The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

NOVEMBER.
Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railway&

1864.

1863.

Belfast and N. Counties 136
Belfast and Comity Down— 49
Blyth and Tyne . 23
Bristol and Exeter 1214
Caledonian 252
Cambrian — 9 l

1854. 1863.

Cockermouth & Workington
Cork and Bandon

Cork, Blackrock, & Passage...
Cork and Youghal .....
Cornwall .
Deeside
Dublin & Bell ast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Meath _

3261
65i
17
63

Dub. &Wicklow and Wexid 9ll
Edinburgh and Glasgow 173
Furness, &c 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern • 353
Great North of Scotland 5B
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7lt
Gt.Southn. & Westia.(lrind.) 3732
Great Western 10564
Hull and Hornsea
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno lO6l
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191
Irish North-Western 145
Kent Coast 27
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402
Limerick and Ennis 241
Limerick and Foynes ...., 264
Llanelly 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover 724
Do. Metropolitan Extension 114
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 94
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Metropolitan 3i
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641
Midland Gt.Westn. of Isind 262
Monkland 7li
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal II
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Dar l 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton... 5O
Rhymney l9/
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon .. ..... 751
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 57
Ulster lO5/
Vale of Clwyd....—.. lO
Vale of Neath..
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall . 271
W. Hartlepool Harbr. &Rail... 52
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10
Whitchaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian _ ...... B2B

121 e
294 k

?it
329
1054

395 f
24,
26

410 i
10;9t

2,411 2.378
892 792
2,265 1,719
8,089 7,969
20,541 18,045
1,752 1,556
351 317
330 427
232 257
556 515
2,171 1.639
4:9 351
1,353 1.389
1,842 I,EGG
256 IE7
8,380 3,174
9,135 8.776
3,238 3.133
10,657 9,583
34,635 3e,62G
38,032 33,340

liB
39i
75i
306

Bahia and San Francisco 761
Belgian Eastern J unction 2
Bombay, Baroda, do Ccn. India 185
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal
East ern of France....... 1135
East Indian ...... lol2}
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Central of Belgium 18)
Great Indian Peninsula 5)3
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa ezAlicant 650
Northern of Canada ... . 94
Northern of France 607
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman ..
_4B}

1051

26
185
161 t
185
1(.81
1 tO
1302
9321
1090

-555 2:O ti

Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1805
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 77E
Royal Danish 69
Soinde lO6
South Austrian .. .. 1527
Southern of France.......... 770

361 32
9,451 8,493
72,151 67,297

Victorian 196

Welland
West Flanders

W. N.W. of France

235
1,861, 1,488
2,321
1,586
3,203 120
13,473 38,090
1215 383
316 91

785 8:6
118,071 108,561
2,221 2,183
29,907 28.;87
29,069 29,569
8,2.4 6 872
2,760 1,480
19,367 17,315
1,503 1,425
1,571 1.26?.
2,.60 1,978
49, 83 15,503
4,186 4,190
1,7i8 1.460
2,711 2,519

15,911. 15,029
63,586 57,317
3,528 3,3 . 5
0,631 8,751

1,038 923
6,569 5,455
5,765 5,710
949 g 92
4,513 4,375
30,296 30,197
5,722 5,673
2,334 2.221
256 270
3,131 2.579

395 394
3,153 1,(25
766 727
4,572 4.990
6ti 622
1,0i7 637
857 bO6

31,218 30,060
334 -
302 295
3,711 2,768
1,966 1,921
1,i03 2,6*8
7,285 6,438
1,612 1,806
66,572 67,013

21,159 18,554

20, 45 16,072
5,6 8 1,808
495 11,128 11,338
134 4,541 1,357
79 033 567
3*5 8,937 8,:26
447 6,304 8.360
490 1.,470 20,010
91 2,352 ~1 e 7
697 55,533 53,805
44 1,446 1,001
481 387 343
1713 132,616 128,359
1491 62,915 57,660
77 562 682
69
105
1474

1.518 2,272
50,680 97,610
29,964 27,088
8,831 9,743
554 367
1,255 1,171
51,827 15,871

FEARFUL FALL OF A FEMALE INTO THE MAIN
DRAINAGE WoRKs.---Yesterday Mr. Carter, the
coroner, received information of the death of Mrs. Martha
Matthews, aged 31 years, who resided at 73, Albany-road,
Camberwell, which was occasioned under the following
frightful circumstances :—lt would appear that on Satur-
day she came from her door, opposite to which—in the road-
way—was a cutting about 25 feet deep, belonging to the
works of the Main Drainage. Having some curiosity to
see the men at work she leaned over the barrier, when she
lost her balance, and with a loud scream she was precipi-
tated head foremost into the sower. As soon as possible she
was brought to the surface in an insensible condition, and
conveyed to Saint Thomas's Hospital, where,' she was at
once attended by Mr Siddall, the house surgeon, who found
that her skull was fractured and that she was otherwise
so dreadfully injured that she expired in a few hours. The
deceased had left behind a family of five young children,
and at the time of the occurrence was far advanced in
pregnancy.

I SEA-SICK IN A TEMPERANCE SHIP,—We noW
iiroeseato Boston, Massachusetts, taking the steamer
frcm New York for some 160 miles, to join the rail which.
ran into the city. It was a dark stormy evening when we
embar,t-ed, and soon, in consequence of a deluge of rain, we
were driven down into the close and unwholesome cabin,
the vessel rolling fearfully. It was of rare occurrence for
me to feel sea-sick, bat that evening I did, and in a state of
misery known only to those who are so situated, I asked
said e., I get something for you."
arebtku.,llled with a soda-water bottle fall of a
the nearest nigger present to give me
here,some tabaraganad.y.hirallge
a temperums ship. ) --., what am I
grinned and Julia',
h "I'l
YuoTtthgeet
deuceno brandy
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said
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edifiSatteory
liquor, which he poured into nay half cup of
dark-looking
tHoediantrm"
tea, saying, ,4 Dere, matoa, sarsaparilla bere good ting for
sea-Sickness." I tasted, airld found it was excellent brandy.
I gave him half a dollar, avd requested a little more ear.
Baparilla, which be again poured into my fresh tea cup,
whileheheld his side with laughter and grinned like a hyena.
I found in after-travelling that whenever I had the ill-
fortune to get on board a teroperance blip, that the niggers
were always well supplied witLi sarsaparilla and liquors of
every kind,—Musical and Tersan:3l Recollections of Henry
Phillips.

SUICIDE PROM A STEAMER.—About three a.m.
on Sunday morning, while the steamer Rainbow was on
her passage from London for Great Yarmouth, a passen-
ger was observed by the watch to lay his hat upon the
deck and then jump overboard. An alarm was at once
raised, but in vain, as the deceased did not again rim, to the
surface. The suicide took place off Southwold, on the
Suffolk coast, The deceased was dressed in a black alit,
and in the hat was found the following address' without a
name :—" Mrs. --, 93, Florence-road, New-cross, Lon-
don, S.E." The maker's name in the hat was "Both-
Wick, Ilorselydown, Broadway, DaPtf"d'"
FRANKFORT, Aug. 6.—The Legislative Body cf
this city at its sitting yesterday gave its unanimous
adhesion to the customs union based on the Franco.
Prussian Treaty of Commerce.

TEE Ci TIL WAR IN AMERICA,

(F. rom the Times Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, July 26.

The whole 5 .nterest of the war has suddenly shifted.
from Richmo lad to Atlanta. Not that people have
lost faith in General Grant, for they still believe
that he will capture the Confederate capital, some
time before Christmas, if he be left alone by Mr
Lincoln and Mr Stanton on the one hand, and by
Mr Jefferson Davis and General Lee on the other ;
but because the chances of a great victory achieved.
or an overwhelming defeat to be suffered by Gen.
Sherman are more immediate. General Joseph
Johnston, the Confederate Commander, has been
superseded in his command, not because his plans
were otherwise than skilful or the best that could
be adopted with so small an army as that with
-which he had to confront a formidable antagonist,
but because the Southern people and his own subs
ordinates were of opinion that a stand ought to be
made for Atlanta, at any risk and any cost. Gene.
ral Hood, appointed to succeed him, lest not a day
it appears, in carrying out the new policy, and
attacked the Federals in their intrenchments be-
tween the city and the Chattahoechie, The con.
test was a stubborn one—as all the battles of the
Americans are—and according to the latest account
had lasted for three days with varying fortunes,
but without decided results. The Federal Govern•
ment, through Mr. Stanton, though without official
despatches from General Sherman, continued to as.
sert on Saturday last, as well as on the previous
day, that the Confederates had been driven out
out of Atlanta with great loss, and had retreated
towards
Macon. Up to this time there is no con-
firmation of this statement, but much reason to
believe that the struggle for Atlanta is not at an
end, and that the large corps d'armee spared by
General Lee from the defences of Richmond
and Petersburg is destined either to effect a
junction with General Hood, or to fall upon Sher-
man in the rear, and place him between two fires,
from which nothing can extricate him but a skill
in retreating greater than even that possessed by
Johnston.

Though the accounts published by the Washings
ton journals are stated to be derived from autho-
rity, it is suspicious that not a word has come from
Gen. Sherman himself, or if it has come that Mr
Stanton has not seen fit to send it to the newspapers.
The accounts, such as they are, affirm that in the
great battle of Friday, the 22d, when Gen. Hood
made his second onslaught on the Federals, the loss
of the Confederates was 7,000 killed and wounded,
and that of the Federals only 2,000. If Gen. Sherman
thus reported in an official despatch the world might
feel disposed to believe there had been great havoc
on both sides, and that the Federal commander was
only resorting to an old manceavro to keep up the
spirit of his army by underestimating his own losses
and exaggerating those of the enemy ; but while all
General Sherman's despatches, if ho have sent any,
are withheld, and such a statement is only made on
the vague authority of the War Department, people
are disposed to believe that there is disagreeable
news behind the agreeable mask, and that when the
full truth comes to be known it will be found that
General Sherman's position is not such as the
Northern Government and people would look upon
with complacency.
Mr Fessenden, as anticipated, has appealed to the
people for a loan. Failing to receive from the banks
of New York the accommodation ho required to pay
the arrears due to the army and provide for the
daily expenses of the Government, he has asked the
people to assist him with four times as mnch as he
would have accepted from the banks, and issued pro.
posals for a loan of 200,000,000 dols. for three years,
bearing interest at the rate of seven and three-tenths
per cent. in " lawful more;, "—that is to say in
greenbacks or legal tender. The lowest sum receiv-
able is to be 50 dols., and all sums tendered are to
be multiples of 50. Although the bonds at the end
of three years are either to be paid off, in greenbacks,
or to be exchangeable into five-twenty bonds, bear-
ing 6 per cent interest, payable in gold, it is not
likely that any of this loan will he negotiated or
negotiable, in Europe, for the reason, quite indepen-
dent of any considerations of the adequacy of the
security, that the rate of interest is much too low,
calculated upon a gold standard, to tempt any one
to invent in it. Seven and three tenths per cent in
greenbacks, with gold at a premium of 158, would
only give about £2 16s. for an investment of
£lOO sterling, and as it is not unlikely, if the
war last through the ensuing winter, that the
value of the greenbacks will be much further depre-
ciated—it is scarcely possible that a single lover of
Republican liberty in Europe, or a single enthu-
siast in the ceuse of the slave in Exeter-hall, or else-
where, will add to the number cf Mr. Fessendents
creditors to the extent of a £lO note. Mr. Fessen-
den himself appears to be of the same opinion, He
says to the people whose help he eolicite—" As yet
we have asked no foreign aid. Calm and eelf-reliant
our own means thus far have proved adequate to
our wants. They are yet ample to meet those of the
present and the future. It still remains for a
patriotic people to furnish the needful supply.';
With a misgiving, however, that even the patriotic
and lucre loving people of the North may not think
more highly of:the terms he offers than the foreigner,
to whom he will not yet make an appeal, he says,
" This is not the time for any lover of his country to
inquire as to the state of the money market, or ask
whether he can so invest his capital as to yield
him a larger return." But, under such circum-
stances, would it nct be wiser and better for
the Secretary to appeal to the people—not on come
mercial grounds for a loan—but on patriotic grounds,
for a free-will offering of their abundance, to prevent
that "national dissolution" or " national disgrace'
which he forsees as but too probable if money be
not forthcoming. If the war is to be a holy war for
the propagation of an idea—a crusade against negro
slavery, a national uprising to preserve a large
Union, founded on military force, as something
better than a smaller Union, founded upon true
Republican liberty—why not call upon the devotees
of the doctrine to give, rather than to lend ? If the
cause be holy, let the people tax themselves for its
support. Let the rich man contribute of his super-
fluity, without asking :for any return but the
pleasant consciousness that ho has aided a great
principle. Let the millionaires pour not only
their greenbacks, but their gold and silver plate
into the Treasury. Let the ladies present Mr.
Fessenden with their rings and their brace-
lets, their watches and their brooches, their dia-
monds, emeralds, and rubies, to be converted into
coin in the markets of the world, in order that the
soldiers of the crusade may be regularly paid and
abundantly rewarded, and that Unionism may
triumph, even though liberty should perish.
Among the inducements which Mr. Fessenden
offers to the people to invest in the war is the un-
doubted goodness of the security. Leaving out of
his calculations the Customs' duties, he informs the
little as well as the great capitalists whom he hopes
to persuade that " the Internal Revenue Act is a
great success, which has exceeded in efficiency the
most sanguine expectations cf its authors," inasmuch
as while it yielded only 4,500,000 dols in the month of
June, 1863, it yielded about 15,000,000 dols in the cor-
responding month of the present year. He adds that
under the amended law which came into operation
on the first inst. the returns have averaged about a
million a day, and expresses his belief that as the
law becomes more familiar and is more efficiently
carried out a million 4 day will be the rule and not
the exception. Granting the estimates to be correct,
it will follow that no more loans must be contracted,
or that the incidence of the tee: must be greatly in-
creaeed if the interest of the existing debt is to be
paid, The Administration only admits a proved
debt of about 1,800,000,000 dols., but as this does
Lot include the debt incurred during the present
veer, and a whole host of outstanding, and as yet
;flinvesligated, liabithies, financiers friendly to the
Administration raise the total to 3,000,000,000
dols., and some not quite so friendly, but quite as
likely to be correct, to 4,000,000,000 dols. Taking
the lower estimate, and reckoning the interest,wnich
varies between 5 and 7 3-13tha per cent,, payable
in gold, to average
6 per cent., the Federal Go-
yen re en t hes, or speedily will have, to pay, in
gold,
an annual charge of 180,600,00 D dole. A t the
present price, of gold—from 156 to 158 premium--
no lees trace 460,000,000 dole. in greenbacks would

be required to pay the interest, thus leaving the
whole proceeds of the internal revenue deficient by
no less than 95,000,000 dols. as a securi'y for the
existing debt. Mr. Fessenden and the Northern
people may, perhaps, imagine that the pi ice of gold
will fall. Perhaps it will ; but if it do not ? There
must in the latter case be either a repudiation of the
contract to pay in gold, or new loans, not only to
carry on the war, but to cover a daily augmenting
deficiency.

July 27.
Last night the town was again startled by the
details of a new irruption of the Confederates,
under Generals Early and Breckenridge, into the
valley of the Shenandoah, the defeat of the
Federals under Generals Averill and Crook, and
the retreat of those officers with the remnants of
their force to Harper's Ferry. Mr. Lincoln and Mr.
Stanton, imagining, when the victorious invaders
so suddenly disappeared from before Washington,
that all danger was past, sent home the militiamen
whom they had summoned to their aid ; and went
to sleep with their usual poco-curantism—or optim-
ism—believing, with Candide, that all was for the
best in this beautiful world. The result is that
Washington is again at the mercy of the Con-
federates, that there is a panic amongst the
Unionist population, secret rejoicing among those
who sympathise with the Confederates, and a
general exodus of the timid. Governor Curtin,
of Pennsylvania, has not yet found time to
appeal to New York for assistance to repel the
invaders, and Mr. Lincoln, uncertain whether the
irruption is great or small, intended for the plunder
of farmyards or for the sack of the capital, has issued
no proclamation to the loyal people, and demanded
no assistance. He is urged, however, to meet the
difficulty, whatever may be its real character, by
appointing Gen. M'Clellan to the command of the
defences of Washington, and promised if he will but
have the magnanimity to forgive a political oppo-
nent, especially one who threatens to be his success-
ful rival for the Presidency, that at least 100,000
Volunteers will respond to the magic of that name,
and make Washington safe now and for the re-
mainder of the war. If the danger be imminent it is
possible, though not probable, that Mr Lincoln will
act upon this suggestion. If called upon, M'Clellan
is too sincere a patriot, and too good a soldier, to
refuse obedience to the call. Meanwhile, the posi-
tion is, to say the least of it, humiliating to the
Federal Government, after which, 105 days since
Grant crossed the Rapidan to take Richmond sees
its own capital in much greater danger of capture
than that of the Confederates. Grant has not a
man to spare from Petersburg to assist in the de-
fence of the Shenandoah or other approaches to
Washington, while Lee is not only able to spare
from Richmond as many men as are sufficient to
make Maryland and Pennsylvania a profitable and
comparatively safe foraging ground, but to send
Longstreet with a force of 25,000 to the support of
Hood at Atlanta. And yet the friends of the Ad-
ministration persist in asserting that Grant's cam.
paign is not a failure, and that the rebellion is on
its last legs.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.

The directors of this company have resolved to recom-
mend to the proprietors at the half-yearly general meeting
on the 18th inst. that the dividend for the half-year end-
ing Juno 30, 186'4, be at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum
on the ordinary capital stock of the company, carrying over
a balance of £8,400.