The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

electors -at large, Gen. Carl Schurz and Col. Riven. A
large and enthusiastic ratification meeting was held at St.
Louis, for the purpose of ratifying the State and national

nominations. In the Cincinnati Congressional District
Gon. Sam Cary has accepted a renomination from the
trades unions of the district, and the Democrats of the
Seventh Indiana District have nominated Samuel W.
Voorhees for Congress against Gen. Washington. The
Democratic nominee for Congress in Speaker C fax's dis-
trict is Judge W. K. Farraud.

The Springfield Republican says :—" Mr. Dawes
administered a very just reproof to Mr. James Brooks,
member of Congress from New York. When the delega-
tion from Alabama was sworn in on Wednesday, Mr.
Brooks took occasion to denominate them ' carpet-bag-
gers.' Mr. Dawes replied that such a sneer came with
bad grace from the gentleman, who was himself a car-
pet-bagger' from the State of Maine, who had been sent to
Congress from Now York. The hit was most palpable,
for Mr. Brooks was a strong anti-slavery man in Maine,
but changed his opinion when he removed to Now York.
He was, perhaps, the original 'carpet-bagger.'"
Admiral Farragut is said to be a millionaire. lle
owns a number of pretty houses, some unoccupied lots,
and twenty acres now in wheat, within the city limits of
Vallejo, California. As that city is to be the western ter-
minus of the Central Pacific Railroad, this property is de-
stined to become a mine of wealth, and within a year has
been trebled in price.

Captain Semmes, of Alabama fame, spoke at a
great Democratic meeting in Mobile, and was the most
applauded at the gathering. The notice of the meeting
had caught his eye, and led him there to rejoice in the
action of the great and glorious Democratic party. He
had been a Democrat all his life—before the war, during
the war, and since the war —and fought the war on the
principles of Democracy, believing that the grand old
Constitution which embodied these principles was
about to bo destroyed. Continuing, ho said :—" There is
really but one grand issue in this contest, and that is the
restoration of these states to their proper places in the
Union with all their rights and privileges unimpaired.
This issue will have the effect to drive from our midst
the hordes of adventurers who have swarmed upon us
like vultures to eat up the substance of the people. This
issue will again reduce the negro to a subordinate position
as the inferior race, and restore the white man to the go-
vernment which belongs to him. When you have settled this
issue it will be time enough to talk about policy. It will be
time enough to tid ourselves of the leprous army which
has been fattening upon the wealth of the South. It will
be time enough to settle questions of currency. It will be
time enough to destroy the tariff and taxation under which
the nation has been groaning. And now, fellow-citizens,
I have come here to declare that I have given in my alle-
giance, heart and soul, to the old flag, provided we 'can re-
store the old flag again to be the representative of the prin-
ciples of the Constitution, which we will be able to effect
by the election of Seymour and Blair."

A correspondent of the Cincinnati commercial,
whose letters are to bo found in every hole and corner,
writing in a delightfully sonational style, gives an account
of Horatio Seymour as he appeared at Utica after his no-
mination. The correspondent was greatly disappointed
in seeing "a slender man with a black cloth coat buttoned
up to a dwindled and dusty standing collar, shaved
face, with plausible lines, but not a suggestion of
positiveness in it, and a boldish head, with a rim of grey
hair running round the base of the neck. He wore also
grizzled hair under the throat. His eye was good ; his
nose knobby and sensual, like his mouth; his address was
nervous, but elegant." How much the candidates will
learn about themselves if they only treasure up all that
is printed of them in the United States.
GENERAL GRANT AT LEAVENWORTII.—OQ his
way to Denver General Grant passed through Leaven-
worth, but declined a public reception there. The follow-
ing is his letter to Mayor Morehead on the subject, dated
at St. Louis on the 14th :—" Dear Sir,—Your favour of
the 14th instant, iuclosing resolutions of the Council
of Leavenworth city, extending to me a public re-
ception, and asking when I shall bo in your city, is re-
ceived. I expect to leave this city for Leavenworth in
the train which starts in the afternoon to-morrow. I will
probably be in Leavenworth ono day, at the quartet s of
General Sheridan, wren I will bo happy to meet all
the citizens of Leavenworth who do me the honour to
call. But allow me to thane a public reception. I
fully appreciate the compliment conveyed in the re-
solution which you forward, and thank the City Coun-
cil and citizens for it; but while travelling for re-
creation, and to inspect personally a country with
which I have so much to do and have never seen,
I would much prefer avoiding public demonstrations.
Believing that you and the citizens of Leavenworth, to
whom I reiterate my thanks, will fully. appreciate this
feeling, and the motive which induces me to decline this
proffered kindness--I subscribe myself, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, U.S. GRANT."
Two men, whose names are not yet known, were
carried over the Falls of Niagara on the 19th July.
General Ripley and General Maynadier, of the
Ordnance Department of the Army, have both recently
been in Springfield, the former ou the way to make his
annual inspection of the fortifications and their arma-
ments on the New England coast, in which lie is accom-
panied this year by Captain Smoot of the armoury ; and
the latter to make the customary inspection of the Govern-
ment establishment in Springffem.
Samuel %Veils, formerly Governor of Maine, and
Judge of the Supreme Court, died at his residence in
Boston on Weducs lay, July 22. He was brother to the
ox-Senator John S. Wells, of New Hampshire, and also
of ex-Governor Wells, of Illinois.
Thomas A. Goddard, of 'the firm of lasigi, God-
dard, and Co., ono of the oldest in Boston, died at his
residence in Newton, on Thursday, July 23, after a brief
illness, and has left property to the amount of upwards of
$900,000.
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cole, Professor Phillips,
and Mrs. I. N. Lincoln, widow of the late Professor Lin-
coln, all of Williamstown, Western Massachusetts, and a
Miss Betts, of Troy, are to start immediately on a Euro-
pean tour, to be absent about a year. Mr. Cole goes for
;he benefit of his health, which has been delicate for a
ong time.

Hon. Luther R. Smith, formerly of Coleraine
and of the class of 1859 at Amherst College, has resigned
his position in the Alabama Legislature as Representative
from Choctaw, in order to assume the judgeship to which
he was elected at the same place.
Paul Murphy, the celebrated chess-player, is at
Homburg les Balms. It is uncertain whether he will
attempt to beat the Kursaal Band at their game of roulette
or rouge et noir.
At Alton, in Staffordshire, the overseers have
put the names of the female ratepayers as claimants of
votes on the church door.
'The overseers of Salford have placed 1,208
women on the register of electors for that borough. Above
5,00') women householders have sent in claims to vote for
the city of Manchester.
The Revolution tells us that a Minnesota woman,
Mrs. Myrick, milliner, of Ouatonne, lately sold her six-
teen years old and beautiful daughter to a Chicago fancy-
goods dealer for $2,000, in payment for an old debt. The
girl heard of the transaction, and with her lover, a likely
young fellow named Odell, eloped, were pursued, arrested
and brought back, but the infamous sale which the mother
contemplated was stopped.
Maggie Mitchell will enter the contest for prizes
at the Savannah boat race.
Mile 3 O'Reilly is riled at a Western paper who, in
describing his personal appearance, announced the boy to
be 47 years of age. Although our clever friend of the
Citizen has been abused to his heart's content, having a
knack of writing verses that jingle unpleasantly in some
people's ears, yet this addition to his years was the only
dart he really felt. Miles is but 38, and if not full of years
is at least full of vanity.
The Spirit of the Times gives the following :
" Another of Like Character.—We extract the following
paragraph from the World of Tuesday morning last :
We have received a note from a person who offers to bet
from $5OO to $5,000 that Governor Seymour will cam
this State by 70,000 majority, awl the same sum that Go-
vernor Seymour will be the next President of the Unitec
States. It the enthusiastic bettor desires us to hold the
stakes, he has addressed the wrong journal, His note
should be addressed to Mr. Theodore Tilton, edito:
of the Independent, who waa mentioned in the
Washington telegrams as a prominent bottle and
stakeholder during the impeachment farce.' The
above offers can be met and covered, at- this office,
for the highest sums named—to wit, for $5,000 each —and
we will then bet $5,000 to $3,000 we will win the first bet,
and $lO,OOO to $5,000 that we will win the second—that
is to say, that Graut will be the next President, instead of
Seymour. We have no objection that either the editor
of the World or Mr. Tilton shall be holder of the stakes.
Will the World please name its man ?" Well done_!—go
it George !
Mr. Burlingame gave a dinner in Washington
to the newspaper correspondents, and Congressmen wore
ti have some "chow-chow" after they had ratified the
Treaty with China. It is rather rich putting correspon-
dents before Congressmen, but America is tho Paradise
of countries for l'ress-men, and we only regret that our
labours should be conducted in such a dull, unappreciative
climate as this.
Canadian labourers refuse to take their wages in
American silver, unless at a discount of 10 per cent.
From Russia we are informed that the American
company which had undertaken the construction of a tele-
graphic line between America and Nicolaevsk, on the
Amoor river, has discontinued its labours, and officially
renounced the concession it had obtained. The resigna-
tion has been accepted by th,3 Council of Ministers, and a
decree, sanctioned by the Emperor, has been passed to
that effect.
TILE TEA DUTY IS REDUCED —ffornimait's Pure Tea is
sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting fact will, when
fully known, even further increase the demand for these
choice, long-approved Teas. They aro not sold loose, but
only in Packets, signed "Iferitiiitan," London.