The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-13 00:00:00

Peal".
to n, the most idiotic measure ever adopted in an
assembly like the Senate by so large a majority.
Of course such men as Sumner and Fesseaden
oppo3ed it, working as they do on principle and
unmoved as they are by clamour. Congress might
as well legislate to fix the price of bread and
meat, as to control labour—yet this is the bill
which at once receives the signature of the Presi-
dent. Discussing Senator Sherman's Bill for keeping
the currency equally diffused, the Nation observes,
" a supplementary bill should be passed, forbid-
ding the accumulation, under any circumstances, of
more than a certain amount of currency in any one
State. This will be the way to g the better of
the greedy Wall-street men. We all knew, too,
the great inconvenience which is occassioned, both
in domestic life and in agriculture, by the unwil-
lingness of water to run up-hill. Why not let us
have a short bill, before Congress adjourns, de-
priving water of this disagreeable quality, and
making it squirt and flow in all directions with
equal facility ? The s wing of labour this would
cau e would be enormous."

Mr. Sehenck's new Tax Bill, confined to whisky
and tobacco, was introduced on the 20th June, arid
for some days occupied the House. It proposed
to fix the whisky tax at 60 cent 3., but the Repre-
sentatives reduced it to 59. The object of mini
membJrs was clearly to kill the measure by dehlY,
a plan having been crgauised by the " whisky ring,
who desired to continue the plunder and tho
enemies of the Chicago nominees, who hoped that
their grand cause of complaint against the Ite"
publican pirty (the corruption and frauds) might
not be removed before the campaign. • We are
happy to say that the bill was passed by the Repro'
sentatives, and we trust will meet with no oppose"
tion either from the Senate or the President. Mr'
Szhencks pointed out the tactics by which
the measure, the result of five mmths hard
labour, had been defeated, as unp Teedented in
Congressional annals. The Committee of Was °
and Means only obtained a hearing after a
good deal of fillibustering. He considered that
had the House worked at the old bill it would have
got through the whisky and tobacco sections by the,
22d June, and that nothing was gained in point 0'
time by the new bill. The loss to the Revenue 11
throwing out the additions to the tax on banks and
the doubling of that on sales by wholesale dealers
will reduce the revenue below the expenditure.
William Longbridge, of lowa, introduced a resole'
tion to report a bill as early as possible for funding
the Public Debt at a lower rate of interest, and, In
spite of an effort by the New England and -L`Telc
York members to refer it to the Committee onWays and Means, it passed. General Butler Voted
in favour of the resolution.

Humboldt Register, May IG.—The MOO"
zurna furnaces are in full blast. Mr. Likely, the
foreman, tells us that this season he will cord uP LI
mountain of bullion for the cars to haul to market'
There are 500 tons of ore on hand, while the mine'
to all appearance, is inexhaustible. There are magi
mines situated near the Humboldt river, and wit
a short di,:tance of the line of the railroad, tlot
will be worked by Mr. Mason's process of smelting'
The Arizona mine continues to improve in the
shaft being sunk from the main level. The shaft ~
now down GO feet, exposing a ledge at that depth 0;
over three feet in thickness, of a very superior
quality of ore. Governor Fall is now working
large force of hands on the mine and mill. 131-151'
ness is improving and times look hopeful.
General Alfred T. Hartwell has been • appointed
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to the bench of the Supreme Court in the Samilvi%
Islands. lie graduated at Cambridge, Massachusetts, IL
1358. The war found him a student in the law soillf
when he entered the service and reached the grade,o-
brigadier-general and the command of a Massachos°",B
coloured regiment. Ho was returned to the Legislati%.
from Natick in 1867, and has since practised law in Bost°,o
At the suggestion of ex-Governor IVashburne olio
Cambridge law school he was appointed judge, and 1-
ing accepted the post will shortly proceed to Hawaii- ,
Mr. Hooper declines to be a candidate for re 0
election to Congress from the Boston and Catubriclg
district.
The marriage of Senator Henderson to -
Foote, which took place at Washington on the 25th ItiLlits
was a very grand affair. The Chamber had postponed
meeting till two o'clock to enable the Senators to se° tto
ceremony. It was remarked by one of the corresponclea"B,
that, numerous Radicals who had been loudest ih the t
nutciation of the Senator, attributing to him all nA lieeeo
of corrupt motives for his vote on impeachment, were ifs De
tossing off his champagne, and congratulating him as
was the best of good company.
Dr. Marion Sims has received from the ging
Portugal the insignia of the Order of Christ. JO,
George Francis Train, having nothing els:a, t 0
time
in the Marshalsea, has written reams upon reams, and be 9
American papers team with his productions. It astot'socl
us that he who writes so much should write so w(3ll' 105
in such spirits, considering the circumstances ; but l'°,av
one inexhaustible theme of inspiration, and that
self.
et/
General John A. M'Clernand and his wife - w
Ad
thrown out of their carriage at Springfield, Illinois,-
severely but not dangerously injured.
The Hon. Daniel D. Pratt, of Logansport/ 10,
diana, who has baen nominated for Congress by the the
publicans of the English District of the Stats, is ono ° oiS
largest men in America. His height is about sis feet
inches, and his weight about four hundred pounds.
ve
Senator Sprague, after his re-election, ga
reception at Newport to both Houses of the Legislatureo'co
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.-1t is reported on good
authority that Mr. Chase has written a letter, to benielf
in the National Democratic Convention, placing 11_,`— ter
squarely on any platform that the Convention ,nag ueele
mine, but urges on the members that negro soirt°;grasie
recognized, and universal amnesty be demanded.—
ington Express.
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An American paper states that the EmPei% 0
Austria has forwarded a splendid silver dinner sers""e-
President Juarez in return for the body of Maximili3ll.,;i3,
Mr. John H. Gilmor, of Richmond, Viral 00
has written a letter in favour of Chief-Justice Cilas°

the Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
In Maine, the Democrats have nominated -1-"iftioe
Farley as candidate for Congress against James B. 13a
for the Third District, and have put forward GO/-
Ladd for the Fourth District. '
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The Thirteenth Annual International Con • bled
of Young Men's Christian Associations lately asseTt 51‘
at Detroit, more than 700 delegates being present. rooi'
Miller of Cincinnati was unanimously re-elected Not
dent; while General Howard of Washington and Prc''vejoie
Cyrus Northrop of Now Haven were among the "
presidents. tfo
The Englishman, Captain Garrett, who Iti-oir
sail from Chicago to Liverpool in a lifeboat of n°lB- 014
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struction, has been drowned. The boat, the Little 4 .
was smaller than the Red, White, and Blue. 0a 6/1;0
afternoon, Captain Garrett, accompanied by a teaco
one of the public schools, a reporter for the Chicag° 1)00
and a boy, made a trial trip in the little vessel. 11.11",„irer°
was capsized, and the captain and the reporter
drowned. lati°
The United States storeship Su ' of the-) .0

zuureship Dg
squadron, has arrived at Boston from oh'ina,
board the bodies of Admiral Bell and Connodore 13;
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drowned in Japan, and Commodore &'Kenzie, kills
Formosan pirates in those waters.
The settlement of Shakers in Alfred•
numbers about 100 persons, who own some 2,000 a'-estiP
land, and aro prosperous in worldly means, as ti
with the sect. „oil"
Rev. Henry Stackpole, of Woodstock, Ve7, 01°
fell backward from a ladder in a saw-mill upon eft,
saw, which severed him from head to foot in an ilis—hriaSevi,
Colonel F. Parker and two others have purf;
the West Rutland marble quarries, Vermont, for "°°'
dollars.