desirable
might be the purchase, the' title will scarcely be a
good one derived from Saluave.
Among the crimes and casualties which the last
mail brings from the United States we find that we
were premature in announcing the destruction of
D. Appleton and Co.'s publishing house. The fire
broke out in Green-street, in the next residence,
and the building where it originated was consumed,
with loss of property to the value of $123,000. The
adjoining printing-office of John F. Trow had as
p
narrow an escape as the premises of the Messrs.
Appleton. The record of crime is unusually large.
Messrs. Thomas, Howard, and Johnson, partners of
a wholesale stationer's house in Buffalo, have been
detected in defrauding the Government out of
$250,000, in collusion with A. F. Lee, late of the
Post-office in a contract for furnishing that depart-
ment with blanks, envelopes, &c.,which were never
supplied. Both Lee and several members of the
firm have been arrested, and in each case held to
bail in the sum of $lO,OOO. Mr. Lavot Cabal,
member of a New York and Philadelphia firm of
brokers, and president of the Allentown Iron Com-
pany, Philadelphia, has abscoaaea, leaving a vast,
's accounts. He appears
deficiency in the company
to have speculated with the funds entrusted to his
core, and it is feared that the loss IN ill amount to
half a million dollars. Many railway collisions have
been attended with fatal results. On the 15th August
one occurred in Pennsylvania, near Rouserville,
when five men were killed and fifteen injured. On
the same day two railroad employes were killed at
Rhinebeck,
seven men, besides ten
wounded near Fremont station, by a train of the
victim u N New York. Alexander Green fell a
ew Jersey, and
Union Pacific Railroad thrown from the track.
After that eventful day two men were killed, and
twelve injured, on the 18th August, near
Galena,
es
is reported in Colorado.
We are not surprised at the following special
from Philadelphia, Sept.
telegram Nine
nrepersona
rsu sentons t
h Indian
aov the h
be
massacre
been
e n
killed. United States troops
are being sent to the western border. An Indian
war is impending." The intelligence by wail left
no doubt that this was threatened. Solomon River
Valley in
forh Kansas
part committed on defence-
less women, though twenty persons have been
outrages,
e n wasos
moat part
the scene of some shocking
killed, and property to such an extent destroyed
that 200 settlers have been deprived of everything,
ppTlyheto Leavenworth and other
reports have been con-
firmederman. The Indians on
andplae
places
so mf
by
yre
reGedlei
net ofe ; apply
Sherman.
the war-path are said to be the Cheyennes and.
Arapahoes, and one of their victims is a well-
known scout, Bill Comstock, whose body was re-
covered, his companions being rescued, badly
80 Cheyennes drove away
a mile of Fort Hayes. The
reportslwlo 0u nmdueldees.s from within
t imAatpeaNdrtyt onhhei:ndian
strength between 600
and 1,500. The people were flying from their
homes in every direction, and the town was full of
refugees. A skirmish had taken place between the
Indians and the soldiers, who were compelled to
retreat. Active measures were taken throughout
the State, the militia enrolled, and troops pushed
forward, and the result was that the savages
were driven from the Solomon River Valley.
The pursuit was so hot, the Indians retreat-
ing towards the Arkansas River, that seve-
ral of the settlers' children they had stolen
were abandoned and found in the woods, but six
women were known to have been carried into cap-
tivity. The cause of the trouble is supposed to
have grown out of a recent fight between the
Cheyennes and Pawnees,
the former getting the
worst of it, and they aro supposed to have attacked
all the settlements from reyenge. General Sheridan
had sent plenty of troops and gone in person to the
place of hostilities. The news from Colorado shows
that the movement is general among the tribes,
and we fear that Uncle S3llll will be compelled to
undertake a war of extermination. President John-
son has ordered the forcible expulsion of hostile
Indians from Kansas.
A newspaper entitled L' Independence Canadienne,
professing to be a people's journal, has been started
in Montreal by a French Canadian named Mederic
Lanctot. Envious, we suppose, of the fat livings
secured by Fenian editors, who thrive on a denun-
ciation of England, he wants to cut in for a share
in the new field offered by Lower Canada. The
tyranny which has marked the British yoke wher-
ever established has galled the soul of this patriot,
who has arisen like a Bruce or a Te.ll to redeem his
country, and comes forth absolutely bursting with
eloquence. M. Lanctot braves the lien in his den,
and writes his publication in the largest of Cana-
dian cities, flaunting it under the nose of the British
mercenaries with that disregard to personal safety
which has so eminently characterized such patriots.
He finds that in independence English manufactur-
ers would be prevented from making a tariff to
!suit themselves, and the capitalists would at once be
enabled to withdraw their funds now tied up in
banks to invest with profitable results in industry,
manufactures, and commerce. The patriot fails to
inspire in the United States that interest in his
proceedings which he considers is his due from a
free people ; bat the Americans are Natided with