The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

An Adventure in a Railway Carriage.

AMERICA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

NEW YORK, OCt. 8, 1864.

The exposures that from time to time ooze out
with reference to the acts and doings of the
recruiting organisations of New York, Boston,
&c., with their affiliated branches in Europe,
probably have by slow degrees opened the
eyes of the British public to the fact that virtual, if
not illegal wrongs, have been committed by the
Uaited States on British subjects as well as other
foreigners.
When statements were made long since by cor-
responden's of London journals and others con-
cerning the frauds to which emigrants had been
subj, cted in this country by agents of the Wash-
ington GJvernment connected with the recruiting
department, certain newspapers published in Len-
Jon—that, whether right or wrong, ar© commonly
considered here as• "retained" by the Northern ad-
ministration—denounced these statements as mere
prejudicial representations.
Other persons, who are generally described as
friendly to the North, took the same course. For
instance, the Duke of Argyll pompously in the
House of Lords, and Mr Goldwin Smith snappishly,
in his pamphlets Bent out for circulation over here,
said to the effect that no blame whatever was to be
attached to anyone whatever in relation to the re.
cruiting for the Northern armies:
Some of the friends of the North went further,
and did what the late Mr O'Connell said was one
of the most foolish things a witness can do—viz.,
they tried to prove too touch. They stated that
after all there were not many Irish in the Northern
armie3, and sought to back up their assertions upon
a matter of which they knew nothing by citing
the offhand cpinion of Mr Seward, who knows a
good deal about the affair in question, but who,
whether in his prophetic capacity as to the " war
ending in ninety days," or assertions contained in
voluminous despatches, has shown that more than
occasionally he makes mistakes. Mr Seward was
represented to have announced that by far the
largest proportion of the Northern armies was
composed of American citizens. This, however,
did not throw much light upon the matter with
reference to where those "citizens" came from, or,
in other words, to what " nationality" they be•
longed when they enlisted. Mr Seward might just
as well have said—but that would not have an-
swered the purpose ho and the apologists of the
North had in view—that the entire of the army
was made up of American citizens. In fact, the
moment a man has enlisted therein, he is de facto
and de jure a " citizen of the United States." I have
merely referred to this to show how ridiculous it is
to found any correct idea as to the proportion of
Irish or Germans, &c., there may be in the Northern
army from Mr Seward's smart dictum.
It is not either for the purpose of complaint that
I refer to these recruitmente. The law efficers of
the Crown appear to consider that the Foreign En-
listment Act, and ouch like laws, arc nearly inopera-
tive—that, like other things mentioned in the old
adage, they are " made to be broken." It is true,
that in the cases of alleged attempts at evasion of
those laws by stated agents of the Confederate
authorities, either those agents were not so smart
as the Northern ones or our officials saw their way
more clearly in, what is conventionally called, yin-
dicating " the majesty of the law ;" but let that
pass. Whether the neutrality that has been pro•
claimed on the part of England has been impartially
carried out by her executive, is a question I am not
presumptuous enough to enter into in a casual way,
or in any way at present, However, as it has
pleased some persons to try and raise doubts that
the large emigration to this country has been turned
to account for the purpose of filling up the
armies of the Northern States, after the
real "citizens" thereof were unwilling or unable
to come forward themselves, I subjoin extracts from
an official document that will probably " settle the
point," once and for all, in the minds of any ration:-.1

people.
The following is from the report of Provost-
Marshal General Fry to Secretary Staunton, relative
to Governor Seymour's complaint of an excessive
enrolment in the State of New York :
" It is true that the enrolment (and consequently
the quota) is larger in these than in many other
districts. bat the population of these districts iR more
derse, and there are actually more men liable to
enrolment in them than in others. . . . . But even

if the enrolment and quotas in New York and
Brooklyn are unduly large, the claim that' the in-
habitants' of these cities are subject to ' oppressive
and injurious' burdens, and their families broken
up and ruined,' is not a good one, for it is a fact
that the balk of foreign emigrants to the United
States arrive in New _York, and they are actually
used by Nov York and Brooklyn to fill a large pro-
portion of the quotas assigned to these cities.
" The State of New York forbids all other States
from having access to these recruits. No other
state has this source of supply to such an extent,
and many are entirely without it."
Surely this irrefragable testimony of " the foreign
emigrants being used," as described, bears out
clearly, though of course very unintentionally, the
substance of the statements made by th© Mayor of
New York City and others, on the wilolesale abuses
of the recruiting organisations.
Although not directly connected with the emi-
gration question, it is well to see the realities as to
employment in cities in the United States, not
taken from British authorities, but in this instance
from a weekly New York newspaper, one of the
oldest established and respectably conducted papers
in America, and of bitter "anti-British procli-
vities" :

"A TOUCHING CASE.—The working women in
the city have petitioned the Secretary of War to do
something that will enable them to get from the
contractors more than six cents a piece for making
army shirts. In the name of humanity, :o say
nothing of those finer impulses which should govern
every man in his dealings with the gentler sex, we
protest against such a shamefully inadequate sum
as the wages of labour. Six cents for making a
shirt ! and bread ten cents a small loaf, meat twenty
cents a pound, butter beyond all mention in cone
nection with poor people. But what can the Sccre.
tart' do in such a matter ? Very little. The con.
tractors get the highest price they can for their
work, but they will not pay one woman a penny
more than another woman will do it for, and dire
necessity teaches thousands that even six cents fur
food is better than no food at all."
The same newspaper gives expression to senti-
ments which ought to make German and other
foreign buyers of " U.S. Securities" ponder as to
whether there may not be safer countries to invest
money in, whatever place it may be to emigrate to
for those who have none.

The suit brought against Surgeon General Ham
mond for availing himself of his official position to
defraud, in blanket and other contracts, the national
t:easury, is for the sum of 150,000 dole. If every
army official could be compelled to disgorge the
money he has corruptly appropriated since the war
commenced, the country would be, at least, five

. _
hundred millions less in debt, and we should have

thirty millions less per annum to pay in taxation,
It is not the honest war debt that the people of the
United States may possibly dream, in some future

petulant moment, of repudiating, but the downright
stealings of men in office—stealings which threaten
to swell that debt to an extent beyond all national
conception, and taint its integrity beyond all national
endurance. We hope never to see our country's
good name debased by " repudiation ;'' but the re•
publican Legislature of New York did " repudiate"
at its late session, and Congress is composed of no
better human materiale. We hope never to witness
such a thing, we repeat, but if ever we do, it will
surely be because our war debt embraces so much
chat has gone to enrich private venality instead of
promoting the public welfare.

THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT
WOODFORD --Yesterday morning, when the magistrate
took his seat on the bench at the Stratford Police-court, he
inquired of Inspector Standage if the burglars in the abov,
case had been discovered. The inspector answered in tht
negative, and added that the police-constable who had been
so brutally attacked was in a sinking condition. Informa-
tion had been received from Scotland-yard, Whitehall, that
Government would grant a reward for the apprehension o.
the litttgl.l6,

A reverend gentleman, living at Gloucester, hes commu-
nicated the following extraordinary narrative to our corre-
spondent in that city :—Travelling from London to Glou-
cester on Thursday by the exprees train which lest Padding-
ton at 11,15, a scene took place which shows (if additional
proof were required) the importance of establishing some
means of communication between the passengers and the
guard. I had a second class ticket, and anxious to avoid
the inconvenience of changing at Swindon, I took a seat in
the through carriage to Gloucester. My fellow travellers
were two ladies, who were going, I think, into
South Wales, and I had just settled snugly in a corner,
and prepared for a few hours' quiet reading, when my
attention was attracted by the entrance of a man in
a sailor's dress, whose bloodshot eyes and savage mien,
told of drunkenness. I was on the point of seeking the
guard, whin the fellow suddenly left the carriage, and, the
guard coming up at the moment, I requested that he -would
not allow him to return. But to my surprise, almost at the
instant of starting, the fellow burst into th 3 carriage, fol-
lowed by the guard, who warned him that if ho did not be-
have properly ho would be left on the road. Now, this was
not a pleasant prespect. We were to run to Swindon with-
out stopping, and were to be all this time caged with a
drunken rad en. But there was no help for it. In the course
of some ten or twelve minutes the fellow vehemently
proclaimed himself "a Southern privateer and an enemy
to the English." Rising from his seat he staggered
over the feet of the ladies, and, confronting me, demanded
what I had to say, threatening to " smash my sky-
lights" if I did not tell him my opinion, and
flourishing his huge fist in my face by way of warning.
I quieted him for a few minutes by getting him to tell us
something of his early life. Ho said he was an English-
man, had run away from home when a boy, bad gone to
South America, and that when the war broke out he had
taken service in a Southern privateer. His tale was mixed
up with such oaths and blasphemies that I was glad to
withdraw my attention, whereupon to my dismay he pro-
duced a bottle of strong drink of some kind, and swore he
would " treat the company." Ho put it to his mouth by
way of showing us how to do it, and took a pull so hearty
and, so long that he swallowed one-half the contents.
Declaring in words not to be repeated that the man or
woman who did not drink should "catch it," he pre-
sented the bottle to each of the ladies. Having spent about
ten minutes coexing and threatening them, he turned
to me. I expected I was "in for it," but upon my
refusal he only expressed contempt for " old Jinnies," and
took the remainder himself at one gulp. This over, ho
prepared for smoking, and seeing it alarm us, he amused
himself for some time in throwing about half-burnt matches.
He had learnt the tree and easy habits of American society,
and spat with an accuracy of aim that vas undeniable, for
he made my face the target on two or three occasions. When
he had satisfied himself upon this head he grew heavy. and,
stretching out his legs so as to take up one side of •the
carriage, he fell, as we delightedly supposed, into a sleep
I settled down to read, and had been perhaps 10 minutes or
so employed, when I was startled by a shriek and a spring
from one of the ladies, and on looking up 1 saw, to my
terror, that the fellow had suddenly opened the window,
and had so far succeeded in getting out that but for the pre-
sence of mind and courage of the lady, who had seized him
by the hair, he would have been under the wheels in another
moment. By uniting our efforts we were able to drag him
in, but for full a quarter of an hour he fought and tore like
a savage, leaping at the window, and we restrained him, till
at last he was compelled to desist through sheer exhaustion.
What a situation to be in I He then adopted a line of
totaliation which was so grossly indecent and outragious
that I dare not describe it. The poor ladies (whose conduct
exceeded all praise) huddled together into a corner, while I
stool in front guarding them with a stout umbrella. I con-
fess if at this moment the scoundrel had attempted to get
out of the window again I thick I should have allowed him
his own way. Providentially the engine-driver found it
necessary to stop at Vantage-road, and I succeeded in
obtaining aid, and had him removed. If we had been com-
pelled to run all the way to Swindon, Heaven, who pre-
, served us, only knows what might have happened. TLe
writer adds :—" Now, I think you will agree with me when
I say that it was a shameful outrage to put such a ruffian
into our carriage, or into any carriage, with civilised people.
True it is we were only second-class passengers, but that is
not sufficient reason—at least to us—why we should have
been terrified almost cut of our lives, and disgusted to
loathing by the conduct of this drunken scoundrel. Never
did I fuel so utterly helpless. It put my head out of the 1
window, and I called till I became hoarse, and although the
guard was within a few yards we might have been mur-
dered for any help he could have rendered ; and all this in
open day, and on the Great Western Railway I Perhaps
if some of the wives and daughters of some of the directors
had been in the carriage something might come of it, but
of coutao as they travel in the first class such a thing is not
likely to happen to them ; and yet poor Briggs's case shows
us that even there people are not always safe. How lung
will the public bear this kind of thing ? Surely it is our
duty to call upon Government to compel the directors to
action,"— IRstern Daily Prces.

A GREAT GUN—DUT NOT QUITE A TEN THOU-
SAND POUNDER !—A ridiculous paragraph has been
going the round of the press, stating that Mr Tennyson has
pocketed not less than £lO,OOO by the sale of his last volume
—"Enoch Arden." We do not pretend to be acquainted
with the Laureate's financial affairs, nor to know how
much money his publishers have paid him; but this we do
know—and from the best authority—that up to the present
time about 32,000 copies of the work in question have been
sold. On no other business matter is there usually dis-
played so much popular misconception and ignorance as
when the profits arising from the publications of eminent
authors are concerned. The habits, dress, and incomes of
great men will always be matter of lively interest to curious
readers and to " worshippers ;" but a little common sense
should at least guide those who construct ana, and concoct
literary statistics. "Enoch Arden" is a six-shilling book;
a part of this amount---say something less than two shillings
—will have to be deducted as the trade percentage or book-
sellers' allowance, the printer will take:another portion, the
binder another, and the paper merchant and advertising
agent will also expect to be paid. Assuming that two
shillings per copy, or even three shiliings, may be the
author's royalty, it is tolerably clear that the £lO,OOO said
to be Mr Tennyson's recent gain is simply one of those
pleasant fictions started and circulated for popular amuse-
ment. So few poetical publications ever pay for paper and
print that a great metrical success is not unlikely to mag-
nify itself—and this. we suppose, must be the excuse for
the paragraph in error recently circulated.
MANNING THE NATY.—The continuous-service
men who entered the navy in considerable numbers in the
year 1854 are now rapidly claiming their discharge; and
although various ways are attempted by which they may be
attracted to remain in the service, yet few, if any, consent
to prolong their term. We deeply regret that such is the
fact, as we are all interested in maintaining the efficiency of
the navy; but it would not only be fruitless, but mischie-
vous to disguise the truth. We have been informed that
only lately 70 seamen claimed their discharge from the
Marlborough at Malta. This, of course, could not be re-
fused to them; but when the question of a passage to Eng-
land was mooted, no one would come to their assistance
and the men had to find their way home as best they could.
This is not the best method to pursue if we desire to induce
sailors " to love their country and honour their Queen."—
Army and Navy Gazzlte.
THE STONE RECORD.—Colonel Greenwood writes
as follows to the Athenceuni :—" A creator without
a creation is scarcely more contradictory than a creation
without creatures. And reason and analogy teach us that
before the first strata wore formed on this globe, its land,
air, and waters must have teemed with life. As strata re-
sult from slow aqueous erosion and denudation, thousands
of years, or thousands of ages must have passed during the
formation of the first strata; and it is as contrary to the
Mosaic account as it is to all reason and analogy, to suppose
that the Almighty Creator should have lift his magnificent
work, this glorious globe, to swing through space tenantless
for ages. What evidence have we that land aninaels of
the highest order did not exist from the first ? Why, tiaet
that we do not find fossils of land animals in sea strata.
This argument is, as I have said, as childishly absurd as if
Columbus had told us that America had no land animals on
it, because he had dredged the sea, and had found no re-
mains of them. Tai de magna proveniunt, but it is satisfac-
tory, at last, to find Sir Charles Lyell at Bath saying that
he agrees with Mr Darwin that the stone record is frag-
mentary and incomplete. But, on this fact, and on the rea-
sons of this fact, is founded a main argument, which runs
through the whole of ' Rain and Rivers,' in which a chap-
ter is headed, Man may have existed in the Silurian
Period.' This was published in 1857, long before The
Origin of Species,' or the French river-terraces, or the
Danish shell-mounds, or the Swiss lake villages, or The
Antiqu:ty of Man' were heard of. The two great men,
however, have taken one step in the right direction. But
they will have to take a great many more. lniti4os nos
ercditnus—in vestibule hmi emus. And, I may add, voila
tcvipus quo posteri nomtri Con apert3 nos nescisse mirentnr,
and that time is at hand.

DEATH BY LIGIITNING.—Dr Chretien, of Mont-
pellier, has sent an account to the French Aca-
demy of Sciences of a remarkable ins' anco of the terrible
ff,cts of lightning. On the 2d inst. he was sent for to as-
certain the death of a youth of 16, killed instantaneously
by the electric fluid in his bed, he being ill at the time. His
mother and three young men who had come to see him wore in
the room when the catastrophe occurred. One of the young
icon was seated at the foot of the bed, another near the
bolster, and the thild close to the door of the apartment,
which was on the first fhor, contiguous to the roof of the
'louse ; the mother was between the second and third
visitors. The lightning penetrated into the house through
he wall of a large room adjoining the sick room ; it broke
dl the window panes in the fut mu' before reaching the other
where the c =pally were. The young man at the foot of
he bed load the legs 0 his trousers partially burnt ell ;
lie second received a wound on one of his legs, and the
mother had her left leg muelly bruised,'the stocking was
partially burnt, and deep burns were perceptible on the
ihsh. -Her son, as already stated, was killed, and the fluid
ilityta„,h hod window,

ITALY.

TURIN, Oct. 25.—The sittings of the Italian
Parliament have been adjourned until further orders

UDINE, Oct. 23.—A band of about 100 insurgents,
among whom are several deserters, have taken re.
fuge in the forest of Consiglio. Several deserters
at Cadore and Belluno are endeavouring to join
them.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

NEWMARKET RACES—Tnis DAY.
(By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
MATCH.
Finesse bat Olivia.
ALL-AGED STAKES.

Lord Burl eigh . 1
Exchequer
Argonaut left at the post.
£5O PLATE.

Troubadour..
Orloff

Six ran.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

Ackworth
Tomato
Highflyer dam colt
Thirty-eight ran. Won by a head ; bad third.
ECRATCHINGS Blithfield—Historian—Madcep—Blair
Athol Caller Ou Johnny Armstrong Stockowner—
Edward the Confessor—Mountain Flower—Adventurer—
Morocco Orphelin—Blaekdown—Lawyer—Copenhagen
—Queen Crystal Nocturne—Dormouse—Durham—The
Clown—Soumise—Filibuster—Carisbrook—Umpire—Tooi
Tooi—Comme v.—Melrose—King George—Double
Charlemagne Castle Hill— Suspicion— Danaus—Castle
Espie Ethelred—Marygold—Merry Hart—Armagnac--
Tommy Jones—Baldwin—Peon—Charming Woman--
Crochet horse—Sigualman—Jessie—Raglan—ldler—Erin
go Bragh—Peignoir—Physician—Narbonne—Antoinette
—Wandering Minstrel—Hersey filly—brother to Itubini—,
Charmian, Trap, and Giant.
SELLING HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.
Troublesome
Oberon

Five ran,
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Coup d'Etat
Sidewind
Provisor .... 3

Twelve ran.

£3O PLATE.

Ilippolyt a
Johnny Armstrong
Gem of the Sea

Seven ran.
FREE HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Crytheia
Rose

Five ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Pean.
Aluaack

Foven ran.
OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES,

Brown "Willy
Herschel

Nine ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OP 10 Soya—Giant paid forfeit.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OP 15 Soya—Giant and CAM-.
ball paid forfeit

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening,

WAR. OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 25.

61st Regiment of Foot—Major General Edward Hunger-
ford Delaval Elers Napier to bo Colonel, vice General
John Reeve, deceased.
ADMIRALTY, OCT. 22.

The following promotion has been made :—Mr Samuel
Lloyd to be First Class Assistant Engineer, with seniority
of 18th October, 1864.

BANKRUPTS,

The following are the only bankrupts o' commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
Mark Hamby, watchmaker, Salisbury
David Kirby Mawer, upholsterer, Pimlico
Robert Lees, cotton spinner, Oldham
Edmund 'Whitehead, cotton spinner, Oldham
Josiah Lindon, farmer, Old Stratford
Henry Maddison, jeweller, Hatton-garden
James Bateson Rickards, Hampsteud-road
Gorge Phillips, poulterer, Holborn
Mark Marks, broker, Cardiff
Emanuel Lawrence, innkeeper, Shrewsbury
John Hart, commission agent, Monkwell-street, City
Henry Nowlan, builder, Rotherbithe
Thomas Davies, cheesemonger, King's College-road, St:
John's-wood.

Thomas Baker, nurseryman, Surbiton-hill,
.Kingston-.
on-Thames

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
James Morrison, publican, Stapleton. Gloucestershire
SCOICH BANKRUPTS.
John Bonner, painter, Edinburgh
Pearson and Co., wholesale grocer, Glasgow

Professor Anderson and the Davenport

Brothers—(This Day).

This afternoon, in accordarece with an invitation from
Professor Anderson, a large party of ladies and gentlemen
assembled in St. James's Hall, to witness a performance
in daylight similar to that gone through by the Brothers
Davenport in the dark. We have but time on the present
occasion to say that the whole of the so-called spiritual
manifestations, the tying and untying, were very cleverly
accomplished by the Professor's daughter and Mr Sutton, his
secretary, amidst the vo:iferous cheering of the audience,
The tying of both artists previous to their being placed in
the cabinet, was minutely inspected by Tom Taylor, Esq.,
and others, and after it had been declared perfect, in less than
five minutes both the lady and the gentleman ap-
peared perfectly free, the ropes lying at their feet,
The musical trick was also very cleverly performed;
and at its conclusion, -- Godwin, Esq., proposed a
Tote of thanks to the professor, which was agreed t' unani-
mously. Mr Anderson said the only object ho had in view
was to show the absurdity of the so-called spiritualism, and
he hoped that what ho had shown to-day would convince
all that ropes could be untied without the akd of spirits.