The Sun. — 1868-09-07 (London, England)

BUTLER. The Richmond Examiner furnishes some enjoyable matter regarding " the Beast," as it calls him, who, " though the most callous and impenitent of thieves, has been made to roar like a pricked bull-calf." " From all sections of the country, from Maine to Alaska— from the North, the South, the East, and the West --worthless old spoons of wood, bone, horn, pewter, tin, iron, and brass, pour in upon him at all hours. The plague of spoons is becoming more unendurable to BUTLER than a plague of frogs. Baskets of spoons are brought to him from the Postoffice, and the express carts are constantly delivering them at his door. And the donor of each spoon accompanies his present with remarks by no meaus flattering to BUTLER'S integrity. And as the spoons are utterly worthless, they are said to drive " the Beast" almost mad with rage. Let the people of this country keep up this wholesome custom of sending BUTLER spoons. Let him be reminded every hour and day of his life that he is everywhere remembered as a robber of plate chests. Let every family make annually the votive offering of a broken and battered old spoon to B. F.' " The following gentleman then comes in for his share :—"Ex-Governor BROWN, of Georgia, the projector and superintendent of the Andersonville prison pens and overseer of Wirz, has been pardoned by the Radical Congress, and is now president of a GRANT club. And ail the loyal' whelps whine Amen !' " Grant is made the subject of an historical parallel, and to get one of sufficient atrocity the history of England is ransacked to the accession of Richard 1., when a furious persecution of the Jews took place, ending in the s •If-destruction of 500 of the Israelites. This furnishes a parallel to GRANT'S edict, but the writer hopes an antithesis also, as the Jews, instead of committing suicide, are going to vote en masse against the tyrant. 'rho State news, as any one would expect in Kentucky, begins with a free fight. A man is found dead at the style block of his mother's residence, how, is evident by a shot hole through his neck, and the cause of the s!iot hole is explained by an attack made the previous night on the house of Mr. MASON Lucas, a mile distant. The victim and two brothers of Mrs. Lucis intended to chastise Mr. LUCAS for improper treatment of his wife. When they arrived at the house they began firing through the windows, and Mr. LUCAS, utterly ignorant who were his assailants, threw himself into the fight. Bullets were flying about in the dark, and one of them went through JAMES POUNDEXTER'S neck. In large letters an article is headed " Ku-Max in Paris." Here's ago ! we thought. We have the Fenians in London, and no small scare, but what has the French metropolis done to bring the Ku-Klux there? A glance at the article reassures us, the Kentucky and not the French Paris being meant; and we are further assured by the declaration, that no such organization exists even there. Inked, the Observer says that it does not exist in the State, being a mere creation of the Republican imagination to get arms for the Southern Radicals, and to alarm the negroes into using them. We draw the attention of subscribers in arrears.to the following use to which the KuKlux may be put. The Hartsville Vidette strikes terror into delinquents after this fashion : KU-