The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-21 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Almost the only news by Cable refers to casual-
ties. Two ferry boats came into collision last Sa-
turday in New York harbour, whereby two persons
were killed and about 15 others wounded. The
packet ship Isaac Webb, from Liverpool to New
York, was ashore leaking, her sails gone, and the
captain dead. The Ohio Lunatic Asylum at Cleve-
land was burnt on Wednesday, with six of its in-
mates. By mail we learn that a storm, on the Ist
inst., had been severely felt on the Lakes, several
vessels being destroyed, and much life lost. The
propeller, Congress, from Bdffalo to Chicago, was
lost in Lake Michigan, on Tuesday, Nov. 3 ; the
vessel and cargo were valued at $30,000. A freight
locomotive on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, 18
miles below Cincinnati, exploded, Thursday night,
Nov. 5, killing the conluctor and fireman and
three boys who were standing near.
The motion to dismiss the suits of Kimberley
Brothers against General Butler, at Baltimore, has
been refused by the judge of the Superior Court of
that city, on the ground that General Butler's pri-
vilege as a member of Congress did not protect him,
except from arrest of person, or service for person.
A. fine crop of actions is likely to arise from this
decision, and on the ruling that those injured by
acts done in his military capacity are not barred
the right of appeal. Some one predicts that he at
the head of the Radicals will attempt the impeach-
ment of Grant within twelve months of the date of
his inauguration, but neither Grant nor the Repre-
sentatives are the same as the enemy against whom
he so signally failed, Andrew Johnson.

It cannot surprise, in the face of the alleged
frauds in New York and Philadelphia, in the for-
mer of which, it is asserted, American opinion was
swamped by the vote of ignorant emigrants, that
an attempt shouldbe made to revive Know-Nothing.
ism. Nor will it surprise that the great spread
of Roman Catholicism is being met by the organi-
zation of secret American Protestant lodges. They
have been established in Boston, where they sus-
tain an organ called the American Protestant,
Lowell, and other towns in Massachusetts. It is
said that in 16 other States lodges have been esta-
blished, so that they ramify, and are nothing more
or less, we presume, than Orange Lodges.
Virginia went through the form of an election
on the 3d November, the Democrats claiming that
she cast her electoral vote for Seymour and Blair.
It is said that she will demand its recognition in the
Electoral College, and if refused she will take that
opportunity of testing the legal position of the
State iu the Federal Union. Florida was the only
State in which the Legislature chose the electors.
All three are Republican, and one of them the only
negro member of the Electoral College. The vote
was 40 for the Republican against nine for the De-
mocratic ticket.

The United States appear to be carrying on two
little wars—the one against the Ku-Klux, and the
other against the Red Indians. Last Thursday it
was announced from New York that a Ku-Klux
band had been routed at Centrepoint, Arkansas,
by the militia, nine being killed, many wounded,
and 20 captured. General Sheridan reports some
successful skirmishes with the Usages, that 13 of
their chiefs had arrived at Fort Hayes to consult
with him as to the terms on which they could take
the field against the Cheyennes. The latest courier
reports the United States troops to be pressing
vigorously on the Indians, who were reported to be
suffering for want of supplies, and to be living on
mule meat. The troops were so actively engaged
in driving the hostile tribes that the savages have
no opportunity to collect food. The soldiers have
fifteen days' supplies, and the Indians, it is as-
serted, will be reduced to the alternative of a battle
or else death by starvation.
Affairs in Cuba are not very promising. The
cable informs us that the Havannah correspondent
of the New York Herald states that the insurgents
are in large force in the vicinity of Puerto Principe
and Santiago. They were besieging Mazanilla, and
according to some accounts had captured the place.
We fear that American citizens may be induced to
lend their aid. The United States Consul in
Havannah had an interview with the Captain-Ge-
neral, wherein it appears he put his. caveat against
harsh treatment to Arose icons, who might get
involve I in the insurrection. Lersundi's reply not
being deemed satisfactory the Consul proposed to
telegraph to Washington for a man-of-war, to
which Lersundi very naturally objected. On the
Consul insi,ting the Captain-General refused to
allow the despatch to be forwarded. A compro-
mise regarding emancipation is suggested; the

planters asking for a delay of six years, and the
exclusion of the negro from the right of voting,
If the Spiiit of the Times is indignant with Eng-
land and Mr. Laird for the Alabama affair, it cer-
tainly makes no distinction in favour of the United
States when its own c)untry takes a similar course.
The contract for the sale of the monitors, Oneota
and Catawba, to the Peruvian Government by the
firm of A. Swift and Co., of Cincinnati, in behalf
of a " ring" of American speculators in ironclads, is
severely censured, as being a shameful infringement
of the laws of neutrality. The contractors agreed
to supply and deliver on board the monitors four
15-inch guns, with 600 rounds of amtuunicion ;
fifty breech-loading muskets, uniforms for 180 men,
and the ordnance stores required for such vessels,
provisions, naval stores, and 250 tons of coal for
each. The monitors were to ba delivered to Peru-
vian officials appointed to receive them "on the
coast of the Gulf of Mexica, in Mexico, or on the
high seas," as the Minister of Mexico to the
United States might direct. This is not a bad
commentary on the Alabama affair, which, by the
way, is alluded to immediately after; the Spirit's
advice being that a home commission should be ap-
pointed by the Union to adjudicate on the claims,
fairly reimbursing each loser by orders on the Trea-
sury, retaining the whole account to prosecute
against England. We would all like to be made
judge and jury on our own affairs; but it would be
easier to give orders on the United States Treasury
than to recover the amount from the Treasury of
Great Britain ; and, on the whole, we prefer the
settlement made by that much-abused Minister,
Reverdy Johnson.
General Reynolds has been removed from com-
mand in Texas, and General Canby appointed his
successor. General Wallace succeeds General
Canby in command at Washington. Canby suc-
ceeded General Sickles in command of the Caro-
linas until they were reconstructed. He was to
have started for Texas last week, and, in addition
to his military command, will act as Assistant-
Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas.
lie is greatly disgusted at the transfer from Wash-
ington, and has been condoled with by his friends.
Reynolds assumes command of his regiment, the
26th Infantry, at Austin, and when notified of the
relief exclaimed, " Thank the Lord." General
Steadman resigned his position as Superintendent
of the New Orleans police on Saturday, and Geo.
L. Cain was appointed temporary Superintendent.
The Water-street revival has now wholly come
to an end. The results have been summed up by
the researches of the New York City Mission, and
they are anything but satisfactory. It. appears
that it was got up and carried on by a body called
the Howard Mission, which appears to have raised
funds by public subscription during the furore to
work the conversion of the Water-street sinners.
But thay, from the " wickedes:" man, John Allen,
to the " wickeder than the wickedest," and from
him to the " wickedest of all," have relapsed into
their wallowiugs, and the public are eagerly asking
for the numbers among whom the regeneration was
said to be " sweetly and quietly making its svaf.
Far be it from us to insinuate anything against the
Howard Mission ; but it does look uncotnmonli
strange, and it is possible that there may be something
still worse than Water-street itself. Considering the
excitement New York derived, there may be io:
gratitude in inquiring about the expenditure 01
subscriptions and looking up the benevolent Howard
Mission, with awkward questions about its directors,
trustees, managers, its business, and its office.
California was expected to go Republican, while
San Francisco was likely to be carried by the Demo'
crats,andso it hasproved. Great excitement prevailed
prior to the election, and Gen. Halleck, at the re'
quest of Governor Haight, had ordered troops °f
the different military stations under arms from nine
a.m. until midnight, on November 3, to assist ju
quelling any riotous proceedings. The sailing of
the steamship Japan for Hong Kong had been post'
poned until the arrival of the Constitution frora
Panama.

The telegraph operator who handed to Bader
the despatch he proeurel and used so unscrupw
lously, addresse I by Mr. Samuel Ward to Mr'
Edward Atkinson, has resigned, finding discovery
inevitable. Mr. Okey Hall had refused to pro-
secute in a former case, th)ugh the District Attor-
ney, on the ground that the man had only done
what th 3 Butler Committee of investigation did. last
Spring in a larger way, an I that it would be hp'
proper to punish him for acts perpetrated with 1
punky by the Congressional Committee. The Presi-
dent of the company, was willing to prosecute, WS°O
this injurious precedent stood in the way.
Butler's antecedents became at least valuable to Ilia
own accomplice ; indeed, men like Edward Atkin'
son might well shrink from punishing this
when he, for whom he stole the message, and 113‘h
used it publicly, was about to be returned to C°ll-
- by a moral Massachusetts District.
Mr. Peabody is in Brighton, where it is said tl
Mr. G. W. Childs is to be his guest, and that lair'
Walter, of the Times, and Mr. Dickens will avail they:"
selves of the presence of the eminent Philadelphia°
in England, to extend to him .the same hospitable
reception they met at his hands while in America'
Mr. Childs has lately been staying at the Langha°
Hotel.

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The great litigation which has been penling
since 1858 between the Receiver of the Accessory CSic°:
ragua) Transit Company and Cornelius Vanderbilt 113'
been brought to a close by the report of the referee, tb°
Hon. John T. Hoffman, appointed in the case by Juel,e
Ingraham about three years ago. The pending litigation
is to compel Vanderbilt to account for about $3,000,00'
The finding of the referee holds Vanderbilt liable gala
for the value of the steamships—for six of which he "a
previously accounted—and a very small portion oft
subsidy, and none of the goodwill money received 10:
the Pacific Mail Company. The amount due the c0mP3134
from Vanderbilt, instead of $3,J00,000, is fixed at °au
$185,000, with an offset of $25,000 for certain papal°
made by Vanderbilt.

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Births.
BOOTHI3Y—On the 18th inst., the wife of Captain l'-
Bootliby, York, of a daughter. tl3°
C2ESAR—On the 20th inst., at Champion-hill, Surrei,
wifo of J. Ca3sar, Esq., of a son. .0 of
isos—On the 20th inst., at Bromley, Kent, the WI
G. Grant Wilson, of a son.
Marriages. 01'
MARTIN—ROBERTS—On the 19th inst., at St. Mary.'toth
burn, Albert, fourth sou of Wm. Martin, Esq., of u Forgo
Essex, to Saerh Harriet, youngest daughter of Ge
Roberts, Esq., of 18, Kilburn Priory. W.
TURNER—JAGGAILS —On the 19th inst., at Elmore, ScrootP
set, Henry William Turner, of Enmore, to Ellen,:per
daughter of Henry Edwin Jaggars, late of Haver'
hill, Hampstead.

Deaths. .
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EDMISTON—On the 19th inst., at Brompton, J. ‘-'••" j
ton, Esq., formerly of Brixton, aged 77. :,tet
MOON —On tho 20th in at Southwood Lawn, iligitili'
Henry Moon, Esq., of 3, Great Winchester-street-1)
ings, aged 43. ioer,
PURSER—On the 18th inst., at Bow, Major WW• r`
aged 61.
REEVE -On the 19th inst., Lieut.-'colonel Williale liel3ri
ltueve, late Coldstream Guards, aged 41. '
goiet'
SOMERVILLE —On the 17th inst., Hugh, 18th Baron '-
villa, aged 29. Ur"
SuAw—On the 19th inst., at 17, Sussex-gardens,
park, Sir John Shaw, Bart., aged 81.
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