The Sun. — 1868-07-06 (London, England)

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.  (From the Anglo American 2 Imes.)  Mr. ifitler (according to the Washington correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette) has been showing around a private note from Assistant Secretary Cooper to President Johnson, speaking of Henderson as "safe," which is understoo.l to have been stolen for Butler from Johnson's desk. The ccrrespondent —who evidently has a rather curious idea of honour and morals— adds--"1f this furnished any conclusive evidence, me❑ would overlook the way in which it was obtained; as it is, they are beginning to question whether the results secured are sufficient warrant fur the means employed." " We must confess our inability," remarks the New York; Times," to see any justification whatever for such dishonourable conduct ; and we can see uo evUenco of bribery or corruption in Mr. Cooper informing the President- that Senator Henderson was safe.' "  General Joseph E. Johnston is paying a visit to somo friends on the Eastern shore of Maryland  Postmaster-General Randall is said to have bought a fine residence at Elmira, Now York, to which he will retire on leaving the Cabinet.  Superintendent Snyder of the Union Pacific Railroad, writes from the head of the line :—" Young men from the East with good recommendations that came hero must not be afraid of their scalps, must be content with rude fare, be willing to sleep on the prairie, and work hixd." All legal and political disabilities have been removed by Congress from Roderick R. Butler, member elect for Congress from Tennessee.  The committee on elections favour the right of Samuel M'Keo for the contested seat of tho Ninth Congressional District. One of the bills reported to Congress provides for the distribution of the reward for the capture of Jefferson Davis.  The principal nominations made during the week ending June 20 were—James Corey to be collector of In ternal Revenue for the first district of California; Alexander M'Mahon to be United States Attorney of the territory of Montana; J. B. Dannison to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington territory ; and Newton Robinson to be Superintendent of Indian affairs in the Southern superintendency.  The Surratt trial was postponed, nominally, till Monday, June 22, but there was no prospect that it would begin then. The now indictment charges him with complicity in plots to murder President Lincoln or to kidnap and deliver him to the Confederates.  J. G. Abbott heads the Massachusetts delegates to the New York Democratic Convention, who make the Fifth Avenue Hotel their head-quarter& General M'Dowell, commanding the military district comprising Mississippi and Arkansas, has removed Governor Humphreys ant Attorney-General Harker of the former State, and appointed to the vacancies MajorGeneral Adolbert Ames and Captain Jasper Meyers of the United States army.  .The Grant and Colfax wigwam was opened at New York, Monday night, Juno 22, with a display of fireworks and speeches by Horace Greeley, George W. Buugay, and others.  The New York Union League Club has struck Andrew Johnson from the roll of membership.  An Irish emigrant named O'Brien, a baker of the First Ward of New York city, has created a sensation among his fraternity by coming home in a coach after being buried from a hearse. He was declared to be dead after having been for some time ill ; his wake was celebrated, and he was deposited in a vault on the 14th J uue in the Cypress Hill Cemetery. On coming to his senses he had the inexpressible delight of finding himself wrapped in grave clothes, coffined, and buried. Rightly conjecturing that instant and vigorous action was necessary, he kicked off the lid, and finally escaped by the aid of a gravedigger.  The United States Minister was received, June 27, by the King of Greece, at Athens. The case of Messrs. Belding, Keitb, and Co. has 'been brought up in bankruptcy, and Mr. Gilead A. Smith and Mr. Charles W. Scofield were appointed creditors' assignees. It appears that George Washington Belding had been arrested on his arrived at New York, and a sum of £3,150 recovered. Rumour states that he committed suicide, and it bagins to appear that he could not have been in a sound state of mind. The liabilities have not yet been ascertained.  At a meeting of the directors of New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, A. L. Dennis has been unanimously re-elected president, and lion. Hamilton Fish, vice-president.  Jein Ward, the renowned Black Diamond and ex-champion of Euglaud, was expected in New York by the City of Boston, where the sporting fraternity are prepared to give him a hearty welcome.  Mr. Pickett, of Paterson, New Jersey, after a wrestling match at Hamilton, Ohio, was killed on the 12th Juno in a saloon affray.  Iler Majesty Queen Victoria will shortly visit the castle of Rei‘iliardsbrunE, near Gotha. The Princess  Royal of Prussia is expected in a few days at that castle where she will sojourn for a few weeks with her mother. A new military district has been formed, consisting of the country between the Black Hills and the eastern boundary of Utah, styled the Rocky Mountain district, and the command is placed in the hands of Major-General Gibbons.  Timothy, brother of the celebrated pugilist, John. C. Heenan, was shot on the 11th Juno in a drinking saloon, corner of Fifth and Spruce-streets, Philadelphia, by Jerry Eaton. Heenan belonged to the Revenue Department, and was active in his duties, and the murder appears to have boon. premeditated, as Eaton, who was accompanied by others, after the altercation left the house and took up a position on the other side of the street, and [Leman was shot when in the door-way, ono of the balls taking effect in his stomach. His brother John was with him when ho died in the Pennsylvania Hospital on the loth, and he was buried on the 17th June in the Cathedral Cametary, Philadelphia. On the 16th of June Pius IX. commenced the twenty-third year of his Pontifical reign. Since St. Peter, to whom history assigns twenty-five years, there have been but three Popes out of 253 who have lived to eommeace or to finish their twenty-third year of governnant. They are—Adrian 1,, the Pope of Charlemagne; Pius VI„ the Pope of the Directory; and Pius