The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT` OF THE PUBLIC JOITRHALEQ • The iimes, remarking that it is rather sceptical auto the aim of the International Working Men's Association, the regeneration of mankind, as assured in the Fourth says:—lt is not a mere phrase that we are criticis jng. t- The idea is still more forcibly expressed in thO general burden of the report. This is an association which' boasts of having its hand against every other in,sti tution-and against every other class. It rejoices in pro .voking the hostility of Governments, and the report details, with evident satisfaction, how there is not a single 'Government in Europe—nay, in the world—with which it is not on hostile terms. The French Government, founded on universal suffrage, encounters the greatest ,hare of animosity ; Prussia is little better ; Belgium is threatened with annihilation. In Austria the society is simply revolutionary. In Switzerland it has had a struggle for its very existence. In Italy it is subjected to restric tions ; even in the United States it finds itself compelled to rely on foreign support. In England alone it occasions no active antagonism at present, in consequence of the pressure on the public mind of more urgent matters. In a word, it is the enemy of all Governments, even of the freest, and the friend of none. It cannot find a con genial home even in America, but supports itself in the air by a kind of universal repulsive force. We dare say it is better in practice, but this is the way it describes itself. Nor is it only Governments which are objects of this hostility. We search in vain through the report for a good word for any body, or c'ass, or institution, except the institution and those whom it represents. The ruling classes are only conceived as the authors of " bitter denunciations " against the working men, and capitalists are characterised by the general epithet of " rebellious." "For they are a rebellious race" is the refrain which is heard throughout this performance. In the same spirit it is not a compromise, or an agreement, or a treaty of ;peace which is the aim in view, but a " triumph." The Proletariat, as they call themselves, are at war with every other human institution, and will . be contented with nothing short of victory over conquered foes. The Anglo-American Telegraph Company's history seems likely, the Herald thinks, to furnish a good illustra tion of the recuperative power of reduced rates upon net revenue. When the prospectus of a French rival appeared, promising to carry ordinary messages at £2 each, the Anglo-American directors met their opponents in posse, by giving their customers an advantage in ease. They an nounced that on and after September 1 they would reduce their rates from £5 to £3, in addition to the land charges at each end, which, it appears average 7s. 6d. The ahem tion has been made during the dullest season of the year, at a time when all who can are enjoying their holiday. That the time was unfavourable for :the change is shown by the fact that while the daily average for the three months, from December to February, was £1,215, it had dropped in the period between May 1 and July 31 to £496 10s. This latter sum, therefore, is the standard of comparison, when we wish to estimate the effect of the alteration which has just been made, the result of which was to send up the receipts on September 1, to £5ll 4s. lOd. ; on the 2nd, to £545 4s. sd. ; on the 3rd, to £526 . 16s. ; on the 4th, to £534 4s. ; and on the sth, to £517 6s. 9d. The average for the five days was within a fraction of £527, an advance of nearly 8 per cent. in the money taken, consequent upon a much more remarkable increase in the burin- se done. In round numbers, we may take a daily receipt of £406 10s. as representing 100 messages at £5 each. A receipt of £527, when the charge is £3 7s. 6d., represents 156 messages. It follows, therefore, that the immediate con sequence of the reduction has been to add 8 per cent. to the receipts, and 56 per cent. to the business ; a result with which the proprietary has every reason to- be more than satisfied. We commend the lesson thus taught to the attentive consideration of those southern railways which have just been acting upon a diametrically opposite policy, and ask them whether it would not be worth while to try back, before the bad blood, generated by their mis taken tactics, has led to an exodus from the districts they serve, and has produced serious and permanent mischief to themselves. The Daily News concludes that the battle with the rail ways is not going well for the cabmen. Four days of a cab strike have brought no results. The public has been inconvenienced, but the cabmen have gained nothing. The railways make no sign. Scarcely an impression seems to have been made on them. Privileged cabs still use their privileges, and, however hard it may be to get to the stations, there is no difficulty in getting from them. Nor are the streets themselves entirely empty. The cab-stands are bare, but casual observers thought they noticed that during yesterday the number of unprivileged cabs plying in the streets increased. This may be so or not, but the cabmen are clearly not of one mind in the strike. The horses alone enjoy the rest ; the drivers are losing heart. Never well paid, they .are finding that even hall a loaf is better than no bread. They cannot hold out against wealthy corporations with the public against them. They may suffer courageously, as Englishmen do even when in the wrong, but they suffer in vain. The end is certain, and can only be the impove rishment of the cabmen. For the sake of a much abused but most useful class of men we hope they may be better advised than to continue a hopeless struggle. They have made a false move, and as they will have in the end to confess it, why not do so at once ? Four days of idleness may well suffice for a protest, but four weeks will do no more to remove the grievance of which they complain. Every day they are off the street brings them nearer to the end of their resources, but the first four days of the strike leave them farther away than at first from the end they had in view. The Standard observes that there is no doubt that the ,drivers of "privileged cabs" are being subjected to treat ment which is rather trying to their fidelity to the com panies. The cab proprietors who have ordered the present strike, or their agents, go into the railway stations and hire a cab, telling the driver to go to some place exactly one mile distant. The fare then keeps the cab waiting ten minutes and gives the driver exactly the amount the law permits him to charge, paying nothing whatever for the time the man has been waiting. Suppose the public hereafter followed this precedent against those proprietors who are shewing them the use of it ? In that case the cabmen would be the chief sufferers, for the masters would contrive to exact their usual tariff, no matter how little the drivers earned. Yet the cabmen are now blindly consenting to be made cats'-paws of by their employers. If they succeeded in the strike the drivers themselves would be the first to smart for it, for it is admitted on all sides that they would have to pay more for the hire of cabs. Of all the short-sighted combinations which have taken place within the last year or two this is the worst, And we have a regard for the cabmen's own interests when we express the hope that they will give up a contest -which was certain to leave them losers from the very first. The Telegraph announces that Lord Elcho is far from .comfortable. He seems to feel hie seat gradually, but jrresistibly, slipping from under him, and his attempts to 'prevent himself from falling are the reverse of graceful. We have fair authority for stating that the prospects of lord William Hay, the genuinely Liberal candidate for the county, are steadily improving. Lord Elcho's flagrant political tergiversation has taken from the ,conscientious but traditionally subservient farmers of the county whatever excuse they may have had for temporising with their convictions in former elections. And he does not please them any more as a candidate than he has of late done as a member. We hear a story which, if it were but partially true, would dispel the halo of chivalrous and high-souled nobility that has hitherto surrounded him. It is etated that he has written to the Earl of Hopetoun's agent a letter asking him to use his influence with the tenantry in order to secure the defeat of Lord William Hay ; but we are glad to hear the agent has assured the tenants that Lord Hopetoun had no wish to interfere ; so that Lord Elcho's appeal has been made in vain. Again, according to the same account, the last of the Adullamites is "putting on the screw" rather sharply with the electors whom his immediate and per sonal influence can reach ; and, whatever may be the accuracy of these statements, we have reason to know that moderate and thoughtful men who have supported Lord 'Elcho on former occasions employ rather severe language in discussing the reports of his dealings with the consti tuency. May we anticipate that the noble lord will hasten to meet these stories with a direct and complete refuta tion ? In the opinion of the Star, Fir John Pakington's faint old-lady-like protest against the disestablishment of the Irish Church are quaint and characteristic in the extreme. Sir John cannot consent to the destruction of the State Church in any part of these realms, because " we are mainly indebted to the Reformation for the civil and religious liberties we enjoy," and he " must decline to adopt any course which would in his judgment 'render those blessings less secure." So far all is plain and comprehensible ; but then comes Sir John's willingness to modify. Now modification of the Irish Establishment, if not exactly like that improvement off the face of the earth which was once considered a desirable fate for the whole Irish people, must at any rate be deemed to involve in a degree the principle of abolition. What will Sir John modify? and how? and where? If the pre sent circumstances call for modifications, might not an aggravation of these circumstances call for still greater modifications? And if Sir John's rule of modifying is the actual needs of the Protestant minority, is it not just conceiv able that the present situation might be so far aggravated as to make his modifications, even upon his own principle, amount practically to disestablishment? What, then, does Sir John Pakington save by insisting on the blessings of the Reformation ? Clearly nothing in principle, if he once lets in the wedge of modification. By " existing evils," everyone must understand the presence of a well-paid Protestant clergy, where the population is almost wholly Roman Catholic ; but there, if anywhere, the blessings of Protestantism need to be secured by the State. It is Sir John Faking t mi who, to save Ireland from the Romanists, would withdraw the Protestant Church endowments, except from those districts where the Protestants are w 4 .4q919 C )ugh t 9 theP. THE INQUEST ON MACKAY. ton Tuesday, at two o'clock, a jury, composed ot twenty bne inhabitants of the city, assembled in the New Court of the Old Bailey for the purpose of inquiring whether Alexander Arthur Mackay had been legally hanged.— The jury, accompanied by the coroner and Mr. Jonas, the governor of the gaol, passed through several narrow whitewashed paved corridors until they reached a large cell, where there was a black coffin on a stand. It was near the " block " used for the flogging of prisoners. In the coffin was the body of Mackay. He had a calm expres sion of countenance. The jury then returned to the court.— The first witness called was Mr. Jonas, the governor of Newgate, and he deposed that the deceased was a prisoner in the prison. His name was Alexander Arthur Mackay. He was 18 years of age, and he was a waiter. He was tried at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of Emma Grossmitb, and he was convicted. The prisoner banged was the person sentenced to death. — Dr. Gibson, surgeon of the gaol, deposed that the cause of the deceased's death was hanging.—The Coroner said that the jury could now, after hearing that evidence, answer the questions put to them by the Act of Parlia ment.—The jury then signed a verdict that the deceased was legally and nronerly executed. THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT PORTLAND. The following is a fuller account of the accident at Portland already announced by us. It appears that ,several sailors of the St. George had been on leave for a day or two, and according to custom some boats are sent from the ship every morning to the pier to take off the liberty men. These leave punctually at eight o'clock, but as there was a considerable number of men on shore they thought that if they all were late the boats would not go without them. In this, however, they were mistaken, for at the time appointed on the signal being given the boats got under weigh, leaving a considerable number of absentees on shore. These had to be on board by nine, and in order to do so some watermen's boats were engaged to take them to their ship. Throughout the morning the wind had been blowing rather freshly from the north-east, causing the sea in the roadstead to be exceedingly sloppy. Several small boats had taken their freights on board in safety, but the grossest ignorance was the cause of the accidentwhereby six poor fellows have met with death. Into one small boat capable of only accommodating with safety six or seven persons, sixteen were crammed, four teen blue jackets and marines, and two watermen, named Simpson and Read, who had charge of the boat. In con sequence of being so heavily laden her gunwale was only two or three inches above water, and fears were entertained by other watermen who were on the beach that some disaster would occur. They even remonstrated with Simpson and Read upon taking such a load, but without effect, and as the sailors were not dissatisfied, the boat was pulled out. As before stated, the sea was very sloppy, and, owing to the great weight in the boat, she could not rise to the waves ; she appeared to be completely waterlogged. With the exception, however, of shipping a little water at times, no mishap occurred until about three•quarters of the journey to the St. George had been accomplished, when, without the slightest warning, a heavy sea came, and the boat, not being buoyant enough to clear it, was immediately swamped, leaving sixteen people struggling in the water. The accident was noticed from the St. George, and the boats were immediately manned to render assistance. The first person on the wreck was a waterman named Frank Anthony, who was returning from the St. George, where he had landed some liberty men. With the utmost difficulty he suc ceeded in rescuing three persons, but in doing so placed his own life in considerable jeopardy. These he took on board the ship, but one of the unfortunate men died shortly after he had been received on board, while it is expected that another one will not survive. Those who could swim and free themselves from the dying embraces of their comrades were picked up by the St. George boats, but before these could render assistance four blue jackets and a marine were drowned. The calamity was also seen from the shore, and several boats were instantly launched and manned, and proceeded to render what assistance they could. Almost immediately after the accident several boats engaged in the search for recovering the bodies, and up to one o'clock on Tuesday four had been picked up, the last one being the waterman Simpson. It was, however, confidently expected that the other body would be recovered within an hour. This melancholy affair has cast quite a gloom over the crew of the ship, and on the accident being made known in Wey. mouth, the parents of those who had sons on board hastened to the ship in order to know if it was any of their friends who had come to such an untimely end LAW AND POLICE. ALLEGED FENIANISH.— At the Guildhall, Augustus Byrne has been charged with being in possession of fire arms, supposed to be for an unlawful purpose. The apprehension of the accused occurred in a somewhat sin gular manner. The prisoner's wife was on a previous day charged with stealing calico from her employers, and on her safe being searched a tin of ammunition was found. On the husband's apartments being looked over there was discovered a quantity of firearms and ammuni tion, an Irish Times, &c. On being interrogated, the prisoner said that he was a revolutionist, and had been so all his life. The case was remanded. THE ALTRINCHAM MITEDER.—At the Altrincham Police court, Patrick Madden, Michael Paddon, John Paddon, William Carr, Patrick Fowey, and Michael Donlan were charged with the murder of Mr. Thomas Jenkinson, brick and tile manufacturer, at Bowdon. The only evi dence was that of the police superintendent, who stated that at midnight on Saturday parties of Irish labourers were returning home, some of them being the worse for liquor. When about two miles on the way, they seemed to have possessed themselves with bricks and torn-down rails, and commenced to attack everyone they met with. They came upon Mr. Jenkinson and two boys who were about to avail themselves of the brilliant moonlight to gather mushrooms. An attack was made on them, and Mr. Jenkinson's skull was battered in, and he died almost instantaneously. As the prisoners had been identified as belonging to the attacking party, the remand asked for was granted. THE FEMALE BARMAN AGAIN.-At the Worship-: treet Police-court, Mary Walker, the " female barman," was charged with refusing to fulfil an agreement that she had entered into with Parrott, the landlord of the Duke's Head public-house, to serve him in the capacity of bar maid for twelve months. It will be remembered that Miss Walker preferred a complaint against Mr. Parrott for having assaulted her, and after two days' hearing the summons was decided against her, and Miss Walker, who had then left the present complainant's house and was serving in a house in the Whitechapel-road, refused to return, and hence the present summons. Owing to some informality in the summons it was withdrawn. ATTEMPTING TO THROW A WIFE OUT OF THE WINDOW. —At Marylebone Police-court James Redman, a house keeper, was charged with attempting to throw his wife out of the window. It seemed that the accused was of a very jealous disposition, and had not been married more than a week when he was jealous of a single man lodger that resided with him. On that occasion, in a fit of passion he struck his wife, and was bound over to keep the peace ; since then he has frequently been summoned for similar offences. From the wife's evidence it appeared that on the previous evening she went out with a friend, and the house was visited by the accused during her absence. On her return Redman assaulted her, broke up the crockery, and con cluded with attempting to throw her out of a window that was partially open at the time. After hearing the evidence the magistrate decided on 'Sending the case to the Central Criminal Court. THE CAB STRIKE.-At Westminster Police•court a cab driver applied to the magistrate for a summons against a cab proprietor under the following circumstances. Appli cant said he was engaged to carry two ladies from Cre morns to Victoria on Monday, and as he passed the water side two carts with cab bills on them chased him. In the narrow he kept them at bay, but when the road got wider one of the two drove against him and ran him upon the path, and nearly turned the cab over. The ladies in the cab screamed, and one fainted. A policeman procured her some water, and as she recovered he went on to Victoria. The cab proprietors in the carts used very abusive and threatening language. Mr. Selfe granted a summons against one of the offenders, whose name and address were known, MB. JEFFERSON DAVIS.—Mr. Jefferson Davis has arrived at 36, Clarges•street, Piccadilly, from a visit to the earl of Shrewsbury, at Alton Towers. It it( reported that a descendant of the doges Fos cari has lately been discovered at Venice, in the capicity of porter in the palace of his ancestors, and that a subscription, headed by Victor Emmanuel and his family, has been opened in Italy to ameliorate the condition of this obscure descend ant of an illustrious house. THE NEW INVENTION FOR OBTAINING WATER.— We are given to understand that George Watson, Esq., of the firm of Watson and Baker, Southwark-bridge-road, and Shadwell, has undertaken to procure water at almost any depth by his newly " patented " artesian well tube, and that an experiment is about to be tried before a number of the most eminent scientific gentlemen con nected with her Majesty's Government, on the grounds attached to Richmond Villa, Upper Plaistow, when the principal rositionte i tile district will be ac 1141094 1 ,4 ticket'. CANON M'NEILE AND CANON LAW. The following letter has been addressed to the Guardian by the Rev. Mr. Skinner : SIR,—I am afraid that these two propositions are not convertible ; and that the energetic Canon of Chester has ventured into a country where, having lost his way, he only flounders about hopelessly. It is a pity that " gasconad ing talk" is so different from solid learning. Canon McNeile might else have aspired to fill the vacant place of Dean Goode in " the Evangelical party," as well as in the Chapter house of Ripon. I do not wish to interpose between so able and vigilant a critic as Mr. Haim of Wigan and the " great and good" Canon ; but all your readers may not see the Times ; and you may agree with me in thinking that, if fairness is of any value in controversy, it is only right that Dr. McNeile's claim, to alarm the country with the " canon law," should be fairly estimated by as many intelligent people as possible. I ask, leave, therefore, to point to the exact position in which the Canon's final answer to Mr. Haim leaves that claim. We are threatened in England (according to Dr. McNeile, writing, for an electioneering purpose, to the Times), with that " terrible decree" known as "de coercendis licereticis," " contained" in the Decretum Gratiani; be cause we are threatened with " the canon law" in England ; for whatever is in the Decretum Gratiani is canon law ! Mr. Haim suggests . that Dr. McNeile can not know the Gratiani Decretum ; for there is no such " decree" as " de coercendis Hoereticis" under the reference Pars ii., Causa xxiii., Questio vi.; and he asks " the secret"—whence does the Canon of Chester get this alarming information ? Dr. McNeile accepts a " compliment to his honesty and fearlessness," and " will not keep the secret." " The passage is in the genuine text." It is true that " Questio vi." was a misreference. But "it is in Gratiani's summing up of Questio v., very near the end of it." The words are these—" Si ergo viri sancti et publicce potestates bella gerentes non fuerent transgressores illius mandati, non occides, quamvis quosque flagitiosos digna morte per tinerent ; si miles sum potestati obediens non est reus, homicidas et venenarios punire non est effusio sangainis sed legum ministerium; si pax Ecclesim mcestitiam consolatur perdi toram ; si illi qui zelo Catholicte matris accenis, excommunicator interficiunt homicithe non judicantur ; patet quod malos non solum fiagel lari sed etiam interfici licet." " This," says the Doctor, "is literatim from the genuine text, and contains every one (sic) word of the terrible decree,' the horrible passage,' which I said might be found in the writings of Gratian." Finally, in the exuberance of learning in canon law, he " adds farther—what is of more consequence"—" a letter of Pope Urban I. to Bishop Godfrey" (sic) "instructing the Bishop how to deal leniently with such as kill excom municated persons." And he leaves Mr. Haim and the subject with an air of having " done it." There are two things very apparent which I desire to state publicly, with all due defer ence to Canon McNeile. First, that he seems to be entirely ignorant of the place of the De cretum Gratiani in the canon law. Secondly, that he misrepresents wholly the character of the passage in the Decretum to which he appeals. And I add that it is hardly possible to exagge rate the loss to the truth which such controver sialists, through such ignorance and misrepre sentation, are certain to bring, sooner or later. 1. The Decretura Gratiani is not " the canon law," though Dr. McNeile seems to think it is. Gratiani (considering his age) could hardly , help himself; but, with all his wonderful dili gence, he committed the gravest errors. He took his documents not from original sources, but from the lying collections of Burchard and Ivo, and others who, in their turn, drew from the untrustworthy fountain of Isidore Merca tore. He quotes the false decretals just as if they were true ; he confounds the canons of the Quinisext Synod with those of the Sixth General Council ; he confuses the opinions of individual fathers with the decrees of Popes —one Council with another—and one Pope with another ; blunders over the names of places and writers; and exhibite supreme igno ranee of antiquity and of Greek. The rule of the canonists concerning the De cretum is (1). that it has no authority in itself —nullum per se habet publicam auctoritatem; and (2), that the documents contained in it rest on their own merit—" que in eo reperi. untur tantum valent quantum valerent, si ea non collegisset Gratianus, ita ut nulla ipsis ex collectione ipsa supervenerit publica aucto ritas. I quote from one of the highest autho rities, a treatise On the Principles of Canon, Law, published by command of the present Pope, by D. Bouix, 1853. If Dr. McNeile had known this, he would hardly have committed himself to the De cretum Gratiani, with that triumphant security which he exhibits of having found therein a " terrible decree" of the Canon Law, which he hurls at the heads of Mr. Gladstone and those who support him. 2: But where is this terrible decree ? The Gratiani Decretum contains no such decree. There is no such title it the book as "de coercendis Hcereticis. Mr. Haim said hE could not find it, neither can I. The editors of St. Augustine's Epistles classify some of his letters under this head, and Gratian refers to letter 50 under it. But Dr. McNeile evades the ques tion, " Where did you find this title ?" Of course, Mr. Hains knows where to find Gra. tian's " summing up" of the argument de homicidis better than Dr. McNeile. What he wanted to know was, where is the " decree" de coercendis Hcereticis ? And Dr. McNeile cannot tell. He quotes the summary of Gratian, and says that it " contains every word of a decree." The summary contains no decree, and it has no sort of authority. He professes to quote "every one word," and leaves out the passage which explains the whole ! But as to the decree "de coercendis Hcereticis," he has not a syl lable to say. Can misrepresentation go fur ther ? The simple facts are these : Gratian quotes a supposed letter from Pope Urban IL to Godefred. Bishop of Lucca (whom Dr. McNeile calls " Bishop Godfrey"), which he heads with this title—•` Non cunt homicide, qui adversus excommunicatos zelo matris Ecele sice armantur." The Bishop wanted to know how he was to punish those who killed certain (quosdam) excommunicate persons ; and the Pope gave him for answer that, in a righteous cause (as the glos has it), the crime was not murder; but that, nevertheless, mortal sin might enter into it, and therefore that a suitable pen ance must be enjoined. Gratian gives the letter verbatim from Ivo, using the " Decretum" and the `• Pannornuo Ivonis." Dr. McNeile blows his trumpet over this discovery, as if he had now fastened the " terrible decree" upon the rightful author. I will not discuss the genuineness of the letter. I will only say it is at best but a letter of Urban 11., and, as such, it has no canonical authority. It would not rank beyond a " rescript," of which the canonists say that it is not a " de cree of law." " Inter decreta Pontificia jus facientia reponi 120 M debent litterre illa clue rescripta dicuntur, et gum pro privata aliqua persona ant negotio aliquo transitorio decer nunt."—Bouix pars. ii., sec. 2, cap. 8). If the Canon cm Chester had known this, he would hardly have imposed his flourish upon Mr. Hams, or any more learned body of hearers than the Lancashire working men. But Gratian refers the whole subject-matter to the decisions of St. Augustine and St. Am brose. He sends those who consult him to St. Augustine's letters to Boniface and Marcelli nus ; and to St. Ambrose's Book u. de Cain et Abel. Of this Dr. McNeile says nothing. Either he did not know it, or he concealed it. Grafi= concludes his summary of the subjec THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1868. with a question whether, when the evil-doer is punished by those who have no legitimate autho rity to punish him, they are guilty of his blood ; and he refers to St. Ambrose and to St. Augus tine for the answer. But Dr. McNeile leaves off his quotation of the " summing of Questio v." at the words "interfici licet." He leaves out " sed quceritar, si contingat, aliquos malos punir ab his, qui non habent legitimam potesta tem an sint rei effitsz sanguinis, hi per quos puniuntur." He leaves out also the whole of chapter 49, which answers the question and explains, and is part of, the summary. And this by a " great and good" divine, who de clares that he quotes "literatim from the genuine text containing every one word !" Either Canon McNeile does not know the book which he uses, or he misrepresents the book. The real subject under discussion is the duty and the power of authority to punish transgressors. Those who break the unity of the Church are transgressors. Therefore it is discussed how may those who break the unity of the Church be punished by authority, and are the instruments of authority guilty of sin. Gratian refers to the " 50th' letter of St. Augustine (Epistle 185 in the Benedictine edi tion). Part of the title of this letter distinctly opposes Dr. McNeile's statement. The latter is said to declare "qua moderatione per motion llceretici possunt ad Ecclesia3 Socie tatem reduci." The 48th chapter of the Questio v. is entirely a quotation from the great Bishop of Hippo. He refers also to the letter of the same father to Marcellinus. It is Epistle 139 (Bened. edition). And the title of the letter relates to the proceedings against the Donatists, " utque rei castigentur mitius et citra mortis pcenam. The very opposite of Dr. McNeile's assertion ! St. Augustine's opinion is clear. Again and again he says that, though authority has power to take away the life of the transgressor (and nothing but authority ,can lawfully do this), yet of the Donatists and other trans gressors against the Church of Christ he says, "Let them be punished short of by death ; " Let them be won by mercy." His letter to Donatus the Proconsul is in these terms—" ut Donatistus coerceat non occidat. (Ep. 100). (See vari ous Epistles, as 86, 97, 98, 185, 204). In sum :—Supposing the " terrible decree" of Chester, culled from the Gratiani Decretum„ to be really there, it must be interpreted by the language of St. Augustine and of St. Ambrose to which Gratian appeals. But the Gratiani Decretum has no such " decree ;" and if it had, the Gratiani Decretum has no autho rity, per se, to represent the Canon Law. Canon McNeile must therefore begin again, as Dean of Ripon, under the Goode omen, if he would really frighten us into his, as yet, peculiarly unlearned and inaccurate Protestant convictions. Moreover, he must really study the principles and the history and the matter of the Canon Law. Meantime he has been amusing the readers of the Times in " the silly season" with " a mare's nest," at nobody's expense so much as his own." JAMES SKINNER. Newland, Great Malvern, August 29, 1868. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN AND 711 E UNION PACIFIC R4ILW AY. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsoa, August 30. Dear Anglo-American limes, —My pocket history of the Union Pacific Railroad, Credit Mobilier, and Credit Foncier, published in the Anglo-American Times, copied in the Sun and other journals, was deficient in this—it did not mention that the Pacific Railroad is best represented by a two-tined fork— one branch passing through Kansas, the other, or main line, through Nebraska, where the handle or Grand Trunk canneets. But as the main line, as mentioned in the above telegram, is almost to Utah, the Kansas branch will most likely get a new grant of $50,000,000, and run off through Colorado and New Mexico to Arizona and Lower California, opening up the finest cotton and grain lands in the world. Asthehistoryof the Kansas branch antecedes that of Nebraska, laddthefollowing additional link. As I am about writing the history of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, that absorbed £20,000 of English money, and Hallett was the man who helped me to make the negotiation, this sketch of his death, which has never appeared in England, may be of interest to many monied men in London and Paris:— THE ASSASSINATION OF SAMUEL HALLETT. York 29th Expr es s. ) July,xpr 138. (SpecialSaratoga Crr esl4d Springs, ee of U .S t e Hotel, New ) 64. Wyandotte, Kansas, July 27.—" Samuel Hallett was shot dead this afternoon." Nothing more. Hera my despatch stopped, but my surprise is still active, and yet I feared his rash and impetuous audacity would bring him early to the grave. Is it possible that this human steam en gine, this galvanic battery, this bunch of nerves, this man seducer, this extraordinary financier, has gone to his long home? I knew him well, batter than other men knew him. In Paris, in London, in New York, in Kansas, in Washington, and, it seems but yesterday since, at the Liddell House, St. Louis; he introduced me to Talcott, the discarded engineer, who was his assassin ! Hallett was his own enemy. I f he did wrong, it was de fective organization. He bore neither envy, jealousy, nor malice. He was as ready to forgive as to forget. His in fluence on man was fatal to virtue. I would give him twenty minutes alone to corrupt the best man of the nation. His power was electric. When gross flattery failed, pro mises of money, or fame won. He owned Greeley in ten minutes, and Fremont was his at the end of the half hour. Everett was seduced by his siren voice, and Clay and Sumner, and a dozen shining moths of Abolition hovered about his burning candle. To-day a hundred fortunes are promised to as many men. He approached men with diffe rent tones and different voices. He saw a man's weak point instantly. Presented to Napoleon.—Presented to Victoria he seemed to own the American Ministers, Mr. Mason and Mr. Dallas. Three capitalists Called upon Mr. Chase about the first five millions. W. a Aspinwall, Samuel Hooper, and Samuel Hallett. The Indiana fraud affair prevented Cheover from organizing with Hallett a great bank. Jay Cook, Livermore and Clews, got the business instead. Everything that everybody did he assumed as his own. He used men as he would eat his dinner, or suck an orange. The writer first fnet him in Paris, introducing a Nautilus—a submarine affair for engineers. About thirty six. Born in .Western New York. He went into the lumber business, and removing to the city he got country banks to pass currency through his bands. The result to the bankers was failure. The Nautilus was a failure. Here Morton and Doolittle, the engineers and contractors of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, in 18.57 placed the enterprise into Hallett's hands in London. James M'Henry and the writer were intimate. Hallett made our acquaintance. There came contracts and strange incidents. Hallett goes out. But in New York, ma naged, through Kennard, to squeeze a half million out of the road. Kennard's salary of five thousand pounds a year is in the writer's handwriting, and signed by Hal lett. That road is nearly co mpleted, and many express surprise to see the writer's name left out of the programme. Some day letters will be published, and Hamlet will ap pear in the play ; meanwhile too much notoriety has made him sick. A plate of ice cream is palatable. A pail-full is nauseating. Hallett's power was in starting game. He seldom shot clear. The birds seldom fell into his hand. As for money, it was like pouring water into a rat-hole. His energy was terrific Hie appli cation was marvellous. Like the winch that slowly pulls up the huge piece of iron he would work up his scheme to the top, when down it would come, not on the pile he was driving upon, but on the heads of the workmen. He would milk the pail full and then deliberately kick it over, His power of complication was marvellous. His friends always suffered. The cabbage was on the end of the stick and the stick was on the donkey's back, and hence the pro mised reward was always ahead, whether the animal moved fast or slow. He was on the top round when the Indiana bubble broke, but to this day he swears that the fortunes of the Jeromes were made on his balances. Poor Stover was ruined. Many remember his speech in the New York -Club. Hallett was saved through the influence of Mozart. Elijah Ward was more active than usual, else Fernando Wood would have placed Hallett in Congress. His great ambition was to take Jim Lane's place in the Senate. Lane and Governor Garrey are fighting, an usual a third will step into the chair. The writer prefers Ne braska to Kansas. It is loss bloody. The pure ininded will marry a virgin. Hallett passed his life is playing out and in being played out. Everything with him was providential. His schemes were gigantic, but he never realized them. He met Fremont. Mariposa is Spanish for Butterfly, and Maurice Ketcham, David D.Field,Mayor Opdyke,and Simon Stevens know that it was the Grub that made the Butter fly. McKiustry Fremont depended upon Hallett's foreign relations —Hallett depended on Mariposa. Ewing Mac- Dowell, Stone, and Isaacs sold Leavenworth, and pawned railway franchise to Hallett and Fremont for $200,000; assisted by Haskell, Mcßuck, and Edward Learned. Fre mont tried to play Hallett out. liallett instead played - them out. Fremont, like the Patent Hen Scratching Machine, gently scratched himself out of the Pacific Yard. Contracts were made with a New York millionaire, Thos. C. Durant, to build that Kansas Road, and Hallett's death in no way changes' the early completion of the road or the value of the securities. His wife and four chil dren are in Germany, and it is believed that they will have an ample competence after paying creditors from Hallett's one-third interest. Hallett's ambition was to build the Pacific Railway. Hence changed the name of Kansas branch from Leavenworth and Pawnee to Union Pacific, E.D. The Grand Trunk Line, Union Pacific Rail way, runs from Sacramento, in California, to Omaha in Nebraska, there connecting with the Mississippi and Mis souri and Rock Island Road to Chicago. The Kansas Road will also connect with New York, via Cincin nati, by the Ohio and Mississippi and Atlantic and Great Western, the Great Broad Gaugi Route. It will be, seen that Edward Learned, as financial agent for Fremont, with sublime audacity, assumed to own the entire Pacific Railway. The audacity of the live man only surpassed that of the dead. E lward Learned was not a subscriber or even a promoter—nor has he invested one shilling in the Pacific Railway, but on the contrary did all he could to defeat the bill in Congress. Thereis a photo graph of a small boy pouring water into the sea to illustrate Learned's energy in stopping the great world's highway ! Poor Hallett, lam sorry he is gone. He had virtues as well as vic2s. • His vices were faults. His passion for notoriety led him always into the newspapers. Two thousand invitations wore ready for the opening of the first forty miles of the Kansas Road. Newspaper men at Washington have suffered at his hands. But when his parse was full it was open to all. As Humphrey Marshall said of the China merchant, if Hallett failed his ambition was to burst wide open! His life is a failure. But how strange that this man of so many parts, in the midst of his active life, while his brain was so full of gigantic plans, should be assassinated by a crippled engineer whom Hallett had punished for writing a libellous letter to the President of the United States about this railway. Verily, truth is etranger than fiction. Alas! he has returned to dust and the God who gave him. He lived a violent life and died a violent death. " Pax Vobiscum." G. F. T. [Two letters from Mr. James M'Henry here fol low, the one dated 1857, the other 1858, which show the connection with Samuel Hallett, but as they allude also to other subjects, we do not feel at liberty to publish them. Mr. Train says they are two out of two hundred, adding that When he pro secutes the Ebbw Vale Company for damages, his suit will be a cause celebre.—ED.] These groundwork letters will show you the dan gerous game those are playing who keep me in the Marshalsea. Two bunked letters from the leading London monied min of "the Atlantic and Great West ern World will read like a romance in my "Train extras." No wonder they want to let me out if I will pay costs and agree to bring no claim for da mages. Our advertising bills with the London press cost some ten thousand pounds. THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. These letters from Samuel Hallett, never before published, show how early I was acquainted with this great enterprise, and who raised the money : Leavenworth, Dec. 11, 1863. George Francis Train, t sq. Dear Sir,—Referring to' our conversation to-day upon the Union Pacific Railwa.y, enterprise in all its continental magnitude, I beg you will on your arrival at Washing ton confer' with our friends and representatives, to the end that they may know that it is my desire to co-operate with all who are friendly to the general enterprize, and thereby secure complete success. You represent men of large capital and influence, and it is my desire to act with you and them in entire har.nony. Our Vice-President, the Hon. A. J. Isacks, will soon proceed to Wash ington, there to represent the interests of this com pany officially. Ho will be aided by Mr. .Win chell, Mr. Latham, Mr. Ball, Mr. Stedman, Gene ral Stone, and a number of other gentlemen of cha racter and influence, particularly interested in the success of the work lam now prosecuting. You will do me a particular kindness by frankly stating to all persons who may desire to know the precise condition of this enterprise. Assure Mr. Durant and all his friends that lwillcordiallygive them such assistance as I may be able to render. Thank ing you for your visit, I am, dear Sir, faithfully yours, JAMES HALLETT, General Manager, Union Pacific Railway Company, E.D. Leavenworth, Doc. 10, 1863. George Francis Train, Esq. DearSir,—l want three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the Union Pacific Railway Company, E.D., upon the Land Grant Bonds of the company. Our exact condition is simply told : The Construction Bonds for the first section of 40 miles ($640,000,100) have been trans ferred to John D. Perry, President of the Exchange Bank of St. Louis, to secure him and his associates for money advanced. No other bonds of the company have been issued, and no others are authorized to be issued. The company has not a dollar of acceptance or obligations of bills payable out ;trading, and I have already explained to you fully the state of our finances and the reason why we desire to make this loan at the present time. The con tract of construction by resolution of the board of direc tors is in my name alone. lam under no other obliga tions to Mr. Perry than to pay him the money borrowed with the commission agreed on. Will you procure for mo this £300,000 for a monied consideration, and, if so, upon what terms ? You will please telegraph me on your arrival at New York or Washington, and oblige, faithfully yours, SAMUEL HALLETT, General Manager, &c. Leavenworth, Dec. 10, 1863. Geo. Francis Train, Esq. My dear Sir,—l am readi , , and have the power, forthwith to conclude and carry out the plan proposed by Mr. Durant through you. I like exceedingly that feature which con templates bringing the European bankers into co-opera tion, and particularly your ideas of emigration. Upon your return to New York or Washington you will imme diately advise me by telegraph as to the time when your friends will be ready to close this affair for joint action. Faithfully your, SAMUEL HALLETT, General Manager U. P. Ry. Co., E.D. Willard's Hotel, Washington, June 3, 1864. My dear Francis,—With my Indians on band and my own personal expenses here, I shall need one thousand dollars here. I intended to name this to Mr. Durant, and put this to you that you may ask him. Please telegraph me on Monday that I may draw this amount.—Faithfully, S IMITEL HALLETT. MR. TRAIN'S COMMISSIONS FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, ON ONLY ONE TINE OF THE PACIFIC FORK. Original Contracts and Letters Printed Some Time Since for Counsel. George Francis Train vs. Union Pacific Railway (East ern Division)—John D. Perry, John E. Thompson, Thos. A. Scott, et als. Re commissions for early negotiations in said company. Oue hundred and fifty thousand ($150,600) settled ; leaving three hundred thcusand ($300,000) still due. (Extract from contract between Samuel Hallett and Thomas C. Durant, for building the Union Pacific Rail way (E.. 1).), expressly prepared by Mr. Train's legal ad viser, Mr. Charles Tracy (Messrs. Tracy, Tallmadge, and Olmstead), dated at Washington, February 13, 1864, with a view of protecting Mr. Train's interest, and handed to Mr. Train by Mr. Tracy at the time) : " To George Francis Train, in kind, as Hallett has left for profits $300,000, except the amount payable to George Francis Train, for his services when required, until the whole railway is completed, including his services heretofore rendered ; which last mentioned amount is to be paid by said Durant- for said Hallett to said Train, out of said Hallett's securities, pertaining to his two-third part of the net profits. Such $300,C00 to be paid in the above-mentioned securities at par, in like proportion of such class of said securities as the same shall be received from the said company, payable one-ninth part on and contemporaneously with the payment to said Hallett of securities for his two-thirds of net profits, upon the com pletion and acceptance of each section of 40 miles of said rail way; such security of said Train to be held by said D urant as trustee for the benefit of Wilhelmina Davis Train, wife of said George Francis Train, and not to be sold, nor put on the market, before the completion of the whole of the said railway, without the written consent of the said Hallett and said Durant. Said Durant shall also pay, at his own expense, to said Geo. Francis Train, for the same service, in like manner, at like times, and in like proportions, and hold on like terms, for said Wilhelmina Davis Train's benefit other $150,000." 50, Wall-street, New York, Jan. 15, 1867. The •foregoing extract, from the contract between Mr. Hallett and Mr. Durant, was furnished by me to Mr. Train at the time the contract was executed. CHARLES TRACY. (Copy of a letter from Mr. 8011, Counsellor.) Office, Union Pacific Railroad, 13, William-street, New York, April 20, 1866. My dear Sir,—l take groat pleasure in advising you that Itn arrangement has been consummated with the Union Pacific Rallway Company (E tstern Division), by which Mrs. Train receives $50,000 in first mortgage land grant bonds in full for the $150,000 to which she was entitled pro spectively under the contracts between that company and Mr. Hallett and Mr. Durant. These securities aro seve❑ per cent., and aro regarded as worth par, as they are perfectly secured. This arrangement, however, did not settle the three hundred thousand dollars coming to your self under those contracts. The necessary papers were executed to perfect your title to this claim, and proper care taken that it was not embraced in or affected by the settle ment which the company well understand. I await your instructions and directions in regard to it. I shall feel obliged if you will send me $l,OOO on account of my ser vices as your counsel in these matters.—Always truly yours, CLARK BELL. George Francis Train, Esq., Nebraska. I never imagined that I should play the historian of the I,blioA Pacific Railroad for the Anglo-Ameri can Times in the cell of a British bastille. The lane is long that has no turn. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. P.S.—My political article fell like a bombshell in the Democratic ranks. My private secretary writes that the Democratic papers begin to cut me again. You see I hold the balance of power. Extract from lettor on the Anglo-Amsricata Times article, "Re Seymour and Blair : New York, Aug. 19, 1863. The World would come out with some leaders similar to that copied from the Dublin Nation on your case but for your late letter in tho Anglo- American Times of Ist instant. That was probably the reason that * * * would not call. You cannot look for much from those papers who have endorsed Seymour and Blair under such circum stances. You see the Irish papers have endorsed that ticket and intend to stand by it—S. J. Moony, W. J. Nagle, and all the leaders. Sorry you cannot be hore for Savage's Union Convention of Feniams on the 24th inst. G. P. B. Iwish 1 was at liberty to tell you what will hap pen in America about the middle of October. On the nineteenth of that month England lost America at Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington. G. F. T. 711 E SOU7HEIM STITES. The Alabama Democrats at a recent meeting de nounced the law the Legislature passed which was vetoed by the Governor, authorising itself to choose Presidential electors. They appeal to the people to vote for electors next November. The Republi cans of the Georgia Legislature have agreed to a bill empowering the Legislature to choose electors, but it has not yet been publicly introduced. The Democratic Managers generally are preparing to have votes cast for the Presidential electors in all the Southern States under the old laws, setting aside those of Congress and the new State Legislatures. As such votes will not be counted this may lead to trouble hereafter. In the Alabama Democratic meeting resolutions were adopted promising the vote of Alabama to Seymour and Blair. Messrs. Akerman and Farrell have been nominated electors at large by a Republican Convention in Georgia. Mr. Johnson has officially announced that Georgia has ratified the 14th Constitutional Amendment. Its Legislature has rejected the bill which proposed to exempt foreign capital invested in manufactures from taxation. In Atlanta on the 18th August there was a torch light procession in honour of Grant and Colfax, when a dispute arose from the arrest of a drunken negro by the police, which ended in one negro being killed, besides a policeman and two negroes wounded. The recent legislation of the South Carolina Legislature shows an effort to place the negroes, not only on an equality, but as superior to the whites. Governor Scott has vetoed several measures, and excited thereby the intense indignation of the blacks and their " carpet-bag" leaders. One of the acts was to repudiate the foreign claims represented by Messrs. Baring Brothers against the State Bank. It instructs the Governor to seize the Bank's assets, which are to be sold and money raised to pay the members of the Legislature, who for a long time have not re ceived anything. A bill has been filed in the Court of Equity demanding the sale of these assets by the holders of the currency of the bank, and bonds are to be issued to redeem that currency. The bonds held in London under the Act of 1838, " for the rebuilding of the 'city of Charleston," provided for the payment of the principal and interest, and made the assets of the State Bank a special and inalienable claim to the holders—a contract which cannot be impaired, as the Messrs. Baring argue, by any subsequent legislation. In answer, the Legisla ture states that Reconstruction has swept away the old system and every contract connected therewith. The people either cannot, or will not, pay any taxes, and the Governor has tried in vain to negociate a loan. Reports are current that the blacks in different parts of the State are arming and threatening violence. Never did a retribution more terrible over take a country, and never was a contrast effected within a sh3rt period more striking than that of the Palmetto State in 1860 and 1868. Imagine the feel ings of a planter in the former year who dreamt that in his State's Legislature, largely composed of . negroes, he saw a full-blooded black on the floor rebuking the whites who had sneaked into the lob bies to avoid a vote on a bill admitting negroes t 3 the social privileges of white men, wherever they could possibly meet ! and how would such words as these sound in his ear —" But when the coloured m in asks to be recognised as a nun, and to be pro tected, without stooping to the performance of menial duties, then he becomes an object of aver sion, and the member talks about social equality, and imagines he must take you into his arms, as he probably would your sister, if she is good-look ing. This is an outrage upon the coloured man." A number of citizens of Charleston have peti tioned President Johnson to provide protection for the city against the threatened lawlessness, as the civil authorities are unable to preserve order. The new Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, ap pointed, by the Governor, was inaugurated on the 17th August, when the City Council met. The police force is half black, and many of the city officers are coloured men. In three States, militia laws had been passed giving to the officers who are appointed by the Governor extraordinary powers. In North Carolina they may arrest without war rant or civil process not incurring legal liability. The former Mayor of Columbus, Mississippi, who was removed by military authority, has issued a pro clamation stating that as military domination has been withdrawn, he and the City Council are the rightful rulers of the city, and advising citizens who may be arrested and imprisoned by the military to bring suit against such for false imprisonment. The committee of five appointed by the Constitutional Convention of Mississippi to count the votes at the late election in that State, to announce the result, and, if necessary, to reconvene the Convention, are about to issue a proclamation declaring the election in six counties illegal and void, on account of frauds and violence. They have decided not to call the Con vention together again. As Gen. Gillem refuses to recognise this committee, they intend to call upon Congress to sustain their action and to complete the work of reconstruction in Mississippi by appropriate legislation. The Democratic State Committee met, but adjourned till September 22 to ascertain the action of Congress before acting. If Congress fails to meet on the 21st September the Democrats will choose their Presidential electors, as will Virginia and Texas. The Freedmen's Bureau agents in . Louisiana report fourteen murders where Governor Warmouth said there were 150, which is a slight difference.—Governor Warmouth headed a confe rence of the Radical leaders with the Conserva tives on the 15th August when opinions were inter changed, and a further interview appointed. The Republicans desired to know what their opponents wanted, and what should be done to preserve the peace, to which the Democrats replied that the Legislatures should stop the enactment of arbitrary and oppressive laws. They intended if their wishes were consulted to act only in a legal and constitu tional way, and they would sustain the Governor if he threw himself upon the people. Tha Governor said that for peace he would concede anything in reason, and that he was authorized to state that measures obnoxious to the people would be modi fied. The officers commanding Federal posts have been ordered by General Buchanan to gather in formation on the condition of affairs in their neigh bourhood and keep him informed. In case of dis turbance they were not to interfere with the civil authorities, and to act only on instructions received from head-quarters. The China's news is that the negroes in Northern Louisiana are effecting armed organizations.—Gen. Stoneman has issued an order directing the State auditor of Virginia to receive from the railroads indebted to the State the whole or part of their debt, to be paid in current funds or in State bonds at par. The amount of State bonds received is not to exceed two-thirds of the total payments made by a road. The whole amount due by the roads is almost 300,000 dollars. There has not been a case of yellow fever this sea son at New Orleans. A. correspondent says the Legislature will, without doubt, resolve to vote for the Presidential electors, and thus secure the State for Grant ; adding that if they fail to do so there will be a majority of 20,000 for Seymour. Frank Blair was expected at New Orleans about the 22d ult. The crops of cotton, rice, and sugar were never better ; the fruit cropis so heavy that peaches barely pay the carriage. The first bale of this sea son's cotton from Mississippi reached New Orleans on the 10th August, and came from the plantation of Jefferson Davis, now under the management of his former slaves, B. F. Montgomery and Sons, Who have 300 hands at work, and calculate on 12,000 bales. ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. The news just received by cable that the Repub licans carried the election on the Ist of September in Vermont by a majority of 27.000 shows that there is none of the reported reaction against the Republicans in the New England States. In the Vermont election of 1866 the majority was 22,82 5 ; in 1867, 20,184 ; which gives in the election of last Tuesday a Republican gain of more than 4,00 0 over the former year, and of 7,000 over the latter. The tickets run as follows, with the exception of the Democratic candidate for Congress of the district : Republican. Democratic. Governor Lieut.-Governor Stephen Thomas Murillo Noyes. Treasurer Congress, 1 Congress 2 Congress, 3 The next election takes place on Tuesday in Cali fornia. The Democrats feel confident they wil l carry the State, their majority last year being 9,5 46 ; but the Republicans assert that their defeat thee was owing to splitting their votes, a mistake they will now avoid. In 1861 the Republican majority wts the highest known in California, being 18,29 3 ; but in 1867 fully a third of the Republicans of the State did not vote at all. The question hinges on the action of those 20,000 Republican voters, and although the Democrats are confident, yet, if thesa remain true to their party, the State will be carried by the Republicans. The election, however, which ev cites most interest is that of Maine, which will tak e place Sept. 14, as, like Vermont, it will indicate the feeling of neighbouring States, while Californi a only gives an isolated opinion. Last year the Demo cratic gain was',l6,ooo votes, chiefly due to liquor laws and other side issues. Mr. PENDLETON, encouraged by this recollection, arrived at Boston on August 1- 8 1 when he told the Constitutional Democratic Club, which serenaded him at the Parker House, that h e was on his way to Maine to take part in the poll" tical campaign in that State. He was received by the Democrats of Maine with great enthusiasm, which boiled over when he approached his favourite topic of greenback redemption, one currency fe r the producer and the bondholder. He complain ed that the men who heaped abuse upon him we re now crowding him off his own platform, having discovered that the people intended to, support la The adoption of a forty years' Funding Law wow, make the debt eternal, while its payment P paper as the bonds became due would extingu i it in a few years without loss to the holders, as they would get in paper at par, what th e y had bought in paper at a discount. He referr ed to Senator FESSENDEN (whose name elicited ni ne cheers), as the man who had foiled the Radical s I t their attempt to remove the PRESIDENT. As th e Senator has announced his intention o f "stump" ing" Maine for GRANT and COLFAX, it is more than probable that they will meet and have an oPP ° ; tunity of paying each other compliments. A In!: interesting meeting still, took place at Denver, be.. tween the two candidates for the Vice-Preside nel ; Mr. COLFAX halted there a few days, addressi°: -the citizens socially, but not politically. If FE .4b0,, BLAIR arrived to time he reached Denver on ' 10th, and COLFAX was not to leave till the 11th a August. It is stated that they met, and h a t u he long and friendly talk, each freely reviewing * . political field and predicting his own election. ' t he COLFAX and party reached Georgetown on a , 12th, and on the 19th they had returned to ue oh tral City, which is north-west of Denver, and 'la up among the clouds. They had just arrived frte Hot Springs, Middle Park, but on crossing the th a mountains on the 18th, 15,000 feet above level of the sea, they had been overtaken 1 1 4 heavy snowstorm. General GRANT remains Galena, 711inois, his intention, as annonee e bo being to return to Washington to-day O a sth September) Mr. SEYMOUR remains at ljt ic i ; New York, and General BLAIR co ntinues the the West. It is now considered certain that t PRESIDENT will support the Democratic ticket, as will most of his Cabinet ; but Secretary is reported to favour the Republican ticket, tbon, he has not said so officially, as will the Attoo e General, Mr. Evairrs. a in The election in Idaho territory h as resulte , Democratic success. Judge Schaeffer, the neo3o eie ela l cratic candidate for delegate to Congress, is v s llae to be elected by 600 majority. Clement L. ,he digbam has been nominated for Congres s by the Democrats of the Third District of Ohio. In Tenth District of Ohio, J. M. Ashley, P resent ja 0 b cumbeut, and the " Original Impeacher , " has eie n nominated by the Republicans for re-election. bas ludiaua, in the Sixth District, AR. 17-°°rhe w as been nominated by the Democrats, t hou g h he 4 lty. T s° expelled from Congress in 1862 for dis lo Y e tb° nominations are becoming numerous, and selections show the feeling of the people. Dane of extreme views are picked on eith er al' of even General Butler is said to be confident n, a re-election for the Fifth District of Massse'ea setts. It is noticed that Mr. Seymour , Wh° his nomination had little hope, is now buoYed 1 l i r , with a confident assurance of success. Fen n° vania is more than ever recognized by Republic ,130 as the doubtful State, and even Ohio is n°1',..,00.. claimed as certain. It is said that Senator 13d dricks will be beaten as Governor of Indiana, rt‘oo, that he will not even secure his re-election to o b. g Ar r greys next year, his term expiring on the 4th as This prediction is likely to prove true, jot readers will remember that Indiana has bee° o r, successfully " gerrymandered." Senator ,2; A who returned to Washington, August 20, tour through the West, spoke hopefully of Re a P r ont lican prospects, as the movement towards `" was marked through all parts of the West. [ADVERTISEMENT. 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