The Sun. — London, England, 1868-09-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Speaking of the coming 'election, the status of the can didates, and the wishes of the constituencies, the Saturday I?eview concludes that, notwithstanding the decline of Fenianism and American animosity, an intelligent and honest Minister is, after all, aware that his Cabinet and his party occupy a position not altogether glorious. That a Government should be in a minority is certainly not advantageous to the country, and it is not even agreeable to those who profit by an anomalous state of politics. The obvious inference would seem to be that the Ministry should have resigned in the course of the spring, and not that, as Sir Stafford Northcote recommends, they should contest the greatest possible number of seats in the autumn. Every party is justified in trying to increase its Parliamentary strength, but the duty of fighting doubtful boroughs is not rendered more urgent by the repeated defeats inflicted on the Government during the last session. It is possible to imagine a case in which, for the defence of some great principle, a Minister might be justified in holding office for a time after losing his ascendancy in Par liament ; but it is a condition of such an enterprise that it should be reasonably hopeful, even if it is not ultimately successful. Mr. Pitt triumplied over a great Parliamentary majority in 1784, and Sir Robert Peel, fifty years afterwards, failed in a similar experiment which had been forced upon him against his own judgment. Mr. Disraeli has for two years been losing rather than gaining, and one of his colleagues now admits that his only chance of reversing the majority must depend on a desperate struggle for every doubtful seat. The anomalous state of affairs has not only paralysed both the Government and the House of Commons, but it has mainly determined the policy of the Cabinet. Even if the Reform Bill produces beneficial results, it will not the less have owed its origin to the necessities of a party which was utterly averse to its principle, and unable from Parliamentary weakness to mould its details. The influ ence which the Conservative party can still exercise would, for its own purposes and for the public good, have been far more advantageously employed in opposition ; yet Mr. Disraeli's tenacity of office will be condoned in the improbable contingency of his commanding a majority in the future Parliament. If the constituencies are really attached to the Irish Establishment, its opponents, although they will certainly not modify their opinion of its demerits, cannot fail to admit that Mr. Gladstone's movement was unseasonable. The Spectator is disposed to think the whole proceedings of the congress at Brussels very harmless indeed. We must not shut our eyes to the fact that working men are only beginners in an intricate debate,.that their errors are so vague as to lead to no action, that before action comes, they are likely to have more light. In any case they cannot but feel many advantages in the present circum stances—and this actually cropped up in the debate about machinery, which is one of their stock topics of complaint ; and as these advantages will increase with the progress of time, they will be less and less likely to throw them away for a mere Utopia, even if any practical proposition to carry out their dreams is ever submitted. Take the most formidable proposition of any, which was only assented to, by the way, by a majority of the congress — that quarries, mines, and railways ought to belong to the community as represented by the State, but the " State regenerated, and itself submitted to the law of justice ;" that the economic evolution of society will make it necessary to subject agricultural property to the same rule ; and that quarries, mines, railways, and land should be worked by concessions, not by companies of capitalists, hut companies of workmen. It is clear, at first sight, that those who talk thus, and they indeed expressly say so, do not contemplate immediate action ; but what if they did under any practical conditions ? The careful handling of agricultural property may shew that even the dreamers do not all think of confiscation ; but if confiscation is discarded there is nothing alarming in the proposal ; the whole community may discuss its expe- . , diency ; and the collective ownership of railways at least is within the pale of practical schemes. Even if confisca tion is not discarded in this dream, people may be reassured about it by the tendency of things to make workmen holders of property ; the proportion of good things held by those who do not work at all is perpetually diminishing, and thus every year makes the sheer confis cation of property less and less likely. Those who are not absolutely idle will have less to gain, and their own condi tion will tempt them less to violence. But if harmless in one sense, as not heralds of a revolution which their shadow seems to portend, the dreams of working men are mischievous enough if too much indulged in. They are so much subtracted from the energy of waking life which might be devoted to better things. Thus, instead of pro testing against war, they might engage zealously in win ning political power, that is, practical influence under the existing forms of government. Instead of vapouring about collective property and devising new credit institu tions, they might do much to put capital into better hands by promoting the amendment of the laws of succes sion, and to give themselves capital by means of, savings' banks, friendly societies, and co operative institutions. Things are tending that way, and they produce some ha provement, if they do not give that ideal perfection which is unattainable. Instead of denouncing machinery or doubting its benefits, they might devise schemes to draft off to other places and employments the workmen whom new machines displace, schemes in which we are sure capitalists would not be sorry to help them. In the present circumstances of the world, emigration holds out a boundless field for displaced labour, and an emigration fund could effect systematically what is already done partially and feebly. It would pay far better than strikes. Instead of dreaming about education in an ideal State, they could lend a hand to many active efforts by which education is being extended at once. If continental demagogues would only learn, the congress would not be without its advantages. Whether they do so or not, the attitude of the English workmen is some assurance of the safety of England at least from socialistic storms. If the delegates who unite with continental democracy are so guarded and practical, and so respectful of existing arrangements, the feeling which guides them, we may feel sure, is stronger and freer from admixture among the large sections of workmen whom they could not pretend to represent. The Imperial Berieto believes that the Irish policy of the Conservative party is every day coming into more striking contrast with that of the Liberals. It is true, Ireland is no longer the question before the country. The confusion which reigned in the Liberal party during 1867 has become worse confounded in 1868. Mr. Gladstone succeeded in rallying his party within the House on the famous resolutions, but the House was not the country ; and now that Mr. Gladstone's followers are come before the people to give an account of themselves, the position is somewhat ludicrous. A great party struggle upon an Irish question two years ago would have been a crime, and certainly a danger, but the disappearance of Fenianism has at once removed one of the most popular apologies for Mr. Gladstone's measures, and enabled the defenders of the Consti tution to bring the question calmly before the nation. It is well, perhaps, at such a moment to have had Sir Stafford Northcote's calm review of Irish policy to contrast with the vague allusions to Ireland by the Whig candidates. That policy Sir Stafford Northcote explained as one of infi nite patience, firmness, watchfulness, and labour. It is not a mere laissez faire policy. It is not a stupid revival of the old Whig policy of bribing everybody round. Thus, for instance, it is becoming every day snore evident that the land question is the real Irish question ; and that it is the question in which the classes whom we want to con ciliate, the Celtic peasantry, takes a vivid interest. This fact is conspicuous all through the present election pro ceedings. The Church is the test-question with the Priests, but the land is always the question raised by the farmers. The priests are everywhere endeavouring to keep it in the background. Sir Stafford Northcote's account, at Bideford, of the action of the Government as to the Roman Catholic University shews us that this pro position was a most thoughtful effort to grapple with the great evil of Ireland- the ascendancy of the Roman Catholic priesthood. It was a fair attempt to induce the Roman Catholics to put themselves in such a position that they, however Roman Catholic they might be, would cease to be Ultramontane. The practicability of such a project may be one thing. Of its excel lent purpose, and of the true appreciation it shews in its framers of the wants of Ireland, no fair mind have a second opinion. This is but a part of what has only been the invariable policy of the Constitutional party towards the Roman Catholics. To give them every fair play--every encouragement to take up a position like other citizens — to always watch the career of the Uttramontane priest hood as the most dangerous influence existing in any Con stitutional State. The John Bull observes that, to say nothing of the more devout sex—the numbers of men in High Church congre gations always strike the unprejudiced observers—and though for the moment the strength of the High Church party is divided, through the infatuation of its leaders for Mr. Gladstone and their failure to see the perfect consis tency of continuing the unflinching maintenance of Catholic Truth with political Protestantism against a foreign potentate, yet the Liberal party will find that their Caurch supporters —mere worshippers of an individual — are as unreliable as the mere Protestant followers of the Conservatives. For the moment it suits Roman Catholics and Radical High Churchmen to support a party which hates dogma ; but before long they will perceive with what edged tools they are playing. We trust that in protesting against this unnatural alliance, in protesting on political grounds against a policy by which Rome or Infidelity alone can gain, the Conservative party will not commit the fatal error, for the sake of conciliating ultra-Protestant Import, or in disgust at the ingratitude and folly of many 1 1 igh Churchmen, of alienating those Churchmen who have always been their most cousistea and natural allies. Till: DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT WASHINGTON. The Northern, Erenilig Express states that the calamity that occurred at Washington village on Wednesday is a much more serious affair than was at first supposed to be the case. Four deaths have resulted from it, another person is lying at what seems to be the point of death, while four others are also suffering from serious in juries sustained on the same painful occasion. It seems that on Monday last Ellen Stokoe, wife of William Stokoe, ordered two gallons of what is called diamond oil from a traveller in the employment of Mr. Robert Logan, oil merchant, George-street, Newcastle. Mr. Stokoe himself works as a blacksmith at one of the adjoining collieries, but he has also a shop in which groceries and drapery goods are sold, and this his wife and family have been in the habit of looking after. The oil was delivered on Wednesdayraorning, and the earthen ware jar containing it was temporarily put below a table in the kitchen at the back of the shop. No person in the house appears to have been aware of its dangerous character, and no special precautions were observed in handling it. letw, en twelve and one o'clock, William Stokoe, his wife, three daughters, two sons, the daughter of a cousin, and the servant girl, sat down to dinner in the kitchen. The food of which they were to partake was placed on the table, below which was the jar containing the oil. But just as they were about to begin dinner, one of the company—believed to have been John Stokoe, the youngest lad—accidentally hit the jar with his foot. It fell on the floor and broke, its contents rapidly spreading throughout the room. A portion of the oil ran towards the fire-place, and there it got ignited. A slight explosion occurred, and the whole place, including its unhappy inmates, were instantaneously enveloped in a red mass of violent flames. They appear to have got hold of each other, and in the midst of their great alarm huddled them selves together in a corner. After the lapse of a minute or two, Thomas Stokoe, one of the lads, followed by his mother and youngest sister, rushed out into the back street, while Elizabeth Stokoe, the eldest daughter, j Isabella Taylor, the cousin, who was on a visit to the house, from Gateshead, and Catherine Swinbank, the servant girl, who belongs to Newcastle, ran, one after the other, into the front street, screaming at the top of their voices, and burning from head to foot. William Stokoe, the father, also escaped through the shop by the front door. ' The rector (the Rev. Julius Shatlwell), the neighbours, and a large number of workmen engaged in laying sewage pipes in the streets, were most courageous in catching hold of the persons enveloped in the flames, and getting the fire extinguished as quickly as practicable. The evidence at the inquest shews that the rector nobly denuded himself of both his coats to put out the burning clothes of two of the younger women. While those who had escaped were being attended to by some, others forced their way into the kitchen, where they found Mary Stokoe, 16 years of age, and John Stokoe, 10 years old, lying on the floor, in the midst of the debris and flames. They were carried out into the street, when it was found that all the clothes had been burned off the former, and the boy had also sustained fearful injuries. The poor girl's head was literally singed, and her knees had been drawn up towards her chin in agony. She died soon afterwards, and the lad succumbed later on in the evening. The doctor's evidence at the inquest shewed that all the others were most seriously, some feared to be fatally, injured, and in the evidence also will be found a faithful description of the violent nature of the fire, as shown in the damage done to the house itself. We need not state that the greatest excitement prevails in the village and surrounding district in reference to this sad affair. Thomas Stokoe, of Stockton, brother of William Stokoe, and Robert Stokoe, a younger man, son of William Stokoe (who happened to be in Sunderland at the time), along with the relatives of Isabella Taylor and Catherine Swin. bank, were immediately sent for, and they arrived soon. The following is the list of the killed and injured :—Killed Mary Stokoe, 16, daughter of W. Stokoe, grocer ; John Stokoe, 10, son of W. Stokoe ; Isabella Taylor, 15, belong ing to Gateshead, daughter of W. Stokoe's cousin ; Cathe rine Swinback, 14, belonging to Newcastle, servant with W. Stokoe. Not expected to live— Ellen Stokoe, 44, wife of W. Stokoe. Expected to survive—William Stokoe, 51, grocer and draper ; Elizabeth Stokoe, 18, daughter of W. Stokoe ; Thomas Stokoe, 13, son of W. Stokoe ; Hannah Stokoe, 8, daughter of W. Stokoe. The inquest is adjourned to next Wednesday. LAW AND POLICE. A FRAUDULENT BANKRUPT.—Mr. Gecrge Footitt, a tillage merchant, of Work-op and Lanilly, has been com mitted for trial by the Sheffield magistrates for concealing and destroying his books. A MISTAKE.—A few nights ago a gentleman hailed a Whitec'aapel omnibus, and was about to ' take his seat outside when the conductor refused to carry him, on the ground that he was intoxicated. The would-be passenger, having taken the man's number, appealed to a policeman to say whether the charge was well-founded, and received an answer in the negative. He then sum moned the conductor for having refused to take him without just cause, but, not &slang to press the charge, the magistrate at Worship street ordered him simply to pay the costs of the hearing. THE VACCINATION Au r.—'lhe provisions of the Vaccina tion Act are broken more frequently than convictions are recorded for the offence. At the Lambeth Police-court a man who declared that rather than have his child vacci nated he would be fined, was fined accordingly. He de fended his conduct on the ground that vaccination, so far from being a preventive of disease, is often the cause of it. The guardians of St. Pancras are so determined to carry out the Act, that they intend to appointA salaried official to enforce its proviso: s. SERIOUS CHAI GE AGAINST A PORSTMOUTII TRADESMAN. —At the I' or An ,t.t . l -Btrou.4l Police court, 1 efoie sitting magistrates, George Peters, a wholesale tobacco nist, carrying on business in Queen-street, Portsca, was summoned, under the Bth Vic., cap. 20, sec. 105, for having unlawfully sent by the South Western Railway two gross of vesuvians without having previously given notice to the railway authorities. Mr. Thomas Bent, superintendent of police on the South Western Railway, appeared in support of the information, and Mr. R. W. Ford, solicitor, of Portsmouth, appeared for the defence. Several wit nesses were called, whose evidence tended to shew that on the Ist of the present month a package containing some cigars and some vesuvians was sent to Weymouth by the defendant. When at the Dorchester station one of the porters noticed some smoke coming out of the package, and upon examining it he found it to be on fire. The contents of the package were not stated on the outside. The magistrates, after having heard the case, convicted the defendant in the penalty of £2O, but refused to grant costs. The Liberal party of North Devon have met at Barnstaple, and decided not to contcst the seat occu pied by Sir Stafford Northcote. A BALLOON ACCIDENT. —An aerial ascent was made by MM. de Fonvielle and Tissandier, two days back, from the Conservatoire des Arts et Metier, in the Nep tune, directed by M. Duruof. The balloon, wh:cii started from Paris at a quarter-past twelve, made a most perilous descent at five o'clock near Aulnay, Orne, about 120 miles distant. The silk burst when at a great height, and all came down rapidly. Fortunately the torn stuff acted in some measure as a parachute, and broke the violence of the shock. The car fell heavily, and was overturned above the voyagers, l IV; they were happily able to extricate themselves without any injury. A MILLIARD OF MINUTES.—When, after the restoration, it was proposed to raise a milliard of francs to the French emigre's, General Foy exclaimed, "Do you know that a milliard of minutes have not elapsed since the death of Christ ?" Although this was said nearly half a century ago, the milliard of minutes (1,000,000,000) have not yet flown by. On next Christmas Day there will have passed but 982,368,000 minutes. There being but 525,000 minutes in a year, thirtyfour years must elapse before the milliard is reach, which will bring us to the year 1902. Taking the average duration of life, nine tenths of the persons now living on the earth will not be alive in 1902. The directors of the National Bank have received an influential deputation of Irish shareholders, and at their suggestion Caine to the determination that the managing director of this large and rapidly-extending institution must nut be identified with politics or hold a seat in Parliament. Sir Joseph M'Kenna, M.P., acquiesced in the resolution, which will take effect imme diately on the dissolution of the present Parliament. Sir Joseph, confident of success at Youghal, intends to con test the representation .of that borough, resigning the managing directorship, to which a salary of £4,200 a year is attached, but still giving to the bank his able and valu able services as an ordinary member of the court of directors. Two of the unfortunate sufferers by the recent explosion of petroleum on the COrk and Queenstown Rail way have succumbed to the effects of their injuries —one, Buckley, early in the morning ; and the other, Reilly, in the course of the day. An inquest was held upon Buckley's remains, at which it was proved that orders bad been given to have the lamps changed and trimmed in the day-time, remoto from any flame, which order was dis obeyed on the night of the accident, and does not appear to have been regularly enforced. The jury returned a ♦erdict of accidental death, with a censure of the company for not having made better provision for the due care of the dangerous liquid, and the safety of the men using it, and of the men :or t'ieir disobedience of orders. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1868. THE COMING ELECTIONS 1N IRELAND. Thoroughness is the chief characteristic which at present marks the preparations for the coming elec-tions in Ireland. Priests and people are unanimous in their determi nation to return to the new Parliament none but men pledged by their character and an tecedents, even more than by their word, to postpone every question of less lasting import ance to the complete and thorough abolition of Protestant ascendancy. Whatever services a man may have rendered in the past, or may fairly promise for the future, are blotted out from the memory or fall dull on the ear of constituencies, if he does not make the dis establishment of the Irish Church his chief business. No more striking illustration of this thoroughness and unanimity could be found than in the declaration of the clergy of Meath, which we published last week, re pudiating in the most emphatic terms the insinuation that they set a higher value on the passing of a land bill, however important in itself, to the abolition of the Irish Establish ment. The clergy of Meath are at one with the clergy and people of Ireland on the para mount importance of a thorough settlement of this great question. In every address, at every public meeting, in all parts of the country, on every occasion, in season and out of season if any occasion of pronouncing a de termined opinion can under present circum stances be out of season, this thoroughness of purpose makes itself felt. It is seen in every Catholic constituency ; it writes with no in visible hand on the electoral wall—" No Dis raelitish Tory need apply !" It stops the ears of the Irish people to the words of men who fancy, or feign, that the disestablishment of the Irish Church will be carried out as fully and completely under the manipulation of Mr. Disraeli, the grand defender of the Royal Supremacy, and of unmitigated Erastianism, as by a Gladstone ministry returned to power for that very purpose bya justice-loving people. it is mere sham or pretence to say that Whig or Tory is equally inclined to do this great act of reparation to Ireland. The issue has been broadly put to the country, and cannot be blinked : it is Mr. Disraeli and Protestant ascendancy, or Mr. Gladstone and disestablish ment. The popular mind rejects any over nice discrimination between the comparative merits of Kr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone. It sees in any opponent to Mr. Gladstone only an enemy to the disestablishment of the Irish Church. And, on the whole, the popular in stinct is right. Such thoroughness of purpose no doubt operates harshly in individual cases, but when the public heart is stirred, it seizes upon general outlines and broad issues. To such an impulse is to be attributed, we imagine, the opposition which men who have deserved so well of Catholic support as Sir George Bowyer and Sir Joseph M'Kenna have met with. Such an opposition, though much to be deprecated, is not so ungenerous as it ap pears at first sight. It is mainly due, we believe, to the deep-rooted idea that Pro testant ascendancy in Ireland can only be abolished by Mr. Gladstone's aid, and that every man, however opposed to the Irish Church, who is not a supporter of Mr. Glad stone, is a hindrance rather than a help in the coming Parliamentary campaign. Sir George Bowyer's and Sir Joseph M'Kenna's services, in helping to carry against Tory opposition the disestablishment of the Irish Church, will be too invaluable to be inconsiderately thrown away. As real representatives of Catholic and Irish interests, no constituency ought, we think, to reject them under the mistaken notion that by so doing it is servicing the cause which is as dear to these two zealous Catholic members as it is to the most deter mined of the electors themselves. Every force ought to be husbanded ; the battle is beginning throughout the country ; victory may cost a hard and perhaps prolonged fight ; but such an act of national justice and reparation as the disestablishment and disen dowment of the Irish Church will far more than atone for sufferings incurred in the con test. The abolition of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland will place Catholics throughout the United Kingdom on quite a different footing, and will remove more than one material ob stacle to its progress. Already the struggle is bearing its fruits. If, on the one hand, it has excited a no-Popery bigotry, and it has only done so to a limited extent, it has, on the other, as has been the case in every great movement the Catholic Church has made in these countries, brought to our side the lovers of justice and fair play, as well as the seekers after truth. The overthrow of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland is the first step towards the overthrow of anti-Catholic prejudice and misrepresentation in the United Kingdom.- 11 7 i stilt/Jester Gazette. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (Front the Anglo-American Times.) It is vain to predict what the election in Cali fornia has been, when at any n•oment the result may be known. All the Democratic calculations include California among the States sure to give their electoral votes for Seymour and Blair. Although the strong Radical papers dispute this, they do so feebly, and it is clear that if California went Republican that party would be the most sur prised. Last year California gave the Democrats a majority of 3,000 ; but the Radicals assert that the battle was fought upon local issues, which split their strength into fragments. Mr. Gorham, who was then the apple of discord, has been removed to a higher sphere, and if the last elections have been carried by the Democrats, it would show that the Pacific States are unanimous in their support of the Democratic ticket. In 1864, M'Clellan polled 43,841 votes. In 1867 Holden, the Democratic candidate for Lieut.-Governor (the total vote for the Lieut.-Governor being larger than for Gover nor), received 47,969—the coincidence indicating very clearly that the whole Democratic strength was brought out. In 1864, Lincoln received 62,134 votes, while the Republican candidate for Lieut.- Governor in 1867 polled but 44,584. The legislators of the Southern States are not likely to add much to the dignity of these assem blies through their personnel. The world is censori ous ; and whatever might be the legislative wisdom of the members, it insists, at least in an Anglo- Saxon community, that their calling should in some degree correspond with the position they assume as representatives of their fellows. A coloured State Senator of Louisiana, it is said, took up the post of barber on board a Mississippi steamboat during the Legislature recess, and two Representatives for the same period held the useful but not very dignified places of cabin-boys. In Alabama, at the hotels of Montgomery, the State Capital, the negro mem bers of the Legislature proved useful as waiters, spending part of their time in cleaning the " re bels' " plates, and the other portion in legislating for their better behaviour. What an example for the British House of Commons, where the members only dirty boots and plates, instead of cleaning them, and in consuming food instead of cooking it ! Although the British Parliament has grown old in idleness, it is never too late to mend. We do not appeal to the Lords, for we know it is useless to lay this brilliant example before that effete assembly, but better things may be hoped for from a Reformed House of Commons. An Order in Council prohibited the landing of hay from the United States in any port in tha United Kingdom without a special licence, under the authority of the Privy Council. This is in con sequence of the cattle disease, which has caused so much loss and alarm in various States of the Union. The Irish Farmer's Gazette has taken strong grounds in urging the Government to this step, for if there is one thing , more dreaded in Ire land than another, it is the introduction of pleuro pneumonia. The disease, which is imported from Yews, appears to be dying out in the other States as suddenly as it was introduced, and is probably the result of the unusual drought, ceasing when the conditions of weather which produced it changed.. That the record of the four candidates is more than onlinarily free from blemish is becoming evi• dent from the failure of the "beavers," who have burrowed down to their berth in search of damag- ing stories. Nothing has been brought against Colfax except the old tale of the " silver waiter," which was presented by a pampered menial for a soldier who called to deposit his card upon, and who was refused admision by the Speaker because he re- fused to comply. Mr. Colfax disposed of this by stating that he never owned a silver salver, and with the evidence of wanton luxury the veteran has made his exit. So also as regards Blair, who, perhaps, being most open to attack, has been most attacked. After his expulsion from Yale he tried the Univer sity of North Carolina, from which he was also expelled ; and it was after this that he made his appearance at Princeton and cut off the nose of a fellow-student. One paper thus attacks him : " Frank Blair Drunk. [low the Democratic No- mince spent a Sunday in lowa. He is carried Dead Drunk to his Bed." The article leads off with the statement that Blair, the candidate of the Demo crats, when asked to take wine, always replies, " No, thank you ; I'll take whisky ;" and thus shows his devotion to Democratic principles," and then follows a circumstantial narrative of a de- bauch, concluding with a statement that what is told is only short of the truth, that it can be sup ported by the oaths of several " reliable men," and with a general defiance to " any one to disprove the facts." The New York Tribune says :—" The North Carolina papers charge spoon stealing upon Frank Blair. They call him Spoony' Blair. Spoony Blair and Looney Seymour make a strong team." Colonel Brown, replying to the animadversions of the New York World on his account of the failure of the nomination of Mr. Chase, calls Mr. Sey mour " a weeper." (Explaining the title by the statement that Mr. Seymour " wept for two hours and a half after receiving the Democratic nomina tion.") Finally, he disposes of that candidate by naming him "au unfortunate person" and " poor creature." The fresh story about Grant, as told by " Brick" Pomeroy, is that he stole a Shetland pony, which his son now rides, followed by two black grooms. Mr. James M'Henry has proceeded to America, with the intention, it is said, of negotiating an amalgamation of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway with the Erie line. The rumour has given rise to much speculation and fluctuations in Erie stock. The most important railway movement is the consoli&tion of various Southern roads, by which a new line of communication from the At lantic to the Mississippi Valley is to be opened, under the name of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail way. It will run from Richmond, Virginia, to the Ohio River, and will be an important line for the development of the reihources of the interior of Virginia. The Republican Convention of Massachusetts met at Worcester and nominated William Claffiu for Governor. There was a hard fight between that gentleman and Dr. Loring, backed by General Butler. Butler, however, is not just now in the ascendant with any section of his party. There is a long article about him in the Nation, which is not calculated to advance his chances. The gist of the article is that though he ruled well in New Orleans, considering the circumstances, he allowed his brother there by underhand practices to make a large fortune, which he inherited on that brother's death. The writer having many opportunities of learning whether Butler did steal anything, declares his belief that he did not. His military c treer in the field was a failure, and he has done nothing to rehabilitate himself during his two years' service in Congress. The investigation into the alleged corrup tion of the Senators to which he elected himself was really an exhibition of great contempt, not only for juridical principles, but for common decency. In this disregard for public opinion General Butler has acted injudiciously. He is charged with personal dishonesty, with want of principle, and his evil fame grows and overspreads the civilized world. These charges he ought to meet, or retire from public life; and his re-election, says the Nation, "by a Massachusetts district, of all places in the world, would be a public calamity." As Butler is the foremost champion of greenbacks, and as the Re publican Convention of Massachusetts resolved in favour of paying the debt in gold, his protetfj was not likely to be benefited by the patronage, and the General will be fortunate if he can secure his own return. Mr. Franz Vester, a German of Newark, New Jersey, has constructed a safety coffin for the pro tection of people who by accident are buried alive. It is larger than an ordinary coffin, with a recep tacle under the head for refreshments and restora tives. The top part of the lid is movable, and a box about two feet square is carried from this lid to about a foot above ground, where it would appear like a chimney. The top of the tube or pip is covered with a lid opened by a spring inside, and just below it is a bell connected with a cord. If the cord is pulled the bell rings, and the spring throws back the cover of the chimney. Cleets are nailed to the side of the box ; and, if the person in the coffin chooses, he can mount on a sort of ladder to the top and get out to the open air. Or otherwise the individual can rest at ease, eat, drink, and ring the bell for the sexton to come and assist him out. Mr. Vester exhibits in a bier-gui ten going through the burial service, and is buried in the presence of those who pay half a dollar to witness the de lightful entertainment. He is supposed to remain for two hours in the grave, but an impatient crowd, even with a plentiful supply of beer, could not be expected to await the la pse of such a period. He has, however, b e en upwards of an h our i n the grave, a hole six feet deep, and when the signal was given he has stepped forth with no more exhaustion than that a short walk on a hot day would cause. This experiment and the invention itself have excited much interest in England, though the ceremonies gone through at the trial tend to disgust people. Senator Morgan and General Schenck were ex pected at Washington to decide whether Congress was to be assembled for an extra session or not. The general opinion was that they would decide in the affirmative ; but had they done so we must have heard by cable. There are many who strongly urge the necessity of the session, and leading Re publican papers regard it as advisable. Mr. John son, it is thought, will make trouble both in the Revenue Department and in the removal of General Thomas from the command in Tennessee, unless Congress is in session to control him. He has re cently had a conversation with a Southern gentle man, but we :presume it was mere words when he talked of putting General Gillen, or Gordon Granger, or Rousseau in command in Tennessee, removing Thomas, who has declared that civil war in that State is imminent, and who will support Parson Brownlow and the Legislature. We conclude that Congress is not to reassemble, notwithstanding the indications when the mail left that it would be called together, for otherwise it would be known in Europe. Notwithstanding the efforts of the Fenians Whelan his been found guilty of the murder of the Canadian statesman, D'Arcy WGee, and sen tenced to be hung on the 10th of December. Surely this must be a mistake, for there is many a man who would consider himself fortunate to be guaran teed life for such a period. Perhaps the Cana dian Judges desire to teat what can be accom plished by the Fenians to effect his escape. The principal witness was driven over the border, and had to be captured and sent back by the United States police. Other witnesses were threat ened with death if they gave evidence. With this sample, and the experience in Ireland and Eng land of what the Feuians are prepared to do to liberate their agents from gaol, we may reasonably expect that before the 10th of December Whelan will be the honoured head of some Fenian circle, perhaps in the metropolis of London. He was ar raigned at Ottawa on the 3d inst., his trial began on the 7th, and he was defended by the most skilful counsel in Canada. Mr. Samartzidi, and two other members of the Greek deputation, who made themselves conspicuous on board the United States frigate Franklin in the Dardanelles, were arrested shortly after they re turned, and kept at least sixty hours in theZap tieh. It appears that this gentleman, the editor of the Eptalopllos, headed an enthusiastic Greek depu tation, all carrying bundles of an address to Adati- ral rarragut. When at the bottom of the gang way the Greeks began to distribute the copies, which were in English and Greek, flinging them through the ports and among the crew, and sending 500 to the Admiral's cabin. The ad dress appealed for the sympathy of the United States with the Cretan movement. The war, it asserted, was against gravious oppression, and the hope was expressed that the United States would assist in liberating that historical country, Turkey. The Admiral, who at the time was with the American Minister (Mr. Morris), sent word that he would only receive the members as private individuals, which he did most courteously, but without making any political remark. The en thusiasm of three of these Greeks was, however, cooled, as we have before stated, in a Turkish " bastile," in a way which, being legally unjustifi able, has been made the subject of protest by the Greek Legation. Not only were they Hellenic sub jects, but their offence, if any, was committed under the American flag. The quarrel between Secretary M'Culloch and Commissioner Rollins is swelling into considerable proportions. Mr. M'Culloch has openly pronounced for the Democrats, and desires to appoint the 25 supervisors in the interest of their ticket. Mr Rol lins staunchly supports the Republicans, and, claim ing these appointments as his own, rejects the no minations of the Secretary. Mr. Binckley, solicitor of the Internal Revenue Department, and formerly Assistant Attorney-General, obtained in New York a warrant for Mr. Rollins' arrest, upon affidavits charging him with conspiring with distillers to cheat the Government. Mr. Rollins, of course, declines to go to New York to be arrested, although the charges are simply concocted for a political ob ject. Some correspondence has taken place between the Secretary and Mr. Binckley, and the Deputy Marshal, who has the warrants, has been instructed to make no more arrests at present. Both Mr. Rollins and Deputy Commissioner Harlan have been summoned to appear for trial, but they have taken no notice either personally or by counsel. Of course Mr. Rollins' friends accuse the President and Mr. M'Culloch of being the authors of these shame ful charges, which both have at once disavowed, the President almost apologizing to Mr. Rollins, and declaring the accusations to be absurd. The International Workmen's Congress assem bled at Brussels was closed on the 13th instant, by a speech from President Dupont, of London. The German branches assert, in an address read to the Congress, that a war between France and Germany must be regarded as a civil war for the profit of Russia. " The International Association," it says, " calls upon working men to pronounce against war, to oppose it by all the means in their power, to refuse to countenance assassination, and to organize a propaganda for the education of the poor." The Congress responded by recommending " working men to abstain from all work in the event of war breaking out in their respective countries. The Congress reckons upon the solidarity of working men of all countries for this strike of the people against war." The Times points to the inconsist ency of their statement, that " they cannot see their way clear, where the means for education are to come from, unless the State take it in hand," with the latter resolution as to whence the means for their support are to come, if they abstain from work during war. A Paris delegate denounced it as an intolerable hardship that the working man, under present circumstances, " must either work for others' profit or perish." In those words he stated the most essential law of human existence. It is upon the sole condition of working for others' profit that we are fit to live or to receive profit ourselves. The cold shade of Charles Francis Adams has evidently faller, over the mercurial temperament of his son, John Qaincy. Adams is a great name in Massachusetts, and with reason, for seldom has his tory recorded three highly distinguished generations of a family. In England the achievements of the Adamses would have made them ducal, and the eldest son would have inherited a seat in the Legislature and a commanding position in the country. In America the case is widely diffe rent, for there men have to achieve these positions for themselves, and itis thus that three generations of Adams' have risen to high places, an I left their names in the annals of their country. It is evident that a fourth is destined to become a leader in Massa chusetts. We cannot estimate the weight his name carries, an I what portion of his prominence is due to his abilities. Had he been Joe Buggins he would not have been thus eagerly sought by the Demo crats as their standard-bearer. The return of the late Minister has evidently damped John Quincy's Democratic ardour, and he was even absent when nominated for Governor by the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention. Charles Francis Adams rigidly withdraws from politics, and meets all advances by looking down from the clouds on the contending factions in the Union, above which he declares himself to be, having represented the whole nation, from which high place he cannot con descend to descend. The " celestial" Embassy returned to New York on the 2d instant, whence they embarked on the 9th for England, so that before we go to press we may be able to announce their arrival at Queenstown. They have been a fund of curiosity and amusement in America—what they ate, drank, and did was carefully chronicled. Every newsboy who hawked a paper knew the amount of their hotel bills— that Chin-Tajen was fond of beef, and Sun-Tajen of sweets. One estimate is that they daily consumed 501bs. of black Hamburgh and Sweetwater hot-house grapes, which at two d ollars a pound is calculated to swell up a bill such as to make the mission, unless highly successfu 1, any thing but profitable to China. The opportu pity of pretending to more than their neigh bours has been too strong for some 'Transatlantic journals. *One Massachusetts paper sneers at a brother of the modern Athens who, in no ticing the departure of the Embassy, " Com mits," as it says, " the ludicrous tautology of pre fixing their excellencies' to their names in apparent ignorance that the suffix Tajen' means precisely that." Chinese toys have been the rage in honour of the Embassy, but as John Bull goes in more for creature comforts, we presume that " bird's nests" will rise in London, of which we hope some keen speculator has long since ordered a supply. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Sept. 5.) Money continues in positive excess at the East, though the West reports an increased demand and a gradual tightening of the market, without, however, anything like stringency as yet. Most of the public journals seem to feel under obligation to warn their readers against trust ing . these appearances ; and money-articles, and even editorial columns, aro full of predictions of a squeeze by and by. That money will not be so easy, a month from now, is a matter of course ; but we think that most of these prophets are overdoing the thing in their extreme conscientiousness. There appears to be no sufficient reason to anticipate more than a fair degree of tension at the worst. The currency of the country is in unmistakable excess; and it is notorious that mercantile credits—that great cause of periodical pressure and occasional panics —are much less extended now than usual. Moreover the facilities for transporting goods and remitting money have been so greatly increased of late, as to distribute the fall trade over a much longer period, and at the same time to make currency more active, enabling a much smaller amount to effect the same number of exchanges. Cur rency will of course set strongly to the West during the next four weeks, and money in New York will unques tionably be brought up to legal rates and kept there through the season ; but more than this there are no pre sent grounds for expecting. Theexisting ease of the mar ket has led to a large investment demand for Government and other favourite stocks. At Boston call loans aro made at 4 to 5 per cent. on Governments, and the banks are able to employ the bulk of their f ands at 6} to 7 per cent. At. New York money continues easy on call at 3 to 4 per cent., awl ran as low as 2 per cent. on Saturday ; discounts aro dull, the general rate, for prime paper being 6 to 64 per cent. for short, and 6i to 7 per cent. for four months paper. The weekly statement of tho associated banks shows an increase of three and a half millions in loans, and of six millions in deposits, the decrease in deposits in three weeks having reached 21 millions. At Cincinnati the demand for loans is bettor, but the market is easy at 8 to 9 par cent. for first-class paper at bank, and 10 to 12 par cont. outside. At Chicago the exigencies of the season are beginning to be felt, and the market is working close. Grain con tinues to accumulate, and its movement eastward is looked for to give ease to the market. At St. Louis, money is in good supply at 8 to 10 per cent. by . the banks, 12 to 15 per cent. being the outside rates. At Lou don the rates for short first-class paper are n to If, per cent., with little offering. The movement of bullion to Paris has ceased, and the amount drawn away in con sequence of the French loan is being replacdd from Australia and the United States. At New York the import entries for the week have been $6,198,507, against $6,362,630 fJr the same week last year; the export clearances of domestic produce amount to $3,568,651, against $2,994,242; and the export of specie and bullion has been $492,034, against $103,792. The gold values of import entries of foreign mer chandise at New York since January Ist have been $171,341,129 against $179,316,448 for the same period last year, a decrease of $7,975,319; the currency value of the exports of domestic produce and miscellaneous goods for the same period amounts to $103,836,152 against $123,790,485, a decrease of $17,931,333 ; the exports of specie of all descriptions since January 1 has been $64,403,113, against $11,163,077, an increase of $23,246,036. The deliveries of California geld and silver for the same period have been $23,892,121, against 819,933,520, an in crease of $8,862,901. Of course much gold reaches New York which does not enter into the tables of receipts and exports. Many millions come overland from Montana in the form of dust or " bricks," and so escape the sta tistician. An analysis of the import entries for the week, given above, shows a considerable improvement in dry goods, but a falling off in general merchandise. The exports for the week show a decided' improvement. Cotton has moved more freely than for some weeks past, the shipments reaching 2,700 bales, Hay has been in un usual request for shipment, but closed for the week less active, though at full prices. The export of cheese has almost entirely ceased, but not until considerable money has been lost on it. Petroleum has been largely shipped, though prices have given way under heavy accumulations and less favourable foreign advises. Petroleum is an article which has not'yet found its price. A report has just been published by the Statistical Bureau at Washington, which enables us to determine exactly the balance of our foreign trade for the eleven months ending June 30. The general facts are, that we imported of dutiable merchandise $310,838,935, of free mer chandise $14,410,251, of specie $12,197,615 ; and exported of domestic merchandise (in currency values) 8341,576,718, of foreign merchandise 510,807,947, and of specie $81,063,062, making the balance apparently 8101,000,891 in our favour—but reducing the exports of domestic merchandise to gold values at the several monthly pre miums of gold, we shall have the excess of exports only $8,401,857. But, as this was obtained by parting with $71,849,339 of domestic coin and bullion, it cannot be re garded exactly as a triumph of American production. Of that seventy-two millions, one half, possibly, we could have afforded to send (provided we did not wish ever to resume specie payments) as the proper product of the year, and so a legitimate matter of export. All the rest must be regarded as a clear loss of the capital of the country, attributed to the ad vanteges of a depreciated cur rency. Gold has fluctuated less violently this week than for some weeks past. It has kept chiefly between 144 and 145, although touching 146 for a moment on Tuesday and Wednesday. The demand for customs has been large, while the export has fallen a to less than half a million. The Java, from Liverpool, on the other hand, brought back half a million of dollars in American small coin (half eagles) which had been sent out as a part of the Alaska remittances, but could not be disposed of to advantage by weight in London. From the way this remittance was managed, it would seem that " some one had blun dered." Freight and insurance for specie across the At lantic twice, for nothing, are "no joke." We shall pro _ __ bably hear no more of the return of specie from Europe. The September interest ($5,000,000) on the Ten-Forties (Five per Cents.) has been paid out this week. This has had an influence, unquestionably, in reducing tempo- rarily the premium. The victory of the party of peace, and order, and national faith in Vermont was instantly followed by an advance of one per cent. in Governments, which had before bean slightly depressed. The opera- Lens in the Five-Twenties of 1867 alone amounted to several millions of dollars, and the investment demand for the whole list was heavier than it had been for months. The tendency to equalize the prices of the different issues has become very marked. Even in Europa this is be coming quite perceptible, although the preference is still given to the Bonds of 1862 at the London and Frankfort boards. 10-40's and the later 5-20's are being sent abroad very largely. Particularly at Frankfort the dealings in American Securities have been greatly stimulated by the rise in the premium on gold. Coupon Ten-Forties and the old Bonds of 1865 are in especial request at home. In the railway market attention has been confined mainly .A::* two or three properties. Milwaukee and St. Paul has more than recovered from the effects of the injunction and stands higher than before. An injunction from Judge Barnard is getting to be considered a certificate of re spectability and good character. Not discouraged at all by this move of their enemies, the directors have accom plished the purchase of the Prairie du Chien Road, with which they had previously consolidated earnings. Erie still continues the football of the market. On Monday the stock fell several per cent. under the report that the in terest on the 2d and 31 mortgage bonds duo September 1 —amounting to s3so,ooo—was to be passed. The report probably originat:d in the fact that no advertisement of the payment had appeared. The effect of course was'to depress the stock, though the report was absurd on its face, as if the rascals who have the direction of the road would allow the mortgages to be foreclosed and the road to be put into the hands of a receiver l They know too much. As long as they can steal $350,000, the interest will be paid on the day. On Tuesday, again, the stock want up to 49k. under a rumour that the road was to be consolidated with the Atlantic and Great Western, but went back to 46 the same day. The directors of the Great Western are actually on their way over to try to do something with their beggarly concern. They will try to sell their road to the Erie—if not, to lease it. The consolidation of the two concerns would bo painfully like a wedding in the poor house. The earnings of the Great Western for the third week in August were only $91,107 against $120,226 last year, a loss of $26,092. North-western has advanced to $B5. Its earnings for August were $1,265,830 against $1,063,236 the same month last year, showing the handsome gain of $202,594. The payment of the 10 per cent. stock divi dend on the Rock island Stock commenced on the Ist inst. The New York World says that the stockholders, before receiving payment of the dividends, are forced to sign an agreement ratifying the sale of 49,000 shares, issued in accordance with the resolution of the execution committee on September 13, 1867. Central Stock has advanced during the week, and it is in better request. Pacific Mail went up several per cent. on a rumour that a settlement had been made with the opposition, but fell off the same day. In Express Stocks Adams and Merchants' Union remain about as last week. Adams indeed slightly stronger. The others have declined, Wells Fargo $3 per share, American V; per share, and United States nearly $2 per share. The Boston and Albany Rail road has completed its double track, the last rail having been laid between Chester and Middlefield. The Reading and other coal-carrying roads advanced their freights on the Ist instant, and this, as well as the increased demands of the mining companies, promises to make coal higher very speedily. The new National Life Insurance Company, chartered by act of Congress at its last session, has organized with a "swinging" board of officers, and is now in full operation. A company, called the East India Telegraph Company has been organized in New York, with Governer Curtin, of Pennsylvania, as president ; which proposes to lay down nine hundred miles of telegraph at once, between ten enumerated Chinese ports, having obtained the pri vilege through Minister Burlingame. The company ad vertises for subscriptions to its stock. In provisions the only marked feature is the increasing steadiness of pork. The supply is reported scant, Land the stock on hand is firmly held at an advance. Dairy products show a downward tendency, butte rand cheese being both considerably" off." Breadstuffs still tend downward, except the better grades of flour. Unless the export demand quickens more than to be expected a still further decline is inevit able. The subject of the crops, we believe, has been ex hausted for the present. Wool is in better demand, at full and buoyant figures. Cotton closes for the week a trifle lower. There has been a noteworthy improvement at New York in the dry goods trade. The town is filling up with merchants, but there is still a groat disposition to hold off, and a general feeling that prices must give way. In domestics there has been soma movement, but prices are unsettled. In printing cloths there is little doing, with a declining market. In brown sheetings of standard makes there has been a decline of about one cent a yard, while in light weights the fall has averaged about half a cent. In bleached shirtings and sheetings prices rule lower by half a cent to* a cent per yard. Foreign dress fabrics are freely taken. Shawls and carpetings aro in good demand. Woollens show a marked improvement. Fine cashmeres and fine overcoatiugs are considerably higher, and likely to be. LATEST MARKETS. At New York yesterday money was in superabundant supply at 3to 4 per cent. on call. Sterling exchange firm at 109 to 109 i. Gold lower, opening 1441, closing 1431. The decline was caused by the report that Government was selling. The export of gold $103,000. State Bonds were firm at an advance. The injunction against the agents of the State of Tennessee has been vacated and the suits withdrawn. Governments strong, .with an ad vance on, new issues, closing barely steady. The railway market opened buoyant with a general advance, the bears covering their contracts to a considerable extent. Erie alone was lower. Judge Barnard to-day issued an order returnable on the 14th inst., in the case of Bright v. Mil waukee and St. Paul Railroad, requiring the complainant to show cause why the recent injunction should not be vacated, and the receiver discharged. The market at the close was active and firm. At New York, American gold 1451, United States cou pon Sixes (1881) 114 to 114}, United States 5-20's (1862) 1131 to 1131, (1864) 1091 to 1091, (1865) 1111 to 1111, (1865, new) ICBI to 1081, (1867) 1081 to 1081, (1868), 1081 to 108, United States 10-40's 105, Virginia 6's (Old) 531 to 551, Missouri 6's 921, Tennessee G's (Old) 651 to 67, North Carolina G's (Old) 72 to 73, (New) 72 to 721, New York Central Railroad 1261 to 127, Erie 47 to 471, Erie Preferred 691 to 71, Hudson River 1391 to 140, Reading 921 to 92/, Milwaukee and St. Paul 794 to 80, Milwaukee and St. Paul Preferred 86, Toledo, Wabash and Western 531 to 53/, Toledo, Wa bash and Western Preferred 72, Michigan Central 1181 to 119, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 85/ to 85}, Illinois Central 1431 to 146, Cleveland and Pittsburg 8 7 1 to 87k, Clevelaul and Toledo 1021 to 103, Chicago Rock Island and Pacific 1021 to to 1021, Chicago and North - Western 85 to 851. Chicago and North-Western Pre • ferred 85 to 854, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago 1081 to 1081, Hartford and Erie 22 to 23, Adams Express Com pany 491 to 491, Merchants' Union 22/ to 22/, Western Union Telegraph Company 341 to 341, Pacific Mail Stearn Ship Company 102 to 1021; Cumberland Coal Company Preferred 291, Canton 46 to 461, Quicksilver 20} to 21, Boston Water Power Company 151 to 16, At New York, flour, State, and Western spring wheat flour are steady, winter dull and 10 to 20c lower, superfine State $6,80 to 8,10, extra 7,90 to 9,30, round hoop Ohio 8,60 to 11,90, extra Western 8 to 9,80, white wheat extra 9,90 to 11,75, southern dull, extra 8,60 to 14,60, Cali fornia dull and declining, 9,75 to 12 ; wheat, spring quiet,iwinter dull and 2 to 3c lower with sales of spring No. 2 at $2,031, new ditto 2,05, No. 1 at 2,11, No. 2 and 3 mixed at 1,95, winter rod Western new 2,20, choice white California 2,70 ; corn opened heavy and closed dull, and lc lower with sales of mixed Western at $l,lB to 1,24 for unsound, 1,34 to 1,25 for sound, closing at the inside price, old 1,24 in store; oats a shade better, new Southern 66c, new Western 70 to 75c, Old Western 81/c in store, 821 c afloat; beef steady ; pork quiet and steady_; mess $28,75 to 28,90, closing 28,75 ; lard firmer at 181 to 1910 ; butter quiet ; whisky heavy and lower with sales in bond at 65c; cotton less active and a shade lower, middling uplands 90 to 301 c ; rice dull ; sugar moderately active, Porto WO 121 to 13/c, muscovado 101 to 10/0, Demerara 141 0 coffee more active and firm ; molasses quiet and stead,'; spirits turpentine quiet at 44c ; rosin steady at $l,BO for strained ; common oils quiet, petroleum firmer and better demand, crude 15 to lobe, refined bonded She. (From the Iron Age.) GENERAL HARDWARE.—There is a good degree Of activity observable, most merchants being pretty busy good many merchants from the country are in town, and many good bills are sold. Advices from England report that hardware goods are generally languid, as they have long been. This is true more especially of the old Shef field trades, saws, edge tools, and such ; but heavier goods are becoming more active. LUON.—Both American and Scotch is in small supPlYt not adequate to the demand, which makes the market in sellers' favour. The papers of Schuylkill county state that the miners are working at all the collieries in the Schuylkill region, except one or two, where there is some dispute as to the amount of the advance asked. Thal; work the usual time of ten hours, with an advance e' wages varying from ten to fifteen per cent., as at soul' ) collieries the rates wore lower than at others. Wages are now more equalised throughout the region. Th e trade is now in full operation again in all the re' gions where the strike prevailed. Trade is generally fai r ' manufacturers being well supplied with orders, and look ing for healthy trade for the remainder of the season. I n " got Copper—The demand is very quiet and prices are quotable, 231 to 24 to 24k, according to brand and quer' thy. In large lots from speculator's hands, lower pricest are occasionally submitted to. Pig Iron—Scotch, with constantly decreasing stock in yard, sells ox arriving shif ki $421 to $45, as per brand and quantity. ,The market i 9 firm, the arrivals small, and holders continue to look fo r higher prices. Pig Iron—American No.l extra, with a very inadequate supply and a fair demand, still rules high tw: quotable for actual sales at $4l to 43 per ton. NO. `, extra $3B to 39. No. 2, $32 to 34. No. 3, $3O to 3 ' Old rails rule at $l6 to 48. Scrap iron, $47 to 50 for No. 1 wrought. Lead, bid to &id, geld. Spelter, 61 to y, ge ld : Tin, straits 24 to 24f, gold, according to quality. -It etr mony, 161 to 17, currency. Quicksilver, 77 to 80. Bl e. muth, $6 to 61 per-lb., best qualities. Nickel, $1 87 t° 2.53 per lb, as per quality. (From the New York Tribune.) The city banks hold but few bonds that will come on the market this fall, and the entire amount of Government bonds held by the national banks is less, at the pre sent time, than the amount held by brokers during the moue/ stringency of 1867. The $50,000,000 have ceased to be; burden upon our currency, having been shipped ab road ' and the continued demand will probably take all the b op ' o that come out in the next four months from the coontri banks to supply their needs for currency. The o,dvelleB in our bonds, both at home and abroad, is looked upon 01 political circles as caused by the assurance of the election of Grant, and a consequent fulfilling of the public faith 111 regard to the payment of the debt. (From Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) i 6 London, Sept. • Lou d ° There has been but slight fluctuations in the market for American securities during the past we Yesterday there was a fractional advance in the pri ce United States Five-Twenties on the result Of the New England election foreshadowing the choice re f General Grant, as President, thus inducing the that no attempt will be mad to pay the principal a 6 , Q , 6 verntnent Bonds in currency instead of gold. The ,1?,,,s Bonds close 714 to 72 ; the 1865's 701 to I, and the 10 66 3 to -1. res There has been little doing in Illinois Central SO ye the recent greatly reduced quotations for Eries brought numerous buyers to the market, so that the P . " at 30 to has been well sustained. Albion College, Michigan, is intended equally young men and women, and has two female profelor Miss Rachel Carney, M.S. Professor of Modern -L‘ o f guages, and Miss Sallie A. 'Bunsen, M.A.S., ProfessorAt Mathematics. The President is George B. Jocelyn' gr. the recent anniversary of the College, the 11 1,: nt iv5 Cocker preached the annual sermon before the gra" - de class. President Abbott, of the Agricultural College, g ig livered an address before the Calliopean SooietY• pr ia , theme was " Calliope." Miss A. C. Rogers, the ors cipal, delivered the annual address of the clas s.-- Revolution. The same paper s'iys :—" It is computed of five thousand of the inhabitant's of New York owo„ 6 00 greater amount of real and personal property than ful. 0 0 rest of the city together. It is also estimated tit the hundred and fifty thousand of the wealthiest men United States own as much real and personal pro ,10 as the whole of the remainder of the nation. 0 and a half per cent. of the whole people bel, ( l p er much wealth as the other ninety-seven and a bt er ti, cent. Stewart and Hampton represent bankruptcy, P°' slavery, high art, double distilled slavery, for the Pl o w not that they are sinners above other men, but are t , o ef' selves victims to Divine laws violated, to institutioovWe verted." It does not do for a man to swell out to too l o of proportions in a Democracy, for it certainly is no e , Mr. Stewart that he is one of the most successful of ro business. pre' 'ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's1—Holloway's Pills.—Noth in g w es serves the health so well as an occasional alterativetrel the temperature is variable and the nerves are nos d These pills act admirably on the stomach, liver, MI neys, and so thoroughly purify the blood that th e .' 00 most efficient in warding off nausea, fever, diarrb °3 „ l e dysentery, and other maladies so rife througlo-Aosire autumns. All who have the natural and laudable des of maintaining their own and their families' healtilircool, do better than trust to Holloway's pills, which ` Ol ll O regulate, I and strengthen them. These purifying P, suitable for all ages, seasons, constitutions, and ',"; t,11 6 They are the maiden's safeguard - , the matron's safevi young man's security, and the old man's comfort. 40 0 (ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they alsvaYs a g e 'storl chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious heauh-r oar is _ Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the n eke ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other rei.'ouoi and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerv,et c tiol t , lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeee.-estowe, extract a few out of 68,000 cures;—" The Pope's heal th „ r by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July i ole o , —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, espet o tir e l abandoning all other remedies he has confined him se " to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food of which he, c o .lyl)°,,el a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surpris .a tiiis 0 ficial effect on his health, and his Holinelps cannot prais e " 2 6 (•,70 , lent rood too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, Jul 11'0 No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Y`"'orf ° .,,l complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with ! es , 0 , ; (1 palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleepler,; 7 l ; yo the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure NO. n y yet t o Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of ree m a fr„ ) ,, dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable sEttilet,o, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatio,fi , c o o spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolt'. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, et e at, s py diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange the le'ol partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of i odi c d. unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whie ll ' a tioc i l o . authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously , bs. , 1,0 In tins, at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 I mile . os 12 lbs , 225.; 241bs ,40s.—Also Du PARRy'S REVALVI T II o .l* o • CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For „ s 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at 65., for 288 air Tne e ipt for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per 0113.,..„ roe C and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England " So. of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and C''' Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. GORING —On the 16th inst., at 53, Portland - P e' Goring, of Wiston, of a son. tar ° RIVINGTON—On the 17th inst., at 4, Devonshire°f 00' Hyde-park, the wife of Alex. Rivington, Escl' 7 , / ,/e, YOUNG —On the 18th inst., at Child wec kbury, wife of Sir Charles Young, Bart., of a daughtor. Marriages. ~., rao o 4 o, BUCHANAN—CARTER—On the 17th inst., at bL;,,bali . ,, i t Church, Orchard-street, Portman-square, T. J • -Pli eV" Esq, 52d Light Infantry, to JessieD'Alb eil Mf ' ,f daughter of Lieut.-Col. and the Hon. Mrs. Car'', i " . 00'; PORTER—ROYSTON—On the 17th inst. at at nieP b3 i - L'o l°J ; Blackpool, Charles Porter, of LoweiNorwootw3roto ' to Florence, scond daughter of the late Vi rnl ' Esq., of Manchester. ° Deaths. Jo . gr. ANDREWS—On the 17th inst., suddenly, at Bath, gO, a Andrews, of Tring, aged 69. for-S (1 41 1, GLENTWORTH—On the 17th inst., at 79 , Ches.,-,001 Annabella, the Dowager Viscountess Gie- 0 0a aged 77. ath GALT—On the 16th inst., at Clarence-parade' 5° • ' Joseph Galt, Esq. J.P., aged 77. 14 61 ' d HALSEY -On the 15th inst., at Margate, 1.3 awa rd e O, Esq., of Blackheath- hill, Nent a , r ed 54. 'r Vi i° NASH - On the 17th inst., A Ailsa- par k VillaS, GERe ft ham, Eliezer Nash, Esq., aged in 70. Paris, SEA—On the 17th inst General O ~ aged 62. ___ i a °', -------- DiD ,,- 11./ London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.3I A t o e of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tuft SON 0 11 ' 9 ' 0 00 Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voY, in the Middlesex.—Saturday, September 19, kiss. R INA This col prize :Mega Iti p er , Sold in l the Amt s , C Obse r B ve h ares LL y[ UT Rm. b No] old or T. 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