The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-02 00:00:00

injury of the reputation of a soldier second only to
such officers as grant or Sherman. We may here
repeat that the expose made by General Lorenzo

Thomas has damaged the President's cause in the
opinion of the people, as this " Lieutenant-General
of distinction" cut so sorry a figure that the Presi-
dent has been blamed for selecting him as an agent.
There are many in England who suppose that
the Confederate Bonds may yet be paid, grounding
the impression on the idea that a judgment to this

effect may eventually be obtained from the United
States' Courts. If the people of the United
States ever decided on setting a judgment aside it
would be in such a case, but it is highly improbable
that they will ever be c tiled upon to do anything so
disagreeable. A decision has just been given by
Judge Arrington, of the City Court of Montgo-
mery, Alabama, on a case arising out of the follow-
ing facts :—ln 1852 the State of Alabama advanced
$350,000 in State bonds, fur the purpose of enabling
a company to build an arsenal an 1 manufacture
arms. Bat as the purpose of the State was to arm
Confederate soldiers, the contract was held to be
null and void. The suit was brought in the name
of the Governor.

Wilkes's Spirit gives tho following items :—Mrs. Jean
Davenport Lander is in Syracuse. Mr. Kean Buchanan

and Virginia aro working north slowly. They are now in
Bridgeport, Connecticut. Edwin Forrest is in Pittsburg.

So is Leo Hudson and Black Bess.

Jake Offenbach's

"Duchesse" is in Chicago. Mr. Frank Lawler, the emi-
nent Shamus O'Brien and John Mellish of dramatic fame,
has returned to New York from New Orleans. Dan IIar•

kins, the comedian, was on the Erie train which went over
the embankment, but fortunately escaped unhurt. Edwin

Booth is in his fourth week at Philadelphia. Owen
Marlowe is devoted to "Play" in the Quaker City.
Maggie Mitchell was in Chicago last week. Kate
Pennoyer and the "Black Crook" in Troy, Caroline
Richings Bernard and Shir Campbell aro in Syracuse.
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Alexander Isaacs Menken has been divorced from Ada
Isaacs Menken. The suit was instituted in 1860. Helen
Western and Blind Torn are in Baltimore, but in rival

establishments. "Under the Gaslight "is in Montreal, in
charge of Fanny Stocqueller. Snorkey is transformed
into a one-armod hero " just come home from the Critnee."

When the train dashes across the stage the Canucks rise

and cheer. Do Pol's ballet beauties are in Cincinnati.
Miss Emma Maddern has made her debut at the Athenamm
in Boston. "Under the Gaslight," under guidance of
stage manager Charles Pope, is in Lafayette, Indiana.
Nast's Caricaturama is in Boston. The E. L. Davenport

Dramatic Club has lately given an entertainment for the
benefit of the poor in Cincinnati. Kate APAzeppa, Ray-
mond is in Pittsburgh with her Black Boss. " The Ha-
vana Gorilla" is out of an engagement. "Arran na

Poguo" is in llouston, Texas. "Under the Gaslight' is
also in Lexington, Kentucky. The "Great Lingard" has
arrived in New York from England, and established

himself at the Theatre Comique.
Colonel Forney has made good to the Governor
a defalcation of ono of his clerks as Secretary to the Se-
nate of $lO,OOO. Acommittee was directed to inquire into
and report upon the condition of the funds of the Secretary
of the Senate, and into the conduct of Colonel Forney as
clerk of the Court of Impeachment In his comments in his
two daily journals of Philadelphia. Senators Cameron and
Buckalew are making great efforts to oust Forney, and if
they succeed in this it is thought that Dewitt C. Clarke,
Executive Clerk of the Senate, will be his successor.
Mr. Macdougall, in reply to a question in the
New Dominion House, said the Government would do all
in their power to prevent Sunday traffic on the Carillon,
Grenville, and other canals.
The Omaha Herald declares that a small fraction
of one corner of Train's magnificent tract of land in Omaha
would bring enough pounds sterling to pay at least two
such items as that for non-payment of which he rejoices
in his residence in a Dublin gaol.
Professor Joseph Perkins has resigned the chair
of obstetrics in the medical department of the University
of Vermont, at Burlington, and is succeeded by Dr. E. S.
Dunster, editor of the New York Medical Journal.
Mr. Colfax, it is stated, will not be a candidate
for a seat in the next Congress. He is supposed to be
living in expectation of being nominated for the Vice-
Presidency—Boston Traveller.
The Adel (Iowa) Gazette prints the following
singular advertisement :—" Wanted, an honest, indus-
trious, good-looking preacher, to settle in the new town
of Tracy. We have professional men and mechanics of
all sorts. We only lack the above to make our list com-
plete.--(Signed) W. A. WILSON, Mayor." The Gazette
backs the advertisement by announcing that the inhabi-
tants (under 5,000) are moral people, and the town is a
station at which the cars stop for refreshment.
Captain Bramble, while asleep in the cabin of his
vessel in Hooper's Straits, was locked in by the crew, six
negroes, who get the vessel under weigh. This awoke the
captain, who, alarmed at finding himself a prisoner in his
cabin, managed to make a hole through the door, where ho
got a glimpse of the man at the wheel and shot him.
Making a great effort he burst the door open, and meeting
two Africans killed them both as well as two others who
rushed to their assistance, the sixth only saved himself by
rushing below and begging his life. Bramble ran the
vessel iuto Holland's island and gave himself and the sur-
viving negro up to the authorities.
On Tuesday last a portrait and 600 guineas wete
presented to Mr. W. Christopher Lerig, editor of the Shef-
field Daily Telegraph, in recognition of his services in
bringing about the Trades' Union Outrage Commission of
Inquiry in that town. Among the subscribers to the tes-
timonial were 42 peers, 38 members of Parliament, and
150 justices of the peace. The inscription attached to the
portrait stated that the testimonial was given to Mr. Leng
" as a public acknowledgment of the ability, courage, and
steadfast patriotism displayed by him in exposing a system
of trade union outrages which had existed iu Sheffield for
many years, injuring both the trade and character of the
town, and of his successf 1 advocacy of the appointment of
a Royal Commission of inquiry."
The Spanish journals announce that it is the
nephew of Marshal Narvaez who succeeds to his title and
large fortune.
Charles N. Emerson, Esq., of Pittsfield, will be
a candidate for the Berkshire (Western Massachusetts)
appointment as delegate to the Chicago Republican Con-
vention.
Mr. Ballou, of North Adams, has made arrange-
ments for an excursion from that place to the Republican
National Convention at Chicago. His train is engaged to
go out and return in ten days, but he is further negotiating
with Western companies for an extension of time to four-
teen days for the trip.
Delegates to the Chicago Presidential Convention
were elected by the Republicans on Wednesday, April 15,
in the third, fourth, and seventh districts of Eastern
Massachusetts. From the third the delegates are E lward
Kiusley and A. W. Beard, an I the alternates S. A. Stack-
pole and Roland Worthington, all of Boston; from the
fourth Estes Howe, of Cambridge, and Thomas Russell,
of Boston, are the delegates, and Jonas Fitch and Jacob
Sleeper their alternates ; from the seventh George F.
Richardson, of Lowell, and Edwin F. Waters, of Newton,
are delegates, and Addison G. Fay, of Concord, and M. T.
Gardner, of Shirley, alternates. The seventh district
Convention adopted a resolution of praise to George S.
Boutwoll and his course in Congress.
In the Republican Convention called in the Third
District, Maine, candidates for Presidential elector, and
for Representative to Congress, are to be presented. Mr.
Blaine, now serving his third term, will probably receive
a renomination.
The municipal election at Newport, Vermont,
took place on Tuesday, April 14, and was very close and
exciting. The citizens' candidate, James Atkinson, re-
ceived 549 votes, beating his opponent, R. J. Taylor, the
regular Republican nominee by 16 votes.
William C. Street, Republican, received a re-
election to the Senatorship of the 12th District, Conuoc-
ticut, instead of Charles Benedict, the Democratic candi-
date, and in the 16th district Seth Logan, Democrat, was
chosen Senator, and not George Langdon, Republican, as
by first reports. Tho Senate thus retains the same pro-
portionate division, 12 Republicans to 9 Democrats.
The Hartford I'ost places the choice for Speaker
of the Connecticut House of Representatives between
Roger Averill, of Danbury, William T. Minor, of Stam-
ford, and Charles Ives, of East Hav,n, either of whore
would make an excellent presiding officer. James IT.
'Fainter, clerk of the House last year, will probably be
made clerk of the Senate, and D Wight Marcy, of Tolland,
his assistant, will be promoted to the clerkship of the
House, le accordance with the usual custom. For as-
sistant clerk, William A. Croffut, of Wetherstiell, Henry
A. Taintor, of Hatford, and MajorJohnA.,Tibbetts, of New
London, are candidates.
Stephen J. Meany, the Fenian prisoner who was
released from prison on condition of leaving the United
Kingdom, has arrived at New York.
Besides the six women physicians in Philadelphia,
whose incomes are given in the Revolution as ranging from
$2,000 to $lO,OOO a year, the one in New York at $20,000
a year, and one in Orange, New Jersey, at $lO,OOO to
$15,000, four young women are qualifying to practise
medicine at Zurich, Switzerland, of whom three are Eng.
lish and one Swiss. A Russian girl last year obtained a
diplorna as doctor, and is me.v affianced to a medical man
at Aargau. This double p.irtuership iu business aud
in
marriage, is highly appropriate, but if the patients are to
be charged fur all consultations, a medical firm so consti-
tuted will bring iu heavy bills.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is about to give up
lecturing, is now delivering three in New York, entitled
"Eloquence," "The Man of the World," and "The Rela-
tion of Intellect and Morals."
The late Henry Shaw, of Lanesboro, once the
native American candidate for governor of Massachusetts,
and the paternal ancestor of Josh Billings, was solicited to
give point/thing in aid of foreign missions. In the Dame