The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY:TEVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1865,

On the 7th of September, at 6 o'clock in the
morning, after having taken the necessary precau-
tions to ensure that all should be done according to
my directions, I attacked the village of Gate, sur-
rounding, in good order and perfect silence, as many
houses as I could allot to my men—for to each
house. The sound of the bugle was the signal for
the principal man in each group to setfireto a house,
and in the twinkling of an eye theywere thus a prey
to the devouring flames. Before a shot was fire five
of the aboriginals were bayonetted by my men, and
three more, dreading the cold steel, met their deaths
in the ruins of their habitations. The discharge of
our carbines succeeded to this use of the bayonet ;
but we did not fire many rounds, because I had no
intention of pursuing to the fugitives to the moun-
tain. Most of the shots, however, took effect at a
short distance, and did not miss their mark. Pass-
ing along I counted 12 men who had been killed by
our bullets, and there is reason to believe that some
other, grievously wounded, must have died in the
thickets to which they fled." _ _

The reports of Chef d'Etat Major Mathieu, Cap-
Cairns, Captain Banare, and of M. Bourgey, also
describe the details of their several expeditions, in
which they met with unfform success. Messieurs
Mathieu, Banare, and Bourgey found the remains
of the murdered white men who had been devoured
by the cannibals. Every branch of the expedition,
thus separately described, inflicted a terrible ven-
geance upon the offending tribes. Captain Cairns
estimates the number of the enemy killed by his
soldiers at brtween 40 and 50 men.

An Adventure with Alleged Fenians.

The picturesque and romantic country under
shadow of the Slieve Bloom mountains was recently
the scene of an alarming adventure, and one which
was near entailing serious consequences to a party

who was the object of the " attentions" of a body

of armed " Fenians," who it would appear were
" out for the night" in that unfrequented district.
On Saturday night week, Mr. Warren, Cloghan-

more, Kennitty, a gentleman well known in this
country, was returning to his own house after spend-
ing the evening with a neighbouring gentleman.
The hour was eleven o'clock, and the night pitchy
dark—the gentleman's host wished him to remain
all night, but he would not, as he said he knew
every perch of the way as well by night as in the
broad day. He then bade his host good night, and
unsuspectingly went on his way. On reaching the
high road from the avenue his attention was at-
tracted by approaching footsteps, and his suspicion
somewhat aroused by the fact that people were out
on such a night and on such a lonesome road, but
he nevertheless pushed on, after having debated in
his own mind the chances of these people being the
police patrol. He soon, however, became aware
that the footsteps were those of a large body of men,

and while he was making up his mind as to a re-

treat to the hospitable mansion which he had just
left, the more advanced portion of the party came
up where he was standing, and he determined then
to push on towards his own house, which was not
very far distant. He said, " Good night, boys," to
the people, but received no answer, and the fact
then flashed on his mind that they were up to no good,
as they would not answer, fearful, as he supposed, of
being betrayed by their voices. When he came to the
end of the procession he again saluted them with

" Good night, boys," but as before got no answer,
Having passed them, he stopped, as did severa.
of the party who composed the procession. A
colloquy ensued among the party, and Mr. W.
Warren, heard one of them say, "By G—, he is a
detective," and immediately a whistle, long, loud,
and shrill, sounded, and the whole came to a halt,
and a party was told off to follow the retreating
stranger and bring him back. We should say that
the road at this particular point is very dark, a
grove of large timber and a wall being on one side,
with a heavy quickset hedge on the other. Mr.
Warren, hearing the directions given for his pur-
suit, kept on the grass edge of the road, making
no noise until he came to a gate on the side of the
road, which when tried was fortunately opened,
and lie slipped into the field, which had been recently
ploughed, and made right into the middle, where he
lay down in the scrape of the plough. He there
heard the footsteps of his pursuers pass the gate and
proceed farther up the road, but they soon became
aware that they had overrun their game, who,
mindful of his sporting experience, had borrowed a
trick from puss, and had doubled on them. The
• leader of the skirmishing party sounded a retreat,
and they came back towards the gate, driving the
long poles, or pikes, or pitchforks with which they
were armed into the hedges and gripes on each side
of the road until they came to the gate, finding
which open, the fugitive not having had time to
take the precaution of closing it after him, the leader
swore an oath that the object of their pursuit had
gone into the field, and ordered his men to go in
and bring him out until they would " pike him to
death, to teach him not to be prowling about the
country at that hour." Some time was then occu-
pied in searching round the ditches and boundaries
of the field, during which time the fugitive lay in a
secure though unenviable position in the middle of
the field, screened from their observation by
the plough scrape and the darkness of the
night. Having exhausted their patience, how-
ever, the leader drew off his men, and re-
joined the main body, which was at such a short
distance that the fugitive could hear the denuncia-
tions on the " detective" which were uttered by the
crowd of people. Having lain in his concealment
for some time, until the sounds of the people died
away, Mr. Warren emerged from his hiding place,
and stumbled as best he could out of the field and
across another to the house of a relative of his
own, which lay on the same side of the road as the
as the friendly fallow field, he not daring to cross
road again, fearing to fall in with the patrols or
skirmishers of the body he had just seen, and as his
own house lay on the opposite side. When, after a
good dealof difficulty, he reached his relative's house,
he knocked them up and presented himself to them
in a very sorry pickle. Ile asked for a horse and
arms to proceed to the police barracks and give the
alarm, but he was over-persuaded by the entreaties
of his nieces, who had arisen from their beds, to re-
main all night in the house, and not again trust
himself to the tender mercies of the Fenians. In the
morning the little town of Kennitty was all alive
with the report of a regiment of armed Fenians that
had been out drilling the night before, and the at-
tack which had been made on Mr. Warren. - The
authorities having heard of the matter, policemen
were despatched for Mr. Warren, and he related the
adventures of the previous night. Communications
were made to the Castle, Dublin, and he was re-
quested to made an information upon his oath,
which he did before Mr. 11. G. Curran, R.M., Par-
sonstown, to the effect as described above. Since
then the county inspector of police, Mr. Carr, and
Mr. Valancy, S.L. of the district, are engaged in
investigating the circumstances, and in patrolling
the place, but up to the present without any effect.
Mr. Warren described the men as marching with a
heavy measured tramp, and that some of them
were armed with long poles or pikes, and the
leader in front had a longer pole than the rest,
on the top of which was something which, from
the darkness of the night, he could not
distinctly recognise, but thought it was some-
thing like a fishing net or a tent. The affair has
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performance was a premeditated practical joke,
good-humouredly played. We will not offer an
opinion on the matter further than to hint at the
improbability of the Fenians selecting a pitchy dark
night for practising their evolutions, and to express
doubt that in the King's County a body of 60 or go
could be got together for any such purpose as that
of Fenianism, while we know that many more could
be got together to enjoy a joke.—King's County
Chronicle.

Colonel R. M. Hoe, the inventor of the cylinier
printing press, is spending the winter with his family in
Paris. lie intends to return to America in the spring.

Charge of Attempted Murder,

Just as the ordinary business at the Mansion-
house was about to close on Saturday, a well dressed
man named Elia Fermi, a native of Italy, who
has for some years carried on the business of a corn,
commission, and shipping agent in Great Tower-
street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman
Finnis, who sat for tho Lord Mayor, upon the
charge of feloniously wounding a German gentle-

man named James Dawbusch, with intent to mur-

der him.

The case was represented as one of a very serious
character, and it was stated that the prosecutor's
injuries were of such a character as to prevent him
from being in attendance, but there had not as yet
been sufficient time to discover accurately the ex-

tent of those injuries, and sufficient evidence was
therefore only gone into to justify a remand.
George Pagden, one of the porters at Gresham-
house, Bishopsgate-street, who was the first 'wit-
ness examined, deposed that on Saturday morning,
shortly after 11 o'clock, the prisoner passed him
and went into the building, and very soon after-
wards he heard an outcry in one of the corridors,
and upon proceeding to the spot he saw the pro-

secutor on the ground, and the prisoner was stand-
ing over him and in the act of stabbing at him with
some weapon, and he did so several times before
witness got up to him. When he did so the prisoner
came towards him, and he saw something drop from

him, which afterwards turned out to be two dag-
gers or stilettos, and he made use of the expression,
"He has assassinated my six children." A police-

man shortly afterwards came up, and the prisoner
was taken into custody. The witness added that

the occurrence took place close to an office that was
occupied by the prosecutor in the same corridor.
Alderman Finnis inquired if any one was present
who could give the court any information upon the
subject of the transaction.
Mr. Nisbet, a gentleman who said he was ac-
quainted with both parties, stepped forward, and
said that he knew the prisoner and the prosecutor.

They were both connected with the corn trade, and
were publishers of a journal devoted to that trade,
and the prisoner entertained great jealousy towards
the prosecutor, and this lad no doubt led him to
commit the act.
Alderman Finnis obseried that he could not cu-
ter into those particulars, but he should be glad to
be informed of the condition of the prosecutor, and
any other matters that were relevant to the inquiry
Mr. Nisbet then stated that he had seen the pro-
secutor a short time before he came to the court at

his own counting-house, and he informed him that
he had been wounded by Ale prisoner in the abdo-
men, and he said that he lelieved he had stabbed
him 20 times. The prosecitor told him, however,
that he did not believe thatany of the wounds were
of a serious nature.

Alderman Finnis inquire' if the prosecutor had
been examined by a surgeor.
Mr. Nisbet replied that ct the time he referred to
he believed he had not. He vide(' that he thought it
right to inform the court that the prosecutor was a
very great cripple.
Alderman Finnis inquired)f the prisoner whether
he wished to ask Mr. Nisbetany questions.
The prisoner, in rather an excited manner, and in
a foreign accent, replied, "go, I have nothing to
ask him. I suppose I shal be sent to the Old
Bailey for trial, and my defence is all prepared. I
have taken care to note dayn all the transactions
that have taken place betwien me and Mr. Daw-
busch for the last six or sern years, so that I am
quite pi epared with my defence to the charge."
Mr. Jacob, an inspector 01 the City police, said
that he was at the police-staton when the prisoner
was brought in, and he took he charge. The pro-
secutor was present, and in tie presence of the pri-
soner he said that as he was loing into his office in
Gresham-house, the prisoner, who was standing in
a dark corner, rushed upon lun and he fell, and the
prisoner immediately commenced stabbing him.
Witness asked the prosecutorif he believed the pri-
soner intended to murder him ; and he replied that
he did not think he did. When the prosecutor said
this the prisoner interposed, End said, " Ile has as-
sassinated my six children, and. I did intend to mur-
der him. I have watched himfa seven years, and in-
stead of doing better, he gets worse." The prisoner
also said that he was a genthman, and that he had
been reduced to poverty through the proceedings of
the prosecutor.
Henry Kelsey, a police constable, deposed that
upon the alarm being given tie went to Gresham-
house, and saw the prisoner handing among acrowd
of persons. He went up to him, and the prisoner
addressed him, and said, "I will go with you to the
then charged him with
Old Bailey." Mr. Dawbusch
stabbing him, and the prisoner exclaimed that the
prosecutor had assassinated lis six children, and he
was quite prepared to do all he had done. Witness
saw Lon the ground the tw daggers or stilettos
which lie now produced, al4 upon examining the
prisoner he discovered a pieceof newspaper, wrapped
up so as to form a sort of shaath, fastened in front
of him, and in which the feapons had evidently
been carried for some time. He searched the pri-
soner, and found upon him s gold watch and chain,
and some other articles, andl9s. in money.
Alderman Finals then addressed the prisoner, and
told him that upon the evidence ghat had been ad-
duced it would be his duty to remand him to a future
day, and if lie pleased to sas anything in answer to
the charge lie was at liberty to do so.
The prisoner then cornmeAeed a rambling state-
ment relating to his connection with the prosecutor,
but he was stopped by
Alderman Finnis, who slid that he would have
ample opportunity for mating his defence, but if
he would take his advice, as the case must neces-
sarily be further inquired into, it would be more
prudent to abstain from making any statement
until he had conferred with his friends or some
legal adviser.

The prisoner then desisted, and he was ordered to
be remanded for a week.
Shortly afterwards Mr. G. Lewis, of Ely-place,
who been instructed to prosecute, attended, accom-
panied by a medical gentleman, and he informed
the alderman that there was reason to believe at
present that the injuries that had been inflicted on
the prosecutor were not of a dangerous character.

THE AMERICAN FREEDMEN.—The Newcastle
Ladies' Association for assisting the newly emancipated
slaves have lately had the pleasure of forwarding about
£7O worth of warm clothing, including 6 grey blankets,
made in Yorkshire for the American army, and purchased
at little more than half-price. Tho total value of goods
forwarded from Newcastle xp to the present time is about
£235, chiefly packed in barrels, which have been carried
free by Liverpool shipowners, and admitted duty free by
the American Government. The ladies hope to be able
to forward two or three more barrels very shortly, and will
be thankful for any contributions, either in money or
clothing, which may be kindly placed in their hands for
this object. General Saxton calculates that 30,000 blankets
will be required this winter in Georgia alone. Liverpool has
lately furnished 2,000, Manchester has just contributed £5OO
in money, while Birmingham, Leeds, and various other towns
have been equally generous.—Wewcastle Chronicle.
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STATE OF TRADE

MANCHESTER, Dec. 23.—The market for cotton ;
yarns and cloths has shown continuous and growing 1
strength this week, and we have had more steadi-
ness than for a long time past. On Tuesday there
was the largest business in shipping yarns we have
had for some time, and in some instances the highest
point was touched in price at which yarns have been
sold during the last six months. There were still
considerable orders to be given out, and yesterday
many of these were placed at very extreme rates,
and many spinners are now under engagements
which will keep them on till the middle of March.
There was nothing doing for Calcutta, but the pur-
chases embraced yarns for nearly every other foreign
market open to our exports. Buyers now begin to
experience a good deal of difficulty in suiting them-
selves, owing to the scarcity of stocks and the full
rates demanded by nearly all spinners for yarns to
make. The business done during the week has been
exceedingly large, so far as shippers are concerned.
For home-trade yarns there has been less activity,
'manufacturers regarding the very full prices asked
with some aversion for some days. Rather more
business has been practicable this day or two past,
where spinners were willing to accept Tuesday's
rates. Fine numbers of yarn—the Bolton class of
yarns—are exceedingly well engaged, and command
very full rates. Cloth has gained in strength, but
buyers have hesitated to give the higher rates manu-
facturers are requiring. The finer makes of printers
have been in better demand, and T cloths and do-
mestics have also been easier to sell. Staple makes
of cloth have not as a rule been much operated in.
The advanced quotations have been no doubt forced
upon manufacturers by the increased cost of yarn,
but buyers look with caution upon goods at the
high rates to which they have advanced, and are
afraid to operate largely in them. The business
done has mostly been for rather small parcels. The
supply of cotton does not look unpromising. The
imports this week have been 62,000 bales, of which
34,000 are American, and there are at sea 213,000
bales from India and 77,000 from America. The
increased consumption this year has been 418,000
bales, and the increased in port 253,000. These
figures no doubt are calculated to support the yarn
and cotton markets, but exporters of cloth look
with doubt upon the possibility of selling so large an
out-turn of goods as are now coming from the loom
at the high rates which they commenced. It has
never been done yet, and they naturally feel a little
trepidation in making the experiment at their own
cost.

NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 23.—The lace trade continues
dull, still the amount of business done during the
past week has been fully an average for the time of
year. In the cotton market a few orders for cur-
tains and mosquitos are completing. The muslin
trade is quiet. In the silk department there has been
a little doing in Mechlins and quillings. Black
laces continue to sell slowly, as do also narrow
edgings.
LEICESTER, Dec. 23.—There has been an average
amount of business transacted in the hosiery trade
during the past week. Manufacturers are finishing
orders on hand preparatory to stock-taking. ,Busi-
ness in country districts is quiet, but both in Lei-
cester and the neighbourhood the operatives find
full average employment. Worsted yarns are firm,
at high rates. There is rather more doing in N$ ools,
and prices remain exceedingly firm.

Cotton Supply Association•

At a meeting of the Executive Committee, lately

held, a letter was read describing the operations of
tke Valencia Land Company, and enclosing samples

of cotton grown upon a portion of marsh lately
drained near Castellon. The plantation was injured
during a severe storm in June, owing tothe drainage
works being incomplete, which, however, is not
likely„-to happen again, and confident hopes of better
success are entertained. It is believed that an im-

portant quantity and quality can be produced, and

the company intends to enter more largely into the

cultivation. A letter received from the British con-

sulate, Scutari in Albania, reports that the governor
general of the province, his Excellency Ismail
Pacha, is zealously endeavouring to promote the
cultivation of cotton, and is desirous not only to

improve the quality, but to obtain the best means of
cleaning the produce and preparing it for market.
A. letter was read from Naples enclosing samples of
Sea Island, Siamese, and New Orleans, 12 bales of
which, the produce of about 58 acres of land,
amounting to 7,1301 b., were shipped for Liverpool
at the beginning of the month. The soil in which
it was grown is composed of a. very thick strata of
ashes from Vesuvius, on a rock of lava from the
same volcano, which runs down into the sea. The
property was formerly entirely covered with vine-
yards, but since the disease in the vines made its
appearance, no vintage worth preserving has been
obtained, and a portion of the estate has been con-
verted into arable land for growing madder roots
and cotton. The Sea Island variety seems to thrive
well, and should fine weather continue till the end of
the year, it is expected that the plants will produce
two or three bales more of clean cotton. The yield
this year has not been so large per acre as last year, a
violent gale of wind between the 9th and 12th Nov.
having damaged the plantations considerably. The
cotton was picked as it ripened during the months
of September, October, and November, care being
taken to keep all the defective cotton separate
from the good. It was cleaned by Macarthy
gins, worked by steam power, and every effort has
been made to send the cotton to market in the best
possible condition. It is very difficult to ascertain
the quantity grown or the extent of land cultivated
with cotton in the neighbourhood of Naples, or in
the other provinces. The greater part is shipped
for Genoa, Marseilles, and Trieste, whence it finds
its way to the north of Italy, Switzerland, and Ger-
many, very little indeed being shipped to Great
Britain. Fresh supplies of Sea Island and New
Orleans seed are required, and will be duly for-
warded for next sowing season. The results of
further efforts will be communicated. A letter was
received from Tacna, Peru, stating that the writer,
who is well known for his efforts to introduce the
alpaca into Australia, is now engaged with others
in cultivating cotton in the interior of Bolivia, on
the margins of rivers running into the Amazons,
down which all the produce will be forwarded. It
is stated that according to information recently're-
caved, more than 300 bales of 3501b5. each will be
sent down to Para in the months of June and July,
the rivers being then full, should the necessary ma-
chinery for cleaning and pressing the cotton be ob-
tained by May next. A gin to be worked by two
mules will be supplied forthwith, and it is hoped
that the anticipated result will be realised. Papers
forwarded from Calcutta were received from the
Board of Revenue, dated Allahabad, November 4th,
reporting that the cotton crop of the North Western
provinces is estimated this year to be 824,540
maunds of 801 b. each, against 1,659,917 maunds,
the actual crop of last year. The area planted is
nearly 50 per cent. less than in 1864, being 895,102
acres, against 1,730,634 acres ; this large decrease
is attributed to the remarkable fall in prices origi-
nated by rumours of peace in America, a fall which
continued until at the commencement of last sowing
the price of cotton in some districts was reduced to
the rate at whichitwas selling before the disturbances
in the United States. The season has not been un-
favourable ; the rains, which were deferred till very
late, have fallen in abundance, and the general as-
pect of the crop is said to be promising. The yield
pea acre will probably be quite as large as last year.
An extended cultivation next season is expected to
be the result of the high prices which have prevailed
since the close of the war, and of the apprehension
which exists of diminishing supplies from America.
The Collector of Meerut reports that the quality of
the cotton grown in that district last season was
finer than had ever before been produced. Some of
it sent to Calcutta was declared to be so far superior
to anything that had previously been seen passing
through the Calcutta market, from either Bengal
or , the North West provinces, that it was hardly
believed to be from that part of India. Of this
cotton a large stock is said to be in the district
awaiting purchasers, which was sure to find its way
to Calcutta when prices rise as they have since
done. The bazaar failures among speculating