AMEEICAN NOTES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 78, 7 August 1869, Page 6

AMEEICAN NOTES.

Juarez, the Mexican President, has a family of six daughters and one son. The " New York Sun " says G-ene-ral M'Lellan is soon to appear as a public lecturer. The " Boston Transcript " says :—: — " Sheep raisers living near the seashore have discovered that fish make as good food as hay. Genearl Grant has taken|the extraordinary course of endeavouring to avert future Indian wars by nominating as Indian agent eighteen Quakers. A graduate of the Imperial College at Pekin, recently received his diploma, at the age of forty-seven, after having attended competitive examinations for twenty-six years. Mr. John L. Motley, the American ambassador, graduated at Harvard in 1861, and is the sixth Massachussets man who will have represented the United States in London. Mons. A. Chevalier, aeronaut, who is to cross the Atlantic in a balloon this summer, has nearly completed his arrangements for the preliminary exhibition of this novel and magnificent balloon at Landman's Park. The American correspondent of the " Times " says : — "A new paper, called the "Imperialist,' advocating a monarchical form of government for the United States, has been started in New York city. It declares that the Republican form of Government is a failure here, and that this opiuion has long been cherished by thousands of intelligent Americans. Wh 0 publishes it is unknown ; but there are rumours that the gentleman in New York who already has so many railway and other affairs in hand has embarked in the publicationbusiness,and, by advocating a monarchy, hopes to secure attention for his newspaper venture." The " Anglo-American Times " has the following: — "Mr. Simmer's speech is producing its natural results. Bills for damages can be made oat by other nations as well as by the great Eepublic, and the Dominion is about to try her hand. The Spaniards no doubt can bounce a little too, and if they suppress the insurrection in Cuba, a Spanish Sunnier may draw out in the Cortes a bill against the United States. The Hon. Gait, in order to give the Canadian Parliament a means of expressing an opinion on the proceedings in the United States Senate, and the proposal to surrender the British American possessions as the basis of negotiations for the settlement of the Alabama claims, moved for a return of the expenses incurred in preparing for a defence of the frontier during the threatened Fenian raid. He de-sii-ed that the papers should be laid on the table relating to the cost in 1863-G-l, and subsequently, as constituting a claim for indemnity against the United States."

Mr. William Wheeler has sent in a communication to the Board of Aldermen of New York, relative to the lighting and extinguishing the street lamps by electricity, by wires connecting them with each other, and operated on by batteries placedatdifferentpomts. The method is the same as that used in lighting the dome of the capitol and the halls of Congress at Washington, Mr. Stewart's new store, the picture gallery of his new house on Fifth Avenue, and, we believe, Booth's Theatre. Mr. Wheeler claims that ; the whole expense of laying the wires, erecting the batteries, and lighting the city, will be saved and paid for in a few years, at the present cost of simply lighting the lamps. He estimates that, in 20 years, the saving to the city will be 1,000,000 dols. By the proposed arrangement, if any lamp should be extinguished accidentally, it will immediately relight itself. In addition to the proposed electrical lighting, the wires can be used for telegraphic purposes, and a complete system of underground telegraphic communication with every part of the city can be arranged. The subject was referred to a special committee. — " New York Tribune."

" So far as Grant's diplomatic appointments are indicative of his foreign policy, he is assuredly in favour of maintaining the peace with all foreign Powers. For Secretary of State he selected one of the most conservative, temperate, and pacific statesmen in the whole country ; and his appointment of Mr. Fish certainly does not show his design to force war upon all the European Powers, or any of them. If he had wanted to fight everybody, he would probably have selected General Banks for the State Department. For Minister to England, the President selected Mr. Motley, a man whom the English regard as pre-emi-nently friendly to their country, and all whose antecedents are of an unaggressive and unwarlike character. Had Grant intended to pick a quarrel with England, he would probably have chosen Chandler as our representative at the Court of St. James. The representative sent to France is not of a belligerent nature, and Mr. Washbume is not at all likely to get into a row with the Emperor. There are a great many objections urged to Mr. Sanford as Minister to Spain, but no one has represented him as a quarrelsome or enraged person, likely to plunge his country into difficulties. In fact, from the Foreign Secretary down through the list of appointments, the indications are that Grant's disposition is in favour of preserving a good understanding with all the Powers of the world." — " New York Times."