The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterJay at Derby—Mr. W. E. Hutchinson in the chair. The report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the receipts during the half year showed a considerable increase in all descriptions of traffic; the total was rather more than £60,000. That amount was much greater than they had been led to expect from what took place in the first three months of the year, for, in consequence of the de pression in trade and other causes, the amount taken at the end of March was £l,OOO less than in the cor responding period of 1866. The gross amount of the traffic receipts in the past half-year amounted to £1,365,000, to which they had added £75,000 taken from their reserves. In the corresponding half of 1866 they had taken £26,000 from the reserve to assist revenue inconsequence of the large amount of unproductive capital. The same course bad been pursued, and for the same reason, as to the last half year. Of the £75,000 to which he had referred, £60,000 had been taken from the amount received under Mr. Phipson's award. That fund was exhausted now, but they had still a sum of £82,000 in reserve on account of the Scotch traffic fund, the same to be distributed as occasion might require in future half years. (Hear.) He regretted that the expenditure in the last half-year had teen unusually heavy. That arose partly out of the great increase which had taken place in salaries and wages. There had also been a considerable advance in the price of materials, so that the increase in the expenditure had been unavoidable. He hoped that a period of " rest " was in store at no distant day for the Midland Com pany. They would not be asked to aid in the pro motion of any new lines next Session, but they would be compelled to apply to Parliament for per mission to raise new capital to provide for the excess of expenditure on the estimates and the construction of the Bedford and London extension line. In con nection with that undertaking it had been thought advisable to purchase land sufficient for laying down four lines of way, which would have to be done at once on the first eight or nine miles out of London; and had they delayed purchasing the remainder of the land until the railway was opened they would have to pay double price for it. In reference to the cost of constructing the Bedford and London Ex tension, it would far outstrip the estimates made four or five years ago by the most competent per sons. Situate, then, as they were in that particular, they thought it would be a wise course to apply to Parliament for power to raise additional capital. It was impossible at present to say what the amount would be. The interest paid on debenture stock and "calls in advance" last half-year was £31,000 more than in the corresponding half of 1866. For the money raised in the course of the past half-year the average rate of interest paid was £4 9s. 6d. per cent. They had now reverted to the old rate on their de bentures of 4 per cent. Their expenditure on new lines and works in the last half-year amounted to nearly a million and a half, of which £120,000 had been on the old lines to enable them to carry on the increased traffic. The amount of unproductive capital expended up to June 30 was £5,000,000, but it was thought better to expedite works as rapidly as possible in order that the earnings might be speedily increased. As to the Bedford and London line, on which £3,000,000 bad been expended, it would be opened for mineral and merchandise traffic next month. Several other of the new branches would be opened as speedily as pos sible ; that connecting the Great Northern and Midland line at Newark at the end of the year. The loss of the bill for amalgamation with the Glasgow and South Western line was a subject of much re gret to the board ; but under all the circumstances it was not intended to renew the application for it next session. (Applause.) All that had passed, how ever, on the subject had only served to confirm the opinion held by the direction of both companies, that there was a measure the utility and advantage of which would be very great to both companies. He regretted that the dividend they had to offer was not greater, but when the large amount of dormant capi tal became productive the dividends would be in creased in proportion, and on this occasion they had not felt justified in taking a larger amount from the reserve. It was his individual opinion that the pre sent dividend was the lowest the Midland share holders would receive. Mr. PRICE, M.P., seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Dr. O'BRIEN complained of the excessive law charges—more than £lB,OOO in the half year. He moved that a solicitor be appointed at a salary ; he to provide clerks. and pay other expenses. This was the plan adopted by the London and North Western and other companies, and a great saving was the result. He denounced the scheme for amalgamation with the' Glasgow and South Western line. The gross amount of traffic from it that would come south was a little over £90,000 a year. Let them abandon the construction of the Settle and Carlisle line, which the officials of the company were urging the board to proceed with. Mr. PEARSON seconded the amendment that a paid solicitor be appointed ; in two half years, he said, they had had to pay more than £40,000 for law charges. Mr. SHEPHERD defended himself from some impu tations which had been cast upon him in reference to the recent Wharncliffe meeting. Mr. ALLeor.T, the company's manager, made a statement exculpatory of Mr. Shepherd from all the imputations reflecting upon him. Mr. VALLEY said the fatal mistake of this com pany was the number of new and unproductive lines being made. He urge 'I retrenchment in the number of trains run on the branch lines, and in some other departments. Mr. GAINSFORD was in favour of the appointment of a salaried solicitor. The CHAIRMAN replied that Mr. Carter, their present solicitor, was second to none in professional eminence; more than a year ago that gentleman conveyed a wish to retire, and it was at his earnest entreaty that Mr. Carter withdrew a letter of re signation which he had written to the Board. Under those circumstances, it must be quite evident that if they wished to appoint a solicit& on the terms suggested, Mr. Carter was not the mat to stand in the way. (Hear, hear.) The Board would not accept the amendment, but would carefully consider all the circumstances, and state their views at the next half-yearly meeting. He suggested that the amendment be withdrawn. Dr. O'BRIEN assented, and the motion for the adoption of the report was carried unanimously. The various dividends were declared as recom mended, and resolutions passed for the conversion of certain shares into stock. Other special business was transacted, and the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of the nks to the chairman. RIIYMNEY. The ball-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at Wood's Hotel, Furnival's inn ; Mr. J. Boyle in the chair. The report, an abstract of which bin app ea red i n The Sun, was taken as read. The CIIAIR3IAN, in moving its athiption, said it was so full that it did not require many remarks from him. He thought this an important period in the history of the company. They had now obtained all the powers necessary to complete the undertak ing as a railway system. When they completed the tunnel line from the junction at Caerphilly into Cardiff they would have a line in competition with the Taff Vale line into Cardiff, over which they now ran trains and paid toll. When their extension into Cardiff was completed they could call upon the Great Western Railway Company to double their line into the Aberdare district. There was another reason for completing the line into Cardiff as soon as possible—they had made an arrangement with the London and North Western for making a short line jointly with that company to convey the pro duce of some of the principal works in Monmouth shire. The company could not have to find all the capital for the extension lines, but only for portions of them. When the tunnel line between Caerphilly and Cardiff was completed, they would no longer have to pay a heavy toll for running over the Taff Vale Company's six miles of line to go into Cardiff ; and therefore those tolls, about £lO,OOO a year, would be applicable to pay interest on the cost of the tunnel line, so that the capital of their new line would be a perfectly safe investment, and would be found well worth the amount of toll now paid by the company for that accommodation. They proposed to cancel certain 5 per cent. shares, and to reissue them as 6 per cent. preference stock to provide the requisite capital to complete the line to Cardiff, and to make the northern junction line to the London and North-Western railway, by which a large goods traffic would be brought over their line north of Rhymney, instead of, as at present, from Hengoed. The London and North-Western Company were pressing them to make the northern junction line, and they were anxious to do so. The directors had made an arrangement with Lori Bute, by which £2,500 would be saved to the company, and also some rates that would increase with the increase of traffic to the docks. The arrangement would be mutually beneficial, and he trusted they would approve the arrangement. Mr. AUSTIN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. E. J. HERAPATII objected to the charge of £721 to capital for interest on unproductive works. He would like to know if the company had power to charge interest on unproductive works to capital. As there was only a balance of £383, it was clear that if they had not charged the £721 to capital they could not pay, as proposed, a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum for the past half year. Mr. E. WRIGHT said he intended to object to the same item ; in fact, he objected to it on the ground that, if the Brighton and other companies had charged interest on unproductive capital against revenue as the Midland and London and North- Western Companies had done, many serious errors of expending shareholders' money on worthless lines would have been prevented. _ _ _ Mr. ROY, the solicitor, had no doubt they had ample power to allow interest on calls paid in ad vance, and to sanction the course adopted by the airectors. Mr. AUSTIN, a director, said the matter was to a certain extent open to the approval or disapproval of the shareholders. The duty of the directors was to do what they could to protect the five classes of shareholders in the company. Under the circum stances they had adopted a course which they be lieved would be just to the ordinary shareholders and tend to uphold the credit of the company. The extensions were not like ordinary extensions ; they would be valuable feeders to the main line. The extension line to Cardiff had been forced upon them by Mr. Savin, and no doubt the tolls alone would make it a paying concern. After other observations, the CHAIRMAN explained that the Caerphilly line was no speculation, and that the other lines would not only be productive, but complete the company's system of lines. The direc tors proposed to send a circular to the shareholders, with a map and explanation of the company's lines and district, which he trusted would be satisfactory and induce them to take up the new capital. Mr. E. J. Herapath and Mr. E. Wright appeared satisfied with the explanations, and the report was unanimously adopted ; the dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum was declared for the past half year on the ordinary stock of the company. Mr. Stephenson - and Mr. G. W. Horne were elected auditors, at 25 guineas per annum each. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. Messrs. Bellot des Minieres Brothers and Co., of Gresham House, London, the well-known Public Works contractors, have succeeded in raising , £1,600,000 towards the construction of the Ame rican Central Railway. This, besides other finan- cial arrangements in regard to the share and bond capital of the line, secures, beyond doubt, the com pletion of the road through the States of Indiana, Illinois, and lowa. In the face of difficulties almost insurmountable this great contracting house may be congratulated on the success attending their efforts. The greatest energy and perseverance, and a high coin- rnercial name would of themselves have been insuffi. cicnt under the present ucparalleled distrust. The Times says in a leader yesterday on the judgment of the Lords in the Overend-Gurney case—" There is no poverty like the poverty of the rich man who has richei but cannot use them, and this poverty has been made general by the blows which they and such as they have given to credit." But the Messrs. Bellot des Minieres were effectually aided by the un equalled advantages of the railway , in whose in terest they were engaged. They were also materially assisted by the intelligence of those on the other side with whom they had to deal. It is not every man who could understand the financial situation of London at this moment. Never within the memory of living financiers has there lain idle so vast an accumulation of capital paralysed by the annihilation of credit. The llon. John S. Thomp son, president of the line, has known how to esti mate these difficulties, though few could realise or make allowances for a state of things they had never experienced. To carry through these nego ciations successfully at such a period is proof of an extraordinary degree of power, energy, and credit —and when the circumstances are better under stood in America these gentlemen will obtain a high meed of praise. The Old Colony railroad earned $1,360,863 last year, and expended $883,089, leaving a balance of income of $309,286. The gross income last year exceeded that of the year previous by $65,219, and the gross expenses were $163,480 larger. The rtal cost of the road, together with improvements, in cluding the new depot at Boston, which cost $158,000 will amount to about $7,964,055 ; of this amount $1,818,320, is now represented by capital stock, leaving a balance of $3,115,735 as Ground was broken, on Monday, July 22, on the Lebanon Springs Railroad, and by June of next year it will be completed. The Troy and Benning ton Road from Hoosiac Junction to the Vermont line, on which no trains have been run for several months, has been permanently abandoned. A horse railroad from Northampton to Hadley is talked of. Offers have been made to build and equip the road for $40,000, an 1 to guarantee one half the stock. Since November six miles of the Troy and Green field Railroad has been built, and the track is being laid down at the rate of one-third of a mile a day. To accomplizli thii six miles 170,000 cubic yards of earth and 5,000 yards of rock had to be removed, and 4,500 cubic yards of masonry constructed, and 643 feet of bridging and 2,000 feet of trestle work built. There are four bridges between Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, 472, 470, 170, and 110 feet long respectively. AUciUST COUPONS PAYABLE. The Oriental Bank of Ncw York City will pay a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent., free of tax. The Bank of the Manhattan Company will pay on August 10th, a semi-annual dividend of five per cent., free of tax ; the Leather Manufacturers' National Bank, six per cent. ; the St. Nicholas National Bank, Five per Cent. ; the National Bank of the Republic, five per cent. ; and an extra divi dend of five per cent., the Long Island Bank, six per cent. ; the Brooklyn Bank, five per cent., and the Morris Canal and Banking Company, Jersey City, five per cent. on the preferred stock. The Jersey City Insurance Company will pay on demand, free of tax, 5 per cent., being their twentieth semi-annual dividend. The Washington Insurance Company will pay the same, being their thirty-second dividend. The Gebhard Fire Insurance Company will also pay on demand a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent. The New York Central Railroad Company will pay, on August 20th next, a semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent., free of Government tax, dividend in New York; will be paid at the office of Duncan, Sherman, and Company, and in Albany, at the Albany City National Bank. The Clinton Oil Company give notice that the sixth dividend of one per cent. will be paid on and after August Ist, at the office, 115, Liberty street, New York. M. K. Jesup and Co. will pay the coupons of the rHE SUN, LON;:ON, WEDNESDAX EVE:NING, AUGUST 21, 1867. Wilmington and Manchester Railroad Company of N. C. Third Preferred First Mortgage Bonds, less Government tax; also the coupons of the First Mortgage Bonds of the Toledo, Logansport, and Burlington Railroad Company, guaranteed by the Columbus and Indianopolis Central Railroad Com pany. _ The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company will pay the coupon of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad ; Dabney, Morgan, and Co., the coupons, in gold, of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern Division ; the Importers' and Traders' National Bank, N. Y., the coupons of the Mort gage Bonds of the Seaboard and Roanoke Rail road Company ; the American National Bank, the coupons of the Marietta and Cincinnati road ; the National Bank of Commerce, the coupons of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company ; 13. Messenger and Co., the coupons of the North Shore Railroad ; A. L. Pritchard, trea surer of the Chicago and North-Western Railroad Company, the coupons of the Preferred Sinking Fund Bonds, of the Consolidated Sinking Fund Bonds, of the General First Mortage Bonds, of the Appleton Extension Bonds, of the Green Bay Bonds, and of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company's First Mortgage Bonds ; the coupons of the Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company, by the treasurer ; and the coupons of the Crawford Coal Company by the treasurer pro tern.-IVall-street Journal. 711 E GUNPOWDER PLOY AT MON7E VIDEO. The following narrative of a plot which has created a profound sensation in the River Plate is drawn up from official sources and the personal knowledge of the writer : On the 30th June a German, named Wilhelm Haustoffer, called upon M. lionor6, the manager o the Foreign Club in Monte Video, and informed him that he had been asked by a countryman named Paul Neumayer to assist him in driving a mine in con nexion with an engineering experiment, and offered $2OO (about £4O) for one night's work, adding that he would be glad to earn the money, but was afraid, from the mystery and caution of Neumayer in pledging him to secrecy, and yet not fully commu nicating the object of the work, that there was something wrong about the matter. The work was to be executed in a house in course of demolition for rebuilding, situated at the back of the Government House, commonly called the Fort. By M. Honore's advice this communication was repeated to the political chief (Col. Bustanaente), who imme diately took measures to ascertain what was going on. In consequence of the information he received the chief ordered a sufficient force to he placed in the neighbourhood of the Fort, and, having Neu mayer pointed out to him in the theatre, he remained there till the latter left, which he did at the time he was to meet Haustoffer. Neumayer went direct to the place of appointment, followed by Colonel Bustamente, disguised with an old poncho and a straw hat. On the chief giving a signal precon certed with the police, Ncumayer made an at tempt at fight, but was immediately surrounded, captured, and taken to the Cabildo. The police then entered the house indicated by Haustoffer, where in a small cellar, newly constructed, they found two barrels of gunpowder, three sacks, and a Rumford's electric multiplier, in working order, and capable, according to Mr. Oldham, of tbe Telegraph office, of igniting gunpowder at a distance of six miles. These articles were taken to the head police office, and guards were placed in the house for the night. Neumayer refused to give any information, alleging that he had bought the house, and had the right to use it for any experiments lie liked. Next morning the Government ordered au in spection of the house and cellar by the Director- General of Public Works, assisted by au eminent builder. These gentlemen reported that there existed sufficient proof of an intention to drive a mine in one .direction, and that a hole had been broken through the wall of the cellar in another direction, probably for the same purpose. The " mine" had by this time become the topic of every conversation, and some English naval officers, who had heard an exaggerated version of the story, had their curiosity excited, and Mr. Havers, who for the last two years has been Director of the Scien tific Inspection of Public Works, offered to ascer tain if there were any foundation for the alarm ing rumours in circulation. From a report sub quently drawn up by this gentleman, it appears that he examined the cellar, and, being made acquainted with the circumstances already narrated, came to the conclusion that there must be other operators, and that such persons must still be con cealed in the drains. Returning through the Fort, Mr. llavers communicated his opinion to the Minis e 101. Bipas a s uttr rsoGkitvcaeei tdnsnilProvisional himeFenatl investigation. rt t eGh o seor r ven e qo p e r : os s s t rt l ae : idrGsGy:roaleansrars.. Guards i o slsi n laaow s for ee:zrre were Th t ta c oinis r gl :h o e rte f teifs l irue V of: nm a tt r aow , kca w teohs e a m ll o p u a th rt o s f of th t e h m e an re eda., a The and he t h ed sewer,carefully the streetsexa ai cellar n ° objects found proved that the operators placedet cleared, were not ordinary labourers, and the wall was found to lead into the apparent drain of the house. Conceiving that the conspirators were either in the drain or the • main sewer, Mr. Havers ordered a countermine to be sunk at the calculated junction of the two, and, going down himself, ascertained that no one was in that section of the main sewer, so far as it could be seen with a dark lantern. He then entered the house drain, which could only be done • creeping on accaunt of its small dimensions ; and here he found a man, who retreated through the hole in the wall into the cellar, followed by Mr. Havers. The cellar being guarded the man was at once captured, h • having been already sixteen hours in the drains. Further inves tigations. followed, after which the openings were closed up,- guards set, and the search suspended. The prisoner, who was its his shirt sleeves, and evidently much exhausted, gave the name of Louis Neumayer, but refused to make any statement until he learned that Paul Neumayer (no relation) was in custody, when he commenced a confession. Paul Neumayer also lost all his effrontery on learning that his co-labourer was in custody, and denounced as his principal employer Captain Don Eduardo Bertran, an officer who accompanied General Flores during the revo lution, indicating as accomplices several friends of Bertran, and declaring, by way of extenuation, that they only intended to destroy General Flores him self. An immediate search was made for Bertran, but he had already fled. his house and the office at which he managed the commissariat business of the Brazilian hospital were searched, but nothing was found which threw any light on the conspiracy. A timber , merchant in Monte Video stated that he met him early on the morning of the Ist in the suburbs, and that he asked the deponent not to divulge having seen him. It was soon ascer tained, by means of the submarine telegraph, that Bertran had gone to Buenos Ayres, and thence, under an assumed name, to Rosario, en route for Santa F. It also transpired that, although the house had been bought in Neuma)er's name, Ber tran was surety for the payment of the purchase money. Independent, therefore, of the confessions of the prisoners, the strongest suspicion rests on Bertran. General Suarez, Commandantes Man cini and Bergara, and Senores Torres and Marquez, were arrested in the course of the evening of the Ist, and placed in separate confinement. On the 21 Mr. Havers resumed his investigation. The pavement was taken up, the main sewer opened, footsteps discovered in it, ascertained to be those of Louis Neumayer, and 150 feet from the cellar an opening was found towards the windows of the saloon in which tho Councils of State are hell. From this hole a mine bad been driven to within six feet of the wall of this saloon, and in it were found the tools used by the operator. It appears from the report made by Mr. Havers to the Govern ment that, in six or seven hours, with the aid of the other person expected to join in the work, the mine could have been extended under the floor and charged for the explosion. It was also proved that the cellar was constructed expressly for the pur pose of concealing these operations, and that the works carried on iu the house were merely a blind to cover the proceedings of the conspirators. From in quiries made at the foreign consulates, it appears that the prisoner Paul Neumayer was formerly a sub lieutenant in the Wurtemburg army, was cashiered and handed over to the civil tribunals, convicted of forgery, and condemned to five years' penal servitude. lie offered his services to both sides during the revolution in various projects for mining, and for making Orsini bombs and detonating com pounds for the destruction of human life. Louis Neumayer is said to have been mate of a slaver. Nothing having transpired to show that the other persons arrested had any hand in the iniquitous project they have been set at liberty. The extra dition of Bertran wp.s demanded of the Argentine Government and immediately conceded ; but nothing further had been heard of him, and he is supposed to have fled into Chili. ON SHERMAYS TRAC'K. By John H. Keunaway, M.A. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, Fleet-street, London. 1867. The author has wisely avoided any long introduc tory accounts and descriptions of travel so often before handled, that his pen could scarcely be suc cessful in imparting to them any fresh interest. Like Hepworth Dixon, he makes his starting point a cen tral town in the United States, indeed the central town which one day will be the seat of Government —St. Louis. The travelling party consisted of two Oxford and two Cambridge men, our author (of the former two) from Baliol College, Oxford. From St. Louis, which they reached through Canada round by Chicago, they were about to return east by the populous cities, when unexpectedly they met Gene ral Sherman, who suggested the route through the Southern States, celebrated as the scene of his own destructive march. The English party had no idea that the way was practicable, the railways being 'destroyed ; but they acted on the hint, and started for Chattanooga, through Nashville, the capital of Tennessee. As they passed over this great State they crossed many a celebrated battle-field, react ing at nightfall Chattanooga, one of the most fiereefy contested positions, and Look-Out Mountain, the scene of a great Confederate disaster. Chattanooga may be taken as the spot where Sherman com menced his celebrated march. It was from that town, with an overwhelming force, and with the cautious and wary Johnston in his front, in the spring of 1864, that he began the movement that annihilated the Confederacy, and will always rank among the most renowned military exploits. The distance to Atlanta is 138 miles. Sherman's army numbered 100,000 of the veteran soldiers of the Union, and under Johnson the Confederate troops did not exceed 40,000. The country was difficult; the Confederate Commander au officer of consum mate tact. It was not therefore till the middle of July that the Union army reached Atlanta. The South, impatient at the steady advance of the Federal force—at the successive abandonment of position after position -- at the fatal moment when the Northern General had the key of the Confederacy in his front, removed Johnston and placed Hood in command. The day of great Southern victories had passed. There were no more Bull's Runs to be achieved against veterans like those commanded by Sherman and troops so skil fully handled, and it was vain to look for any crushing defeats. Hood, though a good divisional leader, was headstrong and rash. He took the offensive—to discover his mistake by an experience the Confederacy could ill afford. Ile detached his cavalry to operate in Sherman's rear, and that officer seizing the opportunity captured Atlanta. With the fall of the great Southern arsenal fell the last hope of the South of successfully resisting Northern invasion. The Gate City being in his possession, opened for Sherman on the one hand, the way to the Gulf, and on the other to Charleston. The control of the Southern railroads passed to him, and he intercepted the supplies of Lee's army. The shot, shell, and pistol manufactories, the railroad machine shops, were all lost to the Confederate cause. It was a worse blow than would have been the fall of Richmond ; indeed it broke the Con federacy. Lee, on hearing the intelligence, wrote to Davis that all hope of ultimate success was at an end. Then arose the question—Ought not the war to have terminated on the fall of Atlanta, and the clearly-expressed opinion of the General-in -Chief that the contest was hopeless We feel certain that history will not exonerate Mr. Davis from blame; but we are not so sure that the cause of future peace has not been benefited by administering to the South the terrible lesson that followed when the walls of their Jericho began to fall before the loud blasts of the North. In esti mating this question, we must not forget that the future is mere conjecture—the past a horrible reality. Sherman cut the Confederacy iii two, and spread a devastation over the fair counties of Georgia and South Carolina, which will be long re membered with the bitterest anguish as among the vilest works of war. Thousands afterwards fell before Richmon d, and lives and property continued to be recklessly sacrificed throughout the States before the South was smitten into the dust, with a prostration so great that it took months even f o r them to re alise their helplessness, which becanalorlenid more a pparent both to the m selves and the v e better the circumstances were known. -What would have been the case had a t rea ty been effected on the f all of Atlanta ? Al though succumbed m n anoyftshuespoSeocuttecidoin none then fully knew the Supposi ng th e re bel States exhaustion had condition of re - en tering the Union with all their rights unimpaired, and the abolition of slavery accepted through a gradual pro cess, the world would have remained under the im pression that, though . the South mi g ht be deso lated by the North, it could not be conquered. Richmond would have opened its gates, and Lee's army retired, the heroes of the war. Charleston would have proudly raised its uneonquered head, and the chivalry of North Carolina would have loudly boasted that they were the first to raise the palmetto flag, the lust to furl it, while it had waved defiantly over their city in, spite of all the hostile fleets the North could send. Who can say what elements of future war would lie in such facts ? The cup that Sherman held to Southern lips was the most bitter draught that men could swallow. It entailed on the present generation terrible miseries, but he honestly believed, and we hold truly, that it was the most merciful course in the end. " Sherman entered Atlanta on the 2d of September — within a week he issued an order that all citizens must leavo the place, making their. choice between being trans ported North, or-to a place within the Rebel lines. RiE sutsequent destruction of Atlanta must be his justifica tion for an exercise of p ower a pparently so cruel. He was revolving the s c h eme o f th e great march, an d t o that everything had t o b o su b or dinate. Ile feare d that Atlanta might agai n become formidable in the hands of the enemy, and h e reso l ve d t o w ipe it out., and to render it incapable, wh en h e turne d his back upon it, fo r an y further mischief." Four months had elapsed since Sherman left Chat tanooga before Atlanta fell, and there he remained during the heated term till the 15th November. The season then opened for the grand expedition on which he had secretly determined. hood, who had been manoeuvring before At lanta, suddenl y made a detour, throwing himse lf on the line of Sherman's communications. This was a move ment not unlike that practised by Napoleon when the Allies were marching on Paris, and it met with no better fate. Indeed it was exactly what Sherman wanted. He telegraphed—" flood has crossed the Tennessee. Tllollltl3 will take care of him and Nashville ; Georgia and South Carolina 4 arc at my mercy, and I shall strike." The better to deceive, lie followed Hood, as if in pursuit ; then turning suddenly he rapidly retraced his steps to Atlanta, which city he gave to the flames, and launched his whole force in:.o the wilds of Gsorda. For three weeks that great army was lost to the world ; and if Europe and Northern America held its breath in anxiety to know the result, what must have been the agony of the Confederacy when behind the smoke of the burning city it disappeared from sight. On a broad track, extending sixty miles, the destroying army trailed along. Be fore them the land was rich and prosperous— behind, it was a charred or smoking desert. "The foraging parties scattered over the country without any order oilidiscipline," (thus writes the correspon dent of the New Yo r k Herald), " pounced like harpies on the unfortunate inhabitants, stripping them of provisions, jewels, and valuables. Boles were burst open, clothes dragged about. The finest silks carried off to adorn negro wenches ; pictures, books, and furniture tossed about or torn in pieces. In most instances they burned down houses to cover depredations, and in some cases took the lives of their victims, as they would not reveal concealed .reasure." Sherman himself estimates that they carried off 10,000 horses and mules, and countless numbers of slaves, besides the consumption of corn, fodder, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry. " I estimate," says that General, " the damage done to the State of Georgia and its military resources at $100,000,000 ; at least 20 millions of this was ruin to our advantage, and the rest, simple waste and destruction." It was not till the 15th September, 1861, that the leading columns of the destroying army began to emerge from the interior and mass their forces before the city of Savannah. There the Confederates had retreated, flooding the surround ing rice fields, leaving the only approaches by five narrow causeways, commanded by heavy ordnance. One of Sherman's finest qualities as a general was the care he took of the lives of his soldiers. He never needlessly sacrificed them, and as Admiral Dahlgren arrived almost immediately, he got into communication with the fleet, waiting for this co-operation, instead of recklessly attacking with his troops. In conjunction, everything was prepared by the 17th for the assault, when a demand was made and declined for the sur render. But General Hardee knew that he could not hold Savannah against the overwhelming force both by sea and land now brought against it, and on the night of the 20th December, leaving his fires brightly burning, and while his artillery played on the right, he pushed his troops through swamps supposed to be impracticable by a pathway, aban doning the city to the enemy with 200 guns, maga zines, locomotives, steamboats, and 35,000 bales of cotton. The energy of the North may be seen by the promptitude with which Sherman's base of operations was changed. Scarcely was he in Savan nah before a fleet was discharging vast stores of all kinds, the obstacles having been removed which im- peded the channel of the river ; and again Southern cotton left Southern ports in vessels flying the Stars and Stripes. After remaining a month in Savannah, Sherman recommenced his destroying march. He was now in South Carolina, the State of all others the object of Northern vengeance, and if his soldiers, as our author says, carried whips in their march through Georgia—in their march through the Carolinas they were armed with scor pions. Trailing along on an average breadth of 40 miles, they traversed the country from Savannah to Goldsborough, consuming everything. " History," says one of the staff, " will be searched in vain for a parallel to this scathing and destructive march." Sherman reports, " the public enemy instead of drawing supplies from that region to feed his armies will be compelled to scud provisions from other quarters to feed the inhabitants." Mr. Kennaway says :-- " The advance was not an easy one. The floods of the Savannah, the swamps of the Corubalee and Edisto, the high hills and rocks of the Santee, the quagmires of tho Pedee and Cape Fear Rivers had all to be passed in mid-winter in the face of an accumulating enemy. Johnson too was before long replaced in command, and Sherman knew well that as long as he was in front of him any slip would be fatal. Columbia was the first point made. The beautiful capital of the Palmetta State, rich in mansions and in public buildings, fell a prey to the flames, the kind ling of which is alike repudiated by both armies, each of them seeking to lay the blame on the other. Perhaps the conflagration may have boon accidental; it certainly was most destructive, and produced an amount of suffering frightful to contemplate." Sherman struck inland, leaving Charleston and Wilmington to his right, to destroy the lines of road from which Lee derived a portion of his supplies. He knew that with the back country gone, the seaport towns would be helpless, and when his force was gathered in rear of Charleston, Wil mington, and Richmond, he was an arrow in the flank of the Confederacy; indeed he had searched out and laid bare the weakness of his enemy. The Confederacy had been pierced through and through, and after a few more convulsive sobs and struggles, the stricken nation fell helplessly at the conqueror's feet. Sherman's march was arrested by the intel ligence of Lee's surrender on the 9th of April, when General Johnston sought an interview with the Northern commander, and a capitulation was agreed on, which ended for ever the last hopes of the Confederacy. We have followed our author " On Sherman's Track," the chief and most interesting subject in his work, and in this we have reached our limits. But Mr. Kennaway does not confine himself to this subject alone. He writes copiously on the social position, the feelings, and the prospects of the negro in the South. He carries his readers to Richmond and Washington. He discusses the pri sons of the South, and who is to blame for the suf ferings of Northern soldiers, and as a lawyer he argues the case in a fair and dispassionate manner. This subject will shortly be elucidated by a lengthy report of a commission lately appointed by Con gress. When that report is before us we will be able fully to discuss Mr. Keunaway's argument. He writes fairly and without bias, and his book can be read with pleasure by both Northerners and Southerners. We looked for a more detailed ac count of Sherman's expedition, and the work would have been of greater value had it been confined to this subject, and more pains been taken, to follow and describe more fully the whole line of country. But the author travelled for his own instruction and amusement, and the public have to thank him for a well-written volume, descriptive of scenes which but a short time since, absorbed the attention of the world.—Angle-'lmerican Times. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (Front the Registrar-Gencral's Return.) fu the week that ended on Saturday, August 17, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,144 ; the deaths registered, 2,862. The annual rate of mor tality was 20 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,017 boys and 980 girls, in all 1,997 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,954. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,391. It was the 33d week of the year, and the averags number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,337. The deaths in the present return exceed by 54 the esti mated number. The great and almost tropical heat which pre vailed in the early part of last week has not as yet increased the mortality of the metropolis to any large extent. It is of the utmost importance now that there should be a plentiful supply of pure water in every house, and that the streets, courts, and alleys of this great city should be kept perfectly clean. Some of the towns of Europe are suffering terri bly from the ravages of cholera, and it is only by con stant and unremitting attentiot to the purity of the water supply, by the early treatment of diarrhoea, and by sanitary measures, that a recurrence of the calamity iu this country can be avoided. The deaths of 181 children and 19 adults from diarrhcea were registered last week. -Twenty-nine cases occurred in the west, 37 in the north, 27 in the central, 56 in the cast, and 51 in the south dis tricts. Eleven children and four adults died from cholera or choleraic diarrhcea. Thirty-five deaths occurred from scarlatina, 16 from typhus, 37 from apoplexy, and 57 from diseases of the heart. In the 'corresponding week of last year (1866) the deaths from diarrlicea were 191, and from cholera 455. The wife of a bricklayer, aged 56 years, died on August 6, ti.t.St. Mary's Hospital, of congestion of lthigs, accelerated by the suffocative atmosphere of the Underground Railway. Post mortem. (In- Quest.) Proper steps should be taken for opening and ventilating the tunnels, which are necessarily charged with noxious gases. Kensington ; Brompton.—At 15, Wallgrave road, on August 10, the son of a labourer, aged 11 months, iufantine cholera (30 hours). Westmin ster ; St. John.—At 116, llorseferry-road, on August 13, the daughter of a hosier, aged two years, choleraic diarrhoea (14 hours). St. Martin-in-the- Fields ; Charing-cross.—At 25, Whitcvinbltreet, on August 10, the son of a poulterer, aged eight weeks, choleraic diarrhoea (10 days), convulsions (8 days). Marylebone; The Rectory.—At 12, Gray's buildings, on August 15, the daughter of a plas terer, aged four months, choleraic diarrhoea (30 hours.) Pancras ; Regent's Park.—At 13, Little Albany-street, North, on August 13, the wife of a carman, aged 32 hours, English cholera. Totten ham-court.—At 35, Howland-street, on August 11, a needlewoman, aged 51 years, cholera. Gray's inn-lane.—At 2, Chad's-place, ou August 11, the daughter of a carpenter, aged 10 weeks, choleraic diarrhoea (48 hours). In same sub-district, at 16, Argyle street, on August 12, a gentleman, aged about 70 years, choleraic diarrhea, followed by re- active bilious fever. Camden-town.—At 19, Suffolk-street, on August 10, the son of a beershop keeper, aged 7 months, chronic meningitis, choleraic diarrhoea. Islington ; West.--At 14, B'undell street, on August 13, the daughter of a charwoman, 3 months, choleraic diarrhoea. East—At 15, Frc- derick-place, Orchard-street, on August 13, the son of an excavator, aged 3 years, cholera (Asiatic). Shoreditch ; Iloxton Old-town.—At 13, Queen's- place, on August 8, the son of a horse-dealer, aged 8 months, choleraic diarrhoea. Bermondsey ; Lcather-market.—At 196, Bermondsey-street, on August 10, a wharf labourer, aged 43 years, diar rhoea (eight days), cholera (24 hours.) Greenwich ; St. Paul, Deptford.—At 60, Railway-grove, on August 17, the daughter of a railway platelayer, aged 8 months, choleraic diarrhoea ; Wool wich Dockyard.—At 10, Parson's-hill, on Aug. 17, the daughter of a tailor, aged 7 months, English cholera (about a fortnight), convulsions. The deaths of seven persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 22 in Edinburgh, and 21 in Dub lin ; 17 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 27 in Liverpool, 26 in Manchester, 28 in Salford, 24 in Sheffield, 29 in Leeds, 23 in Hull, 28 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 23 per 1,000 during the week ending the 10th inst., when the mean temperature was 5.2 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 22. The fatality of summer diarrhoea usually reaches its maximum about the end' of July. London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham are the only large English towns in which the mortality has, during the past few weeks, been raised to any con siderable extent by deaths from this disease. In Manchester the greatest mortality occurred at the end of July, b'it has since declined ; in London, Liverpool, and Birmingham it is, however, still high, and the 200, 47, and 42 deaths from diarrhoea respectively returned last weak in these towns give annual rates in the proportion of 3.1 in London, 5 in Liverpool, and 6.4 in Birmingham, to 1,000 per sons living. This fatality from diarrhoea in Bir mingham is the more remarkable from the compa rative immunity from cholera and diarrhoea, which that town has usually enjoyed. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.789 in. The barometrical reading decreased from 30.02 in. on Sunday, Aug. 11, to 29.50 on Thursday, Aug. 15. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 66.1 deg., which is 4.5 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The highest day temperature was 89 deg. on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The lowest night temperature was 50.2 deg., on Sunday, Aug. 11. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 38.8 deg. The highest read ing of the thermometer in the sun was 147.1 deg. on Tuesday, August 13. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 61.5 deg. ; that of the lowest was 62.6 deg. The highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 66, on Wednesday, the 14th of August. The difference between the mean-dew point tem perature and air temperature was 8.4 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 75, complete saturation being represented by 100. The air was very dry in the early part of the week, but on Thursday, the 15th of August, the degree of humidity was 95. Rain fell to the amount of 0.77 in., of which 0.76 in. fell ou Thursday, the 15th of August ; during the early morning hours of this day the rain was accompanied by thunder and light ning. The general direction of the wind was S.W. London, according to the returns of the eight companies, was supplied daily with 108,000,000 gallons, or 491,998 cubic metres of water, equal to about as many tons by weight ; the supply is equal to 35 gallons per head on the population. A considerable quantity of this water, however, was used for other than domestic purposes. THE INGRAdAM CLAIMS. The following is an extract from a Portland journal, date 4 July 25, 1867, and also a copy from the records of the Ingraham family:— AN AMERICAN TITLE TO AN ENGLISH CITY--A BIT OF hand where Gladding left it, and were until recently subjected to the scoffs of many incredulous heirs ; but the announcement of the finding of the will silenced cavil, and drew together the largest multi tude of the heirs that ever assembled. Mr. Ingra ham has no doubt whatever that the descendants of Sarah Cowell can recover this enormous property, which he estimates to be worth much more than •3100,000,000 —exclusive of the back-rents, for which it may not be worth the while to contend. COPY OF TIIE RECORDS OF TIIE INGRAHAM FAMILY. The old and magnificent estate of Temple New some, originally a preceptory of the Knight Tem plars, was escheated to the Crown in the year of 1312, and in the reign of henry VIII. was given to The Earl of Lennox, the former occupants, Lords d'Arey and Meywell, to whom the estate had been granted by Edward 111., having been beheaded. • The grandson of Lennox, " James First of Eng- land, gave the estate to the Stuarts, who sold it to Sir Arthur Ingram or Ingraham. Sir Arthur was a cavalier, and only saved his head and estates by his connection with Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester. At the Restoration his son was created Viscount Irwin. This title died in 1778, when the property, after passing through several hands, finally came to Hugo Charles Meywell, with the condition that he should take the name of Ingram. Temple Newsome is one of the most magnificent homes in England. " A. D. SIDERA VULTUS." COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL—TuEsDAY. Tho corn market to-day had a thin attendance, and there was little or no demand for wheat, unless at a decline of is on the prices of last week. Maize fully as dear. Barley firm. Weather very unsettled. ROMANCE. About 200 representatives of the Ingraham fa mily, from different States in the Union, met in New York on Wednesday, to devise means to pro secute their claims against a large property in Eng land. The leading points of this claim we noticed a short time ago. It was stated to be necessary to raise 620,000 to secure the will of Joseph Cowell, which, it is said, has been found in America, but the location is not stated. Only $1,500 was sub scribed at the meeting, and the subscription is to by resumed. This remarkable claim to lands which were be queathed nearly 200 years ago, and on which an opulent and busy city of 200,000 population has been built, involves a love-story which might form the thread of a readable romance. The daughter of Joseph Wilson, a wealthy freeholder of proud descent, married,. without her father's approval, Edward Cowell, a plebeian of Yorkshire, and the young couple, renounced by Wilson, emigrated to the American colonies, and east their lot in Boston. In 1680 WilSon died, without, however, relenting toward his daughter, and when his last testament was opened it appeared that he had given his pro perty, consisting of lands on the River Aire—about six miles in length by three in. width—to his grand daughter; Sarah Cowell, entailing it, however, to the fourth generation. The will was sent to Sarah Cowell long before her marriage with Timothy In graham, and was handed down to her daughter ; but the estate, being unsettled and yielding no revenue, and being, moreover, entailed to the de scendants of heirs dwelling at a great distance, was left in the hands of agents and almost wholly for gotten except by them. At length a manufacturing town of considerable importance rose on the Wilson lands, and a grand son of the devisor made an attempt to recover the property, but he died on shipboard before reaching England. The next effort was made in 1803 by Capt. Solomon Ingraham, a great-grandson of the devisor. He was an East India captain, and sailed with his wife from New York, taking all the papers relating to the estate. These be intrusted to Mr. Erskine, of London, then an eminent lawyer, but afterwards Lord Chancellor of England. Captain Ingraham having died at Madras, the papers were retained by Erskine in London, nobody making further inquiry touching the property until 1825, when the Ingraham family learned that London newspapers had contained advertisements seeking the heirs. They then sent Isaac Smith to England to look up the estate, which was then reported to be worth more tha❑ £40,000 a year. Ile learned that the papers had been left by the first Lord Erskine to his son and successor, then Minister to Belgium, and that they were locked up in London. There fore Smith returned unsuccessful to America. No further effort was made until 1852, w h en Gilbert R. Gladding, of Providence, and Columbus Smith, of Vermont, the latter a lawyer, who had been eminently successful in prosecuting American claims to English estates, went to London and saw the late Lord Erskine, to whom the papers had fallen ; but Lord Erskine dallied with Messrs. Glad ding and Smith, until, their funds failing, they were compelled to return to America. Mr. Gladding pursued his researches, and, after scouring England in vain, died in Providence iv the full belief that the will had been brought back to the United States, and was somewhere to be found in this country. Mr. W. J. P, Ingraham and others took the task in LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. We had only a moderate attendance of the town and country trade at our market to-day, but the fineness a the weather caused trade to rule dull for wheat, and last week's prices declined 2d per contal. Flour in dull demand, but rather easier. Indian corn in fair request, and prime quali ties brought rather more money. Oats and oatmeal slow, and barely maintained previous rates. Beans were 6d to 9d and peas 6d lower than last week. LEEDS -T UESDAY. We have a moderato attendance at our market to-day The wheat trade was slow, and the rates of last week were nominally unchanged. Barley, beans, and other articles were rather c..sier. MELTON MO WBRAY.-T lIESDAY. White wheat, 68s to 74s ; red, 59s to 68s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr; feed, 32s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 26s to 32s per 21st. Beans, old, 52s to 545 . ; new, 45s to 50s per qr. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. There was only a moderate business transacted to -day in the corn trade, with a large supply of old wheat, and prices were is to 2s down. Some fair samples of new wig° on offer from the south. Flour rather lower. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bu5he15....228 Od to 268 01 White do do ....3is Od 33s 0,1 New red do do ....20s Od 218 61 New white do do ....23s Od 258 61 Beans do do ....I9s Od 228 01 Peas, per qr Grinding be ley, per qr 353 Od 3SB Od Malting barley, Co Oats, do 27s Od 328 Od F10ttr....28 3d to' 3 8d per 141 b. MARK ET TIARBOROUGII.—T UESDAY. Old white wheat, 67s to 72s ; new rod, 62s to 67s per 3 6 stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per 30 st. Oats, now, 26s to 35s ; old, 31s to 35s per qr. Beans, old, 46s to 535; new, 42s to 47s per qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &ustralla and New Zealand, via Southampton ..... Sept 10. Ditto, ♦ia Marseilles ............. 13. Ditto, via Panama 9 • •• Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3. Ditto, by French packet . Aug. 22. Cape Yells. by Brazil packet .... , . Sept. 3. Uope of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. lielena Aug. 27. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton Se,,t. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles . Aug.‘27. Faikland Islands .. Sept. 3 ,ilbraltar, via Southampton Aug. 27 . India. via Southampton . ... Ang. 2 7 .• Ditto, via Maroeil es Malta, Egypt, dm .. Aug .1. Ditto, Marseilles Aug 2 1 . Mauritius, Cap 3 of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Dia ), via Mallet leo Sep. 3. Newfoundland Aug 28. Portugal Sept. 3 . Ditto, by private ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., by British packet _ Aug. 28. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ........... • •• Ditto, by Canadian packet Aug. 23. West Coast 01 Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept, 4. Wert Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cub ► and Mexico • ... ...Aug. 28 ; Balia:nas, via New York Sept. lin Bermuda, via ditto THE ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL IN CHANCERY. --- On Tuesday next the Accountant-General's Office in Chao" cory will be closed to the 28th October, with the e xcepta . o u of a few days in the middle of that month, and the Begls" trar's Office will also to closed. Both offices have boe. ll open longer this year on account of the pressure of bug' ness. The New York Tribune of the Ist inst. says "The English Trade Unions appear to be the most Imo* tigated despotisms in the world. Even since the Broad head exposures, a unionist of Sheffield has been arrested for threatening to blow np fellow-workman 10° refused to pay to the trade, and in another place f °1 • 11. bricklayers were brought before a magistrate recently for attempting to throw one of their comrades off a scaffold and severely assaulting him, because he violated a rule of the union by shaving off his mous tache. That freemen can voluntarily enter associatio ns which claim such a preposterous authority over tha actions of individuals is to Americans almost incredible. There is something evil in the condition of the English working men which we can hardly appreciate." The United States frigate Savannah (50) foto Cherbourg and Portsmouth, was off Plymouth at 11 a-m' on Wednesday, August 7, when she took a pilot from tha sloop Zadora, w hich left her at 8.30 p.m. off the Lizard' The Dale (12) was off Falmouth on Thursday at n 000• These ships, with the Macedonia, are bo und to Chesapeak° Bay, and it is said they will vie with each other across the Atlantic. The United States gunboat Swatara , from Lb' bon, sailed for Caudia by order of the American Govera ment. The American steamer Shamrock has sailed O r Madeira The specie movements during last week were on ile rather moderate scale as regards the imports, which I)tt only amo anted to £393,698, including £105,238 from 14° ' York, by the Hermann; £31,000 by the City of AntWerll £3,600 by the Alleinannia; £71,000 by the Virginia; 3 , 13 ,, " £24,220 by the Cuba. The La Place, from the Bra has brought £95,168 ; and the Galileo, £52,272; besio which about £11,200 in silver has been receive d from tllet Continent. Tho exports have been £9,459 to the Indies and China by the Euxine, and there have been Ire . - mitiances to the Continent through private sources O W mated at £664,991 ; the total amounting to £674,450. 0 [ ADVERTISEMENT. 1-110110Way ' S Ointment and Pills the most appropriate remedies for the blotches, pia3P,,,l;:. biles, and carbuncles which are annoying, sometimes erous, and always disfiguring when summe r heats al'.'od nate with wet, wintry weather. The subtle pertneatij powers of this Ointment, by repressing inflammatio n an d irritation reduce the skin to its actual temperature, °beg colour,while radically expelling the cause of the bleraS.,,, from the system. 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