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

LNING, JUNE 6, 1868.

ration of the Chicago Convention has perhaps pre-
vented a split in the Republican party which might
greatly have aided the. Chief Justice. General
Hancock is more than ever spoken of, and
M'Clellan's chances are not as yet wholly ex-
tinct, nor are those of Mr. Pendleton. The diffi-
culty before the party is to name a man with
whom a Republican Congress would be able to
work. The House of Representatives and the
Senate remain Radical, whatever may be the Con-
servative success in the Presidential election, and
as the moderate people in the United States, whose
name is legion, do not desire a repetition of the
dead-lock which ended in Impeachment, they are
not likely to favour any ticket which will reproduce
the same result. The Democrats have a hard game,
and their wisest plan is to do what they are doing ;
that is, to keep dark, and to shape their course by
the light of coming events. The principle to which
Mr. Chase is committed, and which the Democrats
cannot swallow, is negro suffrage.

if the news fro n New York is correct Salnave
had been driven by the Caco rebels into Port-au-
Prince, where, with 150 adherents, he seems to
have aided in the plunder of the stores of several
Americans. The Consul appealing to him for pro-
tection and meeting with a rebuff, sent to Havannah
for American or British protection, and 11. M.'s
gunboat Phcebe had left Jamaica to afford it.
Salnave had declared himself dictator, certainly a
strange moment for him to select, when he had fled
into the town before the Caco rebels ; and on
the sea two British , men-of-war threatened
to bombard the city, if the persecution of
which the American Consul complained was not
stopped. By the last news we learn that the Cacos
rebels had surrounded the town, defeating General
Chevalier. Salnave had issued a proclamation,
stating that the Consulates would be attacked if
the refugees were sheltered, and extreme penalties
inflicted. The Consulates were crowded, and the
American Minister had demanded assistance from
Washington.
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention finally
adjourned on Monday, May 18, after adopting its
constitution as a whole, and providing that a com-
mittee of five can call the Convention together
again if necessary. The Legislature of Ohio has
adjourned till November 23, after a session of 160
days, at an expense of $115,000. The last act was
the passage of a bill prohibiting the Supreme Court
from considering out of the regular order any case
under the new law which denies the ballot to those
having visibly a mixture of African blood. This is
a sample of Democratic legislation in tampering
with the Supreme Court, for doing which the Re=
publican Congress was so violently denounced. As
the Court is two years behind on its docket, it will,
if this bill stands, he impossible to bring before the
Judge a case to test the constitutionality of these'
restrictions on suffrage for at least two years.
Our last news of Secretary Stanton was that he
took the unexpected result of Impeachment with
the Same stolidity which he had maintained through-
out. When the mail left it was not certain what
his action would be, but it was known that he,would
await the verdict on the retnaining Articles of Im-
peachment and tben decide. The difficulty of the
Government would have been great had Stanton
persisted in retaining office, for the Tenure-of-Office
Act is not affected by the verdict, which does not
confer upon the President the right to make ad in-
terim appointments. We know by telegram what
his course has been : that he resigned on Andrew
Johnson's acquittal on the second and third Articles
—that Lorenzo Thomas took possession of the War
Office ad interim—that General Schofield's appoint-
ment was confirmed by the Senate on the 30th May,
removing that difficulty, and allowing the wheels of
Government once more to run smoothly.
The Soldiers and Sailors' National Convention
met at Chicago, May 19, to transact its business
prior to the meeting of the National Convention.
It was composed of 400 men who had actually
served in the field or in the fleet during the war,
and they mustered from every part. They met at
Turner's Hall, marching in procession on their way
to the building. As most were active Republican poli-
ticians, the " recreant" Senators caught it. Scarcely
had the assembly met before they burst into thesong
"Old Grimes is Dead," in which all joined to the
music of a band. General Fairchild, Governor of
Wisconsin, was made temporary chairman, and
General John A. Logan, Congressman, from
Illinois, was elected permanent President of the
Convention. Among those who spoke was General
Grant's father'; and General John Cochrane, of
New York, came out conspicuously in denunciation
of the "recreants," calling upon the lowa soldiers
to dig a deep grave in which to bury the " dead
Grimes," and, to the infinite satisfaction of all, he
desired the musicians to play the' Rogue's March."
The business of the Convention was then transacted,
which was mainly to nominate Grant for President,
as the choice of the Soldiers and Sailors of the Union,
to pledge their support to the Republican party, to
declare in favour of the Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson, and to denounce the Senators who voted
his acquittal. It was also resolved that naturalized
citizens should be protected abroad alike with the
native born. Generals Gregg, Sickles, Logan,
Pleasanton, Hartranft, and Hawley were elected
as a committee to tender to Gen. Grant the nomi-
nation, and to present him with a copy of the reso-
lutions. No candidate for the Vice-Presidency was
named, as a wide difference of opinion existed in
this as in the National Convention, which was left
untrammelled to work out the result.

A curious piece of inconsistency may probably
have been observed at Chicago during the meeting
of the Convention. The Sherman House was the
headquarters of the Radical delegates, but the rules
of the Sherman House forbid the admission of
coloured persons. The Radical delegates, therefore,
from the South, amongst whom are some negroes,
must, if the rules were observed, have been excluded.
There is something supremely ridiculous in men sent
by the citizens of their States, being accepted as good
enough to cast a vote for the nomination of candi-
dates to govern the United States, but who are not
considered good enough in a social way to sit at the
same table as their colleagues.

It is said that over £6,000,000 in specie has been
already shipped from the coturnencemeat of the
year from New York for England, and although
the price of gold is stiffening the exports still con-
tinue on an extensive scale. The City of London,
which left NewYork,_May :30, for Liverpool, had
on board $1,000;000, the steamers leaving for
Europe, June 2, took $600,000 in specie, and those
which started next day had on board $1,300,000
in specie, and on Thursday $350,000.
The accounts from the West are not favourable
to emigration. Omaha, it is said, is overflowing
with Eastern men in search of employment, many
in great want. The Pacific Railroad Company,
although it has reduced the wages of the labourer to
$1 25c. a-day, is overrun with applications for
work. Yet the disposition to get West is still so
strong that the rush continues, and could the
stream be carried into the mining districts, instead
of being brought to a stand at Omaha, much good
would result, both to the country and to the
emigrants.

The weather up to this point has been all that
could be desired for the harvest. The price of
wheat has and is falling considerably, while the
value of stocks, shares, and other property is on
the rise. Gold is accumulating in the Batik vaults,
and France bids fair to see a pile in the Bank at
Paris such as was never before seen ; for if the
harvest of France turns out as expected, it is not
impossible that it will reach, fhe pile not exceed, the
vast sum of fifty inillions sterling. Mr. James Saun-
derson, a well-known writer upon agriculture, in
au estimate of the wheat crop in England, states
that, if the existing favourable appearances are
maintained, the enormous yield of wheat in the
harvest of 1863 will be reproduced in 1868, and
that by the first week of July new *wheat will be
in the market.

One hundred copies of Mr. Horace Greeley's
"History of the American Conflict" have been placed
in the hands of Messrs. Stevens Brothers, of Covent
Garden, by the author, . for distribution amongst
the most frequented public libraries of Great Britain
stud Ireland. Ali.. Greeley's intention in making
this gift is best expressed in his Lotter of instruc-
tion : " to proffer to the British people, through their
most popular libraries, the means of making themselves
acquainted with the causes, nature, aLuA incidents 0 94

great struggle." The intrinsic value of the gift may be
estimated from the fact that the work is in two large
volumes, containing 1,430 pages and 222 illustrations.

"An old turtle, in his little tour to Florida,"
speaks of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton being on board. " She
read..ona evening for us in the ladies' cabin. She is col-
leCting material for a book on America, which, she says,
she intends writing with pelican quills." It is clear from
this that she has totally discarded " the goose," and in-
tends to come out in a new character.
Ifrzlkes' Spirit gives us the following items: —" Lester
Wallack has boon advised by his physicians to dismiss
the cares of business, pack up his cravats and pomatum,
and go to Europe for an indefinite length of time. We
shall be sorry to lose Don John from the stage, of which
he is a glittering centre-piece ; but the priest and the
physician should be obeyed, and for the sake of Mr. Wel-
lack's health, which is not good, we hope he will take a
season of vacation abroad. Ada Webb is about to marry a
rich young Californian. A great hall packed with people
and blazing with countless gaslights marked the first
night of the Second Annual Musical Festival at Steinway
Hall on Monday night, May 18. The performance con-
sisted of Handers oratorio of The Messiah.' Parepa
Rosa, Mrs. Jenny Kempton, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Thomas, and
the Harmonic Society of Now York composed the singers.
Parepa was in magnificent voice, and was warmly ap-
plauded. Laura Keene has returned to America from
England, and is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Edwin Booth
will play Richard' in his new theatre, with a golden
crown worth one thousand dollars. Hampty Dumpy'
will be brought out at the Chestnut-street Theatre in
Philadelphia. Betty Rigl and sister and Petit
Schlager,' the child dancer, now at Niblo's, have been en
gaged. Manager Wheatley returns an income of thirty -
five thousand dollars. Henry Willard, one of the olimt
managers in the country, has leased the Continental in
Boston, and opens in the fall. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wil-
liams are still at the Broadway, and still successful. After
an absence of three years from the realms 'of Cork, the
Bryants have roturned to the minstrel stage. La Belle
Helene' at the New York, still attracts full houses to
this neat, comfortable, and pleasant little theatre. 'I he
San Francisco troupe, at 585, Broadway, are running
in a groove of success which seems endless. Miss
Lillie Eldridge takes the place of Lucy Egerton as the
Prince in the 'White Fawn,' instead of Mrs. Mark Smith,
who does not sing. Mary Wells, we learn, is about to
leave. Benjamin Holliday, ex• Senator Latham, Ralston
the banker, Sam Butterworth, Charles McLane, John Par-
rott, Oliver Eldridge, and ex-Governor Low are among
the incorporators of a company which has for its object
the erection of a first-class theatre in San Francisco. No
location has yet been agreed upon, but Market-street will
probably be selected. It is to have ample room for egress,
aad no bar will be allowed. The building will be plain
and substantial. The gentlemen-named are certain to do
the thing creditably to themselves and their beautiful city."

Mrs. Scott Sicldons, it is said, has engaged, for a sum of
upwards of £13,000, to travel a year in America, perform-
ing four times a week.
Admiral Farragut, in his frigate the Franklin,
accompanied by her tender the Frolic, left Lisbon on
Friday, May 29, for Antwerp.
The following was the reply of Mr. Colfax to the
despatches announcing his nomination to the Vice-Pre-
sidency by the Chicago Convention :—" Washington,
D. C., May 21. To Mr. Orton, president of the Western
Union Telegraph, Chicago :—Accept my sincere thanks
for your despatches to-day. The evidence of confidence
in me by the Convention• of the party I love is more gra-
tifying than any feeble words of mine can express.—
SCHUYLER COLFAX."

Senator Morrill, of Vermont, and William M.
Evarts, the President's counsel, were at Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, on the 22d May, in the same hotel.
It is announced that Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt
will in the autumn pay a professional visit to the United
States.

As Governor Hamilton, of Texas, was walking
in the vicinity of the Whitney House, near the Capitol, at
Washington, D. C., accompanied by Senator Cameron, on
the afternoon of the 14th May, he was accosted by the
Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia, who inquired if
he was Jack Hamilton, of Texas, and, on receiving an
affirmative answer, denounced Mr. Hamilton as a scoun-
drel. Mr. Hamilton felt called upon to resent the insult, and
forthwith inflicted a spirited castigation with a hickory
cane upon his opponent, cutting his bead and face in a
frightful manner, and breaking the cane into splinters. Two
men, who accompanied Randall, immediately pounced
upon Mr. Hamilton, and held him while the Representative
struck him a powerful blow in the face. Senator Cameron
used his cane upon Randall's friends, who at once released
Hamilton, and conveyed their companion to his rooms to
have his wounds dressed. Hamilton asserts that Randall
is a perfect stranger to him ; that he never saw him be-
fore, and that the insult was perfectly unaccountable.
Ex-President Buchanan is confined to his bed,
too ill to see visitors, and grave apprehensions are enter-
tained for his safety. '

Lewis W. Ross (Democratic), Representative
from Illinois, addressing Thaddeus Stevens in the House,
said, "I ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania whether,
in his opinion, Senators would be justified in perjuring
themselves for the purpose of procuring a convic►ion of
the President?" towhich Mr. Stevens replied, " Well, sir, I
do not think it would hurt them."

The Chinese Embassy, of which the Hon. Anson
Burlingame is the chief Envoy, arrived in New York on
May 22, and proceeded to the Washington Hotel. The
Secretary of State at Washington was advised of the ar-
rival. The suite consists of abOut thirty persons, includ-
ing six interpreters and seventeen servants.

Ex-Governor Buckingham has been elected by
the Connecticut Legislature United States Senator for six
years from 4th of next March, to replace Senator James
Dixon, and on the 20th May it met in Convention, under
the new law, and ratified the result. The vote of the
House was 124 to 109. The Democrats, in compliment,
bestowed their votes on Senator Dixon, which they would
have given to William W. Eaton, of Hartford, had there
been any chance of succes

The negro Bradley has been elected to the State
Senate of Georgia, but will bo refused admission for the
same reasons that caused his expulsion from the Consti-
tutional Convention—conviction of felony and a term in
the State prison.
General Gordon, United States Attorney Fitch
and Foster Blodgett, ex-Postmaster at Augusta, Georgia,
are the prominent candidates before the Legislature for
election to the United States Senate.

The New Jersey Democrats will probably unite
on General Theodore W. Runyon as thoir, candidate for
Governor, while the Republicans generally are talking
again of General Kilpatrick. .

-It is proposed to call the triangular parks in
Washington after the names of authors. Prescott, Irving,
Hawthorne, Motley, Bryant, Bancroft, Halleck, Hildredth,
and Sigourney are the names mentioned.

The account of an Abyssinian sportsman, not
long since sent to the Field, amused the initiated iu Eng-
land and elzewhere, but that was not to be compared with
the delight with which it was greeted by the Field Force
in Abyssinia. The Pall Mall says that "We now learn
from a correspondent at Zulla that the account in ques-
tion was read, when our paper arrived there, with
shouts of laughter, the hero of the adventure being
by. no means a sporting prophet amongst his own
comrades, and being notoriously afflicted with a dis-
ease not uncommon amongst African explorers, known
as "elephantiasis of the imagination." The letter from
Zulla declares that the only elephant the sportsman had
to deal with was a commissariat animal, and that the ges-
ticulations and shouts of the natives, uttered in a tongue
which he did not understand, were merely earnest remon-
strances against firing at that inoffensive and useful ani-
mal, which, however, escaped all injury."
Ylihe i;hicago Republican gives Major Chapman's
experience as a singular fact, in which we fully concur if
it be a fact. After the groat tornado had passed, that
gentleman residing in Township Seventy-six, about six
miles from Chicago, found several stalks of ground cherries
in his orchard, the leaves green, the pods yellow, and fruit
perfectly ripe. This stage of the plant is at least four
months ahead of this latitude, nor has it attained to that
stage even in our most Southern States, so that it is sup-
posed that these berries must have been brought by the
tornado from some of the West India islands, where the
storm probably originated.
According to a telegram from Bombay, there has
been "a great battle" between the Russians and the Bo-
kharians. Tho Ameer of Bokhara was slain in the engage-
ment, and the victorious Russians are said to have taken
possession of the city of Bokhara.

The Times says that arrangements are in progress
between Mr. James WHenry, the contractor for the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Company, and his creditors, to
the effect that they will accept 20s. in the pound by instal-
ments, of which Gs. Bd. is to be paid within two years, and
that creditors to the extent of £2,400,000 out of the
aggregate of £3,600,000 have already agreed to the offer.
One of the creditors for about £5,000, who objects to the
deed, has taken out a summons in bankruptcy, but there
is said to be no doubt that the deed will be legally cone -
pleted by the assent of nearly all the large creditors, so
as to prevent any proceedings in bankruptcy taking effect.
General Sheridan has left Fort Leavenworth for
the West, to ascertain the disposition of the Indians, and
will go as far as Santa Fe, if necessary.
Col. Hazard, of Enfield, Connecticut, left at his
death au estate of about $2,000,000. In his family aro
owned fully 1,000 shares of Hartford and Hew Haven rail-
road stock, which is now quoted at 220.
Senator Ross called on Mr. Wade to explain the
reasons which influenced him to give the vote so fatal to
that gentleman's prospects—a subject he had better have
left untouched. For some time Mr. Wade listened pa-
tiently, then told him the explhnation was unnecessary,
that the subject was disagreeable, one which he requested
the Senator might never again bring up, and finally bowed
him out, showing him olearly by his manner that he de-
clined any further visits.
Mr. Wm. Sumption, glove manufacturer, Otter-
ford, has been fined £5 by the Taunton magistrates for

paying his workpeople otherwise than in the current coin
of the realm. Mr. Sumption keeps a general shop, and
expects all his workpeople to take out a portion of their
wages in goods.

The Sovereign Prince of Licbstenstein has de-
ci-bled on disbanding his army. In the old Germanic Con-
federation he was bound to keep together a body of 90
men as a contingent, which was a heavy charge on his
Treasury. At present he is determined to be freed from it I
and so he disarms.

In Boston an effort is being made by the leading
merchants to secure the construction of what they call a
" marginal street," which is a plan to connect the various
railroads with the harbour, so that goods can be at once
transferred for the cars to shipboard or vice versa. Tho
total expense is estimated at $1,000,000, but by the filling
up of shallow places in the harbour the city will acquire
new land valued at $8,000,000.

At the session of the Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference just held in Chicago, a resolution condemning the
use of tobacco by the ministry was referred to a special
commit tee. Tho resolution requests the general confer-
ence to enrket a law prohibiting the admission to the mini-
stry of any person using the weed. .

The Senates of liaMbutrgh, Bremen, and Lubeck
have agreed to abolish from the lat of July next their
diplomatic representation in London and Paris.

A stamp has just been issued by the Canadian
authorities which wiil prove an acquisition to stamp col-
lectors. It consists of a beautifully executed portrait of
the Queen iu widow's attire, and wearing the familiar Mary
Stuart cap.

The song " Tramp, tramp, tramp," is said to
have been composed by a prisoner confined in the lowa
Penitentiary, and was first written on tho walls of his
cell with charcoal. It has netted thepublishers thousands
of dollars, but not a cent to the writer.

The Alum d Report of the Board of Commis-
sioners of Emigration, New York, for 1867, has been pre-
pared and forwarded to the Legis:ature. The report opens
by 'showing the increase in the arrival of passengers during
the past year over that of the preceding, stating that the
whole number landed in 18n7 was 301,326, of which 242,731
were aliens, an increase over 1867 of 46,379, and a steadily
swelling increase over the numbers landed in several years
past, while the proportion to the average of former years,
since 1817, is 63,602 more. Of the emigrants who arrived
in 1867, 117,591 were from Germany, 65,134 from Ireland,
33,712 from England, and 26,291 from other countries :

Total receipts for the year 1867 5607,227
Total expenditures for tho year 1867
Leaving the financial condition of the Board on Decem-
ber 31, 1867, as follows :

Balance in bank December 31, 1867 568,650

Amount invested in U. S. and N. Y. State

Securities

310,000

Total ..
Amount of bond and mortgage 83087,65500
270

Balance 5171,150
Being more than in December, 1866, by the sum of
$14,577, subject, howe 7er, to amounts due on contracts
for buildings and repairs. The report also shows that out
,of 222,632 passengers in 464 steamers, 255 died, while
from among 49,038 iu 282 sailing _vessels the deaths wort
491. Nothing better shows the growing intimacy of our
commercial relations with Chiva and Japan than the fol-
lowing statistics of the San Francisco trade to those
countries, as published in that city a few months since :---
Year. Merchandise. Treasure. Total. '
1856 5239 942 $1 308 852 $1,548,794

313,896

2,993;264

3,307,169

, . ,
1858 .
224,568 1,916,007 2,140,576
1859..... 252,575 3,134,756 3,387,331
- - -

. .
1860 647,905 3,563,880 4,21085
_ _

1861 7.57,418 - 3;601;499 4,358,911

.., ,
1862 743;827 2,678,670 3,,422497
1863 1,290,155 6,240,934 5,531,089
1864 1,5.23,443 7,874,651 97 298.1 027
~._,

1865 1,483,974 7,078,145 062;119
1866 1,611,981 6,632,688 8,274,672
1867 • 2,101,706 9,673,340 12,774,046

Totals $11,120,393 $54,701,689 $65,822,082
—lron Age.

Pope and Ree's General Telegram Office 11, Throgmor-
ton-street, E. 0., publishes the following cable messages :--
'Thiele Seiler, and Co.'s Weekly Cotton Report :—Receipts,
6,000 Lades ; export to Great Britain and the Continent,
16,000 bales ; stock at all United States p0rt5,142,000 bales ;
New York price of middling upland, cost and freight, by
sail to Liverpool, 11 7-16 d. ;:price of middling New Orleans,
cost ant freight by sail to Liverpool, 11d. ; New York Ex-
change on London, 1101 d. ; New Orleans Exchange on
London, 1531 ; Steam Freight to Liverpool, Id.; Steam
Freight to Liverpool, from New Orleans, Id.
The American (Negro) Colonisation Society--•
which was formed in 1817 in Washington -still retains itg
activity. During the past twelve months it reports.
having sent out to Liberia 1,300 negroes. Sixty thousand
dollars were expended for education, and 10,000 dollars
added to the funds of the society.