The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-10 00:00:00

MR, GLADSTONE'S ADDRESS. The following is Mr. Gladstone's address to the electors of South-West Lancashire : " Gentlemen,--From you, the electors of the South. western Division of the County of Lancashire, I solicit a renewal of the trust which was confided to me in 1865, in a manner demanding from me peculiar gratitude, by the constituency of the entire southern division. " I then came before you as the advocate of a policy of trust in the people, tempered by prudence, and averse to violent and hasty change. " In the spirit of that profession, I was a party in 1866 to proposals for the extension of the franchise, which I thought the smallest that could meet the just claims of the unenfranchised classes, and which were studiously limited, in order, if possible, to disarm jealousy, prejudice and fear. " We were met by an opposition, not indeed as direct, but yet as persevering and detrimental, as was ever offered to any measure. At length a point was reached at which the Government of Earl Russell found that the resigna. tion of their offices appeared to be the most becoming method by which they could secure the early triumph of Reform. `We resigned accordingly. The result was, that the opponents of reduction in the franchise took office, and found themselves compelled by the public sentiment, after much vacillation, to make proposals on that subject which, though not only narrow, but strongly reactionary in the shape in which they were presented to Parliament, issued in the passing of a measure larger and more democratic than the bill which, in 1866, we were told by the highest authority, would reduce our institutions to the pattern of the American Republic. " From the extensive though unequal enfranchisement which has thus been secured for the people, past expe rience and all present signs lead me to anticipate in • creased strength for our institutions, and a more vigorous march both of legislative and administrative policy. " The bills which have been passed, and especially that relating to England, introduced by the Government, but amended and almost transformed by the Opposition, present the marks of conflicting handiwork, and lend a doubtful aspect to a settlement which ought to have been conclusive. One point, indeed, I fear that the expe rience of the present year already proves to be, not only of great, but also of pressing importance. In 1847 289 gentlemen voted that the borough franchise, founded on rated occupation, should be enjoyed alike, whether the rate were laid on the owner or on the occupier. The rejection of this proposal by Parliament, under the menace of the Government to drop the bill if it were carried, has led to grievous inconvenience and vexation in a large num ber of boroughs. This, you will readily believe, that we, who struggled hard to avert them, shall be not less anxious under more favourable auspices, to remove. " The rapid growth of wealth, especially among the classes of the greatest activity and enterprise, has led, for a number of years past, to a diminished watchfulness, .outside the walls of Parliament, respecting the great and cardinal subject of economy in the public charges, and the relation between the income of the State and its expenditure. I earnestly desire that the paramount interest of the lately enfranchised classes in thrifty administration may operate powerfully to bring about a change. This tendency cannot but be strengthened by the present decline of the permanent revenue, and by the addition, since the present Government took office, of three millions (in round numbers) to the public charges, apart from the demands of the Abyssinian war. This increase has extended not less to the civil than in the military and naval departments. In my opinion it has not been justified, either by the wishes of the country or by the demands of the public service. " I perceive with satisfaction that attention has of late been increasing7y directed to the local charges of the country. Their amount, the manner of their incidence, and the means provided for their administration and control, appear to demand careful consideration. It will, in my opinion, be just and politic to allow the ratepayers, by the principle of representation, a control over county expenditure. " No question is at the present day more complicated by differences of opinion than that of primary education. But all are agreed both upon its vital importance and upon its pressing urgency. In the year 1839, Earl Russell, for the Government of Lord Melbourne, placed upon official record the desire of her Majesty that the rights of conscience should be respected, and that the youth of this country should be religiously brought up. Further measures are certainly required to establish and secure the first of these great principles ; and they need not in my opinion involve the slightest disparage ment to the second. I think that the declaration of Earl Russell still marks the proper basis of national policy in education for the three kingdoms. But it has become increasingly desirable that the State should stand clearly apart from responsibility for the teaching of particular and conflicting creeds in schools aided by grants from any national fund. "There are many subjects of public moment, some of tnem especially affecting your great and varied interests, which I am unable to notice within the limits of this acliiresg. "For at this time one question, or group of questions, overshadows all the rest. The state of Ireland, and the actual temper of no small portion of its people towards the Throne and Government of the United Kingdom, impera tively demand the care of all public men, and of all good citizens who would seek, not merely to live by expedients from day to day, but, looking onwards into the future, to make provision, as far as human means avail, for the strength, concord, and stability of the empire. "The object of a truly liberal policy is by equitable but decided measures to make the name of law in Ireland respected as it is in Great Britain ; to make it respected by making it loved ; and to create this attachment by creating in the national mind the conviction that law is a friend and not an enemy ; the friend of every class, but especially of those classes which have the greatest need of its protection. " The present House of Commons has four times been called upon to suspend the Act for securing personal liberty in Ireland, but it has not forgotten the work of improvement in that country. " In 1866 the Government of Earl Russell addressea itself to one absolutely vital portion of this work by intro ducing a Land Bill, for securing to tenants the value of their improvements, which the obstruction of the Ministers now in power prevented from passing into law. " But this year, those Ministers, rightly judging that the necessity of coercion did not impair the obligations of justice, very deliberately proposed a policy for Ireland; did not shrink from the questions of education and reli gion ; asked to establish at the charge of the exchequer a Roman Catholic University; and declared their readiness to recognise the principle of religious equality in Ireland by a great change in the status of the unendowed clergy of that country, provided always that the Established Church should be maintained in its integrity. In this state. ment, for the sake of accuracy, I have adhered, as nearly as may be,. to the language which they used. " We thought that Ministers had mistaken alike the interests and the convictions of the country. We refused to open a new source of discord through the establishment by the State of any denominational university. We repudiated the policy of universal endowment. But, agreeing with the Government that the subject was ripe, we proposed a counter plan of disestablishment of the existing Church, with strict regard to the rights of property and to vested interests, but without establishing any other Church, and with a general cessation of State endowments for religion in Ireland. " The Church of Ireland is the Church of a minority, insignificant in numbers. True, while insignificant in numbers, that minority is great in property, in education, and in power. All this does not amend, but aggravates the case. For if a national Church be not the Church of the nation, it should at least be the Church of the poor. Every argument which can now be used in favour of civil establishments of religion is a satire on the existence of the Church in Ireland. " But while that Establishment is thus negative for good, it misapplies the funds meant for the advantage of the nation at large. It remains as the memorial of every past mischief and oppression. It embitters religious con troversy by infusing into it the sense or the spirit of political injustice ; and it carries the polemical temper into the sphere of social life and public affairs. Nor need we feel surprise when we find that, since the penal laws began to be repealed, the relative number of Protestants in Ireland appears to have declined. "In the removal of this Establishment I see the dis charge of a debt of civil justice,the disappearance of a national, almost a world-wide reproach, a condition indis pensable to the success of every effort to secure the peace and contentment of that country; finally, relief to a devoted clergy from a false position, cramped and beset by hopeless prejudice, and the opening of a freer career to their sacred ministry. " This is a great change, and it can only be effectea with the aid of much energetic and much considerate support. " In the manner of proceeding we ought, I think, to he governed by three considerations : a regard for Irish inte rests and feelings, an enlarged equity towards those who would lose in point of civil privilege, and a careful heed to the spirit of equal dealing throughout the detailed arrangements. "After all that these rules can warrant has been done, there may remain a considerable property at the disposal of the State. The mode of its application can only, in m y judgment, be suggested to Parliament by those who, as a Government, may have means and authority to examine fully the provisions now made by law for the v,arious public and social wants of Ireland, and to compare n each case both the urgency of the demand and the 'acility of meeting it with general satisfaction. It would, iowever, ill consist with the principle of the measure for which we are now contending if the State, having dis established the Church, were to apply its funds to the teaching of religion in any other form. " To sum up this great subject— " Rest as we are, by common consent, we cannot. Endowment of all, after the events of the last session, is gut of the question. Retrenchment or mutilation of the existing Church, by reduction of its spiritual offices, has been proposed by a royal commission ; but I do lag learn, from the latest and most authentic declarations of the Ministry, that they adopt that, or indeed any other method of proceeding. We of the Opposition, gentlemen, have done our part. The matter now rests with you. One path, at least, lies before you, broad, open, and well lefined. One policy has advocates who do not shrink from its avowal. It is the policy of bringing absolutely to an end the civil establishment of the Church of Ireland. It has received the solemn sanction of the representatives whom the nation chose in 1865. For this line of action, the only one just, and the only one available, I confidently ask your approval.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your grateful and faithful servant, " Hawarden, October 9, 1868." " W. E. GLADSTONE. Only two Liberal papers comment on Mr. Gladstone's address. The Conservative journals and the Times are silent. The Daily News and the Stay' also are unable to do more than insert the address. The Post, which devotes an article to summarising the salient definitions of policy, observes that, as compared with Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Gladstone is under some dis- advantage in issuing the address which is to stand as the manifesto of the party of which he is the leader, for upon all the questions which are now agitating the public mind he has a definite and known policy ; upon none of them can he be expected to have any sensational surprises in store, and he can scarcely say upon any of them any thing that he has not said before. This much, at least, may be said as to the courses advocated respectively by Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli, that as to the former there can be no mistake, while of the latter there can be formed no opinion. Mr. Gladstone proposes something, Mr. Disraeli nothing ; and the addresses of the two statesmen shew in every line at once the enormous advan tage of having a clear policy to state, and of being able to state it without trick, equivocation, or subterfuge, and the grave disadvantage of being unable to do so. The Telegraph, on the other hand, gives Mr. Disraeli the credit of directly opposing his antagonist. The two writers are themselves as powerfully contrasted as their composi tions ; and Mr. Disraeli foresaw, when he put forth his own elaborate, audacious, yet cautious essay, the compari son which it would provoke. So soon as it appeared we accorded to it the one merit which challenged acknow ledgment—that it raised a distinct issue for the judg ment of the people ; but, by a strange perversity of fate, the author knew that his own words would not be really intelligible without a direct reference to the intention of his great antagonist He proclaimed an emphatic " No" to the measure which the member for South-West Lancashire contemplated, and thus he spared the country any mistake as to his own merely negative purpose. Mr. Gladstone as distinctly announces that he will persevere with that noble reform which has too long awaited the growth of public opinion to let it pass from the state of theory-into that of law. The Prime Minister has clearly made us understand that he intends to meet with an unqualified negative what the head of the Opposition proposes ; Mr. Gladstone is far more explicit in developing what it is that he is preparing to execute. He set forth his own views before his countrymen when he spoke some months since at St. Helens ; his address to-day submits the same idea more formally for the acceptance of the country. LORD RANELAGII. Lord Ranelagh is well known as one of the finest cavalry officers of his time. But it was not known until now that he was as skilful with the pen as with the sword. The communication which he has just addressed to the South Middlesex Corps on the Rachel case shows that the beau sabreur is also a complete letter-writer. He find that he has got so mixed up with the rogue and the fool who were defendant and prosecutrix in the twice-tried charge, that it was necessary for him to vindicate his fair fame. This vindication he has addressed to the volunteer regiment of which he is commander. He declares that it is neither Madame Rachel nor Mrs. Borrodaile who deserves the pity of the public, but he, Thomas Jones, Viscount Ranelagh, colonel of the South Middlesex. In the first place, he was " annoyed by the vulgarity of Madame Rachel in mentioning his name (as for introduction) to an odd-looking female snuffled up in veils." That was bad enough. Worse was to come. Shortly afterwards he received a letter from the "odd-looking female" demand ing £1,700 of him, to which he replied by advising that the said female should be shut up in Bedlam, or such tither asylum for the mentally-afflicted as her friends might desire. It would have been well if his lordship had been content with this very proper answer. But, unfortunately for him, that "idlest of curiosities " which first induced him to "stroll occasionally into Madame Rachel's shop,' and which there exposed him to the annoyance of an introduction to tho odd-looking, muffled-map female, induced him to consent to an interview with her unmuffled. He found her as " odd" in her language as she had been in her looks. She made the most " wild " assertions, declared apparently that he was the darling of her soul, her heart's delight, and that he, whose name was Thomas, was the " William" upon whom she had been showering all the epistolary en dearments of an affectionate, not to say passionate nature. Nay, she had not only written to him, she had seen him. Not always had she been doomed to communicate with him through the unsympathising postman ; she herself had gazed upon the noble and youthful features of this 55- year-old nobleman. He could not deny that—he would not throw her off—he would not break her tender and loving heart. To all of which the beau sabreur replied, "To a madhouse go !" Lord Ranelagh is a bachelor ; yet still, as a man about town, he ought to have known that of all dangerous emotions the sense of apretce injuria formce is the most dangerous. Has not Virgil sung it ? Did not Troy perish because Paris preferred Venus to Juno? Lord Ranelagh was to experience it. The odd-looking female, finding her affections blighted, her gushing emotions suddenly checked in their full stream, and turned to ice by the coldness of contempt, turned nasty. She instituted proceedings against Madame Rachel, indeed, but with the full intention of including her scornful hero. From that time to this, Lord Ranelagh has had no peace of mind. Now he has had to appear before Mr. Knox at Marl borough-street, now before Recorder Russell at the Old Bailey, and now before Commissioner Kerr (most wonderful of commissioners he) in the same select court. The unfortunate nobleman has been made a spec tacle to men and women, and such angels as cared to look on. The newspapers declared that there was no smoke without fire. His own corps began to cry out against him. Worse than all Serjeant Ballantine cross-examined him. Would it not have been better to pay the odd-looking female her £1,700 rather than have exposed himself to all these accumulated misfor fortunes ? An ordinary man would have thought so. But Lord Ranelagh is not an ordinary man. He determined to brave everybody— recorder, commissioner, serjeant, the odd-looking female, and that many-headed, many-tongued monster, the British public. So he has written his justification, and in doing so he has given the offend ing serjeant something more than a Roland for his Oliver, Serjeant Ballantine had the impudence to accuse him of going to Madame Rachel's for an improper purpose. " I should be very sorry to change morals with Serjeant Ballantine," replies Viscount Ranelagh. " People who live in glass houses should be careful about stone-throw ing ; and the serjeant inhabits a regular crystal palace." We hope the learned gentleman will enjoy the joke. We cannot say that it was altogether unprovoked. But when all is said, when every allowance is made for Lord Ranelagh, we must still ask him what business had he at Madame Rachel's ? He knew her profession. Did he go to find out her customers ? Was the "idlest of curiosities " which induced him and " a great number" of gentlemen who "strolled occasionally into Madame Rachel's shop," the curiosity to know who were the faded belles that went there to be made beautiful for ever ? Was he so ungenerous as to pry into the wonders of that mysterious toilette ; to ascertain whose wero the grim and wrinkled features that lay concealed beneath the smooth and youthful enamel ; whose were the grey and grizzled locks that same out from the hands of this Medea golden and glorious ? Was that a fitting amusement for an officer and a gentleman ? The answer will certainly be in the negative, and the public, while accepting Lord Ranclagh's version of the Borrodaile-Rachel affair, will not acquit him of indiscre tion, to use no milder word, in " strolling with numerous other gentlemen " into a resort of such a very questionable character. There is a lesson in this matter also for the other sex. The women who so foolishly wish to cheat time by cover ing their bodies with deadly pigments will now learn that they are not unwatebed. They are known to the vez y nun whom they wish to deceive. There are plenty of Lord Ranelaghs in the world—men who have nothing better to do than to " stroll " about in somewhat questionable places, and to learn very questionable secrets, and to make them food for laughter over the wine glass—for cynical jest at the club. These fair deceivers had better, then, give up the attempt to carry on a decep tion which deceives no one, least of all the persons for whom the deception is expressly intended,—Manchoter Courier. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER, 10, 1868. 71IE RED INDIANS. (From the Anglo -American Times.) The news from the Republican River comes in such disjointed bits that it is difficult for people in the Eastern States, and still more so in Europe, to understand the history of these Indian troubles. There was the great hunting party of the Pawnees, and other Nebraska tribes trespassing on the pre serves of the Sioux, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes, which aroused the already agitated Red men. Then came the attack on the Kansas settlements, and the cruel massacres which set the United States troops in motion as well as the settlers. A communica tion, dated September 16, from the Indian agent PATRICK, on the Upper Platte River, tells that, in reply to several messages, the Indians on the Re publican River had refused to go to the new reservation on the Missouri River, near Fort Randall we presume, though " Spotted Tail" and " Swift Bear" had left with 180 lodges. General BRADLEY started on that day with the 27th United States Infantry to march through the country of the Republican River to the Union Pacific Rail road, Eastern Division. On this followed the news that a fight was progressing on the Republican Fork between 700 Indians and a company of troops under Colonel FORSYTH, who had sent for reinforcements to Fort Wallace, which he had left in pursuit of marauding Indians. His company was not then a detachment from General BRADLEY'S Regiment, and we fear the message was hopeless in such a country of grand distances in a state of nature, without a moving thing except at wide intervals where the buffalos graze, with here and there the prairie dog, and the game that finds a home in these rolling prairies. The colonel and three officers were killed, and the greater number of his fifty men are now reported to have been captured and scalped. A hundred sol diers were sent from Fort Wallace to rescue any survivors, and to supply them with the neces saries of which they were bereft. At the same time a band of Apaches was routed in Texas, and thirty killed, which shows how wide is the field of operations, the Republican River, where Colonel Foßsrm's party was cut to pieces, being in Nebraska, on the Northern border of Kansas ; while the Indian Territory, as well as the State of Kansas, lay between the scene of these combats. The tribes which have mainly caused the disturb ance consist of the Arapahoes, who, though not numbering 300 warriors, have made themselves conspicuous in the outrages. The Cheyennes, not withstanding their renown, now scarcely exceed the Arapahoes in strength, but the Sioux are a very powerful tribe, if all the branches of their family are calculated. These are the Indians which occupy the country extending along the base of the Rocky Mountains from the Platte to the country south of the Arkansas River. The total number of Indians, according to the census of 1860, was but 293,400, and while they decreased up to that period at the rate of 10,000 a year, although this ratio would not be maintained as the number less tined, yet they cannot now exceed a quarter of a million. They are mainly grouped in New Mexico and in the Indian territory, as there are more than 50,000 in the former and 60,000 iu the latter. An in teresting letter lately appeared in the l imes, written by Mr. LATROBE, giving an account of the tribes in habiting the Indian territory—the Choctaws, Chick ataws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Semiles—the two former of whom employed him as counsel during the renewal of their treaties with the Government at Washington. He was constantly in communi cation with their delegates, and was astonished at their shrewdness, breadth of comprehension, and gentlemanly bearing. As it was his business to lear❑ everything regarding their location on the reserva tion, he had more than ordinary opportunities of becoming acquainted with these Indians; and he endeavours in this letter to distinguish the civilized tribes from the wild nomads of the prairie, who now wholly differ from them. These came origi nally from the east of the Mississippi, having in the course of time to be removed from their scat- tered reserves into a territory equalling in extent a large State, which was guaranteed to their exclu sive use by the Government. Then the country was beyond what was known as the Western bor i der, supposed to be wholly out of the way of white set tletnent, and therefore safe from the Western march of civilization. But the Alexican war, the cession and settlement of California, and the great flow of emi gration over the Rocky Mountains have brought it into the centre of the States. Perhaps the most central State in the Union is Kansas, and along the full extent of the southern border of that State about the parallel of the 37thde,g. lies the Indian ter ritory, with Texas to the south and Arkansas to the east. The appearance of this country having an area of 71,000 square miles, is that of a vast plain, inclining towards the Mississippi River, interspersed with flat hills, with cotton woods, and willow wood land bordering the streams the prairie otherwise being bare of timber. The tribes maintai❑ separate relations with the United States Government, and with each is an Indian Agent, a sort of Consul. They live under laws of their own, all having adopted a Republican form of Government, generally on the model of the United States. Mr. LATROBE says that ALLAN WRIGHT, the principal chief of the Choctaws, is a Presbyterian clergy man, a graduate of a Northern college, and a person of great intelligence and worth, and yet he is but a fair specimen of the tan members of the two delegations with whom he was thrown into close communication ; while the leaders of the Creeks and Cherokees were well educated men, one of whom had been a member of the Confederate Congress during the war, It was on the close of that struggle that the treaties guaranteeing the In dian territory were called in question, the assertion being that they had been abrogated by the tribes becoming involved with the Confederate States. For some generations the Indians had then been settled, and their social and industrial progress had been considerable. Their villages were dotted over the eastern part of the territory with their churches and schools, their farms, where cotton and corn were raised, and their large supply of horses and cattle, the surplus of these making their trade with New Orleans. Fearing the result deputations were sent to Washington, and that they had the sense to employ skilful counsel in itself shows they were wide awake to their own interest. The Chick ataws and Choctaws concluded their treaty with the United States in 1866 with its 50 Articles, each of which was keenly scanned and acutely criticised by the delegates. Nor need we be surprised when we read what Mr. LATROBE tells us of his clients : " The Choctaws and Cherokees have national coun cils, so called, respectively organized after the plan of the Congress of the United States ; a judiciary, consisting of a supreme and inferior courts of com mon law and equity, and criminal jurisdiction ; a court of probate and register of wills in each of the counties into which the nations are divided ; and an executive, called the Principal Chief by the Choctaws and the Governor by the Chicataws, to which two nations these remarks more particularly refer." But those who judge the nomads now tomahawk ing and scalping all the whites within reach, by the settled tribes, would go far wrong. Mr. BOWLES, in his account of his late tour with Speaker CoL-. FAX, writes severely of the manner of dealing with these Indians, condemning treaties in the strongest terms, The idea of making contracts with such a people appears to him worse than a farce, as they only mislead Congress and the Executive, offering to those ordered to carry them into effect opportu nities for swindling, the evils being that the Indian does not get what he was guaranteed, while he has no intention of performing his part of the compact. Like pie•crust, the so-called treaty is made to be broken ; but though it may not deceive the princi pals, it does the people of the United States. What Mr. BOWLES advises, and Mr. COLFAX will, we dare say, endeavour to carry into effect if he suc ceeds to the Vice-Presidency, is a plain under standing with these tribes which they will fully com prehend, involving conditions they know Uncle SAM means to perform. There should be no treaty, the Indians being committed to nothing, but the Republic would grasp them all in its strong hand, treating them as wards. It would be Uncle SAM'S business to see that they did not want for clothes and food, and did not stand in the way of the na tional progress. A policy of kindness and liberality on the one hand, with decision and severity on the other, is that, these tribes only understand, and the expense of a generous supply of what to them would be luxuries could amount to little more than a tithe of the outlay on and loss by Indian Wars. But it is easier to propose this than to carry it into effect. Scattered over llacotah there are nearly 40,000 savages; in Washington Territory 30,000; in Utah 20,000 ; in Minnesota 17,000 ; in California 13,000 ; in Kansas 8,000 ; in Michigan 7,000, and the same number in Nevada and Oregon. Many of these differ widely ; some, like the Utes, being child ren of the mist, inhabiting the dark moun tain passes of Colorado, while others, like the Sioux, are mounted warriors of the plain ; men who live on horseback, and all whose habits and ac complishments differ from those of the mountaineers. Again there are the woodsmen of Michigan and Minnesota more like the Indian described by COOPER, and all, are spread over a continent. To gather these savages into a " happy family" and set them down by a purling brook to grind corn, may furnish the imagination with a pretty picture, from which the dreamer, if he lived out West, might be rudely awakened by having his " hair raised"—a term which means something to the Kansas settler or the men of Denver. The treaty-making farce has, however, exploded as far as the nomads are concerned, after the precious samples we have just had of the result. The very men who had been en gaged in this bloody work were lately making solemn promises of eternal friendship to the Indian Commissioners with whom they were smoking pipes of peace—promises they readily enough gave in ex change for knives to cut the throats of the settlers. MISCELLANEOUS NEIVS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Messrs. Caleb Cushing and Brothers, of New huryport, have brought an action into the United States District Court in Admiralty for the southern district of New York, for the recovery of the dam age sustained through the loss of the ship Sonora, burned in the Straits of Malacca by the Alabama, Dec. 26, 1863, ship value being $85,500, and char ter party value, &c., $33,244, which, with other small sums, make up the loss to the libellants at $119,044. They allege the Alabama to have been built by Mr. John Laird, jun., of Birkenhead, England, and they seek to recover, not for viola tion of the neutrality laws, but for what is legally and technically known as a spoliation. On the libel being filed, all the effects of Mr. Laird found within the district were attached by Marshal Mur- ray, with those in the hands of Messrs. Foster and Thompson ,of Ne wYork,and with the Assistant Trea surer of the United States, as well as the proceed of the steamship IVren. The . .deCigon of, this suit will have an important bearing on maritime interests, and it is to be hoped that it will not be interrupted by the settlement of the Alabaml claim 3 with the British Government. ' The Postmaster-General of the United States has ordered that from the first day of January next the registration fee on all letters registered and addressed to any part of the United States shall be fifteen instead of twenty cents, the same to be in all cases fully prepaid in postage stamps, affixed to the letter and cancelled. The present rate will continue until New Year's-day. The President has been consulting with Secretary Shcofield regarding the requirements of the committee of the Alabama Legislature who arrived in Wash ington, Sept. 25, to ask for troops, but the Presi dent is reluctant to comply with such demands, even in cases such as that of Camilla. Among the subjects discussed by the Cabinet Ministers was the trial of Jefferson Davis, which Attorney-General Evarts is said to be actively forwarding, so as t o be ready for the next term of the United States Court in Richmond. Another question which actually dis cussed on the 25th September was whether a com missioner should be appointed to Spain to recognise the provisional Government, therefore no one need doubt the truth of the telegram which announces that Government's recognition by the United States. It is alleged that Solicitor Binckley is supported by the President in his charges against Commissioner Rollins and others, for it appeared on evidence taken by the sub-committee on retrenchment, who on the 231 September inquired into Binckley's recent operations, that he hail no authority from the Attorney-General's office for the investigation he instituted in New York, to which city the Com mittee adjourned to meet there on the Ist October. Both Setretary M'Culloch and Mr. Rollins were also examined, when it appeared that the former acted on the advice of the President in refusing to confirm the appointments made by the latter. The President hoped to compel Mr. Rollins to allow half the supervisors to be Democrats, which he re fused to do, acting on the suggestion of Congress men. Solicitor Binckley, whom the telegram called Rinckley, has returned to New York,sanguine of ex posing one of the most gigantic frauds of the 19th century, and of the overthrow and punishment of the whisky ring. Mr. Binckley seems to have for given his assailant, Courtney, which at least shows that his disposition is not bad. He returned from Washington with larger powers than before, and full of confidence in his ultimate triumph. He de scribes himself as the victim of the ring he has had the hardihood to attack, but notwithstanding their ridicule and abuse he intends honestly to do his duty, and eventually to astonish the country with his revelations, showing how the revenue laws are evaded, the malefactors screened, and who the prominent officials are that are identified with the ring. If he could only do a tithe of what he pur poses he would at least have our hearty support. Congress met Sept. 2 1 , beginning and ending the session on that Monday, merely passing the resolu tion to extend the recess to the 16th October, when, unless otherwise directed, the two presiding officers are to order another adjournment to Nov. 10, when, if the session is not necessary, it will be further adjourned to the first Monday of December, the time fixed by law. The Democrats abstained from entering the House in the hope that there would not be a quorum, and action could not there fore be taken. But it was necessary that one at least should attend to object, which, being ne glected, the House instantly, after prayers, passed the resolution, when five or six Conservative mem bers entered and objected that there was no quorum, which stopped further business, and the House ad journed. In the Senate, including Buckalew, the Democratic Senator of Pennsylvania, there was just a quorum, so, if he went out, there would be no one to object. The only attempt to transact business came from General Butler, who filed a petition, under the rules, that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into a breach of privilege of the House in the service of processes on a member in his transit to and from Washing ton, referring of course to the Kimberley case soon to come up at Baltimore ; and the offering of a reso lution by Mr. Schenck of Ohio, directing the Com mittee on Public Expenditures to look into the dis pute between Secretary M'Culloch and Commis. sioner Rollins in regard to the appointment of supervisors under the new internal revenue law, which has not passed, as the sub-committee on re trenchment had the necessary power. The steamer Dumbarton cleared from New York with a cargo of arms and munitions of war. She is a swift iron Clyde-built blockade runner, and was supposed to be making for the West Coast of Africa to run a cargo of slaves. It has, however, now transpired that she was fitted out under orders from Prim to carry material in aid of the revolu tionists in Spain. It is proper for the General to take every preoaution, but, as events have shown, he might have saved himself the trouble and ex pense as well as the injury to his now established Government in having violated the neutrality of the United States. The Government of Madrid cannot know how soon this precedent may be quoted against it. The careful provision proves how well-matured and deep laid was the plot. From Philadelphia the Times learns that the Go vernment of the United States has recognized the Spanish Junta as a Government de facto, and it is added that the annexation of Cuba is agitated in the States. So completely has attention centred on Spain that Cuba's action has been overlooked, but we will soon learn what course under the pecu liar circumstances that colony will pursue. There is a rumour in Paris to which the I; igaro gives ad ditional currency, that a rising has taken place at Havannah, and Cuba bad declared its independence. From the answer of the Governor-General to the telegram from Madrid, it appears certain that Spain will have trouble in that quarter. People are getting horrified at the cant and folly which mark the proceedings in connection with John Allen, known as the wickedest man in New York. The publisher of the monthly in which the article attracting attention towards him first appeared confesses that he purchased and used it simply as an advertisement for his paper. Allen, it is said, then set himself to make capital out of the publicity given him, shut up his den, and made it the nucleus for a so-called reformatory movement. In this he was aided by well-meaning clergymen and laymen, who put him forward to preach both in New York and in the country districts. At Stamford he at tracted a small audience, to whom he lectured while in a stupid st .t 3 of intoxication. The New York correspondent of the Advance has written a strong protest on these performances, and many other papers pronounce them an outrage on morality and religion. The scenes now enacted in Water-street may be profitable for the penny-a-liner if for no one else. Allen wanders disconsolately about nearly always muddled. When drunk he abuses the whole thing, and deplores the destruction of his business ; when sober, he speaks of it with some respect. He was once a preacher of religion, but took a header off the platform of morality, and, like a true Yankee, he managed to hit off the deepest hole of iniquity when he determined to make the descent. We presume New York must have an excitement, and John Allen for the time has served the purpose. It appears that Colonel Forsyth's party of fifty soldiers were drawn into an ambuscade in their pursuit of the Indians,'who, on the 17th September, stole some cattle at Dry Fork, on the Republican River. Forsyth had followed the Indians some 90 miles, when, finding himself entrapped, he en trenched his party as well as possible on such short notice, and successfully sustained the charge of the 700 savages. After losing two men killed, twenty wounded, himself hit in two places, one bullet hav ing broken his leg, and Lieutmant Beecher mor tally injured, he despatched two scouts to Fort Wal lace for assistance, who had to crawl through the Indians for two miles on their bellies in the dead of night, at which time only they could travel, the country being overrun, and thus four days were lost in reaching the fort. Other scouts rapidly followed, first with the news that the men were living on horseflesh, next that Forsyth was dying, Beecher was dead, and Dr. Monroe, the only surgeon with the party, had been mortally wounded, while the survivors re►nairied hemmed, in, and might at any Moment be overwhelmed and massacred. Detach ments had . been sent to rescue them, and the result was awaited with intense interest. Capt. Graham, with 50 men of the 10th Coloured Cavalry, was at tacked by a hundred Indians while away from Fort Wallace, but he did not suffer any loss. A party of Government surveyors, south of Fort Kearney, had, however, to "make tracks" without their instru ments or supplies, Edward Malone, the flagman, being killed. The Apaches defeated in Texas con sisted of two hundred warriors, ,and it was the 9th Cavalry which gave them thisi:satisfactOry lesson, . killing 30, wounding as Many, and capturing 200 head of cattle. Colonel Forsyth was well known as Inspectoi-General and Chief of Sheridan's Staff throughout the War. His name is not only fami liar to the Army, but also throughout the States. Our readers will recollect that but a short time ago we reported the marriage of this esteemed and gal lant officer. The intelligence of his death will strike a cord in Sheridan's heart, who loved him as a friend, and respected him highly as a soldier. His chief but the other day made a long journey to be present at his marriage. He was a West-Pointer, and besides his rank in the regular service, attained in the volunteers to the grade of Brigadier-General. ' 1 Dr. Monroe was formerly assistant-surgeon to the 15th Massachusetts Regiment, and was attached to the Staff of the 2d Army Corps, but after the 15th were mustered out the doctor joined the regular army, and has since been on duty on the plains. The New York Sun, which is rapidly becoming the most remarkable paper in the Union, says of George Peabody that he knew how to make, but did not know how to give away his money. "He collected together a great many famous men at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and some one of them made a very long prayer ; then they all ate a very long din ner ; then they resolved that George Peabody was good, and so was the bill of fare ; then they sepa rated, none of them knowing what to do with any more of George Peabody's money than it took to pay the hotel bill ; but they tied up a pile of it with red tape, and sent Dr. Barnas Sears with it down South, to be applied to by everybody, to re fuse almost everybody, and to worry his soul con stantly whether to say yes or no to the innumerable beggars. We believe Mr. Peabody once suggested, when in this country, that he would do nothing for New York, as he did not wish to interfere with Mr. Astor and Mr. Stewart. But we can assure him that Mr. Astor and Mr. Stewart are liberal-minded men, and have no disposition to monopolize any thing of that kind, and would feel no jealousy of him. Ile need not fear on that account." Ihe New York Labour Congress on Thursday, Sept. 24, elected the following officers :—President, W. H. Sylvis ; vice-presidents, C. 11. Lucker, N. P. Davis ; secre tary, John Vincent; treasurer, A. W. Phelps. The fe male members voted as well as the males. A now constitution was discussed without definite action. A resolution was passed to appoint an executive com mittee of one from each Congressional district to form a working men's party, with a view of securing the election of men favourable to the eight-hour movement. The woman suffrage question was discussed, and ended in the adoption of this resolution by a nearly unanimous vote : Resolved, that by the admission of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a delegate of this body, the Na tional Labour Congress does not regard itself as endors ing her peculiar ideas, or committing itself to her position on female suffrage, but simply regards her as a re- presentative from an organization having for its object the "amelioration of the condition of those wbo labour for a living." In reply to a request for information as to the earnings of sewing women in New York, it was stated that cloak women realize $2 a day ; machine operators $6 a week ; shirt makers from $7 to $8 a week ; dressmakers, $8 a week for ten hours' labour each day ; workers on hoop skirts, $7 to $8 a week, working eleven hours each day ; vest hands, $5 a week, by working over hours. A woman stated that sho had been paid by the proprietors of a large carpet store in the Bowery $2.18 for three days' work at carpet sewing, which was very severe and exhausting labour. Sales- women in stores, working from eight o'clock iu the morn ing until nine o'clock at night, receive $7 per week. Book folders average from $5 to $B, according to ability. In the majority of instances to make the amount statod women. are compelled to work at night, and have no time to de vote to recreation or mental culture. There is a report in New York that Mr. Cunard will soon replace his steamers on the Boston and Liver pool route. A canal boat propelled by steam bas just been put into service on the Edo Canal. It has a carrying capacity of 7,500 bushels, and is intended to mako an average speed of two and a half or three miles an hour on the canal, and six miles on the river. The Danish Diet was opened by the King in per son last Monday. In his spaoch his Majesty announced the betrothal of the Crown Prince with the Princess of Sweden; gave a guarded statement of the reasons why no practical result had followed the confidential negotiations with Prussia relative to the free vote in North Schleswig pro vided for by the treaty of Prague—Denmark being anxious not only to satisfy the wants of the people of Schleswig, but also to avoid everything that might lead to further complications with Prussia; stated that the term of the treaty for the cession of the Danish West India Islands to the United States had been extended for another year ; and gave an encouraging sketch of the domestic prospects of the country. The following telegram, dated Philadelphia, Oct. 7, 11 a.m. states that the steamer Perseverance was burnt on Tuesday on the Lakes. Fourteen persons lost their lives by this catastrophe. ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Indisputable Remedies.—ln the use of these medicaments there need be no hesitation or doubt of their cooling, healing, and purifying properties. The ointment stands unrivalled for the facility it displays in relieving, healing, and thoroughly curing the mo s t inveterate sores and ulcers, and in cases orbad less and bad breasts they act as a charm. The pills are the most effectual remedy ever discovered for the cure of liver complaints, diseases most disastrous in their effects, deranging- all the proper func tions of the organs affected, including restlessness, melan choly, weariness, inability to sleep, and pain in the side, until the whole system is exhausted. These wonderful pills, if taken according to the printed directions accom panying each blx, strike at the root of the malady, stimu late the stomach and liver into a healthy action, and effect a complete cure. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Sept. 2G.) The ease of the Money Market has been remarkably sustained during the week. There ought to be no one now who entertains the idea, so prevalent two months ago, that a squeeze was inevitable. Money may fairly be said to be as easy to-day as at any time since midsummer, notwithstanding the drain of currency westward, and the fact that the cotton crop has been hurried forward far mere rapidly than usual, in order to realize early prices. Even the approach of quarterly statement (Oct. 6)—that bugbear of the banks—has not perceptibly affected the market ; and loans are still made at the figures of July and August. The fact is, those who, following the so-much-quoted parallel of the New York Commercial A'lvertiser, between the money market this year and that of last year, antici pated stringency even amounting to panic, left out of view the very important consideration that our present indebtedness to Europe is mainly in a bonded form ; that the balance of trade (exports of specie included) is actu ally in our favour; while the immense transactions in Government securities on Europoan account —which do not appear on the books of the Custom-house—have loft a greater amount, probably, of foreign balances with us than was ever known before, prior to the shipment of the cot ton crop for the year. To this the plethora of money in all the European cities has largely contributed. The Ger man manufacturers especially have instructed their con signees to purchase the later Five-Twenties with the pro ceeds of their sales, and hold them on account in prefer ence to remitting. All attempts to make an estimate of the amount of money thus put at our service would be futile ; but it is enough of itself to make all the difference which we see to exist between the course of the money market this year and last. At Boston the weekly bank returns show a reduction of about ono million in individual deposits, out of tho usual deference to quarter day. Call loans may still be had on Governments at 5 per cent., and from that up to 6 per cent. on other securities. On notes from two to four months 7 per cent, is an average quotation. Ai New York the market is abundantly supplied at extremely low rates. Government dealers have large amounts pressed on them at 3 per cent., while the stockbrokers are supplied on good collateral at 4 per cont. More business is reported in discounts. There is a moderate amount of dry goods paper offering, and the best, with four months to run, passes at 6/ to 7 per cont. The banks report very little currency being sent westward, and rernittancss of mo- dorato annunts aro bring received from western cities, so that the outward flow is nearly counterbalanced by the receipts. Those who have been predicting a stringency are now driven to the story that this return of currency is artificial, or is a part of the plot ou the part of the cliques to run the western stocks up above 100. Their faith and zeal are only equalled by that of the New York World in figuring up Democratic victories in Vermont and Blaine. We recommend to them the philo- sophy of Mr. Pomeroy's Democrat. Tloy had bettor own up. At Chicago money is abundant enough to meet the requirements of legitimate business. A few banks repor difficulty in supplying the demands of heavy dealers who aro trying to "carry" their grain and escape the inevit able fall. It is only a pity that money is not a little scarcer on their account. Rates of interest are strong at 10 por cent. A few banks are ordering currency from New York. At San Francisco, currency bills on Atlantic States aro at 41 to 42 per cent. premium on gold, Sterling Ex change 484 to 49, Commercial Exchange 49 . 1 to 49}1. There is a great scarcity of Mexican dollars, owing to re cent shipments to China, an 1 they are quoted at 8 to 9 por cont. per annum. At New Orleans the money market is easier, with the general improvement of trade. Gold shows a very different front from what it did at the close of last week. Then, although it had gone be low 145, it stuck short of 144, and seemed to be at bot tom. On Monday of this week, however, it showed weak- ness, and declined to 1434. On Tu3sday it broke still further, and closed at 1424. Since then it has fluctuated, rising above 143, but generally keeping below, manifesting very - -little strength. It is a fact against wlicla it is useless to oppose theories. The fall in geld has, of ceurL-,e, been attributed to the action of Government in throwing its accumulations tip )a the market; but this was merely the cheapest and easiest explanatien to give. The report had no foundation in fact. The peaceful aspect of Europe aul tho better prospects at home have undoubtedly had influence to re lace the premium. The export of gold has fallen off to nearly a minimum, and exchange is weak. Many look to sue a return flew of gold during the next three months, in consequence of in creased exports of produce. One very important and sig nificant fact has boon developed by the late experience in gold, namely, that gold has become so far demoralised that its fluctuations do not affect the general market. Prices neither want up (as a body) when gold rose, nor have they manifested any sensitiveness on its decline. Of course all imported goods have to bo excepted, inasmuch as they pay the premium directly. No fact could be more important, and it shows the folly of wishing to make gold lower. It is already lower than anything else, and our domestic products are at a disadvantage in consequence. Governments have improved during the week, and the upward tendency seems strong and assured. The volume of business is much greater, an I the constant demand is steadily carrying the bends out of the street. The un- favourable feeling caused by the outcry for redemption has ceased to influence the public mind. It is soon that the greenback theory has actually hurt the Democracy, while the manly and honourable declaration of the Chicago platform is a source of positive strength to the party. The arrant knavery of repudiation has not been mere clearly exposed by discussion, than has its transcendent folly. It is not the first time that roguery has outwitted itself cal honesty has proved to be good policy. Five-twenties are becoming scarce on the street, especially as, at present rates for money, the banks have no inducement to sell. The registered bends still continue to improve, relatively to the Coupon Bonds. The New York World announces the departure fur Europe of two eminent bankers, " hold- ing intimate relations with Government financial officers," and surmises that it is connected with the inauguration of a financial policy which shall carry into practical opera tion the gold coin sinking-fund section of the Act of Feb ruary, 1862. In the share market the changes have been generally in the line of the throe or four weeks past. No new stocks have come into prominence, and the movement of the week has been in the main a continuance of that noticed in our last report. New York Central was run up for a day to 132, under the periodical falsehood of a surplus to be divided ; but closed for the week at 127 g. Hudson River, under the same impulse, touched 112, but fell back to 1401, Rock Island at the :close sold down to 1022., Fort Wayne went forward from 1071 to 110 k, but fell back to 1091-, Milwaukee and St. Paul continued its progress, and reached 98 on the common and 96 on the preferred, but closed at 91 to 94k. Reading has thrown off the influence of the rumours in regard to its traffic (which was never so great as now), and closed strong at 934, nearly its best. Erie has fluctuated, but closes at 49 on the common. Pa cific Mail sold up as high as 114, and as many as 25,000 shares are said to have been disposed of during the advance, but the stock closes as low as 1104. Of this stock the New York Sun remarks : " The reports of the earnings of the China branch of the company, with the loss on the busi ness from this port, will make a sorry statement to the stockholders at the election, if indeed an official report is vouchsafed. It is estimated that the losses have been equal to $200,000 monthly." Mariposa has continued to im proved, and closed strong at 11/ for the preferred. Mining stocks at Boston and New York are in better demand, and higher. In Border State Bonds we have to note the ad vance of North Carolinas to 751. Missouri are where they are; Tennessees and Virginias off a fraction. The Central Pacific 6 per Cont. Gold Interest Bonds are selling briskly at 105 and interest, and the Union Pacific Sixes at 103 and interest. The earnings of the latter road for 1868 (year ending June 30) were $1,264,041; expenses, $2,684,757; net $1,561,281. Hartford and Erie has declined a fraction. Express shares are all better in a marked .degree, while Wells-Fargo has ono up above 31. The reports from the hop crop are not encouraging, though many of them aro undoubtedly manufactured to keep up prices. In some quarters only a half crop is re ported. The advices from Wisconsin are least flattering, nearly all, except those picked early, proving to be de stroyed by lice or injured by honey dew. The New York crop is bettor, and will yield moro than the average. There is no reason to anticipate any considerable changes in prices. The foreign market is firm. The Into cotton at the South has been helped by the weather, and will do rather better than expected. Cotton improved during tho week, but closed a shade lower and less firm at 251 cents for middling uplands. The export demand is very slight. The export of hay has fallen off to nothing under the prohibition of the English ports. The ship ping demand for grain is much improved, and would bo greater but for a sharp advance in freights. Oats, rye, and barley are higher—barley being especially active. Wheat and corn are lower. The better brands of flour are steady ; but there has been a gradual softening in the prices of medium and lower grades. There is no specu lative feeling in breadstuffs, and the movement from the West is becoming tardier. Chicago reports a considerable falling off in receipts and shipments. The suspension of navigation on the Champlain Canal, on account of a leak in the locks, is into rfering seriously with the delivery at Albany. Tho receipts at the lake ports have all, this season, been constantly approximating to those of 1866, the model year. Wool is firm, an d prices are hardening for low and medium grades; others aro steady. Lumber h as a slight downward tendency, but without much change in price. In provisions there is a decline, moss pork Win g of 50 cents a bbl. ; beef hams and cut meats being much depressed. Prices in all classes generally favour buyers, and there is a strong disposition to realize. In dry goods there is a fair amount of business doing, and by comparison the market may bo called active, though trade is not yet in a satisfactory state, and prices have not found their level. There is no disposition to speculate in cotton goods, and only a desire to get rid of stock, without too much sacrifice. Concessions have been made during the week, but without eliciting any response. It is very likely that prices will have to break. In prints, brown shootings, and b!eached sheeting and shirtings, there ha been small sales at lower prices. In domestic dross goods and muslin &lanes some business is doing• All classes of woollen worsted goods 'are selling well at full prices. Shawls are in strong demand. Silks are higher and scarce ; linens firm and improving. (From the Wall-street Journal) FRIDAY EVENING, Sept. 25. Government Stocks show great steadiness, the principal business, however, being in 1867'5. Gold is feverish, the break this week from 141 to 141/ having unsettled the market. The price opened to-day at 142, thence deelui.. ing to 141 and rising to 1421, at which price the market closed. Foreign Exchange is more active, the decline 111 gold having brou g ht i mpor t ers i nto t h e mar k e t . Ameri can silver is in limited request at 61 to 7 cents below the price of gold, and Mexican dollars at 102/ to 103 in gold. NEW YORK It A.TES OF EXCIIA.NGE, Sept. 23, 1868. Sixty Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commerci a l lOB-1081 Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Iramburgh, Bankers 351-351 Frankfort, O.NI 4oi-401 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.221 —5. in Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss CLOSING PRICES. PUBLIC FUNDS. Three DaY l ' 109-1091 5.riF5. 16 1 Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon — to Sixes, 1881, coupon ll4 to 114} 1 . . _ U.S. 6s. Pacific flathead — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon .... lOB4 to 109 Ten-forties, coupon lO 9l to 1091 Seven-thirties, 2d series 1041 Seven-thirties, 3d series ... Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1 -- to -- .881 - U.S. 5-20 Coupon, 1868 . 110 to 110} RAILROAD AND MISC. N. Y. Central 1271 Erie Hudson Reading Mich. South. &N.I B3; Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B7l North-West North-West Preferred 87i Canton... 47; Rock Island -I" Cleveland and Toledo 1011 I !ELLANEOUS STOCKS. Fort Wayne Pacific Mail l lO Atlantic Mail -- Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 29 Boston Water Power l5 Cumberland Bankers and Brokers 1951 ISt. Paul St. Paul Preferred Latest prices of Silver Mining Stocks, by telegram fro° San Francisco, dated Sept. 23, 1868: Gould and Curry Savage ••• Chollar-Potosi Ophir Hale and Narcross Crown Point Yellow Jacket Belcher ~. Alpha ... Kentuck ~. Bullion ~. Overman Empire Mill Imperial Confidence Amader ~, Exchequer Quartz Hill .. Lady Byron .. Sierra Nevada.. ... $376 per foot ... 1,890 ,7 ... 150 ▪ 201 „ 990 „ • 910 „ 1,240 „ • • 130 ~ ▪ 910 „ ... 295 ... 19 ~ ... 115 ~ 99 pr share 240 ~ ... ... ,f ••• ••• 1/ ..• ... 71 ... ... ,7 • RAILWAY 1 N. Y. Central 6s, 1883.., 95} N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 954 N. Y. Central Os, It Est 93 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 92 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 102 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 _l2l N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 l2l Erie Ist Mort, Ex 105 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 100 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 96f Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 91 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 88 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lstM, '77 9l Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69_1001 Ilud. R. 7s, 3d M, Harlem. Ist M, '6B '72_1021 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 112 Mich. new Ist XI Bs, 'B2 116} Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2(111.. N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B 98 Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c.lol 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 120 Alton & T. H. let M 93 Alton & T. H. 2d pfd Alton & T. 11. 2d M. Inc Bl Han.& St. 3 . Laud Warts 108 Han. & St. J. Con 95 Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 110} Chi. & N. West, S. F 96 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 95 Chi. & N. W. Ex'a 901 [ORTGAGES. Chi. & N. W. Ist M 91 Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex• 91 Gt. Western 2d M '93 sof Ma. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M 100 Gal. & Chic. Est 101 Gal. & Chic. 2d M • 01 Chi. & R. I. Ist M Chi. R. I. & Pacific 9 " Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 100 N. J. Central Ist M lO l. N. J. Central 2d M lol' Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M 10 3 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M 93 Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d M 93 Clove. & Pitts. 2d M Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 9 ° Chic. &Alton, S.F. lstll I. ol t Mil. & St. Pao' let M Mil. & St. Paul 2d M 8 9 Marietta & Cin. Ist M..• 9 " Morris & Essex Ist M 100 i Morris & Essex 2d M Joilet & Chic. Ist Chi. & Gt. East'n Ist M I.:* N. Y. & N. H. 6s Dubuque & S.City,lst M 9 " Peninsula Ist M 89,1. Ohio & Miss. Ist M gh Ohio & Miss. Con Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D 84 Atlantic & G. W. let M 71 (From the New Fork Tribune, Sept. 26.) Money continnes easy at 3to 5 per cont. Government brokers continue to have largo balances left with thew I" 3to 4 per cent. Capitalists decline making time engage ments, and a general feeling of distrust is observed frog the fear that the demand from the country banks f or greenbacks to make up their quarterly statement on the sth of October may be followed by a locking up of rool' °l in the interest of operations for a decline in stocks. ' 11116 , 1 right of the owners of money to d raw it f rom b an k a nd , it, no one disputes, but that banking institutions, bold: ing their charters from the National or State Governme nil should allow speculators to borrow the money of their Je" positors on certified checks, or by paying the interest tIP °II it and allowing it to lie idle in their vaults, thus crippli l3s all legitimate business as well as depreciating the Pr ° ' ducts of the whole country, is beyond the comprehensi ° of straightforward busi ness men . A n approac h was l'Ode to one of the leading banks on the street to loan a larg e amount upon certified checks, but the applicant was Neill directed to the door. Before the close of bank hours the rate of money declined to 4 per cent., with large balanCe° offering on miscellaneous securities. (Prom Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) London, Oct. 7. During the past week there has been an upward ten dency in American securities on the London market) United States 1862 5-20's have advanced to 73 1 to 74, a nd the 1865 Bonds to 721 to ; the 10-40 Five per Cents. a° also 4 per cent. higher, being last quoted 681 to 69. , Illinois Central Shar e s, s i nce our l as t, i mprove d 97 to but the rapid rise br oug ht i n se ll ers t o rea li ze pro fits, all the price has receded to 951 to ; Erie Shares close a l l to 32i. In Railroad Bonds we have to quote an active inquiry for Illinois Central Six per Cent. Redemption Sterling Bonds; they leave off 98 to 100 ex the Ist October coupA being an advance of two per cent. At the half-yearly conference of the Lona °l3 district of Mormons, held in London last Saturdil; it was stated the district comprised ni ne branches, no 1,013 members, inclusive of p r i es t s an d d eacons the being 91 elders, 45 priests, and 28 deacons. Of the Mel: bers 10 had been excommunic a t e d , two di e d , 188 e o grated, and 78 baptised. [ADVERTISEMENT. J — Dyspepsia(lndigestion), Constipatien , . P ., c ; bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and 1 ", i complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and acceleratp, by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable Woof Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved thousands of cases which h a d b een considered hopeless, et, as—cough, asthma, also diarrhcea, htemorrhoids, liver C 07 ,4 plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throne - a diphtheria, catarrh s , colds, influenza, noises in the head Pi p , ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neural* irritability, sleepless ness, ac idi ty, palpitation, heartburn, be 05, ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickne, even in pregnan c y or at sea, s i nking fits, bronchitis, s crawl tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach I D between the shoulders, &c. W e quo t e a f ew:— Th e P ope ' s hes if restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, e 12, 1866.—The health of the H o ly F at h er is excellent especia lll e ll since, abandoning all other remedi es , h e has confined WT 6 I O entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a I': I prisingly beneficial effect on his health, a n d hi s Holiness call'cfa praise this excellent food too highly."—F rom t h e " Gaze tW Midi, " July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, tines,, merchant, of Friculey, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased 10 ";,, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafne'of Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83e2r.4105. asthma,ye ars ' eo .gh, indescribable con st i p a a g t ioonny, flatulency, from vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware ic o k i n th e e s n7 e; :i unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, wit authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attache ; In tins, at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., ilea , 12 lbs , 225. ; 241bs , 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTA. ARAI/I,y CHOCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cupe,, o. , 25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at Gs., for 288 cups at 3100 for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. The ",„s and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on reeeVi of Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and Co., NO. Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. HANBURY-0/1 the Bth inst., at Ewell House, Bromlog common, the wife of W a lt er G. H an b ury, E sq ., °' daughter. POLE—.On the sth inst.. at Radburne Hall, Derbyshire ? tb ° Lady Anne Chandos'Pole, of a daughter. SAUNDERS—On the 7th i ns t., a t B e ll e k M anor, couu-i of Mayo, the wife of Lt . -Col. Saunders, of a daughter. Marriages. DEAN—M‘CoRmAc —On the Bth inst., at St. Ann's Church' Belfast, Belfast, Jo s h ua D ean, E sl , 5 , W estm i nste r-chanib°V Victoria-street, London, a n d Bi c kl e y, K en t, to Vito both, third and youngest daughter of Henry M , CorD 3 ' Esq., M.D., Belfast. JOY—RIDER -On the Bth i ns t., a t S urrey Chapel, Ge°,,rr Joy, of Newingt on - causewa y, an d 83 , Kennington-Pa' of road, to Lizzie, daughter of Thomas Rider, Esq. , Newington-butts, Surrey. Deaths. --- CARTER —On the Bth inst., at Burnham Vicarage, the 1 16 s ; Thomas Carter, Vice-Provost of Eton College, and Vi e " ,, of Burnham, aged 94. GOSSELIN—On the Bth inst., at Tho Priory, Ware, Ir ert°l Martin H. Gossolin, Esq., aged 55. GARDINER—On the 6th inst., Sir John B. W. S. Gardia °ll Bart., of Roche Court, Fareham, Hants, aged 54. lIENNELL—On the 7th inst., at Kingswood, Shortlanu Kent, Robert Hennell, aged 74. be i LATEWARD —On the 6th inst., at F o lk es t one Wm. - grX Anthony John Latoward, Esq., f ormer l y Captain ill the Queen's Bays, aged 83. 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