The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-31 00:00:00

311 E AMERICAN PRESS.

The New York lribune gives these interesting
statistics :--“The Special Committee on Navigation
Interests have received from the lion. M. H. Grin-
nell, collector at the port of New York, a detailed
statement, showing the number of nationalities and
the tonnage of steamships sailing to and from that
port in 1869 and at the beginning of the present
year. The following summary has been made :
AMERICAN STEAMSHIPS.
1870. 1869.
No. Yes. Tons. No. Yes. Tons.
To Foreign ports (not
Transatlantic)
013 ... 6
To Transatlantic ports ••• 14,1476

ENGLISH STEAMSHIPS.
From Transatlantic ports.. 64 141,395 ... 26 51,610

GERMAN STEAMSHIPS.
From Transatlantic ports .20 54,425 ... 6 14,123

FRENCH STEAMSHIPS.
From Transatlantic ports.. 5 9,518 ...
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Total Foreign steamersc.ipiTuAALioz;r,ri3B
82 65,733
By the above table it will be seen that during the
past ten years there has been an increase of 57
foreign steamers, with a capacity of 139,605 tons."
The Salt Lake City Evening News, Brigham
Young's Church organ, publishes Cullum's Utah
Bill entire, and thus closes a column and a half of
severe denunciation of its author :—" There is one
resolve, however, that we have beard expressed,
which we trust will never be forgotten ; no mob,
sanctioned by law or otherwise, shall ever enjoy
undisturbed the fruits of our toil. We would rather
see this land converted into a wilderness and the
labours of twenty-five years swept away in a few
hours than that our enemies shall find that reward
for their villainy in our possessions." Brigham's
speech on the bill was the most vituperative ever
delivered by Idin. Excitement in Salt Like City
is at boiling heat, and buziness at a dead stand.

'The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
sun says :—" Two representatives of foreign bank-
ing houses (one from London and one from Frank-
fort) have arrived in this country for the purpose
of making propositions to the Government to nego-
tiate abroad a four and a half per cent. loan, should
Congress authorize it, on the plan submitted by
Secretary Boutwull in is annual rt-i ()It, awl winch
will be considered at an early day by the Sen. t
Finance Committee. They state that if the inter t.,,t
is made payable semi-annually in London, Pari,
and Frankfort, they will be able to effect the sale
of at least $200,000,000 of such
.a loan. Pending

the action of Congress on this question,-the terms,
on which the foreign houses will undertake the pro-
posed loan will be submitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury. These are of course based on a commis-
sion, which, it is said, will be much less than was
pail for selling the Five-Twenties." -
The Philadelphia Public Ledger' thns writes on
the Erie Railroad :—" The contests, legal and
financial, which have agitated the money market in
this country in reference to the condtict of the
directors of-the Erie Railroad, have also set the
foreign shareholders of the company in motion.
The latest foreign Mails bring the intelligence that
the Erie shareholders in London have formed an
association, and appointed a committee to bring
their claims before the United States Supreme
• Court. A sahscriptioa of one shilling (twenty-
' five cents) a share has been started to raise the
t pecei-sary funds, and it is proposed that no bonds
shall be sold or bought at the Stock Exchange
unless they have been examined by the Committee
and stamped as. correct. This plan, it is asserted,
will limit the transactions in Erie ; but the London
journals despair. of the success of any effort to
limit the issue of new shares in this company, and
advise their readers to-refuse to deal in trill-eat-butte
bonds and shares, and to seek other securiti' either
for speculation or for investment. The London Times
says the question must be settled whether foreign
investors in American undertakings are liable to find
their property seized without so much chance of re-
dress as would be afforded even in countries infested
by brigands. In the case that the English investors
are secured in their rights, the limes says. there
are many sound American enterprises. to which, in
the extraordinary progress of the development of
the dountry, European capital is likely during the
coming year to be attracted. From these remarks
it will be seen that the irregularities in the manage-
ment of the Erie road have a highly injurious effect
upon companies -that are maeaged honestly and,
with ability and offer sound securities for investors.

The Nation remarks :—" The landowners of the
south-western corner of South Carolina have just
furnished some curious evidence of the struggle that
is now going on between the new ideas that new
circumstances are forcing upon the Southern mind
and the ingrained prejudices of a lifetime. Ro-
bertville, situated some fifty miles from Port
Royal Island and the town of Beaufort, is a part
of the sea-coast region, which in old times was
famous for its value as a country adapted for the
production of long-staple cotton and the best Ame-
rican rice. Plantations there were large in extent,
were inhabited by few whites and many negroes,
were cultivated at an expense which made it
necessary that the cultivator should be a capi-
talist, and, withal, were unhealthy, or were so con-
sidered. The pine barrens being within easy reach
as places of residence during the heats of summer,
the plantations= the cotton plantations, at least--
were not so badly off in regard to climate as was
maintained by people who willingly looked for an
excuse to spend a part of the year in pleasure ex-
cursions, and who also were interested in making it
believed that no man but a black man can endure
existence in places where good crops of cotton can
be raised. The reasons above-mentioned have, how-
ever, been sufficient•, coupled with the various strong
inducements to the foreigner to seek a home RI
the Western and Border States, to prevent any sot
of the stream of immigration towards tide-water,
South Carolina, and the land-owner of Robertville,
poor, oppressed by taxes, destitute of money to bui
labour, hating the system of free labour, have de-
cided to offer farms without money and without
puce to all European immigrants who will consent
to take up abodes among them. They say truly that
should they by giving away half their present ,pos-
sessions double the present population--the new-
comer s bring industrious farmers—they would in the
end be greatly the gainers." It proceeds to censure
the impracticable conditions imposed ; first, theY
demand that the man who accepts a farm shall
agree to occupy it five years, to improve it, and
that at the end of the five years he shall sell
it, if he sell at all, to other new comers. Se-
condly, the donee, if without means of his own,
must work for the donor, at the ordinary local
rate of wages, dtiring the first six months of posses-
sion, or else two days in the week during all of the
first year. This would set the immigrant at work for
another during the time when there would be most
need to work for himself. Besides, the provision
seems to contemplate the entrance of a class of people
who would make an accession of no great value to
any industrial community. In the third place, the
Robertville men will require of their beneficiary a
pledge that he will " have no dealings or inter-
course with any of the African race."

The New York Tribune, Jan. 11, says The
question of Protection v. Free-Trade was ably
argtied last night by members of the Cooper Union
Literary Club, whose interested auditors crowded
the large hall of. Cooper Institute, and made it echo
with their plaudits. The claims of Protection were
advanced by 1). T. Gardner, Daniel 11. Ives, Wm.
E. Rogan, tad A. A. Griffin ; while Free-trade
found elrquent and valiant defenders iu Robert
Scott, W. D. Whiting, J. W. Goff, and Wm. Sal.
van. Mr. Gardner opened the debate in a masterly
manner, and succeeded in setting the merits of Pro-
tection fairly before his hearers. All the debatore
acquitted themselves with credit ; but for force Of
expression, fluency, self-possession, and general vine
Mr. Goff appeared to deserve the lion's share of the
applause, and it was accorded with a will."

OBITUARY.—Brevet Major-General Joseph A.
Mower died at New Orleans on the 6th inst. of conges-
tion of the lungs. He began his military career as a pri-
vate soldier in the company of engineers that served with
distinction in the Mexican war, and was commissioned
as a Second Lieutenant in the Ist Infantry, June 18,
1855' and was promoted to be First Lieutenant, March
13, 1857._ At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion,
he commanded Company H, Ist Infantry, and took part
in the siege and capture of New Madrid. May 5, 1862, he
was commissioned as Colonel of the -11th Missouri Volun-
teers, and took part in the Corinth campaign, and vis. 4,
conspicuous at Corinth, Oct. 4, 1862, when he was wounded
severely, and for a time was in the hands of the enemy'
Gen. Sheridan thus speaks of him in the official announce"
ment of his death. "He first fell under the immediate
command of the present General of the Army in the Vicks-
burg campaign, and very soon attracted his notice by deeds
of personal bravery that would require a volume to record.
From that date to the close of the war he was engaged in
every campaign in the West - at Jackson, Vicksburg, M°:
rie.ian, the Red River, and in Missouri. When he w'
called personally to the was
aid of the General at Atlanta be
accompanied him, rising through all the grades until
the end of the war, when he commanded the Twen-
tieth Corps. A better soldier or a braver man never
lived than Joseph A. Mower, and the General can recall
many instances when he displayed abilities of the highest
order, entitling him to the full name and fame of General.
Since the war be has exhibited his soldierly qualities by
standing at his -post through pestilence and sickness, never
asking a personal favour, and always sharing the expo-
sures of his men. The General, in thus speaking of one
to whom he was so strongly attached, feels certain that
this, and more too, is due to one who never spoke of him-
self, and seemed oblivious of all things except to serve his
country with his whole heart and his whole soul."----
Amedie Savran, the French Consul at Richmond, Virginia/
died on Sunday, Jan. 9, from a stroke of paralysis. - Col.
Aaron Wilbur, of Savannah, is dead. He had policies
amounting to $170,000 in various life insurance companies.
—The Hon. John Huyler, ex-Congressman from Neo,
Jersey, died on Sunday, Jan. 9, from injuries received
from a drunken man, who attacked him some- time since.
Mr. Ruyler was a Representative in the Thirty- fifth 0011'
gross. - On Sunday, January 23, at Warwick House, War-
wick-road, Maida-hall, Annie Marie, wife of Gilead A.
Smith. Friends will kindly accept this intimation.—The
Hon. L. J. Bigelow, jun., editor of the Watertown (N.Y.)
Daily Times, died suddenly in that city, Jan. 13.
LAD VERTISEMEN..O.l—Eren?eforth no one will doubt the valuable
properties o' Ds tarry's I'ealth-restoring heva'enta Arabica
Invalids' e.._•cl Inranls' Nod. since to the tiro:mantis of blessings
it has alreai y receives: from Invalids wrote position had been
deemet hopeless, we way now add the t of his holiness the Pope,
whose health has been perfectly restored by :t after thi;ty years of
unsuccessful medical treatmew. We :rote from the " Gazette do
Ba6bda.
ndTohnienhgeaalltlhoothf tehrerHanoly
dies, _'elr.,s confined lrimself entirely to Du Revaienta
especially
I since,y 21,1
Fa Midi,"th Julyis ex2csetl hl
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A-a:Yea. Food. of which he consumes a nirt.3 ul at every Meal'
It has pro,:xced a surprisinglybeneficiel e,:ec on his health, and
his Holiness carrot praise this excellent rood too highly." We
extract a few out ofmore than 68.000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of
the Mal chioress de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint
wasting away, debiliiy, nervousness, tribh a nervous palpitation,
all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in-
tolerable net vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de
Decies, 1:old-Lieutenant oi* Waterford, many years' dyspepsia,
No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia,
nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms,
sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr.
James Roberts, o? Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs•
spitting of blood, I've derangement, and partial deafness.
portant Caution—reware of the many unsavoury and more than
sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron idebig's
name is most audac;ouslv attached.
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