The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
General Butler has been named for President,
and the Hon. Ben. Wade for Vice-President on an
ultra-Radical platform. A strong.,,movement is
being made by the friends of Chief-Justice Chase.
The central committee of the Republican party of
Louisiana met at New Orleans on the 23d Decem-
ber, and unanimously nominated him for the Presi-
dency. The caucus of the Georgia Convention was
almost unanimous for the same ticket—five dele-
gates only responding for General Grant. There
is a rumour that should the Chief-Justice's friends
fail to carry the Chicago Presidential Convention,
they will withdraw to St. Louis, and there organise
one they can control. They feel sure that the
Southern States will vote for him if they can get
into the National Convention, and for this purpose
the Radicals in Congress will, if possible, hasten
Reconstruction. " General Hancock and Minister
Adams" is a ticket talked of by the Democrats.
But although a strong section of the Radicals are
opposed to General Grant he remains the people's
candidate, and it will take a great deal to shake
him out of this position.
The President's Message, asking Congress pub-
licly to recognise the merits of General Hancock,
which has been received with such derision through-
out America, is explained by the fact that the De-
mocrats have turned their attention towards the
General as a candidate for the Presidency. Some
Congressmen of that party waited on the President
and asked his aid by directing public attention to
him. Mr. Johnson the more readily responded, as
he could imply censure on Congress while praising
Hancock. The step was a false one, as the Demo-
crats have found, and no ?e they blame the Presi-
dent fog using his prerogative to advance the schemes
of his political supporters. Its effect on the House
of Representatives is seen by the resolution passed
last Monday thanking General Sheridan for his
services, and censuring President Johnson for re-

moving him from his command. General Hancock
may well exclaim, " Save me from my friends 1"
Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record
for Jan. 1 announces a large number of interesting Ame-
rican works. In noticing Charles Dickens's story in Our
Young Folks, called "A Holiday Romance," the Messrs.
Trubner doubt whether the purchasers of the copyright
are protected by American law, although Messrs. Ticknor
and Fields believe it cannot b 3 produced without their
sanction even in England. This, however, is denied by
another publishing- firm, which, yesterday, in the Times,
asserted that a foreigner in the States is protected in his
copyright by the law. If the tale can be pirated, it is
considered another strong reason for American publishers
to unite in demanding an international copyright. We
extract the following items from Messrs. Trubner's literary
table :
"The Letters of the Hon. G. M. Dallas, during
his residence in London as Minister in England, 1856-60,
will shortly be published under the editorial revision of
his daughter, Miss Julia Dallas.
" Gail Hamilton has in hand a new volume on
" Woman's Wi'ongs."

" The lion. William B. Kenney, formerly United
States' Minister to Sardinia, and previously editor of the
Newark Advertiser, has been engaged for nearly ten years
in the preparation of "A History of Tuscany."
" Messrs. J. B. Lippincott and Co., of Philadel-
phia, are publishing what they term a " Globe Edition" of
Lord Lytton's novels at a dollar and a half per volume.
The volumes are printed in long primer type on toned
paper, and form very handsome, portable, and readable
books.

. " Professor G. W. Greene is preparing an edition
of the Work; with a Life of his Grandfather, Goneral

Greene.

" Mr. G. P. Putnam has just prepared and pub-
lished "An American Supplement to !Jaclyn's Dictionary
of Dates."

" Southern Society—a weekly jour?al of literature,
society, and art—has just been commenced at Baltimore.
In its list of contributors we recognise tie names of many
of the most distinguished writers connected with the
Southern States..

"Remarkable Trials of all Countries," is the ti tle
of a book announced for speedy publication in New York.
It will contain the trials of Charlotte Corday, Earl Fer-
rers, the Marchioness of Brinvilliers, Courvosier for the
murder of Lord 'William Russell, Corder for the murder of
Maria Martin, Robinson for the murder of Helen Jawitt,
J. C. Colt for the murder of Samuel Adams, Sawney
Deane, &c., &c. It is to form an Bvo. volume of about 450
pages.

" We are glad to announce the appointment of our
friend, Mr. M. U. Tyler, well known in England, to the
Professorship of Rhetoric and English Literature in Mi-
chigan University."

Under Secretary Seward's superintendence and
the authority of Congress, a handsome book, called the
"Lincoln Memorial," has issued from the Government
printing office. Three thousand copies are printed ; only
one copy is given to each member of Congress. Foreign
Governments and societies which in any manner noticed
the death of Mr. Lincoln are to have copies.

The California Legislature has elected Mr.
Eugenie Casserly to the United States Smite, in place
of Mr. Couness, whose term has expired, after a ballot of
several days. The Democratic party in the Senate gains
one, and the Republican loses one by this change. Mr.
Casserly'a term, however, will not commence before the
4th March, 1869.

Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, who has pro-
mised to address the people of New York " ou the condition
of the South," is now on his way North. His address will
be made at the Cooper Institute early in January. Mr.
Stephens is in feeble health, and has to travel by easy
stages.

B. F. Martin, of Manchester, New Hampshire,
W. F. Daniels of Franklin, and the proprietor of the Sun-
cook and Webster mill at Suncook, were arrestod on
Dec. 17 by the United States officials, charged with ro-
venuw frauds.

James W. Johnson, the Republican nominee for
State Railroad Commissioner, is one of the most prominent
and influential business men of northern New Hampshire.
He is a native of Enfield, where he still resides, and which
town he has three times represented in the State Legisla-
ture. His occupation as a wool and produce broker has
given him an extensive acquaintance and strong influence.
In polities he has always been Republican.

A court of inquiry into the circumstances of the
recent railroad disaster at Northfield is being held at that
town. Engineer Abbott, on *heal the whole Name of the

accident rests, testified that he was running only oht
miles per hour when he reversed his engine, three leng.ills
of the train from the chasm, and had the brakes been well
manned he says that ho thinks the train might have bee°
stopped in time. He had not drank intoxicating liquor for
six months, and had no particular care or responsibility en
his mind on the fatal day. Ho was running up to the
bridge a little faster than usual under instructions fioul
Assistant-Superintendent Tenney, but none of his testi-
mony affords satisfactory explanation of his carelessness or
cause for the accident. Another of the victims of the di
aster was George E. Bancroft, of Burlington, who refused
assistance, saying, " H.3lp the other boys, there is no kV°
for me," and died in ten minutes. •
James C, Engly, agent of the Merchants' Uni°3
Express Company, has been arrestedat Providence, Ithole
Island, charged with a conspiracy and an attempt to Oh
the company's safe at that city of $300,030. lie is in g:1")l
awaiting an examination. Engly is the man whose 01'"
rations in connection with Ithele Island ware the subjet
Of legislative examination.

Governor English, of Connecticut, has appointol
Origen S. Seymour of Litchfield, William J. Hammerslo)
of Hartford, and John T. Wait of Norwich, commissioner''
to inquire what changes, if any, should be made in tile;
joint-stock laws of the State, and as to the expediency di
creating the office of State Attorney-aineral. The repori-
will be made to the next Legislature.

Edward Rogers, a Philadelphia capitalist, has re•
cently bought the "Island" in the Washington lake, Olt
New Haven, and is to erect a fine summer country house
thereon.

The Springfield Republican says :—The DeniocratS
have a now candidate for the Presidency, and the strongest
one named yet, General Di; who will resign the missies
to France in a few months.

Governor Fletcher has decided the closely con'
tested election of a successor to Congressman Noon, of the
third Missouri district, by giving the certificate to GO'
James It. M'Cormack, Democrat.

Francis Tukey, formerly a famous criminal lawyer
in Boston courts, and chief marshal of the city wider
Mayor Quincy ten years ago, died recently near Sacra'
mento, California. In 1861 he was a member of the
California General Assembly.
M. de Bille, the Danish Minister to the United
States, has arrived at New York. There is a report that
the Hon. John P. Hale, the United States Minister $1
Madrid, is to be transferred to Vienna.
General A. D. Wass, of Boston, will be stroller
urged for Sergeant-at-Arms of the next Legislature, and.
letter of high commendation of his military abilities fro'
Governor Andrew is published. Gen. Wass went with
the old Sixth Massachusetts Regiment as one of its 01,
lieutenants at the beginning of the war, and rose to bw
present rank through the 19th, 41st, 60th, and 62d regi.
ments. He was three times wounded in the service.

Henry H. Haight, Governor of California, is
native of Rochester.

Neal Dow was given a complimentary break'
fast at the Quincy House, in Boston, on Thursday morr
ing, Dec. 19, by his friends and allies in the temperance
movement. William Lloyd Garrison and others made
speeches. Mr. Dow expressed his regrets that prohibiti°'n
had been rebuffed in Massachusetts.

A girl, ten years of age, was resuscitated at RIO;
ney, Massachusetts, twelve hours after she was supposed
to have been drowned. She did not regain full conscious'
ness for more than two days.
Among the passengers by the Cimbria, last Tile!"
day, at ziouthampton, from New York, were—Mr. M'Cl';
tock, United States Consul to Bradford, England, 313"
Mr. William Heine, Colonel and attache United States Dee
gation at Paris.

General Meade has declined the removal in sue:
cession to General Pope in the Third Military District'
preferring to remain in command of the department °
the East.

Messrs. J. and F. Howard, of Bedford, and 141.'
0. H. lil‘Cormick, of Chicago, received grand prizes at the
Agricultural Exhibition at Billancourt.
There is a report that Commodore Vanderbilt, of
New York, who has a c3ntrolling interest in the Long
Island Railroad, intends putting a line of steamers on tile
route from Greenpoiut to Stunington or New London
early next spring, to be run in connection with the trails
on the Long Island Road, so as to make the shortest rout°
from Boston to New York

A. H. Byington, of the Norwalk Gazette, is t°4
have control of the publishing department of Dana's se"
enterprise, the New York Sum. • •

Mr. Ashley, the impeacher, in big late letter;
says:—"ln the estimation of many the situation domande
a scapegoat, and I have been selected by the anti-Or
peachers to bear off their sins and to divert public attentioo
from the stupid inconsistencies of the panic-stricken itlv.
poachers."
Mr. Raymond, of the .New York Times, has stated
that in going into the Philadelphia Convention he WV'a
to inaugurate a true Union movement in the South, but the
Republican party aro not ready for it.
Mr. Jefferson Davis and his wife have arrived
in Havannah on their way to New Orleans.
The Austrian frigate Novara, with the renzia:9!
of the late Empror Maximilian ou board, arrived off C°t'll
last Wednesday.

Jacob Barker, ruined by the civil war, is 13°11,
before the courts as a bankrupt. His fortune at one
was immense.

Freeman B. Smith, a counterfeiter, fled fr°l:
Toledo, lowa, to Kingston, Canada, where he was f°'
lowed, and his surrender demanded by the State autll°-
rities of lowa. This was resisted by his counsel, S"
maintains that counterfeiting is forgery, and forgel 1
not within the provisions of the extradition treaty.
An argument of Lucy Stone, on the 26th.flocUir
ber, when holding forth at Brooklyn on Woman Suffrage''.4
was to the effect that a soldier imperilling his life for 14a
country had in all ages and stages of civilisation acquire,
rights as a freeman, that is the right to vote ; but 905,
woman imperilled her life to bring the soldier into t'o
world she also acquired a right to vote.
Mr. James Hutton has resigned the editor
of the Leader.

Chief Justice George Martin, of Ohio, died ta
Cleveland, on Sunday, Dec. 15, Rear-Admiral James
Palmer, commander of the north Atlantic squadron, dial
at St. Thomas, West Indies, on Dec. 7, of yellow fever'
The Maine shipbuilders and owners held a Or
vention at Bath, on Thursday, Dec. 19, and appointed
agents to press upon Congress the removal of duties upon
articles used in shipbuilding, and to repeal all nufrioncil
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legislation. Delegates were also chosen to the NationfL
Commercial Convention to he holden at Boston
February.

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