The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-29 00:00:00

THE COMING SILVER MANIA.

The Anglo-Saxon race, however phlegmatic, is
more liable than others to fits of general excitement,
most noticeable in religious movements and revivals,
and only in a lesser degree in rushes after the pre-
cious metals. " A gold mania " has become a com-
mon phrase, and words expressive of the necessities
of the miners have changed meanings and been
adopted into the language. The greatest of gold
manias were the Californian rush and the Australian
rush ; but both include numberless minor excite-
ments. A gold rush built up with a magic speed
the State of California, twenty years ago a waste,
now the Empress of the Pacific. A gold rush
changed the squatter village of Melbourne into a
grand city, and intersected a vast province of Aus-
tralia with railways. Along the west coast of the
Southern island of New Ze,aland lay an unknown
territory, separated from the known by a huge
barrier of snow clad mountains. The ceaseless
western gales which blow around the globe in that
latitude dash with fury on the exposed coast, drift-
ing in, the moisture of a literally world-wide oc.e.,n,
which, gathering into clouds along the base of the
huge mountains, fall in endless rain. Without a
harbour along that storm-racked lee-shore, without
a road through the mountain barriers, the golden
magnet so quickly peopled Ilokatiki, the chief town
of the district, as in two years to make it the largest
in New Zealand. Another great excitement looms
like a storm in the Rocky Mountains, and it is pro-
bable that before this year closes a city will have
arisen in a place whose latitude and longitude are
now difficult to define, with its telegraphs, its rail-
ways, its waterworks, its four daily papers, its
theatres and hotelS, its courts and municipality, and
its 100,000 inhabitants. To the English reader
this may appear like reckless long-bow drawing—
something in the MUNCHAUSEN line ; and while we
write we can scarcely persuade ourselves that it is
anything else ; but the facts come too well authenti-
cated to permit us to doubt. The broad territory
between the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Moun-
tains has few marks even in the latest official maps
of the United States. The Great Basin, as a
vast portion of it is called, is to the geo-
grapher as yet unknown ground, though here
and there towns arise, and scattered in little clumps
are parties of miners, whose work is scarcely no-
ticeable in the vast solitude around. This region
has been penetrated by the Central Pacific Rail-
way, and travellers who pass down the Valley of
the llumboldt see from the cars the smoke of camp
fires arise here and there in the bleak, uninviting
1 ooking country. One of the stations along this line
is Elko, 460 miles east of Sacramento. If the
traveller stops there he will be enabled to get a
seat in a conveyance to Silver City, and thence to
Hamilton, in the White Pine district. Elko is a
mere collection of tents, but it is the nearest point
on the Central Pacific to (lying nearly due north
of) Treasure Hill, the new mines being but 115
miles by a toll road now building. The station is
at the junction of the South Fork Humboldt, a
branch of the Humboldt, and as the mountains of
Nevada run north and south, as if the country
had been wrinkled up by a lateral pressure east
and west, there is no difficulty through the dry
valleys, with the high mountains running parallel
on either hand, in driving to the White Pine dis-
trict. Nor, indeed, judging by the little forked
flames which cover some maps, ought there to be
much need for fires in cooking, for much of the water
to be found in Nevada, Nature has decreed should be
hot. The cold water from the hills everywhere dis-
appears, perhaps to make Mr. CATLIN'S huge sub-
terranean river, but scattered about bubble up
hot springs ; nor need the traveller carry salt, for
if nature has been generous in supplying the means
of cooking, she has been lavish in tendering
salt. During the winter 3,000 miners have
been at work on Treasure Hill—a place un-
known until an Indian and a man named
Ebenhardt spoke of their discovery last September.
Those who take an interest in the White Pine
District will find some details of the locality in our
issue of March 6, and in former numbers. The
news of its extraordinary wealth spread quickly
into the neighbouring territories, where it continued
to increase until it rose into the height of a furore,
and promises to take its place with the gold manias
of California and Australia. Nothing but White
Pine is talked of on the Pacific Slope, and all classes
are abandoning their employments to join in the
scramble. Eastward the mania has spread to St.
Louis and Chicago, and thousands are beginning to
pour through the passes of the Rocky Mountains to
dive into the riches of Treasure Hill. In San Fran-
cisco 54 companies have been organized to work
these mines, with a capital of more than twelve
millions sterling. The Bank of California is re-
ported to have bought one mine for upwards of
£1,000,000 sterling, and a son of Admiral DAHL-
GREN is estimated to have made £200,000 from his
operatinno, Men are eQuotantly turning up in San

Francisco with a realised £20,000 ; not of course
by extracting that amount of silver, but by selling
claims and availing themselves of the rapid rise in
property. Five persons were mentioned by the
San Francisco Times as having just arrived, each
with that sum. Already the first symptoms of the
mania may be seen in New York. Several news-
papers contain advertisements of persons offering
to give information, and such information is now
eagerly sought. It is more than probable that
the first business of the Pacific Grand Trunk
Line will be to aid the rush, and pour the
stream both from the Atlantic and the Pacific
through the valleys of Nevada. The specimens of
the silver ore shown are almost pure; some running
up in value to $20,000 per ton, while the general
range is from $5OO to $5,000, a marvellous wealth
of mineral. These, of course, are the richest lo les, but
all over the district, in quantities said to be un-
limited, the yield is from $5O to $lOO. This, as the
Round fable remarks, is exceptional, for experience
has shown that silver deposits in limestone have
proved limit.d in extent, which is notably the caso
in the Comstock lode. The White Pine ore is a
chloride of silver in a limestone formation, in pockets
or great masses, which in Chloride Flat seems to'be
a lake of molten silver cooled.

The Round 7 able says, as an earnest of increas-
ing interest and confidence in the doctrine of free trade,
we are glad to chronicle the decided success of the meet-
ing held last Saturday at the Merchants' Exchange, New
York, "to devise means of support for the efforts now
being made to overthrow the present irrational and unjust
tariff, and thereby to lesson the costs of the necessaries of
life." The meeting was called to order by Mr. Alfred Fell,
jun., at whose motion Mr. James M. Brown took the chair.
Addresses were made by Mr. William C. Bryant and Mr
David Dudley Field, and the following resolutions,
presented by Mr. Robert B. Minturn, were passed
" Resolved, That free trade (by which we mean an ex-
emption from taxation, except so far as may be neces-
sary to pay the debt and defray the expense of Govern-
ment) is in accordance with the theory of American insti-
tutions, and is demanded by the best interests of the coun-
try, Resolved—That we will do our utmost to dissemi-
nate the principles and promote the practice of free trade,
as thus defined. Resolved—That a committee of five be
appointed by the chair to co-operate with the American
b'ree-Trado League in promoting the objects of the fore-
going resolutions." Mr. Mahlon Sands then came forward
and announced that he would give $5,000 toward the cause.
His example was followed by many others as follows:—
Charles A. Marshall, $5 000; Robert B. Minturn, jun.,
$2,500 ; Thomas Holland, $l,OOO ; Wm. Jessop and Sons,
£500; W. D. Morgan, $500; Jas. M. Brown, $1,000; Alf. ed
Pell, jun., $250 ; H. W. and T. Malley and Co., $5OO ; Dan. C.
Rogers, $250; Louis Windmuller and Roelker, $100; "A
Poor Mae," $5; Fleitman and Co., $250 ; Henry Dickin-
son, $lOO ; Charles Congreve and Son, $lOO ; T. li. Misr-
rick and Co., $lOO ; J. E. Miller, $lOO ; Cartwright and
Harrison, $lOO. The President announced the following
committee, provided for by the resolutions; Howard
Potter, George Cabot Ward, Robert B. Minturn, Charles
H. Marshall, and Mahlon Sands. The President also
stated that Mr. Charles H. Marshall would be the treasurer
of the association, and that any further contributions
might be sent to him at 38, Burlington-slip. The meeting
was then adjourned to meet at the call of the chair.

BOARD OF TRADE, March 22.—The Right Hon.
the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for 'Dade
have received from the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at
Washington, enclosing a copy of an act recently passed by
the Congress of the United States for "regulating the duties
on imported copper and copper ores." By this act the duties
hitherto levied on copper imported from foreign countries
have been raised to the following rates :—" All copper im-
ported in the form of ores (per lb. of fine copper contained
therein), three cents ; all regulus or copper, and all black
or coarse copper (per pound of fine copper contained
there), four cents; all old copper, fit only for remanufacture,
per pound, four cents; all copper in plates, bars, ingots, pigs,
or other forms not manufactured, or herein enumerated'
including sulphate of copper, or blue vitriol, per pound, fiv°
cents ; copper in rolled plates, called braziers, copper sheets,
rods, pipes, and copper bottoms, eyelets, and all manufac-
tures of copper, or of which copper shall be a component Of
chief value, not otherwise herein provided for, ad valorem, 45
per cent. Provided, that the increased duty imposed by this
act shall not apply to any of the articles therein enumerated
which shall have been in course of transit to the United
States, and actually on shipboard on the 19th Jan., 1867.
Their lordships have also received through the same chan-
nel copy of a despatch from her Majest'ys Minister at Madrid,
inclosing an order issued by the Finance Minister of the
Provisional Government of Spain on the 3d March. 1869,
extending to the ships of every nation the power—hitherto
enjoyed under articles 8 and 260 of the Customs Ordinances
by Spanish vessels only—of going on to foreige ports with
cargoes from foreign America (by the term foreign
America" is meant all parts of America not belonging to
Spain), and with cargoes of dried fish from the same ports
with a consular register, under the same rates and
formalities as are established by the aforesaid articles.
Their lordships have also received from the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch from her
Majesty's Consul-General at Lima, reporting the expira-
tion of the Treaty of Friendship and Navigation between
Peru and Italy. In consequence of the cessation of this
treaty Italian ships will be subject to the same fiscal and
municipal duties as other foreign ships trading in the Re-
public of Peru. Intelligence has also been received from
her Majesty's Consul in Crete that the blockade of that
island has been raised, and that consequently all the ports
in Crete will henceforth be free and open to commerce'
conformably with international maritime regulations.
The 7 ribune tells how Grant received his first
appointment in the War destined to place him in the Pre-
sidential Chair. Mr. Washburne carried his Congressional
District in his pocket, just as great lords in England did
in olden times. Grant was a clerk in his father's leather
store, living in an airy little cottage on the top of a bluff'
to reach which he had to ascend a stairs of 200 ft.
first war meeting held in Galena, to muster volunteers'
Washburne offered resolutions and engineered the meet-
ing, and Rawlins made a spe ch. Captain Grant weel
present, but seems to have been too inconspicuous
vitc!...
be called on to take part. At the second meeting, 1',°,30
ever, Captain Grant was nominated for chairmen.
first company raised, however, elected one Chetlaiii
tai,, and Jesse Grant's partner, Collins, a Peace Dem,,iers
sai to Washburne, "A pretty set of ellows you see-`,,,,
At the
are to elect Chetlain for captain !" When auestioned sv".;‘,
he answered because they could have got Grant, vih,_,o:l
educated at West P,int, served in the army
years, :Ltd came out with the best reputation shu
was
after. Grant expressed his doubts whether heo,..
one of the few men competent to command a
sand soldiers. Washburne, however, who then kneYr
pressed his claims for a brigade, and President Lune
who had sent a printed notice to each of the Nino?
se-
nators, asking them to nominate four Brigadiers, la
wnl6
and
sponse promoted Grant, Hurlburt, Prentice, ash'
M'Clernand. It was not till October, 1861, that "
burne paid Grant a visit at Cairo, where be comman,d.e".ll
and foresaw that he was the coming man from WO
time he had " Grant on the brain," and his infineac
necessary till the capture of Fort Donelson placed his
putation on a basis of its own.
• • s nervous,
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Births.
PARRY— On the 22d inst., at 20, Upper Gloucester •plao,
Dorset-square, the wife of Mr. Sergeant Parry, of
daughter. le of
TnßlsG—At the Chantry, Bradford-on-Avon, the wife
the Rev. J. C. Thring, of a daughter.

Marriages.
GYBBON-SPILLSBURY--FURNELL —On the 27th inst., at St-
John's, Fulham, J. 11. Gybbon-Spillsbury, EBq” °t(if
Laura, youngest daughter of W. 11. Furnell, ESq't
Fulham.
Moans—TunNEß—On tha 9lh inst., at St. John% Rich-
mond, James Morris, M.D., of 13, Somers-place .I.'urner,
park-square, to to Agues, only daughter of John
Esq, late of Glasgow.

Deaths.
DEW—On the 24th inst., at Lisbon, Captain Roderick Dom
C. 8., H.M.S. Northumberland, aged 45.
QUINCY—On the 27th inst., at Fairlight, West-hill, Sr
denham, Richard Quincy, Esq., aged 59. W
SLEIGII—On the 22d inst, suddenly, Lieut.-Colonel B.
A. Sleigh, aged 47.

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