The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-27 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American News. The most striking Telegraph news from America is the rise in the price of gold. On Wednesday evening it had reached 1411, influenced no doubt by the threatening aspect of affairs in Europe. The Germans, who are the largest holders of the 5-20's, have been pressing them for sale, in common with other securities. This bas caused a heavy fall, and led to the withdrawal of gold from the Bank of England. The action is felt at once in New York, where most of these Bonds will find their way. Remittances in specie will re-commence oa a large scale from New York. The Five-Twenties now are mainly instrumental in regulating the exchange, and if they fall in the European markets, gold will immediately begin to flow from America to Eng- land. General Grant has been in communication with General Sherid,n on the subject of removing the State officers. General Sheridan telegraphed his _ _ opinion that it was desirable to remove Mr. 'frock morton, Governor of Texas, and that the sugges tion came from General Griffin. He added that he might also have to remove the Governor of Louisiana. In reply, General Grant stated that it was not proper for him to remove Governors; that he be lieved the law conferred no such power upon mili- tary commanders, except after trial. That this is also the opinion of the Government is clear from its action. Indeed there can be no question about the law, which confers no power whatever upon the General to remove any officer. The President hesitates whether to make a visit to New York after the adjournment of the Senate, or to wait till June, when he intends to visit Bos ton, and assist at the dedication of the New Ma- sonic Temple. It is said that the Impeachment Committee have been prying into Mr. Johnson's banking account, and have made the noteable discovery that his ba- lance has increAsed since September last by $57,000. When a prominent man becomes unpopular in the States, it is astonishing, however excellent a citizen he may have been all his life before, of what crimes he is then said to be guilty. In Salt Lake City, this spring, " To Rent" is a frequent sign on houses and stores. The " Gentile' Sunday school is still flourishing, and has 125 chil dren from all religious denominations, even Mor- mons. The saints are moving to establish opposi- tion schools. fering among the poor classes of whites, and throw thou sands of freedmen upon the resources of the Bureau this season. On the Ist April a mass meeting of the citizens of Savannah, a large majority of whom were coloured, was addressed by ex-Governor James Johnson, Colonel Stone, Dr. J. J. Waring, Colonel H. S. Fetz, and several others, also Rev. J. M. Lines and T. G. Campbell, a coloured preacher. The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved—That we recognise Congress as the supreme legislative power of the nation, and all laws passed to effect our restoration we will observe and maintain. Second — That we recognise the progress of ideas in the enfran chisement of tho coloured race, and that with mutual for- boarance we will stand shoulder to shoulder in roorganis7 ing the State Government and in maintaining the national unity of the United States, one and inseparable. Third — That the education of the whole people is of the highest importance to the prosperity of a Republican government, and that we will henceforth earnestly labour for the edu- cation of every eitiz , m of the State. Fourth—That we respectfully and earnestly request the military commandant of tho third district to order a registration and election at the earliest practicable moment for a convention to reorga- nise the State of Georgia in accordance with the plans of Congress. After three and a half hours of speaking the meeting adjourned. Ey,rything passed off quietly, the greatest order being preserved. A NEW SOUTHERN STAPLE.—A new plant has been added to the resources of our tropical and semi-tropi cal regions—a new textile, which will furnish the world with clothing and the means of knowledge. We have seen within a few days long skeins of a cotton-like fibre, cot- ton-like in whiteness, softness, and fineness, but much stronger, which is now produced at the rate of five crops per year, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, where it has beon cultivated for five years by a Belgian naturalist and botanist, who went there to pursue his favourite studies and occupations in a soil and climate which favour them. This plant, called the Ramie, is a native of Java, was in troduced thence into the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, by some French saran, in 1845; was regarded then as simply exhibiting tho wonderful advantages of the tropics, being too delicate for open air culture in cold climates. But having been planted anti tried in warmer climates than that of France, yet not so equatorial as that of Java, it has been found to do as well in them. It is due to M. Benito Roezl, formerly chief of the Horticultural Institute of Belgium, now of Santocomapram, San Andres Tustla, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico, that we can now pronounce it a naturalised plant . _ of this continent, and to his present visit to this city will speedily owe its introduction into the field culture of the Gulf States, to which it will permanently pertain. The ramie (its Javanese name) is a plant like hemp, contains in it - the fibre for which it is raised, and which is grown like the sugar-cane, from being plantedin lengths or from its stubble ; with this advantage over the stubble of the cane, that each succeeding year it grows better, and that in Cuba and Lower Mexico it will furnish five, and here at least three cuttings in the year. By a new process and some simple machinery, invented by Mr. R., the lint can be prepared from the stalks, taken fresh from the ground in twenty-four hours. We all know that months of labour, and the entire discolouring of the fibre, follows the treatment by the ordinary process of flax and hemp, while the ramie comes out white, clean, pure, and unhurt. Eight hundred pounds of lint to the acre is to be expected from each cutting of full growth, iu fair land. The culture is similar to that of cane ; but as the plant, when once set, is hard to eradicate, grows vigorously, and defies the influence of grass or rival plants, cultivation is only needed to promote its growth. When ripe, it should be cut ; but neglect to do this, causes no special damage, so that it may wait days or weeks the will of the free Republicans of Mexico and the Union. The fibre is long, fine, and strong ; the plant easy to raise, and hardy in a Southern latitude ; its preparation for market is simple and cheap in cost. Under these circum ' stances, we may safely pronounce that it will at an early \ day take high rank among our staples.—New Orleans Picayune. THE BOOTH DrARY.—It is stated that Surratt's counsel will demand Booth's diary from Secretary Stanton, claiming that they wish to prove from it that their client gave no aid or comfort to Booth in the assas sination. It is also said that the diary will be made public in a few drys. Secretary Stanton and Judge Holt have testified before the judiciary committee on the subject. Judge bolt states that he has had sole control of the book since it was delivered to him by the captors of Booth, that the missing leaves had then been cut out, and the diary commenced on the 14th of April, the day of the assassination. The first entry in it is a statement that be (Booth) had sent a communication to the National lntelli gencer, giving an account of the purposes of himself and his confederates. The publisher of the Intelligencer swore, on the trial, that he had received no such communication. In the balance of the diary Booth glorifies himself as a second Brutus, and denounces his victim as a tyrant. Judge Holt says he did not place the diary before the court because it shed no light on the case. It does, however, reveal the peculiar mania under which Booth acted, and the reasons given for withholding it from the court are not satisfactory. The book and the person who took it from Booth's person should have been examined by the court, and it is pos sible that some clue to the mystery might thus have been obtained. A letter from Richmond, Virginia, to the New York World, alluding to the disclosures made by General Butler, brings out another revelation, which should not, however, be accepted without full evidence of its truth. The writer says:—"lt is perhaps not generally known that during the incarceration of Wirtz and Major Winder in the Capitol Prison they occupied adjoining cells, and en joyed facilities of communication, one to the other, by word or writing, through an aperture not observed, doubtless, by the gaoler. No one was permitted to see either, unless by special privilege from the Secretary of War. On the night previous to the execution of Wirtz three men entered his cell, of course by permission of Stanton, and proposed to him that if ho would agree to implicat e Jeff. Davis in the alleged iconspiracy to starve the Northern prisoners confined at Andersouville his life would be spared. Wirtz replied that he would not save his own life by sacrificing that of another innocent man. The parties thereupon left the cell, and Wirtz immediately communicated all that transpired to Major Winder. The Major some time after met Mrs. Davis in New York, and revealed to her what is hero stated, backing it up by an affidavit, which he gave her, and which she now holds. The trial of Davis would involve revelations which would shock humanity, and test to its fullest whatever sense of justice or feeling of national pride is still 'left at the North." AVALANCHES IN KANSAS.—The Leavenworth Times says that in that region snow storms and snow slides from the mountains for the last month have been unprecedented. A great deal of damage has been done within the last few weeks, houses having been crushed under the weight of snow, and several lives lost by per sons having been caught and smothered under their snow slides. The process of reconstruction under the military bill and its supplement is going on with all desirable ra pidity. In the Carolinas white and black men hold meet ings and are getting ready to work jointly in the harness of political parties, and the best understanding is said to prevail between General Sickles and Governors Orr and Worth. We should imagine that a few speeches like that of Mr. Orr at the dinner recently given by the Charleston Board of Trade might bring the good understanding to a sudden end. It must have delighted the Governor's Charleston audience when, in the course of his speech, he turned to General Sickles and remarked, " You know, sir, that faith was pledged"—meaning the faith of the Demo cratic party, in which organisation General Sickles used to be a " war-horse," and in the name of which, as Southern men aro fond of saying, he and other leaders promised that if the Southern Democrats had to make war on the Federal Government, their Northern brethren would be found ready to aid them in the field. But the general could afford to listen to the Governer's hospitable remarks if the Governor could afford to make them. In Vir ginia General Schofield has designated certain of his officers to constitute a boar.' for appointing in each TAE MOVEMENTS OF POPULATIONS.—More than ever before, we believe, the city and State—the city espe cially—is filling up with persons seeking permanent homes. And although it may be possible that the invidious and false repre,sentations of sundry newspapers in Phila- delphia ar e a New York, as to the condition of Maryland, may have ',lad the effect of turning aside from us many from that ' quarter, who might but for them have settled here, they have bot injuriously affected the current of population from the other direction, at least, as can be found upon the slightest observation in this city. Filling up rapidly as this city is, we repeat, erowded indeed with persons tired of the condition of things in the South, the new corners will be a valuable acquisition, the greater proportion arriving here with considerable means, and finding for themselvesopen ings in all departments of business and professional life as opportunity offers. It must be remembered that in a general way the Union men thrown under " military rule" in the fated " ten " aro found just as little congratu lating themselves upon the chang,,s down there as any of their neighbours; and as, in au exodus of this kind, the most energetic and self-sustaining are those who lead off, our State at least must in the end profit by a movement like this, since wemust acquire the class best calculated to build up business interests.—Baltimore Commercial. The Colorado gold ores are to be formally and seriously attacked this season by the smelting process common in Wales. A large lot of the ores, taken to Wales and there reduced made magnificent returns—so much greater than the same ores yielded by any other treatment as to convince the parties making the experiment that they had found the desired mode of reduction, and to induce them to put up the necessary capital, bring out workmen from Wales, and prepare and set in operation early this season in Colorado extensive smelting works of the de scription experimented with abroad. Professor Hill, of Providence, long a student in Colorado mines and ores, Mr. Herman, a Welch smelter, and some Boston capitalists are the patties in this enterprise, which is certainly the most intelligent and the most promising of any that has been undertaken ft,r extracting the fatness from the sulphuretted gold ores of the Rocky Mountains. The movement is likely speedily to put a fresh and flattering aspect upon the fortunes and future of Colorado, and upon investments in her mines. county three registrars of legal voters. In Georgia Governor Brown is active. A. H. Stephens, it is re ported, has never advised his fellow-citizens to sit apathetic, and if he were not "a prisoner of war" he vs onld recommend them to get to work and take back their State into the Union as soon as passible. At Savannah there has been held a mass meeting, a noticeable incident of which was that it was addressed by James Simms, a brother of the famous Thomas Simms, whom an ex-Go vernor of Georgia introduced to the audience. In Arkansas General Ord is working in unison with the Union State Convention. In Tennessee a white and black convention of a remarkable kind is said to have been held at Chstta nooga on April 6. The Conservative Union County Con vention was attended by 500 coloured and 300 white dele gates, and resolutions opposing Brownlow were passed. There is even a rumour that the Conservative candidate for Governor will be a coloured man. The United States _ _ troops are not removed, to be sure, but on the whole we seem to see indications that Southern polling-booths will not, after all, long need to be surrounded by bayonets in order that the negro may cast his vote, and there are plain signs that before many months are gone the prophecy will be fulfilled, and many Democratic politicians will have negro blood in their vela —while on the stump, at any rate. "Negroes from ch4co, and not from necessity" wilt be numerous enough to drive Mr. Nasby to suicide.—The Nation. The Democratic victory in Connecticut is evi dently not giving the South the comfort that many people feared it would. Most of the Southern papers seem to esti mate it at its just value, and the orators and planters seem to be arranging their affairs before taking their final plunge into negro suffrage. There is one thing to be borne in mind in calculating the effect on national politics of such little local reactions, or what seem to be reactions, as that which has just taken place in Connecticut, and that is that revolutions do not go backwards, and that no election can now make the result of the great crisis through which we are passing a whit less certain. It is proposed to make an organised effort for the diffusion, through the State of Connecticut of political in- Iformation, by means of papers and documents, not as new, 1 during the two or three weeks preceding election, but through the entire year. There can be little doubt that it is only by these means that the State can be won over to Republicanism. The mass of ignorance and prejudice it 1 contains is too dense to be affected by a hasty canvass, I conducted every spring in the midst of intense excitement. The Tennessee Democrats resolutely opposed the Franchise law passed by the Legislature, but, now that the election of Governor approaches, have discovered the 1 virtues of the negro, and endeavour to induce him to accept the honour of being a delegate to their Conventions. The colourei gentlemen do not seek honour in that direction, and at the recent Convention in Nashville not I one could be persuaded to assist. - Rhode Island has again won a thorough Radical victory, with General Burnside for its hero. Messrs. 1 Dixon and Jenckes are re-elected to Congress by round majorities, and on joint ballot the Radical Legislative ' majority is 76, the Democrats having but 14 members in Senate and House. This is a victory which does not look as if Connecticut was New England, and we commend it i to the gentlemen who hailed Mr. English's election as a sign of complete revolution in the politics of the North. The United States present to the world a noble example in having reduced their national debt- no less than two hundred and nine millions of dollars during the year ending on the 21st inst. The balance in the Treasury was increased during that year by no less than eighteen millions of dollars. We had only to keep on ourtaxes sons to maintain the revenue of 1866, and we should have paid the last fraction of our debt by the 4th of July. 1876, and might then have celebrated our nation's, one hundredth birthday with just and honest pride as well as with reli gious gratitude. We deeply regret that Cougreas saw tit to cut down the taxes so sweepingly that we cannot re- I duce our debt by half so much daring the next as we did ! during the last year. It was a grievous mistake, and grievously must it yet be answered for. The Paris correspondent of the Springfield Repub limn gives these pictures of American manners abroad : Some of our foreign correspondents occasionally take their compatriots to task for manners which are a trifle devoid of Republican decorum and frankness, inclined to boasting of that they do not possess, and assuming airs whiel seem ridiculous to the citizens of the o th er world. After ca reful observation I cannot add anything to this repr eac h ; nay, so far as one can judge from Americans in Paris, I can eontratlict the stigma as ill-timed and sensational. I find no men who are loud in espousing disagreeable politi cal opinions to foreign ears, and no women who are vul garly excessive in dress or social conversation. Certainly those who are here now, have a better opportunity to judge than will ever again be offered, as there are more Ameri cans abroad than ever before. Why every steamer brings a dozen familiar faces, and I am sure it does not bring any great addition to vulgar manners, which exist here as everywhere. The American circle at Paris contains less mal-adroits than I had supposed ; and even at hotels one • ' never hears foreigners complain of o it national manners. SENATOR WILSON AT PETERSBURG.—PETERSBURG, April 4.—Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, addressed a I . numerous assemblage in front of Jarrett's Hotel to-night. The coloured element was largely predominant, and were enthusiastic in their manifestations of approval and ap plause. The Senator spoke for upwards of an hour, pro claiming himself a Radical and entirely committed to the Radical principles. He pronounced slavery to have been the cause of the late war, and said that neither the North nor the South was guiltless in the conflict, and said the negro was now as much a citizen of the United States as the President and entitled to all the privileges of the white man, to be employed and to exercise the franchise as a freeman. He disclaimed all intention on the part of Congress and the North to degradeor humiliate the South. The measures of reconstruction passed by Congress rather aimed to elevate the lowly and the oppressed. THE LEAGUE ISLAND NAVY YARD. PHILA. DELPRIA, April 2.—Last night, the commission appointed by the President to decide upon the acceptance of League Island as a naval depot, arrived. A special committee met this morning at the Mayor's office at ten o'clock and waited upon the commission at the hotel, where the hospitalities of the city were tendered by Mayor M‘Miehael, and ac cepted on behalf of the distinguished visitors by Admiral Da✓is, after which the commission proceeded to the Navy Yard to pay a visit to the offieva attached thereto.. To morrow morning the committee having them in charge will take them to League Island. The commission con sists of Admiral Davis, Commodore Alden, J. E. Hilgard, assi6taut coast surveyor ; J. W. King, U.S.N.; and Major- Generel Huniphteys, . Numerons breaks in the levtes assure the devas tation of the richest portion of north-western Louisiana By the giving way of the grand levee at Morgan the sea overflows seven parishes. This was one of tho Largest works of the kind in the world and but recently completed. Work is progressing on the Roman cre vasse, fifty-six miles above New Orleans, with some hope of closing. The most recently reported break, nine miles belov Baton Rouge, will do immense damage. It will overflow this section and cause great suf- A marked testimony in favour of this assertion is the entire absence of satire of any kind on the Americans from the French journals. Woo to the luckless English who come under the inspired pencil of (Aim; even the Orientals suffer most bitterly; but we of the West are exempt. On Oaf) street, in the parlour, in business, out shopping, at the theatre or cafe, and even in the thousand and one haunts of pleasure which American youth seek, a certain politeness and modesty prevails, which does credit to the habit of our nation in whom it is manifest. I doubt the ability of any one to prove the contrary, even by taking the testimony of foreigners themselves. The only thing to be feared is that sojourners hero may be influenced by the excessive politeness of the French to lose some thing of that unspoken yet genuine and delicate courtesy which is an American charm, and substitute for it a formula of hyprocrisy which is prettier, but dangerous. This talk on manners is no trivial thing ; one of the benefits of the exhibition so near at hand is to be a gleaning of all that is Lost in national plculiarities, and every Ameri can should cling to all that is good in himself. Awl the impetus which will be given to the study of lan guages! At my lo l,g-ings I must, pass the customary cour tesies in Spanish, French, English, and German three times every day to fellow lodgers. Yesterday, at my elbow was a spectacled gentleman from Dijon, who was only ono of the many thousands who are desperately anxious to learn English. He would speak my own language, and although he used the past tense of the verb " to do" for the sub junctive mode of the verb "to die," he was guilty of no worse error than I, dozens of times per day, essaying Spanish." 711 to -1, were at one time sold as low as 671, but on slightly more favourable reports from the Continent have rallied a little, and close 671 to 68. It is evident that large sales have been effected here on German account, and that the market will for some time be affected chiefly by the warlike or pacific intelligence received from abroad. Illinois Central Shares on an advance in premium on gold in New York have declined nearly $l, closing 72 to 73, but Eries have been comparatively steady, the latest quotation, 361 to 37, being less than $1 under the pile° of this day week. Atlantic and Great Western Sectional Bonds remain steady, but the Consolidated Bonds have de clined to 20 to 21. (Front L. P. Morton and Co's Circular.) New York, April 6. Since our last advices the money market has been un settled and very firm. The preparation of the quarterly statements of the National Banks, required by law to be made up on the Ist init., has caused an extensive with drawal of deposits by tho banks of the interior ; and the revival of stock speculation, at a time when the funds of the banks were thus reduced, has pro duced a demand for loans which has been met with extreme difficulty, the rate of interest having in some instances ranged as high as 7 per cent. in gold. At the same time, there has been an unusual demand for cur rency in the agricultural districts, growing out of the transactions in real estate and mortgage•, which usually date from April Ist, and are this year larger than ordinarily. The country banks are, however, beginning to return their deposits, and to-day the market is easier, but at fully the legal rate of interest. The irregularities in the money market have caused an active realising movement in stocks, under which prices CIGAR TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO.—The extent of the local manufacture of this article in San Francisco, says the Mercantile Gazette is such as to give employment to seven hundred, and at certain seasons to twelve hund redpersons, the greater portion of whom are Chinese, whose patient and manual dexterity adapt them peculiarly for this work. San Francisco cigars, made by Chinamen, are sold and consumed as pure Havanas, without being de tected, except by the best judges. During the month of January, 1867, taxes were paid on 1,711,582 home-made cigars taken out of bond for consumption. There is a specific duty on these cigars of $4 per thousand, and 20 per cent. ad valorem, which makes a total average of $ll to $l6 per thousand. The revenue derived from this manufacture in San Francisco ranges from $lB,OOO to $20,000 per month. have declined 2 to 3 per cent., Erie at one time touching 541. Contrary to the course which affairs have actually taken, there has been a very general anticipation of an upward turn in the prices of railroad stocks, and it is net improbable that, in the event of a return or ease in money, combinations may be formed for promoting an advance. Erie closes at 551, and Illinois Central at 114 to 114 i. United States Bonds have ruled steady. Prices have not advanced with the rise in quotations at London, the difference in values at the two points having been adjusted by the decline in gold. The Government has fcr some time sold a large portion of its current receipts of coin, devoting the proceeds to the purchase of Seven-Thirties and compound interest notes. These sales, together with the anticipation of the payment of the May coupons, amounting to about $24,000,000, have weakened the pre mium, and yesterday the price closed at 132-1- The statement of the public debt, for April Ist, shows that during last month the amount of Seven-Thirty Notes was reduced $50,467,900, the reduction having been ac complished by their conversion into Consolidated Five- Twenties of 1865, to the extent of $34,723,000, and also by direct purchase. Notwithstanding the large salee of coin by the Government, the amount of gold in the Treasury, deducting the sum due to depositors, shows an increase during the month of $4,471,006. The aggregate debt, less cash in Treasury, has been reduced since March Ist, $7,335,819. The reduction since January 1, 1867, is $19,897,102; and since April 1, 1866, $182,218,446. About $55,000,000 of short obliga tions have been funded or retired during March, and the fact that these largo operations have been done without special effort, with no derangement to monetary affairs, and almost imperceptibly to public notice shows how groundless are the timid apprehensions, entertained in some quarters, of difficulty in the disposal of the short date debt. HAYTI.—A private letter received in Washing ton, dated Port-au-Prince, March 1•l, confirms the over throw of the late Gcvernmeut in Hayti. Two attempts of the revolutionary party were made—the first on the 22d of February, at the Capital, which was suppressed by President Geffraid, and the leader of the insurgents, Prospero Elie, and his son were killed. The second attempt, a few days after, made at St. Mares, was success ful. President Geffrard, finding that public opinion was too strong against him, sent in his resignation, and on the 13th of March embarked with his family on board a French man-of-war for Jamaica. A now President would shortly be elected. It is believed in the United States (says the Pall Mall Gazette) that the recent act of Congress on the wearing of court dresses was aimed at Mr. Adams, who wears on State occasions a dress of blue and gold, which was designed by his father while Secretary of State under President Munroe. Gen. Hancock's Indian expedition, which left Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was at Selma, 15,000 strong. Gen. Hancock will march to Fort Learned, on the Santa Fe road, where he will invite the hostile chiefs to a con ference, with the hopes of effecting a peaceful settlement of the difficulties, but should they fail to come to terms, he will immediately commence a vigorous war against them. Gen. Augur, with his staff and fifty passengers, were snow-bound on the Northern Pacific Railroad. The weather in Colorado and Utah had been intensely cold, and great quantities of snow had fallen. The mercury in many places was 40 degrees below zero, and large numbers of the horses and cattle had been frozen to death. An ear-ring has been invented by an ingenious New England jeweller, which obviates the necessity of piercing tho ear. The ordinary hoop is divided in the centre, and acts as a spring on the lobo of the ear, being adjusted by a screw. MARINE LOSSES DURING MARCll.—During the month of March there were lost by fire, wreck, collision, and other disasters at sea, 51 American vessels, of which eight were ships, 13 barks, 8 brigs, 11 schooners, and 4 steamers. The aggregate value of these vessels is esti mated at $2,629,000. For the first three months of 1867 ;he marine losses of American vessels have amounted to 171 vessels, valued at $8,652,500, as compared with $10,474,000 during the same period of 1866, and $4,858,000 during the same period of 1865. Dr. M. B. Renslow has made a microscopic ex amination of several hams, an I has found in one of them encysted trichinae, as numerous as 48,600 in a cubic inch. In a fragment of muscle from the body of the late Miss Ida Ball he found them as numerous as 113,400 to the cubic inch. The portions examined were one two-hundredths of an inch thick, and the circle shown through the micro scope was one-eighth of an inch in diameter. From these data, with the number of trichina) seen, the number in a cubic inch was easily computed. The fine steamship Erie, of the American and European line from Thston, was successfully launched at Newburyport on Wednesday, April 3, in the pre sence of 10,000 people. About twenty vessels are on the stocks in the State of Maine, ready to be launched this spring. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW 'Mini', Saturday, April 13. Last Saturday's steamers took out $324,000 for Europe, and the Californian steamer on Monday brought in $898,000. There are signs that the state of things will soon change, and our exports of the precious metals exceed our imports. The gold market has been excited, and violent fluctuations have occurred in consequence of the news from Europe. We learn that the Germans are forcing the sale of our Bonds, and this intelligence, although not affecting the Government Securities them selves, has had a strong influence on the price of gold. On Wednesday large transactions took place, and gold rose from 134 k to 138 in a few hours. The Government has been selling in small quantities, and the fact that at the end of this month $30,000,000 in gold will have to be paid by the Treasury for interest on the Five-Twenty Bonds has not been - without its effect. Money remains easy, although the demand within the last few days has been unusually large. Trade is brisker, and more activity is seen in every department. The quarterly statements of the national banks of New York, Phila delphia, and Boston show an increase in the profits and surplus funds, and a decrease in loans, discounts, and de posits. The tardreh o gte:o f ehdr a A aapl ksnsr p irdhi t. bornte acsg l r buin ui Cass, ahng, ne:og o uofe n sFfniwi ocao t e l tteh i l The Secretary of the Treasury's statement of the t hdbeenspeculativec Presidents u h tl ra a at r ui e vs s e- . is among an d the C electedhieago Railroad.i ctors Pittsburg, y e k l i v d ,l w ai e n h r e g l o decline naehe, railway swui considered sehei sndaesneemrdlheeodacsostis satisfactory. A •favourable report is looked for from the committee directed to investigate the Pacific Mail Ship's Company's affairs. Arthur F. Wilmartb, of Now York, is president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, just orga nised with a capital of $5,000,000. It is supposed that the bill lately passed by the New York State Legislature with reference to the New York Central has been vetoed by the Governor. But as this has been discounted, it has had little effect in pece of the shares. Illinois Central has been steady notwithstanding the fall noticed in London, where it is largely held. It is thought a good dividend-paying line, in good condition, which contrasts favourably with English lines, is not likely to be long affected unfavourably. The tendency later in the week has been decidedly better,. and, notwithstanding the unsettled state of affairs in Europe, there is a more buoyant tone, while the business done has been out of all proportion larger than that transacted of late. I give the latest quotations:- Gold 1361, United States Five : Twenties (1862) 1091, (1864) 107 j, (1865) 105, (1865 new issue) 1071, United States Ten-Forties 98, United States 7-30 Loan 1071, Missouri Sixes 94/, Tennessee Sixes 64, Virgini- Sixes 951, New York Central Railroad 100, Erie 54/, Erie Preferred 701, Hudson River 981, Reading 98i, Michigan Central 108, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 671, Illinois Central 113, Cleveland and Pittsburg 681, Cleveland and Toledo 1171, Chicago and North- Western 321, Chicago and North-Western Preferred 591, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 901, Chicago and Rock Island 87+, Ohio and Mississippi Certificates 231, Adams Express Company 561, American 56, United States 57, Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s 67, Merchants' Union 19, Western Union Telegraph Company 38, Pacific Mail Steamship Company 1231, Atlantic Mail Steamship Com pany 80, Cumberland Coal Company Preferred 28, Canton Company 421, Quicksilver Mining Company 28, Mariposa Mining Company if, Mariposa Mining Company Pre ferred 191. (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Our tidvices from New York by the Asia aro to the 9th instant. The increased demand for money reported in our last had continued, and higher rates were paid; the strin gency had but little effect on Government securities, but on Railroad Shares the effect was marked by a general fall of from two to four per cent. Cleveland and Pittsburg cud New York Central exhibited a still larger decline, the former having fallen $6 on the impression that the addi tional outlay of capital required for their new arrange ments would not prove remunerative. In the case of Now York Central the depression of about $5 was attributed to the fear that the Governor of the State would veto the bill lately passed to enable the company to increase its tariff for freight and passengers. In State Stocks we note an improvement of $3 in Georgia Sixes, and Indiana Fives ; and a decline of $2 iu Tennessee. First Class Railroad Mortgages were steady, but those held in less consideration were offered at a de cline, without inducing pm-chasers. Gold remained steady, at about former quotations. The daily fluctuations in the London market for Ame rican securities have been of unusual severity, prices being influenced almost entirely by the various rumours current as to the course of European politics. United States 6-20's, which left off this day week at MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS. (Front Correspondents of " The Anglo-American Times.") PARIS, April 23. e i s attended, t a l i r a e n p a e nr performed m t t h he e ed r period of the year. Im p osin g Church services, with Passion week in F rance is more scrupulously o bserved by an abstraction from worldly pleasures a iy ith. Easter Sun c n not less than e l even gran d o and rr e a s po d e n v d o i t n i o g n p t o o n i r p s e g aac i n o nda u . dt s chle e oar x lrei e gem r efcol pr incipal Parisian c h urc h es. Inde pendent otdharvyoouitgt washoofue e t tih t e h eb e rna w to ein e d e a ki y to see the rites and hear the exce llent music, con tributed much to mpeassndeesntinofthreeligious zeal, curiosity fill to overflowing the various places of worship. The traditional promenade of Longchamps, which the irreligionsiudulge in on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Passion week, came off as usual, and was characterised by the customary carriage procession, in which were to be seen the latest, newest, and most extravagant fashions. This time-honoured observance is fast losing the charm which once attended it, and no better evidence of its degeneracy could be given than the feeble display made by the partisans of fashion last week. There were a few carriages belonging to the hint ton, several actresses with their broughams, a number of foreigners with their equipages, but 'Longchamps, like thefite of mardi-gras, can only sur vive a few years longer. It is evident that the must ere n n w Parisian public are losing taste for such displays, unworthy y this numbered practicalw ith the ag e t , hi ng s a th nd at t were—follies sou venirs that nobody can .wish restored. A prolonged and obstinate strike of the journey men tailors, with which our city is visited, prevented the Beau Brummels of Parisian fashions from ap pearing at Longchamps in the newest styles of the season. This strike, much to the annoyance of the public, bids fair to continue for some time longer, as the proposal made by the employers to effect a compromise by offering an augmentation of 10 per cent. on wages, has been stoutly refused by the workmen who persist in claiming, as at first, 40 per cent. From 30,000 to 40,000 labourers, many of them with families depending upon them for sup port, are thrown out of employment by this disagreement. Fortunately they have a com mon fund to live upon, from which is distri buted lf francs per day to every unmarried man, 2 francs to each married man, and 50 cen times for every child. When this has been ex hausted, suffering or capitulation must follow on the part of the journeymen tailors, and as the latter is the most probable, we hope soon to see the tailor ing establishments opened, and clothing as cheap as heretofore. The Deputies of the Corps Legislatif are now in dulging in their Easter holidays, which commenced last week and terminate to-morrow. Many of them have left the city for their country homes, to enjoy in tranquillity this brief respite from legisla tive cares. In the absence of Parliamentary de bates, the journals are filling up their columns with articles on foreign politics, the weather (which has been prolific in squalls for several days), the Exhibition and its wonders, &c., &c., &c. According to a current on dit a Russian com pany has purchased the entire Exhibition building, iron, glass, pillars, framework, and all its fixtures, and intends transporting them to St. Petersburg for erection there. The period fixed for the closing of the Exposition in Paris is the 31st October, and the Imperial Commission have contracted to de liver the material in the month of November. Adelina Patti, in the most fascinating role of Rossini, in the " Barbier," has bade her adieux for the season at the Italian Opera. During the per formance some twenty bouquets were thrown her by an enthusiastic audience. " Romeo and Juliette," for some time expected and often postponed, will be given for the first time at the Lyrique this - week. Charles Gounod, the composer, has been at work on this opera since the appearance of " Faust" in 1858, and although he has from time to time produced other pieces, he has not neglected his favourite subject, which he has now announced as ready " after years of applica tion." " Ronnio and Juliette" is in five acts, pre ceded by a prologue, in which will be sung a chorus, relating the legend of the lovers of Verona. Ma dame Miolau Carvalho takes the role of Juliet, and Michot that of Romeo. The other roles of Mon tague and Capulet are entrusted to artistes of un questionable talents, and everything in the way of handsome decorations is lavished upon the play to warrant its success. Blind Tom is giving his unparalleled musical soirees at the Salle hertz every evening, and is eliciting considerable wonder among the Parisians, who are still loth to believe that it is not some Yankee trick instead of real musical genius. The Emperor Napoleon 111. attained his fifty- ninth birthday last Saturday ; he was born on the 20th of April, 1808. On Monday last the Red, TVltite, and Blue made its debitt at the Pompeian Palace before a Parisian public. There was a large party in attendance at the opening ceremonies, among whom was our Minister, General John A. Dix ; Consul Gen eral Murphy, of the United States, at Frank fort-on-the-Maine ; Colonel Wed. W. Clarke, Dr. Johnson, Colonel. Norton, and a large number of representatives of the French, English, and American Press. Captain Hudson, the owner and daring commander of the noble little ship, aided by his first officer, Mr. Fitch, received their guests with great courtesy, and willingly answered the many questions put to them about their perilous passage across the ocean. Among other American amusements that will delight the pleasure seekers who come to Paris this spring will be the Grand American Circus, which will soon commence giving its performances here ; and the American negro ministrels, who will give their delineations of the negro character. There are many good musicians among them, and they cannot fail to give satisfaction to their audiences. This will be entirely a feature in these French per formances, and will no doubt be highly appreciated by the French people, who are so fond of mirth and enjoyment. Among the recent arrivals of Americans in Paris are Consul General Murphy, on a visit to the Expo sition Colonel Wed W. Clarke, who has been on Foreign Exchange has ruled quiet, but closes more - I active. Bankers' 60 days' sterling is quoted 108 i to 1083 ; an extended tour through Italy, inspecting the petro, do. 3 days, 109 to 109 i ; bankers' bills on Paris, 60 days leum oil wells of that country ; and General John 5.173- to 5•16-1 ; do. 3 days, 5.15 to 5-13 , 1-. C. Breckinridge, who has been passing some time in Cotton has declined steadily, in sympathy with lower London. prices at Liverpool and with the fall in gold, and closes at 'The Exposition which 271 to 28 cents for Mid. Uplands. The receipts at all the E • • at first promised to disap int the "great expectations" held of it, is now ports, for the past week, aggregate 39,000 bales, and the P ° out in all its magnificence , and will withou t exports about 90,000 bales, the shipments from the Southern coming ports alone being over 70,000 bales. The receipts since doubt be a perfect success, fully realising all the September I s t amount to 1,565,000 bales, and the present hopes once entertained by those most interested stock at all ports is 535,000 bales. in it. (From Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.) The consecration of the French and English The weeks pass, but without news coming to change W es l eyan Ch urc h, on Rue Demours, will take place the aspect of affairs. The uncertainty continues un broken ; the sky is more overcast than eve r, and i t is long on Sunday next. I have not learned who a r e t o be since we have seen the Bourse so strongly and steadily bishops in attendance. The members of this church depressed. One meets none but sellers, or hears anything deserve very great credit for their zealous exertions spoken of but war. The Routes close at 65c. 29f.; the in behalf of its erection. Italian at 44c. 30f. The weather this week in Paris is not deserving United States bonds, which we have left at soi in our of mention, for it has been miserably disagreeable, last circular, have declined daily this week, even mor® rapidly and continuously than other securities. This putting a stop to all out-door amuseme nts. springs from the fact that tho Germ an ma rkets , especially Paris is not yet crowded, and there is ma n y a Berlin, whore fears are most strong, have thrown, and are sign with " Rooms to Let," greatly to the dis still throwing, a considerable amount of American Bonds upon our Bourse. gust of those who wish to be so oblig in g as to lei them. Ou the other side of the Rhine war is considered itntni nent, and in this view holders sell the securities which are most easily placed—that is to say, "the dollars," which aro now negotiable upon all European markets. Further, at the current rates, German speculators profit by purchases at home for sale here, so inundating our market, which absorbs our large amounts, either to cover shorts or as in vestment. .But nevertheless holders in r ranee uomintlucc to be alarmed, and if America should not come forward to buy and sustain quotations we may yet see lower rates. The nervous and depressed position of the market is for the time but little affected by variations in gold, or poli tical news, from the United States, the adverse influ ences being entirely European. Our readers will be interested in the following table showing the fluctuations in 5-20's this week :- 19 April... 791 ..... .... 78i 20 „ 7 8 3 1 - i - 771 22 „ 7 8 5 i „ 23 78i 7 4 13-16 ... 78 24 „ 77 3 25 „ 77 t Exchange on London 2.5.14. So many absorbing subjects engross the public mind in this year of Universal Exposition that it is difficult to state which really is the most important topic of the day. Some (and these are politieiaus affirm that tailors and their strike are the most interesting subjects ; milers (aria mese are artists) maintain that hairdressers, barbers, in fact, deserve particular attention, for they, too, have sat up a strike, and beards must grow ; but a large number contend (and these are doctors) that the undertakers, who are going to strike, are the most sensational of all. I think there can he no doubt about it. Hope ful people wish undertakers would strike, for the hopeful are ever full of trust, and the fact of there being no one to bury the dead seems to infer that no one will die ; these charitable souls are greatly interested in undertakers. Pity their fate, and do not believe that the croquemorts' red noses are the effect of anything but abstemiousness. My adhesion is less sincere, for granting that the undertak ing profession be not very lively, who is to do their businesi as long as a difference of opinion exists between the principals and subordinates of these solemn establishments? I do not suppose :a man could have been drilled into the corps unless he had shown undeniable symptoms of capacity for the said calling, or have experienced feelings of sympathy fur unlimited undertaking ; he is, therefore, no more to be pitied than a Parisian cocker de jiacre for having to sit behind two dege nerate specimens of thoroughbreds, which end in hippophagy when steaks, and not stakes, are got out of them. With the exception of undertakers, France seems to be the most convenient of all places for strikes, so much can be done without when things Come to a climax. In the clothing line, for instance, the most useful garments have long been thrown aside ; and, as far as hairdressing is concerned, both M i ne. de Gallifit and her sister, Mnie. de Pourtalis, have adopted flowing hair. It is somewhat dis agreeable when the wind is high to be caught by one's hair in the buttons of gentlemen's coats, but as long as the invisible hooks which join false locks on to the natural lengths do not fall off it does not matter so much. Longchamps is certainly the slowest fete day in France, and although the weather was finer than usual last Friday, the fashions did not go to be shown off round the Lake as in former times. The drive was not more animated than usual, and the real aris tocracy of the land rode over the Bois instead of the aristocracy of milliners and Court tailors. The Gardes de Paris did not even station on horse back, down the Champs Elysees. The Duke and Duchess de Mouchy drove out with powdered livery servants. Prince Stoltykoff was in a phaeton ; Mdrne. de Metternich, who had been to hear Haydn's " Sept paroles," at the Madeline, went her usual round ; Prince i'roabetskoi and the customary hangers-on were the small fraction of that creme de la creme which is ever floating between the Tuileries at one end and the Moulin Rouge at the other. Gastronomy is a great hobby at present with the elite of Parisian society, and the daily menu, pub lished by Baron Brisse in the Liberte, has been imitated by other writers ; one signs " Vatel," a third " Balthazzar," and the great idea is to adhere to the prescribed bill of fare of either. Shrimps, lobsters, eels, and turbot are dished up with every flower of speech that can make them tempting, and the times are such that Brillat Savarin's farnou opinion is becoming universal. He used to say that, be preferred the man who invented a new sauce, to the man who discovered a new star. Paris is getting extremely full, but it is doubtful whether it will ever be full enough for those wbo have made up their minds to realise a large fortu n e out of " all the nations of the world." Living i s not quite so dear as was expected, but every article of taste is doubled in price. Dressmakers and mil_ liners are not speculating wisely on American and English ladies, who should be advised to buy their own materials and patterns, and do their work themselves. This would be the most reasonable strike ever attempted, and it would put a stop to imposition besides. Clothing meanwhile is a vtry complicated affair at the Exposition ; it is all eluded in the 4th Group. A superficial obserter scarcely notices the fact as he runs over the cata logue, but when he is roaming over the gnat building, he perceives that there is apparently no end to texture and garments. It seems almost 'ii credible that man should require so much for the covering of his body, and that his wants should have given rise to so many different branches of in dustry. A jester would laughingly observe that, clo'hing has greatly improved since our first parents left Paradise. In my future letter I will give some details on the wonders achieved and exhibited at the Champs de Mars in 1867. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, April 22. On Wednesday last, 'William Cornell Jewett, Esq., of Philadelphia, was married to Miss Char lotte Berna, daughter of Anthony Berna,' Esq., of New York. Consul-General William Walton Murphy, assisted by Hobard Miller, Esq , Attaché of the United States Legation (late Adjutant of the 19th Michigan Cavalry), performed the marriage ceremony, and pronounced them " one and insepa rable," as the stars and stripes of the glorious ban ner under which the bride and her attendants stood, surrounded with rare plants and brilliant flowers. After a recherchj dejeuner, the happy pair started for Baden-Baden, and their health was drank iu a parting bumper of champagne. Among the guests were—Mrs. Murphy, Baron Reinach, Consul for the Kingdom of Belgium, wife, and son ; Sir Chas. Shaw, Brigadier-General in the British army, an old war-worn hero, with his wife ; E. S. - Wheeler, of Philadelphia, late of the United States navy ; Dr. Bernhard, correspondent of several English and American newspapers, &0., &c. Mr. Jewett has in his employ, as a free man, Robert Brown, a coloured man, late servant and slave of Jefferson Davis, with whom he was, at the time of the capture of his master by the Federal troops. THE UNION PACIFIC RAIL WAY. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Naval and Military Intelligence. Mr. Corry, M.P., and the members of the Board of Admiralty who have been engaged on a visit to the several outports, returned to London yes t e rday from Portsmouth, whe r e they disembarked from the paddle yacht Enchantress, Staff Commander Pe ttey ' Rear-Admiral R. S. Robinson, Controller o f th i : Navy, also returned to London from Portsmont yesterday. Previous to the departure of their Lord ships from Portsmouth the Roads and Works Co l " mittee of the Borough Council had an audience, 11 appointment, with Mr. Corry—Sir S. C. Dacres, K.C.8., Major Clarke, R.E., the Admiralty Direc tor of Works, and Capt. Brandreth, R.N., Pr ivate secretary, being present—to submit plans for Pre; venting the encroachment of the sea and fo r th ,_ formation of an esplanade between Southsea Castle and Fort Cumberland—a continuation of the Pre sent esplanade along the line of beach between Portsmouth town fortifications and Southsea Ca stle : 1 Mr. Corry promised the most serious consider ation of the Board of Admiralty, in conjunction with a% War Department, to the scheme submitted. I t necessary that some decisive steps should be at ° l3co taken in the matter, the stone apron or glac is , a 1 „ front of Southsea Castle being already destroyed by the action of the sea in S. and S.E. gales, the dit e A be d of its supporting and as yet unfinished iron-sbi elue earthworks cut through and filled up with shing le ' The same destructive action is at work, indeed, atop: the whole 4,000 yards' length of sea beach betw ee the Castle and Fort Cumberland, and unless reale; dial works are at once entered upon Forts Ltle3P and Eastney, which have been constructed at W i ; mense cost, will soon have their ditches eate through, and their ramparts levelled with the sh iogy o of the beach. The deputation to Mr. Corry fr d the Borough Roads and Works Committee cons iste of the Mayor, Mr. E. Emanuel ; Mr. Chambers' J.P., ex.-Mayor; and Mr. Councillor E. Gait. The paddle frigate Terrible, Capt. Cornmer e ' c i C. 8., V.C., is under orders to sail from spitb e3. this morning for the Mediterranean. clef The Chanticleer, screw sloop, Conn - 0 11 w Bridges, arrived at Spithead yesterday nw rill from the Thames en route for the Pacific. The Central Division extends from Denver to Salt Lake City, a distance, by the proposed line, of 403 miles. There are two passes by which the road might be carried. The present mail coach runs through Bridger's Pass, forming a sort of semi circle to the route by Berthond's Pass, which may be described as the diameter, the former the circum ference, being 612, that is 209 miles longer than the latter. Not only is the present mail coach road longer, but it is more difficult, involving the passage of two Snowy Sierras—the Rocky Mountains and the Wasatch. The direct road from Denver to Salt Lake City follows the 40th degree of latitude, and has therefore an almost due east and west course. It ascends Clear Creek to Empire City, crosses the Snowy Sierra at Berthoud's Pass, and descends im mediately into Middle Park. From the Snowy Sierra to the Sierra Wasatch the line crosses the valley of the great Colorado, descending by the bank of the White River to Green, and ascending by the bank of the Wintah River to the Wasatch. It tra verses a succession of parks and valleys, free from any considerable altitudes, pursuing a river border continuously through a country depressed among mountains covered and protected within them, fertile in soil and genial in temperature throughout the year. The saving in distance is closely calcu lated by Mr. Leland, and he shows that nearly 1 5179,000 would have been economised had the mail coach road been originally formed by this route, in the mere expense of running the conveyance, and in time, two days would have been saved. Nor would these have been the only gains. The route would have carried the traveller through a vastly superior country, with a better climate, with timber, fuel, and water in uninterrupted abundance and good quality, offering to settlers along the road attractive farms within the parks. When the railway reaches Denver, the Eastern States will be in connectio❑ with the great mining city. Denver stands at the head of the rolling prairies, and is termed the City of the Plains. As it stands also at the foot of the Rocky Mountains at a high elevation, it might as aptly be termed the City of the Mountains. Mr. Hepworth Dixon described it " as containing 4,000 people, with ten or twelve streets laid out, with two hotels, a bank, a theatre, half-a-dozen chapels, fifty gambling-houses, and 100 grog-shops. As you wander about these hot and dirty streets you seem to be walking in a city of demons. Every fifth house appears to be a bar—a whisky shop, a large beer saloon. Every tenth house appears to be a brothel or a gaining-house—very often both in one. In these horrible dens a man's life is of no more worth than a dog's. Until a couple of years ago, when a change for the better began, it was quite usual for honest folks to be awakened from their sleep by the noise of exploding guns, and when daylight came to find that a dead body bad been tossed from the win dow into the street. No inquiry has ever been made into the cause of death ; decent people merely said, " Well, there is one sinner less in Denver, and may his murderer meet his match to-morrow." A great change has been wrought, as Mr. Dixon allows, in these two years, and no doubt Denver, when opened out by this line, with its immense mining wealth, will grow with amazing rapidity. The other Ter minus of the Central Division is the Mormon city of the Great Salt Lake. " This singular town covers an area of about nine square miles—that is, three miles each way. It is one of the most beauti fully laid out cities in the world. The streets are very. wide, with water running through nearly every one of them. Every block is surrounded with beautiful shade trees, and almost every house has its neat little orchard of apple, peach, apricot, and cherry trees. In fact, the whole nine square miles is one continuous orchard." The further the line penetrates westward, the more difficult it be comes ; and it is in the westward division that nature has piled up its greatest obstacles to test the skill of engineers and the enterprise of the inhabi tants. The Government grants $48,000 per mile for 300 miles of the most mountainous and difficult part of this road, and $32,000 per mile for other sections more easy of construction, while the line across the prairies and through the valleys is sub sidised at only $16,000 per mile. The line is now being carried from th e nav i ga ble waters of the Sacramento eastward th roug h California. The laying of the track was commenced in June, 1864, and a considerable distance has been completed. The Californians declare they will finish their section in two years and a half from the beginning of this year. 10,000 coolies are kept constantly employed. However energetic and skilled in mining, penetrating moun- tains, and blasting rocks, the Californians may be, Mr. Leland considers this estimate too sanguine, and gives from five to ten years as the time allotted by those who ought to know. The road will penetrate through Utah, Nevada, and Upper California, t , :a- Vergies the r:Lelic:st , uUUlna alaticletS oL mese States. The distances given by Mr. Leland are from New York to Kansas City, via Pennsylvania, 1,357 miles. From Kansas City to Denver, 601 miles; from Denver to Great Salt Lake City by Berthoud's Pass, 403 miles ; giving a total distance from the City of the Mormons to New York, by the Pennsyl vania road, of 2,361 miles, or, to Philadelphia 76 miles less. What the distance is from the Mormon City to San Francisco we have no means of ascer taining. The completion of this road will, as we have all along maintained, work a revolution in the course of travel, and will exert a marked influence on the United States. The best mining tracks will be fairly opened to the world, and the yield of sil ver and gold promises to be so large that these metals cannot escape a heavy depreciation. The Mormon institution of polygamy will be over whelmed without the necessity of a blow. The vast States of the Union will be knit together ; and if the plan advocated by Mr. Partridge be adopted, and the capital removed to St. Louis, the Central Government will hold a central post with every wire i❑ its hand that thrills to the vast extremities. It would be easier for the Supreme Government to rule from St. Louis over the United States by means of the rail and the telegraph, than it was in older days for the British Government to rule without these aids over the United Kingdom. The holders of the " Manifest Destiny" doctrine, founded in reason and patriotism as it is, will gain an .accession of strength by the tide of events, and those who have been in the habit of sneering at what they are pleased to consider the extravagant boasting of Americans will be compelled to confess in the ex traordinary speed with which these advances have been made, that time but adds cohesion to its strength, and that there is no necessity in nature for the weight of this gigantic Republic to break it in pieces. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1867 WONDERFUL IZULVS IN SIAAt f the General Perrin, a Frenchman, mandarin o f third class, commanding the land forces of King in Siam, writes to a French paper as, o t, lows :—" For six days' journey of an elelo ti l y I have traversed the ruins of Ancor-Niat , ° 13 40 penetrating them at intervals, where exP l°l. 6 , had been before. What I have seen of In ° o 4 meets, temples, palaces, columns, staircases , "ila piles of marbles, cannot be told. They 11°I tt i not believe me. The people of the ent e io say that the ruins are spread over a c er• of from ten to twelve leagues in diatn i e What was the city that existed there, a ll ' a cri what empire was it the capital ? I have t be temples in a good state of preservation (exeePv h iell vegetation that had sprung up in them), v fr oo measured not less than a league round. Tne re f bie• forests of marble columns ; everything is of Int t be Although much may have disappeared beneatil a t soil, what remai ns i s f ar a b ove w h a t we s e c a re Versailles or elsewhere. In some places they fo r as solid as though built but yesterday. 13tit i g, the undergrowth and th e e ff ec t o f ligh .„n l lO these monuments, which th e p eo pl e sa y are f r ci ° 4 four to five thousand years old, might be t°,.; n o in complete preservation. I regret that 11 35 %0 photographic apparatus, I assure you, and bem pit o me or not, that the most celebrated rnonni ll : e ys of ancient or modern Europe are as mere bare 00, compared with these, while our palaces and ' t ot licas, the Vatican and Coliseum are little b e e p than dog-kennels in comparison. I wished to 1. 50 0 0 to a temple which appeared to be in a gooli._! as eih of preservation. There were eleven stan' t be of I know not how many steps, which 1nt 1 , 5 5 4 3 0. ascended to arrive at the first of the five Per i° ';!, sis I commenced my upward journey at half - p as 'elf in the morning; at half-past seven I bad sn3rhole entered the lower halls. Fearing that I migh t , 00 to descend the steps in the heat of the day, is compelled to shorten my visit. The walls lot every part sculptured and ornamented. Th e o 9 effect which the sight of these mon loll , - produced upon me was one of amazetnenl" s ll am no amateur to go into ecstacies over,„ s t iog things. The next mor n i n g I c li m b e d the W l ' o3 l staircase of an immense tower, sit ua t e d on an . "e0 uence. Arrived at the summit I enjoyed th e f 7,1'0 of the ruins. Th er e are , i n l oca liti es w here J- P ri ar not yet penetrated, palaces of a height an."od deur truly colossal. With a fi e ld- g l ass I exai ll ' it a. the details. Their architectural richness rivalled, and they extend into the territory - of r o te bodia, a distance of ten or tw e lve leagues. P c A to yourself how Paris would appear in r uins' r of few rough stones, scattered over a diatt3eteseo two or three leagues at the utmost• pee, there are on the ground, and below its surf s 0 marble already hewn in sufficient quantitleall build, even as the giants have built be re ' o f sti the cities of the universe. I have seen the leg o t he statue, the great toe of which was eleven tin! e , the length of my hunting rifle. It is in marble like the rest, in fact there is no other stone near except fee pieces of coloured marble used for borders, al l A O the eyes of the statues, which are more inf t K i l t larger than Saint German l'Auxerrois. T h- a il octagonal pyramids cut off at the middle, If it marble. Who has done these things ? WO! some illustrious dynasty they can have but loped with the oblivion that has ov e f tl 3° their magnificent monuments. The people °.,derot country have no real conception of the bul'ece although their literature extends back into the tunics much farther than ours. COUNTRY MARKETS. re LIVEPOOL.—FRIDAY. iv We had a good attendance at to-day's market, an a 3, saj was a good demand for wheat, at full prices for 111,. rather more money for white. Flour in moderate c lot; at previous rates. In oats and oatmeal there w as n° 1 011 `0 , in value or demand, nor in barley, beans, andly 3s 'bro os ,o corn was wanted, and mixed and yellow AlllO6O ll o cli 43s 9d to 44s per 4801 b. Primo white brought as 45s per 4801 b. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. r OV` i P On our market to-day English wheat was in 1/3 0 0f 0 to demand, and find fresh qualities realised an advali e d os' per qr. on last week's rates. Barley dull. Beau s 611 steady. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closoof the market. s . 4 0 ' s. d. 1 9 $ $ Bowers'West Hartley 16 6 Walls End Hettou •" 6 Holywell Main l6 6 Hetton Lyons .••••" 1 0 9 West Hartley Eden Main E. Brancepeth Gas Walls End Gosforth 16 3 Kelloe .................. 17 0 Wh arnc liffo Bradyoll's Hetton l7 6 Original Hartlop oo ' Haswell Ships at market, 43—sold. 39. NEW VOLCANO IN THE SOUTH SEAS.---1" - - r - es owing is an „extract from a letter front gr' °J. or ° Williams, her Britannic Majesty's Consul, NO ri g i' s t Islands : —"A volcano has broken outatsen, n ' t about two miles from the island of 01 g It wag ;co' coded by a violent shock of earthquake°swehl.h c001e,,,,- on the sth of September, and on 12th dense thick s'ltlo rose out of the sea. Lava was thrown up,discolouri°s ti' waterier many miles round, and destroying large (1 11$ 0 1) 10 ties of fish. Wherever the ashes fell on the fid dle island they destroyed all vegetation. Up to them iu—aetof November dense smoke was still being thrown up , 813 ,, - 11 1 ' informant says that the smoke rose higher than the 11- 0 1- pot bouring island, which is over 2,000 feet high. IV ° el ° at present ascertain if there is any bank throwner water. Last July wo steamed over th lace jesty's ship Brisk, and there were no s e igns of lo sil°lllB_ , , anything of the kind." 33 the 26th i inst., rths. at 4, Osnabitrea-16, f64olllce: EDIS - On Frida , Regent's-park, London, the l wife of Robert " r • kJ , of a son. r 0 14 ABBOTT—On the 25th inst., at 25, Paultons-squ a-e ' 0 the wife of John Alexander Abbott, of a so"' r ob' HARBOTTLE —On the 25th inst., at Clapham - O ra wife of Thos: Ifarbottle, Esq., of a daughter. Icli' Marriages. , 10' ROBSON —LowE----On the 23.1 inst. at St. Jobn ' ' C A e !.t tli Edinburgh, A. Hope Itobson, , Es late of Sbanof:ser Charlotte Anne, eldest daughter q of the 13° elh Lowe, Esq. i A . cii , ',, r 0 1 cooKE—HucniEs --On the 2:hl inst , at St. Lroc -6 .„ ,0 0 ,t - 4 1 Lower Norwood, Harry Welbv . Cooke, se ct • ti f d P -11.1 Henry Cooke, to Kate, eldest dlughter o' Ruggles, Esq., Sydeuhare-grove, .Lolver Norvi°°.. Deaths. iflg y WILSRIN —On the 26th inst , Mr. John Wil Sbi°' street, Fulham, in . year. t 10 1/1) T WYCROSS —On the his 26th 71st us it " at Ends', IC L , ° I 1j : l' °ll' Harvey Twyeross, of the firm of Moline and - eV don-bridge, in the 41st of his age. f ollA r ro, l NAPIER—On the 24th inst year at roll - b an k, St. Pe6ooo' on-Sea, John Moore Napier , only of the I ' Lte Sir with= Napier, K.C.B. - VO' N -0 ------ i 5 i 2 London: Printed and Published by WILLI:kg /V. ' l f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TLIE SUN Oftt ee fi t oti oti - Strand, in the Precinct of the Sa vo y , in thev blicicllesex.—satur4ay, April 27, 1367.